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RUSH: Tom in Sandusky, Ohio. Great to have you with us, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. It\u2019s great to talk to you again. I really enjoy your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: One of the first things I do in the morning is I get up and turn on the computer and read the American Thinker and I usually read most of the articles in it depending on how much time I have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a great site.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, it is. I read that and a lot of other sites. But anyhow, there was an article in there called, ‘Poisoned Wells\u2019 by a Bruce Walker. And he took your name in vain, okay, along with O\u2019Reilly and — <\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re talking about the Law &amp; Order SVU show?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. At first I thought to myself, I was furious, you know, I mean my wife says I got a short temper —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but wait just a second. The American Thinker didn\u2019t do it. Law &amp; Order SVU did. The American Thinker reported it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. I didn\u2019t mean to say the American Thinker, the article in there by Bruce Walker mentioned that Law &amp; Order SVU did this, okay? But anyhow, one of the last comments was this Law &amp; Order SVU was not only instructing us which individuals are killers, but which political class of people in America are killers. And that just — I just blew my cork, you know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve known about this since last week. I generally choose to not respond to this because if I did it\u2019s all I would do. But I\u2019m a little long in this segment. I\u2019ll talk about this in the next hour, Tom. Thanks for the call.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Maybe it ought to bother me, folks, the stuff that the caller was talking about, when it was said about me on Law &amp; Order SVU that Limbaugh, O\u2019Reilly, Beck, all of them, they\u2019re like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate. It\u2019s said so often that it\u2019s commonplace. The left can do nothing but name call. They can\u2019t disagree with anything I say issue-wise, they do this, just so common that I just ignore it. It doesn\u2019t have any impact on me anymore. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, here\u2019s this clip from Law &amp; Order SVU, Special Victims Unit. It was last Wednesday night on the Obama network, NBC, run by Jeffrey Immelt (who Obama would never call a fat cat, by the way) and it\u2019s a scene between Senior Detective Odafin Tutuola (played by the well-known rapper Ice-T) and the attorney Randall Carver (who is played by John Larroquette) and they\u2019re talking about a defendant in a murder.<\/p>\n

TUTUOLA: I don\u2019t get why you defending this wacko.<\/p>\n

CARVER (fake accent): Target the symptom, not the disease.<\/p>\n

TUTUOLA: That symptom killed three kids.<\/p>\n

CARVER (fake accent): Garrison, Limbaugh, Beck, O\u2019Reilly, all of them, they are like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate. They have to convince folks that immigrants are the problem, not corporations that fail to pay a living wage or a broken health care system.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I heard about this the moment that it happened, and everybody around me says, ‘Rush, how can you sit there and let them say that about you?\u2019 Folks, they\u2019ve been saying this kind of stuff and worse for 21 years. I mean, look, Bill Clinton accused me of blowing up or being responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, for crying out loud. ‘Yeah, Rush, but you responded to that.\u2019 Well, I did, this being the president of the United States. This is a losing-rating TV show that used to be good but it\u2019s long ago since served its purpose. NBC is in the toilet with primetime programming and this is an example why. What they\u2019re doing here is the producer of the show is a guy named Dick Wolf, and he hires the writers, and the writers are gutless wonders. They have to put their own political beliefs in the show that they\u2019re on and they put their own beliefs in the words of their characters. <\/p>\n

They hide behind their characters when they put this stuff out there. Now, I\u2019ve always thought, when this kind of stuff happens, you know, ‘Why amplify it? Why broadcast it and do even larger audience?\u2019 and some people say, ‘But, Rush, they just are accusing you of inciting your audience to run out and kill illegals.\u2019 Well, maybe I\u2019m stupid. I just don\u2019t happen to think anybody\u2019s gonna believe that, anybody I care about is gonna believe that. I know t the people that are going to believe this or be entertained by it already think it. It\u2019s just, to me… I guess the value in playing it is and commenting on it is it\u2019s just an illustration of how far gone the Democrat Party is. The Democrat Party is the home today of renegade communists, out-of-work liberals and socialists, and Marxists. That\u2019s where they\u2019ve gravitated to and they happen to be running it now and their buddies in entertainment are no different.<\/p>\n

So I guess there\u2019s merit in playing it in the sense that it would suppose them even further for who they are. But in terms of it bothering me? I really appreciate you people being bothered by it, I do. I just want you to know: It doesn\u2019t bother me. When I hear about it, I laugh at it — and I sometimes I even laugh at the people also mentioned here who just had a cow and react to it as though they have been slandered and maligned and demand apologies and all this sort of thing, which is exactly what these clowns want. (interruption) Well, Snerdley is shouting in my ear, ‘It is slanderous.\u2019 I know. Maybe I\u2019m just too experienced at this. I just know it\u2019s the league I play in. This is what happens when you put yourself out there and it really is what happens when you\u2019re right. To me this is a testament of my effectiveness. I told you people long ago: I learned not to give people the power to offend me. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean to sound New Age-y. I\u2019m talking about genuine mental health. Why would I transfer that kind of power to people I don\u2019t even know, to mess and screw with my emotions and screw them up that way? That\u2019s for people who love me to do. The people I don\u2019t care about to do. (laughing) I couldn\u2019t care less, and I\u2019m not going to give them that power. I appreciate you being upset by it, but this stuff hasn\u2019t hurt. I mean personally. It hasn\u2019t hurt me personally, hasn\u2019t hurt professionally or business wise. But we\u2019re a very partisan, divided society, and the people in the left are in panic. The more power they get, the more irritated, the angrier, the more unflattering they become. They\u2019re not a happy bunch of campers. They\u2019re on the ropes now. Stop and think where these people are. Put yourself in their shoes. They bought all that New Age crap that Obama was selling. All during the campaign, they really bought it — and so did a lot of independents.<\/p>\n

They really bought the idea that for once in their lifetimes we were going to sweep away all the acrimony from our culture, we were going to get rid of all the bickering, the arguing. We were going to get rid of all the partisanship! The world is once again going to love us. The world never did hate us except the people who should hate us, our enemies. They never did hate us because of Iraq. The United States still is the place you come in this world to be the best you can be, and the lines of people getting in here are testament to it although there are some people who get to get in here to get in our safety hammock. It\u2019s not a net, it\u2019s a sham object but still on balance the people coming here want to become the best they can be. So if you bought into all this stuff that Obama represented, postpartisanship, postracialism… <\/p>\n

‘We\u2019re going to have no more racial divides in this country because we\u2019re going to finally assuage our guilt! We\u2019re going to elect the first black president. That\u2019s going to tell everybody we\u2019re finally good people. We\u2019re going to cleanse our souls. We\u2019re going to get rid of our past. We\u2019ve never had anybody like this!\u2019 Imagine if you believed that. ‘We\u2019re going to have full employment in six months! We\u2019re going to put people back to work.\u2019 They were at work until Obama got here. Obama has exacerbated it. Put yourself in their shoes. Put yourselves in the shoes of Dick Wolf and these lame writers. Imagine… Let me illustrate it this way. Imagine if in 1980 we elected Ronald Reagan because we believed him that he was going to cut taxes, that he was going to defeat the Soviets, that he was going to rebuild the military, that he was going to bring morning to America again. <\/p>\n

Imagine how we would feel if Reagan did the exact opposite. We would be mad, too! We would feel betrayed. We would feel anger, upset. Obama is selling these people out. He\u2019s not closed Gitmo. He hasn\u2019t gotten us out of Iraq. He sent even more troops into Afghanistan! The reasons that his kook fringe base voted for him, I mean he\u2019s spitting in their eye. (spits) Health care, it isn\u2019t going to insure all the millions of uninsured. There is no compassion in Barack Obama. There is no concern for the little guy. He\u2019s destroying everything! Now, imagine if you had voted for this guy. You\u2019d be steamed, too. You went into the election ticked off because you live ticked off. Your daily life is filled with rage! <\/p>\n

You have to have hate in your heart or you can\u2019t be a liberal. You have to manufacture that. That\u2019s what all this is about. And now you think finally your utopia was upon us. That this great and wonderful world where everybody was equal and everybody was the same and everybody had the same amount of respect and nobody was discriminated against except conservatives! You thought that was going to happen because The One, The Messiah, had been elected. Imagine how you would feel if you\u2019d voted for the guy. Well, that\u2019s where these people are. So they take it out on people like me \u2019cause they know — they know — if they ever get serious for a second, they know I\u2019m right. They know that all of us were right in warning the people what this country was going to become if this guy gets elected.<\/p>\n

They know it. So they hate us even more because the thing they really can\u2019t stand is for us to be right, and we\u2019re right all the time. We\u2019re so often right they don\u2019t discuss issues with us. They just have to name-call, accuse us of murder and hate and of course they\u2019re the ones that write books on assassinating Bush! They\u2019re the ones that write books and do movies on assassinating books. They\u2019re the ones that keep body counts of battlefield deaths. These are the people who urge defeat. I mean, can you imagine the psychology of these people? They\u2019re filled with anger, rage, and hate all day long, have to have an outlet for it. So in these people\u2019s case it\u2019s their stupid TV show. I\u2019m just surprised they didn\u2019t throw Sarah Palin in there, but they\u2019ve done enough with her over the months, they probably gave her a break on this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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