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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 Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program is 800 28282, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet dot com.
You know, Isaac was a little nervous out there, and when we uh we ran out of time with the uh 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 priority straight, folks, kept the kid at home so that he had a chance to be on the program.
Now he 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 Snerg, I said, you know, I almost took that out because puking and said, that's a little, you know, gross.
And I said, no, Catherine said, no, no, no, no, no.
Leave it in.
Kids love people throwing up on other people.
They love it.
I said, well, then my instincts were right.
So we 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, he this 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 uh 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 if 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 to sexually transmitted disease.
And these this is what these people, young kids are taught.
So he's he's telling us he is 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 he 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 had 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, uh, 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 it.
I wrote, I mean, I can honestly tell you.
And I, you know, if I 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 this second one, there's some real, real conflict, and some re-intertaining way of teaching tyranny in a way that 10 to 13-year-olds can understand it.
Uh 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're discussing to people in the context of their perhaps being taken from us, freedom being taken, so 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 communist.
But if there were domestic people that were sympathetic to it, it it was not a persuasive way.
It was it was not a good way to persuade people to think of people by calling them communists.
And I'm I'm sensing now that 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're trading freedom for other things.
A cell phone, security, uh food stamps, I mean, you name it.
People are are unwittingly or wittingly giving it away.
And you getting it back is is much harder than just saying I want to be free.
You know, 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 is 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 in that principle, just the exact opposite.
Uh, 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, and 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, 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, uh, it's 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 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 this is not what's being taught.
Instead, what's being taught is why this country's unjust, why this country's immoral, why you know 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.
Um we have imposed our values.
I've never looked at freedom, by the way, is 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 are 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 and done that.
There's an actual mission here.
So the second book is 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.
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 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.
Uh tailored for that audience.
So one of the things that's been gratifying is the 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, speed well.
I'm finding nobody knew.
Uh 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 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 to, oh, here we go.
Tell you a damn book again.
I don't ever want that to happen.
So I but Snerdlies always you two or three days go by and they don't talk about it.
So they'll try to goad me into uh talking about the book.
But I don't I don't show up anywhere on other TV shows hyping it.
I don't we don't buy ads or any of that.
It we just put it out there and leave it to itself to uh to grow, prosper, whatever.
And it's it's uh yeah, it's just healthier, cleaner that way, and real.
It's not artificial.
So I I appreciate your indulgence here as I explain uh in detail the purpose here and how these uh books come to and yeah, they're gonna be more.
I don't know at what rate, but we got a great team that puts these together the illustrations, uh 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 gotta take a break now.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
Rush Revere and the First Patriots snerdily 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.
The further they're both on sale.
The second was pre-order now.
Here is Patrick in Fairfax, Virginia.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey Rosh.
It's uh great to be with you for I'm first time speaking with you.
Um when I was a little kid, and you talking about little kids' books, I was really into politics.
I grew uh was born in seventy-six and and grew up during Reagan, and I think what drew me to Reagan was his confidence and his um his strength.
And I think uh I was a political nerd early on watching C SPAN.
You know, can I ask you to I'm gonna let you to pause Patrick because I I gotta grab some by five.
I want you to listen to something for me.
And I want I want to get your reaction to this.
I wasn't gonna 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.
LBJ bruising people, twisting arms, and getting what he wants with the hardball attack.
Loved it.
And he tells the story is on he's on a PBS special, a President's Day edition of Charlie Rose last night.
And they're talking about Reagan and his presidential abilities.
And listen to this.
Just it's just thirty seconds.
You know, when Reagan became president, everybody in New York at dinner parties, you know, 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 sky room.
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 you know, it's it's one of one of the more vivid memories I have.
Right.
Now contrast the contrast the way you saw Reagan with Robert Caro here describing these elites in New York.
Ah, what a dunder is a name evil dunce, 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 rid of the state of the union, and did a total 180.
And realized they were dealing with a formidable guy.
Yeah, and uh I wish I wish you know there hasn't been anything like him, you know, since him, but I guess one of the you know, well, that's how special he was, because you're right.
That's uh that's how unique and special is is regarding health care, and I work in health care.
And uh i it's a it's a question regarding leadership.
Um you know, last year for us at the hospital, I work for a Nova Healthcare.
So it's a pretty pretty big organization.
What do you do?
Um I I work as a resource coordinator.
Okay.
So I work with materials, materials management, uh in the OR and social services.
For those of you in Rio Linda, he's gotta find the money.
What's that?
I was telling the people, real Linda what resource management is.
Yeah.
They think it's taking out the trash and stuff.
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 you've Um everybody's getting squeezed.
You know, the good old days of health care are over.
Um as far as um you know, it didn't get run health care didn't get run tightly like it sh probably should have years ago.
I mean um you know, health care 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 uh 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 I think this the 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 um 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 um 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 gonna 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.
There I get right now you have 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, 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 um this morning being aware of Obama talk well, Fox News was discussing Obama um that he's gonna be getting together at the EPA and implementing uh regulations on diesel trucks on the semi-trucks at a federal stand.
So, you know, making a federal mandated um 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 uh 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 we uh the 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 sort of 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 efficiency.
Why do you think Obama's doing this?
Um, I think that honestly the reason why he's picked up on this now is because there is 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 viol violation for the commerce clause in the Constitution.
And I feel that if he is gonna be able because the only way that that California as a state can interfere with interstate commerce is if they said 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 then it's federal for everybody, and then they can go ahead and do it for me to us.
Even after you go through all that, there's a political reason for doing this.
This is not an environmental.
I mean, it's it's it's touted as saving the environment and uh and anti-pollution, and that is just the phony baloney plastic man at a 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 is about rev it's about the 20, 14 midterms about rev uh r uh 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, in in 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-tracks for pollution by the end of his term is what he said.
That the EPA, the EPA is going to be doing this, Amy, on their own.
It's not, 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 sound bites of Obama announcing this travesty.
You know, it 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 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 belly ache about cafe standards.
Yep, corporate average fleet, uh, whatever it is, limb by a standard, cafe standards, got the old 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 safe way supermarket, distribution center, talking about fuel efficiency standards in the economy.
Now, I thought Clinton fixed this back in the 90s.
Cafe standards and uh all this crap.
And they just keep coming back for more.
We're gonna double the distance our cars and light trucks can go on a gallon of gas by 2025.
We're gonna double it.
That means that's big news.
How are we gonna do it?
What it means is you gotta 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.
Now we see you see how this works.
He's a magician.
By 2025, you're gonna 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 gonna happen?
And what in the name of Sam Hill is going to have to happen.
What in the world are you gonna be driving that's gonna double your gas mileage?
What kind of putt putt are they gonna be demanding that you drive?
This is just is magic.
We're gonna double the distance our cars and light trucks going to gun on the gas with 2025.
Okay, cool, man.
Man, this guy Obama, oh, he's great.
Really?
How are we gonna do this?
How's this gonna happen?
And who how's anybody gonna be saving $8,000?
People are gonna have to be buying vehicles they don't want.
This is this is just it's this is irresponsible.
And then he turned around.
Now he he 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 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 gonna issue all kinds of regulations and demands on an industry they haven't the slightest understanding of.
But you're not gonna know any of that.
All you're supposed to know is that just like your health insurance premium was gonna be 2,500 less, now you're gonna be saving $8,000 a year on your gasoline by the time of 2025 comes around.
So I just want you to remember what happened.
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 – if your mileage doubles, it's not going to be because anything these clowns do because they don't have the slightest – 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...
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 eight grand 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, 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, 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 has said.
You know, every client is paying all these costs.
I'm just letting you know.
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.
This isn't these guys being honest with his customers, and so far, it hasn't hurt.
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