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RUSH: To Paducah, Kentucky. This is April. That is one of my all-time, top ten favorite female names. April, thank you for calling. Nice to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I\u2019m glad that you chose to have me on today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is kind of belated, but I just have a question for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am? Yes, ma\u2019am?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Where in your right mind do you get the cojones <\/emphasize>to just completely — I don\u2019t know, I guess — dismiss a tragedy of possibly a hundred thousand people dead in Haiti? You\u2019re — you\u2019re going around discouraging people to send donations because we already donated to Haiti and it\u2019s called the US income tax; and Obama, the president of our United States — your president as well, whether you like it or not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where did you…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — you\u2019re saying —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where did you hear that I discouraged donations to Haiti?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh, I read it in, uh, a news thing called the Huffington Post, but that\u2019s not the point. I was going to finish my sentence if that\u2019s okay with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but what you just said is a lie. They reported a lie. I did not discourage donations to Haiti.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, um, actually the point I was getting to, whether or not you said that — which actually I believe you did. But…<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not ‘whether or not.\u2019 That matters. I mean you call here and ask, ‘Where do I get off suggesting that we don\u2019t donate to Haiti because we do in the income tax?\u2019 and I tell you I said that, but I also said private donations are going to be much better than a government donation. They\u2019re all going, go to the Red Cross, do other things, don\u2019t go through the government. It\u2019s just going to go through hands and bureaucracies and a dollar is going to end up being 30 cents by the time they get through with it. I did not say, ‘Don\u2019t make donations.\u2019 That\u2019s not a ‘whether or not\u2019 thing. That\u2019s why you called.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Calm down. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Finish your sentence.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Calm down. I planned on it, but actually I… Keep denying that, but what is this you were saying about our president of the United States trying to just basically establish credibility in the black community among white (sic) and dark-skinned African-Americans? And why do you, like… After saying that, why would you call yourself a patriot?<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Now, this is funny. This was our Media Tweak of the Day yesterday, April. You know, what we do here on this program is, purposely, play the media like violin, like a Stradivarius. And I love tweaking them. I love irritating them, and I love upsetting them and all you do is take words uttered by liberals and apply them to current events. It was Harry Reid who looked at Obama and said he\u2019s a ‘light-skinned\u2019 guy that ‘doesn\u2019t speak in a Negro dialect.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m not talking about Harry Reid. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I was.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m talking about you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was. You see, this is the point. You didn\u2019t listen to the program. You\u2019re reading people who take what I say out of context precisely to create this sense of outrage that you have.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In fact, I want you to listen to something with me. Before I said all of this I made a prediction, because this was my Media Tweak of the Day — and it\u2019s getting too easy. I mean, you\u2019re illustrating how easy it is to outrage these people. I enjoy it. This is a great success. When people start squealing like pigs is when I know I\u2019ve hit a home run. This is what I said yesterday.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Before this week is out, I will be the one who uttered the words ‘light-skinned\u2019 and ‘doesn\u2019t speak the Negro dialect when he doesn\u2019t want to.\u2019 I\u2019ll be the one that said it. Before the week is out I\u2019ll be the one that said it, not Harry Reid, and they\u2019ll be asking, ‘Why have you not condemned Rush Limbaugh for what he said (in repeating what Harry Reid said)?\u2019 and Harry Reid will condemn me from the Senate floor!<\/p>\n

RUSH: And then I proceeded to suggest that Obama is going to be giving aid to both light-skinned and dark-skinned Negroes in Haiti, just designed to get the reaction I got — and it worked. The people that listen to this program laugh and chuckle every day at this stuff, because we\u2019re just needling the media. They talk about me all the time and I can create it any time I want. It\u2019s made you mad, and you believe things they take out of context that don\u2019t completely say what I fully said, and you get mad.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, so you\u2019re basically evading the second part of my question. You\u2019re not going to tell me why you decided to go around saying something, like, a tragedy that\u2019s happened to hundreds of thousands of people, who are suffering.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I\u2019m not evading it at all. If I said it I meant to say it, and I do believe that everything is political to this president. Everything this president sees is a political opportunity, including Haiti, and he will use it to burnish his credentials with minorities in this country and around the world, and to accuse Republicans of having no compassion. I went further than that even. I\u2019ll have to tell you what else I said after the break if you want to hold on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We go back now to April in Paducah. I had to interrupt you because we had a hard break and I couldn\u2019t miss it. What is it you were going to say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, if I remember correctly I was about to go say, like, I\u2019ve been trying to get you to explain to me, at least — if not the entire country listening to your show right now — what…? Like what… Why…? It doesn\u2019t sound like the president is making this Haiti donation business a political thing. It sounds like you are. You\u2019re just… Uh, you brought up a completely inane, baseless point about establishing credibility in the light- and dark-skinned black communities, and, like, there\u2019s no reason for that. There\u2019s, like —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, April, I must ask a serious question: Do you ever listen to my program or do you hear about it in places like the Huffington Post?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Um… I… When I\u2019m upstairs in the bedroom I\u2019ll have the radio on and I like to listen to some local stations. So, yes, I have heard your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I\u2019ve heard dozens and clips and quotes that you\u2019ve said and most of the time I\u2019m absolutely disgusted with you. I\u2019ll be perfectly honest with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I see. Okay, now that we\u2019ve established that you listen sometimes and you\u2019re absolutely disgusted. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever heard of the Democrat Party and President Obama politicizing a natural disaster?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Have I ever heard of them politicizing…?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, has that ever happened? Has Barack Obama and the Democrat Party ever politicized a natural disaster?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Umm, well, this is the — at least if you\u2019re speaking specifically about President Obama, this is the first natural disaster that we\u2019ve had on, uh — on his term. So…<\/p>\n

RUSH: We had a natural disaster when he was Senator. It doesn\u2019t matter whether he was president or not. I said the Democrat Party and President Obama, as a Senator, certainly politicized Hurricane Katrina. You see, the difference, April, is that I know these people. I know who they are and I love to tweak them. I love to tweak the media. I predicted yesterday… How come there\u2019s no outrage, by the way, at Bill Clinton suggesting that Obama\u2019s nothing more than a slave when he was trying to get Ted Kennedy to endorse Hillary and he says (doing impression), ‘Come on! Come on, Ted. You know, a few years ago this guy would be fetching us our coffee.\u2019 You\u2019re not outraged about that because the Huffington Post isn\u2019t outraged about it. They probably don\u2019t write about it but I talk about all of it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Actually… Uh, are you implying that the Huffington Post as the one and only resource that I watch (sic–read)? I even watch Fox News once in a while.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no, no. I\u2019m not implying that. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What I\u2019m illustrating here is that you\u2019re a blockhead. What I\u2019m illustrating here is that you\u2019re a closed-minded bigot who is ill-informed. I am being patient and tolerant and I\u2019m trying to explain this to you, and you\u2019re totally closed to it. I\u2019m hitting you with piercing, penetrating logic, and it escapes you — and it is irritating people like you that I revel in. I absolutely revel in it. I\u2019ve got 19 sound bites here today, April, of media people going bat manure yesterday over what they think I said. They didn\u2019t hear me say it, either. They got it from the Huffington Post or they got it from Media Matters or they got it from someplace else. I did not say don\u2019t donate. I did say Obama will use this to help burnish his credentials, \u2019cause there\u2019s no question he will. I\u2019ll tell you something else I said, April: It took him three days to go out and talk about the Christmas Day Underwear Bomber. It took him less than 18 hours to get out there and start rallying people about this earthquake. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you something else, April. I\u2019m going to make prediction to you, and I\u2019m gonna be right about this. Before the week is out we\u2019re going to have to be stories in the Huffington Post and other places that you read pointing out how fast Obama moved into action versus Bush during Hurricane Katrina. To accuse me of politicizing everything is to be ignorant about what I do on this program. I simply react to the left. They\u2019re the ones that politicize virtually everything that\u2019s happening from health care to terrorism, and I love illustrating absurdity by being absurd. And if you had listened to this program for a modicum of time you would know it. But instead you\u2019re a blockhead. You\u2019re mind is totally closed. You have tampons in your ears. Nothing is getting through other than the biased crap that you read. So I\u2019ve had enjoyment here talking to you and illustrating that it\u2019s impossible to deal in the truth with you. I appreciate your calling and I appreciate your holding on. I grew up not far from Paducah. If I\u2019d known you were there, I might have stayed. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you by way of Tony Blankley, a sound bite we played yesterday. What all of this is, is reacting to what I did not say yesterday on this program.<\/p>\n

BLANKLEY: The lesson that we learned from this is not that the Senator said anything particularly remarkable, but that when conservatives say something equally unremarkable, that the feigned outrage drives them out of office; whether it\u2019s Rush Limbaugh saying that a black quarterback got better press than had he been white or whether it was Senator Allen who used the word ‘Macaca\u2019 — whatever that means — that got six stories on the front page of the Washington Post. The point is, they\u2019re not sincere when they\u2019re outraged. They\u2019re just trying to drive out a political opponent.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. And so all of this outrage that you saw on television last night is feigned. It is fake. I\u2019m not the one that ever used light skinned, dark-skinned. That was Harry Reid! We\u2019re laughing at him. We\u2019re making fun of him. And they fake all this outrage that I would say this, not even understanding — and they do understand I was making a joke. They are just feigning outrage to try to take me out, and that\u2019s why I do the Media Tweak every day because they\u2019re going to bomb out every time they try. I mean, it\u2019s just fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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