William Shatner has a show called Raw Nerve. In an upcoming episode, Shatner grills Rush Limbaugh on health care reform. According to Limbaugh, health care reform is just like owning a home. If you're rich, you live in a mansion on a beach and if you're poor, you live in a bungalow. See how that works? Housing and health care is exactly the same. It all makes sense now...
via HuffPo
TRANSCRIPT:
SHATNER: Here's my premise and you agree with it or not. If you have money, you are going to get health care. If you don't have money, it's more difficult.
LIMBAUGH: If you have money you're gonna get a house on the beach. If you don't have money you're gonna live in a bungalow somewhere. That's, that's...
SHATNER: Right, but we're talking about health care.
LIMBAUGH: What's the difference?
SHATNER: The difference is we're talking about health care, not a house or a bungalow.
LIMBAUGH: No! no! You're assuming there's some morally superior aspect to health care than there is for a house
SHATNER: No, I want to keep the subject, for the moment, on the health care debate
LIMBAUGH: Alright
SHATNER: Alright. Let's talk about health care...
LIMBAUGH: I am talking about health care.
SHATNER: Isn't the premise, isn't this valid -- that the health care system today is breaking the country?
LIMBAUGH: No, it's not.
SHATNER: It's not?
LIMBAUGH: I don't believe it is.
SHATNER: But we're told that it is
LIMBAUGH: Of course we're told that, because that's how they get us to act like sheep and get us to go along with...
SHATNER: but how do you KNOW that? That's... the sum total of what i want to ask you, politically, is HOW DO YOU KNOW?
LIMBAUGH: It's my job. It's my life. It's my career. It's my passion. I study this stuff. I want the best country we can have and we're going backwards!
The look on Shatner's face at the end is priceless.
Of course, I wonder if anyone has the heart to remind poor Rush that not everyone even has a house or a bungalow.
The full interview will air on Sunday, December 6, 10PM ET, on the Biography Channel.
edited to add: And now for the traditional "first time on the Rec list?! ZOMG PWNIES!!!" bow. Now that that's taken care of, let's go kick some pasty white Rush ass and get HCR passed soon. Winter is here and those bungalows and cardboard boxes are notoriously full of holes...