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RUSH: This coming Sunday night is The Family Guy episode starring me. The title of The Family Guy episode is ‘Excellence in Broadcasting.\u2019 The premise is I am in town for a book signing. Of course I haven\u2019t written a book in 16 years, but I\u2019m in the town where this wacko family lives, doing a book signing, and the family dog, Brian, comes down to start giving me some grief, and I rescue the dog from some precarious situation. The dog becomes a big conservative, follows me around, actually gets more conservative than I am, starts calling me a weenie and all sorts of stuff. We taped this a year ago. It\u2019s a half hour episode, I think, and it takes a year to animate these things. So it was a year ago, and I got an e-mail from Seth MacFarlane last night. Its premiere airdate is this Sunday, it\u2019s 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Fox has released four pictures, four photos, cartoon stills from the episode. We put \u2019em at our Facebook page, Facebook.com\/<\/a><\/line>RushLimbaugh<\/a>. I looked at some of the comments that people have written and they run the gamut. ‘Rush, sorry you had to lower yourself to be on that program. I won\u2019t be watching.\u2019 ‘Rush, are you that hard up? You\u2019re doing this for money?\u2019 Well, I don\u2019t even know what I got paid to do this. Whatever it is, it\u2019s union scale. I didn\u2019t do this for the money. I did this for the fun of it. I\u2019ve been in a couple Family Guy episodes already and I\u2019ve gotten to know Seth MacFarlane pretty well. Yeah, he\u2019s a Hollywood liberal but we get along. <\/line><\/p>\n

Seth appreciates and has a great affection for professionals, and we\u2019re all professionals here. You know, this was hard work, too. We were in the sound booth for three or four days at four hours at a time. I even sing in this episode. I sing, but I sang a song that I\u2019ve never heard before, and so I really don\u2019t know what the melody was. I had to guess. And for Seth… It\u2019s really interesting when I try to explain people, because they can hear me and I can hear them, and I can carry on a conversation. It\u2019s tough for people to understand that I cannot distinguish music melodies if I\u2019ve never heard it before. So he\u2019s singing the song in a bunch of different ways trying to get me the melody. <\/p>\n

I said, ‘Seth, I\u2019m sorry. It all sounds like the same note to me. All I can do is imitate what I\u2019m hearing you do.\u2019 (singing) ‘I live in Republican town!\u2019 That\u2019s what it sounds like to me. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s what the song really is. So I end up sort of talking it with my usual bravado and bombast and so forth. It was a lot of fun and it\u2019s Sunday night. Fox, by the way, is bigger than this on their PR page. You have to scroll all the way to the bottom. It\u2019s like 25 pages of PR on their shows coming up this week, and they\u2019re burying it out there that it airs. And people ask me, Andrew Breitbart sent me a question: ‘Why did I have to look real hard to find out when this was?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Probably because it\u2019s pretty good. Family Guy has their own built-in audience. You know, it\u2019s not everybody\u2019s cup of tea. This program crosses a line every night that it\u2019s on. It runs up to the border and goes over it. But I like Seth. I was offered the opportunity to do it, and it was a new challenge. And what the hell? I\u2019m into the crossover. I\u2019ll be happy to do it and see what happens. I know some in this audience don\u2019t like Family Guy. You know, it is what it is. But they didn\u2019t put any curse words or foul mouth in my script. You know, I am El Rushbo. I come out looking like a champ on this thing. So… (interruption) No, I\u2019ve not seen it. (interruption) I don\u2019t care what the edited version is. There was nothing in the script that I would want them to edit out. <\/p>\n

<\/a>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the, the Family Guy promo now at the top of Fox\u2019s website on their carousel. You know, somebody reminded me, ‘What, you do a Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, Elton John? You\u2019ve reached across the aisle more than the post-partisan Obama ever has!\u2019 You know, that\u2019s a pretty true observation out there. Another person said, ‘Rush, don\u2019t worry. That song probably didn\u2019t have a melody. There haven\u2019t been melodies in music since the nineties.\u2019 (laughing) You people in the audience are on a roll today. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Adam in Janesville, Wisconsin, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush, from the hometown of Congressman Paul Ryan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah! Ah! Thank you very much. He had a great knockdown with Debbie Wasserman Schultz last week on CNN. We have the audio. He made mincemeat of her. She still doesn\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And we love him for that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My point is regarding your appearance on Family Guy and the criticism that you\u2019re receiving.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I would just like to remind your audience that you also received criticism in 1993 when you appeared in Playboy for an interview.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ohhhhhhh, yeah. That\u2019s right. I had forgotten. I did get a lot of grief for the Playboy interview.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And if I recall your comments at the time was based on the fact that you believed Jesus Christ himself would also appear in Playboy to go where the so-called sinners are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, Jesus said, ‘You go where the sinners are.\u2019 That\u2019s exactly right. You have a heck of a memory.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yes. I also do remember a phone call that you had with a woman and she disagreed with you. She did not think Jesus Christ would go to be on a Playboy interview at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he might not have, but he woulda sent one of the disciples.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (silence) But at the same time I think —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You think everybody at the Loaves and Fishes was a believer? I mean, that\u2019s the whole point. Jesus did go where the sinners were. He went into the belly of the beast. But that was just a play on words anyway. I had forgotten that. You know, who D. Keith Mano, M-a-n-o did the interview. He was a friend of Mr. Buckley\u2019s. That\u2019s one of the reasons I did it was they assigned him. Buckley did a Playboy interview, and the reason I did it was because Keith wrote for National Review. He tended conservative in things. (interruption) Who was the centerfold that month? Uhhh, I only read the articles. I… (sigh) Who was the centerfold. Megyn Kelly? I don\u2019t know. Just kidding. I have no idea. I don\u2019t know who the centerfold was. (laughing) Look, if you\u2019re gonna ask me this stuff, I\u2019m not in giddy move here. I had five hours with Hank Haney without a break yesterday. I had a 12-hour day yesterday counting flight time, coming back, and then instead of watching the football game last night, the Miami and the Jets. So I\u2019m in a giddy mood. Thanks for the call out there, Adam. I appreciate it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. We looked it up. The centerfold in the Playboy issue in which I appeared as the interviewee (that was December, by the way, 1993) was Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York, was the centerfold. No, actually it was a woman named Arlene Baxter in December 1993. And during the break I went back. You can read the interview at Playboy.com. Here\u2019s a little excerpt. Playboy: ‘Why are…?\u2019 (interruption) Arlene Baxter? I have no clue. I really don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know. You could probably find out, Dawn, at the Playboy website. Dawn\u2019s asking me, ‘Is she blond or brunette?\u2019 Anyway, here\u2019s an excerpt from the interview. <\/p>\n

‘Playboy: Why are you doing it?\u2019 ‘Limbaugh: I decided to do this interview for two reasons. First, men and women of great stature have done the Playboy interview. It\u2019s a forum that\u2019s been accepted as a legitimate place for the dissemination of all points of view.\u2019 (laughing) ‘Dissemination.\u2019 They let that stand. ‘The second reason is I can think of no better place to have views such as mine, which are the epitome of morality and virtue, published in a magazine such as Playboy. As Jesus Christ said, ‘You go to where the sinners are,\u2019 so here I am on the pages of Playboy attempting in what meager way I can to clean it up.\u2019 That\u2019s pretty much how it began. It was brazen — and, you know, in 1993, that was shock city. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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