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Sept. 5, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 5, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi folks and welcome back.
Great.
Great, great, great to have you here as another hour, busy hour of the Rush Lindbaugh program is underway where we meet and surpass all audience expectations every day.
And speaking of expectations, this is a really, really exciting day for me.
And I promise you, I'm not going to overdo this.
I'm not going to get to the point of irritating you like I know other people do, but this is the big day.
Announced that I have written another book.
Made the announcement at the beginning of the program today.
If you, for example, if you're a welfare recipient just getting up, you'd have missed it.
And I want everybody to know this.
And I promise you, after this, just a little mention here or there, but I want to go through this again because it was fun, but it's also important.
Now, see, this snared this, you need to keep mentioning because people have been wanting this for 20 years.
Don't want to exaggerate this, folks, but people have been asking me.
I mean, even when go do a personal appearance of when you're going to write another book.
My friends, when are you going to write another book?
Vince Flynn worked on me to write a book.
I mean, he was relentless in the last four years and came up with an idea that was a good idea, but it was simply publish monologues, which is a good idea, and I'm probably going to do that at some point.
But it didn't light my fire.
And I've learned that if I don't have passion for it, it isn't going to be any good.
And just to do it because others wanted it, that's not good either.
Plus, you know, I'm really lucky.
I've gotten, I've reached a place in life where I don't have to do what I don't want to do.
And then Catherine, my wife, said, in response to all these people suggesting that I do another book, she said, well, you know, you're really upset about what kids are learning about America, American history.
Why don't you write a book for kids?
And that, that was intriguing.
That's something new.
That would be a challenge.
I can't say been there, done that on something like that.
And it was right on the money.
I mean, we're all concerned about what's being taught in school today, particularly about American history and how it's being distorted.
So anyway, what happened is, to give you the short version of this, wrote a book bringing to life our iconic figure from 2IF by T, Rush Revere.
Rush Revere is the lead character, and he has a talking horse.
And the horse has the ability to time travel, the ability to take Rush Revere and whoever he wants to take with him to anywhere he wants to go in American history.
Now, the horse's name is Liberty.
He can't go to the future, but he can go anywhere in American history he wants.
And the book is a way of teaching what 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 were hardships and obstacles that people today cannot relate to.
Really, and I'm not just saying that.
That's not just lip service.
The people who founded this country and lived back then, we don't know hardship compared to them.
I'm not trying to say that the things about our lives that are hard are not hard.
Don't misunderstand.
But we don't have anything as tough as what they had to deal with.
And Obama recently said that exceptional Americans are few and far between.
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
That's not very common.
And that couldn't be more wrong.
It's quite the opposite.
This country, precisely because of American exceptionalism, is the place in the world where ordinary people every day do extraordinary things.
And for this not to be taught, for the founding of this country to be taught as something that's immoral and unjust, has always burned me, literally made me mad.
And you know, people are always asking themselves, what can I do?
Like in your case, what can you do besides vote?
People ask me all the time, what can I do, Rush?
What can I do?
I ask myself that too.
I'm going to make speeches, whatever.
This, when I heard this idea, I said, gosh, this is it.
Because the book is written for 10 to 13-year-olds, but I don't really want that to be what's taken away from it.
This book is for everybody because this is a book for parents and grandparents to give to their kids and read with them, to them, or whatever.
But it was fun.
We go Rush Revere and a horse, Liberty.
They go to the Mayflower.
They can go to the original Thanksgiving.
I don't want to give the book away, but they can go anywhere they want.
And they can bring to life the people of that era and make it real.
And so that's what this book is.
The book is Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans, authored by me.
And we've got all the links up at rushlimbaugh.com and our 2fbit.com website.
Today we announced that today pre-orders for the hardcover, the e-book, and the audio version, which I just finished recording last week.
And I can't wait for people to hear that.
I mean, I can't wait for people to read the book, but all of this, the e-book and the hardcover.
You know, I did the audio version of my first two books and read them and so forth.
This is telling a story.
This was fun.
And this was also this audio book, the way I did it.
Never done this before either.
All of this has been brand new for me.
And so it was energizing.
And the objective here is to counter what is being either mistaught or what isn't being learned at all.
So today I announced it, and the pre-orders are up.
It goes on sale on October 29th.
But the pre-orders are there for people that want to order early.
It helps the retailers get an idea how many they're going to need.
Snurdy, look at Snurdle.
You should talk about it a lot.
Snurdle is saying, there are 24-year-old girls afraid of you who don't know that you started the conservative book craze.
See, well, that no, no, I know it's true, but that's the point when people say, why don't you do another book?
Is have been there done that?
I did two of those conservative manifesto type books.
And everybody else is thrown in with that.
And why do a third one?
So this is something new.
It's a different audience.
And by the way, I just, if I can make this, don't misunderstand me, but there's not a political agenda.
This is just the truth.
This is just history.
This is just what really happened.
Who the Pilgrims were, where they were, why they wanted to leave where they were, how they did it, what was it like on the Mayflower.
We've got great graphics and illustrations of the Mayflower and other aspects of this.
For those of you in Rio Linda, there are pictures, illustrations in the book.
24-year-old women, afraid of me, will be able to read this book to one of their kids someday when they have them without fear.
Be able to do it with great pride.
It's fun.
It's true.
That's the main thing.
It is accurate.
And it is a book that makes anybody reading it proud to be an American, proud to understand how this country came to be, what the role Pilgrims played in the founding of the country.
And they got here hundreds of years before the country was founded.
Their impact is profound.
First Thanksgiving, the truth of that is in this book.
Mousketeers could read this and know what making history really is.
Absolutely no question about it.
So, I would love to give you examples, but I don't want to give the book away.
It's enough to tell you when you create the vehicle of time travel.
And by the way, the horse, horse name is Liberty.
Horse is smartass.
Smart Alec.
It was just fun, folks.
It was just, it was really fun.
And when you have no limits, because you can time travel and go anywhere, all you have to do is get the history right.
That was the primary objective.
And that's what we did.
Now, I also want to mention there's a little special that we are doing at 2F by Tea in honor of the pilgrims and in honor of the book being announced today.
And that is that all tea is reduced in price to $16.20 for 12 bottles while supplies last.
No promo code is needed.
This is through 11:59 p.m. Pacific tomorrow night.
The Pilgrim Tea Deal we're talking about.
This is in honor of the book being announced.
And $16.20 for a case of 12 bottles.
No promo code needed.
Just go there and get it up until near midnight Pacific time tomorrow.
So we've got at rushlimbaugh.com and 2fbytea.com, we've got links to Amazon, iTunes for all three versions: the hardcover, the e-book, Kindle for Amazon, iBooks for iTunes.
And I think we got the Barnes and Noble link up.
So any option that you want is available.
And I just, Snerdley is reacting negatively because I'm not going to spend all time talking about this because I don't want to irritate you, but it is exciting.
And I've been chomping it a bit to tell you all about it.
Because the, you know, the make a difference thing?
This is a way to get to people that don't listen to this show, young people, and have them introduced to it.
I mean, it's just all upside.
It's total all upside.
Then you have the added bonus that it's the truth presented in a fun, interesting, intriguing way.
Make learning it fun too.
And again, the title, Rush Revere, and the Brave Pilgrims.
Great cover, obviously.
And you can see it at rushlimbaugh.com or 2fbit.com pre-orders today.
The book is actually delivered and made available on October 29th.
Here's Brandy in Lul, Texas.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, it's great to talk to you.
Well, thank you.
I've been listening to you since well before I was 24, and I've never been afraid of you.
Well, God bless you.
There's no need to be.
I can't thank you enough for that.
So, and I'm very excited about your book.
And since you can write the 10 to 13-year-olds, I'm hoping you can.
I'm blonde, so I'm having problems figuring out the Syrian-Egypt conflict.
And I was hoping you could help me figure it out.
You know, you make a good point.
I need to remind people something.
You mentioned ages 10 to 13.
Folks, this hardcover is 224 pages.
This is not some skimpy little book for kids.
This is a real book.
It's 224 pages, hardcover.
It took Boku hours to record the audio of this.
Now, what do you, the, you want to know the similarities of the two, Egypt and Syria?
Well, I just am confused because I thought Arab Spring was a good thing.
That's what the media, not you.
That's what the media said.
I had thought Assad in Syria was liked by.
You're like everybody else.
Brandy, you're just responding to what you heard.
You heard Nancy Pelosi and Hillary and whoever else talk about what a great guy Assad was and what a great reformer.
John Kerry went to have dinner with him and said the same thing.
And then in Egypt, the Arab Spring was happening, and that was good.
I mean, that was the Obama campaign happening in Egypt.
It was such a wonderful thing.
Hope and change in Egypt.
Arab Spring, all good.
And now it's all falling apart.
And you're scratching your head wondering, wait a minute, I thought it was all good.
How come it become this?
And the answer to your question is they were lying to you from the get-go about what all this was.
The Arab Spring was not democracy and freedom and liberty for citizens of these countries breaking out.
What the Arab Spring was, let me sum it up for you in my words.
The Arab Spring is this administration's attempt to get rid of leaders, some would say dictators, who had been sympathetic and supportive of the United States for years and replace them with militant Islamist extremists.
That's what is taking place.
Under the guise, so the American people don't have any questions about it, under the guise of Hope and Change, Arab Spring, whatever supposedly nice sounding thing it is.
But it's all falling apart because it never was what we were told it was.
We were being misled by everybody, by the regime and then by their slavish media.
And because it never was what they said it was, now it appears to be falling apart when in reality this has been in the cards from the get-go, I think.
I think Obama has wanted to get rid of a lot of dictators in that region who've been sympathetic to the United States for years in one way or the other because of stability in the region and replace them because he doesn't like them for whatever reason.
Does that help?
That does help with Egypt.
It does help with Egypt.
Now, the red flag for Syria for me was that Putin's calling us a liar.
And so now I know, I mean, I already knew the Obama administration was lying to us on a number of things.
So if both of them are lying, what's really happening in Syria?
Well, somebody in Syria is using chemical weapons on the population there.
Right.
There is an argument taking place as to who is doing it.
And that's where you got people on both sides accusing the other and where both sides don't have any trust and credibility.
Should we believe Putin and his investigation?
Should we believe there's one guy, Joseph Badansky, who is a renowned scholar, quoted him on Tuesday, claims that it is the Syrian rebels who are not a bunch of innocent men, women, and children and families.
They are thug, criminal, highwaymen.
They're al-Qaeda.
Many of them are.
The rebels trying to get rid of Assad, take over the country for themselves.
Bdansky says that they are the ones that use the chemical weapons, not Assad.
And that the United States knew that they were going to use the chemical weapons and help because the objective is to get rid of Assad.
So you're like a lot of people.
We had a previous caller who wanted, how do we know that what we're being told is true?
Because they haven't presented any evidence.
And you're not the only one who doesn't get it.
Nobody, even the media brandy, is starting to ask the administration, well, where's your evidence for what you're claiming?
How do we know Assad is doing this?
Nobody really knows.
So now we've got, don't miss the last half hour because I'm going to answer the rest of your questions as we finish the program today.
Thanks for the call.
Nathan, West Alexander, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, thanks, Rush.
Mega Western PA calling on my iPhone 4.
Hope you can hear me, dittos.
Well, I hear you great.
All right, good deal.
Hey, just a quick comment.
The situation in the Middle East seems like the peaceful Muslims need to rise up against the extremist Muslim and squash it themselves.
That's basically where the whole dilemma is.
If they can figure out between the sects that are over there, which ones are peaceful, which ones are extremists.
Wait a minute.
What are the odds that's going to happen?
I know, I know, but everybody's scared of the extremists, Nathan.
Well, if everybody stood up together, I think it might make a difference.
I mean, all the peaceful regions over there, if everybody stood up as one big collective to get rid of that, I think it might make a difference.
Well, obviously, that would be wonderful if that happened, but that usually is not the way of the world.
Now, you're right in one sense, these people are going to have to be defeated.
But there's another question of what peaceful Muslims, I mean, if you look at Syria is run by the Assad family.
They are Shias.
We're talking about Assad here.
He's not a peaceful guy.
He's brutal.
He is.
But the thing, he probably is not the one using nerve gas, but he's entirely not a good guy.
I completely understand.
That's why I'm saying if everybody were to get together and squash the Muslim extremists, it would make it that much better.
I think that's what needs to happen.
And we all need to stay out of it.
It'd be great if that happened.
But the aggressor always sets the rules, and people are scared to death of them.
Yeah, I guess the Muslims over there need to search themselves and find out if they want to live with that or get rid of it.
I think you need to understand they live under dictatorships.
It's not a question for them.
I mean, we're talking women who get raped, put to death because it was their fault.
I know, and that's the same.
How do you rise up against that?
What about the military leaders in Syria?
Didn't they overthrow the Assad regime?
No, the Assad regime is still the Assad regime.
Oh, okay.
I thought they had kicked them out of office.
No, you're thinking of Egypt.
You're thinking of Egypt where the military rose up against Morsi.
But the military has always controlled Egypt.
The military always, Mubarak, just they were buds.
They were aligned.
Mubarak did what he had to do.
The Brotherhood was attempting to wrest power from the military in Egypt, and Morsi paid the price for it.
People did stand up in Egypt.
People did stand up in Egypt.
I mean, what you're saying is not impossible.
But Egypt's a different country than Syria.
We're allies with Egypt for a reason.
Were, but not Syria.
Syria is a whole different matter, just like Hezbollah and Hamas.
But regardless, I appreciate the call.
Nathan, thanks much.
See, what do I have here?
The Reuters Kerry portrait of Syria rebels at odds with intelligence report.
This is a Reuters story.
And now, no matter where you look, even in the drive-by media, they're starting to say that what the regime is telling us isn't necessarily true.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
This is funny.
This is yesterday in Washington on Capitol Hill, during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the possible use of force against Syria.
John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, served in Vietnam once, is being questioned by Mike McCall, Congressman Texas, who said to Kerry, my greatest concern when we look at Syria is who's going to fill the vacuum when the Assad regime falls, which we know that it will.
Who's going to fill that vacuum?
Are the rebel forces, the extremists, going to take over?
Not just the government, but are they going to take over these weapons?
Because they're the ones most likely to use these weapons against Americans in the United States.
I just don't agree that a majority are al-Qaeda and the bad guys.
That's not true.
There are about 70 to 100,000 oppositionists, about somewhere maybe 15 to 25% might be in one group or another who are what we would deem to be bad guys.
There is a real moderate opposition that exists.
General Idris is running the military arm of that.
Folks, I can't, I don't know, I'm beside myself.
That's just not true.
To say that the majority of the Syrian rebels are moderates, do this.
Go to Drudge.
Watch the video if you can stomach the barbarism that these moderates, in Kerry's view, are capable of.
And look at what Kerry calls moderate.
This is a guy who compared American troops to Genghis Khan.
This is a guy who said that American Marines in Iraq, in Haditha, were murdering, terrorizing women and children.
And he has the gall to tell us that the al-Qaeda rebels in Syria are moderates.
Everybody ought to be outraged by this.
Moderates?
The majority of them are moderates, U.S. military, gingers, con, rapists, murderers, terrorists.
I just, I don't know how else to express my anger.
And right here, here's Reuters, Secretary of State, John Kerry's public statements.
Public assertions that moderate Syrian opposition groups are growing in influence appear to be at odds with estimates by U.S. and European intelligence sources and non-government experts who say Islamic extremists remain by far the fiercest and best organized rebel elements.
So even the esteemed European intelligence agencies, which of course are the best, Europe's unassailable as far as Kerry is concerned.
He loves pretending to be one.
So even European intelligence, our own intel, non-governmental people on the ground are countering what Kerry is saying, and Reuters is reporting it.
So why does Obama continue to paint rebels as the good guys?
Why do they want to assist Islamic extremism?
Shouldn't that be its own red line?
I'm telling you, folks, this is what is happening over there is these supporters, leaders over there, dictators, but provided stability for U.S. national interests.
Obama and Kerry, these guys are trying to take them out and replace them with Islamic extremists.
This is just, well, it's absurd and it's appalling to call these people moderates.
And McCall had a great question.
Okay, suppose we support these guys.
There are chemical weapons there.
Why do we want Al-Qaeda to have them, Senator Kerry?
Well, I would disagree with your conclusion.
I don't think that's what's going to happen.
These people, folks, are irresponsible.
Now, this next is good.
This is Jeff Duncan, Republican South Carolina, having a conversation with Kerry, who explodes when Duncan brings up Benghazi.
Is the power of the executive branch so intoxicating that you would abandon past caution in favor for pulling the trigger on a military response so quickly?
The reason that I say Benghazi is germane to our discussions on Syria is this.
Secretary Kerry, have there been any efforts on the part of the United States, directly or indirectly, to provide weapons to the Syrian rebels, and that would also include facilitating the transfer of weapons from Libyan rebels to the Syrian rebels.
Let me begin, Congressman, by challenging your proposition that I've never done anything except advocate caution because I volunteered to fight for my country, and that wasn't a cautious thing to do when I did it.
Mr. Secretary, when I was in the Senate, I'm going to finish, Congressman.
I am going to finish.
And then he continued.
I am not going to sit here and be told by you that I don't have a sense of what the judgment is with respect to this.
We're talking about people being killed by gas, and you want to go talk about Benghazi and Fast and Furious.
Absolutely want to talk about Benghazi.
The poor Americans lost their lives.
I have sympathy for the people in Syria.
And I do think there should be a worldwide response, but we should act cautiously.
We are acting cautiously.
We are acting so cautiously that the President of the United States was accused of not acting because he wanted to have sufficient evidence and he wanted to build the case properly.
This is interesting, to say the least, because they got the question straight up.
Wait a minute, what was Benghazi?
Because we have all heard that part of what was going on there was weapons running to the Syrian rebels.
And the regime hasn't wanted to go there.
And, you know, it was good to get these questions out there and to get Kerry's reaction to these questions.
Well, I served in Vietnam.
You can't say I'm cautious.
I served in Vietnam when it wasn't a cautious thing to do.
And I got out of Vietnam when it wasn't a cautious thing to do.
And I got out of Vietnam.
Well, actually, it was very propitious for me to get out of Vietnam and I got out of there.
You can't say this thing to me.
I'm John Kerry.
I serve Vietnam.
I'm Secretary of State.
I'm going to sit here listening to Fast and Furious.
You're a fruitcake nut bone.
I'm not going to sit here and listen to you.
But he had to because he's Secretary of State.
Anyway, it's embarrassing.
And then the New York Times got another story.
Obama faces barrier in his own party on Syria.
This is not good, folks.
There's a report, reported theblaze.com that the congressional black Caucasians are being told to shut up about Syria.
I just saw it.
It just cleared.
The Blaze is saying that the Congressional Black Caucasians have been asked to be quiet regarding their opposition to what's going on in Syria.
I'm telling you, if the truth be told, and they're trying to keep this under wraps, the Democrat base opposition to this is huge.
And they're doing everything they can to gag these people.
And one of them, all it's going to take is one of them to bust the dam, and one of them will.
At some point, one of them's not going to be able to take it.
They hate this.
They hate military leadership.
They hate wall.
They hate the military being used for wall.
They hate being hypocrites on it.
They don't want to be made to look like they support this.
One of them is going to break the dam, that the whole thing is going to collapse.
And I will be eagerly standing by to witness it.
Folks, we're out of here.
We are sadly out of busy broadcast moments, but there's always tomorrow.
Open line Friday.
And we'll be back after we see some concussions tonight on NBC starting Starting at 8.30.
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