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Jan. 28, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 28, 2013, Monday, Hour #2
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As usual, my friends, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
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So if President Obama is going to weigh in on football safety, maybe, maybe somebody tomorrow, Media Day, maybe they're going to be overrun with media in the uh in the superdome yet.
Maybe somebody could ask Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs about how to reduce the deficit.
You know how to fix the NFL.
You really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL.
Put Obama in charge of it.
Put him in charge of the league, make him the commissioner.
In a few months it'll be so deep in debt it'd have to go out of business.
And that way, no more concussions.
One I glossed over this, but I I want to I want to share with you one more excerpt from what Obama told a guys, or the guy at the New Republic when he weighed in on this.
And he said, I'm a big football fan.
I have to tell you, if I had a son, Trey Vaughn, I'd I'd I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.
But it'll be a whole lot better for the players and fans who won't have to examine our consciences quite as much.
I mean, that is a stunning thing.
But then there was this.
The president said, I tend to be more worried about college players than NFL players, in the sense that the NFL players have a union.
How's that working out for them on concussions?
Anyway, that NFL players have a union.
They're grown men, they can make some of these decisions on their own.
So here you have the president of the United States basically saying that adult NFL players are not capable of making all the decisions that need to be made, which is exactly my point.
They can make some of these decisions on their own.
College kids, too young, too exploited, don't know what they're doing.
Adult players, they can make some of these decisions on their own.
I'm telling you, don't doubt me.
The way the left looks at it's football in this case, but it's anything else.
The owners, they're the ones who know full well what they're doing.
They're exploiting these players.
They don't care if they get hurt.
They don't care if they get concussions, they don't care if they commit suicide later.
It's what can you do for me now?
They don't worry about tomorrow.
And the players are a dime a dozen.
A guy gets hurt, put him on injury reserve, bring somebody else in.
Just keep the turnstiles open on Sunday.
It doesn't matter.
So the owners, you can't trust them to do anything.
That's right.
The players, you hurt Obama.
They can make some of these decisions, but they can't make it.
They're not smart enough.
The players just don't know enough.
Uh what's good for them.
They need somebody like Obama or a Federal Commission, whatever, to oversee the game, because the players don't know what they're talking about.
They don't know what they're doing.
They're not smart enough.
And the fans fans are just showing up at the Roman Coliseum watching a Christian throwing to the Lions.
They just they just want the bloodlust.
They just want the car crash.
They want the injuries.
They want the violence.
They want the hard-hitting.
They want the ooz and oz.
We can't leave it up to them.
And if you have the courage to admit it, that's the left's attitude about virtually every problem in society.
Jobs, income, car to drive, gasoline, you'll sit, you name it.
You just can't make some of these decisions on your own.
You just you don't know what's good for you.
You don't know what's best for you.
Somebody else has to move in.
Okay, Obama said to the new Republic, you'd get a lot more done without Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
Um the rest of the media is in the tank.
Everybody else has fallen in line.
There is no Opposition.
Other than Fox News and Limbaugh.
And the way it works is, and see what what this all boils down, the Republicans, I mean, they everybody knows they want to get along with Democrats.
Everybody knows they want to socialize.
Everybody they want to have their lives have meaning, but Limbaugh is the one standing in the way.
Because what happens?
You know, the Republicans are simply afraid that I'm going to criticize them if they do something that is cooperative with the Democrats.
And so that that's a problem.
And you know, he started his first term the same way.
You know, the timing here is interesting.
Well, I think within the first week, maybe two, in 2009, Obama convened a meeting at the White House of the congressional leadership, House and Senate, Republican Democrat.
And he said to uh John Boehner and Eric Canton, you can't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
That's not the way things get done.
And I remember I talked to Boehner here in the EIB Southern Command orifices some short weeks later, and he brought that up, and he said, I don't why would he say that to us?
Sitting in there we're talking about legislative action coming down the pike in his first year.
He says, Can't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
You gotta stop listening to Limbaugh.
That's not how the things get done.
And I said, you really don't know why he was hoping one of you would agree with him.
Mr. Speaker, he was hoping that one of you Republicans would go to the microphone after that meeting and agree with him.
Because his whole purpose is to eliminate any opposition.
Ah, Rush, that's not what he's trying to Boehner disagreed with me and said that I was misreading situation.
Here we are four years later, and it's the same thing.
Different words, same thing.
I'd get more done.
The Republicans would be more willing to work with the Democrats, meaning the Republicans would be more willing to cave in.
The Republicans would be more willing to compromise their principles.
The Republicans would be more willing to give me what I want if it weren't for Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
Because I've got everybody else in the tank.
Here is, this is on this week, the needs David Brinkley from ABC yesterday.
Martha Raditz was a co-host, and she's talking to Chris Hughes, who's the editor-in-chief and publisher of the New Republic.
She said, Chris, you had a pretty extraordinary interview there with President Obama.
He pointed out something that he thought was a problem with the Republicans.
He said in the interview that certain members of the media are hurting the Republican Party, too.
He said if a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you'll see a lot more of them doing it.
I think Boehner genuinely wanted to get a deal done, but it was hard to do in part because his caucus is more conservative, probably, than most Republican leaders are.
By the way, Boehner is now saying, well, I don't want to put words in his mouth, but he's saying he wouldn't have done the fiscal cliff deal the way he did it if he had to do it again.
Here's what Chris Hughes, the editor of the New Republican, the guy who did the interview with Obama said in answer to her question.
The president thinks that the American people are on his side when it comes to immigration, when it comes to gun control, when it comes to physical issues, and he thinks that the Republican Party is increasingly extreme.
Another piece of the interview that I thought was really, really fascinating is we asked him about the new kind of politics, the Obama of 2008 and where that had gone.
And he mentioned that two things that had been a real challenge.
One was institutional reforms, specifically referencing the filibuster, and secondly, the media environment, the world in which we live, where we only really listen to the people that we agree with.
Only listen to people we agree with, and the only people that are in my way are Limbaugh and Fox News to get rid of them.
And then I've got a clean slate.
Martha Raditz then said Sarah Palin even said something this week.
She did not specifically talk about Fox, but that we're preaching to the choir is what she said.
There's a growing sense that uh there's a need for a media out for media outlets and media opportunities that are not necessarily centrist, but that have different perspectives and make it easy for us to hear people that we might disagree with and actually engage on the merits rather than just uh recycling old ideas.
You realize, ladies and gentlemen, that I kind of am in this position, not because of anything I do, really.
It's because the mainstream media has ceased doing what they are constitutionally charged with doing.
Kirsten Powers, noted liberal uh commentator on Fox.
Last week, I forget what the story was about.
But she was she was on with John Fund, and they were talking about the White House press corps, and she thought what Fund had said had been a little bit too easy on the media.
She said, Oh, it was about Al Joker and all these people fawning over Obama, going Gaga as though he's a celebrity of the United States during the inaugural parade is going gaga.
She said it's embarrassing.
The purpose of the media is to hold people in power accountable, and they're not doing this.
They're swooning.
And she went on to say, I would never swoon.
I couldn't do it.
She said it's embarrassing to watch what the media did.
And she's exactly right.
So the only reason, folks, I mean, I I would love to take credit for this.
I'd love to say that I find myself here because of a brilliantly conceived flawlessly executed strategy.
But one of the reasons that Fox News and I stand out like sore thumbs here is because the rest of the media is gone.
The rest of the media is in a tank.
The rest of the media has long ago ceased doing their job.
They're not reporting, they're not curious, they're not holding Obama accountable.
They are on board.
They are part of the agenda advancement team.
So Obama says the only thing standing in my way is Limbaugh and Fox.
What do the media do?
They go after me and Fox.
They're not at all concerned about what's what's happening here.
In the slightest.
Let's jump to sound by five.
Ben Shapiro, young, bright, young conservative.
He uh is running Breitbart News now.
He's the editor at large at Breitbart.com.
He was on Fox and Friends this morning with Steve Deucey.
And uh and and uh re reacting to this claim Obama made.
Deucey said, what do you think of the president's quote there?
Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
He has dictatorial tendencies.
He talks about how the incentive structure needs to be changed.
He's talking about silencing members of the media that he doesn't like.
And he's done this before.
This idea that Fox News is some sort of evil force in the media.
He's gone after Rush Limbaugh, he's attempted to start secondary boycotts of Rush Limbaugh.
This is what he does.
He's a bully.
And he's going after the NFL in the same way, and he's going after uh uh anybody disagrees with the same ways.
That's Ben Shapiro, the editor at large at BrightMart.com.
And Obama has been part of these uh secondary boycott attempts.
There's no question of it, unprecedented for presidents.
I mean, you if if if Richard Nixon had endeavored to do twenty percent of what Obama's doing, I mean, the roof would blow.
Now, yesterday afternoon, minding my own business, what was I doing?
I think I was reading.
I got an email from Howie Kurtz, our old buddy, used to be at the Washington Post, now he's well, I think Daily Beast now, and he also has this show.
Reliable sources at CNN.
And how he said, I don't know if you're watching, and I wasn't, but Bob Costas was on my show today.
And Bob Coss has brought your name up, just out of clear blue.
I didn't bring it up.
Coss has brought your name up on this gun control business.
And he sent me the transcript of what Costa said, and I looked at it and I said, Well, that's not what I said.
So I wrote Howie back.
I said, Look, it's a real fine points and narrow distinctions.
It's not what I said.
Here's what here's what Costa, and Howie said, I know, I know we played what you really said at the top of the segment.
I just wanted you to know in case you hadn't seen it.
And I hadn't seen it, so I thanked Howie for letting me know.
It was reliable sources, Howard Kurtz talking to Bob Costa, said, Do you think that in the wake of the horrifying new town tragedy.
The country is having the debate about guns.
Perhaps you hope to stimulate a little bit with what you did in your commentary on Sunday night football.
Rush Limbaugh said that I was merely echoing what my NBC bosses wanted me to say because of the MSNBC connection.
It's perceived as a liberal network.
The problem with that is it's 100% false and was based on no knowledge that he had of any kind.
In fact, the president of NBC Sports, Mark Lazarus, is a gun owner and a hunter.
I wrote what I wrote.
They knew it was going to go on the air, because they had to know what it was for time.
They had not so much as a commas input into what I said, nor did they encourage me to say it.
And I never said they did.
Let's reset the table.
Minor point.
What happened was Costas did his commentary on Sunday Night Football after the after the Javon the the Kansas City Chief, the Belcher player.
And everybody that I wasn't even gonna talk about it was no surprise to me.
I know Bob and I know how he feels about these social issues.
It wasn't any surprise to me.
And I wasn't really talking about people started asking why did he do it?
Or and then the question after why did he do it?
Why is he allowed to do it?
That was the big question.
How come he's allowed to do it and people like you can't?
And I said he's allowed to get and Dawn, I remember Don looked at me and nodded or hit an agreement.
He's allowed to do it because his bosses at NBC agree with him.
I didn't say they wrote it.
I didn't say they asked him to say it.
I didn't say they had any input in it at all.
All I said was at the reason there's no problem with it at the network level is that the people at NBC agreed what he said for the most part.
I mean, there's a the people were asking me about it is because certain certain people are allowed to inject their politics in sports and other people aren't.
If you're a good liberal in standing, you can inject your politics into sports all day long, be it racial politics or guns or any other social issue.
Taxes, if you are a conservative, you're not.
All hell breaks loose.
Or Bob Costus is said to be courageous and brave for weighing in on this.
Had a conservative had that commentary slot and said something just the opposite, like the guns were not the problem.
Oh hell would have broken loose.
Like, what the hell is that doing in a game?
We're here to watch football.
We don't want to be preached to.
And people were asking me, how come there wasn't any criticism?
All I said was because his bosses agree with it.
I never said that they wrote it.
I never said that they asked him to say it or ordered him to say it, or anything of the uh sort.
Now let's take a break.
We'll get to more of your phone calls when we get back.
In fact, here's exactly what I said.
And this is December third, 2012.
This from the archive at Rush Limbaugh.com.
A lot of people send me emails and texts.
How come Costus gets to express his opinion during halftime of Sunday night football?
And I said, the answer's simple because that's the opinion of his bosses.
He gets to express the opinion because it's what NBC thinks.
It's what his friends at HBO think, it's what the left believes.
And I repeated it word for word the next day.
And I wasn't even that critical.
I mean, I I didn't even bring the thing up.
As I say it was not that big a deal to me because it wasn't a surprise, but I was inundated with people asking me the uh the question.
I don't know where he thinks that I said his bosses made him do it or wrote it for him or any that was never the intimation.
Here's uh Randall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, on um Bob Sheeffer, Diane Feinstein was on Bob Sheeper Sunday on Meet the Press.
And she expressedly said this.
She said, by collapsing the stock on an AR rifle, it turned the AR into a fully automatic machine gun.
Now, Bob Sheefer is smarter than the average bear, and he knows that is not true.
How do you know that?
Huh?
How do you know that Bob Schiefer knows that isn't true?
Because he he does a lot of this gun stuff.
He listens to what people I wouldn't consider Bob Sheefer a low information voter.
No, I wouldn't be able to do that.
I'm telling you, though, that a lot of these media people, when it comes to guns, have no clue.
They use the term assault rifle.
There's no such thing as an assault rifle.
How do you know he knows about the intricacies of collapsing the clip?
Or the stock.
Okay.
I I'm not gonna I'm gonna take that back.
I don't know for sure that he knows that, but I would bet that he would be aware of that fact.
Okay, well, let's pretend he does.
Let's pretend he does.
What's the point?
Okay, the point is do we as Republicans need to start lying like the Democrats to the uninformed voters because they seem to believe everything that is not true.
They won't even go out and find out what the truth is because they've heard it before.
So are we just gonna have to start lying in order to get the low information voter onto our side?
Well, I understand, I understand your frustration.
The low information voter is swallowing a bill of goods.
And your your your question is basically how do we reach them if if they're believing lies.
The thing is they don't know that they're believing lies.
They think they're believing the truth.
And that we're the ones lying to them.
They're not believing the truth at all.
They're believing the lies more than they are the truth.
No, no, I I understand.
Believe me.
Believe me, I I understand this.
We are we're we're working.
In fact, we you probably don't even notice, but we have an ongoing outreach effort here to the low information voter.
We're doing it every day on this program, and I've gotten good feedback.
I can't tell you how they'd blow the whole day, but it's working.
Don't doubt me.
Just you can trust me on this.
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I build a little bit here on the uh the president.
He started out in this new Republic interview saying the Republicans, they want to get along with the Democrats in Washington.
They want to be able to socialize.
He said these things.
They want to be able to socialize, they want to be able to participate in bipartisan legislation.
They want their lives to have meaning.
The Republicans want to feel like they're making a difference.
The Republicans don't want to feel ostracized and so forth, and then they're just scared because the minute they do anything that makes it look like they're gonna agree with Republicans and Limbaugh starts bashing them and they're afraid of that.
And and if you just get Limbaugh to stop bashing them, they'd be a lot more fulfilled in Washington, they'd be a lot more socially acceptable.
I mean, these are not his words, but they're close and it's what he said.
And it's as though he really cares about the Republicans.
You know, he really wants them to do well.
It's like this this immigration.
Yes, we're gonna get to this, folks.
Um The Democrats, don't you know, are so eager to share some of their voters with the Republicans.
That that's that's why.
The um That's why the Democrats are urging the Republicans.
Look, you guys, we love you, and we really want to go to parties with you, and we we really want you to join us when it comes to legislation.
We want you guys here in Washington to have meaningful lives and want you to be happy.
That's why you're you're gonna have to Relax some of your positions on immigration.
You're you're you're going to have to agree with us on uh amnesty and uh and the border.
Because we all know, folks, that the the Democrats want to share some of their voters with the Republicans.
The Democrats, they don't want all the Hispanic voters.
I mean, they're willing to share some.
They know it's not fair if every Hispanic votes Democrat.
So they want the Republicans to do the right thing.
They want the Republicans to join them when it comes to amnesty so that they get some Hispanic votes.
And the Republicans it's the same thing on abortion.
The Democrats, they don't want all the women votes, and particularly the the Lena Dunham type women, 18 to 24, they want to share the women that are voting for them.
That's if the Republicans would just relax their position on uh abortion, Roe versus Wade, then the Democrats would like them, maybe socially acceptable, go to parties, and the Democrats are more than willing to share some of their voters.
Isn't that right?
Yeah.
I mean, well, isn't it when the Democrats say that the Republicans are having trouble, and by the way, the Republicans agree, the Republicans are out there saying the reason we lost the election is that the Hispanics don't like us and the women don't like us, so we're gonna have to moderate our position here.
And we're gonna have to be we're gonna have to assume positions that send the message that we don't dislike Hispanics, and the Democrats say, yeah, you're gonna have to do that.
And you're gonna have to come out amnesty and all kinds of things and agree with us on this, and if you do that, we'll give you some of our voters.
And I I guess there are some Republicans who really believe this.
I guess there's some Republicans who really believe that the Democrats are willing to give up some of their voting advantage because they're eager to do what the Democrats want on these issues.
It's in here's Obama now talking about he understands that the Republicans want to be able to socialize and have lives that have meaning and they want to be able to f feel fulfillment at the end of the busy legislative day by participating in legislation, and Obama knows the only way to do that is if the Republicans change their opinions and agree with Democrats, and everything would be hunky-dory.
As though he really cares about the Republicans.
That would be the same guy, Barack Obama, who sat by while his campaign called Mitt Romney a felon and essentially a murderer.
That's how much they like Republicans.
Oh, yeah, the Democrats really respect and like the Republicans.
That's why...
They smeared Robert Bork and uh Clarence Thomas.
And that's, you know, these are the same people that routinely accuse the Republicans of wanting to starve kids and uh the elderly and uh declare war on women.
The same Democrats who accuse the Republicans of wanting to poison the air and the water.
The same same Democrats who accuse the Republicans of being racist.
How many times a day does that happen?
These are the guys that really care about our well-being.
These are the people.
The president on down, these Democrats, they really want Republicans to be part of the mix.
They really, they really want Republicans to do the right thing on immigration.
They'll even give them some of their voters.
They want to do the right thing on women's issues.
They want them the same people, all this caring and compassion, to call Republicans racist, sexist, bigots, homophobes, called Romney a felon, called Romney a liar, said Romney didn't care about his dogs, Romney wasn't paying enough taxes, Romney's a rich guy, can't trust him, had all his money invested.
They really like Republicans.
The Republicans just don't understand it.
And they've gonna have to compromise on all these issues.
No, I'm being a little bit facetious.
And the way I think, the way I'm looking, I look at Barack Obama as attempting to eliminate any viable opposition.
I look at Obama trying to wipe out any opposition.
And I'm no, I'm being.
See, I know I'm sincere and I've mastered sincerity, and I'm trustworthy.
And if sometimes you don't get the sarcasm you might misunderstand, but my real point is that Democrats are not interested in having the Republicans get any Hispanic votes.
The Republic Democrats are not interested in the Republicans getting any women's votes.
My point is the Democrats know that if they can convince the Republicans to go along with them on amnesty, that they are losing their base.
They might pick up some Hispanic votes, but that's even doubtful.
Here's Anne in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
I'm glad you called.
Hi.
Hi.
Hey.
Hello.
Hello.
Yeah.
What's your first name?
Tim.
Yeah, okay.
Tim.
Tim, it's Tim.
Mega Gage and Diddle's from Modegrock Country.
Thank you, sir.
Ver very much.
I've probably been listening to you since the first day.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you so much.
Well, thanks for taking my call.
Uh you bet.
My son-in-law has one of those sliding stocks on the AR fifteen.
Oh, yeah.
And it turns it into a fully automatic rifle.
It's just the mechanics of it when you push on one um part of it and then you pull the trigger when it rocks back and forth, it shoots the whole magazine clean.
And it's a legal add on to the weapon.
Okay, so you're saying that Bob Schiefer's right?
It it yeah, yes.
It may it does make it a fully automatic weapon.
I don't know how easy they are to come by, but I've seen the gun and I've seen it.
What is autum what do you mean by automatic weapon?
It it does not stop shooting.
It's not it doesn't become a semi-automatic, it becomes a machine gun.
So one pull of the trigger and launches multiple bullets.
It it'll shoot the whole clip 30 rounds in about second and a half.
Okay.
Uh I'm I'm so you're what is it you're calling about?
Well, uh you you had said it was you didn't think it was possible that it it could do that.
And it and it is.
I mean, it's a it's a true it's a real add on to the gun.
Oh, so you're calling in response to the last caller who's uh so you're disagreeing with the last caller.
Correct.
He's he he didn't think it could happen in it, but it can.
Oh, okay.
So the last call so so Bob Schiefer was right.
Uh the last caller was wrong, and you can collapse the stock and turn it into a machine gun.
Yes, sir.
It's it's uh it's a collapsible stock is what it is.
And just the action of that um, I guess the the firing of it makes it it just makes you finger move back and forth.
D do you have one of these?
My son-in-law does.
I I've I'm unaware of of something turning a semi automatic rifle into an automatic rifle.
I've I'm just not aware of this.
Well, I I just saw it.
I went to his house uh a couple of months ago and he showed it to me and he showed me the video, and it works.
Showed you a video?
Of him shooting it.
You know, he had his iPhone or whatever, and they took a picture of him shooting it out in the in the woods.
Okay, so I guess you're talking about the bump fire stock, but I'm I um okay, so you're calling essentially to say that the last caller on this was wrong and didn't know what he was talking about.
That's correct.
Okay, and that means that Diane Feinstein and Bob Schiefer are right in what they're saying.
Is that what you're saying?
Um I didn't see what they the show, but what did they say that it the bump fire stopped turns it fully automatic?
Hmm.
Okay.
Well, look, um Tim, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
I gotta take a break here, folks.
We'll be back after this.
And back we are.
This is Rush Lindboy and your guiding light.
Happy to be with you, folks.
This is Don in Green Bay.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
It's uh pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Um with all the talk today about um guns and whether or not guns can become semi automatic weapons, and recently with all the information in the news about the second amendment, um, I was wondering if you were aware of some public service announcements that were recently made by the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department.
One of them in particular.
Yep, he said arm up rather than call 911.
Right.
The sheriff uh David Clark said um he's urging citizens to take a gun safety course because calling 911 and waiting due to layoffs and officers on furlough is no longer an option.
And you can beg for mercy from uh a criminal or a robber, but the police may not be able to get there soon enough to help you.
And I just wanted to say um when it comes to listening to a an African American liberal democratic president or a conservative African American Milwaukee Sheriff Department representative, I'll take the sheriff over the president any day of the week.
Well, it's a wise decision.
I look at the assumptions that have been made.
This is this is one of the things, and people say that this or that drives them crazy.
One of the things that that drives me crazy.
That's the wrong way to put it.
One of the things that really makes me curious is, and I know the romantic notion people have of government, and I know that that's been promoted by big government types.
But look at the number of people who actually think, they really think that Barack Obama is the guy to design a healthcare system, that Barack Obama is the guy to set up the rules on abortion and contraceptives, that Barack Obama is the guy who ought to tell football players how they should play the game and tell the league what it should do.
He's a man who hasn't done anything.
He has had no real world experience in healthcare in terms of energy.
Here's a guy who's telling everybody that you need to drive this kind of car and we need to get rid of oil and replace it with windmills and solar panels.
He doesn't have the slightest idea what he's talking about.
He is simply advancing political agendas.
And yet the number of people who blindly put faith in the notion that a guy who has never treated a patient has never been involved in the invention,
the RD, the marketing, the bringing to market creation of a drug, who has never run a hospital, who has never run an emergency, never been anywhere near running a business, is somehow the nation's foremost authority on all these things.
That's what boggles my mind.
Now, I'm saying the same thing you are, in a more generalized way.
This country had the premier medical and health service industry in the world.
It was incomparable.
It was by far and away the best.
And a guy goes and gets elected president in 2008, and all of a sudden, he, and he alone, and before him, Hillary Clinton, who's also never been in the hospital other than as a patient, Who's never run a business, who has never been inside an oil company, a drug company, a retail company, never.
These people have all the answers.
These people know better than all of the experts in all of these fields.
In fact, it's not just that.
It's not just that they know better.
It's that they are clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
And all of the experts in all of these businesses are crooks.
And this is what the left asks us to believe.
That everybody in big oil is a crook, that everybody in big retail is a crook.
And everybody in big drug is a crook.
And what they're trying to do is rip off customers and steal profits and steal money and whatever they're trying to do, kill their customers.
They're not trying to provide the right services.
And all these other liberals, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, they are clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
They wouldn't cheat anybody.
They are going to protect everybody from the evil.
Practitioners and experts in all these businesses and all these industries.
And it just continues to blow me away that people will put all their faith in somebody who doesn't have the slightest idea how any industry, business, or service works.
They'll put total trust in that person to run it, put it together, organize it, execute it.
It's mind-boggling.
And it's the result of 50 years of class envy criticizing the private sector and everybody in it.
This is where we end up.
Okay, top of the hour break.
Coming up here, folks, Apple has just released iOS 6.1, the upgrade for the iPhone, the iPod Touch, and the iPad.
So I'm going to be upgrading here during the break, and we'll be back.
And we'll not miss a beat.
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