RUSH: This is Vernon in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Welcome, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: This is quite an honor. Merry Christmas, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Same to you, sir. Appreciate it.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Thank you. Thank you. Rush, I\u2019ve been listening to you for some 25 years, and I\u2019m wondering if some of my perceptions of you are accurate or not. Not politically, but maybe more personally. For instance, you know, I think you\u2019re very, very generous except for maybe with your time, that you don\u2019t suffer fools well. Is that accurate?<\/p>\n
RUSH: You need to be a little bit more specific when you say I\u2019m not generous with my time. How would you know? In what context do you mean this? You mean with people on the phones?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, just by listening to you and trying to gather who you are personally, you know, maybe little stories that you\u2019ve told of interactions with people. I mean, you\u2019re very generous with your time in giving your talents to us on the radio, but, you know, in your personal life, if, you know, if there are fools around, you don\u2019t suffer them well.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think I know what you\u2019re asking. I\u2019m just not sure what I have said that would — you\u2019re saying personally, not here on the radio. So you\u2019re imagining me being somewhere in public and I encounter a fool, and you seem to think that I would do whatever I could to get away from that fool as quickly as I could. And I\u2019m trying to figure out what I do, said, whatever, that\u2019s made you reach that conclusion. I\u2019m not mad. Don\u2019t misunderstand.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m just trying to understand you. There has to be a reason you think that. I\u2019m curious. What do I do, how do I do it, that makes you think when I encounter idiots that I turn around and walk away.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing) Well, because —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Could it be the dinner party that I walked out of, my own dinner party when I had some people insulting Sarah Palin?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Maybe, that might have been the story that you told.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It took me two hours to leave. It took me two hours to have a fill of it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, then maybe my perception is inaccurate. Maybe you do suffer fools well.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I tried to talk \u2019em out of it. It\u2019s when I realized I was talking to blocks of wood I said, what\u2019s the point, I gotta go to LA anyway so I got an early start.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I mean, another example, it\u2019s like I do think you\u2019re kind of a big softy. Maybe not when it comes to politics, but when you talk about your pets and things like that, you kind of seem to be like a big softy. And, you know, does that mean, you know, do you ever cry at a movie? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you this, I don\u2019t cry, but I choke up. I choke up —<\/p>\n
CALLER: I know that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — at certain scenes in TV shows or movies. Yeah, I get close to crying, but I don\u2019t cry, I stop it in time. But I don\u2019t cry. It\u2019s interesting these perceptions you have. I think it all stems from the fact that there\u2019s an image of me out there that I walk into a place and if there are any liberals, I walk over, “You\u2019re full of it, get the hell away,” and leave. That I have no tolerance for liberals or whatever. And it\u2019s just the opposite.<\/p>\n
When I\u2019m out in public I usually say very little at first. I listen, I absorb and all that. I\u2019m probably much more patient with people you\u2019re describing as fools, I don\u2019t suffer fools, I\u2019m probably more patient with them \u2019cause I see them as teachable opportunities, depending on the circumstance and so forth.<\/p>\n
But, look, the bottom line is — and I don\u2019t want you to repeat this to too many people — but I\u2019m basically a nice guy, an average, ordinary, unremarkable if you are with me anywhere, nice guy. Harmless, lovable little fuzzball actually, but keep that between us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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