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RUSH: The Washington Post and every news outlet… I mean, it\u2019s all over the place. There\u2019s a special election in New York State to replace Kirsten Gillibrand, who\u2019s the conservative Democrat who was named to — who? Replace who in the Senate? Hillary! Yeah. She was named to replace Hillary in the Senate. So her seat is up. It\u2019s a conservative district, and the Republican candidate, Jim Tedesco, was way ahead. He was up by double digits, and then he goofed up, and he said Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant to me. Then he had to backtrack on that and say, ‘That\u2019s not what I meant! I was talking…\u2019 <\/p>\n

This is a local race and he said, and I\u2019m tired of getting Limbaugh questions. So the Democrat has pulled even, and in the Washington Post: ‘Limbaugh an Issue in New York Special — Democrats are seeking to use … Rush Limbaugh to rally their base in advance of next week\u2019s special election in New York\u2019s 20th district. A new direct mail piece from businessman Scott Murphy\u2019s campaign features an angry shot of Limbaugh over the words ‘I hope Obama fails.\u2019 At the bottom of the piece in parentheses is written ‘Somebody wants you to stay home on March 31st….\u2019 On the back of the mailer, an Obama drawing is featured with text superimposed over it that accuses Rush Limbaugh and his lackeys in Washington of trying to be a roadblock to change America desperately needs.\u2019<\/p>\n

My picture is all over campaign literature in New York\u2019s 20th district. Not the picture of the candidate. Not the picture of the Republican candidate. In fact, I\u2019ve got screen shots here of the photos. I can show you on the Dittocam, those of you watching on the Dittocam. You can\u2019t read the text, but you can see there the literature. You see Obama, you see me and the so-called angry shot. What you do not see, what is not available in the e-mail or the campaign literature is anything the Democrat candidate stands for! The Democrat candidate doesn\u2019t give you one reason to elect him! The Democrat candidate is running ads saying that this guy on the Republican side is linked to me, that Limbaugh and his — meaning Limbaugh and my — lackeys in Washington are trying to see to it that you don\u2019t show up.<\/p>\n

I have never in my life told voters of any kind not to vote! I may have told a couple people Election Day was not the day they thought it was. (laughing) Just kidding. I\u2019ve never done that, either. I\u2019ve never told people not to vote! Do you know what I think? I think this Democrat, Scott Murphy, is so lacking in character or qualifications that he has to use me as a diversion from his own incompetence. I\u2019m going to tell you what, if I ever did run for office, and it\u2019s a long shot, folks, but if I ever ran for office, I\u2019d run for office on me and what I think this country needs is me and why it needs me and what I\u2019m going to do for the country and therefore you — and this guy is running against me! And I\u2019m not on the ballot. They\u2019re trying to put me on the ballot, my picture\u2019s all over. I\u2019m flattered, don\u2019t misunderstand. What I\u2019m saying is, to those of you in New York\u2019s 20th: You have a Democrat candidate who apparently cannot tell you why you should elect him! Of course, the Drive-Bys love all this. Chris Cillizza was on Chris Matthews last night on Hardball, and Matthews asks… It\u2019s a convoluted question. Let me see… ‘Chris, you\u2019ve just broken a story late this afternoon about the role being played, perhaps passively, if that\u2019s possible, by Rush Limbaugh, to…\u2019 I\u2019m playing no role, Chris! I didn\u2019t know this was happening until I saw it myself in the e-mail last night. Okay, Rush Limbaugh is playing a role to fill that House seat up in New York, who is now the Senator replacing Hillary. Here\u2019s Cillizza with his breaking news.<\/p>\n

CILLIZZA: There\u2019s a piece of direct mail that\u2019s gone out, uh, today, folks are receiving up in that district today from the Democratic candidate: A picture of Rush Limbaugh and a quote saying, ‘I want him to fail,\u2019 about the president and saying Rush Limbaugh wants to keep you from voting on March 31st. This is aimed at trying to drive out their base, trying to make people turn out in a special election where they might not turn out otherwise. It\u2019s an interesting move because I think they\u2019re trying to turn Rush Limbaugh into the bogeyman that George W. Bush was for the party in 2006 and 2008. That person that people went to the ballot box — Democrats, I\u2019m talking about — to vote against.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You go right ahead. You go ahead and run against a radio talk show host. You just do it. You are going to be shocked to see what happens. This is a conservative district up there, and you people in New York\u2019s 20th, what you have to remember, what you have to understand is you\u2019ve got a Democrat who doesn\u2019t have the guts to tell you who he is! He doesn\u2019t have the guts to tell you what his positions are on issues. And finally listen to Evan Thomas. Evan Thomas is at Newsweek, he\u2019s an executive at Newsweek, ad listen to this explanation here, how Rahm Emanuel suckered them into running that cover story on me.<\/p>\n

THOMAS: It\u2019s o-old tack and it\u2019s not just upstate New York Democrats. Rahm Emanuel did this very thing, what, about a month ago when he said that Rush Limbaugh is the head of the Republican Party. That set up this fury on cable TV and the cover of Newsweek. He suckered us into it, too, by putting Rush, uh,on the cover of Newsweek. It was a clever political trick: make a villain out of, uh, Rush Limbaugh to rally the Democratic base.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Can you believe this, Newsweek now saying they got suckered. Newsweek, Evan, you take dictation from Rahm Emanuel! He doesn\u2019t ‘sucker\u2019 you into it. Oh, we wouldn\u2019t have done the Limbaugh cover if we haven\u2019t gotten suckered into it by Rahm Emanuel? Come on, guys.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Darlene who is calling from the 20th district in New York, where the Democrat candidate, Scott Murphy, is trying to make it appear he\u2019s running against me. It is my picture in all of his literature, and he\u2019s telling people that I want Obama to fail and that I don\u2019t want people to show up and vote in the special election on March 31st. He is not telling anybody what he stands for or what he\u2019s going to do. He\u2019s running against me trying to tie his opponent, Jim Tedesco, to me. And Darlene is on the ground up there in New York 20. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I guess what I wanted was that I am a Republican, although I\u2019m far more conservative than I am Republican. I will be voting for Jim Tedesco. I have received far more literature from Jim Tedesco, far more commercials. Jim Tedesco is linking Nancy Pelosi to Scott Murphy and the stimulus and a lot of Obama\u2019s different liberal agenda to him, and I think he\u2019s doing a very good job. Where Scott Murphy, he doesn\u2019t seem to be able to run on any of his own merits and have not been able to pin anything on Jim Tedesco. And until yesterday, there hadn\u2019t been any national attention to this race. But when I was on the Internet last night going through different news media, I finally saw that I guess Joe Biden had run an ad in the state and different Democrats. You know, Obama was gonna say something for him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, now, now, now, now. What made this a national campaign was Murphy using me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s what got the Drive-Bys all talking about it, is the fact that I\u2019m all over his flyer and mailer with a so-called picture when I\u2019m mean and angry. This was from a personal appearance I made for our buddies in Detroit at WJR some years ago. It\u2019s actually not a bad picture, but they characterized the picture as ‘angry.\u2019 I\u2019m being emotive as I speak and making a speech. ‘He\u2019s angry! He\u2019s terribly angry, Rush Limbaugh!\u2019 But they\u2019re trying to make it look like they\u2019re running against me. What they\u2019re actually trying to do up there, Darlene, is they believe that I am so hated and reviled that the Democrat voting base in the 20th district will be so outraged that I am even involved in this race that they\u2019ll show up just to vote against me. You\u2019re right. Murphy is giving no voter one reason to vote for him. Now, that\u2019s odd when you consider that Democrats run this country. <\/p>\n

I know it\u2019s a conservative district, but he could be associating himself with Obama. He could be associating himself with Biden. He could be associating himself with David Paterson, all the Democrats. Andrew Cuomo. He could be doing that, except it\u2019s a conservative district, I know. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But he\u2019s a Democrat. He\u2019s a Democrat. He could be doing all of these wonderful things: ‘I want to join President Obama in destroying your liberty! Uh… I want to join President Obama in creating new jobs! I want to join President Obama as he turns us back into a third world country. Uh… I want to join President Obama as his half-brother still lives in a hut and his other half-brother now has cholera. I want to join with President Obama as we\u2019re about to deport good old Aunt Zeituni back to the Third World after he got his $500,000 book advance five days before being inaugurated. I want to support President Obama in the notion that he does not have to redistribute his own wealth to his own family. Vote for me: Scott Murphy!\u2019 <\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But he doesn\u2019t do that, he\u2019s running literature: ‘Rush Limbaugh is Satan and the devil! Vote for me.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Mmmm,\u2019 is right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggles) Well, at least in our town, all I see is Jim Tedesco signs out all over, and Scott Murphy just doesn\u2019t seem to be making any ground or headway, and I really hope —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well…<\/p>\n

CALLER: I hope —<\/p>\n

RUSH: He is. According to Drive-By Media polls, Tedesco had like a double-digit lead like a couple weeks ago, now the Drive-By pollmeisters say it\u2019s a dead heat and that\u2019s when they pulled me out, and they\u2019re claiming that Tedesco lost his lead because of his own campaign. I don\u2019t know what he did. Other than he said that I was irrelevant to him, and then he backtracked on that, said that\u2019s not what he meant. He\u2019s constantly peppered by the press, ‘What do you think of Rush Limbaugh? What do you think of Rush Limbaugh.\u2019 He doesn\u2019t care. He\u2019s got a local race up there in New York 20. Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant to this race is what he meant, but they ran with it. Oh! So then he backtracked. He did an apology. They ran another story: another gutless, wimp Republican, came apologizing to me. Which is not what he did. He didn\u2019t apologize. I don\u2019t care. It didn\u2019t matter to me at all but he supposedly apologized. This is what we read here. We\u2019re not there in the 20th as you are — with the great, I\u2019m sure, local media that you have.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Well, I\u2019ll be out on Tuesday voting for Jim Tedesco, because I think your last caller is right. We need to get back the Senate and the House, and we\u2019ve just gotta do this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Kin\u2019 A.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. <\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Kin\u2019 A.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019ll be out, so thank you very much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Darlene, it\u2019s a pleasure to have you on the EIB Network. Thank you —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Good-bye.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — very much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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