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Health care bill passage triggers erruption from Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and John Gambling
BY David Hinckley
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Originally Published:Monday, March 22nd 2010, 2:18 PM
Updated: Monday, March 22nd 2010, 2:54 PM
Right-wing hosts John Gambling, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are fired up.
Artz/NYC Mayor's Office; Carlson, Magana/AP
Conservative talk hosts reacted to the new health care bill this morning about the same way white mice respond to being swallowed by boa constrictors.
Not happy.
"We need to defeat these bastards," said Rush Limbaugh. "We need to wipe them out. Defeat the Democrats, every one of them that voted for this bill."
The bill means "leftist radicals will now be making your health care decisions, instead of your doctor,' warned Limbaugh. "America is hanging by a thread."
Glenn Beck, on his radio show, offered a similar sentiment in addressing President Obama and Democrats who supported the bill: "Our master is common sense and God. I don't think right now you have either one on your side."
But Beck said he sees an upside - that the tea parties and other anti-big government movements are now "a snowball that cannot be stopped.
"The American people have long fuses. You can walk on us, lie to us and cheat us for a long time. But our [breaking point] was yesterday."
The choice in the elections this fall, he said, is clear: "Are you an American or are you a mouse? Are you an American or a European?"
Morning host John Gambling on WOR (710 AM), a long-time critic of the health care bill, said, "Our studio this morning is draped in black bunting," and took a call from a listener who said it should be "red bunting, with a hammer and sickle in the middle."
"This is an 'ism,' " said Gambling. "Communism, socialism, fascism, whatever you call it, that's not what this country was designed to be."
The Fox News Channel, which has been a gathering place for critics of the health care bill, doesn't start its talk shows until later in the afternoon - though some of the channel's news commentators were also sounding dubious.
Chief political correspondent Brit Hume, noting that several dozen Democrats didn't support the health care bill, called Obama's campaign for its passage "an exercise in persuasion that hasn't worked out very well."
Fox was promising its big guns later in the day would be loaded for battle, with Sean Hannity booking Sarah Palin as a guest on his 9 p.m. show and Beck promising an aggressive evening.
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), who agreed to back the health care bill at the last minute on the condition President Obama sign an executive order specifying no federal money would fund abortions, came in for particularly heavy flak from the right.
"I don't know how you sleep, ever," said Beck. "If you ever did anything wrong, in your life, America is not going to rest until you're behind bars."
Limbaugh compared Stupak's vote to Neville Chamberlain's assurance that he had won a peace treaty with Adolf Hitler in 1938, and said Stupak "had as big a role in destroying America as Barack Obama."
BY David Hinckley
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Originally Published:Monday, March 22nd 2010, 2:18 PM
Updated: Monday, March 22nd 2010, 2:54 PM
Artz/NYC Mayor's Office; Carlson, Magana/AP
Conservative talk hosts reacted to the new health care bill this morning about the same way white mice respond to being swallowed by boa constrictors.
Not happy.
"We need to defeat these bastards," said Rush Limbaugh. "We need to wipe them out. Defeat the Democrats, every one of them that voted for this bill."
The bill means "leftist radicals will now be making your health care decisions, instead of your doctor,' warned Limbaugh. "America is hanging by a thread."
Glenn Beck, on his radio show, offered a similar sentiment in addressing President Obama and Democrats who supported the bill: "Our master is common sense and God. I don't think right now you have either one on your side."
But Beck said he sees an upside - that the tea parties and other anti-big government movements are now "a snowball that cannot be stopped.
"The American people have long fuses. You can walk on us, lie to us and cheat us for a long time. But our [breaking point] was yesterday."
The choice in the elections this fall, he said, is clear: "Are you an American or are you a mouse? Are you an American or a European?"
Morning host John Gambling on WOR (710 AM), a long-time critic of the health care bill, said, "Our studio this morning is draped in black bunting," and took a call from a listener who said it should be "red bunting, with a hammer and sickle in the middle."
"This is an 'ism,' " said Gambling. "Communism, socialism, fascism, whatever you call it, that's not what this country was designed to be."
The Fox News Channel, which has been a gathering place for critics of the health care bill, doesn't start its talk shows until later in the afternoon - though some of the channel's news commentators were also sounding dubious.
Chief political correspondent Brit Hume, noting that several dozen Democrats didn't support the health care bill, called Obama's campaign for its passage "an exercise in persuasion that hasn't worked out very well."
Fox was promising its big guns later in the day would be loaded for battle, with Sean Hannity booking Sarah Palin as a guest on his 9 p.m. show and Beck promising an aggressive evening.
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), who agreed to back the health care bill at the last minute on the condition President Obama sign an executive order specifying no federal money would fund abortions, came in for particularly heavy flak from the right.
"I don't know how you sleep, ever," said Beck. "If you ever did anything wrong, in your life, America is not going to rest until you're behind bars."
Limbaugh compared Stupak's vote to Neville Chamberlain's assurance that he had won a peace treaty with Adolf Hitler in 1938, and said Stupak "had as big a role in destroying America as Barack Obama."
