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Dec. 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 3, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
I'm just looking at the remaining audio soundbites I got here, and I want to go back to the McConnell.
I still can't believe this.
I'm still, well, I am kind of backtracking to this whole government shutdown charade, which is what that is.
Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
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Is it, in fact, number 22?
Is that the McConnell soundbite?
Yeah, here I've got this.
And yeah, this is Mitch McConnell.
Now, he's at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council.
We play this sound by the Jeb Bush at the CEO meeting.
Wall Street Journal does this thing.
I think, folks, it's for all the CEOs that don't get invited to Herbie Allen's big media mogul event in Sun Valley every summer.
I mean, that's a big invite, and a lot of guys don't get invited to that.
So they do their own.
It's like guys set up a golf club if Augusta won't ask them to join, they set up their own golf club.
This happens.
And of course, there's a lot of Democrat CEOs in any group of CEOs.
It's not anymore traditional that big businessmen are Republican or even conservative.
But this is the second time Senator McConnell has alluded to this surprised view he has of President Obama.
And I just boggles my mind.
So I want to hear this again.
And it was yesterday in Washington, again, at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council annual meeting.
If you look at the way the president's reacted to what could only be described as a butt-kicking election, by any objective standard, the president got crushed in this election.
So I've been perplexed by the reaction since the election, a sort of in-your-face dramatic move to the left.
Did anybody have any expectation?
This is what boggles my mind.
Has Obama ever triangulated and moved to the center?
Is there anything about Barack Obama?
Has he ever moved to the right, which would direction you'd have to go to get to the center?
I am, the thing that I guess stuns me about this is the expectation.
How can you have the expectation when there's no evidence?
It's not as though Barack Obama is a mystery.
He's been president for six years.
He was a senator for a couple of days before that.
He's written a couple of books.
He's an open book.
The man is an avowed leftist.
There is no other conclusion.
There's no mystery.
And yet, here's the new Senate Majority Leader expressing openly in public, expressing surprise that Obama has attacked to the center because he just lost big in an election.
When in fact, what Obama is doing, see, this is what I can't believe people don't see.
I just can't believe it.
I just can't believe people don't see this.
I can't believe that you and I folks are the only ones that see this stuff.
Obama's got two years.
He's already demonstrated a fondness and an eagerness to govern outside the Constitution.
He has demonstrated that he will happily violate the Constitution.
He takes losses personally.
People that don't agree with him, he wants to rub their nose in it.
He's not going to tack to the right in humility.
There is no humility here in Obama.
He's a narcissist.
Humility is not in his vocabulary.
It's impossible.
He's got two years left, and these two years, I'm telling you, are very scary because he's going to double down and move further and further to the left.
And he's going to dare these guys to stop him.
And they are making it abundantly clear that they're not interested in stopping him.
They think that he's going to come stop himself.
That's what frightens me, but they really think Obama's going to stop himself and move to the center because he lost an election.
In Obama's world, he didn't lose anything.
He wasn't on the ballot.
A bunch of hapless, stupid Democrats that didn't even want him around lost the election.
He didn't even lose it.
He's not even responsible for the loss in his world.
I guarantee you, when Obama gets together with Valerie, Jarrett, and they start, maybe Michelle, if they let her in the meeting, they sit around and they start bitching about how stupid and unappreciative the Democrats are.
And I guarantee you, he took personally the fact they didn't want him around in their reelection campaigns.
He might publicly say that he understands, but you don't, this is not the way you treat somebody who thinks as highly of himself as Obama thinks of himself.
You don't do this.
You don't cast him aside.
You don't publicly indicate that he's bad news for you.
You do not publicly indicate you don't want Barack Obama around.
And if you do, there's going to be a price to pay.
And now Schumer and Harkin out there saying Obamacare worst mistake.
I guarantee you in the White House, those guys have horns on their pictures and they're on the wall and Josh Ernest and the boys are throwing darts at them.
But to expect Barack Obama to stop himself, to expect Barack Obama to say, oh, you know what?
I guess the American people don't like my agenda.
Okay, well, I better give the people what they want.
How do you, they can't possibly really believe that, right?
Can't possibly.
That's a bygone era in politics where losers responded to public opinion and tried to get back in the good graces of the public.
Those days don't exist anymore.
Hell, not even on our side.
I just, I had to play that again because I'm it's a second time.
I forget what the first McConnell quote was, but it was the same thing.
He expected Obama to tack to the middle after the election.
I think he said this either election night or within a couple of days afterwards.
But you strip it all away, what it translates to is they expect Obama to stop himself, that they really don't have any interest in stopping him themselves, which is what their mandate is.
Anyway, I mentioned this before the top of the hour break.
This is from the Independence Journalism Review.
You know, there's a lot of young bubbling up their effervescent conservative websites out there.
There are a lot of them.
And they are disdainful of the drive-by media.
And some of them are even disdainful of the so-called existing conservative media.
guys like James O'Keefe and Jason Matera, but there are a bunch of others.
The campus reform guys, got news.com.
There are a bunch of really pedal to the metal young conservative Conservative Review is one websites out there and they are take-note prisoners.
And Independence Journalism Review is one of them.
And there's a story here, but North Dakota is taking a new approach to ensure that its youths learn the value of the greatness of the United States.
In an effort to ensure that high school graduates are aware how the government operates, the state legislature in North Dakota is considering a new bill which would impose one more requirement on seniors prior to graduation.
From the Jamestown Sun newspaper, a bipartisan bill being introduced in the North Dakota legislature would require high school students to pass the same civics test as new Americans seeking citizenship before they could graduate.
The proposed bill has a lot of backers, including the Civics Education Initiative, whose goal is to have similar laws enacted in every state by September 17th of 2017, which will be the 230th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution.
Some of the questions from the civics test that would be embodied by the new legislation involve American government, history, and integrated civics.
You want to hear some of these questions?
Okay, here we go.
Number one, what is the supreme law of the land?
See, now there you, snerdly, there you go, arrogantly, condescendingly answering the question as though everybody knows.
Not everybody can answer that question.
How many people...
I've got to be very careful here.
Well, what is your answer to that quote?
What is the supreme law of the land?
That's right.
Okay, you get a gold starts, Constitution.
Okay, 1787.
Now, do you, you understand there are a lot of communities in this country you can go to.
They'd be clueless.
Wouldn't even know what you're talking about.
What do you mean, supreme law of the land?
What do you mean?
Supreme law of the land, supreme law of the land, you mean cops can kill anybody they want?
What do you mean supreme law of the land?
You understand?
There are a lot of people that wouldn't even comprehend what's being asked.
Next question.
What is freedom of religion?
Answer, it doesn't mean belief in global warming.
Right, okay, okay.
I know you can answer it.
Right.
You can answer it.
The point is, they're putting, they want to put these questions on a test in North Dakota that you can't graduate until you know these things.
Number three, what stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
The answer today is nothing.
If you're the executive branch, nothing.
But the answer, of course, is what?
Separation of powers.
Exactly right.
Number four, what are two cabinet-level positions?
Okay, now you answer those easily, but not everybody has, you know, Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, you know, police chief.
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government.
What is one power of the federal government?
Just one power of the federal government.
Taxation.
Okay, cool.
Name one right only for United States citizens.
Name one right only for United States citizens.
Is it used to be voting?
What about life and liberty?
What about pursuit of happiness?
Name one right only for U.S. citizens, but the right to carry arms.
That could be a trick question.
Some people can say a trick question.
Who was, or what did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Ah, this is a trick question.
Right.
It did nothing at the time, but it is perceived to have freed black people.
That's true.
Who was president during World War I?
Predecessor Barack Obama.
That's right, Woodrow Wilson.
Okay, name one of the two longest rivers in the United States.
Okay, Mississippi.
What is the next longest or what is another longest river?
No, not the Rio Grande, Missouri River.
The Missouri River is huge.
There's a Missouri River bisects the state of Missouri north to south.
Yeah, Missouri River.
Oh, yeah.
Where is Missouri, right?
Okay.
Why does the flag have 13 stripes?
Do you know how few people know that?
I mean, that question befuddles people like you can't believe.
Anyway, anybody who, there are people that oppose doing this.
Do you understand this?
There are people in North Dakota who oppose this, and those people should be voted out of office as soon as possible.
This is just a baseline requirement.
What can there possibly be to object to in this?
You can't say it's too hard.
You can't say it's discriminatory.
You can't say it's racist.
You can't say it's sexist.
You can't say it's bigoted.
How is it discriminatory?
Oh, it's discriminatory because it discriminates against people who don't know.
Right.
And don't have white privilege and haven't been taught this stuff.
Right, right, right.
Okay, anyway.
Here again, folks, if I may, there is no – well, look, these are not all the questions.
It stops here at number 10.
The question on when did the United States steal Mexico is not here.
It's just not here.
They only had space to publish 10 of the questions.
So when the United States stole Mexico is probably, I don't know, question 18.
This is why.
This is why.
And is a, you know, when I started these Rush Revere, these children's books, I mean, there was a mission.
It was to teach the truth of American history because ego-wise, I love America.
I wish everybody did.
And I hope everybody will.
And I'm naive.
I will admit that I'm naive.
There's a part of me, honestly, to the depths of my soul that doesn't understand why people hate this country.
Intellectually, I understand it.
I understand the politics of grievance, and I understand the way people have been taught, but compared to every other place human beings have lived before this country and since it was founded.
It makes no common sense to hate this place, and yet people do.
And so I wanted, you know, kids are never going to listen to this program, so how to reach them.
So the children's books idea came up, and they just took off.
Now, we're up to three of them.
The latest one is Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
Our talking horse time traveling liberty can take students anywhere.
They're just so much fun to do.
Got our military tie-in with this latest one.
So I love seeing stories like this.
Taking a new approach to ensure young people learn the value of the greatness of this country.
Back after this.
Don't go away, folks.
And to, I guess, in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
Hi, Betty.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Welcome.
Well, I'm glad to be with you.
You're one of my idols.
I've been listening to you since way back when you were able to look at Gimbal's window.
That's Pittsburgh.
I lived in Pittsburgh at that time.
That is in great.
That's KQV.
I mean, that's 1972, 1971.
That's incredible.
That you would remember Gimbal's window?
Well, I remember you.
Because when I moved here to Lehigh Valley, I moved here in May of 88, and I couldn't find a radio.
I'm a radio person rather than TV.
Yeah, me too.
And I couldn't find a radio person that appealed to me.
And lo and behold, in August, I found you.
That's great.
That's great.
I appreciate it.
The great part of it is I called my brother to tell him in Pittsburgh that I found you here.
And shortly after that, you started your Limbaugh Letter.
I sent him the Limbaugh Letter for Christmas.
And the same Christmas, he sent me the Limbaugh Letter.
I already had it, and so did he.
So we each had two copies of the Limbaugh Letter.
That is, I really appreciate you guys.
That's a dual subscription.
Had I known, I would have comped you.
But I'm just now finding out about it.
You've been subscribing all that time?
Yes, sir.
Wow.
Now, my call will tie in what you were talking about, the history lessons in North Dakota.
Yeah.
And the value of children learning the history through your books.
I have a new great-grandson.
He's six months old, and he lives in North Dakota.
He received so many gifts when he was born, gifts of clothing, toys, and equipment, and so forth, that I didn't know what to buy for Christmas until I heard you talking about the books.
And then it hit me.
I could buy him these books, wrap them up in a beautiful Christmas paper, put a sticker on them saying, do not open until Christmas-2018.
When they would be, but I don't know whether to put 2018 or 19.
He's six months old now?
Yes.
So to be, I'd say 2018 is cool.
That's what I thought.
Yeah, because at that point, his parents, and even you could read to him, he's old enough to comprehend being read to.
Absolutely.
Now, the baby's name is Brother.
You know what?
Betty, hang on here because, you know what would be ideal even before then is the CDs, the audio versions of all three of those books, of course, performed by me.
I want to send them to you.
If you hang on, Mr. Snurdy, you'll get your address.
And we'll get those out.
We can add those to the list.
We have some news, ladies and gentlemen.
There has been a decision in the Staten Island grand jury.
And the New York Times is not happy.
There will be no charges in the Eric Garner chokehold case for the police officer.
Staten Island grand jury has voted not to bring criminal charges against the white New York City police officer at the center of the Eric Garner case.
A person briefed on the matter has said the decision was reached on Wednesday.
That would be today for those of you in Rio Linda still hungover from Thanksgiving after months of testimony, including from the officer Daniel Pantaleo, who used a chokehold to restrain Mr. Garner, who died after a confrontation.
For days, the New York City Police Department's been ready for a new round of protests, which began in the city after the Ferguson decision, and which were expected to continue and possibly grow if the grand jury declined to bring charges against the police officer.
Now, this is seldom mentioned in the case of the gentle giant.
But in this case, the Eric Garner rap sheet listed 31 arrests beginning when he was 16.
Not that that means that he was destined to be killed, but just that he had a rap sheet beginning at age 16.
So we now have a whole new reason for CNN to keep talking to Charles Barkley.
We have a whole new reason for CNN and the drive-by media to be outraged and a whole new reason for the president to get involved in the DOJ to get involved, federal investigations, civil rights violations.
We can now, Al Sharpton will not have to travel in order to get involved in this case.
Could be a Ferguson to New York march, although it won't have to.
Well, you've already got people in New York.
They'll do both at the same time.
You're not going to abandon either site.
But the New York Times is one of the sources here for the breaking news, and they're not happy.
They are not happy.
Here's Matt, Netcong, New Jersey.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks.
I wanted to try to tie this into the story you spoke about yesterday about the professor who says basically the American dream is not possible.
I wanted to give the example that you give from time to time about not being afraid to ask for something because you just might get it.
I think too many people my age and younger, I'm 39, so I think this would apply a little bit to people that are younger than me, think that it's like guaranteed that they're going to achieve it or they don't have to work for it.
The example I give, I just had a book come out last month.
One of the things you have to do when you're an author who's an unknown is ask for help.
Very rarely do you become a Stephen King overnight.
What you have to do is ask other authors for help.
In my case, you have to ask for blurbs.
And I'm sure you've been asked tons of times for that.
And rarely, you know, sometimes they're going to say no.
But the yeses that you get absolutely matter.
And I've asked probably 100 or more authors to read over my work and to see if they would blurb it.
I got 10, four from New York Times best-selling authors, four from other award-winning authors.
That's like a 6% success rate, but that 6% matters.
10%'s enough, right?
I mean, 10 blurbs, 10 blurbs is plenty for what you're doing.
Someone who's just starting out to get four New York Times bestsellers, four Graham Stoker winners, that's a horror award backing you.
It's pretty big.
And you have to do it professionally.
And I think people don't put thought into how to ask.
And you have to tailor it to the specific author you're asking, why it would be a good fit for them.
And I just wanted to let you know, that's something I've always kept in the back of my mind listening to you through the years about applying yourself.
And this took a while for me to get done.
I mean, I've had a book deal before that fell apart because the publisher went bankrupt.
But you have to soldier on.
You keep writing and you keep trying.
And, you know, whatever happens from there, I guess I've achieved personal success, whether or not the financial success follows.
It's up to my writing.
It's up to whether or not people like the book.
But I guess what I want your listeners to know is that, for God's sake, try.
Just try.
And don't be afraid.
See, this is what the guy was saying.
The professor at UC Davis was defining the American dream, which he says doesn't exist, as hard work pays off.
His point was, how did this become something distinctly American?
This has been the rule all over the world.
It's no different here than it is in Sweden.
Work hard, you succeed.
But his point was, it doesn't mean that.
He says, his statistical analysis, he says, has shown that people's ending station in life can be predicted by where they begin.
What status are they born with is more important than whatever hard work they apply, engage in, or what have you.
I mean, he knew when he was releasing his data that a lot of people were going to disagree.
But his point was that there's no American dream.
He was saying that what you are saying is exactly wrong.
Well, of course, look, you can give real-world examples of the professor being wrong left and right.
I'm one.
Then there are countless others.
My parents, you know, you talk about you end life where you begin.
My parents wouldn't understand my.
They wouldn't believe it.
They didn't believe something like this was possible.
And not because they didn't believe in hard work or any of that.
They just had no experience with this kind of whatever it is.
I don't want to characterize it myself.
They would be profoundly, they were proud and happy, but they never thought it possible.
I remember my father, when I quit radio, was the happiest he ever was.
I quit radio at age 28 because I figured I'd burned out.
Because to him, it was never a real job.
That was playing records.
Son, what does that mean?
I mean, where's that going to take you?
So you're playing records at a radio.
Big whoop.
And when I got that job at the Kansas City Royals, making what was I started at?
$13,000.
He was happier than he had ever been.
And he said, if you play your cards right, you'll be there 40 years.
You'll become a vice president and you'll have a company car.
And that was the route.
His formative event was the Great Depression.
That's what he grew up in.
That's why he was so insistent that I get a college degree.
If you didn't have that back then, you didn't have a prayer.
So he wouldn't understand it.
What I did was not possible to him.
Even no greater patriot, no greater belief in the American dream.
I'm not saying that.
But There's evidence all over the country that this is the most prosperous country on earth.
And it's it happened a poor country.
But we were ordained, I think, by virtue of our founding.
Given the way our freedoms were documented to exist and from where they came.
And the whole notion of free market capitalism, I don't want to say superpower status was preordained, but America is exceptional for a whole host of reasons.
And there have been countries that have been around thousands of years that can't touch us.
And we've been around not even 250.
And they can't touch us.
There's not a nation on earth that's ever gotten close to the economic output, the prosperity, the power, the ability to project power.
No nation has ever gotten close.
And don't throw the Soviet Union up at me.
They might have had a first world military, but they were a third world empire.
And nobody has ever gotten close.
By the way, this is one of the reasons why I have such a tough time understanding why people hate this place.
It's there if you want it.
But regardless, he's out there saying that the American dream is really a myth, that there's no hard work formula.
You can take any number of people and disprove it.
Now, the caller's other point about asking for help, he's exactly right about that.
But sometimes you have to ask for what you want.
The idea that it's just going to happen or that it's going to be given to you is a stretch.
Sometimes you do have to ask.
And sometimes asking for what you want is no more than a job interview.
I mean, asking is not asking for charity.
Asking for what you want does not mean ask for charity.
But what it really means is don't be ashamed of your desires.
Be dedicated to them.
Be dedicated to your desire.
If you really want something, go for it.
And don't be afraid to ask for help along the way.
That's been one of the biggest things for me.
I just don't.
I never have.
I have been embarrassed to.
I get embarrassed when it's offered.
I get embarrassed when it I just never have.
For whatever reason, it's a psychological bugaboo I have.
Even though I know better.
But he's exactly right about it, but it doesn't.
You have to really especially does not mean ask for charity.
A lot of reasons that people don't ask for help is because they are afraid they're going to be seen as asking for a handout.
And that's not what asking for help means.
I've got to take a break.
If I had more time, I could give you real-world examples of what I'm talking about.
And you could probably supply some yourself, too, just in your own life experience.
But now I have to take an obscene profit timeout.
See, need help here.
I have to have somebody push the buttons that will play the obscene profit commercials.
By the way, our author that called, he did not mention his books.
He was very, I thought, restrained and respectful and not seeking to use.
Well, let me tell you who he is.
It's Matt Minocchio.
This is the guy, Matt, from Netcom, New Jersey.
He's Matt Minocchio.
And he writes what are described as supernatural thrillers.
At least that's the genre of his latest book, which is called Dark Servant.
I looked it up because I know how to search the internet.
That's why you got an author, Matt, from New Jersey.
All you got to do is Google it, you'll get the answer.
That's what I did.
And his name is Matt Minocchio, and his book is called Dark Servant.
It looks like the genre is called Supernatural Thriller.
Whatever that is.
Well, no, I don't.
No, I don't like vampire walking dead stuff.
No, I don't.
I don't.
But that doesn't matter.
No, I tried.
No, I never saw True Blood.
I did watch The Walking Dead.
I watched The Walking Dead once just to find out what this is about because it was killing everything.
It had the highest ratings.
And I couldn't believe, A, I came in the middle of it.
So I don't get zombies.
I just don't get them.
Yeah, it's kind of like a Dorito.
You can't just have one.
I don't, but they just puked me out.
Just the whole thing puked me out.
I said, what the hell?
This thing's the highest-rated show?
And I understood the basic premise is zombies are trying to get everybody and bite them and turn everybody into zombie.
And big whoop.
But I've had about the same reaction to vampires.
I just don't get it.
I just don't get it.
But anyway, that's who the author is.
And if you're buying books, what show?
Oh, Wire in the Blood.
Wire in the Blood.
You can find it on Amazon Prime.
I don't know if it's anywhere else.
I have different sources for these things.
You can't get it the way I did.
Well, if you want to mess around with torrent sites, you can.
But I don't even want to tell you how to do that.
I don't personally do it.
Stuff just shows up in my inbox.
I said, whoa, what's this?
But if you're out there looking at it, don't forget Al Michael's book.
Don't forget that you can't make this up.
Al Michael's sports inside book is awesome.
And don't forget the Rush Revere books.
And this latest one, Rush Revere in the American.
I don't like talking about my own stuff, but I don't go anywhere else to do it, folks.
So you'll have to put up with it.
I don't do signings.
I don't do book tours.
I don't go on Good Morning America and do this kind of stuff.
Never have.
I would be embarrassed to do it.
And I can tell you about it.
My iPhone 6 Plus has been on for about 36 hours, and I've used it, and I still have 71% of the battery after a day and a half.
Just so you know.
See you Monday.
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