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Oct. 17, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 17, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I keep looking for ways to avoid talking about this protest because it's all phony, it's all ginned up.
I'm sure there's some people down there that think they're really involved in something, but this organized whatever it is, it's all part of a plan designed to reconnect Obama with his base and so forth, and he's gonna blow it, perhaps.
But I'm trying to look for ways not to give these people any attention, and it wouldn't matter.
They're all over television anyway, because that's the plan.
So I may as well tell you what's going on, the latest.
Great to have you here as we kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence, L. Rushbow and the EIB Network.
Happy to have you here.
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Before getting into that, something in the New York Post yesterday, a story by uh Kyle Smith.
You remember the woman who had multiple personality disorder, Sybil.
Made a movie out of it.
Total hoax.
A total fraud.
Never happened, made up by the author and some psychiatrists.
For fun and profit.
And since then, there have been 40,000 cases of multiple personality disorder diagnosed.
After the story of Sybil was published, multiple personality disorder became an officially recognized diagnosis.
Forty thousand unfortunate patients being diagnosed.
Sybil was a real person.
But her case and her story was a 100% twenty-four carat hoax.
And Kyle Smith wrote about it in the New York Post yesterday.
So here we have.
Here we have a real live recent case of an agenda-driven hoax becoming scientific consensus.
And a popularly accepted concept that real decisions were based on.
Sound familiar.
Sound familiar, folks?
Does it not sound exactly what's happened with global warming?
Sybil, the shocking true story of a woman shattered into sixteen distinct personalities that helped her to dig up repressed memories of monstrous childhood sexual abuse.
Sold nearly seven million copies when it was published in 1973.
A serialized version ran in newspapers around the country as readers gasped at scenes of Sybil's demented mother defecating on lawns, conducting lesbian orgies, and raping her daughter with kitchen utensils.
This kind of sex and perversion had never before been published on the women's pages, writes author Debbie Nathan in a new book, Sybil, was adapted into an Emmy a winning TV miniseries starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward that was viewed by one-fifth of the American public, and it was an utter fraud.
In her darkly absurd new account, Sybil exposed the extraordinary story behind the famous multiple personality case.
Debbie Nathan draws on a cache of letters at the John J. College of Criminal Justice that reveals how three women, all now dead, created what they called Sybil Inc.
for fun, fame, and profit.
It was all a scam.
It was all a scam.
Sybil's real name was Shirley Mason.
She was a jittery girl who grew up quivering on a Minnesota family of Seventh-day Adventists who believed that the world was about to end, and that any fiction divorced from God's truth was a sin.
As a little girl, she was so terrified of God's watchful eye that when she made up stories, she hid this habit from her parents.
She was also made to participate in a health fad of the day, the internal bath or enema.
She developed a germ phobia and At one point examined her hands obsessively.
As a student, in New York City in the 50s, she met a Park Avenue therapist named Cornelia Connie Wilbur.
The two women adored each other, even as Connie gradually got Shirley, i.e.
Sybil, hooked on a series of therapeutic drugs, many of them new and seemingly wondrous, including cequinol, demerol, edrisel, and deprisal.
The last two were so addictive that they were soon banned.
Connie, the therapist, also strongly believed in giving patients pentathol, which invariably got them blabbing, sometimes about fantasies that could not possibly have occurred.
Still, the drug was widely believed to be a truth serum.
One day, Shirley started talking about blackouts in which she claimed she became others with various names and personalities.
Peggy Lou, Peggy Ann, Vicky.
Fascinated, the therapist said, would you like to earn some money?
She suggested that her patient could be the subject of a book.
Connie offered to pay Shirley's medical school tuition a living expenses.
The personality split was a lie.
Shirley confessed in a five-page 1958 letter that Sybil.
Shirley is Sybil.
She admits that it was a lie in a 1958, five-page letter that sits in the archives at John J. College.
She said that she was none of the things I pretended to be.
She continued, I don't have multiple personalities.
I don't even have a double.
I'm all of them.
I have essentially been lying, as trying to show you I felt I needed help.
Quite thrilling, got me a lot of attention.
Okay, fine and dandy.
Big deal.
No, it is a big deal because this is exactly how we're being played.
How many other hoaxes and frauds, particularly in psychotherapy.
What about ADD?
Attention, restless legs, all of these things.
All of these maladies.
And I know, even now, as you listen to me, you're getting mad at me.
If you have restless legacy, it's real life.
You better not.
Attention deficit disorder, parents.
I'm just telling you, folks.
All women have multiple personality disorder.
I mean, if you want to get down to brass tax, but not in a clinical sense.
You never know what you're going to get from day to day.
But I mean, that's this is this is that's the fun of it.
That's the stereotypical caricature.
But these people perpetrated a hoax.
Forty thousand women were diagnosed with this thing.
Everybody, it's not hard.
Let's put it this way it's not hard to find people who want to believe they're screwed up and need help.
You know how easy that is?
And you know how profitable it is?
You know how many people, you know how many people that are easily manipulated.
Tell them that they're screwed up and that's everybody thinks they're screwed up and everybody wants to be fixed from it.
And everybody thinks it's trip to the shrink away or a drug or what have you.
I just, if you if you look at this again the way it all shook out.
After the story of Sybil was published, multiple personality disorder became an officially recognized diagnosis.
Forty thousand patients were diagnosed with this.
It doesn't exist.
Turns out the story of Sybil was a 100% hoax.
So here we have a real live, recent case of an agenda-driven hoax becoming scientific consensus.
Quote unquote.
And a popularly accepted concept that real decisions were based on.
Real lives were affected.
I have to tell you, if I was not surprised whatsoever, the level of what is the word I'm looking for.
The lack of trust that I have for anything, any institution dominated by liberals, is hard to quantify.
My level of distrust Is so high.
Media, science, education, I don't care where you go, those people have corrupted and polluted every institution they run.
And we see the results wherever we look in this country.
United States Congress, the White House, you name it, wherever they have dominated for a significant amount of time, you have perverse corruption, lies, outright fraud, and hoaxes.
All for the express purpose of controling people.
All because they want to control everybody.
Now who do you think's in charge of this stupid occupy Wall Street thing?
The same bunch of fraudsters, the same bunch of liars, the same bunch of hoaxers.
Nothing is real anywhere dominated by liberals.
Nothing is real.
If there is a liberal political agenda attached to it, it isn't real.
Charlie Gasparino has a has a piece in the uh also in the New York Post.
He went down, he went down and actually talked to some of these uh protesters down there, and he was uh like everybody else has gone down there and done that.
He came away with uh quite a stark reaction.
And his advice is for example tell the president you don't want to be anywhere near this.
These people are, whether they know it or not, a bunch of Marxists.
This is not just about redistributing wealth, this is about total revolution.
That's what the people who think that they're doing with this thing think it's about.
And he made an interesting observation.
Also absent was any notice of how the much hated banks benefited not from free market capitalism, which would have let them fail in 2008, but rather from crony capitalism that bailed them out.
These people are down there hating the banks, hating capitalism, where if capitalism had been allowed to run its course, these banks would have failed, they would not have been bailed out, and these people would be poor and penniless and maybe in jail.
If the market had been allowed to rule.
And yet what happened?
Capitalism was superseded by the notion that they were too big to fail, and big government stepped in and bailed them out.
It was exactly the kind of government these people claim they want that led to the circumstances that tick them off.
Folks, I just have to tell you it's getting harder and harder for me each day to suffer fools.
My patience for stupidity is waning.
You know, I I gotta be honest with you.
I haven't laughed about anything in a long time.
I I wish I could.
None of this is funny to me.
And it's a it really that that too is bumming me out.
None of this, this is this is all this rot gut.
Cantor yesterday saying the Republicans, yeah, you know what?
We uh we we we also have problem with this income inequality stuff.
It's on Fox News Sunday.
What is it about our guys?
Stare success right in the face and kick it in the face.
Yeah, we there is a problem with income disparity.
Yeah, there is too wide a gap.
Yeah, yeah.
Who are we trying to relate to here?
Who whose votes are we trying to get with this?
Our phrase is now, the Republican leadership phrase is we are for income mobility.
So we're we're allowing the premise to be set by these people, and now we're jumping in on it and trying to improve it.
In other words, tinker around the margins when what's called for truly radical reform if we're gonna fix all this.
I don't find it funny.
Gallup's about ready to report that unemployment is 8.3%.
Gallup is they send out emails to their to subscribers.
And they've made note here that employment is really rising.
And they spent they hit the end of the notes.
It wouldn't be surprised if the federal government soon reports an unemployment rate of uh below 9%.
Well, this is all part of the re-elect Obama uh plan.
It's heading down the pike.
Uh so it's I mean, look, I find I find some of it funny, and I I uh I laugh at it.
Mr. Snerdley, but not for very much.
Not very long.
Anyway, I gotta take a break here.
We'll uh we'll do that, be back and continue right after this.
Rasmussen is out with a new poll.
Herman Cain, 43%.
Barack Obama 41%.
Cain at 43% is not that big a deal.
I mean, it's it is, but it's it's we're a year away.
I I st what's really grabbing about this is that Obama's at 41% and dropping.
Incumbents, the theory goes, have to be at 50% or better to have a chance of re-election in any pre-election poll.
I know this is early, and a lot is going to happen between now and election time.
But this just illustrates the opportunity that we have.
Uh they're flailing away.
This regime is flailing away, and they are in big trouble.
And this Occupy Wall Street thing is designed to shift attention away from Obama and his agenda, his failed agenda in Washington to focus it on the uh on the enemy of the day, as is announced by the Democrats, which happens to be Wall Street and the banks.
But again, it's an interesting point that Charlie Gasprino makes in New York Post column, and that is that if capitalism had really been allowed to work as it's designed, all these institutions bailed out by government would have failed.
And the people in charge of them would be hurt, would have been harmed, which is what these lunatics claim that they want.
We have put together a montage at my suggestion.
Obama praises the protesters, juxtaposed with the anti-Semitic and violent rants of the protesters.
If he were alive today, he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there.
But Jews control Wall Street!
Did I choose?
The Jews control Wall Street.
The businessman can enter tough negotiations with his company's union without vilifying the right to collectively bargain.
These billionaires are getting a lot of money just out of greed.
They're exploiting people underclass, like lower class people.
He would want us to know we can argue fiercely about the proper size and role of government.
The Zionist Jews running these big banks in our Federal Reserve without questioning each other's love for this country.
I'm a Jew.
Why are you playing with us?
You'll got the money.
With the knowledge that in this democracy, government is no distant object.
Revolution, yes.
Revolution that is dead by working on.
But it's rather an expression of our common commitments to one another.
The Jews control Wall Street!
The Jews control Wall Street.
Anyway, it sounds like Reverend Wright.
Sounds like Reverend Wright was out there on the uh on the protest march.
Anyway, Obama was at the Martin Luther King dedication and attempting to link uh what Dr. King stood for with what the people at the Occupy Wall Street uh bunch are saying and doing.
Uh this is more from the president yesterday at the dedication of the Martin Luther King Memorial.
If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there.
That the businessman can enter tough negotiations with his company's U.S. why don't you just tell us yourself?
Why do you have to say that everybody who's not around anymore would agree with what you say?
Martin Luther King were alive today, and then say whatever you want.
He can't disagree with you.
Martin Luther King's no longer here.
The variation of the old straw man trick.
That uh that this guy let's go move on to audio soundbite number three.
Here's more of Obama at the Martin Luther King dedication.
In the first decade of this new century, we have been tested by war and by tragedy, by an economic crisis and its aftermath that has left millions out of work and poverty on the rise and millions more, just struggling to get by.
Indeed, even before this crisis struck, we had endured a decade of rising inequality and stagnant wages.
Here it is.
Blame Bush.
Blame your predecessor.
Like a spiled, spoiled little man child.
Go ahead and blame everybody but you.
Everybody but yourself.
We're coming up on well, it's over two and a half years.
Obama owns it.
You know, the old uh saying by the Republican leader, Colin Powell.
You break it, you own it.
Go to a store, you break something on the shelf, you own it, you buy it.
You go to a country, start a war, blow it, you own it.
You come up with economic policies designed to destroy the country and succeed, you own it.
Nobody else did it, Mr. President.
Wanted to play for you.
The Eric Cantor soundbite is the uh Republican whip in the House, the majority, I believe, in the Republican leadership.
And he was on Fox News Sunday yesterday.
Chris Wallace said the Senate plan that would be for millionaires and billionaires.
Now I agree, some of them are small businesses, but I mean, we're now talking not about 250,000.
We're talking about people making over a million dollars a year.
I don't know what this question is, but that's not important.
Here's here's Cantor's answer.
We know in this country right now that there is a complaint about folks at the top end of the income scales.
If they make too much and too many don't make enough.
Well, we need to both go encourage those at the top of the income scale to actually put their money to work to create more jobs so that we can see a closing of the gap.
You know, we're about income mobility, and that's what we should be focused on to take care of the income disparity in this country.
Okay, so there you have it.
So you have a premise put forth by the Democrats.
The income disparity, the gap, rich versus the poor.
Rich have too much, poor don't have enough.
It's because the rich are stealing everything, so we'll accept that premise, and then we'll tinker with it around the margins and change the verbiage.
And we'll come up with a new phrase called income mobility.
And we're we're we'll say that that's what we're for.
We're for income mobility, but we're we're gonna we're gonna jump on the rich too.
We're gonna join this bandwagon of piling on the rich.
Because there's only one percent of them, and the 99% of the people who aren't rich, we want to get their votes too.
So we're gonna join this chorus that says the reason the economy's bad because the rich are hoarding their money and they won't invest it and they won't hire people and they won't uh create more jobs.
So we Republicans are gonna try to come up with policies here in Washington that make it so that rich people uh hire more people.
Uh, folks, you want to tell me what's funny about this?
You you want to you want to tell me what's funny about this, Mr. Snertley.
We've also got somewhere in a stack here.
I wish I could uh it didn't print all that well.
I might have tossed it aside, but something else Romney has said that's uh in the same vein as it's not the same subject, but is in the um in the same vein.
I'll find it here in the stack somewhere.
Uh I don't this is this is called snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I just don't understand it.
So once again, the agenda set by the left.
They set a premise.
We instead of ignoring it or nuking it, accept it, and then tinker with it.
So, yeah, well, we've had a better idea, a better way of doing this.
Solving the whole notion of income inequality.
Meanwhile, in um Realville, the regime says that it is unable to implement a long term care insurance Program that was part of Obamacare.
Effectively ending the program before it started.
They did this late in the afternoon on Friday.
Document dump Friday, it's called.
You put out the bad news when nobody's paying any attention and gets ignored, not commented on over the weekend.
This is the CLASS Act.
It was included in Obamacare to help Americans cover the cost of aid for daily living needs if they became unable to care for themselves.
Now, this was one of Senator Kennedy's top priorities.
And it's the first big part of Obamacare to get killed.
And it was killed by the regime by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Kathleen Sibelius dumped it herself.
Now you might want to say, why?
Why they get rid of it?
Because this program requires healthy people to voluntarily enter it and pay premiums.
And if they don't, there isn't any money to pay for it.
Wall Street Journal editorial.
Now that one of Obamacare's major new benefit programs has been scrapped, liberals are trying to make stone soup by claiming the Obama administration merely committed an act of good government.
They claim that when this long-term care insurance program proved to be unworkable, they conceded as much.
Now it's gone.
So let's review the evidence, not least because it so perfectly illustrates the recklessness that produced the Affordable Care Act in the first place, which is nothing about this act that's affordable.
And that's why this program got pulled.
What happened?
Judd Gregg, New Hampshire Senator, succeeded in inserting a proviso that required the class program's reality to match Democrat promises as a matter of law.
For example, if Health and Human Services could not provide an actuarial analysis of the 75 year costs of the program that ensures solvency throughout such 75 year period, it couldn't be legally implemented.
Well, the program couldn't stand up to that scrutiny, and so they had to pull it.
Now the Class Act.
The Class Act was said to be 40% of the savings in Obamacare.
And now it's gone.
Yanked out of there.
no longer part of it.
Participation in the CLASS Act was to be voluntary.
and But that wasn't going to produce enough revenue to fix this adverse selection.
The plan was for Congress to eventually make participation in the Class Act mandatory, with the so-called premiums converted into another payroll tax and the benefits into another entitlement.
So in other words, Health and Human Services had to prove that the Class Act wouldn't go broke the way it was designed to, and actuarial analysis is a matter of math, not politics, said that it would go broke.
So they had to pull it out.
Now the Wall Street Journal says at a minimum, the GOP could begin by repealing the class program altogether since its legally legal authority is still intact.
They're pulling it, but they have not pulled the authority for it.
They're just saying that they're not going to implement it.
There are a lot of stories on this today.
For example, uh this, and this is from uh where's this was from?
Well, it typically didn't print out.
I think it's National Review, but I'm not sure.
The decision to abandon the Class Act announced Friday as a sharp U-turn for an administration just a few weeks ago claimed it was not giving up on the long-term care insurance program.
When reports surfaced last month, the class office of the Department of Health and Human Services was closing down.
The regime pushed back hard, claimed that it was paring back staff, but continuing to study how to implement the program created by Obamacare.
Now, three weeks later, class is dead.
Supporters are devastated, the critics are dancing on its grave.
Here's the AP version.
Obama pulls plug on part of health care overhaul law.
The Class Act had the same problem as Medicare and Social Security.
Not enough people voluntarily paying in to support the services it provides, and so guaranteeing it'll go bankrupt.
Now, I tell you what confuses me.
They've known all along that this was going to be the result.
They've known all along that this program, the Class Act was not going to fund itself.
And yet to sell it and to have it scored properly and to get the votes for it, they had to claim that it was going to be responsible for 40% of the savings.
Now they have known from the get-go this was never going to save any money, and it was never going to be self-funding.
So I am puzzled as to why they pulled it out.
Now, I wouldn't be surprised.
And I said this two weeks ago.
I wouldn't be surprised if the regime hopes they lose this appeal at the Supreme Court and they just have this whole thing ruled unconstitutional, the mandate, everything just ruled unconstitutional, so that Obama can salvage his re-election and turn this into, oh, look what the Republicans and their court took away from you, free health care, affordable health care for all.
I already had to cancel a class act because the Republicans wouldn't fund it.
I can see all this happening.
I can hear all of this now.
I don't know what the Supreme Court's going to do.
I'm just postulating to the theory that if they did rule this thing unconstitutional, this would not be greeted behind closed doors with shock and sadness at the White House.
It would be the equivalent of a albatross being removed from their neck.
The reason it's called the Class Act, that stands for Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Program, is I said it was a long-standing priority of Senator Kennedy.
And it became the first casualty to reality.
There wasn't any money to pay for it, and there weren't enough volunteers, meaning citizens, who would volunteer to uh to buy into the program.
John Thune, Senator Republicans out there, South Dakota said it's a victory for the American taxpayer in future generations.
The regime is finally admitting that the long-term care plan's unsustainable and cannot be implemented.
Here's the central divine design flaw.
And this was from the beginning.
Unless large numbers of healthy people willingly sign up during their working years.
Soaring premiums driven by the needs of disabled beneficiaries would destabilize it, eventually requiring a taxpayer bailout.
What does that sound like to you?
Does that sound exactly like Medicare?
Does that not sound exactly like Social Security?
Unless large numbers of healthy people willingly sign up during their working years, soaring premiums driven by the needs of disabled beneficiaries would destabilize it.
If healthy purchasers are not attracted, then premiums will increase, which will make it even more unattractive to purchasers who would also obtain policies in the private market.
Said Kathy Greenley, the lead official on class in a memo to Sibelius.
So this would cause the program to quickly collapse.
So the regime is admitting that a huge, huge element of Obamacare is dead.
Can't be paid for, would cause financial problems, deficit spending, debt like you can't believe.
And 40% of the savings were to come ostensibly from this aspect of Obamacare.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Forty percent of the savings in Obamacare from the Class Act.
It was all a lie.
Multiple personality disorder.
It's a lie.
Forty percent of the savings in the Class Act in Obama, that's a pretty big lie.
It's a lie to the CBO, it's a lie to us.
And they had to lie to everybody to get that thing passed, and now they pull it.
It's a lie.
Everything's a lie.
Here's Obama back in North Carolina on a bus tour, waving around his puny little stupid phony jobs bill.
They got three sound bites and an analysis From me.
Last week they got together to block this bill.
They said no to putting teachers and construction workers back on the job.
Right.
They said no to rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our airports.
Right.
They said no to cutting taxes for middle class families and small businesses when all they've been doing is cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans.
Right.
They said no to helping veterans find jobs.
Essentially, they said no to you.
Because it turns out one poll found that 63% of Americans support the ideas in this jobs bill.
That's because the media is reporting it as a jobs bill, and 63% of the American people want to work, doofus.
The thing is, your bill is not a jobs bill.
So there you have it.
Republicans don't want teachers or construction workers back on the job.
They don't want to rebuild roads and bridges or airports.
They don't want to cut taxes or middle class.
Republicans just want you to die.
That's the message.
Republicans want you to die.
They want you to starve to death.
They want you to thirst to death.
They want to use you to rebuild a roads.
They want to turn you into asphalt so that the rich can drive over you, each and everything spit on you.
That's what they think the Republicans want for you.
Here's more.
The Republican plan boils down to a few basic ideas.
They want to gut regulations.
They want to let Wall Street do whatever it wants.
They want to drill more.
And they want to repeal health care reform.
You got their plan, which is let's have dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance.
All right, so far, at least I feel better about my plan.
But let's admit I'm a little biased.
So I'll let you decide which plan is the real American jobs act.
Look.
I appreciate I appreciate the four more years, but right now I'm thinking about the next 13 months.
Okay, so the Republican plan boils down to a few basic ideas.
Gut regulations, damn right, we do.
Get them out of people's way.
Let Wall Street do whatever it wants.
You know, again, Gasparino's right.
If you'd have just stopped and stood away, these people would have gone out of business.
And everybody who hates them would have been happy.
Markets work that way.
They want to drill more, damn right we do.
What the hell's wrong with that?
What's wrong with having our own energy?
Want to repeal health care reform?
Damn damn right we went by.
You're pulling your own health care reform apart piece by piece.
So he says he feels better about his plan.
So what he's gonna do is break it up.
Here's the next bite.
What we're gonna do is we're gonna break up my jobs bill.
Maybe they just couldn't understand the whole thing all at once.
So we're gonna break it up into bite-sized pieces.
They're gonna have to come down to North Carolina and look those construction workers in the eye and tell them why they can't get to work doing the work that America needs done.
They're gonna have to come down here and explain to working families why their taxes are going up while the richest Americans and largest corporations keep getting sweet deals in the tax code.
They're gonna have to come down and explain to you why they don't have an answer for how we're putting Americans to work right now.
Yeah, I gotta see evidence of that all over the place.
This is the uh jobs bill, by the way.
Don't forget this, folks.
Tell me, sturdley, who was it that voted against the jobs bill?
Democrats are the Democrats.
The Democrats.
What are there?
52 Democrats in the Senate.
Right.
So they control the Senate.
They're 52 Democrats.
He couldn't get 52 Democrats to vote for this thing.
There are a lot of Democrats that voted no.
If the Democrats had held firm, it would have passed.
And yet he's down here in North Carolina lying through his teeth.
Telling the crowd that he wants the Senate to pass.
He's going to break this up into parts, and the first part that he wants passed is 35 billion dollars for states to put teachers and cops and firefighters back to work For one year.
What they don't tell you.
$35 billion to put teachers, police officers, and fire back to work for one year, and then states and local communities have to come up with the money to keep them employed.
I didn't know the federal government was responsible for hiring and paying teachers and police officers and firefighters anyway.
Gotta take a break.
Be right back.
Don't go anywhere.
Okay, that's it.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence.
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