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RUSH: Great to be with you, folks, as we kick off a brand-new week of broadcast excellence here, Rush Limbaugh, man who runs America, and, by the way, this sentiment is being picked up even by members of the Drive-By Media. Yesterday, on ABC\u2019s Inside Washington, a local show in Washington, DC, the host there, Gordon Peterson. During his panel discussion on the defeat of the immigration bill last week, this is what Evan Thomas of Newsweek had to say.<\/p>\n

THOMAS: The unfortunate reality is that Rush Limbaugh is more powerful than President Bush. I mean, talk radio had more power in this than the power of the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

PETERSON: Tremendous impact, you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

THOMAS: It shows you where we are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just shows you where we are. Ho-hum. (Laughing.) The man who runs America, you know it and I know it. One more, Dan Henninger, one of the editorial writers, columnist, Wall Street Journal, deputy editor there was on Fox News Channel\u2019s Journal Editorial Report with Paul Gigot, and Gigot asks Henninger, ‘Why haven\u2019t liberals been able to succeed on talk radio? They tried?\u2019<\/p>\n

HENNINGER: I think it has a lot to do with the subject matter. I mean, 90% of talk radio is conservative. Let\u2019s think about what their target is. The target of conservative talk radio is the state, it\u2019s government. For Rush Limbaugh, it\u2019s like shooting fish in a barrel. The government is always doing stupid things, whether it\u2019s the bureaucracies or the Congress. The liberals love the government. They love the state. They\u2019ve gotta go on radio and defend this stupid stuff? Their target is the private sector, which is a really hard thing to make fun of.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, it\u2019s a hard thing to make fun of. It\u2019s a hard thing to really criticize when it\u2019s the source of so many people\u2019s prosperity and wealth. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Kyle in Lake County, Florida. Kyle, great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You there, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, the Dubai thing is what I\u2019m leading into, as you contrast your position and talk radio\u2019s position on the Dubai Ports deal and how you made cogent, logical arguments about that, yet you never got anywhere with changing American public or the lawmakers. You had no influence on that decision. Yet here, everybody\u2019s trying to say that it is you and talk radio who sank the immigration deal. So can you just give an analysis what you think?<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: I\u2019d be happy to give you an analysis of this, but I\u2019m afraid that if the Drive-Bys are listening; it will destroy \u2019em, because the Drive-Bys have this image of people like you, Kyle, of being literal sponges. Your head\u2019s empty, and you don\u2019t go anywhere for news or information until you turn on this program from noon to three, and after that you turn it off and you don\u2019t know anything else. So they think that all you know is when I tell you. You are a mind-numbed robot. You do not have a mind of your own. ‘It\u2019s not possible! Why, this many people doing this, having this effect? It\u2019s not possible! They couldn\u2019t have minds!\u2019 You gotta understand, liberals look at average Americans with contempt and condescension anyway. ‘You\u2019re not bright, you\u2019re not smart,\u2019 and they fuel that belief by furthering the notion that I\u2019m the pied piper. I\u2019m a Svengali and you\u2019re just walking robots. <\/p>\n

Well, what both of these incidents show — and the Pew Center for People and the Press has proven this and shown it in research<\/a> — is this is the most informed broadcast audience in this country. You are fully able and do to make up your mind on issue after issue, and the Dubai Ports deal is a great example. I was one of the lone voices that was looking at that in a different way from most people, but the people made up their own minds. I might have changed a few, I had some people call here and say so, but that was just like the immigration bill. People had their own minds made up because they are smart. You are engaged and involved. You follow this stuff every day, and you know what\u2019s right and wrong in America. You know the traditions and institutions you want to preserve. You don\u2019t need a pied piper coming along filling your head with things because it\u2019s empty. It\u2019s just the exact opposite. That\u2019s what they don\u2019t admit. But they\u2019re out there thinking you are, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re thinking I\u2019m more powerful than the president — and they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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