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March 13, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 13, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you.
Once again, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, you are listening to the most listened to and the most talked about radio talk show in history.
It's the Excellence in Broadcasting Network named after the performance of the host.
I am the host, Rush Limbaugh.
Great to be with you.
Had a wonderful day yesterday here in uh Palm Beach County, Florida at uh PGA National Ernie L's with his uh annual Ills for Autism uh golf tournament here.
He does a series of them across the uh country during the summer months, spring and summer months to uh to raise money for autism, and uh that was a great time.
Was it Marvin Shankins Forsome, cigar fishing, not a wine spectator, Greg Norman was the pro in our group.
And uh the mayor, Rudy Giuliani.
Yeah, the mayor.
We had a win a win a blast.
Um, and so here we're back, though.
And we're raring and ready to go.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882, the email address L Rush Ball at EIBNet.com.
Folks, we have poll data out today that has shocked the Democrat Party.
It has shocked the Obama media, it has shocked and depressed the Obama White House and the Obama media.
Nothing is as it's supposed to be.
Now, I have been trying to tell you for the last month that Obama's polling numbers with women are bad.
They are in trouble, and that's why all this is going on.
It's worse than even I thought.
In the New York Times, Obama's approval number is down to 41% after all of this.
That was supposed to launch him to new heights.
It is so bad, it is so funny.
The drive-by media for the first time that I can recall is saying, Well, these polls don't matter.
They are in utter denial.
It's their own poll.
And it's not just the New York Times.
There is a Washington Post poll that's just as shocking and just as devastating.
There is other polling data along with news.
A bunch of people are starting to look at the employment numbers and or unemployment numbers the regime is releasing, and comparing it to the economic growth numbers, and some people are scratching their heads saying, now, wait a minute.
Okay, if if we're producing and creating all of these new jobs, where's the growth?
Where's the economic growth?
There isn't any economic growth.
And so everybody's trying to figure, and I'll help you out, the employment numbers being released are not legit.
They're not true.
They're not real.
They're fabricated, they're they're massaged.
I mean, the secret lies in the labor force participation rate.
This country has lost two million jobs plus Obama was inaugurated.
There are two million fewer jobs.
Now, I don't care how you want to report monthly unemployment applications and to say that they're coming down there.
Even with with the reduction, there are still 370,000 people every month applying for unemployment.
There are hundreds of thousands more who've given up.
We're not creating jobs, and yet everybody in the media, the Democrat side has got themselves convinced because they live in this virtual alternative reality.
They've got themselves convinced that the economy's growing, that we're creating jobs.
But if we're creating jobs, remember now that we're still down 370,000 a week.
If not more, then where's the economic growth?
And where's the tax revenue?
Where's all the tax revenue from all this economic growth?
Where's all the income tax revenue from all these new jobs?
And and of course, the media is out there, well, they can't really trust these polls at this time of year.
The polls are so volatile.
Folks, they have been shell-shocked, and I want you to be entirely confident of this here.
Let me show you.
Grab audio sound by number one.
This is uh from the period of March 4th through the 7th, one week ago.
And this is the media celebrating the huge opportunity for Obama to win re-election on the so-called limbaugh issue.
Obama has just been given a huge gift by the Republicans and by the religious right and by Rush Limbaugh.
It's a gift to Democrats.
This is a prime opportunity for him to step up as a leader and say what Rush Limbaugh said was bad.
Is this a gift to Democrats?
The biggest gift to President Obama?
Limbaugh's comments.
You know what Democrats will say is how could the President resist this opportunity?
The more damage is done to the party, the more opportunities there are for the Democrats, like with Rush Limbaugh statements.
Over in Team Obama, they're smiling.
President Obama's great fortune.
Obama was the big winner.
That was a week ago, March 4th through the 7th.
Now, listen to a montage of media people yesterday.
One week after launching this all-out attack on your host, a sure winner.
Gonna launch Obama to Democrats back to electoral success.
What happened?
ABC Washington Post polls shows President Obama's uh approval reversing President Obama's disapproval rating now rising too.
President Obama in a dead heat against Republican challengers.
President Obama is in a tie with both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.
The latest poll, which shows President's approval rating dipping.
Very strong disapproval of the president's performance.
The President's job approval has fallen from 50% last month to an all-time low, now of 41%.
A news poll has President Obama's approval rating at an all-time low?
50% now say they disapprove of the way Mr. Obama is handling his job.
50% strongly disapprove.
A dubious new high in his presidency.
Forty-one percent approval.
One week after they were all doing handstands.
One week after they were all celebrating.
The Rush Limbaugh comments.
One week, and Obama has hit all-time lows in his approval and all-time highs in his disapproval.
And the media is trelling itself that, well, you know, these polls are volatile.
Well, you can't really believe this stuff this time of year.
Well, wait a minute, and this morning on uh Joe Scarborough's show on Morning Joe, after listening to a bunch of media people make excuses for the New York Times and the Washington Post polls, which are bad news for Obama.
Willie Geist had to put it all in perspective.
We have four people who think it's not a problem at all that the president's approval dropped 10 points.
Yeah.
He's listening to it and he doesn't believe it.
We got four people here who think it's not a problem at all.
The president's approval has dropped 10 points.
Scratching his head, and he's warning people.
Now, something about this New York Times poll.
And before I tell you there's something about it, let me give you some details from it.
It's my old buddy Jim Rutenberg and uh Marjorie Connolly.
The headline Obama's rating falls as poll reflects volatility.
By the way, there's a great AB S uh AP story that is tied to the two polls, the Washington Post, ABC poll, and the uh New York Times CBS poll.
And the the uh AP story is uh all about how these events are uh analysis Obama tested by events outside control.
Poor guy.
Poor guy.
All of this is happening because of events outside.
He can't control what's going on in the Middle East, he can't control gas prices, he can't control the failure of his new green energy, can't control the uh economy.
Oh, poor guy.
AP just doing everything it can.
Really something even by AP standards.
But here's the New York Times poll.
Obama's rating falls as poll reflects volatility.
Despite improving job growth and an extended Republican primary fight dividing his would-be opponents, President Obama's heading into the general election season on treacherous political ground, according to the latest New York Times poll.
Folks, this isn't what was planned.
You can hear the panic in the voice of the New York Times writers.
You can hear the panic in the words of Mr. Rutenberg and Ms. Connolly.
At a time of rising gas prices, heightened talk of war with Iran and setbacks in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama's approval rating dropped substantially in recent weeks.
Forty-one percent of respondents expressing disapproval of the job he is doing, and 47% saying they disapprove a dangerous position for any incumbents seeking re-election.
Now remember, one week ago, they thought it was over.
One week ago they thought for one day there was a Santa Claus.
Normally they don't believe in Santa Claus.
But they did.
They thought I was finished, they thought you were vanquished, and Obama was elevated to heights that would make him unbeatable.
And don't doubt me when I tell you they are in shell shock.
And in the Washington Post poll, which has the information that hey, it ain't Obama's not cutting it with women either.
Remember what I've always told you about the conventional wisdom.
Go the other way.
When the Washington conventional wisdom forms, do a 180.
And more often than not, you'll be far more right, correct, accurate than the conventional wisdom.
Now, the Times fails to note that this is an all-time low for Obama in their poll.
But they've been pointing it out in other places in the drive-by media in the Obama state control media.
It is an all-time low.
This 41% approval number.
Back to the New York Times story.
The poll provides a statistical reminder of how unsettled and unpredictable this year's political landscape remains.
Just one month ago, Mr. Obama reached a critical benchmark by winning approval from 50% of New York Times CBS New polls news poll respondents.
His re-election prospects lifting along with confidence the nation was finally emerging from the aftermath of the Great Recession, but it isn't.
And learned informed, smart people are starting to ask, wait a minute.
You say jobs are being created, we're down to 8.3% unemployment.
Where is the economic growth?
It just isn't there.
Let me tell you something about the New York Times poll.
Once again, just as the last New York Times poll we reported on, the respondents in this poll, two-thirds were adults, not registered voters, not likely voters.
Two-thirds.
The CBS New York Times poll has found these profound drops in Obama approval ratings in virtually every group across the board, no matter how they demograph this, no matter how they dice it, no matter what demographics, age groups, gender separation they use, it's across the board.
Now what's significant about a poll only of adults?
That statistically over time has been proven to mean that it's a poll where two-thirds of the respondents don't vote.
It's one of the ways that a pollster can play games with the results.
In this case, you have a poll of adults.
You don't narrow it down to registered voters or likely voters, just adults at large, you get these numbers.
What it means is that his numbers among registered voters and likely voters are much worse than this poll is reporting.
It's been statistically documented in registered voting voter only surveys.
In other words, in polls where the sample is either likely voters or registered voters.
Obama and the left run between 10 and 15 points worse than in a poll among adults.
I'm not pulling this out of thin air.
And I'm making it up.
I don't have to.
It is polling statistics 101.
When the sample is adults, as opposed to being narrowed to voters, either likely or registered.
If you take that sample of adults and you strip out the people who are not registered to vote or not likely to vote, the result is much worse.
Now, the only time in New York Times bothered to talk about registered voters was in their second article in the paper about this.
In which they claim Obama's doing better with women and independence.
It is the only area where they claim Obama's doing well, and that is with registered voters.
Then they only talk about independence and women.
They leave out all the other stuff.
They don't leak, they don't talk about approval, disapproval, any of that.
They're desperate to find one shred of evidence or an example where all this basically ginned up stuff that's happened this past week has paid off.
They can't find it.
It doesn't exist.
Washington Post, New York Times poll, it doesn't exist.
In fact, there's a...
Did I X this out or not?
Um I can't find it right.
There's a the NAG convention was over the weekend somewhere in New Orleans, the National Association of Gals.
Wait, you don't think I'm going to get in trouble for that, do you?
They're all worried and they're shaking their heads.
The nags, the National Association of Gals.
It's our pet name for the Now gang.
Anyway, the president of the Now Gang was speaking to the assembled nags at the convention, laughing about what I had done.
Laughing about what a great Godsend.
They're not offended, folks.
They're not outraged.
They're not upset over the moral depravity of any of it.
They're happy.
They're clapping their hands.
It was a God sent.
Except today they're not because it backfired it didn't work.
Rush Limbo, E.I.B.'s gift to Barack Obama.
And a few more gifts like this.
Try to imagine how low Obama's approval numbers will be then.
In the CBS news poll, there is this question.
Compared to four years ago, is your family's financial situation better today, worse today, or about the same?
Eighty percent.
This is unheard of in a poll.
Eighty percent say they are not better off than four years ago.
Twenty percent say that they are better off today.
They're all Democrats.
37% say they're worse, and 43% say they're about the same, but 80% say they're not better off.
The women of America want jobs and an expanding economy.
They are not obsessed with birth control pills being passed out on campus or wherever anybody happens to want them.
The regime calculated that it could create this mythical Republican war on women.
And look where they are.
41% approval.
80% say they are not better off than four years ago.
The media is saying, well, these polls are volatile.
Really can't just look at one poll to figure things out.
But when Obama's approval jumps, or when something else happens in an isolated poll, they run with it.
Isolated unemployment number release that looks good, they run with it.
The whole economy's coming back.
Here is Terry O'Neill.
She's the nag president.
National Organization For women, the now gang, we affectionately call them the nags.
And it was in New Orleans Saturday at their convention.
All this outrage.
All of this outrage that they have been spewing for a week.
How horrible it's been.
How uncouth.
Listen to her describe it.
The work we have ahead of us is not going to be easy.
Right now it really seems like, you know, we've got this godsend named Rush Limbaugh who has like dropped this thing in our lap, which is just wonderful.
But the road ahead is really not going to be conflicting Rosing.
We've got to be very clear on what the challenges are, and very clear about how we can move our own agenda forward in the current football climate.
Hey, it's been dropped in our lap.
It's just wonderful.
This Rush Limbaugh thing was just wonderful.
I thought they were outraged.
Now that they were offended.
I thought it was the worst thing they'd ever heard anybody say.
It's wonderful.
What a political opportunity.
God's gift to women.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity on the EIB network.
Well, you just heard the head now gang lady say that I was a godsend.
And Don wanted to have you ever been called a godsend by the nags?
And I said, come to think of it, no.
So we are, I mean we're breaking all kinds of new ground here.
A godsend.
The nags called me a godsend.
So not only am I God's gift to Obama, I'm God's gift to women.
Eighty percent of the people in the CBS New York Times poll not better up.
That has to be worse than it was under Carter, folks.
And what the women of America want is jobs.
They want an expanding economy, so they don't have to beg the government for their birth control pills.
Stephen Chu.
Remember him, the uh energy secretary, the Nobel Prize winning energy secretary, who appeared before a congressional committee and said that he wasn't interested in gasoline prices coming down.
Instead, he is interested in getting us off of oil.
Which is not possible.
It is not going to happen.
There's nothing else to use.
It won't happen.
It's pie in the sky dreaming.
There's no way we can get off.
And if this administration tries to take us off of oil, we're going to be plunged into a recession, and we're going to be moved backwards to the seventh century, and we're going to look like Afghanistan if they ever.
It will never happen, folks.
Engine of freedom is fueled by oil, the free flow of oil at market price.
Anyway, Stephen Chuv back.
And he renounced his previously stated desire to see gas prices rise to match European levels.
He said recently that he didn't care about gas prices coming down.
He thought they should be as high as they are in Europe.
Because of fairness.
Fairness and conservation.
He was more interested in getting us off oil.
Well, he told the Senate today that he wants gasoline prices to fall now for the sake of the economy.
So somebody took him in a woodshed, probably a pulser for the New York Times.
Called the White House, hey, look, we did the best we could with these numbers, but it's bad.
And Chu is not helping you by telling everybody he wants gas prices to go up and doesn't care about them coming down.
So in 2008, Chu said we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.
That's what he said in 2008.
He was reminded of that comment today during his congressional testimony, and he backed away from it.
I no longer share that view, said Chu to Senator Mike Lee, Republican Utah.
Chu said, when I became Secretary of Energy, I represented the United States government, and I think right now in this economic very slow return, these prices could very well affect the comeback of our economy.
He added.
Sounds like you're not sure that gasoline prices might Have a deleterious effect on the economy.
So Chu is now saying his previous statements are no longer operational.
That's how the Democrats characterize their gaffes.
Now back to the polling data.
As I say in the New York Times CBS poll, you can almost hear the panic as you read the words off the page.
This is an all-time low for Obama.
41% disapproval or approval.
I'm sorry, 41% approval.
It's an all-time low.
They don't mention that in the story.
And you notice also here that Obama has such poor approval numbers that even though two-thirds of those polled think the economy's getting better.
Two-thirds of this poll, they think the economy is because they're following all of the garbage that's being reported in the mainstream media.
They are confused.
People are saying, well, okay, uh we're being told the economy's roaring back and growing back.
And all these new jobs are being created, but where is the growth?
And where is all the new tax revenue?
We've got the largest deficit in the history of this country, the month of February.
It's only 29 days.
The largest deficit, monthly deficit in the history of the country.
Where's the economic growth?
Where's the tax revenue?
If there was economic growth, we wouldn't have had the largest deficit in American history.
Now, the Times tries to pin Obama's downturn on rising gasoline prices.
And on the ignorant 54% of poll respondents who believe a president can do a lot to control gas prices.
54% in the poll believe the president can do a lot to control gas prices.
Now, why would they think that, folks?
Why would 54% of the American people think that?
You want to know why?
Because during the eight years of George W. Bush, the media and the Democrat Party spent practically every day blaming Bush for the price of gasoline and for everything else that they dreamed up or imagined was bad or going bad.
So after eight years of the drive-by media, sycophants for the Democrat Party, willing accomplices, eight years of attacking George W. Bush for high gas prices.
And let's not forget the Democrat Party itself with John F. Carey, who served in Vietnam, by the way.
And every one of these other Democrats out there saying Bush's got to do something, got to meet with the Saudi, he's got to do something.
Well, it can't drill, though.
No, no, well, it can't drill.
But we got we got a problem here with Iran.
You realize how incompetent Obama sounds when he talks about why we can't drill.
Well, we can't drill with the two to three years.
But the reason I've got my hands tied here is because of Iran.
Well, okay, so let's get our own domestic supply.
Nope, can't drill because take too long.
Uh Keystone pipeline, nope, pipeline pollutes uh the land, the oil, nope, can't.
So on the one hand, Obama blames Iran, blames the Middle East instability for the high price of gasoline and oil.
While at the same time denying, refusing the opportunity presented to him to do anything about it.
Does he not know how ignorant he sounds?
54% of the people in this poll.
54% believe a president can do a lot to control gas prices.
Now the New York Times tries to portray that 54% as a bunch of stupid ignoramuses.
As opposed to the enlightened 36% who understand that gasoline prices are way beyond the president's control.
Yes.
36% of the people in the New York Times poll are smart.
They get it.
There's nothing a president can do unless he's a Republican, and then he can do everything, but he doesn't do anything because the president, if he's a Republican, wants people paying $10 a gallon.
So that he and his Republican buddies who own the oil companies can reap windfall profits.
See, that's how the game is played.
Republicans want a bad economy.
They want you paying $10 a gallon because they are all invested in oil.
And Dick Cheney, of course, ran hellaburn.
I mean, that's the cross to Dracula.
The New York Times reporters Jim Rutenberg, Marjorie Connolly also explain how unsettled and unpredictable this year's political landscape is.
You know what?
This story in the New York Times accompanying the poll almost seems to be apologizing for their own results.
Rutenberg and Connolly seem to basically be apologizing to their readers and to the administration for these poll results.
For example, they say, yet polls capture only a particular moment in time, and polls can be influenced by the way the questions are asked.
Or the mix of people who are surveyed.
So they are basically questioning the credibility of their own poll in their effort to apologize for it.
That tells me the numbers are actually worse than what's been reported.
Don't doubt me on this.
The last sentence of the New York Times piece is telling in recent weeks there has been much debate over the government's role in guaranteeing insurance coverage for contraception, including for those who work for religious organizations.
The poll found that women were split as to whether health insurance plans should cover the cost of birth control and whether employers with religious objections should be able to opt out.
Notice we don't hear any of the details of how women are split on this issue.
But it's clear it's not what the Obama campaign in the New York Times had hoped for.
Go back, audio soundbite number one.
Let's listen to this again.
This is a week ago as they are salivating over this whole limbaugh thing, gonna launch Obama back to unbeatable positions.
Obama has just been given a huge gift by the Republicans and by the religious right and by Rush Limbaugh.
It's a gift to Democrats.
This was a prime opportunity for him to step up as a leader and say what Russian boss said was bad.
Is this a gift to Democrats?
The biggest gift to President Obama?
Limbaugh's comments.
You know what Democrats will say is how could the President resist this opportunity?
The more damage is done to the party, the more opportunities there are for the Democrats, like the Rush Limbaugh statements.
Over in Team Obama, they're smiling.
President Obama's great fortune.
Obama was the big winner.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And in the New York Times here, it says uh poll found that women were split as to whether health insurance plans should cover the cost of birth control, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And don't tell us what the split is.
Didn't work out the way they all envisioned.
Didn't and hasn't worked out the way they had all hoped.
Grab audio soundbite number two again.
You just heard one week ago.
The excitement, the thrill, anticipation, limbaugh's finished.
We've got the women back.
We're marching on to victory.
It's done deal.
And now a week later.
And the New York Times and the CBS poll, along with the Washington Post poll are out, and it doesn't look good.
ABC Washington Post poll shows President Obama's approval reversing President Obama's disapproval rating now rising too.
President Obama in a dead heat against Republican challengers.
President Obama is in a tie with both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.
The latest poll, which shows President's approval rating dipping.
Very strong disapproval of the president's performance.
The President's job approval has fallen from 50% last month to an all-time low, now of 41%.
A new poll has President Obama's approval rating at an all-time low.
50% now say they disapprove of the way Mr. Obama is handling his job.
50% strongly disapprove.
A dubious new high in his presidency.
Now, the weekly standard, John McCormick has a piece on this.
The split women, birth control.
21%.
U.S. opposed birth control mandate by 21%.
That's the split that the New York Times would not specify in its poll.
Women were divided on whether or not the government should tell religious organizations for fine Burger.
Women were divided.
Yeah.
The split was a huge loser for them by 21%.
Here's the number.
21% doesn't mean much.
Let me put it in perspective for you.
In the New York Times poll, by a 51 to 40% margin, Americans support a religious or moral exemption for all employers on providing contraception.
That's a 21% margin.
51 to 40 support.
Let's put this 51 to 40 oppose Obama's mandate for religious organizations to provide birth control and abortion-related materials.
21% split.
So the New York Times failed to report the two biggest items in its own poll.
Obama's approval at the lowest in history for him.
They didn't mention that fact.
And that the birth control mandate is wildly unpopular by 21% of the respondents in its own poll.
You talk about sins of omission.
The Times apparently didn't consider either of those details news that was fit to print.
So all of last week not only didn't work, it's backfired.
Now let's move on in our remaining moments in this exciting busy broadcast segment to the Washington Post poll, which I'm holding here right here in my formerly nicotine-stained finger.
Headline, Obama Fares Worse Among Women after month-long contraceptive mandate battle.
This is a story that's in the weekly standard.
It's by a guy named John McCormick.
How's that great contraception mandate battle of 2012 playing out?
Well, if you read the Washington Post news coverage, the issue is supposedly killing Republicans among female voters, but the newest Washington Post ABC poll tells a different story.
During the first few days of February, about a week before Obama declared a so-called accommodation to the contraception abortiface mandate, a Washington Post ABC poll showed Obama's approval rating at 50, with 46% disapproving then.
From March 7 through 10.
A week into the national media firestorm surrounding Rush Limbo.
It found Obama's approval rating at 46%, down four points from February, and his disapproval rating at 50% up four points.
So after a week, after a full week last week, all of that focus, the war on women, Rush Limbaugh, your host, Obama lost ground with women.
I can't begin to tell you the dismay and the shock and probably panic that exists in the White House and in the salons of the elites in the Democrat Party over this.
This was they didn't even consider this a possibility.
This never entered their mind.
This was going to be the end, not just of me, folks.
This was going to be the end of Talk Radio.
This was going to be the end of whoever the Republican nominee is chance to beat Obama.
This was going to end the presidential campaign.
was going to be over.
In February, Obama was leading Romney 51 to 45.
In March, Obama trails Romney 47 to 49 among registered voters.
The bottom line is not clear at all that the fight over the contraception abortifacient mandate has hurt Republicans.
you So here's the bottom line.
I don't think the Democrats would have had George Stephanopoulos bring up contraception in that January 7th debate if they had known things are going to turn out like this.
They did their own version of Wag the Dog, the movie.
This is Wag the Pill, and it has failed big time.
Now they're going to have to ask themselves, do they keep on with this?
Do they defy the poll?
Do they not believe it?
Do they keep on with this war on women?
Keep attacking everything they were attacking last week?
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