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Oct. 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 18, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Welcome once again, ladies and gentlemen, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the bountiful fruited plane, El Rushbow on the left coast on Friday.
Let's hit it live from the left coast at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
It's open line Friday.
That's right, my friends.
One big busy broadcast hour remains here in our big week from Los Angeles.
And we'll be back to EIB Southern Command on Monday.
But of course, none of that matters to you.
As long as I'm here, doesn't matter where here is, which has always been the case.
It just kind of sounds cool to say from Los Angeles.
It doesn't mean anything.
Except we have to get up earlier.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, open line Friday, 800-282-2882.
The email address, Lrushmore at EIBNet.com.
I just want to finish reminding everybody about the call from Bill from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
This is what he said.
This is after 27 out of 28 people, blind tasting had had chosen two if by tea and they flipped out.
Thanksgiving.
Liberal family members flipped out.
They they started throwing watermelon rinds and uh guy's wife got a piece of key lime pie smashed in her face.
And they they just blew and they attacked the two if by tea bottles and they ripped the labels off.
And they were just they were mad as hell and they thought they'd been tricked.
But then Bill said, now here's where it kind of changed, Rush.
A couple of people now with the view of the ice tea now available.
They went back and they tried the tea again.
And the results were validated.
They actually, even though knowing they were drinking your tea, they voted for it again.
Die hard liberals, Rush.
People who hate you and everything you stand for.
And then they started to come to the defense of not you personally, but they did come to the defense of two if by tea, because they liked it.
And they didn't like it being attacked.
And then he said we actually watched over the course of the next couple minutes something happened with liberals that we've never seen before.
They actually compromised because there was a group of people that wanted the tea taken out of the party.
They were just livid.
They thought the whole party was ruined with my tea there.
They wanted the tea removed, a group of people who didn't want it removed, they wanted the tea to stay.
So they came to an agreement that the tea would be allowed to stay at the party under one condition.
The label bearing my name and image had to be removed from the bottle.
That was the compromise.
So the tea actually made liberals compromise, probably a first.
They love the tea, they just didn't want to see my face on it.
But they they agreed to keep it.
Speaking of it, we have a uh a little special that we're running today at the two if by tea.com website, and I wanted to mention it.
It's it's Friday, so why not?
Happy hour at 2 if by 2 right now through 11 p.m.
Eastern.
We are running special pricing on all flavors of the tea.
Uh we'd throw in chicken wings like the sports bar if we could, but until then, just go grab some tea at a great deal.
Who doesn't love a deal except the Democrats?
So it's a two itbytea.com special reduced pricing, just decided to do it.
No, no, no, snurdly, not just now.
I mean, I was gonna mention this all along.
I just this became an opportune time to mention it.
So it's uh drastically reduced happy hour to if by tea at two if by tea dot com.
Now our last caller, unbelievable, woman called, heard from her accountant or accountant found out what his Obamacare obligation is gonna be.
Twenty-four thousand dollar deductible.
She asked me who would have ever believed, and I said I would have.
Now, I want to clarify, I never I didn't mean to intimate that I knew the deductibles were gonna go to 24 grand.
I did know what was gonna happen to this country.
I did know what Obama intended to do with the healthcare system because he told everybody.
We played the audio here, a lot of other networks did, but the drive-bynt.
But in 2007, Obama's talking to the service employees International Union.
And he's telling them about single payer.
And he said, we all want to get there, and here's how we're going to do it.
We can't do it overnight.
The country would reject it overnight.
We're going to have to build up to it.
May take 10 years, might take 15 years.
But we're that we're all we're going to get there.
It wasn't even look, but I didn't even need Obama telling the SEIU what he was going to do.
Obama is an Alinsky Ite radical.
Obama doesn't like the way this country was founded.
Obama is a socialist.
Obama is a collectivist and a big government redistribution guy.
There was no mystery.
If I folks, this is, you know, you you say you get frustrated Republican Party, I understand that.
And you think I'm all happy go lucky and having fun here, and I do, but I can't tell you how frustrated and angry I've been last five years over what the people of this country don't know.
When it's clearly available for them to know.
The overall ignorance, the low information, I can't tell you how that ticks me off.
All of this need not have happened.
None of this is a surprise to those of us who know liberals who studied and know Obama.
None of it is.
And that's why those of us who know what's in store for this country, we're so ecstatic that Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and whoever else finally stands up from elected politics and tries to stop it.
Or at least tries to educate people about the Republican Party should have been doing this for five years.
Ads, like his running in or the ad we played for you running in Virginia.
For Cuccinelli, this should have been going on for five years.
People need to be educated.
They need to be informed.
The media is not doing their job.
Somebody's got to pick up the slack.
Can't do everything here.
I wish we reached everybody, but we don't.
We're always trying to, our quest is to always grow, but there it there isn't a single media outlet or program that ever does reach everybody.
Not even the Super Bowl reaches everybody.
Somebody's watching One Life to Live when the Super Bowl's on.
Replays.
Somebody's watching the home shopping network when the Super Bowl's on.
Nobody ever watches everything.
Or everybody never watches everything.
So but that's that's what the purpose of the political party is.
They hid behind these excuses.
Well, nobody would cover our press conference.
Run ads.
You guys have money.
You've been fundraising.
That's what frustrates me.
It's all been out there.
This need not be a surprise to anybody.
This is why I have I've really I get so ticked at conservatives in the media for bailing out and going soft on liberalism in the name of intellectual understanding or whatever gunk.
All of this was known.
Everything Obama was gonna do could be predicted.
That's easy when you know who liberals are, when you know what a collectivist is, when you know what a redistributionist is.
And you don't you really all you'd had to do is listen to Obama during his campaign selectively.
I mean, he talked a good game of uh of high well, he hid this somewhat, but he didn't always.
But since he's been elected, limbaugh theorem, he's supposedly trying to create jobs, supposedly trying to reduce the debt, it's all been BS, and it's so easily knowable.
So I'm I join you in being frustrated, maybe over different things, but it it and here we are on the precipice now.
Greatest health care system in the world is over.
Well, there will be other opportunities to roll up, but it's just gotten harder.
It's just it's it's gonna continue to get harder.
And it's so unnecessary.
It need not have happened.
But Obama did win the election by hook or by crook, however it happened.
But that needn't have happened either.
And I really resent our side.
Well, you know, Rush, you just got to accept elections have consequences.
When is the last time the Democrats dealt with a loss that way?
Oh, well, we lost.
I guess that we're just going to let the Republicans have whatever they want.
Never.
So it's it really is maddening.
And I was not speaking flippantly when I said I could have told you.
I couldn't have predicted 28,000 deductible, but I could have and did it.
It's why I said I hope he fails.
This, everything that's happened here, the debt, the economy, no jobs, no infrastructure repair, nothing that he's promised as he done by design.
That's why I hope he failed.
Substantive policy reasons.
So let's go to the healthcare stack.
First up from Reason.com, Drudge headline this one all day today.
Sorry, this is not the one drudge headline.
The one drudge handling is this.
Health website Wall Street Journal.
Health website was widen as insurers get wrong data.
Insurers say the federal health care marketplace is generating flawed data that is straining their ability to handle even the trickle of enrollees who've gotten through so far in a sign that technical problems extend much further than the website traffic and software issues already blamed.
Emerging errors include duplicate enrollments.
Oh, really?
Duplicate enrollments.
What would be the purpose of that?
I wonder.
How accidental is duplicate enrollments.
Kind of like duplicate voter registration.
Think of it that way.
Because that's exactly what this is in part.
So emerging errors include duplicate enrollments, spouses reported as children.
Why would that be done?
It's not that the people filling out the form got it wrong.
It's that the software is getting it wrong.
But is it?
Spouses reported as children.
Missing data fields entirely and suspect eligibility determinations.
This, according to many executives, at more than a dozen health plans.
Some of these might not be mistakes.
I mean, men can now marry men.
So spouse, you know.
But here's the point, folks.
And even in this story, the milk toasts at the Wall Street Journal have to get in a dig at Ted Cruz at the end of this story.
Ted Cruz isn't the problem.
Just like the United States isn't the problem.
It's the solution.
Ted Cruz is the solution.
Lee, what they're fighting for, that's the solution.
I don't even want to waste time saying what they said about Cruz.
But the bottom line is that there's more wrong with this than just people not being able to sign up.
People that are signing up, their data is all wrong.
It isn't secure.
Then there's this the fast emergence of Obamacare fraud.
This from Reason.com.
Scam artists have seemingly found a friend in Obamacare.
Reports are emerging that shysters are using Tennessee residents' relative lack of knowledge about the new health care law to defraud them.
Scam artists, for example, are making telephone calls, claiming they need social security numbers to sign people up for Obamacare and insurance card.
This, according to a statement for the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance.
We've been made aware of one scam in particular, said the spokeswoman, Kate Abernathy.
One of our navigator agencies let us know that there was an individual calling people saying that he or she could have walked him through the application process for just a hundred dollars for a navigator certified application counselor service, but that information is completely incorrect.
It's a free service, supposed to remain free.
This is the tip of the iceberg, by the way, on identity theft kind of fraud that's going to happen in Obamacare.
Here are a couple pull quotes.
As previously reported, the Tennessee Department of Commerce Insurance implemented registration requirements and criminal background checks on people who serve as navigators or certified Obamacare application counselors in Tennessee.
Such people are responsible for handling the financial or medical information belonging to other people, the navigators.
Well, strangely, last month, mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post seemed to condemn Tennessee and other states for implementing these policies, saying they were getting in the way of progress.
There is a very palpable concern that anti-Obamacare state government people will find ways to gum up the works.
The post quoted Leonard Quello, director of health reform for the National Health Law Program.
So Tennessee trying to keep fraud out of the system a couple weeks ago accused of trying to gum it up.
Now, speaking of the navigators, and a story uh from earlier this week.
Headline, Obamacare Navigator stormed GOP officials' property.
A Kansas Obamacare navigator stormed the property of the Republican Secretary of State earlier this year.
It is shocking.
The regime is hired as a navigator, a person who has been caught trespassing and attempting to intimidate a public official, said the Kansas Secretary of State Chris Kobach.
This kind of thug activity is bad enough, but giving this person federal tax dollars sickening.
It is not shocking.
This is my point.
It is not shocking that the regime would hire anti-Republican activists, pro-Obama activists, as navigators to intimidate Republicans and others who seek to sign up with this thing.
I just here's another one.
This New York Post.
Doctors worried sick over Obamacare.
New York doctors are feeling queasy about Obamacare, and many won't participate in it because they fear they'll go broke.
Obamacare is going to send me more patients to see and then cut the payments to provide the care.
That's what's going to happen.
Predicted Donald Moore, a primary care uh doctor in Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, and I'm not I'm not going to accept it.
I I folks, it's what I meant earlier.
This stack today is what tells me that this thing, they're going to have to, the regime is going to have to do something here because the the exchanges aren't ready.
The two model states, Vermont and Maryland are delayed and nowhere near the and these are the models.
This is those states supposed to show how it's to be done.
Doctors thinking this one thing not going to make it.
Navigators being corrupt, all the fraud that's setting in.
They may have to delay this thing.
I don't want to predict that, get people's hopes up, but this isn't working.
It can't work.
It's an outright disaster.
And now people are learning about what their costs are going to be.
And a lot of them thought it was going to be free or cheaper.
Quick timeout, sit tight.
We'll be back and resume after this.
Back we are, open line Friday, and let's uh let's hit the phones.
We have Ted, a trucker from Mexico, Missouri.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Good morning.
Thank you, sir.
How are you?
Can you hear me?
I do, yes.
Yes, I was calling about uh North Korea pulling on Obama on Obama.
When they Asked that the uh the um sanctions be lifted on North Korea and then negotiate getting rid of their nuclear arsenal.
And I saw that last week and then it was hushed up and some more reported on it.
And I thought it was very interesting in the way that uh negotiations was going in Congress that Republicans negotiated from Ted, do you have your radio turned up?
My radio.
Must be his phone line must be bad.
Okay, is that what it well here's what he's here's what he's saying.
The Norks told Obama that they wouldn't negotiate until Obama lifted the sanctions.
And what Ted is saying, and that's just like Obama telling the Republicans he's not gonna negotiate till they agree with him.
Till they get rid of their uh problems.
And the conclusion is that the Syrians can roll Obama and Putin can roll.
Look at he's is exactly right.
I I touched on this yesterday again.
Remember?
At another dinner this week.
Another another frustrated Republican said to me, okay, look, if the Republicans don't want to say that Obama's a socialist and all, why don't they just attack him on his incompetence?
Why not just say the guy doesn't know what he's doing on health care?
He's destroying it.
He doesn't know what he's doing in foreign policy.
He's screwed up Egypt, he's screwed up Syria, he's given us the the Arab Spring, which is the march of Sharia Muslim law all through the Middle East.
He's screwing up North Korea.
Go at it that way.
Back to the phone.
Charlene in Prescott, Arizona.
Great to have you here on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh no flattery, just thanks for taking my call, and I wanted to tell you and Obama what he's done to this country is sad.
It's like a Mickey Mouse country now.
I am so depressed and angry with what this man is doing to us.
I just want to scream.
That's where it's taken me.
He started out with Obamacare at the same time saying jobs, jobs, jobs.
That was a lie.
He does that all the time.
He says one thing and he does another.
Were were you surprised by this?
Yes, because I was one of your ignorant people.
Here in Arizona, I asked the people in the safe way, the people on the street.
Wait a minute.
Are you saying do you mean to say that you voted for him?
No, I did not vote for him.
I did not enough to avoid voting for him, but I was willing to support him because he was my president and I love this country.
Obama is still my bad stupid president.
Yeah, I know that a lot of people either the the office of the presidency is a sacrosanct thing, no matter who's in it, except if his name is Nixon.
Yeah.
Or Reagan.
Uh uh.
Or Bush.
Then they gotta get rid of him.
Try gotta destroy him.
But uh that's another story.
It's just that I'm so uh I almost want to leave this country if I knew somewhere to go.
But I keep on telling myself I'm counting the days now till he's out.
The IRS gonna get Clinton.
The IRS will find you if you leave.
Oh, and the IRS, that is the scary thing of all the things I can think of, is having the IRS oversee my health care, my life, my death, and everything else.
Those people shouldn't be allowed to do anything without supervision, tons of supervision.
They shouldn't come on.
The IRS is only there to make sure that you and other rich people like you pay your fair share.
Right.
And I'm not a rich person, and Obama is redistributing what little I have and you have some money and nothing and don't deserve it, are getting it.
Do you have money?
I have enough to survive with rich, as far as Obama's concerned.
Oh, yeah, I know.
He'll take every penny he can get from me.
Because that's what he's doing.
He's preying on the middle class.
And the people here in Arizona, I can't tell you how ignorant the young people are.
They you ask them anything, they have no idea what you're talking about.
Well, but isn't that normal?
I mean, young people throughout every generation.
That's and it's always accompanied by the fact they think they know everything.
Yes, but you were right.
The Republicans could be educating people.
They're not.
They are not educating people and making people understand.
Well, and see that that is what begets a lot of questions.
Why aren't they?
Are is is the Washington establishment so unified that there aren't really that many differences between the two parties in this sense that they're all oriented toward big government and getting their piece of it and having their job in it, getting their power from it.
And it would appear to be that that may be true that there is a in the Washington establishment.
I mean, look at how many people feed off of, live off of every aspect of government.
I mean, literally live off of it.
And I'm not talking about welfare recipients.
I'm talking about people that live in that town at work in ancillary businesses.
It's all about government.
And there it that's where all the money's collected.
That's where it all goes, and everybody there trying to get their take and have power over it.
Power of the purse kind of power.
I just, it's it's maybe one of the reasons why they don't do the teaching, because there hasn't been any opposition.
I mean, there's there's there's been the uh perfunctory opposition to health care.
We Republicans aren't for that.
But when it when it came time to really roll up the sleeves, that's when they said, well, you know, Rush elections have consequences.
And after all, Obama did win.
Well, what about 2010?
What consequences, and I mean, that was an historic GOP landslide.
What consequences did that election have?
That election is not allowed to count for anything.
God, that was those local weed Tea Party people.
You can't 2010 didn't mean anything, Rush.
Yeah, really?
Swept the Democrats out of the House.
I mean, it was a huge shellacking.
Yes, but it didn't didn't mean anything because that was an election against government.
So I don't know, folks.
I I just uh again, I just that's what ticks me off is all of this was knowable.
All of it.
And you know, here's here's Charlene, and I think she's typical too.
Well, he is our president, and he won the election, and we give our presidents the benefit of the doubt.
And we all want our presidents to do well.
Right?
It's probably an attitude felt shared by gazillions of Americans.
I fully realize that most people aren't nearly as political in their outlook as I am.
I realize most people aren't as ideological, but I also realize what a better country it would be if more people were, because that those are the forces that are working against everybody.
There are political, ideological forces aligned against the little guy, the average guy, the middle class.
Charlene just said it, and they don't see it.
But they might see it as incompetence.
They might see it as, well, you know, he's a great guy, just doesn't know what he's doing.
But the Republicans didn't even go after it in that way.
You it's it you don't have to be a purebred ideological person in order to reject this stuff.
You can go at it in other ways, but they didn't even didn't even try that.
Anyway, Charlene, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Folks, I have an Actual news story here from the AP.
This is not a parody.
This is not a satire.
This is not from the Onion.
It is not from any kind of a comedy website.
It is actually written by an associated press reporter called Don Babwin, B A B W I N. And the it's a news story.
They don't even call it analysis.
It is a news story, and I'll tell you up front, it's hilarious.
It's a textbook example of propaganda masquerading as journalism at its worst.
The headline of the piece, shutdown affected us in ways we did not see.
Try this.
Our food was a little less safe.
Our workplaces a little more dangerous.
The risk of getting sick was a bit higher.
Our kids' homework tougher to complete.
I'm telling you, this is not a satire.
It's not parody.
It's not from the onion.
It's a news article from America's foremost journalists, and that is the lead.
Our food was a little less safe.
Our workplace is a little more dangerous.
The risk of getting sick was a bit higher.
Our kids' homework tougher to complete.
The federal government shutdown may have seemed like a frustrating squabble in far off Washington.
But it crept into our lives in small subtle ways, from missed vegetable inspections to inaccessible federal websites.
The feds always are there in the background, setting the standards by which we live, providing money to research cures for our kids' illnesses, watching over our food supply and work environment.
The feds are always setting the standards by which we live.
Man would Joseph Stalin have loved this guy.
This guy would have found a way into the Communist Party leadership.
What a dupe.
But it's not anywhere near finished.
So how did the shutdown alter our daily routines?
Well, here's a look.
Here's a day is a look at a day in the life of the 2013 government shutdown.
That sausage patty on your breakfast plate was safe as ever because meat inspectors like FBI agents are considered essential and they remained at work.
But federal workers who inspect just about everything else on your plate from fresh berries to scrambled eggs were furloughed.
Do you know how close you came to getting sick?
And what about the food that made it to your plate?
The Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, which furloughed 9,000 workers, said the shutdown slowed its response to an outbreak of salmonella in chicken that sickened people in eighteen states.
Mr. Babwin, the CDC recalled those workers.
And if they're so important to the public's health, why were they considered to be non essential by this very government that you lionized?
And exactly how does the CDC help after there's been an outbreak of salmonella anyway.
At a warehouse, factory, or other work site, a young minority exposed to racial slurs by his boss had one fewer place to turn for help.
I kid you not.
This is an AP news story.
At a warehouse, factory, or other work site, a young minority exposed to racial slurs by his boss, had one fewer place to turn to for help.
Federal officials who oversee compliance with discrimination laws and labor practices were not working except in emergencies.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was not issuing right to sue letters, so people could not take discrimination cases into federal court.
Workplaces weren't inspected by OSHA.
One result, employees could operate dangerous equipment even if not trained or old enough to do so.
The CDC slashed staffing at quarantine stations at twenty airports and entry points, raising chances travelers could enter the country carrying diseases like measles undetected.
You know, if I'd have known this, I'd have sent the dogs over to Hawaii, so we would have had them there for Christmas.
Children learned the meaning of shutdown when they got home and booted up computers to do homework.
From the U.S. Census Bureau site to NASA maps, they were greeted by alerts that said government sites were down due to the shutdown.
Oh my god!
The children couldn't do their homework because of the shutdown.
God, I wish I'd have had that excuse.
After hours is when the shutdown arrived at many people's homes.
Monique Howard's five-year-old son Carter has the most trouble with his asthma at night when his breathing is labored.
Her family dreams of a cure the kind doctors are hunting through federally funded research grants at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
During the shutdown, the doctors had to stop submitting grant applications to study childhood asthma and other diseases and disorders.
Hospital officials said the shutdown could have delayed funding for nearly half a year.
And of course, without the government and without funding, there will not be a cure for asthma.
How many years have we been trying to cure childhood asthma?
About a thousand.
And so two weeks go by.
And I guess in those two weeks we were going to find the cure, but the damn Republicans shut it down, and now this little kid's gonna die because of the Republicans, because the funding might not come back for a year.
This little guy believes this crap, folks.
Now who taught this guy what he knows?
Who inculcated in this skullful of mush the idea, the notion that he can't get through a 24-hour day without the government functioning in every aspect of his life.
Because he clearly thinks it's required.
Who taught him this crap?
Journalism school or before that, probably everybody he's encountered.
It makes me.
As always, folks, thank you so much.
We all appreciate every one of you being here each and every day on the EIB network.
It's been a fun week here in Los Angeles, and we are going to be back in our Southern Command broadcast complex on Monday.
But again, doesn't mean anything to you.
Well, the Ditto Cam is better there.
That that does maybe mean something to those of you in that regard.
So we'll see you then.
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