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<\/a>RUSH: I check the e-mail at the top-of-the-hour break. ‘Rush, you said that Brent Bozell told you that you should plug this book but you didn\u2019t give the title.\u2019<\/a> Did I not give the title? (interruption) I didn\u2019t give the title? It\u2019s called Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. It\u2019s by Zev Chafets. Zev is the writer who did that cover piece on me, the New York Times Magazine, what was it, two years ago? Yeah, just about that. I spent 16 hours with him, interviewing. It\u2019s not a biography. It\u2019s certainly not an authorized biography. It\u2019s got some biographical stuff in it but it\u2019s not primarily a biography. I\u2019ve had a lot of e-mail exchanges. To this day I have not read the whole thing. I\u2019ve thumbed through it — you know, check a page here, check a page there. (interruption) Well… Snerdley says, ‘Why not?\u2019 I don\u2019t read anything about myself. I haven\u2019t read the New York Times piece all the way through. <\/p>\n

I just don\u2019t. If they get it right I already know it, and if they get it wrong it\u2019s par for the course. So, you know, why bother? It is what it is. But I have talked to a number of people. Snerdley thought it was okay. H.R.\u2019s got a couple nitpicks with it. I don\u2019t recall ever saying that George Bush was ‘a preppie snob,\u2019 George Bush 41. I don\u2019t recall ever saying that, and Zev still doesn\u2019t understand my attitude about racial problems in the country but those are minor things. He tried. He tried to get it. (interruption) Well, here\u2019s the way that came about. He asked me a question. I think he said he asked you about July 4th, Independence Day, and he said that July 4th\u2019s no big deal to you. Independence Day is no big deal to you. Mr. Snerdley is African-American, and he asked me what I thought. I said, ‘I think it\u2019s time to let all that stuff go.\u2019 This is the one country in the world that ended slavery; 500,000 Americans lost their lives. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s 2010. This country has the most opportunity for anybody who wants to seek it of any country in the history of the world. No country\u2019s perfect. No human being is perfect. We still have bigots and racists, and we got people that discriminate against people for all kinds of things in this country. Zev kept saying, ‘But do you not understand how an African-American might not be able to look at the founding of this country as something glorious?\u2019 I said, ‘I can understand that, but this is not the days of the founding and the people who wrote the Constitution allowed for an amendment process to fix it.\u2019 I said, ‘Look, you go back and you look at John Adams in the days of the discussions and the Federalist Papers. They knew they had a problem with slavery in the South, but in order to gain independence and to have a unity of purpose in seeking independence from the British, they had get the southern states. <\/p>\n

‘They had to have the southern states join them. John Adams quoted numerous times, ‘We\u2019re going to have a problem with this.” All the founders were not slave owners, they were not racists. I think the continual focus on whatever original sin this country has is serving only to hold people back and not move forward in the present day, and I think that\u2019s by design in a lot of cases and I really resent it. It makes me sad to see so many people born in this country told every day that you don\u2019t have a chance here simply because of the color of their skin, which is not true anymore. It\u2019s time to get with the present times. But even saying this, I know I\u2019m tweaking a lot of people. ‘You just don\u2019t get it, Rush.\u2019 You know what my problem is? I told him this. I am the most colorblind person in the country. <\/p>\n

I am not at all oriented toward political correctness, and I assume everybody else is colorblind because everybody else says that\u2019s what they want, is a colorblind society. So I believe people. I\u2019m a literalist. Somebody tells me they want and wish we had a colorblind society, fine! Well, let\u2019s act like we are. Let\u2019s be that. So I am that. But still there are people who just want to take… You know, race is a provocative issue, it is controversial, and as such, it\u2019s something that you can build something interesting about. Those are two little nitpicks. He doesn\u2019t get it all wrong on race and the Bush 41 stuff is minor. But everybody that\u2019s read it says it\u2019s pretty good, and Brent Bozell said, ‘You really ought to really hype it because the guy has shown that you can do a quality piece. He was nice to you. He was respectful of you,\u2019 which is all true. <\/p>\n

So the name of the book — and I\u2019m sorry, I thought I gave it in the first hour but they\u2019re telling me that I didn\u2019t — is Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. I think one of the arguments against me also is I\u2019m not an original thinker. Anybody that has listened to this program for 20, 21 years, knows that that\u2019s stupid. It\u2019s just nuts. It is laughable. Chafets, I think, captures that notion in the book, too. So maybe I should sit down and read it cover to cover. Just read a page here, flip to another chapter, read a page there, just try to get a flavor for it.(interruption) What? What are you saying? Snerdley says he thinks it would be good for me to read it. Well, it\u2019s like H.R. says, though: If it\u2019s true, I already know it. If it\u2019s not true, par for the course. (laughing) <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t forget, my friends, on this race business it was I, El Rushbo, who warned all of you who called here prior to the election, ‘But, Rush, don\u2019t you think the election of Obama will be good because it will end all this racist talk? The country will improve because it\u2019s no longer racist \u2019cause it elected a black president.\u2019 I, El Rushbo, was the one to say, ‘No, it\u2019s only going to get worse. The race hustlers, the race industry is excited about this possibility,\u2019 I said, ‘because any criticism of Obama will be said to be racist.\u2019 And, lo and behold, right again was I, El Rushbo. Are race relations not more strained than ever now? Everything\u2019s about race. Everything is about skin color to these people, or however they classify people, however they seek to group them, whatever, they\u2019re victims. Everybody\u2019s a hapless victim of some magical, mysterious, powerful majority that wreaks damage and hell, havoc on all these poor, unsuspecting people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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