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<\/p>\nRUSH: Mark in Chicago, you\u2019re next. Welcome, sir, nice to have you here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call, and happy Thanksgiving to you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Same to you, sir, same to you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush, I just want to know —<\/p>\n
RUSH: By the way, you know what would be an interesting question, serious question, just randomly ask Americans on the street, “What is Thanksgiving?” Just a thought off the top of my head. Go ahead. What was it you called about?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Okay, Rush, thanks. Hey, with all due respect to John, just the flip side of it, and you know, Rush, I got a little frustrated listening to the monologue today in terms of Rush Limbaugh\u2019s America is dead and not alive. Let me help you explain how it is alive and it is rising.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. This is a guy writing in the New York Times<\/a>. That was not my monologue. I\u2019m reading from his column in the New York Times yesterday. He\u2019s happy. He thinks we\u2019ve lost the country, and he\u2019s happy that there are more tax consumers than taxpayers. He wants the tax consumers to win the upcoming battle on the debt cliff, the fiscal cliff<\/a>, over the taxpayers.<\/p>\n CALLER: Rush, I\u2019m gonna tell him right now why you are alive. Outside my father, you have been an amazing inspiration in my life. I worked for the same company for 32 years. I\u2019ve been very successful. I\u2019ve worked hard. I\u2019ve had the same wife for 30 years. She\u2019s a wonderful lady. Got two kids. One just got promoted at work. The other is a United States Marine, he\u2019s a firefighter, he\u2019s in paramedic school. We do everything we can to give back to help people at church, and I manage a national ministry honoring our fallen soldiers and Gold Star family. Your America is alive. Your influence is alive. It continues, and you made a point earlier to somebody, I can\u2019t remember, think it was the first caller, we just need to keep doing what we\u2019re doing. And our example will eventually win in the end.<\/p>\n RUSH: That\u2019s right, he asked me if the political leaders aren\u2019t doing it, what can we do. Live it. You live conservative. You live of your life. You influence as many people around you as you can.<\/p>\n CALLER: And you have done an amazing job. I know I\u2019m not the only one out there today. There\u2019s a lot of people listening going, “Rush has done the same for me,” and with that, Rush, God bless you, and you\u2019re a great American, buddy.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, I appreciate your call. Thanks very much. I really appreciate this. Folks, I\u2019m not taking these attacks on me personally. Because I understand, I\u2019m here on the radio, and the way you have to interpret these guys, they have their business. It is the political consultancy business, and their business is a specialty, in their view. And it requires specific training and knowledge and experience and hard work and experience, that kind of thing. And they are the experts because of all that. Here I am, I\u2019m an outsider, I\u2019m a guy on the radio. I\u2019m a guy on the radio who they think has somehow intruded on their business, and I, in my world here on the radio, am giving them problems doing their job. And I\u2019m not qualified do that \u2019cause I\u2019m not a consultant, and I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about. I\u2019m just some yahoo on the radio. <\/p>\n So they\u2019re lashing out. They\u2019re the ones losing elections, but they have to get hired by the next losing candidate, and so they have to make sure that their list of potential employers thinks that it\u2019s me losing elections and not them. I don\u2019t have a record of election loss. I have yet to run a campaign. I have yet to pick a candidate. I have yet to script a convention. I haven\u2019t authored a political ad. I haven\u2019t come up with a political strategery. I comment on it. I suggest things that I would do, but I have never once inserted myself in their business. I have never gone to a candidate and said, “This consultant is undermining you.” I\u2019ve never done that, never would, not my job, not my business. <\/p>\n It\u2019s no different, folks, when ESPN hired me, the reason that this McNabb thing happened was those guys didn\u2019t like me being on their turf. Okay, I\u2019m a political radio guy, and conservative to boot, sports is their turf. That\u2019s their bailiwick, and here I came, expanding my base, and that wasn\u2019t permissible. Isn\u2019t gonna happen. It\u2019s no different here. I\u2019ve told you this. I have known for a long time that not every conservative considers every other conservative to be on the team. There are a lot of so-called conservatives who wish a bunch of us weren\u2019t on the team. There is no conservative movement right now, by the way. There is not a conservative movement, and there is not a singular conservative leader in electoral politics. <\/p>\n There is not a conservative leader in the media side. There\u2019s not a conservative leader in the pundit side. And there hasn\u2019t been for years. There\u2019s a lot of jockeying for influence and leadership power, to want to be the go-to guy, smartest guy in the room or what have you. And I am considered an outsider by all those people. I\u2019m a radio guy. I didn\u2019t even go to college, for crying out loud. I don\u2019t even have a pedigree. I don\u2019t have a piece of paper that proves I know what I\u2019m talking about. So I\u2019m an interloper. At every realm that I have attempted to comment on, I\u2019m an interloper. And you heard Schmidt, by the way, don\u2019t discount, “And we\u2019ve got these guys making millions and millions of dollars talking to old white hicks and hayseeds.” People will tell you, if you give enough rope, they\u2019ll tell you what really upsets \u2019em. <\/p>\n But I have always known, ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m the renegade, I\u2019m the outsider. I\u2019m not in this club. So as these guys continue to pick losing candidates and as they continue to run losing campaigns, they need to have the next losing candidate hire \u2019em. And so I\u2019m the guy responsible for Republicans losing elections. <\/a>Hell, before it\u2019s all said and done, Romney will be exonerated for the Santa Claus analogy <\/a>because he got it from me. They\u2019ll even blame me on that before it\u2019s all over to exonerate him. But, by the way, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed, they have already drummed Romney out of the party. Romney doesn\u2019t exist. Romney is persona non grata. I can\u2019t believe how mean they\u2019re being to Mitt Romney, this same consultant class, he doesn\u2019t exist. I\u2019ve read the pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: Mark in Chicago, you\u2019re next. Welcome, sir, nice to have you here. CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call, and happy Thanksgiving to you. RUSH: Same to you, sir, same to you. 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