From Rush Limbaugh

"For you people in Rio Linda"

Excerpts from a Rush Limbaugh radio show on June 15, 2007.

Caller: ...The point of my call is, for the  last 4 ½ years, including today, you've had me incredibly confused on your Rio Linda comments. I was hoping you could give me a history on that.

Rush: Yes, I'd be happy to. ..... When I moved to Sacramento in 1984, I was driving around town because I wanted to get familiar with and be familiar with the place I was now living and working. I'm driving around and I came to this place called Rio Linda. You know, they had a city sign but no indication of who lived there, no population numbers. I have never seen that before. I've always seen population numbers on the sign of a city.

So I drove through this place, and it was like going to the Twilight Zone. On the main drag, there were cars on concrete blocks in front yards, washing machines and dryers and wash boards on the porch, and I said, "Whoa! This is a depressed area, and it needs my help."  So one of the bits that I did when I went on the air was offer to move there if they would change the name to "Limbaugh, California" and by just moving there, I would increase property values. Of course the idea was rejected and so forth.

So I decided, "Well, I'm just going to tease these people." Any time I say something I think is remotely, just remotely complicated, I will try to translate it for Rio Lindans so they can understand it.