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Aug. 12, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 12, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #3
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You know, I love this headline.
We didn't talk about this yesterday because I am focused.
I refuse to allow the state-controlled media to take me off course.
You know, Hillary Clinton blew up over there.
Where is she?
She's in Africa somewhere.
And somebody stood up and said, what does her husband think of some event?
And she just lost it.
I'm not here channeling my husband.
I'm the Secretary of State.
And I can tell you what I think.
And then they said, well, no, no, no, no.
The translator goofed up.
The kid meant to ask, what does President Obama think about whatever else?
And so now people are trying to straighten this out because Hillary had a meltdown.
You can understand it, being married to this lughead, and he's out there celebrating his birthday.
He's got the forehead.
He's got Carville.
He's got Greenberg.
He's about to go to the Hollywood Playboys.
And they're having dinner out there in Las Vegas while Hillary's over there in the swamps of Africa doing something meaningless to U.S. foreign policy to keep her out of the way from the real action.
Obama's got her over there.
And so now they're trying to figure this out.
This headline is from state-controlled Associated Press, U.S. Official Gropes to explain Clinton's outburst.
U.S. officials are groping for Hillary.
This is something none of us can see.
State Department struggled Tuesday to explain Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's face-off with a Congolese student, suggested the questioner's nervousness sparked the outburst with the mention of her husband's name.
The cash for clunker program slips in interest.
Fewer and fewer people interested in it now.
Red-hot auto sales under the U.S. government's cash for clunkers in City began to cool as dealer inventories tightened and showroom traffic showed signs of leveling off from a frantic pace of a week ago.
One industry analysis released on Tuesday forecast a steady decline in clunker-related business, even though the Obama administration and Congress added $2 billion to the kitty in order to help pay for all this.
We got to go back to the audio soundbites.
And by the way, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
You know what?
We better start with 15.
I said 16 to the broadcast engineer.
Start with 15.
This was this morning on the Today Show on NBC.
The co-host Meredith Vieira is talking with the chief White House correspondent F. Chuck Todd.
And she says, did the administration stack the deck with supporters in New Hampshire?
No, I got two words for you.
The Secret Service.
In order to get in, to get a ticket for the president's town hall, you had to log in last week.
You had to get and hope you got picked randomly.
You have to submit your date of birth, your social security number, in order to be that close to the president.
It's not like a member of Congress where any Tom Dick or Harry can just walk in at the end of the day, kind of like a city council meeting.
Come on, F. Chuck.
Who do you think you're dealing with here?
You telling me if the president of the United States or somebody like Rahm Emanuel wants somebody in there, they can't get them in there?
We are not saps here.
Now, F. Chuck Todd had to end up this morning on MSNBC calling out his own network for hyping the guy with the gun at the Obama Town Hall.
It had nothing to do with Obama.
Did you hear about this?
They went nuts.
There was a guy in New Hampshire.
Everybody's got a gun.
In fact, if you ever wondered why the left is so afraid of Second Amendments, because we're the ones with all the guns.
In fact, just last hour, this guy calls and says, they've declared war on us.
The Libs have declared war on this country.
Oh, no, we can't have that kind of talk.
I mean, compared to what the Libs are doing in Germany going into France, and the Germans had tanks.
I said, you can't, we can't go that far.
Been inundated with emails during the break.
Rush, you're wrong.
You think we don't have guns?
So the left is all for birth gun control because we have the guns.
At any rate, there was this guy walking around outside with a gun, which a lot of people in New Hampshire do.
And Carlos Watson, the Obama lookalike and so-called analyst at MSNBC, just tried to make this into something and it wasn't.
And F. Chuck Todd had to sort of calm Carlos down.
Carlos didn't want to be calmed down.
Carlos Watson, talking with F. Chuck Todd, said, Chuck, I got to ask the guy with the gun outside of Portsmouth, New Hampshire town hall debate, somebody else arrested with a gun elsewhere, somebody else with a knife.
The White House saying about this.
I mean, I know they don't want to inflame it, but I got to believe there's some real concern out there, F. Chuck.
Frankly, Carlos, no.
When you spend time in New Hampshire, the gentleman that had the gun that was strapped on in full sight of everybody, you know, there is, I was talking to plenty of locals about this.
There is a, you know, there's a deep libertarian streak in New Hampshire.
And there was a group of these folks.
Chuck, I'll be honest.
Carlos, we conflated things yesterday.
I think we conflated things yesterday by throwing this guy in there.
There was definitely protesters in there, but this guy was trying to make another point.
And this was an anti-government activist that would have been at this, whether this were a Republican president or Democratic president.
So F. Chuck said, Chuck, we conflated this.
We put this guy with the anti-Obama people.
It was the wrong thing to do, Carlos.
Believe me, we did the wrong thing here.
Carlos Watson doesn't want to hear it.
I got to push back on that.
So to be clear, we've got a history in this country of presidents being shot at and killed going back to the 1890s.
I'm not making light of this, but I think you got to understand.
I'm just saying, I'm just explaining where this guy was coming from.
I'm not saying that it's one of these things that the Secret Service wasn't concerned about, but law enforcement seemed to be very much know exactly what this guy was doing.
Carlos Watson, not happy here.
Carlos Watson, of course, the guy who said the new N-word is socialism.
What does the F stand?
Well, think of Chuck Yo, Schumer.
All right.
It's the best way I could explain what the F stands for in F Chuck Todd.
Okay, this Obama, we mentioned this earlier in the program.
He stunned members of the AARP by telling everybody that the AARP supports his plan when they haven't done it.
And there was a deluge of phone calls to the AARP, which, as I said, just move on members with the false teeth.
And they were inundated by their rank and file members because they haven't come out officially for it.
But Obama yesterday in Portsmouth talking about his plan and the AARP.
We have the AARP on board because they know this is a good deal for our seniors.
The AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare.
Now, they haven't publicly endorsed it.
We know that they do.
We know.
I mean, they're just, as I say, they're out-of-work union people with false teeth, moveon.org with false teeth, the 1960s Vietnam War protesters with false teeth.
They haven't officially done it because they don't want their rank and file to know they're on board.
Now the rank and file know because Obama, off-prompter, let the cat out of the bag.
And AARP is being inundated now with calls from rank and file members.
Say, what the hell?
And I'm sure that they're, I'm sure when you call, if you're an AARP member and you call your local office, they're probably going to tell you what a member of Congress is telling us at town halls.
No, you didn't hear that right.
Obama didn't say that.
You're an idiot.
You've got to listen better.
Here is Obama at the town hall once again attacking doctors.
Remember, he accused pediatricians who are not surgeons by definition of doing unnecessary tonsillectomies to line their pockets.
If a family care physician works with his or her patient to help them lose weight, modify diet, monitors whether they're taking their medications in a timely fashion, they might get reimbursed a pittance.
But if that same diabetic ends up getting their foot amputated, that's $30,000, $40,000, $50,000.
Immediately, the surgeon is reimbursed.
Well, why not make sure that we're also reimbursing the care that prevents the amputation?
Right?
That will save us money.
$30,000 to $40,000 to $50,000 for every diabetic's foot you cut off.
Now, we have a couple of guests here watching the program today whose father, orthopedic surgeon.
What is the statistic you guys gave me at the top of the hour?
What was the, you know, what's the number you gave me?
But does your, now your dad's an orthopedic surgeon.
Does your dad do amputations?
He does.
And it's $1,000.
$1,000.
He gets reimbursed $1,000 for amputating what?
The hospital bill could be more, but the doctor just gets $1,000.
It includes three months aftercare.
So it's not that profitable to chop somebody's foot off.
No.
Well, we have experts here.
We have two, unless you're into volume, yeah, unless you're doing, you'd have to do, you'd have to get 30 feet chopped off to get anywhere near Obama's price or claim.
The thousand is just for the doctor.
The hospital may charge more than that.
And that $1,000 includes the three months of aftercare.
Right.
Stunning facts once you learn when you talk to people actually in the business.
So $30,000.
I wonder what they get for an addedictomy in San Francisco.
You know, I think I'll send a question into Obama's healthcare website.
What do you get for an added how do you prevent an amputation?
How do you prevent in case of diabetics?
Well, I'm not a doctor.
I'm not a doctor snerdly.
There are different kinds of diabetes.
There's type one and there's type two.
Type two is adult onset.
Sometimes if you catch it early, it'll be controlled with diet and exercise, which it does help in diabetes, lowering blood sugar, not losing weight.
But now type one is a different matter.
Type one, that's bad.
And I know people have been shooting up insulin since they were eight years old on type one.
And sometimes there's nothing you can do.
It depends.
Everybody's different, see?
But the problem is that Obamacare would turn everybody into a statistic.
There wouldn't be any personal evaluation or very little personal evaluation.
Let's go back.
Let's just, so we don't forget this.
July 22nd at the White House, primetime press conference, and a McClanche reporter asked Obama a question.
It's a long question here.
Can you guarantee that the legislation will lock in and say the government will never deny any services?
That's going to be decided by the doctor and the patient and the government will not deny any coverage.
Secondarily, can you, as a symbolic gesture, say that you and the Congress will abide with the same benefits in the public option?
Right now, doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that's out there.
So if they're looking and you come in and you've got a bad sore throat or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats, the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, you know what?
I make a lot more money if I take this kid's tonsils out.
This guy has got, he has got, I would love to use the street term for it.
I will not.
But this guy's got a thing for doctors.
He's got a thing for me.
The insurance, anybody who's successful, they've got to be cheating the system.
They've got to be stealing it from somebody.
This guy's got a chip on his shoulder.
Tonsillectomies.
Unnecessary tonsillectomies to get the reimbursements.
You know, the whole notion of reimbursements is one glaring illustration of what's wrong with this whole system.
You know, if somebody told me, starting next year, Rush, your radio show, we're going to sell advertising and we're going to do this.
And we're going to discuss your reimbursement schedule.
What do you mean by reimbursements?
The advertisers pay.
We give them the service.
What reimbursement?
Well, no, the government's going to act as a middleman.
And the government's going to determine how much that you should be reimbursed based on what it costs for you to provide the service.
Why?
Why are you getting involved in my payment schedule and what I charge and what people who do business will be willing to pay?
Well, because not everybody can afford to advertise on your program and we need to make it so that everybody can.
We need rush insurance.
All of your advertisers do really well, but not everybody can afford it.
So we're going to step in here, and we'll reimburse you in two or three months a portion of what you...
This whole notion of reimbursement.
Imagine if you're in a business, the doctors are.
Imagine if you're in a business where you have to wait around for a government reimbursement for your income.
There's so much wrong with this structurally.
We do need reform, but we don't need to amplify the problems that exist in the name of solving them.
All right, quick timeout.
We've got some of your phone calls next, right after this.
Don't go away.
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Now, the study had been written by Curtis Dubay.
It's available for Heritage Foundation members.
Now, it says, among other things, 70% of federal taxes are paid by the top 20% of the workforce, the same group responsible for 86% of income taxes.
It also asks this question.
Just how much more will the Obama administration ask the rich to pay for cash for clunkers for their healthcare reform?
And this is just the beginning.
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Claire McCaskill, Jefferson County, Missouri, at her town hall.
If anyone wants to bet you whether or not we're going to get a single-payer nationalized health care bill out of Congress, take the bet and take their money.
Because it is not going to happen.
I know you hate to hear good news, but we will not do this.
There is not any support, very little support.
I shouldn't say any.
There are a few members that think it's a good idea.
So I don't understand this rudeness.
Hang on here, folks.
I don't get it.
I honestly don't get it.
Do you all think that you're persuading people when you shout out like that?
Beg your pardon?
You don't trust me?
Senator McCaskill, let me tell you what your problem is.
Your president is on record as saying he wants a single-payer system.
The House bill guarantees it.
So when you tell your participants in a town hall that it isn't going to happen, a single-payer national health care bill isn't going to happen.
They're looking at you and they're saying, hey, you're one of 100 senators and the president of the United States says he wants it.
And everybody's out there, Barney Frank and others are being honest about.
They think you're not honest.
That's why when you ask them, you don't trust me, they say, no, because they're not making anything up that they're reading, Senator McCaskill, and they're not making anything up that they are hearing.
We prepared a little montage here on Senator McCaskill, and you don't get this rudeness.
I don't understand this rudeness.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic and we should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
Do you all think that you're persuading people when you shout out like that?
I don't get it.
See, it's just fine and dandy for Mrs. Clinton to act like everybody's third and fourth ex-wife.
It's just as fine and dandy for Mrs. Clinton and the libs and they can start throwing things, Molotov cocktails and all that.
And let these people show up and act like, Mrs. McCaskill, you're not telling us the truth because we can hear what your president is saying.
Your president wants single-payer health care.
I tell you, all of you elected officials are going to have to understand that you're dealing with people who are more informed than you are on this issue.
And you can't fool them anymore.
You're not going to be able to bamboozle them.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
I have here a healthcare-related story, although the people who posted this story did not intend it to be part of the healthcare debate.
It's posted at Health Daily News.
And the headline is, for macho men, doctor visits are less likely.
It's no secret that men don't like to go to the doctor, but new research finds they are especially likely to stay home if they're big on being macho.
Middle-aged men who are most devoted to traditional beliefs about masculinity are half as likely as other men to get routine medical care, researchers report.
Now, what this tells me at this brief point in the story is that conservative men who are real men are putting far less stress and pressure, financial and otherwise, on the healthcare system.
It is the wuss liberal guys showing up for every imagined problem, beleaguering the healthcare system.
The metrosexuals, exactly right, Snerdley, the metrosexuals.
It's not clear whether feelings about masculinity directly make men avoid doctor visits.
The study only indicates the cause and effect link might exist.
Nor do researchers know what this might mean for men's health.
So we could ask, well, then what the hell do the story for?
It's not clear.
The study only indicates that cause and effect might exist, which means it might not.
And in addition to it's not clear and it might or might not exist, researchers don't know what it might mean.
So why do it?
Because they want to bash macho men.
Still, the findings suggest, quote, we could help men's health if we could dismantle this idea that manhood and masculinity is about being invulnerable, not needing help and not showing pain, said the study author Kristen Springer, a woman and assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers, State University of New What.
See, that's the point, Snerdley.
Exactly right.
Here we have a study showing that real men, macho men, i.e. conservative guys, are not going to the doctor.
They're not putting stress on the healthcare system.
They're not going in for unwanted or unnecessary operations.
No feet getting chopped off.
No, none of this.
It's the wuss guys that are going.
Now, all this pressure being brought to bear on the healthcare system.
Macho guys ought to be being celebrated.
Instead, this story rips them a new one for not going to the doctor often enough.
Previous research suggested that men are less likely to go to the doctor than women across the board.
Again, said study author Kristen Springer.
Springer said this finds this notion surprising because men are wealthier overall, potentially giving them better access to medical care.
Oh, men are supposedly wealthier, so they're going to spend more time in the doctor.
And try this.
This is from the Raleigh News and Observer.
The headline, woman sues to get men to play her.
Nancy Griffith prefers to play tennis against men, and she often beats them in a men's league sponsored by the city of Raleigh.
Some men don't like playing Griffin.
Three years ago, league members voted to rescind a rule that penalized them for refusing to compete against her or anybody else.
The change has kept her from taking on some of the league's top players.
Men have invoked both their wives and God to avoid tennis matches against her.
Now, Kathy or Nancy Griffin has made her problem the court's problem.
She's suing the city, alleging discrimination.
She wants the penalty rule reinstated and the city to pay her $10,000 or more for emotional distress.
She's a 41-year-old substitute teacher, says her fitness and unorthodox self-taught technique make her a formidable opponent.
Uh, I'm not answering that.
You're not going to trap me.
Snerley just asked her the IFB, what does she look like?
We all know that women's looks have nothing to do with it.
That's such a Neanderthal question.
You ask this with a reporter here doing a story on me, and you ask you that.
Whose side are you on?
It's too tough to tell here.
It's a picture from the knees up on the court.
That's not the point.
What she looks like.
Men don't want to play with her.
She's suing the city for $10,000.
Speaking of Nancy Griffin says, I'm a follower of Jesus Christ, and I love everyone here.
I just want the program to run fairly for everybody.
She said the dispute has taken a toll.
She's experienced depression, but the fall season begins in August.
This kind of reminds me, you know, back in the days of the early feminazis, back in the late 80s and the early 90s when Gloria Allred and some well, Gloria Allred was never a feminazi, but some of the early feminazis were trying to take over men's clubs because they claimed they were being deprived of the opportunity to do business.
And the pressure was brought to bear that some of these men at big city men's clubs were forced to take women in.
And that's not the way to provide, to make for cohesive getting along.
And I remember when the women got in, it was one club.
I think it was in San Francisco.
It's a true story.
One club in San Francisco, the men had their own exercise room and their own gym and their own sauna.
And the women, of course, didn't because women weren't admitted in there.
So then the feminazis that got in there started demanding their own exercise room and sauna and so forth.
And the men had to do it.
I mean, it became a matter of law.
So at this particular club, the men set up the exercise room, and the first piece of equipment in it was a vacuum cleaner.
And this is the I laughed, of course.
I did laugh on the air.
I'm laughing about it even now.
Because I remember Gloria Allred on TV was just livid about all this.
Here's Lee in Covington, Louisiana.
Hi, Lee.
Well, welcome to the program.
I'm glad you waited.
Rush, there are simply not words in the English language for me to describe how truly honored this 58-year-old, honorably discharged Vietnam-era cancer-surviving veteran is to speak with you other than by saying that I thank God every day of my life for what you do and what you do for this country.
I love so much.
God bless you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Bottom of my heart, I appreciate that.
I understand.
Bottom of my mind, I'm in it, Rush.
Now, we're fired up down here on the bayou, and your listeners deserve to have some good news.
I'm going to get through that as quickly as possible.
And let me close with a message for the Speaker of the House, if you would be so kind.
Do I need to put my hand on the bleep button here for the message of Nancy Pelosi?
No, no, okay.
Have it handy, Rush, but no.
Okay, within the past 24 hours, I was one of hundreds who were turned away from Senator David Vitter's town hall meeting on health care yesterday, although disappointed when I got home, heard on the news that it was interrupted only by standing ovations, none of the least of which, or the greatest of which I should say, excuse me, was when he stated to his overcapacity crowd that he will only sign a health care bill when,
from the president to the House to the Senate members, that it will be the health care for them and their family.
Blew the roof off the place.
Today, Congressman Joseph Kyle, who defeated 16-year Congressman known as Mr. Cold Cash William Jefferson, who, unlike his constituents in the House, read every page of the bill.
His prediction in cost, bottom of the barrel, $225 billion up to $2.2 trillion.
Joseph Kyle today on the radio.
That's in deficit.
I mean, there's no way this plan is going to cost $225 billion.
That's not even going to cover the interest on the amount we have to borrow to pay for this stupid plan.
But Lee here is right.
David Vitter, Republican senator from Louisiana, and Mr. Cowell, who did replace Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
I don't think the New York Times has yet identified Congressman Cold Cash as a Democrat.
I don't think they have.
But there were standing ovations at Vitter's town hall because he did say that this is not going to happen.
The only health care bill that we're going to support here is one that would be identical to one that we have or so forth.
The thing you keep in mind here is that the government does not run the federal employee health care bill.
They pay for it.
You and I pay for it, but they don't run it.
There is no, there's nothing like in the open in the House bill what members of Congress have to go through now.
There's no exchanges and there's no bureaucracies and there's no end-of-life count.
None of it.
They don't have to do any of that.
Everything in their health care plans administered in the private sector, brief timeout.
We're coming right back, State.
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I mentioned earlier, I've got to get a couple stories in here.
I've got to tease these.
Robert B. Reich, yesterday, big story in salon.com, very upset that Obama's destroying democracy.
He loves the idea of national health care, but doesn't like something Obama did today.
Amy, I'm sorry, Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post, Change We Can't Believe In.
It turns out the Obama White House has cut a backroom deal with Billy Tozen, former Republican, who now lobbyist for Big Pharma.
Drug makers are going to give $80 million in savings, quote unquote, in return for a promise that Medicare wouldn't be allowed to negotiate drug prices.
So basically what's happening, and Big Pharma has promised $150 million.
Now, stop thinking this.
Big Pharma, well, it's between $80 and $150 million.
I don't think the final figure is in.
Big Pharma has promised between $80 and $150 million to Obama to spend buying ads to secure health care, television ads, as campaign ads, saying Big Pharma supports the whole deal.
In exchange, Big Pharma no longer is going to face price pressure.
As long as they promise to save $80 billion in prices over some period of time, Obama has promised them we'll take out of any health care bill any pressure on you to lower your prices.
Billy Tozen, the lobbyist for Big Pharma, the associate director said, we need somebody to come in first.
If you come in first, you'll have a rock-solid deal, Tozen told the New York Times.
The White House, playing a political version of deal or no deal, is backing away rather unconvincingly from its initial confirmation.
In New Hampshire on Tuesday, Obama raised the prospect of getting more from drug companies, but it's already, it's a done deal.
And the reason the libs do not like it is that they think that it's extortion.
They think Big Pharma is extorting poor old Obama.
That's what they think.
It's the other way around.
If anybody's being extorted, it's Obama extorting me.
He says, if you want us to leave you alone, if you want, in other words, think of me, think of me as Tony Obama soprano, and I will leave you alone in my health care bill for $80 to $150 billion.
And they're saying, whoa, what a deal.
It might go up to $200 billion.
But the point is, what Reich was worried about yesterday and what Ruth Marcus is worried about, well, what happens if somebody figures out that any piece of legislation can be bought and paid for simply by the administration making a deal with, say, big oil down the road?
Or what if they make a deal with big retail like Walmart?
I mean, Obama's out making deals with members of the liberals' enemies list.
I mean, big pharma is among the most hated, despised industries the left has, and Obama just jumped into bed with them without a condom.
And they are livid out there.
And they're afraid he may jump between the sheets with even more of their hated, evil big corporations.
And then there's this, folks, and we touched on this yesterday too.
The jobless, jobless recovery.
Washington Post, a recovery only a statistician can love.
Data that point to improving economy also suggests continued pain for many.
And what this story is all about is that businesses are planning on increased productivity as a means for not having to rehire people.
Because what businesses are, the newspapers, look at the Washington, the New York Times, how did they become profitable?
How did they stem their losses?
They canned everybody.
That's what corporate earnings reports right now showing big-time earnings don't mean we've turned the corner because they've all done it by laying off people.
So their labor costs have gone down.
And what if this story is all about what if businesses figure out they can run with 2 million fewer people?
Just make their existing remaining employees work harder.
Make slaves out of them, per se, just get more productivity out of them.
Don't have to rehire people.
Ergo, we got a booming economy with business doing well, but no new jobs.
And so all of this is in state-run media.
Not happy with the way all this is turning out vis-a-vis Obama.
Thanks so much for being with us today, folks.
It's always fun.
Today, a special delight.
And we'll be back in 21 hours after a brief timeout, pass faster than you realize, to do it all over again.
So thanks again so much.
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