Posted on 07/08/2015 1:47:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, I want to zero in on one more thing because I got a note from a friend of mine pointing out that, once again, I was right in ways that I didn't even imagine I was right. In characterizing Trump and his comments about the Mexican immigrants, the idea that Trump was trying to denigrate an entire population or ethnicity... I don't know. I didn't take it that way. Primarily when Trump says, "They're not sending us their best and brightest," he is saying they have a best and brightest.
So how can he be denigrating an entire ethnicity if he acknowledges that there is a best and brightest in Mexico? That's number one. Number two, where is the presumption of intelligence here? Who in their right mind would say that an entire country is nothing but a giant criminal gang? (interruption) Don't look at me that way, Snerdley. (laughing) "When you put it that way, Rush, it sounds believable." (interrupting)
No, not all of Russia. The oligarchy, not all of Russia, that's my whole point. (interrupting) You think maybe the power structure? The note that my friend sent me said, "Rush, look at the Mariel boatlift, back in 1980 from Cuba. What did Castro do? Castro took advantage of a sap president, Jimmy Carter, and released his prison population. He called them freedom fighters, whatever, put them in rag-tag boats and said, "Leave! You're free. You're out of here."
That's the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Jimmy Carter was president.
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RUSH: The Mariel boatlift. No one who complained about this was saying that all Cubans were bad people. What they were saying was the regime had basically emptied the jails and sent us the dregs of Cuban society who promptly committed crimes. A huge crime wave began in Florida when the Mariel boatlift landed. Now if we say that today... Go back to 1980. The Cubans admitted to letting their prison population out of jail, putting them on boats and sending them to America.
If we simply called that for what it was we would all be called racists, even though it is well known that's exactly what Castro did. That's even in the Wikipedia entry! "The exodus was organized by Cuban-Americans with the agreement of Cuban president Fidel Castro. The exodus started to have negative political implications for US president Jimmy Carter when it was discovered that a number of the exiles had been released from Cuban jails and mental health facilities."
You know what a Cuban mental health facility is. It's the gutter. They don't have any mental health facilities. Well, they might. The Gulag. "The Mariel boatlift was ended by mutual agreement between the two governments involved in October 1980. By that point, as many as 125,000 Cubans had made the journey to Florida." Back then, nobody was saying that the whole Cuban population was a bunch of ragtag misfits and Trump was not saying that the whole Mexican population was.
Here, by the way, just to back it up. Grab sound bite 26. This is Donald Trump with Greta Van Susteren on Fox. I mentioned now he's... Oh, I need to make one clarification. I checked the e-mail during the break. Now, just like I make great efforts, go to great pains not to mischaracterize what people say, please do not do that to me. I did not say that every Democrat is now demanding sanctuary cities be ended.
I did not say that every Democrat is joining Trump. I didn't say that. I said he has shifted the debate to the issue away from himself. That is undeniable. People are now debating whether or not sanctuary cities are any good or should they be legal, should we have them. Some Democrats are now speaking out against them. Trump is the one who did that. Yesterday, Trump was the issue. The day before thar, Trump was the issue. Today the issue is the issue.
Even to the point now that these California Attorney General, a woman named Kamala Harris, who, by the way, Obama thinks is hot. He went all Clinton on her. Uh, I mean, verbally, when he saw her. Like Clinton did when he saw that mummy. Clinton said he would have asked that mummy out if he had been alive whatever thousands of numbers of years ago the mummy lived. And remember when that basketball team, female basketball team showed up at the White House, and there was this 6'3" whatever pretty good looking female babe?
He went Cosby on her. He could not take his eyes off.
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RUSH: Here's what Trump said, because he's brought Common Core into this now. This is what Trump said. This was last night on Greta Van Susteren.
TRUMP: I watched Jeb Bush. I think it's pathetic what's going on, his stance on Common Core. He's in favor of Washington educating your children. His weak stance on immigration. He said it's an act of love. I mean, what kind of stuff is that? That's baby stuff.
RUSH: My only point is that Trump is shifting all these things he's talking about. Up to now he's been the issue of, "Can you believe he's saying that? Donald Trump, idiot. Donald Trump, extremist. Donald Trump racist." Now people are talking about what Trump is talking about. They're debating the issue. That's not what the left wants, by the way.
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RUSH: Fred, Burlington, New Jersey. Great to have you. Glad you waited. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. Great to speak to you, Maha Rushie.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: The reason I called, I was watching Hannity last night. He had Rick Perry on and Hannity pressed him pretty hard. He kept playing Trump's comments and asking him what exactly is it that you object to and he kind of hemmed and hawed and just said, well, it's just, you know, making outrageous comments. But it didn't really get specific. And my question for you is, I'm wondering, with all these candidates condemning Trump, is there a coordinated effort, like did Reince Priebus send out a memo saying we don't want Trump in this race. The last candidates all condemn him. And if you think it is a coordinated effort why do they not want to address immigration, what's the reason behind it?
RUSH: Well, I don't think it's a coordinated effort, because it doesn't have to be coordinated. They're all seeking the same office so they're all going to be opposed to Trump anyway. Rick Perry. Jeb Bush. Scott Walker. They're all going to oppose each other. Now, as to the specifics of the way they're dealing with immigration, it's an interesting question because there's the potential here for something momentous to happen, and it is exactly as you ask. Will what is happening, because of Trump's stick-to-itiveness, will it change the Republican Party's approach on this?
Right now the Republican Party approach on immigration is predicated on what they think they need to win the presidency. And you know it as well as I do, they think they need an increase in Hispanic support. They think they need an increase in African-American support. They don't think they need to turn out the conservative base. They're cock-eyed on this.
And the way they think to get 30 percent additional support from the Hispanic community is to pander to them. And they think that the Hispanic community would probably be in favor of whatever Hispanic people are doing. And right now Hispanic people are trying to get into America. So the Republicans want to associate with that. Their donors also want that immigration to work for cheap labor. But here comes Trump and he has changed the whole focus of this debate. It's a golden opportunity and I'm going to be interested to see what happens.
—They’re not sending us their best and brightest,” he is saying they have a best and brightest.—
Very good point, Rush.
That should quell the ‘Trump hates all Mexicans’ crowd, but it probably won’t. Too much fun race baiting.
Arizona voters have spoken and they did it with a scream. Four Propositions on the Arizona ballot passed with ease in yesterdays election.
Arizona Proposition 100 - To Deny Bail To Illegal Aliens
.............Votes..........Pct.
YES......703,781......77%
NO........210,884......23%
Now Trump will crush Common Core and the RINO’s who are pushing it. I am loving it.
Trump doesn't back down, he doubles down. Then he hits back - hard. After years of the media folding Republicans like a cheap suit, here is a candidate with a can of whup-ass.
Beating down the media is the only winning play.
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