How Did You Come Up with the Dingy Harry Nickname, Rush?

RUSH: This is Keith in Atlanta. It’s great to have you, Keith. How are you doing, sir?

CALLER: I’m great, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.

RUSH: You bet.

CALLER: I’ve been a listener since the early nineties and I’ve always been a fan of your nicknames. I think you and Trump have a unique talent for that. And one that I’ve always gotten a chuckle out of that I almost feel like it’s a private joke because I’m not sure that everybody gets it, is Dingy Harry. I’m pretty sure I know the origins of it, and I was wondering if you’d indulge me.

RUSH: Sure. Harry Reid to me was dirty. This is a guy lying about Mitt Romney not paying his taxes. This is the guy who tried to get me censured and apologized for, for claiming I was opposed to the U.S. military by creating a phony soldier. And, by the way, we raised $4 million off of the letter he wrote. The guy that was running Clear Channel at the time was Mark Mays. And you want to talk about a brave CEO, Mark Mays, he’s one of the sons of Lowry Mays, the founder of Clear Channel.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Keith in Atlanta. It's great to have your Keith.
How are you doing, sir, I'm great, Rush, Thanks for
taking my call. You bet. I've been a listener since
the early nineties and I've always been a fan of
your nicknames. I think you and Trump have a unique
talent for that and one that I've always gotten a
chuckle out of that. I almost feel like it's a
private joke because I'm not sure that everybody gets it.

(00:21):
Is dingy, Harry. I'm pretty sure that I know the
origins of it, and I was wondering if you'd indulge me. Uh,
Harry Reid to me was dirty. This is a guy
lying about Mitt Romney not paying his tax attend This
is a guy who tried to get me censured and
apologized for for claiming I was opposed to the US

(00:42):
military by creating a phony soldier. This is a guy.
And by the way, we raised four million dollars off
of the letter. He wrote that the guy that was
running Clear Channel at the time was Mark May. And
you want to talk about a brave ceo, Mark May's.
He's the one of the sons of Lowry Mays, a
founder of Clear Channel. So Dingy Harry that the media

(01:03):
matters got this phony thing up. I criticized the guy
who was not a soldier, who was passing himself off
as a decorated war veteran, ripping into George W. Bush.
So the media says, limball rips into some guy, claims
he's phony soldier, which he was. Dingie Harry went to
the floor of the U. S. Senate to condemn me,
a private citizen. I wished my parents were alive to

(01:25):
hear it. And then he demands that Mark Mays do
something to me, apologize for me, or what have you.
Mark May's gave me the letter that Dingy Harry wrote him,
and I auctioned it on eBay as an example of
your government attempting to infringe on the free speech rights

(01:46):
of an individual citizen me. I promised to match whatever
the highest bidder for that letter was. And somebody actually
bought that letter for two million dollars two point one
or something. I matched it, so it was over four
million dollars that was raised for for Marine Corps Law

(02:11):
Enforcement Foundation. Well that's that's that's Harry Reid. Well, so
you got Clint Eastwood out, there's dirty Harry. I can't
call him dirty Harry because Dirty Harry is already taken. Say,
came up with Dingy because dingy is even better. Dingy
is dirty and cloudy and murky and filthy. So that

(02:35):
that was my thinking on it, Keith, is that what
you assumed? That that's exactly exactly right. And I love
it Rush and again it makes me smile every time
I hear it said. Thanks a lot for everything that
you do. I appreciate that, Thank you very much. I
love those kinds of questions. How did you come up
with the name of dingy Harry? I think I know,
but I'm not sure.