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TODD: Humph!<\/p>\nTODD: Kathy in Owensboro, Kentucky, you\u2019re on the Rush Limbaugh program. Kathy, I\u2019m glad you called to talk about our dear Rush, as Todd Herman sitting in for the Maha, who\u2019s in heaven.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you, Todd. Good morning. It\u2019s such a pleasure to speak with you. I enjoy your show as we navigate this new terrain. You all are doing an excellent job. I just wanted to say I remember listening to Rush one time when he said, “If there\u2019s one thing I wish I could do for all of you people out there, I wish I had a magic wand that I could wave over you and you would not care what others thought about you.”<\/p>\n
TODD: Humph!<\/p>\n
CALLER: And that just… I just stopped. I was like, “Oh, gee.” And it just kind of resonated. It makes you realize just how much we just — we don\u2019t speak up because we think of what others are gonna think of us. And Rush just pounded that home. And I\u2019ll never forget him saying that. I can hear him saying it right now in my head.<\/p>\n
TODD: You know, Kathy, you\u2019re one of millions of people who can hear this advice from Rush. And you know what\u2019s phenomenal is how many people I\u2019ve communicated with since Rush\u2019s passing who\u2019ve told me personally or sent me emails, hundreds of them — and I\u2019m woefully, woefully behind in trying to respond to as many as I possibly can.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m just a guy who fills in. But they\u2019re all continually talking about life advice and items like that. And yet, you know, I\u2019ve also talked to people… I talked to a woman who took Rush to Afghanistan, and she talked about how gracious he was to people and how curious he was and how he sought information and listened intently to people.<\/p>\n
He had this great concern for this woman, Peggy O\u2019Ban, who took him to Afghanistan. “Peggy, don\u2019t get out of the Jeep. It\u2019s dangerous,” Rush pulling her back in, and she\u2019s saying, “No, this is my job. I can do these things.” So do you demonstrate this behavior, Kathy? Do you go about speaking truth in the face of tyranny?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Absolutely, yes. I try to do it in a strong way without coming off as being hateful —<\/p>\n
TODD: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — if I could use that word. You know, and I think that\u2019s another thing. We have been conditioned here, of late, to just be hateful, and it\u2019s okay. And Rush did not… You know, he gave us the information we needed, we\u2019ve got it stored in our brains and in our hearts, and we\u2019re gonna carry it on.<\/p>\n
TODD: Yeah, and that speaking up, I heard Rush do an incredible monologue about this. I believe it was a Pew study that a majority of conservatives do not exercise their First Amendment rights and a majority of American Christians do not exercise their First Amendment rights to speak out. In fact, you know, I spoke about this on my morning show this morning that because I\u2019ve been in a red state, I\u2019m just now waking up to, “My goodness.<\/p>\n
“Even I censored myself sometimes in business meetings, et cetera…” Well, I wouldn\u2019t, you know, put up with lies but I censored myself, just had a discussion with a doctor the other day and we talked about our faith and we talked about our views of children, and it was so refreshing, and I got out and realized, my goodness, this is stifled in these cities.<\/p>\n
And Rush challenged us in that monologue, as I recall. If you want your country back, you need to speak out.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
TODD: I am just sitting here enjoying just hearing a man who did use his First Amendment rights to all of our benefit. You know, people who defy the odds like Rush did in every, every capacity… Rush defied the odds because of hard work and hustle and optimism, too many times people who pull that off, they defy the odds. They forgot how hard that was, and Rush never forgot that.<\/p>\n
And, you know, Rush, of course, loved the game of golf. And Tiger Woods, our prayers for him, was in a serious accident, and I hope he will recover from this. Apparently, he\u2019s got a broken leg that required surgery. And America loved the comeback story of Tiger Woods when he won the Masters golf tournament two years ago, Rush made the most unique observation about Tiger Woods and all of you. Listen to this.<\/a><\/p>\n RUSH: I want to say something to you, because I know every one of you — almost without exception, every one of you — can learn from this. If you waste time worried about what other people think of you, I want you to remember two words: Tiger Woods. If you ever worry — I mean — this has been a pet peeve of mine, people so concerned with what other people think. It\u2019s what drives Washington. The Republican Party is obsessed with what the media thinks of them, obsessed with what the Democrats who are perceived to run that town think of them. And it\u2019s paralysis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n