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RUSH: I had forgotten this. In 1988, of course the program began, I had forgotten, I did this interview on Connecticut Public Access TV. Back then I was willing to appear anywhere to promote the program. There was a TV show on Connecticut public access TV called Miggs B on TV, and the host was Miggs Burroughs<\/a>, and he interviewed me, and he said, ‘You have a segment called ‘The Homeless Update.\u2019 You\u2019re misunderstood. I mean, that segment\u2019s misunderstood. Your whole point of it is misunderstood a lot.\u2019 Cut two.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Well, I knew it would be, and it\u2019s understandable that it is misunderstood. For one thing, the whole piece is a contradiction. On the one hand, here\u2019s this song sung by a guy — the song\u2019s recorded in the fifties, I believe, and it\u2019s by Clarence ‘Frogman\u2019 Henry, and he sings three different ways. He sings as himself in the song, then he sings as a woman. (singing) ‘Ain\u2019t Got No Home.\u2019 And then he sings as a frog, and in all three cases he hasn\u2019t got a home and he hasn\u2019t got a girl and he hasn\u2019t got a girl frog or he hasn\u2019t got a date or hasn\u2019t got this. And so you put that song juxtaposed with a picture of an actual homeless person, and it could be construed that I\u2019m making fun of the homeless. The thing that I try to do to set my program apart is, other than just being me, is to add music elements to it. Music in a talk show is something that most people aren\u2019t used to hearing, so it will stand out. And all I\u2019m trying to do is grab people\u2019s attention for what I say. And I know that they\u2019re going to be so mad hearing the song that it\u2019s going to take awhile before they begin to understand the message — but that\u2019s okay. I\u2019m prepared for it to take a long time. The bottom line is for them to get the message.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly, exactly right. However long it takes for people to get the message. That was October — I don\u2019t even know what — this had to be after August. This had to be, you know, in the fall sometime. Connecticut Public Access TV: Miggs B on TV, which takes us, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, to real-day news events, the homeless crisis in Denver. I want to take you back to this program and me July 2nd of this year, my comments on Denver\u2019s plans to deal with the homeless during the Democrat convention.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: This is crazy. The homeless are your voters! The homeless are people that you turn to. They\u2019re living a life of misery and they are the people that you think make up the country. They\u2019re suffering from the Bush administration policies and all of this. So you want to get them out of the way? No, don\u2019t get \u2019em out of the way. Give \u2019em some walking-around money. If you\u2019re going to give them some flat screens go out and give them some cigarettes, buy them some adult beverages so they can watch television, a little popcorn, and while you\u2019re at it, put some voter registration cards in the homeless shelters while they are watching your convention. In fact, make registering to vote a requirement to get into the homeless shelter. The Democrats are losing touch. They used to be smarter than this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The homeless are their voters. Soup line America. These are the people the Democrats need to broadcast prominently as representative of all of America, because of the predatory lending practices that have led to the subprime mortgage crisis. So this morning on the Fox News Channel, America\u2019s Newsroom, we have a portion of a report by Alicia Acuna about Denver\u2019s plans for the homeless during the upcoming convention, and the cohost is Megyn Kelly. She says, ‘There are rumors that the city may be trying to hide the homeless during this convention. Is that a confirmed fact?\u2019 <\/p>\n

ACUNA: There\u2019s actually quite a debate here. We talked to an outreach officer who works with the homeless here and he told us that the city is actually going to try to highlight this segment of society during this convention, not hide them. They\u2019re going to bring in big-screen TVs so that the homeless can come in and watch the speeches and try to participate in some of the convention ongoings. We\u2019ve also been told that there are plans for free movie tickets for the homeless. We\u2019ve heard of rumors of tickets to the zoo, tickets to the museum. There are critics that are charging that the city really isn\u2019t trying to be nice. Folks, are saying, ‘Really, you just want to be nice to these folks? We think you\u2019re just trying to sweep the city clean, trying to get this uglier side of life off of the streets, away from the delegates, away from the journalists so that people don\u2019t have to see it.\u2019 So that\u2019s the debate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) They are taking my idea almost verbatim. They\u2019re now debating it, the two sides are, ‘Hey, let\u2019s promote \u2019em, let\u2019s give \u2019em movie tickets, give \u2019em TVs, let\u2019s let \u2019em watch the convention.\u2019 They\u2019re not going to admit they\u2019re going to give \u2019em voter registration cards, that\u2019s going to be done on the sly, and the side, ‘We don\u2019t want them anywhere around here.\u2019 (laughing) It\u2019s just amazing the impact of this program all over this country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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