Dirty Trick! Cruz
Audio Sabotaged During Fox News Broadcast of New York Speech
April 15, 2016
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RUSH: Well, I guess I'm wrong. Guess I'm 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've seen,
in I don't know how long, and they've got everybody playing along with
it. It's the most amazing thing, but it must not have been a dirty trick
'cause I'm the only guy who thinks it was.
No, what happened at that Republican thing last night,
the New York GOP speech, I'll show you here in a minute. I'll show you
what I'm talking about. It's the most amazing thing and everybody is just
playing right along with the whole premise that is accompanying what happened
there last night.
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RUSH: I also watched last night the New York Republican
Party black-tie event where the three Republican contenders showed up to
address -- it's kind of a mini-version of the Al Smith dinner for Republicans
only.
Donald Trump led
off, followed by John Kasich, followed by Ted Cruz. And something
remarkable happened a short time into Cruz's speech that did not happen during
either Trump's or Kasich's 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's speech. Trump
got up and spoke, and then there was a little downtime before Kasich came
up.
And during that downtime they go back to Megyn
Kelly's show 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.
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't watch the totality
of everybody's speech, but I watched the last half of Trump's 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've got my head down the first
I don't know how many minutes, maybe three minutes.
Frankly, I'll be honest with you, I tuned out a little
bit because Cruz was doing a stump speech. He was talking about his
campaign's the only campaign that's beaten Donald Trump 11 times and he was
talking about how he's gonna do his first day in office. He's gonna rip up
Obamacare and he's gonna abolish the IRS. I said okay, I'll tune out a
little bit here and focus more on what I'm 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?"
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's
noise. It's 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's all noise, 'cause it's all bionic, it all
sounds artificial to me. I don't hear anything the way anybody else hears
it.
I am so at home in complete, total, utter silence.
I keep the TV mute on oftentimes and just read the closed-captioning 'cause
it's 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 'cause 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't anything on the iPad. The change had occurred totally at the
New York GOP affair.
So I studied it, I looked at it, and in 30 seconds I
figured out what happened. They had cut Ted Cruz's 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?"
It was so different from anything I had heard all night
at this thing that my attention was riveted. And I said,
"Something's 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're gonna fix it." But when it came back, it was all the
same. I could not hear Ted Cruz. Cruz had no idea. He's still
up there gesticulating, he's doing his normal speech, can't hear him anymore,
don't know what he's saying. All you hear is what's 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.
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't know who did it, but
somebody -- I said, this is amazing. And I waited for the lid to
blow.
I started reading people's Twitter feeds. I started
reading all kinds of things, and there wasn't one reference to it. I
said, "This can't be." I can't be the only person that noticed
this. I can't 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.
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's 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's legitimately loud in here, people talking and eating and
ignoring Cruz."
That's 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't know. I'm gonna take a brief time-out
and I'm gonna come back and show you, I'm gonna play the audio here and you'll
see what I'm talking about. But what brings it all together is, even
today, I'm 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't care. It was really a big problem for Ted
Cruz."
I said, "That's not what happened."
(laughing) It isn't what happened at all. And then I saw Kellyanne
Conway on Fox. She is Cruz's pollster and she didn't 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.
And I'm sure it's all about New York values. I'm 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'll show you what I'm talking about when we come back.
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RUSH: Okay. Here we go. We're gonna
first start off with Trump. And Mike, I don't need to play the whole bite
here. Just play it 'til 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'm sure still
has some connections there, Grand Hyatt hotel, Grand Central Station, at the
2016 New York state Republican gala, here's Trump.
TRUMP: I loved the potential of the building.
It's 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't want to know.
RUSH: Okay. That's enough. Perfectly
normal, right? You could hear everything Trump was saying no
problem. Here's John Kasich next. His audio also loud and clear.
KASICH: When we live in the dark, when we practice
politics in the dark, over time people don't like it. I think when the
public looks at a politician whose lips are moving, they figure that politician
is lying. And I'm 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 --"
RUSH: Enough of that. That's 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's speech. Totally normal.
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's very simple: You lift the boot of the federal government off
the back of the necks of small businesses. If I'm elected president --
RUSH: Okay, so we've 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'm looking and reading something on my iPad Pro,
and my room goes berserk with audio that's 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.
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).
RUSH: Stop it. Stop it. That is how the
final eight minutes of Ted Cruz's speech sounded. You couldn't 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's sort of
painful to watch someone speak passionately to a crowd who wouldn't 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's 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.
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's very simple: You lift the boot of the federal government off
the back of the necks of small businesses. If I'm 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).
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."
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RUSH: One more demonstration of this just 'cause I know
many of you, "Gee, play that again, I want to hear it again."
I'm gonna play it one more time. Now, keep in mind, folks, to show you
how brilliantly this thing's executed. They got three guys showing up making
speeches. The speeches go I think 15 minutes max. There's a bunch
of prespeeches. I'm watching this. It's at nine o'clock and nobody
has eaten yet.
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's remarks, and it was at some point during Cruz's 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.
Meanwhile, if you're watching this, there's Cruz, his
arms are waving around and he's giving a speech, nothing has changed, in his
mind. He's not off tempo. He's not seeing a bunch of people walk around
and mill around and ignoring him. He's watching people still listening to
him. He doesn't know anything that's happened. He doesn't know
until it's over when somebody tells him, I'm sure. The TV audience is
thinking there's some audio glitch that's happened here and Fox is gonna find
it and fix it, but that never happens.
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'm sure
that's what this is, Cruz got a dose of it last night.
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's prejudice against Cruz. They probably didn't
even have to tell people, "My God Cruz was so boring, nobody
listened." They probably didn't even have to tell the media that, that's
the media's natural disposition, to dispossess and disrespect Cruz.
So here, listen again, exactly as I heard it, listening
to the beginning of Cruz's speech, my head's 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're watching TV, it was twice as loud as the audio of the
speeches from the podium. Here we go.
CRUZ: The heart of our economy is not Washington,
DC.
RUSH: Perfectly normal.
CRUZ: The heart of our economy is small businesses
all across the United States of America.
RUSH: No problems at all here. Applause. Here
they're listening.
CRUZ: And if you want to see the economy take off,
it's very simple: You lift the boot of the federal government off the
back of the necks of small businesses. If I'm 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 started out supporting Jeb Bush.
(unintelligible) Maybe you started out supporting Marco Rubio or Scott
Walker (unintelligible) or any of the fantastic candidates who began this race.
(unintelligible).
RUSH: That is not how it sounded in the room.
It only sounded that way on TV. In the room all was normal. There
wouldn't have been any perceived difference. You're watching on TV, that
was all you heard. And you would think, okay, something's happened,
there's an audio glitch somewhere. But it went on for five or eight
minutes, and they never fixed it. It just continued, and finally they
bumped out of it. The next thing they saw was Sean Hannity saying,
"Sorry, audio problems. We want to welcome Eric Bolling. Eric?
What is a great guy like Corey Lewandowski doing tonight?"
It was not even addressed. So I think, if I'm just
patient, I'm gonna see a bunch of Cruzers just blow up, fit of tirades all over
the media watching last night, and I didn't see anything except the media
tweeting and posting blogs, blog posts about how boring Cruz was, how nobody
listened, it was a shocking thing. I said, "Gee, they must be in on
it." At no time last night did I see anywhere anybody questioning
what happened, what might have gone wrong with the audio during Cruz's
remarks.
So I get up today, I start show prep, I've got Fox on in
here, and still they're continuing with this premise that Cruz was so dull, so
boring, so hated, that the room, fellow Republicans just totally disrespected
him. They got up, they walked around, they talked amongst themselves,
they were eating, they were making noise with their plates and knives and
forks.
And I just had to marvel at it. I said, "This
is a multipart trick that involves the cooperation of a whole lot of people,
and every one of them played along." Not one person blew the whistle
on this. Even now nobody has blown the whistle. The media is still
writing about what a dull dryball Cruz is. They're still writing about how the
audience totally tuned out. They even had Kellyanne Conway on.
She's with the Cruz campaign. She's a pollster and works with the Keep
the Promise super PAC. She's the president of it.
She was on this morning on Fox, and the question she got,
"You were there last night. You've seen a lot of the reporting this
morning, that Senator Cruz was ignored." Did you see this?
This is Martha MacCallum carrying on with this charade. "You've seen
a lot of the reporting this morning that Senator Cruz was ignored, the people
were intentionally not paying attention, and the thinking is that it's because
of the New York values comment. What was your take?"
CONWAY: Some people waited up to 90 minutes just to
get through metal detectors last night. Mr. Trump has Secret Service
security. So by the time dinner was served, the event started an hour
late, I think Senator Cruz was speaking as people were eating for the first
time all night. And I think it would be unfortunate if people, as you
suggest, were intentionally ignoring a United States Senator from their own
party and a presidential contender from their own party because of a comment he
made, which he has since explained really goes to Donald Trump's comment.
That was a phrase Donald Trump used many years ago to explain his position, his
support for partial-birth abortion.
RUSH: Apparently, she didn't even know what happened.
She was accepting the premise that her candidate was universally despised and
reviled and thus he was ignored and mistreated and treated rudely, and she
could only say that it was a sad thing that this happened to a sitting senator
and that sought to justify the New York values comment.
It continues, folks, as we sit here today, as we sit here
at this moment, that is still the premise. That's still the
narrative. And I'll tell you if you're the Cruz campaign, since this
happened once, and you know that whoever was involved in this, they could do it
again. (interruption) Brian, the broadcast engineer, you think something
broke? Oh, come on, Brian. He's like Moe Thacker, you know, the old
United Screeners of America union thug head back in New York. So you're
not gonna cast aspersions on your engineer brethren?
So you think something broke last night, like maybe the
wires, the cables connecting the podium mic to the amplifier just accidentally
came unplugged maybe and they couldn't figure it out in 10 minutes of trying to
troubleshoot the problem? Yeah, just one of those unfortunate technical
glitches that nobody in 2016 could figure out how to find and fix.
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RUSH: We're gonna go to Pittsburgh. Jesse, great to
have you on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my
call. I wanted to talk about what you were talking about, what Fox did to
Ted Cruz last night. I was absolutely -- I just couldn't believe it, the
lengths, the depths that they would go to --
RUSH: Well, now, wait.
CALLER: -- to discredit him.
RUSH: I know why you think Fox did it, because they
are in charge of the telecast so you're thinking, okay, there's gotta be a
control room, there has to be somebody there, the audio engineers have to hear
something's wrong, and the first thing you would do is turn down the crowd
mics, if you can't hear the podium, or put up a banner that says,
"Technical difficulties, we're working on it, please stand by." There
was none of that. So that's why you're thinking Fox. But I think it
goes deeper than Fox.
CALLER: Really?
RUSH: Well, it has to. It goes to when they
decided to serve dinner. There wouldn't have been any the crowd noise
unless they had served dinner before Cruz started to speak, you see. I
mean, I think this is deep. I think this trick has woven tentacles of
deceit that are deeply throughout this event last night. You have a lot
of people that played along with this one, and they're still playing along with
it today.
CALLER: I do believe that the tentacles are deep in
that but, I mean, Fox had to do something with it. I mean, they had to be
a part of it somehow.
RUSH: Well, look. Yeah, maybe. But are you
of the opinion that Fox and Fox alone decided to actually sabotage Cruz's
speech?
CALLER: No. No. Definitely not Fox
alone. Like you said, I think this is bigger than just Fox --
RUSH: Okay, so you think Fox, though, you think Fox
killed the podium microphone?
CALLER: I do. I do.
RUSH: That could have been somebody that had
nothing to do with Fox. That could have been somebody backstage at the
amplifier, turned it off, unplugged it. It could have been a circuit breaker.
It could have been a number of things. But in the labyrinth of audio and video
connections there's a bunch of stuff that happens before you get to the Fox
feed per se. I understand why you would think it's Fox. When you lose the
audio on a football game or TV show, you think it's the network.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: It makes sense that you would think that,
yeah.
CALLER: Yeah, and you're right about not really
seeing too much online about it because right when it was happening I went out
to Fox's site on Facebook, and nobody was mentioning it. They had Ted
Cruz's speech on there 'cause it was a little bit afterwards, and nobody was
mentioning it, but then slowly throughout the evening people were starting to
comment on it, and they were pretty mad.
RUSH: Yeah, but they were in the minority.
Most of the comments, most of the first early tweets were from media people
perpetuating the hoax, essentially. Which was also crucial. I mean,
that's what I mean. There were a lot of elements of this that somebody
had to coordinate. There are a lot of people that played a role in this
that had to be silent. Somebody had to be assured that all the players
here would not give up the trick and blow it, even at this point.
I mean, the fact that the narrative still remains, Cruz
was a dull, drying whatever speech, that nobody cared, is what survives as the
narrative of the night. So I don't know how you watch that on TV and not
think that there was something wrong with the audio. Whether it was done
on purpose or not, how do you not conclude that there was something wrong with
the audio as you heard it, as I played it for you. And, believe me, had
you been watching it live, the cacophony of sound from that room was much louder
than any of the speeches from Trump, Kasich, or Cruz.
I mean, it was loud enough that they literally bumped out
of Cruz. He still wasn't finished speaking, they bumped out of it, and Hannity
said, "Sorry, audio problems," and then that was it. Then went right
into his program, interviewing whoever it was, Eric Bolling. No
explanation, just, "Sorry for the audio problems," as though that was
the excuse for bumping out of it. The reason they were leaving the Cruz
speech, "Sorry, we got some audio problems here," and bam, that was
it. Classic. I suspect Megyn Kelly. (laughing) Just
kidding. (ahem) Just kidding. I appreciate the call up there,
Jesse. Thanks.
This is Janet Marie in Pleasanton, California.
You're next on Open Line Friday. Hi.
CALLER: Hi there, Rush. Thank you so much for
taking my call. I have to tell you, I came home, I was listening to Ted's
speech, I was working out at the gym and all of a sudden everything started
cutting out, and I came home spitting mad. I blamed it on Fox. I
didn't have the background you have. But the other thing that occurred to
me, because I've run charity events and galas, and I was furious that they were
starting to serve dinner while he was speaking. Ted Cruz was hitting it
out of the park. He got more response from the audience, there was more
clapping. I thought he hit a home run last night, and then they cut it
out, and I came home and I said to my husband, "I'm done with Fox. I
am done."
RUSH: Well, look, I can understand that would be
your knee-jerk first reaction to it. I had a different take on Cruz's
speech. Let me just repeat this. The reason I was multitasking with the
iPad Pro, the big one, in case you're wondering, was because Cruz was doing his
stump speech. There was nothing at the time this happened that was even
specific to New York, which I thought, what is this?
I mean, he was talking about how this campaign is the
only campaign that's beating Donald. That doesn't matter anymore and then
talking about what he's gonna do the first day in office. He's gonna rip up
Obamacare, then he's gonna abolish the IRS. It was a stump speech.
And so I thought okay, I'm just gonna focus on something else here until he and
if he gets into something specific to the New York primary or current events,
something other than a stump speech, and it didn't happen.
And maybe he was pivoting and hitting into some different
area when the audio snafu happened. But after that nobody knows what he
said except the people in the room. The people in the room, everything
appeared normal. You had to be watching this on TV to know that any kind
of a sabotage had taken place.
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RUSH: Here's Patty in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Great
to have you. I'm glad you waited.
CALLER: Oh, thanks for having me on. I wanted
to just discuss real quickly the audio for Senator Cruz. Last night my
husband and I were watching, and we knew immediately, because it was too long;
so my husband looked over at me, he said, "I think this is
intentional." And I nodded my head up and down and said, "New
York values." It went too long without being fixed, and there had to
be more than one person involved, because nobody complained about it.
And, with all due respect, I have to honestly say, I hope
people do not have buyer's remorse afterwards because you don't get to go back
and do this over again. There are so many serious issues facing our
country, and I personally believe that Senator Cruz has been a pillar. I
knew he would rise above this, and even if he thought it was intentional, he
would get back to the business of discussing the real issues this country
faces, of which I think he has the best principles, values, and policies.
And on day one, he's probably already engineered in his
brain how he would put things in place and be ready on day one to lead this
country. He has contributed an enormous amount to this country already,
even from his work on in the Senate and what he did before. He's
preserved a lot of our First Amendment and our Second Amendment --
RUSH: Wait. Do you think his supporters,
though, need some kind of affirmation, at least from the campaign, "Hey,
look, we know our guy got shafted last night. He knows it. We gotta move
on"? I mean, to ignore what happened last night, do you think that's
wise?
CALLER: I think the more attention you pay to
something, the more it's a distraction, it becomes a bigger issue. If they know
it bothers you --
RUSH: Well, I understand that. I'm talking
surrogates doing that, not him.
CALLER: But, you know what, Rush? What's the
point. The point is really what it's all about in this election, and we
need to keep our eye on the ball and never forget what's at stake for this
country.
RUSH: I know that, but if you let it stand that an
entire audience at a party gathering was so bored that they got up and started
milling around, that's not helpful.
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RUSH: David, Chesterton, Indiana, you're next on Open
Line Friday. Hello.
CALLER: Yeah, Rush, thank you. I wanted to
ask you to predict or what you foresee Fox doing now that you exposed them
trying to sabotage Cruz. Can you kind of give us an idea what to
expect? I kind of have an analogy that, you know, the saying that when
you fling a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is the one
that got hit. I'm wondering now that you said that --
RUSH: No, I can tell you, in fact, I just saw
something. Nothing's gonna happen beyond what has happened. There
will not be any acknowledgment that anything untoward happened. I was
just watching during the break here, I've got Fox and CNN on, and the Fox
anchor was going to a discussion of Cruz last night at the speech -- there are
two guests in there -- and happened to say, "And some people even think
they messed with the audio. Can you believe that?" (laughing)
And maybe he was pivoting and hitting into some different
area when the audio snafu happened. But after that nobody knows what he
said except the people in the room. The people in the room, everything
appeared normal. You had to be watching this on TV to know that any kind
of a sabotage had taken place.
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Donald Trump
Donald
Trump is a stakeholder in the Trump
International Hotel & Tower, New York, acquirer the Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard, the candidate
for the 2016 Donald Trump presidential
campaign, was a donor for the Drumthwacket
Foundation, and a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Note: Robert Wood
Johnson IV is a condo owner at the Trump
International Hotel & Tower, New York, and was a coop owner at 740 Park Avenue, New York.
Patricia Kluge
was the owner of the Kluge Estate Winery
and Vineyard, and a founding member of the Core club.
Stephen A.
Schwarzman is a founding member of the Core
club, and a resident at 740 Park
Avenue, New York.
Steven A. Cohen
is a member of the Core club, a
director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
and the VP for the Steven A. and
Alexandra M. Cohen Foundation.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Robin Hood Foundation, the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and Media
Matters.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is the
founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Robin Hood
Foundation raised money for relief for Hurricane
Sandy.
Hurricane
Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund is the relief organization for Hurricane Sandy.
Steven
A. and Alexandra M. Cohen Foundation was a funder for the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund.
Cam Henderson is
an executive director for the Hurricane
Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, was the finance director for the 2016 Chris Christie presidential campaign,
and Mary Pat Christie’s chief of
staff.
Christopher
J. Christie was the candidate for the 2016 Chris
Christie presidential campaign, is married to Mary Pat Christie, the New
Jersey state government governor, and an honorary chairman for the Drumthwacket Foundation.
Drumthwacket
Foundation maintains the governor's mansion for the New Jersey state government.
Mary Pat
Christie is the president of the Drumthwacket
Foundation, the chair for the Hurricane
Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, married to Christopher J. Christie, and Cam
Henderson was her chief of staff.
Cam Henderson is
an executive director for the Hurricane
Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, was the finance director for the 2016 Chris Christie presidential campaign,
and Mary Pat Christie’s chief of
staff.
Hurricane
Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund is the relief organization for Hurricane Sandy.
Robin Hood
Foundation raised money for relief for Hurricane
Sandy.
Emma Bloomberg
was the chief of staff for the Robin
Hood Foundation, is a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and Michael R.
Bloomberg’s daughter.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, Emma Bloomberg’s
father, was the New York (NY) mayor,
and a donor for
the Robin Hood Foundation.
Marie-Josee Kravis
was a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, is married to Henry R.
Kravis, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Henry R. Kravis is married to Marie-Josee
Kravis, was a 740 Park Avenue, New
York resident, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Stephen A.
Schwarzman is a resident at 740 Park
Avenue, New York, and a founding member of the Core club.
Ari
Emanuel is a founding member Core club, and Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother.
Rahm I. Emanuel
is Ari Emanuel’s brother, a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
the Chicago (IL) mayor, and was the
White House chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP,
and Craig M. Robinson’s sister.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton N. Minow
is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Penny S. Pritzker
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Commerce for the Barack Obama administration, was the national finance chair, fundraiser
for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential
campaign, a co-chair for the 2009
Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign,
a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama
inaugural committee, the host for the Barack
Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008, Craig
M. Robinson’s basketball coach for the children's team, Donald Pritzker’s daughter, and a
director at the Hyatt Hotels Corporation.
Donald Pritzker was
Penny S. Pritzker’s father, and a co-founder
of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation.
Mark S.
Hoplamazian is the president & CEO & director for the Hyatt Hotels Corporation, and a trustee
at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Thomas J. Pritzker
is the chairman for the Hyatt Hotels
Corporation, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Byron D. Trott is
a director at the Hyatt Hotels
Corporation, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the vice
chairman for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
David
H. Koch is trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), the chairman
for the Americans for Prosperity
Foundation, the EVP for Koch
Industries, a 740 Park Avenue, New
York resident, and was a donor for the Americans
for Prosperity.
Americans
for Prosperity Foundation is an affiliated group with the Americans for Prosperity.
Koch Industries
was a funder for the Americans for
Prosperity.
Corey R.
Lewandowski was a national director of voter registration for the Americans for Prosperity, and is the campaign
manager for the 2016 Donald Trump
presidential campaign.
John
Stossel was a forum speaker for the Americans
for Prosperity, and is the host of Fox
News.
John R. Kasich
was a frequent contributor for Fox News,
and is the candidate for the 2016 John
Kasich presidential campaign.
Media Matters
monitors Fox News.
Sidney
Blumenthal is a consultant for Media
Matters, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s
friend & confidant, and was a consultant for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton is Sidney Blumenthal’s
friend & confidant, the candidate for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and was a
director at the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Donald
Trump was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a donor for the Drumthwacket Foundation, acquirer the Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard, is the
candidate for the 2016 Donald Trump
presidential campaign, and a stakeholder in the Trump International Hotel & Tower, New York.
Robert Wood
Johnson IV is a condo owner at the Trump
International Hotel & Tower, New York, and was a coop owner at 740 Park Avenue, New York.
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