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RUSH: How many of you have heard of Marshall McLuhan, ‘The medium is the message\u2019? Do you realize how many people misunderstand what ‘the medium is the message\u2019 is? A lot of people do, and it\u2019s classic. Let\u2019s look at Obama\u2019s five appearances on the Sunday shows. Now, I have here the Washington Post, Howard Kurtz: ‘Obama\u2019s TV Blitz: On The Air, but Off His Game?\u2019 Sunday was an effort to have Obama\u2019s message break through, but Bob Schieffer felt like he was at Dunkin\u2019 Donuts. Bob Schieffer said, (paraphrasing) ‘I don\u2019t like the fact he\u2019s on four other shows. Like you go into Dunkin\u2019 Donuts, you get a number, you stand in line, you get an order, they call your number when your order is ready or whatever. I don\u2019t like it.\u2019 Kurtz said he didn\u2019t break out. He wasn\u2019t trying to break out. <\/p>\n

The definition of the medium is the message — and Marshall McLuhan thought this up in the sixties, used to be taught in journalism, probably still is, history and principles of journalism. A lot of people don\u2019t know what it means, medium is the message. ‘Oh, yeah, TV is the medium, that\u2019s where you gotta get your message.\u2019 No. That\u2019s not what it means. He made TV the message. Not what he said on TV. He made the fact that he\u2019s on TV the message. Marshall McLuhan\u2019s point was that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, which creates a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived. It\u2019s what does television do to Obama, not does what he said on TV matter to him. So it\u2019s not what Obama said all weekend, that doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s the medium he was on, television. That\u2019s why he didn\u2019t go on Fox. And he\u2019s all over television all the time. It\u2019s Big Brother, it\u2019s Orwellian, Obama wants for you to associate television with him. We all love television. We can\u2019t get enough of it. What he says is secondary. So what he said about Afghanistan, it\u2019s secondary. It\u2019s not important.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me try to be a little bit more clear or specific in my analysis here of the medium is the message and I think how people are making a mistake by judging Obama by virtue of policy and what he says because he doesn\u2019t really have one, it\u2019s a broken record, there is no Obama plan for health care, and that\u2019s the point. This media blitz is not just all five Sunday shows, Letterman tonight and all the stuff that happened today and all last week and ad infinitum. The message is that Obama Obamacare is good. He\u2019s not trying to convince anybody with his actual policy. There isn\u2019t any Obama policy. Marshall McLuhan\u2019s point was ‘that media itself, not the content it carries, should be the focus of study. He said that a medium affects the society in which it plays a role not only by the content delivered over the medium, but also by the characteristics of the medium itself.\u2019<\/p>\n

So Obama, whenever he\u2019s on TV, it\u2019s good, Obama good, Big Brother, Orwellian good, Obama good, talking health care, good. The specifics, ‘Ah, they\u2019re not really all that big a deal,\u2019 doesn\u2019t change \u2019em does he? He\u2019s not responding to any criticism per se, and when he does respond to it he just lies. ‘You are going to be able to keep your doctor, you are going to be able to keep your insurance.\u2019 No, you\u2019re not. No point in doing government-run health care if that\u2019s the plan. Let people keep their doctors and so forth. Look at this, 42% — this is Rasmussen — 42% of the uninsured don\u2019t want Obama\u2019s plan. But he doesn\u2019t have a plan! And I\u2019m not splitting hairs here. ‘Among the uninsured, 58% favor Obama\u2019s health care plan. Forty-two percent don\u2019t want it. I mean that\u2019s a striking number, even 42% of the uninsured don\u2019t want his plan, and he doesn\u2019t have a plan. It\u2019s not all that complicated what he\u2019s doing. Now, the question is, is it going to work? Well, the Public Policy Polling people out of North Carolina have another post today just now, I saw it, that Democrats are continuing to lose independents across the board on policy after policy after policy. So something\u2019s gotta give at some point. But they still seem to be locked onto this notion that all we gotta do is put Obama out there and magic happens, doesn\u2019t matter what he says, it just matters where he is and how often. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Martin in Staten Island, great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. I\u2019d like to give my perspective on the whole health care issue as someone that has just recently gone through it all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I got sick with pneumonia earlier in February of this year and was hospitalized for three months.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: At the time I had no medical coverage. I have two jobs, but the medical coverage for one job was too expensive and the other one doesn\u2019t offer it, so I had to go to the emergency room. I was admitted, the Medicaid kicked in, paid for my hospital stay, covered my family. And for the president to say that there are people dying in the streets and that there are people that are being turned away is simply not true. I\u2019m someone who has worked his whole life, came into a situation where I was basically between life and death for a week on the cardiac care unit, I lost half of my lung due to the illness. I\u2019m looking as a matter of fact to go back to work next week from the beginning of this year. The situation is that there are people that have situations like myself that fall into the gaps in the system, but the system does have a response to that now, and for him to say that everything needs to be overhauled is ridiculous. What really needs to be overhauled in what I\u2019ve dealt with so far in New York is the human services commissions. I am now facing eviction because I haven\u2019t been able to make my rent payments during the time I was out sick, and because my wife was working part time actually penalized us. And I don\u2019t know what to do, and it\u2019s so frustrating to hear the president say that, you know, what he needs to do is change everything because it doesn\u2019t work, and I\u2019m living proof that it does work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Michelle Obama, by the way, on Friday had this most incredible story in which she said that her daughter was diagnosed with possible meningitis and she said her first thought was, ‘Oh, thank God we have insurance. Thank God we got hold of a pediatrician who got us into the emergency room and we were covered.\u2019 And I\u2019m thinking you go to emergency room, you\u2019re covered, you don\u2019t need insurance. By law the emergency rooms treat people that show up. I also don\u2019t believe that the first thought she had when she was told that her daughter might have meningitis was, ‘Oh, thank God we\u2019ve got insurance.\u2019 I doubt that insurance entered her mind in any way, shape, manner, or form. The health of her daughter was the overriding concern and deal with whatever it all costs later on. I\u2019ve got a story somewhere, I can\u2019t find it, I thought I printed it out, I must not have. This story that 45,000 people die because of no health insurance. Washington Times did a story on this I think it was late last week and it\u2019s just BS. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s like there were three million homeless and there never were. It\u2019s all BS, they just make up these numbers — 45,000 people die because they don\u2019t have health insurance. People tell stories like yours all the time. We never hear the Obamas talking about what a great health care system we have. We never hear them credit anything about this country. We never hear them credit anything about the private sector. They just rip it to shreds. They never say one good thing about our health care system, not one. It\u2019s annoying as hell, frankly.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Every time something happens out there, every time anything happens out there that opposes Obama, he always says, (imitating Obama) ‘Ah, that\u2019s nothing, I\u2019m not paying any attention to it, that doesn\u2019t represent America, no, there\u2019s nothing to see there, I didn\u2019t hear Reverend Wright for 20 years, I never heard any of that, I\u2019m going to throw him under the bus nevertheless like my typical white grandmother, but I didn\u2019t hear what he said. The 9\/12 rally there on the 12th of September, I didn\u2019t even know there was a rally, I didn\u2019t even know what it was about, not a big deal, not on my radar, George. ACORN defunded? I didn\u2019t even know about ACORN. I\u2019m not paying attention to that. I got really important things to do here.\u2019 And when he does it, tips off the State-Controlled Media, that\u2019s how they deal with it, ‘Ah, it\u2019s no big deal, that\u2019s just chump change, we don\u2019t have time to report on these insignificant news items out there. We gotta cover the big stuff.\u2019 Every time. <\/p>\n

‘Junk Science Expert Sounds Alarm on Insurance Study.\u2019 This is from last week in the Washington Times. ‘Steve Milloy\u2019s ‘junk science\u2019 detector started running high when he got hold of a new study in the American Journal of Public Health claiming nearly 45,000 Americans die from a lack of health insurance. According to the study, titled ‘Health Insurance and Mortality in US Adults,\u2019 working-age Americans without insurance have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts. It also includes a chart showing how many people have died state by state, supposedly because of lack of insurance. For example, researchers say 4,675 Texas have died because they didn\u2019t have insurance during their study period.<\/p>\n

‘Mr. Milloy, founder and publisher of Junkscience.com and co-founder and portfolio manger for the Free Enterprise Fund, said the study was created to boost President Obama\u2019s health care agenda. Mr. Milloy reminded that Mr. Obama recently told Congress people would die if they didn\u2019t have insurance. ‘Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing,\u2019 Mr. Obama said in his Sept. 9 address. ‘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 most. And more will die as a result. We know these things to be true.” It kind of chokes you up when you hear this, right? We hold these truths to be self-evident. Now, Milloy says the study is going to ‘give Mr. Obama more specific numbers to use in order to ramp up public support for his plan. ‘They are trying to create these factoids that they can beat opponents over the head with,\u2019 Mr. Milloy said.\u2019<\/p>\n

So how did they come up with a number? ‘They interviewed 9,000 people between 1988 and 1994 and asked, ‘Do you have health insurance?\u2019 and if you die at some point in the future, they assume your death was caused by the fact you didn\u2019t have insurance during that time you were interviewed.\u2019 It\u2019s like me saying everybody who died in automobile accidents in 2007 had eaten carrots within six months prior to the accident. It\u2019s the same thing. So they go out and they talk to these people, ‘Do you have health insurance?\u2019 And then if those people die, they take the ones that don\u2019t, and if they die it\u2019s \u2019cause they didn\u2019t have insurance. They just automatically assign it to them. ‘John C. Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, agreed that the study was flawed. ‘The subjects were interviewed only once and the study tries to link their insurance status at that time to mortality a decade later. Yet over the period, the authors have no idea whether subjects were insured or uninsured, what kind of medical care they received, or even cause of death,\u2019 he said in a statement.\u2019<\/p>\n

It literally is the old carrot joke. Everybody that was born, able to see, and went blind at some point in their lives had eaten carrots prior to losing their sight. You could use any vegetable in there. ‘NCPA noted that a ‘more careful study\u2019 completed by the Congressional Budget Office found that low-income people without insurance had a 3 percent higher chance of death, but found no difference among higher income earners. One of the study\u2019s co-authors, Dr. David Himmelstein, is a strong proponent of a single-payer system. In addition to working as associate professor of medicine at Harvard University, Dr. Himmelstein is also founder and spokesman for Physicians for a National Health Program.\u2019 This is no different than Obama using Valerie Jarrett\u2019s office with Buffy Wicks, whatever her name is, the vampire slayer of Walmart, to go out there and gender up propaganda from the White House with NEA grantees. So it\u2019s a bogus study. Forty-five thousand people die because they had no health insurance, and it cannot be established but they just throw the number out. They just throw it out. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the medium is the message, not the fact. If it\u2019s said on television, people believe it, pure and simple. And if Obama says it on TV, even better from their standpoint. (doing Obama impression) ‘Forty-five thousand people died because they had no health insurance, and we know what happens if you don\u2019t have health insurance, you\u2019re going to die.\u2019 Oh, no, we can\u2019t do that! Gotta get \u2019em insured. So you can run into otherwise smart people — there\u2019s so many stupid intelligent people out there, Obama voters — who really believe all this is about is simply giving coverage to the whatever millions that don\u2019t have it. That\u2019s all they think it is. It\u2019s just an act of compassion. They\u2019re just clueless about what\u2019s really going on.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, this whole medium is the message thing, you can say the same thing about Newsweek. I mean they had a cover out there on ‘Is your child racist?\u2019 There\u2019s no way to substantiate that a four-month-old baby is a racist. Yet it\u2019s there. Because Newsweek said it, it\u2019s there. And now killing granny, they\u2019re going to come along and the next cover is, ‘The Case for Killing Granny.\u2019 Newsweek. ‘We\u2019re all socialist now,\u2019 because it\u2019s in Newsweek. The specifics of the article, nah, the cover is all they care about, whether you read the article, see the ads, is irrelevant to them as is proven by the circulation. What you have to know is whenever they come up with statistics or whatever, a study, they lie.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, I touched on this next story here prior to the conclusion of the previous hour, the Newsweek cover last week was, ‘Is Your Baby Racist?\u2019 This week, ‘The Case for Killing Granny.\u2019 Now, Newsweek\u2019s in a full-court press here to save Obamacare and to change American thinking to boot. It\u2019s about a lot more than Newsweek. It\u2019s a systematic altering of the way we think and the way we\u2019ve been brought up. Baby racists? They actually want to prove to me that a four-month-old white baby is racist on the basis of surveys of doctors and so forth and psychiatrists? And now the case for killing granny. I mean this is scary, this is sick stuff. I know they\u2019ve got low circulation, but the cover is on every newsstand in every grocery store in this country, and that\u2019s their only real audience with this rag anymore. It\u2019s not the elites. It\u2019s just other journalists who read the stuff. But it\u2019s not for consumption, at least the contents of the magazine is not for the consumption of the American people. It\u2019s the cover and it\u2019s the cover on sale at magazine racks and at grocery stores and so forth, ‘The Case for Killing Granny.\u2019 ‘Is Your Baby Racist?\u2019 ‘We\u2019re All Socialists Now.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Get the headline, get the graphic into the minds of America, it is insidious. ‘This week\u2019s Newsweek cover exceeds the sheer breathtaking ugliness of last week\u2019s cover: ‘The Case for Killing Granny.\u2019 Alongside a photo of an electrical plug. The cover story is penned by Evan Thomas, (Andover, Harvard, Virginia Law), currently teaching at Princeton, alongside Peter Singer, who believes newborn infants can be killed because they lack ‘rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness\u2019 and thus don\u2019t qualify for personhood.\u2019 I\u2019m reading here, by the way, from Cliff Thier at AmericanThinker.com. ‘There is also an opinion piece declaring that America\u2019s ‘character\u2019 is less than the ‘character\u2019 of those countries that have government-provided (‘universal\u2019) health care. It\u2019s by Washington Post columnist T.R. Reid (classics, Princeton, who coincidentally is the author of a new book pushing for ‘fairer\u2019 health care). A third ‘thumb-sucker\u2019 piece titled ‘I Was a Teenage Death Panelist\u2019 (yuk, yuk) argues that we all need to be ‘more comfortable\u2019 with death. It also attacks ‘right-wing opponents\u2019 of Obamacare for the ‘lie\u2019 that Obamacare will include ‘death panels.\u2019 The author Jon Meacham, Newsweek\u2019s editor (summa cum laude, English, University of the South), doesn\u2019t explain why that is a ‘lie,\u2019 and is content to only say that the idea of death panels arose from the ‘sensible and humane\u2019 idea that families should discuss end-of-life options.<\/p>\n

‘The central idea behind each of these three pieces is that we spend too much money on people during their last six months of life. We all should be more willing to die, say these writers. And, we should all be more willing to ‘let\u2019 other people die (by withholding medical treatment, water, food, air, etc.) Newsweek seeks to make us more comfortable with the idea of killing our parents and grandparents. The Obamacare deal they want us buy is that only if more old people die, will there be better medical treatment for everyone else. That is, you and me.\u2019 That\u2019s Newsweek. But you don\u2019t have to read the contents. ‘The Case for Killing Granny.\u2019 Now, never mind the fact that Obama is out there, (imitating Obama) ‘I\u2019m never going to pull the plug on grandma, I don\u2019t know where that came from, everybody is lying about that.\u2019 Here\u2019s Newsweek making the case. Again, it\u2019s all within the rubric of the medium is the message. So you got Obama all over television, we\u2019re all socialists now — is your baby racist? — and the case for killing granny, all to coincide with the coming to power of Barack Obama. Scary, sick, insidious stuff. As I say, this is not only about changing the way we think, this is about changing our culture, changing the way we\u2019ve been brought up. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Peter in Rochester, New York. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s great to talk to you again. You\u2019re not getting paid enough.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That goes for Snerdley, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll take that up with myself since I\u2019m in charge of that. Good point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, I\u2019m a physician up here in Rochester. By common sense, can you imagine the liability risk that a hospital would take by turning down or lowering the triage point for a child with suspected meningitis in an emergency room because they have no insurance? It doesn\u2019t happen. That would be asking and begging for a lawsuit from —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re referring back to Michelle Obama last Friday saying, ‘Oh, my God, my daughter might have meningitis, oh, thank God I\u2019ve got insurance!\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And we know everybody that goes to the emergency room gets treated, in some cases 2,000 times.<\/p>\n

CALLER: In fact, they\u2019re triaged and it doesn\u2019t — now, they\u2019ll try to ask for insurance but if somebody comes in with 106 fever, a stiff neck and a headache, and the insurance, they\u2019ll take care of that later, that person is rushed into care right away.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep, yep, yep.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, the other thing I wanted to mention is that when you talk statistics, you say that that side lies when they bring up statistics. There are some true statistics out there. People ought to know that the total pie of health care spending, only 2% is so-called uncompensated care. It\u2019s 2% of all health care spending.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, wait a minute, what do you mean, uncompensated? You mean the hospital or the doctor is not paid?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The hospital has to basically eat it and those people don\u2019t have Medicare or Medicaid —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean it\u2019s only 2%?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whose number is that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m not sure, but it\u2019s out there. It\u2019s out there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you trust it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yes. Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it would be great if it\u2019s true. <\/p>\n

CALLER: It is true. It\u2019s 2%. And the people with uncompensated care, Kaiser in California did a poll. Two-thirds of the people who have no insurance are happy with their 2,000 visits to the emergency room. And, as you\u2019ve said, I think 40% don\u2019t want Obama to change anything, and those people represent the safety net. So we got a damn good safety net.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you don\u2019t have to convince me. I think it\u2019s the best health care system in the world. We never hear anything good about it from the leaders of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you know something else, Rush, Ezekiel Emanuel, a doctor who\u2019s in close touch with the administration —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hell, he\u2019s in charge of their health care plan. It\u2019s Rahm Emanuel, the ballerina\u2019s, brother.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. This guy knows the statistics. These people are lying through their teeth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. That\u2019s my point. When the left comes out with three million homeless or whatever, they\u2019re lying through their teeth to advance their agenda, to create an emotional reaction of support for what they\u2019re trying to do. They can\u2019t be honest about anything and succeed. Dirty little secret. You know, to show you how ridiculous it is, can any of you, in your sixties and seventies, any of you in your fifties, any of you in your twenties, thirties, or forties, can you name for me one major government program that, A, has cost less than they said, B, has resulted in a surplus of savings and has not run up the national debt or the annual deficit? Can you name one? Has Social Security been cheap? Have they saved money doing Social Security? Or has the deficit risen? Medicare, ditto. Medicaid, ditto. War on poverty, ditto. Great Society. Can any of you name a major government program that saved anybody, particularly the US taxpayer, any money? Can you name a government program that costs less than what they said it was going to cost? You can\u2019t. <\/p>\n

In fact, the government is so inefficient we all make jokes about it. And yet why is it that when Obama comes around and says his health care plan is revenue neutral and will not add to the deficit and we\u2019re going to have savings and we\u2019re gonna get a $500 billion whatever it is from Medicare fraud, why does anybody believe it? Only because they want to; only because for some reason faith in government for way too many millions of Americans is unshakable. But there\u2019s no evidence. I mean the idea that they can produce any statistic whatsoever that\u2019s going to show that this many million more will get health care coverage. Yeah, we\u2019re going to insure 47 million more people and it\u2019s not going to cost us anything. And we\u2019re not going to hire any new doctors but everybody\u2019s coverage and treatment is going to get better, and it\u2019s going to get cheaper, and we\u2019re going to reduce the deficit. The only way we can reduce the deficit is to reform health care. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s not a syllable of truth in anything they said. And there hasn\u2019t been, you can\u2019t say any of that about any other government program, so why does anybody believe it? ‘It\u2019s compassion, Mr. Limbaugh, it\u2019s compassion. People understand the government is trying to help people. It\u2019s because people realize they can\u2019t do a thing for themselves, the government is gonna help so people want this to succeed, Mr. Limbaugh.\u2019 That\u2019s the voice of the New Castrati, by the way. And that must be the answer. They want it to work, they want it to be. But there\u2019s no logical, sane reason to believe anything that Obama or anybody says about this health care plan. The only way to reduce the deficit is to reform health care? (laughing) Yeah, the only way to reduce the deficit is to expand Social Security. It\u2019s nonsense! Practical commonsense nonsense. <\/p>\n

David in Lafayette, Louisiana, welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush it\u2019s truly, truly an honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m just curious, why the heck won\u2019t the mainstream media report on the stories you, Hannity, Walter, talk about. Why do they wait two, three weeks when they\u2019re so quick to criticize stuff that you say?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you asking why they don\u2019t listen?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean they have people over there that get paid, all they gotta do is listen to you, listen to Hannity, listen to you all, and you all are reporting stuff —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no. Again the wrong context. Of course if they listened, they would hear the truth, and then they wouldn\u2019t be able to report what they report, which is why they don\u2019t listen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They have Media Matters. They have their blogs to report out of context what is said here. See, I\u2019ve often found this amazing. What is so hard, you know, we\u2019re not on a super-secret frequency. You don\u2019t need a special decoder ring and a special radio to listen to this program. It\u2019s the most-listened to radio program in America. All you need to do is grab a radio or get to the website and turn it on. And yet never am I quoted by what I actually said on the radio. It\u2019s always, ‘And according to Media Matters for America,\u2019 or ‘according to the Daily Kos,\u2019 or ‘according to this or that,\u2019 and the only explanation of this, this is purposeful. We\u2019re the enemy. We have to be discredited and destroyed. The left can\u2019t engage in open debate. The left can\u2019t be honest about what they believe. They can\u2019t be honest about what we believe. They can only discredit our character, impugn our character, credibility, that\u2019s the only chance they have. They\u2019ve got quite a large army and arsenal of people that are engaging in it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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