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	And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruit in plain rush limbaugh in the EIB Network on Friday.
	Let's hit it live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
	It's open live Friday.
	And the telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800 282-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
	One of the greatest career risks ever taken by a major media figure.
	And that is turning over the content portion of the program to rank amateurs.
	Lovable rank amateurs.
	You know, I got so caught up in things, I intended to get to the phones in the last hour and I never got there.
	I'm gonna have to, I'm gonna say concerted effort to uh to get to the phones a little sooner sooner than usual in this hour.
	Open line Friday means that you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
	I don't have to care about it.
	Doesn't have to be anything I'm interested in.
	But remember, I'm pretty omnivorous, and I am a polymath.
	And so therefore, I mean you'd have to struggle to come up with something I'm not interested in.
	But you can try.
	Again, the uh phone number 800 282-2882.
	Just to continue the thought, I uh I had to kind of cram in there at the conclusion of the first hour.
	You know, everybody.
	You know that that sound bite we played here.
	I don't want to play it again, but this Ben White is this political guy.
	Talking about Obama and the golf course, laughing and yucking it up and smiling mere moments after a supposedly serious and sincere comment about the beheading of James Foley.
	This uh this guy from uh political Ben White was on CNBC.
	You know the juxtaposition of those images, struggling to people, uh those images struggling to people, not just Republicans who will always criticize him for whatever he does.
	But for Democrats or Democrats on the record, this idea of we automatically have to discard anything the Republicans say, because they're always going to criticize Obama, and therefore anything they say is illegitimate.
	And the only criticism, therefore, that is relevant and serious is that which comes from Democrats.
	And this, I think, encapsulates inside the beltway thinking, not just among Democrats, by the way.
	But any Republican criticism, specifically conservative criticism, is automatically rejected because it's illegitimate, and it's illegitimate, a, because it comes from conservatives, but B, because they just criticize everything Obama does, and therefore they can't be right, so they're either doing it for ratings, or they're doing it for money, or they're doing it to keep the rabid audiences happy, or whatever, whatever it can't be legitimate.
	But of course, that's all it is.
	It's entirely legitimate.
	It is the Obama leftist defenders who are not to be trusted.
	Now, in trying to figure out the left is all upset about this finally.
	And I my theory is they have been bothered by Obama for a while.
	That he's checking out, that he appears uninterested, that that he's uh doing things and and not really engaged.
	Because their image of the maximum leader is somebody that lives and breathes this stuff 24-7 and is on television all the time and is trying to move this agenda forward even in his sleep.
	That's how crucial.
	That's how important.
	That's what they thought Obama was.
	Mr. Perfect.
	Just his presence alone was enough.
	But man, if he would just get engaged, oh wow, there's no stopping us.
	And they can't get him off the damn golf course.
	And they hate golf courses.
	And they hate people that play golf.
	They make for mostly a Republican.
	I mean, you do have some liberal Democrat golfers in the financial world, but for the most part, they're they're conservatives.
	My point that I tried to make here in a very few precious seconds before the end of the last hour.
	And I it's it's fun to analyze these guys.
	You know why?
	Because I'm always proven right.
	I know these leftists.
	I know them better than they know themselves, because I am honest about them.
	They cannot be honest about themselves.
	They live in so many different illusions.
	And they dream so much that they end up thinking it's all real.
	But here's this here's this guy.
	Here's this guy Obama.
	And I think raised and educated to believe that America's the problem.
	It's always been the problem.
	And not just domestically, but particularly foreign policy.
	It's bad enough that we're the lone superpower.
	But that fact has made the world hate us, legitimately so.
	It's not fair that we should be so rich, so wealthy, have so much abundance, so powerful.
	It's just not fair.
	And we did this with the average ordinary common guy making it possible, making it happen.
	That's not how things are supposed to happen.
	The elites are supposed to determine success.
	The elites are determining wealth.
	The elites are supposed to make all that happen.
	This game is rigged.
	Average ordinary dunces are not supposed to make this happen.
	Meaning the American people.
	Average ordinary common people are just not capable of creating a superpower.
	And yet, here's the United States, the lone nation in history founded on the principle that its government is subservient to its people.
	That just won't do.
	And so we have a world in disarray.
	We have a world where there's horror and just it's the conditions for the average human being on this planet have never been great.
	That's what's exceptional about the United States.
	But in their world, we're the problem.
	We're the reason there's all that poverty.
	We're the reason there's all this war.
	We are the reason that there's all the illness.
	We're the reason that there's so many arguments.
	We're the reason that nations can't get along.
	We're the reason.
	We're never the solution.
	And our military is the agent of this evil.
	So Bomba's raised believing this, as all Democrats are, and as all leftists are, and buys into this notion that his arrival on the scene is going to signal to the world it's a new day, it's a new America, and finally, the American people have come to their senses and elected somebody who also understands that America's the problem.
	And therefore we've got a guy who's going to fix that.
	And so the rest of the world can take comfort.
	The United States isn't going to be causing you problems anymore.
	We're not going to be stealing from you.
	We're not going to be going to war against you.
	We're not going to be criticizing you.
	We're not going to make things miserable for you.
	None of that.
	Thank you.
	And do not doubt me when I tell you that there are a lot of people who believe that.
	And who knows, Obama might have been one.
	So we do know he got caught up in this whole messianic business of fake Greek columns and all that.
	What I'm getting at here in trying to explain why it appears that Obama's checked out.
	I mean, if you believe all this and you think your election is going to bring about utopia, and in six years it's worse than ever in many ways, it may just shock you into anger and disgust, to the point that he may know that his policies are a failure.
	He may know that he is a failure.
	But in the end, as an ideologue, it doesn't matter.
	Because he still is now, especially Now, because he will take this as rejection.
	And when you reject the leftist, it can get very messy.
	Just because he's been rejected, and just because his policies have failed and just because he has failed, doesn't mean that what came before him was illegitimate or was not illegitimate.
	It still was.
	Even though he may have failed, even though his policies have failed, this place is still unjust and still founded immorally and unfairly, still has all of these isms that make this place the problem in the world.
	And so that alone is enough to justify his continuing transformation, whether people accept it or not, disagree with it or not, approve of it or not.
	Whether he's a failure, whether his policies have failed, doesn't matter.
	He's still going to do what he can do to fix all of this stuff that's illegitimate that was built by people before he came along.
	And by the way, I as a as a as in an attempt here to comfort those of you at the New York Times, and those of you at MSNBC, and the other of you who are leftists, who may be sad, may be disappointed, may be dejected that Obama appears to have checked out.
	He's playing golf.
	The job doesn't interest him.
	He just, for whatever reason, he's not acting like you hoped he would.
	He's not behaving like you hoped he would.
	He's not doing things like you hoped he would.
	And let me just reassure you.
	You do not have to be a president, does not have to be fully immersed in policy, does not have to be fully engaged every day to destroy things.
	Obama can continue to destroy from the golf course.
	You can do that as a part-time president.
	You can see to it that the border remains open.
	You can see to it that Obamacare continues to destroy the greatest health care system in the world.
	You can do all that from the golf course.
	In fact, you may be able to do even more for the golf course.
	You may be able to be even more destructive if people think you've checked out and don't care.
	So I would caution you people on the left not to panic.
	Your guy doesn't have to be in the Oval Office to continue to destroy what he thinks is illegitimate about the country.
	Hail Rushmore, fighting fatigue, ladies and gentlemen.
	I was here at the EIB broadcast complex very late last night.
	A massive, massive recording session, big surprise recording session.
	And it was a uh it was a short night, made shorter by my little cat who wanted to play.
	Yet here I am engaged as a total professional, as always.
	Back to the phones or to the phones since we haven't been yet.
	And this is John and Alcoa, Tennessee.
	Welcome, sir.
	Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
	Hi.
	Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	I appreciate everything you do.
	Thank you, sir.
	Appreciate that.
	Uh I hope this isn't a little controversial, maybe, but my question to you is do you think it's feasible for us to think that if ISIS had possibly beheaded a journalist with a different racial ethnic background from James Foley that probably we would have seen more iRaggression at the podium, or maybe they would pay more than response.
	Now, this to me, ladies and gentlemen, is a fascinating question.
	Can I make it a draw a comparison here?
	John, I'm going to answer your your question.
	I I appreciate it, but I want to extrapolate or expand on this for a minute.
	Here we have the first African American president in the history of the country, and John's not the only guy that I have heard this from, and not just about this incident, but whenever There is a racial incident.
	There are a lot of people in this country, and many of them who voted for Obama thinking his election would end all of this, who are asking the very question that John asked.
	His question in this case, okay, what if ISIS kills a black journalist?
	You think Obama would then get mad?
	Would Obama get madder?
	Would Obama look or sound angrier in a press conference?
	Would he play less golf?
	Meaning, if a black journalist were killed by these guys, would there be a little bit more concern or solidarity?
	And I have I've been not really surprised, but I've noted that in any number of issues over the years, a lot of people have reaction like that because Obama has engendered it.
	What with his reaction to Trevon Martin?
	Uh could have been my son.
	You name it.
	Now stop and think during the Rodney King beating.
	The president at the time was George H.W. Bush, not just white, he was a wasp.
	He's the worst of the whites.
	A white, I mean, he was really white.
	He was some New England white main.
	The guy's a speedboat?
	I mean, all the stuff that these these uh these out of touch white guys do, played golf, speedboat, all this stuff, bring me to really white.
	And he was the bad kind of white.
	He's a wasp white, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
	But what did he do?
	The first thing George H.W. Bush did before the smoke had cleared in South Central.
	He sent the Justice Department out there and demanded a civil rights investigation to see if Rodney King's signal rights, civil rights have been violated.
	George H.W. Bush and every other president when there has been an incident that is racial, every white president has made it abundantly clear that he is going to pay special attention to any racial component that might have been present, And if there was, it was going to be dealt with all the way up to the Department of Justice.
	Now, if things were the same...
	People wouldn't be asking this about Obama.
	My point is that if there were a racial incident, like we'll take uh I don't know.
	Take Ferguson, Missouri.
	There is hardly any from the president from the United States government, which is supposed to be the top level of impartiality, D.O.J. There is not one hint of concern for the cop in this case.
	It's a much now, some of you might say, well, Ross, that's totally understandable.
	I mean, there's been the country has a history of slavery.
	There's a history of racism.
	I mean, come on.
	It makes total sense.
	Yeah, I know.
	But my only point here is I don't know, John, what Obama would do.
	I have no idea if ISIS happens to uh kill a black journalist if it'll make Obama angrier.
	I'm just more interested you ask the question.
	The fact that that's even on your mind is what's fascinating to me.
	That's not how people are supposed to react to their president.
	The president's supposed to be colorblind, impartial, and guys like George H. W. Bush may been over backward to make sure everybody knew there was not going to be any racial preferences for white people in his term.
	And what do they do?
	Republican presidents go out of their way to nominate African Americans to cabinet posts and black women and Hispanics, and what do they get for it?
	Nothing.
	The left sets out to destroy every one of them.
	He wants some names, Clarence Thomas, Miguel Estrada, Condoleezza Rice.
	White pres Bill Clinton, same thing, although he didn't Have nearly as many women or people of color in his administration as one would think, given how he talked about it.
	But George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, why they went backward, then over backwards to show they were not in any way racially preferentially oriented toward white people.
	That was how they demonstrated.
	That's how they they sought to demonstrate their colorblindedness.
	But it doesn't seem there is any similar type, either requirement or pressure or even desire on Obama's part to do the same.
	It's quite the opposite.
	That's why I'm fascinated by his question.
	It's not a good question.
	I mean, it's a good it's not a question that you want citizens asking.
	It's just uncomfortable.
	I don't know what the answer is, and that's not good either.
	CNN is noticeably down today.
	And you can see it, see the reason why in their own headlines.
	It's starting to return to normal in Ferguson.
	And you can just, you can see, I mean, the credibility of key wet witnesses question.
	It's beginning, it's beginning to dawn on them that the myth might not prevail here.
	And the reason the myth might not prevail is because even the New York Times, ladies and gentlemen, even though they tried to bury this in paragraph 26 yesterday and in another story today, doesn't matter whether the police officer had a broken eye socket or not, and there's some question about that.
	People are questioning the original reporting that the cops eye socket, orbital socket was shattered, but it doesn't matter.
	He was still beaten up.
	He was still taken to the hospital.
	His face was swollen.
	The original story is falling apart.
	Gentle giant walking innocently down the street on the way to grandmother's house, eagerly thinking about the soon to commence college classes, shot in the back by a racist white St. Louis cop, which happens way too often.
	That was the myth.
	And the myth began to break down within a couple of hours, but then they got the myth back.
	And then it began to break down again, and they were able to rebuild it.
	And then about five days later, the video was released, and the gentle giant was no longer gentle.
	He was a thief.
	Forty-four dollar box of swisher sweets, and furthermore, he was abusive to the clerk, shoving him away as the clerk attempted to keep him from walking out of the store with the stolen cigars.
	Then we learn from an autopsy conducted by the mythmakers that the gentle giant was not shot from behind.
	And then we learn that the gentle giant actually did reach into the car.
	And may have attempted to get the cops gun.
	And so then a number of witnesses came forward, but many of them are beginning to lose credibility.
	And so the myth is getting a little harder to hold on to.
	If there was ever any real media scrutiny involved, the myth could not survive.
	And the media was there so much, I mean, it was 24-7, it was it was impossible for the media to miss elements of the story.
	it was just in the cards that they were going to learn of several facts that dealt serious blows to the myth.
	And so now the grand jury has begun hearing the evidence.
	The authorities say there will not be any charges or any adjudication of any kind until at least October, which again, by the way, part of the myth, that is right before the November elections, but you can see that watching CNN just it's there's not this confidence that the myth as originally created is going to hold up simply because it can't.
	It was nothing more than a myth, and it started out with one huge flaw.
	That being that this is common, that being that white cops shoot innocent black kids all the time.
	And this is the final straw.
	This is the end.
	No more.
	But it doesn't happen all the time.
	So we'll just have to see.
	I don't, the myth makers have not given up by any stretch.
	But now, what's different from today than even 1992, Rodney King episode.
	What's different is that there is an entire very large media and otherwise apparatus that is aligned and empowered and in action, specifically aimed at denying the mythmakers a free road, a free reign to write whatever story they want.
	It's the story of the alternative media.
	It's the story of talk radio destroying the monopoly of the drive-by media.
	They no longer get to dictate what is the news.
	They no longer get to dictate what doesn't get reported or told.
	They no longer get to dictate commentary about it.
	They are challenged on virtually every assertion they make, be it the writing of a myth, be it the ignoring of a certain piece of evidence in a story, be it lying about certain things.
	There are watchdogs everywhere, making sure that they don't have a free road anymore, a free open road to write any incident the way they want it written.
	And this isn't the first time.
	Trayvon Martin's uh episode's another.
	Uh they're taking it on the chin, but yet they keep trying.
	Every incident like this, they keep trying to manufacture it in such a way that it looks no different than what happened in the 1960s.
	Because in that way, nothing's changed.
	We have made no progress.
	We're still a racist nation.
	We still have white cops who'll shoot a black kid on site for no reason whatsoever.
	Nothing's improved in America on that score.
	Well, now there are people willing to stand up, go to great lengths to call them out on this.
	So they simply don't have a free road, and they're not used to this kind of opposition, even though it's not new now.
	They've never learned how to fight it.
	And I'll tell you something else.
	Leftists really don't know what to do when the media turns on them, even for the smallest things, even for the briefest of moments, because leftists have been treated so slavishly and with such sacophancy by members of the drive-by media that they just aren't prepared to do battle.
	They're not prepared to deal with people calling them on lies.
	They're not prepared.
	They haven't been toughened up, they've never been in the ring.
	They don't have to, they've never had to deal with never-ending constant media oppressive attention, attempting to find any flaw to write them out of any story, to discredit them, to destroy them.
	This is something the left has no experience with.
	Young journalists who attempt to climb the ladder of success in journalism, never ever seek, very rarely, I should say, to destroy Democrat people of power.
	Republicans and other wealthy people, yep.
	Take them out, that's a resume enhancement.
	But the Democrats, the leftists really don't have a whole lot of experience with this.
	And as such, they panic when there is the slightest bump on the road.
	So we'll see how this turns out.
	But you can tell by watching CNN that something's happened, and it's no longer the slam dunk that everybody thought it was, even two days ago.
	Back to the phones, Angela in Murray, Utah.
	Glad you called, and welcome to Open Line Friday.
	Hi.
	Hi, Russ.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Yeah, you bet.
	I've long wanted to call and tell you what my most favorite part of your children's books are.
	And I finally had a day off, so I got through.
	I was very excited.
	I'm glad you made it through.
	Um I'm an avid reader, and my book club will often pick children's books, and we often talk about the qualities of children's books.
	And kind of things of little words.
	But it's amazing.
	There's some great children's books out there out there that in short form, you know, they're not very many pages, can express such meaningful things.
	And people keep talking about Liberty and how much they like her pin, sorry.
	But um the quality that I like has never really been brought up.
	So they wanted to do that today.
	Um I think that it's her goodness or his goodness.
	Sorry, I keep calling her a good because or uh her a her, because I have a friend named Liberty.
	Anyway, what I valued most was the character of the character, not just the character.
	Does that make sense?
	She's kind, has good humor, very dependable, even though he's kind of screwing and acting funny and hungry a lot.
	Um never a shallow personality, very caring and trustworthy and loyal.
	And I really appreciate having that goodness offered to the kid, along with Corton.
	You are very perceptive and shrewd, Angela.
	Would would you it would you pardon me if I inquired as to your age?
	Um, I am 47.
	You're 47, and yet you have a robust interest in children's books, and you apparently read them and study them for content for whatever reasons that interest you.
	Of all books, but yes, that is a genre that, you know, I have four kids, and um, I can't ever throw anything away because I'm hoping for the grandkids to read too.
	So let me get let me just answer your question as to liberty.
	Liberty, folks, is the um the vehicle that we've created to make the time travel possible.
	Liberty is a time traveling, talking horse.
	And modeled liberty after uh some people and uh other other things in in our lives.
	I I don't want to give it all away.
	But I will tell you this.
	You are very shrewd and perceptive to realize that about liberty.
	He is the favorite character that we hear about from kids who read the books because they think he's funny, he's a little irreverent, uh, is is uh stream of consciousness, whatever he's thinking about, he just keeps talking until Rush Revere has to shut him up.
	But you know what an Easter egg is in in a uh in a published work.
	Do you know what an Easter egg is?
	A treat that's not found at first you have to dig for, I guess, or hunt for.
	That's exactly right, and it may never be found.
	For example, I'll give you an example of an Easter egg, folks.
	In the latest version of Apple's word processing program pages, there is a hidden file that if you find It will replay for you, Steve Jobs' commencement speech to Stanford in 2005.
	And there's a there's another Easter egg in pages.
	I forget it's it's another Jobs uh greatest hit, if you will.
	But it's the text.
	It's not a video, although it is the video, it's YouTube, but there's the text of the Steve Jobs commencement speech, which is considered to be one of his best.
	Now there's none of those.
	There are no actually hidden things that you have to find because you can't hide things in a printed page in an actual hardcover book.
	Uh electronic version maybe.
	But when when I talk about Easter eggs here, you're right, there's all kinds of philosophy in what Liberty says.
	Well, and I like how you build the characters like from book one to two, I can see them evolving and you learn more about each one and and their personalities and then how they grow.
	And so I kind of look forward to that in the following book, which I am counting on you doing.
	Well and seeing, you know, um all those qualities more open, I guess.
	Because you kind of wonder sometimes at the beginning of reading the books is is going to flake out and not be on time, but certainly not.
	I mean, very dependable.
	And um not to have a spoiler, so I'll be careful, but he does something to protect or save Elizabeth from something.
	Do you know which I mean?
	Yes, I of course, of course, and that's and of course, Elizabeth, well, see, I don't want to give too much away, but Elizabeth is a is a character.
	People wouldn't mind Liberty uh not saving.
	But that's as much I'm gonna say.
	I just want to thank you.
	You're you're you're extremely perceptive.
	The Liberty character is uh is central uh to this in so many ways, and I am so happy you've spotted it.
	I I uh it's it's it's not that it's something to spot, it's just that it's there.
	And and I'm I'm just glad you did.
	It it's very flattering that you've taken the time to get into it and see to it that extent, and I really appreciate it.
	I have to take a brief time out.
	I want to send her the audios, Mr. Snerdley.
	If you hang hang on out there, Angela, so I get your address, because I want to send you the audio versions.
	Uh read by me of both books.
	Hang in, don't go away.
	We are back, open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh executing a signed host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
	A couple other things about Liberty, the uh time traveling talking horse, since uh Angela in Murray, Idaho commented on it.
	And two things about Liberty that you need to know.
	Liberty is a hero in our books.
	Liberty is of unallied moral goodness.
	Liberty is a uh uh a character in the book constantly uh dependable, always dependable.
	You can count on Liberty, is always going to be there.
	It's such a great uh reinforcement, uh, we think for young kids for for a character like this.
	So I'm just I'm thrilled that she picked this up.
	Uh and I uh thank her again.
	We're gonna send her the audio versions of both books.
	Here's Luke in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Great to have you on the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Hi there, Rush.
	Uh twenty-five years addicted to EIB dittoes.
	Thank you, sir, very much.
	I really appreciate that.
	The uh reason I called was uh I wanted to just bring a little uh my personal expertise into the argument about uh Ferguson.
	Sure.
	Uh in the 31 years I was on the street as a patrol officer, I had eight of uh our officers in our state executed with their own weapons during a struggle with an unarmed uh suspect.
	And I think this is uh people have to understand the police understand that even the toughest cop isn't always gonna win a fight and a one lucky punch and he's stunned or unconscious, and now the bad guy has access to his weapon.
	In fact, one of my friends was chased down by an unarmed guy that uh knocked him down, stole his weapon, and chased after him while he tried to hide and executed him uh in his community.
	So I mean, this is pretty close to home for me.
	I can imagine 31 years and eight officers killed with their own weapons.
	You guys also over the years have seen your hands tied even more and more.
	I mean, I mean you're we're we're constantly being uh, you know, navel gay is I guess it's the word use.
	Uh well, not only that, I mean you've been forced into a defensive posture in practically every situation.
	Yeah, that's true.
	And and that that's never for for a for a person in authority like a police officer must be, they have to assume a defensive posture for political correct reasons or what have you.
	No, no.
	I I think uh people way too often take for granted the risks uniformed police officers take in this country.
	Fastest three-hour in media, my friends.
	Two of them in the can.
	We have one exciting busy broadcast hour to go.
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