Limbaugh: Left Using Health Care Reform To Kill Off Elderly Like Mao And Stalin (VIDEO)

Rush Limbaugh got very excited on his show today because he believes he's finally divined the real reason that Democrats are trying to reform health care. They want to kill off the elderly, just like Mao and Stalin did, because senior citizens vote and remember Reagan and really it just goes off the rails from there. Here's a sample quote:

Who are we targeting in health care? Old people. Rationing the care of old people...

And then it hit me....What's the first thing Mao se Tung did? What was the cultural revolution? He took out the educated people. He took out people who had a cultural, historical memory of China's past.

This conspiracy theory is worthy of Glenn Beck.

Comments

[PAChristianLefty]

03:05 PM on 12/04/2009

WHAT ARE THEY SO AFRAID OF? I really don't understand why the right makes this stuff up. Well, I understand why congresspeople who owe the insurance companies, but what does this blow hard care? Seriously.

[lilalove]

09:18 AM on 12/04/2009

If the 400 billion over 10 years being cut from Medicare by removing needless and costly bureaucracy inefficiency and by never questioning any medical procedure preformed because no medical guide lines have ever been implemented. if the money being cut was going to fund the wars the conservatives would be 100% for it. It's not the cost cutting conservatives care about.. so I find it beyond dishonest for them to pretend it is. What conservatives don't like is that the money being cut from Medicare is going into an account to help lower middle class Americans of any age receive medical care.
We can have a debate on how the money should be spent.. but cutting wasteful spending in an inefficiently run government bureaucracy is the last thing conservatives should be protesting. It's nuts

[Parrothead]

03:10 AM on 12/12/2009

Exactly! Repubs have major shares in the insurance and pharma industries as do the doctors. Ever been to a doctors office and didn't see a pen or a calander with a drug company logo or get handed "free" samples? Grandpa used to say son there's nothing free in this world. The drug companies go to the schools and loan money to the doctors to finish school and start a practice and how does that doctor payback that loan? by pushing drugs from that company. Big pharma wants to scare people so they can continue to watch the hen house and Medicare will pay $400.00 for a band aid. If it's good enough for the troops then it's good enough for me, how about a health care system just like the military? I used it for 30 years and had no pproblems.

[lilalove]

09:18 AM on 12/04/2009

Medicare is run at a maximum inefficiency standard. It has been in need of an overhaul for decades. There needs to be standard guide lines for treatments so that abuse of tax payer money is put an end to. In the entire history of Medicare they have never once denied a medical procedure.. no matter how costly or needed. Never. Ever! Needless procedures and test are preformed on a regular bases on the tax payers dime. You would think that conservatives would be all for cutting out bureaucracy inefficiency and needless and costly procedures. You would think a focus on preventive care instead of exorbitant spending with tax payer money for unneeded medical care would be a conservative mantra. And yes, doctors need to be held accountable for the procedures they preform. Right now doctors can run countless test and preform any and all of the most expensive medical treatments and be paid for it pretty much no questions asked by Medicare. There has to be a rational and sane 'golden mean' in there somewhere. .

[lemonyashes]

08:54 AM on 12/04/2009

I remember when CBS unleashed him onto the public at large, I couldn't believe they would let someone talk like that on primetime! Then a few years later I accidently tuned into O'Reilly who I 'd never heard of before and he was screaming at a Canadian guest to "shut-up"! And then more recently Glenn Beck's most shrill meltdown towards one of his female guests. I don't get it and I never will and then to think anyone takes these aliens seriously is seriously disturbing.

[CyrusBeaucephus]

08:06 AM on 12/04/2009

I wonder if his A$s pustule is considered a pre-existing condition. I'm suprised he can sit like that all day, he must have a special chair

[wdw505]

08:12 AM on 12/04/2009

why would that matter as he is self insured

[CyrusBeaucephus]

08:39 AM on 12/04/2009

Why does he matter at all as there are not enough GOPer losers like you to win elections any more?

[Antifascist-08]

02:30 AM on 12/04/2009

Yaaaaawn.

[lilalove]

12:00 AM on 12/04/2009

What are the odds that if it were a republican giving Medicaid the much needed overhaul by removing the wasteful spending Rush and the rest of the conservatives would be 100% for it. If those billions were being cut out of Medicare and being filtered into the military.. the republicans would be cheering in the streets. But, and only because the billions are going into a public account to help more Americans pay for health care they can not get other wise... the republicans are acting like the democrats want to kill grandma because we say grandma does not need the third operation to remove the faint cataract from her left eye because she is 98 and has dementia. That money could go to save a little girls life... or it could go to help fund the wars.. what ever, anything is better than needless wasteful spending in a government program, right? Republicans, find your conservative principles and start focusing on wasteful spending in Medicare instead of playing the bleeding heart. The conservatives need to get real already.

[wdw505]

07:56 AM on 12/04/2009

a conservative would not put in medicaid..........so locate this mysterious waste in medicare first........then your budget is the savings from the waste

[CyrusBeaucephus]

08:40 AM on 12/04/2009

a conservative would not be able to win elections in present-day America, as their failed philisophy is a sore point with most voters. I suggest you spend your time tea-baggin, 0ld man

[lilalove]

09:18 AM on 12/04/2009

It's not very mysterious. Medicare is run at a maximum inefficiency standard. It has been in need of an overhaul for decades. There needs to be standard guide lines for treatments so that abuse of tax payer money is put an end to. In the entire history of Medicare they have never once denied a medical procedure.. no matter how costly or needed. Never. Ever! Needless procedures and test are preformed on a regular bases on the tax payers dime. You would think that conservatives would be all for cutting out bureaucracy inefficiency and needless and costly procedures. You would think a focus on preventive care instead of exorbitant spending with tax payer money for unneeded medical care would be a conservative mantra. And yes, doctors need to be held accountable for the procedures they preform. Right now doctors can run countless test and preform any and all of the most expensive medical treatments and be paid for it pretty much no questions asked by Medicare. There has to be a rational and sane 'golden mean' in there somewhere.

[Promote]

11:07 AM on 12/11/2009

Well Said ! lilalove

[drricklippin]

10:44 PM on 12/03/2009

Limbaugh is a dangerous side-show clown who drags the Republican party deeper into oblivion.

Never before in our nation's history have the unlikely stars of both moral and economic imperatives aligned on long overdue- US Health Care Reform

We really have no choice now as a nation

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa
http://medicalcrises.blogspot.com

[eplebneesta]

08:47 PM on 12/03/2009

Death boards DO exist.
In the form of the boards of directors of the insurance companies.
Every death because of dropped coverage, pre-existing conditions, etc, directly cause people to die.
truly ad nauseum, is done to feed the rapacious appetites of the [death] boards of directors and investors.
Death for profit. Murder, Inc.

These are existing death boards [of directors].

They have this power over life and death because politicians need donations to get elected. Only well financed candidates get national attention. Our candidates are chosen by the people who can afford to get them that attention. "Who cares who does the voting as long as I get to do the nominating" said Boss Tweed.

If corporations lost the ability to buy candidates, problems like this, and indeed most of the largest problems in the country, could be dealt with.
The SCOTUS declared donations to be free speech.
But free speech cannot be used to make someone break the law.
I can use free speech to suggest that a politician steal a baby's candy. The law prevents him from doing it.
Suppose a law is created making it illegal for politicians to accept donations.
People are allowed to OFFER donations (free speech). But now it is just as illegal for the politician to accept the donation as it is for him to steal the candy.

You are guaranteed free speech. But NO ONE has to listen to you.

E Pleb Neesta
GODISNOWHERE
Blessed are the cheese makers.

[Antifascist-08]

02:31 AM on 12/04/2009

Exactly.

the anti-trust exemption needs to go.

[unclelew]

08:43 PM on 12/03/2009

The U.S. ranks 42nd in the world in longevity. Does Rush want to improve on that? Say, to No. 41.

[InfosolutionWiz]

08:52 PM on 12/03/2009

EXACTLY!!

[austin4]

08:42 PM on 12/03/2009

Rush is the reason the GOP, is considered a Political JOKE.

[InfosolutionWiz]

08:59 PM on 12/03/2009

WELL SAID!!

[blackhole2008]

08:41 PM on 12/03/2009

Limbo is in the zone..way up in lala land.

[austin4]

08:43 PM on 12/03/2009

To much oyx cotton.

[InfosolutionWiz]

08:52 PM on 12/03/2009

HAHAHAHA!! SO TRUE!

[harmlesstree]

08:32 PM on 12/03/2009

And then it hit me....What's the first thing Mao se Tung did? What was the cultural revolution? He took out THE EDUCATED PEOPLE"

Rush, you mean the liberal intelligentsia? I am sure your indignation would know no bounds if that occurred here.

[kobrock1]

08:36 PM on 12/03/2009

Though Mao more than advocated taking out political opponents, Limbaugh has never espoused violence, much to liberals chagrin.

[blackhole2008]

08:39 PM on 12/03/2009

not directly, true.

[harmlesstree]

09:09 PM on 12/03/2009

Limbaugh, as far as I know, has never publicly supported violence against liberals; though, as a right-wing demagogue, he dehumanizes liberals ( the preponderance of the intelligentsia) on a regular basis, which could easily lead to violence. And, in a certain context, I could see Rush advocating violence against liberals and left, since he has certainly been an advocate for this sort of violence, at least implicitly, against the left of other nations, i.e. Latin America.

[Scentedflower]

08:30 PM on 12/03/2009

Lim ba , Be cka, Do bba - all combined for one seat and
Pa lin, Bat ch man, Cou lter & Crasher Salahi for the second seat
and the tea ba ggers as voters - R N C - Re thuglican Nu tties Congregation

[Squeglen]

08:27 PM on 12/03/2009

Is there a pill we can give this man to go away since he isn't far away from being considered elderly?

[austin4]

08:41 PM on 12/03/2009

The way he's popping those pi lls, he won't make it , to get old. His time is very short.