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RUSH: I need to tell you here at the outset of the program, this is a weird, weird day. All of my synapses or whatever they are up there are not firing. This is one of those days where no matter what somebody says to me, it confuses me. No matter what I see, it\u2019s not making sense. I have had people firing tweets and e-mails about the oral arguments of the court on gay marriage, and none of it makes any sense<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I have a Bloomberg story here on that that finally does make sense of it, but it took me about 20 minutes when it shoulda taken ten seconds. And then I looked around at some other stuff and I got some sound bites that don\u2019t make any sense to me, and when it doesn\u2019t make sense it\u2019s hard for me to explain to you why I\u2019m talking to you about something. For example, my instincts say, “Don\u2019t do this.” But I\u2019m gonna do it anyway, just for the sake of illustration. <\/p>\n

Do you remember back in February<\/a> — there is a mayor\u2019s race in Stamford, Connecticut. Now, normally that wouldn\u2019t be on our radar here. Nothing against Stamford, but we\u2019re bigger than that here at the EIB Network. But what happened there is that the Democrat candidate for mayor accused me of endorsing the Republican candidate when I had not. But he went on to treat an endorsement by me as something that ought not be permitted in the United States, because I\u2019m so vile and so extreme. Well, it turns out I had not endorsed anybody in the race. I didn\u2019t know there was a mayoral election going on up there, and I had never heard of the two contestants. <\/p>\n

The Democrat is some clown named William Tong. He\u2019s a state representative. And the Republican is a former lieutenant governor, Michael Fedele. Let\u2019s play the first sound bite. This is from WTIC Eyeball TV Fox Connecticut news at four. And not to be confused with Fox Connecticut news at 4:30 or Fox Connecticut news at 5 or 11. This was Fox Connecticut news at 4. The infobabe was Laurie Perez, and this was her report.<\/p>\n

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PEREZ: Michael Fedele announced his campaign for mayor of Stamford. He\u2019s already got his first endorsement, Rush Limbaugh. The controversial right-wing radio host who\u2019s made headlines for his argumentative statements, is publicly supporting Fedele\u2019s candidacy. But Democratic candidate William Tong says Limbaugh\u2019s endorsement has no place in this election and is calling on Fedele to renounce it immediately. Fedele has not yet responded.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Fedele is probably clueless. This is back on February 26th. I have not endorsed anybody. I never do endorse in mayoral races, don\u2019t endorse period. The Tong guy was clearly in panic mode because an endorsement from me works. But then this infobabe goes on to say “the controversial right-wing radio host who\u2019s made headlines for his argumentative statements.” In the first place, I am not controversial to any of you. Every one of you listening, or 94%, you agree. There\u2019s no controversial here. At any rate, now I\u2019m well known for my argumentative statements. I don\u2019t argue. I debate and win. <\/p>\n

Anyway, so everybody is running around, “What, what, what, an endorsement from Limbaugh? We can\u2019t have that, why, that\u2019s not American. That shouldn\u2019t be permitted.” And then later on everybody figured out that this Tong clown was absolutely totally wrong. So Sunday morning back in Hartford, WTIC-TV\u2019s The Real Story, not to be confused with The Half Story, not to be confused with The Unreal Story. This is their show called The Real Story. The guest is the Democrat mayoral candidate, this clown, William Tong. And during a discussion about Tong\u2019s idiotic belief that I endorsed his opponent, Fedele, the co-host, Al Terzi, not to be confused with Laurie Perez of Fox Connecticut news at 4, the anchor here, Al Terzi says, “This thing about Rush Limbaugh endorsing him (Fedele), when it was really on a fan page. Going forward, how are you recovering?”<\/p>\n

TONG: I\u2019m gonna own up to that. That was a mistake. I saw the former lieutenant governor, and I apologized to him. This is the problem with Facebook and Twitter. It\u2019s confusing. It\u2019s misleading. It seemed to us that a page with 400,000 followers that was driving traffic to Mike Fedele\u2019s website was put out by Rush Limbaugh. I think the bigger question, though, is, you know, extremists on both sides, but particularly Rush Limbaugh, an extremist like him and all of his fans, they\u2019re liking Mike Fedele\u2019s page and they\u2019re supporting him and I think that\u2019s something that Mike Fedele and other Republican candidates have to contend with.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: So you see how this works here. This is so stupid. This is one of those things that doesn\u2019t make any sense to me. If this guy was so convinced that all of my fans liking this Fedele guy\u2019s web page was gonna sink Fedele, he should be encouraging everybody to go to Fedele\u2019s page and “like” it, if it\u2019s extremists like me and extremists like you. But instead, this clown, Tong, continues to be worried about it. <\/p>\n

But look at the characterization here. (imitating Tong), “You know, this bigger question, there\u2019s extremists on both sides, but particularly Rush Limbaugh, an extremist like him and all of his fans. They\u2019re liking Fedele\u2019s page. We can\u2019t have that in America. Who do they think they are, going to a web page and liking it. They\u2019re supporting Fedele. Who the hell do they think they are? We can\u2019t permit that. We can\u2019t permit people supporting a Republican candidate anywhere in this state. Who do they think they are? That\u2019s the problem with Twitter and Facebook. All these Republicans are allowed to participate. And I think that\u2019s something Fedele and the other Republican candidates are gonna have to contend with.” <\/p>\n

Does that make any sense to you? This is pure, unadulterated idiocy. The fact of the matter is if this idiot Tong guy was really of the belief that all of you going to this Fedele guy\u2019s page and liking it was gonna hurt Fedele, then he ought to be encouraging even more of it. But now he\u2019s trying to discredit it and obviously nobody\u2019s going to his page and liking him. So why don\u2019t you do this, folks, do me a favor. This Tong guy\u2019s feelings are obviously hurt. Why don\u2019t you go to his page. It\u2019s T-o-n-g, William Tong, and just “like” his page, just for the fun of it. It isn\u2019t gonna matter a hill of beans in the election. Just go to his page, so he won\u2019t have his feelings hurt and have the added bonus of having a bunch of extremists “like” his page. And then see what he says. Let\u2019s see if he rejects all of the “likes” on his page. I mean, you talk about guilt by association. This is classic McCarthyism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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