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Nov. 25, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 25, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, folks.
Open line Friday on Wednesday.
Let's hit it here, final hour.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Yes.
Open line Friday on Wednesday, meaning.
It's our last live broadcast of the week.
We pretend it's Friday.
So when you call, it can be about anything you want.
For the most part, does it not have to be issues of the day.
Does not have to be.
Oh, it's whatever you want to talk about.
Questions, comments.
Like the lady from Canada want to know what drive-by media means.
By the way, there are no crazy questions.
I ask questions of people all.
There's no such thing as stupid question.
It really isn't.
Now, normally in this hour, on this day, the last thing I do is the true story of Thanksgiving.
And I'm going to do it first.
I'm going to lead off with it in this hour.
But I just, there's a just received a story that I'm going to get to later in the in the program.
It's from Conservativereview.com.
And uh it's about a new analysis from the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest chaired by Jeff Sessions.
United States admits 680,000 immigrants from Muslim countries over the last five years.
Last five years, 680,000 immigrants from Muslim countries have been admitted.
This is in addition to whatever's coming the southern border.
And the interesting note about that is that that is a larger number than the population of Washington, D.C. Just to give you a comparative to it.
It's a larger number than the population of our nation's capital.
U.S. admits 680,000 immigrants from Muslim countries over five years.
Now I'm not saying anything with them.
I'm just throwing it out there.
Details and why this is uh in the news, uh, particularly before Senate Committee coming up later on.
Now, back in 1992, I published a book called The Uh See I Told You So, and chapter six was entitled Dead White Guys or What The History Books Never Told You, The True Story of Thanksgiving.
But I would be remiss if I didn't mention that we've done this story again in a different way for a different readership.
The first in the children's book series, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, also discusses the first Thanksgiving.
In that book, we actually time travel back to it.
And the readers of the book are actually taken to the first Thanksgiving.
They're taken back to Plymouth Colony where the pilgrims landed.
It's the first book in the series, and it's it's the book from which all the others flow in terms of the founding of the country.
And it's it's the same story told in a different way for a different readership, obviously.
The Rush Reader books are aimed at eight to ten, maybe up to twelve.
But we have learned that there are adults reading and telling us that they have learned things they didn't know because they weren't taught properly.
But things are happening with these books exactly what we dreamed would happen, that parents and grandparents are reading the books either to their children or grandchildren or reading with them.
And it's becoming a family activity.
But here's the real story.
And even today, I shared with you a story from the Huffington Post, which totally mischaracterizes the first Thanksgiving.
In fact, let me find if I put that in the right stack where I can get to it quickly, the way they treated it, because here it is.
When the Mayflower Pilgrims landed in New England in the early 17th century, they established a harvest celebration that would later become known as Thanksgiving by sitting down with the Native Americans, gracious enough to share their land and way of life.
And we all know how that turned out.
The pilgrims eventually killed the Indians, conquered their land, and took everything from it.
That's the modern multicultural way Thanksgiving is taught.
Native Americans were here minding their own business.
The pilgrims showed up.
They were incapable, they were incompetent of feeding themselves.
They didn't have any hotels, there weren't any houses they couldn't have gotten by, not the Indians.
And the Indians shared everything with them, and in gratitude, the pilgrims wiped them out.
That is so far from the truth of the story of Thanksgiving that it's more than a shame.
The story of the pilgrims begins in the early part of the 17th century.
The Church of England under King James I was persecuting anybody and everyone who did not recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority.
Those who challenged ecclesiastical authority and those who believed strongly in freedom of worship were hunted down.
They were imprisoned and sometimes executed for their beliefs.
A group of separatists first fled to Holland and established a community.
After eleven years, about forty of them agreed to make a very perilous journey to the New World across the Atlantic Ocean, where they would certainly face hardships, but at least they could live and worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences.
On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail.
It carried a total of 102 passengers, including 40 pilgrims, led by William Bradford.
On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs.
Now, where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from?
They came from the Bible.
The pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the Bible, Old Testament, New Testament.
The pilgrims were religious, and they came here to establish freedom of religion.
They fled and crossed an entire ocean to escape religious persecution.
They looked at the ancient Israelites for their example, and because of the biblical precedence set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work, but it was not a pleasure cruise.
The journey to the New World was long and arduous.
When the pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to William Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness.
There were no friends to greet them, he wrote.
There were no houses to shelter them.
There were no inns where they could refresh themselves, and the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning.
During the first winter, half the pilgrims, including William Bradford's own wife, died of either starvation, sickness, or exposure.
Many of them lived on the Mayflower for months while houses and other shelters are being built.
When spring finally came, Indians indeed taught the settlers how to plant corn, how to fish for cod, how to skin beavers for coats, and life improved with the coming of spring for the pilgrims.
But even with all this, they did not yet prosper.
Now this is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end.
Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives rather than as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the Bible.
The original Thanksgiving was a thanks to God.
It was not a thanks to the Indians.
This is not to disparage the Indians or the Native Americans.
The pilgrims did not.
But it was not a thanks to the pil to the Indians for saving the pilgrims, the pilgrims thanked God.
But it's more detailed than this.
Here's the part that's been omitted.
Here's the part that the Huffington Post either doesn't know or omitted today.
The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant sponsors in London was, They didn't have the money to do this.
They were beholden to people who funded them.
And they entered into contracts with these merchant sponsors.
They call for everything that they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share.
All of the land they cleared and all of the houses they built belonged to the community as well.
They were going to distribute it equally.
Everybody was going to get an equal share of whatever everybody combined produced.
All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community, not to any individual.
Nobody owned anything.
They just had a share in it.
It was a commune, folks.
And it was this way by contract by design.
It was the forerunner to communes we saw in the 60s and 70s in California.
It was it was complete with organic vegetables, by the way.
They could grow no other than organic.
William Bradford, who had become a new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives.
It just wasn't working.
There wasn't any prosperity.
William Bradford, his own journal, decided to take bold action.
Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage.
And whatever they produced was theirs.
Any overages they could sell or share or do whatever they wanted with.
But what happened essentially was that Bradford turned loose the power of the marketplace.
If you're saying it to yourself, you're right, the pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism, and it failed.
It did not work.
What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anybody else unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation.
If everybody got the same no matter what the end result was, and if everybody got the same no matter how hard they worked, they were all essentially members of a union and all socialized.
Now most of the rest of the world's been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years, trying to refine it, perfect it, reinvent it.
The pilgrims decided early on, didn't take long for them to realize it doesn't work, and they scrapped it permanently.
You're not taught this.
Nobody is taught this.
Even today, in the true story of Thanksgiving, it was an epic failure of socialism.
What Bradford wrote about this experiment should be in every school child's history lesson.
If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future.
Remember, this book is written twenty-one years ago, or maybe nineteen years ago, this is 1992.
The experience we had, this is Bradford writing, the experience that we had in this common course and condition tried sundry years that by taking away property and bringing community into a common wealth would make them happy and flourishing as if they were wiser than God, Bradford wrote.
But this community, so far as it was, was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retarded much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort.
For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service, repine that they should spend their lives and strength to work for other men's wives and children without being paid for it without any recompense.
That was thought to be injustice.
Why should you work for other people when you can't work for yourself?
What's the point?
Bradford was saying it's not working here.
There's no personal incentive.
And there were sloths.
Not all these people were cream of the crop.
Some of them sat around and didn't do anything, well, others did everything.
The pilgrims found folks that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive.
So what'd they try next?
Free enterprise.
William Bradford and the Pilgrims Unharnish unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the principle of private property.
Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work, and they were permitted to market its own products, crops, sell whatever overages they had.
What was the result?
Well, here's what William Bradford wrote.
This is in his journal.
This had very good success, for it made all hands industrious.
So as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.
It's an amazing story of what happened.
In no time, the pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves.
Now, this is where it gets really good, folks.
If you're laboring under the misconception that I was, that I was taught in school.
So they set up trading posts.
They exchanged goods with the Indians.
They produced more than they needed for themselves.
They started doing business with the Indians.
They exchanged goods.
The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchant sponsors in London and Holland.
And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the Great Puritan Migration.
It was a rousing economic success after an attempt to establish themselves under socialism.
It was not the name they knew.
They used commune, uh communal, so forth.
But it did not work, and they had such great success that it began a migration of others who heard about it and wanted in on the action.
And the first Thanksgiving was the pilgrims, indeed getting together with the Indians, with whom they were trading.
There's no question the Indians assisted them when they landed.
But it's not true that the pilgrims took advantage of them, conquered them, killed them, and took their land.
They ended up trading with all of this, and this whole story is written about in a way that eight to ten-year-olds understand it and are taken right to it in the first Rush Revere book, Rush Rear and the Brave Pilgrims.
I was never taught this.
I didn't until I started researching that book back in 1992.
This that was the first I had heard of why the pilgrims are really thankful.
It was, thanks to God, it was the virtue of gratitude, which is all through George Washington's inaugural Thanksgiving address.
Brief time out.
We will continue with more after this.
Don't go away.
And by the way, how many of you think that we cheated the Indians out of Manhattan Island for 24 bucks?
Well, the Indians scammed us on Manhattan.
That's another thing.
We didn't scam them.
The Indians, and I say this in jocularity and with goodwill.
I'm no anger, but we got scammed.
Well, the uh original settlers got scammed, not us, of course.
But I'll tell you the truth of that too, uh, in the not too distant future, but first Jerry in Pocatello, Idaho.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Oh, hello, Russ.
It's so good to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
Well, I'll get to my point.
I'm making pies and getting ready for tomorrow, but I'm a teacher, third grade for over 23 years.
We're reading your book, The Brave Pilgrims.
We read it last year.
My kids love it.
It's the best part of their day.
No kidding.
That's great to hear.
I know why, too.
You know, it captures their imagination.
It takes them right back to these events that they otherwise are just told about when they're taught history.
Plus, it's the truth about what happened, which most people are not taught.
I'm I'm flattered that you use it as a teacher in your class.
Well, I love history, and I always try to teach my third graders about the Revolutionary War.
George Washington, the first patriots.
But this is the basics for for that.
And so I teach I'm teaching them this first, and then we'll go into the revolutionary war, and we do a wonderful play.
And we have no dry eye in the house when we get done with our play.
Oh, I'll bet.
Well, this is the foundation.
It is.
The pilgrims and their arrival and uh not just what they did, but what happened to them and just the whole story, it is indeed the foundation for the founding of the country.
And the pilgrims are two hundred years before the country was founded.
Well, 150.
They were here in the 1600s, and 17 says, so it's 150 years or so, but it still was the laying of the foundation.
Well, I can't wait till you get the latest book, The The Star Spangled Banner, Rush Revere Star Spangled Banner, because that does feature a time travel back to the Constitutional Convention, but also uh Francis Scott Key writing the star.
You know how many kids the national anthem and have no idea what the words mean or why they were written and so forth.
Uh trip to the National Archives.
It's so much fun to do this, folks.
I can't describe it.
Especially with the feedback that we get here.
It's just great.
It ain't fiction, it's fact.
It's making the complex understandable.
Your guiding light, times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, national security problems, and yes, even the good times.
L. Rushbow.
Now back to the back to the uh Indians and how they scammed us out of Manhattan.
One of the great myths of Thanksgiving is that we swindled the Indians when we bought Manhattan Island from them.
We swindled them.
And this too is part of the multicultural curriculum, and it's also part of the whole narrative that we have been mean, that we tortured, mistreated, the Native Americans who were here first, and who really still should have this country.
And you you've heard the drill.
Twenty-four bucks is what we're told that we got Manhattan for.
Yeah, it wasn't even money.
It was it was uh trinkets and and beads, you know, a bunch of hippie stuff.
It turns out, and this is according to a book by Theodore Roosevelt, that none of that is true.
It turns out the Indians are the one who ran the real estate scam when they sold Manhattan.
It's a book on Theodore Roosevelt, Commissioner Roosevelt, the story of Theodore Roosevelt and the New York City Police.
It's by H. Paul Jeffers, and here are the relevant paragraphs about this.
A persuasive case can be made that the city of New York began with a swindle.
For generations, screw all children have been taught that a slick trick was played on unsuspecting Indians by the director of the Dutch West India Company, Peter Minuit.
In 1626, he purchased the island of Manhattan for sixty gilders worth of trinkets, about twenty-four dollars.
What Minuit did not know at the time, however, was that his masterful real estate deal had been struck with the Canarsi tribe, led by Curtis Sleewa.
They were residents of Long Island.
They held no title to the land.
They did not have standing to sell Mannahattan to Peter Minuit and the Dutch.
In due course, the intruders from Amsterdam, the Dutch, who thought they had pulled a sharp one on the locals, were forced into negotiating a second more costly deal with the real landlords of Mannahattan.
And that's what it was called back then, manna dash Hatton.
So the Indians, they're the ones that ran the scam.
They got twenty-four dollars equivalent beads and trinkets and stuff for selling nothing.
But the story sounds so perfect.
Typical Western Europeans screwing people of color out of what was rightfully theirs and taking advantage of them when in fact it was the other way around.
Just like the true story of Thanksgiving.
Never ever.
Seldom.
I think maybe now that's changed, but when I was growing up and and before and long after the truth was never really part of it.
Here is uh Shane in Knoxville, Tennessee.
As we head back to the phones, open line Friday or Wednesday.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet uh thank you for what you do every day.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate that.
Yes, sir.
Um, I'll get right to the point.
I am a new to the art.
I'm a novice cigar smoker.
Yeah.
And I was wondering if you had any recommendations, maybe some of your favorites for me.
Well, I do.
Here's the problem with this though.
There are so many that I like, and there's so many really, really good ones, that I can't mention them all.
And I when I start when I start mentioning brands, I leave some out.
It hurts the feelings of these people whose cigars I like and and don't mention.
So it's always a challenge for me to uh to do this.
Let me you you say you're just starting.
Yeah, pretty much.
I've I've just been introduced this year.
Um my birthday was a couple months ago, and my wife got me a beautiful um three tray, 150 count uh humidor, and now I need to fill it up.
What kind of what I'm mentioning, Brandon, what kind of cigar do you like?
You like mild, you like strong kick-ass?
What would you like?
Short, long, big fat we're gonna medium to uh medium to full body.
Medium to full bodied.
Uh do you like them long and thin or do you like them fat?
You want your mouth open a lot when you got the cigar in your mouth.
Yeah, I think the fatter the better.
The fatter the better.
Okay, you're looking at a double corona ring gauge, 47, 49, 47, Churchill.
Um okay, I would this is so this is just so.
Um I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go check the humidor in there.
I'm gonna get some some names.
I just want to leave, I don't want to leave any out.
Right.
But you can't go wrong, for example, with anything from Fuente.
Um the the Fuente Fuente Don Carlos is a superb cigar, the Opus X. That's kind of pricey because it's special.
Uh Davidoff has some great new cigars lately uh out.
Uh I mean they just there's so many.
I I don't think Monte Cristo, uh the domestic Monte Cristo, the Padrones too.
See, I always leave the padrones out.
The padrones are just awesome.
I mean, you can I tell you what, they're they're all so good.
The quality of them is also it's just a matter of experimentation, it really is.
To find out, and by the way, one piece of advice I would give there's a there's a misnomer for cigar smokers that goes like this.
Start the day mild, and then build up to your favorite most powerful packed cigar at the end of the day after dinner, and that's BS.
Start the day with your favorite power pack cigar when your palate is the freshest.
Start the day with it.
No building up to it, go for it.
Find one you like, stick with it.
Um La Flor Dominicana, double Leguero chisel.
Man, great cigar.
La Flor Dominicana, double lighero chisel.
And many of these brands come in different ring gauges, thicknesses, and lengths.
But you um you really you're gonna have a tough time going wrong.
And there's so many new ones that I'm not including here, and I'm just impossible to put them all in there.
But your favorite tobacconist will be able to satisfy whatever desire you have in these things.
Garage, and I hope you like it, and I hope you keep smoking them, and I hope you do it in front of people who claim to not like it because there's nothing better than the smell of a great, great cigar.
As long as there's great ventilation and so forth.
It's uh it's a beautiful thing.
Quick timeout, back after this.
Todd in Minneapolis.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you.
Oh, Rush, thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Uh I guess I just said the question is uh with the Syrian refugee dilemma, obviously it's global now.
And if there's eight hundred thousand already moving around Europe, and I say uh Henry said the other night that 80% of them are between our military age, I guess.
I don't know why we can't bring them here, bring a 200,000 of them here, put them in Fort Hood, Texas, train them in a basic training, which is two months long for American soldiers, and let them go back and defend their country.
If we take enough of them, uh ISIS supposedly only has 35, 40,000 soldiers, it would take a very short period of time.
Um take them, give them MOSs too, which is what they maybe the basic problem is they're not gonna want to leave and go back and defend and protect their country.
They wouldn't be leaving in the first place if they were interested in that.
Well, I guess I won't give them an option.
That's uh they want citizenship after that.
A lot of countries over the years uh after Vietnam.
Well, I understand, I understand your thinking on it, but but that's see, that's not gonna happen because the the way the leadership of our country is looking, these people are victims.
They're helpless, bedraggled, homeless victims.
Victims of the George W. Bush Middle East policy.
Victims of global warming, which of course is our fault.
So they arrive here as victims.
We have to make amends.
Just to repeat, Jeff Sessions Senate Subcommittee on Immigration National Interests is conservative review.com.
The U.S. has so far admitted 680,000 Muslim immigrants, Muslim countries over five years.
That's more than live in Washington, D.C. Have a great Thanksgiving weekend, everybody, and uh Thanksgiving Day tomorrow.
All of us here at the EIB Network, live uh best of show tomorrow, Mark's Mark's 9 Friday, Mark Belling Monday, and I'll be back here on Tuesday.
Revd and ready.
Great weekend, folks.
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