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Sept. 30, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 30, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Here we are back at it, folks.
Rush Limbo behind the Golden EIB microphone, the fastest three hours in media.
Great to have you here, as always.
The phone number, if you want to be on the programs, 800-282-2882, the email address, ilrushbo at EIBnet.com.
So yesterday, I announced pre-orders for the fourth Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans series.
Book four in the series is Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner.
And after that one mention yesterday, it might have been in this hour, it was the second hour yesterday, so 25 hours, after one mention, that book, this book, shows up at number one on Amazon, a children's book targeted to age 10 to 13.
But we have found that children even younger than that love and absorb these books.
And we've even heard from adults who tell us that they're learning things in these books that they didn't learn when they were in school themselves.
And all of it is overwhelmingly meaningful and heartwarming.
And these books have so far exceeded our expectations.
And I don't mean to undersell that, but children's book series, you don't know how that's going to go.
The reason for it is heartfelt and simple.
I believe, I love this country.
I just, I love it.
I believe that this country is a miracle.
And I'm fascinated by how it happened.
I'm fascinated by how unique this country is.
The history of humanity in the world is one of bondage, slavery, poverty, tyranny.
The phrase American exceptionalism to me actually refers to how exceptional a country we are in terms of the way people have lived on this planet.
First country in the history of mankind that was founded under the premise that the individual human being is supreme.
Not a government, not a king, not a dictatorship.
But the individual human being in his natural existence as created by God, yearning for freedom and liberty and seeking happiness, is the basis on which this country was founded.
Constitution was written that limits the government, that limits the ability of leaders to impede this freedom and liberty and pursuit of happiness.
It's never happened before.
And I think it's a miracle that it did.
I was taught some of it when I was in school.
Not nearly all of it, but I was taught a generally positive story of the founding of this country.
But that's not been the case for the last couple of generations.
It's totally turned upside down what young people are taught about this country.
This country's portrayed as illegitimate and unjust, biased and discriminatory, unfair, immoral.
And that just won't do.
People need to love this country and appreciate it and understand how special it is and understand the inherent goodness, the inherent goodness of this country because the inherent goodness of human beings.
It is the inherent goodness of human beings that our founders recognized would be the basis for the greatness of our country and the sustainability of it.
Not the greatness of governments or the greatness of bureaucracies, but the greatness of the individual human being.
Human beings have the capacity for compassion, for greatness, for caring, sensitivity, all of these things.
And the fewer obstacles in their way, the better they and everybody will do.
That's the basis on which this country was founded.
It's not taught nearly as much.
And so these books are an attempt to tell the truth.
The glorious truth about the history of the United States and particularly its early days and its founding.
And it's just exceeded our expectations.
So we're now up to book four, Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner.
Rush Revere is me, dressed up as Paul Revere.
He's a little oddball, but he's a substitute history teacher.
And his best friend is a horse that happened to be struck by lightning when he was a young col. And that lightning bolt enabled him to talk and time travel anywhere in American history.
So Rush Revere is able to take his substitute students, a few of them, time traveling back to anywhere he wants to take them in American history.
And that's what these books are.
This one, we focus on a lot, Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key, how the Star-Spangled Banner came to be, the national anthem, what happened.
The students are taken right back to Fort McHenry, where it all happened.
And again, I could tell you the whole book here.
I don't want to do that.
I don't want to give it away, but we're all so excited about it, so proud of it.
We also time travel back to Philadelphia for the actual writing of some of the nation's founding documents.
And we combine the time travel with current times, real events in the lives of these students involving their parents and grandparents and their friends.
And each one is a craft, essentially.
Each book is crafted as opposed to written.
There are a lot of people that put these together in terms of researching the history to get it right, the illustrations, the fair use photos that we can use.
And there's so many people to help us out here.
And it's a great team.
It's a fun team to be on.
And so we've got the pre-orders that started yesterday.
Book, I think, actually goes on sale on October 27th.
But to get up today, I got up today and I checked my email.
And there's a note from Catherine with a screen grab from Amazon.
When I went to bed, it was at number seven.
I got an email last night.
Well, not when I went to bed.
It was a little earlier than that.
It was number seven.
And we were thrilled with that.
We were excited with that in one day with one little mention.
So the whole point here is this, take the occasion to describe once again what the books are about and why and the story behind them.
But to also thank all of you again for making this happen because I have never labored under any misconception about why I have been so fortunate with this radio program and the other things that happened because of it.
And it's all because of so many of you.
I don't know.
I just, I've run out of ways to say thanks other than just to say thanks and to let you know that we're all filled with gratitude and fully aware of the role you play in helping make these books a success.
I mean, the emails that we get.
I mean, folks, thousands of people, kids and their parents and grandparents, send us emails, pictures of the kids reading the books in bed in their rooms under the Christmas tree at school.
And we try to post some of these at the rushrevere.com website.
We have an entire group that deals with audience relations here, which is something we really, really have developed for the Revere side of things.
So it's, it just, it makes it all the more fun.
And I wanted to, in addition to mentioning the book again, so it was just a short little, what was it, 20 mention, 20-minute mention yesterday?
No, no, short little mention yesterday.
And you all make it number one.
I don't know.
I'm continually humbled and blown away by at the same time.
Also, Tom Brady, this, here's what Brady was asked about Trump.
He said, yeah, you know, he might get president.
He might be kind of fun.
I like the guy.
I played golf with him.
He's a fun guy.
That became an endorsement.
I don't think Tom Brady ever endorsed Trump.
I can't tell you the last time Tom Brady endorsed any politician.
Tom Brady and Trump are friends.
And somebody asks Brady about Trump.
He's not going to throw Trump overboard by saying I think he'd be a horrible president, even if he thinks it, which he doesn't.
But he's not going to say that.
So it gets misconstrued and reported as an endorsement.
And then here comes a really snarky piece at Sports Illustrated saying that Brady got to get his mind right.
Doesn't he understand that Trump is a misogynist and a racist and a who knows whatever else?
So Brady had to go on his weekly radio program, I guess, is where he did this.
And it is reported he walked it back.
But I frankly don't think he had anything to walk back.
I don't think that it was an actual endorsement.
Anyway, if it had been an actual endorsement, Trump would still be talking about it.
And Trump would have tried to get Brady up on stage.
Trump would have scheduled something at Gillette Stadium.
And that didn't happen.
And I just, you know, Brady's not, these people are too smart to do something that's going to alienate half of their audience.
Well, some of them are.
Some of them are too smart.
Some of them actually are not smart enough and wouldn't do that.
But Brady, I never did think it was a full-fledged endorsement.
Did you?
But it doesn't matter.
See, he got reported that way.
And so that's what Brady had.
Well, yeah, but you know how the hat ended up in his locker?
See, that's a picture in Brady's locker.
There's one of Trump's trucker caps, as it's been called.
Another attempt to impugn a trucker cap.
It's a baseball cap.
And it says, make America great again.
It was red.
And there it is in Brady's locker.
The media goes through there taking pictures.
Look at this.
That's what led to the whole question.
Are you endorsing Trump?
I think he'd be a great president.
Trump gave the cap to Robert Kraft, who is the owner of the Patriots.
They are also friends, like Brady and Trump are friends.
So Mr. Kraft is friends with Trump.
Trump has been to Mr. Kraft's suite for games, Gillette Stadium.
So I think Kraft, as I understand it, Kraft gave Brady the cap.
And I think because Trump said, would you give this to Tommy?
He's known as Tommy to his friends and his family.
And so that's what happened.
That's how the cap ended up in there.
But that's SI story.
That was snarky.
Brady's got some explaining to do.
Trump is this.
Trump is that.
Well, I was just told, Tommy's not getting invited to the White House.
I'm trying to think if Tommy went to the White House when the Patriots did.
I don't think he did.
Oh, Trump, oh, you're saying Trump won't invite Tom.
Nah, nah, nah, no, that's not true.
Trump's not taking this personally.
Trump knows the drill.
You actually think Trump will now throw Brady overboard because Brady's walked back the endorsement?
No, there's no way.
Trump would never be able to see Giselle again, and that is not going to happen.
Milani and Giselle, I think they're buds.
I don't know.
But that's not going to happen.
Brady doing this is not like another candidate going after Trump.
You know, Trump's modus operandi.
He leaves you alone till you hit him.
If you hit him, then here it comes.
He's going to fire back.
That's not going to happen.
He would have done it by now.
He would have said Brady is a loser.
Brady's overrated.
Brady's only benefited from a great offensive line and a great coach.
And I never believe he endorsed.
He hadn't done any of that.
He would have done that already, Dawn, if that's what was going to happen.
Brady will be invited to the White House.
Brady may even be vice president before it's all over.
I mean, who really knows?
Speaking of Trump, let's go to the audio sound bites.
Starting here with number eight, this was last night on the O'Baxter.
Excuse me.
The O'Reilly factor on the Fox News channel.
I guess the boycott is over.
There was a boycott, right?
Was there another sit-down?
There was another sit-down with Roger?
Oh, I missed that.
Another sit-down with Roger?
That's a lot of powwows.
Well, anyway, the boycott, whichever way it went, either from Fox to Trump or Trump to Fox, is lifted.
And Trump was back on from Trump Tower last night with O'Reilly.
And O'Reilly said, did Putin go up to your office?
Do you guys like Bond or anything this week?
You know, Putin's in town.
You got to get along with Putin.
No, I didn't know anything about him coming to my Office, but I will tell you that I think in terms of leadership, he's getting an A, and our president is not doing so well.
They did not look good together.
Putin is now taking over what we started, and he's going into Syria, and he frankly wants to fight ISIS, and I think that's a wonderful thing.
You know, I said that a year ago, and everybody said, oh, that's terrible.
If he wants to fight ISIS, let him fight ISIS.
Why do we always have to do everything?
But he wants to go in.
He wants to fight ISIS.
I'm looking at Assad and saying, maybe he's better than the kind of people that we're supposed to be backing.
Now, before you throw that out, I want to take you back to me on this program about 15 months ago when this whole story hit that it was Assad gassing his own people.
And I posed upon that I couldn't believe that.
I think that was, I think that was people.
It was ISIS.
And then disguised as Syrians opposed to Assad that were being gassed and so forth.
And they were leveling the charge that they were being gassed by Assad, and it was actually ISIS doing it.
And it turned out that happened to be right.
And so here's Trump.
He's right on that.
He's on this page.
The one thing that Putin has not done is attack ISIS yet.
He has attacked our allies.
He might get around to attacking ISIS.
But you know my favorite part of this bite?
O'Reilly's question is: did Putin go up to your office?
Did you guys like Bond or anything this week?
He's in town.
And Trump says, no, I didn't know anything about him coming to my office.
Meaning, he could have shown up there.
Yeah, everybody else does, but I didn't.
I wasn't there.
I just didn't know anything about him going to my office.
Instead of saying, no, he didn't come to my office.
No, I didn't know anything about him going, as though he did go, but I didn't happen to be there, and so he got snubbed.
So Trump has said, by the way, that he did not think what Brady said was an endorsement.
Just so you know, in there, he's not going to throw Brady overboard.
Trump himself has posited that thought.
But Trump has also said that Putin is a much stronger and better leader for his country than Obama is for ours.
No, I'm just saying, in addition to what he said here about Putin, he has also said that Putin's a much better leader for Russia than Obama is for us.
Looking at the clock, I've got a couple of bites here.
Forbes is estimating that Trump's wealth is not what it is, and Trump is disputing that.
We've got that.
The Trump bites are all over the roster today.
Some related to Hillary, some related to Bill Clinton.
Let me come back, put them all together, and we will continue with your phone calls as well, too.
So sit tight, folks.
Don't go quickly back to the phones.
We go.
Paul in Freeport, Maine.
Welcome, sir, to the program.
Hello.
Hey.
Hey, how are you?
I'm fine.
Thank you.
How are you?
I'm excellent.
Thank you.
Gladly to do.
Come on.
Hello.
Hello, Russ.
Yeah, I'm sorry about that.
I'm having trouble with my phone.
I'm sorry.
Trouble with your phone.
Oh.
Yeah.
You want me to go to somebody else and come back?
Oh, no, I'm good now.
I'm good.
Thank you.
Okay.
So I didn't hear your question, sir.
I don't have one.
Oh, okay.
I'm actually calling.
The reason why I called, I heard that caller before who mentioned that he thinks there's maybe a lot of Democrats who are leaning towards Trump and it just hasn't come out yet.
I'm one of those Democrats.
I'm a registered Democrat up here in Maine, and I usually vote who I think is going to do the best job.
I voted for Republicans, Independents, Democrats, but I do tend to lean to the left.
But I tell you what, Donald Trump got my attention when he started talking about immigration.
He got my attention when he wasn't afraid to talk and say things in ways that nobody else in this country would.
And, you know, looking at his tax plan, I don't pretend to understand everything about it, but on the surface right now, and I think it's still looking at it from the 30 or 40,000 foot level.
It looks like there may be some substance there that's definitely worth looking at.
You know, he's got my attention so much that I'm actually considering changing my party affiliation here in Maine so I can vote for him in the Republican primary.
Man, oh, man, oh man, you are, you sound close here to all in.
You know what?
If the elections were to be held today, Rush, I think I may just pull that lever for Donald.
Did you vote for Obama twice?
I did, and I've been sorely disappointed.
Yeah, no excuse for the second time.
You know, I wasn't a big fan of Mitt Romney, and maybe I should have given him more attention than I did.
But, you know, I kind of was hoping to stay the course, and it's been just a disaster.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, the evidence that it was going to be a disaster was all there.
Yeah, I haven't been listening to your program for a long time, and I probably should have listened to you better back then.
Well, it doesn't matter when you get it right as long as you ultimately do.
What is it about the tax plan, Trump's tax plan that you like?
I think the simplification of it, trying to simplify the tax code as much as possible.
The numbers, again, I'm not sure how they're going to impact everybody, but you're a Democrat.
It doesn't bother you that Trump violates political correctness in the way he talks.
Not at all.
I'm not a politically correct person myself.
I'm not afraid to mince words.
Well, there we have it, John.
It's good that he is.
I hate to be rude, but I'm out of time here, but I thank you for the call.
So we had a guy call and say he thinks there's a lot of Democrats that are supporting Trump, and here's one in Maine right on time saying that he's one of them.
Okay, back now to Trump.
Trump was, and this is classic Trump.
This was on CNBC Squawkbox today.
John Harwood was interviewing, and they were talking about his wealth.
And Harwood says, I read this morning that you got $10 billion.
Forbes says that you're $4.5 billion.
What do you think of that?
Number one, I'm a private company.
They don't really know my assets very well.
I think that they're very good people.
I like the people at Forbes.
They don't know a lot of the things I own.
I don't think they give me any value for brand, and my brand is very valuable.
I'm doing deals right now.
In fact, when I leave you, I'm signing a branding deal that's a phenomenal, tremendous hundreds of millions of dollars in value, all because of my brand.
And they give you no value for brand, which I think is fine.
You think they're wrong.
The other thing is they have assets that I have that they don't even know I have because I'm private.
So if they value me at $4.5 billion, and I'm sure they've said I'm very liquid because I'm extremely liquid.
You know, that answer right there is another great object lesson.
This is a great lesson for any of you who are up-and-coming public figures and are someday going to be interviewed by the media.
If there's one piece of advice I would give everybody who doesn't have any experience being interviewed by the media, it is this.
They are not interested in what you have to say.
In the sense that they are not there to find out what they don't know.
They are not interviewing you to learn anything.
I wish somebody had told me that before I embarked on all this.
I labored under the misconception that the journalist talking to me actually wanted to know about me.
I labored under the misconception the journalist interviewing me was actually trying to satisfy some curiosity about me.
And that's not the case.
The agenda is already set before an interview.
In many cases, the story outline and premise is already done.
And they come and interview you so that they can say they talk to you during the interview.
The purpose of the interview is to get you to say or do or act in some way that furthers the premise they start with.
And the proof of it here, here's the question.
Forbes says that you're $4.5 billion, not $10.
What do you think of the list?
So Trump begins to answer this in a very reasoned way, by the way, explaining to John Harwood how, well, Forbes are good people, but they may not be right here because there's a lot of things they don't know how to value.
And he goes into great detail about it.
And Harwood didn't hear a word of it.
When Trump took a pause, Harwood said, you think they're wrong?
That's all he cares about.
He wants Trump to say, Forbes is a bunch of losers.
He doesn't care what the truth is about Trump.
And this is an object lesson for any of you.
And I know some of you out there at some point in your lives, you're going to end up being interviewed by the media.
And you might think that it's all because they're fascinated by you and really want to know about you.
It's not the case.
If they come to you and say they want to do a profile of you, it's not because they really want to tell people about you things that they don't know, particularly if you are a conservative.
You think they're wrong?
And Trump goes on to continue to provide detail, which Harwood didn't interest him.
He wasn't interested in the facts.
All he was looking for was Trump to launch into Forbes so that he would have a sound bite that would provide clickbait on the CNBC website later on.
So after Trump gives this answer, Harwood says, if you spend $100 million by their assessment, that's a third of all of your cash.
They're wrong, but I have a lot of cash.
If I had, I think, I mean, I'm not going to go and tell you exactly how much cash I have, but I have hundreds of millions of dollars of cash.
They said I said like 800 and their assessment is 325.
I don't know, whatever it is.
Do you agree it's a lot?
Yes, it is.
It's a lot.
So that's how Trump turns to.
You think it's a lot?
You think it's going to do it?
Okay, here.
So the best thing you do is force the journalists to ask a question, answer a question.
The last thing they want to do is answer a question, especially if it is about them.
And yep, must take another obscene profit timeout.
Sorry, folks.
It's just time here keeps mounting and going faster and faster.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go.
Here is Chris in San Leon, Texas.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
I want to tell you it's an honor to speak with you.
I appreciate that, sir.
Thank you very much.
I'd like just to have your opinion on Russia and Putin as to we've got 15 months left of Obama's administration.
Where else are they going to push and try to make aggressive moves and move theirselves forward around the world while Obama just sits there idle on his hands?
I don't think that's I think it's already underway.
I think Putin.
Well, I agree.
It's underway, but I mean, yeah, there's nothing to stop him for the next 15 months.
Yeah, yeah, that's what's you asked me what he's going to do, or is somebody going to stop him?
No, I mean, they're free to be more aggressive until the next, hopefully a backbone administration gets in.
There's no telling where they're going to try to do.
Well, I can tell you what they're going to do.
First thing he's going to do is sidle up to Iran and co-opt whatever oil there is in Iran for himself.
They already have their own stocks, but remember, oil is so crucial.
If you can get like Putin already controls all the natural gas that goes into Europe, he controls the pipeline.
He can shut it off anytime he wants.
He's got blackmail leverage all over Western Europe.
And he would love to get his hands on as much oil as he can.
And there's a whole gob of it there in Iran.
And Iran hates us.
Dead to America.
Dead to America.
He's got to go down there, sidle up with the Ayatollah hominy and the boys.
One of the military leaders in Iran is routinely flying back and forth to Moscow.
That's serious.
And then you throw the Chikoms in this mix.
The Chikoms are going to need oil out the wazoo as their economy continues to grow.
And what are we doing?
We're building freaking windmills.
I don't mean to yell.
Windmills and solar stuff, and we're going all this new age energy garbage here.
It's dire.
I have been so frightened over these next, the last two years of Obama because there's no stopping him.
The Republicans, even if they were a mind to stop him, won't because they've already taken impeachment off the table.
But that's academic anyway, because they're now working with Obama to make sure the government doesn't get shut down.
Boehner and the boys are already working with Obama on a continuing resolution to continue fund whatever he wants.
Well, there is some, there is a story here in the stack about the house.
One way or another, getting serious on trying to do something with roadblocks in Obamacare.
And that's because the House is in a state of flux right now since Boehner is soon to be out.
But yeah, there's nothing to stop Obama in what he's not public opinion, certainly.
That hasn't mattered up to now.
So I know it's a scary thought.
I've been worried about this ever since the midterm election was over.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Chris, thanks much.
Here's Roberto in Concord, California.
I know it well.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Can you hear me okay?
I do hear you, yes.
Very good.
I'm the first-time caller.
I'm a little nervous, but let me struggle through my question here.
Out of all the conservative candidates that we have, which do you think, and I'm deliberately choosing my words this way, which do you think is the most hostile and intolerant toward liberalism?
Well, can I rephrase that?
Because those words, hostile and intolerant, do not describe the person that I would answer that question about.
I know what you mean.
You really want to know who among our candidates is most anti-liberal, is the most opposed to liberalism as part of his existence, policy and everything else.
And there's one clear answer.
Put your hand up if you know who it is.
Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz is the answer to your question, Roberto.
If you're looking for the Republican candidate who is the most steadfastly opposed to liberalism, whose agenda is oriented towards stopping it and thwarting it and defeating it, it's Ted Cruz.
If that's your criteria.
Now, if you want to ask, does that make him the most conservative?
That's another question.
A lot of people, that alone would make him the most and more conservative candidate of the bunch, too.
The two probably do go together.
But it doesn't mean he's the only one.
There's some other candidates who are also anti-liberal in our field, both generally and issue to issue.
But blanket overall, I mean, the honest answer to your question would be Ted Cruz.
Pure and simple.
Very clever of you, Roberto.
I understand what you're doing out there, buddy.
And it's a very, very clever maneuver of you.
You are a brilliant, brilliant caller out there.
I know exactly what your game is.
And I went ahead and played anyway.
I answered your question right up front, top to bottom.
Just enough time to say, so long, folks.
We have to get out of here.
And he'll be back here tomorrow when it's already Thursday.
I still can't believe how quickly the week is going by.
Thanks so much for being with us.
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