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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: So we have the big debate tonight. We have a big debate tonight, nine o\u2019clock, with the pregame meal starting at five. That\u2019s the pre-debate. So you got seven guys in that debate, seven people in that debate, then you got the big mama debate at nine o\u2019clock. And I\u2019m curious how many people are gonna watch this thing. <\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s look at all the variables here. A, it\u2019s August. B, I mean, let\u2019s be honest here, it\u2019s the Republican Party. I mean, not exactly the most popular bunch of people right now. C, aside from Trump, does anybody know anybody else\u2019s name? Megyn Kelly, big tune-in factor there. Trump, big tune-in factor there. But on the other side of it, this country\u2019s sick. America is sick, and people know it. And the Republican Party, in many people\u2019s view, is the only, maybe the last best hope to reverse this illness that this country is suffering and maybe save it from being terminal. And because of that, and because of the curiosity factor, I think the tune-in could be huge. <\/p>\n

Now, Fox has a big enough base audience that the ratings tonight ought to be good anyway, but some people think it could be a record setter. I mean, it could be big for a lot of the obvious reasons. They were even talking about it today on Live with Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan. I mean, the pop culture is even talking about it. Look, folks, just setting this up. Remember, now, we can\u2019t do everything in the opening monologue. It takes three hours for the whole show. <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019m wondering if Jeb Bush is gonna apologize to Trump. I\u2019m wondering if we\u2019re gonna see this. Also, somebody at the Clinton camped leaked that they called Trump, that Bill Clinton called Trump and urged him to do this, after Trump said back on June 28th that he\u2019d not talked to the Clintons. The Clintons had leaked that Bill called Trump. But do we also think that Bill might have called Jeb? I mean, Bill\u2019s close to the Bushes. Bill could be calling all these people and telling them to go for it, to urge them. Who knows. This is politics. People play tricks. There\u2019s gamesmanship all over the place going on. <\/p>\n

Try this headline: “Big Donors Warn Candidates On Eve Of Debate: ‘Take Trump Out<\/a>.'”<\/p>\n

The big money people have told Rubio and Jeb and some of the others that you\u2019ve got to get rid of Trump tonight. We\u2019re tired of this. We\u2019re getting worried. This is a big distraction. We\u2019re pulling your strings and you take Trump out tonight. That\u2019s the headline. It\u2019s in the DC Whispers Web page.<\/p>\n

“Though the Fox News promos state it is a debate of Republican candidates, most of the network\u00c2\u2019s on-air personalities have admitted publicly it has turned into the Donald Trump show,” and that reality is not sitting well with the power brokers in the back rooms of the GOP, and those power brokers are the money people. They are the donors and they are the bundlers. They are the fundraisers and they are the people that tell the party when to jump, when to sit, when to talk, when to stand mute and so forth, and they are getting worried that Trump is co-opting their grand scheme to get control of the United States Treasury, which is what I think the purpose of elections has become these days. <\/p>\n

I mean, just to speak to you in shorthand, and I mean in both parties, I think it\u2019s a desire to be in charge of the money. And that\u2019s clearly the purpose of the donors. I mean, the donors donate because they want favorable policy for their businesses, their bottom lines, or what have you. This cronyism didn\u2019t start with Obama but, I mean, it\u2019s really now dug its tentacles deeply into our government with Obama. It\u2019s seen as something that a lot of people would like to deepen and enrich. So the money people call the shots, apparently, in the Republican Party. And the word\u2019s gone out, they\u2019ve made it clear to these campaign consultants and the political operatives that Trump cannot be allowed to win the debate tonight. Trump cannot be seen as winning the debate tonight. <\/p>\n

In fact, according to the DC Whispers: “Some are said to have taken an even more aggressive stance by indicating Trump\u00c2\u2019s Republican rivals are to ‘take him out\u2019,” tonight. And by “take him out,” you know what it means. It means humiliate him, embarrass him, dwarf him, whatever, make it impossible for Trump to continue beyond tonight. Now, if I\u2019m one of these Republicans and I got these big money donors calling me up and commanding me and ordering me to take him out, I\u2019d say, “Are you going to tell me how to do this? What do you think we\u2019ve been trying to do here for the last three or four weeks or two months? You want to tell me how to do this?” I always love it, the people behind the scenes never go on stage, never really get in the arena, telling everybody in it what to do and how to do it. “You take Trump out!” <\/p>\n

The point is, they want Trump\u2019s credibility… His personal whatever it is that\u2019s attracting voters, they want it damaged tonight because that indicates it\u2019s proof positive that Trump is not part of the cabal that is running the Republican Party. Now, the Jeb Bush apology, right here in The Politico magazine. Glenn Thrush has a piece, “How Jeb and the GOP Got Trumped<\/a>.” But that headline doesn\u2019t tell you at all what\u2019s in this story. Second page paragraph, Jeb Bush talking to some operatives. <\/p>\n

“Seriously, what\u2019s this guy\u2019s problem?” He\u2019s talking about Trump. “‘Seriously, what\u2019s this guy\u2019s problem?\u2019 Bush reportedly told the donor, adding that he thought Trump was ‘a buffoon,\u2019 a ‘clown\u2019 and an ‘asshole.\u2019 Bush, whose wife, Columba, was born in Mexico, previously conceded to the New York Times that he took Trump\u2019s virulent attacks on immigrants crossing the US border with Mexico ‘personally.\u2019 He further accused Trump of trying to ‘inflame and incite and to draw attention\u2019 to his fledgling campaign.<\/p>\n

“‘Seriously, what\u2019s this guy\u2019s problem?\u2019 he asked one party donor he ran into recently according to accounts provided by several sources close to Bush — and he went on to describe the publicity seeking real estate developer now surging in public polls far ahead of Bush and all the 15 others in the Republican field as ‘a buffoon,\u2019 ‘clown\u2019 and ‘a–hole.'” That\u2019s right. Those three insults are quoted, attributed to Jeb Bush talking to a donor about Trump. (interruption)<\/line><\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve ever said the word. Do you think we should beep it? You did beep it? Okay, the… (interruption) Okay, well, here\u2019s… They beeped me what I said it, folks. In other words, they deleted what I said. You know, they used the delay, but I didn\u2019t say anything. I was simply quoting Jeb. So I\u2019ll go through it again. It\u2019s just three words. Jeb Bush talking to a donor, “Seriously, what\u2019s this guy\u2019s problem?” talking about Trump. “[H]e went on to describe [Trump] as ‘a buffoon,\u2019 ‘clown\u2019 and ‘[butt]hole,'” only he didn\u2019t say “butt.” <\/p>\n

Now, what about civility, folks? <\/p>\n

We keep hearing that the Republican Party must be civil, that we can\u2019t get into the gutter like this, and we can\u2019t start talking this way. The moderates don\u2019t like hearing it! When the moderates hear talk like that and the independents and they hear talk like that, they just run right back to the Democrat Party, right? I mean, we will not talk that way about Obama. We don\u2019t have a Republican calling him a buffoon, and I\u2019ve not heard of Republicans calling him a clown, and certainly I haven\u2019t heard any Republican calling him a butt-hole.<\/p>\n

But Jeb Bush is quoted in The Politico as talking about and describing Trump that way. Now, I must tell you, folks, we here on talk radio are lectured to practically every day for causing incendiary rhetoric to be introduced into the public political dialogue. And we are tutt-tutted and we are warned and we are cautioned and we are criticized for being so base. I\u2019m talking about the genre of talk radio, not me specifically, but it has happened. <\/p>\n

We are warned that this is harmful, and we are told that this hurts the image and damages the brand and this kind of talk is not helpful. Meanwhile, McCain can run around and talk about people that support Trump in Arizona, call them “crazies,” and that\u2019s okay. And now we\u2019ve got Jeb in The Politico characterizing Trump this way, and I was just wondering: “What about the civility? That\u2019s not civil. That\u2019s not polite. That\u2019s not compromise. <\/p>\n

“That\u2019s not showing we can govern. That\u2019s not reaching across the aisle. It\u2019s certainly not bipartisan. We don\u2019t deal with our political opponents that way. We don\u2019t have political enemies, we have opponents, and we don\u2019t deal with them that way! That\u2019s coarse, it\u2019s uncivil, it\u2019s beneath us.” And yet… So I wonder if some of the moralists in our media will suggest that Jeb should apologize. ‘Cause this is simply… This is not what conservatism is and this is not who conservatives are and so forth.<\/p>\n

Yes, I\u2019m ladling it on here a little thick, folks, but I\u2019m doing so on purpose. Sometimes you have to to make a point. So big donors telling GOP front-runners: Get rid of Trump. Take Trump out tonight. The big money is getting nervous. The Politico story is about “How the GOP Got Trumped.” I mean, that\u2019s their Politico headline, and they detail Jeb\u2019s theories and philosophies when Trump came up on the scene and popped up and started to run, began to run.<\/p>\n

“Just shut up. Don\u2019t say a word! Don\u2019t react to it.” That was the advice he got, and that was what his instincts were. “Don\u2019t react to it. It\u2019s gonna be short-lived. Trump\u2019s gonna step in it. He\u2019s gonna say something embarrassing.” None of that\u2019s happened. All that\u2019s happened is Trump\u2019s popularity continued to grow. By the way, something else people having noticing. In the last week, all of a sudden Trump has been described in ways that were not used, terms not used to describe him over a week ago.<\/p>\n

Such as presidential, substantive. Trump hadn\u2019t insulted anybody in a week! He hadn\u2019t called anybody a loser. He hasn\u2019t talked about Mexican rapists. None of that stuff, in a full week. He has advanced, he\u2019s put out… It\u2019s in his book, but he has released his flat tax plan. And it\u2019s serious. That\u2019s another… (interruption) He released a flat tax plan. And That\u2019s another thing punditry and some media people are now beginning to describe Trump as “serious,” meaning you can\u2019t dismiss him.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve read so far five mea culpa pieces, different Drive-Bys, apologize. The most recent was Chris Cillizza, the Washington Post (paraphrasing): “I didn\u2019t think Trump was gonna go anywhere, I knew Trump was gonna bomb out. I didn\u2019t know Trump was serious. I\u2019ve gotta take it all back. I apologize! I was wrong.” Five of these in the past few days. Media people who predicted Trump was a flash in the pan, wasn\u2019t gonna last, was gonna embarrass himself, wasn\u2019t even serious about it, are now beginning to ask: Can this guy win? <\/p>\n

Nervously, they\u2019re beginning to ask: Can this guy win?<\/p>\n

<\/a>Jeff Greenfield is among them, too. They\u2019ve all noticed that in the past week Trump hasn\u2019t been the Trump that he was prior and people now it\u2019s Jeb Bush throwing insults around, according to The Politico. Okay. Very uncivil, don\u2019t you know. And, of course, the debate tonight. Here\u2019s a story, Washington Post. The ivory tower-weighing in: “How in the World Do You Debate Donald Trump? Here\u2019s What the Experts Prescribe,” and the experts are David Birdsell of Baruch College; David Kimel, Yale Debate Society; Angela Minor, attorney, Washington; Howard University law professor, Ben Voth, the director of forensics, professor communication SMU Dallas.<\/p>\n

These are the experts that are writing here and being interviewed about how you would debate Trump. Now, we know some things are gonna happen here tonight, folks, just because of the law of averages. We know that there will be at least one candidate who says something that destroys them. There\u2019s gonna be somebody that steps in it. It always has. You got 10 people on the stage and you got seven people prior too them in the pregame meal. You got 17 people here. <\/p>\n

But let\u2019s address the nine o\u2019clock debate, the prime-time debate. You know somebody is going to say something that\u2019s gonna doom them. Just happens. Somebody is going to end up with the sound bite of the night. Somebody is gonna get the biggest applause, even after the moderators have admonished the audience not to applaud. Somebody\u2019s gonna get big laughs. Somebody is going to really deliver a knockout blow to another candidate. There\u2019s all kinds of things like these that we know are going to happen. <\/p>\n

And they\u2019re all exciting. Say what you will but people love seeing people self-destruct in public. The gaffe that ends a career, people will tune in just to see that, who is it gonna be and what is it gonna be. Others will tune in to see who ends up winning, who the media says wins, who comes up with the best most pithy sound bite. And who, after the first round, it can officially be said is finished. There\u2019s all kinds of things. <\/p>\n

And these are all going to happen to one degree or another tonight. I have to take a break here. And it\u2019s also gonna be… Parts of it are gonna be boring. It can\u2019t help but be. Moderators are gonna at first try to maintain strict control. They won\u2019t succeed for very long. It\u2019s gonna become freewheeling. I don\u2019t care what these people say right now. And the focus is gonna be on Trump and how he deals with all this. He\u2019s set himself up with low expectations<\/a>. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of the candidates, ladies and gentlemen, who are said to have been given the biggest anti-Trump marching orders is Marco Rubio. Apparently big donors have gone to Rubio with the greatest sense of urgency and have told Rubio… It\u2019s not just Rubio, by the way, that the big donors have approached. But this particular story says that the candidates were said to have been given their anti-Trump marching orders last night. <\/p>\n

One was apparently told with the greatest sense of urgency was Senator Marco Rubio. Okay, so we got Jeb here and these personal insults of Trump in this wanton incivility. It\u2019s just so unlike the GOP establishment! Could it be, ladies and gentlemen… I mean, I knew this piece would come out today. I mean, everybody in The Politico piece knew it was gonna air or run the day of the debate. <\/p>\n

Could it be that this is the first of what will be many attempts to get Trump to blow his top tonight? One thing that\u2019s known about Trump is he occasionally will go on offense and start attacking somebody, but it\u2019s guaranteed he will do it if you insult him. If you take a shot at Trump, you are guaranteed to get return fire. Well, what if this is a strategically placed insult, even before the debate begins, designed to get Trump ticked off even before it starts? <\/p>\n

If the big money people behind the Republican Party are scared and they want Trump taken out, they may figure that the best way to do it is to have him blow his stack and demonstrate whatever they think that would demonstrate — a lack of presidential temperament or take your pick. Anyway, just guessing. I\u2019m trying to put these pieces all together for you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Okay, there\u2019s no question now that there\u2019s a psychological operation underway aimed at The Donald. I have just uncovered it, ladies and gentlemen. It\u2019s there for anybody to see, but it takes me to put the pieces together, to read between the lines, to read the stitches on the fastball. The Mediaite website: “Fox Debate Hosts Already Have a Secret Plan to Deal with Donald Trump.” However, Mediaite is linking to a Politico story, the second Politico story of note of the day. <\/p>\n

The first Politico story is actually from The Politico magazine. This is where Jeb Bush is quoted as insulting Trump as a “clown,” a “buffoon,” and a “[butt]hole.” Now The Politico has a story claiming that the Fox debate hosts — which are Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier and Chris Wallace — have a secret plan to deal with Trump. (laughing) How secret can it be? I just love this. It\u2019s a secret plan that we all know about.<\/p>\n

You know, it\u2019s like I\u2019ve always said, if you have a great marketing plan, secret or otherwise, you don\u2019t divulge it; you execute it. You don\u2019t give people a chance to defend against it. Anyway, it does seem like a psych-ops operation, and it\u2019s from The Politico. Let me read to you a couple things from the article. “In an interview with Politico, Fox News hosts Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, and Chris Wallace revealed they already have a plan if Donald Trump refuses to obey the rules of Thursday night\u00c2\u2019s Republican presidential debate.”<\/line><\/p>\n

If Trump “refuses to obey the rules”? Only Trump runs the risk or poses the risk of not obeying the rules? I would like to remind you on Monday that I made predictions and comments about this very thing. You know, Trump came out and said, “You know, I don\u2019t know about debates.” He was setting expectations low. “I don\u2019t know about debates. I don\u2019t debate! I\u2019m a doer. I\u2019m a man of action. I tell other people what to do, and if they don\u2019t do it, then they\u2019re fired. <\/p>\n

“I tell \u2019em what to do. I don\u2019t sit around and debate people. That\u2019s all these guys do. They sit around and debate all day. They sit around and talked all day. I don\u2019t do that, so I don\u2019t know how I\u2019m gonna do.” Given Trump\u2019s behavior so far, it wasn\u2019t difficult to predict that it wouldn\u2019t be long in the debate before Trump began to criticize the whole setup, as, “Look, we\u2019ve been losing, right? We\u2019ve been losing presidential elections.<\/p>\n

“This is not a winning formula. These debates like this, we\u2019re not learning anything here. We\u2019re not teaching anybody.” I can see him blowing it up any number of ways, in the sense of attacking the quote\/unquote “system,” which is what he\u2019s doing with his campaign anyway. Trump said, “Ah, ah, ah! That\u2019s not me. I\u2019m not gonna be lobbing any grenades; I\u2019m not gonna be throwing any bombs,” thereby setting up the possibility that he would. <\/p>\n

That means that everybody\u2019s on the lout now for Trump not to play by the rules. And do you know what the rules are? The time limits include 30 seconds to reply, one minute to make a statement. There are going to be candidates on this stage tonight in a two-hour debate or hour and a half, I\u2019m not sure how long it is, that you\u2019re not gonna see more than three minutes of. For people to be seen and heard in this debate, they\u2019re gonna have to break the rules. They\u2019re gonna have to go outside the guidelines, if you will. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s when the moderators are gonna move in there and do everything they can to maintain control, because to the moderators, what we have tonight\u2019s a TV show. To the candidates, what they have is a rare opportunity to address the nation on equal footing with everybody else. And if they\u2019re serious about winning, they\u2019re not going to voluntarily be shut up. Somebody…<\/p>\n

This is why I say, somebody\u2019s gonna bust the rules. Somebody\u2019s gonna do something memorable good, memorable bad, but there will be some conflicts. The moderators, trying to put on a good television show, are gonna enforce the rules \u2019cause the rules and the format are godlike. Don\u2019t doubt me. I am a highly trained broadcast specialist. And these anchors are gonna have people shouting at them in their ears about enforcing time limits, about making sure that somebody gets equal time that hadn\u2019t been seen for a while. <\/p>\n

\"large\"You\u2019ll never hear any of this, but the IFB chatter is going to be furious. The hosts — call \u2019em the anchors, the moderators — are gonna be under a lot of pressure to maintain order. The candidates are gonna be equally desirous of busting out. And nobody wins points for following the rules. Tomorrow the review of this debate is not gonna be, “And the winner of last night\u2019s debate was Senator Marco Rubio, because he never once violated a single rule set forth by the moderator!” <\/line><\/p>\n

Does anybody ever remember a post-debate review of somebody winning it or getting even a lot credit \u2019cause they were nice and obeyed the rules and were fair and were tolerant and did not try to dominate it? No! So Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace reveal they already have… I\u2019m not criticizing \u2019em. I don\u2019t want anybody misunderstand here. Just telling you. They “already have a secret plan if Donald Trump refuses to obey the rules.” What if somebody else refuses to obey the rules.<\/p>\n

Do they have a secret plan to deal with that? <\/p>\n

Is the secret plan to deal with anybody breaking the rules, or they just gonna be focused on Trump breaking the rules? Is Trump gonna be the only one that they use force to keep him in line? We just have to see. Bret Baier is quoted in The Politico piece: “Listen, he\u00c2\u2019s going to be treated like everybody else. We\u00c2\u2019re going to treat every candidate the same. … Are we thinking about different scenarios? Sure. Our job is to make sure everybody plays by the rules.”<\/p>\n

See? It\u2019s a TV show, folks. And these people are rooted in format, formula rules, time limits, time checks, hitting the mark. That\u2019s why they are seasoned professionals. That\u2019s one of the many talents that broadcasters have to be able to master. And if they\u2019re having trouble, the people behind the scenes, the producers and directors, are gonna be all over \u2019em in the IFB, their ear pieces, urging them to go here, go there, shut up, make sure Trump doesn\u2019t… Whatever they gonna say. We\u2019ll never hear it. <\/p>\n

Megyn Kelly said that they had a plan if Trump refused to stop talking. “We have plan. We\u2019re not gonna share it with you,” she said. But if Trump doesn\u2019t stop talking, they have a plan. What if Jeb doesn\u2019t stop talking? What can…? (interruption) Well, what can they do if Trump doesn\u2019t shut up? (interruption) Well, they could shut off his mike, but that won\u2019t work because there are gonna be so many other microphones up there that he\u2019ll still be heard. They\u2019d have to shut off everybody\u2019s mike. <\/p>\n

No, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what the plan is, to shut off his mike. I think it\u2019s just to keep shouting at him and if they have to talk over him. “Mr. Trump! Mr. Trump! Mr. Trump, you have exceed time. Mr. Trump.” Just, I don\u2019t know, but they\u2019ve got a plan. I don\u2019t know. We doing commercials in this debate? No. Maybe they go to a commercial break when there isn\u2019t one scheduled. I mean, it could be something drastic. They could say, “Mr. Trump is refusing to play by the rules and, as such, this entire debate format has been placed at risk. <\/p>\n

“We are going to take a brief break while we attempt to restore order,” and then they go to O\u2019Reilly doing a commentary on ISIS or something, and they come back after they\u2019ve restored order and Trump has been admonished and he\u2019s been spanked and he promises to be a good boy and they continue. Who knows what the plan is! This is why, I\u2019m telling you: If they shut his microphone off, you know what he\u2019ll say? “I paid for this microphone. I\u2019m rich. I\u2019m really rich. And I\u2019m making this microphone possible.”<\/p>\n

He\u2019d just do it out of habit.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just a brief observation in the form of a question. I can\u2019t remember the last presidential primary debate where there were 10 people on stage. Now, it might have happened in 2012. I\u2019m not sure. I know there were a lot. But one thing I know, you look at this Politico piece, these two Politico pieces, the first one, Jeb with his insults of Trump, and then this second one where the GOP — well, that\u2019s another point. Where the Fox News moderators make it clear they have a secret plan to deal with Trump. Not a secret plan to deal with anybody else. <\/line><\/p>\n

So my question, do you remember, can you ever remember where one person, candidate, owned the pre-publicity on an event like this? Where every story pre-debate is about one candidate? What\u2019s that candidate gonna do? What will that candidate not do? How are we gonna control that candidate if candidate does X? Do we have a plan for dealing with it? It\u2019s all Trump, all the time. <\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s gonna put some performance pressure on him from the standpoint of the audience. He\u2019s got a lot of supporters that are gonna be tuning in tonight and they\u2019re gonna want to be validated. They\u2019re going to want to hear Trump, they\u2019re gonna want to see Trump be Trump. So he\u2019s got some performance pressure here. I don\u2019t mean to imply otherwise. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a problem. He can handle it. I\u2019m just telling you, as the singular focus of this, and he\u2019s fully aware that he is, it\u2019s gotta irritate everybody else. <\/p>\n

I mean, if you\u2019re one of these other candidates with all these stories about secret plans to deal with Trump, I\u2019m telling you, if you\u2019re Rand Paul, if you\u2019re Rubio or Cruz, you\u2019re saying, “What do you mean, why are you worried about Trump? Why aren\u2019t you worried about what I might do? What\u2019s the secret plan to deal with me?” Believe me, all this attention on Trump is gonna make every one of these other people try to wrest the spotlight away. It could be fireworks tonight. It also could end up, because of all these expectations, it could end up being, by comparison, pretty dull, depending on how everybody tries to play this tonight. <\/p>\n

Anyway, let me grab a phone call here quickly. Oh, one other thing. Not a big deal. As you know, we have a pretty established conservative media out there now. I mean, let\u2019s look at \u2019em. We\u2019ve got Red State, we\u2019ve got Power Line, we\u2019ve got Hot Air, we have Ace of Spades — I mean, look, I don\u2019t want to leave any of them out. It\u2019s a risk I run. I can\u2019t mention them all. They\u2019re all over the place. We got National Review, National Review Online, and who does the GOP go to? Who does the GOP grant access to? Politico. <\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s gotta be a reason for that. What do you think it is? Why is Jeb telling all this super-secret stuff about what he thinks of Trump to The Politico? The Politico magazine. I can answer it. I mean, I have my own theory as an answer. I\u2019m just bringing it up here as a talking point. Why didn\u2019t Jeb tell this to a National Review Online reporter? I mean, National Review Online is pretty tight with the Republican establishment. I mean, they\u2019re not thought of in the same vein by the establishment as talk radio is. They\u2019re considered buttoned down, coat and tie, loyal. Why not go to them? <\/p>\n

Or, take your pick. I mean, there\u2019s any number of other credible news and commentary websites, magazines, organizations. But the GOP always goes to Politico. They leak everything to Politico or they grant access, non-leak access to Politico. And I think it says a lot. I think it says that the GOP still considers its own supportive media to be fringe, and Politico and all the others as the genuine mainstream. But worse than that, I think it says that the GOP establishment types really think that they\u2019re not gonna win or get their message out unless they do it in the mainstream media. And who knows. They may be right. But clearly I think they think this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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