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Sept. 25, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 25, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Great to have you here.
Fastest Three Hours in Media, hosted by me, El Rushbo, America's real anchorman.
America's real truth detector.
The guy filibusters end for.
Just kidding.
Harry Reid shut down the filibuster.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882.
Email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
Where's my healthcare stack?
Here's this stack.
I've got this sculpture.
I've also got a fascinating story.
Popular Science magazine, website, they are shutting off comments.
Popular Science no longer, did you also see, somebody did a study.
Might have been the Chinese or the Japanese or somebody did a study that the most persuasive emotion on the internet is anger.
Particularly in the comments to stories.
Anger carries the day.
Found that interesting.
Anyway, popular science has decided to end comments.
Suzanne, oh, the last line didn't print her name here.
Suzanne, I think it's LaRue.
I'm not sure.
Is the source for the story?
They cut down, they eliminated comments because too many people are not agreeing with their supposed scientific conclusions on global warming and other things.
It wasn't a decision we made lightly.
As the news arm of a 141-year-old science and technology magazine, we are as committed to fostering lively intellectual debate as we are to spreading the word of science far and wide.
The problem is when trolls and spam bots overwhelm the former, diminishing our ability to do the latter.
That's not to say that we're the only website in the world that attracts vexing commenters, far from it, nor is it to suggest that all or even close to all of our commenters are shrill, borish specimens of a lower internet phyla.
We have many delightful, thought-provoking commenters.
But even a fraction—listen to this now.
Even a fractious minority wields enough power to skew a reader's perception of a story, recent research suggests.
In one study, led by University of Wisconsin Madison professor Dominique Brossard, 1,183 Americans read a fake blog post on nanotechnology and revealed in survey questions how they felt about the subject.
Then, through a randomly assigned condition, they read either epithet and insult-laden comments or civil comments.
And the results were written about in the New York Times op-ed.
Uncivil comments not only polarized readers, they often changed a participant's interpretation of the story itself.
Here's the nut paragraph: A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise Has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics.
This is popular science cutting off comments because of a politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise.
What they don't understand is that they are politically motivated.
If they are spreading the hoax of man-made global warming, they are part of a political movement.
But because they're liberals, and I, folks, this is really the truth, they don't consider liberalism to be political.
It's just what is.
Liberalism is as natural as the sun coming up.
They have no idea that they're political pawns.
Well, some of them don't.
The pawns themselves, the leaders of liberalism understand exactly what they're doing.
The Obamas and the community organized.
They know exactly what they're doing, motivating and inspiring people politically.
So here's popular science upset that there's a decades-long war on expertise.
They are the experts, and there are some doubters that are now showing up, questioning their consensus conclusions.
There can be no consensus in science.
Science isn't up to a vote, and yet right here, they write: a politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics.
What?
Science gets validated by consensus.
Science isn't up to a vote.
If a scientific belief is claimed to be true because of a consensus of scientists, it isn't science, it's politics.
Pure and simple.
And then she continued: everything from evolution to the origins of climate change is mistakenly up for grabs again.
See, they thought they had won the day.
They thought they'd won the day that human beings are responsible for man-made global warming.
But now that the hoax has been revealed, apparently some doubters, some what's the word, deniers, are posting comments at popular science, upsetting the validated consensus of expertise.
And so our expertise is being challenged, and we are going to limit that by eliminating all comments.
And this is how the left behaves on everything in the arena of ideas.
Anything other than what they believe must be silenced, shut down, not permitted to be heard or seen.
Popular science wants us to believe that science is a popularity contest based on the validation brought on by consensus.
I don't know what it is, but it isn't science if that's how they arrive at it.
Because these comment sections tend to be a grotesque reflection of the media culture surrounding them, the cynical work of undermining bedrock scientific doctrine is now being done beneath our own stories within a website devoted to championing science.
So they write their expertise, they write their science, they write their articles based on the consensus and the validation of experts.
And then people come along and doubt it and maybe, oh, I don't know, profane, angry, whatever.
Well, our whole story is being undermined.
Wait a minute.
Only way your story can be undermined is if it isn't true.
Well, not the only way, but I'm crying out loud.
Let's see.
Here's another one of these stories.
This is out of the Sacramento area.
Do you know what, you know what it's called?
I didn't know this.
I'm sure you did.
We have kids.
I didn't know that.
The rule that says when one team has scored so many points, you stop.
That's called the mercy rule.
Slaughter rule.
I like that.
No, it's the mercy rule.
We quit out of mercy for the people being slaughtered.
The Romans did that all the time.
They quit.
And let's see, the Romans, oh, yeah, yeah.
The Romans had mercy on everybody.
So they quit.
And Soviets, they quit too.
When it got to the point that it was just shameful they quit.
The mafia, they quit when they got to the mercy point.
Yeah, all these, it's going to happen to Super Bowl someday, mercy rule.
You know, when the Indianapolis Colts have 49 points and Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers only have 10, they'll quit.
38 to nothing.
What have you?
At least one parent in a California youth football league is throwing a flag at the new enforcement of a $200 fine and possible suspension of any coach who allows his team to win a game by 35 points or more.
This is KCR-TV Channel 3 Sacramento reporting.
Kelly McHugh, whose 13-year-old son is a kicker for the Sutter Huskies, said the risk of fines has hurt the teenage players' development because they're afraid their coaches are going to get suspended and they're not going to have a coach to come out here and play football, so they stop trying to win.
The Northern California Federation Ute League told KCRA the rules were toughened because last year alone there were 30 instances in which the mercy rule was violated.
The deputy commissioner of the league told the station, it's not hurting the kids, it's teaching them sportsmanship.
It is teaching them sportsmanship.
Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, it is.
You see, sportsmanship is when you're being, when you're slaughtering somebody, you stop so that they do not lose all self-respect.
You must have compassion and feelings for the people that you're creaming.
Oh, okay.
And that's going to build character.
That's exactly right, Mr. Limbaugh.
And this plays out in life as adults where.
How does this play out?
Let's see.
When Wall Street decided that Lehman Brothers was really getting skunked, did they stop and make sure Lehman could keep going, or did Lehman have to fold?
And what happened to people working at Lehman?
I can think of any other, many other examples.
Did the Democrats quit when they get too far ahead?
Was the Democrats ever used the mercy rule on the Republicans?
How about the Democrats and the mercy rule on their own voters that they're harming?
Mercy rules in football are not uncommon.
Haskrills across the country have mercy rules in place.
For example, Kentucky has a 45-point rule.
Georgia has a 30-point rule.
In September, Dan Mueller, a Haskrill coach in Kentucky, said that there's no disgrace in losing big.
He cited a scrimmage in which his team was left for dead.
Trinity led us 51-0 at halftime, and it was a great experience for our guys.
One thing about guys is we usually have an over-inflated view of ourselves.
It's good sometimes to realize we're not the greatest in the world.
Was there a mercy rule for Eli Manning and the Giants this past Sunday?
I mean, that was, folks, did you see that?
What was it?
That 38-0?
38.
Carolina Panthers, 38-0.
You see somebody going to Tom Coughlin and say, hey, Tom, it's time to invoke the mercy rule.
You know, your guys, the mercy rule is 35 points, and you're down 38.
See, Coughlin, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, they taught us that in high school.
It's good.
Let's stop the game.
Well, just saying, Barack Obama was caught Monday on a live microphone at the UN General Assembly telling an attendee he quit smoking cigarettes because, quote, I'm scared of my wife.
Well, that makes three then because he's scared of Hillary and he's scared of Putin.
So he quit smoking because he's a.
What's so funny?
That's not funny.
It's true, it does.
It makes three, but he says he quit smoking.
He's scared of his wife.
Must be.
He goes to the fast food joints when she's not around.
But she always finds out about it because the media is there and tells on him.
Let's see.
All right.
I'm going to take a brief time out here, folks, and we're going to come back.
And I still have the cruise sound bites from today and your telephone calls.
So don't go away.
Okay, back to the phones, people patiently waiting where we get it.
Damn.
That'd be Donna in Farmington, Connecticut.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very well, thank you.
Oh, my God.
This is so great.
There's only two people in this world that I want to meet, and one is you, and the other is George W. Bush.
Well, thank you.
Appreciate that.
I hope someday, too.
You know, I've never really been much in politics or anything like that, but when I started listening to you, you really do your homework and you educate us all out here.
And I want to thank you for that.
You flatter me.
I appreciate that very much.
And I'm just, I've never really been so worried as I am right now with this Obamacare.
Only because I buy my own insurance and talk to some friends that pay about the same as I do because I have like catastrophic $5,000 deductible and pay around almost $4,000.
And theirs is going up to $900.
Now, that's a lot of money.
I don't understand.
Let me give you, here's the down low.
The Obama administration has finally issued its report on what insurance is going to cost at the exchanges.
And it's going to be between $260 and $330 a month per person.
So that is $1,000.
If you have how many in your family?
There's three of us, but we're two on one plan, and I got denied on one, so I had to get my own.
All right.
Well, for those two, That's going to be, we'll use the average, that's going to be $600 a month times $12 per year from the exchanges.
This is what the regime has announced.
There's two stories on this.
One's from Reuters.
Americans will pay an average premium of $328 monthly for a mid-tier health insurance plan.
Another story is this is from Bloomberg.
Health insurance under Obamacare will cost individuals $3,000 a year on average.
You can figure $3,000 a person is what this is going to cost.
Wow.
I don't know how people are going to do it.
I mean, I work in a doctor's office.
Well, this is before the subsidies.
Some people are going to qualify for subsidies, but that's the overall price.
I'm pretty sure about that.
I don't either know how people are going to do this.
I mean, we had a patient come in.
I work for an eye doctor, and he said his insurance is cash.
And, you know, that's what people are going to end up doing because they can't afford it.
They're not going to have insurance.
Well, no, what people are going to do when they figure this out, they're going to pay the fines first.
Right, right.
And then self-insure, like you just said.
Yes.
Because the fine is like nothing compared to that for the first two years.
Then the fine ends up becoming as expensive and then more expensive than the insurance.
But to start, the fine is very low.
And that, I'll tell you what the purpose of that is.
The purpose is to get people not buying insurance.
And when they're not buying insurance, they're not buying it from private sector insurance, which means they're going to go out of business.
That's the objective, is to make it so that the only place people can go in a couple or three years to get health insurance is the government.
Wow.
Well, I called my senators here in Connecticut, and I, you know, told them don't vote for it.
And I signed what Ted Cruz was talking about earlier, the Obamacare to defund it.
So I'm doing my job and I'm going to post it on Facebook and hopefully get some people to follow.
Well, put those numbers in there when you have a chance with whatever you post because I don't think most people think this is going to be, because for whatever reason, trust Obama.
Obama told them to keep their doctor no, keep their plant no, gonna reduce their premiums $2,500.
No, a lot of people have no clue yet.
This is, we've been trying to get this out for just a number of years, but the mainstream media, when anybody talks substantively about this, starts attacking the people doing that.
And like Senator Cruz said, they make it into an issue of personalities.
But you know, you saw the hard numbers and you're right about it.
And we're back.
Great to have you.
The EIB Network and El Rushbo.
I'm looking here at a politico story.
And I said, I'm looking for embargo, looking for embargo, looking for embargo.
I don't know if this is it.
Okay.
I haven't printed it out yet, see?
HHS reveals Obamacare coverage prices.
Is that the story that you're talking about?
This report doesn't say what the health plans would cost everybody else outside of selecting samples.
Here we go.
Okay, so here we go.
This is, I've got two things here, folks.
That's a Washington Post story.
I'm still looking for this embargo thing, folks.
I can't find the embargo story.
Okay.
Internal Senate email warns lawmakers not to sign up for Obamacare yet.
This is the Washington Times.
The Senate this week warned lawmakers and their staff not to sign up for Obama's health exchanges, saying that the regime hasn't yet finalized the rules for how to keep paying for their premiums.
Members and staff are advised they should delay enrolling in health insurance plans until we are able to offer further guidance as to how they should enroll in these insurance plans for 2014, said the Senate Disbursing Office.
What is this?
Internal Senate email warning lawmakers don't sign up for the exchanges yet because the regime hasn't yet finalized the rules for how to keep paying for their premiums.
Members and staff advised to delay enrolling until we are able to offer further guidance as to how they should enroll in these plans.
And then the Politico has a story.
Health and Human Services reveals Obamacare coverage prices for federal exchanges, but the report given to the media, They were told to keep it away from health experts.
The regime on Wednesday released a long-awaited report on premiums.
There's just one catch.
The report doesn't actually reveal very much about what most people will pay.
The regime put the best face on premiums, emphasizing the rates have come in lower than expected in 36 states where the feds will run part or all of the exchanges.
That part of the report gives them a snappy answer to the widespread predictions of rate shock.
For millions of Americans, these new options will make health insurance work within their budgets, said Kathleen Sebudias.
But that's a far cry from full disclosure.
You want to know what you might pay for health and coverage in the exchange next year?
Well, too bad.
The report gives a lot of examples of the kinds of people who get good prices, but everyone else will remain in the dark until next Tuesday when Obamacare is supposed to open its doors.
And the media has been told by the regime to embargo the details from health experts.
The supposedly reduced premiums story is embargoed, and the media is being told by the regime to keep the details from health experts.
Now, why would that be?
So, on one hand, we get the internal Senate email warning lawmakers not to sign up for the exchanges yet.
They don't know how much it's going to cost.
They don't know who's going to pay for it, how much you're going to pay.
Don't sign up yet until we've greased the skids.
And then another report claims to have the prices, but don't show what we're saying here to health experts.
Well, why not?
Maybe because it isn't true.
Don't want to give health experts time to dissect what the regime is saying so that they can report on it before the exchanges open next Tuesday.
There's no way, folks.
There's literally no way this thing has any business being foisted on people.
The Senate memo is essentially saying don't sign up until we are sure how your subsidy is going to work.
That's the basic in the Washington Times story.
Don't sign up until we have determined how your subsidy, your taxpayer subsidy is going to work.
And when we figure out how we can get you the most taxpayer subsidy, then you can sign up.
You're not getting this memo.
You're not getting this advice.
You're not being cautioned to hold out until somebody looking out for you gets you the best subsidy.
But members of the Senate and their staff got an internal memo saying, don't do this until we get your subsidy ironed out.
The political piece is saying that Health and Human Services is just giving the numbers for best case scenarios for young people who don't smoke.
And they're about as believable as CBO predictions.
This is a mess.
It's an absolute mess.
And they're still operating in secret, and they're still trying to give preferential treatment to members of Congress and the Senate.
Treatment that you can't get.
There's nobody looking out for you to get you the best subsidy you can get and urging you to wait.
You're just being told you have to sign up.
Now, this report on the premiums, there's a story here by Walter Russell Mead, the American interest.
White House drastically rolls back Obamacare expectations.
This story is from yesterday.
Here's a shocker.
The latest predictions from the regime have the Affordable Care Act ensuring only half the number originally expected.
And then Reuters takes over.
And here's the Reuters detail.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services now expects 11 million uninsured Americans to get coverage next year.
But wait, the original projection was for 22 million uninsured to get coverage.
So here's some diminished expectations.
We're not going to cover all the uninsured.
That was the only reason for doing well.
No, no.
The stated reason that we had to have health reform was to ensure the uninsured.
It was just not right for a country this big and prosperous and this wealthy to have anybody in this country to health insurance.
We've got to do it with it.
Be a humane, compassionate society.
And others, we told them they're going to get $2,500 premium reductions.
Others were told it's going to be free.
And if everybody else, we've got to make sure they get coverage is poor people.
But only $11 million will be covered.
11 million, probably more, will not be covered.
And as if the diminished expectations weren't enough bad news for Obamacare, the law is running into some fresh technical glitches.
There have been stories all summer about problems with the software for the online exchanges.
And this one seems really serious.
Again, from the Wall Street Journal.
Less than two weeks before the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the federal health overhaul, i.e. Obamacare, the government's software can't reliably determine how much people need to pay for coverage, according to insurance executives and people familiar with the program.
So there was always going to be software program.
You would show up and you'd tell them who you are and you would answer all questions and then the software would determine how much you owe and what subsidy you're going to get.
And the journal is saying that that software isn't ready.
That there is no way that people are going to get an accurate bit of information as to what they owe and what their subsidy is going to be.
I can't even believe I'm talking this way.
You know, anytime there's a subsidy involved here, it just means your neighbors are paying a portion of yours.
That's all it means.
It doesn't mean the rich are paying.
It means your neighbors are.
Everybody else is.
But beyond that, they've delayed the verification at the exchanges for a year, so the software glitch doesn't matter.
All you've got to do is show up and claim you qualify for a subsidy, and you'll get it.
And the purpose of that is to enroll as many people as possible outside of private insurance.
I got to take a break.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
You know, I may not get to these Ted Cruz sound bites until tomorrow.
No, I've been intending to, but my first duty was to the callers, not me.
So Cookie will have to hold those over.
Now, also, as a public service, I am getting deluged with emails from people asking when we are going to offer the two FIT Turvis tumblers at a discount again, because it's tough out there.
And people say, come on, Rush, back in the summer, you offered a tumbler and tea deal, and then you sold out, which is true, we did.
And we didn't just sell out of the tea.
We sold out of the tumblers.
We sold out of everything.
You remember that?
And a lot of people missed the deal.
And I said, don't worry, we're going to offer it again.
And we haven't offered it again.
So I'm getting emails and when are you going to offer it?
We always intended to.
So let me be really upfront with you.
We only have 8,000 limited edition Turvis tumblers remaining.
That's it for the year.
Now, you might think, why don't you have as many as people want?
Because we've got other stuff coming in the pipeline.
I mean, they're always going to be around at times, but for this flight, we've got 8,000 left.
They're the ones, they're my favorite glass.
I use them every day with crushed ice.
It doesn't sweat or drip on me.
It keeps the drink cold or even hot if you want to use coffee because it's insulated.
It really is the best thing in the world, particularly if you're in a hot climate.
So we've only got 8,000 left.
So to honor our commitment, here's what we're going to do for today only.
Because they're not going to last longer than that.
But here's the deal.
From today only through tonight, 11.59 p.m. Pacific, we have lowered the price of the Tumblr and the best iced tea in America.
No promo codes are needed this time around.
Just go to 2fbit.com and shop.
The prices are automatically reduced.
You don't have to worry about a promo code.
People got confused with that last time.
So we've simplified it.
The great tumbler, it's got me on one side as Rush Revere and Revered Rush on the other.
Now, if you missed the deal this summer, this is the day we make it good.
Your chance to get a good deal on the Tumblr and the tea while supplies last.
And please don't send any nasty grams if we run out.
Because I'm just being very honest here.
We've got 8,000 remaining, and we're going to continue this special deal as long as they last.
2ifbyt.com, 11.59 p.m. Pacific tonight, if they go that long.
Who knows?
What?
Snerdley says, can you still pre-order the book?
Yes, you can pre-order the book.
The Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
Time Travel Adventures with Great America.
Of course, you can still pre-order the book.
You can pre-order the book.
It comes out on October 29th.
Pre-order the book as hardcover, as e-book, as an audio book at Amazon, Barnes ⁇ Noble or iTunes, iBooks.
Yes, you can still pre-order it.
I can't talk about that every.
Yes, there is an advantage.
Okay, okay, okay.
There's an advantage.
The retail price is $19.90 something and the pre-order price is $10.90 something, $10 and something, $10.99 or whatever it is.
You save money by pre-ordering, yes.
There's no question about that.
So both of those items by popular demand and as a public service.
Just grab somebody, number one.
I'm going to set this up.
We're not going to have time to get to these until tomorrow.
And maybe, you know what?
Maybe tomorrow we can play more than just because this takes an hour and we're not going to do the whole thing.
But here's how Senator Cruz introed it today.
Fans of Rush Limbaugh know that every year he reads something that his father wrote about the true story of the price paid by the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
I think it's fitting to read this morning.
It's called The Americans Who Risked Everything.
Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor.
It is an amazing piece of history what happened to the signers of the Declaration.
One man had his entire family kidnapped, had two sons, and the world was ahead of them.
And the British were the kidnappers.
And the short version of the story is that the British offered to release his sons unharmed if he would renounce his signature on the Declaration, if he would renounce the Declaration.
Now, on one hand, he's got his two sons and their lives.
On the other hand, his pledge.
And the Declaration does include the words, we pledge our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor.
Most people, I mean, it's a no-brainer, right?
Your two kids are kidnapped.
You know, you do whatever you have to do to save.
The man stuck with his pledge.
Oh, yeah, Rush Revere is going to visit all this at some point.
Of course, Rush Revere can go anywhere in American history.
With the Talking Horse Liberty?
Absolutely.
At any rate, folks, that's just one example.
There are 56 such stories of all signers.
Ted Cruz read the whole speech during his filibuster today.
Boy, I don't know where the time went today, but it flew by.
So glad to be back.
Happy to have you here.
Thanks to Mark Stein for being here Monday, Mark Belling yesterday.
And thanks to Senator Ted Cruz are coming here shortly after he ended his filibuster after Dingy Harry ended his filibuster.
And we'll be back tomorrow, folks.
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