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Sept. 5, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 5, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
My friends, I am so excited.
I have been waiting for this day to be able to tell you something.
I have been waiting with baited breath.
I have been chomping at the bit.
I've almost let it slip out of the bag a couple of times.
And now I don't have to worry about it slipping out of the bag because today I can announce it.
No, no, no, I did not buy Apple computers, and I didn't make an offer on the New York Times or any of that.
I'm just I just I this is so cool, and I am I I've been I've been wanting to tell uh especially you all about this for the for the longest time.
It has been a an amazingly productive, fun, busy past bunch of months.
For the longest time twenty years, people have been urging me to write another book.
And particularly my good friend, the late Vince Flynn.
The last three, four years, every time that we would get together with him, he called me Rushbow.
He said, How's the book coming, Rushbow?
He thought it was j it was necessary.
It wasn't something just to do because it was the next thing to do in the career line.
He said, You need to do this.
And I said, Vince, I've done it.
I've been there and I've done that.
I've I've done the conservative manifestos, and everybody else has done them too.
And he said, Well, why don't you put together a compilation?
I mean, look at all the monologues that you've done on the radio, and you've preserved all of them on your website, and you could get somebody to edit those things and put together three or four books of some of your greatest monologues, each one a chapter.
And I it's a great idea, but I never went forward on that.
Never move forward on it.
And then out of the blue, shortly, you know, when at I tell you when the well, timeline is is kind of uh sketchy on this, but my wife, Catherine, in conjunction with Vince's entreaties to me, came up with an idea that literally lit a fire under me.
She said, you know, you're always talking about how history is being mistaught.
And you're right.
You're always talking about what kids are learning these days, and they're not learning about the greatness of America.
They're not learning about the founding days.
They're not learning the right things about the people, the great people, the exceptional people who founded this country.
And why don't you write a book for kids?
A series of books for kids, maybe.
See how the first one goes that sets the record straight on American history, and so that is what has happened.
And what we have done, we have brought to life Rush Revere, our character at Two If by T. And we have today the ability to announce to you a book that is aimed for everybody, but it's it's for kids to learn the truth about the very early and beginning days of this country, but it is a book for everybody to buy.
Everybody has kids in school, and they're worried, sick about what they're learning.
And some of you don't know what to do, how to counter what your kids are being taught.
And so Rush Revere to the Rescue here.
The book is Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.
It is by me, and I'm gonna zoom in on the Ditto Camp here, and I'm gonna show you the cover of the book.
The book is available for pre-order as we speak at uh Amazon.
Let me move my hand out of there.
It's available at Amazon.
It's available at iTunes.
It is available as a hardcover.
It is available as an audio book.
And uh, you know, ladies and gentlemen, I don't talk about myself much.
I really don't brag much.
But took about three nights to do the audio book.
And I have to tell you, uh I am as proud of the reading of the audio book, the audio version of this book, as I am almost of anything I've done.
It is just it it's it's it's going to be quite an addition to the to the hardcover.
Okay, so that let me turn the dental camera off because I don't want to be zoomed in this tightly on my face.
You can search my name, you can search the title.
He's going there and search Rush Limbaugh or search Rush Revere.
So that the title, the title of the book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, Time Travel Event.
Now, I don't want to give away the book.
I don't want to give away what, but remember it's a kid's book, but you get the book and you read it with them, or you read it to them, or you have them read it, or what it's for everybody.
But it is uh, and I don't want to give a an age uh uh group here because I don't want to I don't want to exclude anybody because the book is for everybody, but it's written for young people.
And it's written honestly, and it does not have an agenda.
It's just the truthful history of the pilgrims, who they were, where they came from, why they came here, what happened when they got here.
The true story of Thanksgiving.
There's no politics in this.
Well, oh, you know, I don't I don't seven seven to uh I mean ten to uh thirteen, something like that is the age group it's written for, but it's for everybody.
And the the book is a way, folks, of teaching what isn't being taught.
This really has been some you know people ask me all the time what they can do beyond voting to affect change in the country.
And I ask myself that too.
What can I do besides the radio show?
And when Catherine had this idea, I mean, uh for 20 years, people and they're urging me to write a book.
Nah, I don't want to.
And and Vince, you know, put together that compilation of your mom.
Nah, I don't really want to.
When she mentioned this to me, that lit the fire.
That was something I hadn't done.
That was an area that I hadn't targeted.
I talk about it all the time.
I lament what's going on in schools all the time.
But this is my way of doing more than what I'm doing now.
It is a way of teaching what isn't being taught.
We live, folks.
This isn't being taught.
We live in an amazing free country, founded by people with unwavering spirit and determination to triumph regardless of the hardships and obstacles they faced.
And they faced hardships and obstacles that we don't even know.
Yes, it's Kindle, it's an e-book.
It's Kindle, it's iBooks, it's hardcover, it's audiobooks.
It's available for pre-order today.
It actually comes out on October 29th.
That's when the book will be made available.
So, yes, that means that the Los Angeles school system can order a copy of this book for the one million iPads they just purchased for students.
Exactly right, Snerdley.
So there's a there's other school systems can't there's a million sales right there.
It's just in the LA Unified School System, a million iPads.
This is ideal for iPads, it's ideal for the iPhone.
But our uh our president, President Obama recently said, exceptional Americans are few and far between.
Do you remember that?
And that there was some discussion as there often is.
No rush, that's not what he really meant.
Well, maybe not, but he said it.
And the fact is, way too many people believe it.
Way too many people believe that prosperity's success or whatever is an exception now, that it really is impossible.
And it's not, folks.
And times are tough for a lot of people today, but they're not Tougher than they were for the people that founded this country.
It's an amazing, amazing story.
It's a miraculous story, the blessings of God and any number of other things that led to the founding of this country.
But exceptional Americans are not few and far between.
It's quite the opposite.
You start from the early days, people like William Bradford, who was the Grand Poo Bah, the pilgrims of the Mayflower, and who set up their first settlement.
This country's made up of exceptional people and stories, rags to riches, made it with hard work, determination, a little luck and God's grace.
And so Rush Revere and the brave pilgrims, we have brought to life our lovable character from Tuith by T, Rush Revere.
We've given him a horse.
We've given him a talking horse.
Liberty talks.
Liberty has the ability to time travel.
So in this book, Rush Revere will go to the Mayflower and Liberty and talk to the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower as they're sailing to what will become America.
Rush Revere is a substitute school teacher at a middle school anywhere in America, and he will take a couple of students with him to the first Thanksgiving.
And they will learn all about it.
Again, it is a unique way of reaching the target audience here, which is America's young people who are sadly not being taught what is in this book.
And what's in this book is the historical record, accurate historical record of the pilgrims, who they were, why they existed, where they were, how they got here, what they did when they got here, and what they did and how it mattered and related to the founding of the country.
It's it's fun.
And it's uh, you know, when you when you establish the premise that your lead character can go anywhere in history with his talking horse.
I mean, I don't want to I'm so I don't I don't want to.
Catherine is gonna kill me here, but in the well, this may not be the only one.
Let's let's speak, let's speak hypothetically.
Let's say if there's another one.
Or what I really want to do, I want to have Rush Revere.
Remember now the educational.
What we do here, we combine information, education, and entertainment, which makes the learning of history fun, which is the key for this audience group.
So Rush Revere may someday time travel back and give King George a bunch of crap for the way he treated the early colonists.
And what the hell was he thinking?
Remember the purpose in what's being taught here.
Let me give you an example.
There is a professor at Michigan State University by the name of William Penn.
A conservative student group recorded one of his lectures recently.
It was taped on August 29th, about six or seven days ago, in his classroom.
It was released to the public earlier this week by campus reform.
This is what kids are being told in classrooms all across the country.
If you go to a Republican center in court, you see all those old people, all the dead skin fell walking off them.
They don't want to be taxed because they've already ranked this country and got everything rather than they possibly could.
They don't want to pay for your tuition because who are you?
Republicans are not a majority of this country anymore.
They're about to be dead white people or dying white people.
Were you able to understand it?
All right.
Let me translate it for you.
Again, that the professor ironically named William Penn.
Here's what he said.
Michigan State, university professor, classroom full of kids.
He said, if you go to the Republican convention in Florida, you see all those old people with all the dead skin cells washing off of them.
They're cheap.
They don't want to pay taxes because they've already raped this country and gotten everything out of it they possibly could.
They don't want to pay for your tuition because you're you.
Republicans are not a majority in this country anymore.
They're a bunch of dead white people or dying white people.
You may think this is extreme.
It's not.
This is common.
This is common on university campuses all across the country.
They don't want to pay for your tuition.
Look at the assumption is that we ought to be paying for college students' tuition.
And guess what?
Obama wants to, Obama will pay for your tuition.
Evil, villainous Republicans will not.
All these old people, dead skin cells, washing off of them.
They're cheap.
They don't want to pay taxes.
They've already raped this country and gotten everything out of it they possibly could.
They don't want to pay for your tuition because you're you.
Republicans are not a majority in this country anymore.
They're a bunch of dead white people or dying white people.
Now that you know what he says, listen to it again, knowing what he says, you might be able to hear some of it.
Thank you.
If you go to a Republican fancy report, you see all those old people all the skin cells washing off them.
They don't want to pay taxes because they've already raped this country and gotten everything out of what they possibly could.
They don't want to pay for your tuition because who are you?
Republicans are not a majority in this country anymore.
They're about to get white people or die white people.
So anyway, that's what's common, and that's something that has made me mad.
For I can't tell you how long.
And it has frustrated me for I can't tell you how long.
I've heard horror stories that depict things just like that soundbite.
And I'm sure you have too.
And it really irritates me because this country's great.
And the people who made this country possible were great.
And the people who made this country great are role models.
They are worth being taught about.
They are worth knowing.
They are worth learning about.
And it isn't happening, and it isn't happening properly.
And so I have succumbed to the public demand to do another book.
And this is it.
Rush Revere.
As you see there, I'm holding it up again on the diddle cam, Rush Revere.
And the brave pilgrims.
It's a time travel adventure.
Again, it's it's so much fun because the lead character is our T icon, Rush Revere and his talking horse, and they can go anywhere they want.
They can meet anybody they want.
They can introduce you to anybody they want.
There are no limits.
And it's for your kids.
It's for your grandkids.
Pre-orders are now up at Amazon.
iBooks, hardcover, e-book, audio book, which is tremendous amount of fun too.
So I've been I've been chomping it to bit to tell you this, and we've been we've had to keep it a secret because the publisher didn't want any news of it out, but boy, it's been tough.
So I'm I'm I'm just so happy I have been able to tell you about it.
Finally, we'll be back.
Welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Just one other thing.
We have got little blurbs on the book at both websites at Rushlimbaugh.com and at two if by tea.com, and both places have links that you can go if you do want to pre-order.
Again, everybody, what's the age group?
10 to 13, but it really, folks, it's it's for um uh it's for everybody.
It's it's uh it's a book for parents to give, grandparents to give, share with, read together, learn together, because it's fun.
It's uh And it's sadly unique.
But it's it's just clean as it can be.
So much fun to do.
It's fun to do when there's there's no limit to the imagination.
And uh kids can dream all they want.
You can take them along on your own dream and bring them with you and and teach the the substance at the at the same time.
Because this book, it's a way of teaching what isn't being taught.
This is something that's bugged me, I can't tell you.
Again, the title Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
And the horse's name is Liberty, Talking Horse.
So it was uh fun.
I have the whole transcript here of this professor, William Penn.
It's worse than even the audio sound bite that uh I played for you.
We'll do that.
And we'll get back and we'll get this Syria thing, folks.
This is it's worse today than it was yesterday, and yesterday it was embarrassing.
So we'll roll right on, we get back.
Don't go away.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh serving humanity here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I want to read to you the full transcript of what this Michigan state professor said.
And by the way, this guy teaches writing.
It's not a political science class, not a history class, not a current events anything class.
This idiot is teaching writing.
You know something else that's always puzzled me?
I don't have kids.
Knowing what I know today, I would not be obsessed with my kid going to college.
Everybody's parents want them to want their kids to go to college, and I wonder how many of them know the garbage that they're subjected to.
It's not all garbage, particularly the specialty, medicine.
You get into law or political science or almost anything, and it's nothing but the liberal agenda on steroids, taught by absolute the furthest thing from teachers.
And I wonder if people are paying all this money to send their kids to college, and they and I wonder how many of them actually know the filth and the corruption of the mind that's taking place.
Listen to this.
This is this guy's name is William Penn, and he teaches writing.
Creative writing, literary writing, what have you.
If you go to a Republican convention of Florida, you see all the old people with all the dead skin cells washing off of them.
They're cheap.
They don't want to pay taxes because they've already raped this country and gotten everything out of it they could.
They don't want to pay for your tuition.
Because who are you?
Well, to me, you're somebody.
Now you can frown if you want.
You look like you're frowning at me.
You're frowning, and some student says something you can't hear.
The professor says, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a college professor.
And if I find out that you're a closet racist, I'm coming after you, okay?
This country's still full of closet racists.
What do you think is going on in South Carolina, North Carolina?
Voter suppression.
No, it's not.
There is no voter suppression going on in South Carolina or North Carolina.
What they're doing in those two states is fixing cheaters.
They're preventing vote fraud.
This Looney Tunes is simply upset about the photo ID.
This guy is the last thing.
He's nowhere near an independent thinker.
He's just a sponge who soaks up all the liberal falderall and then repeats it with the authority that his job grants to him.
This country's full of closet races.
What do you think's going on in South Carolina, North Carolina?
Voter suppression.
It's about getting black people not to vote.
Why?
Because black people tend to vote Democrat.
So why would Republicans want to do it?
Well, because Republicans are not a majority in this country anymore.
They're a bunch of dead white people or dying white people.
If you're Republican, forgive me.
If your parents are Republicans, forgive me.
They won't, I don't care.
But Ann Romney, a first lady, and remember this if you're if you're just going to be a greedy bastard your whole life and just try to get things in this country in order to be rich like Mitt Romney and hide all your income offshore in the Cayman Islands, you have to be, I think about it, Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney earned everything he's got.
It's Barack Obama who's living the life of luxury he couldn't provide for himself if he dreamed of it.
And this guy sees nothing wrong with it.
Now I want to see a hand.
Anybody here want to be Mitt Romney?
I mean, anybody want to be married to Ann Romney?
And I don't mean to offend you.
Even if you're a Republican, I don't mean to offend you in this class.
Outside his class, a different matter.
Anyway, this is what kids are being taught.
This is what it just infuriates me.
And the libs have taken over education.
So that's why the book.
That's that's why the target audience, 10 to 13, but for everybody.
Now it looks like, as we move on to the other news, folks, this the Syrian news today.
It was bad yesterday.
It was embarrassing yesterday.
Today, the whole world is laughing at us, and I am not kidding.
Even liberals, even these wacko Looney Tunes, pajama clad website posters.
These progressives, as they call themselves, these people think Obama and Kerry are lying to them.
They don't want another war.
They don't want a single missile launched ever.
They think they're being lied to.
I mean, Obama doesn't even have his base on this.
And according to whip counts and head counts right now, it looks like Obama's request for a congressional authorization for the use of force in Syria isn't going to pass the House.
After all, thanks to those obstreperous Republicans.
For those of you in Rio Linda that means stubborn.
So everything is going according to plan.
Once again, Obama be able to blame the evil House Republicans for all of the nerve gas damage that's taking place in Syria.
Now, let me just.
Vladimir Putin is saying that Obama and Kerry are lying.
And I don't know about you, but I find myself to be in a in a really curious situation.
Who do I believe?
Vladimir Putin or Barack Obama and John Kerry.
See, this may sound a little tough to say or hear, but I know that John Kerry lies about things.
I know that Barack Obama big time misrepresents things.
That's what the whole limbaugh theorem says.
I know that liberals lie as a matter of course.
They have to.
We know that they lied just about Benghazi in the stupid video.
So here they're telling us one thing, and Putin is saying, no, no, no, no, it's just the exact opposite.
Russia says they have compiled a 100-page report blaming the Syrian rebels for the chemical weapons attack, not Assad.
Just as we reported on this program on Tuesday, a 100-page report.
Now, I don't know about you, but what does it feel like to have to agree with a former KGB agent?
The Russian statement warned the United States and its allies, which in this case is France, not to conduct a military strike against Syria until the United Nations had completed a similarly detailed scientific study into the August 21st attack.
Russia's done their own.
It's a 100-page report.
Russia has found that the Syrian rebels did the attack.
Now, if you're if you want, yeah, come on, Rush, don't fall for this.
I mean, this is Putin, this is Russia.
I know.
But the New York Times, which is Obama's Bible.
The New York Times' brutality of Syrian rebels posting dilemma in West.
You see, the regime has tried once again to portray the rebels in Syria, the enemies of Basher Assad as innocent, harmless.
Men, women, and children being forced out of their homes, wandering aimless in the Syrian desert.
Don't have any guns, don't have any weapons, don't have anything, don't have any food, don't have any water, don't have any nurses, don't have any doctors.
This is the picture.
The rebels, the anti Assad forces, people, I mean, they are God's gift.
And even the New York Times, the Syrian rebels posed casually standing over their prisoners with firearms pointed down at the shirtless and terrified man.
The prisoners, seven in all, were captured Syrian soldiers.
It goes on to talk about how the Syrian rebels are a bunch of real bad guys.
Criminals, thugs, lawless, not the picture of innocence.
And so the New York Times is casting doubt on this whole thing as to who is responsible for launching or firing off chemical weapons.
We have Putin calling Carrie a liar in the Hill.com.
Get this headline.
Obama struggles to convince Congress that Syria isn't about him.
Good lord.
Exactly as I think we mentioned on this program last week in this, that no matter what, it's all about Obama.
How will what we do or don't do in Syria affect Obama?
How will it affect the 2014 midterms?
How will it affect Obama's legacy?
All of that.
Hill.com.
Obama struggles to convince Congress that Syria isn't about him.
President Obama's struggling to convince lawmakers, foreign leaders, and the public that military action in Syria is not about him.
That's hard to do.
Because the entire last five years have been nothing but being all about Obama.
And now Vladimir Putin is calling John Kerry a liar.
Let me let me posit something here.
Do you think that it might be playing right into Putin's hands to put John Kerry in the position of war hawk?
I mean, what is Kerry known for?
Kerry is known for making things up and dissenting about Vietnam.
He's known as an anti-war protester.
He's known as somebody who believed the worst about the U.S. military.
He believed and testified about supposed atrocities committed by Vietnam Vietnam War military.
When he was told that Marines in Iraq get raped and terrorized and killed women and children.
He believed that.
John Kerry is not known as a hawk.
The closest Kerry ever got to being a hawk was when he retook Boston Harbor, heading into the third night of his convention.
Remember they had swift boat vets, the ones that had not bailed on him, and they got on board some yacht, and they sailed across Boston Harbor to the convention hall.
With Carey at the front of the yacht like he's commander, master commander of the Southern Seas or whatever.
That's the only time Kerry appears like a hawk.
And so Obama has put John Kerry, one of the biggest doves and one of the biggest anti-war members of the U.S. government in charge of selling military action in Syria and being in favor of it.
The biggest dove in the world, the biggest anti-war, the biggest anti-military person that Obama could find, John Kerry, and he put him in there.
You think putting Kerry in this position plays right into Putin's hands.
Putin can call Kerry a liar, and there's history.
Putin can call Kerry a liar from day to day and have evidence for it.
The thing is Putin's a liar too.
Everybody in this play is a liar.
So all that's left is to figure them both and try to piece together facts.
And are there any facts?
Do facts come from the Al Qaeda rebels?
Do they come for the Russians?
Would anybody believe the UN?
You know, Obama lied about the stimulus bill.
He lied about Obamacare, lied about the IRS, he lied about Fast and Furious, he lied about Benghazi.
And oh, that we've got the soundbite coming up.
We had a member of Congress actually asked Kerry about Benghazi and Fast and Furious, and Kerry just lost it.
Oh, it's going to be great when you sound bites.
So which liar are we supposed to believe here?
The only person in the past month who's been honest about what he was doing was a rodeo clown in Missouri.
Let me go um grab a quick phone call here.
Got a phone call in in the first, even though it's not open line Friday.
We'll uh we'll start in the first hour on the phones with uh with Dusty in Charleston, West Virginia.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hey, thanks for taking my call, Russ.
You bet.
I was calling to make a point about Syria that's uh in just a matter of days.
We know everything about what happened.
We know it was Assad, what chemical weapons you used, exactly how many people were killed, where and when it happened.
But when it comes to our own debacles, what happened in Benghazi with the IRS, fast and furious months coming up on years now past, and we still don't know exactly what happened.
That is an excellent point.
We can get all the dirt on Basher Assad we want.
We can get all the information on the rebels we want.
We get all the information on Putin we want, and we can blab it to the world.
But when it comes to anything about Obama and our own country and our own administration and our own administration's actions in various events, we don't know.
It's an excellent point.
Dusty thanks.
Uh Mike, grab audio soundbite number five.
This is uh F. Chuck Todd.
And I this just I think is another illustration of why what's happening is happening.
It's a limbaugh theorem again.
It was on the Today Show this morning.
The co-host Savannah Guthrie, who's now engaged, eager to get married, I'm told, asked F. Chuck, F. Chuck, uh Obama faces skeptical world leaders, skeptical American public.
Are there any plans to have Obama address Americans?
Outside supporters of the president, former aides who are telling him he has no choice.
He's got to go to the country.
He's got to do something in prime time, make this case, and to be totally politically crass about this, Savannah.
They uh believe he's got to provide the political cover for a bunch of Democrats, particularly in the House.
If this passes the House, it's gonna pass on the backs of Democrats, a lot of them who got elected on an anti-war, anti-Iraq platform a few years ago.
And so the president has to provide that cover.
So listen to this.
F. Chuck is admitting here that Obama's got to go on national TV, not to inform the nation.
He's got to go on TV to provide cover, political cover for anti-war Democrats.
And in fact, I have here in the stack of stuff, ladies and gentlemen.
Chris Matthews said the exact same thing on uh MSNBC the other night.
Well, I had it.
What in the name of Sam Hill did I do with it?
It was in the stack.
Maybe I haven't gone deep enough.
Yes, understandably I put it at the bottom.
Matthews, MSNBC, said Wednesday, I think the Democrats are gonna be forced to sacrifice men and women who really, really don't want to vote for this.
They're gonna have to vote for it to save the president's hide.
That's a bad position to put your party in.
That's essentially what F. Chuck Todd is saying here.
That so we we have a situation here Where even the regime's argument for intervening is becoming less coherent, and the only way it can pass is not on the merits, and not on whether it's a good thing or a bad thing to do, but whether or not Obama can provide cover for anti-war Democrats in the House who really don't want any part of this.
I love it.
I just we'll be back.
Don't go away.
I want you to hear some real statesmanship.
I would like for us all to be reminded what that looks like and sounds like.
So, some audio sound bites coming up in the next segment when we get back here from our top-of-the-hour obscene profit timeout.
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