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RUSH: I\u2019ve got all these sound bites, and, honestly, folks, the first 11 are about me. I obviously was not here yesterday, and we were not here over the weekend. Eleven of these things are about me, and they\u2019re about how I\u2019m the reason there is partisanship in Washington. I\u2019m the reason there\u2019s division in the Republican Party. I\u2019m the reason the Republican Party is afraid to compromise, negotiate, and be bipartisan. I\u2019m the reason Ted Cruz is behaving the way he\u2019s behaving. Ted Cruz is behaving the way he\u2019s behaving because he wants to be me. I mean, it just never ends. <\/p>\n

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Oh, and then there is the obligatory, “Limbaugh is just an entertainer and is laughing all the way to the bank \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t mean any of this. He just knows how to push your buttons and sell advertising. None of what Limbaugh really believes do you even know. ‘Cause Limbaugh would not be that stupid to tell you.” Things like that. And, as you know, I mentioned that I had these. I do not like when this program becomes about me, since everybody else makes what they do about me. But some of these, they\u2019re funny enough that I think we will air some.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have been talked into, during the break, and I\u2019ve agreed to be talked into it since most of the program\u2019s in the can now, to explore some of the sound bites mentioning me that took place since I was last with you on Friday. We start here Friday night in New York City on New York 1\u2019s The Road to City Hall. The host, Errol Louis, interviewed the Chuck-U Schumer. They talked about the effort to defund Obamacare and the government shutdown, and Errol Louis said to Chuck-U Schumer, “How did they,” meaning the Republicans, “how did they so badly miscalculate?”<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: The Rush Limbaughs of the world, they had a lot of clout. And so I think most Republicans thought the strategy was flawed from the beginning, but they said, “Well, let\u2019s let it play out and see what happens.” Certainly Boehner did. He was a very poor leader. I think there was an element of fear there that, “I don\u2019t want to oppose the Tea Party.” Pete King, who played a very courageous role here, told me that many of the moderates felt threatened and cowered by the Tea Party early on.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Oh, don\u2019t you just love this? So here\u2019s Chuck-U talking about his old buddy Pete King, “Well, the moderates like Pete King felt threatened and cowered by the Tea Party.” Isn\u2019t that a great thing to have said about you? Yeah, they were threatened and they were afraid of the Tea Party and then the Rush Limbaughs — there are no Rush Limbaughs of the world. There is Rush Limbaugh of the world. Yeah, had a lot of clout. Most of the Republicans thought the strategy was flawed but, you know, Pete King, courageous role in trying to help us, Harry Reid and me. He\u2019s not saying I ordered the government shutdown.<\/p>\n

Snerdley, it\u2019s now a talking point. Remember the objective here is to discredit me. And so whenever the Republican Party does something that they think has been a boondoggle mistake, blame me. It\u2019s just a talking point for \u2019em now. Now, here\u2019s a Republican, Steve LaTourette. He is a Republican from Ohio. I hope I\u2019m pronouncing his name right. It looks like LaTourette, as in Tourette\u2019s syndrome. I\u2019ve never heard his name pronounced, could be Tourette, LaTourette. He was on Washington Journal on C-SPAN this morning, and during the call-in segment, a caller, Andrew from Rochester and LaTourette had this exchange about the Republican Party and of course moi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The problem is that the talk radio guys are leading those Republicans around by the nose. Rush Limbaugh, he tries to blame the media, but what people don\u2019t realize is that Rush Limbaugh is the media. He\u2019s not in danger, he is the danger, like Walker White said, remember that?<\/p>\n

LATOURETTE: Yeah, I did. People forget that talk shows on the right and the left, these people are entertainers and they\u2019re in the business of selling advertising. They\u2019re really not in charge of either the Republican or the Democratic Party based upon what their ideology is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Chuck-U Schumer, yeah, I\u2019m leading the Republican Party around, I\u2019m making old buddy Pete King threatened and cowered by the Tea Party. To Republican, LaTourette, I\u2019m just an entertainer selling advertising, not really in charge. This caller says he\u2019s not in danger, he is the danger like Walter White said. Walter White? That\u2019s Breaking Bad. What did Walter White have to do anything with this? Was Walter White in favor of the shutdown? Walter White died before the shutdown. GOP consultant. This is NPR Morning Edition yesterday during a report about Senator Ted Cruz. This is a strategerist John Feehery. I think this guy, if my memory serves, I think this guy was on Denny Hastert\u2019s staff, if I\u2019m not mistaken.<\/p>\n

FEEHERY: Depends on what he wants to do with his life. You know, if he wants to be a long-term Senator who actually gets things done, alienating every single other person in both bodies is not a way to do it. But if he wants to, you know, be a talk show host or go the way of Sarah Palin, you know, he\u2019s going the right way. I mean, he\u2019s gonna have a passionate following, people who listen to talk radio shows, people like Rush Limbaugh, but if he wants to actually get stuff done, this is no way to do it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So Feehery is now a Republican consultant. This Cruz is just not the way to do it. Speaking of consultants, I didn\u2019t tell you this. It was Thursday afternoon and I did an interview from our Philadelphia affiliate, and I did an interview with the morning drive personality — (interruption) What? During the interview, it was just supposed to be, “Hey, Rush is coming back. How\u2019s things going? We\u2019re happy to have you back, you happy to be back? Oh, you\u2019re not happy to be back, why not?” That kind of an interview. And he said to me, “Now, Rush, you know the prevailing opinion now in talk radio is that politics is taboo, just gotta get off that and move on to something else.” <\/p>\n

I said, “Wait a minute. Who\u2019s saying that?” And I didn\u2019t even give him a chance to answer. I said, “Who\u2019s saying that? A bunch of consultants saying that? This is the time to get out of politics, this is the time? Here I\u2019ve been doing this for 25 years, ranking at the top doing it. Do you think maybe if it were time to get off of it, I would know it and be leading the way? Who\u2019s saying these things?” And he didn\u2019t answer because I really didn\u2019t give him a chance. But, once again, it\u2019s the consultants and these are people who have rarely done it, but they set themselves up as experts, tell people how to get elected. “I\u2019m the guy that can get you the independents.” They tell radio program directors and stations what to program, what not to program. <\/p>\n

And apparently every time, folks, in radio, just so you know, every time it seems that the Republicans lose, every time that happens, consultants in radio tell local stations, “You\u2019ve gotta drop politics. You\u2019ve got to stop emphasizing it. You\u2019ve gotta get back to carrot cake recipes and sewage problems in the local community.” It\u2019s the worst advice they could ever be given. But it\u2019s common, and it happens. And so here\u2019s another consultant telling Ted Cruz, “If you want to be anything, if you want to be big in Washington, you gotta stop acting the way you\u2019re acting. You gotta act more like we do.” Which is what, losers? <\/p>\n

Now, Ted Cruz, for his part, he\u2019s getting standing ovations when he goes home <\/a>to Texas eight minutes long, and he\u2019s telling the audience, and they\u2019re fully aware of this, “Look, we are taking on the establishment. Nobody said they weren\u2019t gonna fight back. Nobody said we\u2019re gonna win this the first time around. Everybody knows this is a long-haul kind of thing.” So, anyway, just a little side note attached to that comment from John Feehery. (interruption) What last quote? Oh. If you actually want to get things done, that\u2019s no way to — that\u2019s what Obama said. That\u2019s right. Okay. So here\u2019s this consultant, John Feehery, who I think he did work on Hastert\u2019s staff, not mistaken. Yeah, his last line is to Ted Cruz. “If Ted Cruz wants to actually get stuff done, this is no way to do it.” <\/p>\n

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That\u2019s exactly what Obama told congressional Republicans the second week he was in office in 2009. He called \u2019em up there, Republicans in the House and Senate, and he said, “Look, if guys want to get things done you have got to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. That\u2019s not how things get done in Washington.” It was reported and I ended up talking to John Boehner here a couple of weeks later, and he was telling me about it. And he said, “Why would he say that?” He was totally flummoxed why Obama would say that to \u2019em. And I said, “John, because what he wanted you to do, he wanted you or somebody, when you left the White House and went out to that bank of microphones, to agree with it. He wanted just one of you to denounce me.” <\/p>\n

“Well, that wasn\u2019t gonna happen. I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s thinking.” He was hoping. So Snerdley, good point. Here\u2019s a Republican consultant offering Ted Cruz the identical advice Obama offered congressional Republicans. Talk about getting things done. Like what? Obamacare? Dodd-Frank? IRS oversight of the Tea Party? I mean, what kind of things are being done here that we want to keep happening? This is absurd.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: This one you\u2019ve gotta hear. Oh, John Feehery managed the communications operation for Denny Hastert. I was right about that. He started his career as a speechwriter for Bob Michel. And if you don\u2019t who Bob Michel is, there\u2019s a reason. Now, Michael Kranish, deputy Washington bureau chief, Boston Globe, Sunday morning C-SPAN, Washington Journal. He\u2019s got a book out called “Broken City.” It\u2019s a series of articles on Washington.” Steve Scully was talking to him. He said, “Chapter 13, Michael, you write about the partisan media. You take aim at MSNBC and Fox and Rush Limbaugh. Can you ‘splain that?”<\/p>\n

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KRANISH: If you\u2019re gonna write about why things are broken, you have to look at what is the role of Rush Limbaugh. Obviously, Rush Limbaugh and others, they\u2019re openly partisan. If you go back to 1980, there were about 52 million people watching the evening network news broadcast. Today that number is about 21 million or so, and the cable news networks don\u2019t begin to make up for that. The growth of other media outlets and also how the White House deals with this new environment. They can\u2019t simply call up the networks and say, “We\u2019re going on tonight for an evening broadcast,” and expect 60 million viewers. Those days are over. Ronald Reagan enjoyed that, but Obama can\u2019t. It may be one of the reasons that we do have this broken nature, because the cultural glue is no longer there the way it used to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The cultural glue! Did you hear that — the cultural glue, the evening newscasts. The 6:30, seven o\u2019clock network newscasts were the cultural glue. That\u2019s where the networks had their monopoly. And then along came the EIB Network. <\/p>\n

And he\u2019s right about that. I hate to say it, but when I started this show 1988, the only thing other than the networks at the time was CNN. That was it. And there was no conservative national media in 1988. Now he\u2019s right. They had a combined 60 million viewers, and now — 21 million is high. The cultural glue. They used to control what you thought. They used to control what you knew. They used to control what you heard about. They used to control what you didn\u2019t hear about. So he\u2019s right, in his own way, the question is, is it a bad or a good thing. This is why TIME Magazine — this very sound bite is why TIME Magazine did a cover story on me saying am I the problem with America. “Is Rush Limbaugh Good for America?” was the cover. Why? ‘Cause I was bringing too much democracy. There was too much opinion. Too many points of view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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