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Oct. 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 24, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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We are back on the fastest three hours in media.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I just saw a picture.
The nurse who no longer has Ebola met with Obama.
Obama met her in an oval office and gave her a hug.
Man, what a great guy.
Yeah, he hugged her.
He hugged her.
Cured Ebola.
I mean, why wouldn't he hug her, right?
He did it.
Well, what do you think that picture is supposed to convey?
The news is nurse recovers from Ebola.
There's a picture of her doing a press conference thanking everybody.
Next picture, Obama hugging her.
Conclusion, Obama cured Ebola.
No, don't try it.
I'm telling you, that's the desired effect on the low-information voter.
I can hear some of you snarky people out there.
Come on, Rush, even you.
That's a bit of a stretch.
Nobody thinks Obama cured Ebola.
I know that.
They're trying.
You know how important pictures are.
Okay, here's the nurse.
She's Ebola-free.
She's cured.
It's a great day.
And there's a press conference.
She's thanking everybody.
And the next picture is Obama hugging her.
You know damn well the impression that they want the low-information voter to take from this is that, oh, you know, Obama, it's theater.
Obama, Obama did it.
Obama, he cares.
He's so great.
Whatever.
Do not doubt me on this, folks.
I don't know where it's going to work, but I'm just telling you what the attempt is.
Greetings and welcome back, Openline Friday.
Final big, exciting, busy broadcast hour of the day and of the week.
Now, we just had a call from a woman, little worried.
I understand this, by the way.
Have you ever known people that are, and I'm not saying this is true of her.
It just reminded me of something.
Have you ever known people who are afraid of success or of good things happening?
They don't really trust it.
No, this is not me.
This isn't going to last.
No, I don't think.
It's a natural emotion that some people feel.
Now, I myself, I've never been afraid of success.
But other people, not even success.
You know, the spade of good luck will happen.
This is not going to hold.
No, this isn't for real.
You don't want to tie yourself to it because you don't want to be disappointed when it ends.
So she was worried that all of this polling data is designed to convince a lot of Republicans to think the election's in the bag and just sit home and not vote.
And she referred back to 2012 when 4 million Republicans didn't vote in the presidential race.
A big difference that there was a candidate, Mitt Romney, that 4 million Republicans didn't want to vote for.
That circumstance doesn't exist here.
But even beyond that, I think that there's a I think that the groundswell here.
I think it's been building since 2010.
And I think had those 4 million people shown up and voted in 2012, we'd have had a different president.
And I think those 4 million were fed up.
Like everybody else was.
They were just more inspired to teach the Republicans a lesson than they were the Democrats.
But let me give you a little evidence of this.
The AP has just published one of their fact check articles.
It's a quasi-fact-check article, and the headline is, fact-check making 97% a failing grade.
Okay, so I like you.
I was intrigued by this before I knew what the story was.
Let me share with you the crux of this from the article.
From the AP.
Republicans trying to take back control of the U.S. Senate are working hard to sear one big number into the brains of voters from Alaska to Arkansas, 90% or 96% or 97%, depending on the state.
That's how often Republican candidates say their incumbent Democrat opponents have voted with Barack Obama, citing vote scoring conducted by Congressional Quarterly.
Those scores are repeated relentlessly in ads, interviews, and debates, part of an effort, the incumbent Democrats, to tie them to an unpopular president.
Now, of course, the AP thinks that fact-check, that number is not right.
You know, why?
Well, it's not really 97%.
It's misleading.
So here we have the Democrat Party's house organ, the AP, trying to help the Democrats, trying to defend Obama.
So you've got a bunch of Republicans out there trying to tie Democrats to Obama by pointing out how often they voted for his agenda.
It is so bad that the media has to take issue with how often Democrats voted for Obama.
They're trying in this story to point out Republicans are wrong.
How?
Well, that 97%, some of those votes were for Obama judicial nominees.
And some of those votes were for pro forma, no, we're not active intending to support a particular policy.
I find it fascinating that the media, in order to try to limit the damage, is actually running stories claiming that these incumbent Democrats really didn't support Obama all that much.
Now, they are working very hard to convince people that Democrats don't support Obama and haven't for a long time.
That to me is a sign of how bad this is.
I mean, in any given circumstance, you would expect to want to be tied.
I mean, here we have the first Messiah that we've ever had as president, Barack Hussein Obama.
Imagine this fall from grace from just six years ago.
So they're working very hard to convince readers of AP stories that the Democratic incumbents, they haven't really supported Obama that much.
It isn't 97%.
It isn't 90%.
They say it depends on the time period, depends on whether judicial nominee up and down votes.
If you only count certain years, I mean, it's laughable, the lengths that they are going to to try to tell their readers that the Democrats don't really support Obama that much.
That's how toxic he is.
And I don't think in this story, for example, there's nothing about this that's designed to make Republican voters feel complacent or though the whole thing's in a bag and to stay home.
They don't have to vote.
I also think the energy to show up, the vote anymore is about the only thing people have.
Calls to Washington don't seem to do much anymore.
Faxes, emails, and all that, the vote showing up, that's about the one thing people think they can do and deny money, deny donations.
Now, the Washington Post has just discovered the poll we had earlier in the week that shows the Democrats are losing their edge among women.
It's finally sinking in the media at large.
It says here, if the Republicans mitigate the Democrat advantage on women, they'd be on track for a huge election.
And they go on to say that all of the numbers and all the polls that everybody's taken mirror 2010.
And that was a huge landslide loss for the Democrats all the way down the ballot.
And so this is the thing I referred to earlier.
Democrats trot out Gloria Steinem as election nears.
I mean, they're now going to the mummies of the Democrat Party.
With less than two weeks to election day, the Democrats are bringing out Gloria Steinem to help rally the women.
She writes in an email to potential donors, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, the outcome of this election will be determined by one factor, women.
And that scares the Republicans half to death, but not enough to make them actually change their anti-women policies.
Anyway, how bad can it be if this is what they have to do?
She may have been big stuff at one time, you know, back in the days of the early feminizes.
But I mean, this is going to the groove yard, the graveyard of Democrat icons here.
This is not hip.
This is not cool.
This is not whatever you would say that's of the moment.
So I think the polling data is pretty accurate.
I don't think there's a plan here designed to make Republicans complacent.
Political.
Obama moves key Senate races toward the GOP.
They conclude, this is public policy polling, another liberal Democrat firm, if the election were today, Republicans would take it.
Obama being unpopular is the biggest factor in the election.
To me, frankly, folks, it's a sign of relief.
Can you imagine how you would feel if it were the opposite?
This is what gives me hope.
People say, how do you stay optimistic?
Let me tell you something.
Six years in, everything that's happened, if the Democrats were a shoe-in to keep every seat they've got and win some, how would you think you would feel?
That would be utter, that would be depressing like you can't believe.
The very fact that the Democrats are on the verge of losing huge has got to be some partial optimism.
Now, this doesn't address the Republicans that are going to win.
That's another argument.
We've all got theories and wishes and desires for that.
But in terms of just the Democrats being rejected, Obama being rejected, what they believe in, what they've done, Obamacare, you name it, ISIS war on terror.
In terms of it being rejected, there's no question that that is happening and is going to happen.
Now, there's also a theory that says, well, Democrats expect this.
They know their policies aren't popular.
And by the way, I think there's some credence to this.
The Democrats know full well that they govern against the will of the American people of a majority.
They know it.
That's why they can't tell the truth about their agenda.
The only thing that gives them a chance is if they lie and hide what they really want to do.
But then when they get elected and implement it like they have now, it becomes clear what they want to do.
People reject it.
They don't want it.
So the Democrats know they're going to lose some elections.
They judge that it's worth the price.
These last six years have been worth it.
They think they've done a lot, and they have.
They've taken over the health care business.
They have created more dependency.
They got more people who never run food stamps.
They got more people who never not working.
To them, it's been a great six years.
The fact the American people don't approve of it, I think they know.
I don't think they care.
I think they know they're going to lose elections, but down the road's 2016.
See, that's when they make up for it.
There's Hillary.
And they'll win again.
What they rely on is that the Republicans are going to screw up.
What they count on is the Republicans, even when they win, are not going to capitalize on it.
They also know, and this is something to brace yourself for, they also know, let's say the Republicans take the Senate and have the House.
That means Obama's agenda shut down.
Well, hopefully.
But that still leaves Obama with his executive orders.
But it also provides Obama and the Democrats another opportunity, and they've got their willing accomplices in the media to spread this word.
And that is, poor Obama.
Look at these Republicans.
I mean, they just won, and they won't work with us, and they won't help.
They won't cooperate.
They're just so mean-spirited and partisan, and the lies will continue.
The war on women, racist, sexist, bigot, you name it.
And to the extent that Obama has any popularity left at all, it'll work to one degree or another.
Now, if Obama continues to lose popularity, that won't be as effective.
The idea of Republicans won't work with him.
But still, I think Obama's looking forward to that.
I think Obama is looking at the Democrats losing the Senate, Republicans controlling the Senate and the House as a great opportunity to do executive order after executive order.
And I can see Obama, by the way, don't think this isn't possible.
I can see him after the election, if it goes the way the polls indicate.
I can see him going on TV at some point and saying he's got to save the country from the Republicans.
That this is not what America is.
This is not who America is.
This is not what America wants.
And he's going to do everything he can to save this country from these people who want to take this country back to, you name it, slavery, Civil Rights Act of 1964, whatever the horrors of our past are, that's what he will portray the Republicans as standing for representing, and give himself an excuse to do all these executive orders.
In the sense he's saving the country.
He's protecting all the great achievements that he's made the past six years.
He's not going to let these Republicans unwind all of this great stuff that he's done.
He's not going to stand for it.
And to prove it, he's going to say that he's going to continue to live in Washington even after his term to protect what he has accomplished.
And he has said that, by the way, and that's going to be a precedent.
Most presidents go back home, get out of town.
Most presidents, Bill Clinton's the lone exception, shut up.
It's manners, it's protocol, it's tradition.
Clinton has not shut up.
George W. Bush has, George H.W. Bush has.
Well, Jimmy Carter still runs his mouth, but that's when Rosalind jabs.
And if you can't let them say that about you, and he pops up every now and then.
But Reagan shut up.
But Obama, I think by saying that he's going to stay in Washington, I mean, he knows the press is always going to be in the palm of his hand.
And whoever the next president is, let's say it's President Trump, Trump comes in, initiates something, and Obama's going to be on TV that day, Criticizing, decrying whatever the new president's trying to do.
Look at what he's doing.
Six years, eight years.
We're great progress.
He's going to unwind it.
It's going to be precedent-setting.
You're not going to have a president.
We're not going to have experience with the president, Shorter Clinton.
Still, an ex-president inserting himself day to day.
And Moo Chill will be right in there, too.
Well, you don't like President Trump?
Pick one.
Doesn't matter who it is.
Okay, President Christie.
Oh, you want to go back to Trump, huh?
Let's see.
Let's see.
President, President Jeb Bush.
President Jeb Bush.
So President Jeb Bush announces he's going to you want to go back to Trump, huh?
Okay.
Back to the phone, so we go on Open Line Friday.
We have Stephanie from Olathe, Kansas, outside Kansas City.
And Stephanie, great to have you.
Thank you for waiting.
I appreciate your patience.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
My question is: how did you come up with the names for Tommy and Cam in your Rush Revere book?
No, Matt, I'm curious.
Why are you interested in that, Stephanie?
Well, I saw how you came up with Elizabeth and Liberty Rush and Freedom.
I was just curious how you came up with Tommy and Cam.
That is very shrewd of you.
She's 12 years old, by the way, folks.
She's a big fan.
The Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional American series.
Liberty is obvious.
Elizabeth is Rush, obviously, is me.
We chose Tommy and Cam.
And Cam is short for Cameron.
And we chose those names because they remind us of people that we know.
And, you know, as the character Tommy, I mean, it just fits with that name, doesn't it?
Yeah.
I mean, you have to admit, he looks, he acts, he talks like a Tommy would talk.
So it kind of works.
Cam is short for Cameron, and it just reminded us of people that we know.
And it's anonymous, but it's ways that we have acknowledged friends and that kind of thing.
You know, we authors do things like that.
We name characters after our friends so that they know, but nobody else does.
It's just showing them a little respect and so forth.
Would you want to be Stephanie, a character in a future book?
Sure.
Yeah, yeah.
Stephanie, I think we can have room for a Stephanie down there because these books, we're only in the beginning stages here.
I mean, we're going to get the third one coming out October 28th, Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
Have you read the first two?
Yeah.
Have you heard the audio versions of the first two?
You probably haven't, had you?
No.
Well, I want to send those to you.
Stephanie, I'll tell you what I'm going to do because your question is so good.
If you will hold on while we finish here, and Mr. Snerdley, the nice man who answered your call, will get, if your parents will permit, would like to send you the new book when it comes out next week and the audio versions.
They're read by me, so you're guaranteed to like them.
And a couple of other little goodies from our Rush Revere website that we like to send along as a little care package.
Would that be okay?
Okay, yeah.
Okay, cool.
So hang on.
Mr. Snerdley will be back on the phone here in mere moments and get your address.
And we'll have that stuff out to you hopefully next week.
The book drops on Tuesday.
Rush Revere and the American Revolution, October 28th.
Gonna be big.
We're so excited about that.
We cannot wait for this one.
We have a school shooting, folks, in the state of Washington, Marysville, Washington.
Breaking news.
The news media, the drive-bys can abandon coverage of Ebola and the Hatchetman attackers and terrorism and focus on another school shooting.
Police responding to reports of a shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington.
There are unconfirmed reports of multiple injuries.
And according to the Seattle Times, student believed to have opened fire at Marysville Pilchuck High School Friday morning is dead.
The shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
This is according to two law enforcement sources.
The police have not released any details.
There are reports of as many as six other people injured.
And that is the latest.
As I say, the drive-bys are all over it now.
And I guarantee you, Brian Ross at ABC is even now scouring the rosters of local Tea Party groups to find out if they have anything to do with it.
Well, that's what happened in Colorado.
He even went so far as to say a shooter at a school in Colorado was Tea Party or a movie theater.
It turned out it wasn't.
But that's what they do.
They're going to find out if they can make some connection to the shooter and conservatism or the gun control lobby in RA, you name it.
Kay Hagan in North Carolina.
You know, this is one of these puzzling Senate races.
Nationwide, the polls all show that there's a massive amount of support for Republicans.
But in some local Senate races, the Democrats, and Mark Pryor in Arkansas has been one.
Idiot Franken in Minneapolis, Minnesota has been another.
Although I think Mike McFadden is going to surprise people on Election Day.
And in North Carolina, Tom Tillis is the Republican opposing Kay Hagan.
Now, by all rights, that race, $26 million in that race, that's how important North Carolina is to the Democrats.
It's important to them for a lot of reasons.
A, it's a female senator.
B, no voter ID.
That doesn't start till 2016 in that state.
So this is their last chance to, you know, engage in whatever nefarious activities they traditionally do and get away with it because voter ID starts in 2016.
Tom Tillis has just recently edged slightly ahead in a couple of polls.
He hasn't had anywhere near $26 million.
He ought to be losing by 30 points with that amount of money at a local Senate race.
And Kay Hagan didn't show up in a debate this week and was applauded by analysts on TV.
Honest to God, oh, yeah, it was the smartest thing she could do because all she was going to do is get peppered with embarrassing questions.
So what she tweeted her responses.
And there was an empty chair.
And the drive-bys are applauding her.
Brilliant strategy.
Not showing up in a debate.
I just had the story of the AP, and they're doing this number on how these Democrats really haven't voted with Obama, 96, 97%.
In her case, it's about 99%.
She'd been running as fast as she can away from Obama.
And so this is nip and tuck there, and it ought not be.
She took stimulus money.
She and her family, it's reported, ended up getting stimulus.
She's wealthy.
She and her husband are wealthy.
They ended up finagling somehow some stimulus money for their business or whatever.
But I mean, she has been an Obama shadow.
She's just been a stalker.
Wherever he goes, she's there.
Whatever he does, she does.
Whatever he wants, she votes for.
And $26 million.
I think that's the number I saw.
And she, by the way, she's in addition to just mirroring Obama on everything, she's also one of these who's wanted him to stay away.
And if he has shown up, she's made sure she's not there.
TheHill.com has a story.
Hagen, Obama's leadership lacking.
This woman flip-flopped on flights from Ebola countries.
At first, she said, No way we shouldn't.
And then she flip-flopped when she saw public opinion and said, you know, we should.
We should stop those flights.
She's been all over the place.
Hill.com.
President Obama has not shown strong leadership on certain issues.
Senator Kay Hagen said in an interview yesterday on NBC News.
When asked the question, Hagen at first said the president has a lot on his plate.
It seems like whether it's the oil spill that took place a number of years ago in the Gulf or this Ebola crisis or ISIS, I mean, you look at the combination of things like that.
I mean, he's really, he's really had a lot on his plate.
Then you've got Gene Shaheen says, I totally understand him not coming here.
It's not that I don't want him here.
He is working so hard.
He's so busy.
There's no reason.
He's got no business coming in New Hampshire.
The bottom line is the Democrats don't want him anywhere near.
And then there's this.
This is McClatchy, Washington.
They've got their tentacles everywhere.
Black disappointment with Obama threatens Democrats.
This is a story out of Miami.
Now, this is all well and good, but I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth.
But you know what would be a really great thing to read?
Black disappointment with liberalism threatens Democrats.
That's what needs to happen.
Women disappointment with liberalism threatens Democrats.
Those are the headlines we need to be seeing.
But this is, as long as the disappointment is with Obama, these people in a couple of years will feel, okay, he's not there.
It's safe once again to go back and vote Democrat.
And they have to conclude, be shown, told, whatever, that it's not Obama that's their problem, per se.
It's what he stands for and everybody else in his party.
It is liberalism that threatens not just the Democrats, but you and the country.
And the evidence is right out there.
You don't even have to make it up.
You don't even have to tell people, you know, what will happen if Democrats win and then rattle off their predictions because we're living them now.
All you have to do is point them out.
Here's Sandy in Davenport, Iowa.
Sandy, hi, glad you waited.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi.
It's great to get through to you.
Thank you very much.
It's my first time, so I'm nervous.
Your first time, they say you never forget.
Oh, I probably won't.
I'm shocked that I got through, but it's great.
I'm glad you're here.
I think I was meant to talk to you today.
I was listening to you today in my home, and I opened my, got my mail, opened it up, and I know as soon as I see my Wilmark envelope that it's going to probably be a premium increase.
And of course it was.
So it's going up another $53.
I pay $8.90 now.
Now I'll have to pay $9.43.
A month?
Yes.
No, no, no, no, no.
You've got to be wrong.
Obama said that people's premiums are going to be, he said they're going to be reduced $2,500.
No.
Well, I knew that wasn't true.
Oh.
But I don't know how anybody can pay this.
I know last year.
What is your deductible?
$4,200.
So you've got out-of-pocket $4,200 before you even have any contribution from the insurance policy.
Yes.
And for that, you're paying nearly $500 a month, did you say, or $900?
Right now, we're paying $890 a month.
Yes, it's going up $900.
And now it's going to go up to $9.43.
And you're thinking, man, what a deal.
And you're probably thinking, well, Wellmark is going to be in trouble.
I mean, you're right.
Who can pay this?
You see, this is the objective.
Look, I'm not trying to be.
I guess, you know, I mean, you either got to eat or pay your bills.
I mean, I guess why not?
Why have insurance?
I just pay for it when you get sick.
Except, no, see, now if you do that, you're going to get a fine.
The IRS is going to take out of your refund what you should be paying.
There's a fine schedule.
Well, it'll be cheaper.
For the first couple of years, yes.
That's the plan.
The first couple of years, you are to pay the fine.
And by that time, Wellmark is gone.
And every other private sector insurance company is gone.
And after you've paid your fines a couple years and the private sector is wiped out, you've only got one place to go, healthcare.gov.
And that's probably what they're trying to do with keeping on raising this, right?
I don't know that Wellmark is trying to, but I know that's what the Democrat plan is.
That's what their orgasm dream has been about is government-run.
It's called single-payer socialized medicine.
Right.
You get that fully implemented.
You have total control over the population.
But what can we do to get this lowered or get rid of it?
This is going to require a full-on effort of the Republican Party to repeal as much of this.
And it's getting harder as time goes on, as this settles in, as the tentacles of Obamacare dig deep into the fabric of society, it's going to get harder and harder and harder once these benefits start pouring out, the subsidies to yank it away from people.
But I don't know what you do when you can't afford it, when you can't pay it, and when the fines become more expensive than the policy, I think that's when magic will happen and there will be a plan for you at healthcare.gov down the road.
Supposedly we're grandfathered in.
How's that working out for you?
Well, I get to keep the doctors that I have now, of course, I guess, is what that means.
So that's why I don't want to go on the website and do all that garbage.
So, but it says in my paper here, it says this amount may also reflect a new age category you moved into.
What's the new age category that I moved into?
It means your age.
They're grouping people demographically by age.
And of course, as you get older, your insurance gets more expensive.
I see.
So they just arbitrarily put you in a new age category.
I don't think they mean head to the mountaintop and start doing harmonic convergence, not that kind of new age.
I think they're talking about your chronological age.
But you could, you could go to Mount Shasta and go and see if it lowers your premium.
I mean, it's as good as any other thing I could suggest.
I was not trying to be mean to the previous caller.
When I couldn't afford something, I didn't buy it.
But health insurance is a different thing.
There's a story here, but Blue Cross has revealed 2015 health insurance rate increases.
North Carolina's largest health insurer said Wednesday their rates are going to go up 13% on average.
I think it's, it's, I don't want to say criminal, but it really is disingenuous.
They're promising everybody the premiums are going to come down.
Keep your doctor.
The lies that were told to gain support for this thing.
I don't know what, if you can't afford it, one thing you can do is vote, but that's not going to reduce your premium.
But one thing you can do is take whatever step you can to get rid of the regime and the party that has imposed this on everybody.
This breaks my heart.
This is so predictable.
We could see this coming a mile away.
And what's going to happen is a lot of people aren't going to be able to afford it.
And that's when the government's going to come in as the savior.
That's when Obama, whoever is the president, is going to come in and say, we've got the plan.
We've got the solution for you.
Healthcare.gov, government-run health, whatever it is.
And it'll be subsidized, and it'll be affordable and so forth.
The government doesn't have to make a profit on anything.
They never do.
Kevin Donners Grove, Illinois, great to have you.
You're going to wrap it up today on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
All right.
Resist We Much Dittos.
Hey, Rush, I've got a 10-year-old daughter in the fourth grade.
She's diagnosed with ADHD.
And up until two weeks ago, she never finished reading a chapter book on her own.
I read her the first chapter of Rush Revere and the Three Pilgrims.
She loved it.
Rush, she took the book and she finished it on her own in three days.
She's never done that before.
Why do you think that is?
It was so well written.
Rush, she would not stop talking about it.
I had to read it.
It's just the way it was written.
It kept her attention.
It kept her wanting to read more and more.
We'd have to take it away from her at bedtime.
How old is she?
She's 10 years old.
10 years old.
Oh, yeah, this is incredible.
I've never seen her take to something like that before, other than the catch she's got.
I don't know what's, I'm, this, just, I don't know how to, I don't know how to say thank you.
That's, that's, uh, because I know how important that can be.
Man, that's just, look, Kevin, hang on because we want to send her some stuff, and I need your address to do that.
And I really don't have any more time.
So thank you so much, but don't hang up.
Be right back.
Sadly, that's it, my friends.
The fastest three hours in media comes to a screeching halt.
Fear not.
Go out and have a great weekend, and we'll be back here Monday, revved up, ready to go with whatever happens between now and then.
As an added bonus, we'll tell you what to think about it all as well.
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