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<\/p>\nRUSH: I\u2019ll tell you how bad it\u2019s getting at the border. Grab audio sound bite number 20. Last night on CNN Wolf Blitzer, one of his heroes was on as a guest, the New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom “Loopy” Friedman. Friedman wrote a column recently where he called for a wall along the border with Mexico. Tom Friedman.<\/p>\n
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Friedman is the guy, Thomas “Loopy” Friedman, Friedman is the guy who thinks ChiComs do it right. That any country as large as the United States cannot function democratically. You need a small but very smart, elite group who can speed up decision-making for, of course, the common good. And the ChiComs are his living, breathing example of this.<\/p>\n
So he is citing communism as a way of solving the problem. He doesn\u2019t use the word, but, anyway, he hates Trump, he despises Trump, he\u2019s like every one of these people from the liberal order. They\u2019re just repulsed by Trump. But he took a trip to the border, and he was appalled by what he saw.<\/p>\n
You know, it\u2019s one thing to read about caravans, and it\u2019s one thing to read the Drive-By Media talk about caravans not being that big a deal or that the people in the caravans, “We need to let them in because they\u2019re so hungry and thirsty and they\u2019re starving and they\u2019ve walked for so long and they just want a better life and who the hell are we to say no. We\u2019re no better than they are. They\u2019re better than we are.” Easy to do all that.<\/p>\n
Friedman went down there, was appalled by what he saw. He essentially saw an invasion. So Wolf Blitzer can\u2019t believe it. This is like a gigantic sellout. For a foreign affairs columnist of the New York Times that loves the ChiComs to be saying that he agrees with Trump on something about immigration, Wolf Blitzer didn\u2019t know what to do. He was looking for the bottle of Cutty Sark underneath the countertop. He said, “You want a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border? You want a wall with a smart gate?”<\/p>\n
FRIEDMAN: I\u2019m as radically pro-immigration as they come. But it\u2019s pretty clear to me that unless we can assure a significant number of Americans that we can control our border, we\u2019re never gonna have the proper immigration flow I think we need, we desire. And that we have actually a moral responsibility, given our history as a nation of immigrants and a refuge for people fleeing persecution. I think the only way is a compromise.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Holy smoke. How do you compromise? How in the world do you compromise with people who are not wanting to do anything to stop the flow? Anyway, this is a striking admission. And Wolf Blitzer — and none of these other people on the left can believe it, either. Here\u2019s Wolf Blitzer — well, he says it in the bite so you can hear it.<\/p>\n
BLITZER: You say, though, you want a high wall with a big gate.<\/p>\n
FRIEDMAN: Yes.<\/p>\n
BLITZER: A smart gate. But a high wall, that\u2019s gonna sound to a lot of folks out there that\u2019s what Donald Trump wants.<\/p>\n
FRIEDMAN: Well, I think you gotta control the border.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: (imitating Blitzer) \u201cThat\u2019s what Trump wants. We can\u2019t do this. That\u2019s what Trump wants. Smart gate? Smart gate?\u201d We need a high wall with a big gate, Friedman says, yeah, smart gate, smart gate, but a high wall. Smart gate? You mean like a smartphone? Not only is the idea sounding Trumpian, the language is sounding Trump. Yeah, we\u2019re gonna have the biggest wall, we\u2019re gonna have the smartest wall that anybody\u2019s ever had. They can\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the thing though. Friedman\u2019s right. He is exactly right about this. Now, whether there\u2019s some long-term trick going on here, I don\u2019t know. And it could well be that this happens to be… I don\u2019t believe things happen in a vacuum, and I don\u2019t believe in coincidence. Meaning, I don\u2019t believe that one day Thomas Friedman decided that we need a wall just because he thinks we need a wall.<\/p>\n
I think these people — some of them on the left — are trying to find ways to take away Trump\u2019s strengths. Trump has many strengths, and most of them are positions that are entirely, completely unique from the left. The left is so opposed to anything oriented around making America great again.<\/p>\n
Do you realize that slogan alone drives them crazy? Who in the world in their right mind could be against making America great, whether you say “again” afterwards or not? Who can be opposed? But they are. They are opposed to it because Trump is for it. They are opposed to a wall because Trump is for it. Because they\u2019ve all voted for a wall in the past. They\u2019ve all advocated for a wall in the past, and many of them have voted to authorize funding from a wall, but now that Trump wants it? Ain\u2019t no way, Jose. Ain\u2019t happening.<\/p>\n
They are not going to allow Trump to have a single victory if they can do anything about it, peen if it makes sense. It wouldn\u2019t be good for their party. Now here comes Friedman, out of nowhere in his New York Times column, talking about the need for a wall. I would be very, very worried. I\u2019m not gonna sweep it aside and pretend it\u2019s not real. But I think there\u2019s got to be somewhere in the bowels of this party, this progressive movement… There has to be somebody in there with a brain — a political brain — that realizes Trump won because of policy.<\/p>\n
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Trump won because of attitude. Trump won because he is an outsider. Trump won because people are fed up with Washington, and wanting a wall and stopping illegal immigration, stopping this invasion, is nothing more than common sense. Somebody in this party has got to understand that they\u2019ve gotta defang Trump somehow, and they just spent (What is it now? Let\u2019s count the campaign) five years trying to bet Donald Trump on the bays that he is scum, that he is a reprobate, that he\u2019s unfit, that he\u2019s a traitor, that he is a Russian spy or agent.<\/p>\n
That he\u2019s uncouth, that he\u2019s a barbarian, that he\u2019s a creep, that he\u2019s a danger. And none of that has worked. They have not been able to convince Trump voters to abandon Trump with any of that. So, could this be — and I may be making way too much of this too. But could this be a trial balloon, say, to see if this could be something that could take a key weapon out of Trump\u2019s arsenal? If the Democrats start talking about the need for a wall but don\u2019t authorize it while Trump is president, if they start suggesting that they now understand the need for a wall…<\/p>\n
And Thomas “Loopy” Friedman gives them the opening, because they idolize the New York Times; they idolize Friedman. I mean, all these Democrat politicians, these people on the left, everybody in the newsroom, if Friedman says it, they believe it. So if this is an opening salvo to allow other Democrats, “Yeah, I agree with Friedman.” Not “I agree with Trump.” “I agree with Friedman. We need to do something. But Trump\u2019s not the guy to do it because Trump is scum. Trump\u2019s a reprobate. Trump\u2019s a character. Trump\u2019s a scalawag. Trump\u2019s whatever. But Friedman? Friedman is brilliant. Why, Thomas Friedman, he\u2019s the epitome of what everybody should want to be,” all that riffraff.<\/p>\n
So keep a sharp eye on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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