RUSH: Bart, Boise, Idaho. Next you are. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Great to talk to you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Hey, Rush, I have been calling off and on for the last 20 years on Open Line Friday to ask you this question. A quick little setup. I was living in Anchorage, Alaska, at the time. I\u2019m a salesman, construction supplies, and I\u2019m out on my morning route making sales calls. You receive a phone call — this is 1995. The class of \u201994 had just, you know, that Congress had just come into play, and a lady had called up and asked you two questions.<\/p>\n
Number one, what were you most proud of, what item, what piece of conservatism, what kind of educational thing were you most proud of that you were able to offer to the audience. That\u2019s number one.<\/p>\n
Number two was, what was the funniest phone call you had ever taken. So you answered number one, and it was baseline budgeting, \u2019cause up until that point I don\u2019t think most people knew, you know, what baseline budgeting was. So when Newt was out there saying we\u2019re gonna cut this and this and this, and the Democrats were saying, “Oh, my gosh, they\u2019re cutting everything,” you explained that we\u2019re just cutting the increase from last year\u2019s budget. They\u2019re not getting less money. They\u2019re just getting less of an increase, right?<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: You explained that. And I\u2019m listening, and during that time, you had a couple of people that would call up periodically, and they were, you know, just funny calls, and there was, you know — so it was the top of the hour. And you got done with the baseline budgeting and said we\u2019re gonna hold her over and start it at the top of the next hour. And whenever it was, nine o\u2019clock or whatever, I had an appointment. I mean, it was an appointment, I had been driving around the block at this point —<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know what? I\u2019m out of time now. I have to terminate the call. I don\u2019t even have time to get your next question. How about a coincidence, 20 years and this happens to you twice. I am just kidding. Hang on. I do have to take a break.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Here\u2019s Bart in Boise. Bart, we left off with you, you were asking back in 1990 what I thought the funniest phone call was to date.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. Yes. And, you know, I called off and on over 20 years. I\u2019m not even sure if it\u2019s that important, I don\u2019t know if you remember it or not, it\u2019s just it got to a point where it was, okay, I\u2019m not giving up, I\u2019m getting through to Rush and asking this darn question. (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, I\u2019ve been thinking about it here. When I tell you that I very seldom think back, it really is true. I\u2019m not trying to dodge anything here, ever. It\u2019s just when this program ends today, it\u2019s over and I\u2019m on to what\u2019s now happening that I\u2019m gonna need to address the next time I\u2019m here. In this case it would be Monday. So when people ask me to think back, I often ask other people things they remember that have happened or consult the website.<\/p>\n
But at the time you asked the question, the funniest phone call, I would have so much trouble answering that. Two things come to mind, but I don\u2019t know that either one would actually be the one. We had a caller back in that era named Mick from the high mountains of New Mexico. This guy was a riot. He was hilarious. And he even showed up at Dan\u2019s Bake Sale in Fort Collins. He was not well, and he passed away after seven or eight years after being a caller here. He was not somebody we had his number and called regularly. He was not a character. He actually existed and whenever he called and got through, that\u2019s when we put him on.<\/p>\n
But even mentioning those two, I mean, it\u2019s almost like a brain freeze. But if somebody said name your top 10 favorite movies, I\u2019d have trouble thinking of three. I don\u2019t know. My memory, when something else triggers it, is unstoppable, is incomparable. But when given one of these, “What are your top 10 favorite this or five favorite songs, movies,” I blank. And so trying to remember the funniest calls, that would be an impossible — I\u2019m sure right now people are yelling at the radio hoping that I\u2019ll hear them and remember what they think were funny phone calls. I\u2019m sure there were tons of them out there.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Tracy from Bedford, Indiana, Open Line Friday. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hey, Rush. Good to talk to you.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: So, I was listening when Bart called in and asked you what the funniest phone call you ever got was, and it jogged my memory, \u2019cause I\u2019ve listened to you since your TV show.<\/p>\n RUSH: Oh, yes.<\/p>\n CALLER: And the funniest thing you ever did was show that clip of Bill Clinton coming out of the funeral, I think it was Ron Brown\u2019s funeral<\/a>, where he was yukking it up with people and laughing and carrying on, and then he saw the TV cameras and got real sad. You remember that?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/RitaX.jpg\")
There was another one, this deranged supporter of Louis Farrakhan who claimed that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were the real focus of evil in America and that Calypso Louie, Minister Farrakhan, was actually on the mother ship circling the planet and was preparing to beam himself down and save whatever needing saving. She called three or four times, and livid, I mean, just angry as she could be. She had no idea she was a laugh riot. She called herself Rita X<\/a>. Obviously a reference to Malcolm X.<\/p>\n