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Dec. 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 4, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Fastest three hours in media, no question about it.
Rush Limbar in control in charge with talent on loan from God.
It's a thrill, folks, to be with you.
Look forward to it each and every day.
As I know you do, too.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 in the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh Obama is out trying to rebrand uh Obamacare.
Uh he's uh he's out there.
He's out there uh trying to convince people now that I don't know what he thinks he can say after six years.
I don't know what he thinks new he can you know what he's doing?
He's actually claiming that one of the benefits of Obamacare is the redistribution of income.
I mean he's actually promoting this as though it's one of the great benefits of Obamacare.
Now I want to go back to something we mentioned earlier in the program.
Democrat Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry.
One of Obamacare's architects, one of its staunchest supporters, is also the only top congressional leader to exempt some of his staff from having to buy insurance through the laws exchanges.
Dingy Harry is the exception among the other top congressional leaders in the charged atmosphere surrounding Obamacare, Reed's decision only gives Republicans.
This is a CNN story, by the way.
Reed's decision only gives Republicans more ammo to attack Democrats already suffering politically from the botched rollout.
You know, the the people who wrote this law, people who promoted it, the people who are out there actively trumpeting this law are the first ones to exempt themselves from it.
They're the first ones to demand subsidies to help them pay for it when they earn 175,000 a year.
Now, it it is it it's amazing, and it's it's a great illustration.
They write laws for the rest of us, but they exempt themselves.
Now, there's a there's a thing called the Grassley Provision of Obamacare, and it's stated here's what it says in its entirety.
Enrollment by members of Congress and congressional employees, notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning July 1st, 2013.
Members of Congress and Congressional employees will be required to use their employer contribution to purchase coverage through a state-based exchange rather than using the traditional federal employees health benefit plan.
There is nothing in there about an exception for staffers.
It says members of Congress and Congressional employees.
That CNN piece that I've got here says in September, Reed told reporters, let's stop these really juvenile political games.
The one dealing with health care for senators and house members and our staff.
We're gonna be part of the exchanges.
That's what the law says, and we're gonna be part of that.
That's what he said back in September.
Harry Reid has exempted his staffers from having to go to the Obamacare exchanges.
It's uh typical.
It's par for the course.
Kanye West.
Stopped by an Atlanta radio station and the uh it's an internet station in chat.
And he said that he wanted to be the Obama of clothing.
Kanye West.
Now, what does that mean?
Oh, come on, you know what that means.
What he means is he wants a law that forces people to buy his clothes.
What else could he mean?
Wants to be the Obama of clothing?
What does Obama do?
He rips the country.
You know, that still frosts me.
Obama out quoting the Pope.
You've I've got to find that sound, but I've on here.
Grab number 26.
Folks, if you miss this, you've got to hear this again.
This is the this is the president citing the Pope, his new best friend.
Because the Pope is ripping America.
The Pope ripping capitalism, the Pope ripping Ronaldo's Magnus, the Pope ripping trickle-down economics, and Obama's having an orgasm.
Jeremiah Wright is beside himself.
Jeremia Wright thought he was Obama's preacher, and a Pope somehow has co-opted Obama.
Who would have ever thought?
And by the way, the Pope, the Pope is out there saying that no matter what.
Pope Francis, he said today, no, yesterday, this Wednesday, right?
Yeah, he said yesterday.
No matter how progressive-minded the world turns, the Catholic Church can never compromise on its no abortion rule.
He said that it's a matter of human dignity.
Now, in Democrat parlance, the Pope is an old white guy.
And in Democrat, they don't like old white guys.
Old white guys are the problem, nuclear family and all that.
So they're really conflicted.
I mean, the Pope is singing their song on trickle down and capitalism, but he's not budging on abortion.
But uh Obama's still overcome.
You've got to hear this one more time.
Some of you may have seen just last week.
Uh the Pope himself spoke uh about this at eloquent length.
How can it be, he wrote, that it's not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points.
But this increasing inequality is most pronounced in our country, and it challenges the very essence of who we are as a people.
That is infuriating.
The increasing inequality in the world is most pronounced in our country.
This guy just can't wait to rip this country apart.
He just he can't wait every day.
Whenever there's an opportunity to criticize this country, he's the first in line.
And that is just an outright falsehood.
That isn't the increasing inequality, income, wealth, whatever, is most pronounced in our country.
And I'll tell you the way he means that.
We've got too many rich people.
We need more people who are poor and lower middle class.
That's the only way we can have equality and fairness.
This is just people have got to be cringing that they ever voted for this guy.
And how can it be that's not a news item and elderly homeless person dies of exposure?
How can it not be a news item when four people die in Benghazi?
How'd that not end up being a news item?
Four people, our ambassador dead in Benghazi.
Why was that not a news item?
Why wasn't it why wasn't there any compassion about that?
Trying to get to the bottom of that.
Why do we blame that on some nameless little guy that did a video nobody ever saw?
Anyway, it's just astounding, folks.
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You know what real inequality is income inequality.
You get Barack Obama, who is a multimillionaire because of books and whatever else they've been able to sitting in the White House, lap of luxury, his own Boeing 747, And over in Kenya is his brother living in a hut.
You want to talk about income inequality.
Barack Obama has family members living on less than a dollar a day in Kenya.
One of them in a hut, six by nine feet.
Dinesh D'Souza went over, tracked the guy down, confirmed it.
That's income inequality.
Wealth inequality.
The highest levels of income inequality were not found in the last decade in the United States.
They were found in countries such as the Central African Republic, Honduras, Angola, Haiti, South Africa, and Namibia.
And there's a web link source for this.
The United States is never going to be at the top of any list of income inequality.
I gotta stop.
I I if I keep going here, folks, I'm never gonna get to the phones, and I'm promising this.
So we're gonna go back to him.
Now, Boca Raton, Philip, thanks for waiting.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Philip, are you there?
I think I heard a hang up.
I think Philip kind of, you know, he probably said, screw you.
I've been waiting here two hours, and the minute I said hello, he hung up.
Well, what was he gonna say?
During the press conference, Obama tried to walk back some of the failure in Obama case.
Oh, Philip, are you there?
I am here.
Rush, great to be with you.
I had a break.
Well, welcome, Philip.
It's great to have you on the program.
He can't hear me when he's talking.
How are you, sir?
I am doing well, and congratulations on the massive success of uh Rush Revere.
Uh it's great.
I'm looking forward to uh reading it over Christmas and uh ordering a copy.
Thank you again.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I wanted to uh interject something that's a little more encouraging and positive from your opening monologue, and it has to do with what the media is doing here in a turn that I'm beginning to see.
And specifically, when I was in college, and this is going back to the early 80s, CNN was still very new.
It was uh just launched Ted Turner uh all 24 hour channel for cable news, and in my broadcast journalism class, they stated that in order to get the kind of credibility you need to be cited or noted by other organizations, news organizations, you know, AP, uh uh UTS or UPI uh in different organizations.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait just a second.
I don't I want to you said that they taught you in broadcast journalism that in order to get the kind of credibility you need, you need to be cited by other organizations.
You needed to be quoted or cited as a new upcoming in order to establish credibility.
Therefore, if you saw an AP report that said CNN confirmed that they had sources that said the following so-so-so.
And by AT associating a quote from a newly organized news organization like CNN, that promotes their credibility.
I see.
Okay.
All right.
So when AP cites a CNN story, that grants CNN.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm here.
You're on the cell phone, you can't hear me.
I'm I'm I'm not sure if you can hear me.
Russ, can you hear me?
Yeah, I hear you.
You're on the cell phone, you can't hear me.
You realize I could.
Anyway, I we got his point.
Philip, thanks much for that.
I know what he's it he's he's talking where where he's going with this.
He's now saying that in other media they're citing conservative media based on what he was taught in broadcast journalism.
He is claiming that just the rest of the media citing conservative media is automatically bestowing credibility on it.
And he thinks that's a positive.
That's what he was gonna say.
So I wanted to help him.
Toledo, Ohio, Zach, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Raj, how are you doing?
Good, sir.
Thank you.
Good.
I am actually an undergraduate student, um, just finishing up a degree in econ.
And uh, so President's beech really bothered me in a lot of ways, but one point I haven't heard you discuss today is the part where he spoke about post-World War II America and how we got to where we were with the economic growth we experienced then.
And he cited uh the safety net system as getting us huge amounts of growth post-World War II.
And It's incredible to me that essentially an increased tax burden upon the American people is how he associates growth.
It's backward.
It makes no economic sense.
Well, uh, first thing, I didn't hear him because it happened while I was it's on the air, and I and nobody has given me a I haven't had a chance to read it transcript of what he said, but now that you've told me, I will comment on it when we get back.
All right, here's what Obama said.
This is this is what Zach was talking about when Obama claimed that the safety net was responsible for our economic boom.
Now, just in the first place, what he's saying is that welfare benefits and paying people not to work creates an economic boom.
He's not alone.
Nancy Pelosi, don't forget Pelosi said that unemployment compensation stimulates the economy.
She said, what, for every dollar of unemployment, we get $4 of economic growth or some such thing.
This is what these people say.
Whether they really believe it or not, that's up for grabs.
But here's what Obama said.
When millions lived in poverty, FDR fought for Social Security and insurance for the unemployment and a minimum wage.
And when millions died without health insurance, LBJ fought for Medicare and Medicaid.
Together we forged a new deal, declared a war on poverty and a great society.
We built a ladder of opportunity to climb and stretched out a safety net beneath so that if we fell, it wouldn't be too far and we could bounce back.
As a result, America built the largest middle class the world has ever known, and for the three decades after World War II, it was the engine of our prosperity.
And Obama is claiming that it was the New Deal and the war on poverty and the great society that created economic prosperity.
Not work, not free markets, not growing economies and increasing job opportunities, but government taking care of people.
Government creating dependent people.
Anyone who wants to talk about the safety net driving prosperity.
The fact of the matter is, there was a time, folks, when we could afford the safety net.
We can't any longer, but there was a time where we had the money to have a safety net for people who really needed it.
The problem with Obama and the Democrats, they want anybody in a safety net.
They want everybody there.
You and I happen to believe that we need a safety net for people literally incapable of helping themselves.
We are compassionate people.
But we would never have been able to afford those are lavish things.
A social safety net paying people not to work, whatever he talked about.
Those are really luxurious, lavish things.
We were able to afford those things because we had an economic boom, and And at the same time, we didn't have a whole lot of economic competition.
And now we do in spades.
There wasn't a lot of worldwide competition.
By Obama's logic, Greece should be an economic showplace.
By Obama's logic, Cuba, Venezuela, ought to be superpowers.
This it I'm telling you, it's silly.
It's dangerously dumb to really believe this stuff.
Now it resonates with people because it doesn't.
They have to create this level of dependency first for this to be perceived as something really valuable.
But it just it goes against every fabric of our foundation.
And it is a it is a it's colossal ignorance to think that is what built the United States is a superpower, a safety net.
the welfare state creates economic growth.
And a nation becomes a superpower because of it.
This is why people call Obama an economic jackass.
And it's being kind.
What he is is a died in the wolf socialist.
No, I didn't call him an economic.
That is why people have called him an economic jacket.
I'm not calling him that.
I'm calling him a died in the wolf socialist.
This is a guy.
Remember, Obama is the guy who said, you didn't build that.
You didn't make that happen.
We all built that for you.
This guy's to the left of Elizabeth Warren.
You know, we've never elected a president.
I mean, arguably, not even FDR Woodrow Wilson.
Those guys may be that's that's well, FDR, that's it's a close toss-up.
But if uh it's it's just mind-boggling to hear this stuff.
To believe that actually elected somebody like this is just it's just it's just stunning.
We have uh flash news out there.
Martin Bashir has just resigned from MSNBC, and here's part of his statement that was sent via email.
After making an on-air apology, I asked for permission to take some additional time out around the Thanksgiving holiday.
Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the president of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation.
It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues at this special network will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.
Now he goes on, but that's the gist of it.
It was uh posted at Mediaite, where the liberals are saying that they're very proud of him, that he did the right thing.
Like he had a choice.
You know what I bet?
I bet you that Martin Bashir and Alec Baldwin end up at Al Jazeera before it's all said and done.
Speaking of which, data released yesterday shows CNN and MSNBC have both lost almost half of their viewers in one year.
CNN is down 48% total viewers since last November.
MSNBC is down 45%.
And in the all-important precious 25-54 demographic, CNN's down 59%, MSNBC 52%.
I don't know how they got anybody left because it's been this way for the longest time.
They're literally there's nobody watching these networks.
By all comparisons.
I mean, the audiences are so small.
Geez.
Here's uh where are we going?
There's nobody denoted here as to where we're headed next on the phone.
Well, that would be Dave in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Hi, Dave, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey Ross, thanks for taking my call.
Um here's the deal.
I believe that the Republicans were never going to win another presidential election until they can somehow win back even 30% of the black vote.
You cannot continue to lose over 90% of one major voting block and win a national election anymore.
I just don't see it happening.
Well, you know, I understand your your theory, but I must respectfully disagree.
Uh the Republicans have won plenty of presidential races, with the Democrats getting 93% of the black vote.
It happened in 2000, it happened in 2004, it happened in 1992, it happened in 1980, 84.
Uh, the same thing's being said about the Hispanic vote.
I was just thinking while I was waiting to take your call, there was a news item last week.
There was some result with the Republicans, it might have been a poll or something, and the Republicans are winning big in it, and there wasn't one word about the Hispanic vote in it.
I I don't I mean, it would be great to break up that that voting block.
I don't disagree with that, but to say that they're never gonna win another election without doing so just that that's uh bit of a stretch.
They would have won this election in 2012 if they'd have had a candidate that every Republican who voted in 2008 wanted to vote for in 2012.
There are four million Republicans that didn't vote in 2012 for whatever reason.
And if they had, wouldn't have mattered.
If if Obama hadn't gotten as many millennials as he got, Romney would be president today.
You know, the Democrats have their own problems in this regard.
We make the mistake that the Republicans don't do this, they don't do that, they don't get this block, they don't get some of that block, you know, because they're never going to win another election.
That's Media BS.
That's Republican consultant Media BS.
And it's not it isn't true.
Historically, it isn't true.
I remember what it was.
It was the story that we had last week that if the election were held today, Romney would win.
And that story said nothing about Hispanics or the Hispanic vote.
If the election were held today, it was a reflection of people's attitudes on Obama and the country, Romney would have won.
Meaning if people knew today what they knew, if they'd known in 2012 what they know today, Romney would have won.
Not with Hispanics, not with the black vote, not with the women's vote, the pro-abortion vote, just the general public.
Now Obama is out today, in his speech today, he said that addressing income inequality will be the focus of all White House effort for the rest of his presidency.
Now, if everything Obama's talking about today, this week, last week, all this stuff, if he had campaigned in 2012, this could be what I'm gonna do.
You think he would have won?
Income inequality, expanding the welfare state, raising the minimum wage.
No chance.
Not a chance.
We've been defrauded, folks.
I can't tell you how many ways, but there's always tomorrow.
And we will be here then.
Thanks so much.
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