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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Okay, wait for it.
	Wait for it.
	You're gonna love this.
	Folks, you're absolutely going to love this.
	Well, wait.
	Maybe some of you won't love this.
	Let me speak for myself.
	I love this.
	You know that magical serum that was given to two white Americans suffering from Ebola.
	You know what the magic ingredient is?
	Nicotine.
	Tobacco is the magical ingredient in the serum, it's a Kentucky tobacco plant from which they derive the magical serum that has caused massive reversals of the symptoms of Ebola in the two white Americans.
	By the way, we have a couple to see I told you so there are actually a couple of examples of what it means to be on a cutting-edge societal evolution.
	A couple of really good examples of what I mean when I say show prep for the rest of the media.
	One of them is really big.
	But before we get to them, the official open of the program.
	Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers all across the fruited plain.
	It is the time-honored EIB network, Rush Limboy here behind the golden EIB microphone at 1800-282-2882, and the email address, Ilrushbow at EIBNet.com.
	So yesterday on this program, I made a salient point.
	I pointed out that while Obama is out blaming the Republicans for doing nothing, and that's why he's gonna have to do blanket amnesty for what 5 million, 6 million illegal immigrants.
	He's running around all these campaign-style appearances.
	Hey, you know what?
	I'm willing to do the work.
	If if the Republicans won't help me, if somebody won't do it, then I'm gonna do it myself.
	And everybody, yay, right on, Mr. Tyrant, you just go right ahead, dude, and we're right behind you.
	You want to go pretend to be dictator have at it.
	We're all for it.
	Well, what did I point out?
	Those of you who were here yesterday will recall that it was I, El Rushbo, who pointed out that President Obama had control of both houses of Congress for two years and did not move on an immigration bill.
	And during that time, and I think it was uh uh it might have been an interview with the Spanish language cable news network.
	The president even said that the Constitution prohibits him, that he can't just willy-nilly enact laws that Congress has to play along.
	He even pointed out to the UN When he spoke to the United Nations shortly after it was learned that uh that a YouTube video had caused what happened in Benghazi.
	He said a number of the dictators at the UN had been asking him why they didn't just put the guy in jail.
	And Obama said at the speech at the unit at the UN telling these tyrants, because of our laws, our lo say that we freedom of speech as though these gun-toting Star Wars Cantina types had no clue about our constitution.
	Anyway, he's invoked it a number of times.
	The Constitution limits him.
	I think he told Jorge Remos, wherever he is at Telemundo or Univision, uh, and a couple of La Raza, a couple other groups, and during those two years, he was unopposed.
	The Democrats ran the House, the Democrats ran the Senate for two years, and if Obama had wanted to do amnesty for all 11 million Americans at the time, he could have done it.
	And he could have done it according to the Constitution.
	He had control of Congress.
	Why didn't he do it?
	Was what I asked yesterday.
	Why didn't he do it?
	He's running around now saying that he would act unilaterally after refusing to act with Congress.
	Congress won't help him, so he's gonna have to act unilaterally.
	However, he had a Congress for two years and didn't do it.
	And the answer to the question is, he knew, and everybody in the regime knew that the American people were opposed to it.
	And he didn't want the Democrats being blamed for it.
	Because there was no credit.
	See, this is, folks, this is really important because the Republican Party and America's conservatives are told every day by the media that if they don't do this, that they're never going to win the White House again.
	If they don't support Amnesty, if they don't okay it, if they don't get on board and just grant all these people in the shadows immediate citizenship, or at least a pathway to it, that the Hispanic voters in this country can be so ticked off or never ever going to vote for them, ever, never going to win the White House again.
	Well, if that's true, why didn't Obama take advantage of this and wrap up the Hispanic vote forever when he had two years of a Democrat controlled Congress and do Amnesty and freeze the Republicans out?
	And I'll tell you the answer.
	The answer is there is no credit because the majority of Americans oppose it.
	If indeed amnesty was the way to lock up the Hispanic vote, you can damn well bet that Obama would have done it during those two years when he had a Democrat Congress.
	He didn't.
	And again, very simple explanation.
	There was no credit to be had.
	There would have only been blame.
	So now, when he's got a Republican House blocking him at every move, now he's going to go out and do it, claiming he's not going to do it, by the way.
	He's threatening to do it, and I'll explain why in a moment.
	I don't want to get off into a tangent here.
	I don't think he's going to do it.
	I think I know why he's trying to get the Republicans to take the dive off the deep end.
	That's what he's trying to get the Republicans to do it, because doing it will kill the Republican Party.
	Not doing it.
	Grabbing amnesty, trying to court the Hispanic vote, will kill him.
	Kill their political chances.
	Obama, the Democrats know this, that's why they want them to do it.
	He's trying to go them into doing it.
	But he's not going to.
	He's not going to do it, folks, because there isn't any credit to be had for it.
	There is only blame, particularly now with what's happening with the children, happening of the children of the border.
	There is no popular consensus for this.
	It's another one of these gigantic tricks.
	Okay.
	So that's basically a rehash of yesterday's program.
	Now, I don't know if you know this or not, but after that happened at the White House press briefing yesterday, and I like this guy, I'm not accusing anybody of anything.
	I'm simply pointing out, show prep for the rest of the media.
	I'm simply pointing out the cutting-edge nature of this program.
	Shortly after that, a reporter stood up.
	I'm not going to give you his name because it's not a cut on the reporter.
	That's not the reason I'm pointing this.
	I'm pointing this out to show you that if you're here every day, you're going to be ahead of the curve.
	A reporter asked the press secretary during the White House press briefing yesterday, after that little diatribe I just went through, why didn't President Obama do immigration reform when the Democrats control both the House and the Senate?
	It was a pregunta that was asked shortly after the segment here on this program yesterday.
	And the reporter reminded Josh Earnest that hey, look, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, they were running the House and the Senate, and they didn't act for two years.
	So why didn't the president do anything then?
	Josh Ernest said, well, at the time, you recall back in 2009, there were many things on the president's plate, as there are now.
	Israel, Gaza, Syria, the economy.
	He's got a lot going on right now.
	And the press secretary evaded the question.
	And a reporter kept hounding.
	And then Graham Audio Sunday 13, after that happened, then the drive-bys went and got a piece of tape from September 28th, 2011 at the White House, President Obama participating in an open for questions roundtable, and he was responding here to questions from readers of Yahoo, MSN Latino, AOL Latino, the low information crowd.
	And one of the correspondents said, Mr. President on a Dream Act, uh I'm an un and this is a statement from New York City.
	Mr. President, I'm an undocumented law graduate from New York City.
	I'm just writing, it's a low information guy, probably Yahoo News or whatever.
	Just writing to say that your message that you do not have a dance partner is not a message of hope.
	A real dancer goes out on a dance floor and picks out his or her dance partner.
	You're just waiting.
	You have the facts, you got the numbers, you got the dollars, you got the votes on the side of granting administrative relief for the dreamers.
	We are doing our part.
	It's time you do yours.
	In other words, the question, why aren't you doing amnesty, Mr., why haven't you done it?
	And here's what he said.
	This notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true.
	We are doing everything we can administratively.
	But the fact of the matter is there are laws on the books that I have to enforce.
	And I think there's been uh great disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow by myself I can go and do these things.
	It's just not true.
	Yes, you see, so ever since, ever since the question at the press briefing, which followed my pointing out, and and by the way, let me reiterate this is a key point politically.
	Now, I know many of you think I'm just reaching around my back and patting myself on the back, and I am.
	If I don't, who will?
	And this program deserves to get the credit it deserves, and it doesn't, and I'm I'm just I'm letting you know that you're ahead of the curve if you're here.
	So to review, and this the politics of this are really crucial.
	The president could have granted amnesty the first two years and ended the Republican Party's existence as we know it, if what they're saying today is true.
	They're saying you can't win the White House without the Hispanic vote.
	And the way to get the Hispanic vote is to grant amnesty to 11, 12 million people, whatever it is.
	If you don't do that, Chuck Schumer's saying it, if you don't do that, you're never going to win the White House, right?
	Okay, so why didn't Obama do it the first two years and end the Republican Party?
	Because if what they're saying today is true, it was true then.
	If it was true now, it's true, then why not grant amnesty when the Democrats in Congress could have put their fingerprints on the whole Democrat Party could have taken credit for this.
	Grant Amnesty, and that's the end of the Republican Party, right?
	Why didn't they do it?
	Because it's not something anybody's gonna get credit for.
	It's something anybody, everybody's gonna get blamed for, and Obama didn't want the blame.
	They are trying to trick and intimidate the Republicans into signing off on this.
	This is proof positive.
	And here's Obama.
	Why didn't you do it back then?
	Well, hey, you know what?
	Uh, this notion I can somehow just change the law unilateral, well, that's not true.
	Really?
	After how many waivers of Obamacare?
	Uh the DREAM Act itself.
	What do you mean?
	That's what he said two years ago.
	It could have been just as easy.
	Folks, a slam dunk big time, cherry on the top of the ice cream cone, major victory point here.
	And it's something the Republicans had better realize that there is no credit and therefore no success to be had by being seen as responsible for amnesty.
	It might get you your Chamber of Commerce dollars, but it isn't going to matter because you're going to be voted out of office, and all the Chamber of Commerce dollars cannot save you.
	All right, and will not save you.
	All right, that is show prep for the rest of the media example number one.
	There's another one.
	And I'd do that for you after this.
	So don't go away.
	How are you?
	Welcome back.
	Rush Limbaugh.
	Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
	Okay.
	So yesterday on this program, when it was learned that two American missionaries, uh, men by the name of Brantley, and a woman by the name of White Ball.
	Uh, Keith Brant, Kent Brantley and Nancy Whitewall had been, and she, by the way, is the last.
	She's arriving today from Africa.
	They both have Ebola.
	And a super secret serum, unbeknownst to anybody but a precious few researchers had been being tested on monkeys.
	It had shown some success.
	And so the rescue flights took doses of this magical serum on the jet from Georgia to Liberia, wherever they went to pick up these two people and administered the doses, and the reports were that symptom reversals began rather quickly.
	Now, some people said they noticed changes in an hour.
	Others saying, no, no, no, no, not possible.
	But nevertheless, symptom reversal has been profound.
	And so yesterday on this program, I, your sensitive ever in touch host, posited that it wouldn't be long before we would hear people in the media saying, wait, wait a second.
	You get people dropping like flies with this disease in Africa.
	And you only took enough of this stuff for two white Americans, and you didn't give any to the Native Africans who are dying in record numbers with this disease?
	What's with that?
	How in the world can you only give this to American, white Americans to boot?
	Why didn't you take enough for everybody?
	Well, it didn't take five hours.
	Let's go to audio soundbite number one, CNN last night.
	I know it's miraculous.
	I know it was untested, that it was very risky, but what about everyone else?
	I mean, uh, nearly a thousand have died, all of them Africans.
	Suddenly, two white Americans get the disease, and suddenly all the stops get pulled out.
	Keep in mind, this had never been done before.
	I mean, he was the first human, so I think there is now some proof of principle.
	And the question becomes is this something that could be, you know, made more available to the masses?
	This is very unusual situation, Aaron.
	Typically you test things.
	It goes to a clinical trial to test for safety, to test for how effective it is, and then they figure out if it can be distributed to the masses.
	Right, it was Dr. Sanjay Gupta who announced the details of the serum yesterday.
	And he said, Well, look, it had only been tested on monkeys.
	I mean, the fact of the matter is, these white people, as you say, they were guinea pigs.
	We didn't know what was going to happen.
	You can't say that we denied giving this to Africans who are black, by the way, in favor of two Americans, who are white, by the way, because hell, it could have killed them.
	We didn't know.
	This thing had never been tested.
	Uh now there's some proof of principle.
	Uh, and now we now we know that maybe it could be used.
	So these two Americans, that's the excuse that's being offered.
	Don't buy it.
	They wouldn't have given this stuff to these two people if they thought it was gonna make them worse.
	I mean, in other words, they had enough evidence to know, based on its uh well uh on the reaction that monkeys had with it.
	But I mean, how long did it say it was hours?
	It was ours.
	Do I know these people or do I know these people?
	Now the PS that is this nuts.
	The name of the serum is Z Map, and it's named after a uh a company, a Kentucky bioprocessing company in Owensboro.
	And to and it is made from tobacco.
	It is made from a unique Kentucky tobacco plant.
	The drug is a cocktail of three humanized monoclonal antibodies that are manufactured in a group of fragrant plants or bushes known by the genus name Nicotiana.
	What do you think the root word of nicotyana is?
	Try Joe Campbell.
	Try nicotine.
	Exactly right.
	Joe Campbell is the root word.
	Nicotine.
	As Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies used to say, tobacque.
	It is tobacque that is responsible for the magical potion and serum that was used to treat these two white Americans.
	The again, the drug cocktail is known as ZMAP, developed by a San Diego company, MAP, two Ps in there, MAP, biopharmaceutical, manufactured in Kentucky using fast growing tobacco plants, which act as photophotocopiers to produce proteins that are extracted from the plants and processed into the drugs.
	And not just any tobacco plant.
	I mean, this is a bet at a hell fast growing tobacco plant.
	You know what's you know how convoluted things are, folks.
	Here the media is all concerned that we have this magical serum from the tobacco plant in Kentucky that has produced a magical reversal in two white Americans suffering from Ebola.
	And why didn't we give that to these poor suffering Africans?
	Why do we only take enough for these two white Americans?
	And yet nobody talks about the number of Africans who have been killed from malaria because we banned DDT.
	You know how many people have died?
	Unnecessarily because of this nut case, Rachel Carson.
	The ban on DDT has caused the spread of malaria, which has killed people by the tens, hundreds of thousands in Africa.
	There's always a sense of proportion that is missing on all of these things.
	And it's it's largely because conventional wisdom simply picks up some piece of uh information that is wrong, but it's established as so-called fact, and it just survives.
	And again, it survives because it's approved by left-wingers.
	It's all political.
	Every bit of this.
	Ebola is political, every bit of this.
	Given the way it's dealt with, I mean.
	I, you know, I think that's the thing that that really presents us with the biggest problem in trying to persuade low information voters of what's going on.
	Isn't it true most low information vote, and maybe not confined to low information voters, isn't it true that that you hear it a lot, that people just say, I hate politics.
	I hate it, I don't trust it, I'm fed up with it, and I want to hear about it, and nothing ever gets done.
	You hear that all the time from people.
	Those are the same people that do not know that everything is political.
	They hate politics, but the only thing to them that's politics is whatever the president in Congress might be arguing about, or if it's happening in Washington.
	But they would never see that there's politics attached to virtually everything in pop culture that they are consuming.
	They hate politics, and this is my point.
	If they knew, if they were able to spot the politics in everything, given how much they hate it, it might be productive, but I've that that to me is is an indication of the uh the great task it is.
	I mean, if if and low information people, let's be frank, they're gonna have to be turned into more information than they've got people.
	If uh if we're gonna have a serious reversal here.
	We can't continue to have the lowest common denominator among us dominate things.
	It's not that they do, it's that the Democrat Party panders to them.
	The Democrat Party cultivates them, the Democrat Party wants them to remain low information for as long as possible.
	And they don't even see that.
	There's politics in so much, and these are the people that hate politics.
	They think they're escaping politics by watching TMZ or by e entertainment TV or reading whatever they read, or going to Twitter and Facebook, that's nothing but politics in social media, but they don't see it there.
	They only see it if acknowledged politicians are talking about things.
	And they miss so much.
	That's why, folks, for 27 years, 26 years.
	I have been on this quest to get everybody to see the ideology that's present in practically every news story.
	Let me give you just a brief example.
	Oh, before I get to that, Thomas Sowell has an excellent column.
	I saw it on Drudge.
	It's it's actually posted at WorldNet Daily.com.
	And Sowell, I'm sure that if you read this column, you'd be saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
	It's exactly right.
	It's exactly what I think.
	He chronicles a couple of examples or three or four examples of things and points out how there isn't any thinking anymore.
	We're not teaching thinking that people don't think.
	In fact, thinking is discouraged.
	And he he uses uh as one example, Geraldo Rivera, as a thoughtless person, somebody that does not think.
	Haroldo was on Fox earlier this week, really ripping Drudge because of what was on Drudge's website.
	Drudge at the top had nothing but Ebola stories.
	Uh or no, it was nothing but immigration stories.
	The horrors of what's going on with these children at the border, the border patrol, all these things that you know.
	And Haraldo was ticked off that Drudge was doing it.
	He was going to start a civil war.
	That Drudge is making things up.
	That Drudge is focusing on things that normally wouldn't even make the news because he's got an agenda, and so what's the matter with it?
	If you don't want it, don't look at it.
	Why do you have to shut it down?
	Why does everybody want to shut things down and remove it from the public square?
	It makes you nervous.
	You don't want to deal with it.
	So people have stopped thinking.
	Don't even consider alternatives.
	It's a really, really good piece.
	Now there's a very upsetting story out of the uh Afghanistan war today.
	It's uh headline, U.S. general reportedly killed by an Afghan soldier.
	United States Army Major General was killed on Tuesday by an Afghan soldier soldier shot at close range at a military training academy on the outskirts of Kabul.
	By the way, you might hear it pronounced Kabul, but it isn't.
	It's Kabul.
	K-A-B-U-L.
	The officer was the highest ranking member of the American military to die in hostilities in the Afghanistan war.
	Coalition officials who spoke on condition of anonymity and would not release the name of the major general sent an unspecified number of other service members of the American-led coalition and Afghan soldiers, including a senior Afghan commander, also were shot.
	Now do you remember Fort Hood?
	The massacre at Fort Hood, where a member of the Army stood up and shot at a Lauak Bar and just let loose and killed and wounded a number of people.
	You remember what that was called?
	It was called workplace violence.
	It was workplace violence.
	It was anything but what it was.
	They never ever not gonna call it terrorism.
	No way.
	It could not have been the result of a militant Islamist infiltrating the U.S. Army.
	Hell no, that couldn't happen.
	Our security's too tight.
	It never happened.
	It is somebody that just cracked, just like in your office and just workplace violence.
	Well, I don't know what President Obama is going to say, if anything, about this major general killed in Afghanistan, but I wouldn't be surprised.
	If the way he describes it is, quote, an army general was a victim of workplace violence today.
	Seems there was a little trouble with some of the folks over in Afghanistan.
	I'll have more about this after I uh after I save the country from the Tea Party Republicans.
	No, I'm I doubt that he is.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	one thing is an act of war and another one's not.
	Workplace violence.
	See, workplace violence is even political.
	And this is the this is the thing.
	All these people, average ordinary Americans, some of them low information, talk about how much they hate politics, have no idea how everything they care about or interested in has been politicized.
	They don't see it as such.
	They don't see the Democrats as political.
	The Democrats are the ones that politicize all this thing.
	The Democrats, Google, Facebook, Twitter, who are these people?
	They're all liberal Democrats.
	They all donate, they all promote, they all vote.
	Liberal Democrat.
	Everything they do is political.
	But since these people don't see politics in all that is political, and they know these people are all Democrats, why then it's not political.
	And why do they hate politics?
	Well, it just you reduce it down to hate politics because of the Republicans.
	The Republicans are the ones that make everything political.
	And the poor old sap Republicans, they're just sitting around, they get up in trepid fear every day, wondering what the hell is going to be thrown at them that day.
	The Republicans haven't been on the aggressive war path, and I don't know how long the Republicans aren't doing diddly squat, except sitting there getting blamed for everything.
	And being told how they're haters and they're racists and they're bigots.
	And the guys that are making everything political escape any association with politics, which these low information people claim to hate, so therefore, who's politics?
	Who's political?
	Republicans are.
	This is how it all works.
	This is why my quest to get everybody possible, as many as possible, to see the politics in everything.
	Right now, when you're...
	When you're a person that sees politics and everything, you're an extremist.
	To people that don't get it.
	It's crazy.
	And you're tinfoil hats, the conspiracy theory behind every simple little occurrence.
	No, no, no, no.
	I just understand the left.
	I just understand them, front to back, top to bottom, sideways to sideways.
	I understand them.
	I know how they do it.
	I know what they're gonna say before they say it, how they're gonna react before they react, because I understand their politics.
	And now, my friends, an obscene profit break.
	We'll be back and continue after this.
	Don't go away.
	Look, I want to make this point again because I really think it's uh I I think I'm on to something here.
	I I think it is um a profundity.
	Young people, low information people, are the ones who claim to hate politics.
	They don't like it, they don't like the arguing, right?
	Date 25-year-old girls.
	They don't like loud voices.
	It all makes them nervous.
	They don't like the can't we just get along why they have to argue about everything.
	Damn it, can't they hate politics?
	They do not understand how everything they are exposed to is political.
	They don't like politics, and so therefore the only people to them who are political are Republicans.
	The Republicans are the ones who are political.
	Obama is not political.
	You see, global warming isn't political, that's science.
	It's a Republicans that are making it political.
	The Democrats just trying to save the planet, the polar bears and all that.
	They do not see that the people moving all of these destructive issues, forcing them on our culture, are political.
	They only see the opposition to it as political, and they hate politics, they say.
	And this is this is why you know I sit here constantly and fret over the fact that we need to get more people to be able to see the politics in everything.
	And it's it's because this is it in a nutshell.
	These low information people, all these people in social media, they claim they hate politics, they tune out of it in the bickering the argument, don't like it, have no idea how everything they consume Is presented to them for the purposes of advancing a political agenda.
	They just to them, politics is what happens in Washington.
	And the only politic Obama, he's not political.
	He's trying to save poor people.
	He's trying to help poor people around the world.
	He's trying to stop the global warming.
	It's a Republicans.
	And it's just science.
	The Republicans are football.
	Football is political now.
	That's one of the reasons why I'm not so hip to it anymore.
	Football's political.
	From Pink October to the Redskins name change to now there are now demands.
	Because of this Ray Rice business.
	There are sports writers demanding that there be a new collective bargaining agreement done with domestic abuse as an officially sanctioned penalty that the NFL has a policy to deal with.
	Because Goodell wasn't tough enough on Ray Rice.
	Now the low information, they don't see that as political.
	And anybody who opposes this is the political people.
	Anyone trying to it's gonna be a major task.
	It has been.
	But I just want to give an example.
	Here's Peter King, Sports Illustrated.
	He was on the radio yesterday afternoon in New York talking about how pained he was to walk through a Washington Redskins licensed merchandise store at their summer training camp.
	When I went to their training camp a week or so ago, you have to walk through a huge team store and the logo and the nickname, it's everywhere, and it's in huge letters.
	And I bet there are seven or eight thousand people at practice in Richmond, Virginia the day I was there.
	They're all, you know, 80% of the people have some team garb on.
	So it's not an easy thing for them to do.
	Although I do think it's going to change.
	I think it could take some time.
	Basically, he was upset.
	He saw these Redskins fans not bothered by the name.
	Not bothered by the logo.
	He walked to the Redskins practice, he sees all these fans wearing Redskins gear.
	Oh no.
	Purely political reaction.
	The name change of the red, there's nothing about sports, has nothing to do with sports.
	This is purely political.
	What's political about it?
	The effort of the left to advance their agenda to control everything is what's political about it.
	The agenda of the left is to tell everybody in the private sector is doing something they don't agree with to stop it, to put them in jail, to take their property away from them.
	That's political.
	There's nothing to do with sports.
	Who in the world walk through, see a bunch of people wearing stuff, supporting their team, get mad about it.
	You gotta be looking at it politically to have that react.
	Here's Ivy as we hit the phones in Somerville, South Carolina.
	Hi, Ivy, great to have you.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rush.
	Thanks so much for taking my call.
	My husband and I are huge fans of yours.
	I wanted to let you know that I'm a third grade teacher, and this year my husband said, Well, Russia's written a book, and I said, Well, that's great, you know.
	So he goes out and gets it, and then he starts telling me about it.
	And I said, What are you talking about?
	A talking horse, time traveling.
	What is this about?
	And then he explained to me that it was a children's book.
	So I read it, of course, one afternoon, and I said, Okay, how am I going to incorporate this book into the classroom?
	Because the kids need to hear it.
	They need to read this book.
	Well, the dilemma is that we don't teach the pilgrims in the third grade.
	So what I decided to do was to use your author's note that explains the principles of the founders in our country to as a way to introduce the civil war.
	And then from there, I decided, well, I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna read a little bit of this book because I need these kids to get excited about it.
	And even if I can't finish it, I'll give a book talk, and then they can go out to the library and get it and so forth.
	So I start reading the book, and as soon as they meet Liberty, that was it, the giggles, delight, you know, just absolutely they were thrilled with that.
	So every day they would beg me, Well, are you gonna read more of that book or are you gonna read more of that book?
	And while this is going on, a glorious thing happened.
	Um you wrote the second one, and uh we absolutely teach the American Revolution in third grade, and so that was a no-brainer for me.
	So I used your second book as a way of reviewing.
	You you have you have made my day, but don't stop.
	I I have to can you hang on?
	Sure.
	All right, great.
	This is making my day.
	This is unbelievable.
	Ask yourself a question why is the left poo-pooing Ebola?
	All these these obscene posts on Facebook, don't sweat it, screw off.
	You're not gonna get it.
	Why?

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