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RUSH: Well, I guess I\u2019m wrong. Guess I\u2019m the only guy that I know who thinks that a dirty trick was pulled last night. I mean, if it was a dirty trick, it has to be one of the best that I\u2019ve seen, in I don\u2019t know how long, and they\u2019ve got everybody playing along with it. It\u2019s the most amazing thing, but it must not have been a dirty trick \u2019cause I\u2019m the only guy who thinks it was. <\/p>\n

No, what happened at that Republican thing last night, the New York GOP speech, I\u2019ll show you here in a minute. I\u2019ll show you what I\u2019m talking about. It\u2019s the most amazing thing and everybody is just playing right along with the whole premise that is accompanying what happened there last night. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I also watched last night the New York Republican Party black-tie event where the three Republican contenders showed up to address — it\u2019s kind of a mini-version of the Al Smith dinner for Republicans only.<\/line><\/p>\n

Donald Trump led off, followed by John Kasich, followed by Ted Cruz. And something remarkable happened a short time into Cruz\u2019s speech that did not happen during either Trump\u2019s or Kasich\u2019s speech. I watched this on the Fox News Channel, and the timing of this, it happened to coincide with the Kelly File, the TV show hosted by Megyn Kelly. She had a focus group in there, minus Frank Luntz, just had a bunch of people there from New York, bunch of New Yorkers, and there was a break between every candidate\u2019s speech. Trump got up and spoke, and then there was a little downtime before Kasich came up. <\/p>\n

And during that downtime they go back to Megyn Kelly\u2019s show<\/a> and she would discuss what they had just seen or what they thought of it with the focus group. The focus group was diverse, it had supporters of all three candidates in there, and it was feisty. It was kind of a hoot watching these New Yorkers go after each other. Cruz fans, Kasich fans. There were some Kasich fans in there. And, of course, people for the Trumpster. But something happened when Cruz got up there. <\/p>\n

Now, by the time Cruz started making his remarks, I had my iPad Pro out, I was multitasking. I was doing some other things while listening. I had watched a little bit. I didn\u2019t watch the totality of everybody\u2019s speech, but I watched the last half of Trump\u2019s and I watched the intro to Kasich and most of his speech. He went a little long. I think I probably had all of it on, and I had my iPad Pro on. Cruz comes on after the focus groups — he goes last — and I\u2019ve got my head down the first I don\u2019t know how many minutes, maybe three minutes.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I\u2019ll be honest with you, I tuned out a little bit because Cruz was doing a stump speech. He was talking about his campaign\u2019s the only campaign that\u2019s beaten Donald Trump 11 times and he was talking about how he\u2019s gonna do his first day in office. He\u2019s gonna rip up Obamacare and he\u2019s gonna abolish the IRS. I said okay, I\u2019ll tune out a little bit here and focus more on what I\u2019m researching here on my iPad Pro. And something happened. My iPad Pro, there was a website I was looking at which had a video on it, and all of a sudden the audio in my library just went berserk. And I looked, I said, “What in the hell happened?” <\/p>\n

So I thought maybe my iPad, maybe something happened on the iPad, because it was striking. Cruz was speaking the one moment and then a cacophony, I mean literally in a split second. And my hearing is such, all sound is noise to me, even communicating with people in person, it\u2019s noise. It\u2019s all irritating, folks. The way you have to understand this, for me, so that you can understand how I heard this. All noise, even talking to people, is noise to me. To people who can hear normally, speech is not noise. To me it\u2019s all noise, \u2019cause it\u2019s all bionic, it all sounds artificial to me. I don\u2019t hear anything the way anybody else hears it. <\/p>\n

I am so at home in complete, total, utter silence. I keep the TV mute on oftentimes and just read the closed-captioning \u2019cause it\u2019s just noise. But I had the video and the audio up, and when this cacophony hit, I thought a video had started on my iPad, and the first thing I did was turn the volume down \u2019cause I thought I had two different audio sources competing and it was just irritating as hell so I turned the iPad audio down, there wasn\u2019t anything on the iPad. The change had occurred totally at the New York GOP affair. <\/p>\n

So I studied it, I looked at it, and in 30 seconds I figured out what happened. They had cut Ted Cruz\u2019s microphone at the podium and they had replaced it with what sounded like microphones at five or six tables where you heard nothing but the table noise. The clinking of knives and forks on plates, people swigging beverages. You could hear people smacking their lips while they were eating. At least it sounded like it to me. You could hear people chatting with each other. I said, “What the hell is this?” <\/p>\n

It was so different from anything I had heard all night at this thing that my attention was riveted. And I said, “Something\u2019s gone wrong here.” This is obviously an audio glitch, and I stayed riveted for the Fox News Channel to fix it. And I stayed riveted, and I stayed riveted, and I continued to watch. Five minutes went by and not one change. Then another two minutes went by and then there was silence for a couple seconds. “A-ha,” I said, “they\u2019re gonna fix it.” But when it came back, it was all the same. I could not hear Ted Cruz. Cruz had no idea. He\u2019s still up there gesticulating, he\u2019s doing his normal speech, can\u2019t hear him anymore, don\u2019t know what he\u2019s saying. All you hear is what\u2019s going on at the table. You hear the waiters running around; sounds like people were dropping plates and knives and forks on the floor and stomping on them. <\/p>\n

<\/a>And then the next thing that happened was I saw the face of Sean Hannity, who said, “Sorry. Audio problems.” And then he turned to Eric Bolling to begin discussing the virtues of Trump and Corey Lewandowski. And I said, “Well, hot damn.” I said, “This is one of the best damn tricks I have ever seen. They just sabotaged Cruz at this thing.” I didn\u2019t know who did it, but somebody — I said, this is amazing. And I waited for the lid to blow. <\/p>\n

I started reading people\u2019s Twitter feeds. I started reading all kinds of things, and there wasn\u2019t one reference to it. I said, “This can\u2019t be.” I can\u2019t be the only person that noticed this. I can\u2019t be the only person that saw it. And then I finally saw a thread, and I was even more impressed. I was even more incredulous, because the thread had a theme. You know what the theme was? Cruz was so boring, Cruz was so bad, Cruz is so hated that nobody listened to him. We had Drive-By Media supposedly on site as witnesses tweeting and reporting that nobody listened to Cruz, that the crowd was getting up and walking around and milling around and being rude, that the whole room had turned Cruz out. <\/p>\n

I just smiled. I said, “Whoever put this together is a genius.” ‘Cause they have coordinated every bit of this. In the first place, they sabotaged Cruz, then they get to the media and make it look like what happened was totally natural, Cruz is hated, despised, everybody started ignoring him. Such tweets as, “Wow, this crowd is not digging Cruz\u2019s speech. A lot of people talking amongst themselves as Cruz speaks at New York GOP gala. So far the most enthusiastic crowd reaction to Cruz has been a couple of moments of tepid applause. It\u2019s legitimately loud in here, people talking and eating and ignoring Cruz.” <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not what was happening. The only people who thought that were the people watching on Fox News because the microphones, something happened to them, I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m gonna take a brief time-out and I\u2019m gonna come back and show you, I\u2019m gonna play the audio here and you\u2019ll see what I\u2019m talking about. But what brings it all together is, even today, I\u2019m watching Fox News, and they are talking today about, “Wow, just terrible last night for Ted Cruz. Nobody cared what he had to say. I mean, you should see it, people getting up and milling around and walking around, it was rude, people didn\u2019t care. It was really a big problem for Ted Cruz.” <\/p>\n

I said, “That\u2019s not what happened.” (laughing) It isn\u2019t what happened at all. And then I saw Kellyanne Conway on Fox. She is Cruz\u2019s pollster and she didn\u2019t even reference it. She went along with the idea that a United States senator had been disrespected and how unfortunate it was. Wow. Whoever planned this, whoever orchestrated this, and whoever executed this, this was pulled off flawlessly. This was a brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed slam on Ted Cruz. <\/line><\/p>\n

And I\u2019m sure it\u2019s all about New York values. I\u2019m sure some people have been planning this for weeks when they found out Cruz was gonna show up. People that probably hate each other got together on this to come up with this scheme. I mean, if they have pulled this off, I just hope and pray that they do something like this against Hillary when the time comes. I\u2019ll show you what I\u2019m talking about when we come back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Here we go. We\u2019re gonna first start off with Trump. And Mike, I don\u2019t need to play the whole bite here. Just play it \u2019til I tell you to stop. Just need to establish enough here to let you know how everybody at the podium sounded last night. Up first, the Grand Hyatt, which Trump used to own, I\u2019m sure still has some connections there, Grand Hyatt hotel, Grand Central Station, at the 2016 New York state Republican gala, here\u2019s Trump.<\/p>\n

TRUMP: I loved the potential of the building. It\u2019s called the Commodore Hotel. It was built in 1909, and it was a mess. And they had a spa, and the spa was called Relaxation Plus. And nobody ever got into what the Plus meant. You don\u2019t want to know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. That\u2019s enough. Perfectly normal, right? You could hear everything Trump was saying no problem. Here\u2019s John Kasich next. His audio also loud and clear.<\/p>\n

KASICH: When we live in the dark, when we practice politics in the dark, over time people don\u2019t like it. I think when the public looks at a politician whose lips are moving, they figure that politician is lying. And I\u2019m a citizen myself. And when people come to tell me about what they want to do and why they want to be elected, I always say to them, “What have you done in your life? Why should –“<\/p>\n

RUSH: Enough of that. That\u2019s Kasich. And here is the first part of Ted Cruz. Cruz goes last. And this is what it sounded like at the beginning of Cruz\u2019s speech. Totally normal.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: The heart of our economy is not Washington, DC. The heart of our economy is small businesses all across the United States of America. (Applause) And if you want to see the economy take off, it\u2019s very simple: You lift the boot of the federal government off the back of the necks of small businesses. If I\u2019m elected president —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so we\u2019ve established that circumstances for all three are perfectly fine. You could hear them each equally and well. They were all being listened to. And then magically, I mean, remember, my face is down, I\u2019m looking and reading something on my iPad Pro, and my room goes berserk with audio that\u2019s twice as loud as any of the speech audio was, and it turned out it was somebody giving Ted Cruz a taste of New York values.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: If we remain divided we will lose. And so I recognize many of the people in this room (unintelligible). They started on the (unintelligible). Maybe they started out supporting Jeb Bush. (unintelligible) supporting Rubio (unintelligible) or any of the fantastic candidates who began (unintelligible).<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop it. Stop it. That is how the final eight minutes of Ted Cruz\u2019s speech sounded. You couldn\u2019t hear him. They turned the podium mic off, somebody turned the podium mic off and turned on all the other microphones in the room to pick up all the room noise, and then there were tweets like this one. “It\u2019s sort of painful to watch someone speak passionately to a crowd who wouldn\u2019t even notice if he killed himself on stage.” I mean, the media was in on the trick, Fox News was in on the trick, everybody played along as though all of a sudden Cruz lost the room. Now, Mike, here\u2019s what I want you to do. I want you to grab sound bite number three and just as soon as it ends, start number four.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: The heart of our economy is not Washington, DC. The heart of our economy is small businesses all across the United States of America. (Applause) And if you want to see the economy take off, it\u2019s very simple: You lift the boot of the federal government off the back of the necks of small businesses. If I\u2019m elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare. (mic cut) If we remain divided, we will lose. And so I recognize many of the people in this room, who started out supporting other candidates. Maybe you start out supporting Jeb Bush. (unintelligible) Maybe you started out supporting Marco Rubio (unintelligible) or any of the fantastic candidates who began this race. (unintelligible).<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I expected all hell to break loose. I expected there to be outrage from pro-Cruz people over how he had been sabotaged, double dirty tricked, whatever it was, and there was nothing. All there was was a bunch of media people talking about how disrespected Cruz was, that people got tired of listening to him and got up and started walking around and making all this noise. And even today, everybody continues: “Nobody cared about Cruz. It was so boring. Poor guy.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One more demonstration of this just \u2019cause I know many of you, “Gee, play that again, I want to hear it again.” I\u2019m gonna play it one more time. Now, keep in mind, folks, to show you how brilliantly this thing\u2019s executed. They got three guys showing up making speeches. The speeches go I think 15 minutes max. There\u2019s a bunch of prespeeches. I\u2019m watching this. It\u2019s at nine o\u2019clock and nobody has eaten yet. <\/p>\n

It is important to understand that whoever orchestrated this also was smart enough to realize not to serve dinner until Cruz got up to speak. There were no plates and knives and forks and all that to make any noise when Trump and Kasich were speaking. But between the break between Kasich and Cruz, they served dinner. So people were also eating during Cruz\u2019s remarks, and it was at some point during Cruz\u2019s speech somebody turned off the podium microphone and turned on all of the room microphones, picking up all the white noise in the room, making it look like that was the only noise in the room, that nobody was listening. <\/line><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, if you\u2019re watching this, there\u2019s Cruz, his arms are waving around and he\u2019s giving a speech, nothing has changed, in his mind. He\u2019s not off tempo. He\u2019s not seeing a bunch of people walk around and mill around and ignoring him. He\u2019s watching people still listening to him. He doesn\u2019t know anything that\u2019s happened. He doesn\u2019t know until it\u2019s over when somebody tells him, I\u2019m sure. The TV audience is thinking there\u2019s some audio glitch that\u2019s happened here and Fox is gonna find it and fix it, but that never happens. <\/p>\n

And then later that night, the Drive-By Media and into today and everybody at Fox News is reporting what a dull, dry speech Cruz made. It was so bad, it was so boring that everybody ignored him, started walking around, talking to themselves, making noise. How embarrassing. And I am sure this is payback for New York values. I\u2019m sure that\u2019s what this is, Cruz got a dose of it last night. <\/p>\n

Whoever planned this pulled this off and not only did they pull it off, they had to coordinate this with the media or else they relied on the stupidity and gullibility of the media. They relied on what they know is the media\u2019s prejudice against Cruz. They probably didn\u2019t even have to tell people, “My God Cruz was so boring, nobody listened.” They probably didn\u2019t even have to tell the media that, that\u2019s the media\u2019s natural disposition, to dispossess and disrespect Cruz. <\/p>\n

So here, listen again, exactly as I heard it, listening to the beginning of Cruz\u2019s speech, my head\u2019s down not watching the screen, multitasking, doing some show prep on the iPad Pro, and then all of a sudden the noise changes. And, by the way, the noise in the second bite, the room noise when you\u2019re watching TV, it was twice as loud as the audio of the speeches from the podium. Here we go. <\/p>\n