{"id":329868,"date":"2019-11-27T16:21:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=329868"},"modified":"2019-11-29T08:07:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T13:07:42","slug":"stand-up-for-betsy-ross-helps-gold-star-widow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/11\/27\/stand-up-for-betsy-ross-helps-gold-star-widow\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand Up for Betsy Ross Helps Gold Star Widow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Frank Siller, Tunnel to Towers, was back on Fox today, folks, to announce even more great works they have been able to accomplish because of the money raised at the RushLimbaugh.com store and the Stand Up for Betsy Ross campaign.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112719-Siller-Fox-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112719-Siller-Fox-4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112719-Siller-Fox-4-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>This was Fox &amp; Friends today. And Frank Siller, the CEO of Tunnel to Towers, had a guest with him, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2019\/08\/wife-daughter-of-us-army-sergeant-who-gave-ultimate-sacrifice-to-be-given-a-home.html\">Gold Star widow Mecca Nelson<\/a>. In fact, put the still picture up there, Brian. We\u2019ve got a still shot from TV. Frank\u2019s wearing a different fleece today from the <a href=\"https:\/\/rushlimbaughshowstore.com\/\">RushLimbaugh.com store<\/a>. Stand Up for Betsy Ross, isn\u2019t that a gorgeous blue fleece?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you don\u2019t have the Dittocam, we have the entire video of Frank\u2019s appearance in the ticker at RushLimbaugh.com. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/videos\/43265\/95627\/#!\/43265\/95627\/Stand-up-for-Betsy-Ross-Tunnel-to-Towers-Thanksgiving-Update\">So you can watch the whole thing.<\/a> But, if you\u2019re watching the show on the Dittocam, that is Mecca Nelson who is a Gold Star widow who was one of the families benefiting from the great work of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. She was on the set today with Frank. And here is a portion of his appearance today with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade.<\/p>\n<p>SILLER: We\u2019re very grateful to Rush and Kathryn Limbaugh. Without their donations and their listeners to Rush\u2019s show, we\u2019d not been able to do these homes. They donated over $4 million \u2013<\/p>\n<p>KILMEADE: Whoa.<\/p>\n<p>SILLER: Unbelievable, right? For the Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt. You know, I was watching The Patriot last night and there\u2019s a scene when he\u2019s coming over a hill on a horse and he\u2019s going with the American flag, they\u2019re attacking Cornwallis, the British, it\u2019s the Betsy Ross flag that he\u2019s coming over with it and it just stands so much for our Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n<p>KILMEADE: And they sell apparel, including this fleece, right?<\/p>\n<p>SILLER: He\u2019s got a whole new line going out for Christmas. He wants to raise more and more money for us. And we can\u2019t do it, once again, without their money, we would not have been able to deliver these three mortgage-free homes this year to these great heroes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112719-Siller-Fox-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112719-Siller-Fox-5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112719-Siller-Fox-5-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: They\u2019re up to 14 or 15 I think. This is three just in the recent past. And throw the picture back up again because that\u2019s Frank Siller on the right with Mecca Nelson. She was the recipient. She\u2019s the Gold Star widow, her husband killed in action. And Tunnel to Towers was able to pay off her mortgage.<\/p>\n<p>And, folks, it\u2019s not Kathryn and me. It is you. We\u2019ve been able to donate $4 million and counting to Tunnel to Towers on the basis of your purchases of Stand Up for Betsy Ross merchandise at <a href=\"https:\/\/rushlimbaughshowstore.com\/\">RushLimbaugh.com at the Store tab there, our EIB Store<\/a>. And Frank was right. We have increased, we have added to the apparel line. We\u2019ve got an apparel line strictly for women, different styles, different sizes. We\u2019ve added fall and winter apparel now, and Frank modeled two different fleeces yesterday and today. This blue one that he has on, it\u2019s just gorgeous. There are hoodies. Long sleeve T-shirts, V-neck T-shirts, there\u2019s any number of things.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also stuff in the store that\u2019s not logoed with Stand Up for Betsy Ross. There are gift packages featuring items autographed personally by me. We got it really well stocked for the holiday season. But all the Stand Up for Betsy Ross merchandise, the proceeds go to Tunnel to Towers. Here\u2019s the next short bite, Steve Doocy picking it up.<\/p>\n<p>DOOCY: You can go to RushLimbaugh.com, take a look at this.<\/p>\n<p>SILLER: Men\u2019s, women\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>DOOCY: It\u2019s not just the Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt. Now it\u2019s a whole line of fleece and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>NELSON: I\u2019m waiting for mine.<\/p>\n<p>SILLER: Men\u2019s and women\u2019s and you got it, T-shirts, long sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>DOOCY: (points to Siller\u2019s cuff) Is that Rush\u2019s signature right there?<\/p>\n<p>SILLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>NELSON: On the sleeve.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112719-Siller-Fox-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112719-Siller-Fox-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112719-Siller-Fox-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>SILLER: Right there. It is. He\u2019s been remarkable, him and Kathryn.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, it\u2019s actually you, folks. Now, stop and think of this, just to remind everybody. This all started on July 4th when Colin Kaepernick told Nike that he didn\u2019t like the new line of tennis shoes they were going to sell with the Betsy Ross flag on the heel. So Nike shelved \u2019em. So Nike said, okay, Colin doesn\u2019t like \u2019em. We won\u2019t sell \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>And we had about reached our limit on this Kaepernick stuff, starting out protesting the police, we thought. Now he\u2019s protesting the American flag. And there\u2019s nothing political about the American flag. The American flag, a symbol of unity, at the very least, of our country. Now we\u2019re gonna politicize that? Betsy Ross, there\u2019s nothing political about Betsy Ross. Maybe one of the first feminists in our nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>So four days later, July 8th, we had the Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt in the store, $27 item, one color, white. It sold so rapidly that we were able \u2013 if we had 50,000 T-shirts sold we would have been doing handstands. Well, we\u2019re up over 325,000 now.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I need to remind you. There are more knockoffs and counterfeiters out there than ever, and they\u2019re overcharging people, and they\u2019re faking the merchandise, they are faking the logo, and they\u2019re not sending any money to Tunnel to Towers. There\u2019s only one place to get the real Stand Up for Betsy Ross merchandise, and that\u2019s at RushLimbaugh.com, the EIB Store. And it\u2019s easy to find. Just go to <a href=\"https:\/\/rushlimbaughshowstore.com\/\">RushLimbaugh.com, the website, or on your app, find the store, the Store tab<\/a>, and tap or click on it and you\u2019ll be amazed at the line of merchandise that\u2019s available there. And it\u2019s been stocked up for the season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rushlimbaughshowstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-327331 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-110119-BETSY-ROSS-Fleece-HOOD-Blue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-110119-BETSY-ROSS-Fleece-HOOD-Blue.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-110119-BETSY-ROSS-Fleece-HOOD-Blue-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>One more thing. Through this week, purchases of $50 or more, free shipping and a free Tervis tumbler, EIB Network Tervis tumbler thrown in. Frank is looking good in this merchandise, by the way, and congratulations to Mecca Nelson for being one of the beneficiaries of the great work they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We have a little saying, a little slogan here at RushLimbaugh.com in the store, &#8220;Go Big or Go Home.&#8221; That\u2019s the attitude each and every day. And, by the way, Mecca Nelson, it was funny, when you watched the video, she loved the fleece that Frank was wearing. She said she was gonna have to go get one.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody that sees this stuff is blown away by it because we\u2019re not gouging anyone. We got a price point that we wanted to be fair with, and we have found the finest quality merchandise we can at scale for that price point. So, I mean, it\u2019s really an honor to be part of this. And it just scaled up dramatically. It\u2019s not the result of anything other than popular demand. 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