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Nov. 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 4, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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I've not sent the pictures up to uh Coco yet.
Well, I went I went sneaking around some bookstores yesterday with uh shades on.
I went out there in disguise.
And I just wanted to see copies of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims rolling right off the shelves.
I wanted to see people buying it, and I did.
It was cool.
And then I, you know, I was lurking uh in the shadows, and uh then I walked up and uh broused a copy myself, had some pictures taken.
We're gonna post them at Rushlinbaugh.com just for fun of it.
But I got to send them up to Cocoa.
I haven't done that yet.
And I'm not gonna get a chance to do it till after the program.
So, but be patient.
It'll be up there by I'd have to say four o'clock uh Eastern time.
We've been talking about the Virginia gubernatorial election tomorrow.
Uh Terry, the punk, and that's what we called him during the Clinton days.
He was their arm twisting fundraiser.
I think when I when I heard this guy was going to run for governor, I I just I mean it would be like well, I don't know.
I uh just this the last thing I ever thought this guy would ever really want to do.
So he's there for a reason it's related to the Clintons, and that means it's related to Hillary in 2016.
It's related to trying to secure Virginia for her.
I don't know.
If I lived in Virginia and everything happening with Obamacare is happening is happening, and he rolls into town campaigning for McAuliffe, that that'd be all I need to run the other way.
And I'm I'm being serious.
I'm I know that I'm partisan in this regard, but for crying out loud, and I don't know what the status of this race is.
Last I saw it was Macaulay up by two, but they're worried.
So say the news reports.
Who really knows?
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Uh this morning in in Annandale, Virginia, at uh at the Punks Campaign rally.
Oh, they had biked me in there.
They sent Joe Bightney, the vice president.
Let's listen to what Joe said.
This race has captured the attention of the entire nation because it's the first major race between the forces and faces of the new Republican Tea Party, a Tea Party whose social recidivism is outdone only by its hostility to science and technology, innovation, and scholarship.
Everything they talk about without exaggeration is about turning back what the rest of the country and the world thinks is progress.
Okay.
Um they're attacking the Tea Party.
Everybody is scared of the Tea Party.
The Republicans are scared of the Tea Party, the Democrats are scared of the Tea Party.
They're scared of Ted Cruz, they're scared of Mike Lee, they're scared of Rubio, they're scared now of Cuccinelli.
They've always been scared of uh Sarah Palin.
But you know, this attempt here to portray the Tea Party as a bunch of old-fashioned fuddy duddies.
I find it interesting.
Do you know what the left's absorption with global warming really is?
It's anti-progress.
The left has determined that any progress at all is filthy and polluting and disgusting and must be stopped.
And if there is any group of people that want to turn back the clock and reduce progress and technological advancement, particularly the area global warming, it's these people.
These people are the great people of progress.
They can't even set up a website for crying out.
You gave these people 600 plus million dollars in three years and they can't set up a website, and they are the progressives.
They are on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
These people want windmills for crying out loud.
They want to go back and and to the foregone days, long ago days.
Solar, all of these things that are just unproductive.
They want to go back to horse manure in the streets, in effect.
If there's any group of people that wants to roll back progress, it's the American left and particularly with their devotion to uh global warming.
But I love this characterization, the way they're trying to scare people about the Tea Party.
The only thing they're right about is in that regard, is that we'll say they in the Tea Party, I'll include myself.
We believe in the traditions and institutions that define the country.
All these people are trying to do is save this country.
They're just trying to save our culture.
They're trying to save our society.
They're trying to save the constitution.
They're trying to save individual liberty and freedom.
And the Democrats want to run around and make that look like it's old-fashioned and unhip.
It's the Tea Party that wants to preserve for you the right to do what you want in your life, to live your life the way you want to, not command and control from Washington.
The Tea Party doesn't want you saddled with rules and regulations like Obamacare.
The Tea Party doesn't even think something like this is constitutional.
But here they bring in Joe Biden to try to define hip?
Joe Biden as an arbiter of cool.
I don't know.
You listen to this next money.
Does this sound like people who think they're about to win?
You tell me.
The whole nation is looking at this race.
And again, that's not hyperbole.
The whole nation is looking at this race.
And folks, it comes down to you.
It really is all about turnout.
There's only one place, the Tea Party can compete with us.
And that is they do turn out their base.
They do turn out.
Those who share those views out of the 30s and 40s and 50s.
They do, and that's what it is.
So don't take this for granted, man.
No, hey.
What does this mean?
Trying to characterize these people want to go back to the uh 30s and 40s.
They call them terrorists, they call them the Taliban.
Um why sh why should we be afraid of the Tea Party?
What has the Tea Party been wrong about yet?
What has the Tea Party been wrong about?
Now you're talking about Tea Party, and you talk about turnout.
The Washington Post had an article last week that said McAuliffe would lose unless there was a big turnout from blacks.
That the the really the only hope, not the only hope, but that McAuliffe really needed a huge turnout of black voters if he was going to win, which is probably why Obama's in there campaigning for him.
Because everything else about Obama is an albatross around the punk's neck.
I mean, for crying out loud, the architect of you get to keep your plan, you get to keep your doctor, these out and out lies that people are discovering now.
Saturday Night Live, John Stewart, all these so-called hip-hop culture uh show making fun of this and actively getting mad.
I thought the Democrats loved the 30s and 40s.
That was FDR, that was the New Deal.
I thought they loved that era.
I thought if Joe Biden had to point to one of the greatest years of America, he would point to the 30s and 40s.
What happened to the 30s?
You got the New Deal, 40s, we won in World War II.
Greatest generation.
What in the world do these people find wrong about the 30s and the 40s?
And the early 50s, they had Harry Truman.
What in the world is Biden talking about here?
Let's continue.
This is Sundays this week with Stephanopoulos at the roundtable discussion.
Jonathan Carl.
Wait a minute.
Stephanopoulos says this this is kind of pile on time now for the president.
I want to show some magazine covers this week as well.
You see the New Yorker cover right there.
The president is trying to, with a huge cell phone trying to get healthcare.gov working.
Bloomberg Business Week.
Can Obama reboot and Forbes?
This may be the most interesting one.
Vladimir Putin comes up on top of the Obama as the most powerful leader in the world.
What do we make of this, Jonathan Carl?
The turnaround's been astounding.
Think of what we were just a few weeks ago.
The Republicans were blamed for a government shutdown that went on and on.
And it was all this, you know, are the Republicans doomed to uh, you know, extinction, poll numbers as low as you've ever seen.
Now it's all that's over.
The focus is on the president.
Oh no!
And that's exactly what Ted Cruz and the rest of us were saying two weeks ago when Jonathan Carl and all the media were saying that Republicans would be doomed forever by the shutdown, and we were all saying, oh no, it's not gonna work out that way.
And now the 180 has happened, and every one of these people has turned out to be wrong.
And Cruz and the boys were right.
Move forward to Soundbite Number Four.
This is uh the same show, ABC News this week during the round table.
This is Peggy Noonan, columnist in the Wall Street Journal.
And Stephanopoulos said, so Peggy, is all of this a lesson for the Tea Party?
I think something big may be coming.
A lot of people may be cruising for a bruising here.
Big difference between the Tea Party now and say 64 and Goldwater, 76 and Reagan.
64 and 76.
Goldwater and Reagan both wanted to seize and control and win over the Republican Party.
The Tea Party now shows signs of not wanting to win it, but of wanting to topple it over, wanting to do away with it.
That is something new in our politics.
It's gonna get fought out over the next few years.
Now, excuse me, with with all, with all due respect here.
Uh I I'm wondering if Peggy Noonan knows anybody in the Tea Party.
I mean, I mean, if she's actually sat down and talked with anybody in the Tea Party, because what the Tea Party will tell you is that they are exactly trying to wrest control of it.
They are not trying to destroy it.
The people who are trying to destroy anything are Peggy's friends.
The Republican establishment is trying to damage the Tea Party.
That's what's happening.
And of course, the Tea Party knows it because they feel it.
So obviously they're fighting back.
The Tea Party wants to beat Democrats.
The Republicans don't look like they do, and that's the big dividing line.
I can tell you firsthand, the Tea Party wants to beat Democrats.
They want to beat back Obamacare.
They want to beat back some of this spending.
They want to get rid of some of this debt.
The Tea Party wants to fix things.
The Tea Party knows that in order to do that, Democrats must lose.
And that's what the Tea Party wants.
The Tea Party can't figure out why the Republicans don't want the Democrats to lose.
The Tea Party scratching their heads collectively say, what is it that makes the Republicans want them to lose or us to lose and the Democrats win?
That's what we don't see.
Face it, folks, admit it, we don't see a Republican Party that seems focused on defeating Democrats.
We see Republican after Republican after Republican without any problem.
Trashing Other Republicans like Cruz or Mike Lee or take your pick of them.
But they never talk that way of Obama.
They never talk that way of any other Democrat.
The Tea Party wants to beat Democrats.
The Tea Party wants to win.
They don't understand why the Republican Party doesn't.
I said last hour, you know, talking about this stuff with the Dolphins.
And cohesion and unity in the locker room said the best thing in the world for cohesion is winning.
And that's what's missing from the Republican Party is there isn't any winning.
And there, furthermore, there doesn't seem to be any plan to win.
And when it looks like some Republicans might win if they happen to be Tea Party Republicans, then other Republicans get into gear and try to make sure that doesn't happen.
And so everybody Tea Party scratching their heads, but I don't know where this comes from that the Tea Party wants to destroy the Republican Party.
They don't.
They just want to wrest control of it.
Because they want to beat Democrats.
This is, I I swear I don't, it's no more complex than that.
The real curiosity here, and it's a real curiosity.
I mean, it's a genuine stumbling block.
It's an it's an it's a it's a real mystery.
Why do the Republicans not want to win?
Because it sure doesn't seem like they do, does it?
I gotta take a break.
We'll be back.
Sit tight, folks.
Here's uh Joe in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Hi, great to have you.
Wow, Rush, what an honor.
Thank you, sir.
I've been with you a long, long time, probably around the same age as you.
That's good for you, thank you.
Listen, um, I was going to ask a couple questions, but I'll leave it at one quickly.
You know, you say you're right.
Um we we want to see fighters up there, and and I think that's why I appreciate I appreciate the Tea Party.
And um considering the fact that the media never gives us a fair shot at the exchange of ideas.
What about a dramatic strategy?
I'm just tuning them out.
Just completely the unfriendly media go.
Do not respond to them.
Don't give interviews, don't give FaceTime.
And when it comes time like the last presidential election, it was so obvious it's just form of the Democratic Party.
Why not?
I agree with you, but I'm gonna tell you that that uh the inside the beltway people think that they don't have a prayer unless they do appear on the mainstream media and unless they're liked on the mainstream.
They really, I'm telling you, they don't think they have a chance.
The media is everything.
Being liked, not being slimed, uh, appearing on all those Sunday shows, you gotta, or you don't have a chance.
That's the way they look at it.
I'm like you.
I don't need them.
There's nothing to be gained.
There's literally nothing.
I know that the mainstream media is not interested in me looking good.
They're not interested in people knowing me for who I am.
Why would I go there?
That's it's it's it's simple.
And as far as, you know, I know that you where you were going with this was why don't the Republicans bring up some of these victims of Obamacare and put them on TV.
Media wouldn't like that.
There's uh there's an article in the Wall Street Journal today.
Kid you not about this.
An article in a Wall Street Journal that basically says Obama's aides decided that it would be a lot easier to sell Obamacare if Obama just lied about being able to keep your insurance and your doctor.
And the Wall Street Journal story doesn't appear to have any problem with that.
They think in that context just made sense.
Okay, so Obama's got this plan, Obamacare, and they gotta sell it.
And Obama and his people said the easiest way is just lie to people about what is gonna happen.
You know, and they did, and since that's what it took, that's okay.
No, this is no, it's kind of like when Clinton lied all through the 90s, we got stories about how little white life is actually good.
Uh spare People's uh feelings being hurt and so forth.
This is this is sort of like, well, that's what it took.
Uh good for them.
Uh they realized what it took to get it done.
And it's it's it's a story that basically, okay.
This is a bunch of people that had a problem.
It's what they had to do to solve it, and they did it, and it worked.
Not the editorial page, snerdly, not where the supposed conservatives live there.
This is in the news pages of the journal, which is where traditional you know, Democrats work.
It's no big deal.
It really isn't any big deal.
You know, folks, uh, we're gonna now have uh investigations and hearings and a bunch of hand wringing and a lot of news stories about heart attacks among coaches in the NFL.
That's right.
Right here.
ABC News.
NFL coaching culture boosts heart risk.
Well, this is so predictable.
Two veteran NFL coaches were sidelined by health scares this weekend, highlighting the occupational hazards of one of professional sports most stressful jobs.
Denver Broncos head coach John Fox, 58, said to have surgery to fix a faulty heart valve this week.
Is a heart valve faulty because of stress?
Well, they say so.
It's an ordeal that he hoped to postpone until the offseason.
Houston Texans coach Gary Kubiak, 52, is recovering after collapsing on the field during halftime last night's game against the Indianapolis Colts.
It's unclear what caused Kubiak to fall to his knees with a strained expression.
Uh it it is not unclear.
They said he did not have a heart attack.
They said he didn't have a heart attack or anything associated with the cardiovascular system.
But he did have a really, really bad headache.
He had a headache that was so bad he couldn't open his eyes.
He was wincing and grimacing and literally couldn't open his eyes.
Headache was so bad.
So from that we get the stress on heart of coaches.
It's so bad.
Um now they've got Dr. Rob uh Redford Williams, Duke University Behavioral Medicine Research Center, and other experts.
Oh, yes, this is such a stressful job.
And so you watch folks, we're gonna get hearings, investigative stories, uh, in-depth uh health recaps.
Are you gonna get stories about how stressful it is a day in the life of Coach X?
It's amazing how that happens.
So one coach needs a heart valve replacement in January.
Another coach collapses with a headache, and we've got a brand new emergency condition in the NFL, bad hearts caused by the job of coaching.
Didn't take them long to get that story up.
Here's Mark in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Oh, hello, uh Russ, thanks so much for for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Um, I'll tell you something I find very disturbing here in uh Virginia.
They've been pummeling uh the uh television airways with uh an ad McCallett has uh attacking uh Cuccianelli for suing a University of Virginia uh professor for his position on uh on uh climate change.
While in reality, anybody who knows anything about the subject knows that the professor is Michael Mann, it wasn't climate change, it was uh global warming.
And of course, you know, the the new terminology is is used to put a new spin on something where he's basically uh proven and considered by most of us greatly twisted um the truth and the facts.
But what I find really appalling is that there's no accountability for lying any longer, you know.
You you can say anything and and do anything, and there's no uh accountability.
So, you know, uh things that would once be considered slander and would result in uh uh pretty serious consequences just seems to go uh here's what's different.
Uh because Mark, how old are you?
Um 58.
58.
Well, then you're old enough to to know something.
I mean, this this kind of what you're calling uh uh lying with no accountability or slander, whatever it's it's this it's been part and parcel of politics since the beginning of the country.
It's why the First Amendment was written.
The First Amendment guaranteed free speech really is to is to all speech, but it was really with political speech in mind.
Say whatever you want, First Amendment, the government can't stop you.
The government cannot abridge your right, say what you want, and it had a political connotation to it.
The antidote for that, the antidote for lying was an informed citizenry.
That's that's how people were held accountable.
And there used to be a group called the media that would vet candidates and would tell citizens when candidates were lying about things.
That no longer exists.
The media is now part of the Democrat Party, and all they do is is every day they they impugn and criticize, mischaracterize and otherwise destroy Republican candidates, like is happening to Cucinelli.
Cuccinelli happens to be right about global warming.
He was trying to save the people of Virginia money.
It is a hoax.
There is no man-made global warming.
All the people who believe in global warming want is more taxes on people.
They want a higher tax base on everybody.
They want a carbon tax.
In fact, I've got a story in the stack here today from the UK independent.
I've got to find this.
Long, cold winter for 3 million who can't pay their energy bills.
200 people a day could die as temperatures fall and prices rise.
This is the UK independent, and what this story is about, they're years ahead of us over there.
They have implemented carbon taxes.
They have made gasoline and other forms of natural energy sky high.
They've gone in for all these windmills and solar stuff, and they can't produce enough energy anymore.
They've attacked coal, they've done everything they could over there.
They have a carbon tax, they have done everything they can to limit the use of fossil fuels.
As such, the cost of energy is skyrocketed, and there are three million Britons who cannot pay their energy bills now.
And that is what will happen here if this isn't stopped.
And Cuccinelli does not want this to happen here.
He doesn't want people to be unable to pay their electric bills because energy is gotten rid of.
He doesn't want people to not be able to pay their electric bills because their taxes have skyrocketed.
Now, the people he's suing, these people like Michael Mann, they're just in it for the money.
I mean, there's a whole industry that promotes global warming, and they hand out grants to scientists who will produce papers to prove it.
It's a scam.
And it's been proven to be a hoax from emails found at the University of East Angla, Anglia in England, but even beyond that.
Common sense tells you.
There hasn't been any warming in 16 years.
These people are not even smart enough to take credit for it.
I mean, they're out there to tell everybody global warming is going to kill you, it's going to destroy you, is it going to destroy the coastline, or hadn't been any warming.
They're not happy about it.
You'd think they'd be ecstatic.
A catastrophe is being averted.
Instead, they're panicking.
Why?
Because it's a political issue.
It's no different than Obama and the regime panicking over this Obamacare rollout.
For 25, 30 years, they have promised people it's going to get warm, it's going to get hot, the sea level is going to evaporate, it's going to be warm.
Well, sea level's going to rise, and the coastline's going to evaporate.
It's going to disappear.
Islands are going to disappear.
People are going to die.
There ain't going to be any fresh water.
All these calamities.
Well, that isn't happening.
You would think they would be happy.
No, they're they're they're panicked.
Because it's a political issue and their lie is being exposed.
And the same thing with Obamacare.
And Cuccinelli is simply trying to prevent a leftist takeover of the energy sector, which will lead to the same thing here.
Three million who can't pay their bills.
This is a, you know, Obama had an executive order.
He signed an executive order on Friday to take control over global warming because it isn't moving fast enough in uh in Congress.
But you know, you raise the price of energy, there's a consequence to it.
Life and death consequences.
People can't pay their electric bills now.
And if you raise the price of oil, heating oil, traditional ways people heat their homes.
If you if you take action under the guise of saving them, they can't pay their bills, what the hell are they going to do?
Then you have to start subsidizing them, coming up with taxes under people to pay for it, or you let them die.
So but in the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics.
That isn't happening anymore.
Now, folks, this uh story in the UK independent.
Long cold winter for three million who can't pay their energy bills.
What would Obama say about that if that were happening here?
Well, that's just a tiny percentage of the population, just like he's saying about the 15 million, and it's many more than that, who now can't get health insurance.
Well, it's just a tiny portion of the population.
Now, here's what I didn't tell you.
Because the UK independent, the leftist paper, just like everything for the most part, there is this article totally blames the energy companies for this for being greedy.
Three million people who can't pay their energy bills is the fault of British energy companies.
It isn't the leftist government there that have imposed policies on the energy companies that basically get rid of cheap energy and make them substitute expensive and less plentiful sources.
Nope, the article totally blames the energy companies, just like Obama's blaming the insurance companies here.
And the article says that the government's gonna come to the rescue, which again is so typical.
So what happens is that these leftists go out, they create their general incompetence.
They create all of these horrible massive problems, and then they come back and say, you know what?
This is so massive, it's so big, only we can fix it.
They get to break it, then they take charge and say, somebody else's fault, we get to fix it.
And I'm telling you, that's exactly what the Democrats in this country want to happen.
You telling me you got the president of the United States bragging about all this energy production while not okaying the Keystone pipeline.
Energy oil production is occurring on private land, not public.
He shut it down wherever he can.
Ken Cucinelli in Virginia is simply trying to save the people of his state money.
And he's trying to make sure that they have affordable, plentiful sources of energy.
That's all he's trying to do.
And he's trying to beat Democrats.
He's trying to, it's just it's no more complicated than that.
Which needs to happen if we're gonna save the country we've all known.
Okay, remember folks, if you ever hear Barack Obama say, if you like your gun, you get to keep your gun.
You know now not to believe it.
Have a wonderful day.
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