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April 2, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 2, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Folks is a perfect example.
I I'm I'm still stuck on, you know, Obama in the Oval and the Rose Garden yesterday.
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
Well what's wrong with so many people getting health insurance?
Why would anybody be against 7.1 million people having health insurance?
Let me try to explain it to you.
Because I don't think it's it's it's hard at all.
It's a major difference between us and the left.
And the reaction to these sign-up numbers.
Okay, so we get 7.1 million people.
You know, we would all prefer a country robust, thriving, growing, and people living in this country making that happen.
We would love people prospering, growing, doing things that inspire them and inspire others and things that they enjoy and prospering from it.
We would prefer that seven million people don't need a subsidy to pay their health insurance.
We would prefer a country where people are able to afford it.
We don't want to celebrate the fact that 7.1 million people are on welfare for crying out loud.
We don't want to celebrate the fact that 7.1 people are getting subsidies and are able to have their neighbors help them pay for their health insurance.
We would we would rather prefer that four and a half million Americans, more million, four and a half more million Americans, don't need to go on Medicaid in order to have health insurance.
But the left celebrates this stuff.
The more people in welfare, the better.
The more people being subsidized, the better.
The more people being helped, the better, because some it's an accomplishment.
Charity equals accomplishment.
This is not even charity.
This is such a big difference.
And that this is the major difference.
We're not going to sit here and celebrate the fact that 7.1 million Americans go on welfare.
The left does.
We want a country where that isn't necessary.
We want a country with as few people dependent on government as possible.
And that's how we would measure success.
The Democrats, the left, it's an entirely different equation.
The more people on welfare, the more people getting benefits, the better.
Because they think they are righting wrongs.
They think they're taking care of people who've been cheated.
Stolen from and otherwise.
It's a huge divide.
So Obama says, I don't know why anybody would be against people getting health insurance.
That's not what people are against.
What we are sick and tired of is looking at at watching a political party with the aid of government essentially destroying people's lives.
Listen to this from Nancy Pelosi.
You know, I the I go back and forth on this woman.
Is she really this dumb or is it an act tailored to low information voters?
And I have to say, ladies and gentlemen, that it's the jury's still out on this.
But I'm going to give you an example of why it is a question.
She was uh speaking with reporters outside the White House yesterday after this victory lap celebration.
And this will tell you this one soundbite here will do so much, but it also it'll tell you why I am so desperate to teach history to children because of this.
This is the kind of bastardization, recipe, and redefinition of what the founding of this country was all about.
This is Nancy Pelosi Defining the purposes for the founding of this country and getting it dead wrong.
Here we go.
Here's the first.
There are those who are critics and there have been bumps in the road, but they've only been They have not been an obstacle to the American people, having a healthier life.
But our founders wanted for them.
Life, a healthier life, liberty, the freedom to pursue their happiness, not job locked.
But having benefits that health care policies that are portable.
They could be self-employed, be a photographer, they could start their own business, they could change jobs, they could reach their aspirations.
This, folks, is infuriating.
This is what she thinks the founding fathers meant by life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, portability of your health insurance benefits.
Yes, life, a healthier life, the founders.
A healthier life.
Liberty, the freedom to pursue happiness, and you can't be happy if you have to work.
You can't be pursuing happiness if you are job locked.
Because you gotta have benefits.
You need health care policies that are portable.
And the founders knew this.
It is that exact reason that I decided to write these books for kids that teach us the truth about the founding of this country and American history.
Now I want to read to you, ladies and gentlemen, a quote from one of the founders.
His name is Benjamin Franklin.
He once said, I am for doing good to the poor.
But I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
I observed that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided themselves.
And of course, became even poorer.
On the contrary, the less was done for the poor, the more they did for themselves, and they became richer.
The founders hated job lock.
The founders never heard of it.
I never heard of it till she made it up two years ago.
But to Nancy Pelosi, the fact that you have to work by definition means you're not pursuing happiness.
The fact that you have to work by definition means you are doing something you would rather not do, and you're being denied the opportunity to do what you would rather do.
all because you have to work.
And if it weren't for this silly, stupid requirement that you have to work, that you have to do something you hate, that you can't do something you love, That we need Obamacare, so that you can get free health care so that you can finally pursue happiness.
And that's what the founding fathers meant.
Now, is this woman just dumb or stupid, or is this manipulation of the low information voter?
Or is it a combination of the two?
I think it's the latter.
That is exactly why, ladies and gentlemen, wrote Rush Revere in the Brave Pilgrims and Rush Revere in the First Patriots and why there's going to be more Rush Revere's Rush, Rush, Rush, rushing to history.
Right.
It's to fix this kind.
We're dealing with current day rot gut.
The founding Fathers did not have one thing in common.
Let me put it, Nancy Pelosi doesn't have one thing in common with the Founding Fathers when it comes to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
She doesn't even understand what it means.
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness means individuality, rugged individualism, self-reliance, not dependence on a political party or a government.
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness means discovering yourself.
Loving yourself, finding your own way in yourself.
The pursuit of happiness, however, you define it.
But the only way in Pelosi's world you can find happiness is to not work and be totally dependent on what the government via the Democrat Party can provide for you and then go out and laise away your day doing what you'd really rather do while we take care of your benefits.
And to try to convey that that's what the founders meant, co-opt the preamble of the Declaration of Independence for crying out loud.
The whole notion of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness is a declaration of independence, not the declaration of dependence.
One more Pelosi soundbite if I can handle it.
It's short, it's only 15 segundos.
Elections are always about jobs.
So I think that while, as they say, we're proud of the Affordable Care Act, we now pivot to job creation, which is, you know, the bill creates four million that will create four million jobs.
So this is a jobs bill.
What was she talking about now?
Affordable Care Act's gonna create four million jobs, right?
There is nothing.
There is nothing in the Democrat Party agenda that creates any jobs in the private sector.
Anyway, it's brief timeout time while I attempt to regain my composure.
By the way, folks, in the second week in a row, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is at number one on the New York Times bestseller list in the children's book category.
And Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is at number four.
So we got two books in a top five on the New York Times bestsellers list and the second week here at number one for the new book, Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
I'm getting a lot of people, you know, hey, Rush, I like how you're sneaking in Obama in this.
What do you mean I'm gonna sneak in Obama?
No, Obama's not in these books.
I don't want anybody mischaracterize.
Oh, Russia, you can't fool me.
A conversation Rush Revere has with King George.
No, no, no, no.
That's not, that's not.
That conversation is designed to teach kids about socialist or totalitarian government, no matter who.
And it's designed to teach them what the colonists wanted freedom from and what they were willing to fight for.
It was it was uh not a stroke of uh, if if I might say so, genius, to actually put Rush Revere in the palace with King George and actually interview him.
What are you doing to the colonists?
King, what's what in the world are you doing to these people?
Why are you taxing them so why are you denying them this?
Why are you making them do that?
And then just have the king speak as all tyrants do.
In real time, so that the kids can learn it.
But you're not gonna see the word liberal or conservative or socialist or communist or any of that.
They're just gonna learn it.
All rooted in truth, historical truth, and the mission.
I couldn't, I couldn't be given a better opportunity to explain why doing these children's books than that stupid.
Really dangerously stupid.
Soundbite from Nancy Pelosi.
Next thing we know, the founders were going to be against photo IDs.
The next thing we know, the founders were gonna be for amnesty.
The next thing we know, the founders were going to be insistent on abortion rights.
The next thing we know, the founders are going to be in favor of the Catholic church marrying gay people.
Well, what's to stop her?
If she can bastardize what the founders meant with the preamble of the declaration, where's the end to it?
And this is exactly what they're doing in the curriculum with young kids.
So we're stopping it.
Giving them the alternative of truthful history.
Here is Ray, Treyer, Iowa.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello there, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
You and Ronald Reagan are two of my favorite people in the world.
Well, I appreciate it.
That's really great company.
Thank you very much.
Well, uh, I bought both of your books.
I'm looking forward to going through them.
I only started the first one, but it's it's highly entertaining.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
You know, I gotta tell you, I'm gonna take a I had a friend of mine, a guy 70 years old, a friend of mine.
I just finished your book.
I said, What?
Yeah, I just read your book.
I see what you're he got it for his grandkids.
It was a great read.
I said, You're kidding me, you're 70 years.
Yeah, it was a great read.
I was I was overwhelmed.
Well, it's a good book for any age, Rush.
But uh the reason I call it is because I'm doing some Latin penetrates, and so I was listening to the president's address in Rose Garden yesterday.
And something occurred to me.
You know, in the media, we keep hearing Republicans are obsessed with overturning Obamacare.
That's their only election year issue.
It's gonna turn against them, and blah, blah, blah.
Yeah.
What to me is that Democrats were equally committed to overturning don't ask, don't tell, which we know is signed by Bill Smith.
But based on all it was bad policy, and they worked tirelessly to overturn that law.
And they were successful.
Well, uh, no one criticized them or called them obsessed at the time.
So I don't think Republicans have anything to be ashamed of.
No, no, they don't.
In fact, it's just the exact opposite.
In fact, your point, it is not us who are obsessed with Obamacare.
We were minding our own business, everything going along fine, and they force it on us.
They are the ones obsessed.
We're simply we go through we get up and go about our lives, and every we're under assault by these people.
Everybody's fine.
Happy dory, every good thing's hunky-dory.
We don't need here come these people and telling us everything's unfair and everything's unjust and everything's immoral, and and and you're not recognizing the way we want to live.
You're not recognizing you must do this, and you gotta do this, and then we're gonna do that, and then you're destroying the planet, and you're not driving the right car, and you're eating the wrong foods, and you're too fat, you're not walking enough, but we was shut up.
You know, if you can't make yourself happy, leave us alone.
Do not ask us to join you in your misery.
We're not obsessed with anything.
They're the ones that are obsessed.
They're the ones obsessed with Obamacare.
They're the ones forcing everything they believe on everybody else.
They do not have the confidence to leave anything up to a vote.
They don't have the confidence to put anything up for a debate.
We're not obsessed with anything other than trying to hold on to the traditions, the institutions, what have you, that we love and revere and that have defined this country's greatness.
We are under assault every day.
We get up, we're minding our own business, and we find out that something else has made them unhappy.
Something else is making them miserable.
Something else is hurting their self-esteem.
So they get up and they are in palpable fear that people enjoying themselves are destroying the planet.
They get up and they're scared to death that people driving cars they enjoy and very much like are destroying the planet, or the way people are eating is making them fail, or whatever.
They just and cannot abide.
People enjoying themselves.
They are miserable and they want everybody to join them in it.
So I I mean, I don't even accept the premise.
The media is saying Republicans obsessed with Obamacare.
We have no choice.
If we care about the things that we believe in, we've got to defend them because they're under assault every day.
I'm amazed.
I made my CPAC speech, my first national address, first televised address to the country.
And I'm going through the basic definitions of conservatism, and I'm getting standing ovations.
And I finally paused.
So for those of you watching on TV, you might be wondering why I'm getting all this crazy applause for basics.
And it's because these people think that all these things are under assault every day in this country.
And they are.
I hadn't heard that we're obsessed with Obamacare.
I hadn't heard that.
It ticks me off.
I'm sitting here, and the more I think about that, the more it ticks me off.
You know, I wasn't a lot of things till these people got in gear and started making me have to defend what I believe in.
All of a sudden, I don't know about you, but you get up every day, go about your life you enjoy.
Then you find out that what you're eating makes them mad.
What you're driving makes them mad.
And the kind of gasoline you're putting in what you drive makes them mad.
The kind of house you live in makes them mad.
Where you live in that house makes you mad.
Where you work and what you do makes them mad.
What you care about and don't care about makes them mad.
Virtually everything you do in their in your life irritates them to the point that they have to get you to change what you're doing.
Well, who the hell are they?
What gives them the right to dictate to everybody else?
We're not the ones obsessed.
They are.
I'll tell you something else.
I wish these leftists would make up their minds about the founders.
Are they racist, sexist, bigoted slave owners?
Are they these brilliant people that understood job lock and didn't want you to have to work for your health insurance?
Which is it?
One day Pelosi will say that these people were slave owners, they're racist, and they were sexist, and we can't.
We can't rely on anything they wrote because it's outdated.
They were old-fashioned and they were racist and they were white and they were slave owners, and then the next day they're the greatest, smartest guys in the world who understood job block, and they didn't want you to have to work at something you hated so you would have health insurance.
Now, which is it?
And I'll tell you something, for those of you out there who think you are owed health care and you can't wait to get your subsidized policy.
Can I give you an idea of who it is that's paying for what is subsidized mean?
It means somebody else is paying for it.
Have you stopped for a moment to think who it is that might be subsidizing your health insurance that you don't think you have any responsibility to pay for?
How about the Koch brothers?
How many of these these idiots that think they're virtuous and everything by accepting subsidized because they're Americans and they're entitled, and it's a benefit, and they should keep getting benefits because it's what it means.
Well, who's paying the benefits?
Because it isn't Pelosi.
She's not spending a dime of her own money on you people.
And it isn't Harry Reed.
He isn't spending a dime of his money on you people.
And it certainly isn't Obama.
It's everybody paying taxes that are subsidizing, and that would include the Koch brothers.
And a bunch of corporations who are paying taxes, too.
Some days these people just irritate me.
Really?
Depending on the time of the month, Nancy Pelosi can think the greatest thing in the world of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, or the next day they're racist pig slave owners, and wrote stuff that's so old and antiquated we can't rely on it Like the second amendment, we gotta get rid of it.
But then when it comes to health insurance, something they never wrote about, and when it comes to job lock, something they never even considered, why they're brilliant.
That's why I say keep a sharp eye, because it'll be long for Pelosi tells you the founders did not believe in photo ID to vote.
And the founders did not have a problem with amnesty and open borders.
And that the founders wanted the Catholic church illegalize abortion and gay marriage.
Whatever she thinks, she can convince her low information voters to believe.
Here's David Aventura, Florida.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Nice to talk to you to you again, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I I love the way you articulated history behind health care yesterday.
That really helped a lot.
But what I wanted to get to was uh that you had mentioned something about uh the uh uh longevity of runners in an earlier research study.
It's correct.
By the way, I agree with you.
Thank you, sir.
It's happy to have people on your team.
I know it's basically basically what I'm trying to tell you is heart disease, heart disease is not a disease of performance.
It's just a separate pathology like leukemia, cancer, or anything else like that.
And for those people that are spending time running on treadmills, ellipticals.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Not it's a separate pathology like leukemia or it does not adapt to improve performance.
So you mean getting on a treadmill is not a cure or a fix for heart disease.
Uh it's the antithesis of a fix to heart disease.
Actually, it may make it worse.
It's useless.
The only reason that you would get on a treadmill, and they're doing this out in California, is to run the power to the gym itself.
Otherwise, it's wasted energy.
The only adaptation rush occurs in your muscles.
Well, you're describing human guinea.
Human hamsters.
I mean, they're on the treadmill to power the gym.
Absolutely.
Yeah, that's what I was taught last year.
Well, I don't have you're from Aventura, Florida, but they got they got Aventura.
You may not know this.
Aventuras were.
No, that's Atlantis.
Heart research hospital.
That's Atlantis, not Aventura.
But he's got a point.
Here's what he's talking about.
It's uh CBS News, excuse me, out of Washington, and here it is.
I mentioned the first hour.
Going for runs on a regular basis has been linked to a multitude of health benefits in countless research studies.
But recent research suggests that too much running is tied, not can be, not could be, not might be, is tied to a shorter lifespan.
The study results revealed on Sunday by Dr. Martin Matsumura, the co-director of the cardiovascular research institute at Lehigh Valley Health Network, found that people who get no exercise, along with people considered high mileage runners, both have shorter lifespans than those considered to be running an average amount.
Although the researchers note that the reasons are still somewhat unclear.
Really?
It seemed pretty clear to me.
What would be what be hard to figure out about this if it's right?
People who get no exercise along with people that go all the time, shorter lifespans than those considered to be running an average amount.
It's the old moderation argument.
You know, the people that the fatter the butt, the bigger the heart disease.
That's the that's the thinking on the yeah, bigger the butt, better the heart disease.
Meaning you sit on your butt all day long, you're gonna have heart disease.
Now these guys are coming around, so you kind of get it, then you start jogging, you start running and healthy.
And these people have done research.
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
It It's not too.
Dr. Matsumura and his colleagues, and that's the correct way to pronounce it by the way for an elitist, it's not colleagues.
You watch, you paid its colleagues.
Particularly European elites, your colleagues.
Dr. Matsumura and his colleagues reviewed data from over 3,800 male and female runners who participated in a master's running study.
It was a web-based study of health and training for runners over the age of 35, and nearly 70% of the runners self-reported running more than 20 miles every week, and the average of that high mileage runners was 42 years of age.
Information regarding use of painkillers and prescription medicines were compiled with heart risk factors, diabetes, high blood pressure, family history of chronic illness.
I mean, they went deep here.
Study authors said none of these factors explain the shorter life spans associated with high mileage runners versus moderate runners.
There's just too much wear and tear, said Dr. Matsumora.
He said the sweet spot for running is a slow to moderate pace for a total of two and a half hours each week.
Well, I love reporting this kind of news.
It just confuses people.
Everybody thinks that the more you run, the healthier you are, the longer you live.
Excuse me, I'm sorry, folks.
Couldn't reach cough button.
I mentioned this too at the top of the program, and I want to spend just a little more time on it instead of headline time.
Mm-hmm.
Before the regime gave an inaccurate narrative on national television that the Benghazi attacks grew from an anti-American protest.
Before that, this is the key.
Before anybody from the regime went on TV, could be Obama, could be Hillary, Susan Rice, doesn't matter, whoever, before anybody in the regime went on TV and blamed what happened in Benghazi on a videotape that caused protests and riots before anybody said that.
The CIA station chief in Libya told his superiors in Washington that no such demonstrations occurred.
So the regime purposely they knew that what they were saying was untrue.
When Obama, when Hillary, when Susan Rice, well, whoever went out and advanced the idea that there were protests at these embassies because of that videotape.
They were told before they went out there and said that that there were no protests.
There were no demonstrations.
The only demonstrations that occurred happened after the regime let everybody know there was a video.
Nobody knew there was a video until Obama and Hillary and Susan Rice and whoever went out there and blamed it.
Up till that time, a total of ten people had seen it.
When Obama and Hillary and Susan Rice blamed that video is when the world said, what video and went and found it.
And then the protests began.
Obama and Hillary and Susan Rice essentially caused additional protests.
But they were told, long before they went out, and said that, by the CIA station chief in Libya, that no such demonstrations occurred.
This was the result of testimony, documents, and interviews with current and former intelligence officials.
The attack was not an escalation of protests, said the station chief.
He wrote to the then deputy CIA director Michael Morell in an email September 15th of 2012.
A full day before the White House sent Susan Rice on all those Sunday shows.
A full day.
They sent her out there with a lie, knowingly.
And of course the Republicans did not want to make a big deal out of this during the presidential campaign because of why.
Well, it might irritate the independents.
and And all of that.
I gotta take it.
Another time out, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll be back.
We'll continue.
We got more.
Don't go away.
You know, I just saw this on CNN.
This is this is classic.
Who's the guy that directs the uh Hobbit movie?
Peter Peter Jackson.
Peter Jackson.
Apparently, Peter Jackson has a his own plane, a G650.
Which is a cool airplane.
And apparently his plane is used as he's donated it or whatever in the search for the Malaysian plane.
Movie director's private jet helps in search.
Oh, what a guy!
What a guy!
Oh my god, the Hobbit guy search.
Oh, isn't it a beautiful thing?
Well, no, I've got nothing against it.
Of course, I don't have anything against it.
I just never mind.
I need more time to explain why that's a – what media trick is being used there.
Well, it's a good use of a corporate plane that that may excuse him having it.
It may ignoculate him.
You don't have to worry about his carbon footprint.
Exactly right.
So if Peter Jackson, if he's using his big evil corporate jet, just like the ones that Koch brothers have, of course, they probably got bigger ones.
Notice they have not donated theirs for the search.
Hollywood equals good, love, caring, and all that.
Nancy Sinatra, who is Ronan Faroe's half-sister, I guess, has tweeted the following SCOTUS Supreme Court is destroying our democracy.
We the people have no voice anymore.
All SCOTUS did say you can donate ever much you want.
Nancy, what do you mean you've got no voice?
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