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March 13, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 13, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Well, did level check testing every testing one, two, three.
And I could barely hear myself there for a minute.
In fact, I can barely hear myself now.
Anyway, do you see, folks, where the missing Malaysian, Boeing 777, somebody speculating that it, because it flew for so many hours, the engines were reporting data long after data ceased to be transmitted from the cockpit.
And somebody's speculating that the plane might have been hijacked and flown to the ChiComs in Beijing.
And especially since it was the ChiComs that put out those really weird-looking satellite photos that supposedly showed plane debris.
This mystery has just had everybody captivated because, like somebody said, Boeing 777s just don't disappear.
But this one did.
Greetings.
Great to have you on the program, folks.
Telephone number if you want to join us, 800-282-2882.
And the email address, ilrushbow at EIVNet.com.
Did you notice not one, this is very telling, ladies and gentlemen, not one of the three major television news networks in the evening news broadcast mentioned the David Jolly victory in Florida yesterday.
Not a one of them.
And this is relevant because there still are a sizable portion of the population that gets its news from the nightly news.
Now, they are aging.
They largely are seasoned citizens.
There's some people to whom what they watch at 6.30 or 7 o'clock at night is the first news of the day they see.
It's a dwindling number, to be sure.
And you can tell the audience by looking at the advertising in the evening newscast, but still not one of the networks mentioned the story.
And I have to tell you, if the Democrats had won that seat, that was all they'd be talking about.
And they would have led with that story.
But there wasn't a peep about it on any of the three network evening newscasts or in any of the morning shows today either.
Not a peep.
Now, if you look elsewhere in the drive-by media, and we will today, they are deeply concerned.
And there is an NBC News, Washington Post poll that really has the Democrat Party and the drive-bys in a deep tizzy.
And I will explain that as the program unfolds before your very eyes.
The spoiled teenager in New Jersey suing her parents for not supporting her is returning home.
But she's not dropping the lawsuit.
She is returning home, but not dropping the lawsuit.
Lawsuit said it would be on a different level, not a legal one.
We have the details of that coming up on the program today.
Also, there's some real confusion over Obama here.
We talked about this a couple of days ago, and I forget what our source was, but we talked about the individual mandate's been delayed.
But some news organizations just discovered that overnight, late yesterday and into the day.
And their source for it's a Wall Street Journal editorial.
The individual mandate has been delayed.
However, there is some confusion, even though the mandate that requires you to have health insurance has been delayed until 2016.
Some people say that they still plan on collecting the fines for not having insurance starting in 2015.
And then there's the added conflict of this.
Like, I fitted to this.
This is something I have to find out.
I do not have health insurance.
The mandate may not apply to me.
I may have to still go out and get it.
The mandate may, it's open for interpretation.
And the regime did not announce this.
They released it in a document dump on Friday.
They're being very, very close to the vest on this.
There was no announcement.
There's just a technical report, a paragraph in a technical report, a document data dump on Friday or earlier this week, maybe, that mentions the individual mandate has been delayed until 2016.
But apparently, you can get around it.
All you have to do is plead hardship.
You don't have to prove it.
You just have to plead it.
But for people who don't have health insurance, they still may have to go get it.
It's really confusing and up in the air.
And it's just another example of what an absolute disaster this is.
But forget all of those things.
The primary funding mechanism for Obamacare was the individual mandate.
And if you'll recall, the Chief Justice Supreme Court actually rewrote the law to call the mandate a tax.
And remember what his reasoning was?
I just don't think that it is the job of the Supreme Court to tell the Congress that what it has done is unconstitutional or some such thing.
So he changed the law himself to make it supposedly constitutional.
The way he did it was to classify the mandate as a tax, claiming the federal government does have the power to levy a tax, but that they don't have the power to mandate that you buy anything.
But if they can collect as a tax penalty for you not having something, they can do it, he said.
Well, that was the primary funding mechanism.
We've mentioned this, I don't know how many times.
The idea was that young, healthy people would go out and buy health insurance and not use it and thereby not represent any cost.
Their premiums were then going to fund health care treatment for seasoned citizens and others who were sick.
If the youths of America don't sign up and they're not, then the whole thing is gutted.
There's no money for it.
It's not funded if they delay the mandate for two years.
There is no Obama.
This is the strangest thing.
There really is no Obamacare, yet there is.
I'm going to try to sort all of this out as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
You know, Obama, we played the sound bike yesterday.
Obama goes on the Spanish language network during a public appearance at the New Zealand.
And he was asked, you know, you've got the young people in here, Mr. President.
They can't afford $316 a month.
He said, well, they ought to look at their budget and see what they're paying for cable and the phone bill.
Okay, cool.
So now people have been adding up the cable bill and the phone bill.
And they say, you know what?
It still doesn't equal a monthly premium for Obamacare, even if you get rid of both of them.
But what's Obama doing?
The youths of America are his prime audience.
And he's telling them to go without the daily show.
And he's telling them to go without video streaming.
When he tells them to get rid of their cell phone, that's like telling you and me to get rid of our TVs.
When he tells them to get rid of their cable subscription, that's like telling them to start reading books and nothing else.
They're not going to do it.
Their cell phones are much more than just things to make phone calls with.
And the cable bill, I mean, the cable, you're telling them they can't watch Zach Galifinakis anymore and two ferns.
You're telling them they can't watch The Daily Show anymore, their primary source of news.
You're telling them they can't watch whatever pop culture crap they watch.
The president doing this.
Somebody needs to tell these youths of America, he's not just telling you to get rid of your cable bill.
He wants you to get your priorities straight.
Get rid of your cable, get rid of your cell phone.
Look at what you will not be able to do if you do that.
And even if you do get rid of both, you're still not going to have the money to buy health insurance for a month.
This is such a, it's just an absolute mess.
And it's a classic example, again, of what happens when the totally unqualified arrogantly assume they know better.
They don't.
There is nobody.
And by the way, oh, one other thing.
While there is no question that the regime has delayed the individual mandate, Sebelius is still out there on TV as recently as last night saying, oh, no, we haven't.
I mean, there's just the left-hand doesn't know what the far left-hand is doing in this bunch, but they are massively arrogant and unqualified.
In addition to being extreme, devout leftists, they're just blatantly incompetent, but don't know it.
They still think they're smarter than anybody else in any business.
They know more about the space program than NASA.
They know more about the health industry than any hospital or doctor or group of same.
They know more about ammunition and guns than the NRA.
They know more about everything than you do.
And you put them in charge of things, and everything that they end up running one way or another falls apart and ends up being nothing but a mass of confusion.
Now, the Wall Street Journal editorial today, or the Wall Street Journal editorial, and there's an accompanying Fox News piece.
There's a whole bunch of news organizations now weighing in on the mandate.
The Wall Street Journal piece and the Fox News piece are reporting that the hardship exemption has been extended for two years for those who had their policies canceled.
This is how confusing this is.
At first blush, the individual mandate has been canceled for everybody.
But no, no, no.
Only if you have been canceled is the mandate delayed for two years.
And the Wall Street Journal says that you don't have to prove, but you, if you can claim hardship, then you can access the delay and not have to have a policy.
And all you have to do is claim hardship.
You do not have to prove anything.
It's the honor system, again, when you claim that you are a hardship case.
You have to just tell them, I'm sorry, I can't afford it.
I can't find a policy that I can afford.
Not that you had your policy canceled or that you're too poor.
You can just declare it would be a hardship for you to buy Obamacare.
That's what I'm going to do.
But there is a, no, you're laughing in there, but there's a degree of misunderstanding or a lack of clarity.
Like, I don't have insurance.
And the delaying of the implementation and mandate may not apply to people who don't have.
And never, we may have to go get it.
It may only apply to people who had policies that were canceled.
Or, on the other hand, if you claim hardship, if you just declare that it would be a hardship for you to buy Obamacare, you have to prove it, just claim it.
That's what it says.
That's what the best analysts say.
Okay, fine.
That's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to see how far I get on that.
Doesn't say financial hardship.
It doesn't say, it says just declare it would be a hardship for me to buy.
It would be a pain in the butt.
I don't want to mess around with healthcare.gov.
I do not want a policy.
I do not want any part of Obamacare.
I'm going to tell them it would be a hardship for me.
It's much easier for me to pay for my own than to go through you clowns.
I don't want to do it.
It's a hardship.
I'll see what happens.
The penalty for me, not insignificant.
Let's just put it that way.
It's just a mess, folks.
It's just a 100% total mess.
And Jocelyn Elders, oh my Lord, Jocelyn Elders, where has she been?
She is back.
You remember Jocelyn Elders?
She wanted masturbation taught in grade school.
Maybe, maybe, was it kindergarten too?
I think it was.
She wanted masturbation.
There was nothing wrong with love, even of yourself.
But what else was she famous for?
Yeah, we're all going to die.
She loved Eric Clapp.
She liked Eric Klappner, who was, of course, the famous guitar musician.
She loved Eric Klappner, but she had a couple of other.
Anyway, she's out there.
She is leading.
Show you how just absurd things are.
Jocelyn Elders is leading an independent commission.
She's former Surgeon General.
Clinton did it.
And she's leading an independent commission, which has concluded that there is no compelling medical reason for the U.S. military to prohibit transgender Americans from serving.
And that President Obama could lift the decades-old ban without approval from Congress.
Of course he can.
So the trannies can now get in the military along with everybody else.
And it's, of course, what could go wrong?
There is no compelling medical reason not to do this.
The report will be released today.
So the Department of Defense regulations designed to keep trannies from joining or remaining in the military on the grounds of psychological and physical unfitness are based on outdated beliefs,
i.e., bigotry and hatred and fear that require thousands of current service members either to leave the service or to forego the medical procedures and other changes that could align their bodies and gender identities.
Let me read this to you again.
Where do I start this sentence?
this whole paragraph.
Well, Department of Defense regulations designed to keep trannies from joining or remaining in the military on the grounds of psychological and physical unfitness are based on outdated beliefs that require thousands of current service members, i.e. trannies,
either to leave the service because they're trannies and being discriminated against, or to forego the medical procedures and other changes that could align their bodies with their gender identities.
It's outdated to think people in those conditions are not fit to serve in the military.
Now, do you know what it means to align your body with your gender identity?
Well, yeah, if you're a woman, but you identify as a man, you're a woman, but you're running around and you think, then you need an addictomy.
And needing an addictomy procedure somehow disqualifies you from the U.S. military.
And that, said Jocelyn Elders, is not there.
We just can't do it anymore.
There's no reason why somebody who needs an addictomy can't join the Army.
I think, my all-time favorite Jocelyn Elders' quote was from January 1994.
You may have forgotten this, folks, but here's what she said: January 1994.
Jocelyn Elders, we really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
This woman was so, well, I got to be very careful.
She was so weird that even Bill Clinton had to fire her in December of 1994.
I mean, to be fired by Clinton, you have to be way, way out there.
You know, speaking of healthcare and doctors, I have to go get a test to add a doctor soon.
And I had, I get all these, you know, the paperwork you have to sign when you go to a doctor for the first time.
You sit there, and it takes you a half hour sitting in the office.
Well, I have that stuff sent to me in advance.
So I'm filling it out last night.
It wants to know all this stuff like race, but it's the options that are now on these forms for your race.
And then it got to religion.
And you know what I was tempted to write for religion?
Don't believe in man-made global warming.
You know, I'm tempted to do this kind of stuff just to see what kind of reaction I get.
I added a category for race because it wasn't there.
I put white American.
There was Hispanic American.
There was African American.
There was no white.
So I put white American in there.
Great to have you.
El Rushbo.
Fastest Week in Media.
Here we are already at Thursday.
Now, somebody said, why do you have to tell them your religion on one of those forms you fill out at the doctor's office when you go for the first?
Why do you have to know your religion?
That's why I was going to put down don't believe in man-made global warming.
You know, I think people goof on these things all the time.
You know, when you get when it came to gender, male, female, or other, how many people put other in there just to yank everybody's chains?
And how many times do you think that those surveys are accurately, literally interpreted?
And we may get statistics like, well, there may be 10% transgenders just because a bunch of people are goofing on these forms and putting other, not male or female or whatever.
I mean, it's just the religion angle.
The only thing I can think they might want to know that is if you are from a religion that does not believe in medical treatment, if that's the case, why would you be there?
So, look, it's all federal government required.
There were nine, maybe 10 pieces of paper that I had to fill out, and I'm just getting an ear test.
You put human for race?
Well, I know a Jewish friend of mine who puts down Native American because he was born here.
And they look at him and say, really?
You're Native Americans?
Yeah, I was born in Kansas.
Well, that's not what it means.
Well, what the hell does Native American mean then?
If it means Indian, why doesn't it say Indian?
That's what he does.
I just wonder how many people see this stuff and just goof off on them.
That was my temptation to do on a lot of these.
And this is a simple test.
No, I'm thinking about getting an implant in my right ear, and I have to go get a balance test to see if it can be done.
And then if I pass the balance test, then I got to decide whether I'm going to do it.
So I have to go to the doctor to get this test.
And there's all these insurance forms in every line, NA, not applicable.
I can't wait to see how that's reacted to.
You promise to be liable for this if your insurance company bails on us, NA.
Your policy, what number?
NA, don't have one.
And you know that I'm sure there will.
I'm sure it'll be called the limbaugh penalty.
The you don't have insurance on purpose penalty.
Well, I'm going to claim hardship.
I'm going to claim hardship on this stupid idiotic mandate because it is a pain in the rear.
I don't know what the definition of hardship is.
If that isn't it, everything's fine.
Hunky dory, I'm cool.
I'm covered.
And now I got to go mess around with all this.
That's a hardship.
I have other priorities.
Time is valuable.
And I don't have any time to waste on this stupid healthcare.gov or with any of their stupid navigators or any of this corruption of the healthcare system.
I'm just fine with it.
Grab a quick call here.
Jim, in you got to love this.
Moonshine Creek, North Carolina.
Hey.
Hey, Rush Megadittos.
Yeah, man.
Thank you for the.
Where is Moonshine Creek, North Carolina?
Moonshine Creek is in the mountains in western North Carolina, and it really is beautiful up there.
I bet.
Yeah.
In the balsams.
So the reason I called was I heard your comments about the transgender.
And when I worked for the government, it was very clear and it was made clear that there are two ways to avoid fight or flight.
So when you're challenged or when you are in a dangerous situation, the human response is fight or flight.
And one is through training, extensive, you know, at the academy.
And the second is testosterone.
So there is a critical need for testosterone.
Wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait, just a second.
I'm learning something here.
You're talking about in training, you're challenged when you're in a dangerous situation, the human response, fight-or-flight, and they measure testosterone in that circumstance, in that test?
No, they didn't, but they said that the two ways to ensure fighting is the human reaction, fight or flight, and the first way is through extensive training, which is what you received as a pilot or at the academy.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And the second is testosterone, the hormone that basically back in the day differentiated between a nurturer and a hunter gather.
It's important to say back in the day.
Very clever, very, very clever.
Back in the day, testosterone meant exactly what, but now it's just testosterone is bad unless it's in women.
Right.
And so when you see all the what a lot of the social people would say is the macho man that the Marines, the special forces, there's a reason.
They pass and they do very well on the testing to allow them to enter these special forces and special ops.
And one of the reasons why is because their response in a fight or flight situation is excellent.
And part of that, and depending who you talk to psychologically, a large part of that can or is directed to how much testosterone you have.
Now, see, that's all we need to know because a person other than injections cannot control how much testosterone they have.
Naturally, women are discriminated against by not having as much as men, and therefore we have to make allowances and adjustments.
That's correct.
And I don't want to make that allowance when you're talking about the national security of the United States.
Well, we're not.
We're not going to have to experiment.
That's not what the military is about anymore.
Military is a social laboratory for experimentation when it's run by people like Obama.
It's not about national defense.
Well, God bless you, Rush.
You do a great job.
And I love listening to your show.
And I wish that it was mandatory listening for American to become a citizen.
do too i did this would be one of the that is i couldn't agree with you more Not that the mandatory part, but, well, yeah, I could even agree with that.
That's a great, I really appreciate it.
That's a nice compliment, Jim, and I appreciate it.
Chris Salizza has a piece in the Washington Post today.
He has seen the data in the latest NBC News Wall Street Journal poll.
He has written about it.
He's very, very concerned about three data points in this poll.
His headline, three numbers in the NBC Wall Street Journal poll that should worry the Democrats.
And here it is in a nutshell.
And I'll go through it in greater detail in mere moments.
Obama's approval rating in the latest NBC News Wall Street Journal poll is 41%.
By itself, that is bad.
That is the lowest Obama has ever been in the NBC Wall Street Journal poll.
By itself, it's bad.
As far as I'm concerned, when it hits 35, let me know.
But 41, they're worried.
They're deeply worried.
And here's why.
The big Republican sweep in 1994, Bill Clinton's approval number was 45.
Obama's is worse than that.
Saliza is extrapolating.
He said, my gosh, if the Republicans took over the House for the first time in 40 years, when a Democrat president was at 45, what is going to happen when the president, sitting Democrat president, is at 41.
And then the last time that it happened, let's see, yes, in 2010, when the Republicans won 63 seats, Obama was at 45% approval in the last Gallup poll before the election.
Clinton was at 46.
So Obama is way below his own worst number in 2010 and Clinton in 94.
That 41% job approval has them really spooked.
And there are a couple other things, too, in this.
And I got to take a quick timeout.
We'll be back and we will keep forging forward when we get back.
Don't go away.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Rush Limbaugh, the voice of excellence and the voice of profundity.
Okay, so three data points Chris Salizza finds horrifying in the Wall Street Journal NBC poll.
Again, 41, Obama's approval number, lowest he has been in the history of the poll, and it's not a blip.
It's been trending that way.
It's not an outlier.
Obama has been at 43, then at 44, then back to 43, then at 42, and now back, or now down to an all-time low of 41.
And here's why it matters.
When Democrats lost control of the House, 1994, Clinton's approval rating 46% in the last Gallup poll before the election, 2010, Republicans won 63 seats, and nobody saw that coming inside the Beltway.
That's one of those sweet memories of the 2010 midterms: neither party's establishment saw it coming.
The Republicans, they weren't even running on anything.
They were still in shell shock.
They're the first black president not knowing how to deal with it, so they just shut up.
They weren't offering anything.
The Tea Party came to life and provided an alternative for people that were, I mean, they were just fed up the debt and Obamacare had them livid and scared.
And they showed up and they voted against the Democrats everywhere, ended up winning 63 seats.
And Obama during the last Gallup poll prior to that election was at 45%.
So Saliza is saying here: if Clinton's at 46% and the Republicans win the House, and if Obama is at 45% and the Republicans win 63 seats, what in the heck is going to happen with Obama at 41% if it stays there?
There are noted inside the Beltway commentators who are privately already conceding the Senate to Republicans.
Now, some of them are admittedly fatalists, but it is already being whispered inside the Beltway.
Could be trickery, as you know, but it's not being shouted.
It's being whispered.
The second number of the three in this poll that worries Salizza is 44.
That is the percentage of respondents in the NBC News Wall Street Journal poll who said that a congressperson's position on national issues would be more important in deciding their votes than the congressperson's performance in taking care of problems in the district.
This is the old nationalizing of elections.
And this is what Newt and Du Bois did by design in 1994.
It happened automatically in 2010, but it was a strategy in 94.
And the David Jolly victory 4-13 on Tuesday, classic example.
That race was nationalized.
People voted not on who was going to be better at building the old folks' home or filling potholes or that stuff.
That election was decided on Obamacare.
Oh, and do you know, folks?
Let me add one thing.
I neglected to point out one thing yesterday about that race.
We mentioned the global warming angle, how that didn't work for the Democrat.
We mentioned the Obamacare angle, how that hurt the Democrat.
There was another, remember, this is the woman, Alex Sink, who said we have to open the borders, have to have amnesty so that we can hire landscapers and maids for our homes over on the beach.
Remember that?
That's the woman in a debate who said the reason we need amnesty is so that our wealthy will be able to stock their household staffs.
So amnesty was on the ballot as well.
It was a campaign issue and it lost.
So the Democrats, everything they want to wrap their arms around, and in case of immigration, Republicans too, lost.
So that's another interesting fact about how that race, totally ignored on all three nightly network newscasts last night.
That race not even mentioned.
And you know that if that Democrat lady had won it, they would have led each of those newscasts with it.
The final number, 33.
One in three registered voters in the NBC Wall Street Journal poll said that their vote for Congress this fall will be intended to signal opposition to Obama.
Compare that to the 24% who said their vote would be a way to show support for Obama.
And you have the enthusiasm gap between the two party bases that likely sunk Alex Sink on Tuesday.
So Sink was sunk by the enthusiasm gap.
You got 33% in the NBC Wall Street Journal polls, they're going to show up expressly to vote against Obama.
24% going to show up to vote for him.
You put these three numbers together, and there is panic in River City.
And this, of course, will dictate policy and campaign strategy from now until November because we, yeah, we can't have this, folks.
The news media are going to have to double up their efforts in rallying around their president.
Now, here's how Salizza ends this.
The danger for Obama and his party is if his current numbers continue to tumble into a place where Bush found himself in 2006, then it is going to be a bloodbath.
So the media now has to really double their efforts, triple their efforts, rally around their president in order to save him and the party.
Brief timeout, my friends, sit tight.
We'll be back with much more after this.
Now, here's a quote that I'm sure helped sunk sink or sink.
It helped sink sink.
Yeah, Alex sink.
It helped sink her.
She said, immigration reform is important in our country.
We have a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely upon workers, and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping?
We don't need to put those employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers.
We need to legalize landscapers and hotel workers and latrine scrubbers.
So she introduced the notion of amnesty, and she happened to be honest about why some people want it.
And she lost.
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