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RUSH: John in Philadelphia, as we head back to the phones, on the EIB Network. You\u2019re with Rush Limbaugh. Great to have you, John. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush. I pray that you stay healthy forever. I wanted to talk about how my dad, he taught me how to think when I was in college, and I think you\u2019ve actually given me a master\u2019s degree in thinking. He was a professor in Philadelphia, and when I was in college, what he did was, I came in, you know, being a college punk that I was, spouting off what my professors were telling me, and basically telling me my dad — it was during the Reagan years — you know, “Look at how terrible Reagan is,” this, that. And my dad was like, “Look…”<\/p>\n

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He was one of only three conservatives on the campus. The guy used to eat alone because none of the teachers, you know, they pegged him as the conservative, none of \u2019em wanted to eat with him or be any part of him. So, as his teaching to me, what he did was, I had three roommates, we had a quad, and he got me a subscription to the Washington Times, you know, cause I was saying, “Oh, I read the Philadelphia Inquirer. I watch the local news. I get my information. I know what I\u2019m talking about.” And, as we started to look at articles that were written the same way, we started to realize, “Hey, this is completely different. This is a different slant. Look at what we\u2019re reading here.” And we would debate every night, my roommates, and we learned how to think. All four of us now are conservatives. And I want to thank you, obviously, for producing a great book. I\u2019ve actually read it myself. I\u2019m into the Constitution. I\u2019m into the founding. I\u2019m into, you know, a lot of the things that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You read the Rush Revere book?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I did. You know what? I\u2019m gonna read it to my 7-year-old at some point when she\u2019s either 8 or 9 —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. No, no, no, no. Let me send you an audio version. You don\u2019t have to wait for her to be able to read it. I\u2019ll send the audio version and you can let her hear it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I mean —<\/p>\n

RUSH: And then she\u2019ll be able to read it later on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Much appreciated.<\/line><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/map>\n<\/line>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll send her a Ted-Tea Bea<\/a>r, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, that would be awesome.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, so don\u2019t hang up when we finish here so Snerdley can get your address.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that. One of the things I found as I get older, I take critical thinking for granted because it was the way I was raised, too. I was exposed to it, first became aware of thinking, having opinions at 9 or 10 years old. And I am — I guess I shouldn\u2019t be. I am dumbstruck when I find out the robotic thinking that\u2019s out there. It\u2019s not even really thinking. It\u2019s just blind acceptance of conventional wisdom, in every demographic. As I say, it shouldn\u2019t surprise me \u2019cause I understand, but it does, \u2019cause thinking isn\u2019t that hard. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: The last call we had was John from Pennsylvania. He talked about how he had read Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, and it reminded me of a couple things. A, I\u2019ve had people asking, “Is the book still available?” Of course it\u2019s still available, but the second thing is he said that he read it. It\u2019s a children\u2019s book, as you well know. It\u2019s target-written for the 10-to-13 age-group, but when I announced the book last September or October, I said, “This is actually a book for everybody.” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a book for grandparents and parents to share with grandkids and kids. What I have heard from a lot of adults is exactly what that guy said, that he enjoyed it, too, because it contained things about the Pilgrims that they didn\u2019t know. As adults, they weren\u2019t taught these things, and they hadn\u2019t learned them since they got out of school. So I gotta tell you, that was really gratifying when I first started hearing that, \u2019cause when we did this book, I didn\u2019t know what to expect. <\/p>\n

A children\u2019s book? That\u2019s a brand-new thing. I\u2019ve never did anything like that. You know, every book that I\u2019ve done has been targeted, a conservative manifesto for politically involved and engaged and aware adults. But this book had a mission, too, and the mission is to counter what kids are being taught in elementary and middle and even high school today: They\u2019re being lied to about American history. <\/line>The multicultural curriculum, as devised by leftists, has taken over, and they believe this country was unjust and immoral and ill-purposed and founded by a bunch of racists and sexists. This is the kind of stuff that young kids been have taught. They\u2019re raised and educated to be suspicious and doubtful and untrusting, and it\u2019s the greatest country ever, and it has to be dealt with. One of the things I\u2019ve always said here is that the left owns the pop culture. <\/line><\/p>\n

They own Hollywood. They own television. They own music and this kind of thing — and they own education. So, if we\u2019re ever gonna really make any inroads in reversing where we are culturally, we\u2019re going to have to make inroads in education. So that\u2019s my little effort here with this first book, and to learn that adults — the parents who were buying the book for kids — were also reading and learning from it, that was just a plus.<\/p>\n

I mean, that was an added, unforeseen benefit. Maybe mistakenly I assumed that most of the adults in this audience that would buy the book for their kids were pretty much up to speed and informed on the truth, say, of the Pilgrims — who they were, where they were, why they came, what happened on the way, what happened when they got here, the true story of Thanksgiving and all that — and it\u2019s about really gratifying to hear so many adults say that it was educational for them, too. <\/line>Of course it\u2019s still out there. <\/line><\/p>\n

I mean, this thing is gonna have a long, long, long history. Folks, we haven\u2019t even begun to scratch the surface of what we have planned, except I can\u2019t divulge any of that right now \u2019cause we have a formula here. But, yeah, it\u2019s exciting, and it\u2019s fun, and it\u2019s thrilling. It\u2019s not something that\u2019s happened before. It\u2019s brand-new, and to have it received as it is, I just can\u2019t tell you. But some people ask if it\u2019s not available anymore — maybe, you know, because it\u2019s after Christmas. <\/p>\n

No. It\u2019s still all over the place. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, brick-and-mortar stores, what have you. If you were hoping that your kids would get it and they didn\u2019t, there\u2019s still time. It\u2019s not expensive. It\u2019s not a full- priced adult book. Plus, it\u2019s beautiful. The cover is beautiful, and the paper that we chose for the actual book is faux parchment. The illustrations in this book, it really is a beautiful thing. I can\u2019t tell you how gratifying it has been — and, yes, there will be more. <\/p>\n

We can\u2019t just do one. <\/p>\n

That\u2019d be letting people down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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