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RUSH: Open Line, Last Chance Friday, and we go to the phones, and we\u2019re going to start in New Bern, North Carolina. This is Edwin. Glad you called, sir, nice to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, mega dittos. I\u2019m a long time fan of your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, right, right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s been a thrill to listen to you over the years. Sometimes, Rush — I have two points. Sometimes, Rush, I would wish — I don\u2019t think it could ever happen — can you go one week without being so critical to everybody?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who\u2019s being critical?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, at times you can be very critical, and — <\/p>\n

RUSH: You misunderstand, Edwin. If you were a regular listener, you would understand that I am trying to be inspirational, informative, and educational. I love America. I hate to see it in the process of being so damaged this way, and I\u2019m sorry, I have a full knowledge of American history, I have a full understanding of the ideological intents of liberals versus conservatives, and I steadfastly oppose liberalism, it is a core principle and belief, wherever it is. I\u2019m out to educate people to its dangers so that it can not reach the position it has reached today, and we face a tragic future, Edwin. It\u2019s my duty to inform people of this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, and you do a marvelous job —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know that, thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But at times, sometimes I listen to you and I want to take a can of Spam and just throw it at my radio, \u2019cause sometimes, I mean, how would you like if somebody was critical about you on the radio for as many hours that you\u2019re on during the week every day?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Edwin, you know — <\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Next you\u2019re going to ask me, ‘Why don\u2019t we just give Obama some time here,\u2019 or something —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Like they gave George W. Bush time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019ve written to President Obama, and I wish that he and you would get together on the next — \u2019cause I don\u2019t think this whole call —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Edwin, President Obama has told the country not to listen to me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, see, that\u2019s just stupid, because I think that information is power, and from a person of my perspective who is an American, a minority, who served in the military, I think information is power and I think somebody in his administration —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You have a perfect conservative resume, everything except the knowledge to go along with it, otherwise you wouldn\u2019t be questioning me about anything that I\u2019m doing and you\u2019re saying if you\u2019re such a fan. You asked, Edwin, how would I like being criticized? Edwin, look, you\u2019re forcing me to talk about myself here. I do not like to because it sounds like complaining. Edwin you don\u2019t know what criticism is. I not only face criticism, I\u2019ve got ex-presidents saying I should be shut down, Edwin. I have had the Senate majority leader try to have me censored and thrown off of the radio. I am criticized multiple times everyday on the most obscure, wacko, leftist websites you can imagine. How would I like it? Edwin, I am a target, but pioneers take the arrows, my friends. You know, I love my country, Edwin. I don\u2019t believe in sitting around and giving somebody a chance to destroy it. That\u2019s not patriotic. I would be failing in my duty as a citizen to just sit back under the notion, ‘Hey, give him the benefit of the doubt, hey, give him some time, hey, he\u2019s a new president, give him a honeymoon.\u2019 Not while he is fundamentally — and he promised to do this — not while he is fundamentally transforming this country into a country it has never been. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to sit around under any pretense and let that happen. I am not going to be bipartisan. I\u2019m not going to give the benefit of the doubt to somebody about whom I have no doubt. I know exactly who Obama is, I know exactly what he plans, it\u2019s happening in front of our eyes. You ought to wake up and see it, Edwin, you ought to be able to see what\u2019s happening, and it ought to alarm you if you are the citizen that you have described to me in this phone call. Frankly, my friends, don\u2019t worry — Edwin, thanks very much, I appreciate it — don\u2019t worry, I didn\u2019t buy it. We know that\u2019s a seminar caller. Big fan, listened to you for years, love your show, but… But I\u2019m happy for these kinds of calls. Whoever inspires these people to call thinks that these calls are going to provide massive embarrassment when in fact they\u2019re just hanging curveballs, so give me more Edwins out there, leftists.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Bipartisanship, yes, we\u2019re supposed to sit around and compromise what we believe in just to get along. Let me ask you a question. Should Jesus have sat down with Satan and said, ‘Let\u2019s come to an understanding, let\u2019s make a deal\u2019?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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