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Dec. 12, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 12, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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And we're back.
Great to have you, my friends.
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That's because I assign them.
I am the host.
And that means it's easy to be flawless because I'm just being me, and there's nothing wrong with me.
So let's go.
It's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And we have one hour remaining, 800-282-2882.
And the email address, LRushbow at EIBNet.com.
I haven't said, I just saw this race by on CNN.
Apparently, there's been yet another leak from the emails between executives at Sony.
And all I saw on the monitor was a Sony exec called an actor a whore.
Don't know who.
Don't know what.
Don't know the names.
And I just sit here and I marvel.
These are supposedly the beautiful people.
These are the sensitive people.
These are the nice people.
They're the tolerant ones among us.
They're the non-judgmental ones among us.
They're the elitists.
They're the ones enlightened.
They're the good people.
And you read this stuff that's being said about their employees, the actors.
You read this stuff the execs are saying about their employees, and it's just telling.
And I got to tell you, if you missed this at the top of the program, what a f.
Oh, no.
They called somebody called Kevin Hart a whore?
Oh, no.
Because Kevin Hart, he is one of the actors that Amy Pascal said.
Maybe Obama likes Kevin Hart.
He's a black actor.
Maybe Obama likes Django Unchained.
Maybe Obama liked The Butler.
Maybe I should talk to Obama about The Butler.
I bet he liked that movie.
Anyway, Amy Pascal, who is the co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, has now sought out the Justice Brothers.
I kid you not.
She is seeking forgiveness from Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
And she apologized.
This is not who I am.
That's not who I am.
It's not what I do.
And that's not how I, but it is.
It is who you are.
You wrote the emails.
You said you had no desire to go to this fundraising breakfast that Katzenberg was putting on.
You didn't know what to say to Obama.
You had no idea.
You give Obama all this money, but you don't want to go meet him.
And so you have to ask somebody else, what's it appropriate to talk to Obama about?
And of course, black things.
That's what would be appropriate from the tolerant ones.
From the enlightened ones.
Yes, the Hollywood left, the true enlightened and the nice people.
Anyway, it's great to have you, folks.
One hour left open line Friday, 800-282-2882.
Back to Chris in South Windsor, Connecticut.
You're talking about your eight-year-old granddaughter, is that right?
Yes.
Eight-year-old granddaughter, and you said she's African-American and she has become an activist.
Yes, she has.
And she's been invited by state representatives.
She's had two of her letters answered so far, both by state representatives.
And she's been invited to tour the Capitol.
And she's also, one of them told her that he pledged to not raise taxes for the rest of his term.
And she, of course, feels very good about that.
And she's learning at eight that, at least she's thinking, that her letter can make a difference, that her action can make a difference.
And that's something that you're teaching, Rush, when you're giving the children books like that.
Now, where do you think, Chris, your eight-year-old granddaughter learned about taxes?
Well, she learned from your book.
The Tea Party.
She learned about the Tea Party.
And she writes about, I especially don't like taxes on tea.
And she's also read other books, not just yours.
She included in her letter that she liked all early American history except the duels.
She didn't like shooting at duels.
But she's learning more than just reading and absorbing and being educated like what those books do.
She's learning somehow that reaching out and trying to act upon what she believes is a valorous thing and it brings response.
Well, I wanted to hold you over because I wanted to sincerely thank you.
Didn't have a lot of time in the last segment, and I didn't want to be rude hanging up, but I wanted to acknowledge you.
Was it you said your husband, his master's degree in early American history, yes.
Yeah, and he attested to the accuracy of the books, and I wanted to especially thank you for that.
Well, it's interesting, Rush, because when I read the part about the information about whether we were going to have socialism here in America or whether we were going to have a free market society, I couldn't imagine that really said that in Bradford's papers.
So, of course, he runs upstairs and comes down from the library and he reads it to me.
And it's just about word for word what you've got in there.
Of course, you've got it in language that Annabelle can understand.
But it's absolutely accurate, and it's so different from what my children in the public schools are getting.
There's just a different slant.
Look, I didn't learn about Bradford in school either.
And I got, you know, my education was not as distorted as people's is today.
And even I received about half of the story of the original Thanksgiving, the popularized version.
But I can't thank you enough because your call is a supreme validation in practically every way.
And it means so much.
I really just appreciate it, Chris.
And if you would hang on, because I want to get an address where we can send your granddaughter a little packet of Rush Revere stuff, if you would be so kind.
Don't hang up.
Mr. Snirdley will be on soon and have your address.
We want to send a little gift package that we send to a lot of people, so I appreciate that.
Okay, Kevin Hart responds to Sony whore comment by saying, I protect my brand.
After being called a whore by a Sony exec in one of the recently leaked emails, Kevin Hart has taken to Instagram to defend himself.
He wrote yesterday that knowing your self-worth is extremely important, people.
I work very hard to get where I am.
I look at myself as a brand.
And because of that, I will never allow myself to be taken advantage of.
That sort of means taken.
I own my brand.
I make smart decisions for my brand.
I protect my brand, which is why I'm able to brush ignorance off of my shoulder and to continue to move forward.
I refuse to be broken, people.
With that being said, it's now time for me to get back to building this empire that I have always dreamed of.
Now, Kevin Hart, I must confess I never heard of Kevin Hart until all this broke.
But I have since learned that Kevin Hart stars in an upcoming Sony comedy called A Wedding Ringer.
And the dust-up with him began on a Wednesday when an email leaked in which Sony exec Clint Culpepper slammed the comedian for asking for more money to promote Think Like a Man, too, on his Twitter, on top of the $3 million payment he got.
He wanted more than that.
He was called a whore.
And all this other stuff that's leaking.
It's just delicious.
Because, of course, it makes hypocrites out of all of these people, which they truly are.
And they are the ones, and they sit out there and they sit on their lofty perch of judgmentalism and consider themselves to be the enlightened, the advanced, the tolerant, and all that.
And we're learning that they're just a bunch of guttural reprobates.
Anyway, I mentioned earlier that the drive-by media today was filled with stories that get close to referring to the Obama administration as Jimmy Carter-esque.
And one of them runs in the Washington Post today.
It's by Aaron Blake in the headline, The New American Malaise.
And I do recall I said early on, even before Obama was inaugurated, that the Obama administration was going to be the second term of Jimmy Carter.
The Jimmy Carter presidency was an absolute disaster for this country economically, in terms of foreign policy.
It was an absolute, an acknowledged absolute disaster.
Everybody agrees.
And now we got the drive-bys coming along and referring to the new American Malaise.
The Malays were, that word was invented by Jimmy Carter after Pat Cadell presented him with a poll.
Pat Cadell was Jimmy Carter's pollster.
And Pat Caddell had taken a poll, and he was very, very distressed.
It was back in 1979, near the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency.
Pat Cadell explained the state of the American public in a memo to Carter.
What he said was that for the first time, we actually got numbers in our poll where people no longer believed that the future of America was going to be as good as it was now.
And that really shook me because it was so at odds with the American character.
Cadell, in other words, was admitting that he personally was distressed by the poll result.
That here we were in 1979, so we're in the third year of the Carter presidency, and people are so despondent that they have concluded America's best days were behind them.
And the same thing's happening today.
You get the same result in polling questions today.
People today, even in greater numbers.
That's what this business of the American dream is over, or the American dream doesn't even exist.
That's what that's all about.
Gave birth to the Tea Party in 2010.
All of this spending is robbing future generations of their opportunity to succeed and to create their own wealth.
Cadell said back in 1979 that Americans were suffering from a crisis of confidence that needed to be addressed by the president.
So Cadell got this poll.
He looks at it.
He sees the American people are in a state of despondence.
They're thinking America's best days are behind them.
He takes the poll to Carter and he says, this has to be addressed by the president.
We have a crisis of confidence.
And that's when Carter delivered what came to be known as the Malaise speech.
He didn't actually use the word, but the way he described the country was such that that was the word that people began to use.
So now, where are we?
Well, today we have a New York Times poll that shows only 64% of the American people believe in the American dream.
That is the lowest that number has been since 1996.
Just 64, not even two-thirds, believe in the American dream.
Another poll from the Pew Research Center shows that 49% of Americans said they expect next year to be better than this year.
And that's the lowest that has been since the recession.
Just 49% think next year will be better.
So to recap all this, Americans have hit low points on their belief in our country's main economic principle.
And that main economic principle is, of course, hard work pays off in the end.
People are losing faith, and the numbers on it are as low as they have been either since 1996 or 1979.
And their general feelings about life and their faith in government are also way down, and that just about covers it.
And the numbers parallel, or maybe are a little even worse than they were during Jimmy Carter's term, hence this being Jimmy Carter's second term.
And then there's an accompanying story, also in the Washington Post.
In the headline here, Democrats are learning to loathe themselves just like Republicans.
And in this story, there is a reference to a general malaise.
Democrats have lower self-esteem than Republicans.
76% of Democrats like their party compared to 78% of Republicans who like their party.
The Democrat brand, according again to polling data, as expressed in this story, Democrat brand is at a three-year low, 39% favorable.
And here's the paragraph: Instead, the Democrats' increasingly dim view of their own party, their own side, seems to be more about a general kind of malaise.
And then here's another story.
I know they get everything they wanted, they're never happy.
That's the point.
When the liberals, when the Democrats get what they want, they're never happy.
You know, the basic reason for that is what they want doesn't work.
That has to be a reason why there is so much rage and anger.
Now, I mean, they've had six years of Wonder Boy, six years of this messianic figure, six years of hope and change.
This guy was going to change everything about Connell.
He was going to get rid of all the bad stuff.
It's worse than ever.
Liberals are confronted every day with the realization that what they believe doesn't work.
Now, they don't admit that to themselves.
They blame everybody else for that.
But it still manifests itself in a state of malaise, unhappiness, disaffectedness.
And it never will work.
They never will be happy.
There never will be utopia.
There never will be income equality.
There never will be total unending fairness.
There never will be total unending equality, particularly of outcomes.
Never will be any of the things that they pretty much define their happiness as requiring.
It'll never happen.
The things they want are humanly impossible.
Another Washington Post story.
Work hard, get rich.
Maybe not anymore.
Last time the polls questioned America like this was the recession in 1983 coming off of Jimmy Carter.
Less than two-thirds of the American Chris Saliza story.
This is three stories in the Washington Post.
Now, the timing of these stories, oops, got to take a breath.
The timing of these stories, they all come after the election.
That's very important.
They are meant to be tied to the Republican victory, folks.
Back after this: Pope Francisco, Pope Francis, has just, I don't know if, I haven't clicked on the link.
I don't know if it's a papal decree or whatever official papal pronouncement statements are, but the link at the Drudge Report says, let's see, here it is.
Pope, colon, all dogs go to heaven.
Right there it is on the drudge.
Speaking of animals, folks, tell you what we did today at Rush Revere.
We sent Liberty, the time-traveling talking horse, with a whole bunch of books.
The latest book, Rush Revere, and the American Revolution, to a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve program collecting unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots.
Liberty delivered a whole bunch of books to the Toys for Tots program today.
And there's a great picture.
There is a great picture that we have posted.
A lot of great pictures from readers and families who are sending us videos and pictures all over the place at our Facebook page.
But we've got a picture of Liberty actually delivering a box.
Well, I mean, it's a thousand.
We have a couple thousand books, I think it is, to Toys for Tots today.
And Liberty delivered them in a truck.
And we've got a picture of this at facebook.com slash Rush Revere.
And for those of you who have children or grandchildren who read these books and love them and think that Liberty is their favorite character, this would be a good picture for them to see.
In fact, it's Liberty who demanded that I mention this to you.
Liberty demanded.
He's out there.
He's on Facebook.
He's got his picture all over the place giving away books that he wants you to be, he wants you to see.
So it's at facebook.com slash Rush Revere.
Liberty and a special donation delivery to Toys for Tots, the Marine Corps Reserve program dedicated to providing unwrapped gifts to children and those less fortunate.
You know, that was one of my first ever charitable involvements when I was in Pittsburgh.
First radio.
Actually, I was in McKeesport, was suburb of Pittsburgh.
And the radio station had a, no, I take it back.
This is not what the first one was.
It's a KQV.
Anyway, I was at the, I think it was the Monroeville Mall.
Anyway, they sent me out there.
The station had an official relationship with Toys for Tots.
And they sent me out to this mall for a couple hours.
It was Christmas time.
It was in the mall.
It was snowing outside.
And for some reason, I've always remembered it.
We had a Marine there in full dress uniform, accepting presents.
People go into stores and buy the stores and buy the gifts and bring them out and donate them to the Marines.
And the Steelers sent a player over, John Frenchy Fuqua, who, John Frenchy Fuqua is the only human being who really knows what happened during the Immaculate Reception.
He is the only man alive who knows who that pass first hit and then bounced to Franco Harris.
And back then, that mattered.
The pass could not bounce off an offensive player and be recovered by another offensive player.
That was not allowed at the time.
The pass had to be deflected by a defensive player.
In this case, one of the Oakland Raiders.
And the pass was for Frenchie Fuqua.
I forget who the Raiders defender was.
I know this.
I'm just having a metal block.
Jack Tatum.
And the pictures are inconclusive, but he's the only guy who knows, and he has vowed never to say.
He promises at every speech.
He opens every speech by telling everybody he's going to tell him at the end of the speech, and he never does.
But he was the guy, and he was, it was, I didn't know who Frenchy Fuqua was at the time, and I'd barely been there long enough to become a Steelers fan.
But he was the guy that ran around.
He had high heels with goldfish in them, clear plastic heels of goldfish.
And he was, well, he was ahead of his time in terms of attire.
He was one of the funniest guys, still is.
But that was Toys for Tots was one of the first charitable things that I ever had anything to do with.
And it's always because it was such, it was seasonally perfect.
It was snowing outside.
It was in a mall.
Everybody was happy.
It was cold and wintry.
It was exactly what you would expect for Christmastime.
And everybody seemed to be generous and going into stores, buying things and bringing them and donating to the Marine that was out there in dress uniform.
And there were a couple of players from the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The hockey team showed up, too.
It was a fun time.
We all ended up going someplace for a beer afterwards.
And it was Frenchy Fuqua coming.
I am John Frenchy Fuqua!
Introducing himself and pointing to the goldfish in his shoes.
And everybody thought that was a myth, but no.
It was actually true.
Here's Gary in Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good morning, Rush.
How's so?
Hey, having heard your strong opposition to the release of this CIA torture report earlier this week, I wanted to, with your permission, cite three facts that might suggest that the report and its release is a good idea.
Well, fine, have at it.
The first would be if you took all the reasons that you and I have heard this week for not releasing it and why it was a bad idea and put them on a list.
You and I are both old enough to have heard all those reasons before from the same kind of military leaders and the same kind of politicians that we're hearing it from now.
And when you and I would have heard it before, it would have been 40 years ago during the aftermath of the Milai massacre in Vietnam when Lieutenant Callie decided it was a good idea to turn his troops loose to slaughter a whole village of women and children and all that.
Yeah, man.
You're right.
I remember that, but I don't in any way associate this with Lieutenant Calley and the Me Lai Massacre.
Well, it's somebody in the chain of command making a decision that something that shouldn't have been done.
No, there's nobody in a chain of command making a decision.
We have a U.S. senator who's ticked off because she didn't get away with acting like she didn't know anything about it.
Well, I don't know if that would have been that in itself would have justified the report and its publishing.
But the point I wanted to make was back then, there was a big uproar about it shouldn't be published.
The details shouldn't be investigated and revealed to the public because it would destroy America's image and it would just ruin morale for the military.
And I was actually in the military at the time and for two decades afterwards.
But the aftermath of that was, of investigating it and publicizing all the details of Meli, was that incident and the reports and the facts became a cornerstone of training for every military person that entered the service in the last 40 or 45 years.
It was a teachable moment for 40-something years.
I still don't see what any of that has to do with whatever happened at Guantanamo Bay with prisoners of war that were captured by our side.
And for whom we have a report that's been written by Senate staffers that didn't even talk to anybody at the CIA, didn't even interview them.
This is old news.
It's purely political.
I don't get the analogy to William Cowley, Lieutenant Cowley.
It's something that shouldn't have happened.
No, there's not universal agreement on that, that it shouldn't have happened.
Well, there's not, and there wasn't then either, because a lot of people in the military were saying, well, hey, you know, stress gets to people, and they were under duress and all this, and there was justification.
The me lie was mass murder of civilians and everything.
I don't get what the comparison here is.
This is captured prisoners of war, al-Qaeda, Taliban, you name it.
And we gleaned valuable information from even the Obama CIA directors admitting this.
Well, actually, I watched that same briefing yesterday, and he didn't admit that there was valuable information gleaned from the torture.
What he actually said was the people that had been tortured at some point afterwards, they had provided information that was of use, not valuable information, not important or key or critical information, just information that was of use to planning the operation to get Obama.
And so he's never said, and I wished he had, I really do, as being a veteran and wanting to have some kind of justification for what's gone on, I wanted him to say, here's the important facts.
Here's 100 important details that we gleaned from the torture.
And that would have made me feel a little bit better.
Well, the problem is the Senate staff report is fact-free.
You want facts from the CIA directory.
The Senate staff report on which you're basing all of this is fact-free.
It's nothing but opinion.
There was no intempt to get any facts.
This thing is purely political.
And it's hypocritical to boot because every one of these senators that's behind this thing is acting like they were lied to and misled when they were told everything about this program.
They were told everything about these techniques that were being used.
And they're coming forth now acting like they were kept in the dark and lying about it.
And that's why Jose Rodriguez is calling them a bunch of hypocrites.
But the comparison here to me lie, that's not the proper comparison.
I mean, if you're going to compare, if you want to compare something, I don't think this has any foundation at all.
If you wanted to make some kind of comparison, you'd have to draw an analogy to this and the allegations that happened at Haditha in Iraq, where the Marines were charged with rape and pillage and all those other things that every Democrat that heard about it chimed in on and agreed.
Jack Murthy, John Kerry.
But that would be your comparison, not this.
And got to take a break.
I appreciate the call.
We have no time remaining.
Back after this, folks.
If you go to the Rush Revere Facebook page, you have to scroll down a little bit to get to the Liberty picture because there's some things that have been posted since the Liberty picture went up.
Liberty went earlier and delivered the 2,000 books to Toys for Tots here in the local EIB broadcast area and is demanding that I mention the picture to you.
So it's at our Facebook page, facebook.com slash Rush Revere.
Obama went on ESPN radio today to tell people there that he really cares about sports.
That's what he's really into most of the time.
He takes time out to do president stuff.
And during the interview, he was talking about the similarities of comparison or comparing politics and sports.
The one difference is that, you know, in politics, sometimes people forget we're actually all on the same team, and that's the American team.
And, you know, it's one thing in sports if you go into the Eagles stadium or the Raiders stadium and folks are hollering at you and you're the opposing team.
Sometimes, I think in politics, we forget that we're not actually on different teams.
Well, you could fool me.
You could fool me.
So, you know, what he's trying to do here, I think what he's trying to act bipartisan all of a sudden.
Now, I'm sure this has something to do with this stupid omnibus thing here.
I think there are a lot of people trying to save John Boehner's bacon right now, is what I think is going on, including Obama.
I mean, Boehner making himself an MVP up there at the White House.
Here's Spencer in Boone, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Hi.
First, I'd like to talk about that book, your book.
I'm an educator, and knowledge and truth is a powerful thing.
And what you've given these young children are going to change thousands and thousands of people for the rest of their life.
And I congratulate you for it.
Thank you, sir.
Although that's why you wrote the book, but I know that's going to be part of the result.
Well, thank you very, very much.
I sincerely appreciate that.
Now, that's getting to the point that I like to make, and that's this.
Liberals tell the truth, and the drive-by media picks it up and tells it over and over and over until it is the truth.
They tell a lie, and then it ends up being the truth, simply because, you know, you tell it over and over, and somehow it's the truth of you.
I wonder what can we do as conservatives to get our truth out?
Well, see, this is you, your first comment is one of the small things I'm trying to do.
I know that young people are never going to listen to a program like this, but yet I happen to think they could benefit from many of the things this program offers.
So how to get it to them?
Ergo, books, with the truth of the founding of this country written for them.
But this is the age-old thing now.
I mean, the problem is that to the left, the people you're talking about, the truth is relative.
There is no truth.
The truth, to them, is a result and derivative of power.
To the American left today, this whole conversation about truth, they think it's a joke.
They think it's a trap.
They think that we get caught up as conservatives in trying to pound the truth.
They're laughing at us because to them, it's not about truth.
It's about power.
And the power that they seek and that they think they hold allows them to define the truth however they wish to, which is what you said.
They just pound and pound lies in and out, day and night, and eventually they are accepted as truth.
And it's the power that they have that enables them to do that.
In this case, the power resides in the media.
And so the question, okay, how do you fight this?
And people have just always thought the truth, you've heard the phrase the truth will out, meaning the truth will eventually overpower.
That's what people hope.
And they have to rely on history for this to give them confidence.
But I think it's a constant battle.
I don't know that you ever have a way of finally determining ever winning this.
It's never, ever over.
That's it for today, folks.
Thanks so much for being with us, as always.
And I hope you have a great, great weekend.
Mark Stein will be here Monday.
Back at it Tuesday, rearing and ready to go.
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