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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 24-7 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, lrushball at eibnet.com.
Well, our national security advisor is quitting.
General James Jones is out.
He's resigning.
He's going to be replaced by Thomas Donnellin.
You know, this Jones business, the rats are fleeing the ship here.
Everybody's getting off the boat.
And Jones has been nothing but a hood ornament in the first place.
And 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.
You know, Jim Jones, one of us.
So early on in the administration, how can he be such a radical guy?
Jim Jones, who would ever believe?
And Liberal Democrat president, Jim Jones.
The hood ornament's gone, realizing now that that's what he was.
And the guy coming in to replace him, Tom Donnellin is his name.
Donnellin is a guy that 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 Donnellin guy has served in senior roles in the State Department close to Joe Bightmey, very, very close to Vice President Bightmey, 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 really is an off-growth or shootoff of the 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 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 this regime.
Now, Mrs. Cho and Mr. Bush presided over a record 52 months of job expansion.
Elaine Cho said today, you know, I can't believe this.
Our unemployment rate was steady, 4.7 to 5%.
And they were talking about an upcoming recession.
Lo and behold, how bad it was is going to get worse.
And now we're at almost 10%.
And by the way, the U6, which is the real number, U6, the 9.6% is 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.
The unemployment rate held at 9.6%.
And guess what?
Right before the program started, my good friends, headlines screeched across news wires.
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 and 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 is 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.
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 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 Ruegeber, 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 stimulus, but 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 did all that money go?
Well, we learned in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Unified Schruel District said, we're not going to spend that money hiring teachers.
We're going to make sure we don't have to lay anybody off.
So all this money, another stimulus, $26 billion 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 bailout.
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 the government.
We're losing jobs.
We can't slash government anymore.
We can't do it.
They'll claim that these figures.
In fact, I'll tell you what's happening.
What's going to 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 cooperative.
We have to save teacher jobs.
This is what's coming next.
159,000 government workers.
Oh, that's intolerable, folks.
No, but no, no.
Certainly, you're misunderstanding.
I know it's a drop in the bucket, but this is like God losing angels, the government losing employees.
To the left, we would not tolerate heaven losing angels who spend whatever it takes to get the angels back.
Government employees losing jobs, unacceptable.
Unacceptable.
I know it's welcome to our world, but they have a different view.
Now, the U6 jobless rate is up to 17.1%, as I've 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 17.1%, 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 where did I put this?
I don't have it right in front of me, but the Gallup people, 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 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 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 Lindbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone, the Lindbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
New polling out of Nevada is unnerving Democrats who fear that Sharon Angle's campaign is surging.
Despite enduring millions of dollars worth of TV ad attacks from Dingy Harry, the three most recently released public polls show Sharon Angle with a nominal edge.
They'll all have been within the margin of error, but she's getting out of the margin of error now.
John Racy in West Virginia, well above the margin of error against the Democrats' supposed shoe-in, the governor, Mr. Manchin, up there.
Dick Morris is out.
He sees, without Delaware even being factored, 10 seats being picked up in the Senate.
At least they're leading that way.
He thinks 100 seats 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 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 Ras Muson, Tea Party participation up as election nears.
Latest Ras Musson 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.
You know, what was the, before the Tea Party candidate got involved out there, 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 Reid.
And all of a sudden, he had their 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.
Now, 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 and 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 jackassian.
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 film arts that we should explore, endeavor to understand.
So the assassination of a president was an interesting intellectual exercise.
The jackass, going a jackass stepping over the line.
Now, can Obama survive GOP attacks?
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 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 Reid, the son of Dingy Harry, has said that Obamacare is bad.
It could hurt Nevada.
So this opposition to Obama crosses hardy lines.
It's becoming bipartisan.
Brief timeout, promise, phone calls, soundbites, all coming up when we get back.
You know, I'm going to 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 going to do it and 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 give the details at a marketing clip.
Well, what I do here, the first break of every pro, the second break, at the bottom of the half hour, bottom of the hour, I go and go to the subscriber, Rush24-7 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 going to mention X?
Are you ignoring this?
Why?
You don't have the guts to talk about this.
I knew it.
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.
It's just like at Philadelphia, they wouldn't say jackass when talking about me.
They said jackass.
But they wouldn't use the word whore.
I just think people want to hear the word whore.
Here are the details.
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 a Los Angeles Times.
Brown or aide is heard slurring Whitman 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 Audio Soundbite 18, so here it is.
I've been warned that if I crack down the pictures, I will be, they'll go to Whitman and that's where they're going because they know Whitman will cut him a deal that I won't.
What am I saying now?
He's a whore.
That's good.
Whore.
Dude, who's that?
Could you just cut a secret deal to protect the patients?
So that's the audio soundbite.
And it will be interesting to see if there's any negative fallout to Moonbeam over this.
You know, 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 girl.
Well, I know they're calling it a salty private conversation.
I mean, it kind of pales in comparison to what Elliot Spitzer's out there doing.
But 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.
Life's too short, and I want to stay bulliant 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 soundbites.
And I think three of the five nights this week, this new show, Parker Spitzer, has mentioned me.
And I told staffers here, they just want me to play soundbites on this show.
They're just trying to get me to talk about this show.
And I said, I'm not going to 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 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 commercials on this program next week to promote their show because I wouldn't mention them.
Now, I have mentioned them, of course.
But we always do this.
New sponsors, we give them a little bump.
So, well, we rate card.
We just, normal rate card, we make a deal.
I don't, you know, 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.
Look, I use American Express as an example.
That hasn't happened, but I always use it just as an example.
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.
It may lead to live reads.
They may ask me to do endorsements.
No, no, no, snurdily.
You know, since we're talking inside baseball, my sales staff, folks, is 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 11 or 12 requests to endorse or spokesmanship a client or product.
And, you know, salespeople are it's just not in their DNA to say no to somebody who wants to spend money.
And I, especially when they're offering me, and I turn it down 11 out of every 12 times, it's very frustrating to them.
But so, no, I will not do live reads or endorsements of Parker Spitzer.
don't even think they'll ask.
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 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 remarks today was when he started bashing Republicans near the end of it.
And the audience, did you hear this about Bite Me?
Bitney told his audience yesterday they were the dullest audience he's ever spoken to.
They weren't laughing at his gaps.
They weren't reacting to any of his jokes.
So he said, you're the dullest audience I've ever had.
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 64,000 jobs in the private sector.
In 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 sentence.
How many of you are inspired?
How many of you are revved up?
How many of you feel your heartbeat accelerating here listening to this?
I mean, this is monotone.
This is just lifeless.
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 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.
That's all he's doing lately is griping and whining, and now press buddies are doing the same thing.
This story from the politico: can the president withstand the Republican attacks?
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 did only for seven months.
And not all those 60 were on his 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?
Did 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 grandiose way of suggesting you just can't keep the lie going.
I mean, 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 economists say we need 150,000 to 200,000 new jobs every month just to keep up with population growth 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 going to have to do that in excess of that through the year 2016 to get rid of the 8 to 9, 10% unemployment that we have now.
I mean, this is real stuff.
I mean, it's serious.
Obamacare waivers are coming in, and the tax increases are popping up starting next year.
The waivers are going to expire.
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, 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.
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 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 continuing layoffs by state and local governments, teachers, police officers, firefighters, and the like.
Here, Rick Hewitt is going to take it from the top again.
And keep in mind, $26 billion stimulus to prevent just this.
I should point out that these continuing layoffs by state and local governments of teachers and police officers and firefighters and the like would have been even worse without the federal help that we've provided to states over the last 20 months that the Republicans in Congress have consistently opposed.
Oh, I think the Republican position doesn't make much sense.
How do 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 dollar of food stamp spent puts a $1.79 into the economy.
Okay.
Here's a montage, folks, of the well, here, you'll figure it out listening to it.
There's some interesting news out on last year's stimulus payments.
It turns out that more than $18 million of those payments went to 72,000 people who are dead.
$18 million 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 were sent to people who had either died or were in jail.
Where did the dead spend their money?
Remember those, and where did he cash a check?
That's an even better question.
If those $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.
You hear Obama yesterday say that a Republican majority in Congress would mean hand-to-hand combat on Capitol Hill for the next two years.
I'm going to comment on this when we get back.
I get mad at Tea Party people talking about the Second Amendment and stuff.
Hand-to-hand comment?
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