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<\/p>\nRUSH: Yeah, Mr. Snerdley reminds me that there was a media meltdown when I canceled the Twitter account. It was first reported that Twitter suspended me. I had all kinds of people sending me emails, “Did Twitter suspend you?” And I didn\u2019t answer any of these things. Just let it sort itself out, which it eventually did.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So it was last Saturday and last Sunday and even into this morning, I saw that Twitter banned Trump. They suspended his account.<\/p>\n
They canceled him! They wiped him out. They erased him. They said he\u2019s sayonara. So I called Kathryn. I said, “We gotta get outta Twitter. This is unacceptable. We need to cancel the account. We need to do whatever we have to do to get out of it. Just go in there and shut it down.” She said, “It\u2019s a great idea.” So we did, and then the next thing I know, it\u2019s being reported that Twitter canceled me.<\/p>\n
I said, “Well, this is fabulous.” So then here came the emails from people I haven\u2019t heard from in the Drive-By Media who have my address and some others. “Did Twitter cancel you or did you cancel them? What\u2019s the truth?” I didn\u2019t reply to any of it, like I don\u2019t reply to any inquiries. There was nothing new about that. I don\u2019t reply to any Drive-By Media inquiries of me.<\/p>\n
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So I just let it go, and then eventually one of these bright-eyed, bushy-tailed media people got the wise idea to call Twitter and ask them, and the Twitter spokesman said, “No, the user canceled the account. We didn\u2019t cancel it.” So then there was great relief. There was great relief among the Drive-By Media. Twitter did not cancel me. I suspended my own account.<\/p>\n
That then created a joyous media reaction, and we have a montage to illustrate how. You know, increasingly, folks, I don\u2019t like taking up broadcast time with media comments about me because they happen every day, and it\u2019s… You know, when the program was new and the media was talking about it, that was a big deal. That helped promote the program.<\/p>\n
This program can\u2019t get much bigger than it is, and so we don\u2019t need to do this to promote the program. It\u2019s gotta have some kind of news value or otherwise entertainment value. We don\u2019t just do it for the heck of it. That\u2019s why I saved it here \u2019til the last hour. But this is the montage from Saturday, Sunday, and even this morning.<\/p>\n
JILLIAN MELE: Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh deactivates his Twitter account. Limbaugh had nearly 89 million followers.<\/p>\n
LAYRON LIVINGSTON: The Twitter account of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has been deactivated.<\/p>\n
MEGHAN PACKER: Take a look at Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Twitter page. It has been deactivated, but not by Twitter, but by Limbaugh himself.<\/p>\n
MARK MEREDITH: Conservatives are deactivating their accounts in solidarity, including Rush Limbaugh who had millions of followers of his own.<\/p>\n
MIKE MARZA: Rush Limbaugh\u2019s account is no longer available. The influential talk show host deactivated that account himself.<\/p>\n
WHITNEY CLARK: Rush Limbaugh has deactivated his Twitter account.<\/p>\n
JULIETTE GOODRICH: Rush Limbaugh has deactivated his own Twitter account after the social media giant permanently suspended President Trump\u2019s.<\/p>\n
JOE CONCHA: Twitter has now lost Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n
AINSLEY EARHARDT: Rush Limbaugh took his down. He deactivated it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yeah, we were up for about three months there on Twitter. Let\u2019s see. October, November… Yeah, 3-1\/2 months, and I know a lot of you were very, very upset with me when we went on Twitter officially. We had a couple of Twitter accounts out there. We didn\u2019t use \u2019em much. But it was all part of revving and up gearing up for a big push.<\/p>\n
Folks, I gave this last year everything I\u2019ve got. I don\u2019t want to get too much more into it but believe me: I gave this last year everything I had. I didn\u2019t take one minute of personal time away from this program. When I was gone, it was medical. You know, doing the Twitter thing was part of the all-out effort to give everything that I and we had to the election effort last year, 2020.<\/p>\n
So, the three months, 3-1\/2 months of being on Twitter? We gave it a shot. We gave it a shot. We did what we could, as did a whole lot of other people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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