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RUSH: We\u2019ve got John Kerry join this debate now over the Fairness Doctrine — who served in Vietnam, by the way, John Kerry. Dick Durbin from Illinois has joined the Fairness Doctrine debate, urging that this be reinstituted and so forth. I keep getting e-mails from people, ‘I can\u2019t believe you\u2019re not worried about this.\u2019 Folks, I don\u2019t worry about anything. I\u2019ve gotten to the point where I don\u2019t worry about it. We\u2019ll deal with this like we have to deal with everything else that comes along in life. You spend time worrying about things, you waste time. Look, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen. I\u2019m not going to sit here and tell myself all kinds of negative stories, ‘Oh, gee my career is over. Oh, this is horrible. Oh, what am I going to do, oh, no, no, no.\u2019 Not the way I deal with things. <\/p>\n

This is par for the course. This Hush Rush stuff has been going on for the last 14 or 15 years, maybe longer than that. So Congressman Mike Pence, from Indiana, in the House, a former radio talk show host himself, a big, big, big — how should I say this? Well, I was his idol when he was a young talk show host, and he took that experience and got elected to the House of Representatives. He\u2019s offered legislation that would prevent the reinstitution of the Fairness Doctrine without certain congressional action in the sunlight and so forth. <\/p>\n

Now, this could be overturned by another Congress if it passes. You never know where it\u2019s going to go, but there are people fighting this. Republicans are gearing up for this, at least in the House. The problem will be in the Senate. There are some Republicans in the Senate that probably would love for me to be shut up about now, and I take that as a badge of honor, too. But don\u2019t worry about it, folks, it is what it is. But, look, we\u2019re dealing with a whole different environment than we were throughout the eighties. Back then talk radio didn\u2019t have nearly the kind of audience it has today. We\u2019ve got an army of millions of American voters that won\u2019t put up with it. We\u2019ve got 2,000 radio talk show stations, or radio stations doing talk in this country. There\u2019s more divergent opinion in this country than ever, with the Internet. The idea that radio needs to be singled out is not going to fly. I don\u2019t doubt they\u2019re going to try, and any time powerful elected officials of the United States government get into gear, yeah, you have to take it seriously and deal with it, as we will. But I appreciate all your concerns about it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I mentioned the first part of the program that people have said they can\u2019t believe that I don\u2019t sound worried about the Fairness Doctrine threats being mounted all over the left. I said, ‘Folks, I don\u2019t worry. It is what it is, and there\u2019s no sense in worrying about it.\u2019 People writing the e-mails, ‘I just can\u2019t believe you don\u2019t worry.\u2019 Well, I used to. Let me try to explain it to you. Worry is basically doing what? Worrying is telling yourself a negative outcome of a future event. And you can\u2019t possibly know if the outcome of a future event is going to be negative. So what does that lead to? Well, it leads to distraction, it leads to suffering, self-imposed suffering. It leads to paralyzation in some cases and you end up causing yourself all kinds of grief. Then you get depressed, get miserable and so forth and become self-consuming, or all consuming. Now, I don\u2019t succeed at it all the time, and clearly there are things that upset me, but in terms of sitting around worrying about something way down the road that I can\u2019t possibly know the outcome of — and, by the way, something I\u2019m going to have a lot of input in, it\u2019s not as though I\u2019m wandering around aimlessly in the forest here with no chance to impact whatever this effort against all of us on talk radio is going to end up being. I\u2019ve got the ability to say, ‘All right, fine, you going to come after me?\u2019 <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to sit and worry I\u2019m going to lose. I\u2019m not going to sit here and worry that they\u2019re going to succeed, because it just leads to paralysis and suffering and so forth. But the most important thing is that worry equals the telling yourself of negative events, negative outcomes. I know it\u2019s natural. We human beings are predisposed to pessimism. Optimism is hard to achieve. It takes effort, just the way we\u2019re built and so forth. I learned this over a whole number of years. I\u2019m not lying to you about it when I say that I\u2019m not worried about it. Besides I know I have plenty of you worrying for me. I\u2019m only kidding. I just want to explain this. I\u2019m not superhuman, and I\u2019m not trying to sound that way, and I\u2019m not trying to belittle anybody else who does. It takes effort to not get trapped in these kinds of emotional down-spirals. But worrying creates angst, it creates drama. If you don\u2019t keep it to yourself, it affects everybody else that you\u2019re around, and when the subject you\u2019re worrying about is something about which you can\u2019t possibly know the outcome, it\u2019s an absolutely waste of time. I don\u2019t like to waste time. It\u2019s too valuable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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