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RUSH: Jason in Colorado Springs, it\u2019s great to have you. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Great to talk to you. You\u2019re a good American.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I just had a couple quick comments about Steve Jobs.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah? <\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, everybody calls these people evil capitalists, but if you get rid of the evil capitalists, you get rid of the iPhone and everything else — and he had two things going for him that made him really successful, and that\u2019s the fact that he gave you technology but he didn\u2019t give it to you all at once. He would give it to you in increments and you could get new iPhones every six months or so.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, not that frequently. Generally every year. What is your point about evil capitalists?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: (beeping) Well, the fact is everybody calls them evil capitalists but they\u2019re the ones that move our country forward —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (crosstalking)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everybody…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and if you don\u2019t have capitalism you don\u2019t have invention.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, who is calling everybody “evil capitalists”?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the liberals, people that are at, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What does that have to do…? Are they calling Jobs an evil capitalist, too, is that what you mean?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (beeping) What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m trying to figure out what Jobs… Are they calling Jobs an evil capitalist, too?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (beeping) Well, no. I\u2019m saying that Jobs is a capitalist. I mean that\u2019s — that\u2019s what he did. He — he made money by giving people what they wanted. He gave them a good product and he made money off it. That\u2019s — that\u2019s the definition of a capitalist —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. True.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (beeping) So…<\/line><\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Very, very true. Okay. All right, I got it, yeah. Jobs —<\/p>\n

CALLER: (crosstalking)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh) So you\u2019re defining how evil capitalists do what they do? You\u2019re explaining that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Yeah. And I\u2019m kind of wondering how they lump him in as evil when they give you something you want, you get money for it, and you call \u2019em evil for getting rich off of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s why I\u2019m asking who the “they” is, because I think the “they” loved Steve Jobs.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean —<\/p>\n

CALLER: (crosstalking)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, every hero of the left loved Steve Jobs, from people in music to movies to entertainment to Occupy Wall Street.<\/a> They loved Steve Jobs! I contend it\u2019s only because they really had no idea who he was and what he did. You know, one of the first things the new CEO of Apple has done? Some of you, this may shock you. When Jobs took over Apple in 1997 or \u201998, whatever it was, he wiped out every philanthropic program they had. He said, “I don\u2019t believe in giving away money especially when we\u2019re losing it.” So Apple engaged in no public philanthropy, charitable giving, and that lasted throughout Jobs\u2019 tenure as CEO. The new CEO, one of the first things he did was to institute a matching charitable program for every Apple employee. <\/p>\n

Apple will now match every employee\u2019s donation to a nonprofit up to $10,000. That\u2019s one of the first things the new CEO did. Jobs was a pure, unfettered, unfiltered capitalist. He was totally consumed by profit, from the days in the courage with Wozniak forward, 100% profit focus. Jobs got away with some amazing stuff. The left loved this guy. He had Bill Clinton calling him for advice on what to do about Monica Lewinsky! He refused to take a call from Obama because Obama didn\u2019t place the call himself. This is according to Walter Isaacson\u2019s book.<\/a> They weren\u2019t deferential enough. He told Obama — and, by the way, this kind of dovetails. Jobs, in his mind, was a leftist. But he told Obama, “You\u2019re a one-term president. If you don\u2019t straighten this stuff out, you have no prayer. You are a one-termer.” <\/p>\n

He told him this year ago. It\u2019s fascinating to learn about this guy and so forth. He told Rupert Murdoch at dinner at his house, Jobs\u2019 house, “Rupert, Fox News is destroying your legacy. You don\u2019t want to be responsible for that. The dynamic in America today is no longer liberal and conservative. It\u2019s constructive versus destructive — and you, Rupert, with Fox News, are being destructive.” Well, I think that\u2019s flat-out BS. (laughing) I think it\u2019s wrong as it could be. But when it comes to business, I\u2019ll tell you what Jobs… Even among people who know that he was (and this is the guy\u2019s point) a full-fledged capitalist, that doesn\u2019t matter \u2019cause he gave \u2019em what they want. He gave \u2019em what they want and not as often as they wanted it. He kept holding it back, make \u2019em want it even more, combined with not releasing anything \u2019til it was really ready to go, but that was part of the strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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