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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 603 The GOP Debate Gets Ugly, so Lew and Tom Have Fun

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Houston GOP debate on February 25, 2016, was the most contentious one yet, with attacks and crosstalk galore. The best part, of course, is the next day, when Lew Rockwell and I get to chat about it! Here's our conversation and analysis.

Show notes for Ep. 603

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 603.

0:03.2

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:07.8

Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.2

Hey, everybody, don't miss out on the event of the year.

0:17.6

Bob Murphy and I are hosting a cruise.

0:20.3

That's right, it's the Contra Cruise, October 9th to 16th,

0:23.8

2016 aboard Royal Caribbean. Check it out at contracruise.com. Hey, everybody, welcome to another

0:31.7

post-debate episode of the show featuring Lou Rockwell, and I have actually been attracting a number of new listeners

0:38.4

recently who are new to the whole movement. So for you and for you only, I'll tell you who

0:44.4

Lou Rockwell is. Of course, we're talking to the publisher of Lou Rockwell.com, which all self-respecting

0:50.2

libertarians read every day. The founder and chairman of the Mises Institute, Mises.org, M-I-S-E-S-D-org, which is

0:57.9

the Center for Austrian Economics anywhere in the world. You will learn an enormous amount

1:03.4

by visiting that site. And he was also chief of staff to Ron Paul. So I'm just delighted to have a

1:09.0

chance to talk to him again. Lou, here we are again. Welcome

1:11.8

back. Tom, we're going to have fun today. We always have fun, but I think we may have more fun.

1:16.3

I have to say, for the first time, I can actually say, that was worth watching. That was...

1:22.6

It was fun to see them fight, isn't it? It absolutely was. And then I think that's, there was one moment where I think

1:29.1

there was the most cross talk I've ever seen in any situation. They're all just the three of them

1:34.5

talking at once and not one of them will give up. You can't understand what any of them is saying.

1:39.3

Wolf Blitzer doesn't know what to do. It's just great. And then at one point, I mean, Blitzer was so thrown by the

1:46.1

whole situation. There was one point where Ted Cruz says, Wolf, what, you're not going to let me

1:50.6

talk about Obamacare? Look, Senator, you'll have an opportunity to talk about many. Yeah, but look,

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