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Nov. 26, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 26, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Holy moly, folks.
Okay, get it.
PMS NBC has fired Alec Baldwin.
According to Richard Johnson, a New York Post, Alec Baldwin is gone because of the homosexual slurs that he shouted at that paparazzi photographer.
Martin Bashir, everything's cool.
Lara Logan at CBS and her producer have taken a leave of absence over their Benghazi report.
I'm not kidding.
I just now saw it on the Drudge Report.
After an intensive internal review, Laura Logan is taking a leave of absence.
Now, I don't know if it's being forced or if she is taking it to engage in meditation and reflection on how being hoodwinked like that could have happened.
Set up.
Set up by the regime.
You think so set up?
Well, by who?
Who would set her up?
I mean, that was a book.
There was a well, I know I know, I know.
The regime stands to gain and benefit from that report on 60 minutes being discredited.
I've always always thought that what happened was that the uh the regime got with their pals at CBS on this.
But to make her the fall guy on this?
Well, anyway, it's happened.
And there sits Martin Bashir.
And MSNBC as though it's no big deal, it's uh everything's hunky-dory.
I'll just tell you again, folks.
Let me if if Bill O'Reilly or if, say, Sean Hannity, um, if Mar if Martha McCallum had gone on Fox and said that Sarah Palin ought to be what Bashir said.
I guarantee Roger Ailes would have stormed out of his office and down to the studio, and they would have been yanked off the air that moment.
Anybody at Fox.
I just picked those three names at random.
Bill O'Reilly, Hannity, Martin.
It could be Bill Hammer, anybody.
The point is it would not be tolerated at Fox.
And it's not only tolerated at MSNBC, a and an apology is really insufficient in the case of something like that.
What Bashir said that somebody ought to do to Sarah Palin.
It just, it just I'm telling you, these people are they're reprehensible.
They are mean, they are extremists, they are constantly filled with rage and anger.
No, there's nobody at Fox that could get away with it, it's nerds.
They're at least asking me, is there anybody Fox who could have gotten away with it?
No.
That's the point.
Now I want to go back.
One thing here about the Cadillac tax on these health care plans, this meet Lisa Meyer story, because it dovetails her story dovetails with our caller Robert in Vermont.
He's the college professor who said that he is dreaming of the day all these other professors learn that Obamacare results in them losing their insurance.
Now, my guess is that that this Lisa Myers NBC report ties into what he was saying, because I would bet you that a lot of these private colleges offered Cadillac plans instead of higher salaries.
I mean, that's how important health care has become to people.
It's gotten so expensive, it's it's it that people have accepted reduced salaries in exchange for a health care benefit.
And a lot of universities have have gone that way, have offered these Cadillac plans, the top flight plan to cut to to compete for professors.
And they do it by offering that instead of higher salaries.
And they are gonna get socked with this 40% excise tax on the value of these plans.
The point is that Obamacare is redistribution.
And even the New York Times has admitted this now.
A stunning admission.
The New York Times admits that Obamacare is simply wealth redistribution.
I mean, they do it begrudgingly.
And it doesn't matter.
In the eyes of Obamacare, anybody who is judged to be rich is going to pay a price for it.
And in this case, it is just assumed that everybody who's got a Cadillac plan, and everybody who offers Cadillac plans has more money than they need, and they're going to get socked with a 40% excise tax on the value of those plans.
Which means one thing, those plans are going to go away.
The universities that offer them are going to cancel them.
They can't afford the 40% tax.
Nobody can.
But to people like Obama, the golden goose is the golden goose, and it's always going to be there, and there's always tons of money.
It was like I was telling you last week.
You people that have small businesses, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
People like Obama, Democrats, the left, they look at you.
Remember, these people don't have, for the most part, any private sector experience.
And they think, they believe, folks, I am not exaggerating.
They mostly all of them believe that businesses are all just a wash in money, that the owners or the CEOs hoard money for themselves for their fancy homes and cars.
They do this by exploiting their employees, abusing their employees, not paying them enough, and by ripping off their customers.
This is exactly what and how Obama and most people on the left view capitalism.
Big or small, business cheats people, kills people, and abuses their employees.
Doesn't pay them anything, doesn't care what they make, doesn't care about their health care, doesn't care about it.
All they care about is maintaining this massive amount of income.
And so these companies that offer these Cadillac plans to their employees and executives, Obamacare slaps a 40% excise tax on them, because A, it's unfair they should have plans better than anybody else.
And B, they've got the money to pay the tax anyway.
So what's the case?
What's it with with every tax that is levied?
The first thing that happens is people who are taxed take action to avoid it.
And these universities that offer these Cadillac plans to their professors are going to be like everybody else.
They're going to cancel the plan to avoid the tax.
They're going to restructure so they don't offer Cadillac plans.
And so Obama and his merry band of leftist Marxists is going to look at this and scratch their heads and wonder what the hell happened.
Why don't they just pay the money?
They've got more than they need.
We're counting on that money.
I mean, who do you think you are?
You can't just cancel a plan.
Yeah, well, you watch us.
Because we don't have it.
We don't have 40% above and beyond what we've already owing to give you.
And the only way not to pay it to you is to cancel it.
And that's what's going to happen.
And these professors, and that's what the Lisa Myers story is.
A professor at some college is going to lose his plan because it's a Cadillac plan that his university offers.
They're just canceling it.
And he he woke up one day very happy to see his premium go up four bucks, and then a week later he finds out he didn't have a policy.
And I know you think that I am I'm being uh too general, generalizing, maybe painting with too broad a brush, and I'm not.
When I tell you the way your average Ignorant, no practical private sector experienced liberal sees the private sector.
You know I'm right because you know how they despise capitalism.
Why do they despise it?
Because they think it's unfair.
They think it's rigged by the people who are in management, ownership, or what have you.
It's a rigged system in order to enrich themselves at the expense of everybody else.
That also is the way they view the founding of the country.
A bunch of elitist moneyed, property people founded a country to enrich themselves while exploiting the citizens.
And they set it up to last in perpetuity.
Ergo, the country is unjustly founded, immorally founded, and here comes Obama and his merry band of Marxists to wave their magic wand and make it all fair and make it all equal and make it all equitable.
And one of the things they do is, like he told Joe the plumber, going to spread the wealth around.
That means they're going to raise taxes on the people they despise.
And the people they despise are people who are accomplished and achieved because those people have more money than other people.
They're called rich.
And Obama despises them.
Well, he doesn't despise all of them.
He loves the Hollywood rich.
And he loves the academic rich.
And he loves athlete rich, but he doesn't like Exxon Rich.
And he doesn't like.
And he pick your business.
He doesn't like any other rich.
Well, he doesn't universally hate corporate rich.
I mean, he loves GE Rich if he can if he can manipulate them by getting in a good corporatist relationship with the CEO.
Depends on the corporation.
But but overall, it's not painting with too broad a brush when I describe the way they they see all business, large or small.
They don't understand, they really don't, folks.
They do not understand how fragile most small businesses are.
If you try to tell them that a lot of small business people will go unpaid in a month in order to pay their bills and their employees.
A business will sometimes borrow money to grow.
Sometimes it has to.
Sometimes, you know, it's very competitive out there.
In whatever business you're in, there are competitors.
You have to do things to attract customers and keep them.
And sometimes the people that own these businesses, well, they're always the last to be paid.
Sometimes they go a full month without paying them, sometimes longer themselves.
These guys don't understand that.
They think they're taken from the pile first.
They're taking what they want, unfair amount, by the way, first, and then the employees get screwed.
Uh, no raises, no decent salaries, no health care, no benefits, no pension, no whatever.
And then the customers are getting shafted because the products either kill them or make them sick or put them at risk or what have you.
I mean, it's how they look at it.
And they say they're better people.
They're more caring.
And they believe in everybody being equal.
So they want to get control of all this and redistribute the wealth so that everybody does well, except you just bring all production to a screeching halt when you do that.
And so everybody ends up with very little, but maybe they're all equal, so everybody's equally miserable, but that's the extent of it.
It's never worked anywhere in the world.
But it sounds good when you have a messianic figure like Obama describing it.
Utopia sounds good, doesn't it?
When somebody talks about utopia, oh, yeah, boy, that would be great.
It's not possible, but boy God, it sounds great.
Oh, yeah, we should try that.
Nobody gets sick.
Everybody has a house, everybody has a car, but he has three phones over whatever.
Oh, yeah, that's oh, that's wonderful.
Nobody hates anybody, and there is any racism, and there's no discrimination, and and there's nobody gets bullied, and nobody gets made fun of, and nobody says things that people don't want to hear.
Yeah, that's for me.
And Obama runs around and he convinces low information to people he can make it happen.
I printed out a story.
Where is it?
I should take a break.
Here it is, I found it.
And I'm gonna do this 25 things, folks.
I vowed and determined these 25 things influential people do better than anybody else.
And I'm gonna get your calls in here too.
So let me take a break.
We'll come back and stay focused on the time remaining here at the EIB network.
You know, just to show you how our sense of proportion is all out of whack.
Me ask you, what is worse?
Lara Logan's report on Benghazi or Bama lying and destroying health care in America.
Who should be taking a leave of absence?
If you ask me, Lara Logan is a piker compared to what Obama has done.
There ought to be marches in the streets over this.
I don't know that there won't be either when the time comes, as more people are affected by this.
This this is just entirely outrageous.
The scope of this lie.
It was strategic, it was purposeful, it was intentional fraud on an entire country.
If you boil it now, like Snerdlies in there trying to define who Obama hates and doesn't hate, I can help you out here, Snerdly.
If you worked hard and earned your money, Obama hates you.
If you're a born to it, or if you're an athlete, if you're a Wall Street fat cat, he loves you and wants to be one of you.
He'd love to pal around with uh with Michael Jordan, Ahmad Rashad, and uh take your pick, any of the Hollywood types.
A Wall Street fat cat at Martha's Vineyard over the summer?
Hell yes, any day.
But you work hard.
You be you he hates rich doctors.
I'm telling you, he despises rich doctors.
Obamacare targets them.
And if Laura Logan wants to take a leave of absence, you know, Obama didn't just commit fraud on Obamacare.
What about Benghazi?
He lied about that to kick it past the elections.
I mean, I can give you countless reasons why Obama ought to be taking a leave of absence.
In a real world situation.
Now, you know what the Fritz Pollard Alliance is?
You ever heard of it?
The Fritz Pollard Alliance is essentially an anti-racism group among athletes.
And the they're very instrumental in the Rooney rule, for example, in the NFL.
They were instrumental in having in getting that rule passed, which says that any time there's a head coach opening a black must be interviewed.
I mean, I've got no brief for the Fritz Pollardus.
Fine, don't misunderstand.
But what they are doing here is fascinating.
The Fritz Pollard Alliance continues its efforts to remove racist language from pro football.
On Monday, the Fritz Pollard Alliance sent a letter to NFL General Counsel Jeff Pash asking that current rules be enforced to result in a 15-yard penalty or ejection for abusive language by players during games.
We believe that the league can address this concern by instructing game day officials to step up enforcement of Rule 12, Section 3, Article 1, paragraph B of the League's playing rules, which prohibits the use Of abusive threatening or insulting languages or gestures to opponents, officials, teammates, or representatives of the league.
Directing the N-word towards others in a place of work is abusive, threatening, and insulting.
We believe the league should authorize game day officials to use graduated discipline with warnings, 15-yard penalties, and ejections as appropriate.
Now, what is your first reaction to that?
I guarantee you, most people upon hearing that, yeah.
Why that, yeah, they ought to stop making fun of each other.
And I don't think it's really nice when one player insults another player's mother.
I really think they ought to stop that rush.
And the N-word, that is never acceptable anywhere, and it ought to be a 15-yard penalty.
Now my reaction to this is a little different.
I I think this is so micromanaging.
Let's just take the individuality out of everything, and let's make everything somebody says punishable if it bothers even one person.
We cannot have that on the football field.
Now, don't anybody misunderstand.
I am not saying that the use of the N-word is not a big deal.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not for racism or any of that.
But do we really want the referees in an NFL game to be the speech police next?
Can you just hear normally they throw a flag, the referee keys the mic, holding offense number 55, still second down, five-yard penalty.
Can you imagine?
Flag flies, ref keys the Mac, N-word, number 75.
Offense.
Still first down.
Or how about ref throws the flag after a big gainer?
Team 55 yard pass play, first down, massive bomb, great play, throws the flag, keys the mic.
Abusive language, number 75 offense, insulted the mother of number 65 defense, 15 yards from the point of the slur.
And they mark wherever the insult happened, and then mark 15 yards off.
I think this well-intentioned types who just want to police ever.
This is a football game is a highly charged emotional situation.
Well, I'm being generous in saying they're well-intentioned.
How do we know they're well-intentioned?
How do we, how do we know that those are good leftists are well-intentioned?
Maybe they're not.
I'm just trying to be understanding and open-minded about it.
Um I what's next?
Are we gonna have forced diversity on the rosters?
Okay, you got 11 guys on offense.
They're gonna require six of them be white, three must be Hispanic, two black and one Asian, the long snapper.
What do is this what?
Where does this kind of stuff stop?
No, we've already had the diversity coach.
The San Francisco 49ers had one.
Dr. Harry Edwards from Berkeley was actually the diversity coach.
He wasn't called that, but he was there to help the black guys get along with the unfair situations they might encounter.
Back during the Montana Jerry Rice days, Harry Edwardson.
People call him the race coach.
I don't know what his actual title was.
Can you hear?
Can you imagine referee says abusive language number 75 offense insulted the mother of number 65 defense 15 yards in the point of the slur.
Can you imagine what the crowd will start chanting then?
The crowd will say, oh, I wonder what it was.
And somebody, the crowd will start chanting whatever they think the slur was.
And then how do you penalize the crowd?
What are these people going to do then?
Referee demand the crowd be kicked out of a stadium?
Because if we're going to let the players use abusive language, how can we let the fans use it?
It's just you know, it's a denial of individu.
But on the other hand, though, you know, you you you're no question, let's put that there's no question we got cultural problems.
And I understand these these uh people that trying to protect the business interests of the league here.
But it's it's just well, I know.
That's a you tell the team to handle it, you tell the players to handle it.
You say, man up, and so forth.
But no, that's the point.
Leftists can never leave it to people to do because they're not capable.
Leftists have to manage it all.
They're the arbiters.
They get to say what's permissible and what isn't.
They get to say what somebody can say what somebody can't.
They get to determine what's offensive and what isn't, and who's offensive and who isn't.
They get to.
That's the whole point of this is exercising control over people and things and situations.
For whatever cockeyed reasons.
Let me go back to the phones.
Mark in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, I want to take you back to the days when Obamacare passed the House.
Okay.
Mark Supak and six Democrats were going to vote no unless the statute was changed to prohibit abortion coverage by the Obamacare policies.
Obama refused to change the statute, but promised Stupec he would establish the prohibition by pro by executive order, and he got their needed votes.
Three years later, these policies require abortion.
There's lawsuits with the Supreme Court.
Question is, has anybody asked Stupec and these Democrats if they feel that Obama lied to them?
Actually, I think somebody did once ask Stupec about it, and he ran from it.
But I think somebody, I don't remember specifically, but I think somebody did track Stu Pac down and ask him how he felt about about basically being used.
And so, you know, the thing about, did you really think that Stu Pac fell for that anyway?
I don't know.
I mean, they ran him out of Congress after that.
I mean, I mean, it's bad enough when he lies to us, Rosh.
When he lies to his own Congresspeople in his own party?
I mean, w what do they think of this guy?
Wait, you mean Obama?
No, what do the Democrats in Congress think of this guy when he lies to a congressman in his own party?
Um, well, that's now that is an interesting question.
And in fact, there's an app for that.
Uh there's there is a story about that in the stack today about the Democrats and how they do not trust Obama and how they are running away from Obama.
Um Democrats lose 2014 edge following Obamacare uproar.
Uh there's there's I can't find the exact story, but it's here in the stack someplace about this very phenomenon.
And the only thing, you know, I I think they'll say that now, but remember they all voted for this.
Every one of these people voted for it.
Now they want their do-over in public when it comes time to get re-elected.
Now they want to act like they're no friend of Obama.
Here it is, politico, as deadline nears ticking clock on Democrat patience.
Democrats preparing to launch broadsides against Obama if Obamacare's website isn't fixed by the end of the month.
And that'll come in the form of more aggressive scrutiny in Republican-led oversight hearings.
Open advocacy for further delay in the enrollment deadline and individual coverage mandate and more calls for staff shakeup in the White House.
Dingy Harry says, Well, let's just wait and see what happens.
We're going to take a couple weeks off.
I'm going to visit with my five grandchildren together for the first time, 16 grandchildren, 44 people for Thanksgiving.
Let's talk about that for a while, Dingy Harry said.
Think somebody at that table will know the truth about Obamacare can share it with Dingy Harry.
What we're being led to believe, Mark, is that the Democrats in Congress are really feeling betrayed and they're really thinking of betraying Obama and running away from him and they're gonna read him the riot act and so forth.
But you you the way you put it, Obama lied to them.
They knew every damned one of these Democrats voted for it.
They cannot run from it.
They can act like they didn't know what was in it, but they did.
They also joined this lie, saying if you like your policy, you can keep it.
If you like your doctor, you can keep it.
They knew it and they were out there saying it.
It has been well known for anybody who pays even scant attention that nobody was going to be able to keep their plan.
I don't have any sympathy for the Democrats.
Sitting here asking how they feel betrayed, they are part of the betrayal.
It's the American people who've been betrayed.
And I know you know that.
But but these these stories now about how the Democrats are fit to be tied and thinking of abandoning Obama, that's nothing more than CYA.
That's just the media circling the wagons and trying to protect these guys who are up for re-election next November.
It's not really about the Democrat Party fracturing over this because they're not going to.
They all voted for this.
This always happens.
The Democrats vote for something that's destructive and wrecks the country.
And then we get near an election and they act like they got hoodwinked and they had no idea, but they never vote against this stuff.
There was a story we had yesterday about the Internet warfare in the Democrat Party.
I don't buy it.
They all vote in lockstep.
It's not changing the way they vote.
And I don't fall for this notion that they change what they say as we get near an election.
Look at what they vote on, look at how they act, and that'll tell you there isn't any dissension in the ranks on the Democrat side.
None.
We are just being asked to believe there is as a means of taking some pressure off of Obama and helping salvage these guys' re-election effort.
But it's all smoke and mirrors.
They're just as unified as they've always been.
And the one thing that they did that cannot be erased, they all voted for this.
There is not one Republican vote for this anywhere.
The Democrats own this locked stock and barrel.
And there's no reason why any of them should be excused or be given a pass because they all knew what it was.
Now, folks, once again, a promise has been unmet.
Almost.
Twenty-five influential things people do better than anyone else.
Not successful people, 25 things influential people do better than anybody else.
It's a Forbes article.
And I want to eventually spend some time in this, but let me just give you a few of the characteristics.
They are fantastic public speakers.
They have the ability to make the mundane interesting.
They have exceptional interpersonal skills.
They have more passion about their interests.
They find the positive in things.
They have superior powers of persuasion.
They have the confidence to act and not just talk.
They maintain an intense focus.
They can instantly energize a room.
They have more charisma.
They have remarkable networks of people that they know.
They multitask effortlessly.
They have excellent timing.
They freely give out compliments.
They leverage technology to make it even better.
They're more prepared.
They're equally productive when they travel.
And there are five more.
Basically, me, folks, essentially.
I'm sure that's what you were thinking as you heard each of these characteristics that I was describing myself.
No, seriously, these are 25, they're kinder, they're ethical.
They don't have an off-switch, they build trust, they spot trends.
And again, these are 25 things influential people.
better than anybody else.
Not 25 things successful people do.
It may be a distinction without a difference.
But it it, I think if you hear the explanation, the details of some of these things, you would understand the uh the difference.
So I'll save that till tomorrow.
Now, tomorrow is our pre-Thanksgiving show, and there's a tradition.
And that tradition is that I always read from my book, The Real Story of Thanksgiving, which I will probably do again tomorrow.
Even though the real story of Thanksgiving is once again in my new book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
But that leads to another difference that we're going to do on actual Thanksgiving Day on the program, which I will explain in detail tomorrow.
Be back and wrap it up.
Folks, thank you so much for being with us today.
I again um I appreciate your your patience and tolerance with the totally unstructured presentation of today's program.
They all are improv and off the uh top of the head, and it's always just uh stream of consciousness, and I appreciate your being here always.
And tomorrow, our pre Thanksgiving show, the beginning of the uh Christmas season and all that, can't wait.
We'll be back here tomorrow, revved up and ready.
See you then.
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