Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I think we have yet a new name for our president.
It's not just Barack Hussein Kardashian.
You know, Barack Oblemo.
Kardashian.
They're keeping it up.
They're blaming Bush, and now they've got a they've got a Gallup poll which says that's a smart thing to do.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, and uh we're off and running another three hours of broadcast excellence.
The U.S. Open starts today.
It's the Olympic Club in San Francisco.
I've got it on on the top monitor.
I played that golf course three weeks ago, if you recall, as part of a charity outing for the boys and girls clubs of America.
And I'm looking at that golf course, and I am reliving the pain as I as I watch this on television.
I'd rank it right up there with uh Oakmont outside Pittsburgh and Beth Page Black, the hardest golf courses I've ever played, impossible for rank amateurs like me.
I mean, here I I shoot a 7978 in my local course.
I couldn't break a hundred on that course.
I it it just uh and we were only playing at 6,500 yards.
These guys are playing at 7100 yards.
They've got a 670-yard par five.
Unheard of.
Anyway, I'm just I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on this because I know it's spoiler alert time.
I'm not gonna tell you how it's going, but I I just I'm I'm looking at the various.
You know, you see a hole, I remember how treacherous it was.
It does look easier on television, but the memories do come back.
Now, look.
Um it might be some good news for Oblamo here.
After his latest worst, I actually don't believe this, but I'm just gonna tell you what the what the news is.
After his latest worst week ever, according to a Gallup poll that came out today, even though George Bush had been out of office for nearly three and a half years, Gallup says sixty-eight percent of the people polled still blame him, Bush, for a great deal or moderate amount for our economic woes.
So obviously there were two categories, and they're combining the two and getting a grand total of sixty-eight percent who blame Bush somewhat or a lot.
Fifty-two percent believe Obama's to blame.
Now that's still not a good number for Oblamo.
52% thinking, but let's again look at this poll.
Sixty-eight percent blame Bush a great deal or moderate amount for our economic woes.
Put this in perspective, a little historical perspective.
Barack Oblemo has been in office nearly six months longer than John Kennedy was president.
Can you imagine how absurd it would be to have heard Kennedy still blaming Eisenhower for the state of the economy by this point in his presidency?
But I think this poll, and you know, we can cherry pick this stuff.
I mean, we can look at a poll that doesn't make sense and we don't like, and we say, okay, well, how could this how could this be massaged?
I think any poll involving Obama is going to have a bit of a Bradley effect to it.
Uh you get a phone call or somebody runs into you at the mall.
Who do you think's responsible for the bad economy?
Well, hey, I not the black guy.
You just make sure you got me on this.
Not the black guy.
I don't think the black guy has anything to do with it.
You can't tell me that that's not a factor in every Oblamo poll.
I don't know to what extent.
Matt Drudge just posted a couple stories, and I've uh one of them backs up something that I read last night.
Michael Baron is back, National Review Online with another great column.
And this one details who it is that Obama is actually listening to for campaign advice.
Um not so much listening to for campaign advice, but who he's trying to please.
And it is rich, rich liberals.
For example, on the Keystone Pipeline, there is some rich billionaire woman, Susie Buell, something I don't remember her last name.
This woman is an environmentalist wacko fruit cake nut who has all these concerns about groundwater poisoning and so forth.
She picketed an Obama fund, a billionaireist went out and picketed a performance or an appearance of his somewhere.
It is Barone says she's the reason the Keystone Pipeline has not been approved.
That's who he cares about.
He cares about the money from the richest liberals in this country.
The richest, and he goes through with some names and some locales.
Now I've got the Baron article here toward the end of the stack, so I'm I don't think I can just find it off top of my head.
But I'm going to have to pretty soon because, as I say, Drudge just posted a story here from Breitbart that starts out, Michael Baron is correct.
Obama really needs to stop taking advice of wealthy limousine liberals.
And the point of this story is that it's Steven Spielberg who is behind Obama's failed attack on Bane Capitol.
This story is laying it off on Spielberg.
It was Spielberg's idea, it was Spielberg's advice to Obama to have him head out after Romney and Bain says here if you were looking for advice on how to tell a story that would impact millions upon millions of people.
Would you go to a director whose last four films were Warhorse, The Adventures of Tin Tin, Indiana Jones 4 and Munich?
No, you wouldn't.
But Team Oblamo did.
And what they got in return was a continuation of the ongoing Spielberg flop streak.
This guy's point is that Spielberg's last four movies have bombed that he really doesn't know how to reach an audience anymore, and so why would you listen to him?
At DreamWork Studios, Steven Spielberg spent three hours explaining how to capture an audience's attention, offered a number of ideas.
It'll be rolled out before election day.
An early example of Spielberg's influence is RomneyEconomics.com, a website designed by the Oblamo team to tell the story of Mitt Romney's career at Bain Capitol.
Afterwards, Spielberg insisted that Jim Messina, the campaign guy, sit down with the DreamWorks marketing team.
Hollywood movie studios are expert, as presidential campaigns also must be, at spending large sums of money over a few weeks to reach and motivate millions of Americans.
Obama campaign advisor Jim Messina took the meeting and is adamant the Bain attacks worked.
But then he says, how come they were stopped cold?
Why were what happened?
Obama did revive it a little bit in the last couple of days.
So that's that.
Spielberg apparently came up with the point of this story is that Spielberg not only offered advice, he was the instigator of the attack on Bain.
Now we'll wait and see if Spielberg denies this.
Because remember, we're talking about Barack Hussein Kardashian Oblamo.
The guy lays it off on anybody he can.
The next story, Obama's Messina taps Google's Schmidt for wisdom on winning race.
The day after Jim Messina quit his job as White House Deputy Chief of Staff in January of 2011.
He caught a plane to LA.
He paid a brief visit to his girlfriend, and then commenced what may be the highest wattage crash course in executive management ever undertaken.
He was about to begin a new job as Oblemo's campaign manager.
Being a diligent student with access to some very smart people, he arranged a rolling series of personal seminars with CEOs, senior executives of companies, including Apple, Facebook, Zynga, Google, Microsoft, and DreamWorks.
And this all in the uh Bloomberg Business Week magazine this week.
Yeah, he said, I went around the country for literally a month of my life interviewing these companies, just talking about organizational growth, emerging technologies, marketing, and so forth, and basically says here in two long private conversations, Steve Jobs tore into Messina for all the White House was doing wrong and what it ought to be doing differently Before going on to explain how the campaign could exploit technology in ways it hadn't been possible for.
They ended up choosing Eric Schmidt of Google for wisdom.
So Spielberg.
Now remember, this is a guy, Barack Oblamo, who has his whole career done everything he can to make people think that he's for the little guy, the average guy, the uh the people at community organizers need.
Union workers, the working class.
More and more we learn this guy not only in his own mind is an elitist, but that's who he hangs around with, and that's who he takes advice from.
And so somehow he gets talking at least technology whizzes, getting advice on what to do with his campaign.
In the meantime, why don't they give him some advice on what to do with the economy while they're at it?
The people that Obama was talking to are doing well in the economy.
And I just it's quite, it's quite telling.
There's always been the Association of Democrats in Hollywood.
That's nothing new here.
But these people to be orchestrating, it's interesting.
So now, whatever happens in the campaign, they can lay that off on Eric Schmidt.
And the Bain thing falling flat.
He can blame that not just on Corey Booker.
They can blame that on Spielberg now.
By the way, tonight's the big night.
O'Blamo over at Sarah Jessica Parker's house with Anna Winter.
One of the theories about Anna Winter being involved is she's up for the ambassadorial position to Great Britain, the Court of St. James, which literally is a party post.
It is the post that requires the least amount of diplomatic talent or skills.
It basically is a social position.
That's where she's from, apparently.
Well, it's it's the Kennedy Post, but you know, a friend of mine, Charlie Price from Kansas City, was Reagan's ambassador to the Court of St. James.
It traditionally goes to among the highest and wealthiest of the president's donors.
As I say, it's not really a diplomatic post.
You go you do some charity stuff and you hang around and you learn to wait all the castles and secret bedrooms there and have fun.
And then you dress up properly whenever it's called for, and it's really a plum post.
Apparently that's what she's angling for.
So tonight, Sarah Jessica Parker, her house, hosting the big dinner with the $3 winner, the $3 donor, and then Oblamo and his wife, Michelle Antoinette, they get in a limo and they head up to the Plaza Hotel, where there is another dinner and fundraiser.
The headliner there is Mariah Carey, but guess who is the co-host?
Corey Booker.
I thought he was dead too, but then I read that Cory Booker is going to be the co-host or whatever the word is.
I think it's co-host of the.
Well, we don't know that he's resurrected.
We don't know he's actually going to be permitted in or uh or show up.
So basically, look, what we've learned here so far, Obama listens to the 1%.
He's out there trying to make everybody think he hates him, and he's going to punish them, and he's going to get even with them, and he's going to take everything they've got.
They're being blamed for, and meanwhile, that's who he's listening to.
The people Obama getting advice from are completely dependent on private equity.
Spielberg's worth a lot of money, but uh his movie production place still has to have money, investors and so forth, private equity.
Same thing with Google, private equity.
The real powers, the real powers in Hollywood are the people who can get the money out of private equity.
That's who the power brokers are there.
So anyway, we're off and running here.
Bill Clinton, by the way, they've dredged this up.
Two years ago, it's in USA Today.
Two years ago, Bill Clinton said, Hey, I want everybody to listen to me.
Just give us two years.
If it doesn't work, vote us out.
Two years.
Now that's SERF.
Just give us two years.
And if it doesn't work, then just vote us, vote us out.
I don't know what he meant by the I think he bet the uh the uh Democrat Party.
And oh, oh yes.
Smack dab in the middle of our program today, the EIB network, Barack Obamo, with his major speech.
It's at 145 Eastern Times, a major speech.
I think it's in Cleveland.
Not sure where it is.
It's Ohio somewhere.
I don't know if I'm gonna jip it a major speech from Oblamo could go an hour.
I'll just tell you this.
A little note here to our affiliate stations.
If I jip it, I will pause for commercial breaks.
I am not, I am not going to throw away our obscene profit timeouts.
We will, if I jip it, take our spot breaks.
But this it's a major, major reset speech.
This is where he's gonna once again tell everybody he's got their back.
That he cares, that he understands.
Probably gonna blame Bush.
Got that Gallup poll out there, but there's gonna be a lot more blaming Bush.
By the way, the drive-by is very uncomfortable with this.
Grab Grab Soundbite number four, Gloria Borger.
Last night on Anderson Cooper won.
He said, if people don't think things are getting better, can the president be re-elected?
The problem about trying to characterize the economy or talk about the economy is that the economy speaks for itself.
You know how you feel around the dinner table in your household, what's happening to your savings account.
You can't really characterize the economy for other people.
Now, what President Obama can do and what he's been trying to do is sort of say, look, here was the context in which I came to the presidency.
We were in a ditch.
I'm trying to get you out of it.
And the Democrats that I was talking to today are saying, that's fine, but you can't sound like you're whining when you're president of the United States because that's not what people expect from a leader.
Sorry, that's what he sounds like, Gloria.
He does sound like he's whining and complaining.
It comes across, so they're concerned about it.
They're softening on it because of the Gallup poll, but they're still worried he might come across as uh as whining about it.
But but uh some things to say about this.
Well, you can take a break here, but I just want you to keep some things in mind during Oblemo's blamethrower speech, because that's what it's gonna be.
And the basic thing I want you to remember is he chose everything that's happening here.
He chose to run for president, he chose to accuse Bush.
He all of it, he chose.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Here's the Barone piece.
Who does?
Barack Oblemo listened to.
Not Republican leaders, evidently weeks go by between his conversations with John Boehner.
Not Democrat politicians.
We have it on good authority that he seldom talks to Democrat members of Congress.
But there's one group of people that uh Oblemo has to listen to.
That's the people who give him large sums of money.
He recently attended his 150th fundraiser.
150th fundraiser.
That, my friends, is more than the number attended by the last four presidents put together.
His fundraisers dwarf other presidents just as does his debt creation.
Obama has seen enough architectural digest type interiors in Park Avenue triplexes, triplexes, if you prefer, Beverly Hills Mansions, and on the block in San Francisco's Pacific Heights, where every house is owned by a billionaire.
He's seen enough of that to develop an expertise in Louis XV Walnut commodes and Brunchvig and Fiddles fabrics.
For those of you in Rio, Linda, a Louis XV walnut commode is not a toilet.
I don't know.
I don't want you thinking that Obama's hanging around place where there are wood toilets.
It's not what a commode is.
He's had plenty of chances to absorb the advice of the kind of rich liberals who like to give money to Democrat presidents.
And the evidence that he's taken some of that advice is his initiatives on three issues.
The first and least risky of these stands is his endorsement of same-sex marriage.
Many Democrat money givers, straight as well as gay, have strong convictions.
And so that decision driven by big money.
The second issue where he listens to big money has been the health insurance mandate requiring employers to pay for contraceptives and abortive fashions.
That apparently is coming from rich donors.
But don't forget he doesn't need any help there.
For you golf fans who are going to end up watching the U.S. Open from now through Sunday.
One thing I want to point out to you about this golf course, and I forgot to mention this, and I'm noticing it here, there are very few flat lies on this golf course.
The ball is always going to be either above or below the player's feet.
These fairways, like doglegs, To the right holes, the fairway slants away from the turn.
And we amateurs, it took me a while to fair.
I was hitting everything thin for a while until I realized, my gosh, the ball's below my feet.
I've I've it's this game of microscopic proportions.
And it's really pronounced in some of the holes.
You can see it when you uh when you watch.
These now, these guys, pros have no problem.
They understand it, know it, practice rounds they can't, but it just totally escaped me until I why am I hitting everything thin here?
It didn't make any sense.
The uh some some of the uh angles are slight, but that's that's all it takes.
So the third issue, the third issue.
Baron says there are two issues problematic for Obama that are getting him in trouble.
And he's taking positions because he's listening to the big money one percent elite rich liberals.
Okay, the uh the first and least risky, just to repeat, same-sex marriage.
The second issue where Obama's taking advice and listening is health care insurance mandate requiring employers to pay for contraceptives and abortive fashions.
This is the religious freedom thing.
And when you start talking about rich Hollywood liberals, the 1%, they hate religion, they despise it.
And so this is a huge, huge deal.
The third issue is the Keystone Pipeline, which would transport all produced from tar sands in Canada to United States refineries, create thousands of jobs in the process.
Earlier this year, a woman named Susie Buell Tomkins, who was John Kerry's fourth biggest donor and money raiser in 2004, actually picketed outside an Obama fundraiser in San Francisco, the W Hotel, to protest the pipeline.
She wanted Obama's State Department to block it because she thinks that tar sands, tar sands production hurts the environment and the planet.
So because of one wacko, rich female liberal.
Obama says no to the key, that at least that's Baron's point.
And the Canadians are making arrangements now for other pipelines.
They're not they're not waiting for us.
Now, one thing about that, I have no doubt that Michael Barone is true here, but none of these things are off Obama's radar.
He's perfectly, you know, this evolution of same-sex marriage.
That was going to happen.
They wanted to wait closer to the campaign bullet points, like a convention, or labored it.
I wanted to wait for really big impact.
But these people insisted.
But he was going to do that anyway.
The Keystone Pipeline, We know that he's personally opposed to fossil fuels.
These people just give him impetus added.
None of these things are off of his intellectual radar.
So that's who we and now Spielberg gave him the idea to go after Romney and Bain Capitol, and Eric Schmidt at Google is advising the campaign via Jim Messina.
Let's go to the phones.
Jim in or sorry, Jeff in Maplewood, New Jersey.
It's great to have you.
You're up first today.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Great honor.
First time caller.
Uh and I just wanted to bring up, I'm sure you were going to mention it, but the first time jobless claims unexpectedly rose again to uh three hundred and eighty-six thousand.
How about that?
Unexpectedly.
Yeah, and say if it's Thursday, it must be time to revise the previous figure.
Exactly right.
Exactly.
It's revision Thursday every Thursday.
Boy, you are up to speed.
Yeah, thank you.
And they bumped up last week's figure to like three hundred and I think it was three hundred and eighty thousand from the you're exactly right.
It was revised up to three eighty from three seventy-seven.
Exactly what we predicted last week would be the number.
Yeah, but the point I really want to bring up, and I know, you know, callers can say anything, but you've got to trust me.
I am not a conspiracy nut.
I am not I hate it when people I loathe it when people uh assume that there's some deep dark uh hand uh working behind the scenes or something, but I honestly believe that they're criminally playing with numbers at the labor department because going back to 2011, I don't have the exact figures, but I believe it's like seventy-two out of seventy-five weeks, the revision has always been upwards.
Now that's not just random, you know, screw-ups where you go back and you correct something.
Look, I understand what you're saying.
The problem is if they're if they're messing with the numbers uh, then they've got to be much, much worse than what they're reporting, because they're reporting bad numbers.
Right.
Well, there's a limit to how much you can mess.
I mean, I mean, you've uh you become looking like a complete jerk if you're if you want to i like if you played with the unemployment number and said there's four percent unemployment.
I mean, people m may be suspicious now, but it's Hey, we're already doing that when we when we uh uh people leave the job force, the labor force, when people stop looking for work and the unemployment rate goes down.
On the surface, that doesn't make any sense, but the way they calculate it, it does.
Uh but Jeff, you're right, you're up speed.
I'm I appreciate it.
Here are the numbers.
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, according to government data today, suggesting persistent weakness in the labor market after stumbling badly in recent months.
Persistent we just last week.
They told us it suggested tepid recovery trends to continue.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits went up six thousand to a seasonally adjusted three hundred and eighty-six thousand.
The prior week's figures revised up to three hundred and eighty thousand from the previously reported three hundred and seventy-seven thousand.
So in reality, if you run the numbers out, the claim is up nine thousand from last week's report for the record.
This latest revision means that the weekly jobless claims number, as Jeff here said, has now been revised up twenty-one weeks in a row, and sixty-six out of the last sixty seven weeks.
Unexpectedly rose.
Unexpectedly.
Reuters also said, and I quote, claims remain trapped in the tight band established since April.
So the news media is even resorting to blaming tight bands now instead of Obama.
So unemployment up unexpectedly, and the regime is privately admitting to themselves that there's not going to be any miraculous economic recovery news to report between now and the uh Election.
And here's another Reuters story.
The U.S. consumer prices, U.S. consumer prices fell in May by the most in more than three years as households paid less for gasoline, possibly giving the U.S. Federal Reserve more room to help an economy showing signs of weakening.
Wait, I thought the private sector was just fine.
Now we've got an economy showing signs of weakening.
But now the Fed might have more room to help an economy.
Another government report Thursday pointed to persistent weakness in the labor market.
Another bad week for America.
Everybody's, oh gee, what will the impact be on Obama's re-election?
What how will this affect Obama?
No, no.
How does this affect America?
And it's another bad week for people who live in this country, and it doesn't stop there.
Foreclosures rose year over year in May for the first time in more than two years as banks resumed dealing with distressed properties after a mortgage abuse settlement earlier this year.
So foreclosures are up for the first time in 27 months.
Yeah.
29% in Illinois.
That's in Obama's home state.
Foreclosures are up 29%.
The unemployment news there.
The crime in Illinois, the crime in Chicago, is up through the roof.
Everything's Bush's fault.
The foreclosures are Bush's, all of this stuff, economic.
Yes, it's Bush's fault.
And I'm telling you, we're going to hear it in his speech today.
I guarantee you, because of this Gallup poll out, we're going to hear.
He may not even mention a name.
He's a my predecessor.
The situation that I inherited from my predecessor was much worse than any of us knew.
And he will rip into all of the policies that didn't work then that Romney wants to go back to.
I know the major points he's going to make.
I know he's been trying to fix the housing market for three years.
He'd been trying to fix the job market for three years.
He'd been trying to help the economy for three years.
But it was so bad.
Bush did so many rotten bad things.
Bush was such a disaster that not even the brilliance of Obama and his team with Steven Spielberg and Susie Buell Tompkins and Eric Schmidt, none of them can fix it.
That's how bad Bush damaged it.
That's how totally incompetent and worthless George W. Bush was.
Now, Jeff referred to what he thinks is a conspiracy going on in the government over these job numbers.
Well, I have here a story, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, that will intrigue him.
From the Daily Caller.
The president's nominee to run the highly visible Bureau of Labor Statistics is on track with Senate approval despite having ties to decidedly left-wing political groups.
Her name is Erica Groshen.
Her left-wing ties include 1998 co-authorship of an article urging an end to a small business exemption from expensive federal regulations and her husband's 2011 donation to the far left working families party.
Does that ring a bell?
The working families party is the group that protested on the lawn of the AIG lawyers' house in Connecticut, terrorizing his family a couple years ago after the controversy swirled around the bonuses that were passed out at AIG.
So Obama's nominee to run the BLS is a far fringe leftist, as well as being married to.
The Daily Caller says if she gets the job, she'll be in a position to spin the unemployment numbers and the reports.
and And is anybody looked into who's spinning them now?
Nobody's Spinning them now.
We're only thinking about what this new nominee might do.
Gotta take a timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Man, this guy Bush.
Wow.
What a tough son of a gun.
Look at what this guy Bush has done.
Here's Phil in Rockville, Maryland.
Welcome to the EIB network, Phil.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, sir.
It just uh came to my mind that uh Mr. Bush has got to be an absolutely incredible individual.
If three years after Mr. Obama was immaculated, he still has not been able to undo all the good works Mr. Bush did.
It is amazing, isn't it?
After three and a half years, everything that's happened the last three and a half years, if it's all been Bush's fault, don't we have evidence enough now to know that Obama can't deal with it?
Obama doesn't know what to do with it.
We need to elect somebody who can stand up to Bush.
Absolutely.
This guy can't even rescind tax cuts.
This guy can't fix anything that Bush did.
If if if we re-elect Obama, won't it just be four more years of disaster caused by Bush?
But admit Obama's admitting he can't fix what Bush did.
Why re-elect him?
If Bush screwed it up so bad, we need somebody in there that can fix it.
Obama's been at it three and a half years.
He is admitting every day, and he's gonna do it again today that he can't fix it.
That's what he's saying.
Yeah.
And you're very wise to catch that, Phil.
Thanks very much.
Exactly what he's saying.
You're gonna blame Bush, and when he doesn't blame Bush, you're gonna blame Europe.
Now, common sense tells me that after three and a half years of trying to fix what Bush broke.
Obviously, we've got somebody who can't do it.
What is it that argues for four more years of this guy?
Because if if if we if we re-elect Obama, I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen.
If we re-elect Obama, folks, we all it's gonna get worse.
We really are just seeing the tip of the iceberg, and I'm not being cliched about that.
You know, wait till Obamacare fully implements if it does, and the Bush tax cuts go away, and other tax increases and the 16,000 new IRS agents or whatever the number is.
The continued assault on fossil fuels, the investment in all the losing green energy projects out there.
And as Obama promised Medvedev, hey, uh, once I get re-elected, I got a lot more flexibility.
My folks.
It's gonna get nothing but worse.
And Obama is admitting he can't fix what Bush broke.
Why re-elect him?
It's just gonna be four more years of disaster caused by Bush, administered by Obama, who openly admits he can't fix it.
Because that's what he's doing.
And he's gonna do it in his speech today.
In a little less than an hour.
He'll blame Bush and then he'll blame Europe when he's not blaming Bush.
And essentially he's saying that he can't fix this.
He's gonna talk about all the efforts he's made, all the programs, all the policies.
But just isn't working.
It's so bad.
That's the thing to keep in mind.
That's the thing to ram down the media's throat.
Okay, and then this, I think one of the reasons why they're very disturbed at multiple levels of the Democrat machine, including the media.
They're very concerned about this whining and blaming Bush because at some point you're admitting you're incompetent.
If you whine and complain, this guy screwed it up so bad, not even I can fix it.
It's unfixable.
is the logical conclusion of this.
In fact, the worst thing that can be blamed on Bush is Obama's election.
That's, to me, what Bush is primarily responsible for.
And we will be back.
I watched a new version of Dallas last night.
Dallas was my old-time favorite TV show back in the 80s.
And it premiered last night with an updated version, Larry Hagman in it and then uh Patrick Duffy on TNT.
And their sons are going at it.
One's big into oil, and one is into alternative energy as the future of Ewing energy.