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	And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists, Rushlin Boa, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
	Here with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
	That's the way we do it all the time.
	Because we love fairness here, the EIB network.
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	Chris Rock, the well-known comedian, has stopped performing for college students because everything offends them.
	They don't laugh at anything anymore.
	He says they're wound too tight.
	And he has stopped performing for college students.
	This is all revealed in an interview we did with Frank Rich.
	He talks about everything from Bill Cosby, says he hopes the allegations are false to the federal bailout of the auto industry, which he, Chris Rock, was against.
	He says he stopped playing colleges, and the reason is because they're too conservative.
	And so you mean conservative in their political views?
	He said, no, no.
	Not conservative in their politics.
	It's not like they're voting Republican, but in their social views and their willingness, their fear not to offend anybody.
	Kids who have been raised on a culture of we're not going to keep scoring a game because we don't want anybody to lose or just ignoring race to a fault.
	You can't say the black kid over there, no, it's the guy with the red shoes.
	You can't even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive.
	He said, when did you start to notice this?
	He said, about eight years ago, which coincides with the beginning of the Obama era, by the way.
	He said, about eight years ago, probably a couple of tours ago.
	It was like, this isn't as much fun as it used to be.
	He said, I remember talking to George Carlin before he died, and he said the same thing.
	Provocative comedians avoiding the college scene.
	And that's what Chris is.
	Yeah, they just don't laugh.
	They're too wound up.
	Everything offends them.
	They don't find anything funny.
	And he's right.
	I mean, this is the way they've been raised, the way they have been educated.
	And so you can't, there's no such thing anymore as stereotypical humor.
	There's no humor, period.
	The Sony hack.
	We talked a little bit about the Sony hack yesterday.
	This is big, folks.
	It is really, really, really big.
	It's not just that five movies have been hacked and are now available at all the torrent download sites.
	They got everything.
	These hackers, and it looks more and more like it was the Norcs.
	It looks more and more like it was the North Koreans.
	Apparently, the North Korean hacks have some telltale signatures or signs.
	It's not been firmly established, but it's looking like it has.
	But Reuters has a story on this.
	And I just, I find this aspect of it somewhat fascinating.
	The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, warned U.S. businesses that hackers have used malicious software to launch a destructive cyber attack in the U.S. following the Sony hack.
	Now, isn't it interesting, folks, when Obama's buddies in Hollywood like Sony get hacked, the FBI gets called out.
	Some rinky-dink little company like Home Depot or Target with no political connections, why, well, they're on their own.
	They got to handle the problem themselves.
	And I could be wrong.
	Maybe the FBI was called in on those two.
	just don't know that it wasn't reported but it's clear that the FBI has rolled up their sleeves and is digging deep here on the Sony hack and the and the prime suspects are the Norcs is Sony has made a comedy about well the North Koreans think that it mocks their dear leader Kim Jong-un which raises The question,
	will Obama arrest the people who made this movie?
	I mean, you don't run around offending.
	Remember what we just heard?
	Chris Rock said, no, no, there's no humor.
	These people don't laugh at anything anymore.
	They've offended and they don't laugh.
	So one of the things released by the hack was a spreadsheet of what everybody earns there.
	Like I say, it was a comprehensive hack.
	And there's a spreadsheet that's out there now of the, I think it's the 18, well, it's all the executives that make a million dollars or more.
	There's 17 of them.
	And it's all the executives there who make a million dollars or more.
	And one of the things that's come to light on this is that with two exceptions, they're all white men.
	And some of the media who got the spreadsheet looked at it and they don't believe it.
	They're so righteously offended.
	Why?
	Because here is a major Hollywood studio and you would think that a major Hollywood studio would not just be talking about, they would be leading.
	They would be walking the talk.
	They would be illustrating how to be politically correct.
	They'd have a fair number of women, fair number of minorities.
	The salaries would be spread around.
	And there's only one woman and there's only one non-white, an Asian, and the rest are white men at Sony Pictures.
	It's Hollywood.
	Of course it's going to be this way.
	But the media that saw the spreadsheet, they're shocked.
	And they think it's a major controversy.
	I think they got their hands here on major controversial data of how discriminating or discriminatory Sony and others are.
	Have you seen, I'm sorry, I'm not going to offend people, but this has to be pointed out.
	Have you seen Planned Parenthood has joined African American protesters over Ferguson?
	Have you seen that?
	You've not said Planned Parenthood is, for lack of a better term, getting in bed with all of the protesters, Ferguson and Obama and the cops and so forth.
	And I just, certain things, you just wonder.
	I saw a statistic when I was doing show prep today.
	You know that African-American babies are among the most aborted in America.
	The African-American population is, if you count all ages, it's going to be between, what, 13 and 16% of the population.
	Some people say 20, but let's go with 13, let's say 15%.
	I saw something today, and I've got to confirm this.
	But if Without Planned Parenthood, without Planned Parenthood and all of the abortions, the black population would be 36% of the country had it not been for all the abortions since 1973, since Roe v. Wayne.
	Stop and think of that.
	As I say, I'm going to have to document this.
	But it's in a couple places on Twitter and people have posted it.
	So it's not surprising if true.
	Black population is between 13 and 16 percent, would be 36 percent.
	By the way, this is another reason why Democrats need things like amnesty and a constant influx of people that become their permanent underclass because Democrat Party policies are actually limiting the numbers of future Democrats born in America.
	They're just being aborted.
	I don't care how you feel about the issue.
	That is undeniable.
	You can't have 1.3, 1.4 million abortions every year since 1973 and have it not add up and be meaningful.
	And many of them are minorities, African-American, Hispanic.
	It's no wonder the Democrats need amnesties.
	There's a whole bunch of reasons for it, but this is clearly one of the reasons.
	Now, folks, this next story, this is another reason why, among many others, that I and my wife Catherine have decided long ago to write these Rush-Revere time travel adventures with exceptional Americans children's books.
	And it's, you know, we're being validated.
	Every day there's a news story about how we made the right decision here, just to write history books for young people telling them the truth about the founding of this country because it's not being taught.
	And in places where it's being taught, it's trying to be untaught or unlearned.
	From the Charlotte Observer, the North Carolina Board of Education hears debate about American exceptionalism.
	Folks, this is why in the political realm that we find ourselves in, the cultural, why it's so hard to win, because it's a constant battle.
	The left never listened to this.
	The question of whether high school students should be taught that America's status is exceptional compared with other nations dominated debate yesterday over the redesigned Advanced Placement U.S. History course in North Carolina.
	Larry Krieger, retired history teacher and national activist, urged the North Carolina State Board of Education to demand that the college board revise the Advanced Placement U.S. History course because its 70-page framework omits the mention of American exceptionalism that was in previous guidelines.
	This guy wants it put back in.
	Instead of teaching that America is a force for good in the world and stands for democracy and freedom, Krieger said, the new course is designed to promote a globalist perspective and basically teach what Obama runs around saying, well, there's no different, we're just a nation in the world.
	I'm sure they think they're exceptional in Belgium.
	And I'm sure they think they're exceptional in Great Britain.
	We don't have no right to say we're exceptional.
	We're no better than anybody else, which totally distorts the meaning of American exceptionalism.
	And they're trying to take the whole concept of American exceptionalism out of the advanced placement history curriculum all through North Carolina.
	That's why we're doing these books, folks, because there is a thing called American exceptionalism, but it's been misdefined.
	It is not that we are better people, but that's how it's being portrayed, and that's how the left is attacking it.
	The left's got many core beliefs, but one of them is we're all the same.
	Nobody's better than anybody else.
	We're all equal.
	And nobody, so the idea that America is better than any place else, not possible, especially to people who think that we're the problem in the world.
	Now, you and me, we think America is the solution to the world.
	But the whole concept of American exceptionalism has been so distorted.
	I can give you two definitions of it.
	American exceptionalism is exactly what Mr. Krieger here says that it is.
	America is a force for good in the world.
	America stands for and defends and protects freedom for all.
	America is a shining light, a beacon, a guidepost for free people.
	America inspires.
	America promotes.
	That's one definition of American exceptionalism.
	There's nothing about it says we're better than anybody.
	Nothing about it says we're superior.
	What it acknowledges is that freedom is the natural born state that we all have.
	That every human being has a yearning in our spirit to be free, that that's how we're created.
	The United States documents this.
	But another definition of American exceptionalism, which is one that I prefer just as much, is this.
	The history of the world is bondage.
	The history of the world for human beings is oppression.
	The vast majority of Americans who have lived, sorry, the vast majority of human beings who have lived have lived in one form of tyranny or another.
	They have lived in bondage.
	They have lived in oppression.
	They've lived in slavery.
	They've lived in poverty.
	They have lived lives of abject misery.
	That's been the story for most people.
	And the quest, the human quest, has been to escape that and to improve.
	America comes along for the first time in human history and provides the exception to that rule.
	The American founding fathers established a nation on the basis of individual liberty and freedom.
	It had never before happened.
	Never.
	The closest you could get to it would be the Magna Carta back in the 1500s.
	But that was merely a statement on the human condition.
	It really didn't have a lot of governmental power behind it.
	It wasn't until the Founding Fathers came along with the founding document, the Constitution, preceded by the Declaration of Independence, which defined what it meant to be a human being in the world.
	And the United States therefore became the exception in the world for the human condition.
	The only place founded, the only place that existed under the premise that all people are free.
	Created that way.
	God-given rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, all that.
	That's the exception.
	That's the exceptionalism.
	That's why we've written the books.
	We want every kid in the world, and they're fun, by the way, too, and they're historically accurate.
	Adults are telling us, our Facebook page, how much they're learning reading our books.
	It's great.
	It's just, it's such an affirmation.
	But it's also needed because this kind of garbage is happening all over, not just North Carolina.
	American exceptionalism as a premise is under attack everywhere.
	It's under attack on the basis that it means we're better people, like as in better DNA and superior DNA.
	That's not at all what it is.
	America is where everybody wants to go to escape the way they have to live.
	That's why they want to come here.
	And what if America ceases to be that?
	There's no place to escape.
	Another way of illustrating just how exceptional the place is, why it's worth preserving, which is what we are all trying to do.
	There you have it here.
	78%.
	78% of abortions in New York City, liberal mecca, African-American and Hispanic.
	78%.
	If there hadn't been all these abortions that there have been in the black community since 1973, they would be 36% of the population.
	Margaret Sanger singing the song of success here.
	I mean, that's what Planned Parenthood was about, was just this kind of eugenics.
	And then here's Planned Parenthood joining with them in their whatever they're doing with Ferguson.
	It's just flat out.
	Amazing.
	If somebody, and they even said this was their purpose.
	And she's a hero.
	Margaret Sanger's a hero.
	Went back to the archives of this program to find and remind another statistic.
	And we had on this program back in February of this year.
	And it is for the year 2012.
	In 2012, and you'll remember this if you were listening that day.
	In 2012, there were more black babies aborted in New York City, 31,328, than were born in New York City that year.
	That's 24,758.
	So in 2012, 31,300 black babies aborted and 24,700 were born.
	That's just one city in the way of work.
	And so that is one of the, I think, I don't know.
	I just, I saw this story that Planned Parenthood's joining with militant black activists over Ferguson or some such thing.
	And I remembered all these in the deep, dark crevices of my memory.
	This strikes me as ironic at the best.
	Wall Street Journal, U.S. economy, basic costs are squeezing families.
	Healthcare cell phones are eating up income, leaving less for things like movies and clothes.
	You know what?
	Healthcare costs, according to this story, since Obama are up 24%.
	Between 2007 and 2013, healthcare costs are up 24%.
	And they are expected to continue growing at a modest pace.
	That is incredible.
	And that's just one story.
	Here we have from thehill.com, GAO, biggest insurers flourishing under Obamacare.
	And this is called a blow to the Obama administration.
	Three companies hold 86% now of the individual market that Obamacare destroyed.
	The private sector health insurance market was targeted by Obamacare to wipe it out, basically, because Obama eventually wants the government to be the only place anybody can go to get insurance.
	But it can't happen overnight.
	As Obama admitted to his union buddies, these things are going to take maybe 10, 15 years, single payer, 10 to 15 years.
	So you have to do it incrementally so people don't notice it until it's too late to do anything about it.
	Health insurance giants are eating up a bigger slice of the marketplace in most states, despite intense efforts under Obamacare to increase competition, which that's a bogus premise because there's nothing about Obamacare that creates competition.
	But theHill.com is just regurgitating what they've been dictated.
	This is asking.
	Who in the world, of all the things, to believe that Obamacare does is increase competition?
	Obamacare destroys competition by definition.
	That's how it works.
	Now, they might be giving lip service.
	I'm sure as Obama talks about it like he does everything else, Obama talks conservatism when he talks economics, when he talks jobs.
	He talks mild conservative.
	He talks the American dream, hard work, getting what you want, that's what it takes.
	But we got more people not working than ever before, labor force participation rates at an all-time high.
	They got more people working part-time hours than ever before.
	Yet he's out there talking all this big game about economic growth and so forth and a recovery that isn't happening.
	So he might give lip service to competition as it's going to lower prices, but there aren't any price reductions going on.
	Prices for health care up 24% the last six years.
	The three largest insurance companies, private sector insurance companies, held an average of 86% of customers in the individual market last year.
	That's up from 83% in 2010 when Obamacare was passed.
	This, according to a Monday report from the Government Accountability Office, the biggest companies held at least 95% of all customers in nearly 12 states, including Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, and New Jersey.
	And it says here in the Hill.com story that the findings are a blow to the regime, which has touted lower costs and more options for millions across the country under the healthcare.
	Who has been smoking what?
	How can you even write that?
	It was never going to lower costs and it was never going to expand options.
	Lower costs and more options?
	What the hell are more options?
	They go to healthcare.com.
	This is mind-boggling to me.
	Maybe it ought not be because I know how bogus this is.
	But this gets obviously these people had a story dictated to them by somebody and they just acted as stenographers and typed it up.
	The regime's acting all disappointed here that three companies hold 86%.
	That just means it's going to be easier to wipe out this sector when the time comes.
	You're only dealing with getting rid of three companies.
	If you get rid of three companies and you've created a market of 86% for the government providing health insurance, this is made to order for the regime.
	This is great news for them.
	So what's happened here is in the private sector insurance market, 86% of all policies are written by three companies.
	That's perfect for when the day comes to eventually wipe them all out.
	All you got to do is get rid of three companies instead of 303.
	And the insurance companies know it.
	They're just trying to get rich while they can before they are eventually erased from the equation.
	Now, get this.
	There are three stories in this group of stories about healthcare.
	CNN story.
	Here's the headline.
	CNN poll, GOP would bear the brunt of shutdown blame.
	By the way, that means standby soundbite 18.
	If the federal government shuts down starting Tuesday, wait a minute.
	This story is from September 30th of 2013.
	So I've got to throw this out.
	It would still apply.
	But this was introduced.
	Let's see.
	2013 and 56 oppose 56% oppose.
	Never mind.
	This is two years old.
	56% oppose the law.
	60% don't want a shutdown over at Independence.
	But this is 2013.
	How did this get in my stack?
	Anyway, doesn't matter.
	We know that the polling data on this is now even more people oppose Obamacare, don't want anything to do with it.
	The number's close to 60% in all kinds of polls.
	And on the government shutdown, I don't know what polling data is on that, but as you know, we talked about this in the previous hour.
	Fox News is running around, do not shut down the government.
	It's the worst thing that can happen to the Republican Party.
	It would be unmitigated disaster.
	It would be the end of the Republican.
	Don't do it.
	It's like, don't talk about impeachment.
	Don't do it.
	In other words, don't do anything to disagree with Obama.
	Even though the losers lost big, the Democrats got shellacked.
	They lost in a landslide.
	We shut the government down last year at this time and won a landslide 11 months later, 10 months later.
	Now, Gloria Borger, of all places on CNN last night, admits that all of this talk over on Fox about not shutting down the government maybe is irrelevant because she last night on the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer admitted that the Republicans didn't suffer from the last government shutdown.
	Wolf Blitzer said, Hey, Gloria, our new poll showed that if there were some sort of shutdown, 50% would blame congressional Republicans.
	33% said that Obama would be to blame.
	So this is not a winning issue.
	Well, that's why Republican leaders don't want to do it.
	But having covered the last election, as we all did, you know, Wolf, there wasn't any hell to pay for shutting down the government.
	The public blamed Republicans for shutting down the government, and they gained, what, a dozen seats in the House and control.
	So, yeah, and control the Senate.
	Dirty little secret.
	Even CNN has figured it out.
	So CNN's got this poll, and it says that if there were some sort of shutdown, 50% would blame congressional Republicans.
	It's about the same as last year.
	56% blame the Republicans.
	But hey, it really hurt them.
	They pick up 12 seats in the House and they got control of the Senate.
	Man, that shutdown last year really hurt them.
	And yet, the Republican establishments running around don't shut down.
	Oh, my God, don't shut down the government.
	No, no.
	We can't, we can't.
	But yet they were sent there to stop Obama.
	Quick timeout, my friends.
	Sit tight.
	Back to your phone calls after this.
	Don't go away.
	Okay, so last night, Gloria Borger points out: hey, Republicans shut down the government last December.
	They picked up, what, 12 seats in the House, and they won control of the Senate?
	Wow, that government shutdown really hurt him.
	Dana Bash caught up with Dennis Ross, Republican Florida.
	He is the member of the House.
	He's not a member of the committee, just a Republican in the House, Dana Bash, said, Congressman Ross, was there any discussion in there about needing to avoid shutting the government down?
	Was that directly addressed in there?
	That's not even the topic I think we're going to discuss at this point.
	I don't think that that's an issue that we want to address.
	And we're not going to take that bait.
	Why is it baiting?
	Well, I think that's been the president's biggest bully pulpit is trying to scare the American public into thinking we're going to shut down the government.
	See, yeah, like impeachment.
	Obama's trying to bait us, but we're not going to fall for it.
	We're not going to shut down the government again and then pick up 12 more seats.
	It's maddening, isn't it?
	Folks.
	But you're witnessing what fear and paranoia can do to people.
	Fear, paranoia, post-traumatic stress disorder, all in combined impact on Republicans inside the beltway.
	Here's John in Shelbyville, Kentucky.
	Great to have you on the program, sir.
	Hi.
	Such an honor to speak with you, Russ.
	Thank you very much.
	My father turned me onto your show in the early 90s, and I can't thank you enough for what you've meant to my education.
	Well, thank you, sir, very much.
	I have a couple questions for you regarding the narratives in Ferguson and the media's implications.
	The first is the media and the talking heads are constantly saying it does no good to burn down your own neighborhood.
	Or asking, why are you burning down your own neighborhood?
	Is the media's implication that it would be okay or helpful to burn down someone else's neighborhood?
	Maybe inadvertently.
	It's a legitimate question.
	Why are you burning down your own neighborhood?
	The second one is regarding the racial makeup of the police forces.
	They're constantly talking about this.
	Is the media and the talking head implication that perhaps a black officer would not have shot Mr. Brown?
	That's right.
	Oh, exactly.
	Would not have stopped him.
	Exactly right.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Well, I just was curious about that.
	I appreciate your taking.
	That's the assumptions that they're making.
	Absolutely, yeah.
	A black cop would let him get away with it.
	Absolutely.
	No way a black cop pulls a trigger.
	No, no, no.
	Black cop would have never been in that position because the gentle giant would have never been threatened by him, so would never have tried to get his guns, would never have costed him in his own car.
	It's the white cop that was the problem.
	The black cop, none of this would ever happen.
	Well, they might, but black cops might go after bad guys, but that's not a factor in this case.
	I mean, he's asking a legitimate question.
	The media is trying to say, black cop, none of this would have happened.
	Well, that's why I'm saying we need more black referees in the NFL.
	I'm telling you, we got all white reps, mostly white reps, not just referees, but umpires, side judge, field judge.
	It's a 75% black league, and all these officials are white throwing flags on black guys.
	It's not proportionate.
	It isn't fair.
	Civil rights violations occur every Sunday in the NFL, and nobody's talking about it yet.
	I'm trying to be on the forerunner here, bringing this like I was with Kooks.
	Keep our own kids safe.
	The dangers of soccer.
	I mean, I was decades ahead of that.
	No, no.
	No, no, no, no.
	No, no.
	No.
	No.
	The theory is that if the cop had been black, the gentle giant would not have felt threatened and therefore would not have made any aggressive behaviors toward the cop, and therefore the cop would have not had to draw the gun.
	Oh, wait.
	Wait.
	No evidence of what we're not talking about reality here.
	This is my point.
	They are constructing for the purposes of the media, they're constructing an alternative reality that the white cop was the problem because just the presence of the white cop was provocative enough to cause the gentle giant to do things he wouldn't have done if the cop had been black.
	He wouldn't have felt threatened with a black cop.
	Therefore, he would have not acted aggressively, and therefore, no gun would have been drawn, and no trigger would have been pulled, and no bullet would have been fired, and no cigarillos would have had to be returned.
	I don't know.
	I'm just the storekeeper wasn't black.
	Why was he robbed?
	But nothing was done about that.
	See, there was no, they let the gentle giant run out with his cigarillos rather than confronting him on it, so there were no injuries in the quick mart or whatever it is.
	You're acting me, don't you?
	You're treating me like I'm advocating.
	I'm just telling you what they are saying about this.
	And this racist cop thing is going to burn itself out at some point.
	Everybody knows this.
	At which time, they will then circle back to the racist Redskins.
	Mark my words, because it never ends.

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