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Nov. 26, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 26, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Well, here we are loaded again today, folks.
The healthcare stack just keeps growing and growing and growing.
The Obama poll numbers continue to plummet.
And now Wolf Blitzer is officially concerned at CNN.
Finally addressed the poll numbers.
Obama is now stacking his personal appearances with hecklers.
The heckler, a lot of people making a big deal about the heckler in San Francisco at Obama's immigration rally or appearance.
Somebody wrote the script for the heckler and it allowed Obama to portray the Limbaugh theorem.
Hey, I agree with you.
I'm trying to fix it.
I'm working with Congress.
But, you know, I just can't make law anytime I want to.
Well, what's stopping you all of a sudden?
You've been making law ever since you became president.
Another, the healthcare stack includes a new discovery that the unions have been exempted from a bunch of Obamacare fees.
It just keeps adding up.
I mean, no matter what, it just keeps piling on.
But first, ladies and gentlemen, I must hit you with what is said to be a correction.
Yesterday, we opened with the big news that the World Health Organization, which is part of the United Nations, reported that half of the AIDS or HIV infections in Greece were self-inflicted.
The economy is so bad.
The welfare state so entrenched that the World Health Organization said that half of the HIV infections in Greece are self-inflicted so that the recipients can get the equivalent of $900 a month welfare, 700 some odd euros.
Well, today, the World Health Organization has apologized.
They've blamed an editing error for claiming in their September report that half of the new HIV cases in Greece were acquired deliberately by people trying to claim government benefits.
In a correction issued today, the World Health Organization said the report should have read that few new cases of HIV are deliberate.
The original report said half, and that was an error.
It should have said few.
Now, that's a big error.
And I don't think they can blame this on autocorrect or macros.
It's just a gross editing error for which the World Health Organization apologizes, said the spokesman, Gregory Hartle.
In the report published by the European Orifice, the agency wrote, and we reported yesterday about half of new HIV infections are being self-inflicted.
The WHO said that it only became aware of the mistake today after journalists asked about the claim.
Since the financial crisis hit Greece several years ago, the rates of HIV infection have indeed soared.
So what do you think really happened here?
What do you think?
Do you think they goofed up?
I don't either.
I think they're trying to walk back what they inadvertently admitted yesterday.
And being leftists, I'm sure they didn't think that they would get the kind of reaction they got.
I'm sure they were expecting to get reactions rooted in sympathy and compassion.
And instead, they got reactions that were based and rooted in outrage.
And they were not prepared for that.
So now it's the, dare we say, CYA time here at the World Health Organization.
Can I say that?
I guess I already did.
Okay, look, we got a few seconds to delete it.
If you think that's running a risk out there, we can just bleep it here.
And nobody are going to let that one go.
Everybody approve staff approved comment.
Okay, then I'll say it again, just to make sure you got it.
The World Health Organization now in a very, very slick CYA mode to cover up for the supposed error yesterday, the gross editing error, quote unquote, for reporting half of new cases are acquired deliberately by people trying to claim benefits.
Nobody is denying, by the way, that the rates of HIV infection have indeed skyrocketed.
They have soared.
But it's not by virtue of self-infliction.
I mean, there's some of that going on, they now say, but not nearly half.
All right, here you go.
CNN, the ORC poll.
Now, we had our first mention of this yesterday.
Democrats lose 2014 Edge following Obamacare uproar.
Now, you may have seen this story with a different headline.
And the other headline is, Republicans' odds in 2014 vastly improved.
I'll tell you what's shaping up here.
Let's say this holds.
I mean, hypothetical.
What we're looking at is a 2010 repeat.
But let's get into the details here first.
However, you want to look at this.
The CNN headline is, Democrats lose 2014 Edge following Obamacare uproar.
As I say, there's some other headlines that say Republicans winning big in 2014 based on the latest polling data.
What a difference a month makes, they say at CNN.
Our new poll indicates a dramatic turnaround in the battle for control of Congress in next year's midterm elections.
Democrats a month ago held a 50 to 42 percent advantage among registered voters in a generic ballot, which asked respondents to choose between a Democrat or Republican, but not a name.
That's what generic, for those of you in Rio Linda, generic means there's no name.
Just party affiliation was the only question.
Now, normally Democrats win the generic ballot going away.
For the Republicans to be up 50 to 42 in the generic congressional ballot, that's huge when compared to standard operating procedure.
The result came after congressional Republicans appeared to overplay their hand.
We're talking about the 50-42 advantage Democrats had just a month ago, if you'll recall.
Everybody in the media was running around.
Half the Republicans running around.
Well, Cruz, you blew it.
Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and you Tea Party people, you're killing us.
You're destroying the Republican Party.
You're building people up for something that can't happen.
There's no way Obamacare is going to go away.
There's no way it's going to be defunded.
You're getting people all jailed up thinking that we can get rid of this and we can't.
You're misleading them.
You're destroying the Republican Party.
And you're simply guaranteeing the Republicans will lose the House and continue to lose the Senate.
That was a month ago.
All of that, you remember it was a month ago.
And it was written back then that the congressional Republicans had overplayed their hand in the government shutdown about the debt ceiling and Obamacare.
However, that Democrat lead has disappeared.
The new CNN poll has the Republicans now up.
It's a statistical ties.
It's 49.47 Republican win.
But the turnaround or the switch, the reversal here, the size of it is what is amazing.
The Democrats have literally, I mean, the bottom has fallen out of them, and the Republicans have gained a whopping seven points.
It's a 10-point swing, and it follows political uproar over Obamacare, which included the botched rollout of the website, controversy over insurance policy cancellations, and all of that.
Now, here's the other, good news for Republicans in 2014 midterms.
That's the politico story.
This is the way they headline the same details in the CNN poll.
Let's just for the fun of it, let's go to the audio soundbites and let's listen to CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
This was last night on the Situation Room.
Wolf Blitzer speaking with Gloria Borger.
Some disturbing poll numbers, Gloria, for the president today.
Our new CNN ORC poll asked an opinion of the president right now.
Look at how it's collapsed 12 points since May.
Can he manage government?
52% said yes in May.
40% said yes right now.
That's a pretty disturbing number.
Oh, it's a disturbing number.
I mean, it's not nearly the way they covered George Bush's plummeting number, but they're now concerned over there at CNN, and they're now fretting.
And I just want to make the point again.
This drop in all of these numbers, likability, trust factor, competence, all of that, job approval, all of that has plummeted, and none of it has happened because it's artificial.
Meaning the media hasn't driven these numbers down.
There hasn't been robust around-the-clock criticism of Obama in the media.
He owns it.
The bottom is falling out of all of his polling numbers because of him.
Now, in the case of George W. Bush, the media drove him down to 36%.
It took him four years to do it, too.
So Wolf is right to be concerned.
Because in this case, you know, the old adage, if the media makes you, they can break you.
Well, the media pretty much thinks they made Obama.
Obama thinks he made himself.
They think, so they think they can save him.
That's what bothers them.
It's not so much that, well, it's not just that the bottom is falling out.
It is also the realization that they may not be able to do anything about it because it has happened while they have been doing everything they can to prop him up and prevent this very thing from happening.
And yet it has.
And we all know why.
Can't emphasize this enough, folks.
This lie that was told for years, deeply personal.
And what it has done, as each day goes by, I am more inclined to agree with the caller we had last week, that now it is acceptable, finally, for average people to start expressing their dissatisfaction with Obama.
Now they're not afraid of being called racists or bigots or whatever else.
You know, her point was that people have felt this way for a long time about Obama.
They've just been afraid to say so.
Now, this lie was so personal and it was so consistent.
And it was told with such certitude that there is real betrayal being felt now.
And the drive-bys are aware of this.
And I think they're very, very worried they will not be able to rescue Obama because they haven't been able to prevent this.
Here's Gloria Borger reacting to Blitzer.
Look, the two most important bonds between a president and the public are trust and competency.
And you look at that 40% number, that's a competency number.
We also have numbers that show that only 46% of the public thinks that he's honest.
And so those are real problems.
However, you might have said the same things about Bill Clinton.
You might have been able to say the same things about Ronald Reagan in the second term.
So somehow those presidents managed to resurrect themselves.
So let's not write off this president just yet.
No, you see, see, they think they can bring him back.
They think they can bring him back.
But just like they brought Clinton back and just, what is this?
Reagan?
They throw Reagan in there?
You know, it's a reference to Iran-Contra.
And Reagan's base never left him.
You know, there's so much revisionist history going on.
Look, if this is the result of Republicans overplaying their hand, their hand, they maybe should try it more often.
But I actually don't think this has anything to do with the Republicans.
I think that headline is sort of misleading where it says that the, I think the headline here, just meant to read it verbatim.
I put it on the bottom.
Good news for Republicans in 2014.
Well, yeah, it may be, but not because of anything they've done.
There have been two or three Republicans.
But let's be honest, there was a large number of Republicans that was doing everything they could while this was all going on to prevent this from happening.
I mean, it's like 2010.
The Tea Party came to life and Democrats were shellacked in a landslide midterm election.
And it wasn't one Republican issue on the ballot and there wasn't one Republican on the ballot.
It was the midterms.
There was no single individual people were voting for.
There was not a campaign theme.
What happened in 2010 was people arose over Obamacare and over the debt and said no.
And the Republicans, even then, didn't attempt to connect with that group of people.
Even then, they didn't try to form an alliance with them.
Even then, they got scared of them.
And so it's happening here again, four years later, almost an exact replay, except this one has even deeper roots.
Because this is not just people rising up in opposition to policy and debt.
And this is people rising up personally against Obama.
And that's deep.
Those roots are deep.
I got to take a brief timeout, my friends.
You sit tight, much more straight ahead here on the EIB network.
For example, I had a story from yesterday.
I didn't get to it.
So I saved it.
And what it is, 25 things individual, I'm sorry, 25 things influential people do better than anyone else.
It's a fascinating piece.
It's nothing to do with the issues of the day.
Nothing whatsoever.
It's going to be a great change of pace.
There's all kinds of stuff like that, by the way, in the stacks of stuff today.
So sit tight.
We'll be back and continue with all of this right after this.
You know, this is how this stuff happens.
I was just made aware of something by Coco Jr. at rushlimbaugh.com.
Coco Sr. is on vacation.
Coco Sr. always goes on vacation Thanksgiving week.
Coco Jr. sent me slate.com is essentially blaming me for getting the story about Greeks self-inflicting themselves with AIDS wrong.
And all I did, I didn't do anything.
People at slate.com say that I made an outrageous claim that Greeks are infecting themselves with AIDS for welfare payments.
I didn't outrageously claim anything.
I read a report by what, in fact, a French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, called a Temple of the United Nations, the World Health Organization.
He did.
He once called the WHO the temple of the UN.
And it's my fault.
And they lash into Drudge because Drudge put a link up to the story.
And they quote me yesterday.
So the people, ignorant though they are, blissfully ignorant though they are, they're always victims.
They're always innocent.
They never have one responsibility, not one iota of responsibility in any respect of their lives.
All I was doing was reading a report.
And yet the fact that it spread, in fact, the claim is laid on me as being outrageous.
And this is how these people besmirch and smear and tarnish people's reputations.
All I was doing is reading something that these people's precious United Nations reported.
We'll be back.
Greetings and welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, doing what I was born to do, folks, and having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have while doing it.
Look, I don't want to beat a dead horse, but this is an opportunity because the audience here is expanding in droves.
Latest audience research figures show this.
So I've got an opportunity here to explain to people.
How many times in the past couple of weeks have we had people call here who say, I used to hate you?
I used to believe all that stuff about you.
And then for somehow, some way, I ended up listening to you and I found out not only was it not all true, I found out I agree with you and I'm now conservative.
We've been hearing this a lot lately.
The audience is expanding and new demos are being reached.
And in large part because of the book.
And I got something really cool about that here in a minute, too.
So the way this happens, yesterday, the World Health Organization puts out their story that half of HIV infections in Greece are self-inflicted by people wanting welfare benefits.
I didn't say it.
The World Health Organization said it.
Matt Drudge linked to it.
I reported it.
And then I said, this is what the welfare state does to people.
This is what creating dependency among people does.
And by the way, Hillary Clinton's favorite news outlet, Al Jazeera, reported the story as well.
Their headline, Greeks self-inject HIV to claim benefits.
It's in the Al Jazeera English language version, Hillary's favorite news agency.
And yet the slate.com link on their homepage to this story, the epic UN editing error behind Rush Limbaugh's outrageous welfare state claim.
I didn't claim anything outrageous.
I didn't make anything up.
I simply reported what the left-leaning World Health Organization said, and I reported it like everybody else who read it.
But somehow I'm responsible for making it up now.
Somehow it isn't true, and I made it up, even though I didn't.
Now, where do you think slate.com got the marching orders to do it this way?
Two words give you one guess.
Media matters.
It's exactly how they portrayed it.
So this is how, for those of you new to the program, you're probably as aware of it now as longtime listeners.
This is what the left does.
This is how they can't, they cannot compete openly, fairly in the arena of ideas.
So they have to besmirch, impugn, destroy whatever the character, the reputation of people who are effective critics of theirs.
Like everybody else, I believed it.
It was the United Nations.
It's the gospel.
Dominique de Villepin called the World Health Organization the temple of the United Nations.
I reported it.
It sounds, look, HIV infections are soaring in Greece.
They are soaring.
And it made total sense.
Now they've drawn, they've walked it back.
But somehow it's now out there for the low-information crowd that I made it up.
And I didn't.
Teachable moment.
This is exactly how they've been doing it for 25 years.
This is the kind of crap that the left has been putting, not just on me, but like Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, you name it.
Anybody they're afraid of, anybody they deem to be effective, standing in their way.
This is how they, they're not interested in a level playing field or any of that.
They're interested in wiping the playing field, eliminating any opposition.
So I got a note this morning from somebody who had read a review of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
And it's at American Spectator.
And it's a review by a man named Jeff Lord.
And we've cited his work on this program.
I have to tell you, folks, I'm kind of speechless.
It is such a wonderful review.
I printed it out.
It's nine pages.
It's just, it's over the time.
And I'm not used to this.
I don't know quite how to explain it.
I wrote him a note, and I told him I feel profoundly humbled because I'm not accustomed to this kind of treatment and reaction.
I'm more used to the kind of crap that I just shared with you.
But the review of this book, it's just incredible.
I've told Coco Jr. I want to link to it.
The headline, Rush Limbos Saves the Pilgrims.
And he goes into great detail about the state of public education today, the status, and examples of the kind of stuff that's being taught, kind of stuff that's appearing in textbooks, and explains why Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is so important.
But it's just an incredibly great review of the book.
And I had to take some time here to A, tell you about it and do my best at offering all of our thanks to Jeff Lord.
Jeff was part of the Reagan administration.
He was the political department of Reagan administration and is just a great guy.
And I'm very familiar with his work overall, but I had no idea that this was coming.
And it's just, it's indescribably good.
I can't thank him enough.
I hope all of you get a chance to take a look at it because it's just compared to the usual stuff.
It's just, I'm not used to it.
I'm smiling ear to ear because of it.
It's so good.
And we are all so appreciative.
Again, the American Spectator, Rush Limbos Saves the Pilgrim, the review by Jeff Lord.
Here's Dave in Cincinnati as we start on the phones.
And I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you.
It's a pleasure to talk with you, Rush.
And if my voice is shaking, I apologize.
I'm a little nervous.
Well, you know, my voice sounds like I'm shaking today, too.
Something in the audio here.
So that's cool.
We're on the same page.
Good.
Well, I just want to tell everybody happy Thanksgiving.
And this Thanksgiving, our families are experiencing the little lie from Obama and Obamacare, losing probably people losing approximately 10 million people losing their health care.
But next year, it's the big lie, where the small and medium-sized companies are going to dump all of their care, and there'll be 100 million people rushed without care.
You know what the total number could be next year?
The total number next year could approach 160 million people who will either be thrown off their company policy or have their policies canceled one way or the other.
So this is the little lie.
Wait to the big one.
And then what do we do?
What does our do our families do?
What do our physicians do?
Well, I don't know, but I'll tell you what I expect Obama to do when this happens.
And that is blame the Republicans, blame small and large businesses, and blame the insurance companies, and then offer.
You know what?
We can clean all this up by just having everybody go to the government and get their insurance.
And everything else.
And that's not what it's about.
This is not an opportunity for Republicans or for Democrats.
It's a crisis for Americans.
It's for all of us, Rush.
Damn right, it is.
And I appreciate speaking with you.
I'm glad you called me.
Folks, there are, let me tell you something.
There are 80 million policies.
100 million people, because they're more than one person on most policies.
So you've got 80 million policies that are going to be canceled or, well, just canceled because you're going to have some small, like he said, some small and large businesses are just going to offload their coverage to these exchanges.
And so you could end up here, some total, 160 million people who are going to learn next year that their insurance no longer exists.
And the replacement is going to cost much more, and the deductible is going to be much higher.
Look, as I mentioned at the top of the program, every day I have a healthcare stack here that is huge.
The daily details of what is happening here are overwhelming.
And it is proof positive why Obama's numbers are falling.
This is all very real.
There is nothing artificial here in Obama's falling numbers.
There's nothing unreal about it.
It's all very real.
And it's all tied to what's because everybody now ends up being a citizen of Realville, where, of course, I am the mayor.
I have a story here by Gallup by their head honsho, a guy named Frank Newport.
Americans' view is on health care quality costs and coverage.
This story from Gallup is amazing.
I mean, this story almost warrants being read from front to back.
Every finding in this Gallup story goes against what we have had drummed into us by Obama and the media for the last six years.
Everything.
Every result in this Gallup story, which is a reporting of several polls, every result supports what we have been saying for years.
Most people are and have been very happy with the current health care system.
Most people are very happy with their insurance.
Do you realize the bill of goods that everybody's been sold?
Everybody has been sold a bill of goods that the health care system is broken.
And while a lot of people were made to believe that it is, it wasn't for them.
It's kind of like the analogy that, actually, it isn't an analogy.
It's actually truthful.
The Democrats and the media, when reporting a bad economy, when it's actually not bad, the way they make it work, they continually report bad economic news.
This is how they did it during the Bush years.
They reported the economy was rotten in certain sectors.
Employment was going down.
Unemployment was rising, cost of living going up.
Now, most people were not experiencing that.
But they heard it reported, so they figured it was happening to somebody.
So they agreed when pollsters asked them if they thought the economy was in trouble.
It wasn't.
Well, it's the same thing that happened here at insurance.
I mean, this Gallup story is profound.
Nobody, statistically, nobody, there was not, let me put it this way, there was not a massive national problem with health care in America.
70% of the American people were happy with the American health care system.
They were happy with their health care plan.
They were happy and satisfied with their insurance.
They were happy and satisfied with their coverage and their treatment.
70%.
And so Obama and the Democrats and the media for decades have been attacking the healthcare system and trying to make you, even though you're satisfied with yours, believe that the system was broken because others are not happy and others are being cheated and others are not being treated and others don't have insurance and other people are paying through the nose and they guilt-tripped you into believing that the healthcare system was broken.
And then to close the loop, they lied to you.
And they told you, oh, if you like yours, you can keep it.
Why did they lie?
Because they knew 70% of the American people were satisfied.
And yet they wanted control of it.
They wanted to take it over and reform it.
Well, how to do that when 70% like it?
Well, you've got to convince them that it's broken for everybody else.
And they did.
This story is flat out amazing.
Then the details on cancellations and stuff that follow, it's just, you know, you stop and think about it.
It is outright maddening what has happened here.
And if it had happened in the private sector, there would be prosecutions on fraud and you name it.
This is just simply outrageous what has taken place here.
Greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
And by the way, on that Greek story, the World Health Organization and the news that half of the people infected with AIDS were self-inflicted.
I remembered the actual source that I read was something called New Scientist, which we quote from semi-regularly on this program.
And they were simply quoting the World Health Organization.
And yet, Slate.com, it's Rush Limbaugh's outrageous claims about the welfare state, implying that I made it up for the low-information audience, I'll be generous, that these websites have.
And it just drudge linked to it.
Al Jazeera had it.
Somehow I made it up.
Here's Bobby in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hey, Bobby, glad you called.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
I just got to tell you, you are, I love you.
You're my hero.
I refer to you as the professor.
I just love what you're doing.
Thank God you're here.
I was calling because you talk about, you start talking about something I had thought about before, and that was the fact that Obama's numbers are so low, and he didn't have the press to blame or that brought him there.
He did it himself.
I'd go further than that.
He not only, the press didn't bring him there, he got there in spite of the press.
And I think, you know, when you hear that recording, that soundbite you played before, and I don't know who the reporter was, who she said, let's see how this plays out.
It's indicative of the strategy that the media uses.
They pretty much, they don't worry.
They don't panic when something becomes exposed, some type of fraud or scandal, because they realize all they have to do is wait for another one to come by.
And then they can distract.
This reporter, what you heard, you're talking about Gloria Borger, and she was saying, well, let's wait, Wolf, and see how this plays out.
What that means is, don't panic yet, Wolf.
We still may be able to save Obama by destroying the Republicans or building Obama back up.
She was trying to reassure Wolf, don't worry, we haven't given up.
The problem is, for them, they had nothing to do.
They tried to stop this.
They could not prevent Obama's plumbing the polls.
That is the salient.
And we'll be back.
Don't go away.
Man, I don't know where this hour.
I intended to get into detail on the healthcare stuff and those 25 things influential people do.
And I'm going to strive to get all that stuff in as the program unfolds.
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