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Nov. 19, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi folks and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh on a cutting edge societal evolution.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
The email address, LRushbo at EIBNet.com.
Seven score and ten years ago, 150 years ago, seven score plus ten, Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg address.
And the politico has seized upon the occasion to attack the Tea Party.
And I'm not going to give you the details.
I don't even want to dignify it, but they do.
That's not the point.
You see where Ken Burns, who did the Civil War documentary for PBS, 61 lawmakers and politicians and news anchors and celebrities, including every living president, have been filmed reciting the Gettysburg Address.
Well, guess what?
When Obama recited the Gettysburg Address for Ken Burns to be included in a PBS documentary, Obama left out under God from his reading of the passage that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.
He left out under God.
It's not his words.
They were Lincoln's.
Just asked to recite the Gettysburg Address.
And it's on YouTube.
I've got a link to the, I don't have it here for you, but there's a link to Obama on YouTube of Obama leaving out under God.
Why would you do that?
I mean, there's an answer.
There's a get a rise out of conservatives.
Just it's exactly an in-your-face to conservatives.
That's exactly what it is.
It's not, it really isn't that Obama is anti-God or any of that.
That's not, this is just to provoke people like Snerdley to ruin his day, make him mad all afternoon when he hears about it.
It doesn't get a rise out of me because I understand exactly what's going on out there.
By the way, folks, this ABC poll, there's one other bit of information I want to pass on to you about it, and that's the sample that shows Obama's approval at 42, that Obamacare's disapproval is at an all-time high, that if the election were today, Romney would win.
That poll was conducted.
It was a phone survey, November 14 through the 17 in English and Spanish.
Random sample 1,006 adults, including landline and cell phone respondents.
The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 points.
And the partisan division, 31, 24, 37, meaning 31% Democrats were surveyed, 24% Republicans, 37% Independents.
So even in a poll where the Democrats were weighted seven points higher than the Republicans, Obama and Obama care get shellacked and Romney would win if the election were today.
Seven-point differential.
31% of the survey was Democrat, 24% Republican.
Not good news.
I'm being asked if I happened to see the review in the Des Moines Register of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, and I did.
John Carlson is the name of the man who reviewed it, and it's a really great review of the book.
We'll link to it.
Well, I didn't print it out because this was going to be a day where I wasn't going to talk about the book, but you had to go ahead and give me a call.
You know, I'm trying not to wear people out on this.
So I didn't print it out.
I wasn't going to read it.
We'll link to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
People can go to the website and see it.
Or the Des Moines Register website, John Carlson.
It really is a nice review of the book.
Guy gets it.
And it's clever, and it's not slobbering or any of that.
It's just a real solid review of the book.
Look, since this has come up, let me tell you something that we're doing at the 2fbit.com website because we're getting lots of email from people who are like, folks, again, I'm really touched by all of this.
We're getting emails from people who are encouraging us to reach out to schools because people understand what this is.
And the guy that, Mr. Carlson at the Des Moines Register, gets it.
This is an attempt to correct the historical record as it's been distorted in the public school system.
The truth about the Pilgrims and the people that came to this country at first has been lied about to way too many kids in this country.
And the book, of course, is to correct that record.
And people are so into the mission here that they're actually encouraging us to reach out to schools.
And what they're asking us to do is to get the book, Rush Revere, and the Brave Pilgrims, to be a part of the curriculum, or at least in the school library.
They're asking us to do this.
And a sizable number of people.
Here's what we've decided to do.
If you go to 2fbit.com and click on the adventures of Rush Revere pain, there are three panes there at the bottom.
If you click on the adventures of Rush Revere, you'll find information on, we set up a free challenge.
Rush Revere and Liberty are seeking the most deserving screw or screws in the country to receive a large donation, not just the book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, but we're going to donate some American classics written by authors like Mark Twain.
In addition, the screw or screws that we choose will receive computers, supplies, any tangible item that'll improve their classrooms.
It's a contest of sorts.
500 words or less.
Let Rush Revere and Liberty know why your school or your kids' school or an impoverished school that you know of is most deserving.
It's just that simple.
Now, after get your entries in by November 30th, that's 11 days from now.
It's a perfect thing to work on during Thanksgiving.
And speaking of Thanksgiving, there's a very cute free art contest where your kids can download a picture of Liberty, the horse, the color, and come up with the best caption.
You can download Rush Revere and the kids can color it in.
And all of this is at 2fbit.com.
But we really are responding to people who are begging us to get the book into school somehow.
So it's all explained there at the adventures of Rush Revere Payne at 2ifbyt.com.
And again, we are responding to just what is a terrific idea from people and public demand.
So Rush Revere and Liberty seeking the most deserving school or schools, it could be more than one to get a large donation, not just of the Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims book, but other American classics written by authors like Mark Twain and maybe computer supplies, schools impoverished.
It's all explained there, 2fbit.com on the adventures of Rush Revere Payne.
Now, the ABC Washington Post poll, the media is beside itself.
They want to cry over this.
They have, ladies and gentlemen, this is for five years.
The media has done everything to prop this guy up.
They have hidden the bad news.
They have just, they have, whenever he's lied, they have spread the lie.
And what they have discovered is that they are unable to overcome the truth.
They are unable to overcome the reality.
The Washington Post ABC News poll is devastating.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Good morning, America, today.
George Stephanopoulos talking to Jonathan Carl.
And they're talking here about this poll that shows 70%.
This is something I haven't told you about.
70% of people think America is on the wrong track.
In addition to everything else in this poll, there is that item.
70% think the country's on the wrong track.
John, these are brutal numbers for the White House.
They sure are, George.
The lowest job approval rating we have ever seen in the ABC News Washington Post poll.
Take a look at this.
Only 42% approving of the president's job performance.
55% disapproving.
And on the health care law, a record high 57% say they oppose the law.
Only 40 is supporting it.
And George, look at this number.
We asked voters if they could have a mulligan on the 2012 presidential election.
Who would they vote for?
A plurality now say they would vote for Romney over Obama.
It's panic time.
It's panic time in D.C. Panic time at the establishment.
It's panic time at the White House.
Panic time at all of the media.
I mean, everything in this is devastating.
If this poll only held one of these items, it'd be bad.
But all of these put together, 70% wrong track.
Romney would win if the election were today.
Massive numbers disapprove of Obama, disapprove of Obamacare.
I mean, they look at this, they see the bottom falling out, and they're asking themselves, what can they do?
So Stephanopoulos says, Jonathan Carl, well, there were red flashing lights back in March about the rollout of a website.
Now, they gloss over this, but it's getting harder and harder to believe Obama about the website.
And they're even acknowledging this.
And it's harder and harder, meaning to believe he didn't know anything about it.
The news today is that everybody involved in the website knew in March it wasn't ready.
And Obama on Friday said, well, I didn't know about it until the week it rolled out.
It didn't tell me.
And it's just getting harder and harder and harder to believe him.
So here is Carl reacting to the news from Stephanopoulos that there were problems known all the way back in March.
That's right.
It turns out, we've learned from the congressional committees investigating this, that they asked a consulting firm to look at whether or not they would be ready, the McKinsey consulting firms, and they found in a March report that was presented to White House officials in April that there were real problems.
They thought the website would not be ready.
Their biggest concern is there was not enough time to do end-to-end testing.
And of course, we know that was exactly the case.
Wasn't enough time for end to end.
What is this?
The picture of me and Oprah up on Fox.
What is this?
We'll find out about it later.
Folks, there's one other website, major problems.
Obama got on the phone to supporters last night, fellow community activists and organizers, and he's going to try to give them a pep talk, to buck them up, to tell them to hang in there and be tough.
This is the call where he told them that 100 million Americans had already enrolled for Obamacare.
I mean, you talk about that's pathological.
That's just, I mean, it's 106,000.
If that, and he's out there telling his buddies 100 million have enrolled.
But some of the people who logged onto the website to hear Obama give his pep talk were unable to because the website crashed.
The Organizing for America website didn't work.
The website problems were an inconvenient moment for a president who spent the last six weeks trying to explain the failure of healthcare.gov, his online marketplace for Obamacare.
This is a New York Times story.
It's a little tiny random act of journalism here.
They probably think it's endearing.
Ah, here's our good old boy president.
He's on the phone.
He's trying to buck up his people.
He's giving them pep talking.
Oh, damn it, the website crashes on him.
Ah, this guy snake pit.
This poor guy.
But, I mean, even as the New York Times points out here, whether or not people could hear may not have mattered much.
I can't hear you, Mr. President, but I'm behind you.
One person wrote on the chat board.
Please stick it out with Obamacare.
The country needs it and you.
So it didn't matter that they couldn't hear me.
These were the true believers.
And here is a little bit of that.
We've got a super.
No, wait a minute.
Is this the same thing?
Yeah.
Number 11.
Yeah, I was going to give you the wrong one.
Number 11.
Here's a little bit of Obama on that call.
In the first month alone, we've seen more than 100 million Americans already successfully enroll in the new insurance plans.
You've got a million Americans who completed an application for themselves or their families.
And that represents about a million and a half people.
And of those million and a half people, you've already got a whole bunch of folks who've successfully signed up to get coverage.
And you've got almost 400,000 folks who could gain access to Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
So effectively, in a month, you've already got half a million Americans who will likely have the security of health care for the first time in some cases in their lives as soon as January 1st.
It's just the exact opposite.
Did you hear that, though?
100 million Americans have successfully enrolled in new insurance.
106,000.
Half a million Americans likely have the security of health care for the first time in some cases as soon as January 1st.
How about the 100-plus million who are going to be canceled starting at the first of the year, back after this?
Back to the phones we go.
This is Madeline in Cleveland.
Hi, Madeline.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for all the work that you do.
My brother's birthday was this past Sunday, 55, and we got him a book, your latest book, about Rush Revere and the Pilgrims.
Yeah, thank you.
I hope he'll lend it to me.
But anyway, I guess I have a question, a short comment.
I volunteered in.
Wait just a second.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, a second.
No, no, no, no.
We'll get your name and address and so forth.
I'll send you one because if he lends it to you, you won't give it back.
It's that good.
I know.
So we're going to send you a copy so you can have your own, okay?
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
You're welcome.
It's my pleasure.
But anyway, yeah, you're probably right he wouldn't lend it to me.
But anyway.
No, if he did, I'm saying you wouldn't give it back.
It's got kids who are waiting in line to read it, too.
That's exactly right.
And anyway, I just wanted to say that I volunteered in 2004 as well as 2012 elections.
And my statement is just that in Ohio, we did not have boots on the ground.
And, you know, I was there.
I was in the trenches.
I was in a little hole in the wall on Richmond Road.
Actually, Governor Romney.
What do you mean, boots?
You didn't have people getting the vote out, phone banks.
What do you mean?
We didn't have it.
We simply, it was not there.
Well, now, cell phone banks.
Go ahead.
Wait, in Cleveland?
Yes.
Well, maybe.
And in Cuyahoga County.
I was in Cuyahoga County.
Well, could it be that Romney just wrote that off?
I mean, isn't that a big blue county and city?
Probably.
That's a problem, but I mean, that may be the reason they did it.
Because I hadn't heard that about all of Ohio.
Well, and if you looked on the news, you know, which I did, I know, I don't know about the youth vote.
I understand what you and other people have said.
Who knows?
But at Ohio State, they had film of the young Republicans with a little tent, and then Juxtapos, that image, another image of these huge buses with rock stars on them, taking kids out, getting them food, and taking them to vote.
I mean, you just looked at the difference, and we were just banging our heads, like, what is going on?
You know, and that was in Columbus.
And I don't know about the youth vote, but maybe you're right, but I have to tell you, there was a difference in 2004.
Even in Cuyahoga County, you know, there was a grassroots ground movement that was amazing for President Bush and so much energy.
Now, I don't doubt you at all, particularly in Cuyahoga County or Cleveland.
I don't doubt you at all.
But this statewide difference that you saw between Bush in 2004 and Romney in 2012, what would you attribute it to?
I mean, it's one thing for the party to get people out, but if people are energized, they don't need the party to get them out.
You've got people volunteering.
They want to be involved.
Sounds like that's what was not happening.
I think that you had first McCain, you know, as a candidate, and then Romney.
I sort of got to know Romney and got behind him and got behind the cause because I knew what Obama stood for was kind of scary, as we're seeing, because I'm a nurse, my husband's a doctor, okay?
So we were really afraid of this whole Affordable Care Act thing.
And my husband's with, you know.
Well, you guys get to play doctor every day.
Oh, it's not.
It's very, it's difficult under the best of circumstances.
Yes, there has to be economizing.
There has to be a way to spend.
Redundancy is a problem.
But remember, Obamacare is about insurance, not health care.
Right.
Okay.
And control of the economy, a big portion of the economy.
I think people have to remember that.
We aren't even talking about health care, improving health care, or seeing who gets health care and who doesn't get health care yet.
That's down the road.
But I was also a volunteer for Orca, which never happened.
I think you mentioned it once on your show.
It was this big computer program that was supposed to take place the night of elections across the country.
And I think there was some overconfidence.
I've talked with people since and I think there was a lot of, oh man, could I tell you a story?
Yeah, I think I will.
I think I will.
Yeah.
Your guiding light times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, lies, deceit, chaos, misrepresentation.
And even the good times.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
Yeah, this Orca business.
It was many things.
Primarily, it was a get-out-the-vote website for Romney, and it was a metrics website.
They were going to be able to determine on election day where they needed to get people going, and it didn't work.
It was a website.
It didn't work.
It was a website that was not tested beginning to end.
It was a website put together by politicians and consultants.
And damned, it just didn't work.
Strange how that happens.
No, this story is not that big a deal.
Now, in fairness, one thing that there's a hacker group out there called Anonymous.
They run around wearing the guy Fawkes masks and all that.
They claimed that they kept Orca from working.
Or as they say, they claim they kept Carl Rowe from stealing Ohio.
But Romney, Romney was polling ahead in Ohio, only lost it by two points.
People remember.
Anyway, the story's not that big a deal, folks.
I ran into somebody ranking Romney official not long ago who asked me if I'd ever heard of Saul Olinski.
And I was surprised when I said I had.
There was a little regret that they didn't know who he was sooner.
But.
Shannon in Dayton, Ohio.
Welcome to EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Sorry for sounding cynical here, but I don't know why you're getting excited about the NBC and Washington Post poll numbers, because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter.
The takers now outnumber the makers.
And as long as government's going to be the sugar daddy to all these recipients that's getting food stamps, free housing, cell phones, you name it, they're going to keep voting for them.
But that's not true.
Sure, it is.
That's not true because all the commentators on Fox are saying this is the end of liberalism.
No, I don't believe that one bit.
I'm a conservative.
And this poll is an early indicator of that.
I mean, all this disapproval of Obamacare and if the election were held at Romney, they're interpreting this means that the gloss is gone from Obama and people are maybe figuring out that big government can't take care of him.
Yeah, but the problem is people are just ignorant.
As long as they're getting free stuff, as long as they're being rewarded for bad behavior, they're going to keep doing it.
Right.
And the bottom line is they now outnumber us.
And the Democrats have an excellent, excellent campaign strategy.
When you got these early voting going on, what do they do?
They bust people in left and right.
They got a month to do it.
With happy meals.
I'm sorry.
With happy meals.
Exactly.
On the bus.
So if they outnumber us and if they keep giving free stuff away, promising that they're going to give them free stuff, I just don't see how we're ever going to have a Republican president in the near future.
Well, do you really believe, seriously now, that we have reached the point where we are outnumbered?
I do.
From what I've seen here in Ohio, I do.
You know, you got the Democrats that are bussing these college students in to these voting booths every 30 minutes.
Every time President Obama comes down and gives his campaign speech, they bust them straight to the voting booth.
They have such a great campaign game going on that.
Okay, now George Bush was elected as recently as 204.
Okay.
That's nine years ago.
Do you think in nine years, I mean, that was the country, and that was a sizable margin over John Kerry.
So you think in nine years, we have lost the country.
Well, I think that in the last five years, we had 27 million people on food stamps.
Now we've got 49 million people on food stamps.
And like I said, as long as you keep rewarding people for bad behavior, they're going to keep taking it.
Well, I understand that.
There's no argument there.
But is everybody on food stamps a lazy bum?
Or maybe do they want to work and can't because Obama's destroyed the job sector Well, they said that the average person on government assistance makes $17 an hour.
So if they make if they're making $17 an hour sitting on their butt, what makes you think they're going to get off their butt and go to work?
Okay.
So the Washington Post poll and story and all that meaningless.
What then is the solution?
Well, the Drive-Buy Media is always, well, has always, at the end of the day, supported the liberals.
And until the Drive-Buy media actually starts doing journalism, nothing's going to change, in my opinion.
Well, that's not going to happen.
I agree with you that the media is right there at the top of our problems.
There's no argument for me, but they're not going to change.
And they were like this.
How did Ronald Reagan win?
I'm just picking your brain here because you had in the 70s, we almost are repeating circumstances here.
You've got a president wallowing in disfavor, economic melees.
Well, he won because there's a sense of pride.
You know, and you didn't have 99-week unemployment checks coming in, and you didn't have all this government assistance.
That's how he won.
Well, you had a sizable amount of it.
You had a sizable welfare state even back then.
My point is, do you think it's over?
You're sounding awfully fatalistic here.
I'm a Tea Party conservative.
I'm just trying to be realistic with you.
From what I see, I see a lot of people that they're just uneducated.
And as long as they're getting free stuff, you know, they're going to keep running it until the wheels fall off.
Well, when is that going to happen?
Because some people think that the money is going to run out, but it never will.
The government's going to be always, the government, this government will never run out of money.
They can print it.
They can steal it.
They'll never run out of money.
Exactly.
That's exactly what they're going to do.
They're just going to keep printing money and keep printing money.
And I personally, I don't see an end in sight.
I mean, we're so far down the rabbit hole, it doesn't matter.
And everybody expects, well, not everybody, but the majority of the takers now, they expect it.
And if you say something about it or call them out on it, you're either a racist or you're just one of those people that you just don't care.
You're a bigot, mean-spirited.
Now, what if the next Republican presidential candidate tries as his appeal, a Reagan-esque appeal to the goodness and decency of the American people and says in his campaign that he believes that the American people can rise to the challenge, that it's in them and that they have the desire and the ability and wants to try to inspire and motivate people to get out of that cycle of dependence that they're in.
Is there any way that a really good candidate could help overcome this, do you think?
Well, I think Romney did a good job for the most part.
He's a businessman.
He knows how to create jobs.
But unfortunately, if you don't have the media backing you, you're not going to win it.
Because as long as you tell a lie, as long as you tell it often and long enough, the dumb masses, they're going to believe you.
Okay, well, then we have to somehow get rid of the media.
Well, good luck with that.
Okay, so you sound awfully fatalistic.
It's over.
I don't think it's over for the Republican Party.
I think that we can still get the majority in the House and Senate, but I just don't see a Republican nominee in the near future.
Unless the media picks him.
Like, for example, they've already, it seems to me that they've already picked Christie as the Republican president.
Yes, they have.
So I think that as long as the media is on your side.
Well, do you support the?
They've picked Christie to be the nominee.
They have not picked him to be president.
Big difference.
Yeah, but they will.
I mean, as far as picking up.
You think they'll pick Christie over Hillary?
You think they'll pick Christie over Hillary?
No.
No, I'm asking.
What I'm saying is they'll pick if there's more than one person running for a Republican presidential nominee, they'll pick him because he's more moderate.
Right, right, right, right, right.
But they're not going to pick him to be president.
They'll pick him to be the nominee.
No, no.
No.
They'll do a McCain on him.
Right, exactly.
Well, I should retire then.
Well, I hope not.
I mean, the problem is there's just not enough people out there that want to hear the truth.
And there's not enough people that are educated.
And I think there's a lot of truth to that.
I don't think it's that people are not being reached.
think there are some people just don't want to hear it.
I think there's a lot to be said for the fact that it's tough to light a fire under people who are, look at, this is why I keep making the point and I, You got 91.5 million people not working.
That's huge.
That's unfathomable to me.
In a country like ours, in a tinhorn dictatorship, I can see it, but 91.5 million people.
They're adults.
I don't know what the adult population is.
The total population, 300 mil plus, but the adult population, 91 million not working, yet they are all eating.
That's what he's saying.
What's the point of working?
They're all eating.
Why would you upset the apple cart that's feeding you while you can't or don't want to get a job?
And I've this criticism of the media.
I've got a lot of people that say this to me.
You know, you're just, you're spitting into the wind here, Limboy.
You don't know that the media.
It's all that's the media.
It's the media.
It's the media.
As long as the media, they're never going to have a chance.
We're never going to win.
The media, the media, the media.
Well, the media is never going to change, not in our lifetimes.
To change the media, you're going to have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom.
And then you're going to have to change the grade school and junior high or middle school and high school curriculum.
And this is where we're creating these people.
And I hearken back to Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
But if you are of the belief that we cannot ever win because of the media, they aren't going to change.
They are never going to pick somebody who is conservative or Tea Party or anything close to actually be president.
And if one happens to get elected, they're going to spend the next waking hours trying to destroy him like they did Bush.
The problem here is the Republican Party doesn't know how to do battle with that.
Anyway, look, Shannon, I got to go because I'm way long here in this segment.
We'll be back, though, folks.
Don't go away.
Jesse, somewhere in Texas.
I have one minute, but I wanted to get to you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Mega Air Force Brad Dittos.
Thank you.
I wanted to call and let you know I'm working in healthcare.
I'm actually a controller for a hospital, but I had heard rumors that this was happening.
But my wife last week had a family doctor appointment with a normal gin.
And one of the, or two of the mandatory questions she was asked is, do you own a gun in your house?
And then do you keep it loaded in your house?
They would not register her as a patient until she answered that question.
Yeah, now you had heard that was coming, but you didn't know it was real until yesterday.
Well, until last week when my wife had that appointment, she came home and I was shocked.
You were shocked, even though you had heard about it before.
I heard rumors, but I was like, there's no way a healthcare provider is going to ask that kind of question.
Unless they are mandated to by the federal government.
Well, and I figure it's part of the AMR EMR mandates that are part of Obamacare, but just the sheer fact that they asked the question and they wouldn't even let her register as a patient until she answered the question blew my mind.
Right.
Well, that's the tip of the iceberg of the things that they're going to know about everybody who signs up.
We are still paying the price of the New Deal.
That's when it was established that government can buy you and provide for you.
No question about it.
Folks, it's been great.
I've enjoyed it immensely, and I know you have if I did.
And so we'll see you tomorrow.
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