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Nov. 21, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 21, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
It's day two, ladies and gentlemen.
Rome is burning, and where is Obama?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Fastest Week in Media, hosted by me, Rush Wimble America's real anchor man and the Doctor of Democracy, open line Friday.
Very exciting day here for all of us.
As uh sort of like Forrest Gumpish.
We never know what we're gonna get because we open the lines to virtually anything you want to talk about.
Monday through Thursday, and I'm a benevolent dictator, and I alone determine what it is that's discussed on this program.
But on Friday, when we go to the phones, uh the content is all yours.
That's a tremendous professional career risk taken by me, but I'm confident enough.
I like myself enough to be able to pull that off.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushball at EIV net.com, some financial news to kick off the program.
The uh Moody's bond rating service has upgraded the Somali Pirates to triple A. The Somali.
Well, it's it's even better than that.
Uh the Somali Pirates have now applied to become a bank.
So, no, they want to be accessed, they want to be able to access the bailout money, the TARP funds.
The uh Secretary.
I do love it when I make myself laugh.
The um Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson said that uh the pirate.
I mean, all you can do is laugh at this.
Where the hell is Obama?
Even the drive-bys are starting to ask this.
I got two stories.
I have two stories in the stack here.
Drive-by media say Obama should be inaugurated now.
Obama should not have left the Senate.
He could be exerting leadership rather than hanging around the gym in Chicago and toying around with reappointing Bill Clinton's cabinet.
Drive-bys are even starting to be concerned.
Where's the change?
All the audio sound bites on this are coming up.
Hank Paulson said that um the uh the pirate equity, Somali Pirate Equity, uh, is an investment and will pay off.
They're seriously thinking of giving the pirates access to the TARP funds, the bailout money, and also the Somali Pirates are negotiating a purchase of Citigroup.
I don't know.
This uh, yes.
This uh information from Bloomberg, the Somali Pirates, uh renegade Somalis known for hijacking ships for ransom are negotiating a purchase of Citigroup, the uh pirates.
Pirates would buy Citigroup with new debt, and they're no, there's nothing hostile about this takeover.
They along with Prince uh Allawe Talbin Alhal Skyhook, their money would be welcome.
The pirates would buy Citigroup with new debt and their existing cash stockpiles most recently from hijacking Saudi oil tankers.
I'll tell you what.
Well, we're gonna get to the car industry in just a second because I have I have some ideas for the big three.
And I also have some questions for these wizards of smart in Congress.
Did you see what happened yesterday?
The market was up 200 points.
Pelosi and Frank.
You know, yesterday was the greatest illustration of something I've always said.
Politics is showbiz for the ugly.
You had Henry Waxman out there, you had Pelosi out there, you had Barney Frank out there, you had Chris Dodd out there, you had Harry Reed out there, and the minute they started berating the auto companies, the market plunged 400 points.
It was up to it was up 200 points.
There are stories, by the way, in the drive-by's blaming me for the market plunge yesterday.
Yes.
I don't remember why I cast them aside.
Uh other exciting news, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
This this is just classic.
For you, Obama Its, for you Obama supporters, President elect Obama and his inner circle.
Fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq, and perhaps cure cancer all by the 4th of July.
This is a CBS story.
President elect Obama and his inner circle fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq, and perhaps cure cancer all by the 4th of July.
They know that they must manage and lower those expectations.
A top economic advisor to Obama had a glum warning Thursday morning.
Neither the job market nor the stock market will be turning around any time soon.
Here is Joe Axelrod, the campaign director for Barack Obama last night in Chicago on CBS II eyeball news.
We are inheriting a array of problems, unlike any that any president has faced, maybe since Franklin Roosevelt.
BS32.
It's not going to be easy and it's not going to be quick.
One of his great strengths is he's never too high.
He's never too low.
He's very focused.
Ronald Reagan inherited problems in 1980 that were far worse than the problems we have today.
Not that these won't replicate the problems of Jimmy Carter, but until we get to interest rates at 14%, unemployment at 23% or whatever it was, uh, and everybody being told to wear sweaters.
Uh I can't see compare themselves to FDR.
So, and and they they knew what was coming.
They lifted everybody's expectations on purpose.
They played the Messiah game.
Here is former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich also yesterday in Chicago on the incoming Obama administration.
This may be a long haul.
Two thousand nine is going to be a very, very hard year.
Uh some economists are saying we're not going to get out of this for two years.
Others are saying it's going to be three or four, maybe five years.
We all have to be very careful about the expectations that we are putting on this man, our president elect.
If we all assume that it's going to be the first hundred days, we're going to be disappointed.
What the hell is this?
And I'm serious about this.
I'm not, I'm not trying to tweak you Obama voters, but I know that uh you're out there.
By the way, you Obama voters may not know Robert B. Reich served in the Clinton administration, and Joe Axlothrod ran Obama's camp.
No, I mentioned because exit polls of Obama voters show that they know diddly squat about anything.
Obama voters are the new Rio Linda.
Rio Lindons have IQs three times as high as Obama voters.
We now know this.
Exit poll days, none mine.
Now we are not going to let these people get away with lowering expectations like this.
We have to lower our expectations.
Promises were made, Obama.
What was this mindless chant at that creepy acceptance speech?
Yes, we can.
And now all of a sudden it's become no, we won't.
No, we won't.
No, we can't.
Expectations were set, Senator Obama.
Promises were made.
And by the way, your buddies are still making promises.
Your Lincoln, your FDR, your Martin Luther King all rolled into one.
You're the reason the world loves America again, and you haven't even presumed office.
Obama said that he was the one we were waiting for, that he was going to lower the seas, fix the Earth's weather.
He was going to transform America.
He could have stopped the dramatic erosion of the stock market a week ago if he wanted to.
All he would have to do is say that he's going to suspend his tax increases.
Just give some indication that there is going to be stability in government when he takes over.
And you can watch this bottom out and start to rebound.
But he's not going to do that because he is going to raise taxes.
He is taking advantage of this crisis.
And people get grab audio soundbite.
Number six, Mike.
Everybody got upset with me when I was telling them that he wants this crisis, that he's thriving on this crisis.
And let me just play for you, Rama Manuel, again.
This was uh well, not it's number five.
Tuesday night in Washington, number five, Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., the Wall Street Journal CEO Council.
Here is Ram Emanuel basically saying this crisis is made to order for the Obama campaign to advance their agenda.
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
And what I mean by that, it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.
This is an opportunity what used to be long-term problems, be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area.
Things that we had postponed for too long that were long-term are now immediate and must be dealt with.
And this crisis provides the opportunity for us, as I would say, the opportunity to do things that you could not do before.
So Tuesday night, you got Ram Emanuel in Washington going, yeah, yeah, baby, give us this crisis.
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
So whereas we couldn't get national health care because it was too big a step.
Now it's going to be easy because people are panicked and they want solutions right now.
And we want to raise taxes, and we want to regulate even more.
We want to we want to control education even more, and this crisis is going to give us the opportunity to do so.
And that's why Obama's not going to come out and offer any words of encouragement to the stock market or the economy in general by offering a promise of stability when he takes office.
This volatility is going to continue because nobody knows what's going to happen.
And there are great fears.
The stock market, the greatest historical plunge, the largest historical plunge in the stock market post-election, has now occurred after the election of Barack Obama.
It is down 20%.
And that doesn't count how much it was down prior to that, anticipating Obama's election.
So now we've had all these expectations.
He was going to lower the seas.
He was going to fix the weather.
He was going to transform America.
He was going to unify everybody.
And now they're saying, forget that, forget that.
You heard Reich.
It could be four years of this misery.
Two to four years of this misery, they have no answer.
So now that Obama, for the first time, this is important, for the first time in his life as responsible for something, he's the one lowering expectations.
He was a community agitator.
Now he's a financial market agitator.
Our expectations for this country and our economy.
Why you know I I never have been able to understand why it is that the left wants to continue to trample on this whole notion of American exceptionalism.
They don't believe it.
And they got elected on that basis.
Maybe because we didn't have a candidate who believed in it either, or wasn't able to talk about it that well.
But here are these guys actually telling the American people that voted for them, hey, hey, hey, drop all these Messiah expectations you had.
We're not going to get this fixed.
We're in for the long haul.
This is going to be really, really, really bad.
And it need not be that way at all.
This is the United States of America.
If they just get all these, get Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and Harry Reid and Pelosi, get them out of the way, cut some taxes, or at least say that the tax rates that we have now are going to be maintained.
The Bush tax cuts are not going to be tampered with.
Give some stability and let the people who make this country work begin this economic rebound.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
Already having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone high atop.
The EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
This is hilarious.
This reminds me of a story that we've discussed previously on this program.
Story involving Governor Palin in Wasilla, Alaska.
Governor Palin granted the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to a lucky Turkey yesterday.
However, this poor woman cannot buy a break.
The video that shocked some viewers of her granting the pardon to the Turkey showed turkeys in mass being slaughtered right behind her by the Turkey Farm employee.
As she answered questions at Triple D farm and Hatchery Outside Wasilla, cameras from the Anchorage Daily News and others showed the bloody work of an employee slaughtering turkeys behind Sarah Palin as she was granting a pardon to one randomly chosen idiot turkey.
Turkey's among the dumbest birds roaming the uh and I I don't want to hear from Turkey farmers about this.
They always call to defend the birds uh when when I when I mentioned this, but well, I they're dumber than it's it'd be a close contest, turkeys and Obama voters in terms of overall IQ, yes.
But this reminds me, you remember after the Exxonvaldees uh ran aground at Prince William Sound in Alaska, had all that big Alaskan oil spill up there.
And it was just, you know, it was tragic.
At the same time, it was comical to look at people with bottles of dawn dishwasher detergent and paper towels trying to wipe the oil off the rocks.
But they were good people, and then they were stewards of the earth, and then they really thought they were helping.
And of course, their couple otters.
They caught a couple otters that's swimming around in all the oil, and they were waving their little paws at people.
Oh, it's so cute.
So they salvaged a couple otters and they took them on shore, and they're 75 grand or something to clean up two of them.
150,000 or some such thing to clean up two otters.
The day came when they were going to reintroduce them to the Prince William Sound environment after it had been cleaned up mostly by Mother Nature, and they let the kids out of school, and they had bands down there, and they wheeled these otters down in cages on wagons, and they had this big ceremony applauding themselves for the great work they had done in saving the otters and their shoreline, and they let the otters loose, and the kids are cheering, yay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the otters are swimming out and doing what they do.
They're you know, the people think that they're waving at them as they're on their backs, a little paws up there, and out of nowhere came an orca and just swallowed them both.
In one bite, the orchid just out of nowhere, bam, a killer whale.
And the band stopped playing, and the kids looked, what happened, mommy?
Mommy, what happened?
What happened?
And people were covering their eyes.
Couldn't bear to see this.
150 grand down the drain, and the source for the story was the insurance company that paid for the cleanup of the uh uh the otters.
No, they didn't get a pardon.
So this is this Sarah Palin, pardon a turkey, while a bunch of them are slaughtered behind her and everybody sees.
It just reminded me of the uh of the otter story.
All right, where are we here?
The um oh yes.
Uh the Reverend Sharpton, uh, ladies and gentlemen on the O'Reilly factor last night.
And uh the Reverend Sharpton was asked about the latest Al-Qaeda video referring to Barack Obama as a house Negro, and they asked the Reverend Sharpton what he thought about this.
To now come at this point and try and define what uh that they're going to be the decider of who are the heroic blacks and to use such a derogatory racist term against the president.
I think it is an insult and something that is absolutely denigrating and racist.
And I don't care who says otherwise, I would take that position.
Now, folks, is it me?
Am I so out of touch here that this sounds absurd?
Who are we talking about here?
Al Qaeda has murdered 3,000 Americans inside of 45 minutes to an hour and a half.
They have beheaded American journalists, they have committed all kinds of atrocities all over the world.
And now finally, the American left is finally upset at Al Qaeda, and Al Sharpton particularly, because how dare they say something racist?
They can kill whoever they want, whenever they want, and we'll do our best to understand it.
But when they start using racist language, why that's the last straw.
This reminds me of another story.
This this guy that I hate to bring up bad memories, but Polly Closs in California, the little girl who was uh kidnapped and raped and murdered, and they found the guy that did it, and they brought him to trial, and they found him guilty.
And at the uh sentencing, afterwards he turned around and he flipped off the journalists.
He flipped them the bird, and that's when they started hating him.
Only when he flipped them off, other than that they were still, they were somewhat sympathetic to the guy.
This is the same thing.
But let's go back, February 13, 2007, Tennessee State University, Nashville.
Reverend Sharpton during a QA.
Audience member says, Do you believe that political leaders like Rice and Powell are viewed as House Negroes by other African Americans?
I don't know that they're viewed as House Negroes in the term.
I believe that they are in the House, and the rest of us in the field.
So it would not be an inaccurate description.
Well, there's the Reverend Sharpton describing Rice and Powell basically as House Negroes.
But when Al Qaeda calls Obama that, why, this is intolerable.
We can't put up with it.
Back with more after this.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh executing assigned host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
There never are any.
Well, I did make a minor error.
I called David Axelrod Joe Axlrod, but who actually cares?
But I was getting him confused with the old general manager of the Kansas City Sacramento Kings basketball team, Joe Axelson.
That's the first Joe, the first Axel anything I ever knew.
Obama voters don't know.
It's not a matter they won't care.
They don't know.
Axel Rod Schmaxelrod.
Here's Mary Ellen in Rohobath, Massachusetts.
Hey, Mary Ellen, is that near the Moss Turnpike?
Um no, it's not.
It's actually it's actually about 40 minutes south of Boston.
Oh, great.
Okay.
Well, it's great to have you on open line Friday.
You're up first, and you know what that means.
Oh, I'm so I know Russian.
I'm going to say something that's probably not so respectful, but I don't know why you got your shorts in a knot over this Obama and backtracking and Robert Reich and it doesn't matter what he does.
He's going to be the best president we've ever had, barring none because there are too many people who have too much riding on this.
He's the first black president.
They will not let him fail.
Yes, as I've made that point.
Are you an Obama supporter?
No.
No.
Yeah, I didn't I didn't think so.
Nor was I in the United States.
But I must, I must tell you, Mr. Snerdley thought that you were.
Oh God, no.
So you will not let him fail.
He will be a hero.
Uh see, well, I know you well, you you're right.
I had I had a famous journalist who is writing a book, send me a couple questions yesterday afternoon asking my thoughts on a couple.
He gave me a couple questions, and he he said, How long is it going to be before the drive-by media turns on Obama?
I said, They never will.
They've got too much invested that he is too big to fail.
They have made too much about this guy.
He's the Messiah.
It's it's um they got him elected, they think.
This is historical.
First black president and so forth.
They've got four years to blame Bush for everything that goes wrong during the Obama four years.
So yeah, I know what you mean.
And you know, it it it's you know, I'm Italian, I'm a hundred percent Italian, and in the summertime my skin gets very dark.
So, you know, I may not be black enough to to attack Obama, but in the summertime, I'll call back and say this again and make it make it really work.
But you know, he's black.
There that's the end of it.
It's like it's like anything else.
When you have people who are in a job who cannot perform the job, but they are of color.
They get No, now in this case, it's not, it's it's far more than that with Obama.
Uh sure, the the fact that he's the first African American president is a major factor, and that's what, as far as the media is concerned, makes his candidacy historic.
And that's why it didn't matter who he is, what he is, what he's accomplished, which is nothing.
It didn't matter what his experience is, which is dubious, because here was an opportunity for an historical achievement.
See, what you have to remember is that most of the drive-bys that have big influence grew up in the 60s, and they're and they're they were informed and influenced by the civil rights battles back then, and they have trained the younger drive-bys, and so this was and and also this election was about a lot el a lot, a lot of something else, too.
The drive-by media lost their monopoly in 1988.
This was a chance for them To prove that they could still move public opinion and make a candidate of their choice win.
Now, how did they do it?
They did it by hiding every bit of information about Obama that was damaging.
The same people that were all bet out of shape about spying on terrorists are the same people that encouraged government officials in Ohio to investigate a private citizen who couldn't do anything to anybody.
Joe the plumber.
Government computers were used to investigate this, and all he did was ask a question.
And the drive-by media joined in trying to destroy Joe the plumber because he represented a threat since Obama had made a gaffe and admitted to everybody what his ideology is.
Spread the wealth.
I mean, call it what you want.
I mean, socialism, collectivism, or what have you, what he had they had to protect him.
And so you're right.
It it goes far more much more than just the skin color.
What it also has to do with is full-fledged, undiluted raw liberalism.
They these people have been thwarted ever since Ronald Reagan.
And they have been dying to uh a mass power in the White House and Congress that they will have for years, like FDR did, so that they can implement a pure leftist agenda, and Obama is the vehicle for that.
And as such, he's too big to fail.
The drive-by media will not abandon him.
They will coach him, but they will not abandon him.
There are starting to get concerned, however, from the Chicago uh thanks, by the way, Mary Ollman for the phone call.
From the uh Chicago Tribune blog, it's called the Swamp.
William Kneekirk, Obama should be in White House sooner.
I I am I can't I cannot tell you how amazed at myself, even I sometimes am being on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Yesterday I began the chant, where's Obama?
And so today in the swamp at the Chicago Sun Times, Obama should be in White House sooner.
President elect Barack Obama having to wait more than two months before taking charge.
As the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression rages, he has said little while a lame duck president and divided Congress try to cope.
You go to the end of the story, it says it seems strange to have Obama sitting there in Chicago for so long with so much going on.
It leaves the lame duck government in place entirely too long.
December 1st might be a much better inauguration date in times like these.
Not all times, just in times like these when we have Obama in waiting.
And in the New York Times today.
Looking to Washington amid turmoil so far in vain.
Obama in resigning from the Senate before the latest session has missed an opportunity to exert leadership.
They too are asking, where is Obama?
The drive-by is want him there.
And then let's go, ladies and gentlemen, to the uh audio sound bites.
The drive-by's, as I said, they're starting to get a little nervous about where's all the change?
Because all they're seeing is Clinton people being appointed to the cabinet.
Here is the Today Show today, a montage of David Gregory's report about the Obama transition.
Well, you remember the campaign slogan from President elect Obama that he was going to turn the page in Washington while critics and allies alike are looking at his appointment so far and complaining that he seems to be stuck on the same old chapter.
A lot of his most stalwart supporters, a lot of liberals in the party beginning to wonder whether this is what they signed up for, whether they're getting enough change as he promised.
Well, he's not even there yet, and he's lowering expectations.
He sent Axel Rod and Reich out to lower expectations, say it's going to be a big problem, two or three more years at least.
We're in big deep doo-doo here.
And now they're worried about the change, but they're going to find ways to cover for this because he's too big to fail.
Another one.
This was on MSNBC's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, David Gregory the host, speaking with Michelle Bernard of the Independent Women's Forum.
The question, now this is the line they've been threading all week and last week, too, is they've named these Clinton veterans To positions of prominence, and of course, if Hillary becomes Secretary of State doesn't get any more prominent than that, the Clinton era is back.
Absolutely.
This is, I believe, could be a potentially very significant problem for the brand new Obama administration.
I mean, think about it.
We just had the election on November 4th.
Most of us are talking not so much about the president-elect, but about former President Bill Clinton and about Hillary Clinton.
The same thing happened after Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination.
All of the media was talking about Hillary Clinton.
You know, there is so much drama surrounding the possibility of Hillary Clinton becoming the next Secretary of State that it it for anyone who ever suffered Clinton fatigue, they now have it in a very major way.
And then this morning on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, the guest is Michael Isakoff of Newsweek, an unidentified caller from Georgia, says, I understand that the various arguments made for needing people with prior experience.
Even so, I was hoping we would see new and fresh faces with the Messiah.
And I'm starting to fear that we won't get the change that we were hoping for.
Now, this is an Obama voter.
And here's Isakoff's reply.
Look, I think that is a very uh legitimate point that uh you're gonna hear uh uh more and more.
Um uh Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Rom Emanuel as chief of staff, Eric Holder as uh attorney general.
These are all people right out of uh Jim Steinberg, who is being talked about as National Security Advisor, although that hasn't been uh confirmed yet.
But these are all people right out of the Clinton administration, the second Clinton term in particular, uh, and um, you know, with Obama campaigned as an agent of change.
Uh uh so I think if you see a cabinet and White House staff overstocked with simple, you know, with Clinton retreads, um, you're gonna hear criticism about where's the fresh thinking, where are the fresh faces that we had hoped for uh when we elected Barack Obama?
Well, here you have it.
So there's the there's some rumblings here of disquietedness over the Messiah not fulfilling this promise for change.
Uh but they will end up covering for him because he's too big to fail.
But here we go.
I can't, I cannot help but you know, I know it's it's very unseemly, and it's really sometimes um not very classy to remind people I told you so.
We told you there's no there's no change.
He's a hack liberal Democrat.
Barack Obama has less experience than any other Democrat that's ever been nominated, who if you look at who his friends are, who his alliances are, the things that he's written about and says he wants to do is a hack.
Leftist almost radical.
Why anybody is surprised?
There's no there's no change.
Liberalism isn't change.
We've had liberalism since FDR.
We've had collectivism since FDR.
We're just gonna get more of it.
That's that's going to be the that's gonna be the change.
And we're gonna have ostensibly a president who can speak.
And people are going to be comforted by the fact that he doesn't sound like an idiot, even though they're going to ignore what he says.
Anyway, a brief timeout, open line Friday will continue.
Stay where you are.
Open line Friday continues with Rush Limbaugh executing here behind a golden EIB microphone serving humanity simply by showing up.
I have some questions.
You know, the um Pelosi Reed that that crowd they sent the auto execs home yesterday, and they said, you come back with a plan.
We don't have the votes, and you're not gonna make us look bad.
We'll send a bad signal American people we don't have the votes, so you come back with a plan.
You tell us what you want for the 25 billion dollars.
Okay, I have some questions for the people like Pelosi and Reed and these other liberal hacks.
Just tough questions for you to ponder.
With gasoline prices now under two bucks in most places, and dropping, and the price of oil, I checked it right before the program is below $50 now.
49 dollars a barrel, it was earlier today.
So with the gas price under two bucks and oil plummeting, what would you say?
Pelosi and Reed, if the car companies could become profitable by selling SUVs or go broke by turning out the green cars that you're gonna demand they make.
What would you say, Pelosi and Reed, if the best automobile executive in the world could come in and fix the Detroit problem, but he demands a hundred million dollars a year in income.
Would you insist that they hire somebody who has no clue what they're doing and earns less than 400,000?
If the auto executives came back to you and say that they can turn profits if they tear up all existing labor, this is what I wish they'd do.
I wish these guys, I wish Nardelli and Wagner and Millale would come back and say, You want our idea, you want to know what we need to succeed?
Fine.
You we need to tear up all of our existing labor contracts.
We need to eliminate all these cafe standards that you placed on manufacturing.
That's what we need.
That's what we need to do.
We can turn this business around if you get the shackles off of us.
What would they say?
You know damn well what they would say.
They say, screw you, because we're going to run the auto business now, Barney Frank is going to say.
And I have another question for these liberals.
You've been attacking the big three auto companies all of your political careers.
Why are you defending them now?
You've been attacking them.
You have been making them out to be the enemy, just like Walmart's the enemy, just like big drug is the enemy, big oil is the enemy.
Anything big corporate has been the enemy of Ted Kennedy on down.
Now all of a sudden you find the need after you've had your role, and let's make no mistake about this.
Congress has had a role in destroying these companies or harming them greatly, and now all of a sudden you want to defend them.
Why?
Why are you defending these companies that you told everybody else were evil?
Here's Jennifer in Los Angeles.
Great to have you on the uh program, Jennifer.
Well, welcome.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
Um thank you very much for taking my call.
Welcome.
And happy Thanksgiving to you.
Same to you.
I just wanted to thank you for something.
I was listening to your um your one of your broadcasts, and you spoke about the story of the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.
And I remember that story from fifth grade, where the pilgrims did not really they just eked out a miserable existence until they changed their um their political philosophy.
Their business model, essentially.
That's right.
And so each uh pilgrim was given a uh a lot of the piece of land, and uh when they changed the uh instead of all contributing to one common store, they were able to keep what they made.
And um that Jen Jennifer, I need to what what school did you go to that taught you this?
Because my uh my school didn't.
I went uh well, I'm in California.
I went to San Bernardino, uh, it was called the Elliott Elementary School, and Mr. Robert Nelson was my teacher.
You gotta be kidding.
A California elementary school told you the truth about Thanksgiving.
Well, it was actually a lesson, the lesson that day was about a word and the meaning of the word incentive.
And he used that to illustrate what what incentive can do.
So uh anyway, I uh am now I work at the Los Angeles Times and edit a page called the Kids' Reading Room page.
And it's on the website right now.
It's LA Times.com slash kids.
There's a story uh called Giving Thanks about Thanksgiving.
It's a tribute to the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, and it's about a family, you know, a contemporary family sitting around Thanksgiving and talking about the pilgrims and who they were.
And I also want to thank you for I started doing research on the Bradford book, and the pilgrims were fantastic.
I mean, they were they were very young, they were courageous, they were ingenious.
Um they were fleeing Obama type tyranny from the mother country.
That's exactly that's exactly right.
And they it was like it was like the first time in the history of mankind that that anything so extraordinary had happened, and it was contagious because the Massachusetts Bay Colonies copied that model that they had that they had uh uh initiated.
Well, you know what?
You have made my day.
You have arranged for this to be in the LA Times uh over the weekend and in the on the kids' page.
Yes, it's in the Sunday Comics uh Comics One, uh that's where the kids' reading room page is.
And well, that's as good.
It's a best place in that paper for it.
I I I view the kids page as the most important page in the whole paper.
I you are you are doing the Lord's work.
You are Jennifer, you have made my day.
I'm gonna I'm gonna have to repeat a shortened version of Thanksgiving story because Obama voters are not listening.
They don't know what it is.
So I'll do that.
We come back.
Don't go away, folks.
Thanks, Jennifer.
I just found Jennifer's page and her story uh on the LA Times for this week, and we'll link to it at rushlimbaugh.com uh pretty soon this afternoon.
Really, really well done with great artwork.
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