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April 7, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 7, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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And greetings once again, folks.
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And I mentioned a couple of times today.
One of the one of the problems, you look at Obama.
His approval numbers in 40 to 42 range, depending on the poll.
But it's not because people are associating him with the failures taking place in the country.
Except maybe one.
And it is a big one.
What's happening is that people are losing faith in the country.
Because it it it again, it boils down to these intentions.
No, yeah, okay, I know unemployment's higher, and there are more people out of work, and labor force participated rate.
Nothing's better.
Everything is worse after five years of Obama than it was when he took office.
Everything is worse.
But he didn't mean for this to happen.
He didn't mean for he wanted to fix things.
And so how else do you explain it?
Well, maybe it's just country's had its day.
And maybe American dreams just not possible for us anymore.
It's all caught up with us.
It happened to coincide when I was born, Mr. Limbaugh.
Maybe it's just, you know, you want to grab these people the shoulder, say, no, no, no.
This country hasn't lost anything.
This country's got an obstacle in its way right now.
Call Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.
I just had an email during the break.
So, Mr. Limbaugh, what are you doing with all this?
Okay, it's been a great two hours, but so what?
What's the point?
It's a good question.
What the emailer really wants to know is what's the answer.
Okay, if they're mischaracterizing us, they're calling us hate-filled bigots, what's the answer?
It's been my objective since day one here.
Don't vote Democrat.
Learn what happens when liberals run things and don't elect them.
That's the answer.
But Rush Governor Christie said we can't just be what we're against anymore.
We've got to be what we're there's no shortage of people telling you what we're for.
We are for you.
Being the best you can be.
We want a great country.
It is a great country.
We want it to keep on and be even greater.
It is really sad.
So many young people.
I can tell you when I was their age, never once did I think the country was finished.
If I failed, if I got fired, I didn't blame the country.
I didn't blame Washington.
I didn't blame policy.
I just said that's what happened.
I got mad.
I might have beat myself up.
I might have blamed somebody else, but eventually went about dealing with it.
But it is new.
Young people losing faith in the country.
Because Obama's really trying hard.
He's trying.
I mean, how many job summits is he had, Mr. Limbaugh?
I mean, he's worked really hard on Obamacare.
I said, yeah, but there's a problem with that too.
I think one of the primary reasons people have lost faith in the country is Obama, if you want to know the truth.
You can't tell me that a man telling a lie for three years 25 times somehow is not attached to it.
You like your doctor?
Well, you keep your doctor.
You like your plan?
You keep your plan.
Under my plan, you keep your doctor, you keep your plan.
And you know what?
Your premium is gonna come down $2,500.
You can't tell that lie for three straight years, and then have your insurance canceled and the replacement cost double or triple and not be affected by it.
So you have a president who's told maybe what the biggest most impactful personal presidential lie in most people's lives.
That's going to impact negatively on Obama, and it's gonna, it's gonna impact negatively on the country, particularly if the Obama likability number stays high.
CNN poll at the end of 2013, 53% said Obama wasn't honest or trustworthy.
So he's starting to lose that.
And so what's happening here is that millennials and so forth, uh, they're just being turned off by politics in general, and anything, Washington.
And they really hate the NSA spying.
They're starting to get whacked by Obamacare now.
And there aren't any careers to be had.
There are jobs now and then, but there aren't any careers, certainly not what they went to school for.
Wages are not climbing, health care costs are, jobs are stagnant, nothing's going in the right direction.
There isn't much trust anywhere in the public.
It's pretty sour out there.
And yet, if it really attached to Obama, he'd be in the 20s right now.
Deservedly in the 20s.
And the only reason he's not is the media.
Do not doubt that.
Couple of support things here.
Last week, Gwyneth Paltrow on her website goop to explain her divorce, talked about how tough actresses have it compared to stay-at-home moms and working mothers.
I'm not taking a position on it.
I'm just telling you what she said.
She said that 14-hour days on the set and all the makeup and all that, just people don't know that it just takes you away from your family.
It's just hard.
It'd be much easier to be at home with the kids all the time or to have a job and a nanny and then go home to the kids.
Well, a woman decided to write back to Gwyneth at the New York Post named Mackenzie Dawson.
She wrote back and basically told Gwyneth Paltrow she's an idiot, didn't know what she was talking about.
And she gave her the details of her stay-at-home life with her kids and her working and all that, and said, Gwyneth, your life is fantasy island compared to mine, is essentially what she was saying.
And then her email struck a lot of nerve.
She says, last week I wrote an open letter to Gwyneth Paltrow about some condescending comments she'd made in an interview where she said moms with the routine of an office job had it easier than her, who had to spend months on a movie set.
In the space of a couple days, I got hundreds of emails from working moms, single mom, stay-at-home moms, divorced dads, finance dads, tech dads, female lawyers, ER nurses, teachers, one country music star, and a Congolese refugee.
3.6 million readers here at the New York Post.
The letter clearly struck a nerve what gives.
Obviously, there's the celebrity angle coupled with the specific Gwyneth Paltrow, Schaden Freud element, a lot of people, but anyway, this woman ended up with a whole lot of atta girls after taking it to Gwyneth Paltrow.
So she's writing her conquering piece here.
And I want to take you to the second to last paragraph.
And I realize I'm going to be at a minority on this.
Let's read the preceding paragraph too, shall we?
Yes.
All of this, the lack of paid leave, lack of affordable child care, an accepted culture of overwork, and businesses that are slow to embrace, flexible or work from home arrangements, combines to create an atmosphere where many parents feel under attack as they go about the business of trying to raise kids who will grow up to become good future citizens.
So that's kind of a synopsis of her email back to Gwyneth Paltrow.
You think it's easy out here?
We don't have paid leave.
We would have an affordable health care anymore.
We don't we have an accepted culture of people working themselves overworking to the bone, and that's how you define who you are.
Work, work, work, work, work.
And businesses.
We have businesses that are slow to embrace being flexible, let people work at home, and all this creates an atmosphere where parents feel overwhelmed.
They're just under attack as they go about the business of trying to raise kids to grow up and be good people.
So shut up, Gwyneth.
Then the next paragraph, which I highlighted in red, so I would not miss it.
And it boils down to one thing.
Whether they were women with high powered jobs or women working two jobs to make ends meet, working Americans feel, working American parents.
Working American parents feel like they've reached a tipping point in their attempts to balance life and work.
They want more support from their elected officials.
They do?
How is that going to manifest itself?
I'm not trying to pick a fight.
Don't misunderstand.
I don't know Mackenzie Dawson.
She heard Her responses to Gwyneth Paltrow were right on as far as I'm concerned.
And I don't care one way or the other about Gwyneth Paltrow.
Don't misunderstand.
But after cataloging all of the problems that modern good parents have.
These are the mom and dad parents.
She's not a single mother.
She doesn't, she's this these are these are the traditional standard nuclear family parents.
All the problems they've got.
No paid leave.
Affordable child care doesn't exist.
Accepted culture of overwork.
Businesses don't let you work from home.
It's just feels under attack.
And the solution is more support from elected officials.
That is, I think how we got into this problem is all of this.
Meddling.
Disguised as support from elected officials.
I've always said I was not going to become one of those old fuddy duddies that talked about how I walked 10 miles in 10 feet of snow to school every year.
Was never going to be one of those kind of people.
And I'm not.
But I I can't remember with any problem in my life ever thinking that my congressman should fix it.
Especially a problem in the family.
That the last people I would call.
So there's been obviously a societal shift, and it's undeniable that there's this huge amount of dependence.
But what is an elected?
What what would support from an elected official mean?
Calling up a business.
You let them work from home.
Maybe a bill.
Or the affordable child care act.
Is this not the answer?
But maybe McKenzie Dawson doesn't know anywhere else to go.
Or how to deal with.
Well, that's that's my point.
The government, the left, the the nanny state, they've been involved in child care.
They've been they've been defining child care as something an industrialized nation lets the government do, and we're the last one that been doing for decades here.
And it's not none of it's improved.
It's just gotten worse.
I don't make a big deal of it.
It's just that one paragraph.
Well, see, that's this is the thing.
After looking at how bad a mess the government has made of Obamacare, why would you want them involved in raising your kid?
Or why would you want them involved in your business being told what to do?
Especially that.
But I understand.
I understand how it works, because for years and years and years, businesses are the same things as Republicans.
They're filled with people who hate.
They kill their customers.
Big pharma, big oil.
They kill their customers, they destroy the planet.
Don't you know the purpose of every corporation is to kill its customers?
That's how it's going to stay in business.
Go figure.
All right, another brief obscene profit timeout, my friends.
Be back in just a moment.
Ah, welcome back.
They've they got a folks, I heard a ping out there somewhere in the CNN did.
There's a ping.
And I got a soundbite here.
Well, there's a ping.
They heard a ping, they think from the ocean floor.
Somewhere within range of where they could hear pings.
They're looking for it.
Dan Pfeiffer, who is uh senior White House advisor.
He's in the press office, spokesman guys.
He was on a slay the nation yesterday, Bob Schiefer.
You listen to this.
I mean, it's right along what I'm talking about today.
Bob Schaefer said, What about the politics of Obamacare?
I mean, some people are saying that you may wind up with a Republican controlled Senate, and it'll be because of Obamacare.
Every poll says that Obamacare is still unpopular.
The Republican argument of repeal is a political loser.
What they are arguing now is that the 7 million people who signed up through the exchanges and the millions more who got it from Medicaid and other ways, they're going to take health care away from all of those people.
There you go.
Here you go.
You see mean spirited Republicans.
They want to take health insurance away from people.
I don't know what.
Anybody won't do it.
I don't know what's in it for folks that take health insurance away from people.
That's not what repeal of Obamacare means.
The only people losing health care are people that voted for Barack Obama.
The only guy responsible for anybody's health care being lost is Barack Obama via healthcare.gov via Obamacare.
And where is it?
Gallup.
Right here it is.
Major new Gallup survey suggests the Obamacare signup numbers are not as soaring as the White House claims.
Massive survey released today.
Shows the number of uninsured indeed has fallen to its lowest level in years, but that's well, the Gallup uh health ways well-being index measured the share of adults without health insurance.
That shrank from 17% to 15%.
But the numbers suggest a far more modest impact on coverage than statistics cited by the regime.
The regime says 7.1 million people have signed up.
3 million previously uninsured people gained insurance coverage through the law's Medicaid expansion.
Why the huge difference?
Now Gallup is just counting adults.
The regime counts children as well.
But the point is the Gallup survey says that there's nowhere near 7 million people have signed up.
Nowhere near all the numbers are just flat out bogus.
Now something else with health care, I'm going to get in the next half hour.
I told you that when that special election in Florida, what the Democrats are going to do, they were going to say, hey, you know what?
This isn't the same bill that we signed with what we voted for, and we want to fix it.
And this is another Fox News story about how the Democrats pushing Obamacare remedies.
It's a compilation of stories.
This one story is a compilation of stories about how the uh the fix of Obamacare is the new Democrat strategy and how the Republicans are helping them with it.
Now Boehner came out.
No, we're not.
We're not.
Maynard got really mad at Drudge for the way Drudge characterized the Republican plan here to make lessen the hit on small business.
Yes.
They did, and I they are.
I know, I know.
But Bahner came out and said they're not, and they didn't.
Drudge says it is, and they did.
And that the Republicans are making Obamacare more palatable to small business.
They're not repealing it.
They're not going to make it more palatable.
We're trying to help our constituents for crying out, wow, we're not, we're we're actually changing Obamacare.
People want it repealed.
The point here is that it was way premature to start running around thinking that the Republicans had already won the Senate because of Senate Democrats incumbent in trouble with Obamacare.
All they've got to do, and they're doing it, is point out that what it is now is not what they voted for.
And they don't even have to mention Obama.
They don't even have to throw Obama under the bus.
Because the media is not going to ask them what they mean.
Their Republican Senate opponent will have to do that.
In an ad.
Well, I see here that Mr. Senator Pryor is throwing President Obama under the bus, saying Obama's the one changed the bill and blah blah blah.
And then make prior deny it.
Whether the Republicans will go for the throat that way remains to be seen.
But the Democrats think they've got a way is the point to mitigate the damage of voting for Obamacare, and that is to say, oh, it's not what we voted for now, and we want to fix it.
We want to join the president in making it work for you.
The Republicans don't want you to have it.
They want to take it away.
And we are back.
Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Why the one thing the Republicans are doing, they are softening the blow now of Obamacare by offering a change in the impact of Obamacare on small business.
Now the original Republican uh hate monger, uh would be Abraham Lincoln.
Remember him.
He said the best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly, which this one has not been.
This one has yet to be fully implemented by design so that you don't know how bad it is until it's too late to vote the people out of office who did it to you.
So the Republicans decided to soften the blow while leaving it intact.
And Drudge reported that.
And Boehner said, we didn't soften the blow.
We didn't expand Obamacare, we repealed a piece of it.
So it's a it's an argument of semantics going on.
But the bottom line is that what the Republicans want to do if they succeed with it would be to soften the blow of Obamacare, which is not a good idea, unless you think it isn't going to get repealed.
If you're the Republicans and you think it isn't going to get repealed, then your objective is to make it as less damaging as you can, then of course do what they did.
And if you think you're still going to try to repeal it, you don't make it more appealable.
That's just me.
And I'm just the guy on the radio.
I'm going to make your prediction, by the way.
No, if I make the prediction, I will alter the outcome of what somebody will do.
But I made the prediction to the staff.
But lot i i i know what's going to happen.
Likely to happen tomorrow based on something I said today.
And it's going to fall right in line with theory.
That insensitive, hate mongering, big i'd sexist limbo.
Commented on something he doesn't know anything about yet again.
This will be the Reaction.
I won't tell you about what until it happens, but I just want you to know I know what it is, and you may even yourself know what it is.
And when it happens, I know how these people act and how they operate.
Brad, Orlando, Florida.
Hello, sir, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Rush, longtime listener and conservative student of yours and first time caller.
Great to have you here.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
I've been screaming at my radio and TV for a couple of years as politicians who try to debate with liberals and can't seem to explain the conservative message clearly and simply.
And so I have a campaign or an idea that I think would resonate with any voter in the United States, regardless of where they are.
And a little history or this is under under two assumptions.
One that there are still more people in this country who want to work and support themselves rather than just get a gift.
And two, that liberalism, after six years liberalism has been exposed for what it is.
Well no, wait, wait a sec.
See boy do I wish that were true.
I am not sure it is because I am not sure, Brad, that anybody has called what's happening liberalism.
I mean from the Republican Party.
You know it is, I know it is, people in this audience know it is, but let's face it, we're talking about the low information crowd, and nobody's calling it liberalism.
It's just what Obama's doing.
Nobody's calling it liberty.
The liberals don't even admit that they are liberal.
They don't even admit they have a liberal bias.
They don't be they don't even have the courage to admit what they are.
They tell you they're not that.
Okay, I agree.
So let's say let's take old history and go back to 2008, where uh the liberal media convinced the United States voter that change was needed.
Change, change, change.
Obama added hope in change with no explanation, people bought it.
Fast forward to the two thousand twelve election, and I think the result was people voted for who could give them more.
And so the reason I've been screaming at my TV and radio is if a conservative were to stand up and invite as a way to invite people to listen to the conservative message and explain it correctly, um, and just say we can give you more and turn it upside down on them,
which is people I think are looking for the top two reasons, number one jobs, and number two, health care.
And if they say we can give you more, we can give you more jobs, we can give you more health care, and explain what that really means from a conservative message.
Got anybody in mind?
Well there's always somebody throwing a wrench in the work like me here.
Anybody in mind it can do I like the thinking.
I you you're just taking their language and throwing it back on them.
We can give you more.
Correct.
So you're not saying it'll require you.
Go ahead.
We can give you we can give you more jobs, we can give you more uh I like you because we're basically acknowledging that that's the language that they understand and appreciate and are looking for.
Well, and and think back to how what what I've been hearing is how Republicans of the GOP say we need to cast a bigger net, we need to be more inclusive.
Um, that's a crack.
That because that that that admits all of these defects the Democrats say they've got.
And the reason is because the Democrats try to give them more, and I think now the reason I think it's been exposed is people who have been relying on the government only get to a certain point.
I don't know what the n the number is per month or per week, but that's all you're gonna get.
Yeah but it's enough to eat and drive and chat on the phone and have a big screen TV.
If someone were to say we can give you more and then explain how that works, and I haven't heard anybody or very few invite people to come to the conservative uh way of thinking.
And I think there are, and that's why my theory has two assumptions.
One is there's still more people who want to go out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And do it.
And get ahead.
And so.
Anyway, I just wanted to bounce that off you because in addition to that, uh jobs and health care, uh, more freedom, more liberty, more honor.
I mean, give um give all that back.
Look, and I like your thinking.
You know, you you you you you're you're you you're saying we can give you more um of whatever.
Where we can we want you to have more as another alternative.
Like for example, you you like your 32-inch big screen.
We want you to have a sixty-five-inch big screen.
Exactly.
And here's how.
No.
Not yet.
No, no, I mean, here's how.
And explain how.
Explain how you're only going to get so much, but we can give you more if it's not we can give you I don't just say you can get more.
Yeah.
You can get more from us.
We can give you we I like the no, I I I I like your approach.
I like the way that you are thinking about this.
Because compared to what we're hearing, I don't care.
Pick your Republican.
We need to be more inclusive.
Okay, why don't we admit we're bigots then?
We need let's admit we don't like certain people by saying we need to be more inclusive.
We're not we're plenty inclusive.
We want the best for everybody.
The Republicans are sewing, they're hammering nails in their own coffins, what they're doing with their own language.
Tigger Jeb Bush, what do you think of this?
Jeb Bush said that immigration, people coming here and breaking the law is an act of love.
What do you think of that?
I gotta take a brief time out.
Sit tight, my friends.
We roll right on after this.
Ryan in Millersburg, Pennsylvania.
Hello, sir.
Why, Mr. Limbaugh.
How are you, sir?
I'm fine, sir.
Great to have you.
Oh, great.
Hey, we have spent a lot of afternoons together, and I appreciate every one of them.
Thank you very much.
I I appreciate you saying that, really.
I uh early in the show you had been talking about how uh some of the light late night hosts have uh so to speak been turning against Obama and the youth seems to be adding to Obama's unfavorable uh record.
Well, I th actually what I said was they haven't.
Uh and I yeah, a friend of mine sent me an email saying that the late night comics are supporting Obama and their audiences therefore never learned the truth, and it kind of frustrating to him.
But that they're beginning to turn, like you say, now and then a little hit here, a little hit there.
Correct.
But what's happening is uh Obamacare is going to affect everybody on every level.
It's not like the tax code, it's not like uh buying a car or anything like that.
Everybody is going to be affected by this in some form or fashion, and that is what is going to turn this tide.
Yeah, except, except, and I'm not trying to be Mr. Cold Shower here, but the way they've they've delayed the vast majority of the pain until after Obama's gone.
He's already not gonna run for real, but they're delaying it past 2014 and 2016 so as not to hurt his party.
You're right, it's gonna affect everybody.
But if nothing's done beforehand, too late for anybody to do anything about it.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast time, my friends, but there's always tomorrow.
Tomorrow, just uh in terms of this program, twenty-one hours away, it'll fly by.
And we'll see you then.
Thank you again for being with us.
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