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Right. Warning, Folks MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA RUSH LIMBAUGH WORKING TRANSCRIPT 05/14/04 THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW 05/14/04 RUSH: All right. Warning, folks. I just want to say, this program may challenge and test my sanity today because we’re going to be talking about John Kerry a little bit more today than we have been. Time to get back to that. Greetings, my friends, and welcome. The fastest week in media has delivered us to Friday. ANNOUNCER: Live, from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida via New York City, it’s Open Line Friday! RUSH: All right. Now I know that you all in the audience have great expectations of this program and those expectations are almost always exceeded. Yeah. It’s Open Line Friday and I also have high expectations of you, who are going to call today. Open Line Friday. You can slip the surly bonds of Monday through Thursday and go to the outer reaches of topic areas that we haven’t covered, or if you think we need to cover them when we haven’t – whatever. A question, comment – feel free. The telephone number is 800-282-2882. The e-mail address is [email protected]. A couple personal notes here, just to start – actually, three – and this is just a program note and advisory. I will not be here on Monday. I will be in St. Louis. I appear annually in the Joe Buck Children’s Hospital Golf Tournament. I was only able to schedule this a couple weeks ago because of – I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to make it. I am going to be able to make it. So we have – we got – who’ve we got? On Monday? Roger Hedgecock will be here on Monday. Now, also, ladies and gentlemen, (sigh) there is a – I got an e-mail last night from Kate O’Beirne, who is the Washington editor for National Review and Kate sent me a column that she wrote for today’s online National Review Web site, National Review online, and when I read this and I was brought to a screeching halt. I was literally stunned by it. It’s one of the – well, one of the nicest bits of writing ever about me, other than some of your fan mail. And I – if I could’ve – and I wrote her back, I said, if I could include teardrops in e- mail, I would do it, but I can’t. And we have linked to her piece. I don’t want to describe it. That would – I couldn’t do it justice. You just have to read it, if you have time, or an inclination. It’s at rushlimbaugh.com right now. We’ve linked it right at the top of the home page, or you can go to the National Review online Website directly and get it there. If you go to the rushlimbaugh.com Website, we’ve also posted a couple pieces of video. Last night, Scarborough Country and this morning, the Today show. Both shows focused on my newspaper ads, which ran in the Palm Beach Post, the Pennysaver, and in the South Florida Sun Sentinel yesterday. Hellzapoppin’ still, over this, and the – what was – 1 MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA RUSH LIMBAUGH WORKING TRANSCRIPT 05/14/04 It was sort of funny last night on Scarborough, had Joe Tacopina, who’s a defense lawyer. Apparently, is no big fan of mine, but understands this case and he – I guess he would understand. He’s a defense lawyer. He understands this case as well as I do, which is saying something, and the guest, his – the person to balance the program, of course, was an Assistant State Attorney from somewhere over in Tampa and her name was Pam Bondi. So Scarborough sets it up. It was a – segment started just a little bit after 10:30 last night. (laughter) It was a great segment. Scarborough always does a good job on that show and so he goes to Joe Tacopina first and Tacopina says what he has to say and it’s time to go to Pam Bondi and she got her first sentence out and the satellite died. (laughter) It’s one of these things you pray for. Her satellite bumped out and just totally dropped and they were unable to get it back. Imagine that – the whole segment. And Tacopina said to Scarborough, “I told you I’d shut her up!’ (laughter) And so Tacopina got the whole segment and Joe tried to play devil’s advocate a couple times, but it seems to be the way it is with libs in broadcasting. They seem to show up on the air, radio or TV, and then nobody hears them. Either their paychecks bounce, or they’re not getting health coverage, or their satellite pay – payment isn’t made and they go off into the ether. I mean, when it comes to broadcasting other than in the mainstream news media, it’s getting harder and harder for the Liberals to be heard and seen out there. So I – just – that video’s posted. Roy Black today got very – he was interviewed by Matt Lauer and got a little heated today. Roy did – passionate, let me put it that way. Both videos are posted at rushlimbaugh.com. If you didn’t see them live, they’re there for you. If you want to go look at it. Well, only one thing I wish to comment on. The Associated Press – now, well, just hang on, Mr. Snerdley. Will you just (laughter). We need to get a Dittocam on him. The hell with the Dittocam on me. (laughter) I mean, are you muttering obscenities in there, or what? In front of Dawn? Yes! You are. Just – just wait a – of course it was a hatchet job of a story. What do you think it’s going to be? That’s only a testament to the effectiveness of the ad. Because you people have to learn how to judge the reaction exhibits. If – if – if the media goes berserk, it means they’re reacting to something that’s effective. I’m not supposed to get my point of view in the Palm Beach Post and I did! And so since I’m not supposed to get my point of view in that paper, they’re mad. Well, let me just tell you a quick little story. The AP reporter who – all right – office is in the Palm Beach Post building. And so she’s on the phone yesterday and my represent – while I’m on the air. So I got a representative talking to her, and we send her transcripts of the May 4th program to illustrate how I was taken out of 2 MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA RUSH LIMBAUGH WORKING TRANSCRIPT 05/14/04 context in the column on Sunday that this ad was really the result of. And so she writes her piece, and none of the things – I mean, I was finding transcript during the program yesterday. None of the transcript evidence that I sent her ended up in her piece – her name is Jill Barton – none of it, which was the whole point of the ad. Well – but, at any rate – she went and she talked to the editor of the Palm Beach Pennysaver, a guy named Sears, and Sears said, well, you know, he can get his point of view any time that he wants in this paper, if he returns our calls and talk to our reporters. He never talks to us and dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah. So that story runs and I looked and said, wait a minute? We talk to these people all the time. We talk to them all the time. We spend more time with them than any other publication because they’re here, in the backyard. So we called her back and said, he’s wrong about that. We’ve had an editorial board meeting with the Palm Beach Post. We’ve had meetings with the news reporters. We have – we’ve – we’ve sent transcripts, we’ve – statements and respond to every request we get from the Palm Beach Post. And so the AP reporter – and we said, go over to the newsroom and ask them. Walk over to the newsroom and ask the reporters there if they are shut out when they want information from us. So she walked over there, found out that what the editor said at first was incorrect. So he did a little bit of a re-write, and the re-write said, quoted the editor as saying, Limbaugh’s never personally responded. (laughter) Now, wait – it gets even better. Then the editor goes on and says, “I don’t understand why Limbaugh’s afraid of opinions.” And (sigh). We’re not afraid of opinions. It’s just I was responding. It’s the only way I can respond is to buy space in your stupid paper. And when you’re going to tell your readers (laughter) that my opinion on the Iraq prison issue cements the fact that I ought to go to jail, I’m going to respond to it. So I did. Anyway, let me just say this to Mr. Sears and all these others who are running with this AP story that is unchecked and not all that balanced – oh, and the local Palm Beach Post reporterette opens her story by saying, “Rush Limbaugh’s Rage Returned.” Those ads represent my rage.
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