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Aug. 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 5, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Okay, finally, we're back so I can continue the conversation with the schoolteacher, Ivy, in Somerville, South Carolina.
I thought I had more.
I misread the clock by one minute when I took her call.
And I've been sitting here fretting that I screwed up.
Anyway, so she's back.
And Ivy, really, I thank you for holding on and continuing with me here because I know you probably have to be busy.
Wait, you're still there, right?
Testing one, two, three.
She's not there.
Is she there?
Is she hung up?
Yes, she's gone.
Oh, what a sad thing.
Well, maybe, did you get her phone number?
Can you call her back?
We're trying to do that.
I was afraid this was going to happen.
I had been assured that she was told to be back when, never mind.
To pick up, in case we don't get her back, what she said was she teaches third grade.
And third grade, they don't teach the pilgrims.
That's been done by the time the kids get to third grade.
So her husband had gone out and bought the copy of Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.
Came back, read it, told her about it.
And that's when she said, well, Pilgrims can't third grade.
So she found the author's note.
She read the book.
She loved it.
She read the author's note in the book, and she used that as the way to reach out to the students.
Now, let me read the beginning of the author's note to you so that you'll know what it was she was referencing.
The author's note, just, it's a page and a half, actually two and a half pages, and it starts this way.
We live in the greatest country on earth, the United States of America.
But what makes it so great?
Why do some call the United States a miracle?
How did we become such a tremendous country in such a short period of time?
After all, the United States is less than 250 years old.
Well, I want to try to help you understand what American exceptionalism and greatness is all about.
It does not mean that we Americans are better than anyone else.
It does not mean that there is something uniquely different about us as human beings compared to other people in the world.
It does not mean that we as a country have never faced problems of our own.
American exceptionalism and greatness means that America is special because it is different from all other countries in history.
It is a land built on true freedom and individual liberty, and it defends both around the world.
The role of the United States is to encourage individuals to be the best they can be, to try to improve their lives, reach their goals, make their dreams come true.
Now, in most parts of the world, dreams never become more than dreams.
In the United States, dreams come true every day.
There are so many stories of Americans who started with very little yet dreamt big, worked very hard, and became extremely successful.
Sad reality is that since the beginning of time, most citizens of the world have not been free.
For hundreds and thousands of years, many people in other civilizations and countries were servants to their kings, leaders, and government.
It didn't matter how hard these people worked to improve their lives because their lives were not their own.
They often feared for their lives.
They could not get out from under a ruling class no matter how hard they tried.
Many of these people lived and continue to live in extreme poverty with no clean water, limited food, and none of the luxuries that we often take for granted.
Many citizens in the world were punished, sometimes severely, for having their own ideas, beliefs, and hopes for a better future.
United States of America is unique because it is the exception to all of this.
Our country is the first country ever to be founded on the principle that all human beings are created as free people.
The founders of this phenomenal country believed all people were born to be free as individuals, and so they established a government and leadership that recognized and established this for the first time ever in the world.
We've got her back.
Okay, now that was the author's note.
Let me, we finally got, we got Ivy back in Somerville, South Carolina.
So you made my day.
I'm so glad we were able to reconnect with you.
I can't tell you how depressed I was when I went to say hello and you were not there.
Thank you so much.
Anyway, so the author's note, that's what you found, and that was the bridge.
That's what enabled you to mention the book to your students.
That's correct.
Yes, sir.
I used that as a way to introduce the Civil War, you know, because we were about to enter discussion on the time when slavery existed in our country.
But because of what you said in the book and the way that you explained the founders' passion for our country, it was because of that that slavery inevitably was abolished.
So I felt like that would be a good way to get some conversation going.
If I might add, that is brilliant on your part as a way of dealing with slavery with third graders.
Thank you.
That really is.
It happens to be true is why it's brilliant, but that's exactly, and they're old enough to understand that.
They are.
And so, well, this is just great.
So you couldn't do the Pilgrims, but you used the author's note to get into the Civil War.
And then right as we ran out of time, you talked about discovering the second book.
That's correct.
Yes, The First Patriots.
I was able to read that book as a way to review the Revolutionary War and the events that led up to the war, because that's absolutely one of the things that we teach in the third grade.
So they were thrilled with that, absolutely thrilled with it.
And several were quite unhappy that I was unable to finish The Pilgrims.
One particular little girl was quite devastated by that.
So I bought her a copy of the book and gave it to her on the last day of school so that she could finish it.
So they're just, Rush, thanks so much for writing these books.
They're incredible.
I'm telling you, I think that there need to be teacher's guides that go with the books.
I think teachers need to have classroom sets of these books.
I used to teach language arts sixth and seventh grade, and if I was still doing that, I would absolutely have classroom sets of these books as a way to teach language arts, you know, cross-curricular through history.
So you're just doing a wonderful thing for our kids, and I thank you for that.
I can't, I don't know what to say.
I thought you made my day 15 minutes ago, but here you've just, you've done it again.
I don't know how to thank you.
I really don't.
If school were still in session, I would send you enough copies of the book for you to give everybody in the class.
You're so sweet.
And I still might.
You know, in fact, when we finish, I want you to give Mr. Snerdley away and address something that we can, I do want to ship you some things.
And there's some things coming that I can't really talk about that you might find useful.
Are you going to be teaching next year as well?
Yes, sir.
Well, you'll find extremely useful.
I'm very excited about what's to come.
Well, thank you.
But the fact that the kids, once you got to reading Liberty, the talking horse, that's what that got them.
Yes.
Well, and they wanted to hear more and more.
That's just, I can't take it.
Every day.
Well, you see, there's a mission to these books, and you have just explained to me how it's working in your case.
And I can't, I don't know, I can't thank you enough for this.
This is, you're making my day.
You really are.
This is because they're not just doing this for the sake of doing it.
There is a specific mission.
And, you know, trying to write books that will be liked and enjoyed by 10 to 13-year-olds, your age group, that's something I've never done before.
And that was part of the challenge, too.
So you're just, you're hitting home runs for me all over the place here.
Well, thank you.
And you're doing a great service for our children.
Well, it's a labor of love because when I tell people, I love the country.
I wish everybody did.
I know everybody doesn't.
I wish everybody did.
And as these kids get older, they're going to learn more and they get into more intricate explanations of the historical events they're able to absorb in these books.
But this is a foundation, hopefully, that'll stay with them through all of the other things they learn and are told, which is also part of the mission.
But having a teacher like you that's behind it and giving it credibility, why, that's just tremendous.
So if you will hang on, Mr. Snerdley will get an address from you where we can ship you quite a few things down the road.
As I say, I wish your class was still in session because I would send you a copy for everybody.
By the way, Ivy, how big is your class that you taught last year?
I teach two classes, actually, but I have 25 in each class.
So to get, you know, like for the classroom sets I was talking about would be 25.
25.
Okay, cool.
That helps.
Thank you ever so much.
Thank you, Rush.
Oh, my pleasure.
And by the way, some of the things that you mentioned as there need to be, I mean, I can't go too far here, but you might be on to something there is as much as I feel comfortable saying.
Well, I sure hope so.
Well, thank you very much.
People like you, the book in the hands of people like you, and it just can't lose.
So I appreciate it.
That's Ivy from Somerville, South Carolina.
And Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.
And the second book, which they're both on the New York Times bestseller list, top 10.
The first one's been out for 40 weeks now.
So it's just amazingly gratifying.
Rush Revere and the First Patriots is the second book.
And that's by no means all.
But that's as much as I can say at the moment.
But thank you so much again, Ivy.
A quick timeout, my friends.
We'll be back.
And continue.
Speaking of slavery, that's another thing.
I made a point yesterday that I think has been illustrated in a news story today.
So let me take advantage of her bringing that up and do that next till we get back.
Don't go away.
Gonna stick with the telephones, folks, and I'll get to the story that, well, I talked about slavery yesterday.
There's a story today that hooks to it.
Another C I Told You So moment, actually.
But I want to stay with the phones.
People have been patient here for a long time, and I've just gotten that one call in.
So let's stick with it.
This is Jim in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Megadittos, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
Yes, sir.
I got a different take on this, the disebola virus serum that they made.
Now, it's never before been tested on humans, correct?
Supposedly, it has only been tested on monkeys, correct?
And that comes from Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Health.
Okay.
And the people that these two folks that we brought back, they would have been considered, for all intents and purposes, permanent, correct?
Not necessarily.
I mean, the death rate is between 50 and 90 percent, fatality rate, between 50 and 90, not 100 percent.
It does depend on medical care treatment that you get.
There's a number of factors.
Africa, the three countries in Africa where the outbreak has taken place, they're very backwards, particularly their healthcare systems.
And it stands to reason that patients in America would not be as adversely affected, theoretically, as people in these three countries in Africa.
Yeah, well, I was just, I was going down the line of this being an experimental drug and having never been tested on humans per se.
Why is it cancer patients that are terminal don't get the same response?
You know, it's strange that you ask that.
While I was having this discussion on the air, I got an email from a friend of mine who is currently starring in a major television show on TNT, Adam Baldwin.
And he plays the XO, the executive officer on the show Last Ship.
And he said that a friend of his father, let me double check here.
Where is it?
It's either his friend or a friend of his father is suffering from cancer and was given, he doesn't know if it was this concoction, but it was monoclonal antibodies.
Whatever is being given, monoclonal antibodies, which is an ingredient in this concoction.
Apparently, Baldi's friend's dad has had profound success in reversing the cancer with whatever it is they've given.
I don't know what it is, and Adam doesn't either.
He doesn't know if it's the same thing or not.
But what your question at large is, well, how in the world does an experimental drug that's never been used on humans all of a sudden get used on two people who have Ebola?
Because I know that you are probably either somebody who has had this experience or knows somebody who has had cancer of some kind, and there is an experimental drug not released in the market because it hasn't passed all the trials, but you'll try anything and they won't give it to you.
And that's why people go to Mexico and other places to try things as a last-ditch effort.
Now, here you have A serum that's derived from a Kentucky tobacco plant that, as far as we've been told, has only been used and tested on monkeys.
And yet, somebody made the decision: oh, yeah, let's go ahead and use it on these two missionaries.
These Americans will take some doses over to Africa, we'll administer there, we'll bring them home, we'll continue the treatment.
The story we're getting is massive, miraculous reversal.
No cure yet.
Neither of these two patients is out of the woods, they're still suffering, but they're better, they're much better.
And I understand your question: How in the world does this happen without human trials?
Nobody knows what this is.
What we do know what it is, it's called MZAP.
That's the name of this serum, and it comes from a Kentucky tobacco plant.
And I don't have the answer for you.
I don't know why it is that other drugs have to go through this extensive trial period, documented results and so forth, for years before they're ever administered to humans.
And this happened to be administered to humans without any of that taking place, as far as we know.
And again, we only know what's been reported.
And the first place any of this was reported was CNN, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who reported yesterday that this has only been tried on monkeys.
And his source was Dr. Fauci from the National Institutes of Health.
So it is curious what the protocols are and how this all works from a regulatory standpoint.
Now, I asked a question at the top of the busy broadcast hour the last hour using one of the themes that I have profoundly developed today: that politics is part of everything happening in America today, from the culture to actual government-style politics.
Everything's political.
However, the low-information crowd and young people run around saying, I hate politics.
I don't like it.
Nobody out here tells the truth.
They'll let me argue to every solve anything.
And they have no idea how everything they are bombarded with is political.
Everything at Twitter and Facebook's all political.
Google is political.
Everything's political.
Movies, television shows, it's all political.
And yet they don't think it is.
Global warming, totally political.
They think it's science.
Only the people who disagree with it are political.
Those are the Republicans, they think.
And they hate politics, therefore they hate the Republicans.
And therefore, the only people who are political are the Republicans.
The Democrats, they're just interested in helping people.
This is how it works.
This is why I've got this madcap desire to have everybody, as many as possible, understand the politics of everything they're hit with.
Okay, so Ebola.
Why?
We shared with you a couple of Facebook posts yesterday that were laced with obscenities about what you should do regarding Ebola.
And basically, it was: screw it.
It's no big deal.
You don't have anything to worry about.
If you don't have it, you're not going to get it.
So don't worry about it.
And there's been an actual mean-spiritedness attached to people who are opposing being concerned about Ebola.
Now, the question, therefore, is: why do people, well, I'll not characterize them right now.
Why is Ebola political?
Why is Ebola making people mad?
Why are you being concerned with Ebola making people mad?
What is the politics?
Because I'll guarantee you, it's all political.
Okay, a little clarification here on the serum that the National Institutes for Health administered to the two Ebola patients.
It seems the term monoclonal antibodies has got people thinking that, well, I've had that, I've had that, and you haven't.
This is something brand new, and it really hasn't been administered before.
Monoclonal antibodies simply describe the way the drug is made, i.e. cloned from antibodies.
But the antibodies will differ depending on the disease.
In this case, a company in San Diego, don't know how, experimented with a rapidly growing tobacco plant in Kentucky.
And for whatever reason that they learned, they essentially photocopied antibodies found in it that works on Ebola in monkeys.
And the National Institutes of Health determined to give some dosages to the two missionaries from America who were discovered in Africa to have come down with the disease.
So if you, there are all kinds of cancer treatments, in fact, that feature monoclonal antibodies.
So it's not the same thing that was used here.
That is just, they're just, monoclonal antibodies specifically bind to a substance like a cancer cell.
A monoclonal antibody is basically a detective.
It's used to detect and find a specific substance, say in the bloodstream, and glom onto it and try to kill it.
Now, in the case of the Ebola serum, the antibodies, the monoclonal antibodies that they have found in this Kentucky tobacco plant, apparently do something to the Ebola virus and retard it, harm it, when in monkeys.
They tried it on these two human beings, these two white Americans, and the news reports are profoundly successful, overwhelmingly successful, which now is causing people to ask, as I predicted yesterday, well, why didn't you take enough to give to all the poor people in Africa?
CNN asked that last night.
And other people are saying, wait a minute, this thing hasn't been tried on humans and yet they released it.
Why don't they do that for cancer drugs?
Well, sometimes they do.
Sometimes the National Institutes of Health will administer experimental drugs all the time.
It does happen.
But not all the time.
And there are times they withhold some of the drugs that they're working on, largely because of the side effects or the real fear that the side effects are going to be worse than whatever benefits there are.
So that's as much as I have been able to learn here just in a short three and a half, four minute time out the bottom of the hour.
But bottom line, just because you might have heard that a friend or a relative was given treatment that contained monoclonal antibodies, it's not this.
That's just a technique that is used in order to bind these attack agents to the proper cells that are considered the problem in the body.
Just imagine it was little detectives, little Inspector Clousseaus, and they're released and they are defined, in this case, the Ebola virus, and then it aglom onto it and attack it.
And if it works, then the virus suffers, it is harmed, and it is weakened, and there's a reversal of symptoms.
That has apparently happened here.
But you're still going to see people ticked off about this about a lot of things of this.
You're going to say, well, why do it on Americans first?
Well, you have to, why not?
Why not use Americans as the guinea pigs?
I mean, why not?
If it's not going to work, why not try to Americans first?
Spare anybody else potential suffering.
There's any number of things.
The point is, we shared with you the Facebook post yesterday, read to you this really caustic and mean post aimed at people who are alarmed here that we're bringing Ebola patients into this country for the first time ever.
There are people who don't understand why we're doing this.
Why would we bring a deadly virus into this country in the form of infected people?
And the reaction to that has been really caustic, and it's been from people who are identified, people who I know are leftists.
They're really mad about this.
If you don't have it, you're not going to get it.
Stop worrying.
Screw off.
You know, this kind of stuff.
Reactions that you never see when people talking about bird flu, swine flu.
So the question is, and I, of course, have the answer, but I'm not going to give you the answer.
Problem is, when I say something about anything, there's nothing left to be said.
And I have to leave some things for you to say on this program.
So what in the world has got the left so ticked off about people being concerned about Ebola?
What?
It's political.
Make no mistake.
Therefore, what is the politics of this?
This snurdily may be the way to do this.
Rather than just do what I've been doing for 25 years, take whatever the event is.
I don't care, pop culture event, whatever, and say, okay, what is the political?
What's driving this?
You know, because global warming is a great example.
To the young people that believe it, to the low information crowd that believe it, to them it's science.
The people politicizing it are the Republicans who are opposing it.
Therefore, they're anti-science.
That means they're just political, and they're not willing to listen to 90%.
And these are the same people say they hate politics and do not know they're being bombarded.
In fact, they don't know that 90% of what they believe is due to political persuasion.
It's totally escaped them.
Including science has been totally politicized.
Science is nothing but a branch office of the Democrat Party now.
And this is a mission of mine, is to somehow, I don't, my one possible little way here, this tiny little radio program with so much else out there, but I really have thought for the longest time that if we're really going to affect massive changing of minds, there are some basics that have to happen first.
And one of the basics is That people who claim to hate politics and therefore don't want any part of it and therefore automatically reject anybody they think is political are going to have to be taught and convinced that everything vast majority of things is political and how to spot it.
The left has been extremely artful in convincing everybody, particularly the low-information crowd, that there isn't politics in anything.
All there is is compassion, equality, freedom, love, what have you.
That's all politics, and they don't see it.
Anyway, Scott, in Plano, Texas, you're next.
I'm glad you waited.
And welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hey, Rush Meghados, and it's an honor to be talking to a national treasurer.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
Appreciate that.
I wanted to expand on the amnesty story that you let off with.
It is a fact that the majority were against it, but the majority were also against Obamacare.
And, of course, Obamacare had to be passed by all kinds of dirty tricks and so forth in the middle of the night and last minute and so forth.
And I kind of picture it as pushing two voters up the hill.
The Democrats know they couldn't get both of them up or they would have been 0 for 2.
You know, if they had tried both Amnesty and Obamacare, they would have failed on both.
And they almost failed on Obamacare.
And I think there are a couple of reasons there.
One is amnesty is not as socialist, and they were trying to lead off with their best card.
Also, I think it was not as complex as Obamacare, and so it couldn't have been delayed.
It would have gone into effect.
It would have been a disaster, and he would not have gotten a second term.
And those are some of the reasons why I think they chose not to do the amnesty, in addition to the fact that most people were against it.
Well, I think if I heard everything you've said, I would agree with most of it.
However, I'm not sure I caught everything because your phone connection wasn't the best.
But let me review.
You think that they couldn't have done both in the first term, Obamacare and Amnesty, because they just, that'd have been too much.
They would have lost twice.
So they had to pick the one thing that was less, what, complex or less because everybody wants their health care.
And so that was seen as, even though a majority have never been for it, it was not as damaging to the Democrats to focus on that as amnesty.
I think, well, the answer to this is why did they do health care and not amnesty?
Or why didn't they do both when Obama owned Congress the first two years?
The reason for health care, again, the politics of this domestic political fallout didn't matter.
This was one of those things they were going to ram through as the quote.
They did tricks and late night things and all kinds of lying like the Bart Stupak about abortion.
I mean, they pulled out all of the unsavory stops to get this done.
And they didn't care about the political fallout.
Now, the reason for that is in healthcare, government-run health care, you own your country.
You now have full control over everybody in this country.
It's worth whatever fallout.
It's worth losing the House in 2010 to get that.
It is worth whatever political.
Now, it's not worth losing the White House in 2012.
And that's why they did this in the first two years and give people time to recover from it.
And hopefully, Obamacare was scheduled so that the goodies, the benefits would be the first thing that happened.
The tax increases come later.
So the pain of Obamacare, plus with all the waivers, they delayed.
As far as they were concerned, only the goodies were going to happen.
And it didn't work out that way because it was incompetent to begin with.
But with health care, this has been a dream of every person who has ever, I'm talking world history, every leader who has desired total control over his population.
National health care has been the first thing or one of the top three things that a leader tries to get.
Because once you get that, you have the ability to blackmail people and have them live any way you want them to live.
Eat what you want them to eat, drink what you want them to eat, and not eat and not drink.
Where they live, because you're holding their health care over their head.
You're holding their health insurance.
You're holding their treatment over their head.
You're holding whether or not you'll pay for treatment that they need over their head, even to the turn of how they vote.
You have control over all that.
That has been a dream of these leftists for 60 years.
And here they were on the verge of it.
Now, the reason they didn't do amnesty, I got to take a break.
I just saw the clock.
I will hold my thought and we'll continue after this.
We are back.
El Rushbo executing assigned host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to Obama and the first term agenda, there's one thing I want to disabuse you of right off the bat.
Whatever they didn't do was not because they were too busy.
Whatever they didn't do was not because they were distracted or not because they didn't have time or not because this or that or the other thing.
They didn't do amnesty in the first term when Obama had the Congress because they didn't want the blame for it.
It was massively opposed.
It has never been supported.
It has always been massively opposed.
They only want amnesty passed if they can have it blamed on the Republicans, which is what they are trying and have been trying to maneuver into happening.
They want the Republicans being seen as doing it.
That's why all this talk about you guys are never going to win another election if you don't do this because the Hispanics are going to hate your guts forever.
Well, you want to know who really didn't care about the Hispanics?
Obama.
Obama didn't care about the Hispanics.
If he'd have cared about the Hispanics, he would have given them what they wanted, as he promised.
And you know something else?
He didn't care about the gays.
It wasn't until they threatened to stop donating that all of a sudden he sends Biden out to say the regime's changed its mind on gay marriage.
Obama doesn't care about anybody.
He's not a cool aloof care.
He's a cold guy.
Cares about him.
He goes and spikes the Jorge Ramos and promises this, and he doesn't care.
He doesn't care about whether Obamacare works or not.
He doesn't care about any of this stuff.
It's been my point all along.
Now, if you threaten to withhold money, then he'll do what you want, but it doesn't mean he loves you.
He didn't do amnesty because there was no way he could blame the Republicans for it when he controlled Congress.
And it's all about blaming the Republicans for it.
Amnesty is all about making sure it's seen as a Republican achievement so that it wipes them out.
No way was he going to do amnesty and then try to get health care done.
He would have never gotten health care done if he'd have done amnesty first, folks, because that was really opposed.
Now, you can talk a good game about giving everybody health care.
You can marshal some support.
Let's also remember that while all this was going on, the Democrats are pushing Dodd-Frank through.
And that's just as big, and that's just as complex, and just as big a power grab in the financial industry as Obamacare is in the health industry.
Don't think they were too busy.
They weren't too busy.
This is what they had dreamed of.
Obama had total control of the House and the Senate, and he used that for Obamacare.
Now the Republicans own the House, and maybe they're going to win the Senate, and that's when Obama, I don't ever think he's going to, the only way he's going to grant blanket amnesty to $5 or $6 million or all $11 or $12 million is if the Republicans get the blame for it.
And since the Republicans are seen as the only ones who are political, he may not have that much trouble engineering that.
And of course, there are plenty of rhino-Republicans ready to drink the Kool-Aid and do it because they've bought this nonsense.
And the only way they're ever going to win the White House again is with the Hispanic vote.
And the only way to get the Hispanic vote is to do amnesty.
It is a death sentence, and Obama knows it.
I don't know where the time is going again.
We were finished with two hours yesterday, and it didn't know where it went, and I feel the same way now.
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