Jan. 19, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| And here we are back at it, folks. | |
| Great to be with you. | |
| As always, Rush Limbo and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, a program that meets and surpasses all audience expectations every day, as well as confusing, apparently. | |
| Quite a few people, each and every day. | |
| And that's not something I'm trying to do or be. | |
| It's confusing. | |
| I think confusion is in the minds of the listeners who happen to be. | |
| Anyway, telephone number if you want to be on the program's 800 282-2882 and the email address, Ilrushbow at EIB net.com. | |
| Okay, so everybody's breathlessly waving here to see who the big endorser of Donald Trump's gonna be. | |
| He's got some major announcement. | |
| He announced it yesterday, major announcement today. | |
| And everybody's been speculating that it's a big endorsement. | |
| Trump has not said that it's an endorsement, has he? | |
| He just said he's a big announcement. | |
| No, it's not me. | |
| You are among the confused, to whom I was just referring. | |
| Uh anyway, expecting it to be an endorsement, and of course, the fairly the conventional wisdom is that it's Sarah Palin who's going to endorse Trump. | |
| And if that happens, Ted Cruz has said that would be a shocker. | |
| It would be a pretty big disappointment, because it just would be. | |
| So we will we will wait and see. | |
| I've heard a couple other names being bandied about that I have not seen anywhere in the media. | |
| I'll just I'll give you one. | |
| I'll give you a name that I heard this is yesterday, and it's it's pure, pure. | |
| I mean, I've got nothing to back it up. | |
| It's just idle, it could be really it's off the wall stuff, but it I don't think it would qualify as major. | |
| Certainly wouldn't qualify for all this big buildup here. | |
| But the name I heard yesterday was Jerry Falwell Jr. | |
| Uh coming out of uh that would be about a par Franklin Graham. | |
| Uh maybe not even up to that level. | |
| Uh anyway, I like everybody else, no idea. | |
| Uh, I find it interesting that Trump is going to make this announcement during this program. | |
| He's got a three-hour window here for that to happen. | |
| In the meantime, I went through the audio soundbite roster today, and I'm sorry, folks. | |
| I really am. | |
| I'm I'm a again, I'm in over half of them. | |
| With the drive-bys reacting to things that they think I said yesterday, taking things I did say, but the drive-bys didn't hear them. | |
| They hear about what I say from other websites. | |
| So they take what I say, take it from where I said it, and attach it to somewhere else, the old out-of-context trick. | |
| Now, in this case, I think they're literally trying to get it right, uh, but they're falling short, and some of them do, some of them don't play any games, and the things attributed to me are accurate and in context. | |
| So, you know, I'm just I'm reluctant to play all these sound bites and mention me. | |
| Uh, because I don't want anybody accusing me of doing the program just for that reason. | |
| But heck, it's about what everybody's talking about here, this Trump versus Cruz thing, and how it is Evolving or manifesting. | |
| So I've made the decision, I'm just gonna go ahead and play these sound bites as though they're part of any other day's rotation. | |
| But there before we get to that, there are a couple of interesting stories here that I found that that they're I mean they're indirectly related to the specific nature of the argument going on between Trump and Cruz right now. | |
| I mean, they obviously include that, but that's not specifically why these articles are written. | |
| One's in National Review by David French, and the other is at the Atlantic.com by Molly Ball. | |
| And both of these stories are dealing With the precarious perch in which the Republican Party finds itself and what this presidential campaign foretells for the future of the Republican Party. | |
| And in the case of the Atlantic story, portrait of a party on the verge of coming apart is the headline. | |
| The subhead of this story with the Hawkeye cawkeye just two weeks away. | |
| Can a Republicans reconcile themselves to Donald Trump andor Ted Cruz, or will the GOP break into pieces? | |
| Now, just as a prelude to this, I want to remind you of something that we unearthed last week on the eve of the South Carolina primary. | |
| You know, the whole RNC was in town. | |
| They had one of their annual confabs where they get together and strategize and plan their conspiracies for winning this and winning that. | |
| And remember, we found this piece written by a young millennial Republican by the name of Ford O'Connell, in which he, and he's a ranking member of the GOP strategist class, and he's one of their planners. | |
| This is the guy who presented a five-part plan for saving the party, and he said the worst thing that could happen for the Republican Party is for Ted Cruz to win the nomination and be elected president. | |
| The second worst thing could happen for the party is to Trump be elected president. | |
| The two worst things that happen to the Republican Party is if either of these two guys is the nominee and then wins the presidency. | |
| Now, why is that bad? | |
| Well, as a reminder, Mr. O'Connell said because it would delay the much needed modernization of the Republican Party. | |
| It's stuck in the mud. | |
| It's stuck in the past, and it must get hip, and it must get with it. | |
| And how did he define modernization? | |
| Very simply. | |
| We've got to hug the gays. | |
| Ford O'Connell, millennial GOP, ranking strategist, analyst, whatever. | |
| We have to embrace the gays. | |
| We have to embrace the LGBTs. | |
| We have to embrace this counterculture and let them know we love them. | |
| We must be on the leadership team that advances the whole notion of comprehensive immigration. | |
| In other words, amnesty. | |
| It might have had to do with. | |
| No, that's number five. | |
| The one I've forgotten might have to do with minorities or African American. | |
| I don't remember. | |
| But number five, which probably should have been at the top of this guy's list, because this is probably the most important thing, although I think hugging the gays and getting rid of Reagan are close first and second, in terms of what's important with these guys. | |
| But he said we got to get rid of the fetish of Reagan. | |
| We have to stop being tied to the Reagan past. | |
| It is dooming us and it is preventing modernization. | |
| And this guy went on to say that the best thing to happen for the party would be for if the nominee is Cruz or Trump to lose. | |
| Because if either of them win, then people are going to get the wrong idea about the Republican Party and what it stands for. | |
| And we can't have guys like this winning. | |
| We want them to lose, which means the this guy and whoever he's speaking for would actively work for the defeat of Cruz or Trump, which means supporting Hillary. | |
| So you've got Republicans admitting they would do that in order to, in their words, save the Republican Party from being destroyed and being prevented from modernizing. | |
| So with that, as a reminder, David French's piece, National Review, Republicans have overestimated the conservatism of the base. | |
| Now, this is a fascinating piece. | |
| As you know, I'm a regular consumer of what they do there at National Review. | |
| Now let me just cut to the chase on uh on this. | |
| Oh, yeah, the uh the the other thing that Ford O'Connell said that GOP needs to change the primary system to prevent things like this happening. | |
| I forget the details, but but those are the five things. | |
| Anyway. | |
| This is a fascinating analysis by Mr. French. | |
| In any national review, depending on who you read, they're in bed with the Republican Party or they're not. | |
| The first organization, I've got people that believe in the GOP establishment and others who don't. | |
| But this piece is fascinating because it's it's its premise is that all of this panic on the Republican Party is based in a profound misunderstanding of who their base voters are. | |
| Now, the reason why this is important, don't forget the hoped for the all eggs in the winner basket for Jeb Bush. | |
| That's who this establishment in the Republican Party wants. | |
| And I saw Lindsay Gramnesty on TV today, and he's saying, oh, sure, Jeb can still win this thing. | |
| Jeb can win Iowa, and then that's that changes everything. | |
| Oh, yeah, you watch Jeb can win Iowa, that would change everything. | |
| Jeb's the only guy in this current field qualified to be commander in chief. | |
| The only guy to stop what Obama's intending to do. | |
| He just he said, he said Donald Trump's insane. | |
| He literally insane, he's crazy, and Cruz is just dangerous because everybody hates him. | |
| Nobody would ever be able to get anything done. | |
| Jeb, so the point is here the establishment has by no means thrown in a towel on Jeb, which makes this piece in National Review even more interesting because remember the premise of Jeb's campaign, how it's going to win. | |
| They're going to do it without the base. | |
| Proudly, they were going to get the Republican nomination. | |
| Jeb Bush was going to win it, and his support team and all the consultants and all the money people were going to get it by basically flipping the bird at their own at their own base. | |
| And they were proudly going to do this. | |
| They were going to do it and be very happy after they had done it. | |
| So I think those people also prescribe to the theory that the party must be modernized. | |
| And let me give you what the real definition of that is. | |
| If you go through Ford O'Connell's five-point plan, everything in that plan is designed to so offend and anger conservatives that they leave the party. | |
| That's what the establishment means. | |
| When they talk about modernizing the party, that means getting rid of the conservatives. | |
| Mr. French comes along here and says these people in the establishment have totally misread and misunderstand who the people in their base are. | |
| They have overestimated the conservatism of the base. | |
| Now don't let the headline fool you. | |
| This is not a piece which says that the base of the Republican Party is not conservative. | |
| It's saying that the establishment has got a total erroneous idea of their conservatism and how it's defined, and it eskewed everything they have done. | |
| Now let me cut to the nib of this. | |
| The GOP underestimated Trump in part because it overestimated the conservatism of its own Southern, rural, northern, and Midwestern base. | |
| The GOP underestimated the extent to which many of its voters had not so much embraced the corporate conservatism of the Chamber of Commerce or the constitutional conservatism of the Tea Party, as much as they had rejected the extremism of the left. | |
| Now, I read this, and I have to tell I was blown away. | |
| The fact that the Republican establishment does not understand that what really animates its own base is an opposition to the Democrat Party. | |
| What animates and informs its own base is a vehement opposition to liberalism and the American left. | |
| According to Mr. French, they don't get that. | |
| They don't think that's who you are. | |
| They think you're a bunch of pro-life hayseed hicks. | |
| They have accepted, for all intents and purposes, the drive-by media, Democrat Party, Hollywood definition of conservatives and image Of conservatives, and that's who they think you are. | |
| And that's why they're embarrassed of you. | |
| And that's why they want to modernize the party without any of you in it, because they don't know who you are. | |
| And it follows. | |
| They campaign on this idea that they're going to stop Obama. | |
| I mean, they know what to tell you. | |
| They get elected and they don't move a little finger in that direction of stopping Obama, and they don't understand that what you really want is for what's happening for the Democrat Party and the American left shut down and stopped. | |
| They don't understand that what is the most animating or informative aspect of conservatism today, aside from the tenets of conservatism that we all believe, what motivates us is opposition, strident opposition to the left and the Democrat Party. | |
| And that's what Mr. French contends they don't understand. | |
| They have the GOP establishment has in their minds, they've constructed a three-legged stool of conservatives that make up their base. | |
| And one of those legs is a bunch of corporate conservatives, Wall Street conservatives who like that the uh the uh Chamber of Commerce, and they're all in for amnesty and this kind of thing, then there's another group of conservatives that they consider the Tea Party, and these are the constitutional conservatives, and these are the ones that they hate. | |
| These are the ones they don't understand, these are the ones they don't understand the complaints, they don't understand the focus, the interest, the Tea Party to them is speaking a foreign language, they don't think the Constitution's in threat, imperiled, they don't think the country's in peril. | |
| They're talking about the establishment, and so all these people, these conservatives running around worried about what's happening. | |
| Constitutional Obama's executive orders, the GOP establishment just they disregard them. | |
| They think they're they're kooks. | |
| And then the third leg of conservatism that they have not recognized is the conservatism, which I think is a combination of the constitutional conservatism and the base majority that opposes the left, the extremism of the Democrat Party and the left. | |
| And what they don't understand is who is in that group of people. | |
| It's not just Republicans. | |
| Today, that group of conservatives also has as members blue-collar, white male, disaffected, abandoned Democrats. | |
| But because the GOP establishment does not understand or chooses not to, whichever's the case, either they choose not to, or they literally do not understand that the thing that animates most conservatives is opposition to the Democrats. | |
| In other words, they think you're bad for them because you're a bunch of hayseed pro-life hicks who want to get together and redo the Constitution because you think it's imperiled, they don't think any of that, they don't think there's any crisis whatsoever, uh, and they wish you were all part of a corporate conservative crowd, which is okay with Wall Street and the Chamber of Commerce. | |
| I gotta take a break, we'll be back and continue here after this. | |
| Don't go. | |
| Okay, so the theory stated here by David French at National Review. | |
| Republican Party underestimated Trump because it overestimated, this is a key point, overestimated the conservatism of its own southern rural, northern, midwestern base. | |
| It underestimated, GOP underestimated the extent to which many of its voters hadn't so much embraced the corporate conservatism of the chamber or the constitutional conservatism of the Tea Party as much as they had rejected the left. | |
| In other words, the theory is the GOP misunderstands its base and thinks it is something it isn't. | |
| A bunch of pro-life, a bunch of hay seed, gun-nut kooks when what it really is is made up of people who are animated, motivated, and formed whatever by their opposition and strident dislike of the Democrat Party and the left. | |
| Now, to believe this, we would have to accept the fact that the Republican Party, the establishment, whatever to call them, is literally blind and doesn't, because they certainly know enough to campaign the right way. | |
| They campaign on stopping the Democrats. | |
| They campaign on stopping Obama. | |
| But the real point is here, they're embarrassed because they don't understand conservatism, which is true, and they have a totally skewed definition of it, which is true. | |
| And it's the definition that has been and the image that's been advanced by the Democrat Party in Hollywood and what have you. | |
| And because of this overestimation, meaning the conservative base is not nearly what the GOP thinks it is, and there's no reason to cast it aside, like they are doing. | |
| Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair. | |
| Rush Limbo having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have. | |
| Here's the Atlantic Molly Ball story. | |
| We had an audio soundbite with her yesterday. | |
| I forget which one it was. | |
| Doesn't matter. | |
| Just stream of consciousness remembering here. | |
| Molly Ball in the Atlantic, portrait of a party on the verge of coming apart. | |
| Now, she does acknowledge in this piece that Democrats are going through some something similar. | |
| And they are, to it to a degree. | |
| The difference is the Democrat Party's not embarrassed of its base because the Democrat Party is its base. | |
| The Democrat Party doesn't care what the Republican Party thinks of it. | |
| And the Democrat Party doesn't ever think of itself as a minority. | |
| And the Democrat Party doesn't think it ever has anything to prove to anybody. | |
| The Democrat Party is a walking, doesn't walk around thinking that most people think it's a bunch of losers, sad sacks, or whatever. | |
| So they're not defensive. | |
| They are not self-conscious. | |
| They just run around and act like the totalitarians that they are. | |
| But they have their own potential crack up here. | |
| Uh, and it has to do with Bernie Sanders and Hillary, although I'm a folks, I I've told you from the get-go that Bernie Sanders ain't going to nominee, and he's not going to be the nominee. | |
| He's not going to win Iowa, he's not going to win New Hampshire. | |
| All of this is, I think, been manufactured to make it look like Hillary Clinton can overcome serious opposition. | |
| All of this is being done to make her look like she can really get down and get tough when she has to. | |
| The last thing they want anybody to think is that this has been a coronation. | |
| They want Hillary to be able, they want to be able to say about Hillary that she's demonstrated her toughness, that she had everybody coming after her. | |
| She had Bernie Sanders, she had the socialists, she had the Republicans, she had everybody. | |
| They were going after her at the FBI. | |
| They're going after her at the administration, they're going after uh husband and all that, and she's triumphed and she beat it all. | |
| But that's the story they want to tell about Hillary Clinton. | |
| Bernie Sanders is not going to be this party's nominee. | |
| And all of you Bernieites out there, you Democrats that are getting on board the Sanders campaign and thinking, man, it's it's almost going to be utopia nirvana time. | |
| Remember that's what you thought back in 2008 when we indoctrinated Obama. | |
| And look how badly that's worked out. | |
| And it isn't going to be Bernie. | |
| You guys are being played for the saps that you are. | |
| You Bernie supporters. | |
| Are you saying that Hillary's not in real trouble? | |
| No, no, no. | |
| I'm not saying Hillary's not in real trouble. | |
| I'm telling you, you look at what Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz has done. | |
| They've done everything they can to keep this party operating behind the curtains that nobody knows what's really going on. | |
| What do you think Hillary out there praising Obama all night in that debate was all about? | |
| She hasn't been doing that. | |
| She's been trying to distance herself from Obama. | |
| Let's call it what it is here. | |
| From the earliest days of the Democrat campaign, we made the point here, and Hillary came through that she had to differentiate herself from Obama. | |
| And in the early days, she was criticizing Obama. | |
| And remember our reaction here was wait a minute, you've been there. | |
| You've been running this country for seven years. | |
| How in the world could what Obama has been doing not have been good? | |
| Now, I don't know if she's reacting to that or what's going on? | |
| But all of a sudden that debate Sunday night, she and Obama once again are best friends. | |
| Total 180. | |
| And it's not fear of Bernie Sanders. | |
| Beware the media mantras, the narratives, the templates, the conventional wisdom. | |
| I just chuckle when I read stories here or there about Bernie Sanders could win Iowa and New Hampshire. | |
| Bernie Sanders is outraising Hillary. | |
| Can we remember who we're talking about here? | |
| We are talking about the Clintons. | |
| And do you really think they're going to sit around? | |
| I mean, I saw a story where, see, Bill the other day is handshaking, like the onset of old age, poor old Bill. | |
| He may not be able to hang within this campaign. | |
| He may be fading even as we're speaking, might not have the strength. | |
| All of this stuff. | |
| You look at Bernie Sanders, really? | |
| Bernie Sanders, crazy Bernie. | |
| We're all being played on that. | |
| But anyway, Molly Ball acknowledges that the Democrats have their own problem. | |
| And they do. | |
| None of their stuff works. | |
| The Democrat Party is an absolute mess. | |
| If people ever got true story, true story figured it out. | |
| Everything a Democrat Party's implemented is bombing royally. | |
| Health care is an absolute mess. | |
| The national debt spending, you name it, immigration, transformation of America, the cultural rot that this administration has introduced. | |
| It's a mess. | |
| This country is hanging by a thread, all brought to you by the Democrat Party. | |
| There isn't a single happy, smiling, laughing Democrat. | |
| Even Madonna can't handle it. | |
| Madonna showing up at her concerts overly absurd, served in adult beverages. | |
| She's showing up two and three years or two and three hours late for concerts, Nashville, the latest place. | |
| Nobody out there on the left is happy. | |
| Certainly not crazy Bernie. | |
| So they do have their own problems. | |
| But Molly Ball writes here in the Atlantic portrait of a party on the verge of coming apart. | |
| The Iowa Caucus is just two weeks away. | |
| Can Republicans reconcile themselves to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz? | |
| Or will the GOP break into pieces? | |
| Questions asked and answered. | |
| The Republican leadership establishment, whatever, certain elements of it, certain members, have already said, and some for quotation, that they're not going to support Cruz or Trump if either is the nominee. | |
| That they will support Hillary. | |
| They'll openly support, vote for Hillary. | |
| Don't forget the guy who claimed we can't afford to let these guys win it would set back the modernization of the party. | |
| But the drive-bys are out there, that this is a story they want. | |
| They want the Republican crack up story. | |
| They want the story that the Republican Party's blown smoothreens and no longer exists as a functioning political operation. | |
| Because the name of their game is the absence of opposition. | |
| So they would love for that to happen. | |
| Whatever it takes, if it's Trump getting a nomination, they'll take it. | |
| If it's crew is getting a nominated, they will take it. | |
| Whatever it takes for the Republican Party to implode. | |
| And when that happens, they'll be the first in line trying to find Republicans claiming they've had it, this is it, they're voting Hillary. | |
| You watch that, that's gonna be on. | |
| But that would not be. | |
| If that happens, if the Republican Party caves in, gives up, goes over to Hillary or elements of it do, folks, that's an opportunity. | |
| Whenever thought the subject of third party comes up here, and it has routinely over the entire 27 years I've been hosting the program. | |
| Rush, you think the GOP will go third party? | |
| I mean, no. | |
| It's all guaranteed loser, right? | |
| Splits the vote, whoever you go third party that guarantees the Democrats win. | |
| The objective has always been the conservatives need to assert control over the Republican Party. | |
| Well, if the Republican Party establishment decides to abandon the party, well, then we move in and take it over. | |
| So there are any number of different ways of uh in interpreting this. | |
| Here's a here's a pull quote in this Molly Ball story from Ron Kaufman. | |
| Ron Kaufman is a he's from Boston. | |
| You've seen him on TV, but you may not know who he is, but he's a routinely regular during campaigns. | |
| He's a routinely and regularly sought out and quoted Republican call him a committeeman. | |
| Now, a committeeman in every state, partisans in every state elect a committee man and a committee woman to serve in the RNC. | |
| And that's who he is. | |
| He's on the RNC, so he's moderate establishment type. | |
| And he says of the GOP right now, it's like the NFL. | |
| There are two leagues, the centrist conservative league and the right wing league. | |
| We're in the semifinals to see who's going to represent each league in the finals. | |
| So note here he says we have the centrist conservative wing. | |
| I guess that means the Romney, McCain, Pataki, whoever you want to throw in there. | |
| And then the right wing league, which would be people like Cruz and Mike Lee, and probably most of you. | |
| And so they were in the playoffs here, and it's us against them in the semifinals, see who's going to represent each league in the finals, and that will be the Republican primary. | |
| So that's his analysis. | |
| Another pull quote here, Trump or Cruz, if they win, if Trump or Cruz does win, he will have laid bare the vacuum where once sat the Republican establishment. | |
| Yep. | |
| There are the donors, people who give the party a lot of money, think this ought to get them something in return. | |
| Trump's running against them. | |
| There are the lobbyists and consultants, but Trump doesn't listen to them either. | |
| There are the elected officials, but they are held hostage by their constituents. | |
| There is no smoke-filled room where the poo bies could go to work and work on a deal and end this in an age of radical disintermediation. | |
| Parties can't tell the people what to do. | |
| And then she says the Democrats should be noted are struggling with their own version of the same problem. | |
| So basically, Trump is running against the establishment, K Street, the lobbyists, the consultants, the big money types. | |
| And so's Cruz. | |
| Now, to Cruz and Trump, Trump is trying to position Cruz as angry, unstable, can't get along with anybody, and thus will not be able to do deals. | |
| And if you can't do deals in Washington, you can't get anything done. | |
| Got to be able to do deals. | |
| And so every and Trump has doubled down today on his hatred or his claims that Cruz is despised. | |
| Cruz is going after Trump as a secret member of the establishment. | |
| Cruz is trying to highlight Trump's past liberalism, New York values, what have you. | |
| And say, you people are really, you're you're falling for a really well-packaged joke and trick because Trump is the establishment. | |
| He is every bit the establishment that you don't like and oppose. | |
| And what I've detected is that Cruz, and we'll see if this works. | |
| Cruz, as opposed to trying to say that Trump is not a real conservative, is going to go after his populism. | |
| The theory that Cruz has, a lot of people have, is that Trump is not a conservative Republican, he's a populist. | |
| And that's the area you have to go. | |
| You have to discredit his populism. | |
| A Cruz theory on that is to be blow it up and say he makes you little people think he cares about you. | |
| He makes you little guys think he's on your side, and he can talk like you, and he can relate to the, but he really isn't that. | |
| That's what Cruz's objective is. | |
| Not to try to disqualify Trump as a as an illegitimate or legitimate conservative, but rather to go after his populism. | |
| So We'll see how that manifests itself. | |
| I gotta take another break here. | |
| We got phone calls lined up. | |
| And the aforementioned audio sound bites, including this one. | |
| Let's just go ahead. | |
| Grab soundbite number 24. | |
| Just came in. | |
| Just came in over the transom. | |
| Winter set, Iowa, at the John Wayne Birthplace Museum. | |
| Donald Trump spoke, and during the QA, an unidentified reporter said, Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump. | |
| Rush Limbaugh and Senator Cruz have warned voters that you may not be a real conservative. | |
| What do you say to this? | |
| Well, I am a real conservative, and Russia's been terrific to me, and Russia's really been uh amazing to me. | |
| And I actually read what he said, and he's uh he's still amazing to me. | |
| So I appreciate everything Russia's done for me, 100%. | |
| And we'll be back. | |
| Don't go to Hey, do you love what's going on with Hollywood? | |
| For the second year in a row, there are no African American nominees in their acting. | |
| Oh, this is horrible. | |
| Oh my god, this is terrible. | |
| We're gonna fix it next year. | |
| That's right. | |
| Join us next year. | |
| We're gonna put policies in a place. | |
| We're gonna get this fixed. | |
| Jada Pinkett Smith and uh Spike Lee has said, screw this, we're not going. | |
| We're not sure. | |
| Chris Rock is the MC. | |
| They're trying to convince him to bang out, not go either. | |
| He doesn't seem to have made up his mind on what he's gonna do about it. | |
| But here are these guys, these people that preach to everybody else about diversity and racism, and they have their own bigotry and racism on display. | |
| One of the publications went out and they found some voters. | |
| Apparently, the big rub, Mr. Snerdley, is straight out of Compton got zip. | |
| It got zip. | |
| And apparently there were all kinds of expectations that straight out of Compton was going to be nominated in every category. | |
| And it got zip. | |
| So they went and talked to nameless anonymous academy members, the director, the editor, the screenwriter, the producer, you know, one in every category. | |
| And what you what what if these people are being honest, they're in their 50s, 60s, and 70s, and when they heard that there was a song in the movie called Cop Killer and uh F bomb the cops, they didn't even want to go see it. | |
| They thought it was just beneath their cultural dignity and no desire to even see it. | |
| Uh this is it's partially admitted, and in other places it's speculated that this is the reason that it basically is uh Hollywood edge-based bias against uh certain performers and the culture from which they came. | |
| Didn't even want to go. | |
| I mean, they had such high hopes for Ice Cube, they had such high hope for everybody involved in this thing, and it got zip. | |
| And it's the second year in a row, there aren't any African American now. | |
| Now he's dumping all over Quentin Tarantino for the N-word, however many times it appears in a hateful eight. | |
| Have you seen a hateful eight? | |
| I watched a hateful eight. | |
| It's probably 85 to 100 times the word is spoken. | |
| And half of that by a black guy. | |
| Samuel L. Jackson. | |
| And don't you dare say it. | |
| He can say it, but don't you dare. | |
| I found myself next to him on the driving range, the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic one year. | |
| And he thought my golf shoes were cool, so I I passed his test. | |
| Mr. Snerdley tells me that I misspoke, that Madonna was in Louis, and not Nashville. | |
| Sorry about that. | |
| I didn't mean to insult. | |
| Well, if you're insulted that she was there or not there, I've covered my bases. | |
| And we have a brief time out here at the top of the hour, but we're back. | |
| As you can see, folks, we've just revved up here. | |
| I mean, this audio soundbite roster. | |
| I'm not kidding. | |
| It it presents me with uh, well, in their own way, there is good. | |
| Here, let's play the grab 24 again. | |
| I think we have time squeeze this in. | |
| This is Unique in that most people asked about me do not even acknowledge having heard what I said that they're being asked about Trump. | |
| Well, here, listen to it again. | |
| Well, I am a real conservative, and Russia's been terrific to me, and Russia's really been uh amazing to me. | |
| And I actually read what he said, and he's uh he's still amazing to me. | |
| So I appreciate everything Russia's done for me, 100%. | |
| Now Snerdley said, wow, that you did that doesn't happen. | |
| You know, these people ask about you and they I haven't heard what Limbaugh said. | |
| I didn't hear what Rush said. | |
| They're afraid uh critical, but uh very seldom somebody as boldly as that. | |
| Oh, yeah, yeah, not a problem with it. | |
| I heard it. | |
| Everything's cool. | |
| Back off media. |
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