{"id":36659,"date":"2010-10-20T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:25:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:25:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:25:28","slug":"from_ernie_banks_to_phil_donahue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/10\/20\/from_ernie_banks_to_phil_donahue\/","title":{"rendered":"From Ernie Banks to Phil Donahue"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Brooksville, Kentucky. Vickie, you\u2019re next. Make it count on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. This is indeed an honor and a pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019ve listened to you for years and years, and you are the greatest teacher. Absolutely. I wanted to tell you that I have never in my life heard anything so concisely, so precisely, and so honestly put together a synopsis of exactly the way that the people out here in the flyover land feel. I am so sick of the elitism and the condescension and the bull crap that is coming out of their mouths, and I\u2019m scared to death for my children, for my grandchildren. They\u2019re not going to have the country that I grew up in, and it\u2019s scaring me to death. That\u2019s why we\u2019re going to do something.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This really is what\u2019s driving a lot of this.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, it is. It absolutely is. And that\u2019s why we are exactly the way that we are. It\u2019s because we believe in what our mothers and our fathers taught us, what we learned in school before they stopped teaching, and we really are (garbled).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_57914498c1faa.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"545\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: It\u2019s not just that. It\u2019s &#8212; it\u2019s not just that, Vickie. All of you understand the exceptionalism of this country. You understand the blessing of this country, the blessing it is to be an American. And you see people who don\u2019t, who don\u2019t look at it as special, exceptional, or even a blessing. They look at it as a problem, and it ticks you off because America is not the problem in the world. America is the solution to the world\u2019s problems. Anybody who thinks of America as exceptional, thinks of themselves as blessed to be an American, certainly wants their children and grandchildren to have the same place, the same opportunities that they had. And they\u2019re living through a period of time where there are people who don\u2019t think this country is any good, not even exceptional, don\u2019t feel blessed, who are trying to tear that to shreds.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re saying, &#8216;It ain\u2019t going to happen on my watch.\u2019 I\u2019ll never forget something. I was a kid. I don\u2019t know what year it was. But I couldn\u2019t have been older than 12 or 13. The day Ernie Banks retired from the Chicago Cubs. They televised it, the ceremony from Wrigley Field. It was in black and white. Ernie Banks at the microphone, the first thing he said: &#8216;I want to thank God for making me an American.\u2019 I have never forgotten that. Ernie Banks, an African-American in the late fifties-early sixties, &#8216;I want to thank God for making me an American.\u2019 I don\u2019t want to get in the metaphysical or religious aspects of it. I\u2019m talking about the realization it\u2019s a special place and that it was a blessing (act of good fortune, what have you) to be born here. On the contrary I also remember Phil Donahue on his show regretting that he had been born in America. <\/p>\n<p>I remember him wringing his hands, walking through his audience with his wireless microphone, talking about the accident of his birth and how unfair it was; that if he had been born 50 miles to the south in Mexico, what a rotten life he would have had. And how is it fair that people born mere miles from the US border are consigned to rotten lives and we, born in this country, are not. He felt guilty about it. And I\u2019m shouting at the TV, &#8216;Hey, Phil? You can\u2019t change it, so why don\u2019t you try to be proud of what this country is and spread it around the world so that being born in the world is a blessing? Why do you want to tear this country down and make it like the rest of the hellholes in the world to make it fair? Why?\u2019 I\u2019ve never understood this about people. Well, I do understand it, but it\u2019s still sick. They want to equalize people by lowering everybody rather than by elevating people. So you have two contrasts: Ernie Banks, &#8216;I want to thank God for making me an American.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Phil Donahue, wringing his hands on television, lamenting the accident of his birth. And of course who is considered brilliant and compassionate and caring? Donahue. He\u2019s a man who had a lot but he understood he shouldn\u2019t have had it. It was unfair that he had it while people living 50 miles south in Tijuana didn\u2019t have it, except Phil never gave away his to the people in Tijuana. He always voted for people who would take yours away from you and redistribute what you have. Ernie Banks retired as a player December 1st, 1971, and so whatever I saw was during baseball season. I remember he was in uniform, so it might have been the following season when they had a ceremony for him that I saw. It was 1971, so I would have been&#8230;20? Well, that\u2019s how time flies. Anyway, his nickname, of course, Mr. Sunshine. &#8216;Hey, let\u2019s play two.\u2019 Ernie Banks. Always wanting to play a double-header. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Brooksville, Kentucky. Vickie, you\u2019re next. Make it count on the EIB Network. CALLER: Hi, Rush. This is indeed an honor and a pleasure. RUSH: Thank you. 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I wanted to tell you that I have never in my life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>From Ernie Banks to Phil Donahue - 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:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2010\/10\/20\/from_ernie_banks_to_phil_donahue\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"From Ernie Banks to Phil Donahue - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Brooksville, Kentucky. 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