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June 12, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 12, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host of this program now documented to be almost always right 99.1% and climbing it's Friday live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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Well, I don't.
Snerdley does, because he puts it up.
By the way, folks, I made a uh I left out a key bit of information when telling you about Obama firing the AmeriCorps inspector general in a dispute over um malfeasance at the New Hope Academy in Sacramento, California.
Now remember, the inspector Gerald Walpen found abuse.
Found misuse of funds.
$850,000 worth of grant money that was misused by the New Hope Foundation in Sacramento, California.
The U.S. attorney in that region declined the case and want to file charges.
But the New Hope Foundation gave back 400,000.
Almost half of it.
And the IG, the inspector general was fired.
Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa is urging the Obama administration to follow the letter and spirit of the law, which Obama co-sponsored as legislation as a United States Senator in 2007 regarding the dismissal of this inspector general.
Grassley said it looks like the White House is today modifying its stance, saying that last night's ultimatum started the 30-day notification clock.
Either way, it looks like the letter and spirit of the law Congress passed last year to try to safeguard the independence of inspectors general has been circumvented.
It's a 30-day cooling off period.
When you're going to fire somebody, you've got a 30 days look at it and so forth.
Did it overnight?
Obama administration did it overnight, broke the law, firing the AmeriCorps IG.
In addition to everything else that's wrong with this story, that's the uh that's the icing on the cake.
You know, yesterday during our discussion of health care, I was trying to remember where I had read that doctors are reimbursed this, you know, uh uh uh uh not a full 100% on their billing in Medicare cases.
And I've heard from a number of doctors who've told me it's much worse than what I thought I knew.
I want to read an email from one just to give you a flavor of kind the emails I've been inundated with.
Dear Rush, I am a Medicare physician, unfortunately.
We do not get reimbursed 81% of anything.
The old method of pricing services was called usual, customary, and reasonable.
That was before Medicare.
That concept of usable or usual, customary, and reasonable is long gone.
Nowadays, we're simply told by Medicare what the fee is for any given service.
We either agree to participate in Medicare and take their price fix or not.
Now, if you wanted to use a percentage comparison, you would have to figure out what a physician would charge a patient in the free market and compare that to the Medicare fee.
And I can tell you that number would be far lower than 81%.
When I get the very rare patient who actually pays cash out of pocket for their cataract surgery, I charge them $2,500.
Medicare pays me about $700 for a cataract surgery.
That's 28%, Rush.
And this is typical across all of medicine, not just uh cataract surgery.
The Medicare fee schedule is not based on anything.
It's pulled out of thin air.
Worse, they have managed to create an uh internacene or internecine class warfare among doctors.
They've pitted primary care against surgeons.
Every time there is a call for increased payments by primary care, they maintain those increased payments have to be offset by cuts in payments to specialists.
And this has been going on for years.
This interdoctor battle plays right into the hands of the socialized medicine takeover.
As you can well imagine, over the last 44 years of Medicare, the private insurers have seen that the doctors just roll over and take Medicare payments, so the private plans have slowly decreased their payments down to the Medicare rates.
If we want To see patients, we have no choice but to accept these fee schedules.
I can tell you anything you want to know about these topics if you need the inside information.
It's doctors in Texas.
It is worse than I thought.
And of course, they're ramming more and more people into Medicare.
And this is what Obama meant when he said he's going to put the squeeze on doctors.
He's going to squeeze them even more in order to keep their fees down.
And then that's going to lead to who's going to want to go into the profession.
So it's all messed up out there.
And by the way, the government pays you when they're good and ready.
There's not on any, there's not a uh a reimbursement schedule that makes sense that they can be held to.
And it's only going to get worse if the whole program is eventually nationalized and socialized, because there's going to be nowhere else for anybody to go to get paid.
You're going to have to put up with whatever you have to put up with dealing with a bureaucracy.
Now I shared with you the op-ed in the Wall Street Journal written by the uh CEO of Wall of uh of Safeway, Stephen Hurd Byrd, B U R D, who had uh devised a plan that has not cost his company additional money over the last four years.
His by the way, his employees pay a portion of their health care too.
It's not totally uh company provided, but they've modeled it after the insurance, auto insurance industry.
They just auto insurance has various premiums based on your driving record.
The way Safeway is doing it, they're offering insurance premiums and and uh health care coverage to their employees based on their behavior, and uh do they take risks in their lifestyle or not?
And then if they do, they have a higher premium.
Now, what's gonna happen?
See, because this guy, Stephen Bird, with his op-ed today, has just blown a hole through the template that the left and people like Obama have been working on for the last 30 years, and that is that corporate CEOs are mean, evil, rotten people.
They exploit and use their employees.
They don't care about the welfare of their employees, they only care about their own payments, they rape their companies, they fly around on corporate jets, they go to parties, they don't they don't care whether a company makes money or not, they get paid anyway, and we're gonna stop this blood.
Now, what's gonna happen to Steven Bird guy?
If he's not careful, there's gonna be an investigation into how much money he makes.
There'll probably be an investigation into his political contributions.
If his credibility can be undermined, it will be.
Forget the results of his brilliant approach to keep health care costs down.
This guy has just made Obama look bad.
He's just made the Democrats look bad.
All the stories about harmful food products will be Safeway centric.
Safeway customers will be the only ones interviewed in stories about unhealthy foods, and those people will be asked if they hold Safeway responsible for selling unhealthy foods.
Did Safeway market these products in a seductive manner?
Did you feel they took advantage of you?
Television will do these exact same stories outside of Safeway stores.
We'll see the Safeway signed in the background.
This guy, if they take note of this piece, if this piece gets any traction at all.
Standard operating procedure on the American left is to go out, find a way to destroy this guy using their buds, state-controlled media, whose claim to fame is built on destroying people.
I hope it doesn't happen.
But history suggests that there's a good likelihood of it happening.
Any stories about evil tobacco will somehow work Safeway stores into the story.
Same thing with soft drinks, snack foods, ice cream, butter, candy obesity.
They'll claim he's a hypocrite while he's out there demanding proper behavior from employees selling all this unhealthy food to his customers, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Safeway gonna be the default backdrop of every negative story about health food, corporate greed, you name it.
Safeway just put itself in the crosshairs with this.
This guy's gutsy.
He's very courageous.
Because this is not advancing Obama's agenda.
This is a piece demonstrating how we don't need Obama's agenda.
But what is this?
When you when you get right down to it, this is individualism, this is incentives, and this is personal responsibility, all tied into a health care plan offered by Safeway.
You see, I thought American corporations were evil, that they existed to abuse and...
Uh take advantage of their own employees.
They can't trust these CEOs.
So forth.
So it's it's gonna be uh interesting here to see how it falls out.
A brief time out, folks.
We'll take it.
We will continue.
Open line Friday and your phone calls right after this.
On the cutting edge, Rush Limboy, your highly trained broadcast specialist here behind the Golden EIB.
Microphone, before we get to the phones, there's one related story here on healthcare.
And it's at the Hill.com, the headline, Democrats Brace for CBO score.
People are insane.
This is funny.
Senate Democrats are bracing it for what they expect will be a huge price tag connected with revamping the nation's health care system.
What?
They can't get this delayed.
Why can't we just like I said yesterday?
Why can't we wait and see if anything else this man is doing works before we plunge into this?
Because whether it works or not is not the question.
The chaos is the question.
Government control is the question.
Obama running as much as he can is what the objective is, even though he denied it yesterday.
The soon-to-be delivered estimate on democratic health care reform proposals is expected to be so expensive that lawmakers are talking about changing their normal accounting procedures.
Now that's more like the Democrats we know and love.
You don't like the result, change the procedure, so you get a different result.
Some Democrats are arguing behind the scenes they should not use the nonpartisan congressional budget office cost estimate as his custom.
Instead, they would use cost estimates from the White House Office of Management and Budget, which is Obama, which is Peter Orzag.
This unusual option could give Democrat leaders hundreds of billions of additional dollars to work with as they draft their plans that Republicans would call it an accounting gimmick and a huge spending loophole.
Well, what is it, Hill?
It is an accounting gimmick.
They always use CBO.
The idea of CBO's nonpartisan is a bunch of crap anyway.
The CBO is partisan.
It's it's the Democrats run the House.
The CBOs comes out with their numbers.
Yes, what we blast Wall Street for all the time is using cricky accounting techniques and so forth.
So we're gonna win the fire CEOs and limit their pay because they use creative accounting.
We had to come up with Sarbane's Oxley to make sure that we had marked to market value rather than uh then these tricky games they play it.
Now here the Democrats and in the House screw this.
We're gonna we're gonna play games with it.
We don't like what CBO says.
We'll just call Obama and say give us a lower number to work with here.
And Barbara Boxer even cited the CEO of Safeway.
She said, I haven't seen the CBO score, but if they don't take into account prevention, I certainly won't support them.
I mean, I I'm not gonna follow CBO.
We just heard from the CEO of Safeway, who said his insurance costs went steadily down since they instigated incentives for prevention.
Now that's I don't know what is it, 40,000 employees at Safeway.
This is a private sector plan, and Barbara Boxer is citing it.
What a Doomkoff.
She's undermining her own her own ideas in the Democrat Party's own right by citing the success of a private sector plan.
See, they're all caught up here on the fact that Safeway is requiring that their employees engage in healthful behavior.
They're not requiring it.
They're making it an option.
What do you what do you what are you they're they're not required?
The government's gonna require this kind of stuff.
Safeway is not telling its employees how they have to live every waking and sleeping moment of their lives.
Here are the options.
You engage in this kind of healthful behavior to lower your premium, and bamboo, you'll get a lower premium.
That's not the government's not gonna offer that.
The government's gonna offer them covering everything, and then they're going to use the the control associated with authoritarianism and statism to demand that you behave that way.
And it's not gonna lower anybody's cost.
When the government gets involved, it's gonna raise everybody's cost.
These people are idiots.
Dangerous, foolhardy idiots.
This is Mohammed in Richmond, Virginia.
As we go back to the phones, thanks for waving, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, how's it going, Rush?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
I'm a huge fan of yours.
Uh, I saw you actually in CPAC back in uh February.
You did you were amazing there.
Thank you, sir.
I saw I saw the president's speech to the Muslim world the other day, and um, you know, with all due respect to the president, as a conservative and a Muslim, I was a little bit offended because instead of apologizing for for for whatever, I didn't even know what he was apologizing for, he should apologize about, you know, presidents over the years ignoring the problem of terrorism until it killed three thousand Americans and hundreds of thousands of Muslims around the world.
If there's one like the likes of Jimmy Carter and you know, when Clinton ignored uh the Dar Salam and Nairobi attacks and then the uh the call attack and all of these things, and eventually we get this.
So it was not convenient for them to deal with it at the time.
You know what?
Apologize about that.
Don't apologize about what uh what what America did to defend itself.
I think America was justified to use military force against those who I don't even consider to be Muslims because our religion says respect the other and love people.
It does not say blow yourself up in the name of God and in the name of the Prophet.
Well, it it see there they're the the militant Islamists say they can quote you chapter and verse, where whatever it takes to beat the infidel is permissible and okay.
I but I don't you're you're a Muslim and I uh a good guy, I don't want to argue with with you about it.
I want to focus on your first point about President Obama apologizing for the country's first president I know of who has made it a task and made it an objective of his to um run around the world and blame this country for the world's ills and say, okay, now that I'm here, we're gonna change it.
This is this is a man who does not represent U.S. interests abroad.
He does not champion this country, he uh does just the opposite.
And now this mirandizing of uh terrorist suspects on the battlefield in Afghanistan, and that's gonna proceed.
I mean, where does this stop?
They're gonna get a public lawyer if they can't afford one.
What if uh who where are we gonna get you're you're in a battlefield, you got a soldier, you capture a guy.
How do you read him Miranda rights if you don't speak his language?
And if if you if you read him as Miranda writes in English, he comes back in court and says to you, Well, I didn't understand.
And we get then he gets a U.S. lawyer, gets to the court system.
It's this whole thing is just we've been down this road.
See, this is another thing.
Everything Obama's trying, somewhere it's been tried in the world, oftentimes, many times, and it's failed every time.
Trying to deal with terrorism as a legal matter is an abject failure, and all you need to do is look at the Clinton administration for evidence of it.
Thanks, Mohammed, appreciate it.
Robin in Houston, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Um hi, Rice.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
Um, I'm calling uh the monologue you gave a while back, um, about how when we get back into power, um, that we're gonna, you know, basically use all the tactics that they've used against us on them.
I was kind of having fun that day.
I was uh warning them was okay, you guys are putting in all these laws and privileges for the government to wreak havoc on people.
Well, wait till we get in power and turn them on you.
That's basically what I said.
Yes.
And and to that point, the hell uh well, all of what he's doing, but mostly the health care thing uh recently we keep hearing, you know, that once health care takes hold that we're not going to be able to to um turn it back and makes mainly based on more than the individual, the the businesses, because you know, they're they go to the to the uh the state run or socialized medicine, and that's you know, off their backs for having to provide insurance for employees.
And I guess what conservative and so that you know is scary, but my point is is that when we do take back power, all these radical things that you've done.
Why couldn't we radically um reduce taxes so to the amount where businesses it's advantageous to just completely wipe out the health care with medicine.
I think I I think I got the question.
Question is why can't we roll back nationalized health care if um we get power back.
Well, it's um I I I talked to Liz Cheney after the program yesterday in an interview for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter, which is the most widely read political newsletter in America today, by the way, 800-457-4141, the number to order.
Now, Liz Cheney, back in the early 90s was part of a State Department team that went to the Soviet Union to help, well, the old Soviet Union, the liberated Soviet Union, to try to instruct them on creating a private sector economy, taking power away from the centralized authorities in Moscow.
And so I asked her as a joke yesterday.
I said, okay, Liz, who's going to do what you did to reassert freedom and the private sector in this country after we get control of government taken back.
She just started laughing and started talking about the experiences in in uh in Russia, the Soviet Union that she had had.
The reason why a rollback on health care is uh is going to be almost impossible is because it's going to permeate at virtually every level of our society.
And to roll it back would would create, and I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but it would be the hardest thing to roll back.
It's easy to lower taxes, for example.
And it's easy to sell General Motors to somebody in the private sector.
But when you're talking something as massive as national health care with tentacles that go as deep into the strata of our society as possible, re-roll re you know, rolling all that back, uh that would be major.
Thank you.
I know.
By the way, the uh that democracy uh breaking out all over Iran that President Obama talked about this morning.
Man, it must really be something over there.
Listen to this from state-controlled Reuters.
Voting in Iran's presidential election was extended by a fourth extra hour on Friday to 10 P.M., said state television.
And then there's an update.
Voting was extended by six hours to midnight in Iran, which uh that's 3 30 p.m. our time.
The Iranians can't even set their clocks right.
They're off by a half hour.
I mean, they don't even have acorn.
Can you imagine this is utter chaos at the polls, and they don't even well, we don't think they have acorn.
Maybe Obama sent them over there.
Do you realize Obama I Mike?
I want you to grab that that summer.
What is number 25 of the um with uh with Obama taking Yeah, grab grab number 20?
You gotta hear this again.
I like I said earlier, folks.
I have I this this personality type I I don't have any tolerance for.
I or very little.
I have been fired by a guy who was just like this.
Because I called him on it.
I just I I couldn't handle the BS anymore.
I couldn't handle the narcissism.
Uh it was just more than I could take.
Guy, I'll tell you what happened.
A guy guy gave me a line, the biggest line of bull.
I just I I finally said to him, you know what?
Don't don't try this with me.
You don't know 90% of the people you say you know, you haven't accomplished 10% of the stuff you say you have.
You're a nothing and a nobody, and you can't tell me how to do what I'm doing.
Well, this is my young brash days.
So I go home and a half hour later I got a call from the owner of the radio station saying, we understand you had a meltdown today, you're out.
Because this narcissist had called the owner of the radio station, because he's had to cover his rear.
He was afraid I wouldn't keep it to myself.
Here's Obama claiming credit from a single speech in Cairo to massive changes for good in the Middle East.
We are excited uh to see uh what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran.
Uh and obviously after the speech uh that I made in Cairo, we tried to send a clear message that we think there is the possibility of change.
Uh and you know uh ultimately the election is for the Iranians to decide.
Uh but uh just uh uh as has been true in Lebanon, what's uh can be true in Iran as well is that you're seeing people looking at new possibilities.
And uh whoever uh ends up winning uh the election in Iran.
Uh the fact that there's been a robust debate hopefully will help uh advance our ability to engage them in new ways.
It's not a real election.
These presidents in Iran are puppets.
The mullahs run the show.
What did the mullahs do?
Call the White House and give him a little uptake.
We think we think we're gonna replace uh Mahmud.
I mean the Iranians would love for Obama and the rest of the world to believe that they're moderating.
They would love for everybody to believe that this little man child can go make a speech and change everybody's outlook in the Middle East.
That'd take the heat off of Iran.
Obama's out there saying, Yeah, we got a robust debate.
Yeah, look what's happened just because of my speech.
Okay, we don't need to worry about Iran anymore.
And hello, a nuclearized Iran, shortly down the road.
By the way, have you seen where Madonna wants to adopt yet another um black child from some country in Africa that bothered now?
The fathers, please bleed no day my baby, please don't date my baby.
But when Madonna needs an accessory, you don't get in her way.
This is gonna be what?
The second one.
Somebody else's child has replaced diamonds.
In Madonna's world.
Who's next?
John in Milford, Connecticut.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you today?
I'm fine.
Thank you, sir.
Very good.
Um, I just want to draw a couple of parallels between Obama and FDR.
Uh World War II, um, eight saboteurs landed in Long Island, and they were captured.
Uh FDR wanted to put them on trial in the civilian court, and his attorney general told him, no, if you do that, they might only get a couple of years and be released and would encourage more saboteurs to come here.
Uh he convinced them to put them on military tribunals.
And they did.
And of the eight, two, one got life, one got thirty years.
The other six were executed.
And these guys never killed anybody.
All they did was land here.
They had all their explosives and stuff, but they never killed anybody.
And this whole thing took place in fifty-six days.
From the time they landed in Long Island until the time the six guys were executed, it was only fifty-six days.
Now, Obama wants to bring him here, he wants to put them on trial.
I mean, that's exactly what's going to happen.
You know, their lawyers, their um ACLU lawyers are gonna want to look at all the evidence because we gotta have the evidence against our clients because they're in civilian court and it's the military won't turn it over.
They're gonna say, hey, you know, we don't have the evidence.
I they can't get a fair trial.
Bingo, they're gone.
Well, either that or they get the evidence.
I mean, you know, in a trial like this, there's discovery.
You know, there's and the defense has to see the evidence and they have to see the witness list.
And what can you make a witness list for somebody captured on a battlefield?
Well, really, where are the soldiers, too?
I mean, how are they gonna find know who who was who, as far as the American soldiers go, who was who that captured the guy?
And now this guy's gonna have to try and come, they're gonna have to try and find this guy.
He's gonna have to come forward, and you know, his face is gonna be put on the news, and you know, they're now they're a target.
That's what you see a lot of these programs on TV.
F uh DEA, FBI agents, their faces are all blurred out and everything.
But that won't happen with this.
I mean, it endangers American soldiers in a completely new way.
Um just like these photos and all that.
Yeah.
I mean, it's one thing after another with Obama.
It's it I mean, I I you know, like they say, if you don't know history, you're destined to repeat it.
And if he puts these guys on trial here, I mean, I don't think any of them will probably spend a significant amount of time in jail.
I really don't, and then they'll be here.
They'll just say, well, oh yeah, I want to this is beautiful, like the Germans did.
Two guys said, hey, they got into New York and they were like, wow, this place is beautiful.
Let's stay.
Let's turn ourselves in.
And that's more or less how it came about.
Right.
Two guys decided to turn themselves in after FCI didn't believe them.
That's right.
You know, New York, New York, even New York would look better than your average poppy field in Afghanistan.
All right, that's it's an excellent point.
Sharing the evidence.
Umirandize somebody.
You have to speak their language.
I mean, you can take this to the nth degree here.
Uh if you mirandize Somebody, you do it when they're arrested.
Not after you've gotten them behind bars.
You do it when they're arrested.
We have to have translators with every soldier.
That's just absurd.
It's absurd.
Thanks.
Bridget in Greenwich, Connecticut.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
How are you?
Fine.
Thank you very much.
Hey, I'm calling because I just wanted to make a comment about the hypocrisy regarding Donna Imet versus David Letterman.
And Don Imas several years ago was excoriated for the comments that he made about the women's basketball team at record.
And yet, um, and Les Moonbase didn't hesitate to fire Don Imus.
And yet David Letterman is getting a free pass for essentially calling Sarah Palin slutty and then showing the arrogance to go on and continue to make jokes about her family.
And it just shows it wouldn't be happening if Sarah Palin was a liberal instead of a conservative.
Well, there's also a big difference between Imus and Letterman, and that is Imus fell over backwards apologizing.
He went down to Rutgers and he met with those basketball players, and he heard from them how his comments hurt.
He spent two hours with the Reverend Sharpton on the Reverend Sharpton's radio show.
And still the same company that has an agreement with David Letterman, CBS, threw Imus away, threw him under the bus.
Even though he had apologized.
And there's another big difference.
Let me make one other difference.
Letterman's comments about Sarah Palin and her daughter were planned, they were written in advance by writers.
They were put on cue cards or whatever it is that Letterman uses during his opening monologue.
I don't know.
Imus, nothing written down on a radio show.
Well, there might be some hosts that are incompetent that have to have things written for them, but Imus is not one of those.
He was just reacting to a comment one of his uh cohorts made, stream of consciousness and so forth.
Apologize for it when all the excrement hit the fan.
Edder Letterman is not not only not apologizing, he's making it worse.
But you're right, we we've got we got NBC defending what Letterman had said.
One of the one of the ways that he's being defended, hey, look, Palin put put her kids out there.
I mean, if Palin's gonna put her kids out there, I mean they're fair game.
Well, what whatever happened uh to the notion that family is off limits, and in fact, Obama even said so during the campaign last year.
Leave the family alone.
And they do.
They left Chelsea Clinton alone, they left uh they leave Obama's daughters.
Well, can you imagine if anybody made a joke about Obama's daughters?
What would happen here?
Um, this is in fact, do I have I actually I think I have somewhere in my stack here the quote, and maybe it's a soundbite of Obama saying something uh back then about leaving the families alone.
I guess it's not in the soundbite.
I saw it somewhere.
I've got it somewhere.
Cut for.
Well, that's okay, it's it's Palin saying it true, but I know I've I've got the exact quote somewhere here of uh of Obama saying it too.
Uh somebody went back and found his quote from the campaign.
Anyway, let's play soundbite four.
This is uh Sarah Palin day with Matt Lauer on the Today Show.
And uh Lauer finally says, Look, Letterman tried to explain this.
Does does he owe you an apology?
Remember in the campaign, Barack Obama said, family's off limits.
You don't talk about my family and the candidate who must be obeyed.
Everybody adhered to that, and and they did leave his family alone.
They haven't done that on the other side of the ticket, and it has continued to this day.
So that's a political double standard.
He doesn't have to apologize to me.
I would like to see him apologize to young women across the country for contributing to that kind of that thread that is throughout our culture that makes it sound like it's okay to talk about young girls in that way, where it's kind of okay, accepted, and funny to talk about statutory rape.
It's not cool, it's not funny.
The left really doesn't find much wrong with this.
They uh well, he the Palins put their kids out there.
I mean, they're they're fair game.
The Obamas put their kids out there all the time.
They're on shopping sprees in Paris, they have vegetable garden shots.
Uh They're um, you know, I remember during the campaign, Obama was in Kansas City during the Democrat convention, one of the first days, and he was doing some town meeting, and at the convention that night they put Obama on the camera from the home of some resident Kansas City, his kids were there.
And the and they got the Chiron graphic wrong.
The Chiron graphic said Obama in St. Louis, but one of his daughters thought he was in Kansas City.
So the daughter very cute said, Daddy, where are you?
The kids are out there.
It's just they're she's right.
There's a there's a double standard.
But it's it's more than a double standard.
It's there is a viciousness about Sarah Palin or towards Sarah Palin that and just as there is a viciousness toward uh Miss California, Carrie Prijon.
You cannot throw out of the mix.
I'm sorry, folks, I know some of you are not gonna like me saying this, but they're both attractive, they're both well spoken, and they stand up for what they believe.
And it's the exact opposite of the dominant, perverted liberal culture of the day, and so it has to be slapped down.
It has to be destroyed.
And that's and if you if you can if you can do it by making uh making a joke about Sarah Palin's daughter and so forth, go ahead and do it.
I mean, that the left.
When you when you view yourselves as godlike, and you view your enemy, i.e.
Republicans and conservatives, as the epitome of evil, then you tell yourself anything's okay to get rid of evil, and no boundaries in getting rid of evil.
Letterman is just sunk to a shadow of himself.
I mean, he used to be genuinely creative and funny back in his NBC days, but he is now just degenerated into an angry old man, filled with cynicism, not humor.
It's a sad thing to see, actually, because he was so good at one point and apolitical, but he's like everybody on the left, they've just become enraged about things.
Even after their side wins, they're just look, I gotta take a break.
I'm way long here.
The next segment's gonna be short.
You have been warned.
We'll be back.
What are you laughing at in there now?
Back to the phones on open line Friday, and uh this is Michael from Parts Unknown, cannot say where he is.
Hello, Michael.
Great day to you, Rush.
Yes, sir.
Hey, I I have some firsthand information that I think you might be interested in.
Um from the American Cancer Society, it for the most part is a great organization, but they have stepped into what I consider to be great hypocrisy.
They are now making phone calls to constituents, and they are telling them this, and I trust me, this is very accurate.
They are saying part of what they say is fighting cancer means fixing health care.
The current health care system is failing millions of our Americans, and the need for reform is now.
Uh insurance costs seem to get higher each year, and some policies don't even cover uh life-saving cancer screenings.
Many cancer survivors can't get the adequate and affordable health care coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
Two on too often, this is what really killed me a little bit.
Too often cuss consumers don't fully understand their policies and find out too late that they don't have adequate coverage.
Uh I was just I'm just kind of baffled when, you know, here it is, they're trying to promote this, and the the national health care reform where you know we hear about and like in England all the time, these patients who aren't getting cancer medications to help them out.
I just it to me that's hypocrisy to the highest level.
Sounds like it.
Yeah.
And then one of the things they add on at the end is just when, you know, if these people then want to, if you want to be transferred to talk to your local senator, um part of what they say is that part of the thing that they want to have included in it is to make uh cancer screening uh either available free or at very little cost.
So who's gonna pay for it, guys?
Baffled.
Well, see, that's but that's part of the ruse.
Put the word free or low cost out there, and then associate it with the government running it, and that's how you advance the cause.
It's to me not surprising um uh at all.
We have that sound bite that I uh remember Obama.
This is uh this is September 1st of 2008.
He was in Monroe, Michigan, and he held a press conference.
Jake Tapper of ABC News said Governor Palin and her husband issued a statement today saying their 17-year-old daughter Bristol, who is unmarried, is five months pregnant.
Do you have any reaction?
I have said before, and I will repeat again.
I think people's families are off limits.
And people's children are especially off limits.
This shouldn't be part of our politics.
It has no relevance to Governor Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president.
And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories.
You know, my mother had me when she was 18.
Uh, and you know, how family deals with issues and and uh you know teenage children, uh that shouldn't be the topic of our politics.
So you say he gets he he makes the statement, but his his acolytes don't follow him on this.
But he now occupies the lofty position of we're gonna leave it alone, we're not gonna talk about it.
Then, as everybody continued to beat up on Palin and her kids, he stood silent.
He remained silent.
He could have stopped this.
Well, I don't want to win this way.
This is not how you know could have stopped it, being the highbrow and high-minded guy that he supposedly is.
Yeah, people still say that Sarah Palin, she put her kids out there, they're all over the place.
How many magazine covers have Obama and Michelle and the kids been on?
It's too many to count.
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