RUSH: On our Fourth Hour last week, we have made the news. Apparently, some Drive-Bys actually listened to it or heard about it. And both of them are at CNN. So up first I want to go back and play the segment from — and many of you haven\u2019t heard this because this was exclusive to subscribers in our Fourth Hour last week. What day was that, Wednesday or Thursday of last week? Which day was it? It doesn\u2019t really matter, but we did an hour-and-a-half commercial free, and part of what I said was this, sound bite number 2, Mister Broadcast Engineer, and here we go.<\/p>\n
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RUSH ARCHIVE: The media loves to assign mythical power status to Republican or conservative figures to explain why Republican voters do what they do. And for a long time it was me. I was considered a pied piper Svengali. You are mind-numbed robots. You had no idea what to think or what to do until I told you. It\u2019s a way for the media and the left and the Democrats to denigrate and impugn you.<\/p>\n
Well, now that person is Bannon, and they are saying that Bannon is the brains, Bannon is the Svengali, Bannon is the great influence, you people don\u2019t know what you\u2019re doing, you never have known what you\u2019re doing, but Bannon\u2019s got you doing what he wants you to do. And I don\u2019t think there\u2019s ever been anybody with that kind of \u2014 except maybe Reagan or Trump himself. I don\u2019t think you all are brain-dead. I don\u2019t think you\u2019re unable to make up your own minds. It\u2019s just the exact opposite.<\/p>\n
I think what Bannon is doing \u2014 and I don\u2019t know whether he\u2019s doing it on purpose. He may be; he\u2019s a smart guy. I think what Bannon is doing is slowly but surely taking over the role of the Republican Party. And people joining Bannon are. The Republican Party is obviously not with Trump on balance. You have some in the House who are. But the Republican Party on balance is not with Trump. Bannon is attempting to put together a group of people who are who call themselves Republican.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: By running around and finding candidates to primary against incumbents and so forth, Bannon is doing this. And I made the point that I think that what Bannon\u2019s actually doing is filling a vacuum. The Republican Party has ceased operating as an entity that wants to win in Washington. They certainly do not want to win with Trump\u2019s agenda. And Bannon is now running around finding candidates who will run as Republicans that will advance that agenda.<\/p>\n
Well, somebody at CNN heard this because this morning on CNN Newsroom Poppy Harlow spoke with somebody from The Daily Beast, Matt Lewis. She said, “Every single Republican senator up for reelection in the midterms is at risk now except for Ted Cruz. CNN is reporting a source familiar with Steve Bannon saying nobody is safe.”<\/p>\n
LEWIS: If you\u2019re a Republican, it\u2019s bizarre. If Bannon goes after all of these challenger seats, if he only puts two or three, he wins. And the message is gonna be said, “You better get in line with my agenda, the Breitbart agenda, unless you want us coming for you next.”<\/p>\n
HARLOW: In the words of Rush Limbaugh last week, Bannon is, quote, “taking over the role of the Republican Party.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This afternoon Dana Bash, CNN.<\/p>\n
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BASH: I want to play for you something that Rush Limbaugh has said recently about Bannon and the role he has in the GOP.<\/p>\n
RUSH ARCHIVE: I think what Bannon is doing is slowly but surely taking over the role of the Republican Party. … But the Republican Party on balance is not with Trump. Bannon is attempting to put together a group of people who are who call themselves Republican.<\/p>\n
BASH: This is a really important point and it kind of circles back to where we started the show about Corker and other Republican senators who never really wanted Trump to begin with. The cat\u2019s out of the bag now.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you. So they listened to the Fourth Hour. They don\u2019t listen to the three, but they listened to the fourth and the fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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