I know why the media is so absorbed with this and why they're polling everybody on this.
They are frustrated.
They are beginning to worry they cannot control a majority of us.
And what we think on policy, how we feel about Obama personally.
I mean, they can't even define his personality.
The media can't even define his personality.
They can't even define his religion for us anymore.
And they're terribly afraid out there they've lost the ability to shape and bend, inform, and flake us to the opinion they want us to have.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
Somebody told me that Nancy Pelosi was a Muslim, but I didn't buy that.
It can't possibly be because Pelosi is born on Mars.
Haven't heard of any Muslims on Mars.
Open line Friday, 800-282-2882.
And we will get to your phone calls very soon in this hour, as we always do.
Other things in the news out there.
This is from The Hill.
And really, the headline in the first line are all that's important here.
White House's recovery summer could be slipping away is the headline.
See what I mean?
You talk about out of touch.
Recovery summer could be slipping away.
Could be.
Is there an open question about this?
White House recovery summary summer could be slipping away.
A new Labor Department report shows that an unexpected jump in jobless claims may be the death knell for the White House's recovery summer.
See, they can't even persuade us there's a recovery going on.
So frustrated.
We're holding out hope.
What are we into the, we're two-thirds through with this.
We've just reached a two-month mark in the three-month summer of recovery.
So we're now two-thirds recovered in the home stretch, and then they call it off.
I guess it's a death knell.
Did you see this?
This is in the Boston Herald.
Welcome to Martha's Vineyard, Mr. President, but don't go in the water.
President Obama, who took a plunge in the Gulf last week to show Americans it was safe to swim in the oil spill plagued area, arrived on this supposedly pristine island yesterday in which Bush t-shirts are outselling Obama t-shirts in the midst of a rash of bacteria-induced beach closings.
Portions of Tisbury Great Pond, the saltwater lagoon fronting the first family's vacation estate, Blue Heron Farm, portions of it were closed earlier this week due to high levels of fecal matter in the water.
High levels of fecal matter in the water can cause scared irritation, vomiting, or diarrhea in swimmers.
Really?
Who knew?
So there says here the fecal coliform bacteria in the pond fronting the vacation rental property where the first family is.
But see, here's a, doesn't matter, doesn't matter.
Obama's from Chicago.
He has obviously built up an immunity to fecal matter in the water.
I think the media is concerned here about nothing.
West Tisbury Health Agent John Powers said that Long Cove Pond and Sepiesa Point Beach at Tisbury Great Pond were closed to swimming Tuesday after both failed water quality testing.
The two beaches are public and located not too far from the Obama's private beach.
Because the beach on Blue Heron Farm is not accessible to public, it's not subject to water quality tests.
That's interesting.
But it doesn't matter.
The president's safe.
He comes from Chicago.
He built up an immunity to crap in the water.
As have many a Chicago.
This next story, I saw this yesterday afternoon, last night.
The headline intrigued me.
And I read it, and I just started laughing out loud.
Fidel Castro fascinated by a book on Bilderberg Club.
This is from the Associated Press.
Fidel Castro is showcasing a theory long popular both among the far left and far right that the shadowy Bilderberg group has become a kind of global government controlling not only international politics and economics, but even culture.
The 84-year-old former Cuban dictator published an article Wednesday that used three of the only eight pages in the Communist Party newspaper Grandma to quote largely verbatim from a 2006 book by Lithuanian-born writer Daniel Estulin.
Estulin's work, The Secrets of the Bilderberger Club, argues that the international group largely runs the world.
It has held a secretive annual forum of prominent politicians, thinkers, and businessmen since it was founded in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in Holland.
Castro offered no comment.
This gets better.
They run the world.
And they didn't tell Castro.
He's just learning it here at age 84.
And he finds it fascinating.
Castro offered no comment other than to describe Estulin as honest and well-informed and to call his book a fantastic story.
Estulin's book, as quoted by Castro, described sinister cliques and Bilderberg lobbyists manipulating the public to install a world government that knows no borders and is not accountable to anyone but its own self.
The Bilderberg Group's website says that its members have nearly three days of informal, off-the-record discussion about topics of current concern once a year, but the group does nothing else.
So they get together three days a year and control the world.
They've been doing it since 1954.
And Fidel has never been invited.
And he's just learning of this at age 84 after he retires.
The prominence of the group is what alarms critics.
It often includes members of the Rockefeller family, Henry Kissinger, senior U.S. and European officials, and major international business and media executives.
The excerpt published by Castro suggested that the esoteric Frankfurt School of Socialist Academics worked with members of the Rockefeller family in the 50s to pave the way for rock and roll music to control the masses by diverting attention from civil rights and social injustice.
The man charged with ensuring that the Americans liked the Beatles was Walter Lippmann himself, the excerpt asserted, referring to a political philosopher and by then stayed newspaper columnists who died in 1974.
In the U.S. and Europe, great open-air rock concerts were used to halt the growing discontent of the population on civil rights and social injustice.
Now, it seems to me That the Beatles were part of the civil rights and social unrest.
It seems to me that the Civil Rights Act of 1964-65 was passed right in the middle of the Beatles' arrival on the scene.
I can tell you that I became a Beatles fan at what, what, I would have been age 10, 11.
I'd never heard of Walter Lippmann then, so he wasn't responsible for me.
Well, yeah, Ed Sullivan may have been a Bilderberger for all I know now.
Ed Sullivan might have been part of the part of the conspiracy.
So the Beatles were created by the Bilderberg.
This Castro believes this.
The Bilderberg created a Beatles in order to distract us from social unrest.
Let's see what else.
Castro, who had an inside seat to the Cold War, but had no idea the Bilderbergs were controlling things, has long expressed suspicions of backroom plots.
He has raised questions about whether the this is a serious story.
This is a serious, I'm laughing myself silly last night reading this.
This is one of the reasons I was willing to come in.
I mean, I was ready to, this week has been a hell week for me.
And I was, well, I wasn't going to call in sick.
I don't do that, but I when I saw this story, I got renewed.
I got to come in here today.
They had a conspiracy, and they didn't tell Fidel about it.
And he's only learning about it now when he's retired and can't join it and do anything about it.
Walter Lippmann created a Beatles to distract people.
Not only that, the Bilderbergs created feminism to get men and women at war with one another to distract us while they destroyed world economies.
That did work.
That one worked.
But this Beatle thing buying it.
And it says here, Castro long expressed suspicions of backroom plots.
He raised questions about whether the 9-11 attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. government to stoke military budgets.
He more recently suggested that Washington was behind the March sinking of a South Korean ship blamed on the Norcs.
Estulin's own website suggests the 9-11 attacks were likely caused by small nuclear devices, and that the CIA and drug traffickers were behind the 1988 downing of the Lockerbie Pan Am flight that was blamed on Libya.
The Bilderberg conspiracy theory has been popular on both extremes of the ideological spectrum, even if they disagree on just what the group wants to do.
Leftists accused the Bilderberg group of promoting capitalist domination, while some right-wing websites argue the Bilderberg Club has imposed Barack Obama on the U.S. to advance socialism.
Some of Estulin's work builds on reports by Big Jim Tucker, a researcher on the Bilderberg group who publishes on right-wing websites.
I've been, folks, from the very first day, back in Kansas City, when I uttered my first political comment on the radio, I was set upon by these conspiracy people.
Oh, yes.
You would, oh, it has, they no longer bother with me.
No, I've never been to a Bilderberg meeting, certainly.
No, I'm not part.
Look, no, no.
I've never been to the Bilderberg meeting.
I've never been to the Socialist International.
I've never been to a CFR meeting or a trilateralist commission meeting.
Remember, I'm the guy who came up with a cook test.
Yeah, the cook test was to distract people, distract people from me being part of the conspiracy.
Yeah.
Remember one of the questions on the cook test?
If trilateralist A is driving west at 60 miles an hour and the Council on Foreign Relations member B is driving east at 40 miles an hour, how long does it take for both of them to take over the world?
Now, before we get to the phones, since Castro's brought this up, one thing about the Beatles, now, there's one thing about the Beatles.
You may have forgotten this, but I was fascinated with radio even before I got into it, and I know this stuff.
Capital Records refused to play, they refused to distribute Beatles records for a year in this country.
You know, EMI was a Beatles record company, and Capital was their American counterpart.
They would not play.
The Beatles were huge in the UK for a year.
And the Beatles could not get Capitol Records.
EMI was the distributor here to release their records in the United States.
It took them a year, and the first song that Capital finally agreed.
Know what it was?
It was I Want to Hold Your Hand was the first record the Beatles had released here.
You've got a non-capital label version of Snerdley has a non-capital label.
And you know what the B side was?
The B side was I Saw Her Standing There.
And I'll tell you why I remember that, because there was on Channel 6 in Paducah, Kentucky, had this little 5 o'clock Friday afternoon dance party show.
And I watch it because I want to hear the music.
And they played, I saw her standing there.
And I wrote, Bob Swisher was the host.
And I wrote, I was 12.
I wrote the most vicious, insulting, you stupid idiots, don't you know the A side of that record is I want to hold your hand.
I mean, it was insulting for a 12-year-old because they played, I saw her standing there.
And it was a long time.
It must have been Walter Lippman that persuaded Capitol Records to finally release Beatles tunes in this country.
And because that's the Bilderberger story, is that Walter Lippman is what it took.
Because Capitol sat on the Beatles for a full year after they had become huge in the UK.
Now, here's the Bilderberger explanation for John Lennon's assassination.
Quote, on December 8th of 1980, under a full moon night, John Lennon was shot dead by a man named Mark David Chapman.
It is quite unlikely that we could someday get to know whether Mark Chapman was a victim of an artificially induced model psychosis, a murderer like the Manchu candidate sent by Tavistock, the CIA, and the MI6 to silence Lennon, who turned out to be even more difficult to control.
That's the Bilderberg theory.
Swan was the non-capital label.
Is that the label you have?
That's the label Snerdley has.
The capital label was yellow and orange.
We had the 45 RP.
We had the album as well.
Swan, a little tiny little black label.
That's what you've got.
And to this day, just to add to this, to this day, iTunes refuses to take the Beatles.
You cannot buy Beatles tunes on iTunes.
No, they haven't settled that.
No, they haven't settled.
Yoko won't go anywhere near iTunes.
If they settled it, it has to be in the last week.
You can't find Beatles music on iTunes.
The Beatles are still being shut out on, jobs can't get them, or Jobs won't let them in.
No, Jobs wants them.
And Apple won't, Apple records won't go to iTunes.
All right, to the phones we go.
Open Line Friday, Port Angeles, Washington.
This is D. Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Yes, hello.
And it's so good to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
What I'd like to say today is there's another media that they're trying to inundate us with the Obamas.
And one of them is the Ladies' Home Journal, September issue.
Michelle Obama is on the front of it.
And I was so turned off when I saw it because I don't know thousands of people, but I know quite a few people, just people in passing, that are, in their opinion, feel that Obama, President Obama, and probably his wife are actually Muslims by their actions and by their deeds.
Why?
Because of what Ladies' Home Journal is doing.
Well, she would have to be the same, have the same beliefs and the same ideals as he has, or they couldn't live together.
No, believe me.
Yes.
And the fact that they both hate America.
They both are elitists.
Very much so.
Very much elitist.
Condescending.
And flaunt.
Yes.
And this is to the point to where they are telling us how we need to live, but their standard of living is much different.
And we're constantly trying to adjust.
And we will.
But they need to get out of the way.
Our elitist government needs to get out of the way so that we can handle this.
We don't need them to micromanage our lives.
Exactly right.
I am so turned off.
I'm going to rip off the cover.
I've canceled my subscription.
To the Ladies' Home Journal.
To the Ladies' Home Journal.
Yeah, well, I'm surprised it took this long.
Dee, thank you very much for calling.
Thank you.
Great to have you.
It's Open Line Friday.
By the way, the Beatles, take a look at the label, Apple label on the records.
Take a look at that Apple and ask yourself what it really is.
Audio soundbite number 21 on the roster today, Andrea Mitchell.
NBC News Washington.
During her show today on MSNBC, during a conversation about the pew poll on whether or not Obama is a Muslim, this is what Andrea Mitchell said.
In the statement from the White House, it doesn't make it clear, but you know this very well from your reporting.
He gets those devotionals on his BlackBerry.
This is a very new way of getting your religion from an American public used to seeing presidents and their families going to church.
Well, who knew?
So that's how he's doing it.
Obama's going to church via the BlackBerry.
He gets those devotionals downloaded to his BlackBerry every day.
American people are used to seeing their presidents go to church.
But no, Obama's getting his devotional from BlackBerry.
By the way, his devotionals come from his Muslim advisor, too.
He's got a Muslim religious advisor.
Andrea, I can't believe you fell for this.
Andrea, Obama is texting God.
And God texts back.
That's what's going on on the BlackBerry.
All right, here's Stacey from somewhere in Georgia.
She is our semi-regular caller keeping us up to speed on health care and health insurance.
She is our insurance analyst.
Stacy, as always, welcome back.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Ross.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you.
And for the nags out there, the problem is you.
So I solved that real quick, and they didn't even have to rent a conference room.
But listen, I have found some truly delicious information on these pre-existing condition insurance plans that just came into effect last month.
By the way, before you get into this, have you heard that the Democrats have been given new marching orders?
They are to stop talking about how Obamacare is going to save money.
And I can tell you why that is.
Well, yeah, because it's not going to save anybody any money.
Well, these poor suckers with these pre-existing conditions who thought they were going to get all this care, the very minimum, I've calculated it, the very minimum these people are going to pay if you're under 35 is $12,340 a year.
Wait, no, no.
Wait, wait, wait, just a moment.
You're talking about pre-existing conditions are not going to be covered because people were told by the Democrats and Obama that at some point after the bill was signed, that pre-existing conditions and your kids and so forth would be covered.
No longer could you be denied.
Well, that's true, but remember, they set up a two-year transition plan, quote-unquote.
Yes, but now you're telling me that the minimum cost for the free service is $12,000?
Yeah.
Wait, per person?
Per person.
So the free coverage of pre-existing conditions is $12,000 per year per person?
Yes, and I can explain it to you.
And another delicious factoid about this, all of these plans, well, okay, back up.
22 of the states told the Department of Health and Human Services that they didn't want to run this crap.
They kicked it back to Washington and said, you handle it.
Wait, wait.
Did not want to run the pre-existing condition for the insurance?
Right.
Okay.
So they kicked it back to HHS.
HHS contracted out to a private insurance company called the Government Employees Health Association.
The government employees, the G-E-H-A. GIA, okay.
Exactly.
So they're administrating this plan on their website.
And I'm going to quote it to you.
This plan is an HSA-qualified high-deductible health plan.
The plan gives you greater control over how you use your health care benefits, and they want you to open an HSA account.
Wait.
A health savings account?
Exactly.
They want you to open one of those?
Yes.
Now, here's the really, really fun part about it.
There are no benefits payable for anything other than preventative diagnoses until you pay out of pocket $2,500.
Wait.
No benefits payable.
Meaning the insurance company is not going to pay for your free health care other than preventative diagnosis until you pay $2,500 out of pocket.
Exactly.
Is this how does this relate to the 12,000?
Well, if you, okay, let's, the very minimum in Georgia, the minimum premium is $323 a month.
Okay?
That works out to $3,840 a year.
For free pre-existing coverage.
Exactly.
Okay, so you're just going to pay that.
Then you've also got to add $2,500 as your deductible before any benefits are payable minus your preventative diagnoses.
Then it's an $80-20 for in-network, a $64 or a $4,000, $60 out-of-network until you have paid out of your pocket, not including the $2,500, $6,000.
Okay, so that's how we got to the $12,000.
What is in-network, out-of-network?
What does that mean?
Well, this insurance company has gone out and gotten providers to sign contracts for services.
That's an in-network.
Yeah, providers, a hospital, a doctor, a nurse, all of the above.
Now, mind you, that $2,500 that you have to meet before they're going to pay a dime.
That deductible.
That includes prescription drugs.
That includes hospital stays.
That includes durable medical equipment.
That includes everything.
Gerbal medical equipment?
Yeah, okay.
Let me give you an example to kind of clear it up for you, okay?
Say you're a diabetic.
Wait a second.
Gerbal medical equipment?
Durable.
Oh.
Sorry.
So let's say you're an insulin-dependent diabetic.
And you've been.
Wait a minute.
I'm just not getting my composure back.
We are an insulin-dependent diabetic.
Okay.
Okay.
So you have to buy your syringes.
You have to buy your insulin.
Okay.
The syringes are considered medical equipment.
No, wait, you've got to buy it yourself.
You've got to go to the drugstore.
You've got to buy it yourself.
Exactly.
So.
This is not part of your free health care.
Exactly.
Until you have paid $2,500.
Now, you have to go to your physician every couple of months and have blood tests run to see what your blood levels are.
Why can't you just get one of those finger prick things that you get in the drugstore to test your blood sugar?
Why have you got the doctor?
Well, they do that, but you go to the doctor because they run more extensive laboratory tests to check how there's different levels of sugars in your blood, and they can see your three-month average and all that.
Okay, I'm writing all this down.
So far, I feel like I'm in a maze.
It is a little crazy.
I'm an insulin-dependent diabetic, and all I've learned here is I got to somehow come up with $2,500 to go out and buy all this equipment, and then it's going to cost me $300 a month if this is pre-existing.
And then I'm still trying to figure out what the $6,000 per year comes into this.
I'll help you.
We'll get there.
When you go to your doctor to have your blood run, that's not a preventative.
So you have to pay the doctor's office.
Oh, wait a minute.
When does your insurance kick in?
After you have $2,500 at the insurance company of claims that they've run up, they're not paying.
All right, so you have to have the equivalent of $2,500 of medical services by your provider.
Exactly.
And you pay that.
So that's your deduction.
You've got to pay that before any insurance kicks in.
Exactly.
Even though you're paying a premium, minimum $300 some out a month.
Exactly.
Under free Obamacare.
Once you hit that $2,500, then you get into some copay.
So your doctor would be a $25 copay.
Out-of-pocket, and they're not really clear on what contributes to their out-of-pocket.
Who's out of pocket?
The patients.
So once you get to $2,500, they're going to pay $80,020.
They'll pay 80%, you'll pay 20%.
So after you pay the $2,500 plus the $300 a month, you're still paying.
Exactly.
Where is all that?
Where did you find it?
I know you're in the insurance business.
It's right here on the web.
It's a www.p is in Paul, C is in CAT, I is in India, P is in Paul, L is in Lima, Alpha, N is in Nancy.com.
P-C-I-P-L-A-N.com.
Exactly.
And that is what?
That is the G-E-H-A's website for this pre-existing coverage.
Now, Rush, I got to give you one more before you got to go.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
No, no, the G-E-H-A.
That's the general.
It's the Government Employees Health Association.
Government Employees Health Association.
That's the insurance company.
That's the insurance company.
Okay, so it's the insurance company website.
Exactly.
Now, one of the 22 states that kicked it back to DHHS and said we don't want to do this is Arizona.
And guess what?
You have to provide G-E-H-A in order to be approved for their plan.
Proof of citizenship.
No.
Is this not delicious?
I mean, I'm not normally one for Schadenfreude, but when I found this last night, I was falling all over the floor.
Do you want to know the states that are doing this?
This panacea, this utopian-free pre-existing condition health care plan is going to cost you $12,000 a year, is only accessible if you can prove citizenship.
Exactly.
And mind you, that $12,000 a year is the absolute minimum.
It can go up to $27,000.
But you said Arizona kicked it back because they don't want to participate in it.
Right.
So illegals will now not be mandated to give their proof of citizenship.
Well, if they're in Arizona and they want the pre-existing condition insurance, then they'll have to send citizens.
No, you said Arizona kicked it back and they're not going to play.
Oh, no, no, you can't do that.
All states have to play.
But 22 states said we are not going to deal with finding a contractor.
They just said, we're going to let you do it, HHS.
You handle it.
Oh, as the secretary shall determine.
Exactly.
That would be Kathleen Sebelias.
Yes.
So for Arizona, if an illegal alien has a pre-existing condition and he wants to get on this plan, he's going to have to forge him up some documents to send in because you have to provide proof of citizenship.
This is too rich.
Isn't it wonderful?
This is just too rich.
The Schadenfreude is through the ceiling.
It's just, it's insane.
Now, I happen to know that proof of citizenship was one of the things the Republicans were able to force into this.
That's one of the few things the Republicans were able to ram through, and this was proof of citizenship into the health care reform bill.
I would love to know if they also ran the HSA piece into it.
And the reason that they're doing, the reason this private insurance company has done this as an HSA and high-deductible plan is because they know they're not going to be able to cover the money that is going to go out in this.
Well, hell, 90% of the patients are not going to be able to afford this.
I know.
And, you know, you also have to be not covered by any insurance plan whatsoever for six months.
Before you qualify for this?
In order to qualify for this.
You got to mean you got to have no insurance for six months before you can qualify for this boondoggle.
Yes.
And I can't believe.
Well, I can believe it.
Actually, but it sounds unbelievable, but I. You would know.
Are you still in the insurance business?
I am.
Why?
Because it's a tough job market, but I'm working on it.
I'm just going to say.
But I'm hopeful.
I really am hopeful.
If God, God, please let conservatives take the house at least and starve this beast.
If they don't do that, I just don't.
I'm going to be so frustrated I don't know what to do.
Well, that's a two-pronged problem: taking the house and then getting the Republicans to starve the beast.
That's a separate issue.
But, yeah, there was just so much irony in this little piece.
And mind you, this is only good for two years.
Supposedly, in 2014, all of this ends, and then you go on to the exchanges.
Right.
That's essentially single payer, and that's where they hope to get this.
Exactly.
Well, it's too.
Oh, another one, Rush.
You remember how they said they weren't going to put any benefit limits on people?
Yeah.
For this plan right here, they have all kinds of benefit limits.
One of the big ones that I saw was if you need hospice care, they have a $15,000 benefit maximum that they will pay.
And you can wipe out $15,000 in hospice in a heartbeat.
And that's including inpatient and outpatient drugs.
Why no, and there aren't many heartbeats left in hospice.
Yeah.
To begin with.
Well, you know, there's going to be a revolt when this happens to people.
Well, they're starting to find out.
Like I said, enrollment started last month.
Yeah, because everybody thinks this is going to be free.
Well, you know, that's a sucker for you.
Stacy, thanks for the call.
It's always a pleasure.
Have a great one, Derek.
And gerbil procedures.
I'm still caught on that.
No, I wasn't making it up from the Democrat Talking Point Slideshow.
The presentation's final page of don'ts counsels Democrats against claiming that the health care law will reduce costs and the deficit.
They are not to talk about that now.
As they go out into the campaign season, they're back home for the August recess.
They are not to talk about the cost-saving deficit reduction.
They are supposed to talk about the improvements in health care that will result.
Because everybody knows it's not going to reduce costs.
All right, Raleigh, North Carolina.
John, welcome to Open Line Friday, sir.
All right, Rush, it's an honor to be on your show.
Thank you very much, sir.
I got to tell you, I'm on the same page with you with most things, but I think you're really hard on these people you call conspiracy theorists.
If you look at somebody like Henry Paulson from the Federal Reserve, I feel like he duped us a few Novembers ago or Septembers ago.
George Soros, a guy with money, he's got a plan, and you say that he's directing things.
How much more would international bankers band together to do this?
Now, it may be unprovable, but I think to make people out to be idiots is to alienate a large segment of your listening audience.
Who made them out to be idiots?
What are you referring to?
I'm saying that groups like the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, Rhodes Roundtable, these groups, I don't find it implausible that they would be banding together to take and cover their interests just like OPEC does theirs.
So why is this one group singled out to be kooks?
I don't think that's fair.
Who said the Bilderbergers were kooks?
Well, I'm saying that people that think they exist, you make them out to be.
No, I did not influencing U.S. dollars.
The Bilderbergers exist.
No way to say the Bilderbergers exist.
I've seen pictures.
I've seen that they have, I know they're convention.
You missed the point.
My point was that Fidel Castro, who was, I mean, knee-deep in the Cold War, is 84 years old and he's just finding out about it.
I mean, there's a world conspiracy going on and nobody told him.
Now, in all seriousness, ladies and gentlemen, there are, at any given moment, 130 Bilderbergers.
King Juan Carlos of Spain is a sometime attendee of Bilderberger conferences.
Michelle Obama was in Spain not long ago for four or five days without her husband on his birthday while he's shooting hoops and eating barbecue.