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April 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 3, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yeah, right.
No, no, no.
I'm ready to go.
No, I can I can adjust the TV at the same time I can do the program.
It's a one-handed operation.
Amazing, into my twenty-fifth year, and people still doubt my abilities in some cases.
But that's okay.
Great to have you here, folks.
L Rushbaugh and broadcast excellence yet another hour.
It's great to have you here.
Telephone numbers 800 282-2882, the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
The White House goes after Fox News by name.
The White House goes after me by name, because what the White House wants is to eliminate any opposition.
Political media, wherever it is.
That is the modus operandi of the president.
Just rather than debate people and win in a contest of hearts and minds.
I don't want to do that.
No, no, just eliminate the opposition.
It's been the way Obama has approached politics since his first days in it.
Well, now they're back to calling out Drudge.
This is from the uh the Washington Examiner during a playbook breakfast event with Mike Allen from the political, the White House senior advisor Dan Piper, or Pfeiffer, lamented the effect of the Drudge Report on the news cycle.
He said this is less true now than it was, but there's a Pavlovian response from some media outlets.
You mean like the Pavlovian response we got when Bush named Cheney to be his VP.
Grafitas.
If I've ever seen a Pavlovian response, it was that.
About a hundred thousand media people all use the same word to describe the choice of Cheney.
Gravitas.
We've played that soundbite for you over and over again.
And they've there have been other examples.
He says it's less true now than it was, but there's a Pavlovian response from some media outlets, Pfeiffer explained, noting that reporters often ask questions about a topic just because it's on the Drudge Report.
Now Pfeiffer added that when he is asked about something on the Drudge Report, he usually ridicules the reporter asking the question until the reporter sheepishly backs down.
Pfeiffer said that the Drudge effect can be damaging to the White House effort to communicate their message.
So it's a profound admission.
They value control more than they do truth, accuracy, or any of that.
And as leftists, this does not come as a surprise.
But the Drudge Report is is an aggregator.
Very little of what is on Drudge does Drudge right.
And when Drudge gets fired up about something, you'll see a siren, and he might take a stab at it.
But all Drudge does is find what's in the news and put it up there.
And the genius or the brilliance of Drudge is that he happens to pick stuff that millions of people around the world are interested in that wouldn't see if he didn't post it for them.
Because it's being excluded by other people.
I've often said the New York Times is said to be top dog in the news business by reputation, by size and all that.
I've I've often said, you know, the news business is trying to figure out what to do on the internet.
What do we do there?
How do we monetize it?
How do we make any money?
Most of them just reprint their newspapers.
They've added some blogs, try to sell some banner ads.
The New York Times should be doing what Drudge is doing.
If they're really interested in the news, and are really interested in Drudge, uh rather uh uh people being informed, all the news fit to print, but they don't do it.
There's a niche that Matt came along and filled quite ably.
Now the New York Times provides the same role for the rest of the media.
The New York Times, whatever is in the New York Times every morning is what gives newsrooms all across this country their marching orders for the day.
That's why it is called the newspaper of record.
I'll ne I've never forget I learned things, as we all do, incrementally.
I'm in Sacramento, 1984.
First, first real opportunity I'd had to do a radio show the way I had always wanted it to do.
And I had been in the business by that time, 1964, 18 years, minus five years at the baseball team.
So 15, 18 years, that's the first chance I'd ever had, and I'm I show up at the radio stations, all news station, and with some talk shows thrown in.
And one day when I walked in, the operations director was in a fit, was having a tizzy, because nobody had thought to pick up the New York Times.
He said a newsroom without the New York Times is not a newsroom.
This was a Sacramento radio station.
But the New York Times was supposed to provide the guidelines or the blueprint for what the news that day is, and it still does.
The CNN morning show, the MSNBC morning show, they look at the New York Times and that's where they decide what they're going to talk about, what guests they're gonna get.
Well, that role has been taken over by Drudge for a lot of people.
Now Drudge is the blueprint for the news that day.
And so when the White House is approached by people asking what's on Drudge is no different than if he would be asked by something that's in the New York Times.
Except they don't approve of Drudge, and all Drudge does is find news that's out there that other news agencies universally ignore and don't report.
And then he cleverly attaches headlines, links, photos, and what have you.
And now you've got a White House spokesman, senior advisor trying to browbeat a reporter or any reporter into not bothering to ask them about something that's on Drudge.
And it's all part of the effort to delegitimize what is on Drudge.
In fact, the New York Times does the opposite of what Drudge does.
The New York Times buries the news that they don't want anybody to know about.
And Drudge does not do that.
The Associated Press, the largest gathering news gathering outlet in the world will no longer use the term illegal immigrant.
That news came in the form of a blog entry authored by senior vice president and executive editor Kathleen Carroll yesterday afternoon, explaining the decision as part of the company's ongoing effort to rid their style book of labels.
The style book no longer sanctions the term illegal immigrant or the use of illegal to describe a person.
Instead, the style book now tells users that illegal should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally.
What am I missing?
If that doesn't describe what's happening here, I don't know what does.
The company's decision comes after years of controversy over the term.
Fusion, the ABC Univision joint venture, does not use illegal immigrant because we believe it dehumanizes those it describes.
And we find it to be linguistically inaccurate.
Most of America's top college newspapers and major TV networks, including ABC, NBC, CNN have vowed also to stop using the term nearly there's one reason why.
They're losing the issue.
They are losing the notion of amnesty.
And they're losing it because these are people remember that live and die with labels.
And when they apply the label, everything's fine.
Everything's like mean spirited extremist right winger.
Perfectly fine.
Illegal immigrant?
Why no?
We're only gonna use that to describe actions.
Well, what they do?
Get beamed here.
Or did it require action to get here?
Anyway, they're doing this uh under the guise of not hurting people's feelings and not offending them.
But the real reason is that an accurate description is not furthering the cause of amnesty.
Pure and simple.
Uh what is the political correct term?
Uh uh what are they called uh uh unauthorized aliens.
That's what it no, no, no, that's not it.
What what that's somebody's idea, that's somebody's suggestion.
Um there is a term uh typical journalism.
They've it it's at the end of the story, and I don't print I never print the end of the story, so I don't know uh don't well speaking of that, let's do this.
Let grab somebody 22 and 23.
This is Jay Leno on the Tonight Show last night during his monologue.
And in a groundbreaking move, the Associated Press, the largest news gathering outlet in the world will no longer use the term illegal immigrant.
That is out.
No longer illegal immigrant.
They'll now use the phrase undocumented democrat.
That is the new undocumented democrat.
Hey, lots of laughter out there, and I got a lot of emails.
Hey Rush, you ought to repeat Leno had a great joke last week.
Let's go back to this program July 1st, 2010.
Undocumented Democrats, because that's really what they are.
They're undocumented Democrats.
They're future Democrat voters.
That's why the move is being made.
Largest voter registration drive in history.
No, we're not accusing Leno of copying anything.
I just I don't know.
People I got a bunch of emails from a bunch of Bible thumpers, and they said, you know, you really ought to play that Leno bite because it's funny.
And I look at it and said, Well, I already used that line.
I used I've repeatedly, not just back in 2010, repeatedly.
So I just wanted to go back and document that we've been using the term now for coming up on three years.
How about irregular migrant instead of illegal immigrant?
Well, that's nothing.
The problem with irregular migrant is it sounds like a body function disorder.
And you wouldn't want to convey that.
I think undocumented Democrat.
I think we ought to work hard to have that established.
Because I mean the reason, one of the reasons it's funny, good comedy, good humor has to be rooted in truth.
If there is some undeniable truth in it, it makes it even funnier.
In fact, it's what gives it its humor.
And folks, that's all this is about.
Undocumented Democrats becoming registered to vote.
That's what immigration reform is about.
That's why so many of us don't have any idea what the Republican Party is actually thinking of doing here.
Why they are so hell-bent on this.
Because all this is legalizing some undocumented Democrats.
That's all this this this program has as an objective.
And it's no more complicated than that.
Okay, back to the phone, Jennifer Milford, Ohio.
Glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Ross.
How are you?
Very good.
Thank you.
Um love your show.
Uh I was um on the I got hurt at work.
And I've been on temporary disability.
And insurance company that um I deal with, I only get 241 dollars a week.
If I get that, okay?
That's the only income I have.
Okay, now wait.
I I need to follow this because I don't know anything about this.
So you are speaking a foreign language to me.
You gotta go slow.
You got you got hurt at work.
You've been on temporary disability.
Who allows that?
Where do you go?
Who proclaims you to be on temporary disability?
Well, what it happened um I had um the company I work for I had hurt my knee and they disregarded that well and said you know there's nothing wrong uh nothing needs to be fixed.
Well, my knee would literally, the kneecap would literally come off of my knee.
And I was walking one day, and I fell when it gave out.
I had blown out a disc so bad when I fell from my knee injury, from my work injury.
My God.
So the kneecap was floating around in there, and that caused you to fall over, and then you blew out a disc when you fell over.
Yeah, when I fell.
And then I was paralyzed.
Oh, no.
yeah from my from the from my hip all the way down on my left side.
Just so the kneecap led to the fall which led to the disc which led to paralysis?
Yes.
And you were only temporarily disabled?
That's what they have me now.
Now and I have I have been through two back surgeries.
I have two more I'm only forty one um and when the doctors look at you know my um they just can't believe because they have totally destroyed my life.
Who is they?
Who who is they the company the company I used to work for Calm Air and I would I would be outside I were at the ramp.
I I've always been a hard worker.
Right, but they ruined your life because they did all this right because if they would have only fixed my knee from the from the get go I would have I would have never but they didn't believe you right you told them your kneecap was floating around in there and they didn't believe you.
Right.
Their doctors said there was you know totally nothing wrong with me.
And then Oh you sure proved them wrong didn't you?
Yes, I did.
I've been fighting for five years now.
I won the case, and I still have to go, you know, back again.
But, you know, I have severe chronic low back pain.
I mean, I have major nerve damage on my right side.
You know, I can't enjoy the things I used to.
Wait a minute.
You're paralyzed.
Well, let me go through this.
You lost your kneecap was floating.
Right.
And then that caused you to fall, which blew out your disc.
Then you became paralyzed from the hip down on the left.
Now you've got chronic low back pain, major nerve damage on your right side.
Right.
And paralysis is gone.
They fixed that.
Oh, good.
Okay, paralysis is gone.
Yeah, I would not.
That was awful.
Okay, well, what needs to happen?
What's going on for you?
Geez.
You know, I've been through so much.
I mean, why did you call?
What is the point that you are trying to tell people about here?
I was talking to Snorley about food stamps.
Oh, we haven't even gotten to that.
Oh, we haven't even gotten to that yet.
Well, I know.
I, you know, make between $10,000 and $12,000 a year.
How can you do that with all of your injuries?
That's all.
Well, the only income that I get is the insurance check from the company.
With the temporary...
Right, the disability insurance check for the rotten company, right?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And so, like I was telling Snorley, you know, I'm supposed to get them every week.
It could go, you know, $241.
That's all I live off of.
a whole week.
Now with food stamps you know I had to get help you know because you know I was raising a son here I am um you know disabled going through all this Okay so what I'm still what I'm trying to get at Jennifer here is um why did you call Snerdly and want to tell him all this and then tell me what where I don't misunderstand.
I'm just trying to where we're going here.
I we get I hear you, and it's terrible what's happened to you, but I know I'm I'm I'm just nervous.
Um well last year I was receiving just a hundred dollars with food stamps.
This past January, it got knocked down to fifty dollars a month.
Well, but wouldn't you rather live not needing any of this stuff?
I would love it, Rush, but it's so hard when I mean I I am a very humble person.
It sounds to me it sounds to me as I listen to your plight.
I mean, you're you're sitting there uh maybe justifiably angry at this rotten, no good company that you work for.
But it sounds to me when you start talking about food stamps, it sounds like it's Obama that's taking food out of your mouth.
Well, yeah, well, you know, and it's kind of hard because here I am, you know, um trying to, you know, that helps me out a little bit, and I'm very, very, you know, thankful, and yeah, I would like to get off of the system.
You know what I you know, I don't cheat the system, never have, never will, but fifty dollars um is like buying milk, bread, and eggs, and he's you know, well, Michelle Obama says you shouldn't be eating that kind of thing anyway.
If if you went to like tofu, uh you I don't know, you might save some money that way.
And welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the excellence in broadcasting network, our telephone number 800 282-2882.
I am here it is.
Uh Jennifer from from uh Milford, Ohio.
I was trying to to because time was dwindling down, and I was trying to nudge her into the point that she was making.
She didn't call just to recite her circumstances.
The point that she was trying to make was pretty similar to the previous caller, is that she has all of these, in her case, legitimate disabilities, and yet she kept facing cutbacks in food stamps from 200 to 150 dollars, and she didn't understand why.
And she didn't know what she had to do to to change it.
And she because of her injuries, she had become totally dependent on government agencies, and she couldn't navigate them.
And what they were providing for her wasn't enough.
Now this what this what this illustrates, that there are people who are in legitimate circumstances where they have suffered injuries or they are in certain circumstances where they're just not capable of taking care of themselves, where they're just they just can't.
Uh either through bad luck or just the circumstances.
And those are the people that nobody objects to helping.
Those are the people that nobody has any problem helping.
That's why we are considered such a compassionate society.
She does not know how to game the system.
Essentially, our last caller, Jennifer from Miller.
She worked.
She worked the line at a at uh uh uh sound like a an FBO fixed base operation on the line at an airport, come here.
But the uh or maybe an airline, but regardless, she doesn't know how to game the system.
She doesn't know how to manage prescriptions and all that kind of thing.
And the price of everything is going up as it is for everybody, and her food stamp allocation is shrinking, and she doesn't know what to do about it, and and we live in a in an era where everybody believes we're doing more for those kind of people than we ever have.
Because we finally got a compassionate administration.
And so these stories surprise people.
They uh they shouldn't be happening.
And I tell you, it's only gonna get worse.
Here's uh another one of these stories, AP, millions of people who take advantage of government subsidies to help buy health insurance next year are gonna get stung by surprise tax bills if they don't accurately project their income.
And I'm folks, I'm gonna tell you that the people are gonna get hurt by this, have no idea how to project their income accurately or otherwise.
They don't know really what it is.
President Obama's new health care law, otherwise known as Obamacare, will offer subsidies to help people buy private health insurance at the state exchanges.
If they don't already get coverage through their employers.
The subsidies are based on income, and the lower your income, the bigger the subsidy.
Well, right off the bat, people are gonna figure out that the best way to get the best government deal is to work the least so as to keep your income low.
It this is called a disincentive.
This is the exact opposite of what we ought to be inspiring people to do.
And right here, if the Republican Party is looking for a way to get their message out, it's built in right here in this program.
Look, I wonder, go through this again.
Obamacare is going to offer subsidies to people helped by private and health insurance through the exchanges if they don't get coverage through their employers.
The subsidies are based on income.
The lower your income, the bigger the subsidy.
And off the top of your head, that sounds compassionate.
Well, what's the incentive here?
The incentive is to not better yourself.
The incentive is to sit there and and basically just subsist.
Because that's how you get the biggest benefit.
Now, some of you might be saying, but Rush, it costs so much that there isn't enough hard work you can do to pay for it.
It makes more sense to take the subsidy.
Sadly true.
Illustrates the scope of the problem that we face.
But here's the next part of the problem.
The government doesn't know how much money you're going to make next year.
And you don't either.
Unless you have a contract, and even if you have a contract, subject to any number of things that could change it, you could end up with a bigger subsidy than you are entitled to.
And if that happens, the law says you have to pay back at least part of the money when you file your tax return in the spring of 2015.
All people want to do is go to the doctor.
That's all they want to do.
Get sick, want to go to the doctor.
Now look what they're going to have to do.
They have to keep their income low if they don't have employer-provided health insurance.
And by the way, that's not even going to be a factor in five years.
There isn't going to be any employer provided health insurance if Obama gets his way.
But that's another discussion.
So if people don't have employer-based health care, and I'll last caller Jennifer, great, she doesn't have employer-based health care.
What is she going to do?
She's going to have to go to the exchange.
And it's going to be in her best interests to have no income.
Now, how is that helping anybody?
How does that help the country?
How does that inspire people to greatness?
How does that inspire people to making something of themselves and of their life?
That the objective you're going to have is make sure you don't earn very much so that your health care subsidy will be high.
Sorry, that's not a recipe for greatness.
Mr. Limbaugh, we're not talking about that many people.
Yes, we are.
That's the sad thing.
We're going to be talking about more and more people as this economy continues to stagnate along, as wages continue to stagnate, as inflation continues to go up.
This is going to end up ensnaring a lot of people.
And the message we're sending is don't earn too much.
And it's not just here.
If you earn too much, you don't qualify for food stamps.
If you earn too much, you don't, and they want you to stay qualified.
So the government will help you find ways to keep your income low.
How's that helping anybody?
I'm sorry.
It may be rooted in compassion.
I understand how people will fall for that.
But I don't think human dignity, this is not something that we ought to be advising people to do.
if If I were growing up today, and my dad said, no, son, when you get out there and start working, don't earn too much.
Because then you won't qualify for X, Y, and Z. You know that kind of education's going on today.
It's what I meant in the first hour.
I went through a little monologue on this.
My dad, my whole family, the exact opposite.
My dad worried that I wasn't going to amount to anything because I wasn't going to get a formal education.
Told the story a gazillion times, and I won't bore you with it again.
But he was interested in my success, my independent, thriving success.
I can't imagine growing up and being told, now don't earn too much because you won't qualify for this or that, and you can't get through life without that son.
You can't get through life without the government helping you with your health insurance.
You just can't do it anymore.
That's a sad reality.
People are being raised that way.
Now we add to this the fact that people are going to have to project for the law what their income next year is going to be.
Because the government doesn't know how much you're going to make.
So when you apply for the subsidy this fall, the government's not going to know how much you're making this year unless you tell the government otherwise, it'll rely on the best information it has, and that's your 2012 tax return, which has to be filed by April 15th of this year.
So what happens if you or your spouse get a raise and your family income goes up next year, and you didn't know you were going to get the raise, and you didn't, you don't want to lie on these forms.
You don't want to over-project your income.
You don't want to underproject it, but you certainly don't want to overproject it.
So you can't you can't calculate a raise you're not going to get, but what if you get it?
Well, you could end up getting a subsidy bigger than you should because you weren't honest on your income.
You aren't dishonest, you just didn't know you were going to get the raise in this example.
So if that happens, Obamacare says that you have to pay back part of the money when you file your tax return.
That could result in smaller tax refunds or a surprise tax bill for millions of people.
Joan Baird of Springfield, Virginia, it's AP story.
They found somebody who works in health care.
She said, That's scary.
I had no idea.
I didn't know I work in health care, and I had no idea.
She is a health care information management worker.
And she has no idea that this is part of the law.
So, bottom line is that millions of Americans could be surprised with tax bills way higher than they ever imagined under Obamacare if they don't accurately project their income.
So it's not enough now to file your tax return.
You're going to have to project next year's income in order to qualify for a subsidy on your health insurance at the state exchange.
And all you want to do is go to the doctor.
Quick timeout.
Back with much more after this.
Don't go away.
By the way, folks, even without messing with projecting your income and all of that we just talked about.
The form, the form that you have to fill out in applying for a subsidy at a state exchange under Obamacare is 61 pages.
It is an application for subsidy.
It's 61 pages, and it's in that 61 pages that you are going to have to project your income for the next year.
Every year you're going to have to do that.
Every year that you're qualifying for the subsidy.
You have to project next year's income, and you better get it right, or you're going to end up owing a whole lot of surprise dollars.
But how many low information, even high information people are going to be able to fill out a 61-page application for a subsidy anyway.
And here's this.
Subsidies are available for couples making up to $62,000 a year and a family four up to $94,000 a year.
Now, why are we subsidizing those people?
Mr. Limbaugh, we're subdivising those people because the cost of health and skyrocketed so high because of the greedy enthronts company.
Oh.
The insurance companies are so evil, so greedy that we have to subsidize a family of four earning 94 grand to buy their health insurance if their employer doesn't provide it.
Yep.
I'm going to tell you, folks, my my parents would not believe life in this country today.
They would not people came out of Great Depression would not believe this.
94 grand, you get a subsidy.
Now I know most of you dread tax season.
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Probably one of the most stressful times of your year.
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Am I going to be audited?
Do I owe the money to the IRS anyway?
Am I doing this?
Is this right?
Am I going to get fined and not even know it?
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They were here, probably I don't know what happened.
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