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RUSH: I sit here, my friends, and sometimes, you know, I sit and ponder. I ponder the evolution of my own career. I ponder the evolution of the job, which, to me, is not actually a job. And I ponder the sometimes remarkable changes that have occurred in what will be 23 years on August 1st. And today is one of those days. Ho! In addition to the fact that it is Friday.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: One of our all-time favorite days of the week, Open Line Friday. This is where the unvarnished truth of just who the callers are and what they\u2019re all about surfaces. It can also be Open Bomb Friday. It doesn\u2019t happen much but it\u2019s hilarious when it does. We had a bomb show about three weeks ago — well, maybe six weeks ago now. It was all of December? It was November? It\u2019s been that long ago that we had the bomb show? By bomb, I mean, folks, if it had happened on my first week, I\u2019d be history. And it was a best-of show, and if it had happened the first week you wouldn\u2019t have ever heard of me. That\u2019s how bad it was. That\u2019s the risk that I take on Open Line Friday. On Friday we turn the entire content of the program, we go to the phones and it is up to the callers. It is not shepherded by me, supervised in any way. Whatever people want to talk about, especially if I don\u2019t care about it. Monday through Thursday I have to care about it or they don\u2019t get on the air, but on Friday, doesn\u2019t matter. I mean there are a few rules. We\u2019re not gonna promote boredom here. Not knowingly. So if there\u2019s something you think needs to be discussed that hasn\u2019t been or if there\u2019s a point of view you think that was an expressed that needs to be, or if you have a question or comment, then this is your day. Telephone number is 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

As I pause and reflect, there are massive changes that have taken place, just in terms of what is not only acceptable content for this program, but in fact what might be considered necessary. Now, there\u2019s a news story today that had it happened any time in the first 20 years of this program, if I had spent time on it, I would have received calls from various program directors carrying this program all across the country, like Tyler Cox at WBAP in Dallas, Laurie Cantillo at WABC in New York, Robin Bertolucci at KFI in Los Angeles. They would have all called, “What are you doing? If you keep this up we\u2019re gonna have to make a change.” And it would have been talking about anything to do with the US budget. It was death. Talking about the US budget was something only people 80 years old and older cared about. <\/p>\n

And look at today. There\u2019s a poll out. Marist has a poll and they\u2019re a bunch of lefties. This is stunning to me. According to the latest Marist poll, Americans oppose raising the debt ceiling by more than two to one. Okay, that\u2019s interesting in itself. And when you only measure people who have actually been following the issue, the numbers reason more lopsided. But get this. This is what\u2019s amazing. “A majority of Americans, 57%, say they are closely following the news about discussions related to the debt ceiling.” I can tell you that 22 years ago that number would be less than 5%. Ten years ago it would have been barely 50%. In the 1995 budget battle you might have had some interest in it for a short period of time. This is stunning to me. It really is, in terms of what\u2019s mattering to people. And it goes to a point that I have believed for a long time. Just as it\u2019s a violation of conventional wisdom to say that Obama is eminently beatable, I think the majority of this country is us. We just don\u2019t see it reflected anywhere. But we are the majority in this country, Tea Party conservatism, particularly if you look at the way people live their lives. We are categorized each and every day as the fringe, but we are not. We are the mainstream. <\/p>\n

The way we believe. The way we live. The philosophies, the morality, all of it, we are the mainstream of this country. And it\u2019s reflected in any number of places, if you want to accept it. It\u2019s a tough thing for people to accept because they don\u2019t see it reflected anywhere. They watch a movie and they don\u2019t see the way they live reflected as respectable, admirable, or even normal. They read a book, same thing, listen to music. They look at who the White House invites to come read poetry. It ain\u2019t from the majority of the country. It\u2019s from a genuine true radicalized fringe, the media. The mainstream media is not the mainstream media any longer. The mainstream media is in the minority now. You have to add them all up together, but even when you do that they\u2019re nowhere near as large and penetrable as they used to be. It\u2019s been amazing for me to chronicle this. <\/p>\n

I mean it would have been death for me to talk about this Marist poll at all. It would have been pointless for me to even try to convince you that it was worth knowing about, that it was worth you being interested in. And now here we are, in a leftist poll, the Marist, 57% of the American people are following it, and it\u2019s two to one. It\u2019s two to one that people do not want this debt ceiling raised. People ask me, “Well, how do you stay so optimistic?” This kind of stuff, these hidden little jewels out there, you\u2019re not gonna see this reported in traditional media outlets. You\u2019re not gonna see it heralded. This is a problem for our, quote, unquote, opponents or enemies. (interruption) No, I\u2019m not in the business of taking credit, Snerdley. I\u2019ll be glad to accept credit, but I\u2019m not gonna go out there and take it. (interruption) Well, it may have started when I talked about baseline budgeting and so forth, but I think the real factor here making this relevant is life experiences. <\/p>\n

<\/a>People are finally now living the disaster that for 20 years we have been predicting would be brought about by liberalism. They\u2019re living it now. People are a little bit more sophisticated than they\u2019re given credit for. There\u2019s no inflation we\u2019re told. Why? “Well, because you can\u2019t include food or energy prices. Traditionally they\u2019re left out of the inflation calculation because price fluctuations are too volatile, they\u2019re never stable enough.” Oh, really? So the fact that gasoline\u2019s over four bucks a gallon, and hamburger\u2019s gone up by two bucks a pound, we gotta throw that out? “Yeah, yeah, you can\u2019t factor that in inflation.” Well, you may not, but the way it causes us to live means we cannot avoid it, so we know there\u2019s inflation. <\/p>\n

So a majority of the American people know they\u2019re being lied to or misrepresented, misinformed, or even better, they now know what\u2019s happening that they\u2019re not being told about. That\u2019s been one of the key powers the mainstream media has always had. It\u2019s not just what they reported and how they commented on it. It\u2019s what they chose not to report. It\u2019s what they did not consider to be news. Even the young people of New York are catching on and moving out of the state. And who was leading that trend? Remember when I said<\/a> to David Paterson, the governor — well, I didn\u2019t say it to him specifically, but I said, “Look, if you guys are gonna raise taxes, I will lead the exodus out of town.” And David Paterson, the then-governor of New York, said, “Hell, if I\u2019d-a known that\u2019s all it took to get rid of Limbaugh, I\u2019d-a raised everybody\u2019s taxes sooner.” Everybody went, “Wow, that\u2019s clever. That\u2019s funny.” But in the meantime young people under 30 are telling pollsters they can\u2019t hack it in New York. In the next five years if things don\u2019t work out for \u2019em, they\u2019re splitting the scene. They\u2019re going to places where job opportunities are more plentiful, housing prices are more reasonable and what have you. So it all ties in here, this notion Obama\u2019s unbeatable, that the country\u2019s lost. It\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

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