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RUSH: Let me take care of some housecleaning here. Inside Baseball stuff. There was this story that\u2019s now attaching itself in depth to the blogosphere that Premiere Radio Networks hires actors to call radio talk shows essentially defrauding you, the unsuspecting duped audience. So I read this over the weekend and said, ‘What the heck is this now?\u2019 We don\u2019t have actors on this program. We don\u2019t take enough calls on this program, and certainly are not gonna pay anybody to call this program. You talk about economics, we\u2019re certainly not gonna do that. I said, ‘What is this?\u2019 So I sent Snerdley an e-mail: ‘Snerdley, is something going on behind my back? Are some of these nuts that you find, are they actually actors?\u2019 I said I\u2019m not even gonna send it because I know that\u2019s not happening. <\/p>\n

So I wanted to dig deep here. You know, Premiere Radio Networks is the syndication arm of the broadcast partner; they\u2019re part of Clear Channel. You know what this is? This actually exists because of people like me. Back in the old days when you could do funny phone pranks, you could call out, you could be doing your radio show (morning radio show is when this happened) and you could call out and you could put somebody on the air or tape recorder without their permission. I tried to buy a left-handed baseball bat this way. I faked having a picture phone to get traffic reports from the tunnels in Pittsburgh. I mean it was an art form. There was a guy in Detroit who made this an art form. His name was Dick Purtan. But there were a number of other morning deejays that made a career out of these funny put-on telephone calls, except they were real.<\/p>\n

Then all of a sudden one day the FCC came along and said you cannot do this, you can\u2019t call out nor can you record somebody without their permission. I mean one of the most fun things I ever did was to pretend I had a picture phone. They were testing the picture phone, or they were going to in Pittsburgh. This is the seventies. And there was a Gimbels department store right across the street from the radio station, KQV. So I went over there, went to the lingerie department and I scoped it all out and looked at the girl working there, what she was wearing, where the cash register was, where all the stuff in the lingerie department was, made notes. I went back to the production room in the radio station and turned on the rape recorder and I called over there. (imitating saleswoman) ‘Hello, Gimbels, can we help you?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Yes, I\u2019d like to talk to the lingerie department.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Thank you, hold on just a second.\u2019 <\/p>\n

She picks up, ‘Hi, this is Ms. Elfrink,\u2019 was her name.<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Hi, I\u2019m such-and-such from KQV. I\u2019m helping the phone company test-market the new picture phone. I want to test it here, and I\u2019ve actually got a need as well.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘What\u2019s that, sir?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, girlfriend\u2019s birthday coming up in a couple days and I want to buy her a couple slips. And I have a new picture phone here. I don\u2019t have time to come over there, but if you just hold the slips up to the phone, I\u2019ll be able to see if that\u2019s what I want and pack \u2019em up and send somebody over to pick them up.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Sir, there\u2019s no such thing as a picture phone.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I\u2019d anticipated this. ‘Yes, you probably haven\u2019t heard about it. The phone company\u2019s very forward thinking. The carbon granules in the microphone of your phone, your hand-held set there, are a low resolution black and white camera. I can see you right now. You\u2019re very blurry. I mean if you hold that phone away from you I\u2019ll be able to tell you what you look like and what you\u2019re wearing.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘No, you can\u2019t.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Yes, I can. Just hold the phone away from you, move it up and down, scan up and down and I\u2019ll be able to tell you.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘You can\u2019t!\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Ma\u2019am, if you\u2019ll just do it, I really don\u2019t have time here to waste. You know, I\u2019m on the air and I gotta get this done.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘You\u2019re on the air?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Yes, ma\u2019am, I am.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, I\u2019m gonna feel dumb doing this in front of –‘ <\/p>\n

‘Well, just duck down behind the cash register there to your left.\u2019 <\/p>\n

(gasping) <\/p>\n

So she ducks down. We had somebody over there watching this. She scans herself with the phone. I told her what she was wearing. She freaks. She literally can\u2019t believe it. <\/p>\n

So I said, ‘I want a couple 34Cs.\u2019 She went and got the slip. She scanned the slip, she packed \u2019em up. <\/p>\n

After a while you couldn\u2019t do that. The FCC, somebody said you\u2019ve got to let those people know that you\u2019re gonna be doing it. You can\u2019t record them. You can\u2019t put them on the air unless they know. Well, with rank amateurs, you\u2019re blowing it. A rank amateur, you will not be able to pull it off. I couldn\u2019t go over there and say, ‘Ms. Elfrink, I\u2019m gonna call you in a couple minutes and I need you to act shocked. I need you to play along and here\u2019s what I want you to do.\u2019 She\u2019s not a highly trained professional. It wouldn\u2019t work. It only works if they genuinely don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on and you fool them. So what Premiere had done here, they went out and hired actors for morning shows to be able to pull off bits like this. That\u2019s what they do. The actors are for FM longhaired, maggot-infested morning shows with whatever music format playing stunts like this, trying to make it sound like people are really being duped, but you can\u2019t do it anymore. <\/p>\n

One of the great comedic arts of radio — and this is 20 years ago now — was dealt a fatal blow when the FCC said you can\u2019t put people on the air without their permission, you can\u2019t tape-record them without their permission. People still wanted to do the bits and that led to hiring actors to portray the dupes, the objects of the bit. This story came out in February, Columbia Journalism Review wrote about this in February, and the story died. It came alive again in the blogs over the weekend with the implication that this program is hiring actors to portray callers. And I had no idea this was even going on. For the life of me, I don\u2019t know — (interruption) Snerdley, I didn\u2019t suspect you. I wanted to find out if you were in on some program I didn\u2019t know about because, look, if somebody had told me we\u2019re gonna do this I would have put the kibosh on this. There is no way we\u2019re gonna pay people to pretend to be callers here. Nothing on this program is scripted. (interruption) Who knows, Snerdley. I mean I don\u2019t challenge your loyalties. I don\u2019t question your loyalties. That\u2019s why I didn\u2019t send the e-mail in the end. (interruption) Well, I did think about it. I had to because why didn\u2019t these people at Premiere specify that this is for these prank phone calls and their morning shows or whenever it happens during the day? But it is not for talk radio. I have never heard of this. <\/p>\n

In fact, one of the cardinal rules here from the get-go, nothing is staged on this program, ever. People have come to me over the years with ideas. Everybody wants to get in the act, and I have routinely shot it down. It just doesn\u2019t happen. No way. Plus, pay for it? We\u2019ve got the best universe of potential callers in the country here, the largest audience ever. I mean to pay for this? By the way, I don\u2019t care, some of the best calls we ever had, these wacko, looped-out liberals, I don\u2019t care how good an actor, I don\u2019t think we could duplicate this if we script it. Some of this is beyond being scripted. But I still can\u2019t figure out why Premiere did not specify — they let it stand out there that this is all happening as part of their talk radio division, which it\u2019s not, at least not here. And I can\u2019t believe that it\u2019s happening anywhere else. You may not have seen this yet. The story originally appeared in something called the Tablet magazine which calls itself ‘a new read on Jewish life.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Tablet magazine is a radical left-wing operation. From Tablet magazine, here\u2019s one of the excerpts: ‘Michael Harrison, the editor of Talkers Magazine, the talk-radio world\u2019s leading trade publication, said he knew nothing of this particular service but was not altogether surprised to hear that it was in place. There was, he said, a tradition of ‘creating fake phone calls for the sake of entertainment on some of the funny shows, shock jocks shows.” That\u2019s exactly right, but not here, people doing pranks. I would consider it an insult if somebody came to me and said, ‘Hey, we got a couple actors, we got a couple things that we want you to do here with people, actors pretending to be callers.\u2019 I mean that door would get slammed on somebody\u2019s nose and toes as fast as I\u2019ve ever slammed a door. For those of you who remember Rita X, why would we pay for that? And I suggest to you that there\u2019s not an actor in the world that could pull that off. This whole thing was originally published on the 11th of February. I debated whether or not to even mention this today, you know, whether to even bring it up. There\u2019s a lot of stuff going on out there, folks. Like, for example, as a reminder, tomorrow is Mardi Gras. Did you know that? Tomorrow is Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday, unless Michelle (My Belle) has outlawed it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s another thing about this folks. You know, actors are uniformly leftists (we all know this) if they want to work. Now, imagine if there actually was a leftist actor out there that we had hired. This guy would have already come forward with details, tapes, examples, proof that he had been hired. ‘Here\u2019s my pay stub! Here\u2019s what they withheld! Here\u2019s what I said. This was the bit. Limbaugh was in on it.\u2019 Any actor who could prove that he had called into this show for payment could rat me out, never have to worry ever again about working for the rest of his life. In fact they might even create a special Academy Award for his courage. But such actor does not exist. <\/p>\n

Not for this program. Now, from the original article called Radio Daze: ‘All of the actors I questioned reported receiving scripts, calling in to real shows, pretending to be real people. Frequently, one actor said, the calls were live, sometimes recorded in advance, but never presented on-air as anything but real.\u2019 I\u2019m gonna tell you, if any of these actors had talked to me and they would have gotten the specifics, this writer would have the scoop of the century. He would have the proof and he would have already come forward. <\/p>\n

He would have surfaced, and he would have said, ‘Here\u2019s the evidence,\u2019 and that would have been part of the story, but that person doesn\u2019t exist. In fact, if anybody is out there trying to stage telephone calls to radio talk shows, it\u2019s the left. You know what I\u2019m talking about, the now famous seminar callers. They are so obvious that even you in the audience can spot them a mile away. You know how they are: ‘Mr. Limbaugh, I\u2019ve been listening to you for 20 years. You\u2019re my favorite guy, I love you, I\u2019ve learned so much from you, BUT…\u2019 or some other typical line. We have uncovered seminar caller seminars. They have been trained how to call, how to get through the call screeners. <\/p>\n

We have even parodied this, it has become so frequent. <\/p>\n

(parody: Become a DNC Seminar Caller commercial) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Seminar callers. So the fakes, the phonies, the plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 roll callers on this program are the leftists — and they are trained and they are guided by leftist blogs and so forth. Just saying, folks, that if these paid actors were there, they\u2019d have the evidence; they\u2019d come forward, and they would be celebrated. As I say, they probably get a special Academy Award for their courage in exposing this great injustice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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