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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the phones. West of Boston, Donald, you\u2019re up, and I\u2019m glad you held on. I appreciate your patience. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Help me with this Fairness Doctrine. Let me give you my assumptions, and you can tell me if they\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll be happy to, sir. I\u2019m an expert on the Fairness Doctrine. I\u2019m an expert on fairness.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. First, I\u2019m thinking that the radio spectrum is a finite resource. And then I\u2019m thinking that the government has claimed ownership of that, with the FCC and with other international treaties. So the government thinks that they can control this with licenses, spectrum frequencies and all that. So why can\u2019t they allocate speech as well?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ever heard of the First Amendment? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course I have. But —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but granting licenses to use a portion of the spectrum to radio station owners and broadcasters and regulating it, which they do, that\u2019s one thing, and many of those restrictions —<\/p>\n

CALLER: But why is that different — <\/p>\n

RUSH: But the radio operates in the free market. When you say the government owns —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The people own it. That\u2019s the point. They\u2019re considered public airwaves. The people own it. Not the government. You have got to get it through your head and a lot of you do, too, that the government is not the people and that the Bill of Rights was written to limit what government can do in terms of restricting the freedom of the people. The Bill of Rights is not what government grants us. It limits them. I will continue on this when we come back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

<\/a>One of the things I want to remind you all of on this Fairness Doctrine debate, question, threat, whatever it is, do you remember the Pew poll? We\u2019ve got this poll up. Koko, grab this poll and put it up on the website either now or when we update later this afternoon to reflect the contents of this program. Because remember, for a while I was saying, ‘You all are the most knowledgeable audience in all of American media<\/a>.\u2019 The Pew Research Center for People and the Press went out, and they interviewed people, and they asked them a series of questions, three news knowledge questions, and the most informed audience belongs to the political magazines and my radio show. This radio show has the most informed audience of all broadcast entities out there. After that came news magazines, online news sources, NPR, the Daily Show, and the O\u2019Reilly Factor, the television show. But in a list of broadcast media outlets, this program has the most informed audience. Now, you have to understand, the guy called and said, ‘Isn\u2019t it fair for the government to regulate speech, if they regulate everything else about the federal broadcast spectrum?\u2019 No. We operate in the marketplace. Radio stations are businesses. Television stations are businesses, and television, over-the-air-television — I don\u2019t care whether you get it on cable or not, but broadcast signals, your big network stations (this does not include cable news channels, but your local ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CW affiliate, whatever the affiliates are), they\u2019re all over-the-air whether you get it on cable or not — and they, too, are regulated.<\/p>\n

They are part of the spectrum, so why shouldn\u2019t the Fairness Doctrine apply to them? For example, this is a syndicated program. I am not on a particular radio station. I\u2019m not an employee of a radio station. So what would happen? The way the way the Fairness Doctrine would work — and it\u2019s being set up this way — is professional complainers hear me — take any element of today\u2019s show — criticizing Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy. Within minutes the general managers of 600 radio stations would receive phone calls from MoveOn.org-type activists demanding that they get a chance to respond to what I said, and they might put \u2019em off for a while, but they\u2019d keep calling and keep calling, and if the Fairness Doctrine were law, they would have to grant that, and then the station managers would say, ‘To hell with this! We can\u2019t run a business this way. This is ridiculous. We\u2019re turning over the programming, literally, to people who aren\u2019t broadcasters. We\u2019re a business,\u2019 and so they just cancel all the, quote, unquote, controversial programming and they\u2019d have to go back to, you know, doing things that nobody wanted to listen to, which is what happened when radio was regulated so much in the first place. Let me remind you, you may not remember this, but I\u2019ve been in radio since I was 16, and back when I started in 1967, there were a number of controls, and there was all sorts of regulation. <\/p>\n

Every five years — this is still the case — everybody that owns a radio station has to get their broadcast license renewed by the FCC, because they\u2019re using the public airwaves. The public is not the government. Please don\u2019t ever make that mistake. I don\u2019t want to ever hear anybody call here again and say that the government is the people. The elected officials are representatives of the people. But the broadcast airwaves are owned by you, theoretically. It\u2019s ours because it\u2019s air, and we\u2019re putting stuff in the air, signals, that your radio can receive, and so forth and so on. So because of that, management\u2019s at radio stations, both groups and individual stations lived in fear that their license was not renewed every five years. So, they had to go out and make sure they didn\u2019t get in trouble. When the Fairness Doctrine existed, there wasn\u2019t any controversial programming at all. It might have existed in pockets around the country, but if it did it was from midnight to six or nine to midnight, this time when radio listenership is losing to television viewership, especially in the early days of TV when everybody was going out and buying TVs. Color TV came in, so they didn\u2019t care what happened at night on radio because nobody was listening them. Well, part of this license renewal every five years was something called ‘public ascertainment,\u2019 and I had to do this a couple times when I was a program director at radio stations, and what it was was, we\u2019d have to convene meetings of community leaders. <\/p>\n

We did it in the public libraries, wherever, and we would ascertain what they thought the radio station should be providing the community. So if it ended up after ascertainment — and we had to make detailed reports on all this. In fact, I got yelled at by a general manager once for arguing with some of these people during ascertainment. I remember in Kansas City once we had a meeting in a library, and this guy was — this is a music station, by the way. We were just playing music! This guy got into, ‘Well I want to hear more about public libraries. I want to hear more…\u2019 You wouldn\u2019t believe the kind of garbage that nobody would care about listening to, that these people wanted on the radio. So at the end of ascertainment, let\u2019s say that 2% of the people that we interviewed wanted agriculture news. Okay, well, we had to do it. Two percent of the programming had to be agriculture news. We had a number of ways to do this. You could do the morning barnyard report at five a.m. before everybody got up, and you could do ten or 15 minutes of it and do enough of it every day so that added up after seven days to 2% of the broadcast week. Even in Pittsburgh when I moved there in 1971, this stuff was still going on — and because Pittsburgh is in an ADI that includes a lot of agriculture communities, we had to do a certain amount of farm news. <\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m doing a morning show playing music and the last thing that the audience of my show cares about is farm news. If farm news came on, bam! They pushed the button and go somewhere else. So we had to figure out, ‘Okay, how do we do this and protect the license?\u2019 So I turned the farm news every day into a funny bit with farm sound effects and the roosters crowing and so forth, and I\u2019d make fun of the stockyard feed prices or whatever it was, so that we could say, ‘We\u2019re doing barn news,\u2019 agriculture news. There was all kinds of things like that. You remember, going back 20 years on radio, you\u2019d get up on a Sunday morning, turn on the radio you\u2019re listening to some of the dullest, public service programming? You\u2019d have two people coming in and talking about carrot cake recipes for the holiday season. It was just absurd, and all this stuff was dumped either from midnight to six or it was put on early Sunday morning when people were not listening to the radio. I can remember having to run religious programming. In my little town of Cape Girardeau, there was a large religious component that wanted to hear a lot of religious programming so we\u2019d go out and we\u2019d sell hour-long programs to local preachers, and some of them were a hoot, you know? Some of this stuff was unbelievable. <\/p>\n

Some of them would come in and do it live, and I\u2019d have to sit there and run the control board while these guys were preaching and sermonizing. What was one of those guys names? I can\u2019t remember any of their names, but I said, ‘Minister So-and-So, do you think I am committing sin?\u2019 Remember, I\u2019m 17 years old doing this. ‘Do you think I\u2019m committing sin by working here on Sunday morning rather than being in church?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘I think the Lord knows, son, that there are millions of us that have a duty to feed our families early in the morning on Sundays and can\u2019t get to church. Besides, son, you are listening to my sermons here, and you can\u2019t be in God\u2019s disfavor if that\u2019s the case.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Okay, good. So I\u2019m saved.\u2019 (sigh)<\/p>\n

All that\u2019s gone by the wayside now. You can turn on the radio on Sunday morning and listen to stuff you want to listen to, and you don\u2019t have to listen to barnyard news when you don\u2019t care about it. Nothing against ag news here, but all that stuff went by the wayside because radio was losing listeners. It was losing business. Television was coming in, and television wasn\u2019t governed this way. Television, if they put barnyard news on, it was part of a normal, hour-long newscast and so forth that local TV stations did. But if this Fairness Doctrine ever comes back, that\u2019s the kind of stuff that\u2019s going to end up being back on radio, and it will die. AM radio will die if it has to start ascertaining the community and all these non-broadcasters and nonprofessionals and professional muckrakers who want radio to die — and believe me, the whole left wing of this country does. They\u2019ll make sure that local AM radio is filled with the most worthless garbage, including their views, which has also been shown on radio to be unattractive. Nobody wants to listen to it. But if this Fairness Doctrine comes back, I\u2019m a syndicated program. I\u2019m not an employee of any radio station. Yet local activists could go to your local station carrying this show, your local EIB affiliate and demand equal time for what I am saying. Well, okay, fine. Well, then why can\u2019t we pepper television stations under the Fairness Doctrine? I want equal time to what I just heard on the ABC World News Tonight. <\/p>\n

You tell me that that\u2019s balanced? You tell me that the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric is balanced? You tell me that the NBC Nightly News with anybody, Brian Williams is balanced? Give me a major break! How about these morning shows that are full of pap? You know, we could flood television stations, but note that the Fairness Doctrine is not being applied to television. Nobody is talking about reapplying it to television. They only want to reapply it to radio, and it\u2019s not because they want ‘all sides represented.\u2019 When I started, 1988, the number of talk stations, radio stations doing talk from sunup to sundown, well, 24\/7, was 125. There were one hundred and twenty-five talk stations in 1988. There are 2,000 today. There are 2,000 radio stations doing talk, and there are leftists out there hosting shows. Some of them are local. Some of them are fledgling out there, so-called ‘national,\u2019 with 40 or 50 stations. (Yip yip yip yip yahoo.) You\u2019re not national, in advertising terms because this is where it matters, until you reach over 90%, until you have the ability to reach 90% of the population of the country. Do you know how you do that? You get yourself on the best stations you can in the top 25 markets. You get yourself on the best stations in the top 25 markets and you reach 90% of the American population. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what you\u2019re national, but you can\u2019t be on the station in Oshkosh and tell everybody you\u2019re in Chicago. But that\u2019s what some of these lib guys do. They\u2019re on stations with 250 watts! You can\u2019t hear \u2019em five minutes away from their broadcast tower, and yet they claim they\u2019re national, and they\u2019re not, and that\u2019s what bugs the left, too. They not only can\u2019t be heard, they can\u2019t be heard, period, because they can\u2019t get on decent radio stations. So they want to take the one place where conservatism has found a way to forge a majority and a dominance in the free market, and they want to shut it up with the reintroduction of the kind of government regulation I was just describing to you, and it\u2019s not for ‘diversity,\u2019 because there are more views out there today with the Internet, television and talk radio. There are more divergent opinions than there have ever been in the American media today, and it\u2019s just about silencing one particular ideological opinion, and that\u2019s conservatism. You are the most informed audience in all of American broadcasting — not according to me, but according to the Pew Center for People and the Press. We\u2019ll have to remind them of that when the time comes. That won\u2019t matter, but it will matter. It won\u2019t matter to them because they don\u2019t care. That scares them, in fact. That scares \u2019em. The answer ought to be, what we need to tell \u2019em is, ‘The way for you Democrats to fix your problem here with the dominance of people like me in talk radio, is to find a way to make my listeners as dumb as your voters.\u2019<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, folks, as I have said, the left is simply afraid of debate in the arena of ideas. When they had their monopoly throughout the broadcast and print media, they didn\u2019t have to debate opponents because there weren\u2019t any that mattered — and they won\u2019t debate now. They\u2019re just trying to shut down. Their attitude is, ‘There is no opposition. There\u2019s no legitimate option, and we\u2019re not going to go out and debate these people in the free market,\u2019 even though they tried, but they weren\u2019t actually debating. They were just (sigh) making a mockery of it. They weren\u2019t even broadcasting. They weren\u2019t even radio people. They didn\u2019t even know what they were doing! They just thought that they would imitate what they think we do to get success here, which proves that they don\u2019t understand it. Look at this analogy, if you will. We\u2019re still bouncing off the guy who called and talked about the spectrum, the radio spectrum, all the frequencies that are out there. <\/p>\n

The radio spectrum is kind of like the Highway System. It facilitates commerce, but there are only so many interstate highways available, and there are only so many radio frequencies available, on the AM band and the FM band, the police band, the CB band, all of that. So on the Interstate Highway System do we require that the number of supply trucks of a certain company be no more numerous on the highways than those of another company? No. We let the market decide. You know, if Yellow Freight happens to be the biggest freight company out there — I don\u2019t know that they are; they just popped into my head here — and there are more Yellow Freight trucks anybody else, well, will you say, ‘There are too many Yellow Freight trucks. We need Consolidated Freightways to get their fair share of the interstate highway.\u2019 No, but that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do with the Fairness Doctrine. The Highway System, we pay for that, too, and it\u2019s public. It\u2019s the same thing. The free market. Who is next? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Joe in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Appreciate it. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I\u2019m not too sure that wasn\u2019t Harry Reid calling you. Are you sure he wasn\u2019t calling from Boston?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, to my point, the reason why I called, I\u2019m kind of in a bind. I am from South Carolina, and Senator Graham is one of our senators, unfortunately. I know you\u2019re well-traveled.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think he owes you guys an apology, by the way.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Some of his rhetoric today on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree. I\u2019d accept his resignation instead, though. (chuckles) Yeah, basically I was wondering, you\u2019re well traveled, you\u2019re well respected, and you\u2019re well connected, and I was wondering if you had anybody that you knew of who falls under your tutelage or your mentorship here in South Carolina or outside that could move into South Carolina, to run as a Republican opponent of Senator Graham?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you mean like pull a Hillary, move from —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — Arkansas to Washington to New York and become a senator there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I\u2019m not in the political recruitment game. You know whose job that really is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mine, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is John Ensign\u2019s. He runs the Senate campaign committee.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it rotates every, I don\u2019t know, election year. Elizabeth Dole did it last time, and Ensign is — by the way, he changed his vote. He was against cloture this time around. But he\u2019s not going to sit there and make a move against a sitting Republican senator. His job will be to help Lindsey Graham get reelected. I think that\u2019s, frankly, the people of South Carolina\u2019s job to take care of. Look it, in politics there\u2019s a market, too, and there\u2019s probably somebody in South Carolina saying, ‘The next time Graham faces the voters,\u2019 and he will next year, ‘I\u2019m going to run against him in a primary, because I think I can win because I think Lindsey Graham has angered enough South Carolinians that I think we can pull this off.\u2019 The political market will produce that person.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I don\u2019t identify candidates. I just try to correct them once they get elected, maybe now and then. That\u2019s a job of political professionals and I\u2019m a media professional.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Like I say, I just think a bigger problem than this immigration bill is when he ignores, you know, over 60% of his constituents and decides to vote this way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s a problem for him. He\u2019s gotta face the voters next time up, and this is the price he\u2019s going to pay for the positions that he took. He\u2019s gotta go face the voters. He\u2019s gotta explain why he did what he did and face their wrath. It\u2019s the way the system is designed to work. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, Paul in Lake in the Hill in southern Illinois, nice to have you with the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How are you, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: How are you? I\u2019m good. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, great. I really appreciate it. It\u2019s an honor to speak with you. I had an observation on the Fairness Doctrine and the way talk radio works, especially your show and most others. Do you not provide a large number of sound bites and direct quotes and as a result are you not giving airtime to the opinions and the opposition side already?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We should be pointing this out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s an absolutely good point, an excellent point. I, in order make my arguments, always present the arguments of the left and then I refute them. We play Dingy Harry and Ted Kennedy all over the place here today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. In addition to that, on many talk shows, they\u2019ll take guests. A lot of opposition refuses to even go on to those shows. So they are given the opportunity to have a fair and balanced show, but they don\u2019t even take that opportunity!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right. It\u2019s like the Breck Girl will not show up on Fox News Channel, but he\u2019ll send his wife out there to complain to Ann Coulter when she\u2019s on MSNBC. It\u2019s an excellent point. The left\u2019s point of view is not denied here. It\u2019s just not advocated. The left\u2019s point of view isn\u2019t advocated here, but their point of view is. My gosh, I tell you more about them than they will tell you about themselves. I tell you more about what they really believe than they will tell you. I tell you more about what their intentions are than they ever will. You know, they\u2019re the ones running around with masks and camouflage and so forth. I don\u2019t lie about the context in which the statements of theirs that I air occurred. I don\u2019t lie about the context. I don\u2019t try to fool people about what we\u2019re saying here. You know me. We want a fully informed populace; as many informed, educated, engaged people as possible in the arena of ideas, going out there and voting. We want legitimate, substantive, real change. We don\u2019t want it to come about through propaganda, lies, or any of these other things that the left requires to achieve its power. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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