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RUSH: Look, you wouldn\u2019t believe the distractions going on here today. It\u2019s amazing this show is even taking place. You want to know what\u2019s happened here, the first 15 minutes of this program? Lost Internet, lost e-mail. Still don\u2019t have e-mail. We\u2019ve got Internet back, but we don\u2019t have e-mail back. (interruption) You don\u2019t have Internet back in there? I\u2019m the only one that\u2019s got Internet? Okay, \u2019cause I\u2019ve got the cable modem backup. We\u2019re on AT&amp;T fiber optic, there\u2019s a problem down in Miami, we know what the problem is. But every time I\u2019ve lost the primary we go to cable as a backup and everything\u2019s back, e-mail and Internet. I don\u2019t have e-mail. Any e-mail. I don\u2019t understand it. I\u2019ve got computer people trying to explain to me and I have not got a satisfactory explanation because every time we\u2019ve lost a line in the past, the backup line provides everything else. <\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m getting this gobbledygook about IP addresses and DNS addresses and Gizmodos about why the e-mail can\u2019t be seen by our backup cable modem. So this has me scratching my head for the last two and a half hours. When I don\u2019t get an upfront explanation, I asked the question four times, a yes-or-no question four times. And it took me four times while the program\u2019s going on here, folks. It\u2019s yes or no. Dawn, she\u2019s in there, she transcribes your phone calls in case you\u2019re on a bad cell signal and I can\u2019t understand you, her computer monitor blew up, there was an explosion in there at the same time. The audio level that I hear in my cochlear implant has died 25 times in the middle of this program. I asked the computer guy, ‘Are we being hacked here?\u2019 ‘Oh, no, no, there\u2019s no way.\u2019 Well there are a lot of coincidences going on here.<\/p>\n

My audio level is shot, a computer monitor blows up, we lose the Internet. The air-conditioning in the bathroom isn\u2019t working, by the way. I was just in there. I wasn\u2019t even going to burden you with that but that\u2019s not working, I may as well unload on everything here. I\u2019ll bet you when I get in my car something\u2019s happened there and my key won\u2019t start it and I\u2019ll say, ‘Well, that\u2019s because the DNS server doesn\u2019t see the cable backup modem.\u2019 Well, that\u2019s never happened before. Why is it happening now? In the meantime, I\u2019m having to look up whether or not the Mexicans have taken over a wildlife refuge in the state of Arizona, all while this show is going on here to try to be as accurate as I can. And I have to put up with people — here, grab audio sound bite number 15. Listen to this. Chris Matthews will not give it up.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: I gotta salute Rush. I\u2019ve never seen a guy on the radio, he doesn\u2019t do television, he has one medium of expression, the voice, he doesn\u2019t put on guests, he has a good golf game, I figure, he\u2019s kept up his tan, he\u2019s got a good lifestyle, congratulations on your marriage, he enjoys his life, and with like his left hand he runs the entire Republican Party. Congratulations. Until somebody dethrones you, Rushbo, congratulations on ruling an entire political party of Dittoheads.<\/p>\n

RUSH: For 45 days he has been begging any Republican to come on and denounce me as the leader, and none of them will, 45 days. So finally he said that. But that came after this on his show last night.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: It\u2019s been 44 days since we first issued that challenge out on Limbaugh. Rush is loving it. Rush can\u2019t believe it. How Rush can cow an entire party. That includes Rush Limbaugh. It\u2019s been 44 days since I challenged any Republican to come on and disagree with Rush Limbaugh, and no takers. Why are Republicans so afraid of disagreeing with El Rushbo? It\u2019s been 44 days since we invited Republican officeholders to come on our show and say that Rush Limbaugh is not the leader, to simply disagree with Rush. Rush went out there and took the side of BP. More on El Rushbo. He is so proud of himself. He took the side of the Republican leadership against Rush Limbaugh, and after a few hours of withering attack from Rush and his people, he buckled and apologized to Rush Limbaugh, taking the side of his party leadership against Rushbo.<\/p>\n

The Rush-Barton shakedown, Mike. We thought Republicans had their chance to take their stand with their leaders and say, ‘Rush, oh, Rush, we hate to say this, but you\u2019re wrong.\u2019 I asked US Congressman Scalise from Louisiana if he agreed with Rush. Rush Limbaugh is really the Republican Party today. Now, that sort of tribalist right-wing view you get from Rush Limbaugh. I gotta salute Rush. ‘Til somebody dethrones you Rushbo, just one of them, that say that he or she disagrees with Rush. It was the better part of valor to tell Rush that he was sorry for what he\u2019d done. When Rush went so far as to back BP, we had a congressman from Louisiana on this week, not even he would side with his party\u2019s leadership and take on Rush. And on to Limbaugh. Well, saying Rush didn\u2019t speak for him, that he spoke for himself, he still would not complete the thought and say, ‘Darn it, Rush is wrong,\u2019 couldn\u2019t do it. Let me finish tonight with our lively interchange with Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s a montage of this whole week. We did not repeat any of it. None of those segments were repeats. Every one of those things was actually said, and here comes the next bite, what you previously heard, the begrudging respect. I mean it\u2019s almost like Matthews is in awe but he\u2019s not getting a tingle up his leg about me. That\u2019s still reserved for Obama. <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: I gotta salute Rush. I\u2019ve never seen a guy on the radio, he doesn\u2019t do television, he has one medium of expression, the voice, he doesn\u2019t put on guests, he has a good golf game, I figure, he\u2019s kept up his tan, he\u2019s got a good lifestyle, congratulations on your marriage, he enjoys his life, and with like his left hand he runs the entire Republican Party. Congratulations. Until somebody dethrones you, Rushbo, congratulations on ruling an entire political party of Dittoheads.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I\u2019m out there doing all this stuff and as an afterthought with my left hand I\u2019m running the entire Republican Party. Chris, thank you very much. I know you sincerely mean that, and I know exactly what you mean when you say it, and I appreciate it. I wonder how he would compare my abilities to those of the teleprompter messiah. One more. This is Greta Van Susteren last night On the Record on the Fox News Channel, and she\u2019s reviewing my comments about Obama and Dmitry Medvedev going out for a burger.<\/p>\n

VAN SUSTEREN: This isn\u2019t something you hear everyday. Rush Limbaugh has got President Obama\u2019s back. Well, at least for that hamburger lunch with the Russian president.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I\u2019ve often thought, I\u2019ve even commented on it on this program, I think half the reason he leaves the White House is to go get a burger because his wife his making him eat watercress and bamboo in there. He wants to get out and have some real food, have some fries, some onion rings, some burgers. Look when this guy leaves the White House, look at what he eats. I mean it\u2019s real food. Who knows what they\u2019re feeding the poor guy in the White House.<\/p>\n

VAN SUSTEREN: Bamboo, well, that doesn\u2019t sound very appealing, does it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Especially because there\u2019s a shortage of it, all those bamboo steamers out there. The pandas are even having trouble finding bamboo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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