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Nov. 13, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 13, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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This is kind of comical too.
I got CNN on up here.
And right now they got a guest on there, Fareed Zakaria GPS, who was just discovered to have committed another three or four acts of plagiarism.
Yeah, on top of the previous acts or incidents of plagiarism.
And there he is as a guest in a discussion about the regime reassessing ISIS.
What must it be like to work there?
You go to work at CNN and you know you don't have an audience.
See, I think as long as we're talking psychology and attitude, and look, folks, I really don't want to beat a dead horse.
You know, sometimes it takes me three or four attempts to actually communicate my real meaning.
Sometimes it takes me that many tries to get there.
And on this Gruber business and who he thinks is stupid, it doesn't make any sense.
I mean, it's an indictment, and I don't want to confuse anybody here.
He called the American people stupid.
He believes it.
There's no question about it.
But you don't have to lie to stupid people.
Stupid people will be gullible and accept whatever you tell them, and they won't care.
You have to lie in order to keep yourself from being found out.
You have to lie if the people you're lying to are too smart.
And I really think that the people that Gruber was lying to were the media based on this Ron Fournier piece.
Here's a guy, like everybody that voted for Obama and everybody in the media think Obama's excrement doesn't stink.
I mean, he is the Messiah.
He's the guy 2008 was the answer to everything.
And they believed everything he ever said.
So here comes Obamacare.
He wants to insure the uninsured.
Oh, that's a beautiful thing.
And we really want that to happen.
It's so great.
I believe him.
Oh, it's great.
And then he comes up with this convoluted plan.
He says it's going to bend the cost curve down means it's going to be cheaper.
You get to keep your doctor, get to keep your plan.
Your premium is going to come down 20.
And they believed it.
So I think Gruber had to lie about what's in the bill to keep the media on board.
Because the media is how the low information people end up finding out things.
It's the media that gets the low information crowd on board for anything.
And it's the media that Gruber had to lie to because if the media had discovered at this point, they couldn't take the risk that the media would willingly join them in this deceit.
And I don't care what anybody says, no matter how slavish the media is, Obama still doesn't like him.
And they have a tough time with that too.
They want to be loved.
They want to be adored.
They want to be in the click.
They want Obama to think of them as an equal.
He doesn't.
He disdains them.
Like any figure of his nature who wants as much control over people, he resents that they do what they do.
He's never going to like them.
They know this.
So I think what Gruber, when he says, look, people are too stupid to figure this out.
What he was really saying was we had to lie about this because we had the media on our side and we couldn't jeopardize that.
But that does not mean he doesn't think you're stupid.
They do.
They think everybody's stupid and they hold average Americans in contempt.
There's no question about it.
So back to CNN.
How do you get up and go to work there every day when you know nobody's watching?
When you don't have any audience, what must you tell yourself?
Talk about lying.
You have to tell yourself the world is watching.
You have to tell yourself the audience is huge.
Otherwise, what you're doing doesn't matter.
It's the same thing.
Yeah, in fact, I've even told this story.
One of the things that I learned early on why radio people are literally basket cases.
And most of them are.
Well, you're laughing in there, but you think I'm wrong about this?
Let's look at the day of a radio personality.
Personality gets up, goes to work.
What's that?
Sitting in a room all by him or herself, unless you got an occasional guest, but you're basically alone.
And maybe a couple people in the other side of glass.
Outside of that, there's no evidence anybody's listening.
You have to create circumstances that prove to you you have an audience.
And you end up, if you hope to have any success, you tell yourself that there are many, many, many people, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions.
You tell yourself this.
Hanging on every word, it's required.
You have to have this kind of an attitude.
You can't imagine doing a program if you think nobody's listening.
You wouldn't put anything into it.
You wouldn't care because nobody's going to hear it anyway.
So you have to, you have to, it's not so much lie to yourself, but you have to create this image that everybody's hanging on every word, but then your show ends.
And then you leave that little glass encased room.
And you go out in the world and you find nobody cares about you.
And you discover that nobody heard what you had to say.
And you thought you just had a bang-up show, you just kicked butt as big as Kim Kardashian's.
You just scored big.
And then you leave and you go home, you go to grocery store, and nobody knows who you are.
Nobody heard a word you said.
It's a psychological challenge on being on being, this is why radio people are nuts.
They're not just radio.
And CNN people got the same thing.
They're in there in that little studio and they're doing their news and they're telling themselves, whoop blitzer, that everybody's hanging on every word, and they're not.
Well, that's what they tell themselves.
At CNN, what they tell themselves is, well, the people who are too stupid to appreciate what we do, obviously, Limbo's right, they aren't watching, but the opinion makers are, and the policymakers are.
They have us on at the Department of Treasury.
They have us on in the Oval Office.
They have us on.
So they tell themselves that the real important people are listening.
And that's how they psychologically get through it.
Folks, I'm telling you, it's true.
You have to, it's a lot to keep in perspective.
And you've seen people who think that they're just hot stuff and the biggest thing is going and they're running around like they own nobody knows who they are and they laugh at them behind their backs and so forth.
It's a very, very, very challenging psychological, like in my case, I'll give you a little inside baseball.
How many of you were raised, how many of you when you grew up had your parents tell you that it was okay if people hated you?
That didn't happen to you, HR snurdily.
Did your parents say it's okay if somebody hates you?
They did?
Well, my point is nobody's raised to want to be hated.
Everybody's raised to want to be loved.
Most families raise their kids, responsible families.
This is the old days when we had those, raise their kids to be functioning members of the local community, to not embarrass the family, the family name, do all these things.
If it's common, ordinary.
Nobody is raised to go out and be hated, right?
Okay, so I was the same way.
That was not in any way, shape, manner, or form the way I was brought up.
The only guy I can think of who might have been raised that wanted to be hated was Hitler.
Outside of that, and maybe Attila the Hun, or could have been Gingis Khan.
But psychologically, I had to learn to take as a sign of success the fact that 20, 25% of the people who hear me every day are going to hate my guts.
Nobody is raised to take that as a measure of good.
I had to learn how to do that on my own.
And you hear people say badge of honor to be disagreed with or hated by whatever.
And you do.
You have to arrive at that point.
But it's not anything.
Most people want to be loved and adored by everybody.
That's what social media is all about.
Well, yeah, the parents tell you not everybody's going to like you, and you have to learn to ignore those that don't like you.
But I'm talking about nobody is raised with the instruction, it's a good thing to be hated.
Go out there and make people hate you.
That's how you get.
That doesn't happen to people.
So learning to have to take that, especially people who don't even know me, as a measure of success.
That took me a while to adjust to.
What is this?
Is this a joke or did this really happen?
Katie Couric and David Gregory did election night coverage from a bar in Washington streaming on the internet.
Okay, so you're at, okay, so Snerdley says, okay, tell me this.
David Gregory, who was fired because his network preferred Jon Stewart, was important.
I mean, if you want to get my psychological take on this, you've got to throw the factors.
Why is he in a bar doing election night coverage?
Because the new female British executive at NBC canned him and wanted Jon Stewart.
And furthermore, backed up a Briggs truck to Jon Stewart, and he still said no.
So they went and they got F. Chuck Todd, who may be doing election night coverage in a bar someday.
So there's Katie Couric, where she, she's at Yahoo.
She's a Yahoo and David Gray, two former giants in the broadcast news business, are doing election night coverage in a bar.
I guess streamed over the internet, is what you mean.
And so it's for Yahoo.
Oh, oh, it was for Yahoo.
So that means Gregory was a guest of Katie Couric.
Okay, so the question, psychologically, how do they tell themselves that what they're doing matters?
How do they tell themselves that their jobs in a bar on election night on the internet is big and important?
The answer to the question is, where are they?
They're in a bar.
They do it by drinking.
El Rushbo serving humanity simply by showing up to the EIB network.
Folks, this is why I have always said that the five years I worked for the Kansas City Royals, and I was, let's see, 81, 79, so 28 through age 33, I made the least amount of money I've ever made as an adult in those five years.
Those five years were the most valuable to me for what was to come in life later.
Those five years, in a lot of ways, one of the ways they were really important, I'd always, other than a shoeshon job, I'd always been in radio, and it's an unreal existence.
It really is.
And because you're on the radio, you think of it differently than consumers of it do.
And I became a consumer of radio.
I had nothing to do with radio when I got out of it.
I was in marketing and sales at the baseball team.
It had nothing to do with radio.
And I began to notice how people used it and what about radio they commented on and what they didn't.
I began to see how it was part of everybody's day in an habitual way rather than an appointment, except in certain circumstances.
And those five years, the first two, I thought I was through with radio, but I got it, you know, after the first two, I figured out I'm not cut off for corporate conformity.
So radio I love the most.
I figured I'd get back to doing that at some point.
If I ever did, it totally changed my approach to how I would do it if I ever got back and if I was ever given the freedom to do it my way.
There was no guarantee on either of those.
And there's something to be said for getting away from what you do for a while to regain or change your perspective on it.
It can be helpful.
It was for me.
And for people like Gruber and all of these think tank eggheads who have never had any real world experience, and there are so many of them now that are in daily control of so much of our lives and they have no ability to relate to us at all.
And it matters.
It matters greatly that they are imposing regulations on businesses here and there for whatever reason and they've never ever run a business.
And in most cases, they've never had a job at a business.
In most cases, they've never been fired.
They don't know what that is.
They can't conceive of it.
And yet these are the people that end up in powerful bureaucratic positions who have autocratic power to regulate aspects of daily life with which they have never or rarely interacted.
I believe it's one of the major problems and challenges that we have.
They're just a bunch of theoreticians who have vastly inflated ideas of their self-worth and their importance and their value.
And concurrently with that, they have vast opinions about how inferior and stupid people unlike them are.
Particularly people in the South who like guns or who oppose planned parenthood.
I mean, they really have contempt for you.
They have contempt for the religious.
And that's all fine and dandy, but they've got positions of power now over all these aspects of American life they have nothing in common with, no experience in.
They're all leftists who have a basic contempt for self-reliance, contempt for rugged individualism, a contempt for people who can take care of themselves or who excel, contempt for achievement.
It's not fair.
It's not right.
They think the game must be rigged if somebody does really well at something, when in fact, the game they're in is what's rigged.
Anyway, let me go back to the phones because I need to.
People have been waiting patiently.
We're going to go to Shiloh, Illinois.
Janet, Janet, I'm glad you waited.
I appreciate that.
And hi.
Hi, last man standing.
And boy, have you proven today you are the last man.
Rush, you've been brilliant.
You're absolutely correct on Gruber.
You've nailed it.
And I hope Ron Fournier is listening so he knows how he got played.
You're right.
Ron Fournier is a nice guy who wants good.
And it's in that piece how he got played.
Knee-jerk reaction of the Republicans.
And how disappointed and shocked and surprised he is.
He can't believe that somebody like Gruber would lie like this.
Right.
And Rush, when you said yesterday you believe Obama wanted a Republican Senate, you're straight on the mark.
You hit that one like you hit everything else out of the park.
He wanted a single-line party vote on Obamacare for many reasons, which we can discuss over port and brandy someday.
But anyway, they...
No, no, you mean port and cigars.
Port and cigars.
Excuse me.
Yeah.
If you want port and brandy, have had it.
I don't inhale, though.
I just hold on to them.
I don't inhale either.
I love the smell of tobacco.
Okay.
What we need to focus on right now, and I do have a question if you're generous enough about Mary Landrew and what she really needs to win, which is not Keystone.
And you would get this.
But anyway, the proof, it's the Cadillac tax.
That's what we have to look at.
This is how stupid they think the media is, not the American people, because it's the American people who are paying for the Cadillac tax.
Cadillac tax is for the high-end health care plans.
It's part two of the funding.
It is a pure revenue tax, 40%.
Gruber's talking about it as they found him last night.
He says they passed it over to the health insurance companies.
I think he even called them evil.
Which, again, that only says Rush Limbaugh is right.
I love this, don't you?
Anyway, so it's that 40% that they rolled over to the health care.
Yeah, but they called it a tax on the rich in order to what they thought would bet the poor people or average would have to support.
That's right.
And it's a tax on union health care plans, a 40% tax for no other reason than to pay for Obamacare.
And the American taxpayer, through their property taxes, through their municipal taxes, through their school budgets, are going to pay for every single public union and federal union employees 40% tax hike.
The actual policy holder, the individual union member, is not going to pay it.
Although they will pay a little bit.
And we are looking at Americans who had health care, who had doctors, who could afford what they had, losing it.
It's going up in price.
They can't afford it.
So they're going to pay a tax for something that they have.
But the real reason for that is to wipe out private sector health insurance companies so that the people that can't afford it there will eventually find a very eager government to give them a policy.
Appreciate the call very much, Janet.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, explain what Janet Shala Illinois was talking about with Gruber, and she swerved into the Cadillac tax out of nowhere.
And I just want to explain to you what she was talking about.
Gruber, in one of these videos, and I've got all three of them here.
I'm trying to decide if you're grubered out now.
You're not grubert out now.
Well, I've got them here.
Friday stand by Miss 789.
What he was talking about with the Cadillac taxes, he was bragging to all of these economics colleagues or colleagues is now the proper way to say it in the elite circles.
And like what my colleague is trying to say, quite honestly, Cadillac tax.
See, the secret to this is Cadillac tax.
We're going to tax insurance companies.
Evil.
Heartless insurance companies.
40, 40%.
And we're going to sock it to them.
And when we do that, we're going to tell these stupid Americans that that means they're going to get a tax cut because we're going to suck the target insurance companies.
See, that's what we're going to do.
We're going to 40% tax insurance companies are going to tell these stupid idiots that that results in a 40% tax cut for them so they'll support this thing.
He said the public is too stupid about economics to realize that the tax would be passed on to them.
That's what Janet's point was, that the tax is going to be passed on to them.
And that the people who are the beneficiaries of all this are all Obama buddies, primarily union and elites who have access to the Cadillac.
And the Cadillac plan is the most expensive plan.
And the regime is running around.
The whole point of the Cadillac plan, which it's unfair that they exist, you know, why should one human being in America be allowed to have a better plan than any other human being?
That's just inherently unfair.
And if your answer is, well, because he's paying for it.
Well, see, that makes my point.
It's unfair that he can pay for it, but not everybody else can.
So what?
Maybe the rich are paying for their health insurance plans because they can, but it's unfair that they can afford it and everybody else can't.
And so we're going to do away with it.
We're going to slap a tax on these Cadillac plans and we're going to soak it to these rich people who do not deserve to have something that much better than you do.
And then what we're going to do is that 40% tax is going to make your policy cheaper and cheaper.
And the lie was that the tax was going to be passed on to you by the insurance company.
If the government levies a tax of 40% on any entity that sells something in the retail markets, or even wholesale, what happens is that that tax, if it's 10%, 15%, 40%, whatever, the retailers add that to the cost of whatever it is they're selling.
And the end user, which is the consumer, is always going to end up paying for these things.
And it was that that Gruber was saying they had to lie about because you're too stupid to figure out how this all works because you don't understand economics.
So in other words, Gruber was laughing about raising taxes on the stupid public without them knowing that's what was going to happen.
And I think that's the, let's see, yes, grab Soundbite 7.
Hear it in this video.
Well, the audio we have from the video.
This is November 1st of 2012 in Kingston, Rhode Island at the University of Rhode Island.
MIT egghead Jonathan Gruber spoke about the political and economic impact of health care reform in a Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act.
John Kerry said, no, no, no, we're going to tax your health insurance.
We're going to tax those evil insurance companies.
We're going to impose a tax that if they sell health insurance that's too expensive, we're going to tax them.
And conveniently, the tax rate will happen to be the marginal tax rate under the income tax code.
So basically, it's the same thing.
We just tax the insurance companies.
They pass it on higher prices.
That offsets the tax break we get.
It ends up being the same thing.
It's a very clever, you know, basal exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.
It's brazen what they were doing.
It is brazen what they were doing here.
They were raising taxes on you and convincing you that they're raising taxes on the rich, which, by the way, is a standard, ordinary operating ploy.
How often have you heard liberal Democrats talk about raising taxes on the rich?
And the next thing you know, you're paying higher taxes.
It's a common ploy.
It goes way, way back in their playbook.
And what is really disgusting about it is that they tell the average middle-class guys, yeah, we're going to soak it to the rich.
Those people have got way too much.
And they probably got it from you in the first place.
So we're going to really soak it to them.
And you applaud because you are afflicted with a disease called get even with themism.
And you love the fact that that government's going to penalize these people.
And even if that's what ultimately would happen, your life doesn't change.
They don't do anything to improve your economic circumstance.
They just tell you that they're going to soak it to the rich.
They're going to sock it to the rich.
And you're supposed to be happy with that.
But you don't get any benefit from it.
You're just supposed to be happy that somebody else is in pain.
And that's what the left sells.
The Democrat Party and the left, they come around and they sell pain and suffering in other people.
And you are supposed to be mollified by that.
You are supposed to feel good about that.
You're supposed to be happy about that.
And it works.
Class envy, they've tried it, been doing it as long as I've been alive.
And I've been confronted with people on the phones here who just happy as hell when they think the rich are going to get soaked.
Even though their lives aren't going to change at all.
And I submit to you that this kind of emotional manipulation by the Democrat Party does not do anybody any good.
What good does it do to make somebody happy at what they think is the suffering or inconvenience of somebody else?
What's the good of that?
I mean, you're talking about people you don't even know.
The rich?
You don't even know them.
Here comes Obama.
Here comes Gruber.
Yeah, we're going to really load them up.
We're going to have a 40% tax on their plans.
You go, yeah, yeah, you stick it to them.
You don't even know them.
And it doesn't help you an iota.
All it does is fuel continued rage and resentment.
All of these really destructive human emotions, and those are the emotions the Democrat Party plays on.
Those are the emotions they try to triumph on.
It's really despicable.
There's nothing inspirational about it.
There's nothing uplifting about it.
It's totally destructive.
So here's this guy, Gruber, bragging.
Listen to it.
He's speaking real fast here.
I want to hear Soundbite 7 again.
But he's really bragging here about raising the tax on insurance companies by 40% and how that's going to convince everybody to support the plan because they don't understand how the insurance companies are just going to pass that new tax on in the form of higher prices.
John Kerry said, no, no, no, we're going to tax your health insurance.
We're going to tax those evil insurance companies.
We're going to impose a tax that if they sell health insurance that's too expensive, we're going to tax them.
And conveniently, the tax rate will happen to be the marginal tax rate under the income tax code.
So basically, it's the same thing.
We just tax the insurance companies.
They pass it on higher prices.
That offsets the tax break we get.
It ends up being the same thing.
It's a very clever, you know, basal exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.
A basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.
And that lack of understanding is very simple.
They think that you don't understand that corporations don't pay taxes.
They think that you believe that when they raise taxes 40% on some insurance company, that that insurance company pays the 40% because you're not sophisticated enough to know that you are actually going to pay it because your prices are going to go up too.
The insurance company is going to pass the new costs on.
And it's sort of a wink-wink-nod-nod deal between Gruber and the insurance companies.
And they make you think all the while that they're really soaking the rich when they're not.
That's all he's talking about: marginal rates, and it ends up being the same thing.
That means it ends up being a wash, except for you.
So, what he's really chuckling about here is how all of these supposed new punitive taxes are actually going to be paid by you, but you're too stupid to know it.
And they're going to lie to you until you, the rich, are paying those taxes.
And you're going to applaud that and you're going to support the bill because of that.
And that, I think, is the entire foundation of all of Obamacare and not just Obamacare, folks.
That's every piece of legislation they come up with.
The only intelligent thing, you know, I have this phrase, intelligence guided by experience.
Classic, perfect example of using it here.
Now that you know, and you all in this audience do, I'm speaking, those of you maybe new arrivals, not regular listeners here, all of this.
You're just figuring out the thing that you must do from now on is accept a reality.
They admittedly lied to you about this, which means what else have they lied to you about, and what else are they going to lie to you about?
Or better stated, what haven't they lied to you about?
Because the fact is, the truth is, there is nothing, very little of liberalism that if they honestly presented it to you, that you would support.
I mean, you're looking at it.
You're looking at it.
We're living it for six years.
And what happened last Tuesday?
The American people showed up and said, stop this.
They don't want any part of it.
And they know it.
They know they have to camouflage who they are and what they believe.
They know they are always governing against the will of the people.
And the way they end up dealing with this is trying to buy as much love and support as they can by expanding the welfare state.
It's that simple.
That's how they do it.
And now another brief obscene profit break, and we'll be back with much more after this.
Pay close attention in the future.
When anybody in the Democrat Party starts talking about the entities that they consider the enemy, the Democrat Party, the American left, has enemies.
They are always telling you who is out to get you, and that they're always telling you who they are going to protect you from.
Now, make note of these.
They are the oil industry.
They are big entity, big food, big retail, big oil.
In other words, the Democrat Party's primary enemies list happens to be industry engaged in the private sector or the free enterprise economy.
So here we have an example of the architect of Obamacare lying about every aspect of this bill that's important to all of his economic buddies.
And it's a teachable moment.
In this latest example, he's excoriating big insurance.
It's not fair.
40%, these Cadillac plans, we're going to punish them.
We are going to punish them.
And who gets punished?
Their customers.
And they're going to punish big oil.
And they're going to punish the big polluters.
They're going to punish big Walmart, big retail.
They end up punishing you.
But make a note of who their enemies are.
They make no bones about who their enemies are.
And it's institutions, it's traditions that have defined this country's greatness.
Here's John in Philadelphia as we head back to the phones.
Thank you for calling.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It really is an honor to speak with you, and we really appreciate everything you do.
Well, thank you very much.
Look, what Obama's trying to do with amnesty by granting legalization to an amnesty to 5 million illegals, while it sounds terrible, I think it really is a great opportunity for this nation, especially conservatives.
What we can do is this.
As soon as he announces this, we'll let's say go ahead and do it.
And we'll make sure that all of these illegals know that in two years and two months, we will reverse this amnesty and they will become illegals again.
No, that's never going to happen.
Look, I'm going to have their name.
I don't want to.
He can't hear me because of our phone system.
I'm not being rude.
And I don't want to be rude.
But there's no reversing this.
This is not like a piece of legislation that you might think you could repeal or vote out or whatever.
You can't reverse this.
We've never, ever reversed an amnesty.
And by the way, we've never repealed an entitlement either.
Well, not entirely true.
There is senior citizens Medicare that Rostenkowski, but that happened within days, not years.
But there's no upside to this.
A, it's lawless.
We don't want to applaud lawlessness.
There is no political advantage in letting Obama be lawless.
We already won an election.
We don't need any more evidence to win an election.
Yeah, let him do this.
It'll guarantee us 2016.
I respectfully have to shut down that kind of thinking.
This is ballgame here.
Obamacare and this are ballgame in terms of the transformation of this country.
Now, you might think, well, Rush, but we're going to know who they are.
They're going to play games with this, by the way.
They're not going to say it's amnesty.
They're going to say we're just not going to deport them.
We're just taking deportation of these four and a half or five million off the table.
And therefore, they can come out of the shadows.
And therefore, we will know who they are.
And in two years, when we win it all, then we can round them up and send them back.
It's not going to happen.
There's no way that is going to happen.
This thing has to be stopped.
And there are ways, even after he does it, there are ways to stop it with defunding it.
There are all kinds of mechanisms.
The question is whether or not the Republicans are going to have the gonads to do any of it, which it seems it always comes down to that.
But this, we can't just stand idly by and try to find some political opportunity while the president basically shreds the Constitution and flushes it down the toilet.
That's not the way this is supposed to work.
Folks, in strategizing against Obama and the Democrats, you've got to throw out every old rule that you believe in.
You've got to throw out every behavioral pattern you think exists and all the old rules about politics.
We're in a new era now.
We have not faced what we're facing now.
And that's what I don't think the Republican Party gets.
Anyway, don't go away.
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