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RUSH: We have a couple people here who want to talk about The Hunger Games, and we\u2019ll start Debbie in Gardnerville, Nevada. Hi, Debbie. Great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (badly muffled) Hi, Rush. It\u2019s good to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Thanks very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How is your day?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m doing well. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. So I got a little upset about what you said because I think 99.999% of the time you are right. But The Hunger Games is not just about kids killing kids. When you read the whole series, it\u2019s about a revolution. It\u2019s about people mad at a government who\u2019s been oppressing them and who take over and attack the government. I actually —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That can\u2019t be. That can\u2019t be. <\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hollywood wouldn\u2019t produce anything like that. That can\u2019t be. You gotta be wrong. Do kids kill each other in these movies?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, they do. But that\u2019s the point of the books. That\u2019s not the point of the series. The point of the series is that they finally get tired of being oppressed and they attack the government.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: When you read the third book, it all comes to light. But you have to read all three, otherwise people get the impression that it\u2019s just kids killing kids, and that\u2019s just not what it\u2019s really about.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Well, that\u2019s cool. If that\u2019s how you see it, I\u2019m not gonna sit here and argue with you about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (badly garbled) Well, did you read the third book? Because you have to read the third book to get that. If you don\u2019t read the third book, it is just kids killing kids.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. In fact, I\u2019ll be honest. I haven\u2019t seen one minute of the movie or read a book. I had somebody tell me about it, so I\u2019m not surprised. You know, when people tell you things, what you get is their impression of it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m just passing on what I had heard. I haven\u2019t seen one minute of either of the movies, and I have not read any of the books.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, (garbled) movie is about so much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the point. Wait a second, though. All this came up in context of this kid running amok and what his dad does. And what does this kid do? He is out killing people. Did kids kill people in this movie, or in the books? Do kids kill kids?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They do, but the reason they do it is they\u2019re forced to do it to keep their district alive.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If they don\u2019t go and do what they need… (garbled) If they win, then their district gets (unintelligible) for the next year. And if they don\u2019t, they\u2019re (garbled).<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (garbled cell)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, okay. Look. I cannot understand a word you\u2019re saying \u2019cause the cell phone connection. But what I gathered that you said before it all started jamming up was that they kill, yes, but because they were forced to in order to save their “districts,” which is fine and dandy. But Debbie, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. Another Debbie. She\u2019s in McLean, Virginia. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Third-time caller dittos for you from a Rush Babe. I\u2019d like to agree with my predecessor Debbie that it\u2019s not glorifying the killing. It\u2019s criticizing it, and the whole point —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, are we talking about the movies or the books here?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Both. In the books, it is there because it is kind of to show you how bad this government is forcing their people, their citizens to compromise their personal beliefs and devalue life the way they do for entertainment for the bourgeoisie capital people. And the command-and-control government doesn\u2019t give the people in the district, to put it in your terms, the ruling class versus the country class —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, let me try this. Let me ask you a question.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no wrong answer. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just want to know what you think. As you watch these movies or read the books, and you imagine young people who vote Democrat and think Obama\u2019s great and love big government — as they watch these movies — are they going to be inclined to be more in favor of Democrats and big government or are they going to think, “Wow, this is not good. I don\u2019t want to support government if it does this kind of thing”?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, unfortunately because of our education system, I don\u2019t think that they\u2019re getting the metaphor. They\u2019re seeing that, “Oh, President Snow, he\u2019s a bad guy. He\u2019s the villain, and he\u2019s forcing these kids to go into this arena and kill each other while he and his friends in power, the ruling class, get to reap all the resources from each of the districts, be it coal mining, technology, farming, livestock, textiles, lumber.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, so you are —<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, they are basically taking the hard work of the citizens for themselves.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They never have to work a day in their life. All they have to worry about is what color their hair is gonna be or how much they can eat at the party —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and they watch it for entertainment. It\u2019s kind of like Running Man, where the government controls the media, and to the citizens of the capital, the ruling class —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I haven\u2019t —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — it\u2019s entertainment, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can\u2019t talk to her. (thumps desk)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — for the country class, it\u2019s a threat and a warning for troublemakers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I haven\u2019t seen — what is it — The Running Man either. But let me ask you: Would you describe the books and the movies as anti-government?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, like I said, I think with anything you read, you get out of it what you put into it. Just like people who read your books are looking for you to be the bad guy. With my personal\/conservative core beliefs, that\u2019s what I see. I see anti-government. You know, the hero tries to overthrow this government, so that way the killing can stop and they can stop The Hunger Games.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, who is the hero?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the main heroes are Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, who are, as you mentioned before — spoiler alert — two survivors in the first book. And they go on, and they have to kind of become a part of this system that they don\u2019t agree with, and then they basically try from the inside out to have their own personal statement, own personal protests. Katniss sort of becomes the beacon of the revolution, the symbol of hope that things can change.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, let\u2019s back up. You said that people that read my books want to look for me to be the bad guy?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I mean, even with your recent books, people say they\u2019re appalled, “Oh, Rush Limbaugh wrote a children\u2019s book and he\u2019s going to –” I read some, you know, very biased reviews, which are obvious that people haven\u2019t read the books. They claim that you and Sean Hannity go back to change history, and that\u2019s not what you do, obviously. I read the books, my nephews have read the books, and you\u2019re trying to teach them the truth about what has been misinterpreted.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re not trying; we are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, you\u2019re succeeding very well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And, you know, frankly the reviews have been somewhat surprisingly good to me. We got a Stack and collection, they\u2019ve been amazingly good. (interruption) What, you got an Amazon e-mail that mentioned? (interruption) Yeah. That\u2019s true. That\u2019s true. Amazon\u2019s pitching them. Go figure. But I even read a review by some guy who just despises me who said, “The books are actually quite good, I have to admit.” It had to be hard to write. I\u2019ve not seen too many of these bad reviews. But I got your point. People have preconceived notions and they plug what they see into what they want to believe. <\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t seen any of these movies and I haven\u2019t read any of the books, and I\u2019ll tell you why. The title is The Hunger Games, and then when I first heard what these movies are about, I didn\u2019t get the connection between the title, and then when I saw everybody in it winning awards, “Well, to hell with that.” (interruption) What? (interruption) Yeah. See, I\u2019m being told, “No, it\u2019s really, really good, the kids killing kids, it\u2019s just a minor part, it doesn\u2019t –” (interruption) Right, they don\u2019t. If everything I\u2019ve heard so far about it, we ought to have legions of teenagers marching to the polls voting every Democrat out of office if the movies and books are that good. And we don\u2019t, do we? (interruption) What\u2019s that? (interruption) Oh. Well, you know, it\u2019s fascinating. <\/p>\n

You take a look at what people see, it always is amazing to me. That\u2019s why I try to keep an open mind about everybody\u2019s perception of things. I mean, here kids are killing kids, it\u2019s not a big deal! Okay. Yeah. “They have to because they\u2019re being told to, and then they eventually rebel against it and they get rid of the oppressive government,” while they vote for one to live under themselves over and over again. <\/p>\n

Well, I look at polling data, Millennials are openly telling pollsters how much they hate big government. They don\u2019t like it. They think it\u2019s ineffective and they\u2019re voting for it at the same time, which I also understand, because I understand why they\u2019re doing it, and it all comes down to Republican branding, when you get down to basics. Anyway, Debbie, I appreciate the call. Really do. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, so I just got an e-mail from somebody I know who is 60. “Don\u2019t believe what these two callers have told you. These movies are sick. They are about socialism and government control of food, and they are dystopian.” Now, I think I understand this. Follow me on this. We\u2019ve had two women call today who praised these books to the hilt. They\u2019re really, really good. I don\u2019t know how old those women were. I couldn\u2019t tell. It\u2019s really tough to guess based on voices. So I\u2019m not going to. <\/p>\n

But you take somebody who was nine or 10 years old in the fifties and take them through the sixties, teenage years, you put this movie in front of them back then, and it\u2019s a horror story. Kids killing kids just was not portrayed. War movies were. But even the war movies back then, nowhere near the realism that you get today in terms of the gore. But the idea of a movie that is entertaining that has good in it, that shows a government making kids kill each other, unheard of. <\/line><\/p>\n

So you take somebody who grew up, their formative years were the fifties and sixties, you put this movie in front of \u2019em and I guarantee you they\u2019re gonna get sick. But you put the movie in front of kids today, “Ah, it\u2019s just no big deal.” I mean, compared to the what else they\u2019ve seen and what else they\u2019ve heard, what else they\u2019ve been exposed to, it\u2019s no big deal. Maybe they can even see themselves in it. And I find all this fascinating. It\u2019s why I have vowed that I was never gonna become a fuddy-duddy. <\/p>\n

When I was 60, I was not gonna look at what was going on with young people when I\u2019m 60 and immediately put it down as trash or whatever. But I can honestly tell you that something like this would never even have gotten made back in the fifties or sixties. Would you agree with that? Something like this couldn\u2019t even get made. And why? Because it\u2019s rotten. It\u2019s an absolutely horrible, worthless premise. And yet today, it\u2019s award-winning. <\/p>\n

Now, is that so hard to understand in an era where abortion occurs for the convenience of the living? I think not. There are reasons why what used to be considered coarse and taboo or intolerable, today is considered art. I remember the outrage when Piss Christ happened, Andres Serrano, the crucifix. Piece of art, submerged in a jar of urine. And we were told we had to learn to appreciate it.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the difference, folks. Or one of the differences. You put The Hunger Games or something like it, Mad Max, one of these dystopian movies. What is troubling to me is the dystopian nature of these things, that there\u2019s no good in the world anymore, that everything is rot and everybody\u2019s corrupt and everything\u2019s sick. (interruption) No, I\u2019m not talking about just this movie. I\u2019m talking about if I had somebody from the current Drive-By Media here explaining why The Hunger Games or movies like them are winning awards, it\u2019s because, “This is the world people live in today, Rush, this is what life is about to them. They\u2019re scared. This is what they see as possibly their future.”<\/p>\n

To which I would say, “Why? How has that happened?” It wasn\u2019t all that long ago that the future was an optimistic thing, not a pessimistic thing. It wasn\u2019t that long ago that young people couldn\u2019t wait to get out of the house; couldn\u2019t wait to strike out on their own; couldn\u2019t wait to make their own way in the world. And the reason for that was bubbling effusive optimism, eagerness. But today there\u2019s not so much of that. There\u2019s a lot of pessimism, fear, and even dystopianism, in the media, that defenders of it, “Well, this is what the world is to them today.” Then I would say, “How did that happen? That\u2019s a shame.”<\/p>\n

I mean, I know pessimism\u2019s easy. I know anybody can do it. I know optimism takes work. Optimism has always been an applied discipline. But it used to be natural. It used to be a defining characteristic of leaders and people who were otherwise inspirational. Today, it seems like people who can see the evil ahead and who can see the horrors, they seem to carry a lot of weight, the pessimists. I mean, I would much rather have everything in life be optimistic, you know, tempered with reality. Not everything is. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not talking about rose-colored glasses or anything here, but so many movies are dystopian. End of the world destruction, you know, LA is nothing more than a giant land-filled dump of people flying around in space machines and all kinds of human debris are involved and selling \u2019em this and that and the whole idea is to escape it. And LA\u2019s not gonna be that. Well — no, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s not gonna be that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you what I think some of this also shows, and I\u2019m gonna get in trouble for this. But I\u2019m gonna say I think it shows how desperate some people are to find their ideas and beliefs validated by Hollywood. I really do. On our side, I mean, on our side. Just like people hope one day the news media will see things our way. It isn\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: It\u2019s a delight to have you here, ladies and gentlemen. The one and only Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. <\/p>\n

Let me ask you a question. Let\u2019s take a look at Star Wars. Do you think that young people, when they watched Star Wars, the first three of \u2019em back in the — had to be the seventies and I guess some into the eighties, you had Darth Vader, the evil emperor. You had their Death Star, and they were out to wipe out everybody who stood in their way from little Yoda to Luke Skywalker, to Princess Leia, and all of those, you know, oddball little freedom fighter guys. <\/p>\n

Now, do you think that young people saw the Democrat Party in Darth Vader and the evil emperor and the Death Star, and that they saw Reagan conservatism in Luke Skywalker, Yoda, and Obi-Wan Kenobi? I don\u2019t. If they did, then the Democrats wouldn\u2019t be having such an easy time. My only point is I finally found out who wrote these Hunger Game books and movies, Suzanne Collins, and she admits to being a far-left liberal, concerned with the environment, concerned with too much war and economic deprivation. (laughing) I told somebody: “Well, she made a mistake, then, because her movies are real Republican.” <\/line><\/p>\n

No, they\u2019re not. That\u2019s my point. They can\u2019t possibly be. <\/p>\n

Anyway, Snerdley said to me during the break, “It\u2019s amazing that you can turn 60, 63, and keep an open mind and not turn into an old fuddy-duddy, but does that mean you\u2019re not gonna be honest and say that the music and the movies today is absolute garbage?” And I said, “Well, go back and look at your era, look at Psycho and Alfie. There were all kids of things, for its day, which were just as depraved and shocking as this stuff is today. It\u2019s just relative to what your baseline is. The difference to me today, it really does boil down to optimism and pessimism, to me. <\/p>\n

You know, back when I was young eating up whatever, the media that I liked back then was, be it entertainment, books, movies, TV shows, it was all for the most part, at the end of the day, end of the movie, optimism triumphed. There was no such thing as a dystopian. That didn\u2019t happen until the left got totally concerned with nuclear weapons in the seventies and the eighties and the Phil Donahue show and so forth. Then you had the Mad Max movies which were post-apocalyptic world where there was no gasoline except what you could steal. Everything dystopia, the opposite of utopia. Dystopia is just absolute disaster. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the difference to me. And if you check, if you\u2019d be open-minded, if you check attitudes today, take a look at Millennials. What are they telling you? They\u2019ve lost faith. American dream\u2019s over. No chance for them. Those days are long gone, as far as they\u2019re concerned. All they face is $200,000 minimum student loan debt, no job. And they\u2019re not blaming Obama. They\u2019re just down on America. The old promise of America doesn\u2019t exist for them. And I think a never-ending barrage of pessimism and dystopianism has to have played a role in that attitudinal thinking. <\/p>\n

Look, anybody well adjusted can go watch anything and come out of it fine and dandy. If you\u2019re well adjusted you can go watch the biggest horror, slasher movie in the world and come out of there not wanting to go do that kind of thing to people. If you\u2019re not well adjusted, if it fits your worldview, it\u2019s just gonna confirm the pessimism, the uselessness and so forth. That\u2019s the difference to me today. <\/p>\n

In fact, folks, this is one of the reasons why the whole notion of writing children\u2019s books on American history appealed to me, because it was an opportunity to restore — I mean, the story of this country is a fascinating story in human history. It doesn\u2019t need any embellishment. It doesn\u2019t need any exaggeration. What happened in founding this country is an absolute miracle when it comes to human history on this planet. It is just an amazing story. But you and I all know that what\u2019s happened — and not just in the education system — is the whole idea of what America stands for has been under assault for a long time when the multiculturalists came in and got control of things. And it\u2019s worked. <\/p>\n

All you need to do is look at polling data of attitudes and measure how much optimism versus pessimism there is out there, and you\u2019ll know exactly what I\u2019m talking about. These Hunger Games books are for kids, 14 to 16. They\u2019re not for adults, but adults go watch the movies and read the books, and I do think that there is a real craving, sad though this may be, I think there\u2019s a real craving among many conservatives to see their values reflected in popular culture, because we\u2019ve lost it, admittedly. Everybody admits we\u2019ve lost it. <\/p>\n

Even Frank Rich<\/a> had a piece over the weekend in the Atlantic, or wherever he writes, that there\u2019s no such thing as conservative comedy. Conservatives aren\u2019t funny. Well, we\u2019ve been doing comedy and humor here for 25 years. The left is who doesn\u2019t find it funny, because you can\u2019t make fun of them. See, here\u2019s the left view of comedy: Comedy can only legitimately be done if the powerless are making fun of the powerful. Therefore, the left is filled with powerless people who need a big government looking out for them. <\/p>\n

In my case, the homeless update. That\u2019s not humor. That\u2019s cruelty, in their worldview. All these things that we did that you thought were the funniest stuff you ever heard, nobody ever came along, nobody made fun of liberals. They don\u2019t find that funny because they look at themselves as downtrodden, the disadvantaged, they need a big government protecting \u2019em. They\u2019re all Julias or pajama-clad metrosexuals running around, and everybody\u2019s out to get \u2019em except Obama, who\u2019s there to protect \u2019em and other Democrats. <\/p>\n

So if you are a conservative and you\u2019re sitting around waiting for your values to be reflected in popular culture, as long as it\u2019s owned by the left, it isn\u2019t gonna happen. But if you\u2019re desperate to see it you might go watch a movie and think, “A-ha! It\u2019s a secret conservative message! Look at that!” And you\u2019re being fooled. Well, when the producer, the writer, the director, and everybody in it is a staunch ultraliberal, then you… (interruption) Yes, it is! It damn well is the intent. (interruption) No. It\u2019s for people to figure out that it\u2019s Obama, it\u2019s fine, but it\u2019s not just Obama. It\u2019s liberalism, totalitarianism, authoritarianism. <\/p>\n

George III represents tyranny. And so if you put modern words uttered by liberals in the mouth of George III the message is to convey what tyranny is to young readers. Well, I don\u2019t know President Snow from President Frost \u2019cause I haven\u2019t seen these movies, and now you\u2019re making me so mad about this, I don\u2019t care that I want to. But I\u2019m almost obligated to now. What does Hunger Games have to do with it? Why did they call it Hunger Games? It\u2019s obviously not about games and it\u2019s not about hunger. (interruption) Oh, they don\u2019t have enough food, do they? Oh, so they kill people in order to have enough food to eat? (interruption) They don\u2019t kill people?<\/p>\n

“They do kill people, but that\u2019s not the point, Rush, that\u2019s not the point. They kill people, kids kill kids, but that isn\u2019t the point!” Apparently no food stamps in Hunger Game dystopia. You gotta kill to eat? That\u2019s the way it was in the caveman days, Fred Flintstone in the boys. They didn\u2019t have food stamps. They didn\u2019t have Social Security disability. Hell, they had to conquer dinosaurs and ride the things to be able to move stones around. But no, seriously. The reason that the history books seem so — I mean, just a natural to me. I am an optimist. I always have been. And there\u2019s no earthly reason if you look at my life why I shouldn\u2019t be. <\/p>\n

If I were a pessimist, boy, what a mistake that would be, given the blessed life that I\u2019ve had. So I\u2019m an optimist. I believe in optimism and happy endings and stuff. They\u2019re possible. But I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a whole lot of that now because the modern definition of reality is dystopia. The modern definition of reality is how everything sucks. I\u2019m telling you, it wasn\u2019t that way when I was growing up, and I am not being a fuddy-duddy. I\u2019m just trying to chronicle some of the differences and how much impact they have on people. I still maintain if you\u2019re self-adjusted, well adjusted, all this crap in the world is not gonna affect you. <\/p>\n

But look at this kid. The kid had his $40,000 Beamer. He was not bad looking. A lot of this stuff I didn\u2019t understand. They said he had Asperger\u2019s disease or whatever it is. I\u2019ve known some people with that. You can\u2019t function. That\u2019s worse than — it\u2019s similar to autism, but, I mean, you gotta be kid gloves around people who have that disease. It doesn\u2019t take much to have them just go off, and so you have to kid glove everybody. It\u2019s terrible. I don\u2019t know, this kid supposedly had that. <\/p>\n

Folks, it\u2019s also true that there\u2019s just plain bad people out there. No matter what you do, there\u2019s evil out there and no amount of gun control or caring or concern, no number of hashtags is gonna stop it. But, see, that reality is overlooked and events like this are all rolled in to the dystopian nature the left presents everybody, this overall pessimistic view. And they benefit from it, is the point. Things are so bad, you need your big government run by us to protect you from all of this horror that\u2019s out there, that this country has become. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s insidious to me. I think this country\u2019s story is amazing, and I think it\u2019s optimistic. I think it\u2019s uplifting. The story of this country and our Founding Fathers is some of the greatest inspiration people can expose themselves to. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know what I thought I\u2019d do? I thought I\u2019d go to some popular liberal website and just put in the search term “Hunger Games” and see what I got, and that\u2019s what I did. I went to the Huffing and Puffington Post, and I entered “Hunger Games” as a search term, and I found a headline to a story on the Hunger Games movies at the Huffing and Puffington Post. Do you want to know what it says? <\/p>\n

“The Hunger Games and the death of winner-take-all capitalism.” So at the Huffing and Puffington Post they clearly watched the Hunger Games and they were cheering it. (paraphrased) “This is the greatest thing for socialism we\u2019ve ever seen! Why, this thing destroys free market capitalism!” Now again, I haven\u2019t seen these flicks, haven\u2019t read these books. So I\u2019m at a little bit of a disadvantage. <\/p>\n

I could fake it like many hosts would lie to you and claim they\u2019ve seen the movies. I haven\u2019t. I don\u2019t care that I haven\u2019t seen \u2019em yet, and can still discuss it. I just think it\u2019s fascinating. I got all these people telling me today, “Rush, this is a secret message. The conservatives… Boy, Hollywood is really ripping into big government.” Well, here\u2019s a big government website saying it\u2019s the best movie for their view that they\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

And how about this: “The death of winner-take-all capitalism”? Capitalism is not winner-take-all. Liberalism is! Liberalism is where everybody\u2019s poor except the Fidel Castros of the world. It\u2019s just the exact opposite. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Dave in Perrysburg, Ohio, great to have you on the program, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Hey, I would listening to what you\u2019ve been hearing about The Hunger Games being anti-conservative, and I thought, man, I had the exact opposite reaction. I got dragged there. I had no interest in it. I was bored, and then I just became very depressed because it was as if I was watching the evening news with this administration and liberalism just running amuck. There was no hope, and it was just big government. I mean, I saw the exact opposite. I didn\u2019t see anything anti-conservative. It seemed almost anti-big government.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is fascinating to me. How old are you, do you mind my asking?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Forty-six.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Forty-six. Who dragged you to this movie? Who wanted you to see it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: An acquaintance, a girlfriend took me to it, oh, my gosh, I don\u2019t want to go there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s all right, but somebody the same age as you, pretty close?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, huh-uh. Hm-hm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Was this supposed to be a date and the content of the movie was so bad that it ruined the night?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) It didn\u2019t ruin the night, but I was a little down afterwards. But, yeah, it was a date. She had read the books and said, “I want to go see it,” and, you know, we did discuss it afterwards, and I said, “My gosh, it\u2019s like –“<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did your, quote, unquote, date like the movie, think it was great and all that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: She enjoyed it. She liked the stars, and I didn\u2019t know who some of them were, so —<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, this is really minimal data that we have here today. I mean, it\u2019s really minimal. It\u2019s tough to make this statement, \u2019cause it\u2019s all anecdotal, but every woman that\u2019s called here and talked about this just raves about it and loves it. And this guy didn\u2019t see it that way at all, which is not surprising in the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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