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May 31, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 31, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Welcome back to the show, ladies and gentlemen.
It's the famous hour three.
It's Duggar Bansky filling in for Rush Today.
And today, as you know, is Friday.
Live from the left coast at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
It's open line Friday.
It is indeed.
I welcome your calls on any topic, whether I've mentioned it to you or not today.
I see a number of you holding.
I will get to your calls before the show is finished today.
1-800-282-2882 is the number.
If you'd like to be part of the little Jenny today, do we think, do we think that there's always been something a little odd about Lincoln Chafee?
Lincoln Chafee, ladies and gentlemen, the Rhode Island governor.
He has switched parties again.
He's become a Democrat and he's joined the Democratic Party.
I like to call it the Democrat Party because it annoys a few people on that side.
Yes, he's switched.
And the reason he has switched is because he is inspired by Barack Obama in Rhode Island.
The last poll, by the way, had Chafee at 25% approval.
If you find Barack Obama an inspiration, you switch.
Lincoln Chaffee has always been a little screwy, if you ask me, and a few screws loose as well.
We see here Ted Cruz.
Is Ted Cruz not, ladies and gentlemen, making a very dramatic and, I think, wonderful name for himself?
He is out there, and he is not holding back.
He's putting himself out there.
He's throwing the punches.
He's saying the things that many people are thinking.
He's saying the things that many people think need to be said.
Well, now, of course, he is out there.
He is accusing the Department of Justice of unprecedented disregard for the law.
And as I said to you the last hour, the Department of Justice needs to be the beacon, the pinnacle of integrity.
You lose integrity for an administration, for a country.
You lose integrity.
And the Department of Justice, you really are sliding off the slope into a third world country type of operation.
So Ted Cruz is out there saying it is time for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign.
He says the degree of willingness of this administration to target a reporter for this network as an unindicted co-conspirator, that is without precedent.
He says this to Megan Kelly on Fox News.
Ted Cruz does.
He says, and unfortunately, I think it's part and parcel of a pattern of this administration of not respecting the Bill of Rights.
And what he's talking about is the Department of Justice subpoena of Associated Press and Fox News reporters.
And of course, Holder's desire to sit down with this off-the-record meeting with reporters to discuss the First Amendment.
I love that.
So Cruz is out there, and he goes further.
He says he's on Fox News with Megan Kelly, and she asks him about Holder's resignation.
He says, yes, yes, he's got to resign.
He says, unfortunately, he said, I think it's part and parcel of a pattern from this administration of not respecting the Bill of Rights, not respecting the First Amendment, not respecting the Second Amendment, not respecting our Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights regarding drone strikes and regarding the IRS.
He added that this was a disturbing pattern of behavior from the White House.
Is it not exactly that?
Is it not exactly that?
Is Mr. Cruz speaking the truth?
The White House, the administration, they go out to the Helen Thomas home, probably to the Jimmy Carter wing, and they dig out, they had a bunch that they're digging out, they dig out Howard Dean.
Now, Howard Dean is cuckoo birds, but they want to marginalize.
They want to marginalize anyone who speaks the truth about this administration and their activities.
Howard Dean says, Well, this is silly.
His comments of Cruz, it's like Rand Paul talking about getting rid of the Fed.
It's a silly idea, and if you actually did it, the economy would collapse, says Howard Dean.
Howard Dean goes on, he says, This is what you're up against.
Ted Cruz is holding up the budget in the United States of America.
Senior Republicans in the House and the Senate would like to have a conference committee on the budget.
Howard Dean is his attitude is sort of how dare they want to have a conference on the budget.
He says, Ted Cruz and Market Rubio and some guy from Utah are holding up the budget because they're right-wing nutjobs who don't care.
Now, according to Howard Dean, who's out there speaking for the left, you're a nut job if you want to discuss the budget.
If you want to have a conference committee on the budget, you're a right-wing nut job.
And Howard Dean doubles down.
He said, because fundamentally, you don't care about this country.
What you care about is their political career.
And that's what's wrong with the country today, says Howard Dean.
Now, it's precisely the opposite, of course.
Because as I said at the end of last hour, what's up is down, down is up, left is right, right is left.
It's anything but their own political careers.
It's precisely unlike you, Mr. Dean.
It is care about this country that motivates them.
Now, they go, while they're over there in the Helen Thomas home, in the Jimmy Carter wing, they manage to find Tom Brokaw and they bring him out.
Now, Tom Broca is out there, and he has said that the media should not attend this meeting with Eric Holder.
Now, here's the interesting part of this: Tom Brokaw has himself attended off-the-record meetings in the past.
He was asked about this.
Politico, I think, reached out to him.
They want to know why, as someone who attended off-the-record meetings with government officials in the past, why did he take issue with this meeting specifically?
It gets worse because Tom Broca is out there and he's taken the most bizarre, truly bizarre position that Obama's scandals are not as big as Watergate or as Iran-Contra or even Abu Gharab.
So he's out there.
He's dismissing the significance of these scandals surrounding Obama.
He's asked about the scandals, like the targeting, and I love there's that word again.
Our caller earlier made the point, profiling should be the word, targeting of conservatives by the IRS.
The Department of Justice's subpoena in of communications records of journalists.
And Brokov says they do not compare to the scandals involving past administrations, including those of Nixon, Reagan, and Bush, George W. Bush.
He's on a television show on MSNBC, which has no viewers.
And the show itself has even fewer viewers.
This is a show hosted by a guy called Torre.
Do you know who Torre is?
H.R. Have you ever seen Toray?
Yeah, okay.
Well, we.
Yes, when you've got one word name, like Houdini, Sher, Houdini, Torre.
So he's on with Torre, and Torre is talking to him.
And he says, with regard, he's saying to George to Tom Broko, he says, with regard to the IRS and AP scandals, we hear the word Watergate thrown around a lot.
It says Torre.
He says, are these, to Tom Brokaw, are these actually Watergate-esque?
And Brokov replies, no.
Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.
Tom, Mr. Brokaw, Tom, if this isn't a constitutional crisis of the highest order, then what exactly is he said, for political purposes, I can see why people might make that comparison.
For political purposes, there's no comparison to be made.
It's for political purposes, which is why these people do these things, these corrupt things to start with.
Brokaw went on.
He said the Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan recently wrote that the IRS scandal is the worst of its kind since Watergate, but that she did not account for the scandals that occurred in the 80s and 2000s.
He writes, he said, rather, Tom Brokaw, I was covering Iran-Contra during the Reagan administration when she was working for that president, in which we were funding a war illegally.
We were trying to make a deal with the Iranians at the time.
That was a pretty big scandal, says Brokaw.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's go back to Iran-Contra, which Ronald Reagan had nothing to do with and ultimately, very quickly in the affair, took complete responsibility for.
Let me ask you a simple question about Iran-Contra.
Was any of that activity designed to protect the president, to help the president, for personal aggrandizement or wealth or power?
It was not.
And that is what is distinctly different about today's scandals.
They are designed to protect the president, to protect his power, to protect his self-aggrandizement.
They are all designed around one motive.
And the motive of patriotism and country and constitution is not the motive.
Brokaw went on.
He said Abu Ghraib was a big, big scandal and how it, he said, no one was really held accountable for it.
This happens in every administration and it's happening again, meaning that no one was held accountable.
Well, actually, that's not true.
The people who did it were held accountable.
That's what happened, Tom.
That's what happened.
Now, I understand what Brokaw is saying.
But, ladies and gentlemen, my friends, Tom Brokaw has become an idiot.
He thinks the White House using the IRS as a weapon against their political opponents is not a scandal of the highest order.
Because it is.
Now, I'm picking on Tom Brokaw here for a specific reason.
I remember a few years ago hearing an interview with Mr. Brokaw in which he was with a conservative radio host.
And during this interview, Tom Brokaw said something about Rush Limbaugh, the man whose show this is, even though he's not here today.
What Tom Brokaw took issue with was Rush Limbaugh's right to have a show, and he said to not be accountable to anyone for what he says.
Now, when I hear somebody use words like that, I get the chills.
I get the willies.
Not be accountable to someone?
Who?
Who should you be accountable to?
I tell you, Tom, it's time for you to go back to the Helen Thomas home.
Enjoy your retirement over there.
Talk to fellow travelers over there.
Rush Limbaugh, the problem with Rush Limbaugh's show is that he's not accountable, is what Mr. Brokaw said.
We'll continue with him and your calls in mere minutes on Open Line Friday.
It's Dugar Bansky.
We'll be right back.
You know, folks, it's so weird.
Tom Brokaw is all worried about a constitutional crisis.
If using the IRS for your own political purposes and your own political gain is not a constitutional crisis, I don't know what is.
And Tom Brokaw is all worried about constitutional crisis.
By the way, it's Dugar Bansky filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
Back to the show, ladies and gentlemen.
He's all worried about a constitutional crisis, and yet conveniently, conveniently, he forgets Bill Clinton lying to a federal grand jury.
He forgets that, and yet every single fair-minded American, every single fair-minded American without exception, knows that the IRS scandal is a constitutional crisis.
There's no one with a brain who can think otherwise.
I mean, if after all the facts are in, that it's ultimately revealed that a sitting president did use the IRS for political purposes, specifically to target his foes.
I mean, give me a break, folks.
Abu Gharab, I got to be honest with you, it's merely about the mistreatment of some prisoners, mind you, prisoners who were taken on a battlefield at a time of war.
Nothing to be proud of, but my goodness, you can't compare it, Tom.
Brokaw will never understand this.
The average American, Abu Gharab, was not even a pimple compared to the IRS scandal.
Because each and every American can relate to the power, to the reach of the IRS.
Everybody understands this.
Everybody understands.
But you see, here's the thing.
Abu Gharab happened in Iraq.
But Bush and Cheney, of course, were blamed for it, so it's much worse, according to Tom Brokow, just with that fact.
But Obama gets visited in the White House like 150 times, 157 times by the IRS commissioner in two years, which doesn't take place in Iraq at all during the years of targeting conservatives.
And we are believe, we're to believe that Abu Ghraib is somehow worse.
Watergate was a two-bit burglary to spy on the DNC.
But it was not a constitutional crisis, ladies and gentlemen, until there was a cover-up.
The cover-up blossomed into something called paranoia.
Funding the Contras.
That was a good thing when we were in the Cold War fighting the Soviets.
Arm for hostages was wrong.
But let's remember this.
It was done out of compassion.
So, Tom, I don't know.
I guess it's this simple.
Watergate was a Republican scandal.
Watergate was a Republican scandal, and that's the major difference.
John in Chicago, I see you've been holding an awfully long time, sir.
Welcome to the show.
How are you today?
I'm very good.
How are you?
I'm so good.
Happy to speak to you, sir.
I'm a Democrat.
I consider myself a liberal, so I really appreciate the opportunity to talk to you.
I have really been enjoying the hysterical right-wing victimization narrative.
I get a big kick out of it.
Oh, what show have you been listening to?
I've been listening to your show for like an hour on hold, man.
So I just want to say that.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that so much.
It's part of my trickery to get you on hold so that you listen.
Well, it works.
I just heard you say something, and I'm surprised you heard it.
So after an hour and a half of saying unequivocally that the president directed the IRS to beat upon the Tea Party for political reasons, then just now you said if the evidence indicates that, it will be a constitutional crisis.
Of course, you've been saying unequivocally that that's the case for about an hour and a half now.
So I find it interesting that now all of a sudden you say, well, if the evidence shows that, because of course there is no evidence of that.
But I wanted to ask you about something I heard Senator Ron Johnson from the state of Wisconsin say yesterday that I think is sort of related to the opinion of a lot of Republicans on the IRS matter.
He said that even in the absence of any real connection between the White House and the IRS's Increased scrutiny of Tea Party organizations, that the president is still responsible because of his tone towards the Tea Party, because he has a negative, threatening tone towards the Tea Party.
And I'm not really sure what that means if he thinks that psychically the president was directing the IRS to pick on the Tea Party.
But I looked on the internet to try to find even one example of the president actually saying the words Tea Party.
I couldn't find one.
So I'm wondering if the question is.
John, my new friend, slow down for a second here.
I'm trying to understand why you're calling this show.
I'm trying to understand it.
You seem like a very nice guy.
I would enjoy your company if I was visiting Chicago.
We could have a steak at Gibson's.
I love Chicago.
That would be great.
John.
Yeah, I love Gibson's as well, by the way.
But, John, let me just help you.
In the first, I don't want to be misquoted.
I never said what you said I said.
This show is recorded.
There are printed transcripts.
We look them up.
We know we didn't say that.
But I'm fine that you heard that because I'm delighted you heard.
I never said that Obama had directed the profiling or targeting of the people in the IRS situation.
I just want you to know that.
I'm going to call this because you asked a rhetorical question.
You said, did the president direct the IRS to target Tea Party groups?
Yes.
My new friend, hear me, please.
Well, of course he did.
That's speculation.
And of course he did.
Who doubts it?
I mean, come on, other than you.
But the bigger thing is this.
The bigger thing, my friend, is this.
I'm interested to know why you called the show.
If it's the tell me about some congressman or senator or governor, it's really not important to me what those other guys says.
I don't know what tone he's hearing.
I'm not in his head.
I never spoke to him.
I can't even speak for him.
Okay.
I can only come here and speak for myself.
Okay, well, can I ask you another question?
Well, yes, hopefully it's relevant.
You've now confirmed that it's just speculation that there is no evidence that the president directed the IRS to pick on Tea Party groups.
And you don't necessarily even agree with Senator Johnson that the president's tone towards the Tea Party.
Is that correct?
I don't know who he is.
I don't know what he's talking about.
Oh, do I think the president has anonymous view of all these things?
Well, he's, yeah, I got a heartbreak.
I got to go anyway.
Listen, it's great to talk to you, John.
I'm going to be scratching my head the rest of the day as to why you actually called the Limbaugh show.
I appreciate it.
I always like a good dialogue.
But my goodness gracious, is there anybody out there who doubts the president's tone and attitude toward anyone who opposes him or his agenda?
Does anyone doubt this other than John?
Welcome back to the show, ladies and gentlemen.
Dougar Bansky is sitting here in sunny Southern California speaking to you across the country on the number one listen-to show in the country, filling in for Russia.
We'll be back soon.
Mark Stein, as you know, will be here on Monday and Tuesday.
You know, Tom Brokaw, Tom Brokaw, we've been talking about Tom Broca.
Very, very peculiar stuff for Tom Brokaw.
I mean, he's as nutty and biased as Dan Rather was.
I mean, Abu Gharab being far worse than the IRS scandal.
You kidding me?
I mean, seriously, putting a leash on a terrorist is worse than the president of the United States using the government's top law enforcement powers and the IRS to subvert the Constitution in order to terrorize the media and their political opponents.
Of course it's not.
Of course it's not.
And I enjoyed speaking with John from Chicago a little while ago.
I'm going to hear I'm going to hear people say to me, why were you so polite to John?
This is a polite, it's not my show.
This is Russia's show.
And I come here to hopefully keep Russia's audience satisfied in his absence.
It is not my job to make headlines or fight with the callers.
I want to be polite.
I want them to come back.
John is clearly a wildly misguided, and I'm sorry to say, John, if you're still listening, a very uninformed person.
And you know my views when someone's uninformed.
You are not entitled to your opinion.
You are entitled to your informed opinion, but nobody is entitled to be ignorant and shove it down my throat.
So, I want to go to a few more calls before the day is gone here.
I've enjoyed speaking to many of you.
Patrick in Nashville, Tennessee.
Welcome to the Russian Limbo Show.
How are you today, Patrick?
I'm doing great, Doug.
And I hate when people are gratuitous, but I'm going to be, just for a second here, I miss your show.
I used to listen to you all the time here in Nashville, and I enjoy listening to you when you're sitting in for Rush.
So that being said, there's a local show here where last week the guy was talking about the IRS situation, a movie unfolding in front of us.
I hadn't really thought about it that way, but it is a really delicious plot and would probably make a great movie.
Would you be interested in producing something like that?
No.
No, I enjoy my life too much as it is.
I don't want to break.
What's that?
I mean, surely you're probably old enough, and there's probably something wrong with you, and they're going to get rid of you for some other reason anyway.
So, you know.
You know, Patrick, you are a very wise person.
I think you're right about all of that stuff.
No, you know, the thing is, Patrick, they're probably going to get rid of you for some reason.
Oh, well, Patrick, here's the thing.
All seriousness aside, and I do enjoy my life too much to try and make an IRS movie.
But, Patrick, it's a great moment for me to give you a little bit of, give people a little bit of insight in the movie business.
When I finish the show today, there will be many, many, many, many, many emails that come in, but there will be many people who call me.
And a good portion of them have got a movie idea.
And I tell you something: it is very, very, very hard to get a film made.
So, as a result, the sort of films I get connected with are films that can be made and films that can be made.
That doesn't mean they're liberal or conservative.
By the way, you notice films that have conservative leading themes and morally correct outcomes are the ones that are generally made and the ones that are generally successful.
I mean, I assume the Superman movie is going to be all the things we like and very successful this summer.
I haven't seen it yet.
But my point is that I had a very well-known writer pitch me a story about global warming the other day, anti-global warming.
Very well-known conservative writer.
Before he died, Christopher Hitchens often pitched me stories that were political in nature, but you couldn't really get them made.
It takes so much out of your blood, your eyes, your DNA, your oxygen to try and move a movie along, to get the actors, the writers, the directors, and to get it right along the way.
It's hard.
And sadly, I don't think the IRS is an interesting topic for a movie.
Now, many things that are not interesting topics for movies are great topics for talk radio.
They're great topics for documentaries.
They're great topics to even talk about on television, which is a great place for these things.
But a movie about the IRS won't get in the feeding trough.
And I don't say that to insult or disappoint you, but you've already told me they're coming for me, Patrick.
It was just very apropos because when I actually called in, we were batting around who could play who.
And, of course, I immediately thought about you being the producer.
And then it was apropos that here you are on Russia's show this week.
And I actually got to speak to you again.
I called your own show a couple times.
So I just appreciate you taking my call.
Patrick's point of view.
But Patrick, you know something else?
You know, I have this other bizarre acting career kicking in at the moment.
You know this?
I don't even pursue it.
Are you aware of this?
No, I did not know that.
Well, after I appeared in the social network, they came to me recently asking if I would play Lyndon Johnson in this movie called Killing Kennedy that's going on television.
So it's a very funny old world.
I don't look anything like Lyndon Johnson, but it's a very funny ⁇ I was almost tempted so I could come here and tell you folks about it one day.
But it's a very funny old world.
Patrick, I'm thrilled to hear from you and thrilled that you're out there.
So any other point you want to make in this little chat before I have to depart?
No, no, I think I have had my piece, and I appreciate it.
I just always enjoy talking to you and always enjoy listening to you.
Thank you.
All right, Patrick, you're very, very kind of you to call the Limbaugh Show today.
Thank you so much for calling the Russia Show.
Douglas Jerbanski here, ladies and gentlemen, filling in for Russia.
Thank you, Patrick.
Anytime I have the chance to talk about the movie business, it probably doesn't belong on this program, but it is very, it's a miracle.
Movies are very expensive to make.
You don't make a motion picture with a piece of paper and some crayons.
You've got to raise a lot of money, and you really have got to solve a lot of puzzlements.
And then, of course, there's no guarantee it's going to be good unless I'm involved.
Then, of course, we have our ways of making sure it is good.
But thank you very much, Patrick, for your kind words and also for bringing up that question.
I want to speak before we go to the break to Dennis in New Orleans.
Dennis, welcome to the Russian Limbaugh Show.
I see you holding there.
How are you today, sir?
Welcome to the show.
I'm fine, Doug.
Thanks for taking my call.
I was just listening to the liberal Democrat that was just on just a few minutes ago.
This is John from Chicago.
I was a conservative Democrat.
I'm 55, and I just changed over to the Republican Party about two years ago.
I did not vote for Obama.
And even my parents in the 80s have switched over from Democrat to Republican.
And I just think the main issue out here for the Democrats to realize the conservative Democrats to realize is that this is a liberal, conservative issue and not a Democrat-Republican issue.
And that a lot of these conservative Democrats better realize it and start voting conservative if it means voting for the Republican Party.
You know, I'm very glad.
Dennis, I'm very glad you brought this up.
Very glad you brought this up.
And by the way, I love your city.
I was just there last week.
I'll be there again next week.
Hearing your accent makes me want some of those oven-roasted oysters and some pompado from Lake Poncetrain.
We enjoy having you here.
Yeah, I love being there.
I love New Orleans charm as well.
Here's the thing.
It's very crucially urgent that conservatives recognize that the Republican Party is their home and that the Republican Party has lost its way.
That it is lost.
It is infiltrated.
It is inhabited by another being.
That is a middle-of-the-road thing.
And once you're in the middle of the road, once liberalism and conservatism meet in the middle of the road and shake hands, conservatism is sunk.
It has no place to go.
I mean, I enjoy Bob Dole as a nice man, but we all saw his interview the other day.
And that's what's him, McCain, these others are exactly what's wrong with it.
It's very, and the Tea Party, I've made this point, is the ballast, the balance and the ballast of the conservative movement.
It's very crucial.
And do you notice this, Dennis?
You never see this happen the other way around where conservatives infiltrate the Democrat Party.
Only our party must be a middle-of-the-roader.
And then you're beloved by the other side because you're beloved by the other side only when you agree with them.
Have you noticed this?
Party keeps shifting left all the time.
Yeah, we must re-inhabit it.
We must, we must, we must.
I can't say it loud enough.
And I'm so glad you made the point.
Dennis, any other point you want to make here on the Russian Limbaugh show?
No, that's it.
Appreciate it.
I'm so grateful that you called.
I really am, Dennis.
Thank you very much.
Ladies and gentlemen, Doug Rubanski, filling in for Russia.
We've got to take a short break.
We'll be right back.
Winding down to the last two segments of the day here, ladies and gentlemen.
Douglas Grubansky filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
Want to squeeze in two more telephone calls before we go, so without much further ado, and then I've got my closing remarks coming.
Mark Stein, as you know, is going to be here on Monday and Tuesday.
Rush is back on Wednesday.
I want to quickly go to Chris in Charleston, South Carolina, because Chris, you've got something to say about the caller who called a little while ago, John, in Chicago.
Welcome to the chat, Chris.
How are you?
Thanks.
Thanks for taking my call.
I do.
I was listening, and he was saying that he didn't feel that President Obama had ever really referenced the Tea Party before and didn't see how his tone could even be taken into account, except that he has.
After the stimulus vote, the Tea Party was in full swing.
They were protesting in Washington, and he referred to them in that very derogatory term for Tea Partiers.
You know, I don't want to say it, but he used the derogatory term T-B-H-E, and you fill in the rest.
Chris, are you sort of being the candy Crowley of this situation?
I'm going to have to call, I'm going to have to call Obama on it.
I've got the transcript.
Yeah, I'm going to have to.
I've got it right here in writing.
He referred to them as that.
And if that man from Chicago is still listening, he could look it up on Political Punch ABC News.
He could look it up on Atlantic Wire.
I mean, he did use the derogatory term for Tea Partiers.
You think, Chris, I was too easy on him?
Oh, yeah, you absolutely were.
I mean, I know, of course, we want to try to reach out to our liberal friends, but he doesn't really want to be educated.
He just wanted to say, hey, Obama is the saint we all think he is.
He surely would predict that.
Yeah, the reason I don't know.
I don't want to get confrontational because, you know, it's not my show.
It's Rush's show.
And my aim when I come here is, honestly, it's not my right to be rude or confrontational or hang up.
I mean, you hear idiots all the time.
I don't want to wait till he's gone and call him an idiot.
Oh, well, why not?
I just did.
But I was sure that he was wrong.
He certainly was wrong about what he said I had said, and he certainly would have been wrong about that.
And is there any sane person alive left who doubts Obama's disdain for tea partiers or anyone who opposes him?
Absolutely.
I mean, what planet have you got to be on?
But I do think.
Is that your whole point there, Chris, today?
Yeah, it is.
Thanks for taking my call.
Hey, listen, I thank you for being the candy Crowley of today's show and calling and having the transcript handy.
Thank you so much, Chris.
And I'm also grateful, Chris, you didn't use the offensive phrase.
I don't like that phrase.
I don't like it.
I didn't like it.
One last quick call here.
Tim in Texas, welcome to the Russian Lumbo Show.
What's on your mind today, sir?
Thanks, Doug.
Hi.
I want to turn the conversation back to where you were about an hour ago to health care.
And something that I've been wondering about, and I can't, it seems so simple, it makes me think that I'm missing something.
But the Health Care Affordable Health Care Act is a law that requires that Americans buy something.
And I don't, that's an unusual law to make people buy something.
And one of the premises for passing the law was that it was going to drive prices down.
Prices were going to be lower.
Well, now we find that prices are going to be higher.
So if prices are going to be higher, but they were supposed to be lower, why do we have to buy anything?
And can the law be challenged on that basis?
Tim, you know, you're making a terrible mistake here in your description.
Shall I tell you what it is?
Okay, go for it.
You're being logical.
I know.
That's what HR told me.
Yeah, you must not be logical where these people are concerned.
And they don't care about the rule of law.
There is no rule of law.
If there's a rule of law, where are the judges?
If there's a rule of law, who are the law enforcers?
Who's watching the law enforcers?
We're in a weird time.
I mean, I'm supersonically flying way past your comment, just saying, look, if we've got a police state use of the IRS to profile individuals and harass them and worse, then we are way past being able to get somebody to agree to the technical nuances of lawsuits and the Constitution and all the stuff that gets challenged and discussed.
Yes, you make perfect sense.
That's the problem.
You know, I guess the country's just advanced to such a stage that I can't keep up with it.
Yeah, advanced or declined, I think.
Right.
I'm not sure.
Yeah, declined.
Declined to such a state that we can't keep up with.
Yeah, what was your last thing you want to say?
Yeah.
You know, I listened to Rush's show for its content, and you are in such harmony with Rush and the way the content is delivered.
I really like it in the way you handled John from Chicago in a reasoned way that advanced the content.
And he laid out kind of an empty argument, and you went at it on that basis.
Yelling and screaming doesn't get anywhere.
I don't like that.
Well, I was really honestly in my heart feeling, why the dickens is this guy calling the show?
I couldn't understand what point he was making.
Anyway, Tim, I'm really grateful that you're there and that you called the Limbaugh Show, and I want to thank you for your very kind words.
So deeply appreciated, I cannot tell you.
Ladies and gentlemen, what a week it has been.
Isn't it comforting to know as a result of this week that the IRS has been, that they're the ones who are going to be in charge of Obamacare?
We've ended up learning that.
You know, a few weeks ago, Rush was talking about how Obama was blaming things on him.
He was blaming the fact that he couldn't get anything done on Rush.
He was talking about this to Harvey Weinstein and Justin Tilberlake.
I'm going to complete that thought when we return for the last segment.
It's Ducker Baski filling in for Rush.
Got to scoop and take a short break, but we'll be right back.
Ducker Basky back with you finishing up the Rush Limbaugh Show for the week.
I was making the point before the break.
Rush often will tell you that he comes here and he's motivated by love of country and he wants to protect and defend institutions that he loves.
They're under attack.
And he does it magnificently and better than anybody.
And I just wanted to make the point that when I'm the only Rush fill in, I think, that knows Harvey Weinstein personally.
That's actually acted in a film.
I've acted in a film with Justin Timberlake.
And in my little corner of Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen, what I attempt to do, because I'm always asked, what do you think of Rush?
How can you be involved with a man so full of hate and all the rest of these ridiculous questions?
And in my little corner of Hollywood, what I try and do, ladies and gentlemen, is defend an institution that I love, as you do, the Rush Limbaugh Show.
And I do it, and I do it every time I'm in contact, direct contact with these people who are the walking definition of famous, well-known, but low-information voters.
Anyway, it's been a wonderful week, ladies and gentlemen.
We've had everything thrown at us.
We've had IRS officials visiting the White House 8,000 times for reasons we don't know.
I mean, we've been told that Iran-Contra was sneaky.
Watergate was a big deal.
But ladies and gentlemen, we know that the cover-up was worse in Watergate than the actual crime.
But ladies and gentlemen, just from my opinion, my innocent point of view, it's starting to look to me like Obama's dirty tricks operation makes Nixon look like an amateur.
So we're all going to stay tuned to see where all of this continues to go.
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