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Limbaugh's latest euthanasia fearmongering: Dems plan to "kill you"

October 14, 2009 2:18 pm ET

From the October 14 edition of Premiere Radio Network's The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by IRONY 101 (October 14, 2009 2:20 pm ET)
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      Rush, if Dems had the power to kill people you'd be long dead by now.
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      • Author by DellDolly (October 14, 2009 3:32 pm ET)
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        You're right to mock them, but it is a real fear. It's an unsubstantiated fear, a fear that has no basis in reality, but I can't tell you how many people I know who believe that the logical extension of the healthcare reform that the Dems are pushing will be to force us to kill people to save money.

        And that's because we haven't explained well enough the comparison between the cost of doing nothing and the cost savings by implementing these programs.

        These fools think that healthcare reform is more expensive than doing nothing. Reality is that doing nothing is more expensive, so if healthcare reform budgeting will cause us to take some lives before their time, then doing nothing will force us to take even more lives before their time!
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        • Author by Sharpe (October 14, 2009 4:02 pm ET)
             
          This just proves that FOX is dangerous and corrosive to social opinion. But you cannot say that they haven't had the chance to understand why this is necessary - Obama has been on more tv news programs than Bush's entire eight years combined Im sure attempting to explain all of this. That doesn't include the speeches and the campaign trail and all of the literature available and many experts discussing what medical costs could look like in the future and other networks outside of FOX clarifying the situation. At this point, the people that still carry on about socialized medicine and government takeover and killing grandma and death panels and so on are the people that refuse to listen to the facts. These people have their mind made up and they will never, ever let any fact no matter how obvious let them deviate from their beliefs because that would change their whole world. You can show them videos of people on their death bed explaining that they couldn't get treatment because insurance denied their claim. You cans how that moving video circulating that portrays a mother who goes to the insurance corporation to seek out an answer to why her daughter died because insurance would not pay. You can show statistics and let them meet real live people who are dying because of health insurance cos and it would likely fall on deaf ears. Its impossible to convince a wing-nut of anything despite all of the logic, common sense, facts, research and expert opinion going against them - just like at global warming. Better yet, just look at evolution - How can anyone in 2008 refuse to accept the theory of evolution.

          That is like refusing to accept that the earth is round or that it circles around the sun or that gravity is real. But yet again, despite overwhelming scientific proof and even the very obvious factors that support evolution, it is still denied by many on the right. Creationism on the other hand which has essentially no proof behind it, was written in some Jewish (NOT CHRISTIAN) book thousands of years ago and essentially is impossible to prove is accepted by some as fact and they demand to teach such biblical stories in the classroom and portray it as scientific fact. That is appalling to me but when i THINK of such blatant disregard for any proof that counters their own belief in the slightest, I realize that denying that healthcare form is essential for the welfare of this nation is just another bogus claim that can be easily dismissed for them. If it doesn't coonform to republican political belief structure, it might as well be in latin because the right ain't buying it.
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    • Author by all your eyes (October 14, 2009 2:21 pm ET)
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      Will they kill us by anal poisoning, Rush?
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    • Author by achorn316 (October 14, 2009 2:29 pm ET)
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      Am I the only one who laughs when Rush talks about "take a pain pill"?
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    • Author by phredicles (October 14, 2009 2:36 pm ET)
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      I don't know if it's the Nobel or the fact that health care reform appears well on track to pass, but he and the other feces-flingers seem to have ratcheted up the hysteria yet another level lately.
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    • Author by pilotshark (October 14, 2009 2:52 pm ET)
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      Oh poor little limpy rush pond scum if it was oh so easy as that.

      you know you are in the top ten on list.

      as we know you have been on double secret probation.
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    • Author by mjh (October 14, 2009 4:06 pm ET)
         
      Limbaugh's latest euthanasia fearmongering: Dems plan to "kill you"


      Oh, Limpy -- you're behind the times; the "death panels" schtick was used by Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, and even Sarah Palin at least two months ago . . .

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    • Author by Sharpe (October 14, 2009 4:15 pm ET)
         
      Robert Reich is most certainly a professor as I took his class while at Brandeis... He is currently a "professor of public policy" at Berkeley. Source is wikipedia and I have heard that he was a professor there many times before. Limbaugh even lies for essentially no reason whatsoever. i GUESS he is so used to it, he can't help it. Its automatic for him. If we are going to let people die, let the Boss have the honor of being the first to be killed by the new health plan. Then, we will take out that provision to avoid any nasty lawsuits. Could the government ever get away with killing people directly with beck and limbaugh holding on to a microphone or staring into a camera. Obama can't brush his teeth without being criticized by the right - he is going to start killing people through the healthcare system without anyone noticing?? Its this common sense trigger that I think would factor in when his listeners form their opinion on his rhetoric yet, they believe every word. And I guess they better add homocide into the hippocratic oath as I assume it is the doctors and not government officials that actually participate in the slaughtering process, maybe rush will say its the army, who knows... Maybe the government will force the children to "take care" of their own parents to avoid the burden. Its so outlandish its comical.
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    • Author by nMckinnus0035 (October 16, 2009 1:56 am ET)
         
      Top notch audio journalism there Rush, yes real top notch; we're going to take the opinion of a an obscure lecturer, spin it around and use it to strike fear into the hearts of the people.

      Grayson's words as exaggerated as they may seem are a truer indication of what's really going on.
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