How I Kicked Off the Christmas Season at Thanksgiving
RUSH: Christmas is a national holiday and we are inclusive here at the EIB Network, and so we welcome everybody into our spirit, feelings of joy and goodwill and all of that.
This Tax Bill May Actually Happen!
RUSH: You know this tax bill? It actually may happen. I'm beginning to get a sense, I'm beginning to get a feeling that this thing is actually going to happen before Christmas. Trump is on his way to Missouri sometime this week to begin the process of pitching it. Trump is admitting that he's open to some changes perhaps in the way they do the numbers on the pass-through with regard to the reduction in tax rate there.
Net Neutrality Explained Via Professor Hazlett’s Great Book: The Political Spectrum
RUSH: Net neutrality is misnamed. There's nothing "neutral" about it. The government controls it. The government regulates it. If you like government regulation, if you like how government regulation retards things, slows things down, gums things up, causes mistakes to be made, then by all means support net neutrality.
It’s Sad to See the NFL Ratings Crash
RUSH: Kaepernick, who the sports media is still hell-bent on having a team hire, Kaepernick went to Alcatraz with the Native Americans to protest the un-Thanksgiving. It's what's called the un-Thanksgiving, 'cause the Native Americans once commandeered the place and took it over, you know, after they had closed it as a prison, Native Americans rode out — I don't know what they did, but they took over Alcatraz.
Stuart Smalley Holds a Pure Caca Presser
RUSH: Well, this is basically an up-yours press conference. Screw you. And he just wanted to say it for the cameras and microphones instead of a statement. But I'm gonna tell you how much of an act this was. This guy, for whatever else he is, is a 40-year veteran of being on TV and in movies and so forth, and he does not speak like he spoke in this thing. "Uh… Uh… Um… I… I…" trying to act contrite and trying to act sorry and thoughtful.
Here’s the Democrat Front-Runner for 2020
RUSH: Now, the front-runner for the Democrat nomination as we sit here today — do not doubt me on this — is Bernie Sanders. You disagree with me or you don't believe it? Well, believe it, because the Democrat Party is no more the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is the party of American communism.
Classic Misinformation Campaign on Trump’s CFPB Powers
RUSH: What makes this newsworthy is the latest effort by the Drive-By Media to cast Trump as somebody unsuited, unfit, immoral, dictator-like, tyrannical, and it's all about the directorship of what is called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CFPB. Now, I wonder how many people even knew that this agency existed before this latest controversy popped up?
New Victim Acronym: LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP
RUSH: "LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP" is the acronym. Lesbian. Gay. Genderqueer. Bisexual. Demisexual. Transgender. Transexual. Two-Spirit. Intersex. Queer. Questioning. Asexual. Allies. Pansexual. Polyamorous. Those are now all of the sexual victim groups to whom we all must express sensitivity, compassion, and understanding.
Rush 24/7 Stack of Stuff
RUSH: No longer is this just gonna be a long list of stories that I might mention on the program. Now, you will get specifically the stories that I talk about on the program and a select list of a few others that I intended to get to but ran out of time. It's going to be more of a real-time base feature rather than just a generic list of places that I go to prep the show.
Guest Host Ken Matthews
Ken Matthews, the afternoon drive time host on WHP 580 Harrisburg and WPHT 1210 Philadelphia, filled in for Rush on Open Line Friday. Check out Ken’s Stack for links and audio clips. Rush returns to the Golden EIB Microphone on Monday.
The True Story of Thanksgiving
RUSH: It’s especially relevant now since the original Thanksgiving is so misunderstood and so much of education is mistaught and actually young people lied to about much of the founding of our country. And so our tradition is to set it straight each and every day here.
NY Times Says Charles Manson Inspired Conservatism, Tears Apart Capitalism for Destroying the Earth
RUSH: The problem is that the New York Times readership is a bunch of sponges and they're gonna soak this up, and they're gonna be running around thinking that they're now enlightened and they've learned something. And then there was another piece that ran this week claiming — this is not a new thought. This one does not surprise me they would run. But we're gonna dissect both of these.
Leftists Urge Followers to Ruin Thanksgiving with Arguments
RUSH: There's a tweet here from Chuck Schumer: "Bring this chart to Thanksgiving dinner. It’ll come in handy when that family member who always talks politics tells you the Republican tax bill helps the middle class." And then the GQ story and headline: "It's Your Civic Duty to Ruin Thanksgiving by Bringing Up Trump — This Turkey Day, Consider Making Life HELL for a Few of Your Relatives."
Pixar Founder Latest Charged with Sexual Harassment
RUSH: Until this happened, you never heard the name John Lasseter? Well, he is to animation and the modern era of animation what George Lucas is to the sci-fi genre that is Star Wars and so forth.
Girl Scouts: Don’t Hug Grandma!
RUSH: Fox News. The headline: "Girl Scouts Tells Parents Not to Force Daughters to Hug Relatives Over the Holidays." Now, you're probably saying, "Wait, wait, wait, what? That headline doesn't make any sense." I know. But I read it verbatim. The Girl Scouts of the USA — maybe they're just miffed that the Boy Scouts has decided to admit girls.
Outrage Greets Giants-Redskins Game (No, Not Because It’ll Be a Dud)
RUSH: The Nation, the far, far, fringe left wacko news publication suggests — do you know the Washington Redskins are hosting one of the Thanksgiving football games in the NFL? The Nation believes that the Redskins hosting a Thanksgiving Day game is the owners of the NFL showing their true racist, anti-Indian feelings. These people are incapable of being happy. They have to find some sort of ism in everything, even if it's harmless and good.
The Other Side Is Desperate to Rehab Its Reprobates
RUSH: Well, you know, it's an interesting question: What is gonna happen to these people? You know behind the scenes reclamation projects are underway. Like CBS is gonna try to find a way to get Charlie Rose back, and Bloomberg is gonna try to find a way to get him back. The guys on the other side of the glass are shaking their head, "No way, they went too far."
Young Reader: There’s So Much In Rush Revere That They Didn’t Teach Us in School
CALLER: I want to just say how awesome I thought your book was. I read my first book of yours in the Rush Revere series, the Brave Pilgrims. My grandma, who's been listening to you for about 15 years, just told me about it, and I thought it was great.
George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
RUSH: How many of you have heard that our founders were atheists or were agnostics? So that's the first Thanksgiving, the official proclamation for it. It has traceable roots right back to the Pilgrims.
The Canarsie Tribe Swindled the Dutch out of Manhattan!
RUSH: "In due course, the intruders from Amsterdam who thought they had pulled a sharp one on the locals were forced into negotiating a second, more costly deal with the" people who actually did own "Manna-hatin"! So it was the Dutch who got screwed by the Indians, not the other way around. And I guarantee you, you haven't been taught that.