For something to be "lies and distortions" there must be an intent to deceive and you guys have not been able to show that Limbaugh has said anything that remotely suggests such an intent.
Instead of contorted arguments, just read and defend the list...show us how these are not lies and distortions.
Al
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"Look who is acting Nazi-like anyway? Who is it that's sending out thugs to beat people up at these (townhall) meetings?...It's the Obama White House." (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081909/content/01125109.guest.html)
"No, there won't be a private doctor for you to go to." (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_062409/content/01125110.guest.html)
When a woman at a town hall meeting told Sen. Arlen Specter that the House bill would let a 74-year-old man with cancer die without treatment, Limbaugh agreed: "she's reading from the bill. She's got it there, and he says it's a 'malicious rumor,' and it's not."(http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081109/content/01125108.guest.html)
"You are going to get treatment based on how much some government agency or bureaucratic thinks you're worth. Who knows how that's going to be decided, the degree to which you have a sickness or an illness or a disease, your age, are you working or not, are you a drag on the system anyway? Did you vote for Obama?" (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_062409/content/01125110.guest.html)
"this kind of fear that's arrived, invasion of privacy, they'll know everything about me. They're going to know that when they get your medical records digitized, which is going to be part of national health care under the guise of facilitating your care. But the purpose will actually be for them to know and to be able to blackmail you or use whatever information they have about you and your treatment." (June 18, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com.
"What aspect of your private life aren't they going to be into? Well, I don't imagine they'll be in your bathroom. Not with cameras. They might be, who knows." (June 18, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com.
According to Limbaugh, "If the Democrats get national health care, the concept of individual freedom and liberty will have been obliterated."(http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_060309/content/01125110.member.html, June 3, 2009)
Limbaugh added, "Think of virtually any activity you engage in with your kids that might put them at risk. You take them outside and play. You drive on a snowy road without chains. You fly in an airplane. Anything that could risk injury, which is practically everything you do, could be regulated or taxed because of the impact your behavior will have on the cost of health care. After that takes place, the actual quality of health care we all get is going to hit the sewer."
Limbaugh declared that the survival of insurance companies would be based on politics: "It depends on how the insurance company voted. If the insurance company voted for Obama, then they'll probably get some sort of a participatory role in administering the whole government-run health care plan." (June 10, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com.
Limbaugh even endorsed Sarah Palin's bizarre claim that "death panels" would decide whether to kill her son: "Sarah Palin has rocked 'em with that one because she's dead right. They are death panels."(http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081309/content/01125107.guest.html)
Limbaugh claimed that under Obama’s health care reform, the government will order people not to eat certain foods: "You have the public at large, mom and pop, Joe Six-Pack, Mary Botox, and they're out there living their lives and they're going to have all these restrictions on what they can eat, what they can't eat." (July 31, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com.
Limbaugh declared about the House bill, "the government will be able to dictate when you can and when you can't have children....the real reason they want to control family planning, you could throw in, yeah, they want to limit the number of potential Republicans born..." (July 31, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com.
"This health care bill, if it ever passes in this present form, gives them unlimited power to regulate lifestyles and behavior, in every way possible." (August 7, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com.
Limbaugh quoted from Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope: "'Not many Americans would feel comfortable with the government monitoring what we eat, no matter how many deaths and how much of our medical spending may be due to rising rates of obesity.' Yet he's doing it. Well, he doesn't say he's going to do it, he just knows we don't feel comfortable with it, but screw it. Our behavior must be constrained." (July 30, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com.
"we're going to get rid of your old clunker grandparents with Obama's health care. Cash for clunkers. Death for clunkers." (July 31, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com.
"I've heard that this fear from so many people who have called this program, that whatever the rules in this bill are, that if you're a Democrat it's going to be a little easier for you to be massaged through the system, you're going to be punished less, your wait list will be shorter if you're a Democrat. A lot of people have this fear. It tells me that people know who this guy is and what he's all about." (July 31, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com
Limbaugh endorsed a caller's fear that Republicans would be denied health care under Obama: "if you want to look at yourself as perhaps being discriminated against, it's that you're elderly first and then maybe Republican second..." (July 30, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com.
"they save money two ways when elderly people die. One, you don't get health care anymore, but also you are no longer on the Social Security rolls." (July 30, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com
"what the Obamacare plan contains is end of life. Forget end-of-life counseling. It does have end of life. It's right there in the bill. He said it himself a number of times." (July 30, 2009)
"you have the President of the United States telling private citizens who want to be doctors where they can go and where they can't go." (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_062509/content/01125107.guest.html)
"after this bill becomes law, nobody in the insurance business can offer anybody and you can't buy private medical insurance."(July 16, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com.
"At a certain stage in your life, Barack Obama and the executive branch are going to decide who gets paid, who gets covered, and who gets treated. And they're going to make the decision based on how sick are you and how old are you." (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_082609/content/01125109.guest.html)
"He (Obama) just explained here how his health care plan would provide abortion as basic care" (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081909/content/01125112.guest.html)
"if your premium goes up a dime, if you decide that you want to add to or subtract from the coverage that you have and pay for -- you lose it! It's in the bill."(August 20, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com.
"...Obama actually once voted to withhold treatment from infants who survived abortions." (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081909/content/01125104.guest.html)
According to Limbaugh, "No, there won't be a private doctor for you to go to."(http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_062409/content/01125110.guest.html)
Quoting Bernie Sanders, who said, "'Does Barack Obama want to kill off the old people or the disabled?' That is insane," Limbaugh responded, "It's not insane. It's going to happen! It's going to happen." (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081409/content/01125115.guest.html)
"there's going to be a public option.... And with that, they then regulate what you can eat and what you can't eat and they might be able to regulate where you live down the line. They might be able to regulate every aspect of your life as it relates to health care and cost." (August 24, 2009, rushlimbaugh.com.
Obama "wants us to have the same health care and plan that he had in Kenya." (August 24, 2009, mediamatters.org.
Limbaugh claimed, "the administration said that they were going to have mandatory circumcision in this country as one of the tools to fight HIV." (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_082609/content/01125104.guest.html) |
