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Nov. 25, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 25, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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No, I'm not going to tell you what it is because I can't say it's a surprise, but I'm just a video.
It's just a video.
It's a video unveiling at our Facebook page.
It has to do with Rush Revere characters.
Time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
This is getting big, folks.
It's getting big.
This is getting bigger than we ever thought.
I mean, we thought it was just going to be some books.
It's getting bigger than the connections that are being made with young people and their parents and grandparents and these books.
And the truth about American history is overwhelming.
It's fabulous.
So we've got our Facebook page dedicated to Rush Revere, and we've got just a little video unveiling there.
And I guarantee you, if you have a chance to let your kids who love the book and really like some of the characters, they're going to get a big charge out of this.
It's just a video unveiling, and it's in our Facebook page, which is facebook.com slash Rush Revere.
And well, Snerdley was asking me, what's his big surprise?
It's just a video unveiling, but it's, well, I have to look at it.
Like everything else, like I can't tell you when the next book's going to be, but you know there's going to be one.
And there's all kinds of things we have planned for the future.
And this little video is sort of an indication.
It's a little teaser about what may be in development, shall we say.
So you can find out what it is.
It's about just a couple of minutes.
It's so good.
It is so good.
And it's at our Facebook page, Rush Revere Facebook page, which is again, facebook.com slash Rush Revere.
Great to have you here, folks.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882.
And the email address is El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
And we're coming up Thanksgiving in a holiday season.
I want to take a brief moment to tell you a little bit about a friend of mine that you all know, but you don't know.
And his name is Al Michaels.
I got to know Al Michaels some years ago.
It was at a restaurant in Kansas City.
And it was not long after this program birthed.
And I was in Kansas City.
I think for a Rush Jackson's tour or some such thing, with George Brett, and I stopped in Indiana to pick him up at a popcorn factory.
He was doing a public appearance at.
We stopped at a winter restaurant, Kansas City Plaza 3, which when I lived there, it was treated.
I mean, it still is, but it was one of the best restaurants in town of so many.
Had the greatest Plaza 3 salad and salad dressing.
I don't know if it's still the same, but back talking 70s and 80s, it was just out of this world.
So anyway, we're in there, and there's a, I think it's a, the Chiefs are playing the Steelers.
I think it's a playoff game on the following Saturday.
This might have been a Thursday night or Friday night.
I forget which.
Anyway, we're walking out and Dan Deardorf comes over and says, I got somebody you'd love to meet.
And it was Al Michaels and met Al, and we've become fast friends, golf buddies now and then.
Al was prominent at our wedding.
He's just a great guy, but you know, you don't know him because he's such a consummate professional.
I know a lot of people in media, of course, and particularly in sports broadcasting.
And there are a lot of them are really good.
Jim Nance is a great guy and a huge talent.
It's a field.
You've got two or three that are really exceptional.
And Al Michaels is probably the leader of that pack.
They're all great people.
But they do their jobs so well that you don't know them.
And Al Michaels is a guy.
Every one of you, if you had the chance to meet Al Michaels, I guarantee you, he would be exactly what you would hope he would be.
You see him on television every Sunday night doing Sunday night football.
You've seen him Monday night football and Monday night baseball, start Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants baseball.
He's been doing this for years and years, and he's just a consummate professional, a consummate professional.
And as such, you don't learn much about him because he's not the story.
You don't get to know Al.
I mean, he becomes your friend.
You become totally trusting.
You respect and understand his authority.
You know, he's one of the few that makes the event bigger than it is by his presence.
You could put Al Michaels on the worst Sunday afternoon game on an NFL schedule and it would become the biggest.
And there aren't too many who've done what Al does that you could say that about.
You could say that about Kosell.
You could say it about Jim Nance at CBS.
But there aren't too many.
But Al is at the peak here.
He's funny.
He's happy.
He's a great citizen.
He's reliable, trustworthy.
But the point is, he's written a book.
And people have been after him to do this for years.
And he's always resisted.
He's not story, doesn't want to become the story.
He does not take advantage of all of this airtime he's had.
I mean, I can remember two occasions where Al Michaels has said something in relation to taxes or something that everybody agreed with.
And I've been swamped with emails.
Hey, did you even Al Michaels last night?
Did you hear what he said about just a five-second line about it?
But he's written a book.
He's finally relented and succumbed to the pressure to write a book of his experiences and the people he's known and the stories that are just out of this world.
Stories about all the people he's worked with, many of the athletes, some of the other fellow broadcasters.
And they're just, and he doesn't pull any punches on any of these.
It's, you know, he's not like a jock, a former player, gets a gig in the booth and then immediately shuts up so as not to offend friends that are still players or, you know, gets vanilla.
This book is not vanilla.
It's funny, it's outrageous, but it's got some hard-hitting stuff in it too.
Things that you will never know unless you read the book, things that you'll never hear about.
And if you're a sports fan, you're going to eat all of this up.
You're going to hear some of the truthful reactions that Al had to Kosel.
You're going to hear about things that happen in a Monday night football booth that you will never hear about anywhere else but this book.
And you're going to like something.
You're going to be surprised by something.
You're going to be amused by all of it.
You're going to be, my God, that happened?
You mean it was that close to being over?
You're going to have those kinds of reactions.
The point is that you never knew it because of the professionalism of everybody involved.
They never brought whatever was going on with them personally into the booth.
And that is really hard to do.
And it's really the epitome of professionalism when you're there to do a football game.
The game's the star.
The game, you understand, that's why people are watching.
But when you're one of these rare people that make the game, and I'll tell you something else about Al Michaels, he makes everybody that works with him better.
Just by virtue of his presence, he elevates everybody else's work.
Is not too many people that have achieved this pinnacle, particularly in broadcasting.
And he never calls in sick.
He's there.
He shows up.
He's as dependable as can be.
And when Al is there, you know it's big.
And it has that feel.
It has that aura about it.
And you're going to have the same aspect read.
The book is called, I have it right here.
I've got my official copy.
And it is called, You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television.
And I'm even in this, but this is not why I'm telling you about this.
I auditioned for Monday Night Football back when Don Ollmeier was brought out of retirement.
When would this have been?
It was back when Mambo Number Five was big, whatever year that song was big.
And I auditioned for Monday Night Football out in LA, set up a special session to do it.
And they couldn't, I mean, I think they did this just to thinking I'm like a protester in Ferguson.
If they don't do it, what am I going to say about them?
You know, so they said I went out there and it had a ball doing that too.
And I, and Al writes about that whole mini incident.
It's a very minor aspect of the book, but it's, but it's in there.
But if you're you're not, even if you're not a full-fledged sports fan, if you're just interested in stories about people in the media, and particularly in this case, the sports media, and want to learn some things that you'll never know by just watching these.
Now, you now, Al's doing some interviews to talk about the book, so he's talking about some of these things now.
But on Sunday Night Football, he will not say a thing about this unless they do a special segment about it in a pregame show.
He will never intrude on the game.
That's a remarkable thing.
It's remarkable professionalism.
And it's a throwback mentality about respect for the game, for the job.
There's a lot of media people today who do make everything about them.
And you get that impression, and it doesn't fly.
So I wanted to mention this because it really is entertaining and it's informative.
And if you're a sports nut, and you don't have to be, but if you are, this takes you inside in places that obviously we could never go.
We'd never be and never see, and would never find out any of this happened if Al hadn't decided to write the book and tell about it.
And it's guts he's done this still with a lot of years left in his career.
And then Polypunches.
I mean, he even goes after Costas in this book over a couple of things.
Not Costas per se, but an event that involved Costas and salary and baseball.
It's good.
You'll like it.
So while you're out there populating your Christmas baskets with Rush Revere and the American Revolution, check out Al Michaels and You Can't Make This Up because you can't.
You can't really.
And don't forget this little unveiling we've got at Facebook.
Facebook.com/slash Rush Revere.
And make sure that you show it.
Make sure your young readers, the fans of the series, see this because they'll get it.
They'll know what it all means.
I got to take a quick time out.
We'll come back and we'll resume with your phone calls right after this.
It's Rush Limbaugh at the Limbaugh Institute.
And I have been doing this for a long time, which means that I know what I am doing.
When you go back to the phones, John in San Clemente, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, good to talk to you again.
Same here.
Glad that you could.
Catherine, my wife's name, too, so that's a good name.
One of my top 10 favorite names.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
I like your thinking.
Hey, last night was, you know, I'm kind of a news junkie, so I was watching the news on my iPad, and my nine-year-old was, you know, skull full of mush, who loves Rush Revere, by the way.
Oh, right.
He turned over and he saw one of the cars on fire.
And he goes, Dad, what's going on?
What's going on over there?
So I kind of explained to him what was happening, and he...
Is this the first time your son is seeing this kind of civil unrest like this?
Definitely.
Okay.
You know, we don't watch a lot of news in our house.
So, yeah, it was new for him.
And so, of course, his mind goes to, well, he looks at me and says, well, they're going to get in trouble, right?
They're going to get arrested.
Yes, isn't that so?
I remember those days, too, when I used to think that people that commit crimes are getting in trouble.
Yes, I love those days.
They're right and wrong.
Exactly.
I love those days when you see that.
Yeah, yeah.
And now today you get all down on dunkers.
You know, they're not going to get in trouble.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, so what do I turn to my son, and I didn't know what to tell him.
Well, what did you tell him?
Well, you know, I honestly can't remember because I was thinking to myself, well, I could say, you know, son, if you're really angry about something, let's say I tell you to do something and you're really angry about it, it's okay for you to go in your room and just destroy your room.
And if you want to light our car on fire, why don't you do that too?
You know, you're really angry about it.
And, you know, what I told you was right.
You know, we used the facts in giving you a discipline, but you can be angry about it and go ahead and destroy everything that you love.
Now, he's nine years old.
Are you tempted to even try to get into the actual political truth of what's going on with him, or do you think it's too soon for that?
Well, you know, Rush, he's a smart, he's a smart kid, you know, like, and he understands things that it just really surprises me what he does and doesn't understand.
And, of course, my wife and I are doing the best to raise him with the love of the country.
Well, obviously, if you're a Rush Revere reader, it is tough.
It is tough because everything that's being presented to him away from mom and dad and away from church and stuff like that is being presented to him as he's we're the bad people.
Right, exactly.
We're the ones that are doing things wrong.
Exactly.
You know, it's funny you bring this up.
I've been reading him Rush Revere and the First Patriots, and in his class, they were reading a book about an Indian boy and a colonial boy, and he was telling me about it.
And I asked him, I said, so who do you think the bad people were?
Who was the wrong people in the book?
And he goes, well, the white people.
Actually, he said that.
Yeah.
The white people.
Not the colonial people, the white people.
No, right.
I mean, so it was being presented to him in that fashion.
Well, that's the multicultural curriculum now.
The white Europeans that came to settle a country were thieves and muggers and whatever else.
And they came in, mistreated, stole, and did all that horrible.
That's what's taught.
That's why we're doing the books.
Exactly.
And it's been a great help to be able to read to him that our founding fathers had moral principles that they abided by.
Has he read The Brave Pilgrims?
Yeah, we actually got him the book on tape for that one, but we're going through First Patriots right now, and I'm reading that to him.
Oh, well, I'm going to send you Brave Pilgrims.
Read it because that will contradict exactly what he was taught in your example with the young Native American boy and the colonial boy that he came home and told you that the enemy, the bad people, were the white people.
Because the Brave Pilgrims book shows how that actually happened and how they got along and how they mutually beneficial to each other.
That's exactly right.
Well, hey, Rush, we're thankful for you.
We're thankful for this country.
And even though we're going through these difficult things, there's light at the end of the tunnel.
And if we can raise this next generation up the right way, you know, I believe that things can change.
That's right, because that's where the next leader is going to come from.
That's right, exactly.
So before you go, I need you to hang on so that we can send you the actual book.
You have the new one?
Do you have the new one?
Do you have Rush Revere and the American Revolution?
No, we haven't gotten that one yet.
Well, what are you waiting on?
For crying out loud, it's been out for three weeks now or a month.
Write these things for them to stay on the shelf.
If you don't buy them, what the hell are they for?
I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'll throw in one of those two.
We'll throw in Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
You've got the audio.
He's going to love that.
And he loves you.
And he keeps.
My six-year-old last night asked, hey, Dad, is Rush Reveal, Rush Revere, is he real?
Is he a real person?
You know, so I mean, it's just, it's great to be able to get working.
And, you know, they listen to you on the radio, and it's awesome.
That's cool.
That's why we always keep this program on the straight and narrow because we always know there are children listening.
What favorite character, your nine-year-old who's read the books, does he have a favorite character in these books?
Yeah, Liberty.
Well, then you've got to go to the Facebook book.
You've got to take him to the Facebook page and let him see the video.
I will do that.
It's right at the top that you can't miss it.
Facebook.com/slash Rush Revere.
Hang on so we get your FedEx address and all that.
And we'll move on to John in Dallas.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
Pleasure to talk to you.
My question or comment: why aren't all the black leaders saying to these kids, quit robbing, stealing, committing crimes, and go out there and get an education and become part of the system that you think is so corrupt and so bad?
Well, I think, I don't know about black leaders, but I think there are a lot of people that are encouraging young African Americans to think that way.
Now, the fact is that, and I'm sitting there trying to remember, we had this subject came up on the program last week, and it was something we had a caller, or I played a soundbite of somebody who was lamenting the fact that in too much of African-American life today, if you enunciate properly,
you're considered a sellout or Uncle Tompy, good, good grades, too white.
I forget who was talking about that, but there are those pressures.
But the answer to your question, it's a great question.
Why aren't black leaders telling young people, if you don't want to have any interaction with the cops, because it goes against the political agenda that this is a horrible thing.
It really is a horrible thing.
And I wish it weren't the case.
But incidents like this, folks, it's why I said all the way, I said seven years ago, a year before Obama was elected on this program, I predicted that if he were elected president, race relations would get worse because the race business hustlers would label every criticism of the president as racist, and it would further divide the country.
And it's exactly what happened, and they profit from it, sir.
By the way, folks, there's one soundbite that we have here.
I talked about having heard this, I think it was an hour and a half ago, at the top of the second, now one o'clock, I heard it.
Yeah, yeah, that's when it was around one o'clock during the one o'clock break.
I heard this.
I told you about it.
But I want you to hear it.
It is the press conference held by the lawyer of the Gentle Giants family.
The lawyer was Benjamin Crump, and he was accompanied by the Reverend Sharpton, who still owes the IRS $4.5 million in back taxes.
But who's counting?
And there was an unidentified reporter at who asked whether or not they believe the authorities let Ferguson burn.
And I just wanted you to hear the question as I had recounted it.
So here's how it actually happened.
Last night, as we covered the protests in front of the Ferguson police station, it was packed with riot police.
State troopers were there.
All the advanced weaponry was there.
When we went over to West Florison and expected to be stopped there by the police, as we were at the protest months ago, it was wide open.
We saw no state troopers and we hardly saw police.
Do you think the authorities let Ferguson burn?
Yep.
Well, I think the second question has been answered.
That was the Reverend Sharpton agree.
Yeah, the authorities let Ferguson burn.
And you heard the crowd applaud.
Do you think the authorities let Ferguson burn?
West Floreson.
Now, what happened on West Floreson, according to KMOV-TV, reported the majority of stores that were damaged or completely destroyed during last night's riots were minority-owned.
Fire departments around the St. Louis County area put out 25 structural fires caused by vandals and looters following the announcement from the grand jury.
Most of the damaged businesses were on West Florida, which why this Infobabe said she went over there.
Most of the damaged businesses were on West Florida Avenue.
They include a Walgreens, Little Caesars Pizza, AutoZone, Beauty Town, Tidal Max, Family Dollar Store, and O'Reilly Auto Parts.
Small business owner Natalie Dubos was in tears when she realized her cake store was attacked by vandals.
She's a mother of two.
And she said to CNN, if I can't keep my doors open every morning, I can't feed my kids in the evening.
Just please don't burn down my shop.
Don't destroy it.
They did.
A lot of people saw there was a cell phone store, totally looted.
I don't know what kind of cell phones it is, but it was a cell phone, but just totally looted.
And of course, these businesses and stores had nothing to do with anything that happened.
The stores and businesses that many of them minority-owned, majority minority-owned, they didn't have anything to do with this.
They weren't on the grand jury.
They weren't the DA.
They weren't part of the original incident.
And by the way, you know, there's another way this whole thing backfired on the left.
Because remember, this is an incident that happened in the summertime.
And here we didn't get the grand jury report until last night, November 24th.
One of the reasons that this took so long, this was one of those events that the Democrat Party was hoping to use to ramp up African American turnout in the election.
But the grand jury thwarted that effort by not reporting until long after the election.
But don't forget, that's what one of the original purposes here was.
And it's so here's the case that Giuliani was making.
So you can't win.
The cops can't win.
If the cops, they're at the police station, a reporter saw them in full riot gear.
If the cops in full riot gear had headed over to West Floreson, then there would have been charges of provocative behavior, provocation, and racism.
And what?
You think we're just a bunch of Neanderthals?
You've got to send as many cops over here.
What are we lawless?
And if you don't send any cops, then they get mad at you.
And that was Giuliani's point.
Can't win for losing here.
Because no matter what you do, they're going to accuse the police department or the authorities, whatever, of having racist motivation.
The black leadership does this.
And they get everybody all worked up and ginned up about it.
And so to our last caller, why don't black leaders just say to people, hey, if you want to avoid circumstances like this, don't do X, Y, and Z.
And that would go against the grain.
There are a couple of premises that dominate all of these kinds of events.
In this event, there were two primary premises.
The first one is it happens all the time.
The first premise is that the cops are killing, white cops are killing black kids all over the country.
This was just, of course, that's not true.
It's rare anymore.
That's why this is such a big story.
It's so rare.
And Rudy's point, if you want to find constant crime against blacks, go to Chicago or go to places where black on black crime is really prevalent.
But nobody does that because it doesn't fit the second premise, which is that no matter how African Americans behave, white cops are going to think of them as criminals and treat them that way, no matter how they behave.
And so if those are the two governing premises, then you say, well, why don't you just, if you want to avoid being in trouble like this, don't do X, Y, and Z, because it doesn't matter.
All you got to do is show up in public and you're immediately thought of by the white cops as trouble in the making.
And I'm telling, folks, look, nobody likes this.
Nobody likes our country being this way.
Nobody likes this kind of strife.
Well, I'm talking about us in the rank and file population.
It's my point.
There are others who benefit from this.
That's the real answer to all of it.
Just find out who benefits.
Who benefits from this?
And when you honestly answer that, then a lot becomes clear about a lot of things, why it keeps happening, why when it does happen, it gets blown so far out of proportion as this did.
Yes, I have a question here from the official program observer.
Now, Mr. Snerdley has asked a very provocative question, and his question, this is not my question, Mr. Snerdley's question, he's, by the way, our official Obama criticizer, and he is permitted to criticize because he's African American and he has 100%, what is it?
Organic slave blood, meaning Mr. Snerdley's ancestors date all the way back to the genuine true evil.
So he is our official Obama criticizer.
And his question to me just now was, would it be accurate or fair to say that some in the media got exactly what they wanted last night?
You mean riot programming?
Okay, so, well, now you could say that they have been promoing this.
They've been promoing the grand jury announcement for a month and all that that entails.
So Mr. Snerdley wanted to know, did the media get what they want here?
Some of them?
I mean, did they want riot programming on Monday night?
Did they want fires and gunshots going off for their programming?
Did they want it for ideological reasons?
Legitimate question.
When you ask who benefits, and by the way, society at large does not.
America as a country does not benefit from this.
Society at large does not benefit from this.
But some people do.
And if you can honestly answer that question, who benefits?
That will open a lot of doors of understanding.
El Rushball, with half my brain tied behind my back, it's been that way for a long time, just to make it fair.
800-440-4833 tomorrow is going to be Open Line Friday on Wednesday.
And I just want to give you one, there's a bunch of stuff I had here today have nothing to do with what we've been talking about.
And I'm going to save it.
Here's one.
Why sleeping naked could cut your risk of diabetes, ward off infections, trim your waistline, and make you less exhausted.
Are you intrigued as to how that happens?
Well, I'll have an answer tomorrow.
Why sleeping naked could cut your risk of diabetes, ward off infections, trim your waistline, make you less exhausted.
GQ Magazine has come out with their least influential people of 2014.
Bono, Donald Sterling, Shia Labouf are on it.
Your host is not, but now that I've said that, they may make an emergency edition at me.
Pope Francis says that Europe has become a grandmother, no longer fertile and vibrant.
The Pope talking about fertility and vibrancy.
Have that tomorrow.
Chuck Schumer says Democrats have to do a better job of embracing government.
You believe that?
What left have they to do?
Here is Jeffrey in Ocamus, Michigan.
Great to have you on the program, Jeffrey.
Hello.
Hi, good evening, or good afternoon.
Same thing.
Yes.
Yes, Okamis.
It's Okamis.
I'm sorry.
I've not heard of it, and I got a phonetic spelling here that I botched.
That's okay.
Yes, I'm an African-American, and I would really, I'm so glad to be able to get on and speak about this thing going on in Ferguson.
Rush, I believe that black people in general, can't say, you know, for everyone, need to take responsibility for themselves and be accountable to one another.
Stop blaming one, stop blaming other people for their actions.
And I'd also like to say Michael Brown was a young man, God rest his soul, was a young man that got out there, acted a fool, and got himself killed.
And so I just, I know there are black people out here that listen to you, Rush, but, you know, we may not, your listeners may not know that, but there are black people that listen.
They may not engage, but I hope this, what I'm saying speaks to your audience.
And I'd also just like to let you know, this is, you know, you got somebody out here that's discussing about what's going on in Ferguson.
I appreciate that.
You get in trouble if you say to other people what you just said here, that Michael Brown acted the fool and got himself killed.
Because that's, you know, the people on the ground think whatever he did did not justify him being shot.
Well, anytime you step up to a police officer, police officers have the ultimate power and authority.
And first of all, he did not respect authority.
And we saw that in the video where he, you know, took things that didn't belong to him from the store.
Yeah, you're supposed to ignore that, though.
Well, and then he was in the street, and he told him, you know, to move over or whatever, you know, just lack of respect.
And so he's going to.
Look, I have to stop you there, Jeffrey, because I've got no time.
I'm really sorry, but I really appreciate your call.
And I hope that you are right.
And I hope that what you say comes to pass.
I really do.
Okay, folks, that's it for today.
Sadly out of time, but back tomorrow.
Open Line Friday on Wednesday.
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