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Feb. 27, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 27, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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And we're back, folks.
Another big exciting broadcast hour remains Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute, all combined here on Friday.
So let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Openline Friday, one big exciting hour remains.
And remember, if you get on the air, we take more callers on Friday than any other day.
If you make it, it's your chance to talk about whatever you wish.
Anything at all.
Other than the electric bill.
I know, you know, you know, local stuff like that, no, but.
I mean, you get the drift.
I mean, if you want to talk about the National Hockey League, have at it is the point.
800-282-2882 in the email address L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
A couple of things I really intend to get to in this hour.
Uh Hillary Clinton's top aides knew from the first minutes that Benghazi was a terror attack.
These are, according to uh new emails that have been discovered.
Andy McCarthy has a story, National Review Online from the very first moments of the terror attack on the compound in Benghazi in September of 2012.
Then Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her top aides were advised the compound was under a terror attack.
In fact, less than two hours into the attack, they were told that the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Libya and Sar al-Sharia had claimed responsibility.
It had nothing to do with the video.
She knew it.
I don't know, you know, where I come down on Hillary and the president, I don't understand.
The people who think this woman is a shoe-in.
This woman has nothing to say.
This woman couldn't attract anybody to a book tour.
This woman does not have a connection with an audience or with the American people.
And the embarrassing stuff that is waiting to be exposed like this, that all add up to her incompetence again as Secretary of State.
I think we're being scammed once again with all of this invincible.
Characteristics, invincibility of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
But anyway, uh even here, look at Molly Ball in the Atlantic.
Does Hillary Clinton have anything to say?
This is the Atlantic, and they're worried.
They're bemoaning, they're pointing out all the ways that proved that Hillary doesn't have a new idea in her head at all.
And that when she gives a speech, it's empty.
There's nothing there.
And they point out how she couldn't draw a crowd in her book tour.
Man, what a boondoggle that whole thing was.
All that money paid in that giant advance.
And all those books that had to be returned that went unpurchased because nobody cares.
Treasury Department will not explain, yet this one.
The U.S. Treasury Department has rebuffed a request by Paul Ryan, Ways and Means Committee Chairman, to explain $3 billion in payments that were made to health insurers.
Even though Congress never authorized the spending through annual appropriations.
You know what this is?
This is another Obama illegal executive action.
Obama gave health insurance companies billions of dollars to compensate them for money they were losing under Obamacare.
Now you might be saying, wait a minute, Rush, wait a minute.
I remember you said that Obama wanted those companies to go out of business.
He does, but not now.
The phase in for socialized medicine, the phase in for single payer is ten years.
They know that they cannot impose single payer on people on day one because they've lied about what Obamacare is.
But Obamacare is nothing more than eventual total government.
The only place you're going to be able to go to get health insurance and therefore treatment is the federal government.
And there's going to be rationing, there will be death panels, but they couldn't do that from day one.
They're salivating, they would love to, But the American people wouldn't support it, and the American people were lied to about what Obamacare is.
So Obama needs the private sector insurance market for a while to present the illusion that it will always be there to present the illusion that people are going to have choice when it comes to buying health insurance.
And with the early phase in of Obamacare, a lot of private sector insurance companies were automatically losing customers.
Obama subsidized them.
Just with the wave of his Juan, just authorized $3 billion to be given to them.
It was another executive action that was lawless.
Can you imagine if any president could just call the Secretary of the Treasury and say, I want you to write a series of checks totaling $3 billion to my friends over there?
A couple of insurance companies, a couple of golf courses I want to join.
Just write the check.
That's what he's doing.
It's what he did.
And now the Treasury Department will not explain how it happened.
Paul Ryan said, how in the world did these insurance companies end up with $3 billion when they were losing customers because of Obamacare?
No answer is forthcoming.
Some Mexicans are going to be given another chance to stay in the United States.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Mexicans who were expelled from the country by immigration officials in Southern California will be allowed to come back for a chance to make their case to stay.
This according to the ACLU yesterday, a settlement approved by a federal judge in Los Angeles, appointed by Obama.
A settlement approved by a federal judge in Los Angeles applies to Mexicans in Southern California who waived rights to a hearing when they were expelled.
It's a procedure known as voluntary return.
Now you know here how our immigration laws are now being overturned by the ACLU in conjunction with a compliant federal judge in LA appointed by Obama in 2010.
So even illegal aliens who were properly deported are being called back and given a chance to make their case to stay.
And you know darn well if they come back, they're not going to be re-deported.
Eric Holder will be leaving the Department of Justice early next month.
He gave an exit interview to Politico.
And among the things he said in his exit interview at Politico, Eric Holder said it's just too hard bringing civil rights cases.
You know what that means?
What it means is they were unable to convict anybody in Ferguson on federal civil rights charges.
They were unable to get Zimmerman, Trevon Martin, unable to get George Zimmerman on federal civil rights charge, and they were unable to get the New York PD on federal civil rights charges involving Eric Garner.
Despite promising everybody on the left and the civil rights coalition, don't worry, don't worry, we're gonna nail them.
And Eric, there just isn't the evidence.
There was never the evidence.
There was never a case against that St. Louis cop, even though he's been destroyed.
They never had a case against George Zimmerman.
Try as hard as they wanted, they never did.
And there wasn't a case against Eric Garner.
But the black population in this country is understandably indignant because the government, the regime, and people like Al Sharpton assured them that justice would happen once the Department of Justice got involved.
They might not have been able to overcome the grand jury in Ferguson.
They might not have been able to overcome the court system in South Florida or in Florida regarding Zimmerman.
And they might not have been able to overcome the court system in New York.
But don't worry, they were told, Eric Holder is our savior, and the Department of Justice is going to find the evidence to convict these people.
And Holder couldn't Find the evidence.
And so now he's leaving office saying it's just too hard.
It's so hard to bring civil rights case.
Do you know what that means?
He's basically saying civil rights prosecutions shouldn't need evidence.
Because we know them when we see them.
We know civil rights violations.
We know when people are doing things because of race.
We shouldn't have to require evidence.
That's what he's saying.
Now you might think, Ross, that's crazy.
No, it isn't.
You have to know who these people are, folks.
Just as the Constitution is an impediment to them, so are the rules of evidence in getting convictions that they want.
I mean, I say this jokingly, but I wouldn't be surprised if someday Obama issues an executive order eliminating the need for evidence in federal civil rights cases.
It'll be left up to the discretion of the attorney general.
Why wouldn't he?
Tell me, you don't have no idea what these next two years are going to hold.
So some Mexicans are going to be given yet another chance to stay in the U.S. Another reason they're going to be offered a chance to return and have their deportation hearing reheard.
Opening the borders has one explicit purpose in my mind.
The reason why all of this is happening is that this administration and the current Democrat Party and the American left really want to dilute and weaken American culture.
That's actually what this is all about, in addition to voter registration.
But that's where it leads.
You want the voter registration so that you can stay in power, and you want people to vote for you to do what you're going to do to dilute water down the American culture, traditions, laws, the economy, everything.
And part of the American culture is patriotism.
Part of the American culture is rugged individualism.
And this American culture.
Patriotism.
American culture is the enemy of the left.
Fourth of July.
Remember the story we had at the Harvard survey?
About the uh stories or events featuring the American flag are more beneficial to Republicans?
And don't help Democrats.
Why in the world would that be?
Why would the flag be a detriment to the Democrat Party?
Why would showing the flag?
And then when you find out news anchors don't want to wear the flag, the lapel pen, and you hear more and more people on the left make jokes about how parochial it is and insincere idiotism, phony it is to have to show the flag all the time because it bugs them.
The fight for liberty may as well be considered to be the original sin of this country.
Standing up to government authority.
This country was founded on that premise.
Standing up to authority in this administration is not at all in favor of standing up to authority.
You must bow to it.
You must bow to authority.
People that want to stand up to it are the enemy.
That's according to people like Obama, people like Eric Holder, people like you name it, pick your favorite Democrat whose name you know.
That's his or her attitude.
Slavery is the excuse to attack the individual.
Slavery is the original sin, is the excuse given to convince people America is not worth it.
Slavery is the original sin given as the excuse, as the illustration that America is flawed deeply and needs to be transformed and changed dramatically.
Obama does not emancipate, he restrains.
He doesn't expand, he limits.
And that takes me back to the net neutrality thing yesterday.
Okay, so it passed.
Three to two vote, FCC.
It wasn't legislation, like one of my little tech bloggers so proudly happily said.
Landmark legislation, it was so cool.
No, it wasn't legislation, it was a dictate.
By an agency that doesn't have the power to do it.
302 pages of regulations, and they even now will not release them.
Now I've had during this argument, I've had a lot of people say Russia need to tell people how the ChICOMs have destroyed the freedom of the internet in China.
And I've said, no, I'm not gonna ChICOM, nobody's gonna kill nobody if I start comparing Obama to the ChICOMs, nobody's gonna listen to that.
Sadly.
It's like back in the 80s and early 90s, if you started comparing Democrats to the Soviets, you lost them because people just didn't want to think that there were active communists or quasi communists running around positions of power in the United States.
They just didn't want to believe it.
So if you alleged it, well, people were uncomfortable with it.
Same thing here with the Chikoms.
To try to get people to oppose net neutrality because look what's happening in China.
I just didn't judge that to be a very good selling point.
But I'm gonna tell you 302 pages, and they still won't tell you what's in it.
And I you know, when I read these tech blogs, and as I mentioned at the beginning of the program, it's been profoundly depressing because they don't know anything, and yet they are smugly arrogant and act like they know it all.
They are the victims, they think the big telecom companies are the big victims.
They think Comcast's a big victim, they think Netflix is a big winner.
It's just it's as convoluted as it can be, and they don't know what's in it.
They're listening to people tell them what's in it that have no idea what's in it.
They think it's all about fairness and price and equality and all that.
Nobody's seen the regulations.
Except the commissioners.
And a couple of the people who've seen them are warning us now that you are go we are gonna be shocked when we discover what's in these 302 pages of regulations called net neutrality.
Let me take a break here, but I continue when we get back.
Don't go away.
Plus your phone calls are coming up as well.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Republicans invoke the evil galactic emperor in Star Wars to try to inform people what's actually in the new broadband regulations called net neutrality, quoting Emperor Palpatine,
the Republican Commissioner Ajit Pai, who is a really, really intelligent, solid guy, Ajit Pai, a member of the FCC Commission said, young fool, only now at the end do you understand.
The emperor fooled everybody, thinking he's a great legislator, great guy, loved everybody.
He was the epitome of evil.
And when he had lassoed everybody in and hopelessly imprisoned them, he shed the skin and showed himself to be the evil he was.
You remember the old scene in the movie.
Well, Ajit Pai and his fellow Republican FCC Commissioner Mike O'Reilly said that once these rules are published, people are gonna realize they will stifle innovation and lead to taxes and increased rates for the public.
O'Reilly said, Mike O'Reilly, the other Republican on the commission said, when you see this document, it is worse than you imagine.
But yet it was cheered by internet activists, and many in the tech community.
And none of them have seen it.
None of them know what's in the 302 pages.
Today the FCC was finalizing its documentation for publication.
Not expected to release the details until next week.
Now I mentioned that I've got a lot of people say, Rush, tell them what the ChICOMs are doing to people.
All right, I'll tell you what the ChICOMs are doing, but I don't expect it's going to change one little tech person's mind.
They don't think that we're the ChICOM.
And they don't associate bum Obama with Dung Xiaoping or Li Pingji or whatever.
But I'll tell you anyway, that the ChICOMs have already, they've they've they've censored Google.
Google is totally not dependent, it's subservient to what the ChICOMs will allow them to present.
Either in search or anything else.
Google has given it up.
The ChICOMs just, I think last year alone shut down sixty thousand websites.
Because they didn't like the content.
And they just say, never hit come on, Rice isn't that the ChaiCom's not going to do that.
You don't understand who the people are doing this, do you?
The guy's already violating the Constitution, giving money to insurance companies, violating immigration law, promising to do more.
Who's to say he wouldn't make it very hard for a website that he doesn't like to operate?
What if these regulations require websites to get licensed by the government?
Just like radio and TV stations have to be.
You think anybody might be surprised at that?
And what about the regulations on content that are no doubt in this document?
One thing that is known about the net neutrality rules, FCC just gave itself the power to police conduct by broadband providers on a case by case basis.
Do you realize what that could mean?
You know that we're we live in a grievance-based society now.
Do you know how many grievances against things on the internet there already are?
And the FCC gave itself the power to police conduct by broadband providers?
That's a big umbrella on a case by case basis?
Okay, so little upset customer A has a grievance against big broadband provider for whatever mistreatment he thinks is occurring, goes to the FCC, and the FCC, if they want, can hear it on a case by case basis and police the conduct.
Now, on the basis of what are they gonna police the conduct?
What if the offending website happens to be owned and operated by Republicans?
Well, we know what's gonna happen then.
What happens if they happen to be screwing people, but they're owned by Democrats, rich donors to Obama?
Well, we know what's gonna happen there, but it gets even worse than that.
What if the content of these sites comes under the purview of conduct?
What if the FCC decides that some of the conduct consists of hate speech?
Or bullying, or discrimination, or it's anti-left as in anti-gay, anti-women, anti whatever.
They're gonna have the random authority to implement whatever remedies they want.
Internet service providers will not be allowed to unreasonably interfere with or unreasonably disadvantaged consumers access to content and services.
Ask any lawyer when you start putting words like reasonable or unreasonable, you need a whole trial to define that.
Am I right, Don?
Reasonable, reasonable, unreasonable, it's up to somebody's judgment and what you can convince them.
How many hours have judges spent telling jurors what reasonable doubt is?
And still it has to be explained every time.
Commissioner O'Reilly said this would mean that any company looking To start a new service would have to seek permission ahead of time.
Anybody looking for new business opportunities in the document would be best off becoming a telecom lawyer.
Because that's where the money is going to be made.
Because everything is going to end up in litigation.
Because if the FCC is going to listen to every grievance, and hell, all this country is a bunch of malcontents with their grievances.
How many grievances do you hear about the internet every day?
Grievances about anything.
Imagine a federal agency giving itself the authority to hear every one of them case by case.
This is made to order for groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU, Media Matters for America, you name it.
Barack Obama and the federal government just put the internet under their total domain.
And I guess if you're a solid little no-nothing leftist who thinks the government is always good and always fair and always just, then this is just peachy keen.
Really rad.
Really cool.
Okay, here's the phones.
Let's get back to.
I get if I keep if I keep going on this, I'm going to start uttering obscenities, and then you will think less of me.
And I don't want that.
The FCC would think, well, if FCC doesn't FCC.
We had a name for it back in the 60s.
It's obscene and you can't use it.
Anyway, here's uh here's here's Brian in uh Uterusnip.
Utica, New York.
Brian, welcome to the that's my brother used to call it.
Uh hey, it's a longtime listener.
I uh started back in 88 with you.
Um Cobra is outrageous.
I know you were talking about that earlier.
Uh you know, that sounds all fine and good.
It's outrageous.
It's after something like that happens, it's like fifteen hundred dollars a month, or if not more.
The person who gets laid off doesn't have those kinds of dollars.
I'm not a big fan of the uh managed health care, but I'll tell you what, it gives the people who maybe might want to be an entrepreneur a chance maybe to find a way out.
The uh everything is so regulated in this country now that you can't even find a way to start a business.
There's so many regulations, but that's right.
It's arduous.
You have to jump the uh uh one of the reasons we started two of my tea was to actually find out what was necessary to start a business.
It's incredible.
Especially outrageous.
You know, if you want to try to do something, what happens?
You you stay because you have the benefits, you have the health health insurance is outrageous.
So if you try to go out on your own, you have to pay, you have to go through somehow.
They have to figure out a way to get this country back to the basics a little bit, and for the people who want to go out and try the costs, they've got to be reduced.
The average person, uh, if you're on the lower end, everything's paid for.
And if you're self-successful like you are, you have a lot of money, you don't have to worry about it.
But the people in the middle, it's very difficult.
You know, the money isn't there like it used to be.
I mean, our county alone.
50%.
That is exactly that is exactly what has me concerned.
You're exactly right.
The people on the upper end can afford it, whether they like it or not.
The people lower end have it all given to them.
This is how they're squeezing the middle class and turning them into lower class dependents by pricing all of the things that they used to be able to afford out of their ability to do so.
There's no other way they can go than to the government.
That's the design.
Exactly it.
And our county alone, if I'm if I got my numbers correctly, 50% of the population is on the doll.
It's it's close.
We're not quite there, but you it's it's like 50 million Americans on food stamps.
No, I'm talking about our county.
My county brings in everyone and anyone into this country into this county.
They're talking about bringing in the Syrians now.
Oh, yeah.
Our school system is overloaded now.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, we're gonna do that.
Syrian refugees are coming in, absolutely right.
There might be some ISIS people in them, who knows.
And the fact is, I'm not sure how that happens either.
Now, if the folks in this town are able to get Dollars from the federal government for bringing them in because nothing against them, but they don't really contribute much.
They take more than they contribute.
So I go to work every day, and I ask myself, why am I doing it?
I go to work every day to try to provide just to get by.
Right.
And then when you start asking the question, Brian, you all of a sudden become a racist or a bigot, uh, or a malcontent, or you're selfish and greedy, and you don't you don't care about your fellow man.
And that's how they stigmatize you.
But you are exactly right about how the middle class is being squeezed.
We've mentioned this a number of times.
The fix for health care is it philosophically, theoretically, it's not complicated.
Implementing it, it would be a nightmare given how deeply embedded it is now.
But it's it's no more complicated than if you just leave it to the market, leave the market alone if people in the healthcare business were totally dependent on patients being able to afford the service treatment, what have you.
It would be priced accordingly.
Ever since treatment, payment for treatment began to be subsidized.
That took the customer out of the equation.
The customer had to stop worrying about whether he could afford it or not, and worried about whether or not his insurance company would cover it, but being able to afford it, not a matter.
Not a not a not a big concern.
And that distance, that gap has widened to the point now that an average middle class American cannot afford traditional, sensible, responsible medical care or treatment.
It's out of the realm of possibility.
So now we have insurance.
Insurance covers it.
Some of the basic things.
If if if health care were priced, if there were no other form of payment other than the patient.
And I love to use the hotel industry as a as a comparison.
And I know some people, that's not right, Rush.
People don't die in hotels.
I understand, but look, it just try to stay focused on the main point here.
There is no hotel insurance.
There is no constitutional right to a hotel room.
If you want to stay at a hotel room, you have to find one you can afford.
And they're there.
If you want to stay in a five-star hotel in a big suite, you have the money, you can.
If you can't afford that, but you need a hotel, they are available at all price ranges.
That's what the market does.
It accommodates supply and demand.
And the vast majority of hotel rooms in this country are priced where the vast majority of Americans can afford them.
And the hotel business, if they start overcharging, is going to lose customers because people can't pay for it.
And there is no hotel insurance.
And there are no hotel mandates.
And there's no hotel exchange.
You either pay it or not.
And if you don't pay it, the hotel can't stay in business.
None of that applies in medicine now.
None of that applies in health care.
It's gotten so expensive, it's impossible for people to pay for it.
Hello, insurance, hello, third parties, hello, government.
Which doesn't have to worry about the cost of anything because it can print money.
So we end up with there being absolutely no relationship to the price, health care, and the patient or customer's ability to pay for it.
What if that were the case in cars?
What if that were the case in television sets?
Now I know you, but Rush, but Rush, health care is a necessity.
Yeah, it is.
But that all the more reason for it to be priced according to market orientation.
The solution is government making it fair.
That that's what's so god-awful disastrous about this is that government is looked to as the equalizer where you go to get fairness, where you go to get justice.
What's fair or just about the health care system?
What about it makes any sense?
Nothing.
And the inability of middle class people to pay for it guarantees that the government's going to take it over eventually and totally.
I appreciate the call out there, Brian, very much.
We'll be back and to continue in a jiffy.
Okay, Peggy in uh Orange Park, uh, Florida, it is.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
You're up last today.
Very entertaining wait.
Hey, Rush, uh long time listener.
Really, really appreciate all you do.
Um just wanted to share with you something that my son, high school teacher, believes and is uh has these conversations with some of the the kids.
He uh basically says that ISIS will not fight us here.
They're they're only gonna fight over there because we are invading their area.
And that's you know, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Oh, did I hear you right?
It's better.
It gets better.
He we just had a guy, I don't know if you heard this in the news, but we just wait a second, hold it a minute.
Are you telling me that you're gonna teach you teaching your kid that ISIS is doing what it's doing because of us?
Yeah, our foreign policy.
Yep.
Told you folks.
I told you.
Yep.
This is what we're up against.
It makes me crazy.
And what what year school is this?
Uh he's a senior.
In Haskrul?
Yes, and I I might add that he is planning on going into the military after college.
You're a high school, isn't it?
And uh college campus doesn't matter, this other colour.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now we just had a guy arrested in Orange Park um yesterday for funneling money to ISIS.
This guy ran a kiosk at the Orange Park Mall.
So ISIS isn't here, baloney.
They're here.
And this this teacher just got his head, you know, where.
Hey, look, this is an idea.
And the other kids are buying it.
Here we are.
The enemy is right in front of us.
Exactly.
And they are telling us what they're going to do.
The Iranians, you name it, they're telling us what they're gonna do.
Uh-huh.
And you've got Nimrods like this guy teaching students, hey, they're gonna not gonna attack us here.
They're over there because our foreign policy.
We're to blame for ISIS or some sort of that is infuriating.
It is.
It is, and and what is so much more bothersome is that you know, he's young and and you know, very smart and hit teacher, and these other kids are buying it.
Yeah, and a lot of kids may not be fortunate to have a mother like you and they go home, can't tell them the truth, and how 'em tell them how bogus that is.
So if they're even paying attention in this idiot's class, then they hear this stuff and they end up believing it.
If he says it often enough, because teachers have authority aspects to them.
Look, Peggy, I appreciate the call.
I uh what an infuriating note to end the day on.
So that's some emails today.
Rush, why aren't you at CPAC?
Folks, I appreciate the interest.
I don't I don't have to go, don't need to be at CPAC.
Everything that I have said is being said there anyway.
So I can go play golf.
And see you.
Well, that's what I'm gonna do.
See ya on Monday, folks.
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