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Sept. 6, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 6, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Now here's a question.
Just got an email.
Are you going to publish a Spanish version of the Rush Revere book?
Now that's Friday, folks.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Oh, yeah, I do the audio for that.
Of course I would.
Ciste Puente.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
It's L Rushboa, the EIB Network and the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We probably will release a Spanish version of the book, folks.
Probably will.
Open line Friday, you get to choose whatever you wish to talk about.
The telephone number in our remaining hour, 800 282-288-2, and the email address, Elrushbo at EIBNet.com.
You know, and all this talk about what's happened with the with the book, the pre-order, announced yesterday, and you all made that book.
My book, my children's book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.
You made it number one on Amazon in Barnes and Noble as a pre-order.
Not number one in the pre-order category, number one everywhere.
And there were even search problems that people had.
I didn't find that out till last night.
And even with the search problems, it became number one.
Now there's something I forgot to mention today.
We have a special price at twoifytea.com in honor of the book being announced, and because our tea icon, Rush Revere, has been brought to life as the uh as the lead character in the book.
And so we've reduced the price of a case of tea, 12 bottles to $16.20 in honor of the pilgrims.
Do you know why 1620, Brian?
Quick pop quiz.
$16.20.
What's that's right?
That's the year.
Exactly right.
Wait ago.
So $16.20 for 12 bottles, it's a case, until 11.59 p.m. Pacific time at 2ifyT.com, which has all the information about the book, as does rushlimbaugh.com with all the links to Amazon, uh, iBooks iTunes and Barnes and Noble.
Again, uh folks, you don't know.
I don't know if if you take the time to visit some of these obscure, or if you would even know of them.
Some of these obscure, everybody has a website.
Everybody's got a blog or tweets and Facebooks.
And the left is in a tizzy.
They are it it Carol Costello at CNN admitted being sick, but the general theme on the left about is honestly now.
I've actually seen this in two of them.
I'm paraphrasing that it's very very close to uh exact quote.
Oh no, it's taken us 50 years to erase the BS of how this country came to be, and here comes Limbaugh trying to re-establish it.
And then there's been all kinds of snarkiness about my version of Thanksgiving.
And it's not my version, it's what really happened.
And the snarkiness is the pilgrims, William Bradford, who led the pilgrim population, wrote about it.
That's how I learned it.
He wrote about it.
It was in his journal.
They tried giving everybody an equal share, equal plot of the land, everybody got the same amount of money, no matter what was produced, no matter who produced what, everybody got the same, and they had a bunch of slackers.
And they had others who did all the work.
And the people doing all the work eventually, you know, this isn't working, because old Zeke over there is not doing anything and he's getting the same thing I am.
It didn't work.
Socialism didn't work.
And the original Thanksgiving is William Bradford giving thanks to God for that.
And that lesson echoed by George Washington in his first Thanksgiving proclamation, which is a Thanksgiving for this nation to God.
And the snarkiness and the sneering of critics of a book they haven't even read yet, because it's not published about my version of Thanksgiving, all because I point out that they tried socialism and it didn't work, and so that's worth sneers and snarkiness.
And I've I've wanted, you've heard me talk about it, lamenting and worrying about what kids are being taught.
So I know you are too.
This book is my attempt to correct what I think are mistakes.
You know, this book is about American exceptionalism and greatness and how it's possible and how we wouldn't be here if there hadn't been those those characteristics in uh in people.
Here's here's give me give an example.
Slate.com.
Slate snark.
Limbaugh made sure to stress that his book, one he hopes will be the first in a series, has no political agenda.
The true story of Thanksgiving, he promised listeners today, there's no politics in this.
Well, that's obviously somewhat difficult to believe in uh uh because Limbaugh told his version of the Thanksgiving story before last year, for instance.
He concluded his retelling by saying the true story of Thanksgiving is how socialism failed.
With all the great expectations and high hopes it failed, and self-reliance, rugged individualism, free enterprise, whatever you call it, resulted in prosperity that they never dreamed of.
And they're just beside themselves over that.
And it's one thing for me to say this every Thanksgiving, but now to have it in a book where it's written down for children.
Oh no!
Panic City, they're worried about it.
And just the fact that you all made it number one has got them spinning.
You know, we even knocked 50 shades of gray off of the number one best seller spot.
Ha!
So again, can't thank you all enough.
Now, Studio City, out near Los Angeles, many schools are sending notes home to parents telling them their children are overweight.
Lauren Schmidt, a registered dietitian, starts the scroll year by checking out the weight of hundreds of preschoolers in the San Fernando Valley.
Yeah, we uh we look at growth charts and percentiles, and when a child is at 95% of their, well, see, we can look at weight for age or weight for height.
Uh that child would be considered uh obese, 95% of that.
So parents are going to get what is called healthy or unhealthy letters.
The kids are calling them fat letters.
Lauren Schmidt, the registered dietitian, said that out of the 900 two to five-year-old children she looks at, about 200 of them end up being listed as obese.
We let the parents know in a gentle fashion, but we also send out a ton of hand outs to try to help that family.
Oh, gosh, yeah, we gotta help the family.
The school got it.
Family doesn't know that it's got an obese kid.
Father probably played in the NFL, has a concussion, the mother wasn't that smart to begin with, the kid sitting there overweight, and neither of them know it.
So they need a letter from the scruble to tell them that they're obese.
Experts said that 19 states around the country are cracking down on childhood obesity with similar letters.
Every year there are a few phone calls from parents who are upset, said Schmidt.
Many districts in Southern California, such as Riverside County choose to follow state guidelines and instead send test results of the child's body mass index to their parents.
A dietitian said that the goal is to empower and educate parents with the tools to make healthier lifestyle choices for their children.
Now, is that their responsibility?
You know what?
Here comes the school with the letter.
This is not your kid isn't doing well in social studies.
This your kid is fat.
Do you know what you're doing?
Are these letters signed by Michelle Obama, I wonder?
Or did Michelle Obama, the national dietitian, have anything to do with this?
Family income not a factor as students eat free.
Story out of Boston AP cheering about this.
Some students toted lunchboxes to the first day of Scrual in Boston this week, but district administrators are expecting that become uh could become a more unusual site as parents learn about a federal program that is now providing all public scrual students in the city with free breakfast and lunch, whether they need it or not.
It's no longer means tested.
And in fact, it really isn't new.
We've been discussing this.
It first started in western Michigan, but it but in those cases when we talked about it, we were told that the schools had so many poor children that they were just overwhelmed that it made no sense to not offer free breakfast and lunch because most like 80, 90% of the students were poor.
So they said, well, it wouldn't make any sense to deny 5, 10% of the students to everybody.
And so now kids are being sent letters, their parents are if they're too fat, while at the same time, certain schools are feeding everybody, whether they can afford it or not.
It's another measure of control, but you know what else it is?
It's another ticket for parents to simply shelve their own responsibility.
Mom and dad don't have to worry about providing lunch or breakfast anymore.
The school's gonna do it.
And of course they'll do it in the summertime too.
They'll do it in the summer, even when there's no school.
Well, where are the kids going to eat will be the complaint.
Well, why not at home?
Well, no, they don't they don't get breakfast or lunch at home nine months of the year, and it's gonna be too hard to convince them they need to eat at home when they're so parents once again are being given the option or opportunity to opt out.
And the school read government will now be.
When you get a new pet, what is the first thing you do to try to bond with it?
You want to be the one to feed it, right?
You don't want anybody else feeding that new puppy or kitten.
You are gonna do it because you know that that puppy or kitten is going to bond with you first, and when that happens, everybody else is getting second and third dibs.
That pet is always going to be yours if you're the only one who feeds it.
Well, same thing here.
You know, it isn't you if you go to a national park, they'll tell you, don't feed the don't feed the animals because you'll you'll make them dependent.
They'll not be able to provide for themselves.
But when it comes to human beings, they don't want them to be able to provide for themselves.
In Boston, the end result is going to be here that the students associate eating with the government, not with mom and dad.
Not at home and not with family, that and they grow up thinking that's not a parental responsibility.
Therefore, let's take this another step.
So then when it becomes politically opportune to blame the Republicans for wanting to cut the school food budget, you'll have not only parents siding with you, but the kids.
Oh my God, they're gonna cut the Republicans want to cut my breakfast and lunch.
And what do you think is gonna happen as far as those kids and how they're ever gonna vote?
They're just like your puppy or your kitten, and they're being conditioned to believe the government's feeding them.
And then if somebody else in the government wants to ever change the program because it's silly, it's unnecessary, it's too far reaching, it's too expensive.
Who's gonna object the most?
The kids, the future voters.
So it's a way of locking in voters before they can legally vote.
It's it's taking young kids and destroying the idea that parents provide for them, or that they can provide for themselves, that the government will do it.
And it all happens under the guise of compassion.
It all happens, it's just the fair thing to do.
I mean, we can't only provide the poor with breakfast and lunch, because that'll make the people who are not poor, they'll still feel bad, and they'll think it's not fair.
And they would be right.
And so, Mr. Limbaugh, it's just easier to feed everybody.
There are fewer complaints that way, and it's fair, treats everybody the same.
Yeah, that's the problem with it.
But the biggest problem is it with it is that they're not your kids, and you are not their responsibility.
So you teach the parents that they don't have to accept that responsibility of feeding their kids two meals a day, that the government will do it, because that's what the school is is government.
This is the difference between liberals and conservatives.
What kind of a tougher roe to hoe is a kid gonna have in life if he grows up thinking that someone else is obligated to feed him, that all he's got to do is show up.
It's somebody else's job to do that's never his, and it's not his mom and dad's the government.
You create this this is folks in a in a very example, but it still works here.
This is how you limit people's dreams.
The smaller people's dreams, the easier time you're gonna have controlling them.
The more simple and complex their desires, uh the simple and the less complex, the more easy it's gonna be to control them.
This is this is it really is problem.
And then when the government's sending home a letter, you're too fat, your kids too fat, let us feed the kid.
We'll take care of it.
Anyway, I've taken a break.
We'll um do that and be back and continue mere moments.
Do not go away.
You think I was being a little bit extreme in my forecast of what would happen.
Let me give you a quote from a parent in Boston responding to the idea that every kid is gonna get free breakfast and lunch, whether they're poor family or not.
This is a quote from Joshua Rivera, whose son is a second grader at a Boston school, Roxbury section, uh, the Tobin School.
He said, This is great.
This is one less weight and one less burden for parents.
Oh, this is gonna take so much pressure off the parents, and it's going to save us so much money.
Mr. Rivera having no concept of what tax increases he's going to face.
The idea that he isn't paying for this now.
Where does the school get its money for this?
So the concept of free, and so now here's a parent, and I don't mean to harp on him, But he's quoted here.
One less weight, one less burden for parents.
Yeah, well, that burden of having to feed your kids.
That's that's that's that's a that's you know, that's one of the most unfair things about parenthood, and whoever came up with that ought to be shot.
And now the Boston schools have taken care of it.
Have taken a tremendous weight and burden off of parents' shoulders.
That's how it works.
This not works.
This is what we're trying to combat in a way that is healthy and productive for everybody.
Terry in Chicago.
I'm glad you called your next open line Friday.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, sir.
Thanks for allowing me to represent the hardworking truck divers of America.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Hey, um, I'm just wondering what you thought about the reports that I've actually I've seen and I've looked at a couple of different places that Russia had given the UN a hundred pla a hundred-page report blaming the Syrian rebels for the Aleppo Saren attack in March 19th.
Let me brought this up on Monday.
There's a there's a great, uh really really good guy, a credible scholar named uh Joseph Badansky, who has talked to numerous sources, he doesn't identify them, uh, but basically before Putin issued a report, well, not before he issued a report and said, Look, it's the rebels that fired off the nerve gas, the chemical weapon.
The rebels in Syria did it with the knowledge of the United States government, and Putin is saying the same thing.
Putin is saying, wait a minute, we did a we got a hundred-page report, we did our own investigation.
It's not Assad doing this.
Assad's being set up.
There's multiple different sources for this now.
Open line Friday El Rushball with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
By the way, Russia gave the UN that 100-page report back in July that the Syrian so-called rebels are the ones that have the chemical weapons, and they're the ones that use them.
This has been widely known and suspected for a long time, but our administration summarily rejects it.
Not possible.
The rebels, why they're just ordinary, average innocent little people that we're now having to vet.
John Kerry said we're actually vetting moderate rebels.
How we do who we have people on the ground interviewing these rebels to find out which ones are moderate?
It's embarrassingly absurd.
What Kerry and the rest of them are telling us.
And even some Republicans too.
But what's what else is insulting is the idea that there are moderates in the Middle East in this fight.
There are any moderates.
There are no moderate Muslims.
And that's not a put down.
I'm just giving you a realistic read.
Moderate rebels.
Does that even go together?
Moderate rebels.
You cannot be a rebel.
You cannot be in a rebellion.
You cannot be in a civil war and be a moderate.
But what the Democrats come up with, the term of moderate, oh, Oh moderate, open-minded.
Not a bigot, not a closed-minded, mean spirited extremist.
Open-minded means tolerant and understanding and compassionate.
And those are the people that we're aligned with.
It's all smoke and mirrors.
As it uh as it always is.
Kurt in North Vernon, Indiana.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Well, it's good to finally get to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
My one concern I have, but I haven't heard anything on the media about this the risk that our naval ships are in.
The Mediterranean Sea is not that big of a water to maneuver.
That number of battleships and the carrier group and I'd think they're kind of like fish in the barrel with the colour.
Well, not quite ship missiles at all.
Fish in a barrel can't shoot back.
Those naval vessels are fairly well armed.
Now, do we have the will to use them?
What is your specific concern?
Who's got designs on them, on our deployment in the Mediterranean?
Well, the question of what Syria or anyone else has that can get to the ships.
The Navy's one of their big advantages in this.
They've got big oceans to move around in and make it hard to get to, and they're bottled up in a pretty small body of water for that kind of a ship, I would think.
Well, what would you have us do?
Withdraw.
I would think real hard and long about using it for making a gesture.
You know, if we're going to go in there, we need to either go in there and really do it or stay out to the characters.
That's an interesting point because as I said at the top of the program, there are now I'm exaggerating a little bit, but we there are 50 different variations of what we might do.
It started out as a shot across the bow.
And this was Obama.
He's going to send a cruise missile in or two, and he's going to warn these people.
What could be if they really irritate him?
He's going to show them who's got what and so forth.
And other you can't do that.
That's nothing.
I mean, that you may as well not do anything if we're just going to do a shot across the bow.
Rumsfeld made the point.
That's not leadership.
Shot across the bow, you commit to something and you do it.
And in this case, Kurt's got a point.
If we're just going to go over there and basically use a slingshot or a peace shooter, and not be prepared to really project power, then we're s then then the sitting duck analogy, it may be.
I don't think that there's anybody that can take our navy out over there.
A shot across the bow by definition doesn't hit anything, except the 33rd floor of a skyscraper on a Saturday night with a custodian in there emptying garbage.
That's how Clinton did it on a Saturday night in Baghdad, where he's sending a message to Saddam that was supposed to put the fear of God into him.
Let's go to the audio sound type.
Senator McCain had a town hall meeting in Phoenix.
And it didn't go very well.
Because the people that showed up don't want any part of this.
And they don't want any part of Republicans agreeing with this.
I'll tell you, the Republican voters all across this country are beside themselves.
If there was ever a time for an opposition party to be pushing back, standing up, trying to stop, and teaching the American people just what kind of administration we have, it's now.
And instead, we have a Republican Party that appears to be docile, silent, and if they take any action at all, it's in somewhat of an alignment with the administration.
Now, I have seen, I met a wild guess yesterday as to what could possibly explain this, and I have since seen at least two pieces, articles, that address the same thing, and it's race.
There just is a paralysis in the Republican Party of opposing the first black president.
And here's the guiding, I guess, the guiding theory that nobody will put their name to, but this is what's going around the inner circles of the Republican Party.
A black president cannot and will not ever be allowed to fail.
Excuses will be made, statements.
Second chances will be offered that simply isn't going to happen.
You can call it what I call it the other soft bigotry of low expectations.
But the reality is that of race, there isn't even any real criticism permitted.
Much an assessment of failure.
And so they're sitting there saying we what there's nothing to gain by opposing the president in a traditional political way because of race.
This is what's this is what's guiding him.
Now, I understand that, but it wouldn't stop me.
You know, I'm I am the epitome of colorblind.
The guy is president.
His policies matter.
He's the leader of the free world.
He can do great harm doing the wrong thing for the country.
And it does I don't care if he's from Mars.
It does not mean the opposition has to shut up.
And this theory, by the way, emanates from the Democrats in the media.
And as the minority, even though they run the House, as the minority in town, as the minority in Washington, they're they're they're just cowed.
And the racial component of this can't be denied.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
And it's these people are showing up and giving McCain the business.
They don't like.
They don't like what this regime is doing.
They don't want our party helping.
The people showing up understand that what's going on here is politics, not national interest.
What's going on here is politics, not foreign policy.
And they don't understand why McCain doesn't see that.
So we've got uh two or three sound bites here.
Here's the first one.
How much is the life of American servicemen worth?
To me, it's worth a whole lot more than the city of the city.
There's no contemplation of putting a single American service man or woman in change.
You can say that now, but when I'm telling you there's not.
I know, but I'm telling you there's not, sir.
So that's that is not a good thing.
That is not an argument we can have.
It's not gonna happen.
Yeah, and McCain has said today, by the way, this this had an impact on him.
He has said today that if I'm paraphrasing McCain, at least I saw it on Drudge, he said that if Obama puts boots on the ground, that's an impeachable offense.
He said that something like that.
McCain said that there would be an impeachment of Obama if he puts boots on the ground.
That's quote.
So this guy, this guy had an impact.
He reached McCain last night.
Here's the next little tete tet.
I would much rather use our taxpayers' money to take care of our vets that are coming home from the two conflicts we've already been in.
I appreciate your service very much, and I appreciate your opinion.
I don't think I need to be lectured to about veterans.
See, this is exactly what a caller earlier today was talking about.
About gratitude and humility.
Was McCain taking this personally?
Here's one of his voters.
He's an American citizen standing, just offering his opinion.
I don't think we need to be spending all this money to go in there and siding with Al-Qaeda and so forth.
We rather, if we're going to be spending additional money, let's take care of the I don't need to be lectured to by you, sir.
And my veterans.
I was in Vietnam with Jack Gary.
It just it's unnecessary.
Now why McCain is acting like the guy is is being contentious with him, and he hasn't been.
He took that as a personal attack.
Here is a this next go up.
It's very fast here, eight seconds.
This is what I think of Congress.
They are a bunch of marshmallows.
That's what they are.
He's waving a bag of marshmallows in uh in McCain's face.
So after this, McCain ran into a reporter from CNN, got a little testy.
Sounds like a lot of people are opposing this.
You sound like you have your mind made up.
You think I would be having a town hall meeting if I had my mind totally made up?
Do you?
No, I'm just asking.
Oh, you're asking a dumb question.
See, this is not this didn't, this didn't go quite the way it was supposed to go.
And Senator McCain, you know, he's got he's he's perfectly comfortable with lecturing us about things.
But he he did I don't need to be lectured too sure.
I know the reporter did sound 24.
But but Snerdley, I'm glad you reminded me.
I hope I've got this story here.
In the stack, one of the women advising uh Carrie and somebody says 26 years old.
Here it is.
I'm gonna find I'm gonna take a break here.
I've got it in this stack.
I know I've got it in this stack somewhere.
You sit tight, folks, and we'll be back and continue right after this.
Do not go away.
Hey, the uh second time in this program I've heard this bump.
I guess who and shaking all over.
Okay, it's a daily caller story.
The woman whose opinion lawmakers are relying on to go to war in Syria is a paid advocate for the rebels.
I I kid you not.
The woman whose opinion lawmakers are relying on to go to war in Syria is a paid advocate for the rebels.
On Wednesday, John Kerry encouraged members of the House to read a Wall Street Journal op-ed by 26-year-old Elizabeth O'Bege, an analyst with the Institute for the Study of War, who asserted that concerns about extremists dominating among the rebels are unfounded.
She's 26.
I wonder if she's still in her parents' health insurance plan.
26!
And McCain and Kerry are taking strategic advice.
I'm sorry.
And she advocates for the rebels.
26.
What do you got against young people?
Nothing, nothing, but there's this thing called experience and objectivity.
Anyway.
I am nothing against young people.
Don't misunderstand.
A couple of days ago, a couple of months ago, I should say, in the New York Times, 26-year-old Elizabeth O'Baggy was saying the exact opposite.
Islamist rebels' gains in Syria create dilemma for U.S. in the New York Times.
Two months ago, the rebels doing great was a problem.
Today she says the rebels are great.
And that's who McCain and Carrie are taking advice from.
Nothing about her being 20, it's not 26, it's it's where's experience 26.
Nothing against young people.
You know that, folks.
It's the exact opposite.
Look, I've got to get out of here, but you all made my week here with what you did with the pre-orders of my uh of my new book.
And I really you're just the best.
Cannot cannot tell you how much I appreciate it.
How much I thank you.
Because it's gonna be good.
It is, it's it's gonna be a great opportunity to reach an entirely new group of people.
You are gonna make it possible.
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