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May 16, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 16, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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And here we go, folks.
We're back.
Didn't take long, did it?
Friday, let's just keep moving here.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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Okay, only half, this is a Washington Post story today, only half of young Obama voters are prepared to vote for Democrats in case.
And yeah, there's no butts or tricks here.
This is just a straight out bad news story for the Democrats.
In case there was any doubt that the youth vote could hurt the Democrats in 2014, the following two charts, which I don't have because I can't do charts on the radio, but they should just about kill it.
The data below comes from a Democrat pollster, Paul Harstad.
And he conducted a survey of young voters for the Ute Engagement Fund and Project New America.
Looks in depth at what motivates young voters, millennials, 18 to 31-year-olds, what makes them want to vote and what makes them want to vote Democrat.
And what's most notable that you see is that only half of young people who voted for Obama say there's even a chance that they'll vote in 2014.
And even if they vote, it isn't a good chance they're going to vote for Democrats.
Now, it's early and polling data is what it is.
And there really is nothing, it's all wild guess at this point.
But boy, the common sense would tell you that this is accurate.
So I think it's worse for Democrats out there than anybody wants to admit.
And I think they know it.
I think they in the White House know it.
I think these professional Democrat pollsters know how bad it is.
And I think it explains why they're doing the things that they're doing.
The Koch brothers thing that Harry read, that's strictly vote turnout.
That is strictly, so is everything else.
Race, war on women, you name it.
It's total desperation that they're feeling right now.
There's not one positive in six years of Obama policy or governance that they can point to and say, and you want more of this, you elect Democrats.
There's nothing anybody wants more of, including Obamacare.
So all Obama's got, like, is this announcing this concussion summit.
And the whole point of that is to deflect attention away from the total pathetic ineffectiveness of whatever we're trying to do to get the kidnapped girls back.
And remember, this regime inserted themselves into this.
When something like this happens and you're president, you run the country, you can do one of two things, maybe more than two.
But if you are going to send your wife out there with a picture of a hashtag, you are inserting yourself into the story.
And you are saying that you're going to get them back.
You are actively engaged in getting them back.
Sorry, a sign isn't going to get them back.
And it better happen fast.
Well, it didn't happen fast.
The sign didn't get the girls back, or it hasn't yet.
So you've got to deflect attention.
What do you do?
Concussion some.
Yeah.
And why?
Because at least he cares we're back to good intentions.
At least Obama cares.
He didn't.
He may be not doing it, but he's trying.
He really cares about people.
At least he wants to help.
He didn't just run people down all day and all the time.
At least he cares.
At least he's trying to do something good.
And that's all they've got.
And to them, it's a big deal because they think they programmed most Americans into believing Republicans don't care about you or anybody else.
The Koch brothers don't care about you.
The Koch brothers only care about themselves.
And when the Koch brothers do anything, it looks like they care about other people.
They're faking it just to hide who they really are.
The Democrats don't have any of substance.
They got signs.
They've got hashtags.
A concussion summit.
And there'll be many more such things until the election of 2014.
But you get into the nitty-gritty of the polling data, only half of young Obama voters prepared to vote for Democrats.
So they're going to have to do something to try to change this.
Get these people motivated to vote and then vote Democrat.
And they know how to do that.
And that's propagandizing, tugging at heartstrings, emotion type things, and hoping and praying there's another Republican Todd Aiken that pops up between now and then.
But that's it.
Consumers, listen this AP story.
AP has this nonsensical, stupid, ill-informed, misinformed, ignorant story about my book award.
And look at this one.
Look at this headline.
Consumers losing doctors with new insurance plans.
They're shocked.
Folks, these are, they think they're the illegal.
You and me, we're not mainstream.
No, no, no, no.
They are mainstream.
They've got a story today.
They can't believe my book is at the top of the bestseller lists despite no attention from the mainstream.
They can't understand it.
Those same people who think they're among the best and brightest, they're just now figuring out that you don't get to keep your doctor with Obamacare.
This is no small thing.
Obama has lied about this for three years, and they have swallowed every lie.
And even when Obama has been shown to have been lying and when the administration sort of tacitly admitted it and had to delay the implementation of Obamacare so that, guess what?
You can keep your, after you'd been canceled, your health insurance had been canceled.
You like your doctor, you lost that.
Then after all hell broke loose, Obama does what?
Comes back and says, you know what?
If you like your plan, I'm going to let you keep it.
I am going to allow you to keep it for one more year.
And they even missed that.
Some consumers who bought insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law are experiencing buyers' remorse after realizing that their longtime doctors aren't accepting the new plans.
See how this is shaping.
Now your doctor is the bad guy.
But it's still, it's still a shock.
They're in the news business.
Before Obamacare took effect, experts warned that narrow networks could impact patients' access to care, especially in cheaper plans.
You know, these were warnings the AP studiously refused to report, by the way.
But with insurance cards now in hand, consumers are finding their access limited across all price ranges, sometimes even after they were told their plan would include their current doctor, yeah, by Obama.
They don't say that.
Story's not about how Obama lied.
The story is not about how Obama misled them.
No, the AP just figured out that some people aren't going to be able to keep their doctors.
You've known this for how many, well, years now, not just months.
Many of these state exchanges don't even list providers and facilities.
How many of you have known your doctor and or hospital may not be in the network you're assigned?
And the AP doesn't know this.
But they're on the case of my winning a children's book award, and they're going to get to the bottom of that if it's the last thing they ever do.
But they have no idea that you could lose your doctor.
Now you're consumers losing doctors with new insurance plans.
Oh, no.
And they went and talked to a consumer to whom this happened.
That's right.
Michelle Poole is one of those customers.
Before enrolling in a new health plan on California's exchange, Michelle Poole checked whether her longtime primary care doctor was covered.
She is a 60-year-old diabetic who has had back surgery and a hip replacement.
She purchased the plan only to find that the insurer was mistaken.
Her $352 a month gold plan was cheaper than what she'd paid under her husband's insurance.
It seemed like a good deal because of her numerous pre-existing conditions that were going to be covered.
But after her insurance card came in the mail, the Vista California resident learned that her doctor wasn't taking her new insurance.
He's not in the network.
He opted out because he wants to get paid.
So Michelle Poole said, you know, it's not fun.
When you've had a doctor for years and years that you can confide in and he knows you, I'm really discouraged.
And I'm just stuck.
Well, try being a patient getting life-saving cancer treatment only to find you don't get to keep your doctor.
Or you don't even get to keep your insurance.
And AP is just figuring this out.
Reuters.
California consumers say they were duped by Blue Shield's limited Obamacare plans.
Consumers who purchased new health plans from Blue Shield of California have sued them, claiming they were misled into thinking the insurance would cover their desired doctors and hospitals.
Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
told them that?
I think it was the...
Wasn't it the President of the United States who told everybody that they get to keep their doctor and their insurance plan?
So here's AP blaming it on the doctors.
Here's Reuters blaming it on insurance companies.
It was Obama who lied, I think at last count, 23 different times, prominently, nationally, not who knows how many little local appearances he made where he said this.
23 prominent lies, bold-faced over two years, maybe three.
In their complaint filed in California state court on Wednesday, San Francisco residents John Harrington and Alex Talon accused Blue Shield of misrepresenting that their plans sold on the California Health Exchange, covered California, would cover the full provider network advertised on the company's website.
They sued on behalf of a class of people who had purchased so-called preferred provider organization plans from Blue Shield, only to realize that the doctor and the hospital networks for their plans were limited.
I cannot, I just, I cannot, I cannot express the degree to which I'm frustrated.
These people have invested in the wrong president, they've arrested, invested in the wrong party, and they've invested in the wrong media.
Every political institution they rely on has failed them, has lied to them, or has not told them the truth.
If these people happened to be members of this audience, they would have known what was in store for them.
The problem is, had they been listening the day this kind of information was imparted to them, they probably would not have believed it.
Because Obama, the president was telling them the opposite.
But look at the Democrat Party, political institution fails them.
The media they rely on doesn't tell them the truth about anything and leaves half or more of real news out of coverage every day.
And then, of course, the president they invest in.
It's just, it's so unnecessary.
Take a break.
We'll come back.
Donald Sterling has basically told the NBA to put it where the sun don't shine.
He is not going to sell his team.
He's not going to pay the fine.
And he's still going to get in bed with V. Stiviano.
And to the phones we go, it's Open Line Friday.
We try to take more phone calls on Friday than usual.
Sometimes that's met with sadness and disappointment.
Other times it's met with good cheer and approval.
You never know till the program's over.
Indianapolis, this is John.
Welcome, sir.
Thank you for calling.
Hey, what do you think about Obama claiming assets between $1.8 million and $7 million there?
I think it's a pretty big range in which you can make things up.
It sure is.
And I'll tell you another thing.
To me, as an outside observer, it kind of looks like that whole idea of redistribution of wealth is kind of working out in his favor there, sister.
Why?
Are you thinking he doesn't do enough to earn between $1.8 and $7 million?
These are assets now.
This is not annual earnings.
This is total.
This is what's in the portfolio.
And he earned a lot of money writing books or, yeah, writing books.
Well, maybe I could go a different direction with that.
Maybe we should be looking at it as American citizens, we the people, celebrating our first South Side of Chicago Community Organizer millionaire.
Well, no, that would be Bill, what's his name?
The anti-war protester was Bill Ayers.
That guy's a millionaire.
He's got to be a multimillionaire.
Has to be.
They all are.
You know, the people out on the streets aren't, but the leaders, they're all sitting there.
Maybe not millionaires, but they've got all kinds of money.
Anyway, I don't know what point there was, but that's Open Line Friday.
Dennis in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
Welcome to the program.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
I needed to call to thank you for your tea.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, my wife is a tea drinker, so I got her a case for Mother's Day.
And the comment she made after taking about three drinks was, this is good.
And I just smiled and said, oh, yeah, I knew it would be.
And she said, no, no, this is really good.
It tastes just like Aunt Sadie used to make.
And so then she had to explain to me about Aunt Sadie.
See, my wife was raised in the hills of Tennessee in a log cabin that are.
Well, now, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
We don't put any moonshine in the tea.
No.
Well, when they're drinking other stuff, it's sometimes tea.
But Aunt Sadie used to make a syrup.
And whenever they wanted iced tea, they would just get a cold glass of water and take a teaspoon of Aunt Sadie's syrup and put it in and stir it up.
And I want you to know that I sat at my kitchen table and watched my wife take a moment in time and go back home and sit on the front porch with Aunt Sadie and have a glass of tea.
And I needed to thank you for that.
I could never do that, but you did.
Now, that is very touching.
I don't want to say that's that's I thank you very much.
I know exactly the kind of emotional connection you're talking about there.
I know exactly.
I've had those things happen to me.
You able to recapture a moment you had with a loved one, and I know how it feels.
So I'm really honored that the flavor of the tea brought all that back.
What flavor was it that you got her?
Do you remember?
It was just the regular sweet tea.
Well, if I tell you what, if it was good enough for Aunt Sadie, that's exactly what the objective was.
It's just like Aunt Sadie used to make.
Or any other aunt or uncle that you had that made tea.
Gret, thanks very much.
We'll be back.
Donald Sterling.
Now, this is Monday night, CNN's Anderson Cooper interview.
And this has just come to light now.
I mean, there's a lot that he said.
And this was before that he realized that they had put two buckets of excrement in front of him for him to step in.
And he did.
And Cooper said, look, the players on your team, the Clippers, who, by the way, were eliminated in the playoffs last night against Oklahoma City.
And the players said, nah, the Sterling thing had nothing to do with it.
We're not going to use that as an excuse.
Anderson Cooper said that players on your team say they don't want to work for you.
Let me just say that I apologize to the league.
People want me to hire a wall of lawyers and them to hire a wall of lawyers and to go to war.
I don't think that's the answer.
So, what is it?
I think the answer is the league is a good league, all honest people.
And I think that whatever they decide that has to be done, I think I should work with them and do it.
I don't want to fight with my partners.
Now, see, I really, this guy, I don't know that he remembers what he says when and may not know what he's saying when he says it.
And I don't mean that as any kind of excuse.
Don't misunderstand.
This guy's this, you know, elevator may not be going to the top floor here.
Because he says this before realizing, I mean, this is in the interview where he's the same interview, Magic Johnson.
What has he done?
Who has he done?
He got the AIDS.
He got the AIDS.
He slept with every woman.
He's not a hero.
What the hell?
How did it?
I mean, hell, I've done more for my synagogue.
And you know, Magic, he called.
He wanted me to appear on TV.
What is phony?
He knows the girl.
And then later in the same interview, here he is trying to curry favor.
He's trying to be classy and praise his partners, the other owners.
I don't want to sue anybody.
I don't want to go war as honest people.
It's some really good people.
And I just want to, you know, whatever they decide has to be done.
I should work.
Well, okay, so he finished the interview.
He just stepped in it with magic.
Everybody's just jamming him on magic.
And so he forgets this.
And now, after saying Monday night that he wanted to work with them, however, to do whatever they wanted done, I should work with them.
I don't want to fight with my partners.
Donald Sterling tells NBA to pound sand.
He is not going to pay the fine, and he's not going to sell a team.
Now, just five days ago, he thought, I'm sure this guy thought by saying what you just heard that he was re-ingratiating himself.
He was praising the honest people.
They're good people.
I don't want to fight with my partner.
But he didn't realize that what he'd said about magic, because he said two things, you know, one of these magic's a hero.
He's a great guy.
And the next minute, he's got the AIDS and he's sleeping with every woman in every town and every American.
He's not a role model.
I've done so.
I'm sure he finished that interview with Magic Johnson thinking he might have stopped the bleeding and maybe even turned it around.
Then he goes and sees the reaction to it, and it's totally opposite what he thinks he accomplished.
So now, okay, the hell with you.
You know what?
I try to be nice, and I tried to be complimentary of magic.
I tried to praise my fellow owners of the league, but hell with that now.
So now he basically tells him to put it where the sun doesn't shine.
He's not going to pay the $2.5 million fine.
And he's put it, his attorney put this in a letter to the NBA.
The person who reported this to USA Today requested anonymity because he's not authorized to speak publicly about the letter, which was sent yesterday.
The attorney, Sterling's attorney, Maxwell Blecker, wrote that Sterling doesn't warrant any punishment at all for his racist comments that were recorded with a female friend and made public.
This lawyer is a well-known antitrust attorney.
He contends that the fine violates Sterling's due process rights.
So now, Sterling has lawyered up, he's put on the gloves, and I'm sure after what he thought was making peace Monday night, something told him that didn't work.
So now he's, I don't know, he's loaded for bear.
But he's not the only one.
But sadly, this next one, small town, Wolfboro, New Hampshire, is in an uproar over remarks made by a member of the three-person elected police commission, Wolfboro, New Hampshire.
Man's name is Robert Copeland.
He was in a restaurant watching television.
And the President, United States, came on.
And Robert Copeland, a member of the three-person police commission, started shouting a racial epithet.
The Concord Monitor says that he's standing by his room.
He shouted the N-word.
He wrote a letter.
Concord Monitor reports that he wrote a letter responding to a resident who had complained to the commission about what he had said.
Robert Copeland wrote, While I believe the problems associated with minorities in this country are momentous, I am not phobic.
My use of derogatory slang in reference to those, among them undeserving of respect, is no secret.
It is the exercise of my First Amendment rights.
I believe I did use the N-word in reference to the current occupant of the White House, and for this, I do not apologize.
He meets and exceeds my criteria for such.
So this guy is overseen, overheard.
He's seen in a restaurant.
Obama's on TV, shouting the N-word at it.
People complained to the police commission.
He said, yeah, I said it, and I'm not backing down.
He's doing it, Chuck Barkley.
Chuck Barkley not apologizing to the fat women of San Antonio.
This guy's not apologizing for what he said about Obama.
More news on the 911 call front.
Remember where this all started?
Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Woman goes into a Mickey D's, wants some chicken McNuggets.
They don't have any.
They're out.
She is livid.
She walks out.
She calls 911, demands to speak to the White House because there aren't any McNuggets at the McDonald's in Port St. Lucie.
Well, this has apparently been going on in a lot of places, unbeknownst to a lot of people.
Here are two more examples.
This is Gaston, Louisiana, the Gaston Gazette.
A woman upset about the way Subway employees made her flatbread pizza, called 911 Thursday night to report the restaurant would not refund the money she had paid for a flatiza, she said.
Babalante Michette Hall, 37, was charged with misuse of the 9-11 system.
According to police, she called 911 to say her pizza wasn't made correctly.
In the call, She said the staff at the Cox Road subway put marinara sauce on her pizza.
She said she wanted pizza sauce instead.
It's terrible.
I got my receipt and I told them I can't eat that kind of sauce.
In the 911 call, she says she wants to make a report so she can call investigators with the local Channel 9 eyeball news so that they will look into it.
Now, what does that tell you?
She wants local news to investigate the fact that the subway people put marinara sauce in her pizza instead of pizza sauce.
Local investigation.
Call 911.
Can you blame her?
What is local news anymore but people calling 911 for whatever emergencies is out there?
And there's always every local eyeball news station every night televises the latest investigation.
Channel 5 eyeball news investigates, blah, blah, whatever it is.
And if it bleeds, it leads.
So you call 911 from the ABC Portland, Oregon affiliate, K-A-T-U Eyeball News.
Man calls 911 and says, where can I buy some marijuana today?
Man appeared serious and surprised that he had called 911 earlier this month and asked a Washington County dispatcher where he could buy some pot.
I actually should have done these stories.
I should have done the pot story first, then the pizza.
That probably would have made more sense.
Oh, doesn't matter because only 4% American people think they're below average intelligence anyway.
So it really wouldn't matter which way I did this.
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Stephen in Tampa, Florida, your next hello, sir.
Well, good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh, an honor.
I was calling because over the last few days you have been mentioning all of the gloom and doom, the ice caps are melting and so forth and so on that people are saying.
And the interesting thing is that most of the people who are saying them are technological and technical illiterates, including all of the politicians.
One of the difficulties is, for example, take the ice that fell off the, you know, broke away on the Antarctic ice cap.
They're predicting that as soon as it all melts, the water level will rise.
Archimedes of Syracuse in something like 500 BC proved that it's going to make no difference because the water is displaced by the same amount of the weight of the merchandise.
So if it had fallen off, if the water was going to rise, it would have rose precisely when the ice hit the water.
Well, but the environmentalist wackos are prepared for that argument, and they say that the North Pole, and particularly Antarctica, that there is a landmass underneath the ice, so it's not an ice continent.
In other words, Antarctica is not just a giant ice sheet or series of glaciers floating in the water, that there is land anchoring it.
And if it melts, it will add to the volume of seawater.
The point is not that.
The point is it isn't melting.
Antarctica is expanding.
Whether a glacier has split off from a part of the continent or not, Antarctica's ice coverage is expanding.
And I have in my stack here, I put it at the bottom.
I didn't even know if this is going to come up today.
A total in the last two years of six, maybe eight stories chronicling from various news organizations reported by scientists the expanding mass of Antarctica.
There is no melting taking place.
It's minus 70 degrees there.
The only way that there could be significant melting, and we had a caller yesterday, you'd have to blow up a bunch of nukes down there to create enough heat.
It would take 235,000 50 megaton nukes at the same time to raise the temperature down there one degree to cost some melting.
What?
And you have to do it every year.
The only other way, and I found this on a couple of different blogs because I wanted to find out.
See, my common sense gets in the way of understanding a lot of things.
Have you ever thought my common sense gets in the way of understanding a lot of liberal BS?
And my common sense says it's minus 70 down.
How in the hell is anything melting?
What could cause it?
Because they want us to believe that it's warming up down there and it's melting, and that's why this ice sheet broke off.
If there would happen to be a volcano under Antarctica that was erupting and it was enough sustained lava flow coming out to warm the lowest level of the ice way underneath the water,
you might have a small degree of melting, but nothing on the magnitude of causing a four to ten foot increase of sea level.
But you would still need something like an undersea volcano erupting, and there's no evidence that that's happening.
I mean, what really is going to melt the South Pole or the North Pole?
These people.
Those man-made global warming, these SUVs and fossil fuels, what are they warming?
The atmosphere?
It is not 50 degrees at the poles.
Now, I want to warn you, I just came across, let me look at it very quickly because I scrolled past it.
What's the website?
Okay, there's a web Climate Central.
Maps are the only way, or maps are one way to understand what collapse of West Antarctic glaciers could eventually mean.
But they're not good enough.
So what some people have done, and I'm going to make a prediction to you.
In fact, I'm going to send this story up to Coco so he can link to it.
So you can, because this is pictures and this is radio.
I want you to see the.
They've had a professional photojournalist create some fake pictures of the Jefferson Memorial half underwater, San Diego half underwater, New York half underwater, and they look real.
They look like there was a giant flood that happened yesterday.
And I'm going to predict to you, these pictures are going to get wide distribution in all the usual low-information places.
And you're going to have some people think that this is actually a picture of what has happened in some places.
Most will understand that this is the, these, these wackos have photoshopped these pictures as a way of illustrating what this glacier breakup in Antarctica will mean.
It's all not happening.
Nothing's melting.
The ice is expanding in Antarctica.
And even if they were right, we're talking about 100 years from now.
And it's just, it's, it's like the baseball stadium in San Francisco is underwater.
In this picture, half of it's underwater.
I'll send it up there and you can see it.
But this is going to be just like Al Gore used those fake polar bear pictures on small little ice flows to show you their habitat was melting.
You wait.
Okay, I just sent it up to Coco.
Now, you remember, when you click on this link, every picture you're looking at is fake.
And it isn't going to be long before people think otherwise.
One way or another.
You know how they're going to be used.
You'll see it when you see them.
And we will be back.
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