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RUSH: Now to the audio sound bites and when this happened I got a couple of e-mails. And I never turn on the TV when this airs. “Hey, they\u2019re getting ready to savage you on CNN. Fareed Zakaria GPS.” I said, “Don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s fine, I don\u2019t care.” Sunday morning, Fareed Zakaria GPS speaking Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens about the presidential primary race, Republican side. Fareed Zakaria GPS said, “Bret, you wrote a very powerful political column this week in which you said that this is now, the Republican presidential campaign is kind of a conservative gutter, the conservative gutter. The question is, who is to blame, Bret, for the conservative gutter, and how did it happen?”<\/p>\n


\nSTEPHENS: I put the — sort of the immediate blame on the failure of people like Rush Limbaugh to call out Trump. A lot of people in the conservative media who sort of made a guy who\u2019s politics aren\u2019t really aligned with much of the Republican Party or the conservative movement, make him seem like a respectable, plausible presidential candidate when I wish back in the summer when he was sort of a soap bubble that they might have popped it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, now I could react to this one of two ways. I can be flattered. Hey, they think I could have stopped the guy. Hey, they wish I would have stopped the guy. But I come back at this with, “Well, why haven\u2019t you been able to?” I mean, the Journal has been editorializing against Trump at least twice a week. That\u2019s just the editorial page. They\u2019ve had op-eds, news stories. I thought talk radio was just this little entertaining thing over here, wasn\u2019t anything to take seriously.<\/p>\n

Is it my job to take candidates out? If they want a candidate taken out, why is it my job to do what they want? Well, he\u2019s saying if I\u2019m true to myself, if I\u2019m being honest with who I am, Trump should repel me and as such I should do everything I can to get rid of Trump and harm Trump and so forth. You know, this is the difference. I don\u2019t think that my audience is a bunch of brain-dead robot sponges. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a single one of you out there for Trump that I could talk out of it.<\/p>\n

The only guy, the only person that can separate you from Trump is Trump. I mean, nobody else made the connection. You\u2019re not glomming on to Trump \u2019cause somebody\u2019s telling you how great he is. You\u2019re not supporting Trump because somebody\u2019s told you how wonderful he is. You decided on your own you like what Trump\u2019s doing, you like what he\u2019s saying, and you\u2019re willing to give it a chance because everything else you\u2019ve tried the last 25 years hasn\u2019t worked out, why not try an outsider, why not. I know how the drill goes. But this is why I don\u2019t endorse.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Well, you take out Hillary… Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Be careful. All I\u2019ve done is tried to point out that the nominee over there is not going to be Bernie Sanders. Although I\u2019m not gonna have time to get into it today, but what\u2019s going on with this guy who set up her server and who has been granted immunity? There\u2019s more to that than I think we know. My problem with the Hillary thing is I\u2019ve been telling people… It came up on the golf course yesterday. “Hey, do you think we\u2019re gonna get Hillary this time?”<\/p>\n

It never fails, folks. And I always say, “Well, how many times have we thought that since 1992 that we finally got \u2019em, that they\u2019ve been exposed, and ‘this is it,\u2019 and it\u2019s never happened, has it? So why is this year gonna be different?” “But, Rush! Rush, this is the FBI. This is the Justice Department.” “Yeah, exactly. It\u2019s the Justice Department. Who runs it? Barack Hussein O.” I\u2019ll tell you what I tell \u2019em. I told a bunch of guys… We had a backlog at number 16 yesterday, a par 3. So bunch of people come up to ask what do I think\u2019s gonna happen to Hillary.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what I know has already happened, and that is Bill Clinton called Obama and said, “Let\u2019s go play a round of golf,” and they did. And at some point during that round of golf Bill Clinton puts his arm around Obama and says (impression), “Okay, look, bud. Let\u2019s hit this straight down, shall we? You think you got goods on her, right? Well, you think you\u2019re clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, buddy? Let me tell you something. We got more on you — and if you unload on her, you think you\u2019re gonna get away with it?<\/p>\n

“How do you think I\u2019ve survived as far as I have? How come I\u2019ve gotten away with everything I\u2019ve gotten away with? You cannot take her out without taking yourself down, Pal, and don\u2019t you ever damn well forget it.” Something like that has happened. Now, whether Obama\u2019s intimidated by it or not, we don\u2019t know. But I guarantee you… I can\u2019t guarantee you, but I mean… By the way, should I have repudiated McCain? Should I have repudiated Romney? Are they close to the ideals that I support in a candidate? Should I have repudiated them? Interesting question. Here\u2019s Jeffrey Lord. Jeffrey Lord on CNN was asked about what Bret Stephens at the Wall Street Journal had said on Anderson Cooper 360 last night.<\/p>\n

LORD: It just strikes me, if the people in the establishment had been listening to Rush Limbaugh for the last X-number of years, they would have seen this coming. But they don\u2019t see this coming because, you know, they were too busy writing articles for Newsweek that David Frum wrote there, the former Bush aide. “Enough” and “stop Rush Limbaugh” and “don\u2019t listen” and all this sort of stuff. All they had to do was listen to Rush\u2019s show, listen to what his callers are saying to him, and they would have understood perfectly well long before Donald Trump that they had a real problem on their hands. But they didn\u2019t pay attention.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s pretty right on the money. He\u2019s simply saying if these guys had listened to you, if they\u2019d been paying attention<\/a>; that Trump didn\u2019t happen in a vacuum, that it\u2019s been coming and they should have known it. And instead, they send people like Frum out there to write Newsweek cover pieces saying, “Enough of Rush Limbaugh! We gotta get rid of Rush Limbaugh. We gotta stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. Just get rid of Limbaugh! Stop paying attention to him,” instead of listening to what was happening on his program. That was Jeffrey Lord\u2019s point. You gotta say, that\u2019s pretty astute.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The National Review devoted an entire issue to the attempt to take out Trump, <\/a>and I think all it did was solidify his support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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