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Dec. 2, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 2, 2011, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, my friends, music lovers, thrill seekers, all across the fruited plain, fastest week in media.
Here it is, already Friday.
I can't believe it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
Open Line Friday.
It's one of the greatest career risks ever taken by a major media figure, ever.
Including reality TV, which is still scripted and written just by non-union writers.
It's the only difference.
Did you know that?
The only difference in reality TV and regular TV is that the writers on reality TV are not union.
I've been on reality TV shows.
You retake and you retake and you retake until they get the reality they want.
It ain't reality.
And that means what you see of the Kardashians is the best they can get.
Here's how Open Line Friday works.
Whatever you want to talk about pretty much goes.
That's not the case Monday through Thursday.
Now, for those of you who know this, please indulge in me because the tune-in factor on this program is phenomenal.
Every day, people have never listened to it before tuning in.
And that's the case today, too.
So on Monday through Thursday, when you call a program, you have to talk about things I'm interested in.
We handle that at the screener level.
You don't necessarily know whether you're talking about something I care about when you call.
That's when the screener takes over and rules you fit or unfit.
If you're unfit, you're gone in five seconds.
If you pass muster, that's because you're going to talk about something I care about.
Or the screener figures you'll do something that makes me look good, which is the primary purpose of every call, to make the host look good.
And that doesn't mean praising me and complimenting me.
That means inspiring me.
But on Friday, all that gets thrown out.
You don't have to inspire me.
It can bore me to death.
I don't have to care about it.
Snirdly whines and moans about it.
I would think screening for Open Line Friday be easier, but for him, it's probably your most unfavorite day of the week.
Is that right?
You know.
No, that can't possibly be.
He just told me more people don't make it on Friday than don't make it during the week.
How's that possible?
That's blowing the spirit of Open Line Friday sky high.
Wait, are you telling me that Open Line Friday, more undesirables call than Monday through Thursday?
Seminar cooks, liars, beggars, that kind of thing.
Okay.
Like people who want a free iPad.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
I get it.
Well, I'm sorry.
It sounds like the way I feel every day I have to do a speech.
You know, it's a surprising thing.
I thought that Open Line Friday would be easy.
Hi, what's your name?
What do you want to talk about?
Fine, hang on.
Why don't you try it that day?
Why don't you just try that?
Try it for a half hour.
See what we get.
I'm not wishing for anything.
I'm just spirit of Open Line Friday.
Let us lie.
He's saying he would never do that to me.
Well, anyway, the telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address, LRushboard, EIBNet.com.
I don't want to be, and I told you so, but I told you so, and I told you so five weeks ago.
Gallup every week puts out their own unemployment numbers, and Gallup has been signaling that this day unemployment below 9% was coming.
They've been blatantly saying so, based on their own unemployment data, which is not related to the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
It's their own surveys.
And in the last five weeks, occasionally they will say that their numbers that they come out with on a Wednesday or Thursday indicate that we're getting very close to a Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment number of under 9%.
I said the regime needs this.
And when we finally get to under 9%, it'll be 8 point something.
But the point what won't matter.
The only number that's going to matter is the 8.
It'll be 8.9.
It won't be 8.9.
It'll be 8.
Well, it's 8.6, but it doesn't matter.
It's 8.
And predictably, the media is all over it.
And that's the headline.
You know, I got up this morning and I did the show prep routine.
And one of the first places I always go is Drudge.
And I saw it right there in red, 8.6.
And that's all it said.
And I knew what it was.
It's Friday.
And I didn't need to know anything else.
I knew that that was the unemployment number 8.6.
And that's all anybody else is going to say.
They're not going to dig deep and find out how it happened.
Some people have.
Some people are.
There is a, there is a slight bit of reservation in certain sectors of the drive-by media.
But most of the drive-by media is doing hosanna's and hallelujahs and merry, well, happy holidays.
They don't do Merry Christmas to the media.
But we're back.
It's done.
They got the headline.
Unemployment 8.6%.
Now, the truth of the matter is, Bloomberg News even points out that the only way it's a corrupt number.
It is a corrupt, folks, the number of people who have quit looking for work in the last few weeks is 315,000.
Those are the people that thrown up their hands after 99 weeks or more of being unemployed.
And they've said, I'm quitting.
I'm not looking.
So they're not counted.
Therefore, the universe of jobs available in the country is down by 315%.
That is the labor force participation rate.
The labor force participation rate is a meager 64%.
It fell to 64% from 64.2%.
So the 0.2% drop equals 315,000 people leaving the workforce.
That means there are 315,000 fewer jobs to have.
So the universe of jobs has been steadily shrinking.
What was the number of jobs created?
120,000 jobs.
120,000, 126,000, whatever.
That's in the ballpark.
That number of jobs created can lower the unemployment rate 0.4%, almost one half of a percent, creating 120,000 new jobs.
That alone tells us how small the labor force participation rate is.
That tells us how small the universe of available jobs in the country is.
When creating 120,000, and we still have, don't forget, over 400,000 applications for unemployment compensation reported yesterday.
So just 120,000 new jobs can lower the unemployment rate almost a half a point.
Not possible without that 315,000 figure.
315,000 people who have just walked away.
And Bloomberg News has even reported this means that more people left the workforce than got jobs.
Now stop and think of this.
More people left the workforce than got jobs and the unemployment rate goes down.
We are dealing here with a serious form of corruption, manipulation, but we all knew it was coming.
After all, we're talking about the regime.
We knew this was coming.
We know the fact.
We know the histoi that no president has been re-elected with an unemployment rate higher than 8%.
So here we are, 11 months away from the next election, voila, and heading into the Christmas/slash holiday season.
And we're at 8.6%.
The 0.6% doesn't matter.
We're at 8%.
And the media is having orgasms out there.
Orgasms.
But everybody in the country knows the economy is not growing.
That new jobs are not being created in a massive, robust way that signals or feels like economic growth.
But the sad thing is that all these details that I have provided probably sadly won't even matter because the regime has gotten a headline that it wanted.
It got 8.6.
The regime got unemployment 8.6%.
That's what they wanted.
That's what they got.
All these other details are irrelevant.
Now, this is the U3 unemployment rate.
The U6 unemployment rate counts the 315,000.
The U3, this is a government marker.
U3 is what is reported.
The U6 unemployment number counts the 315,000 who have given up looking for a gig.
And that put the U6 unemployment number is around 16, 17%.
And that's real unemployment.
The job universe from January 2009 when Obama was immulated to the present is down about 2.5 million jobs.
There are 2.5 million fewer jobs in our country in the two and a half, almost three years now that Obama has been in orifice.
And that's the dirty little secret.
You shrink the workforce by two, two and a half million people is the only way you can report the unemployment rate going down.
More people leave the workforce than found jobs, and the unemployment rate went down a half a point.
So again, we are being massaged.
We are being spun.
We are being inundated with corrupt numbers.
But it was all predictable, all understandable.
And again, so small has the employment. universe become.
So small.
So many people having dropped out of the system altogether.
No longer counted is what that means as being unemployed, no longer counted as being alive.
Terms of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, when you quit looking for a job, you're only counted in that U6 number, which is not the one that's reported.
The U3 number is.
So you dropped out of the system altogether.
You're no longer counted by the Obama regime.
A mere 126,000 job increase drops the unemployment rate almost one half of a percentage point.
This is nothing more than the government manipulating the real work situation that exists in the country.
It's all calculated to create a false impression of economic recovery and a healthier job market.
It's truly outrageous.
And watch how the Obama media cronies regurgitate this propaganda for the most part.
Watch how they'll all fall in line.
You've probably heard it already this morning.
I got examples of it here in the soundbite roster, but I don't probably play a couple of them just for the fun of it.
Meanwhile, Herman Kane, how would you like to be Herman Cain?
Get up today.
You think you had a tough time getting out of bed today?
Imagine being Herman Cain waking up today.
How he must feel.
He has to go talk to Gloria face to face.
He has to tell her about Ginger White and how much money Ginger White got and for what reasons.
Yeah.
And then Newt Gingrich, he's lit a firestorm out there with his comments on poor kids and work.
Yeah, he has.
It's predictable too that it would happen.
We've got the sound bites.
Yeah, well, yeah, take more.
But he said, we need to have kids getting up with a sense of purpose.
Get up, go to work, get paid.
Find out what this is like.
The only time these kids in poor sections of the country are working, it's illegal.
We've got to do something with the child labor laws.
We got to do this.
Get up, get them, go to work, get paid, find out what that's all about.
Everybody's having a cow over this.
This is all predicted by me, El Rushball, over the past 23 years.
It's all been predicted from not keeping score in little kids' football and baseball games, to little Johnny being told 2 plus 2 is 5 is correct because he's trying, to giving awards to kids that don't deserve it so that you don't humiliate them.
We've created a young bunch of skulls full of mush with self-esteem because everybody thinks they're special for not doing anything.
As kids, they're treated with kid gloves.
Two plus two equals five.
That's right, little Johnny, until you learn it's four.
That's good.
You're trying.
We don't want to humiliate you.
If you think two plus two is five, keep it up, little Johnny.
That's wonderful.
Not going to keep score in kids' softball games.
No losers.
Unfair that somebody should lose.
The same token in those same sporting events, everybody gets a trophy for being a valuable player.
Even if they're a fat slob sitting on a bench, waddling the first base, they still got a trophy.
The problem is, they grew up and they entered the real world and they found out the real world and anything like that.
You don't get a trophy for doing nothing.
There are winners and losers.
And there is right and wrong.
And when that reality hits you and you haven't been prepared for it because you've been raised as a baby by a bunch of other babies, you join Occupy Wall Street.
And we'll be back.
And we're back.
Open Line Friday.
And Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Let me give you another way of illustrating what the regime did to get to this unemployment number.
And it is very similar to how baseline budgeting works.
Another way of looking at this is this.
At 120,000 jobs that were created, you have 315,000 people who dropped out.
What you do is add those together and you get a number 435,000.
And that 435,000, the government today says are no longer unemployed.
And so 435,000 jobs created 430,000, no, no, no, let's not go that far.
Let's say 435,000 people no longer unemployed results in an unemployment rate dropping from 9.0 to 8.6.
See how that works?
This is what they do.
This is what they did.
This is how it happens.
120,000 people find work.
315,000 quit looking.
Those 315,000 are no longer called unemployed.
That's the U3 clarification qualification.
U3 is made up of people looking for work and people who have lost their jobs, so forth.
The 315,000 stop looking.
They are added to those who are unemployed.
And you get a grand total of 435,000.
That's how it happens.
It's almost a dead ringer for the fraud and the misleading way that budgeting is done, baseline budgeting, such as there are never any cuts.
Even with the super committee, there aren't going to be any cuts in spending.
There are just going to be reductions in what was projected to be spent.
Still going to spend more, just not as much as was projected.
In the current services baseline, it's what it's actually called.
Current services, meaning what is at present being spent, is the baseline.
Not zero, but what's presently being spent or at present.
And then if you add 10% to what is being spent as a projection, it's what we're going to spend next year, and you only spend 7% of it.
Oh, no, that's a 3% cut in that.
We got the draconian cut of 3%.
We were going to spend 10%.
You're only going to spend 7%.
It's a 3% cut.
That's how baseline budgeting works.
It's the same thing here with the unemployment number.
Newt Gingrich, in addition to being in a hot seat now for suggesting that poor kids be taught how to work, has also told ABC News, quote, I am going to be the nominee, unquote.
He's taking a little heat for that.
How dare he be so confident?
How dare he be so cocky?
You don't run around and say, of course, I'm going to be the nominee, but Newt did.
We've got reaction to that too.
And we've got your phone calls.
We try to get to them earlier than usual on Open Line Friday.
Open Line Friday, Rush Lindbos serving humanity simply by showing up.
Great to have you here.
Again, telephone number 800-282-2882.
Now, go to the audio soundbite.
Remember, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, wait.
You know, there's some weird stuff out there today.
Well, for example, in Saudi Arabia, you heard this in Saudi Arabia, they are they're honest to God here.
This is UK Daily Mail.
Let me just read the headline.
Saudis fear there will be no more virgins and people will turn homosexual if female drive ban is lifted.
Women are, I don't know how it works.
I haven't been to Saudi Arabia, but women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia.
And there's a big move on to let women drive, as you know.
Not being mounted by our feminazis.
This is something happening within the realm of the kingdom.
And they're thinking about it.
And one of the objections have been written.
No, no, no, if we let if we let the women drive, there aren't going to be any more virgins and people will turn homosexual.
It's right here, the UK Daily Mail.
And it's a government report, so it must be true.
I mean, this report is just as credible as Obama's jobs report.
Here it is.
Repealing a ban on women drivers in Saudi Arabia will result in no more virgins, the country's religious council has warned.
A scientific report claiming or claims that relaxing the ban on women driving would also see more Saudis, men and women, turn to homosexuality and pornography.
That startling conclusion was drawn by Muslim scholars at the highest religious council working in conjunction with Kamal Subi, a former professor at the King Fahd University.
A report assessed the possible impact of repealing the ban in Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world where women are not allowed behind the wheel.
It was delivered this report to all 150 members of the Shura Council.
It's the country's legislative body.
The report warns that allowing women to drive would provoke a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality, and divorce.
Within 10 years of the ban being lifted, the report's authors claim there would be no more virgins in the Islamic kingdom.
And it pointed out a moral decline could already be seen in other Muslim countries where women are allowed to drive.
In the report, Professor Subi describes sitting in a coffee shop in an unnamed Arab state.
All the women were looking at me, he wrote.
One made a gesture that made it clear she was available.
This is what happens when women are allowed to drive.
The astonishing report comes after Shema Jastania, a 34-year-old Saudi woman, was sentenced to 10 lashes with a whip after being caught driving in Jeddah.
Now, we have in this country a long history of women driving, do we not?
Our resident expert on women here is Bo Snurdly.
Now, does any of this compute with you?
No more virgins because women drive.
Mass pornography and homosexuality.
I mean, it says right here that within 10 years, there would be no more virgins in the Islamic kingdom if women could drive and there'd be a surge in prostitution, pornography, and homosexuality, and divorce.
Now, women have been driving since before they could vote, right?
The horse and buggies.
So what's your take on this?
You can see a surge in divorce if women could drive, but not a surge in the other things.
So you know what they you don't think there's a correlation between driving and virginity.
You don't think there's a correlation between you don't think there's a correlation in driving and pornography.
See, I think when you're talking about driving and virginity, it seems to me that parking is what leads to no more virgins, not driving.
But what do I know?
At any rate, this is out there.
In Afghanistan, have you heard about this?
A woman was raped.
She was blamed.
Her punishment is marry the attacker.
I'm not kidding you.
In Afghanistan, a woman was raped.
She was held responsible for it, as is often the case in Islamic societies.
And her punishment, after some years in captivity, she has to marry her attacker.
See now that, now, folks, now you understand why this bunch in Saudi Arabia is, okay, if women can drive, bam, she's out of there.
You let women drive after being forced to marry rapist attackers, then they're gone.
If they have a car, if they get hold of a car.
And then there's this from the UK Daily Mail.
Somebody's have to explain this to me.
A woman has been accused of aborting her unborn baby boy after a dead fetus was found, dumped in a New York residential rubbish bin.
Yarribli Almonte, 20, has become one of only a handful of people in New York City to ever be charged with the offense of self-abortion.
This followed this gruesome discovery of the fetus in Washington Heights.
The superintendent found the seven-inch long fetus, still had the umbilical cord attached, on Tuesday night while trying and tying up the garbage bag.
He said, when I found a baby, I didn't know if it was real at first.
It was so bad.
And after that happened, I just stayed in my apartment for a while because I didn't feel well.
Police have now charged Almonte, who reportedly rented a room in the building at, well, I'm going to give you the address.
It's at Washington Heights for only a short while before moving out with self-abortion to first degree.
That's what she's been charged with.
How can any woman be charged with abortion?
Yeah?
After six months, you have to go to Planned Parenthood.
You can't do it yourself?
Are you telling me, you are telling me that in New York, a woman pregnant beyond six weeks or months, did you say?
Beyond six months cannot do a self-inflicted miscarriage.
That is a crime.
But if the same woman would walk into a Margaret Sanger joint, Planned Parenthood, or a neighborhood abortion clinic found on Siri, not found on Siri, that everything would be hunky-dory and fine.
That you cannot self-abort yourself, but somebody else can, and you can be, this is a murder here.
It is not known how old the fetus was.
The charge is only used when the abortion occurs.
You're right, after 24 weeks of pregnancy.
So here's, I'm cursed with a undiluted, full-fledged, logical mind.
So if this, if self-abortion is an arrestable crime, why is going to Planned Parenthood for the same thing not?
I don't understand.
I'm sorry.
Well, you see, and that is the key, ladies and gentlemen.
See, this is why you take women's studies.
I'm not supposed to understand this.
None of us are.
In fact, we're not supposed to even bring it up.
We aren't supposed to ask this.
And we certainly are not to insist on an answer.
This is none of our business.
You're absolutely right.
This is a case for women's studies.
This is why you get a degree in it.
All right.
Fine, Dandy.
Well, we'll be back here.
I have figured it out.
I have figured it out.
I don't know why it took me so long.
Why you can't self-abort in New York.
Look at what happened here.
The woman, she gets a temporary residence.
She self-aborts.
She puts the fetus in an ordinary trash bin.
She didn't recycle.
Number two, anytime you do it yourself, you are cheating a union person out of a gig.
Well, what are we talking about?
We're talking about New York with a madcap environmentalist wacko regulationism trash guy found it in a standard trash bin, not in the recycle bin.
Any number of reasons to call this a crime.
All right, it's Openline Friday.
We always try to get to the phones in the first hour on Friday and try to get more calls in than usual on Friday.
So we're going to do that.
We're going to start Fort Myers, Florida.
This is Sean.
Thank you, El Mucho, for calling.
Great to have you on the program.
Mr. Limbaugh, thank you so much for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I'm extremely honored to be able to talk to you and to personally be able to tell you thank you.
Well, I appreciate it.
But for what, though?
Well, I was born Democrat, raised in a Democrat family, been a Democrat all my life.
Met a wonderful woman a few years back and married her, and she, conservative Republican.
And about a year ago, Our debates with each other were getting so bad that we were about to go through a divorce.
And I'm driving in the car one day and I start listening to your shows, and you really opened my eyes.
I've been converted over to a conservative Republican.
And I tell you, me and my wife now get along better than ever.
We actually listen to your podcast every night together.
We're able to sit down and talk with each other and debate and get along.
And our marriage is so wonderful now.
We're really a poster child family for what the Democrat Party really preys upon.
I'm a hard worker.
I go out and make $350, $400 a week.
I support my wife, my two kids.
She has a disability.
And about a week ago, after listening to your shows and really getting involved, we decided as a family that we were going to start returning all the disability checks that my wife was getting because we didn't want to be a part.
We didn't want to be a part of that.
We wanted to support ourselves.
We wanted to be a self-sustaining family.
Whoa.
And we are, I mean, our marriage is so wonderful now, and it's single-handedly because of you and your show.
Whoa.
Now, I have to tell you something.
Let me ask you a question.
When you said that your wife was conservative and you're a liberal Democrat and your arguments got ferocious, those are core value arguments you're having.
And so when you come together, finally, when you had your conversion and you and your wife now agree on core values, that's probably what changed the whole marriage around because it's key to have those.
It's key for two people to have core values in common.
It really is.
And I am ecstatic to hear that the program here had a small role in that.
But giving the disability money back, you know, the disability money exists.
That's the kind of help society is willing.
Now, to fork over, now sometimes even that gets abused, but it doesn't matter.
If you feel better, if you feel more responsible and so forth, more power to you.
I find this fascinating.
Well, you know, we tried, well, I don't want to say we tried.
There was always organizations that were trying to get us set up in something to give us handouts, get us something free.
I'm not going to lie to you, the money that I make, we get by.
We pay our rent.
We're able to do what we need to do.
And it's absolutely easy to take that money and be able to go out and eat, do things that we want to do, so on and so forth.
But we really feel, and both of us, we talked about this for a long time, but we really feel like these handout programs were a way for Democrats, for liberals to keep us on their side.
And as hard as it is sometimes, the joy of knowing that we went out, we didn't have to accept handouts.
We work hard for our money.
We have two wonderful kids.
Our relationship is amazing now.
And to us, the pride that we feel for not allowing ourselves to get caught up in the government owes me this or it owes me that or whatever.
You're happier, right?
I'm happier.
I'm much happier.
You're not thinking somebody owes you something.
You're not thinking you're a victim of somebody else.
Exactly.
I think that's the big word: a victim.
My wife has lupus.
And, you know, I think for a long time she felt like a victim.
And I've actually seen an improvement in her attitude and everything, not just because of our marriage being better, but because she exactly, she doesn't feel like she owes something.
Well, I'll tell you what, the first call on Open Line Friday carries with it an awesome responsibility.
Setting the tone for the whole day.
And you've done a great job of that.
This is just fabulous.
Was your wife, while you were still in the midst of your lost years as a liberal Democrat, was your wife listener to the show?
She was.
I used to hate you, Rush.
I used to think that you were egotistical and that you were just a puppet.
Well, yeah.
But I tell you, and I don't know why.
I was driving down the road and I was listening to your show and everything was so profounding.
It was just like a light bulb came on.
And I fought it.
I fought it for a while.
But I listened to you.
Actually, I've been written up twice at work for listening to your show.
And that's when the wife and I decided that we wouldn't do your show live anymore, that we would wait until I get off work and we would listen to it together.
And that's helped with our communications.
Matter of fact, tonight, I promise you I'll be in trouble because she's going to hear me talking to you.
No, it ought to make you an even bigger hero.
It's a great story.
Everybody associated with the program is a warmed heart over hearing this.
Bringing people together like this, this is cool.
This is just great.
And I'll tell you, Merry Christmas to you.
Have a wonderful holiday season.
Thanks so much for the call.
That's Sean in Fort Myers, Florida, and we will be back.
Don't go away.
Remember the, we talked about this.
Coca-Cola for the holiday season.
Change the color of the can to white to ostensibly help the polar bears.
It bombed.
It bombed out.
And they're going back to red cans next week.
It bombed out.
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