RUSH: Pittsburgh. Diane. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. It's a pleasure to speak with you.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: My husband is a member of the United Mine Workers, and I have positive proof that the unions will be the first to go to the national health care if it comes to be.RUSH: Yes. I don't have any doubt, and one of the reasons why is some of the union health care plans are facing insolvency, like much of businesses that get involved with unions....

RUSH: Robert Gibbs. Here's the sound bite, daily press briefing, said this about the town halls.GIBBS: While I appreciate that you all have decided that every town hall meeting ends in pushing, shoving, uhh, and yelling, uhhh, I -- I -- I don't think many of -- well, I -- I don't know how many town halls you all have been to. They're not completely indicative of what's going on in America.RUSH: How disconnected can you be out there, Gibbsy? I mean, for crying out loud, have you seen the polling...

RUSH: Last night on CNN's Larry King Alive, fill-in host Wolf Blitzer during a discussion on Obama's health care plan.BLITZER: So much of the medical costs would go away if people just listened, if they exercised, they ate properly, they didn't smoke, the things that everyone knows they have to do but people still do it. Ahhh, what can the country do to force people to just straighten out their lives because billions and billions of dollars would be saved.RUSH: Do these statists understand? Do...

RUSH: Tupelo, Mississippi, this is Guy. You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Man, I'll tell you what. This is the greatest honor.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I understand that.CALLER: Well, I've been listening to you since '88, and first-time caller so a little nervous, but, anyway --RUSH: I understand that, too. You know, I've been where you are. I have been on hold calling a talk show and you never know when the guy that the screener is going to say, "Okay,...

RUSH: Joe in Spring Valley, New York... Oh! Joe, hang on just a second. I need to make a correction. I have been told that the rabbis in the New Jersey body parts scam were both from New Jersey and from New York and that many of them were Republican. But when you want to bribe officials in New Jersey, you have no choice but than to bribe Democrats. So the rabbis bribed officials they found in New Jersey, and when you go finding officials in New Jersey you're going to find Democrats. All right....

RUSH: Hillary's over there in Africa, still over there. I wonder if she's going to do something about the brother that lives in the hut. Tina Brown on her website, The Daily Beast, has a sympathetic piece about Hillary today. We gotta try to understand it. She's been on the road for a week now or two weeks or whatever. She's away from home. She feels fat. (laughing) Tina Brown says, "She feels fat." Now, why would one woman write that about another woman, particularly Hillary? I haven't seen...

RUSH: Vince in Columbus, Ohio. Hello, sir. You're on the EIB Network.CALLER: Rush, I just wanted to send a direct message to all the goons in the White House that they can put Vince Polerno and Columbus Ohio on the Snitch List because I'm sick and tired of this bully pulpit. You wouldn't believe what we saw out there in Columbus, the liberal Astroturf with their premade signs from Organizing for America were out there trying to shout us down. But we came out there, we had our signs, we put them...

RUSH: Okay, back to the phones to Austin, Texas, next. Gerald, hello, sir. Thanks for your patience. I'm glad you waited. Hi.CALLER: Hi. How you doing, Rush?RUSH: Very well, sir. Thank you.CALLER: Thanks for taking my call.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: You are a master of critical thinking.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that.CALLER: I wanted to talk about the fact that right now the greatest chance of a compromise bill in the Senate does appear to be in the Senate Finance committee,...

RUSH: Here is a portion of a WABC TV 7 in New York, Eyeball News, the reporter, Dave Evans, was out there at New Jersey representative Steve Rothman's town hall meeting, and you'll hear a guy in here. His name is Steve Rubinsky. He's an audience member.EVANS: There was a feeling of exasperation at all the rhetoric, especially how some conservatives have used Nazi symbolism in blasting Obama's plan.RUBINSKY: I am appalled, as being a Jew, that the N-word is racially inflammatory, but Rush Limbo...

RUSH: I want to grab a phone call here first. It is Emily in Guntersville, Alabama. Hi, Emily. Great to have you here.CALLER: Thank you so much. How are you today?RUSH: Very well. Thanks.CALLER: I have one good question for you.RUSH: Yeah. I can answer it I'm sure.CALLER: It's about health care. Why are we not hearing the big insurance companies like Blue Cross and Blue Shield? Why aren't they running ads and screaming and yelling about this?RUSH: I am so glad you asked that question...

RUSH: These are death panels, by the way. In Levin's book, Liberty and Tyranny, let me quote: "Barbara Wagner was diagnosed with a recurrence of lung cancer. Her doctors recommended a specific drug to help prolong and improve the quality of her life. "However, Barbara is a resident of Oregon and therefore, part of the state-run Oregon Health Plan. The state refused Barbara Wagner's request for the drug since it doesn't cover drugs that are meant to prolong the life of individuals with advanced...

RUSH: As I've been watching this, I've been thinking, "How do we solve this? What's the objective?" Health care for everybody at lower cost, right? No, that's the real objective. We'd like everybody to have access to health care. We certainly want to bring the costs down, do we not? That's what we want to do. I have a plan. I have a plan to give everybody health care and slash costs, and I don't need a thousand pages of rationing. I don't need death panels. Oh! Sarah Palin has rocked 'em...

RUSH: I have figured out what's going on. I know why Obama is not specifying a plan. I know why he is not talking specifics about the House plan. I've analyzed this. It's all based on: Obama doesn't care about anybody but himself. He doesn't care about his party. He doesn't care about the country. He cares about himself and monuments to himself. So I'm watching him out there shoot from the hip. He's spouting slogans, talking points. He's out of touch. He's detached from the reality on this because...

Rush's Morning Update: An EmbarrassmentAugust 14, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Indiana Representative Baron Hill is a "moderate" Democrat. This week, Mr. Moderate Baron Hill(Democrat-Indiana) expressed his views on the citizens attending town meetingswho have frustrated his party's plans to nationalizehealth care. Moderate Baron told the Louisville Courier-Journal: "I don't mind people disagreeing with you, but just...

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