{"id":12258,"date":"2013-06-06T16:54:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:54:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-06-06T16:54:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:54:48","slug":"changing_the_way_america_thinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/06\/06\/changing_the_way_america_thinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the Way America Thinks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This guy is Mark in Royal Oak, Michigan. Welcome, sir. I\u2019m glad that you called. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Thanks for taking my call. I was speaking to your call screener as I was waiting, and you stole my point about what Elijah Cummings said<\/a>, the fact that this woman that makes $35,000 a year, and she\u2019s paying for these boondoggles that the IRS is doing. My first thought was, well, yeah, she\u2019s making $35,000 a year, she doesn\u2019t pay any taxes, you stole my point. That\u2019s okay, but I wanted to get to my other point, which is the 21 years that I\u2019ve been listening to you, you have changed not only the way I think, I think the way millions of people in this country think. The first thing that I thought of when I heard that Elijah Cummings clip was, yeah, that lady doesn\u2019t pay any taxes because she\u2019s making $35,000 a year. I think had alternative media not existed, we would still be sucking up the pabulum that the mainstream media is feeding to us, and that kind of stuff would have just gone right by us. So I want to thank you profoundly for changing not only the way I think, but the way America thinks.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Wow. I appreciate that, sir. I really do. That\u2019s quite a very nice thing for you to say.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I mean it from the bottom of my heart, because much to the chagrin of my mother, she raised us kids to think for ourselves. She was, and still is to this day, a very staunch liberal thinker. And one of the things that she had always done in her life was profess the fact that she let us kids decide for ourselves how to think. And I can\u2019t tell you how much I thank her for doing that in us, because had she tried to indoctrinate us with her political thinking, she would have five very liberal kids. But we had the opportunity to think for ourselves.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, that\u2019s something. I\u2019m glad you mentioned that. For people that are aware that they have that ability, it is really a comforting thing to know that you have the ability to avoid the conventional wisdom of the day. You have the ability to recognize how the crowd is being swept up. You have the ability not, if you choose to, to follow it and go along with it, stand out, be the individual. It\u2019s a very confidence inspiring thing to be aware of about yourself, and I\u2019m glad that you have it, and I appreciate your comment, I really do. Changing the way America thinks, one American at a time. That\u2019s why we\u2019re engaged now, don\u2019t forget, in our outreach to the low-information voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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