Told you.
A caller asked Limbaugh:
"If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself?"
Limbaugh responded:
"I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica."
No mention of "where will you live?" or anything like that. It was a question about where the man would go to obtain health care, and it was part of a question that dealt with whether or not doctors would be forced into the federal program and not be able to have their own private practice.
When the two above quotes, the question and the answer, are pulled and left alone, out of context, it certainly appears that Rush said he was moving to Costa Rica, but that's not what was said when taken in context. The question, and premise, was that if doctors were forced to go into the federal program and not able to opt out of the government insurance pool, and not allowed to establish a private practice with private sector patients paying their own way, then where would Rush himself go for his own health care? And the answer was, if all this stuff gets passed an implemented, then he'd leave the country for his own health care, and that he'd go to Costa Rica to do it. Cuba and other places were also mentioned by Rush and the caller, in the context of health care, but at no time did Rush make mention of leaving the United States for anything other than obtaining health care.
You can believe with all your heart that 2+2=5, but regardless it won't change the fact that it's 4. People can take
"I'm leaving the country," to mean something other than what was said in the context of how he said it, but that doesn't change the meaning of what he said. The
facts are, the conversation between the caller and Limbaugh were 100% in the context of obtaining health care. Anyone who inserts some other context, or takes a couple of quotes out of context and then applies a different meaning to it, prefers their own fantasy to the truth.
And it's those very people, who confronted with the truth, either refuse to believe it, get pіѕѕed off, or both. You coming back with a personal attack about how smart I may or may nor be merely confirms the point I made: facts just pίѕѕ people off.
And just so you know, for the record, I'm not a Limbaugh fan in the least. The two quotes above, while accurate, were taken out of context and twisted into something else for a political purpose. Limbaugh is a master at doing the same thing. He does it to feed those who are desperate to be fed what to believe. He's very good at what he does, which is to keep people listening. But make no mistake, if it meant changing his political stance to keep people listening, because people want to be fed something else, he'd do it in a heartbeat.
But, what do I know? After all, I'm not smarter than that.
