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Phone rings at Rush Limbaugh’s office.

Voice: Mr. Limbaugh, Chris Wallace wants to speak with you.

Rush: Sure, put him on.

The men exchange pleasantries.

Chris: Rush, I just had a conversation with Roger and Mr. Murdoch and Roger wants you to appear on my show Sunday.

Rush: Oh?

Chris: Well, as you have heard, we are cutting loose from Rubio. Mr. Murdoch has decided that Fox should get behind Ted now. We think his votes for TPA and the Corker bill reveal him to be a team player. Mr. Murdoch appreciates the fact that you hide those votes from your listeners.

Also, Mr. Murdoch wants to extend his warmest regards to you and his appreciation for the way you took him into your confidence at the private meeting, and, uh, Mr. Murdoch would like to keep the off-the-record conversation private, and, uh…

Rush: Sure, be glad to help you out.

Chris: Well, Rush, you will have about eight minutes and it would be nice if you could prepare some intense 10 seconds or so Cruz promotion spots, about three of them, you know, what you do constantly on your show almost everyday. Ted will be able to incorporate them into ads that he can blanket Florida and the nation with, and it will help him out.

We’ll need one where you mention Reagan and Cruz together, one where you mention Abe Lincoln and Cruz together, and one where you state how much he is hated by us, uh, the establishment.

Rush: Sure, Chris, be sure to tell Mr. Murdoch that I will alert my millions of listeners often during the next two days about my appearance.

Nicely done! But, if you’ve watched any Fox News shows, and especially Fox News Sunday, in recent months, I think you could also portray either Reince Priebus or Roger Ailes calling Chris Wallace about putting on a puff-piece interview with Little Marco or a “gotcha” hit-piece interview of Ted Cruz a la the late Mike Wallace.

The Chris Wallace interview with Cruz last weekend has to be one of the journalistic lows for this campaign. As he did with Trump in the debate, Wallace had a video graphic in the Cruz interview listing all the supposed Cruz campaign dirty tricks and he challenged Cruz to take responsibility for all these events. Then, when Cruz tried to respond, Wallace interrupted him at nearly every sentence. This was not an interview about a difference in positions on trade, immigration, or taxes...it was a purely hostile political hit.

Fox did the same thing during the debate...tried to frame questions (some using videos) to make the candidates look bad and to make the candidates fight in the mud, pointedly toward Trump...Fox clearly is doing the bidding of the GOPe.

You may be on to something but probably not.

I don't see any motivation for Rush to cave to anyone.

In a way he's the Donald Trump of talk radio. He really doesn't need anyone and he has enough money of his own to do pretty much whatever "the expletive deleted" he wants to do.

I blasted Rush several weeks ago when he went "full Cruz" on his audience. At first because I was(and still am) a Trump supporter and later simply because Rush supported anyone at all at this point in the game.

We need Rush to be fair and balanced and unattached to any candidate as long as the primary season goes on until we have picked a candidate.

Recently,IMHO, Rush has been relatively fair and balanced regarding the candidates not putting one over the other yet pointing out the key aspects of the campaign as it unfolds. I still trust his judgment and he remains the king of talk radio.