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Nov. 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 21, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Folks, I'm not going to fall for it, and I don't want you to fall for it either.
This is one of the biggest attempted distractions.
Don't get worked up over this today.
It's not worth it.
Dingy Harry's out there threatening to go do the nuclear option to end the filibuster as we know it.
And this is nothing more, and don't be fool for a minute about this, nothing more than a desperate attempt by the Democrats to distract everybody away from Obamacare and the disaster.
That's all it is.
There's nothing even on the uh on the Senate docket, if you will, that would even relate to this right now.
They're just trying to get the Republicans all bent out of shape and uh and distracted about this.
Uh well, I will allow myself to be distracted by this filibuster ploy for just one second.
Because I just want to remind you that eight years ago, back in 2005, when the Democrats were in the minority in the Senate, Dingy Harry vehemently opposed changing the filibuster rules.
One IOTA.
And now all of a sudden it's time to do this, and the drive-bys are falling for it.
They've been all over this like it's the biggest news story of the day, and it isn't.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you.
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Little pop quiz.
What do you call a politician who is pro-life?
What do you call a politician who is for lower taxes?
What do you call a politician who is for a strong national defense?
What do you call a president who is a proud nationalist, proud to be an American.
What do you call that person?
That is John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
That is who JFK was.
And that is the second attempted drive-by media Democrat Party distraction today.
Although there's a little bit more justification for spending time on the 50th anniversary of that assassination than there is on this nuclear option business.
Let me tell you how ridiculous this is getting.
You and I all know, Warren Report, whatever, we all know that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy.
I know.
I can hear right now people throwing things at the radio, shouting things at the radio.
That Lee Harvey Oswald fired on the president, okay?
We know this.
And we know what about Harvey Oswald.
Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist.
We know that a leftist, a communist assassinated JFK.
That is the official Warren Report conclusion.
And yet the media cannot let go of the fact that because there were a lot of white Republican businessmen in Dallas, that it was a climate of hate, a climate of fear, a climate of extremism in Dallas that led to Kennedy's death.
Every conspiracy theory that you have heard that makes you think Lee Harvey Oswald was not the assassin was started by the Democrats.
Everyone, you go back and look at these wacko movies that they made with all the focus in New Orleans, you will find wacko leftist filmmakers who started all of these conspiracy theories.
And the reason why is that the Democrat Party and the American left at the time Could not they they were they were flabbergasted, they were shocked, they were stunned, they were they just in a state of massive disbelief that a leftist at the time, ladies and gentlemen, I can show you the documentation.
At the time, the Democrat Party and the American left, just like today, felt that the right wing, people like Reagan and Goldwater, posed a much greater threat to America than Soviet or Chicom communism.
There's no mistake about it.
It's not arguable.
And that's why they were so discombobulated over the fact that a communist killed JFK.
A communist killed and wiped out Camelot, which, by the way, didn't even exist while Kennedy was alive.
Camelot was created as a massive public relations scheme by Jackie O. Well, she wasn't Jackie O yet.
She was still Jackie Kennedy.
Massive PR scheme.
Can I last night, I think it was last night.
I don't maybe it hasn't aired.
I I read a um a little blurb promoting a piece that Bob Costis is doing on some NBC cable network on the Kennedy assassination and what it was like to be a member of the Dallas Cowboys that year.
The shame, the embarrassment of being from Dallas.
And the blurb on this program, now get this.
The blurb on this program that I read said that one of the cowboys from that year, 1963, to be interviewed by Bob Custis on the NBC cable special was tight end Pettis Norman.
And in the blurb that I read, promoting this Bob Costus show on NBC, some cable network, Pettis Norman is quoted as saying we were all worried that some right winger was going to kill the president.
Really?
We're being asked to believe that the Dallas Cowboys had a player or players prior to Kennedy's trip to Dallas that were worried the right wing was going to assassinate JFK.
The blurb that I read, and I've not seen the show.
I don't know where to find this cable network.
I haven't looked very hard, but I imagine some of you might watch it.
Some of you may have seen the show.
The blurb that I read said that Pettis Norman, the receiver for the Cowboys, actually said that I mean, that's that is the that's an example of how just off the rails this is, and and the attempt to totally change the narrative.
Folks, a right winger didn't kill Kennedy.
A right winger didn't even get a gun and get camped out to kill Kennedy.
A left winger, a communist killed President Kennedy.
And the left still can't accept that.
They still have to indict Dallas, the Dallas of the Day.
Even though who was from New Orleans?
Well, well, he was from New Orleans, but he lived in Dallas.
I mean, but he was from Moscow.
Oswald was from Moscow.
He came back from Moscow from Soviet-sponsored training for this.
Right.
We was working with the Fair Play for Cuba committee.
I mean, really on a sports show, you know, the cowboys went into Cleveland and played the Cleveland Browns.
What they're also trying to do in history revision, they're every every sports network and website is now saying that that weekend is the darkest weekend in the history of the NFL.
Because Alvin Pete Rosel, the commissioner of the day, made the decision to play the games.
And now everybody still alive that was in the NFL in those days is now saying we told Pete not to do it.
We told Pete not to play.
Nobody wants, I mean, Pete Rosell was on an island, apparently that weekend is the only guy now that wanted to play.
I mean, this revisionist history, this is just over the top.
I don't know Pettis Norman, and I I firmly believe that the media can create people thinking this guy.
I'm sure Pettis Norman, if he says, Well, yeah, we were worried some right winger was gonna come in and kill Kennedy that's probably the result of a bunch of media since the assassination that has put the notion in everybody's mind that Dallas was a hotbed of what?
Right wing assassins.
Right wing assassins.
I'm I'm so I just don't believe it.
I don't believe in the Cowboys locker room that week, they're all worried that Kennedy's coming to town and some right winger's gonna kill him.
But that is what he's quoted as saying.
Maybe he apparently does say it.
So who am I?
I just I just it just out of this world.
Kennedy was not assassinated by anybody, the right wing from Dallas.
These conspiracy theories, many of them, I kid you not, Soviet specialists who've analyzed a lot of these, have concluded that the KGB funded a lot of the conspiracy theories.
Do you remember one of the great conspiracy theorists?
I say great, one of them, well, it was a guy named Mark Lane, and he was probably the first conspiracy theorist funded by the KGB, whether he knew it or not.
Mark Lane wrote the first conspiracy book on the Kennedy assassination was called Rush to Judgment.
That's before anybody knew who I was.
That's sign of the power I was yet to acquire.
Rush to judgment, it was the first book to attack the Warren Commission.
It came out before the Warren Commission report.
Lee Harvey Oswald lived in Dallas for a few months, all told.
He was from Moscow by way of New Orleans.
According to uh former KGB officer Varsili Mitrokin, in his 1990 book, Disordered in the Shield, the KGB helped finance Mark Lane's research on rush to judgment without Mark Lane's knowledge.
The KGB allegedly used an intermediary, a friend of Lane, who was a KGB contact.
I mean, all of the all this conspiracy crap back then was leftist conjured.
The conspiracies were of leftists.
The real conspiracies that held water were that leftists had permeated communists had infiltrated the U.S. government.
And yet the history revision is just amazing.
It's a great illustration of how the media gets onto something.
It becomes a project, if you will, and they don't let go of it.
And the project is somehow to make everybody think that, yeah, Lee Harvey Oswald pulled a trigger, but that doesn't matter.
Dallas did it.
H. L. Hunt, you know, all these rich industrialists in Dallas, these rich Republican guys, friends of Joe McCarthy.
Dallas was a hotbed of right wing extremism.
I got a New York Times story from yesterday.
Written by a guy named Manny Fernandez.
Now I don't know, but I'm going to guess that Manny Fernandez wasn't even alive during the Kennedy assassination.
When President Kennedy's motorcade left the airport here, his dateline is Dallas.
President Kennedy's motorcade left the airport here shortly before noon on November 22nd, 1963.
The man seated in the lead car was the county sheriff, Bill Decker, 65, a storied Texas lawman who led the hunt for Bonnie and Clyde.
Fifty years later, the badge belongs to Lupi Valdez, 66, the daughter of Mexican migrant farm worker.
She's the only sheriff in America who's openly gay Hispanic woman.
Voters re-elected Sheriff Valdez, a Democrat to a third term last year.
What in the name of Sam Hill does that have to do with the Kennedy assassination?
That the old sheriff of some beat up broken down right winger by the name of Bill Decker.
And that the current sheriff is Lupi Valdez, the daughter of Mexican migrant.
This is designed to show how enlightened Texas has become.
This is designed to show how modern Texas is.
This is designed, this opening paragraph is designed to show how backwards Texas was.
Yeah, 65-year-old, broken down, gunslinging, longtime sheriff named Decker, who brought down Marty and Clyde, but now somebody who really knows their business, Lupi Valdez, the daughter of migrant Mexican farm workers who's gay and Hispanic.
Dele Plaza, where the darkest day in Dallas history unfolded 40 minutes after the motorcade began looks eerily similar to what it was then.
The sixth floor corner window still cracked open slightly, but Dallas itself is almost as different as Bill Decker is from Lupi Valdez.
Lupi Valdez, by the way, not related to Juan Valdez of Folger's coffee fame.
The tension between past and present has unleashed a wave of citywide self-reflection 50 years later.
In a distinctly American place that is part Dallas Cowboys, part Texas excess, and part urban melting pot, where the public screw students come from homes where 70 languages are spoken.
Painful, embarrassing memories of the angry anti-Washington culture that flourished here 50 years ago, and now seems a permanent part of the national mood, have resurfaced confronting Dallasites today.
This is absolute BS.
This is absolute 100% hogwash.
This is just excrement, folks.
First three paragraphs of a New York Times story on Dallas.
So you see how they're continuing here to try to portray Dallas as responsible then.
And it's still nothing to write home about.
But then there is this.
In 1963, Dallas was the 14th largest city in the country with a majority white population of nearly 700,000, a provincial place where mostly white, mostly male establishments set the agenda.
That sounds exactly like the New York Times today to me.
Majority white population, provincial place, mostly white, mostly male establishments sets the agenda.
Mr. Fernandez, in describing Dallas, has also described the New York Times, if you ask me.
And welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
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So far.
Now, you heard me right.
Pettis Norman of the Dallas Cowboys.
He says on TV, they're very, very worried that some stupid conservative right-wingers are going to kill the president when he comes down.
I guarantee you, before it is all said and done, it was the Tea Party that did it.
Before it's all said and done.
before they finish with this, the Tea Party will actually be said to have had its roots in Dallas in 1963.
And that the mad cap extremist right wing lunaticism is actually the spawning place of the modern day Tea Party.
Don't doubt me.
Look, even when I make jokes about these people, I end up being right about them.
So don't discount that.
Folks, there's another brutal presidential poll out today.
This is a Quinope Act poll out of Colorado.
Colorado, folks.
Land of the legal weed.
Obama's job approval is 36%.
His disapproval is 59%.
And not only that, in Colorado, Hillary Clinton now trails three different Republican contenders in a presidential mock-up race.
Happy to have you back here, folks, as we roll right on, the fastest week in broadcast media.
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Look at this from the Charlotte Observer.
I had this yesterday to get a chance to get to it.
I told Snurdly this after the program.
You remember that insurance plan that was canceled, the one you liked, that Obama told you could keep?
And then the doctor and you could keep and all that, and then it got canceled.
And then all kinds of pressure descended upon Obama, and he said, Well, you know, people think I lied to him, and they're right.
I did lie to him.
Well, he did admit it, but he's a soum said last week that you can keep your plan.
He's going to go ahead, and out of the grace of his decency and goodness, is going to let you keep your plan now.
The one that you just lost, the one that was just canceled.
It's still going to be illegal.
They've not changed the legality, they're not changed the law.
Your plan that was canceled is still illegal.
It's just that the munificent and magnificent Obama is not going to enforce the law, so you will not be a lawbreaker.
The onus is now on the insurance companies to make your plan back available to you if you want it.
And Blue Cross and Blue Shield said, okay, we'll do it.
With a caveat.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina said Tuesday that it'll raise rates as much as 24% on the individual health insurance plans that are being extended next year.
As I say, I had this yesterday, but you get a chance to get to it.
Even though these premiums are going up 24%, everybody is tremendously relieved to be able to keep their plans for another year, which just goes to show you how terrible they are.
Because the real problem is that under the exchanges, the rates would have gone up 500%.
I'm not kidding.
And there are a couple of cases cited at the bottom of the of the piece.
But the bottom line is at least Blue Shield in North Carolina, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, if you want to go get the plan that was taken away from you, you can do it, but it's going to cost you 24% more than it did when it was taken away.
Because your plan's still illegal.
The law hasn't been changed.
Obamacare is still the law of the land, and the plans still have to comply.
And in order to comply, they got to charge you 24% more.
Isn't it a great deal, folks?
You get your plan.
No, it's not your old plan, but it is your old plan.
As far as as far as Obama's concerned, it's your old plan.
But it isn't.
You're right.
If the plan you liked, I'm sure one of the reasons you liked it was the price.
Well, bye-bye price.
Because the plan that you liked, the plan Obama magnificently is now allowing that was the word.
You to keep.
Minimum 24%.
This is just North Carolina.
It's going to be different from state-state, but every Place in this country where you try to go back and just for one year, and then after a year you're going to lose it again, and then you're going to be thrown in.
And by the way, folks, there are two shoes that are going to drop next year.
One shoe, as we mentioned, is early next year, when the plans that are provided to people via work.
Those haven't been canceled yet.
This is just the individual market so far that's been affected by the cancellation notices.
But you may now be receiving notices in the mail that your employer provided plan will be canceled next year.
And that's gonna reach about 90 million people.
And then next, there's a there's another shoe that is going to drop later next year, around October.
Let me see.
Yes.
A new and independent analysis of Obamacare warns of a ticking time bomb, predicting a second wave of 50 million to 100 million insurance policy cancellations next fall, right before the midterm elections, the set the next round of cancellations and premium increases is expected to hit employees, particularly a small business.
Now, while the administration has tried to downplay the cancellation notices hitting policyholders in the individual market by noting this 5%, they're just 8%, it's just 15 million people.
It's nothing.
Don't sweat it.
It's not, it's just it's just uh it's an asterisk.
Well, an analysis by the American Enterprise Institute shows that the regime anticipates half to two-thirds of small businesses would have policies canceled or be compelled to send workers onto the exchanges.
And they predict that up to 100 million small and large business policies could be canceled next year.
Now let me say something about small business.
All of these people in the regime, and all of these theoreticians, the people that I describes, all these leftists, uh like Obama and everybody in his administration, the Timothy Geithners to the Kathleen Sibelius, I mean, you name it, every one of these people, none of them, folks, have ever met a payroll.
None of them have really ever worked in the private sector.
They have always been somewhere in the public sector, either in academe or in government, or in a nonprofit, someplace where they are given money.
They are paid via taxpayer money.
They do not have real-world private sector business experience.
It's one of the most noteworthy things about the composition of the Obama administration.
And the one thing of many, and there are many things, the one thing that they don't understand, and they never will understand, is how fragile most small businesses are.
they have, I'm not kidding you with this now.
The people we're talking about, Obama, Geithner, Take your pick, any of them.
Business is business to them.
Small business, large business, and it's all evil.
And every business cheats its employees.
Every business has a pile of money hidden away someplace for the owner.
Every business made up of people who hoard the money, they overcharge their customers, they underpay their employees, they don't give them very many benefits, and they take all the money themselves for the big houses and cars.
Then that's how they look at it, and I'm not exaggerating.
They're anti-capitalists, and that's how they see a capitalist entity, be it large or small.
So they don't understand how fragile most small businesses are.
You're a small business owner, I think you know exactly what I'm talking about.
It's day-to-day sometimes, especially in this economy, it's week to week.
And in most cases, Those of you who own a small business, you're the last one to get paid.
Everybody else gets paid before you do.
And if that day comes, second half of next year, where you've got to cancel people or change or wipe them out and move them on the exchange.
It's not because you're mean, and it's not because you're selfish.
It's because it's the only way you'll be able to stay in business.
And that is your gift from the regime.
They haven't slightest idea.
To them, the private sector is this giant piggy bank.
It's uh golden goose, and it's always producing money.
The golden goose is fat.
It's always fat.
There's more money.
It's it's unfair how much money there is in the private sector.
Because it's all hoarded by these business owners.
And they've all got a lot of money.
They all drive fancy cars, and they all pretty big houses, and they're all members of the country club, and they're all really mean to their employees.
This is how they think of it, folks.
I'm not exaggerating at all.
I'm trying to make a point.
They think there's no difference in the ABC widget company than there is from Exxon.
It's all business, and that means customers get screwed, employees are underpaid, and the people that run it are unfairly wealthy.
They have no idea how fragile small.
That's why they don't understand.
When they put out this definition of a small business, 50 employees, they don't understand why massive small businesses start converting full-time people to part-time to get out of Obamacare.
They don't understand it.
They think that's just greed operating.
They have no, don't doubt me, they have no practical understanding that that is how a small business must adapt to stay in business.
They just look at a small business converting full-time employees to part-time as typical business owner greed.
They really do think that they sit in Washington, exalted, smartest people in the room, passing laws.
You're not smart enough to live your life the right way.
You're not smart enough to run your business the right way.
They are.
And that's what they're doing.
They make sure that their business, your business, runs the way they think it should because you don't know what you're doing.
So when you, in reaction to their new law to give everybody health care, start converting full-time workers to part-time, they have the slightest idea that you're doing it to stay alive.
They have the slightest idea that you're doing it to stay in business.
They think you are unfairly taking advantage of the law.
And I'm telling you, this lack of understanding they have, coupled with every other aspect of this health care law, Folks, our economy next year, if if this, if something doesn't change, the the effect on the overall economy of just this power grab, the taking of one-sixth of the economy and transferring it to government control,
is gonna wreck.
The primary number one engine of job creation in the country, which is small business, and they don't know.
And for those who do, there might be, you know, exceptions.
There might be some people in the regime who know what I'm telling, but they don't care.
Because it's still, at the end of the day, they still think because you're in business and own it, that you're greedy and mean and selfish, and you treat people unfairly.
You discriminate.
Probably don't like women, you probably don't like blacks, you certainly don't like Hispanics.
This is this just the way they look at you.
They know better.
They know how to run your business better than you do, and they're gonna see to it that they do run your business.
And if you go out of business, it just meant that you deserve to.
They're never wrong, they never misjudge.
Everything's your fault or our fault.
But I'm telling you, this is an anvil that is poised over this country.
And the American people know it.
This polling data, Quinnipiac out of Colorado.
Obama job approval.
This is the land of weed, folks, and landed illegal weed.
I mean, we're to Colorado here.
Obama's job approval at 36%, disapproval at 59%, and Hillary now trails three Republican contenders in a mock presidential poll.
Let's take a break, a brief time out.
We'll come back.
When Elizabeth Hasselbeck was on the view, and my name came up.
a little ragged around the edges and maybe a little extreme and somewhat maybe sometimes embarrassing.
Now that she's at Fox, I'm astute.
Back after a bit.
I just saw this.
I haven't had a chance to click on the link.
You just sent it to me.
Obama now claims that he misunderstood or underestimated the complexities of the uh of the of the health care uh so I'll find that and I'll get what that's about in uh in due course.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
I will take you back to this program yesterday, reporting on wait, I don't report.
I was telling you, I'm giving you my analysis of the plummeting poll numbers of Barack Obama compared to those of George W. Bush.
I never believed the Bush approval number.
I mean, I believed it, but I didn't think that it was all owing to Bush.
It was the result of what had been said relentlessly for four years about Bush.
Bush lied, people died.
Books on the assassination of George Bush.
And none of it was ever replied to.
None of it was ever defended, reacted to, responded to by anybody at the White House from the president on down.
So it just sat there.
And it's really the folks, it's a fundamental point.
Obama's plummeting approval number is real.
It's happened in a year.
The media has tried to save him from it.
The media spent five years building him up into messianic status, and still he's plummeting.
It took them four years to get George Bush down to 36%.
There's a major, major difference.
Dana Perino on Morning Commute, real clear politics website Morning Commute, uh, co-host Tom Bevan and Charlie Stone were talking to Dana Perino, and they said, What is the one secret that you've always wanted to tell about your experience at a Bush White House?
The president says, So, I hear upset about this book.
Said, yes, sir, I am, and I want you to understand the coverage is really bad.
It's very negative, and it's going to last for as many more days.
And the press And President Bush said, I'd like you to try to forgive him.
And I said, but I and he interrupted me and said, no butts.
I don't want you to live bitterly.
I want you to let it go.
This book is not going to be remembered in about three weeks.
And it has nothing to do with the job we're sent here to do.
I'm playing that bite for you because that's exactly what happened for four years.
The media hammering on Bush and their policy was we're not going to dignify it.
We're not going to react to it.
And they did believe that every criticism would have a life of no more than three weeks, and it'd be gone.
And if they reacted to it, it would simply give it life.
And Bush also, he told me this a couple of times.
I am not going to sully this office by getting political.
If they want to live in the gutter, they can live there.
I'm not following the gutter.
So I wouldn't reply to it.
And here's Perino just proving it.
That's that's the only reason I hear is.
Well, I got two more sound bites to I sorry, folks.
I teased you about Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and I'm not going to be able to get to that sound bite now, because it's not the next one, it's two from now.
I mean, I could go there, but the length of time I've spent telling you I can't go there is now erased the available time I would have had to play it.
Because it's too long to fit in in the amount of time I've got left.
Damn it.
My bad.
My fault.
I totally unintentional.
And by the way, I don't have anything against Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
I don't want anybody, Miss, I've never met her.
I don't know her.
What?
No, it was just a casual observation.
She has, she did, she said, but there were a couple times, I don't want to review, there were a couple of times.
It cut both ways.
But don't anybody send her no.
I'm not criticizing her.
Whatever you do, folks, do not get something like that started.
Now that's that the left is going to start tweeting all these lies now.
But I just want it on record.
I have no beef.
I don't know her.
I haven't met her.
She's fine and dandy as far as I'm concerned.
Ellie and I, uh, ladies and gentlemen, must admit we're off to a rousing start.
No, I don't think Elizabeth Haselbeck is running around with Angela or Andrea Tarantula.
They're on different shows.
That's not what.
Why would you even ask me that?
Andrea Tarantula has not.
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