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Oct. 8, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 8, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
So happy to be with you today, folks.
It's just some I've been looking forward to the day for quite a while.
Really been looking forward to this.
I've been chomping at the bit here, and I've almost blown the reason why on past occasions, but I was able to employ my discipline and keep it secret.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence at Broadcasting Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
As always, the telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800 282-2882 in the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
And in the past, what is it?
Month.
Well, in the past six months.
I mean, I mean, since I mean, uh, I mean, forever.
We have people calling here and asking me if there's going to be a new Rush Revere book.
Or tell me how much they're looking forward to the next Rush Revere book.
Or, in some cases, begging me to create and craft a new Rush Revere book.
And I've always known that a new Rush Revere book was coming because I was writing it.
But I couldn't say anything.
I mean, you can't, I mean, it has to be a little build-up, and you don't want to announce something before it's actually ready to go.
And so today, I am able to satisfy all those requests for people who have asked, is there going to be another?
We've had kids call, we've had their parents and grandparents call.
You know, folks, we live in the greatest country on earth.
And we have an incredible history.
And our mission with these books is to tell that story, to tell the story of America, the story of our founding, and do so in a very relatable way, so that young people, the young reader, can really get to know the exceptional patriots that paved the way for all of us and made all of this possible.
And even something as profound as the founding of America gets lost.
As time marches on, the founding becomes further and further distant.
And people's lives become more chaotic and hectic, and everybody lives in the moment.
Understandably so.
And the roots of our existence, oftentimes not obscured, but sometimes they're taken for granted or forgotten because it happened.
It's already happened, and we're living, and it's now a couple hundred plus years since.
And I've always been intrigued with the possibility of informing young people soon as I could get to them, as soon as they were capable.
The truth of this country.
Because I love it.
It is great.
It's a fantastic story, doesn't need any embellishment, doesn't need any exaggeration.
It's unique.
There has never ever before in the history of humanity been anything like our country.
Now we first started this series.
We talked a lot about how we could get younger people to enjoy history.
And in a way, it's not even though it was history, but more so just an incredible adventure to take American history and turn it into an incredible adventure that young readers would want to be part of, would want to live, would want to imagine that they were there, and we would take them there.
We thought the best plan would be to take them right to the action in the seminal moments of the founding of this country so they could experience amazing events like the Boston Tea Party themselves and have conversations directly with amazing people like Ben Franklin.
And so the time travel adventures of Rush Revere and a Talking Horse, Time Traveling Horse Liberty were born.
Now the third book in the adventures of Rush Revere series, Time Travel Adventures, Exceptional Americans, is being unveiled today.
That's what I've been chomping at the bit to tell everybody.
Today is the day that's available for pre-order.
You can't get your hands on it yet, but you can be the first on your block to have it delivered to you.
If you act fast, the book is called Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
And it's the best yet.
And that's saying something, because the first two were exceptional, just like the subject matter.
But this this is so good, folks.
Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
It is a must read.
And it's heartfelt.
It's patriotic.
And it's absolutely hilarious at times, thanks to our good buddy Liberty, the talking horse, who is the favorite character of many of our young readers.
But this book is also a little bit more.
It's it's uh it's timing and its message and its dedication is all about the men and women of our great armed forces.
Never forgotten here, never taken for granted, always in awe of uniform military personnel on this program forever.
Such profound respect for the sacrifices they offer, and in many cases make.
So this book is in their honor.
This book was written for them, about them, and with great respect and love.
Now I don't want to give too much away here.
In fact, I can tell you the whole book, and you would still want to go get it and read it for yourself.
That's how good it is.
But I'm not gonna do that.
I'm gonna do the appropriate tease.
I want to share with you just a little bit about book three, Rush Revere, and the American Revolution.
If you haven't read the first books, Book One and Book Two, you really should, because it'll make three all that much better.
But you don't have to.
It's not a sales pitch.
It's just uh a little reminder that book three, there is some context to books one and two that you'll get if you read those two books first.
Now the story centers on one of the students at Manchester Middle School named Cam and his relationship with his father.
See, Cam's father in the book has been deployed to Afghanistan, and Cam doesn't understand it.
Doesn't understand why his dad would leave, doesn't understand why his dad would leave the family, doesn't understand what the big deal is, doesn't it just struggles with it.
It's a long separation, he loves his dad and and it it's all kind of confusing to him.
So as the story develops, Rush Revere, Liberty, and the crew, the time traveling crew from Manchester Middle School, the students, they travel to Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill.
They witness the events that led to the Declaration of Independence.
They meet and have conversations with exceptional Americans like Dr. Joseph Warren, Paul Revere, and yes, George Washington himself.
And through the time travels, you will see that the student Cam matures before your very eyes and learns a great deal about the why and the how his dad is doing what he's doing.
And it gives him some insight about the amazing sacrifice of our military heroes.
See to Cam, I mean, he knows his dad's in the military, but it's still his dad.
That's the thing that's most important to him.
And he's struggling with thinking that his father by deploying is abandoning him.
And you might think that's strange.
It's it isn't.
It happens uh routinely in military families.
So we decided to address it here in this book in our attempt to honor the people who do what they do.
And we we're really proud of this, folks, and we're really proud of the way that we have combined the present day with American history and made it all relatable into a just terrifically exciting adventure that the reader will absolutely love and by osmosis learn some of the key elements of American history that follow the events in the first two books.
So it's it's up for pre-order now, and I've been chomping at the bit.
You don't know what it's like here to have people call Are you gonna do another book and have to fake it?
Well, maybe uh, and knowing full well that I am, knowing full well that it's coming.
But you just can't say it until it's actually done and available.
The worst thing to be would be to commit to it, and it something happens and it doesn't get finished on time.
So it was a challenge, folks, to be disciplined and and uh I'm sure the way I answered you all knew one was coming anyway, but you didn't know when, but now you do.
Pre-order, I think it's later this, like the 28th or something, and actually will be in your hands.
But the pre-orders go up today at Amazon iBooks, Barnes and Noble, Books a Million, you name it.
Wherever you like to buy books, it's pre-order available, electronic hardcover, however it is you read books.
It's available.
And I'm honored to tell you about this.
And I'm really excited about it because it dedicated to the military's Veterans Day next month.
And it it just it's it's timed to reflect our just immeasurable respect and admiration for people in the military and their families, including their kids.
Rush revere and the American revolution.
Take a break, we'll come back.
The Ebola patient in Dallas has died.
And get ready.
There are charges of racism effervescing here, bubbling to the surface, racism to explain why he wasn't treated when he first arrived at the hospital.
There's that.
And let me ask you a question.
Honestly, have I ever, have I ever on this program even intimated that Barack Obama purposely allowed and wants Ebola in this country.
Have I ever said that?
Well, then why are people in the media acting or asking Dr. Anthony Fauci to react to that?
They are.
Absolutely they are.
And hang on just a second, folks.
I got so excited here.
Here's the book.
I forgot to grab it in my formerly nicotine-stained hand.
There it is.
That's that's what the cover looks like.
In fact, here, let me let me I'll do a live Zoom so that you can see.
Keep this thing centered.
There it is, Rush Revere.
It is gorgeous.
It is, thank you, Mr. Snerdlit's Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
Uh and you know it's real because I have the very first copy right here.
Pre-order available.
I'm I'm I get so excited, I forgot to grab this out of the drawer and show it to you.
So we only have two copies, and I got one of them here.
So here it is.
And now a brief time out, my friend, sit tight, back with much more after this.
Do not go away.
Yes, I did.
I went back, I found the book I was trying to remember yesterday, telling you about in the last hour of the program.
The book where a guy does a clinical study in the differences in the male and female brains, and explains why there are so many misunderstandings between men and women.
It's uh the way they're programmed.
And I couldn't remember the name of it.
I couldn't remember the author.
And I I frankly couldn't remember much about it specifically other than it was clinical.
It wasn't political.
It was not pro or anti-feminist or any of that.
It was literally a scientific attempt to explain.
The way we got it all started was this men's health magazine.
It got pulled, the story on how guys can actually get women interested in sports, how to talk to them.
And it basically said you're gonna have to get a storyline here, or women aren't going to be interested.
And it was so controversial I had to pull it.
I don't know what's controversial about it, but it reminded me I'd read a book by a guy.
Here's the name of it.
It's Why Gender Matters by Dr. Leonard Sachs, S-A-X.
Now, you should know that he is quite controversial, and a lot of people think he's full of it.
So I'm not I'm not recommending the book, and I don't know enough to stand by anything in it.
All I found it fascinating in a couple of places.
Uh he's a controversial guy.
He also believes in single sex education because of what he's learned.
He thinks he believes in segregating the sexes in classrooms because men and women learn different ways.
But just as an example, and and it's it's it's been years since he wrote the book, and I found out that some of the data in his book has been questioned.
Uh the charge is that he's been somewhat selective about some of the data or his interpretation of it, but that it doesn't invalidate much of what's in the book.
But that's it.
I'm just mentioning a title in the author because I couldn't remember it yesterday, and I promised you that I would find it, and I did.
Why gender matters by Dr. Leonard Sachs.
By the way, before getting to the Ebola thing, this is this is just classic here, folks.
You know, there has not been in Florida a major hurricane in 3,270 days.
And divide that by 365, and you'll get the number of years that there has not been a major hurricane in Florida.
Remember, after Hurricane Katrina, Al Gore and the global warming climate change crowd said, This is it, that's the end of it.
Now we're gonna have Katrinas 15 times a year.
It's gonna destroy the Florida coastline and any coastline it comes in contact.
And there hasn't been a single hurricane.
3,270 days without a hurricane.
That's nearly nine years, folks.
And by far the longest stretch on record, the next longest streak.
Five seasons, 1980 to 1984, without a hurricane in Florida.
Now you would think this is great news, because hurricanes have been presented to us as major destructive elements.
Hurricane Katrina could come along and wipe out whole communities, wipe out billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars in property.
But no, you see, you don't understand journalism if that's your take.
Do you know now what the problem is?
Well, here's the headline.
It's in the Washington Post.
Why Florida's record-setting hurricane drought portends danger?
Now just stop and think for a minute.
I want you to pretend you're reading this with me.
You don't know anything else.
You don't know what's coming in the story because you haven't read it.
So I want you to think what in the world could be the danger in no hurricanes in nine years.
I mean, nine years ago, they were warning us of the danger of more and more destructive hurricanes.
There haven't been any, and that that portends danger.
What could it be, folks?
Any ideas off top of your head?
What could the danger be from no hurricanes in Florida for nine years?
Well, H.R. says, well, that just means we're going to get a really, really, really, really like a category eight hurricane to make up for all these.
No, that's no, not drought.
That's that's it.
The broadcast engineer says the big danger is complacency.
Nine years without a hurricane, and the population is booming in Florida, and construction near the coastline is booming in Florida.
Well, not booming economy, but it is.
The population's growing, and population is growing, and there is more building going on uh at the coastline.
Here, let me read it to you from the story itself.
Meanwhile, the Sunshine State's population and development have boomed, and that's bad.
Florida is long overdue for a destructive hurricane, and has never had so many people and so much property in the way.
Oh my God, I can barely deal with it.
It's so scary.
This dangerous state of affairs is compounded by the potential for complacency and lack of recent experience.
When hurricanes don't strike over such a long period of time, some people may be lowed into a false sense of security.
And forget How horrible hurricanes can be, and then forget how to deal with one.
Now see, these global warming hoaxers constantly claim that the storms have gotten more and more destructive, get bigger and bigger and bigger, and more and more frequent because of climate change, the real truth is inadvertently admitted in this article.
The storms, storms aren't more destructive.
They do more expensive damage because inflation and this kind of thing.
But this is journalism 101.
You have to create a crisis.
You have to create chaos.
You have to create fear.
There are no hurricanes hitting Florida in nine years, and I guarantee you the people of Florida, if they're conscious of it, are thankful.
And now the people of Florida are being told, uh-uh-uh-uh, you should stay scared.
You should stay prepared.
You should be very, very worried.
Because you don't know anymore how to deal with one.
You have forgotten how bad they can be.
This is pathetic and it's classic.
It's typical of what journalism has become.
The terrible news here that Thomas Duncan, the Ebola patient from Liberia, made his way to Dallas, has died.
The uh Reverend Jackson was in Dallas yesterday trying to soothe the community.
Uh the uh Reverend Jackson helpfully claimed Thomas Duncan got sick, went to the hospital, but he didn't have insurance in Africa, and they turned him away.
So they sent him back into the community with a contagious disease, and for that there must be some liability.
The Reverend Jackson is claiming all this happened in Dallas.
Never mind.
Duncan was not turned away because he didn't have insurance.
It's against the law.
You go to the ER, you get treated.
He wasn't turned away because they have insurance.
But the Reverend Jackson trying to find a way to make somebody with deep pockets liable here.
There's no question of him.
I mean, what is this?
Duncan got sick, he went to the hospital, didn't have insurance in Africa, so they turned him away.
See, the story is he told him he was from Liberia.
He goes in, exhibits flu-like symptoms, they give him some antibiotics and send him home.
The claim has now erupted that all that happened because he was black.
All that happened.
That's the that's the meme now.
That's that's the story that they're gonna stick to.
That the medical profession in Dallas just didn't want to deal with a foreign black man.
They knew what was up.
They just sent him home.
He didn't have insurance in Africa, so he couldn't pay for anything, so but it's against the law to do that in this country.
The Reverend Jackson also helpfully questioned why Mr. Duncan wasn't getting Z MAP.
That's the special serum, the super secret serum that's made from an exclusive tobacco plant in Kentucky.
The Reverend Jackson said they are saying no more doses of Z MAP.
That seems strange to only have enough medicine for two patients in the whole country, because the Reverend Jackson, referring to the charitable workers we flew home from Africa and gave them ZMAP, and they recovered.
This is helping the community, don't you know?
Reverend Jackson stirring things up.
Meanwhile, there's a story today.
What is it, H. Is in the Boston Globe or something?
There's a story about how talk radio and cable news are stirring all this up.
Talk radio and cable news aren't stirring anything up.
Yeah, I'm as usual.
My patients wears thin on this kind of stuff.
These are just the usual chivalists that the media fall back on, whether they don't even know what's happening in talk radio.
They don't listen to us.
So now they're out there blaming Fox News, they're blaming Talk Radio for stirring now.
What is Jesse Jackson doing by going down there and trying to fire up that community down there by telling them that Mr. Duncan was turned away for racial reasons and was not given medicine because he Wasn't an American.
We are out of Z MAP.
We've said a lot to Africa.
I wonder if the Reverend Jackson mentioned that to the community down there.
It's experimental.
We don't have massive quantities of this stuff.
This tobacco plant in Kentucky, you know tobacco is the enemy of the left.
There are all kinds of regulations involved in using tobacco plants for this kind of serum and medicine.
And CNN's doing their part too, man.
Ever since the news of Mr. Duncan's death was released, they've been harping on the fact that he was released from the hospital after his first visit to the ER.
You can see where this is going, and you can see what the purpose of it is.
And once again, this country is to blame.
This country and its basic instincts.
Just not comfortable with a sick African showing up in the hospital.
So gotta get oh, goon.
And so now focusing on harping on the fact that he was released from the hospital after his first visit to the ER.
And we had, I just saw it earlier today, a reporter at an Infobabe at CNN, was just saying it those couple of days where he was turned away and sent home.
If he'd have gotten good care, might have been crucial to his survival.
They can't chalk it up to simple incompetence.
They can't chalk it up to nobody in this country is prepared for...
They can't chalk it up to the fact that the president's been telling everybody, don't worry, it's not gonna come here.
And then we let somebody in.
Don't chalk it up to the fact that there's mass confusion in the emergency medical services field over what to do about this.
Because there really isn't any authoritative leadership coming from anybody.
Everything they say creates more questions.
The CNN InfoBabe also stressed that Thomas Duncan told the hospital that he had recently visited Liberia, and they still sent him home.
He tells him he's from Liberia, he's got flu-like symptoms.
Why does the connection not get made that hey, we might have an Ebola patient here?
I have no idea, but they're chalking this.
Oh, they made the connection and they sent the guy home on purpose, and they gave him pills that he knew weren't going to be effective antibiotics, and those two days could have been crucial to his survival.
Now they're running around getting the community he's from all fired up about this, which is exactly what they do.
Turning this into a typical average political agenda item for the Democrat Party.
Well, here's here's well, here's the thing about this.
He he told him he had recently visited Liberia.
What if he had just told the nurse he was from Liberia?
You know, visiting Liberia is one thing, but he told visited because he's here illegally.
He can't tell them he just got here for he don't he thinks he's not gonna get treated.
So he's got to try to pass himself off as somebody who's already here who was visiting Liberia, just came back.
What if the nurse had been uh uh too concerned about the political correctness to hold that against him?
You know, this political correctness stuff rearing its head in any number of ways.
What if the nurse, you know, I can't, I can't do anything.
He says he's been to Liberia, oh my God, if I do anything, I'm discriminating.
Oh, dude.
You know what political correctness does to people.
It paralyzes them.
It frightens them.
What if a nurse went to public school?
What if the nurse is so obsessed with political correctness?
You see, there's any number of explanations for this, and most of them come down under the column of lack of confidence, insecurity, incompetence.
But but here come here come the baiters, and they want to charge it all up to racism.
And so now you're gonna be hearing, I predict to you that what you'll be hearing about is discrimination against illegal aliens from Liberia next.
And that this case, the Thomas Duncan and his death will be cited as an example.
Now, I really excuse me.
Normally, folks, I would I would ignore this because doing this is simply gonna elevate it.
And I've rolled the dice on this.
Some of these things you let go, some of these things you mentioned.
Alan Combs, I don't know what I ever did to Alan Combs.
But he's he's on, he's got a Fox News radio show.
And last night he interviewed the National Institutes of Health Director of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who came to be known and acquired great fame during the AIDS epidemic back in the 80s.
And they're talking about Ebola.
I want you to listen to what Combs said to Anthony Fauci.
You've got people like Rush Limbaugh saying that Obama purposely wants Ebola come to the country.
I mean, this has got to drive you nuts as a scientist, right?
I asked the staff here shortly after the program began.
Did I ever say that?
I would say a lot of things here, and it's tough to definitively say haven't said so, but if I had said that, don't you think that'd been in the news already?
Don't you think it'd been the latest attempt to do harm to me?
When have I ever said, did I, I'm asking you guys again.
Have I ever said Obama purposely want what is it, the wants Ebola in the country.
Nobody on the staff remembers it.
We can do a keyword search of transcripts and find it for certain.
If I had said that, there'd be there would have been panic on the other side of the glass.
Yeah, there's what the as close as I've got, there are people who think we are responsible for this.
We have played the soundbite of this this author who thinks that Liberia was formed by people escaping slavery.
We can't turn our backs on them.
So if Ebola shows up, we kinda deserve it because we caused it.
You know, I I've that kind of thinking is out there, but I never said that Obama wants Ebola to come to the country.
So anyway, here's we got two sound bites with Dr. Anthony Fauci answering.
I wouldn't say it drives me nuts, but it certainly is a distraction at best and very annoying at worst.
I always say, and my colleagues in the health care and public health sector always say, let evidence be the thing that directs your opinion and directs what you do.
Not just wild speculation.
So when you look at something like completely isolating a country, don't let any planes in or out, just completely isolate them.
That in fact would probably make matters worse, because the best way to protect Americans is to suppress the epidemic in West Africa.
And if you shut them off for the rest of the world, it's only gonna get much worse there and spread to other African countries.
I don't know.
To me, this seems these are exactly two different things, and I don't get the the c connection here.
It says uh uh wild speculation, uh like completely isolating, don't let planes in or out, uh, just completely that that would make matters worse because the best way to protect Americans is suppress the academic epidemic.
Well, what is keeping it there, but suppressing it.
That's what keeping airplanes from Liberia out of the United States means.
Suppressing it in Africa, containing it.
There's no cure for it.
The only thing you can do is contain it.
And so the people who are suggesting keeping this isolating Africans, nobody's talking about isolating Africans.
What people are doing is talking about saving lives.
There's only one common sensical thing to do, stop the spread.
And how stopping the spread becomes isolating, ostracizing, stigmatizing in these people's minds, is beyond me.
Well, no, it's not beyond me.
They're thinking politically.
Wild speculation.
Look at the Boston Globe.
Political talk adds to Ebola apprehension.
And this piece dumps on Rand Paul and Huckabee and Fox News and Talk Radio.
And it all it's it does is these people they they ostracize are simply quoting other things and other people.
In the media.
I knew this is going to happen.
Everything, they turn everything political, but what Fauci said here, he's not the first one.
This is so contradictory.
It would be it would it would be uh wrong to isolate them.
What we need to do is suppress the epidemic?
Well, how in the hell do you do that?
If you don't stop airplanes from their arriving here.
And yet that somehow is stigmatizing and racist.
There's a there's one more, actually, two more bites to this, but I gotta take a break.
So be right back.
Greetings and welcome back, El Rushbo.
America's real anchor man here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
So, yes, Dr. Anthony Fauci doesn't believe in quarantines.
What is this?
I I don't think these people realize how contradictory they sound.
They sit there and say what we need to do is suppress the epidemic in Africa and then condemn anybody who agrees with them as being racist or bigoted or what have you.
It's really incredible.
So I guess he doesn't believe in quarantines.
Then if he doesn't believe in quarantines, why are they quarantining neighborhoods?
Whole sections of cities in West Africa.
Now why are they quarantining people down in Dallas?
The idea is to suppress Ebola.
Not to isolate it, we're suppressing it.
We're trying to keep it from spreading.
Because there isn't a cure for it's a virus.
There aren't too many viruses for which there are cures, some vaccines.
But of course, the history of quarantine is the history of discrimination, maybe some gentlemen.
The history of quarantine is a history of discrimination.
And that the poor and the powerless and the rich and the powerful.
That's the history of quarantine.
Yes.
A couple more here.
Dr. Fauci continues after his confusing contradictory suggestions about Africa.
When people start talking about people coming in from Guatemala giving us Ebola, what are they talking about?
It's just, you know, connecting the wrong dots of different kinds of fears and opinions you have about immigration.
This has nothing to do with Ebola.
He's being a good liberal.
Oh, there is somebody.
Who is talking about people coming in from Guatemala?
General John F. Kelly.
Yesterday at the National Defense University, Southern Command Commander, Marine Corps General John Kelly was asked by a reporter, what keeps you up at night?
The Ebola issue.
There's no way you can keep Ebola in West Africa.
If it comes to the Western Hemisphere, many countries in the Western Hemisphere have about no ability to deal with an Ebola outbreak.
So much like Western Africa, it'll rage for some period of time.
If Ebola breaks out uh in Haiti or in uh Central America, I think is literally Katie Bar the door in terms of the mass migration of uh Central Americans into the United States.
These populations will move to either run away from Ebola or in the fear of having been uh infected to get to the United States will be taken care of.
So, Dr. Fauci, you want to uh you want to call General John Kelly and tell him that he's a fearmonger?
Because that's what you said.
People start talking about people coming in from Guatemala, that's Central America, Dr. Fauci, giving us Ebola.
What are they talking about?
It's just, you know, connecting the wrong dots, different kind of fears and opinions about immigration.
See?
So we now know he's an open borders liberal, and anything that might close the borders is gonna be mocked, laughed at, made fun of, and labeled as bigotry.
But it was not somebody in the media, Dr. Fauci, and it wasn't good old Alan Combs misquoting me.
It was General John Kelly who said if you think migration is what it is now, wait a breaks out down there, and there's no stopping it.
And does anybody disagree with that?
And there's this today, folks: the primary reason that we went to war against ISIS.
The primary reason has proven to be a bomb.
As in it didn't work.
As in it didn't help.
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