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	Hi folks and welcome back.
	It is a sheer delight to have you with us.
	I'm Rush Limbaugh America's real anchor man.
	A real anchor man.
	I do the job that most anchormans ought to be doing.
	I tell you what's going on out there that you don't know about.
	I'm not into advancing an agenda here, and certainly not the Democrat Party's agenda.
	That's all the news media.
	It isn't even any media anymore.
	Do you realize that?
	It isn't even media.
	I sent a friend of mine a fairly long treatise.
	If I were a doctoral candidate, this would be my thesis.
	There is no media anymore.
	I was watching the gaggle of reporters seated in the White House press room awaiting a press briefing last week.
	It might have been Josh Ernest coming out or Obama, I don't remember.
	But it was a side view of all the reporters sitting there in their chairs in the White House press room waiting for the reporter to come.
	It just struck me, and it's not anything new, by the way, that this realization, but they're not media.
	We call them the media, and they they work for companies everybody assumes is media.
	They work in media, but they're not media.
	They're not news reporters.
	Nobody's digging things up anymore.
	Everything's a result of press release sent via fax or email.
	Everything is the daily soap opera, the narrative that's established by somebody every day, somewhere, White House, New York Times or what have you.
	But there really isn't in terms of the White House press corps or the Washington press court, there really isn't any media.
	And it's always struck me, and we just accept it because it's what it is, and there's no way to change it.
	But we have the Republicans and the Democrats, and isn't it routine that on no matter what issue, no matter what piece of legislation is being debated, no matter what is being talked about, the media is always understandably, people accept it, is referred to as an obstacle for the Republicans.
	Everybody admits it.
	Everybody knows the media is yet another obstacle for the Republicans to overcome.
	Well, how in the world can that be media?
	This is not about the media being biased.
	This is not about, which of course it is.
	That's too cliched.
	The fact of the matter is there really isn't media.
	They just call themselves dead, and they get to live off the idea that they're reporters.
	They get to live off the idea that what they tell us is news, but it isn't.
	What they tell us is designed to shape your opinion about things, not inform you.
	Now that may be cutting it a little bit too close because shaping your opinion does include informing you, but they inform you of certain things a certain way.
	It's all designed to get you thinking and concluding things.
	It's not about informing you and letting you make up your own mind, and I don't mean to sound polyannish and civics 101 about it.
	And it's it's uh it's it's more a pet peeve than anything anyway, but they're not media.
	They are something else.
	They are branch office of the Democrat Party.
	They're the steno pool for the Obama administration, but they're not media.
	We don't have a media when you get right down to it.
	We got pockets of it.
	We've got, I mean, you probably have some media in your local town digging up stories on sewage problems and stuff, but how to bake a carrot cake recipe for the holidays, but even that is a stretch.
	There really isn't any media.
	Now, the reason this is important is because so many people on our side are still waiting for the moment when the media all of a sudden becomes fair.
	And they're not going to ever think positively about themselves, and they're not ever going to think that we're winning until the media sees it our way.
	And the media is never going to see it our way because they're not about seeing it our way.
	They're not us.
	And I'll tell you another way this manifests itself.
	Uh My good buddy Andy McCarthy had another brilliant piece on Saturday, National Review Online, on stopping Obama.
	Now he's written a book on impeachment.
	And he's made the case that impeachment's a political thing, and you can't proceed until the political circumstances are right in the country.
	It's not so much a legal or constitutional proceeding, rather, it's a political thing.
	The Republicans have judged that they have no prayer of ever succeeding, so they have said publicly that they're never going to do it.
	They have announced that impeachment's off the table, which, as far as Obama's concerned, is a license to do whatever he wants to do whenever, because he's just been told that his political opponents have no intention of stopping him.
	Now, why aren't the Republicans going to proceed with impeachment?
	It's not because of Obama's race.
	It's not because of Obama.
	The Republicans are not proceeding with impeachment because of one thing.
	The media.
	It is the media that's going to call them racists.
	It's the media that's going to try to destroy them.
	It's the media that's going to make mincemeat of them.
	It's the media that they're afraid of.
	Therefore, we're not dealing with media here.
	We're dealing with something else, but it isn't media.
	And it's not journalism.
	The media and journalism have come to mean the same thing, but they're not.
	The media, journalists, are every bit the enemy and opponent that Obama and the Democrat Party.
	In fact, the media has more to do with paralyzing Republicans than the Democrats do.
	Do you think the media need the Democrats calling Republican racists to do it?
	No, the media will do it themselves.
	That's not media, folks.
	That's not journalism.
	That's something else.
	And that something else is its own political entity that is itself the Democrat Party or a branch office of or what have you.
	Now they try to tell us they're media.
	See that people just like them on the right.
	I'm I'm one, for example, but I don't pretend to be media, and I don't pretend to be a journalist.
	I'm an activist, in a sense.
	But more than anything else, uh I'm an advocate.
	Well, so are they.
	They're not media.
	They are advocates.
	They are advocates for one side, but they never ever admit that.
	They hide behind the fact that they are the media.
	And it is an absolute joke to watch these people seated in the White House press room.
	Yeah, it was Obama and uh David Cameron coming out.
	It was going to be a joint press conference.
	It's absolute joke to think those people are actually there to try to ask incisive burning questions given who they participate.
	Now, if it were a Republican president, they would become media all of a sudden.
	And they would be doing everything they can to prove the Republican president's full of it and is lying, and they would try to take down powerful people, like we're told the media's job is speak truth to power and all that.
	But I looked at this gaggle of people sitting there, and the last thing they were was reporters.
	The last thing they were there for is to find out something that uh that people didn't know about what Obama and Cameron were going to do and then report it.
	The only reason they were there was to protect Obama.
	Now that's that's not media.
	And when you have an entire political party that's paralyzed because of the media, that's also not the media, and that is really, really quite telling.
	And I think we do.
	We have a Republican Party in certain ways is paralyzed, in other ways they don't disagree with Democrats.
	But still, there are enough areas of disagreement that like impeachment or whatever.
	They they just will not voice what they really think about a whole bunch of things.
	Not because of what Obama's gonna say about it, not because of what Harry Reads is what the media is gonna say.
	And again, the media doesn't need to wait for what Obama says in order to call Republican names.
	They can do it themselves.
	Classic example here is what's being done to the movie American sniper.
	And by the way, this I don't think this is any big revelation.
	To me, words mean things.
	The definition of words mean things.
	And I must also, I'm having greater and greater trouble communicating with people just in a day-to-day basis.
	I communicate primarily by email and text, because I hate the phone.
	I don't mind FaceTime audio.
	I can hear that.
	But I've gotten to the point where when I'm telling people I have to not only say what I want to say, the next sentence I explain what I mean.
	And I send it to it twice because I'm finding out people like I help a lot of people with their problems with their iPhone or their iPad or their Mac.
	You know, I'm the guy in my group of friends and family that I have the answer.
	I'm the go-to guy if you need something fixed.
	It's amazing how many times I have to explain one thing.
	It is amazing.
	I'll write it.
	Here's what is going on.
	I'll be as expressly clear as I can.
	And I'll wait for a question that has totally ignored what I've written pre-have to explain it again.
	Communication is a it's a it's a very difficult thing to pull off.
	And then trying to understand what others somebody sent me an email today, I had to write her back three times today.
	What are you really trying to tell me here?
	Took me three times because I didn't want to assume what she meant.
	And it was about this uh the Muslim call to prayer at uh at Duke.
	So words mean things to me.
	I mean, it's a very big, big big deal.
	And I've I feel I am a literal guy.
	I am the mayor of Realville.
	I am profoundly literal, and most people aren't.
	That's not a criticism.
	It just puts me in a frustrating circumstance a lot.
	I say exactly what I mean and as clearly and as directly as I can, and then to have to repeat it two or three times because it's glossed over, not read carefully or not understood, kind of frustrates.
	But that's that's no big, that's just personal stuff.
	But my point here is to me, media is a word that means things.
	Media means they're in the news business, they're in the business of gathering news that nobody knows about in the process, they tell us things that we don't know, and that's how we become informed.
	It's not what they are.
	But yet that's how they're looked at.
	It's really important.
	Most low information people, they watch the news thinking they're watching the news.
	They're not watching the news, they're not watching media.
	They're watching the Daily Democrat Party devotional.
	Or whatever else you want to call it.
	And the reporters seated in the press room, eagerly writing down what is they're not reporters.
	They're advocates.
	They're not interested in informing people what they don't know.
	They are only interested in shaping people's opinions about what happens to be in the daily soap opera script.
	That particular day.
	Today, what everybody's doubled down on is Obama's tax cuts that are gonna be announced in a State of the Union show and why they're being announced and what their purpose is.
	There isn't any real information being provided.
	There's no digging into this.
	There is simply the media bending and shaping and flaking and forming and reporting all this in such a way they have still accomplish two things.
	Smooth sailing for Obama, boy, it's great that he wants to do it.
	It's compassionate, it's fair, it's equal.
	And the other half of it is that no matter what the Republicans say, it's mean-spirited, extremist, and benefits the rich.
	And that's how it's all being prepped today.
	So even before the Republicans say a word in response, the media today is telling consumers that the Republicans oppose it because they favor the rich.
	They like the rich getting rich.
	They like the rich staying rich.
	They don't like the rich having to give up any money.
	They don't want you to make any more than you have.
	They love income inequality.
	That's part of the quote unquote reporting.
	No.
	They're shaping the story to help Obama.
	The reason why Obama now is faced with a Republican House and Republican Senate.
	And in the normal ebb and flow, Obama's proposals don't stand a prayer.
	So it's time to shame the Republicans and go out and find the weak need, linguini-spined Republicans, shame them and embarrass them into defending the rich or Ford defending the rich and maybe turn them.
	That's what's going on here.
	There's no reporting.
	There's no news.
	There is any media taking place here.
	They're not media.
	And as I say the same thing with American Sniper.
	There's the primary criticism of American Sniper ran in the New Republic, and it's what's feeding all the other criticism.
	The criticism in The New Republic is written by a guy named what's his name?
	Dennis Jett, and he admits he's not even seen it.
	He hasn't even seen it.
	The criticism of American Sniper.
	Quent Eastwood has written and directed a movie that's celebrating a murderer.
	A racist, bigoted murderer, Chris Kyle, who murders innocent Iraqi brown people.
	And we in America, by going to see this movie, are celebrating barbarism.
	We are celebrating murder.
	We are celebrating a sociopath.
	And how dare Eastwood do this, and how dare we fall for it.
	And that chorus is being joined by more and more people, particularly in Hollywood and on the left.
	After all, folks, it's about a redneck from Texas who is better using a gun than anybody ever has been.
	What is there for Hollywood to like about that?
	It's everything Hollywood hates.
	Rednecks, Texas, guns.
	Add to it, war.
	Iraq.
	Wrong.
	Imoral because of Bush.
	What's the guy doing?
	Killing innocent Iraqis.
	A murderer.
	No wonder America is hated in the world.
	This movie demonstrates why.
	That's what they're doing to American sniper.
	And they're just getting started.
	There are now offshoots.
	There's even feminist criticism of the movie.
	American Sniper.
	Let me take a break.
	I'll tell you what that is when we get back.
	Don't go away.
	Never mind this feminist take on an American sniper.
	It's not what I thought it was.
	This is a bunch of idiots upset that fake babies were used in the movies that are real babies and Eastwood.
	It's silly.
	It may even be a satire piece.
	But the point is that more than the latest complaint about Chris Kyle now is that he's a coward, too.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Michael, Michael Moore, that's a coward, yes.
	Snipers are cowards.
	They're, you know, long distances away.
	They're hidden.
	Nobody can shoot at them.
	Nobody can see them.
	A bunch of cowards.
	So don't anybody doubt Hollywood's liberal bona fides, despite what this mess is with film.
	It's uh intact.
	Here's uh here's rich in White Plains in New York.
	Great to have you on the program, sir.
	Thanks for waiting and welcome.
	Thank you, Rush.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Would you like to talk a little football?
	Yeah.
	Are you are you familiar with that passage of that poem, How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways?
	Yeah, never played, but I'm familiar with it.
	Well, I've got watching the Packers, it's how do I screw up a game, let me count the ways.
	I I it was um uh uh two red zones in the first uh at the beginning of the game, they they failed to score a touchdown, then you know Now that's big.
	I I have to, you know, you're getting down fourth and one on the half-yard line, you're the Green Bay Packers, you're in a championship game.
	You've just intercepted a couple of passes, you've got Seattle on the ropes, and you kick for Three points, even if you don't make it, you still show you've got the guts to pound the ball at them.
	Sure, they should have had 14 points instead of six after the first ten minutes of that game.
	Yeah, and the the guys doing the game were even saying how this was out of character for the Packers, the head coach that he usually you know goes for it.
	Well, I I can't hear the audio on a football game.
	So I if the closed captioning uh gets in the way, I take it off.
	So I'm just watching.
	So I didn't I didn't hear them say that.
	But you have another important football point, uh more important rush.
	Um five seconds.
	I don't think you can do it.
	I've got five seconds.
	I'm sorry to do that to you.
	It's one of these breaks that uh there it goes.
	It even cuts me off.
	Don't feel offended.
	Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
	Rush Linbaught half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
	And this is uh this Neil in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
	Hey, Neil, great to have you on the program.
	Hi.
	Megados Rush, long time fan.
	Great to have you here, Neil.
	My my comment is about the uh Patriots drubbing of the Colts.
	The Patriots drubbing of the Colts.
	Yeah, that's what happened.
	Yeah, how they were complaining about the football issue.
	The how the I don't know where that comes from.
	I guarantee you.
	Well, I can't get my guess is the Colts are probably embarrassed as hell.
	Somebody there probably said something, a reporter overheard it, and a big thing's been made of it.
	But I guarantee you the Colts do not think they lost that game because of the condition of footballs.
	And now this thing's blown up and the NFL's investigated, and I'll bet you the people inside the Colts are a little embarrassed about this.
	I think they were just outplayed, and the media is just making up an excuse.
	Uh the media?
	Possibly.
	You think this started with the media?
	Possibly.
	For who?
	For uh the local media in Indianapolis.
	Why in the world would you want to make it?
	I mean, it's not as though they lost by one point and a deflated foot.
	They were blown out.
	For the fourth time the two teams have played.
	The Indianapolis Colts have lost by margins of 28 to 34 40 points in each of the last four times they've played the Patriots.
	They haven't even gotten close.
	You know what else is interesting?
	All day yesterday it was being reported by quote unquote the media that the Indianapolis Colts were in the process of reworking Andrew Luck's contract to make him the richest and the highest paid player in the league, guaranteed 25 million dollars a year.
	Now what was unique about that was that uh uh that idiot that owns the team has a policy.
	And that is rookie quarterbacks, don't laugh, he is, has a policy that the uh uh rookie quarterback rookie players play out their full contract before they get a second one.
	In other words, there's no extension or renegotiation.
	He didn't do that with Peyton May.
	Peyton Manning had to play out every contract before he got his his new one.
	And if they had luck still has a year to go.
	If they had indeed made luck $25 million a year player guaranteed, richest in the league, uh a year early, that would have been a precedent.
	Well, today the guy that owns a team is being quoted as saying, why not?
	I'm not even thinking about uh Andrew Lux contract.
	I mean, that's the farthest thing from my mind.
	Now, somebody had to put it, somebody had to tell somebody in the media about this $25 million, unless they just made it up.
	Hell you know, with the media anymore.
	Who knows?
	But I just find it fascinating.
	Yesterday, the news was that the Colts were prepared to just make Andrew Luck a highest played player in the league a year early, and then they get blown out last night, and the owner today is saying, I'm not even thinking about Lux contract.
	What are you kidding?
	What are you talking about?
	It's not the last thing on my mind right now.
	But this this football business.
	Well no, I don't know who the highest played player is because every contract's different, the guarantees and the salary cap hits and all that make it.
	I I don't, I was.
	I mean, when the story said that Luck would be the highest paid player in the league at 25 million, it had to be guaranteed.
	There are a lot of guys that claim to be 17, 15 million, but it's not guaranteed.
	So I don't know what the um quarterback, highest quarter.
	What would the it was on my maybe Romo?
	Don't think it's Romo.
	I'm not sure.
	It's not Brady because Brady's reworked his deal a number of times.
	Well, the best the that's that's subjective.
	The best quarterback in the league.
	How are you going to determine that?
	You know, depending on who you talk to, some say Aaron Rodgers.
	Well, he may still be.
	You could say, well, he didn't have a good game, yes.
	Well, he he didn't have the plays called for him yesterday.
	They would have made him look good.
	Jay Cuttle give me a break.
	Jay Cutler.
	Jay Cutler.
	Oh, Jay Cutler, highest base salary.
	Yeah, but that's he's not that what is it?
	Does it say?
	Okay.
	Yeah, but how much of it's guaranteed?
	126 million dollars.
	How much of it's guaranteed?
	That's all you need to do.
	The rest of it's superfluous.
	But he is still playing his rookie contract.
	So he's nowhere near in the in the richest yet.
	Russell Wilson.
	I think he's he's a he's perfect for that team.
	He's uh the quarterbacks are in fact we got sound, but you know, Russell Whistle broke down after the game.
	I mean, literally the emotion just overcame Russell Wilson.
	And it's understandable he was gonna be the GOAT of all goats of the week.
	If they had lost four picks, uh turn the ball over, eight yards passing the first half.
	He was gonna be the GOAT, and the last three minutes of that game, big time turnaround.
	Grab audio soundbite number uh six.
	This is Russell Wilson.
	He's speaking on the uh on Fox with uh Aaron Andrews after the game.
	And this is when he you barely understand what he's saying here.
	He's crying.
	God is so good all the time, man.
	Every time.
	These guys in this team are unbelievable, man.
	The fight that we win this fight over and over again.
	People used to doubt, man.
	I'm just excited to be on this team, excited to play with the guys.
	You gotta give credit to the to the Packers.
	They had unbelievable season.
	And it's just honored, man.
	Just honored his blessed to be on this team.
	Uh Russell Wilson's all God all the time, by the way.
	Uh that'll hold him back in the media in time, the media.
	In quotes, the media.
	But I can understand he was totally overcome with emotion.
	I that he went from the lowest you can be, playing the worst game of his professional career in the A in the NFC championship game at home.
	And that turnaround in the last basically three minutes, four minutes.
	Uh stunning.
	That's well, here's the thing.
	I finally found out what happened on that.
	That uh Brandon Bostick, number 86 for the Packers, who botched the onside kick.
	It turns out that poor Brandon Boskin is not a member of the so-called hands team.
	Uh normally a team puts their hands team out on onside kicks.
	People that are used to catching the ball, touching the ball, holding on to the ball.
	He's a blocker.
	Brandon Bostick, so it's told, was out there to block and cover for Jordy Nelson and others behind him who were supposed to field the onside game if it was a pop-up.
	And instead, he jumped for it.
	Instinct, he jumped for it rather than let it go and and and he's not used to touching the ball as much as totally.
	That still stuns me.
	That just the ball, I mean slow motion, it's right in front of you, and how it goes through your hands.
	That guy, he's gonna carry that the rest of his life.
	That kind of thing is just because that's the game right there.
	Despite every other mistake Green Bay made, if he recovers that kick, game's over.
	Despite every other play call that was wrong, despite all the conservatism, despite all the playing not to lose, all those things could have been covered with the recovery of that onside kick.
	The emotional ups and downs in a game like that are profound.
	Here's Al in Boise Idaho.
	Hey, Al, great to have you, EIB network.
	Hello.
	Yeah, thanks.
	My one football thing is to say, way to go uh Broncos.
	But my thing is uh at the airport.
	I'm an employee at the airport, and uh we heard that uh Obama's coming in Wednesday, and I'm I'm wondering why in the world is he coming here.
	I mean, right now I'm sitting in a at a store and I just saw two guys with guns on their side, and we everyone here has a concealed weapon and they have flags flying on their cars and uh and uh you know uh why is he coming to Boise, Idaho?
	He's gonna speak at uh Boise State, but uh what's he gonna say?
	Well, it's a good question, actually.
	Even even though Al, you're trying to be funny with the with the Broncos comment and uh some of your other side comments about concealed weapons, you actually, whether you know it or not, ask the good question.
	And so I'm gonna endeavor to honor your call by actually answering your question.
	Why is Obama going to Boise?
	It's not why is he going to Boise, although uh means this is a conservative place.
	Why would Obama be coming here?
	Obama's going a lot of places.
	The State of the Union timeline is being totally reversed this year.
	Normally, what happens?
	The president does the State of the Union show, and there are a couple of leaks in the days leading up to it about what he's gonna say, but not all.
	And then after the State of the Union, which is by the way, State of the Union is not State of the Union anymore.
	State of the Union is Santa Claus announcing who's been good and who's been bad and what who has gonna be been good is gonna get.
	That's all the State of the Union is.
	Santa Claus actually speaking.
	State of the Union is not about the State of the Union.
	It's not a report to Congress, it's not a report to us about the state of the country.
	Obama dared, if he had to be honest about that, he wouldn't even want to tell us.
	What this is is Santa Claus announcing who is on the good list and the bad list and who on the good list is gonna get what.
	And normally you do the speech and then you travel for a week to various parts of the country explaining, detailing, giving examples of what you meant, who's gonna get what.
	What Obama's doing this year, they're doing that before the speech.
	He's announcing what Santa Claus is gonna give to who before the speech, and then at the speech, and then there'll be another series of travel events after the speech.
	But what's new this time is before the speech going out and setting it all up.
	And one of the reasons for that is the ratings for the State of the Union speech are way down.
	Just as a matter of course, uh, in the past number of years, uh not just Obama, but during Bush.
	Because the State of the Union speech is not State of the Union.
	It's just it's a it's a it's it's an announcement of a bunch of gee, I really want to do this kind of thing.
	It's it's how I'm gonna buy your vote.
	90% of it's never gonna happen.
	90% of it never happens, chance of happen doesn't not the point.
	The point is he wants you to think he's gonna give you the moon.
	Well, since the numbers are down, the ratings are down, and fewer and fewer people are watching, Obama is making the State of the Union a multiple-day event rather than a one-night speech.
	So each place he goes to make an appearance about the upcoming State of the Union, it's gonna be covered.
	It's gonna be talked about, it's gonna be reported on.
	And he's gonna go to places like Boise, which are not particularly favorable.
	He's gonna go to places where big Democrat areas, too.
	But this is all about getting the message outside of the night itself with the Republican response.
	This is actually it says State of the Union being a one night affair, Obama's turning it into a 10 day affair.
	That's really what it is.
	And you can think it's good politics or not.
	Okay, but that's the answer to the question.
	By the way, not as uh just a little sideline.
	This is gonna be Obama's first ever visit to Idaho.
	He has never been there before.
	Never been up in there.
	Going to be up in uh up in Boise.
	There are three other states he's never visited.
	They're all red states.
	Uh South Dakota, Utah, South Carolina.
	And the uh State of the Union ratings last year, Obama's TV ratings, State of the Union were the lowest since Clinton in 2000.
	So that's why all of these pre-Sate of the Union show appearance, basically announcing what's in the speech before the night of the speech.
	Here's Ron in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
	Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
	Hello.
	I've been waiting many years to say this.
	Major Megadiddle, Rosh.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for love the show.
	Um I I just wanted to comment.
	I feel bad for the young gal, Nicole.
	I called earlier.
	Um my suggestion to her is uh to give her a little um inspiration, Rosh.
	Maybe you should quote some founding fathers quote my uh uh some quotes from uh John Locke, guys like that black film, uh maybe John Adams uh to help her out, but she should uh rent the movie God's Not Dead.
	The kid in the in the in that movie kind of went through the same thing.
	She's going to be.
	I don't think she needs any help.
	I think this I think that you're talking about uh about Nicole.
	We had two.
	We had a nine and a fourteen-year-old or eleven and fourteen-year-old call, the first two calls of the day.
	And Nicole, I mean, she didn't need any inspiration.
	She's she's loaded for bear.
	She's ready to go.
	She took it, she took it to that teacher.
	Yeah.
	Well, Russia, my question is to you.
	I've been wanting from you a book.
	Um, I love the uh review of books for my young kids, but I have a teenager in high school, and I'd love for you to write a book for mainly for these teens.
	They're so easily influenced by these uh these uh teachers uh at that uh education level.
	And the uh me as a parent, I really need a tool, and I'd love a tool from you to uh compare the differences between a conservative mind and a liberal mind, and and some of the programs that the um conservatives believe in and the liberals believe in, all the way uh uh it's something that I can give a kid or my child to give them that information.
	Well, now it's interesting you say that.
	Let me tell you about the Rush Revere books.
	And and uh we purposely left expressed politics out of the books.
	It's there, but it's not identified.
	Those books are about freedom.
	Those books, the Rush Revere books are about liberty, and how the United States is the lone outpost for it in the world, and how that came to be.
	And it's it's uh it's a mission to teach young people without putting obstacles in their way.
	Here's the truth, kids.
	This is how your country came to be.
	This is who made it happen.
	This is what they believed in.
	This is the thing, these are the things that happened along the way.
	These are the struggles that they overcame, the adversity they faced, and who were the enemy.
	And explaining all of this, it's all obvious without pounding political terminology at them.
	So there's no, there's by design, there's no politics in these, but we didn't want the books to become targets in any way, shape, manner, or form.
	So they're strictly devoted to the truth of the founding of this country and what it was about.
	Liberty and freedom, human dignity, uh the the power of the individual and his role versus and with his government, pure and simple.
	Now, your idea about a a book for parents or teenagers that explains the differences, liberalism and conservatism issue by issue, that's not a bad idea, actually.
	Uh well, it's not a bad idea.
	You know, it's just I I uh and I know I'm not working near hard enough.
	Sure.

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