Posted on 03/30/2016 7:23:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: I must begin the program today with an announcement of sorts. I know that a major story in the media today is -- I don't know what we call it -- Lewandowskigate, Grabgate. Whatever it is, the ongoing and still blossoming controversy involving the videotape of the reporterette, Michelle Fields, the Trump campaign coordinator, Corey Lewandowski, and the Trumpster himself and what the heck happened.
My friends, I have decided that, going forward, I cannot share with you my opinion on this story. And so going forward, I will not opine. I will simply tell you what the latest is, but I will not tell you what I think about it. I am taking the equivalent of the EIB Network's Fifth Amendment here, because no matter what I say, I am convinced people cannot listen anymore. And no matter what I say, it is going to be misconstrued into one of two things. Either I'm defending Lewandowski or I am trying to destroy Trump in order to help Ted Cruz. And I have done neither, said neither.
Yesterday all I did on this program was to review for people who may not have been able to see the video because it was happening while the program was on the air, just telling people what had happened. And I commented on how much time CNN was spending on this. And I talked about how they were stacking guests. And all of that became "Limbaugh defends Lewandowski." "Limbaugh sells out conservatism." "Limbaugh traitorous to the cause." "Limbaugh supports reprobate A-hole." "Limbaugh" whatever.
And since I didn't do any of that -- (interruption) What? I didn't do any of that. I don't even know Lewandowski. What I know is, everybody apparently hates the guy. What I know is, everybody wants to try to destroy the Trump campaign that is not part of the Trump campaign. I know that includes many people in the media. They will take the occasion of any event that pops up to try to destroy and bring down the Trump campaign, which is politics, and it's fine. But I have determined here that because tensions are so tight, everybody is wound up to such a feverish pitch here, that no matter what I say it is misunderstood and is not helpful.
So on this story going forward, I have no opinion. We have the latest in sound bites. We have the latest in the news on it. I'm even reluctant to just tell you what the latest is because of how that's gonna be misinterpreted. And this may not be the only subject about which I have to muzzle my own self here and silence myself, at least from the standpoint of opinions, because it's apparently impossible to be correctly, properly understood.
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RUSH: A story at TheHill.com. What do you think of this. "Majority of Republicans Support Path to Citizenship." This is a poll from an outfit called the Public Religion Research Institute, the PRRI. Have you ever heard of them? The PRRI are a notoriously left-wing group that has ongoing research partnerships with the Brookings Institution and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University, and they have just released a poll saying that a majority of Republicans now support amnesty, now support a path to citizenship. We'll see how that manifests itself.
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RUSH: By the way, what would you think if Trump chose Newt as his vice presidential nominee?
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RUSH: Did you hear that story recently, maybe you saw the headline: No, you can't carry a loaded weapon into the Republican National Convention. Did you see that story? I did. I know a number of you did. From TheHill.com. It turns out that the guy who authored a petition to allow open carry of guns at the Republican National Convention says he did it to test the limits of the party's support for the Second Amendment.
The petition, which has attracted national attention, reads as if it was written by a supporter of gun rights. Instead, the guy behind the petition is a Democrat who plans on supporting Hillary. His name is Jim. He's from Philadelphia. He reached out to TheHill.com in a phone interview, said he published the petition to call attention to what he sees as a discrepancy in the Republicans' position on gun rights.
So here you have a guy, the way this works, the story's out there that somebody wants an open carry permit for the Republican National Convention. Everybody says, "No, no, that's crazy." Turns out it's a Democrat playing a trick. After the impact of the news, after the impact of the story has been felt, then we learn the truth of it.
Sorry. Cannot play audio sound bite number 20. I just received a new audio sound bite here. A new movie trailer shows illegal aliens being gunned down while audio of Trump is playing. I cannot play this audio sound bite. It's part of my EIB Fifth Amendment ban on uttering any opinions about the Trump campaign. People don't hear what I say, they misunderstand, so the safest thing to do is to not say anything about it. Well, I'll tell you what it is. What we have here, a Spanish-language ad made to look like a movie trailer, was released, it's a new movie, actually, called Desierto, and it juxtaposes audio from a speech by Trump with scenes of Mexican immigrants being gunned down while crossing into the US.
They actually made a movie out of this and they've taken a section of it as a trailer. They put Trump's voice talking about immigration and a number other things over Mexicans being shot at the border. But I can't tell you what I think of that. Well, I could, but I refuse to. Just have to stick with the fact that it is out there.
Yesterday the Washington Post had a story, a column by Michael Gerson, the former speechwriter for George W. Bush essentially claiming that I am destroying conservatism, that my, quote, unquote, blessing of the Trump campaign, my blessing of Donald Trump is killing conservatism. I didn't bother commenting on it because it was silly and -- I guess I could. I saved it here somewhere.
But, anyway, that was brought up last night on the Fox Business Network, Charlie Payne, his show called Making Money. He had Tammy Bruce, who herself is a talk radio host and Fox News contributor. And he asks her about this. He says, "A Washington Post story, Rush Limbaugh's blessing of Trump is killing conservatism. He's one of the few well-known conservative radio guys who is neutral. He obviously likes Ted Cruz. He's said some nice things about Trump. He doesn't condemn the Trump campaign. What about it, Tammy? Is Limbaugh killing conservatism?"
BRUCE: Well, look, I've been agnostic as well. We understand for many Trump supporters, this is about an existential issue for the country, that if the country doesn't exist as we know it, then what good is conservatism. And if conservatism is so weak and has been so undefended, why would just Donald Trump be the one to destroy it all?
RUSH: Her basic point is that conservatism's gonna survive no matter what. But when you start throwing in blame like this, I mean, this argument about who's responsible for Trump, the very people responsible for it are those trying to shift that responsibility in the form of blame to others. But, again, that's off-limits here on the EIB Network.
I do have something, however, that I want to share with you. There was a town hall meeting in Wisconsin last night on CNN. And there was some news that was made out of this thing. All three Republican presidential candidates have now backed away from the pledge they all made to support the eventual nominee.
"None of the three remaining Republican presidential candidates would guarantee Tuesday night that they would support the eventual GOP nominee for president, departing from previous vows to do so and injecting new turmoil into an already tumultuous contest. Mogul Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich were each given a chance during a CNN town hall in Milwaukee to definitively state they would support the nominee. All three declined to renew their pledge. As recently as March 3, in a Fox News debate, all three said they would support the nominee."
Most of the Drive-By Media are only reporting that Trump is refusing to promise support for the nominee, but all three of them have basically backed away from their pledge. This was always gonna be the case. You know, when these pledges first started flying, I thought, the only guy -- I'm sorry. I can't say that. I just thought when all of this started happening that none of this was gonna hold up. Start making promises like this way back last fall, whenever the first debate was, August 3rd or August 6th, and that's when Bret Baier asked all these guys in the first Fox News debate and Trump -- ah. Sorry, can't say that. They all took the pledge.
I'm watching this thinking, "This is not gonna hold up. We're too soon into this. There's too much tumult yet to come. There are too many feelings yet to be hurt. There's too many people waiting to be offended or going to be offended or angered or what have you." When Baier asked the question the responses were practically instantaneous and automatic, which made them formulaic.
But, look, there's something interesting here. We had the town hall meeting, and I have two different stories about the town hall meeting, and they are completely different takes on what happened last night.
Rush sounded almost depressed through his show today, taking call after call from Trumpers accusing him of being too pro-Cruz or Cruzers accusing him of being too pro-Trump. The guy can’t win for losing lately.
You hit the nail squarely. What strikes me as odd is allll of a sudden supposed conservatives now take issue over a man that makes money!! I mean seriously, some in here are sounding EXACTLY like DU trolls. Oooo that evil evil man who takes in the millions. I’m expecting to hear next they want their fair share.
No two have brought more respect and notice to the conservative movement than Rush and Levin. There are many I hear harping as pointless shills stating they do nothing....blah blah no action. Most have closed their ears or have never listened to a single program because if they had theyd know they bring awareness to what is going on in Government and by publicizing it has probably brought more action out of the masses in recent history than no other. In fact they make an observation and then a solution. From that not a single GOPe shill follows said solution. Thousands then flood the lines to place pressure on said Congresscritter.
These folks are bitter because if they aren’t stumping for “my guy” 24/7 he must be a RINO, he must be GOPe, he is a liberal etc etc. These are folks that live in the here and now with no real sense of strategy towards a long game. It’s all about instant gratification in today’s culture. Levin and Rush have been espousing across the airwaves conservative virtues for decades now. Reagan brought to light what conservatism is. Rush and Levin have made conservatism cool and honestly are probably the main champions to ensure it doesn’t die.
Without these two Conservatism would have been long dead
You get it. His audience will swell if there is a brokered convention.
The real story is the reactions to the incident and not the incident itself. There’s very little chance any assault charge will stick.
Exactly. He’s a businessman, and, unlike Beck, he doesn’t claim to be God’s spokesman.
Leni
Yes I'm disappointed of this guy, too, who calls himself the great one. I thought Rush was promoting lyin' Fidelito Cruz so I unsubscribed Rush, too. So Rush says he has no comment.
After turning his program into a daily three hour commercial for Ted Cruz, Rush claims that people are angry with him for being decent to Trump?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.......
“Rush all but endorsed Trump today.”
No sale. He’s been shilling for Ted Cruz every day for weeks now. Ain’t buyin it.
We know the other topics are Cruz’s issues like the sex scandal or his eligibility and so on.
Perhaps because the Lewandowski story is a big bunch of nothing and those pretending it is a huge deal are phonies.
P.S., I am a Cruz supporter.
Big cop out by a bg sell out
Let go back and opine on how Sandra Fluck tried the same tactic of becoming a victim to take down a popular radio host
We are so alone, my fellow Patriots of this sovereign nation of the United States of America. It’s us against the Globalists. We’ve got Trump, and us, but no one else...Arrayed against the entire media, crony capitalists, elite 1%-ers, professional career politicians...We better start praying.
That is the truth. Your whole post was excellent. Sad, though.
It’s a new Movie coming out about a Texas Gringo who Hunts and Kills Illegal Hispanic Border Crossers.
I imagine it will treated as a Documentary or will have the disclaimer “based on true events” flashed on the Screen when it comes out.
Pure Propaganda. Can’t wait for next Years Oscars.
A caller to Rush gave an excellent metaphor on the “assault”. Did anybody here listen to it?
I sent Rush an email yesterday, and although I've been with him since August of 1988, I'm done with him {at least as long as I can stay off of drugs}. His whiny, ohhh, poor me, everybody blames me, so I won't give you my opinion. His whole show is opinion, WTF?
No more Rush 24/7, no more Rush Newsletter, and if I give to the cancer charity, it will be direct not through his fund raiser. Sniveling, whiny, pussy boy, I can't believe how this new wife has changed him into a shell of the old Rush.
You’re right. He’s under stress. If what kind, I don’t know. I’ve heard rumors that Kathryn is ill, and is looking very bad. That might explain it. The “I like Marco” and “I like Lundsey” is grating, however. I just flip off the radio.
Get off the Cheap Labor Express and visit Realville every now and then.
I believe Rush lives his audience, but he lives the prestige if his “friends” in the elite as well. He’s going to lose one or the other. And if he loses the trust of his audience, the elites will have no further use for him, and he’ll lose both. Faustian, no? Human nature being what it is, u think he’ll choose the elites over us.
IMO Rush is not a true Patriot or a Nationalist. He is classic stateless Libertarian through and through. IMO Libertarians are crazy in a lot of ways but the Libertarian philosophy overlaps conservatism in may cases so they are hard to detect.
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