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RUSH: The Weekly Standard has a piece in it that, very, very rarely has this ever happened to me. In fact, I can\u2019t ever remember it happening. I\u2019m sure it has, \u2019cause it\u2019s been 27 years I\u2019ve been doing this. The headline of this — and it\u2019s not a hit piece. It\u2019s not a criticism. The headline\u2019s gonna mislead you. The headline is: “No, Ted Cruz Did Not Invent the Term ‘Undocumented Democrat<\/a>.'”<\/p>\n

Apparently Senator Cruz has been running around, after this spat with Marco Rubio on immigration and amnesty and legalization, Cruz has been using the term “undocumented Democrat” instead of “illegal alien” as a means of demonstrating what the Democrats\u2019 interest in this whole thing is. So, now that you know that, here\u2019s the Weekly Standard story. <\/p>\n

“Consider: In his current quest to out-Trump Trump, Ted Cruz has begun referring to illegal immigrants as ‘undocumented Democrats.\u2019 This is hardly an original epithet; the phrase has been a staple of the Rush Limbaugh program for at least five years. (The joke migrated to a Jay Leno monologue in 2013 as well.) If there\u2019s any story here, it\u2019s that Cruz is making a strategic decision to appeal to dittoheads by lifting Rush\u2019s language. That is significant insofar as while Limbaugh has not endorsed Trump, he has tended to be very, very friendly towards the real estate mogul on his radio show.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>“OK, so perhaps it\u2019s too much to ask for Times and NPR reporters to listen to Rush regularly, though given that he remains a singular figure on the right, it would certainly bolster their reporting if they tuned in every now and again. But this is a revealing episode, in that it shows how little many in the mainstream media understand about the American right. This isn\u2019t an example of journalists consciously skewing a story; rather, these two reporters at two of the most prestigious news organizations in the United States were simply unaware of the term, because they know nothing of Limbaugh.”<\/p>\n

Well, here\u2019s what\u2019s happening is that Cruz is being crucified. The media can\u2019t believe that Cruz would actually call \u2019em undocumented Democrats. That\u2019s not what they are. They\u2019re illegal aliens, they\u2019re brilliant people, they\u2019re acts of love or whatever they are. And the Weekly Standard guy\u2019s point is, wait a minute, you idiot reporters, do you not know that this term has been floating around for five years and that Cruz is lifting it? And that\u2019s not a criticism. This guy\u2019s criticism is of the reporters upset at Cruz because they are blind. They willingly ignore the news and the happenings, the thoughts, the fears, all of that of over half the people in this country, i.e., the American right. <\/p>\n

So, again, Weekly Standard story: “This isn\u2019t an example of journalists consciously skewing a story; rather, these two reporters at two of the most prestigious news organizations in the United States were simply unaware of the term, because they know nothing of Limbaugh, a massive success whose ratings are roughly on-par with Morning Edition. (Nor, apparently, do they know much about googling; had either reporter simply searched the term ‘undocumented Democrat,\u2019 they would have seen that Cruz hardly invented it. Indeed, Iowa congressman Steve King, who has endorsed Cruz, used the term in an interview this spring.) And by the way, when Cruz perhaps takes it a step further and starts referring to ‘Anchor Democrats,\u2019 know that he didn\u2019t invent that term either.”<\/p>\n

I mention this to you because I\u2019m not aware of having been credited. You know, Gorbasm, invented that word, feminazi, invented that word, now part of the American lexicon. (interruption) Well, yes, yes, yes, in some corners and in some bedrooms I do get credit for the term “feminazi,” you\u2019re right. But I wouldn\u2019t say credit, Mr. Snerdley. It\u2019s more like blame. I mean, they don\u2019t say that happily. They don\u2019t like the term. But Gorbasm, that was one of the early inventions or creations here. And of course it corrects the Drive-Bys before I even have the chance to or even the inclination to. <\/p>\n

But I\u2019ll tell you what it is. It\u2019s a subtle move by Cruz because it\u2019s the only reason that the Democrats support this. It\u2019s not compassion. It\u2019s not humanitarianism. It\u2019s none of that. I\u2019ll say it again. The Democrat Party requires a dependent and permanent underclass. Now, people in that underclass can improve and move out of it, but they need to be replaced. The Democrat Party cannot survive if the population as a whole improves itself economically to the point of not being dependent on government. If that were to ever happen, it\u2019d be the end of the Democrat Party as we know it today. So they need a permanent underclass. They need permanent poor people, uneducated people. And the greater challenge speaking English, the better. The more dependent, the less educated, the less worldly, the better. It doesn\u2019t matter what the impact on the country is. All that matters is keeping Democrats in power. ‘Cause the Democrats know they\u2019re never gonna live where these people live. So they\u2019re never gonna be affected by this, in their own thinking, in their own minds. <\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019re never gonna live in barrios. They\u2019re never gonna live in ghettos. They\u2019re never gonna live in inner cities. They\u2019re not gonna live where these people that they bring in the country are gonna end up being. And they\u2019re not gonna hire them, not gonna be around \u2019em at all. That\u2019s for the rest of us to deal with. They\u2019re gonna be insulated, but they need that permanent underclass. That\u2019s why I proposed, “Hey, look, I would support amnesty, I will join the Democrats, I will join, I will change. In fact I promised to do this, I promised to guarantee a shift in support among my listeners, sizable number, if amnesty had a lasting provision in it that no recipient of amnesty could vote for 25 years.” Call it a poison pill, I wasn\u2019t doing anything other than illustrating the truth. <\/p>\n

You put in a provision that the newly amnetized, for lack all of better term, can\u2019t vote for 25 years, and, bingo, Democrats stop caring about them. There\u2019s no compassion. There\u2019s no humanitarianism. Not one person, Republican or Democrat, ever called me on that. And let me tell you something. If I were at any day in the future to announce that I\u2019ve changed my mind and now support comprehensive immigration reform and a path to citizenship with no provisos, they\u2019ll be all over me. They\u2019ll call, they\u2019ll ask me to join them doing things here, they will celebrate, all of a sudden I become one of the greatest guys in the country. But when I threw in the requirement they can\u2019t vote for 25 years, I was universally, totally ignored by everybody, Democrat, Republican, independent, communist, fascist, socialist, you name it, I didn\u2019t hear from one.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jan in a New Jersey suburb, you\u2019re next, we head back to the phones. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a little nervous about being on here. I do work for the government, so —<\/p>\n

\"original\"RUSH: That\u2019s okay. No problem.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. So I just want to talk about the immigration problem that we have that has gotten a lot worse over — I would say since the summer before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Since last summer, and we\u2019re vaccinating so many people that don\u2019t speak English. We\u2019re seeing tons and tons and tons of kids. We\u2019re seeing diseases that we haven\u2019t seen in decades, and I feel like nobody\u2019s talking about it. And in my opinion watching this happen, watching the numbers go up of people coming into the country, I don\u2019t see how any Republican will win, because they leave us, they have driver\u2019s license, and I believe that they\u2019ll vote.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, hopefully I\u2019m jaded, but I don\u2019t think so. It\u2019s a real, real, real problem.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you\u2019re not jaded. You\u2019re exactly right about it. A great possibility is out there. There\u2019s no question. This is something that I plan on getting into in greater detail when we get back in the next year because it\u2019s outside the political norms, it\u2019s outside polling data, it\u2019s outside every bit of analysis people use to determine — we\u2019re talking about fraud, essentially. We\u2019re talking about steps Democrats will take to get people to vote that are not legally able to and still will be allowed to and so forth. Anyway, Jan, I appreciate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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