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May 6, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 6, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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You see, that Obama is on his way to Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
He wants to give the SEAL team an opportunity to thank him for ordering them into action.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday.
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I don't have to care about it.
I don't even have to be interested in it.
I don't even have to understand what you're saying, which sometimes happens.
I get a lot of this.
The mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, today.
I just love this.
Bloomberg has unveiled an almost $66 billion revised budget plan that does not raise taxes.
Instead, the city budget will rely on attrition and layoffs to get rid of about 7,000 city workers.
Now, this is the mayor of New York City.
6,000 of those 7,000 city workers will be teachers.
Meanwhile, the governor of Wisconsin isn't laying off any teachers.
The governor of Wisconsin, who has been pilloried and just crucified as a union buster and a job killer, tried to save his teacher jobs, and none of them are being laid off.
6,000 teacher jobs in New York City gone.
Bloomberg just wants you to quit.
That's what attrition means.
You just give it up.
You just say, can't handle it anymore.
I'm getting out of there.
You know, now it's really getting out of control.
The White House early this morning posted about eight minutes of video shot by White House cameras of the president and his national security team during the operation that resulted in the killing of bin Laden.
Eight minutes of video of them watching in the situation room.
Some of the highlights include Obama in the West Wing talking with his counterterrorism advisor, John Brennan, the chief of staff Bill Daly, and others.
And Vice President Biden is on this eight-minute video congratulating everybody.
He said, nice job, nice job.
It's him.
It's him.
That was him.
Stand up, Obama.
Oh, God.
Love you.
We shot you.
You can't stand up.
Obama at another point in the eight-minute White House video says to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, good job, national security team.
And then days later in the video, they've actually done this.
They actually produced a video chronicling the days leading up to it and the event.
Days later, the president met with a standing ovation at a cabinet meeting.
And on the videos, all right, all right, enough of the applause.
Let's get back to work.
No, it's not about him.
It's not about him at transparent.
No, no, no.
No, not spike in the football.
We don't spike the football here at the Obama regime.
No way.
We don't spike the football.
An eight-minute video said, look at us.
Look at what we did.
Look how cool we are.
The U.S. economy added more jobs than expected in April, but the unemployment rate rose for the first time in five months.
The economy's recent slowdown is likely to keep a lid on future gains.
Non-farm payrolls went up by 244,000 last month as the private sector posted the strongest employment gain in five years, according to the labor department.
Private sector employers, which account for about 70% of the workforce, but not for long, added 268,000 jobs in April.
That's the biggest increase since February.
The unemployment rate obtained from a separate household survey rose to 9% from 8.8% in March.
Remember now, how can you add jobs and the rate go up?
It's the convoluted way that they are tabulating how many jobs are available to be had and a number of other tricky manipulations.
The Wall Street Journal says here that the mixed data was not what analysts expected.
The economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast payrolls would rise by only 185,000 and that the jobless rate would remain unchanged at 8.8%.
In other words, they had no clue what was coming.
And they were making wild guesses on all fronts.
62,000 of the jobs, 62,000 of the 244 were McDonald's.
You know, the previously impugned hamburger flipper jobs with no health care.
When these jobs were being created during the Bush years, the Democrats impugned and ridiculed these.
Well, yeah, that's not much.
That's not really.
You can't feed a family afford a job, McDonald's.
It's horrible.
No health care.
They just ran these jobs down.
They were worthless.
One of the websites that I keep track of on matters of economics is a place called zerohedge.com.
And there's a poster there by the name of Tyler Durden, who occasionally posts some interesting stuff.
For example, today's Bureau of Labor Statistics number 244,000 jobs is great until you exclude the 62,000 from McDonald's hirings.
And if you exclude the 175,000 from the birth death adjustment, the net new jobs in the private sector is 7,000.
That's the net new jobs.
Now, a history of birth death adjustments, which ultimately get washed out in the annual massive downward revision, nobody says, really cares about it anyway.
But the birth death model, this is basically a replacement job formula.
That is a wild guess.
And so what Mr. Durden is saying here is that only 7,000 actual jobs were created.
The others were McDonald's in a special hiring program and 175,000 birth death model, fantasy jobs that weren't really created.
Those jobs don't really exist.
The birth death, it's just an accounting gimmick.
The simplest way that I'm going to try to explain it.
So a net increase of 7,000.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Austin Goolsby, also known as Ichabod Crane, was on CNBC's Squawk on the street today.
And let's see, who was talking to him?
Erin Burnett on her last day.
She broke down in tears, by the way.
Yep, she did.
She did a Patsy Schroeder today because she's going to CNN.
Well, no, she's not crying because of that.
She wants to go to CNN.
She wants to go to CNN because she wants to branch out and cover more than just business news.
And she didn't get the today gig.
I don't even know if she was up for that.
Savannah Guthrie got the today gig.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know where I read about that?
Page six in a story about whether or not her boyfriend will follow her to New York.
Yes.
Who?
Matt Wauer.
Matt Wauer, his contract doesn't perspire till December, so Matt Wauer is still there.
It's Meredith Vieira that's leaving.
Meredith Vieira leaving.
I thought maybe Ann Curry would go in there, but they're going to put Savannah Guthrie in there, which means F. Chuck Todd's going to need a new TV wife for his morning show that he shares with her.
Anyway, it was Aaron Burnett talking to Ichabod Crane, Austin Goolsby, about the jobs numbers.
She said, what was your first reaction?
Were you surprised?
Because a lot of the claims data for the past month has been worse and worse and worse.
I was pleasantly surprised.
It's a solid number.
This is the strongest job creation in five years, more than five years.
We've added more than a quarter million jobs a month over the last quarter, and we've got more than 2 million over the last 14 months.
We're moving the right way.
There's no way.
2 million jobs in the last 14 months.
This is why people doubt them when they say they got bin Laden.
Well, it is.
There's no way 14 million jobs have been created in the last two months or 2 million jobs in 14 months.
There's no way.
So Aaron Burnett said, well, look, if we kicked up from 8.8 to 9%, how much higher could we go on the unemployment rate, even as the job market's strengthening?
And I ask that, Ichabod, because obviously, politically, the unemployment rate is really the key headline here.
The thing is, we have unemployment rate hasn't just been ticking down.
It's been really plummeting down, biggest drop in 27 years.
So, of course, there are going to be some bumps up and bumps down as you either get changes in labor force participation or just the monthly survey that's used for the unemployment rate's got a lot of variability in it.
If you look at the trend, it's clearly moving the right way.
And if you're putting up jobs numbers like the ones we have been putting up for the last three months, quarter million a month, steadily that's going to bring the unemployment rate down regardless of what the short-term gyrations are.
You have not been putting up a quarter of a million jobs a month.
They're not a quarter of a million jobs this month.
There are 7,000.
At any rate, Aaron Burnett's question to Ichabod here basically was, well, so what?
The unemployment rate went up to 9%, and that's what everybody sees.
And I would say, no, that's not what everybody sees.
The drive-bys are not reporting the unemployment rate.
Have you noticed?
If it were Bush, they'd be reporting unemployment up to 9%.
No, no, no.
With Obama, I mean, here in the Wall Street Journal headline, the economy added 244,000 jobs.
AP economy booming added to you have to dig deep to find out the unemployment rate went up to 9%.
No, no, no.
They're not making the unemployment rate the focal point.
Okay, that's Austin Goolsby.
Mort Vuckerman was on MSNBC Jansen Company.
I had a fill-in host in there today, Richard Lew.
And Vuckerman is the editor of U.S. News and World Report.
And Lou said, Mr. Thuckerman, what do you make of that?
When you break it down, you look at manufacturing and retail arrest.
What do you make of the unemployment numbers today?
The headline unemployment rate that you are referring to measures people who've applied for a job in the last four weeks.
That's a misleading time span when you've had six million people who've been out of work for six months or longer.
If you measure it with U6 rather than U3, measured by people who've applied for a job within the last six months who don't have work, then you're looking at an employment rate with 15.7%.
And if you add to that the 2.3 million discouraged workers who've just given up, then you're looking at a real unemployment rate of close to double the 9%, close to 18%.
So we have not really made much headway in terms of reducing unemployment.
Mort Vuckerman there of U.S. News, and he's an Obamaite.
He wants to report good economic news for the regime, but he's got his honest cap on.
Now, Goolsby, and here we are while we create 2 million jobs in 14 months, you're creating jobs a quarter of a million a month.
Who are we listening to?
Charlie Sheen?
No, more like Joe Biden.
Let's go back March 10th, 2010, on Hardball, MSNBC.
They were in Jerusalem.
Chris Matthews talking to BiteMe.
He said, how come the Republicans bash their brains into this president saying he did the bailout bill when Bush did the bailout?
Why do they confuse the bailout bill and the job stimulus bill?
Bush did the bailout, and they want to get away with it.
They keep doing this confrontation trick they did to get us into war with Iraq.
They keep conflating the bailout that Bush did with a job stimulus bill.
The Democrats get blamed for it.
I just want to know, Mr. Vice President, how come why do they keep confusing this?
Bush did the bailout.
Bush did TARP.
Why does Obama keep being blamed for it?
They're bashing everybody's brain.
And Biden finally had to go.
Let me answer.
What I keep saying in the White House: patience.
Have a little patience here.
Things are beginning to turn around.
They're beginning to turn around, not only in fact in the economy, they're beginning to turn around and figuring out the Republicans are for nothing.
What are they for?
What have they offered?
This is not a hard thing to sell until we start actually every month seeing 100,000 created, 200,000 jobs created, the economy moving.
It's going to move.
Business in 2010, yeah, thanks, Mr. Biton.
You told the country to be patient.
The economy is coming back.
Republicans don't care for anything.
What are they for?
He's got patience.
So now they've got this 244,000 number.
And as far as they're concerned, that's been this way for 14 months.
So basically, here's what we have.
And this is the way to look at this, ladies and gentlemen.
What do we have here?
We have unemployment at 9%, right?
We have Ichabod Crane, Austin Goolsby, and all these other people on the regime on television happy as hell.
Therefore, what do we have?
We have the Obama administration and the media happy with 9% unemployment.
Happy.
Happy with the unemployment rate at 9%, the gasoline price at $4 a gallon.
It's the right trend, you see.
Yes.
Unemployment rate, 9%.
Regime happy.
Don't forget that.
Open line Friday.
Rushlin Baugh, the big voice on the right.
With half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair, starting a million conversations.
Deport Jervis, New York.
Hi, Ryan.
You're next.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm hoping to finish this because I'm on my cell phone breaking the law to talk to you and my battery is dying.
My question is, my support so far is behind Romney.
I think he's the most viable candidate we have, possibly Palenti for a vice president.
But as far as what Romney did with his health care in Massachusetts, how is he going to argue against Obamacare when he pretty much did the same thing in Massachusetts?
Well, what's going to compound that is not so much what he does, but Obama is already out there praising Romney as being one of the architects of Obamacare.
You know, Obama's out there saying, you know, some ideas, I mean, I can't take all the credit.
Mitt Romney was doing some great things in Massachusetts even before I came along, which is a problem for Romney.
Now, last night, you know, Polenti has a similar problem with cap and trade.
Polenti came out.
He was big, big, big for cap and trade.
Big time, I mean huge gaff in favor of cap and trade when it was first announced.
And so he was asked about what are you going to do?
He said, look, we all make mistakes.
He totally disowned it last night.
He threw it overboard.
He said, well, he didn't attempt.
He didn't attempt to say that 10% of it was a good idea, 20% of it was a good idea.
He didn't blame anybody.
I just made a mistake.
We all make mistakes.
He threw himself under the bus.
He threw himself overboard, got out of the bus, hired a driver so I could run over him again.
Romney has not done that.
Romney is still defending Massachusetts care, and it could well be a problem for him because, I mean, if you've got Obama out there praising you as inspiring him to come up with something which over half the country hates, not good.
So I'm not a political advisor.
I'm just a big voice on the right driving the independents back to Obama.
But I really think that he's going to have to disown it at some point.
So far, he won't.
I mean, I think, and I don't know.
Well, I know he says he wants to repeal Obamacare.
If I were Romney, what I would do, I'm sure the guy's cell phone battery died or I'd have heard from him.
If I were Romney and this question came up, I would be tempted.
I'd be tempted to say, why are you asking me for logical consistency?
I'm running against Obama.
Why don't you go ask him these?
He's the guy that's got some explaining to do.
Obama's the guy.
He's got some job creation.
How's that working out?
Hope and change, how's that working out?
Saving the housing market?
How's that working out?
Energy independence, how's that working out?
Obama's the guy that's intellectually inconsistent.
So Romney could say that, but, and he has said he wants to repeal Obamacare, but that could, you know, you could, the Republicans are going to take him on first in the primaries if he says that he fully supports repealing Obamacare.
One of his Republican opponents is going to say, well, you ought to support repealing your care, too.
So far, he has not chosen a path that would distance himself from it nor throw it under the bus.
I don't know what he's going to do.
Right now, it's almost like a wild guess here, folks.
It's almost like the strategy is that he's showing a commitment to himself, his policies, by not being bullied off of his own piece of legislation.
I don't know.
We'll find out in due course.
You know, we do our program here from sunny South Florida, where there is no state income tax.
But that's not entirely why we do it here, but we do do it here.
And Florida sometimes beats to its own drummer.
While all this other stuff is going on, I mean, there's really earth-shattering stuff, the bin Laden death, the economy, all these other things.
Our legislature here in Florida has just passed laws on baggy pants and bestiality.
You knew about this, right?
You know about this?
There's a new baggy pants law, and there's a law against bestiality.
I don't know about the bestiality part, but I'm wondering if this means that Hillary can't come here.
Baggy pants?
Well, you know, it's these guys, these rapper clowns that wear their pants below their underwear and so forth, baggy pants and so forth in the malls and stuff.
And apparently it's the equivalent of banning the ugly from the streets in the daytime.
It's affecting commerce.
And they just don't want people attired that way in public.
As for bestiality, I don't know if the Florida law is for it or against it.
There's a lot of horses here.
They play a lot of polo.
Let's see.
Here is Spiriden in New York City.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Big NYU, Limbaugh, Representative Ditto.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
Okay.
Wednesday night, I was at a symposium here at NYU where they had a bunch of old 60s radicals talking about how terrible it is that radicals that there's anti-radicalism in the university.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
I don't want to understand this.
You went to a symposium at NYU with a bunch of 60s radicals complaining about how terrible it is that there's anti-radicalism in the university.
Oh, yeah, that's right, man.
But I want to get on to what happened here.
It relates to the bin Laden thing.
All right.
So Stockton Lind was there, if you know who he is.
He is an old 60s radical.
He's a pacifist who supported North Vietnam.
Like, he's the guy who got Tom Hayden into the act.
Okay, gotcha.
And during his speech, he talked about Bin Laden, you know, how terrible it was that we assassinated the unarmed bin Laden and that it wasn't a proper form of justice.
Really?
Were the 3,000 people of the World Trade Center armed?
Not that I know of.
I've never heard about the 3,000, or the Pentagon.
Well, some of them might have been armed, but I don't think the people at World Trade Center were armed.
So it's an improper form of justice to kill an unarmed mass murderer.
The video is going to be coming out soon.
I'm going to subscribe it to your site.
I'll email you when it comes on.
But, you know, I confronted him afterwards.
I asked him about this and stuff.
And I said, you know, yeah, we're talking about Osama bin Laden, not a petty criminal.
You know, killing him is a form of justice, especially for this.
He said, you know, well, we don't know what, you know, what role he played in the 9-11 attack and whatever.
So, I mean, he was a pleasant guy, but, you know, it was just so out of his mind.
Like, you know, like half the room was on his side, you know, like a representative of the war resistance league was on his side.
And another half was more on my side, even though they were all radical.
What?
Well, in this guy's half of the room, what was their opinion of bin Laden?
Was he even guilty of terrorism in their minds, or was he justified?
Well, from what I got, they weren't truthers all the way.
They seemed, you know, they believed that he was a bad guy and stuff, but they didn't like the fact that we went and, quote unquote, did a targeted assassination.
And that was their problem.
I got it.
Well, they may have a point.
In terms of U.S. law, but spirit, what you have to understand is that we didn't kill him.
We didn't kill him.
And I don't know if your 60s radical is aware of this.
We did not kill Osama bin Laden.
Obama did.
You know, another way to look at this, folks, if you're concerned about all this, is that you can almost say that bin Laden died of natural causes.
He went up against the U.S. military.
He went up against the Navy SEALs.
I don't know.
You go up against us.
That's as natural a death as I can conjure up.
All right, what do I see here?
Oh, yeah.
Deborah Burlingame lost her brother 9-11.
He was pilot of the jet that crashed into the Pentagon, Chick Burlingame.
Yesterday afternoon on the Fox News channel America Live, Martha McCallum filling in for the newly birthed Megan Kelly.
He's talking out there to Deborah Burlingame because she was part of the 9-11 families that met with Pharaoh Obama.
And Martha McCallum said, You have had very major differences with the regime over so many of these issues.
Did you take this opportunity to speak to President Obama about that?
Did you have one-on-one time with him?
I told him that I was aware that Eric Holder was still pursuing possible criminal charges against the CIA interrogators, the very interrogators who got the information in enhanced interrogations from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abdul Alibi.
As a former attorney, I know that you can't tell the Attorney General what to do.
And he said, no, I can't.
And I said, but that shouldn't stop you from offering your opinion.
After all, we wouldn't be here celebrating today if they hadn't done their job.
Can't you at least give him your opinion?
And he said, no, I won't.
And he turned around and walked away.
Turned around and walked away.
Turned his back on Deborah Burlingame, brother of Chick Burlingame, pilot of the plane that hit the Pentagon.
Nope, I won't.
And then David Beamer, this is the father of Todd Beamer.
He was also on with Martha McCallum, sitting in for the newly birthed Megan Kelly.
On Fox, she said, What's your response to how they're handling things now with the 9-11 families?
Excessive use of the personal pronoun that he used in his remarks.
I really felt that was the beginning of the commander-in-chief putting too much spotlight on himself, taking too much credit for what these remarkable Americans had done.
And of course, it's only now been accelerated to a greater degree in the media.
It's being hailed as one of the greatest wartime decisions, bold and gutsy.
And quite frankly, under the facts and circumstances, I think it was anything but that.
I think this decision had an inexorable conclusion.
As the information unfolded, we were straightforward and easy and really had no other choice.
That's exactly right.
David Beamer, the father of Todd Beamer, let's roll.
He had no choice.
And we said this yesterday.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of people knew that Osama was in that mansion.
They knew he was there.
We had 40 CIA agents on the ground, as it's turned out, over there in Abadabad, running interference and telling all that.
If he had passed on this opportunity, it would have been held up a Michael Moore says that we have lost our soul because we killed Osama bin Laden.
He was on the Piers Morgan Tonight program, losing audience nightly.
And during a discussion of the death of bin Laden, Piers Morgan said, would you have preferred him to have been captured alive and brought back to trial, maybe in New York?
The story has changed four times now in four days as to what happened.
Every day, it started with there was a big firefight.
He used a woman as a shield, et cetera, et cetera.
They went there with the intention to kill him.
That's an execution.
And or an assassination, whatever you want to call it.
I'm glad he's gone.
But I just feel something has, we've lost something of our soul here in this country.
And maybe I'm just an old school American who believes in our American judicial system, something that separates us from other parts, other countries, where we say everybody has their day in court no matter how bad of a person, no matter what piece of scum they are, they have a right to a trial.
Michael Moore, unhappy with the one.
We kind of enjoy hearing that.
In fact, here's Dan, Livonia, Michigan.
We return to the phones and open.
Aha, you thought you were through in there, didn't you?
You should have seen him putting on their headphones.
Oh, darn it, he's taking another call.
They thought they were through in there.
They were starting to eat the donuts.
Okay, Dan, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
I got a quick question for you.
I understand there was a $25 million bounty on bin Laden's head.
I was wondering if you know who's paying for it and who's getting it.
So far, nobody.
Nobody.
I just want to let you know that you've got a lot of fans up here in Michigan because I seen a Hummer with a bumper sticker on it that said Rush Bow's Army.
Is that right?
You got it.
That's nice to know.
I know we own Michigan.
I mean, even the 47% of Michigan and Detroit, they can't read.
We own them.
No, the last I heard on this was that obviously there might not be a reward because I don't think the reward was intended for military people whose job it is to find the guy.
I think the reward was for traitors, members of al-Qaeda, somebody like that that would help us find him.
Michael Moore, somebody on the street.
But I don't think last I saw, they were deciding what to do, and they didn't think they were going to have to disperse the money.
Very interesting.
Yeah, it's, well, it kind of makes sense.
Unless there is somebody outside of our military apparatus here that participated in this that actually provided information, then it probably uh it probably won't be paid.
Lord knows we need the money.
I mean, we've got a deficit of 1.6 trillion.
It'll just go into some Obama slush fund.
He'll find, why not, speaking of which, Obama killed him.
Why not give the reward to Obama?
You know, a sort of a bonus payment on the peace prize.
I got an idea.
You remember Obama, by the way, voted to double the reward when he was a senator to $50 million.
How about the Dick Cheney?
How about the Dick Cheney who authorized the, and George W. Bush who authorized the interrogation techniques that led to Khalid Sheikh Muhammad giving up the information?
You can give it to Khalid.
Yeah, give it to those.
Give it to the CIA interrogators being investigated by Holder.
Exactly.
Great idea.
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