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Everything looks good for being back to the EIB Southern Command on Monday.
But again, it doesn't matter.
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Had somebody call Rush Water Absolutely a little off the topic of global warming.
We don't do topics.
We do the news.
Whatever's hot, whatever's happening, whatever I care about.
But on Friday, I don't have to care about it.
You can call.
Like if you want to speculate why the NFL, I mean, that's, it's serious, why they're losing audience.
It's big time.
They're facing advertiser refunds.
It's major.
And a lot of people think that they're not honestly assessing what's wrong.
You know what?
The most popular reason given is overexposure.
The Thursday night games.
Yep, that's it, folks.
Tell me, you're not watching football on Sunday and Monday night because they play Thursday night too, right?
Now, there are other factors.
I think it's a cumulative coalition of things just happened at one time with the crossing of the T being Colin Kaepernick and Du Bois deciding to take the occasion of the NFL stage to let everybody know they're not happy with the country in which the game is being played.
That's got to be having some impact on people.
But the NFL doesn't want to admit that.
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Okay, if you just join us, there's a brewing little controversy over Donald Trump and his commercial ad buys.
The New York Times, Maggie Haberman, who used to be at the Politico, but these places, it's all state-run media.
They're just incestuous.
They go from one place, they marry each other.
They have affairs with each other.
They go from elective office to working for a candidate, back to the news, and so forth.
So she was at the Politico.
She's not the New York Times.
She tweeted out that Trump is canceling ad buys in North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida.
Well, if that were true, that would not be good because of conventional wisdom, which I'll get to in just a second.
The way the establishment is going to think of that, oh my God, if Trump's canceling ad buys, he's conceding it's over.
And they'll start celebrating and doing handstands at the drive-bys.
And then another tweet came.
We find out that the original tweet that got this started was Maggie Haberman tweeted in Sam Stein at the Huffing and Puffington Post.
And that place is home to a special brand of stupid.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to be working at the Huffing and Puffington Post, which we discussed earlier with the way they're reporting on me and this climate change business.
But anyway, this guy, Sam Stein, reports, well, wait a minute now.
We find out that Trump is canceling about a million and a half dollars in these states in small markets.
And then it got updated again to where Trump is canceling $200,000, not a million and a half, in rural areas in Maine, Iowa, and North Carolina, not Florida and Ohio.
But the original tweet was, from the New York Times, which is the Bible, Trump pulling out of North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida.
Turns out he's canceling $200,000, as best we can tell now, $200,000 in rural markets, places where spots cost, what, Craig, eight bucks because the population is small.
He owns the rural areas in these states.
He doesn't need to reinforce it with ad buys because there's other places where the money could be used.
So, this happened about an hour ago.
They got it out there that Trump may already be admitting defeat because you see, the establishment of both parties has this, it's part of the political structure we talked about yesterday, the way they play the game in their business.
And remember, Trump is not in their business.
He doesn't prepare his tax returns to be publicly released like they do.
He hasn't lived his life for public consumption the way they do.
And so he's a genuine outsider, but they try to plug him into their formulas and analyze and cover him the way they would cover any elected official.
And they're doing that with this ad-buy business.
Now, to the establishment of both parties, there is a, in their world, an undeniable truth, and it is this.
Whoever has more ad buys is winning.
It's dogma to them.
It's inarguable.
If Hillary is spending more money on advertising, she's winning.
If Trump cancels advertising, he's losing.
That's the rule of thumb.
That's dogma in traditional politics.
Now, the main reason that Hillary is assumed to be a shoe-in by the establishment of both parties is, well, there are many reasons for it, but one of the things they focus on is her larger ad-buys and the fact that she has more cash on hand.
And that tells them that she has much more support because the more money you have, the more donors are giving you money.
And therefore, that equals, well, you know, the whole phrase, money is the mother's milk of politics.
That was actually created by a famous, now late, but campaign expert here in California named Jesse Unruh.
Willie Brown pronounces his name UNRWA, but it was Jesse Unruh.
And he came up with that phrase, money is the mother's milk of politics.
And that's how the establishment of both parties assess these things.
Now, Donald Trump, if you ask me, has already blown that model out of the water.
In the primaries, he didn't spend any money.
And another reason why the establishment's fit to be tied, he didn't spend any money, meaning people's skids didn't get greased.
He didn't have to spend any money.
He used free media.
Remember all the complaints?
Remember all the warnings Trump got?
You can't do free media in the general.
You may be able to get away with it in primaries, but you can't just rely on free media in the general.
But he is.
And I know some of you say, yeah, but Rushi is down in the polls.
Well, we think, I don't think you can assess anything with Trump the way you would assess, say, a Romney or Ruby, any Republican politician in elective office or formerly who is running.
You just can't plug Trump into these strategies and formulas you have to judge success.
Here's another one.
Mike Pence today is at a rally in Pennsylvania, and it has got 10 times the people that Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are drawing.
Trump's rallies still overflow every arena.
And what do they tell us?
That's meaningless.
That's all anecdotal.
You can't judge that.
You don't know how those people are going to vote.
You don't know how many of them are registered to vote.
That's not science, like climate change is.
So they discard it.
And then they'll point you.
And I myself have even been guilty of this.
They'll point you to Romney.
And they'll talk about his large crowds.
The thing with Romney, his large crowds occurred in the last five days of his campaign.
Remember, he's in Colorado.
And even I, I was, whoa, look at this.
And the Romney supporters, wow, something's happening here.
But it wasn't.
He still ended up losing by six or eight points, whatever it was.
But Trump, it's not the same thing as 5,000 or 8,000 or 20, whatever, showing up for Romney.
Because Trumps have been consistent wherever he goes.
Everybody shows up, knows what he's going to say.
You don't show up because of the unexpected.
You don't show up because of the drama.
You're showing up because you want to be part of it.
But they discount.
Whereas Hillary cannot draw flies to a book signing.
She can't.
I mean, Hillary's crowds are not even numbering in the thousands.
I remember Hillary went into Kansas City.
They got this giant convention center in Kansas City.
And they had a cordon off 95% of it to make it look full for TV cameras at her rally.
It was a public employee union or teachers or sons, I forget what, preachers.
Might have been Baptist conventions.
For her speech, nobody showed up.
And they tell us, it doesn't mean anything.
It doesn't mean anything.
I mean, look at the money she's generating and all that.
Again, folks, it takes a really supreme effort.
As we discussed earlier, the media has become defenders and protectors of the state.
It's stunning to me.
The more I think about it, it used to be they were the ones that questioned authority and held them into accountability and were suspicious and still are if they're Republicans.
But now they're just echoes.
I mean, there's no pretense.
And if you don't fall into full acquiescence with the state, then they come after you.
For example, if you don't buy into what they're telling you about climate change, making this hurricane what it is, they're going to come after you, ridicule you, joke about you, make you do everything they can to destroy your character and your credibility.
And so they are agents of the state.
And as Trump isn't and Trump's supporters aren't, and they're plugging Trump into all this, and you've just got to resist.
What did I do?
Just to use myself as an influencer.
When I first reported Maggie Haberman's tweet, the first thing I said, if this is true, I'm telling you, my initial reaction to anything in the New York Times about this campaign, doubt, first thing, confirm it.
Like I have been doing.
Imagine if I hadn't dug deal.
What if I just believed her first tweet that Trump's pulled out of North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida?
Well, that's what most people are going to do.
Except maybe we can change that here, but it's the way it works.
You have to, as depressing as it looks, and that's what they want to do, is dispirit you in depression, make you think that Trump has no chance, that you have no chance.
It's all over but the shadow.
You have to resist this because they are trying to win this thing in the court of public opinion long before votes are even cast.
And I've got a couple more soundbites here on voter registration.
Yeah, let's start at number 12 here.
This is Stephanopoulos, former Clinton campaign warroom leader with James Carbo.
He's now a state-controlled journalist.
And good morning, American ABC from the Clinton War Room.
And he said, good morning, America, today.
And he's speaking with the chief White House correspondent, Jonathan Carl, another so-called journalist who is the defender and protector of the state, the government.
And they're talking about the impact of Hurricane Matthew on the presidential election.
And there is some concern in the Clinton camp who are quite bullish about early voting in the Carolinas and Florida that this might have an impact.
Absolutely, George.
And we have seen in the past how close races can be in Florida.
Every single vote counts.
So the Clinton team has asked for that extension on voter registration.
They still think there are tens of thousands more who would register between now and October 11th.
Some may be prevented from doing so as a result of this storm.
And they also believe this could have an effect on early voting.
And by the way, you note the report.
Only Hillary is concerned about this.
Yes, the story is, yeah, there's some concern in the Clinton camp who were quite bullish about early voting in the Carolinas and Florida.
This might have an impact.
They went to the governor, Rick Scott, in case you missed this.
They were berating Rick Scott.
Hillary says, I'm sure her campaign guy, MOOC, I'm sure the governor of Florida will extend early voting and registration.
So Stephanopoulos calls the governor, gets him on TV.
So are you going to extend early voting?
Well, no, we're not.
People have had plenty of time.
I'm trying to save lives down here.
I got a hurricane roaring through the state.
So they try to impugn Scott for not falling into line.
And so now they're doubling down on this, that it won't be fair.
Oh, my God, it's not fair.
So they're conflicted.
They love the hurricane because it's global warming.
They get to push that.
But now they think it might impact voter registration or early voting.
So they have to try to fix that.
But it's interesting to me that they don't even consider it might be important to Trump.
It's all about what Hillary wants.
It's all about defending and protecting the state.
Not only that, if you listen to the drive-bys, it doesn't matter anyway because Trump has already been humiliated and embarrassed.
It's over.
And you're going to see it again in the debate Sunday night.
We have a montage of state-controlled media people.
We've got here Megan Kelly.
We got Wolf Blitzer, Charlie Rose.
It's a whole bunch of them out there talking about how, and this is pre-debate spin.
Whatever happens, even if he wins the debate Sunday night, even if it's a knockdown drag out in the first round, it won't matter.
Donald Trump is getting serious about preparing for his upcoming presidential debate with Hillary Clinton.
But are his plans too little, too late?
Is it too late?
Is it too late if he goes in and has a stellar debate?
Would that be enough at this point?
What does Donald Trump have to do in this debate, or is it too late?
Donald Trump merely performing better than he performed disastrously in the first debate is not a win.
It's getting very, very late in the game if you're going to turn it around.
He's so far behind now in so many places where he needs to be ahead, including nationally, that the bar is different for him in terms of what we constitute a win.
Yeah, this doesn't matter.
Even if he wins, it's too late.
It doesn't matter.
Where do they get this?
How come they all end up saying the same thing?
I'm telling you, they're getting talking points from the Hillary campaign.
MOOC will call them up or send them a fact.
Look, we think Trump's done.
Can't win.
Too little, too late.
They run with it.
How else do they all end up saying the same thing?
Here's Dr. Krauthammer last night on Fox special report with Brett Baer.
The most important thing here for Trump is the morning after.
He might have lost the debate.
It was pretty close.
It was not the rout that people say it was.
But he really threw it away the morning after when he went after, he went down the rabbit holes on the Miss Universe.
I think he can hold his own.
Ignore the bait.
He should just dismiss all the quotations that he hears the way that Pence did.
Deny it ever happened and then ignore the fact checkers the next day.
And then to pivot and to talk about her, focus in on her weaknesses on Benghazi, which he never mentioned, emails other stuff, and then just have somebody remove the cell phone overnight, at least for a week.
I think it'll be all right.
So Dr. Krauthammer thinks he clearly can still win this thing.
It's not over.
But he's one of the few.
I've got to take a break.
We're up against it on time.
Sit tight back before you know it.
Okay, here you go.
This is from Breitbart.
Trump new voter registration soars two million door knocks in a week and a half.
It's a story about all of the brand new voter registration that the Trump campaign and the Republicans, I guess, working with him are creating.
In Florida, net 261,000 new registrations.
Iowa, net plus 38,000 new.
Nevada, net 12,000 new.
North Carolina, net 173,000 new.
Voter registration, Republican.
Pennsylvania, net plus 223.
You're not seeing this anywhere.
In fact, all you're hearing is, oh, man, Hillary Killer, we need the governor of Florida to extend our early voting and our voter registration.
This is exactly why it is not dire straits for Donald Trump out there, but boy, you wouldn't know it if all you have access to is standard, ordinary, everyday media.
American Spectator, great story here.
Maybe in the next half hour, I'll get into how poll bias obscures Trump's likely election.
This goes totally against the grain of what is being reported.
But I want to grab the phones now because it's open line Friday.
We try to take as many as we can.
And we have a 10-year-old from Baton Rouge.
This is Amelia.
It's great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hi.
How are you?
Good.
I'm so happy you called.
What's happening?
What's up?
I wanted to tell you how much I liked your Rush Revere books.
Oh, that's sweet of you.
You made my day.
That's so great.
Which one do you like the best?
Have you read them all?
Yes.
And my brother read them all, too.
No kidding.
How old's your brother?
He is seven.
Seven?
Wow.
Yes.
Cool.
And you're 13.
You're 10.
Yes.
And who's your favorite character in this?
I bet I can guess.
I bet it's Liberty.
I bet you like Liberty the horse.
Yes, sir.
Well, you know what?
When we finish here, don't hang up because the nice man who answered your call and screened you and put you up wants to get your address.
And I want to send you a full-fledged Liberty stuff doll.
Okay.
Yeah, and a whole bunch of other stuff from the whole Revere operation.
We'll send you a whole bunch of stuff.
Since you've got all the books, I don't need to send you those.
We can see the audio.
I don't have the second one and the fourth one.
Oh, well, pardon me.
I assumed you did since you'd read them all.
The second one and the fourth.
I got the other two.
I got the ones I don't have from the library.
Oh, okay.
Gosh, they let it into the library?
That's progress.
So you don't have the second one and the fourth one.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
Well, I'll fix that.
You know, we'll just send you a set.
It'd be easier that we'll just send you all of them.
And that way you'll have a couple copies in case your brother spills something on one of them.
You'll have some pristine copies just for you.
Thank you.
Now, hold on, Amelia.
Don't go away.
Half my brain tied behind my back just because I want to make it fair for the left and the leftists at call, if they ever do.
All while meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Okay, here's Chris in Sanger, California.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
Oh, it's a ma'am.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to call you a guy.
It's okay.
Get it all the time.
I am just so angry.
You get it all the time?
Oh, because of the confusion in the name.
Okay, okay.
I'm thinking about the reasons why that might be, and I was curious, but we won't focus on that.
What was the reason for your call?
Well, I am just so angry because I contacted the Rush Revere group to see if they would donate some books to me so I could donate them to my daughter's school.
And she's 10 years old.
She goes to John Wash and Sanger Unified.
And they graciously sent me the first three in the series.
I donated them to the school, and that was a year ago.
And I just found out on Tuesday night at our PTA meeting that the books could not be entered into the library because the librarians stated that they were politically leaning and historically incorrect.
They are specifically not political.
Here's another thing.
I want to clarify something.
These are not children's books.
These are history books for young adults and young people.
When people think children's books, they think pictures and coloring books and that.
It's not that.
These are full-fledged books, hardcover, and they are for young people, and they teach the truth of the American founding.
There's no politics in this.
There's no conservatism or liberal.
You know what this is?
This is just your librarian with her own politics.
She's injecting and imposing her own political view.
And because my name is on the book, she's assuming that it's rotten and bad and wrong, and she's not letting it in the school.
That's outrageous.
It's simply outrageous.
Sanger Unified, you say.
Yes.
Where is Sanger?
Where in the state is Sanger?
Easter Fresno.
Oh, okay.
Easta Fresno, Suna Valley.
Well, I just, that burns me up because we go to great lengths to make sure these books are not political.
Especially not in relationship to modern day politics and what might be going on.
We're just trying to teach the truth of the founding of this country because it isn't taught enough anymore.
And we're doing it, I mean, for crying out.
Talking horse is political.
Exactly.
We write these books in such a way that the people that read them are actually taken to these historical events via time travel.
And they actually get to see the events take place, such as the debates at the Constitutional Hall and the Pilgrims arriving and the trip across the Atlantic Ocean and all that.
That burns me up.
It makes me so angry.
Did you say anything to her about it?
The library?
Yes.
Oh, yes.
I said, you know, right in front of everybody there.
I said, it is not politically leaning.
I said, I've read every single one of his books.
They have nothing to do with politics, and they're historically correct.
I said, Rush did all of the research.
We have a whole staff of people that puts these books together.
We've got the people that do the illustrations.
We've got fact checkers and double-check when we make historical assertions of fact in these books.
That's the first and foremost objective is that what we write about is true, not we're not propagandizing in these books.
There's no need to.
The truth of the American founding is a great, beautiful story.
There's no reason to lie about it.
They're the ones that do that.
Exactly.
Well, is it no change?
I mean, they're still not going to let the books stay in the library.
No, my husband picked them up yesterday, and we are going to donate them to another school, and hopefully they will put them in their library.
I suspect that you'll have some takers now after today.
How many did we send you?
You sent me the first three.
Just one copy of the first three?
Yes.
Okay.
No, you sent me three copies of the first three, and I donated them to Terry's House and another school in President Unified.
Okay, because I was going to say, we usually donate a package when these come up.
Well, look, I want to put you on hold, if you will, if you would give Mr. Snertley, nice man to screen your call, if you would give him some contact information so we can send you some more to try to be donated elsewhere, since Sanger won't take them.
We'll dwarf whatever influence Sanger has by donating them all over the place if you want to try that.
Absolutely.
All right.
All right.
So hang on.
You hang on just a sec, Chris, and we'll be back.
As soon as we get your contact information, we're not going to be able to get to this next week until next week.
So be patient, but we'll make it all happen.
And thank you.
No, no, thank you for trying to make this happen.
You're warming my heart, and I really appreciate it.
Oh, thank you.
I'm just glad my cell phone held out to get through this call.
You did great.
You did great.
Thank you.
You bet.
And we'll hope to talk to you again soon.
We got to take a brief time out at obscene profit break and we will be right back.
Yeah, let's just do it now.
Let's just do a grab audio soundbite number 15.
Bob Schieffer from the Jurassic Park of the Drive-By Media.
He recently retired.
They brought him back for the campaign.
He's a journalist emeritus.
And he was on CBS this morning with Charlie Rose.
And they were talking about the second presidential debate on Sunday.
And Charlie Rose said, let's look at the dynamics because it's a different style of setting here.
But they're going to be sitting.
I think it missed what's a roundtable kind of a forum or whatever they call it, roundtable type.
They're not standing up there at podiums, I don't believe.
So here's what Schieffer said about it.
Yes, it is.
And I'm not sure who that favors.
Climbing up and down off those high stools that they're going to be sitting on presents certain challenges, I suppose.
I've never liked this format, to be quite honest about it.
Remember Al Gore getting up in George Bush's face and it just goes off in all directions.
So heaven knows what's going to happen this time around.
Who is he referring to here getting on and off a stool?
You know he's not worried about Trump.
Getting off and climbing up and down off those high stools.
I don't like this.
He's obviously worried about the effect of this going to have on Hillary.
And I was just sent a tweet.
I have no idea if this is true.
It looks like a real tweet.
And I'm prone to believe this because it's insane out this from some Black Lives Matter member.
I'm not going to embarrass her by mentioning her name, but it's in a thread about Hurricane Matthew and how racist the hurricane is.
And I'm not making this up.
Hurricane's racist because it only killed black people in Haiti.
And here's the Black Lives Matter tweet is the death toll in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew is 339.
That's what environmental racism looks like.
Now, that is entirely believable that somebody thinks that way at Black Lives Matter.
Whether this is a real tweet or not, I don't know.
But this is how they, this is environmental racism.
So the hurricane is a product of the environment.
This is, like I said at the top, they love Mother Nature normally, except Mother Nature is now a victim of us because we cause hurricanes, global warming.
So Mother Nature is a victim.
And because we are racist, we have now turned to Hurricane racist.
And that's what this dimwit believes.
And this is how they talk to each other.
Death toll in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew, 339 is what environmental racism looks like.
And there's a bunch of people who are making fun of it, too.
So that's why I think it's real.
Here's Cindy in Burlington, North Carolina.
Great to have you with us.
How are you doing?
I'm quite fine.
How are you today?
Very well.
Thank you.
I appreciate you taking my call.
And I'm going to talk fast.
I'm a native Floridian.
I remember 100 years ago, my grandmother was born there.
Wow.
And I resent the fact that on the weather channel this morning, the man calling himself the President of the United States made the statement that Florida wasn't hit as hard as it was expected.
It got cat four.
There is a death, at least one.
That's important to me.
This is my country.
I pay taxes here.
Part of my taxes go to his paycheck.
How dare he solicitate to the Americans to contact the Red Cross and donate for Haiti, who the last hurricane, their government, along with Hillary Clinton's foundation, misappropriated funds.
Wait, are you saying that happened this morning, Obama?
That the weather channel?
I've been on the weather channel.
Check the news run.
I don't doubt it.
I've sat on this phone for an hour and a half because it's that important to me.
I have a sister in central Florida.
My parents built a house in 1950 that they lived in and still owned up until last year when my father passed.
Okay, wait a minute.
We're running out of time here.
Are you telling me that Obama was soliciting donations for Haiti?
Contact the Red Cross about sending money to help in Haiti.
He did it today.
Newsreels.
Okay, the newsreels.
That's where we have to find it.
The newsreels.
All right.
Well, I knew that he was warning people to not get lazy because the thing could strengthen later or maybe hit land.
I did not know he'd been soliciting donations for Haiti.
Well, I can understand why that would infuriate you.
I really do.
I'm out of time.
I got to go, folks.
Back here in just a second to wrap it up.
All right, we checked the newsreels and it happened.
She was right.
It's all over Twitter.
Obama urges Americans to donate to the Red Cross to help Haiti.
It's also being noted that the Red Cross raised half a billion dollars for Haiti and only built six houses after the earthquake there in 2010.