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RUSH: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this is Lennie. Hello, sir, and I thank you for waiting. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, man. Thank you so much for taking my call. Super mega dittos, Maha Rushie.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, thank you. I love your energy, my man.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, thank you, thank you. I am so excited because, you know, I\u2019ve been listening to you for 22 years. You are a man of your word. You are worth your salt. I thank God for you each and every day. Like I was telling Bo Snerdley, you know, being African-American, I\u2019ve been a 22 year in-the-closet Rush listener, but I\u2019m out of the closet, I can\u2019t take it no more. I was telling Bo Snerdley that, you know, it\u2019s like deja vu. I\u2019m listening to the wrong ferries being sent to evacuate our people from Tripoli and I\u2019m like, is this Iran 1979? Is Jimmy Carter back in office? It\u2019s like the Twilight Zone.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is. It\u2019s Carter\u2019s second term. It\u2019s a pretty good analogy you\u2019ve got out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s crazy, and it was because of Carter that made me join the Navy, and I was over in Lebanon, I was over in that region in 1982 and \u201983 when we lost my friends, you know, the Marines and stuff like that. And to have someone that\u2019s so passive in office who doesn\u2019t have — he\u2019s not worth his salt. He won\u2019t stand up and say anything to his buddies in the Middle East. And that\u2019s what they are. They\u2019re his friends. It\u2019s some kind of connection, you know, and I\u2019m not trying to be conspiratorial, but that\u2019s what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not conspiratorial at all.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re just being I think very astute in your observation.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I get to thank God and I get to thank you for that because like I said, Rush, I\u2019ve been listening to you for 22 years and, you know, I don\u2019t come out the box and tell people, ‘Well, this is what Rush says.\u2019 I take your knowledge that you\u2019ve put out there for all of us listeners and I just present it in the way that it was made.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen — if I may interrupt here for just a second, Lennie — for those of you new to the program today, this caller is showing the proper reverence. Okay, Lennie, continue.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. And so, you know, as I said, then I started listening to you, I\u2019ll never forget the first time I started listening to you, it was 1988, I was working as a security guard back at a company that\u2019s defunct now, telecommunication company in Crystal City and I was listening to you on WMAL. Then I moved to Colorado Springs. Then I moved to North Carolina. And I\u2019m just an avid listener. I absorb everything you say. You know, I\u2019m not a mind-numbed robot.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I check what you say. I bought products that you have suggested and they work, as you have stated. And I\u2019m like, if people would take the time to settle down and listen to what the Maha Rushie has to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Amen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Talent on loan from God. You know, I want to congratulate you on your marriage to Kathryn. I love the golf show. I can\u2019t get enough. I\u2019m like probably a lot of listeners who wish you were still on TV \u2019cause I used to watch you as many times as I could back then. You crack me up. And I still see Clinton leaving that funeral for Ron Brown and laughing one minute and crying the next.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How can you dispute this? He\u2019s showing it to you. He\u2019s letting you hear what the people have to say, out of their own mouth. You\u2019re not propaganda. You are bringing what they are saying and what they\u2019re doing. And, you know, I\u2019m down here in Winston-Salem, I\u2019m here working at the place where a coach has given his kidney to a player, where another person received a medal —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I saw that. That is a heartwarming, amazing story.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I did see that, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s awesome. You know, and it happened in Black History Month of all months, and I was telling Bo, this is my second time getting through to you, and I\u2019m like, it must be my Black History Month special. I get to talk to Rush for another time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your lucky month!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, yeah!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Black History Month, your lucky month.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) That\u2019s why I tried it. I thank you so much, Rush, and just continued blessings on you and your family and your whole staff and that your word will just ring true to everybody.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. Now, Lennie, before you go.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You did call about something entirely different. I don\u2019t want the audience to think that we put you on the air just for the proper reverence that you\u2019ve shown.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You did call about something. What is it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I called to say that while the Middle East is going to hell in a handbasket, our president is having a celebration of Motown in the White House. What is up with that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, that is interesting. There was a celebration of Motown in the White House last night, and there was one Motown artist, Smokey Robinson. (interruption) Who was the second one? Stevie showed up? Okay. Well, then Stevie had to be a surprise, because the announcement I read prior to it said one Motown artist, Smokey Robinson, William Robinson is his name. But the interesting thing here, Lennie, that you may not know, I saw this, and I said, ‘What the hell is this?\u2019 They had workshops during the day, presided over by the first lady for children about Motown and what it meant to them. Workshops like breakout study groups, the meaning of Motown. (interruption) Well, I\u2019m sure they served food to the kids. I don\u2019t know what they served. I have no comment. I have no knowledge of what food they served the kids, but they had work groups for the kids to learn about Motown. (interruption) The kids have parents? Yeah. Yeah. Well, the regime obviously can\u2019t trust the parents to have told them the right things about Motown or to have told \u2019em anything about Motown.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I understand the tribute to Motown, but certainly there are more than two Motowners still alive. (interruption) What do you mean, like Nero? You mean Nero fiddled while Rome burned? Well, and you know the truth about that, it was Nero that set the fire. Nero set the fire. Nero wanted to burn Rome down, and he sat there and fiddled while it burned. It was so far gone that he burned it down himself. He set the fire. Okay, we rest our case. He-he-he-he. Obama, Nero. They\u2019re having a lot of parties, and they are having a lot of vacations. I\u2019ve never seen the first family take as many vacations and throw as many parties. Nero wanted to burn Rome down to remake it in his own image. We rest our case again. He wanted to call it Neropolis. He wanted to get rid of the name Rome and call it Neropolis. No kidding, that\u2019s what happened. He set the fire and then sat there and fiddled while Rome burned. We\u2019ll be back. Thanks, Lennie, very much.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was somewhat ironic, ladies and gentlemen, to have a party in the White House celebrating Motown the day after it was announced that Detroit would have to close half of its public schools. But that\u2019s this regime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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