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<\/p>\nRUSH: This is Keith in Atlanta. It\u2019s great to have you, Keith. How are you doing, sir?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m great, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I\u2019ve been a listener since the early nineties and I\u2019ve always been a fan of your nicknames. I think you and Trump have a unique talent for that. And one that I\u2019ve always gotten a chuckle out of that I almost feel like it\u2019s a private joke because I\u2019m not sure that everybody gets it, is Dingy Harry. I\u2019m pretty sure I know the origins of it, and I was wondering if you\u2019d indulge me.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Sure. Harry Reid to me was dirty. This is a guy lying about Mitt Romney not paying his taxes. This is the guy who tried to get me censured and apologized for, for claiming I was opposed to the U.S. military by creating a phony soldier. And, by the way, we raised $4 million off of the letter he wrote. The guy that was running Clear Channel at the time was Mark Mays. And you want to talk about a brave CEO, Mark Mays, he\u2019s one of the sons of Lowry Mays, the founder of Clear Channel.<\/p>\n
So Dingy Harry, Media Matters got this phony thing up. I\u2019d criticized a guy who was not a soldier, who was passing himself off as a decorated war veteran ripping into George W. Bush. So the media says, “Limbaugh rips into some guy, claims he\u2019s a phony soldier,” which he was. Dingy Harry went to the floor of the U.S. Senate to condemn me, a private citizen. I wished my parents were alive to hear it! And then he demands that Mark Mays do something to me, apologize for me or what have you.<\/p>\n
Mark Mays gave me the letter that Dingy Harry wrote him, and I auctioned it on eBay as an example of your government attempting to infringe on the free speech rights of an individual citizen, me. I promised to match whatever the highest bidder for that letter was. And somebody actually bought that letter for $2 million, two point one or something. I matched it so it was over $4 million that was raised for the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s Harry Reid. So you got Clint Eastwood out there as Dirty Harry. So you can\u2019t call him Dirty Harry \u2019cause Dirty Harry\u2019s already taken. So I came up with Dingy \u2019cause Dingy\u2019s even better because dingy is dirty and cloudy and murky and filthy. So that was my thinking on it, Keith. Is that what you assumed?<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s exactly right. And I love it, Rush. And again, it makes me smile every time I hear it. So thanks a lot for everything that you do.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I appreciate that. Thank you very much. I love those kinds of questions. How\u2019d you come up with the name Dingy Harry? I think I know, but I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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