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RUSH: Albert, San Francisco, thank you for calling, sir. You\u2019re on Open Line Friday, and it\u2019s great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I had a question for you. It\u2019s a two-part question, really. It\u2019s basically the same question. Last Friday you read from the op-ed from the Journal, the Wall Street Journal about how talk radio was a big reason why immigration failed this time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was an editorial. It wasn\u2019t actually an op-ed. It was an unsigned —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, the one that Paul Gigot wrote. In any case, and then you had a caller, I think it was the last caller of your show last Friday. You asked him a question, he didn\u2019t answer it. You were talking about O\u2019Reilly\u2019s interview with President Obama<\/a>, and you asked him why does he think that O\u2019Reilly was bashing conservative media, talk radio. So my question to you is, it\u2019s related to both of those, why is it that the so-called conservative media like the Journal and so-called Bill O\u2019Reilly, conservative, always bash basically you, since you are, you know, talk radio? That\u2019s my question.<\/line>RUSH: Okay. That\u2019s pretty much what I thought you were gonna say. So my two lines of summary, based on what you wanted to ask me are accurate. And I\u2019ll tell, you have put me in sort of a challenging position here to answer this, Albert, because, A, it\u2019s inside baseball, and I don\u2019t know how interesting that is to people. Secondly, you\u2019re asking me to explain why I think others view me the way they do. And I don\u2019t know that you can ever win doing that. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is not what you\u2019re asking me, but just to give you an example. Let\u2019s say I knew somebody that you know and they\u2019re being very critical of you, and I said, “Albert, why do they hate you?” You might know, and you might be dead-on right, but when you start explaining it, it\u2019s a little bit uncomfortable. But I\u2019ll do my best here to explain to you, \u2019cause I think the fundamental question you\u2019re asking — correct me if I\u2019m wrong, \u2019cause I want to answer what you\u2019re asking — you\u2019re basically saying, okay, we have a conservative media here, but then there\u2019s branches of it, and some branches don\u2019t like talk radio, which is me, Rush Limbaugh, but yet they\u2019re conservative. Why? Why do some of these conservatives not like Limbaugh, be it about immigration or whatever else? And you\u2019re probably looking at this as all conservatives on the same team, and you don\u2019t understand it. Am I close?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, exactly, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there are solid answers to this. But I don\u2019t know if it serves any purpose here in answering them. Let me take a break, Albert. Don\u2019t go away. You stay on hold out there and I will ponder the best way to deal with this. I mean, the Journal immigration thing will be easy. But some of the other aspects of this, it gets into marketing and positioning and professional career calculations more than it has to do with issues in answering the second half or phase of your question. <\/p>\n

It also has to do with talk radio, slash, conservatism, slash, me. What\u2019s the image in the Drive-By Media? It\u2019s “Racist, sexist, bigot,” and there are a lot of people don\u2019t want to be thought of anywhere close to that, and the safest, fastest way to distance yourself from being thought of as one of those is to criticize me. So it\u2019s an effort to insulate themselves.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Back to Albert in San Francisco. Albert, there\u2019s an overall answer to your question here — be it the Wall Street Journal or some of these other people you asked about — and it is this. A lot of conservatives make a huge mistake and set themselves up by assuming other people are conservative because they occasionally say things that sound conservative. But when the pedal hits the metal, they\u2019re not really conservative. <\/p>\n

A lot of people think if you\u2019re on Fox, you\u2019re conservative, and that\u2019s not necessarily the case. So I think the root of understanding it is to understand really who is conservative and who isn\u2019t. There are a lot of people who try to pass themselves off now and then as conservative, but if they\u2019re challenged on it, they\u2019ll deny it cause they don\u2019t want to take the heat of being one. They\u2019ll say things like, “Well, I\u2019m not one of those right wingers. I\u2019m not a reactionary. I don\u2019t make up my mind in advance,” blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

But there are professional considerations, too. I mean, if you are in the media and you want to be Mr. Conservative? “Sorry, the job\u2019s taken. It\u2019s filled. You gotta go somewhere else.” So maybe you can you can be Mr. Moderate. Maybe you can be Mr. Reasonable Right-Winger. You find a niche for yourself, because the Mr. Conservative Leadership is taken. I\u2019m it. So where are you gonna put yourself, then, in the professional media structure? There\u2019s all kinds of explanations like that.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal rips into talk radio. They resent us. They really think that we are the only reason they haven\u2019t had amnesty passed. You ask, why is the Journal attacking me. To me, the real question is, I can\u2019t figure out why the Wall Street Journal thinks amnesty is the way to go. That befuddles me. I don\u2019t know how you call yourself a conservative and you are in favor of amnesty. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just the two don\u2019t go together, to me. California is the future of this country and the Republican Party if we do amnesty, and that is plain as day for anybody to see — and if somebody can look at that and not recognize it, I am really puzzled. I don\u2019t know how you not see that. But then again who is it, Albert, that runs advertising in the Wall Street Journal? You are still there, are you not, Albert?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, who runs advertising? Who\u2019s buying advertising in the Wall Street Journal?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Different corporations, like corporations who want amnesty, low-skilled labor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Big and small.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Big and small. So the Journal, just like any other business, they\u2019ve got their clients. And if you look at the Journal editorial position over the years, it\u2019s always going to fall in line. Sometimes they\u2019re right on the money. I mean, Gigot and his buddies have written some of their best editorials lately in defending Apple against the attempt by the federal government to put a monitor in there 24\/7 to guard against them violating anti-trust law. <\/line><\/p>\n

I mean, the Journal editorials that they have written against Judge Denise Cote against this is the most amazing. This judge has assigned one of her friends, who has no experience in anti-trust law, to be the monitor for Apple in anti-trust violations. He\u2019s charging $1,100 an hour and is not qualified. He\u2019s had to go hire another lawyer, who is an expert in anti-trust, at another $1,000 an hour. Apple got a bill of 150 grand for 10 days. They have to pay it. <\/p>\n

The judge appoints somebody, just a friend of hers, and the Journal has been exceptional in informing their readers about that circumstance. But when it comes to amnesty, when it comes to immigration, the Chamber of Commerce and whoever is running American business and the Republican establishment is calling the shots there, Albert. The Republican Party establishment, Chamber of Commerce, don\u2019t look at this as a political issue at all, or not very much of one. They\u2019re not looking at it ideologically. <\/p>\n

This is pure cheap labor. I mean, Tom Donohue, the Chamber of Commerce guy, is out again today or yesterday and he\u2019s saying, “The American people, American workers are either unqualified for the work we have, or they just refuse to do it, and that\u2019s why we\u2019ve got to pass amnesty.” I mean, it\u2019s pure selfishness. The impact on the country apparently doesn\u2019t matter to them. So it\u2019s not even… You know, the people that are pushing this, they\u2019re not doing it because that\u2019s what conservatism is or because they\u2019re conservatives. <\/p>\n

This is strictly their own personal policy preference. It\u2019s being plugged into a conservative framework, and they\u2019re attempting to benefit from that when it really is isn\u2019t. Talk radio has a direct connection with the American people, Albert. More than any other media, we have a direct connection, a bond of connection with our audience. The Journal does not have this bond with their readers. Nobody else does.<\/p>\n

Talk radio is unique in the bond that it creates with its audience, and I could explain why in five minutes if you care. But because of this bond and because of the trust, when we tell them — when I tell them — what amnesty\u2019s going to mean, they believe me, and they agree with it, and they let their members of Congress know they don\u2019t want any part of it. And so the answer is: There is just too much democracy going on for people. They\u2019re not happy with that. Don\u2019t go away, Albert.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Back to the phones to Albert in San Francisco. Okay, now, I gave you a long-winded answer. Did I get anywhere close to what you hoped to hear?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes. Thanks a lot, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Anything else?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. No. Well, yeah. Well, I guess O\u2019Reilly, why O\u2019Reilly bashes you, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, why do you think?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s the question you asked the caller last week, and he didn\u2019t answer. I think I\u2019d probably say what you said earlier, just to show that he\u2019s not homophobic, racist, whatever the case may be. That\u2019s what I think, but, you know, I\u2019m not real sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, this is… I was hoping you would get the right answer, \u2019cause I can\u2019t say it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wish you could say it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well… (laughing). If you know what it is, you say it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you don\u2019t? Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Unfortunately, I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, here\u2019s the thing. A lot of people in media are obsessed with their own image, and they do everything they can to create one, and I don\u2019t. I do not care about my image because of what I was talking about mere moments ago. The bond of connection that I have with you people in the audience. You know. I don\u2019t need an image for you to know who I am. You listen here every day. You know exactly who I am. You know what I am and what I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

You know when there\u2019s BS about me in the media, and I know you know, and that\u2019s enough for me. I\u2019m not obsessed with media campaign, PR image campaigns and that kind of thing. My only concern\u2019s you, the audience. Other people are really obsessed with that. Look, whenever you hear somebody who you think is a conservative say, “Look, I\u2019m not one of those right wingers. I\u2019m the one these extremists,” the reason they\u2019re saying that is \u2019cause they don\u2019t want to be lumped in with the everyday criticism the media makes of conservatives.<\/p>\n

I take that, by the way, as a badge of honor. I\u2019m not troubled by it at all. Then there\u2019s professional jealousy, there\u2019s any number of things here to explain it, but it\u2019s largely professional calculation. It has nothing to do with image. I would just caution a lot of people that whenever you\u2019re watching somebody in the media you think is conservative, many times they\u2019re not, really. Anyway, Albert, I appreciate it the call.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Those of you who are not new and even those of you who have been around here for 25 years, you may have forgotten a lot of things. But in this discussion of amnesty and immigration, we had a caller an hour ago who wanted to know, “Look, the Journal\u2019s conservative; you\u2019re conservative. Why they ragging on you?<\/p>\n

“Why does Bill O\u2019Reilly rag on you? Why do all these other so-called conservatives rag on you?” I\u2019m trying to answer this in a dignified way without… It\u2019s tough, because there are really short, truthful answers here that I\u2019m not the one to say. But let me just, on this amnesty business, give you something that\u2019s really basic. Snerdley just pointed it out to me. I would venture to say, on our side of the aisle, there are a lot of people opposed to this who will not say so.<\/p>\n

The reason is, they are scared to death of somebody calling them anti-Hispanic. And so they will not tell you what they really believe about immigration reform or amnesty, and in fact what they\u2019ll do is tell you what they don\u2019t believe in order to gain the approval of everybody or somebody or the media or what you have. That, I don\u2019t care about. I don\u2019t care if they call me anti-Hispanic because I know that you know that I\u2019m not, and that\u2019s plenty for me.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care what other people say about me. Every Thanksgiving and Christmas, I try to express my gratitude and appreciation for all of you and what you\u2019ve meant to my life and my family, you\u2019ll never know. And part of it is, I don\u2019t care what is being said about me elsewhere. I know that all know who I am and you know the truth and you know when there\u2019s BS out there about me, and that\u2019s all that matters.<\/p>\n

So if I oppose whatever immigration reform is being proposed, if I oppose it \u2019cause I genuinely oppose it \u2019cause I think it\u2019s harmful and wrong and business address for the country, the fact that somebody might call me anti-Hispanic is not gonna stop me from saying it. The fact that somebody might call me a racist is not gonna stop me from telling you what I really think about it, but it will stop most others.<\/p>\n

Not only will it stop them, it will cause them to say things they really don\u2019t believe in order to not be criticized — and, sadly, that describes way too many of our elected officials. But it also describes some of the people on supposed our side of the media. And you can extrapolate that to any other issue, beyond abortion, social issues, immigration reform, Obama, you name it. There are just a lot of people that will not speak up.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t tell you the abject fear people have of media criticism, public criticism, even people that are in media and have a chance to answer it or refute it. It\u2019s just, for a lot of people a path of least resistance is just easiest to calculate every issue. “Okay, what can I say here that will make me sound different than the people they\u2019re gonna hate, and what\u2019ll make me sound reasonable, and what will make me sound unoffensive, and what will make me appreciated by whatever group — in this case, Hispanics?”<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t make those calculations. It\u2019s not a factor. The only thing that matters to me, when I\u2019m doing this program, is what I believe. ‘Cause I figure if I lose that connection with you, then this is over. There is no more of this. I\u2019m not gonna ever throw that away or put that at risk, and those of you who\u2019ve been here for 25 years, there\u2019s something you know. I have not one time, other than when I fake endorsed Clinton, I have not one time changed my opinion on anything fundamental, crucial, serious, ideologically political.<\/p>\n

Some radio programmers would say, “Rush, you gotta mix it up. You gotta, you know, change it, come out for something just to keep the audience off guard.” I said, “Nope, I\u2019m not gonna do that, not gonna do it.” You wouldn\u2019t believe “the pressures,” as I call \u2019em. They\u2019re not really. The attempts to say, “Rush, you know, we might be able to get a this or that if you will just…” and I won\u2019t do it. In 1995, TIME Magazine — this is after the House elections where the Republicans took the House for the first time in 40 years.<\/p>\n

So TIME Magazine does a story, and they put me on it, and they had a picture of me, but they added things. They Photoshopped or whatever was used in 1995. They made my face scowl, and they had a plume of cigar smoke coming out of my mouth. I looked really mean, and the headline was: Is Rush Limbaugh good for America? And I read the cover story, and I\u2019m not mentioned. It was just on the cover.<\/p>\n

The story was, there\u2019s too much democracy, that there are too many people that are now involved in politics who don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. It was classic elitism. It was everything, in a nutshell. It was ruling class versus country class, it was establishment versus citizen, and elites versus common folk, you and me. And there was a line in the story: “Talk radio is only the beginning. Electronic populism threatens to short-circuit representative democracy.”<\/p>\n

So in the minds of those at TIME, which were the same as in the minds of the Democrat Party hierarchy and probably the Republican Party hierarchy, there\u2019s too many people voting. There are too many people who don\u2019t know what they\u2019re voting on. They\u2019re just following this Limbaugh guy, and he\u2019s getting \u2019em to vote. That\u2019s what they all thought, and that\u2019s why there was too much democracy going on. There was too much participation, and that\u2019s why the cover story: “Is Rush Limbaugh good for America?”<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s something else from that article. E-mail and other tech talk may be the third, fourth or nth wave of the future, but old-fashioned radio is true hyperdemocracy. Very hyper. Like the backyard savants, barroom agitators and soapbox spellbinders of an earlier era, Limbaugh & Co. bring intimacy and urgency to an impersonal age. … What\u2019s new is that today the radio rightists are wired into the political process.<\/p>\n

“In 1994 the scream rose to the top. These fervent spiels, in which we heard America slinging, stinging, cajoling, annoying, persuading, finally transformed the social dialogue,” and the article ends like this (again, this is January of \u201995: “Will the mood of radio listeners change? Can the hot-talk hosts continue to squirt scalding water on the body politic without one group or the other crying ‘Enough!\u2019?”<\/p>\n

See, that\u2019s the media bias Larry King claims he\u2019s never seen — and, folks, that 1995 story could have been rewritten again, verbatim, after the 2010 midterms. Except after the 2010 midterms, it wasn\u2019t talk radio, it was the Tea Party. There was too much Tea Party. And now it\u2019s the same thing. The Tea Party, too many people dumb and stupid who don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing, led by other idiots like Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin. This is the traditional elitist rant. Now, some people in our media would like to be considered elitists. They want to be in that group. They want to be thought of as the special and anointed — and the fastest way you do that is to attack me or others on talk radio.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how you join that club. But I just want to stress here that while the focal point may change: \u201995 it was the Republicans winning Congress; 2010 it was the Tea Party sweeping the Democrats out of power in the 2010 midterms. 2014 is shaping up to be the same way, I think. By the way, they disagree with me on that at Fox. But it\u2019s all gonna boil down to the same thing. You\u2019ve got this group of elites who are not even trying to gain your trust, folks. They just want to be able to wield power. They\u2019re not even trying to gain your trust. They\u2019re not trying to relate.<\/p>\n

If anything, they\u2019re trying to fool you, and some of them are in the media. They\u2019re trying to make you think they\u2019re something they\u2019re not. They\u2019re trying to relate to you with this segment or that segment. But the last thing they want is to be written about like TIME Magazine was writing about talk radio and so forth. And me, I don\u2019t care. No amount of criticism, particularly phony and wrong criticism, is gonna make me change my core belief. To me, I\u2019m not the one who has the explaining to do. I\u2019m not the one who has to justify myself. I happen to think the people that have to explain themselves today are the people in Washington who are making this mess, not people like me and you commenting on it and living in it and having to deal with it.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not making the mess. We\u2019re not spending money we don\u2019t have. We\u2019re not running the country into debt. We are not violating the Constitution. We are not forcing things on people that they don\u2019t want. We are not making people do things they don\u2019t want. We\u2019re not governing other people against their will. All of that is happening to us, and when we speak up and oppose, we become the problem. I don\u2019t look at it that way. They\u2019re not ones that have to justify what they\u2019re doing. The ones spending us into oblivion, the ones writing laws that are destroying the private sector. They\u2019re the ones that have to explain themselves. Not us.<\/p>\n

I look at you and me the same way I look at the country and the world. I think the United States is the solution to the problems in the world. And I think you, the people who make this country work, are the solution to what\u2019s wrong with the country. The solution is gonna have to be implemented in Washington, sadly, or state legislatures, but the solution to the problem here is gonna have to involve people who are making this mess somehow not in a position to do so anymore. But we\u2019re not the problem, folks. They want us to think we are, and they want to create as many other opinions as they can that we\u2019re the problem.<\/p>\n

The Tea Party\u2019s not the problem in this country. The Tea Party doesn\u2019t threaten anybody. Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin, they\u2019re not threatening anybody. All they want to do is improve things. But you know how they\u2019re portrayed. Palin is great example, by the way. How much media piling on was there on Palin once that die was cast? And how many people stood up and defended her? You can count on one hand. I\u2019m talking about Republicans in and out of the media, you can count on one hand the number of people who defended her. And you can\u2019t count the people that piled on. There are too many. And it is my contention that, in our media, conservative media, and Republicans, slash, conservative politics, many of the people dumping on Palin were just doing it to be seen dumping on her. ‘Cause it was the safe play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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