It's True! I Didn't Say No to Chris Wallace

It's True! I Didn't Say No to Chris Wallace
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | December 5, 2014 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 12/05/2014 2:14:05 PM PST by Kaslin

RUSH: As you all know, of those who regularly listen to this program, I am not a big fan of television. I've had my own TV show. I know that television has a lot of impact. However, this program has a larger audience than most, if not all. But most cable news programs, maybe not combined network day-to-day, I mean, if you take their 24 hours and add 'em up, but, anyway, I don't know what it is, the whole thing to me, it's just, it is not natural.

You know, I think I finally figured out what it is. I'm too self-conscious. I'm too famous. You know what the primary ingredient, the primary ingredient, I'm convinced now having done this too, the primary ingredient to be a successful or even great actor, you have to be absolutely zero self-conscious. You cannot be self-conscious at all, and if anybody is self-conscious to one degree or another, they're going to do badly on television or in front of cameras. You know, the whole thing about cameras change the way things would be if the camera wasn't there.

But, anyway, I got a call, an e-mail this week from Chris Wallace and his staff at Fox News Sunday. They had heard a couple things discussed on this program about the government shutdown, some things I'd said, and they asked me if I would be the guest on Fox News Sunday. My initial reaction, like every request I get, is to say "no" and move on. How many of these a week, H.R., do we turn down? There must be three or four requests from all the different networks. The standard operating procedure is to say "no."

But, for some reason, I didn't say "no." I paused and I thought about it for a day and I decided to do it. So I'm gonna be the lead guest. And to give you an idea of how rare me being on TV is, listen to the first four sound bites that we have in the audio sound bite roster. Here's the first on Channel 5 New York this morning.

WALLACE: We’re going to have fascinating person to talk about all of this: Rush Limbaugh. Exclusive guest, rare TV appearance. We’re going to talk to him about this. We’re going to talk about the possibility of a government shutdown as Republicans figure how they’re going to oppose the president on the executive action on immigration. But I’m sure we’re going to talk a lot about this question of the police. And, you know, you can argue whether Rush is right or wrong, he talks about the race industry. Although on the other hand Rush also said that he was very troubled by what he had seen in the video in the Eric Garner case. I don't see how anybody can watch that video and not think that there was an unnecessary escalation of force by the police.

RUSH: And then mere moments later on Fox Washington.

WALLACE: We're going to be talking about it with a very interesting observer, Rush Limbaugh, who is going to have one of his rare TV appearances exclusively here on Fox News Sunday this week and we're going to talk to him. He's one of the hardliners who says no way that they should fund, you know, 99% of the government, everything except DHS, for the whole year. They have the power of the purse and they should use it.

RUSH: And later on Fox Philadelphia.

WALLACE: You can agree with him or disagree, but I can’t think of anybody more interesting to talk to than Rush Limbaugh, live exclusive, Sunday morning.

RUSH: And Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel this morning after all that.

WALLACE: No, I'd love to go to Palm Beach, but thank you for offering. If I could take your private jet, Steve, I'd love to do it. We're gonna do it live. He's gonna be in his EIB studios live on Sunday morning and we'll be up here.

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