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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 Limbaugh, safely ensconced, firmly ensconced here at the EIB Southern Command behind this.
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All right, we learned a little bit more about the student who was tasered at the John Carey event.
In fact, we've got let's do this.
Let's start with audio soundbite number 12.
Have I got anything more on this?
Yeah, audio signbite number number 12.
This is uh the just have that ready, Mike.
Uh uh Senator Carey, who uh 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 Carrie's speech at the University of Florida had already run out.
Uh his first words were Senator Carrie trying to arrest me, Carrie said in an interview yesterday.
I tried to calm him down.
I stopped him from arresting him.
I began to answer his question.
Uh I I was I was he he went on to say that that that uh I you know I was trying not to have a riot started, Kerry said.
I thought it was important to keep uh keep the place contained.
I I I guess uh would be the best way to put what what planet is he on?
This is uh this is 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 as a well-known practical joker, uh, and apparently succeeded in doing exactly what he wanted to do, and that is get himself on television, uh, play a practical joke on uh on Carrie and so forth, and everybody else, and it succeeded.
Now, let's go to uh hardball last night with Chris Matthew as he was talking to Salon.com's Joe Connison, who typifies the deranged drive-by media today.
Matthew says, uh, 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 uh rights of free speech.
It's been very clear from the almost from inauguration day.
And as a result, you have cops doing things like they did to that kid the other day.
Uh it's a good one.
Well, that's gonna be uh I hope it's a good thing.
You know, the fish thinks from the head.
Uh so yeah, it's absolutely right.
Because the Bush administration's spying on Americans, we live in a police state now.
That's that's what he was trying to say.
Uh he was he was he was blaming all of this.
You know, you have some some kid who knows what his politics are.
This is a liberal kid or whatever, uh, 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 is 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.
This Connison, I guess, didn't know by this time uh when he went on hardball, they go five 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 knew that he asked people to video tape what he was gonna do.
He asked two women to do it, one he knew and one he didn't know.
Uh so you know, this another great example is the narrative, and there's their their template, uh Bush spying on Americans, Bush taking away freedoms, Bush taking away civil liberties, Bush, this, Bush that.
So virtually everything it happens, they can fit it into their narratives.
Like the Duke rape case.
I mean, you the the narrative 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 through 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.
Aha!
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.
They just have to laugh.
As you do it, this is from the politico.
Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry Reed 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's not ID, just a bunch of anti-war people.
I don't know what there's a group name, I don't know, it's move on.org.
I don't know who it was.
But 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 uh we got two political goals here.
We've got to siphon off Republicans to help us here.
Uh without compromising so much, an anti-war activist 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 gonna by the seen the new congressional uh uh poll numbers, 11% approval.
So the Democrats uh in the anti-war crowd, uh fringe kooks and their blogosphere base thought they were gonna be out of Vietnam, or out of Iraq by now, what it's gonna happen.
And Dingy Harry and Han and Nancy Pelosi have failed to lose.
They have failed in everything they've tried to do here.
Bushes 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.
T to beg these lunatics not to hold it against them, to explain the limitations.
You know what the limitations I can probably I can tell you.
Well, we need 60 votes, so we don't have 60 votes.
We don't ever gonna get 60 votes, and so we don't have 66 votes to overrid a vetoes.
Do you think that's gonna 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.
Uh well, I think they of course they qualify as a special interest group.
That's why I find it curious.
This is from the politico.com, and I find it interesting that the name of the group's not identified.
Uh maybe there isn't.
Maybe this is the you know an amalgamation, if you will, of several anti-war groups.
But the uh the Mead read 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.
Uh 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 you know sixty standards, but there were far more protests when the Iraq war began in two thousand three 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 vary 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 Reed decides to go up there and powwow with all he's doing is is elevating their stature and empowering them, and it's a cowardly thing to do.
Uh this is this is not uh 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 and America's truth detector serving humanity simply by showing up.
Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network, and uh, this is Barry in Piqua, Ohio.
I'm glad you waited, Barry.
Welcome to the program.
Well, hi, Rush Megadiddos.
That's sure as an honor.
Thank you, sir.
Oh yeah, I just had a quick comment.
It just kind of cracks me up with the drive-by media, how uh you get in your last uh segment, you had an article about a guy who's ninety-some thousand dollars in debt and isn't paying his bills, but uh he's really worried about a little bit lower interest rate when it comes in.
So, yeah, because he's uh isn't it isn't it wonderful?
Uh it's it here's the if in case you're just joining us, uh 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 the drive-by's the LA Times and an NBC Nightly News had to do stories.
Here's the headline in the LA Times, Fed's rate cut may be bad news for some.
And they quote this guy, uh Yosufa Toure, 27, owes about 93 grand credit card phone utility hospital bills, and he doesn't pay them anymore.
Just doesn't pay the bills because he's having money.
But now he's worried the interest rate's going down.
And he's gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna have this happen to him?
This is quintessential.
Liberalism.
This guy's a victim.
He's a victim of a good economy.
And that was the story the drive-by's tried to put out.
Yes, don't get so excited.
Bad news for some people here.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then everybody wonders why some people are sitting constantly in angst and turmoil.
You Bus City, California, this is Santos.
So welcome, sir to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush, Megadittos, 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, TJ Vigil, serving in the Middle East.
Hey, Rush, my question is about um Hillary's health care plan.
Now, she said that people making over $200,000 a year would have to pay some sort of penalty.
Two hundred and fifty two hundred and fifty thousand a year.
Okay, they'd have to pay some sort of penalty if they're private health insurance is better than the government.
My question is how is that even possible?
I mean, 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 what chances a poor sucker like me have of getting You are you are you I uh 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 it's it's it's in there, by the way, designed to get people who don't make 250,000 dollars a year to support the whole plan based in class ending.
It's this.
If your family has household income of 250,000 or more, 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 gonna 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 gonna be able to go out and do whatever they want to do and get better coverage than what she's gonna do.
What you all ought to be s realizing here is that Mrs. Clinton is admitting there's gonna be better coverage than what you are gonna get.
Forget the rich, forget the fact they're gonna pay taxes on it.
Oh, I'm not gonna forget it, but what you need to be realizing here is what Mrs. Clinton is admitting.
That there's gonna be better plans that you can't get.
There's gonna 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 the whole industry.
So I don't know whether Clinton and her uh uh strategists understand this or not, but they have just admitted that they're not gonna fix this, and it's not gonna be any better than what you have to end up being worse, probably.
And then you're gonna have to go out there furthermore, if you didn't hear this yesterday, furthermore, you're gonna have to go out there and you're gonna 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 gonna provide it under the Hillary plan.
The government is, folks, uh ha ha, bye by 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 uh happening down the road.
Uh at the congressional committees uh work this uh work this out.
I got more coming on on Hillary's plan here as the program unfolds.
Let's go to uh uh Pleasant in Texas.
This is Harry, your next sir.
Welcome.
Thank you, long asses to you in tight lines.
Um I want to visit on the General Petraeus hearings again.
An observation I made was that the Democrats they basically.
Wait, wait, just a second out there, Harry.
Uh uh before we get to Petraeus.
Uh oh, I was just gonna say, you know, Harry, I have a hearing problem.
Okay.
I have a cochlear implant, and uh some words sound similar.
Uh and I thought you said to me long asses and tight lines, and I'm and so did so did the court reporter who's transcribing what you said.
So I so I'm sitting here thinking, well what does he mean by this of that taxes draw?
So you but you meant ashes, right?
Long ashes.
Is in cigars.
Yes.
Yes.
Anyway, uh the observation I made was that the Democrats blamed or said the the uh troop surge was ineffective because the military had no impact on the political situation.
But Rush, I thought in a democracy that the 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 uh certainly you're right.
You but you understand.
You're you're you're 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't.
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 if we want the Iraqis to form a democracy, and we have these uh 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 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 fire storm that has yet to erupt, but it likely will, uh 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.
Uh he said this in a recent interview with the politico.
Too many people sympathetic to radical Islam, King said.
Uh 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 I happen, I happen to think this is a courageous thing to say.
This is this is um uh 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, uh I have another book that I want to recommend to you, especially on since it w given uh the the Peter King uh stories by Norman Padoritz.
I interviewed Mr. Pedoritz for the September issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
His book is called World War IV, The Long Struggle Against Islamo Fascism.
He the Cold War to him was World War III.
And uh this is a uh uh no holds barred, brilliant explanation of just what we face around the world, not just here in uh in our country.
And this book is is is loaded with things that defy political correctness.
Uh you know, my philosophy, I have a new governing philosophy I live by.
It is what it is.
Uh and and Mr. Badoritz in this book spells it out.
Islamo fascism is what it is, and they are telling us every day what their plans are.
Hell, Achhmadinizad.
Just today.
Uh if if Israel launches anything, we're gonna destroy them.
He keeps talking about wiping out Israel.
You know that there was an accident.
The um this the Iranians and the Syrians were trying to load a s a scud missile with chemical, 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 techn and technicians working on the darn thing.
And it was not reported back then.
It's been reported by Jane's Defense Weekly.
Uh it has been confirmed.
It's happened back in July.
We've got information here that Syria is working with Iran and perhaps China or North Korea on nukes.
Uh and then the Israelis uh took a hit on whatever that installation is.
The nuke aspect hasn't uh hasn't been confirmed.
Uh then let me find this later on the stack.
There's one other thing that uh some wacko in Iran has said about what's going to happen on the end of Ramadan, which is October the twelfth.
Uh basically, yeah, here we go.
And this is from the Jerusalem Post.
Supporters of the Zionist regime will receive their response during the Cuds Day rallies.
Government spokesman Golam 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 Condoleza Rice.
Cuds Day is held each year on the last Friday of Muslim's fasting month of Ramadan, after it was nominated by the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, as a date of voice the protest of the Islamic Uma against the Zionists.
The day falls on October twelfth.
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 in its weakest political and social position.
Well, I don't nobody knows what this means, but this is certainly it sounds like some sort of a threat.
We'll see if their uh response, their final response on October 12th, the end of anyway.
The point is, ladies and gentlemen, if if people have their heads in the sand and are not listening to the to the uh direct threats that Islamo fascists are making.
Uh I discussed, you know, if it was a fascinating conversation what I had with Norman Pedoritz, you know, and I asked, why?
Why do you think there's such apathy in the United States about this?
And his answers, uh, you know, I thought my answers to this question were pretty brilliant, but he went first.
I'm not going to tell you what they were because it's coming up in an interview in the uh in the Limbaugh Letter.
But he's a brilliant, brilliant man.
He's uh his his wife is Midge Dector, and they um uh commentary magazine is something he's uh edited and published for most of his life.
But this book, World War Four, the Long Struggle Against Islamo fascism.
If 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 twenty with what's in this book.
We've recommended that movie, the DVD to you, Obsession, which uh which details the uh intricate comparisons and the and the linked past uh between today's Islamo fascists and the Nazis.
Uh it's all it it it it it's gonna it's gonna wake you up uh and the New York Times book review has savaged this book.
Uh the uh I mean which is uh 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 the but the reason for it is that this is the last thing for some reason, it would it would 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 uh the the uh 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 uh uh too many books, but this 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 um and this sort of thing.
Uh but one thing that we know, every terrorist is an Islamo fascist.
You get the IRA, I know this.
Uh but these uh the it is what it is, and people are gonna have to face it squarely.
So it was an honor for me, by the way, to speak to Mr. Pedoritz.
He's uh he and Bill Buckley and that whole crowd uh and and Pedoritz has been in the you know, when I when I talk about people, you know who labor behind the scenes and they're working hard down there in the basements, and they get no notoriety or very little uh very little claim other than within their group.
Uh Pedoritz is one of those guys.
He has been working away, toiling away, he's been defining, he's been philosophizing, he's been commenting, and he's been providing guidance for people for over fifty years uh on matters of great import.
Uh and this is just his uh his latest effort.
So if you want to read it, it's World War IV, the uh long struggle against Islamo fascism by Norman Pedoritz, but be ready for what you're going to find.
Hidden side.
Well, I mean, you 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, uh, Mr. Snerdley, a question for the program observer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Go through and get the story.
Is it not enough that I say it?
You still challenge whether or not it's actually true.
Use Okay.
Uh we don't know where it came from.
Here the here let me um is this printed out.
Very, very small.
But uh 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, uh remember this is this Jerusalem Post is the 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 is uh that's the source.
I gotta 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 brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You know, 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 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.
And it's not the political victory they like.
But let's face it, they were forced to cooperate.
The political victory and a report of the military victory, 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 left.
Ha ha.
Unreported story, but it's true.
This is Matt in uh in Redlands, California.
Hi, I'm glad you waited.
Hi, Rush.
Rush, I believe that this uh 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 uh 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 I think this is a copycat thing, Rush.
If you could find that tape somehow, i I think it sounded very similar with the guy screaming.
It was I think this was a copycat.
Uh probably so.
There's very little original that happened since Genesis, as you know.
Uh but the in 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 a um the police had let the students know that you cannot be in the library unless you have your like a card, uh 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 gonna make a stand.
Very clever.
Yeah, 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 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.
This uh little young skull full of mush up there at the University of Florida has a apparently a long track record of uh of practical jokes designed to attract attention and call attention to himself.
Uh but you could be right.
Uh glad you called.
This is Lewis in Houston, your next sir.
Nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
Pleasure to speak with you, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you.
Uh 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 nineties.
And although I may not agree with everything you say, I do find you very insightful.
Thank you, sir.
That being said, uh I have a question regarding uh the health care.
Can I ask I I want to answer a question?
I'm not being insolent here, and I'm not I'm not being a wise guy.
I really am not.
No problem.
Um I'm I love uh understanding how you think.
You just gonna ask me how I became a liberal, sir.
I will be honest with you, is 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.
Okay, I I wouldn't have to be a very good thing you won't stay liberal information cabinet.
You won't be a liberal long if you started to think.
But well, I always they I always base my decisions based on all information cabinets.
Yeah, yeah.
Now, um uh the question I had for you.
See you were 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.
My way I look at it is you're not okay.
I don't I don't necessarily agree with you all of the time, but I don't also disagree with you all of the time either.
Yeah, I mean, that being said, I mean, there's quite I mean, you say things you say things on any number of occasions that not only I have seen to be true, but I that actually make 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 that doesn't mean that you're not insightful.
It just doesn't just necessarily mean 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 okay.
Well, well, time is dwindling and we can I don't want to argue here over uh anymology of of words.
Um this gratificator's loaded anyway.
What was uh what was your real reason you called?
Um well, as a fellow Missourian, yeah, we would argue all day long.
But uh my question was this.
Um understanding that American health care system, you know, is is 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 uh the gentleman who screened your call, why not it is 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 for you pay to get it fixed if you have insurance.
Because as it stands now, you can't uh you can't be denied medical care in an emergency.
That's right, that's right.
I gotta run I gotta 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 gonna answer this question why not one free checkup for every American once a year, posed by our friend from Houston in a second uh well the next hour starts.
I'm gonna answer both practically and theoretically.
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