Even if, and it isn't, but even if the unemployment number really is 8.3%, just remember, it only took us $5 trillion in spending to get there.
But none of this is accurate.
None of this, other than the raw numbers that we've been talking about.
Hi, folks.
It's Friday.
Let's roll on.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line flight.
Great to have you here.
One big exciting hour to go at 800-282-2882.
So happy to be with you.
Such a thrill, such a delight, and such an honor.
So even if the unemployment number is 8.3%, took us $5 trillion in spending to get there.
And for the record, the average unemployment rate under Bush was 5.2%.
It was only as high as 7.3% one time.
And that was the last month of Bush's regime.
And that happens to coincide with the bottom falling out of the national mood after Obama had won.
That's when businesses started firing people.
Laying people off was after November of 2008.
So anyway, great to have you back here, folks.
Had to rush through this.
The company, I don't know how to pronounce it.
I think it's Spegen, S-P-I-G-E-N.
S-P-G.com.
They make, it's $28.
My email, what does it cost, Rush?
You didn't tell me.
It's $28.
And it's really cool.
You just, you put this on the phone.
There's a video.
It shows you put this thing on the, it's just, it's like four tenths of a millimeter thick, thin as it can be.
It's scratch-proof.
A box cutter.
They've got a video demonstrating all this.
You put it on the iPhone and you tap it in the middle and you see the thing stick itself to the iPhone.
You just tap it.
You line it up and tap the thing.
I can't describe it.
All you got to do is wash your hands and clean the actual screen of the iPhone, put it on there.
So I ordered five.
I got one.
I sent them a note.
Only five.
And the shipping invoice included the quantity of five.
So they said, well, send us a picture.
The packing materials of the FedEx slip.
And I had thrown all that stuff away.
Who keeps that stuff?
I don't.
So I wrote them back.
So, okay, I'm sorry.
I didn't keep it.
Here's a picture of the one that I got.
And they went ahead and sent me a note just now.
They're going to send the other four.
And, you know, that's the kind of customer service you get at 2F by T. There aren't too many companies that do that kind of thing.
If they've got a policy that you have to have a picture of, they have to picture what you bought.
So I just wanted to give them a shout out and thank them.
Now, yeah, there are no bubbles in it.
It's the most amazing thing that you just put it on the iPhone and tap it.
It looks like a slow spreading blob underneath it as it adheres to the surface of the iPhone.
It's a screen shield.
It's a protector.
And it will not.
Well, if it does shatter, it's all contained.
You're not going to have shards all over the floor.
But that takes a lot for that to happen.
I want to go to the audio soundbites.
Ladies and gentlemen, we'll start here.
This is number one.
When the unemployment news came out today.
No, we're going to start with number two.
I want to go back and play for you for October 28th on this show.
This, just to remind you, that none of this that's happening today and what will happen in the ensuing months should surprise you.
It's going to depress you, but it shouldn't surprise you.
I'm going to tell you what it's going to be.
See, it was worse than we knew when Obama was inaugurated.
And it's taking longer for his policies to work than anybody knew.
And they're finally starting to work.
Look at it all now.
Stock market going through the roof.
GDP up 2.5%.
Took longer than any of us knew, but we can't afford to start changing horses.
Now we can't change horses in the middle stream.
You're going to see Obama approval numbers start inching up.
And you might see unemployment come down.
I'm still waiting for the government to report a below 9% unemployment figure.
And if that happens, and even if the below 9% number is 8.9%, forget the 0.9.
It'll be the 8 that they focus on.
They can't wait for it.
They're setting it up.
October 28th of last year.
I predicted to you this very day.
Predicted what would happen.
Let's go to a media montage.
How great this news is for Obama.
To hell with the country.
It's great for Obama and his re-election effort.
Breaking news, a burst of January hiring.
It's the fifth straight month.
We've seen the unemployment rate go down.
It really does put Romney's messaging in a very awkward position.
Good news for Barack Obama.
No question about it.
The trend the Obama administration is going to like.
The Obama administration may be looking at a jobs market where the rate could fall to 8% or below.
If it's under 8%, that's an Obama win easy.
When you get to the springtime of a reelection year, when the economy is lifting and people share that sense, it's very auspicious for a president.
President Obama, this is a big political number, very big.
The president will now be able to go out and say, my policies have indeed turned around this economy.
Yeah, even though they haven't, and even though his policies have cost us $5 trillion.
And to put it in a more understandable context, the federal budget for years 2013 and 2014 have already been spent at current levels.
2013, 2014 budget already spent $5 trillion added to the national debt.
And remember, we were told by Gallup a couple weeks ago that the real number, unemployment number, really doesn't matter.
It's the trend that counts.
It's the trend.
And if we're trending up by hook or by crook.
From the Daily Mail, the UK Daily Mail.
Why a pretty woman stops men behaving badly, but for the fairer sex, it's a different story.
If the man in your life is suddenly on his best behavior, have a look around, it says here.
Men become nicer, kinder, and more caring when there's a beautiful woman nearby.
Now, this apparently is news to these people.
This apparently is a sudden revelation.
Women, however, feel less of a need to impress men and remain true to themselves, even when there's a handsome chap hovering in the wings.
When a beautiful woman's around, men's behavior will improve 100%.
They'll stop being predators, and they'll stop, you know, expelling gas.
They'll stop burping and they'll stop cursing and stop scratching.
And they'll become little princes when a beautiful woman's around.
But you bring in a great-looking guy, and women couldn't care less.
Doesn't change the way they behave at all.
And here is the documentation to prove it, to investigate how having an audience affects our behavior.
British and Dutch researchers ask the group.
By the way, can I, undeniable truth of life number 24, can I call your attention to that here?
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the.
This is I mean, it's right here beautiful women, men change their behavior.
The feminazis don't like male behavior at all, and what really ticks them off is that beautiful women can make their, make men change their minds by can I, can I?
What is the opposite of this if, if a bunch of guys are in a bar, wherever it is, beautiful woman walks in and they stop being brutes and predators by the same token, what happens when a feminazi walks in?
they turn into beasts when the feminazis not that nothing happens thirdly they get worse men get worse when the feminazis walk in mr limbo are you commenting on the attractiveness or lack of an ephemera yes mr new castrati what was your first clue sir exactly mr castrati that is the point It's telephone time open line.
Friday we go to Tuckahoe, New York, in Francisco.
Francisco, great to have you here.
Hello, thank you for taking my call.
I just wanted to maybe throw some light on why they can't uh add, subtract and divide to a correct uh unemployment number.
Uh, if you look at the majority of politicians in this country, they're all pretty much lawyers.
And if you go back a little further and see what lawyers background are and what they study in school, it's pretty much history or political science and they just have no real training on anything.
I mean, we just got to get more engineers and doctors in there.
And if you even look at who goes into study in college history and and political science, it's not.
I mean, maybe i'll look why i'm an engineer myself, but it's not the top of the class from high school, it's not.
You never see a political twin going to study history or political science.
They're usually going into engineering, the you know business maybe, or medicine.
And I mean it's just ridiculous how this country I mean I don't know what to agree with with what would you do to change this?
I recall Patsy Schroeder once, and a number of other feminists once, said that there weren't enough women uh, in the Senate uh, and the THE House, what will we do about this?
Well, I mean, I don't know.
I mean, you know, we have every job out there for, you know, county.
I mean, I used to be county engineer for Westchester County, New York for the Health Department.
I mean, we should have qualifications for even basic levels of those.
I have to have an engineering degree.
I have to have this, that.
I mean, if you want to go higher up, you have to have a PE license to be a senior engineer there.
Why did that put politicians?
We have no credentials.
We have no standards for them.
I mean, if you went back into some of these people's high school grades and high schools.
Come on.
We're talking to lawyers.
What do you expect here?
Well, I mean, you know, it's funny, too, because I have a big family, big Italian family.
I have about nine lawyers that are cousins.
And, you know, it's not like they're not educated.
They're smart people.
But even the most smart person that goes into law, well, they study and have their background is history.
I mean, even though they could be smart persons, they just don't have what it takes to do.
I mean, look at the Super PAC committee.
Do any of those people have a finance degree?
Any of those people have any kind of training in that?
I mean, it's pathetic.
Exactly.
You know, one of the best Halloween costumes I ever saw, a guy showed up, and he actually had a giant balloon on his head with cutout for the mouth and the eyes.
He had a balloon on his head.
And I said, What are you?
What is this guy?
He said, I'm a lawyer.
A lawyer?
He said, Yeah, this is a condom.
He said, You put a balloon on your head, and you are that's a yeah.
So, what does that make me?
I'm a lawyer.
Oh, okay.
I like that.
Let me tell you something out there, Francisco.
You know, do you know why so many lawyers are in Congress and in politics?
Because they want to write the laws.
And the reason they want to write the laws is: guess who one of the largest groups of people contribute to Democrats is lawyers.
The plaintiffs bar, tort lawyers.
Tort reform is always fought.
Can you imagine one of the biggest changes in this country, culturally, politically, societally?
If loser pays became part of lawsuits, loser pays, you'd wipe out over half of these crazy lawsuits that take place.
Businesses that have been shut down would still be in business.
Loser pays.
Tort reform.
It's a closed group of people.
But I agree with you.
There's nothing you can do about it.
You can't limit the number of lawyers in Congress.
The Constitution doesn't permit it.
The same problem the women had.
They have belly aching and crying, not enough women in common.
What are we supposed to do?
I'll tell you what was inherently bad about it was that they're making the point: only women can represent women.
Only African Americans can represent African Americans.
I think what we ought to do for politicians is actually issue a license to steal.
Rather than have it done, just issue a license.
If you win elective office, you get the license.
And it says they're licensed to steal.
This is what happens.
Ted in Suffolk, Virginia.
Hi.
I'm glad you waited.
It's Openline Friday.
Hello.
It's an honor to talk to you, Rush.
Appreciate you taking my call.
I take exception with Obama's misuse of scripture to promote his personal agenda concerning capital gains tax and raising the taxes.
If he really understood what that scripture meant, it really means just the opposite.
It means personal stewardship, personal accountability.
Really says that every one of us born in this world is gifted to produce, gifted so that we can give back to our families, provide for ourselves.
It does also say that some of us have more gifts than others, but everyone is a 10 at at least one thing so that we all can provide and contribute to ourselves and our family and to the community.
At the risk of being disrespectful, because I clearly don't mean to be, but since Obama has a direct line to Jesus, I'd like him to ask a question.
Dear sir, where are we supposed to get the money that we are then to give everybody else?
Right.
I mean, where does it come from?
Yeah.
Charity is wonderful, but you have to have it to give it away.
How do you get it?
Yeah, and that scripture doesn't say that some of us are incapacitated where we can't get any gain where we need everybody else.
It does say that everyone, every single person born in our DNA, we have the gifting to be able to provide.
This is what I find offensive about it: the attempt to attach virtue to poverty.
The attempt, it's an unfortunate thing, and they need care and attention.
So for it, there's the right kind of compassion, too, which is aimed at getting them up and out of it, not maintaining them there with constant, never-ending sympathy so that they will vote for you.
I just the whole notion that Obama's got a direct line to Jesus and Jesus would agree with doing everything we can to see to it that people don't work and that we just take care of those who don't work.
I just, this attaching virtue to this, and it's a typical liberal trick.
You know, at Christmas back in the 80s and in the early 90s, when homelessness was all the rage, guess who were the poster people for homelessness?
Mary and Joseph.
Mary and Joseph.
Every one of us was just a paycheck away from being Mary and Joseph.
They were homeless.
They were trundling through the Middle East.
They're desperately looking for the inn.
They didn't guarantee the express card reservation they got there had been given away to the mules and were in trouble.
But they were the modern equivalent or the homeless that were the modern equivalent of Mary and Joseph.
So the left always try these kinds of things.
It's highly offensive.
I totally understand.
And this is from a guy who has a brother living in a six by nine foot hut.
By the way, don't forget that.
Not even a sign that says home sweet hut anywhere.
We happily welcome back to our program the Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson, who joins us from the Antioch Baptist Church in Seattle.
I assume you're at church.
You might be at home.
Welcome back to the program, Hutch.
How are you, sir?
Yeah, brother.
You are a sick man.
Home sweet hut anywhere.
Home sweet hut.
He's got a brother that lives in Kenya in a six by nine foot hut, and he's got an aunt that just last year got running water in her house in the place.
And I told that this guy lives on a dollar a year, and $20 would make such a difference in this guy's life, and Obama won't come across.
But he's talking to Jesus.
Hey, you know, you're talking to the right man when you say what Jesus had.
Yeah, but the scary thing is Jesus talking back to him, Hutch.
He thinks he is.
And look what he's telling him.
Well, he's definitely not telling the scripture because scripture tells me if a man don't work, he don't eat.
Exactly right.
I mean, that's what it is.
Hey, you got to be praying for your brother up here, man.
We'll fight for our life up here.
Let me reintroduce Dr. Hutchinson.
He is affectionately known as the Hutch.
Dr. Hutcherson presided at the wedding of myself and the lovely Catherine, the greatest, best wife ever.
And he is a former linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys, the Seattle Seahawks and the San Diego Chargers in the National Football League.
Currently is a pastor in Seattle.
You were the Mike linebacker.
What was your number?
I was number 59, my brother.
Number 59.
And at the time he played with the Cowboys, Tutal Jones was on the team at the time of that group, Ed Tutal Jones, and Harvey Toomey and Martin and Jethro 2, Jethro Pugh.
Yep.
They had all the greats there playing with me.
I felt like a kid who just fell in the candy store.
And you played with Hollywood Henderson, too, didn't you?
Most definitely.
He wrote about me in his book, you know.
So, yeah, I played.
I know, you know, I met Hollywood at a Michael Irvin golf tournament, and he told, when I told him that I knew you, he said that Tom Landry said if he could have a roster of 53 Ken Hutchersons, that he would never lose.
That's what he told me, Hutch.
I was honored very much by Coach Lanjer many times.
Well, then why did he trade you?
Because I was a middle linebacker during the 70s, and the middle linebacker was a thinking position.
And at that time, you know what a thinking position is.
Quarterback, middle linebacker, all the guys that does all the calling.
Right.
As opposed to the defensive linemen who don't have to do anything but grunt.
Right.
And Dallas did not like, and the owners at that time was the Hunts brothers, I believe.
They had a very difficult time with a black man being in that type of position and having that kind of power on the team in Dallas, Texas.
I never heard that before.
I don't think the Hunts ever owned Calvin.
Maybe I thought it was Clint Murkison.
I think they came in.
I thought it was the Hunts Brothers, bro.
I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
Well, you know, Lamar owned the Kansas City Chiefs, and they were the Dallas Texans before he moved to Kansas City.
Well, so you, that's fascinating.
No, you're the middle linebacker, so you're playing a 4-3 defense.
4-3 defense, the best in the world.
Which is why the league has gone to 3-4.
Okay, let's get to it.
They don't have any real men on the league anymore.
They've all been chick-afied.
I'm going to go to a 3-4.
You're singing my tune on this.
You're singing my tune.
And it's media-led, Hutch.
I mean, the media is right in there.
Hey, did you see that article that came out with Tony Darcett yesterday?
No, what'd he say?
He said that they used him up, and now he's going through all these problems at age 57, and he's suing the league.
Oh, I didn't see it.
I knew that.
I did not see a story yesterday.
Yeah, I know.
You got to read it.
You got to read it.
Concussions, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, we all had them.
Well, now, the story I did see yesterday, you'll love this.
The story I did see yesterday, and this probably, I love this guy.
But I can't help saying this.
Jerry Jones, the owner, said, whoa, I've had 50 concussions in my life, and the fans are saying, so that explains it.
Jerry should quit firing coaches and fire himself.
The Dallas Cowboys can turn around.
Well, that's the old argument.
General manager and owner don't go together.
Let's get to the Super Bowl.
Are you excited about this one?
I'm excited.
I'm excited.
But you still have, I got to get you to pray for me, bro.
Like I said, we'll fight for our life up here.
We have four Republicans stabbed me in the back up here, and they voted for same-sex marriage, bro.
And we lost in the Senate.
We still got the House to go.
And that is just absolutely ridiculous of what's going on.
And, bro, we're going to win.
We're going to win, but these Republicans is never going to be sitting again when we have our next election.
Did they mislead you?
Did they lead you to believe that they were not going to vote the way they did?
Well, a bunch of them was going back and forth, sitting on the fence, back and forth, sitting on the fence, sitting on the fence.
And we knew that we had one that was going to go, which was probably going to take them over.
But we had three go.
And if they would have stayed, we would have won the Senate by one vote.
And people, your authors need to be praying for us.
And if they want to keep up with what I'm doing, can I get my blog out?
Yeah, sure.
If anyone wants to keep up with us, it's thehutchpost.org.
www.hutchpost.org.
We're going to win this fight, bro, because I don't know what it means to lose.
What are you, HutchPost, P-O-S-T?
Hutchpost.org.
Yes.
The Hutch, a man of the cloth is doing the Lord's work.
I can't.
You wanted to ask me a question about the loss of jobs, didn't you?
Say that again?
I heard you say at the second hour, you wanted to ask the Hutch, how can these numbers with that many jobs lost be a positive?
Yeah, yeah.
Do you got an answer for this?
Oh, absolutely.
You know I do.
It is math made easy by Louis Farrakhan.
Louis Farrakhan's math made easy.
Have you ever thought about running for office rather than rely on these guys?
You know, I did when before Bush ran the first time, I was courted and was asked 10 different times to run for the presidency.
And I said, no, I'm called by God, and I have a lot more power as a pastor than I would as the president.
Plus, people won't be looking at me as much in my own house.
We're talking about Dr. Ken Hutcherson, who former linebacker in the National Football League and now Antioch Baptist Church.
He's the Bible Church.
He's the pastor.
Thank you.
Thank you, Pastor Derp.
And the fortunate pastor presided at my wedding on June 5th.
Now, Hutch, let's get to the super.
You keep trying to avoid talking about this.
Every time I bring it up, you go to gay marriage or you go to the fact you ran for president or you want to talk about math made easy.
What is it?
I just don't want you to be wrong.
That's all.
Yeah, but you know where I'm going on this.
I think I do.
You got to go with the Patriots, right?
Why do I have to go with the Patriots?
Oh, don't say that.
Don't say anything about that.
Don't say anything about that.
No, I'm saying I think it's because everyone believes that they're the team that should win without a shadow of a doubt.
See, here's what I think could be the key to the game, but you got to tell me.
I know this is not 2007, but I have seen this happen in 2011.
The Giants have the ability to get to any quarterback without blitzing.
They've got four guys in that line that can put pressure on a quarterback, which allows Brady's receivers, and they're not all that hot, to be doubled.
You got Paul, you got Joseph, you got Canton, and you got Tuck.
Those are some bad boys on the defensive line for the Giants.
JPP.
JPP, my brother.
Jason Pierre Paul from Haiti.
By way of Miami.
Nasty.
Those guys, if those guys can get pressure on the quarterback and disrupt timing and everything without blitzing.
And the question mark for me, the Giants is their running game.
But the Patriots' past defense during the regular season was Swiss cheese.
So you look at this on paper, which is the only way you can look at it at first, is if both these teams play their potential, you've got to give the edge of the Giants, I would think.
Well, I think you are right because let's look at two major facts.
I don't know if you know this or not, but every time a team blitz a defensive back against the Patriots, Brady's rating went down from 90 to 50.
Every time.
You're going to have to bring a couple of defensive backs in on a back, on a blitz, and that's going to shake Brady up.
You know, because I've always believed if you sack Brady three times in one game, he's going to lose.
Why is that?
Because he gets happy feet.
He's a pretty boy.
He doesn't like to be hit.
His wife don't like him to be hit.
Bruise up her husband.
Yeah, she did send out that email, but she didn't intend that.
Now, it's something like that.
I was telling Catherine, she said, you see this Giselle email.
I said, yeah.
And I said, you wait a little trash talking on the field someday with the Giants.
The Giants are going to have more fun with that on the field with trash talking.
I can't wait to see what happens.
But there's two big facts that you and I got to take in consideration.
All right.
One is the Patriots did not beat any winning team until the Ravens.
Right.
Am I right?
Yeah, but you play the schedule that you get.
That's not in their control.
That's fine, Rush.
You know, people got to play another radio station when you're not on.
That's right.
But, you know, that doesn't make it good.
Only mean they'll listen because you're not on.
I have to concede the point.
Thank you very much.
All right.
Thank you very much.
And you got to also know that the Giants has already beat the Patriots.
Week nine, November 6th.
Yeah, but then I can counter, it's tough to beat a team twice in the same season.
It is also tough to beat the Giants when they have this much advantage over the Patriots at this particular time.
Do you know there's only six Giants, six starting Giants, and only seven starting Patriots that played in the last Super Bowl against each other?
Yeah, but they're key players.
They're very key players.
I mean, the offensive and defensive lines, except the Giants, not all the defensive line, but the quarterbacks.
The Giants only got one offensive defensive lineman, and I think it got two offensive linemen that played in the last Super Bowl.
Quarterbacks are the same.
Quarterbacks are the same.
But the thing is going to be bad if New York puts pressure on the Brady.
You know what they're going to do?
They're going to go with three wise.
They're going to go with Branch, O Sinko, and they're going to have my boy.
What's my boy's name?
Welker?
No, you're thinking of Dion.
You mentioned Branch.
They got Gronkowski, who's a, that's a high-ankle spray.
That's going to be iffy.
Aaron Hernandez.
You're talking about Welker?
Welker's a slot receiver.
How you double a slot receiver?
You can't.
You got Welker, which is, I call the 2W, right?
Welker?
Yeah.
2W, man.
That Wes Welker in the 2Ws is the white wizard.
I mean, that is the most underestimated great player I've seen, and he beats everybody.
I don't care if you're black, blue, red, turquoise.
Welcome will take you deep.
He just runs under them.
He is so fast.
They just miscalculate what he's lacking to tell of these guys.
He's got the great hands.
Okay, so give me your win.
Give me your winner.
Give me your prediction.
Okay, I'm going to tell you.
Pittsburgh, I almost said your team, bro.
I'm sorry.
I know it's going to make you feel bad the rest of the day because they're not in there, but they're not.
They lost.
They got beat.
So I'm going to go with Patriots.
Patriots.
If the Giants is close in the fourth quarter, it belongs to the Giants.
If the Giants are close in the fourth quarter, it belongs to the Giants.
I don't care if they go 3-4 overtime.
If they are close in the fourth quarter, Giants are going to win.
And there you heard it.
The Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson shying away from an actual prediction and giving us an if.
Way to go, Hutch.
I love you, man.
I'm over time.
I got to go.
One other factor, folks, in this game, really is the Giants wide receivers against the Patriots secondary.
If Eli Manning is on, that's a huge, huge mismatch.
But you got Brady, you got Belichick.
It's going to potentially be another great Super Bowl.
Okay, folks, that's it for Open Line Friday.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence.
Now, I'm going to be tracking down because this number, these raw numbers of lost jobs, 2.5 million lost jobs December to January, and admitted to by the government, those are government numbers.
Two and a half million jobs lost in one month, and yet they tell us today that jobs were increased by, or did increase by 233,000.
I am not through looking into this.
That's via the seasonal adjustment.
I am not through looking into this.
I will be out Monday.
Who we got?
Mark Stein here?
Mark Stein will be here on Monday.
I.L. Rushball will be back on Tuesday.
Revved up and ready to go.
And we'll see you then.
Well, I missed President's Day.
Nobody told me again.
So I'm making it up.
I'm going to put a Super Bowl as a three-day weekend as far as I'm concerned.
Nobody ever tells me.
I always miss those President's Day deals.
I get screwed.
So I'm taking Monday off.
Thanks very much for being with us today, folks.
Thanks for being with us all week.
It's going to be a never-ending, exciting, never-know-what's happening hour to hour year.
I'm jazzed and psyched to be here all year with you guys and even beyond that.