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March 14, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 14, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Just to show you, this is the phone that was fully charged as of 6 a.m.
It's now 2 p.m., so eight hours, right?
Let me look at it.
98% on the bet.
Now, I haven't used it.
That's the point.
In standby, it shouldn't drain.
That's what's had people losing their battery.
It's running while it's in standby.
And you have to stop that.
Now, I don't know what's causing it, but the way I stop it is to shut the phone down and restart it, and it takes it back to normal.
Hi, folks.
Open Line Friday.
It is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Okay, so you want to, what about a phone I'm using?
This phone that I'm holding here, my formerly nicotine, it's also an iPhone 5S.
This phone was fully charged when I walked out of here yesterday at 3 o'clock.
Let me check it.
66%, 24 hours.
I have used it.
I get great battery life on my iPhone.
And I figured out how to do it.
That's all I'm doing.
It may not work for you.
I'm just telling you, I have figured it out.
Now, the tech guys are going to laugh at me, say, I don't know what I'm talking about.
They will poo-poo it, but I'm just telling you, it works.
Great to have you here, folks.
El Rushbo, serving humanity.
Executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
No, I do not, that's a big myth.
Let me check.
I'll tell you how many apps I got open.
Certainly soon when you're on standby, you close your apps.
Let me see.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
I've got 10 apps open.
Three of them refresh in the background.
Three weather apps that stay current in the back.
I've got background app refresh turned on, and I still have burned 2% of the battery in eight hours.
I'm telling you, every time you charge the phone fully, shut it down.
The minute you disconnect it, shut it down and then restart it.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, you remember, and I've got the audio sound bites here to refresh your memory.
Barack Obama lied.
It's been calculated roughly 25 times over three years.
If you like your doctor, you keep your doctor.
If you like your health plan, you keep your health plan.
Obamacare is not going to affect you.
You like your doctor.
You like your plan.
You keep it.
I will maintain to you, Barack Obama would not have been re-elected had he not made that lie.
If people had known they were not going to be able to keep their doctor, and if people had known they would not be able to keep their health insurance plan that they liked, he would not have been re-elected.
That lie and all the other lies they told about the Republicans and what a bunch of brats they are is what got Obama re-elected.
I'm going to play it for you.
We've got a montage here of Obama promising you and you like your insurance, you can keep it.
In addition to that, we've got Obama promising you that your premium would come down by $2,500 a year.
This takes a minute, 22 seconds to play.
Here it is.
If you have your plan and you like it and you like your doctor, that you don't have to change plans, the government is not going to make you change plans.
You're going to have a plan that lowers premiums by $2,500.
I am actually not interested in just capping premiums.
I want to lower premiums by $2,500 per family.
We will start by reducing premiums by as much as $2,500 per family.
You can keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.
The only thing we're going to do is lower costs, cut the average family's premium by about $2,500 per year.
It's time to bring down the typical family premium by $2,500 and to bring down the costs.
The first thing I want to make clear is that if you are happy with the insurance plan, nobody will make you change it.
A system where we're going to work with your employers to lower your premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.
We will start by reducing premiums by as much as $2,500 per family.
And we will lower premiums for the typical family by $2,500 a year.
And if you already have health care, then we're going to work to lower your premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.
We're going to work with your employer to lower premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.
If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it.
No one will be able to take that away from you.
If he had not repeated that lie over and over again in 2008, 2009, 2010, he would not have been reelected.
Those are blatant lies because he knew.
I don't care how little he cared about the details of his plan.
He knew.
Everybody involved in it knew that the whole point of Obamacare was getting you out of what you had.
That was the only way it could work as designed.
Obamacare was a total upheaval.
It is a total.
Obamacare is a total overhaul.
And you were lied to over and over again and knowingly when you were told you could keep your doctor and you could keep your health plan and that your premium was going to come down $2,500.
And they knew.
And every Democrat that made this statement, Pelosi, every other Democrat that told you this was knowingly lying to you.
You know, I could sit here and say, we tried to warn you.
And I'm sure you people in this audience knew, you knew.
That's the great thing about you.
You are up to speed.
But trying to reach the low information crowd, I mean, it's just near impossible.
But I don't know how you, I don't know of a presidential lie more damaging, more powerful, and more brazenly blatant than this one, because this was repeated.
And this had a singular intention, and that was to deceive.
This was a bad lie.
This wasn't one of those good lies they said that Clinton did that spared people's feelings and all of that.
This was brazen deceit.
And now, what good does it do you?
Okay, you know he lied.
The thing to know from going forward is they all do.
If it's a Democrat and they're promising you some goody that government's going to do to make your life just magical, it's a lie, folks.
Why would—I don't want to go there.
Why would anybody believe it?
That question is going to drive me insane trying to answer that.
So we now know that you don't get to keep your plan.
Up, up, up, up.
Yes, you do.
Guess what?
When it was discovered that Obama lied and when people started losing their plans, they thought they could keep.
Why, there was outrage out there.
So what did Obama do?
Well, you know what?
Your plan's still illegal.
But you know what?
I'm not going to enforce the law.
I'm going to let you keep your plan.
Our King Barack am decreeing that you can keep your plan.
It's illegal.
And I'm going to tell insurance companies to make your plan available.
The insurance is going to say, wait a minute, we've already gotten rid of that plan.
Those plans are illegal by virtue of your own law.
I don't care what you do.
Those plans are still good.
So that's where we are.
What's new is that Barack Obama went on to WebMD.
It's a website.
And you know what, Obama said?
You might have to switch doctors now.
So we're closing a loop.
You don't get your plan.
You don't get to keep your plan except you do, except you're made to feel guilty about it.
The only reason you can keep your plan is because there are elections coming up.
And if you actually had that plan taken away from you, you couldn't get it back, you might vote against Democrats.
We can't have that.
So you get to keep it.
The other part, $2,500 premium reduction, that was never going to happen and didn't happen.
And now they've closed the loop.
Now you might have to switch doctors.
And by the way, he's still lecturing people.
Obamacare only costs as much as your cell phone or cable bill.
You know, it's about priorities now.
And by the way, by the way, I have something on that that I can't wait to get to, but let's stay in order here.
Here's Obama this morning on the website, webmd.com.
He's being interviewed by healthcare reform expert and journalist Lisa Zamoski.
And Lisa Zamoski said, What can you say to those people who believe that health insurance still isn't affordable and they're concerned that if they don't buy it, they're going to have to pay a penalty?
I think a lot of people may end up being pleasantly surprised because for a large portion of those folks, health insurance may end up costing $100 or less.
It may end up costing less than your cable bill or your cell phone bill.
There are other countries that have government-run health care or have a single-payer plan, in which case the government really controls much more tightly how health care is distributed.
There are pluses and minuses with having a private insurance system.
So how many of you have found a health care policy that costs less than your cable bill?
Hmm.
Aside from you, people are having it given to you by virtue of subsidies.
And by the way, do you even know what that means?
Oh, I'm Romson Fat Rush.
Yeah, qualified for subsidy.
Who do you think is paying the subsidy?
You may as well think of it as your neighbor because that's who's paying your subsidy.
You may as well walk down the street, knocked on the door, everybody in the neighborhood and say, hey, would you buy my health care for me?
Because that's what's happening if you're being subsidized.
I don't mean to be making you feel guilty, but I just want you to understand what's really happening here.
If you've got a subsidized policy and you're not paying anything for it, somebody is, and it's probably the people in your neighborhood who are working.
But you didn't go knock on their door and ask them, did you?
Nope.
Obama just taken it from them, is what's happening.
But you don't have to pay anything.
You got a subsidy.
But for those of you that don't have subsidies, is your premium less than your cable bill?
Is it less than your cell phone bill?
I haven't heard anybody.
I mean, where are these people that are only paying $100?
Why don't the Democrat Party have a parade of people in a video singing the praises?
Hey, I got my policy at healthcare.gov.
It only cost me $99.99.
Where is that video?
I probably should shut up giving them the idea to produce it.
They've already demonstrated they don't lie through their teeth about anything.
Why not create a bunch of phony citizens?
Here's the bite where he says you may, you may lose your doctor.
This is the healthcare reform expert and journalist Lisa Zamoski.
The next question.
We also heard from individuals like Sandra, who lives in California, and Claire, who lives in Illinois.
And they both say hi, Mr. President, by the way.
They're troubled by the limited number of doctors and hospitals they're finding that take their insurance.
Oh, yeah, it's the old network thing, folks.
Did you know your doctor in your hospital may not be in your network?
Do you even know what I'm talking about?
You do if you have found out that your doctor is not available to you.
That's how you found out about the stupid network thing.
Some of you may not know what I'm talking about.
What do you mean, network?
Well, wait, you'll find out because your doctor probably isn't going to be in yours.
Any doctor worth his salt is going to get out of this thing so fast, he's not even going to leave tracks.
So anyway, back to the question, Lisa Zamoski.
How do we get more doctors in hospitals participating in your plans, Mr. President?
For the average person, many of folks who don't have health insurance initially, they're going to have to make some choices, and they might end up having to switch doctors in part because they're saving money.
But that's true.
If your employer suddenly decides we think this network's going to give a better deal, we think this is going to help keep premiums lower.
You've got to use this doctor as opposed to that one or this hospital as opposed to that one.
There you have it.
You might end up having to switch doctors.
Why?
Because you're saving money.
The why is just keep coming.
And they just keep building on each other.
So, bye-bye, plan that you liked, except it's back for a while till after the next election.
And bye-bye, doctor, except that'll be back too.
Once the excrement hits the fan over this, you'll be able to keep your doctor until the next election, too.
And forget the $2,500 premium.
That's never going to happen no matter how hard you complain.
There it is.
You might have to end up switching doctors.
But we just play the soundbite a minute, 22 seconds.
You like your doctor, you keep your doctor.
You like your plan, you keep your plan.
You might switch doctors.
But that's going to be part of your saving money.
Brazen, outright lies designed to deceive.
You're going to have to make some choices now, folks.
That's what we're going to be hearing a lot of.
You're going to have to make some choices.
You're going to have to choose cable TV or healthcare.
You're going to have to make some choices.
You might have to choose cell phone coverage or healthcare.
You're going to have to make some choices.
Granny needs a new hip.
You might have to do without for a while.
You're going to have to make some choices, folks.
But you were told that it was going to be a panacea.
You were led to believe that a healthcare utopia was on the other side of Obamacare.
And now look.
Finally, after all of this, in speaking to Lisa Zamoski, she said, we did have a number of people like Jane from Washington State, Mr. President.
She isn't planning on buying a plan because it costs too much.
Which a large percentage of the questions we got, they said people can't afford it, Mr. President.
Jane says it's cheaper to pay the penalty, Mr. President.
She's going to pay the penalty.
Now, if a lot of Americans follow Jane's lead, I mean, others want to know what impact is that going to have on health care.
If a lot of people pay the penalty and don't buy insurance, what's that going to mean to the rest of us, Mr. President?
Well, at this point, enough people are signing up that the Affordable Care Act's going to work.
The pool is already large enough.
The number of people who've signed up is already large enough that I'm confident the program will be stable.
This is just a lot of people.
So we look forward to seeing more and more people take advantage of it as some of the politics.
They don't even know how many people have signed up.
Start feeling more confident about the website as folks like you spread the word in terms of giving people accurate information.
They don't even know how many people have signed up.
They haven't the slightest idea.
The lies just continue.
Oh, speaking of which, you know, have you heard that the Facebook guy called Obama Mark Zuckerberg?
Now, this is really, to me, a teachable moment.
Mark Zuckerberg, you would have to say, in one way, at least, is a very bright guy, wouldn't you?
But when it comes to Obama and government policy and he's just a total naive waif, I will explain as the program continues.
I have taken a brief time out, but do not go away.
We are just getting to the heart of things.
Okay, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh here, cutting-edge societal evolution.
Weekly standard, December 23rd of 2013, it's a little over a year ago.
And I just want to remember, the administration conceded at that point that Obamacare was very expensive.
Here in the Centers for Medicare, and this is an excerpt from the Washington, the Weekly Standard story, December 23rd, 2013.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the other night, issued a press release that outlines new options for the nearly 5 million Americans who have received cancellation notices from their health insurers.
Well, I'm sorry, it's three months ago, not a year ago, three months ago.
Not surprisingly, these Americans are finding their coverage options to be more expensive than their canceled plans or policies.
And what this story goes on to point out is that Obamacare is far more expensive than cell phone coverage and cable TV.
Just last December, the Weekly Standard.
And now Obama is out saying just the exact opposite.
And do you remember Nancy Pelosi talking about free riders?
Remember, we couldn't have free writers.
Free writers were going to sink Obamacare.
Free writers were the villains of the day.
Free writers were screwing everything up.
What I call this the free writer provision.
Call it what you will, but the fact is some people who will not, even though they're the younger and healthier and have some resources, decide they're invincible and they're not going to pay into a system.
Call it what you will.
We are not going to let people not get health insurance and yet get coverage at the emergency room.
Those are free riders and we're going to eliminate.
And now we have become a nation of free riders on Obamacare.
This is such a disaster, folks.
By the way, answering another question I think you're probably asking.
On my iPhones, I have background app refresh open and running on three different apps.
One of them is a weather app.
This is the phone that's only used 2% of the battery in eight hours.
And I have all my location data on.
I don't turn that stuff.
I turn a couple of things, but all the system service location data is on.
Frequent locations is on.
They're big logged.
Next destination is working.
All the stuff that conventional wisdom says, turn off.
Why even have a phone if you're going to turn this stuff off?
Just telling you, this bad battery business is going to be fixed.
I've said enough.
I'm sure you're getting tired of hearing about it.
Let me get back to the phones.
Matthew Denton, Texas, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, Megan Dittos from the Economic Powerhouse.
That is the state of Texas.
I tell you that the state of Texas is indeed an economic powerhouse.
You're exactly.
I moved here.
Great to have you here.
Great for being here.
You know, I remember you talking last week about conversations you had with the Republican higher-ups.
They were talking about how the Republicans need to grab this group and that group.
And, you know, I guess maybe they were asking for your help.
And you said, it isn't your job to get votes.
And, you know, you don't see the country in terms of demographics in separate groups.
Is that correct?
Except one thing.
In this case, they were not asking my help.
They were explaining themselves to me.
I had said that in explaining to them how I don't know their business.
I mean, getting an audience on a radio show is much different than getting votes.
And I said, if I were to run for office, I wouldn't do it the way you guys do it.
I wouldn't groupify the country and then have a policy for this group and a policy for that group.
I would just treat everybody as America.
As he said, Rush, Americans are organizing themselves into groups and they want to be appealed to that way.
And that's he was not asking me my thoughts on it.
He was telling me the way he looks at it.
I see.
Well, I mean, I feel like you've already done that in a way because, you know, your outreach to millennials and low information and the low information demographic tells me that when you put your mind to it, you can reach out to different demographics.
Since you've been affected in that area, and you didn't delete that message, you didn't change any of it.
Why not do so with other demographics?
That's my point.
I may be going after the low information crowd, but I'm not changing anything, am I?
I'm not dumbing myself down to get them.
No.
I'm not pretending to be one of them and not know anything either.
Right, right.
Well, I mean, you can also do that with, you know, it's about getting inside their head and getting inside their situation.
And some people are just so pigeonholed in their situation that they need to be dealt with on their level and not just in the abstract, overarching, you know, realm of it.
Are you saying that I may not know or I may be missing something about my own self that I do when I say I don't look at Americans as groups that I actually do, and you're trying to tell me how I do it?
Well, it appears that way in that you were, you sing about the demographic of the low information and the younger people.
I mean, that could be just because you're passionate about reaching the younger generation because, you know, quote unquote.
But I still go after them as individuals.
What was that?
Still try to appeal to them as individuals, not as a group.
And when I, in fact, mentally, and this little inside baseball, but when I'm sitting here behind this microphone, I don't envision millions of people.
I envision one, groups of one, and I'm talking to each person.
I'm connecting to a single person.
I'm not trying to be understood by masses and millions in terms of my attitude.
It's probably a fine line and maybe hard to understand, but I'm just talking about psychologically, attitudinally.
When I'm doing this program, I am essentially, there's one person here.
I know there's millions, but I'm talking to them as though they're one and that they all understand what I'm talking about.
I never insult their intelligence.
If I think I need to explain something two or three times, I'll do it, but I do not say the same thing four different ways so that each different group listening will understand it.
I say it one way.
Right.
I remember seeing a teacher that said, you know, I'm not responsible for what I say, or for what?
I'm only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.
You know, is that kind of the message I try to.
You know what?
That sounds clever, but it's a cop-out.
It sounds clever.
I'm only responsible for what I say, not what you think I say.
If the teacher obviously thinks teachers are being misunderstood or misreported, mischaracterized, or whatever, you can take steps to prevent that by challenging them on it.
You know, it depends on what you want as a communicator.
Depends what you want people to take away.
Do you want them to really hear what you said, or do you just want them to know you said something?
I think it's a very precise procedure in science.
This business connecting to people and talking.
It has its own dynamic.
And that's why I think it's insulting to go out to an African-American audience and try to sound like you know them and you're one of them and they've got a bunch of policies for them because we're all Americans.
I understand there's certain interests that groups of people have based on their experiences, but I think this country handles all of those.
That's the brilliance and the miracle of this country.
It can be made to work for everybody, but everybody has to do their part too.
And, well, I know that's the one thing a politician will never say, you have to do your part too, because that's most people are looking to be not taken care of, but the answers provided and so forth.
But, Matthew, that, you know, I wish I had more.
I've got to run.
I'm really way behind here on some things, but I'm glad you waited to bring this up because it is a crucially important part of how I do what I do.
It's one of those things I probably wouldn't detail too much.
All I'm saying is, I'm not going to pander to people, and I'm not going to dumb down what I say for people.
I'm going to be who I am, and I'll throw it out there.
I'll just throw myself out there, be accepted, rejected, whatever.
But it's going to be real.
I don't want to be accepted as a phony because I can't keep that up.
I'd just soon be accepted for being who I am.
And that's what I think politicians do.
I think they're afraid to do that.
You know, we got broadcast consultants.
Gosh, I might want to spend some time talking about women today.
Why?
Well, you don't want to bump up the women numbers.
You're telling me that talking about women's issues for 15 minutes is going to.
It's not, it doesn't work that way, I don't think.
That's pandering.
And I think people in this audience are smart enough to see through that.
And Ergo, that it isn't going to work.
Well, I'm glad you called, Matthew.
I'll tease you with another bug in the iPhone.
This one's probably not of any interest to most of you, but it is to me.
In the Today section of the notification center, sometimes all the data doesn't display correctly.
Sometimes the next appointment doesn't show.
Sometimes what's on tap tomorrow doesn't display.
Sometimes if you're less than an hour away from your next appointment, it should count it down.
Say, whatever your next in 45 minutes in 44.
But sometimes the countdown, if you want to fix that, simply go into the auto time zone setting and turn it off.
And everything on the Today page in your notification center will display properly.
You can turn the auto time zone back on, but it's the turning it off that for some reason, there's a deep hook.
Auto time zone is deeply hooked into a lot of the system.
I don't pretend to understand it, but if your notification center, the today page, when you pull down, it's the first thing you see, the weather forecast, next up on your calendar, if you have your stocks in or whatever, if it's not all displaying properly, just go into the settings and turn off auto time zone and then pull down the notification, and you'll see it's all there displaying properly.
And turn auto time zone back on, cool, but it's the turning it off that restores everything as it should be in the notification center.
Go figure that.
I've told this to people.
I've shown them a screenshot.
How did you find this?
You don't even want to know.
That would take me too long.
I could on my website, I could do a series of screenshots to demo this, but not necessarily.
Now, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg called Obama because he can't believe Obama would spy on him.
He said, we never believed the engineers at Facebook that when we started designing security, that we would have to protect ourselves from the government.
We thought we were protecting ourselves from criminals.
So he calls Obama to complain about it.
And it didn't go well.
Zuckerberg posted later that after he talked to Obama, it's going to be a long time before this gets fixed.
Now, this is just amazing to me.
Here you have a guy who's raising money for Obama, thinks Obama is the end of the world, the greatest guy, and can't believe that Obama's running a government spying on him and his buddies.
He's got real alarm about the NSA spying on Facebook and everybody else.
And he's for immigration reform.
He's doing everything he can to help Obama.
He doesn't understand it.
Here's Zuckerberg in one way, got to be a very smart guy.
24, 25-year-old guy can call Obama and he'll take the call.
Hey, Mark, try calling Putin and see how far you get.
Anyway, he's surprised Obama is an authoritarian.
He is surprised.
How do you not know who Obama is?
This is what I mean.
Now, I know Zuckerberg thinks he's a good liberal.
He's a Harvard dropout, but he's still a Harvard student.
Just boggles the mind.
It just boggles.
How can they be surprised that Obama is who he is?
Just, it's, I don't know.
It's just a giant puzzle.
And to me, it's also a golden opportunity.
Just love to be able to sit down with these guys for a half hour and at least learn how they think because it escapes me.
Folks, I hope you have a really, really good weekend.
Whatever, as they say in Downton Abbey, what is a weekend?
You know, the aristocrats.
Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, what's the difference?
But for you, it's different.
And I hope yours is great.
And we'll be back here.
I think I'll be here Monday, right?
Yeah.
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