Trump's Performer's Instinct

RUSH: Folks, this is classic. I have to tell you, this whole Trump-Ted Cruz thing is classic. And I'm gonna 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 quickly...

"Oh, do I dare? Did I just call somebody call Ted Cruz...?" 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." 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 a note: "Do 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 (sigh) minor, minor emergency/crisis. Nothing to do... No, no. I was occupied for six hours. I didn't know any... (interruption) No, it wasn't the battery life. (chuckling) It wasn't the battery life issue. I was collecting data for engineers, but it was not the battery. It was a totally different thing. It doesn't matter. The point is, I didn't know any of this has happened 'til I got here today.

Cookie sends me this e-mail: "Do you want me to bleep what Trump said?" So I said, "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 him a coward." So I said, "Don't bleep it. Don't bleep it." So then she sends the transcripts, and I said, "Whoa," and I looked at it. I knew immediately what had happened. This woman is in the audience called Cruz a name, and Trump desperately wants that out there. He wants whoever didn't hear it to hear it. He can't dare... He might have planted it. Who knows?

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. I wouldn't disagree with you on that, but I'm simply talking about, "How do I make this happen? Who else could get away with this?" Meanwhile, the political class are wringing their hands. "My God, I can't believe our politics has been so soiled! I can't believe it." Like these guys never even think of the word? They're sitting there in the faculty lounge and the word never comes up? BS.

These guys may not be saying the word, but they're out there chasing it all over campus, and everybody knows it.

RUSH: Now we have Trump out there. Look at this. You got Trump out there. 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 it. 'PC whip,' maybe, but it doesn't quite get there." But in the meantime, look at all of the outrage. Look at the feigned outrage. Look at, "Oh, my God, what's happening to our politics? Oh, Lord, this is so coarse. Ooh!" Meanwhile, in the White House we had Bill Clinton having sex with interns under the desk, in the study, with who knows whoever. He's accused of rape, and the libs said, "Hey, it's between him and his wife."

I'm telling you, that's what happened the feminazi movement. They corrupted themselves way back in the nineties. That's why they are a joke today. And they're always going to be a joke. Do you realize the 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 'em now. So there's all this selective outrage. But let's go to the audio sound bites. 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 them 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 the problem is yours. 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 in New Hampshire at a campaign event speaking about Ted Cruz, interrupted by a woman in the audience.

TRUMP: 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. Well, it's... You know, he was concerned about the answer, because some people --

TRUMP: She just said a terrible thing. You know what she said? Shout it out 'cause I don't want --

TRUMP: 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. Terrible.

RUSH: I'm just telling you, whether you like this or not, this is how you do it. This is how. Trump was presented a golden opportunity. A woman in the crowd shouts the word, and he would love to say it. He doesn't dare say it, but he's got the cover. He condemns her for saying it, condemns her, "How dare you? You can't say that in a setting like this. Don't ever do say it," and she shouts it. "I told you, never say it." Other people say, "I can't hear it. What'd she say?" "She's saying..." and then he uses the word. He gets it out.

But it's always in the mouth of this other woman -- 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 campaign, if the 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, including Democrats in this. With Clinton, if this had happened, Clinton would've bolted from the stage and he'd be 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 on what. He clearly has it, whether you think that's a disqualifier or a serious presidential candidate or not. The next bite...

This is Fox & Friends this morning, because there was an appropriate bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz about all of this. There were people outraged, and, "How dare our politics be soiled like this? How dare he!" Of course, these aristocratic, erudite, establishment libs, both in the media and out, academia and all these places are wringing their hands over how horrible. The same people that defended Bill Clinton and 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 & Friends today. Steve Doocy said, "You were at an event last night, and somebody in the crowd had colorful language out there about Ted Cruz."

TRUMP: I have to tell you, the woman shouted. I said, "Okay, I'm gonna..." It was like a retweet. I would never say a word like that. The audience went crazy, standing ovation. Five thousand 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?

RUSH: (impression) "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 by former Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer, who they've brought back from the mothballs, I guess, for this campaign. And they've got Gayle King (who interviewed the Obamas a couple of hours before the Super Bowl kicked off on CBS), and Norah O'Donnell, and they're talking about this outrage that happened with Trump in New Hampshire.

SCHIEFFER: 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 Megyn Kelly, I thought, "Well, that's the end of it."

SCHIEFFER: I think, in a way, some of his supporters are just so mad, so frustrated, and upset with the way things are going, sometimes they don't hear what he says. They're just glad he's out there saying it.

RUSH: Right, right. So what did Bob say, we need someone they can be proud of in the Oval Office. Like Bill Clinton. It always is gonna come back to Bill Clinton, you people on the left. It's always gonna come back there. You can talk about somebody saying a word. But let's not forget, you want to get all exercised, this is so denigrating to the office, and yet what Clinton did? You celebrated it. It's not as though you tried to sweep if under the rug, you celebrate it. You try to throw that in our faces every chance you get. You throw that Clinton and the Lewinsky and all the other babes in our face, nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, he got away with it, and you stuffed shirts got all offended, you dryballs got all offended, but Clinton got away with it, we love him, nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah.

They ran around and they made it like the biggest fun success story. Clinton's selling access to the Lincoln Bedroom with who and for how much, who knows, selling coffee in the White House, all this fundraising with Chinese agents and so forth. Then the bimbos coming around led by Monica Lewinsky, Kathleen Willey, you name it, Paula Jones, drag a dollar bill through the trailer park, that's the kind of trash you get, that's what they're all saying, and now they're gonna 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 gonna come back to Clintons. You people on the left are never, ever gonna 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 "champeen" of moral failings was in the White House back in the nineties.

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. He was so offended by it that he had to tell everyone 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?"

HALPERIN: Any other candidate who did that on the eve of the election the staff would say, "We could lose the primary over this."

HALPERIN: Trump and his team loved it. The crowd loved it. This symbolizes the entire Trump campaign: different and not politically correct.

RUSH: 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. Then somebody comes along and uses the word as a synonym for coward and everybody's having a cow here.

Here's Katrina Pierson. This is CNN's New Day today, Alisyn Camerota. She's the Trump campaign national spokesperson. Camerota says, "Isn't there a difference between political correctness and vulgarity?

PIERSON: 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 roared and started chanting.

RUSH: 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.

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CALLER: Rush, thank you very much for taking my call. I've gotta tell you I'm a former Democrat who became a Republican. I've been listening to you since the eighties. 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 her anything that could be portrayed as vulgar talk. I don't want to be degrading people. I want some more civility in my politics. I just can't tolerate that kind of activity, and I really wish that Mr. Trump wouldn't do that.

RUSH: You know, it's indicative, is it not? I mean, look at the juxtaposition, the comparison -- I made it yesterday -- in the pregame ceremonies of the Super Bowl and 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 rot and decay.

You know what I found out about the halftime show today? I've got it in the Stack here very briefly. Apparently the 12-minute set performed by Coldplay 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 I'm sure you've always looked at politics, certainly the oval office and the White House that would remain unaffected by any of it, and you now see even that being affected, and it's got you concerned, right?

RUSH: So do you have anybody out there in this campaign you like that you think will resist this movement, this temptation, what have you?

CALLER: 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.

RUSH: 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.

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.

When it just happens naturally, as in the case of Trump, that's one thing. But when it happens repeatedly by design the way rush beck uses it, it's just a sleazy manipulation of his LIV audience. rush beck has been extremely cowardly in this way this election cycle.

Did Rush called Sandra Fluck “Slut”? Now he is calling for decay.

It was Rush who had joke
“unbotton shirt in front of Hillary ...”

Now same Rush is preaching world, what a whimp and fake is Rush.

Rush, you’ve turned into a moron. The whole first hour of the show is on this one word.

Everyone could see what he was doing...

7 posted on 02/09/2016 12:08:21 PM PST by nikos1121 ('There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken for granted relationship.')

Some quotes by W.C. Fields (in his fake run for President) that sound remarkably like Trump -- Chinese bashing, promises to raise taxes, lower taxes, etc. I swear Trump used it as a model.

Funny, but it makes sense that the people who blathered on and on about “Teabaggers” would, of course, have no use for “pussy” for reasons we all understand after watching the Super Bowl half time show!

10 posted on 02/09/2016 12:09:38 PM PST by nikos1121 ('There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken for granted relationship.')

When push comes to shove Rush is about the Republican Party not the COUNTRY. How anybody who calls themselves a Patriot could promote Rubio is beyond me.

In your bigoted bias, you missed the polin

the point of the repetition is repetition
the point of the repetition is repetition
the point of the repetition is repetition

Gullible you fell for the media spin and Christie’s ignorance or cheap shot. Those of you afraid to criticize Obama are weaklings

Rush was right on

Go Dr Ben

Some quotes by W.C. Fields (in his fake run for President) that sound remarkably like Trump -- Chinese bashing ...

Bashing the Chinese for "stealing" jobs by working cheap is something that goes back to the nineteenth century.

Hey, Rush. Trump says the stuff he does, so the live cameras will keep coming out to record him... LIVE.

See, I figured that one out myself without you.

14 posted on 02/09/2016 12:44:52 PM PST by nikos1121 ('There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken for granted relationship.')

Rush: Your just a loser that doesn’t have anything near what Trump has, he is a lot more than just an ‘entertainer’ something you know nothing about...

Your in the tank for Wall Street and some of have just finally woken up to that fact...take your dribble and float of into the sunset, you mean nothing anymore!!!

"Oh, do I dare? Did I just call somebody call Ted Cruz...?" And he immediately jumps into gear and does exactly... My friends, I must confess: I've done it on this program before.

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I wrote the same thing!!!! And I don't listen to Rush - I can't listen to radio while I work - too distracting.

I wrote the following: http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3394840/posts?page=5#5

I will tell you why this is a big deal (besides the potty mouth which I donâ€™t agree with). A woman at the campaign rally yelled that out. Trump realizes this is what people are thinking and by highlighting it is using it against an opponent. He is bringing out a deeply hidden feeling that he sensed the audience sensed. For an amateur politician, Trump is very masterful at reading the minds of the electorate. 5 posted on 2/9/2016, 12:51:39 PM by Trumpinator

Is Rush reading my posts???????

Rubio’s campaign manager was on CNN claiming Rush had endorsed Rubio.

If Rush’s idea of America’s future is an open borders hell hole with the Uniparty driving us off the cliff, he’s sadly mistaken.

Trump has redefined this entire election and will push the country back to the right where it belongs.

Rush needs to shut his fat, drug addicted mouth.

He might have planted it. Who knows?

Shills in the audience?

Hasn't that been banned?

Other people say, "I can't hear it. What'd she say?" "She's saying..." and then he uses the word. He gets it out.

The jury will disregard...

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