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Dec. 4, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 4, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Saying more in five seconds.
And most hosts say in a week.
Rush Limbaugh, EIB Network Friday.
Let's make it count.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Here we go, folks, the final busy broadcast hour, hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh, your highly trained broadcast specialist.
Emitting vocal vibrations.
A rhetoric and residence coast to coast.
I've got more to do than I can squeeze in here.
And it's been that way all week.
It's very frustrating.
So just don't know what to do, but get to it.
800 282-2882, open line Friday.
Callers can go wherever they want on the phones.
They don't have to stay.
Restricted to areas of interest to me.
From the New York Times, a few House Democrats to attend prayer services at U.S. mosques.
Yes.
You see.
Does that make any sense to you?
Here we have an act of Islamic terror.
Our government will not call it that.
Because there's no such thing.
It's not possible.
Islam is a religion of peace.
So there is no Islamic terror.
The terror groups, Al-Qaeda and ISIS and Boko Haram, they bastardize Islam.
I mean, they do terror.
They are terrorists, but they're not Islamic.
They're just using the name.
They are as they're just mean people.
They are.
And in fact, I just saw, by the way, uh, just to illustrate this point.
Fox just ran a promo, I guess, from O'Baxter's show last night.
And it was sympathy for some guy in in Detroit who said as a Muslim, he feels very nervous now with all of these people committing terror in the name of Allah.
Because Allah is a God of peace.
Islam is a religion at peace.
San Bernardino, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, not Islam.
So the New York Daily News has as its lead cover story yesterday.
God isn't fixing this.
They say it's a waste of time for conservative Republicans and candidates to offer prayer and condolences after such events because they don't stop bullets.
Prayer doesn't stop bullets.
God doesn't stop bullets.
Condolences don't help anybody.
It's phony baloney plastic, but at a good time rock and roller stuff, and nobody ought to do it except the Democrats can now attend prayer services at mosques.
That's okay.
From the New York Times, a small number of House Democrats will attend prayer services at mosques today.
Probably has already happened.
In what is intended to be a show of solidarity with American Muslims.
I know, I know many of you were doubting me in the first hour today when I was explaining why our government and why our law enforcement will not call this terrorism.
But now that you know what I'm doing, if you missed the first hour, you really need to get this.
It'll be back up at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Oh.
Speaking of that, folks, let me find it here.
Yes, yes.
Here it is.
You know, last year we had a um uh uh the new Rush Limbaugh Christmas tree ornament is available, is this the point?
And we had these last year.
You know, I forgot to talk about it until like two weeks before Christmas, and they sold out in one day, and there wasn't enough time to reorder.
So Coco sends me this scathing note today.
Well, scathing.
I mean, I as much as he could get away with scaping.
Hey Rush, just a reminder, we're running the Christmas ornament premium this month.
Last year it was wildly popular after your first mention we sold out immediately.
So if you could find a place for a quick plug a little early this year, and we might have a chance to restock, you idiot.
Well, he didn't say you idiot.
So as you go to Rushlimbaugh.com, go to the EIB store, and it's it's a great picture of me, a little Christmas tree ornament.
It's uh well it's clever and it's eye-catching, and it's obviously a conversation starter.
And I have it, we've test marketed these guaranteed your pets will love it.
But while you do that, head to Rushlimbaugh.com as well and check the first hour of the program.
And after you do that, you will this story about House Democrats attending prayer services at mosques in a show of solidarity with American Muslims will make more sense to you.
But the New York Times says here, but the act may more likely be seen as a mark of contrast to Republican lawmakers who have fixated on recent mass shootings by Muslims in Paris and San Bernardino as evidence the U.S. needs to stop the influx of refugees and bulk up offenses in the Middle East.
What did I tell you?
Everything they do is political, including going to church.
Everything the left, the Democrats do, is about politics and is about their agenda.
New York Times has it right here.
Small number of House Democrats, prayer services at mosques on Friday show solidarity with American Muslims.
But it's more likely seen as a mark of contrast to Republican lawmakers.
So what the Democrats want the Muslims to know is we love you.
We love you.
Telly Savattles, who loves you, baby?
We Democrats love you.
The Republicans, they don't.
They're not here.
The Republicans are praying to their God that doesn't get anything done, but we're going to come join you in prayer with your God.
That's what the Democrats are doing.
Meanwhile, from The Hill.com, Nancy Pelosi.
Are you ready for this?
Nancy Pelosi says Congress has no right to moments of silence for victims of gun violence unless lawmakers intend to take action to prevent it.
This is insane.
The woman's brain is obviously there's a flesh-eating disease that has entered her skull.
Bunch of amoebas running around in there just slowly eating away at her gray matter.
She said gun violence is a crisis of epidemic proportion in our nation.
We've had far too many moments of silence on the floor of the House.
And while it's right to respectfully acknowledge the losses, we can no longer remain silent.
So she's saying that you Republicans don't get away.
Moments of silence don't mean anything, they don't accomplish anything.
All they do is cover up inaction on your part, and from now on going forward, you shouldn't have the right to moments of silence.
This is still the United States of America, amazingly.
These people are literally insane.
Deranged, delusional, uh...
What have you?
David Brooks in the New York Times.
Oh, this is great.
It's great.
Headline, no Donald Trump won't win.
David Brooks did not see a sharp crease in Trump's slacks.
And as such thinks he's not as qualified as Obama.
I'll tell you this is amazing.
The insiders, the conservative, so-called conservative Republican establishment insiders, media and otherwise.
They are just writing tons of words trying to console themselves.
They are writing these words for each other.
They're writing these columns so that other Republicans see them.
They're all trying to maintain their sanity.
They're trying to prove to themselves that Trump is going to fade, that he's going to flame out.
Brooks says, A little while ago I went rug shopping.
Well, now isn't that a great lead to a column?
Rug shopping.
I wonder how he did it.
Did he do it online?
Did he go to a rug store?
Well, let's find out.
A little while ago I went rug shopping.
Four rugs were laid out on the floor, and among them was one with a pink motif that was dazzlingly beautiful.
It was complex and sophisticated.
If you had asked me at that moment what rug I wanted, I would have said the pink one.
Okay.
Pink rug.
But he said, don't worry, this conviction lasted about five minutes.
Then my mentality flipped and I started asking some questions.
Would the furniture go with the rug?
Would this rug clash with the wall hangings?
Would I get tired of its electric vibrancy?
We're seriously to believe that this happened.
David Brooks goes rug shopping, sees a pink rug, is dazzled by it, and for five minutes loses all connection to reality.
And then after five minutes begins to ask the very relevant questions, will it work in my house?
Suddenly, a subtler and more prosaic blue rug grabbed center stage.
The rugs had not changed, but suddenly I wanted the blue rug.
The pink rug had done an excellent job of being eye popping on its own.
blue rug was doing an excellent job of being a rug I could enjoy living with.
Hang on.
Now, for many Republicans, Donald Trump is their pink rug.
Okay.
He does the job that they want done at this moment.
He reflects their disgust with the political establishment.
He gives them the pleasurable sensation that somebody can come to Washington, kick some tail and shake things up.
But decision making is a journey, not an early December snapshot.
It goes in stages.
Over at the 538 blog, Nate Silver, who, by the way, the establishment just loves this guy and they invest everything in him.
He analyzes polling data and makes his predictions.
Over at the 538 blog, Nate Silver looked at campaign-related Google searches in past years in the weeks before the Hawkeye Cockeye.
Until a week or two before the cockeye, very few people are doing any serious investigations of the candidates.
Then, just before and after the cockeye, voters get engaged and Google searches surge.
Nate Silver produced a chart showing what this year's polling would look like if we actually took the current levels of casual attention and uncertainty seriously.
In that chart, undecided is at eighty percent, Trump five percent, Carson four percent, Cruz three, and Rubio two.
David Brooks says that's about the best description of where the Republican race is right now.
So over here they've got polling data that up till now they believed like it was the Bible.
Every year.
Every poll, no matter what, was given earth shattering attention.
But now, out of the blue, and with the aid and assistance of Nate Silver at 538, all of a sudden the polls don't say what they say and don't mean what they say.
And in fact, what it all adds up to right now is 80% of you don't know what you're gonna do.
You haven't decided, and only 5% of you actually support Trump, and this is what the establishment is telling itself is the reality.
Vis-a vis the David Brooks column today.
He says, No, really, guys, the voters will flip in the very end.
They're not gonna vote for Trump.
I swear it.
When campaigns into that final month, voters tend to gravitate toward the person who seems most orderly.
Yeah, who that who is that?
As the primary season advances, voters' tolerance for risk declines.
They focus on the potential downsides of each contender and wonder could this person make things even worse?
And when this mental shift happens, says Brooks, I suspect Trump will slide.
All the traits that seem charming will suddenly seem risky.
This is, there's more to this, but that's enough.
There's a factor Mr. Brooks is not mentioning.
And that is for all of this polling data and all this other analysis to mean anything.
There has to be a relevant player to make it happen.
And that relevant player is the media.
And Donald Trump owns the media.
This is the this is the the great, whatever you want to call it, the thing that's distorting this race more than anything, I think.
The great unleveler, or the thing that keeps this thing from being on an equilibrium that they can all understand.
They all look at the press, the media to control the outcome of events to shape people's thinking.
That is not happening where Trump is concerned.
That's the wild card, and it's never happened, and they don't know how to deal with it.
And so all of this voter behavioral analysis predicated on previous campaigns, they have to throw that out the window.
Because what makes all that happen?
What makes a voter all of a sudden get serious?
Right before a vote takes place, whereas months before the voter is frivolous and doesn't care.
It's the media.
And Trump is immune.
He owns the media.
The media is following Trump around.
I'm telling you, it is the greatest unspoken aspect of this campaign.
What Trump has been able to do in two things with the media.
Basically rendering them absolutely harmless to him, while at the same time turning them in to his biggest promotion vehicle.
It's never happened.
Despite themselves, they don't want to be, but they are.
And we, and it's not paying a dime for it.
What a banner day for your host.
Right on cue, folks, right on schedule.
The FBI agent in San Bernardino just went to the microphones in a latest press conference and said that they can now admit, announce that they are investigating the shooting in San Bernardino as an act of terrorism.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yes, yes, and I called it right on the money, but do not be confused.
This is not Obama and the FBI admitting Islamic terrorism.
What has happened here?
They found this link to ISIS.
They found the possibility that this innocent young man who believed in the religion of peace somehow got radicalized either by this mysterious wife of his or some contact with ISIS.
And that turned him into a wild man gutting madman gunning down co-workers.
This is not Islamic terrorism because there isn't any such thing.
Islam is a religion of peace.
And for your purposes, what you need to understand is that Islam and practicing Muslims are as opposed to terrorism as you and I are.
So, after all of this, they can now say it's terrorism because they've got their link to this ISIS group, which is not Islamic.
Make no mistake, don't doubt me.
Sarah Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Hi, great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Russ.
How are you?
I'm great.
I'm great.
I'm glad you called.
Thank you.
Yes.
Thank you for taking the call.
Um I actually called for my seven-year-old today, but he's proven to be a little bit too timid to get on the radio.
Oh, no.
He's a huge fan of your books.
We have a five-year-old also, and they have all four of them.
And we have read them all multiple times, except for the most recent one.
And the only reason we've only read it once is because we've just had it.
Right.
For the shortest amount of time.
That would be Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner.
Right.
That's right.
That's right.
Um, but they are big fans.
I thought at first they might be too old for them.
Um I think we ordered our first one when our oldest was around four.
And um he saw me reading it one night and just called him a laugh, asked what I was reading.
And uh I started reading it out loud.
I thought, well, I'll just read it until he gets tired of it, and he was just hooked.
I mean, loves them.
Well, that is wonderful.
And I I've only can you hang on because I've got only 10 seconds left, a little break and be back in two or three minutes.
Can uh can you do that?
Yeah, I can.
I got something else.
Okay, good, because I need I'm gonna tell you why.
I think I understand why a four-year-old, a six-year-old gets into it when he's having the book read to him or her.
Back in a second.
Okay, Sarah in bowling green, hang on just a second.
I need to explain something based on an email I just got.
It's a good email.
What do you mean this is not Islamic terrorism?
What are you talking about?
Russia, it's terrorism.
I mean, that that's that that's good, isn't it?
Yeah, but folks, look.
I'm glad for this opportunity to clarify this.
It is terrorism, but the way they're arriving at it will give them the opportunity to blame it not on Islam, folks.
This is the key.
The blame for this will either go on the radicalization, an innocent guy.
He was a Muslim, and that alone didn't make him a terrorist.
You've got to understand that.
He's radicalized by somebody somewhere.
Or what they're really gonna try to nail down is that workplace tension caused him to come unhinged.
And they're gonna focus on an argument that he had with a messianic Jew in his office, who's one of the victims, by the way.
They had arguments and so forth.
Or they're gonna dump it on the woman.
They're gonna dump it on the wife.
They're gonna claim that this woman was some sort of a sleeper agent from Pakistan.
She came here on his on his fiancee visa.
This K1, she wasn't properly vetted.
The point of saying that it's it's it's terrorism because they found a link to ISIS.
The last this this administration is not going to link this to Islam.
That is not going to be the radicalizing agent.
The effort is underway to exempt Islam from all of these acts of terror.
It is terrorism.
But if it's inspired by ISIS, that's not Islam.
If it's inspired by an out-of-control, radicalized wife who poisoned the guy's mind, that's not Islam.
If it's workplace violence, that's not Islam.
And they weren't going to call this terrorism until they had a scenario such as that set up to explain this.
Islam, as far as our government's concerned, political correctness and all that is a religion of peace.
It does not sponsor terrorism, it opposes it, much as we do.
It does not create terrorism, it doesn't preach terrorism, and this government's going.
That's why the Democrats are going to pray at mosques today to show solidarity with Muslims to show that we don't blame them.
This is ISIS, which is not Muslim.
Or it's not Islam.
Or it's the wife, not Islam, or it's workplace violence, not Islam.
That's the takeaway that you have to do.
It can be terrorism, and they can still find a way to blame it on mean Americans, such as workplace violence, if they want to.
That's my only point here.
And it's why you've got to be don't look the point here is that your government's lying about this.
They're going to make all this stuff up and exempting Islam as a religion of peace for whatever political correct reasons or sympathetic reasons they have or what have you.
I'm I'm m the sh this is a long way around of telling you they're lying is the point.
And now, back to Sarah in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Hugh, we left off with you.
Your um uh your first child was too young to actually read the book between four and six, but when you read the book, you thought it wouldn't be long and the child would fall asleep or get bored, but that didn't happen, right?
No, it didn't happen at all.
He he loved it.
I don't know how many little boys you've been around, but uh Liberty was found in the bathroom, I believe, at the beginning of the Brave Pilgrims and bathrooms are just automatically hilarious places for little boys.
We have learned that, yes.
And so he was booked from that moment on.
But I wanted to tell you too, they're both homeschooled, and um I kind of see the the further reaching fruit of the books, and I'm sure on some level you must know this, but they're enrolled in a program that requires they do a presentation once a week.
And um every so often that topic is an event in history.
And so to see a five-year-old little boy stand up, you know, before a group of his peers and their parents, and to expound on an event in history because he knows it, not because he memorized you know, a set of facts for that day that he's gonna forget later, but because this is a part of his base of knowledge and um even part of that process is to feel questions at the end and um to watch him answer questions because he knows.
That has to blow your mind.
That has to blow your mind and make you so proud.
I mean, you're a five or six year old being able to do that.
Well, it does, and I just thank you for giving us the tools.
Um because these stories stick in their heads, you know, and um and they remember, but uh I'm I'm just thankful that they they know about the events and they know about the circumstances surrounding the event and um I think that's you know, most of us who are doing what we do have to do.
Well, why do you doing it?
Why why do you think uh children your age, which our our our target age is say eight to eleven, maybe outside twelve thirteen.
But your kids are younger than that.
Why do you think they got so captivated listening to you read the books to them?
Well, it's a good blend.
I mean, there's a great blend of factual information, but it's blended with humor and fantasy and um See that's the I think imagination.
Exactly.
Exactly when you're talking about young kids five, six, seven, they dream.
They've got wild imaginations, and they don't know enough yet to have all these boundaries built up on their imaginations.
And there's n nothing that feeds the imagination more than a talking horse that can time travel who happens to be a smart Alec horse to boot, which makes him immediately lovable to a kid.
They do, they love him.
They love him.
But the funny thing is uh before these presentations, I would make sure that they had their factual information straight and then what wasn't, you know, what was part of the story separate, and they do.
Now I can't explain how that happens, but it does it does somehow happen.
So I would give them a little quiz before we would go in just to make sure that they knew, you know, Elizabeth is part of a story.
Um liberty is part of a story, but this is a part of history, and somehow that that's been kept separate for my boys at least.
Well, uh it's music to my ears because that's the exact purpose, the of of of writing these books in a way that the time travel facture uh feature where the reader is actually taken to the event and becomes part of it.
Much easier to remember something that you think you were part of or you you were witnessing uh rather than just having it read back to you by rote where you have to remember it.
There are keys here that make you feel involved, uh make the reader feel involved.
You're validating everything that we're trying to do with these books.
I can't I cannot thank you enough.
You're just you're perfect.
You're validating everything that we're trying to do with these.
Well, thank you.
I'm glad I'm glad to offer you the encouragement, but I think you for doing it.
Well, look, uh you you say you've got all four books.
Yeah, we have all four.
Um and you homeschool.
Well, look, I want you to hang on.
I want Mr. Snerdley to get your address so we can send you a we have a bunch of things that we can package for homeschoolers, curriculum-wise, study lesson-wise, plus some Liberty cuddly stuffed dolls.
I want to send those out to you so you can do some things with those with uh other people that that like the books and like Liberty.
Oh, great.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And and uh how old are your kids now?
They're seven and five now.
Seven and five.
Mm-hmm.
Wow.
It's great to have them focused on this kind of stuff at that age.
That's just...
It is.
I mean, they're still babies to me, obviously.
Well, you know.
They're always going to be your babies.
I mean, Madonna is still somebody.
Better believe it.
Anyway, well, look, I appreciate it, Sarah.
Thank you so much.
I really don't hang up.
So Mr. Snerdley can You know, folks, I uh I uh we we get emails like that all the time.
And we we have uh posts in our Facebook page, the Rush Revere Facebook page, uh, all the time.
I I have one here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, and I'm gonna turn the ditto cam off because I want to zoom in on this.
I want to show you just as a sample of what people are sending us.
This is a young six-year-old boy standing at a stables feeding a horse apples because he learned horses like apples from reading these books.
Liberty likes apples, and his parents took a picture of him holding Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims while feeding an app with a horse.
Let me zero it in.
Yeah, that's tight enough.
So here did a cams on.
I've hidden all the email addresses and phone numbers.
So don't zoom in hoping to find that.
I've hidden it all.
There are tons of these things that we get.
I mean, they just come in every day with uh emails that explain the purpose of the picture and so forth.
Let me read this one to you.
It says Russian Catherine, Cade, age six, loves Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
We read it in the car while traveling on our trip to visit with relatives for the holidays.
We read a new chapter every night before bed.
Favorite characters, Liberty, the talking horse.
So in honor of Liberty, we fed apples to horses for Thanksgiving.
Rush, me and his grandmother of a teacher, we own many, many wonderful books, but this is the one our grandson asks for every time.
As a matter of fact, this copy is part of a set you donated to my class.
Thank you, Rush, for taking the time and effort to create fun educational books for the next generation to read and learn to love this country and its founding fathers.
It's just and this the first book.
The latest is Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner.
And um I don't know, Far.
I just I I enjoy sharing this stuff with you because it's just it's just over the top great.
It just is.
I have to take a brief time out here, we'll be back and continue.
I'll zoom out the ditto cam and get it back up right after this.
Don't go away.
Uh Ed in Atlanta, you're next.
It's open line Friday, and great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Since you got your cochlear implant, uh, you've spoken on occasion about how you can't really hear music anymore, that it's just so much noise and that voices all sound alike to you so much so that you can't even tell the difference between a man's and a woman's voice.
On the phone.
Oh, on the phone.
Well, on the phone.
My open line Friday question is how is it that you can do such a good impression of Barack Obama when you've never really heard his voice without the implant.
I don't know that it's the I mean no, you're the first guy that's commented on it, so I don't I don't I'm just mimicking what I hear.
I can I can hear Obama's speech patterns.
I mean, I'm a I was a voice student, I still am, especially of my own.
I mean, knowing I know how it feels when it's working and when it's not.
I know when I'm speaking incorrectly, like from my throat when I shouldn't be.
But uh what I can see somebody on TV speaking and turn the volume up loud enough that there's no other noise in the room, I can get a uh an idea of speech patterns.
Uh and then whatever I hear, I don't have any idea that the way I hear Obama is the way he actually sounds.
So all I can do is mimic what I hear.
I guess it's you're telling me it's pretty close.
So if there's no phone involved, you can tell the difference between a man's and a woman's voice?
Well, on a phone.
Well, now, see, here's the thing.
Since your name is Ed.
Correct.
I know you're a guy.
So it all comes together.
Your voice is that of a man.
If I didn't know your name, and if I didn't know uh what you were calling about or whatever, it was just a voice.
You would re your voice would have to really, really be low for me to be sure you were a guy.
But more than that, I cannot distinguish every woman's voice sounds identical to me on the phone doing this program.
There's not a smidge every woman that calls here, except a 10-year-old kid.
I'm talking about adult women.
Everyone sounds identical to me.
So what does my voice sound like to you?
Do I do I sound like Stephen Hawking or something?
No.
You sound like a union thug that's really chicked off at me, and if I don't say the right thing here, I might be in some trouble.
Okay, I think I understand now.
I didn't I didn't know the phone was a critical component of uh of that.
So when you hear Barack Obama speaking on television, uh you can hear his inflections and and things like that, so you're able to impersonate him.
Uh exactly right.
That's right.
Uh uh, and uh I know that the people think he's brilliant because of the way he speaks, and people think people are brilliant because of the way they speak, they say uh a lot, because that's how you make people think you're thinking when you're talking.
And uh so yeah.
Okay, did I make the host look good?
You you made the host look great.
Absolutely.
What do you want?
iPad or iPhone.
Uh well, I already have one of each.
You already have one.
I bet you don't have an iPad Pro.
Uh no, I don't.
You want one?
Sure.
Black, gold, or silver.
Black.
Uh wise choice.
13-inch screen, black border screen pops.
Nobody's ever seen a TV with a white border, right?
Don't don't don't don't hang up, snurdy'll get your address, and we'll FedEx the thing out to you.
Be back here in just a second, folks.
No problem.
Have a great weekend, folks.
I hope you do.
And we'll be back here on Monday.
Look, anything happen today that you still need clarification on by my call and ask.
You make the complex understandable here.
There's no excuse for you not understanding everything.
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