Rush Limbaugh: The “Mob” Will Not Be Silenced on ObamaCare
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 9, 2009
We are now the “mob.”
Any American who questions the sanity and/or details of this socialized health care bill, the most expensive piece of doomed-to-fail legislation ever considered by our nation, is considered by members of our government anti-American and part of a vicious “mob.” Protesting or disagreeing with our government is only allowed if it aligns with the president’s agenda.
Even Richard M. Nixon wasn’t so foolish and arrogant.
Goodbye, First Amendment.
This Rush Limbaugh transcript portion was from his August 5, 2009 radio show, and is available in its entirety on Limbaugh’s website for the next few weeks for everyone to read. Transcripts, videos, and audio clips are available indefinitely to members of Rush Limbaugh’s 24/7 Club.
The “Mob” Will Not Be Silenced
EIB Network | Rush Limbaugh Radio Show
August 5, 2009RUSH: I want to go back and I want to play this montage that we played right before the end of the previous hour about the Democrat talking point now on the mob showing up at all of these town hall meetings.
MATTHEWS: Well-dressed, middle class people in pinks and limes, the Brooks Brothers brigade.
BOXER: The last time I saw well-dressed people doing this was when Al Gore asked me to go down to Florida when they were recounting the ballots and I was confronted with the same type of people.
LLOYD DOGGETT: Like that crowd of Republican staffers that showed up for Bush against Gore down in Florida. It’s the same kind of approach.
RACHEL MADDOW: It’s the Brooks Brothers riot from Florida 2000.RUSH: Now, Brooks Brothers. The sad fact is that if we let this administration get away with what it wants to get away with, all of us are going to be getting our clothes from Goodwill and the Salvation Army. Nobody’s going to be able to afford to go into Brooks Brothers except Michelle and Barack. And by the way, speaking of Brooks Brothers, isn’t it Michelle who got some sort of a designer fashion award for the wardrobe that she has made popular? I don’t know who gave her the award, but she has, and now Brooks Brothers brigade, when we’re all headed for Goodwill and the Salvation Army?
[...]
DNC ANNOUNCER: They have no plan for moving our country forward, so they’ve called out the mob.
RUSH: The mob… You are the mob.
The mob is tort lawyers and public sector union bosses who paid for that ad, for the Democrat Party to be able to call you a mob — a mindless, brainless mob wearing Brooks Brothers clothes. Remember, they have to lie to you in order to have any hope of getting you to support their agenda.
The thing is Obama’s lobbying the wrong people. Obama needs to be lobbying Democrats in Congress. They are the only ones that can stop this. By doing what he’s doing, he is arousing an opposition and a passion and a patriotism and an anger at him and his party. He may very well be destroying the Democrat Party. We’ll know in not too long a time. Jim in Chicago, great to have you, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hello, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: I wanted to talk about the… I wanted to compare Obama’s leadership to Lech Walesa and Nelson Mandela. They were two very popular activists in their countries. People loved them like crazy and eventually they became head of state, and they just didn’t have the skills to do it. And I think Obama’s in the same mode as those two guys.RUSH: Well, give me the similarities between Obama and Mandela.
CALLER: Well, I can’t give you specifics but just in a general rule especially the main guy I know about, of course, is Obama, you know, living here with him. He seems to be unable to wear the hat of the manager or the corporate person. He can’t relate to them as well as he relates to the activist.
RUSH: Well…
CALLER: I had experience as a chief union steward for a while, and I know that there were certain stewards on our committee who couldn’t relate to the managers’ needs and what they had to do when they were managers.
RUSH: Well, now, that’s an excellent point. Obama cannot relate to an average person. He has no clue. He is above them! He is an elitist. He holds average people in contempt. He looks at them as stupid and malleable. He can make them do and think and believe anything he wants.
I have a question: Will Obama and the DNC — and will Pelosi and will Reid and all Democrats — be returning contributions to their PACs from insurance companies? Or contributions their campaigns received from executives and employees? You know we can find out.
I just saw a list of people that work at Brooks Brothers and who they donated to. There are very few Democrats. It’s interesting. I’ll bet you Brooks Brothers was chosen precisely because they don’t have a whole lot of executives (I could find anyway) who have donated to Democrats. Schumer got some money and Specter, who is now a Democrat.
But if the insurance companies are these big demons are the Democrats — Obama, Pelosi, Reid, the whole party — going to have their political action committees return all the donations they’ve gotten from insurance companies and insurance company executives? Of course they won’t. Jim, thanks for the call…
More reading recommendations:
Ztower: Seems Sarah Palin Was Right…President Obama’s Appointee, Ezekiel Emanuel, Yes – Rahm’s Brother, Thinks Doctors Take The Hippocratic Oath Too Seriously And Medical Care Should Be Reserved For The “Non-Disabled.” Well, Mr. President? and Transparency, C-Span and Health Care Negotiations – UPDATE and A Firm Believer In Communicating With The Opposition, President Post-Partisan Says Sit Down And Shut Up!
TrogloPundit: Americans for Prosperity holding health care town halls in three Wisconsin congressional districts
Michelle Malkin: August 22: Recess Rally and Rep. Melissa Bean charging $25 entrance fee to town hall and Hey, Rep. Betsy Markey: You’re invited to a town hall meeting you refuse to hold! and Encounters with “the mob” and Um, who’s bought and pay for by the drug lobby? and Rep. Tsongas tries to explain why Congress is exempt from Obamacare. Fails. and Death panels? What death panels? Oh, those death panels and Anatomy of Nancy Pelo-cchio’s Astroturf brigade and Sebelius calls her SEIU “brothers and sisters” to battle; Dennis Rivera decries “terrorist tactics” and “I am the mob”
NewsBusters: Harry Reid Will Only Do Town Halls By Telephone, Media Mum
Nice Deb: How Obama Is Pitting Americans Against Each Other
Los Angeles Times: Limbaugh compares Obama’s new healthcare logo to Nazi swastika
Big Hollywood: El Rushbo ‘Nails’ Family Guy Gig
Atlas Shrugs: Tampa, St. Louis …Obama’s Union Thugs are Beating People up at Town Hall Meetings
Mommy / GOP Mom: Conservative Blogs Reporting on Town Halls
Gateway Pundit: RAW VIDEO!!…..TEA PARTY PROTESTERS ATTACKED– 1 Black Conservative Seriously Hurt in St. Louis!… 6 Arrested Including SEIU Members
Iowahawk, Big Hollywood: Know Your Town Hall Mob Agitators!
VotingFemale Speaks!: Palin Blasts ObamaCare; AARP = CRAAP and Blue Dog DEMs Bite Obama – Slow The Hell Down!; Time is Against Obama who wants to jam Socialist Takeover down America’s throat
Mofo Politics: Video: Mark Levin: “We demand the same respect that Obama gives the terrorists”
Gateway Pundit: Mark Levin on White House Thug Tactics: If Something Happens to an Obamacare Protester the White House Is Responsible (Video)
Jim Blazsik: Daniel Hannan and the looming disaster of ObamaCare
Politico: White House to Democrats: ‘Punch back twice as hard’
Wall Street Journal, Washington Wire: Obama: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun’
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: Townhalls vs. Twitter and Daily Gut: Protesting the Protesters
RedState: Let’s Talk Astroturf
Burt Prelutsky: ObamaCare is Really ObamaDoesn’tCare — So Vote For Gracie
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Obama Is Watching You… Don’t You DARE Forget That ‘He Won’ and Trojan Horses and Bold-Faced Lies: Obama’s Own Words on Eliminating Private Health Insurance (video) and Rush Limbaugh: Town Hall ObamaCare Protests, “All Statist” Insurance, and “Obama The Joker” Posters
GayPatriot: Left-wing Pundits Continue to Slur Opposition to Obama’s Policies and Obama’s Changing Rhetoric Redux and Liberty, not Racism, Drives Critics of Obamacare
Sister Toldjah: The war between the CBO and Obama admin over ObamaCare continues and The real meaning of “grassroots” – according to BarryO and the DNC
RedState: Call For Informants: If You Oppose Obamacare, Even in ‘Casual Conversation,’ the White House Wants to Know About It
The American Pundit: Obama to Critics: Just Shut Up
NEOAVATARA: Why Middle America Is Really Angry
Another Black Conservative: ACORN outnumbered by Tea Party Patriots 10-1 on Long Island
Patriotic Dissent: Obama Calls on Union Thugs for Townhalls
Behind Blue Lines: Obama Gets Prissy – and Pissy
About the author
Has anyone else noticed the following puzzling situation? Liberals and Democrats are more angry NOW than they have ever been. Minority Democrat congressmen seem more hateful and angry at the people than ever before. They have a minority very liberal President, a super majority in the Senate and overwhelming numbers in the House. Yet they are spewing their anger at the people who voted them into office. It’s almost as if their whole presence and purpose is… “being angry, cutting, hateful figures.” My theory is that they are an army without a real war. There are no real civil rights things to fight for… only special rights, Unions have grown and support them every election, worker’s rights aren’t a real issue and so on. I think they reached the summit of the mountain, looked around and realized they didn’t have anything more to do… and are pissed that they will actually have to govern without demons and don’t know how to do it.