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Aug. 27, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 27, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, folks, this is hilarious now.
The uh the state controlled media.
The state control media over at MSNBC is now grading as in rating my CI Told Yesos.
And they did a whole analysis of my prediction that the health care bureau will be named after Ted Kennedy, and the Democrats would use his death to move it forward.
That's no big deal.
Anybody could have predicted that.
That's what they're saying.
We'll let you hear that as the program unfolds today.
We've also, I've been looking at a health care bill, uh, the House bill, and I've found that there are two things that will not be rationed in uh in Obamacare or Obama Kennedy care, whatever it's going to be called now, abortions and assisted suicides will not be rationed.
Well, they're not.
I got I got the the whole list of things in there.
Abortion and assisted suicides will not be it's not a laughing matter, but sometimes that's all you can do.
Greetings, great to have you here.
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It's already Thursday here.
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The telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address, Lrushbaugh at EIB net.com, the gross domestic product, the U.S. economy, declined one percent in the second quarter.
Better than expected.
Well, let me tell you something, folks.
I am Rush Limbaugh.
I am EIB, always performing better than expected.
There are never any unexpected lows or highs here.
We only have the highest expectations of ourselves, and you do too.
And we meet and surpass those expectations each and every day on this program, and therefore always performing better than expected.
Rush Limbaugh, a household name in all four corners of the world.
So state controlled associated press, the gross domestic product declines one percent in the second quarter better than expected.
The bottom line is the economy's still shrinking.
It's contracting.
There's negative growth.
One percent big whoop.
We're supposed to feel happy about this.
The only thing that make me happy about this is if I saw a story that said the government shrunk by one percent.
Then be making progress.
Now, did you see the new CBO projection on jobs for next year?
2.3 million more will be unemployed next year than expected, according to the CBO.
In other words, the projection of unemployment next year has now been upgraded.
2.3 million more jobs, more people will lose their jobs next year, according to the CBO.
Now, these unemployment numbers, folks, they are an indictment.
And the state controlled media will want to stay on the Kennedy situation here until these numbers are forgotten.
In this situation in this scenario here, the CBO's the prosecutor, these new unemployment projections ought to serve as an indictment.
On this administration, this is stunning information to those people.
How's that hope and change working for you out there?
To all of you who trusted Obama to help the economy.
I mean, this is a bombshell story.
And we're not even getting this story.
What we're getting here is the gross domestic product declined one percent in the second quarter.
Whoa!
Whoa, what great news.
The economy's shrinking slower than it was.
Uh, but it's it's not a bombshell story to those of us who warned you about Obama's objectives, but it is a bombshell of millions of Americans who voted for what turns out to be the fictional candidate, Barack Obama.
Obama got 10 million more votes than McCain.
And I'd like to believe that none of the millions of people laid off during Obama's time in office will vote for him again.
If that happens, a conservative will be elected in 2012.
We can work to fix what Obama has broken.
By the way, Victor Davis Hansen, uh, yesterday national review online addressed something that I have been addressing, and they answered it, something that I have been asking.
You look at the performance of the economy, and you look at Obama's ability to deal with it, stimulus was supposed to grow the economy, grow jobs not doing any of that.
Healthcare is supposed to improve health care's not going to do any of that.
None of these programs, not one of them, not one Obama initiative is working as intended.
But yet it is from his standpoint.
He's getting a bunch of chaos.
He's getting a bunch of angst, which helps him set up the government as the great savior.
But Victor Davis Hanson points out with these out-of-control deficits, and we got the numbers in the last two days.
Nine trillion dollar deficit over the next ten years, according to Obama, seven trillion dollar deficit over the next ten years, according to Congressional Budget Office.
There have been some people who've looked at it and added a numbers.
I think it's going to be 14.1 trillion.
Victor Davis Hansen says, look, I'm going to paraphrase what he wrote.
It's very simple.
The only way, quote unquote, only way to deal with this is a massive restructuring of the tax code.
The whole purpose of this, according to Victor Davis Hanson, is to raise taxes substantially on everybody, but primarily the wealthy.
This is all about returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.
This is on purpose.
This is wrecking the U.S. economy for the express purpose of remaking America and getting rid of the wealthy.
Everybody is going to end up being equal.
It is obscene what is happening.
I said this on Glenn Beck's show on television yesterday.
I've been saying it here behind my own golden EIB microphone.
All of this is purposeful.
All of this is purposeful.
This wrecking of the economy, the job losses, all of it.
This this health care, he doesn't care about the specifics of health care.
All he wants is something that's going to break the bank.
Well, I mean, he likes the aspect that you're going to be able to control everybody's life with it.
But the end result here is the giant redistribution.
He is a redistributionist, and this is his way of getting there.
You get to the point where the only way we can deal with this, everybody's going to set a consensus is to raise taxes.
Now, we all know that lowering taxes would be the correct way to generate more revenue.
The revenue is not keeping up at all because taxes are low.
People are losing their jobs.
And it just breaks my heart, folks.
You know...
To sit here and watch this, to watch the purposeful destruction of the free enterprise system, to watch the purposeful destruction of American capitalism.
That's what we're watching right before our very eyes.
And we're lionizing a guy who had a fundamental role in it all of his legislative career, and that's Senator Kennedy.
Senator Kennedy screwed up everything he touched.
Now, I get all this discussion here about what a great legislator he was.
I got a picture here from Newsweek.
The cover story, Newsweek.
Oh, wait, where do I put it?
Newsweek here it is.
Newsweek magazine from May twenty-eighth, nineteen seventy-nine.
May twenty-eighth, nineteen seventy-nine, a cover story on Ted Kennedy.
Teddy comes on strong, the battle over health care.
We can't do it piecemeal.
It's the same old tired scripts.
They have been working on all of this massive health care program in 1970.
This is the same year that they ran covers on global cooling.
And the coming freeze.
Here, let me show it to you on the ditto cam.
I I can't focus this automatically, but you'll get a drift of it there.
Let's see if I can focus that.
There we go.
There is uh Ted Kennedy.
You see my little note to myself there, same tired scripts.
Teddy comes on strong.
That is April, May 28th, 1979.
And just, we're in a, it's Groundhog Day.
It's groundhog day with the American left.
It's ground every day.
It's the same garbage.
It's been that way for my whole life.
Now, you gotta hear these upcoming sound bites.
David Schuster, yesterday afternoon on PMS NBC, said this about Senator Kennedy.
Ted Kennedy, unlike so many politicians of this day, he didn't dabble in the small stuff, the petty personal attacks.
That was not him.
And again, I think that's why so many people are feeling so sad, not only for the loss of him, but for the loss perhaps of a political era.
Yeah, you heard right.
Petty personal attacks were not Ted Kennedy and our old buddy, David Brooks on the uh news hour with Jim O'Lara last night, David Brooks of the uh of the New York Times and the new conservatism.
I would just say he could exercise great anger when he disapproved, but it was not resentment.
And so it never got quite as personal.
And for conservatives who are now in the wilderness, that is a model for them to find the best in your tradition and to follow it the way he followed liberalism during the Reagan years.
This is unbelievable.
These guys are on the scene.
They are so desirous.
They are so desirous of this peaceful world where all the red and blue states get along in their identity arguments, and everybody is as civil as these clowns from the Ivy League and their Oxford debating societies, that they have to make up stories about how civil Ted Kennedy was.
Well, how civil was this?
Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions.
Blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, and school children could not be taught about evolution.
Writers and artists would be censured at the whim of government.
And the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is and is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy.
Oh, yeah, he never got personal.
He never got petty.
Mr. Schuster, you're a dunce.
Mr. Brooks, your your j defy explanation.
He never got personal.
No, he only destroyed Robert Bork's career.
He tried to destroy Robert Bork's life.
Ted Kennedy with views like this succeeded in screwing up along with his Democrat buddies, the federal bench, the U.S. judiciary, more than anybody could have had they tried.
He never got personal.
He certainly got personal about Clarence Thomas.
He pulled the same stunt on Clarence Thomas that he that he tried here in Robert Bork.
And this we had a caller yesterday talking about this is, I think, this was from 1987.
I was in Sacramento when this happened.
This is the beginning of the dawn of the age of the current hate.
This is what started it.
Everything was hunky-dory back then.
The Republicans had 135 members in the House, and they were happy to not even show up, just go play golf with Democrats now and then.
It was, you know, guys like Hugh Scott were in the Senate.
There wasn't any acrimony.
They despised Reagan as much as they despised Bush.
But this started it.
This started the age of hate in American pop.
Good old Ted Kennedy, the lion of the sin.
He never got personal.
He never got petty.
We can learn a lot from Ted Kennedy and his civil way.
Oh, and he went on in the same Bork speech to attack Ronald Reagan.
America is a better and freer nation than Robert Bork thinks.
Yet in the current delicate balance of the Supreme Court, his rigid ideology will tip the scales of justice against the kind of country America is and ought to be.
The damage that President Reagan will do through this nomination, if it is not rejected by the Senate, could live on far beyond the end of his presidential term.
President Reagan is still our president.
But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Orangate, reach into the muck of Watergate, and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and on the next generation of Americans.
No justice would be better than this injustice.
Well, there you have it.
No pretty petty personal attacks from Ted Kennedy.
He didn't dabble in the small stuff.
And yeah, he uh he uh never resented anybody, never got personal, says David Brooks.
And now for conservatives who are in the wilderness, Ted Kennedy is a model for us to find the best in our tradition.
And to follow it the way I mean, this is puke city.
Brief time out.
We'll continue after this.
Yeah, yeah, we're back here, Rush Limboss serving humanity simply by showing up at the heavily fortified EIB Southern Command.
Snerdley, stop screaming at him.
You know, if you're gonna scream at him, don't put him up.
It's real.
If you gotta scream at him, just say thanks for calling.
You're not gonna work out today.
Move on to the next.
Oh, you weren't screaming at a call.
I saw that poll, too.
That's the weirdest wording of a poll I've ever seen.
Fox just ran a poll, said support for Obama's health care plan has stopped falling.
Is that not a strange way to word something?
Forty-three percent support the Obama health care plan, fifty some odd oppose it, but I guess I guess it stopped falling.
What does that mean?
I guess it can only go up from what does it mean to stop falling?
I know it's a strange way to word.
I saw it too.
But unlike unlike you, I wasn't distracted by it.
You distracted me.
Because I thought you're screaming and shouting at a caller, so why waste the time?
Don't shout at them.
Just say thanks and move on to the next one.
Sorry about that, folks.
A little uh inside baseball here.
You know the story we had yesterday from Denver where the Democrats faked vandalism against themselves, the vandalism cramp.
Turns out that the uh the vandal at the Democrat headquarters in Colorado is transgendered.
A transgendered anarchist.
Now, I don't know if if this was an aadicomy transgender or a chop at coffee, uh transgender.
Anarchist websites identify the person accused of smashing windows at the Colorado Democrat Party headquarters as a transgender activist who uses the name Ariel Attack.
Maurice Schwinkler, 24, appeared in Denver City Court Wednesday on a charge of criminal mischief only one day after being arrested.
On Tuesday, State Democrat Party Chairwoman Pat Wack suggested opposition rhetoric over the health care debate led to the vandalism, which caused an estimated 11,000 dollars in damage when uh when WAC was asked Wednesday to comment on Schwinkler's political ties.
She denied singling out Republicans.
I never used the word Republican, and I didn't point any finger at any other group.
I didn't point she certainly did, and they're they're dialing it back here.
So a poor confused transgender.
I you know, I saw the picture of uh this Maurice Schwenkler yesterday.
I my the thought went through my head, I don't know, is this a man or a woman?
And now this uh story all makes sense.
You know, I love this story.
This is from Southeast New York.
An 83-year-old driver chased a pickup truck for 15 miles from New York into Connecticut, helping police catch the drunken driving suspect who had rear-ended his car.
The incident happened last week and started on I-684 in Southeast New York.
Frank Canale of Scarsdale pursued the man all the way to his driveway in Danbury, Connecticut, stayed there till the cops arrived.
He said he feared the man could kill somebody.
Now, this eighty-three years old.
Uh, does this does this count for having a spirit or a joy for life?
83 years old, gives chase.
Oh, and they found something in the uh in the House bill.
They keep finding things in the health care bill.
One of the problems, and this is from CBS News, one of the problems with any proposed law that's over 1,000 pages long and constantly changing, is uh that much devilry can lie in the details.
Take the Democrat proposal to rewrite health care policy, better known as HR 3200.
Section 431A of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and other information as is prescribed by regulation.
That information will be provided to the new health choices commissioner and state health programs, and it'll be used to determine who qualifies for affordability credits.
Your tax return has to be made public.
Every aspect of your financial life has to be made public, and the health choices commissioner read the death panel leader, uh, and state health programs will use your IRS tax data to determine who qualifies for affordability credits.
Section 245 B2A says the IRS must divulge tax return details, and no specific limit on what's available or unavailable to the Health Choices Commissioner.
The purpose again to verify affordability credits.
Section 1801A says that the Social Security Administration can obtain tax return data on anyone who may be eligible for a low-income prescription drug subsidy, but hasn't applied for it.
Affordability credits.
Check to see whether you qualify by getting your tax data.
Um ABC News.com uh worried here that uh not enough Americans are worried about the flu.
Government's trying to scare us.
Most people feel confident that health agencies will be able to handle a pig flu outbreak, but health officials don't seem content with uh that sort of tranquility.
They're all upset out there because they put the news out 90,000 people are gonna die.
We have to close cities, and they're polling the American Stop yelling at them in there.
I know you're not looking at a fox poll because there's no fox poll up.
The White House is lying about this swine flu business, and the Centers for Disease Control knows it, and somebody down there's got some guts.
Up to 90,000 deaths from pig flu in the U.S., mostly among children and young people.
Up to 1.8 million people hospitalized, 50% to 100% of uh intensive care beds in some cities filled with pig flu patients.
Up to half the population affected by winter.
On Monday, a White House advisory panel issued a report with these estimates, causing them a plausible scenario for a second wave of infections from the pig flu.
And I predicted this.
We played you the audio tape yesterday, my predicting this back in uh back in, I think it was uh March.
The grim numbers by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology received considerable play in the news media, including front page coverage in the estimable Seattle Times.
On Tuesday, however, officials at the CDC, the agency with the most expertise on pig flu pandemics, suggested that the projection should be regarded with caution.
We don't necessarily see this as a likely scenario, said Dr. Ann Suchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, a CDC press officer speaking carefully to avoid a feud with the White House press office, which is obviously lying, said look, if the pig flu keeps behaving the way it is now, I don't think anybody here expects anything like 90,000 deaths.
And the White House covered themselves.
This this panel put out the news that the pig flu might cause 90,000 deaths, and that means it might not cause 90,000 deaths.
So the CDC, obviously backing away from doomsday.
Uh they wanted to close the schools.
They're thinking about closing some cities.
I actually had somebody was some administration official or a journalist, a stupid journalist, on television asking some administration official, why don't we why don't we just close the schools now?
Without a reported case.
The drive bys are so eager to be whipped into a panic.
They fall for it, hook, line, and sinker, but finally, the CDC said no moss, no must.
The uh state-controlled media getting worried, ladies and gentlemen.
Listen to this from this morning on CNB, well, MSNBC.
Kennedy's passing Rush Limbaugh and some other conservatives worried out loud, very bluntly, that Democrats would use that to try and pass a health care bill that they oppose, that Rush Limbaugh and others oppose.
Do you think that uh uh Kennedy's legacy, the positive memory, the fond feelings he had even across the aisle, ultimately will help President Obama pass this health care bill or I think it may have an effect early on in terms of changing the tone, not necessarily substance.
But look, the White House has to walk the line here too, the line of taste.
They cannot be seen as exploiting the death of Ted Kennedy for some political gain, even if it was the cause of his life.
They've already crossed the line, says Savannah Guthrie, the White House correspondent for NBC Obama.
I mean, they have to walk a line here to a line of taste that cannot be seen as exploiting the death of Ted Kennedy for political gain for crying out loud they crossed that line before he died.
They certainly crossed the line yesterday.
They can't walk that back.
And now they're worried.
State controlled media worried that the Democrats are gonna be seen as being in bad taste.
Let me tell you something.
Before this week is out, you remember the Wellstone Memorial?
That was a frat party compared to what's going to happen here.
This is gonna be.
It was accurately described by somebody, I forget who.
I like to credit people who come up with things.
And I don't remember who said this.
I read it somewhere on the internet.
The Wellstone Memorial on Steroids.
This is going to be something to see.
It's going to be they're not going to be able to control themselves.
They're going to turn this into the biggest political rally you've ever seen.
They can't help themselves.
They're leftists.
They don't want to cross the line of taste.
They already have.
In fact, like I said yesterday, they have crossed the line by naming this health care abomination after Ted Kennedy.
I delivered a eulogy yesterday that Ted Kennedy ought to be remembered for the way he struggled to live, the way he fought to live.
And you and I both know that once we get Obamacare, the average 76 or 77-year-old that comes down with a brain tumor is not going to get the care that would extend his life by twelve to fifteen months.
It ain't gonna happen.
Unless that person is independently walled and pay for it himself.
It isn't going to happen.
And so to put Ted Kennedy's name on this health care bill is a disservice to him.
It's a dishonor, because it's, you know, he had Ted Care.
Every we ought to get Ted Care.
That ought to be the model.
This is the United States of America.
But no, that's not what it's gonna be, folks.
Let's go back to the audio sound bites.
State run media, undecided on the way I dealt with the Kennedy death yesterday.
This is uh ABC's World News now this morning.
The co-anchor Jeremy Hubbard said this.
Some conservatives are lashing out at Democrats in the wake of Kennedy's death.
Tasha host Rush Limbaugh is accusing the left of exploiting Kennedy and his legacy to push through health care reform.
You know, Jake Tapper on his blog got it right.
They they Jake didn't write it.
Somebody on his staff wrote it.
Don't remember the byline, but they had a piece at uh Jake Tapper's blog yesterday, basically repeating what I had said about how Kennedy is being dishonored by putting his name on this abomination.
And so I guess somebody at ABC read the website and their own website and said that I am accusing the left of exploiting Kennedy's death.
Uh this morning on uh Joe Scarborough's show, uh Joe Scarborough and uh Patrick Gavin of the Politico had this discussion.
Rush Limbaugh showed great restraint, saying uh that he felt uncomfortable saying anything negative about Senator Kennedy.
The only thing that Rush Limbaugh said was that yes, Ted Kennedy was a lion and we were his prey.
But you know, for the day and for Rush Limbaugh, I think that was actually pretty tame.
You know, I knew, I knew.
This is why I did that eulogy in the first half hour.
I knew that they were all gonna be listening yesterday because I knew they were hoping that I would step at it big time and use some inappropriate line.
And believe me, I had plenty, but I did practice restraint.
I have one of the best lines, I can't say it.
I came up with I've told a bunch of people, everybody just laughs uproariously and then say, Don't you dare say it.
I did.
I told a broadcast engineer, if I happen to say the line, hit the delay button so that you won't hear it.
But well, I want to listen to this again.
This is this is funny.
Listen to these guys, because you know, I just know that they were just waiting to see what I would say.
Rush Limbaugh showed great restraint, saying uh that he felt uncomfortable saying anything negative about Senator Kennedy.
The only thing that Rush Limbaugh said was that yes, Ted Kennedy was a lion and we were his prey.
But you know, for the day and for Rush Limbaugh, I think that was actually pretty tame.
You know, these guys are not commenting on my great eulogy.
I am the one guy.
This is why you listen.
I am the one guy who could take the death of Ted Kennedy and turn it into a negative reason for health care reform.
His lifetime cause, we're told, and it was.
And here the left, using his passing to try to get it passed, name it after him or whatever, and I, with a monologue and a eulogy of Ted Kennedy, Gave the best reason for not doing this particular health care reform.
And naturally they don't comment on that.
I said some really wonderful things about Ted Kennedy yesterday and his end of life struggle.
So now they're grading at MSNBC my predictions.
They're grading my see I told you so.
So one of the predictions I made a year ago, shortly after Ted Kennedy was diagnosed.
I said they're gonna name the health care bill after him.
They are going to say that they are uh uh uh doing everything they can to get it done for Teddy, and gonna make it a sympathetic ploy, and they're gonna try to make it impossible to people to vote against it in the Senate.
Made that prediction a year ago, predicted it again back in uh in April, and so they at MSNBC we have uh Dylan Rattigan, the host in the morning and the the hapless co-host Contessa Brewer discussing this.
Fresh Limbaugh giving himself a little pat on the back for predicting that politicians would use the death of Ted Kennedy to spur on support for health care reform.
By the way, that's an obvious prediction.
I don't criticize Rush Limbaugh for making it other than that he's capable of better.
He got a lot of criticism for being insensitive about it at any time.
But it's also so obvious.
Anyway, uh now we have Senator Robert Byrd, who's calling for the health care reform legislation actually to be named in Kennedy's honor, and there you heard Rush Limbaugh saying, see, I told you so.
See, they have to tell me that Limbaugh was right, but gosh, it was so easy.
Anybody could have made this prediction.
He was right.
It's not any big deal.
This is no great thing.
He shouldn't be gloating.
They were upset that I was gloating over being right about the prediction.
Speaking of Robert Byrd, I wonder does President Obama think that Senator Byrd should stop using up health care services now and just start taking a pain pill.
I mean, he doesn't know where he is half the time.
He's been in a hospital, he's been terribly ill, just got out of the hospital.
I wonder if Obama thinks that Byrd ought to just take the pain pill and uh loop out here for the remaining days.
Here's the prediction again.
This is March 6th this year.
Me on this show.
If they get national health care, folks, the country as you and I have known it is over, but the failing health of Senator Kennedy, as I told you way back when the driving force here.
The failing health of Senator Kennedy is already being used as an inspirational effort or technique to get national health care on the fast track.
Before it's all over, it'll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill.
Right on cue yesterday, Byrd Pelosi, a bunch of them came up and said we ought to do that.
Of course, I caught hell for that prediction back in March.
Let's uh have another sound by the Senator Kennedy here, David Brooks and uh David Schuster, the the two dunces.
Ted Kennedy never got personal.
Ted Kennedy never got petty and personal.
Teddy wasn't like that.
You know, Ted Kennedy.
He didn't get personal with people who could hit back.
But when people couldn't answer back, he was fearless in getting personal.
Bork couldn't comment, Bork's up for nomination.
Clarence Thomas couldn't comment.
He's up for nomination.
Here's Teddy Kennedy in uh 2007 on the Senate floor.
His comments on the resolution against the surge in Iraq.
All of us remember President Bush saying I'm gonna take my time and find a new direction.
All of us remember that he said, Do not rush me.
I want to talk to the generals.
I want to talk to political leaders, I want to talk to people all over this country and all over the world to find out a new policy.
And then he comes out with his policy, and what is it?
It's a military policy to escalate in Iraq.
That is the issue before the United States Senate.
Many of us do not believe that this president is right on it.
The Baker Hamilton Commission did not agree with that policy.
General Alberta did not agree with that policy before the Armed Service Committee and the American people do.
We on this side are interested in protecting American servicemen from the crossfire of a civil war.
Some on the other side are more interested in protecting the president from a rebuke for his policy Of escalation in Iraq.
Which led to victory, which Senator Kennedy was opposed to.
And by the way, what is this?
The American people don't want the surge.
And the American people don't want Obamacare either.
But that doesn't seem to matter to the Democrats in Washington.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Teddy Kennedy.
He yelled an awful lot.
He yelled all the time.
Sometimes he yelled and got out of control.
And we're told today how he was a uniter and how he was a legislator.
You know what?
I I actually I think I want them to put Ted Kennedy's name on the health care bill.
I want him to do it.
The DC elite just don't get it.
In fact, they don't get the reaction to the coverage out there.
They are in a totally different world from the rest of this country.
And if I I think one of the one of the easiest surefire way to defeat the health care bill is to put his name on it.
So I officially today, as host, only host on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, suggest and join my friends on the Democrat side of the aisle.
Yes, please name Obamacare after Ted Kennedy.
Please do so.
It's only appropriate.
Do it this week.
Do it during the funeral.
Do it during the memorial service.
Do it while the nation's attention is riveted.
And now to the phones, Muskegon, Michigan.
This is Bruce.
You are first.
That carries uh pretty pretty high responsibility to get things off on the right foot.
How are you?
I'm doing fine.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
I'll get right to my point.
I was listening to you and uh Glenn Beck yesterday talk about this uh Mark Lloyd, this new chief diversity officer, and this is scary.
I can't believe what I was hearing.
You know, he's advocating charging 250 million dollars for uh to the to these radio stations if they don't comply with government um program.
Well, what I mean, what gives him the authority of the right to define how a radio station should be broadcasting broadcast.
He's the diversity officer at the FCC.
He comes from John Podesta's think tank, the Center for American Progress.
He's the guy that wrote that report saying that there's a terrible imbalance between liberals and conservatives in talk radio is simply not fair.
Um and what he's trying to do is is the fairness doctrine is not something that the Obama administration can implement because the time is passed for one thing.
Uh the second reason they can't do is too obvious.
What they're going to try to do is an end run.
I don't think they're going to get away with it, but I know they're going to try it.
Now, this diversity czar, it's it's it's called localism.
The way they're going to try to get rid of conservative talk radio is with localism, and what they want is to divest ownership and have more minorities own radio stations.
I mean, folks, there is a civil rights component to virtually everything Obama's doing, and the civil rights component is angry.
This guy is an avowed Marxist socialist.
This guy praises Hugo Chavez's takeover of the media in Venezuela.
And his plan is to set out rules, content rules for diversity and fairness on the air.
And if a radio station fails to meet those rules, they must pay a fine of 100% of their operating budget that year.
Well, that puts you out of business.
If you have to pay a fine equal to 100% of your operating budget, it puts you out of business.
The only way to avoid paying the fine is to get rid of conservatives on the radio and hire locals and uh and and and satisfy this diversity czar.
And the by the way, the fine money would then go to the corporation for public broadcasting, go to NPR, because they are a judge to be fair, because they are public radio.
So this this is, and this guy's been very open and honest about what he wants to do.
He's written a book, he's written uh uh uh articles about it, and he's made speeches about it.
And he's uh uh he's Jeremia Wright.
I mean, this this guy is that there's an angry black liberation theology guy, and he's just a uh just filled with hate and rage, just like so many of these people in the Obama administration are.
And that's The plan.
Now, I told Beck yesterday that I don't think they're gonna get away with it.
The American people are not gonna put up with it, just like they're not putting up with health care.
It doesn't mean they can't try it, and it doesn't mean that the broadcasters won't be scared to death because it's Obama who holds the broadcast license in his hands now with these clowns running the FCC for him.
We'll be back.
Stay with him.
Here are two articles up on the Drudge Report.
Two articles that, if forwarded to every email address in the country, would put an end to Obama's health care plan.
Two articles.
And of course, I haven't got time in four seconds to tell you what they are.
You will just have to wait.
This has caused uh well, it's called a tease.
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