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March 23, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 23, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 podcast.
You know, I had no idea.
I just noticed Obama's in Argentina.
When did he leave Cuba?
I thought the last we knew he was in a baseball game in Cuba.
Is it in Argentina?
So okay, so uh what do we do?
Got to apologize for something down there, right?
I'll bet, I'll bet he's going to apologize because we overthrew Pinochet.
No, not with Chile.
Pinochet.
What do we do to Argentina?
We had to do somebody.
Maybe he didn't export Madonna there.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh.
What is this already?
This is Wednesday.
This is unbelievable.
Fastest week in media.
Great to have you here.
Telephone numbers 800 282-2882 if you want to be on the program in the email address.
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Well, guess what has happened?
Ted Cruz has become the focus of the Republican campaign today.
It is stunning how these things happen.
And in no particular order, uh, somebody ran an ad that uh included a picture of Trump's wife Melania, nearly nude from 15 years ago in a GQ.
It's from a GQ, a gentleman's quarterly photo spread.
And Trump didn't like it.
So he tweeted, Lion Ted, you better be careful or I'm gonna spill the beans on Heidi.
And everybody says, What are the beans on Heidi?
Well, what beans are there on Heidi Cruz that Trump could possibly spill?
Well, then Trump responded, hey, real Donald Trump.
I had nothing to do with that ad.
We have nothing to do with that ad.
Be careful, stay away from Heidi.
She run rings around your whatever the It was a it was a uh uh in fact you've got to hear this.
Let me let me get the actual tweet here, if I have it here.
Lion Ted just used a picture of Melania from a GQ shoot, and he said, Be careful, Lion Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife.
And Cruz, well, I don't have Cruz's response tweet here, uh, but it was uh along the line, be careful you don't want to tangle with Heidi.
And you gotta hear how CNN reacted to this.
Grab soundbite number one.
This is on on uh CNN this morning around uh hour and 40 minutes ago.
Carol Costello plays a clip from earlier with Cruz, and I just I want you to listen to how she reacts to this.
She plays the clip of Cruz and then she reacts.
Last night Donald threatened my wife.
He went directly after my wife.
And I gotta tell you that, number one, Heidi, my wife, she's the daughter of missionaries in Africa.
She is my best friend in the world.
And if Donald wants to get in a character fight, he's better off sticking with me because Heidi is way out of his league.
Now stand up for my little woman.
Thoughts?
I'll stand up for my little woman.
Caroline Costell stand up for my little woman, mocking it.
Mocking a man defending his wife against an attack from Donald Trump.
Now, in what world does that happen?
What are you not supposed to defend your wife anymore?
Is that the new feminism?
Are you not supposed to defend women?
Are you supposed to let them go ahead and be ridiculed and threatened?
Are you supposed to let them be defamed?
Are they just on their own out there?
Or is it that when a conservative, when Ted Cruz, who they hate, who they don't like, if anybody threatens anybody, it's Ted Cruz threatening these people.
These people all think Ted Cruz is going to put him in the morality prison.
That's what they're afraid of.
And so they it in that context, well, now stand up for my little woman.
And then she runs around the table and asks for thoughts, and nobody reacted to that clip the way she wanted.
She had David Rodham Gergen and some other woman whose name I don't remember, and neither of them commented on what Carol Costello had.
Whoa, well, I'll stand up for my little woman.
You're not in her league either, Carol.
Uh just for everybody to uh to know.
Anyway, it turns out that the original tweet or the ad that featured Melania Trump nearly nude from a 15-year-old photo shoot in GQ was actually placed by a PAC, a political action committee called Make America Awesome.
And a woman runs that PAC, her name is Liz Mayer.
And it has been fascinating to me to read all the reaction to this today.
There's some people on the right who can't believe Liz Mayor would stoop to such a thing.
Can't believe it.
Anyone on the right would stoop to such a cheap gutter type ad, even if it is about Trump, who many on the right think is already in the gutter.
Meaning Trump.
And it's just all the hand ringing.
I can't believe.
I can't believe we would stoop to this level.
I can't believe this would happen.
And of course, the ad that this pack ran is being characterized as slut shaming.
Do you know what that is?
Well, it pretty much self-explanatory.
And so that's another reason some on the right don't like it because they think it's slut shaming.
And so Liz Mayers, no, no, no, I hate that word.
I hate that word in any context.
That's not what we're doing here.
We were trying to alert Mormons to vote for Ted Cruz.
We wanted Mormons in Utah to know certain things about Trump and uh and his wife.
But it does break some taboos, you know, children, wives, off when Melania, she really hasn't put her out there in the herself out there.
She's done a couple of interviews.
Uh but it just it just goes to show how volatile the whole campaign is.
I've got two different stories, maybe three today, on how the campaign's already over.
One from Politico, from a liberal Democrat who thinks it's over.
Actually, there's three.
Jonah Goldberg, National Review, who thinks it's over, no matter what happens.
The GOP is destroyed, it's over.
Whether Trump gets a nomination or if Trump doesn't get the nomination.
We're finished.
It's over.
Another person said this campaign ended last October, and it's over.
It's for the Democrats.
Hillary has been the winner since last October.
And then there are others, one other who uh who thinks it's still wide open and a possibility.
The fatalism that's out there is just overwhelming.
And here we were still in March.
We haven't even gotten to April yet, and the fatalism that has infected many on the Republicanslash right.
Oh, by the way, I've had a couple of people send me snarky emails.
You know what, everything you told us about Rule 40, you were wrong.
You were wrong.
It doesn't apply to this convention.
I said, go back and listen to what I said.
Rule 40 convention, Republican National Convention rules.
Rule 40 was written, I said, for the 2012 convention, and it was designed to prevent people like Rand Paul from making an end run against Romney in the 2012 convention, but it still stands.
And what Rule 40 essentially says that nobody can be made the Republican nominee unless they have won a majority of delegates in a minimum of eight states.
Well, that leaves only Trump and Cruz.
It disqualifies Kasich, it disqualifies everybody else.
It disqualifies whoever they would come up with in a contestant convention, which I've known all along, which is why I said they're going to meet in April and rewrite this.
And I said further they can meet the day before the convention and rewrite the rules.
But if Rule 40, it's I think it's 40 parentheses B, if it doesn't change, then it can't be.
But of course it will change.
They're going to change it to whatever.
I got another story here that says Paul Ryan, in his speech to APAC, made it clear that he's running for president.
His speech to APAC was his first attempt at getting delegates in Florida.
Did you not?
It's it's just it's the uh the the variety, the scatter shot, the shotgun element here of commentary.
Nobody knows what's going on, nobody can analyze it, nobody can explain it, and people are unable to keep their emotions out of it.
On the Republican right, you've got fatalists and defeatists writing that it's all over.
On the left, you have people beating their chests, celebrating that it's all over, that nothing can stop Hillary.
On the right, you've got people that don't think it's all over, but they're worried about Trump.
The worry, the negativism, the pessimism that's out there is just overwhelming.
I guess it's natural.
I mean, I think.
Sadly, pessimism is more a natural state in the human condition than optimism is.
Pessimism doesn't take any effort.
Optimism does.
And that's why there's always far more pessimism out there than there is optimism.
The number of people that are natural optimists, you ever notice how many people suspicious of those people?
Natural optimists, it is said has to be something wrong with them.
How can you be an optimist in the mess that we call the world today?
How can you be an optimist when you look around the country when you watch the evening news?
How in the world can you be an optimist?
Some people claim to naturally be, but pessimism seems to be the order of the day, and that's how you cater to people, by the way.
You play on their pessimism, you amplify it, you acknowledge it, you let them know that you too understand that you're pessimistic, but you have the solution.
Which takes us to the news of the day, and it's Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz is all over the news for two reasons.
One is that ad attacking uh Melania that claims uh everybody thought came from him that didn't, that has created its own universe.
But Trump, or rather, Cruz said something else.
He said that the police need to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods, and you would have thought that somebody has suggested impeaching Obama.
The reaction to this is overwhelming.
People can't believe he would say such a thing, and they've gone talk to experts, cops, commissioners, law enforcement people here to ask what they think of Ted Cruz suggesting that the police need to start patrolling and securing Muslim neighborhoods.
And the amount of fear, the very idea of doing this, there are so many people who are shouting disagreement with Cruz because they don't want the jihadists to target them.
And Trump, meanwhile, is saying that we need to start thinking about using torture to stop some of this stuff.
So that's going to be our starting point.
We're going to take a brief time out.
I want to come back and replay a response I gave to a young caller, I think it was Friday, 14-year-old, pro-cruz.
The kid was pessimistic himself, and he asked me if I thought that Cruz could still win.
And we'll replay what I said and then get started with all the rest of this when we get back.
Don't go away.
Back on Friday, ladies and gentlemen, we had a young caller who wanted to know if it was over.
He's a cruise supporter.
He's in Texas, 14 years old, and asked me if Cruz still had a chance.
This is what I told him.
The fact that Ted Cruz is in second place is astounding.
Ted Cruz has been ignored from the first day of this campaign.
Ted Cruz is in second place.
He has been given no time by the drive-by media.
He has been shown no respect.
They have not treated him as a viable candidate.
He has been hammered over and over by every other candidate.
One way or another, Ted Cruz has been lamb-based.
He is very rarely given a chance to rebut the things that are said about him.
He is routinely one of the speakers at each debate that speaks the least.
There's some exceptions in some debates, But for the most part, he's among the least.
He is hated by the establishment, and they are the ones that totally ignore him.
The party has not lifted a finger to help him, and even now when they are starting to, they make it known that they're not happy to be doing it.
He is being dwarfed and swamped by unprecedented coverage of Trump, who hasn't had to spend any money to get it.
Ted Cruz has raised money left and right.
There are all kinds of people giving money to Ted Cruz, and nobody talks about it.
Nobody wants to talk about Ted Cruz.
We're told over and over that everybody in the Senate hates him.
We're told over and over everybody in Washington hates him, but yet he's in second place and he's won nine states.
So you're asking me if I think Ted Cruz can win.
Yeah, I do.
I don't think it's anywhere near over yet.
Everybody wants you to believe that it is.
Everybody wants you to believe one of two things.
It's over, Cruz is not going to get there, Trump is, or we're going to go to a contested convention, and it's going to be between Kasich and whoever else the establishment can throw up.
It still amazes me.
You have the establishment types with their secret dinner meetings like last night here in Palm Beach, trying to figure out how to game the convention so that one of theirs can get the nomination.
Then you have these conservatives who are plotting, trying to come up with a third party candidate.
And here again, nobody's talking about Ted Cruz, and he's there every day.
And he's out campaigning, he's going everywhere, and he is in second place despite all of the obstacles that have been put in his way.
So I think he can in any number of ways.
Long shot, yeah.
But still, I think it's a major achievement given the odds that have been stacked against him.
Which, hey, I'm not complaining about them.
I'm just pointing them out.
Uh nothing is guaranteed.
And I'm not, I'm I'm I'm not crying about anything here.
I'm just laying things out as I believe they've happened.
Uh today, Jeb Bush did endorse Ted Cruz, and he's not the first.
You know, I made a point earlier in the week that if some of these establishment guys start endorsing Cruz, is it gonna actually be helpful?
Are these the kind of people he wants uh endorsing him?
These are the people he's been running against, for example, the establishment.
But you know, things are fluid, and we're getting down to the uh uh the end of this in terms of time to pull it out.
And unity is what has to happen here.
One way or the other, there has to be some kind of unity if the Democrats are going to be defeated in uh in November.
And I don't I don't know how the unity would manifest itself yet, but there has to be some of this.
So this could be an indication of it.
Um Jeb alone probably is not a significant thing in terms of bringing support to Cruz.
He never he had four delegates uh and that kind of thing.
But at this point, everything like this matters and and it adds up.
So we see where it plays out.
Uh it's a long shot.
Cruz has predicted won Utah last night, Obama or uh Trump, Trump won Arizona, and there were more delegates at stake in Arizona, so Trump had a net delegate gain last night, despite Trump uh winning Arizona and Cruz sweeping uh Utah.
And of course, uh John Kasich is still out there.
Another round of George Soros money has been donated to Governor Kasich.
This is the second installment now, which puts him up over 200,000 that Soros-related PACs have contributed to Kasich, who literally has no chance.
He has no mathematical to whatsoever of securing the nomination.
Yet he runs around talking about that as though he does, and uh as though it's a reality.
Now to Ted Cruz, this is CNN, Cruz on Tuesday call for law enforcement to step up their policing of Muslim neighborhoods in America.
In the wake of terror attacks in Brussels, comparing it to police boosting their presence in areas with known gang activity.
You have a neighborhood where there's a high level of gang activity.
The way to prevent it is you increase law enforcement presence there and you target the gang members to get them off the streets.
Cruz said this to Anderson Cooper 345 on CNN.
He said, I'm talking about any area where there's a higher incidence of radical Islamic terrorism.
Cruz pointed to uh what he called a successful program in New York implemented by Mayor Doomberg.
Apparently pointing to the New York Police Department's controversial surveillance efforts targeting Muslims under his administration, J. Peter McDonald, I'm sorry, J. Peter Donald.
Communications for the New York police department described Cruz's comments.
Quote, an incendiary, foolish statement.
He tweeted, hey, Ted Cruz, are our nearly 1,000 Muslim officers a threat to?
It's hard to imagine a more incendiary, foolish statement.
Hillary Clinton got in on it.
Everybody has gotten in on ramming Ted Cruz on this.
We will continue with it when we get back.
No sooner do I make a joke about it than it happens this afternoon in Buenos Aires, Argentina, President Barack Obama.
And a joint press conference with Argentinian President Mauricio Makli.
And listen to this.
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the military coup.
And tomorrow, to underscore our shared commitment to human rights.
I'll visit a memorial to the victims of the Argentinian military dictatorship and recognize Argentina's historic and continuing efforts to make things right.
To prove that this is more than just a symbolic gesture on my part.
I'm launching a new effort to open up additional documents from that dark period.
For the first time now, we'll declassify military and intelligence records as well on this anniversary and beyond.
I hope this gesture also helps to rebuild trust that may have been lost between our two countries.
See, we were keeping secrets.
We had secret records.
We were keeping secret records, probably intelligence data about Argentina and a military coup, and Obama has essentially said, you know what?
We're sorry.
We're going to open up these secret documents.
We're going to release these secret documents to you so that you can see what a bunch of reprobates all of my predecessors have been toward you.
Which make no mistake is one of the purposes here.
Yes, so you Argentinians can see how much better I am as president at some of these heathens that served in the office before I came along.
Okay, back to Ted Cruz.
Just had to play that bite for you.
Um I just saw there's a caller online calling me delusional.
Let me read what's this about.
Russia delusional cruises and every minute you have a behind.
Says a Trump supporter.
You don't know.
Well, let me take it.
Let me just take.
Is the guy ready to go?
Have you finished the screening process?
You got a social security number?
Okay.
Clay in Lansing, Michigan.
Greetings, sir.
I'm sure you didn't expect to get on the phone this uh this soon, but here we are.
What's up?
No, no, Rush, after 25 years of listening to you.
I never thought I would get on this fast.
Thank you for 25 years.
I've been listening to you every day.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I think sadly, what you all fail to realize is that perpetually you're painting Ted Cruz as an outsider.
He paints Ted Cruz as an outsider.
The Tea Party tried to paint him as an outsider.
Yet I'm going to read you five names.
Lindsay Graham, Mick Romney, Jeb.
Exclamation, exclamation, exclamation point Bush.
Nikki Haley.
How much more insider can you get than this?
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, wait.
Establishment.
The establishment is going to destroy Ted Cruz from within, and then the Tea Party's going to back its bus right over his head if he ain't careful.
Okay, run that last thing by me again.
What was it?
You just said the establishment's going to destroy Cruz from within.
Is that what you said?
The establishment's going to destroy him within because he's buddying up to these people, and the Tea Party hates every single one of them.
What is Cruz doing?
I know he wants to be the last man standing against Trump, but the point is he's destroying his credibility.
When Cruz first announced, I'm like, yep.
Hold it just a second.
Now there's a mouthful here.
First, I need to know.
Are you for Cruz or are you for Trump or are you for Kasich?
I was originally for Cruz.
I am definitely for Trump.
Okay.
You were thinking about Cruz at one point, but now you're for Trump.
Okay.
Sure.
When Cruz first announced, I was all on board with Cruz.
Right.
But then Trump came along and just electrified everything, and that uh swept you up.
I understand that.
Now, these endorsements, you realize what these people are trying to do.
They're trying to save money to keep him alive.
They are trying to save themselves.
The they're wrapped up in the success of the party.
Trump, Cruz is whatever else he is, is a Republican.
There's nowhere else for these people to go.
This Cruz is their last gasp.
And they are not happy having to do it.
Lindsey Graham said so.
When he endorsed Cruz, he actually started singing the praise of Kasich.
This does not mean that Cruz is an insider.
This does not mean that Cruz doesn't mean what he's talking about.
This doesn't mean that Cruz all of a sudden is a new best friend of Mitch McConnell.
No, but it's hypocrisy and action right there.
If you are outsider truly, ditch the pack, Ted, run as an outsider on your own money.
Put your big money where your big mouth is and run it like Trump is doing.
You were never I refuse to believe that you were a cruise supporter.
Original Cruz supporter wouldn't be speaking of him as this in this manner as you are.
Sure, I campaigned for the man on the Tea Party.
Yeah, but now put your big mouth where your big money is, or put your money where your big mouth is and get rid of your pack and fund yourself.
He doesn't have that kind of money.
No, but Trump does.
And that's why he's bigger than the establishment and bigger than the media.
He can dictate and take the take the message right to the masses who are tired.
That's that's all that's all well and good, but none of that says that Cruz isn't who he is.
You're essentially saying that Cruz was all fine and nanny until these establishment rubes started moving in and started endorsing him.
And that means the established is going to try to take over when Cruz wins or if he wins or whatever.
This is the same stuff that happened with Reagan.
I I have to tell you, Clay, it's the exact same stuff that happened with Reagan.
They didn't like Reagan in 76.
They didn't like Reagan in 1980.
They tried to stop Reagan in both campaigns.
When Reagan won in 1980, they had no choice.
And then when Reagan proved to be two landslides popular, all of those people that supposedly hated him couldn't wait to be standing next to him every time a photo was taken.
They were the hypocrites, not Reagan.
And Cruz is not the hypocrite here.
What's he supposed to do?
Stand up and say, sorry, Governor Bush, but I don't believe you.
I don't believe you really want me to win.
So I would appreciate it if you would endorse someone.
Is that is that what you want him to do, Clay?
You say that because Trump says it.
Trump says it.
He denounces the his endorsements that he doesn't want, he doesn't need them.
He needs to vote.
So he takes the message to the masses, not to the establishment.
The establishment will destroy Ted Cruz from.
Let me ask you a question.
Just a hypothetical question, and I'm I I'm uh not predicting it, money stretch.
I just want to know what happens to what happens to you, your support.
What are you gonna do if somehow Trump does not get the nomination?
If Trump does not get the nomination, I would most likely go and pull the R lever for Cruz, and I know I would lose.
Cruz will not win one state north of the Mason Dixon line.
And you think you think Trump can do.
And you think Trump can win.
Trump is already getting 30% of it.
I'm on the ground game here in the mission.
And I've watched it happen.
I know, but have you happened to notice all of these so-called Republicans promising to either sit out or vote for Hillary if Cruz is in the those 30% he's bringing in, uh, some of them could be canceled out by these uh spoil sports deciding to vote Hillary or stay home.
Rush, I initially thought that myself.
Never in my life in six campaigns have I ever worked alongside teamsters, Democrats, truckers, people that have never considered buying what Romney was wanting to sell, or McCain wanted to sell, or Bush wanted to sell, they'd hang up on me.
They will talk to me with Trump because he takes the message right to the American people.
And you know what?
They are sick and tired.
No, no, I think he's running as an American, Rush.
I know that.
Clay, Clay, wait a minute.
We gotta I know why Trump's working.
I I know why people support Trump.
I'm the guy telling everybody why it's I'm asking a specific question here.
You you have to be aware, whether they mean or not, there's a bunch of uh of spoil sports on the Republican side.
I mean, uh you talk about hypocrites.
They're openly trying to find somebody other than Trump or Cruz, and if they don't find something, they're claiming the vote for Hillary.
I have I talked to a guy, listen, I talked to a guy last night who is in the so-called conservative movement, who deals with a young young conservative media types, and he told me they all hate Trump.
It's horrible.
They're all talking about voting for Hillary.
And and he said, All these Democrats Trump's bringing in, I'm worried how many people on the Republican side they cancel out by not voting.
I think a lot of it's just talk right now.
It is definitely talk.
You honestly trust the media rush?
I mean, seriously, they will tell you anything to keep a story alive.
Okay.
You have got to say, I didn't want to believe it.
When did I just I didn't even mention media here?
I t I talked to a guy who has a lot of friends who are in the quote unquote conservative media.
It's not top of the mainstream media here, and he's telling me it's driving him crazy how obstinate and single-minded and stupid they are.
They hate Trump.
They despise Trump because they think they should.
They're young, aspiring conservatives, they all want to be David Brooks, they all want to be Bill Crystal, they all want to be, you know, they want to get a book deal, a Fox News gig, and maybe a Saturday New York Times column.
So they do whatever they think they have to do to get that.
And part of doing what they have to do to get that right now is make everybody know they don't like Trump.
And they claim to be concerned.
This is not a media thing.
This is not the New York Post or the New York Times or Washington Post telling me this.
My only point to you, um the only question is I don't I'm the guy who pointed out that Trump's bringing Democrats in.
That isn't news.
I'm the guy that pointed out that Trump's coalition happens to be exactly what the Republican Party has always claimed it needed and wanted in order to be able to win the White House.
Now that Trump's the one putting it together, they don't seem to be interested.
But on the other side of this, my question is, all those Democrats, what happens if those numbers are canceled out by a similar number of Republicans who hate Trump, either not voting or voting for Hillary.
I guess there's no answer to the question.
I'm just pausing.
As I say, that's now.
This is March, not even April, and a lot of people have their noses out of joint.
You folks, you just have no idea.
I've despite my best efforts to try to convey to you the emotions and the thinking of the people I'm talking about.
These these are people, in many cases, whose very their own self-esteem, their their self-worth, the the things they tell themselves every night to reassure themselves how great they are, how important they are, they tell themselves that they are crucially important to the outcome of events.
They shape opinion in their minds.
And they are facing a hard cold reality here with the existence of Trump in the campaign.
They have, from the first moment Trump got in the race, maligned him, impugned him, ripped him, criticized him, mocked him.
They've done it on TV, they've written about it, and it hasn't mattered.
They haven't been able to stop Trump, and they are questioning their own self-worth.
They they are there, they don't want to do this.
They do not want to think of themselves as irrelevant or ineffective.
And because they're facing that reality, their anger is multiplying at Trump.
Well, I guess what I'm saying is you don't realize how personal this is to a lot of people who have devoted their lives to thinking that they matter when it comes to shaping public opinion, influencing public opinion, defining certain things, such as intellectual conservatism, uh, or if it's not intellectual conservative, defining what it is to be a good moderate, or defining what it is to be whatever it is.
There's just a this there's a lot of people here shaking, and those are the people, not all, obviously, but many of the people say, I'm voting for Hillary, I'm voting we'd never vote for Trump.
I couldn't, I couldn't puzzle people, yeah.
I'm staying home.
Those are people.
Well, I'm telling you, this is affecting them personally.
Anyway, say it's not media, it's not it's it's not the usual suspects here.
Anyway, I gotta take a break.
I'm way long here, folks, as it seems to be the case all the time.
But back in a minute.
You know this endorsement business, folks.
You know, I don't remember Trump chasing away his endorsement.
Putin endorsed Trump.
I don't remember Trump saying I don't want your endorsement.
I remember Trump saying he was honored.
When Christie endorsed Trump, I don't remember, I mean, do you think you think Cruz wants Christie's endorsement?
But this business of endorsement, you don't control who endorses you, and it doesn't mean that you owe anybody when uh when they endorse you.
These guys, these endorsements, folks, these are all everything's personal now.
You you it it on the Republican side.
And what I mean by personal, there are people.
Have you ever thought you're gonna lose your job?
You ever thought you're gonna be fired?
For whatever reason, justified or not.
Uh have you ever had a job you really like or something you really like and it was going to be taken away from you?
And and that the uh events making them happen are beyond your control.
But yet you think you can cross that's what these guys are facing here, many of these Republicans.
They're not endorsing Cruz because they're endorsing Cruz.
They're endorsing Cruz because they're trying to save themselves by having somebody beat Trump by somebody that can win and save the party.
It's a sign of how desperate they've become, because in the in the real world, we know that if given first, second, third choice cruise probably would not be who they would uh endorse.
It wasn't.
All these people have endorsed other people first, Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham, some of them, so it's it's it's just it's I I'm sorry, folks, it's it's fascinating to watch all this.
And I don't mean that in a in a lofty uppity way.
And it just to me, this stuff fascinates me.
Human nature to watch people behave, figure out why, uh, to be able to detect sincerity and insincerity and so forth, and uh be able to uh to apply it.
But it's it's actually it's more than fascinating.
Now, I don't have time for a phone call here.
I soundbite is you listen to this montage, this will set up what's coming.
A quick montage of the media savaging crews over a suggestion that cops patrol Muslim neighborhoods.
How would you define a Muslim neighborhood?
Is there a certain percentage of Muslims that have to live there?
Do you have to have any particular suspicion that they're being radicalized?
Or is it just the mere fact that they're Muslims?
You don't want to paint with too broad a brush and blame an entire faith for the acts of the worst among them, and that's why there's criticism about policing Muslim communities as if they were all an enemy.
People had a problem with that.
Patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods, as if, say, all Muslims are radical.
How is targeting Muslim neighborhoods constitutional?
How many Muslims are in America?
Three million Muslims in America.
Law enforcement is overwhelmed.
It's impractical what you're suggesting.
Name one community, one city.
Your comments are decidedly anti-Muslim.
You're playing right into the hands of ISIS.
As Cruz was on every morning show today, and those are sound bites of drive-by media people either preaching to him, lecturing, or lecturing him, or asking him questions.
So you can see it didn't go over too well uh with the drive-by's.
And it didn't go over well with Hillary either.
So back in a sec, folks.
Don't go.
Mick Jagger Rolling Stones, a theme song for the modern day Democratic Party, street fighting man.
Like this was a big tune back in 1968, in fact.
It was relative to the Democrat convention then.
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