RUSH: Here’s Dave in Wyoming on a cell phone. Great to have you with us, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, big rig-driving dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: I have a question about your Miss America judging.
RUSH: Yeah.
RUSH: (laughing)
<*IMAGE*CALLER: I mean, Las Vegas and Miss America contestants parading around, that must be awful.
RUSH: Well, somebody has to do it, and everybody has to be somewhere. And my name came up.
CALLER: Yup.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Hey, I want to know if you’ve experienced the strange phenomenon yet that when a black contestant is on the stage, you ‘forget’ that she’s black.
RUSH: (laughing) You are not helping.
CALLER: It does happen.
RUSH: You are not helping me out here. (laughing) I forgot… (laughing) Actually the black contestants are not on the stage for 70 minutes or at least an hour, and it took that long for Matthews to realize that he’d forgotten Obama was black. Which, again, caused a little bit of a stir. But, no. We’re colorblind here at the Miss America Pageant.
CALLER: What would the media had done to you if you had said something so completely off-the-wall, stupid, ignorant like that?
RUSH: Oh, I know. I’ve had a bunch of people if I had said that, if I had said what Harry Reid said, ‘He’s a light-skinned black, doesn’t speak with a Negro dialect unless he wants to. This guy can win!’ If I had said that, oh, you’d still be here, why, you’re still hearing about my comments that were not even about Donovan McNabb and it’s five or six years after the fact now. So you’re exactly right, a brilliant observation on your part.
CALLER: Rush, the Drive-By Media has forgotten how to blush.
RUSH: Yeah, I don’t think you can embarrass them. It’s pure propaganda all the time.
CALLER: Pure shameless.
RUSH: Good way to put it.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush.