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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I appeared this morning on my Sacramento affiliate, my adopted hometown and radio station that launched me to where I am now, KFBK AM1530<\/a>. I did about 17 minutes there talking about this…this… I don\u2019t know what this is, other than just sheer incompetence, but what I want to say about this flap yesterday with the ‘Barack the Magic Negro\u2019 song and the television station in Sacramento, Channel 13, I\u2019m actually feeling sorry for these people today. It\u2019s been a day and they still can get nothing right. As I told the audience on KFBK this morning, I remember when I lived out there, local television news was huge and it was respected, and the people, the anchors and the reporters were all very well credentialed and it was must viewing. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s happened out there, but clearly the television news, at least on this particular station has gone south. It\u2019s breathtaking how incompetent these people are. They had a whole day yesterday to get this right, and they still don\u2019t have it right. Obviously they\u2019re on defense, and they\u2019re backpedaling and they\u2019re trying to suggest, ‘We\u2019re just starting a dialogue. We just saw this in the newspaper and we thought we\u2019d ask the question,\u2019 blah, blah, blah. They said that you have to pay to vote on my website, which you don\u2019t. They said that I got into this and attacked them. Folks, I didn\u2019t attack them yesterday. I destroyed them. But I was simply sitting here minding my own business, and, of course, I find out that they\u2019ve done this, this is my adopted hometown, and I know it\u2019s part of an ongoing campaign, and they\u2019re just little small time dupes that don\u2019t even know they\u2019re being used by this organized campaign, and they say I attacked them. They didn\u2019t attack me, oh, no, no, no, they were just starting dialogue. Then they said I was doing this for ratings. Like I need to waste my time on a local television station for ratings. ‘This is May sweeps week in radio,\u2019 they said. There is no sweeps week in radio. Every week we are rated in radio. Besides, everything I do is ratings. Why do you think my name is bandied about on every cable television show as often as possible? Why do you think authors put my name in the titles of their books? They\u2019re a bunch of parasites that couldn\u2019t sell their books without my name in the title. Everything I do, I am ratings. I am Rush Limbaugh. So it\u2019s become apparent that they see this as a glorious opportunity to call attention to themselves. I was asked by the two people on KFBK this morning, Kelly Brothers and Amy Lewis, said, ‘You think that they\u2019re dumb like foxes, doing all this for PR?\u2019 ‘Maybe,\u2019 I said. ‘I don\u2019t think they\u2019re dumb like foxes. I just they\u2019re pathetically incompetent. There\u2019s not even any journalism that\u2019s gone on here. Journalists investigate. They don\u2019t see something on Wikipedia and YouTube and assume that it\u2019s true and run with it, like these people did.\u2019 But the thing is, I don\u2019t know how anybody could believe any news story now ever again on Channel 13 Sacramento. If they want to attract idiots, and if they want to use this as a ratings benefit or bounce to attract idiots, there are plenty of them out there. If that\u2019s what they want to go for, more power to \u2019em. But I don\u2019t want to spend any more time on it than that. There\u2019s nothing more that can be said. Now, look. Snerdley is in there groaning. You know, I didn\u2019t get to half the stack yesterday, and I, by the way, am not going to be distracted by this small fry stuff out there from getting to the real meat of the matter in terms of the big-time news that is out there. So yeah, they wanted me to come on their show. There\u2019s no way. Why would I do that? Well, it depends — take some calls, depending on what the call — they said that we flooded their poll with my listeners. They played their video. It was their video that gave out their website for people. I didn\u2019t tell people to go vote on their stupid poll. That\u2019s another thing. We don\u2019t do activism here. We don\u2019t tell the audience what to do. This is the most informed and knowledgeable audience in radio, and it\u2019s the most loyal, and it\u2019s the deepest. They don\u2019t have to be told what to do. BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tim in San Marcos, California, I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing? RUSH: I\u2019m great, sir. Thank you. CALLER: I have two things. One is a bit of praise, and another is a little bone to pick with you. But first I want to mention, you know, you\u2019ve been using the phrase Drive-By Media for a long time. RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: I thought that incident yesterday with that little TV station was probably the perfect illustration of that term. RUSH: Yep. CALLER: It really opened my eyes. I thought, ‘Man, this is perfect because here they took a story that was two months old; they extrapolated this ridiculous premise such as him needing Secret Service protection as a result of that song, and then they tried to influence their own poll results by using phrases like, ‘What\u2019s going on? Does Rush want to keep his job?\u2019 or, ‘He\u2019s in really dangerous waters here,\u2019 and then they say, ‘But what do you think?\u2019 Well after they poison the well then they want your opinion.\u2019 RUSH: Right. CALLER: And so then they started reading e-mails that were either completely negative or were at best backhanded compliments. And I thought, you know, I can\u2019t help but imagine these people sitting around in their conference room at the office saying, ‘Hey, you know, let\u2019s go after Limbaugh today. We can call him a racist and then we\u2019ll act like we\u2019re real concerned for his career.\u2019 RUSH: That\u2019s not what happened though. Let me tell you very briefly what happened with these people. They all claim, by the way — now, on their air this morning — to be Rush babies. They all claim to have grown up listening to me, and that I\u2019m a good guy, and that I have a loyal audience and all this sort of stuff. One of guys says, ‘Look, I got into work at 3:15 in the morning and I see this newspaper story about this song, so I went on the Internet, and I heard the song, and I thought, ‘Whoa.\u2019 And I sit right next to a black guy, gosh, I thought about turning it down because I didn\u2019t want him to think I\u2019m a racist, and that\u2019s what led to our poll.\u2019 Their story was not about a poll <\/emphasize>anyway. They\u2019re just trying to cover it. But the truth of the matter is, this is a news organization that was totally unaware this song existed for two and a half months until they read a newspaper story on it sometime Sunday morning or Monday morning at 3:15. They didn\u2019t do any investigation. No research to find out, ‘What is this?\u2019 They accepted a video on YouTube as source authority. Everything about journalism that is wrong, these people did it. It is an example of the Drive-By Media. ‘Let\u2019s stir the pot out there today; this could be really, really good!\u2019 CALLER: Exactly. There was a guy yesterday who said, ‘It\u2019s more than just sloppy journalism.\u2019 He said, ‘These people purposely went after you.\u2019 And, you know, as I listened to the comments that they were making and this faux concern that they had in their voices of, oh, you know, as if it\u2019s like, ‘Poor Rush. He\u2019s going over the edge! Can we call him, find out what\u2019s going on?\u2019 I thought, ‘Stop the fakery. You people are doing exactly what you want, which is a hit piece.\u2019 RUSH: Right. And they could have called. They never did. CALLER: Yeah. Exactly. So, anyway, that was my praise. RUSH: What\u2019s the bone to pick? CALLER: Okay. Well, I called about six months ago, after the Michael Richards incident, the guy from Seinfeld? RUSH: Oh, yeah. CALLER: And, you know, he was being referred to as a racist at the time. RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: And I live here in San Diego, and we are routinely referred to as racists if we are against, for instance, 20 million people sneaking over the border —<\/line> RUSH: Yeah? CALLER: — and taking over the schools. RUSH: Yeah? CALLER: My kid yesterday tells me that he\u2019s constantly being called a ‘gringo\u2019 in school, being teased, and so I called up and I was tongue-in-cheek I was going to say, ‘Rush can you help me figure out whether or not I\u2019m a racist if I\u2019m opposed to such things?\u2019 And one of the things I asked Bo Snerdley, I said, for instance — RUSH: I\u2019ve got 30 seconds. If you can get it in.<\/line> CALLER: Okay. I said, ‘Am I a racist if I\u2019m against any group in which nine out of ten of them vote for the exact same party?\u2019 And he said, ‘Them, them? No. Sorry, we don\u2019t want that tone on the show.\u2019 And I thought, you know, you\u2019ve had Rita from Detroit on here so many times with her blue eyed devil rhetoric — RUSH: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But Rita… (Laughing). Do not compare yourself to Rita X. I\u2019m going to ask Snerdley. I\u2019ll get the details. Don\u2019t take that personally. Please don\u2019t take it that way. It was not meant that way at all.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I just got the most unbelievable note here from a friend of mine at KFBK Sacramento. I did a little radio interview there, 17 minutes this morning. It\u2019s our affiliate on the EIB Network, and it\u2019s of course the 50,000 watt blowtorch station that launched this show. It\u2019s 17 minutes talking about this flap with the local TV station out there. <\/p>\n

‘You may want to check out the CBS 13 website. Yesterday, they asked if they could have a camera crew here in our studio to tape Rush\u2019s appearance on KFBK this morning, and we agreed.\u2019 <\/p>\n

This is the first I knew that Channel 13 had a camera crew in the studio. Now, why get a camera crew in a radio studio to record a telephone interview? Well, the next line: ‘When they arrived, Chris Burrous, one of the three morons, was with them and wanted to go on and ambush you, and we said no. Now on their website, they\u2019re reporting that Chris Burrous\u2019 request to talk to you was denied and that you are gutless.\u2019 (Laughing.) This is juvenile. I didn\u2019t know they were there. I didn\u2019t know they had asked to be there. I knew they had asked me to go on their station, but I\u2019ll be damned if I\u2019m going to grace my presence on that television station out there. But they planned an ambush. Typical Drive-By Media. This is it, folks: false pretense, dishonest setup. This guy\u2019s a perfect candidate for 60 Minutes. I think he ought to send his r&eacute;sum&eacute; in to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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