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June 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 19, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host of this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying, which I wish weren't the case.
I wish everybody agreed with me.
We wouldn't be in this mess, frankly.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Live Friday!
Open Live Friday, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program and talk about pretty much anything you want, that's not the case Monday through Thursday.
All I ask is that you make sense.
Whatever it is you're talking about, please just make sense.
I don't want to have to spend a lot of time translating what I think you mean.
Not much to ask.
Basic.
Yes, and I know this.
If you want to send an email, it's LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
And again, 800-282-2882.
Now, before we get on to other things, I'm not through with this theme.
In fact, I don't know that I'm ever really going to be through with the theme.
It's not the sole thing we'll talk about, but cultural rot, deterioration, this overwhelming apocalyptic pessimism that is being promoted.
You know, I just went now to the UK Daily Mail's version of the story, a child born today may live to see humanity's end.
The Daily Mail.
Their headline is, will your child witness the end of humanity?
Folks, this has to take a toll.
I'm just going to ask again, how long does it take before the never-ending drumbeat of this kind of stuff affects people?
You know what media influence is.
You know how hard it is to fight.
And this is utter irresponsibility.
This is not a prediction, by the way.
Nobody's got the guts to go out and actually predict it.
This is just a fear.
It might happen if.
Nobody is stupid enough to actually make this prediction because then they could be held accountable for it.
Experts or expert warns mankind will be extinct in 100 years because of climate change.
Humans will be extinct in 100 years due to overcrowding, declining resources and climate change, according to a prominent scientist.
Comments were first made by Australian microbiologist Dr. Frank Fenner in 2010, but engineer and science writer David Auerbach has reiterated the doom-laden warning in his latest article.
He criticizes the recent G7 summit for failing to deal with the problems facing the survival of humanity, such as global warming and exhausting Earth's resources.
A lot of other animals will go extinct, too.
It's an irreversible situation.
I think it's too late.
I try not to express that because people are trying to do something, but they keep putting it off.
I think it's too late.
I try not to express it.
Well, you just damn did.
I try not to express it.
So here's two scientists now.
2010, and this guy backed up five years later with this Arbeck guy.
We're doomed.
We're done.
100 years.
A child born today might witness the end of humanity.
Meaning, a child born today might die along with everybody else.
It's just if you're trying to figure out what's going wrong in our country, you have to look at this stuff.
Now, let me posit something else.
I can honestly tell you that when I was in middle school, junior high school it was called in high school, evolution was not formally taught like it is today.
Evolution was something that, there was biological evolution, we were taught about how certain organisms adapt.
It wasn't called evolution as evolution is taught today.
We were never taught that there was cross-species evolution.
People tried.
I mean, there were always the illusions that we were once gorillas.
But I mean, I never had to face what kids have to face today in school.
The unalterable fact, supposedly, of evolution.
And part and parcel of it, folks, kids are being taught there is no God, there is no heaven, there's only hell.
There is nothing.
There's just nothing.
This is it.
This is all there is, which wouldn't be so bad if this weren't all apocalyptic.
I'm just asking, how often does it take?
How much exposure to this kind of stuff does it take for young people to begin to believe it?
And I think we're seeing the evidence of it here with all these surveys: people saying they have no hope and they've got no confidence in and no faith in anything.
Look, when a comedian is viewed to be the most serious newsman for certain people.
No, wait, no, when that fact, that's a fact.
Young people think a comedian is the news.
Now, evolution, I wasn't taught evolution, but I have heard, I need those of you who have kids, or maybe you believe it, I don't know.
I have been told that the teaching of evolution as it occurs today in school, in formal education, involves racism.
Now, if this happens to be true, now like I said, I was not taught this.
I was not exposed to this.
I've only heard about this from people who tell me what their kids come home from school and tell them.
The teaching of human evolution is essentially rampant with racism because evolution, as it's being taught, discusses the transition from dark skin to light skin being more evolved.
Now, I do know that the original eugenics crowd, popularized by Margaret Sanger and her buds back then, this is what amazes me about the left, Margaret Sanger was all about eliminating the black race.
And she's a leftist hero today.
Margaret Sanger at her eugenics buds, and there were a lot of supposedly really smart people in her eugenics crowd.
Well, now, if you happen to be a young kid in junior high or high school, and you're being force-fed evolution, and part of evolution is teaching you that the transition from dark-skinned to light-skinned equals more evolved, what are you going to think of dark-skinned people?
As I say, I wasn't taught this, but I'm hearing from people that this is part of the curriculum.
Well, if that's true for crying out loud, then it makes it a little bit more understandable why people like this Dylan Roof guy exist.
If evolution, which is a left-wing mandatory requirement now, if evolution is teaching that part of evolution is becoming from dark-skinned to light-skinned, holy smokes, folks.
I remember Charles Darwin's book on the origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.
I mean, that was the title of Darwin's book.
And in the midst of all this, the idea that people want to tag talk radio or Fox news with this stuff, we have serious problems that apparently few are even willing to approach in terms of source, honest discussion, so forth.
But if that happens to be true, do you know that to be true about the teaching of evolution?
You don't know that to be true.
I hope it isn't.
If that's true, that answers every question you've got out there.
If the evolutionists are teaching that part of evolution is going from dark-skinned to light-skinned, and that white-skin, light-skinned is more evolved than dark-skinned, what if somebody like Hitler believed it?
And he did.
Hitler believed Darwin.
What if somebody like Hitler believed it?
Which he did.
Okay, got to take a break.
We'll come back and get started with your phone calls here.
So sit tight, folks.
Don't go away.
Okay, time to go back to the phones because it is Open Line Friday.
We try to emphasize phones and kind of lighten my load.
I just can't easily do it.
It takes forced discipline.
So I'm doing that now.
And here's Bonnie in Pensacola, Florida.
I'm glad you called.
Thank you, Rush.
You bet.
Great to have you here.
Thank you.
I just called to give you some good news.
I wanted you to know what an impact your series, your Rush Revere series, had on my students this year.
Oh, thank you.
And my students' parents.
And I just want you to know my kids learn so much.
And, you know, at the end of the year, we talked about we probably know more about American history than any other kids in our schools, including the fifth graders.
And anyway, I just wanted to tell you in person, well, not in person, but be able to talk to you and let you know what an impact it had.
The stories are well crafted.
I read one of the.
Now, wait just a second.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, just said that.
That is a profound compliment.
You could have said well written, but you said well crafted.
You have the author's craft.
That's something we, you know, we talk to our students about and we try to teach them.
And it's hard to explain it sometimes and to find good examples, but your books were full of it.
And I have to tell you, the best thing I liked besides the historical part in teaching them about exceptionalism was you use so many examples of figurative language, metaphors and similes.
And that's something that third graders in the state of Florida have to learn.
It's one of the standards.
And many of them don't hear what I call the old fans anymore.
And your books have them woven in there so many times.
I mean, this year I'm going to keep up with it.
We're going to have a notebook down.
Now you're really complimenting me because those things, those artistic crafts there that you're talking about.
You know, as one who does not have kids running around all day, I needed some guidance and assistance in writing for 10 to 13 year olds.
And coming up with those kinds of techniques that you described is, I mean, the idea here is to communicate.
The idea here is to have, you know, after they read it, no questions.
It's total understanding.
And to try to put things in metaphorically or with analogies, anything that could help people at that age understand really the magnitude of what was happening and how important it was.
It was crucial.
So you really are complimentary means that that's two profound things that you have observed, and I can't thank you enough.
Well, you need to lower that limit because my students are eight and nine years old.
And I got the first book last year.
My husband listens to you almost every day.
And he bought the American Pilgrim one.
And I read it, and I thought, okay, it's written on a fifth grade level.
It's an accelerated reader book, so I knew what level it was.
And I read it, and I'm very quick reading.
And anyway, it was after Thanksgiving, and one of my students, my birthday had just happened.
One of my students said, what'd you get for your birthday?
And I said, well, I got a new book in a series.
And I told him.
And a little boy in my class said, I got that book.
My grandmother got it for me.
And I asked him if he read it.
He said, not yet.
He was reading another series of books.
But anyway, I said, when you read it, let me know what you think about it.
And he read it.
He really enjoyed it.
He was one of my higher readers in my class.
He took the accelerated reader test and made a 100.
So I knew he understood it.
And that was reading it himself, maybe with some family reading along with him sometimes.
Then another student in my class read it, another little boy, and he did test on it, eight and nine.
I'm not sure if they had had their birthdays yet.
And then another little boy in my room took the test on it.
After he read it, he made a 100 on it.
He also read it on his own.
Holy smokes.
So this year I was, okay, I've experimented a little bit.
They seem to understand it.
When I got to the study of historical fiction, I thought, what more perfect than to read Russia Revere?
And so I kind of talked to my students and said, you know, I'm going to experiment.
This is a book I've never read out loud to my class, and I want to see if you like it.
If you don't, I'll stop.
If you do, I'll keep reading.
I had them after the first chapter, you know, every day.
Let's read some more.
Let's read some more.
Is that right?
I tell you what, you're worth a week's worth of calls of this nature.
Oh, thank you.
But anyway, it took us.
We started in October.
We finished right before Thanksgiving.
And the timing was perfect.
They know so much more about the pilgrims than they ever would have known.
But anyway, I told them if they all did well on their accelerated reader test, and they had to make a 60% passing but 80% proficient, they had to make an 80 or higher, that we would have a tea party.
Because when we read the first one, you know, your character worked for a tea company.
And I explained to them that that was real, that my husband and I had ordered your tea, and, you know, that part was not fiction.
That was real.
So that I would order that tea for them, and we would have a tea party.
So they did well.
The promise was upheld after Christmas.
I brought in the tea, and we had a Boston tea party.
Went right into the second one, as you know.
What an ambassador you are.
Pardon?
What an ambassador you are.
I am.
I love your books.
But anyway, I read the second one, and of course, when they got to the Boston tea party, they found out that it really wasn't a bunch of people sitting around drinking tea.
And they loved this.
They loved when Liberty had the Boston Baked Beans.
And I was always trying to think of something that I could do kind of as a celebration when we finished.
So when Liberty ate the Boston baked beans, that was in their Friday journals.
We write in Friday journals every week.
They write a friendly letter to their parents because writing friendly letters is another skill that they have to have.
And so many of them mentioned it and told their parents about it.
And so anyway, a lot of my kids have never had Boston baked beans.
So I purchased those, and that was what we did for, you know, if they did well on their test.
And most of them liked them.
There were a few that didn't.
So then we started the third book, which I finished right before school was out.
You made a whole year out of these books.
Oh, I did.
But the third one, I have to say, was probably my favorite.
Coming from a military family myself, and my father was in the Navy.
And this is a military community also that I live in in Pensacola.
So anyway, the third one, they absolutely loved.
And the whole spy, Liberty sneaking up on the spy and his Dracula voice, boy, you had them on that.
But anyway, I racked my brain.
What could I do for a celebration?
And it was the lollipops and unicorns that I finally came up with.
And at the very end, I got party hats.
That's how they were unicorns.
And I got what were called unicorn lollipops.
When does school start again?
It starts August 17th.
August 17th.
Okay, now we're about through with a call here because of time.
I just, I have to spend some time thanking you here.
You have nailed these books.
You have done a better job of explaining why these books are great for kids than I've done.
And I am the author.
You have just, this is incredible.
I can't tell you how proud I'm feeling of myself after having talked to you.
Well, you should.
I mean, these are making a difference.
Well, here's what we want to do.
You hang on after the call here.
I want to get your name and address.
And we have a whole department here that how to put this.
We don't want to put a care package together.
It's not really a care package.
We've got some additional things that you can use for further celebrations, parties, little, like you were describing that you did the baked beans and stuff.
We've got some stuff that we'd like to send you that you can use to further the process that you've begun here.
I have had some contact with Rush Revere Adventures, so I'll have to tell you about that offline.
With Rush Revere Adventures.
Through the website.
I'm sure.
Okay.
Then that means we know who you are.
That means we know who you are.
Know where you are.
We're like Google.
We vacuum up every bit of data about you.
Now, hang on here.
Bonnie, do not hang up so Mr. Snerdley can get a FedEx address from you if you'll be so good to share it with us.
And we will be back.
Hi, welcome back.
El Rushbow and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network at 800-282-2882.
It's Open Line Friday.
This would be as good a time as any to remind you that today is the final day for the Two If by Tea Sweepstakes in honor of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Two if by Tea, best iced tea in the country.
In fact, I got an email.
Where did I do this?
Where did we find this email?
Let me find this email.
I know I've got it here.
I've got it here.
I've got it.
Yes.
Hey, Rush Revere, I'm a little irked over your tea.
Almost every day of summer, I make a gallon of iced tea every day.
What I do is I put 12 bags in my one-gallon pickle jar and I put it in the sun for my mom made tea that way, sun tea.
Put a bunch of tea bags in a big jar of water, put it out inside for several hours.
My kids love my tea, Rush.
They said, and they were right, I made the best iced tea, period.
My tea was better than anything that came out of a bottle or a can until a couple of summers ago.
I ordered your tea out of curiosity.
I wanted to see, taste what Rush Limbaugh was going on about on his radio program.
And I have to tell you, I was very impressed.
I have not tasted an iced tea that was that good.
It is a genuinely remarkable product.
My kids prefer your tea over mine.
And this will not stand.
I have begun the research that I hope will result in an even better tea than yours.
I'm going to learn about tea and the process from leaf to glass and reclaim the crown, at least in the eyes of my boys.
Man's name is Dwayne, and he sent this email in.
So it is, folks.
It's got the different flavors.
It's just awesome.
It's the best iced tea you can find out there.
But in addition to this, we're running our big sweepstakes because it's theoretically, almost officially, the beginning of tea season, i.e. the arrival of summertime.
And just to reiterate, Two of By T is a proud sponsor of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation or MCLEF.
And what they do is provide scholarships and medical assistance to the children of Marines killed in action while serving our beloved country.
They are a tremendous organization, first-rate people.
98, 99% pass-through.
Meaning, 98, 99 cents of every dollar donated goes to the recipients.
Now, right now, this is the second day and final day of our big sweepstakes.
And through tonight, 11.59 p.m. Pacific, you could be the lucky grand prize winner that Catherine and I will personally call to inform you that you are headed to the great islands of Hawaii.
That's right.
As the grand prize winner, you're going to get first-class round-trip airfare for two to the Hawaiian island of your choice.
We're not choosing some fleabag, off-the-beach hotel, and we're not sardining you in cash to get you over there.
And coach, we're flying you first class.
You pick the island, and then we will find the first-class hotel.
Leave that to us.
We will put you up at a luxurious hotel.
We'll take care of all the particulars while you're there.
All you have to do is sit back and relax.
But that's not all.
You will also get $2,000 in expense credit to spend while you're there.
You know why?
Because the last thing any of our winners are going to have to do is spend their own money to enjoy our prize.
A lot of other people, they'd put you, as I say, flying sardine coach, and they'd pick some off the beach, little fleabag motel, and they'd give you 50 bucks a day per diem and say, Have fun.
And then you promote what a great company they are, giving you a great prize.
That's not us.
You're going first class.
You're going to the Hawaiian Island of your choice.
You're staying in a genuine luxury place.
And you got $2,000 in expense credit to spend while you're there.
And all you have to do to be entered is go to www.rushrevere.com right now.
We've moved 2F by Tea over to the Rush Revere website.
Just go there and shop by 11:59 p.m. Pacific tonight.
Shop for the best iced tea in America.
You'll be automatically entered to win.
And something else we've done, most people running a big contest like that jack the price up knowing that there's a big prize to be won, not us.
We're not jacking anything up.
We are lowering the price.
We have discounted the tea today only and have included shipping.
We're going to ship it to you for no charge to you.
It's going to cost us plenty, but not you.
It's well worth going to rushrevere.com and shopping right now.
And I did say rushrevere.com.
The reason is we moved the tea shop over to Rush Revere because Revere is the spokesperson.
Rush Revere is our spokesperson, and he demanded that the tea business be over at his website.
We agreed that it made sense.
Now, folks, one of our favorite things to do is to try to help people visit places or experience things that they normally may not be able to do.
Someplace they'd love to go, but may not be able to.
And hearing the excitement and the sincere joy on the phone when we call these winners, I tell you, it's just priceless.
It means everything to us.
You can tell when people are faking, being excited.
And we haven't run into anybody faking it yet.
It's been sheer joy and appreciation.
Oh, wait a minute.
No, no, no, no.
There's much more than just the grand prize.
Most companies do a cheap little grand prize, as I previously described, and be done with it and hope to get great accolades, but not us.
Because in addition to that grand prize trip to the Hawaiian Island of your choice, we have first prize, second, third, and fourth place winners.
We have a total of 27 additional winners of really good prizes, not little throwaway cupcake type stuff, such as a brand new $1,600 grill for the summer, $500 worth of Allen Brothers steak.
That is, in most places, that would be the grand prize.
For us, it's one of the that would be the big prize.
For us, it is a grand prize.
There's 27 additional winners.
Now, one thing to keep in mind: I know that not everybody can travel.
Some people can't fly.
Some people don't want to fly.
Doesn't matter.
If you're not able to travel for any reason, the trip is transferable.
How many contests do you enter where it says there in the fine print prize not transferable, meaning you can't give it to anybody?
Means if you can't go, tough toenails, not us.
If you win and you can't go, you can gift it.
If there's somebody in your life that you want out of town for a week, you can give it to them.
If there's somebody you want to reward for doing something, whatever.
If you can't make it, gift it to them.
Because it's one heck of a gift.
The bottom line is we don't slouch on prizes, and we make sure that our winners really win.
They're not going to have to incur any additional expense to fully enjoy the value of the prize.
So, again, all you have to do is go to rushrevere.com by 11:59 p.m. tonight and shop.
It's 11:59 p.m. Pacific, and that's it.
You'll be automatically entered to win.
And all the official rules, because you know, there are some nitpickers out there that want to know every rule.
And I'm not going to spend all that time here detailing everything, just like Apple doesn't spend everything telling you about every new feature.
Well, you want to see all the rules, they're there at rushrevere.com.
Every rule, all the official rules are posted at rushrevere.com.
So, 11:59 p.m. Pacific tonight is the deadline, and after that, sit back.
You could be one of 28 people that are going to win a pretty big and cool prize at rushrevere.com.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Grab audio soundbites.
No, let's see.
Grab number three.
I mean, I want to stay in order here.
I was gratified last night.
I discovered, I had some comments about Dr. Benjamin Carson earlier in the week because I was watching CNN.
What happened?
Oh, it was the day that Trump announced.
And I was watching CNN, and one of their analysts really ticked me off.
I just classic stuff.
One of their analysts said the worst thing about Trump getting in the race is that he's such a clown that somebody like Ben Carson will now be made to look serious.
And that really hit me, folks, because I know Dr. Carson, but even if I didn't, I know about him.
And there isn't a finer human being walking this planet.
There isn't a more decent, there isn't a more giving, a more accomplished character, temperament, morality.
Ben Carson is someone if everybody emulated, we'd have a great country.
But beyond that, he certainly is not someone to be destroyed.
Why in the world would anybody want to do anything to diminish Ben Carson?
All he's done is lift himself out of poverty, get educated, and help save the lives of children through neurosurgery.
So accomplished a movie was made up.
Why would you want to destroy somebody like that?
Just because he's a black Republican.
Why would you want to diminish anybody like that?
There's a lot about our politics I detest.
I understand it, but I detest it.
But that one little throwaway comment: oh, Trump's such a clown, he makes Ben Carson look serious.
There are very few people that could carry Ben Carson's water.
Anyway, I made these comments in about a 10-minute monologue, and I was gratified to see that Breitbart.com made a news story out of it.
And I didn't see it myself, but I was sent the link to it last night, and I was just gratified.
But I wanted to thank the Breitbart people for picking up on it.
And last night, Dr. Carson was on Fox with Megan Kelly.
And as you know, he's the former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
I have, by the way, gotten to know Dr. Carson a little.
I'm telling you, folks, The fact that this man could be targeted for destruction.
Look, I understand targeting threats.
You want to win elections.
You want to diminish it.
But this was not a candidate taking out of Ben Carson.
This was a mindless twit analyst on CNN who could not wear Dr. Ben Carson's underwear.
And it just set me off.
It just ticked me off.
Anyway, he's on last night with Megan Kelly talking about the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.
She said, Do you think that the right tone at the right moment was set today by President Obama and Hillary Clinton in their comments about this?
The heart of the matter is not guns.
The heart of the matter is the heart, the heart and soul of people.
This young man didn't wake up yesterday and suddenly turn into a maniac.
Clearly, there have been things in his background, in his upbringing, that led to the type of mentality that would allow him to do something like this.
And one of the things that I think we really need to start concentrating on in this country is once again instilling the right kinds of values, particularly in our young people.
We're so busy giving away all of our values and principles for the sake of political correctness that we have people floating around out there with no solid foundation of beliefs.
Bingo.
There is no moral authority.
There is no authority, period.
Everything is just how somebody feels.
And he's exactly right.
We have given away our values and principles for the sake of political correctness.
He's exactly right about it.
I just, I, I, he's, he's, he's, he's onto something there.
And I, I just, I, I just blanched when I saw this mindless.
The worst thing is that Ben Carson's going to look serious now as a candidate.
Bernie Goldberg last night was on the O'Reilly factor, and they were talking about the left-wing effort to blame Charleston, South Carolina on Fox News and talk radios, what Bernie Goldberg said.
There's a certain kind of coverage, Bill, that isn't new either.
There are people in the media, some people in the media, who will use an opportunity of innocent people being killed in a church as an opportunity to bash conservative media.
And it has a long, detestable history.
After Oklahoma City bombing, liberals in the media blamed Rush Limbaugh.
One minor correction.
Liberals did, but it was Bill Clinton who started it.
It was Bill Clinton who granted permission and created the opening.
April 24th.
For those of you new to the program, and you don't know what I'm talking about, April 24th, 1995, this one year after we learned from Donna Shaley that the Clintons were driven to utter paranoia by me and this program and conservative talk radio back in 1994.
Here's the president in Minneapolis, shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing.
We hear so many loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other.
They spread hate.
They leave the impression that by their very words that violence is acceptable.
You ought to see, I'm sure you are now seeing the reports of some things that are regularly said over the airwaves in America today.
It is time we all stood up and spoke against that kind of reckless speech and behavior.
Now, for those of you new to the program, I must tell you that this is no ego.
Back in 1995, I was it in local talk radio.
There was not Fox News yet.
The conservative blogosphere had not really been created.
And he specifically said over the airwaves in America Today, so many loud and angry voices, sole goal.
Now, you put this together with Hillary and Donna Shalala, what they were talking about in 1994, being paranoid about the right-wing conspiracy led by me to bring them down.
There's no question we was talking about.
So we called him on it because he made a joke about this at the White House Correspondence Dinner.
And Chris Matthews came up to me when that dinner was over.
He said, you can't let this stand.
President of the United States just called you a racist.
President of the United States just blamed you, just called you a racist for defending Janet Reno because she was attacked by John Conyers.
So the White House issued a clarification, not an apology.
Clinton didn't do it himself.
The White House press office issued a clarification.
They said, no, no, we weren't talking about Rush Limbaugh.
We were talking about the shortwave broadcasts of the Michigan militia.
Yep, that's what they said.
It's the fastest three hours in media, and we only have one more to go.
Brian Williams is back.
It's official now.
Brian Williams is heading to NBC, and he blamed all of the lies that he told on his ego-driven lifestyle.
He said that that really wasn't him.
He looked at those things, and it really wasn't him.
It was dark forces out there or something.
The people at MSNBC are not happy.
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