{"id":399486,"date":"2021-05-26T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=399486"},"modified":"2021-05-26T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T01:22:21","slug":"eib-high-note-flying-old-glory-would-make-rush-revere-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/26\/eib-high-note-flying-old-glory-would-make-rush-revere-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"EIB High Note: “Flying Old Glory” Would Make Rush Revere Proud"},"content":{"rendered":"

KEN: Today\u2019s EIB High Note is perfect because Memorial Day\u2019s right around the corner. And it\u2019s about six teens in Elkhorn, Nebraska, that started a small business to boost patriotism in their community. It\u2019s called flying Old Glory. And here\u2019s how it works.<\/p>\n

\"\"Every American holiday the teens get up at dawn and place an American flag at the end of their customers\u2019 driveway in the yard. They use a piece of rebar — rebar and PVC pipe all purchased, measured, and cut and assembled by the boys themselves.<\/p>\n

They return at dusk to collect the flags until the next holiday. And they do that every holiday. This service costs 45 bucks. Mason Miller, one of the teen entrepreneurs, explained why they wanted to start this business.<\/p>\n

\"\"MILLER: It\u2019s really nice to drive up the street and see a bunch of flags flying in a row.<\/p>\n

KEN: Yes, it is. And every American has that in them, and every conservative, every listener of this show, you know how it feels when you pull into a street or a business and there\u2019s all this Americana there. This is exactly why Rush wrote his Rush Revere children\u2019s series.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Remember, we\u2019re not doing these books just to write books.<\/a> There is actually a mission behind this. This country is just wonderful. There\u2019s no reason to be ashamed of this country. It\u2019s not perfect, but it\u2019s the best place on earth to be born, the best place on earth to live, the best place on earth that man has ever devised for himself to thrive in the history of humanity.<\/p>\n

The absolute best. There\u2019s no reason to be ashamed of it or feel dishonored, there\u2019s no reason to hate this country, and yet that\u2019s all been taught. The truth of the founding of this country has just been distorted, and in some cases lied about now. So this is one small effort to get to young people. They\u2019re never gonna listen to the program, obviously. But it\u2019s a way to get to them in a nonpolitically charged way the truth of this country.<\/p>\n

I think back to when I was in kindergarten and grade school and learning this stuff, and since I started this project, I\u2019ve actually asked myself, “What kind of person would I be if I had not been taught what I was taught?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If I hadn\u2019t been taught patriotism, if I hadn\u2019t been taught love of country — if I hadn\u2019t been taught about the great people, the Founders, and people who followed them — what would I be?”<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t be qualified to do this program. This program would not be a success if I had not been taught what I was taught. If I had been taught what\u2019s taught today, I\u2019d just be your average, run-of-the-mill person in the media that thinks this country is unjust and immoral and has got to pay a price for all the mean things it\u2019s done to people. That\u2019s not what people want to hear about their country, but they\u2019re being taught that.<\/p>\n

At a young age, if that\u2019s all they\u2019re taught, that\u2019s what they\u2019re going to think, and then they\u2019re gonna grow up thinking the country is in vast need of reform and it\u2019s just an absolute shame. If you love the country (and I do) and if you\u2019re proud of it (and I am), there\u2019s no reason for somebody not to be. You know, I\u2019m naive, admittedly so. I also live in great conflict. For example, one part of me doesn\u2019t understand how people could hate this country.<\/p>\n

Then the other side of me says, “Yeah, I do, if they\u2019re taught it.” Maybe African-Americans, that\u2019s a huge hill to climb — slavery, and turning something like that into love of country. I can understand that intellectually. But at some point you have to realize that was then, that was way back then, and we\u2019re one of the few countries that\u2019s ever abolished it. We\u2019ve gone to war with ourselves to do so. There\u2019s even a, you know, positive ramification from that.<\/p>\n

\"\"But the opportunity, the freedom? I don\u2019t understand hating it. I literally don\u2019t understand elite leftists and their hate for the country. To me, it\u2019s irrational. But then the other side of me understands their irrationality \u2019cause I know who they are and I understand what their inner needs are, and so I understand. But it still makes no sense to me.<\/p>\n

So the mission here is to try to get to these kids before they are totally gone.<\/p>\n

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