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\nRUSH: I\u2019m speechless, too, which is not a very frequent circumstance, but I appreciate that more than you can possibly understand. How did it happen? When did this happen?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Dawna in Cleveland, Tennessee. Great to have you. You\u2019re next. Welcome.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hello, Rush. I\u2019m so happy to talk to you. I am a liberal for 35 years from New York. I live in Tennessee. My husband is a retired sheriff, listens to you all the time. And in the car I had to listen also, and eventually I perked up, and you turned me around. Your words, your understanding just flipped me. And it is such a profound change.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I can imagine.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I have you on in my house every speaker, every computer all the time when you\u2019re on the air \u2019cause you have inspired me. There\u2019s no words to describe it other than that.<\/p>\n
\nRUSH: I\u2019m speechless, too, which is not a very frequent circumstance, but I appreciate that more than you can possibly understand. How did it happen? When did this happen?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, you know, it happened when you were talking about being deaf and you said something profound, that real people can never be totally deaf. And I heard that, and I thought, \u201cThat is really deep.\u201d And, for some reason, it perked me up to say you\u2019re deeper than what I thought \u2019cause I hated you, and then I —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ha!<\/p>\n
CALLER: –started listening and slowly the earplugs came out and I\u2019m listening. My husband —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, wait a second. Hang on here just a second, Dawna, \u2019cause this fascinates me. Here I am each day emitting vocal vibrations, brilliance and\u00a0resonance on political issues, and yet it was an observation I made about deafness that convinced you that I am a deep and serious person and not a frivolous malcontent?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Absolutely. You made a statement. No one can replicate being deaf. You can be blind. You can\u2019t replicate it. That just hit me.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Isn\u2019t that fascinating. I remember it. Let me repeat it very briefly what it was. I was explaining because I\u2019ve experienced it — I\u2019m totally deaf and I learned that deafness is the only disability where the person who has it is blamed for it. When someone can\u2019t hear, other people accuse you of not paying attention or not caring enough, or not really focusing. “You can hear! I know you can hear! You just don\u2019t want to hear me!” And the reason for that — and this is what you heard, most people, well, 99.99% of all people cannot relate, cannot possibly understand total deafness because you cannot replicate it. You can put headphones on, you can stuff things in your ears, but you cannot replicate total deafness.<\/p>\n
You can pretend to be blind by closing your eyes and trying to imagine living that way. You can imagine being a victim of paralyses and sitting in a chair not being able to walk, but you cannot imagine total deafness or even hard-of-hearing if you\u2019re not because you can\u2019t replicate it. And that\u2019s why you would never say to Ray Charles, “I know you can see. What am I wearing? You\u2019re just faking it.”<\/p>\n
And you would never say to somebody in a wheelchair, “Get up and walk!” Well, except Joe Biden would. You wouldn\u2019t say to somebody, “Get up and walk! I know you can.” But people that can\u2019t hear are routinely accused of faking it or not pay attention, and it\u2019s because you can\u2019t understand it if you aren\u2019t. And that is what opened your eyes to me, huh?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. Yes. It was so profound. It hit me, and then I realized the depth, and then it became inspirational every time I listened to you. It just kept opening my eyes to things. And I just loved it. My husband\u2019s thrilled, okay? Retired sheriff, he had his hands full. He\u2019s thrilled. (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) Listen to her laugh. You\u2019re well aware how frustrating it was, you being a liberal for your sheriff husband and now he\u2019s thrilled that you have come over to the other side.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: He believes it. His best friend still questions it. It\u2019s so funny \u2019cause it\u2019s true. And they talk to me and I talk to them, and they look at Jim and they go, \u201cHow did this happen?\u201d And Jim\u2019s like, \u201cRush. It was Rush. Rush Limbaugh. He came and helped her. Rush Limbaugh is her voice.\u201d And it is. It\u2019s all through my house. Every computer, from time you\u2019re on at 12:06 to 3 o\u2019clock, every computer and radio in this home has Rush Limbaugh on.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Man, that\u2019s just great. That is much more than I would ever believe. Still sitting here after 30-some-odd years, I\u2019m still amazed at the things that make people change their minds. I would have never, in all of my years, if somebody had given me a chance to guess, \u201cWhat do you think it was that made me change my mind about you?\u201d I would have never guessed that, in all the things. So you live and learn.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It really was profound. And I am medically inclined, so I perked up. It\u2019s amazing how that can open up. And then everything else just came in.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Obviously it is. Well, look. God bless you, and thank you. You know, there must have been divine intervention in you getting into the program today, because this was incredible. And I can\u2019t thank you enough. I appreciate the fact that what happened to you happened and why, and that you\u2019re still out there and blaring it on every speaker that you\u2019ve got. You\u2019ve made my day. You really have. And everybody needs to have their days made, and you\u2019ve made mine. Thank you so much, Dawna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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