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It is a wonderful way to start a month and to start a week.

CPAC was absolutely incredible. I spent the last number of days at the at the Conservative Political Action Conference. As always, it is an honor to be here behind this microphone on the EIB Network. Sitting in for the great Mahat Rush, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network is not going anywhere. We are going to be here for a long, long time doing this and certainly sharing with you the great analysis and the prescient takes that Rush Limbaugh had for all these years.

So don't go anywhere but CPAC this weekend. Unbelievable the energy level off the charts. Sure. A lot of it had to do with the fact that you had former President Donald Trump coming in to speak to give the big stemwinder closing speech of the conference. But throughout the days that I was there on the ground in Orlando, staying right there at that Hyatt Regency, you could feel the energy crackling in the room.

You really could speaker after speaker talking about the most important issues, the most important issues, immigration, election integrity, getting tough on China, getting jobs protected here in the United States of America, redoing trade deals, and, of course, undoing the horrible, horrible mess that is the Biden Harris energy policy. But it all came down, it all came down to. Sunday afternoon, late afternoon, as as President Trump made his way out there to the stage, the main stage there in the ballroom at the conference, you could feel the energy, you could hear the people's enthusiasm.

They were excited, as you heard Lee Greenwood song play. And then out came the president of the United States and he looked revitalized. He looked like he was energized and he was ready to go. He delivered an impassioned keynote address, wrapping CPAC up. Now, he didn't announce a run in 2024, but he did say he'd support whoever does run and promised to be heavily involved. In fact, at the very end of the speech, he said, well, I'm going to be supporting whoever runs.

I wonder who that's going to be. I wonder who that's going to be. I wonder who that's going to be. And that is coming on the heels of the straw poll that John McLaughlin put together with all the attendees there at CPAC. Everybody gets of eight digit code. You vote virtually socially distanced, inappropriate, all that sort of stuff. And folks are still heavily, heavily invested in supportive of President Trump, looking for him to make a a third run, as he alluded to during the festivities and during the speech.

Well, less than two minutes into the former president's 90 minute speech, his first public appearance.

Since since January the 6th and then, of course, his his his farewell comments there at the airport on the 20th, the morning of the 20th.

Well, he mentioned our Rush Limbaugh. Here's what he said. I also want to pay my love and respect to the great Rush Limbaugh. Who is watching closely and smiling down on us, he's watching and he's loving it and he loves Catherine. Catherine, thank you for being here. So great. Thank you, Catherine. He loved you, Catherine. I will tell you that. So fantastic. Thank you, Catherine. Now, you in the audience know that Rush was honored Saturday night at the Ronald Reagan dinner where they inducted him into the conservative Hall of Fame, making him the first individual, the very first individual to receive the honor.

First was actually an organization, the NRA, the National Rifle Association. They played a beautiful nearly 10 minute video retrospective highlighting his career.

Now it's posted up over at the Rush Limbaugh website, you can take a look at it, it's an absolutely stunning and beautiful remembrance of Rush. And then Katherine Limbaugh, dubbed the first lady of talk radio, accepted the honor on Rush's behalf. Here's what she had to say.

Thank you very much for this recognition in honor of our wonderful rush.

And thank you for all the prayers we've received throughout this year. Russia's passing is not only a loss for me and our family, it is a significant loss for our nation. Russia will forever be the greatest of all time. He was extraordinary in every way. Rush was brilliant of courageous, extremely generous, incredibly hardworking. A gentleman.

He broke down the most complex issues of the day in a very easy to understand humorous way while making three flawless hours on the radio look easy. It most certainly was anything but easy. Russ truly loved our country beyond measure. He wanted the younger generations and all Americans to know how miraculous the United States of America is and why our country should be cherished. He loved our Constitution, our military, our flag. I often said Russia was a modern day founding father and America's Winston Churchill rush was routinely mischaracterized, ends and means and made out to be someone he wasn't shocking, I know, mainly because of how effective he was.

Yet Russia never wavered.

He proudly fought for and defended conservative values.

He wanted every single American to have hope that they could succeed no matter where they started or what they looked like or what obstacles stood in front of them just as he had.

Russia was a pioneer who paved the way for many others in broadcasting and talk radio. What made Russia so unique and admired by millions is he encouraged so many of us to think for ourselves, to learn and to lead. He encouraged us, despite the difficult times in our lives, to carry on and continue to work hard to achieve our dreams and believe in American exceptionalism. Russia was a gentle giant.

He never, ever became too big or too well known to forget the little guy who helped him to reach the pinnacle of success or his loyal audience who supported him in good times and bad.

He was a true friend to so many when perhaps it wasn't always popular to be in Russia's honor.

May we all continue his mission to protect and defend our wonderful country? If Russia were standing here right now, I know he would say to all of you, it is not time to panic, just the opposite. America is still the shining city on a hill and our best days are ahead. Rush heavens anchor man will forever and inspire and encourage us eternally. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart. I am deeply sorry for your loss and our loss.

God bless you all. God bless. Thank you. Such an exciting and poignant moment, so well-deserved of a man who, well, has accomplished so much on this earth and is now enjoying the rewards of the afterlife. And this is what's so important, because the conservatives who gathered together in Orlando at CPAC did what they do best, which is recognizing the greatness in the effort to defend liberty and freedom. Now, something very special is going to happen tomorrow, Katherine's going to join us tomorrow to share details about the private family gathering.

Remember remembering Rush as he was laid to rest in St. Louis this past Wednesday? She's also going to be taking calls from you.

It's going to be a very special broadcast, Todd Hermann is going to be you're not going to want to miss that, not a moment of it now throughout the four days. At CPAC, Rush was mentioned often, I overheard dozens and dozens of conversations involving high ranking officials and politicians and pundits and ordinary average folks who were there as a part of CPAC.

You could fill up the entire show with the commentary, but I encourage you to go to the website and watch not only the video retrospective, but you can also see Katherine's acceptance speech as well. It was such an amazing moment. It was such an amazing four days. You really felt recharged, reenergized. And ready to take on this next great challenge, taking a look towards 20, 22 and into 2024, and I know we're all ready for what's coming.

It is a brand new day. And it is a day we can be proud of working towards that will be coming for this country. Honored to be sitting in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network. I am, Bret, whatever you're listening to the Rush Limbaugh and I am Brent Writable N for Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, it is wonderful to be here with you. Looking at the biggest applause line of Trump's CPAC speech yesterday, there were many there were huge, huge applause lines aplenty with the different topics and challenges that President Trump was was placing out there for the audience on that Sunday afternoon speech.

But it was most of all felt when he said the Republican Party is the party of love go.

The future of the Republican Party is as a party that defends the social, economic and cultural interests and values of working American families of every race, color and creed. That's why the party is growing so rapidly and is becoming a different party.

And it's becoming a party of love you have to see outside the streets. I mean, there's such a love, the flags. Amazing. Now, for those of you who listen to Rush Limbaugh, who love Rush Limbaugh, who have been around this program for many, many, many, many, many, many years, you know that Rush has been saying this for decades, like this instance way back in 2007, talking about how much conservatives love people.

The idea that Republicans are running around harboring or conservatives running around harboring all kinds of hate is absurd. In fact, it's just the opposite.

We love people. We love our country. We want the country. We love to be great, to be the best it can be. We want it to maintain the greatness that we inherited when we were born in this country. And we conservatives know that for this country to remain the greatest collection of human beings in a free society in the history of human civilization, yet we need great people. We need free people. We need people motivated and inspired to be the best they can be to do that.

What's their passion and desire leads them to? And we don't look at people and say they can't do it.

You can't do what? Are you kidding? You don't have the ability to do? We don't look at people with contempt.

We don't look at average people and say they can't do it without my help. Liberals do.

Liberals look at people and they have this contempt, all of the hatred and all of the bigotry, most of it that I see in this society happens to come from people on the left.

It's like an alternative universe. But we want people to be self-sufficient. We want them to realize their potential. We want them to be able to share values with their families, children and grandchildren so that the whole thing is perpetuated. The left only wants to perpetuate their power over people.

Russia's so right, they're so right, and I heard him say it so many times when I was sitting across the glass from him and down the line from him, the EIB Network. Progressives, liberals, they look at everything in life as a zero sum game. One of the great feelings that I always had being around what Rush did on a day to day basis was the inspiration you got the feeling that you can go and do it. All you have to do is just go do it.

All you have to do is just go do it. Early on in my career, I decided that I was going to drive around high end neighborhoods and look at big houses and look at fancy cars, you know, wealthier neighborhoods. Right.

And I always used that as motivation to work harder to say, OK, I can work harder, I can build a better mousetrap. I can come up with something that's going to be marketable and remunerated accordingly. Now, there are people who will take their kids into those same neighborhoods and go look at this. These are all rich people who got all their money stealing from from poor people in the working class. The dirty little secret is with the zero sum game is the fact that rich people don't get rich by stealing money from poor people because poor people don't have money.

Not in that regard. Rich people get rich because they start businesses, they create opportunities, they invest in businesses, they buy houses, they do things like that that appreciate, but they don't all start off rich.

This is the great fallacy. And so what happens is with the zero sum game, you have to vilify wealthy people. You have to vilify successful people. You have to say all those people that did these things, they all stole it. They all did it by by by sticking it to the little guy. That's what they did. We all know that. That's how they do this sort of stuff. That's not the case. The very fact that we are born in the United States or have the opportunity to emigrate to the United States legally and to live here and to work here and to exist in this country.

Puts us ahead of ninety nine point ninety nine percent of any of the folks that have ever been born to be alive in this time with this opportunity is a remarkable act. Of of of a miracle taking place. We have never been more mobile, we have never been more able to reach out and connect with people, think about the pandemic and what it did to our economy and think about is, as President Trump said yesterday during his address, the fact that we built the economy back up, then we took the hit from from the CCP virus and then we had to build the economy back up again.

And we did. We did. Millions of people, billions of people would give anything to get into the United States and a large, large percentage of those people would do anything to get into the United States to work.

To have the opportunity to toil in a market economy where they may come up with something that people then want to buy, have any doubts, look at the big tech bosses before they were big tech bosses.

Look at Steve Jobs, a person that that Rush routinely talked about the importance of his contributions to society. The secret of Steve Jobs wasn't just that he was a visionary. It was that he was a visionary who understood that you could create something that said, OK, I'm going to create a need for the product.

I mean, I'm offering out, let's go to create a product. I'm going to create a need for it. So people need it. They need the phone in their pocket. They need the tablet in their bag. They need to be able to do their work that way. And so what happens is progressives, because they're class warriors at their heart, they want to tear down rich people. They want to tear down successful people. They want to tear down that.

They then think, well, the conservatives hate everybody. Conservatives do not hate everybody.

Conservatives get excited and enthused when they talk to people who have big grand ideas and plans, the very foundation of what America was are the values enshrined in the conservative message striving, failing, picking yourself up, dusting yourself off and going at it again, going out and killing it every day, dragging it home and cooking, whatever it is. But it's about resilience.

That's what that's what I think is the most important value, in addition to patriotism and love of country and respect of the Constitution. But it's the resiliency of the American people. Resiliency, resiliency is native to your soul. It's native to who you are. It's native to who we are. You have to be taught to have a diminished expectation. As Russia said thousands of times, you have to be taught to fail, to expect failure. You have to be taught to be demoralized.

You take a small child, a child's going to be optimistic. That child's going to want to climb to the higher rung on the ladder, to climb to the higher rung on the slide in the park, to try to go run further and further away from mom and dad. That's the yearning of freedom living in real time. And so this idea that a conservative sit around and they want to stick it to poor people, they want to stick it to people.

That is the absolute 100 percent opposite. Reality. The more people that do well, the better we all do. Go back to that neighborhood I was talking about where you drive through with the fancy houses and you take a look around at what's out there, and you say to yourself, no, these people didn't get successful stealing from the poor. They came up with something that people wanted to purchase. And it's in doing that, that they realize that they realized that we all have that opportunity.

We may not have the same outcome, but we have that opportunity. And the idea that people are free to do that is the ultimate expression.

Edina, thank you, Johnny Donovan. Yes, indeed, we are going to be doing this for a very, very long time. Rush isn't going anywhere. We are going to be sharing with you all of his great wisdom right here on the EIB Network. And it is tremendous to be here on this beautiful Monday, the 1st of March. Let's take a look at the Trump speech a little bit more here.

One of the top issues, and this was according to the straw poll, I think it was issue one or two. I believe it was issue one, though, the idea of election integrity, safeguarding, protecting our elections, vitally important thing. And it's and it's obviously been a topic of conversation since November the third and even well before that, when you had a large number of local and state officials deciding they were going to single handedly or in in a collection change the way we were voting in a number of different states.

Well, President Trump former President Trump gets there on the on the stage last night and he's talking about the importance of election integrity. Here's what he said about that.

We need election integrity and election reform immediately. Republicans should be the party of honest elections that can give everyone confidence in the future of our country without honest elections. Who has confidence? Who has confidence? Who has confidence? Now, look, this is something that Rush has mentioned and does mention every election cycle, although this past year with covid restrictions, it became even more problematic with the introduction of mail in voting, Rush often said the end goal was to completely eliminate elections.

But he also said that we need to be hyper vigilant because many people. Have bought into the Democrat ideology, especially with all the indoctrination going on in schools, but let's revisit that sentiment from Rush Limbaugh on the idea of election integrity. Go. We have a I don't know, I think a serious problem here, but the idea that the American people didn't know what they were doing and in two years are going to be running to the ballot box to reverse their decision because they had no idea they were electing a bunch of commies.

What just happened in Georgia, two known communists were elected knowingly. How did it happen? Georgia has been overrun by people leaving the Northeast. There were stories all over the news about how Democrats were being targeted to move to Georgia to establish residency there for the singular purpose of electing these two communists to the Senate.

And they did it. So the idea that we are in the midst of a traditional American politics. I think while it would be great if it's true, it's woefully naive, it misses the point of what is happening right in front of our faces in this country. We're going to sweep them in twenty twenty two. Maybe that's right, right. How's that? I mean, why didn't we sweep them in Georgia last week? I mean, that's George has been a red state for I don't know how long.

What the hell happened. No, we'll get him in twenty twenty two. Right. You'll see. Folks, remember my admonition to Democrats, if they could if they could would eliminate elections.

What if they effectively have. I mean we still have them but what if they're irrelevant. The only thing you ask me, you know what, what the American people wait. I held up those who haven't and understand what we're up against because I still think we have the ability to outnumber these people. I still think we do. But I think we've got a way too much, I don't know, blindness or ignorance. And it perhaps is worse than that.

Maybe people have gone over to the Democrat side knowingly and purposely because they believe in it. Who the hell knows?

I oftentimes think back to Rush talking about his adopted hometown of Sacramento, California, remember, he would talk about that all the time. And in California, you're talking about a Primeau primo example of what happens when you end up with essentially one party rule. You end up with complete top to bottom control of Democrats in the state. In fact, you can add up independents and you can add up Republicans and you still don't come up anywhere near where you need to be with Democrats in the state.

And yet it's interesting because to look at a state like, say, California, you learn something about California very quickly.

And that is that is that there were more Trump voters in California than in any other state in the Union. So think about that, right? Miss California, what do you mean? Well, it's a huge state. It's a massive state to state that I left that I left for the Carolinas in February of twenty twenty. Now, I'm going to share with you a very quick story about this, because it's important is the sort of thing we're talking about in terms of shenanigans.

When I left the state of California and I moved to my new state, I had to register my vehicle. I registered my vehicle and I had to take a proof of the registration and send it back to the state of California to inform them at the DMV that my vehicle was no longer in the state of California. And I went round and round with them with letters and phone calls. And finally they acknowledge the fact that the vehicle is no longer in the state of California.

It was with me out and out in the Carolinas. So in October, I received a ballot mailed to my address in. The Carolina I live it and that ballot showed up, addressed to my home address from the California Department of Motor Vehicles database that had to have come from, there was the only database that possibly would have had my new address. And it was a mail in ballot to vote in San Diego, California. So they mailed me a ballot in a state, not California, for me to vote in an election in San Diego.

They obviously pulled the information from the database of the DMV, which means everything was just automated, everything was just shot out to whatever address they could they could get it to. And because I had updated my address, because I had to show proof that I had removed my vehicle from the state, it went to my new address printed out. It wasn't forwarded. It was printed out right there, boom on the envelope. And it was an incredible thing.

But now think about that magnified across all the states that were doing this and across the state of California, which also happens to have millions of people who were carrying driver's licenses that are not authorized to vote. How many of them might have gotten ballots? Probably a fair number.

When you just go to mass mail out ballot, you're asking for trouble. It's terrible to to think that that's how you're going to that's how you're going to run the most sacred obligation you have in a constitutional republic. And that is the voting franchise. We're just going to shotgunned ballots out. Could you imagine a credit card company or some other provider like that sending out blank checks to every address in the state and saying, hey, if you're eligible for this offer, go ahead and deposit the check, the company would go bankrupt.

The problem with the franchise of voting being treated in this way is that every vote that's not authorized, every vote that's not a legal vote.

Devalues the votes that have been submitted by that factor, by a vote, by 10 votes, by one hundred votes, by a thousand votes.

It's not in any way, shape or form beyond the pale of consideration to look at this and say, you know, it's just one here and one there, you hear this all the time.

You hear this all the time. Whenever you see people like Jim Acosta at CNN get asked, well, what what do you think about what do you think about voter fraud? Do you think that voter fraud? Well, some happened, but it's not enough to sway the election. Well, OK, none should happen. We ought to be aiming for none. You want to get down to zero covid cases. We ought to be getting down to zero fraud, fraudulent votes that have been cast.

We ought to ensure we have election integrity. Maybe we got to use block change so that everybody can verify who it is that they are when they're voting at the time. And we're not mail in ballots to people. Randomly. I know it's an old fashioned notion, the idea of a secure election, but it's one that we have got to hold on to because if we do not hold on to this this notion. We will lose our republic. And that's not something I want to give up on, and I know that's not something that you want to give up on either.

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Straight ahead, I am honored to be here for the Maharishi on the EIB Network.

And I am Bret Wytheville in on the EIB Network for Rush Limbaugh. Happy to be here with you on this on this day.

Let me let me take a look to the past. And it's not it's not a great look at the past, but it's certainly something that is a hugely important point to consider, you know.

Republicans for a long time. They were sort of treated like lovable losers by the Democrats, right? You had this they had this reality that set in that, oh well, they are Republicans, they're going to run as moderates and they're going to be moderate and everything's going to be great. And it's going to be it's going to be fine because we'll all get together. We'll all be will be John McCain will be will be these folks that are just we're going to we're going to play the game and get along.

And certainly you heard former President Trump call out these these squishes last night during the speech at CPAC. No doubt you heard that. But but Rush spoke about the Republican loser mentality back on May 9th of 2017.

And it's well worth remembering what Rush was talking about, that it is a phenomenon.

The Republicans win and they almost sometimes act ashamed of it or guilty of it. Here's here's one explanation, and I think it's got some validity to it. It doesn't explain it all. And it's an analogy. The Republicans let's look at the House of Representatives for 40 years. Prior to nineteen ninety four. So you'd have to go back to 1954, from 1954 to nineteen ninety for the Democrat Party control the House of Representatives. The Republicans won with Newt Gingrich and the Contract for America in the 94 campaign.

One of my theories is that after 40 years of losing and believe me, they weren't just defeated in some cases, the Republicans barely were able to scratch 130 members together out of 435 in the House, they were mincemeat. The Democrats in many sessions of Congress didn't even let them into meetings. The Democrats look at why are you even showing up, you can't stop us. We don't care what you have to think. Go play golf. The leader of the Republicans for many of these years, not always a guy named Bob Michael.

He was the ranking Republican in the House in Illinois, Peoria, and he, after a while seemed to be satisfied with being the ranking Republican. He was the leader of the losers. It had its power base, it had its prestige, he was the leader. Could not say that they were the minority because of him, because he was from Peoria, he never ran nationally. So the Republicans began to accept that they were losers. They began doing some 40 years of it for crying out loud.

And then one day they won. And I I'm I think I know this is going back to the 90s after 40 years of being not just a loser, but an invisible, made fun of not even taking serious loser. And the next day you're the winner. Psychologically, how do you make that transition, how do you go from being irrelevant, laughed at and mocked that in overnight, becoming the center of power when you have no experience with it, you never expected it would happen.

And like I spoke to the refreshed freshman class in ninety four. I was made an honorary member of that class and they had their orientation at Camden Yards and I went and spoke to him and I said, here's what you people have got to remember. Remember that this was the freshman orientation. It was not the whole house. It was just the freshman class. It was like 56 of them, I think was a huge number of them. And I said, you've got to remember, the media is not going to start treating you as winners.

They're not going to start treating you as the people running the show. They're going to be angry at you that you had the audacity to win. And they're always going to be going to Democrats for reaction to what you're doing. You're not going to get a fair shake. They don't like you. They resent you winning. They're not going to treat you as winners. Do not fall for any of these female reporters batting their eyes. Why don't you do profiles?

All they want to do is get the Democrats back in power. There was a press contingent. And a couple of female reporters, one from The Washington Post and one from The New York Times, came up to me after my speech. Do you really mean all that B.S. you just said? Oh, yes. I'd already taken my seat back at the table. You really mean it? Hell, yes, I mean it. I just hope they heard it.

Because it was damn well, Drew. It was true he was 100 percent right and isn't that interesting to take a look at at the incoming that. That President Trump took beginning in 2017 in an unrelenting series of assaults going at President Trump for four years, it was Russia, it was this, it was Flynn, it was that.

It was your tone. Your tone is ugly. Your tone doesn't work. And what was that?

What does that aimed at that is aimed at getting? President Trump, to change his style, he didn't change that is getting the allies of the president in the House, in the Senate to change their style, to try to shame them. The reality is, and this has to get repeated time and time again, this clip from Rush ought to be on on constant repeat for people who are looking to run for office, because when you get there, they're not going to recognize you.

They're not going to say you're legit. They're going to say it was illegitimate. It wasn't right. It was an anomaly. You tricked the people. You did some other kind of chicanery. That's what they're going to do. You're not a legitimate representative of of the American people, all that stuff. And you have to look way past that and say, you know what, I got power. Let's go. I got power. We're going to make the change.

President Trump said that last night, he said, look, take the power, make the change, let's go. That's what he was going to do. That's what he did.

And that's important to remember. Winning has to become a mind set that you work every single day if you give an inch to the swamp. You're going to get. I'm Brett, we're in for Rush Limbaugh, the EIB. And I am Brett, we're all in on the Rush Limbaugh Show, EIB Network, eight hundred twenty two Tuesday to your chance to to weigh in on all the big stories that we've been covering and your remembrances of Rush as well.

Coming up in this next hour, we've got immigration news and Russia's take on it since he's predicted this very thing that we're starting to see play out across this country with this new Biden administration. The notion of secure borders is is going the way of the the Telegraph. Unfortunately, Rush predicted all of this, said all of this was going to be coming from somebody who was raised on the border. I was raised in far west Texas, in El Paso, Texas.

And I I spent a lot of time in west Texas and in Southern California. In the last time I was out on the West Coast was in San Diego. El Paso and San Diego are two of the most busy border crossings in the world. And I understand what a healthy border should look like. And I understand what a healthy immigration policy should look like because I saw it for years and years of my life. It's such a foreign notion to the D.C. folks that never get out of the Beltway, that never get down to the border and never talk to the folks who are affected by a failed policy.

But what happens at the border doesn't stay at the border. We'll let you hear from former President Trump straight ahead.

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I was at CPAC last week, so midweek into the weekend I went down to Orlando, Florida, took the opportunity to catch up with the Conservatives over at the American Conservative Union and at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference had a chance to meet a whole bunch of new friends, reconnect with folks that I had already known. And it was incredible. The room down there, the the Hyatt Regency, was packed.

It was packed with folks, like minded folks who are looking for smaller government, limited government, better border control, better trade deals, you name it. Immigration was a huge issue as well. The immigration a huge issue. And when they had the straw poll that they run throughout the conference revealed on Sunday afternoon, John McLaughlin, who was, of course, of President Trump's pollster and also does work for The Washington Times when they when they did the big reveal, the issues were not surprising as being the top issues.

They were they were huge election integrity, immigration, border enforcement, trade deals, national security, all the things that that you knew and loved watching the Trump administration over the four years that they were there in Washington, D.C. and the sense that I got in that room, the excitement, the energy, the hunger for a return to some sane policies, not the stuff we've seen for the last, what, six weeks. But but the the same policies that meant prosperity and strength and security at the border and around the world are certainly being begged for.

So in immigration news, President Trump mentioned many of those issues with the border policy in his CPAC speech, talking about the migrant crisis, talking about young people, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and, of course, President Biden reversing Trump's policies and the consequences of doing that. Here's just one really great clip from President Trump speaking at CPAC just last night about immigration and the border.

Joe Biden has triggered a massive flood of illegal immigration into our country, the likes of which we have never seen before. They're coming up by the tens of thousands. They're all coming to take advantage of the things that he said that's luring everybody to come to America.

And we're one country we can't afford the problems of the world as much as we'd love to. We'd love to help, but we can't do that. So they're all coming because of promises and foolish words. Perhaps worst of all, Joe Biden's decision to cancel border security has single handedly launched a youth migrant crisis that is enriching child smugglers, vicious criminal cartels and some of the most evil people on the planet.

What people do not realize is that because of the covid crisis, you had a greater enforcement at the border taking place than than you would under ideal circumstances, even because you didn't want to bring the covid into the country through through land channels like that.

But what you also had were the cartels, the transnational gangs, the human traffickers, all having to come up with new creative ways to get across the border through what they call the frontier down there in the southwestern part of the United States. They had to get more creative. They had to get more vicious. They had to get more dangerous. And now with essentially the hey war open sign now being put out by the Biden Harris administration, well, guess what's happening.

People are running toward the border. They're making the run despite the protestations of people like Jen Psaki on the Sunday shows saying, well, we're not telling anybody to come up here. It's implied it's understood that the border enforcement is not going to be the same as it was for the prior four years.

Well.

President Trump spoke eloquently about the need for border security to have a policy that allows people to immigrate legally into the country, but not to come crashing through the frontiers of our border, to present themselves at appropriate border checkpoints, having been vetted, having been background checked, having been verified and then being allowed to come in to the United States, a healthy border is not a hard thing to create. It just requires enforcement. It just requires enforcement. Well, what happens is the progressives will say, well, the Republicans, the conservatives, they hate the immigrants, the immigrants are terrible.

That's what they'll say. They'll say they don't want the immigrants.

Nonsense, nonsense. President Trump and Rush Limbaugh and the prominent conservatives. Out there understand the importance to be a welcoming nation, but to do it in an orderly manner, in fact, back in 2014, Rush told us exactly where he stood. Conservatives don't hate immigrants. It dawned on me yet again that people do not understand the principled opposition to amnesty. It has nothing to do. There's nothing personal about it, has nothing to do with these particular 15 or 20 million people, has nothing to do with that.

It has everything to do with borders. It has everything to do with preserving the country as we know it, with a distinct and proud of it. Dammit American culture. Which is why every immigrant in the past has wanted to come here. If there's not a person I know that wants to deport, try to round up 15 or 20 million people and send them packing. It isn't practical. It isn't going to happen. What everybody wants is the border secured with active limits on the amount of immigration so that the flow is two things economically acceptable and productive.

And that's something that used to happen automatically begins to happen again. That's assimilation. Every time I tell people that there was no immigration in this country for over 40 years. From the 1920s to the 1960s, 70s, they're shocked. You'd be amazed at the number of people that do not know. We totally close the borders after the wave of European immigration in the 1920s. And we did it for one reason, that mass arrival of immigrants needed to be assimilated.

Now, they wanted to be. They wanted to become Americans. So they had to learn English. They learned American custom. They became acquainted with American holidays. They studied for citizenship. All of this they wanted. And it took that many years to assimilate. All they the opposition to amnesty is not personal to these 15 million people. It is a rule of law. If we lose the rule of law, that's all we've got. We are seeing how really precariously structured this country really is.

We've got to document the constitution. That is the law of the land. And we've now got a president who, when he doesn't like it, pretends it doesn't exist. There is no mechanism other than censure or impeachment to deal with that. And the Republicans have taken both off the table. So there's no signal that he must stop. If this continues, the United States is not going to be what was found in the Constitution spells out. And it's and somebody asked me on the phone, is the honor system Rush?

Is that how it's worked for 200 plus years, the honor system? What the caller meant was, was it just high elected officials, presidents were just duty bound to obey the Constitution? Well, partly, but it was respect for it, but it was also respect for the law. It's an honor system. It was it was there was a reverence for it. Now, there's always been opposition to it always since the days that was written. There have been people opposed to it.

I don't mean to present a Pollyannish picture here, but it is precariously balanced if if any given president or succession of presidents just decides to pretend it doesn't exist. And if the other two branches of government aren't going to do anything about it and it won't exist in this country, there'll always be an America. But it won't be what was founded. Who knows what it'll be, but it won't be. That's what people are worried about. I'm worried about being overrun.

We're not it's nothing personal here. It's a desire to hold on to America and to make it a beacon, keep it a beacon, stand for something. We're losing our economic stature and status to the trichomes. Now is the reason for this. And when you realize that that amnesty and and open borders is a weapon used by the anti-American left, that's reason enough to oppose them.

When you realize who wants open borders, when you realize the political and ideological motivation behind it, you are duty bound to the honor system. You're duty bound. I would like to stand up and oppose it. It isn't personal. It has nothing to do with ethnicity or race whatsoever. And by the way, don't go crazy crediting all these amnesty people with love of humanity. They don't want these people to ever be self-reliant. They want these people to be voting as dependent incompetents.

The political powers that be, they're trying to make this happen, see a wave of potential registered voters who are unskilled and uneducated and will never be self-reliant. Therefore, they are always going to need support from government. They are seeking dutiful, respectful, appreciative, dependents. The open borders crowd has no love for these people. That's the thing that really bugs me. These people are pawns and there is no desire for these people to come here and become the best they can be.

That's not going to serve the purpose of the political class. The value of these people is as future vote. The Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass and as people in the old days, not so much true. Right now, I'm in the old days as people worked hard and moved themselves out of the lower quintiles of poverty and up into the middle class and beyond, they became less and less dependent on government. The Democrats had to replace them. And so Ted Kennedy thought after 40 years of no immigration, let's just let's let's open the borders.

And it's what it was all about. It's inhuman if you ask me and these people get away with getting all the credit for compassion and caring, big hearts, people pushing this in my mind are the people who have the least real human concern.

These are just pawns and it's it's offensive in every which way you can think of. That's why whenever you hear people talk seriously about this, border security is always the first thing required for any else in a deal to take place. Provable, demonstrable. That would mean years of border security before we do anything on amnesty. You can't just promise that you agree with securing the border and then we make them legal. You got to show three years that you're serious about securing the border.

Then we do it. There has to be some value attached to this or it all becomes meaningless, which sadly, way too much of what used to be important is now becoming meaningless as the political class corrupts as much as they can for their own power.

Well said Rush, spot on. I'm Brett, whatever it is, the Rush Limbaugh Show on the EIB Network.

And I am Brett. We're all in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network. Our number, 800 to a two to AA to. Let's find out what's on Charlie's mind in Austin, Texas. Welcome to The Rush Limbaugh Show, Charlie.

Hello, Bret. Thank you for sitting in for Rush. Just want to get to the point. I want to dedicate a song to Catherine and to Rush and to the rest of the family. And that song is by Carole King Now and Forever. And I think if everybody listens to those words, they'll know exactly what I'm saying.

You're very kind to to propose that, Charlie. It's so incredibly important to feel the emotion that is embedded in that song. And the lyrics are particularly special. And I certainly appreciate you you calling in on the program today. It's wonderful to to speak with you. And I think that's a tremendous, tremendous recommendation. Terry and Guilford, Connecticut, is up next. Terry, welcome to the program. Watching Sepak on Sunday is exactly what my whole extended family needed was so amazing to watch Trump, he was so like rested and positive and listing all his accomplishments.

And it kind of put the last four years in context, which was just beautiful to sit there and watch that. It was a long speech and then equally as amazing, but in a different way and a different style. But it was almost like watch. It was almost like church. I actually even said, I don't have to go to church after this. But watching Christina Naome from South Dakota, the governor. Yes.

You know, is breathtaking speech. I'm sure. I'm sure everybody agrees with it. And I just. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Please go ahead.

I was just going to say I was blown away by the whole thing and by particularly those two speakers. I agree with you 100 percent.

And I'm so happy you mentioned Kristi Noem, Terry, and I appreciate that call coming in on the Rush Limbaugh Show.

Kristi Noem told a story that was so incredible, so compelling about when her father passed away. And this was a farming operation, a family farm operation, and everybody had to kind of pull together and make sure this was going to proceed. And she told the most compelling story about going through his pickup truck and finding one of those small tape recorders, because there was a lot of doubt and worry about would the farm be able to continue to survive. And she found this, the small tape recorder, like a doctor would use to make notes on a patient.

And in there she found a series of recordings, many, many, many recordings, hours of recordings of her father recording for posterity the kinds of corn you need to plant, the sort of deals you have to do, the contingencies. If it didn't work out, it was so compelling and so real. And you could feel the love in her voice for her father being guided from heaven above.

That reminded me of Rush Limbaugh on Brentwood.

Happy to be here. Thank you, Johnny Donovan. The media called them cages when President Trump was in office. But now with the new administration, we're hearing that they're called shelters and holding facilities.

If the left is so concerned about covid and super spreader events like CPAC, then why wouldn't opening the borders be a cause for alarm?

That's a little hypocritical, isn't it? As President Trump pointing that out. The Biden administration is now actively expediting the admission of illegal migrants, enabling them to lodge frivolous asylum claims and admitting them by the thousands and thousands and thousands a day, crowded together in unsanitary conditions despite the ongoing economic and public health crisis covid-19 or as I call it, the China virus.

There's no masks, there's no double masks, that was a new one that came out two weeks ago. First of all, she said, you don't need masks, no masks, no good. Then all of a sudden you want him and now he wants double masks. No social distancing, no nothing, no nothing. It together, and it's sad, actually, and it's sad for them and it's sad for our country. What the Biden administration is doing to push young migrants into the hands of human traffickers and coyotes is dangerous, immoral and indefensible.

Hard to believe it's happening.

Biden has failed and his number one duty as chief executive enforcing America's laws.

This alone should be reason enough for Democrats to suffer withering losses in the midterms and to lose the White House decisively four years from now.

That was former President Trump last night. Let's hear Rush break it down. He was on this on the cutting edge of this argument about the Democrat mantra, putting kids in cages, Donald Trump putting kids in cages. We go in the Wayback Machine to September 13th, 2019. Here's Rush Paudie, Jacksonville, Florida.

Great to have you with us, sir. Hey, thanks for having me on, Rush. Appreciate it. And you are a beacon of truth in an otherwise insane world.

Well, I appreciate that, sir. I know how you feel. I feel the same way.

You know, something that happened last night really bothered me was Biden was defending his partnership with Barack Obama, flatly declared that we didn't teach kids, we didn't separate families. And everybody knows that's been debunked and not one of the other competitors and not one of the moderators called him out on it.

Well, of course not. Of course not. This is what I was going to mention. And I saw that you were up there. Howdy. And we're going to talk about this. And I did not want to steal the subject matter of your call, but this has become the fact that we're putting kids in cages. This is one of these fake news stories that the Democrats in the media simply evolved with the help of Democrats in politics, elected Democrats.

And it's become a meme. It has become its own hashtag on Twitter and so forth. And even the most popular picture, the most used picture of illegal immigrant kids inside a shelter was taken in 2014 who happen to be president 2014. Barack Hussein O children were separated from their parents, parents, both illegally immigrating and claiming asylum. I'll go through this again. This is the floor raise decision, which is a decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that brought about by the ACLU.

The ACLU created this scenario and they did it because they thought they were solving a problem. When an adult comes in with a family and claims asylum, that person immediately is detained. The adult claiming asylum is detained, separated from the kids. The kids are taken to a shelter that's built for this purpose. This has been around for years, long before Trump even thought about running for president, the average length of time a an adult claiming or seeking asylum is detained 20 days, three weeks.

The law says kids cannot be detained more than 20 days. They've got to be let go. But the father or mother will be detained for however long it takes for the asylum hearing to take place. And so families have been separated by virtue of American law. That happened during the Obama administration and before kids being separated, photographed behind chain link fences. These pictures are from the Obama administration. Now, every Democrat knows how each and every Democrat in the media knows that this has been standard operating procedure.

It just became fake news, a way to attack Trump as a heartless, mean spirited extremist racist. They know that nobody is going to correct them. Last night was proof of it. Biden can sit there, go on and on about. We didn't put kids in cages. We're going to be they most certainly did. But other Democrats are not going to call him out on it. And certainly the Democrats moderating the debate, moderating. We're not going to call him out of it.

So he gets away with it. They've already gotten away with it's already become a narrative. And Trump has tried and tried to refute it. He's refuted it with facts. He's had guests on TV go out. Doesn't matter. But the original lie is out there. As long as those purveying the lie Democrats in the media, it's going to continue. It's gotten to the point now that even if there were a correction, nobody would hear the correction.

So it's just I don't know. It's what do you call it? It's a it's a phony fake narrative that has been etched in stone and established. And, you know, who really believes it? These bordering on insane Democrat base voters. I mean, I you know, sometimes I'll go read a sports story on a web and I'll I'll hang around for the comments. You wouldn't believe in a story on Antonio Brown, the number of comments from left wingers attacking Trump, or could it be worse than Antonio Trump going to put you in a cage with your kids?

I'm saying, what is this? These knuckleheads, these local weeds, and they all think they're. They've bought it hook, line and sinker, it plays well for the Democrats because what do they stand for? Compassion. They love children.

They're the ones killing them. Democrats are sponsoring infanticide. They are now supporting abortion on the day of birth. They are supporting abortion after birth. I'm as mystified as the Democrats are getting away with loving and caring about kids as you are. Biden getting away with claiming that they never put kids in cages. They most certainly did. Thank you. Howdy.

Thank you, Rush, for that prescient analysis. Here is President Trump at CPAC last night talking about the limitations you experience, but that border crossers were crossing illegally will not go.

Your family still cannot go out to eat at local restaurants. But Joe Biden is bringing in thousands upon thousands of refugees from all over the world, people that nobody knows anything about. We don't have crime records. We don't have health records.

What are they bringing in with them? Well, it's OK, because we do know now that they're getting early access to the covid vaccines as well, which is an incredible, incredible thing to think about when you consider all the millions of Americans who have not yet had access to it, but by by reaction to getting up to the border, being able to get across and then released into the interior, these are folks who are making themselves eligible for something that you could not go get your spouse could not go get your loved ones, could not go get because they don't fit the appropriate.

Voter profile or demographic profile or whatever other restrictions may be in place, it is wonderful to be sitting in here for Rush Limbaugh on the Rush Limbaugh Show. Let me remind everybody here, this show is going to continue. IIIB is going to continue for a long, long time. You're going to get to hear Rush. Here is analysis here where he was right here where he was prescient. And on top of that, tomorrow, Katherine Limbaugh is going to join the program, as as many of you may now know, Rush was laid to rest last Wednesday.

Katherine Limbaugh, just after visiting at CPAC and accepting the honor of Rush, being inducted into the conservative Hall of Fame at at CPAC just on Saturday night. And attending the speech by President Trump last night is going to be right here tomorrow. And she's going to tell you all about the private family service and how it how it went and what the elements were. And she's going to be taking your phone calls as well. You are absolutely going to want to be here tomorrow on the Tuesday edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show, because you are going to get an insight into somebody who is so strong and the person who loved Rush like nobody else.

I'm Brett, we're happy to be here for. It is the. And I am Brent Wytheville and on the Rush Limbaugh Show on the EIB Network, let's go out on the phones and check in with some of the great listeners across the fruited plain. We go to Rusty in Baxter, Minnesota.

First up, Rusty, welcome to the program. What's on your mind?

Brit, the one thing that every one of these immigrants have in common, man, woman and child, is that they are all fleeing a country that was destroyed by socialism. And you know what? I grew up in an all Hispanic neighborhood, mostly Hispanic, on the north side of Fort Worth. And let me tell you what Hispanics and South Americans have in common. They have they love God, they love family. They love loyalty. They are industrious.

They want to work. They don't want to be they don't want to be given handouts. They want to earn what they make and they're good at it. And for how insulting is it for the Democrats to sit there and think they're just a bunch of stupid, poor rubes? They might be lacking in formal education, but they're not stupid. Intuitively, across the world, people want the same thing. They want freedom. They want the government to get the hell out of the way and leave them alone, let them earn a living.

Let them earn that money. Everyone, man, woman and child, they are all fleeing disgusting hellholes that have been turned into that by socialist policies. And the reason I think they're going to continue voting for what makes them think that this is a lock for them. As far as the vote going forward, I say that they're making an astronomical mistake with that.

It's going to backfire on them 100 percent. They are only only a party out of touch with the makeup of people in the United States, regardless of ethnic backgrounds or ethnicity or or heritage. Only a party that is out of touch could think that. Well, because you have people who are Latino or Hispanic who are who are from the Caribbean, who are from South America, Central America, what have you. Oh, of course, they want to see an inflow of illegal immigrants coming in because, of course, they know people want the same things.

Like you said, a job. They want security, they want low crime. They want all of that. And for whatever reason, somebody's got it in their mind that, well, no, we'll just we'll just bring people in unfettered, unscreened on undocumented, and we'll just put them in the neighborhoods that we think that places them the best. And, you know, people will just deal with it because, you know, they there are similar last names involved, believe me.

Go and talk. Go and talk to anybody in any community in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, throughout the broader west. You're going to talk to people who want the same thing, secure borders. And it doesn't matter if they're seventh generation in the United States or first generation in the United States.

People don't want people coming in that we have no idea who they are anymore than you'd want someone coming through your window at three o'clock in the morning to sleep in your living room and not knowing who they are. That's just how it is.

Rusty, you are 100 percent correct. We we create these these narratives in our minds.

If we're a progressive and say, well, those people, of course, would be totally good with that and they're going to be good with that, we're going to move the people around a corner on wishes and desires.

It's unbelievable, Stephanie in San Antonio, Texas, is up next. Stephanie, welcome to the program. What's on your mind? Hey, first time listener, first time caller. The voting fraud where they just mail you votes sounds a lot like Columbia House in the 80s, where every time you moved in and out of the dorm, you could get 14 free types and just promise to pay them back. That's right. So one year I think I earned 60 CDs and cassettes were free and they couldn't see me because I kept moving in and out of different dorms and apartments.

Did you tape the penny to the form? Did you at least tape the penny and mail it in?

I was honest enough to take the penny, but I mean, I moved in and out of dorm for the summer.

I had two different apartments. Then I moved back home for a while. Then I think I had five addresses in one year.

That's right. This is exactly what the voter the mailing fraud like that. That is exactly what we're talking about, is just what a shotgun out 50000 ballots to this neighborhood. And I'm sure that the only the people there addressed to will be the people who who fill them out. No problem. Especially when you've got ballot harvesting happening as well, which which is a wholesale version of the Columbia House thing. No disrespect to the Columbia House. It served its purpose at its time.

Yeah, but Columbia House is out of business. Yes, America will be out of business. How? Stephanie, it's a bad business model and Columbia House is out of business. Do we want to be out of business? No.

No, we do not.

Stephanie, you are a welcome first time caller and listener, and we appreciate you. You find in the Rush Limbaugh Show. Thank you so much for coming by today. That is Stephanie, check it, and that's a big deal.

It's a really, really huge deal, folks, and we have to understand this, that if we don't take our voting franchise at least as seriously as we take free stuff in the mail, we're making a humongous mistake because we will be bankrupted.

People much smarter than I have come out and said in recent weeks and months, you know, you could have open borders, but you can't have open borders and socialism. You can have socialism, but you can't have socialism and open borders. And that's that's the great crisis of our time. Again, it means something to be an American. You heard that from Rush in the first hour and in the second hour, it means something to be an American.

There is a an inherent value in being an American and voluntarily immigrating here into the United States. The first segment of this hour, you heard that from Rush talking about what the process was like, an orderly approach to bring about assimilation into the culture. If if you wanted to go and recruit somebody to be an attorney, you would expect that they would go through the process of going to law school, taking the bar exam, getting a law license, then practicing law.

But if we were to use the progressive model, we would just pick a guy off the street and say, congratulations, you're a lawyer, start picking up clients. That's just crazy. We should treat the voting franchise in our country at least as seriously as we treat becoming an attorney or a doctor or politician.

I'm Bret Wytheville, in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB, and I am in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network.

Next hour, you're going to get to hear something so special, you're going to get to hear from Rush's grandfather and mom in a rare, rare interview. You're going to want to stick around for that because it is an incredibly poignant and special special opportunity for you to kind of get a sense of where the apple fell from in terms of the tree, you know, and Rush's family.

It is such an honor to to be here today keeping you company. I can tell you and I want to remind you of the fact that tomorrow Katherine Limbaugh is going to be joining the program to talk about Rush being laid to rest last week and to answer your questions. You going to take your calls, answer your questions as well. It's an opportunity to to feel that connection as part of the the broader the EIB and Rush Limbaugh family to keep up to date and to to hear all of the the most important memories from that day last week.

We're all going through this together. And I think we're doing a pretty good job.

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Our number three of the Rush Limbaugh Show now underway the fastest three hours in all of media, and it is wonderful to be here with you. Eight hundred two way to Tuesday. Two is the phone number to be a part of our conversation nationwide as we continue to celebrate Rush Limbaugh, to remember Rush Limbaugh and to even have have interesting bits of information filled in for us in case, you know, we have new listeners coming on board all the time here that that are discovering the program.

I know that's hard to believe. Right. But but you've got to understand, the younger generations coming online, they're being awakened. I can only imagine how many of tuned in today to to hear the program and to hear Rush after he's been inducted now into the American Conservative Union Hall of Fame, the conservative Hall of Fame at CPAC over the weekend, on Saturday night at the at the Reagan dinner. And is his his wonderful his soulmate, his wife, Catherine, was was there to accept the award on his behalf.

And I just wanted to let you know that if you go over to Rush Limbaugh website, you can see the amazing ten minute tributes they put together, remembering his entire career. And you can see the terrific speech, the amazing speech, the acceptance speech that that Katherine gave there as well in Orlando on Saturday night. And there's tons and tons of applause throughout because the folks in that room understood that they were in the presence of somebody so special, so important to the person that we all feel so close to in Rush.

And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Katherine is going to be here tomorrow. As you know, Rush was laid to rest Wednesday of last week, and she's going to be here tomorrow with Todd Hermann, I believe, who is going to be sitting with her. And she's going to be sharing with you a whole bunch of stories and information and answer your questions and take calls, all kinds of great stuff like that. As as one big family getting together under the under the EIB banner.

But one question that comes up often is we always love to know more about Russia's Russia's family back in Cape Girardeau as well.

What's the story there? What happened there? Well, you know, Russia's grandfather and mother discussed him.

Discussed as into discuss, Russia's grandfather and mother discussed him in a rare interview from 60 Minutes in Agony. Did you know that? That's right. Back in 1991, back in 1991, Russia interviewed Pop.

That's his grandfather on his 100th birthday. And here's a little bit about how that went.

I got an email from good friends of mine, Steve and Cathy Abernathy in New Orleans, met them both when she was the manager at Bremen's in the in the French Quarter. And she said, you've got you've got to play some of the interview that you did with your grandfather on his 100th birthday.

And the copy that we have of that is just it's unfortunate we're going to have to do some major EQR work with it to make it airable, because it would be its sound quality is such that it would distract. But we do have a number of excerpts of my grandfather discussing my career and me from a videotape that we put together called The Limbaugh Chronicles. He was also a part of the 60 Minutes profile that on me and from the A&E biography piece.

So this is from the early 90s. And this is a montage of my grandfather who worked until he was 102. He died at age 104.

Well, the Limbaugh's are not inclined to be people who have fun laughing and all that. But Breshears mother in and I would say that all of his humor comes from his mother. When I hear Rush to him, I can't help but think of his father. Who he is, so much like when his father had a conviction about a thing, he didn't hesitate to say it and he was like that the elder everything needed to be said. He wanted to say it with emphasis.

I can't help but believe that there is in this generation that there will be in future generation.

A conviction that those values are, after all, basic and that they ought to be preserved.

I have been an active citizen in politics and I think that I had something to do with instilling that idea in Russia. Now, as far as rest is concerned, I don't remember the first time I ever was in a position where I caused my eyebrows to prevail with him, but I'm sure that his father was responsible for giving him that idea. And I think that he has lived it. And he is now, I'm glad to say, giving it to a large segment of the American people.

Rush Limbaugh, senior grandfather of the early 90s, a montage of his appearances on the video that we put together also on 60 Minutes from the A&E biography, and I've forgotten I was stunned to think he didn't think he had any influence.

Quite the quite the opposite. Here's my mother.

And, you know, I've often told you how much I hate school, hated it. I mean, literally despised it. And isn't it amazing? Levinas I haven't hated school or become one of the finest teachers ever to exist. And somebody wrote that, I'm not making it up. Somebody wrote I forget somebody wrote a column about the 20th anniversary today and made that made that point, I guess, at National Review Online. I think at any rate, here's my mother talking about me in kindergarten.

We had four and five year old kindergarten year at college. You know, the train school, they call it. And one day the teacher who is now gone had me in for conference like she did all the parents. She said if she doesn't, she called a fresh doesn't change his ways. He'll never grow to be the man his grandfather is are his father.

As I was, I was a hell raiser and causing problems even in the in the four and five years old when I had to be stashed away in prison in in school. Well, I don't know. I was probably pregnant that spitballs. Who knows what. I was harassing the other kid by not taking a nap when I was supposed to take a nap. All I know is I didn't want to be there. And when you don't want to be someplace, you let them people know that you think are your captors, that you don't want to be there, you know, didn't want to drink the Kool-Aid.

I didn't like anything about it. Now, I told the story the other day after we played some of the sound bites from Nightline, how my mother was watching it with my dad. And here's her version of the story, is they were watching a Nightline with my debate with Al Gore.

And that's when Rush Junior turned around me, said, where did he get that? And I said from you, of course. And that really pleased sign, right, that his dad finally realized that it was a wonderful thing to know that he had absorbed his thoughts about politics. It's just like his dad all over. He is just he's a political views are his dad's. AP said he got his smarts from his dad and analysts say selling this for me.

All right. That's the that's the best thing about about looking back on on family and looking back on on where your roots come from, because there's a joint discovery there. Right. When you think about this, the joint discovery is you you get to hear the impact as a child that you had on your on your parents later on in life. But then they get to discover how much they imbued in you, how much they were able to transmit to you, the values, the thoughts, the ideas and the specialness.

And look, it's not lost on any of us here as we sit in in this in this time and and in this time where we're feeling sad. But we're also remembering Rush for the great work that he did, that his father was a tremendous influence on him, especially with the the pieces and the speeches that that his father penned and gave regarding the Mayflower and the founding of the United States and and, of course, the signers of the Declaration of Independence and all that they risked.

And those would become such important elements in Russia's life, they'd become the subject of Limbaugh letter articles and they'd become part of the holiday tradition of Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July and remembering all all those last sins that you distilled at a very young age, being with the person who's got the most influence on you. Of anybody, and that is obviously your first teachers, your mom and your dad, and the idea that, you know, they would transmit that to him and that he would carry that with him through his life is is mightily important to understand the idea that there's something special about being an American.

There is a responsibility that we have when it comes to our liberty and to our freedoms. And there's something that is sacred that we owe the future generations in the same way that the stewards of past generations carried this nation forward for us through through difficulties, we can only imagine difficulties we can only imagine in the greatest abstract. We have to understand that those parents that transmit those values are laying down an initial payment, a down payment or or deposit on an insurance policy for future American generations so that we live in this country, that we claim it as our country, but it really belongs to the next generations and we have to keep that liberty alive.

That was one of the things that you picked up on immediately at at CPAC in Orlando, the famous quote from Ronald Reagan, President Reagan saying, you know, you're only one generation away from the loss of liberty. You're only one generation away from the end of freedom. We have to keep that going. And that was a profoundly important value. And I can attest to this personally. Having worked with Russia, it was a profoundly important value to take care of the republic and ensure that future generations would live as free people, choosing their own direction, choosing their own destination.

That's sound to us to ensure that we pass those values onto the Rush babies and the rush grand babies and the rush great.

On the EIB Network, Brightwater billion for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network, 800 to eight to 22 is the number to call in and to share with us your thoughts. Let's go out on the phones and talk to Lawrence in Queens, New York. Lawrence, welcome to the program. What's on your mind, sir?

Yes, I'm a black man who grew up in the projects in Manhattan, and I became a letter carrier later on in life. And I've listened to us since the 80s, early 80s. And I was very appreciative as a young man to have been able to have social services because living in the projects in Manhattan, we were very poor. But one thing that I always remember was that my parents had to go with the civil service because it's the less discriminatory route to get out of poverty.

And I always remember that I went into the post office and became I started as a letter carrier and Woodside, Queens, and worked my way up through to a tractor trailer operator for the post office. I stayed in the post office 15 years later. On, I left and I went to New York City Transit and I worked there for 15 years. But I love I became a conservative through listening to us. And I've always had the religious belief of true to an American way, another American way.

But Jehovah is God's way. And I just wanted to share that even black people have the same beliefs as conservatives. Most of them are not aware. You know, a lot of them are looking for social handouts, but a lot of us are willing to work and want to do the right thing. And we need to be encouraged to come over to the conservative side at this time, because what we see on on the on the liberal side is headed straight for communism and socialism, which most people don't truly want, because once you get under that this or that foot, it's really hard to get out from underneath it.

It's so true.

Lawrence, I so appreciate you calling in and sharing that story with this audience, because these values are shared values across races, ethnicity, identity, what have you. These are the values of freedom, liberty, hard work, as you said, truth, justice and God's way.

That that is that is a tremendous testimony to what Rush was able to do with you listening to the program over the many years. And I thank you for your service to the community, to our country in the variety of positions in which you held the post office and, of course, the transit authority. I appreciate you being out there, my friend. Appreciate it myself, I really I was listening to the CPAC yesterday, and it helped to really clarify that I'm truly I truly believe in the conservative beliefs and rules of laws and things.

But most people I think everybody believes in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, but a lot of them just haven't really kind of clarified enough. Like I heard that the Republicans need to make more effort to to talk to the different, you know, minorities in a manner that they can better understand. It is better for everybody. You're a hundred percent, right, it's about ideas, it's about ideas, it's not about identity, and that's the important takeaway.

Lawrence, bless you. I appreciate you being here and thank you for calling into the program today. It was a it's a pleasure to speak with you. And again, I applaud your service. Jerry is in Portland, Oregon. Jerry, welcome to the program. How are you?

Hi, Brett. Hey, I. I listen to Rush Away back in the late 80s and in 1993, I embarked on starting my own business after working for other people. And I was two months behind on my house payment car payment the day I stepped out the door to start a business. It was a perfect time because the failure was not any option. Right now Russia actually taught me that and I now am in the top two percent of the population has earner.

I mean, I now I've had kids, I've had kids who are millennials or younger accuse me of lying about starting my business in the condition I was in financially. I had no, no, no credit. I had no investors. I had nobody to do it. I had to make it completely on my own.

It took me three years to be a wow credit card for a five hundred dollar balance. Wow. Before and but I'm literally the poster child against all Democrat policies. I mean, I could go on and on about some of the things that I learned, but I came from a Democrat family. And my family could not get their head wrapped up around me being self-employed, because what you're supposed to do is go to work for the man. Yes, work until you're ready to retire and then die.

And and that's my father. You know, God bless the soul. You know, to the very end, he could never get over, you know, how's the job going, you know, rather than how's business going? Because he he was a union guy and, you know, and they voted Democrat because they were programmed to do things that the Democrats are for the working man.

And no matter how much they got stabbed in the back, they were sticking by their guy. Might be they might be crooks, but by God, they're crooks.

Well, I'm sure, Jerry, I get that 100 percent. But here's the thing. Your living testimony to industry, to hard work, to commitment, to stick to it even is to get knocked back and you keep pressing forward.

That is a tremendous that is a tremendous achievement that you were able to get to by your own industry. And that is important. That is hugely important in that rush inspired you to get up, stand up and do that means so much. It means so much to me to hear that and millions of people in this audience to hear it as well.

Bless you, Jerry. You are an American success story. The EIB Network.

Thank you, Johnny Donovan. And don't forget the EIB Network, the Rush Limbaugh Show. We're going to be around for a long, long, long time keeping you up to date and form to give you context from across the great history of the Rush Limbaugh Show as it applies to all the big stuff that's moving out there.

Look, I was first struck by hearing Rush's analysis on on the world of of environmentalism and that that sort of stuff. Now, go back to the beginning of this hour.

At the top of the hour on radio, we played that great interview with Russia's grandfather and his mom back in the early days of the EIB before Russia knew better, except that a few mainstream media interview requests, hoping to use it as an opportunity to educate the masses, quickly learned that they had an agenda when it came to him and weren't interested in the truth of what he thought or why they just wanted to set him up.

An embarrassing gotcha moments and further the caricature that they were trying to create. Now, media nastiness aside, Russia never wavered in his beliefs. Always been consistent. As this example from an interview he did with Charlie Rose three decades ago demonstrates. I want to go back to January seven, 1992. This this is in the days. Before Fox News, before cable news became something other than CNN, it's really before.

Massive amounts of conservative talk radio, so this back in the days where I used to be invited on shows like PBS, Charlie Rose and so forth, because I was the only national conservative voice they could bring on to try to expose as a kook or humiliator what have you.

Those days are over now, but I the reason I want to go back to this is because the subject is climate change and global warming and all that. And I just I want to demonstrate my consistency to you. I want to demonstrate how old this issue is.

Charlie Rose, January seven, 1992, asked me why I talk so much about radical environmentalism and if I really believed that it was a guy's for socialism. I was telling people this 26 years ago, well, 30 bucks. But this interview was 26, 28 years ago. Here is the bite listening to your show.

There are a lot of people who believe you are now beginning. I'm beginning to hear people call and say, are you as extreme as you sound? Because you tend to say all it all environmentalist are extreme. But they tell know that's what they're saying. They have this came up today. I know it to my award winning program today. I don't think that all environmentalist are extreme. I think that the Ted Danson of the world who say we've only got 10 years left to clean up this planet or we're not going to be able to live, that's extreme.

But I'll bet you if you had Ted Danson out here, you wouldn't ask him about this. Oh, I bet you I would say, Ted. No, no, no, no. Why? You see, I would say that. OK, well, most media people and give some flowery answer about how he cares. Ted, you're so wonderful. I think what you have are a bunch of I think I think the militant environmental movement, I think is very large mills.

Environmental movement is the home of the new socialist in America and thereafter the punishment of America.

America is responsible. Are they who are these environmentalist? The Sierra Fund, part of the part of the crowd out there out to us up when they're out to socialize America? I'm right now here's how. Here's how. Well, what is socialism or what you the first thing you do is you say America is responsible for the destruction of the planet. It's American lifestyles and hairspray and smokestacks. And but but are you saying that there's no damage from hairspray, from fluorocarbons?

And that's why I'm saying that the vanity of humanity is amazing to me. I do not believe that we have the ability to destroy this marvelous creation. We can damage it, but we make a mess by existing and we're the ones who can fix it. And you need freedom. You need democracy. You need technological advancement. You don't need rolling back of progress in order to fix these things. And that's what these people want to do. Now, Charlie, I'm not an extremist.

I get up in the morning, I read the papers. I look at the Jewish traditions and institutions in this country that I believe have made it great under assault and defend them.

And that's exactly what happens. But you see, this is 1992, folks. Many of you were not born then. Many of you were not listening then. And that's how long this issue has been going on. And I forecast it. The great fictions that conservatives or Republicans or free market people want to see the the environment destroyed, I have yet to meet somebody who, when I asked them what they're doing on the weekend, is going to say something like, oh, I'm going to go and wreck the environment this weekend.

It's just I've been planning on doing this for a while. I'm going to it's not that these are the exact same people who, by the way, will tell you that the climate needs to remain static, but that the Constitution is a living, breathing document. Lou is right on point here in Tampa, Florida, joining us Lou, welcome to the program. How are we doing what we're going through today is the Green New Deal and the cancer culture is what you just played from Rush.

I started listening to Rush in an unconventional way. I started with the TV show in 1993. Wow. He and then once I started my lawn maintenance business in 1998, I was able to listen every day, three hours a day. But he warned, I think thankfully he got to the point where he started calling it the Green Movement, which is now what used to be called the climate change or global warming. He basically got down to the point where he started calling it the new home for the Communist Party.

And what was what we're dealing with today shows that when we're canceling people because we don't agree with them or the government's going to tell me I can't buy gas on the deal anymore come 2035. Those are all things. I mean, he warned against the SUV, the coming after your SUV, and people laughed when he said, no, no, no, there's no way anyone is ever going to tell you what kind of car to drive. You know, it's it doesn't matter how far back you go on certain things.

I mean, the the seatbelt laws were designed to start getting used to the restrictions that they were continuously coming up with. So those are things that he warned about and what we were dealing with today. And if we don't get a hold of it, it's going to just keep getting worse.

Rush was incredibly prescient in that regard. We only have to go back to that famous parody, and I'm sure you heard it many, many times, was in a Yugo, you know, about about the importance to go and buy and drive the Yugo. And then you get run over by a big buy, a big bus or whatever it was that that took you out. And that's that's what we have. Right. Because if you can sell fear and you can control the moving of the goalpost, you got all the power.

You can scare people and then tell them, know you haven't done enough yet. You haven't done enough yet. You haven't done enough yet. And that's that's the thing. And I think Rush was was instrumental in pointing out the fact that what do these people really what are these people really know in terms of expertise? Great call, Lou. And I'm glad you're out there. And I'm glad you found that the program in the early 90s on the TV side and then going into radio, which is really outstanding.

Carl in Galena, Illinois, Carl, welcome to the program. You know, when I heard Rush passed away, yes, when I returned home from work, I walked through two feet of snow. Put my flag at half staff and decided that it was going to stay there all summer in honor of a great American. Wow. Wow. I challenge all conservative. To do the same, anything Joe Biden says, about half staff flags, I'm not paying attention.

Yeah, what what was the first thing that struck you about Rush when you first heard Rush the first time or when you first realized what he had? What was it that struck you about him?

He thought like me. Mm hmm. And I started listening after the election in 2000 because I just wasn't getting the answers and. Every day I listen. Yeah. Probably felt a little bit alone before you tuned into the show, right? You felt like maybe you were the only guy thinking that way and then you realized you had kindred spirits out there across the fruited plain.

Well, my opinions were considered out there. Sure. I catch you.

Hey, listen, I understand what you're saying there, Karl. I'm so happy you called in. You're keeping the flag at half staff through the summer for Rush, for memory, for Rush. And we appreciate you checking in on the program today. Sir, thank you so much for being there.

You bet. Thanks for taking my call. Thank you. That's Carl from Galena, Illinois. Don't forget, folks, tomorrow Katherine Limbaugh is going to be joining the program and she's going to be sharing her thoughts, her memories of the the day last week, Wednesday, when they laid Rush to rest. And she'll be taking phone calls as well. And we certainly want to invite you to be a part of the conversation. Don't forget, this program's not going anywhere.

It's going to be a for a long, long time. And you're going to get to hear Rush and his analysis, his humor, his parodies, all the great stuff that he's put together because it's important to stake.

What about the Rush Limbaugh on the EIB? It is the Rush Limbaugh Show on the EIB Network. I am, Brent. Wonderful to be here with you. Let's talk to some of the great listeners out there who have queued up across the phone lines this afternoon on the first day of March 20 21.

Ray is up first in Miami, Florida. Ray, welcome to the program. What's on your mind?

Hey, how are you doing? Everyone calling in to the biggest influences, biggest my life at two biggest books was the Bible and the way it ought to be by Rush Limbaugh. Wow. And how.

You know, my grandfather was a fan and self educated guy, much like Ross, probably a wise man and never known and is great that some of you are going to try to keep his legacy and everything going. I mean, he's just a remarkable man. He did a book just I was like, wow. Like your previous caller. I'm not alone. Right. Right.

You get that light bulb moment. You're reading it. You're reading it. You're saying, I did this guy get to me.

I get this. This is what I'm about. This is what I believe. And he's put it into words in that book.

And, you know, I became a little head and been following him every day at noon to listen to him, you know, like it was a. And like a lot of people in my kind of this next political cycle, it's going to be tough, you know, because we always had rushed to you know, I'm thinking this way. And if Russia says, you know, that's a good way to think, you know, you're new on Iran point.

Well, look, Rush is still here because you're going to hear him on the program, he's still here in his books, he's still here in the website. So you can you can apply the lessons you've already learned over all these years of listening to the program. And you'll know in your gut, you're going to know in your gut. You're going to say, OK, wait, this is this is what he'd stand for because this is what he stood for right in the way things ought to be.

And in his daily program for all the years that he was here, 32 years, he he you're going to get that sense.

Trust me, Ray, I think you'll call me back at some point down the road when I'm sitting in here. And I think you're going to get that sense in in the gut that you're going to say, OK, I get it, I get it. He's he's oriented towards conservatism. Liberate a liberty. And protecting this country is the greatest country in the world. Wade is going to be up next.

Wade in North Carolina, welcome to the program, sir. How are you today? Oh, a Tom DeLay, so I'm going to try to make it as fast as I can and you being in Charlotte, you should know Southern folks, they don't talk very fast. Sure. But I'm going to tell you this. In 2021, when we thought that the election was stolen and everything and Rush kept saying, keep the faith, keep the faith, I'm a bad alcoholic and I've been trying to quit drinking.

And I was at that point in my life where I didn't know what the heck to do, but I just kept hearing Rush multiple times a day and over a period of several days say, keep the faith, keep the faith, keep the faith. And it really helped me because I know that you're not going to fall in the mud without getting dirty, but you can still get out of the mud. You might still be dirty when you get out of the mud.

But you. But you're not. But but you don't have to stay there. Sure. And it's all I could hear a lot of times was keep the faith. Keep the faith. Everything's going crazy right now, but just keep the faith. And really, that's all I wanted to say. Rush, I've listened to him since 2015 or 2005. I'm sorry. And losing him was like losing my grandfather. And I only lost my grandfather a few months before before we lost Rush.

And so I'm sorry. I'm so emotional. No, no, it's OK. I just want to tell you that. That all these years, for almost 16 years, he's really helped me, but it was always his Keep the Faith speech just a few months ago, that really that really was an inspiration to me. And I'm going to let you go, because I know you're a hard on time, so I'll talk to you.

Wade, I appreciate you being there. Do what he said. Just keep the faith. That's what it comes down to. Keep the faith. Malcolm Broomhall, Pennsylvania. Go ahead, Mark.

Hey, I'm a retired Navy special operative. I was stationed in Spain and direct support fields, a mobile communication at sea. And I found about rushed through a missionary pastor named John Hilton, who had known about Rush when he was in that Silicon Valley. And he used to tell me about what he was getting set up. Don't go to people told us don't go to call juniors. They're conservative. So as soon as he found that I started buying called jobs for everybody, his staff and everything.

And he preface this by saying, what do you what do you listen to? And I said, well, and I said, what do you listen to that for? And he told me about the alternative. And like a good pastor, he educated me about the other side of news that we don't have to let the mainstream media tell us what to think. And once I started finding out the alternative, I was hooked because here's a guy who dared to step out against the, you know, didn't go and didn't go into hurting Detroit, didn't follow the crowd.

That's right. Made a bold stand because he has that bedrock convictions, knew he was right and stood by. And absolutely. I can admire that being a step up. His position behind the golden McRib is similar to what I was doing in my rights.

And Emman Mac Aimen, well said. Absolutely. And thank you for your service. Without you, we could not do this.

Brett would have been for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network. Brett, Water Bowl in four Rush Limbaugh. On the Rush Limbaugh Show, here is President Trump yesterday, CPAC talking about the irreplaceable Rush party.

It's incredible, the people, the spirit, and there are, as you probably heard a little while ago, I mean, there's more spirit now than there's ever been, including even before the election, more spirit now than we've ever seen because people are seeing how bad it can be. And again, I want to thank Rush and Katherine because what he did to get the word out has been incredible.

Some people are irreplaceable, as Sean Hannity would say. And he said Rush is irreplaceable, but his spirit lives on. And that's something that we need.

We love. Indeed it does, and it will stay here, Vibs, not going anywhere tomorrow, Catherine Limbaugh joins the program to talk to you and to take your calls.

Thank you. I'm on Brentwood on the EIB Network.

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