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Rush Limbaugh – and the Importance of Being Hated<\/a><\/p>\n

James O’Keefe——-<\/p>\n

It is with great sadness that I learned my dear friend, inspirational figure, and American radio icon Rush Limbaugh has passed away.<\/p>\n

I will never forget what Rush said when someone once asked him about how he handled being hated:<\/p>\n

There’s a good reason for the media hating me.\u00a0 And once I came to grips with that fact, that there’s a reason they should hate me, then it makes sense.\u00a0 One of the toughest things I had to do was learn to psychologically accept the fact that being hated was a sign of success.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Most people aren’t raised to be hated.\u00a0 We’re all raised to be loved.\u00a0 We want to be loved.\u00a0 We’re told to do things to be loved and appreciated and liked.\u00a0 We’re raised, don’t offend anybody, be nice.\u00a0 Everybody wants total acceptance. Everybody wants respect. Everybody wants to be loved, and so when you learn that what you do is going to engender hatred you have to learn to accept that as a sign of success.\u00a0 That was a tough psychological thing for me.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here are some of my\u00a0favorite moments with Rush Limbaugh<\/a>. I will never forget them:<\/p>\n

In the early Project Veritas days, Rush reminded me what it meant to have moral courage.<\/p>\n

The first question he ever asked me on-air was about how much moral cowardice I had seen from people \u2013 even on the right:<\/p>\n

Rush Limbaugh:<\/strong>\u00a0“Have you ever encountered people on our side who have let you down? Who’ve said you know ‘James, you’re putting too much pressure on us.’ Have you had any people on our side ask you to tone it down?”<\/em><\/p>\n

James O’Keefe:<\/strong>\u00a0“You know Rush, one of the things you said that really resonated with me is \u2014 you said that our adversaries circle the wagons, and our allies circle the firing squad. I have come to know this over the last few years in a sort of baptism by fire.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Rush once read an entire column I wrote with my mentor Andrew Breitbart on the air, where I explained why I refused to speak with CNN. Network producers had gotten ahold of my phone number and dialed me so frequently I couldn\u2019t make outgoing calls that morning.<\/p>\n

Andrew advised against taking the interview because their mission was not to expose truth, but to destroy my credibility as a journalist. CNN frequently took partisan stances on the ACORN story and worked to defend the organization\u2019s staff following our investigation.<\/p>\n

Due to their dishonest statements and refusal to cover the ACORN story fairly, I instead chose to write an op-ed for\u00a0BigGovernment.com<\/a>\u00a0in a preemptive strike, which was later read on air by Rush.<\/p>\n

From an Intrepid CNN Producer:<\/p>\n

9-11-09 | James O\u2019Keefe<\/em><\/p>\n

70 times he was called.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

As read on \u201cThe Rush Limbaugh Show\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So far CNN has only reported on the breaking story on blatant ACORN CORRUPTION from angles that attempt to extricate the government funded \u201ccommunity organizing\u201d enterprise from the extreme crime we caught on videotape.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

First CNN pushed the false ACORN line that \u201c[t]his film crew tried to pull this sham at other offices and failed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

To set that record straight please check the Washington D.C. tape we dropped today at\u00a0BigGovernment.com<\/a>, which is also being aired on your cable news competitor with curiously higher ratings.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now that ACORN lied to you, Jonathan Klein, what are you going to do?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I have noticed from your coverage: You brought in the damage control crowd to FRAME the story. Before even airing our damning Baltimore video. You know your audience would turn on ACORN if you showed them the evidence. So instead, you put your competitors in journalism in the crosshairs instead of airing a blockbuster report making massive waves elsewhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

You even trotted out shameless Clinton era apologist Joe Conason to challenge the ETHICS of our expose. Unreal.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

What about the ethics of those at ACORN caught on tape trying to help create a brothel featuring illegal immigrant age range 13-15 from El Salvador?<\/em><\/p>\n

What about the countless laws broken on tape from a group that stands to get billions from President Obama\u2019s \u201cstimulus\u201d package?<\/em><\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t we wait to have the Columbia Journalism School debate on \u201cjournalistic ethics\u201d after you do actual journalism.<\/em><\/p>\n

When you air the raw ACORN footage that is now viral on the Internet and being played on FOX NEWS and countless talk radio shows, then and only then \u2014 when America can see, hear and smell the stench we have exposed \u2014 will I subject myself to a CNN hit job.<\/em><\/p>\n

The op-ed itself went wildly viral. That blew me away. Friends were texting me nonstop.<\/p>\n

This was the purest form of media warfare. This is what I was born to do.<\/p>\n

Rush understood this. He knew, like I did, that the media is more powerful than all three branches of government.<\/p>\n

Klein, the CNN president, would be let go a year later. On his departure, the New York Times noted the network\u2019s ratings had \u201clanguished, while Fox\u2019s and MSNBC\u2019s have improved, leading some media critics to publicly wonder how he managed to keep his job.\u201d We wondered too.<\/p>\n

I will miss Rush, as I\u2019m sure you will too.<\/p>\n

He dedicated his life to this country, the least we can do is honor his memory in our everyday lives.<\/p>\n

Rush, may God give your beautiful soul a nice and warm welcome into heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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