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Oct. 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 20, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Hiya, folks, how are you?
Great to be with you.
It is a thrill, a sheer delight for your host, Il Rushbow to once again be behind the golden EIB microphone, serving humanity, executing his hinds assigned host duties flawlessly.
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Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, there is and has been for quite a while a ban on this program of anything having to do with MSNBC.
They used to be featured frequently here by way of audio sound bites.
Some of the inane, insane, ridiculous things that were said on that network were quite entertaining.
However, I realized I was violating one of the age old broadcast tenets, and that is I was essentially elevating a network that could be construed to be the competition.
In the old days, and I don't like the old days.
They didn't exist.
That was a rule of thumb.
You never talked about them.
It was just standard operating procedure.
You didn't clue anybody else into what was happening, even if it was critical.
You just didn't do it.
The old rule of thumb was there wasn't anybody else doing what you do except you.
And in my case, that still happens to be true.
And after a while, I stopped being entertained by these bites, and I started getting mad.
Started ruining my mood.
And then I said, What the hell am I doing?
Elevating this network beyond what it would ordinarily be.
Nobody's watching this network, and to the extent that I'm publicizing it, I may be actually increasing their ratings.
So I said the heck with it.
And I instituted a ban.
Some staffers were noticeably upset, and there was almost a revolt in one of the miniature production offices because it made acquiring liberal sound bites even tougher.
But I stuck to the ban.
And when the ban happened, and after a while, we began to see MSNBC's ratings fall off the cliff, proving my point.
You don't talk about the competition.
In this case, it wasn't so much the competition as why give liberals an even wider birth than they already have.
Even if the birth we were providing illustrated insanity, ludicrousness, and absolute danger.
Why do this?
Why not let them seek their own level?
And as such, their ratings fell.
Now their ratings barely show up.
I mean, they're dealing with asterisks at some time slots.
And in the time slots said to be the ones where they're most successful, it's still you could put the audience in a thimble inside a phone booth.
But today, ladies and gentlemen, something happened that has required me to temporarily lift the ban on MSNBC.
No ban is forever.
No ban is rock solid.
It's always some you must be flexible.
And I, Il Rushbow, am noticeably flexible in many ways.
Many think I'm rock solid, rigid, unbending, not true.
But today something happened on that network that you have to hear.
And I don't understand it.
I don't know how it happened.
I don't know how I I'm really puzzled by this.
I'm wondering how long it's going to be before whoever made this gap, it was Tina Brown, is forced to walk this back or be excommunicated not only from the liberal movement, but maybe be forced to move back to London.
She was on Morning Joe today.
She's the founder and uh former editor of the Daily Beast and Newsweek and uh founder of Tina Brown Live, and they were having a discussion about recent polls that showed a Democrats are struggling with women in the 2014 midterm racism.
So we've mentioned this, that the so-called war on women is actually coming back to bite the Democrats in in a lot of ways, but this sound bite.
Well, you just hear it on your I don't even want to characterize it before you hear it.
She was talking to the co-host at Mika Bzinsky, who said, Tina, what do you think is behind these numbers?
The Democrats losing women.
Particularly for women, I don't think he makes them feel safe.
They're feeling unsafe.
Uh, they feel unsafe economically, are they feeling unsafe with regard to ISIS, they're feeling unsafe about Ebola.
What they feel unsafe about is the government response to different crises, and I think that they're beginning to feel a bit that Obama's like that guy in the corner office who's too cool for school, calls a meeting, says this has to change, doesn't put anything in place to make sure it does change, but it goes wrong, and he's blaming everybody.
She's talking about the first black president of the United States, Barack Hussein O, who she said makes women feel unsafe.
She said women feel unsafe economically because of Barack Hussein Oh.
She said women are feeling unsafe with regard to ISIS because of Barack Hussein Oh.
She said women are feeling unsafe about Ebola because of Barack Hussein Oh.
Not Republicans, not John Boehner, not Mitch McConnell, not me.
Not the war on women.
Tina Brown, who is arguably one of the tenth polls of the Democrat media machine, has just said that the reason women are abandoning the Democrat Party, at least in these polling uh the polling data that we have is because Obama is not making them feel safe.
They feel unsafe because of Barack Hussein Oh by the government's response to different crises.
And she said, I think women are beginning to feel a bit that Obama's like the guy in the corner office are too cool for school.
Calls a meeting, says this has to change exactly right.
She looked she's exactly right about this.
They've been talking about this.
Obama and the left, they think they make a speech on something, it's fixed.
They write a position paper on something, it's fixed.
They call a meeting on something, it's fixed, mission accomplished.
Got an Ebola problem, go make a speech.
Done.
Got a problem with uh the economy?
Go out and do a job speech, and then add to it with a job seminar at the White House featuring colonists in the New York Times, job done, mission accomplished.
But of course, nothing's changing.
Nothing's being accomplished.
Everything is falling apart.
Everything is fraying.
And it's not the fault of the Republicans.
It's a golden opportunity.
The Democrats are losing in the polls for women, and it's a golden opportunity to blame Republicans for it.
In the old days, like just two weeks ago, three weeks ago, if they were going to discuss this, why are the Democrats losing women in pre-election polls?
The answer would go something like, well, it's because the Republicans are refusing to cooperate with Obama.
And the Republicans don't want women to have sex.
And the Republicans don't want women to have babies, and Republicans don't want women to have a women Republicans.
And it would have been totally turned on Republicans' lack of cooperation with Obama.
And then they would have been puzzled, okay, so why take it out on Obama?
They didn't even bother with that this time.
This is unheard of.
This is.
Never happened before.
This is.
I mean, the re the Democrats Have had this war on women meme ever since that Republican candidate debate in the primaries in January of 2008 when George Stephanopoulos started asking Mitt Romney about contraception out of the blue.
And that's when the war on women began.
And they've been using it every day, every week, every month since.
And here comes Tina Brown blowing it out of the water.
And she even, she even gets close here to the limbaugh theorem when she notices that Obama blames everybody else.
Too cool for school, sits in a corner office, makes a speech, does something, nothing gets done, then blames everybody else when nothing gets done.
Limbaugh theorem.
In fact, the limbaugh theorem is in full force today.
Do you know how mad Obama is over?
Have you have you heard you have you heard about this, folks?
Obama is livid.
He is mad as hell.
Thanks to a White House leak to the New York Times, we now know that Obama is mad as hell about his administration's handling of the Ebola crisis.
What I want to know is who told him.
He says he gets all the news.
He learns these things same time we do in the newspapers.
So he obviously was reading the New York Times, and he found out that his administration's handling of Ebola hasn't been anything to write home about, and he's mad about it.
He even called an Ebola meeting on Saturday after playing golf for four hours and 40 minutes.
He called an Ebola meeting, and the Ebolazar didn't even bother to show up.
This is the second Ebola meeting.
Look, if the left is going to have a meeting, the meeting is where everything gets fixed.
And if the Ebola Tsar doesn't go to the meeting, you can't then come out of the meeting saying the Ebola Tsar was here, we had a meeting and problem solved.
You can't say that because the Ebolazar wasn't there.
He was in a hot tub someplace with some women.
Probably.
I mean, it's Ron Klain.
It's Al Gord's Clinton, probably in a hot tub somewhere.
Just couldn't get to the White House.
But anyway, Obama was livid when he found out about this.
Have they even talked about Ebola on ESPN or the Golf Channel?
That's what Obama watches.
I don't know, folks.
But don't, don't, don't, don't panic.
The same New York Times article stressed that it's a dilemma for Obama.
He has to look like he's very concerned, but he doesn't want the public to panic about Ebola.
He wants us to panic about climate change.
But he doesn't want us to panic about Ebola.
So he's got to walk a fine line.
He can't look like he's really concerned, but at the same time, he's got to act a little concerned, and his staff is making such a mess of things.
Limbaugh Theorem, he's just like you.
He's looking on the outside to the inside.
He's seeing a bunch of people screw up, and he's just as mad about it as you, even though it's his home administration.
Limbaugh Theorem.
And Tina Brown got close to identifying it, not by name, of course, by saying everything goes wrong, and he blames everybody else.
But anyway, how do they care?
I know when I say how do they carry forth with the war on women, granted this won't stop them, but this is a soundbite in a TV commercial made to order women feel unsafe because of Barack Hussein Oh.
Look, there's an unspoken facet of this, and I am not going to speak it.
But somebody will, I guarantee you.
Women are made to feel unsafe by Barack Hussein Obama.
I mean, what?
What a mighty fall.
What a mighty plunge from the heady messianic days of 2008.
And I'll tell you it's not good out there.
Obama decided to actually campaign for somebody other than himself.
He went to Upper Marlborough, Maryland, a rare appearance on the campaign trail Sunday at a rally to support a Democrat candidate for governor in Maryland, and the crowd heckled him and walked out before he was finished.
Here's how they write about it at Reuters.
President Obama made a rare appearance on the campaign trail on Sunday with a rally to support a Democrat candidate for governor in Maryland, but early departures of crowd members while he spoke underscored his continuing unpopularity.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is putting it mildly.
This is first campaign appearance for a black candidate in a heavily Democrat area before a black audience, and they walked out.
That happened yet today, Tina Brown says women all across the fruited plain, made to feel unsafe by Barack who say no.
Listen to it again.
I don't want to even try to characterize it in my own words.
Tina Brown, MSNBC today, talking to Mika Bzzinski.
Particularly for women, I don't think he makes them feel safe.
They're feeling unsafe.
They feel unsafe economically, are they feeling unsafe with regard to ISIS?
They're feeling unsafe about Ebola.
What they feel unsafe about is the government response to different crises.
And I think that they're beginning to feel a bit that Obama's like that guy in the corner office who's too cool for school, calls a meeting, says this has to change, doesn't put anything in place to make sure it does change, then it goes wrong, and he's blaming everybody.
Right.
And both there you have it.
What war on women?
It's just been thrown under the bus and overboard.
Nuked by one of the nation's leading feminists.
Tina Brown.
The important thing, though, is the important thing to remember, Obama is mad.
And when Obama gets mad, now the gloves are really gonna come off.
No, wait.
No, no, no.
Sorry, this is when the gloves are really going to go on.
If Obama has to go to each hospital personally and make sure these doctors and nurses are following the proper photo protocol.
See, this is what's going to happen.
He calls a meeting, nobody shows up, the the the the Ebola czars in the hot tub.
He reads in the New York Times that that uh somebody's leaked, that he's mad.
He can't stand what's he's gonna have to take matters into his own hands to solve the problem.
And it's made order for a guy who wants to appear that compassionate, that hands-on.
Anyway, I got to take a brief time out here, my friends.
Uh also coming up on the program today, once again, we have to clean up a mess that the media is trying to make about comments I've made regarding Ebola and Africa and Obama.
It won't be hard.
It's gonna be fun.
It's par for the course and typical.
Hang in there and be tough.
We will be back and move right on.
I never knew.
I don't know about you, I never knew Tina Brown was a racist like this.
I mean, you have the first African American president, and she's out saying that he makes women feel unsafe.
Where is her, where is her sensitivity to uh all of this?
I don't know.
Folks, there's uh there's a lot of stuff in the stacks today.
It's not just Ebola.
We have the usual Ebola stuff.
By the way, that New York Times story, Jonathan Martin had an Ebola response, another example of Obama not running competent government.
Another example.
The Washington Free Beacon has the analysis.
Uh, New York Times political correspondent Jonathan Martin, used to be with a politico, by the way, said that President Obama's response to the Ebola crisis is yet another example that the president is not running a competent government.
He said it's a gift rep issue for the GOP, said this on CNN to John King, which means you didn't hear it.
And I think we've got the soundbite of it coming up.
He says this is one more example that they can cite to point out that President Obama has not run a competent federal government.
We are now almost at the end of six years.
And I think what this indicates, and it actually shouldn't be a surprise.
Everybody involved here knows that the last six years have been incompetent.
Or certainly the last four.
Maybe the first two of the rose-colored glasses were on, and everybody still had their high hopes, and the honeymoon period and the utopia vision was in everybody's sight.
So maybe give him a pass in the first two years, but they've known for much longer than just the past couple of weeks, the past couple of months that things are not right here.
Everybody.
That's the point of Tina Brown's comment, you know, all this business about women aside feeling unsafe, what everybody feels is that nobody in charge knows what they're doing.
That's what really is permeating the country.
There is no confidence that the people in charge are qualified to deal with legitimate crises.
There is no confidence in the leadership.
That's what has happened.
Now you and I have known this has been the case from day one.
It's only starting to dawn on some people now, because of the nature of their bias and their partisanship, but I think this is spreading all across the country now, and it's across partisan lines.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
El Rushbo and the excellence in broadcasting network.
Let me run down some of the things that we have today so that uh you have an idea what's coming.
In regard to what I was just talking about, the general sense, somebody, some Democrat the other day, I I forget who.
Somebody said that that Jimmy Carter is now looking better.
Stop and think of that.
I mean, Jimmy Carter widely acknowledged as the worst president in the modern era.
And now you've got people saying on the Democrat side that Obama is making Jimmy Carter or is elevating even Jimmy Carter's stature.
The politico has a poll.
And in regard to what I was just talking about, that there's a general sense, you know, Tina Brown says Obama makes women feel unsafe.
By the way, I didn't know that Ebola was only a threat to women.
But I know she was speaking specifically about women because the polling data she was asked to analyze was about women and why Democrats are losing support from women in massive numbers.
And the polls do say that.
And her answer was, well, he's he just makes women feel unsafe.
Ebola, ISIS, general incompetences makes women feel unsafe, the economy.
And I think all across the country, there is a high degree of unease.
I mean, look at all the crumbling institutions that people used to be able to count on, that Now they have doubts.
The FDA, the IRS, the veterans administration, the white the administration, the presidency itself.
Congress, of course, is always down in the dumps.
Immigration, nobody's got any faith.
I mean, it everything seems to have been corrupted.
Everything seems to be popular.
CDC, this guy, Tom Friedman running the CDC.
I mean, there's nobody's inspiring confidence.
There is nobody inspirational.
There is nobody exhibiting inspirational, uplifting leadership.
People need that.
Anybody can be negative on their own.
We got all the pessimism we need.
Individuals can provide their own pessimism.
Now, the Democrat Party is rooted in it, though.
The Democrat Party depends on pessimism, and they exploit it, and I think they even amplify it.
The Democrat Party needs people to feel victimized.
The Democrat Party, the left, needs people to feel hopeless, and thus turning to government for solutions, and that's the problem.
The Democrat Party's done a great job of spreading pessimism all over the place, but the place they want people to turn to for relief, help, assuredness doesn't provide it.
This is why they're in deep doo-doo.
They always hold out government as the institution, the series of institutions that you can trust no matter what.
Husband walks out on you, dog leaves you, kids disown you, whatever.
Your government will be there.
And now they don't even think that.
And this Politico poll, 64% of Americans believe America is out of control.
A devastating Politico poll revealing that voters, voters believe America has spun off its axis and is out of control.
Events in the country are out of control, and people expressed mounting alarm about terrorism, anxiety about Ebola, harsh skepticism of both political parties only three weeks before the November midterm elections.
It is not a cliche.
And it's not, oh, easy for you to say, type thing to say that we need some inspirational, can do leadership.
Like I say, folks, we've got pessimism covered.
Everybody can handle that on their own.
Pessimism seems to be a natural trait that human beings all have.
And it seems that escaping the bonds of pessimism requires a lot of effort.
In other words, feeling positive and uplifted is not a natural state for everybody.
I don't think it's a natural state for most people.
Not going to hazard guesses as to why.
It's just the way it is.
People that come along and can teach you to think positively will make millions of dollars writing books on how to do it, for example.
It's the same thing I always say.
We don't need to be taught how to fail.
Everybody knows how to do that, including Obama.
But how to succeed's a whole different thing.
Somebody came along, began speaking upliftingly positive about this country, about the great things that have happened, the great things we can do, the great things individuals can do, how important you are to making this country work.
We can see a turnaround relatively quickly.
But the Democrat Party's incapable of it.
They don't want that kind of attitude among voters.
Not the mass, not the downtrodden, not the middle and lower classes.
They don't want people thinking uplifting positive.
The Democrat Party wants to be that in their lives.
They don't want people thinking they can do things on their own.
And I'm not exaggerating here.
And I'm not trying to make anybody mad.
But on the other hand, on the Republican side, who is it that's out there talking?
I mean, we are enmeshed in a lot of negativism right now.
And we're we're enmeshed in a lot of crises.
We find ourselves surrounded by things that if uh if they go wrong, it could be very bad.
Things are going wrong, and it looks very bad.
As a lot of people that don't trust what they're being told about anything.
And that's just not that's just not what this country's always been.
This country didn't get where it is by being shrouded in fear and pessimism.
Look at the surveys we see of millennials who think it's no longer possible that they will have better economic lives than their parents did.
Well, that's bogus because there are people out there right now disproving that.
It's happening.
The problem is many of those people become suspects.
Many of those people end up being targeted by the very Democrat Party that claims that's what they want for people.
Successful people all of a sudden are suspects.
Everybody thinks there must be something illegitimate about their success.
You can't really do that.
And then you got the politically correct crowd that comes along and says not fair that so many people are doing well and other people aren't.
It's not fair, it's humiliating.
You know the drill, you know how this all goes.
But there needs to be an entire shift in national attitude.
And it's going to take uplifting positive leadership to make that happen.
No question about it.
And Obama's not that.
I mean, he sometimes tries to fake it, but he can't pull it off because he doesn't believe it.
Liberals, by virtue of their existence are pessimists.
Negativists.
Everything's on the verge of going wrong.
Everything's on the verge of being destroyed.
Everybody's on the verge of losing their civil rights.
Everybody's on the verge of being a victim of something.
Racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia.
You name it.
The Democrat Party, I think, is largely responsible for all of this national angst everybody is feeling.
They've attacked every one of these institutions.
Marriage, religion, science, education, you name it.
They have leveled an all out of salt on these things.
Standards have deteriorated.
Morality is no longer allowed to be defined or used.
Nobody is allowed to pass judgment on what's obviously right or wrong.
And so there aren't, there's no foundation.
There aren't any guardrails anymore.
And yet it is my contention that the majority of the country is not of this particular way of thinking.
They themselves are imprisoned or being victimized by it because the media makes it look like they are in a minority.
But I still believe the vast majority of people in this country are decent, upstanding, positive, willing to play by the rules, trying to do everything as best they can and as right as they can.
But when they look out over the landscape, they see people like them being made fun of and mocked and laughed at, be it on television, be it in political ads.
So it's no wonder that people who are rooted in the great traditions and institutions of this country may think they are crumbling because they're routinely assaulted.
They, the people, and the institutions.
She didn't mention it.
How many women do you think feel unsafe because of Obamacare?
Tina Brown didn't mention it.
Here's another thing in the stack of stuff today.
New York Times, Patricia Wonderlich got insurance through the Affordable Care Act this year, Obamacare.
And with good reason, she suffered a brain hemorrhage in 2011, spending weeks in a hospital intensive care unit.
She has a second smaller aneurysm it needs monitoring.
But her new plan has a $6,000 annual deductible, meaning that Patricia Wonderlich, who works part-time at a landscaping company outside Chicago, has to pay for most of her medical services up to that $6,000 amount.
You know what she's doing?
She has to.
She is skipping this year's brain scan.
And she's hoping for the best.
She can't afford it after signing on to Obamacare.
This is not what Patricia Wonderlich expected.
No, no, she expected what everybody else was told.
That a high deductible insurance policy meant $3,000, not six.
And the high deductible meant lower premiums.
But they're finding that the higher the deductible, the higher the premiums.
Nothing is as it was said.
You can't keep your doctor.
You can't keep your plan, and the higher deductible you go does not mean the more affordable your premium becomes.
And that's what this New York Times story is about.
Unable to meet the deductible or the doctor.
To spend thousands of dollars just making sure it hasn't grown, said Ms. Wonderlich.
She's 61.
I don't have that money.
I don't have thousands of dollars to do a scan just to find out my status.
About 7.3 million Americans are enrolled in private coverage through Obamacare, and more than 80% qualified for federal subsidies.
But even so, many are still on the hook for deductibles that can top $5,000 for individuals and $10,000 for families.
The trade-off insurers say for keeping premiums for the marketplace relatively low.
So the result is that some people, and there's no firm data on how many, some people say they hesitate to use their new insurance because of the high out-of-pocket costs.
Out of pocket, meaning the deductible.
Deductibles have gone up, premiums have not gone down.
You know what's interesting about this New York Times story?
What's interesting about it?
It never mentions why any of this.
It never mentions who any of this.
It doesn't mention Obama.
It doesn't mention why Obama.
Patricia Wonderlich faces these circumstances.
And it doesn't mention the guy responsible for why she faces these circumstances.
Doesn't mention Barack.
It just it just magically happened.
Why?
Why, this is just whoa.
This is just what Obamacare is.
This whole story does not mention Obama.
It's Affordable Care Act.
So I'm sure that Tina Brown was also considering the fact that women feel unsafe by Obamacare.
And we haven't even touched on what has been discovered about Obama's intentions regarding immigration.
Well, everybody thinks he's sailing along incompetently and out of control and off axis and know what he's doing.
All contraire, be right back, my friends.
Hang in there.
Off a rousing start.
After temporarily lifting the man on audio soundbites from MSNBC.
And we're starting in Chicago.
This is Vivian.
Vivian, welcome.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, Chris.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
So your comments about Tina Brown this morning?
Yeah.
I think she's just showing for Hillary Clinton.
She's not against Obama because she's against Obama and the Democrats.
And I don't think that we should get too excited that the Democrats are leaving him.
I think it's uh look you have a you have a you have some of what of a point Tina Brown and Hillary have some similarities physical too.
Um there's no question that she's in the tank for the Clintons.
I mean, there literally is no question, you're absolutely right about that.
But why how does it help Hillary right now?
Well, I don't think they're trying to help right now.
What is the what is that noise in the background?
It's not like you're in a we put over so we wouldn't lose you, and we're on the highway.
Oh, I was gonna say it sounded like you're at a truck stop.
How would I know that?
But I mean it it's it's one thing to dump on you know to try to promote Hillary, but how does destroying the the female support the Democrat Party help Hillary two years ago?
I don't think I don't think that's what they're doing.
I think they're setting it up to say, oh, we need a savior, we need a woman who understands you and cares about you, ergo after the midterms, we're gonna start saying Hillary is the wrong totally it makes total sense that that that Tina, especially that Tina Brown.
I mean, you can't you can't be in the more tank.
I mean, Tina or Huma, you know, it depends on the day.
Yeah, nobody wants to hear from Huma Rush.
Um what was it?
Say that again.
Nobody wants to hear from Huma.
Uh nobody ever nobody ever does hear from Huma.
But that that does a closed door thing.
That's all I'm saying.
Well, it's good, because with that husband, we don't want to look.
Right.
But the but the I'm still intrigued here.
I mean, this is this is undercutting not just Obama.
I mean, if this gets out, this is undercutting the whole Democrat Party war on women thing.
This is this this goes beyond Obama.
What to say that he makes women, I mean blaming the loss of women, supportive women on Obama making women.
Then they get it back later with Hillary.
The takeaway.
Well, I know that they're gonna try to get it back with you.
I I know they're gonna try to do the same thing.
Repeat the process.
First, female president, inoculated against any criticism, it would be sexist.
But since when has it become permissible for Democrat women to go racist on Obama, which is what Tina Brown has done here.
I mean, first black president makes women feel unsafe.
Come on.
Unsafe.
Her words makes women feel unsafe, and then goes through the litany.
My only point, you're You're exactly right, Vivian, about about Tina Brown trying to help Hillary.
But this, yeah, I'm just saying it's more than that.
This this is a I mean, this is a bullseye right at Obama and every aspect of his image.
Breitbart has an exclusive Obama administration quietly prepared surge of millions of new immigrant IDs.
And we still have the uh the mess that I've got to clean up, the attempt once again to smear me in the rest of the drive-by meeting.
It'll be fun.
Sit tight.
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