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	Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
	Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, have you heard the news, folks?
	Have you heard that?
	Some guy who has only been a senator for a short time, some guy without any real executive experience, some guy whose biggest qualification is he went to Harvard Law School, some guy with a a foreign name.
	And a guy uh mixed ethnic Macground, some guy who has questions about his birth certificate.
	Do you heard this guy's running for president?
	Isn't that crazy?
	And the Democrats are telling this guy, telling us this guy is not qualified, that he's dumb, that he's stupid, that he's incendiary, and he doesn't have it right on global warming.
	I'm talking about Ted Cruz.
	Did you ever stop and look at Ted Cruz that way?
	Some guy only been a senator for a short time.
	Some guy with um, I don't need real executive experience, biggest qualification, went to Harvard Law School.
	Foreign name, mixed ethnic background, questions about his birth certificate.
	Yeah, I saw it on CNN today.
	He may not be qualified.
	He might have been born in Canada.
	It is uncanny.
	Everything about Barack Obama that they said qualified him, they are saying disqualifies Ted Cruz.
	Greetings to you, my good friends, and welcome to the exciting excellence in broadcasting network and L Rushbow here.
	Telephone numbers 800 282-2882 and the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
	So I'm watching this speech today, and it is flat out amazing.
	And I'm watching as important to me, the drive-by reaction afterwards.
	We've got the sound bites here, just stand by.
	On CNN, they went through the litany of things that I just ratted off as well, he hasn't done anything.
	Why he may have a strange birth certificate.
	Why and they were dead serious.
	That he doesn't have enough experience.
	Everything I just read to you, and then they're that but they were amazed.
	They were amazed that he did that whole speech without a prompter.
	They couldn't believe, and this is, you know, you might think that's not that big a deal.
	But I'm not talking about the speech without a prompter.
	I'm saying the reaction to it.
	The drive-by reaction to that speech without a prompter, they could not help but be dazzled, and they were.
	They were dazzled, they were impressed, they were so dazzled, they're worried the guy is superhuman.
	There's something not real about somebody who can do all of that without a prompter.
	So dependent on the teleprompter has become the inside the beltway political culture that somebody who doesn't need one is looked at with suspicion.
	I kid you not on this.
	They were admittedly dazzled by it, but you could also sense that they were very worried about it, and it wasn't normal.
	It's all part of the ingredients they chalk up to Ted Cruz's.
	It's just not normal.
	This is not what politicians do.
	They just it it did he knows all of that, that he could and without stuttering and without losing his place.
	It is, it was really to me, probably a non-event uh or no big deal to many people, but their reaction to that to me spoke volumes.
	Well, I don't that's that's the whole here's my point.
	There's my point about this is this.
	I mean, I uh don't make this about me, Snerdley.
	You know, God bless you.
	I love you, but every time I talk about something on this program, Snurley, you did it, you did it, you do it, you do it.
	What's the big Yes?
	I used to do, and I still do when I do it hour and a half.
	I do an hour and a half, two hours on a prompter.
	I understand that, but nobody else does that.
	But but the point is the people who do do it and can't like Cruz, you don't need a prompter because it's in your heart.
	You don't need notes because it's in your heart.
	Therefore, what we hand on a Ted Cruz and what he really believes, it's what's really in his heart.
	He didn't hit notes, he didn't need a teleprompter, didn't need uh anybody speaking to him in his ear.
	You know, he Alan Dershowitz, who was his law professor in Harvard, said that he uh probably smartest student he ever had.
	Smartest student he ever had and best debater.
	And of course, then we have on Sunday, what was it, a meet the press?
	Moonbeam.
	Jerry Brown saying he is this stupid.
	He doesn't have any qualification.
	He absolutely no business running for oil.
	He's absolutely unfit to be running for office, said Jerry Brown, because he is wrong on climate change.
	But this is folks, this is how the drive-bys do it.
	They take a man who in Ted Cruz might really be the smartest man there.
	Ted Cruz might be the smartest man in Congress.
	He has argued many times before the Supreme Court.
	He was an Ivy League.
	I mean, that's their training ground.
	An Ivy League debate champion.
	Alan Dershowitz called him the smartest student he ever had.
	The drive by's go out, and with the help of Chuck Todd and Jerry Brown tell the world over and over and over again that Ted Cruz is stupid.
	And the definition of stupidity is that he's conservative.
	And simply because he's conservative, he's stupid.
	They have done this to every high profile Republican the past 50 years.
	And now they're sending Jerry Brown out to start the whole ball rolling on this yesterday on Meet the Depressed.
	That's what they're going to try to make stick.
	Now, I have also been studying in a limited amount of time here some reactions that uh from people who may have seen Ted Cruz for the first time.
	Now some people know who he is.
	Well, I give an example.
	The Ed Rollins, who is, I think if he's still working, will be in the Jeb Bush camp.
	You're nodding your head.
	Did you see this?
	Yeah, Fox.
	So they go to Ed Rollins and uh who's the other guy?
	Trippy, Joe Trippie.
	As soon as Cruz was finished, and the first words out of Ed Rollins' mouth.
	Quote, architect of the government shutdown in 2013 or whatever.
	And so they're clearly using that as a negative.
	And CNN and all the other drive-bys were that's that was their first reaction to what's Cruz done?
	Well, he was the architect of the government shutdown.
	Because they have come to believe that their agenda, the left's agenda, they believe is the agenda of the majority of thinking in this country.
	And I maintain to you that it isn't.
	I maintain to you that the whole business of a government shutdown is not a universal negative.
	There are a lot of people to whom that's going to be a positive.
	There are a lot of people to whom that's going to say, okay, Ted, I'm not bothered that that happened.
	But one man can't shut down the government anyway, but that's what they want, because they believe that a majority of people in this country fear a government shutdown.
	And if they can portray Cruz as the guy who shut down the government, that that's all they have to do to disqualify him.
	But this speech was something else.
	I'm not even going to try to characterize it.
	I'm just going to start with the audio sound bites for you.
	Other than to say it was masterful, other than to say we finally now have on display someone who can cheerfully, confidently, happily articulate conservatism in a charismatic, positive way.
	Somebody who's not afraid of it, somebody who's not ashamed of it, somebody who doesn't see any need to qualify it or to make excuses for it.
	He just came out smoking and ended up smoking.
	It was masterful.
	And over here is a guy, well, he had been in the Senate long.
	Eh, just he went to Harvard, but big whoop.
	No executive experience.
	He's wrong on global warming.
	He's unfit for office.
	He's dumb.
	He's stupid.
	But that's going to fly in the face of everybody who watches Cruz.
	The one thing that you do not conclude after watching Ted Cruz is that he is stupid.
	Here's a man who was unabashedly talking about his Christianity.
	He um he made an interesting point.
	He actually at Liberty University gave testimony Of his faith in Jesus that you don't hear in public anymore.
	You simply do not hear people in public say what Ted Cruz said today.
	He gave his testimony of his faith in Jesus.
	He relates it to the founding of the country in Christianity.
	You don't hear anybody doing this anymore.
	Now it's going to scare the hell out of the left.
	They already are.
	It's going to scare the heck out of the drive-by media.
	But here's the thing, and he pointed this out.
	Had it not been for a conversion to Christ by his father, when Ted Cruz was three, Ted Cruz would have been raised by a divorced mother with no father, had it not been for his father converting to Christ.
	When he was three.
	Look at this guy is not an award-winning debater for nothing.
	Now there are uh, of course, other things going on in the news today, and we will get to them, but I want to get right into these sound bites in case you didn't hear it.
	We have some of the highlights.
	Ted Cruz was in Lynchburg, Virginia at Liberty University, and the purpose today was to announce that he is running for president of the United States.
	I want to ask each of you to imagine.
	Imagine millions of courageous all across America rising up together to say in unison, we demand our liberty.
	Today, roughly half of born-again Christians aren't voting.
	They're staying home.
	Imagine instead, millions of people of faith all across America coming out to the polls and voting our values.
	Look at the the applause was robust, and there were many applause lines.
	We've just edited it here for the uh sake of time.
	When's the last time you heard this from a candidate running for the presidency?
	When is the last time you even heard them addressing born-again Christians, much less mentioning them, much less appealing to them.
	When born-again Christians happen to be mentioned in American politics today, it's usually derisively.
	And it's usually in connection with the fact that they're a bunch of pro-life hayseeds.
	And here comes Ted Cruz saying, I'm one of you.
	And I know that you are an army out there waiting to be mobilized, and that nobody has asked you to join them in a number of years, and I'm here to do it today.
	He really believes that there are millions of Americans who do sit home and don't vote for any number of reasons, that neither party is reaching.
	In fact, both parties may be alienating, but the Democrat Party especially.
	And he makes no bones about the fact who he is, he is not ashamed to solicit votes from Christians born again or otherwise.
	He is eager to do so.
	You just and to relate Christianity to the founding of this country, you don't hear that done anymore.
	You simply do not hear it.
	Then he asked everybody to imagine essentially a world without Obamacare.
	Instead of the joblessness, instead of the millions forced into part-time work, instead of the millions who've lost their health insurance, lost their doctors, have faced skyrocketing health insurance premiums.
	Imagine in 2017, a new president signing legislation repealing every word of Obamacare.
	Imagine health care reform that keeps government out of the way between you and your doctor, and that makes health insurance personal and portable.
	Yes, and again, we've edited this applause profoundly because it just went on and on and on.
	And remember, all of this is spoken without a teleprompter.
	There were a lot of pauses.
	Ted Cruz speaks rather slowly for impact.
	He's not a rat tat-tat machine gun type person.
	He's very thought-out, very reasoned and deliberate.
	And again, none of this was written.
	Well, it may have been written at some point, it may have been written down somewhere, But he did not have access to the written word.
	This is all from his heart.
	Next up, he shredded Obama, very simply, just by articulating all that Obama is not.
	Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel.
	Instead of a president who seeks to go to the United Nations to end run Congress and the American people.
	Imagine a president who says I will honor the Constitution.
	And under no circumstances will Iran be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon.
	Imagine a president who says we will stand up and defeat radical Islamic terrorism.
	And we will call it by its name.
	And just this weekend, a government official, Obama administration official refused to characterize ISIS as Islamic extremists.
	So Cruz, and that's of course just a small partial list of the things that Obama is not.
	This this next bite, this personally really resonated with me.
	Imagine it's 1775, and you and I were sitting there in Richmond listening to Patrick Henry say, give me liberty or give me death.
	Imagine it's 1776, and we were watching the 54 signers of the Declaration of Independence stand together and pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to igniting the promise of America.
	Imagine it was 177, and we were watching General Washington as he lost battle after battle after battle in the freezing cold as his soldiers with no shoes were dying fighting for freedom against the most powerful army in the world.
	That too seemed unimaginable.
	No, you know, I naturally I'm going to gravitate to that because that's exactly the premise under which I'm writing these children's books.
	These the Rush Revere series, taking the reader there.
	Imagine it because it's effective.
	And the point that he's making here is don't give up.
	Don't think we've lost.
	Don't think we can't overcome this.
	Because the people who founded this country overcame greater obstacles than you and I face today.
	And that's not to diminish the obstacles we face.
	That's not to say that we're over-exaggerating or exaggerating at all our obstacles.
	But the point is, there were people before us who had it much rougher, who faced challenges that were just as great and just as dire.
	And they lost and lost and lost, and they never gave up.
	And because of that, there is the United States of America today.
	This is going to resonate with people when they hear it.
	This is all about getting up.
	There's an army out there waiting to be mobilized by leadership that is absent on the right, Republican Party and so forth.
	So this is a great, great start.
	We'll be back after this, folks.
	Okay, admit it.
	Some of you started scratching your heads and wondering, okay, when I started making a big deal about the fact that the drive-by's made a big deal that Ted Cruz spoke without a teleprompter.
	And I warned you, I told you this is a big deal to them for a number of reasons.
	A, it frightens them.
	Nobody is supposed to be able to speak in public like that without a teleprompter.
	It also frightens me because Obama, of course, can't go anywhere without a teleprompter.
	But the teleprompter has become a valid part of the Washington, D.C. media and political culture.
	And therefore, the fact, and I won't, I told you SSC, and then they were they were going nuts over this that Ted Cruz spoke without a teleprompter.
	They couldn't believe it.
	It worried them because people aren't supposed to be able to do that.
	To them, speaking without a prompter makes you not talented.
	It does not make you extraordinary.
	It does not merit anything positive.
	It causes grave concern about what kind of person could do that.
	Are they so radical?
	Are they so extremist?
	And low end behold within 10 minutes.
	I have a story here from TheHill.com.
	Headline, no teleprompter for Cruz.
	Why is that news?
	No of all the things that happened at the Ted Cruz presidential candidacy announcement today.
	By the way, the fact that it was at Liberty University, that has them doing flips.
	Jerry Falwell's moral majority headquarters, they just are going baddie over this, folks.
	And young people in the audience that were standing up and cheering, in fact, the Democrat National Committee may have accidentally admitted that it's worried about all of this.
	They noted in an email to supporters that his announcement sent shivers down their spines.
	It's a fundraising appeal.
	And I don't blame them at all.
	And here we are behind the golden EIB microphone, Rushlin Baugh kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
	Yet the Democrat National Committee sent out a uh it's a fundraising email series of tweets that uh the Cruz announcement sent shivers down their spines.
	It says if you're like us, just reading that phrase probably sent shivers down your spine or produced a pretty serious roll of the eyes.
	But as of this moment, Ted Cruz officially running for president, and if we don't do everything in our power to stop him, the possibility of a president cruz could become a reality.
	And of course, it's just a fundraising thing.
	But I wonder if this uh sent shivers was a little bit of an admission they may not have wanted to make, meaning that it was actually somewhat honest, rather than just a fundraising screech, if you will.
	A couple more uh soundbites from the speech itself, after imagining us to asking us to imagine being with the founders in Philadelphia as they were writing the declaration debating the Constitution after imagining us uh ask us to imagine being with George Washington, he then brought it forward to more recent history.
	Imagine it's 1933, and we were listening to President Franklin Delanore Roosevelt tell America at a time of crushing depression at a time of a gathering storm abroad, that we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
	Imagine it's 1979, and you and I were listening to Ronald Reagan, and he was telling us that we would cut the top marginal tax rate from 70% all the way down to 28%,
	that we would go from crushing stagnation to booming economic growth to millions being lifted out of poverty and into prosperity and abundance, that the very day he was sworn in, our hostages who were languishing in Iran would be released, and that within a decade we would win the Cold War and tear the Berlin Wall to the ground.
	That would have seemed unimaginable.
	And yet, with the grace of God, that's exactly what happened.
	And then he said that God's not finished with us yet.
	I believe God isn't done with America yet.
	I believe in you.
	I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of America.
	And that is why today I am announcing that I'm running for President of the United States.
	And of course, everybody knew that's what was happening.
	That's why they were all there.
	Everybody knew that's what was coming.
	That was the big applause line, it was the big finale, everybody stood up, his wife and kids came out.
	You know, his wife is uh Harvard MBA as well.
	She's accomplished in her own right, uh, and according to the media, as dumb and stupid as is Ted Cruz.
	And this exactly what they're gonna do.
	This is how the drive-bys do it.
	They take a guy like this, Ted Cruz, who may be the smartest man in Congress, who has argued many times before the Supreme Court, the NIV League debating champion.
	Alan Dershowitz, who teaches law at Harvard, called the smartest student he ever had.
	And they go out and they tell the world over and over and over again that Ted Cruz is stupid.
	And it's the modus operandi, the game plan for taking down every Republican there is.
	And as I say, they got started with this on cruise yesterday.
	They sent Jerry Brown out on Meet the Press to say he's unfit to be running for office.
	He's not even unfit to be in office.
	He's unfit to be running.
	He has no business being a candidate because he's so stupid.
	And the reason Ted Cruz is so stupid is because he doesn't have it right on climate change.
	Jerry Brown says that Ted Cruz is entirely ignorant on climate change, and this means he is disqualified from even running for president because he's such an idiot.
	When in fact it's Moonbeam who is the idiot, as is so often the case when the left starts handing out these charges of stupidity and ignorance.
	It actually would be better placed if it were self-focused.
	Little uh media sample here, Carol Costello on CNN.
	This is after the Cruz presidential announcement.
	There were questions about his birth certificate because he was born in Canada.
	It certainly does sound like familiar criticism.
	Let's talk about independent voters because one of the things Ted Cruz said during his speech is our rights come from God, not man.
	And if you head into Twitter this morning, you'll find that some people weren't so pleased with that.
	You'll also find tweets that read, quote, I'm gonna give you one.
	Science?
	We don't need no stinking science.
	Here's another tweet.
	I'll make government small enough to fit into your bedroom or a woman's uterus.
	You want to talk about stupidity.
	You know what the stupidity in this country is.
	It's on Democrat-sponsored Twitter.
	The stupidity and the sewer that parts of Twitter have become are uncanny.
	In fact, I have a story here in the snack.
	Did I put it at the top?
	Yes!
	Right here it is.
	The story of the UK telegraph, our smartphones making our children mentally ill.
	Evans has been a Lyd Evans has been a child psychotherapist for 25 years, working in hospital scrubs, and with families.
	She says she's never been so busy.
	In the 1990s, I would have had one or two attempted suicides a year, mainly teenage girls taking overdoses.
	The things that don't get reported now, I could have as many as four of those a month.
	So there's been an explosion in numbers in mental health problems among youngsters.
	And one of the reasons is cell phones.
	Smartphones.
	Something is clearly happening.
	I am seeing the evidence in the numbers of depressive anorexic children who come to see me, and something they all have in common is they live on and with their smartphones.
	So we have a female psychotherapist here who says that her practice is booming because kids have too much access to the internet.
	That's really what it boils down to.
	The smartphone means that kids have way too much access to way too much stuff, and it's all depressing, and it's all confusing, and they can't process it.
	And they all end up thinking everybody else is happy as they can be while they are not.
	They think everybody is living a life of Riley, they're very happy, they're wealthy, everybody's content, except they're not.
	The impression this woman says all of these kids get that everybody's happy, but the individual isn't.
	And it depresses them.
	And so she thinks the problem is too much access to too much information by too much technology.
	Now, if you want to claim that kids today are different than they were a generation or two ago, I won't argue with you.
	I mean, things change.
	I frankly think I was, in fact, I was thinking about this driving, and there was something, something on the radio.
	It was Louie Armstrong's song, What a Wonderful World.
	And there's a line in that song that he's singing about young kids as a man in his 70s singing, they'll learn much more than I'll never I'll ever know.
	And I've always been drawn to that line.
	They'll learn much more than I'll ever know.
	And I'm thinking about myself.
	When I was um well, you take your average teenager today, 13, 14, 15, or younger, who has mastered a computer, mastered a smartphone, mastered searching the internet.
	Folks, when we were 13, 14, or 50, there was none of that.
	I mean, it wasn't even there to learn.
	So it's it was it's hard to compare.
	But the point is that young people today clearly do have far more access to far more information.
	At least it's easier to get.
	We had to go to the library to find it published works, magazines, books, newspapers, what have you.
	It was not nearly as convenient, and it was not nearly as omnivorous as it is today.
	But I don't think that's what's got kids screwed up.
	I don't think it's the tech that has kids screwed up.
	I don't think it's smartphones or any of that.
	That's just the easiest thing to blame it on.
	What we're looking at is another abject failure of liberalism to control people, to try to perfect humanity.
	It can't be done.
	It would make more sense to take troubled children and try to analyze their problems, figure out what's wrong with them.
	Blame it on the smartphone?
	Why in the world do you arrive at that when there are other possibilities that make infinitely more sense?
	Busted up families, single parent families, poverty.
	Liberal PC education in school to me is culprit number one in screwing people up, not just in grade school, and not just in middle school, not just in high school, but in college.
	If you want to talk about the insecurities of young people, look no further than the classroom, if you ask me, where there's nothing but an endless parade of hate being taught.
	I'm telling you, you cannot be exposed to never-ending hate and vitriol and anger and come out of there happy and content.
	You just can't do it.
	It's why I have always urged people.
	You know, back in the days when people used to ask me, uh, hey, you know what, I want to do radio too.
	How should I do it?
	I always told people do not hang around the failures.
	Do not hang around people who don't like it.
	Do not hang around people who think the business was unfair to them.
	All you're gonna get is a negative stream.
	You don't want to hang around people who don't think you can succeed because they didn't.
	You don't want to hang around people who are bitter.
	Find the successes and learn from them.
	By the way, Snerdley, if I may make another departure, you know something else I was thinking.
	The the the way I climbed the ladder of radio is totally obsolete today.
	Totally unnecessary.
	Just another example.
	If somebody called me today and said, hey Rush, what do I have to do to become like you've got a national radio talk show and become a big star?
	What do I have to do?
	It would be a mistake for me to say, well, you've got to start a small station and work your way up, and you know you get fired a couple of times, but be willing to do anything.
	All that old advice, that's not the way to do it now.
	All you have to do now is get a YouTube channel.
	Get a YouTube channel, start producing videos, hope maybe one or two of them catch on, draw some attention to yourself.
	There's an alternative way of doing it, is my point.
	You can still do it that way.
	I mean, it's it's it's still possible.
	There are still radio stations, and there are still small markets, and you can still start small and work up and get big.
	But at the same time, look at the number of people who have become miniature celebrities within their own universe just as a result of one YouTube video.
	I mean, there's a there's a way you can expose yourself.
	It it took me, let me let me put it this way, because Snertley's frowning at me.
	I started when I was 16, New York and 19, this is so so to 60.
	It took me 30 years.
	30 years of work before I had the chance to even be exposed to the whole nation with what I was doing.
	A kid on YouTube today can do it today.
	Well, no, it's a staying there.
	I'm talking about the track of getting started.
	I'm just you it's important to be able to be adaptive, is my point.
	And there's all kinds of ways now to accomplish what I wanted to accomplish in a much shorter period of time.
	And I'm not talking about taking shortcuts and not doing the work.
	Don't don't misunderstand.
	But I mean thirty years before I even had a chance before the powers that be would even let me be on a satellite.
	Today a kid can do a YouTube video and be all over the world.
	Now nobody may watch it, but if somebody does and it takes off, then the kids immediately known.
	May get hired, so it's a whole different thing.
	Well, by the same token, these b you want to blame technology for this?
	The problem with kids being depressed, the problem with kids being not just mentally ill, it's not the smartphone, it's not the tech.
	That is the opening of opportunity.
	It's what they're being taught.
	It's the drivel.
	It is the hate-filled rhetoric that they're subjected to every day in school, at least, and who knows at home, maybe.
	Got to take a break.
	I'm a little long.
	I wish I didn't have to, because I'm on a roll here.
	But it is what it is.
	I'm gonna get back to this.
	Our smartphones making our children mentally ill, because there's a lot more out there making kids I don't know, mentally ill, confused, depressed, unhappy.
	It's not the phones, it's not the tech.
	But I want to grab some calls on this because a lot of people want to weigh in on Ted Cruz today.
	We'll start with Daryl in um Powhatan, Virginia.
	Great to have you on the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Rush, it's a privileged 15-year listener.
	First time I got five.
	Thank you, sir.
	Glad you met Central Virginia Master Tradesman PhD in common sense ditto, sir.
	Glad to have you.
	Thanks much.
	I want to take you back to the 2012 primary season, when you and many others, but especially you were lamenting the fact that there was no one that could articulate conservatism properly.
	That no that there seemed to be no voice of conservatism.
	And I would say I would posit that Ted Cruz, because I've watched him since 2012, he is that person.
	He doesn't need a teleprompter because it's second nature.
	Natural is breathing.
	This is the guy that we were lamenting and wishing for in 2012.
	Oh, not just 2012.
	Well, yeah, uh uh yes.
	True.
	But I remember what you're talking about.
	And it it wasn't so much well, it's actually two pronged.
	Yeah, there there was a shortage, no question, of uh Republican candidates who could.
	But there were some who could who refused to do it all the way.
	Well, we wanted unapologetic conservatism, and arguably I would say that's what Cruz's hashtag should be unapologetic conservative.
	Well, that's just it.
	We we always have, whenever we do find a conservative, they're always issuing qualifiers.
	Like uh, well, you know, I'm a compassionate conservative, or some some other thing that lets you know that they're very defensive about it and and uh think they need to make excuses for it.
	And that you're right, is one thing about Ted Cruz that will never be said.
	He does not think who he is or what he believes needs to be excused.
	And he makes no yeah, he makes no apologies, and he doesn't need safe talking points either.
	But he goes after the issues, he lays out specifics, he says exactly what he's gonna do, and people like me out here are starving for that.
	So you think there are a lot of you out there, a lot of people like you out there gonna be.
	Well, there's uh I won't mention them, but there's a blog that I frequent often where, you know, a lot of people are big Ted Cruz fans, and it's it's a mainstream blog that I think you've cited a couple times.
	But uh, you know, there's some other place where there are a lot of Ted Cruz fans.
	Um there are a lot of uh people like myself have actually been wondering where the conservative media has been, because well, I I'm not gonna talk specific other candidates, but we hear about a lot of other people, and it's like Cruz is the forgotten guy, yet here he is.
	Well, it's because I'll tell you why.
	No, no, no, I'll tell you even among conservative media, dare I say this.
	Even among conservative media, there are those who think he is an outlier, a second tier candidate who does not have a snowball's chance of getting the nomination, and thus that's how they portray him, and that's how they react to him.
	And I just don't misunderstand this.
	Please don't, because I'm not saying anything here.
	It's just historically true.
	This is exactly how Reagan was reacted to.
	Well, that's it, my friends.
	Another exciting hour.
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