{"id":26227,"date":"2007-07-16T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:15:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:15:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:15:21","slug":"former_rush_hater_converts_to_eib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/07\/16\/former_rush_hater_converts_to_eib\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rush-Hater Converts to EIB"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Dick in DuBois, Pennsylvania, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m great. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It is an honor to speak to you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125112.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"303\" class=\"alignright\"\/>CALLER: My comment today is I understand how people can hate you, because years ago I was one of those people, before I listened to you. And after listening to you, you made so much sense that it just baffled me how I could have so much hate. My brother always said, &#8216;You gotta listen to Rush. You gotta listen to Rush,\u2019 and I said I didn\u2019t care whether Rush lived or died. I said I really didn\u2019t care. But when I started listening to you, it just &#8212; all my life I thought I was probably a liberal Democrat, and then when I listened to you, it\u2019s like maybe that\u2019s because that\u2019s all I ever heard, all I was ever taught. My parents, I try to talk to my parents, and all they know is what they see on CNN, and it drives me crazy that they listen to CNN. It\u2019s like you can\u2019t believe everything that you\u2019re seeing on there. There\u2019s more out there than what you\u2019re hearing, and it\u2019s sad that people are like that, they\u2019re so closed-minded. But you truly changed my way of life, or my thinking, and I agree with so much &#8212; almost everything what you say, let\u2019s put it that way.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you\u2019re more than welcome. Thanks very much. I have a question.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Because there are a lot of people still out there like you used to be, and they harbor hate, not just for me but President Bush, and a lot of other people. What was it that made you have this intense dislike for me when you had never listened to my program?<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>CALLER: I don\u2019t know, because my parents were lifelong Democrats, so of course I thought that\u2019s what I was, and I knew you were&#8230; You were&#8230; You know? What\u2019s the word I\u2019m looking for? You were a lifelong Republican, and maybe what I thought was bashing the Democrats for no reason until I listened to you, and it\u2019s like, &#8216;You know, that\u2019s true. That\u2019s true.\u2019 <\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>RUSH: (Laughing.) <\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>CALLER: The more that I listened, the more I said, &#8216;He makes so much sense,\u2019 you know? &#8216;It\u2019s so true what this guy is saying out here,\u2019 and I mean now, I get mad at you when you\u2019re not on radio. It\u2019s like, &#8216;Doh, he\u2019s off today!\u2019<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>RUSH: (Laughing.) Well, there\u2019s an old entertainers\u2019 creed, and that is you always keep the audience wanting more. Snerdley is sending me a note here and reminding me, Rick, that after the 2002 midterm elections, Tom Daschle who was then the Senate minority leader, commissioned experts, he said &#8212; a polling group &#8212; to go out, and they did a private poll of Democrats and talk radio. Daschle was so stunned by the results that he made them public. He said we found out that there are a lot of Democrats that listen to Rush Limbaugh, and some of them are changing their minds. They thought that this audience was nothing more than a choir being preached to, and it stunned them, and you\u2019re one of those guys that they discovered exist out there. Well, thanks. I appreciate your kind words, more than you know. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Dick in DuBois, Pennsylvania, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Rush, how are you? 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