No, I'm not going to tell you what it is, because I can't say it's a surprise, but I'm just I don't it's it's a video.
It's just a video.
It's a video unveiling at our Facebook page.
It has to do with uh Rush Revere characters.
Time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
This is getting big, folks.
It's getting big.
Is this getting this is getting bigger than we ever thought.
I mean, we thought it was just gonna 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 we've got our Facebook page dedicated to Rush Revere, and we've got this a little video unveiling there.
And I guarantee you, if you have a chance to let your kids who love the book and uh really like some of the characters, they're gonna get a big charge out of this.
It's just a video unveiling, and it's at our Facebook page, which is Facebook.com/slash rush revere.
And well, Snerdley was asking me, what's his big surprise?
It's it's just a video unveiling, but it's it's uh it's it's uh well I'd look it just it it I like everything else associated, like I can't tell you when the next book's gonna be, but you know there's gonna 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 uh it's uh 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 it's a couple of minutes.
It's so good, it is so good, and it's a at our Facebook page, Rush Revere Facebook page, which is again Facebook.com slash Rush Revere.
Great to have you here, folks.
The telephone numbers 800-282-2882, and the email address is El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Now we're coming up Thanksgiving in a holiday season, and 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.
I was at a restaurant in Kansas City, uh, and it was not long after this program birthed, and I was uh in Kansas C I think for Rush Jackson's tour or some such thing, and I'd uh with George Brett, and we were f I stopped in Indiana to pick him up at a popcorn factory he was doing a public appearance at.
We stopped at Winter Restaurant Kans City Plaza 3, which when I lived there, it was treat 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 we're in there, and there's a um 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 uh Thursday night or Friday night, I forget which.
Anyway, we're walking out, and uh Dan Deerdorf comes over and says, I got somebody uh you'd love to meet, and it was Al Michaels, and met Al, and we've become uh fast friends, golf buddies now and then.
Al was uh prominent at our wedding, uh is just is a great guy, but you know you don't know him because he's such a consummate professional.
Uh I know a lot of people in in media, of course, and and 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 uh it's a it's a field.
There's you know, you've got two or three that are really exceptional.
Uh 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.
Uh and Al Michaels is a guy, I'm 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 uh Sunday night football.
You've seen on 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, you 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 can say that about Cosell.
You could say it about uh uh Jim Nance at CBS.
But there aren't too many.
But Al is at the peak here.
He's funny, he's happy, uh he's a great citizen.
He's reliable, trustworthy.
But the point is he's written a book.
And he's been 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 email.
Hey, did you even Al Michaels last night?
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 uh, you know, he's not he's not like uh 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 of, 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 gonna eat all of this up.
You're gonna you're gonna hear uh some of the truthful reactions that Al had to CoSell.
You're gonna hear about things that happened in the Monday Night Football booth that you will never hear about anywhere else but this book.
And you're gonna like something, you're gonna be surprised by something, you're gonna be amused by all of it, you're gonna be, my God, that happened.
You mean it was that close to being over.
You're gonna have those kinds of reactions.
The point is that you wouldn't 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 brings he elevates everybody else's work.
Is not too many people that have achieved this pinnacle, particularly in in broadcasting.
And he never calls in sick.
He's there.
He shows up.
He's is it's dependable as can be, and when Al is there, you know it's big, and it has that feel, it has that uh aura about it, and you're gonna have the same aspect reading.
The book is called, have it right here.
I it's 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 uh I auditioned for Monday Night Football back when uh when Don Olmeyer was brought out of retirement.
When would this have been it was back when when uh Mambo number five was big, what whatever year that song was big.
And I uh I auditioned for Monday Night Football out in LA, set up a special session to do it.
And uh they couldn't, I mean I I I think they did this just just to thinking I'm like a protester in Ferguson.
If they don't do it, what am I gonna say about him?
You know, so they they said I'll win out there and it had a ball doing that too.
And I and Al writes about that whole uh mini incidents, a very minor aspect of the book, but it's but it's in there.
Uh but if you're um 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 in particular 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 uh 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.
But he will never intrude on the game.
Uh that's a remarkable thing.
It's remarkable professionalism.
And it's it's uh it it's a throwback uh mentality about respect for the for the game for the job.
There's a there's a lot of media people today who do make everything about them, and you get that impression and it's it doesn't it doesn't fly.
So I wanted to mention this because it's it really is entertaining and it's informative, and if you're a sports nut, uh and you don't have to be, but if you are uh 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 gutsy's done this still with a lot of years left in his career.
And then pulley punches.
I mean, he even goes after Costas in this book over a couple things.
Not not costas per se, but an event that involved Costas and salary.
And baseball.
Oh, that's good.
It you'll you'll like it.
So while you're out there uh populating your Christmas baskets with uh Rush Revere in 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 it's uh they'll get it.
They'll they'll know what it all means.
If I can 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 called.
Catherine, my wife's name too, so that's a good name.
One of my top ten favorite names.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
I like your thinking.
Hey, uh last night uh was uh, you know, I'm kind of a news junkie, so I was watching the news on my iPad, and my uh nine-year-old with you know skull full of mush, yeah, uh who loves Rush Revere, by the way.
Oh, right.
He uh 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 uh explained to him what was happening, and he's this the first time your son has seen this kind of civil unrest like this.
Definitely.
Okay.
Yeah, well, you know, we don't we don't watch a lot of news in our house, so uh yeah, it was new for him.
And so of course his mind goes to, well, he looks at me and says, Well, they're gonna get in trouble, right?
They're gonna get arrested.
Yes, isn't that that's so I remember those days too when I used to think that people that commit crimes and get in trouble.
Yes, I love those days.
Right.
I think right and a wrong.
Exactly.
I love those days when you see the Yeah, yeah.
And now today you get all down on the dunk because you know they're not gonna get in trouble.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, it's so what do I turn to my son and I I didn't know what to tell him.
You know?
Well, what did you tell him?
Well, you know, I I honestly can't remember because I 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 was right, you know, we use the facts and and giving you a discipline, but you can be angry about it and go ahead and destroy everything that you love, you know.
Now I'm you you 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, right Rush, he's he's a smart he's a smart kid, you know, like you and he understands uh things that it just really surprises me what he does and doesn't understand.
And and of course my wife and I are doing the best uh raise him with the love of the country and Rush Revere readers.
It is tough.
It is tough because everything that's 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.
Yeah, it's funny you bring this up.
You uh I've been reading him Rush Revere in and the first Patriots, and in his class they were reading uh a book uh about an Indian boy and and an India and uh and a colonial boy, and he was telling me about it, and I asked him, I said, So who do you who do you think the the bad people were?
Who was the wrong people in in the book?
And he goes, Well, the white people.
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 that's the multicultural curriculum now.
The the white Europeans that came and settled a country were thieves and and muggers and whatever else, and they and they they came in mistreated, stalled, and did all that horrible.
That 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.
Yeah, we actually got him the book on tape for that one, but we're going through uh first Patriots right now, and I'm reading that to him.
Oh, well, let me send I'm gonna I'm gonna send you Brave Pilgrim so you can read it because that will contradict exactly what he was what he was taught in your example with the young Native American boy and the colonial boy, and 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 they mutually beneficial to each other.
Exactly right.
Well, hey, Rush, we're thankful for you.
We're thankful for this country, and and even though we're going through these difficult things, there's there's light at the end of the tunnel, and and if we can raise this next generation up the right way, you know, I believe that that things can turn out.
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 um 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.
Just, you know, behind the, you know, it just write these things for him to stay on the shelf.
If you don't buy 'em, what the hell are they for?
I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'll throw in one of those too.
We'll throw it, we'll throw in Rush Revere and the uh Brave Pilgrims and Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
You've got the audience.
He's gonna love that.
And 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.
Yeah, that's your mind working, and you know, he's no listen to you on the radio and and it's it's awesome.
That's cool.
That's why we always keep this program on the straight and narrow, because we always know they're children listening.
What what um uh what it favorite character, your your nine-year-old who's read the books, does he have a favorite character in these books?
Uh yeah, Liberty.
Well, then you've got you've you've got to go to the Facebook, but 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 uh 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, um I think I don't know about black leaders, but I th I think there are a lot of people that are encouraging young African Americans to think that way.
Now, the uh the fact is that, and I'm 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 was lamenting the fact that in um too in too much of African American life today,
if if you enunciate properly, you're considered a sellout or Uncle Tom, if you good good grades, too white sellout.
If I forget who was talking about them, but there are those 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, just 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 is 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.
Um 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 what it was.
Around one o'clock during the one o'clock break, I heard it as 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.
Uh the uh the lawyer was uh uh Benjamin Crump, and he was accompanied by the Reverend Sharpton, who still owes the IRS four and a half million dollars in back taxes.
But who's counting?
And there was an unidentified reporter who asked whether or not they believed the authorities let Ferguson burn.
And I just wanted you to hear the question as I had recounted it to you.
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 Florida Center and expected to be stopped there by the police as we were at the protests 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.
Yeah, yeah.
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 Florida.
Now, what happened on West Florida, 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 is why this infobabe said she went over there.
Most of the damaged businesses run West Floriston Avenue.
They include a Walgreens, Little Caesar's Pizza, AutoZone, Beauty Town, TitleMax, 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 in it, but it was just it was a cell phone store.
It was just totally looted.
And of course, these businesses and stores had nothing to do with anything that happened.
The stores and businesses that the 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 uh on the left.
Because remember, this is an incident that happened in the summertime.
And here we didn't get the jam a 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 here's the case that Giuliani was making that 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 Florescent, then there would have been charges of provocat provocative behavior, provocation, and racism, and what, you think we're just a bunch of Neanderthals, you've got to send this 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 gonna 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.
See, that there's a there are a couple of premises that dominate all of these kinds of events.
And 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 gonna 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, Z. Because it doesn't matter.
All you gotta 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 you, folks, look, I I uh 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.
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 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. Sterdley 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. Snurdley'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 they've been promoing the grand jury announcement for a month, and all that that entails.
So Mr. Snowley wanted to know did the media get what they wanted?
Some of them?
I mean, did they want riot programming on Monday night?
Did they want fires and gunshots going off for their programming for did they want it for ideological reasons?
Legitimate question.
It's all when you ask who benefits.
And by the way, society at large does not.
Uh 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 Rushmore.
All right.
With half my brain tied behind my back.
It's been that way for a long time, just to make it fair.
80040, 483.
Uh, tomorrow is gonna 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.
I'm gonna 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 Labouff are on it.
Your host is not, but now that I've said that, they may make an emergency edition and add 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.
What left have they to do?
Here is Jeffrey in Okamis, Michigan.
Great to have you on the program, Jeffrey.
Hello.
Hi, good evening, or good afternoon.
Same thing.
Yes.
Yes, Okimus.
It's Okamus, I'm sorry.
I I didn't I've not heard of it, and I got a phonetic spelling here that uh I botched.
That's okay.
Um yes, um I'm an African American, and I I would really I'm so glad to be able to get on and speak about this thing going on in Ferguson.
Uh Rush, I I believe that black people um in general, can't say you know, for everyone, need to take responsibility for themselves and be accountable to one another.
Stop blaming one uh each uh stop blaming other people for their actions.
And um 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 the fool, and got himself killed.
And um and so I just I know there there are black people out here that listen to you, Rush, but um, you know, we may not your your listeners may not know that, but there are uh black people that are that listen.
They may not engage, but I hope this what I'm saying speaks to uh to your audience, and I I also just like to let you know this is you know, you got somebody out here that's that's disgusted uh uh 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 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 officer have the uh ultimate power and authority.
And first of all, he he did not respect authority, and we saw that in the in the video where he you know uh took things that didn't belong to him from the from the store.
Yeah, you're supposed to ignore that though.
Well, and then he was in the in the street and he told him, you know, the to move over or whatever, you know, just lack of respect.
And so he's he's gonna um look I have to stop you there, Jeffrey, because I've got no time.
I'm I'm really sorry, but I really appreciate your call.