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RUSH: Now, this just happened not long ago. It was this afternoon in Marion, Indiana, during a campaign event, Ted Cruz is confronted by Trumpists. We have two sound bites here. This little exchange, these two bites, could serve as a microcosm for this entire primary. Let\u2019s see what we get here. Again it\u2019s Marion, Indiana, Cruz and an unidentified Trump supporter have the following exchange. Here\u2019s the first of two bites…<\/p>\n

CRUZ: (outdoor noise) What do you like about Donald?<\/p>\n

TRUMPIST: Everything.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: You… Give me one?<\/p>\n

TRUMPIST: The wall.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Okay, the wall.<\/p>\n


\nTRUMPIST: That\u2019s the main thing. Immigration.<\/p>\n

CRUZER: Ted\u2019s —<\/p>\n

CRUZ: All right, hold on a second.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: Hillary Clinton!<\/p>\n

CRUZ: You know on the wall that Donald told the New York Times editorial board he\u2019s —<\/p>\n

WOMAN: That\u2019s right!<\/p>\n

CRUZ: — not going to build a wall and he\u2019s not going to deport anyone?<\/p>\n

TRUMPIST: You\u2019re lyin\u2019.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Well —<\/p>\n

TRUMPIST: Lyin\u2019 Ted!<\/p>\n

RUSH: So here\u2019s Cruz. He\u2019s got the facts on his side in this. Cruz says that was part of Trump\u2019s New York Times interview that hasn\u2019t been released. But don\u2019t forget, a bunch of New York Times people have written about it. They know what Trump said in the editorial board meeting, and nobody will authorize the release of the tape or the meeting. There have been two Times columnists maybe three — I think one was MoDo, I\u2019m not sure — who have written about it. If you know how to connect the dots…<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve heard the tape, they know what Trump has said, and there are references to the fact that Trump told them at the New York Times that he\u2019s not gonna deport anybody. He\u2019s not gonna build a wall, and that the columns written about this have been of the nature of what if people learned this. And you could tell, the reporters at the Times who had been privy to the tape who had heard it, were trying… Remember when this all happened, they were accused of leaking, Trump accused them of leaking, Cruz demanded that that Trump release it.<\/p>\n

Trump wouldn\u2019t do it. The New York Times won\u2019t. And because Trump won\u2019t, the Times can\u2019t. So people at the Times have been trying to get it out there in disguised ways. You remember all this. Okay, so that\u2019s the first bite. And then it continues here with Trump and the same unidentified Trumpist. Cruz begins this bite saying, “Well, no, sir. You know, actually…” and then the guy interrupts him.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: (outdoor noise) Well, no sir. You know actually —<\/p>\n

TRUMPIST: He\u2019ll take down ISIS. He\u2019ll take down the whole damn match up!<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Civilized people don\u2019t just scream and yell at each other, and I\u2019m not yelling at you.<\/p>\n

TRUMPIST: (crosstalk) Let me tell ya —<\/p>\n

CROWD: (noise)<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Do you know that Donald\u2019s words were caught on tape?<\/p>\n


\nTRUMPIST: (crosstalk) Let me tell ya —<\/p>\n

CROWD: (noise)<\/p>\n

TRUMPIST: Career politicians is destroyin\u2019 our country!<\/p>\n

CRUZ: The New York Times recorded the whole thing. It\u2019s publicly recorded.<\/p>\n

TRUMPIST: How \u2019bout your mistresses.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Uh, that\u2019s a total lie. Made up by (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

TRUMPIST: Ohhhh, lyin\u2019 (unintelligible) Lyin\u2019 Ted!<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think that kind of sums up this whole campaign. It\u2019s exactly how it\u2019s being perceived out there. On the one hand, you have Ted Cruz, who is straight and narrow — a straight-down-the-middle, brilliant the guy. He is lined up with the facts, he\u2019s got the evidence, and he\u2019s up against the Trumpists, who believe he\u2019s a liar because of (Trump impression) “Lyin\u2019 Ted! He holds up the Bible, he waves the Bible around, and then he lies! Lyin\u2019 Ted. Lyin\u2019 Ted! I talked to Tara, and he\u2019s lying!” And his supporters all think that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s Cruz. “No, sir, Donald\u2019s words were caught on tape. Do you know the New York Times recorded the whole thing? It\u2019s publicly recorded,” and the Trumpist says, “How about your mistresses, Lyin\u2019 Ted? How about your mistresses?” Cruz says, “That\u2019s a total lie.” “Okay, Lyin\u2019 Ted.” Does that not epitomize…? Doesn\u2019t that kind of…? What\u2019s the word I\u2019m looking for? Not character. It summarizes… Anyway, in a nutshell, these two bites show us the difference in the two campaigns. And the Trumpists, they\u2019re not interested in what anybody has to say about Trump. They don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

They showed up… This is the mistake, by the way. If I could offer counsel here, I made it myself. When you\u2019re being interviewed by the media, they don\u2019t care what you think. They\u2019re not there to learn, they\u2019re not there to be taught, they\u2019re not there to learn what you think. They\u2019re there to discredit you. And the Trump people, they\u2019re not there to hear anything that they may not know about Trump. That\u2019s not why they\u2019re there. And so Ted\u2019s trying to persuade \u2019em. He\u2019s treating them as voters. He\u2019s respectful to them. He\u2019s trying to give them facts as he knows them, but that\u2019s not what it\u2019s about. It\u2019s the biggest problem conservatives have in dealing with opponents is the facts are never what any of this is about.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One more similar sound bite here. Ted Cruz. You might have heard about this. This was in La Porte, Indiana, yesterday at another campaign event. Cruz was interrupted by a brat kid who started yelling at Cruz. A 10-year-old or some such thing started yelling at Ted Cruz and even said, “You suck!” to Cruz. This is how that sounded…<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Apparently there\u2019s a young man who\u2019s having some problems.<\/p>\n

BRAT: Yeah! You suck!<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Thank you, Son. You know, I appreciate your sharing your views. You know, one of the things that hopefully someone has told you is that children should actually speak with respect.<\/p>\n

CROWD: (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Imagine what a different world it would be if someone had told Donald Trump that years ago.<\/p>\n

CROWD: (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

CRUZ: You know, in my household, when a child behaves that way, they get a spanking.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. This sound bite, once again, offers a classic opportunity to illustrate massive generational changes that have taken place in this country. Let\u2019s go back to the top. Cruz starts out when he hears the kid out there, and he says, “Apparently there\u2019s a young man who\u2019s having some problems.” Then you hear the kid said, “Yeah! You suck!” And Cruz, I mean, he\u2019s got a crowd of adults around here. What does he do with this? So his instincts kick in, and he says, “Thank you, Son. You know, I appreciate your sharing your views.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what you have to do in politics. You have to praise and compliment the reprobates. And then he said, “You know, one of the things that hopefully someone\u2019s told you is that children should actually speak with respect.” Now, this crowd cheered, but I guarantee you in much of America when they heard Cruz say that, they started laughing at him and they started ridiculing him.” What world do you live in, Ted, where children respect adults? What, are children to be seen and not heard, Ted? Is that what you think? Get \u2019em out of the way? We don\u2019t want any kids out of the way!<\/p>\n

“When kids speak, is that only with the permission of the adults, Ted? Is that what you…?” That\u2019s the kind of thing that circulated on social media. Because kids are precious today and whatever they say is right. We can\u2019t damage them. “Their poor self-esteem!” So if a kids lashes out this way, we must praise Little Johnny for having the courage to speak his mind and so forth. There\u2019s no such thing anymore as a kid being impolite or rude. Well, in certain sectors, segments of the country. There\u2019s accommodation. There\u2019s understanding. There\u2019s even, in some cases, praise. “Hey, isn\u2019t it cute what Little Johnny said to Ted Cruz?<\/p>\n

“He told him, ‘You suck!\u2019 That\u2019s great, Little Johnny,” and give him an extra ice cream cone on the way home. It is considered fashionably old-fashioned to sit here and think that children must respect their elders. “That\u2019s such an antiquated period! What do you mean, children should respect their elders? How many parents, how many adults do you respect? Why should their kids respect anyone? They\u2019re reprobates; they\u2019re losers! Why should the kids respect them?” We are in a massive, massive generational evolution and shift here. And this bite illustrates it.<\/p>\n


\nHere\u2019s Ted Cruz responding as an adult would in the 1960s. Now, as I say, his crowd, because they\u2019re Ted Cruz supporters, they cheered. They understood exactly what he\u2019s talking about. But Cruz is being vilified for this. “He\u2019s not your son, Ted Cruz! We don\u2019t get to tell him how to behave. We don\u2019t get to do that. That\u2019s what\u2019s wrong with you conservatives! You want to tell everybody how to behave.” It\u2019s all out there. It\u2019s all over the social media. And the piece de resistance is when Cruz said that in his day, his dad gave a spanking for misbehaving like that.<\/p>\n

Now they\u2019re out there ripping Cruz for supporting corporal punishment of children because Cruz would spank the kid. Here\u2019s the way I compare this. The way I analyze it and look at these things, is my dad took my brother and I, in 1964, over the river to Illinois \u2019cause Barry Goldwater was going through on one of these old whistle stops on the train. And he was gonna stop wherever. It was some little train station about a half hour from where we lived and Goldwater was just gonna stop for like five or 10 minutes from the back of the train, waving.<\/p>\n

You know, “Go Goldwater, go!” It was gonna be historic just to be able to see it, a presidential campaign, as a 13-year-old. I\u2019ll guarantee you that if at that thing some little kid had said to Goldwater, “Yeah, you suck!” everybody would have turned on the kid. The parents would have been embarrassed and would have tried to find somebody to apologize to. They would have taken the kid out. Today when it happens, there is some of that still, but there\u2019s all kinds of other stuff, too, like praising the kid, excusing the kid.<\/p>\n

Social media finds people to say, “Hey, we can\u2019t damage the kid! He\u2019s too young to be told no. He\u2019s too young.” It\u2019s like outcome-based education: 2 + 2 = 5 until they figure out it isn\u2019t. But you don\u2019t dare tell \u2019em because it might give \u2019em a complex. It might make \u2019em feel stupid \u2019cause they don\u2019t already know. It makes teaching impossible. If some little 10-year-old kid stood up and said to Trump, “Yeah, you stuck!” what do you think Trump\u2019s reaction? You can only guess.<\/p>\n

But what do you think Trump\u2019s reaction would be? Trump would probably launch into a diatribe about what a bunch of worthless parents that kid obviously has — I\u2019m just guessing — or some such thing. But Cruz resorted to how it was, the reasonable way to raise kids to be polite, be respectful of results, behave themselves and have manners and all that. And clearly that is considered old-fashioned. It\u2019s just out of fashion. We don\u2019t do it that way anymore. And those kinds of people are out mocking Cruz on social media today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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