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RUSH: Indianapolis with Andrew.  You\u2019re up first, sir.  It\u2019s great to have you.  How are you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  It\u2019s great to talk to you.  Thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  I wanted to draw a parallel between you and Donald Trump and your success.  You both are very funny people.  And I don\u2019t think that either of you have achieved the success you\u2019re having without such a great sense of humor.  I mean, you do it in such a beautiful and subtle way with little jabs and imitations and the parodies, and it just makes it so fun to listen to, and I think that\u2019s why you have so many listeners.  Same thing with Donald Trump.  People go and line up and he gets 20,000, 30,000 people, and they\u2019re there to support him, but he\u2019s funny, and they have a good time.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  You know, you are very shrewd.  There\u2019s a passage that\u2019s gone viral out there one by our old friends, Salena Zito. She wrote a piece — this one was for The Atlantic<\/a>.  And she said that the problem is that Trump, people that oppose Trump don\u2019t take him seriously, but take him literally.  Trump\u2019s supporters take him seriously, but not literally, which means they know when he\u2019s joking with them.  They know when he\u2019s having fun.<\/line><\/p>\n

Somebody who opposes Trump is wound so tight, they\u2019re not funny people anyway, that they don\u2019t get his humor.  They really believe when he tells these jokes that that\u2019s dead serious stuff.  And you are very, very right.  There\u2019s not enough laughter on the left.  Even their comedians are angry.  Their comedians, the humor they shoot for is all personal put-down kind of humor where it used to not be that way.  But Trump\u2019s humor, even the stuff that\u2019s not subtle, they miss, they take it literally and are frightened to death by it.  It\u2019s incredible.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Absolutely.  And I think when the other side tries to be funny they just appear more angry.  You hear Hillary Clinton talking about Trump rating the Statue of Liberty a four or a five on a good day or something, that just turns people off, in my opinion.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Yeah, but, see, here\u2019s the problem with comedy.  Real comedy, real humor, as I have said many, many times has to have, it must have a grain of truth.  If it doesn\u2019t, it\u2019s gonna fall flat.  And rating the Statue of Liberty, it doesn\u2019t connect.  It\u2019s not funny because if anybody would be thinking about that with the Statue of Liberty, it would be Bill Clinton.  It was Bill Clinton that once said (imitating Clinton), “Hey, you know, that mummy, if that mummy weren\u2019t 500 years old, I might take her out.”  It was Bill Clinton that said that looking at a mummified 500-year-old woman commenting on her attraction.  Hey.  Let me ask you, Andrew, would you like a new iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 plus?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER:  Oh, I would love one, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  What carrier do you use?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  I use AT&T.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  AT&T.  7 plus or 7?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  7.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  7.  Okay.  Hang on.  You\u2019ll have it sometime either tomorrow or Monday.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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