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Nov. 8, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 8, 2013, Friday, Hour #2
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Look at that.
Even Fox is getting this wrong.
Fox is reporting that Obama said that he's sorry people are losing their plans.
He did not say he's sorry people are losing their plans.
He did not say that.
He said he's sorry that you feel the way you feel over having lost your plans.
He's sorry that you believed him.
He's sorry that you misunderstood him.
It's the EIB network and it's crime.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
EIB Network, 800-282-2882 Open Line Friday.
Phone calls coming up soon.
I rarely do this, but I want to make an appeal.
I want to make an appeal to Media Matters, a Daily Cause, Democrat Underground, organizing for America of Think Progress.
The pointer is every one of you left-wing websites and you have your monitors out there and you listen to this program each and every day and you live and breathe for those things that you can take out of context and post about me and then have your buddies in the mainstream media run with it and create all kinds of controversy and angst.
I am making an appeal.
I am going to say something I want you to repeat.
Media Matters, Think Progress, Americans of Democratic Action, Students for a Democrat Society, the Black Panthers, the new Black Panthers, all of you.
I don't know who am I leaving out?
Is it a Daily Cause, Democrat Underground?
I don't want to leave anybody out.
I want to say something, and I'm begging you to quote me.
Americans had to lose their health care plans in order for Obamacare to work.
There was never any intention for anybody to keep their current plan.
The only way Obamacare could work, as designed by Obama and the Democrats, is precisely because people would lose their plans.
It had to happen that way.
The only way Obamacare could work, the only way Obama could reform the healthcare system the way he wants to reform it is precisely if everybody lost their plan.
There was never, ever any intention that you keep your plan, whether you liked it or not.
You were lied to blatantly, strategically, tactically, and purposefully.
The President of the United States knew that the only way to sell you on his reform was to lie about it, and that was to put you off guard and to relax any tension that you might use to oppose it by telling you that if you like yours, you can keep it.
No big deal.
Nothing's going to happen to you.
Which tells us that the vast majority of the American people liked their plans and didn't want anything to change.
And that's why all hell's breaking loose now.
But the simple fact is that for Obamacare to become what he wants it to become, you were never going to keep your plan.
You were never going to be allowed to keep your plan.
It had to happen this way.
Barack Obama cannot get, by the way, this term single payer, that does not properly describe what it really is.
In fact, describing what Obama wants, what the Democrats want as single payer might actually be a disservice because it sounds really clean.
Sounds really single payer.
You go to the doctor and one agency pays for it.
No insurance company, no middlemen, no forms, no.
You go to the doctor and you submit it to the government.
Single payer.
That's not what it is.
Single payer is no more than communism.
Maybe socialism, communism, the government owns the means of production, and they're not going to do that, but they will own the behavior of the hospitals, and they will own the behavior of the doctors by virtue of how they are paid.
But this is pure collectivism.
It is total government control over every aspect of your life.
That's what single payer is.
It's not convenient.
It's not an improvement.
It is an overwhelming loss of individual liberty and freedom.
And I just say one more time.
You had to lose your plan for Obama to get what he wants.
There was no way if Obama succeeds in reforming health care in his vision that you get to keep your plan.
He was lying to you from the first time he ever told you you could keep your plan.
Because if everybody kept their plans, there would be no Obamacare reform.
And there would be no government control of the health care system.
And there would be no single payer.
And there would be no Obama in charge of everything.
So you were never, ever going to keep your plan.
It was not possible.
That's the scope of this lie.
Nobody was going to keep their plan.
Everybody has to lose what they have and be moved to something else.
Otherwise, there is no Obamacare.
Obamacare is not the status quo.
Obamacare is not no change.
Obamacare is not, you like your doctor, you keep it.
Obamacare is not, you like your policy, you keep it.
Obamacare is not, your premium will go down $2,500.
Obamacare is, by requirement, you lose your policy.
Obamacare is, by requirement and by law, you don't get to keep your doctor.
Obamacare is, by law, going to be far more expensive for everybody.
It must be this way.
It cannot happen.
Obamacare cannot happen if you keep your policy, if you keep your doctor.
Obamacare cannot happen if your premium and your deductible and your out-of-pocket are less than what you're paying now.
It simply isn't possible and it never was possible.
So You never were going to keep your plan.
The only way Obamacare works is if everybody or the vast majority lose their plans and are then mandated and required by law, under penalty of law, of finding another plan.
And the purpose, the intent is to make it so expensive and so arduous and so complex and so impossible to comply with that you eventually throw up your hands in frustration and beg for the government to get all these middle-level players out of there and just take over.
The ultimate plan is to have you demanding single payer.
The original intent was to get rid of private sector insurance companies, just wipe out the entire private sector insurance industry, making it impossible for anybody to find insurance anywhere but a government exchange.
This has been the plan from the get-go.
And you keeping your plan will not get Obama where he wants to go.
You had to lose your plan.
There was no other way.
You had to lose your doctor.
And your replacement plan and doctor must, in order for Obamacare, as he wants it to look like, succeed, your replacement policy and doctor must be more expensive.
Your deductible must be higher.
Your copay must be higher.
Your premium must be higher.
Everything.
Your pharmaceutical bill must go up.
Everything must go up in price in order for Obamacare to succeed.
It also requires a website that works.
And they seem to still be having trouble with that.
But I'm not exaggerating.
That's why I want all you left-wing websites.
Quote me accurately here as you spread around what I'm saying here today.
One more time.
Slowly, confidently, so that there is no misunderstanding.
There was never any chance that you could keep your policy and doctor if you liked them.
There was no way for that to happen.
If Obamacare was to become reality, you have to lose your policy.
You have to be thrown out of your current arrangement.
You have to lose your choice of doctor.
Your premiums, your deductibles, your copay, your out-of-pocket must go up.
It must happen this way for Obamacare to happen as he wants it to.
So you were never, ever going to keep your plan.
That is the scope And the breadth and the depth of this lie.
So, despite Obama's crocodile tears about people losing their insurance, truth of the matter is that Obama is happy as a clam, that all of these people are having their insurance canceled.
It's right on schedule.
It's exactly as designed.
It's happening exactly as intended.
You have no choice.
And that is Obamacare.
You have no choice.
And folks, I just want to say one more thing.
If Obama really cared, you know what I mean?
If his apology was really because he lied to you about you keeping your plan, if he really cared about that, then he would change the law with an executive order so that you could keep your plan.
If a bunch of people have been in there screwing around with his healthcare system and his website and he didn't know it, I mean, what was it he said?
He said he's been, I've been burned already with a website.
If there have been these powerful, invisible forces in there monkeying around with his healthcare and telling people they can't keep their plans, and if he's really mad about that, he could just get rid of that.
I mean, he cares for illegals this way, and he cares about gays, and he does executive orders to help them.
And he waived a bunch of Obamacare extensions for his union buddies, and he made sure that members of Congress and their staff got their subsidies.
I mean, when he really cares about something, he goes around, and whether the Constitution allows it or not, he changes it.
If he's really upset, if he's really sorry, if he's really mad that you can't keep your plan white, he'd go on TV.
Instead of apologizing for what you heard, he'd go on TV and tell everybody how mad he was.
And he'd go on TV and say, I never intended this.
Obamacare was never intended to force you out of your policy.
Obamacare was never intended to distance you from your doctor.
That's not what I had in mind.
And I'm going to get to the bottom of this.
And I'm going to find out why this is happening.
And I promise you, by the end of the week, if you like your doctor and you like your plan, you're going to be able to keep him.
That's what he would do if he's really sorry.
If he really didn't intend any of this to be happening, if all of this is being done by a bunch of gremlins in there that are trying to humiliate him or embarrass him or make him look bad, he wouldn't have gone on NBC and apologized for what you heard.
He wouldn't apologize for the way you misunderstood and the way you feel.
He would be livid.
I never intended people lose their insurance policy.
I never intended people lose a plan that they liked.
I told them for three years they could keep it.
And I'm going to get to the bottom of it.
And if you liked your plan, you can keep it.
He didn't do that at all.
Nothing's changing.
You've lost your plan, tough toenails.
You are out of luck.
You lost your doctor, tough toenails.
Your premium's going up.
Too bad.
Sorry, you misunderstood me.
Everything that's happening is by design.
The only way he can get where he wants is if you lose your plan.
And if you lose your doctor, and if the replacements cost you a whole lot more money.
That's what success is to Barack Hussein Obama.
Mm-mm-mm.
And now to the phones as we kick it off at Open Line Friday with Bob in Selkirk, New York.
Bob, I'm really glad that you waited.
I appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
I wanted to see if you had noticed when Obama came out regarding Fast and Furious IRS, Benghazi healthcare website.
He didn't know anything about it, couldn't be expected to know anything about it, at least by the media and their supporters.
But that coach Philip and Adolphus is supposed to know everything about Richie Cognito's texts, his emails, his private conversations, and all his tweets.
I must admit, ladies and gentlemen, it's a good point.
Obama, the president of the United States.
I didn't know about that.
Benghazi, I thought that was a video.
Anti-Muslim video.
It's amazing.
The entire Limbaugh theorem is.
He doesn't know what's going on, but whatever is going on makes him mad.
And he's going to do everything he can to stop it.
What do you mean people can't find work?
I've had how many jobs councils?
What do you mean they can't find jobs?
That's not what I want.
I'm going to work harder than I ever have to create jobs.
Fast and Furious?
What?
Guns and mics?
I don't know about that.
Who did that?
Who made that happen?
Bush?
Benghazi, Four Americans.
I don't know anything about that.
Talk to Hillary Clinton.
She doesn't know anything about that.
Well, talk to the ambassador.
Oh, he's dead.
Well, I don't know what happened.
And you get to the Miami Dolphins, the Richie Incognito, and the coach and everybody better know damn well everything what went on, or they're out.
It's true, there's no, there's no.
I mean the the, and we got a call.
I'll bounce off of a call coming up that will get to some of this.
But first folks, a change of direction.
We have a 10 year old from Lincoln Nebraska, who has been listening to the audio version of Rush, Revere And The Great Pilgrims, and it's Kevin.
And Kevin, I'm glad you waited too it's.
It's great to have you on the program today.
Hi hi hi, um hi.
Oh, my gosh, I can't believe I'm talking to you.
I love your, I love it, I love, I love your book so bad.
My mom got it for me and I listened to it straight.
I just really wanted to know if you're making another one.
Um yes, at some point I hope to be able to tell you that we're going to do another one, but but I can't do that yet and I don't want to give anybody a false impression.
But we hope so Kevin, because you know so many people like you are really enjoying this.
I we're getting mail from people just like you, emails for, for the horse, Liberty and some of the some of the other characters, and it is just great.
I can't.
I mean Kevin, I am so happy that your mom got this for you and that She got you the audio version.
That's what you've been listening to.
Yeah, but yeah.
Have you heard the whole thing?
Yes, I went through it straight.
Well, that's incredible because that's four and a half hours.
See, and he already wants more.
Already wants enough.
Kevin, I'll tell you what, I want you to hang on because I want Mr. Snerdley, if your mother will let you, I want to send you an autographed copy of the hardcover book so that when you're able to read it, you'll be able to and you'll have a signed copy.
And I'll also send you a signed copy of the audio version so you can have that too.
Because it's just, you are, you're melting my heart here, Kevin, when you call here and tell me how much you like my work.
I can't tell you how much that means to me.
So please don't hang up.
And Mr. Snerdley will be right here on the phone with you.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mount Rush Revere and the brave pilgrims' time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
I really would urge you to visit our 2ifbytea.com website, T-W-O-IfByT.com, and just click on the Rush Revere pane there, and it'll take you to everything about the book.
And you'll find the neighborhood.
You'll find where Rush Revere and Liberty and everybody live, and everything that they do is there.
And there's a big yellow mailbox that you can click on, and that'll create an email form that's addressed to Rush Revere.
Liberty gets it.
Liberty is the travel coordinator, by the way, for 2ifbytea.com since you can time travel.
And we try to answer every one of them.
We got a spend hours sharing some of this email with you.
Here's an example from this week.
Dear Rush, my seven-year-old son asked me to read your book to him for the third night in a row.
Reading has always been a battle before now.
Several times I stopped because I thought he'd fallen asleep and he pulled his head back up and said, Why did you stop?
And we got another cute one.
An 11-year-old wrote into Mr. Revere, an 11-year-old named Aiden, and asked if Rush Revere could have me give a shout out to his father, Mark G. Said it would just make his dad's world if I could give a shout out to Mark G.
And so, Aiden, I wanted you to know that Revere got hold of me, and I'm shouting out now to Mark G. I'll tell you, it's just, folks, everything about this that I hoped would happen is happening.
Taking the values that we believe in on this program, the love of country, the patriotism, to a whole new age group, the mission, and that's what there is attached to this.
This is not just to do a book, to do a book, because I've done that.
It actually has a mission and a purpose, and to expand, as they say inside baseball, the demo.
But it really is to take the truth to young people who may be hearing things that aren't true about American history and the founding of the country.
And to find out so many of these kids like this book and their parents do is just, I can't tell you what a great feeling it is.
And I want to remind you this: you know, we're coming up on the birthday of the Marine Corps, and I just love the Marine Corps, the entire U.S. military, but we do want to say happy birthday to the Marine Corps.
We are sponsors of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, which is a tremendous organization.
And one of our objectives is to raise awareness to what they do.
And we have a section of every bottle of 2F by T dedicated to MCLF, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Your purchases of 2F by T over the years have been extremely helpful and are sincerely appreciated.
Now, Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation raises money to provide college scholarships to the children of Marines killed in action.
And in big events like 9-11 or the Oklahoma City bombing, they try to expand to other branches of the service, not just the Marine Corps.
And it's almost a direct pass-through.
I mean, it's almost every dime donated gets distributed.
It's not like some charities where there's a 20 or 30% overhead, and nobody's making a living off of MCLF.
It is really, it's a pass-through, and it's run by former Marines who have all been touched in one way or another by their military service.
So we're happy to be associated with that.
This has just been a wonderful thing.
And finally, we learned yesterday, you know, we're number one on the New York Times list, the children's list for November the 17th.
But we also learned Amazon has this list of the top-selling books of the year.
And after essentially a week and a half, we are at number 14.
A children's book, which is actually not just a children's book, as this, as the fan mail we're getting suggests, that parents are reading.
It's exactly what was intended.
Parents would read the book to their kids, share the experience.
Grandparents would do the same thing with their kids, grandkids.
In just a week and a half, this book is already the 14th best-selling book for the year on Amazon.
That's just mind-boggling for us.
We are so appreciative.
We're so grateful and thankful for you making that happen.
I can't describe it.
I can't describe how it feels.
And this last caller, this is Kevin who liked the audio version.
We're working on doing something.
I can't announce this yet, but somebody here had a great idea to air a little bit of it on a particular broadcast day.
Not all of it, of course, but it is a body of work I am really proud of.
The audio version of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is about a four and a half hour listen if you start, if you take it from start to finish.
And did it over, I think, four or five days, and then a couple of days after that for pickups and little pronunciation fixes and that kind of thing.
But we've found that in the actual brick and mortar bookstores, whereas the display for Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, the book is in many places, great side the front door, the audio section of the story is way off in one of the farthest corners you can get.
And you have to ask, unless you're a veteran of these bookstores and nowhere to go.
But that is something, too, that we're just ecstatically proud of as well.
And it's doing remarkably well, too, on the sales side.
So we're just really gratified, folks.
We cannot express our gratitude and thanks enough.
Here's Joanne, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Great to have you.
EIB Network, hello.
Hi, Rush.
Before I start with my comment, I have read the book.
I got it last Friday, read it all day Saturday, enjoyed it immensely.
I love American history, and you did an excellent job.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that more than you know.
Well, I'm just really disappointed with the results in Virginia this past week.
Seems people decided to vote with their sexual organs instead of their brains.
We had one particular candidate who's a man of integrity and honor and honesty who was promoting getting our coal industry back together because the people in Southwest Virginia are starving.
We have failing schools in Virginia.
He was promoting school choice.
He didn't want to see Obamacare expanded.
And these people don't understand what's going to happen to this state.
We're going to turn into a little D.C.
And it's just, it's sad.
It's very sad.
Well, let me tell you something about this.
Because really what you're saying is, if I understand, I don't want to put words in your mouth, so you tell me if I'm understanding you correctly.
On the one hand, you had a candidate who you think was a man of honor and character and integrity.
And on the other side, you had a low-rent placeholder promising people all the sex without consequences they wanted and all the goodies and freebies they could get without any consequence.
And the guy with honor and integrity and character lost.
And you're beside yourself.
Yeah, well, the two gentlemen with honor and integrity, E.W. Jackson and Ken Cuccinelli.
Right.
So two of them.
And we don't know about Mark Open Shane yet because they're doing a recount.
But it just really made me very sad.
You hear you had people wanting to promote our economy and get people back to work and school choice because our schools are a mess.
Well, if you look at the exit polls, there's something else.
I'm going to get a little trouble for this strain of analysis.
But you look at Cuccinelli, Cuccinelli beat McAuliffe in what I call the this is where I'm going to get in trouble.
I can't think of another word for it, so I'll just in the wholesome category.
Married people, people at work, people who are self-reliant and all that.
He won them in droves.
McAuliffe cleaned up in unmarried and single women.
I mean, three to one, 67 to 27, 23 percent.
And how did he do it?
He's promising them everything.
Contraception, abortion, but he's promising them more than that.
He's promising them everything a family would provide them.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And it's just, I don't know how we're going to bring the moral standards back of this country.
And until we do, we're just going to have these problems.
And it just, you know, it's sad.
Let me ask you, you're a resident of Virginia.
And I'm going to ask you this.
I'm asking you seriously now.
I mean, I probably would have my own answer.
But it goes to another theory I'm getting at.
You look at Cuccinelli and you look at McAuliffe, because I had a guy say to me the other day, Rush, what you don't understand was Obama could tell every lie in the world he wanted, and Mitt Romney never had a chance because Obama's likable.
He has a charismatic, infectious personality, and Romney looks like a statue.
And it doesn't matter.
Virtue, character, morality, issues don't matter.
The more likable guy, the more charismatic guy, the more the guy makes you look like you want to go have a beer chase women with it, that's the guy who's going to win.
Now, does that hold up in Cuccinelli versus McAuliffe?
You know, for myself personally, and that's all like, oh, I can answer for it.
No, it doesn't.
I did some, you know, I know Ken Cuccinelli personally because I worked very closely with the campaign for E.W. Jackson.
So I've met the man.
I've talked to the man.
McAuliffe never held any kind of office, and I just look at him as a snake oil salesman, a shyster.
And I didn't find him likable.
I found him a liar.
I found him preying on people's fears.
All right.
He's a bag man.
He's a Clinton bagman.
I mean, he's a place.
He's in there to run that state the way that Clintons or whoever tell him how to run it.
Because he's not.
You're right.
So, but to an unmarried single mother, a guy like McAuliffe may be exactly what she's looking for.
That's quite possible.
I mean, I was single for 14 years.
I never had any children, but even in my brokest times, I never looked to the government for any help.
I always took care of myself or family and friends helped me.
The last thing that woman wants to hear is take care of yourself.
I know.
That's scary.
That's not.
She's owed a living because life has dealt her so much unkindness.
They saddled her with a kid.
She's a single mother.
Probably the husband walked out on her or she kicked him out.
Something happened, but she's owed something in her mind.
And here comes McAuliffe identifying with her.
McAuliffe said, Look, if you want to be a receptacle for male semen and not pay a price, I'm your guy.
I guess.
It just, I just find it, I just find it a very sad thing because two years from now, the state of Virginia is going to be in such bad shape and people are going to be going, what happened?
And I'm just going to be able to sort of look at him.
Who'd you vote for?
Well, you know, you brought it up.
We haven't even talked about the partisanship.
I mean, you've got Northern Virginia, which is D.C.
Oh, I know.
And they should, I'm telling you, I think the wholesome part of Virginia would be more than happy to let Washington, D.C. annex Northern Virginia.
The reason I've spent some time with you, because it does get down.
I mean, this guy telling me that Romney never had a chance, Russia, it doesn't matter.
Benghazi, Romney could have made a big deal about it and scored all the points in the world.
He was never going to beat Obama.
Obama had just convinced too many people that he was their answer to whatever their problems in life were.
And he's a likable guy.
And look what they did to Romney.
He hates his dog, puts him on the roof of the car.
Romney never had a prayer, no matter how nice, no matter how solid, no matter how moral, no matter how charitable, Romney never had a chance because he just compared to Obama wasn't likable.
And it didn't even come down to policy.
It didn't even come down to character or any of that.
Now, if all of that's true, then a lot of people are going to be flummoxed.
So who's the answer in that circumstance?
Christy?
Is it Ted Cruz?
Is it Rand Paul?
You name it.
I don't know who the potential GOP candidates are.
But it's a frustrating thing for people who take citizenship seriously.
I know exactly where you're coming from.
Got to be back after this.
Say, folks, I want to take a brief moment here for some personal congratulations to a great guy, great man, a sometimes guest host on this program, the inimitable Paul W. Smith from WJR in Detroit, is at this moment on his way to Chicago to be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.
And he is so thrilled.
He's so excited.
He is the voice of the Great Lakes on the great WJR.
And he's going to be there for quite a while longer.
And he's had an, I wanted to make a video to welcome him into the Hall of Fame and congratulate him, but the organizers are afraid that if they allow people to send videos, that nobody will go ultimately to the ceremonies, which I understand.
So I wanted to take the time here to congratulate Paul on his induction.
This is the Hall of Fame.
If you recall, it was, I don't know, had to be 1995.
I forget the exact year, but and this show you how naive, folks, I mean, I'm at the radio show for 87 years, and I'm being inducted, and they tell me that Sally Jesse Raphael wants to introduce you.
My first, well, that's strange.
But, I mean, it's the Hall of Fame.
Who am I to say I refuse?
Okay, that's fine.
I said, are you sure?
Oh, she's tall.
Oh, yeah.
Happy as hell.
And then when it comes time, she stands up and objects to my being inducted because I call women like her femmezi.
She couldn't even get the word right.
But we had fun when we got her back on our TV show.
We found plenty of pictures of her without makeup.
And we put them on the TV show.
Well, you know, it was a classless thing, but do you remember how you were, you remember how I dealt with it?
I didn't even acknowledge it.
I just wanted, I thanked the American people in the Hall of Fame for making it possible.
It's a great, great, I mean, it was a great, Paul Harvey was at the next him, and he wasn't happy about what had happened either, by the way.
But it's great for Paul to get in.
I think it's long overdue.
Paul W. Smith.
Just loves being in Detroit, and he loves WJR.
He loves radio, and it's a great thing for him to be inducted and have him in there.
Okay, brief timeout, folks.
Sit tight.
Don't go away.
It is Open Line Friday.
It's the fastest three hours in media, and it's more fun than human beings should be allowed to have.
And we got two hours down, one more to go, and it's going to be caller intensive.
So get the work, Snerdly, and lining them up out there.
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