YESTERDAY FOX NEWS ANNOUNCED WHICH GOP CANDIDATES ARE GOING TO BE
AT THE MAIN EVENT DEBATE IN WHICH THEY ARE GOING TO BE
RELEGATED TO THE EARLIER EVENT WHICH IS BEING CALLED IN SOME
PLACES THE HAPPY HOUR TABLE, OR IN SOME PLACES THE KIDS TABLE.
THOSE AT THE KIDS TABLE ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT BEING BOOTED
FROM THE BIG BOY DEBATE.
SOME HAVE RESPONDED IN GOOD WAYS, SOME IN PETULANT CHILDISH WAYS.
WE WILL GO DOWN THE LIST.
THE FIRST IS BOBBY JINDAL, HE HAS RELEASED AN AD.
LET'S LOOK.
THE DEBATE IN CLEVELAND IS ALL ABOUT THE CELEBRITIES.
BUT ONE CANDIDATE IS WHERE IT COUNTS, IOWA.
BOBBY JINDAL.
IF WE HAVE SOMEONE IN DC THAT WANTS TO BE POPULAR, WE'RE DONE
AS A COUNTRY.
GOVERNOR JINDAL SPEAKS THE HARD TRUTH.
WE ARE THE LAST HOPE.
WE ARE THE LIGHT OF FREEDOM IN A DARK WORLD.
I BELIEVE BOBBY JINDAL IS GOING TO BECOME A HOT COMMODITY.
I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO JOIN THE CAMPAIGN, I AM ASKING YOU TO
JOIN A CAUSE.
I AM ASKING YOU TO BELIEVE AGAIN.
GOVERNOR JINDAL IS REAL.
I THINK HE'S VERY GENUINE.
I THINK HE ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS INSTEAD OF DANCING AROUND THEM.
I'M VERY GLAD THAT I CAME TO SEE BOBBY JINDAL TODAY.
I THINK BOB IS VERY INTELLIGENT.
HE'S A BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN.
I AM SUPPORTING BOBBY JINDAL.
EARNING IT IN IOWA, BOBBY JINDAL.
I THINK BOBBY JINDAL HAS A 28 INCH WAIST.
I DID NOT REALIZE THAT.
HE IS SLENDER.
THAT MAN HAS ONE HOT, TIGHT BODY.
YOU CAN GET THE FINGERS TO TOUCH.
I LIKE THE WOMAN THAT SAID HE BELIEVES THAT HE IS REAL.
I BELIEVE THAT LIZARD MEN ARE REAL.
I BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE IN HIGH POSITIONS OF GOVERNMENT.
BOBBY JINDAL IS IN THE PUNDIT WORLD WHICH WE ARE A PART
OF, HE IS VERY DISMISSIVE.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY.
WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT HIM IS WHAT MAKES HIM MORE
COMICAL THAN
ANYONE ELSE.
I SEE BOBBY JINDAL IN A ROOM - I THINK HE IS
PRETTY GOOD.
YEAH, HE SEEMED FINE.
SURE, BUT I DON'T THINK HE'S GOING TO MAKE A FOOL OF HIMSELF
IN ANY WAY.
WELL, HE DID IN RESPONSE TO THE STATE OF THE UNION.
BUT THAT IS THE RESPONSE ñ
BUT THAT IS THE HARDEST THING IN THE WORLD.
HE MAKES HIMSELF MORE FAITHFUL THAN MARCO RUBIO?
I THINK HE DID.
TERRY LOCKE WHEN HE WAS ñ
YOU CAN'T GET WORSE THAN WHAT HE DID.
I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT I
WILL TRUST YOU.
TRUST ME, IT WAS HORRIBLE.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, AND PUT THEM IN THE ROOM WITH 50
SUPPORTERS.
GET THE PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT YOU OUT, MAKE IT ñ
RIGHT, THEY ARE ACTORS.
AND MICHELE BACHMANN'S WAS TERRIBLE, SO THEY HAVE BEEN
IN A LOT OF LEGENDARILY BAD ONES.
BUT FOR SOME REASON WE DECIDED ñ MARCO RUBIO TOOK A GLASS OF
WATER AND STEPPED OUT OF FRAME AND THEN DRINK THE WATER
LIKE SOMEONE WHO HAD NEVER USED HIS THROAT BEFORE.
LIKE AS IF HE HAD REPLACEMENT SURGERY.
HE'S SCARED OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN THE WATER.
THAT'S BOBBY JINDAL, HE'S GOT THE TACTIC OF YES, I NEED
TO BE IN THE DEBATE, BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER.
I AM WHERE IT COUNTS, IN IOWA.
I HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOST RECENT POLLS, MAYBE HE IS MOVING
UP, BUT I FEEL LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE SMALL.
CARLY FIORINA, WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IS HER BEING TAKEN
PRETTY SERIOUSLY INSIDE OF HER PARTY.
YOU ARE GOING TO SEE HER TAKE ON THIS, AND YOU MIGHT BE MORE
SYMPATHETIC TO HER, LET'S WATCH.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT BEING KEPT OFF THE MAIN DEBATE
BASED ON SOME POLLS SEVEN MONTHS OUT?
FIRST OF ALL THESE ARE NATIONAL POLLS.
NATIONAL POLLS MEASURE AMONG OTHER THINGS NAME RECOGNITION.
IN OTHER WORDS THE VAST MAJORITY OF REPUBLICAN VOTERS STILL
DON'T KNOW WHO I AM.
THAT IS NOT UNEXPECTED CONSIDERING I AM NOT A
PROFESSIONAL POLITICIAN.
I THINK THAT SHE KIND OF HAS A PRETTY GOOD POINT.
I DON'T KNOW
HOW SHE IS AS A DEBATER, IT MAY BE THAT SHE IS A MORE
SERIOUS, THOUGHTFUL CANDIDATE THAN SOME OF THOSE WHO WERE
POLLING WELL BECAUSE THEY DO HAVE HIGH NAME RECOGNITION.
IT'S POSSIBLE THAT IF SHE HAD BEEN INCLUDED, IT WOULD HAVE
BEEN SEEN BY MORE PEOPLE.
THEN MAYBE SHE WOULD HAVE A CHANCE OF GAINING MORE
RESPECT AMONGST PRIMARY VOTERS.
SHE IS THE FIRST WOMAN TO HAVE HAD A FORTUNE 500 COMPANY.
THAT'S A NOTEWORTHY THING.
YOU KNOW, YEAH, SHE SHOULD HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE.
NO QUESTION.
SHE WILL BE ADDED TO BAY, BUT NOT NECESSARILY THE FIRST ONE.
THEY DIDN'T BOOK SATELLITE TIME FOR HER.
YOU THINK OF DONALD TRUMP ñ JEB BUSH GETS A SATELLITE SHOT.
CARLY FIORINA, NO, SHE GOT A CALL FROM A CELL PHONE.
I DID NOT ACTUALLY THINK ABOUT THAT.
GOOD POINT.
NEXT UP, LINDSEY GRAHAM AND RICK PERRY.
FIRST OF ALL, I DID ñ DONALD TRUMP REACTED TO THE NEWS
THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE INVOLVED IN THE FIRST DEBATE.
THERE WERE THE FEW THAT WERE WILLING TO BE CRITICAL OF
DONALD TRUMP'S COMMENTS ABOUT MEXICAN RAPISTS AND DISEASE
CARRIERS, AND THIS IS WHAT DONALD TRUMP SAID.
"ISN'T IT AN AMAZING PHENOMENON?
YOU KNOW WHAT I SAID THEN?
LINDSEY GRAHAM WAS AT THREE AND ONLY WENT AFTER ME HARDER
THAN PERRY AND LINDSEY GRAHAM.
PERRY WENT TO FOUR AND FIVE, AND HE DROPPED ON TO TWO AND
LINDSEY GRAHAM DOWN TO ZERO.
I SAID THIS IS THE GREATEST HONOR.
THEY TALK ME AND THEY GO DOWN.
I WAS SURPRISED, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU."
HE IS NOT A GOOD WINNER NECESSARILY.
THAT IS ALSO NOT TRUE.
LINDSEY GRAHAM IS AT THREE IN A POLL OF LINDSEY GRAHAM'S FAMILY.
I DON'T THINK THERE HAS BEEN ANY POLLS THAT SAID LINDSEY
GRAHAM AT THREE.
FOR TRUMP, IT'S THE LEAST IMPORTANT LIE HE WILL EVER TELL.
RICK PERRY'S NUMBERS HAVE BEEN FAIRLY STAGNANT, AND
THEY CONTINUE TO BE STAGNANT.
BY THE WAY, IN IOWA POLL TAKEN SUNDAY, A WEEK AGO, HAS
JINDAL AT ONE.
SO HE IS MOVING UP.
YOU NAILED IT.
HE WAS THOROUGHLY IN THE NEGATIVE TEENS, AND NOW
HE'S DOING BETTER.
LINDSEY GRAHAM TOOK TO FACEBOOK TO TELL HIS FOLLOWERS TO
PREPARE FOR THE DONALD TRUMP DEBATES/DEBACLE.
WE SHOWED YOU YESTERDAY THAT HE HAD THE CHANCE TO ADDRESS
SOMETHING ABOUT IRAN AND THE HILLARY CLINTON EMAIL
SCANDALS, AND SO HE BROUGHT UP MONICA LEWINSKY.
A REAL DEBATE ABOUT REAL ISSUES.
HE POSTED THIS PICTURE ON TWITTER.
I LIKE THAT.
GRAB A COLD ONE.
HE IS PLAYING WITH SOME OF THE STUMBLING BLOCKS HE IS FACED.
I LIKE THAT.
I'M SURE SOME INTERN CAME UP WITH IT.
THESE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE RESPONSES.
LINDSEY GRAHAM IS CLEARLY ñ
IF YOU HAVE THE PICK OF THE GUYS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT WHO
YOU WOULD LIKE TO SIT NEXT TO ON A TRAIN, I THINK LINDSEY
GRAHAM WOULD BE A GREAT GUY.
YEAH, I WOULD'VE SAID BEFORE THIS CAMPAIGN SEASON, I
WOULD HAVE RANKED HIM HIGHER.
SOME OF THE STUFF HE SAID ABOUT IRAN AND HILLARY CLINTON, IT
DOES BOTHER ME.
LOOK, I'M SAYING SIT NEXT TO ON A TRAIN.
GOOD POINT.
SENATOR RICK SANTORUM'S CAMPAIGN SPOKESMAN CALLED THE ENTIRE
PROCESS INCREDIBLY FLAWED AND PREPOSTEROUS.
CAN I READ THIS WHOLE STATEMENT FROM RICK SANTORUM?
HELLO, THE SENATOR WILL BE TAKING PART IN THE EARLIER
TODAY, HOWEVER THE PROCESS EMPLOYED BY FOX NEWS AND
THE RNC IS FLAWED AGAINST THE SANTORUM CAMPAIGN.
EIGHT YEARS AGO MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI WAS LEADING THE PACK
AND EVERYONE WAS WRITING JOHN MCCAIN'S POLITICAL OBITUARY.
POLLS ARE MEANINGLESS IN AUGUST.
THAT THEY HAVE LEFT OUT THE RUNNER UP IN THE 2012
NOMINATION, RICK SANTORUM, THE FORMER FOUR TERM GOVERNOR
OF TEXAS, THE GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA, BOBBY JINDAL,
THE FIRST FEMALE FORTUNE 500 CEO, CARLY FIORINA, AND A THREE
TERM SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA DUE TO POLLING SEVEN MONTHS
BEFORE A SINGLE VOTE IS CAST IS PREPOSTEROUS.
WHILE FOX HAS TAKEN A LOT OF HEAT, PUBLIC AND NATIONAL
COMMITTEES DESERVE AS MUCH BLAME FOR THINKING THIS PROCESS.
THEY SHOULD NOT BE PICKING WINNERS AND LOSERS.
THAT IS THE JOB OF THE VOTERS, PARTICULARLY THOSE IN IOWA
AND NEW HAMPSHIRE WHO HAVE THE ROLE OF VOTING FIRST.
AS I SAID, I HAVE NEVER SAID THIS BEFORE, I COMPLETELY
AGREE WITH RICK SANTORUM.
HE REMAINS AS YOU WOULD SAY, A TREMENDOUS JACK BAG, BUT
HIS CAMPAIGN SPOKESMAN WROTE THAT.
YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE.
YOU CAN'T JUST BE A JACKASS WHO WAS NEVER HELD ANY PUBLIC
OFFICE WHATSOEVER, YOU CAN'T PUT HIM UP ON THE STAGE.
YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE.
BUT AS THEY POINT OUT THERE, THEY ARE FORMER
RUNNERS-UP, THEY ARE GOVERNORS, THEY PROBABLY DESERVE THE
DEBATE.
THEY SHOULD HAVE RANDOMIZED THE DEBATE.
YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT POINT.
I FEEL THAT EVERY TIME I CALL IT A DEBATE- SINCE I'M FAIRLY
CERTAIN WE ARE GOING TO HAVE NOTHING LIKE REAL DEBATING
ABOUT THE ISSUES.
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THEM DELIVERING TALKING POINTS.
I ANTICIPATE VERY LITTLE BACK-AND-FORTH BETWEEN THE
ACTUAL CANDIDATES, PROBABLY BECAUSE THERE WILL BE 10
OF THEM.
IT MAKES IT HARDER TO HAVE GOOD BACK-AND-FORTH.
BUT PERHAPS ONCE WE WEED OUT A FEW AFTER A COUPLE OF DEBATES
FROM NOW, WE WILL FINALLY GET AN IDEA OF SOME OF THE
POLICIES THESE CANDIDATES WOULD ACTUALLY PUSH FOR.
BUT FOR NOW, WE ARE PREPPING FOR
THE DAY.