{"id":320761,"date":"2019-09-05T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=320761"},"modified":"2019-09-05T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T00:54:08","slug":"whats-rush-limbaugh-gonna-do-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/09\/05\/whats-rush-limbaugh-gonna-do-about-this\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Rush Limbaugh Gonna Do About This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Audio sound bite number 1. Grab that please. This morning Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel. We have the news infobabe Carley Shimkus reporting about a couple who were almost kicked out of a Major League Soccer game for flying the Betsy Ross flag in Utah.\u00a0 Utah.\u00a0 I am not kidding.\u00a0 This happened in Utah at a Real Salt Lake game and here is the sound bite.<\/p>\n

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SHIMKUS: A Major League Soccer team threatens to boot two fans from a game for flying a Betsy Ross flag. The couple put the flag away, but they say they were being patriotic at the Real Salt Lake game.\u00a0 The team claims the flag has become “a symbol for hate groups.” They say any controversial flags or symbols, signs or symbols of hate are banned. The Betsy Ross flag thing —<\/p>\n

KILMEADE: Absolutely ridiculous.<\/p>\n

SHIMKUS:\u00a0 — still going on.<\/p>\n

KILMEADE: Unbelievable. Our first flag is now “a symbol for hate groups”?<\/p>\n

SHIMKUS: That\u2019s 2019 for you.<\/p>\n

KILMEADE: Okay.<\/p>\n

DOOCY: All right Carley. Thank you.<\/p>\n

EARHARDT: Where\u2019s Rush Limbaugh? What\u2019s he gonna do about this one?<\/p>\n

KILMEADE: Well, we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

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RUSH:\u00a0 “What\u2019s [Rush Limbaugh] gonna do about this one?”\u00a0 Yes, it\u2019s interesting.\u00a0 I just tell you this.\u00a0 As you know, we have the Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt that\u2019s been on sale at the Rush Limbaugh Store at RushLimbaugh.com since late July\/early August.\u00a0 We have a charitable participant here, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.\u00a0 When I last told you about this… I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve given you a recent update.\u00a0 We have sold enough T-shirts to generate $3 million in donations.\u00a0 A portion of the proceeds go to Tunnel to Towers, and $3 million has so far gone to Tunnel to Towers.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not finished by any stretch.\u00a0 We bought up every blank white T-shirt of the style exclusive to us and to this show. We bought \u2019em all up, and our vendor has been printing around the clock actually making the shirts.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been shipping them out.\u00a0 We took a break during the hurricane \u2019cause we had to get outta here.\u00a0 But I\u2019m just gonna say this.\u00a0 We\u2019re up to over 300,000 Betsy Ross T-shirts<\/a>.\u00a0 Stop and think about this: This is a $27 item. We have sold — you have purchased — enough $27 items to generate $3 million in a charitable donation to Tunnel to Towers.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Now, people have said, “Is it over?”\u00a0 Well, we didn\u2019t have a hard end time for this because it kind of just sprung up spontaneously.\u00a0 This happened over the July 4th weekend.\u00a0 That\u2019s when I\u2019m sitting here, watching the news. You know, Nike puts out the Betsy Ross shoes. Colin Kaepernick said, “I don\u2019t like those,” and Nike says, “Oh, Colin doesn\u2019t like them so we\u2019re not gonna sell \u2019em,” and then the women\u2019s soccer team came out; started trashing Trump and trashing America, after winning the women\u2019s World Cup.\u00a0 I said, “Well, hell\u2019s bells!”<\/p>\n

So we created this. I asked Kathryn. I said, “Can we get a shirt turned around real quick, ‘Stand Up for Betsy Ross\u2019 with the Betsy Ross flag on it?<\/a>”\u00a0 And within four days, we were on the air announcing the sale of the shirts — four days — on July 8th.\u00a0 So that\u2019s when it all began.\u00a0 And it exceeded everybody\u2019s expectations.\u00a0 We had no idea.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be honest: We would have been thrilled if 50,000 T-shirts have been moved.\u00a0 Now we\u2019re up to 300,000.\u00a0 So I\u2019m just gonna say this: Watch Fox & Friends tomorrow and listen to this program tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Frank Siller, who is the director of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation<\/a>, is going to have a segment on the Fox & Friends show.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what time.\u00a0 When I find out what time the segment is, I\u2019ll pass it on to you.\u00a0 He\u2019s going to appear, and there will be an announcement.\u00a0 Now, you might be asking, “Well, why aren\u2019t you going to be on TV making the announcement?”\u00a0 Because, folks, TV… I\u2019m too famous. Yeah. I like anonymity.\u00a0 The more I\u2019m on TV, the more people recognize me, and I\u2019m trying to go low key here.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to hog all of this.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019ll do the announcement on the radio show as well, but it will be previewed on Fox & Friends tomorrow.\u00a0 But the program will go on — and now this?\u00a0 Here are the details this:\u00a0 “A couple in Utah waving the 13-starred Betsy Ross flag at a Real Salt Lake soccer game was told to stash their American banner or risk ejection from the game by stadium personnel. Randolf and Diana Scott,” the couple, “consider themselves to be superfans of the Major League Soccer team in Salt Lake City and suggested that the flag was just a part of their normal expression of fandom in the stadium.<\/p>\n

“‘Soccer is just a big part of our life,\u2019 Diana said of their head-to-toe Real attire. The couple said that the American flag has long been a part of their expression when attending soccer games but that the Betsy Ross flag was indeed a new addition. ‘Diana bought it for me actually, because my other flag was kind of old and falling apart,'” the husband said. “The flag, which was designed by Betsy Ross at the start of the American Revolution in 1776, represents the original 13 colonies in a circular pattern along with the 13 bars and stripes still represented on the flag today.<\/p>\n

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“The vintage design has recently been the subject of controversy as some outlets have asserted that it is associated with hate groups. Nike recently halted production of sneakers that were intended to don an image of the flag. ‘They kept telling us if he wasn\u2019t going to take it down, we were going to be rejected from the game,\u2019 Diana Scott said of the couples attempt to wave the flag at a Real Salt Lake game. Stadium officials claimed the flag was a ‘symbol for hate groups.'” How in the world can it be associated with hate groups?\u00a0 So we create this T-shirt as a way for people to push back against this nonsense — and man, oh, man, did you respond.\u00a0 So that\u2019s that.\u00a0 That\u2019s the latest on that. (sigh)<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 I got an email from the famed actor and director Nick Searcy<\/a>, and Nick Searcy said, “I got one question about this story out of Salt Lake City and the Betsy Ross T-shirt.\u00a0 What the hell are two Americans doing at a soccer game?”\u00a0 (chuckling) Just kidding.\u00a0 No, he said it.\u00a0 But we\u2019re just kidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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