Posted on 08/31/2005 3:28:12 PM PDT by goldstategop
RUSH: Here's Carol in Redmond, Washington. Nice to have you on the program with us. Hello.
CALLER: Hello there. Nice to be there.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I live in the great old Northwest, about as blue as you can get. The environmental wackos here are trying to get you out of your cars, building HOV lanes, bus transportation, building light rail and everything. Well, what happens to those without cars with when it's time to evacuate?
RUSH: Let me tell you -- oops, hang on a second. Dropped the one o'clock cigar, but I saved it. Let me tell you something else. They're trying to get us out of our SUVs. What is it that's able to traverse down there in all this?
CALLER: Only the SUVs.
RUSH: Right. And they're trying to get rid of the military, they hate the military. San Francisco will not let the USS Iowa come dock. What do you see down there spearheading the relief efforts? You see military people in uniform, military vehicles, Navy ships. I'm telling you, this whole episode has the potential, Carol, to illustrate the absolute folly and danger of the left.
CALLER: Mm-hmm. Did you want to hear how I found out about you?
RUSH: Oh, I'd love to hear. I always love to hear about things like this.
CALLER: Well, and my husband is listening on the Internet. My husband now was my boyfriend then, and he got into the car to go out for dinner one night --
RUSH: Whoa, whoa, when was then?
CALLER: 2001.
RUSH: 2001. So that would be four years ago --
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: -- for those of you in Rio Linda. Okay.
CALLER: And he got into the car to go out for a dinner date and he turned on the car radio, and I said, "Oh, no! You're not going to make me listen to Rush Limbaugh?" Well, I listened to you for a half an hour, and I was hooked.
RUSH: That's all it took? Wow!
CALLER: That's all it took. Actually, only took about ten minutes.
RUSH: Ten minutes. I appreciate it. It takes some people six weeks to fully get it.
CALLER: Well, we're 24/7 members and we have Club G'itmo gear and we think you're #1.
RUSH: And you're in Redmond, Washington. You are in enemy territory.
CALLER: Ugh! Majorly.
RUSH: (Laughing.)
CALLER: Totally.
RUSH: See, you were once the enemy.
CALLER: Actually, I was.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: And most of my family still is.
RUSH: Well, I'm just curious, what was it in those ten minutes, or 30 minutes, whatever it was, that caused you to do your 180?
CALLER: Everything you said was right. Everything you said was true.
RUSH: So you obviously had not listened before that. You had just heard what critics of mine had said and then --
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: -- thought that they were right?
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: And what were some of those things, do you remember?
CALLER: Oh, the usual. What people say is the ad hominem, "Oh, he's an idiot. Oh, he's stupid. Oh, all he does is yell."
RUSH: He hates women. He's racist, sexist, those sorts of things?
CALLER: Never anything specific. Never anything specific. And I just tell my friends, "Listen, just listen."
RUSH: Well, thank you, and thank your husband.
CALLER: Oh, definitely.
RUSH: Because, I mean how close to you all to getting married when he turned on the radio that night going for dinner?
CALLER: Mmmmmm. We had just started dating.
RUSH: Okay. So I mean it wasn't that big a risk to turn on the radio at that point, but still a risk.
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: Because he obviously liked you very much, was going to fall in love with you someday, and that could have just turned you off. These ideological differences to some couples can provide a problem.
CALLER: Well, we're together on this and have been, got married in 2003 and we're very happy.
RUSH: Thank you, Carol, very much. I really appreciate all of that. Thanks very much for the call. She's exactly right. All these things that the left wants us to do away with: How would we be dealing with what's going on in the Gulf Coast if they had ever succeeded?
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I'd love a thread for "Where were you when you first heard Rush?" I remember distinctly how I learned about him and what I heard the first time I listened to him and where I was. An elderly woman from my church suggested that I listen to him as I was a stay-at-home mom with young children. So, one day I turned him on and as I was walking from my family room into my kitchen he played Ted Kennedy singing "The Philanderer." Well, I'm originally from Massachusetts and I don't think I'd ever laughed so hard in my life. I have been a faithful listener ever since. That was thirteen years ago.
I learned about Rush at the same time that I learned he had a drug problem.
For the longest time I've been a listener of NPR. I love their music programs. Classical music is the best music to listen to when driving. Jazz is right up there.
I didn't realize that until I started listening to Rush, Hannity, Reagan, and Doyle, that I was literally tuning out the bias on NPR. For instance, a headline on NPR news would be negative to the war, but I'd strip out the bias from the report and say, "Hey, that's progress."
Hey, I've actually got an old copy of "How To Stop Worrying And Start Living" by Dale Carnegie. It has helped me quite a few times -- and so has Rush. I love his optimism!! He's better than a shot of vodka!
"The optimist is the one who thinks the fly is trying to get out."
I love Rush and want to be his next wife.
Did she get the year's free subscription?
If anyone has Windows Media Player, you can hear this piece streamed here:
http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/clips/05/08/083105_7_carol.asx
This was a great story, I loved it
That is what caused Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman to get divorced.......She was the Liberal...He had wised up and moved to the right.
I stopped to say hi to a friend of mine and she was listening to Rush while gardening and suggested I listen to him because he was really interesting. At that time in my life I did not pay attention to the world around me so therefore a liberal. I found he made so much sense and agreed with a lot of what he said so now I am the only conservative in my family....that was about 15 years ago....
My b-i-l told me about this "new guy" on the radio in 1988, and told me to give a listen. I tuned in one day when Rush was in the middle of one of his "demonstrating absurdity by being absurd" spiels. I listened for a couple of minutes, thought "how obnoxious",and turned him off before he went on to other things. My b-i-l told me I'd have to listen again to understand what Rush was doing. I'll be forever grateful that I took him up on it, because I finally heard my own conservative political beliefs and opinions being articulated on national radio! I don't have to tell those of you who love Rush what he means to me, and what he means to this country - he is a national treasure. God bless and protect him.
The Animal Right Update theme song got me laughing sooooo hard.
For those who haven't heard it . . it's the song "Born Free", with the sound of M16s, M4s, SAWs, yelping animals, and Mortars being fired. Funniest damn thing.
She really wasn't a liberal. She was an open mind living in ignorance, waiting for someone that made sense.
I was listening to that conversation this AM. What a coincidence! My sister lives just several miles away from that caller in Redmond, WA. and she is also the one that turned me on to Rush Limbaugh (but of course I already loved her- lol)..... Yep, the very BLUE state of Washington.
~Scott~
When I first heard Rush, he was going on about "Ft. Worthless Jim" It was around 1988 I think,when he first went on a St. louis radio station.
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