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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT UNAIRED CLIP ON MCNABB<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: You raised it on your show before (air quotes) “the critics” could raise it. You resigned from ESPN because of the comment about Donovan McNabb.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah! It was a “comment” about the media.<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: A comment about the media, about Donovan McNabb. This…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look. See, a lot of people ask, “Don\u2019t you just you want to apologize?” No. I said exactly what I meant, and if you want me to, I\u2019ll say it again. Let me paint the picture here for you. In the production meeting the day before, I hear what everybody is going to discuss. They\u2019re all wringing their hands, “What\u2019s wrong with McNabb?” And I said, “Guys, I don\u2019t think that much is wrong. He\u2019s just a little overrated. The defense has held the team together. I think McNabb is benefiting a little bit because of social consciousness in the media. The league wants black quarterbacks to do well.” Bam! I do believe that there is a lot of social consciousness racism in the media, sports media especially. <\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: Mmmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think they\u2019re obsessed with it. And so I simply made that comment, but it was not critical of McNabb because he\u2019s black. Remember the production meetings: “What\u2019s wrong with McNabb?” I\u2019m sitting there thinking, “He\u2019s not as good as you guys are making him out to be.” That was the point of my comment.<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: You love football.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: I assume you loved that job. If you had it to do over again, would you not have said that comment because —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. See, you can\u2019t live that way.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT UNAIRED CLIP ON MCNABB<\/p>\n

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT UNAIRED CLIP ON MISS AMERICA<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: It has been announced that you will be a judge in the Miss America Pageant.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Isn\u2019t that a shock?<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: Why are…? (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: A noted conservative sexist asked to come out and judge fifty-three women to see who is Miss America? Why, the world may stop spinning over this!<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: Why are you doing this?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I grew up watching this pageant. The last thing I ever thought I would ever be is at it. They asked me to do it. I thought about it. You know it\u2019s a huge work commitment? They sent me the week-long itinerary from last year. The first free night is Thursday night.<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: Heavy lifting. (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)Yeah, yeah, yeah. And people said, “This is going to be hilarious! You judging the evening gown competition?” But it sounds to me like it\u2019s going to be fun. You know, I\u2019ve got myself in a really great place in life that few people ever get to, and it\u2019s another example of how blessed I am. I don\u2019t have to do very much anything I don\u2019t want to do anymore. Do you realize how many people will never be able to say that?<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: Mmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can do it if I want to, and I chose to. I just got a wild hare. I thought about it for two or three days and said, “You know what? I\u2019m going to do it,” and I know part of the fun of it is going to be it\u2019s on the heel of the news that came out about the football team, the Rams deal that I\u2019m in. Then this hits. These critics of yours that you have mentioned, they\u2019re just going to go nuts because this is the kind of stuff they have been trying to make sure didn\u2019t happen to me! All this stuff is “the mainstreaming of Rush Limbaugh” from off this far-right-wing fringe they\u2019ve tried to put me in. Here I am. I just keep tiptoeing into the mainstream, and it just irritates them, and I go, (arm pump) “Yeah!”<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: (laugh) Considering you are rather famous for mocking feminists, the word ‘feminazi\u2019 —<\/p>\n

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

JAMIE GANGEL: — comes to mind. I have to ask: Will you be a fair judge? Could…? <\/p>\n

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

JAMIE GANGEL: Would you vote for a liberal Miss America?<\/p>\n

RUSH: If that\u2019s the way it comes down. The ideology of these people… I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve never done this, so I don\u2019t know if you learn much about that until we get to it. They\u2019re all going to say they want world peace, and they\u2019re all going to say they want an end to pestilence and so forth or something. I mean, that\u2019s — <\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: But you saw what happened last year with the gay marriage question.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but that was the Miss USA Pageant. That\u2019s not Miss America.<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: You don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to…?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I\u2019m not going to penalize somebody that does not agree with me. This is not the Miss America “Conservative” Pageant. <\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s the Miss America Pageant.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT UNAIRED CLIP ON MISS AMERICA<\/p>\n

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT UNAIRED CLIP ON LETTERMAN<\/p>\n

RUSH: Our culture is very odd. It\u2019s very forgiving of the worst… Look at this Letterman business. <\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: Mmmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He gets applauded and laughed at, admitting…<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: What did you think of that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What?<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: What did you think of that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I look at it as a social commentator, and I just want to shake my head. I mean, it almost the… I\u2019m thinking, “His wife is watching this.” He didn\u2019t get around to apologizing to his wife, and to apologize to her on television? I mean, this was Oprah Winfrey show on steroids, and this is a comedy show. I thought, “He\u2019s out there admitting that he had sex with interns.” I mean, you know, NBC, I\u2019m sure, has a whole department that conducts annual seminars where employees are brought in and told, “This is what sexual harassment is and what it isn\u2019t, and you can\u2019t do it and so forth.” I\u2019m thinking, “This is all being applauded?” So the culture is very permissive. <\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: Mmmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There aren\u2019t too many guardrails on the highway, so we\u2019re free to drive off the road now and then. His ratings went up. So it tells you that people are more curious than ever about media personalities and their personal lives. If you look at Twitter, Facebook, MySpace — is that what it is? — The people, young people in this country particularly obsessed with fame. Everybody wants everybody else to know who they are and what they\u2019re doing. They are willing to give up all of this privacy, and it\u2019s 15 minutes of TV, and, man, people\u2019s lives are made! Even if it\u2019s just a shot of them sitting in an audience. You know, it\u2019s interesting. I think it\u2019s going to have some fallout as these people get older and their privacy is gone, and everybody knows everything about them, and the snoops that have no good intent with the information they learn are going to be stealing their identities or… <\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: Mmmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s going to be a mess.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT UNAIRED CLIP ON LETTERMAN<\/p>\n

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT UNAIRED CLIP ON MCCAIN<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: Are you partially responsible for McCain getting shellacked? <\/p>\n

RUSH: No. I wasn\u2019t on the ballot. He\u2019s responsible.<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: You know what I mean.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. I — (crosstalk) No!<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: By criticizing him did you keep…?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, see? Now there are probably people in media you\u2019d ask that question to and they\u2019d say, “Oh yeah! It was all me. I want you to think I have that kind of power and I want you to think I use that kind of power.” I\u2019m too big a realist. I couldn\u2019t have helped McCain no matter how much I wanted to. I couldn\u2019t hurt him more than he hurt himself. He\u2019s trying right now to “remake” the Republican Party. “We need to go out,” he said, I saw him the other day, “and get candidates that are in my image.” (claps hands) Well, that\u2019s great! Let\u2019s go out and find some more people who know how to lose!<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: (laughing)<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT UNAIRED CLIP ON MCCAIN<\/p>\n

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT UNAIRED CLIP ON RADIO SUCCESS<\/p>\n

JAMIE GANGEL: How much of what you say is about ideology and how much of it is about good business, that the more listeners you get the more your ratings go up?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The two are inseparable. I mean, like I told you a moment ago: I\u2019m not an actor. But let\u2019s face it. You know, radio is showbiz. This rap that I\u2019m “just an entertainer” is a way that critics of mine try to discredit me. You\u2019ll note that nobody takes me on on my ideas. Nobody argues ideas. They always say, “God, look at what… Did you hear what he said? He\u2019s this, he\u2019s that, he\u2019s outrageous, he\u2019s bombastic” or whatever. Those are attempts to discredit me among people that don\u2019t listen to me. But the media didn\u2019t make me and they can\u2019t break me. I mean, they\u2019ve been trying the same plays from their same playbook for twenty-one years as you mentioned. But radio is showbiz. There\u2019s a lot of noise out there. There\u2019s a lot of competition. You have to cut through it. And I love tweaking people: “Talent on loan from God!” There are actually people who think I\u2019m saying that I\u2019m God! That is thanking God for blessing me with the talent I do have “on loan,” because someday I\u2019m going to die. We are all going to die despite the Center for Science in the Public Interest trying to save us from leafy vegetables that contain poison. But we are all going to die. And so I simply take these elements of entertainment and seriousness and combine them. But if I were to walk in this room meeting you for the first time, I\u2019d never say, “Hey, Rush Limbaugh here! Talent on loan from God! How are you?” I don\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT UNAIRED CLIP ON RADIO SUCCESS<\/p>\n

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