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Nov. 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 18, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hi folks, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh.
Not speaking as quickly as John McGruber does, but I could if I wanted to.
Because I'm excited here.
I'm very thrilled with the work we do on this program and bringing you the truth and helping you to wade through this intricately woven web of deceit and lying and conniving.
That has been the hallmark of the Obama administration.
In fact, it's the hallmark of liberalism.
It is, in fact, the hallmark of liberalism, deceit.
The only way they can secure support.
And one false premise after another, false premise of compassion, caring about the downtrodden, caring about the little guy all the while, the Gruber's on admission.
We're gonna screw the little guy.
Oh, yeah, we're gonna make people think the insurance companies are paying the tax, but they're gonna pay it.
But we know we wouldn't get elected if we told them that.
We uh we have to rely on their economic stupidity, the general stupidity of the American people and lie to them, and uh and we realize we've we've made them hate insurance companies, so we can blame them.
And they have.
The Democrat Party's enemies list is pretty much anything that's a success story in the free enterprise economy.
Let me ask you a quick question here.
Uh just again, trying to make a point.
Why was big oil, or why is big oil bad?
Why do you think that there is this instinctive hatred for big oil within the Democrat Party, uh, communism, socialism, the American left.
If you think that it's pollution, you are only partially correct.
Well, it's highly profitable, but that doesn't explain it either.
You see, the reason big oil is hated is because big oil profits off something everybody needs.
To the leftist, oil should be free.
You need it.
You need it to get around, you need it to stay alive, you need it to cook food.
They are profoundly offended that anybody makes money in oil.
And I'm gonna I'm gonna issue you, I'm gonna re-issue a warning to you because the telltale signs are there.
That same approach is already underway and will continue to intensify against doctors.
The left is already subtly making the point, but as time goes on, they'll become even more brazen and they will openly question why should somebody who heals get rich?
Why should somebody who makes somebody well, which you ought to do from the goodness of your compassionate heart for nothing, why should that person be richer than anybody else in our society, on average?
Why should doctors get paid to make people well?
Why should oil companies make all this money providing something that people need?
It's not fair.
It's not right.
Liberals, and the more you spend time around them, the more you really they they really do think everything should be fair.
The reason they're all caught up in net neutrality is that they think the big internet providers, the big cable companies are gonna get nailed.
They are relying on the government to go in there and punish ATT and Verizon and Comcast and the cable companies and a phone cut because they hate them.
That ought to be free, or at least it ought to be quote-unquote affordable.
You ought not have to earn a lot of money to be able to go on the internet.
You ought not have to earn a lot of money to drive a car.
This is what animates them.
And then they get talk about fairness and unfairness and profit is Evil and so forth.
And you know what it takes to get oil out of the ground and refined into a usable substances is irrelevant.
Whatever it takes, that should be done for the good of society, for the good of the people, because it's needed.
And then when we go to war for it, why?
Why that's that's blood for oil.
That's blood for profits.
Like for Cheney and like for Halliburton.
And they're and they get irrational in their hatred for it.
And it truly is irrational.
So that's why big oil is bad.
But at the same time, have you noticed it's okay with the same people when the government forces price increases on insurance companies?
I mean, here's Gruber out there, and he's bragging about all these taxes that they're levying on the insurance companies, which is driving prices up, and the same people bitching and moaning about the price of oil celebrate.
Increased costs on insurance and insurance companies.
Now here's the difference.
And this is what I find fascinating.
The free enterprise economy is responsible for the cost of oil.
Now I know that there are many conspiracy theorists, some even at Fox News who believe that there is some guy behind a curtain who decides what the price of gasoline's going to be and gets away with manipulating it and changing it.
There are people at Fox been trying to find that guy.
And it's not just at Fox.
There are a number of people that think the price of oil is not related to any market force at all, that some evil oil company or conglomerate is setting the price of gasoline for evil profits, take advantage of people, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But it's the it's it's market forces.
There's so many market forces you could not conspire to control them all.
In fact, the last I looked, isn't the price of gasoline kind of going down?
And isn't the price of oil kind of going down?
And isn't the price of oil getting dangerously low for some econom?
Well now, how can that be?
I mean, if if if the conspiracy exists to soak people and to screw people and to take their money from them for something that everybody needs, like how in the world can the gasoline price go be going down now?
And ditto the oil price per barrel, health insurance is skyrocketing, the oil price is coming down, health insurance and everything about it is just ballooning out of sight.
The price of oil is being determined by the free market economy, and the price of insurance is being determined by Barack Obama and Jonathan Gruber right now.
Now you tell me, are these liberals not cockyed or what?
They take a look at the free market economy and they flinch and they get their faces all scrinched up with hatred and disgust.
And then when the government comes in, takes over something, and the price skyrockets, they applaud it.
And it's wonderful.
So when government results in increased prices, some reason we celebrate that.
At the same time, the left will use temporary market fluctuations as an excuse to seize control over energy companies.
Because the government will come in, the government will come in, they'll make the pricing fair.
And when BP has an oil spill in the Gulf, oh, perfect opportunity, take them over.
Perfect opportunity, really punish them.
Perfect opportunity, just scorch them.
Perfect opportunity to just to just really let them know how much we hate them.
Temporary market forces cause prices to go up, the left panics, demands government go in and do something.
Government comes in and does something guaranteed what's going to happen, the price is going to skyrocket.
They never complain.
Oh, they might complain about high prices, but they will not ever, ever have the vitriol for the incompetence and the genuine conspiracies that exist at government to confound the manipulations or the variations of the free market.
You see, markets are self-correcting.
Markets Respond to laws of supply and demand and the will of the people.
If we've learned anything during the Obama presidency, he doesn't give a damn about the will of anyone, and therefore it doesn't matter.
And of course, Obama is not self-correcting because he doesn't have the humility to ever understand when he's done something wrong.
Obama's not interested in the consent of the governed or working with anybody because he knows in an honest contest he would never have been granted the consent of the governed.
Obama and Gruber know that had they been honest from day one about what their intentions were and how they intended to go about them.
They would never have won the election in 2008.
So why should they ever have anything but disdain for the American people?
And it doesn't matter.
Be damned.
And when whatever he does causes the price of things to skyrocket and causes scarcity, leftists who genuinely generally hate those kind of things end uping it.
Because in their perverted eyes, government can never do anything wrong.
You know why?
Because at least government's intentions are honorable.
But in the free market, big oil, I don't care anything about anybody.
Screw everybody.
All they care about is profit.
But but but Pelosi and Reed, why they're trying to help people, at least they're trying to help people.
Yeah, well, how did it work out for them?
Well, it doesn't matter how it worked out.
You're not supposed to look at that.
You're supposed to examine their good intentions.
And so we've bred and raised how many generations of literal blithering idiots who are 180 degrees out of phase wrong about many things that matter.
There is, ladies and gentlemen, a story in USA today that is the result of a couple of polls that are just preposterous.
They're just flat out.
For example, let me just give you a tease, it's a heads up on one of them.
Would you believe that what is the number?
62% of the American people all of a sudden are in favor of massive reductions in carbon dioxide because they believe in global warming.
You wouldn't believe that.
You do you don't believe it's 60%, because in every poll that we've seen heretofore, global warming is at the bottom of every list of issues people are asked to rank how much they care about.
It's at the bottom.
And yet USA Today has a story.
They got a poll out there.
62% of the American people agree that we ought to deal with the ChICOMs and reduce carbon dioxide by 62%, except global warming was never in the question.
Climate change was never in the question.
As far as the respondents of the poll were concerned, they were answering a question about pollution.
Are you in favor of reducing X?
Of course, nobody is in favor of pollution.
So 62% of the people said, yeah, we think we ought to do something about pollution.
But it is transformed to mean sixty-two percent support drastic government action to stop climate change.
That's how this crap is done.
And then there's a there's another one about uh immigration.
That you the same thing.
Same misdirection misconception.
It's it's about like that.
Do you think people should be free to do what they want?
Uh but the no, the the the question on uh on immigration.
Forty-two percent of respondents want Obama to do amnesty right now.
Forty, there's no poll that says that.
There's not a poll anywhere in the world that says that.
USA Today says they got one.
They have one.
And that's why I'm we'll get to this in due course.
Look just a couple more sound bites here.
So I'm gonna clear this Gruber stuff out so we can move on to this and the Adrian Peterson stuff and what's happening at by the way, speaking of the NFL, do you know?
I sometimes I scare myself.
You know, I don't brag much.
I really don't.
And I I don't pat myself on the back because it's my back, but it takes me a long time to get there with my hand.
But the do you know that more young people are watching The Walking Dead on Sunday night this season than are watching Sunday night football for the first time in many men.
I don't care if it's a good show or bad show.
That's not my point.
That's not my point.
Sunday night football used to own Sunday night.
It used to be that it was only cable networks who offered really quality first stuff on Sunday night during football season because your show dies there.
But it's a it's it it's interesting to look into.
Now here, just a couple of quick sound bites before we um get out of here and take the break.
Gail King on CBS this morning.
Uh she's all a Twitter here.
She really tortured on what she's learned here about Gruber lying and Obama claiming to not know Gruber, and it's sounded like this.
An outspoken economist who helped draft the Affordable Care Act was a regular visitor to the White House.
The records show that Jonathan Gruber had more than a dozen appointments since Democrats began drafting the law.
Those visits included at least one group meeting with President Obama.
The White House tried to distance itself from Gruber after video surfaced of him referring to the quote stupidity of the American voter.
Actually, I mischaracterize she's not tortured.
What she's doing is downplaying this as though it's no big deal.
Let me take a brief time out here, folks.
I just looked at the clock.
We'll be back after this.
Do not go away.
Time to go to the phones, folks.
We're going to start with Marcy in Orlando, Florida.
Welcome to the program, Marcy.
I'm glad you called.
Thanks.
It's a pleasure to speak with you today.
Thank you.
I was calling about the article written by Solisa today.
Um the whole article is based on a false premise.
Yes.
Did we lose her?
We're going to have to do something about Cell Call.
I couldn't understand what she was saying anyway.
Well, she she thinks the oh, her point, her point was going.
Well, I okay.
Her point, Snerdley says what she was going to say was that that uh Chris Selizza of the Washington Post doesn't even realize that Gruber's calling Democrats stupid.
Uh meaning Democrat voters.
I don't I don't think it would matter if he did.
I I don't think it would have changed Soliza's interest in the take on the story, even if he thought that Gruber was also.
What what's what is noteworthy about this, here you have, I mean, this is this is I don't know how maybe one of the best illustrations of the I don't know what you got difference or the existence of the drive-by media and how those of you who think that somehow, somehow there's a way to get them on our side.
Uh here you have a fundamental, I mean, this is an earth-shattering story.
This is I don't know how to characterize this.
Richard Nixon didn't even dream of doing stuff like this.
And they impeached him for it.
They ran him out of town for this, for just thinking about things like this.
So here you have, on one hand, you have incontrovertible Proof and evidence that we are living with an administration that has engaged in fraud and lying and deceit and a con game while fundamentally ignoring the founding documents of the country for the purpose of transforming the country,
and that is of no interest to the drive-by media.
And you can see that it's of no interest by looking at how many times how many days went by.
There were two or three, four days went by before this story was even covered in the mainstream media networks.
I know I let three days go by waiting and waiting, and from the fourth day I on the program came here and said, you know, folks, look at there hasn't been one story.
ABC, CBS, NBC, not one story on this thing.
Now the answer, the reason is is quite clear.
They don't care.
They support what Obama's doing.
Doesn't matter to them.
Now that the truth is out, that has to be covered up.
The truth.
The Emperor has no clothes.
The truth of Obama has been revealed.
Well, we can't report that either.
So meaning the drive-bys can't report data.
So what do they do?
They have to discredit the entire series of revelations by doing stories on what a bunch of nutcases, conservatives are, and the evidence of how nutty they are is their reaction to Gruber.
Take a look at the difference in the way Chris Christie and the lane closure on the on the bridge on ramp was covered, versus the drive-by's total lack of interest in what we are learning about Jonathan Gruber.
Here you had a non-story that was covered intensely, top to bottom, front to back, every drive-by news network for how many days in a row?
For two weeks in a row, trying to find out if Governor Christie was behind this lane closure.
Nobody was hurt, were they?
I mean, I don't forget what the heck it was even all about.
But there were, oh yeah, long traffic job, ambulances, that's what it was.
There might have been a problem.
And interminable investigations at the State House in Trent and on and on and on and on and on.
Now here comes Gruber, and what Gruber has done is revealed.
I look, I don't need to repeat this to you.
I I I what I'm struggling to find here is a is a way to express the incredulity that I feel over the total lack of outrage anywhere but hear about this.
I don't know why the Republicans aren't fit to be tight over this.
Well, I do.
I don't I keep thinking at some point someone's gonna light a fire under I this is simply unacceptable, outrageous.
Impeachable offenses.
I mean, this is this is outrageous what's going on.
The drive-by media, in order to cover it up and to make it look like it's nothing, instead decides to cover the story as look at these cockeyed, kooky, wacko conservatives and the way they're reacting to this.
Look at these nutbags, look at these crook cases.
My guy, okay, so you've got an MIT professor here, and he's saying this or that about open big whoop.
These conservatives are going nuts.
Look at this.
It's a way to distract everybody.
It's it's a way to continue to discredit legitimate criticism of this thing and to keep attention from the low information voter away from what the story is, which is basically how they are getting the shaft day in and day out by this administration.
I just I've uh and the idea that there remains a way here to get the media to see things our way.
Here's Sue and Modesto as we head back to the phones.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Uh hi, Clay, can you hear me okay?
Yeah, here you fine.
Listen, I used to hate you, and uh my uh late husband used to say, You gotta listen to him.
This guy is really great, he's smart, he's funny, blah, blah, blah.
I said, Well, hey, why do you hate it?
Well, I everybody should get ahead that listens, okay.
And so my uncle, who lived near Sacramento, listened to you every day, and he loved it when you said, Are you listening in Rio Linda?
Because my uncle lived in Rio Linda and had a little star in Rio Linda, and every time you did it, he just he was thrilled.
So anyway, one day I'm driving towards Stockton, and I thought, I can't turn this on, and I got you by accident.
Now, I was a liberal democrat all my life, and a tree hugger and an animal rights activist.
I'm still the two latter ones.
Um you said something about animal rights uh people, and it was so funny.
I laughed so hard, I almost drove off the freeway.
And from that day on, I have listened to you virtually every single day, and I don't know what I would do without you now.
That is simply that that that is incredible.
And I'm a conservative.
You're but you're you you weren't.
You were you were a fire breathing, you you hated me.
You despised me.
You hated the fact when people might mention my name, you hated it.
Yep, and my my late husband said, Well, you gotta listen to him.
And I said, No, I don't need to listen to him.
I don't like him.
And then I did.
But but you had not listened at that point.
You didn't you didn't uh you you just you just hated me because you thought you should, right?
I hated you.
I hated you, and uh I found out you are smart, you're quick, you're funny.
Right um I I could go on and on.
Well, you know what's amazing?
Here you still admit to being an animal rights uh supporter, and yet I said something funny about animal that you thought was funny, and you I guess you weren't insulted by it, otherwise you wouldn't have uh undergone your conversion.
Well, listen, and I know you know this, because you were you know, I mean, I I worked in radio a long time ago, and you were at K KFBK in Sacramento when listen, uh, that's how far back he went.
Um if you aren't entertaining, it doesn't matter what your politics are, you'll be gone.
That's true.
Well, I appreciate you're you're you're you're actually uh Sue, very uh very perceptive and very kind, and I appreciate that.
So you see you're still an animal rights wacko and a tree hugger.
So you're environmentalist wacko, and you're still uh an animal rights, but nevertheless, you still found your way here to see the light and uh enjoy the pearl.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Um see, this happens.
I contend to you that this is happening all over the country, especially now, but it's gone on for the whole 25 years, and the left knows it.
And the and the Democrat Party at the upper echelon knows it, and calls like this, do not doubt me, bother them to no end.
The only thing they've got is character assassination.
They cannot enter the arena of ideas with this and hope to triumph.
They have to lie about everything they believe.
They can't they they they don't dare enter into a debate.
And if they do start one, it quickly in 30 seconds descends into personal attacks and insults.
The only hope they have is discrediting people who can tell the truth about them.
And if that fails, such as it has here with Sue, then they get worried and they ramp it up.
Uh and and the things that they are doing to decent people, both in politics and out, the things that they are doing to people all over this country in order to uh keep people from learning the truth about them is really hurtful.
The left is really, really damaging and harming this country in all kinds of ways.
And they are doing it with deceit and lies and character assassination, the absolute worst traits and and Characteristics of of personal conduct and behavior.
They are defining it.
So any time somebody like Sue comes along who is nevertheless able to wade through all of that and see the light just scares them.
And they double down on all the hate.
They double down on all the character assassination.
They double down on all the efforts to actually silence people, shut people up, in whatever it takes to do so, because these people cannot tolerate dissent.
They're not interested in it.
They're not interested in debates, they're not interested in the alternative point of view, they're not interested.
They don't think there should be any opposition.
So Sue, I appreciate the call and the quirk of fate that resulted in your seeing the light.
Here's Victor in Silver Spring, Maryland.
You're next.
It's great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hey.
That was a great call from Sue.
And it makes me wonder if my former wife is sorry that she dumped me because I listened to you.
You gotta be your wife dumped you because of this?
Yeah, you saw me on C Span talking to Ann Coulter about my divorce.
I'm that Victor.
The blind guy.
That Victor.
Yeah.
So you're I d I vaguely remember this, Victor.
Your wife actually dumped you because you were a regular listener of my program and you were an evangelist.
You tried to get her to listen to.
Yeah.
And she gave me an ultimatum, and I decided to keep listening to you, and uh she walked out on me.
How many years ago was that, Victor?
Uh she dumped me in uh 93.
93.
Is that really what happened?
She dumped you?
It sounds like the decision was yours.
No, she gave me an ultimatum, was either her or or the or the radio, one or the other.
Right.
And so you chose the radio.
Exactly.
And she just assumed that that meant she had been dumped, which was true.
Yeah.
Anyway, what I wanted to talk to you about.
Oh no, wait a minute, Victor.
This is crucial.
You did the dumping.
No, she walked out.
I know that, but you you made the choice.
She gave you the she made she gave you the ultimatum and you chose, and she left at you didn't leave.
No.
Did you get the house?
Yeah.
Well.
I bought her out.
You know what you could have done, Victor?
You could have spared yourself all this trouble.
You could have bought her a house.
How many years ago did you marry her?
I married her in 71, so we were married for 22 years.
Well, okay, look, if you would have decided in 1970 you hated her, buy her the house then, never marry her.
Look how far ahead of the game you'd have been.
Possibly.
Except you kept the house, right?
Yeah, I kept the house.
Well, then you're not out that bad.
Yeah, I got everything brailed in the house, so I I'm used to it.
Well, where did she end up?
She's living somewhere in Silver Spring.
Oh, so she's still nearby.
Yeah.
Do you ever run into her?
Uh no, but a neighbor has at the hardware store.
The hardware store.
Yeah, she needed a new snow shovel.
We could keep on with this.
We can have.
I know I don't want to waste your time, Rush.
You're not.
Victor, you're not, believe me.
X-wives in snow shovels with hardware stores right up my alley.
Well anyway, yeah, but but that's not why you called, I know.
What is it that you wanted to talk about?
Well, I heard you yesterday playing a clip of uh Obama saying he never heard of this um guy before, Gerard or whatever his name is.
Gruber.
Gruber.
Gruber, I'm sorry.
And he was saying he's gonna get to the bottom of this, and then you said the theorem, the rush theorem was coming.
And then today, this morning, on one of my talk shows that I was listening to Tom Marr in Baltimore, your WCBM affiliate.
Right.
He he mentioned the fact that Obama made some kind of presentation in 2006 thanking Gruber, and you played it at the end of the last first hour, I mean, and I'm saying to myself, boy, that's a huge CI told you so.
Exactly right.
And I've been warning people about Obama ever since we've had access to these old audio sound bites of him, all the way back to 2001-2002 in Chicago, talking to the SEIU about eliminating employer-based health insurance, about eliminating private sector insurance industry.
And it's it's uh people have chosen to ignore it or accept it, but the one thing about it, none of it, and even today, even now, 90% of what you know, Victor, 90% of what you know about John Gruber and Obama has yet to be reported in any what you would call mainstream media.
ABC, CBS, NBC, Washington Post, New York Times, U.S., it hasn't been reported.
The low information crowd, the last they heard on this was that Obama is livid.
He just found out that some loose-lipped braggart that he hadn't heard of is out claiming they had to lie to the American people, and by God, Obama's gonna get the bottom up.
That's the last thing, the low information crowd heard about this.
The last thing they know.
I appreciate the call, Victor.
I uh I really do.
And I I don't know, I mean, how to express my gratitude.
At the moment you were given the ultimatum.
You made the right choice.
I don't know how to thank you.
Okay, I mentioned the plummeting oil price.
And there are a lot of people trying to feel why is this happening?
There are a lot of people that do not understand what it is that's driving down the the crude oil price.
What explains it?
And when when it happens, and it's a mystery, people look to traditional explanation.
Well, are people driving less?
Uh the demand for gasoline down, uh, the economy bad.
What what what's going on?
And in this case, that's not the answer.
The simple explanation for much, not all, but for much of the drop in the price of oil is found in Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis are lowering their price because they are scared.
They are very worried about the amount of oil now available in the United States and North America via fracking.
Shale gas and oil.
And it's been reported in a number of official publications that the amount of oil, the reserves that are available in the United States and North America since fracking has become affordable, the reserves we have are greater than the reserves in Saudi Arabia.
Now, the Saudis have owned this, the Saudis have owned the notion that they have the world's greatest supply of oil.
And they are threatened gravely by this.
They are lowering the price that they are charging in order to strangle their competition, which is in this country, in the Dakotas.
Anywhere where there is uh uh shale gas and oil and fracking going on, where there is massive we're they've got a big oil boom in this country, and they're doing everything they can in Saudi Arabia to strangle it.
They're trying to lower the price, get it to the point where it's no longer profitable or sensible for the companies in this in this country to continue to frack and produce the oil.
is that price.
And the Saudis are doing what they can to get that price down there.
And of course, if they arbitrarily decide to lower the price of oil, they are going to increase the demand for their oil.
And this is, hey, competition in an open market is bloodthirsty.
It's I mean, capitalism, you can say good, bad, whatever, but when it is in full swing, it is just amazing to watch it.
And that's exactly what's happening here.
That's why the oil price is plumbing.
Is Saudis are trying to run their competitors out of business.
The Saudis are trying to freeze the frackers.
In essence.
They have many more reserves at their disposal.
The reserves the frackers have are yet to be produced.
We just know they're there.
Take a break, folks.
At tight, we'll be back with much more.
Do you remember how many people made fun of us when we said, hey, all we got to do is drill, baby, drill?
Drill for oil, we'll bring the price down.
Drill for oil, we'll raise the supply, drill, baby, drill.
Oh, you can't silly made fun of it.
We've drilled, we've drilled, we've fracked, and here are the Saudis lowering the price of oil.
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