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Oct. 1, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 1, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And we're back.
It's great to have you here, folks.
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So Obama's out there now in the Rose Garden, and he's attacking the Tea Party and claiming that a small percentage of one political party has decided for whatever reason that they wanted to shut down the government and so forth and so on.
And it leads me to a soundbite I want to play for you.
I think this, to me, this is the opportunity here to be quite illuminating.
Last night, Bernard Goldberg was on Fox on the O'Baxter factory, a factor, whatever.
And the host, Bill O'Baxter, was asking Goldberg about the battle between Republicans and conservatives that's going on.
And the question was, oh, Bernie, look, you are in a controversy with some far-right people who object.
The Republican Party split, right, Bernie?
Rush Limbaugh, nobody articulates conservatism as clearly and passionately as Rush Limbaugh.
He'd be the first to acknowledge that he couldn't win a national election.
The true, blue, real conservative Republicans need to understand is that despite what they think, most Americans don't think the way they do.
They'll never elect a Dennis Kucinich on the left, and I don't believe they're going to elect a Ted Cruz on the right.
The only reason Barack Obama, who's more liberal than all of them, got elected wasn't because of his politics, but because he created a cult of personality, and that's what the Republicans need.
A real conservative with a great personality, and those people are hard to come by.
Now, Bernie, who I like, chose to speak for me there and put words in my mouth that I would not have agreed with had I been sitting next to him last night.
It may well be that even if I wanted to be president, that I wouldn't win.
But it's not because I'm conservative.
The reason I couldn't win is that I've been demonized.
I've had my reputation has been demonized and assaulted for 25 years.
And even had I chosen on each occasion to respond to it and to try to defend it, it wouldn't have mattered because I would have still been a lone wolf.
The truth of the matter here is it's not conservatism that can't win.
It is that conservatism has been so ogreized and so demonized by an alliance of the Democrat Party and the media.
I know some people that I've met over the course of my life.
And when I first met them, they used to tell me what you, quote, you Republicans need to do.
You need to soften your approach.
You all sound like you're heartless, no compassion, don't care about people, and you hate women and minorities.
And I said, but we don't, and you know me.
Yeah, but you've got, in other words, the onus was on us.
And then as these people who met me and I became their friends, and as time went by, they came to understand that it wasn't conservatives and conservatism that was engendering what they used to think about us.
It was the media.
As they got to know other conservatives, they realized they're really nice people.
They're fun people to be around.
They don't hate anybody.
They're responsible.
They're self-reliant.
They're nothing like what the media portrayed.
And so now, some of these same people will say to me, you guys are never going to have a chance because the media is so in the tank against you.
And that's the bottom line.
It's not conservatism that can't win.
I'll give you, you know, the media is such an oppressive thing.
And it's not even media, folks.
There is no news media anymore.
In fact, whatever news media there is will be found on the right.
I do more genuine news on this program than you'll find in the Washington Post or the New York Times.
Now, true, I have a conservative agenda here, but I am honest and upfront about it, and I make no buns about it.
But I also tell you exactly what the left is doing.
I explain what they're doing before I knock it down.
I don't have to demonize them.
I don't even try.
I take them on in the arena of ideas.
That they do not do with us.
They do not debate our ideas.
They do not take our ideas on.
They take us on personally.
They can't beat our ideas.
So they have to discredit and destroy anyone in the conservative movement or the Republican Party, take your pick, who they fear.
And right now, they fear Ted Cruz.
They used to fear Sarah Palin.
They fear the Tea Party.
They will tell you every day what they're afraid of by who it is they are attempting to destroy.
But there isn't a news media.
There is a media, but it's nothing more than a branch of the Democrat Party.
It's nothing more than a branch of the American left.
They get to operate under the guise of being media so that low-information motors think that they are reading and consuming news when they read about how rotten this or that conservative is, or when they read about how mean-spirited that conservative policy is.
It's, you know, I don't read women's magazines, but it's been brought to my attention that there's no wonder the female vote goes Democrat.
All you've got to do is open any woman's magazine, from Cosmo to Oprah's magazine to Women's Wear Daily, whatever.
They're nothing more than branch offices of the Democrat Party, and they carry forth the agenda.
It isn't that conservatism can't win because it can and does and will win again.
So I want to hear and now reject the statement by Bernie Goldberg that I couldn't win because I'm conservative.
That now, I don't want to be present.
Don't misunderstand, but I'm saying if I did want to be, it's not my ideas that would seal my defeat.
It's not what I believe.
It's not my view of this country.
It's not my love and devotion to this country and what it stands for and how it was founded that would result in my defeat.
It would be the demonization that's taken place over the last 25 years.
And why has that happened?
I'm just a guy on the radio.
I'm just a guy on the radio who they have lumped into the political system and treat me as though I am a political leader and a candidate.
And they treat me as somebody who is out seeking votes.
And then they judge my success or failure on that basis when I'm not even in that business.
I take it as a great compliment.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not complaining about any of this.
It's just the way of the land.
It's simply the way it is.
And this fact is what has resulted in such fear from the top to the bottom of the Republican Party.
The Republican Party knows everything, and they believe, just like Bernie Goldberg said here, that conservatism is the problem.
That's why they think they can eliminate, or if not eliminate, they can marginalize this demonization if they are also a little bit for amnesty.
And if they moderate on abortion and a woman's right to choose, or if they go along with some form of national health care.
And of course, that's guaranteed to lose because then they're just pretenders.
They're not the real deal.
The Democrats are the real leftists.
But it has resulted in so many people, and not just politicians on the Republican side, but Republican media people being literally cowed, literally scared to death.
Now, there are people, you know them, you've met them.
There's nothing wrong with this, don't misunderstand, to whom their reputation is everything.
Particularly their reputation with people that don't know them.
And they will do whatever they can to avoid bad press.
And if you happen to be a Republican or conservative and your mission is to avoid bad press, you have to deny who you are.
You have to be stealthy.
You have to cover up who you are.
And that's no good.
Now, I'm like anybody else.
I value my reputation, but in my case, it's among people I know.
My take on it is that I can't control what people I don't know think.
You are all people I know.
You in this audience are people I consider to be almost an extended family.
I know you.
I do care what you think, but I'm not worried about what you think because you're here every day and you know.
And whenever any of these demonization efforts take place, I don't worry about it where you're concerned because I know you are informed enough to know what is a lie and what's not true and what the effort is and why it's being undertaken by the left.
And you have always, for 25 years, been in there.
You've stood tough.
You've hung in and you've stayed here.
And you've in your own way, by your show of support, that equals your defending me.
And I'm fully aware of this.
And that's why I have such profound appreciation for every one of you.
But there's no doubt.
I mean, there's no mistaking.
I get calls from people all the time who used to think X, Y, and Z about me.
And then they started listening, and then they found out it wasn't true.
You may be one of those people.
There are more and more of them each and every day.
But this is what's happened.
And the sad thing is that the Republican Party now believes what Bernie Goldberg said, that conservatism can't win, that conservatism is the problem, and it isn't.
Conservatism is not the problem.
Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially.
Conservatism isn't even really an ideology.
Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral.
That's all it is.
Liberalism is an ideology.
Liberalism is a structured belief system that is essentially a religion that takes the place of standard organized religion.
And that's why they so fear standard organized religion.
It's why they're just petrified, for example, of the Catholic Church.
It's why they would do anything to take it over and corrupt it.
Liberals have to do away with everything that scares them.
They do not want to coexist with people that disagree.
They have to destroy those people.
And that is what has happened.
And it's been going on for longer than I've been doing this program.
I'm not even the primary recipient of all of this.
I just happen to be one of many who has been targeted for this kind of destruction.
There's a famous TV writer.
I played golf with him one day.
He said, you know what?
You're really a nice guy.
I think I'm going to do a good story on you just to tick off my friends.
So what do you mean?
The last thing they'll want me to do is humanize you.
I said, I'd never encountered that phrase.
This is early on here in 25-year history.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, humanizing you.
I said, what are you talking about?
Well, you're not human to them.
You're just a monster.
You know, you're hateful.
You're this and that.
And if I do a story, a profile on you that humanizes you, they will just be livid at me.
And it happened and they were.
They dumped all over him.
His other friends in the media dumped all over him for daring to humanize him.
Imagine that.
Took me the longest time to learn all of this.
Wish I'd have learned it much sooner.
I wasted too many years thinking the media could be straightened out.
I spent too many years thinking the media could be corrected, that their mistakes on me and others like me were correctable.
And they're not.
Because they are purposeful.
They know they're making things up about us.
They know that they're getting away with it.
They know it's a strategy, folks, to destroy the character and reputation of their political enemies.
It's a practiced art.
It's one of the ways journalists climb their ladder of success.
The resume, how many people have you destroyed in a clever way that's not actionable?
The Democrat Party is fully aware of the friendly alliance that they have with the media because, again, it isn't media.
It's disguised as media.
There is no news media.
When McCain chose Sarah Palin, she was the governor of Alaska.
And at the moment in time that McCain chose her, she had the highest approval rating of any governor in the country.
How long did that last?
How long did it take them to destroy George W. Bush and everything that he wanted to do?
How long did it?
It took them years, but they were relentless.
They never stopped.
And they didn't care.
And Bush wasn't even a conservative.
Bush was just a good old standard rock and roll establishment Republican.
And they still had to take him out.
But as I say, the problem here is that Republicans know this.
And people who are just obsessed with their reputations among people that don't know them, their goose is cooked.
They're going to easily compromise who they are in the pursuit of being liked and loved.
Everybody wants to be it's a it really is a is a dual-edged sword.
But I'm here to tell you that if I wanted to be president and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.
So I respectfully disagree with Mr. Goldberg.
And I think Ted Cruz, if he ever wants to be president, the biggest thing he's got going for him is that he's conservative.
It's not this, this ongoing effort, even now among Republicans, to place an albatross around the necks of conservatives.
We're not the problem.
We are not the problem.
We are the last gasp effort to stave all of this off.
The conservatives in this country are the only ones fighting any of this, really.
Got to take a brief time out, my friends.
I just saw the clock.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
We were just told yesterday, folks, a big story in the Washington Post.
The country is more conservative today than it has been since 1952.
And we were told the base of the Republican Party has become very conservative.
So what's the problem with being a conservative?
The problem with being a conservative is the establishment media.
Conservatism isn't the problem.
It is simply people who will not stand up and defend themselves or others when under assault that leads to the media being successful in demonizing conservatives.
By the way, Obama just was in the Rose Garden.
Listen to this.
I think there's somebody that lives in his head rent-free.
Apple rolled out a new mobile operating system, and within days they found a glitch, so they fixed it.
I don't remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads or threatening to shut down the company if they didn't.
That's not how we do things in America.
We don't actively root for failure.
We don't actively root for failure.
Yes, we did.
Yes, we did, and we still do.
But Apple did not have a glitch in their operating system that anybody knew about.
This is a gross mischaracterization.
Apple did not have what those of you who've loaded iOS 7, what's the glitch?
What went wrong?
You can't name anything.
Outside maybe your installation didn't work.
There's no glitch with it.
Not that you would notice.
Emmy's Soundbite 21 again.
This is Obama mere moments ago in the Rose Garden.
Out there belly aching about people belly aching about his exchanges being full of it.
And by the way, here's some stats for you.
Only one out of every eight Americans even know the exchange is open today.
That's the most recent polling data I saw.
Now, you run the numbers here in your head.
Only one out of eight people know.
Can you imagine if just if two out of eight people knew and were trying to get logged on today?
This is an utter disaster.
And here's how Obama, I want you to hear this again because I have additional comments, addressed it moments ago in the Rose Garden.
Apple rolled out a new mobile operating system.
And within days, they found a glitch, so they fixed it.
I don't remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads or threatening to shut down the company if they didn't.
That's not how we do things in America.
We don't actively root for failure.
I know, I know.
I live rent-free in his head.
Let me, two things.
First place, has anybody forcing you to buy an iPhone?
Is anybody forcing you to buy an iPad?
Is anybody forcing you to install iOS 7?
Is anybody making you do anything with Apple?
No.
We are being forced to go to this stupid website.
We are being forced into Obamacare.
They've had three years to get it right and they don't have the slightest idea what they're doing.
If we don't buy an iPhone or an iPad or install iOS 7, will we be fined?
Does Apple have an army of IRS agents prowling the country trying to figure out who is and who isn't buying their products?
And will then audit them if they don't.
No, that is not for him to compare the mandatory purchase of health insurance of the government to Apple is disingenuous and dishonest.
Apple also did not have a glitch.
Now, there may have been people who didn't like it.
There may have been people scared by it because it's a totally new user interface.
Functionally, it's pretty much the same, although there's some really cool improvement.
I happen to actively love it.
But that's a personal choice or preference, and you don't have to use it if you don't want to.
But there wasn't a glitch.
Do you know what there was?
They had to issue a point update, 7.0.2 update, because some troll was sitting out and found out that if you punch the home button twice and then scroll up the control center and hit on the camera icon and then hit the home button twice, the power button three times, you can get into the camera.
There is not one user who's going to go through any of that to try to use the camera.
All they're going to do is hit the camera icon.
So Apple issued a patch that shut down that was called a security glitch.
Somebody might be able to get into your camera.
Others said you might be able to get into the telephone app and make a phone call and then might have access to the contact list on the phone.
But the hoops that people would have to go through to get that, you know, somebody that's sitting out there with pimples on his face and in his blue jeans or underwear all day long gets his phone, gets iOS 7, and sits there for 15 hours trying to figure out how to defeat it, comes up with this convoluted thing and issues a story saying there's a security flaw in the iPhone.
There was no glitch.
This is common for updates in new operating systems.
I'm not defending Apple, but I'm telling you, Apple isn't forcing anybody to pay for their mistakes.
Apple is not forcing anybody to buy their phones or their iPads or use their operating system, and Apple doesn't find anybody that doesn't.
Apple's never threatened anybody with jail time.
For the President of the United States to sit there and compare his boondoggle of a program to the most valuable company in the world, it's not the highest brand.
Apple just zoomed past Coca-Cola in brand favorability and ID.
And I think their head of Exxon has the most valuable.
They're worth more than anybody, any other company.
But it's all been because people have chosen.
We don't have a choice with Obamacare.
Not only do we not have a choice, we got to put up with the incompetence that we run into and encounter when we're forced to use it.
Apple computer.
You know, they rolled out a new operating system, found a glitch, they fixed it.
That's what we're working on.
Fix the glitch.
Wouldn't know how to fix the glitch.
You guys don't even admit you got a glitch.
That's your problem.
You people on the left are a glitch.
Liberalism is a glitch.
We're faced with the biggest damn glitch every damn day in this country.
What's the fix for it?
Hell, everybody out here is just doing their best to try to stay as unaffected by it as they can.
Let me get back to the phones.
This is David in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, it's a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Last week, you talked about the Let It Collapse chorus.
The Republicans who are saying, Let Obamacare go and fail, and everyone will see how bad it is and blame the Democrats.
Well, as you have pointed out, they're thinking of this law incorrectly as though it is a statue that will just stand or fall on its own merit.
This thing is more like a weed that was designed to morph and change and creep through our healthcare system and take it over.
For example, over 700 times in the law, you find the phrase, at the discretion of the secretary.
In other words, Secretary Sebelius can just change things if she doesn't like the way things are going.
And once this weed is planted, it will find a way to stay alive.
That's right.
That's exactly a great description.
It's a weed.
And Miracle Grow or whatever the hell you use on weeds isn't going to work on this.
Roundup, is that what it is?
Roundup's a weed killer.
Well, there is no weed killer for this.
Well, there is actually defunding it.
Anyway, that's a good description of it.
I think the Let It Collapse chorus would be great if that happened, but it requires, you know, a certain level of education among the population.
That's just, I don't know.
It's not my nature to sit around and hope things will collapse.
Especially when that strategy hasn't yet worked.
Remember people back in 1992.
Come on, Rush got away.
Let Clinton win.
Let Clinton win.
Republicans suck anyway.
So let Clinton win.
People see how bad the country gets when the Democrats run it.
Well, I mean, it didn't work because Democrats continue to be elected after that.
What are you laughing at in here?
What the hell's so funny?
Weeds?
I don't want to go to Home Depot.
I don't want, they're all thinking I have just, see, because I don't know what the weed killer is.
That means I'm out of touch and not a real person.
So now they want to take me to Home Depot and show me what the weed killers are.
Roundup is the weed killer.
I knew, I've heard of Roundup.
You know, why is it a serious question?
Why is it there are no weeds where I live?
I've done away with them all.
Whenever a weed pops up, it's done away with.
I don't have to do it.
Exactly, they do.
Why do I not get credit for that?
I'm expanding the economy.
I'm hiring other people to take care of my weeds.
And yet I'm somehow to blame because I don't do it myself.
But I do do it myself.
I'm being productive in other ways while others are being paid to deweed my place.
Yeah, just, you know, have you ever had a neighbor, one of these, every spare moment he's fixing up his house, painting the roof or whatever.
It'd be Brian.
Hey, guys, replacing windows, or he's doing the roof, or he's got his pocket drill out doing something.
And, you know, all the other, yeah, as a real man, all the other wives in the neighborhood say their husbands, why don't you do like Brad does?
Well, I'm sorry.
I'd rather watch football while Zeke out there is doing the roof.
Okay.
Better take a brief timeout, my friends, as I look here at the programming format clock.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Okay, back to the phones, and we're going to go to East Lansing, Michigan.
We had a lot of Michigan calls today.
Must be something in the trunk lines.
Here's Keith.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
It's an honor, Rush.
Thank you for taking my calls.
You bet, sir.
I am a route sales representative, and I work down in Jackson, Michigan.
What kind of sales, med sales, did you say?
I'm sorry, a route sales representative for a salty snack company.
Root sales, okay.
Yes.
Gotcha.
And I deal with a lot of convenience stores, gas stations, grocery stores, and things of that nature.
And I've seen over the last eight months or so a lot of people complaining about their hours being cut down to 30 hours or under.
Well, I ran into a woman this morning that brought something to my attention.
Her hours were cut severely back a few months back.
And it was time for her to renew her automobile insurance.
And because she now does not have health care, her premiums went up $500 every six months because she does not currently have any automobile insurance.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on here just a second.
I have questions for you.
Yes, sir.
First off, this woman who's had her hours cut, does she know why?
Yes, because of the current health care act is coming.
Our employers are cutting down as many full-timers as they can.
Okay, but I just want to make sure she's not blaming the boss.
She knows that it's Obamacare that is making it sensible for her boss to convert people to part-time.
Correct.
Okay.
Second.
During the course of that, you know, going from full-time down to part-time now, she no longer has health insurance, and it was time for her to renew her automobile premium.
And she came to me and said it went up because I no longer have health insurance.
Now that.
And I find that believable.
Well, it may be, but it's a newbie.
This one I've not heard.
So she was faced with a $500, what, a year increase in her auto insurance because she doesn't have health insurance?
That's correct.
And I believe that the two are tied together.
You get a better automobile rate if you have health insurance versus if you do not.
Well, I guess that makes sense.
Not even, gee, I wonder if my auto insurance would come down if I went out and got health insurance.
I don't have any.
See, that's another thing.
If someone picks the exchange and they take the lower-end insurance and it doesn't jive with their automobile insurance, they might end up getting socked with their automobile insurance as well.
I had not even thought of this.
This is the first I've heard of this.
And I don't know if it's just my state here in Michigan, but that's something that I found kind of alarming that I don't think a lot of people thought too much about.
Well, we don't know if it's universal or if somehow just applies to this one woman that you were talking.
You heard this from anybody else?
I heard two other people talking about it as well.
I didn't get clarification.
The only person I got clarification from was her and as to why.
And she specifically said because she lost her health care insurance.
Okay.
So does she have the money to pay the new additional auto insurance premium?
I believe she had to borrow it from her mother.
And she did pick up a second job recently, so now she's working two jobs.
Two jobs, lost her health care, auto insurance premium up by $500.
Correct.
What would be the correlation there?
Your auto insurance premiums goes up because you don't have health insurance, which somehow obviously would tie in the fact that if you're in an accident, you're not going to get...
If, yes, if you don't have health insurance coverage, when you...
I've just never heard of that.
Is this another thing you guys are going to laugh at me now?
Yeah, I was going to say, I've not heard of this before.
And I'm just wondering, am I out of touch again?
Am I facing that accusation for not having heard about this one?
You're not going to sit there and say, oh, yeah, Rush, all of us out here, we know that.
If we lose our health care, our auto goes up.
You're not going to tell me that.
All right, good.
Well, I appreciate the call, Keith.
Thanks much.
Well, I'm sure we'll dig more into this.
We'll find out more about this.
I'm just, I'm just, I'm a little, I'm hesitating.
I'm trying to figure out the logic from the insurance company standpoint of why that would automatically happen.
Lose your health insurance, your auto premium goes up.
Here's Gerald in Worcester, Moss.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Yes, Rush, I'm calling because I take issue with you.
Yesterday, you had said that the individual mandate for Obamacare was unconstitutional, and then you added, no matter what Justice Roberts said.
And the point is, is that if you do disagree with the individual mandate, you and your friends have options to go through the courts to try to overturn it.
That's the American way.
not what's going on with the silly games going on in the Congress.
I think you're choosing the wrong arena.
I know you don't like Obamacare.
I think you and your friends are choosing the wrong arena, and that's just not the American way.
Well, what arena should me and my friends be choosing?
The courts.
The courts.
Well, but the Supreme Court, which is the Supreme Court, there's nowhere to go after the Supreme Court other than to try to take the case back there if you can find a new reason to, and you can't simply to challenge their ruling.
No, but then give Obamacare a chance, and then you'll have plenty of reason to, you know, which you contend, to overturn it.
You know.
That's like saying give the Soviet Union a chance.
No way.
I didn't want to give the Soviet Union a chance.
There's certain things I just know I don't want to get a foothold.
And solid, tried and true socialism, statism, this is what this is, is one of those.
You say it's coming soon?
That means somebody remembered it?
Darn it.
Okay.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's it for this exciting, invigorating, infectious, busy broadcast hour.
But there's another one.
Yes, indeed.
One more exciting hour of our excursion into broadcast excellence on the other side of this top-of-the-hour obscene profit timeout.
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