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March 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 11, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
It is great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Here's our phone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882.
The email address, LRushbo at EIBNet.com.
Folks, on Friday, I said I'll see you Monday.
I had totally forgotten that I was to appear in the Ernie Ells for Autism charity golf tournament yesterday, and I just found out that my team won and that we are under protest.
There is an inquiry into how we actually won the event.
I'll tell you about this as the program unfolds in mere moments, but I am holding here now in my formerly nicotine stained fingers the book.
Number two, ladies and gentlemen, we inside refer to it as book two.
Rush Revere and the First Patriots is out.
This is it.
This is the day it's available.
And I just want to tell you, your kids are going to love it.
If they liked book one, they are going to like book two.
Now, as you know, well, maybe you don't know if you're a new listener.
These books are part of a mission.
I had done a couple of books in the early 90s.
And since then, people have been urging me.
Vince Flynn, good friend, the late Vince Flynn, Rush, you got to do another one.
Running into 2012, you got to do another.
Vince, I've been there, done that.
Don't want to do it.
Catherine came to me and said, you know what?
You are very concerned about education in America and what's happening, what's not being taught, what's being lied about.
Why don't you write the truth of American history for kids?
And that turned the light on.
I mean, that was exciting on a number of levels.
A, the purpose.
But B, the challenge.
Never written children's books before, never even thought about doing it.
And so we were off to the races.
And the first book came out last October, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, the true story of the literally the first people seeking freedom to arrive in the new world.
And that story has been so bastardized and taught wrong and purposely mistold that the mission is educating young people to the truth of this country because it's a great country.
The history of this country is wonderful.
The history of this country is the blessing of God.
The history of this country is something to be extremely proud of.
Being an American is something to be extremely proud of.
And there are too many people in the education system today who simply don't look at America that way.
They don't look at America as anything special.
In fact, some of them look at it as a problem in the world.
There are certainly people who do not believe the founding of this country was, as I believe, miraculous.
I believe it was a miracle.
And preserving it for people who will come after us is important.
We were all born with golden opportunity and freedom, just as our parents and grandparents had found.
And they fought and they sacrificed.
And many of them lost everything to preserve the basic foundations, the institutions, the traditions that define America and its greatness.
We want to do the same.
We want to leave.
I want to do the same.
I want to do what I can to see to it that people who follow me have the same opportunities that I had.
And so that's the mission behind these books.
These books are written for ages 10 to 13, but everybody will enjoy these books.
Everybody that's read them does.
In fact, even adults who have read these books have told us that they are learning things they didn't know about the pilgrims and things that happened either before they set sail, while they were en route and after they got here.
Now, there were always going to be two books.
What we didn't know and what we ultimately decided against was releasing both at the same time.
And it turns out that both were not ready at the same time.
But there was the thought at the beginning, it might be cool to have two of them out at the same time at Christmas.
Nah, nah, because we don't want to rush, no pun intended, the second book.
Now, the reaction, every metric that's used to measure feedback on a book for a first book has just been over the top and gratifying, like I can't tell you.
So the second book, I mean, this is hard to say because I don't want to do anything at all to diminish book one, but every time you do something, you want the next time you do it to be better.
Just like I want this radio show to be better each day, each month, each year than it used to be.
Ditto with the second book, Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
Now, the organizing event in this book is the Boston Tea Party.
However, there's much more to it than just that.
Introductions to famous key figures in American history.
And let me give you the premise.
For those of you new, because I really, I want everybody, I want you to clean out these bookstores today.
I just want you to get out there.
I want you to make Amazon run dry.
I want you to Barnes and Noble and Books a Million, all over.
Just wipe them out.
No stock left after today.
People need to read this stuff, folks.
If I do say so myself, kids need to see this.
They need to read it, and I guarantee you they're going to love it.
It's maybe the first time in their lives that history is something they want to absorb, that they want to learn.
That's the feedback we got in the first book.
They love it.
You've heard them call here.
So here's the premise.
Rush Revere is our logo icon for the best iced tea in America, 2FBT.com, which, by the way, is where the adventures of Rush Revere and everything related to the books is found.
2FBT.com.
So Rush Revere, even though we work him hard as a spokesman, as an icon for 2FBT, is also a substitute teacher, substitute history teacher.
He has a horse named Liberty.
It's a special horse.
The horse talks.
The horse is kind of a smart aleck.
Our young readers' favorite character is the horse.
Liberty also has the ability to time travel anywhere that American history could take someone, including Holland, including England.
And Rush Revere is able to take students, a few students, with them on their time travels.
And Rush Revere is just not a brilliant concept or what, folks.
I mean, this kind of a vehicle provides creative opportunities, galore.
Rush Revere is able to take his smartphone, a built-in video camera, with him as they time travel back to American history.
And they're able to videotape what actually happened, bring it back to the classroom, and without giving away that they time travel.
The whole class doesn't know this.
Just a select few know it.
And it's the mixing of the secret of the time travel with two or three, four students involved, everybody keeping it a secret, and yet the truth of American history being taught in a genuinely fun, truthful, informative way.
And so the second book, give you a couple things about the second book that we've done here that were not in the first book.
Well, actually, one.
And this was fun.
Wherever you go in life, there are non-believers.
In whatever you're doing.
Wherever you go, there are the snarky.
Wherever you go, there are the troublemakers.
Wherever you go are the egomaniacal, self-centered creeps.
We put one in this book.
We've created among the students a villain who attempts to expose it all and undermine and sabotage good old Rush Revere and Liberty and the students.
It's as much as I will say, but I'm going to predict that young readers will end up having vast different emotional reactions to this character.
Another thing, and I've mentioned this before, remember the mission is to teach.
And by the way, let me say that you will not see the word conservative or liberal or politics here.
It's much more subtle than that.
Simply teach the truth.
Simply inform accurately.
Simply use common sense.
And one of the things I try to do is to, these books both constantly harp on freedom as something as important in life as anything is, material or otherwise.
Freedom is a constant, never-ending theme.
And how fragile it is, and how precious it is, and how rare it has been for most living human beings in world history.
And the books attempt to explain all of that in an understandable way to 10 to 13-year-olds and to give voice to oppressors.
But not calling them that.
Just let it be figured out and assumed.
So one of the key elements or parts of this book is when Rush Revere and Liberty time travel back to England and Revere ends up in George III's palace and ends up giving him all kinds of crap for what he's doing to the columnists and columnists.
In this little part of the book, the personality of a totalitarian, the meanness of a dictator is all on display for anybody who reads it to conclude without the king ever being called a liberal or a communist or any such thing.
It's just an inescapable conclusion.
That's the way we employ the art of persuasion here.
So there are a lot of elements because the mission is something we're deadly serious about.
Look at what's happening in New York with this idiot mayor.
And I was, we were, we were, Kevin and I were watching the news last night to try to get the latest on this plane crash in Malaysia, which nobody can get their arms around.
And there was a story, we were watching Fox News, and there was a story on how liberals in New York are mad as hell at the new mayor, what he's doing in charter schools.
And I looked at Kevin, I said, I don't understand.
I really don't.
You elect a communist, you get a communist.
Why are you mad?
Did they not know?
I mean, the guy's wife is a Sandinista.
He honeymooned in the communist paradise of Nicaragua with the Sandinistas presiding.
The guy's a socialist communist.
He wants to get rid of the horses in Central Park.
Even Liam Neeson, the actor, is defending the horses and trying to save them.
With the stories of all the liberal Democrats at the charter schools, and why does he want to get rid of the charter schools?
Because it isn't fair that some students should have better schools than others.
And he's got to pay his price to the unions for helping get him elected.
And they preside over the bad schools.
But the real truth is, we just not fair for people to have better schools than others.
If everybody can't have a good school, nobody can.
So rather than try to find a way to expand the number of charter schools or to improve education in New York, this guy is dumbing it down to mediocrity for everybody under the name of egalitarianism, fairness, and equality, and all that.
And the people that elect this guy was elected by people that think this way, yet he's employing it now, doing everything they knew he was going to do, and they're mad about it.
But that's a great illustration of why doing these books was such an exciting prospect for me to counter that kind of thing that's happening.
Everybody does what they can.
I do this radio show 15 hours a week.
But I had a friend who worked for Kansas City Royals, groundskeeper, George Toma.
And I was at the Super Bowl, one of the Super Bowls in Atlanta with, I guess, the Cowboys and Bills.
And I'm up in the press box for the game.
And Toma is on his hands and knees on the sideline, walking around on his hands and knees.
Now, from that distance, because what was going on here?
I went down to pregame before I ran into George.
I hadn't seen him in a while since my days at the Royalist.
What are you doing?
Crawling around on the field, the sideline.
He had all kinds of Velcro and tape on his hands and knees and elbows, and he was getting up lint.
It was artificial surface, the old astroturf stuff.
And he said, this is Super Bowl.
This is the game.
This is the biggest audience.
I'm getting this field as in greatest shape as I can.
He said, you know me.
My philosophy is always do everything you can and then a little more.
Well, that's what Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrim series is.
Do the radio show 15 hours a week, but let's face it, 10 to 13-year-olds are not going to listen on their own.
They're starting to now, by the way, because of the Rush Revere series, unless their parents have the radio on.
But now they're starting to.
But the odds are they're not going to do it on it.
So how do I, look at, I love very much what I do here.
I'm very proud of what I do, proud of what I become.
And I'm really proud of being an American, proud of what I believe.
How to get it to them.
Bingo.
Rush Revere and the First Patriots second book.
And today is the first day that it's available.
Pre-order has been around for a month or so, but it's now actually in the stores.
You can get it delivered tomorrow if you buy it at any online place, iBooks, Amazon Books a Million, Barnes and Noble, any number of places.
I'm sorry, there's an audio version.
I just happened to have that.
Not abridged.
Full, every word version of Rush Revere and the First Patriots as read professionally by me.
And I've had people say, you know, you didn't have to do this.
You know, you realize what a risk is.
What do you mean, risk?
Well, what if it didn't work?
Well, I didn't think of that.
I don't think of the negative.
I guess it's a risk.
What if people don't like it?
Never written a children's book before.
Yeah, I guess there's some risk involved, but it's worth the effort, folks.
Just really proud of it.
Just one of the wish everybody could read it.
We've donated, what, 15,000 copies of the first book so far to schools who can't afford to buy them or whatever.
And we've found those schools by virtue of students applying, submitting why their school should be recipient of a complimentary supply of books.
And we'll do that with this one, too.
But it's out there now.
I just wanted to, I'm just extremely proud of it.
It really is good.
It was fun to write.
I can't wait for people's reaction to a number of things in this one.
Your kids are going to love it.
I guarantee you they will.
You will too.
And you'll love reading it to them, grandparents, parents.
And just clean them out today, folks.
Just go out there in a massive national effort to sell it out on the first day.
Be done with it.
El Rushbo.
And Rush Revere, the First Patriots.
Thanks for indulging me on this.
But you know me, I love sharing my passions with you.
And this happens to be one of my latest.
Now, what happened at the Ernie Ells tournament?
And I didn't even know it was a controversy.
It may not even be.
But that and all kinds of other stuff when we get back, so don't go away.
So yeah, Friday I said I'll see you Monday.
And then I'd forgotten that I was appearing, and I do it every year.
Ernie Ells is trying to do everything he can for autism.
He's building a big autism center here, and he has this charity tournament.
He does a conjunction with Marvin Shankin, my cigar buddy, Cigar Fish Unado magazine.
Marvin and I always play together in this.
And Rudy Giuliani, the mayor, was with us yesterday, as he was the previous year.
We were scheduled to play with Lee Westwood.
You normally get a pro.
Four of them gets pro.
And Westwood had to cancel because of injury.
So they made an emergency call to Michelle Wee.
And she showed up.
And we just had the best time.
She is without question.
She's the sweetest.
She is the most just the nicest, the most unassuming.
And she happened to be of all, and I don't mean this to put anybody, I'm not going to mention your name.
She's the best scoring pro that we've played with in this event.
I mean, she was just on yesterday.
She was just tearing it up.
Just hitting it.
Just, I mean, sweet spot, flushing at every shot.
And I didn't know I have to bug out.
So I can't stay for the post-event barbecue.
I have to bug out and go.
And there's this report from the Golf Channel this morning.
I just knew about when I saw the transcript.
Michelle's a celebrity in her own right.
She was a last-minute sub.
She was one of the featured pairings of Rudy Giuliani, the ex-mayor of New York, Rush Limbaugh, the talk show host, and Marvin Shankin.
And there's an inquiry as to how they actually won the event yesterday.
But Michelle was kind of laughing, saying the first thing she said with that group was that she went to the same high school as President Barack Obama.
So you can imagine where that discussion went.
Wrongo, and I'm not going to give anything away, but that no, that doesn't tell you anything about.
And I know Rosa Ford is a nice guy, but that doesn't tell you anything.
I'm not going to betray what she said, but that but I didn't know that we won.
And I also didn't know that there was an inquiry into how we won.
That means somebody's alleged irregularities.
Michelle We, at age 10, age 10, was the youngest player ever to qualify for a USGA amateur championship at age 10.
She's still only 24 years old from Hawaii.
She lives here in South Florida now for a bunch of reasons.
She and the whole family.
But I think they called her yesterday morning when Westwood couldn't make it.
She came right over.
And no time to warm up.
It was so pure.
It was just, it was a thrill to watch her ball strike.
If you play golf, you know what I'm talking about.
And there were some people out there watching.
I mean, they hit it on this sweet spot every swing.
I mean, she had a couple she didn't like, but she was on every greener regulation and hitting the ball a mile.
But an inquiry into how we won, I think, Rosa Ford's.
What do you say?
There's an inquiry as to how.
And then he said they actually won the event.
Oh, by the way, then he said, Michelle was kind of laughing, saying the first thing she said with that group was she went same hat scroll as Obama, so you can imagine where the discussion went.
You know, folks, the one thing is true.
Obama is not in my head 24-7.
I wasn't even thinking Obama out there, but I do live rent-free in his house, in his head, the other way around.
So I got to find out what it is that is being inquired into because I didn't hear from Marvin.
Normally, if we'd have won, I would have heard.
And when I find out, I'll be sure and pass it on to you.
Look at this.
There's a barbershop in Greeley, Colorado.
Please, there's a sign in the front of the barbershop.
Please do not come in if you smell like marijuana.
There are families with kids who don't want to smell it.
This is a business.
It is not your house.
Thank you.
If you don't like it, please go somewhere else.
Hugo Corral is the 23-year-old owner of Hugo's barbershop.
And yesterday afternoon, Hugo told theblaze.com that he posted the sign in the window a few weeks ago and was almost immediately hit with complaints as well as salutes.
And now the story has become national news.
The whole nation has an opinion on it.
Half of them hate it.
The other half love them.
Well, wait a minute now.
Wait a minute.
What is it?
Bakers and party planners and others.
If homosexuals walk in, they have to do business with them.
But a guy can put a sign up that he refuses to cut people's hair who smell like pot.
Will there be an effort made to force Hugo Corral to cut everybody's hair regardless?
Will they now say he's discriminatory against pot-smelling people?
What do you bet there isn't anything like that?
The Senate, the Democrats in the Senate did an all-night talk-a-thon on global warming.
I have to tell you something, folks, and this kind of give away why they're doing it.
Does anybody think that an all-night talk-a-thon, don't call it a filibuster, they said, that an all-night talk-a-thon on climate change or global warming is going to get them a single vote?
With everything else going on, I mean, you've got Democrats running away from Barack Obama as fast as they ever have run away from a Democrat president because of Obamacare.
You've got Obama going on an internet TV show, making a pretty big fool of himself in trying to pitch Obama.
The audio soundbites of this coming up.
And here are these Democrats, and they're in there.
Oh, and Diane Feinstein, is this not rich?
Diane Feinstein found out that congressional computers have been spied on.
And she is livid.
You know, it's perfectly fine for the NSA to spy on everybody else, but when the CIA or anybody else starts looking into her computers, then there's going to be hell to pay.
But these people doing this all-night talk-a-thon in the Senate, they've got a bunch of fundraisers out there threatening to withhold money.
There's one guy, forget his name.
We talked about him a week or two ago.
He's a multi-billionaire financier of some kind.
And he was telling them, if you guys don't get serious about this, I'm pulling my money.
And that's why they did it.
It's strictly for money.
Now, money being as important as it is, there may not get any additional votes per se from this.
But the money that will not be taken away because they did this will, of course, come in useful for them in their campaigns.
Tom Steyer, that's right, that's what the guy is, Tom Steyer, and he's a wacko.
He's a legitimate, ultra-left-wing, but filthy rich, if you can believe it.
Hedge fund wacko.
Filthy rich.
$100 million at a time he gives the Democratic Party threatened to withhold it if they didn't start and if Obama and the Democrats didn't start getting serious about climate change.
So the Democrats go, let me ask you a question.
It's the same thing about people and who they have sex with.
What is political about this?
Why in the world is climate change political?
You get Richard Branson, who is single-handedly responsible for more CO2 emissions than maybe any living human being because of Virgin Atlantic Airlines.
The amount of CO2 that his jets have put in the atmosphere would dwarf anything you've ever even dreamed of in your SUV.
And he's out there praising the Apple CEO for telling investors who don't want money wasted on this kind of stuff at the corporate level to go take a hike.
And away, Tim, you tell them.
That's exactly right.
And we need more CEOs to tell investors to take a hike.
We need more investors to CEOs to tell investors to avoid the stock.
And we need more CEOs that are going to sit there and do the right socially conscious thing with corporate money.
So what is this?
The guy puts out more pollution, if you want to call it that, and yet he's out there making it sound like he's one of the biggest anti-global warming, anti-CO2 warriors.
It's no different than Gates and Buffett standing for tax increases.
It inoculates them from any criticism as rich guys.
And when the people with pitchforks gather at the gates to try to take away everybody's money, they'll leave gates and Buffett alone because, and the Kennedys, they'll leave them alone.
So here's a guy that single-handedly is responsible for more pollution than entire cities combined, beating the drum for corporate responsibility when it comes to pollution.
And he's not going to shut his airplanes down.
He did fly one with vegetable oil in one of the engines once.
No passengers on it.
Things spelled like french fries the whole route.
He did.
He put vegetable oil in one of the engines as a test.
And it was just a PR thing.
And they're never going to fly a jet with people on it powered by Wesson Oil.
They're just not going to do it.
So it's nothing but a PR.
Why is this political is my point?
To those of you in the audience who are low-information voters, of course, most low-information voters don't think they are.
That's the dilemma, the irony.
They don't think they are.
Most stupid people don't realize it.
They're not smart enough to know they're stupid.
And there's the same thing with low-information voters.
They don't know enough to know how little they know.
So when I say to you low-information voters, there's nobody out there always talking to me.
But I'm just going to ask the question anyway, what in the world is Republican versus Democrat about global warming?
Let me put it another way.
Why is climate change such a big deal to the Democrat Party?
What is it that's political about it?
I'm serious.
I'm asking you to provide an answer yourself.
What is political?
So that same difference.
What is political about two men having sex with each other or two women having sex?
What is political about that?
But it is.
As far as the Democrat Party is concerned, it is.
Everything they do is political.
What is political about climate change and global warming?
Why is that a political issue, not a science issue?
Why is it that where you go to learn about that is politics and not science?
And in answering the question, you might find out where the fraud exists.
Why does one particular party seem hell-bent on the belief that there is man-made global warming?
Why?
And the answer is very simple.
Higher taxes, bigger government, and less freedom.
That's what you'll surrender in order for these people to, quote-unquote, fix it.
But they can't.
They can't.
They can't even prove that we are causing it yet.
And there's no way they can fix it.
There's no way they can reduce CO2 emissions without turning everybody into poverty-stricken waves.
It just can't be done.
It's not about fixing it when you get down to it.
See, that's the dirty little secrets.
Like Obamacare is not about health care.
And global warming is not about keeping it from getting hot.
Global warming climate change is not about making it cooler.
It's not about any, it's like healthcare is not about healthcare.
They are simply disguised issues to advance a particular party, in this case, the Democrat Party's agenda.
I got a, somebody sent me an email with a stat in it.
And it was a list of cities run by Democrats that are all in the top three of crime, poverty, every negative metric you can think of.
These Democrat cities are at the top of the list.
And here it is.
Just happened to find it.
The FBI tracks crime stats based on property and violent crimes.
For 2013, here are the numbers for the 10 most violent cities in America.
All 10 are run by Democrats.
Camden, New Jersey, Flint, Michigan, Detroit, Oakland, California, St. Louis, Cleveland, Gary, Indiana, Newark, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Birmingham, Alabama.
And the question I got was, why do Democrats ever win an election?
Wherever they run the show, everything is falling apart.
Everything is falling apart.
Everybody is in misery.
How do they keep winning elections?
And there's an easy answer to that.
But I have to take a break.
Sit tight, my friends.
Don't go away.
Be right back.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and we started the phones in Fox River Grove, Illinois with Steve.
Welcome.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Well, hello, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
I've been a Rush Limbaugh apologist now for 20-something years.
A Rush Limbaugh apologist.
Hmm.
Interesting.
Thank you, sir.
Well, I live in the liberal bastion of America, so I get ample opportunity to defend you.
I appreciate that.
I really do.
I know what you meant by it.
You're surrounded by people who don't know what they're talking about, constantly ripping me, and you're trying to set them straight.
Well, Rush, the reason I'm calling today is because I have heard you speak recently about your optimism for the country, and I find it very difficult to share.
I want to be optimistic about the future of America.
I love America.
I love what America represents, but I hearken back to the America I remember from 40 or 50 years ago, more so than today.
And what I see happening today, with the debt at the level it is, with the lack of political will in Washington, I find it difficult to understand how the country can recover from its current course and how it can be the America I remember again.
Let me ask you, a lot of people feel identical to you.
Many of them would call themselves members of the Tea Party, in fact.
How old are you?
Ballpark.
57.
37?
57.
57.
In your life or in your knowledge of history, can you remember a time when the country was in such dire straits as it is today?
No, the closest thing I can remember is at the beginning of the Reagan administration when the country was in a lot of trouble.
The economy was terrible and the interest rates were ridiculous.
But we weren't carrying the debt that we had back then.
And even though we were operating under deficits, it was nothing like it is today.
So that's the only time.
The only thing that I can remember, I mean, if I look at history and the end of World War II and how much trouble we were in back then, I know that there have been other times when the country was in big trouble.
But this just doesn't appear to be something that this country can recover from.
There's no will in Washington to change the direction.
Now, that is undeniable.
So the change isn't going to come from there.
The change is not going to start there.
I wish that I could be more specific with you about the reasons for my optimism, but I can't because it's just a, I'll admit, a feeling.
And I will admit I have a desire for it to happen, obviously.
But I also think it's going to.
I just, how that's going to manifest itself, if I had to guess, I would say that at some point, and it may be relatively soon, oh no, a young adult generation is simply going to throw up its hands and say, enough.
We are not living this way.
We are not going to continue what you, our parents and grandparents, have been doing.
We don't want an economy like this.
We don't want hopelessness like this.
We do not want indebtedness like this.
And we don't want to pay for the rest of our lives for all of the mistakes that you've made.
I've just always believed in the population.
I believe there's going to be a rally, and I think it's going to require a leader.
And there are plenty of people trying to lead this rally.
There are plenty of people that want to.
Some of them are in Washington right now, but they're really not of Washington.
But to believe the opposite is to throw in the towel.
I can't do that.
I just, I refuse.
There'd be no reason to do this anymore or to write these books for kids.
If I were of the opinion that this is it, it's over, and we've lost the country, then that I couldn't accept that, and I don't.
And I wish I could be more specific with you, but I can't.
We'll be right back.
All right, look, I can get a little bit more specific, folks, but I have to talk about me, and I'm not comfortable doing that, but I'll do it.
I'll do it.
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