{"id":3720,"date":"2016-04-07T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:25:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-04-07T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:25:35","slug":"the_campaign_arrives_in_new_york_drive_by_media_hilarity_ensues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/07\/the_campaign_arrives_in_new_york_drive_by_media_hilarity_ensues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Campaign Arrives in New York, Drive-By Media Hilarity Ensues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: The Drive-Bys, folks, are finally figuring out here that something\u2019s not right with Hillary Clinton. The Republican side, too. It\u2019s amazing, when the campaign gets to where the Drive-By Media lives, it\u2019s amazing how the coverage changes. When the media has to go to foreign countries to report the news, like South Carolina and Iowa and Wisconsin, there\u2019s a certain flavor to it that usually has as part of the coverage, “You know, this is about the rest of you people, but it\u2019s not about us here in the media. We\u2019re not affected by all this that\u2019s happening here in these countries like Wisconsin and South Carolina.” <\/p>\n

But when it gets to New York, where they live — and of course the New York and Democrat primaries are in New York on April 19th — then whole focus changes. And when it comes to Hillary and Bernie, man, oh, man, has this changed. The Politico, a Jeff Greenfield story, “What\u2019s Wrong With Hillary?” I had the same kind of questions. You know, Hillary Clinton is a former senator from New York. She ought to have very tight, close relationships with New Yorkers. <\/line><\/p>\n

Why is Hillary Clinton having to work so hard in her home state? Why all of a sudden when we get to New York are the Drive-Bys all of a sudden taking Bernie seriously? Bernie\u2019s been on a roll long before we got to New York. But now that we\u2019re here… I mean, it\u2019s gotten so bad the Drive-Bys covered Hillary Clinton on a subway today like it was the moon landing. I mean, it was that unique. It was that rare, and they were so excited about it. We have audio sound bites coming up. <\/p>\n

Why does Hillary Clinton\u2019s husband spend so many nights away from home? Why can\u2019t Hillary Clinton sell her own books? Why do flocks of people not show up at Hillary Clinton book signings when there\u2019s an opportunity to meet the candidate without having to fork over $2,700 to do it? I mean, it\u2019s one thing if you\u2019re limiting the crowd by demanding people pay $2,700 to your campaign to get in, but at a book signing when it\u2019s free, well, you might have buy the book you\u2019re never gonna read, but why won\u2019t she draw crowds? Why will not Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren endorse Hillary Clinton? We will figure all of this out in due course. <\/p>\n

On the Republican side, this is funny. You knew this was gonna happen. So here\u2019s Ted Cruz, he of “New York values” fame finally finds himself in the state, and the anti-Cruz New York forces are just marshaled. They are loaded up and they\u2019re in gear, led off by the New York Daily News and the front page cover, “Take The F U Train, Ted!” with a picture of Cruz and his wife. <\/line><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got all these phony protesters showing up at Cruz events, New Yorkers acting like their feelings were really hurt when they\u2019re not hurt. New Yorkers are honored when you rip \u2019em. I\u2019ll tell you something, New York is one of the most provincial big cities I have ever lived in. And what I mean by that is this. <\/p>\n

Not only is New York the center of the universe for the people that live there, it\u2019s the most important part of the universe, not just the center. And, in fact, it\u2019s the only place in the world where things that happen actually matter. You would think that they\u2019re so big and so encompassing that everybody would know it, they wouldn\u2019t have to constantly act that way, but they do. It\u2019s quaint. It\u2019s cute.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll give you an example. During it is OJ trial… Have you been watching that on TV, by the way? Have you been watching? I have. You know, I was getting livid watching that show, reliving the OJ trial, because I realized I didn\u2019t see a lot of it \u2019cause it was on at the same time as this program was. The trial was every day. It went on for a year, and we had a “no OJ none of the time” policy here. Because everybody was doing OJ, so we didn\u2019t, and so there\u2019s a lot that I missed. I got the crux of things. <\/p>\n

But it was FX, and it was I think a 12- or 13-part (might have been 10-part) series, American Crime Sorry: The OJ Simpson Trial.<\/a> And there were things that I didn\u2019t know about the defense lawyers, the defense team, how they did what they did. The jury scenes… Just fury. I literally sat there got mad watching this. But, anyway, the provincial New York. Here\u2019s the thing. Marcia Clark was the prosecutor for the DA\u2019s office in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

And at the time it was going on, Marcia Clark had once stopped on the New York State Throughway at a rest area, and that made her a New Yorker. So the Daily News or the Post, I forget which, did a story on Marcia Clark as though she\u2019s a New Yorker. Of course somebody involved in the OJ trial would have to be a New Yorker, which is what I mean by the provincialism. So when the campaign shows up and here comes Ted, “New York values,” you\u2019ve got people acting like they\u2019re really mad.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like their feelings were really hurt, like Cruz has gotta really have it handed to him. And, of course, it\u2019s all a game. Well, for most people it\u2019s a game. I think there are some dangerously deranged people that show up in these anti-Cruz protests. But it is what it is. Ted… (interruption) No, I\u2019m not trying… (interruption) No, no, no! This is insulting? (interruption) What…? (interruption) No, no, no, no. (sigh) Snerdley, are you telling me that the average, ordinary New Yorker was really offended when Cruz said “New York values?” <\/p>\n

(interruption) Okay. Well, if you\u2019re really offended, far be it for me to downplay being offended! I don\u2019t have time… I just… I\u2019ve never wanted to give anybody else that amount of power over me, to run around claiming, “I\u2019m offended!” I\u2019ve just got better things to do. But I\u2019m trying to make a compliment here. I\u2019m saying that New Yorkers have much more to do than worry about what some guys from Texas is saying about \u2019em.<\/p>\n

I mean this in a complimentary sense, and I think there are a lot of \u2019em acting in protests out there who aren\u2019t offended by it. They\u2019ve got better things to do. Granted that there are some people tightly wound. Anyway, so Ted shows up in the Bronx; it didn\u2019t go well. He goes to upstate New York which a little bit more comfortable. Meanwhile, Trump goes out to Bethpage out on Long Island, which… It\u2019s kind of home to him, the Bethpage public golf course. Bethpage Black is one of the great golf courses, public courses.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tough as it could be, and the media is talking about Trump\u2019s crowd, big crowd. But they really focus on the fact that there were 200 protesters when Trump comes home, even though the crowd was over 10,000 and they\u2019ve gotta turn people away. And apparently the location of the Trump rally was where they had a location where they filmed the movie The Dictator, and so the Drive-Bys are making a big deal out of the fact that Trump chose a place to do a public appearance where they had once filmed the movie The Dictator.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re trying to make a big deal out of it. On the Clinton and Bernie side, Bernie is out questioning Hillary\u2019s qualifications to be president based on the fact that she voted for the Iraq war and based on the fact that she\u2019s in bed with the Wall Street banks, and Hillary doesn\u2019t know what to do about it. Her only retort is that she wonders whether or not Bernie is even a Democrat. And then Obama has entered the fray here. Now, what do you all think of this. Barack Obama has not said a word about the Democrat primary. <\/p>\n

He hasn\u2019t uttered a word of support or criticism, condemnation for either one, for either Hillary or Bernie. But all of a sudden this week, he is all over the Republican primary. And he\u2019s ripping Trump every chance he gets. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, on this New York values thing, I got people saying, “You really don\u2019t get this. You don\u2019t understand how offended people are.” No, no. I do. I\u2019m just kind of frustrated in this. I love New York, but I don\u2019t go there anymore because the tax situation. I\u2019ve actually had a governor of New York celebrate the fact that I left <\/a>and say that if they knew I was gonna leave, they would have raised taxes sooner. Every time I go back…<\/p>\n

I was back there on Tuesday night, and it\u2019s like I still live there. Everybody is just great. It\u2019s frustrating. I know New York well, New Yorkers well, and I know that a lot of people were offended by what Cruz said. But I also know that there were New Yorkers who laugh at it, who are not bent out of shape and it doesn\u2019t define their day and ruin their lives or any of that. Those are the people that I was referring to. Whether… I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s not a political liability for the guy, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m separating two things out. <\/line><\/p>\n

It was something Cruz probably, if he could have back, would take back. He wanted to say something about liberalism and tying it to specific people in New York while understandable to conservatives outside New York. You\u2019ve got a lot of right-wing New Yorkers, truck drivers and hardworking people who don\u2019t want to be defined that way and I understand them resenting it. But I\u2019m also speaking up for those I know who are there to whom it\u2019s funny.<\/p>\n

They laugh at it and so forth. But whether it\u2019s a political liability or not is not? I mean, I\u2019m not saying it isn\u2019t. And it\u2019s made to order. The protests that Cruz is running into were guaranteed to happen. And whether they\u2019re manufactured or genuine, it doesn\u2019t matter. They look real on TV, which is all that matters. So there\u2019s that. Now there\u2019s Obama continually now attacking Trump is designed to help Trump. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well, the thing about Hillary and the subway and the reason the media covered it like a moon landing, is she doesn\u2019t know what to do in a subway. She botched getting on a subway, folks. She didn\u2019t know how to swipe the fare card. You saw it, didn\u2019t you? She didn\u2019t know how to swipe the fare card on a subway, and of course the media immediately starts covering for her. If that had been George H. W. Bush and the supermarket scanner — which was made up anyway. That was technology that George H. W. Bush hadn\u2019t seen was not even released yet. <\/p>\n

He was at a trade show where he saw that stuff. He wasn\u2019t at a grocery store. But here\u2019s Hillary, woman of the people — average, ordinary Joe, Hillary Clinton, broke when she left the White House, no different than your average New Yorker — and she doesn\u2019t know how to get on a subway. She botched it. She didn\u2019t know how to swipe the fare card. So the media\u2019s there covering this desperately trying to save her here, desperately trying to make her look good. She botches it, and so they immediately go into CYA mode trying to make sure that people watching didn\u2019t see what they saw.<\/p>\n

Here, I\u2019ll give you a little flavor of this, and I\u2019m gonna get back to Obama ripping into Trump, and I\u2019m gonna ask you what you really think of that, \u2019cause a bunch of possibilities here. By the way, Bernie botched it, too. Bernie didn\u2019t know how to get on a subway. He thought they still used tokens, you know, like they use in Russia, the Soviet Union. So he thought they still use tokens. He didn\u2019t know how to swipe a fare card, either. So here you have the two primary Democrat candidates for president claiming to be representatives of the little guy.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re the guys that are gonna look out for the little guy.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re the guys who understand the plight of the little guy, which is a bunch of garbage. They are the reason — their policies are the reason — the little guy is constantly losing ground and falling behind. You notice that practically every constituency supporting the Democrat Party except for two is losing economic ground big time? The two are Hollywood and Wall Street banks and associated industries. Outside of those two groups? African-Americans, the unemployment rate there\u2019s through the roof. Illegal immigrants, Hispanics, it\u2019s a disaster. What happens to people who rely on the Democrat Party? <\/p>\n

So here we come. We have the two standard-bearers, the guys out there saying that they understand what life is like (because of Republicans, obviously) for little guys. They\u2019re gonna fix it, and not a one of them knows how to get on a subway car. Here\u2019s just a little bit of an audio from a video that happened on CNN. They actually sent people out there with cameras and so forth to cover this event, Hillary Clinton getting on the subway. I mean, it really is the equivalent of covering the moon landing. Carol Costello of CNN reporting.<\/p>\n