{"id":230590,"date":"2017-04-21T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=230590"},"modified":"2017-04-24T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:23:09","slug":"its-open-line-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/21\/its-open-line-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Open Line Friday: The Loser Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882. Feel free, whatever you want to talk about. If you\u2019ve got questions, if you have comments about things not in the news, this is — I\u2019ll tell you how this started.<\/p>\n

I want you to know how Open Line Friday started. When this program began we didn\u2019t take very many phone calls at all. It was a new program. It was under the microscope of analysis \u2019cause it was unlike anything else. There were no guests. There were no authors. There were no people on here pushing anything. It was just me and the things I care about, was passionate about, thought were funny, for three hours each and every day.<\/p>\n

\"\"And in the early stages, many of the calls were about me. Many of the calls expressing love and adoration, some expressing anger and outright displeasure, how can somebody with such an ego like you be hosting a radio show, \u2019cause it was new. And I began to realize that there were fewer and fewer people calling to talk about issues.<\/p>\n

So I used Open Line Friday to let people talk about something besides me. And that\u2019s how it began. And it is a tradition unlike any other. We have held on to it and we offer it each Friday as an opportunity for you to talk about anything \u2019cause Monday through Thursday the program\u2019s tightly screened. You have to talk about things I care about, or we ask you to call back Friday. That\u2019s what it\u2019s for.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, you say, “What was the Loser Update?” Take a brief break, and I\u2019ll explain it to you when we come back. Don\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n

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\"\"RUSH: Somebody bringing in bumper tunes from home here. Quick, what\u2019s the year of this? (interruption) You\u2019re close. It\u2019s \u201965. Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, Wooly Bully, somehow finding its way into the bumper rotation here. Okay. We go back to 1988. It was George H. W. Bush seeking the presidency. Well, what he was say was Ronald\u2019s third term, and the Democrat opponent was Michael Dukakis — the boring, tiny governor of Massachusetts — whose big claim to fame was telling people how much he loved “process.”<\/p>\n

There was a debate, and it was anchored by then-news anchor — primetime news anchor — Bernard Shaw, who asked Dukakis what would happen if his wife got raped and he was a witness to it. Does he think that the death penalty or severe penalty…? Dukakis gave an answer that was devoid of any empathy, any emotional connect. (paraphrased) “Well, Bernard, when we talk about rape, we must make sure that we advance as much evidence we can to understand that the allegations against the rapists are fully, fully explored and understood. If people could…”<\/p>\n