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Dec. 31, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 31, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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I love, I quoted a little bit of old Lang Syne at the beginning.
I love that.
Love that song.
We love me a bit of Robbie Burns.
We tway harunabut the breeze and pooed the goans fine.
But we've wandered money a weary fit sin old lang sein.
And people sometimes say, well, it's all in Scottish dialect.
What does old Lang Syne actually mean?
Well, Old Lang Syne is about an old Scotsman called Old Lang who was the first person to sign up for Obamacare.
And the song basically celebrates his success in eventually getting through on the website.
Old Lang had basically every pre-existing condition you could have.
And it took him ages to get through, but he was the first person to sign up to Obamacare.
And so Old Lang Sign is a song we sing traditionally at this time of year to commemorate the moment when he succeeded in getting through on the website and signing up to Obamacare.
So it's very, very emotional and very moving there.
This is the last edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show for the year 2013.
And so we will do, not Open Line Friday, but we'll do Open Year Tuesday, which is a little more constrained than Open Line Friday.
Open Year Tuesday, we'll do it this way.
What do you think was the most important story, most important development, most important thing that happened in 2013?
And what do you think is going to be the big story of 2014?
So you can take a little bit of a look back or take a little bit of a look ahead.
No end of things.
If you're Vladimir Putin, by the way, you've had a pretty good year.
And things worked out pretty well for Putin.
The Russians are back in the Middle East for the first time in a big way, for the first time since the 70s.
And Putin has managed to maintain his client Assad in power in Syria.
So you can look on the international scene.
You can look on the domestic scene.
Obamacare, obviously, but let's not forget the other stuff.
2013 was the year that demonstrated that the IRS not only abuses its powers, it has powers that revenue agencies and civilized societies shouldn't have, but that it is willing to use and abuse those powers in the interests of the ruling party's ideological needs and political needs.
And they basically took the Tea Party out for the 2012 electoral cycle.
That's what we discovered in 2013.
Everybody wondered why the Tea Party went away.
One reason they went away is because they were tied up in paperwork demands, demanding their donor lists, demanding what books they were reading, demanding what prayers they were delivering at prayer meetings.
And basically, an entire activist wing of one party in a two-party system was greatly weakened by Obama's revenue collections agency.
That's what the IRS is supposed to do.
It's supposed to just collect taxes.
In this case, it collected its taxes and it endowed its favors according to the political needs of its masters.
And that's a big story.
And we shouldn't, just because Obamacare is bigger, we shouldn't let the corruption of the IRS make us forget.
We shouldn't forget that end of the story too.
There's one story.
This came up yesterday, really, while I was on the air.
And I kept getting handed bits of paper and sent emails about it.
And I didn't want to talk about it because it's too boring, this story.
And it sums up, actually, one of the big problems with political discourse in this country.
And this was the Melissa Harris Perry story.
Melissa Harris Perry has a show on MSNBC.
Who doesn't?
She has a show on MSNBC.
It's at the weekend.
So on the big shows, like Al Sharpton has.
And she, in the course of this show, for some reason, they show a picture of the Romney family that I believe the Romneys sent out at Christmas time, as is the fashion these days.
It's one of those, if you've had, if you've been on the receiving end of these photographs, you know they're of no interest to anybody who isn't in the photograph.
Unless you're one of these people who likes to look at them and say, oh my God, hasn't she aged?
Doesn't she look terrible?
In this case, that's the normal person's reaction.
In this case, what they reacted to was the fact that among his many grandchildren, because they are a very feckened family, the Romneys, among his many grandchildren is a little adopted grandson who happens to be black sitting on Mitt Romney's knee.
So all right away, this is the thing.
There's like a bazillion little mini Romneys in the photograph, but this black Romney, black Minnie Romney is the one they all focus on.
And they start doing, and some actress who's there, Pia Glenn, never heard of Pia Glenn, don't know what she's in, probably a big star, Pia Glenn starts singing that lousy one of these things is not like the other song from Sesame Street, which they sing in the Sesame Street game when they put up four pictures, three of which are vegetables and one of which is a shoe.
And when Kermit sings one of these things is not like the other, you're supposed to say that the three things are vegetables and the one thing that's not like the other is the shoe.
So they're implying that in the Romney family, the little black grandkid is not like the other.
And then somebody else is on the lousy panel, starts saying, this is the picture of the diversity of the Republican Party.
It's like a Republican convention.
Everybody's white, but they've got the token black there.
They've got the house Negro, as they used to say about Condoleezza Rice.
And they started doing it.
And I didn't want to talk about it because it's boring.
Because if you're not on MSNBC, if you're not actually in the full-time racial grievance industry, if you're not on the payroll of the grievance industry like Jesse Jackson.
Actually, one of the great things about this Duck Dynasty thing, by the way, was that Jesse Jackson got nowhere when he went to shake down A ⁇ E.
He wanted them to sign up for $12 million of sensitivity trading.
He got nowhere with them because A ⁇ E, even A ⁇ E, when they called it wrong, weren't going to kiss Jesse's, the Reverend Jackson's ring.
So you got, unless this is of no interest to anybody.
Racism used to be about slavery.
Then racism used to be about Jim Crow.
Racism used to be about serious stuff.
Now racism is about mocking the white guy because he happens to have a black grandkid.
Nobody mocks all the celebrities.
Nobody mocks your Sandra Bullocks and your Angelina Jolies who are denuding Africa of their brightest and best babies.
That's fine.
Nobody cares about that.
Nobody goes on at them for choosing an adopted baby of color.
But somehow Mitt Romney got to choose.
I don't even know how you adopt a grandson.
Doesn't the actual adoptive parent have to do it?
Or does Romney just say, hey, look, it's a campaign year and tells one of his kids, it doesn't matter which one to go out and adopt a black grandkid?
This is the way these guys work.
And do you know why American political discourse is in the state it's in?
Do you know why this is the brokest nation in history?
Do you know why this country has to officially, officially pay back over $17 trillion just to get back to having nothing?
Do you know that's more money than anybody has ever had to pay back to anyone in the history of money?
One of the reasons is because so much public policy discussion is sucked up talking about this kind of USAT pseudo kindergarten racism of the kind they obsess with over at MSNBC.
You can't, if you take, imagine other countries.
Imagine, I don't know, pick any country you want, Finland, Slovenia, Papua New Guinea.
Doesn't matter.
You can pick any country.
And all of them, none of them talk about stuff like this round the clock.
And it's amazing.
If you don't talk about, if you don't suddenly have a discussion on racism premised on the fact that in the Christmas photo, the Romney family, there's a little black baby in there bouncing up and down on Grandpa Romney's knee.
If you don't talk about that, you'd be amazed at how much time it frees up to talk about other stuff.
You would be amazed that if you clear were to clear out all the stupid, pitiful racial obsessions, you would free up so much time to get yourself informed and up to speed on all kinds of other conversational topics instead.
And instead, these guys would rather, even if there's no slavery, even if there's no lynchings, even if there's no Jim Crow laws, even if you've got a black president, even if you've got a black attorney general, even if you've got black governors and black senators and all that, these people would still rather talk about racism, even though the only thing for you to focus all your concern about racism on is this poor little, whatever he is, six-month-old little black baby bouncing up and down on Grandpa Mitt's knee.
That's how pathetic it is.
You know, Melissa Harris Perry, she seems a perfectly nice lady and she's issued an apology now.
And that's fine.
Just to be clear on this, I don't want to get her fired.
I don't want to do a Duck Dynasty thing here.
I said the other day, I don't want Martin Bashir.
Martin Bashir, who has these weird kinky fantasy about defecating in Sarah Palin's mouth.
I don't want to get him fired.
I think it's fine.
I think it's useful to know what kind of people you're dealing with here.
But Melissa Harris Perry, she apologized, and good for her.
And I don't want to get her fired.
But I would just invite her to think about all the stuff that's out there to talk about if you didn't talk about this.
And I say this, you know, I say this obviously as a foreigner and all the rest of it.
So I come with a different racial history.
I always recommend to American blacks, they might want to look up George III's proclamation ending the slave trade in the British Empire.
Could have had a whole other different history there.
So I come to it with, and I appreciate that American history is different and all the rest of it.
And that said, this is not worth your time and money.
And you should have a serious, when you're talking about some harmless old white Republican loser, because you beat him.
You cleaned this guy's clock.
Mitt Romney's history.
He's never going to matter in American politics again.
You won that one.
And he's just sending out a Christmas card with his, and if you've got nothing to focus your big racism industry on except one little black baby, then you're doing it wrong.
And I'll come back to Melissa Hayes.
She had the good grace to apologize, but I'll come back to her in just a moment.
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For some reason, a couple of years ago, I had a run of guest hosting on Wednesdays, and I always used to do stories about the Uyghurs who were Chinese Muslims being held at Guantanamo.
And so people, I used to call it Uyghur Wednesday.
And I can't remember the last time I did it, but everywhere I go now, and I'm bound to get it when I'm going to be down in Florida, appearing in Jacksonville and Miami and places next month.
I'm going to be bound to get it there because people always come up to me and ask me, well, the first question, I'll say, I'll take a few questions from the audience.
And the first question is always, what news of Uyghurs?
And the Uyghurs, these Chinese Muslims, that Obama, a couple of years ago, Obama released four of them and released them to Bermuda.
And they're very unhappy there.
They're in a legal limbo because Bermuda is a British colony and he didn't check with the British government.
He went basically went behind the back of Gordon Brown, who was prime minister at the time, and dumped these four Uyghurs on Bermuda without notifying London.
It's basically like the equivalent of Britain dumping a bunch of IRA terrorists in Puerto Rico or whatever.
It's like you're not meant to do it.
And they've had problems there.
I saw them crossing the street in Bermuda in a row in St. George's and the four of them crossing this pedestrian crossing, like the Uyghur tribute band version of the Beatles Abbey Road cover.
Very bizarre.
And I see now that these four guys in Bermuda, they don't want to be there.
They want to get some passports and go and live somewhere else.
And they're in a legal limbo.
Now the last three Uyghurs have been released from Guantanamo and they are not going to Bermuda this time.
They are being sent to Slovakia.
So even the Uyghurs are getting a worse deal out of the Obama administration.
The three men, the last three Uyghurs at Gitmo, Club Gitmo's last three Uyghurs, the last three Uyghurs living the life at Club Gitmo, Youssef Abbas, Saidullah Khalik, and Hajakbar Abdul Gupa were ordered released in 2008 during the waiting days of the Bush administration, but no country wanted to take them.
After five years, the government of the United States has persuaded Slovakia to take them.
So these will be, there are no Uyghurs in Slovakia.
These will be the only three Uyghurs in Bratislava.
It's a very cruel thing to do to Uyghurs.
There's no Uyghur restaurants in Bratislava.
It's a Uyghur-free zone.
These three Uyghur guys, they won't have any fellow Uyghurs to date in Bratislava.
It's a terrible thing that they're doing to them.
But Obama is dumping the last three unwanted Uyghurs from Gitmo in Slovakia.
When I started doing the Uyghur Wednesday updates, the Uyghurs were getting dumped in Bermuda.
Now they're getting dumped in Slovakia.
At this rate, they're going to be just tossing them over the fence in Cuba and giving them to the Castros the way this is going on.
I said one other thing.
Before we talk about this Melissa Harris-Perry thing, she used to be known as Melissa Harris Lacewell.
And I actually mentioned her in the book, in my book, After America, because she was always, she was one of these people.
She was interviewed by National Public Radio on the code language, the code language that is used with respect to Obama, when people talking about healthcare and people talking about golf, as they in fact said one time on MSNBC, that in fact this is just code language for,
so if you complain about wait times for surgery in government healthcare systems, in fact, it means you've just got an urge to get your sheet on and lynch that uppity Negro from a tree at the edge of town.
This is like the code language.
Talking about death panels or talking about pre-existing conditions, this is apparently just code language for wanting to bring back lynching to America.
And this kind of, this is, this is the way these guys think about it.
I mean, code language.
When you start complaining about code language and you're, as I said the other day, when you're the one who hears the racist dog whistle, you're the dog, you're the racist.
Code language is basically code for the words you actually use don't quite do it for me, so I'm going to insert words in your mouth that serve the purposes of the point I'm making.
This racial, the obsession, the minute you're reduced to complaining about racial code language, code language, you've lost.
And Melissa Harris Lacewell, now Melissa Harris Perry, was doing that all the time back in the back in the day.
She said, personal responsibility, the language of personal responsibility is a code language used against poor and minority communities.
You know, code language is code language for total garbage.
A code word is a code word for I'm inventing what you meant to say because the actual quote doesn't quite do the job for me.
So when you talk about small government, Melissa Harris Perry says they're racist code words.
Non-confiscatory taxes, they're racist code words.
Individual liberty, they're racist code words.
You know, in the end, he is the president of the United States.
And it is simply too boring to say that other countries can discuss the policies of their governments, but that every time you try to do it with this guy, it's a racist coward.
And you end up making a fool of yourself on national television by suddenly making a pure, innocent, little bitty nothing baby who never did anything to anybody the focus of racism in America.
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Let's go to Sean in Raceland, Louisiana, which is close to Florida.
Sean, great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Yeah, how are you today?
I'm doing well.
How are you?
Happy New Year.
That's the same to you.
I'm not doing too well.
I just have a couple comments.
I looked at everything like, okay, now I understand the agenda of Russia radio and AAs and all of that stuff there.
But I have one question for you.
Since President Obama has won the seat, don't you feel truly and honestly that the country is more divided now than what it was before Barack Obama won?
Can I get you to answer that question for me?
Yeah, and I would say no.
I think it's pretty clear that during the last half of the Bush administration, that the country was basically fundamentally divided.
Yeah, after Katrina, after Katrina.
Okay.
Yeah.
And tens of millions of people did not accept him as a legitimate president.
A big-time novelist wrote a book fantasizing about killing the president.
Some guy made a film that was shown at foreign film festivals about the assassination of George W. Bush, critically acclaimed motion picture.
People hated George W. Bush.
The country is.
If the country is divided now, by the way, I think it's because Barack Obama presented himself as some kind of technocrat centrist in 2008 and then chose to ram down the biggest single legislative act since the 1960s on a purely partisan vote, which is like the Obamacare thing, Sean.
Okay.
So you're telling me, hypothetically, so you're telling me if Mitt Romney would have won, he wouldn't have came out with his RomneyCare.
No, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney was, for me, a flawed candidate.
He was a very centrist governor of a very blue state, Massachusetts.
And if you listen to his lingo throughout the debates and the debate season, he was selling himself as a way, as a guy who'd worked with Democrats in Massachusetts, and he would work with Democrats in Washington because he was a guy who could reach across the aisle.
This is a terrible, crippling condition not covered by Obamacare, to which only Republicans are prone.
The urge to reach across the aisle and work with Democrats.
And if you compare that with statements that Obama made at the same time and makes to this day and has made since he was re-elected, Republicans are the obstruction.
Republicans are standing in the way.
There's no reach across the aisle talk there, Sean.
Okay.
Well, okay, since you just mentioned that comment, I'm from Louisiana, right?
I'm a truck driver.
Now, I have to go to the exchange myself.
Now, I'm going to be paying the same amount of money as the person that's making almost $100,000 a year just because my Republican governor didn't accept the subsidy.
Right.
This is a true red state.
I don't care how you put it.
And I've been here pretty much all my life.
No, no, wait a minute.
Why didn't he accept the subsidy for the people that's lower class and middle class to where we won't have to spend 60% of our income on insurance when pretty much 90% of the other states have accepted the subsidy?
No, no, no.
90% of other states haven't accepted any.
For Saturday, your characterization of Louisiana is a very curious one, Sean, because it's a big time.
It's a curious one, Sean.
You have a Democrat.
You were a longtime Democrat bastion.
You have a Democrat senator right now from a Democrat political dynasty.
Rush is quite cute.
Rush always says he's sweet on Mary Landrew.
Rush always starts saying how much he likes her sweet little moon face.
Moon Landrew, who was her dad, was the guy who ran.
That family ran Louisiana.
You can't say that it's this kind of solidly red cracker state that is just behind the Republican Party all the way.
And Sean, here's the point.
You don't like what your governor's doing.
You persuade enough of your neighbors that your governor is out to lunch on this, and you win the election.
Likewise, Republicans have to persuade enough people nationally to be able to win the election.
But I mean, you're basically saying, you're saying that you're paying a fortune for health care now, and it's not Obama's fault.
Is that right?
All I'm saying is, why doesn't the state of Louisiana accept the subsidies that come with Obamacare so that the people who does not make $100,000 a year can afford to be a good idea?
Now, what do you mean by the subsidies?
Do you mean that Louisiana doesn't have its own state exchange?
Is that what you mean?
Like California does.
There you go.
So in other words, if California...
He wasn't accepting it.
Right, right.
Now...
Now, when you accept these health care exchanges like California, do you know how many millions of people have lost their health insurance in California?
But California accepted the subsidy, so people that...
Yeah, no, no, California keeps...
California set up a state health Obamacare exchange.
Some states did, some states didn't.
California, a deep blue state, accepted the, did everything the Obama way.
They did what they were told to by King Barack.
And as a result, millions of people have lost their health care insurance.
Millions of people's premiums have gone up.
And everyone in California is in the same situation you're in where they're complaining about increased premiums and increased deductions.
That happens every year.
That happens every year.
People lose it.
Well, if it happens every year.
Well, look, look, here's the thing.
Here's the thing, Sean.
Y'all are not being honest with yourself because of the simple fact is you're looking at things that has been happening for years and years over and over and over again.
Because I'm not going to spring chicken to this.
I'm 47 years old and I've lost insurance policies and I have to pay more to get the new one.
So come on, be for real.
Y'all just spitting all this rigmarole.
And if y'all would be in China, the whole Russ radio would be in jail.
Oh, I love this word, Sean.
Rigmarole.
Let's stay with Rigmarole because that's a great word and people don't use it enough.
The Rigmarole.
The Rigmarole of American Healthcare on October the 1st got a whole lot of more Rigmarolia.
Now, why did that happen, Sean?
In other words, you just called me up like a lot of people do, and you've complained about your lousy healthcare situation.
You're right.
You say that you don't earn a large salary, but you haven't pay a fortune for health insurance, which isn't health insurance anymore.
Because when you're paying, I don't know how much you're paying per year, Sean, but let me take a wild guess.
And I'll estimate that for the amount of money you're paying, you would be entitled in most countries to have two fairly serious long-term health issues every year.
But instead, that's now insurance.
When you're paying as much money as you are, as much percentage of your salary, it's not insurance anymore.
Because insurance is supposed to be insuring against catastrophe.
And in your case, it is the catastrophe, the amount you're paying.
And you're saying, oh, the whole Rigmarole's got so much more complicated.
Who changed the Rigmarole?
Who changed it, Sean?
President Obama changed it because these companies, Aflac and all these other companies, are getting rich by taking our money.
And then you have a person like me that hasn't been to the doctor in over four or five years because I'm a very healthy truck driver.
And you want to say, I've been paying these people over $10,000, $12,000 in the last five years.
And I haven't used not one nickel of that money since then.
Right, right, right, right, right.
So you've just said you've given 60 grand to these people and you're now going to have to give more.
And who is responsible for you having to give more to this incredibly Rigmarole-like healthcare system?
Who monkeyed with the healthcare system?
Who changed the healthcare system?
Who took over one sixth of the American economy and said, I can run this better?
Man, y'all, y'all, y'all.
Look, just like, just like everybody talks about, okay, one other scenario, just like everybody talks about the deficit, okay?
When President Obama came in, now they set up Homeland Security, CSA, and Marshalls, and all that other different things.
Well, I opposed all that, John.
Don't hang that garbage around my neck.
The TSA is a joke.
I understand where I'm coming from.
How much did it cost the United States to settle?
Well, you know, you'd be surprised.
You'd be surprised.
Not as much as you think, because trillion-dollar deficits are unique to the Obama era.
Sean, I got to take a commercial break, so we got to go.
But nobody has spent on the scale of Obama and left no trace.
That's the thing.
The Department of Homeland Security is rubbish, garbage, complete waste of time.
TSA is disgusting and disgraceful and has no part in a civilized society.
But the fact is that it's chump change compared to what Obama spent.
Obama's first ever stimulus bill, he spent nearly a trillion dollars, and no one can point to anything to show for it.
He's the first person in human history to spend a trillion dollars and leave no trace.
That's actually quite difficult to do.
Thanks for your call, Sean.
We'll come back and take more of your calls in just a moment.
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Sean, my favorite bit of the conversation with Short, actually, I let it go, but when he said, if this was China, the entire Rush radio crew would be in jail.
And Short said it like it's a good thing.
And I was disappointed because Mr. Snurdley, when he spoke to Short off air, Sean's big point was that he thought the country had been divided enough.
And I thought that was like he was talking about all these racial obsessions of Melissa Harris Perry and things.
But in fact, he said it had been divided enough.
And when was the day going to come when all you radio guys were going to stop bashing Obama?
And it shouldn't be necessary to explain this.
But like, there's a difference between Obama and Mitt Romney's grandson.
Mitt Romney's grandson is a little itty-bitty baby who's of no interest to anybody except his proud parents and whoever gets to change his diaper and play with him and all the rest of it.
If you don't know me, he's not important.
Mitt Romney's grandson cannot do anything to ruin your life.
Barack Obama is not a little itty-bitty, helpless, pretty bouncing baby bouncing up and down on your knee and we're all fussing and fretting about who is to change his diaper.
He is the president of the United States.
And that's why Melissa Harris Perry's discussion was ridiculous.
Hail Razor.
Hail Razor has just tweeted, you know, the Democrat Party message.
2012, this is Joe Biden, I think it was.
2012, Joe Biden, they'll put y'all back in chains.
That's what Joe Biden, who's an authentic American, so he knows how to say y'all.
2012, they'll put y'all back in chains.
now the new message of the Democrat Party, 2013, they'll put you in a J.C. Penney family portrait.
And that's what...
So this little itty-bitty helpless baby is not the president.
The president of the United States is the president of the United States.
You can criticize, in other countries, you can criticize the leader.
You can criticize the prime minister of Italy.
You can criticize the prime minister of Norway.
You can criticize the chancellor of Germany.
You can criticize the president of France.
And there's a word for countries where they say, oh, we can't all, we've got to unite.
We can't criticize the president.
They're one-party states.
And when Sean says, oh, if this was China, you guys would be.
be all in jail.
No, we wouldn't.
We wouldn't be in jail.
Maybe it'd be like North Korea, where what's he called?
Kim Jong-un just had his uncle executed.
Maybe it'd be like that.
Maybe that's that's that's those are the countries where you can't criticize the president.
You can't bash the president.
He's there.
He's got the buck stops with him.
You guys elected this guy.
He was the greatest thing ever.
We were told that we would divide the era would be divided into before Barak and after Barak.
The guy who was editor at Newsweek said he basically bestrides the world like a kind of godlike figure.
Why now suddenly is he just this wee, sensitive little thing?
You can't say anything about him.
Or he just like curls up and shrivels away to a big nothing.
He's the president.
Doesn't matter whether he's a black president, doesn't matter whether he's a white president, doesn't matter whether he's a transgendered president, doesn't matter whether he's a Uyghur president.
He's the only president this country has.
And he has to take it, just like the president of France has to take it, and the prime minister of Italy has to take it, and the chancellor of Germany has to take it.
And if he doesn't want to take it, he should go off and find some totalitarian basket case to be in charge of, where the criticism is along the lines, gets you the penalty that Sean said.
You get tossed in jail, or like Kim Jong-un's uncle, you get publicly executed.
Markstein for Rush, more straight ahead.
Markstein in Farush.
It's open year Tuesday on the Rush Limbaugh show.
By the way, one problem here is the subsidies that Sean was talking about.
It's not just the healthcare exchanges.
There are other subsidies too.
The problem is there's nobody to do the subsidizing.
Basically, you're asking Mitt Romney's little black baby grandson to subsidize today.
We're getting the future to subsidize today's spending.
And that's not going to work.
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