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Oct. 8, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 8, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, then there's a Spanish nurse, and she has no idea how she contracted the Ebola virus.
No idea whatsoever.
The experts are all saying, well, you can't get it by casual contact.
It's not airborne.
And then the CDC director said, well, maybe you could.
We don't really know.
The way this thing is mutating.
So it's a moving target, obviously.
Great to have you back, folks.
It's a one and only Rush Limbaugh program, and I am your highly trained broadcast specialist, Rush Limbaugh, the guy a caller said last week, he never, the only guy on radio he never gets tired listening to.
That was profound compliment to I thank that guy for half hour.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882, and the email address, L Rushbo, EIBNet.com.
So Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
That's our third book announced today, available today for pre-order.
Do you realize this is three books in one year?
And they've all been uh great fun, labors of love.
But we have, let's see, the um Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims on October 29th of 2013.
Rush Revere and the First Patriots this past March, and here one year after the first book, Rush Revere and the American Revolution on October 28th.
So three books in one year, because the demand is uh through the roof, and we're trying to meet that demand with a a supply.
Now, when we when we first started this series, we talk a lot about how we get younger people to enjoy history in a way that it wasn't even history.
History is off-putting if you put it to them that way.
It can be boring, uh, subject that that kids admittedly are not crazy about, so still want to reach them.
And we want them to learn of the greatness of this country and its founding.
So we decided that we would portray American history as a series of incredible adventures, and the best plan would be just to take the reader right to the action so they can experience amazing events like the Boston Tea Party or the pilgrims arriving at Plymouth Rock and getting started.
Have the reader experience these things themselves, and actually have conversations directly with the amazing people that founded this country, people like Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.
But this third book is something special.
This book is dedicated to the men and women of our Great Armed Forces, and I was reminded to tell you again because of the last call we had Keith, who's a military veteran, and was expressing thanks for the premise of the book.
But it is it's all of us who thank you and your families in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Sacrifice your commitment to freedom.
Uh this book is truly in your honor.
This book was written and conceived entirely, and the timing of publication is timed with with Veterans Day, uh, the time of year where we focus our efforts to honor the military.
And I don't I don't want to give too much of it away.
But I want to share with you a little bit about book three.
If you haven't read book one and two, and this is not a sales pitch, you really should, because it makes three that much better.
There's a there's this there's a there's a bit of continuity in all three because these are real events that took place, comprise American history.
And so there's a context that is present in all three of the books.
Now, they're standalone.
You can you can read them separately.
You don't need to have read the previous book to be able to understand enjoy the the current book.
But it's like this program.
It's very helpful if you have six weeks of listening under your belt.
If the, you know, when you tune it, finally understand the context of how and what all does happen on this program.
The story in book three, Rush Revere and the American Revolution centers on one of the time-traveling students at Manchester Middle School, Cam, and his relationship with his father.
Cam's father's been deployed to Afghanistan.
Cam doesn't understand it.
He struggles with the long separation, feelings of abandonment, but yet he's conflicted because he knows his father didn't really abandon him, but he feels like it.
He doesn't understand it.
And decided to tackle this.
We found that this is a real thing.
And this is what our caller confirmed moments ago, that this actually does happen.
Keith was talking about his five-year-old son who just didn't understand why dad was gone for a year.
He knew where Afghanistan was, and he knew it was a war going on, but it was still difficult to personalize.
Why did it have to be good that long?
Why couldn't other people pick up the slack in this kind of thing?
So we try to tackle that here with one of our characters.
And as the story develops, Rush Revere and Liberty, the time traveling talking horse, and the whole crew travel to Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, and they witness the events that led to the Declaration of Independence, and they meet exceptional Americans such as Dr. Joseph Warren.
I don't know how much about Dr. Warren's taught in history today, but he's crucial.
Literally crucial to the American Revolution that Paul Revere plays a central role in this book, as does George Washington.
And through all of the time travels, back to these seminal events in American history, our character Cam starts to mature right before your very eyes, and learns a great deal about the why and the how of what his father is doing.
And it gives him some insights into the amazing sacrifice of our military heroes.
Now you might be able to put two and two together and realize what Cam experiences as he time travels back to American history and talks to men who are fathers in their day, and hears from them about their families and the sacrifice.
And it's all a huge really joyous awakening for Cam that occurs throughout the book.
And we did this in service to the U.S. military of the modern day.
And for every thing they do, everything they offer, the sacrifices, and the things that they engage in in order to secure freedom for everybody else.
So that's that's one of the reasons we did it.
It's one of the reasons for the timing.
It's it's uh a central theme in the book, as well as the accurate portrayal of the events we tackle in American history in this book.
The third book, once it's available for pre-order right now, wherever you get books at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBooks, uh, Books a Million, Rush Revere, and the American.
Oh, well, I'm here.
Let me grab once again.
I forgot to do this in the first hour, too.
I'm gonna grab the book itself, and I'm gonna zoom in here.
Pardon the sniffles, so you can see.
Look for that icon as you travel on the internet to whatever place you buy books.
That's that's a cool cover, folks.
That's hot.
That's hot.
And that's it, and it's uh available at pre-order today, and we're ecstatically proud to be able to announce it.
So, where are we with all the other things that are happening?
Well, we've explored a little bit of Ebola today, but then there's another thing that's happening, and it's probably related in somewhat, but not exclusively related, other factors making it relevant.
And it's in no less than the New York Times, Jonathan Martin, who used to be at the politico.
And the headline of the story in this election, Obama's party benches him.
This is stunning.
The New York Times has a story about how Democrat candidates for the Senate don't want Obama anywhere near their states.
They don't want him coming in fundraising.
They don't want him coming in doing campaign appearances.
Now imagine if you are a dutiful, loyal New York City liberal, and the New York Times is your gospel, and you awaken today, and you go grab your cup of coffee and your croissant, and you sit down to digest your daily lesson.
Imagine the shock of seeing a headline.
Obama's party benches him.
Obama benched the coach, the GM, the owner.
It turns out that Barack Obama's become the problem.
Barack Obama is the problem with Obama's driving the Democrat Party bus to the far left side of the road.
Every campaign has this is a pull quote from the piece.
Every campaign has got to figure out, and this is true in this election, and it's going to be true for every election going forward for Democrats, for as far as the eye can see, is which Democrats are only going to be able to win if they turn out enough of the Obama coalition, whether we're in a midterm or a presidential.
That's Dan Pfeiffer.
So far, candidates to distance themselves from the president or even disparage him is to ignore a potential path to victory.
This is an inconvenient truth for Democrats.
So for Democrats, candidates to distance themselves from the president is to ignore a potential path to victory.
New York Times is chiding Democrats for not wanting their young president nearby in their campaigns.
How dare they do this to him?
But it's their business to get elected.
For now, again, pull a quote from the story.
Obama has been reduced to something else, an isolated political figure who is viewed as a liability to Democrats in the very states where voters by the thousands had once stood to cheer him.
so And then from the Hill.com, most see Obama as a failure.
A clear majority of Americans describe President Obama's tenure as a failure.
According to a new poll released Monday, a survey from IBD Tip indicates that 53% of adults in the U.S. now characterize Obama's presidency as a failure.
While 41% chalk it up as a success, half of the people who live in states won by Obama see his tenure negatively, as do 59% of those between 25 and 44 years of age.
Now, the real question is, is Obama a failure?
Is all of this constitute failure?
I contend that in Obama's world, none of this is a failure.
There may be one aspect of it that's a failure.
I really think that in his desire to transform the country, I think he really hoped that he would bring a majority of Americans along with him cheering this transformation.
That's not happening.
That's why, in the people who fail to see Obama's vision, the people that fail to want to tag along on this, they see Obama as a failure.
But it isn't a failure.
He's doing exactly what he set out to do.
The people that are that voted for Obama who now claim he's failed, don't realize that Obama wanted to fundamentally transform America with his presidency.
And who can deny that he's done that even beyond his wildest dreams?
I would say that in Obama's world, when he and Michelle are up there in the residence, quietly reflecting, I think that they look at what they've done as a resounding success.
I think I think they have exceeded their wildest dreams in terms of what they wanted to accomplish.
They've accomplished it.
Everybody else thinks he's an incompetent failure, and he's maybe incompetent in The traditional way we view the presidency, i.e., qualifications, as you know what he's doing, does he have the same values in terms of foreign policy, defending and protecting a country and all of that?
He doesn't.
The United States isn't special, and it's not the solution.
United States is the problem, and it always has been the problem.
Time to pay the piper now.
Is there any way that you can measure and conclude the country is stronger today after six years of Obama?
Nope.
Therefore, job done.
Obama job done.
Mission accomplished.
Country is not stronger today in any way than it was six years ago when he presumed office.
So that's failure to the blind voters who blindly supported him.
To him, it's rock on.
And there's still two years.
And it does I don't think it really matters to him who wins the Senate.
I mean, it would help if the Democrats kept it, but he can make a lot of hay with the Republicans there.
He knows he's got a media that is going to join him in blaming the Republicans for whatever he needs to do in order to overcome them.
I mean, if the Republicans do not help, if they don't cooperate, if they don't pass his agenda, that's made to order for Obama and the media to rip into them.
And to praise Obama for taking whatever executive steps necessary to accomplish his objectives, even with an obstructionist.
Republican Congress.
And make no mistake.
The media can't wait to report that story.
The media can't wait to report the story that the Republicans are standing in the way, refusing to cooperate, throwing and casting aside bipartisanship in exchange for selfishness and just motivated exclusively by stopping Obama.
And as such, the Republicans will be blamed for excessive partisanship and playing politics with every issue while the president will be portrayed as decent and wonderful and simply trying to do the best for the country with this mean, rascally Republicans standing in the way.
So that's how he can play the Republicans winning the Senate.
The Democrats win the Senate, it's got a rubber stamp for whatever he wants to do.
Even if the Republicans win, it's not going to stop him doing amnesty because half of them are on board for it anyway.
Ebola might be the biggest obstacle he's got to amnesty now.
And in that case, pay special attention to the way the regime deals with that.
Brief time out.
We'll come back and continue with your phone calls after this.
So I checked the email during the break.
And somebody said, What do you mean pay attention to the way they deal with Ebola?
As an indication of amnesty.
So, well, let me make it very simple for you, folks.
Ebola is the biggest obstacle to amnesty right now.
Ebola spreading is going to put pressure on the regime to really control the borders, really control who gets in here.
And that can't be allowed to happen, folks.
can't.
We can't have any additional pressure to close the border to protect people from Ebola.
How do we do that?
Well, I don't know, but I'm gonna make I just here's here's a possibility.
Just keep a sharp eye and see if it if it happens that the media and others try to make a martyr out of Thomas Duncan.
The first Ebola death in America, the man from Liberia got on a plane there in Monrovia and came here.
You know the story.
Went to ER, sent home with antibiotics, told him he had spent time in Liberia and nobody.
It's made the order now for the drive-by media to devote themselves to convincing us that Duncan died because of racism.
Because of bigotry, because he was from a foreign country.
His family are illegals, is African American.
Every requirement for the drive-by media to accuse this country of being bigoted and racist.
And then we'll hear this is what happens when people are forced to live in the shadows.
They're afraid to come out and get treatment because maybe they won't be treated, and maybe they'll just die anyway.
And then they'll say if it wasn't for our ignorance, ignorance is always a factor in bigotry.
It's a magic where it's got to be.
And if it weren't for our ignorance and our nativism, Thomas Duncan might well be alive today.
And we have to make sure that others like him are not afraid to come forward.
It's in our nation's best interests.
It's a matter of public safety, and it's about who we are as a people.
And it's about putting our better angels in the forefront.
Just see.
Just see how long it takes.
I may be wrong.
We may hear nothing like that.
But if we do, if you hear any version of that, what you must conclude is the effort is being made to make sure that no matter what, we do not close the border.
The border must stay open so that more can get treatment and not succumb like poor Thomas Duncan did.
We must set aside our fear, our bigotry, and our ignorance and not allow our lesser angels to dominate and blah, blah, blah.
We'll give it a couple of days, three days, see what happens.
Hi, how are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the E.I.B. network.
Ladies and gentlemen, one other thing that that I that I uh forgot to mention here about the latest Rush Revere book, Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
I forgot to show the cover.
I forgot to hold up the book itself when I first mentioned this.
Remembered that in a nick of time.
We are the Adventure of Rush Revere series is a proud sponsor of the Navy SEALs Museum.
It's up in Fort Pierce, Florida.
You know the SEALs roots are in Fort Pierce.
Did you know that?
Everybody thinks it's San Diego, which it is now, but the the Navy SEALs museum is in Fort Pierce.
And I could spend the rest of the program talking about it, but we've got a whole section on it at our new website, RushRevere.com.
But we're a proud sponsor of that museum, Navy SEALs Museum.
And uh please, when you get a chance, check out this new website anyway, because made to order for young people and readers, enjoy people that enjoy reading the books, RushRevere.com is his own special website now, Rush Revere has arrived.
And also the audio version.
I would be remiss if I didn't plug the audio version because of course I did it.
And I think it's the best yet.
So I'm I can't contain my excitement here, folks.
You'll have to, you'll have to get forgive me.
Jason in Ellisville, Missouri, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Thanks for having me.
You better by the way, my apologies to uh Mr. Snerdley, but I just wanted to tell you that um yeah, I've already pre-ordered uh the next iterance of uh your book series.
So my daughter's gonna flip out when she sees it arrive.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
Why are you apologizing to snurdly?
Well, he told me to get to the point, so I just Well, that's the point.
That's the point.
You don't have to apologize for that.
Okie dokie.
Um but my my major point was well, based off of Drudge's uh brilliant uh headline on his site.
Um and your and your uh talks about uh you know, anybody talking about isolating uh uh Liberia and those countries uh being racist, well, why is the Democrat Party being uh not also being uh judged as racist for isolating Obama.
You know, if only if only the same treatment would descend on them that they pass out.
I mean, you could be, I get your point, it's right on the money.
So here we have our first African American president, and Democrat candidates are saying, stay away, buddy.
Stay away.
We don't want you anywhere near our campaign.
Do not even come to the state.
Why isn't that racist?
You know, if any Republican disagrees with the Obama policy, it's always chalked up to racism and bigotry.
And now here these pompous, arrogant Democrat candidates are out telling the world there's no way they can win if the first African American president shows up to help him.
I mean, it sounds like racism to me.
Same kind of racism they pass out all day.
Does it not, Mr. Snerdley?
I mean, it does.
I mean, the guy's got a great point here.
Where are the accusations that these Democrat incumbents are racist?
And bigots.
You imagine actively public to having the New York Times report that you, a Democrat, do not want the help of the first African American president in your reelection effort.
Why not?
Is it because he's black?
Is that why people aren't gonna like it?
How would that feel?
You know, it's kind of like that Ben Affleck and Bill Maher uproar.
I wonder how Bill Marr feels when Bill Ben Affleck calls him a racist and a bigot.
You know, they throw it around to us all the time.
And of course, they never even consider it would even be possible for anyone to think of them in the same way.
And here's old Ben Affleck out there accusing them of it.
Racism, bigotry, and whatever else he accused them of being because they are mean to Muslims.
Do people on the left think that Afleck is smart?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, my.
But not because of this.
Because of goodwill hunting.
Affleck, and what's the other guy?
Damon.
They're still living Matt, yeah, Matt Damon.
They're living off of that.
That's the real Affleck.
And that's the real Damon.
Yeah, there's a lot of people who think Affleck on the left, especially, especially after this.
After the dust up with Marr.
Absolutely.
That's why I'm saying, I wonder how Marr feels being on his own show by a fellow leftist being tagged as a racist and a bigot.
We'll never know, but this is something worth asking.
What?
Snerdley's asking me if Pennett is doing all this because he wants to.
Because this latest announcer by Panetta on Benghazi, that does.
That undercuts.
I don't think this is getting its proper attention.
Leon Panetta said on MSNBC yesterday that he knew and he told in the war room in the situation, he told Petraeus, Petraeus, he claimed was saying that's just a protest.
And Leon Panetta said, nope, nope, nope.
When you bring a howitzer or a mortar gun to a protest, that's not a protest.
He said this is a terror attack.
He said he recognized it as a terror attack from the get-go.
And he is a gravitas guy.
Panetta's one of these guys, and you put him in his regime, you're adding gravitas.
Okay, so he just pulled a rug out from under everybody who claimed it was a protest resulting from that silly video that nobody ever saw.
Including Hillary.
And so Snerdley's saying maybe Pennett is trying to set himself up.
I don't know.
I've never, I've never looked at Panetta as somebody wanted to be president.
Maybe he does.
Don't know.
All I know is that's a giant.
That's I mean, you know what I wonder?
You know what's probably happening right now.
There are people in the Obama campaign searching video archives, hoping to find just one example of Panetta also blaming the video.
And if they find it, you can count on Wolf Blitzer having it five minutes before he knows he's got it.
And then it'll be over at the CBS evening, and then it'll be over to MSNBC, and it'll be maybe Andrew Mitchell will be the first to get it, since that's where he pulled a rug out.
But you know that they're looking, since he's now saying, I'm the guy, I knew him from the get go is a terror attack.
You know they're trying to find if he ever publicly blame the video, like they all did.
Won't be long to find out if they find it, because when they do, it's gonna be prominently replayed over and over.
Panetta 76.
Oh, so that means he's not gonna run.
70s.
Well, what Hillary's what, 74, so um speaking of Hillary.
Did you see this link on Drudge?
Vaginal orgasm doesn't exist.
Did you see that?
It's right next, it's right next to a picture of Hillary.
I don't know if he meant that or not, but vaginal orgasm does not exist.
I haven't checked, I haven't clicked on the link.
I don't know who's saying it.
I don't know what the story is.
I've just I've just seen the link all day, but I haven't clicked on it.
Snerdlies.
His fingers are dancing across the keyboard faster than I have ever seen them fly.
Yes, sir, Bob, fastest three hours in media, fastest minutes in hour, manages zip by one other thing.
I have uh I've been remiss.
I've I've not grabbed the cover of the new book and had it on the ditto cam enough here, and I'm not gonna grab it now.
But there's a it's it it's so good, and there's a better way to see it.
And I wish I could show you well, you can.
I tell you what you do.
We've got a we've got a really cool video at our new Rush Revere website, Rush Revere, that's one word, RushRevere.com.
There's an awesome video that introduces all this uh under featured video.
Just check it out, and you that's you'll get a great, great shot of the cover.
It's just a great great video that that accompanies our rollout here.
Here's uh here's Susanna Nashville.
Hi, Suzanne, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I'm actually in Memphis, but I am calling in response to Gary that called you yesterday and told you that you were fear-mongering.
I got so outraged over that.
It just flew all over me.
We it's time that common sense took hold of everybody.
It just makes me want to slap all these people and say, snap out of it.
The low information voters have got to wake up because we do need to be afraid of Ebola, and we need to be afraid of this in terror bars.
It's not just affecting children.
Adults have died too, but the news media ain't talking about that.
And they're not talking about the surgeons of TV, that um paramedic that called you yesterday.
He was talking about how he got exposed to TV.
Right.
We had eradicated all of these these illnesses.
We had we had conquered TB in this country and measles and whooping cough and scarlet fever and all these diseases, and now they're popping back up.
You have all these illegals that are coming into this country, they're not vaccinated, and they are forced into the schools.
The schools have to take them.
And we just moved to Tennessee.
My son had to have a physical before he could be admitted into the schools.
They're not requiring that of these illegals.
And it's it's frustrating.
And one of my friends was ta uh heard on the news last week, his daughter was with him, she's eight, and she asked what it all was, because she heard him talking about it and how the man had come in this country and all this, and so he sat her down and he explained to her what it was.
And she said, Well, Daddy, the way you stop it is you don't let those people come in this country.
Oh, you see, that's mean.
And see, here's Suzanne, everything you've said's right on the money.
Including that, and that is exactly why it won't be said.
By stopping, by not permitting people to come in the country, you've just undercut one of Obama's big sales pitches for the election.
That's the Hispanic vote.
If you if you say or do anything that would cause even more people to oppose amnesty than already do, not acceptable.
Politics is overriding this.
And I I'm gonna be real eager to see if my prediction about the way the death of Thomas Duncan's dealt with comes true, how long it takes.
But I appreciate your call.
She's a guy called yesterday and told me that that we lay people need to just shut up and leave it to the experts.
Anything else is fear-mongering.
And she's saying, you know what, that that's silly.
We all need to snap out of it.
Common sense is common sense.
You don't need a Harvard degree or anything else to have common sense, and people that have common sense need to speak up, including a low information crowd.
I I Suzanne, I appreciate it.
I really, I really do.
Thank you very much.
Now that video, the the book trailer is at rushrevere.com.
And it's hot.
It's hot.
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