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Nov. 6, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 6, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Get this.
We haven't talked about this today.
Kathleen Sebelius, the incompetent, just overmatched, overwhelmed Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been up testifying today before a Senate committee on Obamacare and the botched rollout and the mess that it is.
And she has said a lot of things, and Cookie has sent me some sound bites.
And I, well, I don't know if I got the last two or not.
Let me check something real quick.
I don't think I did.
It doesn't matter.
I just want to know.
Get this, though.
She acknowledged today, Kathleen Sebelius acknowledged today that it would be possible for a convicted felon to become an Obamacare navigator.
One of the workers responsible for, quote unquote, helping people navigate the exchange and the website.
One of the workers responsible for helping people deal with the ins and outs of the healthcare law.
This is a question that she got from Senator John Cornyn.
Isn't it true that there's no federal requirement for navigators to undergo a criminal background check, even though they'll receive personal information from the individuals they helped sign up?
And Sebelius said this is true.
States could have an additional background check and other features, but it's not part of the federal requirement.
And Cornyn said, so a convicted felon could be a navigator and could acquire sensitive personal information from applicants.
Sebelius said that is possible.
No problem.
We're all on the honor system anyway, right?
So Obama and Kathleen Sebelius have no problem whatsoever making you, when you sign up for Obamacare, give your most private information to a convicted felon.
By the way, something else about the exchange.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you know that if you need to know this before you sign up, before you go to that website, because once you input your information, you cannot delete it.
And I have a story in the stack about two guys who ended up learning each other's private information when they signed up.
Let's see.
Here it is.
Frustrated and fed up, Hadley and Dougal want to make sure their personal information is removed from healthcare.gov.
There's just one problem.
You can't delete your own account.
It took a congressional hearing for Dougal to get help.
Other Americans aren't so fortunate.
Even now, after his information was supposedly removed, Dougal isn't sure who else might have accessed it.
It's on Fox News last night.
And he said, according to healthcare.gov, I'm the only person in America that this has happened to.
I find that hard to believe.
But more importantly, I don't know who else besides this guy, North Carolina, has my information.
There are just no assurances.
Health and Human Services finally admitted to me that my information was not secure.
We have seen all these stories.
The system isn't secure, so I've got no faith in that system anymore.
Folks, every new day brings horror stories about the rollout of this debacle.
Six days ago, a North Carolina guy named Justin Hadley logged on to healthcare.gov to look at his insurance options after his current provider canceled him.
And he's one of an estimated 16 million who will be canceled by the first of the year, thanks to Obamacare.
So once he was on the website, Hadley discovered a security breach that exposed the personal information of a total stranger to him.
That man was Tom Dougal of South Carolina.
Dougal had visited the website in early October to shop for insurance.
And even though he opted not to sign up, Hadley was presented with Dougal's private eligibility letter.
The incident was first reported by the foundry, which is a Heritage Foundation bunch, made national news, prompted a couple of U.S. senators to quiz a top Obama official at yesterday's congressional hearing.
And her name was Marilyn Tavener, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Anyway, these two guys ended up with each other's information.
And now one of them is wondering, well, who else got my information?
And you can't delete your own account.
And now, Sibelia says, well, sure, it's entirely possible a convicted felon could end up as a navigator.
I mean, a navigator could have whoever he deals with their personal information.
Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
States can run further background checks.
There's nothing in the federal law to prevent this.
As though, what's the big deal?
There's 22,000 pages of regulations, and they couldn't put a regulation in about background checks on Navigators.
I don't know why they didn't use the NSA to weed out criminals.
Maybe they don't want to weed out the criminals.
Hell, who knows what anyway?
I just wanted to pass that on.
Okay, here's the latest involving Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin of the Miami Dolphins.
As you know, Incognito was supposedly bullying his teammate, Jonathan Martin.
And it was sending him texts and emails insulting his race, his intelligence, his brain, and threatening to do all kinds of mean things to him.
Really, really disgusting things he was threatening to do.
And after a while, they made him pay 15 grand for a vacation to Vegas for the offensive lineman.
It went on for over a year, and finally, the guy had enough, and he complained and he quit, left the team, went to join his family in California.
The league and everybody, the media thought, wow, this is horrible.
My God, bullying in the NFL.
Oh, no, we can't have this.
This is a horrible.
Oh, geez.
Next thing you know, people are going to be bleeding in this league, and we can't have that.
Oh, no.
So they demanded investigation.
And it turns out now, the latest is That Incognito, who has been suspended indefinitely, may have been asked by the coaching staff to do this to toughen up the player, Jonathan Martin.
Now, Richie Incognito is on the players leadership committee in the locker room, meaning he's one of six players that meets with the head coach to discuss grievances that the team has with the head coach and to basically communicate what the team is thinking to the head coach.
Take what the head coach says back to the rest of the team.
He's on that leadership council.
And the latest report is that some of the coaches, we don't know which coach or coaches, told Incognito to toughen this guy up.
He's one of our offensive linemen.
He's right next to you on the line.
Toughen the guy up.
Nobody is saying that they specifically told Incognito to say the things he said.
They just said toughen the guy up.
Incognito was caught in his gated community yesterday in his Ferrari, heading out to the gas station to gas it up.
I didn't know Incognito could fit in a Ferrari, but apparently he can.
He's huge.
Have you seen this guy?
He's huge for a guard.
All offensive linemen are huge.
He's huge for a guard.
And he said, no comment, this will pass.
I'm not going to talk about it right now.
Thank you very much for asking, but I've got nothing to say.
Now, there are different sources here.
One is the Miami Herald.
The other one is in Fort Lauderdale at Sun Sentinel.
They say that Incognito was asked by Miami's coaching staff to talk to Martin and bring him into the fold.
And those same sources are not alleging the coaches condoned or ordered the abuse from Incognito.
After all, asking a veteran to try and motivate a younger player is not unusual, but Incognito's approach to motivation crossed the line, if it indeed happened.
They've got the texts and tapes of the phone calls.
But it will add a new wrinkle if the coaching staff has linkage to this in any way.
I just want to urge everybody involved, whatever you do in this situation, do not, whatever you do, start talking about rats during any of this.
And we're back, and we head to the phones deck to Hamilton, Georgia.
Hi, Mark.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
I listen to you a lot.
Sometimes I agree, sometimes I don't.
I'd like to preference.
I hope we can have a discussion.
I am not a Republican.
I am not a Democrat.
I am not a liberal.
I'm not a conservative.
I feel as though I'm a human being on planet Earth.
Are you a moderate, independent?
I no longer believe in our political system.
I think the entire system has become corrupted with something called lobbyism, which in my view is a politically correct name for legalized government bribery.
There's a new name for it called corporatism, and a lot of people would agree with you.
Yes, and I think our entire system has become so corrupted that it doesn't matter whether I vote for a Democrat or Republican because they're all going to do the same thing.
Well, you know, there are a lot of people that believe.
In fact, I was watching this on TV the other night.
Red Reddington On the blacklist, he was sitting in front of the White House and he was telling an FBI agent, doesn't matter who lives there.
Who lives there has no effect on what happens in the world.
This world is run by powerful people and corporations and terrorists and criminals and thugs, and they're the ones running the show, and whoever's in there doesn't matter.
Red Reddington said that.
It may be something like that that you agree with.
Well, in some degree, I have to look at the truth of the matter is that no matter who you are, even independent or, I mean, no one is voting for independents or libertarians because they don't believe they can win.
But even to get on the ballot and even to have your name recognized in any form, shape, or manner, you have to get money.
And this means that you have to, yes, corporatism is something that you just mentioned.
I agree.
But there's, I have six issues, and I know we can't talk about them all, but I believe that one of the problems facing our country concerning the debt is all these pensions that we pay out.
Be it military pensions or government job pensions.
If you work for the government in this country, you sign up and you work for 15 to 20 years, you get a pension for life.
Now, nobody in the private sector gets that.
Well, you know, that's not just true.
The federal government, that's all the way down to town councils.
That's little towns.
Fireman, a police officer, 15 years retire, you get a percentage of your salary for the rest of your life.
You know, and, you know, I can't complain because my father was 20 years military, and then he was 20 years civil service, and he gets two pensions now.
So, you know, I'm not one to complain, but still, I have to look at that problem.
And I think that our government at least needs to start addressing that problem and at least saying, okay, in the future, we're going to have to curtail these pensions.
We can't keep giving out all these pensions because this is absolutely not sustainable.
Financially, it's not sustainable.
Maybe it would be.
Well, you know, one of the problems here, Mark, is that, I mean, you're right.
There's a lot of people.
You are basically sounding like somebody in the Tea Party.
They're upset at the debt.
They're upset at the irresponsibility of all this.
They're upset that the power structure, what's called the ruling class of Washington, is taking care of themselves at the expense of everybody else.
And both parties do it.
A lot of people believe it.
And the Republican Party is thought to be people that don't believe in this.
They believe in responsible fiscal behavior.
They don't believe in racking up big debt, but they don't fight back against any of this.
You know, I believe in responsibility myself also, completely.
That's great.
I do not believe in abortion.
I believe abortion is wrong.
I think people should take more responsibility before they get themselves pregnant.
I mean, there's a lot of things that I completely agree with you on.
There are certain things I don't.
I think that nuclear radioactive waste is very bad for our planet, as witnessed by Fukushima Dayachi, Japan now.
Also in Washington state, we have tanks.
Don't tell me.
Don't tell me you're in favor of these newfangled light bulbs then.
Don't tell me that.
Don't tell me that.
Have you heard about the LED light bulbs?
I think Phillips got the comments.
I've got them in my iPad, I think.
Yeah, LED light is becoming replaced by this LED stuff.
So, yes, yes, I do believe that it's a light-emitting diode for those of you who don't know what an LED is.
And the more LEDs you got, the more light-emitting diodes, the more battery power it takes, the more coal you have to burn.
What is it?
Liquid electronic display.
I think that's what it means.
Which was, it used to be liquid crystal display, but liquid crystal uses up a lot more energy than liquid electric display.
But anyway, yeah, you know.
I can't stand by as a human being and say that nuclear radioactive waste is a good thing.
It's not.
It's a terrible thing.
And I think that we do need to start looking.
And I know you disagree.
Well, I mean, a lot of people look at the, it sounds like in that sense, in that sense, Mark, the Democrat Party is your party because they want to take us back way in the past to windmills.
And I mean, that's as old-fashioned as you can get.
Windmills, they're the ones that want to get rid of incandescent light bulbs and replace them with bulbs that have mercury in there that can kill you or poison you badly if they break.
But the Democrats are the ones that are really anti-nuclear and anti-progress.
They're the ones that believe in global warming and that man's destroying the planet.
And you say you're just a citizen of planet Earth, not a Republican or Democrat.
But the Democrat Party sounds like the Democrat Party is for you.
Because, you know, these people are ancient.
I mean, they're opposed to progress.
Any progress they consider to be a major problem and they start ripping into it.
So I can see how you're conflicted with all this.
But I appreciate the call.
I really do.
More and more people.
Folks, in all candor now, what he said at the beginning here, he called it lobbyism.
But this, and I said what it really is, is corporatism, or actually crony capitalism would be another term for it.
That is as big a problem as any that we face outside of socialism, communism.
And some people think that there's no difference in the two right now.
I mean, some people would tell you that we really don't have socialism because the left is not desirous of owning the means of production.
They just want to steal everything that is produced.
And the way they do it, the way they steal everything that's produced, every dollar of income, they take it.
They want it.
Every product, they want to tax it to the point they get all the money.
And they do this by aligning themselves with whoever is in power.
And there is a lot of corporate cronyism or crony capitalism going on with Obama.
He co-opted the hospital.
He co-opted the insurance companies.
He got them to essentially support their own destruction by promising them spoils, promising them money and customers because they were going to be close to him.
They supported him.
And so they abandoned their normal flow of self-interest and they abandoned any pretense of free markets and they just gave it up and they totally aligned themselves with who was in power because who was in power was going to take care of them if they supported what Obama wanted.
It's much easier, like GE, which is making money hand over fist.
But Obama decided to give them grants of billions of dollars to explore some avenue of green energy.
And Jeff Immelt, the CEO, ends up on Obama's Jobs Council for crying out loud.
GE ends up not paying any taxes.
And so that's an example of crony capitalism.
Obama and The wind bunch or solar bunch was Solyndra and so forth.
These people just gave up making it in the free market and accepted the spoils of being close to power in the White House.
And that is a major problem here.
How about this mayor of Toronto?
You seen this guy?
He looks like Goldfinger.
And he said, Yeah, yeah, I smoke crock cocaine.
It happened in one of my drunken stupors.
And no, I'm not resigning.
You're a bunch of rats.
No, he didn't say the rats thing.
If he had, he'd be finished by now.
But he said he's not quitting.
They've harassed the guy.
Yeah, right, all right, all right.
I probably smoked crack cocaine in a drunken stupor.
I didn't even know I was doing it, but I'm not going to do it again.
I'm not quitting.
And apparently, this guy's got a huge base of support in Toronto.
And the media, the U.S. media is trying to get rid of the guy.
Canadian media, I saw some Canadian info, babe.
Well, I don't know.
You know, he's Mr. Ford and he's got a lot of base of support.
And I didn't detect any particular desire on the part of Canadian media to get rid of the guy.
I've only seen one reporter at, though.
So I, but I mean, CNN can't let go of it.
I mean, they just, they want this guy gone.
It's just, it's a, it's, it's amazing.
We're back to this now.
This is this UK Daily Mail headline.
Could eating blueberries add years to your life?
A daily bowl could protect against obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.
They're trying to create the latest food-fed blueberries.
Regular consumption of blueberries can improve or prevent metabolic syndrome.
This is the medical term for a combination of diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity.
Berries are rich in polyphenols, antioxidants that protect cells in the heart and keep lower blood pressure.
This is just the latest.
I mentioned yesterday that I've got this story here.
13 nutrition lies that have made the world sick and fat.
You want to know what they are?
Number one, eggs are bad for these are lies.
These are myths.
These are things that are not true.
Scientifically, medically, biologically proven to be not true.
Eggs are bad for your health.
They're not bad for you.
A calorie is a calorie.
People, it doesn't matter if you hip 2,500 calories a day, it's all candy bars.
It's fine.
No big deal.
That's not true.
Protein and carbohydrate calories are entirely different in what they mean to the body, how they're metabolized.
Saturated fat is unhealthy.
No, it's not.
You know, everybody's on this.
What is the kick?
What is the thing you can't have now?
Trans fats.
Trans fats are bad.
No, they're not.
It's another myth.
And it's all explained here.
This prints out six pages.
I'm not reading it all.
Eating a lot of protein is bad for your health.
No, it isn't.
It's one of the best things that you can do.
But people have been led to believe that eating a lot of protein promotes weakness in their bones.
Stupid.
Everybody should be eating heart-healthy whole wheat.
Another myth.
And they're all over.
Coffee is bad for you.
No, it's not.
Coffee has a rotten reputation, But it promotes, actually it reduces risk of some serious diseases.
Coffee drinkers have 67% lower risk for type 2 diabetes.
67%.
That is huge.
Another myth, meat is bad for you.
No, it's not.
You know, the environmentalist wackos and the animal rights people say, look at the human mouth.
Human teeth aren't meant to eat meat.
We're not carnivores.
We're supposed to eat berries and twigs and stuff on the ground and leaves and vegetables.
And it's a crock.
Meat is not bad for you.
It doesn't hurt you.
The healthiest diet is a low-fat, high-carb diet.
No, it's not.
In fact, the bottom line is the low-fat, high-carb diet recommended by mainstream nutrition organizations is a miserable failure.
Has been repeatedly proven to be ineffective.
Refined seed and vegetable oils are healthy.
Not necessarily.
Coconut oil is supposedly bad for you.
It isn't.
It's one of the healthiest oils out there.
Low carb diets are ineffective and dot rine harmful.
Wrong.
Bottom line, low-carb diets are the easiest, healthiest, most effective way to lose weight and reverse metabolic disease.
Pretty much a scientific fact.
And yet, look at how they tried to destroy the Atkins diet, which is what that is.
And everybody should be cutting back on sodium.
No, sodium does not lead to all this high blood pressure stuff.
These are myths that everybody believes.
They've been told for years.
And a bunch of people have documented are not true.
Now, this blueberry business, I have this, this is anecdotal.
But I met a guy once, and he was a blueberry fanatic.
All he did was eat blueberries.
He said, well, he ate more than that, but I mean, every meal, blueberries, everything started with at least two cups of blueberries.
Antioxidants is the healthiest thing you could do.
The guy committed suicide six weeks after I got to know him.
No, no, no.
I'm not saying the blueberries did it.
I'm just saying all these fads that people get involved in, and blueberries are probably going to be the latest health fad now.
Maybe recover as antioxidants and something to improve metabolism and so forth.
As though there's some magic thing out there that can ward off all diseases.
And every six months, somebody finds it, and then it becomes peanuts, then it becomes oat bran, and it becomes blueberries or what have you.
And the bottom line is we're all going to die.
And we all only have one life and enjoy it.
However you do.
Some people think there's virtue in going through a life of denial, a life of suffering.
But somehow there's a payoff for that later on.
You go through life suffering.
I knew a guy once.
I knew a guy who, I mean, this guy let everybody in the world walk all over him.
Everybody mocked him, made fun of him, laughed at him, ridiculed him, all this stuff.
He dressed weird.
He almost encouraged it.
And it turns out he believed, blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
He thought this was his ticket to heaven.
He thought God loved him more than anybody because he was walked on, made fun of, mocked because he thought he was the meek.
didn't realize that when blessed are the meek, for they inherit the earth.
The meek did not mean the invisible, the weak, the malleable, the what have you.
Anyway, it's silly.
You know, enjoy your life.
You like steak, eat it now and then.
They eat it every day, but if you like this stuff, eat it.
It's the libs who are trying to deny all this.
It's the libs are trying to make everybody think that everything in life is miserable.
I got to take a break.
Sit tight.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Here's Simon San Diego.
Simon, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Happy to have you here.
Hi.
Thank you, sir.
Glad to speak to you.
Just I got a question for you.
With the Republican Party doesn't seem to really be supporting the Tea Party at all.
Are they, in fact, creating an environment for a third party by kind of like turning their back on the Tea Party?
Well, I don't, in terms of desire, do you mean you think, are you asking if I think the Republicans are actually trying to drive the Tea Party away and force it?
No, I think, I mean, I think in the Republicans' view, they're like letting them know, hey, you do it our way, or, you know, you don't get anything.
And I'm just warning, are they in fact?
Well, okay, so they're already looking at them as a third party, then you mean forcing them into a third party by not allowing them to come to the table, not supporting them.
In a sense, I'm not saying it's their intent to create a third party.
No, but it is their intent to change.
I think it is their intent to change their base.
I think they don't like the conservative or wanting to Tea Party, the pro-life base.
I think if they could change that, they would do it on a dime.
And I think that's one of the things that they're trying to do.
If you look at, if you look, I think this is one of the great illustrations.
And one of the reasons why the Republican Party is having orgasms over Christie is that he beat the Democrat candidate in the Hispanic vote.
Kid you not.
He beat this buono Democrat babe 5145 in the Hispanic vote.
And I'm telling you, that is orgasm city in the Republican establishment.
So here you have on the Tea Party, you got Ted Cruz, and what does he do?
Ted Cruz takes the fight to the left.
Ted Cruz takes the fight to the Democrats.
What is the Republican Party doing?
The Republican Party is taking the fight to the Tea Party because they think the Tea Party is preventing the Republican Party from reaching out to Hispanics and women and all that.
So this could end up being pretty epic, Cruz versus Christie, if it ever materializes.
It's going to be a huge contrast because the Republican Party right now would kill, figuratively, if they could get the Hispanic vote, if they could just tie the Democrats in the Hispanic vote.
I don't know what it is about that particular segment, but I'm telling you that's why they're just falling all over themselves with Christie.
That and he has nothing to do with the Tea Party.
As my friend Vince Flynn always said, keep the faith, folks.
Keep the faith.
And we will be back tomorrow.
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