{"id":36439,"date":"2010-09-21T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:30:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:30:36","slug":"rush_limbaugh_scaring_the_hell_out_of_the_ruling_class_since_1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/09\/21\/rush_limbaugh_scaring_the_hell_out_of_the_ruling_class_since_1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh, Scaring the Hell Out of the Ruling Class Since 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125110.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: You know what I was thinking of? I saw a picture of that TIME Magazine cover they did on me back in the nineties: &#8216;Is Rush Limbaugh Good for America?\u2019 The subhead on that headline: &#8216;Talk radio is only the beginning. Electronic populism threatens to short-circuit representative democracy.\u2019 I\u2019m thinking, looking back&#8230; What\u2019s the date of this thing? I think it was 1995. So here we are 15 years later, and how prophetic were these fearmongers at TIME? The same question asked about me in 1995 is being asked about the Tea Parties today, and it was asked about the Internet two years ago. And it\u2019s because interactive engagement in politics by people who make the country work and who love their country, scares the hell out of the ruling class. I scared the hell out of the ruling class back in 1995. Sadly, I didn\u2019t understand why. I knew they didn\u2019t like me but I didn\u2019t understand why.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t thinking of ruling class. I wasn\u2019t thinking of high school cliques. I was thinking professional jealousy., and there might have been some of that. But that\u2019s really not what it was. Oh, my. What it was, what they were afraid of, was the inmates running the asylum, in their lingo. To the ruling class, this is an asylum, and we are the inmates. The people who run it are in Washington. They\u2019re the wardens or what have you, and now there\u2019s a revolution or a rebellion, and we the inmates are going to run the asylum. That\u2019s what they looked at me as in 1995. That\u2019s how they see Palin. That\u2019s how they see Beck, Levin, any of us. It\u2019s how they see the Tea Party. It is how they see conservative bloggers. Some of them. Some conservative bloggers they love because they\u2019re actually statists themselves, but regardless. So TIME could do a new cover here now: Are the Tea Parties Good for America? I\u2019m sure they\u2019re thinking the same thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: You know what I was thinking of? 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