Limbaugh mocks health care stories told by members of Congress
Written by Media Matters Staff
Published
From the February 26 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
From a transcript posted on Rush Limbaugh's website:
LIMBAUGH: Oh, grab sound bite number nine out there, Ed -- audio sound bite number nine. We've put together a montage of Democrat sob stories from the health care summit yesterday, so, you spammers, you seminar callers sharing a personal story about how health care reform -- like if you happen to be using the dentures of a dead woman, like Louise Slaughter mentioned yesterday -- “sharing a personal story about how health reform affects you and your family, great way to show the importance and urgency” -- so if you're confused about this instruction, here are the professionals at this.
[begin audio clip]
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I can certainly remember Malia coming into the kitchen one day and saying, “I can't breathe, Daddy.” ... My mother didn't have reliable health care and she died of ovarian cancer.
SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV): A young man by the name of Jesus Gutierrez.
SEN. PATTY MURRAY (D-WA): I remember a little boy, who was 11 years old, whose name was Marcellus.
REP. STENY HOYER (D-MD): I had a message on my machine: “I was just diagnosed with a tumor.”
SEN. TOM HARKIN (D-IA): Got a letter yesterday from a farmer in Iowa.
SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-WV): I knew this kid, Samuel Ford, and he had leukemia.
SEN. KENT CONRAD (D-ND): My own father-in-law in his final illness.
REP. HENRY WAXMAN (D-CA): People from California, who were told by Anthem WellPoint that their insurance was going to go up 39 percent.
SEN. CHRIS DODD (D-MA): A guy in my state, Kevin Galvin.
SLAUGHTER: Her sister died. This poor woman had no dentures. She wore her dead sister's teeth.
[end audio clip]
LIMBAUGH: Can you believe these stories happen in America? So that's just a little hint -- this is a page from the Democrat playbook that's been used and worn for now over 30, 40 years, and this is -- so, this is how you should do it.
Previously:
Limbaugh's health care plan: “If you don't have any teeth, so what? What's applesauce for?”
Limbaugh's health care plan: Get rich or die tryin'
Let them eat applesauce: Right-wing media mock the uninsured