{"id":5014,"date":"2015-10-29T18:25:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T18:25:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-10-29T18:25:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T18:25:39","slug":"charlie_rose_s_2nd_grade_level_question_to_marco_rubio_on_benghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/10\/29\/charlie_rose_s_2nd_grade_level_question_to_marco_rubio_on_benghazi\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Rose\u2019s 2nd Grade-Level Question to Marco Rubio on Benghazi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Oh, one e-mail, before we get back to sound bites. And, you know, it\u2019s a legitimate question: “Rush, I\u2019ve been listening for a long time, and whenever the media gets unfair, you always have said, ‘Well, hey, you can complain about it or you can deal with it. This is the lay of the land. If you want to be elected as Republican, the media\u2019s one of the obstacles.\u2019 So why all this complaining about it?” That\u2019s a good question. And I… It\u2019s not complaining. It\u2019s just that, folks, I tell you: I\u2019ve reached a point where I\u2019m changing my mind on this. This is what I started asking myself. <\/p>\n

“Why is it that Republicans just have to accept and deal with the lie that they\u2019re a bunch of racists and bigots and homophobes and sexists and extremists?” I\u2019m through with it. I\u2019ve had that crap said about me for 27 years. Every other Republican has had it said about them. Why do we have to sit here and accept that that\u2019s the lay of the land? Why do we sit here and say, “Yeah, they get to lie about us”? It just culminated for me last night with this debate when what was really on display last night was every assumption the left makes about us. <\/p>\n

As I said, the answers to those questions last night were irrelevant as far as the media\u2019s concerned. The bullets… Last night was an assassination attempt, a political assassination of every one of those candidates. They were all in the political crosshairs, and the questions were the bullets to take them out. It didn\u2019t matter what the answers to those questions were. The idea was to destroy them all last night and then get applause and pats on the back from fellow media members and fellow Democrats today. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the objective was. <\/p>\n

Ever since Trump came on the scene, ever since Trump has been leading, the objective of the media\u2019s been, I convinced, a private little contest see who can be the one to take Trump out. Harwood gave it his best shot last night, and Becky Quick gave it her shot, and Carl Quintanilla, and none of them did. And very few of the Republican establishment had the slightest idea why Trump is sitting where he is. They do not understand the bond of connection Trump has made with his voters. They don\u2019t understand the bond of connection Ted Cruz has made with his. <\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t the slightest idea. <\/p>\n

They think… Just to reiterate this, because this is crucially important, the mind-set of the Democrat Party. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s media people or if it\u2019s elected officials or if it\u2019s consultants. They all think that you, Republican voters, are stupid and dumb and incapable of independent thought. Every opinion you have is the result of somebody influencing you. You are racists, you are sexists, you\u2019re bitter clingers, you\u2019re mean-spirited, you\u2019re homophobes and all of that. Because you\u2019re Republicans. <\/line>Because you\u2019re conservative. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they really think of you. And so candidates, to get your vote, have to go there. So the candidates are also racist, sexist, bigot, homophobic, whatever it is to get your vote. And I\u2019ve just finally said, “Why do we have to sit here and accept it? Why does every Republican have to just say it is an accepted part of the lay of the land that you go into every race as a presumptive racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe whatever it is?” What chance does anybody have when that is the so-called lay of the land, and especially when it is all concocted and totally made up and in fact just the opposite! <\/p>\n

If anybody\u2019s racist and sexist and bigoted, it\u2019s the people on the left. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s how they look at people. They look at people and they first see skin color, then they see gender, then they see orientation, and then they try to make everybody they see fit into some victim class because nobody is capable of taking care of themselves in their world. Nobody is able to do it. So they don\u2019t respect individual achievement. Those on the Republican side who have achieved must have cheated, must have cheated somebody, must have stolen, must have committed some kind of crime. I\u2019m just sick and tired of these presumptions as the lay of the land, as things Republicans have to accept and deal with. <\/p>\n

The days are over that that\u2019s the case, as far as I\u2019m concerned.<\/p>\n

Now back to the audio sound bites. Marco Rubio. I\u2019m gonna start there. He was on with Charlie Rose on CBS This Morning. We have two bites, numbers 21 and 22. Remember, Rubio last night? And this really offended \u2019em on the left, because they were all talking about what a great week Hillary Clinton had last week. Remember? “It was such a great week, boy! Hillary just took \u2019em to task in the debate and she ran rings around the Benghazi committee. Oh, she had a great week,” and Rubio had a great response: “She was exposed as a liar last week. What are you talking about?” That didn\u2019t sit well with Charlie Rose. Charlie Rose was not happy with Rubio. He said to him on CBS This Morning, “You called Hillary Clinton a liar!”<\/p>\n