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Dec. 20, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 20, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Anyone know whether Greta Van Susterin was at Candlestick Park last night?
Fox News crew and two power failures during the Steelers foreigners game.
And wherever Fox goes, there are power failures, like here.
Knocked us off the air for what?
Well, they could discombobulate us for a half hour.
We're off there for maybe two or three minutes.
They did it twice.
Actually, what was going on out there?
It's an old stadium and the windmills uh just stopped turning.
Uh the the well, it's a liberal city, windmills, the solar panels, and just actually what's going on out there.
You know, the the Fordiners have been trying to get a new stadium and they won't build them one, so uh they just guaranteed there'll never be another night game at Candlestick Park as long as the Forerunners play there.
There was uh uh rumor going around the league believes there was some chicanery with the power failure being purposeful to speed the building of the new stadium going on down in Santa Clara.
Anyway, folks, great to have you here.
How are you?
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network of the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies, our telephone number if you want to be on the program 800 28282, and the email address, Lrushbo at EIB net com.
Kim Jong dead.
Still dead.
You notice anything peculiar about the people in North Korea who have uh been seeing crying over Kim Jong-il's death.
They're crying out there, but the people they all look fat.
They all look plump to me.
Uh which is odd, because you know, we've been told that most of the people of North Korea are on the verge of starvation.
So there must be some income disparity in uh in North Korea after all.
The mourners must be North Korea's fat cats, the one percenters.
They're able to eat enough to uh to even have tears.
Hear the news, folks, it has made it across the pond to the UK Daily.
Oh, let me tell you something.
Well, the Washington Post ABC, I think it's them.
They had a poll out today that show Obama's approval numbers are coming back.
And I just I want to remind you that I have warned you this kind of thing is going to happen.
The unemployment number is going to precipitously drop, and it's going to get close to 8% by next November.
Just mark my words.
That's in the can.
It's in the cards.
Also, uh Obama's approval number now is up five points over the last three months or some such thing.
Not sure of the time frame, but it's up the highest since last summer.
And this is being heralded.
Now, clearly, if you if you go through, if you look at the story reporting this, you find that there is still overwhelming disapproval with Obama's policies.
Profound disapproval of his policies, but his overall job approval number is up five points.
Now, the purpose for this, let's just let's assume it's not legitimate.
And by the way, if you if you want, well, why would you assume it's not legitimate?
The we have discovered there's an allegation out there that the North Carolina governor, Beverly Purdue, has been given in advance nationwide unemployment numbers.
Now, this is entirely illegal.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is said to be 100% insulated from every outside source that not even the White House can get the advanced numbers.
That nobody can get them.
And the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this story says, very, very, very careful about maintaining this august reputation that they have, that their numbers are sacrosanct, and that they are not influenced by anybody, and that they are not given to anybody, and not even the White House can get them.
Now there's a story that they have been Leaked a couple of times to uh staffers for the North Carolina governor.
It is said that the purpose of this is to allow her to craft a press release in advance of the numbers that would be favorable to her somehow.
So it it's it's not that she has any influence over the numbers.
It's not that the numbers are illegitimate, it's just that she's given advanced notion uh of them, and it's uh the way it's looked at is that there it's it's it also happened when Bush uh was president happened in 2007, so it's assumed that it's not a that it it's it's it's not a political appointee, that it's somebody in there that has Democrat leanings that's been there for a while.
My only point in bringing this up is that while they have this august reputation and this uh holier than now clean and pure as the wind driven snow reputation, we find out now that somebody in there is accused of leaking numbers to the North Carolina governor.
I'm just telling you that the unemployment number is going to get down to close to 8%, however, they have to do it.
If they have to reduce the overall universe of jobs, which they have been doing.
For example, if the same number of people were looking for work today as were looking for work when Obama was emagulated, the unemployment rate would be 11%.
And now at what is it, 8.9?
And that's because they have simply wiped out two million plus jobs.
And they have wiped out, accordingly, two million plus people who are no longer looking.
The job market has just shrunk.
Therefore, the number of people out of work as a percentage of available jobs, obviously that number is going to come down.
So that's going to happen, and you're going to have uh remember that that Yahoo News story where they uh accidentally got an invitation to listen into that conference call between the Torrence polling group and the RNC and the RNC seeking advice from Torrence, and they do this with a lot of polling groups on how best to go after Obama.
And this was the group said, Don't go after him personally, don't be critical of Obama.
Don't do that.
He's loved, he's liked, he's adored.
People even feel sorry for him.
Remember that.
So here we go.
Approval numbers up.
Disapproval of his overall policies, though, very strong, but his personal approval numbers are up.
And so it's going to give credence.
The Republican Party thinking that they have to go at Obama with kid gloves.
So I'm just warning you now not to get dispirited.
I'm warning you now not to think that the actual emotion or passion for changing course, defeating Obama, repealing Obamacare, it is ratcheting up.
It is not weakening, it's not tiring, it's not getting lazy.
Uh people are not giving up, but you are not going to see that evidence.
You're not going to see evidence of that passion or energy that you have and your fellow citizens have for change.
You're not going to see it.
What you're instead going to be told is that, well, look at Obama's approval numbers going, wow, and unemployment.
Look at the number coming down.
Oh, it's all coming together.
That's going to be combined with Obama, as he's saying now, as I predicted he would say, it's worse than we thought it was.
They didn't tell us how bad it was.
But we can't change horse in the middle stream.
Now, the thing to add to this now is that Axlrod is out there accusing the Republicans of sabotaging the economy in order to get Obama.
At Washington Post ABC Obama poll, by the way, they oversampled Democrats and independents absurdly.
In order to get Obama up five points, Democrats 32%.
Republicans in the poll 25%.
Independents, 37%.
So the sample group, Democrats and Independents, wildly out of proportion to reality.
Now, this Axelrod thing, as you will hear as the program unfolds.
Last summer, I believe it was, there was a piece by a blogger in the Washington Post named Greg Sargent.
And I predicted after reading this piece to you, and I've got the I've got the transcript here, that they would accuse the Republicans of sabotaging the economy.
I made this prediction last summer, and Axelrod did it yesterday.
Continued today.
And by the way, brought back that quote about Newt.
The higher he climbed, the monkey climbs on a pole, the more of his butt you see.
So he's using that now a second time.
Okay.
Yeah, they are the Washington Post is claiming that there are more independents, registered independents in America than there are Republicans or Democrats.
37% independent, 32% Democrat, and only 25% of Republicans.
We're sampled in the Washington Post poll.
So I I'm just warning you.
Again and again, don't get dispirited.
That's gonna be the primary purpose of the drive-by media from here on out.
I mean when they talk up Ron Paul in Iowa, that's to dispirit you.
When they talk up Ron Paul when they when they uh talk about maybe somebody going third party, that is to dispirit you.
That's all they got, folks.
They can't tout Obama's virtues.
And in fact, as I was gonna say, the story is now crossed upon UK Daily Mail.
President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign will be the first in modern political history to abandon white working class voters, according to strategists.
For decades, Democrats have been losing more and more blue-collar whites.
Their alienation helped lead to a massive Republican wave in 2010, the midterms, when the Republicans wooed 30% more of white working class voters than the Democrats did.
Democrat strategists say that Obama's focusing its attention instead on poor black and Hispanic voters and educated white professionals.
All pretense, and that they're they're just recycling Thomas B. Edsel's piece that was now three weeks old.
I remember when I was in the op-ed section of the New York Times, Ed Saul used to write the Washington Post now, he's a you know big liberal muckety muck at the Huffing and Puffington Post.
And when I saw that piece on that Monday in the New York Times, you remember I told you this is big.
Uh it's it's not getting anywhere near the attention it ought to be getting from the Republicans.
It ought to be a staple of the Republican primary campaign.
Newt, Mitt, Perry, Bachman, they all ought to be talking about this.
Here you have the first black president admitting his campaign, admitting they're not interested in the votes of white working class Americans.
They're not interested.
They're going after poor blacks and Hispanics, minorities, and the educated white elite, which should be professors Hollywood types, uh Wall Street types, uh CEOs, uh, this kind of thing.
Now I think, folks, it is paramount to keep this front and center.
This is a divisive approach.
This is an approach by the president of the United States to divide the people of this country.
So we watched the campaign roll out.
And there is also now a couple stories I have in the stack about uh how the regime plans on using women in the campaign.
In fact, it's there's a phrase in one of the stories that women will actually be the canaries in the coal mine in terms of deciphering which policies will work and which ones won't, which campaign strategies will work and which ones won't.
Now, this UK Daily Mail piece is from November 28th.
And it was not a big deal was made of it at the time, but I've I ran across it, and I just want to point out to you that the story has found its way across the pond.
I think, you know, and I always trust my instincts.
My instincts have never failed me.
I think this is huge.
Can you imagine running around with the if you if you're Republican, the ammo this gives you?
The president of the United States, one of his top strategists admitting they can't get and are not interested in getting the votes of white working class voters.
I don't even mean to make it racial.
Take white out of the equation.
Uh Just working class voters.
Not interested in them.
In fact, they happen to be white is incidental.
No, not to the Obama people, but I mean you're going to be you've got to be uh careful how you go about this if you're going to use it.
The 2012 approach treats white voters without college degrees as an unattainable cohort, says Thomas B. Edsel.
The Obama campaign's not explicitly announced this strategy, however strategic point to it as the likely path of the president's victory given demographic data from previous elections.
I mean, he can't win with them.
What does it tell you?
President of the United States cannot win the election with the votes of working class white families.
Rye Tishera, a strategist at the Center for American Progress, wrote in 1995, President Clinton couldn't win white blue-collar workers' re-election bid would be doomed.
That was 1995.
Okay, go fast forward 15 years, and they've made an about face.
The Republican Party has become the party of the white working class, says the same guy, Rai Toshira.
However, he warns that losing whites without college degrees altogether would be disastrous.
There simply are not enough college educated whites and Hispanics and blacks who will make a Democrat majority.
Obama can still get away with losing white Americans by 17%, as John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, did in 2004.
That's the lay of the land.
Take uh quick time out here, my friends.
El Rushbo back.
After this, we continue to discuss Obama, the great unifier.
All right, I want to repeat something else, ladies and gentlemen, that is from an earlier program, just as I repeated the uh the Thomas B. Edsol piece, even though that did appear in a UK Daily Mail.
So the reason to repeat it, and I'm doing this because when I when I when I saw that poll out today, Washington Post, ABC poll, Obama's approval numbers up five points.
I knew what was in store for us.
I knew what was ahead, and I know what they're trying to do to you.
I know that uh see, well, here's what they know.
They know that you, as Tea Party members or as conservatives, they know that you are not happy with the Republican Party, and that makes them very happy.
They know that you don't think you have anybody fighting for you.
They know that the people you would prefer to be nominated uh having that vote split.
They are very much aware that you are unhappy with the country the way it is, and that your hope that your energy is rooted in having that all change.
Obama's defeated right people elected president in the Congress.
We start reversing some of the size of government spending and all that.
Every effort is gonna be made to dispirit you.
Every effort's gonna be made to make you think you are a minority and that your your your candidate doesn't exist, that your agenda doesn't exist, the Republican Party does not want to do what you want to do.
Republican Party does not want to make government smaller.
Republican Party does not want to really repeal Obamacare.
You are, folks, gonna be the focus of an unceasing fruttle assault, like you haven't seen.
And it's not gonna be just on whoever Republican, whichever Republican wins a nomination.
It's gonna be aimed at you.
The news is going to be aimed at you.
And remember, there isn't any more news in the news.
It's all an agenda.
And it's all oriented towards an outcome that the people in the media, i.e., the Democrat Party want.
So, my purpose here is to remind you of some truths that have not changed, that will not be reported, That will be part of the effort, in fact, to be swept under the rug.
You remember when we reported not long ago that uh the news was out that more and more people see big government as the big threat, not Wall Street.
Well, that only lasted about 10 minutes.
That's why I'm reminding you of it again now.
While Obama has focused his rhetoric in recent weeks on depicting a reckless Wall Street and an insufficiently taxed millionaires and billionaires as threats to the American middle class, a newly released Gallup poll indicates Americans apparently have been coming to a different conclusion during Obama's presidency.
Fewer people now see big business as the biggest threat to the country in the future.
More people now see big government as the biggest threat.
I'm reminding this, I'm reminding you of this again because the initial story had no legs.
It didn't go, of course it's not going to have legs in the drive-by media in the state control media, but it also did not have legs in the Republican presidential campaign.
As still to this moment, the fact that Obama can't win with white working class families, that hasn't been part of Republican campaign, and it needs to be.
These Republican candidates need to be using this stuff.
So this Gallup poll, here's the F. After months, folks, years, in fact, since Obama was immaculated.
Years of coverage, media hysteria over the occupied.
The propaganda push that the Tea Party's dead, long live Occupy Wall Street, all that, the constant trashing of big business.
After all of that, more people, a lot more people still see big government as the problem they face, not big business.
Be right back.
So again, the regime cannot win with white working class voters.
Gallup poll.
A majority of Americans, a bigger majority than ever almost, I mean it's within many, many years, consider big government the big problem, not big business, despite three years of Obama leading the charge, leading attacks against big business.
Big government is still seen as the problem by the vast majority of people, building up the Occupy Wall Street people, tearing down the Tea Party, the constant trashing of big business CEOs, millionaires, billionaires.
They still cannot succeed in having most Americans see business as the big threat.
Rather, most Americans see big government.
Over the last 45 years, Gallup has periodically asked the question, in your opinion, which of the following will be the biggest threat to the country in the future?
Big business, big labor, big government.
When Gallup asked the question in a survey conducted December 4th through 7th of 2008, a month after Obama was immaculated, or elected, but before he was immaculated, 53% said big government was the biggest threat.
31% said big business.
11% said big labor.
Three months later.
Three months later, 55% up two points, said big government was the biggest problem.
When Gallup asked the question again two weeks ago, the percentage saying big government would be the biggest threat to the country in the future had grown to 64%.
An 11-point increase from December of 2008.
At the same time, the percentage saying that big business would be the biggest threat had dropped to 26%.
That's a decline of five points.
So the belief that big government's a bigger threat to the country than big business or big labor hit an all-time high, 65% in 1999 and 2000, in the aftermath of the Clinton years.
Well, not the aftermath, actually the last two years of the Clinton regime.
After three years of the Obama regime, we're at 64%, one point shy of the record high.
And that is the truth.
And Gallup puts this out in the press release.
It's not been reported in the drive-by media.
Got to read Gallup.
It's the same thing.
If you if you didn't see the New York Times piece on Thomas B. Edsel and Obama abandoning working white voters, then you didn't know about it unless you listen here.
It's not widely out there.
What's widely out there is Obama's approval numbers are up.
The Tea Party's defunct.
The conservatives are a minority and nobody cares what they want, and they're the extremist wackos and so forth.
I'm being told I need to repeat that I'm repeating it.
Look at I'm repeating this.
I did it last week.
I'm repeating this because one thing, two people just saw it for the first time today and told me about it.
And I said, no, no, no, I've did this last week, but I'm reminding you again, doing these two pieces again because we're in the onslaught of all of this negative assault on you and what you think and the Republican Party while unemployment's going down and Obama's going up, and I'm just warning you this is what you're going to be hit with times 10 from now to election day in November.
And I'm trying to make sure you don't get dispirited here by giving you a foundation of stuff that is true that's not being reported.
That will be huge factors.
The Republicans, I don't care, Romney Gingrich, who they are, ought to pick these two points of interest up and make them part of a campaign.
They haven't so far.
But this is all because folks, I'm I'm concerned.
I know how you're going to get hit, and I know how difficult it is to not be affected by a media onslaught.
Even I, L. Rushbo, as aware and knowledgeable of who these people are and what they do and how they do it and how they try to do it.
Even I, if I let my guard down for a split second, can get sucked in.
And I just know that over the course of the next 12 months, I'm going to be getting phone calls.
Rush, it's over.
You see, this I'm this one I'm trying to make you see that it's not over.
It's nowhere near over.
If it's over for anybody right now, it's over for Obama.
And the efforts that the media are going to be making from now to November is evidence that it's over for them.
Not if the election were today, it's over.
They're the ones that have an indefensible track record.
They're the ones that have an indefensible agenda.
They're the ones that have to lie about what they hope to do.
They're the ones who have to lie about what they have done.
Can you imagine we have a president of the United States who cannot okay a pipeline project to give us more oil and more jobs?
Because it'll hurt his reelection.
That's all you need to know.
Would you want to be in that position?
Would you want to be president running for re-election and have to turn down an oil pipeline project that will create upwards of 200,000 jobs in the long run and deliver us more oil from an ally from Canada, decreasing our dependence on other nations oil.
Would you want to have to veto that?
That's where the president of the United States, the president of the United States has to veto anything that has American progress attached to it.
Because it's going to alienate one of the many constituencies that make up his coalition.
Let me read to you from the New York Times, March 25th, 2008.
Obama's only been in office two months.
Two months.
And the New York Times headline is Obama's test.
Can a liberal be a unifier?
Date low Washington.
At the core of Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign is a oh I'm this before the election.
Oh, I'm sorry.
This is not after he's immaculated.
This is this is this is like nine months before he was eight months before he's elected.
Okay, this.
At the core of Senator Obama's presidential campaign is a promise that he can transcend the starkly red and blue politics of the last 15 years, and the partisan and ideological wars and build a new governing majority.
To achieve the change the country wants, Obama says we need a leader who can finally move beyond the divisive politics of Washington and bring Democrats, independents, and Republicans together to get things done.
That's candidate Obama.
Any of that happened.
In fact, he's done such a horrible job of unifying.
We're not red states and blue states anymore.
By Thomas B. Edsol's own reporting and admission.
It's white states and black states.
We're not red states and blue states anymore.
It's white states and black states.
Translated as middle class states and lower class states.
No more red and blue.
Don't nail this to me.
I'm the one simply reporting what Obama's acolytes are saying.
Obama does not want, cannot get, cannot win with the votes of white working class families.
So where are they in the red and blue configuration?
It's not red states versus blue states anymore.
And what about this magical unity the New York Times fantasized about uh in March of 2008?
Or Obama says, yeah, to effect this change, we need a leader who can finally move beyond the divisive politics of Washington, bring Democrats, independence, Republicans together and get things.
As he tried to do that, he still won't have a meeting with the Republicans.
alone The media's job from now until November is to wear you down.
They never sleep.
They are sub they're they're they're going to wear you down, dispirit you, get you depressed, think that Obama's rebounding, loved and as popular as ever before, along with his policies.
They're going to claim to have evidence, the unemployment numbers are going to improve.
They'll be able to stage some events with newly hired workers who will thank Obama and his policies.
And you're also going to get dispirited.
I'm going to throw this in too, because whoever the Republican nominee is probably will not be satisfying on the campaign trail.
How about a lot of people?
And I say this and people think I'm kidding.
I don't actually verbally talk to a lot of people.
I don't like talking to people, it means I have to listen to them.
But I have communication with a lot of people.
And this campaign that Romney's running has got a lot of people ticked off this negative scorched earth campaign against a conservative.
I get some people saying to me, you know, if Romney will do this in a primary time, Take out, you know, whatever this dirty, what will he do to conservatives after he's elected or nominated when he thinks they have nowhere else to go?
How loyal to conservatism will he be?
Obama opposed the AT&T T-Mobile merger.
That would have brought 5,000 jobs back to the country.
But Obama posed that.
You know why Obama opposed that?
Think the name of the company is light squared or four-squared or some such thing, but there is an Obama donor who's out working on a uh high-speed data network that's trying to get light squared and trying to give this company preference.
This company network somehow wreaks havoc on existing cell networks out there, and it's got some national security implications as uh as well.
GPS system is used.
Obama bought shares in light squared, as did George Soros.
And so they're being protected in this ATT T Mobile for the ATT, by the way, and T Mobile have ended it.
The merger is dead.
Uh, the Justice Department sued.
The FCC came out against it.
And so now ATT owes T Mobile $4 billion as a breakup fee.
So ATT is going to find out what their customers feel like when the contract's broken.
Just kidding.
But your rates are going to win.
ATT has to fork over $4 billion.
What's going to happen to subscriber rates?
So lots of uh lots of stuff going on underneath the surface and uh and behind the scenes.
But I again I I mentioned these two stories uh today because frankly, uh person says, Rush, Rush, why did you tell us about this?
Now, that person obviously can't listen every day, did tell you and led on both of them.
But told me maybe some people don't know because it's not been anywhere but the show.
So the Gallup news on most people, 64%, big government's the problem.
Obama can't win with white working class votes.
That's I think that is so huge.
I think it is just it's amazing, and that this Edsel guy admits it.
So just trying to keep you spirits up, because I know what's headed our way.
Shortly after the turn of the year, I know what's coming.
It's this simple, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't care what you hear from now until election day.
Don't care what kind of BS that you hear.
I would rather be us than them.
There is simply no way to defend Obama's record.
There's no way to run on that record.
There's no way that Obama can run around and say four more years.
There is no way Obama can positively answer the question, you're better off now than when I assumed off.
There's nothing positive.
In fact, you know, they're going to be heading for this unemployment number 8%.
Since when is that tolerable?
That's even being set up.
That's why all this talk this past year about 9% would have been the new norm.
Oh, yeah, well, you know, Rush globalization and the way the uh economies of the world are shaking out, and this is something the American people, I think, need to prepare themselves for.
Adjust themselves psychologically and economically nine, nine percent, nine and a half percent, uh, pretty much gonna be the new norm.
That's what they've said.
They've been conditioned.
So 8% supposed to look good.
Full employment.
Remember, in 2007, we're at 4.7% unemployment.
George W. Bush.
2006 for sure, 2007, and maybe it got up to five something, but eight percent.
Since when is that tolerable?
The battle, ladies and gentlemen, will be whether Obama is able to change the subject from his presidency and his record to something else.
Not is he gonna try.
They're already doing that.
They're already trying.
The question is the battle will be whether he's able to get away with it.
We know he'll be able to get away with it in the media.
Because, like, I saw Governor Christie.
He was on Scarborough Show today.
And he was he was he was explaining why he's not in favor of Newt Gingrich getting a nomination.
He said, well, you know, I like Newt, it's a good guy, but just afraid that if Newt is a nominee, then Newt will become the subject of the campaign.
And we need Obama to be the subject of the campaign.
Governor Christie, I have to tell you, it doesn't matter who our nominee is, they are going to be the subject of the campaign.
If you think, if anybody thinks that Romney is going to be treated with kid gloves, what do you think Occupy Wall Street was put together for?
Nail Romney.
I mean, the idea that that we're gonna have uh we can pick a nominee that they're gonna leave alone.
That's not correct.
So whether it's Newt, it's Bachman, Perry, Santorum, Romney, the subject is going to be that person.
That's what the campaign's gonna be about.
The media will see to it.
Our battle is gonna make sure they're not able to change that subject, that it remains a referendum on Obama.
Because the party with the weakest candidate is the party with Obama at the head of it.
That's the party with the weakest candidate because It is Barack Obama, who is the weakest candidate out there.
What do the Democrats have to do?
They got a monumental charge here.
They have to defend a large majority of the Senate seats that are up.
Plus Obama.
They have to defend Obama.
And what have they done?
They have no budget.
They have not done one thing towards deficit reduction.
Despite what they say, they have not done one thing toward job creation.
Exactly the opposite, in fact.
They have blown up the deficit.
They have blown up the debt.
They have lost two million plus jobs.
Just erased.
And a nation's being pushed into a downward spiral, and they proudly claim that they are managing the decline.
They have nothing positive to say about themselves or anybody else.
They're defeatists, they're losers.
Just have to keep them in that corner.
And I, El Rush Ball with a brief timeout, will be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
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