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Katie in Winona, Iowa, nice to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s Monona, with an M.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What did I — whoa, whoa. What did I say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You said Winona.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, well, you know, the computer monitor, I have to tell you this, Katie, the computer monitor, actually the program, our call screener program dates back to the eighties. It looks like your old DOS computer, with the green and so forth, and so a W looks like an M without my glasses on. I don\u2019t have my glasses on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s Monona with an M. That\u2019s okay. You look wonderful, I\u2019m watching on the Dittocam. I can see that you\u2019re rested.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (kissing sound) Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m glad you\u2019re back, and we missed you terribly. But while you were gone what I was doing was calling people on the television, fellow Republicans, please, to remind them to go to the caucus.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you part of the party apparatus?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I am.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have been hung up on, sworn at. Rush, you can\u2019t believe it. I got to the point where I would rather be waterboarded than make another call. And then I got one of your people, and I immediately knew this was a Rush listener, so I included it in my question, ‘Are you by any chance a Rush listener?\u2019 And this woman said to me, ‘Every single day.\u2019 So I added that on my script, and when I came to somebody that was kind, intelligent, informed, pleasant, and willing to chat, I found out, I asked the question, ‘Do you listen to Rush?\u2019 And the answer, every time, was yes. And I was right, every single time. Your people are so obvious, you know who they are. You should be proud.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I am. That\u2019s encouraging.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It encouraged me, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is so great that you could tell simply by their level of intelligence, their degree to which they were informed, and their manner, their politeness, their deportment —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: — that they were Rush listeners.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Yes. They\u2019re a dead giveaway. They used words like — I mean somebody even mentioned the Constitution. I heard the phrase ‘stuck on stupid.\u2019 I knew who they were.<\/line> <\/line><\/a>RUSH: ‘Stuck on stupid.\u2019 (laughing)<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: They\u2019re wonderful.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Now, but if I were not inclined to be the optimist that I am, if I were not inclined to be pessimistic, you know what my reaction to this call would be?<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: What?<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t understand this, every Republican you\u2019re calling ought to be a Rush listener!<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: That\u2019s why I called. And not only that, every Republican that I called should have acted like a Rush listener, they should have treated me kindly, you know? <\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Well, I\u2019m sure that a majority of the Republicans you called were, in fact, Rush listeners, correct?<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Quite a few. Yes, quite a few.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Nice hedge.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: That\u2019s the only way I could keep going. I\u2019d like the people in Iowa to get up off their butts tomorrow night and go to caucus, you know? Show those people —<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Well, now, wait a second, now, I understand what you\u2019re saying, but I kind of like the fact that people who don\u2019t care don\u2019t go. The last thing in the world we need is a busload of people that don\u2019t care going in because they\u2019ve been paid to go or show up because they\u2019ve been told what to do. I say if you people in Iowa don\u2019t care, stay home. The Orange Bowl is on tomorrow night, have fun, if you don\u2019t care.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Maybe they\u2019d learn something if they\u2019d go.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: No.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: You don\u2019t think so, huh?<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: No.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Anyway, you saved me. I couldn\u2019t have gotten through those phone calls without you.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: I appreciate it. Katie, thanks so much for the call.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: You\u2019re so welcome.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: One thing about the Hawkeye Cauci, you gotta understand what it is, and for those of you in Iowa, I\u2019m not being critical here. But it\u2019s not like an all-day thing where you have some free time and you can go vote. The Hawkeye Caucis start at 6:30 p.m., so if you work the night shift at McDonald\u2019s or the night shift anywhere else, you can\u2019t go. If you work in a hospital, if your job has you at work at 6:30 p.m., you cannot go. It\u2019s not like open ballot elections or ballot voting place elections where you take five or six minutes if you have them and go. It starts at 6:30 p.m. and goes at least an hour, sometimes two. You can\u2019t just walk in a half hour, an hour through the thing, you gotta be when they start. If you\u2019re out of town — there\u2019s no absentees or any of that.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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