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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 plan.
He's sorry that you believed him.
Are you sorry that you misunderstood him?
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I rarely do this, but I want to make an appeal.
I want to make an appeal to Media Matters, a Daily Cause, a Democrat Underground, organizing for America, Think Progress.
The pointer is everyone 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, don't want to leave anybody out.
I want to say something and I'm begging you to quote me.
Thank you.
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 gonna 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.
Thank you.
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 and 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 what 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.
Amen.
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.
Okay.
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.
Okay.
And they seem to still be having trouble with that.
But I'm not exaggerating.
That's why I want all you left-wing website.
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 like 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, I mean, 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 health care 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 If there have been these powerful invisible forces in there monkeying around with his health care and telling people they can't keep their plans, and if he's really mad about that, he could 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.
So 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.
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 them.
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.
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 premiums 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.
To Barack Hussein Obama.
Mm-mm.
And now to the phones as we kick it off on open line Friday with Bob in Selkirk, New York.
Um, Bob, I'm really glad that you waited.
I appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
I wanted to see if you had noticed uh 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 Philbin at Adolph is supposed to know everything about Richie Cognito's text, his emails, his private conversations, and all his tweets.
Yes.
I must admit, ladies and gentlemen, it's a good point.
Obama, the president of the United States, I didn't know about that.
Ben Gaza, I thought that was a video.
Uh anti-Muslim video.
It's amazing.
The entire limb theorem is he doesn't know what's going on, but whatever is going on makes him mad.
And he's gonna 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?
Well, that's not what I want.
I'm gonna work harder than I ever have to create jobs.
Fast and furious, what?
Guns and makes I don't know about that.
Who did that?
Who made that happen?
Bush.
Uh Benghazi, four Americans done.
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 qu I mean the the and we got a call bounce off of a call coming up that will get to some of this.
But first, folks, a change of direction.
We have a ten-year-old from Lincoln, Nebraska, who has been listening to the audio version of Rush Revere and the Great Pilgrim 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, I can't believe I'm talking to you.
Uh I I love your I love it.
I love I love your book so bad.
My mom got it for me, and I uh 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.
I don't want to give anybody a um you know false impression, but we hope so, Kevin, because you know, you so many people like you are really uh enjoying this.
I uh we're getting mail from people just like you.
Uh emails for the for the horse Liberty and some of the uh 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, that 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 another.
Kevin, I'll tell you what I I uh I want you to hang on because uh I'm I want Mr. Snerdley, if your mother will let you, I 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 I 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. Snurdy will be right here on the phone with you.
Ladies and gentlemen, about Rush Revere and the brave pilgrims time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
I really I would urge you to visit our twoifyt.com website, TWO Ifbyt.com, and just click on the Rush Revere pane there, and it'll take you to everything about the book.
And it uh you you'll you'll you'll find uh the neighborhood.
You'll you'll find uh you'll find where Rush Revere and Liberty and everybody live and they're everything that they do is there, and there's a big yellow mailbox that you can click on, and that'll that'll create an email form that's addressed to uh Rush Revere.
Liberty gets it.
Liberty is the travel coordinator, by the way, for the uh for two if by t.com since you can time travel.
And we try to answer every one of them.
We got a um I mean I could I could 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 uh another cute one.
Uh an 11-year-old wrote in to Mr. Revere, an 11-year-old named Aiden, and 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. Uh.
I'll tell you, it's just folks, I I everything about this that that I hoped would happen is happening.
Uh taking the the the values that we believe in on this program, the 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 uh a mission and a purpose and to expand, as they say inside baseball the demo.
But it it it really is to take the truth to young people who may be hearing things that aren't true about American history and the 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 I want to remind you this, you know, we're coming up on the uh birthday of the Marine Corps, and I 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 uh a section of every bottle of two if by tea dedicated to M. Cliff, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Your purchases of two if by tea 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 um 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, the it's almost every dime donated gets distributed.
It's not like some charities where there's a 20 or 30 percent overhead, and nobody's making a living off of M. Cliff.
It's it is really it's uh it's a pass-through, and it's run by former Marines who um 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 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 as the as the fan mail we're getting suggests.
The parents are reading, it's exactly what was intended.
Parents would read the book to their kids, share the experience, grandparents who do the same thing with their kids, grandkids.
In just a week and a half, the this this book is already the fourteenth best-selling book for the year on Amazon.
That's just mind-boggling for us.
We are so appreciative.
We're we're so grateful and thankful for you making that happen.
I can't describe it.
Can't describe how it how it feels.
And the uh and this last caller, this is the Kevin who liked the audio version.
We're working on doing some, I can't announce this yet, but we somebody here had a great idea to air a little bit of it on a on a particular broadcast day.
Not all of it, of course, but it is a um 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 days after that for pickups and 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 in many places great, it's right side the front door.
The audio section of the store is is way off in one of the farthest corners you can get.
And it's if you have to ask, unless you're a veteran of these bookstores and know where to go.
But that is is something too that we're ex 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 uh here's Joanne, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Great to have you, EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, 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.
Um 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 um you know, getting our coal industry back together because the people in Southwest Virginia are starving.
Uh we have failing schools in Virginia, he was promoting school choice.
He didn't want to see Obam Obamacare expanded, and these people don't understand what's going to happen to this state.
We're going to turn into a little DC, and it's just it's it's sad.
It's very sad.
Well, let me tell you something about this.
Because really what what you're saying is, if I understand I don't want to put words in your mouth, so you tell me if 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 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 the two gentlemen with honor integrity, um, E. W. Jackson and Ken Cucinelli.
Right.
So two of them.
And we don't know about Mark Openchain yet because they're doing a recount, but it just it just really made me very sad.
Here you had people wanting to promote our economy and get people back to work and school choice, because our schools are a mess.
Well, I'd say if you look at the exit polls, there's something else.
I may get a little trouble for this uh strain of analysis.
Well, you look at Cuccinelli, Cuccinelli beat McAuliffe in what I call the this is where I'm gonna get in trouble.
I can't think of another word for it, so I'll just in the wholesome category.
Married married people, people at work, um, uh people who are self-reliant and all that.
He won them in droves.
McCauliff cleaned up in unmarried and single women.
I mean, three to one, sixty-seven to twenty-seven, twenty-three percent.
And how did he do it?
He's promising them everything.
You promise 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 it's just I don't know how we're gonna bring the moral standards back of this country, and until we do, we're just gonna have these problems, and it just, you know, it's sad.
Let me ask you as you're you you're a um uh a resident of Virginia, and I'm I'm gonna ask you this.
I'm 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 Cucinelli and you look at McCulliffe 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 a charismatic, infectious personality, and Romney looks like a statue.
And it doesn't matter.
Virtue, character, morality, uh issues don't matter.
The more likable guy, the more charismatic guy, the more uh the guy makes you look like you want to go have a beer chase women with it, that's the guy who's gonna win.
Now, does that hold up in Cucinelli versus McCaulff?
I you know, uh for myself personally, and that's all I all I can answer for it.
No, it doesn't.
I did some, you know, I've I know Ken Cuccinelli personally because I worked very closely with the campaign for E. W. Jackson, so I've I've met the man, I've talked to the man.
Um McCullough's never held any kind of office, and I just look at him as a snake oil salesman, a shyster.
And I don't I didn't find him likeable.
I found him a liar.
But I found him preying on people's fears.
All right.
I've I I he's a bad man.
He's a Clinton bag man.
I mean, he's a place.
He's in there to run that state the way the Clintons or whoever tell him how to run it.
Because he's not.
You're right.
So to a to an unmarried single mother, a guy like McAuliffe may be exactly what she's looking for.
That's 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.
That's that's scary.
That's that's not uh she's owed a living because life has dealt her so much unkindness.
They saddled her with a kid, she's 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 McCauliff identifying with her.
McCaula said, Look, if you want to be a receptacle for male seamen and not pay a price, I'm your guy.
I guess I 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 gonna be able to sort of look at him, who'd you vote for?
Well, you know, you brought up the case.
We haven't even talked about the partisanship.
I mean, you've got Northern Virginia, which is D.C. Oh, I know.
And and they should I I'm telling you, I think um the wholesome part of Virginia would be more than happy to let Washington D.C. um annex Northern Virginia.
The reason the reason I'm spent some time with you, because it it does get down to me uh I this guy telling me that Romney never had a chance, Rush.
It doesn't matter.
Uh Benghazi Romney could have made a big deal about it and scored all the points in the world.
He was never gonna beat Obama.
Obama had just convinced too many people that he was their answer to whatever her 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 likeable.
And it didn't even come down to policy.
Didn't even come down to character or any of that.
Now, if if all of that's true, then a lot of people are gonna be flummoxed.
Uh so's the answer in that circumstance, Christy.
Uh is it Ted Cruz?
Is it uh Rand Paul?
I mean, 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.
Gotta be back after this.
Say, folks, I want to take a brief moment here for some personal congratulations to a um a great guy, great man.
And he's sometimes guest host on this program.
Uh 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 is uh he's so excited.
He is the voice of the Great Lakes on the great WJR.
And he's gonna be there uh for quite a while longer.
And he's uh he's had an I I wanted I wanted to make a video to uh to welcome him into the Hall of Fame and to graduate 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 uh to congratulate Paul uh on his uh induction.
This this is the Hall of if you recall, uh it was I don't know, Hannabe 1995, I forget the exact year, but and this show you how naive, folks.
I mean, it's it just this I've been I've been at the radio show for eighty seven years, and I'm being inducted, and uh and and they tell me that Sally Jesse Raphael wants to introduce you.
My my first of all, that's uh strange.
But I mean, it's the Hall of Fame.
I who am I to say I refuse?
Okay, that's fine.
I said, Are you sure?
Oh, yeah, she's totally 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 femme Nazi.
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 we put them on the on the TV show.
But well, you know, it was it was a classless thing, but do you remember how were you you were you remember how I dealt with it?
I didn't even acknowledge it.
I just I just want to I thanked the American people in the Hall of Fame for making it possible.
It's a great, great, I mean that was a great uh Paul Harvey was at the next image.
He wasn't happy about what had happened either, uh, by the way.
But it's it's great for Paul to get in.
Uh I think it's long overdue.
Uh Paul W. Smith.
Uh just he's he's just loves being in Detroit, and he loves W.J. Artie, loves radio, and it's it's a great thing for him to be inducted and then have him in there.
Okay, brief time out, folks.
Sit tight, don't go away.
It is open line Friday.
It's the fastest three hours in media, and it's uh it's more fun than than human beings should be allowed to have.
And we got two hours down, one more to go, and uh it's gonna be caller intensive.
So get the work, snerdily, and lining them up out there.
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