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Feb. 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 18, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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All right, here we go, Revved and Ready.
Great to have you back, Rush Lindbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
The email address LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
You know, Isaac was a little nervous out there, and when we ran out of time with the young man, his parents really kept him home from school today so that he could try to appear on the program.
They actually let him.
These are parents with their priorities straight, folks, kept a kid at home so that he'd have a chance to be on the program.
Now, he told Snerdley why Rush Revere is his favorite character.
And that's because Rush Revere puked on one of the crewmates, one of the crew members on the Mayflower during a fit of seasickness.
And I told Snerdley, I said, you know, I almost took that out because puking.
And so that's a little, you know, gross.
And I said, Catherine said, no, leave it in.
Kids love people throwing up on other people.
They love it.
I said, well, then my instincts were right.
So he left it in there.
And that's why he liked Rush Revere because he puked on a bad guy.
And I was going to tell him, you know, you hear what he said?
He came home from school hating Christopher Columbus because he had been taught that Christopher Columbus hated Native Americans and came here and killed them.
And then basically conquered and took everything he found himself.
And who knows whatever else they, I mean, one of the things they teach about Columbus is that he brought racism and he brought sexism.
He brought sexually transmitted diseases.
They actually even lay syphilis on Columbus.
I kid you not.
And they also blame, I'm not making this up, the multiculturalists blame Columbus and other white Europeans for bringing horses.
There were no horses here.
And without horses, there was no way of conquering the Indians.
And of course, that was a bad thing because the Indians were at one with this land.
They were at one with nature.
And the white Europeans, led off by Columbus, came here and basically plundered, raped, and pillaged and brought racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia too.
And sexually transmitted disease.
And this is what these people, young kids, are taught.
So he's telling us he's going home from school one day mad, hating Christopher Columbus.
And fortunately, he got home and told his parents, and they were able to show him where that was wrong and part of an agenda curriculum.
That's why I did these books.
That is exactly why.
And the first book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, tells the true story of that.
And we just went to pre-order on the second book, which, for all intents and purposes, is by popular demand.
I mean, ever since the first book, but two weeks into it, people have been begging for another one.
Parents, kids have been writing.
And we were, there was always going to be, there were always going to be two books.
The only thing we had to decide was when did we want to announce the second one?
And we know one a year, two a year, three a year.
Do we want to become a factory of these things?
And we're still, you know, ironing that out.
But the second book is available for pre-order.
You can be one of the first on your block to get it.
The pre-order is available now at Amazon at Barnes and Noble, iTunes, Books a Million.
Book is actually on sale, audio and hardcover on March the 11th.
And it is good.
Look, I wrote, I mean, I can honestly tell you.
And if I wasn't that excited about it, I wouldn't tell you if it was good if I didn't really think it was.
And this, they're both excellent.
I'm so proud of them.
But the second one, there's some real, real conflict and some entertaining way of teaching tyranny in a way that 10 to 13 year olds can understand it.
These books focus on freedom and what it is.
You know, we're getting to the point in our culture.
I sense anyway that freedom, the word freedom and the concept of freedom, and if you discuss them to people in the context of their perhaps being taken from us, freedom being taken, sort of dwindling away, some people smirk and laugh at you.
Come on, nobody's taking our freedom away.
Come on, Rush.
It kind of reminds me of back in the 80s even, to start describing certain people as communists was ineffective because nobody wanted to believe it.
Nobody, I mean, communists were so bad that nobody could be one other than the Soviet communists.
But if there were domestic people that were sympathetic to it, it was not a persuasive way.
It was not a good way to persuade people to think of people by calling them communists.
And I'm sensing now that even discussing the concept of freedom and losing it, which is happening frighteningly fast, in many cases not being taken, we're giving it away incrementally, little by little.
We are trading freedom for other things.
A cell phone, security, food stamps, I mean, you name it.
People are unwittingly or wittingly giving it away.
And getting it back is much harder than just saying, I want to be free.
Tyranny is the natural state for most of the people who have lived on this planet.
Tyranny and totalitarianism, authoritarianism, that's been, that's what's exceptional about America.
We came along, and as a country, a society, as a culture, we were the exception to the rule of how most people lived.
We were free and our leaders were subservient to us.
That had not been done before.
That had not been codified.
Magna Carta came close, but nationwise, it had never been codified.
A country had never been established on that principle, just the exact opposite.
And that's why we're exceptional.
It's not that we're better people.
It's not that we're stronger DNAs.
We're not smarter.
We're just free.
It was our natural state.
We're born that way.
You know, we talked about the other day.
I think this is fascinating.
This is a mindset.
In most of the world, people are born thinking everything is illegal until their government or their leader tells them something is legal.
We are born thinking everything's legal until the law says it's not.
And the law is a collective effort that we as a society participate in writing.
Laws are not decreed.
Our elected representatives do them.
That's what's so bad about what Obama's doing.
Obama's making up law, choosing to enforce it or not, without the representatives of the people being involved.
That's not how this country works.
It's not how it was founded.
That's why so many people are scared by it and angered by it and very frightened.
And the whole concept of freedom, it's not insignificant.
It is huge.
It is the reason this country became what it is.
It is why this country remained what it became.
And it is also why there hasn't been another United States anywhere else in the world, because there hasn't been any other country that has declared the natural state of the citizen as freedom.
Everywhere else, freedom is parceled out by virtue of what the state permits.
Here, we are born free, able to do what you, until the law says we can't.
But we participate in making those laws.
It's a truly, truly exceptional place.
And that isn't being taught anymore, folks.
And that's why I wrote these books.
Now, I would love it.
You know, we hear of these 10 to 12-year-olds calling.
I would love if every one of them would listen every day and comprehend and understand.
That's not realistic.
A, they're in school.
B, I don't know how interesting all this would be to a 10 or 12 year old.
But yet, I value what I am and do, and I want as many people as possible to be exposed to it so they can have the chance to agree with it.
So that's why I did the books, to take the values that you and I all believe in to that age group or demographic, as it's said.
And in order to reach them, we have to get to their parents.
They don't have the money to go out and buy the book for the most part.
So we've got to reach their parents and grandparents.
And so the books are actually written for everybody.
And the mission behind these books is freedom and the history of this country.
Why it matters, why we are what we are, why the country is what it is, why it is special, why it is exceptional, why it is worth fighting for, why it is worth preserving, why you should love it, why you should be proud of it,
understanding how it came to be, the people who made it, the people who founded it, the people who started it, who were they, who are they, why did they do what they did, how did they do it, what odds did they face.
That's what these books are about.
Because frankly, folks, you and I learned most of this when we were in school, but people today are not being taught this.
This is not what's being taught.
Instead, what's being taught is why this country is unjust, why this country is immoral, what's wrong with this country, what this country's faults are, what does this country need to apologize for, what this country has done to other people around the world.
We have imposed our values.
I've never looked at freedom, by the way, as an imposition.
But the multiculturalists and the left have gotten hold of the curriculum decades ago.
And so you get kids going home from school hating Christopher Columbus.
And next, they're going to go home hating Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, if they don't already.
Or maybe not even knowing who they were.
But they'll certainly go home knowing who Bill Clinton was or Barack Obama or what have you.
But the people that write textbooks today are no different than the people you see hosting shows on MSNBC.
That's who's running American education, federal, state level.
In most places, exceptions to it, of course.
So that's why these books, it's not because I haven't done it, although that is a challenge.
But it's not just to have something else to do.
It's not to enter the book market like everybody else, because I've been there, done that.
There's an actual mission here.
So the second book is Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
And one of the big things that I think is going to be helpful, educational, informative, and entertaining at the same time, has to be for this age group.
Rush Revere and Liberty end up in the palace where King George lives, and Rush Revere gets into a debate, asks the king, what the heck are you doing to these people?
Why do you want to subjugate them?
Why do you want to deny them their freedom?
And it's a way of teaching statism, totalitarianism, without mentioning the words.
It's a way of explaining how people lose their freedom and what kind of leaders want to take freedom away, what kind of people those leaders are, tailored for that audience.
And one of the things that's been gratifying is that process we've found out that there are some adults in the first book reading the story of the pilgrims learning things they didn't know.
Like there was a second ship, Speedwell.
I'm finding nobody knew.
But there are other events in the books that adults even say they're learning.
So it's all been an upper, a big plus, but there's a mission behind it.
And I try not to overdo it because I don't want you all to get, I don't want you, oh, here we go.
I'm talking a damn book again.
I don't ever want that to happen.
So I, but Snerdley is always, you, two or three days go by and I don't talk about it.
So he'll try to goad me into talking about the book.
But I don't show up anywhere on other TV shows hyping it.
We don't buy ads or any of that.
We just put it out there and leave it to itself to grow, prosper, whatever.
And it's, yeah, it's just healthier, cleaner that way, and real.
It's not artificial.
So I appreciate your indulgence here as I explain in detail the purpose here and how these books come to.
And yeah, there are going to be more.
I don't know at what rate, but we've got a great team that puts these together, the illustrations, the original illustrations and finding of public domain pictures and artifacts and graphics and so forth.
It's really fun to put these things together, and it's educational for us as well.
I got to take a break now.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
Snerdly asking me the title again.
People might not have caught it.
Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
Second book, Rush Revere to Brave Pilgrims, is the first one.
They're both on sale.
The second was pre-ordered now.
Here is Patrick in Fairfax, Virginia.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
It's great to be with you.
Thank you.
First time speaking with you.
When I was a little kid, and you were talking about little kids books, I was really into politics.
I was born in 76 and grew up toward Reagan.
And I think what drew me to Reagan was his confidence and his strength.
And I think I was a political nerd early on watching C-SPAN.
You know, can I ask you to, I want you to pause, Patrick, because I've got to grab somebody five.
I want you to listen to something for me.
And I want to get your reaction to this.
I wasn't going to play this bite today because it didn't relate to anything, but you have made it relate.
It's Robert Carro, who is an historian.
And he's written a lot about LBJ.
Loves LBJ.
He's LBJ, bruising people, twisting arms, and getting what he wants with the hardware tech.
They loved it.
And he tells the story.
He's on a PBS special, a President's Day edition at Charlie Rose last night.
And they're talking about Reagan and his presidential abilities.
And listen to this.
It's just 30 seconds.
You know, when Reagan became president, everybody in New York at dinner parties were making fun of him.
You know, they had been in the White House.
So I was trying to write something about a State of the Union speech, Lyndon Johnson.
I'd never seen a State of the Union speech.
So I got a press ticket to the gallery.
And all of a sudden, the speaker says, the president of the United States, and this figure comes through the door with this air of command, Reagan.
And I said, oh, everyone in New York has this guy wrong.
That's the president you grew up with.
That is who, and you just said you remember his confidence and his strength.
I remember four years old watching his inauguration.
I mean, it's one of the more vivid memories I have.
Right.
Now, contrast the way you saw Reagan with Robert Caro here describing these elites in New York.
Ah, what a dunder is a name evil.
Duns, he's an idiot.
And that's what Caro believed.
He was from these people in New York, and he sees Reagan in the majesty of the House chamber getting ready for the State of the Union and did a total 180 and realized they were dealing with a formidable guy.
Yeah, and I wish there hasn't been anything like him since him, but I guess one of those, you know.
Well, that's how special he was.
You're right.
That's how unique and special he was.
Well, my question is regarding healthcare, and I work in healthcare.
And it's a question regarding leadership.
You know, last year for us at the hospital, I worked for Inova Healthcare.
So it's a pretty big organization.
What do you do?
I work as a resource coordinator.
Okay.
So I work with materials, materials management in the OR and surgical services.
For those of you in Rio Linda, he's got to find the money.
Was that?
I was telling the people of Rio Linda what resource management is.
Yeah.
So they think it's taken out the trash.
People were getting laid off, and it was just a real miserable year.
Well, last year, followed by this year, this year is an equally miserable year because everybody's getting squeezed.
You know, the good old days of healthcare are over as far as, you know, it didn't get run.
Healthcare didn't get run tightly like it probably should have years ago.
I mean, you know, healthcare was printing their own money at some point.
And now those days are over.
So to some extent, there needed to be some sort of changes in the industry.
You want to know.
You want to know why people aren't up in arms over this disaster.
Right?
Well, what I'm getting at is I think this thing needs to be fixed.
And Obamacare, you know, where he's got his name on it, there's no one person who you could look at that's taking charge of the law.
And what I'm thinking, just because of someone that watches politics and enjoys politics, is after these midterms, I would hope, and I would think, that there's got to be some sort of Republican faction, you know, some sort of Republican leader that puts its foot down and says, you know what?
Before the next presidential election, I'm going to be the guy that's going to be the face of this law that I didn't want to be the face of.
There are.
Right now, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz single-handedly are trying to become the face in the Republican Party elected politics of opposing this, repealing it, unfunding it, defunding it, getting rid of it.
The problem is, people in their own party are trying to take them out.
Amy, Sonora, California, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good morning.
Hi.
So I wanted to touch on this morning being aware of Obama talk.
Well, Fox News was discussing Obama that he's going to be getting together at the EPA and implementing regulations on diesel trucks on the semi-trucks at a federal stand.
So, you know, making it the federal-mandated emissions stuff for the semi-trucks.
Well, I don't know if you've heard of any of this stuff going on, but I think that the reason why he's now doing this federally is kind of curtailing to what's going on with us truck owners in California right now.
And the regulations that are being put on us, you know, we're just single truck owner operators, most of us.
There is big companies also, but for most of us, we're just small business people.
And there's thousands of us rushed through to getting put out of business right now in California.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
And you're getting put out, and the big guys can withstand it.
You can't.
Yeah.
So Obama's coming along and removing some competition for the big guys.
But everybody is getting hurt.
You happen to stand the risk of being run out of business with these new standards, these fuel officials.
Why do you think Obama's doing this?
I think that, honestly, the reason why he's picked up on this now is because there's several lawsuits that are filed against the California Air Resource Board, but there's also one that's filed against them based on their violation for the Commerce Clause in the Constitution.
And I feel that if he is going to be able, because the only way that California as a state can interfere with interstate commerce is if it's a federal regulation.
Well, it's not.
So the only way for this stuff to get pushed through would be for Obama to come and help his cronies in California by passing some federal law.
Then, you know, then it's federal for everybody, and then they can go ahead and do it everybody.
Even after you go through all that, there's a political reason for doing this.
This is not an environmental ⁇ I mean, it's touted as saving the environment and anti-pollution.
And that is just the phony baloney plastic banana, good time rock and roller sales pitch to get low-information people to support it.
But that's not what's going on here.
It's about the 2014 midterms, about reviving global warming climate change.
It's about getting his base in gear.
But ultimately, it is about what you said, federal control over interstate commerce.
Well, his words were, by the end of his term, he is going to have serious regulations that the EPA is going to be putting on semi-trucks for pollution by the end of his term is what he said.
But the EPA, the EPA is going to be doing this, Amy, on their own.
It's just going to be regulations.
They're going to be able to slap this stuff.
Nobody can do anything about it.
It's not going to happen legislatively.
There will not be a debate about it.
This is pure statism.
I happen to have, ladies and gentlemen, the audio soundbites of Obama announcing this travesty.
You know, the Democrat Party has these greatest hits.
Raise the minimum wage, climate change, pollution.
They have these things that just keep recycling over the years.
And they do it for political purposes to advance their agenda, obviously.
But you'll notice nothing is ever fixed.
How many years?
For eight years, I had to listen to Clinton bellyache about cafe standards.
Yep, corporate average fleet, whatever it is, went by a standard, cafe standard.
Got to go cafe standards up.
It's just, it's BS.
They never fix anything.
They come along and they present the crisis of the day.
They then announce their solution.
They implement the solution.
It never gets fixed.
We're never done with it.
They always keep coming back for more.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
This Obama today was in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, at a Safeway supermarket distribution center talking about fuel efficiency standards in the economy.
Now, I thought Clinton fixed this back in the 90s.
Cafe standards and all this crap.
And they just keep coming back for more.
We're going to double the distance our cars and light trucks can go on a gallon of gas by 2025.
We're going to double it.
That means that's big news.
How are we going to do it?
What it means is you got to fill up every two weeks instead of every week.
And that saves the typical family more than $8,000 at the pump over time.
I'm assuming you can use $8,000 that you're not paying at the gas station.
See how this works?
He's a magician.
By 2025, you're going to get double a gas mileage.
Why 2025?
Why not next year?
Okay, if that's too soon, why not 2018?
Why 2025?
And how is it going to happen?
And what in the name of Sam Hill is going to have to happen?
What in the world are you going to be driving that's going to double your gas mileage?
What kind of putt-putt are they going to be demanding that you drive?
This is just magic.
We're going to double the distance our cars and light trucks going to gallon a gas by 2025.
Okay, cool, man.
Man, this guy Obama, oh, he's great.
Really?
How are we going to do this?
How's this going to happen?
And how's anybody going to be saving $8,000?
People are going to have to be buying vehicles they don't want.
This is irresponsible.
And then he turned around.
Now he describes next how he is instructing his minions to make this magic happen.
Today, I'm directing the Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Fox, who's right there, former mayor of Charlotte, and Gina McCarthy, the administrator of EPA, two outstanding public servants.
Their charge, their goal is to develop fuel economy standards for heavy-duty trucks that will take us well into the next decade, just like our cars.
The only problem is these two people are clueless.
They don't know anything about this.
They're going to issue all kinds of regulations and demands on an industry they haven't the slightest understanding of.
But you're not going to know any of that.
All you're supposed to know is that just like your health insurance premium was going to be $2,500 less, now you're going to be saving $8,000 a year on your gasoline by the time 2025 comes around.
So I just want you to remember what happened.
You told you could keep your doctor and your insurance plan if you liked it, and your premium is going to come down $2,500.
Now, as you think forward, how great it's going to be to save $8,000 a year in your gasoline costs in 2025, think about what's really going to happen.
And you're not going to be saving any money.
You're not going to be doubling your mileage.
If your mileage doubles, it's not going to be because anything these clowns do, because they don't have the slightest under.
Are you kidding me?
Gina McCarthy and Anthony Fox, two bureaucrats, are now going to make this magic happen on fuel mileage.
Here's Obama wrapping up, and this is Obama painting the picture of how overwhelmingly successful everything else he's done is.
The goal we're setting is ambitious, but these are areas where ambition has worked out really well for us so far.
Don't make small plans, make big plans.
And anybody who had dire predictions for the auto industry said we couldn't do it.
Manufacturers couldn't bring jobs back to America.
Every time they say that, they're proven wrong.
Every time somebody says you can't grow the economy while bringing down pollution, it's turned out they've been wrong.
Nobody said that.
Nobody of any consequence says that you can't grow the economy while bringing down pollution.
You can't grow the economy when people like Obama are president is the answer.
Okay, so we're going to create all these new jobs.
We're going to double your gas mileage.
We're going to save you $8,000 by 2025.
Just remember what happened to your $2,500 premium reduction in your health care insurance.
And remember all those green jobs that we were going to create with Cylindra and all of these wind energy and solar energy Obama plans and all those jobs and all of that innovation.
Remember all of that that was going to happen?
Yeah, I'm sure you do.
And you also remember that it didn't happen.
And it's just more empty promises filled with gobbledygook.
Hancock Park, California, a local restaurant, has added a surcharge to every tab, every bill, in order to pay for its employees' health care.
It's located in La Brea, and it's emerging as one of this guy's most popular restaurants.
But there's a 3% surcharge on every bill in order, and the guy's being very upfront and honest about it.
Hey, I have got to pay the health care for my employees, and it's gotten more expensive.
And guess what?
You are paying it.
This is how it works.
I'm just being honest with you, the restaurant owner said.
You know, every client is paying all these costs.
I'm just letting you know.
The restaurant owner says, even if this isn't the perfect solution, it's definitely a solution.
And so far, there isn't any other.
Well, he could cut back on the number of workers or he could sell cheaper food, but that wouldn't work.
So it's out in the open.
The guy's being honest with his customers.
And so far, it hasn't hurt.
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