{"id":215233,"date":"2016-12-21T19:10:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T00:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/12\/21\/30_year_eib_listener_el_rushbo_was_the_first_fighter\/"},"modified":"2017-01-03T12:19:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T17:19:49","slug":"30_year_eib_listener_el_rushbo_was_the_first_fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/21\/30_year_eib_listener_el_rushbo_was_the_first_fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"30-Year EIB Listener: El Rushbo Was the First Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Orlando.&nbsp; This is Don.&nbsp; Great to have you, sir.&nbsp; Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Rush, it\u2019s a great honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Thank you very much.&nbsp; I appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; I\u2019ve been listening to you, I mean, since the Challenger disaster, that\u2019s how long it\u2019s been, about 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Oh, man.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_132340\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Golden-Mic-Era-of-Limbaugh.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER:&nbsp; Yeah.&nbsp; I know that\u2019s not a great anniversary, but, listen, as a Cuban-American Latino, I was born here.&nbsp; My parents immigrated here legally, I was raised conservative, anti-Castro, you can imagine.&nbsp; Recently I have to tell you, the reason why I called, I just had a lot of depression and hopelessness from the election and the mainstream media just completely got me to the point where I didn\u2019t even know what I was gonna do, just complete hopelessness.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>So I just went back to you, I started listening to you, Rush, and I started, you know, following the Drudge Report, got off the mainstream media. I was feeling like our country was lost and there was no way out, and I just went back to you.&nbsp; I just wanted to let you know, you were the first fighter.&nbsp; You fought back against the mainstream media.&nbsp; You gave me hope then, and I needed it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Thank you.&nbsp; Busted up their monopoly is what we did, and I think ever since that happened they\u2019ve been on the warpath.&nbsp; I think actually I am, sad to say, the catalyst for much of this disunity, at least in media, \u2019cause once they lost the monopoly, you even hear Obama refer to (imitating Obama), &#8220;I love the old days we all had a common set of facts and a common set of information and we could all make opinions.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, of course he did \u2019cause it was all left wing!&nbsp; It was all liberal &#8220;facts&#8221; and this stuff, and of course they miss those days.&nbsp; Well, I appreciate that because you have a great memory, and I am so thankful that people like you have brains and are smart and are in the audience.&nbsp; I have got literally no time.&nbsp; What kind of iPhone, 7 or 7 Plus, would you like to have?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Oh, okay, thank you, Rush.&nbsp; The Plus is fine.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Tell Mr. Snerdley the color and the carrier that you would like to use because I have got to go.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Orlando.&nbsp; This is Don.&nbsp; Great to have you, sir.&nbsp; Welcome to the program. 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