RUSH: This just cracks me up. I don\u2019t know why, but it does. I\u2019m looking for a sound bite to use here. Well, it\u2019s CNN. Let me see if I can find it here. Grab sound bite number 13. Sound bite 13 is Lindsey Graham, senator, South Carolina. I actually saw this this morning when I was in the middle of doing show prep, and they had an interview with Lindsey Graham. And whoever conducted the interview at CNN (I don\u2019t know who) said, “So — so — so after this meeting that blew up — the S-hole meeting and the sandbagging of Durbin — do you think Trump\u2019s a racist?”<\/p>\n
Lindsey Graham said, “No, he\u2019s not a racist. He doesn\u2019t make a single decision based on skin color or anything else,” and CNN has had three different panel discussions on that comment since he made it, and they are running graphics at the bottom of the screen, “Senator Graham: Trump Is Not a Racist.” So here\u2019s the bite. This was… Dana Bash was doing the interview, and she said, “Do you think the president is a racist?”<\/p>\n
GRAHAM: Absolutely not. Let me tell you why. You could be dark as charcoal and lily white. It doesn\u2019t matter, as long as you\u2019re nice to him. You could be the pope and criticize him; it doesn\u2019t matter. He\u2019ll go after the pope. He\u2019s a street fighter. It\u2019s not the color of your skin that matters. It\u2019s not the content of your character. It\u2019s whether you show him respect and like him. And if he feels like you\u2019re off script, you don\u2019t like him, he punches back, and as president of the United States, the only advice I can give you is that the street fight\u2019s over.<\/p>\n