Posted on 11/02/2016 11:51:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: We've got George Will. I cannot tell you how this disappoints me. George Will -- way back, long ago when I was still spinning records as a disc jockey -- was an idol of mine. I remember I met George Will in Dallas in 1992, Republican convention. I was there, having been sent there by a radio station in Kansas City that wanted to get me out of town.
So they sent me down to Dallas and said, "Go down there and prepare commentaries and then send 'em back. We might air them and we might not." And when I was there one night at the convention I went to the basement of the hall where all the network trailers and trucks were, and I sought out the ABC truck, 'cause I just wanted to introduce myself to George Will. And I did. I found him, introduced myself to him, and I explained to him how much I admired his work and how his work had inspired me to want to get better at what I do.
And now George Will said on TV last night that he hopes for a Hillary Clinton landslide, because a Hillary Clinton landslide will emancipate the Republican Party from talk radio. A Hillary Clinton landslide. I can't tell you how devastating that is, but he said it. We've got the sound bite.
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RUSH: Okay, I want to conclude this George Will story 'cause there's a lesson here. Just to repeat, George Will has been one of my heroes. He was, along with Mr. Buckley, one of my conservative idols from I don't know how long ago, and I found a way to introduce myself to him in Houston. Houston or Dallas, whatever it was. Wherever the Republican convention was in '92. No, no, no, no. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. No! I'm sorry, it was Houston. It was Dallas in '84. Dallas in '84. That's when it was.
I had not yet gone... Dallas in '84. It was the-second term convention for Ronald Reagan, and I scoured the basement of the convention hall there to meet George Will. I hung around outside the ABC trailer and I told him how much I admired his work and so forth, and then when I went to Washington to do a program for a series of programs for a week in the mid-eighties, I asked George Will if he'd be a guest.
I sent him... He was a baseball fan, and I sent him a suitcase that had been used by George Brett during a record season of 2010 as a souvenir, and he came out and we talked. I haven't spoken to him much in recent years. But he was on Fox... I take it back. On the ABC News website Powerhouse Politics, Jonathan Karl was speaking to George Will, and here he openly talks about this election and expresses his desire for a landslide Hillary victory.
WILL: It depends partly on the size of Mr. Trump's defeat. If it's a narrow defeat, that's the worst (snickers) conceivable outcome for Republicans, because then it will be the old stab-in-the-back theory, that but for people like Paul Ryan or Ben Sasse or lesser figures like George Will, all would have been well. Mrs. Clinton may win by four points, but well over 300 electoral votes. That would help the Republicans. The Republican Party has to do several things. First, it has to somehow emancipate itself from its thralldom to the indignation industry of talk radio and certain cable personalities that I think have a paralyzing effect on the party when it tries to deal with things like immigration. Until the Republican Party gets right with minorities in this country, it's never gonna win another presidential election.
RUSH: Well, that's very... (sigh) Look, I know the civil war is coming, and I know that no matter what happens -- we win, you lose -- I'm gonna get the blame by somebody. But I think somebody needs to tell George Will it's not talk radio anywhere. You look at Facebook and Twitter, people are not saying, "Hey, Rush Limbaugh says..." They think it themselves now. They don't need talk radio for guidance on what to think. It's easy to spot Democrat destruction, and people don't want any more of it!
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Beck and Levin are ancient history in my house....both a’holes!
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Talk radio has been brutal to Trump. Not a single host in CO seems very positive about Trump.
Well, Rosen is a party trumps person (funny... ), and I think a guy on KNUS is pretty positive.
Otherwise, they spend more time tearing down Trump than even fairly discussing the garbage Hillary has done over the years!
Definite proof that there are people living inside the bubble of being "out of touch."
Yeah he did correct himself
It is hard to fathom how out of touch the status quo establishment really is. These people are gone.
This man thinks more highly of himself than he aught... what a fool...
After the election, we need to push these libs into retirement.
He has BushMan’s disease.
The whole family seems to think God put them on this earth to manage our affairs.
Ah, I don’t think so...
I lean in your direction here.
I apologize for that response. I had a window open with George Prescott Bush on it, and thought I was responding to a comment about him.
I agree with your thoughts on Will. I say this with some sorrow because I once thought highly of him.
This last 17 months has unveiled more people than I have ever seen before. Trump really outed them didn’t he.
I want a Trump landslide to emancipate the GOP from mental masturbators like George Will.
Will is a big baseball fan. He could play second base (not baseman).
 George "Willzheimer's" Will This greasy-nosed quisling is truly a "nattering nabob of negativism". |
and a Screwball.
I saw George Will speak in the 70s..I was grateful to have him in my corner..Once subscribed to Newsweek just to get his opinion piece in the 80s...I have been sorely disappointed by his comments this year. This latest comment is outrageous.
Indeed...I just loved him then.
Kramer was right, George Will is really not smart.
F**k you George.
It’s with some sadness that I realize what George has sunk to.
He used to have a pretty level head.
Now he’s just out there with the rest of the GOPe.
Time for a new administration at just about every media outlet.
GW was a has been 20 years ago.
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