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Sept. 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 19, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hi, greetings, folks.
So welcome back, Rush Limbo, safely ensconced, firmly ensconced here at the EIB Southern Command behind this, the Golden EIB microphone.
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All right, we learned a little bit more about the student who was tasered at the John Kerry event.
In fact, we've got, let's do this.
Let's start with audio soundbite number 12.
See if I got anything more on this.
Yeah, audio soundbite number 12.
This is just have that ready, Mike.
Senator Kerry, who served in Vietnam, the haughty senator from Massachusetts, thought that he was pacifying a potentially volatile situation when he allowed Andrew Meyer to approach the microphone Monday afternoon, even though the time allotted to Kerry's speech at the University of Florida had already run out.
His first words were, Senator Kerry, they're trying to arrest me, Kerry said in an interview yesterday.
I tried to calm him down.
I stopped him from arresting him.
I began to answer his question.
He went on to say that I was trying not to have a riot started, Kerry said.
I thought it was important to keep the place contained.
I guess would be the best way to put it.
What planet is he on?
This is ridiculous.
One kid with students sitting there watching it all happen, and he's worried about a riot breaking out.
Anyway, it turns out that the kid's a practical joker, is a well-known practical joker, and apparently succeeded in doing exactly what he wanted to do, and that is get himself on television, play a practical joke on Kerry and so forth, and everybody else.
And it succeeded.
Now, let's go to Hardball last night with Chris Matthews.
He was talking to Salon.com's Joe Connison, who typifies the deranged drive-by media today.
Matthews says, I like people to yell at each other and argue publicly.
What's wrong with this?
Yeah, of course, of course.
The problem we have had for the last several years is that from the very top, we've had a disrespect for people's rights of free speech.
It's been very clear almost from Inauguration Day.
And as a result, you have cops doing things like they did to that kid the other day.
Well, that's going to be, I hope that's the thing.
You know, the fish stinks from the head.
Yeah, it's absolutely right.
Because the Bush administration's spying on Americans, we live in a police state now.
That's what he was trying to say.
He was blaming all of this.
You have some kid, who knows what his politics are.
This is a liberal kid or whatever, silenced at a liberal event.
You have a liberal kid silenced at a liberal event with a liberal former Democrat nominee for president, a liberal university.
And it's George Bush's fault.
The fish stinks from the head.
These people are nuts.
They're literally nuts.
It's hilarious and it's funny, but it's still nuts.
This typified what happened at police stadium.
Conison, I guess, didn't know by this time when he went on hardballing to go 5 o'clock live Eastern Time that this whole thing was a practical joke, apparently.
This kid was laughing and joking.
And he told the cops, by the way, you did the right thing.
He asked people to videotape what he was going to do.
He asked two women to do it.
One he knew and one he didn't know.
So, you know, this, another great example is the narrative, and there's their template, Bush spying on Americans, Bush taking away freedoms, Bush taking away civil liberties, Bush this, Bush that.
So, virtually everything that happens, they can fit it into their narratives, like the Duke rape case.
I mean, the narrative, the liberal narrative was there.
You had a poor black dancer struggling against the odds that America presents black dancers.
And she's doing whatever she has to do to feed her little baby and put herself to school.
It's a horrible thing, and she had to hire herself out as a stripper.
What a horrible country we are.
And who hired her?
A bunch of elite, snob, wealthy jocks.
And so, when the courageous and brave stripper alleges rape, ha ha, it happened.
We got it.
Rich white guys, spoiled jocks, wealthy kids taking advantage.
Of course, none of it was true.
The narrative was right, but the facts got in the way.
It's the same thing here.
You have a liberal kid at a liberal college campus listening to a liberal Democrat former presidential candidate, current senator, who raises hell, will not shut up.
They taser the guy, and liberals say, see what Bush has wrought.
Meanwhile, Kerry, who did nothing, is now trying to take credit for stopping a riot.
You just have to laugh.
As you do it, this is from the Politico.
Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry Reid traveled to New York on Monday.
Nobody knew this at the time.
He huddled privately with leaders of the anti-Iraq war movement in his latest effort to reassure this increasingly restive group that Democrats are doing everything they can to end the war.
Reed's session.
By the way, the name of this group is not ID'd, just a bunch of anti-war people.
I don't know what there's a group name.
I don't know, it's moveon.org.
I don't know who it was.
But at any rate, Reed's session, which was not publicly disclosed, comes as he and other congressional leaders are trying to maneuver between two conflicting political goals, enlisting enough support from Republican lawmakers to force Bush.
Hey, they've lost this.
The Democrats have failed to lose, folks.
They have given it everything they've got.
They invested in defeat.
They wanted to lose.
They wanted to pull as many Republicans away from Bush as possible, but they have failed in their effort to lose.
I know that sounds like a double negative to you, but it's not.
Another appropriate headline would be, Democrats can't find enough Republicans to help them surrender.
So Dingy Harry's up there telling the anti-war crowd, you know, we got two political goals here.
We've got to siphon off Republicans to help us here without compromising so much, and anti-war activists will complain of a sellout.
Now, in this secretive Monday session, according to several people who were either present or briefed by attendees, Dingy Harry tried to explain his limitations to the anti-war mob, and he pleaded with leaders of the anti-war mob to keep their energies focused on Republicans, not Democrats.
He went up there with his tail between his legs.
These guys were going to have us out of Vietnam by now.
It was going to have, by the seen, the new congressional poll numbers, 11% approval.
So the Democrats and the anti-war crowd, fringe kooks and their blogosphere base, thought they were going to be out of Vietnam, out of Iraq by it, but it was going to happen.
And Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi have failed to lose.
They have failed in everything they've tried to do here.
Bush has run rings around.
They get fewer votes each time they bring one of these resolutions up.
So Dingy Harry had to slink up to New York under cover of darkness, great secrecy and security to beg these lunatics not to hold it against them, to explain the limitations.
You know what the limitations are?
I can tell you.
Well, we need 60 votes, so we don't have 60 votes.
We're not ever going to get 60 votes, so we don't have 66 votes to overwrite a veto.
You think that's going to please the anti-war crowd?
You know, if you're on a football team, you don't want the coach coming up to you making excuses why you can't win.
Hey, focus on the enemy.
Well, you don't focus on me.
Well, I think they, of course, they qualify as a special interest group.
That's why I find it curious.
This is from thepolitico.com.
And I find it interesting that the name of the group's not identified.
Maybe there isn't.
Maybe this is an amalgamation, if you will, of several anti-war groups.
But the Meade-Reed mission reflected the paradox bedeviling the anti-war movement.
It's powerful enough to command constant care and feeding by the Democrat presidential candidates and congressional leaders.
But so far, it's proven largely impotent in forcing policy changes.
What's more, five years after the congressional vote authorizing Bush's march to war, opponents still have only mixed success in mobilizing mass protests.
You know, there were more protests over Iraq when it began than there are today.
There were more anti-war protests, and they weren't big by 60 standards, but there were far more protests when the Iraq war began in 2003 than there are today.
This is a movement that is losing steam.
It's been made to look huge.
This is how totalitarians succeed at things, folks.
They very small in numbers, but they get allies in the drive-by is to make them look huge.
And then when you got this idiot, Harry Reid, decides to go up there and powwow with all he's doing is elevating their stature and empowering them.
And it's a cowardly thing to do.
This is not leadership.
There is none on the Democrat side of the aisle.
That's the dirty little secret nobody is talking about but me.
It's a Doctor of Democracy, an America's truth detector serving humanity simply by showing up.
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And this is Barry in Pequa, Ohio.
I'm glad you waited, Barry.
Welcome to the program.
Well, hi, Rush Megadittos.
That sure is an honor.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, I just had a quick comment.
It just kind of cracks me up with the drive-by media.
How you get in your last segment, you had an article about a guy who's $90 some thousand dollars in debt and isn't paying his bills, but he's really worried about a little bit lower interest rate when it comes in.
Isn't it wonderful?
In case you're just joining us, this came in a discussion last hour on we had great news in the stock market yesterday with the interest rate cuts, which is overall good for a lot of people in the economy.
And a drive-by's the LA Times and the NBC Nightly News had to do stories.
Here's the headline in the LA Times: Fed's rent cut may be bad news for some.
And they quote this guy, Yosufa Touré, 27, owes about 93 grand credit card, phone, utility, hospital bills, and he doesn't pay them anymore.
He just doesn't pay the bills because he has no money.
But now he's worried.
The interest rate's going down.
And he may go further in debt because he may accept some of these new credit card offers that he's getting.
And of course, the story is that it's America that's forcing this guy into this horrible situation.
And it's evil credit card companies.
And now it's the evil Fed for cutting interest rates.
This poor guy is going to go even deeper in debt now because of the interest rate cuts.
And so how can this be good for America when this guy's going to have this happen to him?
This is Quintus Sitchell liberalism.
This guy's a victim.
He's a victim of a good economy.
And that was the story the drive-by has tried to put out yet.
Don't get so excited.
Bad news for some people here.
Blah, And then everybody wonders why some people are sitting constantly in angst and turmoil.
Yuba City, California.
This is Santos.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush, mega dittos and all that jazz.
Thank you.
God bless our troops serving around the world, including my brother, Chief Master Sergeant Tony Vigil, and his son, PJ Vigil, serving in the Middle East.
Hey, Rush, my question is about Hillary's health care plan.
Now, she said that people making over $200,000 a year would have to pay some sort of penalty.
$250,000 a year.
Okay, they'd have to pay some sort of penalty if their private health insurance is better than the government.
My question is: how is that even possible?
I mean, why?
I mean, she wants to take over the health insurance system because she says it's broke.
But private health insurance is still going to be better for some people.
I mean, what chances a poor sucker like me have of getting you, are you, are you?
I look, I understand the question, but this is why yesterday I said we're gonna go have to have to go back to fundamentals uh, and explain the whole, the whole concept of uh, of of liberalism, health care and how the two relate to one another.
Now, to state this in an understandable uh, simple way, mrs Clinton's health care proposal contains a lot of danger, and one of the things in it that is it's it's it's in there, by the way designed to get people who don't make two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year to support the whole plan based on class ending.
It's this, if your family has household income of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and you go out and buy a health insurance policy that is better than what the government's offering, you are going to pay a tax.
That tax could be as high I have seen in certain stories as sixty thousand dollars.
You are going to pay a penalty for having a better plan than somebody else does.
Now I understand you're asking, well, how can you go out and get a better plan?
I thought there's only going to be one plan, the government plan it's, that's the theory, but it never works out that way.
What Hillary knows is that the wealthy are going to be able to go out and do whatever they want to do and get better, Better coverage than what she's going to.
What you all ought to be realizing here is that Mrs. Clinton is admitting there's going to be better coverage than what you are going to get.
Forget the rich, forget the fact they're going to pay taxes on it.
I'm not going to forget it.
But what you need to be realizing here is what Mrs. Clinton is admitting, that there's going to be better plans that you can't get.
They're going to be better coverage, better whatever that you can't get, probably better treatment too, that you can't get, even though the whole program is designed to fix everything that's wrong with the program and the whole industry.
So I don't know whether Clinton and her strategists understand this or not, but they have just admitted that they're not going to fix this and it's not going to be any better than what you have to end up being worse, probably.
And then you're going to have to go out there furthermore.
If you didn't hear this yesterday, furthermore, you're going to have to go out there and you're going to have to have health insurance to get a job interview.
And you hear that and you say, what?
How do I get health insurance without a job?
Exactly.
You go to your government health care center for it.
The employer isn't going to provide it under the Hillary plan.
The government is, folks, aha, bye-bye competition.
And so you've got to have your health insurance to get a gig.
Now, she was asked about details.
Well, yeah, we haven't had details yet.
We envision this happening down the road.
They'll let the congressional committees work this out.
I got more coming on Hillary's plan here as the program unfolds.
Let's go to Pleasant in Texas.
This is Harry.
You're next, sir.
Welcome.
Thank you, long asses to you and tight lines.
I want to visit on the General Petraeus hearings again.
An observation I made was that the Democrats, they based their argument.
Wait, wait, just a second out there, Harry.
Before we get to Petraeus, oh, I was just going to say, you know, Harry, I have a hearing problem.
Okay.
I have a cochlear implant, and some words sound similar.
And I thought you said to me, long asses and tight lines.
And so did the court reporter who's transcribing what you said.
So I'm sitting here thinking, well, what does he mean by this?
Texas draw.
But you meant ashes, right?
Long ashes.
Is in cigars.
Yes.
Yes.
Anyway, the observation I made was that the Democrats blamed or said the troop surge was ineffective because the military had no impact on the political situation.
But, Rush, I thought in a democracy that the military was prohibited from participating in the political end of a government.
Well, that's our democracy.
That's our constitution.
I don't know what the Iraqis have set up for themselves in that regard, but certainly you're right.
You understand.
You're doing a good job here just poking holes in what they're saying.
They're just trying to find anything negative they can.
Okay, surge is working, so let's go to political situation.
And let's demean the surge.
Even though the surge is working, the military has failed to help the political process, meaning military action.
So it's all about condemning the U.S. military and its members.
It's about condemning the efforts of the United States of America.
It's about securing defeat in as many minds and hearts of the American people as possible.
It is indecent.
Yes, Rush.
One other point.
If they want to look at whose fault it is there's no gains in the political end, go look in the mirror.
If we want the Iraqis to form a democracy and we have these dumbbells over here that refuse to cooperate.
Wait, did you hear you hear what Chris Matthews said last night on his show?
Chris Matthews in his show last night playing tape of the kid being tasered at the University of Florida said, and we expect the Sunnis and the Shia to take our leadership when they see this happening in the United States of America?
He honestly said it.
They are losing their minds.
Well, I want to predict a firestorm that has yet to erupt, but it likely will, ladies and gentlemen.
New York Representative Peter King, reading this off the computer here, New York Republican, said there are too many mosques in this country.
He said this in a recent interview with the Politico.
Too many people sympathetic to radical Islam, King said.
We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.
Too many mosques in this country.
Can you say, uh-oh, I happen to think this is a courageous thing to say.
This is, you know, this has become one of the biggest politically correct subjects and taboo subjects that people are scared to go there and talk about.
And he just opened up and launched to the political, which reminds me, you know, ladies and gentlemen, I have another book that I want to recommend to you, especially on, since given the Peter King stories by Norman Pedoritz.
I interviewed Mr. Pedoritz for the September issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
His book is called World War IV, the long struggle against Islamofascism.
The Cold War to him was World War III.
And this is a no-holds-barred, brilliant explanation of just what we face around the world, not just here in our country.
And this book is loaded with things that defy political correctness.
My philosophy, I have a new governing philosophy I live by.
It is what it is.
And Mr. Pedoritz in this book spells it out.
Islamofascism is what it is.
And they are telling us every day what their plans are.
Hell, Achmadinezad, just today, if Israel launches anything, we're going to destroy them.
He keeps talking about wiping out Israel.
You know that there was an accident.
The Iranians and the Syrians were trying to load a Scud missile with a chemical warhead back in July.
And there was an accident.
The thing blew up.
It had sarin gas in it.
And about 23 people died.
The engineers and technicians working on the darn thing.
And it was not reported back then.
It's been reported by Jane's Defense Weekly.
It has been confirmed.
This happened back in July.
We've got information here that Syria is working with Iran and perhaps China, or North Korea on nukes.
And then the Israelis took a hit on whatever that installation is.
The nuke aspect hasn't been confirmed.
Then, let me find this later on the stack.
There's one other thing that some wacko in Iran has said about what's going to happen on the end of Ramadan, which is October the 12th.
Basically, yeah, here we go.
And this is from the Jerusalem Post.
Supporters of the Zionist regime will receive their response during the Quds Day rallies.
Government spokesman Ghulam Hossein Elim said Wednesday.
The spokesman made the remarks during his weekly press conference while commenting on the current visit to the occupied Palestine of the U.S. Secretary Condaleezer Rice.
Quds Day is held each year on the last Friday of Muslims' fasting month of Ramadan after it was nominated by the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, as a day to voice the protest of the Islamic Ummah against the Zionists.
The day falls on October 12th this year.
The U.S. loses all opportunities to cooperate with regional and other world states by trying to support the Zionist regime, which is now at its weakest political and social position.
Well, nobody knows what this means, but this is certainly, it sounds like some sort of a threat.
We'll see if their response, their final response on October 12th, the end of Ron.
Anyway, the point is, ladies and gentlemen, people have their heads in the sand and are not listening to the direct threats that Islamofascists are making.
And I discussed, you know, it was a fascinating conversation that I had with Norman Pedoritz, you know, and I asked, why do you think there's such apathy in the United States about this?
And his answers, you know, I thought my answers to this question were pretty brilliant, but he went further.
I'm not going to tell you what they were because they're coming up in an interview in the Limbaugh letter.
But he's a brilliant, brilliant man.
His wife is Midge Dector, and Commentary Magazine is something he's edited and published for most of his life.
But this book, World War IV, The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism.
If you want to be hit between the eyes about what we face out there, if you've seen the movie Obsession, multiply it times 20 with what's in this book.
We've recommended that movie, The DVD to You Obsession, which details the intricate comparisons and the linked past between today's Islamofascists and the Nazis.
It's going to wake you up.
And the New York Times Book Review has savaged this book, which is just a laugh to me.
For anybody at the New York Times Book Review to be taking on the intellect of somebody like Norman Pedoritz is just laughable.
It's silly and it's absurd.
But the reason for it is that this is the last thing for some reason, just mind-boggling.
The last thing the left in this country wants you to understand is that we face a great external threat.
They want everybody to think that our greatest threats are posed by Americans who disagree with them, the liberals, as in George Bush being the biggest threat that we face.
They have so politically abandoned the cause, if you will, of defending the country, they have so effectively gone away from that that they cannot thus have it exposed that there is a threat that they've run away from and that they're trying to hide and mask and suggest doesn't exist.
So, as you know, don't recommend too many books, but this I think is an issue.
Look, how shocked were you when I told you what Peter King said?
Here's an elected official who said, we got too many mosques.
We need to be infiltrating them.
How many of you gasped?
This is not what we hear.
We hear the exact opposite.
We keep talking about the religion of peace and this sort of thing.
But one thing that we know, every terrorist is an Islamofascist.
You get the IRA.
I know this.
But it is what it is, and people are going to have to face it squarely.
So it was an honor for me, by the way, to speak to Mr. Pedoritz.
He and Bill Buckley and that whole crowd and Pedoritz has been in the, when I talk about people who labor behind the scenes and they're working hard down there in the basements and they get no notoriety or very little, very little acclaim other than within their group.
Podoritz is one of those guys.
He has been working, toiling away.
He's been defining.
He's been philosophizing.
He's been commenting and he's been providing guidance for people for over 50 years on matters of great import.
And this is just his latest effort.
If you want to read it, it's World War IV, the long struggle against Islamo-fascism by Norman Podorich.
But be ready for what you're going to find.
Some of you probably have a pretty good idea already.
You people in this audience are among the most knowledgeable and most informed in the country.
Yes, Mr. Snowderley, a question for the program observer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Go through and get this new right then today.
Is it not enough that I say it?
You still challenge whether or not it's actually true.
You okay?
We don't know where it came from.
Let me.
This is printed out very, very small.
But dozens died in Syrian-Iran missile test.
Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in Jane's Defense Weekly, which reported that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23rd accident in Syria.
According to the report cited by Channel 10, I remember this Jerusalem Post is the source here.
The joint Syrian-Iranian team was attempting to mount a chemical warhead on a Scud missile when the explosion occurred, spreading lethal chemical agents, including sarin nerve gas.
Reports of the accident were circulated at the time.
However, no details were released by the Syrian government, and there were no hints of an Iranian connection.
Now, this report comes on the heels of criticism leveled by the Syrians at the U.S., accusing it of spreading false claims of Syrian nuclear activity in cooperation with North Korea to excuse an alleged Israeli air incursion over the country this month.
Syria began developing chemical weapons in 1973, just before the Yom Kippur War.
GlobalSecurity.org cites the country as having one of the most advanced chemical weapons programs in the Middle East.
So that's the source.
I got to take quick time out here, folks, because of the constraints of the programming format.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity.
Half my brand tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
And the left in this country says that military victory is meaningless in Iraq.
Meaningless, right?
Military victory doesn't mean anything.
It's just not solving the political situation.
And we need political victory, say the Democrats.
Well, look what happened to our own left politically in this country.
The military success of the surge.
And what did it lead to?
A political victory for the president in a Democrat's own Senate and House.
Now, if military success can lead to political success in the United States of America, then why can't it in Iraq?
You'd have to say the success of this success of the surge led to a political victory in this country.
The Democrats were stopped.
It's not the political victory they like.
But let's face it, they were forced to cooperate.
The political victory and the report of the military success and the report of it as delivered by General Petraeus pour all kind of cold water on a Democrats mounting their get out of Dodge movement.
And it led to what?
Dingy Harry slinking up to New York to meet with the anti-war movement in private under the cover of darkness and beg them not to hold him and Pelosi accountable.
Instead, they should start attacking Republicans.
So I would say a military victory or military success in Iraq has certainly had a profound political impact here in the United States.
It hammered the lift.
Ha ha.
Unreported story, but it's true.
This is Matt in Redlands, California.
Hi, I'm glad you waited.
Hi, Rush.
Rush, I believe that this liberal prankster in Florida was copying another liberal student who pulled off a similar type of stunt at the UCLA library about a year ago.
This student at UCLA refused repeated police orders to leave the library at UCLA.
He then resisted arrest.
The police tased him, and the whole event just happened to be filmed.
And then the film dominated the internet, brought this student lots of fame, and I think he even got a monetary settlement from UCLA.
I think this is a copycat thing, Rush.
If you could find that tape somehow, I think it sounded very similar with the guy screaming.
I think this was a copycat.
Probably so.
There's very little original that happens since Genesis, as you know.
But in the UCLA situation, was there somebody speaking out there?
Was this kid just disrupting the quiet?
No, there was a whole thing.
It was like the police had let the students know that you cannot be in the library unless you have your card, a proof of ID.
And it was like a lot of the liberals didn't like that for some reason.
And it was like it was set up that the student was going to go there on purpose without his ID.
And then if somehow the police confronted him, he was going to make a stand.
Very clever.
And those liberals hate ID.
Stuff is tough to get away with fraud and deceit when you have to show ID, like at the voting booth.
Exactly, Rush.
And it was like he wanted this.
And it's like I think he had his friend film it.
So when the police told him to leave, he resisted.
You know, this little young skull full of mush up there at the University of Florida has apparently a long track record of practical jokes designed to attract attention and call attention to himself.
But you could be right.
Glad you called.
This is Lewis in Houston.
You're next, sir.
Nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
Pleasure to speak with you, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you.
I will admit that, yes, I am a lifelong liberal, but I have been listening to you since you had your television show back in the early 90s.
And although I may not agree with everything you say, I do find you very insightful.
Thank you, sir.
That being said, I have a question regarding the health.
I want to ask a question.
I'm not being insolent here, and I'm not being a wise guy.
I really am not.
No problem.
I love understanding how you think.
You're going to ask me how I became a liberal, sir.
I will be honest with you.
It was primarily because my parents were liberal.
And then, of course, I was raised in a liberal household.
But as I've gotten older, I also have developed the ability to completely think.
I've diagnosed with the problem.
Well, then you won't stay.
You won't be a liberal long after you started to think.
Well, I always base my decisions based on all information.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now, the question I had for you.
See, you're a good liberal.
You assumed you knew what I was going to say.
You assumed you knew where my syllables were going.
My question is, you just called me insightful.
That is a compliment about my ability to see the truth in things.
And yet you told me you disagree with me most of the time.
So how can I be insightful?
Well, maybe I should say I enjoy your insight.
The way I look at it is, you're not, okay, I don't necessarily agree with you all of the time, but I don't also disagree with you all of the time either.
I mean, that being said, I mean, there's quite, I mean, you say things on any number of occasions that not only I have seen to be true, but that actually makes sense.
And then you also say things that I say I'm scratching my head like, oh my God, what is the man saying?
Where is this coming from?
Is he insane?
I mean, that doesn't mean that you're not insightful.
It just necessarily means that I don't necessarily agree with that particular issue.
Or understand it.
Well, perhaps.
Or understand it as you understand it.
My question is.
There's only now, well, time is dwindling, and I don't want to argue here over an etymology of words.
This gratificator's loaded anyway.
What was your real reason you called?
Well, as a fellow Missouri, yeah, we would argue all day long.
But my question was this.
Understanding that the American health care system, you know, is considered to be the best in the world, yet there are, you know, under conservative views, they say it's the best in the world.
Under liberal views, it's broken and needs to be fixed.
My question was, as I stated to the gentleman who screened your call, why not, it's generally accepted in the medical profession that checkups prevent problems.
Why not have the government pick up a tab on one?
One free health care checkup per year.
Any future problems, if you can afford it, you pay to get it fixed if you have insurance.
Because as it stands now, you can't be denied medical care in an emergency system.
That's right, that's right.
I got to run because of time, but we got the question.
The question is, why not a free medical checkup once a year for every American?
Back in just a second.
I'm going to answer this question.
Why not one free checkup for every American once a year?
Posed by our friend from Houston when the second, well, the next hour starts.
I'm going to answer both practically and theoretically.
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