WEBVTT - My Night With the People Who Make the Country Work 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.760 Well, here we go, folks game on same old, same old, 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:08.280 same formulas. So the bad guys put out a book 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:18.239 that excoriates, impunes, defames the president. The drive by media 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.680 pick it all up and promote it, try to make 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:22.919 it look like everybody in the country agrees with it. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.239 And we have to come in here and once again 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:30.159 unpack it all and tell people what's actually true and 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:35.240 what's really going on. And the cycle just keeps repeating. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:47.360 It's become a formula, it's become predictable. Bad guys write 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.040 a book, bad guys go on TV, drive by, circle 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:54.880 the wagons, amplify, lie, distort whatever. We've got to spend 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:59.840 all of our time defending the garbage all in us 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.720 posed battle for the hearts and minds of the American voter. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.760 And so we're here and that's what's on the agenda. 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:11.720 It's great to have you with us. Open Line Friday, 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.679 we go to the phones. Anything you want to talk about, 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:18.240 have at it telepone number eight hundred to eight to 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.800 eight to the email address ll rushbo at eib net 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.520 dot com. If you note that I sound somewhat frustrated, 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.840 you would not be incorrect, because none of this is 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.399 news where all of us are caught up in the 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:36.520 middle of never ending political agendas. Uh, but it's disguised 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.960 as news. We're being told that this is news, this 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.480 is earth shattering breaking news. Why we had no idea 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.759 this was coming. And that's not at all what any 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.400 of this is. This is all prepackaged, and it's pre planned. 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:54.200 It's been edited and formatted, and it's been timed. It 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:59.600 has everything about it designed to move forward a political agenda. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.320 But everybody involved in that's like, no, no, there's nothing 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.240 going on here. We just have an honorable guy who's very, 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.040 very worried about the country and wants to set the records. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.720 If he wants set the records, right, why did he 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.000 wait a year and do it for millions of dollars 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:20.840 if he cares so damn much about this? Anyway, yesterday, 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.559 my friends, I spoke about the concept of two Americas, 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.680 at least two America's, and I want to illustrate exactly 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.600 what I'm talking about here, if you'll pardon me for 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.160 just to if you'll indulge me here for just a 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:39.320 moment again, to restated on one side. Here, we have 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.560 the country and the people who make it work and 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.200 the way they live their lives. They get up every 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:49.919 day and they go about their business, and in the process, 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:54.160 the country works using the freedoms and the liberty, the 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:59.200 ambition of talent, the desire, whatever it is that makes 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.359 up people would ever it is that makes everybody who 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.800 we are. Everybody gets up and goes to it. On 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.600 the other side, we have the drive by media and 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:14.480 the American left, which is engaged in a single project 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.120 of tearing the other America down and tearing it apart, 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:24.280 all because they don't like American all because they don't 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.720 like the people who are making the country work from 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.079 top to bottom, and so there's is a never ending 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.480 quest to tear it down. They tear it down, or 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.600 try to tear it down by depressing and dispiriting the 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:42.960 people who are getting up and going to work or 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:49.720 whatever it is they're doing that constitutes actual living life 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.880 as opposed to the other side. Yeah, they're alive, but 0:03:54.960 --> 0:04:00.360 they're not living life. They are people absorbed and drenched 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:08.360 in hatred and resentment, anger and outrage, and they're taking 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.600 the fact that they're outraged and unhappy and miserable out 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:16.800 on everybody else, and in the process one half of 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.520 America spends its day making the country work and trying 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.000 to defend it. The other half is just trying to 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:28.120 tear everything apart. And last night I was with the 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.159 half of America, or whatever percentage it is, it makes 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:35.719 the country work. Last night was the annual dinner for 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.800 the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, the annual fundraising dinner. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.120 M cleff is twenty three years old. I was there 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.880 in the home of one of the founders as the 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:52.520 whole idea was being put together. In three It was 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.800 a home in Rockville Center in New York, and it 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.840 was a number of Great X Marines, some now in 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.920 aw enforcement, somewhere in finance, and they wanted to put 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:10.200 together a foundation which would provide college scholarships for the 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.640 children of Marines killed in action. They later added law 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.480 enforcement to it, and many of them worked in the FBI. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:22.640 Many of them worked in law enforcement police departments elsewhere, 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:27.560 And so what was originally a charity to provide college 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.359 scholarships for the children of Marines killed in action was 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:35.159 expanded to include children of people in law enforcement and 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.880 on extreme emergencies. Night nine eleven, m cleft expanded to 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:46.040 all federal agencies were heads of families died and their 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.200 children needed college scholarships, they became an early donor. I've 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:55.200 i've I've never been an active practical participant in the 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:59.000 actual structure to charity, but Cather and I have been 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.719 active Downer as an active fundraiserism. As you well know, 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:06.000 much of what we do is tied to mcleff. The 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.279 two of by Te project was was was tied to 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.919 m cleff. The Rush Review book series is tied to mcleff. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:19.640 And last night was the annual fundraiser. The Marine Band 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.680 shows up. There's always a special guest hon a ree 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.520 from the United States Military. Last night it was to 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.040 be the Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who had to 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:35.159 cancel on Tuesday and the event was last night and 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.120 he had to cancel because of what's going on in 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.479 Syria now. The event was held at Citriani Wall Street. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:45.520 It was a beautiful setting. It was jam pegged. It's 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.080 a black tie event and formal military attire, and it 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:53.920 is a night totally devoted to celebrating the Marine Corps, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:58.200 celebrating the United States Military, celebrating the values in the 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:03.359 traditions of the military, which I think form the bedrock 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.480 of the values and traditions of our society at large. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.160 We had a table at two tables. Captaine, I had 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.600 two tables, and we invited you know, We've got this 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.920 new feature going on our website, Rush limbaugh dot com 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:22.600 called meet Rush and it when you click on that, 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.080 you're presented with a form where you can fill out 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.400 a a little email questionnaire about why you think our 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.040 team should arrange a video conference with you to explain 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.120 why you listen, how long you've been listening, and we 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.480 convert those videos and occasionally play them on an area 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.280 of the website. And we've been at this for I 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.119 don't know a month and a half now, maybe longer. 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.880 In setting it all up, we've we've began airing some 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.240 of the videos that we because you remember the one 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.680 when I told you about in the Pacific Island, who 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.360 has to walk a bunch of well feat to get 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.280 to the top of mountain to get two g Eliot 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.560 or connectivities that she can download podcast of the program 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.520 each and everything goes back down the hill where she 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:10.280 does her missionary work talking to people all over the country. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:14.680 And last night we invited three that we have met 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:20.840 during the meat Rush team rush effort here. They're all 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:26.400 former Marines. They're all lifetime listeners. They and their wives, 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:32.560 So as Catherine and me and our six guests, well 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.920 three guests and their wives at one table. And we've 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.880 got some pictures of this will put at rush limba 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.560 dot com. After I finished this little segment here, Coco's 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.560 going to transcribe it and put some pictures up. Just 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.880 great people, lifetime listeners. When you see these pictures, these 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.320 are the people I'm talking about who make the country work. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.000 These are the people that, uh not because they listen 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.679 to me, although I think it is inseparable, people who 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.800 make the country work listening this program, because this program 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:07.040 reflects what they believe. This program validates what people who 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:12.439 make the country work, live, breathe, and believe. It was 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.640 a pleasure meeting them. I had a hustle up there. 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.240 I had a race out of here after the program. 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.440 I had a fly up, had to find a Newark 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.840 because the superintendent of the Port Authority, So I'm leaving 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:29.240 something out. They asked me to speak when General Mattis 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:33.160 couldn't make it. You you talk about these people have 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.880 all paid to be in there to hear the Secretary 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.320 of Defense and he can't make it, and so it's me. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:46.120 Jim Calstrom, former director the f Office FBI office in 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:47.839 New York, is who asked me, would you mind? Is 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:52.120 a Jim? Are you kidding? I mean, I'm not. I'm not. No, no, no, no, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.079 you gotta do it well. How how much you're looking for? 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.320 Ten fifteen minutes, max? Ten fifteen minutes, Jim, I don't 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:01.560 even get warmed up until thirty minutes. Okay, No. So 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.960 they sent the superintendent of the Port Authority to New 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.319 York to meet me for lights and sirens into Manhattan 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.040 to make sure I got there in time, and we did. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:17.040 We pulled in right as the reception and cocktail period 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:21.520 was ending at seven and everybody was being seated, and 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:26.160 it was one inspirational speaker after another. There was a 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:32.800 woman who lost her husband in combat. The foundation had 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:37.280 provided provided scholarships for her two kids. She gave a 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.559 stem winder of a speech about what it all meant, 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.240 about what it meant being married to somebody who the 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.800 families know what's going to happen, what can happen in combat, 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:54.520 and it's the other America with this this last night. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.800 Without the people that were in that room, the country 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.280 and be what it is. But we could get along 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:09.800 without James Comey, and we can get along without Nancy 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.800 Pelosi and Valerie playing, and we can get along without Always, 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.840 We can get along without Anderson Cooper, we can get 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.120 along without George Stepanopolis, we can get along with it, 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.640 probably get along without me. But we cannot get along 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.880 without the people in that room last night, As the 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:31.680 closing speaker said, and he was responding to some of 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.080 the comments I made because I I talked about this 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.600 divide in the country, and I I pulled, no part, 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.320 don't tell him I'm worried. I told him that we've 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.200 got a serious challenge, that we've got a great nation 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.120 at risk in a dangerous world. And I talked about 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:47.680 this divide, and I talked about you've heard me to 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.520 the theory that I don't think we have any advind 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.720 us together anymore like we had in World War Two. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.880 This guy stood up after I had finished. There were 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.080 some other comments, and he referenced it not by me 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:00.880 and by name, but he said, look, we just tell 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.640 them we were in a uniform here in this room tonight. 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:09.040 Don't worry we got it. We got it, just like 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.280 the NYPD, they got it, just like the Port Authority 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:16.080 cup they got it. Don't worry, we got it. We 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.880 stay in our lane. It doesn't matter who's running the show. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:20.760 We know what we gotta do, and we got it. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:27.800 And that's why we couldn't get along without those people 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.360 in that room. And those people in that room last 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:34.800 night are among those who get ripped and lampooned and 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:40.280 impuned by these other guys that we have to spend 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.960 a bunch of time chatting about here today, as though 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:47.199 what they think matters, as though what they say or 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:52.040 right is gospel. So we have spend time exposing who 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:56.240 they are and exposing the lies or the misrepresentations, the 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:02.320 deceit that they're using you this repeating formula of left 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:06.200 on the assault against the country, and a few of 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.640 us here on the right standing up trying to say 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.760 no and stop them and defend it. But it was 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.000 the people in the room last night, the Marine Corps 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.440 Law Enforcement Foundation, not just the uniform Marines, but the 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.720 people that were there as donors and who show up 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:26.440 every year. It was a microcosm of what I believe 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.840 is people who make the country work, make the country run, 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:34.959 and it was it was an honor for me to 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.880 be part of it. It was distinct privilege to be 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.840 asked to speak in that room. I always think I'd 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.920 bomb it too. I mean, I always think I didn't 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.520 do nearly as good as I could have when that 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:49.920 I've fretted over and all the way home last night. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.960 But then I realized I would have today to fix 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.360 any not infny wrong. Just just you know, I'm so 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:03.480 hyper critical that I never, ever, never ever, I rarely 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:08.000 tell myself I nailed it. But the crowd was was 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.000 up and supportive. It was just it was it was 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.559 a great room to be in and a tremendous event 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.600 to to be part of. And I just I wanted 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.400 to acknowledge this, and I'm wanting to let you know 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.560 we're gonna just a few pictures when we need to 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.360 respect these people's privacy. No last names of the three 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.720 lifetime listeners all ex military, and they had the time 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:35.080 of their lives they had. I mean, they're they're ex military, 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.360 They observed their country, they had never been to an 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.680 event like this, and they just it was so great 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:46.960 to have them there, people who who genuinely appreciated one 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.040 of one of these guys wants to go play that 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.400 these people remember everything I've said from the time they 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.520 have been listening, and they're throwing it at me. Then 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.640 I'm just stunned and blown away. They remember more than 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.520 I did. And I have one of the best memories 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.360 in the world, and they remember more than I do 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.680 about certain things I've said and when and uh and 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.280 how So it was an invigorating evening and it was 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:18.120 very uplifting, and I wish everybody could participate in events 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.240 like this for that very reason. So it won't be 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.160 long we'll have I just got two pictures I'm gonna 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.640 put up for now. One is a shot of all 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:31.000 of us at the table, and then a not dislike 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:32.800 the others, but there's a really good picture of me 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:38.240 with with one of the h three listeners that we 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.760 invited from the Meat Rush event. His name is Joel, 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.080 his former marine. He's wearing his medals on his h 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.200 on his tuxedo jacket. Great people, their wives were fun. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.640 It was, but these two pictures will give you a 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:55.200 flavor for what the evening was. And again no last names, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:59.280 because you I don't want these people descended upon by 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.480 the people are going to be talking about today on 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.760 the left, who seemed to have only one desire and 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:08.320 that's rip everything to shreds and tear it down. And 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.880 I just do not want people who have done nothing 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.600 but be listeners of this programmed to deal with any 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.680 garbage like that. So that's why no last names. The 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:25.640 names of the three couples lifetime listeners, all military members 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.120 who are guest last night, Philip and Patricia, Joel and 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.600 Felicia and Joseph and Bryer, and I would love to 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.040 tell you their last names, but in this day and age, 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.360 in this climate, I'm not going to subject them to 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:44.160 any potential harassment that might result from the trolls that 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:48.880 live and breathe on Facebook and Twitter and media matters 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:52.080 and wherever. But trust me, when you see the photos, 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.600 you will you'll be able to they look at they're 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.960 great Americans. You'll be able to tell Bibe looking at them.