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RUSH: Mark in Bethesda, Maryland, I appreciate your patience and welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I am a loyal listener but I\u2019m mad at you! You keep dissing and saying all these nasty things that a conservative can\u2019t own a Prius. [sic] I own a Prius. I\u2019m a conservative. Not only am I a conservative, but I supported Ehrlich and Steele in the last election. I made sure my son registered as a Republican. I led a revolt at my gym to get Fox News on TV — and I am still called seven-letter words — and I told you this three years ago when I bought my car, on my license plate —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait! Who is calling you seven-letter words?<\/p>\n

CALLER: People on my news because I got Fox News on the TV.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, well! See? See? You\u2019re doing all of these things, but buying a Prius and driving it around is not buying you one bit of credibility with those people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course it won\u2019t! Of course it\u2019s not going to do anything. But what I had to do… The people in the parking lot kept nagging me. On my license plate, and I told you this once before, in Hebrew it says ‘Shemron,\u2019 in Hebrew it means ‘conservative.\u2019 So that is my way of telling world: a conservative is driving this car. Conservatives can drive Priuses!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Get this. This is how I hear your circumstance. Here you\u2019re doing the right thing. You\u2019re watching Fox. You\u2019re listening to this program. You\u2019re a big conservative. But. You live in Maryland which is infested with liberals. So you\u2019ve gone out and you\u2019ve bought a hybrid, and furthermore, you put a bumper sticker on a car identifying yourself as Jewish — and neither of those two things are buying you anything with the libs in Maryland.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It never would! It won\u2019t! They are who they are. I\u2019m happy being me. I\u2019m not trying to buy anything with them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, then what are you complaining?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019ll always be unhappy. They\u2019re always going to be angry<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait! Wait. Why are you complaining about being them calling you seven-letter words in the gym?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because it\u2019s not appropriate! I don\u2019t like being called seven-letter words!<\/p>\n

RUSH: What does this have to do with having a Prius? I have somehow lost track, here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All I\u2019m trying to tell you is —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s an amazing thing for me to lose track.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My point, I\u2019m listing all my conservative credentials. I have all these conservative credentials, and I\u2019m trying to tell you: ‘Conservatives can drive Priuses.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ohhhhhhhh! Oh! Oh!<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am listing all my conservative credentials.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. Well you certainly have conservative credentials if what you said is truthful. I have no doubt that it is. I\u2019ve never said conservatives can\u2019t drive Priuses! I don\u2019t care what you drive! I\u2019m just saying most people that buy them are buying them as status symbols. We know this from research surveys! They are buying them from status symbols and they\u2019re buying Toyota Prius because they look different than a Honda hybrid. They want it known. They are ‘good people.\u2019 They are doing this as a status thing to make it look like they care and that they are saving the environment — and that, Mark, is a bunch of liberals doing it. If you have a Prius and you buy it and like it and drive it, cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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