{"id":31210,"date":"2008-12-19T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:00:06","slug":"how_el_rushbo_stays_optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/12\/19\/how_el_rushbo_stays_optimistic\/","title":{"rendered":"How El Rushbo Stays Optimistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: This is David in Nashville Tennessee where the big showdown between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Houston Oilers takes place at one eastern on Sunday afternoon. Welcome, David, great to have you here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thank you very much. Dittos, Rush. I just wanted to compliment you on being one of the sole positive individuals in the media right now. It is so bad, I\u2019m a conservative talk radio junkie, and some of your competitors are out there &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125112.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"303\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: I have no competitors. I have colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Colleagues, yes, sir, yes, sir. Number three in the lineup basically has become so much of a, for lack of a better term, drama queen that I can\u2019t even listen to him any more without being depressed, but I am a 24\/7 subscriber to your website and &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; I will take your download and replay &#8212; I have a 45 commute to work back and forth every day, and I\u2019ll listen to it at work, and then I\u2019ll end up relistening to that same episode on the commute back and forth to work, just to kind of feel a little bit more positive and try to drown out all the negativity.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you. Thank you for noticing, sir. Let me tell you why I think this is.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I once talked to somebody in the financial newsletter business. He said he loved crises. Subscriptions went up. Every time he was able to write a headline about we\u2019re going to hell in a handbasket, but I can keep you from going, subscriptions went through the roof. Also, sir, it\u2019s the natural human tendency, it\u2019s part of the way we\u2019re built, nobody that\u2019s going to convince me otherwise &#8212; to be negative. Being positive takes work.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It takes application. And it also takes, you know, having your eyes open. I think a lot of these people you\u2019re talking about are simply trying to join the fear brigade because they think it\u2019s going to mean increased listenership for their programs or what have you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right, if it bleeds, it leads. But, you know, even given all that, given your personal struggles that you\u2019ve had to deal with over the last few years, a lot of people would have taken those struggles and actually become very bitter rather than turning it into a positive and, you know, bouncing back from it and becoming even better.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you know, there probably was a time in my life where I probably would have done that, had some of these things happened at that point, but I doubt it, but it\u2019s possible. But I\u2019ve got ten seconds here before I have to go. 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