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March 17, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 17, 2016, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Holy cow, folks, this is great.
What's going on out there is great.
It's so funny, it's hard to keep track of all of it.
Vladimir Putin is mad.
He's mad at the Trump Instagram commercial where they got Hillary barking like a dog in response to Putin laughing.
Putin is mad says that Trump's video demonizes Russia.
On the other hand, the entirety of the Washington establishment is paranoid.
And they're out there shouting, Trump's, Trump's promising riots.
Trump says he's going to riot.
He's going to tell him to riot.
Trump, Trump's encouraging riots.
Trump's and he's not.
All he's doing is predicting what's going to happen, and he's probably right.
But he's not calling for riots.
It doesn't matter.
Um, and then John Kasich.
You know, folks, I I I held back yesterday.
By the way, greetings, great to have you here.
L. Rushbow behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Telephone number.
Want to be on the program 800 282-2882.
I held back yesterday.
Uh, in my analysis and commentary on John Kasich.
But I mean, I and I still hit him pretty hard.
It was delusional, it was focused on me, me, me.
I it just it was it was breathtaking to behold.
I mean, the guy launches his own confetti shower as though he's just won the Super Bowl.
He's won one state.
He's not even a factor here.
And now he's complaining that Trump and Cruz are spoiling the election for him.
He took his election victory, his his speech on Tuesday night, and made it all about him.
And how it says great things about him and his dad carried the mail on his back and McKee's rocks, and he ends up in Ohio, and he's turned Ohio into a nirvana.
Why doesn't everybody want to move there if that's the case?
And talks about what a remarkable thing he has done, how important it is for him, just delusional, doesn't have a prayer here.
Dekodhammer on Fox last night said the only reason he's hanging in he thinks is because he wants to be VP.
I don't know, folks.
I think the guy's delusional enough to think he can be the nominee.
No, Russie can't possibly.
That's you know, folks.
I can't tell you a number of people, as it's telling snertly.
A number of people who uh listened to yesterday's program and thought I was just a little bit over the top in my description of the establishment and the links they would go to protect what's theirs.
And I I'm not gonna pull any of it back.
I meant every word of it.
I'm not gonna keep beating it over the head.
I realize some people don't want to hear it, but look at the Washington Post uh headline today.
To defend our democracy, in other words, to maintain our lofty perch in the establishment.
Trump and the GOP must aim for a brokered convention.
To stop Trump, the Republicans must do a brokered convention.
That's the Washington Post.
And then we have this paranoia about about Trump starting riots.
Um the intelligentsia in the conservative media is still writing at great length, trying to explain to themselves and each other why Trump is a success.
They are still trying to get their arms around it.
They're still trying to understand it, and every day brings a new theory.
And the latest comes from John Pedoritz, who has a very lengthy piece in uh in commentary today, which I will summarize in mere moments for you.
We've got a great audio soundbite roster.
Uh Dingy Harry is out there blaming the Republican Party for creating the atmosphere circumstances for Trump.
Uh there are cracks starting to show in the Republican dike against Merri was it Merrick Merrick, what was it?
American what's his last name?
The Supreme Court nominee.
Merrick Merrick Gardner, Gartner, whatever the nominee.
Having a middle block on the name.
Republicans are steadfast.
Garland, that's right, Merrick Garley, steadfastly maintaining that they will not crack, that this guy, there's not going to be a vote.
It isn't gonna happen.
Nina Totenberg and PR said, wait a minute.
The Republican leadership has already had a back-channel phone Call with Obama, in which they have assured Obama that after the election they'll move on this nomination.
And they caveat that, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's only if Hillary wins.
If Hillary wins, I don't think this guy will remain the pick.
Just my two cents.
But if Hillary wins the election, they'll find some reason for Merrick Garland to leave and Obama will point somebody 35 or 40 in there that can serve on the Supreme Court for the next two generations.
I mean, that's what he wants.
He wants somebody in there that's going to be there a long, long time.
Anyway, setting the table for all that's coming on the on the program today, plus your phone calls at 800-2822.
No, I'm not trying to disrespect Mr. Garland.
I hadn't even intended to talk about him yet, and I just had a mental block on his name.
Here is Dingy Harry.
Grab audio soundbite number 20 just in this morning at the Center for American Progress.
Dingy Harry telling us why Trump is a player.
Republican establishment acts bewildered, but they should not be bewildered.
As much as no he tried to distance himself from Trump now, Republican leaders are responsible for his rise.
For eight years, they drained all the auction from the policy debate in this country by replacing thoughtful engagement with resentment and with hatred.
We're seeing it right now with President Obama's nomination on American Garland.
Republicans' leaders created the drought conditions.
Donald Trump has simply struck the match.
Right.
Well, he knows as usual, Dingy Harry, he's he's swerving into an element of truth here, but he's way, way off in his explanation for why.
Well, I know he's not blaming me.
Give him time.
I mean, they're they're still I'm telling you the entire establishment is is in a state of paranoia over this.
I mean, you've got Democrat consultants warning Hillary, you better, you better.
It's it's con it's contradictory too, because over here, on one hand, you've got all these experts saying Trump doesn't have a prayer.
I mean, he's gonna lose in the biggest landslide in the history of politics.
He's losing women, he's only got 35% of Republican Party.
There is no movement, there is no nothing big with Trump.
This is all media pizzazz.
He's gonna lose, he's gonna lose bigger than any Republican ever.
Over here, the same people are warning Hillary, you better get with it.
You better understand what you're up against.
You better understand this guy's gonna be coming at you in ways you have never had people come at you, which for her will be strange.
And so how do you how do you solve that contradiction?
On one hand, he's the biggest disaster waiting to happen to the Republican Party ever.
Van Jones, the resident communist over, well, one of five resident communists at CNN, actually says we have the soundbite coming up that sit that that Hillary needs to take hip hop lessons.
She needs to get hip hop advisors and hip hop lessons to understand how to deal with Trump.
So don't doubt me.
They are all paranoid of the guy.
And all this talk about him representing the potential biggest landslide defeat, the Republican, if they really believe that, they'd be encouraging it.
They wouldn't, I mean, they they'd want everything they think Trump is doing that's going to harm him to happen.
They would want the riots.
Oh, and by the way, Dan Rather, yes, we have it coming up.
Dan rather admits that riots are great for convention coverage.
Oh, yeah, the networks, the drive-bys.
They love riots.
Look at 1968 Chicago Democrat Convention.
They loved it.
And they're looking forward to more.
So I it it it is truly contradictory.
As I say, on the one hand, Trump is the biggest disaster that has yet to happen to Republican Party.
And yet over here, Washington Post to defend our democracy, GOP must aim for brokered convention.
And that's just one of countless media pieces today, last night, and to come.
Warning that we all had better circle the wagons, do whatever we can right now to make sure Trump does not get the nomination.
And I'm telling you, the reason for this is what I told you yesterday about who the establishment is and what they're trying to guard, what they're trying to protect.
Uh, Vladimir Putin of the Soviet Union.
Well, I know it's not, but he wants it to be, and if he has his way, it will again become the Soviet Union.
He's upset that uh that this ad that Trump put together on Instagram demonizes Russia.
An election video from this from Sky News in the UK, an election video from Donald Trump has hit a sour note in Russia, with the Kremlin saying it demonizes the country.
The video, which is posted on Trump's Instagram feed, tries to cast doubt over the ability of Hillary Clinton to deal with American opponents, including Russia.
It shows Putin throwing an opponent to the floor in a judo match and a clip of him laughing, which is shown after one of Mrs. Clinton barking like a dog.
We debuted the ad for you yesterday.
We posted a link at Rush Limbaugh.com so you can see it because there are important video elements of this ad.
But I have it here again on my formerly-stained fingers.
Let me describe what it is.
Graphically on the screen.
So when it comes to facing our toughest opponents, and then it cuts the video of Putin throwing somebody to the mat in Judeo, uh, in judo.
And that's followed by video of a masked Islamist like an ISIS guy pointing a gun at the camera.
The next on-screen graphic, the Democrats have the perfect answer.
When it comes to facing our toughest opponents, remember that's how it starts, and there's Putin as a toughest opponent, ISIS is a tough opponent.
The next graphic, Democrats have perfect answer, and they cut to Hillary barking.
And then Putin laughing after Hillary barks.
And then after Putin laughs, the graphic, we don't need to be a punchline anymore, meaning the UI United States.
Trump, make America great again.
So, as you listen to this, I want you to try to visualize if you haven't seen this.
When it comes time to facing our toughest opponents, here comes Putin practicing judo, an Islamist guy aiming a gun at the camera.
Graphic Democrats have the perfect answer.
Here's Hillary laughing like a dog at a campaign event, followed by Putin laughing at that.
And then the graphic, we don't need to be a punchline anymore.
Trump make America great again.
Here is the audio.
Trump make America great again.
We don't need to be a punchline.
Anyway, Putin.
Normally these people just ignore this.
You know, presidential campaign, somebody runs an ad against the Russians or whatever.
Just ignore it.
You know, like Gorbit Gorbachev never reacted to me.
All those years when I said that birthmark of his was growing as Soviet expansionism increased.
I know it upset him.
I learned it later when I met him in Houston, but he didn't say a word about it.
He ignored me.
Putin cannot ignore Trump.
Nobody can.
They're just all of them blindsided here.
And not quite sure what they're dealing with.
Now a brief timeout will come out, uh, come back and put all this together and get started with all the rest of it as well right after this.
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Now the Economist.
The uh the UK, the British economics magazine, highly reputed, been around for many, many moons.
The economist is war, they have their own intelligence unit in this magazine.
They're warning that the Trump presidency presents a global risk.
There are three or four of these stories out there.
And of course, the concern about riots.
And of course, folks, there haven't been any riots at Trump gatherings, at Trump rallies.
There were riots in Chicago on Friday.
Not because Trump appeared because he didn't.
There are riots in Ferguson.
There are riots in Baltimore.
There are riots in Oakland.
There were riots after O.J., but they're not Republican riots.
They're not conservatives.
This is a crock.
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump's sponsoring riots.
Trump's encouraging riots.
Now the only riots that happen in this country are brought to us by the Democrat Party and the American left.
Blamed on the right wing, blamed on the Republicans or whatever, but they're the only people at riot.
There haven't been any riots, and Trump didn't call for any riots.
He just predicted there would be some.
He may be right.
But before we get to the riot soundbites, I'm sorry, you have to hear this.
Yesterday, Villanova, Pennsylvania, Ohio Governor John Kasich speaking with reporters about uh Cruz and Trump.
See, what happened was Fox News scheduled a debate.
And Trump said, we need any more debates.
And if you're tr from from Trump's standpoint, why debate?
Cruz desperately.
That's part of the two-man campaign.
Part of winnowing the field and having a straight shot at Trump.
You've got to have debates because that's Trump in a debate, a genuine political issue debate.
I mean, Cruz would just outclass anybody else in this field, including Trump.
It would just be on the substance of issues.
And tr and Cruz knows it and has been waiting for it, and it's been part of his plan.
So Fox schedules a debate.
And Trump says, I don't want to go to a debate.
There ain't gonna be any more debates.
I was told there weren't gonna be any.
I don't want to do any more.
I don't need any more debates.
There's nobody left here.
What are we going to debate?
We've debated everything.
So then Kasich can't I'm well if Trump's not showing up, I'm not showing up.
I think Kasich doesn't want to debate Trump because Kasich doesn't want to rip into Trump because Kasich's got some grandiose plan he's gonna be VP or Postmaster General or something in a Trump regime.
But nevertheless, Kasich was unhappy because the debate, of course, is more national exposure for him.
So in Villanova, Pennsylvania, talking with the with the drive-by media.
This is what Kasich had to say.
Neither of those guys can win a general election.
So maybe they're spoiling it for the Republican Party and for the conservative movement.
So it is unlikely that anybody is going to achieve uh enough delegates to avoid a convention.
And for those who worry about a convention, it'll be right in the open.
I mean, there's no closed rooms, there's nothing but total transparency.
You neither of those guys can win a general election.
This is all about him.
I mean, he's won one state, and it was his home state, and he should have won it in a landslide, which he didn't.
He's won one state.
How many delegates?
He doesn't even have a hundred delegates, does he?
Trump's now over six hundred, uh, crew is in excess of four hundred.
I mean, this is pure delusional.
But it's fun.
I mean, we're we're happy for it in one sense, because we we all need things to laugh and be jocular about.
Here's Trump on the riots.
This was uh CNN's new day.
This was yesterday morning.
Chris Cuomo, son of Mario the Pious, was interviewing Trump.
He said, Look, if you don't get to 1237, you don't get that many delegates, but you're close.
What is your plan to bring people together at the convention?
What's your plan to get many, as many people as possible who don't want you to get the nomination?
What's your plan to change their minds and have the whole party rally around you?
I think there really is a natural healing process, and I think it'll happen again.
And I believe it will.
Now if it doesn't, it doesn't.
If we're 20 votes short, or if we're, you know, a hundred short, and we're at eleven hundred and somebody else is at five hundred or four hundred, because we're way ahead of everybody.
I don't think you can say that we don't get it automatically.
I think you'd have riots.
I think you'd have riots.
You would have problems like you've never seen before.
I think bad things would happen.
I really do.
I believe that.
I wouldn't lead it, but I think bad things would happen.
Now we have a montage of a whole bunch of drive-by media types saying that Trump is calling for riots.
Donald Trump, fresh off major victories overnight, now warning of riots if the Republicans try to stop him At a contested convention.
Trump is warning of riots.
Trump says there will be riots.
Trump warning of riots if his party tries to stop him.
Trump warned bad things would happen.
Trump is saying that there will be riots in the streets.
The GOP front runner issued this menacing prediction.
Trump actually warned that there could be riots.
Riots, he used the word twice.
Here is a candidate whose rallies have been full of violence.
And here he is predicting riots if he is not nominated.
It's completely outrageous.
Okay, and it's totally out of control here.
This is exactly how this kind of stuff happens in the drive-by's.
The words mean things.
All Trump did was suggest that there would be riots.
He didn't call for them.
In fact, he said he hoped there wouldn't be.
But all he had to do was predict that there might be.
And there comes everybody claiming that he's calling for them, that he's warning that there will try to scare people into signing up with him, or else.
In the meantime, all these people are craving riots because of the media attention they would draw.
That's the hypocrisy.
Ha.
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This is Dan Rather, CNN tonight, last night with Don Lemon.
and Rather has a show somewhere, is that right?
Have you have you ever heard of the AXS network?
It's called Access.
That's where that's where rather has a show now.
It's called the Big Interview.
I never heard of the AXS network.
And look, you know, I'm a broadcast media specialist.
And I've never heard of this.
Not that that I mean, I don't mean that to be necessarily cutting of rather, I'm just observing that he's well, he's a big name.
He was the former anchor of the CBS Evening News at Tiffany Network.
Well, anyway, he's over at CNN.
He's talking to Don Lemon, who says these riots and this Trump stuff, and Trump warning of riots, and I'm just gonna say it the way the media is saying it.
The media, these riots that Trump is predicting, these riots that Trump's warning, these riots that Trump's just.
What do you think about that, Dan?
I mean, I mean, this is really bad, right?
Remind you the way of uh Chicago 1968 Democrat Convention.
You were roughed up at that uh convention, right, Dan?
Yes, it has that potential.
The 68 Democratic Convention, where yes, I was wrapped up inside and there was violence inside and outside, can be instructive for this year.
When people talk about a brokered convention and a convention maybe taking away from Trump, quote unquote, and Trump talks about possible riots.
That could lead to a situation where you have good television, if you want to call it that, a very contentious reporter's journalist dream of a convention, but terrible for the party.
What about for the country, Dan?
What about would riots at the Republican convention why it'd be great for the networks?
It would be great for TV.
There you have, if any of you you keep asking why so much coverage of Trump.
It isn't biased in this case.
I mean, it's it's most of the drive-bys actually, none of them are going to vote for Trump.
Most of the drive-by's, you know, they're in the tank for Hillary.
I would venture to say that most of the drive-bys are of the school of thought that Trump will lose in a landslide.
I think people that live and work in what we call the Washington, New York corridor, the media capital power corridor, they all groupthink.
I mean, the thinking is identical.
The reporting on all the networks is identical.
So I always say if you miss CBS evening news, watch the ABC World News tonight.
You miss that, watch the NBC Nightly News.
Miss that, turn on CNN and go on down the line.
But if you miss this show, there's nowhere else to get what happens on this program.
But they can't say that.
They are uniformly identical.
And not only in the way they report, but the way they think.
And I'm telling you, they all think.
There may be a couple stragglers, but they all think that Hillary is going to just clean up if Trump is the nominee.
But by the same token, the reason they're giving Trump all this attention is not because they're pro-Trump, it's because a guy can carry an hour of television by himself and get better ratings than the original programming these networks are offering.
Have you ever stopped to look at it that way here?
Let's say you're watching Fox pick any hour in the daytime, and all of a sudden a Trump rally.
They will bump out of it and they will go to the Trump rally.
And in many cases, up to now, they have stayed with it for the full hour.
CNN does the same thing.
I guess they do at MSNBC.
I never have them on.
And the reason they do is because it generates ratings, it generates attention.
They're able to elevate advertising revenues for that period of time.
It's business.
But it's also programming.
I mean, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, that is a lot of material you have to come up with to fill.
Well, you have a lot of producers, a lot of writers, you got reporters, you got camera people out there collecting the data, video, audio, editing it, producing it, and all that with Trump, you just got to turn the camera on, let him go.
It's easy.
Everybody gets a break, uh, a little time out, a little mini one hour coffee break while they go do what they do and watch Trump.
And then the added benefit is that Trump is going to, in their world, make news ten or twelve times in that hour by virtue of what he says or how he says it.
There isn't any other candidate in this race, even going back to the days when there were 17 candidates that has anywhere near that ability.
And don't get mad at me.
I folks, I have attempted, in I don't know how many ways, patiently and in great detail, attempted to explain it to anybody who's curious about it, doesn't understand it.
I've explained it from the standpoint of why the media is fascinated.
I've explained it from the standpoint of why Trump supporters are Trump supporters.
What is it about Trump that glues his supporters to him where other candidates don't have that kind of attachment?
Their voters are highly excited, of course, supportive, but they don't have a connection like Trump does uh with it with as many people.
I've gone out of my way to try to explain it.
And even today, as I said at the top of the program, the conservative intelligence is still pulling its hair out, trying to explain it to themselves.
They are writing pieces at their various publications.
You'll see a piece in the New York Post, you'll see a piece of commentary, piece of the weekly standard, every one of the blogs, every day.
Somebody will do a deep analytical piece trying to explain Trump.
Well, I've done it.
I've explained it to you every which way from Sunday from the perspective of my understanding.
So it's not a mystery to me in any way, shape, manner, or form.
And it's it doesn't threaten me.
This is another key, folks.
You would not believe the number of people, not even in politics, who are threatened by this thing Trump is doing.
Naturally, people in politics feel threatened by it at every level and for all kinds of reasons.
But there are people in media who feel threatened by this.
Trump is showing he's better than practically anybody at media in attracting an audience, in holding an audience, and he doesn't need a producer, and he doesn't need a writer or writers, and he doesn't need a director.
There's a whole lot of people threatened by this on a whole lot of different levels.
Like I discussed yesterday.
Donald Trump has turned the standard operating political formula upside down.
There's a formula in professional politics about how you get elected.
You have to hire a consultant, you have to hire pollsters, you have to hire data analytics people, you have to hire spokesmen, you have to hire get out the vote people, you have to, I mean, you have to hire higher, higher, higher.
You gotta go, and then you have to get the best who do what they do, and you have to listen to them.
You have to plan to the nth detail every every minute of the day, every appearance.
Trump's done none of it.
And has in the process illustrated that maybe if if I were in the professional politics business, I would feel so threatened right now.
Because I'd be, I'm looking at somebody who has demonstrated that my expertise isn't necessary.
I I would, I would, I would think if I'm a consultant, if I'm a spokesman, if I'm a policy analyst, if I'm a whatever, I'd look at this whole Trump phenomenon, my God, I'm I'm not needed.
People are gonna realize.
People are gonna realize I don't need it.
Let's say you're a foreign policy advisor for Candidate X. Trump doesn't have any.
He's leaving the pack.
So it's no wonder that he's gonna be criticized for everything that he's doing.
People have turf to be protected here, folks.
This is huge, what's happening here.
In all kinds, and so explaining the anger, the envy, the resentment, the jealousy, the fear.
I mean, it's all there.
People are afraid of Trump, people are envious, people jealous, people frightened, people fearful, people threatened.
It depends on where you go.
But all of those facets are accurate.
And it's just it's it's upsetting and unnerving, which is why.
So many of these people are hoping and praying that Trump implodes.
They are hoping and praying that Trump loses in a landslide.
They are hoping that disaster comes to Trump.
Because if disaster comes to Trump in one way or another, they will be validated as still necessary.
They'll be able to see Trump, he tried to do it without us.
He tried to do it without a consultant, see what happens to you.
He tried to do it without a good spokesman, see what happens to you.
He tried to do it without a foreign policy and see what happens to you.
He tried to do it without a polls.
That's what they want to be able to say down the road.
Here's another thing that scares them.
Trump is improv.
What are you whispering about in there?
What are you whispering about in there?
No, I'm serious.
He is improv.
There is no speech writer.
That's another group of people that aren't employed by the Trump campaign.
There's no writer.
And have you noticed other campaigns where there are speech writers?
Have you noticed no matter when the campaign or when the candidate speaks, it's the same speech.
It's called the stump speech.
And have you noticed that it's practically word for word at every stop?
Uh, every election night, whoever wins goes out and says whatever they said the last time they won.
If they didn't win, they go out and said what they said last time they came in, second place, third place.
Never changes.
Because everything's so tightly scripted.
Everybody is is is scripted in a way so as not to say something that could be damaging, so you pull back and you don't say anything.
Meanwhile, Trump is no boundaries.
Like my old neck tie line.
No boundaries, it's improv.
Say whatever you this is not supposed to be happening.
This is threatening on so many levels.
So they're all hoping for disaster.
They're all predicting.
They want the riots.
They want Trump to be responsible for the riots.
There's a whole lot of livelihoods that have nothing to do with who wins the election writing on this, folks.
A whole lot.
And now I must take a brief time out.
Sit tight, we'll come back with much more.
We're gonna start uh weaving your phone calls into the fabric of the most listened to radio talk show in a moment.
Don't go away.
Hey, look at this from thehill.com.
Anybody know the name Randy Kendrick?
Do you know the name Randy Kendrick?
I'm surprised you don't know the name Randy Kendrick.
Not surprised you don't know.
Randy Kendrick is the wife of the owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball.
The owner is Ken Kendrick.
Randy Kendrick is his wife.
She said that they, she and her husband, are willing to lose fans in order to stop Donald Trump.
He said, Randy, if we stand up for what we know to be moral, and what we know to be correct, if a hundred thousand people decide they will not go to a diamondbacks game, we've stood up for the right thing.
So these people who own a diamondbacks are going to come out against Trump.
And even if that results in 100,000 fewer Diamondbacks fans going to games, they happily will pay that price.
They are willing to lose one hundred thousand fans.
Or more, whatever the number is, in order to stop Donald Trump.
They're standing up for the right thing.
They're standing up for what they know to be moral.
I am always fascinated by how people look at the concept of morality and what some people think morality is and what is moral and what isn't.
No comment here.
I'm just sharing with you a thought process.
That fascinates me.
Randy Kendrick is a major Republican donor who's given at least $350,000 to a super PAC that supported Rubio.
Since Rubio dropped out, Randy Kendrick, the wife of the owner, has focused on anti-Trump efforts.
Randy Kendrick told the Washington Post earlier this month she had made a significant donation to our principles pack, an anti-Trump group that has largely been funded by Chicago Cubs owner, Marlene Ricketts.
And Randy Kendrick said that my husband and I have moral objections to some of the things that he has said and not said.
So forth.
So it's everywhere, folks.
This this panic is uh it's all over the place.
And much of it is paranoia, rooted in false well, lack of understanding, I think.
But it's every day news stories like this.
The economist is worth the Washington Post is demanding the Republicans broker their convention to deny this to Trump.
Putin is saying, you better not, you better not make that guy president.
We don't like being laughed at over here.
Of course they'd rather have Hillary and its stupid reset button.
Anyway, to the phones we go.
We're gonna start with Aaron in Minneapolis.
You're first.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thank you.
Good.
Say, real quick, I thought uh I thought the Huffington Post or might have been the New York Times said a few months back that they weren't even going to cover anything related to Donald Trump in his uh presidential uh race here, and uh I think the tides have turned a little bit.
This is neither for or against Donald Trump, but uh a little confused at how they went back on that.
That was the Huffing and Puffington Post that said they were gonna stop covering Trump as news, that Trump wasn't news.
They might still be covering him as gossip or some such thing.
But I have they started covering him again, is that your point?
I believe so, correct.
Yes.
And so you think the thrust of your question is what good is the pledge?
It didn't hold up.
Trump is has even forced their hand.
Is that your point?
Exactly.
I mean, at the end of the day at the end of the day, it sounds like it's anything for uh for an extra dollar or two to help them out.
But uh, yeah, I found it kind quite ironic how uh how easily they would step back on that.
Well, you know, it's it's it's almost like the the point here in the story about the owners of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
To them, it's it's an issue of morality to oppose Trump.
It's the only moral thing to do.
You can't you can't be a good Republican.
You can't be a good fundraiser.
You can't have donated to Bush or any of this, and at the same time unify around Trump.
That just totally immoral.
And I'm sure the Huffing and Puffington Post, I mean, they were trying to score points with their readership.
And they might say that there was a moral stand to this guy's a reprobate.
We're not going to help and join the chorus of people giving him free media, but it didn't last, is the point.
Aaron, thank you much.
And we have a brief obscene profit timeout back after this.
Okay, so here you go.
The Huffing and Puffington Post suspended coverage of Trump back in uh July, and they resumed on December 7th.
So it didn't last very long.
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