Dec. 24, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast. | |
| Well, hello there. | |
| Welcome. | |
| It is Eric Erickson filling in for Rush Limbaugh today. | |
| For those people who hold up the John 316 sign in the end zone, it's called Game Day for the rest of you. | |
| Merry Christmas. | |
| It is Christmas Eve. | |
| I I, you know, before I well, first of all, 1-800-282-2882, that's the number. | |
| You can get me on Twitter and Facebook if you like it, E.W. Ericsson. | |
| You can send me emails at Eric at redstate.com. | |
| I guess I'm gonna have to get a new email address. | |
| I uh wow. | |
| You guys email Rush a lot. | |
| I know. | |
| Holy cow, the amount of emails I've gotten. | |
| I is I took my dad Christmas shopping yesterday. | |
| And they already have out the Valentine's stuff. | |
| They had to we went into well, now it was a craft store, but a buddy of mine today told me he walked into Walmart and they've already got out all the the red hearts and then the Valentine's Candy. | |
| We're not even to Christmas yet. | |
| Ah, the the commercialization of holidays, yeah. | |
| I mean, God bless capitalism, but come on, people. | |
| We still got another day to go before the big day before the kids unwrap their presence. | |
| Welcome to the program. | |
| I hope you are ready for Christmas. | |
| Those of you out there on the roads and whatnot stay safe. | |
| Ice storm in the nation coming through parts of it. | |
| Every once in a while I I encounter something that I read and I thought, man, I wish I had written this. | |
| Doug Wilson, he writes a blog on the blog in May blog, and basically, I don't want to spend a lot of time on Duck Dynasty today, but it's a perfect pivot point into some political issues. | |
| And he writes all these people who are out there who who claim to be with Phil Robertson in faith but upset with him by the way he said it. | |
| He says, Yeah, you know, at least he's out there in the trenches fighting, and at least he's standing up for for his values, kind of like the the folks who went to Chick-fil-A to protest, who they went to buy I may have had Chick-fil-A this morning. | |
| I'm not telling, fueled by Chick-fil-A. | |
| They they went there to to show support. | |
| At least he is doing that. | |
| So why are you out there shooting at the guy who's being shot at? | |
| Which, you know, this reminds me of these Republicans. | |
| I've got a pile of stuff here on Obamacare. | |
| It is a disaster. | |
| It is in even in Maryland, there is a primary fight among Maryland Democrats for governor. | |
| And the attorney general of Maryland is firing shots, metaphorically speaking, of course, at the lieutenant governor of Maryland who is was the point person for the state on Obamacare. | |
| They're they're the Democrats are going after each other on Obamacare. | |
| And you've got these conservatives who stood up on the front lines and said, you know what, we need to draw a line in the sand. | |
| We needed to fund it. | |
| Everything they said is being proven true. | |
| Every single thing they said is being proven true. | |
| And what what did a lot of the Republicans do? | |
| They started firing shots at him, like Ted Cruz and others, just going after them. | |
| At least they're standing up in the arena saying stop. | |
| At least they're saying this far no further. | |
| At least they're the ones who are actually still standing at the ward history yelling stop, so to speak. | |
| The Obamacare stories, they i it it's actually very comical. | |
| It is very comical. | |
| The president, as you heard yesterday, has signed up for Obamacare. | |
| He has. | |
| He actually signed well not well, well, yes, but no. | |
| He he well, CBS News from DC has this. | |
| The headline says it all. | |
| Obama couldn't use website to sign up for Obamacare. | |
| Now, we need to be fair to the President of the United States. | |
| The reason he couldn't use the website to sign up for Obamacare. | |
| There's a cover story in here. | |
| We we need to be clear about this. | |
| Announcing his enrollment Monday, the White House called it a symbolic show of Obama's support. | |
| Obama, like so many other Americans, couldn't use the website. | |
| Now the White House says it's a complicated nature of the president's uh case. | |
| It required an in-person sign up because for security reasons, his personal information is not readily available in government databases. | |
| Do we really believe that after the Edward Snowden story? | |
| That the Yeah. | |
| Yeah, exactly. | |
| Our our private information's out there, but Bo is very upset. | |
| But but this is a cover story, Mr. Surdley. | |
| This is a cover story. | |
| They say the president could not get on and sign up on the internet yesterday for Obamacare because of the complicated nature. | |
| This is this is a real cover story. | |
| You see, the White House at this time of year has to keep Barack Obama off the internet because he'll be very, very confused to find out it's not actually his birthday tomorrow. | |
| It's Jesus Christ's birthday. | |
| I mean, he he's he's very, very confused by this. | |
| The Obamasia is convinced that for undue a child is born tomorrow and it's him in the White House. | |
| So they they keep him off the internet every time that this time of year, so his ego doesn't get too brooved to find out we're actually celebrating somebody else's birthday tomorrow. | |
| That this guy, though, he couldn't sign up for it on the website. | |
| Oh, and then we've got another what is it with the DC area. | |
| They're covering these stories. | |
| CBS in Baltimore says insurance shoppers are given grace period after headaches continue. | |
| Now you may be thinking, you may be thinking this story is related to the extension that happened through today. | |
| You know, the White House, they decided, never mind Congress. | |
| They had a hard deadline, which is no longer a hard deadline. | |
| They moved the extension through Christmas Eve so you can get on and sign up for your insurance. | |
| But in Maryland, they've extended the extension to Friday because people still can't get on the website today. | |
| You can't make these things up. | |
| Yesterday I realized I had forgotten to order some presents for some folks who may be listening, so I'll be discreet. | |
| So I went to Amazon and I was able to order these presents. | |
| And my wife called a little while ago. | |
| They've already showed up at the house. | |
| We pay nothing extra in shipping. | |
| They were there less than 24 hours after I ordered them. | |
| The thought didn't occur to me until after four o'clock yesterday. | |
| Was able to get on and boom, they're already at the house. | |
| And there are people who have spent their entire weekend not doing their Christmas shopping because they've had to get their health care, because five million people have lost their health care because of this, and now the president himself, he can't sign up online. | |
| You couldn't make this up if you wanted to. | |
| Back in March, April, May time period, I pulled up some of these stories. | |
| The left was running these prognostication stories that it was conservatives who were helping the case for Obamacare. | |
| By Rush Limbaugh, bad-mouthing Obamacare. | |
| He was incentivizing the Democrats to get it right. | |
| They were actually writing this stuff back in back in the beginning of the year. | |
| Rush Limbaugh being critical of Obamacare, attacking the president, attacking the Democrats. | |
| It was giving them the incentive to make sure that when October got here, they would have it right. | |
| They would prove Rush Limbaugh wrong. | |
| The business moron over at Slate Magazine actually tweeted out that he was going to lay down the marker that Obamacare was going to be a grand success. | |
| They were writing these stories about any conservative who dared to say anything about Obamacare. | |
| That they were just gonna, they were gonna make the Democrats work even harder. | |
| Well, I mean, have you seen the have you seen the numbers other? | |
| We know Democrats tend not to work. | |
| I mean, they're all upset about unemployment getting canceled because I mean that that's where their income comes from. | |
| Yeah, I said it, sorry, Mitt Romney remark. | |
| The Democrats, they screwed it all up. | |
| I mean, Merry Christmas to them. | |
| This is a wonderful Christmas story for freedom. | |
| This truly, generally, it is a wonderful Christmas story for freedom. | |
| The Democrats have screwed it all up. | |
| They have messed it up. | |
| The President of the United States can't get online to get it. | |
| You know, Mr. Surdley's right. | |
| You should hear him yelling at me in the headphones right now. | |
| What about our private information that the government has? | |
| Well, apparently, according to Edward Snowden, the government has everybody's information except the president of the United States. | |
| Somehow he was able to get off the internet. | |
| Now, how that's possible, I have no idea. | |
| But the president apparently was able to opt out of the system. | |
| The government doesn't intrude on the president because the government, I guess the president is the government. | |
| But the rest of us are stuck. | |
| I have friends who have worked very, very hard to keep themselves unentangled from the bureaucracy of Washington. | |
| They have worked very hard to provide for themselves and to provide for their families. | |
| They have worked hard to pay for their own insurance. | |
| They have worked hard to go to college without having to be dependent on government student loans, getting scholarships, taking jobs to pay for it, And now suddenly they find themselves enslaved to a government bureaucracy that expects to give them their insurance. | |
| Insurance they they don't want. | |
| They wanted other insurance. | |
| They wanted cheaper insurance. | |
| But the government has decided that they must get what the government wants them to get. | |
| You know, a long time ago, there was the stang. | |
| Now, so some of you who went to government schools, you may not have heard of this. | |
| But there was a thing way back of 200 years or so ago called a revolution, the American Revolution. | |
| It was actually a conservative revolution. | |
| Now, you liberals out there tuning out, I'm telling you this, it was a conservative revolution. | |
| The revolutionaries in the United States of America, they wanted their rights that they believed they had gotten eighty years prior in the glorious revolution in in Great Britain, where William and Mary came over, James II run off the glorious revolution, no one died, the rights of parliament, they were deemed supreme, the people were deemed supreme over the monarchy. | |
| The American revolutionaries, they that's what they wanted. | |
| They believed themselves to be Englishmen and they wanted those rights. | |
| They didn't want new rights. | |
| They wanted the old rights. | |
| And over the last 200 years, my my how we've forgotten so much. | |
| We now have these people suddenly health care is a right. | |
| Except the Democrats have confused health care and health insurance. | |
| And all of us are having to get health insurance in ways, shapes, and forms that the Democrats say we have to have. | |
| Why? | |
| We can't even get it. | |
| They want us to have it. | |
| They say it's the best thing since sliced bread, except many of us can't get it. | |
| Many of us have lost what we already had, and so now the the thing that's the best thing since sliced bread suddenly, oh yeah, you don't have to have that right now. | |
| You can wait. | |
| Really? | |
| If it was so good, why didn't they make it so easy for us to get it? | |
| The president of the United States, the man in charge, the man who the system is named after Obamacare. | |
| He couldn't even get insurance. | |
| And they expect you to get it? | |
| Well, Merry Merry Christmas. | |
| Eric Erickson InfoRush Limbaugh will be right back. | |
| Welcome back, Eric Eriksson, in for Rush Limbaugh 1-800-282-2882. | |
| I'm actually remote today in Atlanta. | |
| I was in New York on Friday, but with all the family in town, I had to be in in Atlanta, rush back to Macon tonight for Christmas Eve service and candlelighting and all that stuff, soup at home. | |
| So I'm I'm here. | |
| And when I walked into the studio today, the engineer Allen asked me if I needed him to write down the phone number for Russia's home. | |
| Like, are you kidding? | |
| I've been practicing since I was 18 years old, saying 1800-282-2882. | |
| You too can call and talk to Mr. Sternley, who I hear is, well, just doing his job, screening out people. | |
| There is life news. | |
| You know, one of the things that aggravates me the most about the political left is that everything becomes political. | |
| Your toilet paper, Cheryl Crow manages to politicize toilet paper. | |
| One sheet of one ply. | |
| I don't know what she eats so that she only needs one sheet. | |
| But some of us take of a little more than that. | |
| Everything is politicized. | |
| Football is politicized. | |
| You can't keep scoring little league games anymore. | |
| Movies are politicized, you name it. | |
| Everything is politicized. | |
| Well, they've managed to do it again. | |
| The fine folks at Planned Parenthood in Arizona. | |
| They have managed to take, I actually, it is my least favorite Christmas song, to tell you the truth, only because it never ends. | |
| The twelve days of Christmas. | |
| Life News is reporting that they have changed up the 12 days of Christmas. | |
| It is now, it is now the twelve days of contraception. | |
| And refers to, well, boxes of well, birth control things, pills, prophylactics, diaphragms, rings, damns, shots. | |
| Holy cow. | |
| No, I refuse to listen to it. | |
| I'm just, I'm not. | |
| Apparently the singing is atrocious. | |
| The words, of course, are horrible too, but so it's they finished The song by singing Joy to the World. | |
| And I got to thinking about it. | |
| Have they heard the lyrics of Joy to the World? | |
| Because, you know, let all the nations sing. | |
| There won't be nations left if Planned Parenthood were to have its way with this song for them to be able to sing. | |
| Okay, also at Live News, uh I just got this on Twitter. | |
| Robert Romero, an ethnic studies profess. | |
| Well, there that's kind of disqualifying, right? | |
| Who goes to school to be an ethnic studies professor? | |
| It's like women and gender studies professors. | |
| I mean, who wants to go to school to be a women and gender studies professor? | |
| They go to they go get another job at another college so they can just keep their grievance society going. | |
| Isn't that what you do with these sorts of degrees? | |
| You just perpetuate the grievance society. | |
| I spoke at my alma mater this past year, Mercy University, Macon, Georgia, gave the Founders' Day speech and the women and gender studies professors. | |
| They were all so angry. | |
| He doesn't meet the qualifications to give the speech of a noted alumnus. | |
| I mean, you you you had them there, oh my goodness. | |
| Who goes to school? | |
| I was reading a story about Obamacare a while back. | |
| They were interviewing some kid who desperately needs Obamacare. | |
| Got a master's in puppetry arts. | |
| No kidding he couldn't find a job and had all sorts of who goes and gets a master's degree in puppetry arts for Pete's sake. | |
| Not someone who's getting a job, I can tell you that. | |
| Who aspires to stick their hand up the backside of a puppet any well? | |
| Some of the people outraged at Phil Robertson, I'm sure, but other than that, who actually yet gets excited about doing that and wants a master's degree in it? | |
| I I I have no earthly idea. | |
| In any event, I digress, don't I? | |
| Robert Romero, ethnic studies professor at UCLA, claims that Jesus would support Obamacare. | |
| Everyone well, y you know, i if if Obama is the Obama Messiah, I I guess the guy could be confused, and I I guess he actually could. | |
| I just these stories at this time of year. | |
| Mr. Snerdley sent me a story earlier today. | |
| Where is this? | |
| Someone upset. | |
| Oh yes, of the offense league on this Christmas season. | |
| Pastor Mike Butchberger insists he only had holiday spirit in mind. | |
| When his Florida church's marquee read Christmas, easier to spell than Hanukkah. | |
| But a passerby told him she found the message offensive. | |
| And of course, a local television station had to inquire about it. | |
| The Lighthouse Baptist Church priester hustled the blunt and ear uproar by changing the sign to Jesus Loves You. | |
| So the only people who can be offended anymore are the folks of the Baptist Church, I guess. | |
| Anyone else who gets offended, we've got a the rest of us have to stifle our offense so that these people aren't. | |
| Can't people just man up is it sexist for me to say because it was an outraged woman involved? | |
| Just I mean, suck it up, people. | |
| If you're not offended about something, you're probably not living life. | |
| Things offend me. | |
| I don't go run to a TV station every time I'm offended by something. | |
| You know, the people down the street from me, they put in like the this awful colored malt stuff. | |
| Really? | |
| Ugh, it offends my soul to see that abomination of nature all over the ground. | |
| Am I gonna go? | |
| No, it's their yard. | |
| Let them deal with it. | |
| Although, I mean, come on. | |
| Use like natural colored things, people. | |
| But nonetheless, I there are things that offend me, but I'm not gonna go run to the TV studio. | |
| Christmas, easier to spell than Hanukkah, causes outrage. | |
| Or just saying Merry Christmas to people instead of seasons greetings or happy holidays. | |
| Merry Christmas to you people. | |
| I I for the life of me, I'm just baffled. | |
| I don't understand. | |
| I don't relate to, I can't process people who are outraged by everything. | |
| You're not allowed to have a sense of humor, you're not allowed to laugh. | |
| But you know, there is an irony here. | |
| I took my parents to see The Desolation of Smog this weekend, the the second part of the hobbit. | |
| It's actually very, very good. | |
| I saw it a second time, held my interest through the second time. | |
| The orcs you see in Middle Earth, they tear each other apart. | |
| When they're not tearing up the good guys, they're tearing up each other. | |
| We got to witness that over the weekend. | |
| The outrage culture consuming and devouring The outrage culture itself over the weekend. | |
| I was actually, I I mean, I felt sorry and and bad for the person who was consumed by her own side. | |
| But at the same time, there was an interesting display of the left. | |
| Their inability to be tolerant to each other when not distracted by us. | |
| We'll get to it when we come back. | |
| Eric Erickson, in for Rush Limbaugh. | |
| We'll be right back. | |
| You know, things go full circle around here. | |
| I I my very first time ever filling in on the radio for anybody. | |
| I was a lawyer and just wanted to do it just for the heck of it. | |
| My buddy Kenny Burger me down in Russia's affiliate at 9 40 a.m. in in Macon, Georgia. | |
| Let me fill in for him. | |
| He did the morning show. | |
| I got one call in three hours. | |
| No, this was 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and I am not a morning person. | |
| I got precisely one call in the third hour of the program, uh, an elderly gentleman, uh, I'll just say that, who was very upset about the rise of fake Christmas trees. | |
| He he was intent on people having to go cut down their Christmas trees. | |
| One call. | |
| That that was that was my very first time ever on radio, and now here I am a few short years later. | |
| Okay, the the story happened as I was leaving New York Friday night. | |
| Stuck. | |
| I I it wasn't really a mistake, I guess. | |
| I I said, I told Fox, yes, I could go do Sean Hannity show Friday night after I left the EIB studio and went over. | |
| They were kind enough to allow me to pre-tape my segment so that I could run to the airport. | |
| Got to the airport, got to LaGuardia, and you know, my wife is my conscience and and and guides me n i nothing registered that it was the Friday before Christmas in New York City. | |
| The line was backed up before we even got to the airport, and by the time we got up on the on-ramp to get where you drop people off at the airport there, a fist fight broke out, a an SUV hit a cab. | |
| The SUV jumped out, claiming it was the cab driver's fault, and it wasn't, and then a fist fight broke out as I'm trying to get into the airport. | |
| Luckily I'm able to get in and get out of the way and get home, but there's the story breaking it, and I couldn't really pay attention to it until the end of the weekend. | |
| Some PR person, name company, they're unimportant. | |
| She on Twitter, she follows very few people, has very few people following her. | |
| She tweeted that she was going to Africa, and she hoped she wouldn't get AIDS, and then haha, I don't have to worry about it because I'm white. | |
| Yes, this was a PR person who put this up there. | |
| A PR person. | |
| Let that register for a minute. | |
| Well, the irony here is that this very same woman in her Twitter feed at some point had said that people needed to rally to deny Kirk Cameron, the Christian actor, uh they needed to make sure he could never work again because of of his statements about his faith. | |
| The irony here is that she I mean, she's clearly a person of the left, and they just destroyed her. | |
| This woman was flying to Africa by the time she landed there, she was jobless because her own team consumed her. | |
| Like the orcs in Middle Earth, consuming each other. | |
| They went after her, destroyed her. | |
| It was just a sad tale of someone who clearly should have known better, doing something they shouldn't have done, no no grace, no no charity on that side. | |
| She was clearly a team player for them, but they just annihilated her. | |
| I was looking for a comment earlier, and I had to ask a friend of mine to send it to me, his father. | |
| I mentioned, much to anger apparently from some people, I mentioned that people are enslaved to government because of Obamacare. | |
| We are dependent. | |
| Now, I know we're not supposed to say that, but come on. | |
| If you are dependent on the government for everything, you are a serf to the government. | |
| If you've got to depend on them for your health care, if you've got to depend on them for your way of life, you you are I mean, you're stuck. | |
| There's no way out. | |
| So a a buddy of mine on Twitter, Sean, his dad is a preacher. | |
| I want to read you this Facebook post. | |
| On January 1st, 2014, for the first time in 60 years of life, I will have no insurance, health insurance. | |
| I have coverage on the family, purchased that last year that will continue, but I was not eligible for it myself. | |
| Instead, I was covered by the Missouri Health Insurance Pool. | |
| That insurance became moot after the Affordable Care Act. | |
| So it ends December 31st. | |
| I've been trying to get coverage on healthcare.gov since October 1st. | |
| The first two applications were lost. | |
| The current one has an embedded error That will not allow me to make a selection and purchase. | |
| I've been told for a month I must wait for a phone call from that advanced resolution team. | |
| An advanced resolution team. | |
| Ponder that one. | |
| In order to move ahead. | |
| If this isn't resolved by December 23rd, well, hey, he's got till today now. | |
| Thanks, Obama. | |
| I will be, despite every possible effort one person could have made uninsured. | |
| I'm not grinding a political axe, but why is the government in this business? | |
| So many of us have this question. | |
| This is a preacher. | |
| So many people have this concern. | |
| Why is the government in this business? | |
| Why are they there? | |
| And it's not working out for him despite the best efforts. | |
| Mr. Sturdley sent me this. | |
| He told me you just got to point this out. | |
| This is the Associated Press. | |
| Allow me to read just this first paragraph. | |
| Although multiple problems have snarled the rollout of President Barack Obama's signature health care plan. | |
| It's hardly the first time a new sprawling government program has been beset by early technical glitches, political hostility, and gloom and doom denouncements. | |
| President FDR faced heavy skepticism with Social Security. | |
| And then they go on to lynch mention Johnson's rollout of Medicare, Nixon's Social Security supplemental program, Medicare Part D. Yet these programs today are enormously popular with recipients. | |
| And you know, the the Democrats are still trying to undermine Medicare Part D, aren't they? | |
| Didn't they cut significant portions and roll it into Obamacare? | |
| Yes. | |
| This is pure propaganda from the Associated Press. | |
| Obviously it's propaganda is from the Associated Press. | |
| That I mean, though the entire take on the story is of course the rollout's having trouble. | |
| But those Republicans, if they would just get in line, everything would be fine. | |
| That Ted Cruz is just not nice. | |
| Happy birthday to Ted Cruz, by the way. | |
| His birthday was this weekend. | |
| I wonder if there's a coincidence. | |
| You know, the Heritage Action for America, Mike Needing the President, the CEO over there who all the Republicans in Congress are mad at him because he's holding them accountable for the promises. | |
| He and Ted Cruz born on the same day. | |
| Coincidence makes you wonder. | |
| This is all propaganda from the Associated Press. | |
| This is the spin from the Democratic Party. | |
| Apparently, I did not know this. | |
| You probably did not know this, but you have great power in your thoughts. | |
| This is like Peter Pan. | |
| You know, when he wants Wendy and Michael and John to fly, you've got to think happy thoughts. | |
| You've got to think happy the fairy dust and happy thoughts. | |
| That'll get you to fly. | |
| I was about to say something that would get Russia in trouble and me. | |
| You sprinkle on the dust from Tinkerbell, and all of a sudden you can fly as long as you think of the wonderful things. | |
| This is apparently the power Republicans have because we're not thinking wonderful things about this website. | |
| It's not working. | |
| Because we're not thinking about wonderful happy thoughts. | |
| We're not thinking about raindrops and kittens on whiskers and and whatever. | |
| Where's Terry Underwood and Julie Andrews when you need them? | |
| Because we're not thinking happy thoughts, Obamacare isn't working. | |
| Well, then I say we need to amp up the negative thoughts a little more. | |
| If we're powerful enough by our bad thoughts to cause a website to crash, then maybe if we think even worse thoughts about Obamacare, we can get the whole thing obliterated. | |
| I mean, it's not working. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| I just I find it very, very funny that all of these people who said that Republicans say bad things about the website and bad things about Obamacare would somehow make it a success because gosh durn it, those Democrats, they're gonna be excited to prove the Republicans wrong. | |
| Now we've gotten to the point where it's a disaster, and they're like, all the the Republican evil thoughts, their bad thoughts, they caused all of this. | |
| Well, you just six months ago you were telling us the bad thoughts were gonna incentivize us, and now all of a sudden the bad thoughts are causing the problem. | |
| These people can't make up their mind. | |
| All we know is that no one can sign up for it. | |
| And they're still, by the way, they're still counting the numbers of people who've gone to the website and actually gone through the process without paying, without clicking, yes, I want it, they're still counting them as people who have actually gotten the health care plans. | |
| No. | |
| No, that's not the way it works in the real world, but these people don't live in the real world. | |
| If these people lived in the real world, they would have to admit it's not working out. | |
| Apparently, the only Democrat who lives in the real world is some lieutenant governor in in Maryland who is actually pointing out that the lieutenant governor of Maryland di was the guy in charge and he messed up and the whole thing's collapsing. | |
| Ah. | |
| You know. | |
| Can we just be thankful here? | |
| The day before Christmas, Barack Obama has given us a wonderful those of us in Talk Radio, he's given us a wonderful gift. | |
| It is the gift that keeps on giving. | |
| I could trot out Obamacare stories the rest of the day. | |
| But there are so many other things in the news we have to cover as well. | |
| But it is the gift that keeps on giving. | |
| Every day, some website somewhere crashes that people are depending on to get their health insurance every day somewhere and wait until next year, when you no longer have your doctor, you no longer have your hospital, you no longer have your preferred drug, and you get to go before the death pill to see if you live or die. | |
| Wait till we get to that point. | |
| Then, my friends, then we're never going to run out of stories. | |
| The Democrats just don't understand what they've done. | |
| Thank you and Merry Christmas, Barack Obama. | |
| Eric Erickson in for Rush. | |
| We'll be right back. | |
| Welcome back, Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh. | |
| How about we take a phone call? | |
| 1-800-282-282 here at the Rush Limbaugh program. | |
| Janet in Sloatsburg, New York, welcome to the EIB network. | |
| How are you? | |
| Good. | |
| How are you? | |
| I love Rush. | |
| I'm sure he's listening. | |
| Anyway, I just wanted to make a quick comment about the Justine S situation. | |
| I've been a nurse for about 20 years. | |
| And instead of firing her, I would have had her go over to a clinic in Africa for six months and volunteer at an HIV clinic. | |
| I mean, someone who says something like that, I believe lacks a soul even though. | |
| For those of you just just know what Janet's talking about. | |
| This is the PR person who tweeted the thing inappropriately and her own side descended on her and drove her from a job. | |
| But you know, I I look at this and and see a bigger story, Jan, because I agree with you. | |
| She's a PR person who should have known better than to do what she did. | |
| But at the same time, the the lack of grace and mercy from these people. | |
| You know, y it was G.K. Chesterton, the philosopher, my buddy Tim will be happy I'm quoting him. | |
| He said that if if you get rid of God, you you will just replace God with the next biggest thing, which is government and people will worship the government, and the government has no grace or mercy, and we we see this with the late the way the left beh behaves in this. | |
| Right, I agree, but instead of firing her, I would have had her go over to a clinic for six months in Africa and work there in an HIV clinic. | |
| And if she's a PR person, maybe she could get the drug companies to donate free medicine. | |
| I mean, teach instead of I mean, she's got to go on with her life instead of may maybe see that she does have a soul. | |
| I mean, if someone who says this, even that's joking how how can anybody fathom that? | |
| Instead of punishing her, I would have sent her over and seen what how these people suffer and how orphans are are brought about at every turn. | |
| Yeah, look, I I I think that's a fair point. | |
| She apparently is from South Africa. | |
| Um maybe there can be some rehabilitation. | |
| I I'm sure the left will ensure that she is in some way rehabilitated to make sure that she conforms to the way they want her to conform and extract from her any offensive sense of humor and whatnot. | |
| I I I guarantee you at some point that will happen. | |
| There will, as Mark Stein noted this weekend, uh Nash Review, by the way, so one of his editors at National Review, somebody I'd never heard of, was all upset with him for making these points, but Stein points out that I mean that there the left just wants to send people to re-education camps. | |
| And if the re-education doesn't hold, well then you you're you're out of luck. | |
| You're driven from the the public square. | |
| That's what goes on here. | |
| So yeah, that reminds me, I've got the story right here in the stack. | |
| That you know, A and E and all of their outrage that the Duck Dynasty dad puts five hundred million dollars at risk with his talk, according to Bloomberg News, and yet, despite all of this, AE is run I mean, wall-to-wall marathon this weekend of Duck Dynasty, if he was r if they were really that outraged by Duck Dynasty, if they were really that outraged, would they have stopped the Duck Dynasty marathon? | |
| The particularly the episodes with Phil Robertson? | |
| No, of course not. | |
| I was when I left EIB on Friday and headed over to Fox, I was talking to a a liberal Democrat in the green room at Fox, and he's just fundamentally convinced that this is this is all drama. | |
| This is all show, this is all talk to build up the show that the A and E, they're not really that outraged. | |
| They had to do it to pretend to be outraged That everybody's getting played here because the show is such a huge generator of revenue. | |
| Such a huge generator of revenue. | |
| They're not going to. | |
| I mean, do you remember what that network was like before Duck Dynasty? | |
| Does does anyone remember what that was like? | |
| I I don't even think Mr. Snerdley watched AE before Duck Dynasty. | |
| I don't know that Mr. Sturdley. | |
| Yeah? | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| You know, I watched the biographies. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I watched, I remember watching the Rush Limbaugh biography way back when. | |
| It came on the day before the Angela Landsburg biography. | |
| Yes, I do remember these things. | |
| But nobody watched it other than for for a biography. | |
| Now you got the walking dead. | |
| Oh, that reminds me. | |
| So here in Georgia. | |
| Yes, Bill Curry. | |
| Yes, investigations. | |
| Yes, that that's true. | |
| Okay. | |
| So you watched it a little more than you're letting on, didn't you? | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yeah, but it was before the Ducks. | |
| Yes. | |
| We we we have to tread lightly around Mr. Snerdley today because there's a report about Tony Romo having to sit out the season with the herniated disc, having carried his team all year. | |
| And I didn't realize you were such a cowboys fan that you and my wife, you could bond well in any event. | |
| America's team. | |
| There we have it. | |
| So A and E's really not that upset about these people. | |
| They're really genuinely that they're not upset. | |
| If they were that upset, if they were that concerned about if any people, they would have taken out Phil Robinson. | |
| Instead, they are totally cashing in. | |
| Which reminds me, speaking of cashing in on these these conservative people, NBC is to resurrect the Bible with a new series expected in 2015. | |
| They're calling it A D. I'm surprised the left isn't making them call it C E for common era instead of the the Year of Our Lord A.D. Yes, yes, that they're they're bringing it back. | |
| They are going to start this aroma Downey and and her husband who did it on the History Channel, the Bible, yes, NBC News is going to do one on a now. | |
| This could be fascinating. | |
| I have for a very long time said that a movie they're bringing out was Darren Aronofsky is bringing out a movie on Noah with Russell Crowe in the lead. | |
| I have said for a very long time that the the life of the the even just the historic life take take into account the Bible or don't. | |
| Well, I don't care. | |
| The life of Paul would be a compelling movie to make. | |
| It's got everything. | |
| It's got action, it's got drama, it's got love, it's got despair, the high points, the low points. | |
| Imagine what NBC could do with A D. I mean, i if they've got Alec Baldwin under any sort of contract, he could have some sort of starring role in it. | |
| I mean, just imagine Alec Baldwin persecuting. | |
| Well, we know who he persecutes and he gets a pass on it, unlike Phil Robertson. | |
| All right, we gotta take a timeout here, Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh. | |
| A buddy of mine just emailed me. | |
| Well, welcome back, by the way, Eric Erickson, in for Rush Limbaugh. | |
| A buddy of mine just emailed me and about this NBC resurrecting the Bible for a new series called AD. | |
| He says, just think you'll have Hollywood's top A-list celebrities signing on free of charge just for a chance to play the small non-speaking extras who get to stone the Christians. | |
| Probably so. | |
| Yeah, oh yes, my yeah, Miley Cyrus will probably be cast as as Mary. | |
| She'll be cast as something. | |
| She'll she'll be like the the instead of the fallen angel, she'll be the twerking angel or something. | |
| I God help us. | |
| But I mean, you you just look what they did to poor old Veggie Tales. | |
| My kids love Veggie Tales, by the way, if you haven't seen it. | |
| We gotta watch Veggie Tales Christmas tonight, I guess. | |
| In any event, I digress. | |
| The left right now is tearing up my Twitter feed. | |
| You can you can tweet to me if you feel compelled at E.W. Erickson or on Facebook, same thing. | |
| They're upset because I mentioned Death Panels. | |
| Yes, I I mentioned death panels. | |
| And don't you know that's not true? | |
| I I actually I thought it actually was true. | |
| I I thought we finally arrived at the point where they're admitting that it's true. | |
| That they are. | |
| There are going to be cost savings. | |
| Those cost savings will come through a panel of experts. | |
| And they are going to do these things to us. | |
| I tell you, people, you will be made to care about these things. | |
| You absolutely will. |
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