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RUSH: Here\u2019s Brent in Ohio. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Mega erudite dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: I just want to call and tip my hat to you. I mean, to call the president of the United States to say thank you, and have him return your call, I mean, that puts you in very rarefied air, and it\u2019s a testament to your parents, your upbringing, and your hard work, and, you know, in American history and American folklore, especially the number of times you\u2019ve been mentioned on the congressional floor and in the mainstream media, you\u2019re right up there with Will Rogers, Edward R. Murrow, and so on and so forth. But anyway, the main reason of my call is I\u2019ve had the luxury of time in the last six months to do a lot of reading, and I\u2019ve read a lot about William F. Buckley. And I was thinking back — I\u2019m about seven years younger than you, and I first voted in 1976. From \u201976 until \u201980 is what I call the wilderness years, because, as conservatives, all we had was the National Review, Firing Line, and the weekly address by Ronald Reagan. And I noticed that some of your younger calls, they sort of don\u2019t appreciate how good we have it now with you, just the mere fact that your name is brought up everywhere. I was just wondering if you\u2019d take some time and sort of tell your younger listeners what those years were like, \u201976 \u2019til 1980.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you know, that\u2019s a good point. Even before that, I mean, if you go back to 1964, prior to that, the Goldwater election, which really was the birth of Ronald Reagan when you get right down it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Those early years, they were dark but they were exciting because it was new and it was intellectually energetic. I know you\u2019ve heard some of the college students that call here and others who are complaining. Their point of reference, you know, most people\u2019s historical perspective begins with the day they were born, maybe when they\u2019re five years old, their first memory. They have to study to know what happened prior to that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But they know what happened since they\u2019ve been born, and so they\u2019re comparing what they see as the circumstances into which they\u2019re born, a powerful liberal media, a Democrat Party aligned with the media, they are seeing genuine reprobates attain power in the Democrat Party. They are seeing the American people buy into full-fledged hoaxes, such as global warming, and they\u2019re wondering, how can this be? They\u2019re worried really about the overall intelligence and ability to learn of the American people. They don\u2019t understand how this stuff can so easily be sold, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re complaining about. Every college professor they run into is a socialist who hates the country, and they don\u2019t understand that, and so it would be wise to tell these young people how far we have progressed versus where we were those four years that you mentioned. You left out that Jimmy Carter was the president then, and that didn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. That was the worst.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We had a misery index to tell ourselves how bad it was.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, and he was scolding us for his problems.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Precisely.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. It\u2019s just amazing that conservatives tend to be of good cheer. I\u2019ve read about that about William F. Buckley, of you, of course. And the liberals are just so pensive and so angry at everything. Do they ever laugh at a nonpolitical joke?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think they\u2019re ever happy. By definition, they can\u2019t be. The worldview through a pair of eyes in a liberal skull is pretty bad, because they\u2019re seeking perfection, and anything that\u2019s short of perfection makes them mad, it depresses them and so forth, and they see things through a different lens. But by definition, liberals can\u2019t be happy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. This is not the United States of utopia, it\u2019s the United States of America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We try to form a more perfect union.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And don\u2019t forget who the primary enemies of liberals are, anybody successful, independent of government.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: US corporations, individuals who have not used liberal prescriptions in order to attain their success in life. They hate anything like a religion that proscribes boundaries and black and white, look at what\u2019s right and what\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And of course this week we\u2019ve featured the vicar of Christ in town in the country for a week, and they have seen thousands and thousands show up to worship with the vicar of Christ. That makes \u2019em mad.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A couple of military jets flying over the Super Bowl will make \u2019em mad because that\u2019s the military. They can\u2019t even go to the Super Bowl without being happy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Or the Blue Angels.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s just a waste of precious —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Well, Rush, just so you know, there\u2019s millions of us who consider you part of our family, and thank you for all you\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. I appreciate your call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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