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Feb. 9, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 9, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I'm going to tell you, this is exactly why you appreciate somebody like Ted Cruz.
This is exactly why.
Look at what's happening up in New Hampshire.
You know, these people on our side, some of them are acting so foolishly, it's hard not to just start making fun of them and telling jokes and laughing about what's going on.
Except it's pretty serious what we're all facing.
Hi, folks.
How are you?
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Okay, so we're in New Hampshire, and the New Hampshire primary is today, and people are showing up and voting.
And one of the statistics being put out there is that 40% are undecided.
And of that 40% that are undecided, a majority of them happen to be moderates and independents.
And so what is the result of that?
Well, we got Jeb Bush running around saying he's never ever going to criticize Barack Obama.
He would never stoop to doing it.
Well, that's really helpful, isn't it?
And then Jeb Bush runs around and saying, even if he had to do a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court Citizens United case, he would do it.
Citizens United is a free speech case that allows anybody to contribute to political campaigns, including the dreaded corporations, people like Hillary Clinton gives speeches to and so forth.
Then you've got Kasich out there saying that he's further to the left of Hillary Clinton.
And then you've got Christie running around doing what he's doing.
All three of these guys trying to make themselves look like the biggest squish moderates you have ever seen.
They're certainly trying to make themselves not look like they are Republicans.
And that's what annoys me.
They're in a Republican primary, and rather than stand up and try to sell and try to promote the whole concept of the necessary steps we need to take to reverse the trends in this country, to save this country, to stop the direction we're going, instead, what do they do?
They pander.
Now, I know people would say, but Rush, they have to.
The object is to win elections.
I understand all of that.
But this is not, you know, winning elections is one thing, but there's also a much larger objective here, too.
And you're not going to turn this country around by not criticizing Barack Obama.
And to go out and try to win an election on that basis in a Republican primary, I don't care if it is New Hampshire.
I don't care if 40% of the undecided are moderates and independents.
They're moderates and independents.
They're unattached for one reason or another.
They don't like one or both parties.
Well, go out and grab them with what you really believe.
I don't believe that Jeb Bush really wants to overturn Citizens United.
And I don't really believe Jeb Bush doesn't think Obama's done anything worth criticizing.
But to go out there and say that he won't do it, why don't you just sound like every Republican inside the beltway the past seven years?
Where's that gotten him?
It's stunning to me.
And I'm telling you, it's on the verge here of just starting cracking jokes and laughing at these people, which would be the fun way to approach it, but things are pretty serious here.
And this is why, you know, say what you want about Ted Cruz, but Mr. Ted Cruz would never engage in this kind of watering down his beliefs.
I know, but Rush, but Rush Cruz is not supposed to win here.
He knows he doesn't have to win here.
He knows he's not going to win.
So he doesn't have to, doesn't matter.
He wouldn't do this kind of thing anyway.
If victory, then this is the difference.
If victory were at hand and all Ted Cruz had to do is go out and say, you know what, I'm through criticizing Obama.
It'd be the end of him the rest of the way.
He wouldn't do it.
I got a lot of people.
There's a story here of all places, Vox.
Everybody underestimating Ted Cruz.
And I think, you know, I've tried to make that point any number of circuitous ways in the recent past.
But there's, if you, if conservatism and the values inherent in conservatism, the founding of America, all of these things, if they matter to you, the one thing you'll never doubt is where Ted Cruz is on any of it.
But with these guys, why they're fluid.
They're flexible.
It depends on what is needed at the time.
If they'll do this in the New Hampshire primary, then they would sure as hell do it in the White House if it came to it that they had to do something to gain favor, curry favor, end up looking good or what have you.
I can't believe this.
I mean, except that I can.
You really do.
Jeb Bush, I will not blame Barack Obama for a single thing.
He vowed yesterday that he will not scapegoat Obama for any challenges he faces should he be elected president.
My pledge to you, when I'm president, I will not blame Obama for a single thing.
He said that a Nashua Country Club in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Now, I understand the point.
He's out there saying, look, I'm not going to be what Obama is.
And I'm not going to, you know, blame Bush and blame my predecessor.
He's trying to defend his brother.
I understand all that.
But I'm sorry, this doesn't work.
The problems that we face are linked, directly linked to Barack Hussein.
Oh, in reversing the direction this country's going, you're going to have to explain to people why you're doing it.
And part and parcel of explaining why you're doing it is to explain why we're in the mess.
And you cannot leave Obama out of that.
He is the mess.
We can argue all day long about whether he's an incompetent boom swerving and stumbling into one disaster after another or whether it's some grand design, which I happen to believe, as you well know.
But to telegraph, I'm sorry, I'm not going to blame Obama for a single thing.
I'm really tired of politicians that blame their predecessors.
Okay, a little family loyalty here.
I get that.
I have a personal kind of feeling about it, having watched it for a while.
I hope you want a president who actually accepts accountability and responsibility.
Well, yeah, for things you do.
See, this is the kind of thing we've got moderates, we've got independents.
This is another version of I'm the guy who can cross the aisle.
I'm the guy who can work with the Democrats.
I'm the guy who can make Washington work.
I'm the guy that can execute bipartisanship.
I'm the guy that doesn't look at the other side as the bad guys and the enemy.
I'm the guy.
Okay, so you got 40% of the New Hampshire electorate may be made up of people who are that squishy.
Fine.
You want to tie yourself to something you say in the New Hampshire primary for the rest of your campaign, the rest of your presidency if you happen to get elected.
It's a long shot.
I don't know.
It's, to me, it is a, it, it, it's a sign that there's no core.
If you really have a core principled belief system, you couldn't so easily abandon it.
And isn't that the rub on most in politics today that there isn't a core?
That they have no problem selling out what it is they apparently believe because they really don't believe it.
They just float from wherever to wherever, be it amnesty, be it Obamacare, take the issue.
Pick the issue.
It doesn't matter.
Moisten your finger, stick it in the wind and see which way the wind's blowing and get in front of it.
Mitch McConnell said last week, you know what?
We in the Senate, we have decided we're not going to criticize Obama for the balance of the year.
We're not going to object to the Obama agenda.
People say, why?
Well, because that might have a negative impact on our presidential campaign.
Really?
Yeah, we can't be seen as criticizing the president.
That's not what the American voters want.
They want us to work along, get together, and so forth.
But you're going to have a presidential campaign based on everything going on now is wrong and needs to be fixed.
Well, that may be, but we're not going to engage in that kind of behavior because that might not do well with our nominee, whoever it is, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
If, you know, who knows what's going to happen in New Hampshire?
You've got theories out there, Waze, just exactly like I said last week.
Theory here, theory there.
I can go through them all for you.
Trump better win by 15.
If he doesn't win by 15, he's over with.
He's finished.
If Trump wins by five or six, it's over.
You can write him off.
That's one theory.
Another theory is Rubio.
If Rubio doesn't finish hired in fourth place, he's finished.
He's done with.
He's over with.
And that robotic appearance in a debate, that blew it up for him.
He's finished.
He's over with.
If Jeb wins this thing, it's an earthquake lookout.
Jeb wins second place, New Hampshire.
Jeb comes in second place, New Hampshire.
You better get ready because there's going to be a nuclear tsunami and Jeb's going to win the nomination.
That's being bandied about out there.
And it's all falder all.
We don't know anything.
We're back to where we were before the Hawkeye Caucy.
A bunch of theorizing.
But we're going to have some reality to react to tonight.
So what people are doing, try to predict the reality in advance, various scenarios, and then tell you what you're going to be thinking if either or any scenario happens to manifest itself.
And I'm here to tell you, nobody knows.
Because beyond Trump winning this thing, nobody has the slightest idea what's going to happen.
You got the latest, there's an Emerson poll.
And the Emerson poll has, what does the Emerson poll have?
Emerson poll has a shock.
Find the Emerson poll.
Emerson poll.
Bush in second place and Rubio slipping to fourth.
And everybody says, Emerson poll.
What the hell is the Emerson poll?
That's a student poll.
Okay, so why does it matter?
Well, because they called Iowa.
Yeah.
Emerson was the only polling outfit that said Trump was not going to win Iowa.
And Trump and Cruz finishing in a tie.
And so because Emerson was the only polling outfit that got close in Iowa, we now have to listen to what they're saying about New Hampshire.
But if you go to CNN and their latest poll coming out of New Hampshire, you find Trump leading big, Rubio in second place, Bush and Christie in deep, deep, deep doo-doo.
But then another poll has Trump winning, and then a toss-up after that, nobody knows between Rubio and Bush.
And I don't think there's a poll out there that has Christie doing second place.
Not sure, haven't examined all of them.
Anyway, I mean, you get my drift on this.
I don't need to keep pounding this, but my point is, we would never be having this conversation about Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz would never make news by renouncing his core beliefs.
He would just never do it.
It would never happen.
Bill Clinton out there, Bill Clinton, David Marinus, who is, or maybe it's Moranis, one of Clinton's official biographers, a former reporter for the Washington Post, who's out there following Clinton around, says it's devastating out here.
It is.
Clinton looks so bad, looks frail.
There's no gleam.
There is no electricity.
There's no charisma.
There's practically hardly any life.
The guy is hoarse.
He can barely talk.
The only time he came alive was when Chelsea started talking about it, and that wasn't very much.
He just doesn't look to be really with it out there.
It's very, very, this is bad.
Folks, we want great health for Bill Clinton.
We want Bill Clinton in just fabulously great health for the rest of the year and beyond.
We do not want Bill Clinton getting sick.
We know not what pray for the great health of Bill Clinton.
Don't doubt me.
You hear what Clinton said?
Speaking of which, in his last appearance before the New Hampshire primary, he was in Hudson, New Hampshire.
Clinton said that he wishes sometimes that he wasn't married to Hillary Rodham Clinton because then he can speak more freely.
Sometimes, you know, when I'm on a stage like this, I wish I weren't married.
Then I could say what I really think.
Hey, I don't mean that in a negative way.
I'm happy.
I'm happy.
But wink, winky.
You know what I mean.
If I weren't married to her, probably some babes in the audience.
But you know, there's another story about this.
The babes, the bimbos are all gravitating to Trump now because Trump's got the vigor and the whatever it is.
The money, well, yeah, but Clinton was getting to babes without any money, had the White House, had the bedrooms, cigars, but no money.
Didn't matter power, Trumped money in that case.
And then, of course, now we've got Trump.
Folks, this is classic.
I have to tell you, this whole Trump-Ted Cruz thing is classic.
And I'm going to tell you how it's classic.
For those of you who have any remaining doubts, or maybe have never even considered this, Donald Trump has a performer's sensitivity, a performer's ego.
It is in his blood.
He instinctively is a performer and he gets it.
What he did with this yesterday, I mean, everybody's talking about it, whether they approve of it or whether they don't.
They're all talking about it, which may be Trump's objective.
I don't know.
But the fact of the matter is, somebody blurted something out in his audience that he would love to say himself, but doesn't dare.
And so he thought, really, what?
Oh, my God.
Did I dare?
Did I just hear somebody call Ted Cruz?
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And he immediately jumps into gear and does exactly, my friends, I must confess, I've done it on this program before.
It's the way you do this, in fact.
When you want to say something, a word, a phrase, but you don't dare own it.
You find somebody else who said it and then say, sorry, folks.
I'm sorry.
I didn't say it.
Somebody else did.
And if you want to be fully informed, I'm sorry.
I have to tell you, I have to.
The way it works out with Trump, he's out there blathering on, and some woman in the audience calls Ted Cruz the word.
Cookie called me today.
Cookie sent me, well, she sent me a note.
You want me to bleep the word or do you want me to leave it in?
I didn't even hear it, folks.
I was indisposed last night in the midst of a minor, minor emergency/slash crisis.
Nothing to do.
It was just, I was occupied for six hours.
I didn't know any, it wasn't the batteries.
It wasn't the battery life issue.
It was, I was collecting data for engineers, but it was not the batteries.
It was a totally different thing.
It doesn't matter.
The point is, I didn't know any of this had happened until I got here today.
Cookie sends me this email.
Do you want me to bleep what Trump said?
So I said, well, did he use it as was he calling Cruz a coward or was he using it in the physiological sense?
She said, no, no, he's calling my car.
I said, don't bleep it.
Don't bleep it.
So then she sends the transcript.
So, whoa.
And I looked at it and I knew immediately what had happened.
So this woman's in the audience that calls Cruz a name, and Trump desperately wants that out there.
He wants whoever didn't hear it to hear it.
He can't dare well.
He might have planted it.
Who knows?
But the point is, he couldn't say it, but he wanted it said.
So how do you do it?
Only a performer's instinct, only a performer's ego could cause somebody to react this quickly, this smoothly, and make all this happen the way it did.
You might think it's horrible.
You might want to condemn it.
You might think it's representative of the rot and decay of our culture.
And I wouldn't disagree with you on that, but I'm simply talking about how do you make this happen?
Who else could get away with this?
Meanwhile, the political class that they're ringing their hands.
Oh my God, I can't believe our politics has been so soiled.
I can't believe, like, these guys never even think of the word.
They're sitting there in a faculty lounge and the word never comes up in the BS.
These guys aim on me saying the word, but they're out there chasing it all over campus, and everybody knows it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did I not mention that?
That Jeb wanted to get rid of the Citizens United case.
I thought I mentioned that.
I don't even think, and it doesn't matter.
I don't even think that Jeb, it's a Supreme Court decision.
It's not somebody that's going there and overturn and get rid of it.
You don't ask the Supreme Court to go in and reject it.
It's just something to say.
But, you know, here's the crazy thing.
I've always, always made this point.
And I am going to be making this point again, ladies and gentlemen.
It doesn't make any sense.
We have all these Republicans so afraid of being critical of Obama.
So afraid of appearing to be non-bipartisan.
So afraid of appearing critical and so forth.
So the Republicans seem obsessed with the idea that in order to get people to vote for them and to like them and to love them, that they've got to make sure everybody knows they're willing to work with the Democrats.
That they will not criticize Obama.
Therefore, they are not racists.
They want to cross the aisle.
They want to work with the Democrats.
They want to accept the great ideas the Democrats have.
They want to incorporate the Democrats' great ideas with the ideas they've got.
I want everybody to come together, kumbaya, and make Washington work.
And yet, Barack Obama is the most divisive president in history.
There is nothing bipartisan about Barack Obama.
He has done nothing but divide this country.
He makes no pretense at unity.
He makes no pretense of bipartisanship.
And he viciously criticizes Republicans.
And I have yet to hear anybody say that the Independents and the moderates don't like that when the Democrats criticize Republicans.
And when they don't like that, they're going to run right to the Republican Party.
I never hear it said that it's a two-way street.
All we ever hear is that these precious moderates and independents, they like everybody getting along.
And then when people aren't getting along, they only blame Republicans for it.
Obama can be as mean-spirited, Democrats, as extremist as they want.
They can be as divisive.
They can call people names left and right.
They can lie.
They can make things up about Republicans.
And the independents don't care.
No way.
Independents and the moderates don't mind.
Nope, they hang in there with the extremists.
They hang in there with the people dividing the country.
They hang in there with the people that are not bipartisan.
And yet the Republicans seem to think that that drives them away.
It doesn't.
What a cool trick, whoever found this one and perpetrated.
Unless it's not a trick, unless it's the Republicans using it as an excuse not to have to do the work of opposing anything.
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So Jeb's not afraid to criticize Trump.
Jeb, no problem criticizing Marco Rubio.
No problem going after any of his Republican competitors out there.
But when it comes to Barack Hussein, oh, I'm not going to criticize my predecessor.
No way.
Why would you criticize the single greatest destructive agent the White House has ever seen?
Why would you do that?
Of course you wouldn't ever criticize Obama.
We can't have that.
Sorry, folks, if you're not going to criticize Obama, you're never going to square with the American people what's gone wrong with this country, and then therefore you're never going to be able to fix it.
If you're not able to look the American people in the eye and tell them what's wrong and what needs to be fixed and why it went wrong, you have no hope of fixing it.
You're just going to be a caretaker for wherever we're headed next.
Maybe slow down the direction we're going in, but you're not going to change it.
Sorry, just the way it works out.
Anybody else making these statements?
At Kasich, I'm further to the left than Hillary Clinton.
You want to brag about it?
Go right.
He's bragging about it.
I'm further to the left of Hillary Clinton.
Well, let's give you a gold star.
Yeah, that makes you a real man in New Hampshire, huh?
This is how you score in New Hampshire.
God save us.
Now we have Trump out there.
Look at this.
You got Trump out there, so a woman in his audience calls Ted Cruz a pussy.
And everybody has an absolute cow.
By the way, this is how you do it.
I didn't say it, folks.
Don't be mad at me.
I'm just informing you what went on out there.
There's no way I can talk about this without saying, I say PC whipped maybe, but I just doesn't quite get there.
But in the meantime, look at all of the outrage.
Look at all the feigned outrage.
Look at, oh my God, what's happening to our politics?
Oh, Lord, you believe something this just is just so coarse?
Meanwhile, in the White House, we had Bill Clinton having sex with interns under the desk in the study with who knows whoever accused of rape.
And the lib said, hey, it's between him and his wife.
Hey, none of our business.
Hey, it didn't affect the way he governed and the way he did his job.
Hey, it's sex.
It's none of your business.
Telling you, that's what happened to the feminazi movement.
They corrupted themselves way back in the 90s.
That's why they are a joke today.
And they're always going to be a joke.
You realize a number of people, leftists and liberals, who, whether they know it or not, have actually corrupted themselves and done great damage by defending Clinton and Hillary back in those days.
And it's all coming back to bite them now.
So there's all this selective outrage.
But let's go to the audio soundbites.
This is what all happened.
It's in Manchester during a campaign event.
And I'll just say, it's the way I always do this.
If the usage of this word in this context is something you'd rather not hear.
And if your young children are listening and you don't think they've heard the word, I guarantee you they have.
But you may not want to.
I'll give you five seconds to turn the radio volume down.
Don't turn it off.
Don't tune to another station.
That would ruin your day.
Just turn the volume down, leave it down for a couple minutes.
I hope to be through with this in about a couple, three minutes, and then come back.
And that way, you've been warned.
If you hang in and what follows offends you, then probably you can't complain to me because I gave you ample time to extricate yourself from this.
So here comes the countdown.
Five, four, three, two, one.
Okay, theoretically, the only people listening are those who will not be offended by what comes next.
Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, campaign event, speaking about Ted Cruz, interrupted by a woman in the audience.
They asked Ted Cruz, serious question.
Well, what do you think of waterboarding?
Is it okay?
And honestly, I thought he'd say absolutely.
And he didn't.
He said, well, it's, you know, he's concerned about the answer because some people, she just said a terrible thing.
You know what she said?
Shout it out because I don't want to.
Okay.
You're not allowed to say, and I never expect to hear that from you again.
She said, I never expect to hear that from you again.
She said he's a pussy.
That's terrible.
Terror.
I'm just telling you, whether you like this or not, this is how you do it.
Trump was presented a golden opportunity.
A woman in the crowd shouts the word.
He would love to say, doesn't dare say it, but he's got the cover.
Asks her, condemns her for saying it, condemns her.
How dare you?
You can't say that in a setting like that.
Don't ever do say it again.
And she shouts it.
I told you never say it to other people.
I can't hear her.
What she says.
She's saying.
And then he muses the word, gets it out, but it's always in the mouth of this other woman.
It's always in her voice, not his.
And then he properly condemns it the whole time he's getting the message across.
Do you think, is there anybody else in this case, this same circumstance happened that they would handle it this way?
I don't think there's a one.
I really don't think there's a one.
Now, we're not including Democrats in this.
With Clinton, if this had happened, Clinton had been bolted from the stage and he'd been down there trying to meet the woman shouting the word.
Clinton would have abandoned the stage, abandoned the event, and gone down and put his arm around this woman and asked her what she meant.
But I don't know anybody else who would try to turn this around the way Trump did.
And it's just, I don't know what else you call it, performer's instinct or what he clearly has it, whether you think that's a disqualifier for a serious presidential candidate or not.
The next bite, yeah, this is Fox and Friends this morning, because there was an appropriate about all this.
And there were people outraged.
And how dare our politics be soiled like this?
How dare.
Of course, these aristocratic, erudite establishment libs, both in the media and out in academia and all these places, wringing their hands over how horrible.
Same people that defended Bill Clinton to this day defend Bill Clinton.
The same people sitting around the faculty lounge talking and thinking about this all day long.
They may not say the word, but they're out there all over campus chasing it, doing everything they can.
Students, it doesn't matter.
But here they are condemning Trump.
So Trump's on Fox and Friends today.
Steve Doocy said, you were in an event last night.
Somebody in the crowd had colorful language out there about Ted Cruz.
I have to tell you, the woman shouted.
I said, okay, I'm going to do it.
That was like a retweet.
I would never say a word like that.
The audience went crazy, standing ovation.
5,000 people went nuts.
They loved it.
You know, we're having fun.
That's what I mean about being politically correct.
Every once in a while, you can have a little fun, don't you think?
It was just a retweet.
Who doesn't like those?
Who doesn't know what a retweet is?
I didn't say it.
Come on, lighten up.
This is just political correctness.
Over on CBS, they were not happy.
We have here a discussion, former Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer, who they brought back from the mothballs, I guess, for this campaign.
And they've got Gail King, who interviewed the Obamas a couple of hours before the Super Bowl kicked off on CBS, and Nora O'Donnell.
And they're talking about this outrage that happened with Trump in New Hampshire.
What about that slur, Bob, last night that he repeated from the crowd?
His abuse of profanity.
Yeah.
You know, what's the word?
A little disappointing.
Americans want someone that they can be proud of in the Oval Office.
I thought Trump had to be taken seriously from the beginning.
What I missed is that when he would say things like John McCain is a loser and that kind of thing, I thought that's the end of it.
And then when he had the thing with Megan Kelly, I thought, well, that's the end of it.
I think in a way, some of his supporters are just so mad, so frustrated and upset with the things, the way they're going.
Sometimes they don't hear what he says.
They're just glad he's out there saying it.
Right, right.
So what did Bob say?
You know, we need someone they can be proud of in the Oval Office.
Like Bill Clinton, it always is going to come back to Bill Clinton, you people on the left.
It's always going to come back there.
You can talk about somebody saying a word, but let's not forget you want to get all exercised.
And this is so denigrating to the office.
And yet what Clinton did, you celebrate it.
It's not as though you even try to sweep it under the rug.
You celebrate it.
You try to throw that in our faces every chance you get.
You throw that Clinton and Lewinsky and all the other babes in our face.
He got away with it, and you stuff shirts got all offended.
You dryballs got all offended.
But Clinton got away with it.
We love him.
They ran around and they made it like the biggest fun success story.
Clinton's a selling access to the Lincoln bedroom with who and for how much, who knows?
Selling coffee in the White House, all his fundraising with Chinese agents and so forth.
Then the bimbo's coming around, led by Monica Lewinsky, Cat Lead Willie, you name it, Paula Jones, Dragon Dollar Builder, the Trader Park, this kind of trash again.
That's what they're all saying.
And now they're going to get exercised about Donald Trump and some woman in his audience calling somebody a coward, which is what the usage of the word here means.
Yeah, you know, it's a little disappointing.
Americans want someone they can be proud of in the Oval Office.
It's always going to come back to the Clintons.
You people on the left are never, ever going to understand.
You undermine your own credibility and your own morality every time you start ripping into other people for their so-called moral failings.
You didn't answer the bell when the champion of moral failings was in the White House back in the 90s.
We will be back.
Is that right?
I thought my name was banned on that show.
No, really, I thought I wasn't allowed to be discussed on that show.
I was just told that Jonah Goldberg is on a Fox show called, what's it, Outnumbered.
And I, I don't know even who told me, but that my name was banned and I'm not permitted to be discussed on that show.
It's four women hosting and they have a guy in there.
That's why it's outnumbered.
And Jonah Goldberg talked about me in Rubio, which we've got a lot of that coming up too, Soundbites West.
So hang in there and be tough.
Just a couple of more soundbites on this thing.
I'll tell you what it shows, folks.
It's an age-old theory of mine about all this.
This word that the audience member shouted at Trump and that Trump just hated that it was mentioned and was so dis he was so offended by it that he had to tell everybody what was said so that they would understand why he was offended.
So he repeated the word.
Here we are now, Mark Halperin on the Today Show today, being asked by Savannah Guthrie, Trump repeated a vulgar term used by a supporter at a rally last night.
Are you shocked about that, Mark?
Any other candidate who did that on the eve of the election, the staff would say, we could lose the primary over this.
Trump and his team loved it.
The crowd loved it.
This symbolizes the entire Trump campaign.
Different and not politically correct.
I have a question.
There was a character in the movie Goldfinger that nobody had a problem pronouncing.
There is a nickname for cats that people have no problem pronouncing.
And that would be, as Sean Connery famously said it, pussy galore.
And then you have your little pussy cat running around if you have one in your house, and nobody says a word.
When somebody comes along and uses the word as a synonym for coward, and everybody's having a cow here.
Here's Katrina Pearson.
This is CNN's new day-to-day Allison Camerada.
She's the Trump Campaign National spokesperson.
Camerada says, isn't there a difference between political correctness and vulgarity?
It's free speech, and this is the live free or die state.
Mr. Trump is exercising his free speech.
It was in fun with the audience.
You heard the whole stadium order started chanting.
They did.
I missed that.
It just proves, folks.
It just proves it's undefeated.
Undefeated.
It will never be defeated.
No matter what any guy does, no matter what any guy has ever done, undefeated.
Vito in Erlanger, Kentucky.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, thank you very much for taking my call.
I've got to tell you that I'm a former Democrat who became a Republican.
I've been listening to you since the 80s.
I am not and never was a Clinton supporter.
But I also felt betrayed by the Bushes for not standing up for what he believed in and what he represented.
What I want in the White House is class.
I want a class act.
I don't want to hear vulgar talk.
I don't want to hear anything that can be portrayed as vulgar talk.
I don't want to be degrading people.
I want some more civility in my politics.
It just can't tolerate that kind of activity.
And I really wish that Mr. Trump wouldn't do that.
You know, it's indicative of, is it not?
I mean, look at the juxtaposition, the comparison.
I made it yesterday in the pregame ceremonies at the Super Bowl in the halftime show.
The pregame ceremonies are America on parade.
Patriotism, more than you've ever seen.
It is celebratory.
It is the epitome of decency and goodness.
It's the military.
It's the jets flying by.
It's the national anthem, always sung with respect.
You get to the halftime show, and it's epitomizing the cultural rotten decade.
You know what I found out about the halftime show today?
I've got it in the snack here very briefly.
Apparently, the 12-minute set performed by Cole Play and Chris Martin was a secret tribute to LGBT behavior and love.
That you had to be in that community to get the tribute, otherwise you wouldn't know what was going on.
And Beyonce comes out with her Black Panther celebratory tune and so forth.
Wherever you look, Vito, it seems like the culture is rotting away.
And you've always, I'm sure you've always looked at politics, certainly the Oval Office in the White House that would remain unaffected by any of it.
And you now see even that being affected, it's got you concerned, right?
Very much so.
So who do you have?
Do you have anybody out there in this campaign you like that you think will resist this movement, this temptation, what have you?
Well, the guy who seems to have the most experience with what my primary issue would be, which is the Supreme Court nominees, is Ted Cruz.
But honestly, I could be persuaded to support several of them because for me, right now, the Democratic Party is a socialist party, a socialist movement.
And I've been working my whole life and paying my taxes my whole life in an honest and fair, decent way.
And I really do not want to see us continue along the path that we're on.
It's quite this honestly.
I wholeheartedly agree.
This cultural rot, would you say that it's localized and concentrated in the pop culture?
And if you would agree with that, well, who runs that?
Who are the arbiters of taste today in our politics and in our pop culture?
And I'll give you a quick hint.
It's not the Republicans gang or the conservatives.
And we have a lot still to come on the Rush Limbaugh program here today, the EIB Network, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
You've got the Hillary Stack and what she probably said in her speech.
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