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Limbaugh Pranks Audience With Netflix Scare To Prove a Point About Obama

Mar. 21, 2013 5:15pm Becket Adams

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Thursday told his listeners that Netflix would be raising its monthly fees in order to provide service to those who can’t afford it.

“What an outrage is that? Netflix! This would be like beer going up five dollars a case to pay for beer for those who … can’t afford it,” he said.

“This is not taxes on the rich, this is not price increases on the rich,” he added. “No! Netflix is monthly charge to help pay for those who can’t afford it.”

But here’s the thing: None of it is true.

After leading his audience on for a bit, Limbaugh finally explained what he was doing.

“Okay, mission (partially) accomplished,” he said after a commercial break. “Netflix is not raising their prices for any reason. I made that up to see what kind of reaction that it would get. I’m trying to illustrate a point here.”

“Based on my email, people are outraged … more than they get outraged over anything Obama does,” he said. “I was just kidding. Just making a point.”

“No more of an illustration,” he continued, “than saying, ‘What I think is going totally upset Obama is if an open mic catches him dissing Timberlake’s latest CD.’ Here we are, in the middle of our Idiocracy, people [would] get livid at Obama over that while he’s taking their freedoms and raising the cost of living. They could care less. Let him diss Timberlake and that’s it!”

Likewise, “let Netflix raise their price so other people don’t have to pay for it, you’d have hell to pay,” Limbaugh said.

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marine43
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:09pm
Dude seriously get some help. Thanks for showing everyone what the typical leftist thinks. You are a sad “human” being.

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NILAP
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:05pm
Raise the prices of movie tickets and restaurant food for those who cannot pay. Have free gas pumps for those who cannot pay. This is the way liberals think.

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pissantno.10
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:04pm
i love the way the trolls come out for rush i see my stock in hand lotion just went up.

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desert buckeye
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:03pm
@ moronic 666
Troll!

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dictionmary
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:03pm
Cosette–spot on. RL knows how to tweak the MSM and get them where they live. : )

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POET
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:02pm
Well that was a fly by

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Paladin45ACP
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:00pm
It got posted but, really Keaton? What is wrong with you? Dude, you need serious help….or a serious beating.

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NILAP
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:58pm
Rush is a real genius. The Shakespeare of America. His phrases will be quoted by countless future generations.

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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:28pm
  Right next to quotes from Malcolm X.
  .
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:57pm
  EXrep
  
  You realize that Malcolm X was a black racists as the result of white racism and that after he went on haj to Mecca he was no longer a racists so other black racists murdered him. You do know that right?
  
  “Several Sunni Muslims encouraged Malcolm X to learn about Islam. Soon he converted to Sunni Islam, and decided to make his pilgrimage to Mecca ”
  
  Malcolm X later said that seeing Muslims of “all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans”, interacting as equals led him to see Islam as a means by which racial problems could be overcome
  
  In September 1964, Ebony published a photograph of Malcolm X holding an M1 Carbine and peering out a window. The photo was intended to illustrate his determination to defend himself and his family against the death threats he was receiving
  
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elsiedinsmore
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:57pm
ewwww keatonc333 is a sad, sad, miserable person-i am sorry for you-your comments prove there are dark forces working their very bad mojo out there in the world

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Melika
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:57pm
This is an inappropriate comment. Everyone, please flag it. If you are wondering what is so inappropriate, try to get some class.

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Brother_Love
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:57pm
KEATONC333-
No one could make up stuff like that. Methinks you speak from experience…

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:35pm
  You’d have to ask Bill Hicks.. it’s his quote. Hilarious comedian but most people on this page would hate him. Oh and you can’t ask him.. he died.
  
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Paladin45ACP
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:56pm
Rush plays a very important role. He continually aggravates the libs by throwing their nonsense back at them. Long live Rush!

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:55pm
Uh huh, he’s right.

Insurers are prohibited from imposing lifetime dollar limits on essential benefits

You people have never paid premiums that will cover that, have you? You will, Ba ha ha ha ha!

Insurers are prohibited from discriminating against or charging higher rates for any individuals based on gender or pre-existing medical conditions (they are however able to raise rates based on other risks). I don’t know how CVS can say their employees must submit to screenings, as a requirement of the law, show where that is please?

Since insurance companies can raise rates based on “across the board measurements”, such as age, weight, bmi, sex, they can raise your rates on a yearly basis, and penalize a company like CVS with the highest chargeable rate factor if an employee fails to get “screenings”? That would explain that little rule?

All new insurance plans must cover preventive care and medical screenings (the law does not say you must get them)? You people gave the insurance companies a blank check, they can raise your rates as often as they want, across the board, as long as they charge everyone the same rate, they are not going out of business, and it will not be descrimination when your premiums are $1600 a month?

Oh, they will treat pre-existing conditions, but they are not paying for them, you are? Congress is not going to let the insurance companies go out of business, that is a myth?

Ba ha ha!

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barber2
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:54pm
Please slap your momma for raising you so poorly. I can only assume there was no dad in that household. Guess junior high got out early today.

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- AnimalsAsLeaders
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:08pm
  By your own logic, slapping your mother in the face is part of growing up in a normal, healthy household?
  
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cosette
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:50pm
Rush Limbaugh reminds me of a self made man with no college education who is worth a boat load of money. It’s pretty sad when, in America, that’s considered a bad thing.

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:55pm
  To some.
  
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Spqr1
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:48pm
Once again proving that Rush is an idiotic blowhard who can’t tell the difference between apples and rocks. WORST ANALOGY EVER!

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- RaydocX
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:54pm
  uhm, and remember that when the bank with holds 10% of your deposits at the behest of His Majesty.
  
  not a bad example… we are already paying more for people who ‘can’t afford it.’
  look at your phone bill next month.
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:57pm
  only in your little mind
  
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- Triple7
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:58pm
  Quite the opposite. It was an excellent analogy.
  
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- Armyof One
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:59pm
  Really? My taxes went up. But those who don’t pay taxes…still don’t. I’m paying for 0bamacare right now, but those who DON’T PAY TAXES, are not. Yet guess who gets to use 0bamacare long before I do?
  
  Guessing me, doesn’t count.
  
  You are a tool who has decided to remain ignorant. Good luck with that.
  
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- desert buckeye
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:00pm
  Why don’t you provide a better one?
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:08pm
  100% correct his ‘point’ made no sense what so ever,
  Must be out of Oxy.
  
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- ltb
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:10pm
  Why exactly is that a bad analogy? It’s actually a great analogy. Do you even know what an analogy is?
  
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- ltb
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:17pm
  DESERT BUCKEYE, He won’t provide a better one, because that’s not what Liberals do. Liberals just whine, moan, gripe and insult. They’re like little kindergartners who throw temper tantrums when the teacher tells them it’s time to come in from recess. You’ll never get a rational argument from a Liberal or an intelligent response, you’ll just get “Oh yeah! Well, you’re stupid!”
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:18pm
  HA, VersesOfIdiocy, no one would expect you to understand. Go back to cleaning your diaper.
  
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- ltb
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:18pm
  VERCEOFREASON, thank you for proving my point.
  
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- bbyrdhouse
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:36pm
  @SPQR1 –
  Actually, to the low-information voters that put Obama back in office this is a brilliant analogy. One that they might be able to wrap their brains around.
  
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- chadred
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:00pm
  @TRUTHNSTUFF
  I am still laughing. If he would listen to him for a week, 3 hours a day, he could move on to pull-ups.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:09pm
  @ SPQR1
  
  Me thinks thou doth protest too much. Your posting has been kind of light lately. But all the sudden you come out of the woodwork. :)
  
  Rush always says the Liberals will let us know who they are a afraid of.
  
  Change underwear kid. You too Verce/Dora.
  
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- Spqr1
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:05pm
  Here’s the problem with the analogy that you all seem to have missed: Health Care keeps you alive and healthy people benefit ALL OF US! Netflix does not. So simple, but seemingly beyond your limited comprehension levels.
  
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cptenn94
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:47pm
I see this a as a good and bad strategy. Good because it is a great example to show how socialism wont work, and shows just what obama is doing, bad because im sure the media will report him lieing about netflix, and will edit out the part where he says it is a prank, to illustrate a point.

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- BehindTheMouth
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:42am
  I agree,
  
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welovetheUSA
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:47pm
Funny….now lets make all the college students who have earned “A’s” to give them up to the stupid kids who made “F”….to even the playing field.

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Bonnieblue2A
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:40pm
Flashback 2009: http://www.siliconbeat.com/2009/02/06/netflix-ceo-to-obama-please-raise-my-taxes/

I will NEVER have Netflix because of their support of Obama.

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- welovetheUSA
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:45pm
  aye..
  
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rfycom
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:39pm
Made me throw. I would never be a media whore like Rush. Delivers no real value to man kind and makes $60M per year. Sickening

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- AnimalsAsLeaders
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:44pm
  What difference does his salary make? No one has to prove their “value” to the population. I don’t like Rush Limbaugh in the slightest but who cares?
  
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- cosette
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:46pm
  Envy is a very unattractive attribute.
  
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- mompatriot
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:51pm
  Ha, you have to be a LOW informed citizen if you believe that about the excellent- in- broadcasting one and only!!
  
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- team1blazer
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:57pm
  No, but you support Obumbler, and pay his salary (IF you in fact pay taxes), while his administration flushes the constitution down the toilet, devalues the dollar, gives our military secrets and technology to our enemys, coddles Hamas, the Musllim Brotherhood, ****** away our natural resources, jets around the world playing golf……..yeah, Rush is the real threat…. YOU are a MORON.
  
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- Triple7
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:00pm
  You are spewing straight out of the Communist Manifesto.
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:01pm
  ryf only belives what someone else told him. bet ryf can’t even make minmim wage
  
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AMERICA4EVER
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:38pm
They will fall on the sword until the end of time. Would you call that loyalty or just plain stupid?

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Kisses6350
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:34pm
Rush is a bigger shid starter than Glenn! Bahahahhahhaahaha

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- Triple7
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:14pm
  You’re a bigger bed wetting useful idiot troll than Keaton
  
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- Kisses6350
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:36am
  @ Triple 7 Keep your grannies pannies on! My goodness your so “sensitve”! Call me a troll, ‘eh? I made a starement, wich I can, because the constitution said I could! Sorry your bigoted mind feels the need to call a font outside of thier name! God bless and enjoy your Friday! LMAO@ Troll!
  
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Newtowns-Third-Law
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:31pm
Sometimes factual statements get in the way of Truth, and so it is more important to get a Point across than to use Facts. Especially as we approach April 1st.

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:43pm
  haha! Amen!
  That is a joke right?
  
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quiltgal
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:23pm
Love you, Limbaugh! You know how to make a point.

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AvengerK
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:20pm
First Beck’s “tweet” about “that guy” looking like the devil in the mini-series “The Bible”.
And now Limbaugh does a little of his own dabbling in the dark arts of media manipulation of the LoFoVo as practiced by the left.
Hats off to both gentlemen.

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- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:48pm
  if you are Brave enough to reply, PLEASE do!
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:28pm
  Only you’re brave enough to admit you don’t know how “NEWTON” is spelled. Deal?
  
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- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:28pm
  Well, that settles it, yer just a Fig Newton. Why not take off from here like I chased you out last week, Figgy? Two weeks and no reply. Go Fig.
  
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