{"id":6792,"date":"2015-03-23T18:40:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T18:40:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-03-23T18:40:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T18:40:56","slug":"even_wolf_blitzer_denounces_ted_cruz_birtherism_while_engaging_in_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/03\/23\/even_wolf_blitzer_denounces_ted_cruz_birtherism_while_engaging_in_it\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Wolf Blitzer Denounces Ted Cruz Birtherism (While Engaging In It)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/65174\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Listen to this real quick.  This is Wolf Blitzer.  This is CNN.  This is after Ted Cruz\u2019s announcement he\u2019s running for president.  He\u2019s speaking with the national political correspondent for CNN, Peter Hamby, about Ted Cruz announcing his candidacy.  And they discover here that there\u2019s no real birther question, but they\u2019re gonna talk about it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>BLITZER:  He was actually born in Canada. His mother is American. There\u2019s no questions of birtherism or anything like that.  He\u2019s a natural born US citizen, even though he was born in Canada.  But nobody\u2019s raising that issue as they did, obviously, with President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>HAMBY:  No.<\/p>\n<p>BLITZER:  Even though he was born in Hawaii. He wasn\u2019t born in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>HAMBY:  Right and, you know, some on the left tried to raise questions about that saying, &#8220;A-ha there\u2019s a double standard here with the Tea Party. He might not be a US citizen because he was born in Calgary.&#8221; He renounced the Canadian element of his citizenship I believe last year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_103781\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/WolfCruz.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  So they start out by saying there\u2019s nothing to see here, and they spend 32 seconds talking about it.  This is exactly how they do it, folks. They\u2019re gonna be very worried, they are very worried about Ted Cruz for a host of reasons.  I don\u2019t think right now &#8212; and I must be totally honest.  I don\u2019t think anybody in the Drive-By Media thinks Ted Cruz has a ghost of a chance of being elected president.  But they\u2019re not gonna take any chances. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>They do believe he\u2019s a second-tier candidate.  They do believe that everybody sees him the way they see him. That he\u2019s just a malcontent flamethrower who shut down the government and that everybody is gonna be driven to hate just as they drove everybody to hate Sarah Palin.  I make that statement with a fair amount of confidence.  But I know for a fact that they don\u2019t think he is a real contender for the presidency.  But because he articulates conservatism irrefutably, because he does it without a teleprompter, because he does it so well, in other words, they are going to try to destroy him. <\/p>\n<p>If they ever do, if things change in their perception and if the Drive-Bys, along with the Democrat Party ever think, if they come around to the idea that he may actually get the nomination, you\u2019re going to see all the stops pulled out, it\u2019s going to be palpable fear, and they will do everything they can to convince as many people as possible that he is not qualified, that he is stupidWell, you know.  You\u2019ve seen the drill run.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Jim in Montgomery, Ohio. Greetings, sir. It\u2019s great to have you with us.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Rush, it\u2019s a great honor to talk to you. I\u2019ve listened to you many years. You\u2019re a great guy, a great American, and like you, I love Ted Cruz.  I think he\u2019s one of the best we have.  I\u2019m passionate about him.  When I heard his speech, hair stood up on my neck.  But I\u2019m really troubled because, as much as I love Ted, I love the Constitution first.  What I\u2019ve studied and learned in the last several years about the true meaning of natural-born citizens, as far as I can tell, Ted\u2019s dad was not a citizen at the moment of Ted\u2019s birth, and Ted was not born of two American citizen parents, and that means he is ineligible.  And it really troubles me because I love this guy.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Really?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  This would exclude Ted, but it\u2019s a double-edged sword.  It cuts both ways.  If we would adhere to our Constitution, it would exclude the best we have, Ted Cruz, and that really troubles me.  But you know what?  That would have excluded Barack Hussein Obama because Barack Hussein Obama\u2019s daddy was never an American citizen.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Right.  Didn\u2019t matter, did it?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  When you go back and study this, it says you must be a natural-born citizen or &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Right, right.  Look, I\u2019ll tell you what. I\u2019m very happy you explained this to me. I\u2019m gonna call Ted.  I have his number now because I am a powerful, influential member of the media.  I\u2019m gonna call him and I\u2019m gonna tell him, &#8220;You wasted your time, bud! You\u2019re not qualified.  You can\u2019t run for president.  I had a caller today tell me so.&#8221; And he\u2019s gonna be say, &#8220;Really?  Okay!  Well, then, I\u2019ll just keep making speeches, but I won\u2019t run.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Well, what is this?  I mean, even Wolf Blitzer announced that there\u2019s no birther issue here, even though they talked about it for 45 minutes.  This is exactly what I was talking about just moments ago, folks, when I said we run the risk of taking out our own people with nitpicky perfection-type things.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Listen to this real quick. This is Wolf Blitzer. This is CNN. This is after Ted Cruz\u2019s announcement he\u2019s running for president. He\u2019s speaking with the national political correspondent for CNN, Peter Hamby, about Ted Cruz announcing his candidacy. And they discover here that there\u2019s no real birther question, but they\u2019re gonna talk about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Even Wolf Blitzer Denounces Ted Cruz Birtherism (While Engaging In It) - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/03\/23\/even_wolf_blitzer_denounces_ted_cruz_birtherism_while_engaging_in_it\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Even Wolf Blitzer Denounces Ted Cruz Birtherism (While Engaging In It) - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Listen to this real quick. 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