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RUSH: As promised, it\u2019s now time to go to the phones. We\u2019ll start in Chicago. This is Patricia and nice to have you here, Patricia. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Been a longtime listener, first-time caller, public school teacher, back from Washington, DC, the most electrifyingly exciting experience of my life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have gotten tons of e-mails over the weekend from people saying the same thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I went with my brother, who is a retired firefighter, assistant fire chief. My first observation is the numbers. I could not see the end of the sea of people. It was a tsunami. It was like watching an erupting volcano.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. And it was peaceful. And there were some of the funniest signs I\u2019ve ever seen. One guy had a sign that said: ‘Doesn\u2019t matter what this sign says, they\u2019ll say it\u2019s racist anyway.\u2019 Just an absolutely fabulous sign and people were making some of the most creative signs out there. There was a picture of George Washington with a bubble like in a cartoon, with George Washington saying, ‘WTF?\u2019 (laughing) ‘What the… is happening to our country?\u2019 (laughing) It was fabulous. And when it was all over it was clean, just like Dan\u2019s Bake Sale. Now, the UK press, you talk about the numbers, folks, I saw the Drive-Bys, they said ‘tens of thousands of people.\u2019 Eventually somebody got the number pretty close to being right but the UK media saying two million. Others on the conservative side, ‘You know, it\u2019s tough to estimate.\u2019 You do the best you can with previous crowds and what they have said, but you look at the pictures and you try to estimate the grid, the number of people. It doesn\u2019t matter. The place was teeming and it makes no surprise State-Controlled Media would try to diminish it. <\/p>\n

Warren, New Jersey. Gene, hello, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. I was not only in the march, I was part of the contingent that actually led it up Pennsylvania Avenue. And anyone who sees the YouTube video will see a group of, it looks like Continental soldier reenactors with a fife and drum corps. I was one of the people that helped organize that to lead the parade, and we were supposed to meet up there at eight, but what a lot of people don\u2019t know is that the crowd for the march were supposed to meet at Freedom Plaza at nine o\u2019clock in the morning. The reenactors were supposed to be there at eight o\u2019clock. I got there at 7:30. When I got there at 7:30 there was over a thousand people in the plaza.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean to tell me a thousand racists showed up an hour-and-a-half early?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I like to think of them as a thousand patriots and they just kept pouring in. Now, the parade itself, the march itself wasn\u2019t scheduled to begin until 11:30. But by ten o\u2019clock, there were several thousand people, and they were still pouring in. I could see them coming in from every avenue leading to Freedom Plaza, and the district police were going crazy, they didn\u2019t know what to do, traffic was being blocked, Pennsylvania Avenue was being blocked, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know a lot of people on the ground in Washington were stunned by the size. You weren\u2019t, and I wasn\u2019t. I know the rage that\u2019s bubbling up out there, and it\u2019s real, and it\u2019s not going away.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Val in Philadelphia. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, hi, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can understand things are probably depressed in Philadelphia today what with the injury to the quarterback Donovan McNabb.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we\u2019ll see. It\u2019s always a first game and we won. What I\u2019m calling —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I find it interesting the guy\u2019s got a cracked rib. A cracked rib! Have you ever tried to walk with a cracked rib much less broken rib? Have you ever tried to walk? Have you ever tried to breathe with a broken or cracked rib?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You can\u2019t laugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the coach is saying, ‘Good chance he\u2019s going to play.\u2019 Whew!<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. Well, we\u2019ll see. You know, we\u2019re always the bridesmaid, never the bride, so we\u2019ll see what happens this year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I didn\u2019t mean to introduce a downer into what was obviously a very upbeat call. <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s okay. We have the Phillies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sorry for that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What I was calling about is this was any first protest march in Washington and I want to say I was just so uplifted by the entire experience. I was dead center on the lawn. I never heard one foul language. I never saw anything of the kind. I just saw good protesting going on. One of the signs that caught my attention, and there were numerous ones, was: ‘I am here representing people that could not make it,\u2019 and I thought to myself: ‘There is one difference here between this protest and others. These people all vote and they are serious.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but there\u2019s another bigger difference. There\u2019s another bigger difference. These kind of rallies, like the big pro-amnesty rally back in 2007 or any other Obama rally, they have to actually send out marching orders and instructions to get their people out. It\u2019s same thing for pro-Obama health care rallies. They are staged and organized. People of their own passion do not show up. This is important to mention, I think. I think this is the most important thing to mention about Saturday, the most important thing — and that is: There was no leader who organized this. There was no charismatic leader who was speaking. There was no person out there telling you to get your tail in gear and get to Washington. <\/p>\n

Yeah, there were some e-mails and websites you could go to to find details and so forth. But people went of their own volition. They went because of their own passion. (interruption) Yes, the program observer with a question. Well, if I had given out marching orders, the event would be discredited as being illegitimate, which is why I didn\u2019t. You think more people would show up? There\u2019s no question, but I purposely did not stay a word about this. We had a guy call on Friday. Snerdley, you were still out sick. We had a guy call here Friday thanking me for this whole thing. I said, ‘Look, sir, you\u2019re going on your own. I\u2019ve never asked people to go to this thing. I haven\u2019t even talked about it.\u2019<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t talk about it on purpose. I didn\u2019t talk about it on purpose because I didn\u2019t want State-Controlled Media using me to denigrate the whole thing. If I had urged people to go, then the whole process would have been called illegitimate. (interruption) Well, I know they\u2019re — no, they\u2019re not. They\u2019re not saying the event was illegitimate. They\u2019re trying to say it wasn\u2019t as loud as it was. I know they\u2019re trying to blame me. They\u2019re blaming me anyway. I knew this was going to happen, but if I had actually done it — if they had tape of me, is my point. If they had tape of me actually urging people to show up, then all weekend long they\u2019d say, ‘Well, this didn\u2019t mean anything. This is Limbaugh\u2019s mind-numbed robots.\u2019 I knew I didn\u2019t have to say anything. Look, my friends. I am a powerful, influential member of the media. If I wanted to, you know, first three sound bites of the program today in our first hour were the Drive-Bys ripping me for inspiring this thing. <\/p>\n

One of them ripped me for being the inspiration for \u201915 years.\u2019 I am the leader and spokesman for the last 15 years. Actually it\u2019s the last 21, but who\u2019s counting? So I knew that was going to happen anyway. If I wanted to, I could have opened this program, taken all the credit. I could have made this about me. But this is the seminal point. It wasn\u2019t about anybody. It wasn\u2019t about any charismatic leader. This is so distinguishing us from the left and their mobs which are cult-like blind to Obama. You understand? You did this. It\u2019s in your heart. This passion is genuine, bubbling up from the grassroots. It is a conservative ascendancy based on the substance and the premise: liberty versus tyranny. People don\u2019t want tyranny. So don\u2019t let anybody tell you this thing was not legit. It is so legit, it embarrasses everybody else.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Colleen in Virginia Beach, hello and welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. My husband and I went to the rally in DC and on our way home in the Metro station this young liberal guy was standing next to us, and he kept looking at this sticker I had on that said, ‘Abortion is not health care;\u2019 and he got really angry and started arguing with me, insisting that abortion services were not going to be in any health care bill because Obama said so. He was just really adamant about it and so I finally, very calmly — I stayed very calm — and I said, ‘Well, if that\u2019s true, why did the Democrats in the House vote against every amendment the Republicans tried to put in the bill that would specifically prohibit abortion services?\u2019 And he told me I was being overly paranoid. So finally he just got so upset he turned away and started I guess doing research on his BlackBerry because a few minutes later he turned around and apologized and said that I was right, that it was in the House bill. He just hadn\u2019t known that. And after that was very pleasant and actually spent the rest of the time talking about basketball with my husband. So he wanted to fight and argue and I just stayed calm and actually I just gave him some factual information.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, now. This is almost unprecedented.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I wonder where this guy went on his BlackBerry to find out what was in there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know. It was like five minutes and I kind of glanced over and I could see what it was and there was a lot of wording and he was going through it and going through it and going through it and he finally just turned around and apologized, and I thanked him, and said it was nice of him to apologize, and after that he was very pleasant.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That just doesn\u2019t happen. I was worried you might be shot like this abortion guy was.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: My gosh, I mean, that guy decided to get on the Internet via his BlackBerry and researched it and found it and said, ‘I\u2019m sorry, it is in the House bill\u2019?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he couldn\u2019t have called one of his buddies because his buddies the same thing. I mean, they all believe whatever Obama says. I wonder who he called. Did you ask him?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I didn\u2019t. He looked like he was just researching something online, but once we talked — and then after that he was willing to talk a little more and he said he had worked on health care legislation, and I said, ‘Well, did you work on the House side or the Senate side?\u2019 And he said he had been a fellow in Senator Kennedy\u2019s office when he was an undergraduate and then he had gone on to get his masters at NYU. And I thought, ‘Well, golly, no wonder. He\u2019s been programmed to think government is good,\u2019 and that the president said it\u2019s not going to be in there and Senator Kennedy thought this was all wonderful, well, he did, too. He was 20-something, you know. Maybe 24, 25 years old.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m still stammering into near speechlessness here. You were talking to a former Kennedy staffer who believed that abortion services were not covered because everybody had told him that, and then on the spur of the moment he decides to look it up and apologizes to you. I believe it happened; I just don\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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