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March 28, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 28, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh, on Friday, let's live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And one hour left, folks, one big exciting busy broadcast hour remains.
On today's excursion into broadcast excellence on Open Line Friday.
And that means that if you whatever you want to talk about's fair game.
That's it in a nutshell.
Monday through Thursday, people that call the program have to talk about things I am interested in.
On Friday, not the case.
It's an excellent opportunity, by the way, for you to well, get questions answered or make comments about things that maybe aren't getting enough airtime in your view.
800-282-2882.
You remember Harry Reed called everybody liars, all those stories, all those stories people had told about the uh problems they were having, trying to sign up Obamacare being canceled, being without health insurance, finding that their hospital wasn't uh able to treat them, they weren't in the network, cancer patients being basically turned loose.
Harry Reed said all those people were liars.
Well, now he's denied ever saying that.
Honestly, he's denied ever saying it.
Taking a he's taking a page right out of Bill Quinn's book.
I never had sex with that woman.
Miss Lewinsky.
Not a single time.
Not ever.
And I I just want you to leave me alone so I can get back to work for the American people.
Right on, right on.
And we later learned that all of it was BS.
One month to the day that Harry Reed caused a public stir by saying that all stories about Obamacare hurting Americans were lies.
He's now denying ever having said it.
Here is verbatim what Dingy Harry said last month.
Let me look at the soundback roster.
I don't want to make sure here that I. Yeah, no.
Okay, no big deal, just making sure that if I had the audio, I was gonna play it.
Here's what he said.
We heard about the evils of Obamacare, about the lives it's ruining in Republican stump speeches and in ads paid for by oil magnets, the Koch brothers.
But in those tales turned out to be just that tales.
Stories made up from whole cloth lies, distorted by the Republicans to grab headlines or make political advertisements.
So on Wednesday, a couple days ago, the Senate majority leader asked Americans to suspend their belief.
Mr. President, the junior senator from Wyoming has come to the floor several times recently, talking about the fact that examples that he and other Republicans have given dealing with Obamacare, examples they think are bad, I've called lies.
Mr. President, that is simply untrue.
I've never come to the floor.
To my recollection, I never said a word about any of the examples that Republicans have given regarding Obamacare and how it's not very good.
Here again's what he said.
We heard about the evils of Obamacare, about the lives it's ruining in Republican stump speeches and in ads, paid for by oil magnates, the Koch brothers.
But in those tales turned out to be just that tales.
Stories made up from whole cloth lies.
Distorted by the Republicans to grab headlines or make political statements.
Mr. President, I never came to the floor.
I never said a word about any of the examples Republicans have given regarding Obamacare and how it's not very good.
I never said that.
I never called them lies.
Now, what is this?
Is this senility?
Or is this just brazenness?
Is it not desperate?
I don't think.
Now, maybe I'm wrong.
I don't think these people ever, Democrats.
I don't think they ever get really desperate because they know they've got to backstop the media.
I think it's one of the reasons Harry Reid can go out there and lie all he wants as many times as he wants, and the media is never going to call him on it.
And if they do call him on it, it's going to be in a small inconsequential way that maybe is even made to look bad on the Republicans for being nitpickers.
He knows he's not going to be held to account for this by the vast mainstream media.
I think it gives these guys huge gonads or the appearance of just huge gonads.
Just run out there, tell whatever lie they want, knowing they're never going to be called on it.
I mentioned earlier in the program at Ann Coulter, her latest column, is uh it's a really good piece on Obamacare.
She went out and tried to comply with the law and get insurance.
And it's it's a long, it's a long column.
I'm tempted to read the whole thing.
There are not very many hosts that could read this from beginning to end and hold your attention.
Because most people, when they read, you know how most out I'll show you how most people sound when they read.
And you know, you've got people in your family, here you've got to hear this.
And they read something to you from the newspaper.
And here's what it sounds like.
I thought I had figured out the best plan for me a month ago after having doctors in hospital administrative look at the package and same mailing that informed me my old plan was illegal.
Do you guys see that?
But when I checked online recently, I discovered a pre-implement of a platinum load of sort of unfortunate because the only reason I want insurance, the only reason that's how most people read to you.
Come on, just slow down.
Well, yeah, I can't keep up with it.
Here's how you do it, where a professional would do it.
I have been thrown off my health insurance.
Thanks, Obamacare.
I have spent hours and hours over the past month trying to figure out my options.
Now that Democrats have made my old plan, which I liked, illegal.
And then she says, I prefer to think of my plan as undocumented.
A little slam there.
And amnesty.
Whom do I bill for the hours of work that Obama forced me to perform?
By now, Obama has issued waivers from Obamacare to about 99% of the country.
Perhaps you've heard there's a big election this year.
As one of the few Americans not granted a waiver, I'm here to tell you you have no idea what's coming, America.
I thought I had figured out the best plan for me a month ago, after having doctors and hospital administrators look at the packets of material that I was sent by my old insurance company.
The same mailing that informed me that my old plan was now illegal under Obamacare.
So she was one of these people that wanted to keep her old plan, but Obama promised her she could 23 times, but then took it away.
Then he reinstated it, but it's still illegal, is the point.
And the insurance companies don't want to take the risk.
It's still illegal.
What if Obama changes his mind tomorrow and says, you know what?
I'm dropping that extension.
It's back to being illegal.
They're in, and he could very well do it.
So everybody is in a state of limbo, even those people who told were told they could keep their plan and then lost it.
And then Obama said, you know what, you can get it back.
The insurance companies had to go back and try to reinstate it.
But nobody's really confident how long it's going to last.
So everybody is in a state of limbo.
So then Ms. Colter writes, when I checked online recently, I discovered the premier plan, the platinum low-deductible astronomically expensive plan that might be accepted by an English-speaking doctor who didn't attend medical school in a Hawaiian shirt and board shorts.
That doesn't include treatment at any decent hospitals.
The plan I want doesn't include any hospital I want to go to.
Now that's sort of unfortunate because that's the only reason I want insurance.
That is the only reason any sane person wants health insurance to cover health care costs in the event of some catastrophic illness or accident.
But my my options under the blue chip plan were hospitals that also do shoe repair.
So I called Blue Cross directly to ask if its most expensive insurance plan covered the only hospital I would ever go to in an emergency.
Since that's all I wanted to know, that's what I asked.
But as happens whenever you try to ascertain the most basic information about insurance under Obamacare, the Blue Cross repan hammering me with a battery of questions about myself.
First my name.
Does that make a difference to what hospitals the plans cover?
Then my phone number.
By the time the guy got to my address, I said, can you please just tell me if any of your plans cover XYZ hospital?
I don't even know if I want to sign up with you.
Why do I want to give you my name and all this data?
Finally, he admitted that Blue Cross most expensive individual insurance plan does not cover treatment at the hospitals I named.
Their doctors, the doctors at these hospitals are out of network.
Now you've heard us discuss this, and this is something some people are encountering, as Ann Colter did, but not nearly everyone has yet, and everybody's going to at some point.
Here was the rest of the conversation with the Blue Cross rep verbatim.
Me.
None of your plans cover out of network doctors, Blue Cross.
No.
Well, why is it called Premier Guided Access without of network plan?
Blue Cross.
Where do you see that?
Me.
On Blue Cross's own material describing its plans.
Blue Cross.
Oh, I don't know why it's called that.
Me.
None of your plans cover the good hospital.
Blue Cross.
No.
Me.
Well, I don't know who you are, but I have a very specific set of skills that will help me find you, and when I find you, I'm going to kill you.
And then I hung up.
And she said, every bit of that's true except the last line.
She's really not going to kill anybody.
But it's a true conversation except the last sentence.
I decided to approach it from the opposite direction.
I called one of the nation's leading hospitals to ask which insurance plan it accepted.
The woman listed a series of plans, but she could not tell me if I was eligible for any of them.
For that she said I'd have to go to the Obamacare website.
So I went to healthcare.gov.
And I guess I had heard this, but had blocked it from my memory like a rape victim unable to remember her attacker.
You can't even peek.
Listen to this now, boy.
You can't even peek at the available plans at healthcare.gov until you have given the government reams of personal information about yourself.
And we've mentioned that too.
Healthcare.gov is a massive database collection.
They want to know everything about you, and before you can even get to the various plans and the prices and all the details about you've got to provide them with so much personal data that it's ridiculous.
She says, how about let me look at the merchandise first?
I can't imagine logging onto Amazon and give them all of this data before I can go take a look at the cameras I might want to buy.
Inasmuch as the cost of health insurance under Obamacare is so high that it will generally make more sense just to pay for your own catastrophic emergencies.
I wasn't interested in telling Kathleen Sebelius everything about me in order to have the privilege of glancing at their plans.
But that's the only choice.
As the Obamacare website directs, create an account with your name and password, tell us about yourself and your family, every single thing, and then choose a health insurance plan.
That's when you get to see the plans after You have divulged every bit of personal information about you that they want.
I wonder if other consumer-oriented businesses will start demanding names, addresses, passwords, and phone numbers before the customer is allowed to browse the merchandise.
Now look, the main point of the Obamacare website is to encourage people other than me to get a government subsidy.
There's also a section helping you register to vote.
You just can't see the insurance plans.
Guess which one you need a government ID for, by the way.
With zero help from the Obamacare website, I eventually figured out that there was one loan insurance plan that would cover treatment at a reputable hospital.
But the downside was no doctors would take it.
So my only two health insurance options, and yours too, as soon as the waivers expire, America, are one, a plan that no doctors take, or two, a plan that no hospitals take.
You either pay for all of your doctor visits and tests yourself, or you pay for your cancer treatment yourself, and you pay through the nose in either case.
That's not insurance.
That is a huge transfer of wealth from people who work for a living to those who don't.
Accomplished by forcing the workers to buy insurance that's not insurance.
Obamacare has made actual health insurance illegal.
It's not insurance when what I want to insure against isn't covered.
But paying for other people's health cares and their needs, why that's mandatory.
It's as if you wanted to buy a car.
So you paid for a Toyota.
But all you got was a 10-speed bike with the rest of your purchase going to buy cars, bikes, and helmets for other people.
Or more precisely, it'd be like having the option of car insurance that covers either collisions or liability, but not both.
Your car insurance premium would be gargantuan because most of it would be go to buy insurance gas and air fresheners for the other people in the plan.
And she goes on with this.
But the the the basic point of all this is is that you want a good doctor, you want a good hospital, you want a good insurance plan.
It isn't possible to find all three in an affordable.
Well, I mean leave out affordable.
It may not, depending on what hospital you want to go to.
Doctors may not be in network, the hospital may not be.
The insurance companies don't know what they're selling.
They don't know what they can tell you.
It's just an absolute disaster and a mess.
And her I guess her really further point is that 99% of the American people don't know this yet because they're all subject to some kind of waiver.
And what she has experienced, something most people won't experience until it's too late, till it's after the next two elections.
Going to take a brief time out.
We'll come back and resume with your phone calls, don't.
Back to the phones we go to Kathleen Farmington, New Mexico.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you very much, Mr. Limbaugh.
I appreciate you taking my call.
You bet.
Um I actually was calling in to say I had very much have enjoyed both of your books, um, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
God bless you.
Thank you so much.
I am a uh first grade teacher, and I am in the process right now of reading the first one to my class.
Are you really?
Yes.
Um, every day they ask if they can see what liberty is up to today.
It's really great.
I can't get through more than a few pages a day because they are first graders, they have about the attention span of a net.
So um, but uh I um I have had to do a lot of explanation going through um have made sure to point out that the historical figures are real people and the basis for the starting of our country because that's absolutely terrific.
You know, because you you are the authority figure to those children in that class.
And if um you know you read them the book uh in in excerpts and then you you you back up what's in the book they are going to take to it.
That's a real service that you're doing.
I can't thank you enough.
I r we really appreciate that.
That's awesome that you're doing that.
Well, I absolutely appreciate it.
I was just telling um the gentleman who answered the phone that I just finished reading the second book and um thought it very clever of how you integrated the Obama administration into this version of the book.
Shh shh because Obama administration is not mentioned in the book, is it?
Well, no.
No specifically.
Not specif not even close, but but but see that's the Yes Oh, but and uh but I quote the colonists have no idea what is best for them.
Hang on.
Now don't look, Kathleen, don't hang up, don't go away.
Okay, back to Kathleen in uh in farming to New Mexico.
Now Kat what you're what you were uh sharing with the audience there.
Uh your quote, the columnists uh no idea what's good.
You are you are reading from one of the uh most to me one of the most challenging to write for 10 to 13 year olds, and one of the most fun challenges.
Rush revere find he gets in to see King George the Third and ask him why he's doing what he's doing to the colonists.
That's what you're referring to, right?
Yes.
And uh the the you know, I make it plain that you won't find in these books anywhere liberal, conservative you won't find the terms.
No you won't find Republican or Democrat.
You won't find uh any anything that's overtly political, but clearly, as you have spotted, there are lessons to be taught here.
Oh yes.
Real life without labels.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I when I was reading that, I told my husband this just sounded exactly like what Obama's doing to us.
He w I want them totally dependent on me for everything, quote unquote.
They don't know what's good for them.
They're just a bunch of surf slots.
Um I know better what's what they need than they do.
And that brings me to Obamacare scares the heck out of me because I am permanently disabled.
And yet I still work full-time because I can't qualify for disability.
So if you wait a minute, you're permanently disabled, but you don't quite but alcoholics qualify for disability.
Oh, I understand that.
I am the carrier of my insurance for my family, and if I don't work, I don't have insurance.
Oh I have two pulmonary diseases, and you have to be out of work for X number of months before you can qualify for disability.
I am on two medications that together would run about roughly eight thousand dollars a month if I didn't have insurance.
And that's only two of about the ten that I'm on.
You're probably living in a little bit of fear that your policy is gonna be canceled on you anyway, right?
Well, you know, being a public school employee at this point in time, we have not gotten any words that it's going to be, but I have no doubt it's just a matter of time.
Well, are you a member of uh Teachers Union, the MEA?
No, I am not.
Oh.
Well, you would have been gold if you were MEA.
And you still may be.
You still may be.
But look, I um uh are your are your students do they know about the children's book awards uh that they can vote in?
Uh no, I have not brought that up to them yet, but I too I do plan on doing that.
Yeah, you've got until May the twelfth for that.
So there's no rush.
Uh quote unquote.
Yeah, I um uh the teacher in me also wants to let you know that your editors missed a typo in the book.
That wasn't us, that was the publisher.
Okay.
Your publisher missed a typo in the book.
Where?
Which which book?
Um in the new one, First Patriots on page one ninety-seven.
So okay, don't tell me what it is.
I'll go find page one ninety-seven after the show and I'll look at it.
And somebody's somebody's gonna pick it up.
Very subtle.
My husband read it a couple of times and he didn't notice it either.
Well, you might just be nitpicking.
Uh well, no.
I had to read it several times too, and I realized that no, that's that that was a typo.
Is it a typo?
Is it a grammatical?
It's a grammatical error.
Between the word it and if.
Between what?
The word it, IT, pronoun inanimate object, and if.
If.
I'm a stickler for that, too.
I okay.
Well, I I'm glad you pointed out that we m we might be able to uh correct that for the e-book version, because you can update those.
I'll put an asterisk by it, nitpicked by Kathleen in Farmington, New Mexico.
Because you can do that in the e-book too.
Well, look, I appreciate the call.
I really do.
I'm I'm I'm uh the fact that you're reading the book to the kids and telling them you're vouching for it, and I that's just fabulous.
You know, I tell you what, uh, Kathleen, uh hey, don't hang up, because I want to I want to send the audio versions to you two, and Mr. Snerdley will get your um address.
And I'll tell you what, we'll uh ask her what color iPad air she would like.
We'll throw one of those in.
It's either black or white, have or choose, and we'll send one of those in.
She can maybe use it for the class.
You never know.
Ladies and gentlemen, dingy Harry is one of many proving a point that I made on this program.
When was it?
Well, it was earlier this week.
You know the name Nate Silver.
538.com, New York Times data cruncher.
Nate Silver was God.
Nate Silver analyzed every presidential poll and assured the Democrats in 2012 that Obama was going to win and win handily, that it wasn't even going to be close.
But there were people that were not confident that the polls were accurate.
People thought that uh the polling did not show it showed Obama way more popular than people thought he could be, given the state of the economy and other things Obama care.
But Nate Silver assured them, and as a result of that, he was showered with God like status.
Nate Silver kept wayward Democrats sane.
I remember reading comments posted to blogs by liberals in San Francisco, just crediting literally their sanity to Nate Silver.
Well, Nate Silver quit the New York Times, and he he took his talents to ESPN, because he started out as a sports statistician and uh data cruncher there.
And he went back to ESPN or went to ESPN, he went back to sports.
Still has his blog, still does some political poll analysis, but also Dow mixes it in with his passion, which is sports.
And Nate Silver is out now saying sixty percent chance and climbing that the Republicans win the Senate.
They could win six, maybe even eleven seats in the Senate in November, which would give them control.
And if they win the Senate, they'll obviously keep the House.
Which means that Obama is going to have to do everything he wants done with an executive order.
He will not have one house in Congress with him.
And at least by party affiliation.
So now all of these acolytes, all of these people who thought Nate Silver walked on water now hate his guts.
They're turning on him.
They're throwing him to the wolves, they're claiming that he's a reprobate, rot gut, glittering jewel of colossal ignorance, no difference in him and human debris.
Really, I'm not exaggerating.
Dingy Harry, right here in the Politico, just posted a half hour ago.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took a direct shot at Nate Silver today, calling into question the forecasters' ability to accurately predict elections.
In an interview with the Washington Post Sports blog, Dingy Harry said Nate Silver had consistently been wrong when predicting the fate of Senate Democrats.
He gave me a 16% chance of being re-elected.
He gave Heidi Heitkamp an 8% chance of being re-elected.
He gave John Tester 34% chance of being re-elected.
So all these polls are about like Nate Silver's predictions.
Good sometimes, but bad most of the time.
And he is just one example.
You know, it's amazing.
It really is amazing.
How can I mean folks?
I cannot overemphasize how much they loved Nate Silver, how brilliant they thought Nate Silver was.
They thought Nate Silver walked on water.
He was just the most smartest people relied on.
And now that and all he claims he ever does is just tell the truth.
He runs the numbers.
Here's what the numbers say, that's what he says.
And now that it's going against the Democrats, he's a traitor.
And they just throw him overboard.
Throw him under the bus, throw him overboard, or whatever.
This point that I made earlier in the week even was thrown up for discussion on the five at Fox.
And this is uh last night, well, late yesterday afternoon, to start the discussion on the five.
They played a clip of this program earlier this week.
Nate Silver must now be disenfranchised and thrown to the wolves because he is not furthering the cause.
And they don't care how many lies or distortions are necessary to further the cause because all of liberalism is a lie.
Nate Silver was the guy that all these worried paranoid Democrats relied upon for their sanity.
And it probably is going to get worse for the poor guy before it gets better.
Kimberly Gilfoyle, starring on the five at Fox, weighed in.
Rush nailed it.
I mean, this is what's going to happen.
He's going to be ostracized.
He's now going to be persona non grata, no invites to D.C., to all the fun parties.
Eric Bolling, also starring on The Five at Fox.
Nate Silver was the, he was held up as a liberal hero when he predicted all the states and predicted an Obama win.
Now he predicts that the Republicans take the Senate.
He's an idiot on the left.
Russia's right, they have to throw him to the discredit him right now.
Bob Beckle, also starring on the five on the Fox News Channel.
I agree with him.
I think there's probably a 60% chance that uh the Republicans could win the Senate.
Although I've had they've had a long history of snatching defeat out of the jobs of victory, but right now I would say 60% is a chance that picking up the Senate.
You know, it's uh it's interesting.
Um all these people agreeing with me over at Fox that Nate Silver, and this is not a hard prediction to make, but it was uh something that they wanted to bounce off all of their all their.
I mean, even, you know, uh what's his name, uh John Stewart?
Silver appeared on uh on on John Stewart's show and said, Well, what is this?
All these Democrats throwing you overboard, and Silver basically said the Democrats only want to hear what they already believe.
And if you don't tell them what they already believe, they hate you.
So he gets it.
We gotta take a brief timeout.
Be right back after this.
I guess I guess Nate Silver will not be getting an illegal Christmas gift from Harry Reed this year.
Now look at looking up here on the media.
Right now, and it's been going on for the past 20 minutes, a news conference.
Is it with San Francisco Democrat Leland Yee?
No.
Is it with any of the five disgraced Democrat members of Congress, state legislature, and mayors?
No.
You can't even find any mention of them in the news today.
Grab somebody 27, though.
Leland Yee.
I want to take you back.
This guy's gotten indicted for gun running and munitions running, illegal campaign contributions, two million dollars worth of M16s, two and a half million dollars worth of bullets for the things.
And this guy has ridden on the magic carpet of anti-Second Amendment Every day of his life to get elected and to hold stature.
And this is March 4th this year.
Google hangout with KTXL TV, eyeball news in Sacramento.
And this is San Francisco Democrat Leyland Yi speaking about guns.
Whatever I can do to prevent uh the availability of these particular kinds of weapons, you know, I want to do that.
There's just absolutely no reason why anyone would be carrying a military-style weapon.
And so that's the reason why I uh would argue that there ought to be a ban on that particular type of weapon.
While he is selling them.
M16s.
This guy's out there gun running two million dollars worth of the things.
And he says that.
What?
Phoniness and hypocrisy and so forth.
Anyway.
It's Chris Christie with another press conference on Bridgegate.
And it's been going for 20 minutes now.
And it's a five-month-old story.
And the subject here is an internal investigation is cleared him.
Even though it was his own law firm that cleared him, but twenty minutes.
Five-month-old story, not one story today on any of these disgraced Democrats.
Larry in Indianapolis.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir, any time.
I have a suggestion.
On your website, I suggest you add a new web page titled See I Told You So Volume 2.
That page would list audio clips of your predictions.
And after each prediction, it would list audio clips that confirm that prediction.
You know, that's actually a good idea.
It might be a lot of work, and my staff's very underpaid and might balk.
Yes, I know.
Um at having this added workload.
So I have to I have to consider that.
Um but it's a great idea.
Just this week we've hit.
Well, I can't let that stand.
Yeah.
Uh well, there's things in the past that I'd like to have access to.
Well, I understand.
It's because we've had three of them just this week.
We've had three of these CI Told You Stones with audio proof and the predictions and all that.
It's actually a great idea.
Now you might also call it EIB freshman orientation.
That'd be a good intro intro to somebody starting to listen to you.
Yeah, good EIB freshman orientation.
Okay.
I kind of like that.
That's that's I like the thought behind that.
Okay.
New arrival, here's the truth, contrary to what you've heard.
Um just nervous.
You can't let that stand that the staff is underpaid.
He doesn't care about they would balk at the additional work.
But you can't let that stand, they're underpaid.
Normally, you can't let that stand if I would have said they're overpaid.
Wait a minute.
What did I say?
Now you I said underpaid.
Yeah, they think they're underpaid.
Um, it is a good idea.
I'm just like it's teasing the the the highly overrated staff.
The staff went out, they've even had some of their own shirts printed.
Staff, highly overrated EIB network, Rush Limbaugh or whatever.
They're having fun with it.
But uh I like that idea.
It does have potential, especially to help the new arrivals wade through all the.
You know, here's proof that what you're hearing about this program is wrong, and here's proof that what you will hear on this program is true and accurate and right.
Uh Larry, I appreciate the call.
Got to take a quick break, and we will be back.
Don't go away.
Sadly, my friends, we are out of busy broadcast time.
That's it for today.
I hope you have a great weekend.
I hope it's everything you want it to be.
And if it isn't, then find somebody to blame.
The American Way.
And we will be back here on Monday, revved up and ready to go again.
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