{"id":34388,"date":"2010-01-08T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:30:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:30:18","slug":"rush_on_radio_and_journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/01\/08\/rush_on_radio_and_journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush on Radio and Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: To St. George, Utah, and Joe. Nice to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing? It\u2019s been a couple of years. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, it\u2019s hard for me to get into this without sounding cocky, but you started your show on my birthday, the day I retired from broadcasting. I\u2019ve been doing radio talk since 1969. And I have followed your career very, very closely, in fact all the radio talk shows. I just wanted to say that, of all the ones that I have seen, heard, been associated with over the years, you\u2019re the best. I\u2019m not sure you\u2019re the smartest, but you\u2019re certainly the best.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Because you handle the callers and you handle the subject matter so well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you. Thank you very much. That\u2019s very nice of you to say, Joe.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, we don\u2019t often get a chance to express our admiration for those of us in the field. I mean I still consider myself a broadcaster even though it\u2019s been, what, 20 years now?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, easy, if you retired in \u201969, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I\u2019ve been trying to get through to you for a couple years, or for a couple or three months, four months maybe, you know, one thing I never heard discussed was the fact that we did, in our infinite wisdom, turn the Congress over to the Democrats two years before the Obama debacle. It was Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and the Democratic Party who purposely engineered the collapse of the financial system. That didn\u2019t happen by accident, and it had nothing to do with George Bush. Sorry about that, Mr. Obama. And sorry about that, American people. We\u2019ve gotta start paying more attention to who we put in the Congress. Anyway, it\u2019s just a real pleasure to have a chance to express my admiration for you. You do a remarkably good job, and, you know, there are a lot of other guys out there trying to do what you do and actually have some excellent ideas and their heart\u2019s in the right place, but they ought to all take a week off and just listen to the way you handle your show. And maybe Hannity might even back off long enough to let his guests get a word in edgewise.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Maybe Mark Levin wouldn\u2019t scare everybody off calling \u2019em nuts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s his shtick.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hang up on them. You know, Mark Levin knows what\u2019s going on, but he surely doesn\u2019t know how to be a radio guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, everybody has their own style, and they have their own objective and their own purpose. And both of those guys are friends of mine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. You probably gave Hannity his beginning when you were using him as a back-up there for a while. You probably put him on the map. You think?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the way I look at that is he was a guest host, but if he didn\u2019t have the talent he wouldn\u2019t be where he is now. I mean it\u2019s not just because he hosted this show. It may have been because he hosted this show it expanded his visibility, but you can\u2019t take away the talent from these guys, they\u2019re all good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate your comments to me. I really do, especially if you were in the business a long time. You know what amazes me, Joe?<\/p>\n

CALLER: What?<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I take advantage of it, is so many people in the other media, television and print, even a lot of people on cable TV, do not understand broadcasting. You referred to yourself here as a broadcaster. Not a talk show host. And a lot of people do not understand at all what this is about, what the purpose is, how you go about it, what the business model is, they haven\u2019t the slightest understanding. They look at it as just another arm of a political operation, which it\u2019s not. And some people who try to do this try to make it a political operation rather than a broadcasting enterprise because they don\u2019t have the slightest idea about broadcasting. Broadcasting has its own skill set, talent requirements, so forth and so on. And most people who judge this and are critics of it haven\u2019t the slightest clue what it is. <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think in a way their ignorance of that helps me to benefit from it even more.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, listen, you keep doing what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll do that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Don\u2019t change your style, don\u2019t change anything. Just keep doing what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I ought to call you a nut and hang up on you. (laughing) Get off my phone, you nut!<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: (laughing) But I bought Levin\u2019s book, I want you to know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019ve gotta say that\u2019s a great book.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah, it is, absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that book sold over a million copies, I think.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, it did, great book. And Hannity, you know, does this thing, he was out in Provo, Utah, one time on the Fourth of July, does a lot of great things —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The freedom concerts. We all have our roles, Joe. I remember I went to the National Review 50th anniversary dinner at a very ornate building, museum in Washington, DC. And some of the invited guests there were wounded from Walter Reed. I was told that there were about eight of them, and I was told they wanted to meet me. So I said, ‘Sure.\u2019 I was escorted over to where they were and they were pretty severely injured, missing eyes, arms, legs. And I got really embarrassed and humbled as they started thanking me, and I looked at them, and I said, ‘You\u2019re thanking me? All I do is talk on the radio.\u2019 ‘No, no, no, Mr. Limbaugh, we all have our roles. And you support what we do, and you defend us.\u2019 And they were very appreciative. I\u2019ve never forgotten that, ‘we all have our roles.\u2019 And everybody involved in what is right now an effort to save the country, we all have our roles, and everybody has their own way of going about it, and we hope that the combined effort here is ultimately successful. It looks like it\u2019s going to be. Joe, thanks again very much. I really appreciate it. <\/p>\n

This is Alex in Minneapolis. Great to have you, sir, you\u2019re on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush Limbaugh, it\u2019s a real honor to talk to you. I wanted to do this for some time now, and I have a question.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why does MSNBC, CNN, and HLN, why do they keep doing their liberal bias? It\u2019s not where the money is anymore. They\u2019re losing viewers and they\u2019re losing cash from advertisers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you this. Why does the Democrat Party keep doing what it\u2019s doing, which is going to guarantee its shellacking defeat in November?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because they believe if they can get something through now, it might help them and preserve them for the future.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They believe it, they do it because they are committed to the end result and they will pay with their careers to get it. That\u2019s how committed they are. The same is true of people in the media. They are so committed to the Obama agenda, they are so committed to remaking this country that they will gladly suffer these losses: jobs, profits, and so forth. They think that their business should be insulated from profit. I\u2019ll never forget Dan Rather, when Larry Tisch took over and bought CBS first thing he did was look at the news division and said this place hasn\u2019t made a profit in 20 years and laid off 200 people. Dan Rather had a cow, (imitating Rather) ‘We\u2019re the Tiffany Network, why, this is the news division, why, you can\u2019t do this, we shouldn\u2019t be held to bottom line costs.\u2019 They think their mission is far above simple capitalism. They do all wish to get paid and paid a lot, and they don\u2019t think that should be a pain for anybody who\u2019s paying them. These people are committed. <\/p>\n

In fact, Alex, it\u2019s even worse than you think. Those people, that\u2019s the one business I know of where the customer is always wrong. You write a letter to the editor about the newspaper, they publish it, they\u2019ll rip you to shreds for not understanding what they do. If you call and complain about bias they\u2019ll tell you they\u2019re not, that they\u2019re not liberals, your mind has been poisoned by people like me. They don\u2019t think they\u2019re biased. They don\u2019t think they\u2019re liberal. They are that ignorant. They think that what they are is just natural, just is, and that we are the kooks. And when they see people abandoning them in droves, they say, ‘Okay, fine, we don\u2019t want you anyway.\u2019 They have a bigger investment in defeating us than they do in defeating terrorists who want to blow up the country. I think that one of the reasons why Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln and some of these people who know better voted for Harry Reid\u2019s health care bill is not because they support the bill and not because they think it\u2019s good. They were gotten to. And it was said you cannot let the Republicans win, no matter what, you can\u2019t let the Republicans win. <\/p>\n

The partisan divide in this country is worse than anybody thinks, and it exists on the left as a life or death situation. It is career versus death situation. That\u2019s how committed and how fervently they are committed to it and look at it. They don\u2019t want to be bothered with profit, they don\u2019t like losing their jobs, and they refuse to admit why. Well, they\u2019re a blaming it on the Internet. The Internet. They don\u2019t understand, it\u2019s content, content, content. Anything in the media is about content. People will go for the content they want wherever it is and if they\u2019re not getting it someplace, they\u2019ll go someplace else. And they\u2019re never going to change the content at the New York Times, CBS, NBC, they\u2019re never going to do it. Look at MSNBC. I don\u2019t even know how to describe what they do. It\u2019s worse than propaganda. It\u2019s indescribable what they do. And they think they\u2019re kicking ass. They think they are hitting home runs. They think they are helping defeat Republicans and conservatives. And that\u2019s what they want to do. <\/p>\n

I know what you\u2019re saying. ‘Well, Rush, aren\u2019t you trying to beat liberals?\u2019 I\u2019m trying to save the country, folks. Yeah, we gotta defeat them to save the country but I\u2019m not trying to defeat them just to defeat them and I don\u2019t have a personal dislike for any of them. They can\u2019t say that about us. Their dislike and their animus is personal, as well as issue oriented and ideological. You can tell by the over-the-top mischaracterizations, character assassinations, criticism and so forth and so on. That\u2019s a good call. I\u2019m glad you asked me that. Needed to be said. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was just talking about it, and it just happened. I was just talking about it, and it just happened. More positions are being cut from the Obama administration. ‘Los Angeles Times to Cut 80 Jobs — Tribune Co\u2019s Los Angeles Times said it would close its printing operations in Orange County, California, resulting in about 80 layoffs, as part of cost-cutting measures.\u2019 So certain parts of the Obama administration are being cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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