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RUSH: Greetings and welcome, ladies and gentlemen. It\u2019s the award-winning, thrill-packed, ever-exciting, increasingly popular, growing-by-leaps-and-bounds Rush Limbaugh program, where nearly as many Americans consider me to be a journalist as they do Bob Woodward. Did you see this yesterday in the Washington Post today and the AP? Here\u2019s the telephone number, by the way, 800-282-2882, the e-mail address Rush@eibnet.com<\/a>. So I\u2019m sitting here yesterday afternoon minding my own business and bothering nobody, and I get this e-mail from the PR people, and they say that our old buddy Will Lester at the Associated Press wants a comment on this latest Annenberg survey that shows 27% of the people in America consider me a journalist; 55% don\u2019t, and something like 17% don\u2019t know. And 30% think Bob Woodward is, and 55% don\u2019t know, and 17% think he\u2019s not or what have you. They wanted my comments on this, and then Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post sent me an e-mail shortly after and wanted my comments on this. They both gave me about a half hour to react to it if I wanted to react to it. I thought, “Well…” I was conflicted, I was really conflicted, I mean, I\u2019m not a journalist. <\/line> I\u2019ve never pretended to be a journalist. For one thing I laugh. For one thing I enjoy life. You know, I\u2019m not dour, I\u2019m not filled with doom and gloom, I\u2019m not a pessimist, I don\u2019t dislike the country, and I don\u2019t suspect my country\u2019s guilty every time there\u2019s some sort of international conflict. I\u2019m not a journalist. But I am America\u2019s anchorman. I am America\u2019s anchorman and for nearly 17 years I\u2019ve been doing play-by-play of the news here. So I wrote them that, I said, “I\u2019m not surprised, I\u2019m America\u2019s anchorman, I\u2019ve been doing play-by-play of the news for 17 years and I think this is just further evidence that the monopoly-like existence of the old media is finished.” And Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who is the Dean of the Annenberg School, runs this division, said that there\u2019s a huge disconnect out there between what the American people consider a journalist to be and what journalists consider a journalist to be. I said that\u2019s right, and I said I think the journalists, the mainstream media ought to really heed her warnings and try to understand how the viewers and readers of their work see them these days. But to be considered a journalist, you know, I never wanted to be a journalist. I\u2019m an advocate. I\u2019m a commentator. I mean, I do so much more than just journalism. I do tell people things they don\u2019t know. I mean, that is the strict definition of a journalist. I even looked it up in the dictionary, just to be sure — you never know what the dictionary definition of a term is going to be these days — and it said: somebody who writes news for broadcast on radio or TV. So the broadcasters themselves are not journalists. The people who write it are, so the people who put the TelePromTer together for the evening news anchors are the journalists. Well, that\u2019s according to the dictionary definition. But anyway, you can count on the fact that our buddies in journalism (interruption) — no, it did include — people who write for newspapers are automatically included, but it said people who write for radio and TV broadcasts. It didn\u2019t say broadcasters are journalists, rather the people who write for them. But it was a foregone conclusion that reporters and so forth are journalists. <\/line>I just know the mainstream press is pulling its hair out over this. What really got them is that 40% said Bill O\u2019Reilly is a journalist and that\u2019s going to really T them off, especially when Woodward chimes in there with like 30% considering him a journalist and a whole bunch don\u2019t know and a whole bunch disagree, don\u2019t think that he is. Nevertheless that\u2019s out there. Drudge has linked to the Washington Post version of this, the Howard Kurtz story, and the AP\u2019s got it floating around on all their various links out there that you can find it in various newspaper sites and so forth.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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