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RUSH: CNBC is apparently going to be talking about my new contract extension with their roundtable group of experts. The topic is, ‘Am I worth it?\u2019 (laughing) Yes. Yes, they are. Greetings. Welcome back. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis. I really like hearing myself because I love saying what I believe, I love being right, and I love hearing myself be right in saying what I believe. You should try it. 800-282-2882. We\u2019re doing Open Line Friday on Wednesday today. Jason Lewis will be here tomorrow. We\u2019ve got a best-of show, a doozy, that will run on Friday, the Fourth of July. And so when we go to the phones today, whatever you want to talk about is fair game. The content of the program, when we go to the phones, is up to you. <\/p>\n

Ladies and gentlemen, time to talk a little bit about the Democrat National Convention — (interruption) what do you mean? What am I going to talk about, is it worth it or am I worth it? How about a little basic econ 101. Do you remember the left attempted at one time to establish a policy, a program called ‘comparable worth,\u2019 where they wanted themselves, they wanted the government to establish the value of various jobs, from teacher, to garbage collector, to what have you, because the left is totally absorbed with the equality of outcomes so that there won\u2019t be any unfairness and all that. Their desire is actually more devious than that. But the concept of worth, people still may not understand this. Nobody is paying me this. This is earned. There\u2019s this little thing called ownership, and it\u2019s earned, and you are worth what you earn. If you undersell yourself and don\u2019t charge the proper value for what you think you are, then you\u2019re never going to get proper value, you\u2019re never going to get accurate value. You know, one of the biggest problems in pricing for people who have a great product or service is to not underprice it too much because it might be perceived as not having a whole lot of value. I mean you can overprice things to the point that people aren\u2019t going to go anywhere near it, for a host of reasons. <\/p>\n

But in any way you want to discuss worth and value, whether it\u2019s a product, whether it\u2019s a service, whether it\u2019s a salary, you\u2019re worth what somebody will give you for it, or you\u2019re worth what you can earn doing it. So to sit here and pass judgment on is somebody worth this is a foolish question, and it is not applicable. Now, I know it comes up when Big Oil executives or some CEO of some failing company, leaves, gets a golden parachute, the $56 or $60 million or something, ‘He wasn\u2019t worth that. I mean, the company went to hell. Why are they giving a big golden parachute?\u2019 See, somebody thought he was, or she, and all it takes is one on a compensation committee or a majority of the compensation committee, and that\u2019s that. This business of value and worth when you\u2019re talking about individuals and what they earn is rooted in class envy more than anything else. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Arthur in Knoxville, Tennessee, you\u2019re next as we go back to the phones here on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What kind of position did you put the fairness freakos in now?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What kind of position did I put the fairness freakos in now? You mean the people that are advocating for the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Where are they going to find anybody to match what you did?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You cut their legs right out from under them, you did!<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Fairness Doctrine as defined by finances. I hadn\u2019t looked at it that way. I have had some people e-mail me today, Arthur. ‘You know, Rush, this is going to make you a bigger target, and this is just going to make the Fairness Doctrine advocates even more intent on shutting you down.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: That doesn\u2019t matter. Where they going to get the money to fight you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Arthur, I like you. You just cut to the chase out there. You know, the Fairness Doctrine, this comes up and we talk about this every now and then. Now, Obama, I have to tell you, I\u2019ve got the story in the stack. It\u2019s from a couple of days ago. Obama says, or somebody in his campaign said, ‘We don\u2019t care about the Fairness Doctrine. We got bigger fish to fry than that. We have no intention of reinstating the Fairness Doctrine.\u2019 Obama doesn\u2019t have to say it because Nancy Pelosi has; a number of other Democrats have. But the Fairness Doctrine, they may try, folks, but, look: they\u2019re not going to just be able to succeed with this overnight if they try it. They\u2019re going to have all kinds of opposition and the kind of opposition that they fear most, and that\u2019s going to be from you, the American people. <\/p>\n

The American people are not going to put up with it. There\u2019s too high a level, degree of sophistication now, understanding what would happen if the Fairness Doctrine were implemented and reinstated. The broadcast community, yes, it\u2019s regulated by the FCC. But when I started my national radio show 1988, there were 125 radio stations doing talk. Today, some 20 years later, it\u2019s over 1200. Now, that means that the talk format has withstood all the other downturns, formatically, in radio. You know, certain music formats are having trouble. A lot of formats are having trouble. Talk radio is not. The industry is just not going to sit around and let the Democrats make it worthless without a fight. It\u2019s going to take much more than the snap of a finger or the waving of a magic wand to bring this about. I have no doubt the Democrats want to do it. I have no doubt that Nancy Pelosi wants to try it. They are typical in that way. They don\u2019t want to put up with people that they disagree with. They don\u2019t want to put up with criticism. They don\u2019t want to engage it. They just want to silence it. What do you think political correctness is? Political correctness is nothing more than using intimidating tactics to make people shut up and not say things that liberals don\u2019t want to hear, pure and simple. <\/p>\n

Ed in Wheeling, West Virginia. (interruption) <\/p>\n

What? Oh. (laughing) Snerdley just interrupted me, ladies and gentlemen, to describe for me what is being discussed about my new deal on CNBC. There\u2019s somebody up there looks like Lex Luthor, and you say he\u2019s upset? Really? Really upset? Really? Really? Lex Luthor on CNBC, and he\u2019s really upset. Well, you look like you\u2019re enjoying it in there. (laughter) I\u2019m sure I know who it is. It\u2019s Michael Wolff. Michael Wolff. He\u2019s a New York journalist and he\u2019s uninformed. He doesn\u2019t know how these things work. He\u2019s just jealous, angry. I heard in the commercial break, ‘I don\u2019t know who would make this deal? It\u2019s a stupid deal! Limbaugh is said to have been this great revival factor for conservatism. I don\u2019t know if anybody\u2019s seen the news lately, but conservatism is about over.\u2019 (laughter) You just have to laugh at these people. Snerdley is laughing. He just couldn\u2019t wait to tell me. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: We\u2019ve got a couple audio sound bites from CNBC, what we were just talking about. Here\u2019s cut 18. This is the info babe, Amanda Drury, who is promoting the upcoming segment.<\/p>\n

DRURY: And is Rush Limbaugh worth $400 million? Is anyone worth that? Well, that is what Clear Channel is reportedly paying for him for an eight-year contract. Should you be buying Clear Channel?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughter) Am I worth it? Here\u2019s Michael Wolff, the guy you thought was Lex Luthor. He\u2019s beside himself He\u2019s just beside himself! It\u2019s a monster error.<\/p>\n

WOLFF: I think it\u2019s a monster error. I\u2019m sitting here saying, ‘What are these people smoking?\u2019 You know, the truth is that Rush Limbaugh has been, um, uh… He\u2019s ridden the rise of conservatism for 25 years, and I — I don\u2019t… Maybe nobody quite — quite has been following the news, but that\u2019s coming to an end. It\u2019s going to be over, and Rush Limbaugh, in a relatively short period of time, is going to look like a kind of really out-of-it oddity. And I cannot, for the life of me, imagine how someone could have made this deal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: CNBC, if you keep this up; if you keep putting inane, ignorant people who have no understanding of how media works — if you keep putting them on to discuss me — I am going to buy your network and start doing things right or else shut it down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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