Posted on 09/04/2015 1:40:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, I want to go back to audio sound bites. I want to go back to yesterday. Following Trump's press conference, which we covered, our microphones there were. He went out after he signed that pledge with Reince Priebus -- and, by the way, in the Stack of Stuff today there are all kinds of reactions to that. I mean, people think Trump has signed away his chance to win the presidency. Others think that Trump has snookered the RNC and Reince Priebus. The opinions of Trump signing the pledge are all over the place. Well, after the press conference I happened to have CNN on one of the monitors here. They had four people on analyzing and discussing what had just happened and what they had just heard.
They had Jeffrey Lord from NewsBusters and the American Spectator, they had Ana Navarro, who is a Republican strategist in Miami, New York, and Washington and cigar bars, and they had Gloria Borger. I can't remember who the other person was. Gloria Borger caught my attention. I mentioned Jeffrey Lord. Maybe that's... Oh, that's right. There were just three, and then the CNN host. There were four people on the show: Jeff Lord, Gloria Borger, and Ana Navarro. But it was Borger... Well, there was one other.
There was a fourth woman, a woman who had worked for Trump and had been on The Apprentice, a Hispanic woman who defends Trump with everything she says, and she's on CNN regularly. I can't remember her name. She's young. She's in her twenties. And she would not stop filibustering yesterday. It was kind of funny. Gloria Borger was trying to get word in, word in, and she can't.
She's being patient, I could see. You know, I can read body language. Gloria Borger was the Senior Media Professional, and the others were junior to her in terms of experience. And you could see on her face that she was being tolerant and patient waiting for the children to opine and waiting for her turn as the adult on the panel to tell everybody what had just happened, what she had seen.
Let's go to the audio sound bites. We'll start here with number one. This is after Trump's press conference. It's Ana Cabrera and Gloria Borger, and Cabrera says... Now, let me read what he says. "I like Jeb, he's a nice man, but he should really set the example by speaking English while in the US." Gloria Borger then jumps in with this...
BORGER: What he was doing with that comment was playing to his base, which is the conservative white voters in the Republican Party. He knows exactly what he's doing. And it's a way to differentiate himself, and he understands. Even though he said today, "I love the Hispanics," as he put it -- even though he said that today -- it's very clear that, in criticizing Jeb for speaking Spanish, he was talking to his core constituency.
RUSH: Now, in addition to saying this, Gloria Borger wanted to say something and she was interrupted, and I'm not sure she ever completed it. But during that press conference yesterday Trump did come out and started speaking lovingly of Hispanics, all of those that he's known, all of those who have worked for him, all of those who do great things. He loves the Hispanics. "I love Mexicans. I have great respect," and so forth.
Gloria Borger was on the verge of saying, "This is not the kind of red meat that Trump's voters want to hear," and I don't think she got around to saying it. I could see she wanted to. She wanted to make a comment (because I know she started to) about how different Trump sounded in this appearance. There wasn't any of the rapists and the murderers and they're all this and they're all that. There was nothing but love for them.
She said, "He's becoming more presidential. He's starting to soften his tone." She wanted to say that she wonders whether or not the Trump base is going to be disappointed by that, because she thinks that they want to continue to hear nothing but how the Mexicans are rapists and purse snatchers and murderers and muggers and so forth.
"They don't want to hear about how much Trump likes 'em!" Now, she didn't say that. She was on the way; she got interrupted. It's my interpretation of where she was going. And then this English language subject came up. On the next bite in sequence here is Jeffrey Lord reacting to what Borger said. Cabrera said, "Jeff, can Donald Trump win the election if he stops making comments like this?"
LORD: This was an interesting column by Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal the other day in which she was talking about Hispanic friend who listen to Spanish-language radio. The hosts gets lots and lots of calls from Hispanics supporting Donald Trump. They're opposed to illegal immigration, too. One other thing here that Gloria is saying, and she's right about this in terms of his base. Rush Limbaugh spent considerable time on his radio show discussing this and saying how stunned he was that it is controversial at all to defend speaking in English. And I can tell you, that really will resonate with the conservative base.
RUSH: There's no question about it. This is the secondary topic that interested me yesterday, coequally with the... I know it was a desire. A lot of people on this panel wanted to point out that Trump really backed off the red meat and started talking loving of the Hispanic people. I'm telling you, Gloria Borger picked up on that and she was on the verge of trying to make the point that Trump's basically gonna like it.
Then this English language thing came up, and that is factual. Jeff Lord has it right here. I mean, the idea that it's controversial that Trump thinks we should be speaking English, and he was just pointing out that Trump's base is not gonna be offended by that at all. They're gonna be very supportive of it. Then next was Ana Navarro.
NAVARRO: Let's not pretend that the controversy here is that Jeb Bush doesn't speak English. Jeb Bush speaks English. If you know more than one language and you can express yourself in it, why not? I hope that more people learn more languages. It is a huge asset in business. It's a huge asset in life.
LORD: It's not just Spanish. I mean, it's all languages. The implication here that springs from this whole illegal immigration situation is that the country is being forced, in other words, to a different culture than the one it has, the American culture; that it's being, in the words of Victor Davis Hanson, "ethnic triumphalism." And, you know, that's not a good thing.
RUSH: Exactly right. What is involved in all this is that America is being forced to adopt other cultures. That's not what assimilation is. In the old days of immigration on assimilation, the immigrants would come here, they would become Americans. They would want to become Americans. They would learn the American culture. They reveled in it; they loved it. That's why they risked everything.
What's happening now is that America's leaders seem hell-bent on showing that we can become their culture, and that's what Trump objects to, whether he's aware of it or not. In terms of actually using the words, with everybody running around speaking in Spanish, it's pandering. And here's the final bite. This is Gloria Borger wrapping it up.
BORGER: Romney lost the last election; he had 27% of Hispanic voters. In talking to Mitt Romney about that, Romney was the first one to say the Republican Party has to do much better than I did. When George W. Bush won the election, he had 43, 44% of Hispanics. The Republican nominee has to do at least that well. And so at this point, Donald Trump has to figure out a way to navigate that, what has become a very, very difficult terrain for him.
RUSH: Well, she also noted earlier that that's how she interpreted his comments. But I'm telling you, I'll say this 'til I'm blue in the face. We've run the numbers. Everybody has. If Romney had won 70% of the Hispanic vote in 2012, he would have still lost the election. The Republicans are gonna continue to lose if they believe the only way to win the White House is Hispanic votes. If Romney couldn't have won getting 70%, then it's a giant mistake they're making, and I think they're gonna continue to make it.
I saw that protest where they had the KKK costumes and stuff. What Trump needs to do is point out the sheer hypocrisy of these idiots and go over Mexicos immigration laws in detail....
Look at this crap.......
I don’t find it that interesting pondering the analyses of pundits who have nothing at stake, know nothing about what they’re talking about, wouldn’t even be on TV if they weren’t sycophants of the administration, and frankly have no higher aspiration than to be flaming sycophants of the administration. It’s like listening to ducks quacking, except there, I could be outside enjoying a nice day. In both cases I have to watch where I step so as not to step in duckpoop.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan Is a CLOWN of a Cardinal.
Why would you say that?
That quote by him.....did you read it?
That quote by him.....did you read it? The DAILY NEWS HEADLINES.
I am afraid you are in the wrong thread.
Cardinal Dolan has the right to his opinion just like you and I have the right to ours. There is no need to call him names, okay?
He’s a CLOWN Cardinal....always laughing when there is NOTHING to laugh about. I am a DAILY MASS GOER.....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.