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RUSH: Maria in Rexford, Idaho. Nice to have you. By the way, I\u2019m wondering, in the next Miss America Pageant, will we be allowed to have a Miss Idaho? <\/p>\n

CALLER: I hope so. She would be a great representative for the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but I mean it\u2019s the name of the state, Miss Ida-ho<\/emphasize>.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, you say Idaho<\/emphasize>.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, but it doesn\u2019t matter. The views expressed by the host on this show are not necessarily those of the staff, management, nor sponsors of the station. How are you doing, Maria?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m doing well, thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, my question is, the day after Columbine, you had Chris Matthews on as your guest host, and I\u2019ve always wondered how that deal went down.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what was that, 1999 when Columbine happened? Chris Matthews and I were on speaking terms. I was guest on his show now and then and he was a good broadcaster. We thought it would be interesting to try out. You know, the 2000 election changed a lot of people, particularly the media. They\u2019ve chosen up sides. There\u2019s clearly a line of demarcation in the media now. Back then that hadn\u2019t happened, and Chris, one of the reasons I was intrigued is because he was saying a lot of things, not regularly, but enough to make me think that he was not just a hard-line liberal, that he had some libertarian or conservative thoughts. So we brought him in. We\u2019re always looking for new voices as guest hosts.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Do you still talk to him?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I haven\u2019t spoken to him in a long time. We had a couple e-mails back and forth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because he\u2019s just crazy. I can\u2019t even stand to look at him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s very honored because he won our poll on which MSNBC host should resign and make way for an African-American host. Well, they\u2019re good liberals over there, and they\u2019re upset that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who are right about this, MSNBC is ‘all white, all night.\u2019 And these are good liberals over there, and they\u2019re telling everybody else what they ought to do to end racial discrimination and promote harmony. But you can\u2019t find any African-American or minority hosts there. So we ran a poll here on my website, and Matthews won it 49 to 47 over Olbermann, and Tucker Carlson got 4%. Matthews is a little upset. He wanted a recount because there was no paper trail on this. He didn\u2019t believe Tucker Carlson got 4%. He wanted more than 49%. He wanted over 50.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, there\u2019s always a spoiler in every race.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just made up that last story as a little joke here. We did not hear from him after the vote. But when I\u2019ve been with Chris — in fact, the first time I met Chris Matthews was at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and it was the first such time I had been to the White House Correspondents Dinner, and this was the night where Bill Clinton told a joke implying that I\u2019m a racist. At the end of the dinner, we\u2019re all lingering around on our way out and Matthews comes up in typical Matthews fashion (screaming), ‘You can\u2019t let him get away with that! If I were Rush Limbaugh, and if you\u2019re the Rush Limbaugh I know — you\u2019re Rush Limbaugh! You don\u2019t let the president of the United States call you racist! You can\u2019t put up that! That is intolerable.\u2019 He wouldn\u2019t stop. Spittle was flying all over the place — and that\u2019s the first time I met him.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you still had him on as your guest host?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I love Open Line Friday. Are you still doing a slow burn about that? Are you upset that he hosted? I mean, that\u2019s 1999.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m not upset. I just find it interesting that he would be a choice. I thought it was a good show and it was a good time for him to be on, the day after Columbine. I thought it was a really good show. It just always stuck with me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I have to be honest with you about this, Maria. Finding guest hosts is tough. There is not another me out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is true, and it\u2019s certainly not Chris Matthews. Hey, one more thing, Rush. I\u2019m not the ‘ho from Idaho,\u2019 okay? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, gee.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The views expressed on this program…<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Bleeps) Did we catch it? Did we catch it? You\u2019re going to get me in trouble. That certainly, that was not the view of the host.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. That was the caller from Idaho.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Maria, thank you so much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I really appreciate the help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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