{"id":336994,"date":"2020-02-18T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=336994"},"modified":"2020-02-20T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:30:23","slug":"pelosi-still-bothered-by-my-medal-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/18\/pelosi-still-bothered-by-my-medal-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Still Bothered by My Medal of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Nancy Pelosi is still bothered by the fact that I was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the State of the Union address. She was on CNN with Christiane Amanpour complaining and whining and moaning about it. What has it been, 2-1\/2 weeks?<\/p>\n

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When does a State of the Union address last 2-1\/2 weeks? When I am part of it. It\u2019s amazing. I\u2019ll let you hear the sound bite we get back.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, the State of the Union was two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, yesterday. Okay, and it is still being talked about. Now, what State of the Union address can you recall that had a life span of two weeks? Presidents give State of the Union speeches; there\u2019s reaction that night, the next day. Then the next series of news events overwhelm, and people forget it.<\/p>\n

Nancy Pelosi is still upset about what happened at the Trump State of the Union two weeks ago. She sat down for interview with Christiane Amanpour, still talking about it two weeks later. Once again, proving: When has a State of the Union show been talked about this much? Only when I am part of it. So Christiane Amanpour says, “I just want ask you, when you ripped up the president\u2019s State of the Union address, did Vice President Pence say anything to you?”<\/p>\n

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PELOSI: No, he may… He may not even have known. He was just looking straight at the president. I was very disappointed in the fact that the president used the chamber of the House of Representatives, the people\u2019s house, as a backdrop for a reality show, giving the presidential medal to Rush Limbaugh. That\u2019s something he should do in his own office. When he started talking about a person so respected in our country diagnosed with cancer, we thought he was going to be talking about John Lewis, and even if he\u2019s talking about Rush Limbaugh —<\/p>\n

AMANPOUR: The great congressman, civil rights leader.<\/p>\n

PELOSI: Civil rights leader, yeah. And even talking about Rush Limbaugh, as being sick? He has our sympathy. But the Medal of Freedom? No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, of course not. The Medal of Freedom? No. It\u2019s still got \u2019em discombobulated. They can\u2019t see straight over it and are still talking about it, and Pelosi still using it… Do you realize what an honor it is for me to be the reason she ripped up Trump\u2019s State of the Union address? In addition to everything else, to have the ability to discombobulate these people to this extent that two weeks later their noses are still out of joint about it? It\u2019s just amazing.<\/p>\n

The piece that I mentioned in the first hour that is running on the FoxNews.com Opinion section today by Peter Rosenberger, “How One Call to Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Show Changed Countless Lives.”<\/a> There\u2019s a paragraph here that I want to share with you from Mr. Rosenberger\u2019s piece, and it\u2019s something that many of you say to me when I have the occasion to meet you. “It remains astonishing how many people despise Rush while admitting they never listen to him.” That has been a 31-year phenomenon, folks.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know the answer to it. I can tell you why. Yeah, I\u2019ve said to my friends. I said, “Outside of the people who know me and outside of the gazillions of people that listen to me, with the people that don\u2019t listen to me, my reputation is shot.” I\u2019m not even saying whether deservedly or undeservedly. It is shot, and it\u2019s for one reason, and it is the media. I mean, people that have never heard this program — and it\u2019s not just this program a lot of people haven\u2019t heard.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of people who never see a movie that tell you what they think about it based on what they\u2019ve been told in a review. There are people have never watched Fox News who think that it\u2019s daily Adolf Hitler claptrap because this is what CNN and the New York Times and others in the media tell them about it. And it\u2019s always amazed me that there hasn\u2019t been a degree of curiosity among people. Now, you\u2019ve heard people call here who have been in this group.<\/p>\n

They never listened, and they thought I was X, Y, and Z. Then listened to the program. They were shocked and stunned. There\u2019s been a lot of that over the years, and there\u2019s a lot of that that happens with Fox News and with other impugned and maligned personalities out there. But what it is, it\u2019s the way the left operates. Rather than enter the arena of ideas and start debating the ideas that I believe in, they simply attempt to discredit anybody who is effective in explaining opposition ideas.<\/p>\n

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Rather than debate, rather than try to prevail in a debut, rather than try to win in the arena of ideas, just discredit the people that you disagree with. That\u2019s what they do, and that\u2019s why the great dichotomy. But, folks, this is why I\u2019ve always said that it is all of you who get me through. Nobody is raised to want to be hated. Just the exact opposite. Everybody\u2019s raised to want to be loved. In fact, people are raised to want to be loved so intensely that people screw themselves up trying to be loved.<\/p>\n

They trying to become what they think everybody wants them to be rather than being themselves, and if you\u2019re never yourself — if you\u2019re always trying to figure out what somebody wants you to be or what somebody expects you to be — you\u2019re never gonna have any real intimacy with anybody because they\u2019re never gonna get to know you. It\u2019s a fact of humanity. It\u2019s a fact of life. Everybody wants to be loved. They\u2019ll do whatever it takes to be loved. People become imprisoned by what other people think of them.<\/p>\n

I, fortunately… I would not have lasted this long if I hadn\u2019t been able to get past that, if I hadn\u2019t been able to get past what people think of me, particularly negatively, and if I hadn\u2019t learned to take that as a sign or an indicator of success. See, that\u2019s what\u2019s psychologically tough is, because nobody\u2019s raised that way. Nobody\u2019s raised, “Son, when they hate you, that means you\u2019re really kicking ass. When they hate you, you\u2019re doing well!” Nobody\u2019s raised that way.<\/p>\n

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But when it happens to you, that\u2019s what they say. “It just means that you\u2019re effective. Don\u2019t sweat it. It just means that they don\u2019t know how to deal with.” When it happens, they give you that excuse. But nobody\u2019s raised that way, and so it has been all of you — knowing you\u2019re there, knowing you know the truth, knowing you know it\u2019s all bogus. You in this audience, when you see these ridiculous claims made about me or others who do what I do, you know it isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n

You stand by us anyway. Your loyalty is constant and is 100%. That\u2019s what gets me through. That\u2019s what enables me in many ways and in large part to persevere and just be able to look the other way at it, ignore it. I don\u2019t know \u2019em. They don\u2019t know me. So why does it matter what they think anyway? And it hasn\u2019t affected business in any way shape… Well, they\u2019ve tried but we have overcome every attempt that they have made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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