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"President Barack Obama gave a grossly inappropriate and, to me, embarrassing speech, a campaign speech disguised as a big speech to a joint session of Congress."
"That speech last night was a fraud. It was dishonest. It demeaned the office of the presidency."
"Barack Obama, the architect of waste, fraud, deficit spending, lying, everything you can think of, says that he is going to use the waste and fraud and abuse in government to pay for more government!"
"Finally somebody in the Republican Party spoke up. May not have been the best place, but, frankly, I don't have a problem at all with what he did because of the serious nature of what we face."
"If Obama gets his way we're going to legalize 12 to 20 million illegals, and they're going to become citizens and they're going to get coverage."
"The crisis that should be addressed by this president last night is the one of his making: nearly three million unemployed. He had the audacity to open up last night and tell people we're coming back from the brink."
"I'm disgusted now. I was disgusted last night. I think I slept disgusted."
"Obama believes that the power of his personality and the power of his biography and the power of his telepromptered oratory can overcome the truth."
"Barack Obama ignored something major last night, and that is America wants jobs, not changes in health care."
"How is that hope and change working out for you, America? Unemployment is approaching 10%. We are $13 trillion in the hole. Our government is borrowing and printing money almost as fast as they can spend it. And Obama wants to throw more money away on government-run health care. Barack Obama is wrecking the US economy, on purpose."
"The sample for that CNN survey after the president's speech was 45% Democrat and 18% Republican. That's more than twice, almost three times as many Democrats as Republicans. That poll was taken just so the media could jump on it last night and this morning to write and tell the story of how Obama turned it around."
"I thought that whole speech was Castro-like last night. This is certainly Castro-like."
"If anybody is saving jobs, it's American citizens trying to make their country work. Mr. Obama, sir, you are doing nothing but destroying jobs and the opportunity for more to be created."
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RUSH: It was disgusting and it was reprehensible and it was predictable. Greetings, my friends, it's Rush Limbaugh, this the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Great to have you here. Telephone number, 800-282-2882. And the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
The office of the president of the United States was demeaned last night. President Barack Obama gave a grossly inappropriate and, to me, embarrassing speech, a campaign speech disguised as a big speech to a joint session of Congress. It was grossly inappropriate in content. There were lies, falsehoods, distortions, it was embarrassing in tone. He called his critics liars when his own positions have been proven to be untrue. It's just like this CNN poll. That speech last night was a fraud. It was dishonest. It demeaned the office of the presidency. Now, after the speech CNN and Opinion Research Corporation released a flash poll and said, wow, look at this: Two-thirds of the people who watched the speech have changed their mind. You want to hear who was sampled? Forty-five percent Democrat, 18% Republican. That is also fraud. Passing a poll with a sample like that off as a representative sample of the country is absolutely fraudulent, which is what the entire State-Controlled Media has become.
Last night was uncomfortable, especially how about if you're a parent and you had your children in school this week, the president's speech to the kids, just as I said, it was to set up last night's speech. We're being told and kids are being told to look up to this man. It was an awful speech. He was petulant; he was childish; he was a community organizer and agitator; he lied; he was divisive; he attacked me; he attacked Sarah Palin; he attacked conservative Republicans in Congress who dare to challenge government-run health care. He continued to attack tens of millions of Americans who spent the summer attending town hall meetings. It was crude. It was disgusting. The most crude and disgusting performance by any president I have seen.
You want a summary of the lies? He lied about only 5% of Americans being forced to the public option. Not true. He lied about the money he would drain from Medicare. Not true what he said. He lied about end-of-life decisions which comes down to rationing. He lied about coverage for illegal aliens, on and on and on, having attacked and lied throughout this thing. He then claims he wants to work with Republicans with whom he has not met since April. He claims to be nonpartisan, above the fray. Now, Joe Wilson, congressman, South Carolina, this is what happened at one point during the speech last night.
OBAMA: There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This too is false. The reforms -- (crowd rumbling) the reforms I am proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.
WILSON: You lie! (crowd rumbling)
OBAMA: It's not true.
RUSH: That's Joe Wilson, a congressman from South Carolina, a freshman. That was a blatant lie. I'm going to tell you something. One of the things that's really irritated me all morning and last night was listening to Republicans, even after Wilson has apologized, and I wish he had not, but he's apologized and even after he's apologized, members of his own party are all over television denigrating him, "It was bad decorum." Folks, can I tell you what is happening here? This speech last night and this administration is not your average presidential administration. This is not a garden party. This is not a lecture at Harvard or any other University. We are in the process, we are in the midst of an administration that is trying to totally tear down the institutions and traditions that have made this country great. He is lying, President Obama is, from the moment he opens his mouth until he ends the speech. I was shouting, "You're lying," throughout the speech at the television. You're lying! It's a lie! Joe Wilson simply articulated what millions of Americans were saying. This is a beanbag.
We're not talking about the Marquess of Queensberry rules here. This is not some debating society. You people in the Republican Party, I've heard you. You are accusing this administration and its allies and all the entire left of dismantling every institution that has defined this country's greatness. And if you now are going to attack one of your own, Joe Wilson, especially after he's apologized for simply joining the argument -- it's about time somebody said this to Obama! It's about time Biden got upset. It's about time Michelle Obama got upset. It's about time that Nancy Pelosi got upset. These people get a free rein. They can sit there and boo George Bush in 2005 all they want. You got Code Pink come in congressional and Senate hearings and disrupt, they can do their Abu Ghraib stuff, and they say they're great citizens, they are great heroes, these are great examples. Remember, dissent was the new definition of patriotism. "But, Rush, but, Rush, this was a total departure from parliamentary decorum and rules." Don't give me that with all those standing ovations last night, a 35-minute speech stretched out to almost one hour because of the standing O and the applauses and so forth.
Folks, we are in a serious struggle to save our country and Joe Wilson voiced what millions of Americans have been saying about this man, Barack Obama, for months. And if we're going to start censuring our own people on our team who are willing to try, then maybe we need new people in the game. I was ecstatic when I heard that last night. This is serious. This is not normal, every day politics. One of the things I'm going to do here shortly, I've got the standard traditional analysis of the speech, but I'm going to translate this speech for you last night and I'm going to give it to you as if Obama is speaking to you, in addition to the standard line-by-line analysis. Last night he equated profits with overhead. I don't know if he's just stupid. Somebody wrote this speech. Somebody had to put that in the teleprompter. Somebody vetted the speech. Profits are equated with overhead? And somehow we've gotta reduce them. I know he hates profit, and I know he wants to use profit as a weapon against successful people. But profit is what's left after the overhead and the other expenses. He's either a blooming idiot or thinks that we are and knows that the State-Controlled Media is not going to call him out on this kind of thing.
There was another thing last night that I just had to laugh. He is going to cut $500 billion from Medicare but not from coverage. No, from fraud and waste. Well, if he's going to do that, why not do that now, why not do that six months ago, why not do it today? Why wait four years? But that's not even the most salient point about this. Stop and think of this. Barack Obama, the architect of waste, fraud, deficit spending, lying, everything you can think of, says that he is going to use the waste and fraud and abuse in government to pay for more government! The waste and fraud and abuse in government is going to be used to pay for more government. I was just stunned last night. Joe Wilson need not have apologized and members of his own party need not jump on him now, all this business about decorum. Folks, if we're serious about the things that we're charging, if we're serious about the things that we're accusing this administration of, then we cannot trash and destroy and discard one of our own. I mean finally somebody in the Republican Party spoke up. May not have been the best place, but, frankly, I don't have a problem at all with what he did because of the serious nature of what we face, the serious nature of what we're up against. But, for crying out loud, somebody finally comes along and tries to get in the game. You know a lot of people in that room last night know he's lying through his teeth and wanted to say it and Joe Wilson finally did. Let's listen to some audio sound bites of the State-Controlled Media and Obama flacks calling this kind of heckling unprecedented.
WILLIAMS: The president was heckled by at least one member of Congress. For a time it sounded much more like the British parliament than a joint session of Congress.
BLITZER: It was sort of unusual to hear one congressman say --
BROWN: "You lie."
BLITZER: "You lie" to the president.
AXELROD: I have never seen it before in a presidential address and it was unfortunate.
GIBSON: I have never heard anybody in a presidential speech, be it a State of the Union, somebody yell out "lie" when the president says something in a speech.
RUSH: Well, there's a first time for everything, and it happened to be true, Charlie, it happened to be true. Here's Vice President Biden. This is on Good Morning America today and Diane Sawyer said, "We watched your face at that moment, you turned to Pelosi, what did you say to her?"
BIDEN: I was embarrassed. I was embarrassed for a chamber and a Congress I love. I served there for 36 years and I thought it demeaned the institution, and I thought it sent a signal to every young person out there that -- that was very, very damaging, but I know Joe, he apologized, I take him at his word that he got caught up in the emotion of the moment, but the fact is that the assertion the president made is absolutely true. It will not cover undocumented aliens.
RUSH: It's simply not true. It will cover undocumented aliens. Now, it may not specifically say so in the bill. But we have to know that what's coming is amnesty. They're going to be made legal. We're going to have all of this. If Obama gets his way we're going to legalize 12 to 20 million illegals, and they're going to become citizens and they're going to get coverage. And they're, at the end of the day, going to still be illegal regardless the law and amnesty and everything else. It's coming, there's no question, this is the point. This is precisely what Obama wants to accomplish. We got new job numbers today. We got new foreclosure numbers today. It's through the roof bad. The crisis that should be addressed by this president last night is the one of his making: nearly three million unemployed. He had the audacity to open up last night and tell people we're coming back from the brink. He had the audacity to lie about the state of the economy and his role in repairing it. He's in the process of destroying it, and on purpose. And this is what we know and finally a guy stood up last night and said "you lie." He ought to be a guidepost, Joe Wilson, for everybody else on our side in dealing with this. Let's go back to 2005. It's unprecedented, Charlie Gibson never heard anything like this; Brian Williams never heard anything like this. State of the Union address, first one of his second term, February 2, 2005.
BUSH: By the year 2042 the entire system would be exhausted and bankrupt. (crowd rumbling) If steps are not taken to avert that outcome, the only solutions would be dramatically higher taxes, massive new borrowing, or sudden and severe cuts in Social Security benefits or other government programs. (booing)
RUSH: Got booed in 2005, what about the decorum there, what about the precious protocol? And, of course, Bush was telling the truth here about Social Security where it was headed and his attempt to reform it. Same night, same speech, Ted Koppel reported after the speech, said this.
KOPPEL: When the president talked about the bankruptcy of Social Security there were clearly some Democrats on the floor who thought that that was taking it too far, and they did something that -- they booed.
RUSH: Well, Ted Koppel describing it, it happened numerous times, and they did something that was taking it too far. Bush wasn't lying about anything. Barack Obama was lying through his teeth last night. That's taking it too far. That demeaned the entire chamber. If you want to talk about demeaning the chamber, the president of the United States demeaned the chamber last night. He showed up and lied through his teeth. He was petulant, he was mean-spirited, he was angry, he was arrogant, conceited, condescending, but more than anything else he lied through his teeth and everybody knows it. Everybody knows it. Here's John Roberts, cookie cutter anchor at the time working for CBS. He was the White House correspondent talking about the boos that Bush got in 2005.
ROBERTS: At a couple of points in this address it looked more like the British parliament than the United States Congress. I've never heard the minority party shout at the president during the State of the Union address.
RUSH: Yeah, never heard it, and who did it? It was the Democrats and it wasn't just one voice it was a whole bunch of them. See when they're in power anything goes and we're not to tread it. They have the floor and nobody else does and that's it. Now, this next bite is when the speech started to go -- well, I think it started to go south from the moment it started, first lie about the economy "we're back from the brink," foreclosures at an all-time high, teen unemployment at an all-time high since records have been kept, 560,000 more jobs lost. I mean it's breathtaking. But listen, this is when it finally dawned on people that they had to do something in response to the lies.
OBAMA: Improving our health care system only works if everybody does their part. And while there remain some significant details to be ironed out -- (laughter) I believe (laughter) -- I believe a broad consensus exists for the aspects of the plan I just outlined.
RUSH: He doesn't have a plan, he hasn't presented a plan and what he claimed last night cannot be found in any plan in the House or the Senate. He still didn't produce a plan.
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RUSH: Okay, we're back. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and talent on loan from God. This morning on Capitol Hill, Joe Wilson (Republican, South Carolina) spoke to the press.
WILSON: I've heard from the leadership that they wanted me to contact the White House and say that my statements were inappropriate. I did. I'm very grateful that the White House, in talking with them, they indicated that they appreciated the call and that we needed to have a civil discussion about the health care issues, and I certainly agree with that. And so I'm happy to discuss the health care issues and in particular on the issue which I think is very important, of whether the bills would include illegal aliens or not.
RUSH: All right, so the Republican leadership asked him to call the White House and apologize. That should tell you something. But he stuck to his guns on Obama's lie on illegal immigrants.
WILSON: There were two different amendments on the bill which would have provided for verification of persons having citizenship. They were almost party-line votes. On one of the amendments several Democrats actually voted with us. Also, the Congressional Resource Services has indicated that indeed the bills that are before Congress would include illegal aliens. And I think this is wrong. We need to be discussing issues specifically to help the American people, and that would not include illegal aliens.
RUSH: So he's sticking to his guns. He said the truth. Here's the thing that's amazing about this. Here you have a president lying through his teeth from the start of that speech through the end of that speech -- and in this speech he's accusing conservatives of lying about his plan, a plan which does not exist! He wasn't even grounded in reality last night. There is not one piece of legislation that has anything remotely like what Obama said was in his plan. He's not going to submit a plan. The only workable plan right now is the House plan, and nothing that he said is in it. The House bill contradicts everything Obama claimed last night! So while he is in the midst of lying about his plan, he is at the same time falsely accusing us of lying about it. So the question is: Why is it okay for Obama, as president of the United States, in a legislative setting to come out here and lie through his teeth and somehow it's bad form for Joe Wilson to tell the truth in the same setting? Because the fact of the matter is Obama was lying. What Joe Wilson said was true. They were harping today on the truth-teller. It ought to be the other way around.
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RUSH: Yes, I'm disgusted now. I was disgusted last night. I think I slept disgusted. So Obama doesn't intend to provide health care to illegal aliens, huh? Well, I have a piece of legislation here, a summary. It's from 1998, when Obama was in the Illinois legislature: "Provide Funding for Social Services for Noncitizens." It was a bill that he supported and cosponsored: "Provide Funding for Social Services for Noncitizens." Here's the official summary: "To establish a grant program to provide financial assistance to states and local governments for the costs providing health care and educational services to noncitizens and to provide additional funding for the state criminal alien assassin program." He did this also as a United States Senator. Senator Clinton made the introductory remarks on this.
When he says, for example, "Nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have," it's very clever, but we've read the bill. No, nothing will "require" it. It's simply going to happen! Because the private sector cannot compete with an entity that does not have to make a profit. It's in the House bill. If you change any aspect, including the price of your premium, of your current plan, you are automatically disqualified from it and you are sent to the public plan! You're sent to the government-run option. Now, you're going to be coerced. He says, "Nothing in this plan will 'require'"? The plan will eventually force you there. He has said it in 2003 and 2007! We have the audio. Cookie, get it out of the archives again. He said it many, many times.
"The public option may take ten, 15, 20 years but that's how we're going to get there." A number of Democrats today said the same thing. He's lying through his teeth about this.
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RUSH: The House Republican leader John Boehner just on television reading from the House bill the amendment that would provide health care to illegal aliens. Facts are facts. They're problematic for Obama. He believes that the power of his personality and the power of his biography and the power of his telepromptered oratory can overcome the truth. Well, he's going to have some trouble. March of 2007, Service Employees International Union health care forum, these are Obama's buddies, this is where he tells the truth. These are the people to whom he's honest. Now, he said last night, "If you like your doctor and if you like your insurance plan, you're going to be able to keep it, you'll never, ever have to give it up," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, "nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change coverage, the doctor you have." Want to know his real intentions?
OBAMA: My commitment is to make sure that we've got universal health care for all Americans by the end of my first term as president. I would hope that we set up a system that allows those who can go through their employer to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort, but I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out.
RUSH: But he wants to eliminate employer coverage. He wants to eliminate private sector coverage. This is just two years ago, my friends, to his buddies at the Service Employees International Union. Here back in 2003 speaking to more of his buddies at the AFL-CIO, a conference while campaigning for the United States Senate.
OBAMA: I happen to be a proponent of single payer universal health care coverage. A single payer health care plan, universal health care plan. That's what I'd like to see.
RUSH: We know what he wants. We know he wants to legalize all illegals via amnesty. We know that he wants them to all have health coverage and health insurance, and he wants a public option. He wants single payer, government-run. Everything he said last night was to the contrary. There's no other way to say it. It was disgusting; it was demeaning; it was insulting to the office of the presidency. It was fraudulent. One guy told the truth in that House last night, and that was Joe Wilson.
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RUSH: Grab a quick call. Ron in San Francisco. Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, dittos, Rush, from one of the millions that was cheering Joe Wilson last night and one of the millions that are pissed off because he apologized.
RUSH: Well, he was made to. The Republican leadership, which should tell you something, asked him not just to apologize, but to call the White House and do it.
CALLER: Yeah, well, I'm just listening to you here, and the way you're describing Obama. I have a different take. I thought Obama was nervous last night. I thought he was nervous as hell, and he did not sound like a president that I'm used to hearing give uplifting speeches, that's for sure.
RUSH: No, he didn't. There's a great question we could ask today. How many people is Obama going to save today? And the next question, how many people is our health care system going to save today? Obama's going to save nobody. By the way, he lied through his teeth about these two poorhouse examples he gave, people who had their mean insurance company withdraw coverage. He just told half-truths about those. I got the evidence coming up. Now, how many people will he save today? How many people will our health care system save today? You are exactly right. There was nothing inspiring. He couldn't give anywhere near the speech he gave to the school kids last night. I don't know whether he was nervous or not. It was a campaign speech. It wasn't presidential. It was insulting. And I, frankly, am fed up with the president of the United States trashing virtually every aspect of things that make this country successful and great.
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RUSH: Did you see it last night on TV? Did you watch TV? Did you hear it on the radio? What an historic event. None of us will forget it as long as we live. History will treasure it for decades. Derek Jeter, shortstop, New York Yankees, tied the career hit record of Lou Gehrig, the pride of the Yankees. That's what people are going to remember from last night. Barack Obama ignored something major last night, and that is America wants jobs, not changes in health care.
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RUSH: We have two sound bites from the cabinet meeting. Here's number one.
OBAMA: I am confident the plan that we put forward is the right plan for the American people. (camera shutter snaps) I continue to be open to suggestions and ideas from all quarters. (shutter snaps) House members, Senate members, Democrats, Republicans, outside groups.
RUSH: Well, he has no plan. Whatever he mentioned last night doesn't exist. The "plan" he talked about last night does not exist. There is no plan! He couldn't hold it up and show it to us. He's not lobbying the House or Senate to change what's in their plans to reflect what he said last night. He's not open to any other plan! He's not open to it. He's just saying it. In fact, before we go to 34, grab sound bite eight. The president of the United States called Sarah Palin a liar last night. The president of the United States called me a liar last night. The president of the United States called the majority of the American people liars last night.
OBAMA: Given all the misinformation that's been spread over the past few months, I realize that many Americans have grown nervous about reform. So to... tonight I want to address some of the key controversies that are still out there. Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost.
RUSH: Stop the tape. Stop the tape. There are no bogus claims. We are spreading the truth, Mr. President, to save America. We are spreading the truth to save the country from you and your czars and your administration. We are spreading the truth about you to save the institutions and traditions that have made this country great. You are the one lying. You are the one with bogus information. You, sir, are the one without a plan. Nothing you said last night is reflected anywhere in any bill that's been put forth in the House or the Senate. Zip, zero, nada So where is this plan of yours? Here's the rest of the bite.
OBAMA: The best example is the claim, made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power on it kill off senior citizens. Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie plain and simple.
RUSH: It is not "a lie plain and simple." You're going to cut $500 billion from Medicare. You claim you're going to do it by finding "fraud and waste." Well, if you can do that, do it now! If you're going to cut $500 billion in Medicare and claim there's going to be no reduction in service, you're lying. It's mathematically impossible. There are Medicare panels. It's in the bill. You want them run out of the White House. They are going to determine who gets treated and who doesn't. It just takes a little common sense to understand that this is going to be health care rationing when you and your buddies in Washington are in total control of it. So we're not lying. We're not spreading bogus claims. You call us out; we're going to hit back twice as hard. Isn't that how it goes, Mr. President? You call us out; we're going to hit back twice as hard. Sarah Palin has hit back today on her Facebook page. She's not backing down at all from anything she's said and she's continuing to point out that the president is misrepresenting and lying to people. Now, this next reporter at the cabinet meeting asked Obama if he accepted the apology of Joe Wilson.
OBAMA: (shutter clicks throughout) Yes, I do. Uh, I'm a big believer, uh, that, uh, we all make mistakes. Uh, he apologized quickly, uh, and without equivocation, uh, and I'm appreciate that. We have to get to the point where we can have a conversation about big, important issues that matter to the American people without vitriol, without name-calling, uh, without the assumption, uh, of --
RUSH: Stop the tape. He says we have to have a conversation about big important issues that matter to the American people without vitriol, without name-calling. Oh, you mean like when Nancy Pelosi called us all Nazis? When your buddy Van Jones is out saying the kinds of things he's saying? When your buddy Bill Ayers saying he's saying? When your buddy Jeremiah Wright says what he says? We gotta stop the name-calling? It's the things that you say spreading bogus claims, assuming the worst in other people's motives. It's Nancy Pelosi calling us all Nazis, showing up with "swah-stih-kaas" at the town hall meetings. It's your very own White House referring to the American people at town hall meetings as "an unruly mob." Mr. President if you're going to stop the name-calling, look inward. Look inside the White House and the old Executive Office Building and you tell your people to shut up. You tell your people to stop it. You get hold of Paul Begala, you get hold of James Carville and you tell them to shut up. You get hold of your buddies over at MSNBC and you tell them to shut up. That's where the name-calling and the vitriol is coming from. The people you're talking about are simply trying to save their country, from you, for their children and for their grandchildren. The president then concluded his comments with this.
OBAMA: (shutter clicks throughout) -- the worst in other people's motives. Uh, I hope that some of the fever, uh, breaks a little bit. The media can always be helpful by not giving all the attention to the loudest or shrillest voices and try to stay a little bit more focused on, uh, the issues at hand.
RUSH: Wow, that's Castro-like. In fact I thought that whole speech was Castro-like last night. This is certainly Castro-like. "Well, I hope that the fever breaks able to say. The media can be helpful by not giving all the attention to the loudest or shrillest voices." They don't! The media ignores Jeremiah Wright, the media ignores Van Jones. The media ignores Mark Lloyd. The media ignores Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers and all your other buddies. The media ignores the loudest and shrillest voices. Regardless, he already controls the media, so here he's giving the marching orders. Mr. President, you have to understand: The media has not covered the tea parties as they've happened. The media has besmirched people. They have lied themselves about what's going on at these tea parties and who's there.
They have not told the truth, and it's your union thugs that have shown up to beat up people at these town hall meetings. You talk about vitriol? You talk about name-calling? Then you instruct the media not to give all the attention to the loudest or shrillest voices? You ask the media to stay focused on the issues at hand? They aren't! They have lost their ability to stay focused on the issues at hand. Were it up to the media and were it the case that we didn't exist, you'd have smooth sailing, sir. Nobody would know what's in your plan because it wouldn't be reported. We haven't seen, in our lifetimes, a media so slavish to a single politician. The media, thanks to you, sir, has met its Waterloo. They've lost all integrity, just like you brought none to the House chamber last night. There was no integrity in that speech. There was no dignity in that speech. There's no integrity or dignity in these comments. There is just an arrogant, elitist condescension complete with lie after lie after lie. By the way, here's John Boehner. I mentioned I saw this on Fox this morning. Joe Wilson apologized for calling Obama a liar when he said that there was not anything in the bill that would grant coverage to illegal aliens. Here's Boehner.
BOEHNER: H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitizens participating in and paying for coverage available through the exchange, whether the noncitizens are legally or illegally present or in the United States temporarily or permanently. And this CRS report makes it pretty clear. Secondly, they were two opportunities in committee for House Democrats to make clear that illegal immigrants would not be covered by putting in the requirements to show citizenship. Both of those amendments were in fact rejected.
RUSH: Exactly. So Wilson told the truth, Obama was lying, and now we're harping all over Wilson. Wilson apologized quickly. And Obama said, "Yeah, okay. I accept it. You know, that's nice." How fast did Obama apologize to the police officer in Cambridge? I don't think he has yet, has he? He's never apologized to the police officer in Cambridge, after calling him stupid. Now, the White House is out there reporting that one million jobs have been "saved and created." More lies! More jobs lost. We're approaching 10% unemployment. If there's anything saving jobs it's private sector employers who are busting their rear ends to stay in business, fighting against this administration to do so. If anybody is saving jobs, it's American citizens trying to make their country work. Mr. Obama, sir, you are doing nothing but destroying jobs and the opportunity for more to be created.
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RUSH: Meridian, Mississippi, Cindy, you're next, thanks for your patience, and hello.
CALLER: Thank you. And I wanted to say that I think Joe Wilson was a real-life example of the little boy in the children's story The Emperor Has No Clothes last night. It was a perfect setting for him to draw attention to all America that what Barack Obama is saying is really just trying to sell us a bill of goods when in reality he has no clothes on whatsoever.
RUSH: Exactly right. That was snake oil. That was snake oil all night long last night. Amy in Medina, Ohio, hi, welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Mega dittos. I just think it's interesting to not only look at the president's words, but the argument approach that's using. The president used the classical Hegelian dialectic process, and basically it is guiding people's thoughts by using a thesis and an antithesis; pitting two groups against each other to come to a predetermined outcome. I was in shock because the president said, "We have two extremes. We have the single-payer system and then we have the free market approach where we just have competition." And, you know, he's pitting these two groups against each other to get to his predetermined outcome, which everyone's going to think, "Okay, is a synthesis." But it's not a synthesis where Congress and the Senate are going to sit down and hammer out the details. It's a synthesis where he's going to have this outcome that is going to be brought into the bill.
RUSH: Well, that's a good point. The Hegelian dialectic is something that a lot of people might not know about. This is Marx, Engles, a common approach that the Soviets used, the communists around the world used to advance ideas. Basically what you're saying... If I could translate, what you're saying is, the president is out there saying, "No, no, no, no, no! There's not going to be a government plan. Oh, no, no, no!"
CALLER: (chuckles)
RUSH: At the same time, he's trashing insurance companies and the private sector and saying he's going to bring 'em up and he's gonna raise 'em right and he's gonna make sure they do right and so forth. He's going to run 'em!
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: He's admitting that there's going to be a public plan while denying there's going to be a public plan, that's the whole point.
CALLER: Exactly. And he wants to pitch the two extremes so that they look like -- I don't know a better word -- idiots. So that people say, "Well, no we don't want this and we don't want the single payer," and he will come to this result that --
RUSH: Yeah, but you see the point is the free market is not an extremist position.
CALLER: I know. But to him it is. (giggles)
RUSH: But it's not to the majority of Americans. This is the thing.
CALLER: I know.
RUSH: I don't think it's going to work to paint... Look, since this guy has come into office look at who he's demonized and look what he's taken over. He's demonized Big Oil. (Well, I stay constantly. The Democrat Party's enemies list is anybody that makes a profit.) But he personally has demonized doctors. He has demonized hospitals, he has demonized insurance companies. This guy never says one thing about the greatness of this country. Ever. He doesn't have one single concept of American exceptionalism. He doesn't buy into that at all. He hasn't said one thing about the greatness of our health care system and the things it does good. In his mind it's a horrible mess, it's causing people to die, and if we don't do his plan more people are going to die.
It's just ridiculous. Now, let's go back, June 24th, the ABC Obama infomercial. I will never forget this. He said, "More people are going to die if we don't do my health care plan." Remember Jane Sturm, the audience member whose mother was now over 105. She's still alive. At age 100 she needed a pacemaker, and a specialist refused to do it, said she was too old. But she went to another specialist. She had the option to do that because the free market health care system allows her that. One specialist said, "Nah, I'm not going to waste my time. Your mother is too old." The other specialist saw her. The other specialist saw a spunk, a joy of life and said, "You know what? I'm going to go for it. I'm going to put the pacemaker in." So she's still alive after getting the pacemaker. Fine and dandy, hunky-dory.
Jane Sturm asked this question to the president of the United States: "Outside the medical criteria for prolonging life of somebody who's old, is there any consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of living, a quality of life, or is it just a medical cutoff at a certain age?" Now, remember, Obama says there is no death panel. "We're not going to be offing grandma!" Well, here's a woman who brings in a grandma, talks about a grandma. Imagine this! Folks, in our country, a citizen asks Fidel Castro, Barack Obama, "Will you spare my mother if you see that she has a joy for living? Will you spare my mother if she has spunk? Will you spare my mother if she has a great quality of life?" And here was the answer from the president of the United States.
OBAMA: I don't think that we can make judgments based on people's "spirit." Uh, that would be, uh, a pretty subjective decision to be making. I think we have to have rules that, uh, say that we are going to provide good, quality care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we're going to have to make. But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they're not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they're being made by private insurers. At least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what, maybe this isn't going to help. Maybe you're better off, uhhh, not having the surgery but taking, uh, the painkiller.
RUSH: So Barack Obama, who says more people are going to die if we don't do his plan just answers a woman: No, no, we're not going to save your mother -- and it's none of his damn business whether her mother gets a pacemaker or not. And the very idea that an American citizen we've gotten to the point has to ask the president of the United States to save her mother ought to be a telltale sign that we're on the wrong road and going in the wrong direction. We're on the wrong road in the wrong car, we got the wrong driver, and we're headed in the wrong direction. And Obama says, "Ah, take a pain pill. Ah, we're not going to take into account anybody's spunk, joy of life, spirit. Nah, we can't do that. We have different criteria," and he has the audacity to lecture us on scare tactics. Listen to this from last night.
OBAMA: Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing. Our deficit will grow, more families will go bankrupt. More businesses will close. More Americans will lose their coverage when they are sick and need it the most, and more will die as a result.
RUSH: And he lectures us about scare tactics. It's Barack Obama health care plan that will cause more people to die. President Barack Obama's health care plan... Well (sigh), he doesn't have one. He was just making it up last night because what he was saying last night doesn't exist anywhere in Congress. But the plans now before Congress will end up killing more people than the private sector health business ever has or has contemplated. Michael Tanner made a good point in the New York Post that's up at National Review Online with Obama caught lying about nothing in the health care plan requiring you to change the type of coverage you have or your doctor.
"[I]n virtually every appearance he makes, the president repeated 'Nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have.'" He said it last night. "'"Nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have."' That of course is quite simply untrue. The president favors a requirement that everyone must carry basic health insurance," which is right out of the Baucus bill in the Senate. "But the individual mandate that he favors and included in the bills before Congress doesn't just say you have to have insurance," the mandate in the bills before Congress "specifies what benefits your insurance must have, even if you don't want those benefits or they boost the cost of your policy."
It is going to change! It's in the bills. It cannot help but change. Change is mandated. This was despicable; it was demeaning. It was totally lacking in integrity, honesty, and even decency and class last night. It was as fraudulent as the CNN poll that came out last night that said two-thirds of the people who watched the speech changed their minds favorably toward Obama's plan. Well, the sample of 427 adult Americans, a phone survey the sample was 45% Democrat and 18% Republican. That's more than twice, almost three times as many Democrats as Republicans in the poll last night. And that poll was taken just so the media could jump on it last night and this morning to write and tell the story of how Obama turned it around.
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RUSH: Dave in Omaha, nice to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Dittos, Rush. Last night when I listened to the president's speech something became clear to me. He says he's going to pay for this health care by eliminating waste and fraud from Medicaid and Medicare. He's been in office seven months, it's evident he made the statement. It's also evident that he must have known about the waste and fraud. How come he hasn't done anything about the waste and fraud --
RUSH: Well, exactly right. If you're going to eliminate waste and fraud, do it now, don't wait for four years when the program implements. But, look, that's not even the point. Ladies and gentlemen, this whole business about eliminating waste and fraud. This is essentially what Obama said: The waste, fraud, and abuse in government is going to be used by the government to pay for more government. We're going to cut Medicare $500 billion. We're not going to cut treatment, we're just going to get rid of the waste and the fraud and then we're going to use that $500 billion to grow government. It's nonsensical. Nobody believes this other than the condemned dead heads that make up Obama's base, but nobody with any economic literacy or any common sense in general is going to believe that.
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RUSH: Manassas, Virginia, this is Earl. Great to have you here, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hello. How are you?
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: I was listening to the speech last night and I heard Obama indicate that everyone would be required to have insurance, just like states require you to have car insurance. However, a state doesn't require you to have car insurance; it's the car itself that's insured. So if you think that way, perhaps these facilities like urgent care themselves should be insured.
RUSH: Well, but there's a more fundamental difference than that. If you don't have a car, you don't have to have insurance which is your point. But the purpose for automobile insurance is not to protect you. It's to protect the person you plow into. I mean, the analogy does not hold at all. And with auto insurance, you can buy it from anybody you want. In health insurance, you have to buy it in the state that you live. Now, the president made a point last night that 90% of people in Alabama buy health insurance from one company. So his solution is that company sucks. That company sucks. That's a monopoly. We gotta bust up that company. And we're going to do it by giving people options with a public option. No. No. What sucks is the state law making that requirement the way it is or the federal law that requires that you can only buy insurance in the state in which you live. The fix is the free market. You abandon this whole notion of boundaries, you let people buy health insurance from any company they want anywhere in the country. You watch the competition set in when that happens.
You let insurance companies sell the kind of policies that people want to buy, let 'em tailor policies to whatever individuals want, and you got a problem solved much faster than we're going to solve it with Obamacare. Folks, the private sector is his enemy, I'm telling you. I can't go through it again, but if you weren't here in the first hour I did a translation of sorts of Obama's speech of what he was really saying last night. The traditions, institutions, the greatness of this country, the parts of it that make it great, he doesn't like. He doesn't like the Constitution. (doing Obama impression) "I didn't vote for the Constitution. The Constitution was put together by a bunch of slave owners. I don't like that. I didn't vote for that." If they could trash it in front of our eyes, they would. They're in the process of doing it now. The simple solution to 90% of the people in Alabama have to buy insurance from one company, if that's even true, but let's say it is, get rid of the state law, get rid of the law that mandates you have to buy insurance from a company in your state. You can buy all kinds of insurance for other things from anybody. Lloyds of London if they'll sell you the policy for whatever you want to insure. The problems in our health care system really have been mandated by government, state and federal, that have limited choice, caused prices to rise, no relationship to the customer, the patient and the cost provider.
Columbia, South Carolina, Jan. Thank you for waiting. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Good to talk to you. I enjoy listening to your program.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I've been a nurse for over 25 years and I've just seen an increasing trend, that basically a lot of people that receive these government Medicare, Medicaid, whatever, basically are just totally irresponsible with their own health care. They do nothing but actually hurt themselves. I have patients who are much younger than I am that come in and have a chronic problem like asthma or bronchitis but they're still smoking two packs a day. How do you afford two packs of cigarettes a day and you're on Medicare and Medicaid?
RUSH: Food stamps.
CALLER: How do you have a body mass index which is a ratio of your height to your weight that's two times, more than two times what's considered morbidly obese? And you have back and knee problems? Give me a break!
RUSH: Obama's going to fix that because they're going to put mandates in there that you're going to have to do lifestyle changes, preventive care and all that. But you see, here's the thing. The kind of people you're talking about are, in Barack Obama's mind, the rightful owners of the country. They're only obese and fat, they're only smoking, they only got asthma because our oppressive capitalist society has depressed them. They haven't had a chance. They've been held back. What was rightfully theirs has been stolen by evil corporations, small business owners and the rich. And that's why they're in the mess. And these are the people we must insure and make sure that they do get all the care that they need because they're at such a disadvantage because of the oppressive society they live in.
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RUSH: Helen in Alexandria, Virginia, hi. Great to have you here.
CALLER: Hello, dear. I just wanted to tell you something about the auto insurance in the state of Virginia and I don't know how many other states have this regulation, but if you sell, give away, or your car dies and you cancel your insurance, your driver's license automatically gets canceled. And most people find that out the hard way. You have to maintain some sort of insurance to maintain your driver's license.
RUSH: I did not know that in the state of Virginia.
CALLER: Most people don't.
RUSH: And most people need their driver's license to show ID.
CALLER: Exactly. Yes. Yep. So you still have to take out some form of auto insurance even though you are between automobiles.
RUSH: But, what if you never had a car and you don't have a driver's license to begin with, they don't require you to be insured there?
CALLER: Yes, because you can't get a driver's license, you have to get an ID card for people who don't drive.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Okay. So in Virginia it's not mandatory that you have to have car insurance, which was the point. Now, I understand what you're saying. If you've had a car, you lose it, get rid of it, whatever, if you get close to a car, you gotta have a driver's license, because you might get in it and want to drive, and to get a driver's license you gotta have insurance. But you don't have to get a driver's license, and you don't have to get a car. In that case, you don't have to get insurance. I mean, the point is, the analogy of health care insurance to auto insurance breaks down this way. When you go get health insurance -- and, by the way, it is impossible to insure good health. That's not what it is. You can't do it. You insure bad health, you insure catastrophic illness, and all you're doing is taking a risk and the insurance company is joining you in the risk. You're not buying health insurance to make sure you don't pass the flu to somebody. But when you buy auto insurance, you're making sure that you can pay if you plow into somebody or their house or cause some kind of damage to either property or a person with your car.
If health care insurance worked that way, you would have to go buy health insurance to protect yourself from being sued if you spread AIDS around or if you spread the flu around or what have you. But you're not doing that. You're buying health insurance to protect yourself against a catastrophic cost that comes down the line regarding your own health. Now it's gotten all out of whack, I mean people are going in for standard checkups and buying Band-Aids and so forth with their prescription supplement or their health care coverage in general. It's just absurd. More and more stories I'm seeing -- we had the call from a woman yesterday who was able to get a X-ray reduced from $269 to $20 bucks just by paying cash and shopping around for it.
I was in the hospital here four years ago, or three, hell, time flies, and I told them I'm paying cash, three days, I'm paying cash, going to put it on a credit card and it cut the cost in half because they didn't have to mess around with paperwork and dealing with copay reimbursements, whatever the garbage is. You ought to try it, just standard operating procedure, go in for some kind of medical treatment, offer to pay cash and see what happens and I'll betcha if you shop around enough you can find someplace that's much cheaper than if you were using your insurance. It would be a lesson to you to find out how the whole system could be changed in a positive way to reduce costs if just that single thing alone were to happen.
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RUSH: I want to translate the speech last night in the words of Obama. So what comes next is me speaking as Obama, giving that speech last night, what he really meant; because the inherent inconsistency in his position remains. He says, "We spend too much on health care but we need to spend more. We need to add more people to the system by force if necessary. We need to expand health care as a matter of law, no exceptions. We need to compel insurance companies to provide more benefits to anybody and everybody who seeks them," but we spend too much on health care! One of the reasons is, it works. We all know that it's like buying a lawyer. The more money you spend on a lawyer, the better lawyering you get.
More on that as the program unfolds. My mind is shooting off here in rapid-fire neuron blasts and I'm trying to keep this overload I have somewhat organized. So here is how that speech last night, if he were telling the truth, would have gone. "By cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare -- which of course is a government-run entitlement program -- we'll be able to fund expanded health care without waste, fraud, and abuse. And of course we support Medicare. It's the Republicans who hate Medicare. We're only cutting over $500 billion from the already bankrupt program because there are other people, apart from our seniors, who need health care, too. Everyone has to sacrifice, particularly mom and dad, granddad, grandmom. But they won't mind. That doesn't mean, of course, we're going to ration care. We would never do that. We love our seniors.
"These are scare tactics by the special interests who always oppose reform. No, we're going to cut Medicare because we support Medicare, and we're going to cut benefits to seniors because we love our seniors. And what's all this talk about the government taking over health care? More fearmongering by the special interests! No, what's going to happen is that we will oversee the insurance companies to make sure they don't cheat and rip you off. That's right. The same politicians and bureaucracy that stole trillions from the Social Security trust fund to pay for ever more spending -- and the same politicians and bureaucracy that stole trillions of dollars from the Medicare trust fund -- will use their carefully honed skills and experience to ensure that the private insurance companies treat you fairly.
"And what we will do is tell these companies who must be covered -- which is anyone who asks to be covered-- we're going to tell 'em what they have to charge and we're going to tell 'em that they have to cover preexisting conditions. We're going to tell 'em what they can't charge. We're going to tell 'em what benefits they have to offer -- and if they fail to do exactly what we say, we're going to have to close 'em down to protect you. That doesn't mean, of course, that you have to change your insurance company. We would never tell you to drop your insurance if you like it! No. What we're going to do is put your insurer out of business. See the difference? And as you know, we are here to change Washington. We want to use free market language to massively grow government.
"We want to increase competition by destroying it. We want to grow jobs by killing employment. Our stimulus recovery is going just as planned. Real unemployment is now at 16.8% and rising. This is how we save the economy from the brink: By killing jobs, killing home ownership, and killing private property; by creating trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars in new debt. This is how we will create a stable dollar, a prosperous economy. This is how we will grow businesses, increase home ownership and so forth. And if we don't it's Bush's fault anyway because I inherited all this! So don't you understand? I'm in the process of destroying your country. I don't like it at all. I don't like this Constitution. It wasn't written for me. I never had a chance to vote for it. I've been saddled with it and my people, saddled with it and my party's been saddled with it and we hate this Constitution!
"This Constitution doesn't tell us what we can do to you. All this Constitution tells us is what we can't do to you, and we want the Constitution to tell us what we can do. Not only to you but for you. I don't like this at all. And I haven't liked it and my college professors haven't liked it and my parents didn't like it and none of my friends liked it. Bill Ayers didn't like the Constitution. Jeremiah Wright doesn't like the Constitution. My gang at ACORN doesn't like the Constitution, and I'm gonna fix it -- and I'm doing it right in front of your eyes while I'm telling you the opposite of what I'm doing. I'm destroying your economy. I am foreclosing on your house. I have taken over two of the three big automobile companies. I'm going to make sure you can't eventually drive the car you want. And I'm doing all this to restore the economy so that we never have a down cycle like this. I'm doing all this to save the planet from climate change.
"I'm doing all it is so that you will have good jobs and good health care. You won't have any money unless you turn to me for it. It's essential that despite talking like a capitalist that we leave no industry free to actually make profits, because profits are the tool of the special interests -- who, after all, don't care about you as much as we do in this administration. We know what you need better than you do. We know how to manage your affairs and your finances better than you do. This is why we've nationalized the banks, the mortgage industry, the student loan industry, and soon the energy companies and the health care industry. We, after all, aren't driven by the profit motive. We're driven by the public interest, and we know what's in the public interest better than you do.
"That's why it's time to stop all this talk, stop all this bickering, stop the games and just shut up when I'm speaking and instituting my hope-and-change agenda. My agenda is your agenda whether you know it or not whether you accept it or not -- and it's going to be forced down your throat whether you want it or not. Now, I've tried very hard to work with Republicans. My door is always open to them. But they refuse to accept my agenda. They seek to sabotage real reform and real change and hope. They keep talking about empowering individuals to make their own health care decisions. The Republicans keep talking about cutting taxes for middle-class families so they can buy their own insurance.
"The Republicans keep talking about expanding health savings accounts much like IRAs and 401(k)s so that families can save some of their own money tax-free to prepare for catastrophic illnesses and increasing competition by enabling insurance companies to compete for business across state lines. Do you believe that idiocy from the Republicans? Do you believe that stuff? Individuals can't be trusted to do the right thing. We all know that. People are foolish. The only thing they should be free to do is make enough money so that we can confiscate 50, 60, 70% of it via taxes. In fact this whole nation filled with the notion of individual rights and limited government is nothing more than a racist invention of white slaveholders.
"And let me repeat this again: The whole notion of individual rights and limited government is nothing more than a racist invention of white slaveholders known as the Founding Fathers. We know that our Founding Fathers were racists. We never agreed to their Constitution. Did you vote for it? No. It was imposed on us from one generation to the next. So forget about it or else our agenda of redistribution of wealth and big centralized government will be obstructed by something as inconsequential as the highest law in the land which we don't respect; which we didn't vote for; which we think is a sham; which we think is racist, sexist, bigoted, and homophobic. The first thing I could do if I had a chance is rip the Constitution to shreds. Now, I know we're not to the point where I can do that yet in front of you.
"So I'm going to do it while you can't see me doing it all the while telling you, 'I support what you support." Now, we need to nationalize the health care system as fast as possible, and the reason is that we have so much more hope and change to get to in our agenda before the next election. We need to get back to cap and trade so we can manage virtually every business and household in the country, so we can begin the long neglected effort to limit and then shrink how much wealth is produced in this nation. We are 5% of the world's population; we use 25% of the world's resources. We are stealing from the poor of the world, and we have done this since our interception. We are immoral and unjust and we are imperialists. As global citizens, we must change our ways.
"We must do our fair share to participate in the world's poverty. We are too rich, and I'm in the process of making sure that will not be said about this country in the future. The standard of living, when I get through here, will plummet dramatically. That's only fair! We need to pay a penalty for usurping so much of the world's resources. Poverty exists in the rest of the world because of us and our Constitution -- which I didn't vote for and I didn't get a chance to vote for, and if I have my say about it, I'm going to rip it to shreds before I leave this White House. We must make ourselves poorer! We must learn to suffer through the misery that other societies impose on themselves. We're going to call this 'going green' so that you think that we're 'saving the planet,' but what we're actually doing is making you poorer.
"We are going to rob you of your wealth and the opportunity to earn wealth, because when we say 'going green' it conjures images of polar bears and flowing creeks and fields and flowers. It's time to return to simpler times anyway, agrarian times. The Industrial Revolution wasn't all that great anyway. There was more racism and slavery in the Industrial Revolution and more pollution and disgusting destruction of the planet. This is just part of our progressive agenda, an agenda for the modern era. It's time we moved forward into the past. It is time to make tomorrow our yesterdays. It is time to surrender yourself to the greater good. You must make sacrifices! We are, after all, a community of one -- and I am The One who will lead you to the Promised Land." That's what that speech was last night. That's what's in this man's heart. That is what's in this man's mind.
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Now, ACORN advised the woman on two things: how to avoid being caught paying taxis, how to avoid paying taxes on her business, how to cheat the IRS, and how to get away with running a prostitution business in Baltimore. We have couple sound bites that illustrate this. There's video of this. The whole video runs about an hour. They got two long segments of it on O'Keefe's site at BigGovernment.com. This is your tax dollars at work, by the way. ACORN employees, ACORN, four to five billion dollars in the stimulus package directly to them. Remember, ACORN is Barack Obama's training ground. When he got to Chicago he became a community organizer with ACORN. He taught them how to do things; they taught him how to do things. We now have an ACORN-type community agitator as president of the United States. So in this bite, this is the videotape, James O Keefe is posing as the pimp, his woman, Kenya, posing as the prostitute at the ACORN Baltimore office, and in this bite the ACORN employee advises the cameraman on how to hide a prostitution business.
ACORN LADY: Let me make sure there's a code for it, okay?
O'KEEFE: A code for prostitution?
ACORN LADY: We're going to have to name it something else. We can do this. How about if you want to do that, okay, they got "other amusements" and "recreational services."
O'KEEFE: She knows her stuff because she was saying that what we can do is classify this not as prostitution --
ACORN LADY: Exactly.
O'KEEFE: -- but as recreation?
KENYA: No, no performing arts.
O'KEEFE: What was it called?
KENYA: Performing arts.
ACORN LADY: If anyone asks you, your business is a performing artist.
KENYA: A performing artist.
ACORN LADY: Which you are, okay, so you're not lying.
RUSH: Now, O'Keefe, in a brief passage, brief little post that accompanies the video at BigGovernment.com says he figured out ACORN is not so much ideological as they just hate things as they are. They're all about just ruckus and change and disruption and chaos just for the sake of it. It's all about overturning the system. Now, I think they are ideological. I think they're full-bred radical leftists. But regardless, he's also right when he says they're just anti-status quo and they'll do anything to bust it up. Angry, bent out of shape. Here's the second bite in which the ACORN employees advise this couple to use underage prostitutes as dependents for tax write-offs.
O'KEEFE: There's another variable here that we should talk to you about which might complicate our taxes. We got a couple girls overseas coming over, you know what I mean.
ACORN LADY: Hm-hm.
O'KEEFE: And they're very young, and we don't want to -- we don't want to put them on the -- on the books.
KENYA: They're kind of dependents.
O'KEEFE: They're from El Salvador.
ACORN LADY: Okay.
O'KEEFE: There's like 13 of them.
ACORN LADY: You can use them as a dependent, because they live in your house, especially if they're under 16.
O'KEEFE: Okay.
ACORN LADY: You're taking care of them.
O'KEEFE: Yeah.
ACORN LADY: So you can use them as a dependent.
O'KEEFE: What if they're making money because they're performing tricks too.
ACORN LADY: If they're making money and they're underage, you shouldn't let nobody know anyway. (laughing)
O'KEEFE: What?
KENYA: That's true.
ACORN LADY: You shouldn't be letting anyone know anyway. (child yelling in background) You can list them on your taxes as dependents to help lower your rate.
RUSH: Now, there's much more of this if you want to go to BigGovernment.com and see the entire video, but basically what you have is Barack Obama's group being fooled here by a filmmaker, goes in posing as a pimp with his prostitute, and wanting advice on how to set up a business, ACORN advises them how to set up a business, how to avoid taxes, and at the same time ACORN had no problem with the forced slavery of underage girls from El Salvador. So the point that O'Keefe's making here is, look, we know that ACORN is corrupt, we know that they're a bunch of frauds, 11 of them arrested or indicted down in Miami yesterday for vote fraud and so forth. Of course ACORN said, "We don't engage in vote fraud, we're happy these people got caught," blah, blah, blah. It is a totally corrupt organization. They exist to overthrow the system. They're made up of people just as angry at this country as Barack Obama and Van Jones and Mark Lloyd are, and Valerie Jarrett and all the rest of them.
So they go in there and they pose as degenerates, they go in and pose as human debris, reprobates, a pimp and a prostitute, and here's ACORN, "Oh, yeah, we love it," because ACORN knows this is one of the fastest ways to rot the community and rotting communities is what they're all about, causing the rot. It creates chaos, it creates a need for welfare, creates a need for big government. So here come a man and a woman, a pimp and a prostitute showing up wanting to know how they can set up a business and get away with it, ACORN right there to advise them, ACORN, "Oh yeah, you want to bring these women in, fine and dandy, we got no problem with you slaverizing young girls, underage --" yes, I made up the word, I can do that, I'm host, slaverizing -- enslaving young girls from El Salvador in a way that you can get away with it and make money. Welcome to the community, ACORN is saying. The ACORN people are not commenting yet. At least they hadn't before the program started 'til they've seen all the video, but they think the whole thing was a setup. That woman is not going to be fired. I wouldn't imagine.
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RUSH: Let's go to the phones and once again reward those who have been patiently waiting. Clarksville, Maryland, Donna, you're up.
CALLER: Hi.
RUSH: Hello. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, mega dittos, and thanks for all you do.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: I want to know if you know who's going to be prosecuted in that ACORN undercover business that just went on in Baltimore.
RUSH: Well, I don't know.
CALLER: The guy who recorded because it's illegal in Maryland to record someone without their knowledge, remember Linda Tripp?
RUSH: No, no, no, no, wait just a second now, wait just a second now, wait a second, wait a second, have you watched it?
CALLER: Yeah, I saw it on Fox this morning.
RUSH: All right, that's what 60 Minutes used to do. That's the exact kind of stuff that 60 Minutes used to do, the old hidden camera trick.
CALLER: But they can't do it in Maryland.
RUSH: Well, we'll see.
CALLER: Linda Tripp was the only one that got -- I don't want to use the bad word -- but got prosecuted or got in trouble or whatever, but that whole Clinton thing, she was the one that had her head left out.
RUSH: Well, I must confess, you may be right about phone calls. I don't know what the law in Maryland is on cameras, hidden cameras. I know you would assume it's the same thing. But I don't care. If Mr. O'Keefe gets charged, fine and dandy, I'm sure he's willing to put up with it because the video is out there. The story has been told. I mean ACORN can run but they can't hide.
CALLER: That's for sure.
RUSH: I mean the real question should be, "Is ACORN going to be prosecuted?" The real question is, "Anybody at ACORN going to be charged?"
CALLER: I doubt it.
RUSH: Well, yeah. And your answer is, well, they can't be because the evidence was gathered illegally. And, of course, you may not even be able to say it's evidence. But I mean this is the exact kind of thing 60 Minutes used to do, the exact kind of thing that, at one point way back in American history, the American media used to do. Now they're just slaves to the entire radical leftist agenda.
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RUSH ARCHIVE: If they get national health care, folks, the country as you and I have known it is over. But the failing health of Senator Kennedy, as I told you way back when, is the driving force here. The failing health of Senator Kennedy is already being used as an inspirational effort or technique to get national health care on the fast track. Before it's all over it will be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill.
RUSH: And I caught hell for that. I caught literal hell for that -- and then shortly after Senator Kennedy expired, you had all kinds of Democrats running around saying we should name the bill for him, and then last night, here's the president...
OBAMA: I received one of those letters a few days ago. It was from our beloved friend and colleague Ted Kennedy. He had written it back in May, shortly after he was told that his illness was terminal. He asked that it be delivered upon his death. In it he spoke about what a happy time his last months were, thanks to the love and support of family and friends; his wife Vickie; his amazing children, who are all here tonight. And he expressed confidence that this would be the year that health care reform, "that great unfinished business of our society," he called it, "would finally pass."
RUSH: Well, my prediction comes true every time they open their mouths about Ted Kennedy and so forth. I want to point out, by the way, Ted Kennedy did not stay in Massachusetts and use the state of Massachusetts socialized health care plan to have his brain tumor treated. He went down to Duke University for the best reputed neurosurgeon, brain surgeon, cancer surgeon that the country has. He did not rely in any way, shape, manner, or form on the kind of health care plan Obama or the House or the Senate happen to be proposing.
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OBAMA: I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future.
CONGRESS: (applauds)
RUSH: (laughing)
OBAMA: Period.
RUSH: He's just added over the course of the next ten years 12 to $13 trillion to the deficit! But AP went out and said, "The longtime prognosis in cost for health care legislation has not been good." So they're basically saying Obama was lying about that. Here's the next Obama bite they fact-checked.
OBAMA: Nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have.
CONGRESS: (applauds)
RUSH: All right, all right, all right. And the AP fact-check story says: "The Congressional Budget Office analyzed the health care bill written by House Democrats said that by 2016 some three million people who now have employer based care would lose it." Well, it's going to be far more than that. It's going to be 83 million by the time they finish with this. But even so, the AP fact-checking is calling Obama a liar. Here's the next portion that they fact-checked.
OBAMA: Don't pay attention to those scary stories about how your benefits will be cut. That will not happen on my watch. I will protect Medicare.
CONGRESS: (cheers)
RUSH: Well, the AP and their fact-check story says, "Obama and congressional Democrats want to pay for their health care plans in part by reducing Medicare payments to providers by more than $500 billion over ten years." There won't be any Medicare benefits cuts? If you're going to cut payments to the providers, the doctors and hospitals, guess what? You're going to cut being provided for! Now, that's just a sample of the AP fact-check. And the New York Times is kind of crazy, today. New York Times in their news story on this, it was not complimentary of Obama at all. Their lead editorial was. There were plenty of Drive-Bys today who did what I predicted, "Oh, he turned it around! Oh, it was a magnificent speech! It may have been the best speech ever." David Brooks said it may be the best speech ever. All of our useful idiots, "Ohhhh, it was so eloquent! Oh, it was Obama at his best," but a lot of people on the left were not thrilled with it. David "Rodham" Gergen didn't like it which you'll hear in a moment.
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David "Rodham" Gergen on CNN after the Obama speech was asked by the anchor Wolf Blitzer: "When all is said and done here, David, a lot of those very nervous Democrats, conservative moderate Democrats they're worried getting elected next year."
GERGEN: Had he given this speech three months ago when there was a glow about his presidency, I think he could have flipped the country. It was a very well-crafted speech. But now, given everything that's happened, I think millions of Americans who voted for him will say tonight, "We saw the Obama we elected." They will be really excited by this speech. But for a lot of others, I'm not sure it moved them very much. We're so dug in, I'm not sure it moved the people he ultimately needed to move if he wants to reverse the tide.
RUSH: And Rasmussen again, to remind you, the poll on Obama's health care: 44% in favor of, 53% oppose.
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Marty in Virginia Beach, you're next on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Hi. One of the things that I thought was the most important thing that Obama said last night that we should pay attention to, is he said, "We'll make sure you have the health care you need." He did not say you want. And who's determining what we need? The government?
RUSH: Well, of course. That's a good catch on your part, but what he wants people to take from that is, "Well, we all need health care, we all need it, I'm going to make sure you get it. It's a need, it's a right, and I'm going to make sure you get it. And, by the way, I'm going to make sure you get more health care than you got now. I'm going to make sure you got better insurance that you've got now. We're going to make sure that you got greater coverage and you have more coverage, more treatment, anything you want and it's going to cost you less. It's going to cost you less." (interruption) McCain said that Obama wasn't lying? This was on the Today Show today? And they asked McCain if he thought Obama was lying? Remember we had audio sound bites of the McCain town hall where the audience was -- (doing McCain impression) "He's a great president, he's a fine man." "No, boo!" "My friends, my friends, now, calm down." That's just inside the Beltway decorum. That's why McCain lost. Really no surprise there.
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RUSH: So Cookie went back. We got the audio sound bite from Senator McCain today on the Today show. He was with Matt Lauer, and the first question from Matt Lauer: "The outburst came as part of the speech where President Obama talking about illegal immigrants, and he said, 'The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who were here illegally.' That's when Joe Wilson said, 'You lie.' So do the reforms that President Obama is proposing cover illegal immigrants or do they not?"
MCCAIN: They do not. Everything that I've seen they do not, and it changes the number of uninsured in America down to about 30 million instead of the 47 or so that they talked about before. They do not as far as I can see, nor should they.
RUSH: This is just... (laughs) Senator McCain, we are in a fight to save this country, and all you can say about the change in the number from 47 million to 30 million is, "Okay, they've taken out the illegals"? (McCain impression) "That's what that, means Limbaugh! That means they're not gonna be insuring legals, (grumbling). You see? You hear me? So 47 is gonna become 30!" On a dime! On a dime, 47 million uninsured becomes 30 million uninsured last night. If somebody wants to trust the running of one-sixth of the economy to these people who just make it up? Are we now to assume that the government's official tally of illegal aliens is 17 million? Is that what this means? If this keeps up, in two months, there won't be anybody insured! If in one speech you can lop off 17 million...
Now, the census bureau says 43 in their latest numbers. But Levin in his book Liberty and Tyranny broke all this down. The numbers are so totally distorted. But Senator McCain, the bill in the House legalizes health care for illegal aliens! Boehner went on TV today and read the amendments and pointed out that Republicans offered two amendments to the House bill expressly prohibiting illegal aliens from being covered, and they were defeated. (McCain impression) "No, it does not. Everything I see, the -- the -- it changes the numbers! As far as I can see, nor should they." He thinks all illegal aliens should be given Mideast anyway so what's the big deal? Next question from Matt Lauer: "Fact or fiction: Does the president's plan create anything resembling what is a so-called death panel?
MCCAIN: No, but there is a $500 billion, quote, "savings" in Medicare that is called for, which has seniors concerned, and in other countries when they cut back on spending on health care and health care is rationed, then similar things have happened. Americans are concerned about that.
RUSH: So he partially throws Sarah Palin under the bus there which was... You know, he's just a useful idiot. They bring him in to do exactly what he did, and that is undercut everything that the Republican opponents, conservative opponents of Obama and health care are saying. He just falls right in line with it. But this is why Senator McCain lost. Here is, by the way, the number, the e part of the speech last night where the president just out of the blue, said this...
OBAMA: There are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage. In just a two-year period, one-in-every-three Americans goes without health care coverage at some point -- and every day, 14,000 Americans lose their coverage.
RUSH: Fourteen thousand? That must be because of the people losing their jobs because of you. Fourteen thousand a day? Another number just picked out of the thin wear. Who? How do we know this? The only way we can know whether this number is accurate is to count the number of losing their jobs 'cause they are losing their health care unless they go the COBRA route. You know, 47 million became 30 million last night -- and from this we're supposed to conclude that the illegals are not going to be covered. This is sleight of hand. Let's go back, July 22nd of this year.
OBAMA JULY 22, 2009: This is not just about the 47 million Americans who don't have any health insurance at all. Reform is about every American who has ever feared that they may lose their coverage if they become too sick or lose their job or change their job.
RUSH: It's "not just about the 47 million Americans who don't have any health insurance." That was in July.
OBAMA SEPTEMBER 9, 2009: There are no more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage. In just a two-year period one-in-every-three Americans goes without health care coverage at some point -- and every day 14,000 Americans lose their coverage.
RUSH: Now, it seems to me this is a huge improvement, we haven't done anything. If on July 22nd there were 47 million uninsured -- and last night, September the 9th, we're down to 30 million uninsured -- we don't need to do anything! We're going in the right detection here. All of a sudden 17 million got health insurance and we haven't done one aspect of Obama's plan yet.
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Rush was absolutely right in his first hour. What Obama wants to do is destroy this country and all its institutions and everything it stands for.
Thanks! That one is perfect!
Rush rocked today. I had the day off so I could listen in. So many good points, so little time...
Lord, Hear Our Prayer!
“Oh, you mean like when Nancy Pelosi called us all Nazis? When your buddy Van Jones is out saying the kinds of things he’s saying? When your buddy Bill Ayers saying what he’s saying? When your buddy Jeremiah Wright says what he says? WE gotta stop the name-calling? It’s the things that you say spreading bogus claims, assuming the worst in other people’s motives. It’s Nancy Pelosi calling us all Nazis, showing up with ‘swah-stih-kaas’ at the town hall meetings. It’s your very own White House referring to the American people at town hall meetings as ‘an unruly mob.’”
“Mr. President if you’re going to stop the name-calling, look inward.”
We currently have the Worst. President. Ever. Bar none, even Carter.
yummy.
I am so TIRED OF MY SENATOR, running ACROSS THE AISLE to stand against conservative principles.
Just call yourself an “Arlen Spector” John, and get it over with.
Stop it! I have a new flat-screen monitor and Husband says I can’t lick it anymore, LOL!
Ah Rush? Don't hold back.
Tell us how you really FEEL! LOL!
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