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July 26, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 26, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Okay, I got a pop quiz, snerdly I'll ask you.
As I'm asking everybody else, because I'm asked this question all the time.
I have answered this question all the time, but I'll ask it again.
Why do truth in advertising laws not apply to political commercials?
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
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Open line Friday, Rush Limboy, your guiding light with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Yes, sir, Reba.
Golden opportunity for you because when we go to the phones, you can talk about whatever you want.
You can ask a question.
You can make a comment.
Whatever is on your mind is usually fair game on open line Friday.
The telephone number is 800 282882 at the email address L Rushmow at EIBNet.com.
Mm-hmm.
That's exactly right.
The um uh First Amendment Freedom of Speech Clause was specifically written with political speech in mind.
The federal government cannot tell somebody what they can or can't say in political speech and political advertising is political speech.
So you can say whatever you want in a political ad.
Unless you're the Tea Party, and then the IRS will come down on you.
The IRS, in fact, will come down on you before you run any ads, making sure that you don't have the money to run any ads.
And that was because the IRS probably was directed by Obama to do that, and not directly, they wouldn't have to.
Well, rehashing old ground here.
But the IRS, one of the head honchos met with Obama a couple of days before all this started happening.
But that's not necessary.
Obama puts people, just like himself, in all of these positions of authority, in all the cabinet positions, all of the czars, so he doesn't have to have a paper trail.
He doesn't have to send a memo to Eric Holder about what he wants the Justice Department to do.
Holder's gonna do it anyway.
Holder is Obama.
The people at the IRS, they don't need a memo, they don't need instructions.
They're put there because they already hate conservatives.
They're put there because they already despise conservatives.
They're put there because they already are inclined to have an unlevel playing field for conservatives.
This is this is why liberals want to be in government is to use it as a weapon against their enemies.
Political opponents.
That's why they want to be in government.
It's all about power.
It's all about control.
It's not about governing, it's not about all the things they claim to stand for.
Fairness and being nice and understanding and tolerant and compassionate and guaranteeing that there won't be any discrimination.
That's not at all.
The government's the biggest weapon in this country.
It's a giant weapon, and there's all kinds of ammunition that you can put in this weapon, and that's why they want it.
Liberals want to control the government to eliminate their opposition.
So Obama puts somebody over at the IRS.
It's explicitly understood that whoever is there, and not just one person.
Whoever is there isn't going to have to be told to make it tough on conservative groups.
It's just gonna happen.
Same thing at the EPA.
Same thing at OSHA, wherever Obama's gonna put people.
Uh in a point of or even career positions.
This is how liberals use government.
This in fact it's uh one of, as far as they're concerned, the reasons for government to exist, to advance their agenda and to eliminate any opposition.
I mean, the media doesn't be told what to do today.
Obama has to have a meeting with Matt Lauer or Brian Williams or Chris Matthews or Piers Morgan.
I better stop naming names, I'll be here all night.
You think Obama has to have meetings with any of these people to tell them what to do every day on their newscasts?
Hell no.
They're gonna do it anyway.
It's who they are.
That is why when anybody gets hired by a news network, they're hired on the basis of what their already known inclinations are.
Are you conservative or are you a liberal?
It's not even asked.
Conservatives aren't even hired.
Much like it is in uh in Hollywood.
Okay, this this has become mildly conservative, uh controversial this afternoon.
In Washington at the White House, after meeting with uh President Truong, Tan Sang of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Obama spoke with reporters about the meeting.
Here is a portion of what he said.
President Sang uh shared with me a copy of a letter sent by uh Ho Chi Minh uh to Harry Truman.
And we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by uh the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution and the words of Thomas Jefferson.
Ho Chi Minh talks about his interest in cooperation with the United States.
And President Sang uh indicated that uh uh even if it's uh 67 years later, uh it's good that we're still making progress.
Now I'm gonna have to parse this.
Because as is the case with much of what Obama says, there are grains of accuracy in it.
But the intent of what Obama said here is outrageous, folks.
It happens to be true that Ho Chi Minh actually did once cite Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence.
He did this at the end of World War II in 1945.
And that was when Ho Chi Minh was in effect declaring a war of independence on the French.
But this is nothing new from communist dictators.
Communist dictators have often cited, and they'll they'll lie about anything to advance their cause.
They'll lie about anything to make people think that they are what they're not.
Every dictator starts out as the greatest freedom fighter there's ever been.
Every dictator starts out as somebody who's gonna liberate his people from tyranny and from bondage, and they all cite the great thinkers and the great minds of freedom and liberty.
It's all part of the camouflage.
It's all part of the lie.
Ho Chi Minh was no more like Thomas Jefferson, Ho Chi Minh no more was interested in it that his declaration of independence for his people.
It served his purposes as he sought independence from the French, but he was no interest in any of that in terms of how he's gonna run Vietnam.
Obama knows that.
Ho Chi Minh, he was actually inspired.
Declaration of Independence Constitution.
Well, Obama wasn't.
That's one of the problems.
That's one of the problems.
What?
Do you think I've stepped in a dare?
He wasn't.
You go back, we have played audio interviews of Obama from early, the early 2000s.
He clearly clearly has a problem with the founding of this country.
In large part because of race.
But he doesn't he's not a name.
Why do you think he's trying to transform this country?
Why do you think he's trying to turn it upside down?
He does not like the way it was founded.
It was unjust and immoral.
So citing Ho Chi Minh, he just, he's just kissing butt with the Vietnamese guy here.
That's all that's that's happening here.
And when he when he goes out and says, uh Ho Chi Minh talks about his interest in cooperation with the U.S., what cooperation with the U.S. was there ever from Ho Chi Minh.
He might have lied about wanting to cooperate with the U.S. in 1947 or 1948.
He might have lied about it to convince John Kennedy that he wasn't going to be a who knows.
But he had for what did Ho Chi Minh do?
I don't care what Ho Chi Minh.
The fact that we're even having to sit here, that I'm even having to sit here and take the time.
No, I guess this makes sense because it's a long time ago for a lot of people.
Ho Chi Minh was a butcher.
Ho Chi Minh pull pot, they come out of the same school.
They're butchers, they're dictators.
They're bloodthirsty.
Interested in cooperation with the United States, yeah, insofar as he could fool whoever was running the United States at the time into thinking he wasn't an enemy or needed not be opposed.
Ho Chi Minh talks about his interest in cooperating with the United States, and President Sang indicated that even if it's 67 years later, it's good that we're still making progress.
What a bunch of hocum.
So he he's just he's got this little Vietnamese guy there.
One of these meetings he probably didn't want to take.
The Vietnamese guy shows up, so goes, okay, I'll have the meeting, and here you go.
I'll I'll say some nice things about your buddy Ho Chi Minh and we'll move on.
And in the process, Obama comes out, says something that's going to profoundly irritate the Vietnam era war veterans.
We guess care.
This is kind of funny.
Judy Miller was on Fox Happening Now this afternoon with a co-host, the fill-in co-host Rick Fulbaum.
And they're talking about Wiener and recent revelations that Wiener participated in several inappropriate online relationships since he resigned from Congress.
And Fulbaugh said to Judy Miller, formerly of the New York Times, said Judy is the media complicit in pushing the narrative that Wiener had recovered and was happy in his marriage all the while he was still engaging in these acts.
Yes, because it's a story that I've been fascinated by the kind of Hillary Huma story that the media has picked up on.
You know, Hillary pioneering the standby your man line recovery narrative, political recovery, that is.
And now we have Homa Abdeen more or less adopting the same posture.
We all know that Homo worked for Hillary, that they are still very close.
Ergo, we get a story that as far as I know is completely devoid of fact.
I don't know for a fact that Homo's been talking to Hillary or vice versa.
I'd like to see some reporting on that.
Okay, now that happened this afternoon.
Judy Miller, a former infobabe and reporter for the New York Times saying, you know what?
I haven't seen anything on this.
Everybody's just assuming that Hillary talked to Homa, but we haven't seen I want to see some reporting on that.
Now, in in journalism speak, reporting means going out and finding out.
Yeah, I reported that story.
That just means I researched it and I found they speak their own lingo.
I want to see some reporting on that.
She just said, I want I wish somebody would tell me.
Well, What she doesn't know, a lot of other people didn't know because nobody watches CNN.
But earlier this morning on CNN, Gloria Borger had already reported that.
Gloria Borger had already broken the story about Huma and Hillary.
Gloria had already done the reporting, but Judy at Fox didn't know it because nobody watches CNN.
So the fill-in host at CNN, John Berman speaking with chief political analyst Gloria Borger about Wiener.
And about Huma.
And Berman said, Gloria, you have a little bit of news here in the in the Wiener story.
I have from uh two uh knowledgeable sources that Hillary Clinton, whom, as you know, is very close to Huma Abedin, uh, did not know that uh Huma was going to go on TV and uh defend her husband.
People are wondering if Huma's been getting advice from Hillary Clinton.
Not on this topic.
So somebody needs to call Judy Miller because I doubt that she's listening to me.
Judy, somebody reported it, and it was Gloria Borger, and uh Hillary did not advise Huma.
And Huma did not talk to Hillary.
So Huma was on her own out there with Wiener when she was professing her love and adulation.
Now, as you know, one of the sex debts with whom Wiener was sending naked photos of his genitalia.
Uh and has come forward, this uh appropriately named Leathers.
Last name is uh I think her first name is Sidney.
Is that right?
You follow this.
Do you know is it Sidney Leathers.
And she's 22, and she's she's out there saying that Carlos Danger is a reprobate.
That this guy is just he's a weirdo, he's a dirty old man.
This is one of the women that Wiener, aka Carlos Danger, was sexting after he resigned, and after he said that he and Huma had moved on and they were hunky-dory and everything was cool.
So, last night on Fox, on Your World with Cavuto, Stuart Varney was guest hosting, and he had on Kristen or Kirsten Powers, because Pelosi, Pelosi had weighed in on the on the Wiener situation.
Uh I forget what I forget what Pelosi had said, but anyway, Stuart Varney said, Nancy Pelosi, one of the most powerful women in politics, former speaker, she was always talking about the war on women, but she doesn't think, and she's not prepared to tell Wiener to get out of the race.
This has been my point on this all along.
These are the people that run around talk about all this Republican war on women stuff when they are the ones debasing women and using them in these ways.
And apparently Pelosi said that uh Wiener's got no business getting out of the race.
So Stuart Barney want to know what Kirsten Powers thought of that.
She's not from New York.
I just don't think it's necessarily Nancy Pelosi's place.
I don't see why Nancy Pelosi is supposed to weigh in on mayoral racists.
Because she's from the country.
Well, yeah, but this isn't a war on women.
I mean, he's had an affair, and he cheated on his wife.
How is that a war on women?
I don't see why this is Nancy Pelosi's responsibility.
It isn't a war on w Kirsten.
The reason we're bringing it up is because these are the people telling people like me and everybody else that we're conducting a war on women.
Wiener is the one that's using them, debasing them, co-opting them, corrupting them, what have you.
And then lying to his wife about it.
Take uh quick time out.
We've got a little bit more on this.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Yesterday on Inside Edition, Jim Murray spoke with Sidney Leathers, uh, latest sexting partner of Carlos Danger.
And during a discussion about the relationship, Moray and Sidney Leathers had this little teta back and forth.
You said that they went from text to phone calls.
Yes.
And what what would happen in those phone calls?
We had phone sex.
I read one quote that suggested you thought he was a dirty old man.
He actually said that about himself to me.
The exact wording was that he's an argumentative, perpetually horny middle-aged man.
And at the time, I was like, oh no, you're not.
But yes, he is.
Yes.
This is not all.
No, there's even more from uh from Sidney Leathers, who actually sounds uh more cogent and aware than Wiener does.
That's amazing.
Back in a second.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
This uh Sidney Leathers, 22 years old, said that they had phone sex every day.
She said f she said a lot, folks.
I some of it I I am not.
She was explicit about how can I?
Um, how fast Wiener was.
And it was it was not good.
I mean, it was here's the point was no, I was like 20 seconds.
I mean, it was just just but that's not the point of this stuff is out there being discussed in public about a candidate who may in fact win the race for mayor in New York City.
The Democrat Party, and you've got Nancy Pelosi out there defending this.
Defending Wiener.
Isn't that whatn't that what Kirsten Powers upset about?
What uh what did Pelosi?
Oh, she went off on Wiener, then I misunderstood what Kirsten Powers was talking about.
Kirsten Powers upset that that Wiener that Pelosi weighed in on this.
Um at any rate, I mean there's some Democrats that want him to go away and so but the this is just it's it's just smarmy.
And now you've got Sylvis Spitzer who is leaving uh client number nine after the election.
He's going to uh file for divorce.
Pelosi said disrespectful to women and reprehensible.
Okay.
Then I got confused on that previous soundbite.
I don't know why Kirsten Powers would be upset with Pelosi saying that, but she was upset with her.
At any rate, back to Inside Edition, Jim Morray talking to Sidney Leathers, and Marie said, so Carlos Danger texted you, do me a solid.
Uh and can you hard delete all our chats here?
He asked you to delete everything.
Yeah, that was before April.
So what did you think he wanted you to do and why?
I mean, obviously I knew he wanted me to erase any evidence of our conversations because that was around the time I knew that he was going to run for mayor.
So did you get the sense that he perceived you and your relationship as a threat?
Of course.
Did you get a sense that he was having second thoughts or getting cold feet?
Not really, which is what's strange about it.
I feel like he suspected that this could happen, but he didn't do a lot to protect himself from it.
He was making these campaign promises that he had totally changed, and he was a better man now, and he learned from his mistakes, and I am proof that that is not true.
This is a case study.
Here you have Wiener publicly saying all this is behind him.
That he's a changed man, that he and Huma have reunited, gotten together, put it all behind them, professed their love for each other, and I have a little baby in the oven on the way, and they're moving forward.
And Wiener even takes it close to the cleaners now, just to show that he's fully committed to the marriage.
And all the while Saying that publicly, he's still doing the nasty here on the phone with uh with Sidney Leathers.
Now some people say, didn't he know he was gonna get caught.
See, then that folks is the rub.
Didn't he know he was going to get caught?
Of course.
That's the he the thing you live with.
He lives with that constantly doing something like this.
It's that's not the question is did he really think he was gonna get away with it?
And that's where the answer is yes.
And that's where this is screwed up.
That's that's where Wiener is a mess.
I mean, yeah, doing this stuff's messy, and yeah, engaging all this, it's odd, it's it's it's in in at least in uh normal circles that we call perverted, but he still thought he could get away with this.
He thought that he could continue to do this, and that very little harm would come to him, either in his marriage or politically.
Now I know some of you say, no, no, Rush, he was uh there's somebody sick.
He did this is a sickness and so forth.
Well there's this simple thing of, you know, Nancy Reagan just is just say no.
Uh or or uh just a little self-discipline, a little restraint.
I'm telling you that there's an arrogance here and a conceit.
I guarantee you that Anthony Wiener thinks that he is something special.
In his own mind, he's a legend.
In his own mind, there's nobody better.
In his own mind, he's the greatest of whatever.
Now, in real life, Anthony Wiener hasn't done anything.
He he has no he's authored no legislation.
I mean, what he he claims that he was the author of health care.
He hasn't done anything.
Anthony, you know what Anthony Wiener is most known for?
Arguing on TV with Fox News Anchorettes and Sean Hannity.
That's what he's most known for.
The left loves Anthony Wiener because when he would go on TV, he would he would shout at him and yell at him just exactly like the nameless, faceless pajama clad commentators that post comments on these blogs talk.
He was saying in public to conservatives what they were writing anonymously.
And that's why he was loved.
That's why Wiener was thought to be the greatest guy on earth, because he really told those conservatives.
And he'd he'd tell Meghan Kelly what for.
Well, whoever, whatever Fox anchor he was talking to, particularly if it was a woman, he just treated them with no respect whatsoever and would shout over them and and uh just prevent them from continuing a conversation, asking questions.
That's all he ever did.
But in his mind, obviously he's really something special.
So special, so good.
And might even become even more popular, more notorious, more well known for engaging in it.
Here's Rob in Glencove, New York.
Hi, Rob, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, good afternoon, Rush.
How are you?
Very well, thank you.
Good.
Thanks for taking my call.
Um you know, uh, in terms of uh some of these uh um pol political people deciding whether they should go after the repeal of Obamacare before before 2014 or not.
I just want to tell you and your audience that the rates came out for the exchanges here in New York last Thursday.
The average premium, I'm doing health care for 23 years, the average premium for the cheapest plan for a person over 30 years of age is about 415 dollars a month.
And that includes a $3300 deductible.
And from my experience, that's also based on the the your modified adjusted gross.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
400 and how much a month?
415.
415.
So we're basically looking at four thousand forty-eight hundred dollars a year.
Right.
But you get no help from the uh government in terms of a premium tax subsidy if you make just north of thirty-seven fifty.
But I thought it was I thought Obama was gonna cut everybody's premiums uh twenty-five hundred dollars.
Well, that's based on the subsidy.
The point I'm saying to you is that this is any young kid who's got student loans, got the cars, car maintenance, car insurance, on thirty, eight hundred dollars a month, he still has to pay taxes.
He still has to pay all the other nuts he's got to pay in terms of his rent.
And uh if he gets sick for paying 415, he still has a $3300 deductible.
No, no, he doesn't because there's an option to pay a fine.
Well, that's the thing.
Did they publish the cost of the fines?
Well, the the fine is going to be $95 or 1% of his annual salary.
But I'm saying to you, that's that's my point is that you're right, he's gonna pay the fine.
He's not gonna buy the insurance.
Hence you're gonna have adverse selection, and you're gonna have only the sickies going to the exchanges.
And it's gonna be even a bigger cost.
And the irony is that if you have like a dental issue, you have no coverage at all.
Right.
For all this money out of your pocket.
All these people, these these the 30 and undercrowd you're talking about, they're gonna opt for the fine.
By the way, this is part of the plan's design.
The fines are so relatively comparatively inexpensive to the policy, they want young people paying the fine to suck them in.
This by paying the fine and not buying a policy, they're undercutting private sector insurance companies.
The whole thing here is designed to put private sector insurance companies out of business.
The fines are cheaper for two or three years, and then after that, the fines end up.
I mean, they skyrocket, they end up being much more expensive than the policy after only I think two or three years.
And then these young 30-year-olds and under, they are gonna get shocked because their fine is no longer going to be cheaper, and if and there's and the IRS is gonna be after them, and their policy, whatever it costs, is gonna be deducted via their taxes, because those people and their contributions, whatever we're gonna call them, have to subsidize the treatment for the elderly, correct?
Yep.
And that's why they're being sucked in the way they are.
Well, I'm just saying to you that it's going to be a load such that the whole the hook that holds the whole thing together, I don't see uh this being able to be properly financed because the benefits are way too rich, and the cost on the ground for other costs, other necessities are so high that young people aren't gonna buy it in the first place.
They'll just pay the penalty.
For a while.
For a while, but then the penalty goes away after two or three years by design.
Look, this is not insignificant.
Those fines are cheap to attract people.
They want the young not buying insurance.
Health insurance companies can't exist without customers.
The objective is to eventually have in ten years everybody required to go to the government because that's gonna be the only place you can go to get insurance.
And then they own everything.
The purpose of the fines is to put private sector insurance out of business, eventually.
What's to stop them from going off the grid uh the income tax form.
You mean going cash economy.
Well, nothing's gonna if that's why uh this thing.
I mean, Rob said it.
The the the numbers don't work out.
The benefits so far outweigh what is gonna be contributed, for lack of a better word.
It can't fly.
Now, there's a Wall Street Journal story today that Bobby Gendal and Scott Walker, Louisiana governor, Wisconsin governor respectively, they're out there talking about this, that Obamacare is simply unworkable.
It cannot work.
And the point they make, I'll just I'll just read from the piece, a pull quote.
The slightly larger problem is that the Obama administration does not have a health care plan.
Yes, the White House has a law with thousands of pages.
But the closer we get to October 1st, The day that government mandated health insurance exchanges are supposed to open, the more we see the administration doesn't have a legitimate plan to successfully implement the law.
There is no framework.
There's simply 2200 pages of liberal utopia panacea crap.
Page after page after page, but there is no systematic blueprint to tell people how to implement this and what to do.
It doesn't exist because that was not the purpose of this.
And we head back to the phones.
It's open line Friday, Sugar Land, Texas.
It's one of my all-time favorite names of a town.
Sugar Land, Texas.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Oh, thanks, Russ.
Uh mini diddles, and I love your peach iced tea.
Thank you, sir.
This morning I was uh watching Fox and uh Carl Roll was on and with his little chalkboard showing that uh over ninety percent of the spending on Obamacare won't be affected by the discretionary spending, and that trying to uh cut the program, uh cut the money from it wouldn't really do anything.
Byron York has a um a piece today, much the same in the Washington Examiner.
Byron York says all this talk about defunding Obamacare, not even possible.
The law is is uh is I mean, it's the law of the land now.
There's nothing to do.
And he made the same point that the spending isn't discretionary.
It's that you can't you can't to take it back.
And then there's a theory that that uh uh well, Obama's trying to lure the Republicans into doing this and then shutting down the government so he can beat the Republicans up over a shutdown and uh sail to victory in a 2014 midterms.
Yeah, that was in uh Drudge Report this morning this morning, the Washington Post was saying that was part of their strategy.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know if the the Republicans can't seem to do their PR very well.
I don't know who's gonna who would win that battle.
Which battle are you referring to the PR battle on if uh they do try to cut the funding and then?
No, here's my point.
I I wish I had more time.
We're down to 35 seconds with you, and I wish I'd have gotten to you sooner because this idea that Obama's trying to lure us into shutting down the government so that we will it seems to me that the Republicans always seem to come up with a Democrat strategy that they've detected that is designed to make them give the Democrats what they want in the end.
For example, well, Obama wants to lure the Republicans into shut down the government, and so the Republicans are gonna screw him by not opposing this and not shutting down the government, and therefore Obama's gonna get what he wants.
I think it's no different than the Democrats saying you better not criticize Obama.
The independents are gonna hate you.
It's bowunk.
The government shutdown in 1995 was not the disaster that everybody thinks that it was, not substantively.
But I'll have to explore that again in detail on Monday, because we're out of time now.
Thanks so much for being with us this week, my friends.
It's always the most fun that I have.
I can't say how much I look forward to it.
And I look forward to the uh return on Monday after a fine, restful and recharging weekend.
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