Posted on 01/15/2016 2:28:33 PM PST by TBBT
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RUSH: We're gonna start with Jase in Virginia Beach. Great to have you on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. Good to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.
CALLER: All right. Listen, the thing that got me fired up enough to call you and try to overcome my fear of public speaking over national radio here is last night during the debate the thing between Cruz and Trump about "New York values."
RUSH: Mmm-hmm.
CALLER: That came up.
RUSH: Mmm-hmm.
CALLER: That really stuck in my craw. I think Cruz was right. The way... I don't know the context that he said that in, but to me, New Yorker values... We know that New York is a deep blue state.
RUSH: It was... Wait, wait, wait. You don't know the context. The context is that Cruz made the statement some days ago attempting to... It was his way of trying to tell people Trump is not a conservative, and it was, you know, talking about all this stuff for Cruz's birth and his eligibility and Trump leading the fight on that. Cruz retorts -- and there might have been one other thing that did come up. But he was referring to Donald's "New York values." People said, "Whadda you mean? What are New York values. What do you mean New York values?"
Well, we all know what New York values are, and you heard him say that last night. Then Trump... You ought to see the Drive-Bys right now. The Drive-Bys have done a 180. They love Trump! Trump is the best guy. I mean, every New York liberal journalist I ever heard of has written today glowing, praising Trump. "He got silent! We saw the real Trump for the first time. We saw that he has a soul. We saw that Trump has a heart. We saw that Trump is a New Yorker, and he just buried Ted Cruz!" That's the reaction inside the big Apple media.
CALLER: And that's my concern. That's my concern that they're blowing this out, 'cause what I didn't like what Trump did... To me what Trump threw at Cruz was an emotional red herring and stuff, and I expect that from Obama to throw people off.
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, now. Wait, wait I'm what's "the emotional red herring"?
CALLER: Well, how do you correlate conservatism with New York's reaction to the horror of 9/11? You'd have to be inhuman not to do everything you can and to feel something about what happened, 'cause Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid stood on the Capitol steps singing God bless America after 9/11, but they're not conservative. Trump's response to Cruz on that was, "Hey, 9/11? Didn't you see all us New Yorkers how we got together and what do you mean New Yorker values or whatever?" And to me, Cruz's comment had to do with political values, not being human, not having to be totally... You'd have to be a rock or a doorknob not to have reacted to 9/11.
RUSH: Or you'd have to be celebrating in New Jersey.
CALLER: Yeah. So... (laughing) There you go.
RUSH: (chuckling)
CALLER: But, so, to me that just doesn't... Trump's response missed the point and stuff to what Cruz was probably saying about New Yorker values.
USH: Let me address this, because you have a very, very good point. I'll tell you another thing about this, and I think this is representative of a divide. Now, in New York, as I say, everybody in the media thought this was a big faux pas, that Cruz was actually winning the debate 'til this happened. He threw it away, and that Trump just wiped the floor. "This the best Trump had ever been, this was so good! He just pounded Cruz and kept pounding, and Cruz he was so humiliated didn't even say anything back."
But outside New York, the thing that you're talking about is true: Everybody does know what New York values means. Here's the thing. Trump is praising the cops and firefighters and the first responders and all that, but who is it that's under attack in New York? The cops! The mayor is making the cops out to be the absolute worst aspect of the city. It's nothing new. All of liberalism is out pummeling the police every day. So while, yeah, on 9/11, everybody praised what happened, it's kind of like the Democrats got on board with Bush for a couple days after 9/11.
But it didn't take but a week and they were already savaging Bush over not responding soon enough. The other end of this on the birther stuff? Another event like the equivalent of this New York value thing happened, and Cruz, I think, cleaned up on the birther side.
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RUSH: You heard Megyn Kelly there: "We saw the hundreds of firefighters and police officers run into the burning buildings to save others here in New York City. Those are our New York values." Well, that happens in other places, too, doesn't it, Mr. Snerdley? Yes, it does. (interruption) There's no "however" to that. That's our caller's point. "Wait, anybody would have run into the burning. The firefighters and the first responders all over the country step into the middle of emergencies like this."
Those are not the kind of "New York values" that Cruz was highlighting, anyway. But I'm not denying that I wanted to play you the sound bite. There's the Drive-Bys going nuts on Trump. You heard it. (interruption) Yeah, yeah, yeah. (interruption) I know! I heard it! But those are not the kind of "New York values" that Cruz was talking about. Cruz was not... Anybody in their right mind knows that, "Okay, they walked the smell of death, the stench of death, and they braved it and they climbed those steps not knowing a second plane was headed right foir them..."
Yeah, and they should be cited for bravery, as they have been. Not a single person in the world disparages that. That's the point. Cruz was not disparaging that. But I'm not... Look, I'm not gonna sit here be denial. Trump clearly scored big time with that, there's no question, as far as the media's concerned. But I'm just telling you: You sit here and talk about the cops. The New York mayor hates 'em! The New York mayor maybe not hates them, but he paints them as the problem.
WELL....I guess New York won’t be voting for HIM! lol lol lol When is the last time New York voted for a Republican President? 1865? LOL!
Donald Trump’s New York values ?
More like : New York Times values.
Us bitter clingers know about NY values and we don’t share them!
You think all the religious bitter clingers knew what Cruz was talking about? -—
Trump branded himself as the NY values candidate.
It was his decision.
Yep I’m a conservative and own a gun, definately NOT welcome.
” lol lol lol When is the last time New York voted for a Republican President? 1865? LOL!”
In New York state, which is who Cruz insulted (along with anyone from NY - which is good chunk of Florida), it would have been 1980 & 1984. lol lol lol LOL!
So what REPUBLICAN would ever get a longer lasting love affair with the drive-by’s?
Poor Cruz should have been more specific if he didn’t want his open ended, coy remark to turn into a gift to the imagination of anyone listening.
He is spending days up to his knees in pooh over this gift of his to TRUMP, trying to dig his mouth out from under his boot.
Unfortunately, the horse is out of the barn already.
Yeah, NY values like gun bans, soda bans, DeBlasio, schumer, gillibrabd, Cuomo, Dean skelos, Sheldon Silver, homosexual marriage, banning the iPhone due to encryption being “scary” to the jackboots, fining you if you fail to refer to a tranny by its preferred sexual identifier..
I agree with Rush’s caller...
It was an emotional red herring, or pander. The sort of low rent stuff that would normally have been castigated by the conservatives had it been employed by the left. Again another example of Trump using left-wing tactics.
-— Poor Cruz should have been more specific if he didn’t want his open ended, coy remark to turn into a gift to the imagination of anyone listening. -—
This is short sighted. In the long run Trump will be known as the candidate with NY values. It will dog him in blue America. He chose it.
Are you serious? NY voted for Reagan, TWICE? Waaaait a minute, let me check that. I don’t believe it.
What Ted Cruz was doing was helping Donald Trump, doing Donald Trump a favor in locking up the D.N.C. nomination for Donald Trump, at least in New York state.
Donald Trump - Hillary Clinton 2016 !!!
Hillary Clinton will make a great V.P. for Donald Trump.
You think that could happen again though? The demographics have changed.
How is she going to be VP behind bars? I’m still betting Obama is going to get revenge for Hitlery being a total F up as S of S and he’s going to give Lynch the go ahead.
I have very good sight and obviously so does TRUMP. He hasn’t even started and has made his values known loud and clear. He has worked blue collar himself as a kid, he deals with blue collar and unions in construction ALL the time and will clean Hillary’s clock with labor.
It’s just this dang primary has to drag on and delays the start of open warfare with the Marxists. Let him get this field of candidates laid out and in the freezer, then we can talk. It will be soo fun!
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