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Oct. 6, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 6, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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By the way, folks, uh didn't I think we did.
Didn't we have an audio tape of Hillary Clinton chuckling about how she got some child rapist off of the lesser sentence back when she was practicing law in Arkansas?
Anybody in Hollywood call her out for that?
Anybody running around saying it's on us?
I remember that audio tape came out back in June.
It was a recording of an interview with Clinton.
Hillary Clinton, which she was told an Arkansas journalist how she obtained a plea bargain for a guy accused of raping a 12-year-old girl.
And despite her indication that she knew he was guilty.
She was chuckling about it.
Man in question was 41 years old.
And that that tape of Mrs. Clinton chuckling about it, there's a YouTube link for it.
I may in fact try to get that ready before the program ends today.
Anyway, great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute.
Yeah, this is this is again what grates on me, folks.
There's something about this that just phony.
John Hamm, it's on us to stop sexual assault.
Where were you when Paula Jones was around?
Where were you when Juanita Broderick and Paula Jones and Kathleen Willie were all telling us about Bill Clinton's predatory behavior toward them?
Carrie Washington.
It's on us to stop sexual assault to get in the way before it happens.
Where were you when Clinton was running loose?
John Hamm, it's on us to take responsibility.
Biden, it's on us, it's on all of us to stop sexual assault.
But these people look the other way when it's Ted Kennedy.
They look the other way when it's Bill Clinton.
They look the other way when it's one of them.
And by the way, there is a hashtag for this now.
It's on us.
There is a hashtag for it.
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The government.
There's an American survey, American people survey, that says the American people worry that the government can't protect us.
Really?
Government's gonna protect us from sexual assault here.
I mean, they can't protect us from Ebola, apparently.
And they apparently can't protect us from terrorism, but boy, they can sure protect us from date rape.
And they can protect us from sexual assault, and they really get going on that.
Americans lack confidence in the government's ability to protect their personal safety and economic security, a sign that their widespread unease about the state of the nation extends far beyond politics.
According to the latest AP GFK poll.
I I referenced this poll at the beginning of the program.
They don't use any numbers.
The numbers are so devastating that AP tries to report their poll without using numbers.
They use the term nine in ten instead of the stronger 90%.
Widespread unease about the state of the nation and that extends far beyond politics.
Widespread unease instead of using the number.
Couple of poll quotes.
The poll found that Democrats tend to express more faith in the government's ability to protect them than do Republicans.
Yet, even among Democrats, just 27% are confident the government can keep them safe from terrorism.
Now why isn't that a headline?
The headline to the story, Americans worry can government protect us.
The Democrats in the poll, which the AP says hey the Democrats had a lot more faith in government in a Republican, right?
And then you get to the number and you find out it's only 27% of Democrats are confident the government can keep them safe from terror attacks.
And then it says fewer than one in five say so on each of the other issues, including climate change.
Only 20%.
One in five big whoop.
They don't use 20%.
Fewer than 20% say the government can protect them against a bunch of things, including climate change.
For many of those questioned in the poll, it was conducted before doctors in Texas diagnosed a Liberian man with Ebola.
The poll also found that nine in ten of those most likely to vote in the November 4th election call the economy an extremely or very important issue.
Once again, not 90%, but nine in ten.
Those surveyed pointed to events such as the protests in Ferguson, Missouri that followed the fatal police shooting, an unarmed black gentle giant, and the beheading of a woman in an Oklahoma food processing plant, apparently at the hand of a suspended co-worker.
So there isn't a lot of faith in the government.
Now, to me, in in this is what's frustrating to me.
In the old days, and it's not too far gone, not too far ago long ago, the political parties were identified as Democrats believe in big government, big government to defend, protect, take care of.
Democrats believe that government has to pave the way for you because you're too stupid to make the right decisions.
Republicans believe in smaller government, limited government, government that gets out of your way.
You have a poll that shows 90% of the American people think the government can't keep them safe.
And in the old days it had been the end of the Democrat Party, because they would have been solely, exclusively identified with this poll.
And particularly under these circumstances where the Democrats are running the country, except the media want you to think the Republicans in the House are.
As far as the low information voter is concerned, the reason Washington doesn't work is because of the Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Not because of Obama.
No, the limbaugh theory explains Obama.
In fact, the low information voters, the Democrats aren't even political.
No, no, no, no, no.
The Democrats just have compassion.
And Obama, they just care about people.
It's a Republicans who always engage in politics, and the Republicans who never cooperate, and the Republicans who never try to get along.
The Republicans are always trying to stop Obama and so forth.
And yet, in the midst of all that, 90% think the government's blowing everything.
It's touching.
Only 27% of Democrats have no problem whatsoever with the way the government's operated.
What worries me about this is polling I've seen in other polls of millennials.
And they have said things very close to this, but they do not say they have lost faith in the government.
They say they've lost faith in the country.
And that's the devastating thing.
And So if you have 90% of the people think government can't protect them, I hope that does not mean 90% have lost faith in the country, rather than have lost faith in Obama or lost faith in this administration.
Now, I've mentioned also at the top of the program that the Democrats are trying now to politicize Ebola and blame it on Republicans, and I want you to hear how that is manifesting itself.
And I want you to hear my prediction first.
It was last Thursday on this program, and I said the following.
When all is said and done, all of this is going to end up being blamed on the Republicans.
And I know you're going to laugh at that, but everything else is, and so will this be.
And it'll be blamed on Republicans for not helping Obama for gridlock for not taking their job seriously, for not working with Obama to grow the government to make sure we have the resources.
They'll blame it on the sequester.
Do you know how much is still blamed on the sequester?
You wouldn't believe how much is still minuscule budget cuts in the sequester a couple years ago still being used as an excuse.
So the Republicans are going to take a hit on this.
I don't know how much it'll stick, but they will be blamed.
Yesterday on ABC's This Week Needs David Brinkley, George Stephanopoulos speaking with uh Van Jones, who's on crossfire on CNN, a former member of the regime.
And they're talking about the regime's response to Ebola.
Van Jones said the following.
We've got to get our base going.
The other thing, too, is that we can't let uh the Republicans get away with some of the stuff they're doing this week just trying to bash Obama.
Hey, uh, you know, government is always their enemy until you need a friend.
This Ebola thing is the best argument you can make for the kind of government that we believe in.
Uh a year ago, Ted Cruz shut down America's government, shut down the CDC over shenanigans.
What if that happened this year?
You gotta start putting the Republicans on a defensive for the fact that they believe that you can take a wrecking ball to America's government, never pay a price.
Uh Obamacare means that eight million people who couldn't have gone to the doctor last year.
If they feel sick today, they wanted they got Obama, they can go see the doctor.
The Democrats got to start talking like that.
I think they are.
So you see, all of this can be traced back to Ted Cruz shutting down the government and trying to wipe out the CDC.
It can all be traced back to that's what the Republic.
If the Republicans had their way, there wouldn't be a CDC, and we wouldn't be able to fight Ebola because there wouldn't be Obamacare.
And that's what the Democrats need to start saying.
And I will bet you they do.
They will find a way to go on offense, particularly since the way this Ebola thing is being handled is exclusively on them.
This is a Democrat administration with Democrat agencies or agencies run by Democrats and people that Obama has appointed, such as this guy, Thomas Friedman, who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control.
He's back on TV today, CBS this morning, Nora O'Donnell, asked him, should the CDC now consider a plan to screen everyone coming from these West African countries?
Everyone is being screened when they leave the country.
In fact, we know that Mr. The patient in Dallas's temperature was 97.3 when he left Monrovia.
In fact, about 40,000 people have come in from those countries since the outbreak started, and none of them had fever from Ebola when they came in.
He's reassuring us here, folks.
Dr. Frieden is telling us nothing to worry about here.
Why, even the guy who got on the plane in Monrovia wasn't showing a temperature.
And how do we know this?
Well, because he told us.
We did not take his temperature.
They're trying to tell us they've got these these laser devices they can point at people, and that it will reflect back their temperature, and it's not accurate.
So they say his temperature, but he got on the plane.
He knew he was sick.
That's why he came here.
He wanted to get treatment.
In his mind, the U.S. was the only place to go.
He's illegal.
His uh the family that he joined here, the potential family, whatever.
They're they're all on expired visas.
I mean, the word for it is illegal.
It doesn't sound compassionate, I know, but it's we can call them undocumented in patients.
You know, whatever.
Why would the immigrant think the U.S. the place to go?
Why uh well, there are two reasons why the guy in Liberia thought the U.S. was the place to go.
Now, and there's there's One really glaring reason.
And you know what it is?
There were two cases reported in America of charity workers coming down with Ebola.
We sent a military-looking Gulf Stream Three, specifically outfitted with quarantine screens and nets.
We picked them up.
We put them on that jet.
We flew them back to Dallas to the CDC.
We gave them that special serum from the Kentucky Tobacco Plant.
And they both recovered.
So voila, it would make total sense to somebody on the ground in Liberia.
Hey, they've got a way to treat this in the U.S. And they sent a plane to get these two charity workers from where I live.
The second reason is it's the United States, and everybody knows that the best of everything is in the United States, particularly when it comes to lawyers and doctors.
And free stuff.
Right.
And talk show hosts.
The best is in America.
Everybody in the world knows this.
But it it it certainly, I think it was a factor that these people all probably know that we dispatched a G3 to come pick up our patients and get them out of there.
And if it's good enough for them, why not for him?
Because after all, we're responsible for him because we once had slaves.
So then Nora O'Donnell said, Well, now take it back.
New show now.
CNN situation room yesterday.
Candy Crowley said to Dr. Friedman, uh, the contaminated material in the apartment where Ebola patient Thomas Duncan was staying was there for days after he was hospitalized.
And there wasn't a real clear way of transporting that once sanitation of the apartment started, and what to do with it once they did transport it.
So I th I think some of what one hears when people are saying, wait a minute, do they really have control of this?
Is that those seem to be kind of major mistakes, Doctor?
How did all that happen?
The reason we had some challenges with the medical waste is that's the first time we've had to deal with that situation, and just by chance there had been a glitch in our system to move the government system to approve a waste removal company to do that.
That's been resolved.
Wish it had been resolved sooner, but it's resolved.
The issue of the missed diagnosis initially is concerning.
And that's why we're redoubling our work with doctors, hospitals, emergency departments, uh, medical societies, uh, folks who work on electronic health records.
We've provided checklists and algorithms and training.
Yeah, see, we got it handled.
We're doing checklists, we're doing algorithms, we're doing training, and and and we are doing medical records, electronic records, and and and we're redoubling our work with doctors and hospitals and emergency doctors, nurses, clean water.
We got it, we got it, we I mean, we got it handled.
It just all we have to do is say that we're doing these things, and that oh, by the way, yeah, well, that was the first time we had to deal with that, you know, and just by chance, there'd been a glitch in the city.
That's so bad.
Back to the phones.
Here is uh Bob in Bloomington, Indiana.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thanks for having me, Rice.
Thanks for your great work in preserving our Republic, and I miss David Brinkley, too.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Um I've known that pre President Obama has been a fraud since 2004 and 2009.
I read the ACA.
It was poorly written, and it was going to fail, and it was designed to fail.
I'm a CPA and I read it, I understood it, and this is what it's done to my family.
We had a qualified plan, it fit the law.
We were taking less out of the company than our premiums were putting in, but the company could not make it.
So they terminated everybody's plan.
My wife and my two sick, my six-year-old twins are now going to be uninsured.
We're looking into the marketplace, and it is now apparent that our premiums are going to go up two and a half fold, our deductibles going to go up two and a half fold, and I highly resent the government interfering with my ability to create a private contract.
If you look at the current numbers, 54% of the American population want this law repealed, and this is easy to do.
It can be done.
The employer mandate is about to kick in, which had a one year reprieve, and when it kicks in, we're going to have total revulsion to this law.
We can do this if we still had a Republican party.
The reason why nine out of ten people are d mistrustful of government, and it doesn't accrue b uh deleterious effects to the Democrats is the American people no longer see a great difference between Democrats and Republicans.
We have angst, anger, and economic hardship coming as a result of this law, and if Rhein's previous and others would get off their duffs and clearly outline what's wrong with this, we could achieve a veto-proof Congress.
I don't think they disapprove of it.
I I I I don't I don't think their hearts are repealing this thing.
Well, you know, Rush, that it should be, because it's bad law.
We have two hundred and ninety-one people that could be elected to Congress, and that's that's likely.
That could happen.
It's not very likely we'll have sixty-seven Republican senators, but we could create a coerced coalition.
How would you like to be one of three Democrat senators who kept a very unpopular law still in force?
It could be done.
We could corner these people and get this law repealed.
Obamacare has is not a legacy, it is an albatross, and we need to be up front about it.
Ronald Reagan had a head-on attack approach when he said government isn't the solution, it's the problem, and this still resonates if we want to be free.
McCain and the other Republican bigwigs are clearly out of touch because the media is the enemy.
When I was nine years old, I heard CBS say horrible things about Goldwater.
And it was at that moment I knew that they were in the business to filter the news, not present it.
By courting media.
Hang on, just the don't lose your train of thought.
Whatever you do, don't lose your place.
And we're back to Bob in Bloomington, Indiana.
Bob, you said something at the very beginning of your call that the Affordable Care Act, you read it, and that it was designed to fail.
What do you mean by that?
Exactly what I said.
The first time I read it, I thought it was unworkable, and then I thought about it some more and decided that it was designed to fail.
It was designed to siphon off everyone onto this unworkable system, have it collapse, and then have a single payer.
That is exactly what it's designed to do.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
Granted, yeah, no, so it it it's it's designed to to wipe out the private sector insurance business, and then there's only one option left.
The government's right, and it's happening to my family right now.
The government comes in as the savior to to to protect you and save you from these vultures out there raising your premiums and so forth.
Well, Rush, that we all know that from sixty-four to seventy-four we had fifty percent general rate of inflation, but medical costs went up four hundred percent, and it was the direct implementation of Medicare.
It was a unlimited bucket of money f uh following a finite amount of goods and services that drove the price up.
And and every time you have a third-party payer system in place where the person is taken out of the loop that's receiving the service, no one cares for value anymore, and it deteriorates, and we're s it's gonna get worse until we have rationing of health care.
But uh Well, that's on that's on tap two.
Yeah, it is it's coming.
You might as well get ready for it.
W where I left off in my mental diatribe is when I was nine, I heard CBS say awful things about Goldwater, and that's when I understood they were in the business of filtering news, not presenting it.
And that means then that having Republicans court the media means they must adopt some of the media's views, which turns Republicans into slow motion Democrats.
Now we've got a failed Obamacare, a failed economy with cooked numbers.
We won the war in Iraq and President Obama surrendered it, and our Republic is now in the balance.
Two more generations of federal interference and education and local issues, we're lost forever.
I'm looking right now at a letter that my dad wrote from the front lines in France in World War II, and I think about the him being in the sec 242nd Field Artillery Battalion attached to Patton's Third Army firing 7,000 rounds of howitzer ammunition with his head bouncing Off the ground trying to sleep at night on the frozen ground, trying to save our Republic, and here we are, throwing our freedom away with both hands as fast as we possibly can.
My six-year-old twins have grandfathers on both sides of their family that were in that war, and I was hoping to bequeath them something better.
And you know what?
I have my doubts that I'm going to be able to pull that off with this hideous embrace of big government that we have and the termination of my individual prerogative.
Well, you're not judged competent, Bob, to make the right choices.
Maybe you will for you, but it'll leave other people out in the cold because you see, when people decide for themselves, that's selfishness.
And you are not caring enough about your neighbor, and so Obama needs to step in and make sure that your selfishness is compensated for out of your pocket.
Well, you know, I know that the government built roads, but they've got roads in North Korea.
And they don't they're not doing very well either.
It is private enterprise.
This isn't a capitalist country.
This is a country that was and that because that was a pejorative created by Marx.
This is private enterprise.
That's what this country made this country the powerhouse of this planet.
No.
Private enterprise, you didn't build that.
The government did.
Without the roads, I don't care whether North Korea's got them without the roads to get your private enterprise, your private enterprise wouldn't amount to anything.
Are you off your rocker?
If I hadn't made the money to build the roads, there wouldn't be any roads.
Now I've I've been just trying to stoke you here because you're on a roll, and I want you I want you to keep going.
Imagine this, Bob.
Imagine how much more money.
We would have real money.
We don't have any money anymore.
We're 17 trillion dollars in.
We don't have a dime in the real world.
We don't have any money.
But imagine how much more we would have to spend on vaccine research or development to deal with Ebola if the government wasn't taxing and regulating private enterprise so severe.
Imagine if all that money Obama's thrown down the drain on solar and wind and green crap and global warming.
Imagine if we had that money to spend on research and development in the medical field.
Medical and any other factory or implementation.
We could we could create real jobs instead of part-time burger flipping jobs that are counted as full employment under these cooked numbers that we're looking.
It is it is a sorry excuse for an economy that we have right now, and it is on life support because we have effective zero percent interest rates, and the only metric to use the president's term that is favorable, the stock market is being propped up by the fact that nobody can make any money in CDs or debt, that you can only make money in the stock market, and once the interest rates come up, and that's inevitable, exactly.
Decimated the bond market.
Once you take the bonds out of things, you all you can do is spend money.
And plus what the Fed has been printing and then allocating to the stock market on top of uh on top of all that.
It's a it's a house of cards, Rush.
I know it is, but but they're telling us, hey, the economy's royal Obama's out making speeches.
The economy's really, really you just don't know it.
We got 5.9% unemployment, and we go we're rolling in good times.
It's just people aren't feeling it.
And Obama is gonna go out and with the power of speeches, make people feel how great this economy and this country is just rolling right along.
All that is is hot air.
I don't care about hot air.
As an accountant, I want results, and we're not getting it.
My little kids look up to me uh for guidance and future and hope and a direction, and right now I'm kind of befuddled as to what to tell them.
And no, because you want to be honest with them.
I have to be honest with them.
I can't lie to my own kids.
And how do you avoid scaring them?
It's impossible.
The only thing I can do is have them live on their faith and understand that in the long run they're gonna be all right.
But in the short run, we could lose our republic.
That's a genuine fear.
By lose the republic, he means lose our freedom, our self-determination, our right to self-determination, and and and more.
Bob, it's great.
Uh, I'm sure you got people standing And cheering out there, and I am thankful you called, and I appreciate your holding on through the break at the uh bottom of the hour.
That's Bob in Bloomington, Indiana.
And thank you again for the uh for the for the call.
Stephen Fort Wayne, Indiana, welcome and glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Pretty well, thank you.
At the beginning of your show today, you talked about the poll that said a large numbers were saying that they were going to use the upcoming elections to say on how unhappy they were.
Yeah.
And I guess what bothered me so much was I I um for ten years I went back and forth uh to Eastern Europe, to Belarus.
And um, they've got the last dictator in uh Europe there, uh Alexander Lukashenko.
And I wouldn't have all these people saying, you know, oh, you know, he's terrible, he's awful.
And same thing would happen.
You know, they'd show a picture of his or something, and everybody would boo.
And yet um 90% voted for him.
And it it would and when you would talk to them, they'd say, 'Well, you know, because you'd press them, and you'd say, ' you know, what you said, you couldn't possibly have voted for him, and yet, you know, are they rigging the elections?
What's happening?
And then they would admit that they voted for him.
You know what the phenomenon is, and I know exactly what you're talking about.
The same thing happens here.
You take a poll of people, and they hate Congress, but they love their guy.
They hate the Senate, but they like their guy.
So they'll rail against the Senate, rail against Congress, and they'll vote for their guy.
That's been that's been common in this country for ever since I've been uh paying attention.
Now, this particular poll that you cite specified Obama, specified that 90% are fed up with Obama, and a huge percentage, not 90%, but a huge percentage, say their vote is going to be a message to Obama, how unhappy they are, how much to disapprove of Obama.
Well, fine and dandy.
Obama's not on the ballot.
If they don't associate their congressman or senator with Obama, then it won't matter.
In North Carolina, if this matters, it means all these people would vote against Kay Hagen.
She's the emick is the Democrat incumbent, but the polls have her in front.
So it's the same phenomenon here.
By the way, folks, the first person diagnosed with Ebola on American soil's begun receiving an experimental medication.
Uh, just as officials announce his condition is worsening, is Thomas Eric Duncan.
He's now being treated with a an experimental drug that is in late-stage testing for other types of viruses.
It is an oral antiviral drug being tested to fight more common viruses, including one that affects patients undergoing bone marrow transplants.
Lab tests suggest it might sure fight Ebola.
It's made in North Carolina by Shimmericks, which said that doctors sought federal permission to use excuse me, use the drug.
The company did not identify the doctors making the request.
So the uh the Liberian citizens getting an experimental drug.
Because we're out of the serum.
They don't have any serum, it makes them more.
Comes from exclusive Kentucky tobacco plant.
Now, what if it doesn't work?
I hope I hope these guys thought to indemnify everybody here if this doesn't work.
Are you upset that this guy's getting uh exclusive uh?
Oh, I see.
Once the word spreads that the people with Ebola are gonna get a special drug trip that more will get on a plane and try to get here.
Well, I would I would try to get to the U.S. whether I knew any of this or not, is the bottom line.
The U.S. has the best medical care in the world, that's everybody thinks.
I mean, in a way you can't blame these people.
You can't, I mean, if if we're it, if we're the only chance to stay alive, what do you think they're gonna do?
You can't blame them for trying to get here.
I I don't.
Hell, I would do the same thing if I were them.
That's why, you know, policies like this are really hard.
It's it's and we're compassionate people.
It's it's really tough.
But they're not gonna close the border, folks.
But not because of the compassion.
They're not gonna close the border because of amnesty.
Just pure and simple.
Yes, suburbity hates capitalism, this special drug to fight Ebola made by a North Carolina company.
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