{"id":319479,"date":"2019-08-16T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=319479"},"modified":"2019-08-16T20:01:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T00:01:36","slug":"what-your-betsy-ross-t-shirt-donations-make-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/08\/16\/what-your-betsy-ross-t-shirt-donations-make-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Your Betsy Ross T-Shirt Donations Have Made Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The Stand up for Betsy Ross T-shirt<\/a>. People have been asking, “Rush, you haven\u2019t mentioned this.” We haven\u2019t mentioned it on purpose. Two reasons. One, the shootings — and, folks, we needed time to fulfill the orders that have come in. We hope to finish shipping everything by Tuesday, and do you know what the total number of T-shirts is? We\u2019re going to be close to 300,000 of these babies, 300,000, Stand up for Betsy Ross T-shirts.<\/p>\n

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We had another shipment of printed shirts just arrive today at the warehouse. So now they have to be logistically categorized, placed in the right bins, and shipped out to the right people who ordered them. This came up today on Fox, the American Newsroom show with Bill Hemmer. He was talking to Frank Siller, who is the CEO of Tunnel to Towers<\/a>, which is the charitable beneficiary, proceeds from the sale of Betsy Ross, Stand up for Betsy Ross T-shirts — at RushLimbaugh.com, by the way. That\u2019s where you get them, the “Store” tab at RushLimbaugh.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a little sound bite from this morning…<\/p>\n

HEMMER: With what Rush Limbaugh has done for you and selling those T-shirts —<\/p>\n

SILLER: (chuckles) Yes.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: — how much money has he raised for the organization?<\/p>\n

SILLER: So far, it\u2019s $3 million.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: It\u2019s just unbelievable.<\/p>\n

SILLER: It\u2019s unbelievable. I went on… I was on Fox & Friends today, and we named 10 mortgages that we paid off — six mortgages we paid off, and four Gold Star family houses we started construction because of that. But, listen, that $3 million is unbelievable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It really is, and this happened inside of a month. We\u2019ve been at it a little bit longer than that. But we weren\u2019t able to start fulfilling orders for the first week. We had to scale up rapidly when we saw the overwhelming reaction here. It\u2019s 300,000 T-shirts, folks! That $3 million is $3 million and counting, and people ask, “Is there going to be any more?” Well, just stand by, folks. We, right now, are focused on making sure we get everything out.<\/p>\n

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Again, we hope to have everything out the door and shipped by Tuesday. And then the fulfillment staff, they haven\u2019t had a day off since this began. So we\u2019re going to give them a half day. After working 30 days straight, we figure that\u2019s being fair. Nah, it\u2019s a little bit more than that. By the way, one more bite. Shannon Slutman was on also this morning on Fox. She\u2019s the widow of Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Christopher Slutman<\/a>, killed in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

SLUTMAN: Frank has been amazing, and the whole Tunnel to Towers Foundation<\/a>. And I\u2019ve told the story before that we, on the worst day — worst day — of our life, we found out about Chris passing away. They walked in and said, “Your mortgage is taken care of.” So everybody knows that\u2019s the biggest bill you ever deal with. For my girls to know that we were going to stay in our house, and we didn\u2019t have to worry about moving or any changes was a big deal. It helps you focus on what you\u2019re supposed to focus on, which is my kids, my girls. It\u2019s just one less thing to worry about. You\u2019re able to focus on, you know, college and making sure that they have their day-to-day needs met.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Every one of you that purchased a Stand up for Betsy Ross T-shirt<\/a> made that possible for Shannon Slutman and a lot of others. Ten mortgages. Actually, sixteen mortgages have been paid off. Four Gold Star family houses have been under construction now. I mean, it\u2019s a tremendous amount of money that all of you made possible. So that\u2019s the update on it and it\u2019s still alive and kicking. If we had brought it to a conclusion, I would have told you about that. I don\u2019t keep anything from you, ever.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Mark in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Great to have you, hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Maha Rushie, nice to check off on my bucket list and talk to you, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad you made it through here today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. I wanted to share real quick that everything that you rkwere saying about the rally last night is absolutely perfect. There are no better words that anybody could have used. It was an absolute lovefest, which dovetails with our Woodstock discussion today. (chuckles) It was amazing, absolutely amazing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was inspiring, I\u2019ll bet, too. It was a different world. I mean, you go out there, you watch the media, you hear that Trump is destroying this and destroying that, and everybody hates Trump. And then you go to the rally, and you find the exact opposite is the case.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you find yourself with 12,000 other like-minded people. It\u2019s got to be inspiring. It had to get you up.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah, and it was much more than that outside. It was probably closer to 25,000 people outside.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did Trump say anything that upset you? Like, CNN says he was “spreading fear and blame last night” by telling everybody, “Whether you hate me or not, if you don\u2019t reelect me your economy and your 401(k) is going to be destroyed.” Did you feel frightened and intimidated when Trump said that last night?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: No. No. Not at all. There were a couple of protesters, 100 or so off to the side.<\/p>\n

RUSH: One of them was a real pig.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Trump commented that the guy needed to start exercising.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I couldn\u2019t see him outside on the JumboTron, so I can\u2019t comment on that. But at least he admitted that he loves cheeseburgers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who, Trump did?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, he does.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s not as big as me or I\u2019m not as big as him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me just tell you: Two eggs, two pieces of bacon, two pieces of sausages, some pancakes, maybe a waffle, and what everybody else at the table wants.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah, absolutely. What I really called for was to —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh no.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — I figured I had the opportunity to —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, gee, I thought you had finished because we\u2019re out of time.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re going to stick with Mark. I thought he had gotten all that he wanted — I thought he wanted to talk about the rally. There\u2019s one more thing. Mark, welcome back.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Very gracious of you guys. I wanted to let you know that I\u2019m pretty sure I had the only real Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt<\/a> there. There were a number of counterfeiters selling them when I came out of the garage. And you could tell they were just cotton. And it was hot. And I stayed nice and cool. So everything you\u2019re telling everybody about the quality of this T-shirt is right on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad for that endorsement, and I appreciate it. And the knock-offs, we\u2019re up to over 300 now. And we\u2019ve dealt with enough, a number of them. But they keep popping up, which is in itself an indication of just how hot and popular the item is.<\/p>\n

The legal team has not stopped chasing these people down, and it\u2019s amazing. Even with all this heat on them, even with as much attention that\u2019s been focused in telling people, \u201cDo not buy knock-offs.\u201d They keep popping up because people, all you have to do is go to Google. If you can\u2019t remember the address to my website or if you haven\u2019t heard it. Let\u2019s say you see somebody wearing it, \u201cWhere did you get that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the Rush Limbaugh store.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere is that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know, search it on Google.\u201d So you go to Google and Google doesn\u2019t return my show as a search result because I am, of course, conservative and I\u2019m not among the favored. So all of these knock-off sites end up being returned and people unaware end up going to them.<\/p>\n

I have gone breathless trying to warn people to stay away from the knock-offs. When you buy a knock-off, none of that is going to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation<\/a>. None of it. The fraudsters are keeping it all. They\u2019re not selling high-quality stuff, by definition.<\/p>\n

We only sell one kind of fabric T-shirt, and we own every one that\u2019s been made in the country, by the way, every one. In the color white, we own every one. Not all of them have been printed yet, but we own every one. Anyway, Mark, thanks much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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