RUSH: We\u2019re gonna start in Park Ridge, Illinois, with Jerry. Welcome, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Longtime listener. How are you?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m fine.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Welcome back.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Glad to have you here.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I told Snerdley that I think the answer to this whole DREAMer deal is to build the wall. I watched the president on TV yesterday, and he made it perfectly clear that there\u2019s gonna be no further discussion about chain migration, anchor babies, DREAMers, until Congress agrees to build the wall. For the first time, in my opinion, in 12 months since he\u2019s been president, he has the big end of the stick. And it\u2019s just such a wonderful feeling.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Did you get the impression watching the president he was actually childlike and stupid?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, no. That\u2019s just silly. He\u2019s the smartest guy in the room. Like you said, sometimes I act childlike and stupid, but that\u2019s just youthfulness. I also mentioned to Snerdley that — you have brought this point out many times — let\u2019s let the DREAMers stay, build the wall, say they can\u2019t vote for 20 years, and see the reaction from the Democrats.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you know, that was one of my arguments made some years ago. You know, when I had… You know, there was all kinds of pressure applied to me out there, Jerry. I mean, the White House — the Bush White House — sent emissaries twice to try to get me convinced to join amnesty and so forth, and there were others. Lindsey Graham made an appeal. I said every time they\u2019d come up, “If you can promise me that all of these new arrivals cannot vote for 25 years, then I might think about signing up with you,” and they would not even entertain the idea, and thereby demonstrated what this is about.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, everybody knows all it is is vote for the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, no, but the Republicans think they can get on it too. They think they can get some. Some Republicans think they can get some of those people registered as Republicans and voters. And for other Republican, Chamber of Commerce, it was about cheap labor. Although now, with the tax cuts that have passed and are being implemented and the vast reduction in the corporate tax the rate, do you know what\u2019s gonna happen?<\/p>\n
Cheap labor\u2019s gonna go out the window because there\u2019s gonna be a competition for good employees, and employers are not gonna have jobs that they can pay very little for. It\u2019s gonna… When this economy really kicks in later this year — and it\u2019s trending in that direction now — this corporate tax rate reduction changes dramatically this whole idea that Chamber of Commerce members need illegal immigrants for cheap labor. They\u2019re not… Cheap labor is not gonna be the answer to their problems going forward. Qualified, competent labor is, as competition sets up, as businesses start to grow.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I think it was last week that the president was on TV, and he was just kind of going through the Rose Garden. He said, “When we get done with DACA, the Hispanics are gonna love me.” I know you\u2019ve brought up throughout the years that the Democrats think that the Hispanic vote is a given. But there\u2019s quite a few — a great deal of — Hispanics that are as Republican as can be and as conservative as can be. And I think that vote is just taken for granted. I think it\u2019s a foolhardy mistake to the Democratic side.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, but let me tell you something. It can be a mistake for Republicans to make a wrong assumption too. Let me… (interruption) No, no. Let me give you… By the way, before I get into this, I need to ask you… I was just reading. Drudge has a story up there from the Wall Street Journal that says that smartphones are not selling as rapidly as people thought because they have finally gotten too expensive. And they cite the iPhone X. It\u2019s just too expensive out there and the Wall Street Journal\u2019s perspective is this is really hard (chuckling) on the companies that make components for the phones. That\u2019s, course, the Journal\u2019s perspective. So I was gonna ask you: Have you not bought a new phone lately \u2019cause it\u2019s too expensive?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Um, yes and no. I have… It\u2019s hard to believe, but I have a four-year-old iPhone 5 that works, and there\u2019s just no reason to replace it yet. But —<\/p>\n
RUSH: I can give you one: B-a-t-t-e-r-y.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Funny you say that \u2019cause I listened to you yesterday. Well, I listen to you every day. I had to replace my battery about 90 days ago.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Well, there you go. Now your 5 is acting almost like it was brand-new, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It is. But what would happen is if I was on the phone… If I made a six-minute phone call, it would go from 100% to 17% in a heartbeat. But locally here in Chicagoland, I replaced the battery for 50 bucks, which is the bargain of the century, and now it acts like a brand-new phone.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. There you go. Okay. So I was gonna offer you a new iPhone X, but it sounds like you don\u2019t need one.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh no! Please, I\u2019d love one.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You would?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Of course.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Well, look, the one I have is 1,200 bucks. I hope that\u2019s not too expensive a freebie.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (stammering) I\u2019ll claim it on my taxes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Who is your carrier out there?<\/p>\n
CALLER: AT&T.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. I have an AT&T version I\u2019m gonna send you, and it\u2019s an iPhone X. So you hang on. I\u2019m gonna give you the analogy that you just made: The Republicans and DREAMers and illegal immigrants and so forth. I\u2019ve got a great one coming up here. In the meantime, don\u2019t hang up so that Mr. Snerdley can get a shipping address for you for us to get you the new iPhone X. He\u2019s AT&T. Make a note of that. I think we got four of those left in there. Now, here\u2019s the analogy. There\u2019s a story today I think it may even be… I don\u2019t know where it is.<\/p>\n
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I saw a link to it on a blog. Doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s an official story on how ratings for the National Football League are down for the second straight year, and for this year they\u2019re down more than they were last year. The story is replete with NFL executives explaining why they think this is. The consensus belief among NFL executives as to why NFL ratings are down is Thursday Night Football. All of a sudden — all of a sudden — there\u2019s too much football.<\/p>\n
And they think that NFL ratings are down because of Thursday Night Football added to Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football and Sunday afternoon football. There\u2019s just too much of it, and the fans are wearing out. Now, I hate to tell \u2019em, but that\u2019s not why NFL ratings are down. Thursday Night Football is not why. Let me give you as an example the NBA. You may not know this, but the NBA is killing it right now.<\/p>\n
The NBA\u2019s games are sold out and the NBA\u2019s TV ratings are skyrocketing and the NBA plays six days a week. There\u2019s many more than one game six days a week in the NBA. By the NFL\u2019s explanation, the NBA should be so overexposed that nobody would be tuning in and nobody would be attending because there\u2019s just too much of it. So the NFL people are making a calculated mistake and an error, and they are assuming that there are systemic reasons why people are not watching, and they are missing the big one.<\/p>\n
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The big one is people are tuning out the NFL in growing numbers because it\u2019s personal.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not overexposure.<\/p>\n
The idea that people are not gonna watch football on Sunday \u2019cause there was a game on Thursday? They think Trump is stupid? How dumb do you have to be to be in charge of a league to believe people aren\u2019t watching your game on Sunday, Sunday night and Monday \u2019cause there\u2019s a game on Thursday? Besides, there have been Thursday games for a number of years, and during the early days of the early years of Thursday night games the NFL was going through the roof.<\/p>\n
Everybody knows, but doesn\u2019t want to admit it, that it\u2019s the flag protests, it\u2019s the taking a knee. There\u2019s some other factors too. The stars have been hurt. There\u2019s any number. But it\u2019s the league\u2019s reaction. It is the executives of the NFL reaction to the kneeling and so forth that it\u2019s further distancing fans from the game. It\u2019s a personal thing for people.<\/p>\n
Well, now, the analogy here to the Republicans, the Republicans think that if they come out and support amnesty, that they\u2019re gonna get a certain percentage of illegal immigrants voting for them because they\u2019re gonna see Republicans loyal to Hispanics. It doesn\u2019t work that way. Republicans aren\u2019t gonna get any goodwill votes. But they think so. But that\u2019s not how those votes are gonna be secured. The way to get those votes is to stop the Democrats from getting them by stopping illegal immigration! It\u2019s no more complicated than that.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no compromise with the Democrats. There\u2019s no letting them have their policy and then hoping to get 20 or 30% of the illegals to register as Republicans. There is only defeat of the Democrats and defeat of their policies and an elimination of the open borders circumstance to the United States, which happens to be the primary reason President Trump was elected. This is how we\u2019re gonna lose our culture. If we lose our culture, we\u2019re gonna lose it by virtue of allowing people from all over the world to come here but not become Americans, to not assimilate. Which is exactly what the Democrat Party wants.<\/p>\n
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The Democrat Party wants traditional America torn down and transformed, and that is a quote from Barack Hussein Obama. That kind of thing needs to be defeated and stopped. The idea that we can agree to the policy and show some bipartisanship and then hope by virtue of goodwill that 20 or 30% of the arriving illegals will somehow register Republican, that is absurd. And it\u2019s not Trump that thinks that. And that\u2019s a really stupid thing to think, and it\u2019s a really stupid policy to have. But it isn\u2019t Trump\u2019s.<\/p>\n
If the NFL wants to fix their ratings problems, they\u2019re gonna have to find a way to remove liberal politics as an identifier of the NFL. They\u2019re going to have to do that. They\u2019re gonna have to find a way to take the NFL back to what it was, something that was walled off and immune from all of that because people get enough of that Monday through Saturday. Other things like keeping the stars on the field, that\u2019s of course another consideration, but the idea here that football on Thursday night — (laughing) I marvel sometimes at the people who end up running things as experts and how little they actually know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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