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RUSH: It\u2019s Open Line Friday on Thursday today. We\u2019re going to start in North Hills, California. Suzanne, great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Good morning, Rush. I wanted to start by apologizing. I always thought you were a loud-mouthed blowhard, sadly, until I saw your national address on C-SPAN, and after that moment I was a convert. My mother and my brother have been trying to drag me to the dark side for the longest time, and all I kept thinking was, ‘What was wrong with this man?\u2019 When I finally saw you, on top of the fact that you\u2019re adorable —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughed) Dragged to the dark side.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — it was entertaining, it was informative. It was something that I should have been listening to years ago, and they were right, which I hate admitting. So I wanted to apologize to start with, and the next time you\u2019re in LA I\u2019d love to take you to dinner, so we can write it off.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where is North Hills, California, by the way?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Near Northridge, north of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Northridge, okay. You know, it\u2019s very interesting that you were — well, I\u2019m not surprised you were converted off the CPAC speech, but did you see it per se or —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, you didn\u2019t see media clips of it —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I saw the speech.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what did you believe prior to that, and why?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sadly, I work in the legal field so I\u2019m surrounded by Democrats and liberals except for one conservative and she\u2019s at the other end of the office so all I hear is the same liberal media crap and the same butt licking that they all give to Obama —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, I need to understand. Are you a liberal at the same time you\u2019re hanging around with all the liberal crap or —<\/p>\n

CALLER: God, no. No, I\u2019m a staunch Republican. I happened to catch you, every time I stepped in the room and they had you on it was at that point when you were self-stroking yourself and it was like, oh, my God what is wrong with this man?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know that I have ever done that on the radio.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, since I don\u2019t have a webcam I can\u2019t be sure, but when you talk about, you know, how intelligent and how bright and on and on you went and I went, you know, he\u2019s starting to sound like the Democrats until, like I said, when I saw it on C-SPAN, it\u2019s the way you came across, it was the amount of information I got without — usually when I listen to a lot of the subjects you cover I get so angry, not at you, but at how stupid the bulk of people seem to be.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I got an e-mail today, and this probably will reflect similarly on your experience. I get these so often that I think that they are seminar e-mails actually sent in by liberals lying to me, pretending to be conservatives in hopes of depressing me. I\u2019m too strong for that. I got a note today from a guy who said, ‘All right, yesterday I finally convinced my girlfriend to listen to you, finally, it\u2019s taken me years. And what did you start with? Obama throwing like a girl. And she said, see, ‘This guy is an A– I don\u2019t want anything to do with him,” and the guy is lamenting, ‘It took me years to get her to listen and you start with the Obama throws like a girl.\u2019 So it sounds like —<\/p>\n

CALLER: But he does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They gotta get him into some manly sports because he comes across as a moron and he can\u2019t think for himself much less speak for himself and he sure as hell doesn\u2019t speak for me and the rest of the country.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: You know, this is amazing to me. This is really enlightening to me because here you are, you are me and you hated my guts before you saw that CPAC speech.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I said I was sorry. I\u2019m sincere for the most part. It\u2019s an ulterior motive, I just wanted to ask you out for dinner.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I\u2019m attached, I must be honest.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I didn\u2019t say I wanted to take you home! I just said to dinner. She can come along. I don\u2019t care. What I really wanted was to pick your brain more, was to hear more about —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh!<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I wanted to take you to a Republican dominated restaurant. I\u2019m sorry, a liberal dominated —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where, in Northridge?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it\u2019s in Sherman Oaks on Ventura Boulevard and the bulk of what I hear is Obama is so fabulous and health care is what we need and money for the children.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I gotta ask you one more question. I got limited time here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why, if you are as conservative as you are, and knowing the media are who they are, why did you believe what these admitted liberals were saying about me?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I didn\u2019t believe what they said, it\u2019s just it\u2019s one of those things where you have selective hearing. Finally you just tune it out completely, so it\u2019s like I don\u2019t have to listen to you, I don\u2019t have to listen to them. But then, like I said, to see you, now I listen to you. I listen to you at work and I leave the radio up. Some people won\u2019t come in my office now, but that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I gotta run. Thanks for the invitation, Suzanne, I appreciate it. What a nice first call I had. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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