{"id":13259,"date":"2013-02-11T17:54:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:54:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-11T17:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:54:41","slug":"dr_carson_speaks_truth_to_power_liberal_statists_question_whether_it_s_appropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/11\/dr_carson_speaks_truth_to_power_liberal_statists_question_whether_it_s_appropriate\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Carson Speaks Truth to Power; Liberal Statists Question Whether It\u2019s Appropriate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/46024\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So yesterday on CNN, Candy Crowley asked the panel on her program if the comments of Dr. Benjamin Carson at the National Prayer Breakfast were inappropriate.  Actually, she asked if his comments were appropriate.  Now, before we play for you the Candy Crowley sound bite from CNN yesterday, I want to go back. We\u2019ve got two sound bites from Dr. Benjamin Carson. He\u2019s the Johns Hopkins University hospital pediatric neurosurgery director. He\u2019s a great guy. Great, great family story, from Detroit.  Here are the two excerpts that we aired last week from his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast with Obama sitting right there.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PFb6NU1giRA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CARSON:  Now, some people say, they say, &#8220;Well, that\u2019s not fair because it doesn\u2019t hurt the guy who made $10 billion as much as the guy who made ten.&#8221; Where does it say you have to hurt the guy?  He just put a billion dollars in the pot!<\/p>\n<p>AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n<p>CARSON: You know, we don\u2019t need to hurt him.  It\u2019s that kind of thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n<p>CARSON: It\u2019s that kind of thinking that has resulted in 602 banks in the Cayman Islands.  That money needs to be back here, building our infrastructure and creating jobs.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Here\u2019s Dr. Carson with his solution to the health care crisis in this country.<\/p>\n<p>CARSON:  Here\u2019s my solution: When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account to which money can be contributed &#8212; pretax &#8212; from the time you\u2019re born \u2019til the time you die.  When you die, you can pass it on to your family members, so that when you\u2019re 85 years old and you got six diseases, you\u2019re not trying to spend up everything. You\u2019re happy to pass it on and there\u2019s nobody talking about &#8216;death panels.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>AUDIENCE: (laughter and applause)<\/p>\n<p>CARSON: Number one.  And also, for the people who were indigent who don\u2019t have any money, we can make contributions to their HSA each month because we already have this huge pot of money. Instead of sending it to some bureaucracy, let\u2019s put it in their HSAs.  Now they have some control over their own health care.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_72681\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/DrCarsonCNNCrowleyPIX.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Uh-oh.  Uh-oh.  Not what Obama wants to hear.  Now patients, now people can have control over their own health care.  He wants that control. He wants the government to have that control. He wants the death panels to have that control.  Now, these sound bites were just part of a long speech Mr. Carson.  It really resonated. It was terrific. It was so rational and so simple, and it was so needed.  It\u2019s such a great contrast to what we\u2019re getting from the Republican Party, who are wringing their hands, being all introspective and changing their branding and changing their marketing.<\/p>\n<p>And all that\u2019s required is somebody to articulate the ideas, particularly since Obama\u2019s afraid to use his own ideas.  Ideas can triumph.  Dr. Carson here proved it.  So to show you what a threat this man is and was at the prayer breakfast on State of the Union on Sunday, Candy Crowley\u2019s show, she interviewed Jan Schakowsky, congresswoman from Illinois, talking about Dr. Carson, and they had this exchange.<\/p>\n<p>CROWLEY:  Did you find anything offensive with &#8212; certainly he\u2019s &#8212; it\u2019s America, he\u2019s entitled to his opinion.  A lot of the talk was about was this the right place to do it, and there was lots of applause from Republicans who said, &#8220;Finally somebody stood up and said it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/119896\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SCHAKOWSKY:  It\u2019s really, um, not really an appropriate place to make this kind of political speech and to invoke God as his support for that kind of point of view. But I think most of all, the kind of message that he was giving shows a real empathy gap of where the American people are right now and I think it\u2019s reflective of where many of the Republicans and Tea Parties are right now that we need to have an economy that works for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  You can\u2019t have a bigger disconnect than this.  Candy Crowley first, &#8220;Well, kind of offensive, certainly he\u2019s entitled to his opinion. I mean, he is an American and all, but was this the right place, prayer breakfast, president sitting there, was this the right place?&#8221;  You mean, there happen to be places where telling the truth about things just isn\u2019t permitted, not appropriate?  And then of course Schakowsky (doing impression), &#8220;Oh, of course it\u2019s not appropriate. No way, invoke God at a prayer breakfast for the kind of point of view he has?  Of course that\u2019s not appropriate.  But look at the disconnect here, Candy.  Most Americans are not thinking of doing things for themselves.  Most Americans want the government to do it for \u2019em. And for this guy to show up and talk about taking care of yourself and controlling your own health, that\u2019s not where the American people are.  What a big disconnect, just shows you how screwed up the Tea Party is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They were questioning whether or not this man had the right or was appropriate.  Statists, folks, statists.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Have you noticed all the white Republican racists who are pretending that they liked Dr. Benjamin Carson?  You notice that, Snerdley?  Well, that\u2019s how the left would look at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: So yesterday on CNN, Candy Crowley asked the panel on her program if the comments of Dr. Benjamin Carson at the National Prayer Breakfast were inappropriate. Actually, she asked if his comments were appropriate. Now, before we play for you the Candy Crowley sound bite from CNN yesterday, I want to go back. 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