{"id":30642,"date":"2008-10-16T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:15:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:15:13","slug":"mccain_won_the_debate_but_the_drive_bys_even_fox_deny_reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/16\/mccain_won_the_debate_but_the_drive_bys_even_fox_deny_reality\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Won the Debate, but the Drive-Bys (Even Fox) Deny Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: I watched the debate last night, as everybody did, and I\u2019m thinking, &#8216;This is cool. McCain finally on message. McCain finally on offense.\u2019 I thought Obama looked like he was stumbling around. I thought Obama looked off his game. I thought Obama was totally on defense. I did not see somebody cool. I did not see a mountain. I did not see somebody elegant. I didn\u2019t see any of that. I saw somebody who was lying through his teeth time after time after time. I saw somebody who seemed irritated when McCain was speaking. I saw somebody who almost was close to blowing his cool in terms of facial expressions, and I saw the director cut away from Obama at those times so as to assist Obama in having his facial expressions not broadcast as much as possible. I\u2019m getting e-mails all night long from people, I mean in the thousands, who are jazzed, finally somebody is taking it to Obama, somebody is standing up for the middle class, somebody is standing up for the right economics, somebody trying to do the right things for the first time in a long time. And then, after the debate, people that are e-mailing me, a lot of them turned on the Fox News Channel, and they were dispirited and depressed. They felt that Obama had found a new ally in some of the commentators on the Fox All-Star Panel. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125106.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Now, they view the Fox News Channel as their network. They tuned in for post-debate analysis expecting the Fox All-Stars to have seen what they saw, and they listened to the Fox All-Stars talking about a debate they didn\u2019t see. The Fox All-Stars were talking about how rotten McCain was, how horrible he had done, what a rock Obama was, how cool Obama was, how elegant Obama was. I got a note from a friend who watched this in a bar with 200 people last night, and they were cheering themselves crazy during the debate last night. One of these guys happened to e-mail a friend and said, &#8216;What\u2019s the reaction on Fox?\u2019 He said, &#8216;The Fox guys say Obama skunked McCain, that McCain was just horrible.\u2019 And the guys at the bar said, &#8216;What? What in the world did they watch?\u2019 And I\u2019m thinking, Fred Barnes, Bill Kristol, these are the people, folks, who told us that McCain was the best chance Republicans had way back when. I mean, as far as Kristol was concerned, going back to the year 2000 in the primaries versus George W. Bush. <\/p>\n<p>So after telling us for months that McCain was the most electable Republican because of his ability to reach out to moderates, the Fox News panel all said he blew the opportunity to really take it to Obama on taxes and education and abortion, Ayers, ACORN, all that sort of stuff. Well, isn\u2019t this what you guys were suggesting? You\u2019ve got exactly what you wanted throughout the whole campaign. McCain was trailing, he wasn\u2019t making any ground up, and then last night McCain finally switched gears, went on the attack, went on offense, didn\u2019t tell one lie about Obama, and all of a sudden the biggest McCain sponsors for the past eight years, for the past year, all of a sudden are dumping on John McCain. It\u2019s unfortunate because these people that watch this that thought it was all fabulous, you know, they want validation from what they consider to be their favorite television network, and they got the exact opposite. <\/p>\n<p>There is so much to overcome in this election. We have people angry the economy is not doing well, the candidate mans up last night, he finely manned up. He went after Obama as best he could. And then our own conservative geniuses try to undermine the whole thing after the debate. I agree with a friend of mine, sent me a note today, &#8216;If I hear one more word about how cool Obama is and how calm and collected Obama is, I am going to scream,\u2019 because when I hear \u2019em say that I keep thinking about his answers on infanticide, his answers on taxes, his answers on health care. I guess it\u2019s very easy to be cool if he\u2019s looking in the camera and lying. Did it not matter to the Fox All-Stars or something &#8212; in fact, most of the other media thought McCain did great. A lot of the other Drive-By Media thought McCain did super. But does it not matter that Obama\u2019s lying through his teeth? It may not. I have a couple little ditties to share with you as the program unfolds today that are just stunning. <\/p>\n<p>A Republican expert assembled a focus group, played a couple of ads for independent, moderate Reagan type Democrats, spelled out everything about Obama from Jeremiah Wright to ACORN to Bill Ayers, and all these people are, &#8216;Yeah, yeah, he\u2019s got it, I know all that, I hate him, I don\u2019t like him, I\u2019m going to hate him when I vote for him, but I\u2019m still voting for him,\u2019 meaning Obama, &#8216;because I hate the Republicans. The Republicans have destroyed the country. We need Wall Street to not run the country anymore. We need Wal-Mart to run the country like it did during the Reagan years,\u2019 was one of the comments, and that was from a NASCAR person, 54 years old. So here we\u2019ve got Barack Obama, last night announcing a prescription for a depression, raising taxes, spreading the wealth around. What wealth? Would you tell me what wealth he\u2019s going to spread around? We\u2019re losing trillions in wealth in the stock market. Obama wants to tax it and spread it around. Well, he can spread around manure because that\u2019s what he\u2019s spewing. Wealth is disappearing. And the Lord Barack Obama, the Most Merciful, still wants to spread it around. There\u2019s nothing to spread around right now. We\u2019re in the business of trying to create new wealth, gang. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I watched the debate last night, as everybody did, and I\u2019m thinking, &#8216;This is cool. McCain finally on message. McCain finally on offense.\u2019 I thought Obama looked like he was stumbling around. I thought Obama looked off his game. I thought Obama was totally on defense. I did not see somebody cool. 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