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Aug. 28, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 28, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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El Rushball at EI Me.com, Martin Luther King endured unprecedented government surveillance.
Who did that?
It would be the Kennedy brothers that did that.
It would be Robert Kennedy, who was the AG at the time, the attorney general, and the president JFK, and they were surveilling, they were wiretapping.
They were monitoring Martin Luther King.
They had collected all the information that he was having affairs with numerous women.
And they were stockpiling this stuff along with J. Edgar Hoover over at the FBI.
It's a bunch of Democrats collecting all of this surveillance, conducting the surveillance.
Caroline Kennedy's dad, exactly Caroline Kennedy's dad, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s dad.
Were monitoring, were wiretapping, bugging, if you will, the hotel rooms of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King.
I'd say, you know, it's one of the amazing facts of history that the real segregationists in this country leading up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were Democrats, particularly Southern Democrats in the Senate.
And of course, they had their fair share of Southern Democrats in the House of Representatives.
As uh as well.
Somehow it was never held against the Kennedys.
Never.
But they're the ones that were surveilling, wiretapping, bugging, and uh and all of that.
Anyway, folks, great to have you here.
I w when is this thing start?
Well, I know it started, but when does Obama show up?
Because the news media, I mean it's I called this yesterday.
I mean, it's it's the every news story is about what is Obama gonna do, and how is Obama gonna do?
And how's Obama gonna turn this um into something in his favor?
Now we opened yesterday talking about Syria, and I'm not gonna spend a whole much more time on it.
Uh I do want to share with you a fascinating quote.
To me, this is really fascinating, and it's not surprising, but to have it said is momentous.
I got this, I didn't see it on TV.
I didn't be on last night.
I was reading John Fund today, I believe, at National Review Online.
And the uh title of his uh piece is The World Turned Upside Down Indeed.
And his point here is about Obama and the Democrats ignoring Congress in whatever they do with Syria.
And of course, it it points out the obvious hypocrisy.
Back in 2002 and 2003, the Democrats demanding that Bush go through Congress, demanding that Bush go through the United Nations, demanding that there be a coalition.
Oh, is that right?
Obama expected to speak at 3 o'clock.
Is that right?
Is that well what a strange coincidence.
Holy cow.
Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
What happens at 3 o'clock, folks?
This program.
Somebody's not speaking at 3 o'clock, and that would be me.
Unbelievable.
I thought that Obama would like kick off at 1 o'clock or something like that, but no.
Obama's at 3 o'clock.
How about that, folks?
Many people wonder what it's like to be me.
Well.
Anyway, John Fund, National Review.
All the hypocrisy going on.
And of course, everybody says there's no hypocrisy.
Don't worry about that.
That was then this is now.
Obama didn't know what he was doing.
He didn't know the way of the world back then.
But now he does Rush.
Now he's learned now it's serious.
Obama didn't know when he was criticizing Bush.
He didn't know how the world worked.
He didn't know the Middle East a bunch of bad guys.
He didn't know that Al-Qaeda was a bunch of bad guys.
He didn't know all these various actors, groups, countries, and their hatred for the U.S. You didn't understand it, Rush.
Right, okay.
Fund says that he was let's see, he He appeared last night with Lou Dobbs, Fox Business Network.
And also on the show was Mary Ann Marsh.
Mary Ann Marsh, she's from Boston.
She's a Democrat consultant.
Her clients have included a late Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.
And she showed up as every Democrat on every cable TV show show does with the latest Democrat talking points.
And she dismissed any need for Obama to consult with Congress.
In fact, she called the Congress this special Congress.
And here is her full quote.
There is a special Congress that we're dealing with right now, Lou, that has the lowest popularity rating in history.
The Republicans are overwhelmingly opposing taking any action.
The President of the United States cannot be handcuffed by the same Republicans that are holding the rest of the country hostage on every other issue.
That's wrong.
So what she was saying, well, the reason Obama doesn't go to Congress is because the Republicans run it.
And the Republicans are illegitimate.
The Republicans, nobody should have to deal with them.
I mean, this is the same bunch of Republicans that are holding the rest of the country hostage on every other issue.
Obama care.
I mean, why should the president have to deal with Congress?
Constitution doesn't matter.
The Republicans have become so illegitimate that the President of the United States and the Democrat Party are almost required to ignore them because they're Republicans.
You know, with the Republicans running the Congress, the House of Representatives, the The Republicans controlling it delegitimizes the Congress.
The Republicans dominating the House of Representatives means that the House of Representatives is not legit.
It's unjust.
Well what this means is that the attitude, the Democrat Party, is that wherever there are Republicans, there's really simplistic here.
They are so bad.
They are so discriminatory.
They're so racist.
They're so bigoted.
They're just such reprobates that we can't afford to let them have any say whatsoever in what's happening.
Now, I'll tell you why this is a big deal to me.
I know it's a talking point, but they believe this stuff.
And the Republicans in Congress had better wake up and understand they're not the Republican leadership is doing everything it can to forge friendships with these people.
The Republican leadership is doing everything it can to agree with the Democrats on everything the Democrats want.
And look what it's getting them.
This is some of the most profound disrespect I have ever seen.
This is worse than the way the Republicans were treated and viewed when Bob Michael was the House Republican leader in the wilderness years, the 40 years that the Democrats control the House prior to 1994.
She said, This is a special Congress that we're dealing with right now.
It's got the lowest popularity rating in history.
The Republicans overwhelmingly oppose taking any action.
Why should we go to them?
The Republicans disagree with us.
Why should we go to them?
We're going to do what we want to do.
We don't want to deal with people that can stop us.
Constitution doesn't matter, Lou.
We want to do what we want to do.
We're going to do what we're going to do.
And the Republicans would stop us.
Well, why are we going to put up with that?
The hell with them.
And then unstated is what are they going to do about it?
And the answer is come out even more so in favor of amnesty.
So every effort the Republicans make to be liked, every effort they make to be supportive of what the Democrats want.
Look.
They're looked at them.
They're insects.
They're no different than an anthill to be avoided when you're walking down the sidewalk.
Well, we don't.
In fact, it's not an anthill.
It's a pile of dog manure.
The Democrats are walking down the street.
There's a pile of dog manure.
That's the Republicans.
Why do we gonna go through that?
We'll just sidestep it to get where we're going.
Come on, Lou.
I mean, it's the lowest rating in popular history for the Republicans.
They oppose what we want to do.
We can't be handcuffed by these people who are holding the country hostage on every other issue.
And she says it with impunity.
She says it on Fox without any fear that the audience is gonna understand and reject it.
She's basically saying that when we want to do what we want to do, there may as well not be a Congress.
I don't have to, we don't have to deal with them.
By the way, MSNBC says that the president will speak at 245.
Ladies and gentlemen, even on my own staff, when I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.
Uh uh.
When I a year ago issued this demand, this this requirement, this ban, if you will, of MSNBC sound bites.
Not playing them anymore.
Not gonna air any MSNBC.
I got a little snarky notes from members of the staff telling me, boy, it was really great what was on MSNBC last night, but we can't use it.
Well, let me tell you what's happened as a result of that ban.
I maintain to you that it was this program propping up whatever audience they had because in the year that we have banned MSNBC, their audience has declined by over half.
They barely have an audience.
I mean, well, I don't know what the real numbers are.
I've got them here, so they're they're barely above being noted.
In um, I'm having a mental block on a TV.
Nielsen.
They are they have continued every rating period since we instituted the ban.
They have lost audience, and the full year tab is in.
And they are down.
It's it's everybody inside baseball media is talking about.
Now they're not, they're not, of course, associating it with being banned here.
Oh, there's much lower in CNN.
I mean, you can't see them.
I'm telling you, they are the bottom of the barrel and the bottom is almost out of the barrel.
You need a microscope.
I mean, they are plummeting rapidly, and there's no end in sight, and it coincides with my instituting a ban of all MSNB soundbites, MSNBC sound bites on this program.
You can't tell me that it hasn't had an impact.
This program yesterday's this program, folks, is everywhere.
Yesterday we hijacked unknowingly.
A Pac 12.
College football coach conference call.
We'll let you hear how that happened when we come back.
Don't go away.
MSNBC is down close to 50% of its audience in the year this program has banned all sound bites from MSNBC.
I've got details coming up.
Yesterday was the annual conference call that the Pac-12 football coaches have with the media leading up to the upcoming college football season.
It's uh they they do these things weekly.
This was the first one of the season with reporters.
And during the QA, we have here what happened when uh an unidentified operator and a radio host talking to the Oregon State head coach Mike Riley, and suddenly a clip of this program ended up being heard online during the QA.
This, and it went on for a full minute.
This is how it sounded.
We have a question from Jay Reese from the biggest little sports talk show in Oregon.
Hey, Coach Riley, how are you?
Hello, Jay.
Good.
I just wanted to know, Coach, were there any other positions that uh you contemplated as long as maybe the starter uh outside the quarterback spot?
Well, you know, I think that we have North Carolina, but since you're a liberal and you support choice, hello provided with dismembering children and not school vouchers for those who weren't dismembered.
I want to give you some options, Ed.
In fact, I'm gonna describe the answer by 10 professors, official campus groups, and invited campus speakers in North Carolina and let you decide which constitutes the biggest embarrassment to higher education.
Number one, in the early spring semester of twenty thirteen, a women studies professor psychology.
On bondage and essential.
All right.
Is everybody there for the panel?
I don't know if I'm listening to you or Rush Limbaugh.
So I I don't really I think what happened here when you're on a telephone call and they put you on hold and you hear music or something, the radio station where the Jay Reese guy was working, they had me on hold.
And somehow the lines got crossed.
Somehow this program ended up as one of the calls in the conference call with the Pac-12 coaches.
And I'll tell you it happened when I was detailing some of the outrageous outlandish curricula items that the militant feminazis have installed at the University of North Carolina system.
And you imagine these guys sitting there, of course, uh taking their football questions as the weekly teleconference, and and Coach Riley gets a question about his quarterback, and all of a sudden, they hear me talking about dismembering children and not school vouchers.
Bondage describing the feminist curricula at the University of North Carolina, and they they eventually got it figured out.
But at the moment, they this program's everywhere.
It's the bottom line, folks.
No matter where you go, this show is everywhere.
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and The details on MSNBC are from Newsbusters.
New numbers show that uh some of the network's programs lost up to almost half of the viewers since last August.
The numbers just released by Nielsen show that MSNBC averaged five hundred and twenty thousand total viewers during prime time this month.
That's total viewers.
One hundred and seventy-three thousand in the twenty-five fifty-four demographic.
May I put that in perspective for you?
Their total audience equals the New York audience at any given 15 minutes for this program.
It is for a program for a network that claims to be a national network of any kind.
To have half a million people nationwide is embarrassing.
And that's down 50%.
Then you get the demo 173,000.
It is, I'll tell you what's interesting about this.
CNN is down, the networks are down.
Conservative books sell through the Wazoo and end up number one on the New York Times list.
The most listened to radio talk shows are conservative.
The most watched cable news network is conservative.
So the obvious question, how do elections happen the way they do?
We own books.
We own talk radio.
We own cable news.
Well, the answer is we're nowhere in the pop culture.
We are nowhere in movies.
We're nowhere in in television shows.
We are nowhere in music.
Nowhere.
And in the in the fiction side of books, we're nowhere in terms of what conservatism is being cool and plot lines and that kind of thing.
We're not in the classroom, we're not in academia.
We're not the professors and the presidents of universities.
We are not school superintendents.
And those are very crucial because they get people when they're young, young skulls full of mush, they get to flake and form those brains and basically propagandize them and indoctrinate them however they uh however they wish.
And you go program by program here.
Here's here's the bottom line.
The since August of 2012, MSNBC has lost 28% of total viewers, 32% in that 2554 demographic, 36% and 32% losses respectively in prime time.
The Rachel Maddow Show, and she's the supposedly the heroine of that network.
Rachel Maddow, that's the show, the defining show.
That show is the face of MSNBC.
And she just recorded all-time low numbers in total and demographic viewers.
She went down 43%, 47% respectively.
What is that?
I think that's the O'Donnell Lawrence O'Donnell.
He's down 40%, 42%.
This uh this new guy that they've got in there, which I you know, I better I don't know they got a new guy in there that just I don't know.
I well, this new guy is down 50%.
Uh and then the um this new guy took over the Ed show.
Sergeant Schultz.
Sergeant Schultz has uh been on weekends for a while, but they're bringing Sergeant Schultz back because the new guy making such a uh mess of things.
So it just it cannot and is not a coincidence that the bottom has dropped out of MSNBC, coinciding with the decision made by me to stop airing any sound bites from MSNBC.
I just said why should I elevate?
I mean it's nothing but fruitcake nuttiness.
It's really just it's it's irrational insanity, if that's even possible.
And the entertainment value of it long ceased.
It's so insane.
It's it's like laughing at people that can't help themselves.
Anyway, another delay in Obamacare.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, the regime has delayed a step crucial to the launch of the new health care law.
That is the signing of final agreements with insurance plans to be sold in the exchanges starting October 1st.
The Department of Health and Human Services notified insurance companies yesterday that it would not sign final agreements with the plans between September 5th and the 9th, as originally anticipated, but instead would wait until mid-September.
Now the reason for the holdup was unclear.
Sources attributed it to technology problems involving the display of insurance products within the federal information technological system.
It means they don't know what they're doing in getting the various options that consumers will have online.
So Health and Human Services just told the insurance companies, the evil rotten insurance companies, that they won't be able to sign their final agreements as originally planned, which may delay the start of the exchanges, which were supposed to launch on October 1st, which will that's gonna put off the open enrollment period.
Never mind that the same federal government is spending what hundreds of millions of dollars to try to get people to sign up as quickly as possible, to what?
They're trying to get millions of people to sign up.
Again, just to repeat why they want that done.
That's why Obama's not speaking.
That's why he's out conducting sales pitches.
They want as many people to sign up at these exchanges because that will cement the entitlement aspect of this.
As many people as they can get signing up at the exchanges is like thousands of people signing up for Social Security or signing up for Medicare.
Once they get those people signed in, locked in, that theoretically locks in the entitlement and makes it impossible to take it away from people.
So while they're out hustling and trying to get as many millions of people to sign up at the exchanges as they can, they have now said there's not going to be anything to sign up to.
Because they've had to uh they've had to delay it.
The one thing that is not delayed is the individual mandate.
You still have to have the individual mandate.
Or that you still have to have insurance or pay the fine.
That isn't going to change.
That's not going to be delayed in any way, shape, manner, reform.
And here's the way the formula on that works.
The IRS, there's another earth-shattering story.
The IRS yesterday finally issued their rules on this.
And let me leave it this far down in the stack.
Here we go.
The individual, if an individual chooses not to buy insurance, then that individual, i.e.
you, subject to a penalty.
The IRS made it official yesterday.
They issued a final rules on the individual mandate, and here's how it works.
The fines start at $95 per person per year, or one percent of your income in 2014, whichever is the greater.
It eventually reaches $695 per person, or 2.5% of income by 2016.
So you see here, I just mentioned this because I want to use this information to cement what has been the case all along and what I have been saying for a couple of years now.
The the penalties, the fines, are incredibly low.
And the purpose is to suck in the poor and particularly the young.
They don't care in the first two years whether you buy insurance because they're making the fine so inexpensive.
$95 a year versus an insurance policy.
What are you going to do?
If you're $25,000, 30 years old and you don't have much of a job, you have much of an income, and yet the law says you have to have insurance or pay a fine.
Well, here's the option.
And your insurance costs pick a number, $5,000 a year.
Or the fine is $95.
What are you going to do?
You're going to choose the $95 every day of the week.
Now, it may not be $95, it's 1% of your income.
Uh whichever is the greater.
But it's still dirt cheap compared to having insurance.
However, what happens between now and 2016 when the fine goes from 95 to 695.
And then the next year after that, it doesn't take long for the fines to approach four figures.
So what do you do?
You opt in by paying the fine.
Let's use a rounded off number.
You're a young person or somebody with uh not a lot of income.
So your option is a $5,000 insurance policy or paying $100 fine.
You pay the fine, and you're covered.
You're legal.
Next year, the fine's $150, and the insurance is $6,000.
What do you do?
You pay the fine, $150, and you're legal.
What are you not doing?
You're not buying insurance.
What happens to people who sell insurance when nobody's buying it from?
They go out of business.
The purpose of Obamacare, one of the many, is to make the fines so cheap that everybody will choose the fine rather than the policy.
And the more people paying the fine, the more people not buying insurance.
And right now, the only place to buy insurance is from a private sector insurance company or plan.
But if we go for two years with the vast majority of people not buying insurance, what happens to the company selling it?
Find it harder and harder and harder to stay in business.
There is no way that you're going to be able to get an insurance policy at $100 a year.
Anywhere to it.
But, but folks, here's the thing.
In 2016, the fine becomes $700 or more.
By 2016, there are going to be fewer insurance companies left selling insurance.
And the fewer companies, the less competition, the more expensive it's going to be.
It's going to get to the point where the fines are all of a sudden going to be really sizable.
And it isn't going to make any difference whether you pay the fine or buy a policy.
The difference is going to be that by the time the fines approach the same cost as the policy, you're only going to have one place to go to get the policy, and that's the government, the exchanges.
Because private sector insurance will have been destroyed.
What percentage of the American youths and poor do you think will not do the fine?
I mean, you're going to have, this is for people who do not have insurance at their work.
And there are going to be more and more people who do not, because companies are converting people from full to part-time.
The whole point of Obamacare is right here.
Thank you.
Government run single payer.
That's what's out on the horizon.
And the way we get there is to slowly dissolve private sector insurance as an industry.
Just get rid of it.
It's not there.
And the law says you have to have health insurance.
Pretty soon the only place to get it is going to be at the government.
Quick timeout, back after this.
I'll tell you there's another thing about these fines not really becoming costly until after 2016.
You notice 2014 the fine is $95 versus the policy 5,000.
Who's gonna buy the policy?
The next year it's 150 bucks.
Big whoop versus 5,000 for policy.
2016, the fines start getting big.
695, 700, 800 bucks after the elections.
It's another reason why the fines are cheap, drive private insurance out of business, and also to limit the damage to Democrats who own this bill.
Both in 2014 and 2016.
The big fines.
The real big costs are not going to hit everybody until after the 2014 and 2016 elections.
Here's Jim in Bergen County, New Jersey.
Hi, Jim.
Great to have you on an EIB network hive.
Thank you, sir.
How are you?
Very well.
That's great.
Rush, um, I'm I want to go back to what you were saying at uh when the program began, and that was, you know, how all these different news organizations, Rachel Meadow, that uh guy that O'Brien and all that, you know, their audiences are shrinking.
The New York Times is in financial trouble.
All these liberal uh media, I mean, it's like they're talking themselves out of a job.
And I'd like to get your take on it.
I mean, it just doesn't make any sense.
But they're not that now there are liberals losing jobs in journalism, and they are at the small and middle market newspapers and starting to happen at the big newspapers.
New York Times is buyouts, uh, L Washington Post, LA Times, and so forth, but for the most part, they're still in business, aren't they?
Yeah, but CNN's still in business with nobody watching.
MSNBC gets every time they lose audience, they get even further to the left.
It's like they punish the audience.
It's like the Democrats when they lose elections.
They rip the audience or the voters to shreds.
Uh how to explain this.
They don't think they're talking themselves out of a job.
They think they're holding on to their jobs.
The cause is everything.
The people that worked at CNN and the management at CNN were almost given awards for great heroism, as their network was losing audience in money because they hung in there.
They hung in there with liberalism.
They didn't compromise.
They didn't give the audience what it wanted.
They continued to promote the cause no matter the professional pain.
And that's what's happening to people at MSNBC.
They're sitting there in denial and anger at their audience.
I mean it's too stupid to figure it out.
Okay, we come back.
We'll get into the uh Martin Luther King anniversary today, and the way much of it's playing out in the media, and I must say, much of the way it's playing out as much the way I told you it would.
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