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RUSH: Here\u2019s Mike in Greenville, North Carolina. Great to have you, sir, on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, sir. I really appreciate it, Mr. Limbaugh. It\u2019s a pleasure to be on your show, and let me do two things. First of all, I\u2019m saying from the good people of North Carolina to you, good health. And you can be forgiven for confusing an F-4 with an F-104, as far as I\u2019m concerned. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that, sir. Thank you for your understanding and your tolerance.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Yes. Of course. I\u2019m going to try to make some sense here for a moment. What I\u2019m going to do is make a connection to something that you said yesterday that was interesting and powerful, and then I would like to try to make a point which is going to be, I hope, a polite disagreement with you. So the connection is yesterday, you know, it was interesting, that here Obama is in this almost perfect storm, right? Three major scandals all at the same time. There\u2019s Benghazi, the IRS scandal, scandal concerning the procurement of AP e-mails, and what happened as a result of that, as you were saying, is that apparently, you know, the polls aren\u2019t moving in response to these scandals, and I scratched my head — you said something I thought compelling, which is, well, this is a problem of the low-information public, that people aren\u2019t —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the latest polling data is that only 25, 26% of the people are paying close attention or even care about any of these scandals.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. That just makes your point — my point, which is that it\u2019s important that people be informed. They need to know what\u2019s happening. And you and I can certainly agree with that. But here\u2019s the point. And I\u2019m gonna ask you please, sir, to not cut me off. I just want to make the point. I wondered very much about what you were saying about the low-information voter, and that got me to go to a study that has recently been published —<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re running out of time here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, sir —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The clock is gonna cut you off if we don\u2019t get to the polite disagreement.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s what I thought you might do. I hope you won\u2019t, sir, I hope you won\u2019t. I hope you won\u2019t say that you\u2019re running out of time. I think you can do better than that. Harley [sic] Dickinson University, according to their study, Fox viewers are the least knowledgeable audience of any outlet. They know even less about politics and current events than people who watch no news at all. What\u2019s really interesting about that, if you\u2019re still there and you\u2019re not gonna cut me off —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what, if that\u2019s the case, if Fairleigh Dickinson University says that the Fox News audience is the least informed, then I think it\u2019s perfectly okay to bug their reporters. I\u2019ll rethink this. If Fairleigh Dickinson University says that the Fox News audience is the stupidest and the least informed, then that\u2019s cool, then it\u2019s okay to bug their reporters. Ladies and gentlemen, this man speaking from the bottom of the barrel in which he lives, lied intently to Mr. Snerdley about what he wanted to talk about. And it took him much longer to get to his point with these endless implications that I was gonna cut him off, and he deserves to be cut off because he\u2019s a liar. <\/p>\n

What he said he wanted to ask me was, how can I claim that Obama declared the War on Terror is over. He doesn\u2019t think Obama said that. That\u2019s what he claimed he wanted to talk about. And instead he wants to insult the Fox audience. Now, if he would\u2019ve said he wants to talk about the Fox audience being the least informed, we\u2019d have talked about it with him, but he thought he had to sneak in here and then imply that I am unfair to callers when I am the most polite and the most tolerant as I\u2019ve just demonstrated with this guy.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, Fairleigh Dickinson University, I did a little research. The North Carolina caller claimed he wanted to tell me that he disagreed with me when I said that Obama was speaking yesterday basically claiming the War on Terror was over. Instead what he wanted to do, what he was trying to do — in fact, you know what I\u2019ll do? In an ultimate act of fairness, I will make the guy\u2019s point for him. He didn\u2019t have the guts to get right to it. But I\u2019ll make this poor guy\u2019s point for him. He started out, it took him 30 sentences to say this. “You talked about polls that show only 25 or 26% of people care about these scandals.” It took him literally 10, 12 sentences to say that, maybe more. <\/p>\n

And then what he was gonna do was say, “Well, if only 25 or 26% care about it, and then you look at what Fairleigh Dickinson University says about the Fox audience being the least knowledgeable and the least informed, then it makes sense that the Fox audience doesn\u2019t care about the scandals.” And it was his way of saying, “It\u2019s no big deal for Obama. He\u2019s not in any trouble,” which, by the way, I wouldn\u2019t have disagreed with had he said that. I don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s in any trouble on any of this. I\u2019m totally going the opposite way of the conventional wisdom. It looks bad, but it isn\u2019t gonna matter. Obama\u2019s not in any trouble. Obama\u2019s not going anywhere. Obama\u2019s not gonna be backfired. Obama\u2019s going to get away with positioning himself as having had nothing to do with any of this. He\u2019s gonna away with for five years. What\u2019s gonna change? <\/p>\n

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I probably shouldn\u2019t say this, but the Obama angle in all this is the least interesting angle to me in all these stories. The IRS story, and the Benghazi story, and the bugging of journalists, I am really interested in those stories, but not for the potential impact to Obama. I think, as I\u2019m now blue in the face saying, those are ideal examples to instruct and demonstrate what happens without a controlled big government. And it\u2019s liberals that do these kinds of things. Obama happens to be the most radical liberal that we\u2019ve elected president, but it isn\u2019t gonna affect him. He\u2019s not gonna pay any price for this. <\/p>\n

He could end up being embarrassed with people. I mean, intelligent right-thinking people are laughing at him when he claims he didn\u2019t know anything about this. But in terms of it having any impact, it isn\u2019t going to at all. However, they are very serious things. The Republican vote was suppressed. The Obama reelection deserves an asterisk next to it. And something does need to be done about this, and the people at the IRS level who did this deserve to be canned and thrown out of there, with no severance. That probably isn\u2019t gonna happen, either, because it would have to be done by Obama. And, by the way, firing federal workers is one of the most difficult things to do anyway because of their unions and all that. <\/p>\n

But they are all serious. In Benghazi, four Americans died. The regime is trying to cover it up and make it sure that whatever is learned about it, that it doesn\u2019t attach itself to Obama, which has been what he\u2019s tried to do for five years and what he\u2019s succeeded in doing. All these stories interest me, but the Obama angle is the least interesting of any of them, to me. Plain and simple. Now, the pollster, I just want to close the loop on this. The pollster from Fairleigh Dickinson University admitted that his study that showed the Fox News audience is the least educated or least informed media audience around. That study, the guy that did the study admitted that his study didn\u2019t actually identify people who got their news only from one source. <\/p>\n

So they used “multinomial logistic regression,” quote, unquote, to create representations of such people who were then compared to a hypothetical construct of someone who had no recent news experience. In other words, they made it up. In other words, the pollster at Fairleigh Dickinson University made it up. It was total speculation and then hypothetical construction, and then they manufactured and projected what they thought it all meant to arrive at their conclusion that the Fox News audience is the least informed. The questions in the poll that produced that result are dumb and ambiguous. It was a judgment call whether somebody got the question wrong or not. It was just silly. I remember the poll. The questions were idiotic, and almost structured in such a way you could not answer them correctly no matter where you said that you got your news. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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