{"id":5179,"date":"2015-10-12T16:51:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T16:51:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-06-26T12:40:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:40:40","slug":"it_s_time_for_an_eib_caller_clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/10\/12\/it_s_time_for_an_eib_caller_clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time for an EIB Caller Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I might have to do a caller clinic today, and there\u2019s any number of ways we could do a caller clinic. I could do a caller clinic without taking calls, and just give a series of examples and instructions. Or I could take calls and if something happens in the call that would make me stop everything and point out something as part of a caller clinic and do it that way. But that embarrasses the caller. No, not good. (interruption) What are you saying, “Good”?<\/p>\n

It might help to remember the purpose of calls. I think a lot of people forget this. This is very, very, very important. The purpose of a caller is to make the host look good. Now, that\u2019s not a talk radio rule. That is a Rush radio show rule. But it\u2019s not what you think. A caller does not make me look good by praising me or complimenting me. That\u2019s not what is meant. Caller makes me, or the host look good by inspiring, by triggering additional thought, causing an increase in adrenaline, which is increases energy and so forth. There\u2019s any number of ways a caller can make the host look good. But it does not mean praise and compliments. Anybody can do that and that\u2019s not what it means. So let me just say two things that are at the top of my mind, we\u2019ll take a break and coming back with the calls and the audio sound bites here on Mary Mapes and me and her book and Dan Rather and forgeries and fraud and all that.<\/p>\n

One of the things I think that callers do not know, and I\u2019m picking this up because of what callers say. Increasingly, a number of callers are saying, “As I was telling your screener.” Folks, you need to know, I do not talk to the screener about your call. He does not tell me what you said. I have no idea what you\u2019ve told the screener, and I don\u2019t want to know what you\u2019ve told the screener. What you have told the screener is relevant only in the sense that that qualifies you to get on the air. I think a lot of people think that they\u2019re on hold for so long, that before I get to a call, I\u2019m gonna have a little conference here and Snerdley\u2019s gonna say, “This caller wants to say this and said this and said that.”<\/p>\n

That does not happen. The only thing I know is there is a call screener computer here, and it lists every caller, their first name, and where they say they\u2019re calling from, and it has a one-line summary of what they want to talk about. That\u2019s it. I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re gonna say about it. I don\u2019t know anything, other than the general outline idea and the name. I know the gender, but I don\u2019t know the age or anything. All I know is where they are. So as callers, do not start by saying, “As I was telling your screener,” \u2019cause I don\u2019t know what you said, and it doesn\u2019t matter. The screener hasn\u2019t told me anything you\u2019ve told him, and therefore I don\u2019t know anything you\u2019ve said.<\/p>\n

Number two, and very crucial, if the first words out of your mouth are not what I think you\u2019re gonna talk about, red flags go up immediately, and my finger is right next to the dump button. It\u2019s not that I suspect fraud. It\u2019s that I don\u2019t want to waste time here. If you say that you want to talk about Hillary and her debate performance<\/a> and you start off talking about Trump and something else, then wait a minute, something doesn\u2019t compute, I get suspicious, a little concerned, and what happens, the whole momentum that we build up slows down, and I don\u2019t want to have to spend valuable time steering the caller back to what the caller wanted to talk about in the first place.<\/p>\n

So, if you are approved and screened to get on the program, talk about X, make sure that when we come to you, you talk about X. Otherwise — well, you know, I never hang up on anybody, as you well know. Nobody is treated rudely on this program. But it can slow things down, and the worst thing that can happen is for the momentum to be brought to a screeching halt. And if you hear me say, “Hi, so-and-so, you\u2019re up, welcome,” that means you\u2019re on the air. That is not another standby you\u2019re up in 10 seconds. That means it\u2019s happened, you\u2019re here. What should have happened is that Mr. Snerdley should have given you a heads-up that you\u2019re next and to stand by and then after that the next voice you hear is mine, and that means go. So just a few little things here, all designed to streamline the content of the program.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Ryan in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Great to have you on the program, Ryan. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh. When you mentioned this morning the dropping poll numbers of Hillary, what crossed my mind was rope-a-dope. What I mean, as we know the polls create the news and opinion; they don\u2019t reflect it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Regardless of her performance, I think the post-debate narrative is gonna be twofold. One of them is she\u2019s gonna be the new comeback kid. She\u2019s gonna be Bill all over again. And the second narrative could be, it\u2019s gonna discourage Biden from getting it. So I just wanted your opinion on that post-debate narrative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what? I gotta tell you something, Ryan. A, you get an A as a caller, in terms of following the edicts of the just-concluded caller clinic. You got in there, you got it, and you got out, and you did not, importantly, slow down the momentum of the program. I think it\u2019s a great question.<\/p>\n


\nCALLER: Well, thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Given how much news today is manufactured, given that polling can produce whatever the polling unit wants. They have admitted so. By the way, did you see, Ryan, did you see that Gallup has announced they are getting out of the presidential polling business?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I did, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know why they said they\u2019re getting out?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know the reason.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because they can\u2019t guarantee that what they\u2019re producing is accurate. There are too many people that lie to them, they say. There are too many people that are now using cell phones, they can\u2019t find a decent, trustworthy sample. Gallup is one of the people that sort of blew it in the 2012 race, so they\u2019re getting out of the whole presidential polling business and they\u2019re gonna say focused on cultural things, social things. I think maybe other political races.<\/p>\n

But, look, the question is extremely valid, given we know the Drive-Bys are in the tank for Hillary. We know that NBC\u2019s in the tank for Hillary and there really isn\u2019t anybody else. Martin O\u2019Malley is not gonna do anything, I don\u2019t think. Bernie Sanders is not going to be permitted to get the nomination. Biden, you know, remains a wild card. But Biden is a three-time loser running on his own for president. They don\u2019t have anybody that\u2019s won in this cycle. Hillary\u2019s a loser in presidential elections. Biden, a three-time loser. Bernie Sanders, no way, Jose, not gonna get the nomination, no matter what. Martin O\u2019Malley is lagging too far behind. John Kerry is too late, as we sit here today.<\/p>\n

Then you take CNN\u2019s announcement that they are not going to pit these candidates against each other like Fox did in the first Republican debate. So the candidates are gonna be allowed to sink or swim. So, yeah, you come out with polling that shows Hillary plummeting. And, by the way, I think that polling is pretty legit. Bernie Sanders does have a lot of legitimate excitement out there. And Hillary isn\u2019t exciting. Hillary does not create excitement. She doesn\u2019t engender it. The \"large\"
\nDemocrat Party is not loaded with average, ordinary, everyday voters chomping at the bit, get out there and vote, election coming up. It\u2019s sort of a ho-hummer.<\/p>\n

Obama has everybody down in the dumps and depressed. Obama\u2019s let everybody down. Obama\u2019s not who he said was gonna be, hasn\u2019t done what he said he was gonna do, the things he did do have made a big mess out of everything. None of what Obama said he\u2019s gonna do has happened, but more importantly, the things Obama has done have failed miserably. I think it\u2019s really, in one sense, not a good time to be a Democrat, because you\u2019re living with the hard, cold reality that your policies don\u2019t work. And there are enough hard-core, random, ordinary, everyday Democrats who really believe all of this big government stuff.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party\u2019s made up of a whole bunch of stratas, and you\u2019ve got the leadership strata which is where all the conspiracies take place. And by that I mean their own version of the elites and the inside-the-Beltway establishment and so forth. You have some true believers who are not in this to see Republicans take it on the chin. They really do believe all this liberalism stuff. They really believe that there\u2019s a utopia out there. And for them, Obama getting everything he wants with hardly any opposition, and none of it working, my point is there\u2019s not a whole lot of excitement on the Democrat side. And what excitement I think there is, or energy they have, is fueled more by hatred for us than love for Hillary or Bernie Sanders or any of that.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s a long way of answering your question, but, yeah, you have a poll come out the week before the debate, Hillary down 10 points. Debate, post-debate poll, show Hillary really cleaning up, a lot of people love her, comeback Hillary and so forth, blunt the poll. Yeah, you could do that even if the poll is legit. It\u2019s a great question, Ryan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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