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RUSH: Here\u2019s Bugsy. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Good morning, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Bugsy in Chicago. You know, you remind me, one of my all-time favorite movies, Jerry Lewis, The Family Jewels.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Still got mine.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jeez. (laughing) Yeah, not for long in Chicago. He played a bunch of different characters in that movie, and one of them was a gangster, Bugsy Peyton. And I used to be able to do a perfect impersonation of the voice that Jerry Lewis used for the character in that movie. So I look up there and I see Bugsy in Chicago, I did a double take. (laughing) Anyway, welcome to the program. Good to have you here.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Hey, same here. There\u2019s about a five-step process, I guess, to gracefully losing power<\/a>. And I think, you know, this guy here, our prez is on the way. First you have to apologize to the other countries, which he\u2019s done. Then you have to send your manufacturing to them so it\u2019s kind of a goodwill gesture, so you deplete all your manufacturing. Then you gotta bankrupt our own country by giving away entitlements and good old, what is it, Solyndra, and all this other stuff, just blowing through all our money like water and making a good national debt. Give away the military or just stop the military from increasing or —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, don\u2019t forget shutting down much of the oil industry and allowing the ChiComs to buy all that oil from Canada instead of us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah. Six.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s gracefully giving up global power.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, then you gotta accuse the other party of doing what you just did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re to blame for all this, like you were just saying about Romney and this poor lady dying because she was sick for who knows how long. She coulda gone to the doctor —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, ah, ah! You can\u2019t say that this woman could have gone to the hospital. Who do you think you are? The memory of this woman is immortalized in this ad. Be very careful, Bugsy, we\u2019re here to protect not just me, but you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You hate to step on the guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But, you know, this guy\u2019s on his way, and the people believe what they believe, and as long as you can blame everybody else for the dog poop on your lawn —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know where I make my mistake? And that is not very many mistakes, so when I say where I make my mistake, I\u2019m an idiot. I foolishly, blindly, stupidly, dummkopfedly assume that everybody wants to provide for themselves. (laughing) How silly. I do. I assume that everybody\u2019s trying to forge their way in the world and everybody\u2019s trying to make their mark, trying to climb their ladder, and everybody is trying to accomplish something, enjoy success, become the best they can be. I assume that that\u2019s what most people are trying to do. That\u2019s where I\u2019m wrong. That\u2019s where I\u2019m wrong. <\/p>\n

I assume that most people are going to pay for their own car. I assume that most people are going to pay for their own food. I assume that most people are going to pay for their own house. I\u2019m just dumb in that regard. A lot of people don\u2019t think that that\u2019s a responsibility of their own anymore. See, I think everybody\u2019s like me. I think everybody is blessed and understandingly blessed with incomparable freedom that people around the world don\u2019t have, and that the road is out there for \u2019em, as fast as they want to travel, much as they want to do. And I just make the mistake of assuming that that\u2019s the vast majority of the people in the country. It used to be. It used to be. I don\u2019t know. I hope we\u2019re not down to half. I hope there\u2019s still more than half that look at life as a triumph of rugged individualism and self-reliance and not selfishness. It\u2019s a big difference. Self-reliance and selfishness are two separate things. You know, self-interest is a great thing. It\u2019s not selfishness. Anyway, Bugsy, I appreciate the call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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