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March 24, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 24, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
I am Rush Limbaugh, and this is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the fastest three hours in media, a barn burner on tap today.
Looking forward to talking to you, 800-282-2882, the email address, El Rushbo on El Rushbow at EIBNet.com yesterday, WJR Radio Detroit, John Dingell, the senior Democrat in the House of Representatives.
Well, W. We're not ready to be doing it, but let me remind you, this has been going on for years.
We are bringing it to a halt.
The harsh fact of the matter is when you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
To put the legislation together to control the people.
This vindicates everything I and my colleagues have been saying about this health care bill since its inception.
It's going to take a long time to control the people.
John Dingell, the most senior Democrat in the House of Representatives.
It's going to take a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
Guess what?
Obama's out there touting the fact that as of now, children with pre-existing conditions are covered.
They forgot to include it in the bill.
It is not there.
They're going to have to go back and fix it somehow.
They left it out.
Now, the point of this is pure incompetence.
They're out touting all of these wonderful things in the bill and pre-existing coverage, pre-existing condition coverage for kids is not there.
The Associated Press has it.
Administration officials are now scrambling to fix a gap in highly touted benefits for children.
Obama made better coverage for children a centerpiece, but it turns out the letter of the law provided a less than complete guarantee that kids with health problems would not be shut out of coverage.
Now, if he cares so damn much about the kids, how does this happen?
Now, the point of this is, if this is a major thing to them and they screw this up, these are the people are going to be writing 100,000 additional pages of regulations to go along with the health care bill that's already 3,000 pages.
We're dealing with strict, utter, total incompetence, folks.
Strict, this is why I was asking for the longest time, who the hell is this guy to run health care?
What's Barack Obama ever done but learn Saulinsky?
What's Barack Obama ever done but learn what he doesn't like about this country?
But what has he ever run?
What has he ever done in the private sector or the government sector that's ever worked?
It's an absolute mess.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, there is an entire propaganda effort in the media to treat opposition to socialism and the Democrat Party as extremism.
I got the soundbite roster today.
There is so much hatred for me in the drive-by media from last night and today, it may set a record.
It may.
I mean, they are just wild out there.
I didn't see any of it last night because I, of course, have better things to do than to watch state-controlled media.
And they're out there now.
Bart Stupak.
Bart Stupak is getting death threats after voting in support of the health care bill.
Bart Stupak getting death threats.
Well, you know, I receive death threats.
Republicans receive death threats.
I mean, we're all called names.
I have horrific email calling me all kinds of names.
We go public with it and whine and moan.
No, it's a league we play in.
But they take these occasions to try to portray all of us as extremists, racists, bigots, sexists, homophobes, all of that.
All we do is accuse Obama or Pelosi or Reid of being who they are.
And of course, you tell the truth about these people, and they come gumming for you.
It's just a John, you got to hear this.
I'm going to be playing this to the point you get sick of hearing it, but I'm going to be playing this to the point that everybody understands from the mouth of the highest-ranking, longest-serving Democrat in the House what this is really all about.
Well, W, we're not ready to be doing it, but let me remind you, this has been going on for years.
We are bringing it to a halt.
The harsh fact of the matter is when you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
To control the people.
There you have it.
You want to hear a funny story?
And yes, it's funny.
And I hope this happened all over the country yesterday.
I have a friend who went in to get a mammogram.
Now, my friend understands that they're not free yet.
Preventive care is free.
Obama said it yesterday signing ceremony.
He said, mammogram, Kolonoscarity, all those things are free.
They're just free.
They're going to be provided free.
So a friend of mine had to go to get a mammogram yesterday, fully understanding and not free yet, because this friend of mine is fully understanding of what we're dealing with here.
But while she was there, a woman came in.
She doesn't know what she came in for, the doctor's office.
She doesn't know what her illness was.
But she walked in, whatever it was, she expected it to be covered.
And the nurse, whoever, the administration person in the office, sorry, your treatment here is not covered.
And the woman looked genuinely shocked.
What?
Why, didn't you know that it passed yesterday?
This isn't supposed to cost me anything now.
You know, and I heard, yeah, and then said, well, when does it start?
If I can't get this done now, when does it start?
And the nurse or whoever was, well, I don't know.
I don't know when it starts.
So how many times do you think that happened in hospitals and doctors' offices and emergency rooms yesterday?
People walked in like this guy from Raleigh, North Carolina.
I wonder if he thought yesterday was Christmas.
It's just going to be like Christmas.
I mean, it's going to be great.
You know, worries, you know, the bills, we can go ahead and pay our copay and be all right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So how many people walked into doctors' offices, emergency rooms and hospitals and said, hmm, I have this problem here and I know it's free now.
It doesn't get covered.
It is covered.
And they have to, well, no, not, no, your insurance doesn't cover that.
So I'll tell you what we're looking at here, folks, and it's really heinous.
It's insidious.
The use of ill or sick people as props continues by the Democrat Party.
It's truly pathetic.
You know, if we were to surround ourselves by people who have benefited from the healthcare system, where would we fit the 300 million people?
They can pull out five or six, seven or eight here or there and tarnish the greatest healthcare system in the world.
If we were to play the game, we'd need a room filled with 300 million people to show those who have benefited from our health care system.
And if Republicans were to surround themselves with people denied care from Medicare, denied care from Medicaid and the VA, where would we find a stadium big enough to show those people?
Because the VA, Medicare Medicaid, declines coverage of people all the time.
So there are sob stories that are created by Obamacare, sob stories created by Democrat-created health care plans prior to this one.
So Obama is now going to use his deceit.
Now, the media will pick up on my next comments here, and this will be tonight's example of hate speech on the state-controlled media.
So roll out there on state-controlled media.
If you're looking for today's installment of hate speech, here it comes.
Obama is now going to use...
Are you rolling?
Okay, take two.
Obama is now going to use his deceit and his propaganda skills to claim that the dire problems from his plan have not been realized.
He's going to go out starting tomorrow in Iowa City and all next week when he goes out to sell this embarrassing piece of legislation.
And he's going to say, where's all the top stars?
Where are all the dire problems?
Anybody put a plug on Granny?
He's going to go out and all of these fear-mongering scare tactics supposedly made up by people like me are going to be held up as just that.
Nobody's pulled a plug on Granny or any of that.
Well, he knows the plan's implemented in phases.
And according to the election cycle, he's implemented a lot of things according to that.
He's going to claim that people will already benefit from the plan when, in fact, people won't realize anything until it starts to kick in.
Now, the public won't feel the mandate until four years from now.
And until then, Obama will cynically argue that nobody's complained yet about the mandates when there aren't any.
In fact, you remember when he ripped and criticized Hillary Clinton for health care mandates during the campaign?
We have that.
This happened in 2008, February 21st, in Austin.
And it was, I don't know if it's a, yeah, it was a debate.
And this is Obama.
Do we have Cut 3?
When Senator Clinton says a mandate, it's not a mandate on government to provide health insurance.
It's a mandate on individuals to purchase it.
Massachusetts has a mandate right now.
They have exempted 20% of the uninsured because they've concluded that that 20% can't afford it.
In some cases, there are people who are paying fines and still can't afford it.
So now they're worse off than they were.
They don't have health insurance and they're paying a fine.
In order for you to force people to get health insurance, you've got to have a very harsh stiff penalty.
So here he is ripping Mrs. Clinton for exactly what is in his health care bill.
All right, a brief time out.
We'll take it.
We'll be back right after this and continue.
Stay with us.
New home sales.
New home sales today at a record low.
Let's sum up.
The Obama administration so far, Obama is affirmatively killing jobs.
He is killing blue-collar jobs.
Do you know what the construction unemployment number is?
Construction unemployment.
And it is understandable.
New home sales all-time record low.
27.1% in February.
Construction unemployment.
27% in February.
This despite the stimulus and the shovel-ready jobs that we were going to be paying for.
When people don't have work, they lose their homes, and that is happening too.
They lose their cars.
They lose their motivation.
President Obama is killing small business.
He said he was going to save homeownership.
He signed another multi-billion dollar bill to do that.
It's done nothing.
He said he would create jobs.
He keep unemployment below 8%.
He passed the laws and spending he wanted.
It is a disaster.
It is an utter disaster.
There's a guy on CNBC today that said the American empire is in decline.
I'll have the soundbites coming up for that in a minute, but his basic point is that we have now become a country where way too many of our people want to be taken care of by the government rather than taking care of themselves.
And that is the beginning of the end.
America and empire in decline.
Now, the point here is, folks, any demagogue can make promises, any demagogue can make claims.
But when Obama's talk is put to the test, when we see the outcomes, we have nothing but failure.
He has not made good on a single promise.
Even now, he still speaks about his promises since most of his health care bill phases in over four years.
And the mandates don't happen for four years.
And the pre-existing coverage for adults doesn't happen for four years.
I hope so many people go into doctors' offices, hospitals today, tomorrow, all week, and expect everything free and are told, oh, no, no, no.
Well, I thought it passed, says the patient.
Oh, it did.
But we don't know when any of this actually kicks in.
And we don't even know that it's going to be free anyway.
Which hint, hint, it won't be.
He's out there saying the sky hasn't fallen since the health care bill was signed.
It's a big deal.
This administration is so demagogic that they're out there.
It's been signed since Tuesday, yesterday.
Hey, nobody pull a plug on Granny.
There's anybody dying out there.
Oh, they are.
123 people a day because they don't have health insurance.
And it's not until 2019 that 32 million people are covered.
Do you understand that?
32 million people, that's the current number, will not be fully insured until 2019.
That's 10 years, folks.
Nine and a half years.
2019 for all 32 million to be covered.
If you believe that, I don't even believe that.
In fact, the Senate bill doesn't come, no, it won't cover all 19, all 32 million by 2019.
It won't even get close to it.
There's nothing in this that you can believe.
So he's out there saying the sky hasn't fallen since the bill was signed.
You said it you there was the sky wasn't falling when you said it was falling, Mr. President.
We were not in a crisis of health care when you started all of this.
The sky was not falling before it was signed either.
Your bill is designed to protect you because you are a coward, Mr. President.
You didn't want the mandates to kick in until you run for president a second time.
Those mandates don't kick in.
The real punitive things don't happen until after 2012.
I think President Obama is such a coward that not until a second term should he get re-elected, God forbid, and thereafter will all the horror really be felt by everybody.
And then he'll say, well, not my fault.
Startup involved in these efforts takes time.
Some things to tweak.
Insurance companies didn't fully cooperate.
And so, oh, by the way, Pelosi is out.
This is from, I don't know what paper this is in.
Maybe the Washington.
It's a Washington Post.
Okay, Washington Post.
Pelosi is out threatening the insurance companies.
If you raise premiums, we're not going to let you in the exchanges.
Vindication again, ladies, they're going to have no choice but then to raise premiums if they're going to have to cover pre-existing conditions, if they're going to have to cover people from the moment they get sick and not before.
So if they don't, if they raise premiums, they're not going to be allowed any exchanges.
That's Nancy Pelosi.
I don't know if that's in the legislation or not, but if it's not in the legislation, they'll pass it.
Nobody can stop them.
They will pass it.
And so there you have it.
If they're kept out of the exchanges, guess what?
Hello, single payer.
Even sooner than we thought it would happen.
I want to go back and play this soundbite again from 2008 because it needs a little setup.
It's a little confusing, and we didn't get the very beginning of this up, so it might have been confusing for you.
This is February 21st.
It's a presidential debate, and Obama here is ripping Senator Clinton for suggesting a mandate for people to have health insurance.
He's ripping her for that, which is what his health care legislation, what he just signed, does, although not till 2014, after the next president.
Why is that, Mr. President, by the way?
Why is it that the mandate doesn't kick in until two years after you, God forbid, are re-elected?
Here's the soundbite again.
When Senator Clinton says a mandate, it's not a mandate on government to provide health insurance.
It's a mandate on individuals to purchase it.
Massachusetts has a mandate right now.
They have exempted 20% of the uninsured because they've concluded that that 20% can't afford it.
In some cases, there are people who are paying fines and still can't afford it.
So now they're worse off than they were.
They don't have health insurance and they're paying a fine.
In order for you to force people to get health insurance, you've got to have a very harsh, stiff penalty.
He's criticizing Hillary Clinton for having a mandate that everybody buy insurance.
And he's pointing to Massachusetts where it doesn't work because 20% of the people can't afford it.
And then he says, you got to, in order to get people to do it, you have to have a harsh, stiff penalty.
And he's criticizing Hillary for having that idea.
That idea was signed into law yesterday.
Paul W. We're not ready to be doing it.
But let me remind you, this has been going on for years.
We are bringing it to a halt.
The harsh fact of the matter is when you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
Now, I am told that Congressman Dingell has called WJR today.
That comment was made yesterday and said that he was just tired.
There's been a long, hard slog here to get this.
He was just tired.
So he's trying to walk this back.
Sorry.
When you're tired, when your guard's down and when you say what you really mean.
Sort of like when you're drunk, the truth somehow comes out.
So we'll just, it's on the record and we're going to accept it.
Shocking story from Philadelphia.
Homeowners are committing suicide ahead of being evicted from their homes.
Now, if this were happening, if this were happening during a Republican presidency, the vicious left would use this sad story to attack any Republican president, as would the media.
The vicious left uses people as props.
They've been doing it all this week and all last week.
But I wonder if the despair that these poor people felt is in some way the responsibility of the failed policies of the left in the White House.
The White House promised these people they would not lose their homes.
The White House promised these people there would be relief against foreclosure.
Or does it just cut one way?
Is it only Republicans who are responsible for the actions that people take?
But somehow Democrats and the media and the left, because of their wonderful compassion, have no role in people committing suicide because they're being evicted from their homes in Philadelphia when they clearly believe President Obama would make that not happen to them.
We'll be back after this.
So I'm checking the emails during the break and people don't believe me.
Some people, Rush, are you making this up just to agitate everybody?
What do you mean kids when pre-existing conditions are not covered in the bill?
I got it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, and it is from no less than state-controlled associated press.
Under the new law, insurance companies still would be able to refuse new coverage to children because of a pre-existing medical problem, said Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the main congressional panels that wrote the bill.
Obama signed.
So that means that Karen Lightfoot is exempted from the bill because House staffers, committee staffers who wrote the bill, are exempted from full protection for children would not come until 2014, said Kate Searle, a spokeswoman for the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
That's the same year when insurance companies could no longer deny coverage to anybody on account of health problems.
Obama's public statements have conveyed the impression the new protections for kids were more sweeping and straightforward.
He hasn't conveyed any impression.
He said it outright.
It was part of big signing ceremony.
If you have a child with pre-existing conditions, what Obama's telling you is a lie.
It's not in the bill.
It doesn't happen until 2014.
Learn it, love it, live it.
This is a story from Michigan CapitalConfidential.com.
The Thomas More Law Center has joined the slew of legal action sparked by the passage of Obama's health care legislation.
The Ann Arbor-based conservative law firm filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the health care bill.
Four Michigan residents are part of the suit.
I hope things like this pop up all over the place, like flowers in the spring.
Individuals suing to get out of federalized health care.
This is the exact kind of thing that needs to be happening.
Folks, I'm going to tell you something else.
And this is for my media brethren, those of you in the media on my side of things, we need to turn over a new leaf here, and we need to have our own agenda that we are on offense on every day.
Yeah, we'll have to take some time to react to Obama each and every day because he's on offense as well.
But I'm not going to sit here and let what Obama says and does determine the full content of this program.
This program is going to be oriented toward getting rid of this, toward fixing this, toward obviating it, toward defeating it.
And we'll take any bit of evidence we can that he's lied about it, which is most things.
We're going to expose all of the untruths about this.
We're going to expose all of the horrors about this.
And if it ends up that we're countering what Obama's saying every day, fine and dandy.
Here's an example.
New York Times today.
And I read this story, and even though, even though I know the New York Times, and even though I know what Obama and his administration is all about, it made me sick.
That sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that I had Sunday.
In health care bill, Obama attacks wealth inequality.
This is from an approving New York Times, David Leonard.
For all the political and economic uncertainties about health reform, at least one thing seems clear.
The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.
Vindication.
Once again, a crucial story.
They got their bill, and now they can proudly trumpet what its real purpose is, the redistribution of wealth to make everybody the same.
Dick Durbin, audio soundbite number 17.
Dick Durbin this morning on Morning Joe.
And Scarborough says to him, most Republicans I talk to support it, but we don't believe you raise taxes on people that make wise investments during a recession.
What's Scarborough talking about?
Most republics.
What is he?
I don't know.
Most Republicans I talk to support it?
What Republicans is he talking to?
Anyway, what this is about is raising taxes on investments or taxing investments, raising taxes on investment income, Medicare taxes, and all the rest.
Here's what Durbin says.
If you're making over $200,000 a year, you're going to pay slightly more in taxes.
It's the cost, I think, of having the kind of America that we want to have.
It's the cost of having the kind of America we want to have.
It's going to take us a long time here to put the legislation together to control the people, says Dingell.
The kind of America we want to have, says Dick Turbin.
And now the New York Times, the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.
Are we to believe that 30 years ago, everybody was the same?
Are we to believe that 30, so what are they attacking here?
The Reagan years.
Over most of that period, government policy and market forces have been moving in the same direction, both increasingly are increasing inequality.
The pre-tax incomes of the wealthy have soared since the late 1970s, while their tax rates have fallen more than rates for the middle class and the poor.
And that, my friends, is an utter lie.
It is utter BS.
The poor do not pay income taxes.
50% of the American people don't pay, well, it's 47%, 46%, don't pay income taxes whatsoever.
They get paid by the government not to pay taxes.
It's called the earned income tax credit.
How many years have we had the chart on my website that shows who's paying the tax burden?
Yes, the rates of the wealthy may have come down from 70% to now 36, but the percentage of the federal income tax being paid by the wealthy has skyrocketed and continues to.
Nearly every major aspect of the health bill pushes in the other direction.
This fact helps explain why Mr. Obama was willing to spend so much political capital on the issue, even though it did not appear to be his top priority as a presidential candidate.
Beyond the health reform's effect on the medical system, it is the centerpiece of his deliberate effort to end what historians have called the age of Reagan.
Vindication.
Everything we have said that is Barack Obama's intent is now being documented by his own media.
And even in his, I forget which two books, I forget which one, it doesn't matter which one.
He describes his desire to overturn and reverse what Reagan and his minions had done.
Well, what did Reagan do, ladies and gentlemen?
What happened during the Reagan years?
It's another reason why they want to get rid of Granny, because Granny and Grandma and Grandpa, the ones who remember, can teach people.
For obvious reasons, the New York Times forgets to mention some hard facts about the age of Reagan.
Reagan's policies resulted in the largest peacetime economic boom in American history, created nearly 35 million more jobs.
How does that sound to you about now?
35 million new jobs created because of Ronald Reagan.
Federal revenues doubled from just over $517 billion in 1980 to more than $1 trillion in 1990 after the Reagan tax cuts.
It is a stunning growth period.
President Reagan was able to bring down inflation rates from 10.4% in 81 to 3.7% in 87.
He brought the unemployment rate down from 9.7% in 82 to 5.49% in 1988.
The American economy grew by almost one-third because of Reagan's economic plan.
Conservatism, it works every time it's tried.
And they have the audacity here to continue to trash it and say that Obama has secured a victory over the inequality of the Reagan years.
Well, the Reagan years featured freedom, liberty, ambition.
People felt good about their country and loved it.
During Reagan, we didn't have news stories like this.
79% of voters think it's possible the economy could collapse, including large majorities of Democrats, 72%, Republicans, 84%, and Independents at 80%.
This is a Fox News poll.
We didn't have polls like this during the Reagan years.
I know I was alive.
And I was not rich.
I was, well, 80s, one of the period of time, the early 80s, earned a lesson I ever had in my life.
And I still loved Ronald Reagan.
And I still loved what was going on back.
Americans loved their country.
We had come off of four years of utter disaster called Jimmy Carter.
And we now have Jimmy Carter's second term.
Only worse.
Carter was a bumbling idiot, but I don't think he really despised the country.
We're being led by people who don't like this country.
Or at least they've been raised not to like it.
So, Mr. Leonard, however you pronounce your last name, Leonhart Leonard, I don't know.
I doubt you could go back in your archives and find any polling data where 80% of the American people thought the U.S. economy could collapse.
Speaking to an ebullient audience of Democrat legislators and White House aides at the bill signing ceremony, Obama claimed that health reform would mark a new season in America.
He said, we have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care.
And it would do all of this in large measure by taxing the rich.
A big chunk of the money to pay for the bill comes from lifting payroll taxes on households making more than a quarter million dollars on average.
The annual tax bill for households making more than $1 million a year will rise by $46,000 in 2013.
According to the Tax Policy Center, another major piece of financing would cut Medicare subsidies for private insurers, ultimately affecting their executives and shareholders.
The benefits, meanwhile, flow mostly to households making less than four times the poverty level, $88,200 for a family of four.
So, if you make $88,200 and you have a family of four, your health care is going to be subsidized by people who make $89,000 and above.
It's Christmas.
It's Christmas.
So this is what we face, and this is what we told you was the case.
This is what Obama admitted to Joe the Plumber.
He wanted to spread the wealth around.
Remember, he is destroying every segment of the economy he's touching.
He is destroying the automobile business.
He is destroying the home business.
He's destroying unemployment, the job market.
Everything he claimed to fix is getting worse, and he doesn't care.
He's piling more debt and more spending that we don't have on top of all the other spending and debt that we don't have.
And that's why 79% of the American people say it's entirely possible that the economy could collapse.
I wonder if some of these pseudo-conservative intellectual elites on our side, in the side the Beltway, read this New York Times story and applaud because they're the people out there telling us the era of Reagan was over, praying for the era of Reagan to be over.
I wonder if the story gives them satisfaction.
Quick time up, my friends.
Much more.
Straight ahead, don't go away.
Yeah, it's amazing, folks.
Did you ever dream when you were a kid that you can make $88,000 a year?
You can have a flat screen TV on the wall in the suburbs, a couple cars, and be on welfare.
Did you ever think that?
Listen to this little passage here from the New York Times piece.
Much about healthcare reform remains unknown.
Maybe it'll work.
Maybe it won't.
Maybe the bill's attempts to hold down the recent growth of medical costs will prove a big success, or maybe the results will be modest and inadequate.
It's going to be an utter failure, you idiot.
But the ways in which the bill attacks the inequality of the Reagan era, whether you love them or hate them, will probably be around for a long time.
That's why the New York Times, that's why the left is happy.
To the phones.
Lisa, Leewood, Kansas, outside Kansas City, great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Thank you.
It's an extreme honor to talk to you, Rush.
I just had one thing.
I've been listening to you for quite a long time, and it just really drives me crazy when the mainstream press, and I don't give them very much credit because I know where they're coming from, but their constant attacks on you and the message that you deliver just drive me crazy.
Well, I appreciate that.
I'm sure it does irritate a lot of people.
Well, and, you know, they attack anybody who has a conservative viewpoint, frankly, or doesn't share their viewpoint.
A lot of times you can't even talk to somebody who's for all of this socialist agenda.
And the reason I called is you were talking about the people wanting to move our country more towards a socialist country.
And to me, I think in my head, I'm starting to call these people an American because our country is not a socialist country.
We're not a European socialist country.
And if they want to start implementing all of these programs here, then that's not America.
And you can't call those people Americans, and you can't call our country America anymore because that does not.
I understand how you feel.
I really understand.
Lisa, I totally understand how you feel.
These people are mere stewards.
They are not elected to remake, reform, or reshape the Constitution or our government or our country.
But they have taken it upon themselves to do it.
Since she mentioned all these media attacks, folks, look, when there's smoke, there's rush.
I mean, that's really the new phrase here.
Where there's smoke, there's rush.
And the reason they attack me and the reason I'm honored by the enemies I have, they need villains.
Their ideas don't sell themselves.
They need demons.
They need villains.
And they always tell us who they fear.
They always tell us who they are most afraid of.
So let's go to the audio soundbites, Jonathan Carl, ABC's World News last night.
Political debate isn't over.
And neither is the Vitriol.
We need to defeat these bastards.
We need to wipe them out.
We need to chase them out of town.
Vitriol.
Vitriol to suggest we need to defeat Democrats.
Vitriol.
You see, here's the Today Show today.
Capitol Hill correspondent Kelly O'Donnell reporting on me.
Hateful words aimed at Democratic lawmakers.
And greetings to you, ladies and gentlemen.
The provocative platform Rush Limbaugh commands can add fuel to the fire.
We need to defeat these bastards.
We need to wipe them out.
We need to chase them out of town.
Kelly O'Donnell, America standing up and cheering when they hear those words.
Fuel to the fire?
See, it's always whenever one or two idiots, and in this case, we don't even know that it happened, when one or two idiots are accused of doing, the media is constantly trolling for people, listen to talk radio when some crime happens or whatever.
The people, Ms. O'Donnell, in this country are livid, not because of me.
The people of this country are not filled with vitriol because of me.
They are filled with vitriol because of Barack Obama and people like you who will not tell them the truth about what's going on.
The people of this country are in vitriol and in anger, and they're taking it out on you by not watching your pathetic little network or your pathetic little show.
Because you're not honest, because you're a propagandist.
You have no more interest in speaking truth to power than you do in having your ratings increase.
You have forgotten who your audience is.
Your audience is not Matt Lauer and Chris Matthews.
Your audience is the American people, and you've lost them.
And that's why they're angry.
You're not doing your job.
I am doing mine.
They love me.
More vindication for El Rushbo and all of us.
Yesterday afternoon, MSNBC, the Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, on the insurance companies.
Well, the drug companies will have their profits reduced by close to $90 billion over the lifetime of this bill.
That's part of the strategy moving forward.
I misspoke drug companies.
So their goal, their goal is to reduce drug company profits.
Buy-by research and development on any new drugs.
Bye-bye, American Empire.
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