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RUSH: We have the contretemps between Ted Cruz and the Trumpster. To put all this in context, bring it into focus, the Trumpster got mad at something Cruz did, and Cruz didn\u2019t do it. A PAC published a photo of the wife of the Trumpster, Melania, from 15 years ago in GQ, back in her modeling days, and it was, ah, kind of risque. She wasn\u2019t wearing much, if anything.<\/p>\n

Well, this offended the Trumpster, and so the Trumpster warned Cruz to be careful or he would spill the beans on Cruz\u2019s wife, Heidi. Everybody said, “What are the beans? What\u2019s there to spill about Heidi Cruz?” And it turns out there was something. It would not have amounted to much of anything. It was something from 15 years ago, but it never came out. It never really mattered much because the Trumpster fired back with a tweet of his own. Side-by-side photos of Heidi Cruz looking like she was mad at somebody, her mouth is wide open, she\u2019s screaming at something, right next to a picture of the Trump\u2019s wife, Melania, looking like she looks.<\/p>\n

And the Trumpster says: “No need to spill the beans. The picture says it all.” And I have to tell you — and Mr. Snerdley confirmed this with me today. For the first time a number of women — the Megyn Kelly didn\u2019t evoke much of a reaction from women. The insults of some of the other women, like Carly Fiorina and her face, no big deal. But this one for some reason has resonated with a lot of women. And Trump has a gender gap already. Details coming up. Don\u2019t know how serious it is, but it\u2019s said to be a serious gender gap, serious problem with women even before this. And this side-by-side picture of Heidi Cruz next to Melania with the tweet: “No need to spill the beans. Picture says a thousand words.” For some reason all that other stuff about women didn\u2019t raise a hackle, but this one has.<\/p>\n

Has it with you? I have to tell you, I\u2019m curious about it. I mean, let\u2019s review this. (imitating Trump) “She had blood coming out of — well, everywhere.” I don\u2019t know. Hey, you know what, no big deal. It\u2019s funny, hardy-har-har. She kind of deserved it \u2019cause of the way she treated Trumpster. I mean, this is the reaction people had. Then Carly Fiorina. (imitating Trump) “Who would want to elect somebody with a face like that,” Trump said. No big deal.<\/p>\n

What is it about this? Is it that there\u2019s a picture? Is that what it is? I mean, you have to admit here, folks, that some of the things — and I\u2019ve got my objectivity cap on here. I\u2019m just reviewing all this. Some of the things that Trump has said about women prior to this Heidi Cruz thing, I mean, do they not measure up? Are they not just as egregious? Are they not just as over the line? But they didn\u2019t seem to be harmful. Women didn\u2019t seem to be particularly upset over any of that, not like this. This is in its own league.<\/p>\n

And then — I don\u2019t know if I got the timeline exactly right, but somewhere in the midst of all this a very hot rumor starts percolating out there across the Internet on Twitter and Facebook. What? What now? That Cruz has been catting around out there with five different mistresses. It turns out the National Enquirer is the source for this. There isn\u2019t any story yet. It\u2019s just scuttlebutt out there, that The Enquirer has the data, has the information, sitting on it. Everybody says, “Wait, wait, wait, wait, Ted Cruz? Five mistresses? Ted Cruz?” People can\u2019t imagine Ted Cruz ever taking his clothes off even to go to bed. Am I right? Five? And then we find out that it\u2019s not being given a lot of credence out there on the Internet because it just sounds so incredulous. And if The Enquirer has this news now, where was it a month ago, where was it two months ago? Why now?<\/p>\n

And then, ladies and gentlemen, New York Magazine. “Donald Trump\u2019s Alliance with the National Enquirer,<\/a>” is the headline of the story. Oh, and now this is really getting good. It\u2019s an October 2015 article from last year. Just last October, last year. “Trump and Enquirer CEO David Pecker…” Is that not a great name for the guy that runs the National Enquirer, by the way?<\/p>\n

“Trump and Enquirer CEO David Pecker,” that\u2019s P-e-c-k-e-r, David Pecker, “have been friends for years. ‘They\u2019re very close,\u2019 said a source close to the Enquirer. In July 2013, Trump even tweeted that Pecker should become CEO of Time magazine, which at the time was being spun off from its corporate parent, Time Warner. ‘He\u2019d make it exciting,'” Pecker. Pecker would make TIME magazine “exciting and win awards!”<\/p>\n

So of all the things that have happened in this campaign — of all the things that people thought they would never, ever see in a presidential campaign, of all the things people thought they\u2019d never hear in a presidential campaign — a lot of them go by with a ho-hum reaction. This thing comes along, the side-by-side picture of Heidi Cruz and Melania Trump. “No need to spill the beans. Picture says it all,” a thousand whatever, worth a thousand words. And for the first time that I\u2019m aware of, women…<\/p>\n

Now, by the way, let me acknowledge: I know there are a lot of you ladies, women in the audience that are pro-Cruz, and this is not the first time that you have been offended by Trump. It\u2019s not the first time you\u2019ve said so. We\u2019re talking about people who heretofore we know who have looked the other way or been unmoved, didn\u2019t seem to care, however you want to categorize it or describe it. This one has seemed to result, create reaction of a less than a favorable nature. So we don\u2019t know where this is headed.<\/p>\n

Of course, Cruz has for the second time now, responded in defiant defense of his wife. Remember the first time? We played the audio sound bite of him defending Heidi the first time, and we had a sound bite of Carol Costello on CNN laughing about it derisively. “Ha-ha, ha-ha-ha! Gotta defend the little woman! Ha, ha-ha-ha!” I\u2019m sitting here thinking, “She\u2019s a product of the modern feminist era. She\u2019s a liberal media member. What is so worthy of mocking a man defending his wife? Is that not even supposed to happen?<\/p>\n

“Are women so equal, are women so on their own that when they were offended, when they are impugned, when they are unfairly criticized, their husbands are not supposed to say anything? So that when their husbands do, we want to laugh at it and make fun of it?” It\u2019s another thing I need to have explained to me. You know, when is it okay to defend your wife and when is it not? When will liberals appreciate you defending your wife and when will they make fun of you for doing it, and under what circumstances?<\/p>\n


\nIt doesn\u2019t matter who you are when you defend your wife. But regardless, there she was snickering at it, laughing at Cruz, mocking him for defending “the little woman.” What? She\u2019s a working woman. Heidi Cruz is exactly what the modern era of feminazis suggested all women should do. Heidi Cruz tried to do it all. Heidi Cruz believes you could do it all, and she set out to do it all, and she did. And she found out as she was doing it all that it was more than she wanted to do. But Heidi Cruz has accomplished a heck of a lot more than 95% of the women in the media reporting on her and making fun of her and mocking her.<\/p>\n

It is just classic.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s constant Drive-By Media people making fun of and laughing at gallantry, laughing at chivalry, laughing at valor. Then you have Bill and Hillary with Bill doing what he was doing and Hillary blaming it on the right-wing conspiracy and so forth, and there was no condemnation of what Bill Clinton did. There was no condemnation of the way Hillary reacted to any of it, and Hillary was responsible for — Hillary was involved in — all of the “bimbo eruption” stuff. But I know, I know. They\u2019re liberals. They\u2019re Democrats.<\/p>\n

Therefore, they\u2019re protected.<\/p>\n

I get that. I just look at this stuff that\u2019s happening. So much of it is inexplicable to me, given how previous similar examples have barely gotten any kind of reaction at all.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just got another e-mail. They\u2019ve been coming in all morning long. And look, I know it\u2019s all anecdotal, folks. Don\u2019t… I\u2019m not one of these people that tries to tell you what the country\u2019s doing based on what my e-mail tells me or even callers to the program. But I\u2019m just telling you, there\u2019s been an inordinate volume of this today. Another guy says, “My mother was all in for Trump until this,” \u2019til this Heidi Cruz thing. It\u2019s still… Yeah, I have to tell you, the Heidi Cruz is what it is, but some of the stuff that came before, it\u2019s not beanbag.<\/p>\n

I mean, there\u2019s been… (interruption) Really? You think…? (interruption) I\u2019m just confused, that\u2019s all. Not… (interruption) Oh, is that it? “You can get away with criticizing certain women because they are unlikable, dislikable.” So if they\u2019re unlikable in the first place and Trump has to hit \u2019em, fine and dandy. But Heidi Cruz is not dislikable or unlikable and therefore it\u2019s over the top? (interruption) Is that what it is? (interruption) Okay! (interruption) No, I\u2019m not arguing. I\u2019m trying to understand. I\u2019m the last guy who claims to understand how some people think.<\/p>\n

And I will take all the information I can get on this. But this seems to have hit a nerve where others have not. But Heidi Cruz particularly. I mean, again, I think this bears repeating. I will never get over Carol Costello mocking here, mocking Ted Cruz for defending his wife. What if it were you, Carol? I don\u2019t even know if you have a husband. I don\u2019t even know if he\u2019s manly enough to defend you if you ever came under assault. But would you laugh at him if he did?<\/p>\n

Would you make fun of your own husband if he defended you when somebody came after you? I don\u2019t understand. Here\u2019s Heidi Cruz, who is a role model for what the modern era of feminism. Take the ideology out of feminism. She obviously thought she could have it all: motherhood, career — I mean, stellar career, top-of-the-ladder career — marriage, motherhood, the whole ball of wax. They laugh at her — and, meanwhile, women who haven\u2019t done 10% of what she\u2019s done, you can\u2019t talk about. You\u2019re not allowed to categorize or whatever.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a dichotomy.<\/p>\n

It fascinates me.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So we got a full roster of calls and I had chosen the first one I wanted to take, I told Snerdley tell the guy to get ready, we\u2019re coming to him, and he hung up. So I\u2019m gonna tell you what the guy was gonna say. Now, I didn\u2019t talk to him so I\u2019m just going off what Snerdley\u2019s summary of his comment was. Where was he from, was he West Virginia? Is that where? Not that it matters. I just want you to know. The guy was gonna point out, “You know, okay, fine, I understand that this Heidi Cruz and Melania Trump thing doesn\u2019t look good for Trump, but you gotta understand something.”<\/p>\n

The guy was gonna say, “Trump doesn\u2019t have a PAC. All these other guys have PACs, which means they\u2019ve got an out. They\u2019ve got an excuse. They\u2019ve got a mechanism whereby they can say, ‘I didn\u2019t do it, I don\u2019t know what was going on.\u2019 But Trump, he\u2019s a real man, Trump doesn\u2019t have a PAC, so Trump doesn\u2019t shift blame to anybody else. When something goes wrong, Trump takes the blame himself like a real man.” And that was gonna be the guy\u2019s point. (interruption) What, is this basically the same thing? Okay, somebody wants to make that point I guess in Las Vegas here. This is Wendy. Wendy, glad you called. You\u2019re up first on Open Line Friday. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n


\nCALLER: Hey, Rush. I\u2019m so happy to talk to you, and keep doing what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re one of the most objective hosts out there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I love it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a bit of a problem with Mr. Cruz. You know, he didn\u2019t put out the ad in Utah that, you know, Liz Mair and them, of Melania. He was more than happy to take all the votes that it got him in Utah, and I never once heard him —<\/p>\n

RUSH: See?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — defend Mrs. Trump. But yet, you know, he reaps the benefits, but he doesn\u2019t take any of the blame. And he never has to. He can always afford to take the high road, because he\u2019s got all his attack dogs out there doing the work for him. You got Glenn Beck three hours a day bashing Trump, and he\u2019s made hay out of Mrs. Trump\u2019s modeling career. His supporters, the same thing. These photographs of Mrs. Trump have been out there —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so let me see if I understand what you\u2019re saying. A PAC for Ted Cruz puts up a photo of Melania Trump practically nude that offends Donald, causes him to react. Cruz can then say, “Wait a minute, my PAC did that. I had nothing to do with that. We\u2019re not allowed by law to be in contact with the PAC. I had nothing to do with it.” But your point is, the PAC still did it, and Cruz gets to benefit from it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And with a built-in excuse to keep his reputation up saying, “I didn\u2019t do it. I had nothing to do with it. I would not have approved of it had I known.” Meanwhile, Trump does not have one of those. Trump doesn\u2019t have a PAC. So everything Trump does he faces squarely and it\u2019s on his shoulders, he makes no excuses, and he\u2019s a real man, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes. And Cruz, I wouldn\u2019t debate him, either. I mean, look at his background. Look what he\u2019s done his whole life? And I even had a body language expert confirm this for me because there was always something that I just didn\u2019t like about Cruz. And trust me, I tried to like him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You said you wouldn\u2019t debate Cruz, either.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I would not.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Why? Because he\u2019s so good at it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. It doesn\u2019t matter if everything he says is true or not. I knit, right? I knit and I cook, and he could debate me on blueberry pie and put me away. I\u2019d be at such a disadvantage.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So Trump is wise to avoid that confrontation because there\u2019s nobody better than Cruz at it, essentially?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. And that doesn\u2019t mean that Cruz is right about everything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s more qualified than Trump \u2019cause a real man, because Trump doesn\u2019t have a PAC.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, let me ask you this. Forget the PAC angle and all of that. What do you think of the tweet with the photo that Trump posted, the side by side photo of Heidi Cruz and Melania?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I didn\u2019t like it, necessarily, but I look at it as defending his wife. And, you know, he\u2019s mad about it. I would be too, but of course, you know Ted, he quotes movie lines.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But Ted had nothing to do with it, by your own admission, just like Trump says —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it doesn\u2019t mean he didn\u2019t know about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait a second, just like Trump says he\u2019s not responsible for what anybody in his audience does vis-a-vis beating up on these protesters, you can\u2019t hold him responsible. You just said you can\u2019t hold Cruz response. His PAC did it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Trump gets vilified every day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, he does.<\/p>\n

CALLER: In other words, he has to take responsibility for what your supporters do, and they do what you tell \u2019em, and somehow Cruz gets to walk away.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Let me ask you this. I know you\u2019re a Trump supporter. I\u2019m asking these questions so that I can learn.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m putting this in the hopper here to learn. Do not infer a tone of criticism or anything else.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When Trump said what he said about Megyn Kelly, either any of those things or all of them combined, why do you think those comments did not really cause Trump a problem compared to this instance with the photo of Heidi Cruz and Melania, which obviously has? This is different. There\u2019s some Trump people that have problems with this. Why didn\u2019t they have problems with any of the other stuff that had happened with Trump and Megyn Kelly, for example?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Megyn Kelly started it right off. I mean, she did not give context to that Rosie O\u2019Donnell incident, you know, the show that led up to Trump saying what he said. She immediately, “Well, you insult women, call them fat —<\/p>\n

RUSH: She — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — pigs,” and I didn\u2019t see it that way at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. But she\u2019s also in the arena, right? You say she started it, she\u2019s in the arena, she got the ball rolling, she insulted Trump.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And so when that happens then anything that comes back at her, fair game; is that right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Now I don\u2019t want to put words in your mouth. Is that what you think?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: She was trying to do a “gotcha” and it backfired. And so, you know, too bad, too sad.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, does this worry you? You\u2019re a Trump supporter? You obviously have seen or are aware that some people are a little bothered by this one. Are you worried about it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah, and it bothers me, too, on both sides. You know, I don\u2019t like either one of them going after the other\u2019s wife, but the Cruz supporter seemed to be kind of morally superior —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — I guess, because this photograph of Melania Trump has been out for a long time. And I\u2019ve had people sending it to me on Facebook, “Oh, did you see this? Is this who you want to be our first lady?” And this was months ago. So they have been using this, the Cruz supporters having using this for a long time. This is not something that just happened last week. And so then, you know, an anti-Trump group uses it in an ad in Utah to get votes, you know, trying to be morally —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Getting the moral votes. It just rubs me the wrong way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you don\u2019t see the day where maybe for the good of the party and the possibility of actually winning the election that Trump and Cruz could bury the hatchet and form a unity ticket?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I wish that they would, because there\u2019d be no stopping them. But I see Trump supporters that if Cruz is the nominee, they\u2019re gonna vote for \u2019em, but I don\u2019t see that coming —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, Pat Buchanan, Pat Buchanan was on TV last night. I talked to Pat Buchanan for the next issue — it\u2019s out now — of the Limbaugh Letter<\/a>. It was a fascinating interview, and he\u2019s very excited by what Trump\u2019s doing. It mirrors much of what Buchanan was trying to do in 1992, 1996. But Buchanan said that if Trump ends up with a majority of delegates, but not enough, not 1,237, if they take the nomination away from him, that Trump supporters are leaving. They will not vote. They\u2019ll take their ball and go home, and he wouldn\u2019t blame them.<\/p>\n

He said the party better be very careful here. And I heard this, and I said, “Pat, this is what the party wants. The party is prepared.” I got this story here in the Politico. They\u2019re talking about how they\u2019re ready to vote for Hillary. These establishment types are ready to vote for Hillary rather than vote Trump. And if Trump is denied this nomination with a majority delegates, with a plurality of delegates, if he\u2019s denied and if Buchanan\u2019s right and people like you say screw it and walk away, leave the party, don\u2019t vote, that guarantees Hillary. I\u2019m telling you, there are some in the establishment that would love for that to happen. ‘Cause in their minds that would save the party.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m absolutely voting for the nominee.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are, no matter what?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Even if it\u2019s Cruz, you\u2019d vote for the nominee?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah, I would vote —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What if the nominee\u2019s Jeb? What if the nominee\u2019s Scott Walker? What if they pull strings and give Paul Ryan the nomination?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was originally for Scott Walker. I was originally — before he announced.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are a regular listener here, then.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am. Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve been listening since 1989.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Appreciate that. Really do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wouldn\u2019t miss it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wendy, I appreciate it. I really, really do. I have to go because I\u2019m out of time, but I really appreciate your frankness here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I love you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have great one, same here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, there\u2019s an important distinction for Donald Trump on this PAC that ran the ad in Utah of the question of Mrs. Trump, Melania Trump. That was not a pro-Cruz PAC. Such things are not possible. Candidates are not allowed… No candidates are legally allowed to coordinate with Political Action Committees, and therefore pro this, pro that… What this PAC actually is, is an anti-Trump PAC, and this PAC will be running ads anti-Trump that might look like they\u2019re pro-someone else. Depending on where they\u2019re run, they could appear that they are advocating for Cruz.<\/p>\n

But this is an important distinction to make out there that this PAC in Utah — well, that ran the ad in Utah — is an anti-Trump pack. A candidate is not… (interruption) They\u2019re shouting, “He didn\u2019t denounce it! He didn\u2019t denounce it!” Meaning Cruz. You can\u2019t have any contract. You can\u2019t tell a PAC what to do or not. You start doing that and the FEC is gonna come at you. You cannot tell a PAC what to do or not do. That\u2019s the first caller\u2019s point, the one that hung up. The first caller that hung up was gonna say that a PAC is the greatest out a candidate has, \u2019cause you can\u2019t talk about \u2019em.<\/p>\n

So a PAC can do a candidate\u2019s dirty work and the candidate can\u2019t say one word about it, legally. If there is any indication there\u2019s been coordination, that will get everybody in a lot of trouble — lasting trouble — in terms of a campaign. So coming out and denouncing it, that\u2019s even risky, because that sends a message to the PAC, “Hey, the candidate doesn\u2019t want you doing that,” and you can\u2019t. No coordination whatsoever is permitted. Now, there are a lot of people like that first caller that hung up, I\u2019m sure. If I had a chance to interrogate the guy, I\u2019m sure he\u2019s one of many who believe, “Don\u2019t lie to us! Don\u2019t try to fool us!<\/p>\n

“We know that candidates coordinate with the PACs all the time. You trying to tell us that the Democrats don\u2019t coordinate with their PACs? Who are you kidding?” I know a lot of people think that\u2019s all part of what the establishment is able to pull off. But it\u2019s not allowed. There\u2019s no connection. A candidate would be creating a lot of trouble for him- or herself to acknowledge the PAC, either approval or disavowing it.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Gail in Birmingham, Alabama. Hi, Gail. You\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, hello. Nice talking to you again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve been watching this, listening to this for hours over all the media, and I\u2019m a little troubled because I see the value of Cruz, and I understand, if it is correct, it\u2019s an anti-Trump ad. But Cruz took advantage of it. I listened to your last caller, and you know, you didn\u2019t have to do that. It seems to be a pattern of Mr. Cruz. He\u2019s a lawyer.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. It\u2019s my hearing. I want to make sure I hear you right. You say he took advantage of it and he didn\u2019t have to do…? What do you mean?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he did take advantage, in the same way he treated dear Dr. Carson. And it\u2019s a pattern. I hate to say this. I\u2019m a lawyer and I don\u2019t want to say unkind things about lawyers but as a general rule, you have to be cautious because they\u2019re rather… They\u2019re rather… I don\u2019t want to use the word “slippery,” but they certainly don\u2019t —<\/p>\n

RUSH: While you use the word “slippery.”<\/p>\n


\nCALLER: Well, I use the word that you take advantage of a situation to get on top of another and sort of prevail.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is it? Who got top of who? What are you adding on this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m adding to this all that Cruz had to do was to immediately call Mr. Trump and say, “Mr. Trump, this is absolutely wrong. I want to stand with you. I want a press conference. I want us both to denounce that PAC. You have a lovely wife, and that woman is a mother of a 10-year-old child, and I don\u2019t condone it. I want to stand with you and denounce it.” A good man would have done that. And —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what do you think Trump would have done with a call like that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I don\u2019t know. Knowing —<\/p>\n

RUSH: “I just got a call from Lyin\u2019 Ted who said he had nothing to do with it. Does he think I\u2019m a fool?”<\/p>\n

CALLER: If I were counsel to Mr. Cruz, then, I would have established that he would go… Instead of doing the foolishness, pointing his finger into a camera and acting like he\u2019s defending his wife, he should have gotten on camera and say, “I immediately denounce it. I\u2019m going to call Mr. Trump and say I denounce it. I stand with him. I praise his wife for her career. We had nothing to do with it.” He could have done that, and he would have saved the day for himself. But 10 points against Mr. Cruz for not doing the right thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I cannot believe this. (laughing) This is… You\u2019re good. I have to tell you, you… (laughing) It\u2019s Cruz\u2019s wife that\u2019s been maligned, and you\u2019re calling and telling us how Cruz could have prevented it, so 10 points against Cruz.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely. Cruz could have pulled this off and looked magnanimous. Had he called me, I would have given him that advice. Don\u2019t you go down that road with Mr. Trump, because Mr. Trump seems to have a habit of trying to one-up. If you do something, he does something more dynamic, and neither woman was treated properly, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so how do you hope this ends up?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m… I really would like to see both of them… I would like someone to have a temperament and maybe have a mediator like Dr. Carson, because those two need to get together, because I think the Republican establishment is what I fear, as an American. I fear what is going on in Washington with the Republicans —<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you want…? Now, wait. I\u2019m sorry. Gale, I\u2019ve gotta get the last word in only \u2019cause we\u2019re out of time here. You are so good. All of this somehow is Cruz\u2019s fault. The ad was run against his wife, the insults, and it\u2019s his fault — and now you want somebody who\u2019s endorsed Trump to mediate between the two.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, I knew this was gonna happen. Now I am hearing from women who have no problem with what Trump did. See, I knew that was gonna happen. It\u2019s standard operating procedure. I was not trying to engender it; I just know human nature. I mean, they\u2019re rolling in here now. I mean, I\u2019ve got, “It was, too, a pro-Cruz ad! That PAC, it said, ‘Support Cruz.\u2019 You can\u2019t more pro-Cruz than that. They\u2019re lying about it!” And another one said, “Hey, these PACs are all establishment people. You better keep that in mind, Mr. Limbaugh, as you talk about all this.”<\/p>\n

Right on.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Folks, I don\u2019t want to present this as one-sided. I knew it would happen, too, when I opened the program mentioning that I\u2019ve never seen this kind of a response in the campaign from women that I am seeing now over the Heidi Cruz\/Melania Trump side-by-side photo tweet that Trump put out. Now I\u2019ve got the women reacting to that, inundating me with, “Hey, I don\u2019t care about it!<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve not lost my support for Trump whatsoever. Doesn\u2019t bother me! Heidi Cruz is part of the campaign.” Let me read you one: “At the risk of going against the narrative on your show today, Mr. Limbaugh — since you\u2019re mentioning e-mails from women as a data point. Well, what hit a nerve with me, Mr. Limbaugh, was the BS, ‘It wasn\u2019t me. It was my super PAC.\u2019 Cruz-Melania ad. I thought Cruz\u2019s counterpoint photo for photo was well deserved, and Trump\u2019s response was the lowest level he uses.<\/p>\n


\n“It wasn\u2019t a retweet. It wasn\u2019t even a tweet. And just so you know, Mr. Limbaugh, I am not a Cruz fan, to put it mildly.” And then she points out: “And for all of these people telling you that that ad was an anti-Trump ad and not pro-Cruz, go look at it. It says, ‘Support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.\u2019 It was a pro-Cruz ad, Mr. Limbaugh.” Now, that\u2019s… I mean, it contains data that is consistent with some of the e-mails I\u2019m getting from women who do not want to be thought of as abandoning Trump. So I\u2019m hearing it from all sides here.<\/p>\n

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So the news today is problematic. I mean, it\u2019s somewhat controversial for Cruz. I don\u2019t think this National Enquirer — you never know what kind of life span something like this is gonna have. Are you sure there\u2019s a story, or is it just an Internet rumor that they\u2019re working it? (interruption) Oh, you\u2019ve seen it? All right. Is it on their website? I don\u2019t know. Here\u2019s the problem. The Enquirer, they did break the John Edwards scandal, and they got somebody else\u2019s sex scandal. (interruption) Yeah. Yeah, but that\u2019s long ago. Jesse Jackson\u2019s love child; everybody knew that.<\/p>\n

But John Edwards, when nobody else wanted to go there, nobody else wanted to touch it, they did have that right in every detail. There\u2019s one other. But then they\u2019ve also been way wrong. They had a story that Obama had 12 mistresses; it\u2019s only four. Just kidding. They had a story that Obama had 12 mistresses and there\u2019s no backup for that whatsoever. They\u2019ve shot wide and missed a number of times, too. I don\u2019t know how much traction something like this is gonna get. We\u2019ll see. Time will tell.<\/p>\n

Robin in Toledo. You\u2019re next. Glad you waited. Great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos from the John Kasich stronghold of Toledo, Ohio. So happy to speak with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, thank you, from the John Kasich stronghold. We love those.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I wanted to discuss what you had mentioned in your earlier segment about why women are so mad about the Melania Trump, Heidi Cruz thing that Trump had tweeted out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hm-hm.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And coming to you as someone who doesn\u2019t participate in woman groupthink and as someone who has not necessarily been offended by anything Trump has done up to this point, I wanted to explain what I think is going on with this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And what I think is going on with this is relatability, in one word. Melania Trump took those pictures with the intended reason of having a worldwide audience. She sent those out to a magazine. The whole world was intended on seeing those pictures. So there shouldn\u2019t be such an outrage that the world is now seeing these pictures and having opinions about it. They weren\u2019t private photos. This was something with the intent for the world to see. The Heidi Cruz picture, there is not one woman in America that hasn\u2019t had a bad picture taken of them and think, “Oh, gosh, I hope no one sees that. That looks terrible.” And people can relate to that. You know, women see that and say, “Oh, I would hate if somebody did that to me and sent out my worst photo to the whole world to see and make fun of.” And I think when Trump was —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, Robin, I gotta tell you something, that is an excellent point. In fact, I don\u2019t know too many women who do love photos of themselves, period.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. And to have the worst photo of you possibly sent all over the world and made fun of. And you know, Trump\u2019s minions on Twitter, they are just some vile — and, you know what, like I said, I don\u2019t mind it because I understand what they\u2019re doing. I understand the mindset that Trump is operating in, and it\u2019s okay, but for a lot of people that is not okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s a good distinction. That makes sense to me.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, the rapper and rock ‘n\u2019 roll, R&B crooner Kanye West has said that he\u2019s going to run for president in 2020. Now, as you know, Kanye West is married to Kim Kardashian, and we presume that in 2020 he will still be married to Kim Kardashian. So the question is, what happens (and it\u2019s predictable this will happen) photos of Kim Kardashian\u2019s naked derriere or scantily clad derriere no doubt appear, maybe even as Kanye campaign posters, you know, with a question.<\/p>\n


\nWhat will the reaction there be?<\/p>\n

Will people be outraged that opponents of Kanye West might post such pictures of his wife? Might the reaction be exactly what we just heard? (interruption) “What do you mean, she\u2019s not just those…?” (interruption) Sex tape? Sex tape is what put her on the map, or was it Paris Hilton? Or was it both of them? Well, whatever, Kanye knows \u2019em both. (interruption) She has one. Right. Thank you for that knowledge, Brian. All right, so she has, yeah, a sex tape and all that. The argument can\u2019t be that it\u2019s intrusive because she has put that stuff out there her own, and that\u2019s the point the last caller made.<\/p>\n

Look, Melania Trump was a model. She wanted to get noticed. She posed for photos. The idea was for these photos to be seen. Right. I know. I know it\u2019s 15 years ago, but nevertheless at the time she did it, that\u2019s what it was for. And this was a woman trying to explain why this is different from all the other Trump comments about women, Megyn Kelly to Carly Fiorina to take your pick.<\/p>\n

And her point was that Heidi Cruz has never, ever at any point in her life sought such notice. She has never posed for photos that were intended for public consumption, and that most women can relate to that. Most women don\u2019t like pictures of themselves, and every woman has seen a bad picture of herself and no way wants anybody else to see it. And that\u2019s why this is different. I thought that makes some sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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