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Dec. 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 3, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host of this program still documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time.
And I'm Rush Limbaugh, this the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, the nation's most listened to.
And I don't think any question, most talked about.
Radio talk show all across the fruited plane.
And you will hear evidence of this in due course as we head to the audio soundbite.
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For us, 800-282-2882.
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It's uh Ilrushbow at EIBNet.com.
So here's Jay Carney.
This is just moments ago at the White House.
A daily press briefing.
A uh question from the correspondent from NPR Mara Lyerson.
This is a crucial period, Jay.
You've just lost a lot of time.
You still have uh you got till December 23rd.
If people need it by January 1st, should we expect to see the president frequently talking about health care?
Now remember, it's already been announced that he's gonna be doing that.
Starting at uh about 20 three 22 minutes from now.
Every day from now through December 23rd, Obama's gonna be out there touting it.
She's asking, are we gonna be hearing about the president every day here, Jay?
What have you planned for him in these weeks?
It's kind of a crucial period, Jay.
What's uh what's actually on tap?
If I told you now, it wouldn't be a surprise when it happened, Mara.
I know we are gonna be engaged.
The president's gonna be engaged.
He's kicking it off today.
I would point you to his remarks.
I've given you a little bit of a preview of some of the things we're gonna be talking about and focusing on.
We plan to use a number of different venues to push uh this message to the public, including press events, digital media.
Yeah, well, uh I told you it uh wouldn't be a surprise when it happens.
So we gotta keep the suspense going, because as uh my buddy Andy McCarthy wrote, this is all nothing but a soap opera the way it gets covered.
This is a real thing.
Is Obama gonna be out telling him?
I'm not gonna tell you.
I'm not the president's gonna be out here, but it's already been reported what the president's gonna say.
And nobody is denied it.
By the way, Kearney still will not say whether Obama has signed up for Obamacare yet.
There's a political story said that Obama has, or that Obama's going to.
But Carney will not say whether Obama has signed up for Obamacare yet, and put his own security at risk, his own privacy, his secured data and so forth.
Six years ago, Obama promised that he'd be leading the charge, that he'd be signing up for it.
But he hasn't uh to date.
And also notice that December 23rd deadline, these these insurance companies are gonna have one lousy week, Christmas week, to get everything up and going by the January 1st deadline.
They can't.
This just can't work.
It's falling apart.
It's in deeper trouble than anybody wants to admit, and the regime's solution to this is to say it's working.
We got it fixed, it's up and running, and now the president's gonna be out there touting the benefits all over again.
Uh Jay Carney at this press briefing, he also told reporters, uh, and I'm paraphrasing here, not to worry.
Nothing to worry about here, that uh one-third of the people signing up haven't actually gotten insurance.
Because so people few people have actually enrolled.
Now, I I'm not making this up.
The White House put out news today, the regime put out news that if you think you've signed up, don't trust it.
Call the insurance company and make sure.
This is after you've gone to healthcare.gov, after you've signed up, after you've filled out the forms, after you've been told that you're enrolled, the regime is still telling you to call the insurance company and make sure.
And Carney today said there's no reason to worry about this.
I think the number is 30 30, 35% of the people who've signed up have not actually been enrolled.
30 to 35% of the people who think they have insurance don't have it.
And Carney said, no reason to worry about that because so few people have actually enrolled.
We're not talking about a lot of people.
And I I kid you not.
On the one hand, they're trying to make it look like there's a demand for this thing that they can't control, that people are so eager and so excited and so happy to be able to go to healthcare.gov and get their health care that they can't.
That's one of the reasons the site plunged, right?
Because there's all this demand.
And then Carney today says, don't worry about the fact that uh 35% of people think they have insurance and don't.
There's it's such a small number of people who have actually enrolled.
It makes you wonder why people didn't just deal directly with insurance companies from the start and cut out the Obamacare middleman to begin with.
You only screw things up.
I mean, this is it is so absurd.
You go to healthcare.gov and then get directed to an insurance company, except you better call them and make sure that you're actually enrolled.
You want to hear something funny?
The Navajo Code Talkers, you know who they were?
The Navajo did.
They were they were instrumental to our victory in World War II.
They they helped decode and foil a Japanese.
Navajo Code Talkers.
And the NFL has been recently saluting the military.
And so the Navajo Code Talkers were invited to an NFL game at of all places.
FedEx Field, where who plays games there?
The Washington Redskins.
The Navajo Code Talkers showed up in Washington Redskins jackets as big fans.
And the Washington Post was outraged.
They were the first to pick it up.
As a joint celebration of the NFL's salute to service month and Native American Heritage Month, the Washington Redskins recognized four members of the Navajo Code Talkers Association.
The Code Talkers, a group of Native American service members who transmitted secret communications beginning in World War II.
Four representatives and they're named show up.
And then there's this, the ceremony where the Navajo code talkers were honored wearing their redskins jackets.
The ceremony drew fire from liberal activists trying to change the name.
And there you have it, liberal activists.
I know you and I know that, but the liberal activists want everybody to think that there's this massive groundswell of newly matured people who are outraged at the racism of the name redskins.
When in fact, it's nothing more than a bunch of typical left-wing activist hacks who are trying to royal things up.
They are a distinct minority trying to manipulate and uh intimidate others into simply getting rid of a time-honored American tradition.
Just because they don't like it.
And these liberal activists got angry that four representatives of the Navajo Code Talkers showed up wearing Redskins jackets.
To me, this says really all that needs to be said.
I mean, that there's nothing genuine.
This is another soap opera.
Change the Redskins name.
It's all it is, is another soap opera.
There's nothing real behind this.
There's no real outrage.
It's all being manufactured.
Complete with the drama and the suspense, the villains, the heroes, except there aren't very many heroes.
It's all manufactured.
It's all made up.
Did you see the poll?
You may have you may have missed this.
A poll out there that found that more blacks dislike the term African American than Native Americans dislike the name Redskins.
Did you see that?
I kid you not.
I am not making this up.
I wouldn't lie.
I wouldn't get it wrong on purpose.
Never ever do that.
There is a poll.
More blacks dislike the term African American than Native Americans who dislike the term the term Redskins.
This is there's nothing real about this.
This is also a manufactured controversy.
Exactly liberal activists just trying to stoke things up.
CNN's Jeff Zucker.
This is the Savior.
Today's show, NBC, now at CNN.
Jeff Zucker plans to change CNN from a news network into a place with attitude.
I'm reading from the website mediaite.
I'm sorry, well, I'm gonna tell you.
In an era when cable news dominated by opinion programming, CNN staked out a position ostensibly in the middle by focusing primarily on broadcasting straight news instead of personality driven programming, but that's gonna change.
Now the first thing here, if these people at CNN really think that all they've been doing is broadcasting straight news, it's hopeless.
If that's the basis for their change, they haven't been broadcasting straight news.
They're just as left-wing as anybody else in the media.
And they haven't been doing news.
They too are part of the daily soap opera that everybody thinks is the news.
But there isn't any news being reported.
All there is is a daily leftist agenda.
And whatever the items in the agenda are that day, that's what constitutes what you're told there's news about.
Pure and simple.
CNN President Jeff Zucker recently told Capitol New York that the straight newscast model is unsustainable.
How does he know?
Nobody's doing it.
You know, I think on this program we do more straight news reporting than you will find combined on the three nightly newscasts in CNN.
We do.
Now I also throw in my opinion in it, like Peter Jennings used to do.
But there's more straight I I guarantee you, you in this audience, and I love you, you are more informed about a wider variety of things happening in this country and world than you are if you only watch the nightly newscasts.
Because all you're getting on the nightly newscast is the daily dose of whatever the liberal agenda is that day.
And so-called news stories that are associated with that agenda item that day.
Or those items.
But there is no news anymore.
And so CNN has decided that straight news reporting doesn't work.
Well, it does.
It's why you listen to this program in part.
Here's a here's a pull quote from uh Jeff Zucker.
Yeah, we're all regurgitating the same information.
I want people to say, you know what?
That was interesting.
I hadn't thought of that.
Well, that's exactly what happens to people who listen here.
Oh, yeah, I didn't know that.
A lot of people say, oh gosh, you know, I hadn't thought of that.
But CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, you name it, they're all part of the daily media agenda of the left.
There isn't any news.
For two and a half decades, people's reaction to this program is wow, you know what?
That was interesting.
I hadn't thought of that.
I'm not kidding, folks.
I actually think there's more news, there's more information imparted here than you get at any of the nightly newscasts.
There's not even a contest.
Hands down.
We're all regurgitating the same inform.
Well wait a minute, Jeff, I thought you guys said you were doing straight news reporting.
So he knows what they're doing, even though they say that they staked out the middle ground of objective news report.
He knows and why are they all reporting the same thing?
Why are they all regurgitating the same thing?
Because they're all part of the agenda.
They're all at the end of the day Democrats.
Leftists attempting to get their agenda rammed through.
Not by virtue of achieving popular support for it, by the way.
That's not at all what they're about.
Take a look at their ratings.
You think they're about engendering popular support for the Democrat agenda?
No way.
They don't have the ratings to do that.
They're trying to ram through a Democrat agenda over the objections of a majority of people in this country.
And they hide behind this banner that they are the news media but they're not there isn't any news.
There's more news here.
Sorry to be redundant but I think it's a profound point.
And when I come across a profundity of especially one of my own I tend to uh tend to repeat it.
So anyway CNN's shakeup will focus on the prime time lineup and could result in more half hour programs.
Well that's their problem is they've been doing one hour and two hour shows.
Maybe I could learn a lesson turn this show into a series of half hour shows.
See how it worked.
Or maybe just do a half hour every day and see if that helps okay back to the phones we go.
We're going to start back here in Westchester, Ohio.
And Susan, thank you for waving.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thank you so much.
You bet.
Susan are you there?
I'm calling the I'm calling because I'm from the 8th district in Ohio which is John Boehner's district.
Right.
And there's a grassroots movement to vote him out in the May primary and I wanted your advice and opinion on that for two reasons.
One for when we get him out and then two it would be a vital time to position someone much better into the House speakers and position and I wondered who you would want to see in that position.
Well you are way ahead of me on on something like that.
That that would be a difficult person to name until the House actually the elections take place and we know who's in there's I I can tell you right now that it is the assumption is a lot of people are aware of your effort in Ohio.
There's um there's a similar effort being launched against Mitch McConnell in the in Kentucky I mean there there are people Tea Party types and others folks who are really just fed up with the Republican leadership.
As Daniel Horowitz wrote at redstate.com they don't understand and I'm I'm with they don't understand why the Republican Party has seemingly become an echo of the Democrat.
Why is the Republican Party so hellbent on immigration reform in Amneson?
Well we know the answer chamber of commerce money donors uh and this kind of thing uh but it it doesn't make any sense because it's not it's not the way to win elections and it's not the way to stop the Democrats people that want to beat Democrats not join them.
And if you're going to do immigration reform there's nobody can outdo the original architects of it which is the which is the Democrat Party and the idea that well we can show the Hispanics we don't hate them if we join in this effort and maybe get some of their votes down the line it's just a lot of people don't understand this.
So there are efforts underway to unseat Boehner and and McConnell in Kentucky now Susan the uh in in well tough way to say this I don't I I'm not sure uh who's doing what and how successful it's going to be,
but there are people assuming that if Boehner is not elected, re-elected, that that Eric Cantor will automatically end up being the speaker.
He's number two in command now, number two at line, um, and he will be re-elected, it is assumed, and therefore he will end up being speaker just by virtue of leadership position now.
There's a but it's it's way too soon to um be able to I don't think I could ever be able to predict any of this.
I just I I know full well the rage that people feel, and I understand it tremendously.
Uh it's it's an ongoing topic on this program.
It's an ongoing subject about trying to understand why the Republican establishment is doing what it's doing, and I there's a prevailing opinion, and it's gaining steam, that the Republican establishment simply would like to get rid of the Tea Party conservative base, even if it means losing for a while and starting all over.
There is a lot of people believe that that's what the objective here is, because they're invested in Washington, invested in government, and they're not interested themselves in any downsizing.
Glenn, somewhere in Texas, I've got these sound bites, I've got to get to these sound bites too, because I promised you.
But I I got a mixture of things I want to try to get in before we finish.
So, Glenn, somewhere in Texas, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Uh, it's great to talk to you.
Um, as I was telling your call taker, you know, I don't I don't know where I'm at right now.
I was a uh longtime Democrat.
I'm a union firefighter, my wife's a teacher.
We have a child with a disability, and so it all started back during the sequester.
You know, I've been saving for over a year to take my family on a vacation, and during the sequester they started telling us how they couldn't cut back, this was going to kill the government.
And I just sat back and I said, you know, man, I'm struggling to get by.
I I'm paying back taxes from the government, taking more and more money from me, and and they can't cut back.
It just it's not making any sense.
So I I've I've started listening to you here recently, and one of the things that he keeps hearing you references the low information voter.
And I I just think there's another category out there, people like myself, a misinformed voter.
I never thought of myself as low informed because you know I get weekly uh informationals from our union and from you know various organizations, and but it's just all one-sided, and and I was fine into it.
And and so as I told your cultinker, I don't know where I'm at anymore.
I'm I'm I've always thought of myself as this Southern Democrat and you know different than a Northeastern Democrat, different from a West Coast Democrat.
But I'm losing faith in that system because I'm just realizing that you know the government's telling us they can't cut back, but everyone else is forced to, and you know, here I am struggling, and and I'm a union firefighter, my wife's a teacher, and it just didn't make sense.
And so I think when you reference the low information, there's also the misinformed voter out there.
No question you're right about that.
There is the misinformed voter, um, and and there is also the low information voter.
I'll tell you what, Glenn, what's happening is it sounds like reality is starting to catch up with you.
And because you are exactly right.
Here's a federal government that has 17 trillion dollars in debt spent minimum 17 trillion dollars it doesn't have.
It collects two and a half trillion dollars from you and me and everybody else every year, and let them be faced with doing with a dollar less, and they cannot deal with it.
Yet when they turn around and raise fees or taxes on you, you're supposed to deal with it.
You're supposed to manage, you're supposed to do it for the good of your government and so forth.
Now you say you've been a lifelong Democrat, uh a Southern Democrat.
What you're coming up against is uh a a hard cold reality that you're really not one.
The way you're thinking, you're not one.
You're not a Southern, Northern, Eastern, Western, whatever.
You're not an above ground, below ground Democrat at all with the with the thinking that you're engaging in now, because you are exactly right.
$17 trillion that they don't have.
In this man, Obama's administration alone, six trillion dollars has been spent that we don't have.
And they want more.
They want more, and they claim that you are going to have to pay it.
You're gonna have to pay more for health care.
You're gonna have to pay more in taxes.
You're gonna have to pay more for gasoline and oil because you're polluting the world, Glenn.
You and your family, people like you, you're destroying the environment.
That's who those people are.
And you're you're coming up uh I think you're educating yourself now.
Of course, with the assistance of this program, as you mentioned.
Yeah, well, my wife's not as quick to come across the aisle uh, you know, she's still kind of burrowed in, but I keep at least trying to uh that's uh that that's because she thinks the Democrats care more about people than anybody else.
That's a ruse that they've succeeded with.
She thinks that the Republicans don't care about people and the Democrats do, and and she thinks she cares about people.
It's just that's a that's that's one of the ruses that they've pulled is to convince everybody that they own compassion.
They don't have compassion for anybody, they use people.
Yeah.
Well, they just they destroy people's families, they destroy people's lives.
You know, there's a there's a story.
I didn't have a chance to get to it.
The obesity in this country.
There's a story that most of the childhood obesity is minority.
African American, and this story links it to food stamps, which makes total sense.
We get nearly uh 48, 49 million Americans on food stamps, and they can buy whatever they want with it.
The Democrat Party has made everybody they can think that they're victims, which makes them entitled.
Which makes them feel like they're owed something because they've been victimized in most part by this evil country and its evil past or whatever.
Even the food stamp program, designed in compassion, designed to assist the starving, designed to assist our fellow citizens in need, is now contributing, and I believe it, by the way, to a rampant epidemic of obesity in the minority community.
There's no question about it.
Liberalism divides, damages, destroys.
It does there isn't any real compassion in it.
All there is is a phony message of compassion.
And I'm sure that's why your wife is finding it more difficult to cross the aisle.
It's uh she she's falling for the for the emotional place.
A Washington Times story.
Obama's obesity epidemic, more food stamps mean fatter kids.
I just to show you I wasn't making it up.
All right.
Glenn, I appreciate the call.
I gotta go, folks.
I got the quick time out.
We'll be back and resume as though we never left right after this.
Okay, so there's Obama is finally started.
What is this?
The 19,000th press conference on Obamacare.
What on earth is he going to say that'll be different from what he's been saying about Obamacare for the last six years?
There isn't anything new that he can say.
This is just a continuation.
They're calling it a rebranding effort.
And the media, of course, waiting with baited breath, excitement, suspense to hear what the hero is going to say next.
Next day, maybe somebody's become a villain trying to recapture hero status.
And it's all smoke and mirrors.
This is all just...
This is...
Let me go back to the phones.
I got watch myself here.
And in Cincinnati, uh, we have an 11 year old on the program.
And it's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
Just fine.
Thank you very much.
How are you?
Good.
I just wanted to tell you how funny your book is, and I really liked it.
Well, aren't you nice?
I really appreciate that, Anne, so much.
What's your favorite part?
I really liked Liberty because he was funny.
He was very snarky, and I liked that.
He is, isn't he?
Yeah.
Yeah, I patterned him after me, after myself, snarky, smart aleck, all that kind of stuff.
It was it was fun.
It's it's funny.
That the the in fact, I gotta tell most people, uh, the people that are sending in mail, uh, Liberty is getting more fan mail than any other Rush Revere is a close second.
He's getting jealous, in fact.
That Liberty's getting so much more mail.
Yeah.
Well, how much have you read the whole thing yet?
Yeah, I read it.
Yeah, I finished this it this weekend.
So, you made my day.
I'm glad.
Do you have you heard the audio version of the book?
Do you have that?
No, I don't.
Well, you do now.
If you will hang on, Mr. Snerdley, the kind man who answered the phone when you called.
Okay.
Uh we'll get an address where you are, and we'll send you the audio version.
It comes on six CDs.
You know, those old-fashioned discs that you put in the slot.
Yeah.
On the machine, yeah.
And then you can listen to me read the book.
That way it's all it's an entirely different and new experience, even though it's the same story.
Oh, thanks.
Oh, you belt.
And thank you very much.
I'm glad that you um that you enjoyed it.
I do.
They you ought to you ought to see some of the some of the fan mail that these characters in the book are getting.
It's by the Rush Revere Adventures of Rush Revere Portal is also at the two of my tea.com website.
She did.
She wanted to she Snerdley's telling me that when she called, she asked to speak to Rush Revere.
She spoke to Rush Revere.
Yeah, hold on, I'll get him.
He's plotting how he can keep liberty from getting all the press.
Well, once again, ladies and gentlemen, my um my best efforts at uh program management today went by the wayside.
I um so I'm gonna save there's one, two, maybe ten sound bites that I intended to get to today that are about me.
And you know, I don't like making myself the subject of the program.
But I've that there are eight sound bites, the drive-by media talking about me ripping the Pope, taking it totally out of context.
It's all happened while I'm even out of the country on vacation.
And then there are uh a couple sound bites uh the the talking about the term feminazi at the 25-year-old, hell, it's a 28-year-old term.
And they're still talking about it.
It came up on C and are you No, no, no, not the Pope hadn't called came up on uh C span.
But there's one interesting bite about that that I wanted to get to, and I if I just didn't have a chance to squeeze it all in today.
I chose phone calls instead.
So we'll do it tomorrow.
See you then.
Thanks for being with us.
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