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RUSH: Folks, I forgot to mention to you. There is a Hitler YouTube video with Hitler finding out and mad as hell that I won the dance contest, the judge\u2019s dance contest. I found it last night. I\u2019ll send the link up to Koko at the website so that he can post it and you can see it. MSNBC is playing it, they\u2019re looping it. Everybody is stunned that I have these boss moves. They couldn\u2019t believe it. To these people I\u2019m Mr. Square. I\u2019m the farthest thing from hip in these people\u2019s minds and now they don\u2019t know what to do with this. It\u2019s hard to criticize it. Joy Behar, God love her, the IQ of a pencil eraser, on her show last night tried to say that I was booed by the audience at the Miss America Pageant when I was introduced by Gretchen Carlson on Saturday night, and I can tell you I wasn\u2019t. In fact, I was overwhelmingly accepted. We do have the sound bite, I\u2019ll play it for you. But here first is Joy Behar on her show last night on the Headline News network.<\/p>\n

BEHAR: Some people actually booed Limbaugh when Gretchen Carlson introduced him.<\/p>\n

CARLSON: From the field of communications and interview, the outspoken star of the Rush Limbaugh Show, Rush Limbaugh. Hey, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: How you doing, Gretchen?<\/p>\n

BEHAR: Okay, they\u2019re booing him. Has he lost his mojo with these audiences?<\/p>\n

RUSH: She asked that of Candy Crowley of CNN, which you\u2019ll hear her answer in just a second. But let\u2019s go back. Here are the full introductions up to me. They started with Shawn Johnson and then Vivica A. Fox. There is no booing, there\u2019s just huge applause.<\/p>\n

CARLSON: We\u2019re fortunate to have an Olympic gold medalist representing the field of fitness, Shawn Johnson. (cheers and applause) <\/p>\n

JOHNSON: How are you doing tonight?<\/p>\n

CARLSON: I\u2019m great. What one thing are you looking for?<\/p>\n

JOHNSON: I\u2019m looking for somebody who\u2019s unique, who stands out and who\u2019s a role model to the generation coming up, because we need a great role model, and these girls are unbelievable.<\/p>\n

CARLSON: You\u2019ve been an awesome one. Thank you. And from the field of beauty, the beautiful producer and star, Vivica A. Fox. Vivica, what are you looking for?<\/p>\n

FOX: I\u2019m looking for a girl that has the ‘it\u2019 factor. As Miss America, I want her to always leave a positive impression.<\/p>\n

CARLSON: Thank you very much, Vivica. From the field of communications and interview, the outspoken star of the Rush Limbaugh Show, Rush Limbaugh. Hey, Rush. (cheers and applause.)<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: How you doing, Gretchen? Poise, confidence, articulation, and she must like herself.<\/p>\n

CARLSON: No doubt. Thanks, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re just upset. That was overwhelming applause, as loud as anyone got all night, and Joy just can\u2019t handle it, ‘He was booed, he was booed.\u2019 So Behar asked this question, ‘They\u2019re booing him, has he lost his mojo with these audiences?\u2019 Here\u2019s Candy Crowley.<\/p>\n

CROWLEY: No. No. I don\u2019t think so. He is a very solid — the key there is outspoken. You\u2019re — you\u2019re never — you\u2019re going to go very few places that is homogeneous in terms of the politics of it. Doesn\u2019t totally surprise me, but he chooses to be outspoken. What I found about people like Rush Limbaugh and others who are very much identified with hardened positions on either the right or the left is they thrive on that. That doesn\u2019t bother them to be booed. It\u2019s kind of a part of their thing. They expect it in some ways.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but I wasn\u2019t booed. Trust me, my friends, I was not booed. If I were booed I would have been teased about it out there. I think Joy needs one of these OhMiBods, one of these things that were put in the Grammy gift bags that you hook up there to your iPod. And here\u2019s Zsa Zsa, Arianna Huffington, of the Huffing and Puffington Post. She was also on the Behar show. And after what you just heard with Candy Crowley, Zsa Zsa jumped in.<\/p>\n

HUFFINGTON: I think it\u2019s really important to make a distinction between strong positions based on fact and strong positions based on fantasy, and that\u2019s really the problem with Rush Limbaugh. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s based on reality or not. That\u2019s a distinction we all need to be very conscious of, it\u2019s not just what political perspective you are endorsing, but is what you are saying factual.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nice try, Zsa Zsa. I think Zsa Zsa needs one of those OhMiBods for her mouth. (imitating Huffington) ‘It\u2019s fantasy, Rush Limbaugh deals in fantasy.\u2019 That is one of the ways the left has tried to destroy my credibility by saying I don\u2019t deal in facts and make it all up which is of course just the opposite, it\u2019s what Zsa Zsa does, Zsa Zsa makes it up. I don\u2019t have to make it up because I talk about the left. I know them like every square inch of my — (interruption) no, I would never need an OhMiBod. Why are you asking me if I would use one?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, Carol in Jacksonville, Florida, as we start on the phones. Great that you waited and welcome to the broadcast.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush: 3.72 trillion mega dittos to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.<\/line><\/line>CALLER: Rush, I wanted to tell you. I have not watched the Miss America contest in 30 years. I grew up watching it with my sister, I loved it, and this year watched it only because you were going to be a judge. I watched with my husband and my 11-year-old daughter. We had the best time. My daughter now wants to be Miss America, and I was able to be the nagging mother and say, ‘You need to study hard and practice your piano.\u2019 What a joy, and the women were all lovely, and Caressa was just poised and beautiful and so well spoken. I was so proud. So thank you so much.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s great. You know, I don\u2019t want to get cheesy about this, but we talk about cultural rot on this program a lot. I don\u2019t mean to be mean here, but Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian? These are not the kind of role models that you would want your little girl to look up to but unfortunately that\u2019s who they are. Everybody is doing Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and all these things because everybody wants to be famous. Everybody\u2019s vomiting everything about themselves trying to become a media star.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s just shallow as it can be, and these women were not shallow. They had all worked really hard for this. Some of them were better than others, but nobody\u2019s the same. Caressa was a standout, there\u2019s no question, but there were many others. Miss California was great. Miss Indiana was a fabulous speaker. She gave Caressa a run for her money, but I\u2019m glad that you had that take from it because not too long ago these were the kinds of women who were role models, then feminism got involved and these kind of women became targets for ridicule.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really, they don\u2019t deserve to be targets of ridicule. They deserve to be examples of pursuing excellence and trying to be the best. Like Robin Leach asked me in the press conference which was held on Wednesday afternoon: ‘Will America be in good hands with one of these women?\u2019 I said, ‘I am so glad you asked that question, because — undoubtedly, without one moment of hesitation — I say that,\u2019 and I went into what I just explained to you. By the way, this is not a desire to turn the clock back, \u2019cause I know you can\u2019t do that. This is not me being an old fuddy-duddy. It\u2019s just I was astounded by not — and not just the contestants. Everybody in the Miss America Organization. They\u2019re some of the finest people that I\u2019ve ever known. Any charitable organization could not do wrong to emulate the way these people go about doing their business, and they are a charitable organization: $49 million in scholarships for women they grant over the course of the year toward women\u2019s education opportunities. Everything about it is just wholesome and decent and good. This is what you want your culture and society to be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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