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Friday Quotes: Open Line Friday!
February 26, 2010
"Whenever you hear them say it's a tie, it means it was a Republican big win."
"You could combine all the annual profits of the private sector health insurance business
and you'd have enough money to buy health coverage for Americans for two days.
And yet Obama and the Democrats rail about these obscene profits that are being made
by private insurance companies."
"There's no such thing as a centrist.
There's no such thing as a moderate.
They're all Democrats.
They're all liberals."
"When I go out in public and people meet me who only know me by either listening to this program,
or, more importantly, through the media image that the Drive-Bys have created, they are shocked,
they are stunned at what a nice guy I am."
"I'll guarantee you this, there's no graduate that comes out of Hillsdale College
that doesn't know instinctively that the Drive-By Media is a propaganda machine."
"That's the thing that's not tough enough anywhere is thinking.
We just ramrod whatever propaganda, facts, Algore movies we want into kids' heads these days,
and we teach them to react to things in a knee-jerk way, not to think things through and largely
because half the teachers teaching today don't know how to think, either,
because they're a product of the same corrupt institution."
"You people don't believe it just because I say it.
This audience is among the most thinking media audiences in the country, of that I have no doubt."
"Look, MSNBC, at some point don't you think that network would reach
a degree of embarrassment and have to do something about it?"
"We cannot find one Obama acolyte.
We cannot find one seminar caller.
We cannot find one spammer.
Now, it's been suggested that they're not up yet, which is a valid possibility.
It's also just as valid that there just may not be that many of them anymore."
"The White House expected this show to be filled with Obama seminar
callers ripping the Republicans today and instead it's just the opposite."
"Obama was skunked yesterday and everybody inside and outside the White House knows it."
"I am stunned when I hear informed people say,
'Wow, you know, the Republicans really have some ideas.'
Of course they do. It's not a surprise."
"Folks, I actually thought that we were going to get rave reviews for Obama's health care summit,
but it was so bad that all they can do is say that it was a tie -- and when they say it's a tie,
that means that it was a clean sweep for the Republicans."
"I love this headline from the Heritage Foundation's Morning Bell blog:
'Somebody Needs to Tell the President His Health Care Plan is Dead.'
Really that kind of sums it up: It's dead."
"When the day was over yesterday, Republicans were to have been shamed and shocked
and embarrassed into never showing their faces again in Washington.
Obama was supposed to have just run over them like a Zamboni machine getting the ice ready."
"The Republicans got two hours total yesterday.
Obama and his gang got four, and then when getting the last word,
Obama closed the summit with a threat!"
"I want to hear from all of you have been sending me these vicious e-mails all week about
how there's no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. I want to hear from you.
Give me that analysis and let me know how that works in light of the health care summit."
"There was one person that stood up a year ago and said,
'This is a disaster. I hope he fails.'
It was indeed I (the nominative usage there being correct)."
"Why is David Paterson a dead African-American walking?
They might want Cuomo to run, but Paterson is out as governor because he didn't appoint Caroline Kennedy to the Senate."
"By the way, I am told, ladies and gentlemen, that Steve Wynn did not vote for Obama but that his wife, Elaine, did."
"You can't take money out of the private sector and then put it back in and say,
'Ooh, we just stimulated the economy!'
You can't take a jar of peanut butter out of your cabinet and put it back in and say,
'Ooh, we just added peanut butter to the cabinet!'"
"The government is broke. It doesn't have a dollar.
We're running a $1.4 trillion deficit this year.
We don't have any money, so there's nothing to 'stimulate' with."
"The Democrat Party exists to this day by making this country sound like it's a gulag run by Republicans."
"The word has gone out from the White House to the press that it's now more important
to push for yet another stimulus slush fund bill than it is to try to talk up the economy."
"Did you see the women's Canadian hockey team celebrating after their victory?
They had champagne and cigars!"
"The House is gumming up the works on this jobs bill the Senate sent over.
Nobody wants any part of it because it's not big enough."
"When Obama went out to the Republican retreat in Baltimore, he was at a podium that was raised on a stage.
So he was physically, if not in stature, elevated above the audience.
Here, he was just one of a whole bunch of schlubs at the same table on the same size chair --
and there was no godlike echo."
"Those Democrats came across petulant. Harry Reid, it was like he was sitting
on something and he didn't want to admit it, so it just irritated him all day."
Continually repeat ...
It's not about me.
I'm the President.
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RUSH: Yeah, I'm certain it's just an oversight and I probably ought not to be all that offended by it. I mean, if you're Obama, and you're gonna spam conservative talk radio with seminar callers and you're going to create a website and teach your idiot followers how to do it, why would you leave off the largest audience in the country?
JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
RUSH: Yip yip yip yip yahoo. Well, I guess we're going to say welcome a seminar caller Friday. Unbelievable. Love it. You know the rules on Friday, folks. We go to the phones, the program is all yours, the content's all yours. Unlike Monday through Thursday, where I demand that you talk about something I care about. Friday I throw that out the window. Here's the number. 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
Okay. Okay, Ed, you can kind of turn down the music, thank you. The broadcast engineer is stuck on a train someplace trying to get into the city in Manhattan because of the snowicane that we got going on up there. H.R., I see you made it in with hardly any problem. Yeah, everybody that matters is here. Folks, it's one of these I should warn you kind of days. I was up very, very late last night with several friends amidst great revelry and -- (interruption) well, I got here very, very early. I didn't get a whole lot of sleep, no, I didn't. But as you know I'm not one who needs a whole lot of sleep. At any rate, the Obama administration through their Organizing for America website has put together a page where their mind-numbed robots can go to learn how to get on radio talk shows and then when they get on shows, what to say. The Obama administration's very concerned, ladies and gentlemen, that their health care message isn't getting out, that it's being distorted and lied about by talk radio hosts.
So I went to this website, and Dr. Laura comes up first. And it says, if you can't get there, click on "find me another show." So I clicked on all of them. I clicked on every one of those "find me another show" buttons. I found places I had never heard of. I did not see me. I did not see this show. I did not see this phone number. Now, there are one or two reasons why, and it's not an oversight. I know they didn't forget it. It's either that they know that their spammers already know how to get a hold of this program, maybe they know that their spammers don't have a chance of getting through Mr. Snerdley. And it could also be, and I think this is probably the most likely of the three scenarios, they know that their spammers, their seminar callers will not stand a chance if they do get on the air.
Here are the calling tips. Snerdley and I talked about this earlier today. We're still undecided, but we might devote just a whole half hour to nothing but Obama seminar callers today. We haven't decided. It's Open Line Friday, it's what the day is for. Here are the calling tips: "Be polite, respectful, and clear. Remember you're representing Organizing for America." That one's going to be tough for them to accomplish because there's nobody in this group on the left that's not so outraged and angry. I mean being polite and respectful is something that I don't think they accomplish once during an average day anywhere. "How radio stations will connect you will depend on the show. Some radio shows may connect you right away, but most will take your name and basic information and put you on hold. You may or may not be able to hear the broadcast of the show while you're waiting. You may hear the radio host say something like, 'Hello, we have your name on the line with us,' and that's how you will know that you have been chosen to appear on the air."
The next point is: "Some hosts may challenge your views. Stay calm and firm. Sharing a personal story about how health reform affects you --" Oh, grab sound bite number nine out there, Ed. We've put together a montage of Democrat sob stories from the health care summit yesterday, so you spammers, you seminar callers sharing a personal story about how health care reform -- like if you happen to be using the dentures of a dead woman, like Louise Slaughter mentioned yesterday. "Sharing a personal story about how health reform affects you and your family is a great way to show the importance and urgency of health reform." So if you're confused about this instruction, here are the professionals at this.
OBAMA: I can certainly remember Malia coming into the kitchen one day and saying, "I can't breathe, daddy." ... My mother didn't have reliable health care and she died of ovarian cancer.
REID: A young man by the name of Jesus Gutierrez.
MURRAY: I remember a little boy, who was 11 years old, who's name was Marcellus.
HOYER: I had a message on my machine: "I was just diagnosed with a tumor."
HARKIN: Got a letter yesterday from a farmer in Iowa.
ROCKEFELLER: I knew this kid, Samuel Ford, and he had leukemia.
CONARD: My own father-in-law in his final illness.
WAXMAN: People from California who were told by Anthem WellPoint that their insurance was going to go up 39 percent.
DODD: A guy in my state, Kevin Galvin.
SLAUGHTER: Her sister died. This poor woman had no dentures. She wore her dead sister's teeth.
RUSH: Can you believe these stories happen in America? So that's just a little hint, this is a page from the Democrat playbook that's been used and worn for now over 30, 40 years, and this is how you should do it. The final calling tip: "If you can't get through, don't worry! If the show you call is busy or not accepting calls at the moment you call in, simply click 'Give me another show' to find another." Now, here are the discussion points that Obama's website, Organizing for America, suggests to its seminar callers spammers: "For most Americans, their health care plan covers too little and costs too much. Far too many people delay or even skip the care they need because they simply can’t afford it." So you call up and you tell the host that. And then after you have a discussion, then you say this: "The plan the President laid out includes the largest health care tax cut for middle class families in history and makes coverage more affordable for tens of millions --"
So in this case, you're going to have to willingly lie to make this point. Your president, you spammers, is asking you to willingly lie about his plan. You gotta be able to do that. We suspect it won't be much of a problem for you since that's what leftists do. The next discussion point: "This plan will give millions of Americans new choices in health insurance by making coverage more affordable, ending the denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions --" So you have to just keep lying. Once you get through and talk to the host, you just have to keep lying. "Too many in Washington are now saying that we should delay or give up on reform entirely --" Well, there's actually a poll on that out today. It's a Zogby poll, and 49% say it would be better to do nothing, 37% say, yeah, we gotta do something. Forty-nine percent say better to do nothing. And this is Mr. Obama's straw man. (imitating Obama) "Some say that we should do nothing." I'll say it! So, that's our attempt.
Snerdley has been instructed that if you are calling from the Organizing for America website, if you are calling here to get on this program to further expand the area of -- (interruption) Oh, I am on the list now? They put me on the list now, huh? Oh, okay. Well, see, see, I knew it was an oversight. I was all prepared to take it personally, but I knew it was an oversight. Okay. So, anyway, Snerdley is waiting for you. And if you do want to call here and be a seminar caller, just tell us. You know, we always put people that disagree to the front of the line, we never hang up on anybody here, and so if you want to go for it, use this program to spread the lie -- I don't even want to say that because I don't want to be contentious. If you want to use this program to spread the word on the Obama health care plan, feel free.
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RUSH: ladies and gentlemen, we found in our archives instructions for seminar callers from James Carville. This goes all the way back to the nineties. James Carville is teaching the troops here. It's almost as like Full Metal Jacket drill instructor.
(playing of D.C. Seminar Caller parody)
RUSH: See how ahead of the game we are here at the EIB Network? That goes all the way back to the '90s.
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RUSH: Do you think Obama's getting reports on how many seminar callers are getting through radio talk shows and what they're saying? Because folks, we're really working hard here and we haven't found one.
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RUSH: As you know, the Obama administration through their website, Organizing for America, has got talking points out there for seminar callers. They're tired of getting beat up on the radio, and their hosts can't succeed. Look, MSNBC, at some point don't you think that network would reach a degree of embarrassment and have to do something about it? One of their hosts advocated ripping Dick Cheney's heart out of his chest and kicking it down the street or whatever using it as a football and then putting it back in there. I mean, these people, in their desperate, desperate attempt to get noticed, they are so obviously childish, immature, coarse. It's just amazing that that network is allowed to continue on as it does. So Obama, you know, those hosts, networks, nobody watches them. Twenty-five thousand people one night last week watching CNN. So Obama said, okay, I gotta get my own talking points on conservative talk radio because that's all anybody is listening to. So he's got this website where he's advocating people call shows like this one and lie about who they are. Basically spam. "Hi, we love you, I listen to you all the time, been listening to you forever, I want to talk about health care," and then they give talking points.
Now, this is nothing new, it's been going on since the nineties. We identified these seminar callers back then. But Obama has now -- a presidential directive. And we can't find any! We have struggled all day. We're in the third hour of the program. We cannot find one Obama acolyte. We cannot find one seminar caller. We cannot find one spammer. Now, it's been suggested that they're not up yet, which is a valid possibility. It's also just as valid that there just may not be that many of them anymore. There may not be that many Obama supporters, which would not surprise me. But, you know, our cameras and microphones are everywhere, and they're not happy, from what I'm told, at the White House with how this is going.
(playing of Obama spoof)
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| • Politico: Obama Campaign Arm Focuses on Talk Radio • Radio.BarackObama.com: Calling Tips |
What I don't understand here is Paterson's known this has been coming for a long time, and the New York Times has been leaking that they got a big story coming. Obama asked Paterson not to run. Paterson was defiant, said hell with you, I'm running. If you are a black Democrat in New York and you want to be governor, it ain't going to happen. They're going to see to it that it isn't going to happen. They sold out Carl McCall. We had to end up raising money for poor old Carl McCall. So what I don't understand, Paterson has known this is coming, right? Why didn't he call Bill or Hillary Clinton to learn how to handle these bimbo eruptions and Troopergate issues? I mean this is a repeat. We got an aide to Paterson roughing up some woman, I guess, rough sex, I mean this is right out of Clinton handbook. The Clintons, my friends, have a wealth of experience and nobody consults with them on this. Now, had Bill or Hillary been consulted earlier in the game, this woulda never caught Paterson off guard. Clinton's experience with Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey. I mean this is a long, long list. Elizabeth Gracen. The Clintons would be natural consultants.
But then you throw in Troopergate, I mean you can't go get any better advice than the Clintons. And I don't think he called 'em. Now, if Paterson is going to bully a woman on behalf of an aide, then for God's sake do it right. Did anyone consider just killing her cat? Did anybody drag a 100 dollar bill through a trailer park like James Carville said of Paula Jones? I mean this is not reinventing the wheel, Governor Paterson. I'm stunned that you just sat back and let this happen to you. The Clintons a valuable resource to all Democrats, and they've been swept under the rug. Don't give me the Haiti excuse. They're not stuck down there. Governor Paterson has only himself to blame here. Well, of course George W. Bush, too. Maybe me a little bit.
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RUSH: David Paterson is gonna announce here in a minute that he's histoire, walking the plank for the Democrat Party. I'm going to tell you right now what his real sin was. What do you think it was, Snerdley? Why do you...? It's not this sex scandal. This is nothing compared to what the Clintons did. Why do you think he's really out of there? Why? (interruption) Well, why? I know he got the call from the godfather. Why is David Paterson a dead African-American walking? (interruption) No. Well, they might want Cuomo to run, but he didn't appoint Caroline Kennedy to the Senate. He did not appoint Caroline Kennedy to the Senate.
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| • New York Post: Drops Bid Amid State Police Scandal • New York Times: terson Says He Will Run, Rejecting Call From Obama |
All right, there's the press conference, and look at those whales swimming around. What a staging area. This is an incredible way to stage this press conference.
Look, I have to list four or five names here. But the ten in the middle, from most liberal to most conservative, in the House and the Senate, they're all Democrats. Every damned one of them is a Democrat. So I mean the only place you find conservatives on this list is on the Republican side. I know that this is a shock to many, many, many of you out there. This is the National Journal, and they're ranking this by the way these people have voted. It's not their opinion, it's the way they have voted. All the centrists are Democrat. Now, that means one thing. They're all liberals. There's no such thing as a centrist. There's no such thing as a moderate. They're all Democrats. They're all liberals.
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| • HotLine: National Journal's Vote Rankings: The Top 10 |
WYNN: There are more questions afoot in this market in America that will impact '11 than I have hair on my head, I'm happy to say, and I still have a full head of hair. I have more pessimism than I've had before, and it's based upon the political environment in which we are living today. And it definitely is impacting Las Vegas. The president of the United States hasn't missed one single opportunity to squelch Las Vegas. We get phone calls -- and I'm not going to mention the names of the companies -- from chairmen who say we don't want to appear to be profligate because Barack Obama said this or that about Las Vegas.
RUSH: Okay, so for you in Rio Linda, what Wynn is saying there is he knows a lot of CEOs that call him and say: "We can't afford to come out there because if the word gets out we're going to catch heat because Obama is telling everybody not to go." So Wynn then continued. He was just getting warmed up here.
WYNN: It is preposterous that businesses are under attack in the United States of America. Anybody that makes over $250,000 in the form of a personal income tax return is now, by Washington definition, a rich person, when everybody who has got a college degree knows that the personal income tax rate in the United States of America is the business tax of America. I am disgusted and angry at the apparent ignorance of the administration and the Congress to recognize the fact that the individual tax rate in the United States of America is in fact a business tax of America. And if you keep banging on that, you will destroy the incentive for job formation in the United States of America. And that's simple truth.
RUSH: Steve Wynn, who voted for Obama, I believe. It's preposterous that businesses are under attack. So finally, somebody else is joining my chorus because he's right, they are under attack. And Obama's out there saying, (imitating Obama) "Oh, no, I'm business friendly. I only want the private sector to do well." It's a crock. You ask, "What did Wynn think would happen?" This is why I say we're going to have to really teach ideology. The only thing that woulda saved us from Obama is if people knew what a liberal is, but people couldn't get there because two things had happened. I'm going to simplify it, maybe more than two, but the media and the Democrats had done a great job of drumming up absolute hatred for George W. Bush, which led them to believe that anybody else from the Republican Party would be just as bad, would be continuing just the same rotten policies, and America being hated, and then you couple it with a guy, historical nature, first black president, no criticism, no investigating, no information -- who is the guy? Ideology was trumped, it didn't stand a chance.
I'm sure that a lot of people looked at this just like the 'Magic Negro' song said: okay, we can get rid of our racist past, we can get rid of our guilt, we can vote for this guy and will say we're good people. And, of course, there's the desire for all this pap that liberals talk about during campaigns to actually happen. Oh, it would be wonderful if it would all come true but it never does with these people, and it never has a chance to come through, because their policies are diametrically opposed to whatever this great utopian version that they think they can create is. For me, it's easy to explain why somebody like Steve Wynn would be fooled, because Steve Wynn wasn't thinking ideology. Steve Wynn probably still doesn't much like Republicans, either, I don't know, but there's a story in the stack here, second one I've seen in a week about more and more Wall Street companies and banks now contributing in greater numbers to Republicans than Democrats. Here's the final sound bite from Steve Wynn. This is a conference call with reporters on his company's fourth quarter earnings results and what he thinks the future holds.
WYNN: Why I'm pessimistic about Las Vegas, because those are our customers! Those people out there hustling their businesses, and God forbid, showing that they made a million dollars as a partnership or as an individual. Yeah, they're the enemy now, they're the rich folks. Well, until we get over this, America is in for hard times. The people that are gonna suffer from what's going on are the working class of America. My 15 to 20,000 employees, they're the ones that are in trouble, and until my employees get the drift of what's being done to them, America is in trouble.
RUSH: Yeah, these are the people that work in his casinos and throughout the hotel operation. And he's exactly right. But it's not new. Steve, it's not new that the rich people are the enemies of the Democrats. It's been out there for one and all to see for as long as I've been alive. So anyway, some eyes are being opened, but I wanted to play that for you because this is pulling no punches and now you've got this guy saying that business is under attack by this administration. He's got the guts to say it and join the chorus, and I'm all happy about that.
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RUSH: By the way, I am told, ladies and gentlemen, that Steve Wynn did not vote for Obama. I want to be right about this. Steve Wynn did not vote for Obama but that his wife, Elaine, did. And I think she held some fundraisers for Obama. But I'm told Steve Wynn did not.
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| • Las Vegas Sun: Wynn: Obama's Remarks Bad for Convention Business |
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RUSH: Here are some of the State-Controlled Media headlines about the health care summit yesterday. Washington Post: "Summit Fails to Bridge Partisan Gaps on Health Reform." Story details: "Democrats...are not being honest enough about the costs. ... Mr. Obama had a disturbing tendency to dismiss arguments he disagreed with as stale 'talking points,'" and there were no raves for Obama in any of the major papers. Zip, zero, nada. From The Politico: "The Aftermath of the Health Care Summit: Confusion, Conflict," and the summary of this story is that if the goal was to make Republicans look bad, it failed. It also says the bill that changes the Senate bill that hasn't passed can't be done via reconciliation.
Republicans looked reasonable and sincere, it says -- as though that's odd! But, to these people, it is odd. "News Channels Quickly Lose Interest in Summit." This is the State-Controlled Associated Press as published in the New York Times. The claim here is that Obama "came off like any opinionated cable TV host." Roland Martin, CNN to Wolf Blitzer: "I wouldn't score it," which Roland, easy to see why: There's nothing to score. No raves from Chris Matthews. He was upset that Obama kept calling these guys by their first names rather than "Senator" this or "Representative" that. So he was most upset about the protocols. Then, again, from The Politico: "Truth-Squading the Summit," and this story points out how Harry Reid, Tom Harkin, and Obama are all lying -- Reid on reconciliation, Harkin on including Republican reforms, and on Obama on people losing their current coverage on higher premiums.
I mean, this is not... Folks, I actually thought that what we were going to get here was rave reviews for Obama, but it was so bad that all they can do is say that it was a tie. And when they say it's a tie, that means that it was a clean sweep for the Republicans. And I'll tell you, the two stars -- and it's hard to select two. Paul Ryan just ate Obama's lunch yesterday. I hope some of you had a chance to see the video of Obama's piercing, piercing expression on his face. He was ticked. He was angry. This is not at all how it was supposed to go. Ditto Eric Cantor. These guys just did a superb job. And we got audio sound bites to review some of this when we come back from the break here at the bottom of the hour. I got a couple from Paul Ryan that I definitely want you to hear.
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RUSH: I love this headline from the Heritage Foundation's Morning Bell blog: "Somebody Needs to Tell the President His Health Care Plan is Dead." Really that kind of sums it up. It's dead. Here's Paul Ryan at the health care summit. This sent Obama into rage. You could see it.
PAUL RYAN: This is a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud. When you take a look at the Medicare cuts, what this bill essentially does, is it treats Medicare like a piggy bank. It raids a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare not to shore up Medicare solvency but to spend on this new government program. When you strip out the double counting and what I would call these "gimmicks," the full ten-year cost of this bill has a $460 billion deficit. The second ten-year cost of this bill has a $1.4 trillion deficit. Hiding spending does not reduce spending, and so when you take a look at all this it just doesn't add up.
RUSH: Now, Obama is seething. He's sitting there, his lips are pursed and has a got two fingers up on his lips, emphasizing one of them. He does this. He's been caught doing this numerous times, even in his career as a US Senator -- and he comes out and says, "Paul, this is all well and good but we gotta dispense with the talking points, here. If we're going to have a conversation we gotta dispense with the theatrics and the talking points," but Ryan was having none of it.
PAUL RYAN: We've been talking about how much we agree on different issues, but there really is a difference between us, and it's basically this: We don't think the government should be in control of all of this; we want people to be in control -- and that, at the end of the day, is the big difference. We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings, we all talk to our constituents, and I've gotta tell you: The American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
RUSH: That is bold talk for a lowly little congressman to spew right in the face of our new young president, Barack Obama, basically telling him... (laughing) I loved it, and I want to hear from all of you have been sending me these vicious e-mails all week about how there's no difference in the two parties, that the Republicans and the Democrats are all the same. I want to hear from you. Give me that analysis and let me know how that works on the health care summit. Now, Ed, jump forward to sound bites 28 through 30, because Mike Pence was on Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington)'s show yesterday afternoon, and Pence was panning Obama's performance on the health care summit. Andrea doesn't like it. First question: "The most remarkable exchange, I think so far, was between the combatants in the '08 campaign, McCain and Obama. What's your impression?"
PENCE: This isn't good government. It's bad TV. I gotta tell you, I'm not impressed with what we're seeing. For all the president's, you know, repeated, somewhat condescending statements about, as he said to John McCain "the campaign is over" and "we gotta get away from talking points," all we got from the president today is talking points.
MITCHELL: (crosstalk) With all due respect, congressman --
PENCE: All we got is the president restating the bill that he dumped on the American people on Monday, and the American people want to scrap it and move on.
RUSH: "With all due respect, congressman." Andrea is trying to get in there and defend her new young president, but Pence did not come up for air. So she waited and asked another question. "Let's say that there were talking points in the president and his colleagues, Democrats. What's not a talking point? From what everybody from Lamar Alexander presented very nicely... Talking points from the Republican side has been, 'Let's start over.' So do we ever get past these two sets of talking points?"
PENCE: It really all begins with the president being willing to start with a clean sheet of paper, which he's obviously not willing to do. Instead the president started out with a loooong monologue defending his government takeover of health care, and I gotta tell you, I really think the real winner today is The Price is Right.
RUSH: (laughing)
PENCE: I mean, I gotta think that millions of Americans, you know, saw this as TV Land and not real negotiation and tuned over to another channel pretty quick.
RUSH: (laughing) "The real winner of this was The Price is Right." And, you know, Andrea is sitting there upset. None of this went according to plan. When the day was over yesterday, Republicans were to have been shamed and shocked and embarrassed into never showing their faces in Washington again. Obama was supposed to have just run over them like a Zamboni machine getting the ice ready.
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RUSH: You want to hear part of how Obama closed? 'Cause Pence here is talking about the real winner here was Price Is Right. The Republicans got too hours yesterday, total. Obama and his gang got four and then when he was getting the last word, Obama closed the summit with a threat!
He said, "I don't think, Tom, we're going to have another one of these because people don't have seven to eight hours a day to work some of these things through." So Obama admits it was a total waste of time. Senators don't have time to be dealing with issues like nationalizing one-sixth of the economy. So Obama then said, "What I do know is this: If we saw a movement -- significant movement, not just gestures -- then you wouldn't need to start over because essentially everybody knows what the issues are and procedurally it could get done fairly quickly. We can't have another year-long debate about this.
"The question I'm again ask myself and I ask all of you is: Is there enough serious effort that in a month's time or a few weeks' time, six weeks' time, we could actually resolve something? And if we can't, I think we have to go ahead and make some decisions, and that's what elections are for. We have honest disagreements about the vision for the country and we'll go ahead and test those out over here the next several months until November." All right. He knows what's going to happen. Dingy Harry knows. He's toast! Dingy Harry knows it. Obama knows a lot of Democrats are toast in the House and Senate. The story is out today that Pelosi's lost control of the House, lost control of the Democrats in the House. This Rangel thing is not good for her.
And, let's see, there's the Rangel thing, and then there's -- Oh! They're gumming up the works on this jobs bill the Senate sent over. Nobody wants any part of it because it's not big enough. The Congressional Black Caucus says, "What do you mean $15 billion? Well, that's not serious graft. You expect us to be able to do anything with that?" So they wanted the original $85 billion that Dingy Harry put together. This is a delight to watch.
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RUSH: Back to Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington). She said, "Well, aren't they saying, 'Let's come up with a smaller package'? He's not saying, 'Let's go back to the Senate bill,' even though Eric Cantor brought the whole Senate bill."
PENCE: Oh, gosh, Andrea. When did he say, "Let's go to a smaller bill"? He didn't rule out the use of reconciliation. Harry Reid, oddly, denied that he's been talking about reconciliation. That would certainly be news to most of the reporters here in Washington. What I think the American people have seen is almost like a professor with a petulant group of students. He has repeatedly interrupted Republicans. What I see is a lot of political posturing, a lot sentimental statements by Democrats around the table that all seem designed to get us to a point where they can throw their hands up in the air and say to the American public, "You know what? We tried, but now we're just going to have to ram through that government takeover of health care that these Republicans aren't willing to help us with."
RUSH: Professorial. Obama, he came across as a lecturer yesterday. But you know why it didn't work? Remember, now, when Obama went out to the Republican retreat in Baltimore, he was at a podium that was raised on a stage. So he was physically, if not in stature, elevated above the audience. Here, he was just one of a whole bunch of schlubs at the same table on the same size chair and there was no echo. There was no God echo and Obama wasn't any bigger than anybody else. He was not elevated. And Pence is right: Those Democrats came across petulant. Harry Reid, it's like... I don't know. It's like he was sitting on something and he didn't want to admit it so it just irritated him all day.
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RUSH: Jamie in Petaluma, California, nice to have you up first today on Open Line Friday. Hi.
CALLER: Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh. First of all let me say thank you so very much for being the tip of the conservative spear that's being thrust into the soft squishy yellow belly of liberal idiocy and hypocrisy. Thank you.
RUSH: My honor, sir.
CALLER: Basically yesterday, aside from watching each politician trying to one-up each other with who has the worst health care sob story, I noticed that Obama stated that everyone must be a part of the government plan because a larger pool of insured people creates lower prices for insurance.
RUSH: Yeah. Yeah.
CALLER: Well, that's the exact same reason why Anthem Blue Cross is raising their rates and yet he excoriated and ripped on them mercilessly for raising their rates. If Anthem Blue Cross stated that the reason why they're raising their rates is because they had a large group of healthy insureds drop out of the insurance pool, and they have more unhealthy people --
RUSH: That's right.
CALLER: -- that they're having to cut the costs for, isn't that a little bit hippocratic?
RUSH: Right. And why did they drop out? Because the economy's in bad shape, and they had to make other priorities, like eating, before having health care.
CALLER: Yeah, Steve Poizner, who is the insurance commissioner of California running for governor, sitting here acting shocked and surprised about the rate increases. And yet one thing a lot of people don't know is that any insurance increase by any company is applied for many months in advance and that the insurance commissioner's office has to approve of any rate increases or decreases. So either Mr. Poizner has no idea what's going on in his own office or he knew about it and chose to go after Blue Cross anyway.
RUSH: He's a bureaucrat. Why would you expect him to know what's going on in his office or anybody else's?
CALLER: Exactly. So Mr. Limbaugh, thank you once again so much --
RUSH: Thank you, Jamie.
CALLER: -- for being the leader that you are. We appreciate it.
RUSH: Really appreciate that. I love being the tip of the spear. By the way, I have a piece here, William Tucker at the American Spectator today. It's got some interesting little factoids in it. "About halfway through yesterday's all-day healthcare summit, Democratic Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina told another of the many insurance horror stories that peppered the proceedings." This is Clyburn: I was talking to a man recently who had undergone a transplant. And when he was done, he was horrified to learn that his insurance would only cover follow-up procedures for three years. After that he'd have to pay with his own money! "A gentleman was called in and he was very, very emotional. He was getting ready to have transplant surgery. But he was told that because he's on Medicare, his post-operative treatment is going to be limited to three years. After that, he's going to have to find some way to pay. He was very, very emotional."
"Think about that for a minute. The patient is about to receive a transplanted organ (the Congressman didn't specify what it was) and the horror --" he's gonna get a totally paid for transplant. The horror is that he was going to have to start paying his postop bills in three years. "If this is the worst we can say about American medicine, are we really in that bad shape after all?" I have a different observation on this. I mean look at where we are with this. This guy about had an emotional breakdown because he was told he's gotta start paying his own medical bills after three years, he gets a free transplant, he gets a free aftercare for three years and then he's on his own and he's mad and thinks he's getting screwed.
Here's another little factoid. "Only 6 percent of the population actually buys their own insurance. (And for this, we are painting the insurance companies as the villains of this melodrama?) Fourteen percent of the population is on Medicare, 14 percent on Medicaid. The other 66 percent do not have insurance but health benefits¸, which is not the same thing. Nine percent gets its benefits from government employment, 4 percent from the military and the remaining 43 percent get their benefits from private employment," and it's tax-free, by the way. Your health benefits that you get at work are tax-free. You're not buying insurance at all. Your employer is. Now, you may have copays and deductibles and so forth, but you're not buying insurance policies, your company is. Only 6% of the population actually buys their own insurance and yet we're going to blow up private insurance for this.
You want to hear another statistic? When I heard this, this blew my mind. You could take the annual profits of the private health insurance companies and buy health insurance for people for two days. You could combine all the annual profits of the private sector health insurance business and you'd have enough money to buy health coverage for Americans for two days. And yet Obama and the Democrats rail about these obscene profits that are being made by private insurance companies.
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RUSH: Couple more sound bites before we go to the break. I want you to hear Kent Conrad from the health care summit yesterday afternoon at the Blair House. If you think that the death panels are out of this bill, listen to Kent Conrad.
CONRAD: Five percent use 50% of the money. Who are they? They're the chronically ill, people who have multiple serious conditions. A study was done with 20,000 patients. They put a care coordinator on each one of them. These are chronically ill patients. And what they found was by coordinating their care -- and the first thing they did, by the way, was go into their kitchen tables, sit down, get out all their prescription drugs, on average they found they were taking 16. They found that by looking at them, they could eliminate eight. The result was hundreds of thousands of dollars of savings per patient.
RUSH: Now, who do you think this 5% using 50% of health care money is? Who do you think the chronically ill are? The elderly, exactly right. And don't forget, the New York Times declared war on the elderly in one of their blogs this week. We told you about how these people, they're soaking up all the freebies, they're getting all the benefits, it's just not fair out there. So here's Kent Conrad, 5% use 50% -- and, you know, what else? They're a bunch of druggies. They walk in there and they got 16 different prescriptions, we find out they could get by with eight. You think that there aren't death panels. (laughing) Think again. John Boehner eloquently destroyed Obama's bill yesterday and its entire premise.
BOEHNER: Having the government takeover of health care, and I believe that's what this is, is a dangerous experiment with the best health care system in the world. At a time when our economy is struggling, the last thing we need to do is to be raising taxes on the American people. You've got the individual mandate in here which I think is unwise and I do believe is unconstitutional. Mr. President, what we've been saying for a long time is let's scrap the bill. Let's start with a clean sheet of paper on those things that we can agree on.
RUSH: Whoa, he just sat there and told the Bamster that his bill is unconstitutional. These guys were on fire yesterday, and they were likable when they were on fire, and it was the Democrats that looked like a bunch of spoiled rotten little brats, petulant little creeps, arrogant little smug you-know-whats.
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RUSH: This morning in Washington Nancy Pelosi had a weekly press conference, and among the things she said was this.
PELOSI: One year ago nearly, March 5th of 2009, the president started this bipartisan conversation at the White House at the summit. It was a great day --
RUSH: Oh, yeah.
PELOSI: -- when Senator Kennedy came into the room and said I'm here to enlist as a foot soldier in the fight, in the campaign to pass health care reform. He would later say to the president, this is about the -- not about the details of policy, it's about the character of our country. Many of us carry -- carry that with us as we go forward, as we have gone forward in this campaign and brought it to the table yesterday.
RUSH: All right. So yesterday it was, "Do it for Paul! Do it for Paul!" Now it's, "Can we give it one more shot for Ted?" Back to that. David "Rodham" Gergen last night on CNN, The Situation Room, the host Wolf Blitzer. "The Republicans had less speaking time, David, counting the president the Democrats got four hours, the Republicans got two hours but the Republicans took full advantage of the minutes they had."
GERGEN: Intellectually, the Republicans had the best day they've had in years, the best day they've had in years. There's been this perception that Republicans are either brain-dead or just sort of ideologically resistant to anything, they have no ideas and all the rest of it. I thought it was not just people like Lamar Alexander and Tom Coburn but these new people of Ryan and Cantor were fresh. I think they really evened the score and kept it even.
RUSH: Whoa ho-ho-ho! So Gergen says the GOP, which had been perceived by people like him to be intellectually brain-dead were so good that they evened the score. (laughing) They drew even. They were so sharp, these guys were so fresh and so smart, that they got close to being even. Obama was skunked yesterday, and everybody inside and outside the White House knows it. Stephanopoulos, look, whenever you hear them say it's a tie, it means it was a Republican big win. Diane Sawyer last night on World News Tonight said, "George, thumbs up, thumbs down, and for who?"
STEPHANOPOULOS: I think it was probably an honorable draw. You say theater but it was also chess. I mean there’s political chess, as well and both sides I think gained something.
RUSH: Wait a minute. Cue that up. Is that Stephanopoulos? Are we speeding this up or something? I mean this sounds -- play this again.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I think it was probably an honorable draw. You say theater but it was also chess. I mean there’s political chess, as well and both sides I think gained something.
RUSH: What? I didn't even hear what he said the first time because I didn't believe it was him. Both sides I think gained something? What did the Democrats gain out of this? What did the Republicans have to lose? Republicans really didn't have much to lose.
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RUSH: Barbie in Lakeland, Florida. This is the first Barbie that I have ever heard from. I've never had a caller named Barbie, even though it's in my top ten all-time favorite female names. Hi, Barbie.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. (giggling)
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: The reason I'm calling is to talk about the health care seminar yesterday.
RUSH: Oh, yeah.
CALLER: I was actually very, very proud of the Republicans because they used the Drive-By Media to their advantage yesterday. And I was almost dancing a jig as I was listening to it. Of course after a while I kind of just muted the Dems because they weren't coming back with a legitimate answer. But I'm very proud of the Republicans yesterday, because they used this opportunity to get their message out against the health care thing.
RUSH: Have you noticed something, however, Barbie?
CALLER: What?
RUSH: When the president went up to the Republicans' weekend retreat in Baltimore --
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: -- the Drive-Bys thought that was an Obama home run and for the following week we got looped videotape of Obama performing at the Republican thing, right?
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: So yesterday your assessment is right on the money, we got a grand-slam home run from the Republicans for six hours. Have you seen any of it today?
CALLER: None.
RUSH: None. The buildup was huge and, of course, this is tantamount evidence that the Drive-Bys know for a fact that Obama got skunked by our guys.
CALLER: I know. I loved it. (laughing) But anyway, I was even proud of McCain and Lamar came out and Cantor and I can't remember that --
RUSH: Paul Ryan.
CALLER: The rookie, the little rookie from -- I can't remember his name, but I mean he really knocked a home run --
RUSH: Paul Ryan.
CALLER: Right, exactly.
RUSH: Yeah, Paul Ryan from Wisconsin.
CALLER: But anyway, I really enjoyed that yesterday. I mean I didn't watch every single bit because, you know, I do have a life, but I was just very proud yesterday.
RUSH: You're even proud of McCain, you said?
CALLER: (laughing) Yes. Well, he kind of came back and then he wouldn't --
RUSH: Well, I did love the fact he got underneath Obama's very thin skin.
CALLER: I think so. I think he did.
RUSH: He really did. And he came back in the afternoon, I forget what he came back in the afternoon with, but he was firing both barrels. Remember, now, he's in a reelection campaign. Now it's time to be conservative.
CALLER: Oh, that's true.
RUSH: Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
CALLER: Oh, shucks, I forgot about that.
RUSH: That's right. That's why I'm here.
CALLER: (laughing) Thank God.
RUSH: Okay, Barbie, great to talk to you. Thank you very much.
CALLER: No, thank you.
RUSH: You bet. Who's next week here? Carson. Carson in Chicago, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing, buddy?
RUSH: Fine and dandy, sir.
CALLER: Listen, I'm calling up to support you and the Republicans --
RUSH: Carson, would you hang on just a second here?
CALLER: Sure.
RUSH: What are you people laughing at on the other side of the window and distracting me? They're laughing at Barbie's sultry voice, Carson. That's what they're laughing at. Okay, Carson, back to you. Where were you?
CALLER: I was saying that I did watch the seminar yesterday on TV and I was really proud of our Republicans. They really came off as educated, quick on their feet and they made the Democrats just look like a bunch of buffoons which we all know they are.
RUSH: You know they're listening at the White House. This is not what they had in mind today.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: They expected this show to be filled with Obama seminar callers ripping the Republicans today and instead it's just the opposite.
CALLER: Oh, absolutely. I thought they did a great job. Once again they showed that they really stand for their ideas. I loved it when Obama, after finally being cut off at everything, saying we're just going to shove it through --
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: -- and if you don't like it you can take it out at it elections. You could see the Democrats in back wincing.
RUSH: The whole thing was a sham, as they said yesterday in The Politico, to put a face on gridlock. But the whole thing I think as evidenced by the fact that you don't see the news media playing any videotape of it all today was a total, total bomb-out for Obama. It wasn't even close. And the fact that they're not talking about it at all today is just further evidence. Carson, thanks very much for the call, I appreciate it.
You know, if there's been any spamming going on this week it's in my e-mail from people who are telling me I suck because I don't see the difference between Republicans and Democrats, and, you know, we've talked about it all week long, and my good friends, the fact of the matter is, I am stunned when I hear informed people say, "Wow, you know, the Republicans really have some ideas." Of course they do. It's not a surprise. I run into the same thing personally that they're experiencing today. When I go out in public and people meet me who only know me by either listening to this program, or, more importantly, through the media image that the Drive-Bys have created, they are shocked, they are stunned at what a nice guy I am. And just like today, people are shocked that the Republicans have some ideas, shocked that the Republicans could speak and sound intelligent, shocked that the Republicans just didn't go over there and bend over and die. Shocked! I'm not shocked, especially about the ideas, 'cause the guys that were in that room on the Republican side are conservatives, and there's a world of difference between them and the Democrats and it was on full display. So it's a good thing that it happened, I just continually am amazed that people find out that normal, everyday people with ideas are smart, that's somehow a shock to them. Don't be shocked by them. That's who they are.
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RUSH: Kathy, Canton, Ohio, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. How are you?
RUSH: Fine. Thank you.
CALLER: This is one of the highlights of my life, but I think I know why you haven't gotten any seminar callers.
RUSH: Ooh. Well, I'd like to know this, because the president has asked them to do this and I figured we'd be flooded.
CALLER: Well, I think it's because they're not up yet.
RUSH: Oh.
CALLER: (laughing)
RUSH: I hadn't thought of that.
CALLER: I mean, really, you start at 12 o'clock. Come on.
RUSH: Yeah, it's --
CALLER: That's a little early, don't you think?
RUSH: Yeah. And in fact nine a.m. out there on the Left Coast. That's an excellent point.
CALLER: Ooh. I don't think they can manage that. Do you have a minute for me to tell you just a little story about my 23-year-old daughter who is a Rush Baby?
RUSH: Sure. By all means.
CALLER: Well, when she went out from under our insurance and was about to go take a job --
RUSH: Mmm-hmm?
CALLER: -- that did not offer insurance, she wanted to just go without, and of course you don't tell a 23-year-old what to do, but we did make a suggestion. We said, "Why don't you go and do some research to see about the most inexpensive insurance you could get that would just cover your major medical," and she did that and for about $75 a month she's covered for anything major. The rest of it she plans to take care of on her own.
RUSH: No!
CALLER: Yes. She's a Rush Baby. Come on. (laughing)
RUSH: She's going to be hated.
CALLER: I know.
RUSH: She's going to be despised. She's going to be called insensitive. "You mean you are going to pay for it yourself?" She's going to be accused of bragging.
CALLER: Oh, yeah.
RUSH: Being out of touch. I hope she's prepared.
CALLER: Oh, yeah. Well, she doesn't worry about it.
RUSH: Good.
CALLER: I think she takes better care of herself because she knows that if she has to go to the doctor, she's paying the bill.
RUSH: She probably knows...
CALLER: She doesn't want to go to doctor.
RUSH: Right, exactly.
CALLER: She wants to spend her money on other things. So I just thought I'd let you know that all of the talk of people cannot get health care, is wrong.
RUSH: It's a crock.
CALLER: It's just bogus. Totally bogus.
RUSH: You know it and I know it. All of this is nothing but sob stories. The Democrat Party exists to this day by making this country sound like it's a gulag --
CALLER: Oh, yeah.
RUSH: -- run by Republicans. There's no compassion, there's no warmth. Nobody has any heart, and the only people that have anything have it because they've stolen it from the people who really should have it, and sob story after sob story after sob story. Talk about props?
CALLER: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It gets tiring.
RUSH: Very much so. Well, what is your daughter's name, first name?
CALLER: Her name is Rachel.
RUSH: Where does she live?
CALLER: She lives in Indianapolis.
RUSH: Oh. Well, you tell her that we are proud of you and her, and you said something very interesting: She's 23 and you can't tell a 23-year-old what to do.
CALLER: (laughing) Not very much. You can give advice.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: She's almost to that turning point where she's beginning to ask us for advice.
RUSH: A-ha.
CALLER: So we're almost there.
RUSH: So it won't be long before she realizes how smart you really are.
CALLER: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
RUSH: Well, good.
CALLER: She loves you. She listened to you against her will when she was very small. (giggling)
RUSH: A heartwarming story.
CALLER: She loves you now.
RUSH: I'm glad you called. Thank you very much for sharing that with me.
CALLER: Oh, thanks, Rush.
RUSH: Okay. That's Kathy in Canton. Thanks very much for the call. (shuffling papers) I'm looking for something, here. I had a meeting. We're talking education here, right? I had a meeting with Dr. Larry Arnn who is the Grand Pooh-Bah of education at Hillsdale College. Now, we've talked to you about Hillsdale College a lot on this program. They have 1300 students. They do not take a dime of federal money. Student loans, none of it. They want no finger of the government anywhere involved in their education. They focus on the Constitution. Nobody gets out of there with a 4.0. Well, I shouldn't say "nobody," but you can count the number of people who get out of there on a 4.0, probably on two hands. Now, over the course of the next couple weeks we're going to have actual voices of students as part of the commercial message.
After talking to Dr. Arnn, I'm going to go up there and I'm going to sit in on one of his Constitution classes. They go three hours. He was telling us how they approach education at Hillsdale at this meeting, and he said, "Our biggest challenge is to find a way to tell a student they're wrong when they're right at Hillsdale." Ah, got your attention there! He told this story. He's big on Plato and Socrates and he's big on the whole notion that what separates us apart from everybody else is that we can speak, and it is our speaking ability that lends us this notion of reason and thinking, that being able to speak and reason and think are interrelated. And he talks of opening a class on the Constitution.
He told me he called on a student to explain a question that he had posed to her, and it's like a brain twister question. I don't remember what the question was, but she aced it. And he said to me, "It took me nearly ten minutes to make her feel uncertain." It took ten minutes for me to make her lose confidence in her answer. I said, "Well, of course, of course! At Hillsdale nobody's ever right except the professors." He smiled and laughed and said, "No, that's not the point. We push 'em. We push 'em even when they're right. We want them to not quite be sure so they'll keep pushing and keep pushing to the point that they know they're right, not because they've memorized it or have been taught it but because they've arrived at the conclusion themselves.
"They are thinkers and critical thinkers, and the only way you can push critical thinking is to make them think and to challenge them. And sometimes if they're right, we'll tell me 'em they're wrong. It took me ten minutes to shake this woman." It was the toughest challenge, he said, he's ever had with a student. Now, some of you might say, "Boy, this sounds awfully cruel." No! This is not cruel at all. This is education as it was meant to be. You know, they have this monthly digest, Imprimis. It's got a circulation of some 1.8 million. You can get that free just by going to HYPERLINK "http://Rush4Hillsdale.com" \t "_blank" Rush4Hillsdale.com . This is a great, great college. It's in Michigan. It is a tremendous institution. This woman that he was talking about was an Iraq war veteran who had come back to complete her education, and she was advanced educated anyway.
But he's really put together a fine institution there, and Imprimis is something they do offer free -- and they occasionally do Constitution seminars on the Internet. That's what they teach: Constitution, morality. Where did all of this come from? Who inspired the Founding Fathers to put all this together? By the time you graduate from this college, you have no doubt about what an American is. You have no confusion about what America is, how it came to be, why it is, why it's great, and so forth -- and you come out proud, and you come out of there supremely confident in yourself. So just go to Rush4Hillsdale.com. Sign up for Imprimis and tool around the website there. You'll see what I'm talking about.
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RUSH: Here's another thing that Dr. Larry Arnn said to me. They tell the students this all the time: "We will give you the F, but we'll feel terrible about it." (laughing) I'll guarantee you this, there's no graduate that comes out of Hillsdale College that doesn't know instinctively that the Drive-By Media is a propaganda machine. That's the thing that's not tough enough anywhere is thinking. We just ramrod whatever propaganda, facts, Algore movies we want into kids' heads these days, and we teach them to react to things in a knee-jerk way, not to think things through and largely because half the teachers teaching today don't know how to think, either, because they're a product of the same corrupt institution. Anyway, let me get off of my high horse on this.
Here's Jared, 21 years old, Columbia, South Carolina. Great to have you on the program. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. I was thinking this was supposed to be called flattery Friday, so I don't want to give you an ego boost or anything like --
RUSH: Well, I appreciate that, I really do.
CALLER: Well, you know, I actually called in one time when I was ten years old. I've been listening to your show for a very, very long period of time, eleven years. And I can say that, you know, your last segment about, you know, the youth and thinking for themselves is, I wanted to talk to you about health care a little bit and how, you know, it really doesn't matter that much at all, because what's going to happen is in about 15 years, when the Baby Boomer generation, you know, your generation, you know, starts to die, you know, what's left is my generation. And the sad thing is we don't think for ourselves. It's rather horrendous. And, you know, health care is a simple thing --
RUSH: Wait a minute, Jared. Wait just a second. You haven't heard, the Baby Boomers don't plan on dying.
CALLER: Oh, yeah.
RUSH: At least half of them, that's just too unfair.
CALLER: Yeah, you know. I don't know. Immortality effect or something like that?
RUSH: Yeah, yeah.
CALLER: Well, what I'm thinking is that my generation, we're very lazy. You know, we're educated, but what happens is it's forced fed to us, you know, I guarantee you with your -- how many listeners do you have, like 30 million, something like that?
RUSH: Oh, yeah, easy.
CALLER: Well, with a good percentage those listeners, you know, they take what you say, you know, right away, they don't ever judge whatever you say. The same thing goes with, as you say, the Drive-By Media. And so what happens is, I consider myself a mild anomaly, I get all my world news from very liberal sources, including like NPR and USA Today and I read the New York Times every once in a while when I can get it. But, you know, I listen to you every single day as well. And so what happens I try to create this unbiased realm around myself so I can distinguish what's right and what's wrong, and I form my own opinions. When it comes to social issues I'm about as liberal as they come, I'm 21, if I'm not liberal on those things I think I'm stupid but the thing is when it comes to money in terms of government, I'm very anti-big government and as capitalistic as they come. What happens is --
RUSH: Well, you are rare, but actually I think there are probably more people your age that do think for themselves than you realize. I mean the Baby Boomers, I'm one of them but also, you know, the sixties radicals are Baby Boomers. I have nothing in common with that bunch and they're running the country right now. So your generation is still going to have all kinds of different capabilities and people in there with different ideas and abilities. But young people are particularly easy to manipulate because they're idealistic. All you have to do is appeal to that, "Oh, don't you think everybody ought to have health care coverage?" And before you understand the economics, of course, everybody should, who could be against that? And you own 'em. But they're also very cynical. And they don't vote quite as often as everybody thinks, which is a great thing for our country.
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RUSH: I want to correct just one thing that Jared said mere moments ago. This audience -- I don't know that he meant to say this -- but this audience is not a bunch of mind-numbed robots. You people don't believe it just because I say it. This audience is among the most thinking media audiences in the country, of that I have no doubt.
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RUSH: We have Hillary from Chicago. Welcome, Hillary. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?
RUSH: Very well.
CALLER: Hi. I'm 17, I'm from Chicago. And, you know, I take a lot of AP classes at my school.
RUSH: What's an AP class?
CALLER: It's like a college class at high school.
RUSH: Okay, advanced placement?
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, okay.
CALLER: And there's just been a lot of, you know, Marxist stuff going on, and actually yesterday my AP psychology teacher just told blatantly the whole class after an intelligence test that competition stifles creativity.
RUSH: What?
CALLER: Yeah, I know, I'm not kidding you.
RUSH: You had an advanced placement teacher -- we were just talking about this yesterday.
CALLER: Yeah, I know. That's why -- you know, it's teacher's institute day so I was like, "Call in!"
RUSH: Competition stifles creativity?
CALLER: Yeah, word-for-word, that's what she said.
RUSH: How old is this teacher?
CALLER: She's like 30.
RUSH: Oh. Jeez. Is she attractive or not?
CALLER: It's really hard to get good grades in these classes 'cause, you know --
RUSH: Hillary?
CALLER: -- you're thinking one way and they're like, you know, thinking a completely different direction.
RUSH: I don't know how you put up with this. Well, you have no choice. That is not just wrong, that is intellectually vacant. That is an utter denial of reality. Has she never watched a football game? Has she never watched any kind of athletic endeavor? It's all about competition and who can be more creative and full of surprises. Is this woman attractive or not?
CALLER: Yeah, well, she wears a lot of very expensive clothes. I mean she's very into herself.
RUSH: Who's she competing with? Hillary, I want you to do me a favor. How often do you see this teacher?
CALLER: Well, I'm going to see her on Monday.
RUSH: Monday. All right.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: I want you to do something.
CALLER: Yeah?
RUSH: (laughing) You ready?
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: You just said she wears all these nice clothes. Does she do that every day?
CALLER: Well, yes. You know, I mean, she also has an iPod and a nice car, you know, like all my other teachers.
RUSH: I want you to just ask her who is she competing with. "Why does it matter that you have these nice clothes, who are you trying to be better dressed than?"
CALLER: (laughing) Well, you know, it's not just her. I mean I actually had an AP environmental class, and, you know, that's already, you know --
RUSH: You don't need to tell me what's going on in there. I already know.
CALLER: Yeah, well, I actually dropped out of it 'cause it was getting too much. And right before I dropped out of it, they made us watch this one video, and I forget which country it was, but they were talking about how they used to be communists and once they went to the free market system, the environment started dying and all the animals were --
RUSH: See, that's just an abject lie. The dirtiest, most filthy places on the planet are the ones that are the most undeveloped, that have the least amount of capitalism, the least amount of modern technology, that is patently absurd. So you're being indoctrinated, Hillary.
CALLER: I am being indoctrinated.
RUSH: You're not even being taught. Where do you want to go to college?
CALLER: Oh, I can't tell you that because I'm going to be going there.
RUSH: Why? What harm would that do if I knew?
CALLER: Oh, because I'm going into a very creative field.
RUSH: So? Are you afraid that if it's on this radio program, that they know where you're going that you might have your admission canceled or something?
CALLER: My mom is doing the "don't say it" sign.
RUSH: Mom, "don't say it" sign.
CALLER: (laughing.)
RUSH: What is the "don't say it" sign, the throat slit?
CALLER: No, not the throat slit. She's laughing at you now.
RUSH: I'm used to that.
CALLER: Yeah. No, no --
RUSH: Both at and with.
CALLER: -- I love you and I listen to you all the time.
RUSH: Well, now I'm really intrigued. You're gonna go to some creative college and you won't tell me where because somehow it's going to jinx it?
CALLER: Yeah, it might jinx it.
RUSH: Oh. So you haven't been accepted there, is that it?
CALLER: Yeah, I haven't been accepted yet.
RUSH: Oh, okay. I got it. So you're afraid, your mom's afraid if the school is listening and they hear that you want to go there, and I support it, that they won't let you in?
CALLER: Maybe.
RUSH: Probably. No maybe about it.
CALLER: Tragically.
RUSH: No maybe about it.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Okay. Well, I'm really curious.
CALLER: Yeah. Well, did I tell you there's a communist at my school?
RUSH: Just one?
CALLER: Yeah, out and out, he calls everyone comrades.
RUSH: Teacher or student?
CALLER: Student, spreading the word on how wonderful it is.
RUSH: Oh, well that's nothing. That's nothing. Start counting the communists on the faculty out there, Hillary, and that will give you the real lay of the land.
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I had to take care of some "global warming." :-)
Is that old wind bag still on the air
I, for one, am glad that Rush realizes it, because he's done a lot of railing vs. the GOP these past 6 months or so.
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