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RUSH: Walbridge, Ohio. Yvonne, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I saw your interview last night with Barbara Walters, and I tell you, you did prove that you were a tolerant person. When she asked the question about the recession and you choose not to be, that was brilliant. I think you put her in her place on that, and she thought she was really going to get you with this aging Hillary, and I just thought you handled yourself very well, and I wish it could have been a longer one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. You know, one of the reasons that I took your call first is that a lot of people have been e-mailing about the Barbara Walters special last night and a lot of people have asked, ‘What did they leave on the floor? What did they edit out?\u2019 You know, that kind of thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: One of the reasons — by the way, Yvonne, thanks much for the call — one of the reasons, ladies and gentlemen, I am not enthusiastic about television is that it drives me nuts getting feedback every time I\u2019m on television. When I had my own show, I would go home, I\u2019d check the e-mail, whatever, and nobody was ever satisfied. Everybody always had a complaint. I never get complaints about this radio show. I never have people say, ‘What you shoulda said was&hellip; and why did you let \u2019em ask that? You shoulda thrown it right back in their face.\u2019 I said, ‘What\u2019s the point? What\u2019s the point?\u2019 Nobody is ever satisfied with television because all that matters is how you look and nothing else matters. Nobody remembers what anybody ever says on television. I give you Obama. It\u2019s how you look; it\u2019s how you come off. <\/p>\n

Now, this little thing with Barbara Walters, we did this at the Ritz-Carlton hotel on a Wednesday afternoon after the program. We walked in there and we were over there about an hour-and-a-half. An hour and a half of taping — well, there was some downtime. Sat in the chair for an hour-and-a-half, and we knew this. We knew that it was going to be edited down to a two-and-a-half to three-minute segment. There was one comment that I remember getting. I was checking some of the e-mails on the airplane last night coming home, and one person said, ‘It looks like you weren\u2019t ready when she started,\u2019 and that was a correct comment. This is the first time that this has ever happened to me in an interview. We were sitting there and just chatting, and they were doing the lighting, and you just know, because of the way she was conducting herself that cameras weren\u2019t rolling. I mean, a TV professional like Barbara Walters is not going to be doing the things she was doing when the cameras were rolling, plus the idle chitchat was about personal lives, and out of the blue, after sitting there for ten minutes, out of the blue came this question about my contract. <\/p>\n

Usually what you hear is a cameraman say ‘Speed, ready to go,\u2019 and they ask the guy, ‘Are you ready to start now?\u2019 It was just right out of the blue, this question about the contract. Now, I, a highly trained broadcast specialist, was momentarily caught off guard by it, but I got right up to speed, realized what had happened in a flash, and, ‘No, I have no regrets.\u2019 What they edited out of that answer was — I don\u2019t remember what actually aired last night, but she asked me, ‘Are you worth it?\u2019 I said, ‘Yeah.\u2019 She said, ‘In a recession?\u2019 And I said, ‘Yes. I just choose not to participate.\u2019 And then — I know this didn\u2019t air — I said, ‘All it is is a percentage of what I generate,\u2019 and I went on to describe how it works in a very brief manner. Then the next question, which they didn\u2019t use any of because the whole premise was wrong, was about my addiction to painkillers. They had to totally scrub all of that because the question was wrong. And I don\u2019t want to — you know, it\u2019s on the floor so let\u2019s leave it on the floor, but the premise of the question was just dead wrong, and somebody sent me a note today, ‘What do you wish would have aired that didn\u2019t?\u2019 That, because the way I dealt with the faulty-premise of the question was the highlight. It caused them to stop tape. <\/p>\n

It was the highlight of the interview. I knew it would never air because she doesn\u2019t want to be wrong, and whoever researched it for her used one source to research the question. She went with it, and they eventually had to stop tape because there wasn\u2019t one aspect of the question, premise of the question that had any accuracy to it at all, so it would have made no sense for her to air. But aside from that, folks, it was friendly. We were yucking it up and having a good time. And I thought the way they edited it last night was superb. I watched some of the other parts of the show, and I didn\u2019t see — correct me if I\u2019m wrong here, because I might have missed somebody — but I didn\u2019t see very many of these other so-called fascinating people laughing big-time with Barbara Walters like I was. I mean, a couple times she just cracked me up and the question cracked me up or whatever. I thought, all told, the way it was edited it was fine, I had a good time doing it. There was nothing really confrontational about it. When I\u2019m known, as I am, in the media for who I am, and you accept an invitation to go on a show like this, you know what you\u2019re getting into. I know that I\u2019m going to get into a place where I\u2019m going to have to defend my existence. Yeah, I was challenged. <\/p>\n

The whole thing was a challenge. ‘Okay, prove why you\u2019re this; prove why you\u2019re not that.\u2019 And everybody asks, ‘How come you do these things with people who are gonna treat you this bad?\u2019 Well, I don\u2019t know, folks. You roll the dice and decide on a case-by-case basis. Most of the time I choose not to do it, but I\u2019ve been on her show before, been on her show 1993, she invited me to her home in the mid-nineties to have dinner with Margaret Thatcher and asked me to do the toast. So there\u2019s no real animosity between us. Walked out of there, I enjoyed it and had a good time. I even enjoyed the premise of some of her questions being wrong because — (laughing) — it was smackdown. Now, what are you grimacing at, Snerdley? I don\u2019t know that she did it on purpose. Snerdley is upset how I can tolerate these people doing these faulty-premise questions. I think it\u2019s her research people. You know, she\u2019s doing ten of these. You might say it\u2019s ultimately her responsibility, but she\u2019s got people she trusts, just like I trust you guys. Well, I know you don\u2019t get it wrong, but we know that they do. I walked in there full well expecting for this stuff to be asked and having it be wrong, because of stuff that\u2019s been said. Snerdley is yelling, ‘She\u2019s had it in for you for ten years.\u2019 They\u2019ve all got it in for me. Whenever you\u2019re at the top, everybody\u2019s gunning for you. It was 1993 all over again, Snerdley. <\/p>\n

We got Obama in there. Why do you think she made me one of the top ten most fascinating? I finally saw a promo. She thinks I\u2019m set up for a career resurgence. She thinks I went away and had nothing happen to me for the last eight years because Bush has been in the White House, now I\u2019m ready for a career resurgence \u2019cause Obama\u2019s there, plus the new contract, which she was fascinated by. I could have thrown back, ‘Well, wait a minute, Barbara. Want to talk about how much you make?\u2019 I coulda done that, but it didn\u2019t occur to me at the time. You know, I walk in there, be a nice guy, be who I am and so forth, and the bottom line, folks, is that it was harmless, she ended up being charmed, and I don\u2019t think there was anybody more fascinating on that show last night than me anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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