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RUSH: Dan in Kawai, in Hawaii, great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Aloha, Rush. I just wanted to call and say thank you. I used to be an angry, hateful, raging liberal just like the rest of them. And I\u2019m a young guy in my early twenties, and if it weren\u2019t for me listening to you and opening my mind and actually listening to you and not just the sound bites out there about you I\u2019d still be hopeless, and I just want to call and thank you for it, because you truly have changed my life and my perspective —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — on the world as a liberal.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I sincerely appreciate it, I really do, and I know you mean it. Can I ask you a question?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, because the media wants you angry. The establishment wants you angry. They want you dissatisfied with the way the system is. Part of the liberal conditioning is that you\u2019re never happy, and that\u2019s what liberals don\u2019t like to admit. I mean I can honestly say that because I used to be a liberal. I was unhappy. I was angry. I didn\u2019t like Rush Limbaugh, he was a terrible person as far as I was concerned. Even though I\u2019d never listened to your show, I somehow knew you were a terrible person. When I actually listened to your show, I realized how wrong and I was and I feel almost ashamed that I was duped.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But it wasn\u2019t just me, you\u2019ve nailed it. You were unhappy at everybody. And nobody wanted you to be happy. It just wasn\u2019t in the cards. Something was wrong with you if you were happy.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Precisely.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, have you ever heard of a right wing community agitator? You ever heard of a right wing community organizer?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No. I thought those were only on the left wing.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They are. They are. You\u2019re exactly right. Agitating people, getting \u2019em all worked up, getting \u2019em ticked off, keeping \u2019em ticked off, keeping \u2019em mad, keeping \u2019em unhappy, that\u2019s a job for people on the left and it\u2019s not just keeping \u2019em unhappier. They\u2019re easier to lead when they\u2019re mad. They\u2019re easier to shape, bend, flake, and form. But it\u2019s what you get them mad at. The guy\u2019s exactly right. Get \u2019em mad at the system. Get them mad at the status quo. Get them mad at capitalism, at prosperity, at the inequities, the unfairness. You made my day, Dan, I really appreciate it. I thank you very much. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ll never forget, I guess it was after the 2002 midterms. Yep, it was. Tom “Puff” Daschle, who was at the time the Senate majority leader, let slip with a truth. They had been somehow studying ratings for this program. They\u2019d hired some people, some experts to go out and do some research. And Tom Daschle let it slip that their experts had told them, the Democrats, that I was not just preaching to any choir, that I was actually changing Democrats\u2019 minds, and they were quite alarmed at that. As Daschle said, (imitating Daschle) “We\u2019re very concerned, Tim. We\u2019re very concerned, highly, highly concerned. Our experts have told us, Tim, and we\u2019re concerned that Limbaugh\u2019s not just preaching to the choir. No, no. Limbaugh, our experts say is actually convincing Democrats to think a new way. We\u2019re highly concerned about this, Tim,” which is the way Daschle spoke. Dingy Harry does the same thing, speak in these soft tones and so forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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