Speaker 1: Well, here we go, folks game on same old, same old,
Speaker 1: same formulas. So the bad guys put out a book
Speaker 1: that excoriates, impunes, defames the president. The drive by media
Speaker 1: pick it all up and promote it, try to make
Speaker 1: it look like everybody in the country agrees with it.
Speaker 1: And we have to come in here and once again
Speaker 1: unpack it all and tell people what's actually true and
Speaker 1: what's really going on. And the cycle just keeps repeating.
Speaker 1: It's become a formula, it's become predictable. Bad guys write
Speaker 1: a book, bad guys go on TV, drive by, circle
Speaker 1: the wagons, amplify, lie, distort whatever. We've got to spend
Speaker 1: all of our time defending the garbage all in us
Speaker 1: posed battle for the hearts and minds of the American voter.
Speaker 1: And so we're here and that's what's on the agenda.
Speaker 1: It's great to have you with us. Open Line Friday,
Speaker 1: we go to the phones. Anything you want to talk about,
Speaker 1: have at it telepone number eight hundred to eight to
Speaker 1: eight to the email address ll rushbo at eib net
Speaker 1: dot com. If you note that I sound somewhat frustrated,
Speaker 1: you would not be incorrect, because none of this is
Speaker 1: news where all of us are caught up in the
Speaker 1: middle of never ending political agendas. Uh, but it's disguised
Speaker 1: as news. We're being told that this is news, this
Speaker 1: is earth shattering breaking news. Why we had no idea
Speaker 1: this was coming. And that's not at all what any
Speaker 1: of this is. This is all prepackaged, and it's pre planned.
Speaker 1: It's been edited and formatted, and it's been timed. It
Speaker 1: has everything about it designed to move forward a political agenda.
Speaker 1: But everybody involved in that's like, no, no, there's nothing
Speaker 1: going on here. We just have an honorable guy who's very,
Speaker 1: very worried about the country and wants to set the records.
Speaker 1: If he wants set the records, right, why did he
Speaker 1: wait a year and do it for millions of dollars
Speaker 1: if he cares so damn much about this? Anyway, yesterday,
Speaker 1: my friends, I spoke about the concept of two Americas,
Speaker 1: at least two America's, and I want to illustrate exactly
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about here, if you'll pardon me for
Speaker 1: just to if you'll indulge me here for just a
Speaker 1: moment again, to restated on one side. Here, we have
Speaker 1: the country and the people who make it work and
Speaker 1: the way they live their lives. They get up every
Speaker 1: day and they go about their business, and in the process,
Speaker 1: the country works using the freedoms and the liberty, the
Speaker 1: ambition of talent, the desire, whatever it is that makes
Speaker 1: up people would ever it is that makes everybody who
Speaker 1: we are. Everybody gets up and goes to it. On
Speaker 1: the other side, we have the drive by media and
Speaker 1: the American left, which is engaged in a single project
Speaker 1: of tearing the other America down and tearing it apart,
Speaker 1: all because they don't like American all because they don't
Speaker 1: like the people who are making the country work from
Speaker 1: top to bottom, and so there's is a never ending
Speaker 1: quest to tear it down. They tear it down, or
Speaker 1: try to tear it down by depressing and dispiriting the
Speaker 1: people who are getting up and going to work or
Speaker 1: whatever it is they're doing that constitutes actual living life
Speaker 1: as opposed to the other side. Yeah, they're alive, but
Speaker 1: they're not living life. They are people absorbed and drenched
Speaker 1: in hatred and resentment, anger and outrage, and they're taking
Speaker 1: the fact that they're outraged and unhappy and miserable out
Speaker 1: on everybody else, and in the process one half of
Speaker 1: America spends its day making the country work and trying
Speaker 1: to defend it. The other half is just trying to
Speaker 1: tear everything apart. And last night I was with the
Speaker 1: half of America, or whatever percentage it is, it makes
Speaker 1: the country work. Last night was the annual dinner for
Speaker 1: the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, the annual fundraising dinner.
Speaker 1: M cleff is twenty three years old. I was there
Speaker 1: in the home of one of the founders as the
Speaker 1: whole idea was being put together. In three It was
Speaker 1: a home in Rockville Center in New York, and it
Speaker 1: was a number of Great X Marines, some now in
Speaker 1: aw enforcement, somewhere in finance, and they wanted to put
Speaker 1: together a foundation which would provide college scholarships for the
Speaker 1: children of Marines killed in action. They later added law
Speaker 1: enforcement to it, and many of them worked in the FBI.
Speaker 1: Many of them worked in law enforcement police departments elsewhere,
Speaker 1: And so what was originally a charity to provide college
Speaker 1: scholarships for the children of Marines killed in action was
Speaker 1: expanded to include children of people in law enforcement and
Speaker 1: on extreme emergencies. Night nine eleven, m cleft expanded to
Speaker 1: all federal agencies were heads of families died and their
Speaker 1: children needed college scholarships, they became an early donor. I've
Speaker 1: i've I've never been an active practical participant in the
Speaker 1: actual structure to charity, but Cather and I have been
Speaker 1: active Downer as an active fundraiserism. As you well know,
Speaker 1: much of what we do is tied to mcleff. The
Speaker 1: two of by Te project was was was tied to
Speaker 1: m cleff. The Rush Review book series is tied to mcleff.
Speaker 1: And last night was the annual fundraiser. The Marine Band
Speaker 1: shows up. There's always a special guest hon a ree
Speaker 1: from the United States Military. Last night it was to
Speaker 1: be the Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who had to
Speaker 1: cancel on Tuesday and the event was last night and
Speaker 1: he had to cancel because of what's going on in
Speaker 1: Syria now. The event was held at Citriani Wall Street.
Speaker 1: It was a beautiful setting. It was jam pegged. It's
Speaker 1: a black tie event and formal military attire, and it
Speaker 1: is a night totally devoted to celebrating the Marine Corps,
Speaker 1: celebrating the United States Military, celebrating the values in the
Speaker 1: traditions of the military, which I think form the bedrock
Speaker 1: of the values and traditions of our society at large.
Speaker 1: We had a table at two tables. Captaine, I had
Speaker 1: two tables, and we invited you know, We've got this
Speaker 1: new feature going on our website, Rush limbaugh dot com
Speaker 1: called meet Rush and it when you click on that,
Speaker 1: you're presented with a form where you can fill out
Speaker 1: a a little email questionnaire about why you think our
Speaker 1: team should arrange a video conference with you to explain
Speaker 1: why you listen, how long you've been listening, and we
Speaker 1: convert those videos and occasionally play them on an area
Speaker 1: of the website. And we've been at this for I
Speaker 1: don't know a month and a half now, maybe longer.
Speaker 1: In setting it all up, we've we've began airing some
Speaker 1: of the videos that we because you remember the one
Speaker 1: when I told you about in the Pacific Island, who
Speaker 1: has to walk a bunch of well feat to get
Speaker 1: to the top of mountain to get two g Eliot
Speaker 1: or connectivities that she can download podcast of the program
Speaker 1: each and everything goes back down the hill where she
Speaker 1: does her missionary work talking to people all over the country.
Speaker 1: And last night we invited three that we have met
Speaker 1: during the meat Rush team rush effort here. They're all
Speaker 1: former Marines. They're all lifetime listeners. They and their wives,
Speaker 1: So as Catherine and me and our six guests, well
Speaker 1: three guests and their wives at one table. And we've
Speaker 1: got some pictures of this will put at rush limba
Speaker 1: dot com. After I finished this little segment here, Coco's
Speaker 1: going to transcribe it and put some pictures up. Just
Speaker 1: great people, lifetime listeners. When you see these pictures, these
Speaker 1: are the people I'm talking about who make the country work.
Speaker 1: These are the people that, uh not because they listen
Speaker 1: to me, although I think it is inseparable, people who
Speaker 1: make the country work listening this program, because this program
Speaker 1: reflects what they believe. This program validates what people who
Speaker 1: make the country work, live, breathe, and believe. It was
Speaker 1: a pleasure meeting them. I had a hustle up there.
Speaker 1: I had a race out of here after the program.
Speaker 1: I had a fly up, had to find a Newark
Speaker 1: because the superintendent of the Port Authority, So I'm leaving
Speaker 1: something out. They asked me to speak when General Mattis
Speaker 1: couldn't make it. You you talk about these people have
Speaker 1: all paid to be in there to hear the Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense and he can't make it, and so it's me.
Speaker 1: Jim Calstrom, former director the f Office FBI office in
Speaker 1: New York, is who asked me, would you mind? Is
Speaker 1: a Jim? Are you kidding? I mean, I'm not. I'm not. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you gotta do it well. How how much you're looking for?
Speaker 1: Ten fifteen minutes, max? Ten fifteen minutes, Jim, I don't
Speaker 1: even get warmed up until thirty minutes. Okay, No. So
Speaker 1: they sent the superintendent of the Port Authority to New
Speaker 1: York to meet me for lights and sirens into Manhattan
Speaker 1: to make sure I got there in time, and we did.
Speaker 1: We pulled in right as the reception and cocktail period
Speaker 1: was ending at seven and everybody was being seated, and
Speaker 1: it was one inspirational speaker after another. There was a
Speaker 1: woman who lost her husband in combat. The foundation had
Speaker 1: provided provided scholarships for her two kids. She gave a
Speaker 1: stem winder of a speech about what it all meant,
Speaker 1: about what it meant being married to somebody who the
Speaker 1: families know what's going to happen, what can happen in combat,
Speaker 1: and it's the other America with this this last night.
Speaker 1: Without the people that were in that room, the country
Speaker 1: and be what it is. But we could get along
Speaker 1: without James Comey, and we can get along without Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi and Valerie playing, and we can get along without Always,
Speaker 1: We can get along without Anderson Cooper, we can get
Speaker 1: along without George Stepanopolis, we can get along with it,
Speaker 1: probably get along without me. But we cannot get along
Speaker 1: without the people in that room last night, As the
Speaker 1: closing speaker said, and he was responding to some of
Speaker 1: the comments I made because I I talked about this
Speaker 1: divide in the country, and I I pulled, no part,
Speaker 1: don't tell him I'm worried. I told him that we've
Speaker 1: got a serious challenge, that we've got a great nation
Speaker 1: at risk in a dangerous world. And I talked about
Speaker 1: this divide, and I talked about you've heard me to
Speaker 1: the theory that I don't think we have any advind
Speaker 1: us together anymore like we had in World War Two.
Speaker 1: This guy stood up after I had finished. There were
Speaker 1: some other comments, and he referenced it not by me
Speaker 1: and by name, but he said, look, we just tell
Speaker 1: them we were in a uniform here in this room tonight.
Speaker 1: Don't worry we got it. We got it, just like
Speaker 1: the NYPD, they got it, just like the Port Authority
Speaker 1: cup they got it. Don't worry, we got it. We
Speaker 1: stay in our lane. It doesn't matter who's running the show.
Speaker 1: We know what we gotta do, and we got it.
Speaker 1: And that's why we couldn't get along without those people
Speaker 1: in that room. And those people in that room last
Speaker 1: night are among those who get ripped and lampooned and
Speaker 1: impuned by these other guys that we have to spend
Speaker 1: a bunch of time chatting about here today, as though
Speaker 1: what they think matters, as though what they say or
Speaker 1: right is gospel. So we have spend time exposing who
Speaker 1: they are and exposing the lies or the misrepresentations, the
Speaker 1: deceit that they're using you this repeating formula of left
Speaker 1: on the assault against the country, and a few of
Speaker 1: us here on the right standing up trying to say
Speaker 1: no and stop them and defend it. But it was
Speaker 1: the people in the room last night, the Marine Corps
Speaker 1: Law Enforcement Foundation, not just the uniform Marines, but the
Speaker 1: people that were there as donors and who show up
Speaker 1: every year. It was a microcosm of what I believe
Speaker 1: is people who make the country work, make the country run,
Speaker 1: and it was it was an honor for me to
Speaker 1: be part of it. It was distinct privilege to be
Speaker 1: asked to speak in that room. I always think I'd
Speaker 1: bomb it too. I mean, I always think I didn't
Speaker 1: do nearly as good as I could have when that
Speaker 1: I've fretted over and all the way home last night.
Speaker 1: But then I realized I would have today to fix
Speaker 1: any not infny wrong. Just just you know, I'm so
Speaker 1: hyper critical that I never, ever, never ever, I rarely
Speaker 1: tell myself I nailed it. But the crowd was was
Speaker 1: up and supportive. It was just it was it was
Speaker 1: a great room to be in and a tremendous event
Speaker 1: to to be part of. And I just I wanted
Speaker 1: to acknowledge this, and I'm wanting to let you know
Speaker 1: we're gonna just a few pictures when we need to
Speaker 1: respect these people's privacy. No last names of the three
Speaker 1: lifetime listeners all ex military, and they had the time
Speaker 1: of their lives they had. I mean, they're they're ex military,
Speaker 1: They observed their country, they had never been to an
Speaker 1: event like this, and they just it was so great
Speaker 1: to have them there, people who who genuinely appreciated one
Speaker 1: of one of these guys wants to go play that
Speaker 1: these people remember everything I've said from the time they
Speaker 1: have been listening, and they're throwing it at me. Then
Speaker 1: I'm just stunned and blown away. They remember more than
Speaker 1: I did. And I have one of the best memories
Speaker 1: in the world, and they remember more than I do
Speaker 1: about certain things I've said and when and uh and
Speaker 1: how So it was an invigorating evening and it was
Speaker 1: very uplifting, and I wish everybody could participate in events
Speaker 1: like this for that very reason. So it won't be
Speaker 1: long we'll have I just got two pictures I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put up for now. One is a shot of all
Speaker 1: of us at the table, and then a not dislike
Speaker 1: the others, but there's a really good picture of me
Speaker 1: with with one of the h three listeners that we
Speaker 1: invited from the Meat Rush event. His name is Joel,
Speaker 1: his former marine. He's wearing his medals on his h
Speaker 1: on his tuxedo jacket. Great people, their wives were fun.
Speaker 1: It was, but these two pictures will give you a
Speaker 1: flavor for what the evening was. And again no last names,
Speaker 1: because you I don't want these people descended upon by
Speaker 1: the people are going to be talking about today on
Speaker 1: the left, who seemed to have only one desire and
Speaker 1: that's rip everything to shreds and tear it down. And
Speaker 1: I just do not want people who have done nothing
Speaker 1: but be listeners of this programmed to deal with any
Speaker 1: garbage like that. So that's why no last names. The
Speaker 1: names of the three couples lifetime listeners, all military members
Speaker 1: who are guest last night, Philip and Patricia, Joel and
Speaker 1: Felicia and Joseph and Bryer, and I would love to
Speaker 1: tell you their last names, but in this day and age,
Speaker 1: in this climate, I'm not going to subject them to
Speaker 1: any potential harassment that might result from the trolls that
Speaker 1: live and breathe on Facebook and Twitter and media matters
Speaker 1: and wherever. But trust me, when you see the photos,
Speaker 1: you will you'll be able to they look at they're
Speaker 1: great Americans. You'll be able to tell Bibe looking at them.