{"id":33644,"date":"2009-10-07T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:50:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:50:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:50:24","slug":"why_can_t_you_people_stop_talking_about_a_guy_you_say_is_irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/10\/07\/why_can_t_you_people_stop_talking_about_a_guy_you_say_is_irrelevant\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Can\u2019t You People Stop Talking About a Guy You Say Is Irrelevant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: On Monday, on PMSNBC, Chris Van Hollen, Democrat, Maryland, member of Congress, I think he\u2019s in charge of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee right now, they\u2019re still upset over my fun day last Friday celebrating Obama\u2019s dismal failure in Copenhagen to secure the Olympics for the crime-ridden Chicago. By the way, you think the IOC didn\u2019t see that video of the kid getting killed in Chicago? Eric Holder talked about it, it shocked the nation. It shocked Copenhagen, too. At any rate, pretty bad day in America when we can\u2019t get together on athletics, eh, Chris?<\/p>\n<p>VAN HOLLEN: When you see people erupting in cheers because America lost the Olympics in places like the Weekly Standard and Rush Limbaugh and all these places, the right-wing talk show hosts who are proxies for the Republican leadership, and I have to say that we haven\u2019t heard the Republican leadership come out and condemn them. We saw what &#8212; what happened last time they came out and condemned them, all of a sudden they had to apologize to Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, folks, I have to continue to be amazed here because, let\u2019s see, last Friday David Brooks wrote a piece in the New York Times saying politicians are making a mistake, I don\u2019t have any power, people don\u2019t listen to me. I mean they listen, but they don\u2019t do what I say, I don\u2019t change any votes, and then he said it again on Sunday on Beat the Press and a couple other people, and then Howard Kurtz has come out in Washington Post and got the same facts, echoed the same sentiments. Why do these guys keep talking about me, then? I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re worried about. They\u2019ve been saying for 21 years how irrelevant I am. So, let\u2019s see, Anderson Cooper 180 on CNN. Do you realize, I saw something the other day, I just love this. There\u2019s a show on at three o\u2019clock in the morning on the Fox News Channel called Red Eye. It\u2019s on at three in the morning called Red Eye, Greg Gutfeld. At three a.m. that show has a higher rating than CNN has at eight p.m. with Campbell <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125115.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"152\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Brown. Three a.m. out rates CNN eight p.m. So Anderson Cooper 180, the ferret-like columnist of the New York Times, Paul Krugman was on with Mary Matalin, and they again were debating me. This is Monday.<\/p>\n<p>MATALIN: I don\u2019t know why you would relentlessly and repeatedly employ a tactic that not only doesn\u2019t work, it works against you. The liberals and the Democrats have been demonizing Rush Limbaugh for over two decades and they\u2019ve just made him stronger, and they\u2019ve expanded his audience.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And the ferret-like Paul Krugman replied.<\/p>\n<p>KRUGMAN: On the issue of Rush Limbaugh, he actually is over the top, and in a way that no major figure on the left is, no one with that kind of influence, that kind of respectability, Mary was just giving him the respectability he has and well, as for the strategy, who knows, but I would say to some extent, yeah, people are flocking to listen to them but they\u2019re also pulling the Republican Party further and further out of the mainstream &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, the Republican Party is doing that all by itself, Krugman. The Republican Party is in its own tailspin and nosedive. Mary Matalin shot back.<\/p>\n<p>MATALIN: I don\u2019t just respect Rush, I revere Rush. Every time he\u2019s attacked, it\u2019s spawned a lot of Rush knock-offs but when you drive people to these shows and they\u2019re hearing a lot of data and it\u2019s data that makes sense and comports with their life and it\u2019s not calling them angry mobs, well, it just expands what this country is anyways, it\u2019s a center right country.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, Krugman has amnesia that afflicts the entire left. They have no recollection of how they treated George W. Bush. They said nobody on the left is like me. That\u2019s true. There\u2019s nobody nearly as talented nor as good. What he means is outrageous and irresponsible. Here\u2019s what he said.<\/p>\n<p>KRUGMAN: This was not a column about how Rush Limbaugh is a really bad guy. This was a column about the strategic decision of Republicans &#8212; the Republican Party to be the party that opposes anything that Obama proposes, even if it\u2019s something that by bipartisan agreement we thought was something the country had to do not very long ago.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There\u2019s none of his agenda that\u2019s any good, Krugman, it\u2019s all destructive to the America we know and love. You know, the funny thing is, Brooks, Krugman, these guys, you guys have to learn something. The Republican Party does not listen to me. If it did, it wouldn\u2019t be in the sad shape that it\u2019s in. We\u2019ll be back. Don\u2019t forget, I didn\u2019t appoint myself leader of that party. 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