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RUSH: Larry in East Islip, New York, you\u2019re next on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush Limbaugh. How are you today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m doing well. Doing well. Thank you very much for calling.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Good. I was listening to you on the app, on the Rush Limbaugh app<\/a> last night after my shift behind the bar, and I heard you talking about Twitter. I wanted to let you know there is a group of us on Twitter who have carved out a niche or bypassed the typical Twitter liberalism and, you know, we call ourselves — we get on Trump trains or there\u2019s people that call themselves red pills or walk away.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s been very effective in getting the news out and getting the word out that there are so many like-minded people like us all over the country. Even though Twitter does a lot of stuff to hinder us, we still manage to get around and get our president\u2019s word out. They retweet some of your stuff, Sean Hannity\u2019s stuff, everyone else, and it\u2019s very efficient. Sometimes before your show even starts I can get a good grasp of what\u2019s gonna happen on your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I still need — of course I still need your input.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there you go. Nobody knows what\u2019s gonna be on this show before it starts because I don\u2019t even know until it starts. Now, look. So are you calling to offer a slight disagreement with what I said about Twitter yesterday?<\/a><\/p>\n

CALLER: I can\u2019t disagree with the numbers. I\u2019m not sure if the Pew stats are accurate, but there is a group of us that have bypassed. I to Twitter and look at Trump\u2019s tweets, I retweet his stuff and then I go to my feed. See, we follow each other. It\u2019s not about a follow or contest. I follow about 30,000 people, and I have about 30,000 followers. So it\u2019s not people trying to get — it\u2019s not a follower contest. It\u2019s about a bunch of people banding together, they call us MAGA patriots, and it\u2019s been very effective in boosting my morale.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so you\u2019re measuring the effectiveness by boosting your morale?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: How else are you measuring effectiveness?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, also by the accuracy of what\u2019s reported and what some of these people say on Twitter. ‘Cause I just don\u2019t take everything at face value. I will, you know, verify things. A lot of it\u2019s just retweeting articles and stuff but, you know, some of the opinions are wrong or facts, statements of facts may be wrong. But in general they\u2019re people that are all Americans, pro-Constitution —<\/p>\n

RUSH: For instance, do you know how many people all of this activity is reaching and if these people are changing their minds?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I know that there are a lot of people who claim to be former Democrats that I follow. So there are some people that have had their minds changed. And they call themselves walkaways.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Walkaways.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Walkaway from the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, walkaway from the Democrat Party. Okay. Well, look. Obviously people have called me over the years, \u201cHow do you stay so confident, Rush, how do you stay so optimistic?\u201d And my answer, \u2019cause I\u2019ve got this microphone here every day, and I have the ability to, within any 15-minute sweep, there are now probably, six and a half, seven million people listening, and over the course of a program, 12 million.<\/p>\n

And then over the course of a week, the weekly cume and the way radio ratings are measured — we\u2019re not really supposed to go into this in great detail — but we\u2019re up now close to 30 million people in a week.<\/p>\n

So I tell myself I\u2019m reaching a lot of people here. I got an opportunity, I\u2019m getting it off my chest, I don\u2019t have to walk around with it all bottled up. You\u2019re essentially saying the same thing. This is making you feel better simply because you\u2019re doing it, you\u2019ve got your 30,000 followers out there, and your retweets.<\/p>\n

And I understand that. You\u2019re not bottling it up and frustrated that nobody can hear what you think about it and you think the people you\u2019re saying things to don\u2019t know it otherwise. And so you feel like you\u2019re educating and informing people.<\/p>\n

My comment on Twitter is much more broad-based. I think it\u2019s a sewer. I think it\u2019s an absolute repository for human debris, and it is used as such by the Drive-By Media and the people that run Twitter are doing their level best to make sure people like you don\u2019t reach anybody of any significance.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re doing their best to mischaracterize and impugn the honor and integrity of conservatives and conservative sites, conservative networks, conservative anything. But it\u2019s primarily the way Twitter has come to be used as a so-called source authority by the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

For example, I stop paying attention to any news story when at any point in hearing it or reading it I see “and the internet blew up.” Okay. That makes it all artificial. The internet, Twitter blew up. How do — okay. Twitter blew up. That is a stand-in for America blew up, America\u2019s outraged. And it isn\u2019t the case. If Twitter blows up about something, it does not mean America blew up.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Twitter and whoever is there and whatever deadbeats are using it and giving it the reputation, they are not representative of a majority of Americans. It is portrayed that way by a lazy media which uses Twitter reaction as a stand-in for public reaction to any news stories.<\/p>\n

So they run a story saying, “Trump was driving his golf cart the other day and saw a little lizard and ran over it.” They run that story. \u201cTwitter blew up.\u201d They want you to believe that the country is outraged that Trump ran over a lizard on the golf course when most of America doesn\u2019t even know it, but they convey Twitter reaction to equal the reaction of the American people, the majority of the American people. And it just isn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n

But the effort is designed to make consumers of news think that a majority of people are reacting in ways that the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party would support, and it\u2019s designed to depress people, to dispirit people, to make them think they\u2019re in the minority, to make them think they\u2019re losing their country, losing control of their country, that the wackos are taking over. And it\u2019s all a mirage.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not denying the wackos are out there. And I\u2019m not denying that they\u2019re in significant numbers. But the internet blowing up is not a guaranteed stand-in for majority public opinion. And that is how it\u2019s presented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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