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Oct. 29, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 29, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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All right, I want to say something here, and I did not purposely mention this in the first hour, as I constantly am trying to demonstrate that I do not look at you all as customers.
I've tried to make this point clear for 25 years.
There are a lot of other media people out there, networks and so forth, that look at you as customers, and I do not, and I never have.
And so I don't, I try not to go overboard on rush stuff.
And I have always cared deeply about this, and I've gone to great lengths to avoid it.
But I just want to tell you all that you, you, as far as I'm concerned, you are the best audience in all of media.
You are the most supportive.
You are the most loyal.
You are obviously the brightest.
And it is a sheer honor and delight to do this and have an audience made up of people like you, quality, intelligent people like you.
The third Rush Revere book hit yesterday, and it's far and away, number one at Amazon.
It says number one everywhere.
And something else that happened yesterday started making mention of the DVD of America.
Imagine the World Without Her.
It's number one.
Amazon DVD.
And that's all because of you, folks.
And I just, I'm in constant state of appreciation for all of you.
I don't know how else to say it.
And I go to great lengths to avoid talking about this much at all because the broadcast time here, the content portion of the program is very precious.
And there are important things going on.
And these Rush Revere books are part of the mission of the program.
And the mission is to get the truth of American history to as many young people as possible so they know the truth, so they can love the country, so they can have respect for it, so they can cherish it.
But more importantly, so they can understand it, the exceptionalism of it, the uniqueness of it, the absolute miracle that is this country.
It will only survive as founded if people can relate to the founding, if people can understand it, if people have a way of never forgetting their appreciation for what the people who founded this country went through.
The effort that has been underway for years to impugn them, to insult them, to misrepresent them, has gained a lot of traction.
And there are, it's very sad, millions of Americans who have a very negative view of this country and its founding.
That's been done on purpose by people who are not particularly pleased to be Americans or to be, or with America itself.
And there's a lot of effort that goes into these books.
It's a very, we're a small group of people that are slaving away putting these things out.
And this is, it's a, I don't know, it's close to our hearts.
It's not just a commercial enterprise.
So I just want to say thank you, basically.
I just, I, because you all just continue to dazzle and amaze me.
We announce these things, they're up for sale, and you never know how it's going to go.
And I can't, I wish there were a way for me to share the joy that we all get from all of you appreciating and liking what we do, be it me on the radio or those of us in the book.
So I just wanted to say that I normally reserve a message like this around Thanksgiving or Christmas, but we're close enough.
And I just wanted to share that with you because it's something I guarantee you will be impossible for me to ever take it for granted.
To me, it's always something to prove.
And I know that your expectations are high.
That's meeting and surpassing them each day or anything that we do here is an objective.
And when it's validated by your actions, such as launching this book.
And not only did the new book go through the roof, but the first two sales skyrocketed as well.
And of course, I can understand it.
The books are good.
And this third one is such an important book because of its tie-in to present-day military, dedicated to military.
You know the stories.
Anyway, I just wanted to start this hour by thanking you.
And I wanted to wait to the second hour so that you wouldn't think that that's all I was interested in today.
It's 800-282-2882.
If you want to be no, it's Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
Snurdy's on my case.
You didn't even mention the title.
They know what it is.
Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
Yeah, hardcover was out yesterday and the audio version as well.
Now, the telephone number, if you want to be in the program, is 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushmo at EIBNet.com.
Okay, what is voter shaming?
In North Carolina, they're having the same problem the Democrats are.
It's not as pronounced as Colorado because Kay Hagen hasn't begun the silly implosion.
Actually, she has.
It just hasn't registered yet.
I mean, this woman, stimulus money went to her family.
Her family is wealthy.
She's flip-flopped on all kinds of things.
I don't just the incompetence that is finally on display that is the Democrat Party is just not a surprise to me, but so many people are finally seeing it.
And they're reacting in ways that we would all hope.
So the North Carolina Democrat Party now is using voter shaming as a tactic to spur turnout in this year's election.
Voters in at least four counties, Wake, Durham, Orange, and New Hanover, report receiving two different versions of letters from the party.
Democrat Party sending letters to voters in four counties, two different versions of the same letter.
One version gives them a report card on their prior voting history, and most of them are deemed average.
The other letter that's going out suggests that the voter in question would be surveyed as to whether or not they cast a ballot in this year's general election.
Now, the letters use Democrat Party logos, and the survey letter is signed by Patsy Keever, who's given the title of Election Day Coordinator on the letter.
Keever is a former state representative who's vice chairwoman of the North Carolina Democrat Party.
Officials with the Democrat Party, including Patsy Keever and the chairman Ramsey Voller, the executive director, Casey Mann, did not immediately return phone calls when asked whether drive-bys.
The letters carry a disclaimer that they were paid for by the North Carolina Democrat Party.
Now, the voter survey letter says, quote, public records will tell the community at large whether you vote or not.
As a service, our organization monitors turnout in your community, and it would be an understatement to say that we are disappointed in the inconsistent voting of many of your neighbors.
It goes on to say that the recipient of the letter has been selected to participate in a survey about the voting experience and asks the voter to take notes on the type of machines used.
If you do not vote this year, we will be interested to hear why not, the letter says.
Now, this is known as voter shaming or social pressure.
It's a tactic that first emerged widely in 2012, and its intention is to motivate voters to go to the polls by making them think they're being monitored, and that the officials will know if they do or don't vote.
And, of course, it would be much better for them if they do.
Good old-fashioned peer pressure.
But here's the thing about this.
If you ask me, this kind of thing could backfire big time.
What is the main African-American argument against voter ID, Mr. Snerdly?
No, the primary agent of fear employed is they don't care whether you vote.
They want to find out where you are.
The man wants to find out who you are.
The man wants to be able to track you, right?
That's what they tell people the voter ID is really for, and they scare them into saying that the voter ID is nothing more than the man being able to track them.
This is a common ploy used by the Reverend Zach and Al Sharpton and any of these other civil rights activists who are opposed to voter ID, because without voter ID, they can cheat.
With voter ID, it's tougher and tougher to cheat.
So they prey on the fears of African Americans who have already been told to distrust the authorities.
And the voter ID is just a trick.
Okay, so in the midst of that, what do they do?
They send out letters that promise to track whether these people vote or not, to try to shame them into voting.
I think this could end up scaring some black voters rather than shaming them.
You know, they don't want to get their photo ID because they're afraid of being spied on or studied or tracked or what have you.
And now they have election officials, even though it's Democrat Party officials.
They've got Democrat Party election officials sending them letters telling them they're being watched and telling them that they know whether these people have voted or not and that they will know whether they vote this time or not.
And that their neighbors will know whether they've voted or not and it will know whether the neighbors know.
So I'm not sure how this is going to play out.
But once again, it's another sign of desperation on the Democrat Party side about the election and vote turnout and all of these things that are tied into it.
I've got to take a brief time out.
I'm going to come back and get to your phone calls because I missed getting any in in the first hour.
So we'll do that right after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, back we are.
El Rushball, the cutting edge of the societal evolution.
We go to Pittsburgh.
This is Pat.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
Oh, thanks, Rush.
It's an honor to talk with you.
Thank you very much.
I'm not a subscriber to People Magazine, but I'm getting subscriptions because I didn't use my frequent dryer mouth.
And boy, do they tend to go toward the low-information voters.
They have a big article in here now about Elizabeth Warren.
She's the rock star.
Even Jon Stewart would want to make out with her.
Wall Street Scared to Death of Her.
They used to have a lot of articles about Hillary, but I've noticed lately that it's all turned toward the people that you say are going to be the potential frontrunners in 2016.
So People Magazine is trumping Elizabeth Warren.
Is that what you're saying?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
She connects with people on a visceral level.
She has become the David and Goliath of Wall Street.
I mean, they're just putting her out there that she's going to.
Okay, well, your observation is right.
This is low information central.
People magazine, the entertainment media is low information voter central.
I mean, it's the headquarters.
The idea that Elizabeth Warren is a rock star, A, maybe, but not with the majority of people.
She may be a rock star with some people, like anybody's a rock star with some people.
And I'm not trying to diminish her.
She's scary if she would ever be elected.
She's just more of Obama with more outward anger.
I mean, he's just as angry as she is.
He is able to shield his anger.
She just sounds angry every time she stands up and speaks.
But there, you know, the real question is which came first, People Magazine or the low information voter?
Did the entertainment media in this country create the low information voter by feeding them news and entertainment stuff to distract them from other things?
Or did people always aim for that kind of news and People Magazine and Entertainment Tonight just came along to fill the need?
It's probably a little bit of both.
But this is a classic example.
Does anybody think Elizabeth Warren's hip?
Elizabeth Warren's cool?
So what is it?
What is it about what Elizabeth Warren says or stands for that somehow bonds with people that would read People Magazine?
And here she's described as Wall Street scared to death of her.
Is that why people like her?
Is it because she's out there saying, you didn't build that?
Is it because she's making little people feel powerful?
By little people, I mean the people that wander around thinking their lives have no meaning, and you know who they are, and that's the kind of people this entertainment media is designed to feed.
And though the radicals do, but would you associate People Magazine with a radical group is my point.
People magazine, not political.
That's my point.
The entertainment, this is how clever the left has been.
They take a radical, I mean a genuine radical, political person, and they plug her into this entertainment genre and make her appear normal and like a celebrity and all.
And they never tell anybody she's a liberal.
They never point out Democrat Party politics or whatever.
They just paint Elizabeth Warren as normal.
The future.
And this is how.
Whereas when conservatives think that they've got to get their teeth into the entertainment media, the first thing they think they have to do is identify themselves as a conservative comedian, or we are a conservative entertainment magazine.
People doesn't say, hey, we are the left-wing entertainment media.
They never admit to being liberal.
They never identify themselves as left-wing.
They just portray themselves as what is.
They're cool.
They're hip.
They're modern.
They are just normal.
And Elizabeth Warren is an abject radical.
She is as radical as anybody in the Democrat Party.
And she would rank at the top of that list of radicals.
But here's People Magazine humanizing her, normalizing her.
And you could probably, in the same issue, I don't know, but you could probably find an example of some conservative jokes that somebody's telling or some slam on conservatives or Republicans or what have you.
This is an element of the media that the Republican Party, conservative, quote-unquote, movement just has no presence in whatsoever.
So they're in the process.
See, Elizabeth Warren isn't a rock star.
They're trying to make her one is what's happening.
And interestingly, People magazine is Time Warner.
And that means that somebody at People or Time Warner may have thrown in with Elizabeth Warren over Hillary.
You have to know how to read this stuff.
At any rate, Pat, you're right to be concerned that average ordinary people are going to think this woman's just cool.
And, oh, man, she's right in there for me.
She's going to protect me from these Wall Street people.
An honest report on Elizabeth Warren would end up with her being embarrassed and humiliated with what she believes.
She wants what we've got now times 10.
And what we have now is the ruination of the country taking place right before our very eyes.
But that's never going to be said about her.
Certainly not in People Magazine.
Pat, thanks.
Here's John in Naples, Florida.
John, great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
How are you today?
I'm great.
Thank you.
Hey, Russ.
First of all, I just wanted to tell you that, you know, I absolutely hated you for years.
Oh, well, that's nice.
I've been for years.
But listen to this.
I want to take this time to give you accolades, and I want you to understand why.
I'm a 47-year-old African-American.
And the majority of my life, I was and voted as a falsely left liberal Democrat.
Okay.
Okay.
I didn't realize that I was living in a nightmare.
However, during that period of my life, I was listening to you, but I didn't like you, period.
But I kept listening to you.
However, recently I woke up out of this nightmare and was reborn into conservatism.
Actually, now I'm a Tea Party patriot.
So I want to give you accolades, Rush, for shining that light through a dark tunnel that I was in.
This is why I have such great appreciation for the people in this audience.
This is exactly why I said what I said when I opened this hour.
John, I thought I had an additional minute.
I misread the clock.
Can you hang on for just a little longer during the next break?
And then I want to ask you a couple questions when we come back.
Do you have time?
Absolutely.
Yes, sir.
I do.
Terrific.
Don't hang up.
We will be Orlans, 1965.
Don't hang up.
No, no.
You remember the lesbian mayor of Houston demanded about a month ago that all preachers submit their sermons to the office of the mayor before they were given.
Do you remember that?
When that story hit, I ranked that as close to the top of danger.
Anything Obama is doing.
A lesbian mayor, well, forget lesbian.
This is why she did it, though.
The mayor of Houston was demanding sermons, demanding that preachers and pastors submit their sermons to the mayor's office before they were given.
Five pastors.
I never heard of such a thing.
Just blatant white out in the open.
It was because the mayor wanted to put the kibosh on what she thought might have been discrimination or criticism from the pulpit.
But you see, there is the First Amendment and there is this so-called separation of church and state.
None of it matters.
If these people on the left are left to their own devices, and if there are no checks and balances, folks, we do not have the kind of liberty and freedom this country was founded on and intended to endure.
Well, anyway, the mayor's name is Anise Parker.
She has withdrawn.
She actually subpoenaed these pastors for their sermons.
She's now withdrawn these subpoenas.
Because thankfully, there was a huge outcry.
Thankfully.
Thankfully, there was a huge outcry.
Back to the phones, John and Naples.
I'm glad you held on.
You know what intrigues me about you is that you kept listening to me, even though you said you hated me.
You listened all the time.
What was it that kept you listening if you did not like me or like what you were hearing?
Well, Rush, you know, you always told the truth.
It doesn't matter what anyone thought about you.
You know, you just kept the faith.
You kept telling the truth.
You believe in our core principles, constitution, limited government, you know, all the things that, you know, that this government.
OK, so you you're if I understand you correctly, I'm going to take this as a big compliment.
You.
You sat out there, you listening to me, and you know that I'm being ripped to shreds everywhere, left and right, and you think I'm kind of and I still stick to what I believe.
And you ended up thinking that was noteworthy.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So for that main reason, I just kept listening at you, Rush.
You take the blows from the left and the right, and you're still standing.
And you believe in what I believe in, you know, as the Chief Party Patriots believe in.
We have our core values.
We believe in pursuing an American dream.
You know, this economy is a mess, Rush.
Our borders are not secured.
We have big government.
We're becoming a welfare and a lazy nation is what I believe.
You know, I believe we have to be a nation of hard workers, not a nation of you owe me, so I just sit home and wear my food stamps and welfare.
This is not what the United States is all about.
Now, this is obviously a huge, this is a 180-degree change for you that happened to you.
I mean, what was that like?
I mean, I can't imagine the reason I'm asking this, John, and I appreciate it.
Don't misunderstand.
But I can't imagine one day having a so-called awakening and becoming a liberal.
I just can't imagine.
That happened to you one day, maybe not in one day, but you continue listening to this program even though you didn't like what you were hearing.
And in one day, it all clicked and you rejected all of what you had believed for all of your life.
What was that like?
Oh, it was a true blessing, Rush.
You know, I only can say that, you know, I wish that it had happened early in my life, you know.
And then I can be, you know, talking to family, you know, friends, getting out there, you know, just getting on a beat, letting everybody know, hey, conservatism is the way to go.
You know, with this liberal Democrats, I mean, we've been robbed of our personal freedom, our economic freedom.
You know, we're sitting there.
You know, that is actually, that is a great way to characterize it.
We've been robbed.
Absolutely.
We've been robbed and we're still being robbed, you know, as we speak, Russ.
And folks need to wake up as I did.
So I just want to give you accolades.
You know, keep me out of that light.
I love you, John.
I appreciate it.
What about your buddies, though?
I mean, you had to have your family, your friends that were shocked at your change of opinion here.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
You know, right now, they're mostly kind of separating themselves, you know, but I'm going to shine that light as you did, Russ.
And we're going to get them to finally open up their eyes as well.
Hang in there because I can tell you it's worth it.
And I want to, you said you wish it would have happened earlier.
And I understand that.
You know, there are days I wish I was going to live a lot longer than I'm going to live because of some of the great fun things happening in this country.
I mean, it's going to be if we beat back the left.
I mean, some of the things happening, you know, my hobby is tech, and it's a hobby.
I'm by no means an expert, but we're still in the infancy of what's going to happen here with TechWise.
And, you know, all the people that I love, I wish I was going to live a lot longer than I am.
So, John, since I know I'm not going to live longer than I'm going to live, whatever it is, what I've decided to do, and I did this long ago, is to get as much out of every day the things that I love and enjoy as I can.
So, okay, you wish this conversion, this awakening, this enlightenment had happened to you sooner, but it didn't.
But it has.
And so, run with it, man.
You sound like you have the ability to persuade some others.
So, we're all happy to have you here back home.
It's great that you called.
I appreciate it.
Who's next?
Where are we headed?
Fresno, California.
John, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Rush, great to talk to you.
A couple of points that the comments you made at the top of the hour and your call to John in Florida is that, I mean, the accolades have got to be given to you.
I mean, consistently for 25 years, you've been entertaining, you've been informative, and you've been, like I said, consistent.
I think that's what builds an audience.
And I think that you've done that to perfection throughout the 25 years that I've been listening.
I was telling Bo earlier that I was at a party a short time ago, and I was talking to a friend, and I mentioned your name, and I get a tap on the shoulder, and she was a woman at the party, goes, you listen to Rush Limbaugh?
I said, yeah.
And she said, how can you listen to him?
And I said, have you ever listened to him?
And she says, yeah.
And I said, was it one show?
Was it something that you saw on TV?
Or what was it?
And she really couldn't answer me.
And she just said, for 25 years, how can you do that?
I said, well, I haven't listened for every day for 25 years.
There's time when I'm at work and I can't listen to him.
But when I get the opportunity, I will.
And she said, how can you do that?
And I said, well, it's kind of like a friend, somebody you haven't seen maybe in a couple of years, and you can get back together with them, and you can pick up right where you left off, mainly because of their beliefs and their consistent things that they do and what they say.
And I think that you've done that to profession.
And I think anybody that listens to you will know that.
And it's too bad that the people that are starting to listen now may not get 25 years out of you.
But, you know, the memories that I have will go to my kids.
Well, they will if I have anything to say about it.
So I just want to take you.
Well, look, that's just great.
I appreciate that.
You're very deceptive and you're very, very shrewd.
And I sincerely appreciate it.
I really do.
I know that a lot of you will be learned by others that you listen to this program.
And you'll be, you what?
You listen to that guy?
I'll tell you what to say from now on when that happens.
Just say, yeah, he's the only guy on the radio I never get tired of listening to.
And if they start attacking you for whatever you believe, the thing to say to people like that is, how often have you listened?
What do you think you really know?
I've listened for 25 years.
I know what I'm listening to.
You don't even know what you're talking about.
The time to be intimidated by people on the left is over.
They're not smarter.
They're not cooler.
They're not hipper.
They're, in many cases, folks, they are not nearly as informed and up to speed as you are on things.
But their arrogance and conceit, the way they carry themselves, makes them look like they are superior to you.
But they aren't.
Don't fall for that for a second.
It's like this guy, Fresno.
John, you handled it well.
Thanks very much.
We'll be back, folks.
Don't go away.
Okay, back to the audio soundbites we go.
And it's still me and Governor Christie and Ebola quarantines.
I just wanted to break it up.
We return to this with the Today Show this morning.
Co-host Matt Wauer interviewing Doctors Without Borders nurse Casey Hickox, who refused to quarantine in New Jersey and went to Maine, which is her home state.
The governor of Maine, Paula Page, wants to quarantine her there, but she says she won't do it.
She has that right.
And Matt Wauer said, it's my understanding your 21-day isolation period will be up on November 10th.
Will you stick to the same guidelines until then?
You know, I don't plan on sticking to the guidelines.
I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me, even though I am in perfectly good health and feeling strong and have been this entire time completely symptom-free.
So, no, I'm not.
Rules don't apply to me.
I'm a good person.
I'm a good person.
And I'm not sick.
And the rules don't apply to me.
I'm smarter than you.
These governors don't know what they're talking about.
So Matt Wauer said, Well, we got six states that are going along with the guidelines put in place in New York and New Jersey.
You have the chief joints of staff recommending to the Department of Defense that U.S. troops coming home from Ebola fighting missions in West Africa be quarantined for 21 days.
Why is it so abhorrent to you to put yourself in that very same position?
You know, I truly believe that this policy is not scientifically nor constitutionally just.
And so I am not going to sit around and be bullied by politicians and forced to stay in my home when I am not a risk to the American public.
This is why, you know what I find interesting about this?
Let me get this observation first.
Here is a woman.
She has been documented to be a huge Obama supporter.
She's a radical leftist.
And yet what's she doing here?
She's saying she doesn't trust the government.
She doesn't trust politicians.
She doesn't trust the officials.
She thinks they're trying to deny her her freedom.
She thinks that her constitutional rights are being abridged.
She thinks these people are not talking about science, but just politics.
Yet, look at who this woman supports and votes for, and she doesn't even trust them.
Apparently.
I am not going to sit around and be bullied by politicians and forced to stay in my home when I am not at risk to the American public.
Well, but see, nobody knows that yet.
But here's the thing, folks.
We need to start asking people who refuse, I'm sorry.
These rules that she has objected, they're not Governor Christie's rules.
And this is why I think he, well, I don't think he should have caved to Obama.
I know what he was doing.
He thinks that she passed the protocol.
But the problem is the CDC now says that anyone with contact with bodily fluids from Ebola patients should be quarantined.
And she clearly passes that test.
And these are not Christie's rules.
These are the Center for Disease Control rules, even though they may change every day.
I mean, the CDC is that's the thing.
Nobody has really any trust in any position of authority on all this.
There's so many mixed messages.
And the reason for that is that at the very top of the heap here at the White House, all of this is political to them.
I guarantee you, everything they're coming up with policy-wise is guaranteed to either cause the least damage to Obama and Democrats or to help them in some way or another.
I mean, when Chuck Hagel has accepted the chief joints of staff request and has ordered that every branch of the military be quarantined when they return from Ebola countries, it's the only sensible, reasonable thing to do.
And this woman continues to put herself above everybody else on the basis of her self-diagnosis.
Here's Hagel this morning at the Washington Ideas Forum.
Let's cut 5A, right in order there.
What I signed this morning was a memorandum to the chairman and joint chiefs of staff in response to the memorandum of recommendation I received from the chairman and the chiefs yesterday to go forward with a policy of essentially 21-day incubation for our men and women who would be returning from West Africa.
Soldiers need to be quarantined for 21 days.
The nurse in Maine refuses to stay in her house.
I am a good person and you can't make me.
But everybody else is being required.
Yesterday, Providence, Rhode Island, on a campaign trail for a candidate, gubernatorial candidate in Rhode Island, Alan Fung, Governor Christie, spoke with reporters about his Ebola quarantine policy.
And a reporter said, looks like you're going to have to defend this in court, Governor.
Whatever.
Get in line.
It's so dautized before.
Get in line.
I'm happy to take it off.
She was inside the hospital in a climate-controlled area with access to her cell phone, access to the internet, and takeout food from the best restaurants in Newark.
She was doing just fine.
Well, outside of the best restaurant food in Newark, sounded like everything was anyway.
Governor Christie, say what you want.
I mean, he's not being bullied by any of this.
It doesn't sound like he's being bullied by any of it.
But this woman clearly is holding herself above and beyond everyone else.
And the military, by the way, even though they're being quarantined, the U.S. military aren't even supposed to have any contact with Ebola patients.
And yet they are being quarantined.
They are not supposed to come anywhere near precious bodily fluids of Ebola patients, meaning that's not their mission.
Anyway, the constraints of time, once again, folks, I have to take a brief pause.
Game seven of the World Series tonight at Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City.
Who would have thought everybody asking me for my prediction on this?
Maybe, maybe.
We still have lots to do.
We have one hour left to do it in, and that gets started right after this, my friends.
Don't go anywhere.
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