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Oct. 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 8, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
It's Friday, live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And everybody knows what that means.
So start calling, start getting in line.
Whatever you want to say, pretty much goes.
It's not the case Monday through Thursday, but Friday, we kind of broaden the scope and allow.
Well, we just permit it.
That's all.
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Email address L Rushball at EIB net.com.
Well, our national security advisors quitting.
General James Jones is out.
He's resigning.
He's going to be replaced by Thomas Donald.
And you know this Jones business.
The rats are fleeing the ship here.
Everybody's getting off the boat.
And Jones has not been nothing but a hood ornament in the first place.
And by but I don't mean that as an aspersion on him.
His appointment was to trick people like Newt Gingrich into thinking Obama was not what he is.
And it worked.
Early on in the administration, how can he be such a radical guy?
Jim Jones, who would ever believe?
Liberal Democrat president Jim Jones said the hood ornament's gone, realizing now that that's what he was.
And the guy coming in to replace him, Tom Donilon is his name.
Donilon is a guy that...
It has clashed with the military.
This guy is no friend of the military.
A senior administration official speaking on condition of anonymity said Obama's current national security advisor, Jim Jones is splitting the scene, and that this uh Donalin guy has served in senior roles in the State Department, close to Joe Bite Me, very, very close to Vice President Bite Me, known as one of the White House's hardest working staffers, and associates describe him as highly effective.
So we have reason to be concerned.
This uh really is an off-growth or shoe off uh shootoff of the uh Woodward book, too.
The timing there is how about that unemployment rate, folks?
Do you believe this?
95,000 jobs we lose, and the unemployment rate miraculously stays below 10%.
We got more discouraged people, but guess what happened here?
We did add, if you believe this bilge, we did add some private sector workers, but we lost public sector workers.
We lost government jobs.
A wave of government layoffs in September outpaced weak hiring in the private sector, pushing down the nation's payrolls by a net total of 95,000 jobs.
The unemployment rate held at 9.6%.
This is the new norm.
You know, Elaine Chow, Mrs. Mitch McConnell, was on Fox this morning.
She was the labor secretary under the Bush administration, and she she made the valid point.
There is not one person in this regime who's ever been on a private sector payroll.
Not run a business.
There isn't anybody that's worked in one.
In fact, there isn't anybody who's even run a lemonade stand in uh in this regime.
Uh, Mrs. Cho and uh and Mr. Bush presided over a record 52 months of job expansion.
Elaine Cho said today, you know, I can't believe this.
We're we we're our unemployment rate was steady, 4.7 to 5%, and they were talking about an upcoming recession, and lo and behold, how bad it was is gonna get worse.
And now we're at almost 10%, and by the way, the U6, which is the real number, U6, the the 9.6% is uh U3, that's what it's termed, U6, is up to 17%.
That's the one that counts people who have just given up looking for work.
So the unemployment rate held at 9.6%.
And guess what?
Right before the program started, my good friends, headlines screeched across news wires that the Dow Jones industrial average for the first time in how many centuries, whatever it is, has now gone past the 11,000 mark.
And I had some emails, people saying, how can that be?
How can the market be climbing, reaching new heights on the very day this rotten jobs news comes out?
Because, well, no, there's two things going on.
It is looking ahead.
I mean, the market's looking ahead to November being happy about it, but don't forget the Fed is intervening and buying stocks.
This is all being manipulated, I think, or a large part of it is.
I don't think the whole thing is, but a lot of it's being manipulated to get this headline today.
Because the job news isn't good.
I mean, nobody wants to settle for a constant norm now of 9.5% to 10% unemployment.
But everybody knows actually higher than that.
So here comes this headline.
Look at it now.
Oh, nelly.
We're all above 11,000.
Uh, and and this is designed to negate the bad news on the jobs front.
It's designed, which I find hilarious actually, because Obama runs against Wall Street all the time, hates Wall Street, wants people to think he does anyway, and yet has to point to Wall Street today to show health in the country and in the uh in the economy.
The report, the jobs report, is the final one before the November elections, which means members of Congress will face voters next month with an economy struggling to create jobs.
Now, economies don't create jobs.
I'm just reading to you, as written here by Christopher Rugaber, AP economics writer.
Members of Congress will face voters next month with an economy that's struggling to create jobs.
Economies don't create jobs.
Those evil rich people who make 200,000 a year or more are the people who create jobs, not economies.
Private sector added 64,000 jobs, the weakest showing since June.
That should be the headline.
A net total of 159,000 government jobs were lost in September.
Local governments cut 76,000 jobs last month, most of them teachers.
That's the largest cut by local governments in 28 years.
Now wait just a second.
We thought we just bailed out teachers.
There was a 26 billion dollar stimulus bill.
Remember this?
And it was mere weeks ago.
Teachers and other union government to the tune of 26 billion taxpayer dollars on top of the untold billions they have been given by the first stimulus.
Where'd all that money go?
Well, we learned in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Unified Scroll District said we're not going to spend that money hiring teachers.
We're gonna make sure we don't have to lay anybody off.
So all this money, another stimulus, 26 billion dollars, to save teachers, government jobs, and nevertheless, 159,000 government jobs are lost in September.
But we're not supposed to remember the 26 billion dollar bailouts.
We're not supposed to remember that our media masters.
And the rest of the Democrat Party will try to use these latest numbers to argue that we can't afford to slash federal, state, and local government spending any further.
This is what this is all about.
Look at we're cutting these poor people in a government, we're losing jobs.
We can't slash government anymore.
We can't do it.
In fact, I tell you what's happening.
What's gonna happen, they will claim that these figures show that we need to pump still more money, billions of dollars, taxpayer dollars, into the public sector union coffee.
We have to save teacher jobs.
This is what's coming next.
159,000 government work.
Oh, that's that's but that's uh that's intolerable, folks.
It's uh no, but no, no, certainly your misunderstanding.
I know it's a drop in the bucket, but this is like God losing angels.
The government losing employees to the left, you we can't we would not tolerate heaven losing angels.
We spend whatever it takes to get the angels back.
Government employees losing jobs, unacceptable.
Unacceptable.
I know it's welcome to our world, but but they have a um a different view.
Now, the UX jobless rate is up to 17.1%, as I previously mentioned.
Why the jump?
This in the Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. jobless rate was flat at 9.6% in September, but the government's broader measure of unemployment rose even more to 171.1%, the highest rate since April, and down just slightly from the October 2009 high of 17.4.
This figure includes everybody in the official rate plus marginally attached workers, those who are neither working nor looking for work, but say they want a job and have looked for work recently.
So the real number here is 17.1%.
Now I found something I read further in the Gallup poll the other day that we that we uh where did I put this?
I don't have it right in front of me, but the Gallup people with that they came out with the official unemployment number 10.1%.
If you read that story in full, toward the end, you find out that they, in interviewing people, have found a number of people who say, you know what?
It's easier to accept unemployment benefits than to try to find work, particularly part-time work.
I'd as soon get my unemployment check rather than seek part-time work.
So this is yet they tell us that unemployment benefits are not in any way related to people not seeking work.
All these extensions, no, Mr. Limbaugh, what makes you think?
Why would why would anybody think that extending unemployment compensation benefits would reduce the incentive to work?
What kind of thinking is that?
It's logical thinking, is what it is.
And the Gallup story actually uh confirms it.
All right, brief timeout, as I say open line Friday, which means that we try to get the phones earlier on Friday than we normally look at the smirks I'm getting here on the other side of the glass.
Sometimes, you know, I know radio shows are meant to be heard and not seen, but sometimes, sometimes you can see what I have to put up with here from a supposedly loyal and trustworthy step.
I mean, you people do not know the strength of my constitution.
I mean, to face the smirks, the rolling of the eyes, the shaking of the heads almost hourly on this program, and yet persevere.
It's an amazing testament.
Something.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone, the Lindboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Uh, new polling out of Nevada is unnerving Democrats who fear that Sharon Angles campaign is surging.
Despite enduring millions of dollars worth of TV ad attacks from uh Dingy Harry, the three most recently released public polls show Sharon Angle with a nominal edge, though all have been within the margin of error, but she's getting out of the margin of error now.
Uh John Racy in West Virginia, well above the margin of error against the Democrats supposed shoe-in, the governor, Mr. Manchin up there.
Uh Dick Morris is out.
He sees without Delaware even being factored, 10 seats being picked up in the Senate, at least they're leading uh that way.
He thinks a hundred seats uh in the House of Representatives.
About this Sharon Angle business.
You know, I have been suspicious of the polls from the get-go, which show this race tied.
We know what the uh what the media industrial complex thinks of the Tea Party.
They're out there still today calling them teabaggers.
And speaking of that, speaking of that, this is from Rasmussen Tea Party participation up as electioneers.
Latest Rance Music Reports National Telephone Survey finds that 17% describe themselves as members of the Tea Party.
That's up four points from late August.
Despite the constant hammering.
Despite the incessant criticism, the character distraction and the impugning of these people, their ranks are increasing.
And in Nevada, the Democrats fear an angle surge.
I think Angle's been way up.
Because actually, the truth, that poll, I think Dingy Harry has been way down.
Before the Tea Party candidate got involved out there, uh the Dingy Harry was, I mean, everybody was talking a guaranteed loser, right?
It wasn't even close.
They were six months ago, three months ago, writing off Harry Reed.
And all of a sudden, you have the primary election, and Tea Party Republican wins, and miraculously, the race is tied in the polls.
Sorry, I never bought that.
And I also don't buy that Christine O'Donnell's down double digits in Delaware.
I don't buy it.
Not a lot of people do, but I don't.
I think that Delaware race is a lot closer than anybody thinks right now.
And I just I'm sorry, I'm simply voicing my suspicions, which are intelligence guided by experience.
I know with whom I am dealing.
Elizabeth Drew in the Politico today.
This is unbelievable.
The headline, can Obama survive Republican attacks?
Would somebody explain to me which Republican attacks?
I don't know of any Republican attacks.
I know that people like me and others in the so-called new media are criticizing Obama.
Calling him a jackass.
Oh, by the way, John King CNN last night, I went over the line calling him a jackass.
You don't say that about presidents.
You know, you can sit.
This folks still amuses me.
I can sit here and accuse the president of single-handedly wanting to destroy the country, and that's fine.
I can sit here and make the most what a lot of people think are crazy, wild allegations about this man doesn't like America, and his sole purpose is to destroy it, cut it down to size, and that's apparently okay.
But when I call him a jackass, somehow I've crossed an invisible line.
Well, wait till they find out that I'm now referring to his policies as Jack Assian.
You know, we announced that yesterday.
Wait till they hear that.
That's going to really send them over the edge.
The same John King, who was not upset when liberals were calling for Bush and Cheney assassinations.
I think it's the same John King.
In fact, the media, when these movies, there was a movie about Bush's actually being assassinated.
There was a book about how to do it, and we were told, yes, it may be a little over the edge, but these are literary and uh and film arts that we should explore, endeavor to understand.
So the assassination of a president was an inter interesting intellectual exercise.
Stepping over the line now.
Can Obama survive GOP attacks?
I don't this is political, this is Elizabeth Drew.
Elizabeth, all the attacks in the world have not sunk Obama.
Obama has sunk his own self.
Obama and his policies.
This is what you people in the mainstream media are never going to understand.
You are so caught up in the elitism and beltway inside the beltway speak that you you do not understand it is the specifics of his policies, just like you thought during the 80s, that it was Reagan's charm and his personality and slick marketing and packaging that made people love Reagan.
No, no, no.
It was his policies.
It was his core beliefs.
It was his convictions.
Likewise, Obama's problem is his core beliefs and his convictions.
People don't like them.
More and more people daily say they do not want health care.
Even Dingy Harry's son, Rory Reed, what's he running for?
Is he running for governor of Nevada?
Yeah, even Rory Reed, the son of Dingy Harry, has said that Obamacare is bad.
It could hurt Nevada.
So it this uh uh opposition to Obama crosses hearty lines.
It's becoming bipartisan.
Brief time out, promise, phone calls, sound bites, all coming up when we get back.
You know, I'm gonna let your people in on a little inside baseball broadcast secret.
Now I believe a radio show is to be executed and performed.
You don't tell people how you're gonna do it and then do it.
You just do it.
Like marketing plans.
When I worked at the Kansas City Royals, we didn't tell everybody, here's how we are going to separate you from your money this summer.
We just did it.
You know, you don't you don't give the details of the marketing club.
Well, what I do here, the first break of every pro the second break, at the bottom of the half hour, uh bottom of the hour, I go and and go to the subscriber Rush 24-7 email inbox.
And I always look for those emails from people who tell me what they think I should have mentioned already, but haven't.
And it's funny.
When are you gonna mention X?
Are you ignoring this?
Why?
You don't have the guts to talk about this.
I knew it.
This all these kinds of things.
And the big thing today that they're on me for ignoring is Jerry Brown calling Meg Whitman a whore.
And I think it's just they want to hear the word whore on a radio because the media, you know, some cable networks this morning, the females would not use the word.
Well, I don't know.
Just it's just like at Philadelphia, they wouldn't say jackass when talking about me.
They said Jack eh.
But they wouldn't use the word horse.
I just think people want to hear the word whore.
Here are the uh details.
I I I think we've got, I don't know if we've got this in the audio soundbite roster.
I had to peruse it very quickly.
It's uh Los Angeles Time, Brown or Aid is heard slurring Whitney in a private conversation inadvertently captured on voicemail.
Someone calls the Republican candidate for governor a whore, saying she made a deal to protect law enforcement pensions while seeking endorsements.
It is.
We got it.
It's uh audio soundbite 18, so here it is.
I've been warned that if I crack down the pictures, they'll go to Whitman and that's where they're going.
They know Whitman will cut the deal that I won't.
If you don't believe it.
What am I saying?
I think I'm bored.
I think I'm bored.
Well that's true to cut a secret deal to protect the patients.
So there that's that's the uh that's the audio soundbite.
Uh, and it's it will be interesting to see if there's any negative fallout to uh to moonbeam uh over this.
You know, you I don't care how far the Feminazis advance, you're still not supposed to hit the girl.
You just you can't, you just can't hit the hit the girl.
Um, I know they're calling it a salty private conversation.
I mean, it's it's it kind of pales in comparison to what Elliott Spitzer's out there doing.
Uh but you know I have to, since we're doing inside baseball, I have to let you know a little secret.
Well, it's not really a secret, just let you in on things going on that otherwise you wouldn't know.
You know, we have people who are paid handsomely to endure nighttime cable shows.
Watch them I can't deal with it anymore.
I life's Too short, and I want to stay a bullion and in a good mood.
So there are people, employees here, who watch that stuff, and then because they know me, know me well, determine what, if anything, from these shows we should use as audio sound bites.
And I think v three of the five nights this week.
This new show, Parker Spitzer, has uh mentioned me.
And I told staffers here, they just want me to play sound bites in this show.
They're just trying to get me to talk about this show.
And I said, I'm not gonna do it.
I know exactly what they're doing.
I know how this works.
So I didn't talk about the show.
I got a phone call this morning from uh from the executive vice president of sales asking me to approve a buy from CNN for Parker Spitzer next week.
They are buying some 30-second commercial on this program next week to promote their show because I wouldn't mention them.
Now I have mentioned them, of course.
Uh, but we always do this.
New sponsors, we give them a little bump.
So um, well, we rate card.
We just normal rate card, we don't make a deal.
Um I don't, you know, it it's it's like American Express will say, Can you give us a break?
I say, Yeah, if you'll give me a break on my credit card bill every month.
Well, we can't do that.
Welcome to business.
You pay what we charge, I pay what you charge, and everything's clean.
Uh look at I use American Express as an example.
That hasn't happened, but did I always use it just as an example?
Uh I like it clean and pure as the wind driven snow.
So Parker Spitzer sponsors next week, and a sales guy called me up.
Do you want to take their money?
Hell yeah.
What's the question?
We'll take C in it.
Uh it may lead to live reads.
They may ask me to do endorsements.
Well, no.
No, snurdly.
I would.
You know, I I uh since we're talking inside baseball.
My sales staff, folks, is the some of the most frustrated people.
You know, we are constantly sold out on this program.
We have not had a down year since we began in 1988.
I accept one out of every eleven or twelve requests to endorse or spokesmanship uh a client or product.
And you know, salespeople are n it's just it's not in their DNA to say no to somebody who wants to spend money.
And I especially especially when they're offering me, and I turn it down uh eleven out of every twelve times.
It's uh very frustrating to them.
But so you no, you I I I will not do live reads or endorsements of Parker Spitzer.
I don't even think they'll ask.
Uh well, somebody might pay extra just to get one.
And to hear one.
Yeah.
You never know where these things go, folks.
See, this is all the kind of interesting stuff that you would never ever know about unless I inform you of it, which I am doing.
All of this because people at the bottom of the R break thought I wasn't using the word whore enough uh on the program talking about Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman.
So we got that out there.
Now let's move on.
Obama and his speech, his appearance today at a concrete company.
I don't think it's an accident that our little man child president goes out to a place that has something solid in it, because his administration doesn't.
So you go to a concrete place to talk about the jobs numbers that came out, but he was lifeless.
There was no enthusiasm, there was no passion.
The only time he really got passionate in his uh remarks today was when he started bashing Republicans near the end of it.
And the audience, did you hear this about Bite Me?
Bite me told his audience yesterday it was the dullest audience he's ever spoken to.
They weren't laughing at his gaffs, uh, they weren't reacting to any of his jokes.
So he said, You're the dullest audience I've ever had.
Uh Obama today did not have an actively involved audience either.
We have two sound bites.
Private sector job growth.
The president's excited to talk about this.
This morning, we learned that in the month of September, our economy gained sixty-four thousand jobs in the private sector.
July and August, private sector job numbers were revised upwards.
So we've now seen nine straight months of private sector job growth.
In all more than 850,000 private sector jobs gained this year.
Stop the same thing.
How many of you are inspired?
How many of you revved up?
How many of you feel your your your heartbeat accelerating here listening to this?
I mean, this is monotone.
This is this is just lifeless.
As um as our president heralds the great jobs news.
Here, let's listen to the rest of it.
...contrast to the almost 800,000 jobs that we were losing.
Uh when I first took office.
But that news is tempered by a net job loss in September, which was fueled in large measure by the end of temporary census jobs and by layoffs in state and local governments.
Well, that's inspiring, uplifting.
It makes you want to get out of bed and go to a concrete company yourself.
That's the president of the United States.
You know, I think he needs a slogan.
Win one for the griper.
All he's doing lately is griping and whining, and now press buddies are doing the same thing.
This story from the politico.
Ah, can can the president withstand the Republican attacks?
Can can is it possible?
Can Obama survive Republican attacks?
This is Elizabeth Drew, and I want to read to you an excerpt here.
This is she making an excuse why Obama hadn't gotten as much done as he should have because he had all these supermajorities in the House and he had 60 votes in the Senate.
Listen to this.
In fact, there have been 60 Democrat senators for only seven months of Obama's presidency so far.
And even when they had 60 seats, contrary to the view of some liberal commentators and widely believed 60 seats usually did not mean 60 votes for the Democrat position.
So she's making an excuse for him.
Yeah, he had 60 seats, but then you differ only for seven months, and then not all those 60 were on its side.
So here's somebody running interference.
Democrat with 60 like-minded souls in the Senate, can't get anything done.
And it's time to make excuses for it.
Did you ever hear anyone in the fake media ever bring that up when blaming Bush and conservatives for what Congress was doing?
Do you ever see or hear anyone in the media?
Well, you know, it's really not their fault.
This is just, I mean, inside the beltway group think this is fantasy media supporting our brave young under-assault jackass president.
All right, that might have crossed the line.
That's that was gratuitous.
All right, take it back.
Okay, I want to put something in perspective here.
Obama's out there touting.
I mean, if you can call this touting, you know the reason why there's no enthusiasm is he knows he's lying.
I mean, he knows that he can't sell this.
Obama's biggest problem is that he just can't keep it going.
And I know you're asking, what do you mean it?
What is it?
The illusion of purpose.
Another, it's a it's a grandiose way of suggesting you just can't keep the lie going.
I mean you you you lose the ability to believe it yourself.
The evidence is coming in.
I mean, he's out there touting 64,000 jobs.
We have pointed out, we've noted often before this program, that uh economists say we need 150,000 to 200,000 new jobs every month just to keep up with population growth to to to stay in place To not even add in a percentage basis jobs just to keep up with our population growth to keep employment at the same percentage.
We need 150 to 200,000 jobs a month.
We're gonna have to do that in excess of that through the year 2016 to get rid of the 8 to 9, 10 percent unemployment we have now.
I mean it's this is real stuff.
I mean, it's serious.
Obama care waivers are coming in and the tax increases are popping up starting next year, the waivers are going to expire.
Uh this, you know, he's out there bragging about 64,000 jobs when 150,000 a month steady are needed just to keep up with population growth.
Now the current, the U6 number, which is the one that's 17.1%.
That number is almost where it was in October 2009.
Now that was the precipice from which Obama supposedly has brought us back.
In other words, we there has been no improvement.
17.4, 17.1%.
There hasn't.
We're still at the precipice.
Now, as a point of comparison.
We have more 250 stimulus checks went to dead people.
72,000.
250 stimulus checks went to dead people.
So that's 72,000.
72,000 dead people got money.
That I mean, that's more than the 64,000 jobs that were created.
Now put that in perspective.
Here, here's Obama talking even more about all this.
I should point out that these continuing layoffs by state and local governments of teachers and police officers and firefighters and the like.
Stop the tape.
Don't forget 26 billion dollar stimulus just a couple of months ago to see to it that this did not happen.
So where did that money go and where did the dead spend their stimulus?
The dead, 72,000 of them got 250 checks.
Where did it get spent?
Everybody knows the devils at Walmart.
That'd probably be the first place to look.
But Obama, I should point out these uh continuing layoffs by state and local governments, uh, teachers, police officers, firefighters, and the like, uh recuett.
This go take it from the top again, and keep in mind 26 billion dollar stimulus to prevent just this.
I should point out that these continuing layoffs by state and local governments, the teachers and police officers and firefighters and the like, right, would have been even worse without the federal help that we've provided to states over the last 20 months.
Of course, that the Republicans in Congress have consistently opposed.
Oh, yeah.
The Republican position doesn't make much sense.
Not I forget.
Especially since the weakness in public sector employment is a drag on the private sector as well.
What?
So we need to continue to explore ways that we can help states and governments maintain workers.
The tape.
I read the transcript.
I want to make sure I actually heard that.
Especially since the weakness in public sector employment is a drag on the private sector as well.
This is kind of like Pelosi's multiplier effect with food stamps.
Every dollars, every dollar of food stamp spent puts a buck seventy-nine into the economy.
Okay.
Here's a montage, folks, of the um well, here, you'll figure it out listening to it.
It's some interesting news out on last year's stimulus payments.
It turns out that more than 18 million dollars of those payments went to 72,000 people who are dead.
18 million dollars in stimulus funds went to 72,000 dead people.
72,000 dead people stimulus money.
72,000 stimulus checks to people who were dead.
89,000 stimulus checks worth 22 million dollars were sent to people who had either died or were in jail.
Where did the dead spend their money?
If it was $250 checks were to make up for not getting cost of living increases in Social Security, that's what the original purpose was.
We'll be back.
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