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RUSH: I started out last hour<\/a> asking, ‘If we\u2019re so dead, if conservatism is so dead, why aren\u2019t they dancing on the grave? Why do they try to kill us every day if we\u2019re already dead? Why they keep trying to jam the stake in our hearts?\u2019 Because we\u2019re not dead. They only want you to think we\u2019re dead. They want to dispirit anybody from standing up to oppose Obama. So yesterday I get wind of this listening tour, and I didn\u2019t go out and attack anybody personally on this tour. Jeb and these people. The headline said Jeb was saying ignore Reagan. I gave Jeb the benefit of the doubt. Based on what I read, Jeb didn\u2019t say that. The headline said it, but I don\u2019t think Jeb said it. Romney. I didn\u2019t rip these people personally. I just said we don\u2019t need to pander. We don\u2019t need to be going out and listening. We need to teach. Well, Debbie Dingell — she\u2019s Democrat ‘strategist,\u2019 Debbie Dingell — was on MSNBC this afternoon and the host, David Shuster, said, ‘Putting aside for a second the party issues, generally when a party is on a listening tour as opposed to a teaching tour, that\u2019s a problem, isn\u2019t it?\u2019<\/p>\n

DINGELL: No, I don\u2019t think so, quite frankly. I think teaching tours can be, uh, eh, eh, show a sign of arrogance. I think democracy is that you\u2019re of the people and you need to listen to the people. You do need to have sharing of ideas, but just the word ‘teaching\u2019 is arrogant to me; which I think Rush Limbaugh can be, at times. <\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Throw me in this mix. Of course, I\u2019m the one that came up with the notion we need to have a teaching tour. Ms. Dingell, let me tell you what\u2019s arrogant. What\u2019s arrogant is the president of the United States saying he\u2019s gonna ‘remake\u2019 this country. Remake it from what? What\u2019s so bad about it? He\u2019s going to remake it to what? What\u2019s so good about what he\u2019s gonna do? He doesn\u2019t have that constitutional authority, to remake this country. And believe me, all these people talk about listening to the American people, like Obama said he was? He\u2019s not listening to anybody. He\u2019s making a show of listening. He\u2019s a big show of making people think he\u2019s listening to them instead of doing what they want. <\/p>\n

He is a committed left-wing ideologue demagogue who is doing everything to implement his agenda as quickly as possible, regardless what anybody thinks. He\u2019s not even trying to teach people! He\u2019s misleading. The president of the United States is misleading people about his intentions, misleading people about the results of these policy ideas of his. They are horrible. They are destructive. They\u2019re going to put this nation in hock like we\u2019ve never been in hock before. Everything Barack Obama has touched is broken. The automobile industry, he bailed it out. He was going to fix it. It\u2019s broken! Wall Street is broken. Everything Obama claims he\u2019s fixing, — and, sadly, a lot of people believe — is broken. <\/p>\n

Instead of taking over things in the private sector where he has no business being, Ms. Dingell, how about Social Security and Medicare? Unfunded liabilities to $77 trillion in those programs, not one thing being done about it? Wait \u2019til that comes due. You people that believe in government have got enough messes in government that you\u2019ve made that have to be fixed without meddling in the private sector and screwing it up, too, all under the guise of doing a listening tour. This is why we do need a teaching tour. We need to teach people what\u2019s actually being done by way of deceit. An intricate web of deceit is being woven by Obama and this administration. They\u2019re misleading people entirely. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Joe Scarborough today talking to Mike Pence of Indiana, and during the interview, they have this exchange again about me and the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Rush Limbaugh said yesterday that GOP shouldn\u2019t pander by going on a listening tour, they should go on a teaching tour. What say you, sir?<\/p>\n

PENCE: Well, I — you know, I — you know, I love Rush, and — but I think the —<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Be careful.<\/p>\n

PENCE: — I think the objective here of the energy summit we\u2019re going to have today on Capitol Hill featuring former Governor John Engler, now head of the National Association of Manufacturers, is going to be about leaders in Washington, DC, listening and learning and helping to educate the American people about the real cost of the so-called cap-and-trade legislation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m saying! Scarborough and these guys are trying to twist this, and even Pence says, ‘We\u2019re going to listen.\u2019 They\u2019re gonna listen to experts about cap and trade so they can do, what, educate the American people about the truth of it. A teaching tour. If you don\u2019t like teaching, if that offends you, and I hope it doesn\u2019t, then call it a reminder tour or whatever. But somebody has got to go out and teach the truth about what Obama\u2019s doing and also remind people who and what conservatism is. Snerdley has a question. Hm-hm. My audience already knows the dangers to cap and trade because I\u2019ve been explaining it to them for two years, and how did I do that? I taught them. I did not arrogantly remind them about cap and trade. I said, ‘Folks, there\u2019s something happening out there I think you ought to know about.\u2019 There\u2019s no arrogance involved in it. I did not listen to them before I came up with my opinion on cap and trade, I told \u2019em and if they called and asked me questions about it, I answered the questions. But I didn\u2019t learn about cap and trade by running around asking people or listening to people, other than the people who are experts in the field. <\/p>\n

Now, we are experts in conservatism. Therefore, we ought to be the ones teaching it. I\u2019m sorry to lose my patience here, folks. If you are an expert, what the hell do you have to gain by listening to people who aren\u2019t? We got phony experts and so forth. You get my drift on this. This is all done with the best of intentions? I don\u2019t even get credit for that. I don\u2019t get credit for even having good intentions. I\u2019m just a mean polarizing, arrogant SOB. I don\u2019t even get credit for whining — (crying) — because everybody is trying to tell me how to do it. I was getting notes during my little monologue about Jack Kemp. ‘Well, I\u2019ll tell you what I think of Jack Kemp.\u2019 Didn\u2019t affect me, stuck to what I wanted to say about Jack Kemp. But it happens all the time. And, you know, it really is no more complicated than this, folks. The easier you make something look, the more everybody else thinks they can do it. It\u2019s a trait of greatness. ‘There he goes, now he\u2019s resorted to his pompous braggadocio personality.\u2019 It\u2019s a good thing I love myself, or I would be in a straightjacket. I\u2019d be in a straightjacket.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Snerdley or anybody else on the staff that\u2019s got the time, I need a research project done. I want you to go back to 1979, 1980, and then 1984, and I want you to find me all the dates of the Ronald Reagan listening tour. I want you to find me every date Ronald Reagan listened, scheduled a listening tour during his two campaigns for president. In fact, 1976, too, when he was trying to get the Republican GOP nomination. Find me all the dates that Reagan had his listening tour. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here is Russ, Lancaster, California. Great to have you with us, Russ. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good morning, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was calling because I was kind of wanting to get your input. You know how the Democrats are always espousing education as everything we need, and yet when you talk about education they try and slam you on it, when you talk about your teaching tour.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. That\u2019s because they\u2019re afraid of it. That\u2019s exactly the point. It\u2019s because they are afraid of it. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (garbled cell) Why aren\u2019t the Republicans taking them to task on this?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Say that again? I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry. Why aren\u2019t the Republicans taking them to task on this?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why aren\u2019t the Republicans taking them to task on it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Taking the Democratic media to task on this. (garbled)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because the media is not criticizing the Republicans; the media is criticizing me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, but all we hear —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Republicans say they\u2019re going on a listening tour. That\u2019s fine with the media. The media is fine. ‘Go listen all you want.\u2019 What they don\u2019t want is for Republicans to start teaching conservatism. I\u2019m the one advocating that. That\u2019s why they\u2019re coming after me. Look, I can\u2019t answer the question. I\u2019ve been asked for 20 years, in one form or another, ‘Why don\u2019t the Republicans defend? Why didn\u2019t Bush defend? Why don\u2019t they attack? Why don\u2019t they refute?\u2019 I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve speculated on every possible answer, and I fail to come up with one. I probably answered it in trying to cover them all, but I can\u2019t tell you for certain. When I\u2019ve asked them, they say, ‘Well, if we try, we won\u2019t get media coverage. The media will simply not cover us responding.\u2019 That\u2019s what they say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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