{"id":383245,"date":"2021-02-25T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=383245"},"modified":"2021-02-26T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:49:24","slug":"the-inspiration-for-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/02\/25\/the-inspiration-for-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inspiration for Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

KEN: You\u2019re listening to the Rush Limbaugh Show, and we are remembering the words that helped build the largest radio audience in history — people that think, people that care, people that love America — and I\u2019m just glad to be part of that group of listeners that many of whom grew up with Rush. And something that Mr. Limbaugh had an uncanny ability to do, in addition to making the complicated more understandable or easier to understand, is he had solutions.<\/p>\n

So I think one of the best solutions that he came up with was teaching young people with an accurate and entertaining product in the case of the Rush Revere series. And when I was talking about how heavy they are, they\u2019re just quality books. I mean, it\u2019s quality. The Rush Revere set is something you can hand down to your great-great-great-grandkids.<\/p>\n

\"\"I always said, if we could just get some professors — and that was one of my first suggestions after I read them and shared them with my kids when they were much younger. If we could just get some professors at leftist universities — 40-, 50-year-old professors — I think that would really help them learn history, \u2019cause so many of them obviously don\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week Kathryn… You remember she was on Monday,<\/a> and she was sharing the Rush Revere character Liberty and who it was based on. Their old English sheepdog, Abbey. And for regular Rush listeners, you know all about the pets. You know they\u2019re animal lovers. There are a lot of animal lovers on the Rush show. Abbey was the goofball of the pack, which is why when you hear this next clip, you\u2019ll hear a different meaning to this young Rush Revere reader\u2019s question<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, if you must know… I don\u2019t want to give too much away here, but let\u2019s say that there was a Scooby-Doo influence in the creation of Liberty.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm?<\/p>\n

RUSH: But what I really wanted, Addie, was what\u2019s called a vehicle. Well, “vehicle” is bad term. I wanted a mechanism to actually do the stories. The thing I like about these books is that the reader is not told in third person about these events that are covered in the book. You, the reader, are taken to the event. The time-traveling horse, Liberty, takes Rush Revere and these students and the reader right back to the event.<\/p>\n

You are there, as they board the Mayflower. You are there, as they\u2019re crossing the Atlantic. You are there, as they land at Plymouth Rock. You are there, for the first Thanksgiving, with the Native Americans.<\/p>\n

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I wanted a smart-aleck, funny, sort of scatterbrained character that would provide the humor and the lightheartedness. But then when necessary the character is totally reliable, totally loyal, and always on time. Even if it looks like the character isn\u2019t gonna make it. A scatterbrain, somebody you really never know what they\u2019re gonna do next. That was the vehicle that the horse, Liberty, allowed me to create.<\/p>\n

I try to be as original as possible. Now, everything has been done. There\u2019s no really completely totally original thing possible anymore, not since Genesis. But the character of Liberty, the talking horse, is something devised specifically by me to be what it is. It\u2019s the vehicle for humor — lackadaisical, distracted, very smart, totally loyal, reliable.<\/p>\n

But Liberty always keeps you on the edge of your chair wondering if he\u2019s gonna come through. Funny, hilarious, fearless, all of those characteristics are intended to be included in the character. It\u2019s not really modeled on anybody — on purpose. I didn\u2019t want to copycat anything. But, understandably, it may remind you of other characters. Scooby-Doo, I mentioned, and these young people might not know who Scooby-Doo is.<\/p>\n

Well, all the better if they don\u2019t. But if they do, it\u2019s at least some guideline as to what we\u2019re going for here. Scooby-Doo may be in reruns still for the young skulls full of mush out there to partake of.<\/p>\n

KEN: There it is. I was waiting for “skulls full of mush,” one of my favorite terms. You know, it\u2019s interesting. Think about the decades of Rush Limbaugh — the words, the content, the products in the sense of the things he embraced; things he shared, things he created; the language that changed, coming up with words like “Drive-By Media” or “feminazi,” which is one of my favorites.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry. I just triggered somebody. Sir, I didn\u2019t mean to trigger you. It\u2019s gonna be okay. Just the word “feminazi.” Maybe your wife can calm you down. It\u2019s gonna be all right. So I\u2019m going through this over the last few days, especially just because, you know, that\u2019s the one thing. There\u2019s such a body of work to celebrate.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s such a body of words that we can continue well into the future with Mr. Limbaugh and the EIB Network and I was thinking about how leftists in particular feel the need to rewrite history, to take their videos offline, to reedit the books. I mean, Obama\u2019s book has been reedited. Hillary\u2019s books have been reedited. They\u2019ve taken Biden\u2019s stuff offline.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to do that with most conservatives, and you certainly don\u2019t have to do it with Rush Limbaugh. You could go back — and I noticed this, too, with President Donald Trump. You could go back 20, 30 years and watch an interview with Donald Trump. He sounds like the same guy. (summarized) “We need to put America First. China\u2019s gaining on us.<\/p>\n

“We need to take care of this, take care of that.” Rush was the same way. And I think that speaks volumes for Mr. Limbaugh. You go back 20, 30, 40 years, there is no flip-flopping. He has been warning us about what could hurt our republic, and he has been reminding us of our greatness as Americans for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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