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July 3, 2007
Why I Still Listen to Rush
ecause of callers like this and how Rush responds. It's amazing how those who don't listen to him have such a warped and simply wrong view.
Here's some quotes from the transcript:
RUSH: Charles in South Bend, Indiana, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. It's nice to have you with us.CALLER: Rush, how you doing?
RUSH: Good, sir.
CALLER: Okay, I'm a former Nation of Islam follower to a loyal Rush Limbaugh listener.
RUSH: Wow! That's quite a transition that you've made.
CALLER: Very, very -- and you have been the catalyst behind it, believe me. You just don't know how much you have influenced my life. I was a former high school dropout, I was homeless, and all of a sudden I was angry, and I started listening to you around, I think it was '89. I think you had a call on named Rita X.
RUSH: Oh, yes. Rita X.
CALLER: I started listening to you around that time, and at the time I was going through some things and I wanted some answers, and at the time the Nation of Islam provided easy answers to tough questions, the questions that I really didn't want to look at in my life. But listening to you, I pretty much faced those questions in my life head on, and my life has been an improvement since. I've dug a big hole for myself, but I've finally gotten out of the hole.
RUSH: You know what? We all dig holes for ourselves, and sometimes we fall into them, but there's nothing greater than getting out of the hole.
CALLER: That's right! That's right.
RUSH: It's a great sense of achievement, and you did it yourself, it sounds like. That's great. That's terrific news.
CALLER: Yes. I also wanted to let you know, years ago you had a commercial, and I wanted to save up money to buy this program, this thing you had called Verbal Advantage.
RUSH: Oh, yeah.
CALLER: I remember I started listening to you, and I started writing down the words that you would say and going through the dictionary and actually expanding it, trying to expand my vocabulary, and voila! Sooner than I thought, I found out that I really didn't need the Verbal Advantage, and you were the Verbal Advantage!
RUSH: (laughs) Well, you're overwhelming me here. I don't know what to say. Thank you.
CALLER: I just want to tell you that you just don't know how much you've been an influence in my life. I mean, me being a black American and me telling people that I listen to Rush Limbaugh, I get all kind of crazy looks and, you know, "What's wrong with this man?" but, Rush, I listen to what you say. I don't hear you. Most black Americans just hear you, and they don't listen. You know, that's the difference. People hear you, but they don't really listen.
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RUSH: Let me ask you, Charles. Let me ask you one more question before we have to go here -- and I'm going to have to go here pretty quick because of time. I appreciate your thanking me and saying that this program was the catalyst, but you do understand, don't you, that you did this?CALLER: That's right! Yeah. I know.
RUSH: Okay. So don't be afraid to credit yourself is the point.
CALLER: Oh, yeah, I do.
RUSH: It's not bragging and it's not being selfish. It's none of those things. It's not ill-mannered -- and I'm not talking about walking around and, you know, carrying a placard around the street, "I did this!" But to yourself, when you talk to yourself, be honest with yourself. You did what you did.
CALLER: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I remind myself of that every day. I remind myself of that every day, and a lot of people look at what I do as being conceited and being self-assured.
RUSH: You're not just conceited. You're just confident, and people that are not confident, not sure of themselves are really put off by people who are. They don't think anybody should be that sure of themselves. It makes them nervous. They lash out and blame you for having a bad attitude or an arrogant attitude, when it's their own insecurities here that are causing it. Don't let that change who you are.
Posted by witnit at July 3, 2007 9:28 AM
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