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Oct. 9, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 9, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists.
Welcome back.
Great Rushlin boy here behind the golden EIB microphone with yet another excursion into broadcast excellence.
It's just great to have you here.
The telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address illrushbaugh at EIB net.com.
Did you see the story?
I didn't have it in the stack today.
I had it earlier, and I thought I set it aside to save it, and I didn't.
I don't need it.
Women today will live five years fewer than their mothers.
Did you see that story?
You must you throw abortion out, and I don't know what the reason is, but uh people convening panel discussions on this.
You know, what could possibly explain this?
Why would women today live on average five years less than their mothers?
And I think, well, certainly this is a factor.
The uh you know, women in the workplace enduring the stress that that is found there, but they can't, they can't fall back on that because it's something they wanted.
That's something that the modern feminazis fought for.
Uh, and and so child rearing and uh any number of other pressures.
I just I've I found it found it fascinating.
Maybe I should go try to find it because there were some interesting aspects to that.
Uh, because there's a there's another story today, a San Francisco Chronicle.
Girls are getting more concussions than ever before playing soccer.
The friendly game of girls' soccer is racking up lots of concussions, second only to boys' football.
Now, we warned you about this, I don't know how many years ago.
Now we first heard about this, and I warned everybody that concussions were a rampant part of soccer.
We put together this little charity group called Kooks.
Keep our own kids safe.
We had testimonials from people.
Um it's just it's it's it's uh I don't know, it's fascinating.
I've got also the five, the top five bogus public health scares.
This is from our non-Washington template or narrative stack.
It's from Reason.com.
You want to hear what the five, the top five bogus public health scares are.
Number one, exposure to trace amounts of synthetic chemicals is a major cause of cancer.
Not true.
High fructose corn syrup, responsible for the obesity epidemic, not true.
Cell phones cause cancer, not true.
Vaccines cause autism, not true.
And the idea that Americans should consume no more than 1,500 milligrams of sodium or salt per day in order to reduce uh risk of heart disease, strokes, and high blood pressure, not true.
And then the politico has a story today.
You know, you got climate deniers, climate change deniers, and now the drive-by media has conjured up the idea that there are debt limit deniers.
And a debt limit denier, I guess would be somebody like me who does not believe that the apocalypse will happen if the debt limit is not raised.
And so it's fascinating the overall, the ballpark themes that the that the media that the left has established, that they just attach various stories to.
Climate change deniers, and now uh there are deniers of uh the debt limit.
And it's the same theme that that constantly runs through these things.
They just attach different stories to the themes that keep just recycling these things.
And it's all designed to make mainstream common sense look Like it's wacko.
Climate change deniers, the equivalent of Holocaust deniers.
I mean, if anybody is extremists, it's the people on the on the left.
And you have.
I want to go back to the John Stewart interview at Kathleen Sabilis.
If you boil that down, you know what it was about?
John Stewart just figured out, and he had to learn this from new media because his buddies in the drive-by's are not reporting this.
He was he was very upset with Kathleen Sabillius, Health and Human Services Secretary.
He learned that big business got a year's delay on the employer mandate.
So they've been given a grace period of one year.
They don't have to provide their employees health care.
But then he learned out that the individual mandate stays intact.
We, the little guy, are required by law to have insurance or pay a fine.
And he wanted to know why in the world, if business gets a break, the little guy doesn't get a break.
And Kathleen Sebelius lied to him.
She lied to him about how many part-time workers there are.
She said the number's going down, and it isn't.
The number is skyrocketing.
The number of part-time, in fact, most job creation today is in the party, 70% of new jobs or part-time jobs.
That doesn't count jobs full-time being converted to part-time under 30 hours so that businesses escape the responsibility.
And she lied to him, and he finally figured that out.
And he was not comfortable by it, and he felt guilty, pointing it out, and he said it was it's it's very tough to defend something here that they're lying to me about.
Well, so this subject came up on MSNBC yesterday when Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, and she had as her guest, Sean Duffy, a Republican member of Congress from Wisconsin.
And uh we're we're breaching uh our ban on what happens on MSNB.
That basically, you know, that's mostly a prime time ban, but it was prime time that inspired the ban, and then the ban was just extended to the whole network.
And I have not lifted the ban.
Oh, I'm gonna tell you what, let me tell you something.
The reason why I stopped.
Why why publicize that crap?
They've got they've got some host.
I I I gotta be real careful here.
I want you to know that I'm employing fabulous discipline right now.
They've got.
Anyway, they have people that are now openly blaming the Constitution for what's happening in the country.
The Constitution's a problem.
The fact that the Constitution limits Obama from just fixing this stuff.
I mean, it's really dangerous stuff.
I mean, these are just they're they're they're pure ignorant.
Some of the most arrogant, condescending, smart alex, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.
And they believe in total centralized power.
They believe in dictatorial power by the president when he is one of them.
And they've got their ring in their hands over the fact that the Constitution is the problem here.
The only reason we're in this mess is our damn constitution.
And why air this crap?
You know, why it's not, it's not even worth any entertainment value anywhere.
So I instituted the ban, and I'm gonna tell you, folks, I'm gonna tell you.
You know, I don't normally take credit for things, and I don't know that in this case justified.
But the moment we instituted that ban, their numbers just plummeted, and they're in the cellar asterisks in many cases.
So it it worked in in that sense.
I mean, why you people would never watch that network, so why should I play stuff on it for you that that amplifies what happens there?
I mean, you don't need to hear it to know what liberals think.
And I just decided why should I turn over portions of this program to those nutcases, even if it is just a laugh at them?
Because after a while it wasn't even funny.
It was just really frustrating.
So the ban's been in place for well over a year, maybe longer than that.
But something happened yesterday when Andrea Mitchell, we're gonna lift the ban.
It's this Wisconsin Republican Sean Duffy, guested with uh with Andrew Mitchell, and it starts this way.
She said, why not sit down and negotiate over entitlement reform, which is something that you'll you all have been demanding, and that Obama's offered in his initial budget?
I mean, you're you're you're putting on the table a non-negotiable demand, meaning the defunding of Obamacare.
The media won't even ask the question about why are you treating families different than big businesses?
You need John Stewart on Comedy Central to ask Secretary Sibelius, hey, why won't you treat these two equally?
And she can't answer it.
I mean, that's how pathetic I think news reporting has become when we won't ask tough questions to the administration.
Well, we've asked questions to all sides.
That's not fair.
Do you ask that question, Andrew?
We have asked that question.
I am asked that question.
Really?
Well, nobody heard it.
Nobody heard it.
Duffy then said, why do you want your own health care and you won't join us in Obamacare?
That's a question I haven't seen anybody ask on MSN NBC.
Please ask it.
Because they don't have a good answer for it.
Why?
Why do you want your own health care and you you won't join us in Obamacare?
He's members of Congress.
Why?
Why are all these people asking out of it?
Is his point?
He says, I haven't seen anybody on MSNBC ask that question.
The response that Kathleen Sabelius gave to John Stewart was if we had gotten what we wanted, which is a sil single payer plan, this wouldn't be the problem.
That's right.
You say I think this is what they would say, but you don't know what they would say because you haven't asked.
And that's one of the problems we have here.
Okay, so he's his he's going right for her heart.
I mean, she prides herself on being the dean of journalistas.
And he's telling her that you're not doing your job.
You're not asking these people any questions.
You're not asking tough questions of the regime or uh or of Obama.
So they she said, Do you consider it a small ask that he get rid of the central part of his health care plan that was upheld by the vote, a presidential election and a U.S. Supreme Court?
So she wants to know, what do you think you're doing?
Don't you consider it a big deal?
You're asking him to give up his signature item.
Hold on, that's your spin.
The president gave a one-year exemption for listen, he gave a one-year exemption for businesses in regard to taxes and penalties in Obamacare.
We've said for the individuals, for the families, if they want to go into Obamacare, they can, but if they don't, for one year, don't tax them or penalize them, just like the way you're treating big businesses.
That is fair under the law.
That's all we've asked for.
Why won't he join us in Obamacare?
Why wasn't Michelle Obama on October 1st at the computer with her family signing up for Obamacare or Jake Carney?
They have their own gold-plated health care plan that they're in, and they don't no, I'm not.
I'm in Obamacare.
I'm in Obamacare, Andrea.
All members of Congress are in my family.
The president should join us in Obamacare, and the rest of America.
Is that pretty reasonable?
We should all be treated equally under the law.
Now see, his point here is that he's changed the law, Andre.
He's he's just willy-nilly choosing when and what to implement and not implement.
And we're simply saying that the thing that is happening now is not what was signed into law.
The way this plan is unfolding is not what he signed.
There were not waivers of one year for 2500 unions and so there were not waivers of one year for business on the employer mandate.
There weren't any of these uh excuses granted or or extensions granted to people to not participate.
So and you're not asking about that.
You're just simply accepting that Obamacare is what he signed into law, and it isn't.
He is extra-constitutionally changing it, and you're not even asking him about that.
His point is why do you constantly circle the wagons and protect this guy instead of taking a look at what's really happening and ask somebody at the White House about it?
And then this is the the way the exchange ended, and it was, I think, kind of interesting because it ends up with him playing journalist and and her her being either the however you want to call it victim or the suspect, which is what a guest is on TV, that you're a suspect.
And this is how the final exchange ended out there.
Can you defend why the president shouldn't be an Obamacare like members of Congress and their staff?
I can't do that.
I can't defend why the White House cannot figure out a way to reopen the government so that I ask them that question and their families can get the benefits that they have done.
And I told you we're going to do that this week.
We're just saying treat individuals and families like big business and have Obama go into Obamacare.
That's it.
No one's asked that question but John Stewart.
I think the media should start doing his job.
Thanks for your advice.
Thank you, Congressman.
Yeah, thank you.
So it it is interesting in a in a sense.
You you see what concerns open the government so people get their benefits.
Open the government so people get their benefits.
Everybody's getting their benefits, Andrea.
It's only 17% shut down.
Illegals get the use of the park.
The National Mall.
All of Obama's buddies are getting their checks.
All of Obama's political friends are getting whatever they want during this shutdown.
The only people being denied things during the shutdown are Obama's political enemies.
Now, Piers Morgan on Piers Morgan Live shows eponymous.
You know what that means?
It means it's named after him.
If you have an eponymous show, I mean it's named after you.
Like the Rush Limbaugh program is an eponymous show.
And so Piers Morgan has an eponymous show, uh, Piers Morgan tonight.
Of course, tonight's not his name, but it might be if he keeps up.
He's a little worried.
Um he thinks what happened on the John Stewart show is significant.
This is what he said.
John Stewart's like himself and Secretary Kathleen Sibelius.
I can barely believe what I was watching.
It was like the person in charge of this didn't seem to have a clue about almost any of it.
It was embarrassing to watch.
And I'm nothing against Kathleen Sibelius.
I've met her once seemed very nice lady, but I was squirming watching this.
You know, what did it tell you, though, Piers?
You think she doesn't know what she's talking about.
So what does that mean you think?
It means you think these people are infallible.
You think these people are simply experts and never lie because they're on your side and their fellow liberals.
And then you see raging lying or incompetence or whatever, and it doesn't compute, and you get nervous.
So Piers Morgan, for the first time, has something about this questioned.
He's never questioned it.
He hears Stewart ask a question, but he sees somebody in the regime lie, and he is scared.
He can't believe what he was watching.
The lack of curiosity of some of these people is just astounding to me.
They call themselves journalists and they're nowhere near it.
They're just they're they're blind followers.
And now it's not happening the way they all thought.
They thought it was going to be the best thing since sliced bread.
They really did it.
Now it's an absolute debacle and joke, and their confidence is shaking.
Even Charlie Rose, this is uh last night on PBS, he's talking to Mark Landler of CBS of the uh of the New York Times.
Just a short little bite here.
Is the president on firm ground when he says I'm not gonna negotiate?
Is he on firm ground in making that argument?
Well, I would say that ultimately he's the guarantor of the nation's credit worthiness.
So I think it's a difficult argument to say that I'm not going to negotiate.
So the Charlie Rose shows a little bit of panic, too.
And I got to take a break.
There are more to this too, but sit tight, coming right back.
Okay, back to the phones we go.
This is uh Rachel in Manhattan.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
You know, kudos to your brother David.
He was on Crossfire last night.
Yeah.
And he is the only one on cable TV and the Sunday shows all these weeks or months that use the word extremist against the liberals, finally, against Stephanie Cutter.
You know, when you use, and she was in shock.
When you use their words against them, they can't believe you're standing up to them.
They should all Republicans should all all be saying extremist progressives, extremist liberals have been running this country for the last five years, and they run it into the ground.
And there are no more good, uh, there are no more moderate democrats left.
They've got to start using the word extremist.
Important word.
It's been a long time since they're already moderate Democrats.
Right.
And they also got to use the word um fairness.
And they've you know, what's the fairness?
Why is this fair that Obama gave over four, ten exemptions to his wealthy corporate friends for Obamacare, and not the American citizens.
Fairness is another thing.
I mean it's Okay, so let's get back to David, because what you you what you liked about it, I think was that you saw somebody that's on your side fighting back and not accepting the BS that these people just routinely utter.
Correct.
For example, Bill Burton was talking about how poor the economy was that that that Obama inherited, and my brother pointed out it was not a bad economy to the extent that Bush was in charge of it, but the policies that weakened it were policies your guys supported, like the subprime mortgage crisis and so forth.
Right.
And he really he hammered them on the fact that they're the ones causing the debt problem, they're the ones that got a reign in spending, and he did call them extremists.
And the I'll tell you how I knew it was a successful appearance.
Yes.
You know how I knew?
How?
Because on Mediaite.
Oh, good.
The website that reports what happens on the media, they had pictures of David and Bill Burton.
Yes and the picture of David was legal mad as hell, face street.
And Burton looked like a smiling, soft spoken neighbor next door, which is uh exact what the left does when they've been caught, they try to with these optics, they characterize uh conservatives as these screaming loud extremists, and they do it with uh uh you know their flash retirement, take a still shot from the video that uh fits the bill that they want.
I knew it was good then.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
L Rushball and the fastest week in media.
This is already Wednesday.
I can't believe it.
I've been looking for a slow week.
But it is uh it is zooming by.
Since uh since our caller, Rachel from Manhattan mentioned my brother David on Crossfire.
Why not just play some sound bites from it?
You know, because there was a um somebody once said I forget who.
Somebody once said when they bring a gun, or when they bring a knife, you bring a gun.
That was Obama who said that.
When they bring a knife, you bring a gun.
And uh somebody once said you get in their face and you just punch them out or something like that.
You punch them.
That was Obama, too.
That was Obama's.
That's right.
That was that community organizer gangster Chicago talk, right?
It was Obama did say those things.
Well, that's kind of what David did on Crossfire last night.
So he had um had Stephanie Cutter, who uh but is she pregnant?
Did you know that?
She's 44.
She's pregnant.
It's not known whether she's married, and it's not known who the father is.
I I'm just telling you what's in the news, Dawn.
You can look at it and laugh at it.
They don't know who she well, it wasn't announced that the father is, and nobody knows whether she's married or not.
She's 44.
And she's going on maternity leave soon, shortly after taking the the crossfire gig.
I don't know the CNN knew that.
And then um uh and Bill Burton was uh was was the liberal guest, and then David.
So the first bite that we have here, let's see, this is uh Stephanie Cutter says the uh last time we were in this position, where the president set up a negotiation process with Boehner.
Boehner couldn't negotiate because he didn't have any control over his Tea Party.
So on the eve of a deal, he walked away.
What happened?
The American people lost a trillion dollars in their savings, 401ks, money wiped out, stock market dropped significantly.
We got a downgrade in our credit rating.
So her setup is Boehner walking away.
And you you're right.
A campaign aid is now a host on crossfire, an Obama campaign aid.
And she basically said, so the last time we had one of these, when Boehner walked away, the world ended.
When Boehner walked away from negotiations, everybody lost everything.
Here's what David said to them.
We didn't get a downgrade because of the impasse.
We got a downgrade because of Obama's economy and this debt.
Seventeen trillion dollars of debt, ninety trillion dollars of unfunded liabilities, which Obama has clearly stated he has no intention to do anything about.
But Obama has gotten his way, notwithstanding your statement that we keep having gridlock all over the place.
He got his way on the stimulus.
He got his way on Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and on the things that he can't get his way legislatively, he has gone done an in run around Congress lawlessly through executive order with the DREAM Act and the EPA.
It's shameful what's going on.
It's true you you would not have an elected Republican saying anything like that on Crossfire.
Gentlemanly and accepting the premise and then trying to argue it around the um the edges.
But uh they tried to shout him down, but he wasn't having any of it.
Look at the results of Obama's agenda being implemented.
The worst economy, the worst recovery in 60 years.
You guys talk about the best debt reduction in 60 years.
That's because you compare it to a different baseline of 1.1 trillion starting.
And he has only reduced the deficit because Republicans made him.
You ought to be ashamed of his record, with all due respect.
I am scared of our future for our future because we won't do anything to reign in the debt and spend it.
And so then uh the Republican host on the show said, Bill, are you ashamed of President Obama's record?
I am not ashamed of the President's record.
Because I was there, when they re-elected him.
Right.
The President inherited a historic disaster of an economy.
And what he's been able to do through the leadership of himself, uh his economic team at the White House, partners in Congress, is actually bring it back and put us on a path to growth as opposed to the path that it was on, if you recall, shedding 700,000 jobs per month when he came into office.
He inherited a bad economy caused by policies that he endorsed, like the housing policies, and Bush had a good economy for six to seven of his eight years, and unemployment average 5.3 percent.
You know the the thing about this, this is a stock answer that you get from these regime people.
The president inherited a historic disaster of an economy.
He did not.
It was not a disaster of an economy.
It was his election that began job losses every month of 700,000.
In November of that year, 2008.
That's when 700,000 jobs a month got lopped off, and that continued.
One of the biggest myths is that Obama inherited a bad economy, and then when he got there, found out it was even worse than anybody knew because Bush had lied to him in their pre-presidential transition meetings and hadn't told him the truth about it.
There it was not a bad economy.
Now the financial crisis was due to one thing, and this was David's point.
And that was the subprime mortgage crisis, and that was an Obama idea.
That was something Obama supported.
That was making banks lend money to people they didn't have, any way of repaying it.
And then the banks packaged those worthless mortgages as mortgage-backed securities, and they sold them to unwitting dupes.
And then the dupes figured out they'd been duped.
And they found a new set of dupes to sell it to.
And finally, they ran out of dupes.
And so there was nobody to buy this worthless garbage.
And that's when it crashed.
I'm going to go back to the next episode.
Subprime mortgage crisis, a Bill Clinton idea, and they used government pressure to threaten these banks back in the 90s and the early 2000s.
The Bush administration with their regulators tried to straighten it out, and people like Barney Frank practically threw the regulators out of congressional hearings.
But it was not a disastrous economy that Obama inherited.
David's right, unemployment was at 5.3 percent for the vast majority of the Bush administration, had two recessions, came out of 9-11.
I mean, you know, these myths that these that these people continue to to uh utter.
It's that there's just there's no truth that comes out of any of these people in the Obama camp at all.
They manufacture this horrible economic story in order to justify policies that do nothing but take more money out of the private sector and grow the government, which is all the stimulus was.
Obama's added six trillion dollars to the national debt.
The total is 17 trillion since the founding.
And almost a third of it, over a third of it belongs to him.
And they want to try to blame Republicans for the debt limit and the debt ceiling and uh uh it just it's a it's an utter disaster.
What David was saying here, we have a purposeful destruction of the capitalist economy of this country underway.
It is a purposeful destruction that all of these leftists totally and thoroughly support, and it has a lot of people scared to death, and more every day as they sign up for Obamacare and find out what it actually is going to mean to their disposable income as they grow and uh and get older.
So brief timeout.
We'll get back to your phone calls when we return, so sit tight.
Here's uh here's Danny in Oklahoma City.
Hi, Danny, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Russ, nice to nice to be talking with you.
I've been listening to you for 22 years, but look, I want to get right to the point.
Um, I'm in the insurance industry, and uh you were talking about history a while ago, and uh we can look remember the HMO that came out that everybody just ran to and droves, and then once they found out big brother was going to make a decision for them on their health care.
No, it was uh HMO was invented by Ted Kennedy.
Yeah, so everybody hates it.
There's only about three percent of the policies out there in the market today.
Everything else is a PPO.
Uh so I mean, I think that's what we're gonna see here with Obamacare is everybody is going to, you know, those that want to are going to run to this thing, and then they're gonna realize when they've gotten themselves into nothing is for free.
I mean, everything comes with a price.
And uh I appreciate you uh getting that voice out there and and letting people know, hey Well, what are people gonna do?
Obamacare is not an HMO.
Well, but if this is the thing, if it gets fully implemented and entrenched, and you say people are eventually going to figure out what are they gonna do?
Well, they're gonna be stuck.
I mean, that that that's the that's the problem.
And they're giving up a private health care industry.
I mean, because this is affecting the private health care industry.
I have I have clients that are they're major, major companies in the Oklahoma City area that have hundreds of employees that when the exchanges open, uh, when it would be Ken's mandate for them to uh bring on the system, they're gonna they're gonna adopt their their great health care plan, put all these employees in this in in the exchanges.
And uh, I mean, they're they're cutting back employees, so I mean, we're already feeling the effects of it.
Yeah, but I uh this is this is this is not an HMO.
Usually the HMOs went away and people came up with some other alternative.
Um this this they're not gonna have the option to do away with this.
I mean, this 16,000 IRS agents following people around requiring compliance or else.
I'll tell Danny made a great point.
HMOs were sold as a great way to lower costs, and they drove costs through the roof and there was no benefit.
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