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RUSH: So what do you think? Put it out there, or just ignore it? All right. Well, let\u2019s go ahead. I mentioned this earlier in the program, and I promptly forgot it, and I got people sending me e-mails, “What about that CNN thing you were talking about? You gonna play it?” I did Greta last night, and it was a full hour, and they got enough tape that there\u2019s gonna be another full hour on Friday. The fact that I was on Fox last night for an hour was almost the lead story on CNN today. <\/p>\n

We have three sound bites. Carol Costello, the former Rush stalker. Before she was an anchor, she was a reporter, and she had the Rush beat. And she had as her guest, Brian Stelter, who used to work at a TV blog and then got hired by the New York Times as a media expert. And I think he\u2019s 16. I\u2019m kidding. But he\u2019s a very young man. And Carol Costello was puzzled that I would be on TV in the first place, I don\u2019t do it. Then she puzzled that Fox would give me a whole hour when they don\u2019t give politicians that. And that formed a foundation of the discussion. And then they concluded that I did this because I realize I\u2019m gonna be gone in three years, career is gonna be over in three years, which they\u2019ve been saying for 25 years, and that I\u2019m desperately trying to put myself out there to save a flagging career, to show that I still can move people and audience meters and so forth. <\/p>\n

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Despite the fact that I told you why I did this yesterday. Look, Greta was on me like Weiner is on the phone. I\u2019m telling you, for two weeks she was persuasive. I\u2019d wake up in the morning and the first three e-mails I saw in the in box were from her, asking me, pleading with me to do this. And I like Greta, she\u2019s a hard worker, and I decided to do it. Really, I did this in conjunction with nothing other than simply being nice to Greta. That was it. ‘Cause I don\u2019t even like it, which didn\u2019t air last night, but we talk about that in this interview, about why I don\u2019t like TV. That will probably air Friday. So let\u2019s go to the tape and let\u2019s laugh at this together. Here\u2019s Carol Costello. This is the first sound bite introducing this Brian guy from the New York Times.<\/p>\n

COSTELLO: I just found it fascinating that Rush Limbaugh appears on Fox News for almost an entire hour. He never does that and he didn\u2019t specifically talk about, you know, his business dealings, but he talked a lot about his politics and kind of bashed Obama for an hour, really, I mean, if you want to be honest about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (imitating Costello) “If you want to be honest about it, all he did was bash Obama. He didn\u2019t talk about his business deals.” What she means by that is that I clearly felt a need to do TV \u2019cause I\u2019m losing all these radio stations<\/a>. H.R., how often does CNN call asking me? Anderson Cooper and these people were calling all the time, NBC, ABC, we tell \u2019em “no” all the time. Now they\u2019re calling in droves again since I did this. Anyway, she asked that question of Brian Stelter, the New York Times, here\u2019s what he said.<\/p>\n

STELTER: I kind of felt like it was a reminder that he is the top conservative talker out there. Look at him getting a whole hour on Fox News. Nobody ever gets that. Not even politicians get that, but Rush Limbaugh has been on for such a long time, more than 20 years, and there is some skepticism about whether he\u2019s going to be as big in three, or four, or five years as he is today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where is there that skepticism? It was totally invented. I don\u2019t even know if we want to do this beyond the next two years. (interruption) Skepticism for prayers, mistaking the word. There\u2019s some prayers that I\u2019m not gonna be doing this in three to four years. That\u2019s right, they\u2019re praying. But I didn\u2019t determine — you know, I sat down, I asked Greta, “How long is this gonna go?” She said about hour. I said, “Aw, jeez.” I was a prisoner in this, folks. I dictated nothing. I have nothing to do with any of it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: As we continue our hilarity diversion, you laugh along here with CNN. This is the final sound bite of three as CNN is pulling its hair out today trying to understand how and why I would be given a full hour on Fox. I can\u2019t wait when they find out that there\u2019s gonna be another one Friday night, and then they\u2019re gonna have to say, “What? Fox gave Limbaugh two hours!” Anyway, here it is, is Carol Costello and Brian Stelter of the New York Times.<\/p>\n

COSTELLO: I also found it interesting that Fox would give Rush Limbaugh a platform, you know, for almost an entire hour. Why do you suppose the network did that?<\/p>\n

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STELTER: Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, is close to Rush Limbaugh. And even though we don\u2019t see Rush on television very often, whenever he is on television he goes on Fox. I think that has something to do with it, that friendship behind the scenes. Maybe Rush Limbaugh felt like he needed to remind everybody that he can still command an audience like that on television.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So Stelter in the previous sound bite said, “And there\u2019s a lot of prayers about whether or not Limbaugh\u2019s gonna be as big in three or four or five years, as he is today,” and then, “maybe Limbaugh felt like he needed to prove he can still command an audience.” CNN doesn\u2019t know what that is, commanding an audience. CNN doesn\u2019t have the slightest idea what that means, nor do they know how to do it. That\u2019s why they\u2019re so fascinated with it. How is it done? (laughing) Anyway, I\u2019m only playing those because I made the mistake of mentioning it at the top of the program, laughing about it, and I didn\u2019t play \u2019em and started getting e-mail, so that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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