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Limbaugh tells son of uninsured woman: "Your mom would have still died, because Obamacare doesn't kick in until 2014"

March 15, 2010 10:49 pm ET

From the March 12 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Previously:

Quick Fact: Limbaugh repeats falsehood that the benefits to health care reform "will not start for four years"

Let them eat applesauce: Right-wing media mock the uninsured

Limbaugh mocks health care stories told by members of Congress


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    • Author by Les Philling (March 15, 2010 11:15 pm ET)
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      Using a young boy to testify about his mother is "unseemly and exploitative". The kid may very well have been delighted to try to help see something good come out of his mothers' early death.
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      • Author by Andy Kreiss (March 15, 2010 11:20 pm ET)
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        If Blimpy is cheerleading for Hillarycare, he's a little late.
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    • Author by Quicksilver M.S (March 15, 2010 11:21 pm ET)
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      EXCUSE ME!
      It is time America to make calls to Congress!
      The Phone numbers of Congress!
      Mike Huckabee has given us the phone numbers to call! He gave them to his followers ... we can use them also!
      Lets Call.. Call yourself.. then give your phone to an other to Call in Support of Health Care. Call and Call and Call !
      Let we do what HEALTH CARE!!
      Post this address on your face book page ... send it to your friends .. spread the word!
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    • Author by dirtylittlereligion (March 15, 2010 11:27 pm ET)
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      ...Let pretend for a second that Limbaugh is right, and there are no benefits until 2014.

      Is he not still implying that she WOULDN'T be dead under "Obamacare"?

      Why wait longer then? He's still not making any sense, and I'd be disappointed, except I didn't expect him to make any.
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    • Author by progressiveright (March 16, 2010 12:28 am ET)
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      Yet another lie from this lieing sack of ----. This man belongs in the phsyc ward.
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    • Author by TheAncients (March 16, 2010 1:15 am ET)
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      Conservatism: crazy for jesus? Willing to rewrite history so it fits your disgusting conservative ideology? Do you gush over dead man who's most likely not far-right conservative? Willing to be a hypocrite, call Muslims terrorists but when a fellow patriotic tea-partier American flies a plane into a government building a criminal? If you have already achieved all of the above then congratulations! You are now effed.


      Sidenote: hey MM! How come no article on the Texas history massacre?

      Ps. I'm pretty sure I've double posted because I hit enter to make space for the last two sentences. So sorry.
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    • Author by TheAncients (March 16, 2010 1:15 am ET)
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      Conservatism: crazy for jesus? Willing to rewrite history so it fits your disgusting conservative ideology? Do you gush over dead man who's most likely not far-right conservative? Willing to be a hypocrite, call Muslims terrorists but when a fellow patriotic tea-partier American flies a plane into a government building a criminal? If you have already achieved all of the above then congratulations! You are now effed.


      Sidenote: hey MM! How come no article on the Texas history massacre?

      Ps. I'm pretty sure I've double posted because I hit enter to make space for the last two sentences. So sorry.
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      • Author by leftofwhat (March 16, 2010 1:19 am ET)
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        Aaah Rush.The thing I like most about him is..zzzzzzz.Excuse me,what were you saying.
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    • Author by soze169880 (March 16, 2010 1:24 am ET)
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      Is this a concession that "Obamacare" will prevent deaths? Because I was told that it was going to kill everybody in the country immediately.
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      • Author by Andy Kreiss (March 16, 2010 1:33 am ET)
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        Lucky Rush, having an audience so stupid that he can tell them that health care reform is the worst thing in the world, and one of the worst things about it is it won't be in effect soon enough.
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    • Author by Bobby Jindal fan (March 16, 2010 2:14 am ET)
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      It is sickening how the Democrat party is taking advantage of this kid. They have no shame.
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      • Author by Egbert Souse (March 16, 2010 2:54 am ET)
           
        So terrible and heartless it is to show the need for Universal Health Care.
        Better to never recognize the travails of the ever increasing uninsured and under-insured than to disturb our own false sense of security.

        There but for fortune (or time) go you.
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      • Author by MidnightWriter (March 16, 2010 4:53 am ET)
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        Speaking of someone having no shame.
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        • Author by Dradeeus (March 16, 2010 5:27 am ET)
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          That's not fair, MidnightWriter. Strawman arguments don't work when you counter their hypocrisy. It's guys like you that make the Republicans feel they're walking into a trap when they have to debate someone who disagrees.
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          • Author by christopher howard (March 16, 2010 6:50 am ET)
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            "It is sickening how the Democrat party is taking advantage of this kid. They have no shame."

            More phony moral outrage coming from Mr. Torture. Yawn.
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          • Author by christopher howard (March 16, 2010 6:50 am ET)
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            "It is sickening how the Democrat party is taking advantage of this kid. They have no shame."

            More phony moral outrage coming from Mr. Torture. Yawn.
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      • Author by overmars jr. (March 16, 2010 5:45 am ET)
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        Yeah, right... like you'd recognize shamelessness.
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      • Author by overmars jr. (March 16, 2010 5:45 am ET)
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        Yeah, right... like you'd recognize shamelessness.
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      • Author by lather (March 16, 2010 6:20 am ET)
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        OK clueless, oh sorry.. "Bobby Jindal Fan (LOL Really.. ROTFLMAO.. REALLY?)

        Nice Talking point.. Do you come up with ideas like that all by yourself?
        Oh, Wait.. I think I saw Hannity The Manatee say the same.. When you come up a talking point of your own please come back.. I bet it will be just as silly.. And Had a great laugh just reading your name.
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        • Author by jjamele2880 (March 16, 2010 6:55 am ET)
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          I think he came up with "gassing the Jews was the law of the land in Germany in the 1940s" and "Jesus started the Roman Catholic Church" and "the US went to war against Germany to close the concentration camps." He has some original thoughts- original because they bear no resemblance to reality.
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          • Author by christopher howard (March 16, 2010 7:05 am ET)
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            But, but he's an expert on these things. He said so.
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      • Author by soze169880 (March 16, 2010 8:12 am ET)
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        Right, because the idea that a child whose mother was killed by our healthcare aristocracy might want to advocate for reform is just COMPLETELY out of the question.
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      • Author by bintx (March 16, 2010 9:05 am ET)
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        You're talking about folks having no shame? You come here and pretend to be something you're not. Thanks for the giggle, BJ.

        Oh, and you are aware that there is no political club [party] in this country by the name of "Democrat Party," right? So, who exactly were you talking about?

        The kid wasn't being taken advantage of by anyone. His story was picked up by the media several days before he was contacted by health care reform proponents. He was very articulate in his beliefs regarding the need for health care reform and was appearing as an advocate.

        He was more in tune with reality and more articulate and intelligent than you, BJ. What's the matter? Jealous?
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        • Author by Bobby Jindal fan (March 16, 2010 12:43 pm ET)
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          He is an eleven year old kid who is grieving the loss of his mother. The Democrat party (there is nothing democratic about them - they are thugs) is using and manipulating him for their partisan gain -- shameless.

          His mother died and that is tragic. Her death had nothing to do with Obamacare. She would have died whether or not she had insurance. The Dems are lying and hiding behind an eleven year old kid to manipulate us.
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          • Author by Johaely (March 16, 2010 9:13 pm ET)
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            Just like you lie behind things like terry Schiavo, and babies, because that woman could have gotten care right? She could just have gone to an emergency room or begged a charity?

            You must be some of the sick twisted fans of Michelle Maglalang who did the same as she's doing now, accusing this kid of being a shield of the "Democrat" party.
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    • Author by mcnairbo6573 (March 16, 2010 11:56 am ET)
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      What exactly is exploitive about having actual people telling their actual stories? It's exploitive because it makes it hard for Rush to attack a small boy who's mom died. But he always finds a way, usually tacky and heartless. I heard today that men with erectile dysfunction stand a doubled chance of dying from heart disease. Watch out Rush, your heart and your flacid peeny are trying to tell you something. You might not be so lucky next time creep.
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    • Author by FDR_democrat (March 16, 2010 1:37 pm ET)
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      What strikes me here is Rush's deep-seated assumption that everyone's motives are as selfish as his own. That is, if it's too late for this kid's mother to be saved, then why should the kid give a damn about anyone else's mother?
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    • Author by Alijah (March 16, 2010 9:56 pm ET)
         
      if you watched the health care summit, you would have learned that once health care pass you will start paying new taxes to the government and will not receive benefit until 4 years after it pass. Read the damn CBO report. But after the bill gets passed, we need to rename the country to mother Russia because that is where the progressive are taking us.
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