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Dec. 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 3, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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I want to get into the healthcare stack here, folks.
It is just, it's outrageous.
And the bottom line is, it's worse than anybody is admitting.
I'm talking about from the regime.
And I think it's worse than anybody really even knows.
But it has been mentioned earlier today, and I want to re-emphasize this, I don't think that it is designed to work.
It can't.
This is the point.
You know, a great 17-year-old caller who watched the Hillsdale College online course Econ 101.
The professor illustrated that the government cannot replicate the private sector.
They can't take over and make the private sector work as it works, unfettered, or not unfettered, regulation, but without the government being involved.
They just can't do it, no matter what it is.
Making sure everybody has print pencils, making everybody has food, they cannot do it.
And it's not that these people can't do it, although they can't.
I mean, they're maybe the least qualified of anybody that's tried, but government as an entity can't do it.
The private sector, capitalism, free markets cease to exist once the government interferes, once the government attempts to take over and control it.
They just can't do it.
It isn't possible.
And the professor's point was, it'll never work.
But yet that's not stopping them from doing it, is it?
It's not stopping Obama from trying, is it?
He's not ending the daily soap opera of whether or not the website's up and running, whether or not it's going to work out eventually, whether or not you'll be able to get health care, whether or not all of your data is secure.
Every suspenseful item is left open with no answer to it.
The bottom line is it just can't work.
Liberalism doesn't work for the people that it's aimed for.
The poor, minorities.
It never works.
Never makes people happy.
Never makes people satisfied.
All it does is fails.
Now, the people who run it, however, never ever recognize this, do they?
They just keep plowing ahead.
So you have to include, well, it isn't designed to.
I want to start here with F. Chuck Todd on Today Show today.
He is the White House correspondent and the political director.
I don't know if he's still political director, but he's the White House correspondent at NBC News.
And the news anchor, Natalie Morales, said, Chuck, President Obama is going to focus on the broader benefits of the healthcare law today at a White House event as he tries to move past all the website woes.
That's, by the way, at 2.30 Eastern Time.
And the big news today is that Obama has announced a new offensive, a new initiative.
He's going to be out there every day now, touting the benefits, the additional benefits, the new benefits.
And of course, every day, the story is going to be, did the president succeed today?
And the suspense and the drama will be never ending.
And the questions will be never answered because soap operas never end.
So here's F. Chuck.
He's all excited because Obama and the regime are going to start touting the website today.
Well, the White House is confident enough that healthcare.gov is working well enough that they can do something that they've tried to do many times before, launch a coordinated campaign led by President Obama to tout the benefits of the healthcare law.
He's going to tout the website.
And every day between now and December 23rd, the last day you can enroll in order to get health insurance by January 1st, you're going to see some event launched here at the White House touting this health care law.
And all of this because they believe finally healthcare.gov is at least a workable website, if not a perfect one.
But it isn't.
But anyway, you see this report?
It's not about real things.
It's not about the effect of this on real people.
It's not about reality at all.
It's the game.
The drama.
The suspense.
Can Obama convince people that it's working?
Can Obama succeed in reversing his fortunes?
Can Obama turn a website that was ill-performing into one that is passably acceptable by the American people?
Just meaningless, worthless questions.
And I'm sure Chuck thinks he did a great report there.
But Chuck's report is vacuous.
It doesn't affect.
It doesn't impact.
It has nothing to do with any reality whatsoever.
And that's the media meme of the day.
The narrative of the day is it's working at least well enough now that the dear leader can run out there and tout it without losing any credibility at all.
Obama thinks that all he has to do is tell a better story.
All he's got to do is use a different set of words to describe it, and magically he can change people's attitudes about it.
But the bottom line is you go there and it still doesn't work.
And you go there.
The latest news today is that if you think you've signed up, you may not have.
You are to call your insurance company to make sure.
Now, in the old days, in the old days, folks, it was really intolerable.
You would meet with a representative of the insurance company and you would make the deal on your policy and that would be that.
And that was unfair and it was mean-spirited and extreme and discriminatory.
So now it's been streamlined.
It's been improved markedly.
Now you go to the healthcare.gov website and spend hours and days trying to log in.
Then you finally make it.
If you don't get shut out or disconnected, you finally stay in long enough to where you think you've signed up.
And then you're told that every bit of personal data is unsecure or it's unsecured and it could be in the hands of anybody.
And then after you've spent days doing that, then you're told to make sure that you actually are covered, you have to call an insurance company.
Now, last night on Greta Van Susteren's show, Representative Mike Rogers guested.
He told Greta Van Susteren that data security at healthcare.gov did not even meet minimal standards for the industry.
In terms of the private sector velocity and efficiency claimed by the regime over the last couple of days, I have to remind you, I am just blown away that members of the administration actually talk that way.
They actually said that the website and the team running healthcare.gov were operating with private sector velocity and effectiveness.
Now, these people hate the private sector, and I'm not exaggerating.
To people in the Democrat Party, the private sector is no more than this fatted calf golden goose that is always going to be fat and it's there to be taken from.
But it's resented.
Capitalism is where unfairness and discrimination and inequality reside, and it's unacceptable.
And yet, what do they resort to in order to assure everybody that their website's up and running?
That it is proceeding with private sector velocity and effectiveness.
Except that it isn't.
Because Congressman Rogers says that experts warned him they would be sued out of business if they rolled out a website with this many security gaps.
And this is how bad it is.
And you keep this in mind as you see or read or hear about Obama back on the stump today and every day through December 20.
I mean, that's what everybody wants, right?
I mean, isn't it bad enough that he already tried to hijack Thanksgiving for this stupid thing by sending his little Obama bots out to every Thanksgiving dinner to try to corrupt every Thanksgiving meal with his Obama bots touting it and selling it and telling lies about it.
It's not enough to hijack Thanksgiving.
Now Obama's got to hijack the entire Christmas season by being out there every day touting the benefits, which will be covered every day by a slavish media totally absorbed in the suspense of it, in the drama of it.
So what normally would be a great Christmas holiday season, well, maybe not this one because of Obama's economy, we're not going to be able to escape Obama every day touting this thing.
But Congressman Rogers said that the White House, and you remember this again when you see Obama outselling this thing and touting it.
Mike Rogers said the White House refused to brief Congress on the known risks, security risks, and attacks that have already taken place.
They wouldn't even tell them in closed session.
They wouldn't tell them off the record.
They wouldn't tell them with tight security.
They would not be honest.
That's why I think that this is worse than we know.
That's why I think that the real status of this, the dangers that associate with everybody that goes to this website, I think they are more profound, deeper, worse than anybody dares admit.
Because if the regime will not even admit the known risks and the security tax, the attacks, the hacks that have been attempted, and succeeded already in closed session, Rogers said that's just unconscionable, especially when the same people who will not brief them are out cajoling people to put their identity information at risk.
Now, Congressman Rogers is not alone.
He echoed the concerns of David Kennedy, former Marine Corps cyber warfare expert, who warned Congress last month to shut down this website dead cold until the security gaps were closed.
Kennedy, this is from hotair.com, Ed Morrissey.
Kennedy said this, after warning Americans when testifying before Congress on November 19th to stay away from healthcare.gov, David Kennedy, again, the former Marine Corps cyber warfare expert, says the situation is even worse.
They said that they implemented over 400 bug fixes, he said.
Now, when you recode the application to fix these 400 bugs, and they were rushing this out the door to get that site at least so it can work a little bit, you're introducing more security flaws as you go along with it because you don't even check the code.
I'm a little bit more skeptical now, and I would still definitely advise people to not use the website because it's definitely something I don't believe is secure, and neither did the four people that testified in front of Congress, says Mr. Kennedy.
I think there's some major security concerns around privacy and information, and they haven't even come close to being addressed, and they won't be in the short term.
Perfect.
You see, they're not ever going to fix this stuff.
They can't, folks.
They don't know how.
This is not what they do.
And it's being proven each and every day.
And I'm telling you, I don't think Obama appearing every day that blooms off the Obama Rose.
I don't think he can come up with new words every day, tell a better story every day, and change this, because this is too real.
On the one hand, you've got the soap opera type presentation of this.
And on the other hand, you've got people signing up who really care about their health care.
It is crucial to them.
It is tremendously important.
And it's a mess now.
And then you throw in what they were promised and nothing is real anymore.
Health and Human Services now saying the site's up 95% of the time.
Big whoop.
Up?
What about functioning?
Up means that you can just log into it.
The industry standard in the private sector is for websites to be up 99.9% of the time.
Anything below that's considered a failure.
95.1% in the private sector is a disaster.
This is from an article about all of this.
95.1% is a disaster.
And it is.
And they're trying to cover it up.
And they're trying to mask it with new stories, new words, new assurances.
You know what they're doing?
It's real simple.
They're just saying it's fixed.
That's all they're doing.
Nothing's changed, really.
They're just saying it's fixed.
They got the media out there applauding, all right?
It's fixed.
They did it.
It's up and running.
And now will Obama be able to convince people who previously had doubts?
Will our hero be able to escape the current role he's playing a villain?
Can we help?
They're just, I don't know what you call it.
They're just saying it's fixed.
It isn't.
It's more insecure than ever.
It's as dysfunctional as ever.
It's a Washington Examiner story.
I think we talked about it last week.
I may have even predicted that before it was all said and done, they were just going to say it's fixed and to hell with it.
Which is what they do on the left.
They just, things like, it's fixed.
It's your problem for not working.
We're just going to say it's fixed and move on.
We're just going to say the economy's roaring back and that's it.
We're just going to say the jobs are being created left and right and that's the story.
And we're going to say that people are happy and that's it.
We're just going to say it because we know we've got a media in our hip pocket.
You prove that it isn't working and that kind of thing.
Quick time out.
We'll be back and continue with much more right after this.
By the way, David Kennedy, the Marine Corps cyber warfare expert, he's a white hat hacker.
He's the kind of guy that goes in and hacks websites to check their vulnerability and then he reports to the owners where they are vulnerable.
He does not exploit the hacks that he finds.
That's who the guy is.
And one of the things that he found is that the Obamacare site extracts a lot of information from visitors.
You don't have to sign up.
You don't even have to start filling out a form before they start collecting data on you just because you're logged in.
This is being done purposefully.
It is a security breakdown nightmare.
And so the regime's high-tech guys coming out and saying, guess what?
Healthcare.gov, our tech surge going to be complete by the end of November.
And what this means is you better get ready because by the end of November, they're going to declare it fixed, whether it is or not.
Those are my words from October 25th.
I predicted to you back on October 25th what they were going to say and they're saying it.
It's fixed.
It's up and running.
It's your problem.
Let's go to the audio soundbites quickly.
At Fox News on Friday on the 5, they discussed my theory that Obama is angling for single payer, the government totally socializing health care out of all of this.
Rush Limbaugh thinks Obama is secretly rooting for the current health care failures so he can offer a solution, a single payer plan.
So is that so far-fetched?
Was that the end game all along?
Bob, wasn't it their goal to get a single payer as part of Obamacare?
There just wasn't enough Democratic votes when they were trying to push it through.
Obama said so.
He told his union buddies, is it 10, 15 years?
But single payer, by the way, it's not a great thing, folks.
Single payer is the government running everything.
Here's what Bob Beckel said in response.
Now, remember, they wanted a public option to be able to compete in the insurance marketplace, and the insurance industry went crazy, and so they dropped it because of that.
But the earlier thing that Obama said here was before Obamacare, this was about the single-payer, that had always been something that a lot of us wanted.
And when the Democrats took over both the House and the Senate and the White House, there was still a lot of hope that you could push that through.
And then it became increasingly clear the insurance companies were not going to allow that.
So they fell back on the Obamacare.
Next up, Brian, kill me.
My feeling is there's no way President Obama has a master plan to collapse the system and only leaving the single payer out.
The same people that brought you that website and are so detached are not the same people that have a master plan.
Okay, so what Killmead's saying is no matter who they are, they're not competent enough to plan every what Killmead means is they did not mean for this level of disaster to happen.
They may want single payer.
They may want to totally socialize control health care, but that they didn't intend for all of this to have, that they are not happy that all of this has happened.
And he may have a point.
Got to take a brief time out, my friends.
I think we do, yes.
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We go back to the phones.
Greetings, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Good day, Rush.
It was great to hear that you got away from your addictions.
I too enjoy getting away from mine from time to time.
And while you were away, you might have heard the story about the ad that was rejected by the NFL after it was approved by Fox News by a firm called Daniel Defense.
But first, I'd like to mention and expose Chris Christie for the unacceptable candidate that he would be for president.
Can you imagine that there would be some Republican governor who would have turned down Obama with the offer of his money and there was no, you know, let me tell you about that.
The mayor of New York did turn down Obama.
The governor of New York did turn down Obama.
They both said, we don't want you here.
We have enough to do without you coming in and taking up space, occupying the media, causing traffic jams, and all the rest.
So, yes, it is entirely within reason that a Republican governor would have said, thanks for the offer, but not now.
We are too busy.
In fact, I can tell you this, Cameron Old Buddy O'Pal.
A real Republican would have not offered the president said opportunity.
He would have said, I'd be glad to accept your assistance.
I'd be glad to accept it, but I've got a job to do here.
Didn't have to invite Obama in, did not have to walk the beach, did not have to embrace one week before a presidential election.
Did not have to do that.
Could have accepted the assistance, could have gone to a press conference, could have said the president called and offered all kinds of assistance.
He was very kind, could have stopped it there.
There are any number of things that Governor Christie could have done besides what he did.
But again, Mayor Bloomberg told the president, thanks, but we're going to handle it.
And Governor Cuomo, I believe, same thing.
And so, yeah, there are plenty of ways to have done this, particularly one week before the election.
Realizing here that a lot of Republican governors would have realized that the president was trying to come in and hijack the event.
It's one week before a presidential election.
And if the president refuses federal aid because the governor doesn't let it, let that be reported and let the president take the heat for holding up aid simply because he's not allowed to come into the photo op.
There were all kinds of ways of accomplishing this.
Got to take a brief time out, my friends.
Sit tight.
Back with more after this.
Back to the phones when we go to Hiram, Utah.
This is Amy.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Amy.
Hi, Russ.
I just wanted to tell you thank you for Rush Revere's brave programs.
My kids love it.
Oh, I'm actually a homeschooling mom of four kids.
I pulled them out because they weren't being taught history.
So it's wonderful to have this resource.
Well, you've made my day.
You know, can I tell you something?
This Thanksgiving dinner at held it at my brother's house this year.
And my uncle, Uncle Steve, who's the family patriarch at the moment, always does grace.
And we all gathered in the combination kitchen family room in my brother's crib in his hood there.
And my uncle, as part of grace, started reading from the foreword of Rush Revere and the Great Pilgrims.
And I was, I was, I can't tell you how moved that I was and blown away.
And he started crying as he read it.
And everybody, it was, it was just, it was really, I can't describe what kind of a moment it was.
And my brother said, or somebody said to me, you know, this is probably happening at a lot of homes today, people reading.
And I just want to thank you because I can't tell you how much it means to me when people who've read the book call and share feelings about it.
And especially when they're over-the-top nice like yours are, I really, really appreciate it.
In fact, I want to send you.
You have the audio copy.
Do you have the audio version of the book?
I don't.
Well, you do now.
I mean, it's unconscionable.
No, nobody at my family did the organizing for America talking points.
We joked around about it.
We made fun of these people.
But no, it was just out of the blue.
At the beginning of Grace, he read just a short passage from the forward, then moved on with the rest of the prayer.
But it was really great.
Now, Amy, you say your kids are 10, 8, 6, and 4, and they've all read the book?
Well, we're in the process of reading it.
We haven't finished it yet.
We just got it.
But my six-year-old right now is in Building the Mayflower out of popsicle sticks.
So that's how much they liked it.
Oh, that is building the Mayflower out of popsicle.
I got a picture.
I got an email picture over the weekend of a friend of mine in Chicago whose son built a copy of the Mayflower out of cereal boxes.
That's awesome.
The ingenuity is just, it's over the top.
So, Amy, I want you to hang on because Mr. Snerd will get your address and we'll get you an audio version of the book out.
Great.
I just have one more question for you.
Okay.
I'm in the market for a laptop and I know you promote Macs.
Is there one that you suggest?
Well, that depends on a whole lot of things.
I don't promote Mac.
I mean, I just, I happen to be, I just like them.
I guess I do promote them, but it's unpaid.
I mean, I'm not a paid advocate or any of that.
How much money do you want to spend on a laptop?
You know, I'm not even sure.
We just started looking, so we don't have a whole lot that we can spend on it.
So I'm just.
I would suggest you start looking at the MacBook Air, which is either, it comes at 11 or 13 inches, or maybe even you might want to go to the 13-inch MacBook Pro.
But those are entry-level prices, and they're great, great computers.
You get a lot of productivity done on them.
They're small, great battery life.
Carry them around all over the place.
And by the way, this is unsolicited and unremunerated praise.
I am not.
Apple probably cringes when I start talking about this stuff.
But MacBook, I think the MacBook Air laptop would be, especially if kids are going to use it too.
Yeah.
Well, I think that would be probably the way to go.
Check those out first.
See if they're in your price.
They're under $1,000.
And they're the best in their price range.
I printed something out on, what was it, November 28th.
So this might have been Thanksgiving Day I printed this out.
And I sent it to myself so I would have it for today.
But I just wasn't going to indiscriminately use it.
But Amy's call permits it.
What this is, is a series of tweets that appeared on Thanksgiving Day, posted by people.
Now, one of the points that I make, one of the reasons for writing Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is to get the truth of the founding of the country out there because of how history has been corrupted by the left and the public education system.
And to many people in this country, Thanksgiving Day is, it's called right here, Happy Genocide Day.
Let me read some of these tweets.
It's sad that this day of giving thanks was the genocide of the Native American people.
That's the truth about Thanksgiving.
Lest we forget the genocidal roots of Thanksgiving.
Let's all thank the European settlers for murdering the Wampanoag Indians and the Pequot Indians.
Happy, let's go steal this land from the people that were here already.
In the U.S. today, we celebrate the genocide of the Native Americans.
Today should be a National Day of Mourning.
Where do these people learn this stuff?
These are leftists tweeting what they think of Thanksgiving Day.
What are they taught?
This is the multicultural curriculum out of control.
They are teaching that white Europeans came here and corrupted everything they found, killed everything that they found, stole everything that they wanted, and basically took this great land from the Indians.
This is what they're being taught, folks.
These are not just a bunch of provocateurs.
These are not just people planting things on Twitter to irritate people and get a thread going or what.
There are people who believe this.
And it's just, it infuriates me.
It literally infuriates me.
And these people are convinced, I mean, and they're enraged about it.
They're angry.
They live with it each day like this.
And that's why, among many reasons, I wanted to write a book about the truth of the founding, the truth of the pilgrims, and of always the real story of Thanksgiving to counter this kind of drivel.
Quick time out.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Ha!
How are you?
El Rushball, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
I've got the sound bite coming up.
Not enough time to air it now.
But how about this?
Jay Carney just told a drive-by media at the White House, if we told you Obama's plans for the website and everything, it would kill the suspense.
The soap opera cannot stop.
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