Jay Leno has turn into just a little of hero to conservatives in recent months for his relentless jokes about President Obama and the Inexpensive Care Act. But one conservative who isn’t leaping on the Leno bandwagon is Rush Limbaugh.

Limbaugh spent a part of his radio express Monday discussing Sen. Ted Cruz’s Friday night appearance on the Tonight Express, expressing frustration over Leno’s line of questioning. “Now, Leno’s been ripping Obama, however Leno’s a Democrat,” Limbaugh mentioned. “He’s a pleasant guy, don’t misunderstand, big chin, but he’s a Democrat.”

After taking part in a clip of Leno questioning whether Ronald Reagan would be conservative enough for the tea celebration these days, Limbaugh backed up Cruz by way of claiming Reagan wasn’t as keen on incorporate as Chris Matthews’ up to date ebook Tip and the Gipper would have you ever think. “Cruz is precisely right,” he mentioned. “Reagan used to be the Tea Birthday Celebration of his day! Leno couldn’t possibly understand that.”

The radio host proceeded to go off on a rant towards “stupidity” that left the listener with the implication that he did not suppose extremely of the Tonight Show host’s intelligence. “There’s simply a variety of stupid, and now not just voters, but I’m talking about journalists,” he stated. “You recognize, we think that they’re curious and know things as a result of it’s their job they usually’re with reference to the info. They’re silly! They’re now not curious. They are ignorant of things. They usually’re ideologues in order that they’re ignorant.”

“So far as Leno’s involved, Cruz is there simply to be mocked and made enjoyable of, and possibly acquire an audience, but as far as Leno in truth taking note of what Cruz has to claim?” Limbaugh asked. He imagined that whereas Cruz was speaking, Leno was considering, “‘Yeah, you idiot, speak about what you think. You extremist, you racist bigot. Yeah, go in advance.’”

Then, as soon as once more, Limbaugh started out to back off:

“I don’t need to indict Leno. He will not be pronouncing that. I take that back. See, I admire Leno. I imply, in comparison with the Letterman and the remainder of that crew at night time, it’s no contest. But the one thing I don’t understand how you can maintain is stupidity. I imply, how do you take care of stupidity? How do you inform stupidity? Lack of knowledge is a different thing. You can open the thoughts of the ignorant. That you would be able to open their eyes and have lights go on, but the stupid are any other. The closed-minded, stupid are another factor.”

Hearken to audio below, by the use of The Rush Limbaugh Exhibit:

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