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April 2, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 2, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, somebody help me out here.
I might have missed it as I was in transit yesterday.
Anybody hear any of the Republican leadership respond to Obama's despicable lies about Obamacare yesterday?
There wasn't.
There wasn't any Republican response to that.
You got to be kidding me.
I was flying to, well, I was in transit.
I had it on the television, and I'm watching this.
I'm heading up to a celebratory occasion.
I'm watching this thing, and it's ticking me off.
This Rosegarden thing, this, this, I mean, here you've got Obamacare, which is mandatory under penalty of law, and they're out there celebrating that 7.1 million people have signed up, which is not true.
They can't back it up.
It's a phony number, as said yesterday, been documented by the UK Daily Mail Online, the RAND Corporation.
But they're out there celebrating mandatory, it ought to be 200 million sign-ups.
The deadline was March 31st.
It's mandatory.
Either that or you pay a penalty to go to jail.
And they're out celebrating.
And there's not one Republican response to this.
You mean I missed the brilliant stem winder responses from Republican leaders?
Or there weren't any brilliant stem winders from well.
So what are they leaving it up to me?
As usual, leaving it up to the Tea Party.
I have to tell you, by the way, greetings and welcome.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882, the email address.
Excuse me.
El Rushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
I guess Obamacare's golden now, folks.
I guess, since this hunky dory, I guess the Democrats are going to be happy to appear with Obama on the camp.
You're saying no to all this?
But I saw it yesterday.
I saw that Roseguard thing.
I saw, I mean, they're ecstatic.
They're happy.
This is a great, this is a victory lamp.
It's a great achievement.
And when Bush did stuff like this, they attacked him.
I've got the audio sound bites to remind you.
They said he was too much hubris.
Remember after Bush's reelection 2012 or 2004?
He started talking about how he was going to spend his political capital.
And they said, it's very dangerous for a president to start bragging.
It's very dangerous for a president to get into too much hubris.
I've got that soundbite coming up.
But I'm assuming now that this is that Obamacare is now golden.
And that means Obama's golden.
That means that Democrats are going to be clamoring to appear with Obama, and they're going to want him with them as they campaign for reelection.
Why are you saying no?
Well, what polls did I expose?
I'll tell you one poll.
You know, let me tell you one poll.
Do you realize, I'm going to tell you, folks, I mean, even I got sucked in by this.
And I'm not talking about the poll that you're talking about.
I'm talking about actual ratings.
CNN never got a ratings bump out of this Malaysian jet.
The story that CNN's ratings were sky was absolute, but yes, they're still in the tank.
They never moved out of the gutter.
Fox cleaned their clock.
MSNBC is plummeting even further with the they lost 10% with that with the kid, Frank Sinatra's kid in there that's not working out.
But CNN never.
And now the Malaysian people just said they might have to expand the search for two more weeks.
And Wolf Blitzer said, well, why not two more years?
These clowns at CNN think they got a ratings bump, and they didn't.
Somebody put out a lying report about them getting a ratings bump, and they didn't.
What poll are you talking about?
I didn't, let me tell you something.
I had to go.
I'll just say it.
What the hell?
I'm going to get audited anyway, whether I do it.
I went to New York.
It was the annual cigar dinner, the Night of the Century Cigar, Marvin Shankin, Cigar Ficionello Magazine.
After the show, yeah, after the, I have to admit, if it was last night, and I did the program, after the show, I flew up.
That's right.
I concluded business and flew up.
I arrived at Teterboro exactly on schedule at 7 o'clock.
I landed in New Jersey.
Teterboro's in New Jersey.
I landed in New Jersey.
I changed clothes on the airplane.
I got in a car to go into town at 7.15.
I got to the Four Treasons restaurant, seasons, Four Seasons Restaurant, at 5 till 8.
I went to the dining room.
At my table, John Sally, the former LA Mayor Antonio Villa Ragosa, relived that funny story when I met him in New York with President Clinton.
Michael Milken, Rudy Giuliani.
It was all kinds of people there last night.
I mean, it was the 20th anniversary and a bunch of first apps.
Anyway, and at 5 till 11, I hit the trail.
I went back to car, got back to Teterbury.
I walked in my house at 2:30.
And I'm watching Obama on the flight up.
And I'm smoke coming out of my ears.
I'm watching this thing, this lying victory lap thing he's doing in the Rose Garden about this.
And all the while I'm saying, what is there to celebrate?
It's mandatory.
Why are they acting like they've had this giant persuasive?
They've turned minds and changed minds and made people love.
It's mandatory.
It's the law.
People are doing this out of fear, the people that are doing it at all.
And even then, the things that were being said about this yesterday was Bohai Nenen, the testimony that the guy at the House Intel Committee today on Benghazi, there were no protests.
This guy's undermined Obama.
Morel, the acting CIA director, has totally undermined Obama on the idea that the video that produced protests, which led to the deaths of, it's all lies.
Everything is lies.
Now, what poll are you talking about?
Oh, oh, okay.
All right.
I haven't had a chance to check that.
Let me tell you real quick here about that because Snerdley says that I caused the poll.
Oh, here it is.
AP answers Rush without saying so, of course.
Okay, so here's what they did.
Oh, I get it.
AP had a poll last week that showed 26% approval for Obamacare.
And we had yesterday the Washington Post, ABC News poll that said 49, 48% approval.
So the AP has a story today to explain how that could be.
And Snerdley believes that they did this story because I made such a big hyped whoop-dee-too.
And I did, so it could well be.
Polls often diverge, my few points, but it's rare to see well-respected polls come to opposing conclusions about the public's take on an issue.
In the last week, however, an Associated Press GFK profound support for Obama's health care at an all-time low, a new all-time low, while a Washington Post ABC News poll showed it at a new high.
The seemingly contradictory findings stem more from question wording.
By the way, that's right.
If you look at the question in the ABC Washington Post poll, I saw that after the program ended yesterday.
It was a meaningless, worthless question that produced this plurality.
It was something like, do you think everybody should have health insurance?
Well, hell yes.
That should have gotten an 80%, not 49.
And that's, I've got the soundbite coming up, but Obama's sitting here in the Rose Garden.
So what are people so ticked off about people getting health insurance for?
I don't understand why the Republicans don't want people to get health insurance.
Lying little, I'm telling you, folks, this is just, it's beyond the pale what is happening with this.
But I just want to see now, since Obama's golden, I'm going to see all these Democrats requesting Obama to appear with them as they campaign for re-election this fall.
I'm sure that's going to happen because Obamacare, it now needs to be hung around every Democrat's neck like a flaming.
Never mind.
I'm not going to say it.
Connect me to the ANC.
I was going to say necklacing flaming tire.
You know, that's what's what Wendy Mandela did.
But seriously, they need to hang this thing because they own it.
This is all theirs.
And this is, I don't know, folks.
This speech, remember when Bush did his mission accomplished speech on the aircraft care in the media?
How dare he?
How dare he start bragging?
Obama goes out and does it, and by the way, brags over nothing that's real.
And the media just in the tank, they can't help themselves.
There's no Republican response to this.
And there's one thing that might mitigate all this happiness today that the Democrats think that they're feeling.
My dad used to tell me and my friends, we come in late on a Friday night, say, what are you boys?
This are we've been having a, you think you're having fun, but you're not.
Well, Democrats think things are going great guns, but they're not.
The Supreme Court has just said again in a new ruling that free speech trumps campaign finance limits.
This is going to ruin their day.
This is Koch brothers combined with Citizens United.
This is going to send them over the edge and mitigate whatever up feeling they're having over whatever they tried to make it look like what happened with Obamacare yesterday in the Rose Garden.
There's other stuff, too.
For example, oh, did you know, by the way, this is from the Rand Corporation, only one-third of Obamacare Exchange sign-ups were from the previously uninsured.
There's so much that there really is so much that's bogus in even this $7.1 million.
And I will dissect it as the program unfolds.
But yeah, the CNN ratings bump was never true.
Pardon the Snipples.
It never happened.
Ladies and gentlemen, they thought it did.
It's right.
It seems like every day, you know what we do here?
We tell you what was true and false in the previous day's news.
So much is not true.
So many things that are reported end up not being true.
But of course, what it was that Churchill said, a lie, paraphrasing, is halfway around the world before the truth even puts its pants on in the morning.
So remember that couple that covered California, steined up, and they got their voter registration card pre-marked for the Democrat Party?
Follow-up story.
They are afraid to change it because they fear government retribution.
They're afraid the regime will find them and punish them if they change that registration.
I love this for you joggers out there.
Too much running.
The latest study, CBSI Bowl News Washington, too much running linked to shorter lifespans.
I love that.
I just, because all these health freaks think they're adding years and so forth.
The nanny state, the regime, Michelle Obama, wants to send fat people text messages to bug them about being fat.
I'm not making it up.
Details coming up.
Vegetarians are less healthy and have a lower quality of life than meat eaters.
That from the University of Graz in Austria.
So we're loaded here today.
I got to take a brief time out.
We'll come back.
We'll continue with all the rest of today's program of the EIB network.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I think Mr. Snerdley may have a point.
Here's what happened.
Yesterday, ABC News, Washington Post, proudly and with great fanfare and with a lot of media support, released a poll that showed for the first time ever a plurality of Americans like and support Obamacare.
The numbers were 49 to 48 percent.
And then I, your host, El Rushbo, remembered that it was a poll four days ago, five days ago now, but four days ago yesterday, that the AP did that showed an all-time low for Obamacare at 26%.
And I made a big hullabaloo about this.
Spent a lot of time on this ABC News poll, as you know, and spent a lot of time on the AP poll, reminding you of it just four days prior, and then asking, how can this be?
And apparently, AP, because I don't know anybody else focused on this to the extent that we did yesterday.
AP has run a story today to explain the difference.
Now, I'm going to tell you something.
This is unprecedented, too.
I have, I mean, it's not unprecedented, but it's rare when one news organization/slash polling company runs a story to explain the differences in their poll and a competing poll.
And that's what AP has done today.
Polls often diverge by a few points, but it's rare to see well-respected polls come to opposing conclusions about the public's take on an issue.
In the last week, however, an Associated Press GFK poll found support for Obama's health care overhaul at a new low, while a Washington Post, ABC news poll showed it had a new high.
The seemingly contradictory findings stem more from question wording and timing than from either poll doing something wrong or even misrepresenting public opinion.
This is circling the wagons here.
This is the AP.
There's no, I mean, why do this?
Who else made a big hullabaloo about this?
It was only made a big deal here.
Nobody else cared, really.
But I am into the sausage factory aspect of this stuff.
So the AP felt duty bound to explain how both polls could be right on the money to circle the wagons and protect the business.
And so here's what they say.
The AP GFK poll asks those taking the poll whether they support, oppose, or neither support nor oppose the law.
While the Washington Post, ABC news poll asks if they support or oppose it.
The inclusion or absence of that neutral category is critical as poll takers respond to the question.
They're asked rather than offering opinions unprompted.
So what their point here is, ABC did not give their poll respondents an opportunity to express the I don't care or I don't know option.
And the AP did.
And the APC doesn't make what ABC did wrong.
It doesn't make what we did wrong.
It doesn't mean that anybody doctor the results, yada, yada, yada.
Yes, it does.
It means that ABC wanted to get a result and they did what they had to do to get it.
And they wanted that result for one day.
They wanted that result for the deadline day or the day after the deadline day.
They wanted it for April 1st so that they could join with the regime.
Because remember, the media is part of the regime.
There is no news anymore.
There really isn't any media.
It's just extensions of the left of the Democrat Party.
And so the timing was to get a poll that showed for the first time ever a plurality, even if it was only by one point, of massive support for Obamacare.
And they got it.
And it allowed them.
Now, I'm going to tell you what's happening here, folks.
These people are deluding themselves.
Obama and the Rose Garden little shenanigans yesterday and these doctored crazy wacko polls.
This is a repeat of 2010.
They just can't deal with reality.
So they're gathering together amongst themselves.
They're telling themselves, not only is everything okay, we're actually beating the hordes back and we're triumphing, we're winning, and everybody loves us now and everybody loves Obamacare now.
They're deluding themselves and they're heading for another crash this November, just like what happened in 2010.
By the way, folks, here is the question that was the ABC Washington Post poll, Obamacare question that produced this first time ever plurality support.
Ready for the question?
It was overall, do you support or oppose the federal law making changes to the health care system?
Overall, do you support or oppose the federal law making changes to the health care system?
Doesn't have Obamacare, doesn't have anything.
It's just pure 100% generic, and there's no don't care, don't know option in there.
And it was designed to get the result that they actually wanted to get, just for one day.
And this is, you know, it leads to a needed, I think, bit of analysis of why talk radio, conservative blogs and the internet and so forth, and how, what purpose they really serve.
Let's take a look, for example, at the story involving San Francisco Democrat Leland Yee and gun running and so forth.
When they did that story, they got it right.
The first time they ran that story, they got it right.
The thing is, they haven't run it anymore.
There's no follow-up.
They never keep you abreast.
They run the story once.
Anything damaging to Democrats like that, if they do it at all, they'll get it right for the most part.
They'll be on record and then they drop it.
They don't follow it up.
They don't continue to editorialize on it.
It just dies.
And so people that didn't hear it the first time don't hear about it at all.
When it's stories that are damaging to conservatives or Republicans, they keep pounding those stories after they do it the first time.
Then they keep rolling them over and over.
And they keep adding elements to it.
The damaging stuff on Democrats that they do report just languishes.
If they report it at all, it dies after the original report.
And they can satisfy the requirement to say that they did it.
And then it is done with.
So it's a cute little game that they're playing.
But I think, folks, just to reiterate what I said, and I said it in a jam-packed timeframe going into the break and bottom of the hour.
I think they're deluding themselves.
They really, now, you'll go to the sound bites coming next.
You'll hear them.
They think they've turned the corner.
Like April 15th, everybody's going to file their taxes.
Is Obama going to do a Rose Garden ceremony to talk about how persuasive he's been and how many people love the income tax?
My God, look at this, folks.
Look at how many have complied this year.
Look how many people love the income tax.
And the income tax is making our country and transfer of wealth possible.
Look at how many millions and millions and millions of people file their taxes.
Yeah.
And of course they're not going to do that because it's mandatory.
It's the law.
It makes what happened in the Rose Garden yesterday, A, disingenuous, B, dishonest, and C, irrelevant.
In fact, it's embarrassing.
You've got a deadline that some people think has been extended and some people don't know it hasn't been extended.
Some people do.
It's the individual mandate.
The law of the land is, as far as most low information people are concerned, you've got to be either you got to have health insurance by yesterday or you have to pay your penalty.
And only $7 million, and that's not even a real number, as we have come to learn and as our instincts yesterday guided us.
It's not even the real number.
Let's start on the audio sound bites and we'll mix your calls in with all this stuff as well.
So those of you on hold are not going to be languishing forever out there.
This is a montage from yesterday, last night, and this morning of the drive-bys orgasmically Reveling in Obama's victory lap.
President Obama took a kind of victory lap.
President Obama called reporters to the White House says something of a victory lap.
What was basically a victory lap here in the Rose Garden?
The president's victory lap.
The president taking a victory lap.
A bit of a victory lap.
The victory lap or crowing and saying, We told you so.
The president's health care victory lap.
A chance to take a victory lap.
The victory lap.
It was a pep rally as much as a victory lap.
And that is what a victory lap sounds like.
The public victory lap.
The president's victory lap yesterday in the Rose Garden.
It's hard not to call this a victory lap.
Really?
You think one of you people, just one of you, could have called it something else?
A celebration?
You all called it a victory lap.
Every one of you.
Every single drive-by reporter called it a victory lap.
So it didn't matter where you watched the news yesterday.
That's what you got.
Well, let's go back to the grooveyard of forgotten favorites, shall we?
January 2005.
Here is a drive-by media montage of condemnation George W. Bush for displaying hubris at the beginning of his second term for daring to claim a mandate.
If you'll recall, you may not recall, I will tell you.
After Bush's reelection in 2004, first met the press 2004, 2005, this is in January 2005, and he said he was going to start spending his political capital.
That's how he said it.
Meaning he had a mandate.
He won by a large margin.
He had a mandate.
He ran on a campaign of specific things, and he was going to start doing it.
And the drive-bys were not happy and decided to condemn Bush.
Now, when you win an election, the aftermath is a victory lap.
But this is not what they called that.
Oh, no, no, no.
This was Bush being braggadocious and filled with hubris, and it was very, very bad.
A president thinking that he has more of a mandate than he does, hubris, if you will.
He has a hubris issue.
Hubris can also reach to overreaching.
Hubris.
A scandal often is a product of hubris.
Hubris in the second term.
Do you agree with the hubris?
Well, I think the hubris, the hubris, is certainly the problem.
Or whether he's going to be captured by hubris.
The other problem is hubris.
You just have to be careful about what the ancient Greeks called hubris.
The president is susceptible to hubris.
When somebody accuses Boiser of hubris, use the word hubristic, meaning hubris.
It approached the edge of being hubristic, filled with hubris.
But you can't get caught up in hubris.
Have you seen hubris in the past four years?
No, no, this wasn't about hubris.
Only one guy was Bill Schneider.
Whatever happened to Bill Schneider?
Did he move to Moscow, finally make it official?
He used to wear one of those big Moscow hats.
Remember when it was wintertime in New England?
He put the hat like the old Soviet leaders wore and put him on report from outside the polling place.
Bill Schneider, remember him?
He's the guy at the end there.
No, no, no, no, this wasn't about hubris.
Just, and of course, remember when Bush celebrated victory on the deck of the aircraft carrier when he landed after the invasion of Iraq was, oh, they hated that.
They didn't permit any victory lap there.
But when Obama does it, oh, yeah.
And let's not forget what was the mission of Obamacare?
Was the mission of Obamacare to sign up 7.1 million people?
No, Ladies and gentlemen, Obamacare was supposed to insure 443, whatever number, millions of people who didn't have insurance.
That's what Obamacare was supposed to do.
Obamacare wasn't supposed to sign up 7 million people.
Signing up 7 million people is chump change irrelevant.
It's embarrassingly insignificant.
And yet they're all throwing themselves a party there in the rose garden.
They're deluding themselves.
I mean, if you take, even if you take the most rosy figures, they've only insured about 6 million.
I don't even think that's an accurate number because they don't, I mean, nothing's changed.
They don't even really know.
But it will give them benefit of the doubt.
They've insured 6 million, 4.5 million in Medicaid.
That's not Obamacare.
So the mission was to ensure 43 million uninsured.
And they've got 7 million signed up on a day dictated by law.
They're actually celebrating people complying with the law as though this is some great sales job or massive job of great persuasion by Obama.
Is it 47?
The AP, okay, AP today is saying 47 million uninsured.
Status update has health law marks a milestone.
Does he, there you go, what milestone?
We've got 47 million uninsured.
The number is growing after three years of Obamacare.
Well, three years since passage.
They're deluding themselves.
They're again creating and living in a false reality, and they end up believing it, folks.
Be right back.
I need to pose a question.
You've heard it said by many that once we get deep into Obamacare, that we cannot repeal it because you cannot take away health care from people.
You simply cannot take the entitlement away.
It's never happened.
And once it gets embedded too deeply, it's gone forever.
You cannot take people's health care away.
But didn't Obama do just that by implementing Obama?
How many millions of people lost their health insurance?
6 million people at last count lost their health insurance.
They were canceled.
They don't have it replaced yet.
How many people are at this moment panicked or in a state of panic, either because they can't afford the new price, they are uncovered after being canceled, or they've been fired, or they've been downsized or whatever.
When Obama did it, everybody said it was progress.
Obama's taken health care away from people.
That's one of the, I think, important realities that goes unmentioned here.
It's always the Republicans.
That's what Obama, you'll hear it coming up at a soundbite in a Rose Garden yesterday.
He said, I don't understand why these Republicans want to take people's health care away from them.
Republicans are not the ones who are taking people's health care away from them.
It is you, Mr. President, doing that.
Barack Obama, middle name Hussein.
Pronounce it sometimes, other times I don't.
Just depends on how I feel.
He's the one who has engineered six million people losing their health insurance, maybe more.
Here is Peter in Seattle.
As we grab a quick phone call.
Peter, thank you for calling.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Wow, Rush.
I'm so glad I'm on my way to work.
I'm listening to you talk about the poll, and I hear you tell us exactly what the poll question was.
And I'm listening and I'm going, well, I would support the federal government changing our health care system.
It's costing more and more money every year.
But I don't like Obamacare.
So the question is very deceiving.
I'm an anti-Obamacare voter, 100%.
Yet, as posed, I thought, well, yeah, I would like to see changes.
So it's very deceiving.
I've never seen an administration in my 65 years of being here.
I've never seen an administration manage to manipulate the press so well.
I feel almost like I'm approaching the Eastern bloc.
He's not manipulating the press.
He doesn't have to.
I agree with you there.
He doesn't have to do it, but it feels like it.
No, no, they're already on board.
They're willing accomplices.
They're not being manipulated here.
Well, okay, I agree with you there, Rush.
I can't help but agree with you.
Well, I'll tell you, you don't sound anywhere near 65, so I had to make that observation.
But look at, folks, Peter here's exactly right.
The ABC question, do you think the health care system needs, do you support the changes?
You support changes in healthcare.
Everybody does.
Everybody thinks it could be improved, but that's why they left Obamacare out.
So they asked this generic, it's a push-poll question.
The Washington Post has been asking this question for years.
It's always had a high numbers.
Why they go back to it?
It's always been a close split for years because the question is so vague.
Do you support or oppose changes in the health care system?
Well, if there's no reference to Obamacare and you're just answering, you don't even maybe know what this thing's about.
You don't even.
So it's totally misleading, push-poll misleading on purpose.
Now, I'm going to tell you what.
Remember, folks, Obama has only begun to take away insurance.
He hasn't gotten to the employer-provided plans yet.
That's next year, unless he waives them.
The only people that have been canceled and lost their health insurance are the people who buy it themselves.
Those of you who get your health insurance from your employer, your turn's coming.
That's why I keep saying that most Americans don't yet have the slightest idea what's going to happen to them.
They're hearing all the horror stories.
You know what?
In fact, last night at the annual Night of the Century cigar dinner, I had a guy, I thought it was a good question.
In fact, it helps me to make this point.
He said, Rush, I keep hearing about all the disasters and the horror stories, but nothing's happened to me.
I still have my plan and everything's fine.
I said, well, do you get your insurance at work from your employer?
Yeah.
Well, you're next.
You haven't been touched yet by design because most people are in your boat.
Most people have their health insurance through work.
And the people still employed get their health insurance through work is a large number.
And your turn's coming.
Wait until the employer mandate that was supposed to have been waived.
But so far, the only people really being impacted are people that provide for themselves.
They call up and like to buy their own car insurance, buy their own health insurance.
You, who get yours through your job, are next.
And it makes sense to me.
I don't understand what the folder rolls about, Russia.
Everything's fine with mine.
Well, not totally.
Your employer could yet still cancel you and offload the whole benefit, which many have started doing.
Working hard to stay focused, fighting the ravages of the common cult virus, which just won't let go.
And doing my best, ladies and gentlemen, to stay concentrated on the objective.
So far, so good.
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