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Sept. 14, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 14, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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Rush Limbaugh, a household name in all four corners of the world.
Great to be with you.
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You know, it's funny.
Way back during the campaign, Maureen Dowd made fun of Obama's ears.
And Obama went up to her after his remarks on very, very sense about my ears.
She said, we're just trying to tough you up, boy.
We're just trying to toughen you up, boy.
Yeah, Maureen Dowd said, we're just trying to toughen you up, boy.
Well, I mean, she's out there saying that Joe Wilson said, you lie, boy, but the only boy is in her perverted mind.
Nobody said, you lie, boy, except Maureen Dowd.
So, Maureen, was it in your head when you said to Obama, we're just trying to toughen you up, boy.
From Don Serber, or is it Suber?
I've seen it both ways.
Now I'm Charleston, West Virginia.
I quoted a story of his last week, and I thought it said Cerber.
Maybe I misread it then.
Don Suber, Charleston, West Virginia Daily Mail.
Has Obama lost Feinstein or Feinstein to Rush?
Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein told the San Francisco Chronicle, I just find that if you're going to remake a sixth of the American economy, it's very difficult at this time of great economic angst.
Dianne Feinstein actually with Republicans in wanting to open up insurance.
Currently, states control health insurance.
Under the Interstate Commerce Clause, Congress could indeed open insurance competition across state lines.
And just think about that a minute.
Universal health care has been the liberal wet dream of the past 97 years.
They finally have the president.
They've got the Congress.
They have the Great Depression too to do it.
And Feinstein says, I just find that if you're going to remake a sixth of the American economy, it's very difficult at this time of great economic angst.
Odd phraseology for a liberal.
Maybe the, and he's got a picture of the giant rally on Saturday.
Maybe the crowd above has some influence, but it does sound an awful lot like something Rush Limbaugh would say.
The San Francisco Chronicle said Feinstein echoed the alarm of many governors, including California's Schwarzenegger, that states can ill afford a large expansion of the Medicaid program for the poor to cover some of the uninsured states share Medicaid funding.
So it's not just Feinstein.
Medicaid is breaking the budgets of 50 of the 57 states.
Medicaid needs a bailout.
Well, well, well, well.
And look at this.
A poll from the Associated Press.
The headline says it all.
A year later, worries linger on economy.
All the more reason to halt health care reform in its tracks one year after Wall Street teetered on the brink of collapse.
Seven out of ten Americans lack confidence the federal government has taken safeguards to prevent another meltdown, according to a new AP GFK poll.
And I don't know who the hell GFK is.
Even more, 80%, well, Rush, why don't you do a Gurgle search?
Because I don't care to do a Gurgle search.
I don't care who GFK is.
AP did the poll.
80% rate the condition of the economy as poor and a majority worry about their own ability to make ends meet.
Now, while this appears good to us, the bottom line is this is great news for Obama.
He loves this kind of chaos.
The pessimistic outlook sets the stage for Obama as he portrayed the financial sector is increasingly confident today and presses Congress to act on new banking regulations.
I'm not going to play the sound bites because frankly, I'm fed up.
I can't stand to hear the guy's voice anymore.
I've been Obama out.
But he ends up saying he wants to reform the system with capitalism within it, and he says he is a capitalist.
I'm going to tell you right now, there's no way a community organizer is a capitalist.
It's impossible.
It's simply impossible for a community organizer or a community service group like Acorn.
They've been busted again in Brooklyn, by the way, by the same guy, James O'Keefe, and his woman running around at his prostitute.
He's the pimp.
They busted him again.
Same damn thing.
So it's Baltimore, Washington, and Brooklyn now where Acorn has been busted.
Only one out of five surveyed said that Obama bore responsibility for the recession.
54% blame Bush.
19% blamed Clinton.
What?
How the hell?
Blame Clinton for the recession?
Financial institutions bore the brunt of the criticism.
79% of those surveyed said banks and lenders had made risky loans.
I can see blaming Clinton if you want to put him in charge of the subprime mortgage impetus and then throw in Barney Flank and Chris Dodd along with it.
Now, as we know, ladies and gentlemen, the spending of the stimulus, what, 6% so far, with the vast majority of it due to be spent in 2010 and election year.
USA Today, the government handed out stimulus money far more slowly this summer than it had in the first weeks after the massive economic recovery plan started, even though Obama and other members of his administration had vowed to hasten the aid.
Okay, so what do we have here?
We still have record unemployment.
We have stimulus spending slowing down.
We have 80% of the people scared to death.
They cannot make ends meet.
That's another poll that's out there.
80% scared to death.
They can't make ends meet.
And we get a story here.
Obama's Council of Economic Advisors estimates the stimulus had saved or created more than 1 million jobs, significantly more than the target Obama set in June.
This is BS.
You know, I'm damn close to uttering the actual BS words.
Where are these jobs that have been saved exactly?
Government?
The healthcare sector, by the way, is growing jobs-wise.
You know, these people truly live in a different world.
We've got record unemployment, 9.7%, 80% of the American people scared to death.
They cannot make ends meet.
Worries linger on the economy.
And USA Today is reporting that the Obama stimulus has saved or created more than 1 million jobs.
There's simply no way to calculate the number of jobs saved.
If you want to go that route, I can say that the private sector has saved 135 million jobs.
And from the Associated Press, news media's credibility is plunged to a new low.
Survey finds America's crumbling trust in a news media's accuracy has hit a 24-year low.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear, or watch are frequently inaccurate, according to a poll released yesterday by the Pew Research Center for the People in the Press.
Now, the poll did not distinguish between internet bloggers and reporters employed by newspapers and broadcasters, leaving the definition of news media up to each individual who was questioned.
Now, isn't this clever?
Isn't that clever?
So now they want us to believe that perhaps the media's credibility plunging to a new low is because of what did they, a Friedman called the sewer, that is the internet, bloggers and so forth.
The findings indicate U.S. newspapers and broadcasters could be alienating the audiences they are struggling to keep as they try to survive financial turmoil.
You know, the state-controlled media is just like the Democrats.
They don't care.
The news media is one business where the customer is always wrong.
No matter what the customer of news says, the reaction is if it's criticism, well, you're just not sophisticated enough to understand the crucially important role we play and the way we go about it.
You just, you have no ability to understand what's happening.
Such arrogance, condescension, elitism.
And it's like the Democrats.
They can see the rally on Saturday.
They can see the polling data.
And all it does is stiffen their resolve.
All right.
They don't appreciate what we're doing here.
They don't understand.
Fine.
We'll take advantage of their ignorance, quote unquote, and we'll stick it to them even more.
So the more you object to what they do, the bigger target you become to them.
And that's where we are.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
From Boston.com, this is the Boston Globe, January 22nd.
The National Park Service says that it will rely on a media report that says 1.8 million people attended the Obama immaculation.
David Barnett, Park Service spokesman, said it's a record.
We believe it's the largest event held in Washington, D.C. ever.
Again, January 22nd, Boston Globe.
Yesterday, well, yeah, September 13th, the UK Daily Mail, up to 2 million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today carrying signs with slogans such as, Obamacare makes me sick, as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.
Well, if the Park Service relied on a media report to say the crowd was 1.8 million was a record, I too, El Rushbow, am going to rely on a media report.
The UK Daily Mail to say the crowd Saturday was 2 million people.
Audio soundbite time.
This was just juicy.
Saturday afternoon on CNN's newsroom, the anchor Fred Ricca Whitfield spoke with the CNN Radio Capitol Hill correspondent Lisa DeJardin, or De Jardine, I'm not sure how she pronounces it, with Joe Wilson, the Republican from South Carolina.
Whitfield says you actually have some experience covering Joe Wilson when in South Carolina.
He's not new to South Carolina.
However, he might be new to the national spotlight.
Did this display this week seem kind of in concert with the Joe Wilson they know in South Carolina?
Right now they're changing details on truth.
They've been talking a lot to me about what they think CNN today.
I hear you hear them changing.
He's talking about Joe Wilson.
Display a reaction.
Something bothers him, it builds up.
I have seen him get passionate and fiery about it before like this.
So it didn't shock me.
I think people who know him know him as more of a mild-mannered guy today.
Hey, Lisa, I'm just going to interrupt you for a minute because the crowd is kind of overshadowing your words.
So I'm going to ask you to speak a little bit louder.
We're going to give it one more shot.
Frederica Whitfield of CNN, could you hear the Infobabe's report?
Could you hear what she said, or were you drowned out by the crowd?
Somebody tell me because I could not hear, you'd hardly make it.
Well, here's what she said.
Right now they're chanting, tell the truth.
They've been talking a lot to me about what they think CNN should air.
And here you hear them chanting.
Let's talk about Joe Wilson.
I covered him for a long time.
And I'll tell you, he's a man who does care about things like honor doing the right thing.
He's also a man who I've seen display a reactionary tendency.
Something bothers him and it builds up.
I've seen him get passionate and fiery about it before.
What's reactionary about?
Everybody's reactionary using that definition.
So it didn't shock me.
I think people who know him know him more as a more of a mild-mannered guy.
But CNN shouting, or the crowd sat at his shouting at CNN, tell the truth.
Now, a little later on, the reporter decides to ask the crowd about Wilson.
This is the radio reported correspondent, Lisa Desjardins.
Again, I don't know how to pronounce her name.
They had this exchange with protesters about Wilson.
Tell more lies!
What do you think of Congressman Joe Wilson?
Yes!
There are people who are strongly support Congressman Wilson for Jeffrey.
Many of them are right here.
Once again, the state-controlled media trying to drum up this whole notion of reactionary racism based on Joe Wilson's comment.
Wilson, by the way, says he is not going to apologize anymore for what he said.
It's about time.
And if he does apologize anymore, he ought to do it predicated on whether Pelosi apologizes first.
You know, Pelosi's got a lot of apologizing to do.
She insulted the CIA.
Will she apologize to the CIA for what she said?
Will she apologize to half the American people for calling them Nazis?
House Republicans are starting to counteract counterattack in Wilson's war.
This is from thepolitico.com.
Representative Steve King, a Republican from Iowa who recently observed that white men were being excluded from many Obama initiatives, is circulating a fill-in-your-name a letter to the House Republicans urging them to stiffen their spines and urge Wilson to fight back against the Democrats' anticipated motion against him this week to make him, if he doesn't apologize, to officially censure him or whatever.
So it's a good sign here the Republicans might be getting a little backbone out there where Wilson is concerned.
To the funds we go next.
And you moved it.
Val in Philadelphia.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Oh, hi, Russ.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Now, you can understand things are probably depressed in Philadelphia today.
What with the injury to the quarterback, Donovan McNabb?
Well, we'll see.
It's only the first game and we won.
I find it interesting.
A guy's got a cracked rib.
A cracked rib.
Have you ever tried to walk with a cracked rib, much less broken rib?
Have you ever tried to walk?
Have you ever tried to breathe with a broken or cracked rib?
He can't laugh.
Yeah, you can't.
And yeah, the coach is saying, good chance you're going to play.
Yeah, right.
Well, we'll see.
We're always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
So we'll see what happens this year.
I didn't mean to introduce a downer into what was obviously a very...
That's okay.
We have the Phillies.
Upbeat call.
I'm sorry for that.
What I was calling about is this was my first protest march in Washington, and I want to say I was just so uplifted by the entire experience.
I was dead center on the lawn.
I never heard one foul language.
I never saw anything of the kind.
I just saw good protesting going on.
One of the signs that caught my attention, and there were numerous ones, was I am here representing 20 people that could not make it.
And I thought to myself, there's one difference here between this protest and others.
These people all vote, and they are serious.
Well, there's another bigger difference.
There's another bigger difference.
These kind of rallies, like the big pro-amnesty rally back in 2007 or any other Obama rally, they have to actually send out marching orders and instructions to get their people out.
Same thing for, you know, pro-Obama healthcare rallies are staged and organized.
People of their own passion do not show up.
There was, look, this is important to mention.
I think this is the most important thing to mention about Saturday.
The most important thing.
And that is, there was no leader who organized this.
There was no charismatic leader who was speaking.
There was no person out there telling you to get your tail in gear and get to Washington.
Yeah, there were some emails and websites you could go to to find details and so forth, but people went of their own volition.
They went because of their own passion.
Yes, a program observer with a question.
Well, if I had given out marching orders, the event would be discredited as being illegitimate, which is why I didn't.
Now, you think more people would show up even.
There's no question people.
But I purposely did not say a word about this.
We had a guy call Snurdy.
You were still out sick on Friday.
We had a guy call here Friday thanking me for this whole thing.
I said, look, sir, you're going on your own.
I've never asked anybody to go to this thing.
I haven't even talked about it.
I didn't talk about it on purpose.
I didn't talk about it on purpose because I didn't want state-controlled media using me to denigrate the whole thing.
If I had urged people to go, then the whole process would have been called illegit.
Well, I know they're, no, they're not.
They're not saying the event was illegitimate.
They're trying to say it wasn't as loud as it was.
Well, I know they're trying to blame me.
They're blaming me anyway.
I knew this is going to happen.
But if I had actually, if they had tape of me, is my point.
If they had tape of me actually urging people to show up, then all weekend long, well, this didn't mean anything.
This is Limbaugh's Mind Numbered Robot.
I knew I didn't have to say anything.
Look, my friends, I am a powerful, influential member of the media if I wanted to.
You know, first three soundbites of the program today in our first hour were the drive-bys ripping me for inspiring this thing.
One of them ripped me for being the inspiration for 15 years.
I'm the leader and spokesman for the last 15 years.
Actually, it's the last 21, but who's counting?
I knew that was going to happen anyway.
If I wanted to, if I could have opened this program, taken all the credit, I could have made this about me.
But this is the seminal point.
It wasn't about anybody.
It wasn't about any charismatic leader.
This so distinguishes us from the left and their mobs, which are cult-like blind to Obama.
You understand you did this.
It's in your heart.
This passion is genuine bubbling up from the grassroots.
It is a conservative ascendancy based on the substance and the premise, liberty versus tyranny.
People don't want tyranny.
So don't let anybody tell you this thing was not legit.
It was so legit, it embarrasses everybody else.
Hey, we're back.
We're up to audio soundbite number seven, CNN's newsroom Saturday afternoon.
The anchor Don Lemon speaking with our correspondent Jim Spellman about the Freedom Works rally.
And Lemon says, what was the most extreme of what you've heard on Saturday afternoon?
Really running through this whole sort of subculture that's developed around these tea parties is a bit of a dark undercurrent.
You have the bulk of the people that are there for low taxes, less government control, but there really is an element that's got these kind of outlandish conspiracy theories about death camps and about this takeover, people comparing President Obama to Hitler.
That really is a sizable threat.
It's not just a couple of people on the edges.
Now, the Obama was Hitler sign.
Those are the Lyndon LaRouche Democrats that are out there carrying around the Obama is Hitler signs, but it's a dark undercurrent.
The bulk of the people are there for low taxes, less government control.
But there's an element that's got these kind of outlandish conspiracy theories about death camps, this takeover, people comparing Obama to Hitler.
There really is a sizable threat.
It's not just a couple of people on the edges.
Nobody's talking about death camps.
I know nobody's talking about death camps.
This is just, hey, look at CNN.
I mean, they are sucking hind teat.
They are sucking hind teeth on a boar hog.
That's how low their audience is.
And this is why.
This is nothing but a bunch of clichés, a dark undercurrent.
Low taxes, less government control, conspiracy theories.
I got a note from someone who said, I disagree with you.
This is not about liberty and tyranny.
This is about love and hate.
It's about deep love for their country and their hate and fear for where it's going.
Liberty and tyranny.
But the point is that love was what got everybody out there.
Love of country.
I'm not disputing that.
That's the two go hand in hand.
But this passion was genuine.
And I got a couple of emails.
Rush, rush, rush.
This was led by.
There were people that led this.
You're misunderstanding my point when I say this.
I'm quoting from Clarice Feldman, by the way, who said we are witnessing a very rare phenomenon.
The genuine, broad-based, spontaneous political movement with no visible charismatic leaders.
That's right on the money.
And the contrast here, don't miss it.
The contrast is Obama can't get a crowd out like this on the substance of his ideas to save his life.
Obama's crowds are directly the result of some charismatic leader and platitudes and a bunch of nothings.
And now he can't even get those people out.
So the people he has to get out there are drummed up.
They're organized from the White House and from the unions.
And the union thugs are giving orders to the union rank and file.
You better get out there if you know what's good for you.
And then when they do get out there, they start beating up people that show up at the tea parties.
In fact, they beat up a black conservative, and nobody called that racist.
That happened outside St. Louis.
So no, I'm trying to deny anybody credit here.
It's more than that.
Why does every event like this have to have some sort of credit attached to it?
That demeans it.
That demeans the people that showed up.
They showed up at their own volition.
People are not a bunch of mind-nuff robots getting marching orders here.
That's the beauty of what happened on Saturday.
So let's see.
We just played the soundbite here, the dark undercurrent.
Low Texas.
Less government control.
Conspiracy theories.
So then the anchor Don Lemon said to their anchor, their correspondent, rather Jim Spellman, what do you mean by a much darker thing?
Tell me about that.
One of the things that we heard over and over again is that it's sort of the death panels thing taken to several degrees past that, where the president's going to set up these death camps where they're going to do forced sterilization and that the government is taking over the internet to stifle speech and that there's going to be forced vaccinations.
There's just so much sort of disinformation or misinformation out there that it really creates a significant part.
You didn't see as much of it here today in Washington, but in these towns across America that we went.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on a minute, CNN.
This is why you are the hind teeth bore hog.
You go through all this dark undercurrent conspiracy theories, low taxes.
Well, what do you mean by a darker thing?
Well, you know, all these people believe the government taking over the UN.
You didn't so much see it here today.
Well, then what the hell is this report about?
This is absolutely journalistic malpractice.
You see this at these town parties in individual cities, and not so much here today.
By the way, it was Jay Rockefeller who has written a bill that would allow Obama to take control of private internet networks in event of a cyber emergency with them left to define what cyber emergency is.
There are two Americas.
There are maybe three.
And the state-controlled media, definitely part of it.
Sunday morning, here is a montage of ABC's Yunji Denise, CNN's John King, and CBS Bob Schieffer talking about a sign at the Freedom Works rally.
Some even called to bury Obamacare with Kennedy.
I'm going to show you one of them right here that I found particularly distasteful.
Barry Obamacare with Kennedy.
People carried signs such as Bury Healthcare with Kennedy.
Here is one of the things.
I don't even want to read the words.
And he didn't read the words.
I'll say them for you, John King.
Bury Healthcare with Kennedy.
That upsets them.
It's okay for Mary Joe Kopechny.
It's okay.
We've got a liberal feminist columnist saying maybe Mary Joan Kopechny would think it was worth it to pass away in order to further the career of the Kennedy family.
It is okay for these people to say horrible rotten things about George W. Bush.
It's okay for them to do movies and books on assassinating George W. Bush.
And they have no problem.
In fact, when they report on that, they tell us, yeah, it may be hard to take, but there is a cultural lesson here.
We must learn from this.
We must learn to appreciate the art in this.
But Barry Obamacare with Kennedy is beyond the pale to these people.
Now, I'm looking for the Bob Schieffer pie, and I know I got it here.
Bob Schieffer's written a piece about this, and I know I had it in the stack, and now I can't seem to find it.
It's about this very type of thing.
He's never seen anything like this before, about how the American people are divided.
What did I do?
I knew I had a radio mistake.
Yes, yes, here it is.
Bob Schieffer, not America's proudest moment.
Forget bipartisanship, comedy, or even civility.
Schieffer says mindless meanness has invaded the public commons.
This wasn't a State of the Union speech we heard the other night, but it had all the trappings.
And when that congressman hollered, you lie at the president, we did get a snapshot of the nation-state, and it's not a pretty picture.
Country's in an angry mood.
People frustrated.
Tempers are short.
Congressmen are being shouted down at town hall meetings where constituents sometimes show up with guns and at rallies like the one yesterday in Washington where people carried signs such as Bury Healthcare with Kennedy.
The irony of a congressman trying to heckle a president in the midst of a speech that was, among other things, about the need for civility is just one ugly sign of the mindless meanness that has settled over our politics.
How different it was in the aftermath of a far more difficult time those days after 9-11, whose anniversary we marked on Friday.
I remember watching then not far from where Congressman hurled his insult as Trent Lott put his hand on the shoulder of his Democrat counterpart Tom Daschell to announce the Senate had passed a $40 billion emergency appropriations bill and passed it unanimously.
That day, the country came together as it had not done since World War II.
It made us proud to know that we could do what we had to do, we had to, but brought out our best.
Put aside for the moment who's right and who is wrong in the current debate and ask yourself, can anybody really be proud of the side of America this argument's bringing out?
Bob, putting aside who's right and wrong is how can you possibly put aside who's right or wrong.
You know, Bob, I got to tell you something.
I am, for one person, I am overwhelmingly proud of what I saw on Saturday.
I'm busting buttons proud.
In fact, Bob, I'm really proud that for once somebody's willing to stand up to Obama and to Pelosi and to Reed and all the horrible things they're trying to do to the American people via their agenda.
Mr. Schieffer, I am proud of the Tea Parties and the protesters at town hall meetings.
I am proud people are trying to save this country from fascism.
What is it, Bob?
Are you shocked that conservatism is a backbone?
Are you shocked that people are finally showing up?
See, the inside of the Beltway mentality is it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what gets done.
It just matters that we all like each other as it gets done.
And of course, in Schieffer's mind, what gets done is the advancement of liberalism and statism and big government.
And gee, wouldn't it be nice if Republicans disagree with us on this?
Wouldn't it be nice if there was just no opposition?
There was no meanness, Bob, and Joe Wilson's words to Obama on Congress on Wednesday night.
Obama was lying.
There was no meanness in Washington on Saturday.
You know when the meanness started, Bob?
You want to know when it really started?
Your buddy Ted Kennedy savaging Robert Bork.
That's when the meanness started.
And they continued it trying to destroy Clarence Thomas.
And then George H.W. Bush.
And I'll throw me in there, blaming me for the Oklahoma City bombing and anything else they don't like.
Calling half the Americans Nazis, Bob, Nancy Pelosi.
Harry Reid calling the president a loser and a liar.
You didn't worry about the meanness of any of this.
And I mean, these examples are legion, I could go on.
You didn't worry about the movie that won an award in Canada on how to assassinate Bush.
You didn't worry about the book that came out, How to Assassinate Bush?
You weren't bothered when Dick Durbin called interrogators at Guantanamo Bay the equivalent of Pol Pots guys and Soviet gulag types, Nazi thugs.
They didn't bother me.
Didn't think things were mean there.
You weren't bothered, Mr. Schefer, when Jack Murtha accused Marines at Haditha of rape and murder, later exonerated and acquitted.
You weren't bothered when John Kerry equated our troops to terrorists storming the homes of Iraqi women at night.
They didn't bother a body.
You didn't think that was mean?
You didn't think that it was mean for the left to be calling George W. Bush Hitler?
All Joe Wilson did was say, Obama, you lie.
He was lying.
And Obama's admitted it by coming out and trying to tell us now, oh, by the way, there's only 30 million uninsured, and we're going to have a provision in there that the illegals are not covered by health care.
Well, Bob, doesn't that tell you that Wilson was right?
We'll be back.
Let's grab some more phone calls, Rush Limbaugh meeting, and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Joe in Grand Prairie, Texas.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Mega Dittos from Marine Silk, North Texas.
Listen, when Joe Wilson yelled, you're a lawyer, he only yelled it once.
I must have yelled it about seven times.
But let me tell you something I heard.
Obama's slick.
He said he's going to leave this illegal alien out of this health bill.
Well, Judge Napolitano on Fox News made the comment that California passed a measure on their ballot to eliminate illegals from receiving medical care out there.
Two courts turned it down, reversed it, and the Supreme Court refused to hear it.
So he knows what he's doing.
He's going to leave it out.
He's going to leave it out of there, and they're going to say you can't do that.
Exactly right.
Obama is going to try to get credit.
In fact, they had a big document dump on Friday afternoon at the White House.
And when one of the things that they dumped was verification is needed to ensure that illegals don't receive health care benefits.
It's not in the bill.
They need to put it in there.
I mean, they were admitting that Joe Wilson's right.
But Joe here in Grand Prairie, Texas is also right.
The illegals were left out in California.
The Supreme Court said, no, no, no, you've got to cover them.
And this is what Obama knows as well.
That's a good point.
Colleen in Virginia Beach.
Hello, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
My husband and I went to the rally in D.C., and on our way home in the metro station, this young liberal guy was standing next to us, and he kept looking at this sticker I had on that said abortion is not health care.
And he got really angry and started arguing with me, insisting that abortion services were not going to be in any health care bill because Obama said so and was just really adamant about it.
And so I finally, very calmly, I stayed very calm and I said, well, if that's true, why did the Democrats in the House vote against every amendment the Republicans tried to put in the bill that would specifically prohibit abortion services?
And he told me I was being overly paranoid.
And so finally, he just got so upset, he turned away and started, I guess, doing research on his BlackBerry because a few minutes later he turned around and apologized and said that I was right, that it was in the House bill.
He just hadn't known that.
And after that, he was very pleasant and actually spent the rest of the time talking about basketball with my husband.
So he wanted to fight and argue, and I just stayed calm and actually gave him some factual information.
Wait a minute now.
This is almost unprecedented.
I wonder where this guy went on his BlackBerry to find out what was in there.
I don't know.
It was like five minutes, and I kind of glanced over, and I could see, I couldn't see what it was, but it was a lot of wording, and he was going through it and going through it and going through it.
And he finally just turned around and apologized.
And I thanked him, and that it was nice of him to apologize.
And after that, he was very pleasant.
That just doesn't happen.
I was worried you might be shot like this abortion guy was.
I don't know, I forget where that happened, but my gosh, I mean, the guy decided to get on the internet via his BlackBerry and researched it and found, I'm sorry, it is in the House bill.
Yeah.
Well, he couldn't have called one of his buddies because his buddies be the same thing.
I mean, they all believe whatever Obama says.
Wonder who he called?
Did you ask him?
I didn't.
He looked like he was just researching something online.
But once we talked a little, and then after that, he was willing to talk a little more.
And he said he had worked on health care legislation.
And I said, well, did you work on the House side or the Senate side?
And he said he had been a fellow in Senator Kennedy's office when he was, I guess, an undergraduate.
And then he had gone on to get his master's at NYU.
And I thought, well, golly, no wonder he's been programmed to think government is good.
And he just, with the president said, is not going to be in there.
And Senator Kennedy thought this was all wonderful.
Well, he did too.
He was 20-something, you know, maybe 24, 25 years old.
I'm still stammering into near speechlessness here.
You were talking to a former Kennedy staffer who believed that abortion services were not covered because everybody had told him that.
And then on the spur of the moment, he decides to look it up and apologizes to you.
I believe it happened.
I just don't believe it either.
Hammerback, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity.
How you ask?
Simply by showing up.
And as I say, it's the fastest three hours in media, the first two in the can.
The next one, right around the corner.
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