{"id":7613,"date":"2014-12-05T17:12:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-12-05T17:12:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:12:02","slug":"it_s_true_i_didn_t_say_no_to_chris_wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/12\/05\/it_s_true_i_didn_t_say_no_to_chris_wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s True! I Didn\u2019t Say No to Chris Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: As you all know, of those who regularly listen to this program, I am not a big fan of television. I\u2019ve had my own TV show. I know that television has a lot of impact. However, this program has a larger audience than most, if not all. But most cable news programs, maybe not combined network day-to-day, I mean, if you take their 24 hours and add \u2019em up, but, anyway, I don\u2019t know what it is, the whole thing to me, it\u2019s just, it is not natural. <\/p>\n

You know, I think I finally figured out what it is. I\u2019m too self-conscious. I\u2019m too famous. You know what the primary ingredient, the primary ingredient, I\u2019m convinced now having done this too, the primary ingredient to be a successful or even great actor, you have to be absolutely zero self-conscious. You cannot be self-conscious at all, and if anybody is self-conscious to one degree or another, they\u2019re going to do badly on television or in front of cameras. You know, the whole thing about cameras change the way things would be if the camera wasn\u2019t there. <\/p>\n

But, anyway, I got a call, an e-mail this week from Chris Wallace and his staff at Fox News Sunday. They had heard a couple things discussed on this program about the government shutdown, some things I\u2019d said, and they asked me if I would be the guest on Fox News Sunday. My initial reaction, like every request I get, is to say “no” and move on. How many of these a week, H.R., do we turn down? There must be three or four requests from all the different networks. The standard operating procedure is to say “no.” <\/p>\n

But, for some reason, I didn\u2019t say “no.” I paused and I thought about it for a day and I decided to do it. So I\u2019m gonna be the lead guest. And to give you an idea of how rare me being on TV is, listen to the first four sound bites that we have in the audio sound bite roster. Here\u2019s the first on Channel 5 New York this morning.<\/line><\/p>\n

WALLACE: We\u00c2\u2019re going to have fascinating person to talk about all of this: Rush Limbaugh. Exclusive guest, rare TV appearance. We\u00c2\u2019re going to talk to him about this. We\u00c2\u2019re going to talk about the possibility of a government shutdown as Republicans figure how they\u00c2\u2019re going to oppose the president on the executive action on immigration. But I\u00c2\u2019m sure we\u00c2\u2019re going to talk a lot about this question of the police. And, you know, you can argue whether Rush is right or wrong, he talks about the race industry. Although on the other hand Rush also said that he was very troubled by what he had seen in the video in the Eric Garner case. I don\u2019t see how anybody can watch that video and not think that there was an unnecessary escalation of force by the police.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And then mere moments later on Fox Washington.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: We\u2019re going to be talking about it with a very interesting observer, Rush Limbaugh, who is going to have one of his rare TV appearances exclusively here on Fox News Sunday this week and we\u2019re going to talk to him. He\u2019s one of the hardliners who says no way that they should fund, you know, 99% of the government, everything except DHS, for the whole year. They have the power of the purse and they should use it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And later on Fox Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: You can agree with him or disagree, but I can\u00c2\u2019t think of anybody more interesting to talk to than Rush Limbaugh, live exclusive, Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel this morning after all that.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: No, I\u2019d love to go to Palm Beach, but thank you for offering. If I could take your private jet, Steve, I\u2019d love to do it. We\u2019re gonna do it live. He\u2019s gonna be in his EIB studios live on Sunday morning and we\u2019ll be up here.<\/p>\n