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July 26, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 26, 2013, Friday, Hour #2
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Hi folks, great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
You hear what Obama said moments ago in the White House.
He said, Ho Chi Minh was the butcher of North Vietnam for you low information.
He was the enemy in North Vietnam.
Obama said a Hochi Min was inspired by our founding fathers.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
He was just trying to be nice to the Vietnamese guy that was in the office.
I mean, that's the he was just trying to be nice.
Hell.
I know Obama does not believe that.
I'm positive.
Ho Chi Minh inspired by the founding fat Obama's trying to reverse what the Founding Fathers did.
Ho Chi Minh was too.
Here's a telephone number for Open Line Friday, 800-282-288-2, the email address, Elrushbo at EIBNet.com.
I mean, there's there's no uh Ho Chi Minh inspired by the Founding Fathers.
Obama can't possibly really think that.
Uh and he certainly doesn't mean it is a compliment.
He doesn't like the founding fathers.
The founding fathers are a bunch of rich white racists to the American left.
Come on, let's be honest.
That's what they think.
Maybe Obama meant that Hochi men owned slaves.
I don't know, but he certainly he was not.
If if any you know, opposing our founding fathers, that'd be something get you in tight with Obama.
Anyway, great to have you back, folks.
We have the fastest three hours in media.
Uh telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 in the email address, Lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Let me, if I can, with some cogents, uh, and some real coherence.
Explain this Obamacare continuing resolution uh effort to defund it by even if you have to shutting down the government.
September 30th is when the current continuing resolution expires.
It'll have to be renewed for the government to keep operating.
It'd be like the 19th continuing resolution.
We'd have a budget we haven't had for four years.
Now, as you know, Mike Lee has a suggestion.
We got to defund Obamacare, and this is the last gasp.
This is the last chance, and the last chance is to defund it.
And he wants to make this move as part of the continuing resolution fight that as part of the next continuing resolution we defund Obamacare.
Now look.
The Republican Party could just say to the country, look, the president just delayed Obamacare for businesses for a year to help the economy.
That's all they would have to say.
Obama has delayed the the employer mandate by one year in order to do two things, to help the economy and to help the Democrats' election chances in 2014.
Obamacare is an albatross around whoever's neck that has to deal with it.
So he has given businesses a one-year waiver so they will not be harmed by it.
So they will not be penalized by it.
It's a tantamount admission that Obamacare is not helpful.
It's a tantamount admission that Obamacare causes damage.
That it that it causes harm.
And so Obama is out campaigning on economic growth in order to give that a boost.
He's got to delay a major portion of his health care bill, the employer mandate.
the other side of that is uh avoiding negatives for the Democrats going into the 2014 midterms.
Well, the Republicans can say we want to help the economy for longer than a year.
We're not interested in just having the economy be given a one-year exemption from damage.
We want to eliminate the damage all the way.
We want the economy to grow all the time, not just one year.
So we want to delay Obamacare forever and for everyone.
And there would be dancing in the streets.
Tea Party people, Republican voters, and every other group of people opposed to Obamacare'd be dancing in the streets.
Think of when was the last time that business and labor really agreed on anything?
And it's shaping up now that business and labor both want to do away with this.
It is a golden opportunity.
But I think, in my vast experience guided by intelligence, I think what really scares the Republicans here is that the likelihood of this working would require a government shutdown.
And that they are j that that scares them literally to death.
Because I can't tell you, you in this audience probably know.
But for those of you who were not paying close attention in 1995, for whatever reason, you weren't old enough or you didn't care back then, 1995 is perhaps that budget battle is perhaps one of the, if not the most, formative negative experiences in the memory of the Republican Party at large.
Their memory of the 1995 budget battle is a series of disasters when it wasn't.
The reason they think it was a disaster is because the media portrayed it that way.
Do you know that after the 1995 budget battle, where the Republicans supposedly got shellacked?
Do you remember that the Republicans won a bunch of seats in the Senate?
I think it was six.
Let me let me check this.
Well, they held the House.
They did it at uh I forget how many they they gained seats in the Senate in 1996 after the 1995 budget shutdown.
Uh uh budget battle.
How in the world?
It is also claimed that Newt Gingrich lost his speakership because of the 1995 budget battle.
That's not why he lost his speakership.
He lost his speakership, actually, the seeds for that were so in much earlier than 1995.
Newt, it'd be a distraction to go into why now, but the reasons he lost his speakership had more to do with internal house things than the 1995 budget battle.
The 1995 budget battle on paper at the end of the day was not a disaster for the Republicans, but it was media-wise.
The 1995 budget battle featured Republicans starving kids with the school lunch cuts.
That didn't exist.
There were no cuts in the school lunch program.
What there was in the 95 budget battle was a reduction in the rate of growth, but the amount of spending on the school lunch program was going to increase sizably.
But the Democrats are running around talking about Republicans starving kids.
And I remember back in 1995, folks, I was it.
This is another thing for the Republicans to remember, by the way.
In 1995, I was it as far as conservative media goes.
The blogosphere had not come into existence.
The internet was still essentially in this regard an infant.
There were no other conservative talk shows.
Fox News was still two years away.
I was it.
It was still a media monopoly.
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, Local News, you name it.
I was it.
That's not the case today.
There is an entire conservative media that has now been spawned as a result.
Well, it's grown.
There is now a conservative media that didn't exist in 1995.
Huge blogosphere, a number of conservative radio talk shows, Fox News, a number of other isolated examples of conservatism on TV.
It would not be.
The Republican leadership right now, I mean, this is so frustrating.
The Republican leadership actually thinks that its problems derive from this new conservative media.
It's the most amazing thing, and they'll tell you so if you know how to listen.
The Democrats, of course, are telling this all the time.
You need to shut this limb up.
You gotta stop listening to Limbaugh.
And you hear them attack Fox News all the time.
Well, the Republican leadership hears all that.
They believe it, just like they believe that they got to get more Hispanics if you're ever going to win.
The White House, they got to go for amnesty.
They believe everything the Democrat media tells them.
And the Democrat media tells them that what's really holding them back is their media.
Talk radio, Fox News.
So the Republican leadership actually has an army waiting to support them that they are afraid of, that they don't want to use.
They're embarrassed of it, just as they're embarrassed of their own base.
But the Republicans did not lose their shirts in 1995.
In addition to not losing their shirts, the 1995 budget battle set the table for welfare reform that was to come where Bill Clinton beetoed it a number of times, eventually had to sign it into law in order to win re-election in 1996.
The fights that occurred in the 1995 budget battle set the table for a lot of good policy that came out of it.
The sole reason, maybe not sold, I mean the dominant reason that the Republicans today live in mortal fear of a government shutdown is because they got shellacked in the media in 1995.
They were accused of starving children.
And just one example: little kids in New Orleans were actually told by their teachers to write letters to members of the House.
"Dear such-and-such member of Congress, I can't learn when I'm hungry.
Please do not cut the school lunch program and starve me." Dear member of Congress, it is absolutely unbelievable that you don't want the children of this country to have lunch every day.
How are we supposed to eat?
These letters were written in the thousands.
They were mailed in, they were amplified and reported on by the media.
And of course, the it was absurd.
There weren't any school lunch cuts.
Nobody had ever proposed any, and there was certainly no movement to eliminate the program.
In fact, school breakfast was being added.
School brunch, school snack, then school dinner.
And then school club for late at night, we got some vodka.
I mean, it was it was it was ridiculous.
But just as now, back then there was abject fear.
Now there's another thing that that is, I Think important in understanding this.
It was only the year before 1994 that the Republicans won the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.
They won 56 or 57 seats, I forget which, one of the two.
Surprised everybody.
There were two people that predicted it.
Me and Robert Novak.
Robert Novak and I were the only two who predicted.
I predicted it on the basis of corruption and scandal.
The House Bank, uh, the House Post Office, Jim Wright, uh, Speaker of the House.
I mean, it was the place was just it was corrupt as it could be.
The Republicans had this massively brilliant uh 1994 campaign, which nationalized house races.
Rather than run all these house races on issues that were that were uh of local interest to the district, they ran a campaign based on what all these Democrats in the House would mean for U.S. foreign policy, uh national impact issues.
They had the contract with America, that 10-point plan that was essentially a list of promises and commitments they'd make, and it resonated.
And then when they swept into office, unfortunately, but it must be said, they swept into office, and some of the Republicans got really, really huge egos.
And they totally misinterpreted why they had won.
They assumed, as one of the reasons for their sweeping victory that the country had changed.
That the country had finally matured and had eliminated liberalism.
That's finally risen up and said, we don't want the Democrat Party anymore.
And that's not why it happened.
It happened partially for that reason, but not all the way.
It happened because of the contract with America, it happened because of Democrat corruption, it happened because it had been that way for 40 years, circumstances are right, and it happened because there was conservative media for the first time ever.
Me.
There were all of these factors.
But the incoming Republican class lost themselves and thought that they were the most popular people in the country.
In an ego sense.
They thought they were rock stars.
And so when the budget battle of nine, they thought Clinton was on the ropes, Clinton might not even run for re-election in 96.
It was so bad for Clinton and the Democrats after that 94th sweep.
And it was.
He had Clinton running around, hey, I'm still relevant, you know.
Hey, I'm still president.
So they had this massive ego.
They thought the country had changed, they thought everything was going their way, and then the budget battle of 1995 happened, and overnight the country hated them again.
Psychologically, this was this was difficult for them to deal with.
On the one hand, one day they're rock stars, the most popular politicians in the in the country in the world for a long time.
And then the next day, they're hated.
And nobody wants to be hated, and certainly in the media and and so forth.
I think all of those factors combined to today the memory of that is so clear.
They are scared to death of having that repeated.
But it wasn't bad.
They set the stage for a lot of good policy, they increased their hold on the Senate.
Clinton ended up signing welfare reform.
Substantive good things happened, but the media killed them, and that's what they remember.
And it's got them paralyzed.
Every Republican leadership since is afraid.
So the phones may go.
It's open line Friday.
Joyce in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, uh Mr. Limbaugh, I am a rush babe.
My hand all is Huskers Rock, and um I have nicknamed You.
You I've listened to you for two years, and sir, you are the king of think.
You are the Renaissance man, and you are bulletproof.
And there's nobody who can argue with politics with me anymore.
In fact, they asked my advice on it.
But that's not why I called.
Wait a minute.
You just can't let that go.
That is awesome.
You've been listening to me for two years now, and in so people can't argue with you anymore.
They don't stand a chance.
No, I'm converting liberals.
With your ice help of your iced tea and your mugs and um I know how to I know the whole thing.
I can tell him the rush the rush serum.
King of think and and both You're the king of think.
Joyce, hang on.
I have to take a uh scene profit timeout here, but uh I am nowhere near being finished with your call.
So don't go away.
Back to the phones, Joyce in Lincoln, Nebraska.
I'm glad you uh I'm glad you called.
We got a little bit more time now.
I I just I wanted to take time.
Thank you.
Those are awfully uh nice things that you said.
It's true though.
It's really true.
And you have taught me how to have a sense of humor, yet be able to uh out talk liberals and they see my point.
I really like in just two years, you have now become a source authority for people that they seek you out to have things explained to them.
That's it, they asked me.
That's big.
That's really i i it's and it's because of you.
So that's why I've nicknamed you the King of Think, Bulletproof, and the Renaissance man.
You I I am and I'm not easily impressed, but your brain impresses me.
Okay.
And I'm not just saying that.
That's probably what you say to all the guys though.
And I do not.
I've been married to the same man forty years, and he is our very bright man, and uh you your brain amazes me.
Well, thank you very much.
I really appreciate it.
I know that's not why you called though.
It isn't.
I called because um well, for one thing, if people I made up a jingle on uh uh Wiener Guy, and if anybody I emailed it to you and I twittered it to you, and it's so funny it cracks me up, I laugh out loud.
Maybe nobody else thinks it's funny, but it's pretty funny.
Anyway, I called because I loved the talk about cigars last Friday on your show.
I have I do not drink and I do not smoke, but my husband and I are having our fortieth anniversary and I want to buy an expensive single malt, whatever that is, and the best cigars there is because I know he likes cigars and he needs to relax because his job is so stressful,
and I thought, uh King of Think will know what to tell me to buy.
You're looking for some guidance on the finest single malts and cigars, is that right?
That's correct.
And I live in Nebraska.
What does that mean?
That you might not be able to find what I'm gonna recommend.
I might yeah, I'm gonna have a hard time.
No, you won't.
No, you won't.
No, I'm not sure.
I'm gonna give you some options.
Okay.
Because it's it's hard.
I I've uh to name just one single malt.
There are many that are it's a scotch that's not blended.
It's just it's one barrel.
And there are many of them, and uh it's it's like anything else, it's it's individual taste.
What might be my favorite could be not somebody else's, but it doesn't mean that mine's better, just I have a preference for it.
So I'll give you a couple.
Okay.
Glenn Morangy.
He has a great single malt.
G-L-E-N-O uh M-O-R-A-N-G-I-E.
Glenn Morangy.
Okay.
Comes in a number of different years.
The the older it is, the more expensive it's gonna be.
Okay.
And the second would be Mac Allen.
M A C A L L A N, Mac Allen.
And the same thing there.
The older it is, the um the more expensive.
Mac Allen twenty is good, and you should be able to get that anywhere.
At a liquor store?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, okay.
I will.
I'll get the Mac Allen.
I wouldn't be surprised if uh if Walmart had it.
I Oh my goodness.
Um well you can probably get Dom Perignon at Walmart.
Because I saw a movie once where a guy sold his friend's car for three hundred bucks and went out and bought a bottle of single malt.
And I thought I'm gonna do that before I die.
Yeah, you can some of them just I don't want to scare you, but depending on how old and and some of them are are much more expensive than that.
But you you can find a a great, great bottle for for that price, and maybe even a little less.
Oh, even if you get a single malt that's ten years old, a single mole that's ten years old is gonna be fine.
Ten fifteen, twenty.
Now cigars.
Yeah that's gonna be a different the the you know I don't know whether his taste is mild, kick-ass.
Uh he loves cigars, and he needs to mellow out.
His job is so stressful.
Okay, I want to sit around the fire and mellow.
All right, let me let me give you a couple here.
But again, I'm I'm gonna a bit of a disadvantage because there's so many good ones that I'm gonna anger some of these guys that I leave out.
And I I hope they will understand.
I'm I'm just yeah, you you you're saying mellow and uh uh let me just give you three.
Okay.
And and you might be able to find one of these.
If you can find uh cigars by Arturo Fuente, that's that's the brand name, and then you can find the Don Carlos or the Fuente Fuente Opus X, but find something by the Fuentes, it'll be awesome.
Or F-U-E-N-T-E Fuente.
F-U-E-N-T.
Okay.
T E. The other one, Ashton, A-S-H-T-O-N, uh is another mild good cigar.
Macanudo is another uh good cigar, and the fine m one if you want one really, really, really strong.
Well, we want something that we don't care that it tastes mellow.
I want him to mellow out.
Well, it'll work.
This'll work.
Okay.
Here we have La Flor Dominicana double N. La Flor Dominicana, double lighero chisel.
You don't have to spell that one.
La Flor is two words.
L A, then F-L-O-R.
Okay.
Then Dominicana, as in Dominican without the N. Okay.
And then double, D-O-U-B-L-E.
Yeah.
Liguero, L-E-G-U-E-R-O.
L E G E R O Chisel.
Chisel.
And that's the shape.
Okay.
Are they plugged in everything?
Or do you have to uh bite off the end and no, you get a clipper.
You get a clipper and clip off the end.
Will they do that for me?
They will.
Okay.
They'll have all that.
They'll have lighters, clippers, they'll have everything you need there.
Okay.
And where do I f go for something like that?
Well, now, in in Lincoln, I don't know.
Um I d uh uh tobacco and what it is, there I'm sure they're tobacco shops.
However, you find uh location.
Google, Google tobacco shops in your area, uh or go online and buy these things online and have them ship to you.
Can you d have liquor and cigars shipped, GM?
Yeah, I wouldn't do it with the liquor.
You can find the liquor.
You'll find the you'll you'll find the scotch.
Cigars, yeah, you get them shipped anywhere.
Okay, and they're macal.
Macanudo, MacAndo.
Macanudal.
No, M-A-C-A-N-U-D-O, MacANU Do.
Mac and Doodle is a is a is a is a macaroni.
Anyway, you can't you can't go wrong with any of these things that I what.
All right, okay.
Then uh Snerdley, what do you mean you just checked Dom Perignon at Walmart?
You went online.
You didn't see Dom Perignon at uh at Walmart.
Might not be on the line.
I just I can't believe that they're not gonna have this, but she'll find it.
I'm I'm guessing Walmart's got it.
Walmart's got everything.
Anyway.
Joyce, I appreciate it.
Thanks so much.
Happy anniversary, birthday, all of that.
We'll be back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Okay, did a little research there for Joyce.
Joyce, I know you're still listening, and we found a place for you right there in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Jake's cigars in Lincoln, Nebraska sells cigars and scotch.
So Joyce, we found for you a one-stop shop, Jake's Cigars in Lincoln, and I guarantee you that pretty much everything I suggested to you, old Jake will have.
Yeah, use the offer code Rush and see what's it see what it gets you, Joyce.
Go to Jake's Cigars in Lincoln and uh say, yeah, offer code Rush when you check out.
Now, if you really want to go Joyce, if you really this is the 40th, did she say anniversary?
I mean, that's big Joyce.
Um there is a sixty-four-year-old Mac Allen.
That is about four hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Now, most of that is because it is bottled in lalique crystal.
And most of what you're paying for is the Lalique crystal bottle or container.
But Mac Allen 64 in Lalique, 460 grand.
See, if you really want to splurge on a 40th anniversary.
Um, yeah, you need to sell more than a car for that.
But I mean it's it's an option.
It's an I don't know that Jake will have it.
At Jake's cigars in Lincoln.
Offer code Rush.
Here's Brian in Detroit.
Brian, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, hi, Rush.
This is a real pleasure.
I've been with you since 1989.
Uh it's good to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Um I uh You say you're in Detroit.
Are you in the city?
I well, I work in the city.
I live in the suburbs, but uh yeah, I work in the uh inner city, a group of conglomerate of hospitals.
Uh but uh anyhow, uh we deal with a lot of uh uh low-income or no income uh people.
What what do you do?
I'm a pharmacist.
A pharmacist in Detroit.
Uh a lot of people believe that Obamacare, the people that come in is free.
Um even my s some of my staff, uh they believe that was gonna be free.
And and they just got their new uh insurance, and it showed that you know it doubled or close to doubled, depending on how many hours they get in per year.
Oh no, this is why it's gonna implode.
This is why when this thing fully implements, it's gonna be fun to watch.
I know uh Brian, let me tell you something.
The day this thing that the the overall bill was signed, I had people like you calling here and sending notes, people in their office.
Okay, my health care's free now.
That's that's how they heard Obama selling it.
That's what they think it means.
I know they're just they're just totally they're so uninformed, it's so awful.
I and I feel terrible.
I mean, I love this country to death, and I just see it going right down the flush hole with with these information voters who have no information.
Um they come in for things that are written on prescription, and just because the doctor writes it on prescription, you don't doesn't mean that it's covered.
I mean, they don't pay they pay for some over-the-counter things that you or I would have to normally pay cash for, uh, but they get it covered on their insurance because it's a form of Medica which covers the prescription.
Give me an example.
What didn't I can't even what what what over the cover uh over the counter is covered by Medicaid.
Uh well, one item is uh like uh Claritin syrup, um which is an over-the-counter item.
Um, you know.
What is it?
What is clariton syrup?
Clairitin syrup or even Claritin tablets are both over the counter.
They're um uh uh anti-uh histamines, they're allergy.
Oh, Claritin.
These things are covered by insurance?
Yes, oh yes.
They're covered completely, a hundred percent.
Zero copay for these people, yeah.
And and most of the people that we get anyhow have zero copay.
And when they when we tell them, sometimes there's a time that does come that either the prescription, whether it's a prescription item or an OTC item that it's not covered, they say, well, it's supposed to be free.
They really believe in their heart of hearts that free.
No nothing is free.
You have somebody's paying for it.
Somebody along the line is paying for this.
They don't care as long as it's not them.
And and but it's you know, it's not just this.
Um a lot of people think uh a lot of things are free.
Then they're entitled to it free.
It's how the Democrat Party has sold things to these people.
This is how the Democrat Party has acquired their voters by creating I'll tell you something.
The Obamacare ads make you think it's free.
Even now, the Obamacare ad the ads that they are running to promote and sell this, as they give, you know, they run up to the 2014 midterms and and and try to change public opinion upon it uh uh on the bill, the ads they're running now will make certain people think that Obamacare is free.
Now we know that morning after pills are now free.
Remember that controversy.
Brian, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
Open line Friday.
And where are we going next?
Uh give me a little green uh John in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Russia.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I uh I was just calling because I had a different approach on what Obamacare was probably really intended to do.
Um I have this feeling that maybe it's intended to get some of the uh low information voters who already have uh hatred towards the capitalist system to maybe hate them a little more, considering the fact that a lot of these guys are gonna be losing plenty of hours to it, and on top of that working, you know, two jobs, whereas the people that employ them get to avoid having to pay for the health insurance, so in their minds they're just getting richer anyway.
Well, there's no doubt that's gonna happen.
I don't think that was the purpose of it.
That's an ancillary benefit for Obama.
The purpose of Obamacare, if you're a liberal, the purpose for national health care is the control of the population.
That's why you want to do it.
If you're a big liberal, if you're a huge leftist socialist, you want health care.
Take a look at every socialist slash communist country, and you'll find at the outset, the dictator as he is setting the table and making his pitch to the people, free health care or government-run health care is always among the first two or three things.
Because if they get that, they then have total control over the population, because every lifestyle decision and behavior, every decision that you make, everything you eat, kind of car you drive, everything you do is going to have a relationship to health care costs.
And that's how they're able to control it.
Vladimir Lenin was the first modern era dictator to propose universal health care.
And it has been an uh uh uh a cherished dream of every leftist ever since.
Including the Nazis, National Socialist Party of Germany, health care, right there in the top two things.
It is total control of the population.
Now, as people lose their jobs or get converted to uh part-time and end up worse on the economic ladder, they are gonna hate the rich even more.
And that helps the uh the regime in charge as well, because they get to continue to promote class warfare and envy.
Obama this afternoon at the White House comparing Ho Chi Minh to our founding fathers.
And lots of other stuff still to go.
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