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RUSH: Now, normally, ladies and gentlemen, we wouldn\u2019t talk about things like this, but this is too good to ignore. The feud going on between Rosie O\u2019Donnell and Donald Trump over Trump\u2019s “second chance” for Tara Conner, Miss USA. This is what got it all started. This is Wednesday on the view, and this is what Rosie said about Trump.<\/line>O\u2019DONNELL: He annoys me on a multitude [sic] of levels. He\u2019s the moral authority? Left the first wife, had an affair. Left the second wife, had an affair, had kids both times, but he\u2019s the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America. Donald, sit and spin, my friend! I don\u2019t enjoy him. No. He had inherited a lot of money — wait a minute — and he\u2019s been bankrupt so many times where we didn\u2019t have to pay. He didn\u2019t pay off the people he owed. So get ready. This is going to be good. He\u2019s going to sue me, but he\u2019ll be bankrupt by that time, so I won\u2019t have to worry. I don\u2019t know. I just think that this man is like sort of one of those, you know, snake oil salesman in — in Little House on the Prairie.<\/line>RUSH: All right, you can say a lot of things that you want to say about Donald Trump but if you say he went bankrupt a number of times or that he inherited his money or that he\u2019s a snake oil salesman, if you take aim at Trump\u2019s reputation and image, he will come at you. I don\u2019t care who you are, he will come back at you, and last night on one of these entertainment shows (they\u2019re all a dime a dozen) we have a montage here of Trump responding to Rosie O\u2019Donnell.<\/line>TRUMP: Rosie O\u2019Donnell is disgusting, I mean, both inside and out. You take a look at her, she\u2019s a slob. She talks like a truck driver. She doesn\u2019t have her facts. She\u2019ll say anything that comes to her mind — and, you know, her show failed when it was a talk show. She failed on that. The ratings went very, very low and very bad, and she got essentially thrown off television. Her magazine was a total catastrophe. I never filed bankruptcy. I never went bankrupt. But she said I went bankrupt. So probably I\u2019ll sue her, because it would be fun. I\u2019d like to take some money out of her fat-ass pockets.<\/line>RUSH: Last night on the entertainment shows again, here\u2019s more of Trump.<\/line>TRUMP: Well, Rosie is a loser. Rosie\u2019s been a loser for a long time. Her magazine failed. She got sued. She folded up like a tent. It was too bad. Rosie is somebody out of control who really just doesn\u2019t have it, and she ought to be careful because I\u2019ll send one of my friends to pick up her girlfriend, and I think it would be very easy.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: He said (laughing) and then he went on and intimidated that if Rosie were honest she would love to spend some time with Miss USA. He said that this morning on Fox. So Rosie responded on The View this morning.<\/line>O\u2019DONNELL: Look who\u2019s here today. Kelly! I was afraid to leave her home in case somebody with a combover came and stole her from me. So, yeah, she\u2019s here now.<\/line>RUSH: So who do you like in this, folks? Who do you like in this? (laughing) I love Trump in this one. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>“I\u2019ll send somebody over to steal her girlfriend. I\u2019m sure it wouldn\u2019t be hard.” (Laughing.) Greetings and welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. We are here, Rush Limbaugh, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis. All right, to the phones, to Smithtown, Long Island. This is Marlene, and I\u2019m glad you waited. Hello.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s Marlene. I wanted to get your spin on the Rosie O\u2019Donnell situation. I\u2019m wondering if this is a whole big publicity stunt on her behalf.<\/line>RUSH: Well, you can never rule that out. Everybody in media does things for PR and spin. I don\u2019t. I\u2019ve made a point not to, but everybody does. Trump does. Rosie does. I mean, everybody does. Trump even said today the only thing he graduates about this is that he\u2019s calling attention to this “stupid show,” The View, which he called the “stupid show.” <\/line>CALLER: Uh-huh.<\/line>RUSH: He said (paraphrased), “I know I\u2019m doing this, but the show is going to stink. It\u2019s so bad with Rosie on it. She\u2019s destroyed the show. It won\u2019t take long. No matter how much we build it up, this show is finished. I can\u2019t believe Barbara Walters would purposely wreck her own show with this truck driver broad that she\u2019s brought in there to host,” blah, blah. So he knows that he\u2019s generating publicity for her.<\/line>CALLER: Right, right. Do you think it\u2019s like a publicity conspiracy?<\/line>RUSH: No! No, no, no, no, no. It\u2019s a way of life for people in the media. The real interesting thing to me is, as Rosie continues to be the focus of the show, what\u2019s going to happen to the other hosts? I mean, there\u2019s other woman on this show. You gotta understand what The View is. You\u2019ve got Elisabeth Hasselbeck who (sigh) I don\u2019t think…<\/line>CALLER: Not a journalist.<\/line>RUSH: Wait a minute. What about a journalist?<\/line>CALLER: She came from Survivor. <\/line>RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Her husband is backup quarterback for the New York Giants.<\/line>CALLER: Okay.<\/line>RUSH: Tim Hasselbeck who is the brother of Matt Hasselbeck, the quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks. They\u2019re both the sons of Don Hasselbeck, former tight end for the New England Patriots, and they live in Boston.<\/line>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: But she\u2019s a lone conservative. You\u2019ve got Joy Behar<\/a> who is no queen, and then you\u2019ve got whoever the guest host is when Barbara Walters isn\u2019t there. But my point is, with Rosie hogging (no pun intended) all of the PR and the attention of this thing, these other babes on this show might end up getting a little envious and resentful of that.<\/line>CALLER: Well, what bothers me is Miss USA, deserves another chance. We all make mistakes, and for Rosie O\u2019Donnell to come on top of Donald Trump and say, “You\u2019re a snake oil salesman,” I mean, this girl deserves another chance. You know, she\u2019s not a politician. She\u2019s not running the United States. <\/line>RUSH: That\u2019s not even what this is about anymore. Rosie got this started because she started insulting Trump saying: Who are you to be talking about who deserves second chances? Look at you! You\u2019re no moral arbiter. This, in a way, this is kind of interesting. In the past couple of days on this program we\u2019ve been talking about the passive American society, which is unwilling to say that anything anybody does is wrong, especially if they\u2019re “sorry” about it, or if they have a really good excuse, because we\u2019ve all been told for years now, part of political correctness, to focus on the imperfections of people, because “everybody has them.” Nobody\u2019s perfect, and therefore nobody is allowed to pass judgment on others, and it has been to liberals like Rosie O\u2019Donnell who have been responsible for this kind of attitude, and it\u2019s led to a blurring of the lines: right and wrong, good and bad, good and evil.<\/line><\/line>There\u2019s no white and black anymore. It\u2019s a whole bunch of nuanced gray out there, and since everybody is a sinner and since everybody is imperfect, then nobody can pass judgment on anybody. If you haven\u2019t been in the military, you can\u2019t talk about the war in Iraq! If you had a chance to serve and you didn\u2019t go, you have to shut up. A woman who… What did she do? Aborted her mother, I don\u2019t know, her daughter, whatever. “Until you\u2019ve been in my shoes you can\u2019t comment on what I did!” That was in London. So there\u2019s been this building movement that nobody is allowed to pass judgment on anybody else. Trump, by the way, executed that flawlessly. (Trump impression) “When I talked with Tara, I discovered a good person! Troubled, very troubled, but good person, and Tara…” whatever. So he gave her a second chance. What\u2019s being missed here is it\u2019s his company!<\/line>The Miss USA pageant is his business, and if he wants to give anybody a second chance in it, he can. He just went out and did it in public because Miss USA is public and so forth. Rosie is not being a good liberal on this one. Rosie came out and said, “Who are you to be passing moral judgment? Why, you\u2019re flawed. Who are you to be talking about giving second chances?” If Rosie were being a true liberal, she should have loved this babe getting a second chance because all she did was act human. “We all make mistakes.” You said it yourself, Marlene, when we went to the phone call with you. I\u2019m not trying to make too much of this, but back to your original point. It\u2019s one of the things that, frankly, kind of bothers me. I may get a little inside baseball on you here, but the lack of substance and genuineness among all kinds of media people from Hollywood actors down to reporters, TV and radio talk show hosts.<\/line><\/p>\n

You would not believe, folks, the number of people whose lives are lived according to what might be said about them or what could be said about them. You would not believe the relationships that people forge just so as to create a positive media image. I guess what I\u2019m saying is there\u2019s so much phoniness out there that gets passed off as genuine. I\u2019m not going to name any names here but I could give you two or three radio shows, for example, that have literally no audience to speak of. They are, quote, unquote, “national shows,” and they may be in 30 markets, and yet they\u2019re touted as the most important and relevant and big-time radio shows out there, and it\u2019s all because it has been spun that way by the guests who appear on these shows. Speaking for myself, when I moved to New York in 1988, I had a goal. I wanted to be the most listened to guy on the radio. <\/line>Really! I didn\u2019t want it “said” that I was. I wanted it to be, because I believe that if you\u2019re in radio that you have to connect with the audience. The audience is what matters. I\u2019m not trying to impress other media people. I\u2019m not doing this for them so that they\u2019ll say it\u2019s a great show. I\u2019m trying to do a great show so that you will listen to it forever and ever and ever and never go away, and you\u2019ll listen to it in such large numbers that I will be able to charge confiscatory advertising rates to my advertisers, and all of that has happened. Actually our fees and rates are very reasonable (laughs), but the amount of phoniness and the amount of activity that is engaged in to create an image that is not based on substance, is profound. So when you ask me, “Is this a PR conspiracy?” I don\u2019t think Rosie and The Donald got together and said, “Hey, let\u2019s put on this act,” because Trump is sensitive as hell when you attack his reputation and his image as a top-flight, leading businessman, self-made and all that. <\/line>He\u2019s not going to sit back and let it slide. In Rosie\u2019s case, hell, I don\u2019t know, folks. I think most people are in love with this publicity. You know the old phrase: “It doesn\u2019t matter what they say, as long as they continue to spell the name right.” I forget who said that, Barnum or Bailey (laughing), but for the most part in this oddball, kooky culture that we have today, that\u2019s true! If used to not be as much as it is it is today. So I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a giant conspiracy, but Rosie is loving every minute of it, I\u2019ll guarantee you that. I don\u2019t know what Barbara Walters. You know, Barbara Walters has this regal, almost royal image as a journalist, and this is her show that\u2019s being reduced to a truck stop every morning. These women are broads. I mean, most of them on the show are just broads, and I think this show is actually the worst thing could have happened to the feminists because it\u2019s portraying women as nothing but a bunch of chatty, loud-mouthed, gossiping you-know-whats that never shut up, and they\u2019re not likable. They\u2019re mean as they can be. Hello feminism!<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>Is that right? Mr. Snerdley informs me we have had five calls in the last few minutes from truckers complaining that the Donald and I are disparaging truckers by assuming Rosie O\u2019Donnell is one and that they expect better. They have a point. They have a point. You know, I don\u2019t often apologize for things and I cannot apologize for Trump, but I occasion I will apologize. I hadn\u2019t even thought of that, and I don\u2019t like offending people, especially truckers. Where would we be in this country without truckers? We could get along without Rosie O\u2019Donnell, but we couldn\u2019t get along without truckers. They have a point. There is no question about it.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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