{"id":11902,"date":"2013-07-18T18:14:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T18:14:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T19:13:06","slug":"remembering_rush_tv_awareness_ribbons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/07\/18\/remembering_rush_tv_awareness_ribbons\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Rush TV Awareness Ribbons"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Laurie in Hershey, Pennsylvania, great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I would love to see the reincarnation of the budget deficit awareness ribbon.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Well, that was a device that worked well on television.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah, I\u2019d like to see it more at my neighborhood grocery store, just to remind each other, \u2019cause there are a lot of us, you know, this part of the country, and just to remind each other what we\u2019re working towards. That issue is getting kind of cloudy with all the other stuff going on, scandals, verdicts, decrees —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, somebody observed to me the other day — this is profound, or it\u2019s amazing what you\u2019ve said. Somebody said to me in an e-mail, or it might have been a text message, but somebody said, “It has gotten so bad that everybody\u2019s just forgotten about the debt,” that so much has happened since the debt was run through the roof that that\u2019s just a side issue now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is a side issue on the media\u2019s part — well, it always is — but on the<\/p>\n

RUSH: — public consciousness. (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — home front it\u2019s front and center. We live with it every day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I know. I know. Public consciousness is the only point —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, no, I know, I absolutely agree. But, you know, I\u2019m a mom of three young boys, who eat me out of house and home, let me tell you. And every time I go to the grocery store and every time I have to get them clothes or a backpack or something, you just realize what a tight budget you\u2019re on —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and then I see, you know, Air Force One flying all over the place and this —<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the entitlement to royalty.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Barack and his wife have this entitlement to royalty. It\u2019s like thumbing their nose at everybody. By the way, the budget deficit awareness ribbon, for those of you that don\u2019t know what that is, you remember back in the early nineties when there was a colored ribbon for every issue. There was red ribbon for HIV. There was a yellow ribbon for this and a blue ribbon for that. I remember one day on my TV program I came out wearing nine of them, nine or 10 different colored ribbons and I told everybody, “Because I\u2019m wearing these ribbons, I\u2019m a better person than you are, and I care more than you do.”<\/p>\n


\nI said, “I don\u2019t see you guys wearing ribbons, but see these? I care. This makes me a better person than you.” And then we came up with the deficit reduction awareness ribbon, which is a dollar bill folded in the same shape as those other issue awareness ribbons. We had folding instructions, how to fold it to make it look like one of those other ribbons. It was a brilliant invention. And people started showing up in the studio audience of the TV show wearing the things, and they were popping up everywhere. Even members of Congress, there were a couple, maybe more, members of Congress that ran around wearing deficit reduction awareness ribbons. Gives you an idea how long the deficit\u2019s been a problem.<\/p>\n

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