{"id":15638,"date":"2012-05-21T16:36:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T16:36:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-21T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T16:36:42","slug":"seven_nags_show_up_for_rush_protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/05\/21\/seven_nags_show_up_for_rush_protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven NAGs Show Up for Rush Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: We are in Los Angeles today, folks, and it\u2019s a thrill and a delight to be with you.  Broadcast excellence, hosted by me, the Doctor of Democracy, America\u2019s Truth Detector, real anchorman and all of that.  We\u2019re here.  But remember, folks, as long as I\u2019m here, it doesn\u2019t matter where &#8220;here&#8221; is.  We happen to be in Los Angeles today, not going to be here tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/NAGProtestors.jpg\"\/><BR\/>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgca.org\/Pages\/index.aspx\">Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of America<\/a> have a biannual (for those of you in Rio Linda, that\u2019s every other year) charity fundraising event involving a golf tournament, and that is tomorrow at an undisclosed location.  I\u2019ll tell you about it when it\u2019s over so that the NAGs don\u2019t show up at the golf course.  You know, all seven of \u2019em showed up outside our bustling affiliate, WMAL in Washington. What day did they show?  Was it Friday?  Seven.  And they said the crowd was 50,000.  I kid you not, folks.  There were seven NAGs that showed up outside our DC affiliate to protest the fact that I\u2019m alive, and then on the radio, and then talking about women.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>There was a reporter there from Fox News who said, &#8220;Well, you got seven people here.  Rush has a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RushBabesforAmerica\">Rush Babes for America Facebook<\/a> page. It\u2019s got about three times the number of people on your Facebook page.  What do you do make of that?&#8221;  And the NAG said, &#8220;Well, you know, Rush tries to make everything about him.&#8221;  I was minding my own business.  They made the day about me.  But only seven of \u2019em showed up.  And if I announce where we\u2019re gonna be tomorrow, who knows, we might get ten. I just don\u2019t want to cause them all that trouble.  So I\u2019ll tell you Wednesday where it all was.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?deepLinkEmbedCode=hxMjBxNDqf_sbS5uqbolFTZhIScrjQ7o&amp;height=260&amp;embedCode=hxMjBxNDqf_sbS5uqbolFTZhIScrjQ7o&amp;video_pcode=k4Nmw6Cri746xA2OsoSlngyrIudg&amp;width=440\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Hi. How are you? Welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.<\/p>\n<p>All right, it was Friday. The NAGs had everybody believing that a major, major protest was going to happen. It was the National Association of Gals, the NAGs. That\u2019s our affectionate term (and I mean that: affectionate) for the National Organization for Women. It was the NAGs working in conjunction with Media Matters for America to finally, once-and-for-all get me off of the radio. It\u2019s not enough for them to turn it off if they don\u2019t like it. Nope! They have to get me off the air and claim, at the same time, that all women agree with them and want me off the air. I\u2019m just too mean of a big, bad brute &#8212; and I have to be fired, thrown away, discarded, gotten rid of. So they had this &#8220;big&#8221; protest outside our affiliate in Washington, WMAL.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Alisyn Camerota Sunday morning on Fox &amp; Friends weekend.<\/p>\n<p>CAMEROTA: Only seven females showed up to participate in the National Organization for Women\u2019s protest against Rush Limbaugh. This picture snapped of the so-called massive demonstration in front of Limbaugh\u2019s affiliate station in Washington, DC. The advocacy group is calling for advertisers to pull the plug on the conservative talk show host.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Why is it even news? This has been my&#8230; Not an argument. For my whole career, the NAGs would call a protest. They\u2019ve never had more than 300,000 members. They call a protest and 10 or 15 women show up and there\u2019s NBC. There\u2019s all of the networks. Seven women show up! The networks were there. Seven women. A Rush to Excellence performance in&#8230; I forget where it was, maybe Louisiana somewhere. It had two protesters outside, and that was the picture on the front page of the paper the next day: A protest involving a mother and daughter with one sign. There were 1,800 people inside, two woman outside, and that made the news. So what happened here was that Daily Caller sent a reporter over there, Caroline May, to interview the NOW Action Vice President Erin Matson about the NAG protest against me outside WMAL.<\/p>\n<p>And during the interview, Erin Matson of the NAGs said this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MATSON: He\u2019s had a history since he\u2019s been on the air about&#8230; Since he came on, you know, in the late eighties, 1988, of going after women, of going after people of color, of going after gay people. So, you know, it\u2019s really&#8230; It\u2019s&#8230; This is&#8230; We\u2019re supporting a community response.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Of seven people.<\/p>\n<p>What does &#8220;going after&#8221; mean?<\/p>\n<p>Going after women, going after people of color, going after gay people, whatever. So then The Daily Caller asked: &#8220;Did you happen to see his new Facebook page he launched as a direct response to your campaign, the Rush Babes for America? I believe he termed it &#8216;The National Organization of Rush Babes.\u2019 I\u2019m a wondering if you had any thoughts on that, and the 60-plus thousand women who have signed it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MATSON: Of course, Rush wants to make this all about him. Honestly, this is about our community and what\u2019s decent speech and really standing up for good treatment of women. And so&#8230; So&#8230; I&#8230; I\u2019m not gonna fall into his trap of: Let\u2019s make this all about me. It\u2019s not about him. The era of his brand of thinking is over, and we\u2019re moving on.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: See, I\u2019m minding my own business. They announce a protest of me. They announce their objective is to get me thrown off of the air. They announce that they have got to get rid of me. And somehow I am making it &#8220;all about me.&#8221; (interruption) Well, in their world, I guess it is logic that somehow I am making this &#8220;all about me.&#8221; But what am I protesting? They are protesting me, and I\u2019m making this about me? How does that work? (interruption) You think that\u2019s it? It\u2019s just I\u2019m a man; therefore I am to blame? I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: We are in Los Angeles today, folks, and it\u2019s a thrill and a delight to be with you. Broadcast excellence, hosted by me, the Doctor of Democracy, America\u2019s Truth Detector, real anchorman and all of that. We\u2019re here. 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