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Nov. 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 18, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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How many times were we and other people laughed at and mocked and made fun of for saying that the U.S. could lower the oil price by drilling more.
I mean, remember Sarah Palin, drill baby drill.
Remember how she was laughed at and made fun of and mocked, and anybody else who echoed the sediment, laughed at, made fun of, and mocked.
And that's what's happened.
The Saudis, because of our drilling, we're fracking, same thing.
We're producing oil left and right in places heretofore it was unable to be had.
We're producing it, and the Saudis are threatened.
They are lowering the price of their own oil to make it less profitable for the domestic producers in this country to bring that oil out of the ground or out of a shale.
And it's cutthroat and it's bloodthirsty, and this is the way uh competition and capitalism works.
UK telegraph uh last Friday.
Oil price route to deepen amid supply glut warns IEA.
Brent crude tip to fall to $75 per barrel as investors short the market and supply outstrips demand.
It's another reason Obama doesn't want the Keystone pipeline.
Obama doesn't want the oil industry going nuts.
He doesn't want oil cheap.
He doesn't want it plentiful.
Obama wants alternatives.
He wants this idiotic solar, idiotic green, idiotic wind, and all of this stuff.
Because that's how he i i is is enabled to make his uh his cronies rich.
But it's also how can wreak further damage on on this country.
And making sure that the oil that's produced in this country can't be produced.
He's all for all of it is it's conflicted in in a lot of ways about it, but it is what is happening.
And that is why it's because the Saudis are doing everything they can to damage the domestic market in this country, which is just literally booming.
Now I mentioned this uh USA Today poll.
Actually, it's a story on on two polls, two results in a poll.
And it's it is totally preposterous.
It's a preposterous article about a preposterous poll.
President Obama's plan to sign an executive order on immigration, expected as early as this week, will meet more resistance than support a new USA Today poll finds.
Close to half of those surveyed, 46% say he should wait for the new Republican control Congress to act, and another one in ten are unconvinced either way.
Just 42% of the American people say that he should take executive action now.
Findings that reflect a familiar partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans.
Now I'm sorry, folks, but I just do not believe that 42% of the public want Obama to do amnesty any time.
Let alone right now.
It just does not match a single other poll or the election that we just had.
Not even close on an interesting combination of other issues, the poll finds sweeping consensus in an electorate that is not firmly tied to the views of either party.
So you see, we just had a massive landslide defeat for the Democrats.
So right on schedule here is USA Today with a story about a poll that shows the electorate is not aligned with any party.
And so the election doesn't mean anything.
This election means nothing as it relates to the Democrats.
This election doesn't mean that people have chosen the Republicans.
Why we have a poll here that shows this.
And as evidence they cite this.
Those surveyed in our poll sided by more than two to one with Obama on a just announced climate agreement with China.
Two to one.
Two to one, the American people believe that the U.S. should begin to immediately limit its carbon emissions while the ChICOMs wait to begin until 2030.
We are to believe that by two to one the American people support this.
And the same poll, the same people, supposedly side with the Republicans on approval of the Keystone pipeline.
Now I'm sorry, folks, I don't believe the numbers on the China climate deal either.
The way this is being reported, by the way, is the American people support CO2 emission reductions.
And that means they support the whole notion of taking action to stop climate change.
What do you bet climate change was not in the poll?
What do you bet global warming was not in the poll?
What do you bet it was a poll about pollution?
What do you bet that the people are being asked?
Do you su do you support reducing emissions to clean up the air?
Or some such thing as that.
Two to one for that makes sense.
Who's going to oppose that?
Who's in favor of pollution?
For crying out loud.
So they take the result of the poll and they extrapolate it and they assign it to mean what they want it to mean.
I mean, it's absolutely preposterous, this kind of stuff going on.
This this soon after a just a landslide defeat for the Democrats.
There's a uh there are other stories out there about, you know what, it hadn't even been two weeks and Obama's already back in control.
Why it hadn't even been two weeks and Obama is already taking control of Washington again, and you would have never known the Republicans won an election two weeks ago.
Those stories are out there too.
It's amazing.
Obama seems more energized than we've seen him in two years.
Obama seems more ready for battle than we've seen him in five years.
Obama seems really, really ready to go.
It's like he's never been more in control of Washington than the way we're seeing him now.
Less than two weeks after a sweeping Republican victory in the midterm elections, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So the effort, ladies and gentlemen, to take every good feeling away from you is in full swing.
This the effort to dispirit you is all over the place out there.
And the effort to make you think this election was about something or some things totally different than what you think it was about is also in full swing.
The election was not about a rejection of Obama.
No, no, no.
The American people, they they they want amnesty.
They just think Obama should wait so the Republicans can join him in it.
That's what this poll is saying.
No, they're all for it.
Aegis don't think he should do it alone.
He should wait for the Republicans to get in gear with him so it can be a bipartisan effort.
You know what?
That is pfft crap.
That is just flat-out lying bull crap.
The American people are in favor of amnesty, but they don't want Obama to do it alone.
They want Obama to wait the Republicans to get their act together, get in gear and make it a bipartisan effort.
What a bunch of.
It's an absolute crock.
But that's USA Today.
That's out there, and it's get ready.
I mean, this is this is you knew this the kind of stuff was going to happen.
They gotta do everything they can to convince themselves that they didn't lose.
Yeah, and oh, that's yeah, there's there are also some Rush Limbaugh is renewed in his efforts to stop Obama so forth.
as though that's an alarm that needs to be sounded.
They're There are uh there well, Snerdley just said that you you keep reading that there are murmur.
All right, Snerdley tells me that he's seeing stories that Republicans are murmuring about impeachment but no names.
I imagine.
Well, I can explain that for you.
You want me to explain that to you?
They're talking about it on Fox.
Um about a month ago, six weeks ago, what six months ago, whatever, uh, when impeachment came up.
No, no.
The collective opinion at Fox was don't, stupid, it idiotic.
It's like the shutdown of government.
You don't go there, you don't talk about it.
No, no, no, no.
And in the past week, even prior to the Gruber stuff, all of a sudden some of the learned commentators at Fox have begin begun to describe certain Obama actions as impeachable offenses.
And that has given Republicans permission to start using the word.
I mean, you ask.
That's I'm telling you, that's why you're hearing it, because uh some people at Fox are not talking about it.
So the people Fox News have sort of made it okay.
If the people at Fox say, don't, don't shut down the good.
No, no, no.
Impeachment, no, no, no.
Then Republicans say, okay, no impeachment, no shutdown.
All right, but it's that simple, Snaredly.
It's inside the beltway stuff.
It's it's no more complicated than that.
Snerdley's looking for deep.
He's hoping maybe they're really talking about impeachment, or the Republicans really quietly talking to the media's hearing about it.
Nah, that's not what's happening.
Uh well, not that I know of.
I mean, I I shouldn't say conclusively that it that it isn't.
Well, of course it looks out of place because the left still thinks that if they can get the Republicans tied to the word, it'll help Obama.
I mean, much of what you're seeing is probably planted by Democrats.
But the nevertheless, they they are starting to what they're doing on Fox, it's kind of convoluted.
They're saying that's an impeachable offense, but we shouldn't impeach.
That's an impeachment offense, but we shouldn't impeach.
That's an impeachable offense, but but we really shouldn't.
So it's you you have you have people going on the record for their own credibility saying it's an impeachable offense.
On the other breath, uh, but we shouldn't really uh impeach.
It's uh it's it's the old cover all the bases trick.
So that months from now, weeks from now, you can say, yeah, I said he should have been impeached.
Yeah, I said it was on the table, but we shouldn't have done it.
I think that's one of the things about this that's kind of frustrating to me.
To a lot of people, it's a game.
You know, it's just an intellectual game uh to play.
And to me, this is this is uh this is real stuff.
Like this USA Today story in these polls, this is simply outrageous here.
I mean, 25 years I've seen media bias, I've seen lies, deceit, fraud, you know, all of this.
This this is just it's it's goober-esque.
Gruber, Gruber, sorry, Gruber, Gruber-esque.
You know, we had a uh uh a caller in the last hour from Modesto, uh self-admitted former hater of your beloved host, me.
She hated my guts.
She had never listened, she hated my guts, and her husband and brother and uncle and uh dog and rails loved me.
And that made her hate me even more.
She's a tree hugger, she's environmentalist, wacko, she's a big lib, just hated me.
And she's uh she told the story, she's not driving around one day and by herself.
And somehow, someway, radio came on, and I was on it.
First time she'd heard me, not just heard about me.
And she said that I said something that was outrageously uproariously comically funny about animal rights people.
And from that point on, I have been brilliant and beloved and intelligent and smart, and she's now a conservative.
You know, we get um we're getting I don't I don't like calling it fan mail.
We're getting feedback on these Rush Revere books like you can't believe.
You know, I've been doing the program 25 years, and uh over 25 years you go through ebbs and flows and peaks and valleys of response.
After 25 years, you're a given.
You're just there every day.
And but that it's hard to say that anything is really new.
I mean, even a new point of view, while being maybe noteworthy, still 25 years, it's it's it's hard to uh have things happen after 25 years that happened in the first two or three years when it was brand new and nobody ever heard it before, and it was just growing by leaps and bounds.
And now here comes the rush revere.
Time travel adventures with exceptional Americans children's book series.
And this is a a new thing, but it's a target market, it's a target mission for children age 10 to 13, and it has specific purpose.
And yet some of the feedback that we're getting from this is just over the top.
I want to read one such because it it's I wouldn't have I wouldn't have read this, I wouldn't have taken your time had we not had the call from the woman from Modesto who said what she said.
This woman's an MD.
Her name is Laura.
I don't I don't have permission to mention her last name.
We don't we don't tell people to write uh fan mail or email response that uh their names will be made public.
So uh but I know who she is.
I've got I got her last name here, but I'm not gonna use it.
But her name is Laura, she's an MD.
So, dear Catherine and Rush, thank you for writing these books.
It might be seen as embedded.
Now listen to this.
This is one of these things, I must admit, I'm this kind of thing totally, and it really does totally surprise me.
Dear Catherine Rush, thank you for writing these books.
It might be seen as embarrassing, but I'm in my 40s.
I have a degree in chemistry and French from Smith College.
I'm an MD.
I run a national business, but I didn't know much about American history.
It's likely that I fell prey to the America is evil education in the 70s and 80s.
I learned the American history I didn't know from your books.
I like that all the characters in the book are well mannered, except Elizabeth.
I've always loved America, except during a liberal phase in college, but I never understood the miracle that is this country.
It was never told to me.
I never had any appreciation for it.
America was just there.
But your books clearly show how morals and courage and Christian values led to the founding of America.
America is unlike any other country in the history of the world, and we are lucky to live here.
Thank you both for opening my eyes to how special America is, while many others seek to disparage her.
For the library and the three CDs for traffic in Los Angeles.
Kind regards.
But no stop that she's in her 40s.
I've got to take a she's in her 40s.
And a children's book is teaching her for the first time things about American history.
She didn't know.
So that's still amazing me.
A 40-year-old MD.
Think of the education this woman has.
And in the Rush Revere series, she is being exposed to American history that she was never taught.
That she never learned.
She never even heard it.
And as an MD in her 40s, this woman is very educated.
She was taught American history, but not what she's learning in these books, and these books are the truth.
But I see something like this.
I mean, I that just blows me away.
The last thing I would think that the books would actually be educational for adults.
But you know, Harry Truman once said, the only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know.
Did you know Truman said that?
You didn't know that till I just told you.
Well, he did.
The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know.
And I that's why I this is so rewarding and fulfilling uh to sit to get things like this totally unexpected.
And we've we've put together this big rush revere Facebook page.
And it's actually for everybody.
It's for all children all ages, and if they go to the Facebook page, uh you you'll see pictures of children and people from all backgrounds who are coming together under one common theme, which is that they are proud to be Americans.
They're reading these books, they are getting into it, they're learning things that they've never been taught.
They're learning things they didn't know about their own country, they're coming together and they know no boundaries.
I mean people from all walks of life are showing up and registering themselves and providing feedback at the Rush Revere Facebook page.
It's uh I tell folks, it's just a stunning, rewarding thing, and you talk about 25 years and things settle in and there's very little new after 25 years, but this is, and it's so unexpected.
I mean, we thought they'd be successful, we had high hopes, but to hear from 40-year-old professionally educated people, that they're hearing things about American history they were never taught, they're hearing about for the first time.
I mean, it's kind of scary, too, to be honest, but that's mitigated by the uh the positive nature of it all.
Okay, sit tight.
You got more of your phone calls coming up back here before you know it.
Here is Carol, Willow Wick, Ohio.
Great to have you, and I appreciate your patience.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'm pleased to be speaking with you.
Thank you very much.
My comments are on the way we secure health insurance.
Okay.
Our system of getting it through our employers has been completely unfair and discriminatory ever since it was adopted during the war to as a means by employers to secure good workers during that time.
Why do you think it's been unfair?
Unfair because when you look at the uh uh the the process of trying to uh secure insurance for pre-existing conditions, which is a big uh a problem of the contention.
Uh it you can get if you have pre-existing conditions, you can uh secure it through your um employer, they have that insurance, but no problem.
But if you're a private citizen and you want to secure that assistance, you can't get it.
Oh, because you're not in a group.
That's right.
That's right.
So my my uh feeling is that you should be able to uh well I feel that it should be tied to a complete overhaul of our tax code.
Which people use that for their own, you know, they abuse it for their own benefit.
And it should be tied to a complete um uh it should be tied to the tax code because then people can buy their own insurance for what they need, and the government can subsidize those who uh can't afford it because they don't have the income.
And I believe that would be the way to solve and make uh solve a problem according to our principles of uh free enterprise and competition.
Wait a minute, you sound you sound like you would support Obamacare.
No, Obamacare puts all the decisions making in the government's hands.
And I'm saying that if people uh can buy their own insurance, because now they have the money, uh, because they don't uh because now we have a flat tax and uh we don't have this uh ponderous tax code.
Well you got a y uh you have a major obstacle to overcome before you get there.
Okay.
You know what it is?
No.
I don't know what the percentage is, but it's pretty high of people who don't think they should have to buy health insurance, that they should continue to get it free at work.
It's not something they should have to pay for, just like they don't have to pay for a lawyer if they get involved and can't afford one.
Why should they have to pay to get well?
They think it ought to be free.
So if you come up with a system that's gonna give them a flat tax, reduce their income taxes, and then tell them, by the way, you're gonna buy this on your own.
Now, I do you support the the uh the health care voucher system?
I would support anything that would give help people to buy the insurance they need.
Everyone should be insured to a certain degree.
Well, you know, here's here's the thing about this, though.
And I agree with you.
I I'm just I'm I'm I'm dealing with the psychology of the population as it exists today.
And for some reason, when it comes to health care, people have a completely different attitude about it than they say do when they buy hotel rooms or when they buy cars, or when they go on vacation.
Uh they don't expect to pay for it.
They they expect it to be a benefit somewhere, partial or full, uh, somewhere down the line.
Uh it's and it's it's been they've been conditioned to think this way.
It's it's uh I've 19, whatever it was, 90 some of this guy running for the Senate in Pennsylvania, Harris Wafford, he got this whole notion going that health care should be free.
He's a Democrat running for the Senate, and he's the guy that said if the Constitution is going to guarantee you a lawyer, then the Constitution should guarantee you that you are going to get well if you get sick.
Meaning it shouldn't cost you anything.
And people have have evolved to the point that there's almost an entitlement mentality about health care and health insurance and health treatment, and it's something that people a lot of times don't think they should have to pay for.
Well, Brush, that's the problem with our society today.
I agree with you because the consumer, if the consumer were if your plan were in place, the first thing that would happen is prices would come down because they would have to be priced in such a way people could afford it.
But when you have third parties paying all these exorbitant fees and premiums and costs, then there is no pressure to bring prices down.
You know, there are various stages of hotel accommodations you can choose based on what you want to pay and what you can afford.
But when it comes to health care, everybody thinks they ought to be getting the Mercedes.
Well, Rush, don't you think that's a problem with our our society today?
We all want to think that freedom is uh we can do whatever we want.
We are becoming a society of people that we're gonna take.
It's in in this case, though, yes, I do.
It's a chicken or egg kind of question because there's been a political party for 50 years that has been conditioning people to believe these kinds of things are entitlements and they should be given to them.
And there's a political party that has campaigned on the notion that they're going to do that.
So there's been a political party that sort of created this entitlement expectation.
Uh and there's been a political party that has benefited from the idea that people do not need to exhibit any personal responsibility.
There has been a political party that has benefited from the idea that self-reliance is unfair and mean-spirited.
I think at the root of all of these problems is the Democrat Party and government.
I know what your ultimate idea is.
If you lower the tax burden on people and give them more disposable income, and then make them free to make whatever deal they can in an open market, whether they have a pre-existing condition or not, what you're basically suggesting is that health care be like the hotel business, the best analogy I can give you.
Some people stay in motel six, that's all they can afford.
Some people stay in a holiday inn, some stay at the Ritz.
It depends on what they can afford, but whatever they can afford is there.
It's available.
But that's not permitted to exist in health care.
That kind of market is not permitted to exist.
It once did.
That market once did.
But then along came Medicare, then along came Medicaid, then along came government-run health care, and then along came all of the employee benefit, as you say.
Along came uh income tax withholding.
That's also part of World War II.
Uh and the government started getting more and more involved because a particular political party realized there was all kinds of power in being seen as the providers of these things and the guarantors of of these things.
Uh now, what she's talking about, the reason she got onto this subject is because early on in the program we had some sound bites, the latest reveal about Dr. Gruber.
Uh We have produced audio sound bites today, in which Gruber has admitted, and Obama admitted to his union buddies at the SEIU that their long-term objective is to end employer provided health insurance.
We don't do it all in one step.
Obama told his union buddies might take 10, 15, 20 years to condition people to accept it.
We can't take it away from them overnight.
But the long-term objective is to take away employer provided health care as a benefit.
And they want to do that so that people can only turn to one place to get their health insurance, and that's the government.
That's the diabolical long-term plan.
So Carol here is calling in in response to that, and she's taking it a step further as I put her call into context for you.
She thinks that the employer provided health care benefit is a problem, and it has been since its inception, because it is inherently unfair since not everybody's employed.
So that's what we've been talking about.
I should have mentioned this at the beginning of her call, but I I chose to let her make her point and put it in perspective later.
So that's why we've been talking the way we have.
No, no, no.
I said way back on September 17th, I don't think Adrienne Peterson is ever going to play in the NFL again.
Not just this year.
I don't think he's ever going to play.
And you know why?
Ray Rice, because everybody's got to make up for for the lax original punishment of Ray Rice.
I guarantee you, and and there's the NFLPA, the player associations and players are starting to get really, really concerned about this now.
That that the NFL just making it up case by case that there really is no policy protocol anybody is relying on here to hand out these uh these punishment.
Well, yeah, you mean the the the commissioner?
Yeah, they're concerned about that.
Uh oh, no, no, no, no, no.
They're not they haven't put that.
No, no, no.
They haven't realized that the feminist movement behind this.
No, no, no, no.
The NFL PA you asking.
No, they haven't.
No, I don't think they have the slightest idea.
I really don't.
I think they I don't think they have the slightest idea what's really driving this.
Uh they'll figure it out at some point.
The problem is, depends on who tells them.
Uh they they may not believe.
You know, who who finally sheds light on why all this really is going down.
And it ain't about child abuse.
That's the bottom line.
Did you see that PSA in the game last night, by the way?
Did you see the thing?
All these players, stop it.
No more.
Stop it.
And I'm watching it.
Stop what?
What did I do?
And then it gets to the end of it.
Together we can stop sex abuse or spouse abuse.
So, what did I do?
You guys are the ones doing it.
Why are you preaching to me?
Did you see it?
It's in the Steelers game.
And it was a different cast of players this time around.
The first one I saw was led by Eli Manning.
This one I didn't know half the players in this one, but they're the serious word.
Together we can stop it.
Stop it.
No more.
I'm telling you, no more.
It's got to stop.
We can't keep doing it.
No more.
And I'm saying, who's doing it?
I'm not doing it.
Why are you preaching to me?
I know I'm probably the only guy that looks at it that way.
Rush, don't you understand it's a consciousness-raising thing?
No, that's not what it is.
That's the whole point.
It's not what it is.
It's a bunch of people trying to buy time.
White House says, I don't believe they can stop us.
Talking about the Republicans on climate change.
I don't think they can stop us.
The White House is taunting the Republicans, and we'll have details tomorrow.
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