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RUSH: To the audio sound bites. Here\u2019s F. Chuck Todd. F. Chuck may get it. This was on Meet the Press yesterday, and he was setting up a report here about Trump and Ben Carson\u2019s positions as leaders in the Republican nomination race.<\/p>\n

TODD: The disgust with the Republican establishment that has been a staple of conservative talk radio has now gone mainstream. The result? An election in which, in one poll, just two outsiders — Donald Trump and Ben Carson — together have higher poll numbers than all of the so-called establishment candidates combined, about eight of \u2019em.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And of course, you see, in Chuck Todd\u2019s view, this is the fault of talk radio. Yeah, “[t]he disgust with the Republican establishment that has been a staple of conservative talk radio has now gone mainstream.” I would submit to you that conservative talk radio is mainstream. It doesn\u2019t have to go anywhere to get there, because it is. Now, not to these people. Inside the Beltway, conservative talk radio is fringe, whatever. It certainly isn\u2019t mainstream.<\/p>\n

But you see, it is. Our audience here dwarfs the audience on Meet the Press, and Meet the Press is a television show. We dwarf them! We have a bigger audience here than those three Sunday shows combined. Four, if you count CNN\u2019s. Yeah, let\u2019s go out and play number three. This is interesting in its own right. This was C-SPAN\u2019s Washington Journal on Saturday. John McArdle was speaking with National Journal political editor Josh Kraushaar about Trump\u2019s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

MCARDLE: Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Show, the transcript from his show, uh, the headline on that, “My Advice to Trump: Back to the Issues.”<\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

KRAUSHAAR: This was the first time — and he\u2019s responding to Trump attacking Ben Carson. On his show, it was the first time Rush Limbaugh sort of criticized Donald Trump, and he\u2019s been something of a neutral supporter of his. He certainly has defended him passively on his show. This is the first time Rush Limbaugh (chuckles), as the most influential conservative talk radio host, sort of threw a fastball to Donald Trump. And I think that\u2019s very important. A, because the talk radio element of the Republican Party are what\u2019s fueling a lot of Trump\u2019s support. This is the first time you could see the possibility that Trump\u2019s support may have peaked.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, it\u2019s not the first time, it\u2019s the second time, and both times I\u2019ve simply said, “A little free advice: It\u2019s time to get back to the issues.” I\u2019ve said it twice. But there\u2019s one other thing here. Talk radio is not fueling Trump\u2019s support. Trump is! I great respect for Mr. Kraushaar. He\u2019s good at what he does, so this is not a rip at him. But, you know, people in the media… Because of their own self-perceptions, the people in the media think that they drive public opinion because they want to.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not doing the news. They\u2019re driving public opinion. That\u2019s why they get frustrated when Democrats lose, \u2019cause they think that they\u2019re out there influencing it with their polls and everything else. So they think everybody in the media does that. But I\u2019m just passively watching Trump go by here, and I\u2019m commenting honestly on what I see. And if it sounds like support for Trump, it sounds like support for Trump.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ve also spoken positively of the other candidates, not positively of those that I don\u2019t feel that way about. But nothing happening here is responsible for Trump\u2019s support. Trump is! Oh, it would be easy to live in a fantasy world, folks, where I tell myself every day, “I\u2019m the reason people think what they think.” But I have never fallen for that trap. Quite the opposite. <\/p>\n

This is what I mean when I say I have always had respect for the intelligence of those of you in the audience. I\u2019ve known from day one that one of the main reasons you glommed on to this show was that it validated what you already thought; you just didn\u2019t hear it anywhere in media \u2019til this show came along, way back in 1988 and 1989. But I\u2019ve got nothing to do with Trump\u2019s support. He does. He\u2019s the one responsible for it. <\/p>\n

<\/a>He\u2019s the one that is engendering it, and certainly he\u2019s the one fueling it. Here\u2019s Ron Fournier on Meet the Press yesterday. Chuck Todd asked him a question. He said, “You know, Ron, just watching all this, I get the idea that, oh, the right feels as if Obama will do whatever it takes to win and they won\u2019t do whatever it takes to win,” on the Republican side. “But that feels like we\u2019re devolving” for some reason, Ron.<\/p>\n

FOURNIER: The public right now is very angry, anxious, and asking, “What side of the barricade are you on?” Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Carson appear to be on the other side of that barricade. “Donald Trump is crazy. But he\u2019s punishing the establishment, isn\u2019t he? That Donald Trump is crazy. But he\u2019s taking on the media, isn\u2019t he? That Donald Trump is crazy, but he\u2019s saying what I can\u2019t say, isn\u2019t he?” The country is really angry, and until somebody brings positive change or very negative change, it\u2019s gonna be keep growing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: More interesting than that answer to me is Chuck Todd\u2019s question. Look at this again: “You know, Ron, just watching all this, I get the idea that, oh, the right feels as if Obama will do whatever it takes to win and they won\u2019t do whatever it takes to win. But that feels like we\u2019re devolving.” So F. Chuck Todd, I guarantee you this is the attitude of everybody inside-the-Beltway. For the Republican Party, conservatives to fight for what they believe in constitutes the system being torn down, constitutes “devolution.”<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going backwards, in other words. The left is perfectly permitted, fine and dandy. They can do whatever they need to do to win; that\u2019s as it should be. When we do it? “Oh, my God, it\u2019s getting nasty! Oh, my God, it\u2019s getting dirty! Oh, my God, it\u2019s getting unseemly!” So F. Chuck Todd says (summarized), “We\u2019re devolving! We\u2019re devolving! The Republicans are starting to defend themselves. That\u2019s not cool, Ron.” And then Ron says, “Yeah, yeah, Trump\u2019s crazy, but… He\u2019s crazy, but… He\u2019s crazy, but…” <\/p>\n

Now, I guarantee you that if F. Chuck Todd thinks he\u2019s one of the leaders of the inside-the-Beltway establishment, ruling class — if he thinks it\u2019s devolution for the Republicans to fight back — might that not explain why so many on our side don\u2019t? They don\u2019t want to be ripped by Chuck Todd. They want Chuck Todd ripping talk radio! They don\u2019t want Chuck Todd ripping some conservative blog or some conservative magazine. Oh, no, no! Chuck, no, no! They don\u2019t want. <\/p>\n

Chuck can rip talk radio all day long and that\u2019s fine, but not them.<\/p>\n

So they\u2019re not gonna do anything to get Chuck Todd\u2019s ripping, including not fight. That\u2019s “devolution.” And one more, our buddy David Brooks (who defined Obama\u2019s presidential potential by the crease in his slacks way back in 2008) was also on Meet the Press. Chuck Todd said, “David Brooks, this fight inside your party. For some viewers, they might say it\u2019s deja vu all over again. But this time it does seem like the frustration in the Republican Party might just boil over.”<\/p>\n

BROOKS: It\u2019s like a mutiny, not a campaign. And the problem is that there\u2019s an illusion in this country and in the Republican Party base that you can govern by screaming. But there\u2019s a democracy! You need a coalition. We have a very tough legislative system and you gotta actually have craftsmen, and there\u2019s insufficient respect for that right now among Carson and Trump supporters.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Insufficient respect for the craftsmen, he said! Can you believe it? Mitch McConnell and Boehner are the craftsmen, and there\u2019s not enough respect for what they do on our side. So it\u2019s a mutiny. That explains everything. “Don\u2019t fight! Oh, God, no! Don\u2019t fight back! That\u2019s devolution. Oh, that makes everything look bad. No, no, no! That\u2019s unsophisticated. Oh, no, no, no. We\u2019ve gotta respect our craftsmen!” What the hell is a craftsman?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, the establishment types so desperately want to blame Trump on somebody. They don\u2019t want to blame Trump on Trump. They don\u2019t want to blame themselves. So if they can blame me and talk radio, then they will. But Trump is responsible for what Trump\u2019s doing. Nobody else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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