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Nov. 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 18, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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I don't have any details on this.
I just have a flash.
AP breaking news, Florida officials.
Say that George Zimmerman is arrested after deputies respond to a disturbance call at house.
That's all I have.
But I do know this.
I do know that the drive-by's will be all over this.
Anything to get away from talking about Obamacare.
You know, these people in the media have been so desperate to stop talking about Obamacare.
They're actually pretending to care about these tornadoes in uh in Illinois, which is flyover country.
The tornadoes in Washington, Illinois, and Manhattan, Illinois, which I guess makes them think that they're big places.
But you know normally they couldn't care less about tornadoes in the Midwest or floods or what have you.
It's flyover country.
But they're so eager to talk about anything.
It's a little early for the Kennedy anniversary stuff to start.
They got that they got that on hold, and they have that laying and wait.
You got Jake Harney out there now, the regime spokeskin, saying that the objective, the goal is to have eighty percent of people successfully what?
Sign up on Obamacare by the end of the month.
That's that's the new success measure.
If 80% can get in there and uh and and sign up.
Just confirm the uh the regime's goal is to see 80% of users able to complete their enrollment process by November 30th, which means that the regime today acknowledged a willingness to accept 20% failure rate.
Now imagine if a private sector business tried to get away with that.
But the regime wants us to sing their praises over a failure rate.
That's only 20%.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, for those of you who think I may be Oh, by the way, did you Donovan McNabb, we're talking about sports and stuff today.
Donovan McNabb says that Jimmy Johnson, a five-time NASCAR champion, is not an athlete.
Absolutely not, no way, says McNabb.
No way that auto racers, drivers, are athletes.
USA Today today has a story, double standards scene when boys abused by women.
Studies indicate that women commit 20% of 20% of sex crimes against children, but society doesn't let boys think of themselves as victims.
Because they're the predators.
Boys are predators.
It's not possible for boys to be victims unless they're gay.
And then they can be victims.
New York Times.
Ground shaking noise rocks NFL and eardrums take big hit.
So in the New York Times today, it's not just concussions and bullying and eating more when your team gets beat that we have to be worried about.
Oh, you didn't hear about that?
No, no.
The drive-by's recently did a story on peep people who eat way too much when their teams lose.
Because they get depressed, and all they do is start eating.
It's a major contributing factor to obesity.
Is people overeating when their teams lose.
You don't think that there is an assault on this, folks?
You need to wake up.
Now it's not just concussions and bullying And eating more when your team loses.
Now your hearing is at risk if you go to an NFL game.
Pull quote.
But all that noise can come with a serious cost.
With peaks for touchdowns and troughs at timeouts, the average volume during an NFL game is probably in the mid-90 decibel range, said Elliot Berger, an acoustical engineer at 3M, which makes protective hearing devices.
At those levels, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommends limiting exposure to 60 minutes.
Well, there's a problem because the average NFL game lasts three hours.
And Elliot Berger said that somebody screaming at close range could reach 120 decibels, which is as loud as an ambulance siren.
Fans accustomed to hollering may scoff at the warnings as nanny state silliness, but to auditory experts, the danger is very real.
That's what it says.
I'm quoting.
To auditory experts, the danger is very real.
So you go to an NFL game, you could get beaten up by bullies who are fans of the opposing team.
Your team could lose and you could overeat and get obese and then get type 2 diabetes and put a lot of strain on Obamacare.
The players are out dying of concussions.
And who knows whatever else in now.
The fans are facing a grave danger of hearing loss because the decibel level in NFL stadiums is way beyond what OSHA says is healthy.
And they go on to say in the story that the NFL encourages this.
The NFL encourages this noise that's destroying people's hearing.
So you fans, you can't win.
You stay at home and you eat Doritos and drink beer, and then you really overeat if your team loses.
You're probably buying flat screens that you can't afford to watch the games.
Then you watch the games and the players you watch are getting concussions, and they're walking around with CTE, and there's bullying going on in the locker rooms, and they won't let women play.
It's just a mess.
And if you go to the stadium, you get bullied by unruly fans who are getting drunk.
You have to watch the players get concussions and otherwise suffer irreparable harm on the field, and then you lose your hearing because it's too loud.
This is in the New York Times.
This will become a story, therefore.
This will become a series of studies.
The NFL makes a big deal.
Sports media makes a big deal about the noise in stadiums and how advantageous it is for the home team, oftentimes called a 12th man, Texas AM, Seattle Seahawks.
But now there's something for the left to wring their hands over.
You could lose your hearing in an NFL game.
So expect to see on cable TV the doctors who are analysts and experts being queried by anchors about the seriousness of this charge.
And is it really a grave danger to attend an NFL game?
So now not only are parents going to let their kids play the game anymore, they might not let their kids go to games anymore.
You could lose your hearing, you can get fat type 2 diabetes, get beaten up by a bully, and watch a player get ruined and injured for life.
That's not that doesn't dovetail with life.
As the left wants you to live it.
To the audio sound bites.
Now, this is Manchester, New Hampshire on Saturday night.
The annual Jefferson Jackson dinner is a Democrat dinner.
Democrat crowd.
And the governor of Maryland, Martin O'Malley, delivered the keynote address.
Now remember now it's a room full of Democrats.
The Jefferson Jackson dinner.
New Hampshire.
That means that Martin O'Malley is thinking about running for president in the Democrat primary.
Now, what do you think Martin O'Malley would be talking about?
Governor of Maryland, New Hampshire, Democrat Jefferson Jackson dinner running for president, maybe.
What is he talking about?
Reduce Social Security benefits and Medicare coverage, cut student loans, cut veterans' benefits, invest less in education, invest less in affordable college, do less to combat climate change, do less on gun safety, do nothing to fix our immigration system and keep families who are trying to survive on the minimum wage from ever earning even another penny.
It would appear that the only thing that they want more of is Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh didn't get an applause line here in New Hampshire, I see.
Why would I, in a room full of Democrats?
In fact, there was some applause in there.
This is a smattering of the why would I get applause in a room full of Democrats?
This guy running for president thinking about me.
Now let's go through his list.
Because what he's trying to say is that Republicans want less of everything.
They want to reduce Social Security benefits and Medica coverage.
We don't have any money, Governor O'Malley.
They want to cut student loans.
Obama's running that.
They want to cut veterans' benefits.
No, we don't, but we don't have the money for any of this.
This just boils it all down to O'Malley and every liberal Democrat in the there's no end to the money.
Doesn't matter that we're 17 trillion dollars in debt.
They want to invest less in education.
I mean, this is this this is what's what's the word I'm looking for?
This is boilerplate.
Nothing innovative whatsoever about what this guy's saying.
Invest less in affordable college.
Who's running the college system and keeping tuition costs high?
Do less to combat climate change.
It's a hoax.
You know, I I look at a guy like this.
What is his name?
Martin.
I don't know.
I'm considered a oh, I know he I I know he's a hot item in Democrat circles.
I know.
I just I think this is an example of the vanishing masculinity.
That that's this this this kind of talk, this kind of attitude.
I mean, this is just I don't know.
Here's uh Mark Maxie Shields.
This is Friday night PBS News Hour, Judy Woodruff speaking with Maxie Shields about Obamacare and Obama's press conference talking about the problems with the rollout and what he's trying to do to fix it.
And Judy Woodruff said, with the president acknowledging yesterday that he was not on top of this, Mark.
He really didn't know all these problems.
What could he be doing and saying at this point to get beyond this?
There wasn't this is mine, and I'm gonna make sure that it never happens again.
I mean, this is gonna work.
Judy, this is beyond the Obama administration.
If this goes down, if the Obama if health care, the Affordable Care Act is deemed a failure, this is the end.
I really mean it, of liberal government.
Time and again, social programs have made the difference in this country, that public confidence for that will be so depleted, so diminished, that I really think the change the the equation of American politics changes.
Holy smokes, this guy believes it.
They really think that if Obamacare goes as the end of liberal government?
It does have to go.
I mean, there's no question it has to go, but I just the end of liberal government, they're really sitting there.
You know what this means?
Maxie is really concerned here that what's going to happen is that all these low information people are going to suddenly wake up and realize that government's not the answer if this thing goes down the tubes.
They're really worried that that could happen.
That's what he's saying.
Don't sit there and frown at me.
Is exactly what he's saying.
The end of liberal government.
Time and again, social programs have made the difference in this country.
And that's FDR, folks.
That's the new deal that is going back to the New Deal.
Oh, this makes me so tempted to start talking about the Kennedy assassin, but it's still early.
I've got to keep that in reserve.
So anyway, he wasn't quite finished.
He says here that the public confidence for liberal government be so depleted, so diminished, that I really think the change, the equation of American politics changes.
And then he added this.
The one thing that could say the Democrats haven't given that apocalyptic assessment is the Republicans.
They are rooting for failure.
They're just cheering for failure.
There's not a sense of what we can do to make this work or this isn't going to work, but we're going to come up with something better.
There just isn't.
Well, I can disprove that because Scott, even Scott Walker, the governor of uh of Wisconsin's out talking about the need for an alternative to this.
Which I kind of cringe at.
But Republicans are rooting for failure of Obamacare.
Now I gotta be very, very careful here, because this could be a trap.
But are the Republicans rooting for failure of Obamacare?
or are instead Republicans actually rooting for a health care system that works.
I mean, what does Obamacare failing really mean?
Now, to somebody like Mark Maxie Shields, it's it's an indictment of liberalism.
It's the end of big government, it's the end of Obama's credibility.
To me, Obamacare failing is almost the equivalent to saving the health care business.
The whole health care industry, the whole health care apparatus of this country.
Obamacare succeeding is going to destroy it.
Obamacare succeeding is nothing more than the politicization of health care.
The enshrined politicization of health care.
That's what Obamacare's succeeding is.
Obamacare doesn't fix health care.
Obamacare doesn't improve it.
Obamacare does not lower costs, it doesn't make it more of a Obamacare doesn't do anything.
But siphon one-sixth of the private sector into government control and put it in control of Democrats.
That's that's it just politicizes it.
That's all it does.
Those of us who are opposed to Obamacare are trying to save the health care industry.
Trying to maintain the best health care system in the world.
Obamacare destroys it.
And I doubt that Shields has any concept of that.
To him, it's nothing but a political litmus test.
Obamacare being passed and being imposed on people equals liberal dominance and success.
Whatever happens to people and their health and their health care and then their insurance obviously is irrelevant to him because it gets worse under Obamacare.
The disconnect here is profound as far as I'm concerned.
To these people, it's nothing more than their mad cap desire to take control over something.
And if they fail to get control over it, oh no, that's the end of liberal government.
Which is what?
The control of everybody.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, this has become now a theme on the left.
Mark Maxy Shields on Friday night, and now Todd Purdom, who is Mr. D.D. Myers, is writing in the politico, and he writes the fiasco of the launch of Obama's sweeping health care overhaul has put the reputation of big government progressivism at risk for at least this generation.
And its future now rests on the president's ability to reverse that debacle and to demonstrate that his approach to covering millions of uninsured Americans is not only an enlightened but workable policy.
Obama's challenge is now nothing less than to assure that the cycle of progressivism he presumed to usher in, and the period of renewed faith and confidence in the transformative powers of government that he promised does not die a morning.
That will be no easy task.
So Obamacare is now threatening the reputation of socialism.
And if Obama is unable to reverse this, then the reputation of big government socialism is at risk for this generation.
You know what my question is?
What big government program hasn't failed?
Why should the failure of Obamacare mean the end of liberalism?
I know what these guys are saying.
This is they can't cover this one up.
This is all on them.
They can't shift the blame to anybody.
The Republicans didn't vote for this.
The Republicans are all opposed to this.
But I'm gonna tell you, I don't know what they're gonna do, uh, folks, because the the cancellations for people that have employee provided, employer provided uh insurance, those cancellation notices start going out soon for next year.
We're talking 158 million people that are gonna lose the doctor and the policy that they like, and it's gonna be far more than 8% of the population.
So apparently the message has gone out from on high.
You Democrats, you had better circle the wagons around Obamacare, and you had better stop criticizing it because our way of life depends on this.
That's that's what's good.
Mark Maxie Shields, and now here's Todd Pertham and the Politico, and they're all sending the this could be the end of life as we know it.
You've got a circle of wagons, you've got to support Obamacare, you can't abandon it.
Now, I've got a couple stories here.
Scott Brown has a column at Fox News, the former Massachusetts Senator.
Democrats flee from Obamacare disaster, but voters will find them in 2014.
His point is that these Democrats who are trying to make it look like they oppose Obamacare and they're very upset, they want you to be able to keep your policy.
He thinks that they're trying to cover themselves for 2014, but that voters are going to remember.
And they're not going to let them, these Democrats get away with temporarily abandoning something they voted for.
That's his theory.
But I mean, there are two or three stories in my stack today about Democrats abandoning Obamacare.
Democrats who are vulnerable in 2014 who are running away from it.
And I think the regime's scared of this.
I really do.
And that's what's the message has gone out.
You better not run away from us, because it isn't just Obama.
It isn't just the Obamacare.
It's your way of life.
It's liberalism, it's big government.
It's going to go by the wayside if you people abandon us and let this thing go down the tubes.
So they're, I don't know if you call it panic or what have you.
But I think it is.
I I I these people, folks, they don't, they really are, they're not that bright.
I mean, they're short-sighted and they believe just in just all they have to do, they make pronouncements.
They just pronounce that we're going to cover the uninsured, and it happens.
And we're gonna Obamacare law the way it happens.
And they doesn't just happen.
You don't just say I'm passing a law that insures the uninsured, and it just happens.
Jim Moran is predicting a mutiny of what?
If what isn't fixed?
If Obamacare is not fixed, Jim Moran, Baghdad Jim Moran is predicting the Virginia.
Oh, okay.
That's yeah, that's McDermott, Baghdad McDermott, McDermott, Washington.
Jim Moran, Virginia, who is a he's a hack, but that's being nice.
So these guys are actually going to be a mutiny if Obamacare falls apart.
Well, this is where Obama not caring about the Democrats all these years might come back and bite him because he's not gone out of his way to help him, give him money.
He's um we'll see.
Just see what kind of loyalty they really have to him.
Marge and Gilbert, Arizona, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Ah, yes.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
You bet.
Yeah, I am from Arizona.
I'm a Sun fan.
Yay.
And I also like Red Zone.
So uh I listened to Barkley and I heard him say what he said, and I usually listen to that at halftime because it's like comic relief during halftime.
But anyway, he was blaming white people for not being able to say what he wanted to say.
But uh he also said he used to be a Republican, but now he's a Democrat and Max Brock uh Obama.
Well, Brock's telling him what he can say and what he can't say and what he can eat and what he can't eat, and you're in insurance, what insurance he can buy.
So, you know, that's the thing.
That that's that's that's the reaction that I had.
Here's you know it's been a while since the first hour.
Let me grab the sound by dance.
Number 17.
This is Chuck Barkley, and this is in the N NBA uh playoff, well, not playoff.
I can't find the stupid piece of paper.
Anyway, Barkley on TNT, and bouncing off the fact that a Clippers player used the N-word and apologized for it on Twitter, and here's Barkley reacting to all 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 a locker room, the language we use sometime 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.
Chuck.
White America is not trying.
White America's scared to death of running a foul of you, Chuck.
It is white liberals who are trying to tell you what you can and can't say, Chuck.
And it's white liberals who are trying to tell you where and where you can't get health care.
And it's white liberals, Chuck, who are telling you what you can and can't eat.
And it's white liberals, Chuck, who are telling you you're getting fat and obese.
And it's white liberals who are disapproving of everything.
You know, this thing over the N-word is one of the first noticeable breaks we've had in the left and the black community.
Well, certain members of the black community.
Can you believe this?
Here is Barkley on TV making the case for how he wants to be able to use the N-word.
When he uses it, it's fine.
It's a positive, and he's not going to let any white Americans tell him he can't.
And there aren't any white Americans telling him he can't.
It's the people like Al Sharpton who raise hell whenever the words used.
It's the New York Times who has to call George Zimmerman a white Hispanic in order to carry forth this myth.
But it is the left and white liberals, Chuck, who are trying to control what you say, what you eat, what you think, what you drive, where you go, what kind of sport is permissible in America, and what kind of sport is too dangerous.
And I there there was a time I knew Chuck when he played for the Phoenix Suns, I actually took a couple of road trips with them.
In fact, one of the championship series when they were playing the the uh as Magic Johnson said, the Chicago Boo.
And Chuck was a I we were friends.
I didn't know him that well, but he was always nice as he could be to me.
And in fact, Chuck had this at this time.
He had this Annual fundraising charity thing.
And one year I was in Orlando, and he asked me if I would attend.
He just said, we'd like you to come here.
A lot of people would like to meet you.
And I get down there and I find out I've accepted an invitation to be the keynote speaker.
He hadn't told me that.
I find out three hours before I'm going out.
I'm the keynote speaker, that's the thousand people.
Uh, and and so forth.
And I ran into him a couple of times in uh in the bathroom in Las Vegas.
Uh, and say, hey, Chuck, how are you?
And then Obama gets elected and everything changed.
I can remember Chuck was with Fuzzy Zeller once at a golf outing in Philadelphia.
And he sent, he sent a message to me through Fuzzy, and it was, hey, tell tell Rush the liberals are going to be held in check here, not to worry about it.
Chuck's lost now.
Ever since Obama's been elected.
Chuck was going to run for governor of Alabama's a Republican, wasn't he?
And now all of a sudden here Chuck out there making the case for the N-word, and he's not going to let white America take it away from white America's not trying to.
The political correct crowd is white liberals.
Anyway, you may as well play uh uh Shaq next because Shaq had to get on in this.
He's on the same show.
Shaquille O'Neal, here's what he had to say.
Chuck makes a good point.
In the Ibana 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 a positive sense.
Yeah, so the Obama culture.
The Obama culture, bro, bro.
The Obama culture, bro, the Obama culture.
I didn't know that was about, I knew it was a language.
All right.
So they're making a case of the Obama culture and uh it's a yeah, G14 classification, which is the highest ranking government job you can get.
Whatever.
Anyway, uh the thing it what Chuck doesn't know is a lot of people probably agree with Chuck on the left being so omnipresent and trying to shut people up here or there, but Chuck's just blaming it on the wrong crowd.
Anyway, I this is why folks sports is becoming something that I'm finding less and less enjoyable.
Because this is what sports casting has become.
Sports commentaries, this garbage.
Anyway, I got to take a break.
A little long sit tight, back with more after this.
Grab some by number 12 real quick.
This is uh New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
And she was on Sundays this week on ABC with Martha Raditz, and here she admits that they all knew that that people were going to lose their coverage because Obamacare mandates that everybody buy everybody who wants it, birth control pills.
She admits it.
Listen.
No, we all knew.
The whole point of the plan is to cover things people need, like preventive care, birth control, pregnancy.
How many women, the minute they get pregnant, might have risked their coverage?
How many women paid more because of their gender because they might get pregnant?
So we all have to pay for that, and that put everybody's policy in conflict with Obamacare.
And that's why your plans getting canceled.
Is because you have to pay for people like Kirsten Gillibrand's birth control pills and whoever else wants them.
But the point is, she's oh, we all knew.
We all knew these plans were gonna be canceled.
And Obama knew it.
But the tip of the iceberg starts next year when employer-provided plans get canceled.
And now we're not talking about 8%.
We're talking 150 plus million people.
Yeah, good old Kirsten Gillibrand.
She said that Obama should have been more specific.
How much more specific could he have been?
He said, You will not lose your doctor if you like your doctor.
You won't lose your plan if you like your plan.
I mean, it's it's outright fraud.
It's a huge, huge lie.
And all these Democrats are now coming along and basically confirming that they knew, and everybody else knew that what Obama was saying was not true.
Thanks for being with us today, folks.
Sit tight.
We're back in 21 hours and do it all over.
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