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RUSH: Arnie, in a truck, which means he\u2019s a target of the Obama administration, in Vermont. Nice to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The great socialist state of Vermont.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I can\u2019t believe the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing Maha Rushie does not see that he is being played like a fiddle from the far left. They don\u2019t want the conversation being on the good conservative policies coming out of the conservatives Washington. What they\u2019re doing is they\u2019re starting a fire over in a corner, and they\u2019re saying, ‘Look! Look! See? See? Look! Everybody look over here,\u2019 and that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing. They\u2019re deliberately picking a fight with you so the people of the country don\u2019t focus on what they\u2019re supposed to be focusing on — and I think, Rush, they\u2019re playing you like a fiddle.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What are they supposed to be focusing on?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re supposed to be focusing on some of the conservative ideas: low taxes, less government, less regulation, out of Washington to come out of the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Arnie —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — conservative corner.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Arnie —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — but you know they don\u2019t want that conversation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Arnie, I love you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, yeah. Thanks. I appreciate it. Well, we love you, too, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But it\u2019s calls that make me think, ‘What have I done, wasted my time?\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: No! It\u2019s not wasting time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just finished a record ratings speech to CPAC<\/a> laying out the conservative agenda, Arnie! It\u2019s being talked about all over the place. It\u2019s been replayed on CNN; it\u2019s been replayed on Fox. We\u2019re talking about it here. I am illustrating the fraud that is the Obama agenda. I am representing conservatism. You don\u2019t even hear it. You think I\u2019m being ‘played like a fiddle.\u2019 When we get a call like this, I say, ‘What\u2019s the point? I could go play golf.\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I got a couple e-mails today that echoed the sentiments of the previous caller. Let me deal with this for just a second here, folks. The notion that I\u2019m being played like a fiddle, the notion that I am being distracted from the Obama agenda, the fact that I am not putting forth the conservative principles. These have to be seminar e-mails and seminar phone calls. What\u2019s the point here? I mean, conservative ideas coming out of Congress? Could somebody tell me where they are? This notion that Democrats are picking a fight with me and playing me, taking the focus off the conservative ideas in the Republican Party? Folks, that\u2019s the point. There aren\u2019t many conservative ideas in the Republican Party right now. They are shell-shocked at the Republican Party. They live in the world of polls. They live in the world of focus groups. They live with a constant media barrage that Obama\u2019s great and that they are just gnats best dispatched with. <\/p>\n

The threat to the Republican Party isn\u2019t just moderates. They do present a challenge. Notice the Democrats are not going after any moderate Republicans here. The Democrats are going after me because my ideas and my exposing Obama for what he is remains the only threat to Obama completely dominating. If I\u2019m being distracted, and if I\u2019m fiddling while Rome burns, would somebody tell me where anybody else is standing up and focusing the truth on the Obama agenda? If I didn\u2019t matter to them they\u2019d leave me alone and they wouldn\u2019t dignify responding to anything I do. It\u2019s just the exact opposite. Snerdley came in, I was not going to tell you people this, and I\u2019m still a little nervous. You know I don\u2019t like talking about myself. Snerdley yesterday came in about ten minutes before the program, he was in tears, and I said, ‘What\u2019s wrong?\u2019 And he said, ‘I don\u2019t know how you do it and you don\u2019t deserve it.\u2019 I said, ‘What are you talking about?\u2019 <\/p>\n

He said, ‘I can\u2019t stand it anymore, all the lies and all these hits. The White House is out trying to destroy you; the Democrat Party is out trying to destroy you, they\u2019re lying about what you\u2019re saying, they\u2019re making things up about you. How do you put up with it? You don\u2019t need this. Why are you still doing this?\u2019 And he said to me, ‘Look, everybody asked me, ‘Why are you putting up with this?\u2019 You\u2019ve got yours. You could retire, live like a king behind some gate. You could go play golf, and you could read about the encroaching socialism in the newspaper every day and call the TV show now and then and say, ‘I tried to warn you, but I haven\u2019t got time to talk, I got a tee time.\u2019 And you could get in your car and drive wherever you wanted to go. You don\u2019t need this. Why are you doing it?\u2019 And he says this in a really pained way. I didn\u2019t say anything. He provided all the answers. He said, ‘Everybody knows you\u2019re doing it for everybody else. Doing it for us,\u2019 and he\u2019s partially right. The thought of retirement never enters my mind anyway. Remember, I\u2019m not quitting \u2019til every American agrees with me, and that hasn\u2019t changed. These people are not going to drive me outta here. <\/p>\n

This mindless twit butt boy criticism is not going to drive me outta here. I said it at CPAC, I love the country and I wish everybody could experience what\u2019s happened to me. I\u2019m in awe that I love it so much I\u2019m willing to do what I can to fight for it. I believe in it. I\u2019ll tell you, when I get calls like the last one, ‘I\u2019m being played like a fiddle,\u2019 sometimes I do ask myself, ‘What\u2019s the point here? What really is the point?\u2019 Why put in all the effort, if people aren\u2019t going to get it anyway? But I know those are few and far between. So let\u2019s look at this Michael Steele\/Rush Limbaugh thing. That\u2019s just a brush fire to distract people, right? It\u2019s far more than that. First, the White House was thrilled that Steele and I are disagreeing. Now they\u2019re thrilled that we are not disagreeing and that Steele apologized. Do the media realize how idiotic they sound? Yesterday they\u2019re jazzed, Steele has taken a shot at me, Steele has said what everybody thinks. Then Steele apologizes and they\u2019re happy about that. And you know why they\u2019re happy about it, because they say, ‘See, Limbaugh is such a grand pooh-bah that within 24, 36 hours, every public figure who takes a shot at him is going to have to apologize.\u2019 They think it\u2019s wonderful. We\u2019ve been through this over and over. What they are trying to do is discredit and marginalize the only national critic they\u2019ve got. <\/p>\n

You know, the citadels of conservatism are many. We have publications; we have websites; we have think tanks. Very few are daring to take on the Obama agenda, and very few are daring to put forth the conservative agenda that many of them claim to be leading the movement. The Heritage Foundation is about the best think tank out there for advancing conservative principles, but some of the publications, not all of them, but some of the publications on websites are phoning it in every day, they\u2019re just phoning it in. Nobody is standing up for conservatism. Nobody is defending other conservatives. Conservatives right now are trying to take each other out. I\u2019m trying to take the Obama administration down a peg or two, and have everybody understand exactly what\u2019s coming out of this administration, what the point is, and I will be willing to do this for as long as is necessary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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