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RUSH: I want to grab Nate in Cleveland, because, Nate, I was in Cleveland over the weekend, I was up there for the Steelers-Browns.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What an embarrassment, let\u2019s not talk about that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, let\u2019s do talk about that, because the people in Cleveland are great. I was out on the field before the game on Sunday, and the wind was blowing like a mother-in-law convention out there, like 35 or 40 miles per hour and I was on the Browns sideline, but the tunnel where the Steelers come out. Of course, Steelers are my team. But those Browns fans were just great. They were shouting my name and supportive, asking me for autographs. I was not able to hear most of them because of my hearing problem, but they were fabulous. It was the first time I\u2019ve been to that stadium. It was a great time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Cleveland fans are the best sports fans in the nation, I have to say that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, that\u2019s another thing, I\u2019ve heard this before. How can you say you\u2019re the best sports fans in the nation when you constantly support and pay for a loser?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, that\u2019s why we\u2019re the best because even though all our teams are miserable, we still support them, we still love them. We\u2019re not all fair weather fans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, I\u2019m just kidding you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My question for you, I was wondering if you can elaborate or explain how Barack Obama can take the stance and make statements like the country can\u2019t take another four years of economic policy like this when it wasn\u2019t until about two years ago when actually Democrats took over Congress that consumer confidence plummeted, gas prices skyrocketed. I just don\u2019t understand. My second question is, with comments like that that are blatantly false and it\u2019s obvious, doesn\u2019t take a genius to see this, how could the American public buy into it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I don\u2019t think they are. It would be easier if you asked me, ‘Could you tell me, Rush, why Obama decided to tell the truth today?\u2019 Because it happens so little, or Biden, if you can say, ‘Rush, why are they telling the truth today?\u2019 it would take me much less time to explain that. They just lie. It\u2019s a campaign. They\u2019re running against status quo because they\u2019re the changemongers, the hopemongers, that\u2019s all out the window. They\u2019re still imploding out there, is the bottom line. Look, Nate, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. Brevity is the soul of wit and you have mastered it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Wayne in Cookeville, Tennessee. Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hey mega Steelers dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Last night while you were in Cleveland I was watching the game on NBC and Al Michaels did a profile on a player and they played your theme music in the background. It was awesome.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who was the player they did the profile on? <\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t remember because I was so hung up on the music that I didn\u2019t listen to Al Michaels\u2019 profile of the player.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Was it a Steelers player or a Browns player?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I believe it was a Browns player.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My City Was Gone is written by Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. She went away to pursue her rock career in Europe, and she came back and they turned her little town into a shopping mall. It\u2019s an anti-developer song, My City Was Gone. I forget the name of the city because I haven\u2019t listened to the lyrics in a long time. I was in the NBC booth last night. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was sitting four feet to the left of the Al Michaels, and I had headphones on but during commercial breaks I took the headphones off, shootin\u2019 the bull in there. I didn\u2019t hear that but I got a couple text messages from people saying, ‘Hey, they\u2019re playing your song. They\u2019re playing your theme song on Sunday Night Football.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I immediately figured out what it was, it was a welcome and a testimony to me. I was down in the truck before the game started, you know Fred Gaudelli who produced Monday Night Football for ABC just moved over to NBC, and I walked in their truck about an hour before the game. It was cool. They got all these high definition screens in there, all the late games going on, I was trying to figure out what happened with San Diego and Denver and so forth. And Fred Gaudelli says, ‘Hey, is Mike Maimone still working with you?\u2019 Mike Maimone\u2019s our broadcast engineer in New York. ‘Yeah, I haven\u2019t seen Maimone in a long time.\u2019 So I told Maimone that Fred Gaudelli said hi to him. Maimone said, ‘What happened to him when he left ABC?\u2019 So for guys that know each other they haven\u2019t stayed in touch. So I was the unifier, bringing Mike Maimone and Fred Gaudelli together. Those guys, it was a great time. I\u2019ve been up in their booth three or four times watching games. It was a hoot. It always is. It\u2019s amazing to watch how involved a live television —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a big Raider fan, and I always loved John Madden anyway.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You would never meet a nicer guy. It was 87 degrees in the booth, and he had to put makeup on right before the open, and he walks up and he says, ‘This is why you like radio better than TV, all this caked on gunk.\u2019 And I gave him a fist pump, you know, one of those Michelle Obama terrorist fist pumps. Amen, bro.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters.org says that NBC was playing My City Was Gone, my theme song, on a profile of Ben Roethlisberger. Nobody associates that song with Roethlisberger. They associate it with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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