{"id":336799,"date":"2020-02-17T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=336799"},"modified":"2020-02-18T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:42:08","slug":"why-the-drive-bys-went-batty-over-what-i-said-about-mayor-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/17\/why-the-drive-bys-went-batty-over-what-i-said-about-mayor-pete\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Drive-Bys Went Batty Over What I Said About Mayor Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This Mayor Pete stuff. What do you think the main reason the Drive-Bys went batty over this?<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t lecture Mayor Pete on anything. I didn\u2019t say anything anti-gay. I didn\u2019t even offer an opinion of my own. I was asking people to analyze — asking people to imagine how the Democrat power base was looking at their options after the Hawkeye Cauci and New the Hampshire primary. I\u2019ll replay the bite for you. It takes about two minutes to go through, but at no point was there a lecture of Mayor Pete on family values or anything else. At no point was there a condemnation of Mayor Pete.<\/p>\n

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In fact, I\u2019m the reason Mayor Pete\u2019s on the map! I\u2019m the guy, after a CNN town hall at South by Southwest in 2019… I\u2019m the guy that came here –Snerdley has been mad at me from the get-go for this — I\u2019m the guy that came in here and told you all, “Be on the lookout for Mayor Pete.” I saw him; I thought he performed well in the town hall. I thought he expressed his opinions well. He did a great job of hiding his liberal extremism, which is what leftists have to do in primaries in order to go out and get as broad a base as they can.<\/p>\n

First on was Tulsi Gabbard, and it was two hours — and I was made to watch this. I had a guest in for a member-guest golf tournament. It was in March of whatever year this would have been. It has to be the last. The guest, a noted TV anchor, said, “I\u2019ve gotta watch this.” I said, “Come on, man! It\u2019s Saturday night! I don\u2019t want to watch CNN and these schlubs.” “I\u2019ve got to.” So we fired up the big 100-inch screen 4K TV and dialed in CNN.<\/p>\n

I watched Mayor Pete, and I said, “You know, this guy is pretty smooth.” The next day, Monday, I came to the program and warned everybody, “Be on the lookout for Mayor Pete.” He\u2019s on the map because of me! At no time have I lectured Mayor Pete. At no time have I opined on Mayor Pete as to what I think at all. Do you know what this really is about, folks? I\u2019ll tell you what this is really about, the main reason.<\/p>\n

Hell, the president even called me about this! The president checks in every now and then to see how I\u2019m doing — he\u2019s such a nice guy — and he called. It\u2019s uncanny. I\u2019m… (interruption) Do I respond to him? Yeah! (interruption) Well, I try to reply to all of them, Dawn. I\u2019m not gonna be able to, but he called. And, yeah. I\u2019m a powerful, influential member of the media, folks; I\u2019ve got the White House private number in my phone. So when the White House calls, it says there on my phone.<\/p>\n

So invariably — it\u2019s uncanny — he calls when I am moments away from commencing a medical procedure, and I had to tell the doctors, “You\u2019ve gotta give me a half hour. The president\u2019s calling.” “Okay. We\u2019ll wait a half hour.” Then I told the White House, “Look, I got a medical procedure in 10 minutes. Can you have the president call me back in 35?” And they did. So he called back, and he said, “Rush, I just gotta tell you something. Never apologize. Don\u2019t ever apologize.”<\/p>\n

\"\"I said, “For what?”<\/p>\n

I had no idea this thing had even bubbled up. You know, I\u2019m up doing the medical thing that I have to do here, and I wasn\u2019t even aware of this. So here\u2019s what I think\u2019s going on. Then I became aware of it, and Kathryn said, “Oh, yeah, they\u2019re all over you. It\u2019s the usual thing. They\u2019re saying you said things you didn\u2019t say. All you had to do, Rush, was mention somebody is gay and here they come: You\u2019re a homophobe,” and that\u2019s exactly what this is.<\/p>\n

I think what set the Drive-Bys in the media off and in Washington… I think they are mad about my remarks about Mayor Pete because I think they think that a lot of people didn\u2019t know that he\u2019s gay. I\u2019m talking about the low-information voters, the great unwashed. I think they think that there\u2019s a lot of people that don\u2019t know he\u2019s gay and that I sort of dropped the dime on it and let people who otherwise didn\u2019t know that Mayor Pete is gay.<\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s what they\u2019re really mad about, that I even mentioned it. You\u2019re not supposed to mention it. Why aren\u2019t you supposed to mention it? Well, you answer that yourself. I mean, the Drive-Bys — as I\u2019ve read what they\u2019ve said and as I\u2019ve replayed it (I\u2019ve got transcripts of audio sound bites, montages) — they even seem to be afraid that I might have revealed that news to a lot of low-information voters for the first time.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m looking at people on the other side of the glass — Snerdley, Brian, and Dawn — and they\u2019re look at me. “No. It can\u2019t be that,” and you know why they think that? ‘Cause they know he\u2019s gay; so they think everybody must believe he\u2019s gay. But I\u2019m telling you, there has to be a reason for this. (interruption) Well, no… (interruption) Well, I know they\u2019re mad that I got the Medal of Freedom and they\u2019ve been looking for a way to lash back, and so here they come along.<\/p>\n

And all I happened to say was, “If you\u2019re in the Democrat Party today and these are your three options based on the returns from Iowa and New Hampshire, how are you feeling about this?” I went through the whole thing from the perspective of Democrat powerbrokers. So I mentioned that Mayor Pete is gay, and, bam! That\u2019s all it took, and here comes, “Limbaugh\u2019s a racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe! Decades and decades of negative comments, besmirching comments! Inhumane comments!”<\/p>\n

It just flows out of their mouth and across their lips like water. It is knee-jerk. They didn\u2019t even have to take the time to find out what I was really saying. What it was is just like I said last week talking about Biden. I told you from the get-go: I never thought the guy was gonna win. It\u2019s not personal with Biden. I\u2019m giving you straight political analysis here. It\u2019s exactly what I was doing with this Mayor Pete situation. So Mayor Pete\u2019s out there saying, “I\u2019m not gonna be lectured to on family values!”<\/p>\n

Well, I didn\u2019t lecture him on family values. I didn\u2019t lecture anybody on family values, and they all know this. So now they\u2019re gonna take these comments and they\u2019ll further distort these. You know, this is why I don\u2019t like responding to this stuff. But I said, “What the hell.” This is something that those of you who were listening know the truth and know how it was distorted. Those of you who weren\u2019t, who are now listening, deserve to have it known.<\/p>\n

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\nI\u2019ll go through the comments that I made afterwards — and, by the way, if you keep listening, you will find out… Do you know what James Clyburn is, folks? James Clyburn is a former chairman of the House Congressional Black Caucasians. He\u2019s from South Carolina (his daughter is named Mignon Clyburn), and he agreed with me. Not by name. He didn\u2019t say (impression), “Rush Limbo is right.”<\/p>\n

He said exactly what I said the Democrat hierarchy was going to say after the results in Iowa and New Hampshire. He proves my point. But the Drive-Bys and the leftists, there\u2019s an activist gay community — I have it here if the stories in the Stack of Stuff. They\u2019re mad at Mayor Pete because he\u2019s trying to undersell it. They\u2019re mad at Mayor Pete because he\u2019s not flaunting who he is. So the point is, El Rushbo, anti-gay? (Snort!) I could care less. Nothing I can do about it anyway.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t lecture anybody on family values. I would not do so on this program. I simply was engaging in political analysis that is politically incorrect as far as the left is concerned. You simply are not — a conservative is not — permitted to identify a gay candidate as gay. These people need to be thanking me. Mayor Pete is on the map because of me — and himself, of course, obviously. But he\u2019s on the map because of me.<\/p>\n

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I guarantee you, after that appearance on CNN at South by Southwest a year and a half ago or whenever it was and I came here the following Monday and said, “Folks, keep a sharp eye out for Mayor Pete,” I guarantee you that was a great day in Mayor Pete\u2019s campaign. “Wow. Did you hear what Limbaugh said? Limbaugh said, ‘Keep a sharp eye on Mayor Pete.'”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: March 18th, 2019, Mayor Pete, CNN, South by Southwest, that couple days after that is when I put Mayor Pete on the map.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, my friends, do not doubt me when I tell you that the primary reason the Drive-Bys — now, you can argue that I got the Medal of Freedom. Yeah, that\u2019s gonna bug \u2019em for the rest of their lives. But there\u2019s another reason why they\u2019re ticked off at me and they\u2019re trying to besmirch me on the Mayor Pete stuff, and it\u2019s the fact that there\u2019s a lot of primary voters out there that do not know he is gay. You may think, “Rush, that\u2019s absolutely absurd.” I have (shuffling papers) here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. Put it up on the Dittocam.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a headline, NBC News. This goes back to the 5th of February: “Iowa Caucus-Goer Pulls Buttigieg Vote After Learning He\u2019s Gay, Viral Video Shows,”<\/a> and then there\u2019s a picture of this voter. I\u2019m not gonna put the picture of the voter on the Dittocam<\/a>. “The Time magazine cover photo didn\u2019t do it. Nor did the March appearance on ABC\u2019s The View or a year\u2019s worth of digital and television news stories.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“It was not until Monday night \u2014 after casting her caucus vote for [Mayor Pete] \u2014 that an Iowa Democratic caucus voter, known only as ‘Geert,\u2019 first learned that the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is gay and married a man in 2018. ‘Are you saying he has a same-sex partner?\u2019 the woman asked in a now viral video…” Then she goes and asks for her vote for Mayor Pete back. Now, don\u2019t doubt me, my friends, when I tell you that one of the…<\/p>\n

You know, aside from the Medal of Freedom<\/a> business — which is gonna be a constant (chuckles) thorn in their side (chuckles) that\u2019s never gonna go away — believe me, the reason that the Democrats in the media and in Washington are really mad about my remarks about him is because there\u2019s a lot of Democrat primary voters who don\u2019t know that Mayor Pete is gay. It wasn\u2019t even my intention… It never occurred to me. Now that I think about the coverage over the last few weeks, it seems to me the media would like us to forget that Mayor Pete is gay — and that, in itself, is kind of puzzling.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just a couple more things on this Mayor Pete business, then I want to move on. One thing is, don\u2019t you find it a little strange — and look, when Obama won the Democrat nomination, \u201cOh, my Lord, what a great day. What a great progressive day. What a great day for America. We\u2019ve finally matured. We\u2019ve come to the point in our history where we can embrace an African-American, as a primary major party nominee for president, great, great, great, great day.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Hillary Clinton gets the nomination, the Democrats, \u201cOh, what a great day, a woman has finally proceeded to the glass ceiling, isn\u2019t it a great day, we are overcoming our bigotry.\u201d So Mayor Pete wins Iowa, they say nothing about the fact that Mayor Pete is gay and it represents such a major, major step forward, a major progressive step forward, overcoming bigotry, racism, whatever it is. Silence. No mention of it.<\/p>\n

Then Mayor Pete, competitive close in New Hampshire. No mention of it. Anybody curious why that is? Well, I could go back, I could tell you why. I could tell you exactly what I told you — that bite takes two minutes to play so I\u2019m not gonna do it, but the comments that got the Drive-Bys all fired up were last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

So here you are, you\u2019re the Democrats. You\u2019ve just had an absolute chaos of a disaster in Iowa in terms of your caucus and your vote counting and all this stuff. The Russians got in there and messed everything up. Then you learn that the DNC was in charge of the app that got messed up. And Mayor Pete\u2019s the winner but nobody\u2019s sure.<\/p>\n

Then you go to New Hampshire, Crazy Bernie. So you got Crazy Bernie — the top three, Crazy Bernie, Mayor Pete, Amy Klobuchar. So you\u2019re the Democrats. Over here you got Donald Trump, who is a well-known quantity, everybody now knows exactly who Trump is and how he is and what he is, and he\u2019s formidable.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re leading the Democrats. Okay, you got Amy Klobuchar. Well, she\u2019s not gonna go anywhere, and we don\u2019t want Amy Klobuchar to be the nominee \u2019cause she\u2019s gonna lose. That would mean two women in a row would lose. We can\u2019t have that. You got Mayor Pete, who I said has made a practice of hugging and kissing his husband on the stage. The Democrats looking at that, you\u2019re gonna measure that up against Donald Trump. I don\u2019t know how that\u2019s gonna fall out, don\u2019t know how that\u2019s gonna look.<\/p>\n

\"\"Then you go to Crazy Bernie, oh, no, you\u2019ve got a mad scientist, socialist, communist. I said the Democrats are panicking. They have no options here. And that\u2019s the thrust — essence of what I said. And here comes all this, \u201cIt\u2019s anti-gay, bigotry, Limbaugh is typical of the mealymouthed, mean-spirited extremism.\u201d All I was doing was engaging in smart, unique political analysis detailing the problems Democrats have with either Klobuchar, Mayor Pete, or Crazy Bernie — and now Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Joe in Denver. I\u2019m glad that you waited, sir. Welcome. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. You know, I\u2019m a gay Republican, former Democrat, voted for President Obama twice. And I spent the weekend defending you to my liberal Democratic cadre of friends. And I told them exactly what you said. I said, \u201cRush was not making a judgment about Mayor Pete. He wasn\u2019t making judgment about gay people or two people kissing. He was merely saying that there is a conservative portion of the Democratic electorate that may not be comfortable with nominating a gay person.\u201d And a reminder of that is Mayor Pete kissing his husband every chance he gets is not gonna sit well with a certain portion.\u201d And I said, you know, if you remember back in 2016 — I\u2019m sorry — 2008 when Prop 8 passed in California, largely because African-Americans turned out to vote for President Obama, and they weren\u2019t comfortable with the idea of gay marriage.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Well, what did your friends say when you explained the truth to them?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, well, they said, \u201cOh, he\u2019s a bigot, he\u2019s a racist, how can you listen to that guy, he\u2019s such a jerk,\u201d and blah, blah, blah. I said, \u201cListen to what he said. Listen to what he said. He was merely making an \u2013”<\/p>\n

RUSH: They can\u2019t afford to listen to what I said, Joe, because then they\u2019d have to face the fact that they\u2019re the bigots.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Or they wouldn\u2019t call themselves that, but they\u2019d have to face the fact that they\u2019d been lied to about me and what I think and say and so forth. I appreciate the fact that you took \u2019em on nevertheless. I really appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. And I want to say one last thing, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, what\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I asked the Holy Spirit to put his hand of healing over you just like I ask him to put the healing hand or protective hand over President Trump every night. So we\u2019re all praying for you, we\u2019re rooting for you, and keep on the fight.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. Look. This is what I was addressing at the beginning of the program. I don\u2019t have a way to accurately or — that\u2019s not even the word — properly thank everybody or even acknowledge everybody. But it\u2019s overwhelming. It literally is overwhelming what people are doing.<\/p>\n

And, folks, let me just tell you, I feel great. I know I sound great, as always. I feel absolutely fine and have through all this except for when I had the flu and the medical procedure to facilitate what\u2019s next, but I feel absolutely great. So I think all of this outpouring of love and support is already having an impact, a positive impact on me. I truly, truly do.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Kent, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. You\u2019re next. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. The topic of your comments about Mayor Pete are being blown out of proportion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I heard exactly what you said that very day. The next day, I go to the Fox News website, which I do every morning, and it said, you know, like, “Rush Limbaugh Is Anti-Gay” or “Said Something Negative About Mayor Pete,” and I thought to myself, “That\u2019s not what he said. It\u2019s not even close to what he said.” So I\u2019m as amazed at the media as you and many other people are, and it\u2019s —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, here\u2019s the thing: I\u2019m not amazed by it. You know, I have a problem. I\u2019ve been spending most of this hour on it, and I\u2019m of the opinion that we\u2019ve been there, done that. But I\u2019ve had, “Look, they\u2019ve been hammering you for three days on this! They\u2019ve been hammering you for almost four or five days on this, and as so many people out there having lied to and have a misunderstanding about it, you owe it to yourself and to everybody else to straighten this out.”<\/p>\n

\"\"I said, “Okay.”<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s what I\u2019m gonna do. I\u2019m gonna go back; I\u2019m gonna grab what I said. I\u2019ve got the whole sound bite here. It\u2019s about a minute and 52 seconds. I have time to squeeze in. This is gonna be it. Now, this is kind of an interesting A-B, side-by-side comparison. You\u2019ve heard the attacks — racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, Limbaugh mean-spirited extremist — all of this rotgut that they always say, this knee-jerk stuff. Many of you may not have heard what I said that caused all that. Well, here it is. This is last Wednesday talking about the Democrat Party, who they might want to see become their nominee after the results in Iowa and New Hampshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re looking at your options today (laughing), and you\u2019re asking, \u201cOkay, can we win with Klobuchar? We don\u2019t want to put Klobuchar up there because she doesn\u2019t have a prayer. Trump\u2019s gonna wipe the floor with her, and that would mean two women in a row get wiped out by Donald Trump. Two Democrat women in a row. We can\u2019t have that! We can\u2019t let that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then they\u2019re sitting there and they\u2019re looking at Mayor Pete \u2014 a 37-year-old gay guy, mayor of South Bend, loves to kiss his husband on the debate stage \u2014 and they\u2019re saying, \u201cOkay. How\u2019s this gonna look, a 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband on stage next to Mr. Man, Donald Trump? What\u2019s gonna happen there?\u201d They gotta be looking at that, and they\u2019ve gotta be saying that despite all the great progress and despite all the great wokeness and despite all the great ground that\u2019s been covered, America\u2019s still not ready to elect a gay guy kissing his husband on the debate stage president.<\/p>\n

They have to be saying this, don\u2019t they? Now, there may be some Democrats who think that is the ticket. There may be some Democrats who think, \u201cThat\u2019s exactly what we need to do, Rush. Get a gay guy kissing his husband on stage! You ram it down Trump\u2019s throat and beat him in the general election.\u201d (laughing) Really? Having fun envisioning that. What are you left with? Crazy Bernie.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re left with the avowed revolutionary socialist who isn\u2019t even a Democrat. So which of those three\u2026? They want to take all three out. They would like to get rid of all three of those, the establishment of the Democrats. But if they can\u2019t, which of those three would they rather lose with? Who among those three losing will do the least damage to the Democrat Party going forward? That\u2019s what they are facing, if you ask me.<\/p>\n

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