Rush will return live on Monday, but this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in from our mountain fortress in far northern New Hampshire.
We're just south of the Quebec border.
If you're fleeing the country, do swing by.
We always love to see you.
You've got a big sign out in the highway saying last rush guest host before the border, so you can't miss us.
And it's Black Friday today, of course, so you may already be sleeping it off after you got up at two to go and get all the bargains down at the shopping mall.
Complete waste of time.
You don't need to go to rushlimbo.com and they'll take care of all your holiday needs there.
You can get your club gipmo stuff.
You can get the EIB executive chairs, all kinds of great things there.
You can get a subscription to the Limbo Let.
I don't think you can get it.
I think you have to go and buy Rush Revere book in the old regular bookstores.
But pretty much everything other than Russia's terrific booking, you can get there.
I'm just grateful, by the way.
I love guest hosting this show, but I understand that Rush and EIB are under tremendous pressure from the affiliates to let Liberty the Talking Horse guest host the show.
So I'm just grateful to be here, believe me.
But lots of good stuff at rushlimbo.com.
You can check out my website too, by the way, if you're one of, I think it's 300 million Americans who has not yet availed themselves of the opportunity to buy my Christmas album.
You could head over to buy my, I'll be happy to send it to you.
Believe me, we're using it in the walls for insulation now.
Well, I'd be happy to send it.
I'd be happy to send it to you.
No, no, no, no.
That's not a new Christmas album, but it's still, there's so many good things on that album, Mike, that if you've only got one copy you bought last year and you've already wore it out, get another copy because there's so much good stuff on that.
It's always good to have an extra copy.
And also, by the way, I'll tell you what, another great Christmas gift, while I'm recycling my Christmas CD, I'm going to be doing a big tour of Florida in early February.
I'm going pretty much everywhere.
I think Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, Miami, all across the state.
And I think tickets for that go on sale next Wednesday, I think, December the 4th.
That's Black Wednesday, as the marketers call it, because basically that determines how strong the American economy is.
How many of my shows sell out on the first day?
So the entire economic future of the nation depends on it.
But it's a great gift for if they do replace me as guest host with Liberty the Talking Horse.
It is a great Christmas present for anyone who misses me from the guest host roster.
And tickets do go on sale early next week.
I'll be coming to, I think it's the second week in February, but it does make a thoughtful Christmas gift, I think.
And it's not, you know, it's better than going and getting trampled to death down at the shopping mall.
Instead, buy a couple of tickets for my show and trample me to death at the end of the evening when you've seen it.
So that's a kind of thoughtful gift for Christmas.
It is, notwithstanding, the officially designated federal holiday, it remains.
Obama has not yet managed, as the president of Turkmenistan did, to alter the days of the week.
The president of Turkmenistan a few years ago changed the name of Tuesday and renamed it after his mother.
But President Obama, despite all his awesome powers, has not managed to do that.
So despite the federal holiday, it is still the end of the week and you know what happened.
Live from Ice Station EIB, it's Open Line Friday.
Yes, Open Line Black Friday.
That means we are giving away more bargains than ever.
All kinds of callers raising all kinds of subjects.
The tight, ruthless, authoritarian Obama-like Thanksgiving dinner control that the regular host wields over the show Monday to Thursday is suspended on Friday.
And you can talk about anything you want to talk about.
If you want to talk about the Iranian nuclear program, give it your best shot.
I mean, if you're a caller, give it your best shot.
That's not advice to Ayatollah Khamenei in Tehran.
He doesn't need any encouragement.
But yeah, if you want to call up and talk about Iranian centrifuges, we'd love to hear from you.
1-800-282-2882.
If you want to talk about Obamacare, 1-800-282-2882.
It's the little things sometimes that reveal the big stuff.
Rush mentioned this story a day or two back.
Alec Baldwin got fired by MSNBC.
He hosted this show called Up Late on MSNBC.
Who knew?
Who knew?
But it was on for a few weeks, and now it's gone, and it's not there.
And he's apparently been taken off the air for allegedly using an allegedly gay, alleged slur against an alleged photographer on the alleged street outside his alleged apartment.
And MSNBC doesn't brook this kind of thing.
So because he used a supposed homophobic slur against a photographer doorstepping him outside his apartment, a paparazzo, the kind of people who were briefly unpopular for driving the poor old Princess of Wales to her death a mere 15 years ago.
But how soon they forget.
So now when these guys are outside your street and they're harassing your wife and kids, and Alec Baldwin lets rip with a comment suggesting that the man practices a particular sexual act, MSNBC fire him.
Now, in the spirit, I'm not like the Obamacare guys saying we want a ruthlessly partisan Thanksgiving where all the Republicans sit on one side of the table and all the Democrats sit on the other side of the table and they just blast talking points back and forth at each other all day in the totalitarian Thanksgiving prescribed by the Obamacare talking points.
Alec Baldwin is a big liberal, big Democrat, all the rest of it.
I happen to be, I'm going to agree with him on this.
I think this is the idea that somehow you can be fired for using a particular slur in your private life, far from the crowd, nothing to do with what you're doing on air, and in particular circumstances where actually you should be allowed to let rip at people.
I'm with Alec Baldwin on this, and the right ought to be very careful about this because the left's whole thing is to shrivel public discourse, to say you can only speak within our approved parameters.
That's why on any issue that matters, Republicans and conservatives can never win because Democrats basically say, you can't say this, you can't say that, you can't say anything else.
Why does your average squishy Republican congressman, why does he profess to be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform?
Why doesn't he just say we shouldn't let criminals into our country?
If you come into the United States on a legal basis, you should clear off, go back to your own country and apply from scratch like law-abiding people do when they want to move into somebody's country.
Finland is the land where Finns live, and Fiji is the land where Fijians live.
And if you bust in illegally, they don't have any problem saying get lost, creep, and come back when you're ready to obey the law.
But you can't get a Republican congressman to say that because, oh, it's racist, oh, he's xenophobic, he's anti-Hispanic.
You can't say that.
And likewise, with gay marriage, nobody wants to talk about gay marriage.
Oh, come on, give it up.
Republicans are lost.
Conservatives are lost.
It's over.
Forget it.
Because you say this, you say that, you're a hater, you're hateful, you're a bigot, you're a theocrat, all the rest of it.
The whole left-wing platform boils down to, including, by the way, the Obamacare thing, where if you say, well, I'm very concerned about wait times for hernia operations in Scotland, so I don't really approve of government control of healthcare.
They say, well, that's just because you hate Obama because you're a racist and you just want to run him out to the edge of town, string him up from some tree and lynch the guy.
So everything is about that.
It's like that's why, by the way, Obamacare is a disaster.
Because whatever one felt about old school liberalism, at least he just used to do things.
I mean, you know, Roosevelt had the Tennessee Valley thing, electrification.
All the electric poles around here are strung along the ridge lines in this part of New Hampshire because when they brought electricity to this part of New Hampshire, it was on a federal thing, money, no object.
So FDR said, oh, yeah, put it up on the mountain ridge where they can all look upon my works, ye mighty.
And big government doesn't do that anymore.
Big government just says, oh, you're racist, you're sexist, you're Islamophobic, you're homophobic, you're this or thatophobic.
And that's all they do.
And that's what it's all about to them.
And so this idea of firing Alec Baldwin because he makes some homophobic slurs is completely ridiculous.
And by the way, this is after the guy who's kept his job at MSNBC.
Do you know this fellow, Martin Bashir?
He's one of these, you know, these snotty voice foreigners who came to America and wound up with some big-time media gig.
You know, not a big-time media gig like being on the Rush Guest Host roster or anything, but he has this show on MSNBC.
And if there's one thing that really ticks me off, it's like having to listen to some snooty foreigner on the airwaves just talking all the time about what's wrong with America.
And that's what this guy, Martin Bashir, is.
And he says on MSNBC the other day, he apparently, you know, this is the way these guys think, that he would like someone to defecate in Sarah Palin's mouth.
Now, this isn't outside his house where some guy's yelling at him or yelling at his wife or yelling at his kid.
This is something that his MSNBC producer, his MSNBC director, his MSNBC teleprompter typist, the vast MSNBC staff have all read this and thought, oh, yeah, that's funny, defecating in Sarah Palin's mouth.
What a cute idea.
What a sharp line, Martin.
That's terrific.
And they've all approved it, and it's actually on their airwaves.
And Martin Bashir isn't fired, but poor old Alec Baldwin yelling at a photographer.
And by the way, people say, oh, he wasn't really fired for his homophobic slur.
That's the official reason.
They say it was really his low, abysmally low ratings.
Okay, fire a guy for abysmally low ratings, but don't fire him because don't it's it's bad to pretend even to pretend to fire him for the homophobic slur because it gets us into this world where you can't say this and you can't say that.
Joan Rivers, Joan Rivers had said, I can't even read out this quote, she goes, everybody's, she was asked what she thought about this thing.
This is on some website called Mediaite.
I think that's how you pronounce it.
And she said, she was asked what she thought about the Alec Baldwin firing, and she defended him.
She said, everybody's either a blank, or a blank.
Everybody's some, and she used these words.
Everybody's something, so why don't we all just calm down?
And she's absolutely right.
I don't want to live in a world, even for Alec Baldwin.
I don't want to live in a world.
The left does this all the time, policing our words.
I got taken to court in Canada for this, and I'm sick of it.
Because of that, I don't want to hear about it.
I don't want the state policing our words.
I don't want the left policing our words.
I don't want the left destroying careers like they did to poor old Paula Dean for some word she used, what was it, 38, 47 years ago.
And similarly, when the right is offered a scalp, it should say, no, Alec Baldwin wants to ball out some guy in the street who's doorstepping him and his family.
Yeah, sure.
Go ahead, take your chances.
If you need that sort of crummy, pathetic job that you've got to doorstep minor celebrities in the hopes of getting a shot of them yelling something at you, that's a pathetic, worthless way to spend your life anyway.
And you certainly shouldn't be merited.
You certainly don't merit any consideration from the people you're trying to doorstep.
So on this issue, I'm with Alec Baldwin.
We're talking about anything you want to talk about.
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More in a moment.
Oberline Friday on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Mark Stein for Rush behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Let's go to John in Crofton, Maryland.
John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
So it's a pleasure to talk to a fellow Granite State guy.
Oh, you're alive.
You're from New Hampshire originally, John.
Are you then?
Yeah, originally from Newark, New Jersey, of all places.
And I was able to get into Dartmouth, even though I went to an inner city high school and graduated in 1962 when the school was all male.
And we used to have this great issues course on Monday night that we all protested.
So in protest, we would wear the worst ties and jackets we could wear it to.
This was a nightly lecture by a guest speaker.
But it taught you to think.
I don't think they teach them to think in college.
I don't know anymore.
And you don't have to, if you go to Dartmouth these days, you'll see there aren't a lot of ties and jackets.
No, no.
I get the Alumni magazine.
I don't recognize these people.
I don't see anybody in there that looks like he was born and raised in this country.
It's terrible.
But anyway.
They get to have separate dormitories for LGBT students.
I think John.
Just a Supreme Court decision.
I think that was a big mistake.
You weren't in, when you graduated back in 1962 or whatever, they didn't put you in the transgender dorm.
It was a different world back then, right?
I live in a fraternity house, which doesn't exist anymore.
It's Phi Gama Delta, and they called us Fiji.
So when I hear you talking about Fiji, it brings back memories.
The reason I called is, you know, actions speak louder than words, and don't listen to what he says.
Look at what he does.
And last week was an historic week.
I was a history major, and I kind of, you know, keep track of things that happen from the beginning of time, really.
But when it comes to our American history, we had the 150th anniversary on Tuesday on November 19th of the Gettysburg Address.
And of all people, Barack Obama is from the state of Illinois, who I guess he did a photo op at the old Capitol where Lincoln was in Springfield when he started his campaign.
And then when he got elected, he took some of the same train route that Lincoln did back in 1861 and all this association and bathing and he had spotlight and compared to the business.
He took the oath on Lincoln's Bible, I think, actually, John, didn't he?
He took the oath of inauguration twice now on Lincoln's Bible.
Yes, yes.
Maybe four times because on both occasions in 2009 and 2013, he had to take the oath twice.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
The first two were just dress rehearsals or something.
Well, the first one, he said Chief Judas Roberts screwed up, so he had to go the following day to the Oval Office and do it in private.
And then on 2013, the 20th fell on Monday, I guess, and he did it on a Sunday and a Monday.
I don't know exactly which was which, but he did it twice then, too.
So maybe he used the Lincoln Bible four times.
But he didn't even send Joe Biden in his place.
He had some Secretary of the Interior was the ranking person there at Gettysburg.
And I knew Salazar was Secretary of the Interior.
I didn't even know he got replaced, so this person wasn't well known.
And I think it was done.
No, don't give away who it is because that's our big competition in the next hour, isn't it?
No, Secretary of Interior.
I think he disrespected the country then.
And then everybody knew that Friday, the 22nd, was the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.
And, of course, Kennedy was a Democrat.
And for some reason, he went to Kennedy's grave somewhere during the week.
I think it was on Wednesday.
Why didn't he go on Friday?
Well, you know, I know the point you're making, John.
The only thing I'd say is this, is that when Obama goes anywhere, and it's a good point, the 150th anniversary of a landmark speech by a president that Obama claims an affinity to, Abraham Lincoln.
But here's where I would disagree with you, is that if Obama had gone along to Gettysburg, the event would have been about him.
And the media would have presented the 150th anniversary as an occasion for an Obama speech.
If you recall, on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, he gave his speech on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
He said, who could have foreseen on that day 20 years ago that a mere 20 years later, Germany's American ally would be led by an African American?
In other words, you know, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama went to the Berlin Wall and said, tear down that wall so they can get a better look at me.
And if he'd gone to Gettysburg, it would have been all about him too.
Wherever Obama goes, it's about Obama.
And there's something to be said sometimes for actually being thankful that the president did not insert himself into every event.
Yes, Rush returns, not Monday, as I said.
And in fact, as he said, I believe, on Wednesday, a minute before the show ended.
But he'll be back Tuesday.
Rush returns live Tuesday for full strength, excellence, and broadcasting.
And Mark Belling's going to be here live on Monday.
So Mark Belling will take you through the show on Monday and Rush Returns Tuesday.
Breaking news, Jamaican authorities, the Jamaica Constabulary have seized 3,300 missile warheads and a machine to make missiles from a ship at Kingston Wharf, according to Deputy Police Superintendent Steve Brown.
Customs officials discovered the weapons aboard a ship at Kingston Wharf on late Thursday, late Thursday.
There's no word yet on where the shipment originated or where it was headed.
But 3,300 warheads, a big bunch of warheads to have on a ship when the customs officials board.
That's in breaking news from Jamaica this morning.
More breaking news.
It's not just warheads, mysteriously, thousands of warheads just off the coast of the United States.
All kinds of far more serious things are going on.
Grants Pass, Oregon.
Scientists and conservation groups are worried that the deep cutbacks, the crash in West Coast sardines, I didn't know about the crash in West Coast sardines.
You can't be up to speed and everything.
But it has triggered deep cutbacks in commercial fishing.
It's also starving brown pelicans that feed off California, Oregon, and Washington.
Federal budget cuts have left scientists unable to do the research to figure out exactly what is going on.
This is the second paragraph.
They wait.
This is an Associated Press story by Jeff Barnard.
And he waits until the second sentence before implying that it's the fault of the Republicans.
The Republicans are killing the pelicans.
I didn't know about these federal budget cuts.
In fact, that phrase has not been used within living memory.
Federal budget cuts?
What is that?
Those three words in the English language have not been put together in that order in decades.
But apparently there is something out there called federal budget cuts.
If you're wondering what is being cut, if you're wondering whether they are cutting into Social Security or the entitlement programs, no.
Those heartless Republicans have cut into the budget that enables scientists to look into why pelicans are starving.
So there's this whole pelican genocide, pelicanicide, that is going on off the West Coast that is frustrating Anna Weinstein, Seabird Program Manager for the National Audubon Society in San Francisco.
We don't think it's okay for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to do a high five and walk away from the brown pelican, just as it seems to be entering troubled waters.
This sounds like Thanksgiving at the beach.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has done a high five and walked away from the brown pelican just as it's entering the troubled waters.
There are so few resources since mandatory budget cuts.
Oh, this is the sequester then.
The sequester is killing off the brown pelican off the west coast of the United States.
Heartless Republicans will not even permit scientists to have the resources to gather.
There is long-term data on pelican populations, according to Dan Anderson at the University of California, Davis.
There is long-term data on pelican populations, but what's going on right now?
Who knows?
There is no systematic monitoring.
It has been kind of a hit or miss thing.
You realize, just to go back to this Jamaica story, by the way, where they caught these 3,300 missiles, warheads, in Kingston Wharf yesterday afternoon, the Jamaica Constabulary.
And you have on the, that's on the east coast of the United States.
On the west coast, you have this people are concerned about the brown pelican.
They're looking anxiously to see a brown pelican.
All it would take is for somebody to weaponize a brown pelican to maybe take a warhead and affix it to a brown pelican or to make a warhead that looks like a brown pelican and it would manage to sneak in and wreak havoc on the west coast of the United States, no problem.
So that's the latest thing.
If you're wondering, federal budget cuts, it may be for younger listeners, that may be a form of language you've never heard before, a phrase that sounds entirely unknown to you.
Federal budget cuts.
You've never heard those three words in that order.
Not within living memory.
But apparently, the one federal budget cut that has now been imposed is that scientists have been left unable to compile the data to find out what is happening to brown pelicans that feed off California, Oregon, and Washington.
I think they mean feed off the shores of California, Oregon, and Washington.
All kinds of people feed off what's left of the California economy, but the brown pelicans aren't to blame for that.
So that's yet more bad news that Republicans have been so heartless, they've slashed the budget that protects the bad Pelican.
Stupid and rude Beyoncé has been banned from the pyramids.
Dr. Zahi Hawas, General Secretary, he was formerly Minister of State for Antiquities, and he has banned Beyoncé from the pyramids after her stupid and rude behavior.
He was General Secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, and he took Beyoncé to visit the pyramids where she staged an Egyptian goddess-themed photo shoot.
But Dr. Hawass told Britain's Independent newspaper, most people I take on tours are very nice, but this lady, she said she would come at 3 p.m., but she came late.
I said, You have to say, I'm sorry, I'm late, but she didn't open her mouth.
Hawas, who is the gatekeeper of the pyramids, continued, I brought a photographer, and she also had a photographer and a guard.
And when my photographer started to shoot, the guard said, No, stop.
I am the one who says yes or no, not you.
So there's like a cultural incompatibility here because Beyoncé had all her minders.
And Dr. Hawass, who is the gatekeeper to the pyramids, he is known as Egypt's Indiana Jones.
So he could have just shot her.
But instead, he's just banned her for life from the pyramids.
This is further evidence that Obama's reset button with the Muslim world is going nowhere.
You remember the big speech in Cairo?
Then Beyoncé, who lip-synced to the national anthem at Obama's inauguration, goes to do a photo shoot at the pyramids.
She's lip-syncing to something, and maybe she's lip-syncing to the Egyptian national anthem.
But it all goes wrong, and Beyoncé has now been banned from the pyramids.
Biggest story out of the Middle East, of course, is the deal between the Iranians and the so-called P5 plus 1, which is America, Britain, France, Russia, China, plus Germany, with the Iranian nukes.
They're now plans to found a joint.
The Iranians are saying there's going to be a joint Iranian-U.S. Chamber of Commerce and that direct flights will begin from Tehran within a month.
That's passenger jets, by the way, not ICBM.
So there's no need to panic and dive under the table.
This is an incredible.
What's that, Mr. Snurdley?
Jay-Z is going to buy the pyramids.
Mr. Snurdley says not to worry.
Jay-Z is going to buy the pyramid.
That is, yeah, that is just sell pyramid memorability in Barney's.
Yeah, well, that's right.
That's some serious bling right there from those who chop up those pyramids.
Actually, if you just tilt them, if you just tilt them vertically, it looks like Madonna's bra from 30 years ago anyway.
So, you know, there's all kinds of, you know, that may be why what Beyoncé thought she was visiting in the first place.
Memorial for Madonna's 1980s bra.
But that's how bad things are going in the Middle East.
And it's not, the Beyoncé story isn't even the big story of the Middle East.
The humiliation, actually, behind this.
I mean, it's been clear.
It's been clear for years now that the United States was not going to do anything about those Iranian nukes, not going to present any obstacles.
And in a sense, no deal was necessary, except that the Iranians wanted the sanctions lifted.
But the Iranians came in with a bunch of proposals one year ago, and basically the deal gives them everything they asked for one year ago.
And it's worse than Munich.
In Munich, everyone keeps saying, well, this is another Munich.
This is another Munich Agreement.
The Munich Agreement.
France and Britain were negotiating with Hitler from a position of profound military weakness.
And Munich, whatever one feels about Neville Chamberlain or whatever, in the year between Munich and the start of the Second World War in 1939, Britain rearmed at a terrific rate.
And that's the time that the Munich Agreement brought them, however discreditable it may be.
In this case, the country that's responsible for over 40% of the planet's military spending has just caved in to an economic basket case that's only got two to three months of hard currency left in its coffers.
That's how crazy this deal is.
So a lot of stuff going on in the Middle East.
We'll take your calls on that, and we'll take your calls on Obamacare and on all the other news of the day as we celebrate Black Friday on the EIB network.
Black Friday on the EIB network.
All your breaking Black Friday news.
A Florida man has been arrested after his baby was left alone in a shopping center parking lot.
The Florida Highway Patrol trooper spotted the baby left alone in a car outside a Best Buy store yesterday, 5.30 p.m. Thursday.
So this is still Thanksgiving dinner.
The guy was probably fleeing the Obamacare turkey points at the Thanksgiving family dinner.
He had his car, his baby, trooper Edie Rivera, saw the infant in a car seat inside a locked car.
He went into the store looking for the vehicle's owner.
When no one came forward, he broke the vehicle's window and got the baby out.
A short time later, officials say 34-year-old Haida Darwash returned to the vehicle.
He told troopers he thought his wife had the baby.
Darwash was booked into jail.
Serious stuff in Florida near all that.
He should have taken the kid in.
He was in Best Buy.
He should have taken the kid into Best Buy.
He could have got a great exchange deal on that baby.
Let's go to Jennifer, who's in Georgia.
Jennifer, it's great to have you on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Well, Mark, thank you.
It's great to be on.
With so much uncertainty coming at the beginning of the year with your doctor and whether you're still going to have your doctor, I would just strongly encourage people who take any prescription to make sure they're going to have somebody who is available to refill it.
People frequently wait until the very last second to get medicine refills.
And if you do that, you may not have a doctor to refill that prescription.
And it may take you months to find one.
And with our legal system out there and lawyers willing to sue doctors at the drop of a hat, I think you're going to have a hard time getting a doctor who no longer sees you but used to give you that prescription will probably not refill it now that they're not seeing you.
Yeah, you're right about that because a lot of these cancel plans and people moving to new plans.
I mean, this is a huge shift that's going on on January the 1st.
And a lot of doctors that are in the a lot of doctors that were approved in the old plan are not in the new plans.
And people will be having to go to new doctors and get that doctor to sign off on whatever prescription is keeping them alive.
Well, and it may take you six months to get in to see the new doctor.
And, you know, you just can't wait six months to take your medicine for diabetes or wait six months to take your blood pressure medicine.
I mean, just routine things.
And, you know, this isn't even the cancer therapies being canceled.
I mean, this is real life every day that can cause some really serious consequences like kidney failure and heart failure and strokes if you just stop your medications and you can't get anybody to refill them.
And if you go to an emergency room, they might give you a week's worth or maybe a month's worth, but they're not going to give you refills.
And I know having been a nurse for 30 plus years, the number of people that just wait until the last minute, people need to look at their prescription bottles, see how many refills they have left, what doctor prescribed it, and whether that doctor is still going to be their doctor when the prescription runs out.
Well, no, you're absolutely right on that, because I'm one of those people who always leaves it to the last minute.
And that's actually particularly important around things like Thanksgiving week because people go in.
And the body doctor's offices are closed on Friday, so you've got four days.
And the pharmacies can't just give you pills.
Sometimes they will, but again, with our legal system, I mean, you can't watch a television program without at least one commercial on there from a big law group that's got a class action lawsuit on a prescription.
So it's getting impossible.
And you're right.
If you go to RiteAid or Walmart or wherever it is, and you go to the pharmacy and they say, oh, no, no, the last month was your last thing.
So we can't give you these pills until we hear from your doctor.
And if it is 4 o'clock on Christmas Eve, you're not going to be able to get hold of anyone who's going to renew that.
And Jennifer actually raises a very important point here.
What we've been talking about so far since October the 1st is millions and millions of canceled policies, millions and millions of them.
And that's just the paperwork.
And there have been one or two odd little stories percolating through because at the moment, for the most part, it's a paperwork problem.
But there have been one or two odd little stories percolating through.
The Daily Mail has a story about a boy who's seven years old who has a rare cancer and he's supposedly lost his insurance because of Obamacare and he needs his life-saving chemotherapy, which is $50,000 and the family can't afford that and all the rest.
A kid in Texas, it's in the Daily Mail out of London, this story.
And there have been one or two stories about that, but most of those hard impacts don't kick in until January the 1st.
So around about January the 4th, January the 7th, whatever it is, people are going to be going to pharmacies, they're going to be going to doctors, they're going to be going to emergency rooms and discovering that they don't have coverage.
Or they're going to be discovering that the coverage they do have isn't with their doctor, so they can't get their prescription or whatever.
So in other words, we're now moving.
On January the 1st, we move from the paperwork part of the problem to the, I haven't got health care, I haven't got pills, I can't get in to see the doctor.
That stage of the problem.
So we start October the 1st, it's the paperwork problem.
January the 1st, it's I can't get my pills, I can't get into the doctor, I can't get into the hospital problem.
And a few weeks after that, it starts becoming the people are dying problem.
And that's really what Obamacare's got to watch out for here, because they can ignore a certain amount of this stuff.
There's a heartlessness about them.
If you read that Paul Krugman column in which he says, you know, Obamacare is going to work out for Republicans like another Benghazi.
It's going nowhere.
Hey, Paul Krugman, you stupid, pompous, parochial little man.
Benghazi is a real place, and real people died in Benghazi, and they happen to be American.
So it's not just the politics of spin and the politics of perception.
Real people died out there, and they can write it off.
Maybe they can write out four American deaths on the other side of the planet.
But at some point, if this Obamacare thing doesn't get sorted out, real people are going to start dying pretty early on in 2014 in the United States.
Mark Stein for Rush, more to come.
Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
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