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Oct. 24, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 24, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hey, folks, do you do you know why the Democrats need Obamacare to work?
I got it right here in theHill.com.
Do you know why?
I wanna take a stab.
Why do the Democrats need Obamacare?
Now, I want you to think about this.
I would love for somebody.
Actually, you might get the answer to this, given it's thehill.com.
By the way, welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh here.
Talent.
So much talent on loan from God at 800-282-2882.
So I got it right here to hill.com.
Strategy is forming.
Democrats need Obamacare to work or what?
So I love this.
I just love it.
This is exactly what I mean.
Who are we talking about here?
Okay, I got thehill.com.
That's Democrats who write stories allegedly in the news media, okay?
You have Obama, Democrat leader, president.
Where's The Hill?
It's in Washington.
Where's Obama?
Washington.
It's the same enclave.
They live together.
They educated together.
They play together.
They swap wives, whatever they do.
It's all together.
Same grocery stores, barbecues.
They never contact anybody outside their own tribe, if you will.
So, were I to look at this, Democrats need Obamacare to work?
What was the main reason, do you think, the Democrats need Obamacare to work or they will lose the advantage gained against the Republicans from a shutdown?
Nowhere in this story does it say Democrats need Obamacare to work so that people have health insurance.
Nowhere does it say Democrats need Obamacare to work so that people will be treated for medical problems.
Nowhere in this story does it talk about the real purpose, ostensibly, of health care reform, and that's the people.
No, it's all about Obama.
They better get this working.
Otherwise, going to lose the advantage gained against the Republicans in the shutdown.
That's all that's tied up here.
That's all that's on the line.
And it is, this is the point.
They claim to care about the people.
They claim to have all this compassion for the little guy.
It's not even in their thought.
The little guy, health care, actual health care and insurance, not even in their thoughts.
They are panicked right now about the politics of this.
They're the ones that are, everything's an agenda item.
Everything is about moving the agenda forward.
Nothing is really about the people and compassion or what it supposedly is really about.
You would think that the main reason to get Obamacare working is to get it working for the people.
That's why they said they did it.
The uninsured, the overcharged, the ripped off, the untreated.
And all it ever was was an item to advance.
I know you know this.
I'm just illustrating.
It's a great opportunity here to illustrate.
Now, a strategy needs a template.
And the template that has been created is that the Obamacare website failure investigation is simply an opportunity to portray the Republicans as a bunch of hecklers.
The Democrats have devised a strategy that says the Republicans don't even want it to work.
But the Democrats are not talking about it working so that it works.
They're just trying to come up with some illusion that it's working so they don't lose their political advantage.
And that's, you know, I've just one wish I've always had, if I could just wave a wand and have everybody see the Democrats are who they are, that they're political, that they're ideological, that everything is about advancing their agenda, that the people are just pawns in this game, that it's not about the people.
It's not about helping people.
It's not about all this.
Those are just the tricks that are used to facilitate the illusion.
Feminism has made women less happy.
Blogger and publisher Gavin McInnes lashed out at a University of Miami law professor at a Huffing and Puffington Post live discussion about the meaning of masculinity.
They actually did that at the Huffington and Puffington Post.
They had a live discussion about the meaning of masculinity because there's an attack on it.
You know, this, I touched on this on the edges yesterday, the football coach and a team that ran up the 91 to nothing score, and they accused the team of bullying.
And the coach said, no, no, I held them back.
It could have been 150-0 if I had let them go, and so forth.
So Fox and friends this morning, they dragged John McEnroe in, and they wanted to know from him if he thought that there was a, not an attack, but assault something on masculinity and male sports going on in the country.
I didn't hear his answer.
I just, I couldn't have the volume up, and I saw him as a guest on there.
I don't know if there's any question.
You don't put the NFL in pink for a month.
Otherwise.
By the way, I got my first nominee for, you know, we got our Fatherhood Awareness Month, Philip Rivers.
Philip Rivers, the quarterback of the San Diego Chargers, I had this story yesterday.
I don't have it in front of me now.
I don't need it.
Don't anybody have to send me 15 copies of it.
I'm just going to tell you about there's a Philip Rivers, his seventh child is on the way.
Had a child every two years.
When one gets out of diapers, they have another.
He and his wife.
By design, Philip Rivers loves kids.
Phillip Rivers and his wife love a big family.
He is being ripped to shreds.
The story that talked about this lamented the fact that the world is going to have that much Philip Rivers DNA running around in it.
What business does he have having seven kids?
And then it turned to his wife.
What the hell is he doing to his wife?
Forcing her to stay home and raise the kids while he's out playing football and so forth.
And so it was the most amazing thing was ripping into Philip Rivers and his wife for daring to have seven kids.
The thing is, he knows every one of their names.
What are we supposed to do?
What's this guy, Cromarty, for the Jets, who has 10 kids with eight women?
There was another player that I had forgotten about, also named in this story, Travis Henry, I think that was his name.
Something like 12 kids with 11 women.
Antonio Cromarty, 12 kids.
And how many women, 10?
Eight women, 12 kids.
He's the one who couldn't name them on HBO's hard knocks.
But nobody's got a problem with that because single parenthood, that's virtuous for some cockeyed reason.
But this was a story that really was vicious about Rivers.
Travis Henry, 11 kids.
Okay.
11 kids, 10 different women.
And Fatherhood Awareness Month.
I mean, that's something we were going to get behind here.
The symbol was going to be either a punctured condom or a canceled child support check.
But by definition, probably couldn't find one.
So we'd have to create a facsimile of it.
And I was going to propose it to the NFL, Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Fatherhood Awareness, because there's apparently a lot of unaware fathers.
But Philip Rivers is not one of them.
Anyway, I don't think there's any question, folks, that there is an attack on masculine.
It's not new.
Basically, the modern era of feminism, that's what it is.
Is a critique against masculinity.
Men are predators.
They can't be trusted with their daughters.
They're brutes.
They're violent.
Had that fake story that group put out that wife abused skyrockets on Super Bowl Sunday, which was a total lie.
It's a totally made-up story.
There's no question that it happens.
The chickification of everything is taking place, which people, what is that, Rush?
What do you mean?
It means that feelings are triumphing over common sense.
Feelings and emotion are triumphing over thinking about things.
We're doing everything for feeling.
That's how you get at.
Well, we can't do that if it's going to offend anybody.
Do you realize how little would have been done in the world if everything that offended somebody was halted?
Yet that's where we are.
If somebody says they're offended by something, it's got to stop.
Even if 200 million people like it and one person's offended, we have to have feelings for the one who's offended.
And that having feelings is what gives us our humanity.
And that's what gives us our dignity is having solidarity with the one who's feeling offended.
Well, this is, it's happening at news networks.
It's happening at magazines.
It's all over the media.
Everywhere.
And there's their men and women are different, and it's going to have an impact.
Second story: this is from a campus reform document.
I like this website.
This is a website that's starting to document some of the wacko stuff that's happening on college campaign out there.
A California college has invited a speaker to teach students that eating meat is misogynistic.
It used to be that eating meat contributed to global warming.
McDonald's and other beef producers and consumers were contributing to global warming.
You know why?
If you're too young to remember that, I'll tell you how that thinking went on that.
Cattle graze and then they fart, they expel gas, methane, and methane destroys the environment.
So if we weren't eating meat, there would be less cattle and there would be less methane and the world would be a better place.
And they believe it.
There are true believers who believe this crap.
It was an assault on global warming.
That didn't work.
So now eating meat is anti-woman.
Eating meat is part of the war on women.
And this lecture, this actual lecture at the University of Redlands is called The Sexual Politics of Meat.
And it's another illustration of how the left politicizes everything that they do.
California College invited a speaker to teach students that eating meat is misogynistic, that our society degrades fish because we don't view them as individuals.
And the lecture will explore the relationship between patriarchal values and meat eating by interweaving the insights of feminism, vegetarianism, animal defense, and literary theory, according to the official website of the lecturer, Carol J. Adams.
The lecture will be based on a book she wrote by the same name, which explores the hidden connections between meat eating and patriarchy, between vegetarianism and feminism.
Harvard University hosted this babe in 2010.
She taught students the parallels between the consumption of meat and misogyny.
She referred to male bonding in steakhouses or at barbecues as examples of a culture of male-dominated consumption of meat and women.
This is in an article in the Harvard Crimson.
And according to that article, Carol J. Adams told students she was upset by the degradation of fish.
We've treated fishes as a mass term fish, and we don't view them as individuals.
She's decided that because we use fish to describe them in plural rather than fishes.
We don't say cow to describe cows, but we do use cattle to describe many head of cattle.
Anyway, the woman's a wacko.
But she's lecturing your kids at places that charge $40,000 a year.
That going to a steakhouse is an attack on women.
That going to a barbecue and eating meat is an attack on women.
That fish are being disrespected by our society because we don't treat them as individuals.
Oh, tailgate parties at football games.
I mean, you may as well just hang a cage over and put them all in jail right there.
I used to laugh.
I'm still laughing.
But 20 years ago, I thought the whole country would be laughing and ridiculing.
And instead, these people end up with tenured professorships.
And they end up teaching this bile.
And they inculcate this stuff into your kids' skulls as they are 19 and 20.
And they come out of school all confused and believing this thing, thinking that they're on the cutting edge of some new kind of philosophy.
And they're being turned into lunatics.
Steakhouse.
An outpost of women hate.
An outpost of discrimination.
An outpost of anti-feminism.
Steakhouses.
The headquarters of the war on women.
That's right.
Steakhouses are like golf courses.
Steakhouses, men go there, big men.
They eat, they burp.
Who knows whatever else they drink?
And some of them, yeah, they all like their steak raw.
You know, it just, it's uncivilized.
It's barbaric.
It's caveman.
And that's where they get the idea of dragging women around by the hair is in a steakhouse.
And then at the barbecue, and then at the tailgate or whatever.
And this woman, you know, can't meet just be food and sex?
Can't it just be meat is food and sex?
Why does it have to be all this stuff?
Why does everything have to be corrupted into some court of cockamame, lunatic, insane political agenda?
I got to take a break.
I got to take a break.
Back to the phones.
We got George here in High Point, North Carolina.
Hi, George.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Ashley, it's Russ in High Point.
It's a real honor to speak with the Mr. Big behind the original Operation Chaos.
I was calling to suggest a possible sequel.
What if each of our listeners went to the Obamacare website and the toll-free number, I don't know, 5, 10, 100 times every day for no apparent reason?
Think of the chaos that might ensue from that and just bring those systems to their knees.
You mean as they are trying to repair it, our listeners will just deluge Obamacare with phone calls and login attempts and that kind of thing.
You got it.
You know, the left is always engaged in their civil disobedience, the marches and boycotts and character assassination.
In fact, they say it's patriotic.
Well, I think we should get your opinion on something here, Russ.
Operation Chaos, I didn't mind having everybody know that it was me suggesting the audience do that.
On this, I don't know that if all of a sudden these websites or the website gets bogged down even more and the phone line gets bogged down, and then the media says, well, that's just Limbaugh telling his listeners to.
Doesn't that kind of undercut the effort?
Well, I think that, you know, the conservatives will get the blame no matter what.
And I just think it's a proactive way that we could, you know, operate, maybe without official EIB sanction, if you will, to, you know, do the.
That's an interesting idea.
I would, I would never, never order people to do something like that.
But man, that would be that would that would be something.
Okay, folks, serious reaction to the last caller.
The last caller thought that would be great to do Operation Chaos 2.
And for me to tell you to go to healthcare.gov, just slam it.
Phone number, just slam it.
Folks, it's not necessary.
The first point to make is it isn't necessary.
The thing isn't working.
But that's not the primary point.
There are already people on Twitter who are blaming the Tea Party for doing this anyway.
There's an entire Twitter universe of people.
The Tea Party's responsible for this.
They're just sabotaging.
They're just flooding healthcare.gov and the phone number.
But here's the real thing that I think is going on out there.
And I mentioned this at the top of the show, a very harried opening monologue.
There is for the regime a blessing in this website being a mess and unaccessible.
And you know what it is?
People can't see the prices.
And I'm not so sure that some of this isn't by design.
Remember, this thing is designed to fail.
It is designed to implode.
What is it that if it were designed to work that Obamacare needs?
It needs healthy, relatively well-paid young people flooding that website and buying insurance.
And the premiums for those people, they don't get a deal.
They're not being subsidized.
They're the people paying the freight.
They're the ones who are going to be charged outrageous prices and high deductibles for their premiums in order to pay for the treatment of the elderly and the insurance or pre-existing conditioned people and so forth.
But with the website a mess and nobody able to log on and the phone number a mess, people aren't finding out what this is costing.
The fact of the matter is that it could well be, I don't know what's going to happen with this, but right now this is being portrayed as an absolute disaster for the regime and it's horrible and it's, oh my God, oh my God, how could it get any worse?
It could very well get worse when they fix access and people are able to find out what this is going to cost them.
We've already had some of that.
People have already learned that their deductibles are like six grand to 12 grand, that their premiums have gone up 300 bucks a month or more.
You've seen those stories and we've had calls from those people.
The last thing, the last thing the regime needs right now is for people to find out just how much they've been lied to about premiums going down $2,500.
Keep your doctor, keep your plan free, whatever Obama has lied about to sell this.
You don't want people finding out the truth now.
I mean, this is this is I think these glitches, in other words, are actually fulfilling a purpose for the regime.
Now, we want people to see those prices.
We want people to know what this abomination is going to cost them.
The left doesn't want them to know that yet.
The president, Jay Carney, Pelosi, Reed, it's all Sibeli, they don't want you to know what this is going to cost you.
So if anybody is purposely gumming this up, it's going to be left-wing activists who are gumming this thing up to keep the truth from people.
But regardless, it isn't necessary to gum it up because somebody already is, or it just is more likely case is it's just so horribly built that it can't handle a load no matter what.
And it isn't necessary to bog it down.
But that's, I think, what's really going on here.
There's a whole sub-level.
You've got to remember, this thing is nothing but an intricately woven web of deceit.
These glitches, by the way, they're also a great excuse for so a few people signing up.
Remember, nobody's enrolling here, even in the States where the websites are perfectly fine.
Nobody is signing up.
And Obama's told Blue Cross, don't you dare tell people what the numbers are.
And probably Kaiser Permanente's heard the same thing.
They don't want people, Sebelius is not releasing any numbers.
They don't want you to know how few people are signing up.
And these glitches are a great excuse for so few people signing up.
The glitches are the excuse for not having to tell how many people are signing up.
Well, it'd be kind of pointless to tell you right now, it's so hard to get into the website.
We're working on fixing it.
Just under this is this whole thing from day one is a massive deceit and fraud.
And you have to look at everything you hear about it through that prism, if you will.
Nothing is what it seems, particularly when it's reported by the drive-bys.
Do not doubt me.
By the way, folks, a couple of interesting little tidbits here.
Speaking of glitches, CBS News has reported that there's a new browse and shop button or feature added to the Obamacare website on Sunday.
This new browse and shop feature has been telling some people that their premiums are going to be half of what they will actually turn out to be.
In other words, the premiums are going to be double what they're being told.
And I'm not so sure that that's an accident with these people.
We could chalk it up to just further incompetence, but they could also be trying to hoodwink a bunch of people into signing up as quickly as possible.
And then what are they going to do?
And they say, you know what?
It's actually going to be twice what we told you.
Well, really?
What are you going to do?
Listen to the government.
This is not some company you can walk away from and say, screw you, I'll go somewhere else.
This is the government.
You don't tell them, screw you.
So I don't rule out that that's on purpose.
And, you know, let a bank try that with a mortgage, lure you in.
You're going to give you a mortgage of 5% and lure you in to sign the paper.
Oh, guess what?
Just went to 10.
And I just, this stuff is think of it as an intricately woven web of deceit from the beginning.
And you'll be closer to understanding what's happening with it day to day than otherwise.
You heard about Hillary in Buffalo getting heckled.
I'm still, I told you I went to dinner last week, California.
Some old buddies of mine.
And everybody, I can't believe that the I don't know if it's fear of Hillary, but people are just convinced she's going to run again.
She's going to win.
She can't be beat.
She just can't be beat.
It's over, Rush.
She's going to win.
What do we got?
So she's in Buffalo, University of Buffalo, part of the university's distinguished speaker series.
And during her speech, she was heckled.
The heckler says, Benghazi, you let them die.
Benghazi, you let them die.
And then Hillary said this.
We have to be willing to come together as citizens to focus on the kind of future we want, which doesn't include yelling.
It includes sitting down and talking with one another.
Oh, how beautiful.
Oh, how wonderful.
This is exactly what I mean about chickificationist stuff.
Although Hillary's not a chick.
I don't want to insult her by saying she's a chick.
She's not a chick.
But so she's being heckled.
Benghazi, you let him die.
Benghazi, you let him die.
And we don't want to yell.
We want to sit down and talk with one another.
Oh, you mean like this?
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic.
And we should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
You mean like that?
We're going to sit down and talk with each other.
We're not going to yell, just like Hillary showed us there.
Folks, these people wear me out sometimes.
Ted Cruz grabs on by number eight very quickly.
Fox News channel Greta Van Susterin.
They're talking about the Democrats in the Senate up for re-election who want to delay the individual mandate for a year, which was what Cruz was asking for.
It's exactly what he was at.
He was a hostage taker, ransom demander, and all that.
And Greta Van Susterin said, well, what about this, Senator?
It's ironic.
All the people that just a few weeks ago were saying there's no way you can win this fight.
There's no way we can do anything to stop Obamacare.
And they also said there's no way NEDs are going to flip.
We're starting to see Democrats flip as this thing, it's a train wreck.
It's not working.
And in any political fight, when the truth is on your side, you're in a good situation.
And here the truth is this thing isn't working.
You know, he's got to feel great.
I mean, everything the Republican establishment told him couldn't happen has happened.
They told him we couldn't win.
They told him no Democrats are ever going to vote for what you want.
And now, what is it, 12, 14 with 20 Democrats up for re-election are all demanding a delay of a year in the individual mandate?
And McCain and these guys, I'm just, I'm so upset.
We did this.
There's no way of winning.
It is impossible.
Congratulations again, Senator Cruz.
I think this has just been a beautiful thing.
Well, that's it.
Folks, I'm sad.
We're out of busy broadcast time today, but Open Line Friday tomorrow.
Can't wait.
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