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<\/p>\nLet me get started on the phones to Manhattan. This is John. Great to have you with us, sir. Hello. You\u2019re up first today.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, an honor. Thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You\u2019re my third favorite American, right behind Ronald Reagan and Justice Antonin Scalia.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ve often said if I didn\u2019t have my brain, I would want Scalia\u2019s, so I\u2019m very appreciative of that. Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I want to talk about the census question because I understand that Trump has sort of backed down on that and at first I was livid. I was really upset about that. However, last night I looked into this a little bit deeper. And I came to understand it really doesn\u2019t matter. And if I could develop the thought for a few seconds, let me tell you why I think that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. But I want to tell you at the outset I disagree with anybody who says it doesn\u2019t matter. I disagree profoundly. You go ahead and make your point and then I will nuke it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. Let me explain my reasoning. The first point is that the reapportionment every decade affects maybe one or two electoral votes per state or congressional seats per state. Okay. Now, with respect to immigration, in my opinion, there are four states that are arguably, even in the realm of thin or losing one seat. That\u2019s California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. Now, with Florida, the vast majority of the increase in immigration in that state are from Puerto Rico. And so I respectfully submit that that\u2019s not gonna be relevant because Puerto Ricans are already Americans —<\/p>\n
RUSH: See, none of this matters. As far as I\u2019m concerned, not one thing — and I understand the points you\u2019re making, reapportionment, accurate count of who lives here. That\u2019s not the point. As far as I\u2019m concerned, it misses the context. The point is that the left in this country has mounted and is engaged in an all-out assault on the traditions, the institutions of the founding of this country. And this is just the latest of them.<\/p>\n
Why did somebody want to take the question off of the census? It has always been a part of the census, but in 2010 it came off of the census. Why? Because the people who want there to be no tabulation of citizenship are the same people who are pushing for the end of the concept of citizenship. And they want it replaced with residence.<\/p>\n
The Democrat Party wants these people to be able to vote, whether they come from Puerto Rico, whether they come from Mexico, El Salvador, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s backyard, it doesn\u2019t matter. This attempt to not count legal, legitimate citizens is nothing more than an attack, and one of the latest attacks, on the very building foundation and structure of this country. It\u2019s got to be opposed. And Trump has not caved on it.<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s going to find out the information he needs in other ways rather than make a big push over having it be on the question because he knows he\u2019s got a bunch of Obama judges just lurking out there in courtroom after courtroom waiting to shut him down. So rather than go through that again for the 20,000th time, he\u2019s looking for an alternative route. This is about keeping America as it was founded versus people who want to blow that to smithereens!<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Obama and his people took the citizenship question off the census for a reason. You think it was a good one?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I want to go back to late yesterday. This is Trump and Barr. This is the announcement of the new strategery on the citizenship question and the bite following it is a CNN panel having a cow afterwards. Here is Trump yesterday in Washington at the Rose Garden.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: We are not backing down on our effort to determine the citizenship status of the United States population. I stand before you to outline new steps my administration is taking to ensure that citizenship is counted so that we know how many citizens we have in the United States. Makes sense.<\/p>\n
We will defend the right of the American people to know the full facts about the population, size of citizens and non-citizens in America. It is essential that we have a clear breakdown of the number of citizens and non-citizens that make up the U.S. populations<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. So that\u2019s the first of a couple of bites here where they announce what they\u2019re gonna do and how they\u2019re gonna get this done. I got take a break right now. I\u2019ll come back with another Trump, then Barr, and then CNN having a cow about this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay, we go back to the Rose Garden at the White House yesterday, Donald Trump continuing, concluding his remarks on how we\u2019re gonna get the citizenship question answered on the next census.<\/p>\n
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THE PRESIDENT: Far -left Democrats in our country are determined to conceal the number of illegal aliens in our midst. They probably know the number is far greater, much higher than anyone would have ever believed before, maybe that\u2019s why they fight so hard. This is part of a broader left-wing effort to erode the rights of the American citizen and it is very unfair to our country.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Again, folks, I have to ask, what in the world is the controversy in wanting to count the number of citizens? Why is that controversial? Why is that something that the president must be held up for ridicule? Why must the president be opposed on this? Isn\u2019t the real curiosity the move by Obama to take the question off of the census? Trump\u2019s right. They don\u2019t want you to have the slightest idea how many illegal aliens actually are in this country. They don\u2019t want you to know.<\/p>\n
As far as the Democrats are concerned, we can\u2019t have enough. They want more and more. The more underclass, the better. The more poor, the more uneducated, the more people that don\u2019t even speak English, the better. Because that means the more people there are who are going to be depending on government, which ensures government\u2019s continued growth, which the Democrats translate as expanded power for them.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s William Barr, the attorney general, in the Rose Garden yesterday.<\/p>\n
BARR: There is no question that a new decision to add the question would ultimately survive legal review. The problem is that any new decision would be subject to immediate challenge as a new claim in the three ongoing district court cases. As a practical matter, the Supreme Court\u2019s decision closed all paths to adding the question to the 2020 census. Put simply, the impediment was a logistical impediment, not a legal one.<\/p>\n
RUSH: A-ha. And so he went on to say that some in the media have been suggesting in the hysterical mode of the day that the administration has been planning to add the question to the census by executive fiat. He says this has never been under consideration. He said he applauds the president for recognizing in his executive order that including a question on the census is not the only way to obtain this information. So they\u2019re livid! They\u2019re livid at Barr for helping Trump out on this, as you will hear in mere moments.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. So the attorney general in our audio sound bite roster has just praised the president for figuring out how to do this without violating the law, without going around the Supreme Court. And of course the Drive-By Media figured that when the Supreme Court said you can\u2019t do it, that was the end of it. The Drive-By Media doesn\u2019t want to know how many noncitizens there are in the country. They don\u2019t want to know anything about that at all. It\u2019s a problem they don\u2019t want to have to deal with.<\/p>\n
So they thought it was over. And then Trump and Barr go to the Rose Garden, explain how they\u2019re gonna try to get this done, and here\u2019s Dana Bash on CNN yesterday after the president and Barr spoke. Wolf Blitzer said, \u201cSo what do you think about the president\u2019s remarks here on citizenship and census?\u201d<\/p>\n
BASH: The idea that he went into the Rose Garden, gave a very political speech, unleashed on the reasons why he wanted to do this saying we cannot conceal the number of illegal aliens in this country, spoke volumes. And he was speaking to the same people that we knew he was speaking to when he decided to go down this path at the beginning, it\u2019s just now that they\u2019re unshackled from litigation, he can be more clear how political it is.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Really? This is political? Now, I know that this is used in various government ways to calculate spending and so forth. I know there is political context here. But notice her rage. She doesn\u2019t sound enraged, but the words. “Give a very political speech, unleashed.\u201d He didn\u2019t unleash. He gave a very reasonable explanation of why he was doing what he was gonna do.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnleashed on the reasons why he wanted to do this saying we can\u2019t conceal the number of illegal aliens, and that speaks volumes.\u201d Why? What does it say? It says that Dana Bash and the media want to conceal the number of illegals. Now, of the two, which is the stranger, wanting to hide the number of illegals or wanting to know how many there are. Which of those two is the weirdest? Which of those two is the abnormal way to think? “No, we don\u2019t want to know how many illegals are living here.”<\/p>\n
Well, now, wait a minute. They\u2019re all getting free health care or access to it. They\u2019re all getting some kind of welfare. Many of them are getting this or that. Why shouldn\u2019t we know? People are being forced to pay for this. Why shouldn\u2019t we know?<\/p>\n
“You shouldn\u2019t know. It\u2019s none of your business to know.” Really? That\u2019s the normal reaction to this? And that \u201cspeaks volumes,\u201d folks. \u201cAnd Trump was speaking to the same people that we knew he was speaking to when he decided to go down this road.\u201d What does that mean? We knew who Trump was talking to.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll tell you what she means. Trump\u2019s talking to these white supremacists out there who don\u2019t want any people of color in their country, even though Trump has never, never come close to saying anything like it. This is pure slander and libel and character assassination of not just Trump, but his voters and supporters, with this insinuation that there\u2019s something sinister here, something sinister not in hiding who\u2019s here illegally, but in wanting to know.<\/p>\n
Take any other law, somebody robbed a bunch of banks, you want to know who they are or is it sinister to try to find out? Is it discriminatory to find out? Run the numbers on who commits various types of crime and take those crimes that are usually committed by minorities more than others and then say we\u2019re gonna find out who did it. You\u2019re a racist pig! Versus saying, “No, we\u2019re not gonna find out who\u2019s doing this. It would be racist to find out who\u2019s committing these crimes.”<\/p>\n
We\u2019re talking about crime here. Entering the country is illegal. \u201cWell, it shouldn\u2019t be, Rush. It\u2019s not fair. These people are just seeking a better life.\u201d Doesn\u2019t matter. We have the rule of law. We have laws. You cannot come into the country illegally. There are ways to come in illegally. They don\u2019t care about any of this. Any attempt to enforce somehow is sinister and racist.<\/p>\n
Up next was Nia-Malika Henderson, and she is the senior political reporter. And Wolf Blitzer asked for her take on this.<\/p>\n
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HENDERSON: It is really an echo of his campaign announcement speech in June of 2015 when he seized on this idea, you know, sort of long-held in, I think, conservative and right-wing sectors, that illegal immigrants were here and they were doing bad things, and they meant harm to ordinary Americans. They vote illegally, they are getting benefits, Democrats are shielding them. I think we see what his campaign in 2020 is going to be about. I thought it was sort of a masterful speech in some ways that really, I think, tied together all of these negative ideas.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All these negative ideas. Let\u2019s play a little game and let\u2019s rephrase this. Let\u2019s take her words. “You know, he kind of seized on this idea, this sort of long held in, I think, conservative and right-wing sectors, that illegal immigrants are here.\u201d<\/p>\n
(imitating Henderson) \u201cAnd it\u2019s wonderful that they\u2019re here. We love people breaking our law. And they\u2019re getting benefits. There are people here illegally getting benefits that are being paid for by American citizens. And we think this is great. And we think there should be more of it in the media. We think this is a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut in these right-wing pockets of America, they don\u2019t agree with this because they\u2019re a bunch of racist pigs. But we think the middle class ought to be paying for everybody that we think should be getting benefits, because we think it\u2019s a wonderful thing that people here illegally should get benefits and should be protected and should be applauded. The Democrats are doing a great thing. The Democrats are trying to protect these people. The Democrats are trying to prevent anybody from finding out who they are and where they are.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that\u2019s why we love Democrats, because the Democrats are shielding the lawbreakers and the Democrats are forcing mainstream Americans and middle class Americans to pay for all this, and we love that. We love citizens being forced to pay for things for noncitizens. We love the Democrats doing this, so we see what Trump\u2019s campaign is gonna be. We see what his 2020 campaign\u2019s gonna be. All of these negative ideas about enforcing the law and making sure that people who are here illegally should not be.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what she\u2019s saying. She\u2019s endorsing the whole concept of illegal immigration. She\u2019s endorsing the concept of the Democrat Party trying to hide them, i.e., not count them. She\u2019s endorsing the idea of them getting free benefits as often as they can for as much as they can being paid for by American citizens.<\/p>\n
And she\u2019s applauding the Democrat Party for wanting more of this while shielding these people. And she is speaking for all of the American media and she\u2019s speaking for all of the American Democrat Party. Up next is Gloria Borger. And let\u2019s see. Is there a question here? Yeah, there is. He said to Gloria Borger, “Okay, so William Barr explained why the administration and the president had no choice but to back down.”<\/p>\n
BORGER: There was a little bit of \u201cDear Leader\u201d in what the attorney general was saying, the way he said, \u201cCongratulations, Mr. President, for doing the right thing.\u201d I think that this was such a political speech from the Rose Garden. It was the president saying the Democrats are determined to conceal the number of illegal aliens in our midst, we will leave no stone un-term (sic) and over and over again, talking about the Democrats. So he has two enemies. He has the Democrats and the illegal immigrants<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well? Is that not true? So here she is criticizing Barr for agreeing with the president, sounded like Dear Leader, sounded like a sycophant almost to Kim Jong-un, \u2019cause if he didn\u2019t he\u2019d be shot, and she\u2019s criticizing Barr for seeming to do the right thing here. (imitating Borger) \u201cIt was such a political speech. It was the president saying the Democrats are determined to conceal the number of illegals.\u201d See, you\u2019re not supposed to call out the Democrats on what they\u2019re really doing. That\u2019s not fair and that\u2019s not right.<\/p>\n
The Democrats are supposed to get away with what they do with nobody noticing. The Democrats are supposed to get away with whatever they do, whatever they want to do with nobody even criticizing it. And Trump came along, and he criticized it from the Oval Office and then the Rose Garden, and that makes it even worse because that makes it political.<\/p>\n
And the Democrats of course are never political, the Democrats just care about the unfortunate, the Democrats just care about suffering and starving people and here\u2019s the president trying to criticize the Democrats for trying to hide the number. These people are beyond belief. I mean, when you actually break down what they\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s Phil Mudd. Phil Mudd\u2019s a former CIA guy. And he was one of the many leading the charge that Trump was toast, that Trump had colluded, that it was only a matter of time. He was wrong. Now he\u2019s commenting on this whole business of the tabulation of noncitizens. He\u2019s on with Don Lemon, who said, “So what\u2019s the president\u2019s goal with determining the population of citizens versus noncitizens?\u201d Why do you think that\u2019s so important to this white supremacist guy, Trump?<\/p>\n
MUDD: It\u2019s about telling his supporters, \u201cPeople who don\u2019t look like you don\u2019t belong in this country, I represent you.\u201d In this case, it\u2019s not just about citizenship on a questionnaire, it\u2019s about telling supporters a year and a half before an election, regardless of whether the Supreme Court says no, regardless of whether I get blocked, we won. You have somebody who represents you to try to keep people who don\u2019t look like you, whether they\u2019re from Guatemala or El Salvador, out of this country. I think even if he doesn\u2019t get the question on the questionnaire, he offers the same response he offered two and a half years ago. I represent you in trying to keep people out of this country. Vote for me again. I think he\u2019s winning<\/p>\n
RUSH: “I think he\u2019s winning.” What is he winning? Notice these guys, Trump is telling you that he\u2019s gonna keep people that don\u2019t look like you out of the country. Did Trump ever say anything like this? Did Trump ever, anywhere, go anywhere near saying this? No. This is pure reverse bigotry. This is reverse hatred.<\/p>\n
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Phil Mudd telling the CNN audience that Donald Trump is a racist pig who doesn\u2019t want any people of color, people that don\u2019t look like them in the country, and then he\u2019s also saying that about all of you who voted for Trump, that that\u2019s all this is about.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not about the law. It\u2019s not about the rule of law. It\u2019s not about the damage being done to American culture and society and watering it down by people who have no intention of assimilating, becoming Americans. \u201cYou\u2019re trying to stop us from transforming this country away from the founding, and, damn it, Trump, you shouldn\u2019t do it. You should let us get away with this and we\u2019re gonna charge you with racism if you keep trying it.\u201d And they\u2019re worried Trump is winning, which means they\u2019re worried that you are a bunch of bigots and that you are falling for this, that you don\u2019t want people that don\u2019t look like you, either.<\/p>\n
And yet when you examine who really tries to separate themselves from people that don\u2019t look like them, you find that the Democrat Party does as much of that, if not more. You don\u2019t see \u2019em palling around with these great people. You don\u2019t see them welcoming them into their neighborhoods. No. They\u2019re not even supposed to be seen. The Democrats just want credit for caring about these people, but there\u2019s no way they\u2019re gonna be invited into Democrat neighborhoods. Ain\u2019t no way, Jose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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