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It's October 29th, and it's now available.
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.
Hardcover, e-book, and the 4CD audio version is available now.
And I'm not going to repeat everything in the first half hour of the program.
Suffice to say that this book is an effort to correct the historical record as taught in the public and private school curriculum, folks.
There's a purpose to this book.
You know, we all only get one life.
I really like to focus on this reality.
We all only get one.
And the younger you are, the less impression that's going to make on you.
I mean, that's, who's thinking about mortality when they're young?
But the earlier people can realize the great opportunity they have being born in this country.
And I'll never forget the, I saw something on television.
One of the various things make impressions on you when you're young.
And Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs, might have been his retirement ceremony.
It was on TV from Wrigley Field.
And the first thing he said was he wanted to thank God for making him an American.
I'd never heard anybody say that before.
And it's always stuck with me.
And it is one of the guiding aspects of this book to try to teach young people.
And by the way, folks, make no mistake about this is demographic outreach.
This is an effort to look at you, you people who listen to this program and have routinely for a long number of years, you know what this program is all about.
And you know our devotion here to the concepts of American exceptionalism and greatness.
And it's simply, we know that young people are not going to listen to talk radio, but this is a way to bring to them, to take to them what happens on this program, and at the same time teach to them in a fun and entertaining way American history in a truthful manner.
And that's the purpose.
That is the objective.
And we use a time travel device with a talking horse and Rush Revere is the character time travels anywhere in American history he wants to go.
Takes a couple students from the middle school where he's a substitute teacher with him.
And events come to life.
They actually occur in the book.
It's not a dry recounting or retelling of history.
And so many people were responsible for this.
Vince Flynn, who the book is dedicated to, for just continuing to harass me into doing something like this.
And it was Catherine who came up with the actual concept of a kid's book that, in a professional sense, that was a challenge.
Wow.
Now that would be something I haven't done.
That would be an adrenaline pumping concept, something I haven't done to see if I could do it and how well I could do it.
And it became a project and a concept that was exciting.
And the result is something that I'm really thrilled about.
And I'm happy that this day has arrived, finally be able to tell you about it.
And it's available at all the bookstores, the booksellers.
One thing, our spies have reported that the audio version is a little hard to find in some bookstores.
I'm not going to name individual stores.
There are too many out there.
It may not be true in all of them, but the audiobook section in some stores is far away from the main book display.
So, telephone number if you want to be on the program.
We're going to get to your calls as the program unfolds in a moment, 800-282-2882.
I have to go back to yesterday.
I knew this was going to happen.
There was no way to keep it from happening.
I got this politico story here: Dylan Byers, Limbaugh versus Krauthammer.
Rush Limbaugh took aim at columnist Charles Krauthammer on Monday, sparking yet another intra-party debate among conservative pundits.
I did not do that.
I do not do feuds.
I do not do intra-party debates and things like that.
It was not the purpose.
I was simply, let me go through this again.
I didn't even see it.
Fox did a one-hour special on Krauthammer's life in conjunction with his new book.
And by the way, he sent me a signed copy of it that I received Friday.
The staff didn't give it to me until yesterday after I had done this segment.
But I was told, and then I got the audio and heard it myself, that Dr. Krauthammer said he didn't get fully who Obama was until five weeks after he was inaugurated.
And I was incredulous at that.
I still am.
And I spent the first hour of the program yesterday trying to explain what I sense is a actually that illustrated a great problem that we have.
I'm sitting here assuming that everybody on my team, and I think conservatives are on my team, and I'm thinking, everybody sees Obama from the get-go for what he is, for what he was.
I'm thinking particularly highly educated, profoundly aware people know a socialist when they see one, know a liberal when they see one, and know that they don't tell the truth, know that they obfuscate, lie, and so forth.
So I was shocked.
And George Will was quoted as saying much the same thing, that they didn't really realize how leftist Obama was until five weeks after he was inaugurated.
Now, of course, I knew who he was without knowing him.
He's a liberal.
That's all I need.
And that's not a simplification.
Liberals are who they are.
Socialists are who they are.
They have techniques.
They have behavioral patterns.
You can type them.
They can't be honest about what they intend or they would never get elected.
You think Obama would have been elected if he'd have told people what's happening now with Obamacare was the design?
You think he would have been elected if he told people the unemployment rate would be what it is now and 90 million Americans wouldn't be working and that the economy would be floundering for five years if Obama had told people that's what was going to happen.
You think he'd been elected?
No way.
So I was just, I was surprised.
And it was a learning experience for me.
Because I just make too many assumptions.
I assume that we're all on the same page and that we're all starting on the same page.
And I was wrong.
Now, the Politico says here, Limbaugh accused Krauthammer and fellow columnist George Will of being fooled into believing that Obama was a centrist when he took office, which seemed to leave the right-wing talk show host flabbergasted.
And then they quote me.
I intellectually don't know how you cannot figure out Barack Obama.
Liberal is a liberal.
I know Obama for the low information crowd could be whatever you wanted him to be, a blank canvas for crying out loud.
We're not talking about low-information people here.
There was no accusation, and I begged people, please do not send Dr. Krauthammer emails criticizing him, land-based, any of that, because it's not my purpose here.
My purpose was to illustrate how much ground we've got to go.
The things that I assume and know to be true, many others don't.
And it does flabbergast me, but there was no accusation here.
There was just surprise.
In the next passage, in an interview with Newsmax TV, Krauthammer returned fire by saying that unnamed talk radio hosts ought to listen to what I said.
I did.
We played the same.
Cookie, go grab it again, would you?
It was, she gave it to me yesterday.
It'll take a while for her to get it out of our archive.
But here's what Charles Krauthammer said to Newsmax.
I said nothing of the sort.
I said that when Obama was elected, it wasn't clear whether he was a centrist Democrat who would throw a bone to the left or if he was a man of the left who would occasionally throw a bone to the center.
What I was trying to explain is that after three hours of policy discussion, both myself and my colleagues had no better idea, which is a way of saying how well he could disguise his beliefs than that, you know, kind of sums this up.
Obama didn't fool me.
Okay, here's the soundbite.
This is what I was reacting to.
This is from the Friday Night Fox one-hour special that they did on Dr. Krauthammer's life in conjunction with his new book.
I remember before the president-elect arrived saying, you know, I haven't been able to figure this guy out.
Is he a centrist who'll occasionally throw a bone to the left, or is he a lefty who'll occasionally throw a bone to the right?
Nobody had any ideas.
Well, that was part of Mr. Obama's great strength.
He was a national Rorschach test.
So we spent three hours with this new man.
He leaves, and we're staying behind a little bit.
And I say the same question: Is he a centrist?
Is he a lefty?
Nobody knew.
Five years later, you think you've figured him out?
I figured him out after that first State of the Union speech, five weeks later.
Okay, so that's in Dr. Krauthammer's own words.
Five weeks into the administration, he had figured Obama out.
All I was saying was that I'd figured Obama out in 2008.
In fact, I figured Obama out at the convention speech.
And I think probably most of you did too.
And the Tea Party certainly did.
There was no mystery.
Every liberal disguises who they are.
Every liberal tries to disguise.
I mean, two weeks into Obama's administration, he's telling John Boehner, Boehner, the Republican leadership, don't listen to Limbaugh.
That's not how things get done in this town.
What?
I'm not in that town.
Don't listen to Limbaugh.
The point here, and well, one more quote from Krauthammer on the Newsmax TV interview.
It didn't take long to figure out his political ideology.
I've had no illusions about Obama from the beginning.
Point I was making is he was trying to disguise his political ideology and how far left he was when he ran in 2008, but he let down the mask as soon as he got elected.
That's my point.
He may have been trying to disguise his pit.
How do you know he was trying to disguise it?
How do you know he's trying to disguise it?
While it's happening, how do you know that unless you know what he is?
Seems to me the starting point has to be Obama is a far-left-wing radical.
If you're going to then say, yeah, during the campaign he was trying to disguise who he was, then you must know who he was.
I just think there's an inside the beltway mode of behavior and thinking that differs from outside the beltway.
And I think there's a lot of people inside the beltway who assume that every president is going to want to try to grow the economy.
Every president is going to want to try to reduce the debt.
And every president is going to want to lower taxes.
And every president is going to – and they just – they make these wild assumptions because that's just what they think happens.
And Obama was never, ever typical in that regard.
And all you had to do was go back and listen or read anything he'd said over the years.
And you knew, I mean, five days before he was inaugurated, he promises a fundamental transformation of the United States of America.
What does that mean?
So the only point I was making, and maybe I didn't make it as coherently as I intended to, and I'll try again here.
I was flabbergasted that even three weeks into the administration, there were still conservatives who did not know who this man really was.
When I, and I'm not bragging, this is, there's no braggadocio here.
I wish everybody were able to be honest with themselves.
When you hear that somebody's a liberal, then that tells you who they are.
It tells you what they're going to do.
It tells you what they think of America.
It tells you what they think of conservatives.
It tells you what they think about anything that is institutionally or traditionally American.
It tells you they are who they are.
And there is no such thing as a moderate liberal.
There's no such thing as a moderate radical.
And I didn't understand the idea of waiting around to see if maybe Obama would be one.
I knew he wasn't going to be.
And I'm just, I'm shocked that others didn't know it as well.
That's all.
I just don't understand it.
Everything I feared is happening.
Every characteristic of Barack Obama that I thought existed does.
There hasn't been one thing Obama's done that surprised me.
Not one aspect of any of his policy surprises me.
Benghazi doesn't surprise me.
Obamacare, the mess that it is, doesn't surprise me.
Nothing surprises me.
I never expected the guy to be moderate.
But others held out hope, maybe, or I don't know.
I'm not going to assign motivations.
I can't possibly know.
But this business of accusing, there was no accusing here.
There was simply incredulity.
And there I am on January 16th saying, I hope he fails.
And I figured everybody's got to know what I mean by this.
He's a socialist, and I don't want him to succeed in implementing his policies in this country.
I didn't, to me, it's self-explanatory.
It didn't require explanation.
The Reverend Wright for crying.
How in the world can you listen to Obama's preacher?
How can you listen to him talk about his mother and his mother-in-law or his grandmother or whatever?
I just don't.
That's what didn't compute with me.
Now, I can understand some moderates thinking this or some quasi people that are not ideological.
I can totally understand them falling for this trick.
But we're talking about really what I thought were rock-rib, Dyden-the Wool Conservatives.
I was just incredulous.
That it would take somebody five weeks to figure out that he'd been faking it all that time.
That's all.
When I knew from the first speech, well, how did you know, Mr. Because I know liberals, folks?
It isn't hard.
Oh, that's too simplistic, Mr. Limbaugh.
You can't just say it because you know, yes, it is totally, totally sufficient.
They are who they are.
Show me one who's not.
Take a break.
Sit tight.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Let me make one more observation.
And actually, not an observation.
I'm going to remind you of an observation.
When Obama scheduled that dinner, and you remember who it was with?
It was Larry Kudlow.
It was George Will, and it was at his house.
It's Charles Krauthammer.
And I forget there were a couple of others there.
Ah, yeah, David Brooks.
And I remember when that dinner was scheduled, I told you what the purpose of that dinner was.
That was Barack Obama attempting to co-opt conservative opinion makers.
He had chosen opinion makers that he thought would be open.
And it was his attempt to, I'll use the word, corrupt conservative opinion.
That's what liberals do.
When he tells Boehner and the Republican leadership, don't listen to Limbaugh, not the way things are done.
What he wants is for just any Republican in that meeting to go out to the microphones in the White House lawn and agree with him.
Because the whole point of that was to try to diminish the credibility of any critics.
And by inviting those conservatives, he was elevating those conservatives as the credible ones.
Oh, the president had dinner with George Will and Krauthammer and Kudlow.
So they were going to be, after that dinner, they were supposed to have been branded acceptable.
And anybody could listen to them and take what they said and believe it.
That was the purpose of that.
I remember saying it because I know how these people operate.
Anyway, here's the next question.
I guess now it would be a mistake for me to assume that everybody on our side gets Hillary, too.
Just like I assumed that everybody on our side, the opinion makers, understood from the get-go who Obama was and what we're in store for.
I guess it would be a mistake to assume that about Hillary because I'm listening to him.
Oh, yeah, she's more pragmatic than Obama.
She has White House experiences.
And I'm listening to this.
It's all over again.
People in our side are going to give Hillary the benefit of the doubt despite everything they know and despite the fact she's just as radical as Obama is.
Oh, well, it just never ends.
No, no, no, no.
Here's why it matters.
The reason it matters, if you do not understand who your enemy, if you don't understand who your opponent is, you will not know what it takes to defeat him.
It's just that simple.
If you do not understand your opponent, you will not know how to effectively combat him.
Now, maybe that's where I'm going wrong.
Maybe the people I'm talking about really don't have any desire to defeat Obama.
Maybe what they want to do is simply commentate and explain him to people.
But that, yeah, I want to do that too.
But the purpose is to defeat these people within the political arena, not just explain them.
And the reason why all this matters to me is that's what I thought we were all trying to do.
And apparently, I've been making a lot of mistaken assumptions.
Apparently, there isn't a lot of inside the beltway, anyway, energy to defeat Obama, just mitigate the damage and hold on until we maybe get power back.
But I'm just telling the reason why this matters, again, if you do not fully understand your opponent, you're never going to know what it takes to defeat him, which is what I thought this was about.
But that's just me.
So I'm not going to make this mistake again.
I'm not going to assume that everybody on our side understands Hillary and gets what she's about.
I'm not going to make that assumption anymore.
I'm going to assume that plenty of people inside the Beltway think she might be okay here, there.
Foreign policy experience.
She was there at Benghazi.
She's traveled the world.
You know, all this yuck-yuck stuff that may add up to maturity since the Clinton years or additional qualifications or whatever.
You know, I read Obama's books.
I listened to what he said.
I read Solowinski's book, Rules for Radicals.
Let me go to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting here, and I have diarrhea of the mouth.
So we'll start here in, what is this, Wisconsin?
Washington, D.C., Jeff, great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I ordered Rush Revere on Amazon for my eight-year-old daughter, Aurora.
How many copies?
She can't wait to read it to me.
Just one so far, but you want me to order 10 more?
I try to pass stuff out at her school to, but her principal is I try to give them my months-old American Rifleman magazines to put in their library, but they won't accept those.
Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
But every day she's indoctrinated at her public schools, so each day we discuss her subjects, and I correct any misinformation she's been given.
So can't wait to see now that right there, folks, is exactly what made me enthusiastic to do this.
Because now, in your case, your daughter comes home and you care how she's being misled.
Let's call it.
Absolutely.
You care.
I don't know if all parents do, and I don't know that all parents even know.
And even if they do know, I don't know how many of them want to even get into it.
I know plenty of parents who are afraid to tackle a school because they think and they fear that it's going to result in a bad grade for the kids, so they just sort of let it slide and hope it all works out.
But you, in the situation you described, your daughter is indoctrinated every day, and she gets home and you try to undo it.
That's exactly why Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims was written.
I wish I could send her to private school, but I pay about $75,000 a year in real estate taxes, which go to pay for the schools.
So if they give me that money, I'd gladly send her to private school.
I own a lot of rental properties in the area, so I figure I should be able to send her to whatever school I want.
I would think so.
See, this is another argument for vouchers.
Exactly.
You take the equivalent of that 55 grand and you send her wherever you want to send her.
And that's called education reform.
But it's guys like Obama who oppose that.
Guys like Obama who shut down such schools in Washington after he was inaugurated.
They're only pro-choice for what they want to be.
They won't let me be pro-choice for my school.
Right.
How old's your daughter, did you say?
She's eight.
She's eight.
So you ordered a copy so she can read it to you.
Yes, she's a pretty fluent reader at eight, which she should be.
I mean, her brothers and sisters were even ahead of her in terms of reading, but she's pretty fluent.
She and I, I'm, among other things, I'm a federal firearms dealer.
And every time I sell a firearm, she recites the Second Amendment and passes out Constitutions to all my buyers.
Well, that's awesome.
So she's learning the Constitution.
That is excellent.
You're doing great.
Well, thank you.
You're doing great.
I want to thank you for all you do and all the provocation you thrust upon the left because it gives me ammunition to argue with them every day.
Well, I appreciate that.
I'm glad that you're inspired by it.
That's another purpose here.
So it's fabulous.
I'm glad, Jeff, that you got through.
Thanks much.
Jennifer in Floyd, Iowa.
You're next on the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
How are you doing?
Good.
Thank you.
Good.
Hey, I just wanted to tell you, we pre-ordered your book, and we're eagerly awaiting its arrival.
We have a five-year-old daughter.
We're homeschooling her.
And yesterday, I grabbed out one of my old history books I had when I was in school, and I was trying to explain to her the Mayflower Compact because I want her to understand why the Pilgrims came here for economic and religious liberty and that God is in our documents.
And so I'm just so excited that there's something for children now that they can read and get the truth.
When you explain this to her, you said she's five years old.
How does she react to it?
Oh, she doesn't.
I mean, she doesn't understand a lot of it, but every once in a while, we'll just be talking at the dinner table, and she'll say something.
I'm like, she's starting to just get little slivers of it.
She's starting to understand.
We'll talk about taxes, and it's funny, but she said, President Obama can't get my money because it's in my piggy bank.
Well, that won't deter him long.
Right.
But the fact that you are already discussing the Mayflower Compact with your five-year-old, that's great.
But we just, we want her to know the truth, and they indoctrinate kids so young in our schools, and I want her to know the truth and see the documents that, yes, this is what they had in mind, that God was in our country, he is in our country, and that they need economic liberty also.
Well, it's all in there, and the Mayflower Compact is reproduced right there for one and all to see in Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
How timely is that?
That's great, Jennifer.
Thanks much.
I appreciate it.
Karen in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Hi, great to have you here.
Oh, Rush.
I'm so honored to talk to you.
Thank you.
I am the first generation Rush babe, and I can't tell you how excited I am about this book.
I'm going to buy each and every one of my eight children a copy for Christmas.
I was.
God bless you.
God bless you.
They each get their own copy.
They're going to get their, they're all going to get their own copy, absolutely.
I was surprised during the first election when Obama was admitted to this country.
I was so surprised that they were coming home, some of them in grade school, with these liberal ideologies that were being crammed down their throats.
Oh, how about the songs?
Barack Hussein, Obama.
Yeah, the chants, the songs.
He was such a hero.
And I had one of my sons even came home one day and said, well, you know, Rush really cares about women.
And I almost fell on the floor.
So we need this kind of stuff.
I'm absolutely, absolutely thrilled about this book.
You know, I listen to you and Jennifer or some of the other callers.
Something else that appears that's going to be good about this is that it is going to buttress what some people are already trying to teach their kids.
And there's, you know, it's one of the little factoids of life that's true.
And sometimes with kids, the parents need to be validated by others.
Sometimes the parents don't know what they're talking about.
The parents say it, and then the kids distrust it.
Well, it's dad just trying to get me to think what he thinks.
But then if it's an independent source that comes along that validates, then it can be even more powerful.
So, and not to say that that describes your circumstance specifically, but it is a phenomenon.
Oh, I did it.
My dad would tell me things, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I'd hear it from somebody else.
Oh, it must be true.
It's just, it's part and parcel of the rebellion, although your age group there has not yet gotten to that stage.
But nevertheless, Karen, thank you much.
We deeply appreciate it, and we will be back.
Sit tight, folks.
Greetings, folks.
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Look at this.
NBC News from a seemingly surprised NBC News.
Lisa Myers.
Obama administration knew millions could not keep their health care insurance.
What we have here is a random act of journalism from NBC News and Lisa Myers, who's good, by the way.
But they do seem surprised.
I guess that's what continues to get to me.
I don't understand all the surprise from people.
I guess drive-bys.
I can understand it.
But it's been well known all along.
We've said it that 100% of current health insurance plans are going to have to be canceled because no insurance company can offer coverage at the same price with all the Obamacare mandates piled on.
It's just not possible.
With every Obamacare mandate, there's no way that you were going to be able to keep your insurance.
Yet it is in the law.
I read to you from the actual law, Obamacare, where you get to keep your insurance, but you don't.
Valerie Jarrett has tweeted today, well, it's not our fault.
The insurance companies did it.
Well, that's just a lie.
The insurance companies are having to change everything in order to be compliance with all of the mandates that are in Obamacare.
President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after Obamacare became law, people who like their health insurance would be able to keep it.
But millions are getting or about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts.
And the regime has known that for three years.
Four different sources deeply involved in Obamacare told NBC News that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to get a cancellation letter.
And they have begun in droves.
We're now into the hundreds of thousands of people who have gotten cancellation letters.
And these are people who fully expected to be able to keep their plan because the President of the United States assured them they could.
And yet here comes NBC News saying the regime knew all along this wasn't going to happen, which means the regime was lying from the get-go all along that what they were saying wasn't true.
They knew that premiums weren't going to come down $2,500 and they knew that people weren't going to be able to keep their plans.
And can I give you the main reason why?
Because the long-term objective of Obamacare is to get rid of insurance companies.
Long-term.
And I'm fully convinced that the chaos that's happening now could well be intentional to speed it up.
Folks, if you go listen, and I've got the sound bites here, I'm going to get to them in the next hour, of Obama telling union people what the plan is, how to get single-payer.
That's what this is all about.
How to get to one provider for health care and insurance, and that's the federal government.
And that's the objective.
It's been the objective for 50 years.
Obama told the SEIU in 2007 that he knows people wouldn't accept it overnight, that it's going to take 10, 5, maybe 15 years to get there.
And the way we're going to get there is to have people demand it.
And how do you do that?
You so screw up the existing system that people say, can you strip all this away?
Just you guys do it.
And eventually get the single payer with the public frustrated demanding that.
And that's the plan all along.
The plan all along is to eliminate private sector insurance.
And I'm just going to tell you again: I have known this since before Obama was inaugurated.
I have known this since before I heard of Obama.
This is what the Clintons intended Hillary care to be.
This is not a mystery.
It's not up for debate.
This is not something that I might be wrong about.
It is who they are and it is what their plan for health care is.
It's right out there.
All you have to do is to accept it.
And apparently that's what's so difficult for people to do.
Grab soundbite, let's see, number four.
Get number four first.
NBC Nightly News, Peter Alexander reporting on Obamacare and how many people are losing their coverage.
That millions will lose or have to change their individual policies is not a surprise to the administration.
NBC News senior investigative correspondent Lisa Myers found buried in the 2010 Obamacare regulations language predicting a reasonable range for the percentage of individual policies that would terminate is 40% to 67%.
Health policy expert Bob Leszewski says the new rules make it difficult to carry over an old plan with less comprehensive coverage.
Right, there it is.
Now, NBC, I think you should know, has deleted this story from their website.
Our buddies at Breitbart found this.
On Monday, NBC News reported that Obama knew for three years that Americans would lose their current insurance under Obamacare.
The story quickly became the lead at the Drudge Report, making it the hottest political story on the internet immediately.
For several hours, no problem.
Then, late at night, the story was pulled.
The link was changed, thereby breaking the drudge link.
Stealth edits were made to the piece.
In particular, one key paragraph met the cutting room floor.
And so NBC yanked it after their own report had publicized it.
40 to 67% of existing plans would go by the wayside.
Lisa Myers found buried in the 2010 Obamacare regulations that language predicting 40 to 67 percent of current plans would have to be canceled.
Now, NBC deleted the article and they put it back up without a key paragraph is what they did.
They eliminated a key paragraph.
Now it's all back up, what I understand, because so much heat was brought to bear on the fact that they took it down.
Back after this, folks.
Can we assume that everybody on our side understands the long-term objective here as single-payer?
I guess we can't assume that everybody on our side understands that either.
Because Obama may be a pragmatist and he may recognize his mistake down the road and correct it.