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RUSH: This is Norman in New Briton, Connecticut. Norman, nice to have you on the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. I just want to say I saw you last night, and you were great. You\u2019re just a great American.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But what I wanted to say was, two years ago, same time — same time presidential election — Michael Moore made that movie Fahrenheit 9\/11.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Now, he has a right to say what he wants to say, because we\u2019re all protected under the Constitution, but the Democrats, what they did was they embraced him. They made him the superstar, the rock star. That was his title: the rock star of the DNC convention.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. They totally embraced it, they went to his premieres. He sat at the right hand of Jimmy Carter almighty at the Democratic National Convention, and the movie was a fraud, but it worked. It ginned up a bunch of anger among the Democrats. It was propaganda, but it worked just like the attack on Bush and Rove over Valerie Plame. It worked. It was all lies, total lies.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Everything was a lie. But I don\u2019t understand their outlook. I mean, now they want — to me, freedom of speech is freedom of speech.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, not when they are being criticized. These people are Stalinists. I am trying to explain this. They know that whoever controls the media, controls power. That\u2019s what they know, and this somehow slipped under their radar. You know, if Fox were doing this, they wouldn\u2019t care. Well, they\u2019d care. They\u2019d care. I take that back. But it\u2019s ABC. That just can\u2019t happen at Peter Jennings\u2019 network! How can this possibly be happening? The problem with the Democrats is, they can\u2019t stand the truth being illustrated about them. They can\u2019t stand the light of truth, folks. That\u2019s why many covers of the Limbaugh Letter<\/a> have featured the Democrats as mice and rats hemmed into a corner with a bunch of light shining on them and no place for them to go. That\u2019s what this is. <\/p>\n

Five years after the fact they\u2019re still trying to control things. Intimidating an American corporation — and, of course, what\u2019s new about that? They\u2019ve been doing this to Wal-Mart for how long? They\u2019ve been doing this to Big Oil for how long? This is who they are. I know you think this is simplistic, but I\u2019m speaking to you now psychologically. It\u2019s all rooted in their entitlement attitude to power. It is theirs! Especially since FDR and the Kennedys, it\u2019s theirs! They own it! That\u2019s what they\u2019re born to. They are born to go to Harvard and Yale and Princeton and wherever else, the Kennedy school. They are born to be groomed to lead. They are born to be elected. And when the people don\u2019t cooperate, well, there\u2019s hell to pay.<\/p>\n

Voting machines! Hanging chads! It\u2019s never their fault. I don\u2019t want to review all this but, folks, they had a monopoly. They ran the show for 50 years and they don\u2019t anymore, and they can\u2019t come to grips with it and they\u2019re lashing out at anybody who has usurped some of their power. The fact that ABC — the fact that this movie even got made? There\u2019s one way to look at this that nobody is right now, but this is one hell of a step forward that the movie even got made at ABC. I mean, this is stunning to me. I\u2019m outraged by the Stalinist attempt to cause it to be edited down to where it doesn\u2019t mean anything, or to be canceled, but it\u2019s an amazing, amazing thing. It\u2019s another event in a long series of events over a long period of time that will be required to continue to wrest more and more power away from these people. <\/line>The problem is that there are setbacks of people go, “Oh, what\u2019s this? It\u2019s not worth it. Every time we win we lose. Two steps back every time we take one forward.” That\u2019s not the case. (interruption) Why are you frowning in there, Snerdley? How can you possibly disagree with anything I just said? How can it be? How? Just tell me how you can possibly disagree. I am stunned. I have just been profound and brilliant. I have offered a new insight into something people have been talking about for a week, and you\u2019re going, “Hmm, hmm, hmm.” How could you tell the 9\/11 story?<\/line>You could tell it the way Michael Moore did. ABC could come up with their own classy version of it, if they wanted to. The fact that they took a script that was as close to accurate historically as anything you\u2019ve ever seen, is stunning. We\u2019re hearing gossip out there. It\u2019s nothing you can hang your hat on. Mr. Iger is livid about it according to Variety — I mean livid, and thinking about pulling it. ABC executives are still pondering whether or not to pull this thing. One of the things that would make it easier to pull it is they\u2019re not running any commercials in it anyway. They never had scheduled commercials in it. So they don\u2019t have to worry about advertiser defections. That\u2019s a big part. If there were advertising in this, it would be a different story because advertisers don\u2019t want controversy, supposedly. <\/line>I think they could probably find a whole bunch of people that would love to be sponsors of this thing today if they wanted to go out and sell it. But they\u2019re going to run it without spots, so they don\u2019t have that controversy. If they pull this, if they do that, folks, the repercussions will be felt by them for a long, long time. To buckle to pressure from a former president and his hacks, Sandy Burglar, who himself pleaded guilty to a crime in all of this in the aftermath — and I\u2019ll tell you what. I\u2019m going to tell you what\u2019s going to happen if they do pull it. I know that there have to be tons of review copies out there. There just are, and if I know the Internet, the uncut, real version will be out there, regardless what ABC does. So count on seeing this anyway, folks. <\/line><\/p>\n

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