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RUSH: Folks, this is classic. I have to tell you, this whole Trump-Ted Cruz thing is classic. And I\u2019m gonna tell you how it\u2019s classic. <\/p>\n

For those of you who have any remaining doubts or maybe have never even considered this, Donald Trump has a performer\u2019s sensitivity, a performer\u2019s ego. It is in his blood. He instinctively is a performer, and he gets it. What he did with this yesterday… I mean, everybody\u2019s talking about it. Whether they approve of it or whether they don\u2019t, they\u2019re all talking about it. Which may be Trump\u2019s objective. I don\u2019t know. But the fact of the matter is somebody blurted something out in his audience that he would love to say himself but doesn\u2019t dare. And so he thought really quickly…<\/p>\n

“Oh, do I dare? Did I just call somebody call Ted Cruz…?” And he immediately jumps into gear and does exactly… My friends, I must confess: I\u2019ve done it on this program before. It\u2019s the way you do this, in fact. When you want to say something — a word, a phrase — but you don\u2019t dare own it, you find somebody else who said it and then say, “Sorry, folks! I\u2019m sorry! I didn\u2019t say it. Somebody else did. And if you want to be fully informed, I\u2019m sorry, I have to tell you.” The way it works out with Trump, he\u2019s out there blathering on, and some woman in the audience calls Ted Cruz “the word.” Cookie called me today. <\/p>\n

Cookie sent me a note: “Do you want me to bleep the word or do you want me to leave it in?” I didn\u2019t even hear it, folks. I was indisposed last night in the midst of a (sigh) minor, minor emergency\/crisis. Nothing to do… No, no. I was occupied for six hours. I didn\u2019t know any… (interruption) No, it wasn\u2019t the battery life. (chuckling) It wasn\u2019t the battery life issue. I was collecting data for engineers, but it was not the battery. It was a totally different thing. It doesn\u2019t matter. The point is, I didn\u2019t know any of this has happened \u2019til I got here today.<\/line><\/p>\n

Cookie sends me this e-mail: “Do you want me to bleep what Trump said?” So I said, “Did he use it as…? Was he calling Cruz a coward, or was he using it in the physiological sense?” She said, “No, no. He\u2019s calling him a coward.” So I said, “Don\u2019t bleep it. Don\u2019t bleep it.” So then she sends the transcripts, and I said, “Whoa,” and I looked at it. I knew immediately what had happened. This woman is in the audience called Cruz a name, and Trump desperately wants that out there. He wants whoever didn\u2019t hear it to hear it. He can\u2019t dare… He might have planted it. Who knows?<\/p>\n

But the point is, he couldn\u2019t say is but he wanted it said.<\/p>\n

So how do you do it?<\/p>\n

Only a performer\u2019s instinct, only a performer\u2019s ego could cause somebody to react this quickly, this smoothly, and make all this happen the way it did. You might think it\u2019s horrible, you might want to condemn it, you might think it\u2019s representative of the rot and decay of our culture. I wouldn\u2019t disagree with you on that, but I\u2019m simply talking about, “How do I make this happen? Who else could get away with this?” Meanwhile, the political class are wringing their hands. “My God, I can\u2019t believe our politics has been so soiled! I can\u2019t believe it.” Like these guys never even think of the word? They\u2019re sitting there in the faculty lounge and the word never comes up? BS. <\/p>\n

These guys may not be saying the word, but they\u2019re out there chasing it all over campus, and everybody knows it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now we have Trump out there. Look at this. You got Trump out there. A woman in his audience calls Ted Cruz a “pussy,” and everybody has an absolute cow. By the way, this is how you do it. <\/p>\n

“I didn\u2019t say it, folks. Don\u2019t be mad at me. I\u2019m just informing you what went on out there. There\u2019s no way I can talk about it. ‘PC whip,\u2019 maybe, but it doesn\u2019t quite get there.” But in the meantime, look at all of the outrage. Look at the feigned outrage. Look at, “Oh, my God, what\u2019s happening to our politics? Oh, Lord, this is so coarse. Ooh!” Meanwhile, in the White House we had Bill Clinton having sex with interns under the desk, in the study, with who knows whoever. He\u2019s accused of rape, and the libs said, “Hey, it\u2019s between him and his wife.” <\/p>\n

“Hey, none of our business.” <\/p>\n

“Hey, it didn\u2019t affect the way he governed, the way he did his job.” <\/p>\n

“Hey, it\u2019s sex. It\u2019s none of your business.” <\/p>\n