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Oct. 30, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 30, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And we're back, folks.
It's great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, The Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
As always, I am utilizing talent on loan from God.
And you have to say, God.
You can't just say talent on loan from God.
It doesn't worry.
You say God.
Happy to have you here.
Telephone numbers 800-282-288 to the email address, LRushBaugh at EIBNet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, I, as part of the promotional push for Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, the book released yesterday, and it is, it is huge.
And that's all you, folks.
And again, I'm just, I'm practically paralyzed here with gratitude in terms of how to express it.
But one of the things that Steimen und Schuster, the publisher, asked me to do was sit for an interview conducted by them that they would eventually put on YouTube explaining the book, why, how, what for, objective, this kind of thing.
And I did it, even though I'm not big on video, I did it.
And it came out well.
And we've posted it at rushlimbaugh.com today.
We've also put it on our Facebook page.
And the 2ifbyt.com website is filled with interactive opportunities for your kids.
Once they start reading the book, there are all kinds of interactive opportunities.
Well, actually for everybody.
You can send Rush Revere an email just by clicking on the mailbox at 2ifbyt.com.
And Liberty, the talking horse, is already getting fan mail.
It's so fun.
It just, it's so much fun.
The horse is getting email.
I'm sure some of the other characters are going to as well.
And remember, I want to pass this on.
Two things.
If you have received an email from either Amazon or Barnes ⁇ Noble or iBooks saying that the release date was moved and that there has been a delay in fulfilling your order, we've seen those.
We got one.
And it isn't true.
There hasn't been any delay.
The book was released yesterday on the scheduled day, and tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands of them, went out yesterday.
So we are working on that, trying to get to the bottom of why I think it's volume related, tell you the truth.
I think a lot of places are just having trouble.
The point is, if you have ordered it, there is not a delay.
There are plenty of books out there, and yours will be coming.
A friend of mine, a bunch of kids, 7 to 13 years old, and they were reading the book with their kids, and they said it was a little bit above the reading level of their seven-year-old.
But they popped the audio version in the car as they're driving around, and the seven-year-old loved it.
The audio version is me, by the way.
And this is another reason why I did this, is to expand the universe of this program.
You like the program.
I like it.
I mean, it's constituted with content that's related to the greatness of American exceptionalism.
And we are trying to expand it to people that ordinarily wouldn't find talk radio, particularly young people.
This is one of the reasons for the book.
Now, here's another.
You know, I've got soundbites here.
Bill O. Baxter on Fox last night.
Let's get it.
Let me find the soundbite.
I happened to hit it first one.
Number 12.
Grab soundbite number 12.
And this is common.
There are a lot of people, particularly on Fox, the commentators, the hosts, the guests.
This seems to be a theme within the Republican Party and on Fox.
The question is, did President Obama know about the regulations and the language in the report?
I don't believe he did because he didn't read it.
He doesn't pay attention to details.
He didn't know.
He didn't know what was going on.
He had no idea about any of this.
As though, well, let's not hold him accountable.
He didn't know.
Now, to a certain extent, he doesn't care about the details.
He cares about the chaos because every day of chaos is one day closer to what he really wants, which is single payer.
I don't think it's that he doesn't know the details.
I think it's he doesn't care.
Folks, I think he's so far ahead of the Republican Party, they don't know what's hitting them every day.
And the reason they don't is because they fail to understand the ideology of the Democrat Party.
The inside-the-beltway thinking, I'm convinced of this now more than I've ever been.
The inside-the-beltway thinking has nothing to do with ideology.
A liberal isn't a liberal.
A Democrat's a Democrat.
And the Democrats and Republicans, they trade power now and then, and they take turns being in charge of the money.
But they're missing who Obama is, as are most of the people in this country.
Now, why is it, if I can revisit, so why is it that on January 16th of 2009, I can say with total confidence and without any doubt whatsoever, I hope he fails.
Because I know who he is.
And how do I know that?
Because I understand his ideology, and most of you do too.
The Tea Party is fully aware of the ideology of the Democrat Party and of Barack Obama.
And it's not just liberal, it's socialist Alinskyite.
But the Republican Party doesn't know this or doesn't care to know it or doesn't want to know it or doesn't want to fight on this basis.
It's one of those possibilities.
And therefore, they're not even in the game because it is the only thing driving Obama is his ideology.
The Democrat Party today is nothing but ideology.
And the only way they can be understood is to understand their ideology.
And the only way they can be defeated is to understand their ideology.
If you do not understand their ideology, meaning their liberalism, meaning their devotion to Alinsky is, if you don't understand that, you're never going to be able to beat them.
If they're just a bunch of incompetent Democrats, for example, you're never going to beat them if that's what you think they are.
If they're just a bunch of well-intentioned, but, oh, God, look at what they're doing.
You're never going to beat them.
If you're not willing to admit to yourself who they are, you have to understand their ideology.
This was my incredulity when I heard Dr. Krauthammer say that he didn't know who Obama was for five weeks after he was inaugurated.
That's stunning to me because Krauthammer certainly, he used to be a lib, at least what he worked with Walter Mondale.
I mean, he's got to know who these people are.
Even when you had dinner with him, it's been six hours.
You've got to know who he is.
It's not hard to learn.
And even every liberal has become practiced at hiding the ideology.
And so if you are going to, if you're not going to admit to yourself that X and X Democrats are liberal because you don't ever see it, then they've already won.
They've already defeated you.
By definition, a liberal is a radical leftist extremist today.
By definition, they all are.
There aren't any degrees here.
And it's almost now accurate to say that that's true for every Democrat in Washington.
They're all left-wing ideologues.
And for people like you and me, folks, it's not hard to understand what this means.
What we're up against is a Democrat Party led by Barack Obama, which has a socialist vision for the country.
They proceed on the basis or on the belief that America is bad.
They proceed on the basis that America's founding was unjust and immoral, unfair, and therefore illegitimate.
This is who they are.
And if you are unwilling to admit this, and John McCain, for example, would never admit this about him.
He'll never admit this about Harry Reid.
He'll never admit this about Pelosi.
And so McCain is worthless in terms of defeating them.
That's why he wants to be the maverick across the aisle to work with them.
He does not because he either can't or he doesn't want to see them for who they are.
They do not like the way the country was founded.
It's unfair.
It's unjust.
It's immoral.
Racist.
It's capitalist.
The unfairness is the capitalism.
The unfairness is that there are rich people and poor people, and that's not right.
And they are also, they are also informed, animated, motivated by what they think is the antidote to all of this.
And that is redistribution of wealth.
Everything culturally being morally relative.
There are no absolutes.
Nobody gets to say what's right or wrong.
There are no cultural guardrails.
Anything goes, and they are the champions if anything goes.
So their antidote to the whole notion that America is unjust, immoral, unfair, racist, bigoted, sexist, capitalist, and all that is to take from the rich, take from everybody who's got more than anybody else, redistribute the money.
Theoretically, they never actually succeeded at that, but that's what they claim they want to do.
Excuse me.
There's a reason, folks, that on the left, people like Shea Guevara are on t-shirts.
There's a reason that people like actor Sean Penn and so forth love and idolize socialist dictators.
There's a reason for it.
That is the way they express their disagreement with the way the country is and the way it was founding.
Now, this is what constitutes their ideology.
This is the path Obama is on, and he has said so.
It is what he means when he says he wants to fundamentally transform this country.
Now, within this universe, the details of things are irrelevant.
The healthcare system is unfair for two reasons.
A, the left doesn't run it, and B, capitalists do.
That alone makes it unfair.
Add in that some people don't have insurance and other people do.
That makes it unfair.
And therefore, it's got to change.
It's just, it's not acceptable.
The fact that some people have better coverage than others, some people get treatment, some people don't, that is an indictment of the country, and it informs them, motivates them, and it has to change with them in charge.
And the first thing that has to change is to dismantle what exists.
And whatever chaos results is okay, because what's happening is the dismantling.
So Sebelius can go up there and take every arrow thrown.
She can be the sponge that absorbs every bit of criticism.
Doesn't matter.
It's part of the plan of fundamentally transforming it.
And that's why if there's no, for the Republicans on this committee today, if there's no ideological understanding of what's going on, there will not be any ideological pushback.
And there will not be any ideological alternative for the American people.
Not a health care alternative, not the Republicans' own version of Obamacare, but an ideological pushback.
Now, while they do all this, how does Obama come across?
Comes across as a reasonable, soft-spoken, pragmatic kind of guy.
He doesn't look like anything I've described.
He doesn't look like a wild-eyed radical that doesn't like this country.
That's why having dinner with him and listening to him talk doesn't matter.
You have to understand what he is by virtue of what his loyalties and devotions and ideological beliefs are.
You have to be willing to admit that to yourself.
We all do.
And those who will not are sadly being employed unknowingly by Obama and his pals to help them advance what they want.
All Obama cares about is that every day, the general direction of the country is toward where he wants to go.
The day-to-day minutiae and the problems and the apparent failures of what he's trying to do, irrelevant because the chaos and the dismantling is the success.
And when you're going to start dismantling something as big as the healthcare system, of course it's going to be a mess.
These guys don't know what they're doing.
They don't really have an alternative and they don't care right now.
All they care about is that it gets so bad that there is a clamor for the government to fix it by having a single-payer system, even if people don't know what they're asking for.
That's where this is heading.
But you cannot dismantle something this big and this intricate without there being chaos.
And that's fine with them.
You just, if you're Obama and the Democrats, you just keep pounding on the traditions and institutions that made this country great.
You keep pounding them, you keep destroying them, you keep attacking them, you keep blaming them.
You have the media in your pocket helping you along.
You've got a low-information voter base that has been made to believe that every capitalist entity is out to harm them.
My example of last hour.
In the real world, anybody who knows anything, it's preposterous to say the insurance companies like losing customers.
It's absolutely preposterous.
They don't make money losing customers.
They don't lose money canceling.
They don't make money canceling policies.
They don't make money hurting people.
They do not make money getting rid of people.
They do not make money canceling policies.
And yet, the low-information people in this country believe this is how the insurance companies succeed by canceling people, by hurting people, because that's what capitalism does.
That's what the Republicans do.
And if there's not going to be any ideological pushback on any of this, this is why, folks, in just a small way here to start, this is why the idea of this book I've written intrigued me was some inroad to young skulls full of mush that puts in front of them the truth of the greatness of the founding of this country.
To battle back, fight back against this incessant, never-ending assault on this country, which is what Barack Obama is doing.
My God, taking over the health care system, destroying the private sector economy the way he has.
The fact that there's no outrage about any of this is a testament to how successful they have been in poisoning the minds of the low-information voters and creating a level of ignorance the country's probably not seen in the modern era.
In an era where there's so much education in this country, for there to be so much ignorance is stunning to me.
So much indoctrination.
Stunning.
Anyway, I'm up against it on time, so your calls are coming next.
Okay, folks, a little book recon.
Little recon.
Barnes and Noble, if you go to Barnes and Noble to try to buy Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, you might in some stores have to find the kids section rather than the display being prominent up front as it is in some of the Barnes and Noble stores.
So just a little recon.
You might have to go, if you don't see it right in your walk in the store, you might have to go to the kids' section.
And depending on the clerks that work there, you might have to go to the cooking section.
And depending on where you go, you might find the cover backside out.
Depending on where you go, depending on the clerks.
You've been there.
You've done that.
You know how this works.
I got our spies out doing recon.
As we learn things, we pass it on to you.
The most important thing is to have fun with this.
That was the intention.
Here's Joe in St. Louis as we get started on the phones.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Thank you.
I'd like to thank Mr. Snardly for letting me do this.
And I apologize if I get a little tongue-tied.
I've never been on such a grand stage with a powerful personality.
I go back to Nancy Pelofi saying in the very beginning, we got to pass this bill to see what's in it to fix it.
Obviously, it's a Democratic sandbox, and they're not going to let us play.
They're not going to let us repeal and get rid of this awful thing.
So why don't the Republicans start trying to fix it?
Start trying to send bills across that actually do something, because obviously Democrats aren't.
Well, I understand your premise.
The premise is if repeal is not a valid thing or if delay is not a valid thing, well, let's take it in their sandbox and pepper them with legislation.
I'm going to turn the Republican argument back on him.
Well, we don't have the votes in the Senate to win anything.
So why try?
I mean, that's what they told Ted Cruz.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh, documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time, recon from Hawaii, near the Kahala Mall.
Indeed, Rush Revere and the brave pilgrims is in the kids' section.
Kahala is one of the upscale areas of Oahu.
And it's just down the road from Waikiki.
And the Barnes and Noble, I guess, Barnes and Noble at Kahala.
Yep, in the kids' section.
That's Obama's home state.
We're lucky it's not in the plumbing section or the home repair section or some such thing.
And it could well end up there, depending.
Anyway, folks, I want to pose another, well, not a possibility.
I think it's slam dunk what all this business.
Remember when we first learned who was getting money to set up exchanges, say in California, the SEIU, covered California, a bunch of left-wing activists, and the NAA LCP.
And from that universe, people, the navigators are hired.
What do you think is really going on?
Voter registration.
In addition to you going to get your health care, there is obviously massive Democrat voter registration going on at these exchanges.
Websites, brick-and-mortar, if there are any.
What if the end result here, in addition to everything else, is 68 million new Democrat-registered voters?
Remember who we're talking about being serviced, the quote-unquote uninsured.
I'm not pulling a number out of the top of my head.
There's a report here called Building a Healthy Democracy by the Deimos organization, Lisa Danitz.
Building a healthy democracy, registering 68 million people to vote through health benefit exchanges.
Deimos, a public policy organization working for America, where we all have an equal say in our democracy and an equal chance in our economy.
In other words, a bunch of capitalists.
What do you mean, Mr. Mumbai?
You can't say that capitalism is not equal going to yes, yes, chance, Mr. Newcastrati, where we all have an equal say in our democracy, equal chance in our economy.
Damn right, that's what capitalism, equal chance, equal opportunity.
How bad do you want it?
How hard are you willing to work versus how much of a sponge do you want to be feeding off everybody else?
That's socialism, and that's what your guys are delivering us, Mr. Newcastle.
Capitalism, damn right.
Equality is all through it.
Opportunity, chance, you name it.
Equality is one of the hallmarks of capitalism.
Can you imagine the reaction that people have been brainwashed in our school?
Hear me say that.
Can you imagine?
They're blowing their stacks out there.
How in the world?
He's guys so stupid.
He thinks capitalism equals equality.
Yes, it does.
Most certainly does.
Folks, they're doing a bunch of stuff.
While you're here getting all jazzed up about how idiotic Sebelius is, there's all kinds of stuff these people.
Telling you there are many steps ahead because they're being driven by ideology.
They're not being driven by policy.
The ideology determines the policy.
And the Republicans are just playing catch up.
For example, look at this.
Senator John McCain again praised Hillary Clinton on Monday, saying that her work as Secretary of State was outstanding, with the exception of the terror attack on the consulate at Benghazi.
She's great, except for Benghazi.
She was outstanding as a secretary, except for Benghazi.
McCain said, this is a quote, her work, Secretary of State, with the exception of this issue of Benghazi, which isn't going away, I think has been outstanding.
I think she would be viewed by anyone, Republican or Democrat, as a very formidable candidate for 2016.
Well, what is the point?
What is to be gained?
What in the world is the point?
You know, you turn around, you call Ted Cruz a wacko bird, and you praise Hillary Clinton, and you are a Republican.
The name of Sam Hill.
This is just sheer.
I don't know what it is.
Idiocy, stupidity, blindness, triumph of emotion over common sense.
I don't know what it is.
So the Arab Spring was great.
The collapse of our relationship with Russia was great.
The reset with Russia, how well that went, that was great.
Losing a lot of Central America, that was great.
Hillary Clinton was great.
Outstanding?
I mean, in many people's minds, she is the next Democrat nominee, and we're already out there singing her praises.
For what purpose?
Is this somehow going to make people less inclined to vote for her and vote for us because we're nice people?
That's right, Michelle Limbaugh.
By predispension, that's what it's all about.
People want us to get along, and I'm showing people how to do it.
You're not showing anybody to get along.
You're showing people how to lose.
I know.
Just yesterday, I predicted it.
I know.
Well, there's times I don't like being right.
How about Iran and North Korea?
How's that been going, Mr. McCain?
Outstanding, huh?
Here's Jeff in Columbus, Ohio.
Jeff, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Rush, it's good to be here.
And your comment on capitalism, what a great segue.
Thank you.
Insurance companies have for years laid out and have offered thousands and thousands of benefit plan options in response to their customers.
I mean, they've done a good job in responding to their customers.
And over the last months, it's been pretty widely discussed, and including you, that one of the biggest reasons for the cancellations, I'm sorry, transitions in coverage is because some of the individuals who have had high deductible programs, the deductible has been too high or it hasn't included essential health benefits and therefore been declined.
But there's another reason that really hasn't been discussed much.
And all of these benefit options, even if they fully include all 10 of the essential health care benefits, if they fall in between the cracks, in other words, if they're not, if they don't strictly comply with the actuarial standards for being a platinum plan or a gold plan or a silver plan, but if they fall in between, they're not a qualified plan and can no longer be offered, at least in the exchange for both individuals and small groups.
Now, I needed to ask you a question.
Isn't that somewhat by design to make it, isn't it rather easy for them not to qualify now because of Obamacare?
Well, sure.
And the main reason for that was to make plans more quote-unquote comparable among carriers.
But nonetheless, in work that I've done, that potentially up to 50% of the benefit plan options that insurers have historically offered can't be offered anymore because they don't meet the technical qualifications and definitions of a qualified health plan.
Interesting.
And so people are losing choice.
Well, absolutely, they're losing choice.
If you're an employer who had a really good plan, and let's say it fell between silver and gold, you know, insurers are having to say, now, sorry, I can't offer you that plan anymore because it's not a qualified health plan.
And it's not a qualified health plan because of a bunch of federal bureaucrats writing rules about an industry they do not understand.
Absolutely.
And that's how your plan gets thrown out, folks.
And I'm telling you, it is by design.
And that's how you lose your grandfathered status.
It really, you know, once somebody knows what's going on explains it to you, it makes total sense.
A lot of people get lost in how complicated all the details of minutiae are.
But once it's explained ideologically, there's that word again, it's understandable.
Thank you very much, Jeff.
I appreciate it.
We'll be back, folks.
Rushlin Boyda EIB Network, the nation's most listened to radio talk show back to the phones to Natalie in Caswell, Tennessee.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
What a pleasure.
Thank you very much.
I'm fine.
The Obama administration is the ones that are guilty of doing the war on women.
They threw Hillary Clinton under the bus with Benghazi, Lois Lerner under the bus with IRS.
And now Kathleen Sebelius is going to go down because of the health care administration.
And the Huffington Post today announced that Michelle Obama said that living in the White House is like living in a really nice prison.
Well, you know, here's the thing.
I'm glad you might think that Sebelius was thrown under the bus or that Hillary was thrown under the bus, but Hillary is the Democrats' nominee in 2016, unless Christie wants it.
And Sebelius, the fix, she's told, go up and be the good soldier.
She's in on this.
So this learner babe, this lerner babe, she's classic.
I'm telling you, Lerner, she despises conservatives, despises the Tea Party.
And I'm telling you, Lois Lerner was probably given a party, and she was celebrated, and she's feeling really good about what she did.
She succeeded.
So they make a big show of throwing these women under the bus, but they are heroines in the Democrat Party.
They're not shamed.
They're not losers.
They take the bullets, but they get a payoff.
They're considered great warriors.
They've helped advance the cause.
There's nothing going to happen to them.
A little public embarrassment, but even much of that.
But the bottom line is they've all succeeded at everything they intended to do.
Sebelius has totally botched this rollout by design.
This learner babe totally succeeded in denying the Tea Party certain constitutional rights when it comes to tax-exempt status.
For years, she succeeded.
I agree with you that there's no Republican war on women.
I think the Democrat Party could cite other things like single parenthood, the bust up of the family, poverty, any number, unemployment.
I mean, the Democrat Party has been waging war on women for I don't know how long under the guise of liberty, freedom, and all that.
But these women that you're talking about are great heroes for the cause.
And I'm telling you, we'll never see it, but they are being taken care of.
Sebelius wants single payer as much as Obama does.
She's willing to be a martyr for the cause.
Total.
I mean, these people, folks, in their minds, they're marching on down the road.
They're getting what they want here.
This is a small price to pay.
Plus, they know that the Republicans aren't really going to do anything to them.
Now, Snurdy's smirking at me, but you talk to Republicans who want to fight back.
Those are your friends.
How many of them are there?
Four?
Five?
Sebelius knows she just has to get through the day, and nothing is going to be different tomorrow than it was today.
It's theatrics.
This is a show that's going on.
Carl Rove even said so.
I saw him in your commercial break earlier on Fox.
He says, What's happening today is not really important.
What happens is what the American people figure out as this thing continues to unroll.
Well, you better tell them, Carl, what's happening to them?
There's got to be some teaching.
Can't just leave it up to people to figure out because the media is taking care of the Democrat side of things.
Here's Robert in San Diego.
Robert, glad you waited.
You're next in the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, sir.
I'm just calling about what Sebelius said today about the IRS and the NSA being the storage areas for information so health and human services couldn't get hacked as far as personal information.
Yeah, yeah, that's enough.
Who in the world believes that?
Well, here's the thing: I was the intel analyst, so they're telling me that health and human services people are going to get a top-secret clearance so they can access the information stored in NSA.
I don't know that they'll need a top-secret clearance.
I would imagine to get into the NSA computer database, you'd have to have a TS, a top secret.
Not if somebody NSA shares it with you.
You don't need anything top secret.
Well, you know what, sir?
That's where you, you know, all these complaints about Obama have always been kind of like, well, this might happen, or this may happen.
IRS, we saw that, you know, their abuse of information does happen.
So I will concede to you, I guess they would probably give them full access to whatever information they wanted, regardless of where it was stored.
I don't think there's any question.
Even if, let me tell you something, the reasonable, intelligent thing to do would be to assume that that's the case.
I think people already are assuming the NSA knows everything about them.
Like, you know, I'll tell you a little story.
I have some friends, and a new iPhone came out with a fingerprint sensor.
And the wife of the couple, I'm not doing that.
No way.
And I'm not turning on my location services.
I'm not going to, no way.
Wait a minute.
You don't think that they've already got your fingerprints somewhere?
You don't think, just you may turn location services off.
Your GPS is on all the time.
You don't think they can.
But I just, how many people have to give a fingerprint, a thumbprint just for security someplace?
This data is there.
Folks, the data collection isn't the problem.
There's no way of avoiding that.
Technological advancement is such there's no way of stopping the data collection.
What it boils down to is who has it and how they want to use it.
And that's where ideology comes.
If you have people running the country who want to control people's lives and who want to punish people who don't agree with them, then that's a problem for those people having that data.
If you have people that don't care to control other people who believe in total freedom and so forth, and that information is kept strictly to deal with potential threats and criminal people, and you've got nothing to worry about, it's all about who's got the data and why they want it.
And again, ideology will tell you who and who isn't a problem in that regard.
Now, power does tend to corrupt everybody, I understand, but then you're not going to stop the data collection.
It's not possible.
It's just, it's too omnipresent now.
It matters who has it and why they want it.
That's the thing.
I seem to remember that my medical records ended up all over the media some years ago when it was supposedly not legal because of HIPAA or something, but it still happened.
And that's what I'm talking about.
We'll be back.
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