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But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: Ephesians 4:15 KJV Rush you made this conflict yourself by teaching your listeners to think for themselves and they are. You have circled the wagons for Ted Cruz with the rest of the conservative media while a majority of your listeners have chosen Donald Trump. They have heard all of your arguments for your preferred candidate and have logically decided he is not as good a choice as Trump. The disappointing part is after your fans have stuck through thick...

As a general principle no conversations have involved more varied opinions than discussions about the supposed “conservative” media and their seeming cognitive dissonance when it comes to issues surrounding Senator Ted Cruz. Some people think these voices were just hoodwinked by Cruz and now their ego won’t permit them to admit the falsehood. Others think the pundits are too close to the candidate to see the inherent issues and contradictions; some propose their punditry is connected to financial motives. Perhaps it’s a combination therein, but many people just can’t figure it out... All of those aforementioned voices know this fact....

Video of Rush TV show from 1993 who not only pushed NAFTA, but mocked those that were against it. His joking about it starts at about 1:20 and goes to 2:50.

RUSH: Look, look, I keep getting emails. I know all of this is alienating voters. That's why I say, there are consequences to this. If Cruz were to pull this off, man, the explosion that would take place.... CALLER: I think what Cruz has done in the Senate is what he's doing now: He characterizes and patronizes those who disagree with him. He's very Obama-like in that regard. That is to say, Ted Cruz, who can't give a greeting without making it sound like the Gettysburg Address, has a way of offering these incredibly conclusive statements -- RUSH: (laughing) Wait...

Rush Limbaugh today on his radio show looks ahead to what happens if Ted Cruz actually succeeds with his plan to wrestle the nomination away from Donald Trump on the 2nd or 3rd ballot of a contested Republican Convention. Rush said it will be like a “nuclear explosion” going off, and that “it will be the end of the Republican Party.” . . . .

Accord­ing to Rush Limbaugh, when Hillary opts to use the RULES to get what she wants, it’s bad. When Ted Cruz does it, it’s good. Rush has preached for years about the need for conser­v­a­tives to go out and change the minds of the Ameri­can people; that that is the true way to achieve everlast­ing change. He trumpeted this strat­egy as the reason for the 1994 Repub­li­can victory in the House. The reality is that Donald Trump is playing this game straight up. He is going to the voters and convinc­ing them that his way is better than Cruz’s. He’s...

Probably no one has earned more leeway from conservative voters and pundits than Rush Limbaugh. Rush has been a tireless force for the conservative movement for decades, and he probably is responsible for a whole lot of conservative Republicans who are currently in office. But thankfulness for past service only goes so far, and Rush’s program yesterday officially crossed the line. When I think about Rush’s last year or so on air, I’m reminded of Marshall Phillipe Petain, one of the most intriguing figures of the twentieth century. Without Petain, the French might not have prevailed over the Germans at...

Why did Rush move to KPRC in Houston this morning?

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: There's a story here at TheHill.com. "Poll: Trump Up to 60 Percent in New York." I wonder why this is. "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has a whopping 43-point lead in New York, according to a new poll." This is a NY1/Baruch College survey that was released late yesterday. Sixty percent support. Kasich in second place with 17%. And Ted Cruz at 14%. Ted Cruz in third place in all of the New York polls. Baruch College pollster Mickey Blum said Trump is just "killing" it. "This could really be his road to getting enough to win...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Mark in Orlando. It's great to have you. You are first today. Welcome to the program. CALLER: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate your taking my phone call. RUSH: Yes, sir. CALLER: Yes, I would just like to praise you, if I may. I think that your handling of the Cruz and Trump situation has just been magnificent. I think you've been getting a lot of negative feedback which, truth be told, just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I mean, I think that we all understand that you're the grandfather of conservatism. We all understand that...

If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, one of the main reasons will be that many in the conservative movement found him acceptable. And one of the main reasons that many conservatives are finding Trump acceptable is that the most influential political talk radio host in history, Rush Limbaugh, has provided his blessing. Not his endorsement. Limbaugh takes pains to preserve neutrality between Trump and Ted Cruz, whom he describes as the obvious choice “if conservatism is the dominating factor in how you vote.” But Limbaugh has also consistently defended Trump as a legitimate choice for those whose dominating factor...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Politico story: "Insiders to Trump: No Majority, No Nomination -- Republicans say it's 1,237 delegates or bust for Donald Trump." Now, I have to tell you, before get into the details of this story, if you are interested in history, that has always been the way it is. In the primaries, you hit the number or exceed it, and the nomination is yours. If you don't hit the number, it isn't. It has never been the case. I don't think it has. I can't recall. The rules have never been changed to say that a plurality, if...

RUSH: Going back to this John Podhoretz commentary and his attempt... This was actually from yesterday. It's a piece in Commentary magazine, and it's a very lengthy piece, and I'm just synthesizing it down to its bare essence as he attempts to explain the Trump phenomenon. I mean, many people that are not for Trump are puzzled beyond their ability to express it, why people support Trump. Some people are getting mad. Some people are taking the rejection of themselves and their ideas personally. Some people say it just doesn't make any sense no matter how they look at it....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Going back to this John Podhoretz commentary and his attempt... This was actually from yesterday. It's a piece in Commentary magazine, and it's a very lengthy piece, and I'm just synthesizing it down to its bare essence as he attempts to explain the Trump phenomenon. I mean, many people that are not for Trump are puzzled beyond their ability to express it, why people support Trump. Some people are getting mad. Some people are taking the rejection of themselves and their ideas personally. Some people say it just doesn't make any sense no matter how they look...

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RUSH: Here's Nancy in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi. CALLER: Greetings, Rush. I've listened to you probably since the late nineties, and all your sayings kind of stick in my head. I've heard you say things over and over through the years, like one of them especially is "once a liberal, always a liberal." The other one is "conservatism will always win." I don't know why that's not happening this year. We've got a guy, I mean, wouldn't it be great if someone who raises their hand and swears to defend...

Trump is showing he’s better than practically anybody in 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...

For 26 years, Rush Lim­baugh has insisted that con­ser­v­a­tive val­ues, clearly and pas­sion­ately artic­u­lated, will win every time. By con­ser­v­a­tive val­ues Rush meant: God, coun­try, fam­ily, com­mu­nity, lib­erty, indi­vid­u­al­ism, per­sonal respon­si­bil­ity, lim­ited gov­ern­ment, and free mar­kets. Rea­gan was the model, and the promise: it had hap­pened once, and could hap­pen again. Eas­ier said than done.

REPORTEDLY, Rush has been siding with Cruz more and more in recent days. Will that continue on Monday, when he has to talk about the Chicago unrest and Cruz blaming Trump for the mob that shut down Trump's rally? Somebody, please listen and tell me, because I stopped listening to Rush years ago. I got the telegram saying that he was a GOPe mouthpiece long before others did.

It happened after he had walked by, and it may well be that the people involved have not told him what really happened, that they're saying, "Nah, she's making it up! She's exaggerating. It didn't happen, or it did happen but it wasn't Corey Lewandowski that did it," or what have you. But, I mean, there's all kinds of witnesses and evidence here. People were running audiotape of it. There's some video, I think. She's got the bruises on her arms. Politico has run, I think, the audio and transcript of it. So it happened. And Trump last night said...