{"id":17586,"date":"2011-10-28T16:16:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T16:16:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-10-28T16:16:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T16:16:24","slug":"el_rushbo_at_career_crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/10\/28\/el_rushbo_at_career_crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"El Rushbo at Career Crossroads?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Hey, folks, how are you? Greetings. It\u2019s great to have you here. Rush Limbaugh. Today\u2019s the day people all over America say TGIOLF: “Thank God It\u2019s Open Line Friday!”<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Open Line Friday, the day you can discuss anything you want. You can discuss… I don\u2019t care, even if it\u2019s football or golf. In fact, Open Line Friday was practically invented to be the day you can stick it to the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd — a lot of sticking it to the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd. I mean, I love the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd, but I love sticking it to the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd. For those of you new to the program, you might not know what the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd is. Okay, I\u2019ll explain it. Any time I talk anything other than politics or cultural-political events, I get threatening e-mails from people who say, “Stick to the issues!<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t care about X. I don\u2019t care about golf. I don\u2019t care about football. I don\u2019t care about Apple<\/a>. I don\u2019t care about anything like that. If you keep talking about this, not only am I not gonna listen anymore, neither are my friends, and nor is my dog,” and they keep peppering me. So they\u2019ve become popularly, affectionately known as the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd; and Open Line Friday was basically created to help stick it to the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd. But it\u2019s up to you. On Open Line Friday you talk about whatever you want to talk about. Monday through Thursday has to be something I care about — and I\u2019m gonna let you people in on a secret. I probably shouldn\u2019t say this. (sigh) Now I gotta say it. Now I have to say it. Back in the early days of this program when it was just expanding like nothing before it…<\/p>\n

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Remember those days, Snerdley? Every week we were announcing 10, 15 new affiliates. Yeah, we started with 56 radio stations. As is common, people — friends, foe, media (well, what\u2019s the difference there?) — would ask the question, “How long do you think this is gonna last? How long can this go on?” and I\u2019d say, “As long as I\u2019m interested in it, as long as I have the passion.” I said, “When I get up and don\u2019t care about what\u2019s in the newspapers, that\u2019s when I will know that it\u2019s nearing the end,” and that hasn\u2019t happened. But I\u2019ll tell you what has happened. This is what I shouldn\u2019t admit. I\u2019m gonna create all kinds of problems here by admitting it, but I\u2019m gonna go ahead and admit it. There are things that I really am interested in that I am not talking about, and it\u2019s very frustrating. <\/p>\n

It really is. I have always, no matter what it is, talked about the things that I really passionately care about — and this is recent, too. This is within, I guess, the last six months that I have done this. Maybe the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd is getting to me. Maybe it is, because there are things that I really care about that I\u2019m shelving that I\u2019m not talking about because I think nobody else is gonna care about; and the reason is they have nothing to the with the country. Well, I can always relate it to what\u2019s going on in the country, but they have nothing to do with political issues per se. They have nothing to do with the political campaign. They have nothing to do with anything to do with any of that; and I figure people really care about that stuff these days.<\/p>\n

The country is at a crossroads. We are at a fork in the road. We are at the precipice. I\u2019ve just decided, “You know, I\u2019ll shelve and put aside some of the stuff that really fascinates and interests me, and I\u2019ll just keep talking about the fate of the country,” because I\u2019m figuring I\u2019ve always used my instincts and I\u2019ve always been guided by my empathy. And I have — because of the seriousness, because of the grave consequences the future of this country — stayed focused on matters relating to that, \u2019cause I have assumed (using my instincts and empathy) that that\u2019s what people are primarily concerned about and interested in each and every day — and, folks, I must tell you, it\u2019s been very hard. Look at it exactly that way: I\u2019m holding back as a public service. (interruption)<\/p>\n

(laughing) Snerdley says, “Go ahead and tell us what it is. It\u2019s Open Line Friday. If we\u2019re not interested in what you\u2019re interested in, we\u2019ll fake it.” No, don\u2019t say that! Don\u2019t. (interruption) No, no, no, no. Don\u2019t remind people of that. That\u2019s just gonna put added pressure on me out there, and I don\u2019t need any added pressure at the moment. Call it “courageous restraint,” folks, but I must tell you: It\u2019s the first time in 23 years that I\u2019ve done this. It\u2019s the first time in 23 years that I have set aside some things I really care about; I\u2019m interested in, passionate about, and not discussed. “Restrain we much<\/a>,” is the new phrase that I\u2019m using here to guide me. (interruption)<\/p>\n

No, Snerdley, I don\u2019t even think I should mention what it is. That\u2019s just gonna get me to start talking about it and then the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd\u2019s gonna blow up. (laughing) See, I love the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd. The Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd is basically three people who write e-mails in such a way as to make it look like they represent hundreds of thousands of people. So, anyway, here are the rules for Open Line Friday: Whatever you wish to discuss, doesn\u2019t matter, fine and dandy. That\u2019s the purpose of Open Line Friday. Monday through Thursday we only talk about things I care about. Oh! I should add, folks: In all candor, in a professional sense, I\u2019ve been agonizing over this.<\/p>\n

Because I\u2019ve been talking about things I really don\u2019t care about and I have been worried (particularly for the past month) that I\u2019m boring everybody silly. I\u2019ve always known, and I\u2019ve always believed that passion is the magnet. You talk about something that you\u2019re passionate about, it is magnetic. It is what locks people in. I\u2019ve been talking about things I really couldn\u2019t care less about, the things that have been boring me. But I\u2019ve been doing it because that is what I have judged has been the desire of you people in the audience to have discussed or to be part of a discussion when you call or what have you. So I\u2019m asking myself in my private moments — when Kathryn\u2019s gone to bed, when the dogs are still peeing on the floor in the kitchen and I have to go clean up.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m asking myself, “Have I reached a career crossroads here?” This is a new experience for me. (interruption) Well, it is. I mean, I\u2019ve really been agonizing over this in a career sense, and I have been dealing with it as best that I go. So I just wanted to share all this. So I figure Open Line Friday… (interruption) One thing I don\u2019t care about? One thing I don\u2019t care about? Uhhhhhh… Ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta. Well, I\u2019d have to go to the Stack here. I\u2019ve got some stuff in the Stack I really don\u2019t care about. I just put it in here because I figured I have a duty to discuss it. Uhhh… Ta ta ta. Ta ta ta ta. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ll tell you as I go through the Stack, as I do the program. I\u2019ll start out by saying, “Folks, I really don\u2019t care about this, but here goes.” <\/p>\n

Will that suffice you? But I\u2019m not gonna tell you the things that I do care about that I\u2019m not talking about. I mean, that would defeat the whole purpose. Because if I tell you about the things that I do care about that I\u2019m not talking about, then I\u2019m talking the things that I do care about violating my own rule because I\u2019m assuming you don\u2019t want to hear it. That\u2019s the assumption that I\u2019m making. (interruption) Well, it could be a wrong assumption. It\u2019s the assumption that I am making. Eh, we\u2019ll see. In the meantime, I have to take a brief time-out here. We\u2019ll come back, we\u2019ll get started with all of the program today. In fact, let\u2019s just do this now. Grab audio sound bite number two. Let\u2019s go back Wednesday, just two days ago — just two days. It\u2019s stuff like this that makes me think, “Okay, maybe I haven\u2019t lost it,” \u2019cause that\u2019s what I\u2019ve really been worrying about: “Have I lost it?” Snerdley, I\u2019ve walked outta here every day the past month thinking, “This has to have been boring as hell to listen to. Just has to be,” and I worry about it, \u2019cause every day this show I do for the audience. I don\u2019t do it for me. Well, I do do it for me. That\u2019s crazy. But I do it for the audience. I know what the audience expectations are, and they are high, and the objective here is to meet and surpass them each and every day. When I think I\u2019m not doing that, I get depressed in terms of letting people down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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