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RUSH: This is kind of a waste of time because we\u2019re going to be giving airtime to a stupid person, and I\u2019m growing more and more unable to suffer fools politely. Well, we haven\u2019t played Biden a lot lately, frankly. We\u2019ve played Biden, but Biden is funny when he\u2019s stupid and ignorant. But stuff… There are a lot of fools out there today, particularly in politics. But people say these are funny, so here we go. It\u2019s C-SPAN\u2019s Washington Journal yesterday morning. Steve Scully spoke with Connie Schultz of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Steve Scully said, ‘We had a caller mention Rush Limbaugh and others. What do you think of Limbaugh?\u2019<\/p>\n

SCHULTZ: Rush Limbaugh in particular — is is… There\u2019s so much hate there, and it — and it fuels people who want to be angry, who just want to hate. And certainly right now, in our country there\u2019s so little product — productive, umm, outcome from that. We could talk about this as human beings. When I\u2019m angry, what I\u2019m all worked up, I am not my best self. Heh! I… My vision is affected in terms of how I see things; my opinions are distorted by my rage. Um, I — I — I don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever a good idea to try to just fuel rage in people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what she\u2019s reacting to here, as we\u2019ll learn in the next sound bite, is she thinks that it was hate-filled rage that made me say I wanted Obama to fail. That\u2019s Connie Schultz of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and it\u2019s paramount-ly obvious, manifestly obvious that she\u2019s never listened to this program. There\u2019s no hate on this program. There\u2019s no rage on this program. But it\u2019s typical. She\u2019s a journalist. She\u2019s supposedly among the best and brightest, some of the most informed people, one of the most informed people out there. She\u2019s blithering-ly ignorant when it comes to this program. ‘It\u2019s just so much hate. So much hate!\u2019 So Scully said, ‘Well, do you think Rush…?\u2019 Because Scully knows me. I mean, I\u2019ve run into Scully a lot of places and one thing I know: Scully would never say I\u2019m a hateful person. ‘You think Rush Limbaugh\u2019s a hateful person?\u2019<\/p>\n

SCHULTZ: If you\u2019re going to encourage people to be hateful, you are hateful. I\u2019ve had a little experience with Rush Limbaugh fans recently because I wrote a column about — um, he had claimed he wanted to know how — huh, huh — why women don\u2019t like him. You know, a lot of women in this country care about the outcome of this country, and they don\u2019t like it when he says he wants Barack Obama to fail. To me, that\u2019s unconscionable right now! When you talk about the consequences of if the president fails and what he\u2019s trying to do to save this country. Think of the consequences. Really? Really! Do you want that? So yes. I would say that\u2019s hateful.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So really, it\u2019s… (sigh) She\u2019s just so ignorant, it is almost not worthy of comment. But I will comment. (sigh) In the first place, she didn\u2019t get that the women\u2019s summit was a joke (it was satire) because liberals can\u2019t laugh these days. There\u2019s nothing funny to them, particularly if you challenge political correctness. Obama failing, Ms. Schultz… I do not want President Obama being the CEO of Chrysler or the UAW being the CEO of Chrysler. I do not want Wall Street ‘cut down so-to-size.\u2019 Obama succeeding, to me, precisely means America failing as we\u2019ve known it. I do not want America to fail. I love America. I want America to survive, which is why I want Obama to fail because Obama has promised to go ‘remake America.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Well, he doesn\u2019t have that constitutional authority. There\u2019s nothing in the Constitution giving the executive branch the right to remake America; to rewrite, to redo the Constitution. Suffering fools, it\u2019s just getting harder and harder and harder as I grow — especially in fields of endeavor where you think there\u2019s going to be at least an average IQ. Maybe she doesn\u2019t have an IQ of three figures. Maybe she can\u2019t crack 100 on an IQ test. But for crying out loud, even with an IQ of 90 — with just some little bit of critical thinking ability — you ought to be able to understand and analyze what ‘I want Obama to fail\u2019 means. Does she not have the ability to ask herself, did she want George Bush to fail in Iraq? Did the Democrats want George Bush to fail? <\/p>\n

What about the consequences to America if Bush had failed in Iraq, Connie? Sadly, it\u2019s a waste of time. Her next column will be on how I ‘hatefully\u2019 responded to her and ginned up all kinds of ‘hate mail\u2019 to her as a result of my playing her sound bites. Well, she\u2019s right. TIME Magazine, the top 100 most influential, I\u2019m number one in the arts and entertainers category. H.R. just said, ‘How can you be an entertainer and be hateful?\u2019 I mean, even Don Rickles is loved, even though he\u2019s a great insulter. How can you be hateful and be an entertainer? Let\u2019s see. Yeah. Connie, you know, I\u2019m going to be speaking before a thousand people at the Heritage Foundation tonight. Do you think all of them said, ‘Hey, honey, Limbaugh is in town tonight! Let\u2019s go listen to some hate\u2019? You think that\u2019s why they\u2019re showing up, Connie? Ditz. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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