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Oct. 29, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 29, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, and book buyers all over the fruited plain and book readers all across the fruited plain, Rush Limbaugh, the excellence in broadcasting network.
And unlike Nancy Pelosi, ladies and gentlemen, I didn't have to read my book to find out what's in it.
I wrote it.
I know what's in it.
Happy to have you here.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882, the email address El Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I'm going to continue to roll out the um uh ongoing details of Obamacare and the absolute disaster that it is.
Um build on some of the things that that we spent uh time discussing yesterday.
But today is the big day.
Today's the launch.
This is October 29th, and my first book since 1993 is now available and on sale.
And I it's Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims Time Travel Adventures.
So excited about this, folks, and I want to spend just a few minutes here explaining what this book is.
Uh, and and maybe a couple things about what it's not.
The book is dedicated to Vince Flynn, the late great Vince Flynn, who's a great human being.
He was a fantastic thriller author, uh solid, solid guy.
I was all of us who knew him uh feel extremely fortunate to have known him to have been able to call him a friend.
And Vince was one of us, folks.
Uh he was, as I say, a solid citizen.
He was as concerned about things as uh we all are, and he had a profound uh love and appreciation for the country.
And he was over the years always urging me to write another book.
And you know, it's heading into the uh each election season.
Come on, Rushboat, that's what he called me.
Come on, Rushbo, this is it.
This is the time.
You gotta get it out for the next election.
And I said, Vince, you know, I've I've done it.
I mean, the the book market is just jammed, everybody's writing books these days, and and I'm my my so-called conservative manifestos are out there.
No, no, no, no.
What you need to do, you you you need look at all of the monologues you've done.
You have you have tons of material.
You just need somebody to edit it and put together a compendium of your monologues and you got ten books sitting there, Rush.
I look at your website every day.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
It still didn't excite me because while it was something I hadn't done, I mean, a compilation book, it still was things I'd already said.
And in a way, had already been published.
But he kept after me.
Uh he he did not give up on this.
He kept trying to light the fire.
And one of those occasions, Catherine, my wife had an idea that really lit the fire and and brought everything Vince was trying to get me to do into culmination.
She said, Look, you have expressed your concern over what's happened to elementary education.
Well, all of education, but particularly young people.
Why don't you do a book aimed at young people that tells the truth about American history?
And you could start with the pilgrims, because that's where it all really did start.
And that intrigued me in a professional sense.
It was new.
It's something I hadn't done.
It was an audience, young people, that's radio doesn't reach.
And it was something of great concern, and it still is of mine, and I know it's of yours too, and that is the for lack of a better word, the bastardization of American history as taught throughout America today, not just the public schools, but all the way through middle school and high school, and even into college.
Uh I've railed about it for years on this program.
You know, we talk about how we conservatives can actually gain ground and make progress on things.
We've lost sectors of our culture.
We've lost pop culture, Hollywood, books, movies, uh TV shows, this kind of thing.
We we've lost education.
Uh the Libs own this.
So I was really intrigued by this.
There's an opportunity here to A, write another book, but B have it actually be something of substance and oriented around a great purpose that is indeed a passion of mine, and that is the founding of this country and American exceptionalism, why it's great, why we are unique as a country.
And talk radio doesn't reach the 10 to 13 group, other than as rush babies.
Young people might be hearing the radio as their parents listen to it.
So this became something I got really, really excited about.
Now, folks, I want to address something else too.
You who have listened regularly know that I'm really, really sensitive about.
Oh, uh for lack of a better word, hawking thing.
Just put my name on something and then telling you it's in some store and go get it.
I'm really, really sensitive to that.
And I've I've I've never ever sought to take advantage of that or to exploit it.
And this is not that.
This actually has a committed, passionate purpose.
And that is the effort to tell the truth of American history in a way that makes it fun for people to learn, for young people to learn.
And so the book came together, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
Now here's the structure of the book.
Rush Revere, of course, is our great icon of two if by T. Rush Revere is my face, but Rush Revere is just the icon we chose for for two if by T, which Rush Revere, Paul Revere, 2F by T, the British are coming, blah, blah, blah, all of that.
And we decided to turn him into a substitute teacher at a middle school.
And then we gave him a talking horse named Liberty.
And this talking horse can time travel anywhere in American history.
With Rush Revere in the saddle, and Rush Revere can take his iPhone with him when he time travels back to American history and does and uses the video function to record what he sees and brings it back to the classroom where he is the substitute teacher.
can take students.
Now, once this structure was set up, there were no boundaries on what we could do with There were no limits on what we could do.
And the objective here, as I say, is to simply tell the truth.
The multiculturalists have gotten hold of the uh education curriculum in this country and many other things.
And among the things that they have done is teach young people that this country is not what it really is, that it was founded in an unjust and immoral way,
that there were people already here and that they were wonderful people, beautiful people, the Native Americans, and they were minding their own business, and then these evil white settlers showed up, starting with Columbus and then the pilgrims, and they brought with them all of these corrupting influence.
This is what's taught today, and it's been taught for a long time.
And so the young people of this country have grown up learning that there is no such thing as American exceptionalism, that there isn't anything really unique, and in fact, this country has gotten great and became wealthy because it oppressed other people and stole from other people around the world.
We took what we wanted wherever we found it.
We left poverty and destitution in our wake, and it just couldn't be further from the truth.
It's the exact opposite.
And so this book is an effort to tell the truth about the pilgrims, who they were, where they were, why they wanted to leave where they were, what that voyage entailed, how they put it together, what happened when they got to the new world, how did that go?
We include the true story of Thanksgiving in this, and it's all done in a combination fun, entertaining, persuasive, and most importantly, a truthful way.
We all say, I've had you call me over the uh over the years.
Rush, what can I do besides vote?
What can I do?
I mean, I uh and I ask myself the same thing.
What can I do above and beyond the radio show?
Most of you, I mean, you don't have a microphone like I do.
And so at the end of each day, I've had my say, and there is a level of satisfaction with that.
But even so, I ask myself like you do, what else can I do?
What more can I do?
And this book is that.
It is the what more can I do.
It is designed to be read and enjoyed by 10 to 13 year olds, but we've never really mentioned that as a focus because the objective has been for entire families to experience it.
For young people to read it, maybe parents or grandparents to read it too young people, for the young people who read it to have questions about it.
We've also gone live today at our two if by tea website with an entire rush revere section that is a direct connect to what readers will find in the book.
Uh, and it is it is a way to uh expand the experience of reading the book and experiencing it at two if by tea.com.
And it's just it's been it's been a labor of love, it's been tremendous fun.
It we're really proud of it, folks, because it is a profoundly quality book, profound quality.
We've got lots of illustrations.
We have the paper in the book is is made to look like old parchment.
Um a lot of people spent a lot of time making this book look as as as good as it does.
And we've been looking so forward to this day, because this is the beginning of the um of the effort here to actually people say make a difference, and I have a little problem with that phrase because you know, Castro made a difference.
But I don't know, I know what people mean when they when they use that phrase, and I'd attach it to myself here with uh Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, because it is an effort to make a difference.
Um I'm not gonna complain anymore about how we've lost education or how the curriculum's been corrupted because now I have done what little I can do to change it.
But that includes you.
That that that your part of this effort to get started here on reclaiming the birthright and the truth of this country.
We all love it.
We all have a profound appreciation for this country.
We understand what American exceptionalism is, and we want everybody to understand it.
We want everybody to love the country, as many as possible.
We want everybody to experience and consciously be aware of what's possible as a human being, as an individual human being, what is possible in this country.
We all only get one life.
All we want to do is get the most Out of it.
This book attempts to explain to people, young people, what's possible by telling them what has happened to get them here.
I mean, the people that founded this country, the pilgrims, experienced hardships that are not known today.
They experienced just the travel across the Atlantic Ocean.
A harrowing, frightening, scary thing that people today can't relate to.
We try to bring that to life.
So there is an appreciation for our forebears and ancestors that came before us, who gave everything in order that this country might exist as it does.
So it's it's out there now, and it's um it's at all the bookstores, it's at Amazon, it's at iTunes, it's at Barnes and Noble.
Uh oh, by by and the audio version is out, and I've, you know, I've I have to tell you, we've got some excerpts of the audio version here today, and I I read it, obviously, and it's unabridged.
It's every word.
It runs about four and a half hours, the uh the whole thing.
And I'm really proud of that work as well.
It it I just it's good.
I if I don't mind saying so myself.
It's just it it's it's excellent.
I've got about six excerpts from it here that I'm um I'm gonna pepper throughout the program just to give you flavor for it.
Now we've had spies out there today.
We've had spies at the various booksellers, just checking to see what people encounter.
And the audio book, a couple places we the audio book, you're really going to have to look hard for it.
There are a lot of displays of the hardcover book, and they're there that won't be too hard to find in the new places, they're right up front.
Um, when our spies leave, we fully expect the people who work at the bookstore to turn the books upside down or backside out or what have you, like happens in the past.
But the audiobook is in the audio section of stores, and so you have to you have to hunt that down.
But it's gorgeous too.
I mean, I've got a couple boxes of it.
I'll hold them up in the diddle cam here in just a second.
The audio version's out.
The e-book, if you pre-ordered that, it's being delivered.
If you pre-ordered from Amazon or the other places, it'll be delivered.
Uh some got them yesterday, some coming in today.
Um we had one of our spies went to a um uh bookstore.
I'm not gonna name it uh or where it happened, but tried to pose with uh the display and take pictures.
And the employee of the bookstore came over, you you you can't, you cannot take pictures.
It's against corporate policy.
No signage is permitted.
Well, really?
That's right.
You can't do it.
Well, what out if we hold the book?
No, you cannot.
What if we take picture outside looking in the glass?
No, you can't.
Corporate So we took pictures anyway.
Uh it just uh they didn't want any of the signage of the store showing up in any pictures that were beyond their control.
I I brand ID and control.
I uh I totally understand.
But anyway, that's that's the uh the short version of this.
I've got I've been through it uh a couple of times with you, but it it really, folks, it it's it's a labor of love.
Uh I owe a lot of people a lot for all the time they spent helping me on this, and Vince Flynn, of course, for not letting the concept of doing another book die.
He was just relentless.
He just would not let go of it.
Uh, and that's why the book is dedicated to him.
Um and is this book's guardian angel, as the dedication says.
But again, it has a specific purpose.
Uh it has the purpose of trying to correct the falsehoods and the misconceptions about this country and its founding that are currently part of the public school curriculum.
So there it is.
I take a brief time out.
We'll uh do that, be back and continue right after this, folks.
Don't go away.
You know, I gave uh I gave the official Obama criticizer and the official program observer, Mr. Snerdley, a copy of the book yesterday, and I woke up today to an email that is his review, and it it brought tears to my eyes.
I think I'm gonna Read it, even though you will think that it may not be totally objective because he um uh works here, it is totally objective.
I one thing I want to emphasize, folks, about the structure of the book that is really critically important, and that is the the time travel device.
Kids love time travel.
Everybody's fascinated by it.
But the time travel device here takes the reader, the children and the adults into the period.
You are actually taken to various places on the Mayflower to Holland to Plymouth Colony, and the characters come to life, and what is recorded history is actually uttered in quoted conversation by the characters who made this history.
And it really is a it was a fun device to use and explore, and it makes the book.
Got an email here.
Dear Rush, you shouldn't be so self-conscious about mentioning your book.
You only do it every 20 years or so.
It's not like you're overdoing it.
I guess.
I guess that's a good point.
But folks, look, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna hit this straight on.
This is not a kid's book with a celebrity name slapped on the cover.
It is not that.
There is this is a there is a prof I'm overusing the word profound, but I mean it.
That is a serious effort here to correct the historical record.
The truth, just the simple truth, because it's so wonderful, it is so blessed, it is so magnificent.
The truth of this country.
There's no reason to feel guilty about it.
There's no reason to feel ashamed, quite the opposite.
There's every reason to be as proud as you can be to be an American.
There's no reason to be embarrassed, no reason to be ashamed.
None of this that is being taught today.
There's no reason to feel guilty about everything.
And there certainly is no reason to think that you, as an individual, don't have a future in this country.
This is the best place on earth to have a future.
As I say in the in the uh in the forward, this is this is a place where dreams come true.
Most places on the planet, dreams remain just that, just dreams.
Uh so there's a there's a an attempt to inspire here.
The time travel device that's utilized here.
Um it takes what could ordinarily maybe be thought of as just the dry historical record.
It takes people and puts them right at that moment where history was taking place and places them in it where they are experiencing it vicariously.
We all know that William Black Bradford wrote the Mayflower contract.
We all know that William Bradford was the leader of the pilgrims.
And if you wanted to, you can go read the story of William Bradford.
But this book has William Bradford explaining it to Rush Revere and a couple of the students he takes along.
Rush Revere, I'll give something away.
It's not a big deal.
Rush Revere actually gets a handwritten invitation to the first Thanksgiving from William Bradford.
That's the kind of thing that the device, time travel permits.
And you know, that just opens up the imagination as an author and as a creative force.
It just opens up all kinds of possibilities.
And remember, we talk about it a lot, persuading people and so on.
I'm the truth is one of the greatest persuasive agents that there is, but storytelling is also crucial.
Stories have a magic about them.
If they're told well, they are magnetic.
And that's what is attempted here.
By the way, here is what the audio version looks like.
Four CDs in a box.
That's what it looks like.
I'm holding it up on the ditto cam.
As I say, um our spies report today having to really hunt this down at some bookstores.
The display that's uh, and many many of the bookstores have great displays, but it's the the of the hardcover book.
Now, Mr. Snerdley, do you mind if I read your what ended up being a review?
Because I won't, if it would embarrass you, I won't do it.
Okay.
So I gave Snerdley copy of the book uh yesterday.
I gave everybody a copy of the book yesterday.
And I woke up today and he'd sent an email at a quarter of two this morning.
I saw it when I got up.
Rush, well, what to say.
This book is totally awesome.
Everything about it's awesome.
The dedication to Vince Flynn brought a gasp.
Of course, we've heard you explain American exceptionalism on the air, but seeing it in print in this book added another dimension.
The pages are beautiful to the touch.
And the old scroll look to the paper adds a layer of depth.
It's a fine book, one that feels like it ought to be treasured.
The story is magnificent.
I love the detail.
This is a real history book, but it's fun.
It's witty, has whimsical details like the Dutch style wooden shoes on Liberty, the Talking Horse.
The illustrations are stories within themselves.
The Jack Screw in particular captured my attention.
I never heard or seen of one prior.
The maps, the cutaways of the Mayflower, the signing of the Mayflower Compact, just the name of very few, all compelling.
Mixing it with current day photographs, old photos, brilliant approach.
You've made one of the oldest stories of American history new again.
For those of us who absolutely love American history, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is an exciting way to review what we know and learn details and nuances we either didn't know or forgot.
This book is not a dull telling of history.
It's vibrant, colorful, but best of all, it's inspiring.
Well done.
What an honor it is.
Signed Bo.
I just almost got misty-eyed this morning when I read this.
Because I know Mr. Snerdley means every word of this from the bottom of his heart.
So there it is, folks.
It's um it's hardcover, ebook, and the audio version, which I have some excerpts here that I'll share during the course of the day.
And at Rush Limbaugh.com, we've gonna have uh excerpts and the audiobook and some graphic displays.
And don't forget that the Rush Revere section now at 2ifyT.com.
There's a little, there's a test.
I mean, it's it's a book for kids.
There's a test on what they've just read at the end of the book, and the answers are at 2 if by T.com on our on our website there.
But it's meant to be uh interactive and inclusive.
You really you've you've we've got the graphic that we have for the two F by T website.
Uh got the Tea Factory in the back, and we're gonna be adding the EIB broadcast central complex to it and all.
It's um it's extremely well done.
We're very proud of it.
Now, let me move on to Obamacare here.
I got an email.
Actually, I've been getting a series of emails for the past I don't know, week when um the the intense detail of the failure of the Obamacare website rollout began.
And over the course of past programs, I have repeatedly mentioned that Obama promised that your premium'd come down $2,500 and you get to keep your plan.
And I've actually had people send me emails.
You keep saying that.
I don't remember him saying that.
Where did he say that?
And I folks, I would I was taken aback by that.
Because I thought maybe it's a common mistake.
I thought everybody knew that Obama had promised their premiums to come down $2,500.
Because this was the the drive-by's did cover that.
I mean, the drive guys trump drive by trumpeted that because that was one of the big selling points.
So I asked Cookie to put together a montage of Obama promising that if you like to keep your doctor and your insurance company, you could, which they are now admitting.
Oh, folks, this is this is this is great.
Valerie Jarrett, who some think actually runs this show.
Valerie Jarrett tweeted out that Obamacare didn't terminate your health plan.
The insurance companies did.
It is the most it's the most unreal thing because why are the insurance companies changing their plans?
It's because they have to comply with Obamacare.
This is worse than disingenuous.
It's it's worse than just out now lying.
This is insulting.
Obamacare doesn't force you off your plan.
Your insurance company does.
And then she leaves it.
The only reason the insurance companies are changing anything is like everybody else.
They've got to change to comply with what the law is.
And in fact, I have here, ladies and gentlemen, the actual law itself, right?
It's on page 43 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Let me read this to you.
This is in the law.
Not that that matters because Obama changes it on a whim, but let me read this to you.
The title of this section of the law is section 1251, preservation of right to maintain existing coverage.
A. No changes to existing coverage.
Nothing in this act or an amendment made by this act shall be construed to require that an individual terminate coverage under a group health plan or health insurance coverage in which such individual was enrolled on the date of enactment of this act.
With respect to a group health plan or health insurance coverage in which an individual was enrolled on the date of enactment of Obamacare, this subtitle and subtitle A shall not apply to such planner coverage regard it.
What is what this the actual law says that your current plan can't be terminated if you have it and if you like it on the day Obamacare is enacted, it cannot be terminated.
It's right here in the law, Section 1252.
Preservation of right to maintain existing coverage.
And this is why Obama was out touting it.
You like your duck?
You get to keep your duck.
You like your plan, you get to keep it.
Obamacare, as it turns out, didn't terminate your health plan.
Obama did.
Obama himself did.
The law says that you get to keep your plan no matter what.
If you have the plan you like, when this law is enacted, i.e.
signed by him, then you get to keep it.
But you aren't being able to keep it, are you?
You're not you can't get why can't you keep it?
Because the insurance companies are not offering it anymore.
So Valerie Jarrett's out there saying, well, we didn't.
We didn't force you off your plan.
The insurance companies are.
Well, yeah, but that's because they have to change their policies and plans to comply with Obama.
This is outrageous.
If I don't watch myself, I'm gonna get lost here again like I did.
This is just this is just in it's outrageous.
It is in the law you get to keep your plan, but you can't, can you?
Because Obama is responsible for that.
Now they're probably well, he doesn't know.
What does he know?
Does he even know he's president?
What the hell does he know?
They offer that up as an excuse.
I gotta take a break.
I'll come back.
I'm uh we put together this montage of Obama promising you can keep your plan and the $2,500 premium reduction because I'm getting questions from I've never heard him say that.
So I just it's it's almost a minute and a half, and it's pretty powerful.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Our montage covers the years 2007 through 2012.
From when Obama was a senator, Democrat from Illinois when Obama was president, talking about what the American people could expect from his health care plan.
If you have your plan and you like it, and you like your doctor that you don't have to change plans, the government is not going to make you change plans.
You're going to have a plan that lowers premiums by 2500.
I am actually not interested in just capping premiums.
I want to lower premiums by 2500 per family.
We will start by reducing premiums by as much as 2500 per family.
You can keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.
The only thing we're going to do is lower costs, cut average family's premium by about $2,500 per year.
It's time to bring down the typical family premium by $2,500 and to bring down the costs.
The first thing I want to make clear is that if you are happy with the insurance plan, nobody will make you change it.
A system where we're going to work with your employers to lower your premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.
We will start by reducing premiums by as much as $2,500 per family.
And we will lower premiums for the typical family by $2,500 a year.
And if you already have health care, then we're going to work to lower your premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.
We're going to work with your employer to lower premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.
If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it.
No one will be able to take that away from him.
Not one of those was repeated, 2007 to 2012.
And actually, he said it even a lot during this year as well.
But we had to have a cutoff point.
But really, I was getting emails.
What do you mean you keep talking about Obama?
You could reduce your plan $2,500.
I don't remember hearing.
There it is.
I mean, it's all over the place.
Folks, I mean, I I don't understand after all of this.
I mean, this is this is not something that low information voters don't know about now.
I mean, again, on the Daily Show last night, John Stewart just made fun of Obama for not knowing what's going on in his regime.
I mean, it's it's all over the place now.
You don't get to keep your plan, but yet that is in the law.
Do you realize it is in the law, Section 1251, preservation of right to maintain existing coverage?
It's in the law.
You get to keep it if you have it and like it on the day this law's enacted.
But you don't, do you?
The law's being broken.
And that's why Valerie Jarrett tweets out, well, we didn't force you off your plan, your insurance company does.
Yeah, well.
This is just sophistry.
This is this is this is mendacious.
This is there's no other way to describe this.
They are forcing everybody to change what they're doing in order to comply with this law.
Insurance companies included.
Now here, Jim Acosta.
This is the guy who uh when the government shutdown was over, CNN reporter, he did a tweet about how excited he was the leaf blowers were back in action at the Capitol.
Everything's back to normal, he tweeted.
All right, I'm jazzed.
I hear the leaf blowers again.
He's talking with Wolf Blitzer, filling in for Anderson Cooper last night.
And they're talking about all of this business people being kicked off their insurance plans because of Obamacare.
Essentially, a lot of Americans out there are just going to have to roll through the punches.
Why is this important?
Because the president has said already uh many times over that if you like your plan, you can change it.
But it seems according to this insurance industry, insiders uh in and what is happening right now, just on a large scale through the Obamacare program, that the president should have never used those words, Wolf.
Yeah, the president repeatedly said if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, not necessarily happening right now across the board.
Oh, darn it, he just should have never said it.
Oh, darn it.
Why did he oh darn it?
Just I guess nothing necessarily happening right now across the board.
And that's it.
They're just sad.
They're not mad.
They're not treating Obama as they would a Republican caught in this situation.
No, they're just Jim McCosta, listen to him.
I don't think he even really is fully up speed on what's happening here.
He's just upset.
Oh, darn it, why'd Obama say it?
Oh, darn he just you know what?
He should have never used those words, Wolf.
Except that he did.
And he did knowing full well it wasn't true.
Mr. Recosta, he used those words as a lure.
And you people in the media, you just fell right in line.
You just accepted it rather than look into it, rather than Be curious rather than actually inform your viewers and your audience.
You just accepted what was said.
And now that Obama doesn't look good, the only reaction you have is, ah, darn it, I wish he hadn't said that, Wolf.
Well, what about the fact that the American people have been lied to?
How many people voted for this guy?
How many people supported his stupid idiotic plan on the basis they would be able to keep what they had at $2,500 less?
Yes, that's right.
Uh uh young people, kids who read Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims can send emails to Rush Revere right there at the twoifbite.com website.
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