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RUSH: I want to go to the audio sound bites. This is pretty classic. This morning on Laura Ingraham\u2019s radio show, she talked to former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw. Brokaw\u2019s got a new book, and she says to him, ‘You mentioned Rush Limbaugh in the book, but you kind of throw away a line about Limbaugh, and it\u2019s in the drug section. And without a doubt, Rush Limbaugh\u2019s the most influential Boomer I think in the media today. There\u2019s no person who has had more of a profound impact on the way people think about politics than Limbaugh, and he gets a line, you know, the drug thing, which I just don\u2019t think that\u2019s right, Tom.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: My problem with the whole spectrum is that there is not — you know, you know what Rush is — what his whole drill is, he doesn\u2019t want to hear another point of view, except his. <\/p>\n

INGRAHAM: Oh, I disagree. He talks to all sorts of people. Well, he doesn\u2019t interview people like I do. I mean, I have guests on–<\/p>\n

BROKAW: He doesn\u2019t — he doesn\u2019t interview people, and he mocks people–<\/p>\n

INGRAHAM: But he\u2019s not an objective — he\u2019s not an objective person, he doesn\u2019t say he is, and that\u2019s the difference between him and anchors on some of our networks who have political agenda but then pretend that they\u2019re objective.<\/p>\n

BROKAW: Well, Laura, we\u2019re never going to resolve this. You know, you have your point of view, and I have mine. <\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s funny about that is that Brokaw\u2019s lamenting that we can\u2019t all come together. That the civil discourse has vanished and it\u2019s all talk radio\u2019s fault. ‘Well, Laura, you have your view, and I have mine, and we\u2019re never going to come together on this.\u2019 Well, Tom, compromise! Compromise. Why don\u2019t you compromise, Tom? Why don\u2019t you change what you think, if you want civility? So then Ingraham says, ‘But that\u2019s a point — that\u2019s a thing. I\u2019m trying to — you know I like you, but I\u2019m trying to get — I\u2019m trying to get to this point. Sixties is all about, you know, free speech, everyone has their opinions, but then when you have this really successful movement called talk radio, people get their opinions out, and then you saying, oh, it\u2019s getting kind of nasty.\u2019<\/p>\n

BROKAW: My problem with talk radio is that they only want to hear one note. They mock anybody else\u2019s point of view, and they do it often in a mindless fashion. And you know that as well as I do. Because it\u2019s a hot button for the choir that listens to them and it works commercially. There are very few programs like you — like yours in which you\u2019ll interview people across a political spectrum. It\u2019s mostly people who go out there and hit the hot button all day long.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what\u2019s Tom Brokaw really upset about — ladies and gentlemen? What is he really upset about? It\u2019s what I\u2019ve always told you. He\u2019s upset they have lost their monopoly. Tom Brokaw no longer gets to set the agenda for the news the American people are treated to each and every day. Be it in print or in broadcast. He is just jealous, demanding all this: ‘The more opinions the better. We want diversity.\u2019 But when talk radio comes along, somehow we in talk radio mock people, as though people in the Drive-By Media have not mocked George W. Bush. But the thing is, this is an old saw that talk radio mocks and makes fun of people. We do tell jokes about liberals here. We do mock what they believe. It is totally mockable. They are just not used to this. When they had their monopoly, ladies and gentlemen, they got to set the agenda, and they were never challenged. They were never made fun of. They could tell jokes and still do, about NASCAR people, about evangelicals, any number of people. Brokaw can tell jokes about my drug addiction. That\u2019s not mocking. No, no, no, no. He\u2019s justified in his mind because he thinks that\u2019s all I do, which means he doesn\u2019t listen and probably never has taken the time. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a studied little technique, I don\u2019t know if you noticed it in this answer: ‘My problem with talk radio is, they only want to hear one note, they mock anybody else\u2019s point of view, they do it often in a mindless fashion, and you know that as well as I do,\u2019 he said that to Laura Ingraham. ‘You know that as well as I do.\u2019 That is a way to shut people up and to make them think, look, you\u2019re just as bright as I am, but the bottom line is this, Tom. I do three hours a day. I do that five days a week. We don\u2019t do 40-second sound bites. We don\u2019t do one-and-a-half minute little stories, we go in-depth here. I spend more time in depth in one hour of this program than in three days of the Nightly News. And, by the way, Tom, you say that I don\u2019t get the liberal point of view out, you say it\u2019s not heard in this program. Tom, you know what you\u2019re missing about talk radio: We teach people; we inform people. <\/p>\n

Practically every time I explain conservatism or the conservative slant on an issue, I explain the liberal side. I do a better and more honest job, Tom, of explaining liberalism than you people do who are liberal, because you\u2019re in the business of hiding it. You\u2019re in the business of hiding behind the pretense of objectivity when, in fact, you are as liberal as anybody who is liberal is. But you never explain that, you never admit it, and you will never explain what liberalism is really all about. I do. Just like I\u2019m explaining who you are now, Tom. I don\u2019t need you on the program to tell people who you are and what you think and react to what you said about me. I don\u2019t need you here. I can do a better job of explaining you to people than you can do explaining yourself to people, because you won\u2019t be honest with them.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I actually think Tom Brokaw blew it when he titled his new book on the sixties and Baby Boomers. He should have called it: The Lamest Generation. There\u2019s something else about Brokaw and all these other guys in the Drive-Bys, folks. They\u2019re just jealous as they can be of me and a lot of other people. I, ladies and gentlemen, could buy Montana. Brokaw can only afford one ranch there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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