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RUSH: Here\u2019s Gil in Philadelphia. Great to have you on the program, EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. It\u2019s good to speak with you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I have a very sincere question for you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve been listening to you for a long time. I\u2019m a devoted fan. We\u2019ve spoken several times before. My question is, how do you do it? How do you sit there day after day — it\u2019s one thing when the MoveOn.org or the media or someone else gets it wrong. I mean I understand their motive. I mean they\u2019re a bunch of idiots anyway and they\u2019re liars like you have so often taught us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But how do you take it when we, your devoted listeners, those who really get it call you and accuse you of saying things you\u2019ve never said, having innuendos you\u2019ve never had and everybody seems to know better how to run your show than you do —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, what happened. What made you have this reaction?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I listen to it all the time. I mean last week you had that one woman — or is it two weeks ago — the woman called in and she\u2019s telling you how you lost it and I forget what her issue was, you\u2019ve gone soft or something, or you\u2019re not — oh, I know what it was — you\u2019re not taking Obama to the cleaners the way you should, remember?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And now today. I love these people. These are my fellow Dittoheads. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you\u2019re talking about the guy who said I should stop the satire<\/a> because stupid liberals don\u2019t get it, they believe it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll explain this. She wants to know how I deal with it, how I take it, and I\u2019ll easily explain this when we come back from the break. Thanks, Gil, very much. Appreciate the call.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, what was her question, how do I take it day after day? You know, I get this question in one form or another somewhat often. Usually the question comes in the form, “How do you deal with all of the baseless lying, misinterpreted criticism of you?” And her point was, “Look, it\u2019s one thing when it comes from the left, MoveOn.org or the mainstream media, which is purposely trying to discredit you. But how do you take it when supposed loyal listeners take you to task?” One thing she didn\u2019t say but she was going to say \u2019cause she told Snerdley she was gonna say it, that there\u2019s nobody more clear and articulate about what I believe than I am. I mean from start to stop, when I tell you why I think something, you don\u2019t have any questions left. You might disagree with me, but you don\u2019t have any questions about why I think what I think, and few people even have that question. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why sometimes I hold back, because when I say something about something, there\u2019s not much left to be said about it, hence no reason for callers. It is frustrating at times, ladies and gentlemen, to be such a noted communicator, a heralded communicator. It is frustrating when some people don\u2019t hear something that\u2019s right in front of them, but I know why it happens. This has really been an educational thing for me, not just this program, but throughout the whole course of my life, how people talk across one another. Some people are totally emotionally invested in a subject. When I\u2019m invested in it intellectually, I live in Realville. Most people don\u2019t live in Realville, Literalville. Most people don\u2019t really want to go there. She was reacting primarily to the first caller of the day who said, “You gotta stop the satire \u2019cause liberals are believing you. When you talk about how Obama ought to implement in the Middle East all these great policies here, of job loss, rampant inflation and so forth, you gotta stop that because these liberals think you\u2019re agreeing with them.” <\/p>\n

I do ask myself, how can somebody hear me — they know I don\u2019t like Obama, they know I disagree with Obama, they hear me praising Obama policies which are destroying the country, and they think I\u2019m advocating it? See, to me the problem is not with me. It\u2019s not up to me to explain that. It\u2019s up to the dunderheads who don\u2019t get. They\u2019re the ones that need to be questioned, and for me to be told I\u2019ve gotta stop doing satire? I\u2019m not gonna dumb down this program. One of the things I\u2019ve always had and utilize every day on this microphone is a profound respect for this audience. I never talk down. I don\u2019t assume that you don\u2019t know anything. I don\u2019t assume you can\u2019t understand anything. If I can understand it, you certainly can as long as you\u2019ve got me explaining it to you. <\/p>\n

I know some people are never gonna get satire. That\u2019s the point of it. Folks, the real fun in satire is the irritation that takes place. The real fun much satire is pulling it over on somebody. The parodies, the satire, I absolutely love it. We don\u2019t dumb down here; we smarten up. But I don\u2019t take any of this stuff personally anymore. You can\u2019t. It used to bother me a long, long time ago. I say “talent on loan from God,” and people actually think I am telling other people that I think I am God. <\/p>\n

Larry in Clearwater, Florida. Hi, and welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Major dittos, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure and an honor to finally be speaking with you. I\u2019ve been a longtime listener.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: And before going on my comment on the president\u2019s speech earlier, I\u2019d just like to pretty much talk about what you just talked about right now, that people don\u2019t understand the way you portray yourself. I listen to you a lot at work, I\u2019ve got the radio on and people come in and they say, “Who you listening to?” “Rush Limbaugh,” and the first words out of their mouth, “He\u2019s an idiot,” or something like that, and I always ask why, and they can never tell me. It\u2019s always name-calling. They can\u2019t articulate a stance —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Because they don\u2019t listen. They just have heard me described and they take comfort in that. They don\u2019t want to know. They really wouldn\u2019t dare listen because they don\u2019t want their little worldview shocked.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. And they always accuse me of just being blind and following when in reality they\u2019re the ones that are blind and mindlessly following —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and brainwashed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s entirely correct.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is the media. I can say that as a victim or kind of a victim myself for lack of a better description. As a child for the longest time I thought I was a Democrat because all the television I used to watch, shows like Family Ties which has strong liberal, you know, Republicans are just nothing but evil, money grubbing, you know, they like to kill baby seals and all that stuff and for the longest time I bought into that, until I took a government class and, you know, they give you little questions, you know, about issues, and I realized that I\u2019m an evil Republican. And it\u2019s amazing how much, the subliminal messages going through —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Most people are sheep. Most people are not independent thinkers. This is why indoctrination in the school system works. You are probably somewhat unique in that you came to a realization on your own that what you thought you were, you weren\u2019t. And you have the courage to admit it to yourself, which I\u2019m sure kind of threw your world upside down for a while, because you had a lifetime belief that you now say to yourself, “Gosh, I\u2019ve been wrong,” and nobody wants to be wrong. So you\u2019re pretty rare in that regard. <\/p>\n

The dirty little secret, folks, and you\u2019re not gonna understand this. I don\u2019t want everybody understanding me. That\u2019s right. There wouldn\u2019t be a lot of fun in that. Now, I don\u2019t want to be misunderstood by a vast majority of people. But I don\u2019t want everybody, \u2019cause there\u2019s a lot of put-on here, Snerdley. You know, thank God there are people who get the parody and who are entertained by it. For example, one of the greatest lessons in this that I can offer happened within the last two weeks. <\/p>\n

Barack Obama single-handedly killed Osama Bin Laden. I\u2019m listening to the speech on that Sunday night where Obama, I, me, my 35 or 45 times. His plan. I\u2019m watching the media reports, only Obama thought of every contingency. The military guys in the room were not smart enough to think of all the contingencies. Only Obama was able, only Obama knew the pitfalls of every choice. Only Obama knew we only had one shot at this. They wanted everybody to believe this. So I start the program the next day saying it pretty much just like I said it to you just now. To me it is self-evident that it\u2019s ridiculous. It is self-evident that that is pure sophistry, that a guy who doesn\u2019t know the butt end of a gun is the only guy in a room of five-star, four-star military people and top drawer intel people to know how to run an operation at a safe house in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s what they were telling us to believe, so I decided to go right along with it, and I made sure that my voice was as wet with dripping sarcasm as I could make it, and then the cherry on the top, the icing on the cake, the hand-dipped chocolate on top, the Shari\u2019s Berries, I said, “Thank God for President Obama.” And if you remember, everybody in the mainstream for about ten minutes believed it. “My God, even Limbaugh realizes, even Limbaugh said, ‘Thank God for Obama.'” They bought it. I was dripping wet with sarcasm. So the question is, “Okay, why did they believe it?” They have to know intellectually that I\u2019m opposed to Obama on everything, but yet somehow… the reason is they wanted to. They want everybody to think of Obama the way they do. And so all I had to do was use the words. It didn\u2019t matter my tone. It didn\u2019t matter my attitude, just the words. Oh, yeah. <\/p>\n

And when I really doubled down on gutsy, \u2019cause that was their chosen word to describe what Obama did, they bought it. They bought it because they wanted to. All these things I incorporate, I use when planning various ways to treat various discussions, subjects, and topics and so forth. And so, folks, it\u2019s fun. When I say I don\u2019t want everybody understanding me, like Snerdley cocked his head at me like a curious little puppy in there, “What do you mean by that?” I loved the fact that the media bought it for a half day. It\u2019s fun. <\/p>\n

In the third hour of the program the first people to get that they\u2019d been had were people at TheHill.com. Took \u2019em two hours, and there was somebody else who called H.R., I forget, some other website. “You know, I\u2019m reading here what Limbaugh said, but this doesn\u2019t sound right. I need to hear this.” So we made the audio clip available to this reporter, and once he heard it, he got it, and he started chastising his brethren for falling for it. But they fell for it \u2019cause they wanted to. They wanted everybody to think the same way that they did. <\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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