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Oct. 31, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 31, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What?
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm ticked.
I am.
Well, yeah, I was really looking forward.
I mean, it's sort of like Christmas being delayed for a day because Santa Claus got the wrong tracking information.
Just, oh, I just can't stand this kind of incompetence.
It just burns me.
No, no, no.
I was supposed to get my new computer today, and it's not going to come until tomorrow because it's screwed up, FedEx tracking, some such thing.
Anyway, I'm not going to let it affect me.
I'm going to rise above it.
I'm going to be bigger than that because there's all kinds of things to be actually feeling pretty good about today, in addition to there always being plenty of things to be mad about.
And we'll try to focus on the latter.
Great to have you on the program, folks.
We head on down the tracks already Thursday here at the EIB network and everywhere else.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882, the email address El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
I'll tell you, the drive-bys are in a panic all across the drive-by spectrum because their beloved president's approval numbers are plummeting.
Not only is the approval number down to 42%, but also the likability number is down, and that really bothers them.
They're really worried that people just don't like Obama as much as they used to.
And we've got audio soundbites to back that up.
We've got, of course, the Obamacare stack just doesn't go away every day, produces more horror stories for people.
And this is happening to people.
This is not something you have to tell them about.
They're living it.
And we'll have the details.
And I got, folks, it's the cutest thing.
We are getting fan mail from 8, 9, 10, 11-year-olds who have received their copies of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
And I'd say one of the favorite characters is Liberty, the talking horse.
Liberty is getting email.
And Rush Revere is getting email.
And I'm getting a fan mail.
I mean, they're sending email.
We've got a little 2fbt.com.
You can send Rush Revere or any of the characters an email by clicking on the mailbox.
And it's flowing in here.
And now we're up to our sixth printing.
I just found out today.
It's all wonderful.
It's all good.
And we also, folks, where the book is concerned, I'm not going to get into it right now because I want to get into the actual news of the day here.
But we can also continue to hear stories about people's purchasing experiences all across the fruited plane.
And we're thinking about deputizing people in a way, turning them into agents, intelligence agents, who can report to us any problems or actually anything that's good that's happening out there as part of the purchasing experience.
So stand by for that as well.
Big news out of San Francisco today, the San Francisco Chronicle has announced that they will stop using the name Redskins for the Washington, D.C. NFL team.
The managing editor Audrey Cooper has confirmed this to the Politico.
Now, there's no word on what they're going to say instead of Redskins, but I've got an idea.
Given it's San Francisco, given the readership of the San Francisco Chronicle, maybe they could just rename the team the Fourskins.
Because San Francisco is where all kinds of operations, you know, the addedictomy, the chop addictomy, all kinds of paid for by taxpayers.
And I think if I just change the name to the Foreskins that are the Redskins, it might actually be appreciated by the readership.
In addition to that, from Elite Daily scientists from the University of Oxford have discovered, Oxford folks, Oxford, highbrow.
You think Oxford, you think, the pinnacle of intellectualism and elitism.
And they've been studying women's dairyaires at Oxford.
And they have discovered that women with larger than average butts are not only increasingly intelligent, but they are also very resistant to chronic illnesses.
Oxford University has made this discovery.
Sir Mixelot was way ahead of the curve.
I mean, Sir Mixelot, he had no idea how far ahead of the curve he was the curve, but he has no idea how far ahead of the curve he was.
According to ABC News, the results of the study at Oxford found that women with bigger backsides tend to have lower levels of cholesterol and are more likely to produce hormones to metabolize sugar.
Therefore, women with big well, it says butts here, folks.
Women with big butts are less likely to have diabetes or heart problems.
And having a big butt requires an excess of omega-3 fats, which have been proven to catalyze brain development.
Researchers also found that children born to women with wider hips are intellectually superior to the children of slimmer, less curvy mothers.
Who knew?
Who would even think to study something like this?
ABC News, Professor Konstantinos Monalopoulos, who leads the team at the University of Oxford, says women with more fat on the buttocks have lower levels of cholesterol and glucose, and women with bigger butts, wider hips, smaller waists may live longer as well as producing smarter offspring.
Now, when you travel the country and did you see any evidence of this being born out anecdotally, you do.
You do.
You see, well, you snurdly wants to get in on the study.
Study, field research.
So the study's already over.
The field research is done.
I'm just saying the part here about, let's see, children born to women with wider hips intellectually superior to the children of slimmer, less curvy mothers.
How in the world that's fun?
Do you see any evidence of that?
That's what I meant.
I'm not talking about that would be kind of be tough to figure out, but anecdotally, I mean, at the top of your head, I guess we know now what Bill Clinton was studying at Oxford.
What's, what's, well, that's right.
The social x-rays, exactly right.
Thinner women are associated with the lead upper crust, the salad crowd, the ladies who lunch and don't really lunch.
You know, they put it on the spoon, but they don't actually swallow it.
I know.
That's what it says.
If you want smart kids, you marry a wide-body, I guess, woman.
Well, that's that's just no, no, no, no, no.
We'll talk about real big buttons.
Not talking about the ejection.
We're talking about natural yes.
Real big butts.
By the way, back to San Francisco, you know, San Francisco is also the home of the No Cirque movement.
Remember that?
The National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource.
Have you not heard of this?
Folks, this goes back to when I was in Sacramento.
There actually is a group of people, and they're thriving.
No CERC, national organization, Circumcision Information Resource Center.
And it's a group that wants to stamp out circumcision.
They don't like it.
And I think, can you imagine the guy that runs it?
This is always what amazes me.
There are people that run No Cirque.
Can you imagine asking the guy, what did you want to do, Barry, when you were 10, when you were 15?
I wanted to grow up.
I wanted to grow up.
I wanted to lead an organization against circumcision.
How does it happen that somebody ends up running an organization?
I mean, they've got videotapes.
They've got posters and so forth.
And I think if the Chronicle would simply call them the Washington Foreskins and go right along there with No Cirque, it would match up great with the readership.
No, no, no, no, no.
Fair and long yes has another.
Don't take me there.
That's not what this.
We're trying to keep this.
Remember now, children are paying attention.
Don't, don't, don't, don't take me there.
Okay, here it is.
President Barack Obama's job approval has dropped to an all-time low in another poll.
Remember, he hit 37 in a Gallup poll, and he came up to 41.
This is the prestigious NBC Wall Street Journal poll where Obama is at 42%.
And here's how it's written.
An NBC News, Wall Street Journal survey, shows that a mere 42% of Americans approve of Obama's job performance, down five points from a poll conducted in early October.
In all, 41% say they have a less favorable opinion of the president since the government shut down compared to 21% who say they have a more favorable opinion.
Now, of important note here, on this miserable poll for the president, it was taken October 25 through 28.
Now, what's key about that is that is before his lie was exposed to the country about if you like your insurance plan, you can keep it.
This is another one of those things.
I'm telling you, I mean, the drive-bys are worried about this, and I've got the audio soundbites to back it up, but they don't know half of it.
There are people, I mean, things that are happening in Washington that have people livid.
Remember when the government was shut down, but it was opened up for a pro-amnesty rally.
I'm telling you, people are still fuming over that.
And there are people fuming now over the fact they were promised they could keep their plan, and they were promised numerous times that their premiums would be reduced by $2,500.
They're finding out this isn't the case.
They're being canceled for a whole host of reasons.
And it's not sitting well with people.
And it's not being reported just how angry people are.
And this NBC Wall Street Journal poll that has Obama at 42% was taken before that lie became front page news, which it has in this week.
This poll captures the sediment of those people sampled who were aware of the non-functioning Obamacare website.
That's what's captured in this poll.
They didn't yet know that Obama had told the biggest and the most consequential lie of any president in recent years.
I mean, it's a big one because he told it over and over and over again.
And we have played the soundbites, and now the drive-by media is starting to replay the transcript of it.
They're reprinting all the times Obama promised people that.
And that was not in this poll.
So arguably, you could say the approval number may be even less than this.
These people that were polled here did not know that Obama was being flippant about them losing their policies, their doctors, or whether or not they could afford health insurance.
I mean, he's out there.
What did he say?
Well, it's already scrolled out of view.
Never mind.
Something about the bare bones plans.
He went to Boston yesterday and he started ripping into bare bones plans in the insurance companies and so forth.
And you talk about people getting canceled and the insurance companies canceling people and the regime trying to blame it on the insurance companies, not Obamacare.
You look at all of the new things that the regime that Obamacare is requiring insurance companies to cover things that they used to not have to cover, medical devices, all kinds of crazy things, contraception, all kinds of crazy things that now insurance companies have to cover because of Obamacare mandates.
And naturally, the premiums are going up.
They're not coming down.
And Obama's out there ripping into bare bones policies, ripping into the insurance company because it's the only thing he can do.
When the anti-Obamacare sentiment rises, that's all he can do is try to slough the thing off on the insurance companies.
Bare bones is exactly what the kind of policy that a free market would make available to people who don't think they're going to get sick, who don't think they're going to get a terminal disease, like the millennials.
A bare bones policy is exactly the kind of thing they would buy in the free market, and it has been taken away from them because they're being soaked in order to get money to pay for the uninsured and the elderly and all that.
Obama went out and trashed these bare bones insurance plans in his speech in Boston.
This is another thing.
He went into Boston and tied up traffic and caused a mess.
He got heckled.
And this was the day that the Red Sox could win the World Series in Boston for the first time since 1918.
That's all anybody cared about in Boston.
And yet he went in there yesterday, which was really a bad PR move.
It made no sense whatsoever.
And then while he's there, he starts trashing these bare bones insurance plans, said they were offered by bad Apple insurers.
But I remember when we were all told that the purpose of Obamacare was to make insurance affordable for those without insurance.
And one of the ways you do that is offer bare bones plans.
You try to entice the young and the healthy into buying insurance.
And one of the things, as I say, they're going to want to buy is the cheapest policy they can get because they're not thinking of getting a terminal disease at 25 or 30.
And they're not thinking of needing that kind of insurance.
And so it has been removed because Obama wants to soak those people.
So it's Obama who's caused the bare bones policies to vanish.
Now he's out there ripping the insurance companies for either creating a bunch of policies that are no good to anybody or removing cost-effective policies.
It's just senseless.
So much of it is senseless.
Let me take a brief time out here, my friends.
You sit tight.
As you can tell, we've got a lot to do on the program today, and it's going to be fun.
Don't go anywhere.
We'll be right back.
I think, as usual, folks, Obama has things exactly backwards.
Insurance is being stretched to cover things it should never have to cover.
And it didn't have to cover until Obamacare came along and mandated these things get covered.
And all it does is drive up prices like breast pumps and birth control pills and wellness plans.
I mean, all of that stuff, all of this touchy, feely, liberal, do-good stuff that ought never be part of insurance.
Buy your own birth control pill.
Buy your own breast pump.
Why?
That's not a health issue.
Used to be our choice to go out and buy a birth control pill or not.
Used to be your choice to buy a breast pump or whatever.
If you want to do that, pay for it yourself.
But no, these things are now part of insurance.
It's not insurance.
It's welfare.
But regardless, as long as these things are going to be mandated covered, then somebody is going to have to pay for it.
Whether you know it or not, you are going to pay for it.
And so there's no way insurance premiums are going to get cheaper.
They can't when idiotic things like this are added to insurance plans.
This is why premiums are going up.
You know, if insurance only covered serious health problems, accidents, disease, catastrophes, like it used to, we would all be better off.
But no, no, no, no.
Now, now everything to do with supposedly to do with health care is part of insurance.
Hell, in San Francisco, sex change operations, which are elective, are being paid for by the citizens.
That's what the addedictomy is.
It's a well-known surgical procedure there.
My favorite line from Obama's speech in Boston yesterday was this.
He said, I don't think we should go back to the daily cruelties and indignities and constant insecurity of a broken health care system, which is funny to me because it seems to me that everybody's complaining about losing their old insurance plans and they like them.
And Obama thinks that it was cruel and indignified and all that.
But people want to go back to what's being taken away from them, which he now thinks is cruel.
He's out of it.
By the way, folks, I want to remind you at this NBC News Wall Street Journal poll.
Remember that poll came out on a Thursday, I think, and it said that vast majority of Americans blamed the Republicans for the shutdown.
Blamed the Tea Party for destroying the Republican Party.
Blamed the Tea Party for the shutdown.
And you remember how the media just loved that poll.
I mean, they came at poll hit, and they ran with it because it was exactly what they wanted the news to be.
The GOP responsible for the shutdown.
Well, that poll has now been forgotten, and the same poll has Obama at 42% approval, and his likability numbers are plummeting.
Now, let's go to the audio sound bites as Matt Wauer and F. Chuck Todd on the Today Show today spoke about it, and they sound a little depressed about this.
Record low, this 42%.
We have never recorded his approval rating this low.
He started the year at 52, and he has just gone down.
Even his likability rating is upside down for the first time.
People are starting to not even like him as much.
Gee, despite our best efforts, it's not just that his approval numbers are plummeting, guys.
People just don't like him anymore, Matt.
One side of the political coin, let's go to the others right now and see how Republicans are faring in this latest poll.
They're the ones who shut down the government.
They are.
Things are so bad for them.
We asked if you could have a choice of a third-party candidate or the Democratic or the Republican candidate, what would you pick?
Independent candidate actually finished ahead of the Republicans.
Once again, in our poll, the Republican Party had a new low in their personal rating, their brand rating.
So they got themselves back up into a good mood because it's even worse in their poll for the Republicans than it is for Obama.
But it's nothing new about the Republicans in this poll, but it is new about Obama.
Naturally, they're trying to cover it up, but they are bothered by it, as well they should be.
Remember, this number, this 42%, is before, you know, all it includes is the website problems and the whole idea of enrolling in Obamacare and how that blew up.
This does not include the now trumpeted news that Obama lied through his teeth knowingly when he promised people they could keep their plans.
Now, in addition to these two guys, F. Chuck Todd and Mao, our old buddy Ron Fournier, who used to be the White House correspondent, bureau chief, whatever, is a news writer at AP.
Now he's at the National Journal.
And the title of his piece here is How Crazies, i.e. extremists, are destroying your party.
And it is the most amazing analysis.
It's the kind of analysis that makes you, well, it illustrates how these people see events and how the way they see the media, the way they see things, this is such a stark contrast than the way you and I.
And his sources are consultants, a Democrat consultant by the name of Peter Hart and a Republican consultant named Bill McInturf.
And then there's some nameless strategerists who weigh in on this.
But it was Peter Hart and McInturf who conducted the survey for the NBC News Wall Street Journal.
And they say people are just mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.
It's a network moment.
It's a Howard Beagle moment.
And privately, party strategerists agree on Obama.
A Democrat operative who works in the White House emailed me to say this is Obama's titanic moment.
He's hit the iceberg.
But they keep acting like no water is coming into the ship.
A GOP operative who also requested anonymity said that Wednesday's hearing on Obamacare highlighted what's wrong with his party.
Yeah, we look like we were beating up the Health and Human Services Secretary of Kathleen Sebelius.
Why do we have to always overdo it?
And then there's a line in here about how the American people in this poll basically have an attitude of a pox on both their houses.
Now, when the left and the media start reporting that a pox on both their houses, that people out there are fed up with both parties, what that really means is that it's bad for the Democrats and bad for the president and that they are really screwing up and that the American people are slowly becoming fed up with them.
But they just can't report that.
So they have to include a nameless Republican who rips his own party and says, yeah, we're just as bad.
But I'm just telling you, when they start reporting and using phrases like the Publix has a pox on both their houses, what that means is that every kind of polling data for the Democrat Party, for the president, is starting to plummet.
And they also say in this poll that the Republican approval number in it is low because they have let their fringe take control.
And that would be Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.
Well, Mr. Fournier, I need to ask you a question.
If the Republican approval rating is down because the kooks are perceived to have taken control, how do you explain the 30-point slide by Lindsey Gramnesty the past two weeks?
Lindsey Gramnesty, pro-amnesty, pro-immigration reform, big best buddy of John McCain, would never ever be confused with Ted Cruz, and in fact, has been joining the Republican leadership in slamming Ted Cruz as a fringe wacko bird.
How is it that he's dropping 30 points?
If your theory that the fringe kooks have taken over, guys like Lindsey Graham ought to be soaring here as the alternative or the opposite of the fringe kooks, but Lindsey Graham has seen a really huge slide in his numbers, South Carolina, and that's why he is starting to sound more and more conservative.
But there is this line from the Democrat strategist, yeah, this is Obama's Titanic moment.
He's at the iceberg, but they keep acting like no water coming into the ship.
And this line about the Republicans and Sebelius, it's classic, folks.
Here's a nameless Republican operative read strategist.
That means this is a guy who's advising Republicans on how to win, quote unquote, or how to behave.
And he's wringing his hands.
And he's all upset that they just came on too strong with Sebelius.
It was just, you don't beat up on the girl.
It was just unseemly.
We look like we were beating up on Sebelius.
Why do we always have to, it did not look like that.
Maybe one or two instances, but you let them.
What should have happened yesterday with that opportunity, the Health and Human Services Secretary is a human being.
The fact that she's a woman is irrelevant.
The fact that she is a white, wealthy, rich woman from flyover country is irrelevant.
She is the incompetent boob running this show.
She's over her head.
She hasn't the slightest idea what she's doing.
This was a golden opportunity for the Republican Party to take action yesterday so that at the end of the day, the American people were clamoring for this thing to be shut down, repealed, defunded, whatever.
This was a teachable moment opportunity yesterday.
This was an opportunity to expose the ideology of the left, and it was an opportunity at the same time to explain and teach the ideology of us, of the right.
They didn't do that.
They did do kid gloves.
And here's this Republican strategist wringing his hands.
Oh, my God, we came across this mean, and it's going to make it look like we have his war on women.
Just this timid, pansy behavior, scared to death of his own shadows, scared of what the media is going to say.
They didn't lay a hand on Sebelius at the end of the day.
And they didn't really lay a hand on Obamacare at the end of the day.
Just, it's mind-boggling to me, the opportunity these hearings yesterday offered or presented to rally the American people.
The American people don't want Obamacare by vast majorities.
Again, yet another opportunity for the Republicans to reach out and connect with a majority of Americans.
And instead, the take today, according to Ron Fournier from Republican Strategist, is that the hard-headed partisans are pushing the GOP away from the political center.
Oh, and I should also say, let me read the whole sentence to you because it makes an earlier point.
Like many other party regulars, these two operatives, the GOP operative, a Democrat operative, worry that hard-headed partisans are pushing both the GOP and a Democrat Party away from the political center.
Now, I'm telling you what that means is that the Democrat numbers are plummeting.
That Obama approval of 42 scares them.
The likability number falling scares them.
So anytime they start talking about a pox on both their houses, what that really means is the Democrats are in trouble.
And they've got to make it look like it's not just the Democrats that all of Washington's in trouble because nobody can really just dislike the Democrats alone, don't you know?
That's not possible.
Democrats are loved.
Democrats are appreciated.
And if Washington at large, if Washington in toto is polling badly, it has to be the Republicans' fault.
It can't be the Democrats because everybody loves the Democrats and everybody loves Obama and everybody wants Obama to succeed and everybody is really, they know the Democrat Party is trying to help them and look out for them and protect them and all of this.
And if Washington's polling numbers are down, it has to be those Republicans.
Damn them.
It has to be.
And to the extent that the Democrats are in trouble, well, it's their extremists too.
The problem with that is every Democrat is an extremist.
Every damned one of them is an extremist radical.
And that is not an exaggeration.
And by the same token, Ted Cruz is not a radical.
He's not an extremist.
He's a constitutionalist.
He is just a mainstream American.
There's nothing radical about Ted Cruz at all, unless you measure him against the Washington establishment, which is dominated by the left, which is just full-fledged radical extreme.
So, the takeaway from the Fournier piece here is the Democrats are in trouble, and Washington is in trouble.
And we know this because the story is how all of Washington is hated.
That then allows them to blame the Republicans for making everybody so mad.
They're just mad at everybody, Republicans and Democrats.
And normally they love Democrats.
That's how you have to analyze this.
Don't doubt me.
We'll be back after this.
You know, you talk about these so-called fringe kooks, which always seem to become even more prominent in the drive-by media when the Democrats are plummeting.
And the Democrats are plummeting.
So that has to be blamed on the Republicans, and that means they're fringe kooks.
And they're going to try not a Republican.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, our fringe kooks.
We're just being defined by our fringe kooks.
Fact of the matter is, folks, these fringe kooks, quote unquote, are being proved right.
These fringe kooks, which is the Tea Party.
By the way, you people in the Republican Party.
I want to put something out there to you.
You know, you've got it so backwards.
You're sitting there and trying to analyze what's wrong with you, and there's one reason.
You have abandoned your base.
You have publicly let it be known you don't like your base, and they know it.
You've left nothing to the imagination where that's concerned.
You've told your base you're not interested in them.
If you guys were aligned with your base, you'd be able to get more done than you think if you would be willing to fight some of this stuff, which is what's missing.
And that's what we're doing here.
I just got an email.
Rush, why are you keeping talking about this the way you do?
My friends, maybe, I assume you know this.
Our objective here is to still beat this back.
That's what we're trying to do here.
And we're trying to do it by informing more and more people every day.
That's why what happened yesterday with those hearings to me was such a blown opportunity.
We could have, have we played this stuff the way Democrats do when the situations are reversed?
We could have had the people of this country demanding this thing be tabled.
Instead, we're worried today whether or not it looked like we beat up on the girl.
There's no people of this country don't have a connection with Kathleen Sebelius.
There's no personal investment people have made with her.
They don't care.
Not where their health care is concerned.
But what we're trying to do here is still beat this back.
We have not given up on that.
That's why I'm approaching this the way I'm approaching it.
And you look, as I was going to say, the fringe kooks out there, the so-called fringe kooks, they're being proved right right before our very eyes.
And not just about Obamacare, but about the government's incompetence in general.
The people fed up with Obamacare is being called a fringe kooks.
No.
It's the mainstream population of the country.
And the media and the inside the Beltway establishment wants everybody to think they're kooks, but they're not.
They're being proved right about all this.
Back to the sound bites.
This is CNBC squawk box this morning.
Joe Kernan spoke with their Washington correspondent, Eamon Javers.
Maybe it's Javers.
I don't know.
I've never heard his name pronounced.
Talking about this new poll on government.
And this is what the guests said.
And what we see here in this poll, you do see some negative effects on the president from the government shutdown.
It's not as clean cut as the White House would like you to say and just that the Republicans got all the blame.
The Republicans did get the blame, but the president has taken a hit here.
These guys live and breathe polls.
It's like oxygen here.
It affects your ability to get stuff done.
If people on Capitol Hill see a weak president, they will pounce.
This is exactly what we have been trying to say.
All this time, everybody was predicting doom and gloom for Republicans over the shutdown.
And the fact of the matter is, Harry Reid caused the shutdown and Obama caused the shutdown.
And this commentator's actually got it right.
The shutdown was one of the things going on when the poll took place.
And look who took a hit.
Well, you can say the Republicans did too, but they already have.
The fact that Republicans look bad in this poll is not news.
The fact that Obama's plummeting is the news.
The shutdown did bleed over to him.
There's no question that it did.
And it does have an impact whether he's on a ballot again or not.
Yeah, you people, your fringe kooks are all over the place.
The centrists, that's who we need to be emulating.
Well, who are they?
What is the center of politics today?
Is it Obamacare?
Is the center of politics amnesty?
Is the center of politics man-made global warming?
Is the center of politics tax increases?
Hell no, it's not.
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