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May 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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A views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything.
Anyone else out there happens to be saying because the views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time.
Some people think I'm wrong in this football stuff when I say that it is spinning out of control.
No rush, it's not spinning out of control.
It is being spun into control.
And that might be true.
I still maintain to you that there are people who are engineering what could well be disaster for the sport of well for the for the for the industry, the National Football League, who don't know they're doing it.
Then there are others who do know they're doing it.
Don't misunderstand.
I mean, there's there's uh basically two, three kinds of people involved here.
You got the wusses, you got the people that have played the game, and then you've got innocent bystanders.
And the wusses want to get rid of it.
The people who played the game want to hold on to it, and the innocent bystanders are the ones that are going to be swayed by the wusses.
And I do mean that.
And then you've got these well-intentioned liberal sports writers, as I say, as the last time I'm going to say it, but it's important enough to say they don't know it.
I'm going to give them a benefit of the doubt, because I don't think they want to write themselves out of work.
I don't think they want to write themselves out of jobs, but they are paving the way for this game to be done away with fundamentally changed, what have you.
Because they're liberals, they don't know any better.
They think they're doing the taking the compassionate, well reasoned, well thought out side and all this.
So a mockery was made of the first day of the military tribunal involving Khalid Sheikh Muhammad.
An utter mockery.
The first day was televised, closed circuit, where 9-11 families could watch the proceedings.
And it was an utter disaster.
The judge lost control, the defendants.
I'll tell you this, the decision to not have this trial in New York City looks brilliant now based on what happened with the military tribunal the first day, because it was an absolute circus.
The Ford defendants making a mockery of the whole process, a mockery of the United States, sneering and laughing at the deaths of all the people they killed on 9-11 and the uh an expressed desire to do it again.
And one of the lawyers for one of the terrorists, a woman by the name of Cheryl Borman, she's counsel for defendant Walid bin Atash.
She attended the arraignment Saturday dressed in a hijab, apparently because her client insisted on it.
She wore burqa.
She showed up looking like a woman out in public in Saudi Arabia.
But it wasn't enough that she dressed that way.
She further requested that the court order other women to follow her example so that the defendants wouldn't have to avert their eyes for fear of committing a sin under their faith.
It is a sin, apparently, for the murderers of 3,000 people to look at women's faces and heads uncovered.
And it's such an outrage that the uh that the biased and unfair American military justice system would make these defendants look at women not wearing hijabs.
And so Cheryl Borman requested of the court that every woman in the court.
There she is, snurdy.
You can see her right there on Fox.
Fox is an artist's rendering of what happened.
At a press conference Sunday at Club Gitmo, Cheryl Borman said that she dresses in a hijab at all times when she meets with her client out of respect for his beliefs.
Asked why she requested other women to do the same.
Cheryl Borman said, when you're on trial for your life, you need to be focused.
And I can't have my clients not paying attention because they're women in the courtroom violating their religious beliefs.
So we are to drive in a U.S. military tribunal, we are to drop everything, and we are to respect Sharia law above all other law, even though these defendants are not being tried under Sharia law.
And we are supposed to mandate that Sharia law rule the courtroom when such a demand made by any other religion would be laughed at.
Borman is not Muslim.
Cheryl Borman's not Muslim.
She claimed the issue came up several years ago when a paralegal wore very short skirts and it became a distraction for the defendants.
She said that on Saturday, somebody was also dressed in a way that was not in keeping with my client's religious beliefs.
Well, isn't that tough toenails for your client?
Everybody in this country goes someplace someday where their religious beliefs are offended or challenged.
I mean, you believe that, you know, if if uh members of any other religion walked into anything like this and demanded everybody either dress or behave according, especially you're the defendant.
You're on trial for your part in the murder of nearly 3,000 people.
Cheryl Borman said, yeah, if because of someone's religious beliefs, they can't focus when somebody in the courtroom is dressed in a particular way, I feel it's incumbent upon myself as a lawyer to point out and ask for some consideration from the prosecution.
Suffice to say, it was distracting to members of the accused.
The clothing request was just one of several unusual moments during Saturday's lengthy and chaotic hearing.
Okay.
Cheryl Borman dressed at her own hijab.
And I'll tell you that the the biggest outrage might be that the lawyers are now saying that uh Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his buddies, this trial could go on for years.
This military tribunals are known for being get in, get it, and get out type affairs.
They don't last very long.
This hearing should have taken no more than two hours.
At that, this hearing should have been over and done with in two hours.
Then it lasted.
Do you know almost 13 hours?
This hearing lasted almost 13 hours.
They had meal breaks, they had prayer breaks.
The terrorists were making uh concerted efforts to stall the hearing on Saturday.
They knelt in prayer, they ignored the judge, they wouldn't listen to Arabic translations over their headsets.
Uh one of them even insisted on having the more than 20 pages detailing the charges against them read aloud.
Instead of making a mockery of the whole process, which understandable, predictable too, which is why everybody was outraged when the idea that this trial should take place in an American criminal court in New York City as Holder and Obama originally wanted, and for this very reason, by the way.
I've always been of the belief that that uh Holder and Obama wanted America on trial.
And that's why they originally you people who are new to the program, you may not be aware of this number, but the just the security costs had this trial gone ahead in New York City as originally conceived.
Just the security costs alone were said to be 200 million dollars.
Just the security, just to get the defendants in and out of court every day, keep them alive wherever they were going to be uh held, keeping them alive alive inside the courtroom.
And and everybody else's security to boot.
Now, I tell you, my reaction when I saw this, when I read about this, these guys, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and his pals, do not strike Me as prisoners who have been tortured or abused.
If you've been uh successfully tortured or abused, you c you sort of sit there and cower, and you're afraid to do anything, it might cause a repeat of the treatment that you've been under.
So these guys, I don't I didn't see one shred of evidence that they'd been abused or tortured, because they obviously have no fear of United States authority.
They have no fear of the judge.
They have no fear of these proceedings.
They have no qualms whatsoever.
They they they're behaving as though they know nothing is going to happen to them.
And I'm just telling you, if they've been tortured like the American left and the media want you to believe, these people would be quiet, docile, sitting there trying to avoid doing anything that would cause a repeat of the torture or the abuse.
And here they're inviting it.
Any other court, any other country these guys are familiar with, they would have been beaten inside the courtroom and taken back to jail, a trial canceled.
But here, even in our military tribunal at Club Gitmo.
One of the female lawyers demanding all the women in the courtroom wear Burkas.
Quick time out.
Tom Brokaw says that the White House correspondence dinner is making the press look out of touch.
Too much Kristal champagne on camera.
I just got I've I I bought something from Amazon, yes.
I got bored.
So I bought something from Amazon.
Don't care what it was.
I just threw and I'll just the cursor up there, what I don't know.
It might be a Barbie doll for all I know.
I'm just kidding.
I bought some stuff yesterday and it said it wouldn't be available until May 29th.
Okay, I'm gonna get my order in.
I just got a shipping notice.
It's going out UPS ground.
The shipping label has been ordered.
All the information was sent to UPS.
Shipping date, June si arrival date, June 6th.
No, it's in stock and shipping.
That's why the label's been cut.
They're gonna pick it up tonight.
The delivery date is June 6th.
That's 30 days from now.
UPS ground.
I've never heard of that.
It has to be.
Has to be an error.
Anyway, let's go to the phones.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here, the EIB Network.
We'll get to all this stuff broke all because we got Obama's speech to the half-empty uh stadium where he basically says, uh, I uh no, uh, you're not better off now than you were, but it is gonna take ten years.
He essentially said it's gonna take ten to fifteen years with me.
With Romney, you're never going to be better off.
That that's what is that's the campaign, essentially.
But let's go to the phones.
I'm gonna start with Robin Columbus.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, uh, thank you very much for taking my call, and it's a great honor and privilege to be a part of helping spread the light of truth.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Oh, it's a great honor.
Um, I just wanted to let you know that um on the Ohio State University campus, there were very active uh campaign functions going on, uh being door to door um pumping people up to get to the Obama event and passing out literature.
Is that right?
What day was this?
It was actually last week I tried to get through it was uh either it could have been last Sunday, uh but through Monday, Tuesday, it was, you know, an ongoing.
So they knew they knew or suspected a week prior to the event they were gonna sell a place out.
They had people going door to door trying to get people to show up Saturday.
Absolutely.
And also uh with under the guise of, you know, this really doesn't have anything to do with politics, it's just that the president's coming.
That's what they were saying?
That's what at least some of them were saying.
Some of these people going door to door trying to get people to show up, say that has nothing to do with politics, just the president's coming?
Yes, denying that it's politics.
I mean, uh, it was only his campaign re-election announcement.
Exactly.
Nothing to do with politics.
Right.
You know, I kind of What's he gonna do?
Interest Julia?
By the way, do you know Julia is a character in the book 1984 by Orwell?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I wish I'd have remembered that last week.
Julia is a character in Orwell's 1984.
Anyway, this is interesting to note here, Rob, that they're going door to door.
What why why didn't they?
Uh go on their website uh uh organizing for America or where were the union people uh you know breaking legs to get people out?
I mean I can't they're sending kids, college students door to door trying to drum up a crowd, and I've that that's I think they're afraid of adults, as you well know.
You know, just to left here.
I'll tell you what, you know, that's an excellent point.
Rob, you are I I you are very shrewd because you know Obama has given up on white working class voters.
They made that announcement last November.
He's speaking to mostly college audiences where celebrity Trump's accomplishments.
He is trying to pass himself off as celebrity.
That's what I think it means when you say they're going door to door saying, Oh, it's not it's not political, the president's coming.
The so the celebrity of the United States is coming, not the president of the United States.
I So they've they've basically uh the only the only crowd they can get is college students.
That's his at every speech in the last couple of weeks anyway.
Yes, and may I please uh add that I have a theory about this?
That it's a pattern of his entire not just a campaign, but he has a three pronged program of deceiving.
He says the opposite of what he really means.
The second thing he does is he destroys what he actually says he cared about.
And then the third thing is he deflects attention away from it and denies he has anything to do with it.
All right.
Here comes the final exam.
Give me examples of each.
Oh, sure.
Uh for example, the stimulus program.
Oh, I care about the economy or I care about green energy, and that's the deception.
The second part is Wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What he cares about you mean he really doesn't mean it?
Of course not.
He doesn't.
He does he didn't believe in the stimulus.
And then the second part is he actually goes around and destroys it, make sure that he spends money with nothing left to show for it at the end of the day.
He's doing this on purpose, you believe.
Absolutely.
For what end?
Well, uh, the only goal that I can see is that he does not like the way things are here in the United States, and he wants to change them and kind of pay back time.
Okay.
I don't know.
I mean that's I Well, I know it's tough.
It's tough to get your arms around this.
I know.
Why destroy it, even though you hate it?
Why destroy it?
Well, exactly.
Well, take the Cash for Clunkers program.
There was not a penny in cash or a clunker accepted.
It was a trade in destruction program.
You had to first take a perfectly good running automobile to then be eligible for buying a brand new car and using that as a trade in to get a an additional discount.
And here you've got both Republicans and Democrats calling it cash for clunkers, had nothing to do with either of those two.
It was a trade in destruction program.
So the first thing you do is you deceive saying that.
Well, now wait a way, wait a minute.
You know, he's right about this.
The cars that were traded in were destroyed.
They were folks.
They were it was basically get rid of the gas guzzler and and which I equals the clunker, and uh we'll give you a deal buying a car you'd really rather not have.
You know, some tiny little golf cart type thing with a couple seats on it.
Now what's your third example?
Oh, well, I mean, if anything, for example, I know that um this is a supposed to be taboo, but let's go with his birth certificate.
He says he was born in the United States.
He has not shown a genuine authentifiable, verifiable um in order to authenticate in a document, you need to have the original.
No, wait, just a second.
They did release a birth certificate.
The original.
Even Donald Trump said to be satisfied with it.
But a copy of uh anything, you can't be satisfied.
You have to actually examine the original.
So in order for any document examiner, for any in a court of law or for a uh George Washington, I always got a Abraham Lincoln autograph or whatnot.
In order to have an expert authenticate it, you can't go by a copy.
You have to actually examine the ink on the paper.
As well as many other things.
Oh, yeah, what are your thoughts on the fact that Obama's social security number is from Connecticut and he's never been there.
Exactly.
That's what you call a red flag.
A red flag is also, oh, I'll give you my birth certificate.
First of all, I don't need to give you my birth certificate.
Uh and then finally, I'll I'll give you a copy.
Oh, that's a modern copy.
Oh, we don't want the other copy.
We don't need copies, we want originals.
Right.
Okay.
Well, um the third example, how about another one?
Uh Release your uh college records.
You're going to all these colleges, Mr. President.
How about releasing all of your college papers and let's see what you really thought about America when you were in college?
He's just he's deceiving us.
Right.
Well, plus the well, now.
Yeah, that's true.
They don't want to see what those term papers, doctoral theses and so forth actually were about, nor do they want us to see the grades.
They don't want us to see the grades.
Okay, well, look, Rob, this cool.
I'm glad you called.
This, this is the kind of youngster thinking that we admire here, the uh EIB network.
I gotta run.
Quick timeout.
Back with more after this.
I got it in a stack here.
I got it in the stack.
Yeah, if it's in the stack, I got it right here to stack.
It's all coming up on the program.
Here's a here's a headline.
Losses at the Oprah's TV channel approached $330 million.
Losses at Oprah Winfrey's stumbling cable channel network are approaching a staggering $330 million.
Where did this run?
I don't know where this ran.
Let me see if I can find out where this ran.
Let's see.
It's the New York Post.
Okay.
Can you imagine if the headline were losses at Rush Stations approach 300?
Can you imagine what the headlines would be?
You imagine what the headline will be.
They'll quote me as having just said it.
You watch this will become a story.
You watch.
Of course it's not.
I'm just feeding off Oprah here.
Now, um.
Let's see.
Richard Trump lowers expectations in Scott Walker fight.
And I've also got a story in the stack.
Trumpke, who is the uh head of the AFL CIO.
Union.
There's a story in the stack.
Trump says, Yeah, we're gonna take Scott Walker out.
Now, when union guys start talking, we're gonna take them out.
You don't think of elections, do you?
You just, I'm sorry, but you don't think elections.
Now, Trump, head of a labor union devoted to recalling Scott Walker, Republican governor Wisconsin, began spinning the prospect of Walker winning even as the Democrat primary draws to a close.
They've been putting out misrepresentative polling data all these months on this race.
They have been polling adults, children.
They have not been polling likely voters.
When they poll likely voters, Walker's up seven to eight points in some cases ten.
That's not and of course, Indiana tomorrow, the primary of Murdoch versus Luger, and Luger will not commit to supporting Murdoch if Murdoch wins.
They're asking Luger, Lucas, well, I'm not gonna lose.
I'm not gonna deal with that later, which I understand is an answer.
But uh Luger's out soliciting help from Democrats and independents at open primary, apparently in Indiana.
People cross the lines vote for him.
And understand, this is this is the Republican establishment is worried.
Oh no, it could be another Christian.
Of course it's not.
Murdoch is already served at electable office.
But they're looking at this.
See, this is a this is classic, folks.
The Republican establishment just as soon hold the seat, even if the candidate was a socialist, as long as there's an R by his name.
It's all they care about.
Republican establishment's not oriented toward getting conservatives in these seats.
So Murdoch, if he wins the primary Indiana tomorrow, Republican establishment will reluctantly, silently get behind him.
But they're already thinking, well, there goes the Indiana seat, gonna lose that one because they can't.
It's not even possible in the minds of the Republican establishment that a conservative could win in this election.
This is this is what is so darn frustrating to us.
Conservatives should and can win any election in this upcoming November fracas.
There's no quite for the Republican establishment to still be buying into this notion that a conservative on the ballot equals a Barry Goldwater landslide defeat, and that's what they think.
They really do.
I gotta make a note of all this stuff because we've got to develop this further as the week unfolds.
Also got an email about the National Football League and some disagreeing with me.
And I've got to be very careful how I read this email.
I can't read this verbatim.
Just can't.
Just can't.
Dear Mr. Limbaugh, the National Football League, nor college football, but particularly the NFL will never go away.
It is a business where the vast majority of employees are black.
They will never get rid of football.
It would be called racist.
Oh, contraire.
Let me present an alternative view.
And let's take George Will's example that football is the Roman Coliseum.
What happened in a Coliseum and everybody?
What is the legend that Christians were given to the Lions?
And that the crowd roared.
The crowd loved it.
And if you don't like that, go further back to the gladiators, wiping each other out.
Thumbs up, thumbs down.
The Roman Caesar, it is women sitting there, thumbs up, thumbs down.
Think Russell Crowe, if you're a Hollywood type.
Well, in both those cases, people were dying, and it was being cheered.
On the one hand, at the hand of the uh the jaws of lions, the other hand, the swords and other weapons of.
Now I I guarantee you this is going to happen, folks.
It's going to happen in the sports media.
It's going to happen in the sports media under the guise of compassion and an attempt to be sensitive and helpful.
It's going to be just the opposite.
Somebody is going to report after they figure it out.
Snerdley's in there laughing.
Because he knows I got to be careful the way I put this.
But let me let me preface I am not in favor of this.
I don't want anybody thinking I don't want the NFL show.
I think all this is bogus.
Well, not all by the effort to make it safer is not bogus, but the idea that it can't be made saying it's got to get rid of the game.
I'm telling you, it's a groundswell that's being spun into control or out of control, however you want to look at it.
What's going to happen is somebody is going to figure out here pretty soon that since 75% of the players in the NFL are African American, that's 75% of the concussions are being suffered by African Americans.
75% of the heart attacks, early deaths, whatever African Americans.
And then somebody is going to say, maybe this week after I put it out here, somebody's going to say, how long are we going to put up with the sacrifice of African American males for a bloodthirsty American audience?
How long are we willingly going to submit African American males to maiming, concussions, early death, and perhaps suicide for what?
The bloodlust of the American population.
And they'll make the obvious connection to the old plantation days.
You watch.
That's what's going to happen.
It will be used as a further arrow in the quiver to ban the game.
Not something we have to protect because it employs so many African Americans.
We shall see.
Here's Patrick in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Hi, Patrick.
Glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Thank you, Russ.
I got to cross you off my bucket list now.
I'll talk to you.
I'm a former college football player and current law student at Elon University.
Wait, wait, wait.
Your former college football and your current lost.
Oh, okay.
Uh lost.
That's what I didn't hear.
All right.
Yes, sir.
Uh I'm in my first year of law school, but I had to stop playing football because I woke up in the hospital with a concussion.
They told me I had about seven severe concussions, and any more would be permanent brain damage.
I'm just calling today because it's ridiculous what they're turning the game of football into.
They're turning into almost soccer.
It's just a game where you can't even be physical.
Are you aware of the number of injuries and stuff?
People aren't aware that The head injuries in soccer are very high.
People wouldn't believe this.
But soccer has its own injury problem.
It's just it's not a it's not a uh such a mass spectator sport in this country as football is, but it it does have its share of do you know the name of Eric Legrand?
No, sir.
Eric Lagrand, Princeton, paralyzed a couple seasons ago on a kickoff, and he's paralyzed from the waist down, played for played for Rutgers.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers this year signed him after the draft in a ceremonial uh move to honor him.
And he sees he obviously can't play in a wheelchair.
But he was in New York recently over the weekend.
He was he was paralyzed on a kickoff, and he is, like you are doing here, Eric LeGrand is criticizing the new kickoff rules in the NFL.
And by the way, the NFL is going to quickly and soon ban the kickoff because of possible.
You watch.
Not this season, but it's coming sooner than anybody else thinks.
They're going to ban the kickoff, the ball's going to be put in a 20-yard line after every touchdown.
And you say, what about onside kicks?
We'll deal with that later, but they're going to get rid of the kickoff because of potential injuries, and this kid was injured at Rutgers, paralyzed on a kickoff, and he is criticizing the league for its rules.
Rules changes.
He says the game's what it is.
And every one of us who play it know the risks.
Yes, sir.
But that doesn't matter because, see, you don't know what you're doing.
You might say you know the risks, but when liberals are involved, whether you're playing football or just getting in your car to go down to the quick shop, you don't know how to do it.
You you might pick up your phone while you're driving, can't allow you to do that.
You you might miss a stop sign or on the you're just all of us, not just you.
When liberals get involved, they have contempt for everybody and their lack of ability to live life properly and make the right decisions.
So we have to be protected from things that put us at risk.
And that would be kickoffs in the NFL or football, but you play the game knowing full well what the risks were, and you wanted to play it.
And everybody that plays the game knows what the risks are, right?
Yes, sir.
My dad played for Carolina, and I played for state, and I hope one day that the game's still around so I can have a son that can play college football.
I'm afraid it's not going to look so good.
What did you think?
Maybe if you didn't hear this, Kurt Warner said that uh knowing what he knows now, he hopes his kids don't play the game.
And then there was a lot of reaction.
Uh Merrill Hodge, who um, for example, doesn't think Tim Tebow should wear a jock strap and play quarterback, just doesn't like Tebow at all.
Hodge said that uh that I think it was Hash said, Warner's crazy.
What is he ripping the game that made him rich?
He's ripping the game that made him famous, is rich ripping the game that employs him.
He's at the NFL network, saying his kids shouldn't play.
So that's started a new argument.
Does Kurt among the left, does Kurt Warner have the right to say whether or not his kids should play football?
And there are some people who say he doesn't have the right to say that because he made his living at it.
Others say he can say what he wants.
It's the United States of America.
Others say, yeah, but for how long?
Yes, sir.
I mean, this this football stuff, folks, I'm telling you, you might think, Rush, could you get off something?
This is exactly this this stuff of the NFL microcosm throughout our entire culture.
You have the left who think people don't know what they're doing and have to be protected from themselves.
You have the American sports writer community, very left-leaning, very politically left-leaning, uh, thinking they should they have to do everything in their power to make the game safer, and they don't know they're paving the way for its demise.
Um you have the assumption that the people who play the game don't know what they're doing, that they're being lied to, that they're being exploited, they're being used.
You've got these poor kids from very bad neighborhoods whose only route out is athletics, and they're destroying themselves for the entertainment of the bloodthirsty American population because they don't know what they're doing, and the truth of the dangers and the risks is not being told to them.
All of these things, and you can you can say that about any subset of the American culture in terms of how the left looks at it.
Look at what do I need to give you a list of everything else they're trying to ban?
Every risky can't play dodgeball anymore, can you?
Can't play dodgeball, not in high school, not in junior high, not in grade school, because somebody might get hit.
Somebody might get hit in the head.
Might hurt.
Not fair.
And then bullies might target one kid over all the others, and everybody would throw it's just not so ban dodgeball.
I gotta ban this and ban that ban tag.
It's unfair to somebody's it.
Why should you be it and I'm never it?
Well, no, you will be it if I tag you.
Well, we're banning tag.
What's happening here is a microcosm.
There's a lifeless and teachable moment.
What's going on here?
If they could ban your SUV, they'd do it.
I gotta take a brief time out.
Sit tight, my friends, back with more after this.
I know you can't find it in this hour, but find that Leslie Stahl and Jose Rodriguez soundbite that's uh that's right, it's on my all-time top five sound bites, where she can't believe that uh we tortured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed with insure at uh Club Gitmo.
And then we'll play the uh we'll play the new sound bite after that.
Okay, Ron in uh Enan Valley, Pennsylvania.
Hi, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Um well you I was calling basically for two things.
One, people want to know what they can do to defeat Obama.
Well, if the unemployment, if U three were to reach twelve to fourteen percent, there's he's unelectable.
And guess what?
The people listening right now to your audience, they can change it.
They can make the U6 number go down, the U3 numbers go up by simply going down to the unemployment office and reporting that they're looking for work.
This can be applied to people who are retired, people who are unemployed, who are underemployed.
All of them.
And it's legal.
Ron, Ron, I know it's legal.
I know it's legal.
Well, let me just, I'm going to make sure I understand.
Are you suggesting that the members of this audience involve themselves in trickery?
No trickery at all.
No trickery.
This is, in fact...
They have been manipulating the numbers so that they do not reflect accurately what the actual unemployment rate is.
All this will do is bring those people back in who are fallen off at the trail end.
Well, but the problem is I and I'm serious, that's not how they calculate this.
They don't do this on the verse base of paper.
What happened?
The BLS calls people and they and they and they simply ask them, have you applied for work in the last four years?
Uh three is when you go to the unemployment office and say that you're looking for work.
That's the number.
It's not statistically based.
It is not one that's based on survey.
It's based on actual people.
Okay, so you're office.
You are suggesting that the members of this audience, even those who are working, nevertheless.
No, I didn't say that.
I didn't say those who are working.
I'm saying retired people can legitimately go.
All those Tea Party people can go down to the unemployment office and say, I'm looking for work.
That is totally within the realms and within the accurately reflective of the unemployed population in this country.
Well, you see, normally do.
No, wait, the the problem is you are talking about the new claims number.
The the the whole reported number is is uh uh determined by that phone survey.
That's you you can't you can't apply for new jobless benefits if you don't qualify for them.
And if you that's what you're doing, you're going to be unemployed, you qualify.
Unemployed people qualify.
Being retired is not employed.
Well, okay, folks, like that's if you want to give it a shot, go for it.
If you want to go down the unemployment office and tell them you're looking for work, see what happens in a number in a couple of weeks, go for it.
What do we got to lose?
Time is flying here.
I can't believe it.
Two hours of the program are already finished.
However, we have another big busy broadcast hour to come.
Certain members of the mainstream media now openly expressing frustration and anger that people like me, Fox News are also considered to be the media.
It's embarrassing to some of these established giants.
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