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BECK: Now joining me on the phone is radio talk show host Mr. Rush Limbaugh. Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Glenn Beck. How are you, sir?<\/line><\/line>BECK: Very good, sir. I want to play something for you. I don\u2019t know if you just saw it, but I want to play it again. This is the new diversity officer for the FCC, a newly created position. This is what he said at a speech or talk he was giving about Chavez\u2019s Venezuela and how the media work down there. Watch this.<\/line><\/p>\n

MARK LLOYD: In Venezuela, with Chavez, you really had an incredible revolution — democratic revolution — to begin to put in place things that were going to have impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who were then controlling the media in Venezuela rebelled — worked, frankly, with folks here in the US government — worked to oust him. He came back and had another revolution, and Chavez then started to take the media very seriously in his country.<\/p>\n

BECK: Rush, I find that breathtaking.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I find the whole administration breathtaking, Glenn. You\u2019re doing great job this whole week. I mean I saw Sarah Palin even ‘tweeted\u2019 about what you\u2019re doing, urging people to watch. This whole administration is as radical and far left as any that the country has ever had, and what they\u2019re trying to do here to communications is simply stifle dissenting voices. They\u2019re trying to wipe out any opposition. If you look at Barack Obama and his track record as a politician, it is to clear the playing field. He doesn\u2019t even like debating his opponents. He just wants to get rid of them. And this ‘diversity czar\u2019 comes from a fringe, radical, Saul Alinsky-type of background; and the things that he\u2019s talking about doing — and I watched your show for the first half hour today — but the things he\u2019s talking about doing to shut down radio are simply un-American. It\u2019s not enough to say that it\u2019s not constitutional.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s simply un-American, and make no bones about it, folks, Glenn is right — and I think he\u2019s maybe underselling a little bit about as far as their intentions are concerned. The stimulus plan! Glenn, look at what they\u2019re doing to the US economy. Anybody with a sense of economic literacy would know this is not how you create jobs. You do not rebuild the private sector. This is being done on purpose. All of these disasters are exactly what Obama wants. The more crises, the better. The more opportunity for government to say, ‘Let us come in and fix the problem.\u2019 His number one opposition is on radio and Fox News. His number one opposition is on radio. They can\u2019t go Fairness Doctrine because it\u2019s too obvious. So they\u2019re trying to do this backdoor route with ‘diversity\u2019 and ownership, a 100% tax on operating in order to pay public radio because they\u2019re supposedly fair. It\u2019s insidious. But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna work in the end because the American people are too informed, Glenn. They\u2019re too aware of it. Their radio means too much to them. Their free speech — freedom in general — means way too much to them. And just as they\u2019re fighting back on health care and a number of other things, so will they fight back on this.<\/p>\n

BECK: Rush, tomorrow on this program I\u2019m going to lay out the case of the army that they are building right underneath our nose, an army that he spoke about on the campaign trail. If you watch what could only be called the organizations — or the administration\u2019s organ — anything involved with GE or NBC; you\u2019ve got now Jeffrey Immelt on the board of the Federal Reserve, you have in the Oval Office consulting not only on health care but the financial situation, and they are an organ. If you watch MSNBC, I contend that you will see the future, because they are laying the ground for a horrible event that will be… What they\u2019re laying the ground for, anything from the right some awful event — and I fear this government, this administration, has so much framework already prepared that they will seize power overnight before anybody even gives it a second thought.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think because of what you\u2019re doing with your television show, your radio show — what we\u2019re all doing here — I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to be able to seize it overnight without anybody knowing about it. You talk about the organized groups that they\u2019ve got. Let\u2019s look at the health care situation, what\u2019s happening right now. The genuine passion, the real passion is in individual Americans\u2019 hearts and minds. Individuals are showing up. They may be going to the Web to find out where these town halls are, but they\u2019re showing up because individually they don\u2019t want any part of this. The Obama army has to be bought and paid for. The Obama army has to be given marching orders. <\/p>\n

BECK: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Obama army is not showing up with any passion for Obama\u2019s issue, which is health care. They\u2019re showing up because they\u2019ve been instructed to by bosses. Now, this army that you\u2019re going to reveal tomorrow is probably going to be much the same way — and I\u2019m going to tell you something, Glenn. Passion, love of country — <\/p>\n

BECK: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — truth is going to outmaneuver and overpower fake passion, trumped-up people who are just given marching orders and sent out to act in a certain way. You know, we may be looking at Barack Obama destroying the Democrat Party. It\u2019s too soon to say that now, but we may be looking at that happen. There are reasons for optimism, but you are right: It is a dangerous time. It\u2019s the most dangerous time in my life for freedom and liberty in this country.<\/p>\n

BECK: I will tell you, a lot of people would say, ‘Well, that\u2019s Rush Limbaugh. He\u2019s… You know, this is hyperbole,\u2019 et cetera, et cetera. Would you agree with me, Rush, that this is not conservatives or Republicans or independents talking about this because they don\u2019t like Rush — they don\u2019t like Barack Obama. These are Americans. I\u2019m an American. I\u2019m speaking to you as an American. This is bad for anyone unless you\u2019re in the power circle. You don\u2019t want to go down this road with what they\u2019re proposing with the FCC.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. Well, I don\u2019t want to go down the road with anything they\u2019re proposing on anything, Glenn. But you ask an interesting question. You know are people going to react to me simply because, ‘Well, it\u2019s hyperbole. It\u2019s what these guys do\u2019? My first hour yesterday was chronicling how this man is systematically dismantling our ability to gather intelligence to protect ourselves against an attack. He is purposely using his attorney general to make the United States the villain of the world — and I\u2019m going to tell you, folks: from the bottom of my heart, I am uncomfortable thinking and saying these things about a man who\u2019s been elected president of the United States. It is terribly upsetting and disconcerting, and I wish I didn\u2019t think it and I wish I didn\u2019t have to say it. But there\u2019s no way to sugarcoat it. This is not politics as usual. This is not left versus right. This is not Republican versus Democrat. This is statism, totalitarianism versus freedom. And if these people are allowed to go where they want to go unchecked, then some people, a lot of people — I don\u2019t think half the country, but close — will wake up one day and find, ‘My God, what the hell happened?\u2019 Because this is not what they voted for. They had no intention of this. They thought they were getting something entirely different and it is a responsibility that we all have being honest and earnest to inform people of what these possibilities are because they are very real. <\/p>\n

BECK: More with Rush Limbaugh next.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

LLOYD: In Venezuela, with Chavez, you really have an incredible revolution — democratic revolution — to begin to put in place things that were going to have impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who were then controlling the media in Venezuela rebelled — worked, frankly, with folks here in the US government — worked to oust him. He came back and had another revolution, and Chavez then started to take the media very seriously in his country.<\/p>\n

BECK: America, I want to… First of all I want to thank the watchdog for bringing that video to my attention. You can be a watchdog. Just tweet me whenever you see things like this. But I have to ask you an honest effort here. I need you to scour the Internet and look for all the people involved with this government giving speeches and listen to them, and then pull them off and archive them yourself. Pull them off onto your own computer, because I think things could get scrubbed quickly. We\u2019re back with radio talk show host Mr. Rush Limbaugh. Rush, when I see this comment from him — and yesterday, we were, you know, all on Van Jones — an avowed communist, self-avowed communist, Marxist, revolutionary —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

BECK: — advising the president of the United States. [John] Holdren, our science czar. He comes out and he says that you don\u2019t have a right to, you know, a number of children. If you want to have three children, there\u2019s no right in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence if the government says there\u2019s only two children. Where is the true outrage from anyone in the media? Why are these things not grabbing traction at this point?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that doesn\u2019t surprise me at all. I think the whole concept of reporting has gone out the window. I call them the State-Controlled Media because it\u2019s what they are. They\u2019re just repeaters. They take dictation from Rahm Emanuel for the most part, and they simply run with it. It\u2019s who they are, too. They think, Glenn, at the end of all this that they are going to be in the elite circle. They think they\u2019re going to be untouched by any of this. They think the Fairness Doctrine attack, or the attack on radio, is going to leave them alone. My father used to tell me when I was growing up and my brother when he was trying to warn me of the threat posed by Soviet communism and he told me about the media, he said, ‘These people are such fools. Don\u2019t they understand they\u2019re going to be the first ones shut up if this kind of thing ever happens in this country?\u2019 I think it\u2019s just hero worship. I think these people, a lot of people come out of the civil rights era. This presidency is symbolic to them; it\u2019s historical. They\u2019re not reporting — in fact, Glenn, this is a great point. How is it that people know what\u2019s in the health care bill? The press isn\u2019t telling them. How is it that people know some of the plans the administration has? The Drive-By Media is not telling anybody anything — and they are discombobulated. I saw Chuck Todd the other day go ballistic because too many people are doing news now that are not journalists, that are not qualified and they\u2019re reflecting people\u2019s opinions on the media and so forth. These people, it\u2019s embarrassing. I think they\u2019ve met their Waterloo and their Waterloo is Obama.<\/p>\n

BECK: When I warned on the Patriot Act — which I was for as long as it had serious sunsets and as many booby traps in that thing as possible. I warned at the time I was really conflicted because you don\u2019t want to give a government this kind of power. The kind of power that this government has right now is staggering! Rush, they tried to go after you with Timothy McVeigh and tried to enact all of these things. Is it different now? Are you at all fearful or do you have any fear that these things will come to pass?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I do, and I take it seriously that they\u2019re going to try. But, you know, Glenn, they\u2019ve tried a number of things with me over the years. You mentioned McVeigh. They tried to blame me, Clinton did, for the Oklahoma City bombing. They\u2019ve routinely gone after me but they haven\u2019t been able to shake anything away and the reason is the bond of loyalty that I have with my audience. <\/p>\n

BECK: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have total credibility with the audience. It\u2019s an audience that continues to grow despite all of the new conservative shows on radio and television, and all of us in conservative media have that bond with our audience. The effort to discredit us is always going to fail. It will always fail as long as we remain true to who we are and don\u2019t disappoint our audiences in any way in terms of substance and being serious about what we really believe. So I\u2019m confident that this can be beaten back. If I weren\u2019t, you know what, Glenn? I\u2019d pack it all in and I\u2019d spend my money before they take it and I\u2019d go enjoy the rest of what my life is gonna be, but I —<\/p>\n

BECK: That\u2019s quite a shopping spree. Can I come with you? (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

BECK: All right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s plenty of room.<\/p>\n

BECK: Mr. Limbaugh, thank you very much. I appreciate your time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s always a pleasure, Glenn. Thanks for having me. <\/p>\n

BECK: Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And one of these days we gotta do this on camera. I lost all this weight. I gotta show the people.<\/p>\n

BECK: I… I would… I think he\u2019s hitting on me!<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

BECK: I think he\u2019s saying, ‘I\u2019m a sexy, sexy man.\u2019 Rush, thank you very much. We\u2019ll talk to you again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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