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RUSH: I do. I think I\u2019m the one that needs Secret Service protection. All this talk about Obama and presidential candidates, for crying out loud, I\u2019m the one that needs it. You have the UK Guardian<\/a> and the BCC<\/a> misreporting all the ‘Barack the Magic Negro\u2019 song stuff. Then in Baltimore today, our 50,000-watt, flame-thrower radio station there, WCBM<\/a>, puts billboards up of me all over town. One of them was defaced today. Somebody went in there, and poured paint all over the lower half of my face. A guy named Robert Murrow, a spokesman for the Baltimore Department of Public Works, saw the vandalized billboard as he\u2019s driving into work this morning on I-83, and he called the Baltimore Sun. He called the newspaper to report it! So the newspaper sends a photographer out. They get pictures of it. They\u2019ve been running a story. This guy\u2019s boss at the Department of Public Works has ‘chastised\u2019 Mr. Murrow for ‘endorsing vandalism,\u2019 because Murrow said it did his heart good. Looks great. ‘They threw gobs of paint on Limbaugh\u2019s face. It looks great. Did my heart good,\u2019 to see the vandalized billboard. <\/p>\n

So the guy\u2019s boss said (paraphrased), ‘Hey, big problem here. You can\u2019t go out there and endorse vandalism,\u2019 like this guy did. He has been spoken to about it. I\u2019m waiting for all the cable news networks. They\u2019re probably, at this moment, sending video crews to Baltimore, and there are going to be round table discussions later on, ‘What\u2019s happening to the civility in our society?\u2019 I will be blamed for defacing my own billboard. Whoever did it will be made a hero. (Laughing) You just know that they\u2019re scrambling now to get video of this before the billboard is fixed. The general manager of WCBM, Bob Pettit, said they\u2019ll fix it this afternoon or sometime today. He said, ‘It\u2019s tough to be number one. People deface billboards all the time.\u2019 That\u2019s true, but it doesn\u2019t make the news when it happens. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Hang on. I just got a great e-mail here and I gotta print this out. I gotta read it out to you. Hang on just a second. Greetings my friends, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution and half my brain tied behind my back still in order to make it fair. This is the EIB Network. Our phone number if you want to be on the program. 1-800-282-2882. And the e-mail address rush@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Rather than go through the usual corporate channels I\u2019m going to make this on-air appeal to the management of our Baltimore affiliate WCBM. In case you\u2019re just joining us, you can see this on The Drudge Report. They have a billboard of me up on I-83 in Baltimore that\u2019s been defaced. Someone, under the cover of darkness, went over to the billboard and plastered the bottom half of my face with different colors of paint. The great e-mail suggests, ‘Don\u2019t touch it. Leave it alone. Just add one line: ‘Listen and see what the left doesn\u2019t want you to hear<\/emphasize>.\u2019 Leave the billboard defaced. Leave the paint up there. Add a little line: ‘Listen and see what the left doesn\u2019t want you to hear<\/emphasize>.” I think that\u2019s a great idea. I don\u2019t know. They said they were going to start fixing and repairing the billboard today and they may have already started. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s too late. But if it\u2019s not too late, you guys in Baltimore might want to think about that. It doesn\u2019t bother me, actually funny. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Speaking of this defaced billboard of me in Baltimore, it reminds me when I was in Sacramento at KFBK (and back when the television news operations out there were really solid, just as an aside). The station put a series of billboards up on me because, believe it or not, I was controversial then, too — and this billboard that I\u2019m going to describe for you won a local ad club award. There were two or three of them around town, and it was a picture of a car radio dial back in the \u201980s. Nothing was digital. Digital was just starting. So you had the AM dial and you had the five or six push buttons under it that you could push to change stations, and there was a hand with one finger ready to push a button, and it had our station — KFBK 1530<\/a> — denoted on the radio dial. <\/p>\n

The line was: ‘Wouldn\u2019t you just love to punch Rush Limbaugh?\u2019 Then the next billboard had tomatoes and it looked like eggs and stuff thrown at it, and the next billboard had even more of that kind of stuff. So we defaced our own billboards, just as a humorous marketing campaign. So that\u2019s why the idea — and I got this from the e-mail — hey, leave that billboard alone and add another line to it and say: ‘Listen to hear what the left doesn\u2019t want you to know,\u2019 is a good idea. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s too late. It\u2019s WCBM\u2019s billboard. They might want to clean it up. That was a performance art billboard. It was made to look like it had been defaced. It wasn\u2019t. It was painted. The paint and all that, the eggs, the rotten eggs and tomatoes and stuff, were thrown over my name. They didn\u2019t put my picture on the billboard. The local station didn\u2019t want me getting too popular because then they\u2019d really have to really pay me a lot of money. That\u2019s just how local radio is. I was stunned I got the billboards, frankly. Anyway, if you haven\u2019t done anything down there at WCBM, leave it alone. Just add a line to it: ‘Listen to see what the left doesn\u2019t want you to know.\u2019 Heh, heh, heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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