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RUSH: Roseanne in Greensboro, North Carolina. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Hey, you\u2019re the scapegoat of our generation, and people who follow you — well, not ‘follow you,\u2019 because I don\u2019t follow anybody — but people who listen to you — and we don\u2019t listen to you because we follow you; we listen to you because we don\u2019t feel like we\u2019re the only ones in the universe who can think our way out of a paper bag when we listen to you — we\u2019re the scapegoat of our generation, too. I went to a class beginning this semester, I sat in one class. The second class the professor yelled at me for asking too many questions. You represent people who think, who think independently, who can think and have their own ideas, who remember history. And they don\u2019t like that so they turn you into an emotional sound bite. I sit in class, and I use your name as a way to weed out the ones who don\u2019t think. I say, ‘I love listening to Rush Limbaugh.\u2019 If people have an emotional response to that statement, I don\u2019t associate with them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, you caught me in the midst of tea and honey. That\u2019s one of the nicest things somebody has said to me since Saturday night. (laughing) You\u2019re right, I appreciate that. Do you realize, all this means — all these other lame talk show hosts getting their digs in, Washington Post, and the TV people, they\u2019re just… (sigh) I believe in this thing I read not long ago: ‘Those who hate you wish they were you.\u2019 We pose a threat. Thoughtful, thinking people, are the worst thing that can happen to liberals, by the way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There\u2019s an article in the one classroom that says… It\u2019s about law school versus master\u2019s degrees, and people are talking about how they went to law school to be — learn to be critical thinkers. You\u2019re supposed to learn how to do critical thinking prior to going to law school, but what you see in politics is they don\u2019t want us to think. They want us to have emotional responses.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Or they just want us to accept, but you\u2019re right. Somebody that examines what they say, thoughtfully so, and posts it on a bulletin board and says, ‘You know, this isn\u2019t right. They\u2019re changing…\u2019 They do — you do — become a threat to them, but that\u2019s what makes this fun.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Do you realize the hypocrisy of it, though? It\u2019s the generation that had an emotional response to their parents\u2019 authority. I read an article when I was a real young girl in my teens. It said the sixties was conformity within their own ranks. Their uniforms were the blue jeans and burning your bra. This is the generation that was supposed to be independent thinking of their parents. That was their battle cry, allegedly, and they\u2019re the biggest oppressor of independent thought that there is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, in fact, contrary to rejecting and throwing their parents overboard or under the bus, they were profoundly obedient in the final analysis. They didn\u2019t reject anything. They just decided to take the easy way out, and instead of debating people who have different ideas, they tried to destroy or discredit them or what have you. Very perceptive of you out there, Roseanne. One of my problems that I\u2019m having with my voice is, is I cannot speak fast and because I cannot speak fast, my mouth cannot keep up with my brain. My brain\u2019s racing a mile a minute here, and you don\u2019t know how frustrating that is not to be able to say everything I want to say because I can\u2019t. But you did a great job, Roseanne. That was fabulous. You\u2019re right on the money, and I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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