{"id":309965,"date":"2019-05-23T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=309965"},"modified":"2019-05-28T13:46:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T17:46:29","slug":"heckuva-thing-to-admit-i-made-mayor-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/23\/heckuva-thing-to-admit-i-made-mayor-pete\/","title":{"rendered":"Heckuva Thing to Admit: I Made Mayor Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Mayor Pete did his Fox News town hall. He ended up getting a standing ovation from the Fox News town hall audience. Donald Trump, the president, was not amused. A lot of people were shocked and surprised. I wasn\u2019t. In fact, my friends, I\u2019m actually feeling a little guilty. Mayor Pete may not even be happening were it not for me, and that\u2019s a heck of a thing to have to admit.<\/p>\n

Let me tell the story for you. I had a friend in town for a member-guest golf tournament, my guest is in town, and this guest is in the news business. The Democrats were doing a bunch of town halls at South by Southwest in Austin, and I think this was either a Friday or Saturday night. And my guest said, \u201cWe gotta watch \u2019em.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"I said, \u201cCome on. No way. This is a golf weekend. We\u2019re not gonna watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI gotta watch it. Come on. It will be fun! You gotta watch with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou got to. I have to.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a good host, so I turn it on. And the two Democrats that we saw were Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii, who basically had one reason for running for president. She wants to serve. In fact, we played a drinking game. Every time she mentioned serve, serving, service. Gulp, gulp, gulp. So we were well lubricated by the time Mayor Pete\u2019s turn came.<\/p>\n

So here comes Mayor Pete, and I vaguely was familiar with the guy, but I didn\u2019t know much about him other than the fact that he was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana and he\u2019s young and he\u2019s gay and he has a husband and he likes to kiss the husband in front of cameras. And I said, “Okay. Well, this could be good.”<\/p>\n

So we\u2019re watching this. Well, let me just play for you what I said the next day, the following program after watching. This is March 12th on this program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Keep a sharp eye out for Mayor Pete. Keep an eye on this guy. He is gonna make mincemeat of all the rest of these people. When his comes to face these people in debate, if he gets that far, keep an eye on Mayor Pete of South Bend. It\u2019s all I\u2019m gonna say. This guy was articulate for what he believes. He was personable. He had an answer for everything. There was no, \u201cAnd, y\u2019know, I\u2026 Like, uhhhh,\u201d and there was no radicalism. Some things that he believes about Trump are typically crazy, but keep an eye out for Mayor Pete. He\u2019s 37. Keep an eye out for Mayor Pete.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I went on to add that this guy is excellent at masking his radicalism, almost as good as Obama. And I say this back on March 12th, and now look. And it energized. I have never been credited for this; don\u2019t misunderstand. Nobody has acknowledged this. It\u2019s just one of these things I know.<\/p>\n

If I hadn\u2019t called people\u2019s attention to Mayor Pete — I mean, he would have eventually been noticed, don\u2019t misunderstand. (interruption) What do you mean it was a political story? Oh, Politico. Politico. That\u2019s right. Politico did do a story acknowledging that I was one of the first to call attention to Mayor Pete. So some of this may be, I don\u2019t know fault, but it may be because of me. All right, it\u2019s my fault.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

So, anyway, let\u2019s now go to Mayor Pete. This is on the Fox News Channel. It\u2019s last Sunday night before The Game of Thrones finale. Do you know how many people would not have agreed to appear precisely because it was right before the Game of Thrones finale? But Mayor Pete was fearless. Game of Thrones, game of shmones, doesn\u2019t matter to him if he\u2019s got a chance to be on Fox News, he\u2019s gonna take it.<\/p>\n

Chris Wallace was the moderator and Mayor Pete got a standing O from the Fox News crowd. It shocked Chris Wallace. But Chris Wallace should not have been shocked. If he had listened and heard my first analysis of Mayor Pete, then none of this would have surprised him. Here is the first bite we have from him.<\/p>\n

BUTTIGIEG: If it\u2019s hard to figure out what\u2019s going on right now, it\u2019s because we are living on one of those blank pages in between chapters in American history. And what comes next could be ugly or it could be amazing. And I believe running for office is an act of hope, and so is voting for somebody, and supporting somebody and volunteering for somebody. I hope you\u2019ll join me in making sure that that next era is better than any that we\u2019ve had so far.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: Thank you, mayor, and thank you… (Wallace pauses as people start standing) Wow, a standing ovation.<\/p>\n

BUTTIGIEG: All right!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wallace, \u201cWow, a standing ovation.\u201d He wasn\u2019t expecting this, but it happened. So that\u2019s just the one bite. That was near the end of the town hall. It\u2019s an indication of how smooth Mayor Pete here is. \u201cIf it\u2019s hard to figure out what\u2019s going on right now, it\u2019s because we are living on one of those blank pages in between chapters in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n

What blank page? Show me a blank page in American history. Where is one? There\u2019s no blank page. He\u2019s talking about textbooks where you might end a chapter with a blank page before the next. It\u2019s very, very, very clever. It comes across as erudite, really the kind of thing that appeals to Millennials, what comes next could be ugly or it could be amazing. That\u2019s true any time you open a door. Not just in American history.<\/p>\n

Any time you go to the bathroom, any time you go to the movies, doesn\u2019t matter what you do, that\u2019s the case. But one more bite before — nope. Nope. Let\u2019s take the break. We\u2019re up against it on time. But I have Mayor Pete being reacted to by Brit Hume when we come back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Let\u2019s quickly hit Brit Hume here analyzing Mayor Pete. See if it sounds familiar.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

HUME: Pete Buttigieg is the most impressive by far candidate in terms of just raw political talent in the Democratic field, and he may be the most impressive candidate I\u2019ve seen since the emergence of Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What did I tell you?<\/p>\n

HUME: He is as fluid as he can be.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

HUME: He seems to have something to say about nearly every issue.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

HUME: He seems comfortable on the big stage, articulate, you know, even humorous. You know, he stakes out positions that I think are well outside the mainstream on a number of issues.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. That\u2019s enough. That\u2019s enough. ‘Cause I\u2019m squeezed for time. I want to move on. I want to show you an example here of Mayor Pete\u2019s smoothness and how he masks complete radical beliefs. Here is Mayor Pete talking about the killing of a baby after it\u2019s born and making it sound completely reasonable and acceptable.<\/p>\n

BUTTIGIEG: Let\u2019s put ourselves in the shoes of a woman in that situation. We\u2019re talking about women who have perhaps chosen a name, women who have purchased a crib, families that then get the most devastating medical news of their lifetime, something about the health or the life of the mother that forces them to make an impossible, unthinkable choice. And the bottom line is, as horrible as that choice is, that woman, that family may seek spiritual guidance, they may seek medical guidance. That decision is not going to be made any better, medically or morally, because the government is dictating how that decision should be made.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the question was, “You\u2019re saying that you would be okay with a woman well into the third trimester deciding to abort her pregnancy. It\u2019s not a hypothetical, 6,000 women a year get abortions in the third trimester.” That answer, basically, “Yep! I\u2019m perfectly fine with it.” But notice how he masks and covers the genuine radical belief with all of these flowery, sympathetic, very, very heart tugging circumstances that he doesn\u2019t know are present, just automatically attaches them.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is to convey to Democrat voters, particularly women, “I don\u2019t have any problem with abortion any time, anywhere.” This is how he chooses to say it. This is a radical, radical belief, but that didn\u2019t sound radical in the slightest. That\u2019s why this guy is a quintessential politician and one of the reasons a lot of people don\u2019t like politics, actually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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