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March 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 20, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, I just I I'm sorry, folks.
I I I watch things and I'm really trying to be disciplined in not telling you what I'm watching, but it's it's hard.
There's somebody on C and then it looks like Olivia Pope from the TV show scandal with a little 12-inch model of a Boeing 777.
Just rip the tail fin off to show what could happen.
Holding up a 12-inch model in relationship to the satellite pictures that show possible debris.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
I'm gonna just do my best to ignore this.
But I feel compelled to comment on like I'm sure you do every time you watch this stuff.
Great to have you, Rushlin bought 800-282-2882, the email address at EIBNet.com.
Well, yeah, I can I can hold up my model airplane here too and start talking about this.
And I, you know, I I could be an expert.
I could take the tail fin off.
I can show you how the wings come off.
I could, yeah, what would happen.
And yeah, and then I could I could the wings come off and it's going to aiming right down, and then you'll finally hit the water down there, the ocean and went.
And then that's how we hit the debris.
And then I could be an expert.
In the way.
Speaking of Michelle Obama, I want to get one thing before we get to the healthcare stack here.
We had the story earlier today with the local Phoenix reporter saying that she talked to Jay Carney, and that Jay Carney told her off the record that the White House press course submits their questions to him in advance.
So that he knows what he's going to be asked.
And then he answers the questions in advance, and the reporters know his answers before the press conference even happens.
And it's all typed up and it's given to the news agency so they can get their package reports ready in a timely fashion.
And it helps us and it helps everybody, and it just streamlines the process of gathering the news, quote unquote.
She may not really be aware of what she just said.
Because she basically just said that the White House press briefing every day is scripted, that the press secretary knows in advance the questions, so he's never surprised.
He's never hoodwinked.
He can go look up the answer or get whatever answer he wants to give prepared and rehearsed.
And the reporters get the answer after submitting the question before the briefing even took takes place.
Well, this resulted in Ed Henry at Fox News tweeting that it's not true, that her story is dead wrong, and then wanting to know when she was going to correct it.
And then another uh reporter at the Politico basically tweeted the same thing that this is not true.
Uh so far only those two denials and Carney Carney has denied it.
So three denials on this.
You'd think there would be more.
It could be the two reporters denying it.
They're just not in on it.
I mean, Ed Henry works at Fox.
Maybe he's not in on the questions being submitted in advance.
Who knows?
But there's another story, and it involves Michelle.
We had a caller talk about it uh yesterday.
This is Dylan Byers at Politico, and he's got a piece sort of mocking the regime, because you know they came into office claiming they're gonna be the most transparent administration ever, and they're not.
They're not even close.
And Dylan Byers is a little miffed that there is no press accompanying Michelle Obama and the two daughters and her mother to visit the Chicums.
And this is unprecedented.
But the the Obamas say, hey, it's a private family vacation.
We've got Secret Service.
You don't need to be with us.
And nothing happening over here.
You don't need to see it, but the press is saying, wait a minute, you guys see the most transparent regime ever.
Here's Dylan Byers.
On Tuesday night, the New York Times reported that no reporters will be traveling with the First Lady to China, and that she would be giving no interviews while she was there.
Nicholas Christoph, the Times column, called the First Lady's decision a mistake and said that it signals weakness or fear of coverage.
If you're not going to take the press, what are you afraid of?
That's what they're saying.
I mean, what's Michelle going to be doing over there?
She doesn't want the press to know about.
There must be afraid of something.
And they're trying to warn Michelle in the regime.
This is the coverage you're risking here by not taking us along.
And then Dylan Byers reports that several conservative outlets picked up the Times report, including Drudge, which linked to a weekly standard article about it.
Shortly after noon yesterday, Dylan Byers reached out to the First Lady's office to inquire about the decision not to take the media.
A spokesperson for the first lady responded to my inquiry.
I'm reading from the piece.
Spokesperson for the first lady responded to my inquiry but declared the response off the record, meaning I wasn't allowed to use the information that I was given.
When I told the spokesperson I needed a response I could use, the spokesperson replied with another off-the-record statement regarding the first lady's trip.
The spokesperson then wrote, If you need something attributable, you can take this on background from a White House official.
The statement that followed didn't address Dylan Byers' original question.
Instead, it offered a formulaic explanation about the power and importance of education and reaching people, followed by an explanation that the first lady would participate in open press events and take questions online and in forums.
Now, it was 5 p.m., nearly five hours after his original inquiry, when he told a spokesperson that he didn't see why the quote needed to be anonymous.
The spokesperson said that if he needed something on the record, he could refer to the first lady's travel guidance and a transcript of a press call regarding the trip.
These documents did not contain an answer to my question, he writes regarding why no reporters would be traveling with her.
And then he says, What I want to know, and what I've wanted to know since last October is why the spokesperson in the first lady's office didn't want to give me a name that I could put on a harmless formulaic quote.
May I endeavor to answer this?
I want to help the media understand.
And using my intelligence guided by experience, we conclude here that the politico is not happy about a lack of transparency from the Obama White House.
Now, earlier today we were told that reporters agreeably applied Jay Carney questions in advance before the daily press briefing, he denied it, and that they are given answers before the whole charade begins.
He denied it.
So what we have, if that's true, there's no journalism going on here.
It's state control media.
It is a collaboration between the White House and the media.
If this reporter from Phoenix's story is true, there is no journalism, which is my contention for the longest time now.
That there is no real news anymore.
And there isn't any investigative journalism.
I think on that everybody can agree.
There is zero investigative journalism, particularly of the regime.
There's no holding truth to power, uh, as John Kerry liked to say.
But there's no there's no investigative journalism taking place.
That's why these people went into the business.
Woodward Bernstein, 60 minutes.
Because they're scared.
They're scared because of all the spying.
They're spared scared because the DOJ might prosecute their sources.
This is what they really think of the regime.
Couple reporters can't give names.
They Don't want their names out, have agreed that there isn't any investigative journalism, and they have said the reason is that their sources are afraid, this would be regime sources, are afraid of being prosecuted if they're discovered, and the reporters are afraid of being prosecuted, Alan Snowden.
And so there isn't it.
This regime has effectively intimidated the regime has intimidated the media into no coverage.
So when Dylan Byers says, why don't you tell us what you guys pretty much encourage this, I think.
If I may be so bold, and I like Dylan Byers.
I like, I like his work.
But I think I think the media set themselves up for this.
They encouraged from the campaign forward.
They encouraged the regime in this behavior of theirs of media manipulation.
They played along with it.
They haven't investigated this administration.
They're not even curious.
Whatever the regime says, they report.
Anybody criticizes the regime, the media turns on them.
I think it's entirely understandable that the regime would think they've got you in the palm of their hand.
And they don't have to take you along.
And they don't have to give you a name associated with a formulaic generic quote.
Because they know you're not going to turn on them.
Obama, Michelle, Jay Carney, take your pick.
They know you're not going to turn on them.
Not the way you turned on Nixon, not the way you turned on Bush, not the way you turned on Reagan, not the way you turn on Boehner.
They know you guys are not going to do that to them.
So you've made your bed, I think.
I mean, you you've encouraged the media to be uncooperative.
You have permitted them to be, I mean, the White House to be uncooperative.
And you've participated in this.
You've been sponsors of whatever the regime wants.
Obamacare, you're in there.
Covering up Benghazi, you're in there.
Covering up Fast and Furious, you're in there.
I think they don't fear you.
They're not telling you, what are you going to do?
They know that you'd be happy to get a job with them.
Look at all the media people that leave their gigs and go work for the regime somewhere.
Or vice versa.
So, Dylan, I'm not mean this personally with you.
I just in generic sense here, the media, they're not afraid of you.
You do not, whatever you might report the way you might cover it, it doesn't bother them a bit.
I think the um the news media, they're all miniature Jay Carneys.
Jay Carney used to be at time, he's a Russian Soviet expert, goes to work for Biden, then goes to work for Obama.
And there are hundreds of White House spokesmen in the mainstream media.
There are hundreds of future White House spokesmen in the mainstream media.
The media contains future White House employees, future State Department employees, spokesman roles.
There isn't, no, they don't want to upset that Apple cart.
You're all in the Democrat Party.
You're all part of the left in this country, and as such, you're all on the same team.
And you're not gonna hold them to account on anything.
So why should they open up?
They don't have to.
They don't have to bring you in.
I'm gonna give you a quote.
What are you gonna do to them?
They know full well you're holding all the fire you've got for whenever you have to nail the next Republican.
And I have to take a brief time out.
Don't go away.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I erred moments ago when I said that Mochel Obama and the family are on a vacation.
And that's why they don't want any media.
It is not a vacation.
They are claiming that it is a cultural exchange, so that it can be billed to the government.
If it was a vacation, they'd have to pay for some of it, first class equivalent airfare on the airplane.
But since it is A cultural exchange, and there isn't any media, so we don't know what's being exchanged.
And we don't know what's being brought back.
You know, a cultural exchange works both ways.
I mean, they're gonna leave Michelle's mom in China as part of the exchange.
I mean, who knows?
We don't know.
Well, that's right.
That's the point.
If it's official business, then cultural exchange, there ought to be media there.
But I'm telling you, they made this bed.
I If if you were if you were the Obama administration, would you be the slightest bit worried about can you imagine what that would be like?
Look at it for us, as Republicans, conservatives.
I mean, it is a daily thing.
I know from the fear of what the media is gonna say is its own paralytic event for Republicans.
They're paralyzed for a lot of reasons, and one of them is what the media is gonna say.
Can you imagine what it would be like to have a totally fawning, supportive, loving worldwide media behind you every day?
Can you imagine what that would do?
Take that fear out of your life, take that worry out of your life, and know that you've got basically a bunch of sycophants sucking up to you every day, promoting everything you say and covering up every mistake you make, and not covering every boondoggled policy and building you up to be something you can you imagine what that would be like?
How liberating that would be?
Why would you fear those people?
Now you might be a party you wanted to do what you could to keep them on your side, but then you'd realize there's nothing you could do to kick them off your side because they're never gonna support the Republicans.
They're never gonna support conservatives, even if they turn on you.
Which they're not gonna do because they're afraid of you.
Get right down to it.
And the fact that they're I mean, the evidence they're afraid of the regime is is right in front of us.
There's no more investigative journalism taking place.
But I mean, stop and think.
This is something that well, I know it'll never happen to me.
I will never ever know what it's like to have this massive, unquestioned love, idolatry, support in the national media.
I will never know what that's like.
All I know is the exact opposite, that they are gunning for me.
And every other Republican is in the same boat.
But every Democrat is the exact opposite.
And they still get mad at him, because they still think the media goes off the reservation now and then when they do happen to tell the truth.
Like Obama gets really ticked if they dare to report his lie on keeping your doctor and keeping your your plan.
Mark in Bowling Green, Ohio.
It's great to have you.
I really glad you waited.
You're next on the program, and hello, sir.
Well, hi, Russ.
Um, in your monologue today, you talked about the man who had a sex change, and she claimed she was not responsible for her actions she did as a man.
My question to you is can't she claim credit for her accomplishments she did as a man?
For example, her education, or does she need you to go back to school?
What about work history?
Does she need to re-interview for her job?
What about debt?
Is she responsible for any financial debt she had as a man?
Well, you see, I mean, I uh are you I don't know if you're being facetious, but these are questions.
It's like it's like Chelsea Manning, the former Bradley Manning.
Hey, I didn't do that.
Bradley Manning did that.
I didn't go into debt.
Bradley Manning did, or this babe.
This this the defense here is that, yeah, because I was a man, I was violent and mean.
Yeah, I might have murdered some people, prostitutes, but I'm now Donna, whatever, Douglas, the woman, I didn't do it.
Now, does this erase everything that this person did as a man In the eyes of the law?
Well, where if if if if this defense works, where does it stop?
So you've actually got a good point here.
But I don't the the story I have does not detail any of her other accomplishments.
Well, I guess my follow-up question would be uh do I need a sex change to be a different person?
You know, it's uh uh could I just claim I'm just different because I'm different?
Well, now this is another interesting question.
Let's see.
Let's take it uh let's see.
Uh um who recently um Jim Ursay of the Indianapolis Colts caught DUI, came out of jail after 14 hours, and immediately went into a rehab center and is going to come out and say he's changed.
He got his life in order he's changed.
So your question is can he do that without coming out as Janet Ursay?
Right.
Can can you actually change your life?
Can you can you uh come to grips with your shortcomings and make amends addressing them and then become a new person behaviorally, morally, what have you, without a sex change?
Well, and and not be responsible legally for what you did.
No.
No, no, no, no.
No, okay.
No, no, no way you can do that.
In other words, he's got four felony charges.
There four felony going into rehab and coming out of there changed and cured is not going to make the felony charges go away.
That's your point, right?
Well, I guess from your monologue, it sounds like that was the defense that woman was using that she's not responsible legally for her actions that she did as a man.
That's what she's trying.
That's exactly what she's attempting to get the court to agree with.
We don't know yet whether it's gonna work.
Let me ask a serious question that people on the left will no doubt be very appreciative of my asking.
Should this freedom to choose who we are be a civil right?
Should we have the freedom to choose whether we are the same person we were?
Whenever we want to make that choice, should that be a civil right?
Interesting notion.
Should we have the freedom to choose whether we are or are not the same person that we were, say yesterday?
I mean, when did you choose who you were?
You probably have not consciously chosen who you were.
What shouldn't you have the freedom to choose who you are?
And then if you don't and then tomorrow, if you don't want to be who you are, you just you change and you announce that you aren't who you were, and it's a civil right.
Because we all have a civil right to be who we are, right?
I guarantee you there's some people on the left thinking, you know this guy, he's coming around.
He's on to things here.
Before we get to the uh Obamacare stack, Rand Paul went to Berkeley yesterday last night.
Rand Paul got a standing O from the students at the University of California, Berkeley.
And do you know the issue that he hit on that they just jumped out of their seats and applauded him on was the government spying on the citizens?
He came out firmly against it, highly critical of it, and they couldn't be quiet.
They were just cheering him like Republicans don't get cheered on college camp I. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Rand Paul delivered a scathing rebuke to the U.S. intelligence community, calling it drunk with power.
There were 400 people in the audience at uh the International House at UC Berkeley, which was full.
400 in this room was full.
He said, I don't know about you, but I'm worried if the CIA is spying on Congress, who exactly can or will stop them.
And reporters talked to the students after the speech, and they just thought it was one of the greatest that they had heard anybody make at Berkeley.
Now he said other things, but that issue of spying.
I happen to uh I've seen this reported elsewhere.
I've seen it in my tech blogs, the one area where these young people that just slavishly support Obama and global warming in every cockamami idea when it comes to this NSA business, they are there's not even any confusion about it.
I mean, they're a little confused Obama would do it, but there is no middle ground on it.
They universally oppose it, and they can't blame Republicans for it.
And I think we get an indication here about how Rand Paul's gonna run his campaign.
He's gonna go to groups of people, and he's gonna talk about as a Republican the things important to them.
He's gonna identify whatever it is important, like to these students, he knew it was spying.
He went to the belly, he went to Belly of the Beast, UC Berkeley.
He's been to Howard University, which is all black university.
This is I think other Republican contenders had better take note of what he's doing, because it's very abundantly clear to me what his strategy is.
And he'll go talk to Hispanics and whatever he identifies as the issue that gets them out of their seats, he'll talk about.
I don't know what it would be, but he will have one.
Might be immigration, amnesty, who knows.
I have no idea.
But he uh he obviously knew that the uh the millennials, college students want no part of this spying.
I mean, they're all they're all really tech savvy, and they understand the depths to which this spying is uh is possible.
So keep a sharp eye.
How many of you in this audience, I know there's some of you, how many of you think that the health care system is so screwed up that the only solution now is to just go single payer.
Just get rid of the insurance companies and just do what Canada did, and just do what the UK did, and it's just do government-run health care, single payer, they're it.
You need a policy, you go to them.
You go to hospital, they pay it.
Just be done with it.
It's so convoluted.
This is what Obama wants, by the way.
One of the reasons of creating such chaos in the health care system is a strategical move designed to get people so frustrated, because that's why all of this bad news about Obamacare, healthcare.gov, all of it not working, the sign-ups, it's all according to plan, folks.
Because the people behind this want single payer, and they want you demanding it.
They don't think you would accept it forced on them on yourselves.
They know you wouldn't have voted for it, for example.
If Obama campaign single payer, let's do what they've done in Great Britain, let's do what they've done in Canada, you wouldn't have you wouldn't have elected him.
You wouldn't have support, but if they make this so-called apparent honest effort to improve it, if they really work really hard to transform the health care system and ensure the uninsured and be compassionate and thoughtful and nice, and it just goes haywire.
Eventually get so frustrated.
Okay, look, can we just simplify this?
Let's just put everybody on Medicare.
That's it.
Let's just put everybody on Medicare.
I happen to have here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, a story from the politico.
Let me read to you an excerpt.
Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat Washington sounding the alarm about a massive backlog within the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals.
There are 357,000 appeal clogged delays, providers from having uh their cases heard for longer than two years.
357,000 sick people have so clogged Medicare.
The hearings and appeal where they go and determine whether or not Medicare is gonna pay for whatever they had done.
You know, it's just not automatic.
And sometimes Medicare says, up, we're only paying 20%.
Oh, we're not gonna pay, but 50%, oh, we're not gonna cover that at all.
Well, there's an appeal process for that.
Oh, you told me you would cover it.
So you go to the Office of Hearings and Appeals.
Well, get in line.
357,000 people in front of you as we speak.
If we all were put on Medicare, if we all went single payer, that's where we're headed.
It's worse or as bad as what the regime has done to health care now.
This is not the only place, however, where this circumstance exists.
The VA, the veterans administration, they also have their own health care system for veterans.
And guess what?
The line there is 400,000.
400,000 disability claims.
In other words, 400,000 veterans have been told, sorry, you're not covered for that.
And they are appealing.
400,000 people, 357,000 Medicare.
Imagine if we went single payer what this would become.
And you know as well as I do, there are a whole host of Democrats that would just love to move everybody over to Medicare and just be done with it and call it single payer.
And if you happen to be one of those people, be warned that it is no better and will arguably be worse because it isn't automatic single payer doesn't mean they're gonna pay.
You may end up in a dispute with who the federal government, whatever you are a Republican, and you're in a dispute with the Obama regime.
You don't think that'll matter.
I have a clue for you.
If you're a Democrat but you haven't donated much, you'll get you'll get put behind the people who have donated.
That's how it works.
They have taken what was the best health care system the world had ever known, and they've totally blown it up.
It isn't too late, I don't think to repeal and get rid of this because the solutions that we are being offered are by Democrats even worse.
Story out of Nevada.
You'd never see this story, by the way, in a drive-by media.
It's what I'm talking about earlier.
This is the kind of story that the media won't report, and the regime is very confident the media won't report this.
Because they know the media does not want to make Obamacare look bad, and the media doesn't want to make Obama look bad.
The media does not want to give Republicans any ammo.
They certainly don't want to give people like Ted Cruz or Mike Lee or Rand Paul any ammo.
So this story comes in the UK Daily Mail.
To give you the headline, I take a break.
Obamacare has left a Nevada man with 47,000 dollars in hospital bills.
Obamacare has left a Nevada man with 407,000 in hospital bills.
And back to the phone.
So Western Pennsylvania.
Hi, Greg.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
I'm really honored that I had a chance to get through to you and talk to you.
I wanted to say publicly an apology to you.
For years working under innuendos and false assumptions, I thought you were a political mouthpiece for the Republicans.
And I refuse to listen to you because I was born and raised a staunch Democrat.
But in the last year, I started to listen to you.
Give you a chance, so to speak.
And I find that you're neither Republican or Democrat or Libertarian, whatever.
I find out that you're a spokesperson for the truth.
And I wanted to give you my apology for being an uninformed person that's listened to the dogma for too many years.
And I would not miss your program for the world at any time.
And I wish every American in this country could tune in to you and listen to what you have to say.
Because you have the sound bites and the information to prove every point that you're talking about.
And I just wanted to say apologize to you, Mr. Limboff for being so stupid.
But it's a very I I your characterization I appreciate very much.
Um i.e.
the truth is what we do here.
But I'm curious.
What was it?
D do you do you recall that that was it a single event or was it a series of things or a progression that made you abandon your belief in the dogma?
Well, yes, I I'll be honest to say I voted for Obama twice out of the belief that the Republicans didn't have anybody better to offer.
And uh you know, I was wrong about that.
And it was to answer your question.
It was uh I started listening one day and said, I'm just gonna listen to what he has to say, and I was impressed with the sound bites that backed up your position.
And it wasn't that you were a spokesperson for the Republicans or libertarians or whatever.
It was it was the truth, and I was impressed.
So I listened one day and I automatically tuned in the next day, and I found out over the last whole year is like this man talks the truth every day.
I wish to God that my friends could listen.
I have my mother listening now, I have other friends listening, I'm constantly promoting you to everybody, and I I wish I could see you on TV every night uh, you know, uh uh with these sound bites and and everything you have to say, because uh it is the truth, and and I really appreciate that.
I I I appreciate it.
I however you came to it, whatever the catalyst was, remember how long it took you.
Whatever it was that uh I mean, you just decided one day to listen without prejudice.
And it worked.
And it's uh it's an ongoing challenge here to try to reach people like like you were reached.
And I you uh made our day here.
I I can't thank you enough.
Well, it's it's it's that's right.
Two days in a row that we have two Obama voters call in and say that uh they've they've changed their minds.
But that's just an anecdotal two people.
We'll take it.
It's it's great.
And I very much appreciate uh Greg.
Your uh your perception.
Because he's absolutely right.
Relentless, unstoppable daily pursuit of the truth here.
And I do happen to be a conservative to boot.
So get sneaded bonus.
I am on television every night, by the way.
And every day.
It's called the Ditto Cam at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Open line Friday tomorrow.
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