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RUSH: We go to Fairfax, Virginia. This is Andrew, and welcome, sir. It\u2019s nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. It\u2019s good to be on the show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a new listener. I go to George Mason University, and I\u2019m in a journalism class and was assigned to a chapter on you in a book. It\u2019s called Mightier Than the Sword by Rodger Streitmatter, and I feel like you are portrayed in an unfair light. Everything I\u2019ve learned about you has put you in a negative light, and I want —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What, is this a textbook?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a chapter in the textbook on me?<\/p>\n

CALLER: ‘Rush Limbaugh,\u2019 and it\u2019s called ‘Leading the Republican Revolution,\u2019 and the chapter does capture your success and details your — you know, your extremely successful career. And I\u2019m new to your show, and researching you, and I\u2019ve been truly captivated by everything that you\u2019ve done. But everything that I read on the Internet and hear from people, especially in a college where the atmosphere tends to be more liberal, always seems to be negative. So I figured I want to get words from you that you would say to, you know, a journalism class for some details.<\/p>\n

RUSH: First of all, let me be sure. I want to make sure I understand. You\u2019re not refuting the textbook. You want to refute what you have read about me on the Internet that doesn\u2019t jibe with what you know, or…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the textbook. I\u2019m saying although it does detail your success, everything —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But it still slams me. The textbook still slams me?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It still… Yeah, basically.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Can you give me just a couple of examples? You don\u2019t have to go into details.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ummm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Cause I need some guidance here on what to refute. Can you give me some examples how it slams me. I can guess, but I want to hear from you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There\u2019s a section in the chapter called ‘Reign of Error\u2019 saying how you refuse to admit that you\u2019re wrong and your facts are constantly wrong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, now, the ‘Reign of Error\u2019 was a report put — <\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Listen to me, now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The ‘Reign of Error\u2019 was a report put together — what year was it, Snerdley, \u201993, \u201994? — by a liberal media watchdog group called (this is oxymoronic, by the way) ‘Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting,\u2019 and what they purported to do was there\u2019s 24 or 25 items, I believe, in it, in which they accuse me of either lying or making things up. They released this to the Associated Press. The Associated Press ran with it all over the country. We replied with our refutation of every item, and they refused to print it. There\u2019s a similar group now called Media Matters for America which listens to all 15 hours of this program and will pull two sentences of a ten-sentence point in our monologue, and take it totally out of context. The purpose of the ‘Reign of Error\u2019 report, Media Matters and so forth, is to purposely misstate what I have said to ruin my credibility with people who have not listened, so as to create the illusion that I am something that I am not among people so they will not listen. The last thing these people want people doing is actually listening to me, as you did. What you read about me actually made you want to listen, and you heard enough that it doesn\u2019t kind of jibe with what you\u2019ve read that you wanted to talk to me about it. Am I correct?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I wanted you to… I think everyone, you know, everyone in the class — well, I\u2019m not going to speak for everyone in the class but I think most people would probably think of you in a negative way, and before I even begin my presentation, they\u2019re going to say, ‘Oooh, God. This is the Rush Limbaugh chapter, you know?\u2019 So I want to have something positive.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you can start out by saying that you actually called my program–<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, definitely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — that you spoke to me, that I kept you on the program for whatever number of minutes it\u2019s going to end up being here, like nine minutes. That you were able to tell me whatever you wanted and that I calmly and coolly listened to you and answered every question that you had. You want to know basically what you can say to people. This is a very, very important question, Andrew — and by the way, I want to hold you through the break —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — which is coming up here in couple of minutes, because I want to spend a little bit more detailed time with you. But this is a very, very important question. There\u2019s no wrong answer to it. It\u2019s going to help me determine what I say to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I detected that you are a little intimidated of standing up in front of the class to do your assignment, present your assignment on me because you think that most in the class have already made up their minds about me, even though I guarantee you — and this is a point you must make to them — they\u2019ve never listened, and you must issue them the challenge to listen. They\u2019re in a journalism school, and they\u2019re about curiosity, and they\u2019re about finding truth, and they cannot possibly understand truth if they haven\u2019t listened themselves. That\u2019s the first thing you tell them, and you did. But are you alarmed? Are you a little bit worried about what they might think of you by what you have to say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m going to stand by my own, you know, my guns. I was raised —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — in a Republican family —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and I grew up listening —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — to conservative talk, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t be afraid of what people, particularly who are uninformed, think of you. You are going to be standing before the class more armed with factual information than any of them have. You will have been the reporter. You have gone out and you\u2019ve gotten the story and you\u2019re going to report to them. Don\u2019t worry what they think of you. You can\u2019t control their thoughts anyway. You have no control over what they\u2019re going to say, so it should not intimidate you into factually reporting what you have learned. So I gotta take this break. We call it ‘an EIB Obscene Profit Time-Out\u2019 just to irritate people like your fellow students while everybody is losing money, we\u2019re earning it. Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee. So you just sit tight, and we\u2019ll come back and I\u2019ll explain this in greater detail.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We rejoin Andrew in Fairfax, Virginia, who is a journalism student at George Mason University. There\u2019s a textbook that his class has been assigned with a highly critical chapter of me after acknowledging career accomplishments and success, and Andrew has a presentation on this chapter before his class. How much time do you have, by the way, to get this done, Andrew?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019ve put together my presentation, but I don\u2019t present for another two weeks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Very good. I want to repeat what I said. The first thing I want you to tell them is that they\u2019re in a journalism class. And you are quite unique in one way, and that is, most of the existing journalists in America today — the vast, vast majority, well over 90% — who report on me, never call me, never ask for my reaction to what they are going to report about me. They take it from what I told you: Media Matters or other left-wing ‘watchdog groups.\u2019 Their purpose is not to get it right. Their purpose is to discredit — and it\u2019s not just me. It\u2019s any prominent conservative, because I feel they don\u2019t think they can win a substantive argument. So the way they attack is to try to discredit people who threaten them in the arena of ideas. I clearly represent a threat. You\u2019ve done something as a student that most practicing journalists today do not do. You have called me. You have asked for my reaction to this. You ought to get an A for that alone. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m serious. Now, here\u2019s another thing. The essence of your chapter on me, I\u2019m guessing, based on the ‘Reign of Error\u2019 that you mentioned, is that I lie, or I purposely get things wrong, or I make things up, or I just say things that I know are wrong to advance my cause. Am I pretty close there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, for that particular section, yes, but there\u2019s other —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: They slam you in other ways as well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we\u2019ll get to those in a minute.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: But as far as the factual aspects of my presentation on this program, or wherever I speak — as far as whether I make it up or lie about it or whatever — the greatest source for information on my show, the greatest source for proof of what I actually say every day is my website: www.RushLimbaugh.com. On my website, there is a complete and total transcript available for every word I utter. There are links to the news items or stories or reports that I have used to make the statements that I make. Why would I lie all the time when I provide the proof right there for everybody to see? Critics never mention this. The journalists never go to my website. They rely on others who take out of context what I say. The other thing I want you to tell these students is that I am a soul mate of theirs. You and your students — because of your age and your future and where you are in life — you\u2019re very focused on yourselves as individuals, and I am the greatest asset individuals in this country have. <\/p>\n

I believe that the smallest minority in the world is the individual, and I believe if you do not respect individual rights, you do not really respect minority rights. The individual is unique. No two people are alike. I resist the tug of popular sentiment. Please quote me: ‘I resist the tug of popular sentiment to basically conform with movements and ideas that are not based on thought, but rather are based on raw emotion.\u2019 I have nothing but a fervent desire for everyone in your class to succeed, to be the absolute best they can be based on how willing they are to work hard, use their passion and the ambition and God-given talent that they have been given. I have no desire for anyone to be held back. I do not see people as men, women, black, white, red, green, orange. I see Americans. I see human beings. I see human beings who, unfortunately, are co-opted into a conformist way of thinking that it is in itself erroneous — such as all the reporting about me and all the opinions of me that have been formed by people who do not listen. So part and parcel of what you must do, after you have repeated what I have just told you — are you recording this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are. This will also be available at my website, every word I\u2019ve said to you. So if somebody wants to say you\u2019re lying about what I said, it\u2019s right there on my website. We\u2019ll have the transcript up. We\u2019re going to put this, Andrew, on the free side, so that every one of your students can see it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: At some point. You can see it tonight, too. You do not… By the way, are you a member of my website? Are you a subscriber?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, sir, I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we\u2019re going to make you one. You\u2019re going to be after this phone call. <\/p>\n

CALLER: All right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That will let you access everything, and you should do it. The Essential Stack of Stuff, the archives, the backup. My website is an encyclopedia of virtually every important thing that\u2019s happened in this country since I have been on the air, and there is proof of the things that I have said. It\u2019s a goldmine for you. You must, when you make this presentation, say that one of the problems that you found going through this chapter in the textbook is that it doesn\u2019t jibe with what you know as a listener to this program. You don\u2019t recognize the Rush Limbaugh in that chapter based on two things: what you know by listening and now what you\u2019ve learned by discussing this with me. Now, is that enough? You can move on to some of the other things that are said that have nothing to do with accuracy and honesty and all that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) Yeah, if you want me to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure. What else do they say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, every section seems to throw in your… I guess… They don\u2019t say ‘racism,\u2019 but your comments towards women and homosexuals and racial minorities.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so what do they say? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Ummm…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t be afraid. I\u2019m not, and it\u2019s about me you\u2019re going to be repeating.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: So don\u2019t be afraid. What do they say? <\/p>\n

CALLER: They mention, I quote: ‘Many Limbaugh critics believe their nemesis dipped to his lowest point in 1989 with ‘caller abortions.\u2019 The offensive gimmick reinforced Limbaugh\u2019s anti-abortion stand…\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, okay, okay. Now, I\u2019m going to walk you through this, because that\u2019s classic. In the first place, ‘Limbaugh\u2019s critics believe…\u2019 Are they identified?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hmmm. No, they are not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No! But they are given credence, are they not? The ‘critics\u2019 automatically have it. This is a journalism, by the way, trick, and it\u2019s standard operating procedure. They could report on the fact in the New York Times tomorrow that a cure for cancer has been found, and they would find ‘critics\u2019 to disagree with it or find problems with it, Andrew. It\u2019s part and parcel of the formula you people are taught. There\u2019s no good news. There\u2019s only news, and somebody who has an opposing view. Now, caller abortions. I happen to be… You\u2019re recording this, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I happen to be pro-life. I\u2019ve been pro-life all my life. I believe in God.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I believe that all human beings have a yearning spirit to be free, that we are endowed with it. I believe the founding documents. I believe that our existence is owing to a Creator who created us with inalienable rights: life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. Our Founding Documents, Declaration of Independence mentions these rights. They don\u2019t come from people, they come from God. Life. Somebody has to stand up for life; somebody has to defend it. Now, anybody can go on the radio and say, ‘I\u2019m pro-life, and those pro-abortionists are wrong!\u2019 Big whoop. What I\u2019ve always strived to do, Andrew, is illustrate my opinion. Sometimes… I have a phrase: ‘illustrating absurdity by being absurd.\u2019 So the caller abortion was — and I will admit, it irritated a lot of people. It caused… And the reason why, Andrew, is because it made people confront the reality of their belief. Do you know what the caller abortion was?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was a, I guess a sound bite ‘with a vacuum sucking sound followed by a bloodcurdling scream.\u2019 That\u2019s what it says in the textbook.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, it was. See? Okay. That\u2019s in the textbook?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. That\u2019s all that\u2019s in the textbook about it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Um, yes.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Yeah. See, that\u2019s… <\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Well, it says whenever you wanted to end the call, that you used the caller abortion.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: That\u2019s a classic example of how what I do was distorted. That was actually a brilliant illustration of my belief about this. This took about 30 minutes to do, to set up, which also made it great radio. It gave us a lot of time spent listening on the ratings. But basically I wanted to illustrate this, and I looked at my telephone, and I asked the question, ‘When does a call become a call? Does the call become a call when you dial? Does the call become a call when you connect? Does the call become a call when I answer, the moment of conception? You call me. Your line connects with my receptacle. Bam! I answer the phone. Is that when the call begins?\u2019 <\/line> <\/line> So I called the phone company, Andrew, and I asked them, ‘When does a call begin?\u2019 <\/line> <\/line> They said, ‘What are you talking about?\u2019 <\/line> <\/line> I said, ‘Well, does a call begin? When do you start charging for a call? When that call has life? When is there…? When you start billing for a call, does it happen at the moment the person has dialed it? Does it happen while it\u2019s ringing? Does it happen with a busy signal, which means there\u2019s call control on it? Does it happen when somebody answers?\u2019<\/line> <\/line> And they said, ‘Well, a call begins when it\u2019s answered. A call takes two people.\u2019<\/line> <\/line> I said, ‘Thank you.\u2019<\/line> <\/line> So, that was to illustrate: When does life begin? See, I believe it can only begin at conception. When else can it begin? So I wanted to illustrate using the phone, making a phone call. Then I got a bunch of people pretending to be scientists and so forth on the phone to discuss this in great detail. But I said, ‘Until I decide to answer, that call\u2019s nothing but a blinking light. That call has no life. That call has no meaning. That call has nothing to it until I answer it,\u2019 and then what happens? When I answer that call and I don\u2019t want it? What if I\u2019ve made a mistake answering that call? What if it\u2019s a bad call? What if it\u2019s somebody who\u2019s not going to enhance the radio program? What do I do? I didn\u2019t want the call. I took the call. I made a mistake! I went out there and I conceptualized the phone call, and now I\u2019m stuck with a call I don\u2019t want. <\/line> <\/line> Well, I do what we do in the pro-choice movement: I simply abort it and pretend that the call never happened! So I turn on the suction device and I suck the call right out of the phone. That, to me, was brilliant, Andrew. I hope you\u2019re recording this, and I hope you read this to your class. Because everything that\u2019s done here, Andrew — whether it be done with humor or seriousness or with a satire or a parody, everything that\u2019s done here — is designed to make a point. Nothing is done here frivolously. I don\u2019t do anything just to make people mad, because that\u2019s going to happen anyway when you tell anybody what you think. By definition, people are going to not… Why do you think Tiger Woods doesn\u2019t tell you what his politics are? Because he wants to sell all of his endorsed equipment to everybody, not just Republicans or Democrats. <\/line> <\/line> But that\u2019s not my business. My business is to tell people what I honestly believe. I love America. The racism and sexism and so forth? Yeah, I came up with the term ‘feminazi,\u2019 to describe the 12 women to whom the most important thing in the world is every abortion possible taking place — and the reason people get mad at that\u2019s \u2019cause it\u2019s dead-on accurate. As for racism, this is a constant, average, everyday charge the left makes against conservatives trying to fulfill the stereotype that we\u2019re racists, sexists, bigots, and homophobes. But the truth about that is you can tell your class this: I look at the majority of the black population in this country and I cry, \u2019cause I see that they have been conditioned to believe that the Democrat Party and large government programs are going to raise them from the life of bondage they believe that they\u2019re in. <\/line> <\/line> And after 50 years of voting Democrat, after 50 years of complaining about the circumstances they\u2019re in, after receiving all these benefits the Democrats have passed out (AFDC) they\u2019re still complaining. Their lives have been stolen from them. The federal government has become the father; the father has become absent. Single mothers are raising kids in neighborhoods and schools that you would not send yours to. The Democrat Party refuses to close them, and insists that those people still go to those schools while still voting Democrat. I think it\u2019s a shame. I think the federal government and the Democrat Party has destroyed the black family. I love Americans. I love human beings! I want the best for them. I want what\u2019s happened to me to be experienced by every damn person out there, and the people standing in the way are my enemy — and that would have to be liberals in the Democrat Party. Now, hang on. I\u2019m going to give you information to be a subscriber to the website. <\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, Andrew, one more point that I want to make for you to include in your presentation to the students on the caller abortions. Your textbook says that critics say I reached a low point with the caller abortion. Let me ask you a simple question. If a fetus is not a human life, why would a caller abortion offend anybody? If a fetus, a human fetus is simply an unviable tissue mass, there could be nothing conceivably upsetting about it. The truth is, it is a baby, and the pro-abort, political pro-abort groups, the NOW gang and other feminist groups, they know it\u2019s a baby, and thus they hate me for exposing their mind-set. But if a fetus isn\u2019t a human being, why would a caller abortion upset anybody? <\/p>\n

And finally, Andrew, this. I understand caller abortions are offensive. But then why is President Obama to be praised for his anti-life positions? Do you realize President Obama three times as an Illinois state senator voted for legislation that would allow doctors to kill a baby successfully born during an abortion? Now, what\u2019s really controversial, Andrew? A bit, a vacuum cleaner with callers being sucked off a phone, or an Illinois state senator who\u2019s now president voting three times to allow doctors to kill a baby after it\u2019s born because the mother wanted an abortion? Ask your students to consider that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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