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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, and my fellow citizens, according to the latest polling data from the McClatchy news organization, you are listening to one of the most popular Americans in the country. Rush Limbaugh, host of the most listened to radio talk show in America, heard right here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. It\u2019s great to have you with us. The telephone number if you\u2019d like to join us, as always, is 800-282-2882. <\/p>\n

Speaking of that, Open Line Friday on Wednesday today. I\u2019m out tomorrow and Friday on a long-scheduled charity outing. Open Line Friday on Wednesday means that when we go to the phones, you can talk about whatever you want to talk about, not what I demand be discussed here. And, by the way, that demand comes from the fact that I\u2019m a benevolent dictator. I just don\u2019t want to talk about things that bore me because nobody is going to want to listen to that, but on Fridays I take a great risk, for those of you new to the program, and turn over the programming content here to lovable and adorable, but nevertheless rank amateurs. I am the highly trained broadcast specialist, steering this program through the currents, but on Friday we let the deckhands have at it and it\u2019s always fun. So we\u2019re going to do that on Wednesday. Again, 800-282-2882, and e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

The McClatchy Company, it\u2019s just hilarious. I used to work for them, by the way. The radio station in Sacramento that still carries my program, KFBK AM 1530 is owned by McClatchy, they own the Sacramento Bee. The newspaper hated me when I was there. But they have done a poll, they have done a national poll, and they have found that about a third of the American people have a highly favorable opinion of me. Ladies and gentlemen, that makes me one of the most popular Americans in the country. Yeah, they\u2019re the ones that found me. McClatchy is the one, you\u2019d have to say, that gave me my big break. But if I have an approval rating above a third, that makes me higher than Congress, that makes me higher than lawyers, that puts me with a higher approval rate than Hollywood, and also, my approval number of 33% is higher than Obama\u2019s numbers are going to be when his presidency is over in 2012. And my approval number, 33%, that\u2019s higher than Vice President Biden\u2019s IQ. So this is fabulous news. <\/p>\n

The Rasmussen poll is out today and the daily tracking poll, the president\u2019s approval numbers at 56%. They are not climbing. The presidential approval numbers and plus the presidential approval index, that\u2019s the difference between strongly approve and strongly disapprove, is now just plus six. And those two lines, it started out, when he was inaugurated, at plus 30. So he\u2019s gone from around plus 30, presidential approval index, to plus six. He lost 24 points. That\u2019s big. Now, those two lines — there\u2019s a graph here on the Rasmussen website — when those two lines intersect and get to zero, it\u2019s going to be big problems. We\u2019ve had another American titan, business titan admit that he voted for Obama, but now says it\u2019s time for The Messiah to get rid of the chaos, to stop the chaos. This is Andy Grove, retired now, but chairman emeritus I think at Intel Corporation, and it\u2019s right out of the page of Jack Welch yesterday and Warren Buffett yesterday and Barton Biggs yesterday. ‘Oh, we love the guy. Ho, have you seen the family? They just look so great in the pictures there on the cover of People magazine, we just love the guy. His policies are destroying the country and there\u2019s chaos out there, but we love the guy, we voted for the guy.\u2019 <\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be a while before these people actually have — see, they\u2019re all saying privately, we know what they\u2019re saying publicly, they\u2019re saying publicly, ‘Hey, you gotta stop the chaos. Hey, these policies are not working, they won\u2019t work, Mr. President, you gotta do this. Love the guy. Is it wrong for a man to love another man?\u2019 But you have to imagine what they\u2019re saying in private about this now. I guarantee you, the people who know what they\u2019re doing in business, regardless of their political persuasion, have got to be concerned, especially, did you hear the president\u2019s press conference today? Sorry. He doesn\u2019t do press conferences. Excuse me. President Obama does teleprompter conferences. Have you noticed by the way, that President Obama is now doing all of his appearances either before this program or after this program? Do you know why? Want to know why? Because the White House is convinced, despite this latest poll from McClatchy, the White House is convinced that they have driven my polls. I\u2019m a radio guy. Now, admittedly, my friends, I understand where I am now. I understand what\u2019s happening. <\/p>\n

I have transcended media now. I have transcended mere broadcasting. Still I\u2019m a radio guy. They think that they have so successfully driven down my numbers that they\u2019re perfectly content for the president not to conflict with me now. They believe that the more people who hear me, the better it will be for the president. Now, I know there were no polls when Paul Revere began his ride, but I\u2019ll bet his numbers weren\u2019t very high. Don\u2019t worry, folks, I live in the world of principle, I don\u2019t live in the world of polls, and I shall not be deterred in standing up for what I think is right, and for my country, plain and simple. Have no fear. My brother, God love him, my little brother David, noted columnist, attorney, broadcast agent, audio-video expert, sent me a little note last night and said, ‘Are you okay? How are you holding up?\u2019 I said, ‘Well, what?\u2019 because it was about 9:30. He said, ‘All this demonization.\u2019 I said, ‘What demonization, I haven\u2019t seen any tonight.\u2019 ‘Oh, it\u2019s all over the place.\u2019 ‘Well, I haven\u2019t had the television on. I\u2019ve been doing other things.\u2019 I wrote back, ‘The thing that people don\u2019t understand is that this is not new. This demonization has been going on for 18 years.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I am not burdened. This is very, very key. For those of you — and I love you, and you know who you are — for those of you who are worried about me, please don\u2019t be. I am not burdened with the hope of expectations that those in the media and the Democrat Party are all of a sudden going to love me. And as such, I\u2019m never disappointed. I\u2019m never surprised. It\u2019s like I\u2019ve told you, don\u2019t look to the media to determine whether or not conservatism is winning the day. You\u2019re looking to the wrong places for validation. I\u2019m not burdened with the expectations of validation for places I know it\u2019s not going to come. I know what I\u2019m into, and it is what it is. I appreciate everybody\u2019s concern, but I\u2019m actually having more fun here than I\u2019ve had in years. This is exciting each and every day \u2019cause I\u2019ll tell you what I see, and it\u2019s plain as day. A lot of other people see it but they won\u2019t admit it, but there are huge problems inside the White House. There are huge problems with the White House relationship with the world. There are huge problems among the intelligent people, business people that voted for this man. There is a lot of concern out there over this ain\u2019t the way to go. <\/p>\n

We can beat this back. Do you understand, folks, that if the Republicans can get their act together and somehow win back a significant number of seats in the House and Senate, we can stop and prevent a lot of the first stimulus package from going into play because it doesn\u2019t go into play \u2019til 2011 and 2010. And now, by the way, did I tell you? Stimulus 2. The only thing I was wrong about, they\u2019re not waiting \u2019til the summer to talk about it. We need a new stimulus. Washington Post has it right here: ‘Congress May Need to Fund Another Stimulus.\u2019 Economists don\u2019t see the three-and-a-half million jobs being saved by the $1.6 trillion spent so far. It\u2019s too small. This was always in the cards. There is no job being saved or created because there\u2019s no stimulus in the first bill. This was nothing more than a head-fake trick to get all of these liberal pet projects into law, and now supposed stimulus will come, and then there will be TARP 2. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no mystery what\u2019s happening here. It\u2019s just that people, like we were discussing yesterday, people are reluctant to admit what they really know about liberals and about liberalism even though it\u2019s been in front of their faces for years. They have to see it happening at the moment. This is going to wake a lot of people up. I\u2019m encouraged, I\u2019m optimistic about this. I see an administration on the run here. I see a president who won\u2019t take questions from the press.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s another thing. In addition to McClatchy determining that I am one of the most popular Americans in the country today with a personal approval rating of 33%, do you realize that I have achieved this 33% approval rating without pandering to anybody and without giving away your money to other people? Can you imagine what my approval number would be if I had the ability to give away your money to other people? Why, I\u2019d be over 50%, too! But I, my friends, don\u2019t live in the world of polls. I live in the world of principle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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