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RUSH: Steve in Nogales, Arizona, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega Christmas dittos, Rush. Congratulations on the new product line<\/a>, the wife, the whole nine yards.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I\u2019ve been listening since the eighties and I really appreciate it. At 54, because of your Hank Haney series, I took up the game of golf and so you\u2019ve inspired me, Rush, but that\u2019s how I —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, gee, can I tell you something? I\u2019m sorry for you. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you realize the torment that you are now visiting upon yourself trying to learn the game at 54? It\u2019s tough. I took it up at 46. If you don\u2019t start playing this game in your teens or younger, the odds of getting really proficient at it are quite long. So, you just need an attitude of loving being out there and having the chance to smack the ball around.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I actually enjoy it, as lousy as I am, I actually enjoy it.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But that\u2019s not why I\u2019m calling, Rush. I\u2019m calling because I want to implore you, I want to beg you, and you had a caller similar to this weeks ago that begged you and implored you, you know, made it seem like that it was your duty and obligation to endorse a particular candidate. I\u2019m not going there. I just want to implore you and beg you, Rush, to please consider getting on more TV shows than Greta Van Susteren. I know you turn \u2019em down all the time. Maybe you can do it from your studio, but, Rush, you\u2019re the only one who can articulate the conservative positions. There is one candidate who can articulate his positions, and he\u2019s really good at it but I\u2019m not sure he\u2019s my guy, and so, Rush, I\u2019m just begging you as an American citizen to just please reconsider making your message broader through the television. I know the pain, I know that it increases all kinds of headaches for you but, Rush, your country needs you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I must react to this honestly. Since this Greta appearance last week<\/a> — I don\u2019t mean to take away from what you said, but I\u2019ve heard this from I can\u2019t tell you how many people, that, “Gee, you know, you ought to do that more often. Gee, you were really good. You just look like a natural, you ought to do it more often.” That and the CPAC speech, but even this last Greta appearance, I\u2019ve heard that more than ever before, even when I had my own TV show. Steve, why now, why do I need to do more of it? I mean there\u2019s all kinds of people on television that —<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019re at a tipping point, Rush, and you know that. We are at a tipping point where this country, if it doesn\u2019t make a right turn, we are gonna go deep left, and you\u2019ve seen that in the education process. <\/a> This has been in the works by the left for years and years —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And they\u2019ve got their guy in the White House now, and they\u2019ve got the masses brainwashed, but the conservative position makes logical sense. And it\u2019s very difficult to argue with truth. I think John Adams said, you know, facts are a stubborn thing to argue with. Rush, it is your time, and I\u2019m just begging you as an American citizen, I don\u2019t care about the candidates at this point. Let the process work its way through, but you\u2019re the only one who can articulate the conservative position, and I know I\u2019ve said that before, Rush, but I mean it from the bottom of my heart. I am begging you, sir, to get out there a little bit more —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait a second.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — because I know you turn down more offers than you take.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You have no idea. I appreciate that, but do you really — there are all kinds — do you think I am articulating conservatism better or however you describe it than the presidential candidates are?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Only because of the KISS method of selling, and no offense to you, sir, but KISS — “keep it simple, Stupid” — you\u2019re able to describe it so a working class guy like me can understand it and not only can I understand it but I can also reiterate it when I\u2019m faced with various liberal challenges from various liberal mindless robots, and you have a way, it is a God-given talent, Rush, you have a way of making the complex understandable, and that, sir, is your gift, and that\u2019s why for 20-plus years I\u2019ve been listening to you, but I think it\u2019s time, I think it\u2019s time that you just at least allow your positions to get out there, because literally this country is on a tipping point, man, and if it wasn\u2019t for guys like you, we\u2019re gonna lose.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s pretty powerful. I mean that\u2019s a lot of pressure. You\u2019re putting a lot of pressure on me out there, Steve. I mean you\u2019re basically telling me that possibly the fate of the country hinges on whether I do more TV.<\/p>\n

CALLER: First off, you can handle it, and secondly, this just may be your higher calling from God.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not a question handling it. You shoulda seen what it took to do this, and this was simple. There was a crew in my studio for three hours setting that up. Then there was the makeup babe. I don\u2019t know. The Haney show, that took ten hours per episode. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, maybe I ought to hire a couple black buses and do a mini tour using only the safest bridges and — he-he-he-he — by the way, I got a note from Greta Van Susteren last night telling me that they\u2019re gonna rerun the interview. They edited a few things out to get it to fit in the previous airing last Wednesday, the day we did it. They\u2019re gonna run a full hour on December 29th. That\u2019s a Thursday. So seven or eight days from now, whatever it is, December 29, they\u2019re gonna rerun the whole thing at ten o\u2019clock. (interruption) Consideration of what? I\u2019m not gonna commit to doing more television right now. I appreciate the guy\u2019s call. I thank him very much. It\u2019s not a Chris Christie answer. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m sitting here, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m gonna do any more TV next year than I did this year so why should I sit there and commit myself to it if I don\u2019t know? If I say, “Okay, folks, I\u2019ll be happy to do more TV,” do you realize what\u2019s gonna happen? In the first place, the phone won\u2019t stop ringing. Every day we turn down every morning show. Every day. I think Stephanopoulos has stopped calling every day now. Is that right, H.R.? But for the longest time it was every day. There were no preconditions. Just show up. The whole half hour. (sigh) I\u2019ll think about it. I will take it under advisement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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