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July 30, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 30, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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Well, the question has been posited.
Perhaps I should say posed.
Hey, Don, wake up.
Nobody yawns during this show.
The question has been posed.
When are the media going to start doing stories saying, you know, have we been too hard on Obama?
What does he have to do to turn it around?
They're already doing that.
And the first answer they've come up with is take a vacation.
We're the ones that need the vacation.
By the way, folks, I want one more thing, Rush Limbaugh 80082-2882.
One thing about this voice business.
Let us not forget, and as is the case, with this program and liberals, they start it.
Let us not forget that throughout the campaign, from California to Arizona to Colorado, to Berlin.
It was Obama putting the God echo in his speech from the poem.
I could I could tell Cookie right now to go out there, go to our archives and get some God echo speeches.
That was done on purpose out there.
Now, yesterday you talk about media.
What do we have to do to turn it around for Obama?
What does he have to do?
Mentioned yesterday, Time Warner's publishing arm, which is basically Time Magazine and People and Fortune and all that.
What is it?
Profits are down 37%, advertising revenue down 26%, and they just announced that Obama is going to be the next cover.
Now this will be the twelfth time in 12 months that Obama will have been on the cover of Time magazine.
Oops.
And uh it's not working.
It isn't working.
Losing money.
We told Oh, oh, one thing.
Um Snerdley and I, during the top of the hour break had a had a little conversation.
Snerdley was all worked up over what's being said about the blue dogs.
About the uh boy, the blue dog, the with the drive by's are reporting.
Oh, the blue dogs, oh, they finally came around.
Oh, the blue dogs, they followed the blue dogs, they're finally gonna be loyal Democrats.
Oh, the blue dogs.
Blue dogs didn't come around.
The blue dogs had guns to their heads.
These are liberal Democrats.
They didn't come around, they were arm twisted, they were kneecapped, their futures were shown to them in in vivid terms, and they didn't have any once Ron Emmanuel Nancy Peloy got the blue dogs saw the light.
Yep, they saw the light at the end of the tunnel, which was an oncoming train had his draight for them unless they got their minds right.
And I told you that's the way it was gonna be.
They're Democrats.
Blue dog what blue dog Democrats?
Maxine Waters, though, she's still upset about this.
Just this morning on PMS, NBC, she was asked this question.
You were fairly candid a couple of days ago, Representative Waters, in noting this hard for the White House and particularly Chief of Staff, Rahmanuel to put a lot of pressure on a blue dogs because he recruited many of them to run for office when he was in the House himself.
Do you think, though, the White House ultimately is gonna need to put that pressure on in order to keep progressive Democrats in the fold, people like Lynn Woolsey, your fellow Californian?
We know that the Blue Dogs have been very, very uh successful in gaining a lot of attention from the White House and from the Democratic leadership, and that they've been able to negotiate uh all of their concerns and their issues.
Well, they continue to be the balance of power uh in this Congress based on uh the fact that they all stick together and that they are gonna continue to fight for what they want.
Uh, I tend to believe that uh they are not going to let up, that they are going to continue uh to insist on having this bill or no bill at all.
Bill the way they would like to have or no bill at all.
Does she not know what happened yesterday?
That's from this morning.
Does she not know?
She just I think they're gonna continue to obstruct and so forth.
Uh Maxine, they were neutered yesterday.
They were spayed, neutered, whatever you want to call them.
But she clearly, she is so upset the blue dogs are running the show.
So it's Democrat versus Democrat, uh, as it uh as it's happening.
I told you yesterday, Terry Jeffrey, Cybercast News Service had an exclusive on their website about Obama's new um uh uh science and technologies Are.
Named John Holdren.
This is the guy who thinks that a fetus becomes human after a few years of socialization and nourishment after birth.
Not before.
It can't be said to be human even at birth.
Well, we found out more about this guy.
In the 1970s, John Holdren was a radical environmentalist wacko who argued that trees have legal rights and should be allowed to go to court to protect those rights.
This was an idea endorsed by John Holdren, the man who now advises President Obama on science and technology issues, giving natural objects like trees standing to sue in a court of law would have a most salubrious effect on the environment, Holdren wrote in the 1970s.
Uh...
You know the difference between Obama and other leftists is they might have had these people around them, but we would have never known it.
But now we know th this is this it's out there for one and all to see.
Now, state-run media is not going to report this, but we don't need the state-run media too.
Now I had a spy on the ground in Raleigh, North Carolina yesterday when Obama went in for the town meeting.
And the state-run, state-controlled media would, of course, overlook all this.
But there were people who were at the event who then reported to my spy.
Obama went to North Carolina because he's having problems within his party, his party.
And he was in North Carolina yesterday because he needs the vote of the new Senator Kay Hagen.
She's the one who beat Elizabeth Dole.
And guess who couldn't be c bothered to come and be there?
Kay Hagen, whose vote Obama needs was nowhere in sight.
And he does not have her vote yet because the people of North Carolina are swamping her office with objections to this health care bill.
North Carolina is also the home of three serious blue dogs.
Mike McIntyre, Heath Schuler, who is the blue dog whip, and Larry Cassell.
Guess who was not there?
All three of the blue dogs were no-shows.
Now, before you say to me, but Rush, but Rush, they were back working diligently with the leadership in Washington to slam out this deal.
When the president of the United States goes to your state on a meeting like this, he takes you on Air Force One.
And you go and you are introduced.
Senator Kay Hagen did not want to be seen there, nor did the three blue dogs.
So people are digging in their heels out there.
Obama's expending its, as he is, if it's been reported even elsewhere, lots of political capital on this deal.
Nobody wants it, and yet he's still ramming it down everybody's throat.
And that's why people are gagging.
It is rammed down our throat, and we are gagging.
People are speaking.
People do not want it, and yet they're not stopping.
Now, liberals in the drive-by media, once again are trying to ignite a race war between Obama and me and talk radio.
So I think it's very important.
Let's go back to February 22, 2008, you know, 16 months ago.
Maybe 18 months, I knew the math fast in my head.
A year and a half.
From me on this show, February 22, 2008.
If Obama gets elected president, wouldn't it be good to just get this done, Russia, so we can end the civil rights squabbles that we're having.
It wouldn't do that.
Folks, it wouldn't do that.
It might even exacerbate them.
Let me explain how.
It takes somebody like me who can read the stitches on the fastball.
Let us fast forward to January of 2009.
Obama has been inaugurated president.
And he proposes his first bit of legislation.
And let's say that it's I don't know.
Some civil rights-oriented thing, and a bunch of people start howling.
You know that the race industry can't wait for this.
Any criticism of Obama, the first black president, is going to be met with charges of racism by the likes of the Reverend Jackson and Sharpton.
It will make their race business all that much more prominent.
Okay, that's enough of it.
I just wanted to get the flavor from my prediction, that the problems of race in this country would not at all be eliminated or ended because of his election, in fact, be exacerbated.
So let's move now to uh yesterday.
Uh NBC Nightly News, and Raya Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, did a report on the right wing's racist attacks on the first black president.
Now that he's having trouble in the polls, it's an all-out push to play the race card.
Here's her report.
It's a um a montage.
You'll hear from Glenn Beck is in this, and you'll hear me.
When the first African American president criticized the police, his political opponents, who have huge followings, were off to the races.
And to the commentators, at least, it was all about race.
This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.
Then there's Rush Limbaugh.
Let's face it, President Obama's black, and I think he's got chip on his shoulder.
So even though Barack Obama's election was a milestone for the country, we have a long way to go.
All right, so this is exactly what I knew was going to happen.
And let's not forget the incident that has ignited this.
It was Obama, and I said the day it happened, he's the one that struck the match, and it's so unfortunate.
He's the one doing the beer summit today to try to make this go away.
He's the one doing the beer summit to bring these two combatants in there and trying to, you know, make peace smoke the peace pipe uh or or what have.
And uh and his comment about this was rooted in a racial attitude about racial profiling.
And he even launched into a discussion of it.
So now all of a sudden, the people to simply point this out.
Whoa, such a shame.
We have such a long way to go.
Even though we've had our first black president, we have such a long way to go, laments and Rhea Mitchell.
Joan Walsh, who uh the editor of Salon was with Chris Matthews uh last night on his show.
Now remember, if if Obama and Sonia Sotomayor make racist remarks, we call them on that.
We're only doing it because we are the real racists.
That's that's the template here.
We are projecting our racism on the pure post-racial messiah who is intent on absorving white people their sins.
This is this is the template.
This is, and they've been waiting for this, I guarantee you, because that's why I predicted it in February of 2008.
So Matthews asks, Joan Walsh, the editor-in-chief of Salon.com.
I think a lot of this is aimed at telling people who are racist on the other side, hey, you're not so bad.
He he's as bad as you, he's a racist, too.
I see it with both Glenn Beck and with Rush Limbaugh.
There's a clear case of projection here where these guys with really suspect racial feelings and perceptions are projecting their own hate and their own divisiveness onto a president who, as you said, had a white mother, was raised by white grandparents, and there's absolutely no evidence at all that he anything but loves white people.
Obama got to where he was, in my opinion, largely because he makes white people feel like he knows we're all trying really hard, and we really like it when black people make us feel that way.
Whoa, my goodness gracious!
And who is it that's got race pouring through their mind and and bloodstream?
Did you hear what she said?
Uh largely Obama got worries because he makes white people feel like he knows we're all trying really hard, and we really like it when black people make us feel that way.
And somehow I'm projecting race.
I'm a commentator of a guy who accused the white cop of a racist act.
When it wasn't.
Well, I don't care.
Joan Walsh wanted.
I don't care what they wrote.
I don't I don't even remember.
I don't even want you to talk about with what she wrote.
I don't want to be distracted.
My point is, Obama, in fact, in his book.
Uh I think we've got the audio of it here.
Uh yeah.
Um play, uh I want you to play cut five, and then I I want you to um get sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen.
So let's listen to Joan Walsh.
Now let me take a break, because I'm real I'm up against the here.
We'll take a break, and we'll come back to Joan Walsh and then listen to Obama.
Read from his own book.
Back after this.
Okay, let's go back.
Joan Walsh on Hardball.
Last night talking about all of this unfair racism that we project on Obama.
I see it with both Glenn Beck and with Rush Limbaugh.
There's a clear case of projection here where these guys with really suspect racial feelings and perceptions are projecting their own hate and their own divisiveness onto a president who, as you said, had a white mother, was raised by white grandparents, and there's absolutely no evidence at all that he anything but loves white people.
Obama got to where he was, in my opinion, largely because he makes white people feel like he knows we're all trying really hard, and we really like it when black people make us feel that way.
I Obama threw his own grandmother under the bus as a typical white person.
Remember?
In the race speech where he also threw Reverend Wright overboard.
So Obama got where he was because he makes white people feel like he knows we're all trying really hard.
What?
Not be racist.
And we really like it when black people make us feel that.
We really like it when black people tell us we know you're not racist.
Is that what she's saying?
Yes, my friends, she's saying that.
And that's as race-oriented as you can be.
We conservatives are colorblind.
We don't even see people this way.
He started it.
Let's go to Obama's book.
Now, we don't have this particular bite, but I remember Obama, in one of his books, and I've heard the audio portion of it, said, the way you have to deal with, I'm paraphrasing, the way you have to deal with white people, show them you're not a threat.
Show them you're not a threat, and then you don't mean no harm, and then everything's fine.
Thank you.
Really loves white people.
Here's the first.
This is this is uh a portion of Obama reading from his book, Dreams from My Father, a story of race and inheritance.
That's just how white folks will do you.
It wasn't merely the cruelty involved.
I was learning that black people could be mean and then some.
It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter.
It was as if whites didn't know they were being cruel in the first place, or at least thought you deserving of their scorn.
Well, this sounds like a lot of love for white people.
And here's Obama bring up the book, Heart of Darkness and what it taught him about white people, why white people.
Why white people hate.
So I read the book to help me understand what it is that makes white people so afraid.
They're demons.
The way ideas get twisted around.
It helps me understand how people learn to hate.
So I read the book to help me understand what makes white people so afraid.
They're demons.
The way ideas get twisted around.
Helps me understand how people learn to hate.
This is his own words.
He supposedly wrote these words.
And he now concludes by reading more from the book.
Here we go.
The emotions between the races could never be pure.
Even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the others some element that was missing in ourselves.
Whether we sought out our demons or our salvation, the other race would always remain just that.
Menacing alien and apart.
Joan Walsh.
Obama got where he is, largely because he makes white people feel like he knows we're all trying real hard.
And we really like it when black people make us feel that way.
What a dense, shallow person.
It is, it's almost buying in a magic Negro thing.
And when you get down to it, Joan Walsh is almost saying, hey, you know, this is the guy that doesn't scare us.
Only she's saying it at reverse.
We're the ones that don't scare him.
It's like Joan.
No, it's not, it's not magic.
It's it's Joan Walsh is the white.
Well, there's no such thing as a white.
The magic white.
Joan Walsh is describing the magic woman.
Now, uh, I just want to make sure I have this straight.
Turns out I am the racist.
Now, you people have been listening to this program for 20 years.
I have been hosting it for 20 years.
I have never said, and you've never heard me call my grandmother a typical white woman.
You've never heard me call any black person a typical black person.
The truth is, Ms. Walsh, President Obama is so race obsessed he writes a book about the father he never really knew, subtitled A Story of Race and Inheritance.
He marries a woman who's lucky enough to get into Princeton, but writes a book about how she's always an outsider in white culture, and the two of them sit in Reverend Wright's hate temple of black liberation theology for 20 years, and I am the one with the race problem, Ms. Walsh.
The problem is people like you being in the media, Ms. Walsh.
That's what we do here.
We make the complex understandable.
Joan Walsh, editor in chief Salon.com, also known as the Magic Honky.
The real racist is Ms. Joan Walsh with her race-based materialistic uh or maternalistic uh attitude toward black people who have in her small little mind no responsibility for their own actions.
This flap over Gates and the cop, Sergeant Walsh, happened as a direct result of actions and words.
Both Gates' actions and Obama's words.
But that doesn't matter a heal of beans to the magic honky.
Joan Walsh, who sees blacks as perpetual victims in need of her white protections.
She sees black people as needing to constantly be reassured by her that she understands that they understand that she is trying real hard not to be a racist.
Let me share with you.
Again from the book Dreams from My Father, a story of race and inheritance.
That's the title that Obama gave his book.
And again, Ms. Ms. Walsh.
I have never once on this program referred to anybody as a typical black.
Man or woman.
Obama sat in Reverend Wright's hate pit for twenty years.
Obama called his own grandmother a typical white woman.
Page 9495 of the book Dreams from My Father, a story of race and inheritance.
It was unusual, it was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned.
People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.
They were more than satisfied.
They were relieved, such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.
That's him describing an effective tactic to deal with white people, who, according to the magic honky Joan Walsh, he loves white people.
We're waiting for the sequel to Dreams of My Father, A Story of Race and Inheritance, Dreams of My Typical White Grandmother.
Now, I know what some of you are saying, folks, because I have empathy.
I know what you're saying.
Rush, why do you spend so much time on this?
Because for 21 years, people like Joan Walsh, Chris Matthews, I don't know who they are, have been trying to label not just me, but all of you who are conservative as...
Thank you.
Inherently racist, just because of your political views.
And here, that doesn't stand.
The President of the United States tried doing that against me in the early 90s, and now this bunch, the state-controlled media, is trying it again.
This all happened because of actions by Gates and words by Obama.
reality.
Now, Cookie has come through.
We're going to go back to, oh, we've got a montage here.
Because I, you know, everybody's getting on my case here about altering the audio, particularly the speed of Obama.
And as usual, he started it.
He's the one that put the echo, the reverb, set up the acoustics so that it sounded like he was speaking as God.
Here's a When we instead join arm in arm and decide we are going to remake this country block by block, that's what hope is.
Don't tell me words don't matter.
I have a dream.
Just words in the wealthiest nation on earth.
There are men and women and children who've fallen on hard times and hard luck.
Tonight I say to the people of America, across this great land, enough, people of the world.
This is our moment.
This is our time.
So the games were started by the one.
People have been waiting patiently.
Let's go back to the phones.
Dave in Chicago, nice to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
I'm glad you waited.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I am a physician and I practice geriatric medicine, and I wanted to make a comment on this every five-year conversation on advanced care planning.
First of all, I'll say that I hope this health care reform bill does not pass.
In fact, I'd love to get rid of Medicare altogether.
But I think this every five year uh discussion is actually a good idea.
It's something that I do with my patients often have uh discussions about who their health care power of attorney should be, their advanced care plans, but I cannot reimburse Medicare for doing that.
Uh Medicare won't pay me for that, and so this is actually one piece of the legislation I think is a good idea.
Well, if you think it's a good idea and you want to have death care discussions with your patients, and they wish to consent to death care discussions with you, then that's fine.
If you want to run your practice that way and your patients are cool with it, but I will be damned if it's going to become federally mandated law that the government tells every doctor, not doctor, hires a bunch of counselors that has these death care, as you call it.
Death care discussions, end of life discussions.
Really, what those discussions are, when you call it deaf care, end of life, it's end of care.
That's what the counselors are preparing these people for, end of care.
Because they're getting old and it ain't gonna be worth the investment.
It's right in the House bill.
People want to try to deny all these things that are right there.
People have read it.
They're in the bill.
And we've got President Obama on tape on that ABC infomercial, hundred-year-old pacemaker desire.
Uh one's the pacemakers, and no, no, you're can't uh do that for you.
That doesn't make any sense.
Another specialist said, Yeah, you got a lot of spunk.
I think we should give you a pacemaker.
The woman got the pacemakers five years later, it's 105, still productive.
Woman's mother asked the president of the United States, what you'd be willing to judge the spunk and will to live on the part of pain.
No, no, no, you reach a point where it just makes more sense to give a pain pill.
The operation is uh a little bit more complicated, and just give them a pain pill.
Now, the Obama White House is doing their best to erase that from the historical record, but he said it and it's there.
So, whatever you hear about this discussion, end of a life counseling, or as Dave here from Chicago has referred to it as end of uh or death care, it's end of care.
That's what they're gonna be talking to you about.
At what point, you know they're gonna say to you at some point we gotta stop caring for you because it's gonna become hopeless.
It ain't gonna make any sense.
Now, if a doctor wants to do that, fine, and you go get another doctor who won't.
But when the federal government is mandating that this be done, sorry, folks, not in the United States of America.
Uh Diane in Santa Barbara, California.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Hey.
Um, you know, this whole beer gathering thing is to me, seems like Obama just cuter fying the whole issue.
And, you know, just to kind of smooth it over, and it's just kind of getting getting annoying.
Well, you know what's going on here.
This is a photo op that's designed to show Obama bringing the races together.
All this is a diminishing of the White House.
This this is this is not this is not presidential.
This is something that diminishes the office of the presidency.
He's this is all per it's all about him.
It's all about him trying to say uh and illustrate that he can bring about the End to this racial divide when he's the one that caused all this and started it to uh you know reach the degree to which it has.
Kurt, again in Chicago.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Uh, I've got a question, your opinion.
Um, I'm a fat guy, and it worries me that they're going to try to tax me for being fat.
You think Roe v.
Wade would apply to my right to bodily privacy.
Um not unless you get a womb, and somehow what you eat makes you pregnant.
It's making me fat.
Uh it's by right.
I don't want to be able to do it.
What you're saying is that because of Roe versus Wade, the constitutional uh protection you have the right to do with your body whatever you want has been established.
Exactly.
Well, but no, only for women.
Well, do they have more different rights than I do?
I mean, I've got some hooters on me.
Yes.
Look, if you look at let's take everything about you, and it's the same.
You're fat and you're married.
And your wife gets pregnant, and you say, I can't afford this, and you have a but but you can say I'm gonna go ahead and do this on it.
I have a moral obligation, she's pregnant, we're gonna have a child.
She says, No, I don't want the baby.
You have no say in the matter.
Zip zero nada.
It's all up to her.
Husbands have no say in this.
But this is my body, though.
She can't say whether I have to do that.
But your body does not have constitutional protections, and neither does a fat woman's.
Only a pregnant woman's.
Well, we're gonna have to change that, Rush.
Uh look, I don't I wouldn't worry about the you know how to get past this.
I don't know how they're gonna do this.
They're gonna they're either going to tax the fat content of food, or they're gonna make you go to a doctor and have your fat content tested and tax you based on how much over legal limit it is.
If they do it the first way, this if they just tax the fat or calories in food, all you've got to do is go out and hire some skinny little kid to go buy your food for you.
There are ways around this.
I mean, you don't if let's say you like to use this.
Well, you yeah, if you and then you make a deal with the kid.
Kid says you know, kid can't legally buy booze, you go buy his booze, he buys your McNuggets.
All right, I've got a plan now, thanks for.
I mean, that's a much better way of beating this than try to go the Roe versus Wade Ray.
Believe me, I don't think that's gonna work.
We'll be it's a good point, but uh.
As long as we're quoting from Barack Obama's books.
Let me quote Obama on obesity from his book, The Audacity of Hope.
Here's Obama on obesity from his own book, The Audacity of Hope.
Sometimes finding the right balance is relatively easy.
We all agree, for instance, that society has a right to constrain individual freedom when it threatens to do harm to others.
The First Amendment doesn't give you the right to yell fire in a crowded theater.
Your right to practice your religion does not encompass human sacrifice.
Likewise, we all agree that there must be limits to the state's power to control our behavior, even if it's for their own good.
Not many Americans would feel comfortable with a government monitoring what we eat, no matter how many deaths and how much of our medical spending may be due to rising rates of obesity.
Yet he's doing it.
Not many Americans would feel well, he doesn't say he's gonna do it.
He just knows we don't feel comfortable with it, but screw it.
Our behavior must be constrained.
Society has a right to constrain individual freedom when it threatens to do harm to others, and they're gonna now say that obesity harms others.
And so the behavior of the obese.
Now here's this is this next story is fascinatingly interesting.
It is from state-controlled media, Reuters.
A common and safe blue food dye might provide the best treatment available so far for spinal cord injuries.
This from U.S. researchers on Monday.
Tests in rats showed the dye called brilliant blue G, a close relative of the common food dye blue number one, crossed into the spinal fluid and helped block inflammation.
We have no effective treatment now for patients who have an acute spinal cord injury, but our hope is that this work will lead to a practical safe agent that can be given to patients shortly after injury.
This is the exact blue food dye that is used in MMs.
The exact blue food dye.
Again, this is brilliant blue G. The blue dye used in MMs may help spinal cord injuries.
Now, many of you have always known that MMs are good for you.
But you might have thought it was the yellows or the reds or the green ones.
So now what do we do?
What the hell do we do?
We got fat people out there eating MMs and they're going to be taxed for it, but yet doing so might actually be healthy.
Who would have ever thought I guarantee you MM is going to be on the villain list.
Unless Obama's daughters like them.
If Obama's daughters like MMs and they'll get a reprieve and exemption, Stan in Orlando, Florida.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Oh, good afternoon, Rush, and thank you very much.
You bet, sir.
Um hey, listen, I like to spit up voices.
Kind of reminds me of Mickey Mouse.
Uh, but uh I had a question for you, if I could.
Sure.
Um I'm under Obamacare, let's say, and I'm an old guy that needs the pacemaker and gets the handful of pills instead because I get disapproved for the pacemaker.
Um who does the family sue after I'm dead and gone from uh from the handful full of pills that I was given instead?
Well, there is a I'll I have to research this specifically, but citizens cannot sue per se the federal government over you know a lot of things because that's all the Yeah, you have to have their permission.
Yeah.
So uh in this case, since the Obama administration will be the insurance company, they'll be providing you the doctor, and the doctor will have the guidelines.
Obama said, Look, uh, we're gonna judge a quality of care, we're just have a list of what works and what doesn't.
If you come in as an old guy and you want your pacemaker and they give you a bunch of pills, I think you're stuck.
Yeah, I think I think so too, and that was kind of the point of my my whole question.
The um the only thing the only caveat to this is that I'm you know, I'm a reasonably bright guy, and I know that this health care bill is not going to eliminate suing doctors, because that's how a lot of tort lawyers make their money.
Uh, and there's no way, there's no way anything Obama or the Democrats do is going to take money out of the trial lawyer's pocket.
So I imagine you will be able to go out and find a lawyer and sue somebody.
Well, well, it wouldn't be the doctor, Rush, because he's the one that recommended the pacemaker, and it'd be some government official somewhere that said, nah, you can't have that, give them these pills instead.
And so it's some uh government person somewhere, and and good luck suing the government.
I mean, us uh people out here in the real world don't have the kind of money to even pursue something like that.
Well, you know, you raise a good point.
I'm gonna have to consult legal beagles.
In that case, it may only be private doctors, the doctors who choose not to join any of these insurance plans public or otherwise, they just are fee for fee for base, fee for performance cash only.
If you have a patient pay the doctor and your doctor tells you, Well, you want a pacemaker?
No, I'm gonna prescribe you some pain pills, and uh you might be able to sue that guy.
You might be able to sue a doctor who opts out.
Yeah, but see, I'm under I I would be under Obamacare, and I like you said, I think I'd be out of luck.
That is interesting.
I'm gonna have to run this by people who um have a more informed foundation of this whole concept is a great, great question because I mean, simple common sense, we know that no plan is gonna ace out the trial lawyers.
We know that most plans are gonna empower them and enrich them.
So the question is how that's gonna happen.
I'm sure by the time I end this segment and look to my computer, three or four of my legal beagles will have sent me emails starting, I can't believe you missed this.
So I'll have that answer for you before the show's over, I'm sure, back after this.
Now on the fat tax, here's another question.
Michael Phelps, the Olympian, the Olympic champion.
During the Olympics.
We were all told that he eats six thousand calories a day, and there were news stories of what he eats.
And if you and I ate that stuff in that quantity, we'd be 300 pounds inside of six months.
Does he get taxed on buying that stuff?
What about what about in a uh in a house where you got an obese person, a skinny person, and they eat the same stuff?
Who doesn't pay the tax and who does?
It makes wonder how they're going to do.
They're gonna do it.
They're going to do it.
Just makes me wonder how they're gonna get this done.
Okay, we have an exciting hour remaining.
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