Rush Limbaugh Program - July 25, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
Aired: 2012-07-25
Duration: 31:41


=== Republicans' Voting Enthusiasm Exposed (06:41) ===

[00:00:00]  Welcome back, folks.
[00:00:01]  Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
[00:00:10]  Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushboedibnet.com.
[00:00:19]  Gallup has just released the following.
[00:00:21]  Democrat voting enthusiasm down sharply from 2004 and 2008.
[00:00:29]  So, and I have a details here in just a second.
[00:00:32]  It just, it further exposes the NBC Wall Street Journal poll as a corrupt, bogus piece of work.
[00:00:42]  Republicans are more enthusiastic than in 2008.
[00:00:46]  Democrats are significantly less likely now to vote.
[00:00:56]  Less likely than they were in the summers of 2004 and 2008 to say they're more enthusiastic about voting than usual.
[00:01:03]  Republicans more enthusiastic now than in 2008, the same as they were in 2004.
[00:01:09]  The point is, Obama's attempted voter suppression is not working.
[00:01:16]  This is from the Gallup USA Today poll that came out yesterday.
[00:01:19]  Gallup is just now getting around to putting out this aspect of the results today.
[00:01:25]  And the results are based on the July 19th or 22nd USA Today Gallup poll, and they suggest a shift in Republican and Democrat orientation to voting in the upcoming presidential election compared with the last two, with Republicans expressing more voting enthusiasm.
[00:01:43]  Currently, 51 to 39% Republican advantage in voter enthusiasm is larger than the 53-45 Republican advantage Gallup measured in February of this year.
[00:01:55]  So the NBC poll says that Democrat voter enthusiasm is way up as indicated by their sample.
[00:02:04]  11% more Democrats turning out to vote than Republicans.
[00:02:07]  That's what that plus 11 meant in the NBC Journal poll.
[00:02:12]  They gave the Democrats a plus 11 advantage in terms of number of respondents in the poll based on what they think the turnout is going to be.
[00:02:24]  Gallup goes on to say that Republicans' greater enthusiasm about voting is a troubling sign for the Obama campaign, especially given the fact that registered voters are essentially tied in their presidential voting preferences and that Republicans historically voted a higher rate than Democrats do.
[00:02:42]  If that last part is true, why does Gallup oversample the Democrats?
[00:02:48]  This doesn't make any sense.
[00:02:50]  Unless they're trying to suppress Republican vote, which we know they are, and they're trying to goose or inspire Democrat vote.
[00:03:00]  So if it's true that Republicans have greater enthusiasm about voting, and that's a troubling sign for Obama, how in the world, why in the world did NBC, Wall Street Journal, and every other polling outfit oversample Democrats so much?
[00:03:17]  And it's because they're using their poll to make news not reflect public opinion.
[00:03:21]  They're trying to create public opinion, trying to bend it and shape it.
[00:03:26]  But the big news here is that Obama's effort to suppress the vote isn't working.
[00:03:31]  And in Gallup's own release, the headline, Democrat voting enthusiasm down sharply from 2004 and 2008.
[00:03:39]  Democrats now significantly less likely, 39%, than they were in the summers of 2004, 2008 to say that they are more enthusiastic about voting than usual.
[00:03:57]  This is why I always trust my instincts.
[00:04:02]  I see an NBC Wall Street Journal poll or any poll that comes out that shows the Democrats with a plus 11.
[00:04:08]  There's no way that you can't even make that case.
[00:04:11]  Even if it were true, it's not reflected anywhere, even in the way they're reporting the news.
[00:04:17]  It's not reflected in the way Obama's behaving.
[00:04:19]  It's not reflected in the way the Democrats are behaving and the way they're talking.
[00:04:27]  And guess what?
[00:04:28]  F. Chuck Todd, NBC News, has just admitted, quote, our poll was skewed.
[00:04:38]  Okay, now it's time for audio sound bite number one.
[00:04:42]  I wasn't going to do it.
[00:04:42]  I like Brian Williams, even though Brian Williams, this is so tough.
[00:04:49]  You remember when Brian Williams had that 9 o'clock show at MSNBC?
[00:04:52]  Back when MSNBC was a responsible place.
[00:04:58]  I was a guest on that.
[00:04:59]  I was guest on Chris Matthews' show now and then.
[00:05:02]  We'd go over there to Secaucus or wherever it was, Fort Lee, and we'd hang around.
[00:05:07]  And I remember laughing with Matthews about stuff and always commiserating with him.
[00:05:12]  His ratings were always much lower than I thought his actual audience was.
[00:05:16]  And I'd tell him that.
[00:05:19]  We go back to Brian Williams' office.
[00:05:21]  Is he getting ready for his 9 o'clock show?
[00:05:23]  And one of the funniest guys in the world.
[00:05:26]  Now, these guys have just become totally infected with full-fledged partisanship.
[00:05:34]  And they're angry all the time.
[00:05:36]  I don't know about Brian, but they're angry and they're just at war every day.
[00:05:48]  So last night on the NBC Nightly News, here's Brian Williams with F. Chuck Todd as they trumpet their poll.
[00:05:58]  Our new NBC News Wall Street Journal poll debuting here tonight has some eye-opening findings about the way this campaign is being run and the effect it's having on both sides.
[00:06:08]  Our political director, Chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd with the numbers.
[00:06:12]  Chuck, good evening.
[00:06:13]  This campaign in the month of July has taken an especially nasty turn, and perhaps it was only a matter of time that voters would express their frustration.
[00:06:21]  That's the biggest takeaway from our new NBC Wall Street Journal poll.
[00:06:24]  While the fundamentals of the overall race haven't changed that much, President Still leads 4943 in this survey.
[00:06:30]  It's the negative campaign that has taken a toll on how voters view both the president and Mitt Romney.
[00:06:36]  That's just out the window now.
[00:06:37]  The Gallup poll is out, and NBC News' poll is an outlier.

=== He Didn't Build It (07:47) ===

[00:06:41]  It's the only one.
[00:06:42]  Well, now they're joined by Reuters.
[00:06:44]  You only got two of them that show Obama in the lead, both of them incidentally by six points.
[00:06:49]  Both of them show enthusiasm down into negative ads working.
[00:06:54]  They're not working.
[00:06:55]  Chuck Todd admitted it was on Scarborough's show this morning.
[00:06:58]  Our poll was skewed.
[00:07:01]  So I wanted to play the way they introd the poll last night on nightly news.
[00:07:05]  And now they even in their web release of the poll, the headline was a lot of bad news for Romney Obama in the latest poll.
[00:07:18]  This is the poll that oversampled the Democrats by 11 points.
[00:07:22]  But again, Gallup is just out now with the exact opposite information.
[00:07:29]  The Republican voter enthusiasm is off the charts, higher than 2004, higher than 2008.
[00:07:37]  The effort to suppress isn't working.
[00:07:42]  The bad news for Romney is not bad news.
[00:07:46]  There isn't the bad news for Romney in the Gallup survey that NBC claims is in theirs.
[00:07:55]  Now, I want to go back and close the loop here on our discussion of health care and the various CBO reports and the confusing numbers.
[00:08:07]  Now, I want to go back to theHill.com report specifically.
[00:08:13]  They said in that story, the Supreme Court ruling will lower Obamacare costs.
[00:08:21]  And their headline in that story is incorrect.
[00:08:29]  Supreme Court decision cuts cost of health care reform by $84 billion.
[00:08:33]  The headline's false.
[00:08:36]  Here's why.
[00:08:36]  The ruling reduces the scope of Obamacare.
[00:08:41]  The costs to taxpayers fall because there's going to be less Obamacare.
[00:08:48]  Meaning, the states can opt out.
[00:08:51]  They don't have to spend.
[00:08:52]  There's going to be less, there'll be less people covered, fewer people covered, so there's going to be less Obamacare.
[00:08:59]  Now, this contradicts the claim of the regime that Obamacare was going to reduce costs.
[00:09:04]  Reducing Obamacare is what reduces costs, not Obamacare.
[00:09:10]  This is where the Hill gets their headline wrong.
[00:09:15]  If you look at the details of their story, what they're essentially saying is that the cost to taxpayers is falling because there are going to be less Obamacare.
[00:09:22]  There's going to be less health care.
[00:09:25]  I'm sorry for not catching that.
[00:09:29]  It was right in front of my face.
[00:09:31]  And I was too focused on all the different stories, the different numbers, the different interpretations.
[00:09:36]  The bottom line is to whatever extent costs are falling, it's because there's less Obamacare.
[00:09:44]  It's not because of the Supreme Court ruling.
[00:09:47]  It's not because Obamacare is reducing costs.
[00:09:50]  It's because less Obamacare, fewer people being covered.
[00:09:55]  Medicare is what's reducing the costs.
[00:10:01]  All right.
[00:10:01]  Let me make a programming format decision here.
[00:10:10]  Take a break.
[00:10:10]  Come back.
[00:10:11]  Get to the audio soundbites.
[00:10:13]  I've got a little revisit here of Obama and you didn't build it.
[00:10:19]  You didn't make that happen.
[00:10:20]  Because we're not going to let that go away.
[00:10:23]  And Obama's now got an ad out.
[00:10:25]  And I think all this is really getting under his skin, folks.
[00:10:29]  He's got an ad out now, whining and moaning at people taking him out of context.
[00:10:33]  He's out there saying people do what he does for a living.
[00:10:36]  You have to expect people to make things up about you.
[00:10:39]  And you have to expect people to lie about you.
[00:10:41]  And you have to expect that kind of criticism.
[00:10:43]  That's part of doing a job.
[00:10:45]  But this, he's not going to put up with.
[00:10:48]  This kind of misrepresentation and taking him out of context.
[00:10:51]  So this is getting under his skin.
[00:10:55]  And since we know it, and even if it weren't, we would keep focus on it because this is who he is.
[00:11:05]  So we'll take a break.
[00:11:06]  We'll come back to the latest chapter of all this when we return.
[00:11:15]  Hi, welcome back.
[00:11:16]  Here's Obama.
[00:11:17]  This is a new re-elect Obama TV ad.
[00:11:22]  It's called Always.
[00:11:24]  It has the president directly responding to Romney's use of Obama's you didn't build that remarks.
[00:11:30]  I think this might be Obama's first rebuttal ad.
[00:11:36]  Maybe ever.
[00:11:38]  Here's how it sounds.
[00:11:39]  Those ads, taking my words about small business out of context, they're flat out wall.
[00:11:45]  Of course, Americans build their own businesses.
[00:11:47]  Every day, hardworking people sacrifice to meet a payroll, create jobs, and make our economy run.
[00:11:54]  And what I said was that we need to stand behind them, as America always has, by investing in education and training, roads and bridges, research and technology.
[00:12:05]  And I prove this message because I believe we're all in this together.
[00:12:09]  Oh, well, bring out the Strativarians.
[00:12:12]  Bring out the violins.
[00:12:13]  Oh, we're all in this thing.
[00:12:14]  Roads and bridges.
[00:12:15]  You liberals drive me nuts with your clichés.
[00:12:20]  Roads and bridges, investing in education, as though we don't.
[00:12:26]  Training?
[00:12:28]  We wouldn't need training if education were worth it there.
[00:12:31]  We wouldn't need work training stations or whatever the hell these things are called.
[00:12:37]  If people were properly educated in school, you wouldn't need to have these stupid federal, whatever they're called, work centers.
[00:12:46]  Research and technology, you don't do any of that.
[00:12:51]  Ah, folks, it drives me nuts all these liberal cliches.
[00:12:54]  And isn't this whining?
[00:12:57]  What's he whining about?
[00:12:58]  Let's go back.
[00:13:00]  Friday, February 13th, Roanoke, Virginia.
[00:13:03]  If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.
[00:13:07]  You didn't get there on your own.
[00:13:09]  I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.
[00:13:13]  There are a lot of smart people out there.
[00:13:16]  It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.
[00:13:18]  Let me tell you something.
[00:13:19]  There are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
[00:13:22]  If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
[00:13:27]  There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
[00:13:30]  Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we had that allowed you to thrive.
[00:13:37]  Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
[00:13:39]  If you got a business, you didn't build that.
[00:13:42]  Somebody else made that happen.
[00:13:44]  The internet didn't get invented on its own.
[00:13:46]  Government research created the internet.
[00:13:49]  So then all the companies couldn't make money off the internet.
[00:13:52]  Those ads taking my words about small business out of context.
[00:13:55]  They're flat out wrong.
[00:13:56]  Of course, Americans build their own business.
[00:13:57]  Now, you didn't say that.
[00:13:59]  They're trying to say that he was taking it out of context when he said, somebody invested in roads and bridges.
[00:14:05]  You got a business.
[00:14:06]  You didn't build it.
[00:14:08]  Well, if he really was talking about roads and bridges, he would have said, if you got a business, you didn't build those.
[00:14:16]  Roads and bridges are plural.
[00:14:18]  You didn't build those, but he didn't say that.
[00:14:21]  You didn't build that.
[00:14:22]  Right after he said, you got a business, you didn't build that.
[00:14:25]  He was thinking, you didn't build your business.

=== Polls and Questions Matter (09:09) ===

[00:14:28]  He said exactly what he intended to say.
[00:14:32]  Who built Caterpillar?
[00:14:35]  The guys that made the roads.
[00:14:37]  Caterpillar, guys that made the roads.
[00:14:39]  Look, this is so.
[00:14:40]  This is.
[00:14:41]  He doesn't.
[00:14:44]  He really doesn't.
[00:14:46]  Romney had it right.
[00:14:47]  His experience does not comport with the American experience.
[00:14:51]  It just doesn't, folks.
[00:14:53]  Romney is dead on right.
[00:14:54]  Whatever Obama's experience in life is, his education, mentoring, it doesn't comport with the American experience.
[00:15:04]  Here, here, my friends, this is who Obama thinks he is.
[00:15:10]  White comedian Paul Shanklin, and I'm the soul of your heart's perspiration.
[00:15:18]  Portraying vocally there the voice of Barack Hussein Obama, who's simply saying, rich people have got to get back.
[00:15:27]  I'm going to take from the rich.
[00:15:29]  They stole from you.
[00:15:31]  They don't deserve what they've got.
[00:15:33]  They didn't do anything on their own.
[00:15:35]  We did it for them.
[00:15:36]  You did it for them and you didn't get paid.
[00:15:39]  You got stolen from and you got used.
[00:15:45]  It has nothing to do with roads and bridges or infrastructure.
[00:15:48]  By the way, if You know, we've had more government than ever under Obama.
[00:15:55]  How come the economy didn't take off?
[00:16:00]  And I wonder, how many personalities does this guy have?
[00:16:03]  So, what he said last week is different than what he says now.
[00:16:07]  And in any event, he was right the first time, and he's right now.
[00:16:11]  He's never wrong.
[00:16:15]  We're dealing with Sybil here.
[00:16:23]  All right, now back to the phones.
[00:16:25]  And this is Phil in Orlando.
[00:16:28]  Phil, thank you for waving.
[00:16:29]  Nice to have you on the EIB network.
[00:16:30]  Hello.
[00:16:31]  Yeah, can you hear me, Rush?
[00:16:32]  Yeah, here you go.
[00:16:34]  Yeah, I just want to say, Mega Dittos, been listening to you for decades, and I want to thank you and Ronald Reagan for saving the country.
[00:16:39]  Thank you, sir.
[00:16:40]  Very, very, well, I appreciate being lumped in that way.
[00:16:45]  I'm sure you would.
[00:16:46]  I'm sure you would.
[00:16:47]  Thank you very much.
[00:16:48]  I've got a lot of interesting things to say about what you're saying about.
[00:16:51]  First of all, in 2010, I was looking for any work I could get.
[00:16:55]  I hired on with a nationwide political survey company here in the central Florida area.
[00:17:01]  I won't mention their name, but they're one of the biggest.
[00:17:04]  And I was doing 15, 16-hour shifts seven days a week for the three months prior to the midterm 2010 election.
[00:17:11]  And most of the people they were calling were liberals.
[00:17:13]  They're trying to marshal the troops, but they sometimes had issues.
[00:17:16]  Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho.
[00:17:17]  I need two things.
[00:17:18]  Need you to slow down so that I can follow you.
[00:17:20]  Number two, most of the people you call from the big name polling company were liberals?
[00:17:26]  Yes, they were paid by liberals, and I was scripted to ask questions a certain way.
[00:17:31]  Now, they did sometimes call a certain number of conservatives to try to get a balance point.
[00:17:36]  How did you know you were calling liberals?
[00:17:38]  It was an indication on the computer screen as I'm clicking, and the party affiliation was there, and they would also confirm that when I called in.
[00:17:45]  And the nature of the questions also made it very obvious.
[00:17:48]  Now, I just wanted to say one thing.
[00:17:51]  One of the most interesting questions I was asked to ask was: do you approve or do you disapprove of the job that Barack Obama is doing as president?
[00:18:01]  Now, 95% of the conservatives immediately said, are you kidding me?
[00:18:05]  Disapprove.
[00:18:06]  You know, it was like almost unanimous.
[00:18:09]  But on the liberal side, it was up in about 75, maybe 70, 75% were saying approve.
[00:18:20]  But then, on my own volition, I decided to reword the question a little bit.
[00:18:24]  And I said, on the next several hundred calls, I mean, I was doing, I don't know how many calls a day.
[00:18:28]  I said, do you approve?
[00:18:30]  Do you disapprove?
[00:18:31]  Or are you undecided about the job that Barack Obama is doing as president?
[00:18:35]  Again, the conservatives, no change, 95% or more.
[00:18:38]  The liberals were going, you know, I would have to say undecided.
[00:18:42]  It was up to 50, 65% were then all of a sudden undecided.
[00:18:47]  It was kind of a very telling thing.
[00:18:48]  Just the way you structure your questions makes a difference.
[00:18:51]  You know, there were 100 people in this call center.
[00:18:53]  Most of them were liberals.
[00:18:54]  It was about five conservatives like myself.
[00:18:57]  I felt like an infiltrator, but I have a disability and had to take any work I could get, and I took this job.
[00:19:02]  It was very, very interesting.
[00:19:03]  And another very interesting thing that happened, I ended up, one of the conservatives I called just happened to be, his name was John Hancock, and he told me, he was very patriotic.
[00:19:14]  He said, look, my grandfather's grandfather was the original John Hancock.
[00:19:19]  And he went on and on.
[00:19:21]  He was a big fan of yours.
[00:19:22]  He was a big fan of the Tea Party.
[00:19:24]  He even gave me permission to hang on to his phone number, but unfortunately, my cell phone busted a few weeks later.
[00:19:29]  I never got a chance to call that guy back.
[00:19:30]  But he remembered me, and I was laughing because I said, look, you'll remember me when I call you because I'm Phil the Infiltrator.
[00:19:35]  And he laughed.
[00:19:36]  But it was just an interesting thing.
[00:19:38]  I did surveys for these people for 90 days.
[00:19:41]  We were all scripted.
[00:19:42]  And, you know, I occasionally took the liberty to try to reword the question, to try to gauge what's really going on out there.
[00:19:48]  And I do believe these, and this is one of the biggest survey companies in the nation, calling all the way to Alaska and Hawaii at 1 o'clock in the morning from 9 a.m. to 1 in the morning.
[00:19:55]  And I was working these graveyard shifts.
[00:19:58]  I was working my way out of foreclosure, which I managed to do.
[00:20:00]  I mean, I busted my butt.
[00:20:01]  But anyway, it's just a very interesting process.
[00:20:04]  And 100 people in the call center on computer scripting and the name and the party affiliation is.
[00:20:10]  What would you say if I were to ask you to say in one or two sentences what you learned doing this?
[00:20:19]  What would you say?
[00:20:23]  It is easy to structure surveys to produce the results that the client wants.
[00:20:30]  All you have to do is be careful about the way you're wording it and the way you ask the question.
[00:20:33]  Yeah, but there's something even more powerful here.
[00:20:36]  You call these liberals and you ask them approve or disapprove and what 75% approve, but you give the option undecided and that gets cut in half.
[00:20:46]  Oh, yeah.
[00:20:47]  And you've got to remember, Rush, when I was getting 80% approved, 20% actually disapproved.
[00:20:52]  And they were actually set up.
[00:20:54]  This was 2010, back when they were still arguing stupid things like environmental issues and the polar bears are for drowning.
[00:21:00]  And now that was just during the midterm election.
[00:21:03]  It was the 90 days right before the November election in 2010.
[00:21:06]  Okay, so having done this, what's your reaction now when you hear the results of any poll that's reported in the news?
[00:21:16]  I believe we have to look very closely at the questions being asked and who's asking them.
[00:21:21]  And I just, I feel that Romney's on far better ground than he realizes.
[00:21:25]  And as a person who's been on the inside of this, I would like to tell him to just come out, please come out with a stronger message.
[00:21:31]  We'll all get behind him.
[00:21:33]  Start pushing a strong conservative message.
[00:21:35]  Well, it sounds to me like essentially what you're saying here is that the polls that you were taking had questions structured in such a way that Democrats were boxed into answers that regardless how they answered, you got an acceptable opinion for Obama because only certain options were available to him.
[00:22:05]  And we all know this.
[00:22:08]  You structure a poll to get whatever you want out of it.
[00:22:12]  I've long believed, and I've long stated, that polls have ceased many moons ago being reflections of public opinion.
[00:22:23]  Polls are now news stories.
[00:22:25]  They are an excuse to report the news as news networks and news divisions want the news covered.
[00:22:34]  They're simply ways to shape public opinion now in the form of a news story rather than actually reflect public opinion.
[00:22:47]  The polls that are taken that actually reflect public opinion are the polls taken by the campaigns.
[00:22:56]  They can't afford to monkey around.
[00:22:59]  And these are the polls that we never see.
[00:23:02]  Campaign polls, White House internals, they're called, in some cases, or the Romney and Turtle polls.
[00:23:08]  They can't afford to lie to themselves.
[00:23:11]  They can't afford to live delusions.
[00:23:15]  You've got to wonder, though, about Obama and if they're all caught up in delusions.
[00:23:21]  I think they are.
[00:23:22]  I think they are.
[00:23:23]  I think they really still stuck in this Messiah mindset, and they're stuck in this notion that their guy is universally loved, adored, and respected, and looked way, way up to.
[00:23:35]  I think they're fooling themselves.

=== 83 Million Unemployment Claims (06:41) ===

[00:23:37]  Big time.
[00:23:38]  It's interesting, Phil.
[00:23:39]  Thanks for the call.
[00:23:40]  I appreciate it.
[00:23:41]  It's James in Rolla, Missouri.
[00:23:42]  Great to have you on the program, sir.
[00:23:44]  Hello.
[00:23:44]  Hello, Rush.
[00:23:45]  Been listening to you for 20 years.
[00:23:47]  I'm a conservative, retired university professor.
[00:23:49]  One of my aunts is from Rolla, Missouri.
[00:23:55]  My aunt Mary is from Rolla, Missouri.
[00:23:58]  She married my uncle Manly, which is my dad's brother.
[00:24:03]  It's a wonderful town.
[00:24:04]  It is a great town.
[00:24:06]  School of Mines.
[00:24:07]  It was the University School of Mines is in Rolla, Missouri.
[00:24:10]  Yeah, now it's called Missouri University of Science and Technology.
[00:24:14]  Yeah, well, there's more than mines that are being taught there.
[00:24:17]  Yes, it is.
[00:24:19]  My question is very simple: how can we have 8.2% unemployment when if you add up all of the first-time jobless claims every Friday that's been carried out since Obama's been in office, that sums up as of the end of June to 83,918,000 people have lost their jobs.
[00:24:44]  Well, because if I understand your question, let's say the number is the 400,000 number that they either try to avoid 400,000 applications for unemployment.
[00:24:56]  Those are not brand new every week.
[00:24:59]  Some of those are the same people reapplying.
[00:25:01]  It says first time, though.
[00:25:06]  It says first-time unemployment claims.
[00:25:11]  First-time unemployment claims.
[00:25:13]  Yes.
[00:25:15]  And your number you get is 83 million?
[00:25:17]  83,918,000 as of the end of June, the end of July.
[00:25:22]  It'll be 85 million.
[00:25:26]  This is very interesting because within the past three months, in talking about unemployment, there was a period of a week or two where a number very close to that was cited as the actual number of adults not working in the country.
[00:25:55]  And it was a scary number when you look at the fact that 210 million adults, I think the number was around 80 million adults who were not working.
[00:26:09]  According to the BLS numbers, the number of Americans who are looking for work and can't find any, and those who have given up looking for work and don't have a job, that percentage is 18.2% right now.
[00:26:28]  The U6 numbers are on 18.2%.
[00:26:31]  Now, what that translates to in actual raw numbers, I don't know.
[00:26:38]  Did what you have, since Obama took office, you've taken the weekly numbers.
[00:26:42]  The weekly numbers and summed them all up in a spreadsheet, yes.
[00:26:46]  At first time, you've found the number every week, first time unemployment.
[00:26:52]  That's right.
[00:26:53]  And you've come up with 83 million.
[00:26:57]  So that's.
[00:26:58]  Now, those numbers come from the state have to report every week how many have filed for first-time unemployment numbers.
[00:27:06]  That's where that number comes from.
[00:27:08]  Well, you ask an interesting question.
[00:27:12]  You ask an interesting question that no question about it deserves an answer.
[00:27:17]  And of course, you've called the right place.
[00:27:20]  We will get the answer.
[00:27:23]  Now, in May, this is what I was talking about.
[00:27:26]  In May, James, we were told that 88 million Americans were no longer in the labor force.
[00:27:35]  This is the labor force participation rate.
[00:27:42]  This is the number that keeps rising that keeps actually, well, the labor force participation rate actually keeps shrinking, which is what keeps the unemployment percentage low.
[00:27:52]  I remember getting into arguments with people who tried to tell me that the labor force participation rate had nothing to do with the unemployment rate.
[00:28:01]  I said, you can't possibly be right.
[00:28:05]  Well, it was a long, drawn-out discussion of the number of jobs that no longer exist in the country.
[00:28:12]  And that number, since Obama took office, the government has just reduced the labor force participation rate by over 2 million.
[00:28:23]  They've just said that there are 2 million fewer jobs to be had.
[00:28:30]  And I would say, well, okay, if the universe of jobs has shrunk and you're comparing the people seeking jobs, you're obviously going to have a smaller unemployment percentage, which is why I have accused the regime of monkeying around with the numbers.
[00:28:48]  Now, are you using the so-called seasonally adjusted unemployment numbers, or are you using the real unadjusted new claims number?
[00:28:59]  Do you know the difference?
[00:29:01]  My numbers came from the U.S. Jobless Claims Chart published by Bloomberg on the way.
[00:29:08]  U.S. jobless claims chart published by Bloomberg.
[00:29:12]  It's a chart, and if you click on each week, it'll print out at the top of it the actual number for that week, and that's where I got my numbers.
[00:29:20]  These are first-time unemployment claims.
[00:29:23]  But you don't know if it's seasonally adjusted or raw data.
[00:29:25]  I do not know.
[00:29:27]  Okay, it's probably seasonally adjusted.
[00:29:31]  But either way, it's tremendously different than the 8% they talk about.
[00:29:36]  Well, everybody knows it's not 8%.
[00:29:41]  The government's own U6 number is around 18% now.
[00:29:45]  That 8.2% just counts people who are looking.
[00:29:49]  There's a whole lot of people who've given up looking.
[00:29:51]  Their 99 weeks have perspired, and they're now on disability.
[00:29:56]  Well, if you took it in 99 weeks, the last 99 weeks, there's 44 million people that filed for unemployment claim.
[00:30:04]  Well, I think it makes sense.
[00:30:09]  It's devastating out there.
[00:30:12]  We ought to run a total each week that that comes out when they give that number.
[00:30:16]  Why don't you put the sum total for his total?

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[00:30:19]  Look, we got a staff here.
[00:30:21]  We got a staff.
[00:30:23]  And maybe somebody on the staff get to the bottom of it.
[00:30:28]  Me.
[00:30:30]  This interesting, I've got to take a break here.
[00:30:32]  I'm way long, but interesting.
[00:30:37]  I'll do my best to have an answer for you before the election.
[00:30:46]  You know, this calculation gets really complicated because even if you're using the raw number of first-time unemployment claims, you still have to know how many people are being hired that week.
[00:30:59]  People are being hired.
[00:31:00]  Are people getting jobs?
[00:31:02]  It's just not nearly enough to compensate for those that are losing jobs and to speak up the pace of the economy.
[00:31:11]  Well, we'll do our best to get to the bottom of that.
[00:31:21]  Well, another fastest three hours in media is fini.
[00:31:26]  Toto la completa.
[00:31:29]  But as always, my friends, it never really ends.
[00:31:31]  We have a 21-hour timeout here where we rev up and get ready to go for tomorrow.
[00:31:38]  Thanks for being with us today, and see you tomorrow.