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RUSH: We\u2019re gonna start Nelsonville, Ohio. Ron, I\u2019m glad that you waited, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mr. Limbaugh, after 20-plus years I finally got a hold of you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here you are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is my Christmas present. Sir, I really appreciate what you\u2019re doing. My thought is, there\u2019s been a deal made. The Republicans wanted changes to the Dodd-Frank and to campaign limits. Mr. Obama and the Democrats want his amnesty program with no problems and they don\u2019t want any more fiddling with Obamacare. So there\u2019s been a deal. The Republicans get what they want, the Democrats do what they want, and the voting public in the United States again —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I think it\u2019s a pretty safe bet. I mean, within parameters, I think you\u2019re exactly right. It\u2019s exactly the kind of thing that happens, and it\u2019s gonna make people think this election that just happened was meaningless, that the elected officials are not even paying attention or listening to it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was meaningless. They don\u2019t vote for the people, they vote their own self-interest, and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, that\u2019s sadly a reality more often than not. By the way, his point here, that the deal is in and that both parties have made claims to what they really want, and they\u2019ve seen to it that both sides get what they really want, that\u2019s the biggest argument in favor of nothing going wrong this afternoon to scuttle the thing in the Senate because both sides eventually have struck a deal where they both are getting what they want out of this. Again, it falls back to Fauxcahontas, the fake Indian-American Elizabeth Warren. The fake Native-American, right. And there are presidential politics all surrounding that. <\/p>\n

One of the things we talked about yesterday, some of the — again, when I say “smart money,” I\u2019m talking about the so-called inside-the-Beltway experts, consultants and media. They found out that Hillary Clinton is still accepting paid speaking engagements all the way through next March, and so they\u2019re beginning to ask, maybe she\u2019s not gonna run? Maybe she\u2019s not gonna run for president, because in 2007 she announced in January and you don\u2019t take paid speech engagements after you have announced. Everything you do after that is a freebie because you\u2019re campaigning. So maybe she\u2019s not gonna run. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now they\u2019re saying today, no, no, no, that wasn\u2019t right. Mrs. Clinton is so confident that she\u2019s got this in the bag, she\u2019s gonna wait \u2019til April or May next year to announce. And then the smart money is saying, that\u2019s a very egregious error, because that just expands the opening for Fauxcahontas to go in there and start scoring points and trashing Hillary and trashing whatever she doesn\u2019t like about the Democrat Party and really rallying the Democrat base, which any Democrat nominee is going to need. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Spencer in Boone, North Carolina. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: First, I like talking about your book. I\u2019m an educator, and knowledge and truth is a powerful thing, and what you\u2019ve given these young children is gonna change thousands and thousands of people to the rest of his lives, and I congratulate you for it.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s why you wrote the book but I know that\u2019s gonna part of the result.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you very, very much. I sincerely appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s getting to the point that I\u2019d like to make, and that\u2019s this. Liberals tell the truth, and the Drive-By Media picks it up and tells it over and over and over until it is the truth. They tell a lie, and then it ends up being the truth simply because, you know, you tell it over and over, and somehow it\u2019s the truth again. I wonder, what can we do as conservatives to get our truth out?<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, your first comment is one of the small things I\u2019m trying to do. I know that young people are never gonna listen to a program like this, but yet I happen to think they could benefit from many of the things this program offers. So how to get it to them, ergo books with the truth of the founding of this country written for them. But this is the age-old thing now. The problem is that, to the left, the people you\u2019re talking about, the truth is relative. There is no truth. The truth, to them, is a result and derivative of power. <\/p>\n

To the American left today, this whole conversation about truth, they think, is joke. They think it\u2019s a trap. They think that we get caught up as conservatives in trying to pound the truth. They\u2019re laughing at us because, to them, it\u2019s not about truth, it\u2019s about power. And the power that they seek and that they think they hold allows them to define the truth however they wish to, which is what you said. They just pound and pound lies in and out, day and night, and eventually they are accepted as truth. And it\u2019s the power that they have that enables them to do that. In this case, the power resides in the media. <\/p>\n

And so the question, “Okay, how do you fight this?” and people have just always thought the truth — you\u2019ve heard the phrase, “The truth will out,” meaning the truth will eventually overpower. That\u2019s what people hope. They have to rely on history for this to give them confidence. But I think it\u2019s a constant battle. I don\u2019t know that you ever have a way of finally determining ever winning this. It\u2019s never, ever over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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