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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is funny. We have one, two, three, four, five of them here from Hardball last night. Chris Matthews, the topic, Rush vs. Bush. He had one of the executives from Dead Air America on there and a former Bush 41 advisor, Ed Rogers. This is how Matthews opened the program last night.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: So why is a conservative president giving the popular Limbaugh the bum\u2019s rush? That\u2019s what Rush Limbaugh himself would like to know. But Bush\u2019s assault on his conservative base has ignited a firestorm on the right. The truth is they don\u2019t like this immigration bill that rewards crossing the border illegally and invites millions more illegal crossings by creating a wide new path to citizenship.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second, I did just the opposite. People wanted me to get the dander up with Bush, but I was a gentleman about this. I didn\u2019t take the bait. In fact, I said yesterday I don\u2019t think it was meant to be personal at all. But I did mention that the Drive-Bys were going to go bonkers because they love this. They love the conservative movement falling apart because they hate conservatism and that\u2019s what they think this represents, and Bush vs. Rush, ooh, they hate me, too, so this would be an ideal vehicle for them. All of this I predicted. Last night on Hardball, here we go. This is a tease by Matthews.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Bush versus Rush. Boy, that\u2019s an interesting one because I love to see Rush Limbaugh get a little angry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And there\u2019s this one.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Bush vs. Rush Limbaugh. What an interesting fight that\u2019s going to be. You never fight with a guy who\u2019s got a microphone.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They kept teasing it, kept promoting this upcoming segment. Bush vs. Rush. Then last night, this is Matthews and playing an audio sound bite from me.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Rush vs. Bush. Tuesday in Georgia this week, President Bush went on the attack to sell the immigration plan to his political right. I don\u2019t know. Some supporters, including Rush Limbaugh, didn\u2019t take kindly to the president\u2019s tone. Let\u2019s listen to him.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: It\u2019s disappointing to me. I\u2019m not going to hide that fact. That he may be attacking me doesn\u2019t bother me. What concerns me more about it — you can\u2019t take this kind of stuff personally. He didn\u2019t mention my name and I\u2019m not going to sit around here and start making assumptions. The thing that is most troublesome to me is that the words that he spoke yesterday were a criticism of the people who have stood by him through thick and thin when everyone\u2019s been trying to destroy him, be it on the National Guard story, take your pick, Rumsfeld, the entire war in Iraq, the whole weapons of mass destruction thing, people have stood by him, and because they trust him and believe him on those issues. They also did not want the Democrats to get away with taking him out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now the interview portion of the program.<\/p>\n

GREEN: Rush Limbaugh is really funny, and so is George Bush. Bush is probably scratching his head wondering why these opponents use such demagogic phrases as ‘amnesty.\u2019 It\u2019s not literally amnesty, as you know, because you have to pay a fine. One last point on Rush Limbaugh, I know exactly who he is, enormously talented; he gets higher ratings than Air America; he has ten million people listening. He has five to eight percent of America listening. Good for ratings —<\/p>\n

ROGERS: I sense jealousy.<\/p>\n

GREEN: — awful for politics. Eight percent doesn\u2019t win an election. Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant to someone who doesn\u2019t care about winning Republican primaries.<\/p>\n

ROGERS: If Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant, what is Air America?<\/p>\n

RUSH: If I\u2019m irrelevant, why was I the show last night? Why is this whole fake topic of Rush vs. Bush a big deal? First off, the voice you heard was Mark Green, who is the brother of the new owner of Dead Air America. He doesn\u2019t even know what he\u2019s talking about here. He said, ‘It\u2019s not literally amnesty, as you know, because you have to pay a fine.\u2019 No, you don\u2019t have pay a fine. That\u2019s unless you want citizenship. If you don\u2019t want to have citizenship, you just want to become legal, you don\u2019t pay a fine, Mark. No fine whatsoever. Also, my audience, 20 million, Mark, in a week, 12 million from beginning to end of each three-hour program, five million at any one time. I love these guys. They sit out there and they go on and on and on about how irrelevant I am, while at the same time making me relevant. <\/p>\n

This is a story from the DC Examiner, and the headline is juicy: ‘La Shawn Barber: Local liberals learning new lessons on ‘diversity\u2019 — While President Bush and pro-amnesty members of Congress are pushing an unpopular immigration ‘reform\u2019 bill that would bestow American citizenship on millions of people who have no regard for America\u2019s laws, liberal Democrats across the Washington region are increasingly complaining about overcrowded houses, noise, loitering and general public nuisance — all caused by illegal aliens. … Now that illegal aliens have migrated to their neighborhoods, such liberals have become pro-enforcement all of a sudden. … It\u2019s happening to them, and they are singing a different tune. It turns out that liberals in half-a-million-dollar houses don\u2019t like living next door to a single-family house filled to the brim with illegal aliens who park on the front lawn, throw trash everywhere and urinate outside.\u2019 Why not, liberals? What about diversity? (Laughing.) This proves my point. The elites and the liberals who are all for this are convinced it\u2019s never going to touch them. But it is touching. Hey, Virginia is becoming a problem state as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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