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April 9, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 9, 2012, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I kid you not, there's a CNN anchor.
Guy's name is Don Lemon.
He's making the case.
We got sound bites of this, maybe.
I don't know if I want to air the soundbite.
I really, he's making the case that it's inappropriate to say, quote, N-word, unquote.
Just go ahead and use the N-word.
Just go ahead and use it.
Now, why?
Well, because a couple of CNN anchors and anchorettes have inadvertently used the word the last couple of weeks.
I guess they need to make an excuse for it.
No, just go ahead and let's just start using the word.
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U.S. stocks sank.
Oh, before I get there, there's a new Rasmussen poll out.
The Supreme Court's approval rating.
No, I kid you not.
The Supreme Court's approval rating has skyrocketed since taking up Obamacare, since the oral arguments.
41% of likely voters now rate the Supreme Court's performance as good or excellent.
It's up 13 points.
It's up 13 points since mid-March where it was 28%.
Well, I don't know what they're going to do about it, but it's back to the drawing board for Obama and Axelrod.
I mean, the court's approval numbers are coming.
The court knows.
I don't care who you are.
You like it when your approval numbers are on the upswing.
You just do.
I mean, whether you're a justice, whether you're a judge, you know, Tiger Woods would love his numbers going up, I guarantee you.
What happened to Tiger?
I have a theory about Tiger, and I've, well, it's kind of, well, when I say CNN inadvertently used the N-word is that they had somebody reading, like the two anchors were reading transcript of something on the air that somebody had said, and they used the word in context rather than say N-word.
And the network explained that it was a faux pas, that they didn't really say it.
They were quoting somebody else saying it.
But it's happened twice now.
So Don Lemon said, let's just go make it official.
Use the word.
And people said, well, look, Don, it's okay for you to Lemon's African American.
It's okay for YouTube, but not for.
No, no, no.
Everybody should go ahead.
Can you imagine if I put this to the test today?
Don't worry, Snardly.
Don't worry.
It's not going to happen.
I'm not into.
Yeah.
I know, but at the end of the day, I would have invented the word.
We're not into test marketing these CNN ideas here.
We'll leave CNN's ideas to them.
Now, Tiger, I'm really uncomfortable mentioning them.
It's not a meltdown, what's happened at Tiger.
Look, I'm going to tell you what I really think about it, but I'm uncomfortable saying so.
If you look at what Tiger permitted to happen, the media made Tiger Woods in addition to Tiger Woods' performance.
The two went hand in hand.
And the aspect of the media making Tiger was in the fabrication of an image of Mr. Perfect.
Mr. Perfect husband, Mr. Perfect Father, Mr. Perfect Workout Guy, Mr. Perfect Man, Mr. Perfect golfer, Mr. Perfect corporate spokesman, Mr. Perfect everything.
Tiger was one of these guys that every man wanted to be like and every woman wanted to be with, right?
But none of it was real, as we have learned.
None of it was real.
Wasn't the best father, wasn't the best husband, wasn't it?
Wasn't the best golfer for a while, but wasn't it was all a manufactured image.
This is the danger of these kind of things.
Now, I just think Tiger's problem is mental.
He knows wherever he goes, and everybody knows this now.
He's got a gallery of, I don't know what the gallery, sorry, at patrons at Augusta.
I don't know how many let in there.
What is it?
50, 60,000 people.
I mean, it's a mental thing.
It's going to take a time, sometime for him to overcome the, I mean, the cure for Tiger would be able to become entirely absent any self-awareness.
If he was totally able to not think about himself, then he'd be able to overcome it.
Oh, I think the, sure, I think the ability is still in there.
Golf is such a mental game.
I'll tell you, I think they ought to make prisoners play it.
It's so frustrating.
It makes you so mad at yourself.
It can make you so irritated to be the best form of punishment for people behind bars I can think of to make them play the game and actually make them care about wanting to be good at it.
At any rate, the Supreme Court, the approval number is up to 41% now of likely voters, even though nobody will ever vote on them.
It's a Rasmussen poll, but the fact of the matter, the numbers are going up and dramatically, 13 points after the oral arguments.
So the White House isn't going to look at this.
It cannot make them happy.
Obama has been trying to make people despise the court, distrust the court.
It's like everything else in reality that's happening to Obama is going in the wrong direction.
Like they're trying to manufacture, for example, this phony Republican war on women.
And now they're out trying to say that Romney is forever tainted by this and cannot overcome it.
Now, when the fact of the matter remains, the stock market today is down anywhere from 139 to 150 points.
And most of the analysts that we trust on this program are saying that it is a delayed reaction to the lousy job news on Friday.
U.S. stocks sank in opening trading Monday, reacting for the first time to disappointing job market data released Friday when the markets were closed.
In the first five minutes of trade today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dived 137 points down to 12,922.
And what is it now?
12,929.
It's down 131 points right now.
And it's been in that range.
And this is prompting a lot of people.
No, that's right.
They're losing their war on the Supreme Court, Snerdley, is what it means.
He keeps people.
You know, I settle something.
I solve it.
I explain it.
And Snerdley keeps asking me in the IFB.
No, it means that they have lost their war on the Supreme Court.
But they think they're winning their war on the economy.
And what is the war on the war on the economy is to make people think that 8.2% unemployment is equal to 5% unemployment.
That $5 a gallon gasoline is the same as $3.
They're trying to redefine this economy now as what we have now as the new normal.
This is it.
And folks, we can't allow that to happen.
It simply isn't true.
This country is much better than what is happening now.
And the media and the Democrats are continuing this mythical Republican war on women As though out of the blue, the Republicans decided to take away birth control pills from women when all of this was started on January 7th with a question from George Stephanopoulos to Mitt Romney in a Republican primary debate asking him if states should be able to ban contraception and birth control pills at Romney's.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Nobody's thinking about this.
But all it took was the question being asked, and therefore the subject has been introduced by the Republicans since Romney answered the question.
Santorum answered it last fall, and so they're off to the races on this now.
But the real war on women, I'm just, I'm going to go back to last Friday.
The real war on women is being conducted by the regime, by the Obama administration.
Since Barack Obama took office, the unemployment rate for women has gone up from 7 to 8.1% since Obama took office.
The number of female workers has declined by 683,000.
Since Obama took office, the number of women unemployed has increased by 858,000, close to a million.
The poverty rate among women rose to 14.5% last year, up from 13.9% when Obama was emaculated in 2009.
It's over half a percentage point in Obama's three years.
And it happens to be the highest rate for poverty in women in 17 years.
If there is a war on women, it is happening and it is being directed from the White House with Obama as the generalissimo.
Now, politico.
Romney's camp claims about female job loss under Obama, not so clear-cut.
Well, we must have hit a home run on Friday with these numbers because the Politico decides to try to do something about it.
The Romney camp would have you believe under Obama, women have suffered the most economically, claiming that 92.3% of the jobs lost on his watch belonged to women.
Romney Press Secretary Andrea Saul tweeted that stat with the label fact around the time Obama spoke to a White House forum on women and the economy.
Here's Obama on Friday with a forum at women.
Say, you're all not monolithic to me when they all are monolithic.
He's treating them all the same.
There's a simple reason why job loss, this is politico writing, a simple reason why job losses look worse for women during Obama's presidency.
Almost 3.3 million men were fired during George W. Bush's last year in office, while losses for women were more drawn out over to all.
So you see, it's only an illusion that it looks bad for women because so many men lost their jobs in bushes last year.
If you go look, in fact, I'm going to check because I think I've reported prior, and I think I remember this right, that after Obama won, even before, starting in October of 2008,
the unemployment, the people being laid off and fired rose dramatically, and particularly in November, December after Obama was elected, because small business knew what they were in store for in terms of the forthcoming regulations and the shackles.
Now, the Politico says that Romney's claim looks accurate at first blush.
From January, that's until we in the media get hold of this and start whitewashing it.
From January 2009 through the release of the March numbers on Friday, women lost 683,000 jobs and men 57,000 jobs.
That's the source of the 92.3%.
Well, it is what it is.
You got those two numbers.
Women lost 683,000 jobs from January 2009 through last month.
Men lost 57,000.
The 683,000 is 92.3% of the number.
But let's dig deeper, says the politico here, in an attempt to save Obama.
Let's go back to January 2008.
What's that got to do with Romney's point?
During the last year of the Bush administration, employment for men plunged by 3.2 million jobs, but just 1.7 million for women.
So there wasn't anybody left to fire.
No, nobody left to fire except a bunch of women.
Well, isn't that great?
Isn't that a great way to try to save Obama?
Hey, there was nobody left to lay off.
You take a look at when most of those layoffs in 2008 took place, folks.
And they'll happen in October and November and December.
But the one thing that I want to stress to everybody here is that there's really nothing wrong per se with the United States economy.
There are a lot of people who are discussing the whole notion of America being in decline.
In fact, there's a piece in the Wall Street Journal today, Walter Russell Mead, The Myth of American Decline.
And along with Mead, there are three books ranging from decline being overhyped to underhyped, The World America Made by Robert Kagan, Strategic Vision by Zbigniew Zhizhinski, who says the decline is serious.
Kagan, by the way, says the decline is overhyped.
And Every Nation for Itself, a book by Ian Bremer who says it's over.
Those are three books plus Walter Russell Mead.
Now, is America in decline?
No, I don't believe we're in decline.
I think we're in shackles.
Big.
It's a fine point.
There's no question the economy's trending down, but why?
What Obama wants, folks, this is crucially important now.
Look at me.
What Obama and the Democrats want you to believe is that we are in structural decline because of the failure of capitalism.
And we are not.
We are in decline because of Obamaism.
We are in decline because Obama is shrinking the private sector.
We are in decline because Obama is spending us into debt.
He is taxing us into debt.
He is taxing everybody into mediocrity.
It really hits starting next year.
Nothing wrong with the country if capitalism would be allowed to flourish.
What's happening here is that Obamaism has shackled all these new regulations, all of the spending.
The expansion of government has to come from somewhere.
It comes from the private sector shrinking.
Government doesn't have any money other than what it borrows or prints, but it doesn't have any money as a result of production.
So whatever money it has to redistribute, it has to take from someplace.
It's taking from you and me and every other American.
It's taking from the private sector, shrinking it.
That's why the labor force participation rate is down by over 2 million people since Obama took office.
This economy, there's nothing wrong with it that capitalism can't fix.
But what Obama wants you to believe is that it's never worked.
Capitalism, since the days of our founding, has never worked.
And what's happening now, it's as though we don't have an incumbent president.
What's happening now is the result of all of these years of capitalistic failure since the founding of the country.
And the only thing that really will work if we just give it time is the last three and a half years of Obama-ism.
Got to take a break.
But there is no country in the world, there is no country in the history of the world that has the energy of the United States of America.
No country has the ability to innovate, to adjust, to make things happen that we do.
You call it American exceptionalism or Yankee ingenuity or whatever, but it's right there in our 200-plus year resume.
There's no holding us back if we're turned loose.
Okay, the Politico.
Politico says that the reason all these job losses in the last three years are from women is because all the men were already fired or let go starting in 2008 with George W. Bush.
There was nobody left to fire.
What an explanation that is.
Nobody left to fire.
The economy tanking so bad that people had to be laid off, and the only people left were women.
Sorry, folks, that excuse falls on deaf ears with me.
And we looked it up.
The unemployment rate, October 2008, 6.5%.
If you go back earlier in the year, you're going to find unemployment 4.7% in 2007, 2008.
It was in the upper fives.
It got progressively worse as the election year and the campaign went up.
And when, don't forget when the economic crisis hit in September, then the bottom fell out.
So the unemployment rate, October 2008, was 6.5%.
In November, after the election, it was 6.8%.
And the December unemployment rate shot up to 7.3%.
So the bulk of the job losses in 2008 occurred after Obama was elected.
And there's no way the Politico is going to tell you that.
All they're trying to do right now is debunk the Romney claim about female job loss under Obama, but they can't debunk it.
All they can say is, well, all the men were fired with Bush.
There was no way that if anybody else could get fired but women because they're the only ones left, which is a crock.
But that's what they want you to think.
I'm just here to tell you, there's no bigger believer in this country than I am.
There's no country in the history of the world that has the energy we do, the ability to innovate that our people have to adjust, make things happen.
It's called American exceptionalism, Yankee ingenuity, but it's been part of us for 200 years.
The problem we face today is shackles, not decline.
The real problem is shackles.
Decline is the result of the problem.
And there's, I'll tell you, no better barometer for decline and the shackles than the Keystone Pipeline.
Here's a job-creating device, a program that would increase domestic oil, decreasing our dependence on foreign oil, create jobs.
And who stands in the way?
Obama, Obama.
No way we're going to do this.
No Keystone Pipeline.
It's a metaphor.
It's an example for everything that's happened to cause what I'm talking about.
The Florida State Attorney, Angela Corey, has decided today not to use a grand jury in the Trayman Martin shooting, Death.
The grand jury was expected to release their report tomorrow as to whether George Zimmerman should be charged in the February 26th shooting.
The case is now in the hands of the special prosecutor, Angela Corey.
She said from the beginning that she may not need a grand jury.
According to the state attorney's office, the decision should not be considered a factor in the final determination of the case.
Don't use it as a factor.
Don't try to glean anything from the fact that there's not, we're going to send this to the grand jury.
Now, what does that mean?
Because she said earlier that she said, well, she may not need a grand jury, which means that she's got enough evidence to do it on her own.
Or not.
Yeah, she's got enough evidence that she doesn't need.
Now, if it's well, it's kind of risky to start trying to guess this.
This is sort of like trying to guess what a jury is going to do.
It's often assumed that prosecutors can get a grand jury to do whatever they want, but not always.
Not always.
And if there was ever a not always time, this might be it.
She might not want to throw this open to the grand jury.
If the grand jury says no true bill, no matter what she says, there won't be a true bill.
They vote, and they either vote for a true bill or no true bill, which means an indictment or not.
And if she doesn't think she can get the outcome she wants or she doesn't think she needs it, then she won't go there.
One way of looking at this, if she were not going to prosecute Zimmerman, wouldn't it be easier to lay that off on a grand jury than put a target on her back?
So the conclusion would be that she's going to prosecute Zimmerman, doesn't need the grand jury to do it.
This is just a theory.
It's just a theory.
Nobody knows.
But some highly educated lawyers would tell you in a highly charged case like this that the state attorney doesn't want this all on her if the decision is not to prosecute.
Go to the grand jury.
If you don't want to prosecute, because you can try for whatever you want out of there.
Because she doesn't want a bounty on her head, a new Black Panther Party.
Zimmerman's already got a bounty on his head for the new Black Panther.
She doesn't want one because nobody's condemning that bounty.
That bounty, for all we know, is still out there.
Nobody has yet really condemned it.
So no grand jury, she's going to do it all on her own, and you left to your own devices to figure out what that means.
James O'Keefe, let's go to audio soundbite number two.
James O'Keefe is back at it.
He's Breitbart's videographer.
He's got this project called Veritas, V-E-R-I-T-A-S.
I've never heard it pronounced.
They might call it Veritas.
Don't know, but he is the guy that took his video cameras in and totally exposed Acorn.
What he did, James O'Keefe took a hidden camera into a polling place where Eric Holder lives.
O'Keefe is white.
He told him he was Holder and asked for a ballot or asked if he was registered or what have you, wanted to register.
Let's listen to the video.
This will explain the whole thing.
No, do you have an Eric Holder?
Northwest.
H-O-L-D-E-R.
That's the name.
Northwest, that's the address.
Place name?
Please sign me there.
I actually forgot my ID.
You and me, it's all right.
I left in the car.
As long as you're here, you're on our list, and that's who you say you are.
Okay.
I would feel more comfortable if I just had my IDs all right if I go get a code.
I'll be back faster than you can say furious.
We're not going anywhere.
So James O'Keefe was allowed to call himself Eric Holder.
He didn't have to produce a photo ID.
Now, we've got to be very careful here.
He did not say he was Eric Holder.
He did not commit any fraud here.
He just asked if there was an Eric Holder.
And the guy said, yeah.
And, well, you need my ID.
Nope, nope.
You don't need it.
It's all right.
O'Keefe says, I left my ID in the car.
As long as you're here, you're on a list.
That's who you say you are.
And O'Keefe says, like, I'd feel far more comfortable if I just had my ID.
Is it all right if I go get it?
He says, go ahead.
I'll be back faster than you can say furious.
And the poll worker said, we're not going anywhere.
Now, this is a profound embarrassment.
This is a, and this notion, faster than you can say furious, that's hilarious.
That is one of these great bits of satire.
And this poll worker has no clue what he's talking about, fast and furious.
He has no clue what he's talking about.
But here's O'Keeffe with some great behind-the-scenes investigative journalism proving that it would be easy to commit vote fraud without a photo ID.
And Eric Holder, of course, the attorney general, has been out in the country as many places as he can go saying, we don't need a photo ID.
Photo ID is racist.
A photo ID is discriminatory.
You can't participate in the American economy without a photo ID.
You cannot get on an airplane.
I went to the hospital the other day to visit somebody.
I couldn't get past the front desk without a photo ID.
I could not.
And they took a picture of me to put on the sign on my little name tag or whatever.
You could not get past the front desk without a photo ID to go visit somebody in the hospital.
But here's O'Keefe.
He walks right up to this polling place.
Do you have, and makes this guy think he's Eric Holder without saying so?
This guy doesn't even know who Holder is, apparently, which makes it all the better.
He was able, if he had wanted to, to register and vote as Eric Holder, and nothing could have been done about it.
You can't buy cigarettes under the age of 26 without a photo ID.
The only place the American left tells you that you don't need a photo ID is the polling place.
And that's the only place where it's discriminatory to have one.
Have you ever looked at it this way?
This photo ID business.
Look at all the places in our economy where you need one before you can participate.
You can't get a credit card.
You can't use a credit card.
You can't cash check.
You can't do you can't get on an airplane.
You probably can't get on a train.
You probably, you can't do anything.
You are shut out from the U.S. economy without a photo ID.
And yet the Democrat Party is content for whatever numbers of Americans don't have photo IDs to be shut out of the U.S. economy.
All for the sake of what obviously is vote fraud.
This is clear what they want to preserve.
They want to preserve exactly what O'Keefe was able to do here.
But O'Keefe has brilliantly exposed the fallacy in not requiring a photo ID, which one of these things, everybody with a modicum of common sense understands this.
But because the charge is racism, if you demand one, if you support photo ID to vote, you're a racist.
It quells people's energy on it.
It shuts them down, and they don't want to push the issue because nobody wants to be called a racist.
So, once again, you've got further cultural rot and decline, and you've got a decline in the reliability of a fairly important tradition in this country, voting.
There's just too many people without the courage.
Remember, it was Eric Holder running around telling everybody we're cowards for having not every guts to talk about race.
And the same people like Holder and Obama and the rest of the regime that come around and accuse you and want to make you a coward if you insist on voter, voter ID, a photo ID to vote.
It's a great.
Were you able to hear, understand all that we had?
We had to bleep what we bleeped an address because it actually is Holder's address.
And we bleeped a bunch of stuff out of it.
But I had the transcript, so I was able to fall.
Were you able to hear what the poll workers said?
Okay, cool.
Devastating.
Just absolutely just makes mincemeat of these people's argument.
And the fact that it was Holder is just delectable.
Okay, quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We'll continue after this.
A group of students protesting the Trayvon Martin shooting today blocked the entrance to the Sanford Police Department by kneeling down in front of the doors and they forced the Sanford Police Department to close.
Have you ever heard of that?
Have you ever heard of a protest shutting down a police station?
No arrests have been made in the Monday protest, which comes a day after the students who call themselves the Dream Defenders completed a 40-mile, three-day march from Daytona Beach to Sanford, where Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by Jordan Zimmerman of late February.
City officials and members of the U.S. Department of Justice were observing the demonstration, which consisted of a handful of students, some wearing hoodies, blocking the entrance, dozens of others standing nearby, a handful, dozens, shut down the Sanford Police Department.
A handful, none were arrested.
Why do you think?
Why do you think this is literal, literal obstruction of justice?
Wouldn't you say literal obstruction of justice, and they weren't arrested?
A handful.
Well, sternly, look, it's easy for you to sit there and say enough of this, enough of that.
Why don't you go do something about it?
Well, of course you're not a cop.
You think the cops ought to go the cops probably have bounties on their heads too?
No surprise.
Anyway, here the details.
Well, it is enough, but who's going to do anything about it?
Nobody's doing anything about it.
I'm sure law enforcement, you can't take the politics out of this.
And I guarantee you that law enforcement decided that the best way to diffuse this is to just not do anything.
Well, they may be inviting more, but I'm sure they made the decision on site.
If they'd have gone out there, started making arrests.
Probably what a lid would have blown is what these people wanted.
They weren't going to give them what they wanted.
So just let it die out of itself.
That is more and more, by the way, the crisis PR management response to anything.
Just let it play out.
It's eventually going to end.
People will lose their emotional energy and attachment to whatever.
Let it play out.
More and more.
Particularly on highly charged matters like this.
Now, there's a photo of this accompanying the story.
It didn't print for some reason, but it's not that many people in the picture.
But they still made the decision.
And you look at the supposed to turn the case over to the grand jury tomorrow and the state attorney says, nope, no, I'm going to handle this myself.
So everybody, I'm sure they're batten down.
They're getting ready for a new wave here.
The producer at NBC has been fired, by the way.
However, NBC did this late on Friday.
I mean, well, long after I got up, it was like midnight.
It was late at night on Friday.
NBC News fired the producer responsible for the edited audio tape and George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer, shot Trayvon Martin.
The producer who remains unidentified was fired on Thursday, according to initial reports by the New York Times and Reuters, though NBC has not provided an official statement nor the name of the producer.
And this was a doctored tape.
Now, the NBC News director said this was an accident.
It was not purposeful.
It happened in the haste and the speed of our show, the Today Show, to get something put together real fast.
And I'm sure he hopes that people will believe that.
But in my mind, there's no doubt how this happened.
You know, even being charitable, which is a stretch, but even being charitable, if you want to go to some length to try to not excuse, but explain why the producer did what he did, you would have to understand that this producer, in his heart and in his mind, because of the way he's been taught, because of his journalism and what they believe, that this country's still in slavery, that there is still that kind of racism out there.
And when he saw the tape, he said, well, clearly, he goes into this thinking Zimmerman shot the guy for his black.
He goes into that thinking that he sees the 9-11 tape.
He says, well, look, it happened here.
Zimmerman says the guy's black, then described him as looking suspicious or whatever.
Bamo!
Theory confirmed racist.
Put the tape together that's being charitable because that was in the guy's heart.
The uncharitable way to look at it is that this guy was knowingly trying to spread hatred, knowingly trying to fan the flames of racism.
But even the charitable view of this is not flattering to NBC and who they hire and what the mindset is inside a network.
And that is, we're still in slavery.
We still have a racist to the core country.
There have been no changes in it.
And since that's true, anytime we find evidence of it, we are duty bound to report it.
And that's why the tape got in.
That's the charitable view of this.
The uncharitable view is that you have a bigot and a racist that works as a producer at NBC who saw an opportunity to further his own political point of view with the timely edit of the tape of the Today Show and put it out there, thinking nobody would do anything to him because it happens all the time at our network and nobody ever says anything about it.
But then the new media and the bloggers fear.
So wait a second, this is just as bad as Dan Rather's phony stories of the National Guard and George W. Bush.
NBC didn't want to get rid of this guy.
NBC didn't want to fire this guy.
And the fact that they haven't published his name, I mean, they could be doing this for security purposes, they would say, or her, but it also allows this person to get hired across the street at CNN or ABC today.
They circle the wagons.
They do protect each other.
We have our annual cure-a-thon, Radiothon to cure leukemia and lymphoma this Friday, folks.
Our annual big event.
We've raised over, what is it, $20, $30 million, over $30 million we've raised since we've been doing this.
And it revs up again this Friday.
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