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Oct. 12, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 12, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Back for yet another hour of broadcast excellence on the Rush Schlimbaugh program, the fastest three hours in media.
Great to have you along.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882.
Email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
All right, here's a story.
WBIR News Director Bill Shorey.
This is a television station in Tennessee.
We have heard from many viewers regarding our special coverage following Tuesday night's debate between Bob Corker and Harold Ford Jr.
These are the Republican and Democrat Senate candidates in Tennessee, respectively.
Many people at WBIR play a part in shaping our news coverage, and all of them have a voice in our editorial decisions.
However, the final decisions and the responsibility for them are mine.
Last night, we made a mistake.
After we broadcast the Senate debate, we brought you 30 minutes of discussion and analysis because we know that the candidates never say what they mean and you don't know what they've said until we tell you.
I just added that he didn't really admit that.
This segment included our anchor, another journalist, and a supporter of Harold Ford Jr., but no supporters of Bob Corker.
That wasn't right.
But we got away with it anyway.
Who cares what our apology today means?
He didn't say that.
I'm just adding it myself.
That happened because of some last-minute changes, some of which were beyond our control.
But while that's an explanation, it's not an excuse.
It was out of their control to get a Corker supporter.
Last-minute changes.
Anyway, it is kind of interesting, this apology from the news director of a TV station that broadcasts the Tennessee Senate debate.
When did you learn?
I'm curious when they figured out that they were short a supporter.
Was it before the debate?
Was it during the debate?
Was it during the analysis after the debate?
Or was it after the show totally was over that they realized, hey, you know what?
We forgot to get a Corker supporter in here.
You think it's the last one after the show they realize.
I mean, when you're putting this together and you got your guest line up and you got the guests in the green room and I got to get there early for, when do you realize that you have screwed up?
But still, I mean, the apology is amazing.
You have to admit, apology is amazing.
All right.
From the Washington Times today, Jennifer Harper has a story.
Here's another challenge for political strategerists hoping to woo the public to their candidate's cause as midterm elections loom, and that's the timid voter.
Some Americans are too put off or even fearful of strident partisan divisiveness to reveal their political opinions, according to research released yesterday by The Ohio State University.
What's more, these apprehensive Americans are reluctant to publicly participate in a political campaign via contributing money or working for a candidate.
They don't like to display bumper stickers or even call in to talk radio.
No.
The more political polarization there is, the greater the potential for conflict.
Said Andrew F. Hayes, an assistant professor of communications and co-author of the study at The Ohio State University.
In a polarized, hostile political climate, some people decide not to participate because they're afraid of the social ramifications of doing anything that might reveal their opinion to others.
Some may be uncomfortable expressing an opinion, such as putting up a lawn sign for a candidate when they know or speculate that their neighbors have a different political position.
Well, now, come on.
As though this is something new, what label would you use to describe the people that are being discussed in this story, in this research?
That's exactly.
These are moderates.
That's exactly what they've just defined moderates, a bunch of wusses.
Afraid of offending anybody, afraid of having it known what they think.
They want to be above all.
This is casting these people as a bunch of cowards and wusses and people gripped by fear.
And they're just afraid that their neighbors might know what they think.
There are 142 million registered American voters.
Their turnout at the polls varies by election.
Voter dismay is in evidence this season, however.
Just 15% cast ballots in this year's primaries, an all-time low, according to American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate.
Turnout in presidential elections runs the gamut from a low of 49% in 24 to a high of 63% in 1960.
There was a 60% turnout in 2004, compared with 51% in 2000, 49% in 96, and 55% in 92.
Meanwhile, those who keep their political opinions to themselves also are less likely to take part in public political activities, said the researchers at The Ohio State University.
Based on interviews with 781 persons across the nation, the researchers found that timid citizens also were less likely to raise funds for or contribute money to a candidate or attend a political meeting.
People witness politics in print and broadcast.
Journalists don't deny that the media overplays conflict.
Louder and nastier means more coverage.
However, typical citizens just don't want to get mixed up in the mess.
So typical citizens have just been defined here as timid by researchers at the Ohio State University.
So they really don't do anything.
But these are the people that we are told are the most important in the election.
The independents, the undecideds, the moderates.
This is who everybody apparently pursues.
And we're told at the same time that negative campaigning works, yet that people despise it.
Now, if negative campaigning works, how is it that it also works on these timid people who don't like any conflict whatsoever, who don't like to be drawn into it?
They don't contribute.
They don't put yard signs up.
They don't involve themselves in debates.
They don't vote as much.
So why are these people the target of everything?
Mr. Snerdley, do you agree with this research?
Do you agree with the majority of, it says that there's a, I don't know, a majority, but a lot of them.
A lot of these people are who are these?
Aside from being moderates, and we all know that, who are these people?
When you listen to a description of these apprehensive Americans, reluctant to publicly participate in a campaign, the more political polarization there is, the greater the potential for conflict.
In a polarized, hostile political climate, some people decide not to participate because they're afraid of the social ramifications of doing anything that might reveal their opinion to others.
Who are these people?
Who are they?
Oh, come on.
You don't have an idea.
You don't.
You can't.
Oh, come on.
You know, I know people like this.
I know people.
Yeah.
They're wimps, but there's also something else about them.
They think they're better than everybody because they're above it all.
They refuse to get drawn into the base level of politics.
I don't know.
Bottom line is they're living in fear.
I got an interesting note from a subscriber to my website.
Hi, Rush.
You know that bit of advice you give about never counting on anyone but yourself to make yourself happy?
I have someone who really needs that advice now.
I have written it down, but it doesn't have the same punch as when you tell it.
I've scanned your website for it, but I can't find it.
Would you talk about it on the show so I can print it out?
Like I said, this person really needs to hear it.
Oh, I know exactly what the emailer here is referring to.
And this sort of this story here reminds me of.
When you were living in fear of what other people think, and that's what I take from now, Dawn, what does that facial expression mean?
You know, her facial expression.
Oh, here he goes again.
Hearing on the.
Let me take a break.
I'll come back.
Explain what I mean because I think these two can be tied together.
Dawn, I'm just kidding.
Now, don't start crying.
I don't need that.
And we're back.
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You know that bit of advice you give about never counting on anybody but yourself to make you happy?
Someone who really needs that advice, now I've written it down, but just doesn't have the same punch as when you tell it.
I don't remember exactly word for word what I have said about this, but this story on these timid souls that don't like getting involved in politics, strident politics silences them.
They're afraid that people will know what they think.
That, to me, indicates people who live their lives gripped by fear.
And fear is the biggest obstacle to moving forward and having achievements in life that there is.
The fear of trying, the fear of failure, the fear of what other people will say.
I have found in my life, and I've fallen victim to this, that one of the most imprisoning aspects of human behavior is caring what other people will think of you.
By virtue of what you say, by virtue of what you do, it just imprisons.
It did me, and I think it imprisons a lot of people.
Now, we're all raised.
There are exceptions to this, but we're all raised with the notion that we should be nice to people.
And some of us are raised with the idea we should never ever offend anybody.
And we're raised with the notion that our purpose in life is to make other people happy.
That isn't possible.
It is simply not possible to make, and I know that a lot of people disagree with this because you think you are making somebody happy.
Somebody else is making you happy right now, and you think I don't know what I'm talking about.
We're all raised with this notion that we can make other people happy.
Somebody's down in a dump, somebody's having a blues, somebody's in trouble.
We can say something to them that is going to automatically make them feel better and make them happy.
And that isn't true.
I don't care what anybody says, that all of this has to come from within.
After the words that you utter to try to make somebody happy are uttered, if there is a momentary good feeling on the part of the recipient of your words, it vanishes after a while because they'll always revert to what's in them, what they are thinking about themselves.
Most people are imprisoned in this whole circumstance of thinking whatever it is they think about themselves is based on what they think other people think of them.
And so a lot of people set out in life to make sure that people don't think ill of them, don't think poorly of them, don't dislike them, or what have you.
And when you do that, when you gauge every person you know, every relationship you're in, on the basis of do they like me, you are subconsciously behaving in a way that you think they want you to behave.
And in the process, you are denying them, in truth, who you really are.
And you're denying it to yourself.
And you end up making totally bad mistakes in forming relationships because you're not giving yourself a chance to be known for who you really are.
You're gauging what somebody else wants you to be and you're trying to do it.
Everybody does this in male-female relationships, dating relationships, especially at the outset.
We all know this.
This doesn't even have to be said.
First date, first couple of two dates, cut your toenails, trim your ear hairs, nose hairs, do all of this stuff, making sure that the impression you make is fine and they're doing the same thing.
After you get to know somebody for a while, to hell with the nose hair, to hell with the ear hair, to hell with even taking a shower, shaving before you go out, because now you feel comfortable that they know you and you feel comfortable to be yourself.
And some people never get to that level of just being comfortable being who they are.
They still phony it up and fake it up because they don't have the innate confidence that who they are is going to be liked.
And that's because they don't like themselves.
They think there's something wrong with them.
And that, by the way, is not entirely their fault.
That's reinforced on all of us.
Everybody that we know is trying to tell us one way or another that what we're doing is wrong.
Everybody has a better idea for what we're doing than the way we're doing it.
Everybody thinks they can do what you do better than you're doing it.
Everybody thinks that you should be doing what you're doing in a different way.
And some people will tell you this.
And then, so you start doubting yourself.
And you don't want the doubt and you don't want the pain that goes along with the doubt.
So you accommodate what you think the disagreements people have with you are and try to get rid of those negatives or disagreements by making them like you.
In the process, all you do is take yourself down a couple notches in terms of liking yourself and being who you are, satisfaction and so forth.
And really what you're doing, and this is a little rehab lingo here, but I think it's right on the money.
What you're actually doing when you deny who you are to yourself and everybody else is medicating pain.
You're suppressing it.
You're trying to avoid it.
And because nobody wants to feel pain, emotional, real, or otherwise.
So you do what you can to avoid that.
And in the process, you make yourself a bigger mystery to yourself and a bigger mystery to people.
And you end up making relationships with people based on totally false and phony notions that you're somebody that you're not.
And eventually, at some point, the real you, and by the way, everybody's doing this.
This is what makes relationships, be they the spousal, romantic, or just friendships, what makes them tough.
Because both sides do this.
It's so natural because nobody wants to be disliked.
And that's why I had this E.E. Cummings quote yesterday that said, the biggest fight in life is to resist all the changes everybody is demanding you make.
The biggest fight in life is to go through it, being who you are.
But that's the way to real personal and internal satisfaction.
Now, again, I shouldn't have to say this, but we're not talking about if you're a rapist or if you are a CAD or if you're an SOB or whatever, but there are SOBs, and thank God that they are.
You can spot them right off the bat.
Nothing worse than a phony SOB who you find out is one later on.
But there's, I'm not saying there's virtue in every behavior.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just talking about the people that imprison themselves by trying to be what everybody else wants them to be are actually screwing themselves up and they're being phony and they're not helping relationships at all.
And you become just filled with self-doubt, lack of confidence, and you spend your whole day asking, wonder what they think of me.
You'll meet somebody for the first time.
You go out and talk to them, what?
A business relationship doesn't matter.
And if your reaction is, let's say you have a business meeting, you go out and you're trying to sell somebody your product or your service or whatever.
You go, you make your sales pitch.
You think it's gone pretty well.
You don't have an answer.
You walk out of the meeting.
If the first thing you say is, I think they liked me, you have blown it.
Because that's not the purpose.
I think they liked me.
That shows what you want.
And I want somebody to like me.
So you probably didn't sell anything in there, certainly not yourself.
But you walked out of there trying to feel good because you thought whoever it was liked you.
In some cases, the person you're meeting with is probably doing the same thing because everybody, you think, give you another example.
You go to a party and you think there's something wrong with you.
Your dress doesn't fit or your suit's not right or your tie doesn't match.
You're so self-conscious.
I wonder if they're going to notice that I think I look like an idiot.
Well, everybody else in the party is doing the same thing.
It's natural and it's normal.
While you think everybody's looking at you, everybody else in the room thinks everybody's looking at them, making the same judgments, wondering if they fit, wonder if they look right, instead of just going in and being who they are.
It's being too self-conscious and being negatively self-conscious as well.
And it just, it leads, it leads to, the bottom line is people don't want to deal with the pain of all this, and they end up making rotten decisions oriented towards suppressing the pain.
So how does this relate to these timid voters?
Very simple, folks.
And I hope a lot of them are talking to pollsters.
And lying through their teeth just so the pollsters will like them.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back, EIB Network and El Rushball, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Kent in Chicago.
Glad you called, sir.
Appreciate your patience and welcome to the program.
Thank you very much, Rush.
Great pleasure to talk with you.
And I just wanted to tell you it did snow out here.
Yeah.
All right.
The point I wanted to make was, you know, I was listening on satellite radio yesterday to Mr. Reingle's comments, and I was so offended, they kind of, you know, brought me back to that Paul Wallstone Memorial where the Democrats, you know, acted completely obnoxious, and because of their behavior, they were held accountable by the voters of Minnesota.
You know, and, you know, it's amazing to me how the Democratic Party keeps blaming the Republican Party for the way they act.
You know, and I guess my question to you is, is that because they're dumb or because they think we're dumb?
I think it goes deeper than that.
I don't think it has to do with dumb, although I do think that they think most people are stupid.
I think liberals do have an arrogant condescension about themselves.
But the reason they blame others for their behavior, I think, probably is found in the best way to say this.
They're infallible.
And yet they know they're doing some things that are bad for them.
They're behaving and saying things that they know are harming them.
But since they are infallible and they are good people, it has to be this unfair climate that's forcing them to respond in ways that they otherwise wouldn't.
And so their behavior and their rudeness or whatever is always somebody else's fault because somebody is forcing them to do things that they wouldn't otherwise do.
It's like when you talk about elections, they come out and blame voters for not being able to use a butterfly ballot, or they blame machines for not recording votes correctly rather than examining what are they doing wrong.
I'll give you the best analogy I can give you is let's say now this will never happen.
But let's say over the course of a six-month period, the Arbitron Ratings Service reports that 30% of this radio audience is vanish, go somewhere else.
I look at the numbers.
Wow, we've lost 30% of the audience here the past six months.
Now, if I were a liberal, the first thing I would do would be to go public and blame Arbitron for cheating, accuse them of being paid off by somebody to purposely shaft my ratings for whatever reason.
Then I would blame the audience for being stupid.
What is it they don't get?
And then I would just be more and more of whatever I was doing that was causing the audience to leave in defiance.
And as the audience continued to leave, I would continue to blame the audience for being idiots and stupid or trickery on the part of the rating services or what have you.
That's what the Democrats are doing.
However, if that ever happened to me, which it won't, but if it ever did, the first thing I would ask myself is what's different about this show causing people to not like it as much.
The Democrats refuse to do that because they're incapable of it.
Liberals are incapable of assuming people don't like them.
They're incapable of assuming that people don't love them.
They're incapable of believing that people are tuning them out and not voting for them.
So every election is stolen from them, or every election has technical glitches, or there's been redistricting, or there's something they can't overcome.
But it never is that maybe they're behaving and voting and talking in ways that repel people.
They just, they haven't the ability to see anything wrong with themselves.
They're such elitists and they're such superiorists that when things don't go their way, it's the result of marketing and packaging that fooled the idiot voters.
Remember, they think you're idiots anyway.
Whether you vote for them or not, they still condescend toward you.
They still have contempt for average people.
Until they start examining why people are leaving them in droves, they're never going to fix the problem.
Mel in Minneapolis, welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Pleasure to speak with you, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you.
I just want to let you know that I've been listening to you since I think I was about 15.
I'm a Kirkian Republican.
My dad is a Buchanan fan over Bush Senior.
Hell, yeah.
We have a Rush Baby on the radio.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Yeah, it's a pleasure.
You know, I take a little umbrage to your statement that we have timidity in our blood merely because I don't put out my sign or I don't take out a flyer as to my Republican leanings.
Wait a sec.
Wait a sec.
I didn't say this.
Researchers at the Ohio State University said this.
No, I believe that the researchers there said that we are timid.
You said that we were wusses.
Well, that's true.
Yes, I did editorialize and add.
But no, not because you don't put a yard.
I don't put yard signs up.
Not because of the yard signs.
People will not tell you what they think about political issues because they're afraid of the reaction.
People that are afraid of debate or afraid of conflict or afraid of somebody disagreeing with them.
That's who I call wusses.
I am not a wuss.
I know of one person only more conservative than myself.
That'd be my father.
And I'm one of those guys that, you know, I see a rally going on out here.
I go and heckle the rallies.
Like Bush was in town here a couple years ago at the Excel Center.
My friend and I went down.
He had his O'Reilly t-shirt on.
And I managed to get a few of those crazy libs that agree with me before they realize what they were agreeing to.
I mean, I always have a good time arguing, but I'm reluctant to give my opinion immediately because I think it's very important that as a conservative, we back it up with thoroughly.
No, no, you're missing the point.
What is the point?
This story from the Ohio State University doesn't even apply to you if you're going and heckling liberals at a rally.
And if you're talking, nobody's talking about, I think maybe it was something I said or the way I read the story.
It's not, these are people that don't express their opinion, period, ever for any reason.
That's the definition of timid.
You are interpreting this to mean you'll go express your opinion in a reasoned way, but you won't roll up the shirt sleeves and really pound on people.
It's not what they're saying.
These are people that don't participate in it at all.
That's true.
You know, and it's a little tough here in Minneapolis.
You know, obviously, you know, the liberal leaning state.
And heck, I even work in the public interest.
I'm at the law school here.
I'm a third-year student, and I'm Native American Rush.
They're surprised every time they find out that there are few writer-leaning Republicans than am I.
So it's a real pleasure to talk to you.
And unfortunately, I have to get back to work.
All right.
I'm still not sure what you're saying, though.
Are you one of these quiet types, even though you go heckle liberals?
On occasion, Rush, on occasion, you know, I'm not going to, you know, if I'm in law school and somebody's like, oh, you know, I'm going to go out and ensure that church has no interaction with government.
I'm not going to pick up an argument right there and then and tell them where I'm leaning.
I mean, obviously, I want a base of clientele that's going to be as broad as possible.
Ah, okay.
Now, now we're getting, now I understand it.
Now you can go back to work.
I will comment.
You've got business considerations.
You need every potential client to be a customer, and you don't want to alienate them by getting into politics.
That's the Tiger Woods philosophy.
It's a Michael Jordan philosophy.
They will never say a word about politics.
I mean, you remember back in, but they're not timid.
We're talking about average, unknown people here that supposedly make up the presidential, well, the electorate.
But I remember this was late 90s, and there was a ceremony at Shea Stadium in New York retiring Jackie Robinson's number from baseball, number 42.
And Bill Clinton asked Tiger Woods to go to it and be part of it.
Tiger said, nope.
Not showing up.
Remember, they said, how do you diss the president?
How do you say no to the very clear?
I need to sell American Express credit cards.
He didn't say this, but there was nothing in it for him.
And plus, I'm guessing here, I don't think he wanted to be tokenized, Jackie Robbins and Tiger Woods.
He didn't want to be drawn into the politics of it.
Michael Jordan, doesn't he?
Michael Jordan, big Democrat.
I've met him.
Big, big, he was nice as elk as he could be to me.
But he says, you know, Republicans buy tennis shoes too.
So I understand that if you're not, you know, you don't want to run the risk of alienating people in business, but you still are not the person that the researchers here from the Ohio State University are talking about.
Ray in Putnam, Connecticut, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Mega retired Air Force Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Okay, listen.
Charlie Wrangell's statement that he made with Neil Kavutro yesterday.
Yeah.
I picked up on what he said was, I noticed that the jets were launched, although after the fact.
There is no way you could have launched them before the fact.
All those aircraft that fly up and down the East River, helicopters in the center and fixed wing on either side, and it occurred within a few seconds.
I mean, it was just a dig.
Yeah, but see, Ray, I know what you're saying sounds good.
But if Bush were any good, and if we really had a post-9-11 plan that works, we would have had four F-16s scrambled the second that plane entered Manhattan airspace, even if it was only two seconds later it hit the building.
Yeah, but reasonable people realize that had they been on combat air patrol over the city, they couldn't have got to him.
I couldn't have shot it down anyway.
Nothing they could have done to it.
Nothing.
But that is a great example.
Here's Wrangell taking the occasion of a really sad and unfortunate accident and still trying to blame George W. Bush for it.
That's right.
And Rush, I'll think if I could add what you were talking about previously.
Air Force, when we did training for our non-commissioned officers, the young guys, what you were talking about is exactly what we taught.
Leadership is a results contest.
It's not a popularity contest.
If you're going to be in charge of somebody, you better be in charge and not try to be one of the guys, because if you do, you're going to fail.
And that's what you were talking about.
Exactly right.
I appreciate the support on that, sir.
Thank you very much for the call.
A quick timeout, brief break.
Back after this, my friends.
Stay with us.
Hey, a big day for you novelists, novel readers and book readers out there.
Vince Flynn's latest hits today.
So some people were able to get it yesterday.
I, of course, as a powerful, influential member of the media had mine last week.
I'm in the process of reading it.
It is called Act of Treason.
It is just awesome.
The guy, and I've finally met him now.
He's just a peach of a guy.
And he doesn't care what people think of him, by the way.
And it is a, I just threw that in snurdly.
It's just a fabulous book.
I'm not even halfway through it yet.
And I've had a lot of things going.
It's been really tough to put this thing down.
I even brought it in yesterday to read in the morning here during a little bit of show.
I took time out from show prep to read some of it.
Also, an entry act of treason, Vince Flynn.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, I've got an interesting note.
Rush, I just wanted to share something I heard my mother say more than once.
When you worry about what people think of you, you'd be surprised how seldom people are thinking of you.
And that is true.
Just to illustrate, you go someplace, there's a group of people, and you're so worried what everybody thinks of you.
Everybody's doing the same thing.
They're not thinking of you.
They're thinking about themselves.
Everybody's a mental case in this regard.
But I'm going to tell you something.
I want to say one more thing about this because this to me is passionately important.
And I have learned, I have learned that when there is drama in any relationship, just turn around and walk away from it.
Run away as fast as you can.
Because I'm going to tell you what the drama is.
There are way too many people who think that it is somebody else's job to make them happy.
This is sadly the case in marriages, boy-girl relationships, and what have you.
It's because one of the two is so deficient in being able to make themselves happy that they put that burden on somebody else.
And that leads to some of the most controlling behavior, and then you are in prison.
When somebody tells you you have to do X to make them happy, or when they're constantly griping at you because the way you are makes them unhappy, they're trying to control your behavior.
And if you succumb to it, you are going to be miserable.
The minute this happens, turn around, walk away as fast as you can.
If you can, charter a jet to get out of there.
You do not want somebody demanding that you behave in a certain way so that they are happy because it's not possible.
You simply can't make somebody else happy.
It is impossible.
And no, I'm not singling out women.
In business, I don't care.
There are all kinds of these pressures brought to bear on people.
It's up to you to make this work.
It's up to you.
And this is somebody else's job or somebody else's project or what have you.
There's so much controlling behavior, and you succumb to the controlling behavior because you want to please.
And you think you can please.
What you end up doing is buying peace because somebody acting that way is miserable to be around.
They're always unhappy because you're never meeting their expectations and they're putting the burden of making themselves happy on you.
So you just, you are going to be, you're going to be finally agreeing to do anything just to shut them up.
But it never works.
You can't purchase peace with people who are not innately happy.
No, Dawn, I was not singling out women.
This happens.
This is people stuff.
And by the way, if I had kids and I don't, thank God, this would be among the most crucial stuff I would teach them.
Because this is where it all gets.
And they try to please their parents.
They blame themselves if there's problems at school and so forth.
And it just, it's destructive behavior.
It doesn't accomplish anything.
It stunts development, all kinds of stuff.
I wish I had learned this stuff when I was 15 or 16.
Here is Beth in Acton, Missouri.
Well, no, Acton, Massachusetts.
It's Massachusetts.
Yes, hi.
Hi, Mega Ditto's Rush from Liberal Massachusetts.
Right.
I think the study got it wrong.
I think that actually liberals are very overwhelming.
Republicans, conservatives tend to be very polite.
And so that's why they don't really state their opinion.
It's because they don't want to be yelled at or.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
I do.
If you've ever been around liberals, it's not that Republicans are too shy or worried about somebody else's opinion of them.
It's that they're not rude and they don't know how to deal with somebody who's not.
Well, I know exactly what you're saying.
I don't think the researchers at the Ohio State University were actually talking about conservatives versus liberals.
That is left up to us to analyze.
But what you're saying is true.
I know very well and I've seen it.
You know, liberals, I hear about it.
If liberals get in people's faces and point fingers at them, it's just easier to avoid all that by not provoking them.
Because liberals do have this overbearing, condescending, arrogant way of approaching people.
And they never debate issues with anybody.
They never debate ideas.
They just start attacking you personally for what you believe.
They start yelling at you because they can't debate you in an idea.
And the last thing they want to do is try because they know they'll lose.
So they start criticizing you personally and ripping you over the coals.
So by the way, yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, I asked you a question.
I asked if you knew what the latest must-have Hollywood accessory is.
Snirdly couldn't figure it out.
Nobody could figure it out.
I waited a few pregnant seconds before I provided the answer.
The latest Hollywood accessory can be found in the headline, Madonna to Adopt African Child.
The story was that the child is a poor orphan.
Its kid's not an orphan.
The kid has a father.
Madonna made a deal with the dad.
Today, Madonna took possession of the latest Hollywood accessory.
She's adopted a little African child.
And are people not happy about this for a host of reasons?
But we're out of time to go into them now.
Quick timeout, my friends, back after this.
Stay with us.
Getting lots of emails from women.
Rush, how long have you known my husband?
You gotta go, folks.
Tomorrow, Open Line Friday.
We'll see you then.
Look forward to it.
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