{"id":332055,"date":"2019-12-19T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=332055"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:32:50","slug":"happy-birthday-kathryn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/19\/happy-birthday-kathryn\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Kathryn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: \u00a0Look what I just found. \u00a0Nike has introduced a new Colin Kaepernick shoe. \u00a0You know, they pulled the Betsy Ross flag shoe back on July 4th \u2019cause Kaepernick didn\u2019t like it. \u00a0So, it says here, &#8220;Nike is preparing to release yet another product lionizing Colin Kaepernick, this time, with a shoe memorializing the first time Kaepernick protested during the national anthem in 2016. [Nike] is set to issue the Colin Kaepernick x Nike Air Force 1, a low sneaker that features the date of the first time Kaepernick remained seated during the national anthem to protest against the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rushlimbaughshowstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-332045\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-121919-Kaepernick-Shoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-121919-Kaepernick-Shoes.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-121919-Kaepernick-Shoes-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. \u00a0I thought originally, he was protesting the police. \u00a0Racist pig police, we thought he was protesting. \u00a0But then it was revealed later on that, in fact, he was protesting the country. \u00a0So Nike\u2019s decided to go ahead and stop the subterfuge and just acknowledge here that, yeah, we\u2019re gonna celebrate and we\u2019re gonna lionize and we\u2019re gonna create a shoe celebrating a guy who loves protesting America, who cannot get a job anywhere but with us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;This special edition Nike Air Force 1 comes dressed in a Black and White color scheme&#8230;'&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;Black and White color scheme&#8221;? \u00a0How racist. \u00a0This shoe is made exclusively for kneeling. \u00a0It\u2019s got the exact kind of flexibility you would need to kneel. \u00a0&#8220;&#8216;It features a Black leather upper, a gradient-faded Swoosh on the sides completed with several personal details. A hangtag with Kaep\u2019s number 7 atop a white midsole and icy translucent outsole with the date Colin first took a knee in protest &#8216;8\/14\/16\u2019 on the right shoe finishes the design.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I guess that would be the shoe that you would use to kneel. They\u2019re $110 a pair. \u00a0Go ahead, Nike, keep doing it. \u00a0You\u2019re just gonna force people to want to react to it and push back. \u00a0It reminds me. You know, I mentioned, folks, that we in the last hour that we\u2019ve set an <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/12\/19\/membership-at-rush-24-7-hits-another-all-time-high\/\">all-time record for membership at RushLimbaugh.com<\/a>. \u00a0I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand when I say this. \u00a0This is all due to you, and we have more appreciation and thanks and gratitude than we could ever express.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s because of that we don\u2019t stop in trying to make it the best and the most comprehensive, the most worthwhile and the most valuable we can each and every day. \u00a0Now, today is my wife\u2019s birthday &#8212; Kathryn\u2019s birthday is today &#8212; and the staff up at the warehouse, the fulfillment center, the design center is throwing her a surprise party today, and I wanted to acknowledge her role in all this, because it\u2019s practically everything. \u00a0The idea for <a href=\"https:\/\/rushlimbaughshowstore.com\/\">Stand Up for Betsy Ross<\/a> was something she pitched to me on July 4th when we first heard of the Betsy Ross shoe being pulled off the market by Nike.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-332065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-121919-Rush-Kathryn-EIB-Wedding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-121919-Rush-Kathryn-EIB-Wedding.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-121919-Rush-Kathryn-EIB-Wedding-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every design of every item of apparel was designed by Kathryn. \u00a0Every item was chosen &#8212; the color scheme, the manufacturer, all of it. \u00a0Kathryn has also been a major player in the overall redesign of the website and the app. \u00a0She really has devoted so much time to all of this, and it shows. \u00a0And the recent spurt of growth of this entire enterprise directly correlates with her rolling up her sleeves and getting involved in this.<\/p>\n<p>When I found out they\u2019re throwing her a surprise party today I said, &#8220;Way to go. \u00a0Do it when I can\u2019t be there.&#8221; (laughing) It\u2019s going right now at our super-secret warehouse. I can\u2019t tell you where the warehouse is. \u00a0You people would mob it. \u00a0But it\u2019s just great, and she has been such a factor in the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/tunnel2towers.org\/\">Tunnel to Towers operation<\/a>, the Stand Up for Betsy Ross. \u00a0We\u2019re not through with this, of course, and we\u2019re not through with continuing to update the stuff in the store and the designs and all that.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s just a great, great, great way to end the year with so much of this being so profoundly successful and having it mean so much in terms of the Tunnel to Towers association, so much to first responders and military personnel who\u2019ve been killed in action. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/12\/17\/the-most-influential-audience-in-all-of-media\/\">The work Tunnel to Towers does in paying off mortgages or in some cases building houses&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rushlimbaughshowstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-330661 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120619-Betsy-Ross-BLUE-LOGO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120619-Betsy-Ross-BLUE-LOGO.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120619-Betsy-Ross-BLUE-LOGO-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To have been part of that is a tremendous thing, and you\u2019re the ones that made it all possible. You are the ones who are acknowledging the hard work that a lot of people are putting in making this stuff happen, and it\u2019s so appreciated&#8230; Look, I can\u2019t even scratch the surface on how much. \u00a0So thank you from the bottom of all of our hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I wanted to acknowledge her role in all this, because it&#039;s practically everything. \u00a0The idea for Stand Up for Betsy Ross was something she pitched to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":332065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Birthday, Kathryn! - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/19\/happy-birthday-kathryn\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Happy Birthday, Kathryn! 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