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RUSH: Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, we spent some time discussing cultural rot and how it’s happening in education. We had a very lengthy story yesterday about a woman who attended a convention of college administrators. She was 40 years old and she was astounded at what she was seeing and hearing at this convention. She always thought that the primary method of liberal indoctrination of young people happened in the classroom, until she went to this convention, then she found out all of the administrative people are even sicker, like the guidance counselors and course advisers and so forth. The...

RUSH: The other big story is Robert Mueller apparently telling Trump’s lawyers a month ago that while Trump remains under investigation, he’s not a target. And apparently Trump has received this news exceedingly well with a great sigh of relief. And now we know this is one of the reasons Trump wants to talk to Mueller. Since Trump thinks he’s not a target, he can go in there and dazzle Mueller with his personality and salesmanship and what have you. And of course anybody can figure out, you know, Richard Nixon was never a target and he got impeached. Well,...

RUSH: Well, it looks like President Trump has been proven right again. You know, the past couple of days I have been looking at all of these reports on how the Mexican government has been organizing the buses for this caravan of people. By the way, this caravan of people is another organized protest, another organized rally, and the people in the march, the people in the caravan have nothing to do with it, other than to keep walking. But they nothing to do with organizing it. I will demonstrate this in mere moments. But before I get to that,...

RUSH: Snerdley brought me a story yesterday. Snerdley does his own show prep, and he finds things that he thinks I would be interested in and brings them in. And he came in with a story yesterday, told me about it, and I just looked at him with my mouth wide open and staring at him in total disbelief. And I said, “What?” He said, “Oh, yeah, it’s happening.” I said, “I don’t know what to make of this. Explain this to me. What exactly is happening?” And he explained it again. And I said, “To heck with this.” But...

RUSH: We have a theme today. It would be we indict the media again. Nothing is as it is reported. Nothing may be extreme, but it’s pretty close. We learn more about the so-called March for Our Lives. It is nothing. It was nothing as it was presented, nothing like it was presented to be. And we touched on this briefly yesterday. More data has poured in since and we will be able to update you as the program unfolds today. The Roseanne TV show, there was a story in Deadline.com and the headline: “‘Roseanne’ Revival’s Huge Debut Stuns Hollywood,...

RUSH: I can’t emphasize this enough. I had a conversation with Mr. Snerdley. He came in here today, “You know what? This thing with these Democrats going ape over the question on the new census form about citizenship, you know what that’s doing?” I said, “What?” “That is exposing for everybody the truth of what you’ve been saying for the last 20 years about this. You’ve been telling people the Democrats only care about this because they want more voters and they want more dependence on the government and they want more people that can’t do anything for themselves, so...

RUSH: So much for the trade war. What happened to the trade war? All last week with Trump’s new sanctions and tariffs and so forth, everybody was worried, including the stock market, “Oh, my God, oh, my God, Trump’s trade war, we’re gonna die, oh, my God!” And now it’s over! The Dow Jones Industrial Average right now is plus 479 for the day. And a story here at CNBC, “Dow Jumps 600 Points as Trade Tensions Ease — The Dow Jones industrial average traded 600 points higher, with Microsoft as the best-performing stock in the index.” And you know...

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RUSH: I want you to hear a couple sound bites from 2015. There was an event called the Personal Democracy Forum, and a woman named Carol Davidsen spoke. She was a high-ranking Obama campaign official in 2012. She was at Rentrak [Corporation], the Vice President of Political Technology. I want you to just listen to this. She is describing what we talked about yesterday. When Obama and the Democrats were basically Hoovering every bit of data Facebook had, they were praised! The New York Times… We had a great caller reminded me of this yesterday. In June of 2013, the...

RUSH: Now, after that the second narrative is gotta destroy Facebook. Have to destroy Facebook. The Drive-By Media has made it a primary objective to destroy Facebook. Does that bother you at all, Mr. Snerdley? You use Facebook. (interruption) I know a lot of people that do. It might upset them, but it’s obvious that — well, look, if you’d let me get there. I know where my syllables are going. You don’t need to put thoughts in my mind. I have plenty on my own. Don’t need any little helpers here. As I was saying, the Drive-By Media is...

RUSH: What has taken the place of McCabe now — and this is where you are really at the right place today — Facebook and Cambridge analytics, the Drive-Bys and the left are all over this. When you hear Cambridge analytics, you need to think Mercers. The Mercers own Cambridge analytics. What they’re trying to tell everybody is that Cambridge analytics hacked or cheated or gamed Facebook and ended up collecting very personal data on 50 million Americans who participated in a survey that Cambridge analytics conducted on Facebook. And so you are being told that Facebook has been victimized,...

RUSH: Auntie Maxine, who’s the queen of the resistance. She was on a TV show called Washington Watch with Roland Martin. It’s on some network called TV One. And he said to Maxine, “The reality is like anything else, you’d better get what you can while he’s there, because look, come 2016…” They’re talking about Obama, and they’re talking about African-Americans and other minorities. “Hey, you better reach in and grab everything you can while Obama’s there, because after 2016, Obama’s gone.” Now, if I may make a brief departure here, in less than a year, Donald Trump has done...

RUSH: When we left the program yesterday, the bridge at Florida International University had collapsed only moments ago. There was still some confusion being reported. The way it was being reported, I thought the bridge was open. The bridge wasn’t open. The span had been put in place on Saturday. The bridge not supposed to open ’til early next year. At any rate, the left has already found a way to politicize this. The left has already found a way to incorporate the name Donald Trump into the assignation or the assignment of blame. When, in fact, the culprit here...

RUSH: Grab sound bite No. 3. Mike Murphy, Republican consultant extraordinaire — this is the guy that ran Jeb Bush’s campaign, hundred thousand dollars, got three delegates, he and Mark McKinnon are the two probably most prominent Republican consultants out there. They’re both on CNN last night with — well, I don’t know if they both were on with Don Lemon or not, but the first one is Murphy on CNN Tonight. And he says the problem that the Republicans have in the November elections is Trump, Trump, Trump, that’s the problem, and it’s a problem the Republicans just cannot...

fter months of delays, discussions and last-minute attempts to avoid an unfortunate financial necessity, the inevitable has finally happened to one of America’s biggest entertainment companies: iHeartRadio has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The radio titan officially filed for protection late on Wednesday, ending speculation that has been swirling for months. The company has been suffering due to more than $20 billion in debt. That load, which has been crippling the entertainment giant for a decade now, is a result of a 2008 leveraged buyout that also saw the company rebrand into the conglomerate the world knows now. iHeart announced...

RUSH: Now to Tillerson and all of this going on in Washington. I want to ask you if you remember something. Didn’t the media…? Didn’t the media tell us…? I mean, way, way back. I’m talking here near… It may even be during the transition, but it was around the time Trump selected Tillerson. Didn’t the media tell us that Trump picked Tillerson to be secretary of state as a payback to Russia for Russia helping Trump win the White House? You can look it up. My memory does not fail me. You remember all of those stories about how...

RUSH: Yesterday was the annual Ernie Els for Autism charity golf tournament, and it’s always held at Old Palm. Ernie puts this tournament on in conjunction with my old buddy Marvin Shanken of Cigar Aficionado and Wine Spectator magazines. The beneficiary of this is an autism school and center that Ernie and his wife Liezl have started up, and it’s gotten bigger than they ever dreamed it would be, as has this tournament. It attracts PGA Tour pros from all over the state of Florida, on a day off for them, and it attracts a lot of donors. And it’s...

RUSH: Let’s start with some economic news, ladies and gentlemen: “U.S. Employers Added 313,000 Jobs in February.” The expectations were 200,000. That’s the number the so-called experts were forecasting. This blows past that. “Construction, manufacturing, business services drove the gains.” Construction (we’re building new stuff), manufacturing. Jobs Obama said would not be coming back, jobs Obama… During the campaign when Trump was talking about reviving the manufacturing sector, Obama’s out there making fun of it and mocking it by saying (impression), “What’s he gonna do, wave a magic wand? “Those jobs are gone! Theeeey’re not coming back,” and here they...

RUSH: Just a couple things I want to get here first. I can’t prove it, but my instincts — my intelligence guided by experience — tells me that there is a building, very deep concern that might be already bordering on panic on the Democrat side. And you begin to see very tiny indications of it after the announcement late yesterday that Trump accept the invitation of the potbelly dictator in North Korea, Kim Jong-un, to go over there and have a chat. CNN was so overwhelmed by this last night that they blew it. They had, for the briefest...

RUSH: Do you remember the kerfuffle, do you remember the controversy that ensued in January of 2009 when I told the Wall Street Journal I didn’t need 400 words to explain my hopes and dreams for the Obama administration, I only needed four, and those words “I hope he fails.” Do you remember the ensuing controversy? And what was it based on? They said that I, your beloved host, El Rushbo, a household name in all four corners of the world, was advocating for the failure of America. By not hoping the president succeed, I was hoping America would fail....