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RUSH: To Leslie in Seattle. Glad you called. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, bless you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to call and say that I just listened to Barbara Walters spiel on and spew on about the president\u2019s motorcade that was outside of her street, on the way to her house. She couldn\u2019t cross the street. The police would not let her cross, and she said to the policeman, ‘Don\u2019t you know who I am?\u2019 and then she said —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait! Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you saying she told this story?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. She did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She admitted that? Wait a second. Wait, wait, wait! Where did she tell this? Give me as short an answer as you can and we\u2019ll get back to your story.<\/p>\n

CALLER: She told it on The View this morning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She was on The View this morning and she was upset that the president\u2019s motorcade had her street blocked off and the cops wouldn\u2019t let her cross the street, and she actually said on The View, she went to the cops and said, ‘Do you know who I am?\u2019 <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. She said there were two female policemen monitoring that portion of the motorcade, or the barricade, and then she says — with her eyes rolling at the top of her little head (and I say ‘little\u2019 not by accident), she says — ‘He\u2019s not a king. He\u2019s the president.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, look, I can believe that she\u2019d be upset by it. Most people in New York are when this happens. Clinton shut this place down. He was coming up here all the time. Clinton would shut this place down for block after block after block, and these —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — people like Barbara Walters never complained. This is just about Bush. I can\u2019t believe she would actually say, though —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — on the television that she went up to a couple of female cops, ‘Do you know who I am?\u2019 Are you sure about this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: She said it, Rush. I was so mad that I started dialing your number and I couldn\u2019t dial because my finger was shaking. This is the first time I\u2019ve ever called a radio show in my life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we\u2019re honored you chose this one, and we understand why. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (Giggles.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: But I just can\u2019t believe she would admit that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what? I think there\u2019s a lot of hormones flying all over the place over there at The View. That\u2019s got to be, when you think about it, that\u2019s got to be like… (pause) I\u2019ve got a description, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll share it with you. No, I just won\u2019t. You walk into that place every day, it\u2019s gotta be every nightmare you have ever had about women or a relationship going bad. To walk into that infestation of liberalism, stupidity and ignorance every day and have to defend it and prop it up, if you\u2019re Barbara Walters the queen bee over there, with Rosie, who knows, complaining about the flavored dog biscuits they put on the floor for her in the dressing room — it\u2019s got to be just an absolute nightmare. That show is… It\u2019s indescribable to me. The amount of genuine ignorance<\/emphasize>! I mean, everybody\u2019s entitled to their opinion, of course, but… The idiots just got a break in Columbus — and, by the way, what\u2019s the difference between an idiot and a liberal? They\u2019re just idiots over there. They\u2019re idiots, and Barbara Walters?<\/p>\n

You know, she has at least a great reputation as a journalist and a woman of distinction, refinement and character — and she\u2019s thrown herself in with that lot over there, and she\u2019s been propping up Rosie for so long, I just… Something\u2019s happening. I can\u2019t believe it. Folks, I know Barbara Walters. I\u2019ve been to a couple of her parties. (I should tell you about one, one time. I ended up singing ‘Ain\u2019t Got No Home\u2019 as a Christmas carol, and I haven\u2019t been invited back since.) To come out and admit that you walked up to a cop? That\u2019s generally a kind of comment that a pedestrian would hear and call Page Six with, and it would be on Page Six that Barbara Walters was up strutting her stuff and asking cops, ‘Do you know who I am?\u2019 and then she would be denying it. Here she is admitting it on The View? I\u2019m telling you, something isn\u2019t right over there, and it hasn\u2019t been for the longest time. I am still unsure. I\u2019m going to withhold \u2019til I actually hear this myself, because I cannot — unless she was trying to be funny, you know, like I do — I\u2019ve gotta hear this myself, but it\u2019s important to know here how the viewer watching this show interpreted this. Anyway, there\u2019s a whole lot of reputations on that show just spiraling down like a corkscrew. I\u2019ll stop with that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, learn to do what I have learned to do over many, many years, and that is trust me. Trust my instincts. Trust me. I am still amazed after 18-1\/2 years here that people still call here to disagree with me about things, but it happens. But you\u2019re going to have to trust me. I knew that Barbara Walters did not say what a viewer to The View thought she said. (This happens a lot, by the way.) We have the sound bite in question here. Barbara Walters telling this story…<\/p>\n

WALTERS: I, today, am not crazy about President George Bush. I have very personal reasons. So! I am walking home at the end of the day, it\u2019s like quarter of seven, and I\u2019m — I\u2019m walking from the office — West Side, East Side –with Monica, who is my wonderful assistant. So, we get to the West Side. I can\u2019t cross the street! I mean, here\u2019s — here\u2019s one side; here\u2019s the other. I literally cannot cross the street. There are barricades. There are people saying, two very nice policewomen say, ‘You cannot cross the street.\u2019 I can\u2019t cross the street!<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: Wait. Did they recognize you?<\/p>\n

WALTERS: Yes.<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: They said, ‘Barbara Walters, you can\u2019t cross the street?\u2019<\/p>\n

WALTERS: Yes! You and the others, stand behind the barricade. That was too much! I said, ‘I will obey you, but I\u2019m not standing be — who\u2019s coming?\u2019 ‘The president.\u2019 ‘Where\u2019s his car?\u2019 ‘He\u2019s coming any minute.\u2019 Fifteen minutes later, as I\u2019m standing there, I can see down the — there\u2019s no car. There\u2019s no nothing. We still cannot cross the street. So finally one person crosses, another person — and then we cross the street. He is a president. He is not a king.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, everything about the story was true except Barbara did not say she went up there and told the cops, ‘Do you know who I am?\u2019 It was Rosie O\u2019Donnell who said, ‘Did they know who you were? Did they recognize you?\u2019 Now, when you hear this story, frankly, she\u2019s got a point. The motorcade is not there. It\u2019s nowhere near there. They were keeping people from crossing the street for 15 minutes when nothing was headed their way. Now, I know it\u2019s homeland security and 9\/11 and all of that, but you gotta trust me. I just knew she wouldn\u2019t say this. You have to trust my instincts on these kinds of things, folks. It would have been bad if she had said that, and if she admitted it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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