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RUSH: This is yesterday on NPR\u2019s program called Tell Me More, and it\u2019s hosted by Michel Martin. She was interviewing Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post Magazine, about me and talk radio. And Michel Martin said, ‘Gene, you think of yourself as kind of a liberal Democrat-leaning person, but the people the other side got your juices flowing. Over time, did anything make more or less sense, or did it all just turn to mush?\u2019<\/p>\n

WEINGARTEN: The worst thing that happened was that midway through — and there was one point in which I was listening both to Bill O\u2019Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, which is a very, very bad thing to do if you are an unreconstructed liberal like I am, and because what you wind up doing is comparing them, and there\u2019s no comparison. Rush Limbaugh is better. He is funnier, and uh, uh, he\u2019s much more interesting. He\u2019s — he\u2019s mean, but — but he\u2019s mean in a way that you don\u2019t really get involved with. You — you know he\u2019s kind of kidding. And so the worst thing that happened to me was that I found myself grudgingly respecting Rush Limbaugh, which is just a terrible thing to do if you\u2019re a — a liberal. But gradually what happens is, you get into it, and — and I find — I found things to really despise about his eventually. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what\u2019s interesting about this? This is Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post Magazine. Jeffrey Lord has a piece today at the American Spectator Online bouncing off a famous quote of Bill Buckley\u2019s in his book, Up From Liberalism, called ‘Liberal Mania,\u2019 and basically the theory is that these liberals all live in their little cocoons and anything that interrupts their worldview… We\u2019ve made this point here on this program before. Anything that interrupts and penetrates their little cocoon and their worldview sends them into conniption fits; they actually become manic and don\u2019t know how to deal with it because they\u2019ve never had to. This is one of the reasons why Geraldine Ferraro is reacting the way she\u2019s reacting. Liberals are never called racists by the Drive-By Media. Clinton, after South Carolina, blew a gasket, because the Drive-By Media gives these people puff-piece treatment — and now the Drive-Bys are turning on Hillary and they\u2019re turning on Bill, and this is causing mania, Liberal Mania. The same thing happened to this Weingarten guy. He\u2019s got this little liberal cocoon worldview that he has lived in for all these years, and he listens to this program, and he almost got sucked in. He almost got sucked in, but, finally, for his own salvation, he found reason to hate me. There\u2019s one more bite here, though, that I want you to hear. Michel Martin said, ‘Well, what did you despise about Limbaugh?\u2019<\/p>\n

WEINGARTEN: Well, you know, he\u2019s very much, uh, against Obama, which is — which is fair game, you know, he\u2019s, uh… Limbaugh will attack Obama in areas where he\u2019s vulnerable, and that\u2019s fine, you know, but — but then he discovered he was saying his name kind of interestingly, O-bama, and I decided this was a racial thing, this was like ‘yo mama.\u2019<\/p>\n

MARTIN: Yeah. To try to make him the black guy.<\/p>\n

WEINGARTEN: Yeah, make him the black guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See what I mean? (laughing) They are that stupid. The whole point here… Read Jeffrey Lord\u2019s piece today in the American Spectator Online. They hear me pronounce — and I\u2019ve been doing it earlier in the program today, just to goose \u2019em — ‘O-bama,\u2019 and they haven\u2019t the slightest clue. They think it\u2019s a racial thing? They think that I\u2019m trying to say ‘yo mama.\u2019 Everybody knows Obama\u2019s black! So what? You know, I\u2019ll tell you what, Mr. Weingarten. You need to look at your buddies on the left if you want to find racism in this campaign. There is a virtual civil war going on in the Democrat Party: Jeremiah Wright, Geraldine Ferraro, the Clintons, all this talk about Obama not being black enough and then is he too black and is he not black enough, ‘What about his white half?\u2019 You had the Clintons\u2019 campaign people in New Hampshire talking about not just his drug usage but perhaps he might have been selling drugs, all with racial undertones — and you hear me pronounce ‘O-bama\u2019 that way and think that I am doing it in a racial sense, and it\u2019s that that made him hate me? (interruption) Well, it\u2019s not that I\u2019m mispronouncing it.<\/p>\n

Snerdley says, ‘How do you pronounce it in a ‘white\u2019 way?\u2019 I guess the white way you\u2019re supposed to say Obama but sometimes, you know, I will say ‘O-bama\u2019 just as I say the, ‘uh, Reve\u2019rend Jacks\u2019nnn.\u2019 What these people do not understand is broadcasting. They do not understand the various things that skilled professionals do in media to stand out from all the other noise. As such, they are so sensitive and so attuned to the notion that all conservatives are racists that when they hear something like this, they use their cliche and their own prejudice and their own bias to attach a meaning to the way I\u2019m pronouncing it. One of the things that\u2019s always amazed me — and I think we can all agree here that in terms of radio and media, the Rush Limbaugh program is pretty prominent and has enjoyed a lot of success; major, major success. But because the left so despises my political effectiveness — they so hate me because of my political effectiveness — they never stop to think of the professionalism, the talent, the broadcast achievement that is part of this show. It just totally escapes \u2019em, because I\u2019m so good at the other stuff, too.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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