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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 bat.
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 that 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 nicotane, 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.
I get and I figured out how to do it.
That's all I'm doing.
I it may not work for you.
I'm just telling you I have figured it out.
Now the tech guys are gonna 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.
Ill 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.
You want to heat certainly says when you're on standby, you close your apps.
Let me see.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
I've got ten apps open, three of them refresh in the background.
Three weather apps that stay current in the I've got background app refresh turned on, and I still have burned two percent of the battery in eight hours.
I'm telling you, this just every time you charge the phone fully, shut it down.
The minute you disconnect it, shut it down and then restart it.
Okay.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, you remember, and I've got the audio sound bites here to uh refresh your memory.
Barack Obama lied.
It's been calculated uh 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 but if if people had known they were not gonna 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 gonna play it for you.
We've got a montage here of Obama promising you and you like your insurance, you can keep it.
And 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 2500.
I am actually not interested in just capping premiums.
I want to lower premiums by 2500 per family.
We will start by reducing premiums by as much as 2500 per family.
You can keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.
The only thing we're gonna do is lower costs, cut uh average family's premium by about 2500 per year.
It's time to bring down the typical family premium by 2500 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 gonna work with your employers to lower your premiums by up to 2500 per family per year.
We will start by reducing premiums by as much as 2500 per family.
And we will lower premiums for the typical family by 2500 a year.
And if you already have health care, then we're gonna work to lower your premiums by up to 2500 per family.
We're gonna work with your employer to lower premiums by up to 2500 per family per year.
If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it.
No one will be able to take that away from.
If he had not repeated that lie over and over again in 2008, 2009, 2010, he would not have been re-elected.
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 up.
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 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 full you knew.
That's the great thing about you.
You are up to speed.
But you'd try 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 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?
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 goodie that government's gonna do to make your life just magical, it's a lie, folks.
Why would oh, I don't want to go there.
Why would anybody believe it?
That's that question is gonna 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 gonna enforce the law.
I'm gonna let you keep your point.
Uh King Burra.
I'm decreeing that you can keep your point.
It's illegal.
And I'm gonna tell the insurance companies to make your plan available.
The insurance companies say, wait a minute, we've already gotten rid of that plan.
We those plans are illegal by virtue of your own law.
We can't, we don't.
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 your plan.
You don't get to keep your plan except you do, except you're gonna be you're 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 gonna 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 a 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 gonna have to pay a penalty?
I think a lot of people may end up being pleasantly surprised because for a large portion of uh those folks, health insurance may end up costing a hundred dollars or less.
It may end up costing less than your cable bill or your cell phone bill.
There are other countries that have you know government-run health care or have a single payer plan, in which case uh the government really controls much more tightly uh 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.
And how uh aside from you people who are having it given to you by virtue of subsidies.
And by the way, do you even know what that means?
Oh, I'm I'm Lumps and Fat Rush, uh, yeah, uh qualified for subsidy.
Wait, 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 and knocked on the door, everybody in the neighbor 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 taking 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 uh cell phone bill?
Hmm.
I haven't heard anybody.
I mean, where are these people that are only paying 100 bucks?
Why don't the Democrat Party have a parade of people in a video singing the praises?
Hey, I got my policy at hellcare.gov.
And 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 health care 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.
Uh they're troubled by the limited number of doctors in 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's 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, you know, 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.
You know, if if your employer suddenly decides we think this network's going to give a better deal, uh, we think this is going to help keep uh premiums lower.
Uh 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 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 premier.
That's never gonna happen, no matter how hard you complain.
Um there it is.
You might have to end up switching doctors.
But we just played the soundbite a minute, 22 seconds.
You like your doctor, you keep your doctor.
You like your plan, you keep your plan.
You might have to switch doctors.
Uh, but that's gonna be part of your saving money.
Brazen, outright lies designed to deceive.
You're gonna have to make some choices now, folks.
That's what we're gonna be hearing a lot of.
You're gonna have to make some choices.
You're gonna have to choose cable TV or health care.
You're gonna make some choices.
You might have to choose cell phone coverage or health care.
You're gonna have to make some choices.
Ranny needs a new hip.
You might have to do without for a while.
Uh, you're gonna have to make some choices, folks.
But you were told that it was gonna be a panacea.
You were led to believe that a health care utopia was on the other side of Obamacare.
And now look.
Finally, after all of this, in speaking to Lisa Zumaski.
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 gonna pay the penalty.
Now, if a lot of Americans follow Jane's lead, I mean, others want to know what impact is that gonna have on health care.
If a lot of people pay the penalty and don't buy insurance, what's that gonna mean to the rest of us, Mr. President?
At this point, enough people are signing up that the Affordable Care Act's gonna work.
The pool is already large enough.
The number of people who've signed up is already large enough that uh I'm confident uh the program will be stable.
This is just a lot of people.
But 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 uh, you know, uh 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 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 and lip is just a total naive waif.
I will explain as the program continues.
I have taken 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.
Um 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 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 five 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 cancelled plans or policies.
And what this what this uh 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's 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, uh answering another question I think you're probably asking.
On my iPhones, I have background app refresh open and running on three different apps.
Uh one of them is a weather app.
This is the phone that's only used two percent of the battery in eight hours, and I have all my location data on.
I don't turn that stuff off.
I try I I turn a couple of things, but all the system service location data is on.
I'm big uh frequent locations is on, they're being logged, next destination's working.
Um all the stuff the conventional wisdom says, turn off.
Why even have a phone if you're gonna turn this stuff off?
Just telling you, this this bad battery business is gonna be fixed.
It's uh I've I've said enough.
I'm 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, Megadinos from the Economic Powerhouse that is the state of Texas.
It I tell you that state of Texas is indeed an economic powerhouse.
You're exactly here.
Great to have you here.
Great for being here.
You know, I I remember uh you talking last week about conversations you had with the Republican higher ups.
Uh they were talking about how the Republicans need to grab this group and that group, and uh, you know, they I guess maybe they were asking for your help, and you said it isn't your job to get votes, and you know, you you don't see the country in terms of of demographics and in separate groups.
Is that is that correct?
They were well 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 w 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 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 you've already done that in a way, because you know, you your outreach to millennials and low information and the low information demographic, you know, tells me that when you put your mind to it, you can reach out to the different demographics.
You know, since you've been affected in that area, you know, why and you didn't message, you know, 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 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 you can you can also do that with, you know, it it's it's about getting inside their head and getting inside, you know, their situation.
And some people are just so pigeonholed in in their situation that they they need to be, you know, dealt with on on their uh on on their level and not just in the abstract, overarching, you know, realm of the city.
Well, what it's do you uh are you are you um are you saying that that I may not know or that 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, I it i uh it appears that way, and that and and that you were uh you you single out the demographic of the low information and and the younger people.
I mean, that that could be just because you're you're passionate about you know reaching the younger generation because you know clones.
But I still go after them as individuals.
What is that?
I still try to appeal to them as individuals, not as a group.
And when I in fact, mentally uh in 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 in I'm connecting to a single person.
I'm not trying to be understood by masses and millions in terms of my attitude.
Is it it's a it's a 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 but I 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 I remember seeing a uh a teacher that said I, 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, I is that that kind of the message that trying to You know what?
That sounds clever, but it's a cop out.
Uh it sounds clever.
I'm only responsible for what I say, not what you think I say.
If the teacher obviously thinks teachers being misunderstood or misreported, mischaracterized or whatever, you can take steps to prevent that by challenging them on it.
Um, it depends on what you want as a 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?
Uh it's I think it's a very precise procedure in science, this business connecting to people and talking.
It has its its own uh 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 got a bunch of policies for them.
Because we're all Americans.
I I um I understand there's certain interests that each that groups of people have based on their experiences, but I think this country handles all of those.
That's the brilliance of the miracle of this country.
It can be made to work for everybody.
But everybody has to do their part too.
And uh well, I know.
That's the one thing a politician will never say, you have to do your part too.
Because that's m uh 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 time.
I've got to run.
I'm really way behind here on some things, but I I uh I'm glad you waited to bring this up because it is a crucially important part of how I do what I do.
And it's one of those things I probably wouldn't detail too much.
Um all I'm saying is I'm not gonna pander to people, and I'm not gonna dumb down what I say for people.
I'm gonna 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 gonna 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 don't think politicians do.
I think they're afraid to do that.
You know, I we got broadcast consultants.
Uh I want to spend some time talking about women today.
Why?
Well, you don't want to bump up the women number.
You telling me that talking about women's issues for 15 minutes is gonna.
It's not 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 isn't gonna work.
Well, I'm glad you called.
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 the uh if you're less than an hour away from your next appointment, it should count it down.
Say, whatever your next appointment in 45 minutes in 44, but sometimes the countdown does 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, the when you pull down, it's the first thing you see that the weather forecast next up on your calendar, if you have your stocks in there, 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.
Then turn auto time zone back on, cool, but it's the turning it off that restores everything as it should be in the notification.
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 uh 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 gonna 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's 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.
It's a m- Here's Zuckerberg in one way, gotta 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 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 he not?
How can they be surprised that Obama is who he is?
It's it's it's uh I don't know.
I it's 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 'cause 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 I'll be here Monday, right?
Yeah.
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