{"id":30717,"date":"2008-10-24T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:10:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:10:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:10:34","slug":"medicare_and_the_dumb_debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/24\/medicare_and_the_dumb_debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare and the Dumb Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: This is Randy in Myrtle Creek. Myrtle Creek, Oregon? There\u2019s a Myrtle Creek in Oregon. Welcome, Randy, nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello, Rush. Longtime student of advanced conservative studies.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, you\u2019ve been talking about Obama\u2019s campaign accusing McCain of cutting Medicare, but let me just point it out that in the last debate, Obama came right out and said he was going to cut Medicare.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Obama said he was going to cut Medicare?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. He was talking about looking at programs that aren\u2019t working. For example, Medicare is getting billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. What he meant was not Medicare. He meant Bush\u2019s new entitlement, the Medicare Part B, the free prescription drug thing. They want to wipe Bush\u2019s thing out because they claim it\u2019s not working, even though it is.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, that\u2019s not what it sounded like to me. It sounded like he was looking at Medicare, because he wanted to look at programs that aren\u2019t working, for example, Medicare.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125114.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: Look, Medicare means, because we need more money in Medicare&#8230; Stay calm, El Rushbo. Stay calm. Look, let me try it this way, Randy. I appreciate your calling and pointing this out. See, I have a different view. I watched that debate, and this was the third debate. In the first debate as well, whoever moderated that also asked this stupid, irrelevant, useless question, and the question goes like this: &#8216;Well, Senators Obama and McCain, the bailout money and the economic crisis that we\u2019re facing and the new government spending that we\u2019re facing, clearly you\u2019re going to have to scale back some of your plans and your programs. What will you say tonight that you will be willing to cut in light of&#8230;?\u2019 It\u2019s such a bogus question, especially to ask of a socialist. &#8216;What are you going to cut? What program?\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Well, we may have to wait awhile to complement this&#8230;\u2019 It\u2019s a stupid, inside the Beltway question that\u2019s designed to be a trap for McCain. A question like that is always a trap for the Republican, because the trap for the Republican is, &#8216;McCain says he\u2019s going to cut X!\u2019 You didn\u2019t hear anything in the news the next day about Obama is going to cut Medicare, did you? McCain\u2019s got ads running against him right now by Obama saying that he\u2019s going to cut Medicare. It\u2019s a flat-out lie. But that\u2019s why these debates are of, by, and for the media. &#8216;What are you gonna cut?\u2019 That\u2019s a total setup question, a total trap. I turned it off and I said, &#8216;Give me Rick Warren, you know? Give me a real candidates forum out there with somebody that doesn\u2019t ask these preprogrammed, out-of-the-playbook questions.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This is Randy in Myrtle Creek. Myrtle Creek, Oregon? There\u2019s a Myrtle Creek in Oregon. Welcome, Randy, nice to have you with us. CALLER: Hello, Rush. 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