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Oct. 29, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 29, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi folks and welcome back.
It's great to have you here as always, Rush Limbaugh and the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Getting your phone calls in this hour at 800.
282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
And we're getting a lot of phone calls today about the first day of the book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.
Now, I'm not I'm I spent the first half hour of the program explaining everything about the book.
I know I'm not going to go through that again because time here is precious.
But I do want to remind you that you can check it at Rushlimbaug.com to relive it because there's a there's a profound purpose here.
And by the way, I do want to emphasize one thing I haven't said.
Every aspect of this book, the writing, the assembling of the of the uh illustrations, the pictures, the formatting, choice of paper.
None of this was farmed out, folks.
We didn't there's not one aspect of uh somebody write a book over there about the pilgrims who put Limbaugh's name on it, and let's go.
There was none of that.
This has been a labor of love from the very beginning, and we've had total control over every aspect of the project.
No farming anything out here.
No celebrity name on a book that we're just hawking for the fun of it.
There's an express purpose that was really inspired by the uh the the late uh Vince Flynn.
And of course, the the purpose here is to try to correct what is being taught in schools today erroneously, purposely so, in my opinion, about the founding of this country and its roots.
But the one thing that well, it'd be tough to say there's one thing I'm trying to get across.
But I I as I get older, I think as everybody gets older, you have a uh a maturation process takes place, and you look at life and your own differently.
And I don't know when it hit me, but it was long ago uh that there's only one of these.
I was in a fit of depression about something, I don't even remember what it was, just down, down in the dumps.
And it was about something I didn't have any control over anyway, but I was still down in the dumps, and I forget somebody said something to me.
Why are you wasting your time?
You know, you you really get one life, and you think when you're young, you can't even envision mortality, and you think it's life expectancy is 80 years.
Well, who can conceive that when you're young?
As you get older, it starts to take on new meaning.
But the idea that we all only have one life and that we are so blessed to be born in this country, because there's no better place in the world.
None.
No better place in the world where individuals can make their lives whatever they want them to be.
A country where dreams every day come true.
And I just think that there's not enough of that kind of inspiration.
And helping people understand how this country came to be, why it is exceptional, and why dreams come true and how they come true.
I don't think that's taught.
I think way too many young people grow up thinking they're gonna die tomorrow.
Uh or now people grow up thinking they're not gonna make it.
They grow up thinking that best days are behind us.
They're not gonna do as well as their parents.
And the media enforces that as a means of protecting Obama from any criticism of his economic policies, which are leading to, I think there's a there's a malaise all over the country.
And a lot of people think this is just not how this country is supposed to be.
This is not how things get done in this country.
That's just Something doesn't seem right.
This is all oriented toward taking the message of this program to people who otherwise wouldn't hear it, young people age 10 to 13, via their parents and grandparents, sharing their parents and grandparents know the truth of the country.
They were taught it in most cases.
But the book isn't is an effort to take the message of this program to people who otherwise wouldn't be exposed to it, other than sitting in the car wherever their parents listen to it.
But it's a it's a direct reaching out to young people to try to inspire them by informing them.
Everybody who thinks they have it tough, everybody who thinks they've got all kinds of challenges that you do.
The people that lived and founded this country, we can't relate to what they had to do, what they had to put up with, the daily existence they had.
We don't have anything like it anymore.
So we've had, in a way, to invent our traumas, tell ourselves that life is tough.
And it is, I'm not disparaging that.
But it's a it's an effort to reach out and essentially tell people the only limits that you face are the ones you're going to put on yourself.
You can be whatever you want to be because you are an American.
You can accomplish whatever your dreams are in this country.
And here's why.
And here are people who've made it possible.
Here are people who accomplished their own dreams in founding this country.
And it's an effort to inculcate this idea that you've got one life.
Stop and think of that.
One life, and you can't get any day that's passed back.
It's gone.
All you've got is the present and what's in front of you.
So the idea is to look at that and embrace it and shoot for the stars, what have you, because people came before us who did just that and made it all possible.
None of that is specifically stated.
It's well, some of it actually is, but in many cases, it is an impression that is created.
I love when people realize something they think on their own.
That is when you have been your most persuasive.
Not when you're wagging a finger in somebody's face, demanding that they accept something or believe it.
and they figure it out themselves.
There are many objectives and purposes here, but that pretty much sums it up.
The book's out on hardcover today, and it's e-book as well, and the audio version.
You know, I've got these audio excerpts.
I ought to play some of those, because I had a lot of fun doing the audio version of this.
So I'll try to squeeze some of those in before the program expires today.
CBS News, in addition to NBC and a random act of journalism with a story yesterday saying that Obama administration knew that up to 67% of people were going to lose their insurance as far back as 2010.
They knew it.
It was in the law that they wouldn't lose it, but nevertheless, they knew that people were going to lose their insurance.
So when Obama was out saying, if you like your plan, you keep it.
Not true.
When Obama was out saying, and the average premium is going to come down $2,500 per year per familiar, not true.
None of what has been said about this pretty much in terms of the ways that they have promoted it and sold it turned out to be true at all.
And now CBS.
CBS News has learned that more than two million Americans have been told that they cannot renew their current plot policies.
That is more than triple the number of people said to be buying insurance under Obamacare.
You know, the real news here is that the uh The American media has briefly come out of retirement here to report this.
Now, this is news that was all obvious three years ago.
It was obvious that Obama was not telling the truth when he told people they could keep their plan and it was going to cost $2,500 less.
And the media knew it.
Well, no, maybe they didn't.
You know, so incurious, maybe they did.
They just accept whatever Obama says and but whatever.
There are some random acts of journalism taking place now, and it's almost like they've come out of retirement here to report the news here and there.
And it's my contention that this news was obvious years ago.
Just like who Obama has always been was obvious years ago.
Just like it's always been obvious that where we're headed as single payer.
Let's get to the audio and illustrate.
First, here is Jan Crawford, CBS this morning talking about this uh two million Americans have been told they can't renew their current plans.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
And the people who are opening these letters are shocked to learn they can't keep their current policies, despite the president's assurances to the contrary.
It's an unexpected reality of Obamacare, being told through anecdotes in local papers and on social media.
CBS News has confirmed with insurance companies across the country that more than two million people are getting notices they no longer can keep their existing plans.
In California, 279,000.
In Michigan, 140,000, Florida, 300,000, and in New Jersey, 800,000.
And those numbers are certain to go even higher.
Some companies tell us they've sent letters, but they won't tell us how many.
Now, in this report, she says Obamacare.
Unexpected reality of Obama.
It's not unexpected.
This is what I'm going to have to come to grips with.
I just have made too many assumptions.
I'm not including the media.
I mean, I know that they're just Democrats disguised as journalists.
But I mean, on our side, I have made the assumption that everybody knows what we're up against.
That everybody knows what we have to defeat, and I've been terribly wrong.
I I don't think, in all candor, and it's kind of sad, I don't think that inside the beltway, in either the Republican Party or what is said to be the conservative movement, I don't think there is an attitude of we have to defeat them.
I don't think there's a f uh uh desire to fight any of this.
I think there's a desire to commentate on it and to explain it, maybe point out Obama hypocrisy, but I don't sense.
And when people rise up and want to fight it, like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, look what happens to them.
They get shot down by their own party.
So the let's not make waves coalition or chorus inside the beltway is.
There isn't.
This is what this is what I've been wrong about.
I maybe you guys have known this and figured it out long before I did.
I I mean, I know we haven't been universal here, but I the number of people who do not have any desire to fight or defeat this, I think is much larger than I assumed.
And I think that, by the way, is one of the explanations for the divide that exists in the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
There's some of us that want to fight and defeat this, and others who have no desire to do that, who think doing that actually is a mistake.
It's a waste of resources.
They just want to win the election, get their Senate chairmanships back, and be in charge of the money, and that's victory to them.
Not defeating any of this, not stopping any of this.
And that's why the Tea Party exists, in fact, because those people want to defeat this.
Defund it, delay it, repeal it, roll it back.
The Tea Party is made up of people who want to put the brakes on this mad dash to the left in this country.
And many of their elected Representatives and people they think are their media supporters in Washington are not of that mindset.
And that's the divide.
I see Snerdley nodding his head in agreement, an eighth of an inch at a time in there.
I can detect that an eighth of an inch, like Nero Wolf did.
Now here's Obama.
We've played this before.
I don't care.
I can't tell you how many times we've aired this.
This goes back to 2007 at a Service Employees International Union Health Care Forum.
This is presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama in 2007.
My commitment is to make sure that we've got universal health care for all Americans by the end of my first term as president.
I would hope that we can set up a system that allows those who can go through their employer to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort.
But I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately.
There's going to be potentially some transition process.
I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out.
Did you hear that?
We played this, I can't tell you how many times during the 2008 campaign.
I can't believe that people on our side never heard this or heard about it or read this or didn't know it.
I would hope that we'd set up a system that allows those who can't go through their employee to access a federal system, a state pool of some sort, exchange, if you will.
But I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately, but we're going to be able to eliminate it.
And when you eliminate employer coverage, it's hello, single payer.
It's going to take some transition process.
He's telling the SEIU guys to be patient, but they all know where they're headed, single payer.
Let's go back to 2003.
Obama at an AFL CIO conference campaigning for the Senate.
I happen to be a proponent of single payer universal health care plan.
A single payer healthcare plan.
Universal healthcare plan.
That's what I'd like to see.
2003, 10 years ago.
It is not a mystery what this man has wanted, folks.
All it takes is the courage to believe it.
And it's right out there.
Ocean County, New Jersey, we head back to the phones.
Hi, Faye.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Um, oh gosh.
Okay, sorry, I'm just a little nervous.
Um, first of all, congratulations on the book.
I can't wait to get mine.
I should be getting it from my library next week.
Um, and second of all, I wanted to complain.
Um, the last few months we play Scrabble every weekend, my husband, and usually I would either win or be even with him.
The last few oh, and we have popcorn and iced tea.
And the last few weeks we ran out of the blueberry tea, which is mine.
And since then, my husband's been creaming me every week.
And now I tried ordering more, and your website doesn't have any more blueberry tea.
And he's just winning too much, and I'm really annoyed that there's no more blueberry tea.
But there will be.
We're we're bringing it back as a winter flavor.
Ah, okay.
If you just keep looking, I mean, we're in the process.
We're kind of like Apple.
I mean, we're uh not Obamacare.
No, no.
No, no, no.
Uh we're in the bottling process year in year-round and trying to you know meet demand with uh with supply.
But we're bringing the blueberry flavor back as a winter flavor, because you know it is really good hot.
Yeah, I like it.
The blueberry tea.
When you unscrew, you unscrew the bottle of blueberry tea.
The the the aroma you get, you think it's blueberry muffin batter.
I mean, it is so good.
Yeah, so I'm I'm glad you enjoy it.
I'm happy to be able to tell you that it's coming back.
Keep consulting.
Good.
Thank you.
You are you're more than welcome.
I'm happy to happy to be of service here.
Thanks very much, Faye.
I appreciate it.
Okay, we got a half hour left, and I'm gonna I'm gonna try to squeeze in just a couple of excerpts from the audio version, which is unabridged.
I read every word, and it is really good.
It's a four CDs.
It's also available today.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Here's Scott Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you.
Good afternoon, El Rushboat.
Hey.
Mm-mm.
Yes.
Yes, sir.
So basically, uh, I was uh uh you know my point is this you know how they're pushing all these people into Medicaid.
I it's just a symptom of the single payer uh disease, so to speak.
Well, some people are doing it themselves to avoid Obamacare.
Yeah, yeah.
But I think there's a concerted effort to push people into it.
And and and it and that sound bite you played earlier of the president, I mean it he obviously he he obviously laid his cards right on the table and and and stated that it was a goal to get rid of private insurance.
Exactly.
This is what I don't understand about why there's no pushback.
Why don't people think there's something to be defeated here?
And how can people not realize who the guy is?
I mean, if you speak English, you can understand exactly what he was saying.
Precisely.
And on a lighter note, uh before I go here, uh just recently, uh uh over in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, Representative James James Trafficant just got out of the clink.
Yeah.
And he spoke at the prestigious Haas' stake and sea house.
And I wanted to go so badly, but I broke my leg, and I would have loved to have heard what he had to say, but I couldn't go.
But he spoke at Haas' stake and sea house.
Well, now James Trafficant, there was a character.
That James Trafficant was just a one in a million character.
Uh from the hairstyle to the unpredictable nature of what he was going to support and who he was going to be critical of.
Um he did end up, as you say, in the clink.
Um I'm convinced that a lot of good politicians do.
But uh he's out now, and I didn't know he was speaking at steakhouses, but if you're going to speak someplace, there's not a bad place to speak.
Steakhouses.
Steakhouses sources.
We had the story last week.
Steakhouses are the modern locations of misogyny and discrimination against women.
It's where predator males hang out, steakhouses.
It's where they plot anti-women activities.
What are you laughing at?
This is exactly what the story was.
And it was this some feminazi wrote the story that steakhouses are are where men go to to be men and plot things against women to conduct a war on women and stuff.
Yet traffic, you know what he did?
He bucked the Democrat elite.
That that's what he did.
He went up against the Democrat elite from Ohio.
Uh James Traffick.
We had him on this program.
He uh there were days he loved us, and days he he just disagreed vehemently with us.
But he was always worth uh the time.
Scott, thanks much.
Here's uh Caleb in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thanks a lot, Rush.
Um I just wanted to join my voice to the many others who have called in about their rising premiums.
I just found out today I have uh employer-based health coverage and found out how much more affordable my health insurance will be.
I'm uh paying for myself, my wife, and four kids, and we are currently paying about four thousand, just over four thousand a year.
That's what you're currently paying?
That's what we're currently paying for medical and dental.
Now let me ask you, are you actually paying that or is that an employer benefit?
That's coming, that's what I'm paying.
That you're you're actually writing a check or getting a credit card.
Right.
It's coming out of my chet.
Okay.
Oh, okay, okay.
But well so you don't see it first.
It it comes out of your check before you see.
Okay.
Right.
And uh thanks to the Affordable Care Act, our new premium we found out today will be over $13,000 a year.
Which is wait a minute.
For you, your wife and four kids of six people and your premium is thirteen.
Correct.
What is your deductible?
Uh it was it's currently uh for just the medical fifteen hundred.
Um it's gonna go up to I think four thousand for the deductible.
Man, just wait till the employer mandate kicks in back in twenty fifteen.
Imagine how well off you'll be then.
Oh, oh yeah.
Uh in fact, you know what?
There there's a the regime has announced a delay until either April 1st or March 1st of next year.
That they've they've delayed the individual mandate, and there's some insurance companies saying this is not a good idea because they're just delaying sticker shock.
The longer Obama delays mandatory sign up, the more expensive it's going to get.
There's no good news here for the vast majority of Americans when it comes to money and health care, there's no good news.
And I'm gonna tell you, folks, th this is I don't know how to characterize this.
Everybody's been lied to about this, and they were lied to at the time that would influence their vote.
There were there are people who voted for Obama's election and then re-election because they believed that their premiums would be coming down twenty, five hundred dollars, and they believed that they would be able to keep their policy or their plan, their doctor, what have you.
They voted on that basis.
They were entirely misled and lied to.
Um I know that's politics and the First Amendment applies.
They can say whatever they want, whenever they want.
There's no such thing as truth at advertising laws, but this is just outrageous.
Because there are people who voted for this man and his ideas and his plans based on fraud.
Fraudulent promises that they knew were fraudulent promises when they made them.
That's what the news is today.
CBS News and NBC are both reporting, primarily on this side of it, NBC, that the regime knew as far back as 2010 that they were not telling the truth when they told us that we could keep our plans and doctors if we liked it.
They knew it wasn't true.
They got re-elected on that basis, and so did a lot of other Democrats carrying the water for it.
So what are we supposed to do in that circumstance?
This is not like voting for a tax increase that could maybe be reduced with another president.
This is a fundamental transformation of one-sixth of the U.S. economy that has been transferred to government control, making all of us essentially prisoners to it.
And it all happened under totally false pretense.
Now what are we supposed to do?
The idea that there are people on our side do not want to fight back on this, I don't understand that, but they don't.
They just want to sit there and commentate on it, and they want to explain to us uh why we shouldn't fight back.
It won't help us win elections.
Uh it's just gonna alienate people.
Uh gotta understand that times are changing in the country and so forth.
And it just be one thing if Obama campaigned and said your premium's gonna go up to $13,000, and you're not gonna be able to keep your plan, and then got elected, fine.
But that's not what happened here.
There was outright purposeful misrepresentation on something as crucially important to most people as their health care.
Before I get out of here, I got Jay Carney here saying that we didn't cancel your health insurance, the insurance companies did.
The same thing Valerie Jarrett said.
I'm not gonna bother you with a soundbike because it's disingenuous as it can be.
The insurance companies change because they're complying with Obamacare.
These people couldn't tell you the truth, no matter what.
Salt your intelligence.
But I do I I want to at least try to get one excerpt from the audio version of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
And th this is this is here near the beginning of the book, just to give you a feel for what the audio book sounds like.
The school bell rang, and a few more students rushed into the classroom, followed by Principal Sherman.
The principal of Manchester Middle School was not a small man.
If the door frame were any smaller, the principal would have to duck his head and twist his way into the classroom.
I stood outside in the hallway as the door closed, but I watched and I heard what was happening through the door's small window.
Attention, everyone, please take your seats, said the principal with authority.
He stood at the front of the classroom, hands at his sides, while his eyes scanned the desks and the chairs.
And what he was doing is the principal getting ready to introduce the substitute teacher Rush Revere, who the students do not know has a talking horse, and who the students do not know yet, that can time travel.
And will not only teach them American history, but will show them and include them.
So just wanted to give you a flavor for it.
I I love the audio version of this because I did it.
I mean it was it's a uh I had a lot of fun doing it, and I my impression is, and I've also been told that it's it's done well.
So I had to get an excerpt in because I've been threatening to do it all day.
What?
No, no, no, no, no.
I have a lot of respect for Dr. Cadhamett.
That's why I was surprised by that.
That's you know, this business of political.
I don't do feuds.
I particularly refuse to do feuds, and that's not what this is.
It's no more complicated.
I was just I was just incredulous that that who Obama was uh was missed for so long by so many people.
But that's it.
That's all.
We'll see you tomorrow, folks.
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