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RUSH: Back to the phones Temecula, California, this is Jake. I\u2019m glad you called, sir, and welcome to Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I\u2019d like to pose a challenge to you and 999 other listeners. I think four million is a great number. I think five is better. And my idea is, while you\u2019re sitting around one evening, watching one of your preview movies, you will find one thousand autographed copies, certified of this letter, and allow one thousand of us citizens to contribute $1,000 each, and up the ante one more million dollars, and I will buy the first one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t think that\u2019d be a little overkill?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think you have a couple of days to do this. I think it\u2019s a worthy cause, and I think a lot of us who don\u2019t have $2 million wanted to make our statement, and I think a thousand dollars for me is a great statement.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Hmm, that is an interesting idea. This is exactly what I was just talking about. I had no idea this is what you were going to say. All it says up here is, ‘Don\u2019t end it. Another idea,\u2019 and you are making the point I just made about the compassion in this country actually lying in the private sector and the desire to be involved in something like this. It\u2019s a great idea. Let me ponder it. I cannot commit to it sitting here on the air because I just want to run it. I can\u2019t find anything wrong with it, I just want to think about it, because, actually, it\u2019s a good idea. You think we get a thousand people pay a thousand bucks for it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think we could get it done probably in the next five days. Put it on the website, offer them an easy way to pay with their credit card. You\u2019ll have a thousand people probably by next Friday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: With my signature you think?<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you can take your time and send them to us when you can.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughter) Well, yeah. How gracious of you. All right, look, Jake —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m going to hold on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re going to hold on? Oh, Snerdley wants to talk to you? What does he want your phone number for?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He can take my name and address so I can send the first thousand dollars.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I see. I see. I see. Okay, all right. Jake, don\u2019t go away then. Mr. Snerdley will put you on hold. Great idea. <\/p>\n

This is David in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I love you, Rush, and that\u2019s my way of saying ‘mega dittos.\u2019 I think you do a great service for the United States. I think the only thing is that I would have to say (sigh) is that I think that you could reach more people. A lot of people turn you on and either like you or dislike you right off the bat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s kind of like Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, kind of like that, except that I think I\u2019m not sure if I would call it — I feel very confident in what I do also, and that\u2019s what you come across as, but a lot of people take it as arrogance, or egomaniac, or something like that, and I\u2019d just like to see you reach more people because there are more people that need to be reached or we wouldn\u2019t have the problem with the Democrats right now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what are you suggesting I do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (sigh) You know, I don\u2019t really have an answer for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, you do, you\u2019re just afraid to say it — after saying you\u2019re so sure of yourself.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Tone yourself down, I guess.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you go. You think I need to stop the arrogance, and the braggadocio, and the pompousness, and the bombast, and all that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, and that\u2019s not how I feel about you. It\u2019s just — I say, I think a lot of people who turn you on for the first time feel that way sometimes, and I think that if you didn\u2019t turn people off right off the bat —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question, then.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n

RUSH: How is it that 22 million people don\u2019t?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That don\u2019t what?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Think that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh! I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well…<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because they feel the same way as I do, they agree with you. They realize that you\u2019re right so much of the time, but because —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, 98.8%. ‘Almost always right 98.8% of the time.\u2019 Always mention the figure when you talk about my accuracy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry: 98.8% of the time you\u2019re right, and if more people out there would listen to you, they\u2019d know you were right, and I think that by turning some people off — like I said, they either love you hate on you right off the bat and if you could get more people to love you and more people to listening to you, then we wouldn\u2019t —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something. I hear this somewhat. I don\u2019t hear it a lot. I used to hear it in the early days of this program, but I hear it somewhat. You know, I\u2019m being who I am here. This is showbiz and there\u2019s a performance aspect to this. You know, this didn\u2019t happen by accident here. You\u2019re basically asking me to be boring.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No!<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re asking me not to offend people who are waiting to be offended. See, I know who these people are, and I know exactly what the problem is. I\u2019m going to say something here that will probably make you cringe internally, and wish I wouldn\u2019t say it, because you think I\u2019m going to be turning off potential audience members, but we live in a country of people, we are so affluent — this is why I have to laugh when people tell me we\u2019re on the verge of a recession and so on. We are so affluent that people have so much time of themselves to make them the focus of their lives, themselves, and their feelings and whether they feel offended or whether they\u2019re made nervous or what have you. Along comes somebody like me who\u2019s confident, sure of myself. That\u2019s going to intimidate a lot of people who don\u2019t think in this case can be that sure of themselves, and there are a lot of people that think, ‘Well, there\u2019s no black and white out there. There just aren\u2019t my firm answers.\u2019 People do not want to be considered closed-minded, and so they pass themselves off as nuanced. They see a lot of gray area. It\u2019s moderates. These are people that really don\u2019t stand for anything, and nothing that I do is going to make them stand for anything, because one thing you can\u2019t do is stand down for my principles and stand down for the things I\u2019m passionate about, and I actually think it\u2019s a combination of passion and confidence that leads people to think that I have no humility. But the people like you who listen to this program regularly know that that\u2019s not the case. I\u2019ve warned people. It takes six weeks of steady listening to this program to get an understanding, a full understanding of exactly what all can happen on this program and how. I appreciate your thought, and I understand your desire that we reach more people — and that\u2019s our objective, too. Make no mistake about it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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