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Oct. 30, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 30, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, welcome back.
It's great.
And I mean it is great to have you here.
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You know, Obama's going to Boston today.
It's also game six of the world's.
Oh, I've got to say something about that here in just a second.
When we find this Boston story, Obama's heading to Boston.
He's going to Fanul Hall, Fannual Hall.
And it it he's going to be trying to feed off of Romney.
And Romney care.
He's going to be citing the success of Romney care and Obamacare and so forth.
And I'm I just when I saw the story, and I guess I don't have it in the snack.
When I saw the story, so well, why didn't we just elect Romney?
If Romney had the right idea, and if what Romney was doing was, why don't we uh let's see to do that?
I thought I had it here, but I don't.
Anyway, but this I keep looking for it.
Uh but that's basically it.
That's all I want.
He's gonna he's going to Boston to try once again sell this thing.
95% coverage in Massachusetts and and uh highest health care costs in the country.
Um and he said Romney care got off to a slow start too, but it's uh it's become it's it's going great guns and so forth.
And so that's uh that's where he's had it.
Anyway, about about the World Series.
Um I've had a number of Cardinal fans send me emails.
Apparently the Cardinals charter had a mechanical trying to get out of St. Louis yesterday.
And normally, after uh the way it works, they played game five on Monday night, game six is tonight, so yesterday, technically a travel day.
The way it used to work is both teams would leave right after the game on Monday and get to the site of the next game and either take the day off there or have a little workout.
Now the Red Sox did.
They they there's no reason to stay in St. Louis.
They got out, they got back at like four o'clock in the morning and they had a little workout at Fenway Park.
The Cardinals decided no workout and to leave for Boston on Tuesday.
So they go to Lambert, they got on their charter, it was a Delta, and at a six-hour mechanical.
They sat on the plane for six hours.
They've got their families.
It's not like a standard regular season charter.
You've got every player and families, or those that have families, the wives and the kids are on the plane.
In addition to all of the uh executives and so forth.
So they charter a bigger plane than they would normally take during a regular season trip.
Six hours on the tarmac and in St. Louis.
They finally get into Boston around 11 o'clock last night, and they got to the hotel at midnight.
And I've had a lot of Cardinal fans, oh, that's a bad omen.
Oh no, they're gonna get to bed late.
Oh, no.
Folks, that doesn't matter.
Don't.
If you're a Cardinal fan, don't worry about that.
These guys don't get to bed before midnight ever, anyway, even if they got a day game the next day.
Don't doubt me.
Getting into guarantee getting to Boston the next thing they're okay.
What's still open?
Well, maybe not with the kids on this trip.
I don't mean this to be disparaging.
But regular season travel for Major League Baseball, it's grueling.
This is not anywhere.
You you can you can uh you can finish a night game and have a game, finish in St. Louis on a on a Tuesday night and have a game in LA on Wednesday, and you fly out after the game, you get into LA, the time change.
Uh I've known it got so so crowded that teams have flown in on day of games in baseball.
That what where this actually is a factor is football.
Uh football teams have eight road trips a season, not counting preseason, and they're all most of them one day.
And I've been I've been fascinated to listen to the football experts talk about the grueling road schedule upcoming for team X. They might have three games in a row on the road, which means for six days of those three weeks, they're gonna be away from home.
Now, Major League Baseball or Basketball, you could have two-week road trips with three weeks in a town, a midnight departure, a 4 a.m. arrival, and a day game after you get there.
But football, football is so structured.
It is so regimented that anything that gets in the way of that, there was a the Denver Broncos some years ago had a game in Baltimore.
It wasn't long after the new Denver airport opened.
And the new Denver airport was much farther out of town than Stapleton was.
And a massive blizzard came in on the Saturday that the Broncos were to leave.
And they decided to risk it and not leave on Friday.
They stayed to stay on the routine.
I think Mike Shanahan was the coach.
And they and it came time to get out of Denver, and they couldn't get everybody to the airport.
I mean, it was a genuine blitz.
Steve Atwater, who at the time played safety, had to take a snowmobile from his home to the airport to catch the charter.
They got into Buffalo about one in the morning and they had a one o'clock start.
But they won the game.
Now, admittedly, it was the bills.
The bills were not all that hot at the time.
But I tell this story to comfort you Cardinals fans.
This little six hours on the tarmac, it's not an omen of anything.
These are professionals.
And by the time they get to Fenway, the adrenaline's gonna be pumping.
It won't matter if they didn't sleep at all.
As long as the starting pitcher's got his arm rested, so everything's gonna be I really seen it on blogs, my emails, worried about the omen, the Cardinals, and some people want to sabotage.
It wasn't sabotage, it's just a mechanical.
I'm surprised they didn't find another plane to put them on, but maybe there wasn't one big enough at Lambert that they could get in there.
Obviously that's what it was.
But that's not that's not an indicator.
Who I think I think we're gonna go up game seven.
I think Cardinals win tonight.
And I think um I think we'll have a game seven.
I I I hope so.
I I What's that?
Yo, yeah, the obstruction call was absolutely right.
He goes, right?
In fact, umpires were right on that.
I mean, there was no delay, they were exactly right about it.
Yep.
No uh no problem with that at all.
Folks, moving back to the issues.
You know, you're you're watching Subelius, you think take the heat and all this other stuff of Obamacare.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are already planning the next government shutdown.
At it right here.
In my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, President Obama's top ally on Crapitol Hill says that he will not support any attempt this year to ease across the board spending cuts hitting the Pentagon and domestic agencies if it fails to include new revenues.
Translated, Dingy Harry says we're not doing anything with the next budget showdown unless we get a tax increase.
Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry made the declaration on the eve of the first official meeting of a House Senate negotiating panel on the budget.
Most Republicans say they won't consider new taxes to help ease the automatic cuts known as sequestration.
And Dingy Harry is saying we are not gonna have an agreement.
We'll have another shutdown unless you guys agree to raise taxes and get rid of the sequester.
So while we're all focused on what we think is happening with Sabutius being embarrassed, the Democrats are already laying plans to raise taxes again and to get rid of the sequester, which is minor spending, but they're real.
And the Democrats hate it.
They hate it.
Dingy Harry was a key force behind the hard line approach Obama and the Democrats took in the recent battle over the debt limit and the government shut down.
By the way, folks, since we're laying all our cards on the table, do you know why healthcare.gov launched on October 1st and was totally unwilling unready to go.
They did.
Sabia's got to pick the date.
Why did she pick October 1st?
They knew it wasn't ready.
They knew healthcare.gov wasn't ready.
They knew it wasn't, they couldn't.
They knew it wasn't going to handle the load.
They knew it wasn't ready.
They knew it wasn't.
The news stories are plentiful now.
The next target date to have it fixed, November 30th.
That's not going to happen.
They're not going to get this fixed.
Doesn't matter.
The chaos is what they want.
But she launched on October 1st, knowing that it wouldn't work.
Why?
Because of the shutdown.
They were hell-bent on launching this thing during the shutdown, so as everything could be blamed on the Republicans.
She could have delayed the start of this thing until next year if she wanted to.
She has the authority by virtue of the law.
In this healthcare law, the phrase, as the Secretary shall determine, is peppered throughout it.
She could have started this, they knew it wasn't going to work, and they chose to start it anyway.
And again, this is part and parcel of understanding their ideology.
Their number one objective is to eliminate opposition.
If they could, they'd do it forever.
Their objective is to so taint the Republican Party that it never wins anything ever again.
And they will put you through pain and suffering, and they will put you through an insurance cancellation, and they will put you through no insurance and no health care.
They'll gladly put you through that if they can blame the Republicans for it.
If they can make you think while you lose your insurance and while you can't log on to healthcare.gov that it's the Republicans' fault because of the shutdown, they'll gladly do that.
And that's what they did.
They are willing to destroy anything if they can blame the Republicans for it.
They will hurt their own constituents.
They will harm their own voters so long as their voters blame the Republicans.
If the Republicans don't understand that, they're never going to be in the game, and they're never going to be able to stop this.
A quick break while you uh ponder that.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Here is Lance in Salt Lake City.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
It's great to have you on the show.
Good to be here.
Thanks, Rush.
I appreciate you taking my call.
You bet.
Having a good day.
First, I'd like to say thank you so much for you do.
You and your staff do for the lymphoma society.
Um I think it's really great.
My wife, at the young age of 36, uh, passed away two and a half years ago after an ETH month of it.
Oh my gosh.
Too young.
Yeah, too young.
And um, so I just wanted to thank you for that.
But um, the reason I'm mainly called was I remember talk listening to you talk yesterday about how there's no such thing as moderate liberals.
And by no means am I a liberal or anything close to it, but one name popped into mind when you said that, and I was just wondering what your opinion is on Joe Lieberman.
If you think he might be able to do that, Joe Lieberman Lieberman, Joe Lieberman.
Joe Lieberman, uh uh look it.
Uh uh.
What happened to Joe Lieberman?
9-11.
Hmm.
9-11.
I think it's not a good one.
No, no, no, no, no, but but with with the Democrat Party, what happened to him?
He was outcasted.
They threw him out.
Yeah.
Tells me he was not a liberal.
He might in fact have been a moderate.
He's one of these uh, you know, both sides.
He's he's uh I I know Joe Lieberman.
Um fact, Joe Lieberman had a great line.
I was at the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation dinner one year.
And I was not endorsing McCain.
I was I was being very critical of John McCain.
It was that, I guess that would have been what, 2000 or 2004?
I for no, when was it?
It had to be.
Whatever the hell year it was that he won the nomination and he won the whatever it was.
I guess it's eight.
So anyway, I go to the Marine Corps, Catherine and I go to Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, and we are seated at a table with former Secretary of State James Baker and his wife Susan, who are, of course, huge McCain supporters because they're big party supporters, and a couple other people at the table.
Lieberman is being given an award that night by the Marine Corps Law Enforcement.
And he goes up to accept the award.
And he says, I never, I can't believe that this situation exists.
I'm a Democrat.
I know that Rush Limbaugh's here.
I'm endorsing John McCain, and he isn't.
And James Baker and his wife Susan just looked at me and nodded their heads and pointed as though.
See, see.
I said to myself, doesn't this make my point?
I mean, Joe Lieberman is endorsing our guy.
And then walking out, I ran into Senator Lieberman and said, You and I, we got to talk.
We really have to talk.
I've I've I've met him a couple of times.
I wouldn't describe him as the kind of liberal that the Obama Democrat Party has become.
Joe Lieberman.
Hmm.
You um you might remember William F. Buckley Jr.
Despised Lowell Wiker, liberal Republican senator from Connecticut.
And he liked Lieberman.
So Buckley set up Buckpack.
Buckley and the gang at National Review actually started a political action committee to elect Lieberman.
And they succeeded.
They got Lieberman some donations rather than Wiker.
That's not something, I mean, Buckley's not going to do that for a hardcore leftist liberal.
He was trying to get rid of one who called himself a Republican.
Lieberman is a is an old school liberal.
He doesn't hate the country.
Lieberman loves the country.
He doesn't think there's anything unjust or immoral about the founding of the country.
He's not.
He's not of this current crop of Democrats.
You remember he gave a speech for McCain at the 2008 Republican National Convention.
And after he gave that speech, he was basically kicked out of the Democrat Party.
They no longer allowed him to attend any Democrat caucus leadership meetings or policy lunches or anything like that.
And that's because right.
Then they went out and found a candidate to run against Lieberman.
Lieberman had to run as an independent in Connecticut.
And that's that's how the Democrat big tent works.
You better tow the party line or you're out of there.
They're not going to put up with it.
And what do you mean if only we can do that?
No, no, no.
You totally misunderstand Snurley.
The Republicans have to show a big tent, allow all kinds of people in, even saboteurs, in order to show that we are inclusive.
Which takes me, you people know this, but I'm glad the story is out there.
Glenn Beck's website, TheBlaze.com, has a piece here called A Psychology Behind Leftist Lies by Dark Dr. Gary Castlman, who uh earned his PhD in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977.
read you some excerpts of this piece.
Liberals comprise only about 20% of the voting public.
And that's true.
In polls where people are asked to identify themselves as conservative, liberal, moderate, independent, wishy-washy, afraid to say, whatever, 20% say they're liberal.
And almost 40% say they are conservative.
Not Republican Democrat, but liberal versus conservative.
So Dr. Kesselman says, how has the left been so successful in swaying the majority of voters to believe what they feed them?
When most often what the left says is not supported by facts, and what they do actually does harm to their own voting constituents.
Well, in mine and Tim Daughtery's recent book, Waking the Sleeping Giant, how mainstream Americans can beat liberals at their own game.
We discuss the issue of the misinformed and the uninformed voter, typically voting for Democrats.
Rush Limbaugh often refers to this voting segment as the low information voter.
It is from this set of voters that the left is able to draw the additional 30 to 35% of the votes that they need to win.
Taking our country down the path of socialism.
And I have to tell you, these guys are right on the money.
20% hardcore liberals self-identified, but they do own the low information crowd made up of pop culture warriors and all of that.
So the question, how do they do it?
How do they get these low information voters?
How do they do it?
And in two words are the answered.
They lie.
They lie.
For example, Democrats have convinced the nation that people are poor because they've been treated unfairly and are victims of greedy capitalists.
To address this purported social injustice, President Obama's approach is to redistribute the nation's wealth.
President Johnson pushed through the war on poverty as part of his Great Society platform to rectify supposedly the social injustice of committed or social injustice committed by those evil capitalists.
The fact is that poverty levels in this country since the war on poverty was implemented are unchanged in 50 years, despite the redistribution of literally trillions of dollars since Obama first inaugurated.
Poor people are notably poorer now than when he took office only five years ago.
Household median income since Obama took office, down $3,000.
Since 2009, the poverty rate has risen from 14.3% to nearly 17%.
Additionally, 20% of the nation's children live in poverty.
And the blunt force to the face of Obamacare hasn't even hit yet.
As has been said for years, if you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it's free.
Now the misinformed believe the lies from the left about Republicans because it is consistent with the lies they've always been told and already believe.
The continuous stream of lies from the left make them feel even more threatened and even angrier, because the lies from the left about Republicans are designed to be threatening.
Republicans won't negotiate with us in the debt ceiling, threatening the country with default and catastrophic economic collapse.
Republicans want to kill you, Republicans do this, republic and Republicans hate people.
Republicans don't like women, Republican war and all this stuff.
They lie.
Currently, the left is blaming Republicans for the government shutdown, painting them as uncaring, greedy, hateful, and corrupt.
According to Democrats, Republicans don't care about kids, veterans, seniors, African Americans, and the poor.
They spew forth lie after lie about how Republicans want to push Granny off the cliff, cut social security, school lunches, veterans' benefits, welfare, indeed, wanting to keep the disenfranchised well disenfranchised.
One cannot listen to the news for more than a minute to see this reflected in the thinking of Republican politicians.
October 7, 2013, on the Kelly file on the Fox News channel.
Senator Ted Cruz said the veterans administration was closed in the recent government shutdown, even though House Republicans had put forth a bill to the Senate to fund it.
But he went on to say that Harry Reed won't bring the bill to the floor.
Senator Cruz said this just doesn't make any sense.
Logically, he's right.
It makes no sense.
But from a psychological limbic perspective, it makes perfect sense.
It really, I'm just glad to see this because you know this.
We've talked about it a lot, but it's it's what we're up against is lies.
And uh, you know, when you in your personal life, you're up against a liar, pathological liar.
You're frustrated, frustrated.
What do you do?
How do you deal with this, particularly if the liar has persuaded other people, and the lies are about you or your family or whatever?
This is why I say, this is why I keep harping on the fact I really do believe the solution to all of this lies in ideological education.
Because there is a truth in the midst of all the lies, and it is that liberals lie.
Liberalism is a lie.
Liberals lie.
Wherever they are.
And if you know that about liberals because you understand the ideology, can you imagine how far ahead of the game we'd be or how much damage we'd have been able to prevent if people simply knew the truth about liberals?
I mean, it's why I was able to say I hope he fails, because I knew what was in store.
And it's not because I'm I have any great powers to predict the future.
I just know liberals.
Like every square inch of my glorious naked body, I know liberals.
And somehow, you know, the truth is a is a great counter, but what is it, Churchill said?
A lie is halfway around the world before the truth even starts to catch up, or something like that.
But you have to first understand the ideology.
You have to acknowledge it.
This is frankly, the Republicans are they're not there.
They don't look at the Democrats that way.
McCain couldn't possibly, while the same breath praising Hillary Clinton for crying out loud.
And for what purpose?
So again, it's just another reason, folks, why the prospect of a of a book for young people on the founding and who the people were and what was involved.
Just to counter these lies.
Because the lies the left are telling are demeaning the country, impugning the country.
It's rooted in that.
What propels Obama is his belief this country's unjust, immoral, unfair, racist, sexist, bigoted.
That's got to be countered.
And it's got to be countered starting at young ages.
Young people have got to be educated to understand and to question the propaganda they're hearing.
My gosh, they kids are being propagandized at school.
They're being propagandized in movies, television shows, everywhere.
They've been propagandized in the media.
There's got to be some pushback to it.
And that's why, among many other things, you know, Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims was written, and why I have such high hopes for it.
And maybe more, you never know.
But it's just to me so simple.
People, when I get emails, well, how do you when did you learn about liberals?
Why are you so confident?
I'm so confident.
I've got a lifetime of observing them for crying out loud.
FDR, LBJ, Woodrow Wilson, uh Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Cliff for crying out loud.
The evidence is right in front of everybody's face.
Plus they Tell you now and then, like Obama has.
He lies about it too, but he's he's he's let it cat out of the bag a number of times about who he really is and what he really wants to do with the country.
That's what transform it means.
Uh how did I figure it out?
Oh my dad, Mr. Buckley, but just reading, observing, and just having the uh I don't know if it's courage or what, but whatever it takes to admit it and deal with it, you know, the biggest problem.
It's hard to codify one uh one biggest problem.
But we're in a circumstance now where the the opposition party doesn't even think in this regard, don't even look at the ideology of the opponent.
I think it's part of Inside the Beltway Establishment thinking.
Look, I've got to take a break.
I just saw the clock, or I'm gonna be in trouble.
Sit tight, we'll be back.
Jack in Columbia, South Carolina.
I'm glad you waited.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, four decade called ditto.
80s, 90s, Otts and the teens.
Um I got I'm starting to get depressed about this.
Um, how does the Equal Protection Clause not apply to me and the unions in this health care?
And if the Republicans can't stand up this kind of uh banana republic actions, what are we gonna do when Obama decides to run for a third term and totally ignore the 22nd Amendment?
No, that's I understand every aspect of the question.
What he's talking about, we talked earlier today.
Obamacare, in section 1251, folks, has a carve out for unions.
Now, the the deal was Obama told you if you like your plan, you get to keep it.
But then Obamacare also said the insurance companies can't change the plan.
If they do, it's all gone.
And then they issued rules that required the insurance companies change plans.
So you lost your doctor.
You lost your plan because of Obamacare.
But in the same section of the law, there's an exemption for insurance companies changing their policies, and it's for those policies put together by collective bargaining.
Obama's union buddies get to keep their plan.
They get to keep their doctor.
You don't.
Because you have no way of holding on to your grandfather's status.
His question is, well, what about the equal protection clause?
How come it applies to unions and not me?
We have a runaway president who's like play dictator, and I'm t Republicans, I don't even know if they know this.
That's it, folks, for today.
We're sadly out of busy broadcast moments, but we will be back tomorrow.
We'll look forward to seeing you then.
Thanks much.
And thanks so much for being with us today.
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