Surprisingly, Rush got wrong both the dialogue and the thrust of Trump’s riff about the knife. It’s not often that he’s wrong, but he is about this.
There was no separation in the comment between: “He plunged it (the knife) into the belt, and amazingly the belt stay totally (flat?), and the knife broke -— how stupid are the people of Iowa, how stupid are the people of the country, to believe this crap...”
I listened to it. There is no pause between the “people of Iowa” and “the people of the country”.
Also, his interpretation is wrong, as is evident by the words.
Trump was simply saying that believing the unbelievable story that Carson stabbed a friend and the knife broke is a load of crap.
He wasn’t saying, and never said that the supporters of Carson are stupid. In fact, one could make a case for his actually saying that they aren’t stupid enough to believe this once they hear it.
Yeah, that’s the way I heard it as well
Thank you for a calm, coherent, and rational analysis.
We could use more of that!