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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Audio sound bites I want to start with now. This is Inside Edition. Pop culture, low-information voter TV. Correspondent Megan Alexander reporting about Donald Trump\u2019s call to temporarily stop admitting Muslims to the US. Listen to this.<\/p>\n

ALEXANDER: While many are condemning Trump\u2019s Muslim proposal, conservative talk radio is standing by him. Here\u2019s what Rush Limbaugh said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: He\u2019s confident that a lot of his voters are gonna be able to strip away the bombast and be able to get to the nuts and bolts of what he\u2019s saying, the kernel of truth of what he\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n

ALEXANDER: Even though Trump signed a pledge not to run as a third-party candidate, speculation is running wild that he may change his mind if he fails to win the Republican nomination.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: See, there\u2019s a classic example. Now, this is a low-information show. I mean, it\u2019s pop culture. What is it? Entertainment. Inside Edition. Big whoop. But she\u2019s still a product of J school, and you hear how she opened this? “While many are condemning Trump\u2019s Muslim proposal…” Who are these “many,” Megan? It\u2019s people like you. Most are not! That\u2019s what the news of the day is, Megan. Poll after poll after poll, a plurality, a majority — no matter how you define it — happen to agree with Trump. Yet she opens her report, “Many are condemning what…” <\/p>\n

Meant to convey that, “Ah, most people are condemning what Trump says. You know, he\u2019s in a vacuum. He\u2019s on a small, little island of support! There he is out there, and he\u2019s got these wacko supporters like Limbaugh,” blah, blah, blah. Totally missing it. Failing royally and grandly to understand it. By the way, this third-party pledge business… Here again, folks, your host is looking awfully prescient. You remember when this all happened? Trump\u2019s out there; Reince Priebus had just gone to Trump\u2019s office in Trump Tower.<\/p>\n

Reince Priebus comes down from the tower waving the agreement, “Look what Trump did! Trump signed the pledge! He signed the pledge!” I said, “Wait a second. That\u2019s not the only thing that just happened here.” Yeah, Trump pledged not to go third party, but there was another part of that pledge, and that pledge was that the party would support Trump if he got the nomination. And already John Kasich (whose dad was a mailman), the governor of Ohio, is out talking about how:<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t even think I could support Trump if he\u2019s the nominee.” Other nameless Republicans say, “I\u2019d rather vote for Hillary.” Republican consultants — nameless, running other campaigns — say, “There\u2019s no way I\u2019m voting Trump. No. No, way. If he\u2019s the nominee? No. Even if it\u2019s Cruz, I\u2019m supporting Hillary.” (chuckles) That\u2019s another funny thing. The media is really caught here, and so are the Republicans, because they desperately don\u2019t want Trump, but who\u2019s in second place? Somebody they actually fear more.<\/p>\n

\"large\"They hate Trump; they fear Cruz. Old Ted, he\u2019s been out there biding his time and he has uniquely positioned himself. While the whole Republican Party, practically all of it\u2019s over there with the Democrats and the media, here\u2019s Trump. And then just off to the side there\u2019s little Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz waiting to pick up whatever pieces there might be. And the media\u2019s over here, “Damn, damn we\u2019re surrounded. Oh, my God, look, if we take Trump out, what do we got? We got Cruz. Oh, my God. Where\u2019s Jeb, where\u2019s Jeb?” Five percent. “Oh, no. How much we got left?” Fifty million. “Oh, that\u2019s plenty.” That\u2019s all they can think of. And in none of their strategizing is anybody coming up with any ideas. <\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019re just trying to come up with strategies, uses of the money, but ideas, we\u2019re not hearing any ideas. (interruption) Well, that\u2019s a strategy. Mike Murphy? He\u2019s running Jeb Bush\u2019s PAC. What\u2019s the name of that PAC? It\u2019s Rise to Rise or Run to Rise. There\u2019s $75 million in the PAC, and Mike Murphy openly leaked, I mean, he practically announced he\u2019s thinking of a strategy, and that is to just take every other Republican out, just start oppo research, negative TV ads, negative campaigns, negative spots on every Republican except Trump. <\/p>\n

The people said to Murphy, “Why are you thinking of doing that?” ‘Cause we want a two-man race. We want it Jeb and Trump, and when it\u2019s just Jeb and Trump, you wait, Republican primary voters, no way are they not gonna elect Jeb. Everybody looked at him and said, “Really? Your evidence for this is…?” (Laughing) Hey, Mike, have you thought about, if you really do this, if you go scorched earth on all these guys, Rubio and Christie and Fiorina and whoever else, Cruz, if you really do go scorched earth, you are taking those people out forever. You\u2019re gonna destroy their potential forever if you really embark on this. Is it worth that much? <\/p>\n

\"large\"And the answer is, yeah, if we take out a bunch of potential conservative Republican nominees, yeah, it\u2019d be worth it. The Republican establishment I think would be fine with a Hillary Clinton presidency if it meant the end of conservative dominance, relevance within the Republican Party, even for 25 years. I think there\u2019s that much animus for conservatives and conservatism, throughout the elites, the ruling class, not just the Republicans. Fox & Friends. This was this morning. Brian Kilmeade and Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Steve Doocy are talking about Trump\u2019s call to temporarily stop admitting Muslims, and they had this little chat that you\u2019ll hear next here.<\/line><\/p>\n

KILMEADE: Rush Limbaugh put it great yesterday<\/a>. If every Republican is outraged, and everybody says it\u2019s such a disaster, why is he beating you? If everybody is so upset about this, why does he continue to beat you everywhere?<\/p>\n

HASSELBECK: The prediction was that he would make these comments, he made these comments, and then afterward his numbers would plummet. But that\u2019s not what happened.<\/p>\n

DOOCY: Will those comments hurt him in the primary? From what we\u2019ve seen so far, doesn\u2019t look like it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, to remind you what happened, the first voice you heard there was Brian Kilmeade, and I was bouncing off a comment from Carly Fiorina yesterday, who, in her efforts to seek and win the nomination herself, was running around saying that Hillary Clinton would mop the floor with Donald Trump, that Hillary Clinton would just wipe the floor with Trump. Trump can no way beat Hillary Clinton, so we\u2019ve gotta make sure we don\u2019t nominate Trump. And I said, “Well, if Hillary can mop the floor with Trump, why aren\u2019t you?” And that\u2019s what the Fox & Friends people took and built upon. I mean, if beating Trump is so easy, how come nobody seems to be able to do it? If beating Trump is so easy for the Democrats to do, if it\u2019s so automatic that Trump is gonna lose in a landslide, why is he beating all of you? <\/p>\n

<\/a>By the way, Kilmeade\u2019s writing a bunch of books. He\u2019s got a history book out. I love people that tell the truth about American history. As long as they leave the young child audience to me, they\u2019re fine. And so far Kilmeade has not encroached on Rush Revere and Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans<\/a>. He\u2019s got a great book: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History.<\/p>\n

The Tripoli pirates, do you know who they were? That was Thomas Jefferson, it was United States\u2019 first involvement with Islamic terrorists. The Barbary pirates, Tripoli pirates, whatever. You ought to go and read what Jefferson has written about them. Anyway, that\u2019s what Kilmeade\u2019s book is about, and I think the last I heard Kilmeade\u2019s book in the list that he\u2019s on, nonfiction, I think he was at number two and climbing. It\u2019s a good thing he didn\u2019t say Killing Jefferson, then people would have been confused. I\u2019m just kidding. <\/p>\n

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History<\/a>. This is crucial. Jefferson was so on the money about this, and he was the first American to be aware of and concerned about and do something about the Tripoli or the Barbary pirates. He got it. He got Islamic extremism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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