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RUSH: No, no, no, I don\u2019t think of it as courage. I don\u2019t think of it as courage at all. Snerdley is talking to me here, people are telling him that they can\u2019t believe how much courage I have speaking out against Obama. It\u2019s not courage, Mr. Snerdley. It\u2019s actually love. I\u2019ll explain this here in just a second. Greetings, my friends, and welcome. It\u2019s the Rush Limbaugh program. We\u2019re back at it at 800-282-2882 if you want to appear on the program. This is the EIB Network and the nation\u2019s most listened to radio talk show. Great to have you here. We have an exciting three hours straight ahead for you. <\/line><\/line>Snerdley says he\u2019s got so many people saying, ‘I can\u2019t believe how much courage Rush has.\u2019 And I get this note from H.R. today before the program started, ‘A lot of reaction to yesterday\u2019s show and particularly the first hour, hour-and-a-half.\u2019 You know, we need to put that on YouTube. I forgot to tell Koko that. We need to encode that from the Dittocam video yesterday and put it out on YouTube. At any rate, I got this note from H.R., he said, ‘A guy I frequently talk to said, ‘Your boss wanted Obama to fail.\u2019 The guy said that to me when I said Obama\u2019s taking his lumps on the economy.\u2019 H.R. told the guy, ‘Rush wanted the president\u2019s plan to spend your great-grandchildren into debt to fail because Rush knew Obama\u2019s plan wouldn\u2019t work. You think Rush is happy about somebody not working? We\u2019re spending money on shovels you won\u2019t get paid to see on bureaucracies you don\u2019t even know about, projects you\u2019ll never see, and if you do see \u2019em, not until 2010, and you still have unemployment rocketing. How about giving the American people their money back so they can pay their mortgage, buy products from companies that employ you and your neighbor, hold onto jobs, create tax revenue for the blessed government you hold so dear. You want the private sector to recover, Obama\u2019s throwing money down the rathole of government. Come on.\u2019 <\/line><\/p>\n

By the way, ladies and gentlemen, at RushLimbaugh.com, I didn\u2019t know that my acceptance speech receiving The Freedom of Speech award at Talkers Magazine Saturday was being videotaped, but Newsmax was there, Chris Ruddy and the boys were there and they videotaped it and we have linked to it now at RushLimbaugh.com<\/a>, and it\u2019s only ten minutes. I got a note from my brother, ‘How in the hell did you manage to keep your remarks to ten minutes?\u2019 Brevity is the soul of wit. I\u2019m speaking to about three or four hundred radio people in the audience, and I\u2019m talking about freedom of speech and so forth, and it\u2019s just ten minutes. You can listen to it whenever you have time. But this business of courage — and it was the linking of that video that reminded me of this — I\u2019m not trying to diffuse or deflect a compliment with that. I don\u2019t have to grab hold of myself and say, ‘Okay, it\u2019s time to get your guts in order now, time to be courageous here, be brave.\u2019 I don\u2019t look at it that way at all. <\/p>\n

I look at what I do here every day as a function of love. I love the United States of America; I love the people who make it work. I love the ability to speak. I\u2019m in the free speech business. I don\u2019t take it for granted. I love being able to say what I think. You know what else I love? I love not being afraid of what people say about me after I say what I think. I love not being affected by critics. I love it. It took me awhile to learn it, but I now love it. My whole career, this whole radio program is a labor of love, if you want to call it that, but I don\u2019t look at it as courage. Koko, the webmaster, said, ‘You really need to post this little speech of yours because so many people tell me they\u2019re just afraid to speak out about Obama.\u2019 I understand that. You\u2019re surrounded by brain dead Democrats and liberals who voted for the guy, or people who are not even necessarily Democrats or liberals, they just voted for the guy, they still have this cult like devotion and love for him so you\u2019re afraid to speak. Don\u2019t be afraid. As I say in this speech, I don\u2019t want to give it away because you ought to watch it, but the counter, the way to react to assaults on free speech is start shouting louder, more free speech. More speech, not cow tow; don\u2019t respond to critics and this kind of thing. <\/p>\n

Algore is going to find out here — you know, he\u2019s got two of his journalists imprisoned, sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea. One of these is Lisa Ling\u2019s sister, she used to be on The View, and Algore, I guess, is going to do something to try to get these journalists released. They work for his network, Current TV. I guess Algore is going to find out if global warming is more of a threat to the world than terrorism, as he claims. He claims that global warming is the bigger threat. These two reporters\u2019 lives, he\u2019s being sent to negotiate for, are not in danger of the ice caps melting. They are in danger of being worked to death and beaten to death by a communist tyrannical terrorist oriented regime. <\/p>\n

I got this great e-mail from a guy in Gilbert, Arizona. His name is Tim. ‘Dear Rush: After finishing listening to your enthralling first hour yesterday, I hooked up my iPod to my powerful audio system, I turned up the volume, I opened all the doors and windows so my neighbors could hear, and I played it again. And hear it they did. My neighbors came out into their backyards to listen, and I can tell you many of them had never heard anything like that what you were saying. It was fantastic.\u2019 I would love to have seen that. In Gilbert, Arizona, for a guy to hook it up to his massive audio system and blast it at all through the neighborhood. <\/p>\n

You know, folks, one of the things I have done in continuing our discussion of yesterday about how President Obama is destroying the United States economy, whether by accident or by design he is destroying the US economy. By the way, polling numbers on the economy, he\u2019s in trouble; he\u2019s starting to lose some ground here; it\u2019s starting to take hold I think. It\u2019s no time to celebrate here. It\u2019s time to keep up the pressure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: No, no, no, I don\u2019t think of it as courage. I don\u2019t think of it as courage at all. Snerdley is talking to me here, people are telling him that they can\u2019t believe how much courage I have speaking out against Obama. It\u2019s not courage, Mr. Snerdley. It\u2019s actually love. 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