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<\/p>\nRUSH: We are going to start Ocean City, New Jersey. Tom, I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, hey, Rush how you doing? Congratulations on your 24 years. I was painting my dining room back in 1988, and I was up on the ladder when I heard what you had to say coming out of the radio. I almost fell off the ladder. I couldn\u2019t believe for the first time that I was actually hearing something that I believed in — the good, honest reporting and analysis of what was going on in the world. I\u2019m a retired New York City police officer, and we knew in the police department all those many years that the Cronkites and Gabe Pressman and Jennings and Harry Reasoner and all these guys, they were giving us bogus news and bogus information.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And to hear somebody with a good, honest American idea for the first time, it just blew me away.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Listen to that.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I looked at the radio and said to myself, “Where\u2019s this coming from?”<\/p>\n
RUSH: It still amazes me to this day. In 1988, this is what was happening all over the country. Shocked, couldn\u2019t believe that it was allowed. There was a woman, Tom, who called early on in the program who told me that she feared I was gonna be arrested after she heard me criticize Ted Kennedy.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I\u2019ll tell you, I kind of agree with her. I thought you somehow or another got into the studio by accident. I figured, well, wait \u2019til they hear this, this guy won\u2019t last. But the other thing I wanted to tell you, Rush, is this. To ask your audience to please pray this guy out of office. Because he\u2019s really ruined the country. But at the same time, he\u2019s awakened the sleeping majority. The sleeping giant.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I\u2019ll tell you what, we hope so. In 1988 people remember where they were and could not believe, that\u2019s how biased things were. He couldn\u2019t believe what he was hearing, and then didn\u2019t think it would last. That somebody was gonna come shut up me up. That it had to be a mistake. Tom, thank you very much.<\/p>\n
Here is Pamela in Houston. Pamela, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Well, thank you. This is truly my lucky day. The reason I\u2019m calling is I want to give you an example of how things have changed drastically, because back in the late eighties when I first started to listen to you and local talk radio, every time the shows would end they would put a disclaimer on it saying: “The views of this show don\u2019t necessarily reflect the opinions of this station.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. Yeah, right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s no longer the case. Now the stations are completely conservative, and they use it as a draw. That\u2019s how they get you to listen to them. It\u2019s conservative radio.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Exactly right. Even the early affiliates were scared to death that they\u2019re gonna get bombed. They were scared to death that something was gonna happen, so they put these disclaimers on at the beginning of the program, even during the program at commercial breaks, “The views expressed by the host on this show are not the views necessarily of the staff or management of the station.” I started doing the disclaimer myself, just to show \u2019em I was on their side. We would open the program, “The views expressed by the host on this show are not necessarily the views of the staff, management, sponsors of this station, but they should be.” (laughing) It made some of them mad. They asked me to stop that. But she\u2019s right. It wasn\u2019t long before they started advertising the fact that the station was a location for conservative talk radio. Pamela, thank you. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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