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Oct. 7, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 7, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And I tell you what, folks, there's a there's another problem that we have in this country, and that is there's way too much dependence on experts presented to us in the media.
I give you the greatest example of experts who never get it right.
Economists.
Every month when the unemployment number comes out, I don't care what the number is.
Experts are surprised.
The experts always say the news is unexpected, no matter what the news is.
I don't think they even write these pieces anymore.
They're a template and they just copy and paste it and they fill it in the first two paragraphs.
Experts, economists said the results this month were unexpected, as experts were expecting blah, blah.
And everybody depends on this.
Experts on global warming, experts on economics.
We don't have any experts on anything in this regime.
Obama's not an expert on anything.
He's not qualified.
Well, that's not altogether true.
For what he wants to do, he is qualified.
He's an agitator, he's a community organizer, he doesn't like status quo, and he wants to upend the country.
And he is qualified to do that.
He's not qualified as we as we traditionally examine.
People who want to serve as president, look at their qualifications.
He hasn't done anything.
He has no track record, he's got no resume.
The only resume he's got, college transcripts, nobody lets us see.
So we don't really know.
We have to take the media's word for it.
And so we get people who are other experts, like New York Times columnist David Brooks telling us he's qualified because of the crease in his slacks.
And everybody buys hook, line, and sinker, what these experts say if they're presented in the media, if they're members of the administration, if they're members of the political class.
If the media says somebody's an expert, if they're a scientist, if they wear a white lab coat, they are experts.
And their credibility is never questioned.
And we always assume that everybody's smarter than we are.
That's another thing that is a real bugaboo of mine.
And I'm gonna have trouble expressing this.
Uh it may take me two or three times, but welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh again at 800-282-2882.
Steve Jobs had this as a as a philosophy too.
And I don't remember exactly how he said it, but I do know that when I when I read the quote, uh it resonated with me.
And it it starts, it's understandable how it happens.
It starts we're very young, and we're surrounded by people older than we are.
And so it is natural to assume they know more than we do.
Now a lot of people never grow out of that attitude, always assuming somebody else is smarter.
If they have more money, they're smarter.
If they have a bigger house, they're smarter.
It's it's amazing how people willingly subordinate themselves in order to conform.
And it it I admit that it takes uh guts, gumption, or whatever, to really believe in yourself.
It takes a lot of effort to do that.
Most people don't.
Standard human nature 101.
But everybody, a lot of people fall prey to this notion that everybody is smarter than they are.
I don't care if it's in the business they want to go into or if it is in politics or if it's in science, global warming, or whatever.
And all we're dealing with here is people in politics at every level of it.
We're not dealing with experts except in politics.
Science has been politicized.
Everything's been politicized now.
Uh NFL's on its way to being politicized, for example.
But the idea that um people will so readily accept the testimony of a Hollywood actor as an expert because they played, they pretended to be somebody in a movie.
People have been asking me, and I haven't addressed this.
Hey Rush, did you see the did you see the knockdown drag out between Ben Affleck and Bill Moir Friday night?
No, I didn't.
I've seen tape of it now, but I wasn't watching.
What do you think, Rush?
What do you think?
I mean, who was right?
Classic illustration.
Just because it was on TV, somebody in that had to be right.
Why do both of them have to, why can't both of them be totally wrong?
Why does one of them have to be right?
Affleck clearly doesn't know what he's talking about, I don't think ever.
But he looks good, and people wish women wish they were married to him, so that's covered.
Marr, agitator, uh, but in this case, if you want to know the truth, Bill Marr was closer to being right than Ben Affleck was.
Ben Affleck literally is absumed with consumed with with other needs or desires when expressing its opinion.
He's he's the kind of guy tells you what he thinks because he's really concerned what you think of him afterwards.
And a lot of people are that way.
A lot of people will tell you what they think, not because it's really what they think, it's because they think it's what you want to hear, or what they want to hear, or whatever it is that'll make you seem what you think they demand, either nice or not be a troublemaker or uh smarter agreeing with them or what have you.
I just think um a lot of assumptions exist and are made and they're understandable, but it's unfortunate.
And it all you can you can trace it.
It all descends here from this notion that there are experts.
And media routinely gives us experts, and I would contend to you that they're always wrong by virtue of the reporting.
The economic experts are always surprised at whatever the monthly unemployment number is or the economic growth, they're always surprised.
Well, an expert wouldn't be surprised.
An expert would be confirmed.
But every month, AP writers, whoever, and they never name them, a wide swath of experts express shock and surprise over the unemployment numbers today.
I just, I don't think there is enough, and I'm not talking about insubordination.
Just I don't think there's enough questioning of whatever is said by people who are thought to be experts or smarter.
I I'm safe, I think, in saying that most people, not all, of course, most people think everybody is smarter than they are.
And therefore they must conform to or or they must subordinate themselves to whoever they think is smarter than they are.
And it's not necessarily the case.
It's not a conspiracy of anything, there's nobody making this happen.
This is human nature.
And I just wish there were a way to spiral out of it.
I wish it it all gets traced back to how much confidence in yourself you have, it all traced by how much you care, how much passion you have about something or anything.
But we're being done in by experts, and we're being done in by this notion that we have no right to challenge what the experts say, like this guy that called me.
We lay people, we need to, we need to deny it.
But we lay, it's a classic example of what I'm talking about.
This guy was perfectly willing to assume that everybody knows more than he does.
And what that leads to additionally is a feeling of illegitimacy about your own opinion.
An illegitimacy of your own existence.
And then if if that's the case, then you're always going to end up being subservient or subordinate to somebody.
You're always going to end up granting somebody authority over you.
Now, in your job you have to, everybody has a boss.
If you're a lawyer, the judge, so forth.
But I'm I'm talking about just in everyday life and the and the way people see themselves.
And there's it's I think it directly relatable to how much subservience there is in our country and how much dependence there is on the government or other institutions for your wants and needs.
And it's a I don't I just I think a lot of people are selling themselves short, not meeting, realizing their full potential.
And in many cases, because they're they think they're exercising humility.
You know, humility is taught, and it's a good thing to be humble.
Humility is a very good thing, but it can also be deadly.
Not deadly.
It can be punitive.
False humility, the unnecessarily putting yourself down in order to be seen as polite or wicked, that can hold you back.
You know, you can none of this is to say that people have to be mean or confrontational or whatever.
That's not what believing in yourself is.
That's a tough subject.
As I told you, it may take me a couple of attempts here.
Well, you know what I've found in my limited, because I haven't really spent a whole lot of time researching this.
But as we all know, there are a few people out there who don't like me.
Not many, but there are a few.
Now, I'm not one of these people obsessed with that.
If I'm in a room and say 95 people like me, I don't care about the other five.
Somebody like Bill Clinton will focus on the other five, or Obama, in order to switch them and make them friends or fans.
Well, what I've found, if I've really dug deep some of these, you know what they resent is that I'm so sure of myself.
That intimidates them.
Nobody's that sure of themselves.
And it it it leads them to think that I have a confrontational or pugnacious manner or behavioral pattern, and I'm nothing of the sort.
Confidence, confidence can be like confidence can be assumed to be arrogance or conceit, because nobody is supposed to be that sure of themselves.
Nobody's supposed to really.
I can't tell you a number of people.
How do you know?
How are you so sure?
And I say, because to me it's obvious.
I I don't, I don't I don't see the benefit in running around saying before everything I say.
Now I could be wrong about this.
Sometimes I do that, depending on who I'm speaking to, because that'll open them up.
It's a science.
But I the the routine of putting yourself down to other people in order to not threaten them order whatever.
I just don't think in the long run serves anybody, particularly the individual who's engaged in that kind of um behavior.
And it's such it's it's it's it leads us to where we are now.
We've got a guy calling them, don't speak, you have no business.
We need to defer to the experts.
We lay people.
We don't have enough people speaking up about what they I think the degree of anger, fright, uh outrage over what's happening in this country is palpable.
I think it's almost incalculable.
People are afraid to say people, even in the private privacy of a ballot box won't vote what they really think.
For fear somebody's gonna find out.
People lie to pollsters.
For fear somebody's gonna find out.
There's a fear of being found out if your opinions don't meet political correctness or whatever the order of the day is.
It's less confrontational that way.
It's uh doesn't offend people, and it doesn't hurt people's feelings and all that.
And you know, I've always thought that's their problem.
Anyway, I got to take a break here, folks.
A little long in the segment is always happens in the first one, but we will be back.
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Look, folks, let me say it another way.
I just happen to think that more people are much smarter than they think they are.
It really isn't any more complicated than that.
And for whatever reasons they tell themselves they're not.
For whatever reasons they defer to others who they think are smarter for because of a whole bunch of different variables and reasons.
And I just don't, I don't think there's anything wrong with believing in yourself.
I don't think there's anything wrong with believing in your ideas.
There's more than one way to do things.
Anyway, here's um here's Lisa in Austin, Texas, as we head back to the phones.
Great to have you, Lisa.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
You know, it's it's been pretty interesting waiting on hold and listening to everything that you said in the last segment.
I called about the guy who was talking about at first I turned on the radio, and that was the guy that was on was talking about his hot young wife.
Well, okay, let me tell you what preceded it.
He was referring, there's a uh Stan Greenberg and James Carver have a polling company, and they just released a poll yesterday that shows that unmarried women, this could be it's not just single, it's divorced women, widows, but unmarried women in 12 battleground races in the Senate, favor the Democrats by 18, I've 58 to 32.
It's a 22-point lead in unmarried women.
He was calling to respond to that.
His basic reason, his theory was that those women, because they're unmarried, for whatever reasons, they don't ever come in contact with conservatives.
Right.
So I would propose to you, and and everything that you've been talking about for the last half hour about people not having confidence in themselves, about being um subordinate to somebody who else is an expert, that that starts in grade school, like you said, and people learn, you know, that they're never going to reach their their goals or their best per person.
And what happens, I think the reason why unmarried, uneducated, um people tend to vote Democrat is a victim consciousness.
They're victims.
They can never be the hot young wife.
They can never be, you know, they and I think that has a lot to do with why women go to a butch feminazi.
They're trying to gain some kind of power.
And, you know, they just end up being angry unhappy people.
So they've ended up being victims, they're unhappy, they're they're not their potential is not realized, and so they they they end up being resentful.
I hear you say.
So they either get they give you get angry and find some other way to uh express that anger, which the liberal.
Well, let me ask you, let me a reasonable.
Let me ask you a question that might offend people.
I don't intend it to offend anybody.
I'm just asking the question.
They're unmarried.
How many of them is it simply a matter of economics?
There's no second income in their house, and the government will readily, and Democrats will readily assume that role for them, with benefits here, benefits there, benefits over here.
Um, it's easy prey.
You get them while they're down, hook them into the government pit, if you will, and they got them.
Well, there's a there's there are a lot of things liberals.
If if somebody willingly makes themselves a victim, then that's that's tough to counter.
Is once you you once you already decide you are a victim, then you add to that, here comes a political party which will happily have you think that of yourself.
And then they will go further and tell you who it is that's victimizing you.
In this case, it is the Republicans.
And what are they doing?
Why they're running a war on women.
And what do the Republicans want?
They don't want you women to be happy.
They don't want you to have sex, they don't want you to have bird control pills, they don't want you to be able to get abortions, they don't want you to be free.
They don't want you to understand, and and if you're already thinking of yourself as a victim of an unfair, unjust society, and you're resentful for whatever human nature did not give to you, what whatever's going on.
You have a political party coming along and affirming all that for you and then promising to make up the difference.
We'll look out for you.
And if they don't have a second income, if they're unmarried, if they don't have a second income in the house, and the government comes along and offers it, it's almost when we get to economics in this economy, with as I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat.
The fact of the matter remains you don't think very positively of your economic future.
Not the way it's being run.
There's no nobody's inspiring confidence in anybody about our economy.
Somebody comes along and is willing to offer to make up for you what you don't have because you're single, then you can't afford not to do it.
It's like seniors.
I never forget this woman that called from near the moss Turnpike, who was she she was demanding, she was so mad at me for arguing for tax cuts.
She wanted her own kids to be hit with massive tax increases because that's the only way her social security would go up in her mind.
And if somebody came along and told her the Republicans wanted to cut her social security, she didn't, she was there, she wasn't even going to take the chance it was a lie.
She was never going to vote for a Republican, simply to be it.
What if that's true?
She had to just stick with the old reliable, the Kennedys and the Democrat Party promising to take care of her until she died.
It's an it's it's a in large part matter of economics and other things, obviously.
Clip.
Oh, yeah, I always take the path of greatest resistance.
I never take the path of the least resistance.
Meaning when conversing with people.
Speak.
Speaking of experts.
Look what I just found, ladies and gentlemen.
Right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It's from the Los Angeles Times today.
Here's the headline.
Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed.
Okay.
Now some might.
Nancy's are experts.
Some might think I'm fear-mongering here.
Some might think I should not mention this because I'm a lay person.
Oh, wait, I guess I can mention this because these are experts and they're in the newspaper.
They must be experts.
U.S. officials leading the fight against history's worst outbreak of Ebola have said they know the ways the virus is spread and how to stop it.
They say that unless an air traveler from West Africa has a fever of at least a hundred point five or a hundred and one point five degrees or other symptoms, other passengers are not at risk.
So you you get on an airplane, people have Ebola, but if they don't have a fever of at least 101.5, no sweat, no problem.
Other public health officials have voiced similar assurances, saying that Ebola is spread only through physical contact with a symptomatic individual or other bodily fluids.
Dr. Edward Goodman of the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where the Liberian patient remains a critical condition, said Ebola is not transmitted by the air.
It is not an airborne infection.
Now here comes the money paragraph, which immediately follows that one.
Yet some scientists who have long studied Ebola say such assurances are premature.
And they are concerned about what is not known about the strain now on the loose.
It is an Ebola outbreak like none seen ever before.
Jumping from the bush, that would be Africa, jumping from the bush to urban areas, giving the virus more opportunities to evolve as it passes through multiple human hosts.
Well, now what are we supposed to do now?
Because the experts are in Conflict.
The experts are saying different things.
U.S. officials have said they know the ways the virus is spread and they know how to stop it.
That's what it says right here.
U.S. officials leading the fight have said they know, and they say U.S. officials, that be regime officials, say that unless an air traveler from West Africa has a fever of at least 101.5 or other symptoms, other passengers on that flight are not at risk.
Other public health officials have voiced similar assurances, saying Ebola is spread only through physical contact.
Okay, so U.S. officials.
No sweat, nothing to see here.
Obama's part of this group.
Yet some scientists who have long studied Ebola.
These are the people, for those of you in real India that wear the white coats, the automatic experts.
Some scientists who have long studied Ebola say such assurances are premature.
They're concerned about what's not known about the current strain that's on the loose.
Because it's an Ebola outbreak like there's never been before.
It has jumped from the bush to urban areas, which has given the virus more opportunities to evolve.
Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of Ebola among research monkeys housed in Virginia, and who later led the CDC's most far-reaching study of Ebola's transmissibility in humans.
Dr. C.J. Peters said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters, which would be an airplane fuselage.
We just don't have the data to exclude it, said Dr. C.J. Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston.
We just don't have the data to exclude the possibility that it does spread through the air in tight quarters.
Dr. Philip K. Russell, a virologist, who oversaw Ebola research while heading the U.S. Army's medical research and development command.
And who later led the government's massive stockpiling of smallpox vaccine after the 9-11 terror attacks, also said that much still has to be learned.
Being dogmatic is, I think ill-advised, because there are just too many unknowns here.
Being in his case, what he's saying to be being too dogmatic is, you know, all these government officials assuring everybody that you can get on a plane if nobody's got a fever over 101.5, no sweat, no problem.
That's being done.
They don't know that, he's saying.
We don't know this yet.
What are you laughing at?
I know I'm a naturally funny guy, but what do you like as oh, you've got a file, he's laughing at a caller.
Thank goodness, because I was wondering what in the world in here is funny about this.
Snirdley is out of control in there.
He's totally lost his composure.
Snirdley's black and his face is turning red.
He's laughing so far so hard.
Well, now you have me a truth.
gotta let me in on this.
What?
Uh.
Oh, though that's that's uh that's that's an interesting uh snurkly has a caller on the phone that says, look, Obama likes to travel.
Does it a lot?
Uh he should fly to Africa, personally research this, and come back and tell us what he found.
That's not gonna happen, obviously.
Anyway, if Ebola were to mutate on its path from human to humans, Dr. Philip K. Russell and other scientists, its virulence might wane or it might spread in ways not observed during past outbreaks, which were stopped after transmission among just two or three people because the virus had a greater chance to evolve.
The current outbreak in Africa has killed approximately thirty-four hundred people.
This disease was only discovered in nineteen seventy-six.
Was named after a river, the Ebola River, that's how it got its name.
My my point here, what are we to do with this?
We now have a piece in the LA Times, which is almost directly contradictory to what we are hearing from the experts at the CDC and the experts at the Obama administration.
These guys are holding out the possibility it can be spread through the air in close quarters.
We don't know enough yet to say that's not true.
In the past it hasn't been, but they're worried this could be new.
Some people concerned.
Ron in Penn Valley, California, you're next.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
Really glad you waited too.
I appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Well, thank you, Rush.
Glad to talk to you today.
You bet, sir.
Hey, I just got a cancellation notice from my health insurance.
I've been with them for over twenty five years, haven't had any claims hardly at all, never been in the hospital.
And all of a sudden they're gonna quit uh California completely.
Then the second part of the message was you have to get new insurance by March of next year, is that under your current insurance, we're gonna raise the rate also.
So I got a rate increase, and they're gonna drop me by next March.
So why did they bother raising your rate?
Oh uh it's uh it to cover you until next March.
That's right.
Cover me till next March.
I got a rate increase also.
So I decided to uh I was very displeased with that, and I I know why, because of uh what I believe it is, but I called both senators, both uh Feinstein and Boxter.
And I got absolutely no help there except I got a phone number that if you dialed it and hit one and then four, you could wait forty-five minutes due to unfortunate.
What did you what what did you expect?
I'm not d don't misread a tone in my voice here that's not there.
What seriously, what did you expect?
I expect Boxter or or Feinstein to do.
Nothing because even on their websites, they don't even have anything about health care.
It's all about saving Lake Tahoe and and helping some chickens out somewhere in California.
I don't know what they have on there.
But I wanted to voice my opinion.
You t you you're telling people you don't speak up enough.
You all rely on the experts.
Well, I've called my district supervisor here.
I called my called them and I write them.
But I expect that by uh the outcry that everybody else is gonna have, because their rates are gonna be upped, they're gonna have no.
Oh, yeah, this is just starting.
You're the second call we've had two days on this is these cancellations are just starting.
W and the employer mandate kicks in uh very short period of time.
That's that's that's something else unexpected that people have no idea is coming their way.
But Rush, that's not the real point.
The real point is they've ruined my health care.
My doctors don't want to accept that rate here.
My hospital doesn't want to accept this.
I'm gonna have to travel to go to get my health care somewhere else.
Doctors that I do not want, and they're gonna pay uh a substantial rate to these doctors.
I don't want that type of doctor.
I want what I had as a health care that I got to choose.
And I don't want to have to go to health care government California and wait 45 minutes for somebody to tell me something.
That's um I'm I'm sorry to be the one to tell you, but you have lost those freedoms in Obamacare.
You've you've lost the freedom to choose your doctor and your insurance company.
And it's exactly on plan, this chaos that you're now experiencing is gonna multiply, and it's gonna end up being geometric.
And the plan down the road is for people like you to be so scared because you can't get insurance for whatever reason you can't afford it, it isn't offered.
Uh, and here comes the IRS wanting a penalty payment from you, that you're gonna have one place to go when this is all said and done, and that's going to be the federal exchange.
And that is how they plan to get this greatest health care system in the world transformed into single payer.
And I don't even like that term.
Some people like that.
That's how they're going to get this transformed to national socialized medicine.
I'm dealing with the bureaucracy now, and I'm getting nowhere when they when they make the bureaucracy bigger, I'm going to get more.
The bureaucracy exists to get bigger.
The bureaucracy exists to support itself.
The bureaucracy is not there to help you.
By its definition, bureaucracies exist to exist.
And they will do whatever they have to to exist.
Bureaucracies never get smaller.
They never get more efficient.
By definition, they can't.
Because they grow, which is the objective.
Bureaucracies are like base life forms.
A nuclear bomb might wipe out everything but the cockroaches, but there would be life left.
Ditto bureaucracies.
Whatever happens, there's always going to be one somewhere, and it'll be expanding and growing.
Here's the Walmart story, by the way.
It's an AP story.
Walmart Stores Inc.
plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for most of its part-time employees in a move aimed at wait for it, controlling rising health care costs of the nation's largest private employers starting on January 1st.
Walmart told the AP it'll no longer offer health insurance to employees who work less than an average of 30 hours a week.
The move, which would affect 30,000 people.
Follow similar decisions by Target, Home Depot, and others to eliminate health insurance benefits for part-time employees.
Sally Wellborn, Walmart's senior vice president of benefits, told the AP we had to make some tough decisions here.
She says the company will use a third-party organization to help part-time workers find alternatives.
We're trying to balance the needs of workers as well as the costs of workers, as well as the cost to Walmart.
Now this is nothing new.
I mean, everybody knew that because of Obamacare, if you have part-time workers, you don't have to insure them.
Part-time defined as anything under 30 hours a week.
In other words, Walmart can do this because of Obamacare, and that's one of the reasons why they supported it.
Which a lot of people at the time said, wait a minute, scratch your heads.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
What's that?
Walmart big business getting in bed with this administration?
How does that work?
Normally, everybody thinks American corporations want as much different distance between themselves and the government as they can get.
We're free enterprise.
Stay away from us.
In this case, we saw a number of major American corporations sidling up to the regime.
A whole host of reasons.
Obamacare, uh corporate cronyism, any number of reasons why.
It's a it's a pretty recent major shift.
And now they've got the law to follow back up.
Well, it's it says right there in Obamacare that we don't have to provide insurance.
Now remember what the premise of Obamacare was, folks.
As Obama's out there telling you about it and selling it to you, and the Democrat Party's doing the same thing.
What are they telling you?
If you like your plan, you can keep it.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
You're not going to be subject to any changes if you like them.
And then they said, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, well, if you change your policy, then that deal is off.
Well, you had no choice but then to change your policy because your provider changed it.
All it took is change one tiny little term in your coverage, and that constitutes bye-bye grandfathered clause where you can keep what you had.
So the fix was built in that you weren't going to be able to keep what you had.
But beyond that, what else was Obamacare going to do?
In addition to letting you keep your doctor and your insurance plan, Obamacare was going to insure the poor.
Remember?
Obamacare was going to insure the uninsured.
Obamacare was going to provide coverage for the people in our country who really need it, the victims of all of this capitalism over these years.
The left out.
The needy, the hungry, the thirsty, the forgotten.
Obamacare was going to see to it that they were not forgotten.
And now, what's going to happen?
The number of people who do not have health insurance is going to rise, and it's going to it's going to rise a lot.
It's going to increase a lot.
The very premise under which most people were lied to to support this thing, and most people didn't support it, by the way, and they never have.
Turns out to be sadly, very untrue.
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