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Sept. 6, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 6, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
It is unheard of.
Well, not unheard of, but I mean it is really rare what you all did.
It is unbelievably rare what you all did yesterday.
Wait till you hear what you did.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome to the one and only excellence in broadcasting network and Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
And three hours of broadcast excellence called Open Line Friday, where you, when we go to the phones, get to talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Telephone number 800 282882.
So yesterday I announced, and I have written a new book, a children's book.
I told you all the reasons why, which I'm going to recount here in just a second.
I told you it's available in hardcover, in uh ebook format and audio.
And we gave you the links, Amazon, Barnes and Noble iBooks slash iTunes.
And about an hour after the program yesterday, the book was number one on Amazon, and it's not even available.
The book will be available on October 29th.
This doesn't happen.
This was not number one in pre-orders.
This was a pre-ordered book at the top of the Amazon list.
That is what you people did yesterday.
This is why I love you.
This is why I I continue to sit here and really deeply appreciate and marvel at the bond that has always existed between me and actually all of us here, the overrated staff, all of us, and you.
And it's just, I can't tell you how much happiness and joy you brought to everybody, including me, yesterday.
And it was so funny.
Poor old Carol Costello tweeted she was sick.
She tweeted it in two places, a Huffing and Puffington Post and somewhere else, that she was sick.
She what?
No, no, she's sick of the book.
She's sick that the book came out.
Then she'd been sick over her ratings.
I mean, ever since, you know, 20 years.
There aren't any ratings.
I mean, she's gotten over.
I mean, she's immune to sickness from her ratings.
I mean, it's have to be CNN.
Anyway, there were uh a couple of other, I mean, people were sending me links to websites I've never heard of.
Young, snarky liberal bloggers.
Stuff some of this stuff was just funny.
I got I gotta I can't remember the guy's name.
I'm not gonna tell you it might have been a woman.
And this woman was outraged.
She could not believe it I was gonna get away with this, writing a children's book.
She her post said, after all of the time it has taken us to finally expunge from the record the lies of the founding of this country, we've got limbaugh who's gonna go back and try to re-establish what it's taken us all these years to get rid of.
And then she said, but I have to admit, and you all have to admit, the guy's a genius.
He's just an absolute genius.
And she's she spelled out why she was irritated.
And that equaled me being a genius.
And then she said, but don't be fooled while Limbaugh's doing this.
He's not doing this because he cares about the kids, and he's not doing this to reverse the historical record, and he doesn't really want to sell any books.
That's not what he's doing.
He's doing this to make us mad.
He's doing us to make liberals mad.
This one, I mean, and there were countless posts like this.
The left is in a tizzy.
They can't believe after all the success they think they've had with their multicultural curriculum, that I am gonna come along and reestablish what they had to get rid of.
Which they think is is lies in the first place.
I've told you there are people who do not like the way this country was founded.
They do not think that it was just and moral and all that.
Evil white guys that came here and ended up destroying everything that was and corrupting everything that came after.
And they really believe that this is what they've been taught.
By the way, that professor at Michigan State University.
That we played the audio sound, but he'd been suspended for three months.
With pay, big whoop.
But he's uh he's been suspended.
So anyway, uh here's here's another thing, folks.
This book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.
Let me tell you what else you did.
The people at Simon and Schuster sent us a note last night, just came across the transom.
I mean, just out of the book, by the way, we're going to get the search problems fixed, ASAP.
And I said, What is this?
Search problems.
Oh, yeah, we had some problems with search today.
What problems?
I didn't get an answer to it, didn't matter.
Even with search problems.
The book was number one on Amazon.
I imagine the search problem was probably rooted in Rush Limbaugh versus Rush Revere.
I'll bet you it was rated or related to that.
You ought to be able to search either one and get the book, which you now can.
But even with that, folks, even with that, you vaulted this book, which doesn't come out until October 29th, to number one, rocketing up all of these charts.
Number one on Barnes and Noble today.
They were one of the problems with search, I think.
And this uh I I'm having people email me.
You wrote a book for kids and you didn't try to tell them what to eat.
You're not hectoring them for being fat.
That's exactly right.
There's nothing in this book about what they should eat, what they shouldn't eat, whether they're fat or not.
There's nothing in it about conflict resolution, there's nothing in it about feelings and getting along with it.
It's just it's the truth about the pilgrims is uh is all it is.
This book is a way of teaching what is not being taught.
I have been frustrated, as have you, over what kids are learning in school at all schools, at all levels, but primarily in their really formative years, elementary school, on into middle school, and high school, and talked about it a lot here.
You know, have we uh lost our presence in uh in education, academia, and in the pop culture.
And every one of us always ask of ourselves, what can I do?
What more can I do?
And I've always wanted to do something about education.
So uh this book is an effort to get started, and it is written for children.
It's a children's book, uh, ages 10 to 13, but it is intended for everybody.
It's intended for parents and grandparents to give you.
We're talking, I was talking to snerdly today.
You know, the concept of rush babies.
A rush baby is somebody who grew up with their parents having this radio program on every day, and didn't get talked out of it when they got to school.
They remained rush babies all the way through school.
And how many of you parents believe what you believe?
It's in your heart.
You live your life that way, and you want to be able to instruct your kids in that, but you're not sure that you're going to be able to do it.
And frankly, if you say, well, look at you ought to need to listen to this guy on the radio with me.
Come on, Dan.
I mean, they say talk radio.
I give me some Jay-Z or whatever.
I don't want to talk radio, Dad.
I want to be video games.
So here comes away.
You know, parents are never right, folks.
Mom and Dad never have the right answers, particularly at a certain age.
So here comes Rush Revere and the brave pilgrims.
Rush Revere time travels, his horse, Liberty, time travels, can go anywhere in American history.
Anywhere they want, anytime.
And can take people with them.
And in this book, they time travel back to Holland.
Then they get on the Mayflower.
They get off the Mayflower, come back to present day.
Then they go back to the Mayflower a couple weeks later, see what's changed.
Come back to present day, because the Rush Revere character, who is the icon for 2F by T brought to life now, is a substitute teacher at a middle school anywhere in America.
No, no, I'm not giving any details away.
I'm just giving you what's possible.
What what what what what the magic here?
Uh the things that appeal to kids, go there.
You don't have to have history told.
They can be taken to it.
And that's what the book does.
It takes them to the Mayflower.
They're on it.
They are at the settlement in Plymouth.
They are at the first Thanksgiving.
And they come back and go back and forth, and it can go anywhere they want.
And Liberty, the talking horse, is what makes it all possible.
And as a rush revere guy goes dressed up as Paul Reaver everywhere he goes.
Because it's one of his heroes.
It's fun, folks, because there's there are no limits on where Rush Revere and Liberty can go.
And so that broadens up just in a in a in a creative sense.
That just expands the universe of possibilities in uh in in great ways.
But you know, we live in an amazing free country, founded by people with unwavering spirit and determination, not just to survive, because that was that that was difficult enough for them, but they wanted to triumph, regardless of the uh hardships and the obstacles they faced.
And it was just oh there was a there was a brief blurb in the Washington Post, a QA thing.
What do you need to know about Limbaugh's new children's book?
And one of the questions the writer posed, does Obama get elbowed?
Meaning, can I do something without mentioning Obama?
Obama's not in the book.
There's no way.
Obama does Obama's not in the book, but yesterday I talked about Obama because Obama said recently that exceptional Americans are few and far between.
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things doesn't happen all that much.
And he cited people that never ever get to do anything extraordinary.
Bus boys, porters, waiters, maids.
And it's not true.
It's the story of America.
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
And I've I've always believed that kids' dreams are where their futures live.
And there's no reason to shut them down.
There's no reason to tell kids at a young age negative things, you can't do that.
Stop thinking that you're never going to be able to do that.
Who do you think you are?
That's pointless.
We go at this an entirely different way.
Anything's possible.
Because you're an American.
Whatever you want to do, if you're willing to do what it takes, you can do it.
This isn't being taught.
It's not even really part of the message that elected leaders carry any longer about America.
And it's it's sorely missing.
And people had been after me for years to write another book, and to me, I'd been there done that.
I'd I'd done two books, and they had sold magnificently.
And they were the conservative manifesto genre, which is crowded.
A lot of people have done it, so why should I re-enter that?
And then Catherine gave me the idea.
Look, you care about kids, you care about education.
Why don't you write a children's book?
And then we did and put it all together, and it's it's just it was so much fun.
And I you hear people talk about I want to make a difference.
Here is an entree for me.
I mean, I don't fantasize about it, but I would, you know, I don't have kids.
I've got nephews and nieces.
The idea of sitting down and talking to them about the things I believe, things that I think are important, like my dad with me did with me.
I would like to do that.
I don't know, I have not known if I could make it interesting.
Just me telling them what I think to kids.
That's what the book is.
It's an entree to really people that you want to think positively.
You want them dreaming, you want them understanding why things are possible.
I do anyway.
I want the children of this country to grow up believing in themselves, thinking that whatever they want to do, they can do.
And no matter who the president is, no matter what political party is in power, I want them believing that they can do what they want to do.
And all people need is role model examples.
Most people, if you tell them it's been done before, it gives them the idea that it can be done again.
They don't need to hear what's not possible.
They don't need to hear what's too hard.
They don't need to have risk taken out of their lives.
Speaking of that, you know, Snerdly, has this program ever been delayed because of lightning?
Has this program ever been delayed because of a weather forecast or a radar scan that showed a little?
Can you believe?
I mean, hear the NFL last night, the big countdown with all these players doing an individual number countdown for 30 to 10 for the big kickoff.
And then they announce a delay because there's lightning in the area, but there wasn't.
There wasn't one cloud burst.
There wasn't any lightning.
It's football.
They also made no effort to get the fans out of the stadium.
I mean, there's lightning out there.
It could be impossible to do anyway.
80,000 people in that stadium, you can't get them all undercover, but they had to get the players out there in the and then after the delay went about 15 minutes longer than they thought, which poor Al Michaels and Collinsworth, that's one thing they hadn't prepped for.
It's the first game of the season.
There's nothing to talk about.
Nothing's happened yet in the NFL season.
They had a good job vamping, but man, what a what a start.
And then when they finally came out, the Ravens, the refs had to go get the Ravens.
The Ravens stayed in the locker room long after the Broncos came out.
And I figured out why.
The Ravens are ticked off.
They had to be in Denver.
They won the Super Bowl.
They get the home game last night.
They had to go to Denver.
So they're going to act like they're the home team.
They came out last.
They made sure of that.
I'm sure that's what went on in there.
I'm sure that that's what was happening.
And then, you know, the Baltimore Orioles wouldn't change a game date last night.
They wouldn't change a night game to a day game.
And nobody attended the Orioles game.
Really, it got off to a slow start.
Anyway, uh folks, I just I want to thank you again uh for what you did.
You all have no way of knowing what just your presence, just your being there has meant to me and and my family over all of these years.
People, you know, tell me how important the program's been to them, but it and it may be I don't I appreciate that, but it can't, it pales in what your presence here every day has meant has meant to um to me.
You know, we want to be proud of this country again.
We want to be proud of the founding principles.
We're so proud of them, we want them known.
We don't want them obscured and discarded.
We want the history of this country as it happened, taught.
It's an honorable history, it's a greatness, it's a specialness that need not have been corrupted as it has with a multicultural curriculum.
Well, you you you people like it it can't happen without you, and it's off to a roaring start, and I just I again I thank you from the bottom of my heart, Rush Revere, they're brave pilgrims, time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
Back after this.
I just got a note, and please listen to me carefully on it.
I just got a note from a guy who said, Congratulations, this shows how revered you are.
And I wrote him back and I said, No, that's not what this shows.
What?
What you all did, making this book number one in pre-orders.
By the way, it's a real book.
It's for children, but it's 200 plus pages.
Not some, you know, chintzy little cartoon thing out there.
It's a real book.
Does have illustrations.
But what this is, people have not given up on this country.
And they don't want to give up on this country.
And people want to be proud of this country.
People revere this country.
And they want reaffirming, validating messages about what they dream and hope and desire for the country to be.
That's what this means.
There's a hunger for the traditions and institutions of America being triumphant again.
That's what this means.
You all doing fabulous things.
And we are back.
Rush Limbaugh on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
One other thing I want to share with you about this, and here the title of the book is Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans, of course, by me.
So if you search Rush Revere or Rush Limbaugh, you'll find it.
And even with the search problems, you still made it number one at pre-orders in all these categories.
But I have to tell you something.
And I it ought not surprise me.
I guess you know, in a way, I'm glad that it does, but I wish it.
I'm reading people send me the stuff yesterday afternoon or last night.
I was not searching for it.
I would get a link to this comment on the book, or a link to that comment.
Washington Post, Slate.com, you name it supposed mainstream places.
And folks, they would they would write Limbaugh and his message is one of self-reliance, hard work, overcoming obstacles.
I don't quite know how to describe it other than to say they were mocking the message.
Limbaugh as though it's silly to believe that hard work pays off.
It's silly to believe in rugged individualism.
It's silly to believe in self-reliance.
It's silly to believe in all of these things.
Silly.
I mean, it's it's worth being snarky about.
No different than uh having some truly controversial uh conspiracy theory.
And as I'm reading this stuff, who the hell are these people and what in the world have they been taught?
Sneering at these time-honored human truths, concepts of triumph over obstacles, adversity, hard work, self-reliance.
Um there were a number of them that took shots at my version, my version of the real Thanksgiving, which is that the commune failed.
They were livid or snarky about this.
And it's not my version.
It's what happened.
William Bradford wrote about it.
The pilgrim leader wrote how socialism failed.
It was really seductive.
They thought it would be nice because it was fair.
I'll give you a little hint.
One of the things we do, I do in the book is very subtly try to square this whole concept of fairness and and not let it become what it's been today.
Is that a way to shut down achievement, to shut down excellence.
It's not fair to excel at something.
Not in my books, folks.
It isn't going to be the case.
Anyway, I would just really sneering, sneering at individual achievement, sneering at investing in yourself, sneering at hard work.
Snarky comments.
It was it was just it I I continue, even though I know why and who and all that about those feats just amazes me that it's possible that people living in this country.
I can understand somebody living in Cuba or China sneering at these kinds of things.
That's anyway, just it added up to all being more evidence about why this is a good idea, and it it just amplified the gratitude I have for all of you for doing what you did.
Now, have you seen the reports that we're getting about all the possible scenarios for Obama's strike on Syria.
Apparently the plans have changed at least 50 times in just the last two weeks.
5 0, not 15, but 50 times.
And they're now even talking about using B-1 and B-2 bombers.
And now we're talking about there's a there's a story, John Kerry and some of the Obama regime people are vetting the moderate rebels.
Vetting moderate rebels.
Vetting moderate rebels.
There are no moderates in the Middle East, folks.
Once again, you have American liberals projecting because of their vanity and arrogance, their thought processes on every group of people all over the world, every country, every population.
And you can't do that.
There aren't any moderates in the Middle East.
Show me one.
And there certainly are no moderates in these rebels protesting Assad, and there are no moderates on Assad's side.
But we're gonna find the moderates, or we're gonna vet them, and we're gonna find those are the ones that we're gonna support.
Now there is a story, the Republicans are saying that if they don't, the leadership, if they don't have the votes to grant the use of force authorization in the House, there will not be a vote.
Because they will not allow the president to be humiliated on the international stage.
They will not allow the world to see that the elected representatives of the people oppose the president's policy, even when he's made this case for national security.
Although he hasn't, that's the problem.
Obama has not told us what this has to do with America's vital national interest.
He hasn't told us what this has to do with American national security.
And he he can't.
He doesn't have an answer for it.
And so now the Republican leadership with a chance here to you think the Democrats would withhold this so as not to offend Bush or so as not to humiliate Bush.
Now, I can understand, it's like Dr. Kissinger said yesterday, that it would be it would be precedent setting.
It's it's never happened that uh a Congress has refused a presidential request that is grounded in American national security.
Well, this isn't, at least not one that's been persuasive.
But but I can see that the the the striped pants crowd uh up at foggy bottom, State Department department parlance, uh being all at Twitter.
Oh my god, just what does the world think?
The Congress didn't grant the what is the world?
I think it's about time the world knew the truth about what the people of this country think of this guy.
I uh folks, the the people of this country are lagging behind what the rest of the world thinks of Obama.
I'm here to tell you.
The rest of the world, and I'm talking about particularly our enemies, have had Obama sized up for a long time.
It's not news to them.
The American people are sort of a lagging indicator in coming to grips with Obama's incompetence on uh on things.
We've got this press conference that that Obama had today with uh with Putin, we've got sound bites of it, and I'm reading some people who watched it describing it as Obama unraveling.
This is uh I don't know, it it continues to be uh embarrassing.
They got ABC News claiming that the regime's planning a much larger strike in Syria, even though Obama said originally the strike would be limited and proportional, a couple of missiles, 30 minutes, get in, get it, get out, so forth.
I I still can't get over John Kerry bragging yesterday that some Middle Eastern countries have offered to pay for our attack on Syria.
I mean, it's it's bad enough being the world's policeman, but who wants to be the world's rent a cop?
Why what is so wonderful about that?
And the rest of the world, uh, Middle Eastern kind of offered to pay for the what?
They've offered what are we, a welfare case now?
They've offered to pay for it.
And he's proud of that.
He thinks that's something that needs to be shouted from the rooftops as a great positive.
That maybe, I don't know, maybe if these countries are throwing a nice benefits package, health care coverage pension, along with paying for it.
And then CNN has advanced Syrian children hit hardest by crisis.
They left out the women.
Usually it's women and children hardest hit, or women and minorities, hardest hit.
But apparently Obama has moved on now from just wanting to fire a shot across the bow to wanting to degrade Syria's military.
Which that's something Obama knows how to do.
He knows how to degrade a military.
You know, for even the drive-by media is starting to turn on Obama on the economy.
The economic news, the unemployment news is it went down 7.3 from 7.
whatever it was, but the media knows that that's not because jobs are being created.
And that there uh a couple of them I've got it here in the stack are telling the truth about it.
Uh Reuters, U.S. job growth misses expectations, offers cautionary note for Fed.
Now, what what they're doing, the Federal Reserve, if you've noticed the stock market is uh, let me check, even as we speak here, let me take the stock market.
Well, it's it's up right now, but not much.
But it's been it was down a lot yesterday, trickling down, because the Federal Reserve is talking about no more quantitative easing, which is no more stimulus.
And the people in the markets know that the only reason the stock market's been going through the roof is because the Fed has been buying stock, not people.
Short version of the truth.
That's the simplified version here.
And if the Fed starts talking about no more of that, panic sets in.
So right to the rescue rides, Reuters, U.S. job growth misses expectations, offers cautionary note for Fed.
What Reuters is saying, don't you dare stop priming the pump.
Don't you dare stop spending money and printing it, stock market or anywhere else, because the jobs market is precarious.
We're witnessing a tectonic shift in reporting on the economy.
We really are.
And it's all about politics.
It's not about the media trying to get it right.
Obama and the Democrats and their minions are deathly afraid that the Federal Reserve is going to look at the lowering unemployment rate and end quantitative easing.
They're scared to death.
This is an amazing thing, too, because the unemployment rate went down to 7.3%, Not because a bunch of new jobs are created, it's because even more people left the workforce.
If the same number of jobs that existed in 2009 existed today, the unemployment rate would be 10.8%.
It's not 10.8%.
It's 7.3% because those jobs are gone.
They don't exist.
They're not even available to be filled.
It's called a labor force participation rate.
And you add that people, when they stop looking, they are no longer counted as unemployed.
Go figure.
They have looked and looked and looked.
They've been on unemployment 99 weeks or more.
They finally have given up.
They're no longer counted.
The unemployment rate that's reported only includes people actively trying to find a job.
Those who have given up, which numbers in the millions now don't get counted.
So the rate goes down.
And so the media is afraid that the people at the Fed will not know what I just told you.
And that they'll see unemployment rate going down and believe they have fixed it.
And stop priming the pump.
Stop spending printing money.
Obama and the Democrats and their minions are scared to death of this.
And the Democrats know, we're talking a serious amount of money.
Democrats know that if the Fed stops printing, it's actual digital transfers, folks.
They're not actually printing hard currency for all of this.
They're just digitizing, just adding money to a computer spreadsheet essentially.
They're doing this to the tune of $85 billion a month right into the financial markets.
The money that they're printing, digitizing is being used to buy securities and stocks.
And the Democrats know that if that stops, if the Fed stops injecting $85 billion play dollars into the financial markets, they're just going to collapse.
You saw an indication of it earlier this week, when the market was down 130 points in a couple of minutes on a rumor that Bernanke was through with quantitative easing.
And if the market were to go into a steady loss situation, it would give up the fiction of a booming economy, which the media and Obama have tried to create.
if not booming, at least a solid recovery.
It would end that fiction.
It would vanish into thin air just in time for 2014 midterms.
Cannot have that.
Cannot have any economic activity taking place that makes it look like the recovery has stalled going into the 2014 midterms.
And so while we're getting this tectonic shift in reporting on the economy, it's not because the media wants to get it right.
It's because they're trying to nudge the Federal Reserve and to keep printing money.
I find it funny, actually how Obama and the Democrats believe in trickle-down economics when it comes to quantitative easing.
Oh, of course they do.
Why the Fed puts $85 billion in the stock market, and what happens to it?
Why, it trickles down to other aspects of the market.
Big it's trickled down in a way.
It's artificial, but it uh still is trickled down back after this.
If you are on hold, if you're on the phone out there waiting to appear on the program, hang in there.
Be tough.
So I want to get to you in due course.
And there's not enough time to uh to be fair with uh with another caller at this point, but I uh wish there were.
But we've got some good ones lined up.
And if you're on hold, it means I really want to talk to you, particularly uh on open line Friday.
When you get to Talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Um I said something a moment ago about the uh book and an email I got from a guy who said, This just shows how revered you are.
I said, No, no, it does not show that.
It this isn't really about me.
Why the I not no, it okay, somewhat, but look, what really is going on here is people want to believe in this country.
I think it's the same thing that is responsible for this program succeeding when it started.
A voice validating what people already believe.
People are tired of what's being taught.
They want to believe in the goodness of this country, they want to believe in the goodness and the greatness of the people of this country, and they want their kids to learn about that.
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