Oct. 28, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast. | |
| So I uh 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 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 and I bought the audio version. | |
| I got this email from Amazon saying I've shipped. | |
| So 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 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 snerdily 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 uh it was it was well known. | |
| It was a it was a fake spike against the Jets, and he did all the hand motions, got the line up, and everybody up on the line of scrimmage trying to hurry them up, making the motion he's gonna 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 and 44 seconds. | |
| He got six inches to go, no timeouts, 14 or 15 seconds. | |
| If he runs the ball, it's 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 gonna 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 two nights. | |
| Nobody really knew. | |
| In fact, Cardinals fans on um on Saturday night didn't know what had they know what what happened. | |
| We won? | |
| How the hell did that happen? | |
| Uh, because you know, you 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. | |
| Cardinals get picked off at first. | |
| What a what this is the golden time of year for sports fans. | |
| I get the World Series, you got the uh uh NFL gearing up now says the second half of the season. | |
| Anyway, I hope your weekend was great. | |
| We're looking forward, folks, to the uh to the big day. | |
| I can't tell you what it's like to get an email that says I have shipped. | |
| Uh yeah, I got free shipping because I am an Amazon Prime member, so I get free shipping on every day. | |
| Free next no, take it back. | |
| I don't get well, I I do, but I don't accept because I I get next day. | |
| So I pay like 299 per order to get next day show. | |
| Why would I why why do I wait till Thursday? | |
| I got I want it tomorrow. | |
| I want to get it tomorrow like everybody else is gonna get it tomorrow. | |
| I've ordered it from iTunes and from um uh 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 um I I'm I was shocked. | |
| I've 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. Knutema. | |
| 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. | |
| I I I uh I'm 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, you know, after the election, George went, 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 Crowdhammer and George Will. | |
| I would I it it it doesn't compute with me that they didn't know that they didn't get and they and the one hour special on Crowdhammer, he 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 till 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's 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 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 I'm 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, all of the audio tape we had, Obama telling the SEIU people that his objective was single payer. | |
| He re is five days before the election, promising to transform the United States of America. | |
| And these guys, they say in that 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, 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 say 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 mean, 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 like James Jones to run the Pentagon. | |
| You could have food, and it was it was accepted as a signed he's a moderate, therefore. | |
| And then Eric Holder is nominated. | |
| And our guys all made a mad. | |
| 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 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, I please, folks, I'm uh 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 I've uh shared with you my 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 opened my eyes a little bit about it. | |
| I don't know how you not know who the guy is. | |
| Uh if maybe you read his his autobiographies and you fall for that, uh, 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 Angler, 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, and don't forget David Brooks during this period of time, the the conservative columnist New York Times actually says, after having dinner with Obama, and it was at George Will's house with Dr. Garotem was there. | |
| David Brooks talking about this guy, the crease in his pants, this guy's gonna be a great president. | |
| I kid you not. | |
| So we're sitting here laughing. | |
| Turns out these guys are dead serious. | |
| They those kinds of things to Brooks apparently were really telling about Obama. | |
| I guess somebody cares enough at the crease in their pants, can't be what? | |
| Socialist? | |
| I don't know. | |
| But it really but when I, 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. | |
| So I had a note about this last night. | |
| Nah, that's just I can't that it didn't compute, so I checked it out, and lo and behold, it was true. | |
| I if if you don't get who Obama is, then what must you think of Pelosi? | |
| And what must you think of Harry Reed or or Bill Clinton, if you if you don't. | |
| And that's our side. | |
| And and so to these people, 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 uh 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 ends, they stay there for a while and 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 till you hear this Obamacare stack today. | |
| I mean, they had a glitch at it. | |
| It was out of service for 14 states. | |
| This is a 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 Julians on the web version only, Fox News Sunday panel plus yesterday. | |
| I just think it was a lot of Schadenfreud on the panel this morning. | |
| And people, oh yeah, you know, gosh, isn't it terrible? | |
| Oh my gosh, Obamacare's having trouble. | |
| Come on. | |
| Republicans don't want this thing to work. | |
| That's the bottom line here. | |
| Okay, so Juan Williams, apparently, I didn't see Fox News Sunday yet. | |
| I don't watch any of them anymore. | |
| And I it's it's because they 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 just 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 Sibelius 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 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 Schadenfreuder 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 immaculated. | |
| For the exact same reasons he gave here on 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. | |
| 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 Crowdhammer. | |
| And then there's a note included. | |
| It describes the book with respect in 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 Crownhammer book has been here since Friday. | |
| Right, right. | |
| We were gonna put it on my desk this morning you forgot, and my monologue reminded you of it, right? | |
| So as soon as I f This is why I said, Fogs, don't you love it? | |
| A loyal staff remember we're talking about last week, wanting the leader, the boss to look good, willing to willing to work as hard as it takes. | |
| This is why I said during the I don't want anybody calling or writing anyway. | |
| I was not 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. | |
| Would Roe Wilson incarnate here? | |
| FDR incarnate. | |
| How did they not know? | |
| I've just I did. | |
| Well, yeah, that may be, I guess. | |
| Snerdley thinks that the answer to my incredulity over this, and I'm not gonna belabor it, and I'm getting near the end of this here. | |
| He thinks that everybody in Washington were just totally caught up in the historical nature of this. | |
| We had the first African American president, there was uh love and the election, and everybody just caught caught up in it, and there there was no desire to be critical of it, no matter what. | |
| Uh 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, that 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 I think um no, no, no, snurly look, Dr. Codham and nose, I admire him. | |
| Remember, we got a little contra time, 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 uh he heard about he commented on a special report about how he wouldn't do that to a kid, and I said, no, I would I would do it, knowing full well it isn't gonna happen. | |
| Um I 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 I'm I'm still. | |
| How? | |
| Okay, let me get beyond the how I've explained the how. | |
| Look at what else it explains. | |
| Um I've been making way too many assumptions about what I think is my team. | |
| Uh 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. | |
| Uh, pardon sniffles. | |
| Not sick, you know, just just various environmental things causing drippy nose, no big deal. | |
| Um then you take so many events that proved to be controversial that I didn't even I didn't understand the controversy of any of them. | |
| But now I think I do. | |
| Palin is one example. | |
| You can throw the Tea Party for crying out loud. | |
| You know, this this Obamacare rollout, let me just let me put it this way. | |
| This 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, only took two weeks, if that. | |
| And at the same time, the rollout of Obamacare has 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 that you and I think are just as conservative as we are, apparently are not seeing things. | |
| I mean, I I'll tell you what, I 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 till five weeks after he was inaugurated. | |
| I I would not have believed that. | |
| But it does explain other things. | |
| I mean, pick your controversi, pick pick a pick a controversy I've been involved in any of the last uh five years and check various reactions to it. | |
| I guess this makes not make sense, but it offers uh at least a bit of an explanation. | |
| Anyway, let's let's move on. | |
| Last week, uh ladies and gentlemen, I shared with you 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 Rush Limbaugh.com, we linked to a similar story at Power Line, 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 gonna continue to arrange their stuff so they get a refund because they like that big lump sum of money every uh spring. | |
| But from a strictly economic financial standpoint, it's a it's a 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 penalties. | |
| 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. | |
| Well, 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 and say, Oh, yeah, boy, really, are my accountants so damn good. | |
| These guys, they'd brag about how they're they're shafting the government. | |
| I didn't know any better. | |
| So I 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 receipts, she says, I'm sorry, you're you 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 to getting a big refund every year. | |
| 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's it would be a tough thing to tell people to structure their withholding so that they don't ever get a refund, because most people like it. | |
| But if you ever if if you have a refund, then the IRS can come grab whatever they want from it in the form of a penalty or a fine or whatever the law says they can get it. | |
| But if you don't get a refund, then they can't touch you. | |
| There's and there's 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 Limboa 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 political ever admitted that I was right about anything. | |
| But even at that, they they have to claim I was only half right because they have an anonymous source, which uh said the IRS does intend to collect interest on any unpaid penalties. | |
| But the interest rate now is one percent. | |
| 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 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 uh Cookie went back to the Fox News one hour special on Dr. Kodama. | |
| And she found the segment in question. | |
| And this is uh this Charles Crowdhammer talking about his having met President elect Obama at a dinner party at George Will's 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 I don't I'm just I intellectually don't know how you can not figure out Barack Obama. | |
| They're just too much on the record. | |
| Votes as a senator. | |
| Forget the campaign, it was all smoke and mirrors. | |
| A liberal is a liberal. | |
| Why? | |
| We knew we passed the Rostock test here. | |
| There wasn't any Rorsock test. | |
| I know Obama for the low information crowd could be whatever you wanted him to be, a blank canvas, but for credit law, 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. | |
| That's that 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 moderate. | |
| Wasn't able to figure him out. | |
| This is 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 uh here's Brad Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as we start on the phones. | |
| I'm glad you called, sir. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hello, Rush, Megadiddos. | |
| Um, just calling to tell you that uh as an economics uh professor in 2009, uh, 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 uh 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 uh I I was doing my part. | |
| And I appreciate that in the woods. | |
| What kind of uh 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. | |
| But you know, here's another 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 is 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. | |
| Why could how could anybody unless they're told by people unless they're influential or in easily influenced, but how in the world anybody could believe that I wanted the country to fail, or that 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 can't, I I just don't believe others didn't see it. | |
| I that really doesn't compute. | |
| And I'm Well, it it does seem to be a tactic among Democrats to attack your integrity as Republicans, you and and Republicans address issues just like Ted Cruz and the recent discussion. | |
| Uh they're ridiculed and condemned as human beings, but they don't want to engage in the discussion because they know they lose in 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's 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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