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Feb. 1, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 1, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It's fast.
It's the fastest three hours in media, the fastest week in media.
And a proof of that is today.
It's already Friday, so let's roll, folks.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Rano, Rano, Rano.
Open Line Friday.
This is where I back out of the way as much as that's possible and turn the all-important content portion of the program over to you when we go to the phones.
It's an incredible responsibility you bear on Friday.
It's up to you to make the program interesting.
I have to come and save the day now and then.
But it's up to you.
As we go to the phones, whatever you want to talk about, it's what we talk about.
What I think, care about, irrelevant.
Happy to have you here, folks.
The telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushball at EIBnet.com.
Did you know, did you know that the unemployment rate went up last month?
They just announced that today.
Went up from 7.8% to 7.9%.
But the drive-bys are not reporting that.
The drive-bys are all reporting the number of jobs created.
That number, 157,000.
They're saying that the unemployment rate going up, that's a statistical anomaly.
That's not really relevant.
What's happening out there is that despite the best efforts of the Republicans in December to crash this economy, despite the best efforts of the Republicans to kill this country with all their spending cuts in December, the president persevered and created 157,000 jobs.
That would be in January after the Republicans tried to kill the economy in December.
The president came through 157,000.
Unemployment rate did go up, but you're not supposed to pay any attention to that.
You're also not supposed to pay any attention to this.
While 157,000 jobs are being created, 169,000 people left the workforce.
Yeah, that got your attention, didn't it?
Gazing off watching CNN or something, and you heard me say that, and you said, whoa.
That's right.
157,000 jobs created.
169,000 people left the workforce, meaning they stopped looking for work.
In a recovery, they gave up looking for work.
That means they are not counted in the unemployment numbers.
I know it's strange, and on the surface, it doesn't make any sense.
They're out of work, but since they're not looking for jobs, it is assumed that they don't need jobs.
And they may not.
They've got their cell phones.
They've got their flat screen.
They've got the food stamp card.
Who knows whatever else?
They've stopped looking for work.
So they're not counted.
Labor force participation rate.
You want a shocking number?
And this is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
This is the regime's own number.
Since Barack Obama took office in January of 2009, 8.5 million Americans have left the labor force, including that 169,000 in January.
169,000 people left the labor force in Germany, just gave up looking for work.
In total, in four years, 8.5 million Americans have left the labor force.
Another way of looking at this is four years ago, five years ago, six years ago, the economy had jobs for 8.5 million people who today do not have them.
8.5 million Americans have left the labor force.
You could say that the number of jobs available has also decreased by a number that approximates that.
It wouldn't be exact.
I mean, it never would be, but it's close.
This is precisely what I mean and what I have meant and what I will mean in the future when I say that this administration is shrinking the private sector.
This administration is shrinking the American economy.
This administration is making it smaller and they're doing that by taking money out of it via tax increases, regulations, debt payments, interest.
They're taking up all the money.
The feds are spending more and more and more of the universe of money that exists in the country.
The private sector is getting smaller.
And the greatest illustration of that is in four years, 8.5 million Americans have left the labor force, 8.5 million fewer jobs available since Barack Obama became president.
And at some point, people are going to, when presented with this information, and a majority will not be presented the information as I've just shared to you.
It's available, but you're not going to see this on CNN.
You can watch all day, Rachel.
All you're going to see is something about Syria and Bashir Assad's designer wife.
It's all you're going to see.
You might see the latest on Lady Gaga suing her former personal assistant.
Boy, what a brutal story that is.
I was reading about that.
It's not easy being a celebrity.
You might be turning into MSNBC and watching what a reprobate I am, but you will not hear in the mainstream media that 8.5 million Americans have left labor force because their theme, their narrative is the economy is growing.
We're in a recovery.
Jobs are being created.
That's what they're telling you today.
It's journalistic malpractice.
8.5 million.
This is the labor force participation rate.
And if these 8.5 million jobs still existed, and if 8.5 million people who filled those jobs were still working, I take it back.
If the jobs still existed, but people weren't working.
Let's put it this way.
Forget that.
Try this.
If the labor force participation rate were today what it was when Obama was inaugurated, in other words, if the number of jobs available today were the same as it was when Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be close to 11%.
Now, the real unemployment rate that counts people who have given up looking for jobs, such as these 169,000 last month, the real unemployment rate, which counts everybody, is 14.4% unchanged.
Minority unemployment, 18%.
African American.
Folks, there's no recovery.
There are no jobs being created.
Yeah, they create 157,000, but 169,000 people left the workforce.
That's a net negative.
That is a net loss.
You can't have a growing economy with this many people not working.
You cannot have a recovery.
You cannot have an expansion.
You cannot have rising incomes, wages.
You cannot have increased economic output.
You can't have an economic recovery in an economy where 8.5 million people have lost their jobs because those jobs are gone.
You just can't.
The mathematics alone makes it impossible.
The U.S. Embassy bombing in Turkey.
Have you heard about this one?
Do you know it is the eighth embassy attack during Senator Clinton, well, yeah, Senator Clinton's reign as Secretary of State.
Our old buddy Jim Hoft at the Gateway Pundit has the news.
Suicide bomber blew up today.
U.S. Embassy in Turkey killing himself and one other person.
And it is the eighth embassy attack during Hillary's reign.
I told you yesterday we're going to have audio soundbites of the hearings at Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense.
It is amazing.
It's to watch the ruling class, to listen to the ruling, Republicans and Democrats, media and elected people inside the Beltway.
They're beside themselves.
They can't believe how badly he did.
They can't believe how ill-prepared, how unprepared.
They can't believe how stupid he was.
They can't, because they had talked themselves into believing that Chuck Hagel was brilliant.
They had back in 2000, 2002, I got a soundbite of me that we resurrect from 2002, September 23rd.
We don't have anything of Hegel back then, but it is of me remarking on how everybody was talking how brilliant Chuck Hagel was back then.
He's just because he's ripping into Bush, of course.
He was ripping into America's defense strategy, America's foreign policy.
All he was doing was asking questions.
And they said he's brilliant.
And I'm sure they believed it.
These people believe the stuff that they tell each other about each other in the ruling class.
And yesterday, Hegel showed up.
They couldn't believe that he didn't do any of the necessary work to prepare himself.
They couldn't believe he was ill-prepared, unprepared, stupid.
They're embarrassed.
They can't.
And they still admit he's probably going to get confirmed.
And it doesn't matter because he's not going to be Secretary of Defense anyway.
He's a placeholder.
Obama's going to do that job just like he's going to do Secretary of State.
Hegel, one of the mistakes he made is he actually let the mask slip.
He actually said what he really thinks.
You see, most Democrats know better than ever do that.
But he let people know what he really thinks about Israel.
He let people know what he really thinks about the U.S. military.
This guy was ever Republican.
I have always been at odds with Hegel over his credentials, either as a Republican or conservative.
So anyway, we've got those soundbites.
And folks, when we come back, the Super Bowl, forget football.
Super Bowl is not about football.
You'd like to be reminded last night that the game is Sunday.
I am not kidding.
Just as I was not kidding when I told you, whatever it was a week ago, that I was shocked when I saw that people in the Northeast were still without electricity and heat because of Hurricane Sandy.
I genuinely thought that had been dealt with because I hadn't seen any media.
I mean, I want to run through the whole thing that had the concert.
I was not kidding about that.
By the way, there's in Staten Island some sort of a tent that had been constructed to help deal with recovery.
It blew down.
Something happened.
It's a mess.
I didn't know.
I thought it had all been fixed.
Because what Governor Christie said, Governor Cuomo said, what Obama said, what the media hadn't said, I thought it was all fixed.
Last night, I kid you not, Catherine had a momentary lapse that the Super Bowl is Sunday had slipped my mind.
Now, the only remarkable about that is that's the first time in my life that on the Thursday night before the Super Bowl, I haven't been thinking about it.
And the Super Bowl isn't about the Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl is not about football.
The Super Bowl is about gay rights.
I have a little story here, but this Culver Culliver guy, the Fortiners, turns out he's just one of many.
We've got to do a gay community update on the Super Bowl when we get back.
Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the one day of the week where callers can have their way with the hosts.
It's time for a gay community update.
And it's the Super Bowl, folks.
The Super Bowl's about gay rights this season, more so than it is about the games.
The first of our many bits of news here: the gay community in the Super Bowl, Chris Culliver, cornerback of the Fortiners, got into big trouble saying he didn't want any of that sweet stuff in his locker room.
He didn't want anything that wouldn't happen in the NFL.
No gay players, none of that.
And he went out there and apologized.
And a coach said, it's not who he is.
And he said, that's not who he is.
It's not what it says.
Everything's okay now.
But he wasn't finished.
Yesterday at the Superdome in New Orleans, he spoke with reporters again about his remarks about gays.
And the reporter said, Chris, what do you want people to know about you at this stage?
I don't have no differences in other sexualities.
And, you know, just like that.
And that's like I said, that's not what I feel in my heart.
And I treat everyone equal any type of way.
So it's not how I feel.
There you have it.
Chris Culliver of the San Francisco Fortiners, quote, I don't have no differences in other sexualities.
Like I said, that's not what I feel in my heart.
And I treat everyone equal in any type of way.
That's not how I feel.
I don't have no differences in other sexualities.
Perfectly clear now.
He's erased any doubt and nobody with any questions.
So everything's cool.
Everything's hunky-dory.
And we can get back to who's gay on whatever team now.
What's important?
I don't know why 49er fans care about gay issues, but they do.
So we talk about it.
Got time to squeeze in one more bit of news.
Terrell Suggs, Terrell Suggs of the Baltimore Ravens asked if he would have a problem with a gay teammate.
Terrell Suggs said, Absolutely not.
We wouldn't have a problem with it.
We don't care.
Our biggest thing in a locker room, just to have fun and stay loose.
We don't really care too much about that.
We're a football team.
I said it yesterday.
Everybody deserves a certain amount of privacy.
Who cares?
So the Ravens on board with it.
I was going to say I don't believe it, but actually I do believe it, folks.
You know what CNN is doing right now?
CNN is doing a segment on how stress, watching the Super Bowl can kill you.
And they are actually interviewing a doctor.
Super Bowl stress can kill you.
And this is the template.
Every day, it's a crisis of something that's going to kill you or make you sick.
And you don't have any control over it.
You need somebody to help you.
Somebody to give you advice.
Somebody to protect you from yourself.
I kid you not.
Super Bowl stress can kill you.
We have one other item here for a gay community update, which actually not Super Bowl news, but it is football news.
The mastermind of the Mantai Teo girlfriend hoax, this Tuiasasopo guy believes it's from the New York Post, not TMZ, this New York Post.
The mastermind of the Mantai Teo girlfriend hoax believes that he needs to recover from homosexuality.
I didn't know that that was something you needed to recover from, but this guy, Tuiasasopo, Ronaya Tuiasopo, confessed to Dr. Phil that he created Mantaiteo's fake girlfriend because he'd fallen in love with Mantaiteo himself.
Yes, Tuiasasopo fell in love with Mantaita, but he was embarrassed to go tell Mantai that he, a guy, had fallen in love with him, so created the fake girlfriend and then got involved in this vicarious relationship, all that was real for him.
And Dr. Phil asked Ranaya Tuiasopo, were you in love with him?
And Tuiyasopo, who was crying, said, Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's very shameful, very painful to even talk about Dr. Phil, but I grew feelings.
I grew emotions that I couldn't control anymore.
You've heard of recovering drug addicts.
Well, it takes a lot of courage to stand and say that to recover from homosexuality and that type of thing, but I think that's what I need, Dr. Phil.
Not only that, coming back to your real life as hard a task as that is, I'm going to do all that I can to live right.
He said in an hour-long interview, which will continue on TV today.
This is how you get your life right, by the way.
Go on television, you go on Oprah, Dr. Phil, TMZ, or what have you.
So, this guy, folks, he's toast now.
He's if he had any prayer of having this pay off, he should have said he was ecstatic and happy about being gay.
But to go out there on Dr. Phil and say that he had to fake being a woman because he was gay and he was in love with Manta Teo, and now he needs to recover from homosexuality.
That's about that's the worst thought crime that anybody can commit today, is to want to recover from being gay.
So, that's the yes, that's what he said, living right.
I'm going to do all I can to live right, which that's what he means, I guess, is recover from homosexuality.
So there you have it.
That's the latest.
Actually, it's not the latest of Super Bowl.
And Super Bowl is not just about gay players and what people think about gay players.
It's also about Beyonce.
Beyonce showed up yesterday, ladies.
So what I, these sound bites, what do I tell you?
Number 18.
Beyonce showed up at the Super Bowl yesterday, and she went out there and actually sang the national anthem at the press conference to prove that she can do it.
And the reporters melted in the palm of her hands.
So over at CNN, low information news, the same as any other news.
Similarities between the Beyoncé press conference yesterday and the Obama press conferences are striking.
I mean, the similarities are striking.
Let's start off with the breathless CNN Info Babe introducing Beyoncé yesterday afternoon on CNN.
Beyonce, walking out news conference, New Orleans.
This is happening right now.
I want you to take a good long listen.
How is everyone?
That's Beyonce.
She was introduced by CNN, Brooke Baldwin, walking out news conference, New Orleans.
This is CNN, not TMZ.
Here's Wolf Blitzer, equally breathless, at Obama's last press conference.
The president of the United States will walk out towards the podium over there.
Here comes the president right now.
So let's listen.
Please upseat, everybody.
Good morning.
It doesn't matter, Beyonce, Obama, CNN treats them the same.
And of course, Obama is the celebrity of the United States.
Let's go back down to New Orleans, the presser, Beyoncé, the mother of Blue Ivy.
Father Jay-Z at a press conference talk about her upcoming Super Bowl performance.
A reporter said, We heard you sing beautifully just now.
This after she sang live the national anthem.
Can you clarify, Beyoncé?
I mean, the world wants to know, Beyonce.
The world is demanding, you know, why you did it.
What happened last week?
So many people worldwide are wondering what happened.
How do you feel that all that attention, or do you feel, all that attention from the immaculation and the controversy is taking away from your big moment here?
I am a perfectionist.
And one thing about me, I practice until my feet bleed.
And I did not have time to rehearse with the orchestra.
It was a live television show and a very, very important emotional show for me, one of my proudest moments.
And due to the weather, due to the delay, due to no proper sound check, I did not feel comfortable taking a risk.
It was about the president and the inauguration, and I wanted to make him and my country proud.
So there says Beyonce telling journalists from AP to oh my god to CBS News to TMZ.
They were all there that she lip-synced the anthem because she wanted to make Obama proud.
By the way, last night on Fox American Idol, Zonette Johnson, Tulsa, Oklahoma, auditioned to be a contestant.
In honor of Obama's victory, Zonette Johnson chose to sing the Star Spangled Banner as she ended the national anthem with an out-of-tune attempt at changing octaves.
Actually, changing keys.
She went through a series of dances and stomps and then had this exchange with one of the judges, Randy Jackson.
I hope Obama, Obama, yo, Obama, hold up, Obama.
You watching this?
And you don't invite me to the White House?
Huh?
He needs another bottle.
And there you have it.
Ladies, another contestant, another song stylist trying to impress Obama last night on American Idol.
And somewhere in the midst of all of this, they are going to play a football game someday they're going to call the Super Bowl.
And out of the phones, it's Open Line Friday, start with Tyler in Lima, Ohio.
Hi, Tyler.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hey, Rush, mega Dittos.
Thanks for watching.
Thank you, Carl.
Appreciate that.
I guess the main line on my call here in Lima, Ohio is for Governor John Kasich.
We wanted to give kudos for Kasich.
But then more specifically, I wanted to give kudos, I guess, more or less.
I know the recovery isn't quite where we want to be, but just imagine where we would be without all of these Republican governors since 2010.
Every time I hear and I see Kasich on, and specifically he was over in Europe at a conference, I think the end of last year, the beginning of this year.
And from what I do know, while he was over at the conference, he actually got to sit down and talk with several companies, basically promoting the state of Ohio and the United States to bring some of their manufacturing over here.
When do you ever hear Obama or anyone else making the case for?
I'll tell you what this means.
This is exactly, I was talking about this toward the end of the program yesterday.
The people still do.
And some will ask me on the phone, you've heard it.
Is it time to panic?
I've always said I'll tell you when it's time to panic.
And I've no.
In fact, I said, I actually, I can't pinpoint it, but I'm feeling optimistic.
And it's not phony.
It's not wishful thinking.
It's not phony hopefulness.
I just have a sense in me that this country's not gone, that the people of this country are not going to put up with this.
And I don't know how that's going to manifest itself.
Obama's devastating this country.
The policies put in place and those are going to be put in place are going to do even more damage.
I mean, it's serious what he's doing.
You've seen the IRS.
Did you see this rachel?
The IRS announced that the average family health care premium, once Obamacare is implemented, $20,000 a year.
You were told your premium is going to go down $2,500 a year.
The average family premium is going to be $20,000 a year.
I guarantee you, people didn't vote for that.
They didn't think they were voting for that.
The ones that voted for Obama.
And there are going to be a number of things that wake people up.
Now, I don't know what those people are going to do about it.
That's not – I wish I could give you more specifics.
I can't.
I'm not dreaming.
I'm not fantasizing.
I just have too much faith in the people of this country.
We're not going to put up with this at some point.
And Obama's not going to get away with ultimately totally destroying this country.
The damage already done is brutal, and he's going to do more.
And we're going to have an incredible amount of hard work ahead of us.
But your comment about Kasich, the governor of Ohio, that's where all this resistance is happening, folks.
The states, the states is where resistance and opposition to Obamacare is taking place.
The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting.
The states is where whatever opposition to the latest crisis of the day, be it healthcare or immigration, or guns, the states, the majority of which were the Republican governors, that's where this is all being dealt with.
And you're not hearing about it.
They'll get a lot of press coverage.
But that's where this is happening.
And I feel good about it.
So I like the fact that he called here, wanted to praise Kasich.
These people deserve it.
There are a number of governors and other officials and people at the grassroots level in states all across the country.
I mean, you look at California, more and more athletes are coming.
I saw the story leaving because of taxes.
Liberalism has consequences.
It has never worked, folks.
It has never worked.
It has never fulfilled its promise.
And Obama has wreaked a lot of damage on this country already, and there will be more.
There's going to be more to come.
He's devastating.
His policies and his presidency are devastating.
But I have this confidence that he's not going to succeed in totally transforming this country into a Western European socialist democracy where the vast majority of the population just lays down and accepts it.
I got to take a brief time out.
We will be back.
More phone calls because it's Open Line Friday.
Sit tight.
Don't go away.
Be interesting to see a calculation of where this economy would be right now without fracking, the new way of getting oil.
Fracking is probably one of the largest other than areas of high-tech, but fracking is where concentrated growth in this economy is taking place.
There are oil booms in the Dakotas.
In North Dakota, they are having to build entire cities, towns, to house employees showing up to work in fracking.
And the left is trying to shut it down under some claim that it destroys the environment.
Natural gas and oil, of course, are the evil twins of opposition to the mainstream environmentalist wacko movement.
But without that, there wouldn't be any economic activity to speak of.
And the governors are resisting every Obama effort to shut it down.
Look at the Keystone Pipeline.
Why not?
It's after the election.
You're not going to be harmed.
Why not authorize it?
You know, even if there is something to alternative energy, it ain't going to be for 20 years.
We're still going to need oil.
But man, this guy and the Democrat Party is so religiously opposed to oil.
It's irresponsible.
Keystone Pipeline would add to our domestic supply.
It would help us with energy independence.
It would help lower fuel prices.
Why not do it?
Well, if you're Obama, there are specific reasons why you don't want to do it.
And you've heard them all before.
Let me grab Todd here.
Port Clinton, Ohio.
I'm glad you waited, Todd.
You're on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Megadoodles from the most lovable of Rush Bo.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate it.
Guys, for everything that I'm calling you on, I'm calling you on this.
The TMZ outreach and your low information outreach is worthless.
First of all, they are not listening to Rush Limbaugh between 12 and 3.
They are not coming home from a fast food job and getting on the computers to listen to Rush Limbaugh's asking for the money.
Now, Todd, Todd, hang on just a second.
Two weeks ago, three weeks ago, a month ago, you might have been right.
That's what outreach is about.
We're trying to show them that we know what they know and care about what they care about too.
And by the way, the whole show is not about that stuff, but I must admit to you, Todd, I enjoy talking about it.
I love talking about this stuff.
Sir, I've been listening to you for 17 years, and for the last 16 and a half years, you have not been talking about it, and I did not miss one thing.
And all these people you talk about, half of them, I don't know who they are, and the only reason why I know anything about them is because of you.
I just found out who was you don't know how right you are.
You are because if in the old days, if I don't talk about it, it's not worth you knowing about it.
And so you didn't know about it if you didn't hear about it from me.
That's exactly the way.
But you're using your own words against yourself.
No.
It's not worth talking about.
Oh, yes, it is.
We have a different challenge now.
We have a different challenge.
We're not talking about.
Todd, we just can't speak to the choir here.
We just can't.
Well, I know because I have friends that if they talk about it.
And Todd, I'll tell you something else.
It's not wall-to-wall.
We mix it in.
It's not even 5% of the program content measured over the course of a week.
We only talk about the really important and really cool low-information stuff.
Most of these people.
Serious analysis of the low-information stuff, too.
Yes.
Most of these people, they have one way of thinking.
They, for what they think, it is wrong.
Todd, you know what Jesus said?
Go where the sinners are.
I heard the same when I did my first rush to excellence appearance in Reno.
I had people, you can't go to Reno.
That's not family value.
I said, Jesus said, go to where the sinners are.
Not that the low information voters are sinners, but we're trying to change them.
We're trying to bring them up to your level.
We've got to go get them somehow, Todd.
And there are nobody better equipped than me to do it.
One measure of the success of our low information outreach is that now everybody's using that phrase, low information voter.
We started that.
It's taking off out there, Todd.
I'm saying, just stick with me, Todd.
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