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RUSH: I met this guy, by the way, at dinner and after dinner, I met this guy who never listened to this program before, but he knew who I was. He\u2019d never listened before, so he started asking me probing questions about the program. And it was all about the callers. “Well, how many callers do you take? How do you treat the callers? How do you decide which callers you\u2019re gonna take? Do you know what the callers are gonna say? Do you have your insults ready to go?” <\/p>\n

I said, “I may take five calls a day. It\u2019s not about that.” It didn\u2019t matter. All he wanted to know was about the callers. So I said, “Well, the easiest thing to do is go to RushLimbaugh.com or 980 KMBZ if you\u2019re in Kansas City. It\u2019s a radio. You turn it on, find the station, switch it there. Put it on scan and you\u2019ll eventually get there. You\u2019ve now heard my voice, you\u2019ll recognize it.” <\/p>\n

“But the callers, though, how do you decide which ones you\u2019re gonna take? And does somebody screen them? You really screen them? Isn\u2019t that unfair?” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a learning experience every time I venture out there, folks. Speaking of, I just want to tell you that \u2019cause we\u2019re gonna go grab a caller and, yes, I know what he\u2019s gonna say. Well, I think I know what he thinks he\u2019s gonna say, but when they get on the air sometimes they get nervous, sometimes they\u2019re liars, tricksters, you never know. Sometimes they\u2019re great. Oh, you shoulda — when I told this guy the purpose of a caller is to make me look good, “Oh, yeah, yeah, I\u2019ll bet it is. You just want them to call and compliment you.” No, no. I tried to explain what making me look good is. Anyway, Jim, Spokane, Washington, great to have you on the program. Not to put any pressure on you here Jim, but I just wanted to welcome you to the show.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Well, thank you and, you know, I usually agree with you, Rush, on most things, but I think this terror connection that we have in Boston isn\u2019t because of radical Islam and the teachings and going to Russia, but I think it\u2019s probably bullying that they had here at school.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bullying? One of them was a boxer.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah, it\u2019s the psychological bullying they would get. They didn\u2019t feel like they were part of the US and they —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, that\u2019s true. They didn\u2019t have any friends, one of them didn\u2019t have any friends, and they didn\u2019t particularly like it here, but, yeah, bullied. I hadn\u2019t considered that, but you may be on to something here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think we\u2019ll hear more about it because it\u2019s ingrained in America that we don\u2019t accept people usually —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. We don\u2019t. We\u2019re not inclusive.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We hate people from other parts of the world.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I think we need to look into that and maybe get some help from our friends on the left and the right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean, get some help from our friends?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, help lead us down the path to understand what could have caused this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, the path to understanding.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I\u2019ve heard about that path.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I know you\u2019ll come around sooner or later and see it my way, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bullying. Bullying. Well, I\u2019m not that far away yet. I hadn\u2019t considered bullying.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll hear about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not their fault. Look, folks, I have a piece here. Thank you, Jim, very much for the call. I have a piece here in the Boston Globe that ran Saturday, and the headline: “Islam Might Have Had Secondary Role In Boston Attacks.” It is written by Lisa Wangsness. “Islam Might Have Had Secondary Role In Boston Attacks.” She said: “But family, neighbors, friends, and social media sources painted a complex picture of the brothers\u00c2\u2019 religiosity.” So Islam might have had a secondary role in the Boston attacks. <\/p>\n

<\/a>This inspired James Taranto, Best of the Web Today, Wall Street Journal, to write a series of typical Boston Globe headlines on Twitter to help illustrate the absurdity of Lisa Wangsness and her piece: “Islam Might Have Had Secondary Role In Boston Attacks.”<\/p>\n

Such as, Booze might have had a secondary role in a hangover. Gravity might have had a secondary role in a fall. Fault might have had a secondary role in the quake. The Surgeon General has determined that cigarette smoking might have a secondary role in lung cancer. Brando might have had a secondary role in The Godfather. The bomb might have played a secondary role in Japan\u2019s defeat. Anti-Semitism might have played a secondary role in the pogrom. Slavery might have played a secondary role in the Civil War. Racism might have played a secondary role in cross burning. Abortion might have had played a secondary role in the Gosnell case. That would be if the Boston Globe were covering the Gosnell case. <\/p>\n

The LA Times is reporting that the Tsarnaevs attended services at the Islamic Center of Boston mosque in Cambridge near their apartment. The Times had no trouble finding members who recalled them. But the Boston Globe said that Islam might have had a secondary role in the Boston attacks. Given that, it\u2019s entirely possible that bullying could have been the culprit.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t laugh about this bullying business. During the break mere moments ago, CNN was running through possible defenses for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. I\u2019m not kidding. This is my point. CNN had somebody on to discuss possible defenses for Dzhokhar, and they\u2019re talking about how he could blame everything on his older brother. His older brother radicalized. His older brother bullied him. You see how this could work out. How about this. Do you think Lisa Wangsness at the Boston Globe would ever write a story with the following headline: “Guns Might Have Had a Secondary Role in the Newtown Shooting?” “Islam Might Have Played a Secondary Role in the Boston Bombings.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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