RUSH: Grab sound bite No. 14, Nikki Haley. She went to the Al Smith Dinner in New York last night. We normally only hear about what happens at the Al Smith Dinner during presidential elections. It\u2019s a big dinner at the Waldorf-“Hysteria,” and it is a Catholic charity organization, and it is required that presidential candidates show up at this thing. It\u2019s always two to three weeks before the election, and they do. They show up and it\u2019s a night of comedy, 95%, and the other 5% of the speeches get serious and political.<\/p>\n
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They all show up — and it\u2019s incredible, too, that the Al Smith Dinner (at least the ones I\u2019ve watched), whoever writes the jokes for these candidates for this dinner has got to be among the best. Every candidate… There have been some exceptions, but it seems like every candidate just has some of the best, funniest material, and I wonder, “Where do they find it?” Obviously, they are hiring joke writers, but from where, we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
Well, Nikki Haley showed up at the Al Smith Dinner last night. I mean, she didn\u2019t storm in there. She was invited, obviously. But this is causing people to believe that Nikki Haley has got some presidential perspiration going on — and, in fact, she might. Nikki Haley said something last night. We don\u2019t have this on tape, or in audio, but she chastised Trump last night. She said, “In America, in domestic politics, we do not call our political opponents ‘evil.'”<\/p>\n
And, of course the room (clapping), “Yay! Yay! Yay!” (applause) “We do not call…” Well, who else does but Trump? He calls the press evil, and the Democrats evil, and so it\u2019s that comment that made people think, “Aha! She\u2019s actually going for it. She\u2019s going to go for the Republican nomination at some point — maybe not 2020, 2024 — and she\u2019s beginning the process of distancing herself as a Republican from Trump.” But her funny lines had to do with Fauxcahontas…<\/p>\n
HALEY: So this year wanted to spice things up again, right? I get it. You wanted an Indian woman, but Elizabeth Warren failed her DNA test.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (wild laughter and applause)<\/p>\n
HALEY: Actually, when the president found out that I was Indian-American, he asked me if I was from the same tribe as Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n