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March 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 18, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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So across the fruited plain, El Rushbo and the most listened-to radio talk show in America at your disposal.
I might add the most talked about radio talk show as well.
It's a thrill to be with you, folks.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
Email address, illrushbo at EIBNet.com.
I just, you know, I ran out of time with Addie, young reader of the Rush Revere history book series.
And she asked me a good question.
She wanted to know what the inspiration for Liberty, the time-traveling talking horse.
Don't forget, Rush Revere wrote a horse.
Well, Paul Revere.
Rush Revere rode a horse.
The horse is a time-traveling vehicle, but it's the character of the horse.
And she asked me if we modeled the horse after Donkey on Shrek.
And I know.
As far as I'm trying to be as original as possible.
Now, everything has been done.
There's no really completely, totally original possible anymore, not since Genesis.
But the character of Liberty, the talking horse, is something devised specifically by me to be what it is.
The vehicle for humor, lackadaisical, distracted, very smart, totally loyal, reliable, but always keeps you on the edge of your chair wondering if he's going to come through.
Funny, hilarious, fearless.
All of those characteristics are intended to be included in the character.
And it's not really modeled after anybody on purpose.
Didn't want to copycat anything, but understandably, it may remind people of other characters.
As Scooby-Doo, I mentioned, and Dawn said, these young people might not know who Scooby-Doo is.
Well, all the better if they don't.
But if they do, that's at least some guideline as to what we're going for here.
Scooby-Doo may be at rerun still for the young skulls full of mush out there to partake of.
So anyway, and she, did you hear how surprised she was when she found out Rush Revere has a Twitter account?
Oh, yeah, Rush Revere tweets now and then.
So we're building that up.
We want to be all kinds of interactivity between the readers and the characters.
Because there's a mission involved here.
This is not just a project to sell books.
There's an absolute mission and a purpose here.
And I'll tell you, feedback that we're getting, it's working.
We got, folks, we get some of the most, I have something I would love to show you.
I would love to tell you, but I can't yet.
Do you know how, let me tell you this.
Shortly after Obama was inaugurated, we got all these videos of kids singing songs that teachers had written about Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama.
We received yesterday four and a half minute video of 25 or 30 kids at their school who had made a video that's made to look like a television talk show with one of the kids hosting and the others as guests.
The guests have read the book and they're doing book reports, reviews of the book.
And then all of them are outside on the jungle gym and they're going rush, rush, rushing to history.
And there's permissions involved and so we just can't post this stuff, but we eventually will.
This one was sent to us third party, so we have to go back and source it and get permission and all that.
But we do have the Adventures of Rush Revere webpage at the 2ifbit.com webpage with the socials neither there, which is made for readers to be interactive with the characters in the book.
And just go look at it and you'll see what it is all about.
It's the first thing that loads when you click on the adventures of Rush Revere, which is a, I call it a portal, but it's a link at the 2fIT.com.
All right, now I wasn't going to get into this until later, but we got the phone call from the former pilot of the Boeing 777, Luke, who called us about a half hour ago.
We had a great conversation with him about all of the just convoluted theories that are out there.
And he said, yeah, you're probably right, Occam's razor, the simplest explanation is what is going to end up being the explanation.
Now, my point is that it's gotten so absurd.
Well, let's just play the audio because they talked about this on Fox this morning.
Martha McCallum had, well, she previewed it.
And then Bill Hammer had Howie Kurtz on to talk about this.
And here's what they played to set up that segment.
It's getting absurd now is the point.
All the conspiracy that, you know, that thing has been hijacked.
You take the seats out of that thing and you can turn it into a giant nuclear bomb.
This has just created this primordial soup atmosphere for conspiracy theories to just go through the roof.
And it's now so far gone that the simple explanation is what's going to end up being the truth here.
But nobody's going to accept it because they're so far gone now with potential theories that it's going to be difficult.
People aren't going to believe the truth once it's known.
And I really think that's going to be the case.
Because look at this, and this is just one example.
If I saw this once over the weekend, I saw this 10 times.
Well, yeah, you take that plane up to 45,000 feet and the passengers die.
It depressurizes the cabin and the passengers.
No, it doesn't.
A plane can fly at 45,000 feet.
What the hell?
And these were supposed pilots saying this.
The flight crew would have to depressurize the cabin.
There's another thing about this.
I saw some poor pilot trying to explain this today in his lingo, and the info person, the anchor he was talking, didn't understand his lingo.
And he was talking about the air pressure inside your average airliner flying at altitude, 35,000, 37,000 feet.
And he said you set the altitude inside at about 8,000 feet between Vale and Aspen.
And this anchor had no idea what this guy was talking about.
What do you mean you set the altitude?
He said, the amount of air pressure in a pressurized cabin is what it is if you're standing outside in Vale or Aspen at about 8,000 feet.
They do not pressurize for sea level.
That would be cost-prohibitive and there'd be other problems with it.
And this is why some people do tend to fall asleep on airplanes because there is less oxygen.
The pressurization generally is if a really good pressurization system can pressurize at 5,000 feet.
If you on an airplane, well, EIB1 pressurizes at 5,000 feet.
Changes the air 12 times a minute, which is why you can smoke a cigar on there and nobody knows.
Well, they know, but it's if they really think about it, there's no smoke and it's not bothering them.
You couldn't do that on a commercial airline for a whole host of reasons.
But they don't pressurize to 5,000 feet.
What this guy was talking about was that they pressurized the cabin at 8,000, but that's not how he said it.
He said it in pilot lingo.
I forget the terminology he used, but this poor anchor had no clue what he was talking about.
And then when he threw in, oh, yeah, it's about same thing as Aspen halfway between Aspen and Vale.
And that just totally threw the anchor.
So if you're pressurized, and you have to be, otherwise, you go up, you get to 12,000 feet anywhere, and that's where you start to get wobbly and losing consciousness at 15,000 feet.
That's why people climb Mount Everest have to wear gas.
They have to wear air tanks.
There's no air to breathe up there.
Have 15,000 feet and some people are going to start losing consciousness.
That's why you have to pressurize.
If you're going to fly at 37,000 feet, you've got to pressurize it.
Now, my only point was this airplane, and I asked him, certified 43,000.
That means it can safely go to 43,000 with pressurization at 8,000 feet.
It's not going to fall apart.
It's not going to implode, not going to explode.
And different aircraft are rated for different safe altitudes.
Like EIB-1 can do 51,000, G-550.
A G-450 can do 45.
Now, a G-450 can actually get to 51, but it's not allowed by the FAA.
It can do it, but it's not legal.
So you've got to stay within regs.
And there's a different altitude for every qualification or character or category of airplane.
Most of them are the same.
A heavy airliner can't get any higher than 37,000 feet normally because it's full load passenger load.
It's heavy.
It takes a lot of power to get up there.
And you can't do it until you burn off some fuel.
But they don't, they routinely, a commercial airliner is not going to go higher than 37 anyway.
And that's because of the way the corridors in the sky are drawn.
One of the great things about corporate, you have 51, there's nobody up there.
So you can get vectors straight to where you're going rather than these waypoints you're hearing about, which are checkpoints in the sky.
Hit that one, you get another one that may require a little turn left or a little turn right.
And that's when you hear a guy, a pilot talking about he got a good squawk.
A good squawk means he's been given B-line to where he's going.
Or a squawk is also a signal output that helps identify the airplane.
It can mean a couple things.
But there's no way.
My only point is no way that the 777 is going to kill people flying at 45,000 feet.
It can do it easily.
Now, it may not be easy to get up there.
The thing about that that fascinates me is how the world did it get up there that fast.
That is the puzzling thing to me about.
That's what interests me about it.
But passengers aren't going to die unless the pilots turn off the pressurization.
If you depressurize the cabin, then you've got a 45,000-foot altitude inside the airplane.
There's not enough oxygen to people go to sleep.
And eventually will die.
But they will die in their sleep.
And there's no evidence that that happened.
No evidence that the flight crew turned off the pressurization, but just getting to 45,000 feet is not going to kill anybody.
Not in that airplane.
But that's a classic example of the kind of just erroneous stuff that I have been hearing all weekend.
So I was glad that Captain Luke called.
So they played that part of me on Fox where I said it's only going to end up being something simple.
By the time we get there, nobody's going to believe it because they've heard all this outlandish stuff.
And much rather believe an intricate, convoluted conspiracy theory based on the fact that there's some all-powerful wizard making this happen rather than just the simple laws of nature.
So they went and brought Howie Kurtz on, who is their media expert, to talk about whether or not I knew what I was talking about.
So Bill Hemmer starts off with Kurtz this way: a primordial soup, says Limbaugh.
But you can understand the dilemma somewhat, can't you?
I totally see the dilemma.
Everybody on the planet is interested in this saga.
The story gets ratings, which is why CNN is doing it 26 hours a day.
And you bring on a parade of commentators and experts and analysts, and inevitably they say, Well, I think it's this, I think it's that.
And you try to rein it in, but you've got a lot of airtime to fill.
And I think the coverage has seriously veered out of control.
There you go.
That's my total entire point.
And so Hemmer curiosity was piqued, so he kept going with Kurtz.
Already today, CNN had one of these what we call banners, what you see on the bottom of your screen.
Plane may have disappeared in the new Bermuda Triangle.
You know what?
The media's credibility has disappeared into the new Bermuda Triangle.
Right.
And then they started to talk about the supernatural.
That was Don Lemon, one of their anchors.
Oh, yeah, we need to look at the supernatural.
Now, I also said this on yesterday's program.
I forget who said it, and I'm not even going to get the saying right, but it might have been Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writing as Sherlock Holmes, who said something like, Once you have ruled out everything and the most improbable, the simplest explanation for any mystery is probably the case.
The problem with trying to figure out what happened with this airliner is that it's impossible to conceive of the simplest explanation because now we're into 10 days, 10 days that people have been watching television.
10 days of nameless, faceless experts all over every network, none of them who know anything, all advancing theories.
Well, CNN had to swat this down.
And they chose to do it with our old buddy, Jacob Tapper.
Last night on CNN's The Lead, he spoke with a retired commercial pilot, CNN aviation analyst Jim Tillman.
Still no closer to finding the missing jet.
And my next guest, a former pilot, says the simplest explanation is actually the least likely.
See, see, they have to tell me, find what I said.
Oh, no, without mentioning mine.
The simplest explanation, actually the least likely.
And here's what the retired pilot said.
I'm not the feeling that these guys would shy away from difficult because whatever happened here, number one, I believe that this whole thing was a plan thought through from the beginning to the end.
I don't know the end result yet.
I don't know what the end game was, but I think there is one.
This also was a situation that required great skill and experience to pull off.
If these guys did have a good plan, what was their end game?
Once they got to a certain point, were they going to just say, oh, well, we're here.
Can't think of anything else to do.
It's nothing good on TV.
Let's just go.
Let's go fly into the ocean.
I think so.
Man, I just, that's a good plan.
A good plan.
There had to be a plan, and it's a good plan.
If these guys did have a good plan, what was the end game?
And it wasn't the crash in the ocean.
So he thinks it's landed somewhere because they had a good plan.
Oh, well, he's the expert, not I, folks.
I'm just a guy on radio.
We'll be back.
Don't go in.
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
Obamacare, daily caller, 57% of Hispanics in the state of Colorado disapprove of Obamacare, according to a poll released yesterday.
Actually, today, by the Democrat-leaning public policy polling, Hispanic disapproval of Obama's health care reform law topped white disapproval by five points.
Only 36% of Hispanics in Colorado approve of Obamacare.
So you're saying, so what?
So what?
The Republican Party either believes or has been made to believe that they're going to have to pander, and let's just call it what it is, to Hispanics, largely on immigration and amnesty, if they are to ever win anything significant again.
Cannot win without the Hispanic vote, at least getting a larger percentage of it than they are.
And the Hispanics love Obama and they love the Democrat Party, and so we're going to have to have to move into them in the area of their own turf and areas they like.
And as you know, the Republican Party stated opposition to Obamacare is kind of tepid.
And they want you to think that they're opposed to it, but when time comes to actually do something about it, there's very little action behind it.
Now, my point, Obamacare has never been supported by a majority of the American people.
When it was being debated, you might have had a majority of Democrats that were in favor of it, obviously, but nationwide, Obamacare has never had majority support across the spectrum of the population.
We're being governed.
And ever since this guy was elected, we have been governed by a minority, a liberal minority.
And even population groups who look at the government of Santa Claus don't like this because it is negatively impacting everybody.
We don't know how many people have signed up.
The people that have signed up don't know what they've signed up for.
They don't know whether their payments have been processed.
They don't know if it's just an absolute disaster.
If you drill down deep into the numbers the regime has admitted, we may actually have a grand total of 1 million people who have signed up for Obamacare who did not have health insurance.
And remember, we were all told that the reason we had to redo the health care system was because we had 30 million to 46 million uninsured.
And that just wasn't right.
In a country as big and wealthy as ours, it was not fair.
It was unequal.
We had to do something about it.
So Obamacare was going to fix it.
And that 1 million people that didn't have it now have it for all of this.
No, the point is this.
You've got two-thirds.
And by the way, I don't think Colorado is an isolated example.
We just have the polling data from public policy polling.
And by the way, they're a Democrat liberal leaning group.
If these numbers are this bad for the Democrats, they arguably are actually worse.
But you have almost two-thirds of Hispanics in Colorado do not like Obamacare.
So the question is: do you think the Republicans will come up with a way of appealing to those voters?
This has been one of the great mysteries to me since Obamacare reared its head, this majority of opposition, this majority of people opposed to it.
That's an instant connection opportunity for the Republicans to reach out and connect with that group of people and make them a constituency and join them in their opposition to Obamacare, which is what political parties ostensibly want to do.
They want to grow.
They want to win elections.
They want to have more members than the opposition party.
But the Republican Party is not doing that.
The Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics the way the Democrats do, with big government, with amnesty, any number of other attempts.
In the process, according to this PPP poll, they are missing the true Hispanic mindset.
Now, I was just informed that Drudge has tweeted a picture of a van on the streets in Miami.
The van looks like a government van, meaning it has some officialdom about it.
And the van that is driving along the streets of Miami is offering free Obamacare.
The rear doors of the white van, which is striped in red, white, and blue, the rear doors are wrapped in yellow with black text in Spanish, which translated to English says you can still subscribe to Obamacare, apply today, give a phone number, qualify, and receive calls totally free.
Now, I'm getting a picture of this.
I can't get it till the next break.
I'm getting a picture of this to show you on the ditto camp.
You know, you still cannot find a Spanish-language Obamacare website, I don't think.
They know.
It is amazing.
When you stop, you can't find a Spanish-language Obamacare website because they know.
The regime knows.
Look at nobody.
Well, you've got two-thirds of the American people oppose this, nearly two-thirds.
And here he is every day.
We can give you one of these stories.
Here is today's Obamacare disaster sob story.
It is from the Weekly Standard.
Headline, pastor diagnosed with cancer, no compassion in the Affordable Care Act.
Now, if this isn't a death panel, I don't know what you call it.
You ready?
A preacher, a pastor, a man of the cloth, recently diagnosed with cancer, covered under Obamacare, told a local Iowa reporter that there's no compassion in the Affordable Care Act.
Back in January, this pastor was diagnosed with stage three cancer of the esophagus.
He had insurance, but because of a previous heart condition, the insurance didn't cover the treatments he needed for his cancer.
Pre-existing condition stuff.
But wait, but wait, we were all told that you were covered with pre-existing conditions.
The pre-existing condition crowd thinks they're covered.
So they show up.
So the preacher diagnosed with stage three cancer of the esophagus. had insurance, but because of a previous heart condition, it didn't cover the treatments he needed for his cancer.
And you know what he found out?
He's in the place to get his chemo.
He's hooked up.
The chemo is soon to start flowing.
And they come in and they tell him just minutes before the chemo starts.
He said, one of the workers came and said, let me talk to you.
And so I went and talked to her.
And she said, we found out your insurance doesn't include chemo.
He was at the chemo place.
He was all ready to get the chemo.
And whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Your insurance doesn't cover it.
Over the past two months, the preacher and his family have emptied their savings account.
They have racked up $50,000 in debt, and they signed up for Obamacare, according to the local reporter.
Local reporters said $50,000 in debt.
They signed up for Obamacare.
They found it to be anything but affordable.
It's going to cost them more than $800 a month, money they just don't have.
The reporter adds that as a pastor, the man has devoted his life to helping others, to being compassionate, and he said there is no compassion in the Affordable Care Act.
Now, how many times have you heard the president himself and his Democrat cohorts on television say that we had to do this because you are walking around and you are one illness away from bankruptcy?
And we need Obamacare so that you are protected from that reality.
If you, if you are, you could be one illness away from bankruptcy, you need to sign up for Obamacare.
So the preacher did it and he is bankrupt.
Now, the obvious solution, this preacher needs to look at his cable bill and his cell phone contract, and he needs to cancel one or both.
That's what the president said the other day to an audience of young skulls full of mush.
A millennial audience.
Well, you know what?
Hell care, there's nothing sexy about that.
And you may not, you need it.
I mean, you need it, but you may not want to have it.
It's no immediate benefit like your cell phone and cable TV.
And he went on to talk about canceling one or both.
And this is just one story.
I'm sure you've heard countless others.
They're everywhere.
People.
This one's two-pronged.
The guy is ready to receive chemo, and somebody comes in.
It's, uh-uh, uh-uh, your insurance doesn't cover it because you've got a heart condition.
Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Pre-existing condition.
Your insurance doesn't cover chemo.
And now after signing up for Obamacare, the preacher is 50 and his family, 50 grand in debt, and no compassion from anybody he's dealt with and $800 a month for all this that he doesn't have.
And furthermore, the PS de Resistance is the preacher is a liar, according to Harry Reid.
Because Harry Reid says that these stories are all made up.
And the people telling these stories is lying about it.
And they're given these stories by the Republicans to tell people.
But there's no evidence that any of these stories are true.
We will be back in mere moments.
Don't go away.
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Okay, I'm going to turn on the ditto cam, folks.
I've got the tweeted photo of the van driving the streets of Miami.
Let me, there we go.
Okay, see it?
Now, what that says is you can still subscribe to Obamacare.
Apply today.
Then there's the phone number.
They'll call it.
I don't care.
Now, be advised, this could be a scam.
This van's made to look official.
And they have time to deal with the number.
Hey, look, if they're going to drive around with this, be aware it could be some guys running a scam.
So you should be very, very careful here.
I'm up front.
In fact, let me, you've seen it.
I'm going to pull that down.
That van is on the streets of Miami.
And it says you can still subscribe to Obamacare.
Apply today.
It gives the number.
Qualify and receive calls totally free.
And at the bottom, it says totally free gratis is spread across the bottom of the ad.
Now, my guess, and I don't really know, it could well be a Democrat Party operation to drum up support for Obamacare.
It could also be some scammers because they got all the ingredients here.
Obamacare, totalamente gratis, totally free.
But that's what Obama's, you know, he's not alone in implying that it's free over the years anyway.
So let me get the ditto cam back to a wider shot where I can turn it back on for you eager subscribers to rush 24-7.
There we go.
One quick more look at the picture.
Now, now, wait a second.
Snerdley says, how can they tell us they get 5 million signed up and they can't tell us how many paid?
You just happened to randomly guess what was next up in the stack about this.
There is a piece at Commentary Magazine.
It's quite lengthy.
It's by Jonathan Tobin.
And it is called March Madness, Fake Obamacare Enrollment Numbers.
It's chalk-filled with data here.
Now, there's a little bit of an uproar, I'm told, in North Carolina, they've got some basketball.
Roy Williams is now out promoting Obamacare.
NC Coach, NC State.
I don't know.
I get them all confused.
Not a big fan of college hoops here, so I don't know what school, but it's one of the big ones in North Carolina.
Just like they try to get the Baltimore Ravens, the NFL involved in pushing Obamacare and so forth.
Let me give you some of the pull quotes here from Mr. Tobin's piece.
He starts out by saying, the regime is claiming, and we dealt with this yesterday, but this is just backup.
You know, yesterday the number was 4.2 million.
That's how many enrollees.
And remember, Kathleen Sabedia said, we need 7 million by March 31st.
And then she said, no, no, I never said 7.
I said millions.
But she said 7.
So now that yesterday said 4.2 million, but we ran the numbers and we dissected them.
Found out that of the 4.2 million enrollees, we don't know how many have paid.
They don't know how many have paid.
The back end of the website doesn't tell them how many have paid.
Some of the people who think they've paid have not received confirmation from the insurance company they've paid.
The best we could figure is that out of the 4.2 million people, 25% of them constituted the uninsured.
And the point was, we were told to be a compassionate country.
We were the only industrialized nation that did not offer health care to all of its citizens, and that was just unacceptable.
And our greedy, unfair, unequal capitalist system had left 30 million to 46 million uninsured.
And that's why we had to do Obamacare.
Because we're a compassionate country, and we're going to band together, and we're going to reform health care so that all of us coming together will help cover the uninsured.
Well, after all that's happened and leading up to the March 31st deadline, 13 days away, 1 million of those 4 million who have enrolled constitute the uninsured.
So after all of this, 1 million people who have enrolled constitute the uninsured.
That's what we've done all this for.
Today, the regime revised up 4.2 million to 5 million.
It's 4.2 million yesterday.
Today it's 5 million.
And that's where Mr. Tobin's commentary begins.
The regime is claiming a limited victory by saying the number of those enrolled in Obamacare has now hit 5 million with two weeks to go until the March 31st deadline.
If accurate, the number does represent a steep increase over the 4.2 million that were said to have signed up at the beginning of the month.
At this rate, regime cheerleaders reason the goal of 7 million enrolled in Obamacare may yet be reached at some point in the near future, if not quite on time.
And this burst of enrollments is seen as a vindication of Obama's all-out push to promote the law, including such questionable activities appearing on Between Two Ferns with the comedian Zach Galifenakis.
And I now take you back to this picture of the van patrolling Miami, promising free health care.
Call the number.
Pull quote number one, Mr. Tobin's piece before the president and his team start popping the champagne corks to celebrate their achievement and their faux hipness.
It's time once again to point out that the regime's Potemkin enrollment figures should be read with a truckload of salt.
As the New York Times reported last month, as much as 20% of all of those enrolled hadn't actually paid their premiums, meaning they were not covered by the program.
While Kathleen Sebelius told Congress she had no idea what the numbers of unpaid enrollees were, more states are reporting these figures.
And as CNBC reporter last week, the results are literally all over the map.
Some states report high pay rates.
Others like Maryland say only 54% have paid.
And you go to Vermont and it's zero.
As we have noted previously, the non-payment of the premium is not a technicality.
Many of those buying the insurance may be first-time buyers, not understand that they must pay their bill before coverage starts rather than long after the fact, as they can with a credit card transaction.
And I have no doubt that this is this.
I have no doubt that this is true.
People think that they've enrolled and they're paid.
They just haven't got the bill yet or whatever.
How many people, something like this, are used to paying on the spot?
I mean, the credit card bill, they don't get it for 30 days.
Right?
Yeah, but they're not using a credit card in McDonald's.
The law information will go to McDonald's, they pay for it, and if they don't have it, then they blow up a car.
If they don't have the McFlurry, if they don't have the Chicken McNuggets, they blow up the car, call 911.
In this case, what he's pointing, they're enrolling and thinking they're paid up when they're not.
So the point is, there are a lot of people who have enrolled have not actually been enrolled because they haven't paid and don't know it.
They will find out at the doctor's office or at the hospital.
It may be that some enroll with no intention of paying, thinking that the hype about the glories of Obamacare that they've heard in the media absolve them of the obligation to pay for it.
How many do you think make up that group?
There's got to be a lot of people that think they don't have to pay.
But either way, the large number of non-payments renders the enrollment figures meaningless.
$5 million, $4.2 million, and they can't tell us how many have paid, then they don't really have a number.
The bottom line is, if you hear a number of enrolled in Obamacare, it is irrelevant because they don't know how many of them are paid.
And if they're not paid, they cannot be enrolled.
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