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Oct. 28, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 28, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So I checked my email today, folks, and I got a note saying that I had shipped.
Yeah, I bought a copy of my book at Amazon.
I bought the e-book.
I bought the hardcover.
Yeah, I did.
I bought them.
I know I wrote them, but I bought them.
I don't want to be accused of being out of touch.
I bought the e-book.
I bought the hardcover.
I bought the audio version.
I got this email from Amazon saying, I've shipped.
Because tomorrow's a big day.
All these books, all these massive pre-orders, Rush Revere and the Great Pilgrims get shipped out today for delivery tomorrow because tomorrow's October 29th and the big, big day.
And we are jazzed here, folks.
Great to have you.
Hope your weekend was good.
If you're a Cowboys fan, oh, oh, that's worse than a blowout.
Worse than a blowout.
To be up six with 44 seconds left and to lose the game.
Unreal.
I've been razzing snerdly about it all morning long.
Telephone number if you want to be on the what was that?
Marino did a fake spike against the Jets, but he actually faked the spike.
And it was well known.
It was a fake spike against the Jets, and he did all the hand motions, got the line up, everybody up on the line of scrimmage, trying to hurry him up, making the motion he's going to spike the ball, and he didn't.
Wide receiver took a couple steps in the end zone.
Marino fired six, and the Jets are still trying to figure out what happened.
Yesterday in Detroit, Matthew Stafford drives him 44 yards, I mean, 80 yards in 44 seconds.
He got six inches to go, no timeouts, 14 or 15 seconds.
If he runs the ball, and they make it or don't make it, it's over.
And so he's shouting spike spike, and the Cowboys are standing around thinking he's going to spike it, and he just dives over, a little modified QB sneak, and nobody knew what happened.
It was like the way the World Series games have been ending in the last few nights.
Nobody really knew.
In fact, Cardinals fans on Saturday night didn't know what happened.
They didn't know what happened.
We won?
How the hell did that happen?
Because, you know, there's no replays instantly in the stadium.
What the hell just happened down there?
And then this clown last night to get picked off.
The Cardinals get picked off at first.
This is the golden time of year for sports fans.
You get the World Series.
You got the NFL gearing up now the second half of the season.
Anyway, I hope your weekend was great.
We're looking forward, folks, to the big day.
I can't tell you what it's like to get an email that says, I have shipped.
Yeah, I got free shipping because I am an Amazon Prime member.
So I get free shipping on everything.
Free neck.
No, take it back.
I don't, well, I do, but I don't accept because I get next day.
So I pay like $2.99 per order to get next day's show.
Why do I wait till Thursday?
I want it tomorrow.
I want to get it tomorrow like everybody else is going to get it tomorrow.
I've ordered it from iTunes and from Amazon.
Anyway, here's the phone number if you want to be on the show today, folks.
800-282-2882.
The email address, LRushbo at EIBNet.com.
I'll tell you what I want to start with today.
I was shocked.
I'm really, really surprised.
And this explains a lot Of my frustration and my curiosity and my wonderment.
I didn't see it, but I had a couple of emails from people who told me about it.
Fox News ran on Friday night at 10 o'clock a one-hour special on the life of Dr. Krauthemmer.
And it's in conjunction with his new book, which came out last week, which is a good thing for him.
It came out last week.
And it's a compilation of his columns.
And in the one-hour special, it was revealed.
Now, get this, folks.
When I first heard this, I had to double-check it because I really didn't believe it.
Dr. Krauthammer, in that one-hour special, talks about not getting who and what Obama was early on.
He says, even after dining with him, after the election, George Will, the same thing.
They did not really get that Obama is who he is.
They didn't, this explains so much.
You know, we're sitting here, and we're assuming, I have, I'm sitting here, and I'm assuming that all conservatives know a socialist when they see one.
I am convinced that all conservatives know a statist and a big government redistributionist when they see one.
Especially people like Krauthammer and George Will.
It doesn't compute with me that they didn't know, that they didn't get.
And the one-hour special on Krauthammer, he says he talks about, along with George Will, not getting what Obama was about early on, even dining with him after the election and not understanding until five weeks after he was sworn in.
It took him five weeks until after he was sworn in that they understood what it was Obama was all about.
Now, contrast that with me on January 16th, a couple of weeks or a week, maybe 10 days before Obama is immaculated.
And I'm all over everywhere saying I hope he fails.
I'm on Fox everywhere.
I'm up with Hannity.
I'm on with Greta.
I'm everywhere.
And I'm figuring that every conservative knows exactly why I'm saying it and what I'm talking about.
And I went to great pains to explain it.
I mean, walked it step by step with Hannity on his show.
I did the same thing with Greta.
And I don't want anybody calling these guys.
I'm not being critical here.
That's not my point.
I'm way beyond that.
I made an assumption that every rock-ribbed conservative knew who Obama was during the campaign.
I mean, for crying out loud, it's all there.
Rules for radicals, community organizer, all of the audio tape we had.
Obama telling the SEIU people that his objective was single payer.
He reas five days before the election, promising to transform the United States of America.
And these guys, they say in that one-hour special, it took them five weeks, which is about stimulus time.
It took them five weeks to understand what Obama was about.
And I, you know, I isn't it their job to know a socialist when they see one?
Now, this explained.
Now, I understand the conservative establishment not getting it because they probably didn't want to understand or see Obama that way.
If you go back, if you can remember, from the time Obama was elected all through the transition period and then into January of 2009, well, let me just tell you a quick little story.
After Obama was sworn in and he announced, I think it was the National Security Advisor.
I don't remember the name.
Oh, yes, I know.
No, it was not, maybe it was chairman of the chief joints of staff.
I'm waiting, James Jones.
That's who it was.
Remember Newt going on TV celebrating?
He said, if you would have told me that somebody as leftist as Barack Obama would have nominated somebody like James Jones to run the Pentagon, you could have, and it was accepted as a sign.
He's a moderate, therefore.
And then Eric Holder is nominated, and our guys all made a mad dash.
I mean, our legal intellectuals made a mad dash to microphones praising the selection of Eric Holder.
And I said, okay, what's going on here?
And I just figured that they were saying the right things, trying to get off on the right foot, got a new president.
It's historic.
It's the first black president.
Nobody wants to be seen as being critical.
They don't want to avoid the racist charge.
But at the same time, they wanted to be perceived by these gazillions of Obama voters as fair.
And I'm just figuring they're just saying it, that they don't really mean it.
They're just saying this stuff.
But it turns out, folks, and I think this illustrates why there is a Tea Party.
And that's because the revered thinking inside the Beltway didn't even see what Obama was during the campaign, in the transition.
I just do not myself, and I can't, please, folks, I don't mean this as criticism.
That's not why I'm even mentioning this.
I'm mentioning this because it explains so much to me.
I've shared with you my wonderment and my puzzlement over what seems to be this dwindling number of real conservatives out there, particularly in Washington.
And this kind of opens my eyes a little bit about it.
I don't know how you not know who the guy is.
Maybe you read his autobiographies and you fall for that, maybe.
But I just, with everything that was out there, I mean, Reverend Wright, think about all the stuff that was out there.
And there was either a willful refusal to see it, or there was just real blindness about it.
And I'm thinking, no wonder they look at Ted Cruz and Mike Lee the way they do.
Maybe you want to throw some other names in there, Sharon Engel or Sarah Palin, maybe.
It just, how in the world you do not know, as even forget conservative as a Republican.
How in the world you do not know who Barack Obama is?
And then five weeks, don't forget David Brooks during this period of time, the conservative columnist, New York Times, actually says after having dinner with Obama, and it was at George Will's house, and Dr. Garotema was there.
David Brooks talking about this guy, the crease in his pants, this guy's going to be a great president.
I kid you not.
So we're sitting here laughing.
Turns out these guys are dead serious.
Those kinds of things that Brooks apparently were really telling about Obama.
I guess somebody cares enough about the crease in their pants can't be what?
Socialist?
I don't know.
But it really, in fact, when I was first told this, I didn't learn this till last night because I didn't watch this show on Friday night.
I didn't watch the special that Fox did.
I had a note about this last night.
Nah, that's just, it didn't compute.
So I checked it out.
Lo and behold, it was true.
If you don't get who Obama is, then what must you think of Pelosi?
And what must you think of Harry Reid or Bill Clinton?
If you don't, and that's our side.
And so to these people, to a lot of them, folks, you and me are the problem.
And Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, we're the problem.
And we're the ones.
I don't mean to make this personal, but the fact when I said I hope he fails, that was not in a vacuum.
It was all over everywhere.
I wonder what people who didn't get Obama at the time, by their own admission, thought of that.
They were probably just shocked and aghast and embarrassed.
Oh, my God, this is not the way to kick off a new presidency saying you hope he fails.
Well, now George Will is saying he hopes Obamacare fails.
He didn't say it on the air.
He said it on the Fox News website after Fox News Sunday yesterday.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
This is Fox News Sunday's website.
They continue the show, but only on the web.
It's called Panel Plus.
And they do this after the show wins.
They stay there for a while.
They just continue doing the TV show, but only on their website.
Juan Williams is on the panel, and they're talking about Obamacare and the rollout.
And again, by the way, speaking of that, wait a minute, this Obamacare stack today.
I mean, they had a glitch at it.
It was out of service for 14 states.
Getting ahead of myself.
Rain it in, Rush.
It's one of those times here when I want to say 15 things in the mouth can only say two.
So here's Juan Williams on the web version only, Fox News Sunday Panel Plus yesterday.
I just think it was a lot of Schadenfreude on the panel this morning.
People, oh, yeah, you know, gosh, isn't it terrible?
Oh, my gosh, Obamacare is having trouble.
Come on.
Republicans don't want this thing to work.
That's the bottom line here.
Okay, so Juan Williams, I didn't see Fox News Sunday yesterday.
I don't watch any of them anymore.
And it's because I stopped learning things that I didn't know on them.
That's why.
It's not, I don't dislike any of the people.
It's just, it's all formulaic.
But apparently on the panel, there's a lot of people like they're doing on Saturday Night Live now, making fun of Obamacare.
They really trash Sebelius on this thing.
Oh, do you know Obama didn't know the NSA was spying on?
He doesn't know Jack, folks.
Obama doesn't know Jack.
He doesn't know anything.
And he's really opposed to it when he finds out.
And nothing wrong with spying on Merkel.
That's the kind of spying we ought to be doing.
And I'm getting ahead of myself.
So Juan Williams, upset that all the conservative commentators on Fox News Sunday yesterday seemed to enjoy the fact that Obamacare's rollout was in trouble.
Here's George Will on the web, not on the air.
I want to assure Brother Williams that there's no Schotten Freuda here because I'm not even pretending to be sorrowful.
Of course I want Obamacare to fail because if it doesn't fail, it will just further entangle American society with a government that is not up to this for a hundred years.
Juan, the narrative of progressives from Woodrow Wilson and on has been: progress will come if, but only if, we concentrate more and more power in Washington, more and more Washington power in the executive branch, and more and more executive branch power in the hands of experts, disinterested experts, such as those who designed healthcare.gov.
They're the people that designed Obama.
You know, so here's George Will, perfectly comfortable now saying, of course, I want Obamacare to fail.
Well, if you want Obamacare to fail, you want Obama to fail.
And it's all I said is the same thing, except I said it two weeks before he was emaculated for the exact same reasons he gave here at Obamacare.
I said, I want the whole kitten caboodle to bomb out.
Okay, so after that Sterling opening monologue, I'm putting the audio soundbite roster back together because the two bites I played were 16 and 17.
I got my hands full.
Brian walks in here and hands me something, and I said, I can't take it.
Just put it down there.
So I look at it, and it's the new book by Dr. Krauthammer.
I said, oh, well, look at it.
I got a publisher's copy.
How about this?
I open it up, and darn if it isn't signed to Rush with admiration, Charles Krauthammer.
And then there's a note included that describes the book with respect and my very best wishes.
And I looked at the staff, I said, timing couldn't be more impeccable.
How long has this thing been here since FedEx got here today?
It's been here since Friday.
The Krauthammer book has been here since Friday.
Right, right.
We were going to put it on my desk this morning, you forgot.
And my monologue reminded you of it, right?
So as soon as I, this is why I said, folks, don't you love it?
A loyal staff were talking about last week, wanting the leader, the boss, to look good, willing to work as hard as it takes.
This is why I said during the month, I don't want anybody calling or writing anybody.
I'm not being critical.
I was expressing genuine incredulity.
I don't know how anybody on our side, but there were a lot of them who either refused to or didn't see who Obama is.
Woodrow Wilson incarnate here, FDR incarnate.
How did they not know?
I've just, I.
Well, yeah, that may be.
I guess I snerdley thinks that the answer to my incredulity over this, and I'm not going to belabor it, and I'm getting near the end of this here.
He thinks that everybody in Washington was just totally caught up in the historical nature of this.
We had the first African-American president.
There was love and the election.
Everybody just got caught up in it.
And there was no desire to be critical of it, no matter what.
Just, it didn't seem proper.
And of course, there I am on January 16th.
I got past the historical aspect of this the day after the election.
And then the guy became president of the United States.
His policies matter, skin color.
It didn't matter to me at all.
What he intended to do is all I saw.
I didn't see any history.
As I say, been there, done that back after the election, maybe a couple minutes after the inauguration.
But after that, the guy's president.
I don't care if he's from Mars.
Anyway, I think it explains a lot.
I think, no, no, no, Snerley looked.
Dr. Krauthammer knows I admire him.
Remember, we got a little contreti.
I forget what it was even about, but the press was trying to make a big deal out of it.
And I said that I had such admiration for Dr. Krauthammer that if I had a child, I would name him Krauthammer Limbaugh.
And he heard about it, he commented on a special report about how he wouldn't do that to a kid.
And I said, no, I would do it, knowing full well it isn't going to happen.
So I got this personalized copy of Dr. Krauthammer's book that the staff has had here since Friday.
And they present it to me after the opening monologue of this hour.
Okay.
There we go.
Now, moving on.
Well, no, not moving on because I'm still how.
Okay, let me get beyond the how.
I've explained the how.
Look at what else it explains.
I've been making way too many assumptions about what I think is my team.
I've been thinking they know a liberal when they see one and that they oppose it.
And I've been thinking they know a socialist when they see one and they oppose it.
And I'm thinking some of them are smarter than I am.
They see it even before I do.
They see it better than I do.
Not the case, apparently.
Pardon Sniffles.
Not sick, you know, just various environmental things causing drippy nose, no big deal.
Then you take so many events that proved to be controversial that I didn't understand the controversy of any of them, but now I think I do.
Palin is one example.
You could throw the Tea Party for crying out loud.
You know, this Obamacare rollout, let me just, let me put it this way: this Obamacare rollout has proven every prediction made by the Tea Party in spades already.
Ted Cruz and Mike Lee have been vindicated.
Everything they predicted and said has already happened.
It only took two weeks, if that.
And at the same time, the rollout of Obamacare has proven our news media guardians and pundits wrong on every single point.
And so who do they mock and ridicule at every turn?
The Tea Party, of course, which is our news media in one compact little nutshell.
But the troubling thing is that people that you and I think are just as conservative as we are apparently are not seeing things.
I mean, I'll tell you what, I am as shocked as if somebody would have told me that Bill Buckley had said, you know what, I didn't know who Obama was until five weeks after he was inaugurated.
I would not have believed that.
But it does explain other things.
I mean, pick a controversy I've been involved in in any of the last five years and check various reactions to it.
I guess this makes not makes sense, but it offers at least a bit of an explanation.
Anyway, let's move on.
Last week, ladies and gentlemen, I shared with you a little tidbit that was leaked to me, if you will, by an accountant.
And what I pointed out was, and we, by the way, at rushlimbaugh.com, we linked to a similar story at Powerline, which had apparently found the same thing.
There was a little paragraph from the Joint Taxation Committee or some such thing, and it pointed out, and I made a big hullabaloo about this last week, that the Obamacare law specifically says that the IRS cannot attach liens or garnish wages in order to collect money from you or anybody else in the form of a tax or a fine for not having Obamacare.
That they must get that money from your tax refund.
And if you don't have a tax refund, then there is nothing mandating that you buy Obamacare insurance.
And there's nothing mandating that you pay a fine.
So in other words, according to Obamacare itself, there is no mandate.
The Obamacare law itself specifies that you cannot have a lien placed or garnishes on your income, bank account, wages, what have you, to pay the fine or tax for not having an insurance plan under Obamacare.
And if that's the case, there's no mandate.
Well, there were several drive-by news media sites that ridiculed me as usual and made fun and said there I was launching into something I didn't know I was talking about.
Lo and behold, the Politico Rush Limbaugh's guide dodging Obamacare tax penalty.
And they say that I'm right.
Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh says he's discovered a surefire way to skirt Obamacare's penalties for failing to obtain health coverage next year, but you'd have to give up a tax refund.
What Mr. Limbaugh said hinges entirely on people doing their taxes so they don't get a refund, which is the way to go, even apart from beating the Obamacare tax.
It really is.
But I know most people are going to continue to arrange themselves so they get a refund because they like that big lump sum of money every spring.
But from a strictly economic financial standpoint, it's not the wisest thing you could do because that's just your money anyway that you have paid.
It's money that you do not owe, that you've paid via withholding over the year.
And when you file your return, the overpayment is calculated and here comes your refund, but without any interest or without any penalty.
So you've given your money away for a year for the government to use, and then they theoretically give it back to you.
And you think, remember when I was young and this, oh, I just, I remember when I worked for the Kansas City Royals, everybody there seemed to get these massive refunds every year.
And they'd run around, say, oh, yeah, boy, really, my accountant's so damn good.
These guys, they'd brag about how they're shafting the government.
I didn't know any better.
So I called Secretary, my dad's secretary, said, what are you doing wrong here?
I mean, everybody around me is getting these huge refunds, and I'm not getting it.
So I said, every credit card receipt, she says, I'm sorry, you're not getting a refund because we're withholding on you properly.
And I still didn't understand.
I didn't understand this until much later, that what they were doing was overpaying out the wazoo.
They were limiting their take-home pay.
They were maximizing their deductions all in exchange and getting a big refund every year.
In some cases, some people get $4,000 refunds.
And of course, that's nice to get a $4,000 lump sum, whoever has that at one time.
So it would be a tough thing to tell people the structure they're withholding so that they don't ever get a refund because most people like it.
But if you have a refund, then the IRS can come grab whatever they want from it in the form of a penalty or fine or whatever the law says they can get it.
But if you don't get a refund, then they can't touch you.
And if you don't get a refund, there's no mandate.
The mandate falls apart here.
And this is where the drive-bys thought that I was off my rocker again and had no idea what I was talking about and lying to you good people.
And now the Politico has found out.
They went out and talked to experts.
And here's the paragraph.
Experts say Limbaugh is correct on one point.
The IRS lacks teeth in enforcing the mandate.
Bingo, there is no mandate if they lack the teeth to enforce it.
I don't know when the last time the Politico ever admitted that I was right about anything.
But even at that, they have to claim I was only half right because they have an anonymous source which said the IRS does intend to collect interest on any unpaid penalties.
But the interest rate now is 1%.
I think people will risk it, frankly.
So I just wanted to pass this on to you too, folks.
You get the truth on this program and you get the facts on this program.
And I don't make it up just for the purposes of advancing my agenda.
The other side does that.
Your phone calls are coming up here, just Jiffy.
But Cookie went back to the Fox News one-hour special on Dr. Kadaud M, and she found the segment in question.
And this is Charles Krauthammer talking about his having met President-elect Obama at a dinner party at George Wills' house a week before the immaculation in 2009.
I remember before the president-elect arrived saying, you know, I haven't been able to figure this guy out.
Is he a centrist who'll occasionally throw a bone to the left, or is he a lefty who'll occasionally throw a bone to the right?
Nobody had any ideas.
Well, that was part of Mr. Obama's great strength.
He was a national Rorschach test.
So we spent three hours with this new man.
He leaves, and we're staying behind a little bit.
And I say the same question.
Is he a centrist?
Is he a lefty?
Nobody knew.
Five years later, you think you've figured him out?
I figured him out after that first State of the Union speech, five weeks later.
I just think about what could have been.
You know, I don't, I mean, I intellectually don't know how you can not figure out Barack Obama.
There's just too much on the record.
Votes as a senator.
Forget the campaign.
It was all smoke and mirrors.
A liberal is a liberal.
We knew we passed the Rorschach test here.
There wasn't any Rorschach test.
I know Obama for the low information crowd could be whatever you wanted him to be, a blank canvas, but for Crown Out Lau, we're not talking about low information people here.
I don't want to make too big a deal of this from the standpoint of being critical of these guys.
Again, it's not the point.
They're not the only ones, folks, who didn't get it.
They're not the only ones who didn't see who Obama was.
Moderate wasn't able to figure him out.
This is my lament.
I don't care who the liberal is.
If they're a liberal, you can 100% type them.
Unarguable.
Pick one.
Elizabeth Warren, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, pick one.
Show me a moderate anywhere.
The Democrat Party today.
And I'll show you one who's not a liberal.
It's that simple.
Okay, here's Brad Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as we start on the phones.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush, Megadittos.
I'm just going to tell you that as an economics professor in 2009, I was proud to be part of the Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies trying to explain to my students what you meant when you wanted Obama to fail.
That you didn't want him personally or the country to fail, but you needed his policies to fail because you were bad for the country.
That socialism promises economic advancement for all, but it's free enterprise that actually delivers on that promise.
And that's what economic theory, facts, and history has proven time and time again.
So I just want you to know I feel your pain, and I was doing my part.
And what kind of success rate did you have in explaining this to students who didn't quite get it?
It actually is very remarkable that when you actually get into it and explain the facts, they're there and they respond and they understand.
The only problem is that most of my colleagues that teach in economics and unfortunately many in business today in higher education are socialists and actually hate the free enterprise.
Precisely, precisely.
You know, here's another, let's talk intellectually, though.
I mean, just in just common sense.
Who in the world, I mean, I've been doing this at the time for 20 years, the time all this was happening, 20 years, who in the world could have possibly thought that I meant I wanted the country to fail?
It was the exact opposite.
I didn't want the country to be harmed.
I didn't want the country to be damaged.
I didn't want Obamacare.
I didn't want all of this that he's done.
Whoa, I never understood what was so hard to understand about that.
How could anybody, unless they're told by people, unless they're influential or easily influenced, but how in the world anybody could believe that I wanted the country to fail or that I had no respect for the office of the presidency?
I'm long past the historical aspect of this when I say that.
To me, he's president.
I know what his ideas are.
I know what his philosophy is.
I know what he's going to do because he said so to his various groups during the campaign, fundraising events.
I know who his pastor was.
I know what he thinks.
I know how he believes.
I know how he's going to go about it.
I can't believe I'm the only one.
I just, to this day, no, not the only one, but I mean, I just don't believe others didn't see it.
That really doesn't compute.
It does seem to be a tactic among Democrats to attack your integrity as Republicans, you and Republicans address issues, just like Ted Cruz and the recent discussion.
They're ridiculed and condemned as human beings, but they don't want to engage in the discussion because they know they're losing the facts.
Well, exactly.
No question about that.
I mean, and I'm fully aware that I've been demonized and ridiculed, impugned, and all that kind of thing.
But even at that, look, the idea that I wanted the country to fail just because my guy didn't win the election, and I didn't really have a guy running.
I was lesser of two evils, kind of thing.
Anyway, Brad, I appreciate the call and the yeoman effort that you made in the classroom.
Thank you.
All right, our Obamacare stack is next, folks, and you'll hear there's some media people expressing anger, humiliation, disappointment.
I must explain to you what that anger and humiliation and disappointment is about.
It's not anger and disappointment over what is happening to the American people because of the Obamacare rollout.
It's entirely different than that.
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