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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He is just about there......Political philosophy is Will's topic of choice...he taught it....how can anyone nail down a "philosophy"...you can't. Will's hypothetical approach to anything explains his wish for a Hillary win....Will understands nothing about 95% of America and Americans.
Hillary may already have the final vote counts programmed into the machines in states that her people control. I hope not, but she may have corrupt reasons for her confidence.
My guess is that she knows nothing and both sides have booked fireworks - only the winner is expected to actually pay. I hope!
Rush does need to get a clue.
AM radio is dead.
Elitist pinhead.
FYI: Thinking I had lost my mind or Rush had, I went back and checked his transcript because in ‘92 Rush was not working in Kansas City but was already a national talk show host. Sure enough he later on corrected himself that it was the Convention of ‘84 (Reagan’s second term) when Rush met George Will in Dallas. The Convention of ‘92 was in Houston.
George Will:
“Talk Radio is BAD——but-—Sunday Talking Heads on TV are good?
Explain....please.
Why hasn’t the passenger list been made public?
NeverTrump have destroyed everything they represent. Regardless of whether Trump wins or looses the overly intellectualized and impotent strain of “conservatism” represented by Will, Kristol, etc is at an end as a living force.
Either Trump wins without them or the will of the GOP’s supporters is thwarted to a large degree because of these “more conservativer than thou” fussbudgets.
The future without a Trump victory means a rapid descent into radicalism for both the left and right. There is no place for these NeverTrump nitwits in either of the worlds they are creating.
You’re wrong on Levin. He has not done himself in. While not shy about his differences with Trump, he has been pretty solid in supporting him over the past few months after he got the antis out of his system. It was, I’ll grant you, bleak during that anti time.
George Will has said he is an “amiable, low-voltage atheist.” Repeatedly.
I always considered him to be a few decades older than me. Evidently not.
How about “early onset dementia”? :>)
a Hillary victory will move us into an obvious single party system, where as now they at least still pretend to be 2 different parties.
Think he is still fighting the original revolutionary war, on the wrong side of course. Apparently we will be okay as long as they do not ban night time horse rides.
Who will emancipate all of us from this Godless goon?!?
George Will may be articulate and intelligent, but that does not mean that he has common sense.
He comes across as naive and shallow in connection with the stark contrast in direction and future of our country, as reflected by the candidates.
Hillary stands for the culture of death for the unborn, for those she does not like, for gun control, for continued corruption, for destruction of Christianity, for open borders, for use of government agencies to destroy her enemies, etc.
In my mind George Will is a loser. Do not know what he was yesterday.
So, the battle lives are drawn.
Guess he thinks he’ll have a party to lead of Trump loses. Yes and no. He’ll have a much smaller party that always loses because the rest of us will be working to extricate ourselves from this 50 state bullshit union.
But, he can pander away to Democrats who will never vote for his ideas while maintaining that this is consistent with the “principles” that precluded him from voting Trump.
The bow tie George Will does not get it.
Conservative Talk radio exist because it is what the people want, not the other way around.
Rush became successful because he tapped into a huge movement that was just waiting to be served.
Ol' George, having decided he is an atheist, is now a fool:
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