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Nov. 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 21, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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Your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, unconstitutionality, assaults on dignity and freedom.
And yes, interspersed in there, your guiding light.
They're even the good times as well.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
Hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchorman, America's truth detector, and the Doctor of Democracy.
All combined in one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
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Do I sound hoarse or is it just I have to sense I've got to yell to be heard over this music?
I don't know.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, I don't often specifically urge you to do something, but I want you to go visit a website of mine.
It's the Rush Revere Facebook page.
Because what's happening there is, to me, it's beyond our wildest imaginations.
You know, we've got this children's book series, Rush Revere, The Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.
We're up to book three now, Rush Revere and the American Revolution with a current tie-in to modern-day military life, vis-a-vis family members, mom and dad deployed to battle zones, and the kids, young children having a tough time with it, not understanding.
We've incorporated that reality into this book.
And it's the third in an ongoing series trying to teach the truth about American history to young people who are not being taught the truth in schools.
But more than that, more than what they're not being taught, it's just an effort to reach a young demographic that, of course, a radio show like this will never reach.
Seven to 10-year-olds, seven to ten-year-olds are not going to listen unless they're with their parents.
And we really, I happen to love the country.
I want everybody to, and I want everybody to have the greatest appreciation for just how special the United States, especially during times like these.
It is just crucial.
So anyway, we're writing the books and they're selling well and we're getting all kinds of feedback.
And that's what we're putting on the Rush Revere Facebook page.
We started an exclusive Facebook page just for readers.
And they are sending some of the most incredible reaction to the books.
I don't want to take time to read all of them here on the radio.
It would sound very self-serving.
This may even sound a little bit self-serving.
But it's an uplifting thing for us.
This is, I don't know, it's, well, spreading.
It's not so much spreading.
The impact is far more than we ever dreamed, at least based on the reaction we're getting from people reading the books, from adults, from their kids and so forth.
We're posting some of the photos, the pictures, the videos that the kids are sending, and also some of the feedback email that we're getting.
And it's really uplifting stuff and not uplifting for me personally.
I mean, it is, but that's not why I want you to see it.
I want you to see it because I want you to be able to see what's out there.
The kind of love for this country, the kind of appreciation for an effort being made to spread the truthful story of this country.
And it is, it's just, it's so mind-boggling to us.
You know, you write books and you hope they sell well, and you hope that people like them and so forth.
But this has gone beyond that.
With so many people, there is a deep connection that's taking place.
I just couldn't be more gratified, and I really couldn't be more grateful for this.
And I think we're up to like 26,000 likes or 27,000, which in a children's book target is just phenomenal.
And we're already getting reaction from parents.
And we've had a couple calls from people who are reading adults, 40-year-old, a medical doctor, a woman who said she grew up being taught what a rotten place America is.
And these children's books are actually, she said, one of the first times she's been exposed to the kind of America we write about in these books in the Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional American series.
And that is totally unexpected.
The last thing in the world that I thought would happen would be 40-year-old professionals reading a book aimed at children and claiming they're learning things they hadn't been taught before.
But it just illustrates what we're really up against, and it helps to illustrate the mission here.
So I just wanted to take a brief moment to let you know that the Rush Revere Facebook page is there.
And it's not the Rush Limbaugh Facebook page.
This is a separate total entity, just like RushRevere.com is its own exclusive website.
Because we're keeping the two separate because they really are.
And we're not commingling, as they say.
Well, there is some synergy.
But for the most part, we're keeping the Revere aspect of this a separate entity because of the target audience that it has.
And I just wanted to, again, thank everybody for making these things what they are, these books and supporting them to the degree you are and have.
The literary community in New York is shocked.
You know, here's, this is too inside baseball, but I'm going to try to make this understandable.
Because the Harry Potter books were so successful, they stopped listing individual books on the New York Times bestseller list.
After you have written three, then they consider you to be in a series.
Well, what they do then is they lump the sales of all of the books and then rank you according to series so that there's no way a consumer can find out how well an individual children's book is doing by looking at a list, particularly the New York Times.
So we opened it number one on that list, and the literary crowd in New York is stunned, as you would expect them to be.
And that's all because of you making it happen.
You know, the first two books, the first one's been out over a year, and it's still, if there were still individual lists, it would still be in the top 10.
So you all are just doing a very gratifying thing, and it's an uplifting thing for me in these really, if you don't watch yourself, you get depressed with all this stuff going on.
It takes an active effort not to get depressed.
I understand.
And I'm so lucky because I'm getting all of this feedback from all of you.
I can't possibly get depressed with the feedback that Catherine and I are getting on these books.
And I just, you know, it's very selfish of me to take this amount of time to talk about it, but it is Open Line Friday.
And I just, I wanted to alert you to it so that you could share in it and see some of it.
And at the same time, I wanted to take the time to once again thank you.
My gratitude, our gratitude for this is endless because it really is a labor of love.
These books have a very purposeful, singular mission to them, and that is to take young skulls full of mush and fill those skulls with the love and the truth that is the United States of America and the miracle that it is,
that we are, the miracle this country is within the whole scope of the human existence.
A once in an ever country.
There's never been an America before us, and there probably will not be an America after this.
It's not once in a lifetime.
It's once and forever.
That's how miraculous it is.
And the people who made it happen, people should know them.
They're not being taught properly, so that's what we're trying to do here, as well as create some fun adventures for the kids to participate in as they read these things.
So I appreciate your indulgence as I mention this.
And I thank you again for everything involved that you all are doing to help us spread this word.
Now, I've got this Uber story.
I've been intending to do Uber for the past, what, week, past three days.
And there have just been things that get in the way.
Now, it's actually, you know, Uber is the new car service.
You get an app for your Android or your iPhone, your Android phone or your iPhone, and you order a car on the app.
You have an account, and they know where you are because of your phone and the location services, and a car shows up and takes you where you're going to go, charges you for it.
And it's just growing out the wazoo.
And it's got traditional taxi companies all been out of shape.
Other traditional livery transportation companies have been out of shape.
There are a couple of companies.
Lyft is another Uber-like company, L-Y-F-T, and is a third one.
And any new startup like this that starts big and goes gangbusters, I mean it has its share of enemies.
People want to shoot it down, chop it down, kill it off, make sure it doesn't happen.
And some of those people happen to be journalists.
Now, one of the things that's happened with Uber, it's not exclusive to Uber, but there have been charges by women that they're Uber drivers.
They know who they are.
I mean, if you use Uber, the company knows who you are.
And they know where you live.
They take you there.
They know your work.
They take you there.
And so there have been some charges from women that male Uber drivers are harassing them and calling them later in the week saying, hey, babe, would you like to go get a drink?
And Uber is having to deal with this.
In some cases, it's made up and not true.
Other cases, I guess it is.
But it's not being written about some of those instances have been written about by female journalists who claim this has happened to them.
Now, Uber doesn't like it.
Uber thinks that they're being unfairly treated by journalists.
Can you imagine that?
Can you imagine anybody thinking that journalists are not being fair?
Well, Uber, among many other companies, and I've really given you the Cliff Notes version of this here.
Uber thinks that some journalists, tech journalists, are being very unfair.
And the, I guess it was, BuzzFeed had the scoop on this story.
Apparently, an Uber executive said to a closed group of friends, associates, or whatever at a cocktail party was a cocktail party or wherever, but it was in a private setting.
The Uber executive suggested that it might be time for the company to investigate the private lives of these journalists who are out there writing all these hurtful, damaging things about the company.
And the journalist community found out about this and they are livid.
They can't believe anybody would even think this.
They are beside themselves with rage.
How dare they, how dare any company investigate us?
We're just journalists.
It doesn't matter what we've done or haven't done.
That doesn't affect our reporting of the story.
This is intimidation.
This is harassment.
And journalists across the spectrum, news journalists, sports journalists, tech journalists, bloggers, they're all just writing about how awful Uber is, how outrageous anybody at Uber would even think of.
We've got to shut them down.
How dare they even contemplate this?
And of course, I, ladies and gentlemen, have actually done this back during the days of the Rush Limbaugh, the television show.
And it just, it's funny and entertaining to listen to the journalists act like they're totally beyond and above investigation.
It's nobody's business who we are.
How dare they investigate us?
How dare they investigate our privacy?
And some of the reaction is so arrogant, it is comical in and of itself.
The controversy stemmed from remarks by Uber Senior Vice President Emile Michael.
This was last Friday, a week ago today.
He spoke of his desire to spend $1 million to dig up information on journalists' personal lives and your families, referring to journalists who write critically about Uber.
And this was first published on Monday night by BuzzFeed.
The same story said that a different Uber executive once had examined the private travel records of a BuzzFeed reporter during an email exchange about an article without seeking permission to access the data.
That combination of vindictiveness and willingness to tap into user information provoked outrage the next day on social media sites, spawning the hashtag UberGate on Twitter.
Critics recounted a series of Uber privacy missteps, including a blog post in which a company official analyzed anonymous writership data in Washington and several other cities in an attempt to determine the frequency of overnight sexual liaisons by customers.
Uber calls those rides of glory.
This week's incident was the latest reminder about the potential for abuse as intimate information accumulates on the servers of tech companies that have widely varying approaches to user privacy and face few legal barriers in how they use personal data.
And so an Uber exec wants to go after the drive-bys.
And the drive-bys get all self-important and indignant and claim that this is just unseemly.
I have to take a break here.
I just noticed the clock.
Sit tight, my friends.
It's Openline Friday, and we will be right back.
Okay, now just one more little thing here on Uber because it really gets to the primary point that I wanted to illustrate with this.
So the Uber guys are out there talking amongst themselves about spending a million ducks.
Go out and get some background on these journalists that are writing pieces about them.
Expose them.
Who are these people ripping us to shreds?
Who are they?
And the journalist community is outraged.
How dare they?
Who do they think we are?
And a number of journalists have reacted to this by claiming that Uber may as well be run by Richard Nixon.
Now, here's the point.
Most of these tech bloggers are good, loyal little liberals.
Here they are in the midst of a liberal Democrat administration spying on them like they've never been spied on before.
Here they are living in a time with a Democrat administration targeting members of the media like James Rosenette Fox and like Cheryl Atkinson.
Here we have a bunch of loyal liberal journalists upset with Uber and claiming that they are the modern incarnation of Richard Nixon when the very administration they voted for is doing things Nixon never even dreamed of doing and to them, spying on them, targeting them.
And then many of these journalists are also upset that Obama didn't do what he thought they thought he promised to do on immigration last night.
They thought it was going to be more than just opening a southern border to Central Americans and Mexicans.
So it's just, to me, it's a fascinating thing.
We have an administration that is as unfriendly to journalists, despite their slavishness, as any in American history.
Nixon never even dreamed.
And these people don't even see it.
While they acknowledge it, they acknowledge the NSA is spying on them.
And that's why they don't like the Republicans assuming control in January.
Who do they think spying on them now?
It's not the Republicans.
It's Obama and the NSA.
Anyway, I've got to take a break, and we'll get back to your phone calls when we get back.
Don't go away.
Before we get back to the phones, I want to read just a little bit more of that New York Times article that I was quoting earlier, Jackie Thomas, in which the Republican leadership was said to be very, very, very worried, not about what Obama's doing, not about executive amnesty, not about blowing up the Constitution.
No, no, no.
The Republican leadership very, very worried that the Republican hotheads, Tea Party caucus, would overreact and sound very mean and make the Hispanics hate the Republicans.
There are three stories like that.
Two since yesterday afternoon.
Two of them in the Washington Post with the same guy, Robert Costa, who used to be at National Review.
I didn't know you made that jump.
National Review, conservative to the Washington Post.
Anyway, and then there's one in the New York Times today.
And I want to read further from the New York Times story because this just spells it out.
The Republicans' greater challenge in framing their opposition in a way that does not antagonize Latinos and other minority groups like Asian Americans, much as Republicans lost African American support in the civil rights era.
Ah, see what this is about.
No, so the Republicans had better shut up, don't say anything, just like in the campaign.
Don't say anything.
If you open your mouth, the Hispanics are going to hate you, just like the blacks began to hate you when you opened your mouth back during the 60s civil rights battles.
Even though the fact is the Republicans fought tooth and nail to pass the Civil Rights Acts back in 1964, it was over the objections and the filibusters of Democrats.
A greater percentage of Republican senators voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrats.
But the point is, as long as the Democrats control the media, it doesn't matter.
Nothing the Republican Party does will matter.
But more importantly than that, the thing the party has to learn is, and how blue in the face are we saying this, there's nothing they can do that will change the way the media reports on them.
They cannot shut up and the media be nice to them.
They cannot say they love Hispanics.
They cannot.
The Republican Party is as identified with comprehensive immigration reform as Obama is, and yet they're still hated, supposedly, right?
I mean, it's the Republican establishment has made it clear for the past, since 2007, they want comprehensive immigration reform.
Chamber of Commerce, you name it, everybody knows the Republican establishment wants it.
Is it helping them?
Is the media saying anything nicer about them than they usually do?
No, even now, when the Republicans aren't saying anything, we get stories about if you open your mouth, if you Republicans open your mouth, do you realize how hated you're going to be?
And so the Republicans get cowed into not reacting, not saying a thing, while the majority of people are aligned with them.
A majority of the people on Obamacare, a majority of the people on immigration, a majority of the people on practically every issue agree with the Republicans.
And they have been cowed into shutting up and not forging an alliance with this majority because of their fear of the media.
But there's nothing they can do or say.
Okay, let's say, as an example, that as a hypothetical, they secured the silence of every Tea Party Republican in the House and Senate.
And after Obama's speech last night, they don't say a word.
Do you think they think the media is going to write stories how nice they are?
Think the media is going to write stories how great the Republicans are?
Think the media is going to write stories, how reasonable the Republicans are?
No.
They're going to continue to write stories.
If you say a word, we're going to cream you.
I guess, you know, we have a caller now and then, occasionally, not specific, but people will call here now and then and make it clear that in their mind, we will never ever win until the media finally sees the light and promotes our view of things.
And I always tell them, then you better check out because that isn't going to happen.
It's not enough.
The mainstream media as you know them today is never ever going to do that.
And if that's going to be your definition of winning and success, then be prepared to be a forever loser.
And apparently, the Republican leadership may have the same belief that everything they do or don't do, everything they say or don't say, is oriented toward getting love from the drive-by media.
I am just so thankful that I am not in that prison because if I were, this program would have ended about 23 years ago.
You would not have found it worth listening to.
Back to the phones we go.
This is Arturo in Las Vegas.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited and welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
I'm good, sir.
Thank you.
Well, just to let you know, I'm a long-time listener.
I used to live in Southern California, Orange County, and used to listen to you back then.
That was probably about 13 years ago.
Right.
And I want to thank you for clarifying some stuff when it comes to Constitution and stuff like that.
I appreciate that.
Arturo, thank you very much.
It's going to come as an amazing for you.
I am an illegal immigrant.
I do believe.
No, no, no, no, Arturo.
Arturo, you're not.
I am.
I am.
I'm an undocumented immigrant.
You're not anymore.
And, well, listen, listen, listen.
I want you to listen to me.
70% of the stuff that you say on the radio, I believe them.
It doesn't automatically make me a Democrat.
Okay.
I got you.
70% of the Latino community is a conservative community.
The reason why they are turning on, we're going to say it this way, turning on Republicans, is for the fact that there hasn't been something that connects them to the Republican Party in a way that they're being helped.
Myself, I'm going to tell you my story.
I'm going to open up to you on the radio.
I arrived in this country when I was eight years old.
I was told we were coming in to come to Disneyland.
We ended up staying.
That was, I'm 32 right now.
That was a couple of years ago.
And throughout those years, I found out I wasn't allowed in this country at the age of 15 when I applied at McDonald's.
The manager told me, you need a social.
Bring it tomorrow.
I went to my mom.
I was like, Mom, they asked me for a social.
What is that?
She just put her head down and she told me we're illegal immigrants here.
I was like, what is that?
She explained to me what an illegal immigrant was.
Back then, we had the 187 in California.
I got into knowing what the 187 was all about.
I was pretty saddened for the fact that kids in my school were bullying me for the fact that I was an illegal immigrant.
Now, I've been paying taxes.
I have a business.
My wife, she arrived here when she was five years old.
We have three U.S. citizen kids.
I always ask the Republicans, what about me?
What happens to me, Rush?
I mean, you guys are dogging Obama for targeting.
And I do agree.
I disagree with the fact that Obama said, you know, parents of U.S. citizens that arrived here five years ago.
No, I say 15 years ago because we are the ones who are missing out.
I missed the DACA for three months.
I turned 31 in April.
The stipulation was you turned 31 in June.
I missed it.
You don't have to do it.
I know where you're going.
Let me answer your question, Arturo.
And I'm going to assume here that I'm speaking for a majority of the people in this audience.
We are not opposed to things normalizing for you.
But we have a problem first.
We have got to stop the influx of people like you 15 years ago.
We've got to shut down the border.
We cannot absorb anymore, and we don't want any more circumstances like the one you found yourself in.
We want people coming to the country legally becoming citizens, learning what it is to be an American, learning to love America, learning to love and appreciate American culture, as you obviously do.
We want everybody like you who wants to come here to come here and do so in a legal way.
And everybody is more than happy to deal with the unfortunate circumstances of your reality, but we have got to shut down the border first and stop the info.
If we don't do that, we're going to be flooded and we're not going to be able to handle assimilation.
We're not going to be able to handle circumstances like you in other people.
And we're going to be overrun.
And it's not going to be good for anybody.
And the thing that Obama is not doing is that.
And the Democrat Party is not doing that.
You don't have a problem with anybody in the Republican Party if you could just secure the border first, and then we will deal with these situations such as yours.
Nobody wants to kick you out of the country.
No, here's the thing.
My situation is: why doesn't the Republican Party say, you know what, Obama, here's our immigration deal.
We are going to secure the border.
We're going to militarize the border.
In a way, I do agree with that.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold it a minute.
Why doesn't the Republican Party say what?
We're going to send a bill, but we're going to militarize the border.
Shut it down, like you say.
You know, close it off.
I agree with that.
Because in a way, Arturo, the Democrat Party doesn't want to do that, and the Democrat Party is running the country right now.
The Democrat Party doesn't want to shut down the border.
The Democrat Party doesn't want a border per se.
The Democrat Party wants as many people flooding the southern border as they can get.
And they want them on the welfare rolls.
They want them in the welfare state.
The Democrat Party wants people coming to this country forever dependent on them and the United States government.
You are not a target of the Democrat Party.
You're self-reliant.
You come here, you get a job.
You want to become a citizen.
You want to take care of yourself.
The Democrat Party is not interested in you.
No matter what they say, Arturo, they are interested in people who are not able to take care of themselves.
They don't want to shut down the border.
The Republicans have been talking about border security for as long as I've been alive.
1986, Simpson Mazzoli, 3 million were given amnesty on the condition the border would be shut down.
It was not.
Ronald Reagan was lied to.
Arturo, let me give you a little stat that you may not know.
From 1924 to 1968 or 70 or something, there was no immigration for like 70 years, 67.
We shut it down.
There was no legal immigration.
You know why?
Because of all of the immigration that had occurred after World War I and World War II, all during the 20s, 30s, and 40s, we had to assimilate those people.
They had to get into the country.
They had to prove they were healthy.
They had to go through that process.
They established communities.
We had to make sure we had jobs, that the economy was growing.
We took the time and they became Americans.
And it wasn't until Ted Kennedy went nuts in the 60s that we started opening the floodgates again.
And that was to provide a permanent underclass for the Democrat Party.
And that's where we are since then.
Ted Kennedy started this, and the Democrat Party has kept it going.
And all anybody on my side has ever said is we have got to shut down and secure the border and then deal with whatever in the shadows, people are in the shadows or what have you, people like you.
Nobody wants to kick you out of the country.
Nobody wants to kick you kids out of the country and separate your family.
Don't believe anybody telling you that's not what the Republican Party wants.
The Republican Party wants you to become an American.
They want you to love this country.
They want your kids to grow up American.
They want them to love the country.
We want everybody that gets here legal to experience and make this country work.
But you're being lied to by a bunch of politicians in the media who are giving you an incorrect impression of the Republic.
And the Republicans, frankly, don't know what to do about it.
So they're trying to kiss your ass to make you think they're not such bad guys.
But there isn't a one of them that wants to kick you out and send you back home.
I have to take a break back after this.
Don't go away.
Now, let me add one thing.
I want to remind you people of something.
I should have mentioned this the past couple of days, but you know, I say so much.
It is impossible for me to remember it all.
I remember on this program during a particularly heated moment on the whole subject of illegal immigration.
I had a call from a really angry leftist who was thinking I was a typical racist and bigot, so forth.
And I said, you know what?
Let me ask you a question.
How about this?
How about the Republicans write an immigration bill that gives President Obama everything he wants with just one proviso?
None of the illegals who will be granted amnesty can vote for 20 years.
I said, do you think that Obama would sign that?
And I answered my own questions.
There's no way because this is all about registering new Democrat voters, permanent, permanently dependent Democrat voters.
That's what the Democrat Party wants to do.
The Democrat Party isn't uniting families and all that.
That's it.
Democrat Party wants to be your daddy.
Democrat Party wants to be your mama.
Democrat Party wants to be your boss.
Democrat Party wants to be your brother and sister.
Democrat Party will be everything for you.
You just vote.
You don't have to learn English.
You just have to learn the letter D on a ballot.
And if you do that, give you citizenship.
But what do you think Obama would have done?
What do you think Chuck Schumer would say?
Let's say, you know, Chuck Schumer brings my name up in the Senate here today.
He says, I'm out mischaracterizing this.
I'm calling it amnesty.
It's not amnesty.
And Chuck Schumer's all worried that I'm intimidating the Tea Party caucus in the Senate and the House.
I said, okay, I'll call Senator Schumer and say, Senator Schumer, let's go to dinner.
He says, okay, we'll go to dinner.
And I said, look, I'm ready to throw in a towel.
You know what?
I can see the numbers.
And I can see, Senator Schumer, that you got them.
So you know what I'll do?
I will submit, I'll agree, the Republicans put together a bill that gives you everything you want.
Only thing that I think is fair and that I want is that these newly legalized illegal aliens cannot vote for 20 years.
And if there is even a syllable of opposition to that, then we would expose the Democrats for what they really are.
And it is not that they are humanitarians, and it's not that they're very compassionate.
This is all about registering new voters.
Because if it were about everything else, they would readily agree that newly legalized, and we're not talking citizens here, folks.
We're just going to grant them amnesty from prosecution.
So they're not automatically citizens they can't vote, but let's make sure they can't vote for 20 years.
And I guarantee you, there's not a Democrat in the regime or in the Senate that would support that.
Don't doubt me.
Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
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But we make the most of all of our busy broadcast time.
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