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. …

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. …

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.

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. …

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.