{"id":3507,"date":"2016-05-03T16:41:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T16:41:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-07-06T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:05:06","slug":"all_trumpists_aren_t_brain_dead_dufuses_but_this_cruz_confrontation_bothers_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/05\/03\/all_trumpists_aren_t_brain_dead_dufuses_but_this_cruz_confrontation_bothers_me\/","title":{"rendered":"All Trumpists Aren\u2019t Brain-Dead Dufuses, But This Cruz Confrontation Bothers Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/71295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Josh in Jackson Center, Pennsylvania. You\u2019re first today. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to be on with you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019d just like to ask you to please stop calling us Trump supporters names. Try to get on board because Trump is gonna get the nomination, and our goal here is to beat Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I understand.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_121937\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rush-Cruz-Lying-Ted-CNN-D.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nCALLER: He\u2019s the only one that\u2019s gonna be able to do it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I understand the goal is to beat Hillary Clinton. I understand in a lot of primary voters that\u2019s what guides their vote, who\u2019s gonna beat Hillary because that\u2019s number one the objective. I didn\u2019t call all of you Trump supporters brain-dead, but I\u2019m glad you cited that because I need to address it. That whole incident haunted me and I\u2019ll tell you why: &#8216;Cause I\u2019ve been in it. You know, a lot has happened to me in 28 years doing this show. I have been in all kinds of circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve not run for office, but I am treated, in ways &#8212; or have been &#8212; as somebody who is or as somebody who wants that kind of power. So I\u2019ve been treated as somebody who needs to be exposed as a fraud or what have you. I have been subjected to stacked audiences when I guest hosted TV shows of people that were diametrically opposed to everything I believed, and were in there for one reason only, and that was to disrupt. I\u2019ve been there. I\u2019ve been in that situation Cruz was in with that guy &#8212; the dark-glasses guy &#8212; yesterday, I can\u2019t tell you how many times.<\/p>\n<p>And that situation, by the way, is one of the reasons I don\u2019t do any media, because that\u2019s just like talking to reporters. You cannot change their minds. It\u2019s not the point. They don\u2019t&#8230; They\u2019re not there to have their minds changed. That guy was there to&#8230; Actually, Cruz approached him; I understand that. But that guy was there, just as somebody that had no desire to actively engage with anybody on any issue of substance whatsoever, and Cruz crossed the street to engage the guy.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll tell you why he did it. It was not trying to persuade that guy, \u2019cause that\u2019s a lost cause. What Cruz was trying to&#8230; I\u2019m guessing here, but it\u2019s because of my experience guided by intelligence. I think what Cruz wanted to do was get a video sound bite of him explaining the issues to a Trump supporter and telling the Trump supporter how Trump is not telling him the truth about things. I think Cruz is frustrated that he hasn\u2019t been able to get much substance in this campaign because he\u2019s always being asked to react to this or that that Trump is saying or doing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EkCifM0kDd0\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cruz knows the media hates him. He knows the media is against him. He knows that he\u2019s not gonna be treated with any kind of respect like Trump will be or like Hillary will be. He knows all of this, just like I know it every time I find myself in a situation like that. I have chosen not to put myself in those situations anymore. I had to learn early on, for example, that in a media interview&#8230; I actually thought in the early days that the media was really interested in what I thought. You know, I was new; there was nobody like me on the radio. I was a conservative nationally. Maybe they really&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not. All they wanted was to find ways of literally destroying me, or harming my image or what have you. I mean, my first appearance on Crossfire on CNN was a total setup. You go in there and you go to the greenroom, and the producer comes in and does the &#8220;interview&#8221; with you. The pre-interview. Sometimes these happen on the phone before your appearance, sometimes they happen in the greenroom, and the producer makes you think they really want to find out what you want to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is it you feel passionate about? What is it that you want to tell our host or hostess today?&#8221; And the real purpose of the pre-interview &#8212; when it\u2019s conservatives &#8212; is to find out what ticks them off. It\u2019s to find out what sets them off. It\u2019s to find out&#8230; I have yet to be in a pre-interview&#8230; Other than with a couple of people at Fox, I have yet to have anything in a pre-interview actually reflected in the real interview that I did on any show. I don\u2019t do \u2019em anymore. I just do not trust them. I have no evidence to believe that any of those people want to help me look good.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_121933\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/CruzTrump-Indiana-B.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nBy that, I mean, they don\u2019t want to get out of the way and let me be me. Whatever I do, they\u2019re gonna take it out of context in further reports. They\u2019re gonna castigate me. They\u2019re going to chop it up and make it appear to be what they think I am and so forth. I cringed when I saw Cruz cross the street, \u2019cause I knew exactly what was gonna happen. And the reason I called the guy brain-dead is cause that\u2019s how he acted. &#8220;Trump! Trump! Trump! Lyin\u2019 Ted! Lyin\u2019 Ted!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He had no desire to engage Cruz. Cruz was being polite. He crossed the street, wanted to engage the guy in conversation about issues. I literally was cringing when it happened; I cringed when it was over. Because it wasn\u2019t gonna work. And the audio was such that, even if Cruz was trying to create something viral that could be on social media that would show him politely and graciously encountering a Trump supporter and explaining the issues (and hoping that that would go viral), it didn\u2019t have much of a chance \u2019cause the audio wasn\u2019t good enough for that to happen.<\/p>\n<p>All the Trump people were shouting this or that, encouraging this guy. &#8220;Trump! Trump! Trump! Lyin\u2019 Ted! Lyin\u2019 Ted!&#8221; You know, Cruz was polite. He was everything that you would want somebody to be, and he\u2019s being mocked and laughed at and made fun of as a square, as a nerd, as a loser or what have you, which is exactly right in line with what\u2019s happening in our culture today. It is the renegades, and it\u2019s been this way for a long time. The renegades and the &#8212; well, however you want to characterize them.<\/p>\n<p>The people that do not stay within the guard rails of reality, they\u2019re the ones that are celebrated and praised. They get rich. They\u2019re made heroes. We\u2019ve made celebrities out of them, and people that don\u2019t do that are just dull and boring and dryballs and usually tagged as conservatives or what have you. So I was not calling all Trump supporters brain-dead. You\u2019ve heard me talk about the Trump people. You\u2019ve heard me lionize the Trump people. You\u2019ve heard me, on this program, celebrate the Trump people and explain to people why certain people behind Trump support him.<\/p>\n<p>This guy was no different than a Code Pink protester, and so that\u2019s that. I\u2019m sorry. I wasn\u2019t able to separate the personal experiences I\u2019ve had just like that over the course of my career, and I knew it was gonna work when I watched it happening and I watched the replay. I knew it wasn\u2019t gonna work, and frankly there\u2019s a part of me that still &#8212; even though I know the drill and I know the lay of the land and I know the reality and I\u2019m the mayor of Realville.<\/p>\n<p>It still bugs me when uses like that end up the winner in a circumstance like that. But welcome to America 2016, or whatever it is. There was no way&#8230; Now, as to your point about getting on board with Trump, let me tell you something. Josh, let me tell you: This is another reason why, for any of you who want to know why I don\u2019t endorse. Can you imagine the phone calls I would be getting today asking me to defend this<a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=3509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Zodiac Killer stuff and Cruz\u2019s dad meeting with Oswald before the assassination?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly why.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a whole lot of explanations for the way I think, operate, and act just in the last two days of the Indiana primary. Now, do not misunderstand. I\u2019m not complaining about it. I\u2019m just laying the land out. What was sad to me about it was that Ted Cruz had no chance. There was no way that was gonna turn out positive for Ted Cruz. Not possible. The deck was stacked. (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t have&#8230; (interruption) No, it\u2019s not up to me to tell him. He\u2019s got people around that know this. If I know Cruz, he looks at those kind of things as challenges. If he could get to somebody like that, then he\u2019s got a chance.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure he looks as every one of those things as a golden opportunity and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t blame him for that.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Chris in St. Louis. Welcome, sir. Great to have you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, Rush. Great day. Long time no talk to you. I want to talk about that guy. Ted Cruz had that little thing yesterday. It&#8230; Here\u2019s my theory. It seemed to me he decided to pick out &#8212; and I\u2019m a Trump supporter, okay? &#8212; the kind that probably wasn\u2019t the most with it, okay? &#8216;Cause I think Cruz wanted to make it as an opportunity to make us Trump supporters look like idiots. Well, it kind of backfired on him. I think the guy would have had a little bit more upstairs to actually question what Cruz was asking him when he brought up the Second Amendment, that Trump supported Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_121962\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/CruzRushPhonesWeGo-Cruz2.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nThat was 20-something years ago. People change. I was a Democrat up until Obama\u2019s second term. Never again. I mean, it took me awhile for him to basically put my life into the hole. I make&#8230; Okay, I\u2019m middle class, make a decent amount of money. But goods and services keep going up; my wages stay the same. I think Cruz is part of the establishment. He would not get my vote. I\u2019m not gonna sit there and call him Lyin\u2019 Ted, whatever. He does lie about&#8230; All politics is lies about things, okay? But I think that he picked that guy out \u2019cause&#8230; I mean, I know it\u2019s Indiana, but he looked like a Hoosier. The guy was missing teeth, and he really didn\u2019t have any substance upstairs &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, let me jump in and explain to you&#8230; Look, first thing is, I understand people would be offended if you\u2019re a Trump supporter by my calling the guy brain-dead. I was describing not his actual existence. The role he was playing there was a brain-dead Trump supporter who was not interested &#8212; closed-minded, not interested &#8212; in what Cruz had to say. My problem with this is I can\u2019t not make this personal, because I\u2019ve had this kind of thing happen to me. I\u2019ve been in&#8230; That may not be the way to put it. I\u2019ve been involved in things like this.<\/p>\n<p>My experiences as host of this show in dealing in situations like that are many and varied and multifaceted. Now, I just want to tell you something about Ted Cruz. I mean, you can believe it or not. Ted Cruz did not cross that street thinking that he was&#8230; How did you say it? You described Cruz talking that way, approaching that guy in a way I disagreed with, and I thought how it described&#8230; You said, &#8220;Cruz crossed the street thinking&#8230;&#8221; (interruption) No, not the Hoosier. It\u2019s not that. His objective in crossing the street was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>(interruption) Find what he said Cruz was gonna find across the street and do. Keep going back further. Ah. I want to read the transcription: &#8220;I think Cruz wanted to make it an opportunity to make Trump supporters look like idiots.&#8221; That\u2019s it: &#8220;like idiots.&#8221; That is not why Cruz crossed the street. He didn\u2019t. He saw an opportunity here. He was not trying to make the guy look like an idiot. Ted Cruz is trying to make himself look like who he is. Let me just tell you, Ted Cruz&#8230; Look, I don\u2019t talk to Ted Cruz. I don\u2019t talk to people on the campaign, any campaign.<\/p>\n<p>All I\u2019m doing is imagining. I\u2019ve been in these circumstances, I\u2019ve been faced with this, and Ted Cruz is not trying to make somebody look like an idiot. Ted Cruz is trying to tell this guy that he is believing wrong things about Cruz and that he is believing wrong things about Trump. Ted Cruz crossed that street in earnest. Ted Cruz crossed the street wanting to be honest with the guy. Ted Cruz crossed the street knowing that that guy thinks he\u2019s Lyin\u2019 Ted, knowing that that guy thinks he\u2019s an idiot, knowing that that guy thinks he\u2019s establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz thought he would cross that street and use that guy as an opportunity to tell everybody they\u2019re wrong in what they think about him. If I\u2019m Ted Cruz, I\u2019m frustrated to the heavens at how I\u2019ve been characterized by the Trump campaign and by the media. Lucifer, Zodiac Killer, some of these other characterizations of no fun and serious, all these other insults. And I think Cruz cares deeply about this country and is just as worried as everybody else is that we\u2019re losing it. He\u2019s got specific beliefs about how to save the country, and they\u2019re rooted in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_121965\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cruz-030316.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nBut he can\u2019t get past Lyin\u2019 Ted with people.<\/p>\n<p>So he sees a Trumpster across the street; he sees an opportunity. It wasn\u2019t to ridicule the Trump guy. It was to try to tell everybody watching that bit that Cruz is not who they think he is. And that\u2019s what was&#8230; I\u2019ve learned you can\u2019t do that, not in a circumstance like that. (sigh) It\u2019s one of these really frustrating things. How many of you&#8230;? If I can be personal a minute just to illustrate, how many of you &#8212; even after 27 years &#8212; run into people who\u2019ve never listened to me?<\/p>\n<p>You do, and you like the program, and you hear people say the weirdest, stupidest things about me that you know are not true, and you try to tell \u2019em. They won\u2019t believe you; they won\u2019t listen; they don\u2019t want to believe it. But you force them to listen, maybe, and then they change their mind afterward. That\u2019s all Ted Cruz is trying to do, is change some people\u2019s minds who have believed a bunch of BS about him.<\/p>\n<p>Not because he wants to make them look bad but because he wants to get elected to save the country. He\u2019s serious about that. He\u2019s not a liar. He\u2019s not a reprobate. His character is as great as anybody\u2019s could be in 2016 America. He is serious all the time. He may have trouble looking like a regular guy. He may have trouble looking like he laughs and goes to ball games and so forth. But he is just as committed to saving the country as anybody the hell else is in this campaign and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>So he\u2019s looking&#8230; We\u2019re down to the last gasp here. This is Indiana. The election is the next day. He sees some Trump people across the street. He looks at it as one last opportunity to get through to people, not to ridicule them. He\u2019s hoping to gain their respect! He\u2019s hoping to make them understand that he is not what they think of him. That\u2019s all it is. The frustrating thing is, I know that it doesn\u2019t work. It never has worked. Because you\u2019re immediately on the defensive when you do it.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re talking to this guy who\u2019s got this smirk on his face who doesn\u2019t want to believe anything he already doesn\u2019t believe. So he sees Cruz walk across the street, and all he sees is an opportunity to humiliate Cruz. &#8220;Trump! Trump!Trump!Trump! Lyin\u2019 Ted! Lyin\u2019 Ted! Lyin\u2019 Ted!&#8221; Meanwhile, Cruz doesn\u2019t give up. He keeps trying to tell the guy who he is, keeps trying to tell the guy what\u2019s important, keeps trying to tell the guy that Trump\u2019s lying to you him, blah, blah, all this stuff. It took Richard Nixon close to 10 years to change the perception of him the media built. And it happened in a town hall meeting on a national TV show that nobody knew was coming in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That be Georgia in Hammonton, New Jersey. George, you\u2019re next. Great to have you with us today. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay, Rush. Thank you for taking my call. Been with you for many years. Love you. I just have this feeling &#8212; I don\u2019t know why &#8212; but I just have a feeling that you\u2019re a Cruz supporter. Not a Trump supporter, I can\u2019t find that, but that\u2019s how I feel. But the reason I called, I just wanted to defend the guy that you called brain-dead yesterday. I watched that interview from the beginning, and, you know, we\u2019ll call him &#8220;braid-dead&#8221; since we don\u2019t know his name. He was a very polite protester. He was standing on the street with a Trump sign, and he wasn\u2019t bothering anybody, and, lo and behold, who comes along to cross the street, Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_121972\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/TrumpHillaryCruz.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nNow, Cruz confronted him, and in the very beginning of the conversation, the number 1237 came up, and the guy knew what 1237 was, and he told Cruz in his opinion that Trump was gonna hit the 1237 and in his opinion would probably go over that. And then he also asked Cruz a question. He said, &#8220;I\u2019d like to ask you a question. Why don\u2019t you step out of the race because you\u2019ve indicated that Kasich should step out, and, since you\u2019ve indicated that, you think that Kasich can\u2019t make it, and neither do we think that you can, why don\u2019t you step out?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, the reason I mentioned these couple things to you, that doesn\u2019t seem to me as a brain-dead person. That\u2019s just my opinion. And a brain-dead person is just gonna stand there and look brain-dead. This guy had some some some substance there. So I didn\u2019t think it was fair that you labeled him as brain-dead. Then Cruz started his stump speech. And the guy was polite. He was listening and listening and listening, and Cruz was going over all his stump speech. And I think the guy had had it and finally didn\u2019t want to hear anything more, and he started yelling, you know, Lyin\u2019 Ted, Lyin\u2019 Ted, and he had had it. And that\u2019s just my opinion. And I &#8212; I just feel that you labeled him wrong. And I might even think that sometimes maybe I might be part of the brain-dead crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing I just wanted to put in there real quick, I have a cleaning lady that was in my house yesterday, and she\u2019s from Thailand. And Trump came on television, and she looked up and she said, I used to work for him. I live 30 miles from Atlantic City. So she said, I used to work for him. And my wife said, what did you think? Again. And she said, he was very nice, he was a very nice person, he treated me with respect, and so did he treat all of us.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they were just cleaning people in Trump\u2019s casino. One other quickie. I was in a restaurant a couple weeks ago, and the owner who I know came up to me, and he knows I\u2019m a Trump guy, and he said I just gotta tell you something, he said I just had a guy was in here, and he got caught up in Trump\u2019s problems with the casino and he lost a hundred thousand dollars in the bankruptcy. He said, but I\u2019m gonna tell you something. I lost a hundred G\u2019s, he says I\u2019m gonna tell you, I\u2019m voting for him. You know why? He\u2019s a straight shooter. He said he got caught up in a bad situation, and he did his very best, he says, so he\u2019s got my vote. I just wanted to pass these things on, and I want to tell you, I love you, I\u2019ll always be with you.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_121973\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRUZ-White-House-and-Flag.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nRUSH: I appreciate that, sir. I do. I don\u2019t know &#8212; you\u2019ve been on hold for a while, and I don\u2019t know if you heard while on hold my explanation of this entire event with Cruz and the brain-dead guy. Sorry. I just couldn\u2019t. With the Einstein Trump supporter. I don\u2019t need to rehash it again. It was just a half hour ago so whenever I &#8212; maybe an hour ago now that I that went through it. There\u2019s one point, and nobody here\u2019s got any animus for Trump either. Nobody can accuse me of any of that. Two things, you know, who Trump is and what kind of guy he is, had nothing to do with that Cruz event. I just think it was a lost cause from the minute Cruz crossed the street, and I wish he hadn\u2019t done it, but I know his motivation. I know he was trying to get through to the guy. You call it stump speech.<\/p>\n<p>Just saying one more time, Trump is &#8212; I mean, Cruz is tired of being lied about, mischaracterized, he\u2019s desperate to try to get through to people, wants to win this, loves the country, he wants it fixed, he wants it saved and so forth and so on. He\u2019s got his theories and ideas about how to do it. But he\u2019s not Lyin\u2019 Ted and his dad didn\u2019t help Lee Harvey Oswald kill JFK, and he\u2019s not the Zodiac killer. You know, he\u2019s got people out there thinking that he is. Oh, yeah, the four mistresses, none of which have come forward yet. Another National Enquirer story there. I mean, how can a guy who\u2019s so universally reviled and hated and here\u2019s another, it\u2019s all, you know what, you know what I read yesterday, last night, something about his daughters were so afraid of him, they won\u2019t be in the same room at him at home. Of course it\u2019s garbage, but this is this kind of stuff that\u2019s out there.<\/p>\n<p>And, you know, Trump supporters or anybody else, media, hey, I understand it, your daughters hate you, too, Lyin\u2019 Ted, is that true? The one thing I didn\u2019t finish that I need to explain here, I mentioned Cruz is essentially trying to change this public perception of him that has &#8212; that has been created by other people, and you and I can\u2019t do it. A point that I made, it took Richard Nixon 10 years. Richard Nixon for most of his life was hated and reviled anyway. He was hated and reviled when he was Ike\u2019s vice president, was hated and reviled after that, then he happened to beat a woman in California named Helen Gahagan Douglas, the Hillary of her day, and hated Nixon!!!!! And he was exiled in 1962, he was gone, he may as well have just walked into the sea in San Clemente and not come back.<\/p>\n<p>And then 1968 Roger Ailes puts together a town hall meeting with Nixon &#8212; live prime time TV, Nixon in the round just answering questions from people and totally recaptured and rebuilt his public image on that one hour-long TV show, but it took him ten years to do it and then Watergate came along and he lost it again. So it\u2019s a tough thing. It\u2019s very frustrating when you are mischaracterized that way. It really doesn\u2019t happen to liberals. It does not happen to leftists. They don\u2019t get &#8212; not by the media. And liberals don\u2019t get made fun of on Saturday Night Live and all of that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Josh in Jackson Center, Pennsylvania. You\u2019re first today. Great to have you on the program. Hi. CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to be on with you. RUSH: Thank you very much. CALLER: I\u2019d just like to ask you to please stop calling us Trump supporters names. 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