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<\/a><\/p>\nColin Kaepernick, San Francisco 49er quarterback, decides he doesn\u2019t like them, tells Nike he doesn\u2019t like them. Nike says that\u2019s really cool. Okay, we\u2019ll not sell the shoes. And they shelve \u2019em, don\u2019t sell \u2019em. The news erupts: Kaepernick doesn\u2019t like shoes, Nike cancels shoes. People immediately began to suspect it was nothing more than a PR stunt.<\/p>\n
But whether it was a stunt or not, it contained an attack on the American flag, that an American corporation rewarded an attack on the woman, the woman who designed the first American flag, that made it, Betsy Ross. What did she ever do to anybody? Why in the world is Betsy Ross under assault, much less the American flag that she designed? And yet, it\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/p>\n
So we decided at the RushLimbaugh.com store<\/a> to answer back and to push back. And we created the Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt with our unique, one-of-a-kind T-shirt fabric and a great design. I\u2019ve just pulled it out of the drawer here again. I\u2019m gonna hold it up to the side camera on the Dittocam so you can get a good gander at it here. I\u2019ve got it positioned right there. There we go. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n Now, when we started this on Monday, within a half hour to an hour we became aware that there were 15 different knockoffs. In other words, other outfits were creating copycat designs of that shirt and putting them for sale on their websites, trying to make unaware buyers think that they were official RushLimbaugh.com T-shirts. They\u2019re not.<\/p>\n You know how many knockoffs are up there now? Try 70, 70 knockoff shirts. Seventy different fraudulent outfits are trying to sell T-shirts with our design and make it look like they are ours being sold on their site. And I want to remind you again, we\u2019re not selling the official and legitimate Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt anywhere but RushLimbaugh.com.<\/p>\n If you buy one anywhere else, it\u2019s not official, it\u2019s not gonna be with our great, unique T-shirt fabric, material, whatever you want to call it. It\u2019s not gonna be our exact design unless they take a picture of it and try to copy it with as much detail in their graphics as they can, but the point is, they\u2019re all rip-offs.<\/p>\n Now, we\u2019re tracking \u2019em down. This is how we know that there are this many of them. The 70, by the way, are not all active. I don\u2019t want to get into great detail about this, but there are now a total of 70. But not a single one of those knockoffs has any kind of a charitable tie-in like we do.<\/p>\n We are sending a portion of the proceeds to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation<\/a>. This is a great organization that helps the people, families of those lost on 9\/11. They extend aid to our military and first responders. They are a great outfit that we\u2019ve partnered with on this. In other words, this is not just the pursuit of profit at the RushLimbaugh.com store<\/a>.<\/p>\n The bottom line is, we had to take another delivery, a totally chock-full UPS truck showed up at our loading dock today to unload yet another batch of these shirts because they are going like hotcakes. And it\u2019s because people want to push back. What did Betsy Ross ever do to anybody? What\u2019s this flag ever really done to anybody? What in the world?<\/p>\n It\u2019s like, if I could give you an example \u2013 and I just did in the previous hour of the program — the census has always had a question about citizenship on it and the Obama administration came along and removed it. And crickets. The Republicans didn\u2019t say anything, didn\u2019t object to it. They just allowed it to happen. The real question, then, is why did it get taken off the census? That\u2019s the real question. That\u2019s the real controversy. Why was it removed? Not that Trump wants to put it back.<\/p>\n But, of course, the Democrat Party, the Drive-By Media, the controversy is that Trump wants to put that question back. And so now Obama judges all over the country are waiting for the case to get to their court so they can tamp it down. Trump\u2019s administration is looking for ways via executive action and executive order to get the question of citizenship back on the census. I think they\u2019ll succeed.<\/p>\n But when the Obama administration removes it, there wasn\u2019t any pushback. Here comes Nike making a new set of tennis shoes, the Betsy Ross flag, Colin says, “I don\u2019t like that. That\u2019s offensive to me.” And so Nike cancels it. And there wasn\u2019t any pushback.<\/p>\n So we decided to push back. I, for one, have grown weary of the no pushback. They do whatever they do, particularly the things they do that attack this nation, this nation\u2019s history, this nation\u2019s traditions, and this nation\u2019s heroes. Betsy Ross.<\/p>\n Betsy Ross never did anything to anybody. She\u2019s a heroine, an early American woman. A woman who was fundamentally involved in the creation of our national symbol. There\u2019s no reason this woman should come under assault. There\u2019s no reason that she or her design have been sullied the way Kaepernick and Nike have gotten away with doing so.<\/p>\n This is our pushback. And, apparently, many of you have wanted to join it. Word of this reached Steve Doocy at Fox & Friends. So I have agreed to appear tomorrow morning on Fox & Friends just to briefly recount this story and talk about what all is going on here tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n Was it 8:30 a.m. that we are scheduled? That\u2019s always subject to change based on breaking news and other things. But right now I am scheduled to appear at 8:30 a.m. ET tomorrow with Doocy and the gang at Fox & Friends to talk about this.<\/p>\n And I also wanted to once again send out a terrific thanks and appreciation to all of you who have literally — we\u2019ve had to turn over our staff working 24\/7 to fulfill all of the orders that have come in for the Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt that we entered the market with on Monday.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071119-Betsy-Ross-Shirt-RUSH.jpg\")
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RUSH: I understand the gambit here, Carl. Let me translate this, folks. What Carl is saying — Carl is like many of us. Carl is frustrated that facts alone do not persuade idiots. And that is very frustrating. We all know when we\u2019re talking to fools. Many of us can\u2019t avoid it. Ahem. And try as hard as you can to convince them with facts that what they think is wrong oftentimes it\u2019s like talking to a blackboard, it\u2019s like talking to nothing.<\/p>\n