Liz Smith, the ancient gossip columnist, just turned 92<\/a>, and the post on the Drudge page is, Liz Smith says that Barbara Walters stopped being her friend when she lost her column, and they were buddies.<\/p>\nI remember I went to a Christmas party those two hosted once. This is my point, in a roundabout way. I didn\u2019t realize until the night was almost over that I was invited only for one reason, and that was to entertain them. I was this new conservative, strange animal beast in town. I was the circus act. They didn\u2019t really want me there like they wanted everybody else there because they were genuinely friends.<\/p>\n
I was this new whatever, and they didn\u2019t understand it.<\/p>\n
It was garnering a lot of attention, my program was, so they just wanted to find out what\u2019s what. You should have seen what they did. You should have heard the conversations. I can\u2019t repeat them because some of these people are still alive, but they were trying to taunt me. They were trying to just… I can tell now they were trying to get me all worked up. They wanted me to walk out and leave in a fit of shock and anger.<\/p>\n
I just sat there and smiled at \u2019em, and then when I professed not to care about the Menendez trial? (snorts) You should have seen \u2019em thinking, “Well, you\u2019re not serious about anything!” I was seated next to Cynthia McFadden who at the time was working for Court TV, and I didn\u2019t watch Court TV and all I knew about the Menendez trial was that the jury was a bunch of idiots. So I was not able to do converse about it on a regular basis, and that was a big thing to them.<\/p>\n
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\nThe fact that I didn\u2019t know, they were just aghast. They were just shocked. It\u2019s like if you\u2019re a Christian and never heard of Christ, that kind of reaction. But, anyway, I was thinking back to all of the early interviews I did shortly after getting to New York. I don\u2019t know why this crossed my mind, but I was thinking, there were people… Not a lot. I\u2019ll cut to the chase. Nobody adequately prepared me for what I was doing and how to deal with it, and nobody even warned me about it.<\/p>\n
So it was a fly-blind circumstance with every one of these early interviews, and I had to learn by doing — which is fine — and I did. The point is, I don\u2019t do them now. But remember my first mistake was assuming they actually were interested in me and that\u2019s why they invited me to be profiled or to appear, that they really were interested, that they really were interested in what I had to say.<\/p>\n
I really believed that they were all this objective, uninvolved, uninvested people. It was genuinely naive stuff. I approached it that way, and it didn\u2019t take long for me to figure out that I was dead wrong about this. There were some people at the time who could have told me these things but didn\u2019t for whatever reasons, and I had to learn it on my own. And the formulas that take place. Like every time I watch a profile, I can tell you what\u2019s coming next.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s the sitdown with different angles, and then at some point the host and the guest are gonna go walking down the hallway or walking in the park. You\u2019re not gonna hear it. It\u2019s B-roll. The picture is of the host getting even more acquainted with the guest, and the guest loving being with the host and all this. It\u2019s all image-making by virtue of pictures that is supposed to send its own message. But the formula I didn\u2019t even know.<\/p>\n
Now I realize what all these things — when you\u2019re a conservative, anyway — are all about. As such, I don\u2019t even subject myself to them anymore. There\u2019s no point, which is the roundabout way of what I\u2019m trying to tell you. You want there to be push-back. You want there to be these people to be straightened out. They can\u2019t be. They don\u2019t want to be straightened out. They don\u2019t want to think anything else of you, other than what they do.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me try to simplify. I was engaging in a little verbal diarrhea in the last segment of the previous hour in responding to the woman who expresses every frustration we all have. You\u2019re watching TV and you watch yourself lied about. The TV people go out and find these madcap leftist extremists that are just absurdly insane, and they\u2019re presented as normal, they\u2019re presented as the backbone of America, and they believe all this cockamamie crap that isn\u2019t true. It\u2019s all defamatory. It\u2019s all incendiary. They spout it left and right, and the media amplifies it.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re sitting there watching it and you\u2019re getting ticked off. And you\u2019re wondering, why doesn\u2019t somebody stand up and correct \u2019em? And that\u2019s where you go off path because nobody wants to be corrected. It\u2019s their identity. It\u2019s how they get through the day. It\u2019s how they deal with their own inadequacies. It\u2019s how they deal with the fact that they know they\u2019re a bunch of oddballs one way or the other. It\u2019s how they deal with the fact that they\u2019re really not in the mainstream, is to impugn, make fun of, defame everything that is.<\/p>\n
Then they have to try to wipe out that which threatens them. That\u2019s what this is all about. This is not about the expansion of civil rights or human rights. This is about a direct attack on a clear majority in this country via intimidation and threats and designed to get you to shut up and leave \u2019em alone and basically surrender in the face of this pressure. They want you to basically take no action to defend yourself or the group that you happen to be in, the fellow members of the majority. They want you to say, “Okay, you know what? I\u2019ll just deal with this myself and let everybody else fend for themselves.” Nobody stands up, defends anything, and that\u2019s made to order for them.<\/p>\n
Now, how to deal with this. This which I just described happens to define much of the American media today. So that is going to determine what you\u2019re exposed to. The way I have done it, personally and professionally, is to have two theories. One is that they have to be defeated. Their representatives have to be defeated, and that\u2019s why, to me, I have done everything I can to educate and inform as many people to look at all of this ideologically. It isn\u2019t Democrat versus Republican anymore. It\u2019s liberal extremist, progressive, fascist, whatever, versus the rest of us.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s in that context that we have to do, I think, a better job of helping people that don\u2019t spend their days absorbed in this stuff like you and I do. Nevertheless, being able to learn to identify it and to not be taken in by it, and certainly not be put on the defensive constantly by it. I\u2019ve shared with you many ways this manifests itself. And I\u2019ll remind you of the first one that comes to my mind, is the dinner party at my own home that I walked out off because a couple people there were ready to throw Sarah Palin overboard simply because the media had destroyed her.<\/p>\n
I was aghast. I said, “Are you really telling me that you are that content and that docile, that if our candidate can\u2019t pass muster with the media, then you\u2019re content with them being destroyed?”<\/p>\n
And they pretty much agreed, “Yeah, that\u2019s the lay of the land Rush. If we have people that can\u2019t score with the media, if the media is able to destroy our people, it\u2019s not worth it defending them.”<\/p>\n
I said, “So you\u2019re content to let the Democrats choose our candidates every year.” They didn\u2019t look at it that way. And even after I\u2019d positioned it that way, they didn\u2019t see it that way. But it\u2019s that kind of acquiescence and that kind of surrender that, to me, just is that, it\u2019s surrender. So you defeat them or you support people trying to defeat them, which, does that not express your anger at the modern-day Republicans? You don\u2019t think they\u2019re trying to defeat them. You see them trying to get along with them.<\/p>\n
So that double frustrates you. They tell you during a campaign they\u2019re gonna defeat \u2019em. They tell you during the campaign they\u2019re gonna stand up to \u2019em. Then, after they win, get to Washington, it\u2019s kumbaya and can\u2019t say anything critical, the independents might not like it or blah, blah, blah, whatever it is. So get doubly frustrated over that.<\/p>\n
So what I do, folks, I just ignore it. Even when it\u2019s personal, I just ignore it. And I\u2019ve had people say to me, “Just so you know, Rush, are you not aware of what\u2019s said about you? I mean, you don\u2019t follow Twitter, and you don\u2019t spend a lot of time on Facebook. Are you aware of the defamatory stuff?”<\/p>\n
I said, “Well, in general, yeah, not specifically.”<\/p>\n
“Well, how do you not do anything about it?”<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve learned that every time I engage it, it gets worse. The provocateurs claim victory, and they get even more enthused and more energetic. The way I deal with it every day on the radio, I be who I am. I\u2019m very proud and happy to let myself speak for me. And I\u2019ve had to learn — this is the toughest thing — I\u2019ve had to learn to take stuff like that as a measure of success. That was really hard because nobody\u2019s raised, nobody\u2019s parents say, “Now, Son, if half our neighborhood hates you, that is your ticket. That\u2019s what you need to aim for, Son, 30, 40% of the people in the neighborhood to hate you.”<\/p>\n
You want everybody in the neighborhood to love you. You want everybody in the town to love you. That\u2019s not true in my case. I never thought that anyway, never thought that was realistic. Now, that\u2019s why I don\u2019t go on very many media outlets. Fox now and then. You have no idea what we turn down here. I don\u2019t bother to tell you, but it\u2019s every day, and sometimes when they get the hint it\u2019s every other day, and it\u2019s every week. But there\u2019s nothing in it. There\u2019s no point.<\/p>\n
I know absolutely for a fact that my desired presence on these programs is not because anybody\u2019s really interested in what I have to say. They want to be able to take shots and bring up things from 25, 30 years ago that have no relevance. And since I am one of the few people that doesn\u2019t live and die to be on TV, it\u2019s very easy to say “no.” I\u2019ve learned to ignore \u2019em, and I\u2019m surrounded by it. I\u2019ve not walled myself off from it, but I\u2019ve learned to ignore it, and I\u2019ve learned to take some of it as a measure of success.<\/p>\n
Now, I don\u2019t think I was really as clear as I wanted to be when I was describing the formulas that exist in TV interviews and so forth. What I meant — and I wasn\u2019t being critical of anybody, but when I started in 1988 going forward, all of these things that I just finished telling, it took me 10 years of experience to learn and figure this stuff out. And my only point was, there weren\u2019t very many people, and for the first five years there was nobody, nobody had ever experienced it, that I was working with, so there was nobody that could advise me on how to deal with it.<\/p>\n
So I was asking everybody, you know, kind of an offshoot of the people who say, “Rush, are you aware of what they\u2019re saying about you?” Back in the old days, some AP story or something would accuse me of racism or sexism. I\u2019d have people say, “You can\u2019t let that stand. You have got to fire back. You can\u2019t let them say that.” So, inexperienced, I\u2019d listen to all this, “Okay, I\u2019ll try firing back.” So I\u2019d go on the radio and I\u2019d point to the piece, I\u2019d read it, say, “Do you realize this is a crock, this isn\u2019t true.” And all that happened was another story was generated in which Limbaugh claims and moans and whines that he\u2019s been unfairly characterized.<\/p>\n
Then they\u2019d give more of their so-called quotable examples of how I\u2019m wrong. So they just double down on it. Other people said, “Ignore it. The more you respond to it, the more you elevate it.” And that certainly became true as this program got bigger and bigger. I mean, why respond to a newspaper story in a single city and thereby tell the whole country — this before the Internet — tell the whole country about it instead of ignoring it and letting it fester there in that little city.<\/p>\n
I wrote about this in my first book, and maybe some of you remember hearing this, but it was within the first five years. I was an invited guest at a dinner at the 21 Club — yeah, \u2019cause my first book was out, so this had to have been 1992 or 1993, and I was invited to dinner at the 21 Club, and my host said, “Please bring a copy of your book, because the restroom attendant is one of your biggest fans.” I said, “Oh, cool, fine and dandy.”<\/p>\n
So I arrived, and after being there awhile I\u2019m escorted to the restroom. The guy in there is indeed a huge fan. His nickname was The Rev, he\u2019s African-American, and he was a minister. He moonlighted at 21. The minute he saw me he just started babbling. I didn\u2019t get a word in. He started telling me how much he enjoyed me, how much he listened, he started quoting things I said. And he said, “You know, it\u2019s just like Mr. Reagan.” Now, at this point in time I\u2019m in the midst of trying to figure out how to deal with all of this, because four years ago nobody hated me. Nobody who knew me thought I hated anybody. After six months on the radio I am filled with all this hate and bigotry and so forth, I\u2019m trying to figure it all out. Why is this happening? Don\u2019t these people know me?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what I mean. They didn\u2019t care to get to know me. They didn\u2019t want to know me. I was conservative and therefore I had to be whatever they claimed as a means of rendering me ineffective. And this guy said to me, “You know, Mr. Reagan, Mr. Reagan, he just laughed at \u2019em.” I hadn\u2019t said a word. I had not said a word, and this guy says to me, he\u2019s a reverend, “Mr. Reagan just laughed at \u2019em.” And I thought this is divine intervention here. I gotta rev from up in Westchester County in the bathroom at 21 telling me how Reagan dealt with it.<\/p>\n
This guy had no way of knowing that I was going through an internal struggle of how to deal with this. He just threw it out there. He was smiling and laughing, so I figure, “Okay, that\u2019s how to deal with it, laugh at \u2019em.” But on this interview stuff, the thing about not having mentors, there weren\u2019t any until I started meeting people in TV. They were able to give me some advice, but there wasn\u2019t much. It was thought, you know, let the kid learn it on his own. Go out and trip up with Barbara Walters. Go out and say something stupid, whatever.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s my point, folks. Nobody, not a single person, told me what I have now learned about the media. Every bit of what I know about the media has been learned from firsthand experience and study. None of it is the result of prejudice. None of it is the result of somebody telling me, “This is gonna happen. This is what they think of you. Don\u2019t fall for this trick, try this trick on \u2019em.” I got none of that.<\/p>\n
And I was thinking, I was wandering the halls here at the Southern Command earlier, I was thinking, if there was ever a circumstance where there was some young host back where I was 26 years ago who was about to go through the same things, I would take him aside and I wouldn\u2019t let three or four years of wasting time gaining experience. I\u2019d say, “Here\u2019s what you\u2019re up against. You\u2019re conservative and you\u2019re gonna go on X, here\u2019s what gonna happen. Here\u2019s exactly how they\u2019re gonna treat you. This is what they think of you.”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s what I told the House freshmen when I did the orientation speech after the Republicans won the House in 1994. We had an excerpt, a sound bite of the speech I gave in that year. And I told \u2019em, you know, you\u2019re used to watching the news come outta Washington. You think the media sidles up to the winners. You think the media loves the winners, and they treat \u2019em like good buds and friends. I said, no, you are not gonna be treated as the winners. You\u2019re the interlopers. The media in this town is not gonna like you. They\u2019re not gonna be happy you\u2019re here. They really hate the fact that you now run the House of Representatives. They\u2019re gonna do everything they can to make you look like the boobs and idiots they think you are.<\/p>\n
Oh, they may bat their eyelashes and ask you to dinner or lunch or whatever, but make no mistake, the only thing they want is to get you back out of town. They\u2019re never gonna treat you the way they treat Ted Kennedy. They\u2019re never gonna treat you the way they treat Bill Clinton. You\u2019re never gonna be one of their buddies, unless you turn traitorous and start ripping your own caucus, and then they\u2019ll love you.<\/p>\n
I remember saying all this to them. Nobody taught me. I had to figure that out myself. The reason I\u2019m pointing this out is, when that woman called here and asked me for advice, the only advice I can give you is what I\u2019ve learned and what I\u2019ve lived through. And the biggest piece of advice that I could give anybody — and now it\u2019s time for me to give a tribute to you, actually. For all of you who have wanted to call me and warn me about all those things that you\u2019re seeing about me in all of these various pockets of the Internet, “Rush, you see what they\u2019re saying about you?”<\/p>\n
I\u2019m aware of it.<\/p>\n
Have you ever wondered, ever asked yourself why they haven\u2019t really succeeded? I mean, why am I still here in the face of all of this? Twenty-six years of this stuff. You are aware of every high-energy, concerted effort they have made. I don\u2019t have to name them. You know what they all are. By the way, I\u2019ve given \u2019em ammo. Not all of it\u2019s been unfair. I have given \u2019em ammo. The reason it hasn\u2019t worked — and this is the overriding philosophy that I also evolved — the media cannot destroy you if they\u2019re not the ones who make you. But if the media makes you, in other words, let\u2019s say you have a TV show and it\u2019s actually number 10 in the market but the media loves you and they write about it all the time, and they talk about it all the time, and they promote it, and they make everybody think it\u2019s number one.<\/p>\n
The day comes when they don\u2019t like you, they can take you out. Because you never have been what they say you are. If they build you up and it\u2019s unreal and untrue, they can take you out. Well, the media had nothing to do with making me. They tried to prevent me from making it from the first moment they discovered what was going on. You made me. And, as such, you\u2019re the only ones that can take me out. They can\u2019t. And that is an overriding philosophy that I, whenever I\u2019m asked by anybody in this business or in an ancillary way, do not go the PR route, do not try to have buzz and PR define your success. Make it real.<\/p>\n
Make your success real and dependent on real people making you a success, not some media buzz, because that is fleeting. They can take that away from you and you\u2019re a nobody. But they can\u2019t take away from you what they haven\u2019t built.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here. Here\u2019s this one little excerpt of the speech I delivered to the Republican freshman class. They made me an honorary member in 1994. The Heritage Foundation put this thing on. It was at Camden Yards in Baltimore. This is just about a minute, but it\u2019s the point that I was making mere moments ago.<\/p>\n
RUSH ARCHIVE: We all are susceptible to human nature, and we all want to be liked, we all want to be loved, and you all want to live in surroundings which are not hostile. But inside the Beltway, for people like us, this is not possible. And so sometimes to avoid the hostility we say things and then begin to do things designed to gain the approval of those who are hostile toward us. I want to warn you against it. I want to warn you, you will never, ever be their friends. They don\u2019t want to be your friends. Some female reporter will come up to one of you and start batting her eyes and ask you to go to lunch, and you\u2019ll think, “Wow, I\u2019m only a freshman. Cokie Roberts wants to take me to lunch. I\u2019ve really made it.” (laughter) Seriously, don\u2019t fall for this. This is not the time to get moderate. This is not the time to start trying to be liked. This is not the time to start gaining the approval of the people you\u2019ve just defeated. (applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, that class listened to it, but it was shortly forgotten. By the way, it wasn\u2019t long after that that Cokie Roberts called and invited me to lunch. (chuckling) She was laughing when she called, by the way. But it\u2019s still the case today. It was true then, and it still is the case today. But it\u2019s a very unnatural thing. People don\u2019t want to be in conflict all the time. See, that\u2019s the thing the left is. Life to them is confrontation. Life is conflict.<\/p>\n
They are incapable of being content. They cannot simple take a day off and enjoy things as they are. Psychologically, I don\u2019t know what it is. The realization they\u2019re oddballs and kooks? I don\u2019t know, but they just don\u2019t. You\u2019re just the opposite. You just want to live. You\u2019ve only got one life, and want to enjoy it. You don\u2019t want to be in constant battle and conflict, but that\u2019s all they want to do — and they are, every day. It never, ever stops. To deal with it, you have to engage it and defeat it. You\u2019re never gonna change their minds. It\u2019s a futile thing to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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