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Nov. 15, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 15, 2013, Friday, Hour #2
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, it's Friday.
That means live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
Is it sunny out there?
It hasn't been sunny out there all week.
Is it sunny out there?
It's not sunny out there.
Not that I care.
I'm never out there.
Just want to be accurate here in the show open.
Let me look at the security camera.
Now there's no sun out there.
There's no I don't see any shadows.
Anyway, open line Friday.
Here's the second hour underway, and whatever you want to talk about is the general way to understand how it differs Monday through Thursday.
It may not ever sound different to you.
My hope is that it would, but it may not.
Just because people can talk about different things doesn't mean they call and do it.
It's just the opportunity.
800-282882 is the telephone number.
Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects.
He's been in the news this week.
Gruber's one of the guys this week.
He's one of the architects of Obamacare, and he's been in the news this week saying that you cannot reinstitute these plans that were canceled.
You can't do it.
You got the law over here, Obamacare, and the plans canceled are illegal.
You can't do it.
And if you try, the premiums are gonna skyrocket.
He's been saying it all week, and he was right about that.
But he's now introduced eugenics.
You healthy people are life's genetic lottery winners.
Remembered Dick Gephardt.
Way back in the 90s, as a means of justifying raising taxes on the rich, called them winners of life's lottery.
Meaning they were rich.
No action they took.
It was just sheer luck.
And as such, it wasn't fair.
Wasn't fair they're rich.
Not fair they got lucky and you didn't.
And that was used to justify massive tax increases on them.
And Dick Gephardt even had this imaginary friend that he would tell us about.
I have this friend and this friend tells me that if you raise my taxes, I'll really get rich.
Because when you raise my taxes, everybody will have more.
Would run a We never found the invisible friend.
It's an imaginary I'm not making it up, Rachel.
That's what Gap Parts up.
And now we got an MIT architect of Obamacare saying that you healthy people, just genetic lottery winners.
And as such, you have to pay higher premiums to cover the health care costs for the unlucky.
Genetic pool.
Sit tight, that's coming up.
First, the Oprah.
The Oprah was on the BBC a couple days ago on Wednesday in the UK, the arts editor, Will Gomperts was interviewing Media Mogul, the Oprah.
And the arts editor Will Gompert said, has it ever crossed your mind that some of the treatment of Obama and the challenges that he faced and the reporting he's received is because he's an African American, and if it wasn't an African American, if he was a white guy, he wouldn't have had to go through any of this?
Just a level of disrespect when the senator yelled out you're a liar.
Remember that?
Yeah, I think that there's a level of disrespect for the office that occurs.
And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases, because he's African American.
There's no question about that.
And it's the kind of thing that nobody ever says, but everybody's thinking it.
Then how the hell did you become who you are?
Why hasn't anybody in your audience, Oprah, ever said, You lie!
Because you have.
It wasn't a senator, Oprah.
It was a congressman by the name of Joe Wilson.
And he was right.
And Obama was lying.
My God, Oprah.
You know, this is the these people, I gotta be really careful, because an Oprah is a goddess to a lot of people, but my goodness, folks.
Well, I don't know, but I these people are not nearly as smart as they think they are, and they don't know nearly what they think they know.
They are they are embarrassingly ignorant.
This it wasn't a senator, it was a congressman.
And it's not because he was black.
It's because he was lying, Oprah.
He's lying now.
He just told the biggest presidential whopper in history.
And he's trying to cover his rear end for it with telling other lies.
But Oprah, if black people in this country are so mistreated and so disrespected, how in the name of Sam Hill did you happen?
Would somebody explain that to me?
I mean, if there is a level of disrespect simply because he's black, then how Oprah have you managed to become the at one time most popular and certainly wealthiest television personality.
How does that happen?
And she doesn't own this.
There is this, there's this there's another smug, arrogant know it all on MSNBC.
Which one they all are, yes.
No, it's this guy that runs around calls himself Toure.
This little guy Terra.
Now, again, these there are so many of these young hip media types these days who just think they're the cats meow, and they think they're the smartest and the brightest, and they don't know anything either.
On yesterday's edition of something called the cycle of M. Is that have to do with is that a is that about women's periods?
Well, it's a T M SNBC.
What would it what would it be about?
The cycle.
They're constantly on the over there, so well anyway, it says that Terra guy was on on something called the cycle on MSNBC, and he suggested, are you ready for this?
He suggested the reason red state Democrats were supporting the Mary Landrew Obamacare Bill was because their states had been gerrymandered.
Do you Snardley stop and think now what you just heard him say, or you heard me quote him.
Red state democrats, Senator's supporting Senator Landry's Obamacare bill to let people keep their health insurance was because their states were gerrymandered.
Here's the full quote.
Let's just look at the members who are supporting this Land Rue bill.
Mary Landrew from a red state, Senator Kay Hagen from a red state, Joe Manchin from a red state, Senator Pryor from a red state, Mark Begage from a red state.
You notice anything?
We see red state Democrats dealing with the challenge of living and governing in a gerrymandered world where sometimes they have to deal with what the folks on the right want, with very low support on the Republican side for this, but what the folks on the right want.
no wait no no that's the thing that's the thing A Senate race, a senator is voted on by everybody in the state.
There is no gerrymandering in a Senate race or for a senator, because the only thing that ever gets gerrymandered or garrymandered, if you want to be precise about it, is house districts.
It is House districts that are redrawn, sometimes by virtue of gerrymandering, to assign certain population groups to certain parties.
It's a payout.
And out here without Garrymandering, gerrymander, however you wish to pronounce it, without that, there might not even be a congressional black Caucasians group.
If there weren't gerrymandering, there wouldn't be enough to have a quorum.
And so this guy hasn't the slightest idea.
But he's one of these he's so old, this guy is so much smarter than you are.
You know, we are all idiots.
We're neophytes.
And he's out there talking about Senate seats that exist because of gerrymandering, it's not even applicable.
You cannot gerrymander a state.
You can only gerrymander congressional districts.
This is Civics 101, big time fail.
Okay, time out.
When we come back, genetic lottery winners and Obamacare don't go away.
And we're back.
It's open line Friday.
We're going to get uh to the bulk of your phone calls in mere moments, folks.
But I've been talking about this, I'd be remiss if I put it aside any further.
Now, Mr. Snerdley is very worried that I'm going to be lied about, misrepresented, impugned and all of that by just bringing up the subject.
He wants me to say three or four times to all you liberals, because it involves eugenics and genetics, he wants me to tell you none of this.
Have I said none of this, if I ever said I'm not Margaret Sanger.
This this genetic lottery crap.
My my reaction is if if there are genetic lottery winners, then why the hell are we banning trans fats?
If they're genetic lottery winners, then what is Michelle Obama doing trying to mess around with school lunch menus?
If it doesn't, if the if your good health is strictly due to your gene pool and the good luck that you have in having yours, then what the hell is all the rest of this matter?
But it is far more grave, far graver than that.
I mean, this this is really despicable stuff.
Because by bringing this into it, what Mr. Gruber is bringing into is not just genetics, but eugenics.
And do you know what eugenics is?
You know what eugenics is?
Try Margaret Sanger, the belief that certain gene pools are superior to others by design, and that in order to have a properly functioning society, we've got to get rid of the inferior gene pools.
We get the inferior people.
People genetically inferior, stupid, weak, uh, sick, get rid of them.
That's what Planned Parenthood was all about when it was founded.
And it was racial.
It's amazing how that's transformed itself, but it has, nevertheless.
And I do not subscribe to it, and I want to get that out of the way at first.
But this happened yesterday on MSNBC, the daily rundown with F. Chuck Todd, interviewing one of the architects of Obamacare, MIT economics professor, Jonathan Gruber.
And during a discussion about Obamacare and the people whose policies are being canceled because of it, F. Chuck said, you say, Mr. Gruber, that the perceived problems with health care and health care reform are actually essential mechanisms built into the law to make it work, and that the law was designed to force some policies to be canceled.
This idea of getting these policy cancellations fixed for the millions of people being affected, you say that going down this road could potentially unravel the law.
It's 12 million people, about a third of which will end up paying more under this law.
And that, as you said in the introduction, is sort of the idea.
We currently have a highly discriminatory system where if you're sick, if you've been sick, if you're going to get Sick.
You cannot get health insurance.
The only way to end that discriminatory system is to bring everyone into the system and pay one fair price.
That means that the genetic winners, the lottery winners who'd been paying an artificially low price because of this discrimination, now will have to pay more.
And that, by my estimate, is about four million people.
In return, we'll have a fixed system where over 30 million people will now for the first time be able to access fairly priced and guaranteed health insurance.
Now, folks, the the problem here is the root thinking that goes into something like this.
Let me parse this, if I may.
And by the way, he's right when he says that your plan that you lost, that the president promised you you could keep.
Obamacare was designed to force those policies to be canceled.
He's right about that.
He wrote the law.
He's one of the architects.
That's why this lie was so bad because Obamacare was designed for you to lose your policy.
It was designed for that to happen.
And he's right about that.
And now reinstating those policies could potentially unravel the law because you've got things in conflict.
Obamacare here, reinstating policies that are illegal, but that the regime says they're not going to enforce for a year.
The insurance companies are gonna have to, it's a it's just an absolute mess.
The thing is unraveling.
Okay, but that's not as big point.
As you said in the introduction, F. Chuck, we have a highly discriminatory system where if you're sick, if you've been sick, if you're gonna get sick, you can't get health insurance.
Now, that I have some objection to.
That simply can't be true.
If that were true in a blanket way, most Americans wouldn't have health insurance, and most Americans do.
If you've been sick, you're gonna get sick, can't get insurance.
That's not true.
All kinds of people who haven't been sick yet have insurance.
And all kinds of people who have been sick have insurance.
So we've got this this is this is it's wrong from the get-go, but it's crucial, understanding the way these people think.
What he's trying to say here is that the people who need health care can't get it because our system sucks.
And our system sucks because it discriminates against the weak.
It discriminates against the unlucky, and it discriminates against the poor, and it discriminates against everybody.
Our system is so bad.
Our system is so unfair.
Our system is so mean that the people who really need to get well don't.
And that's BS, folks.
This country heals people all the time.
This this is just this is why this whole thing.
People like this in charge of the health care system just offend me.
The assumptions that they make going in.
And the assumption starts with this country is inferior.
This country is biased, it's racist, it's extremist, it's it's it's bigoted, it's it's it's discriminatory.
This is not true.
Now, in the in the case of pre-existing conditions, yeah, but that is nowhere near even it's not even a scant minority of the population.
There are plenty of people who've been sick who have insurance.
Just like there are plenty of people who've had car accidents, who have automobile insurance.
That's the best health care system in the world that these people are now dismantling.
We had the finest doctors and the finest hospitals, some of the greatest research, our pharmaceutical industry unparalleled in the world.
You can't have all of that in the kind of world or country this guy is attempting to portray here.
But that's just the starting point.
Okay, so his belief is that our whole country is unjust and unfair, and our health care system is too.
And the people who really need the health care can't get it.
The only people who can get it are the people who don't need it.
Genetic lottery winners.
The people who never get sick.
They're the ones because the insurance companies suck.
The insurance companies are unfair, and they only insure the people who they know will never get sick.
And that's BS as well.
I'm sorry if you're the 25-year-old woman threatened by my yelling.
This stuff just burns me.
But there's more, so sit tight.
Okay, back we are, El Rushbo and uh open line Friday having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Okay, here's Jonathan Gruber, and it's just not fair.
The only people who have health care in America are the people that don't need it.
Isn't it just typical?
The only people who have money in the world are people who don't need it.
The only people who get freebies are the people who can pay for it.
The only people that need health care can't get it because they're always sick.
It's just it's a crock.
It's just it's more of this never-ending belief in the basic fallibility and inferiority of this country.
It just isn't true that we have a discriminatory health system where if you're sick, if you've been sick, if you're gonna get sick, you can't get health insurance.
It's just not true.
It's just I you know it as well as I know it.
But that's the starting point.
Starting point is America is intrinsically discriminatory.
It's unfair and it's uh it mistreats the poor and it mistreats minorities and women and children are hardest hit and all the cliches, okay?
So he then said to F. Chuckta the only way to end that discriminatory system is to bring everybody into the system and pay one fair price.
Socialism.
Yes.
And then no different than nobody should make a dime more than anybody else, and nobody should have to pay any more than anybody else for a house.
Nobody should have to pay anything more for a car than anybody else pays.
It's just not fair otherwise.
Why should everybody's health care cost the same?
Why doesn't everybody's car cost the same when everybody's house cost the same?
Why everybody's hotel room cost the same?
Why aren't movie tickets the same?
From theater to theater, town to town.
Why aren't salaries identical?
What the hell is it about health care?
That it has to be the same for everybody.
What is it about health care that these people believe is innately discriminatory to the poor and the sick.
So he says the only way to end this discrimination is to bring everybody into the system and pay one fair price.
That means that the genetic winners, the lottery winners who've been paying an artificially low price because of this discrimination now will have to pay more.
So what he's saying is, you people who are healthy, it's not because of anything you've done.
It's not because you're eating carrot juice and drinking uh whatever and not eating this and not eating that.
It's not because you're jogging, it's not because you're getting exercise, not because you're doing what all the food and health Nazis say.
It's not any of your business.
You just got lucky in the gene pool.
That's it.
No control.
No participation in the way your life is turned out at all.
You just a walking robot.
And you either had rich parents or healthy parents or white parents or what have you, but it just isn't fair.
So we've got to change this basic unfairness.
Not fair that some people don't get sick.
It's not fair that some people don't get as sick as other people.
It's not fair that some people don't get really sick.
And it's really not fair that the people who don't get sick don't pay much for their insurance.
It's really unfair that The people who don't get sick don't pay much for their health care.
Why should they?
Why should somebody who never goes to the doctor pay out the nose for it?
What is intrinsically unfair about that?
You know a lot of people, health care is a choice.
To a lot of people, going to the doctor is the last thing in the world they want to do.
To some people, spending money on their health is something they'd rather not do.
Rather have the flat screen.
I'd rather go out and buy the souped up car.
Why is that bad?
That's what this is this.
We're so out of control on all of this.
These all these assumptions are being made, but I still haven't gotten the meat and potatoes in this.
The meat and potatoes, the genetic winners, the lottery winners who've been paying an artificially low price because of this discrimination will now have to pay more.
So you're healthy, you've done everything the so-called social architects tell you you have to do.
All of the health Nazis and the food Nazis, they've told you everything to do when you're healthy.
You're gonna pay a price.
Just like they told you you better go out and you better buy a car that gets 40 miles to the gallon to save the planet.
So you do.
Then they realize they're coming up short on fuel taxes.
So they raise your tax because you're doing something responsible.
It isn't right.
It isn't fair that you're not paying more when you have the ability to.
So we're gonna have a fixed system where over 30 million people will now for the first time be able to access fairly priced and guaranteed health insurance.
No, we're not.
This cannot work.
Forced behavior, socialized anything doesn't work.
Ask Stalin.
Ask Andropov, ask Brezhnev, ask Castro, ask Mao.
Well, it worked for them.
But ask the people that live in their countries if it works.
Go ask your average Cuban if it works.
Go find your average Chinese in Shanghai and ask him if it's working.
Go find somebody who lived in East Germany in the 60s and 70s and ask them if it worked.
It doesn't work, however.
Here's the thing.
This business of winning the genetic lottery, I think is a modern phrase for the eugenic belief that some people are inherently genetically inferior and weak.
You can't believe otherwise.
If you're going to start talking about genetic lottery winners, then you gotta go all the way with this.
If you're if you're gonna start as Mr. Gruber is here, not me.
This is not me.
I don't think this way.
This stuff never crosses my mind.
I don't think of genetic lottery winners.
And I don't think of the winners of life's lottery in terms of wealth and income.
I don't think that way.
This is not me.
This is Jonathan Gruber at MIT.
When you start talking about winning the genetic lottery, you are talking about a belief in eugenics.
And the belief in eugenics is that some people, and maybe some races, ask Hitler.
Some people and some races are inherently genetically inferior and weak.
That's what he's saying here.
Genetic lottery winners, there are some genetic lottery losers.
What does that make them?
What is a genetic lottery loser?
A victim.
Somebody who's weak.
Somebody's always sick.
And by the same token, if you're going to believe in genetic lottery winners and losers, then the winners are who?
Well, they're the genetically superior.
And that's where the eugenics of all this.
You know, that the Nazis thought that genetic lottery losers should be murdered.
Adolf Hitler believed that Jews were genetic lottery losers.
And what did he do about it?
Now Obama doesn't think that.
Apparently Obama and Mr. Gruber believe that genetic lottery losers should be compensated for their lousy genes.
And so Obamacare has come along to protect the victims, the losers of the genetic lottery.
The losers of genetic lottery are victims and they're mistreated by the evil insurance companies, they don't get insurance, they don't get covered, the uh emergency room kicks them out.
What have you?
But either way, it is a view of the world that starts with an assessment by the government of who is and who isn't elite.
Is it not?
You start talking about lottery winners in genetics, you're talking about the government assessing who is and who isn't genetically inferior.
And if this government assesses you to be genetically inferior, they want you to be compensated.
This is why you can't escape all these mindless racial questions on the application form at healthcare.gov.
They're trying to identify who among us are inferior and in need of their assistance.
Now I think that Mr. Gruber believes that he's part of the genetic aristocracy.
And I think Obama thinks that he is part of the genetic aristocracy because they're the smartest in the room.
They believe in a genetic aristocracy just like they believe in an economic aristocracy, and they're in it.
Oprah thinks that she's in it.
So does this uh this idiot Terray, I'm sure he thinks he's in the genetic aristocracy.
All of these libs think they're smarter than anybody.
These faculty lounge theorists, they sit around and they talk about how stupid everybody else is, and how if they had control, how they'd finally make everything work right.
And we're seeing how the genetic aristocracy makes things work.
Because we're being ruled by the genetic aristocracy.
We're being governed by an elite aristocracy of the mind.
Obama et al.
And his lib buddies.
So Obama and Gruber and all their friends, their status in life largely due to being born into the acceptable physical and social class.
And that is affirmed by what university they get into.
So that makes them part of the aristocracy.
And then by right of being in that class, in that elite aristocracy, they get to punish other lottery winners on behalf of the genetically inferior.
They are the genetic aristocracy, they're the winners of the genetic lottery, they get to sit here and determine who the losers are, and then they tell others who are also okay but not really qualified to be in the aristocracy.
You're gonna pay through the nose because those people are genetically inferior.
And we're gonna call that fairness, and we're gonna call that non-discrimination.
And we're gonna call that fixing this country.
So if people with poor health are genetic losers, and I didn't bring any of this up, I'm simply bouncing off Mr. Gruber at MIT, talking about genetic lottery winners who are not paying enough for their health care.
If people with Poor health are genetic losers.
Then the professors' losers in the good genes race are minorities.
Whose health indices, the indexes, according to the Center for Disease Control, are lower than whites in almost every category, including life expectancy, and you know I'm right.
They tell you their propensity to this disease, uh that disease, shorter life expectancy, the genetically inferior happen to be minorities.
It fits right in with the way these people view the world.
And here come uh this this then uh justifies their treatment of them as victims.
But you see, also if there are genetic lottery winners, then it doesn't matter.
You can avoid all the trans fat in the world, you can avoid a 32-hounce soft drinks, you can go out, eat the worst garbage in the world, or the healthiest garbage, and you're still gonna be genetically inferior because you have bad genes.
You lost the lottery.
Your parents, your grandparents, your ancestors, they screwed you.
But you had no say about it.
That's the kind of thinking that's gone into this.
That's I I saw that F. Chuck and the genetic lottery winners and now wonder.
Now all of this has surfaced in a way that has enabled me to explain to you the thinking behind these people and the way they're producing and ordering their whole health care plan.
All right, the uh the House just uh moments ago passed the Upton bill, the Fred Upton bill to restore health insurance policies cancelled by Obamacare.
The House just passed a bill that uh essentially does what Obama said he was gonna do yesterday.
It passed uh with 39 Democrats voting for it, 261 to 157.
Obama has said he would veto this.
And if he does, it's uh there's a couple of reasons.
The primary reason being he just wants total control of it.
Now, Dingy Harry and the boys would love there to be Republican fingerprints on the mess.
But Obama wants total control, plus he doesn't really want the law changed.
So we'll see if he vetoes this.
Here's Kevin in East Hartford, Connecticut.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you, uh, and God bless you, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
I was calling, well, I've been trying to call you on Open Line Friday since February.
Well.
I have uh three grandchildren, but I have a ten-year-old grandson, and I was with them one day, and I was reading reading I love to read history, and I was reading some more about Abraham Lincoln, and he asked me what I was reading, and I told him.
And I my jaw dropped to the ground when he told me he didn't know who Abraham Lincoln was.
Well, what?
He's ten.
I mean, I I I just couldn't believe it.
I I actually been calling you since February to get suggestions what he he wants to learn.
Did he know who Bill Clinton didn't have for an hour that day, and he asked me so many questions, and he was absorbing and he loved it.
And I've been calling you ever since to have you on an open line Friday, maybe give me some suggestions for what he could read.
And God bless you, you read my mind.
And here's Rush Revere.
Well, that would have been my first suggestion to you.
Well, back in February, it wasn't ready yet, so and Alan.
Uh uh uh uh, you just didn't know.
Oh, okay.
Now, Anna, you're you're right.
In February, I would not have suggested it because you couldn't get it then.
But I would have teased it had you gotten through.
Aww.
I'll tell you what, d did your son, has your son heard of Bill Clinton?
Uh my grandson, yes.
Yeah, but he doesn't know who Lincoln is.
No.
Um look.
Your timing here is uh fortuitous.
It's and it's fortunate too.
And I I'm you you've it's it's very classy way around you uh paying me a compliment, and I really appreciate it very, very much.
Uh and I hope I hope your grandson uh reads the book because I know he'll love it.
I know he would be fascinated by it.
Fact, Kevin, I want you to hang on.
I want I want to send uh you an audio version of the book that that I recorded that you can let him listen to as well, and and anybody else.
It's uh something I'm very proud of.
So don't go away.
Snerdley will be back here in just a second to get your address.
According to numbers posted by Matt Drudge, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims was the number one selling book last week, according to the Nielsen Book Scan.
And uh it's just it's just wonderful, folks.
Thank you so much again.
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