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Sept. 20, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 20, 2012, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, folks, what kind of mood are you in right now?
I just asked Snerdley.
Snerdley's in a fine mood.
I said, how can that be?
He said, I didn't watch TV last night.
The only thing I remember is your show yesterday.
Very good.
Very good.
I got some challenging news for your good mood today, though.
But I found my iPhone.
Well, at least I found where it is.
It's on the move.
So I don't have that.
Well, it's not really a distraction because I am a multitasker extraordinaire.
Hi, folks.
How are we?
Great, great, great.
Great to have you here.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address, LrushBo at EIBNet.com.
Let me just, let me just get this out of the way.
I want to take you back to this program all the way back last December, nine months ago.
Nine months ago on this program, I warned you.
I told you.
I predicted.
I prognosticated what was coming our way.
The unemployment number is going to precipitously drop, and it's going to get close to 8% by next November.
Just mark my words.
That's in the can.
It's in the cards.
Also, Obama's approval number now is up five points over the last three months or some such thing.
So here we go.
Approval numbers up.
I'm just warning you now not to get dispirited.
People are not giving up, but you are not going to see that evidence.
You're not going to see evidence of that passion or energy that you have and that your fellow citizens have for change.
You're not going to see it.
What you're instead going to be told is that, wow, look at Obama's approval numbers going, wow, and unemployment.
Look at the number coming down.
Oh, it's all coming together.
Last December.
Last December, I said this.
We have a media montage of yesterday and today.
Big headlines on the economy this morning.
Are we on the road to recovery?
There's great news out this morning on the economy.
Are we really turning a corner?
Great news.
It looks like this recovery really has legs.
The economic downturn may have bottomed out.
It was a machine gun fire of good economic reports.
We finally hit a bottom that you're seeing this recovery really take hold.
Breaking news into the newsroom.
Another sign, the real estate market could be improving.
There you have it.
That's all last night and today in the drive-by media.
And I honestly don't know what they're looking at.
The unemployment, down 3,000, no big deal.
I think they're making it up.
I don't know what I haven't seen.
Same reaction you did.
I saw the summary.
I said, what the hell?
All I know is I predicted it.
But I'm not through.
It's only half the prediction I am now having in my formerly nicotine strained finger, stained finger.
Get this, folks.
Democrat enthusiasm surges in the swing states, according to Gallup.
And not just in the swing states, but nationally.
Voters in the 12 states at USA Today and Gallup considered a key swing states that could decide the presidential race are now significantly more enthusiastic about voting this fall than they were in June.
60% are either extremely or very enthusiastic.
This is Democrats up from 46%.
Voter enthusiasm in these states has grown among members of both parties.
However, Democrats' level has increased more.
Thus, whereas equal percentages of Democrats and Republicans were enthusiastic in June, Democrats are now significantly more enthusiastic than Republicans.
Oh, lordy me.
It's 73 to 64.
Say what it is.
73, 64%.
Independence enthusiasm also jumped substantially over this period, up 18 points, similar to the 20-point gain among Democrats.
However, independence enthusiasm still lags behind that of both partisan groups.
Now, it is a poll of registered voters.
It isn't likely voters.
But I gather, as I've read various places, that people believe this.
They don't think there's anything funny about that the samples are not out of whack.
It's registered, not likely voters.
So today, folks, yesterday it was over, too.
What was it?
Politico RAP, MIT RAP.
It's over.
And today's really over.
We've got economic recovery fully settled in.
And the Democrats now can't wait to get out there and vote.
You know why?
You know why?
Well, nobody knows why, but you know why they'll tell us.
Okay, so Romney, the video, and then Romney came out and shot before he aimed, make a total fool of it, criticized our wonderful president over what happened to the Middle East.
Everybody knows the video caused it.
Romney's been lying.
And then he went out and had that tape that surfaced where he claimed not to care about, what, 99.5% of the country only cares about his family.
That's the news.
Those three things that happened, Democrats are so mad, they're so ticked off.
They hate Romney so much.
They were prepared to like him and realize he's just a loser.
But now he's really got them fired up and they can't wait to get out there and vote.
That's going to be the way that spun.
And it's all made up.
Oh, yeah, it's still unemployed.
Who's still unemployed?
The Romney family?
Well, no, no, that's what I'm saying.
Unemployment.
I can't find it.
All I can find is that where is it here?
The number is really small.
Jobless claims fell last week, but trend week, number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell 3,000.
And from this, from that, we get economies turned around.
From this, we get that montage.
The economy's bottomed out.
From this, we get a fully anchored recovery now.
Gas prices are still up.
Yeah, but see, that's the new norm.
That's all just the way it's going to be.
That's all the new norm.
There's nothing.
And guess what else?
We have learned that Obama and the regime have totally lied about the reason for the Benghazi attack.
But that doesn't matter.
Because you see, nobody cares.
Nobody really cares.
The image that we're being told is that nobody cares.
How many of you, when you hear that the regime finally has been called on it, they lied?
There was a full-fledged terror attack, had nothing to do with the video.
And we're going to demonstrate that.
In Benghazi, we have an ambassador, three other Americans dead.
And I'll be damned if I can find anybody who cares.
In terms of just day-to-day media coverage, I'll be damned if I can find anybody who's upset about it.
That's the new norm, too.
Well, you know, Rush, we're going to lose.
We lose soldiers.
We lose ambassadors.
I mean, that's just the way it is.
There's no sense of outrage about any of this that you could find.
Now, all of you feel it, but I'm sure you're feeling it alone.
You're all feeling it alone.
You're all wondering, where's the country?
Where are my fellow citizens?
You're all, I'm sure, feeling isolated as you can be.
That's the purpose.
That is by design.
Here's something else.
From actually, I'm probably either unfazed, very happy AP, our old buddy Ricardo Alonzo Zaldivar, who writes all the healthcare news for Obama.
Nearly 6 million Americans, significantly more than first estimated, 6 million, more than was thought, will face a tax penalty under President Obama's health overhaul if they don't get insurance.
The new estimate amounts to an inconvenient fact for the regime, a reminder of what critics see as broken promise.
What the government don't you just love the way these clowns write this drivel?
The new estimate amounts to an inconvenient fact.
They freaking lied.
That's just an inconvenient fact.
And it's a reminder of what critics see is a broken promise.
It really isn't a broken promise.
It's just what those dastardly Republicans say it is.
Only critics realize we have been lied to?
Is that it?
The rest of the doofuses in the country don't know it.
But even at that, folks, it's our own fault.
It's our own fault.
Well, why would anybody ever believe anything this regime or their news media tells us?
The numbers from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office are 50% higher than a previous projection by the same office in 2010.
But don't tell anybody.
We here at AP have to report this, but we're not like a big deal out of it, so don't tell anybody this, okay?
Otherwise, the critics will say that there's some lying going on.
The earlier estimate found that 4 million people would be affected in 2016 when the penalty is fully effect, but now it's 6 million.
Tax penalty to hit nearly 6 million uninsured people in Obamacare.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
The real number is going to be much higher.
6 million.
I don't know why anybody believes anything these people say.
I don't.
And if I'm getting the point, I don't believe anything anypartic.
How about this whitewash of Fast and Furious?
How about that?
I mean, an absolute whitewash.
Of course.
This is why you need an independent counsel on this.
Is it any surprise that the Inspector General at DOJ is going to clear Eric Holder?
Is it any surprise whatsoever that that's going to happen?
So we've got a whitewash of Fast and Furious, and yet we're being told it went all the way to the top bit.
Nothing's going to happen.
Underlings are gone, if any.
Nothing's going to happen.
So once again, a bunch of politicians got away with it.
This is why you needed an independent counsel.
It's preposterous to count on somebody doing an objective investigation of their boss, particularly in government, particularly there.
And it also shows why we need serious people at the helm of the Justice Department, not just opportunistic political hacks.
You know what this country needs?
Folks, I'm going to tell you why you feel so bad.
There's no leadership to be found in this country.
There literally is no leader.
Do you realize, let me tell you something.
I've been thinking about this last night.
Let's take a look at Benghazi and Cairo.
Let's just stick with Benghazi.
We've got a dead American ambassador and three other Americans on the anniversary of 9-11.
A real leader, I don't care if he's president or a candidate for a real leader, this would not be tolerated.
This wouldn't be swept under the rug.
This wouldn't be blamed on some loony tune in his video.
This wouldn't be dealt with by going on Letterman and having a party at a sports bar owned by Jay-Z.
This wouldn't be treated with the arrival ceremony of the caskets at Andrews Air Force Base and think you've done it.
There isn't any leadership.
The country's under attack.
There's no leadership anywhere.
There's no leadership in the House.
There's no leadership in the Senate.
There doesn't seem to be anybody that wants to put this country first.
Everybody wants to put whoever they think is going to vote for them first.
That's what's driving me nuts.
Some things are above and beyond politics.
This is national security.
Now we've got, well, now we find out that we had a guy in prison at Gitmo who we let out, and it was the Bush people that did it because they were being bombarded.
They went wobbly.
I'll admit it.
The Bush people went wobbly in 2007 trying to appease the Democrats and their critics and set up the party for the Republican presidential election, hopefully 2008, let the guy out, relax the standards at Gitmo.
And this is what happens.
The ringleader of the Benghazi attack, we had him in custody.
Boy, we had to let him go.
This is what happens when you're weak.
It's what happened when you try to appease your enemies.
In this case, Bush, the Republicans are trying to appease the Democrats and the media after three years of intense pounding.
The Bush administration was doing anything.
You know the drill.
You know the story.
So now we got the Benghazi attack that we know full well what it was still got the president of the United States lying to us still telling us it's a video.
There's no leadership.
There's excuse making.
There's passing the buck.
There's blaming.
Somebody goes out and says something like Romney 47% and gets scared rather than face it and deal with what he means and what it really is and use it as an opportunity.
I know everybody's afraid.
I understand the fear that exists out there.
A lot of people are afraid of what this country is going to become with other four years of this guy running it.
This massive transformation, redistribution, all that.
I know a lot of people, the fear ought to inspire some people to rise up, exhibit a little leadership, and provide a counterweight or a counterbalance.
Somebody that's not on the radio, somebody's not on television, somebody's not in the media.
Sadly, as it may be, this is not where things get done.
Well, they are, ultimately.
This is where people are informed and people make things happen in this country, and that's a whole another subject.
But really, we're absent leadership.
This Middle East thing is really, it's being treated as no different than an accident on I-95 in rush hour on a Friday afternoon.
I'm going to happen, and then we move on.
And the first thing it has, we got to cover our rear ends.
We've got to blame somebody else for it.
And then we've got to make it act like it ain't a big deal.
But then we want credit for caring about the ambassador.
We'll do a big ceremony, make people think we got big hearts.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But what?
It leads to a feeling of emptiness, vacancy, all across the country.
People's minds and hearts everywhere.
Yeah, we have to get up and listen to this pap and this BS about an economic recovery when 6 million people paying a fine for not having Obama insurance is the tip of the iceberg of the tax increases coming in a couple of months.
And the fact that I was able to predict all that, grab some by one, December of last year.
I predicted everything that has come true today.
The unemployment number is going to precipitously drop, and it's going to get close to 8% by next November.
Just mark my words.
That's in the can.
It's in the cards.
Also, Obama's approval number now is up five points over the last three months or some such thing.
So here we go.
Approval numbers up.
I'm just warning you now not to get dispirited.
People are not giving up, but you are not going to see that evidence.
You're not going to see evidence of that passion or energy that you have and that your fellow citizens have for change.
You're not going to see it.
What you're instead going to be told is that, wow, look at Obama's approval numbers go, wow, and unemployment.
Look at the number coming down.
Oh, it's all coming together.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have its rush limbs.
And this, the excellence in broadcasting network.
We're now learning.
We're now learning, ladies and gentlemen, that our ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, had no security assigned to him.
We are also learning that our ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, thought that he was on a kill list.
He did.
He thought he was on a hit list.
He had no security.
None.
Even though the State Department had been warned that trouble was brewing.
They knew.
They knew something was up and they knew that it had nothing to do with the video.
Obama knew it had nothing to do with the video when he went on a letterman the other day.
Obama knew, and everybody in the regime knew it had nothing to do with the video.
There was a preplanned strategized attack in Benghazi, timed to coordinate with 9-11.
It had nothing to do with some loony tune in his movie or video.
In fact, the Navy SEALs who died with Chris Stevens just pitched in on their own.
They weren't assigned.
And as you digest that, keep in mind that Valerie Jarrett, a domestic policy advisor for Obama, has a detail of at least five Secret Service agents who give her protection 24-7.
But the ambassador in Libya had none assigned to him.
Yeah, so that's what we're dealing with each and every.
Don't go away.
Your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, and chaos.
And a disintegrating media totally corrupted by partisan bias.
So I'm trying to figure out.
I listened to this soundbite, the media montage of George Stephanopoulos and all the others on it going orgasmic about the economic recovery and the things that they're saying.
Machine gun fire of good economic reports.
We finally hit bottom.
This recovery really taking hold.
Another sign the real estate market could be improving.
And I'm asking myself, what did I miss?
Seriously, there has to be something that they are anchoring this to.
What happened?
So I started scouring.
I started looking around for things.
I only found one thing that could possibly suffice as providing them the data to report such things.
And it's an AP story.
Has U.S. economy bottomed out?
Census suggests yes.
Census?
In fact, there are two things.
The AP has this little thing that they send down the wire every day called 10 Things to Know for today.
And on September 20th, today, the number one thing for AP readers to know is the worst may be over.
New census numbers suggest the U.S. economy is bottomed out.
Okay, so that's the most important story to date, AP, right?
Census.
I found it.
I went out there and I got it.
I have it here, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
The U.S. economy is showing signs of finally bottoming out.
Americans are on the move again.
After record numbers had stayed put, more young adults are leaving their parents' homes to take a chance with college or the job market.
Once sharp declines in births are leveling off, poverty is slowing.
Really?
Census numbers tell us this?
Not economic numbers?
That's right, folks.
You see, new 2011 census data.
That's the most current data we got.
You talk about a stretch and a reach.
I mean, this is comical.
It's laughable.
Ridiculous.
New 2011 census data being released today offers glimmers of hope in an economic recovery that technically began in mid-2009.
Not all is well, AP says.
The jobless rate remains high at 8.1%.
Oh, it came down two-tenths of a percent, see, because fewer people are looking.
Homeownership dropped for a fifth straight year, the lowest in more than a decade, hurt by more stringent financing rules and a shift to renting.
More Americans than ever are turning to food stamps.
Now, listen to this now.
Here's the headline: Has U.S. economy bottomed out?
Opening paragraph: U.S. economy showing signs of finally bottoming out.
Americans are on the move again.
So the whole thing for economic recovery is based on people moving according to census data from last year.
But to cover themselves, AP says not all is well.
Now, remember the headline: Has U.S. economy bottomed out?
Clearly, they want you to think we're roaring back.
We've bottomed out.
We've hit bottom.
We're turning back.
We're coming back.
However, not all is well.
The jobless rate is still 8.1%.
Homeownership dropped for the fifth straight year, the lowest in more than a decade.
More Americans than ever are turning to food stamps, while residents in housing considered crowded held steady at one point.
So you see the new norm.
The new norm is life sucks.
But if you are moving, then we got an economic recovery going on.
This is malpractice.
This is journalistic malpractice.
It is lying and it's dumb, stupid.
Census data from a year ago, solely related to the fact that people are on the move.
And by the way, what percentage of people are on the move?
Well, let's see.
How many people are on the move here?
It's why it's a fraction of a fraction.
The analysis cites a fraction of a fraction increase in the number of people who've moved.
Like, it's not even 1%.
This is a totally manufactured, made-up story using never-used criteria before in the face of evidence that shows the economy continuing to shrink, contract, and slow down.
These irresponsible journalists, well, not even any irresponsible people at AP lie through their teeth and their keyboards right to your face because a handful of people are moving.
That must mean the economy is bottomed out.
That must mean the recovery is roaring.
If there were a Republican in the White House, this story would be all about the fact that this economy has descended now into a full-blown depression.
And that 8.1% number would never be seen.
They'd report it as what it really is, 11.5.
Taken as a whole, however, analysts say the latest census data provide wide-ranging evidence of a stabilizing U.S. economy.
What was stabilizing?
What?
I thought it was coming back.
These are the same economists that are wrong week after week and month after month about the unemployment rate.
Same economists who always say prosperity just around the corner.
Now there's a Democrat in the White House?
Honestly, folks, this is it.
Grab soundbite three, or I don't know, what is it, two or three?
What is it?
The soundbite number two.
What I just told you, what I just told you, Census Bureau, a fraction of a fraction of a percentage point of people moving while the economic data continues to show a shrinking, contracting, slowing economy, the fact that the Census Bureau's one-year-old data on people moving begot this yesterday and today in the media.
Big headlines on the economy this morning.
Are we on the road to recovery?
There's great news out this morning on the economy.
Are we really turning a corner?
Great news.
It looks like this recovery really has legs.
The economic downturn may have bottomed out.
It was like machine gun fire of good economic reports.
We finally hit a bottom that you're seeing this recovery really take hold.
Breaking news into the newsroom, another sign, the real estate market could be improving.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what real estate?
Home ownership dropped for a fifth straight year to 64.6%, the lowest in more than 10 years, the lowest in more than a decade.
We're in a depression.
People at CNN, that was Carol Costello, I think.
Yep, Carol.
See, I don't know whether she is knowingly lying or she just doesn't know.
She just doesn't get it.
It doesn't really matter either.
But it does interest me.
How can people be so stupid?
I marvel at that.
So I think you have to work at being that ignorant.
And if you're going to work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
Hi, welcome back.
All right, here's the money quote in the AP story, ladies and gentlemen, that I think has caused the media to report that, hey, hey, it's over.
You know, we're roaring back.
I mean, it is bango.
It's buffo out there.
Here's the money quote in that AP story.
As a whole, Americans were slowly finding ways to get back on the move.
About 12% of the nation's population, or 36.5 million, moved to a new home, up from a record low of 11.6% in 2011.
So, 12% versus 11.6% the previous year, four-tenths of a percentage point difference in the number of people who moved has led to the conclusion that there is a full-fledged, full-blown economic recovery taking place out there.
That's it.
I scoured it.
I looked at it.
I heard that soundbite.
Cookie gave me this.
I said, what really, folks?
What the hell are they talking about?
I knew, because I had predicted it, that they were going to try to make this case, but it was going to have to be anchored to something.
You can't make it up out of whole cloth.
There has to be something out there, unemployment report, something.
It's the census.
And the fact that four-tenths of a percentage point, more people moved last year, not this year, last year than the year before.
Among young adults, 25 to 29, the most mobile age group, moves also increased to 24.6% from a low of 24.1%.
That's one half of one percentage point change.
24.6 to 24.1, that's a 0.5 or 0.5% increase.
Not even a full point.
They're going, God, go over this.
Less willing to rely on parents, roughly 5.6 million Americans between 25 and 34, or 13.6% live with mom and dad, a decrease from 14.2% the previous year.
So that's a 0.6% difference.
Folks, this is clutching at straws.
This is wishful thinking.
It's journalistic malpractice.
It is non-existent news.
It is specifically written, produced, and disseminated to affect the outcome of the election.
They don't care what they have to report in the months afterwards.
It doesn't matter.
All they want to do now, so they add this to the polls that have a Democrat plus 13 sample.
Add this to all the distorted news about Romney in the 47.
Add this to all the news about the video setting fire to the Middle East.
Now the economy coming back.
This is it.
And it was all predictable.
So I don't want anybody getting depressed.
I want you mad.
I want you offended and livid about this.
I want you beside yourself that your intelligence is insulted in this way.
And I don't want you to accept any of this.
This is and this is saying something.
This is worse than it has ever been, and it's worse than I've ever seen.
Let me ask you a quick question.
We now know because of the well, we just know that the Benghazi attack that was not precipitated by video.
We know this now.
We know that it was planned in advance, time to 9-11.
We know that a former Gitmo prisoner had a role in it.
We know that our ambassador and three others are dead.
We know that there's no leadership in this country that is dealing with this.
Let me ask you a question.
By feeding the false narrative about this movie, this video that nobody even saw, could it be that the Obama administration is in fact setting off protests across the Middle East?
If isn't it logical to conclude that every time a member of this administration goes on television worldwide and talks about this video, what I mean, don't forget how all this started.
Some wizard of SMART in our embassy in Cairo sent out an official release from the embassy apologizing for this movie before anything had happened.
Remember how incredulous we all were.
And this apology tore into a nameless American who would do things that would hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.
They put this thing out before anything happened.
And I've heard some charitable people say, well, Russia after standing, they were trying to head off an attack.
By apologizing, they were trying to stop the attack.
Don't make me laugh.
Anybody thinks that's going to work with this appeasement doesn't work.
It never has.
It's not.
Well, my point is now that they've got a built-in excuse.
Terrorists all across the world have a built-in excuse.
That video.
They can engage in any terrorist activity they want, and they know that President Obama is going to blame the video, not them.
They've got to not only have a built-in excuse, they have built-in motivation.
First, you've got Obama running around spiking the football.
I killed Osama.
I shot him dead.
It might as well have been me.
They pulled the trigger.
21 times the Democratic Convention.
Osama's dead.
GM's alive.
They're mocking these Muslims.
Osama may not have been an operational leader, but he's still there, George Washington, for crying out loud.
And there's Obama running around bragging about killing him.
And we know that that bothered him because in the Egyptian protests, they're out there shouting, we're all Osama's Obama.
So you got Obama spiking the football, bragging about killing Bin Laden, and then inciting these people with this video, telling them that there's this video that some American Looney Tune made.
We didn't have anything to do with it.
My administration had nothing to do with it.
We didn't do it.
It's like Bart Simpson.
Nobody's telling me to do it.
You can't prove anything.
I didn't do it.
My question is: could it be feeding this false narrative that Obama is setting off these protests in the Middle East?
Had this film lie never been told?
Had the regime behaved in a more adult and responsible manner, would there be all this chaos around our embassies in the Middle East?
Would Pakistan be in turmoil?
Do you know our Pakistan embassy surrounded now?
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan is under siege by feeding a false narrative.
Obama has thrown gasoline on a simmering fire.
And so this is the price of a desperate regime trying to hang on to power.
And sadly for the world, the more desperate Obama gets, the more damage he inflicts on the rest of the world.
A, he inspires it, and B, he offers the excuse.
By blaming this video, A, that makes him mad.
The videos after he talk about how horrible it is.
Oh, offensive, and it's vile, and it's disgusting.
Well, that makes him protest.
And then, when the protests break out, he blames the video.
So, the guys doing the protests never get blamed.
The guys doing the violence never get blamed.
The video always gets blamed.
Why not raise hell?
All authored by Barack Hussein Obama.
Who is going to unify and make these people love us?
Once again, I am so ticked off.
I can't begin.
Yep, it's the Census Bureau story.
And here comes theHill.com housing market showing broader signs of improvement.
You know what's happening?
So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying.
That's if there's any activity in the housing markets because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house.
Or something like that.
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