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Sept. 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 7, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I ran the unemployment numbers.
I did some quick arithmetic.
And I figured out that another four years of Obama unemployment will be down to 7%, and another 5 million people will drop out of the workforce.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
How convoluted is this?
368,000 people drop out of the workforce and the unemployment rate goes down.
8.3 to 8.1%.
What you need to know is...
If the labor force were the same size today as it was when Obama was immaculated, the unemployment rate today would be 11.4%.
The U3, the U6 to be close to 20% unemployment.
But so many people have stopped looking for work that they're not even counted as being unemployed.
These are people that have burned through their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits.
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Think about it.
In August, four people gave up looking for work for every person who actually got a job.
And I even heard CO, you're going to hear this coming up.
Folks, I have to tell you something.
I have a summary of media headlines.
They are not trying to paper this over.
They are not trying to sugarcoat this.
The only outfit that is is the White House.gov website.
They're not even trying.
The media, state control media, is not even trying to spend this.
It is an unmitigated disaster, no matter who's looking at it.
And this guy on CNN, his name is Ally Velshe.
He told poor old Soledad O'Brien, desperately hoping for some good news.
Soledad, it's not just that there aren't any jobs, it's that the jobs that are being created are worthless jobs.
They're not careers that are starting out there.
These are the olhurger flipper jobs.
These are service jobs.
These are jobs that Democrats have always made fun of.
And now that's the only jobs that they're creating.
Real people behind every one of these numbers.
And there was Obama last night, not even addressing.
Yeah, I want to be very honest with you.
What I always am, folks, but look at.
When when I sat down to watch Democratic convention last night, a Democrat convention, I was I was making myself physically ill.
I felt physically ill.
I did not want to watch this crap.
I did not want to subject myself to it.
I wished that the football game had been the last night.
I almost went back to I didn't watch the whole game Wednesday.
I almost went back to T-Vall and watched the full game front start rather than the Democrat convention.
I knew what the Democrats were going to say.
What made me feel sick?
I'm literally, I was feeling sick to my stomach.
And I was depressed.
Not over what I knew I was going to hear, but over the fact that so many people were going to believe it.
And so many people were going to fall for it.
What you don't think people did, Don?
Oh, don't kid yourself.
That's the Democrat Party that I know and love what was on display last night, folks, and I'm telling you, they they they put their best foot forward.
That's who they are.
And you know these 88 million people not in the workforce, they're eating.
They're using their Cell phones.
They're watching their widescreen big screen plasmas.
They got their unemployment compensation checks.
They're doing okay.
And how many of them might want to vote to keep that gravy train going?
We have to remember here that we don't see this convention the way the Democrats see it.
And I try to be as up front with you as I can about this.
When the convention started, you know, I actually thought about not watching it.
And Catherine said, you can't, you've got to.
I said, no, I don't have to.
Yes, you do.
You have to watch it.
Ah, geez, you're right.
I got sicker.
Carrie came out, and he starts in with that.
I did that guy have an eyebrow job.
He looked like he had a brow job in addition to the Botox.
Anyway, he comes out, and I the first thing that struck me, you know, this party all of a sudden loves the military.
This party is just over the top, excited, loving the military.
This Nixon to China moment that we're looking at here.
And I had to remember was John Kerry who called our troops terrorists during the Iraq war and compared them to Genghis Khan.
I see they've done a 180 at their convention.
And then Biden came out.
And folks, I'm telling you, I just I just got ill.
Again.
All of the half-truths and the blatant lies and the straw men and ask myself, how in the world we ever gonna win when these people get away with the literal crap that they get away with.
And then Obama came out.
And the moment he hit the stage, the moment the applause started and he started, I I started feeling better.
Before he said a word.
Something didn't look right to me.
I can't pinpoint it.
All I can tell you is I do well I have done.
I don't do them much anymore.
But I have done major addresses to big rooms.
I don't have a teleprompter to fall back on if I don't have it that night.
I've I panic before these things start over whether I'm gonna have it or not, whether it's gonna be there.
Because I'm I'm totally ad-lib and improv, and if my mind isn't working, if it's not creative, if the neurons aren't firing, then I have to fake it, and that's like phoning it in, and nobody else may know it, but I do, and it's distracting while I'm in the middle of giving the speech or doing the performance.
And my friends, I want to tell you, I thought last night that Barack Obama phoned it in.
I thought that speech last night was a half-hearted effort.
This whole convention, and it finally hit me last night.
This entire Democrat convention, from beginning to end, highlighted by Bill Clinton, fortified by Joe Biden.
This whole convention has been an explanation of failure amid assurances no one could have succeeded.
That was Bill Clinton's whole point.
We were to forget the magnificent promises of four years ago.
We were for to forget the messianic aura that existed four years ago.
We were to forget the idea that magic had finally descended upon the country.
We were to forget the idea that all things were possible, that all ills were curable.
We were to forget that everything bad could be made good.
And we were told by the Democrats that no one could have succeeded.
Not even Barack Obama.
That's how bad It is and was.
No one could have succeeded.
And as Obama continued to speak, I literally started feeling better.
I mean, I could I could chronicle it.
I was I was consciously aware of becoming happy again.
I didn't feel sick to my stomach any longer.
This was very weird.
I I don't recall being on such a roller coaster as this.
No, I didn't feel like all was lost last night.
It was just that I knew that these people, and this is another way of looking, these people had three hours of uninterrupted prime time to tell the country anything, to make their case, to rise to the occasion, rise to the moment.
They had three hours to wrap this up, and they didn't do it.
Particularly Obama, a dismal, disappointing every Democrat from last night through today in Charlotte as they leave, is asking themselves what was that last night.
They are asking them, and the media too, are asking themselves why.
What was the point?
Why did Obama blow it?
He had a golden opportunity to cream Romney and Ryan forever to make himself out to be whatever he wanted to try to convince people he could be, and he chose the greatest hits.
He went the Seinfeld route, his Sayonara stand-up routine was a repeat of one of his early ones.
Seinfeld actually did that after his TV show.
Obama's speech was the low point of the night.
I'm just shooting you straight here.
Joey.
Obama's speech was the low point.
And I actually began to think he was phoning it in.
Seriously.
I've been there, folks.
I have been distracted in the middle of his speech.
I've not wanted to be there.
I have not had it.
I have been in the middle of it, and I'm my mind isn't working.
I'm not firing on all cylinders.
And I know that it ain't my best while I'm in the middle of doing it.
And I know how that feels.
Except I don't have a prompter to rely, because I don't use one.
I don't use notes or anything.
He had the prompter to rely on.
He had the words.
You didn't have to worry about remembering the words, but I'm really wondering if he wants to win this now.
I know in my heart he does.
I know he does.
But last, folks, this is such an opportunity.
It was blown.
I can't begin to tell you.
I know.
Well, I did begin to grab hold of a possibility.
For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama's superhuman.
Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else.
And he isn't.
In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has.
And I think maybe what we saw was the best.
The best that they can do, given they they this whole convention was was seemed to be predicated on the fact that Republicans are in office.
They were running as challengers.
I honest even Obama last night, I said, he'd forgotten you're in office, pal.
You're describing all these problems, they're yours.
He had as much time as he wanted to seize the moment to make his case to explain why.
And we got a fizzling Roman Candle.
Two big decisions he had to make.
Two big things.
They had an opportunity to tell us how wonderful the stimulus was and how we needed another one.
They had an opportunity to tell us how great Obamacare was and how it was going to be even better than anybody knew.
They get away with whatever lie they want to tell.
As far as the media is concerned.
Don't doubt me.
They could have, Obama could have gone out there and spun a tale about all kinds of wonderful things he's got planned for the next four years.
You're going to have a new car, a new kitchen.
It could have been anything.
And what did they do?
They said the two big accomplishments.
Bin Laden and the auto industry.
And they didn't even portray this bin Laden thing as a great achievement.
They build that as a great decision.
Well, there's a problem.
The Bob Woodward book is out.
And we know he doesn't make decisions.
Other people have to prod him to make decisions.
And the old the bin Laden story is another one of those.
Who was it?
Somebody, Hillary Valerie Jarrett had to tell.
No, Valerie Jarrett didn't want to go get bin Laden.
That's what it was.
Somebody had to tell him three times to pull a trigger on bin Laden.
The two big decisions, the two big achievements, Biden focused on it, all the speakers, the bumper sticker, bin Laden and the auto industry.
Which was a bailout with the government buying General Motors and Chrysler and giving the majority of it to the United Auto workers.
George W. Bush did the auto bailout.
Yeah, Obama asked him to, but Bush did it.
It was already done by the time Obama got there.
They didn't talk about Dodd-Frank, financial reform.
They didn't talk about making it fair for people to get back into homes.
It's so much left on the table.
And then getting up there and totally ignoring the real issues.
Economic decay, collapse, unemployment, economic malaise, misery, no confidence in the future, and Obama unwilling to tell people it's gonna get better.
His message was I have hope in you.
in us he marks and makes fun of tax cuts Couldn't highlight Obamacare.
Why a rehash of all this old stuff?
It sounds like you're the challenger and not the incumbent.
Why do this?
Because when this was over, I can't tell you, I felt 180 degrees better.
Because this was a dismal performance.
I don't.
And a lot of people have said this.
I'm not unique in this takeout.
Look at I got to take a break.
I just saw the clock.
Be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
I'm here, folks, just waiting on the printer.
Greetings.
Great to have you back, Rush Limboy.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
This was boilerplate.
It was liberal boilerplate.
There was nothing new.
The stuff in Obama's speech I've been hearing all my life, 50 years.
This stuff was older than the stuff he said four years ago.
And I heard Chris Wallace before the speech say, I've got a copy of it here.
And it looks like it's a rehash of stuff we heard four years ago.
Some of it was, but much of it was older than that.
Liberal boilerplate stuff that's been in their playbook since FDR.
Now you put that against the expectations this crowd had.
Forget inside the convention, those people are lunatics.
We had the audio tape yesterday, these people who want to ban profits.
I mean, that party, folks, these people in that hall, many of them are die-in-the-wool lunatics.
They're lost.
They're gone.
They're irretrievable.
That's that's the base of the Democrat Party you saw in there.
Well, I'm telling you, people watching this on TV, if they did, are scratching their heads.
And you see, the fact of the matter is there's this little problem called reality.
And it happens to everybody, even Messiahs like the big O. And the fact is there's nothing Obama could have said that would change what he has done and what he has caused.
And that was his problem.
There's nothing, not a thing he could have said to change people's perceptions of his failure.
It's that simple.
He struck out before this thing even started.
The End And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And we are thrilled to have you with us.
The whole convention, it was an explanation of failure amid assurances, no one could have succeeded.
You go back to 2008.
Yes, we can.
Yes, you remember that?
Yes, we can.
Yes, we can.
And what did Clinton say?
You know what?
Not even I. I could have fixed this mess.
And last night, that was that was that message was carried through all the way through to Obama.
But realville Trump's Obama last night.
Nothing he could have said that would have changed what he's done.
Nothing he could have said would have changed what he's caused.
Obama had these economic numbers last night, by the way.
All day yesterday, the drive-bys kept teasing us.
They kept saying, you know, Obama's gonna have the economic numbers.
I'll bet you they're gonna be really good.
The expectations were pretty high, by the way, I should tell you.
The experts all thought the uh job numbers today would be great.
And they were hoping and they were predicting Obama, he will allude to it in his speech that he'll say we've turned the corner, he'll say we're coming back, and we'll wake up tomorrow and we'll get all this great economic news.
Well, let me tell you what Obama knew the news last night.
He knew how bad these numbers were, he knew they're not spinnable, and I think that was a factor in Obama's attitude last night.
I'm struck, folks, by how just subpar.
It was, yeah, the experts are running around, some of them are predicting 250,000 new jobs in August.
We had 90 their hopes, their hopes.
One of the experts ever been right.
96,000 new jobs, 380 or 68,000 dropped out of the labor force.
There are now about 89 million Americans not in the labor force.
And if the same number of people had jobs today, or if there were if there were the same number of jobs today available as there were four years ago, the unemployment rate would be 11.4%.
It is just devastating.
What this man and his administration have done to this country.
It's almost indescribable.
By the way, Clint Eastwood has spoken up in the Carmel Pinecone, a local newspaper out there.
Eastwood says his convention appearance was mission accomplished after a week.
As topic number one in American politics, Clint Eastwood said the outpouring of criticism from left-wing reporters and the liberal politicians after his appearance, followed by an avalanche of support on Twitter, and in the blogosphere is all the proof anybody needs that his appearance achieved exactly what he intended it to.
Eastwood Said to the Pine Cone, President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
That's Clint Eastwood.
Barack Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
No, he's the second.
Global warming is the greatest hoax.
Because it lasted a long time.
Global warming had a 25 year lifespan.
That was the oh, and by the way, Obama last night was talking to me last night.
Hey, climate change is not a hoax.
Yes, it is, just as you are.
Bill Clinton described Obama as a fairy tale.
And now Clint Eastwood said the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
Romney and Ryan would do much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.
I may have irritated a lot of lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.
That is what Clint Eastwood said.
Let's go to the audio sum.
Oh, oh, one other observation here.
This this uh this struck me actually yesterday, but it was drilled home last night.
One week ago last night was when we had at the Republican convention all of those testimonials to the character and the life of Mitt Romney from average people.
People that before the Republican convention nobody ever heard of.
The family with the 14 year old boy with cancer.
The family with the sick little girl in the hospital.
All of these people were character witnesses, and they were many and numerous.
Who were the character witnesses for Barack Obama during this convention?
There were three.
There was Bill Clinton, and that's big.
You got Clinton as a character witness, you're in there.
Number two was Muchell Obama, character witness.
And the third one, who was the third character witness?
Joe Bite me last night.
Joe bite me.
I've sat there.
I've sat next to him.
I'm gonna tell you something.
Sleeve my dad said, Joey.
Somebody punches you in the nose.
You kick them in the groin, and you look at them like they're Republicans, and you kick them again.
And that's this guy.
I have never seen a guy with a tougher spine of steel.
That's this guy.
I've seen him, I've seen him, I've sat next to him.
I've been.
This is the reason we're to re-elect the guy.
Michelle, you know.
You know, you've seen the guy.
I've seen I've worked up close to the let me tell you that I've never seen nobody.
There's just nobody.
And you know why?
Because this guy's got courage.
Oh, this guy's got courage and let me tell you.
No, no, no, no, wait.
Courage, incalculable courage.
I've seen it.
I've been up close four years.
I have been there.
It's like my dad said, Joey, get the hell out of the house.
I'm sick of looking at you.
That was it, folks.
That was the sum total of character, and that was the reason to vote for Obama.
He cares, and Biden has seen enough to know that he's a great guy.
There wasn't a word about his charitable acts.
There wasn't a word about Obama's interaction with people that he's inspired.
There was none of this.
I'm telling you what, you know, Krauthammer used the word empty to describe Obama's speech last night.
I I think the whole convention ended up because of the way it ended being that way.
Now that's I mean, I I I actually think there's something else going on in the dynamic of the Democrat Party.
I think there's a bunch of competing strings, ropes that are being pulled within this party.
I think you have the blind and the totally devoted who think that this last three days was Nirvana and heaven, and they'd never seen anything like it, and they're happy as clams, and it's the most wonderful thing and is great.
Then you have people who you know what, uh this isn't working.
And then you have people in the Democrat Party who know that if they don't do something fast, it's not just Obama that's going to go south, it's the whole party.
There aren't very many of those.
But yesterday spent some time on the program detailing for you recent news stories from state controlled slavish media that love Obama, New York Times and Politico.
The politico talked about how this guy hasn't given a good speech in uh four years.
New York Times on Sunday ran a piece, or everybody thinks the guy's cocky and arrogant and so on.
So what is this?
And it's as I told you, if these people in the media, and if other powerful Democrats think, they get it in their head that Obama's gonna lose, they will throw him overboard to save the ideology.
The ideology must be saved and will not be blamed.
And that's what they're setting up when they say before last night that Obama hadn't given a good speech in four years.
And by the way, that's still accurate.
And that was the politico.
Obama hadn't given a good speech in four years.
The New York Times piece on Sunday.
If they think things are going south, if they think they're gonna lose, they will start making sure that people understand it was Obama who blew it, not liberalism that was rejected.
Not big government that was rejected, not spending that was rejected, not debt, not all the things that equal liberalism, none of that was rejected.
Nope, it was Obama.
People that that's they're gonna have to.
Because the ideology comes first.
Obama will become the latest passing personality.
There are already a lot of stories, and look that New York Times story was replete with people don't really like the guy.
They don't really know him.
And how about the Woodward book now?
Gosh, he can't even make a decision.
The guy's not who's running this shop.
Let me tell you something.
The things that are being said about Obama now, three months before the election by media and journalists who love the guy, supposedly, who are in the tank for the guy.
You know how to read the stitches on a fastball like I do.
You know how to see the spin, note the curveball coming before it breaks.
Something is being set up out there.
And within the bowels of the Democrat Party, there is a rising number of people, an increasing number of people who think this is over.
And their fears were confirmed after Obama's speech last night.
And that number is going to increase.
If it weren't for a bunch of mitigating factors, Obama would be down 15 or 20 and ought to be.
And the real question is how is this race in these polls still even?
Especially now given that speech last night.
That speech when you bought it all down was the latest bit of evidence of what a failure Obama is and what a failure his ideas are.
What a failure liberalism is, what a failure statism is.
It was all wrapped up in that speech last night.
Again, for a simple reason, folks.
There was nothing he could have said that would change what he's done.
There was nothing he could have said that would have changed the perception of what he's done.
There was nothing.
And this is why he didn't try it.
I'm convinced there was nothing he could have said that would have rebutted the idea that he has failed.
And that's why he went back to the liberal boilerplate.
Shore up the base.
That's why he went back to the 30, 50 year old playbook.
That's why he started making fun of taxes and rich people.
Started talking about how they care and we don't.
Went back to the basics.
That's all he's got.
Shore up the base.
Because there's nothing he could have said that what would have made himself look like a success.
No, Snerdley, don't frown at me in there, but I'm telling you, there's nothing he could have said that could change what he's done.
There's nothing he could have said to change what he's caused.
There's nothing he could have said to make the 89 million people out of work think that that's good.
There's nothing he could have said, and that's why he didn't say it.
That would make people think the next four years are gonna turn this around and be better, like he said they were gonna be four years ago.
He didn't get specific about what the next four years are gonna be because they're not gonna be any better.
His ideas fail.
Nothing he could have said, nothing he could have done to change reality.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
I'm gonna play some of the audio soundbites of the media reacting to the economic news, the unemployment news today when we get back.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
Hey, I like this, folks.
I like CNN Bill Clinton's speech, Democrat National Convention Wednesday night reminded at least one Republican of another time that the former president stepped before the microphones.
Former California Governor Pete Wilson said yesterday to fundraiser for Paul Ryan that Clinton's finger shake was reminiscent of the time that he denied engaging in a sexual activity with a White House intern.
Remember Clinton shaking that bony finger.
He's up there shaking that bony finger of the convention.
It bothered me.
And Pete Wilson's right.
I never had sex with that woman.
Ms. Lewinsky.
Not a single time.
And I never asked anybody to lie.
Not once.
And this is the guy doing character references for Barack Obama.
And here, Pete Wilson of all people.
Doesn't matter, it's great.
Finally, somebody out fighting back against the Clinton speech, which supposedly owned the convention.
It was the greatest thing under the sun.
And now we're tearing that down.
This is the kind that's gonna have to happen, folks.
We can't rely on my perception that I just shared with you carrying the day.
It's gonna have to be told.
The Romney campaign is going to have to campaign.
The Romney campaign's gonna have to burnish Obama's record in the minds of every voter in this country.
They're gonna have to highlight this unemployment news, they're have to have to broadcast it, they're gonna have to focus on it.
The uh the dismal economic performance, the drop from 55 to 51,000, an average family income, a number of people on food stamps.
The campaign can't go lax.
The campaign can't count on talk radio to carry the day.
They can't count on public perception of the Democrat convention because I don't know how many people saw it the way I did.
I'm just telling you how I saw it.
I know a lot of people still live in fear that no matter what the reality is, the left can spin it so that the public is lied to and believes the lies.
I know people believe that.
I know people, no matter how bad Obama's speech was, people still think on our side that it can be spun and presented as the best speech he's ever made, although it isn't being.
Nobody's even trying that.
I mean, not even Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz went there.
She didn't even try it.
But this is a great opportunity.
They had all that time last night to go out and make the best case, seize the moment, try to redefine this race to be anything they wanted to be, and what did they do?
I mean, it was stunning how incompetent it ended up being last night.
How unsmart.
How uncool.
That was uh striking to me, it really was.
And I can't emphasize enough, I literally Felt physically ill before it started.
It was new.
I've not felt that way before.
But it ended up everything was fine and dandy when it was over.
Okay, quick timeout here, my friends.
Sit tight.
Back with much more as the program never ends.
Back with much more.
Hey cookie, I need you to do a quick perusal of the tapes overnight this morning from CNN.
Need to know what Alex Castellanos thought of Obama's speech.
Remember, Alex Castellanos talking with Carol Costello yesterday.
We had it here.
He thought that the convention and the election was over after Clinton's speech.
That was it, because he got emailed the next day from a woman who said that she wanted to vote for and sleep with Clinton.
And so that meant to Alex that the whole thing was over.
And I haven't heard what Alex thought about Obama's speech.
I don't know if he was on CNN last night.
But if he was, we'll find out.
Okay, we'll get to your phone calls.
I promise I know.
It's open line Friday.
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