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RUSH: Kilgore, Texas. Phillip, I\u2019m glad you called, glad you waited. Welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What an honor, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What an honor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I\u2019ve been listening to you so long, it\u2019s just like talking to an old friend. You\u2019re very, very good at what you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate your saying that. Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And one more thing before I get to my question. I just appreciate you allowing Mark Davis to host your show. He\u2019s truly missed in Dallas. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he\u2019s a good guy. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, he is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You will not find anybody harder working and more loyal than Mark Davis. Whoever he works for has got one of the most loyal employees they could ever have.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yes. Hey, the question I have for you, I heard you talking earlier about CNN\u2019s dismal —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you Mark\u2019s father?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, sir, I\u2019ve just listened to him ever since he\u2019s been in Dallas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m just funning\u2019 you, you know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Well, thank you, sir. You know, one other thing before I get to my question. You know, the one thing I love about you the most is your sarcasm. It\u2019s truly genius. I appreciate the way you add that to your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. And thank you for getting it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah, it tickles me to death. I love sarcasm and you\u2019re probably the most sarcastic person I know. (laughing) But the question I had, you were talking about CNN and their dismal viewership, if you were allowed to, how long would it take you to turn CNN around and make it similar to what Fox is?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Couple of days. Just the announcement that I was going to run CNN would add a million viewers a night, just the announcement that I was gonna run it would cause a million people to start tuning in. And then when we started making changes, it wouldn\u2019t take long at all.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I think you\u2019d probably do it within a week anyway.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019ll never happen. Don\u2019t sweat it. Well, let me just tell you something. This is a classic CNN. This is classic. A good friend of all of ours, Bob Tyrrell, his magazine\u2019s the American Spectator<\/a>. And the American Spectator has been around long before I started my radio program. Even in Sacramento, back in 1984, the American Spectator was, I guess, the foundation building blocks for me in establishing conservative — they\u2019re one of the places that helped me to understand why I knew what I knew, why I thought what I thought. And Bob Tyrrell, you talk about humor and sarcasm, he has a column called The Continuing Crisis, and he has a way with words that\u2019s unique. <\/p>\n

<\/a>There are a lot of people today writing, a lot of people blogging, and Bob Tyrrell is classic with his use of words. Some of the stuff that he wrote in the Continuing Crisis<\/a> back 1984 and \u201985 when I was living in Sacramento, I just envied it. Anyway, he\u2019s got a new book. His book is called The Death of Liberalism<\/a>. And he firmly believes that liberalism is dead, as a practical matter, just in terms of numbers. He said the numbers of people that are liberal is not all that high. He said liberalism doesn\u2019t have policies that work. And he makes this case. See Snerdley\u2019s in there frowning. “Liberalism isn\u2019t dead.” And of course as a living, breathing, functioning ideology, of course it\u2019s not dead. Tyrrell\u2019s point is that if we all grew up and matured a little bit and stopped being afraid of these people, we\u2019d understand what a genuine minority they are. <\/p>\n

If we honestly assess the results of their policies, they\u2019re disastrous. They don\u2019t work. Liberalism doesn\u2019t work. And he goes into the reasons why it looks like liberalism succeeds, why it looks like it\u2019s powerful, but his point is that liberalism has died. Not that it\u2019s no longer alive and around, but in terms of substantive relevance, liberalism is lost. Anyway, it\u2019s a great book. And you might disagree with it when you read it, but you should. It\u2019s been out a couple of weeks ago or so, Death of Liberalism. And his name is spelled with two R\u2019s and two L\u2019s. R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. Just Amazon search it, Death of Liberalism<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Anyway, he was scheduled to be on CNN to be interviewed about his book. He was going to be interviewed by our stalker, Carol Costello. Carol Costello is the CNN reporter that\u2019s assigned to follow me around in the news and then report on what I\u2019m doing. Of course, Carol never listens to the program or calls me. To report what we\u2019re doing she reads Media Matters or listens to excerpts of sound bites of the program to learn — it\u2019s amazing how so few — and this one of Bob\u2019s points, by the way. All the news media\u2019s liberal, and here they\u2019re writing on me, for example, or on his magazine. They don\u2019t read his magazine when they write, they don\u2019t listen to this radio show when they write about it. They have to go somewhere else to find out what they think happened here. <\/p>\n

At any rate, he was scheduled to be interviewed in a typical book publicity interview on CNN by Carol Costello and his book publicist received word that he had been disinvited. The reason CNN disinvited him is because Bob had called Obama a stealth socialist. And that, they thought, at CNN was being rude to Obama. So no appearance on CNN with Ms. Costello. And I have this on highest authority from somebody at American Spectator. American Spectator, by the way, is where Jeff Lord works, who\u2019s been doing some fabulous reporting on the left lately, ever since this phony Republican War on Women stuff. <\/p>\n

Now, you look at all the names that CNN people called George Bush. Hitler, Bush-this, but maybe what upset CNN was that Bob calls him a stealth socialist. Maybe they\u2019re upset that he didn\u2019t call him a full-fledged out-of-the-closet socialist. Maybe they\u2019re upset he called him “stealth.” Anyway, he was disinvited because of this. What I would do with CNN — well, it\u2019s not hard. Basically, what I would do is I would have every editor there listen to this program and then, in primetime, everything we covered on this program would be treated as the news of the day, \u2019cause that\u2019s what I do. I do the news of the day. They ignore the stuff that we find on this program. I just put the news on that they don\u2019t find interesting or that they don\u2019t think is news. <\/p>\n

This is a broad, broad overview. I mean philosophically what CNN\u2019s gotta do is decide who they want to be and then admit it. Right now they\u2019ve got themselves believing that they are objective, nonpartisan journalists. They believe that MSNBC is liberal, that Fox is conservative, and that they are Edward R. Murrow. It\u2019s what they think. Don\u2019t doubt me. It\u2019s exactly what they think. They also believe that the news should have no opinions. (laughing) While they\u2019re full of opinions. The problem is they won\u2019t own up to their opinions. They won\u2019t admit to it. You\u2019ve gotta be competitive in the arena in which you choose to battle. And it\u2019s very clear what cable news has become. It\u2019s become personality-oriented opinion, unabashed, fearless personality opinion. Anything else is pretense. And if you\u2019re gonna do personality-oriented opinion and then deny that\u2019s what you\u2019re doing, then you\u2019re never gonna pull it off because people are gonna realize you\u2019re not even being honest with yourself. <\/p>\n

But the fix, I don\u2019t want to lead anybody to believe that it would be simple. Don\u2019t misunderstand. But I do think if it were announced that I were gonna be running CNN, can you imagine the excrement storm from everywhere if that happened? But the tune-in factor would be through the roof, the curiosity tune-in factor. Do any of you doubt that you could improve it? Every one of you thinks you could improve it. Just go show by show. Go segment by segment. Nope, wouldn\u2019ta done that, here\u2019s the way to do that. Segment by segment you could fix CNN, show by show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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