To have your name, or story, mentioned on Rush Limbaugh's radio show is sort of like having it mentioned on the Drudge Report. If you're a conservative, you've likely produced something that aligns with their political leanings. If you're a liberal, it's probably because you've said something they found to be outrageous.
Nation correspondent Ari Melber was on C-SPAN earlier this week discussing what he believes was a dishonest, and potentially illegal, effort by Limbaugh ("Operation Rush,") to get Republicans to crossover in the Ohio Democratic primary to vote for Hillary Clinton. Word got back to Limbaugh, and he went after Melber during yesterday's broadcast.
The "Operation Rush" Counteroffensive
RUSH:
Operation Chaos continues. Operation Rush the Vote. The Boston Globe has
finally discovered it today, the Allentown Morning Call has discovered it today,
and even at The Nation magazine, very, very liberal magazine, they've discovered
it. This morning on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, the guest is The Nation's Ari
Melber. A caller said, "Can you tell me what you think of Republicans crossing
over to affect the Democrat primary?"
MELBER: Rush Limbaugh, for example, has been urging his listeners to go and vote actually for Hillary on the theory that she would be easier to beat. I think it's wrong, and I think that basically you should vote on principle and not go and try to make trouble on the other side. I really don't think that's --
RUSH: Stuff it, pal, stuff it.
MELBER: -- basically a good, healthy way to exercise our democracy.
RUSH: Come on.
MELBER: In some states these are state law issues, but in some states it's illegal. In Ohio, for example, there is actually a good-faith test. If you are saying, "I am doing this in bad faith because I'm not really in this party," that can be illegal, and so people should know that and people should not break the law, and it depends on the state party rules. For those who are interested, Wired, the website and magazine, had a whole piece about this, about how basically Rush Limbaugh was urging that in Ohio, was effectively urging people, if they did it in bad faith, to break the law, and that's important.
RUSH: I never urged anybody to break the law. This is so comical. They are so agitated over this. They just can't stand it when their own tactics are turned back on them, folks. They just can't stand it. They get to muck up our primaries all they want, they get to cross over, they get to do anything they want, choose our nominee and so forth. We get involved in theirs -- and, by the way, this is not just about getting Hillary nominated because she'd be easier to beat. This is about causing chaos; this is about continuing this soap opera for a whole bunch of reasons, and the reasons run from the political, and they are obvious, to the simple fact also that this is fun. This is the party that's supposed to be so put together, so well wired, so forward thinking, and you can mess 'em up -- like I say, folks, I said in the last hour, we may wake up one morning in November and be miserable and unhappy, but we will have the memory of more fun months leading up to it. I'm not predicting anything in November because I have no clue. Nobody else does, either.
MELBER: Rush Limbaugh, for example, has been urging his listeners to go and vote actually for Hillary on the theory that she would be easier to beat. I think it's wrong, and I think that basically you should vote on principle and not go and try to make trouble on the other side. I really don't think that's --
RUSH: Stuff it, pal, stuff it.
MELBER: -- basically a good, healthy way to exercise our democracy.
RUSH: Come on.
MELBER: In some states these are state law issues, but in some states it's illegal. In Ohio, for example, there is actually a good-faith test. If you are saying, "I am doing this in bad faith because I'm not really in this party," that can be illegal, and so people should know that and people should not break the law, and it depends on the state party rules. For those who are interested, Wired, the website and magazine, had a whole piece about this, about how basically Rush Limbaugh was urging that in Ohio, was effectively urging people, if they did it in bad faith, to break the law, and that's important.
RUSH: I never urged anybody to break the law. This is so comical. They are so agitated over this. They just can't stand it when their own tactics are turned back on them, folks. They just can't stand it. They get to muck up our primaries all they want, they get to cross over, they get to do anything they want, choose our nominee and so forth. We get involved in theirs -- and, by the way, this is not just about getting Hillary nominated because she'd be easier to beat. This is about causing chaos; this is about continuing this soap opera for a whole bunch of reasons, and the reasons run from the political, and they are obvious, to the simple fact also that this is fun. This is the party that's supposed to be so put together, so well wired, so forward thinking, and you can mess 'em up -- like I say, folks, I said in the last hour, we may wake up one morning in November and be miserable and unhappy, but we will have the memory of more fun months leading up to it. I'm not predicting anything in November because I have no clue. Nobody else does, either.
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