RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): Folks, I need to take a brief departure. You have to hear something. I have three soundbites that happened on CNN today before the program started. It's Jeffrey Lord, whom you know[[, he's]] as a writer for the American Spectator, a former political director in the Reagan administration. He has joined CNN as a conservative commentator some months ago and is appearing more and more frequently, more and more often on CNN because he's doing a bang-up job over there. He also happens to be a Trumpster for all intents and purposes. He's a solid, rock-ribbed conservative, and we interviewed him for the Limbaugh letter, and he says he sees a lot of Reagan in Trump. Just telling you what he says. The purpose of his appearance today -- CNN will not let go of Trump not disavowing the KKK or David Duke on Jake Tapper's show last Sunday. The fact that Trump has disavowed Duke and the KKK a gazillion times doesn't count at CNN. And the reason it doesn't count is because he didn't disavow on Sunday with Jake Tapper. And they won't let it go. And Jeffrey Lord is exactly right about this, this is exactly how the drive-bys operate. And you throw race into the mix, and you have a guaranteed kerfuffle that they will not let go because there are so many institutional biases here. And the first institutional bias is that all Republicans are racist pigs who regret the days of slavery ever ended. That's what your average, ordinary media leftist believes today. 

Well Jeffrey's on CNN all week telling them you guys have got this all wrong, the KKK was a bunch of Democrats. The KKK was the militarized wing of the Democrat Party. The Klan was all Democrats, segregationists, and CNN can't fathom it. They don't understand it. It doesn't compute. And you combine those two things, the fact that they -- in their world, Trump has not disavowed. He disavowed -- I counted fifteen times last night. He got the question again. But CNN won't let go of it because he didn't disavow on our Sunday show.