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RUSH: Okay. So I had this unstated New Year\u2019s resolution. I didn\u2019t tell anybody about it. I didn\u2019t even tell Kathryn about it. Just very private, unstated New Year\u2019s resolution, and it very simply was to become more low profile, to not get noticed. I had as an objective to not be discussed every day by the Drive-By Media. It was just a simple New Year\u2019s resolution. All I wanted to do was keep a low profile. You know, just you and me three hours here every day and when it\u2019s over, it\u2019s over. We come back the next day, and we do it again. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying. I\u2019m doing everything I can to do this low profile stuff, and it\u2019s not working. CNN devoted most of their busy broadcast day to me yesterday. Well, Ali Velshi, the economist guy was a little ticked off that I called him a low-information reporter<\/a> on the debt limit discussion. So he defended himself on that and told everybody why I was wrong and how I don\u2019t understand anything. <\/p>\n

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And then this one I really don\u2019t understand. Soledad O\u2019Brien gathered a bunch of people to talk about my discussion on pedophilia<\/a>. All I did was quote from a liberal newspaper in the UK, the Guardian. That\u2019s all I did. Well, I did one other thing. I said, “Remember where you were when you heard –” think of some outrageous social custom that\u2019s bitten the dust. “– when you first heard that something might happen, like gay marriage, when you first heard gay marriage, what did you think? ‘Ah, it\u2019ll never happen,\u2019 versus where are we now?” I said, “Here we go.” The SUV. The Sierra Club back in 1997 said they wanted to ban the SUV to save the planet, I warned you SUV owners you\u2019re gonna become targeted. You pooh-poohed. What happened? <\/p>\n

So a big UK liberal newspaper, mainstream — not some fringe supermarket thing, but a mainstream left-wing newspaper with a huge, long story on how pedophilia is normal and should be considered normal, and quoting academics. And all of a sudden CNN discusses it as though I\u2019m making the assertion. We got the audio sound bites. But the point is I had this unstated New Year\u2019s resolution, gonna be low profile. I think you\u2019ll have to admit here, folks — well, you may not have to admit it, but I never try to get noticed anyway. It just happens. I never try. I\u2019m not somebody that likes fame. I do not live and die by whether or not I see my name in the paper or hear myself discussed. In fact, just the exact opposite. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Now, most people would say, “Rush, if they stop talking about you, it means nobody\u2019s interested anymore.” That\u2019d be fine with me, because I know that you\u2019re here no matter what and you all in this audience are what matters. So I got the audio sound bites on this stuff, and I might deign to play it. But you know me: I don\u2019t like making this show about me, so I don\u2019t know whether I\u2019m gonna play those sound bites or not. But here. First time I mentioned what I\u2019m gonna mention to you was probably in November of last year, and it might have been even further back than that, a little longer ago than that. <\/p>\n

But during a discussion of where the country is going, where we are culturally, the expansion of the welfare state, I warned you, I said, “Next up to happen will be somebody on the left asking this question: ‘Why should there be profit in making people well? Why should there be profit in making people healthy? Why should doctors and nurses and hospitals make a profit?'” That seems, to the left, to be counterproductive and even counterintuitive. We all should be healthy. And we are not doctors, so we have to go to doctors and nurses and hospitals to make ourselves well. Why should they profit? I warned you that this was coming. And it was probably greeted with the usual pooh-pooh. “Ah, there you go, Rush, exaggerating, coming up with all this extreme stuff.” <\/p>\n