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Nov. 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 18, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, something's happening to me that I never thought would happen.
I'm worn out of football.
By 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, I've had enough.
I don't care what's going on.
I never thought, I never thought that would be the case.
I mean, I used to be, well, you people know you stick to the issues, people.
Golf or football or whatever.
You just got ticked off at me talking about it a lot.
I'll tell you, the game is, I don't know.
I've been thinking about it and I know what's going on.
I've predicted it, and it's having an impact on me.
The way the game is covered, the way it's played, the way it's refereed, the way they deal with...
Well, no, I've been asking myself if it's me or if it's the game.
I mean, it could well be that, you know, we all have our passions change as we get older.
Or maybe age has nothing to do with this as we live.
Anyway, hi, folks.
I hope you had a great weekend.
Rush Limbaugh, and we're at 800-282-2882.
No, I just, like the game last night, there was a big game last night.
The Cheaps and the Broncos, and I didn't care.
I watched a little bit of it, and Catherine said, you know, Homeland's on a 9 o'clock.
You want to watch it sometime this week?
Let's watch it now.
The hell with it.
This game's going to be going to midnight.
So we watched Homeland last night.
The game didn't change much from when we started watching Homeland about 10 after 9 until I tuned back in at midnight and the game was just ending.
But no, I don't want to make a big deal of it.
I mean, I've done my analysis.
I'm just telling you.
And I don't know what it means.
It may mean nothing.
I just, I'm losing my, can't tear me away from it.
Haven't been to one game this year.
There hasn't been a game on this schedule that I care to go to.
Period.
Anyway, folks, listen, big week.
This is a big, and it's a big week for Obamacare, and that means the media is going to spend as much time this week on the anniversary of the assassination of JFK as they can.
The assassination of JFK will happen on the 22nd, which is Friday.
And you're going to see the opportunity.
They're going to take occasion of this anniversary to just totally blanket coverage on the JFK 50th anniversary, which is a big deal.
But it will also provide the drive-bys and everybody else an opportunity to ignore Obamacare.
And there's some there major cancellations are yet to happen with Obamacare.
Obama and his minions are still trying to downplay what they're calling, it's just the 5%.
Here we're just talking about the individual marketplace that's being canceled.
And now you've got insurance examiners and companies being brought to the White House to try to, I'm sure Obama's promised them a bailout.
You know he has.
You know he's bringing these insurance guys in, and he's promising them a bailout.
That's how these guys work.
They're going to lose money left and right by reinstituting policies that they had canceled, policies which remain illegal, by the way.
Just the regime isn't going to enforce them for one more year.
But they're illegal.
The plan that you liked, the doctor that you had that you liked, and all that.
If your insurance company is able to give you that plan back, they're going to lose money.
And I don't know that it's happened.
I mean, I can't, I'm not sitting here saying conclusively, but Obama's bringing these insurance execs up to the White House.
What do you think he's promising them?
You know he's going to bail them out.
I mean, everything's riding on this.
Cover their losses or what have you.
The question remains, are they going to be able to actually reinstate your old policy?
I mean, they have bureaucratic snafus that they have to navigate as well.
But look, while everybody's focused on just this, the private insurance market, ladies and gentlemen, mentioned to you last week, Betsy McCoy had an analysis, and she said, if you think this is it, you're wrong.
The tip of the iceberg has barely even been reached.
Because beginning next year, everybody in an employer-provided plan will get their cancellation.
In fact, you may.
In fact, I know people who have already started receiving their cancellation notices.
My cousin, who lives out in Los Angeles, I get this obscenity-laced email from him on Thursday or Friday last week.
He's in his early 30s, and he's just fit to be just got, it just got canceled.
And all of these employer-based plans, they're next.
Everybody's starting to write about that.
Now, even the Politico is writing about it.
But no, take it back.
Everybody's not.
The Politico is sort of alone.
Betsy McCoy is.
Andy McCarthy has a piece about it today at National Review.
We spoke about it last week.
And now we're talking about not 15 million people as Obama is talking about.
We're talking about 156 million Americans who get their health insurance through their jobs.
156 million Americans and the lion's share of those plans are going to be canceled.
Look, it's in the Federal Register.
The regime knew and stated that 93 million Americans were going to lose their plans.
Pelosi, you know, speaking of twisters, hurricanes, Pelosi trying to defend Obamacare and her comments about she was on Meet the Depressed yesterday with David Grin.
Did you see this?
She's recycling this.
She stood by her famous remark about having to pass the bill to see what's in it.
She is still saying that when people see the bill, they will like what's in it.
In the midst of them getting canceled, in the midst of people losing the insurance they liked, after having been lied to, after having been defrauded.
By the way, I mentioned my buddy Andy McCarthy.
This is the second piece, this piece at National Review Online, which what's the date of this today?
The second piece that he has written on the fact that this is a criminal fraud anywhere in the private sector, the people that do this would be prosecuted, most likely by federal prosecutors.
And this is, it is a profound fraud.
And it is, if the politic, if the politics were such in this country, it would be impeachable.
You can't proceed with impeachment if the political circumstances aren't there for it.
And they're probably not, in which case, nobody would have the stomach for it on the Republican side.
But nevertheless, it's a major fraud.
It's not just a lie.
And Andy makes a case in a second time here in his piece today.
It's called Obama's 5% Khan Job.
And the point is that the 5% is not even the 5%.
Aviqu Roy is a scholar at one of the think tanks.
And he says the individual market is 8%, not 5%.
The individual market is 8% of health insurance consumers.
And that is 25 million people, not 15.
And his point is the president can't even be honest about that.
But it is the next shoe to drop next year.
Cancellation notices will start going out soon.
Employer-provided plans are the next to be canceled because they are illegal.
They will not fit within the new mandates that Obamacare has.
It's not just the individual market.
Remember, we talked about this last week with the aid of the Betsy McCoy piece.
Now, the Kennedy assassination, it's fascinating.
I spent a lot of time last night.
I remembered something vaguely, but I couldn't put my finger on it.
It was a piece that I had read about how the Kennedy assassination actually caused American liberalism to do a 180 and assume the positions on issues that they have today.
And I searched and searched, and I finally found the source of this.
And it's a fascinating theory.
We've spoken about it before, but I just couldn't remember where.
It's a book that was written back in 2007, I believe.
Camelot and the Cultural Revolution by Jim Pearson.
The book is not available as an e-book.
It's available in paperback or hardcover, but there are various summaries of it I found.
And I remembered, once I found that, I remembered his theory, and I'm going to spend a little bit more time on this, but his theory is the left just couldn't accept the fact that a communist had killed their president.
And he makes, though, JFK was not a liberal in the sense that liberals are liberals today.
He was a nationalist.
He believed in America.
He believed in American military power.
He believed in tax cuts.
He believed in American exceptionalism.
He believed in all these things that liberals used to, in their own way, believe in.
Oh, he's a fervent anti-communist, fervent anti-communist.
And that's the, the left of the day could not believe that a communist, in fact, there are quotes from liberals of the day back in 1960, 61, 62, who openly said the biggest, amazing how things don't change, folks, is that the biggest threat to America came from the right wing of the Republican Party back then epitomized by Joseph McCarthy.
The biggest threat was not the Soviet Union.
The biggest threat was not state-sponsored communism, wherever it was in the world.
It was the Republican Party.
It's amazing how things don't change.
And when Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, and by the way, there's another aspect here that you just, you go to, you touch on this at your own risk, but Kennedy's presidency at the time of his assassination was in dire straits.
He was in deep trouble, and it was the Democrat Party was worried he would not win re-election.
It was the whole Kennedy administration was in bad shape.
And the whole construction of Camelot did not begin until after his death, and it was Jackie who did it.
And the biggest, as Britt Hume said over the weekend, the biggest PR campaign, the history of the world, began to recast JFK as Camelot, King Arthur, and Washington in a way that it never was when Kennedy was actually president.
But it all focuses on the fact that the left was just blown apart by the fact that a communist had pulled the trigger, Lee Harvey Oswald.
And that is why they immediately began to blame Dallas for it.
Right-wing nutcases, right-wing corporate executives, right-wing gun nuts, right-wing extremists in Texas.
And it was the left that began to popularize all the conspiracy theories.
It was the left that created all these conspiracy theories as to what had happened to Kennedy because they couldn't come to grips with the fact that a communist had pulled the trigger.
They just couldn't.
The communists, they were more aligned with the communists around the world than they were with Republicans back then, which is the case today, by the way.
And Pearson's point is that that was the turning point for liberalism.
That is when they totally shifted and began to blame America for everything.
They had no choice to protect the whole Camelot thing that Jackie was creating and to deal with the unacceptable, that a communist had killed the president.
They then began tarring and feathering everything about America, American culture, American religion, everything.
That is when it began.
That's Mr. Pearson's theory.
And it's impressive.
It has a lot of validity.
So anyway, spending my time re-familiarizing myself with this, some of yesterday afternoon and last night, I actually stopped watching a football game to do this.
That would have not happened.
I mean, I would have done them both at the same time in the old days.
But I actually turned the game off.
Who was it anyway?
Oh, it was four games late.
I had the red zone on.
I don't know, folks.
That's a whole nother subject.
But the game, the way it's being covered, reported on, just, I don't know.
They're losing me.
And I don't know if that means anything.
I'm not going to extrapolate it beyond that.
But it's just, I can see the handwriting on the wall.
Anyway, that's what I did.
Turned it off and started digging into this Kennedy stuff, knowing full well that later in this week, if not sooner, they're going to start focusing on the anniversary, 50 year, and the rebuilding of Camelot, the reimagining of it, how wonderful it was, the association of Obama with it will take place.
I fully expect to see the Obama administration portrayed as an heir to Camelot.
They tried that with Clinton, by the way.
And just they had all the ingredients there, except Clinton got caught.
JFK, when he got caught, nobody cared because it was with Marilyn Monroe.
And they said, ooh, that's cool.
Clinton got caught with Monica, an intern, by a stained blue dress, and that was tougher to categorize as Camelot, as opposed to Trailer Park, which is what Carville was describing Clinton's women as anyway.
So it's going to be an interesting week in that regard.
But this theory of what turned the left against America.
Now, I know many of you say, but wait a minute, Rush.
You've said, and you may yourself believe, the left has always had problems with the American founding.
That's true.
But they always looked at themselves as FDR in the New Deal.
They looked at themselves as good for America.
They didn't mind piping up about how great America was because of them.
And then Kennedy assassination came, and they have been, if you stop and think about it ever since, they have been on the warpath to tear this country to shreds.
And this guy's theory is it's simply because a left-winger shot a Democrat president.
They just couldn't believe it.
And they had to create in history the revision and lies, the idea that Kennedy was actually done in by a bunch of right-wingers in Texas, and that they are the primary sponsors of all the conspiracy theories that are out there, not madcap, extreme right-wingers.
Let me take a break.
Basically, somewhat sets the table.
We'll continue when we get back.
Don't go.
I got an email.
Rush, why are the employer-provided policies going to be canceled starting next year?
The answer to that's simple, folks.
It's because of the employer mandate delay.
You remember that Obama delayed the employer mandate?
Starting next year, the employer-provided policies will come up against Obamacare, and they will be found to be illegal, just like the private insurance plans that people are losing now.
The regime and everybody in the media, other than the politico, again, are trying to convince her, but this is it.
It's just 5% and just 15 million people.
I mean, big whoop.
I mean, any major change, you're going to have some fallout.
In the first place, it isn't 5%, it's 8%, which is the equivalent of 25 million.
But then there are 150 million plus people with employer-provided health insurance who will start to be canceled, begin to be canceled starting next year.
It would have been this year, except there was the delay of the employer mandate for election purposes and other political reasons.
So that shoe is going to drop.
And it's going to make what is happening now appear like romper room.
It's just going to keep getting.
The longer we go, the more time passes.
Events unfold in such a way that you think you've got the worst behind you and something brand new pops up.
I mean, this is devastating, this whole Obamacare thing.
And the vast majority of people haven't yet even discovered how bad it is.
And we're back, Rushland Boss, serving humanity, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes so far.
Do you know, folks, there's actually a debate going on on ESPN and throughout the sports world over who can use the N-word when and how and who can't, when and how.
And no, and this is just, this is just part of the whole thing.
It's turning me off about to football and sports in general.
First place, you've had this generation of journalists from the coddled generation.
I think some players, too.
We're getting to the point now where people covering sports and playing in it have come from this coddled generation where nobody's ever supposed to say anything mean.
Nobody's ever supposed to do anything mean.
Nobody's ever supposed to disrespect them.
We're all supposed to get together with Conflict Resolution 101.
Some NFO player for the Redskins the other day was, or last night after the game, was talking about how mean the ref was, calling him names and so forth.
Jonathan Martin of the Dolphins now with post-traumatic stress disorder over hazing and so forth, what's been going on.
And I'm not defending any of this because I don't know what happened.
But the nature of the complaints, and they all out attack, and I don't think this is even arguable, there is an attack on masculinity that's been going on in our culture since the advent of the modern era of feminisms, the late 60s, early 70s.
And it's just they're trying to take the actual realities of life and the way people are out of it, trying to sanitize everything, and you can't.
And now we're getting into this televised discussion of who can and who can't use the N-word and how.
And let me just give you three examples of this.
And frankly, I couldn't.
This is just reprehensible to me.
Call me a fuddy-duddy if you want, but I don't want to have...
I'm not.
I will not sit around and watch this kind of stuff.
I'm not going to get caught up in it.
And I'm certainly not going to weigh and have an opinion on it.
First, TNT, inside the NBA.
The anchor Ernie Johnson speaking with Charles Barkley about Los Angeles Clippers forward Matt Barnes having to apologize after he was fined for using the N-word in a tweet after he was ejected from a game Wednesday night.
Ernie Johnson says, Charles, what do you want to get off your chest about this?
I'm a black man.
I use the N-word.
I'm going to continue to use the N-word with my black friends, with my white friends.
They are my friends.
What I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what's appropriate and inappropriate.
What we say in the locker room, the language we use sometimes is homophobic, sometimes it's sexist, and a lot of times it's racist.
White America don't get to dictate how me and Shaq talk to each other.
And they have been trying to infiltrate themselves saying, well, you guys use it.
It's in rare music.
No, no, no, no, no.
That's not the same.
Of course it's not the same.
But Chuck, and I can call you Chuck because I know you.
It's what his friends call Chuck.
It's not white America trying to insinuate themselves into what you can and can't say.
It's your good buddies on the left who are doing this.
It's your good buddy liberal Democrats who are trying to force you to speak the way they think you should.
Not white America.
It's white liberals who, in their own mind, still run their own versions of plantations.
They're the ones trying to force all this political correctness on you.
They're the one trying to take your locker room away from you.
They're the one trying to take the basketball court away from you.
They're the ones trying to take you away from you.
It isn't white America.
But what a crock.
And this isn't it.
It's a televised basketball guy.
I sit here and listen to this.
So then they went out and they found Shaq.
TNT inside the NBA during a discussion about Matt Barnes of the Clippers having to apologize after he was fined for using the N-word in a tweet after he was ejected from a game Wednesday night.
After Barkley says that as a black man, he's going to use the N-word and he's going to continue to use the N-word and white America can't stop him and it doesn't matter what's in hip-hop music.
Shaquille O'Neal then had this to say.
Chuck makes a good point.
In the Ebonic culture, we have programmed ourselves to use the word positive.
We have G14 classification to say it to each other.
But when we say it to each other, believe it or not, it's in the positive sense.
There you go.
G14 classification.
G14 classification.
So when the brothers use it, when the brothers are talking to each other and using the N-word, do you know it matters whether or not there's an A on the end of it or an ER?
If you pronounce it with an ER, that's worse than if you say it with an A. Because if you say it with an A at the end of it, you're talking to a brother in a positive way.
And these guys are getting all men out of shape now that people are trying to take their word away from them.
After how many years of America being told the word is not allowed, the word is totally prohibited.
Now we've got the sports media weighing in saying it is never permissible.
That word conjures up the worst aspects of America, and that word is never permissible.
And here come the black brothers coming around.
Oh, yes, it is.
When we say it, we're going to say it.
And you white Americans, you can't take it away from Chuck.
Shaq, it isn't white Americans trying to force their way of thinking on you.
It's your buddies on the left.
Make no mistake about it.
Now, you may find, you may think yourself on the left.
You may think yourself a Democrat or a liberal or whatever.
And if you do, it just means you have no idea who actually is lined up against you.
It's not white America.
Most of white America, frankly, couldn't care any less about this other than what it means for the overall cultural decay that may be taking place here.
But the political correctness, Chuck, that you're all bummed out here about, and everybody trying to take your word away from you, it's white liberals, Chuck.
They're the ones that run peace.
Here's Michael Wilbon.
Now, Michael Wilbon was among the group of people who said, I had no business being in the NFL.
Michael Wilbon believed a bunch of made-up quotes attributed to me, things I never said, about blacks and slavery and so forth.
And he believed I had no business being in the NFL.
None whatsoever.
He joined that chorus not knowing what he was talking about because it was politically correct.
Now, here's Wilbon.
He's on Pardon the Interruption.
This is Thursday on ESPN.
Tony Kornheiser is again after Matt Bartley had to apologize for being thrown out of a game.
Well, he used the N-word in a tweet after he was thrown out of a game.
Kornheiser said, Barnes has apologized via Twitter today.
This is what sports has become, by the way.
Sports has become all this social media claptrap.
And I'm telling you, I got just keep no desire to get involved in this stuff.
And this is why.
So Kornheiser says to Wilbon, what do you say about the issue of the use of the inflammatory N-word there, Michael?
People can be upset with me if they want.
I, like a whole lot of people, use the N-word all day, every day, my whole life.
Publicly, I wouldn't do that, but I have no issue with it.
I have a problem with, and excuse me here, white people framing the discussion for the use of the N-word.
They better not sit there like plantation owners and tell black people how to use a language that was forced on us.
Oh, okay.
So now the N-word was forced on you back in the days of slavery.
And now it's white people.
This is what sports has become.
This is what sports media has become.
I'm sorry.
Loses me.
It had nothing to do with what's taking place.
Well, I mean, Snerdley's asking me if it isn't remotely entertaining.
Of course it's entertaining, but it's full blood.
You know, the left is destroying this country, Mr. Snerdley.
They are destroying it.
I have a tough time laughing at that.
I've been laughing at it for 25 years while they continue to destroy America.
And now, here's this: Wilbon, Chuck Barkley, whatever, white America trying to take the N-word away from them?
White America, for how many years have white Americans been scared to death to say anything about anybody?
It's white leftists who are trying to take the N-word away from them.
The censors and the people on the politically correct side of things are leftists, liberals or whatever.
But here's another one.
I'm going to use it all day, every day.
I do use it all day, everybody.
I can use it.
You can't stop me.
And then, but I don't even.
I just, it's just, they're destroying the country.
They're destroying the culture.
They are, the American left is just continues to rip this country apart at the seams, or they're trying to.
And they've taken over education.
They've taken over Hollywood.
They've taken over music.
And now they're taking over sports.
And they're doing it via football and basketball.
They're making their move on it.
Pure and simple.
And they're succeeding, as far as I'm concerned.
We'll be back.
Snerdley, tell me what you think of this.
Some division of college football was going to have their championship game this past weekend.
I don't know what division it was.
Winston-Salem State versus some other team.
It's not 1A, 3A, 5A.
I mean, I don't know where it's way down there.
And there's a luncheon.
Both teams went to a luncheon the day before the game to hype it, to celebrate the sportsmanship and all that.
And a couple of players on the team playing Winston-Salem followed the Winston-Salem quarterback in the bathroom and beat the kid almost to death.
They had to cancel the game.
They beat the quarterback of the opposing team at a sportsmanship luncheon to the point that he couldn't play.
They had to cancel the game.
Everybody's wondering, well, what happened?
What is happening to our sports?
What is going on?
And then you got this guy, Matt, whatever his name is, tweeting the N-word, which is sponsoring all these other guys coming out and say, I'm not going to have that word taken away from me.
I'm going to tell you what's going to happen here, folks.
As the liberals try to take over sports via the media and the way it's covered and reported on and the way it's judged, you know, liberal sports writers are judging the players and how they play and everything.
And I guarantee it's becoming more of the coverage than what happens on the field.
You've got Bob Costas telling you what he thinks about gun control and whatever other social issue at halftime of NBC Sunday night games now.
I mean, the liberals are everywhere trying to take over the sport.
And what's going to happen here Is that there are a lot of people that watch sports who don't care a hoot about politics?
Call them the Budweiser crowd, call them the low information.
They don't care a hoot about it.
And they're sitting there and they're hearing all this and they're going to end up despising liberals.
They may not know who liberals are right now, but they're finding out who they are by watching the way they're taking over the sports that they love to watch and cover and report on.
At some point, these guys are going to say, you know, what the hell is this?
And they're going to find out who liberals are and they may end up voting against them someday.
So there could be a silver lining.
Yeah, beat the quarterback up.
I don't know.
I can't say that because the politically correct crowd, I can't characterize this kind of behavior.
Now, the leftists that cover sport can talk about this all they want in a wringing of the hands.
Oh, horrible is this to let me talk about it, you know, and ban me from even talking about ping pong.
But it's they're just taking the fun out of all this.
And they're, they're just, you know, I get enough of liberalism every day.
And I do not, sports is an escape.
Sports is a diversion.
It's always been four hours of humdrum, you know, get away from the humdrum of your daily life.
And the left is bringing it into the four hours of escape time.
And they're pummeling people with it.
And it's going to, there's going to be a blowback to it.
I would hope.
Here's George in Greensboro, North Carolina, as we start the phone today.
Hi, George.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Thanks, Russia.
Grab me on the air and giga dittos.
You're welcome, sir.
Thank you.
Great to have you here.
Sir, I'd just like to make a comment defending what you called the Coddle generation and point out the fact that they are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq without any complaint or any protest, unlike the baby boomers in Vietnam, who I think is the actual Coddle generation.
Well, now, you know, the Coddle generation is not universal or monolithic, just like the baby boom was.
I mean, I'm a baby boomer.
But not all baby boomers were 60s protesters.
And not all baby boomers are me, myself, and I, first kind of people.
And not everybody your age is coddled.
But there are, what all I mean by it is that we've now reached the point where adults, young adults that are entering the world, do come from a public education curriculum where they were coddled, where they didn't keep score, where there was no winners and losers, and there were no humiliations if you lost or any of that.
And if anybody said anything mean, they were sent home.
And if somebody pointed their finger at you as a gun, they got sent home and so forth.
All that's coming to roost now is these people get into the real world and find out that they're not protected and they're not coddled and people are people and life is life.
I'm not going to argue with you on that, but maybe you should refer to them as the children of the coddling generation.
Refer to them as the children of the coddling.
Okay, whatever.
I mean, I'm not trying to offend.
You're sitting out.
You must, you're from the coddle generation.
You're sitting out there thinking I'm talking about you.
And you're probably a he-man, self-reliant, rugged individual guy.
And you don't like what I'm saying, right?
That is absolutely correct.
That's exactly correct.
Well, the coddle, not everybody fell for it.
The public school system didn't get everybody.
Every generation has its rebels.
But I'm not going to moderate, modify, otherwise change what I'm saying.
I don't think there's any question about it.
You can see the product of public school education as people grow up and enter the workforce, see the way they've been taught, the way they've been educated.
It's just a question of whether or not you want to admit it or not.
And it's undeniable that the left and the multiculturalists have had control of public school career.
Well, I've been doing this 25 years, and the multicultural assault began on this country sooner than I've been, way before I started this program.
It's been something I've been talking about since the mid-80s, even before this program started.
And it does affect people.
It does influence young kids the way they grow up and the way they think and the way they think life is outside their protected environment.
Okay, my friends, that's it.
Another epic big broadcasting hour here from the one and only Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB network.
Lots more straight ahead.
I'm sure you can tell we've only scratched the surface.
Lots of great soundbites coming up.
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