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<\/p>\nDOOCY: Well, he joined us last Friday, and it was such a hit, Rush Limbaugh is joining us once again from his headquarters down in Palm Beach. We\u2019re gonna talk about his runaway hit, the Betsy Ross T-shirt, in just a moment. Rush Limbaugh, good morning to you.<\/p>\n
EARHARDT: Good morning!<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Hey, everybody. Welcome back. Great to be back. It\u2019s always a thrill and an honor. You guys are the president\u2019s favorite show, so it\u2019s a thrill to be here. Thanks for having me back.<\/p>\n
DOOCY: All right. Well, I heard you talking on your show, Rush, about the president and his rally a couple of nights ago. And, at one point, the crowd was chanting “send her back,” regarding Congresswoman Omar. Yesterday, the president made it clear he disagrees with that. He said he wasn\u2019t very happy with that. What do you make of that?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Much ado about nothing. Look, I don\u2019t really have time here because I spent 20 minutes on this on the radio yesterday. This really irritates me. There are two sets of rules. The Democrats never have to denounce Antifa. What\u2019s Antifa do? Antifa is blowing up cities. Antifa is attacking people, ditto Black Lives Matter. Ilhan Omar herself hates Israel. She\u2019s been uttering anti-Semitic statements. The House comes up with a resolution and doesn\u2019t even mention her name. And yet some people at a Trump rally make some innocent little chant born of fun and Washington comes to a halt and everybody gets up, \u201cOh, my God! Oh, my God! Do you hear that?”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s nothing!<\/p>\n
You know, we have this two-sets-of rules circumstance here, and all this is designed to get conservatives and Republicans acting as though they\u2019re guilty of racism, bigotry, sexism, and homophobia. And it\u2019s all made up. None of it\u2019s true. We conservatives love people, Steve. We want the best for everybody.<\/p>\n
We want everybody to take advantage of the wonderful opportunities that living in this country affords everybody. And we want everybody to be able to have the opportunity to be the best they want to be using the ambition, desire they have. And all we ask — all we ask — is that you love the country, that you do your best to help other people love the country.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s no reason to hate this country. There\u2019s no better place on earth to be. There\u2019s no reason to despise this country. There\u2019s no reason to want to “perfect it” on the premise that it is unjust or immoral. So people are fed up, I think, with hearing how rotten their country is. And they\u2019re fed up hearing the media give those people an additional platform to broadcast their hate and their disgust with the country.<\/p>\n
So I think what happened at that rally is a combination of people having fun. They\u2019re with a president they love. It\u2019s a takeoff on “lock her up,” Hillary Clinton. As I said, the Democrats never have to denounce any of their supporters. They\u2019re never made to explain it. So it\u2019s a two-way street here, and I wish everybody on our side wouldn\u2019t get so darn scared and afraid. \u201cOh, my God. Oh, my God. Did you see what they said? The media\u2019s gonna kill us.” So what? We\u2019re winning.<\/p>\n
HEGSETH: Rush —<\/p>\n
RUSH: There\u2019s no reason to act defensive. There\u2019s no reason to act guilty of these false things that they accuse of us. So the whole thing just ticks me off. I\u2019m really using a lot of restraint here not to be profane.<\/p>\n
DOOCY: Thank you. This is restrained Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Did you see what happened? After the president goes out and does what they said he had to — he disavowed these horrible people — did you hear what Biden did? Biden comes out, “You didn\u2019t go far enough. You need to denounce the Ku Klux Klan. You need to denounce what happened with your supporters in Charlottesville.” It never ends. It\u2019s never enough. All it is, is falling into a trap and giving them further ammo to accuse us of all these phony, fake things they say we are, which we are not: bigots, racists, sexists, homophobes.<\/p>\n
Speaking of sexists, where are all the female abuse problems taking place? The Democrat Party. Jeffrey Epstein, anybody? Harvey Weinstein, anybody? Kevin Spacey? Take the list. They\u2019re all liberal Democrats abusing women. What do we have to defend? I\u2019m tired of constantly being on the defensive. Look, if this is too hot TV for morning, I\u2019ll dial it back. You asked, and I\u2019ll tell you, it just ticks me off here. It just does.<\/p>\n
EARHARDT: Rush, third time is not a charm apparently. Al Green continues for this impeachment push, and it failed.<\/p>\n
RUSH: See, here we go again.<\/p>\n
EARHARDT: Is what the president\u2019s doing grounds for impeachment?<\/p>\n
RUSH: No! They want to impeach him because nothing else they\u2019ve tried to get rid of him has worked. The Democrat Party is bankrupt. They are devoid of any ideas that appeal to people. They cannot even join us in the arena of ideas to debate the great things and issues that we all face. Instead all the Democrat Party can do with their leadership in the Drive-By Media is try to destroy their political opponents, try to discredit them, try to marginalize them. They never join us in the debate.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, look what\u2019s happening with substantive things like the economy and employment, particularly for minorities. They got 95 votes, and there wasn\u2019t even a reason to impeach. They were just impeaching to do it. I say, let them continue. I hope they continue to illustrate how wacko, how morally bankrupt and substantively bankrupt they are. That\u2019s why I hope Omar keeps talking. I hope Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — I hope they keep talking. I hope that Trump continues to succeed in making all of these people the face of the Democrat Party. That\u2019d be great.<\/p>\n
HEGSETH: Rush, if I may, El Rushbo, as a big fan and longtime listener, I appreciate everything, the voice of clarity you always have been. One of those moments recently was when Nike recalled — at the prompting of Colin Kaepernick — the Betsy Ross flag sneaker. Because, of course, they believe — or Colin Kaepernick, the new CEO of Nike believes — that it\u2019s racist. Now, you responded exclusively on this show with a T-shirt that benefits Tunnel to Towers. You have an update because your massive audience has responded. What have you got for us?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, this is it. And this took off. This is the Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt. It was a pushback. It started as a pushback to Kaepernick and Nike. It then became inclusive of the women\u2019s soccer team. I mean, here they are winning, great athletic endeavor, the world championship, women\u2019s soccer, and what do they do? They start bashing America, bashing the president.<\/p>\n
So, this shirt became a vehicle for people to push back against this. Now, we turned the T-shirt around in four days and I announced that… This is day 11 that this shirt has been up there and running. And we announced a tie-in with a great charity, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.<\/p>\n
DOOCY: Yeah.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Today, I\u2019m ecstatic. The audience that I have and that you have are some of the greatest people in this country. They are ordinary people that do extraordinary things. We are well past 100,000 T-shirts.<\/p>\n
HEGSETH: Whoa!<\/p>\n
RUSH: We are today announcing a donation of $1.5 million to Tunnel to Towers<\/a> in 10 days.<\/p>\n DOOCY: Unbelievable.<\/p>\n RUSH: Steve, on a $27 item… That\u2019s a $27 gross item. You know, there\u2019s expenses and the cost of the product. To put this in perspective, the Super Bowl champion T-shirt every year goes on sale the day of the Super Bowl, the night of the Super Bowl, sells 50,000 in three months. This is 100,000 and we\u2019re still going. There\u2019s no end to this. People are still ordering.<\/p>\n We\u2019re gonna be fulfilling these orders all the way through September. It\u2019s the greatest thing. It\u2019s one of the most uplifting things that I have been involved in because this is the American people. This isn\u2019t me making a donation. This isn\u2019t you or anybody else. This is the American people, 27 bucks at a time, generating enough revenue to be able to send $1.5 million to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.<\/p>\n DOOCY: Unbelievable. Wow.<\/p>\n RUSH: I\u2019m just stunned by it, I\u2019m ecstatic by it, and I\u2019ve been looking forward all night to being able to announce this today because it\u2019s a true testament. It\u2019s a true testament to the goodness and the decency of the American people in our audience. It\u2019s incredible.<\/p>\n DOOCY: I\u2019m sure, Rush —<\/p>\n RUSH: It\u2019s so far beyond our expectations. We had no idea what this was gonna do. We would have been happy with 30,000. But in 11 days we\u2019re over 100,000. I mean, the trucks keep showing up every day delivering the shirts as we have to continue to reorder these things to meet the demand.<\/p>\n DOOCY: Yeah. Just put them over there by the golden microphone.<\/p>\n RUSH: And I really need to thank you and the Fox audience for giving us the vehicle here to make people aware of it as well as on my radio show.<\/p>\n DOOCY: Well, Rush, I\u2019m sure that the people who are watching right now, if they don\u2019t have one, they\u2019re gonna go to your website, RushLimbaughShowStore.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n RUSH: You know, that\u2019s a very important point. You\u2019re very, very smart. We\u2019ve got over 200 bootlegs out there, Dooce.<\/p>\n RUSH: Talking to you yesterday, 200 fakes, 200 knockoffs. Our crack legal department\u2019s shutting them down as quickly as we can, but what does this mean? It means that 200 fraudulent websites are trying to sell their version of this shirt and make it look like it is the official Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt. It isn\u2019t. There\u2019s only one place you can get the official shirt and there\u2019s only one place where your purchase goes to benefit the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.<\/p>\n By the way, this T-shirt is some of the most incredible fabric. You will not believe. I mean, this doesn\u2019t even feel like a T-shirt when you wear this baby. So it\u2019s just been fabulous, and we\u2019re working so hard to fulfill these orders. It\u2019s gone so far beyond anything we expected, and it\u2019s just — again, as I say — ordinary Americans coming through doing extraordinary things selflessly for this. Steve, $1.5 million on a $27 item.<\/p>\n DOOCY: Unbelievable.<\/p>\n EARHARDT: Amazing. And that organization is so phenomenal. What happened is, Mr. Siller, he was a firefighter, he went through the tunnel to the towers.<\/p>\n RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n EARHARDT: It was his day off and he went up there to save individuals, American lives, and he did.<\/p>\n DOOCY: On 9\/11.<\/p>\n EARHARDT: And he died. Exactly. So his brother started this organization. And when one of our first responders dies in the line of duty, they have kids, they have a wife, they have a mortgage. He goes and pays off their mortgages.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071919-FOX-Rush-sml.jpg\")
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