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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 Rushland 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 ilrushbaugh at EIBNet.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?
Well, you throw abortion out, and I don't know what the reason is, but there are 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 women in the workplace, enduring the stress that is found there.
But they can't fall back on that because that's something they wanted.
That's something that the modern feminists fought for.
And so child rearing and any number of other pressures.
I just, I found it fascinating.
Maybe I should go try to find it because there were some interesting aspects to that.
Because there's another story today, San Francisco Chronicle.
Girls are getting more concussions than ever before playing soccer.
A 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.
It's just, it's, 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 risk of heart disease, strokes, and high blood pressure.
Not true.
And then the Politico has a story today.
You know, you've 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 media that the left has established that they just attach various stories to.
Climate change deniers, and now there are deniers of the debt limit.
And it's the same theme 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 extremist, it's the people on the left.
And you have, I want to go back to the Jon Stewart interview with Kathleen Sebelius.
If you boil that down, you know what it was about?
Jon Stewart just figured out, and he had to learn this from new media because his buddies in the drive-bys are not reporting this.
He was very upset with Kathleen Sebelius, 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 part 70% of new jobs are 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'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, NBA senior is in Washington, and she had as her guest Sean Duffy, a Republican member of Congress from Wisconsin.
And we're breaching our ban on what happens on MSNB.
Basically, you know, that's mostly a prime time ban, but well, 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 going to tell you what.
Let me tell you something.
The reason why I stopped, why publicize that crap?
They've got some host.
I've got to 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.
And 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 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 ringing 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, it's not even worth any entertainment value anymore.
So I instituted the ban.
And I'm going to tell you, folks, I'm going to tell you.
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 worked in that sense.
I mean, why you people would never watch that network.
So why should I play stuff on it for you 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 with Andrea Mitchell that we're going to lift the ban.
It's this Wisconsin Republican Sean Duffy guested with Andrea Mitchell, and it starts this way.
She said, why not sit down and negotiate over entitlement reform, which is something that you all have been demanding and that Obama's offered in his initial budget.
I mean, 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 differently than big businesses?
You need Jon Stewart on Comedy Central to ask Secretary Sebelius, 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 had questions to false.
That's not fair.
Do you ask that question, Andrea?
We have asked that question.
We have 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 MSNBC.
Please ask it.
Because they don't have a good answer for it.
Why do you want your own health care and you won't join us in Obamacare?
He's members of Congress.
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 Sebelius gave to Jon Stewart was, if we had gotten what we wanted, which is a 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 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 of Obama.
So 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 in the 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 to 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 Jay 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, Andrew.
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 2,500 unions and so forth.
There were not waivers of one year for business on the employer mandate.
There weren't any of these excuses granted or extensions granted to people to not participate.
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 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 way the exchange ended.
And it was, I think, kind of interesting because it ends up with him playing journalist and 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, a guest.
And this is how the final exchange ended out there.
Can you defend why the president shouldn't be in Obamacare like members of Congress and their stats?
I can't defend why the White House cannot figure out a way to reopen the government so that their families can get the benefits that they have.
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 Jon Stewart.
I think the media should start doing its job.
Thanks for your advice.
Thank you, Congressman.
Yeah, thank you.
So it is interesting in a sense.
You see what concerns.
Open the government so people get their benefits.
Open the government so people get their benefits, Andrew.
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, Piers Morgan tonight.
Of course, tonight's not his name, but it might be if he keeps up.
He's a little worried.
He thinks what happened on the Jon Stewart show is significant.
This is what he said.
John Stewart taking some shots at Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
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 Sebelius.
I've met her once.
She's a 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 they're 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 blind followers.
And now it's not happening the way they all thought.
They thought it was going to be the best thing since lice bread.
They really did.
And now it's an absolute debacle and joke and their confidence is shaken.
Even Charlie Rose, this is last night on PBS.
He's talking to Mark Landler of the New York Times.
Just a short little bite here.
Is the president on firm ground when he says, I'm not going to negotiate?
Is he on firm ground in making that argument?
Well, I would say that ultimately he's the guarantor of the nation's creditworthiness.
So I think it's a difficult argument to say that I'm not going to negotiate.
So Charlie Rose shows a little bit of panic, too.
And I've 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 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 used the word extremists 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.
Republicans should 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 moderate Democrats left.
They've got to start using the word extremist, important word.
It's been a long time since there were words, moderate Democrats.
Right.
And they also got to use the word fairness.
And they've, you know, what's the fairness?
Why is this fair that Obama gave over 1,400 exemptions to his wealthy corporate friends for Obamacare and not the American citizens?
Fairness is another thing.
Okay, so let's get back to David, because 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 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.
And he really hammered them on the fact that they're the ones causing the debt problem.
They're the ones that got to rein in spending.
And he did call them extremists.
And I'll tell you how I knew it was a successful appearance.
Yes.
You know how I knew?
How?
Because on MediaIte, the website that reports what happens on the media, they had pictures of David and Bill Burton.
And the picture of David was mad as hell on his face screen.
And Burton looked like a smiling, soft-spoken neighbor next door, which is what the left does when they've been caught.
They try to, with these optics, they characterize conservatives as these screaming loud extremists.
And they do it with their flash guitar.
Take a still shot from the video that fits the bill that they want.
I knew it was good then.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
El 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 zooming by.
Since our caller, Rachel from Manhattan, mentioned my brother David on Crossfire.
I figure, why not just play some sound bites from it?
You know, because there was a, somebody once said, I forget who, somebody once said when they bring a gun, 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 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?
Obama didn't say those things.
Well, that's kind of what David did on Crossfire last night.
He had Stephanie Cutter, who, by the way, she's 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'm just telling you what's in the news, Dawn.
You can look at it and laugh.
They don't know who she, well, it wasn't announced who 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 Crossfire gig.
I don't know that CNN knew that.
And Bill Burton was the liberal guest, and then David.
So the first bite that we have here, let's see, this is Stephanie Cutter says, 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.
Now, 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.
You're right.
A campaign aide 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.
$17 trillion of debt, $90 trillion 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 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 would not have an elected Republican saying anything like that on CrossFire.
They'd be gentlemanly in accepting the premise and then trying to argue it around the edges.
But 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 rein in the debt and spend it.
And so then 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.
Right.
The president inherited a historic disaster of an economy.
And what he's been able to do through the leadership of himself, 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, unemployment average 5.3%.
You know, 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 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.
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% for the vast majority of the Bush administration.
Had two recessions, came out of 9-11.
I mean, you know, these myths that these people continue to utter, it's that 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 $6 trillion 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 it just, 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 get older.
So brief timeout.
We'll get back to your phone calls when we return.
So sit tight.
Here's Danny in Oklahoma City.
Hi, Danny.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Russ.
Nice to be talking with you.
I've been listening to you for 22 years, but I want to get right to the point.
I'm in the insurance industry, and you were talking about history a while ago.
And we can look, remember the HMO that came out that everybody just ran to in droves.
And then once they found out, Big Brother was going to make a decision for them on their health care.
Yeah, HMO was invented by Ted Kennedy.
Yeah, so everybody hates it.
There's only about 3% of the policies out there in the market today.
Everything else is a PPO.
So, I mean, I think that's what we're going to see here with Obamacare: everybody is going to, you know, those that want to are going to run to this thing, and then they're going to realize what they've gotten themselves into.
And nothing is for free.
I mean, everything comes for the price.
And I appreciate you getting that voice out there and letting people know, hey.
Well, what are people going to do?
Obamacare is not an HMO.
But if it gets fully implemented and entrenched, and you say people are eventually going to figure out, what are they going to do?
Well, they're going to be stuck.
I mean, 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 clients that are, they're major companies in the Oklahoma City area that have hundreds of employees that when the exchanges open, when it comes to mandate for them to bring on the system, they're going to dump their great health care plan, put all these employees in the exchanges.
And I mean, they're cutting back employees.
So, I mean, we're already feeling the effects of it.
Yeah, but this is not an HMO.
The HMOs went away and people came up with some other alternative.
They're not going to have the option to do away with this.
I mean, 16,000 IRS agents following people around requiring compliance or else.
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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