rush: Now, I’ve held back until now to mention that I’ll be gone for the next couple of days. and these are vacation days. I’m not going to sit here and tell you that a last-minute business deal came up. these are long-scheduled vacation days to coincide with Memorial Day weekend. you know, it took me a while to figure out what my staff was doing.
My staff was asking for vacation days over Thanksgiving week. and I grant you, sure, what the heck, and then they would fit in with the long weekends and turn a four-day weekend into a 10-day weekend. well, I’ll do it myself now. I have decided that I will follow the lead of my staff and maximize vacation time. You know, I could have easily waited and taken these two days at another time, but I’ll take them tomorrow and Friday.
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so we have todd herman, still in seattle? she still lives there. Okay. todd herman from seattle on thursday and friday, and a top notch show on monday. Boy, it’s hard to decide that. Have we already decided what it is? we have. because I knew people were losing sleep trying to figure out what better show to put on. what is the best program? do you know it by heart? ah it’s a combined ah, okay. so we’re taking elements from a few shows and combining them into one giant best-of show on Monday. okay, okay.
Now, I want to make some book recommendations. and these are just the books that I am aware I have been dabbling in here, or soon will be. summer is coming, summer reading or whatever. one of them is a novel. You know, my good friend Ted Bell has created this thriller series in the vein of Vince Flynn and Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. his hero is alex hawke.
I want to read you the premise. Ted’s new book is Overkill, and it’s been out a couple, three weeks. But just to give you an idea of the creativity here: “On a ski vacation in the Swiss Alps high above St. Moritz, Alex Hawke and his young son, Alexei, are thrust into danger when the tram carrying them to the top of the mountain bursts into flame, separating the two. Before he can reach Alexei, the boy is snatched from the burning cable car by unknown assailants in a helicopter.”
so they were heading up the mountain on a tram, the tram explodes and there’s a fire. Turns out there’s a chopper of bad guys somehow snatching alex hawke’s son from the burning streetcar.
“meanwhile, high in the skies of france, vladimir putin is aboard his presidential plane after escaping a bloodless coup in the kremlin. When two flight attendants collapse and lose consciousness, the Russian leader realizes the danger is not over. killing the pilots, he grabs a parachute, gets out of the plane. . . and disappears.”
now, ted writes a lot about putin. in one of these books by alex hawke, putin was in jail, in a russian jail, having been exposed as a bad guy, criminal, oligarch, friends ruining the country. and this is alex hawke versus vladimir putin, and it’s called overkill. and these are page turners. you can’t leave this. even the premise here alone sounds crazy, but it’s just fascinating.
and alex hawke comes from bermuda, and he drinks black seal rum. Have you ever tried black seal rum? it is 151 proof. and I’m telling you, this, you wouldn’t drink this rum like you would any other, this is like cognac. this is to be practically sniffed at. it’s that powerful. But Bermuda shorts have figured prominently in the Ted Bell books.
Ainsley Earhardt has a book out that is genuinely fascinating. It’s called The Light Within Me. You know, she had a children’s book. She’s trying to compete with us and Rush Revere. And she had a children’s book called Take Heart, My Child. And this book is actually kind of a pre-memoir memoir. It’s filled with quotes from Scripture. It describes her relationship with her family. And it basically explains how she turned out the way she has. Who she is, why it happened, that it wasn’t an accident, and her honor and gratefulness for her family and her child, just the general way her life has played out.
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And, you know, you might think he’s young to write a memoir, but it’s a pre-memoir memoir, that’s the way I look at it. her Christian faith is prominent in that he has shaped who she is. she is abundantly talented and is adored and loved by all who work with her. i remember sean hannity she started talking to me about ainsley earhardt when she was going to do the half hour news break on hannity & colmes i think she goes back that far and, if not that far, somewhere.
then he started doing little pieces, interviews in the field with various people dealing with the issues hannity was talking about. Her rise at Fox has been fairly rapid and substantive, and it’s just a genuinely fascinating and open-ended pre-memoir, as I say.
other, i met a guy named john sofa. John Couch was Apple’s first Vice President of Education. John Couch dates back to the days of Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak Apple. and he is still there. In fact, Wozniak has written the foreword to his book. It’s called Reconnecting Education: How Technology Can Unlock Every Student’s Potential.
Now, Apple has always had a foot in the door in education. They’ve recently made a renewed push in the education field with the release of a new iPad and curricula, elements and aids for classrooms and so forth, a couple apps. But Couch’s book is basically about, you know, on-the-ground philosophy and technique and suggestions for incorporating the latest technology with education.
for example, it used to be that people thought, you know, when the ipad came out, “man, this is going to be great! just put them in classrooms,” and people did. in fact, the school district Los Angeles Unified bought something like 25,000 of them I think that’s the number but no one told them how to use them no one told them what to do with them and eventually they had to be resold or repurposed or whatever because there wasn’t a specific action plan to tell teachers and educators how to incorporate the ipad in the classroom.
because at the time, windows were everywhere in the classroom: cheap little laptops, etc. well, time has passed and apple has updated ipad software. Now don’t get me wrong. couch’s book is not about the ipad. it is about taking the technology that surrounds us and successfully implementing it in education, something that many people have not yet discovered. technology is everywhere and is innovated every year. it gets simpler every year.
but figuring out how to inject it into the educational life of a student or teacher in a classroom (organizing plans, doing homework, keeping track of things) is just beginning. but couch’s book here goes way beyond the ipad. I mention the iPad only because that’s how Apple made its first real launch, the new launch toward education. but couch’s book here is about the whole concept of all technology and how it can be unlocked and made as common as rulers or as common as chalk or as common as the old analog tools that people used in education. /p>
nobody really knows how to incorporate all this high technology in a positive and uplifting way, and that’s what couch is aiming to do. reshaping education: how technology can unlock the potential of every student. and that’s really the key. it is student-oriented, not classroom-oriented. it is oriented to find where the students get the best of them. Conrad Black, who has been a friend of mine for quite some time, has a new book. he just got out. conrad thinks it’s short. (interruption) what are you laughing at?
it’s 256 pages and conrad says, “hey, it’s a small book. you won’t…” (laughing) the 256 pages are small. conrad black is canadian. he’s a former media baron. he owned the post office of jerusalem, the canada post or canada…? the main newspaper in canada at the time. he is a real world intellectual. by that i mean he is an intellectual who will not be unpleasant to people. he is fascinating you sit there and you listen and marvel, and sometimes you want to burst out laughing when you’re not supposed to. sometimes you just can’t stop taking it all in.
There’s nobody like Conrad Black. He wrote a book… I remember the last Conrad book I recommended to you was Flight of the Eagle, and it was about the strategic beginnings of this country during the days of the founding, and it focused a lot on George Washington in ways Washington is usually not written about. Now, Conrad Black has been writing pro-Trump columns at National Review for a year and a half now. But he was early all-in on Trump, and I frankly… I’m gonna be interviewing Conrad for the next issue of The Limbaugh Letter.
It will be the week after I come back, or next week, and I’m going to let you in on a question that I’m going to ask you, because it fascinates me. “conrad…” actually, if you met him, and if you heard him talk, you would think that conrad is from the establishment, and you would think that conrad black would look at donald trump and say, “never darken my door. don’t ever come into my home. You are a reprobate!” but it is exactly the opposite.
conrad black thinks donald trump is going to be the most memorable and perhaps the greatest president in the history of the united states. he is unabashed in his support of trump. he is not afraid of trump explanations of him. he has done business with trump. he has been friends with trump for years. he loves donald trump. donald trump does not offend him. It’s one of the many ways that Conrad Black, if you knew him, would surprise you. but he is totally all-in. the title of his book is donald j. trump: a president like no other.
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And he does believe that Trump is already one of the greatest characters, one of the most delicious characters to follow in all of American history. The fact that he has become president is icing on the cake. He thinks nobody — nobody — could do what Trump is doing. Ignore the ruling elite, ignore its arrogance, come in and — in a relative overnight period of time — totally begin the process of reorienting and fixing America against the greatest odds any president has faced since Washington.
as he says, “it’s not a long book. it’s not heavy it’s only 256 pages”. his biographies of nixon and fdr are 800 pages, 700… (interruption) i know. conrad’s biography of nixon is exhaustive, absorbing and understanding. he is supportive. conrad black is someone you should look up to anyway. just find things he has written and read them. i guarantee your vocabulary will skyrocket. he will not intimidate you. not that some writers use words to purpose so you don’t know what they’re talking about. conrad wants you to know what he’s saying. fascinating. so here we have overkill by ted bell, a novel.
We have Ainsley Earhardt’s The Light Within Me, and we have Apple Book’s John Couch, Reshaping Education: How Technology Can Unlock Every Student’s Potential. and Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other, by Conrad Black. also salena zito. folks, you need to get your book. The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics. you have to get this book. it is seed. it is essential to understand why trump was elected and why he will continue to be. get it!
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rush: salena zito’s book is called the great revolt, and there is no book like it. It’s not a pro-trump book, I mean, per se. salena zito has become the journalistic expert on who trump voters are and why. she has spent days, weeks, months in all these neighborhoods and all these blue states and the areas of these states that elected trump in shock, voters who normally would have voted for hillary and voted for obama.
She’s identified them, categorized them into seven different kinds of voters and explains why they vote. She interviews ’em. It’s them! You hear the actual people who voted for Trump and why and why they’re gonna continue to do so. This would be the best book the Drive-By Media could read to find out what they’re up against. They won’t do it. You know, when Salena Zito is interviewed… She sent me a note. I’m gonna be honest.
He sent me a note expressing his frustration that his co-workers on various networks are not interested in what he says, that they are not interested in actually reading the book. I replied. I said, “well, welcome to the club, selena. they don’t care what you think. They don’t care what you found out. they will only try to expose your work as irrelevant or incompetent. they really don’t care.” as I learned when I started being interviewed by the media. They didn’t care what I thought.
They weren’t really curious about who I was. They saw me as a nemesis, and she is seen the same way. she really thought she was going to help open the eyes of the media who are confused about why she won trump. and they could. they could answer many questions and help themselves to learn what they are up against. but they will flatly refuse to read the book. it would be that useful to them.
maybe it’s a good thing they aren’t, but it’s that complete.
It’s called the great revolt of Salena Zito.
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