{"id":7762,"date":"2014-11-18T17:35:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:35:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-11-18T17:35:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:35:14","slug":"i_m_honored_to_play_villain_in_gruber_s_comic_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/11\/18\/i_m_honored_to_play_villain_in_gruber_s_comic_book\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Honored to Play Villain in Gruber\u2019s Comic Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/63182\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, I didn\u2019t know that Gruber, ladies and gentlemen, apparently wrote a comic book.  Did you know that Gruber wrote a comic book?  Well, somebody found the comic book.  Charles Payne on the Fox Business Network, Varney &amp; Co. They were talking about Gruber and&#8230; Well, here.  Listen to the bite.  I don\u2019t know how to explain this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_98891\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushObamacareComicBook.jpg\"\/><BR\/>PAYNE:  What\u2019s interesting, though, is that no one ever picked up that comic that Gruber wrote.  Have you seen this thing?<\/line><\/p>\n<p>VARNEY: (chuckling)<\/p>\n<p>PAYNE:  He wrote it and he starred in it.  Have you seen some of the chapters?  First of all, a 150-page comic book?  How about this one: &#8220;Selling Fear Instead of Facts.&#8221;  I mean, imagine that! And, of course, the evil villain was the Rush Limbaugh-type character.  It\u2019s just arrogance.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  So Gruber wrote a comic book, a 150-page comic book, and it has to with how to get things done in Washington, I guess. And the evil villain is me in his comic book.  I\u2019m honored! <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Okay, I found this comic book, folks.  I\u2019m gonna be holding it up here on the Dittocam in just a second.  In this comic book, health care reform, Jonathan Gruber, what it is, why it\u2019s necessary, how it works, 150-page comic book, and in it he brags about working closely with Obama on Obamacare.  And of course it really isn\u2019t bragging since Gruber visited the White House more than a dozen times since they began writing Obamacare back in 2009. <\/p>\n<p>Here is the comic book.  This is what it looks like.  Health Care Reform, Jonathan Gruber.  This guy was totally into it. He was much more than an advisor. He\u2019s out there selling it. He\u2019s bragging about being close with Obama. He\u2019s telling them how to sell it. He is intimately involved with every aspect of this.  There\u2019s Obama yesterday or over the weekend in Brisbane, Australia, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7777\">employing the Limbaugh Theorem<\/a>, saying (imitating Obama), &#8220;What?  I just found out about this today. Some advisor I never heard of running around saying things I don\u2019t even agree with.&#8221;  Talk about blatant lying to people.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, I didn\u2019t know that Gruber, ladies and gentlemen, apparently wrote a comic book. Did you know that Gruber wrote a comic book? Well, somebody found the comic book. Charles Payne on the Fox Business Network, Varney &amp; Co. They were talking about Gruber and&#8230; Well, here. Listen to the bite. 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