{"id":248907,"date":"2017-09-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=248907"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:37:24","slug":"everyones-analyzing-my-hannity-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/09\/29\/everyones-analyzing-my-hannity-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"My Analysis of Myself on Hannity"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Cookie<\/a> has sent me — by the way, I\u2019m trying to break a habit. I don\u2019t really have the habit, but I\u2019ve noticed that I\u2019m on the way to getting it, so I\u2019m gonna break it right now, and everybody\u2019s doing it. Have you noticed, ask somebody a question or if they just say something without responding to the question, have you noticed how many people begin whatever they say with “so”? I caught myself doing that. I saw somebody being interviewed on TV. “What do you think of the new flat tax?” “So” — and I started doing it and I\u2019m gonna start breaking it now. I\u2019m not gonna do it.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, nothing wrong with it, but it\u2019s just I caught myself. It\u2019s kind of like “you know.” You know who uses “you know” more than anyone else uses “you know”? Hillary Clinton. Great to have you, folks. Rush Limbaugh — 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. It\u2019s Open Line Friday, and that means that anything you want to talk about is fair game. That\u2019s not how it works Monday through Thursday, but it is today. We have very few restrictions on callers. See, there\u2019s no First Amendment here, either. You can\u2019t say whatever you want, and nobody has to hear you say it. I am a benevolent dictator, of sorts. But that\u2019s what Friday\u2019s all about.<\/p>\n

\"\"Cookie has sent me the audio sound bite roster with the headline: “Time for you to analyze yourself on Hannity<\/a>.” She says, “You know, you play audio sound bites all day long from other people, and you analyze what you hear.” She said, “You need to analyze yourself.” And I\u2019m thinking, how self-indulgent can you get? Here I am playing audio sound bites of me from the Hannity interview last night and then commenting again on how brilliant it was. And now more about me. If that hasn\u2019t been enough of me for you, because there\u2019s gonna be more of me tonight on Hannity, let\u2019s replay me from Hannity last night while I tell you what I thought of me. (laughing)<\/p>\n

And Snerdley thinks it\u2019s a great idea. Well, maybe so. I\u2019m still pondering it. Still pondering it. There are some other reactions from people. (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know. According to the advance overnight ratings I\u2019m hearing about, it may be very few who did not. Snerdley just said, “Not everybody saw Hannity last night.” I understand that that\u2019s probably true. There are other people reacting. Newt was just over-the-top complimentary last night, but then dialed it back a little bit this morning. Not much. It\u2019s fine. Everything\u2019s okay. We got Bernie Goldberg in there and Mike Huckabee responding. I find it fascinating, like they ask these people, “So what do you think of what Rush just said there?” And you can see they\u2019re steaming, some of them.<\/p>\n

“Well, I\u2019ve been saying that for years. I\u2019ve been saying that for years. I\u2019ll be happy to repeat it to you again.” It\u2019s fun. Anyway, it was a great time yesterday, and I know there\u2019s another night coming tonight<\/a>. Probably gonna be some stuff from last night repeated. They\u2019re cutting it up. It\u2019s not being presented in the order it happened, which is fine, it\u2019s not a criticism. It just means it\u2019s harder for me to remember what has aired and what hasn\u2019t. We will get to that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Three months! Just three months — the appearance of that unity, the appearance of that work — the appearance of that effort could result in the Democrats being out of power for a generation. Just three months. More months would be better, but three months is all it would take.<\/p>\n

Right now, the perception is that the Republican establishment, primarily the Senate, doesn\u2019t want anything to do with Trump and doesn\u2019t want Trump to succeed. Speaking of that, folks, you know, I made that point on Hannity last night and I am just now being made aware of how that has caused a major eruption reaction out there. Apparently, people on left and right are being asked about it on Fox and various websites.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s interesting; it\u2019s true. The appearance is that the Republican establishment doesn\u2019t want Trump… We know they don\u2019t. They don\u2019t want any outsider to succeed. But that must have hit a nerve out there, because I\u2019m seeing more and more news stories on it featuring reaction. The media\u2019s gone to Congressman A and Senator B. “What do you think about what Rush said on Fox last night?” “That\u2019s the Senate. That\u2019s not us. No, no, no. That\u2019s not me. That\u2019s somebody else.” So they\u2019re disavowing it in certain quarters.<\/p>\n

Let me take a break. It\u2019s Open Line Friday. We\u2019ll come back, get started with calls — Snerdley, yes, I\u2019m gonna play the sound bites from last night. I\u2019m just establishing that the show is not all about me all the time.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna get to those and I\u2019ll analyze myself.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: To the audio sound bites. They\u2019ve been after me here on the staff to get to these, and I always keep putting it off. But we\u2019re gonna replay some of the sound bites from last night\u2019s interview on the Fox News Channel with Hannity at 9 o\u2019clock<\/a>. And this is right at the top. Hannity says, “I want to start with tax cuts. All the years you\u2019ve talked about it, Kennedy, Reagan, how it works. What do you think of this latest tax plan?”<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s good overall. I mean, there\u2019s some things about it \u2014 let\u2019s look at the elimination of the deduction state income tax. You know who\u2019s gonna hate that? California, Illinois, all these blue states, that\u2019s gonna cause a shortfall for them. Those taxpayers are not gonna like it. And if you look at the states with the highest state income tax rates, most of them are blue. But here\u2019s my basic problem with this. I keep hearing everybody say growth, growth. But the top rate probably isn\u2019t gonna come down or much at all. And that\u2019s where the growth is. Those are the people that hire. Those are the people that own small businesses. Those are the people that spend.<\/p>\n