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Oct. 2, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 2, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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When you strip it all away, that's the nub of things.
I think it's what really bothers me.
The Democrat Party and their willing accomplices in the media are not only appealing to, they are designing a country for the lowest common denominator among us.
The worst in us.
Rather than the best in us.
Now, that's probably been done before in history and probably a lot of places.
It is how tyrants have ruled.
But that's another reason why the United States has been an exception.
This is a country that was founded on the best principles of people.
It was founded and put together assuming the best, made allowances for the opposite, but it was founded under the premise that the best would rise using the freedom that we were all endowed with by our Creator.
The Democrat Party today, by the way, greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here, 800-282-2882.
The Democrat Party is not just appealing to, we know they do that just to get their votes.
The Democrat Party is appealing to, but designing a country for the low information among us, the lowest common denominator among us.
And that's not a recipe for greatness.
It's a recipe for establishment power.
It's a recipe for ruling class to be able to rule.
And it's a recipe for the ruling class remaining in power, but it's not a recipe for a great country.
It's a very dangerous thing to do, in fact, especially in a constitutional republic like ours.
The framers knew and said that a constitutional republic depends on citizens who are educated, informed, well-rounded.
When you have a majority of voters who aren't like that, you end up with the kind of people that we've been electing recently.
You end up with policies like we're getting.
When you have a country that is being constructed and built for people who are not educated and not informed and not well-rounded, what's going to happen?
And that's what we're witnessing here.
There's no effort to get the best out of anybody in Barack Obama policies, Democrat Party policies, no effort whatsoever to get the best.
All there is is a pandering to the worst.
The worst are told that they're victims.
The low information, the whatever you want to call them, lowest common, they're the victims.
They used to have all the money, but the rich took it from them when they weren't looking.
They were rich and didn't even know it.
They've been told all these years to hate the rich and hate the achievers.
We've got 90 million Americans not working.
We've shut down the government, and we're wringing our hands here over 800,000 to 900,000 unessential, or I was at non-essentials.
Non-essential government workers who are going to get back pay whenever this thing gets back to normal.
Did you see the story of the massive movie chain AMC theaters?
Get this now.
AMC is offering free popcorn to non-essential government workers who have been temporarily laid off.
That is precisely what I'm why what is it about those people?
What does AMC hope to gain here?
It's kind of obvious, isn't it?
What's in it for them to strike up a sympathetic alliance with 900,000 non-essential government workers as though they are the most unfortunate people in our country today?
Because it's just a horrible thing the government gets shut down.
No, that's worse than a cancer clinic being shut down.
Oh, no.
Well, we're going to offer them free popcorn.
If you're going to start offering free popcorn, look, AMC do whatever they want to do.
I don't care.
I just think that if you're going to start giving away popcorn at the theater, there may be some people more deserving.
But it's not about who deserves.
All they've got to do is present a valid government or military ID at any AMC location.
That's all they've got to do.
What about a valid government or military ID?
What about all the minorities that don't have one of those because they've been told that it's racism to have a photo ID?
They can't go get their free popcorn.
You might say a cynic could say that AMC has embarked upon a racist policy here.
What do you mean you got to have an ID, a legitimate ID to get free popcorn?
You don't have to have one of those to vote.
Why should you have to have one of those to get free popcorn at AMC?
That's what I'm talking about.
She's unbelievable.
Here we go.
Daniel Halper from the Weekly Standard talking about a politico story which says that Obama is showing resolve and strength by shutting the government.
Politico says that Obama's winning by shutting down the government.
Obama started September in an agonizing extended display of how little sway he had in Congress.
He ended the month with a display of resolve and strength that could redefine his presidency, say political writers Edward Isaac Dovere and Reed Epstein or Epstein.
All it took was a government shutdown.
Wait a minute.
Obama is blaming the Republicans for shutting down the government.
And here comes Politico praising Obama for doing it and claiming that it is helping him regain the respect that he had lost earlier in the month.
How is it?
I thought the Republicans shut down the government.
Shouldn't the story be that Republicans are showing resolve and strength by shutting down the government?
From the politico story, this was less a White House strategy than simply staying in the corner of the House Giopia had painted him into.
To the White House's surprise, Obama was forced to do what he so rarely has as president.
He said no, and he didn't stop saying no.
Now, that's hilarious.
And when the Republicans say no, they are ripped to shreds.
They're lambasted by the news media for being obstreperous and uncooperative and failing to compromise and all that.
But, of course, Obama says no all the time.
And now, when Obama says no here and the government shuts down, what a great guy.
What a great.
This demonstrates the Herculean effort the news media are making to try to save Obama in this.
A massive effort underway.
NBC Nightly News, how the Tea Party propelled the shutdown.
Wait a minute.
I thought the Tea Party was dead.
I'm pretty sure that the media has told us that the Tea Party's dead.
I'm sure that there are Republican establishment types that told us the Tea Party's dead.
How the Tea Party propelled the shutdown.
Yes, NBC Nightly News, Tea Party members come from some of the most conservative districts in the country.
They represent 18% of the American population.
NBC News spoke with Representative Bill Cassidy and Tim Huleskamp about the shutdown and why they say they won't budge until Democrats budge on Obamacare.
Wow.
That's amazing.
Audio soundbites.
Let's go back.
I was going to get to this in the previous hour, but I didn't have a chance to it.
But the CNN babes, they also tried to go to healthcare.gov, whatever it is, and log on and get an account and get enrolled and so forth.
And they didn't like the twirly thing that they saw.
We have here Brooke Baldwin, the anchorette, speaking with senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen about problems on the first day of online sign-up for Obamacare.
Brooke Baldwin said to Elizabeth Cohen, so you guys hit a wall out there.
We're here in Georgia.
What about other states?
Similar issues?
The CNN medical team branched out and we tried in about 20 different states.
And in 12 of them, we hit glitches.
And sometimes it just made it impossible to sign up.
There were error messages or that little annoying kind of like twirly thing.
Ate it, hate it, right?
So, yeah, in many cases, you just couldn't sign up.
Well, they hate the twirly thing.
But, you know, not even these two were buying Obama's Apple comparison.
After discussing problems with signing up in several states and how they hated the twirling thing, they kept talking.
President Obama, he addressed this speaking at the White House earlier, sort of likening it to glitches with Apple.
He had said, you know, issues with iPhone when it first rolled out, you know, but this isn't necessarily like the iPhone, right?
Right.
I mean, my iOS 7 works.
I just said someone an email, you know, it works.
This, I couldn't even sign up.
In some states that we tried, we could get to the sign up point, but in many cases, we just hit a wall.
They say they're trying to speed it up.
Yeah, it's a twirly thing out there.
Again, the big difference between Obamacare and Apple is that nobody's forcing you to buy anything Apple makes, and they're not forcing you to install iOS 7.
And they're not, I don't have an army of IRS agents running around the country determining whether or not you have or have not bought an Apple product and going to fine you if you haven't.
And they didn't have a glitch when they rolled out iOS 7 anyway, like Obama and Sebelius said.
But that was a stretch.
I mean, even for CNN to point this out, that that was a stretch comparison, that was a stretch.
But, but folks, I got to tell you, I read all of my tech blogs last night, and every one of them reported what Obama said without comment, which is the same as endorsing it.
Not one of them, not one of them editorialized in any way.
They just reported what Obama said, and that was it, Which is a tantamount stamp of approval.
All right, a quick timeout.
Sit tight.
Back with much more here in the EIB network.
We'll get to your phone calls next.
Don't go away.
I just got a note from a friend who said, You need to make one more point about Apple.
And it is how many heads would roll at Apple if they had spent untold millions of dollars advertising for a website that turned out to be nearly impossible to access.
That happened.
It was called Mobile Me, and it was the forerunner to iCloud.
And Steve Jobs fired everybody after a certain passage of time.
Jobs had a meeting with the Mobile Me team, and they went in there thinking it was going to be a fairly good meeting.
And Jobs stood up and said, Can somebody here tell me what Mobile Me is supposed to do?
And one of the team members stood up and described it.
And Jobs said, Then why the hell doesn't it?
And everybody got broomed for the most part.
And they pretty much shelved it.
And that's when they developed iCloud.
In fact, Mobile Members were given complimentary storage on iCloud, which just expired.
You might have gotten your threatening notes, nerdly.
But it has happened.
And yeah, iCloud works.
Well, iCloud is two things.
And on the consumer side, it's working fine.
Developers are having big trouble with it.
Something called Core Data Sync.
And I'm not going to bother you with the tech angle.
They're working on it.
The consumer-facing side of iCloud is flawless.
Perfectly fine.
And I don't want it's okay.
iOS 7 is fabulous.
It is.
That's why the audacity of this comparison.
And nobody calls him on it.
I mean, not one person.
You imagine if George Bush, and I mean, I even had to read on my tech blogs how Barack Obama, the superior and far more tech-savvy president we've ever had.
Blah, blah, blah.
What a crock.
But it's what I'm talking about.
We are groveling to and designing for and building for the low information among us.
And when you get, when you strip it away, I'm telling you, if you stop it, that's what really is irritating you or bothering you.
That's what upsets you.
Nobody, nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people.
And everybody needs to be goosed.
Everybody needs.
The vast majority of people are not self-starters.
Here's Robin Champaign, Illinois.
I'm glad you waited.
You're up first.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi, Rush.
I appreciate the chance to speak about honor flights.
I had the chance to serve as a guardian in an honor flight from Illinois to the World War II Memorial in 2011 and again in 2012.
We were counseled before the flights that World War II veterans never really spoke about what they had experienced.
And so we were told to expect some camaraderie, happiness and uh tears as well.
The uh uh uh sad thing is that uh in the last honor flight, 2012, both uh the men man to my left and the man to my right uh have died.
Uh there was would be no more opportunity for those guys.
Uh one the one of the guys that I was with had uh served with the group that uh uh liberated the Dachau concentration camp.
And he told a story that he said he had never repeated and that was the the look, the feel, the smell of Dachau on the 20th of April 1945.
He said that he could walk through a park in back home and catch a smell that would transport him back 65 years to that horror.
And so that his honor flight was a way to come to terms with something that had haunted him his whole life.
Well, you know, the World War II memorial is an interesting thing.
It was the last of the memorials to go up.
Now, one of the reasons for that, and I, you know, the Vietnam vet memorial was prominent.
One of the reasons for the Vietnam Vet Memorial was that this country did not honor those people at the time.
The World War II vets were heroes.
They were honored.
And please don't misunderstand me here.
The returning Vietnam vets were spat upon.
No thanks to people like Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden.
And hell, the people from the 60s left that traveled into Clinton's Orb at that time.
But the World War II vets, they had books written about them, the greatest generation, movies made about them, about their achievements.
And yet they had not had a memorial.
They had seen other memorials go up.
So finally, there was a memorial to the World War II vets.
And the reason it became important to them is simply the passage of time and the changing curriculum in history.
And they became aware, the end of their lives, how few young people really knew what they'd done.
The stakes that were faced.
It just, like so much of the history curriculum, had been, in this case, not bastardized.
They just took the occasion, the multiculturalists that took the occasion of taking out whatever there was about World War II and supplementing, replacing some other cockamame anti-Western civ course or curriculum for it.
It wasn't that World War II was bastardized and taught as a bad thing.
Not that.
It was just that it was ignored.
And the great achievements that occurred, the passage of time was, in their minds, forgotten.
So that's why their memorial was important to them.
And of course, the memorial had been erected in their honor.
And a lot of these World War II vets came back.
I mean, they were not rich.
They were not wealthy.
Many were wounded.
And it was the last thing they wanted to do in their lives was go see this memorial that was built in their honor.
And this recent group Told no by the current administration and the media trying to dump that off on the Republicans who tried to get the barricades removed.
And we're back.
Great to have you, Rushland Boss, serving humanity, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
About you know, soundbites number eight and nine.
Dingy Harry, yesterday on Capitol Hill, Congressional Democrats had a press conference.
And Obama earlier had compared the shutdown, and well, not the shutdown, but the first day of activations, if you will, for Obamacare to Apple, Dingy Harry wanted to get in on this and he compared it to Google.
I had a meeting less than a year ago out in California, San Francisco area, with one of the original founders of Google.
He told me when they first came online, oh, did they have problems?
They had problems because too many people wanted to use Google.
Their computers kept crashing.
Well, we have a few problems today.
Why?
Because in New York alone, during the first few hours, had two and a half million people want to sign up.
Oh, man.
Is this not pathetic?
Well, yeah, Google guys, they told me when they first came on in no idea.
Big problems.
Too many people wanted to use Google.
Their computers kept crashing.
It's servers, Dingy Harry, servers.
Not computers.
Fine point, but people know what they're talking about.
Call them servers.
Dingy, you guys have had three years.
You have limitless amounts of money.
You theoretically have access to the best and brightest high-tech people out there.
You tell us that only you can provide services for people.
Senator Reed, you and President Obama and all the rest of you in the Democrat Party extol your virtues all the time.
You tell us that the private sector is unfair, mean-spirited, and does not provide for the people.
And that you do.
You've told everybody that government can and should be in charge of everything because you, the government, have compassion and you care.
Whereas CEOs and capitalists don't care.
You do.
And you've told everybody that you should be in charge of health care because the people that run it now are screwing everybody.
From the insurance companies to the doctors to the pharmacies to the hospitals to the HMOs.
You've told the people of this country they're being shafted and screwed every time they interact with any aspect of the health system in this country.
And in the process, you've told them that you can do it better.
You've told them that it's morally proper that you and government do this.
And so you pass this sweeping takeover of one-sixth of the U.S. economy.
You take total control of it.
You've had three years, limitless amounts of money, access to the best and brightest, i.e. yourselves, and you don't have the slightest idea what you're doing.
And this is not just the case in healthcare.
It's anything else you presume to know best how to run.
You listen to Harry Reid or Pelosi or Stemmy Hoyer or Obama or any of their associates, media people, they know best.
They have the compassion, whereas people in the private sector don't.
They love people and nobody else does.
And they're going to do it right because they care.
And they're going to do it right because they're going to do it fair.
And when it all ends up, everybody's going to be happy.
We're going to have this little mini utopia out there in healthcare.
And three years to set it up.
Three years.
And you're clueless.
And you offer up an excuse that is the absolute worst.
Well, too many people try to act.
It's national health care.
The law of the land.
People have to go to these exchanges.
How can you possibly be surprised?
Half the people showing up think they're registering for it free.
The other half think they have to, or they're going to go to jail.
How can you be surprised at the number of people are going to show up?
Two and a half people in New York is not a lot of people, given the population of the state.
These flimsy excuses, I'm sorry, my violins are not playing.
The Google guys told me, yeah, when they started, oh, yeah.
Well, go talk to the Google guys now.
They're a bunch of billionaires.
Why don't you hate them?
We know the answer.
We have a montage from yesterday and last night of, well, I'm going to tell you who we got here.
We got Piers Morgan, Tom Ridge, former Governor John Huntsman, Rick Larson, Democrat Washington, Christian Amanpour, Andrew Neal from the BBC, Brian Williams of NBC, talking about how the world sees America in the midst of the government shutdown.
The rest of the world is looking at this, frankly, pretty aghast at what they're seeing.
Just think what we've projected to the rest of the world.
The whole world is watching this play out.
The rest of the world is looking at the United States.
How is the world reacting to this?
The rest of the world thinks it's so incredible they don't quite believe it.
We're used to dysfunctional governments in Italy or Greece or some banana republic.
A good number of Americans probably wondered at one point today what must we look like to the rest of the world.
Who the hell today ran around or yesterday worrying about that?
By the way, wasn't your guys did this?
Look, the Republicans have nothing to do with the snafu yesterday at sign-up day.
The shutdown, whatever.
The Republicans have nothing to do with this, Brian.
This is an Obama production.
And Barack Obama is the guy who told us the rest of the world was going to have profound respect and love for us when he was elected.
How can the world not look at us with great love and respect?
Obama's still running the show.
What do the Republicans have to do with this?
You guys, the reason why you're looking bad is this snafu of sign-ups on the signature issue of Barack Obama's presidency.
Government shutdown.
The world is looking, oh, how silly do we look?
A bunch of falderall.
It never, ever stops.
Here's Tina Brown.
I'm just playing you this because this is another highly valued, protected member of the media class.
It's another Democrat disguised as a journalist.
She's an editor of the Daily Beast.
She wouldn't know how to make a profit if her life depended on it.
Nothing she's done has.
And it doesn't matter, though, because she's a good liberal and she's pro-choice, and that's all that matters.
And she hates Republicans, so she can't fail.
And she was Anderson Cooper 279 last night.
He said, Tina, as though it matters, Tina, what do you make of this?
Maybe Vladimir Putin can break the logjam here.
We need a mediator like him.
I mean, it is just incredible to me to watch these Republicans putting on their suicide vests and thinking this is going to have some kind of outcome for America.
It is just absolutely preposterous.
And what is the most depressing thing really is to see how John Boehner's job insecurity, his terror of losing his speakership, means that he's just become this rallier of these crazy people.
Well, say what you want, but I'm in the low information crowd, this is a goddess.
And this is just how it plays.
Suicide vests, terrorists, the fact that she doesn't have one iota of understanding what she's talking about is irrelevant.
Suicide vests, John Boehner, terror of losing his speakership, rallier of these crazy people.
And she wasn't through, by the way.
Everybody always keeps saying about Obama that you get involved and be less aloof.
This is the one time when his aloofness suddenly looks, I think, much more statesmanlike.
But at the same time, when you look at the other side at the moment, I mean, there's such a kind of joyous, raucous, you know, nihilism.
That's right.
Nihilism.
That's right.
That's a lot of nihilism going on out there, and we're really joyful in it.
I don't know about you, Sterley.
I'm a joyful nihilist.
I don't know if the rodeo clown found another job.
I think he did.
I think, in fact, he did.
The rodeo clown went and did another rodeo.
I think he did.
He's not been shut down, despite their best efforts.
Ladies and gentlemen, look at me.
Look at the radio or your computer, your app when you're listening.
This is perfect illustration.
If I had a theme today, this would be a perfect illustration of it.
Last week, the prospect of a federal government shutdown loomed as reality.
The president told the media he would not negotiate with house burners.
And with that, the American mainstream media threw away their long-standing belief in civil bipartisan compromise in order to stand with Obama.
That's a Breitmart lead to a story.
What just happened?
Well, not just, but recently on CNN, Suzanne Malvo hosted a segment about 200 children sick with cancer who were turned away from the National Institute of Health due to the government shutdown.
And that was it.
CNN does this story, tugging at heartstrings.
Look at how mean these Republicans are.
And by the way, a number of Democrats yesterday said that the Republicans are doing this because they don't want people to have health care.
Well, there's something that Suzanne Malvo did not tell her viewers.
After saying that 200 children sick with cancer were turned away from the NIH due to the government shutdown, she did not tell her viewers that the Republicans have offered to fund the NIH in a separate bill without preconditions and that the Democrats in Obama refused to pass it.
In other words, It is Obama and the Democrats who want these kids with cancer not being allowed to visit the hospital so that they can go to CNN and get a story blaming the Republicans for it.
CNN, not a news organization and not media, but rather acting as an arm of the White House, dutifully reports that the Republicans don't want cancer-stricken kids to get treatment.
The Republicans, again, offered to fund the NIH separate bill, no preconditions.
Democrats and Obama refused to pass it.
I don't care what you want to say about gamesmanship, and I don't care how you want to look at this.
Well, of course Obama can't be doing that.
It's a trick.
He can't fall for that, Republicans.
No trick.
Obama shut down the government.
Harry Reid shut down the government.
As a result, cancer kids can't visit the NIH.
Republicans offer separate funding.
Obama and the Democrats say ain't no way.
So if your kid is one of these 200 that can't visit the NIH because they've got cancer, it's the president and the Democrat Party who are making that happen.
And this isn't the only example.
You may have heard that Obama has invited congressional leaders to the White House at 5.30 this afternoon.
There has been a little memo go out here from the executive office of the president.
And it is entitled Veto Threat.
And here's what it says.
If presented with a Republican bill to open the national parks and museums, if presented with a Republican bill to provide local funding for D.C. art, if presented with a bill to honor our promise to Americans' veterans, if the Republicans present a bill for research for life-saving cures,
if the Republicans present a bill to pay National Guard and Reserve troops, the president will veto the bills.
That is from the White House.
So why have a meeting with this guy?
Why is he wasting time with the Congressional Republicans this afternoon if his position is that all of these offers by the Republicans to separately fund these supposedly crucial things, he's going to veto?
Republicans offered to fund the NIH for cancer-stricken kids.
White House said nope.
Democrat Party said no, not going to do it.
Here's Dan, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you, sir.
EIB Network, hello.
How you doing?
I'm fine.
Great to have you here.
Great.
I'm calling because I guess I'm labeled an unessential government employee.
Non-essentialism.
What do you do?
I work at the War College creating online courseware for our graduate program that we have.
So yeah, it's a government agency that actually produces something.
And right now, a lot of my unessential or non-essential work isn't getting done, and it's piling up.
And I guess my point of calling is that it seems like everybody has this attitude to non-essential personnel that why do we even have a job to begin with?
And I have a lot of work to do right now, and I can't get it done because of what's going on in Congress here with the President and the Senate.
Look, I understand how you feel.
I mean, your own company, as it were, your own government has classified you as non-essential.
And as such, your own government has determined that when they have to shut down, it's you who get shut down.
And so people who pay your salary with their taxes are asking, well, why?
If they're non-essential, see, words mean things.
Then why are they there?
I think, to be honest with you, that I understand why people are doing it because they think it's a way to make a point.
But I think the rule is, according to the federal guidelines, the only people who protect life and property are essential government workers.
I mean, you could even say that members of the House and Senate could be on a snow day are non-essential.
They shut down.
It's non-essential now.
Yeah, I agree.
Look, I just want to assure you, it's a rhetorical exercise for a lot of people who think they can make a point about government waste because it's their taxpayers.
I think they're far larger issues than whether or not you are essential or not.
I know you want to be.
Everybody does.
Everybody wants to matter.
I can understand you being offended at Obama telling you you don't matter.
I would be upset too if I was.
And as usual, my friends, it's the fastest three hours in media.
And two of them, well, sadly, they're in the can and on the way over to Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
I want you to sit tight because we've got a lot more straight ahead, including more of your phone calls.
And by quirk of faith, there's an open line up there right now.
If you want to hustle, it's actually a tease.
There is one, but you don't have a prayer.
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