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Nov. 6, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 6, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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It's it's oh it's my very exclusive private club that you can't join.
That's it's just the logo for that club.
Oh, geez, we're on here.
Oh my oh.
They're asking me about the shirt.
Can I tell you?
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
It's great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
I have to tell you, I have to share this with you.
You know, I I uh because you all are making it all happen.
You're you're once again uh you you're bringing so much joy to uh to me and my family and our little team here that produces the adventures of Rush Revere series.
Back when the Harry Potter books were out, there were a lot of them out at the same time, and they were dominating the best seller lists.
So the New York Times decided to give other books a chance to appear on the list, they would consolidate books like Harry Potter into series.
So that the any time a new Harry Potter book came out, it was lumped in with all the other books, and it appeared on the list as part of a Harry Potter series, but the individual sales of each new book were not well the the list doesn't tabulate the sales anyway, but it they didn't list each book.
And it it is that you become a series on all of these bestseller lists if there are three, minimum three books in the series, so then makes you a series.
Well, the first two Rush Revere books have been on the best seller list from the first day they hit.
The Brave Pilgrims has been out there over a year.
And the second book, Rush Revere and the First Patriots, right behind it by six months.
And so the third book that just came out on October 28th, Rush Revere and the American Revolution, has made us a series, and we just found out yesterday that we are going to appear number one in the series and all three books on the New York Times list a week from Sunday.
They always publish the or they no, they don't publish.
They inform ten days prior to the whatever the date of publication of the list in the paper.
And so we found this out yesterday, and when we heard that we were going to be lumped into a series, we were kind of disappointed because, well, that's going to be the end of you know this this individual book, the new book, is never going to show up.
It'll be there, but it's never gonna show up.
Well, our disappointment was short-lived because it's uh the Rush Revere series is going to be number one on the list, and it's number one for a reason, and that's because you all are making it number one.
And I have to tell you that the the feedback from this book, we have posted a lot of pictures.
People, kids are sending us pictures in their own reviews and reactions, and we're putting a lot of it on the Rush Revere Facebook page.
And we're doing this specifically, we've got a rushrevere.com website now separated from two if by tea, and we started the Rush Revere Facebook page to promote this interactivity between uh the the Rush Revere characters and readers.
And it's just going gangbusters and the feedback that we're getting and the pictures that people are taking, their kids reading the books with the books and and and dressed up as uh various characters from the book uh on Halloween is just priceless.
It's just and it's I guarantee you, if you would have told me 15 years ago that I would be involved in writing children's books, I would have told you you're crazy.
And here we are.
And it's yeah, I can't tell you how wonderful it is, folks, because the whole point here is to reach an audience this program wouldn't reach.
To take the values and the beliefs, the love of country that is part of this show each and every day to children who who it's quite natural they wouldn't listen to talk radio.
They're they're too young, and yet their parents are exposing it to them and they're finding out what uh makes this program in terms of values and Positions and so forth.
And so this series, the Rush Revere series, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans, has become a mission to teach kids about American history.
But there are a zillion books on American history.
They're all over the place, and there will continue to be.
And they're all pretty good.
So what we wanted to do was come up with a new way of not just teaching history, but actually taking students to it, or looked at the other way, bringing history to them.
And so we created a time-traveling horse who can go liberty, can go anywhere in American history.
Rush Revere substitute teacher rides liberty and take students actually back to crucial, important moments in American history.
Our goal is to make history and the amazing people that founded this country, the heroes, come alive.
We want kids to see some of these early patriots as true role models.
We want us we want young readers to find out just how hard it was and what it was all about, which is liberty and freedom.
Determination, stick to it, passion, love, defining what it is that is important to you and giving everything you've got to achieve it.
Individual responsibility.
Everybody has opportunity here to change their circumstances, to better their lives, to overcome obstacles in one way or another.
What better way to teach that than to take young kids back to the founding of this country where all of that happened and put them in the middle of the action?
And that's what makes these books different.
Is that the readers experience the story.
They're right in it.
They are part of the action.
They actually talk to people like George Washington and Paul Revere.
They have these students at the Manchester Middle School.
They have these conversations.
And it is our way of making history come alive in adventure after adventure after adventure, with drama, with comedy, humor, good cheer, all of these things that this program is known for encapsulated in these books.
And for this to be working the way it is, far exceeds expectations.
You might think that I believe that if my name's on a book, people are going to buy it, and I don't.
I never expect things like that.
Every when the day comes that these books are released, it's like it's the first one for me.
And it's it's uh something I have to prove uh to myself.
There's no expectation here whatsoever.
Uh, and the fact that you're validating what we're doing with these books, I can't I can't thank you enough for it.
Let me read to you in the theme of this latest book, Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
Not the theme, but the the dedication is a tribute to the U.S. military, because the book's release coincides with Veterans Day.
And one of the characters in the book is a student named Cam, whose father's deployed to Afghanistan and he doesn't understand it.
Well, he understands it, but he he has a tough time coming to grips with his father's long absence.
We did this because we know that this happens in many military families.
The kids understand, but it still doesn't make it easier when mom and dad are gone for so long.
So we incorporated a modern-day reality with the exact circumstance in American history.
And the young kid Cam learns, comes to have so much love and respect for his dad by learning about George Washington, by learning about Dr. Warren, by by by meeting the people who made this country possible.
And I just read to you a um just a short little email we got from uh Sergeant First Class Sisson, S I S S O N to Cam and all the little Cams around the USA.
Son, I call you son Because you are part of the U.S. military family and will carry your memories with you forever.
My father and his father before him served in the military.
And I understand all too well the burden children bear due to the absence of a beloved parent.
I remember a time when I was ten years old and my father had to leave the family for close to two years.
I was left to take care of my three sisters and my mother.
And I was afraid and full of grief.
But when times got hard, I tried to think of how my dad would handle things and then try my best to deliver as he would.
I didn't understand why my dad chose to serve and leave the family until I found myself enlisting in the U.S. Army years later.
I have two sons now and have had to leave for duty several times.
Each departure brings fresh tears, but my own father's example enables me to dry away the tears and press forward.
Thanks for reminding me of the value of selfless service.
Hooah, this man is writing a letter to one of the characters in the book.
Cam.
And this kind of thing is uh it's just it's happening every day.
And I did all of you that are we try to respond as much to it, as much of it as we can too, on on the Facebook page and our rushrevere.com website.
And I didn't know, somebody uh made me aware.
This is just last night.
There's a review of this book at Amazon.
Just I think one of the readers of Amazon by James R. Holland.
And well, I just here's what it says.
For those readers who enjoyed the first two volumes of the Rush Revere series, this third book in the series is going to be a real treat.
The quality of writing, drama, and humor is infinitely better than the first two books that introduced the American history series to the public.
In ten chapters and two hundred and forty-four pages, Rush Limbaugh actually writes with a newfound zeal and power.
Climbing the darkened interior of the old North Church steeple with Robert Newman, the church's caretaker, in order to hang two lanterns to signal Paul Revere that the British red coats were coming by sea to Charlestown is beautifully written.
The reader can actually feel the danger of the steep staircase steps while having to remain quiet and not attract British patriots to the totally dark church.
This thing, it goes on.
But this guy says it's best yet, it it's much better than the first two.
That doesn't hurt my feelings at all because the objective is to get better as you go.
This is this is a great affirmation.
And I hadn't haven't talked much about the book this week or even last because there's so much attention on the uh on the on the election, but I I I I have just I wanted to share this with you because you know I love sharing my passions, but you all are making this one possible again.
And I just wanted to, on behalf of our little team here that that crafts these books and puts them together.
Uh I just wanted to give you another heartfelt thanks and and kind of share in the in the in the good news with you, since you are the ones that make it happen.
I just appreciate it.
We all do.
Bottom of our hearts.
We'll be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
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Snerdley says you didn't tell them the name of the book.
I they know the name of the book.
The latest book, Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
But it and it's bright red.
I have a copy of it, I can show you on the dental cam.
I just don't have it in front of me.
But anyway, back to the phone.
San Francisco, this is Wilson.
Wilson, it's great to have.
I love San Francisco.
I don't dare go there, but but I San Francisco loves you.
I'm proof of it.
I know parts of it do.
Thank you.
I'm a big fan.
I appreciate it.
You want me to tell my story?
No, I no, no.
I mean, you of course I do, yes.
I know you didn't call just to hang up.
Well, I'm a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Rush, and uh I think the government should get out of the way.
Really, what are you what do you do?
Well, right now I'm vice president of a software company, but I Um this wasn't why I called per se when I talked to your handler, but I actually just did a book called I Am Super Scooter, The Invincible Horse, a book for all the freedom loving creatures in the world.
Oh, cool.
So I had to laugh because people said, Hey, have you heard about liberty?
I said, Of course.
I think liberty's awesome.
And I think freedom is awesome.
And that was the um the reason that I did the book was to inspire the next generation of um of people of the kids.
And that's why I think your book is so important.
So, you know, my book is if you go to superscooter.me, you can find my book.
All right.
But you but you do software in Silicon Valley.
I do, I do.
I've I've co-founded and sold a couple of small software companies, and um, you know, when you want to start a company today, you have to pay six hundred dollars just to just to register as a company.
Right.
Oh, I know.
You know what you have to provide to employees.
So the government's kind of messing things up, and we have these amazing innovators and amazing entrepreneurs that want to do stuff.
Um I got so frustrated I actually considered running for Congress this last round, but uh decided to do the book instead.
Well, good for you.
Well, but that's not why you called.
No, it's not why I called.
The reason I called is that I was at a bankers' conference last week in our nation's capital, Washington, DC, and um they had this amazing speaker named Jason Redman, who just came out with a book called The Trident.
And um Jay had gotten half his face blown off in Afghanistan, and he came back and became a motivational speaker and a writer.
And he told the audience about you know overcoming all hard work, freedom, all the principles that that you hold so dear and I hold so dear.
And um what what really amazed me and was so inspiring was that he mentioned the American spirit.
And so I started clapping very enthusiastically, and then everybody else joined in.
And ultimately uh Jay Redman received a standing ovation.
And you know, I think that there is so much to be hopeful for.
You know, you see what's happened in the election, and you think people are sick and tired of the government getting in the way, and the American spirit is live and well, and so I think we need to nurture it.
You know, we need to teach the younger people what's important, love and kindness, never giving up hard work, all the things that you talk about.
But you know, Jay Redman is a true American hero.
He's a Navy SEAL, and um he's walking the walk and talking the talk.
And this was at a banking conference in Washington.
And he was there as a motivational speaker.
He was, and uh, you know, there were several hundred people there, and and people received him very well.
I think people want to hear gosh, I would hope so.
He did, he got a standing ovation.
Okay, now look at what she's saying here.
But here here's Islawish is an authoress.
She is a software writer in Silicon Valley.
And there are a lot of women that are getting into that, by the way.
It's cool.
And she's at a banking conference, and here's a Navy SEAL with with grave injuries as a motivational speaker.
And he gets a standing O. And we have been when I say we, I mean you and I, the collective, you and I in the audience here, everybody, we have been looking for a sign for how long.
A tipping point, maybe that we haven't lost the country.
And I think the election, if you want to take some positive things from it that maybe we haven't discussed yet.
This election is a very positive, because there's no way that this can be interpreted as anything other than people standing up and saying no.
And I don't care that two-thirds didn't vote.
They don't count.
If if people want to go try to get them in the next election, fine and nanny, but you the people that voted, they're the ones that made the difference.
They're the ones that cared enough to show up.
They're the ones that have the emotion, the passion, the desire, they got out and went out and did it.
And they spoke loudly.
And they did stand up and they said, No more of this.
And I know a lot of us well, I'll speak for myself.
I know a lot of you have the same fear.
We've been wondering for how long here.
We kept hearing about how overwhelmingly popular Obama was, and the media keeps telling us how popular the Democrats are, and the pop culture makes fun of everything we hold dear, and so we what if we lost the country?
We see the deteriorating rot in our culture.
We won't we we lost the country.
In terms of just values and and morality, you know, have we lost the country?
And we look for signs that say no, we haven't.
And we didn't see very many.
I mean, if you looked hard, you could see an example here or there, but there wasn't a national expression or sign, and the election may prove to be it.
And I think for me it is.
And I've always, when people have called here and asked me about how do I stay optimistic and all that, my answer is always rooted in in a theme, and it is can't oftentimes tell you why, don't know, but I just have this implicit trust in the ultimate judgment of the American people.
And at some point, the American people are going to get it right.
And they do, but then they get it wrong sometimes later.
But they do get it right.
And there is no question that the people in this country who showed up and voted don't want any more of this.
That can be tied.
That that is that is coming from the Democrat Party from Obama.
They don't want any more of it.
It's an upper.
That is a big positive sign.
It's a great indication that among the people willing to do something about it, we haven't lost the country.
And so she goes to a banking conference, sees the seal get a standing O from a bunch of bankers, and she thinks she sees a re-emerging in the American spirit.
And I hope that's exactly what's happening.
Here's Jonathan Monticello, Kentucky.
Glad you waited, sir.
You're next on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Uh really appreciate you taking my call and it's uh honored to be on the program.
Um I want to say I agree a hundred percent with the uh the mandate that you've articulated uh over this week since the election.
Um agree a hundred percent with that.
I'm just concerned that our current um Republican leadership will not carry that same banner.
Um I'm sure I'm probably not the only one that has that concern.
Um so the my question is you know, what are the chances of the the leadership, i.e.
McConnell Banger being you know, replaced by someone more conservative, or are our chances better trying to influence the current leadership uh toward more conservative agenda.
The the the first question I'd say slim to none, but uh unless something's going on that I'm unaware of, but I'd say it's slim to none.
On the on the second part of your question, I think that's always a possibility, but it happens in ways that we will never know.
I mean, if there's if there are conservative members that are trying to encourage or uh influence, we'll never know about it unless it leaks.
If uh outside forces are to have any that that's something else we wouldn't know.
But this is the big question.
You're I mean, you're right, it it's the big question.
It's you know, where where is the Republican leadership?
Do they want so they're afraid I think that confrontation that they're the reason I'm pounding this is because I think they also buy into this silly notion that people want them to get along.
That's not why they won this election.
I am pounding this as much, hoping they hear it as you.
They won this election to stop this.
And it's and and it's not confrontational to stop this.
They're standing up for the people of the country.
They it's it's you know, they've got their donors to worry about the Chamber of Commerce that want amnesty.
There are all kinds of pressures on these people.
We can't deny that.
The media is putting constant pressure on them.
But I I this is I said earlier, uh, somebody sent me a note, Jonathan.
You don't sound nearly as upbeat yesterday after this big win as you did in 94, and I had to stop and think about that for a second, and I had to stop and think about it and agree.
And the reason is very simple, and it's not a criticism.
In 1994, when the Republicans won the House, we knew exactly why.
Contract with America.
They ran on a national agenda, and here is what we're gonna do, one through ten.
And after they won, they said, okay, we have just gotten elected to do these ten things.
That's what people voted for us for, and we're gonna do them.
And there was exciting and they went out and did it.
They started implementing the contract with America and they eventually balanced the budget.
I'll never forget John Kasich.
On the final vote, the Democrats are hemming and hollering like a bunch of stuck pigs in his committee, and he's listening to them and he's rolling his eyes, and after they finish says, okay, it's time for the vote.
We're gonna do this.
They take the vote and they balance the budget.
We don't feel like any of that's on tap now.
That's why we're a little unsettled, because we have to have it shown to us.
But we're optimistic because the opportunity is there.
And this is why I'm pounding what I think is the only possible conclusion of what this election means.
These people, see, they didn't run on an agenda.
Individual candidates did, but the party at large didn't.
And the media's working on them, all kinds of people are trying to convince them, hey, you know, you you you better compromise.
You know, you better get along.
You're sent here to get things done and make this work.
They're not sent there to make it work.
The way it's been working was voted out two days ago.
So I uh like you, I I hope the message gets through.
I don't think it I I to me, not being there, it's easier to do and say and think.
But okay, here's a let's say they're serious about repealing parts of Obamacare like the medical device tax.
Okay, produce the bill.
Produce the bill that takes medical devices out of Obamacare.
No tax, no nothing, no restrictions.
Get them out of there.
You send a letter to the president with that piece of legislation and attach to it the polling data supporting it.
Seventy-five percent of the American people want this data, send it up there, publicize it.
We just sent to the president a piece of legislation to remove the medical device tax from Obamacare, complete with a series of public opinion polls that show 75% of the Americans, send it up there.
Publicize it, press conference, send it up there.
You turn the president into the obstructionist, you turn the president and the Democrats into the people governing against the will of the people, you show yourself as trying to do the will of the people.
What you were elected to do, it seems like a slam dunk to me, but I'm not there.
And they would probably tell me it's not that simple, Rush.
Not all of our members in the caucus would agree with that kind of okay, fine and dandy, but come up with something.
This is such an opportunity here.
There's multiple opportunities here to make the Republican Party the dominant party in the House of Representatives and maybe the Senate for years is possible here.
And part and parcel of that is is if people are worried about Hillary, you can you can diminish her chances here.
There's golden opportunity in these two years.
But grab audio soundbites 8, 9, and 10.
John Heileman and uh what's his name?
Uh Mark Mark Halper.
They write these books after campaigns are over, telling you what went on during the campaign that they didn't tell you during the campaign.
And they have a show on the Bloomberg TV network called with all due respect.
And they know where the action is, and they want their show mentioned, obviously.
Uh so they make sure that they mention my name, so that I will play sound bites from their show on this program, building their audience.
There's not that they're smart guys.
I mean, I've got sound bites from Halpern mentioning my name, too, but they're not related to this.
But I want you to listen to this because this is the subject.
Here's John Heileman opening the program.
I'm John Heilman.
And I'm Mark Calper, and with all due respect to Rush Limbaugh, I believe I detect the sweet smell of compromise in the air.
Uh here comes pressure on the Republicans with all due respect to me, meaning they know what I'm taking this agenda or this election to me and stop the Democrats, and they're saying no.
We're talking to Republicans and they want to compromise.
They think they got to come up here and make things work and get along.
So that's the open.
Here next, Charlie Rose on PBS on his show is talking to Hylaman and says, hey, is the Republican Party more conservative because of this election, or are they more moderate because of this election?
You've seen Establishmentarian elected officials and strategists in the paper saying, using words like wackos, the wackos are now have been purged.
The wackos are now back in their cages.
We are now back in charge.
And that kind of language tells you something about what the party, the party establishment has taken as the lesson.
In this soundbite, the wackos are you.
The wackos are the Tea Party.
What Heileman is saying is that he's all excited running around up on Capitol Hill talking to Republicans about the election, and they're all saying yeah, yeah, we got those Tea Party nutcases back in their cages.
We won.
The wackos are back in their cages.
We're now back in charge.
That means whether this is true or not, this is an attempt to pressure Republicans on Capitol Hill not to embrace Tea Party, Tea Party politics, because that's wacko.
That's extremism.
And here's Dana Bash, CNN's America's Choice 2014, talking about the new Republican majority and whether Boehner has control of the Republicans or not.
That's sort of a go big picture about gridlock.
I still think that even though uh Republicans have a very big majority, even bigger now in the House.
You walk around the halls of the House, and Republicans are worried not about getting it beaten by a Democrat, but getting beaten by a Republican.
They don't care about a general election.
Their biggest concern is a primary.
So we are to sit here and believe that this soundbite's last night, that the day after the election, which was historic massive landslide, top-to-bottom skunk the Democrats.
We are to believe Dana Bash wants us to believe that Republicans the day after were telling her that they are more worried about their next primary and the dreaded Tea Party candidates they're going to face than whatever's coming up with the Democrats in the next two years.
Now I play these soundbites for you in answer to the caller's question.
He wants to know is there going to be any new leadership in the House?
And if not, then how does it?
Right here, you have the kind of pressure on the Republicans in the House, the media already reporting that they're giddy because the wackos are back in cages, but they're still a little scurried, scared because the wackos are going to run against them two years from now in the primaries.
So I I'll never forget when I spoke at the freshman orientation, Camden Yards, 1994.
And I told these newly elected House guys, said, please, you've got to ignore the media.
They're not going to treat you as winners.
They're not going to, they're not going to come to you for the ultimate answer to things.
The Democrats are still their buddies.
They hate you.
They don't like the fact you won.
They're going to do everything they can to humiliate you, get you back in the minority, do not fall for anything.
It makes it look like they have newfound respect or love for you, because they don't like the fact that you won.
And they don't now.
So we just have to wait and see, folks.
We've got an opportunity.
We just wait and see.
On the Today Show today, White House correspondent Chris Janssen said that the Republican Party broke a truce with Barack Obama by vowing an Obamacare repeal vote.
All right.
She's claiming the Republican Party had a truce with Obama not to do this, but they did it anyway, and they broke the truce.
I just heard about this now.
I should have known earlier.
My bad.
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