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RUSH: Tom Brokaw will not stop talking about talk radio, and we all know talk radio is me. I know my parents raised me well, raised me right, and told me you\u2019re not supposed to make fun of people\u2019s peculiarities, but as a highly trained broadcast specialist, my friends, I must admit, I have never understood how somebody who can\u2019t pronounce their L\u2019s rose to the top of the news reporting business. It\u2019s just me. (imitating Brokaw) ‘Matt Lauer.\u2019 But nevertheless, Charlie Rose, who is literally clueless if it\u2019s not happening within a five square block area of New York, talking to Brokaw about his new book, ‘Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the \u201960s and Today,\u2019 Charlie Rose says, ‘You say you hope it will be a catalyst for what?\u2019<\/p>\n

BROKAW: I hope it will get people talking past ideological food fights and trying to find some common ground, trying to decide what of the \u201960s we want to keep and what we should leave behind. I\u2019ve been appearing on a lot of radio talk shows, a lot of them tilted to the right or far to the right, and they keep wanting to divide the country up on that spectrum. And I say, ‘You know, let\u2019s get beyond that.\u2019 If the solution works, I don\u2019t care whether it is liberal or conservative, let\u2019s go with the solution. I think that\u2019s where the country is. I think that they want the change in tone in American politics.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s where the liberals are, because the liberals have lost their monopoly, and they\u2019re sick and tired they don\u2019t have total power, and so they look at the people who have interrupted their monopoly — i.e., me and talk radio — as divisive. When in fact all we\u2019re doing is, after decades and decades of dominance by the left, we are simply responding, and we are fighting back. And they don\u2019t know how to deal with that. I don\u2019t care whether the solution is liberal or conservative? Well, I sure as hell do. I don\u2019t want any more liberal solutions to things because it\u2019s disaster. Why should we compromise principles to get along? What is it, the Rodney King of news now, Tom Brokaw? Here\u2019s another bite. Charlie Rose: ‘Well, who does all that bode well for on the Democrat side?\u2019<\/p>\n

BROKAW: Any number of them can probably pull that together. I think that Hillary Clinton probably more than any other candidate is a polarizing candidate to the professional Republicans. She makes \u2019em crazy, certainly does on — those people who are on the talk show circuit out there. Obama thinks — feels very strongly that that\u2019s what his role should be. He\u2019s going around saying, and I think it\u2019s a good campaign ploy, ‘Put the sixties behind us. I\u2019m the guy who wasn\u2019t there.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. It is the sixties generation last gasp to put their hands around the throat of this nation and start squeezing until the country\u2019s in the shape they want it to be. But you notice here the question, the subject, of course, Rodney Kingification of America and the news with Tom Brokaw. I don\u2019t care if a solution is liberal, I don\u2019t care if a solution is conservative, I want to do whatever is right. Well, I do care. But notice the next question, well, who does this bode well for, Tom, on the Democrat side? Notice he didn\u2019t even think to ask, well, is there anybody out there on the Republican side, Tom, that could perhaps accomplish what you want? It\u2019s fun to see them such in a tizzy. They cannot defeat us in the arena of ideas, so they have to do what they always do, and that\u2019s try to discredit, and smear, and characterize us as things that we are not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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