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May 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 3, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Have you ever seen red toilet paper?
You know where to get it.
I have no idea who makes it.
Probably some communist country, I don't know.
Beyonce, folks, requires red toilet paper in her dressing room for each performance.
We've got the uh the writer to her contract on the live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line.
We were discussing it among ourselves.
We never heard of it.
We'd never seen red toilet paper.
We'd know where to go to get it.
In addition to that, get this.
Her writer, that the demands that she makes on the promoter at any tour stop include six thousand dollars of imported cigars and booze for her husband, Mr. Z. Imported cigars.
That can only mean one thing.
There's only one place worth importing cigars from, and that would be that you can't legally get.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
How are you?
It's Rush Limbaugh's Open Line Friday, and you know what that means?
It's the greatest career risk taken by a major media figure.
And that is me.
And when we go to the phones on Open Line Friday, you can talk about whatever you want.
It really can be, should be fun each and every Friday.
Because, like, for example, last Friday, some guy called and wanted to know what I ate for the pre-show meal and when I ate it.
He was he was overweight.
He was saying that he eats lunch every day, listen to this program.
He says, I can't eat lunch from noon to three.
When do I eat?
He wanted to know that stuff.
You know, I gotta tell you something.
I answered the guy's question, Dawn had a conniption in there, thought I was giving away all kinds of security stuff.
And I said, no, that guy didn't sound he's not a threat.
So I got home and a friend of mine in Dallas wrote this scathing note.
Well, that guy might not have, but you just divulged a 25 million people your schedule, and I didn't.
What in the world?
How is it a security violation to say that you eat lunch at 1015 where you work, and that you might have dinner three nights a week.
How is that a security violation?
But people are very protective of me out there, folks.
Anyway, that that that was a sample open line Friday call from last week.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushboat EIB net.com.
So everybody is ecstatic with the jobs numbers today.
Unemployment down to 7.5%.
The uh 165,000 new jobs.
Well, it's it's it's well, it's it's nothing but in comparison to what has been.
It's uh the doesn't matter, snurdly.
You know, the the media is all a Twitter about it, and that means the low information voters are gonna hear that.
Um the real numbered nine and a half million fewer jobs since Obama was immaculated.
That's how many people are not working.
That's how many jobs we've lost.
Nine and a half million in four and a half years.
The sequester, the sequester is what I'm crediting it to.
I'm I'm if if they're gonna talk about how great this news is, and I'm gonna credit the sequester for it.
Budget cuts.
Just to tweak them, you know, just to tick them off.
Budget cuts led to massive new job gains.
That could be our theme here today.
And you know, make them prove it isn't the case.
Budget cuts, government getting smaller.
We know it didn't, but I mean this is just how we tweak them.
Budget cuts.
Look what happens when you cut the budget.
People start hiring left and that's how if we wanted to play the game the way they do, that's what I could say.
I thought about doing that.
Um but the truth of the matter is that folks, the the buddy Jim Pethacukis over at AEI has it.
U.S. job growth in April beat economist expectations, payrolls rose $165,000.
Unemployment rate at a four-year low, 7.5%.
But the report contained worrisome signs that the president's health care reform law is hurting full-time high wage employment.
There's no question that the economy is not creating careers.
The economy is creating part-time jobs.
Now Petha Cookas says the American economy added.
By the way, I I sit here and I go through all this.
I give you the truth, but the low information crowd isn't going to hear this.
The low information crowd is hearing that the economy is going great guns, that uh unemployment's down to 7.5%.
All these new jobs are created.
And in terms of it, you know, being an electoral factor for Obama, it's not Obama still got big, big trouble out there, and he knows it.
But just it's another subject.
Let me stick with this.
While the American economy added 293,000 jobs last month, according, again, this is government numbers, according to the separate household survey, the number of people employed part-time for economic reasons, i.e., involuntary part-time workers.
That's what the labor department calls them.
Involuntary part-time.
These are people that have their hours reduced.
That number, the number of people employed part-time for economic reasons, increased by 278,000 to 7.9 million.
These people were working part-time because of the following reasons.
Their hours had been cut back, or they were unable to find a full-time job.
And at the same time, the U6 unemployment rate, which is the number people out of work and the number of people who are given up, no longer counted in the U3 number, that number went up.
13.9%.
The U6 unemployment rate, which includes discouraged workers and part-timers who want full-time work, went from a 13.8 to 13.9%.
And there's more.
There was a two-tenths of an hour decline in the length of the average work week.
I mean, this stuff gets detailed and filled with minutiae.
But the the nut of it here is that it's a part-time economy.
And the number of involuntary part-time workers is skyrocketing.
Now remember, the economy added 293,000 jobs last month.
The number of people employed part-time increased by the same number, about the same than 278,000.
So we're not adding careers.
Part-time people whose hours are being reduced because of Obamacare.
Anecdotal reports like this one from the Los Angeles Times.
Consider the city of Long Beach.
It's limiting most of its 1,600 part-time employees to fewer than 27 hours a week.
City officials say that without cutting payroll hours down to 27 a week per worker, New health care benefits would cost up to $2 million more next year.
So the City of Long Beach, in order to save $2 million that it does not have, has reduced the work week for $1,600 people that work for the city down to 27 hours.
And those numbers, by the way, those people are included in the positive unemployment numbers today.
I mean, that 293,000 jobs created, and everybody goes, yeah, right on, do it.
It's made up largely of people like that.
Let's see.
Even with the unemployment rate at 7.5%.
It is way above where the Obama White House predicted it would be if Congress passed the stimulus in 2009.
This is important to remember.
We passed the porcupist bill, which was one of the first things Obama did in 2009 back.
You remember the knockoff vice president was running around predicting 600,000, 800,000 new jobs a month.
The Obama team said that the unemployment rate would be something like 5% by now if we pass the stimulus.
It's at 7.5%.
But that's a misleading number, too.
The uh I'm not trying to throw cold water on anything.
I mean, a lot of people want to look at this and feel good about it.
And if you do fine, uh just pointing out here that the majority of people that make up this great job report are part-time employers, employees, people that are working under 30 hours a week.
President Obama is in Mako.
Wait, I take a break, wait till you hear.
He is apologizing to Mexican college students because of attitudes about Meiko and immigration in America.
He is thanking them for their votes while in Mexico.
We've got the sound bites coming up, so don't go away.
That's a little trivia here, ladies and gentlemen.
The current unemployment rate, 7.5%.
The current unemployment rate is worse than it ever was under George W. Bush.
The worst unemployment number that Bush had was 7.3% in his last month in office, December 2008.
Now you might be saying, Rush, I can't be, because I remember the media telling us how in a recession, how bad the economy was.
Now you remember that right.
They did.
For the last three years of the Bush administration second term, every day.
The media was pummeling us.
The fact that we were in an economic slowdown approaching a recession, things were going horribly.
It was, it was, it was all part of setting up the 2008 campaign for the Democrats, whoever the nominee was, but the highest unemployment number for Bush, 7.3%.
Today we're at 7.5%, and everybody's you know, wants to throw a party for most of Bush's terms.
For at least six.
Well, uh the unemployment rate probably spiked after 9-11 in 2001.
But for the most part, I mean it's throw that out, even we'll factor that in, the recovery from that.
The Bush unemployment number was 4.7, 4.8 percent for a huge number of years, hovering around 5%.
And statistically, the government's always said that full employment is 4.7.
Just by virtue of statistical anomaly.
4.7% unemployment equals full employment.
And we were at that.
And we were at that number when the media was hyping a recession, when the media was hyping a plummeting economy.
It really was a self-fulfilling promising, uh prophecy.
They they just harped on a rotten economy for so long they eventually made people believe it.
Never figure hit a guy call here.
And he said, Yeah, I'm doing great, I'm doing great, but um, I watched the news.
I'm Hearing how bad it is, I'm worried about how my neighbors are doing.
I'm doing great, Rush.
And that was the case all over the country.
People were doing fine economically, but they were looking and hearing on the news every day how bad it was, and they were, and they felt guilty.
And it was all lies.
Now, this unemployment news today, I'll tell you why it's being hailed as fantastic by the media.
Because the media is in full panic mode.
And we've documented that all week.
And the media is in full panic mode because they're hero.
Barack Hussein Obama gave a disastrous performance at this press conference.
His sequester bluff fooled nobody.
His creation of part-time jobs and the loss of insurance, health insurance, by all those people being moved down involuntary, part-timers.
All the people losing their health insurance is being felt.
Benghazi is blowing up, his approval numbers are tanking, at least in Rasmussen.
And we've got infanticide in the news.
Obama is out now saying he personally, limbaugh theorem on this.
Obama's saying he personally has no problem with a 15-year-old girl being able to walk into a drugstore again a morning after birth control pill, but that it's not his decision.
I have no problem with it.
I really don't.
But I had nothing to do with Limbaugh theorem.
So let's go to the audio sound device this morning in Meiko City at the anthropology museum, President Obama speaking to Mehican college students.
Our attitudes sometimes are trapped in old stereotypes.
Some Americans only see the Mexico that is depicted in sensational headlines of violence and border crossings.
And let's admit it, some Mexicans think that America disrespects Mexico, or thinks that America's trying to impose itself on Mexican sovereignty, or just wants to wall ourselves off.
And in both countries, such distortions create misunderstandings that make it harder for us to move forward together.
So I've come to Mexico because I think it's time for us to put the old mindsets aside.
It's time to recognize new realities, including the impressive progress of today's Mexico.
You know the God echo is back, the God reverb.
Now, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I think this is an outrage.
We have the President of the United States apologizing to Mexican college students for the way illegal immigrants in this country are disrespected.
We take in millions and millions of them here in violation of the law.
feed and clothe and educate them and provide them health care.
The President of the United States is in Mexico apologizing for the attitudes of some Americans.
That many Americans convey the old stereotype of Mexicans as illegal border crossers.
He then apologized to these college students for America trying to impose itself on Mexican sovereignty.
What?
Would somebody explain that to me?
I do not understand how we are trying to impose ourselves on Meikle.
It would seem, if we want to discuss this, that it might actually be the opposite.
Now, this is the kind of thing that Democrats say when we go to Iraq or when we engage in military Activity to liberate the oppressed, the tyrannized.
Democrats never like that, such as Iraq.
They don't always run around saying we're trying to impose our way of life on people.
We shouldn't do that.
We're trying to impose freedom.
But it's usually in the context of armed combat that they make this complaint.
Now, we are not at wall with Meico.
We haven't invaded quite the opposite.
So I really don't understand the president apologizing to Mexican college students on behalf of people in this country because of the stereotypes in which you engage in.
You talk about Mexicans.
And for the attempt to impose America on them.
I'm at a loss, I must tell you.
I'm at a loss.
Hi, welcome back.
El Rushmore and the EIB Network open line Friday.
Now, folks, this soundbite that I just played...
If you have been, despite my expert talents in explaining things, if you have not yet grasped the limbaugh theorem, it's right here in this soundbite.
Grab audio soundbite number one and play it again.
There is a specific claim made by the president in this piece that illustrates the limbaugh theorem to a T. As you listen to this, I want you to remember that Obama's not campaigning for office.
That he is the president of the United States of America.
He is the face of this country.
And he has been for four and a half years.
Our attitudes sometimes are trapped in old stereotypes.
Some Americans only see the Mexico that is depicted in sensational headlines of violence and border crossings.
And let's admit it, some Mexicans think that America disrespects Mexico or thinks that America's trying to impose itself on Mexican sovereignty, or just wants to wall ourselves off.
And in both countries, such distortions create misunderstandings that make it harder for us to move forward together.
So I've come to Mexico because I think it's time for us to put the old mindsets aside.
All right, that's enough.
Now, if he goes to Mexico as a candidate in 2008 and says this, that's one thing.
He has been president for five years, four and a half years.
And he's down in Mexico talking about a country, America, that he has nothing to do with.
It appears.
If this country is attempting to impose itself on Mexico, who the hell would be doing that?
There's only one man who has that power.
I can't impose anything on Mexico.
Neither can you.
Nor can John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, or Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio.
Only one man can impose America on Meiko.
So here is Barack Obama going down to talk to the Mexican college students and sounding like he is as distant from the powers of America as the students are.
well, you know, a lot of people in my country are doing this.
A lot of people in my country think this.
People in my country for five years.
They've been trying to impose.
Who's the imposer?
This is the limbaugh theorem illustrated to a T. Whatever America's doing, it had anything to do with him.
He's got nothing to do with it.
Whatever's happening in America, it isn't his fault.
It isn't, he's got no connection to it.
He's down talking to these Mexican students as though he's campaigning for office, as though he wants to fix all of these things wrong with America, but he's been in charge of it for four and a half years.
So here's the sitting president of the United States of America traveling to Mexico, speaking to Mexican citizens, apologizing and criticizing the country he leads and has been leading for four and a half years.
And this criticism is offered in such a way that that audience will not associate him with any of the complaints that he has about the country.
Thus, Obama can never be seen governing.
His fingerprints can never be on anything.
This is how he gets away with constantly criticizing this country and for often apologizing for it.
But in reality, he's criticizing himself.
In reality, he's apologizing for himself.
In addition to this notion that America is trying to impose itself on Mexican sovereignty, what is that?
No, I think it's it's.
No, I don't know what it means.
if he's trying to make some disjointed connection to the way we are opposing immigration and therefore opposing what Mexicans wish to happen, Mexicans want to come here, but we're saying we got some blockheads in this country.
No, you're not allowed here.
We don't like you.
You don't, you don't, we don't want you here.
That's what he's trying to convey.
I think it's outrageous, folks.
I think it's utterly outrageous to lie like this and to act as though he is not even involved in this country.
Here's the next soundbite.
This is uh drug violence, Mexico.
Guess what?
America's problem.
We understand that much of the root cause of violence that's been happening here in Mexico, for which so many Mexicans have suffered, is the demand for illegal drugs in the United States.
We also recognize that most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States.
Many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms.
And as President, I swore an oath to uphold that right, and I always will.
But at the same time, as I've said, in the United States, I will continue to do everything in my power to pass common sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people that can save lives here in Mexico and back home in the United States.
It's the right thing to do.
Any of you in this country live in Mexico or have lived.
want to tell you about a program called fast and furious that you might not have heard of fast and furious was a program created by President Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder And here's what Fast and Furious was.
Guns that were legally in gun shops in Arizona were purchased by agents of the administration and then taken to Mexico.
Those guns, AK-47s and other very powerful weapons like them, were then given to the leaders of drug cartels.
That is how American guns got into the hands of Mexican criminals.
The President of the United States had a plan to make it happen.
Now you might be saying, rush, rush, why would a president do that?
Because the president could look at the polls, and he saw the American people were not in favor of any new gun control laws.
He and the Democrats, very angry about that.
The American people in poll after poll after poll wanted no new gun control laws.
They wanted no new action taken on the second amendment.
But the president of the Democrat Party don't like you having guns.
So what they thought they would do, come up with a plan that would put guns from America in the hands of the most dangerous, violent people in Mexico, knowing full well what they would do with them.
Once you take guns from Phoenix gun shops across the border to Mexico, put them in the hands of drug cartel leaders, what's going to happen?
People are going to get shot down, they're going to get murdered, maimed in mass numbers.
That's what was supposed to happen.
Then the next thing that was supposed to happen is that the news media was supposed to hear about this and express outrage.
And blaring headlines across the country were supposed to say guns from America end up in the hands of drug lords and 200 people were killed yesterday.
And people were supposed to say, My God, we got to do something about guns.
I mean, my God, if guns from Phoenix are ending up in drug cartel hands in Mexico, we've got a problem.
That's what was supposed to happen.
Violent mayhem and death was supposed to occur with guns provided Mexican drug cartel leaders by this administration, folks, so that you, upon reading those headlines, would throw up your hands in utter disgust and demand new gun control.
That was the purpose of the program, Fast and Furious.
Now it didn't work.
It didn't work.
Those guns, by the way, were not even tracked.
Because they didn't want any proof.
It was a stealth program that was uncovered.
The only person in America that died is a border patrol agent, a man named Brian Terry.
So for the president of the United States, in that sound but you heard him.
Much of the root cause of violence that's happening in Mexico, Americans' fault.
Yep, it's the demand for illegal drugs.
Well, who's making the drugs available?
Mexican drug cartels, aren't they?
Yeah, you have the demand, but who's on the supply side?
The people on the supply side have no responsibility here as far as the president's concerned.
The Mexican drug cartels have no relevance here.
So it's the demand for illegal drugs in America that's leading to Mexican death.
And we realize, he said that most of the guns used to commit violence in Mexico come from the United States.
That also is not true.
He tried to make it true, but it isn't true.
The Mexican drug cartels are getting guns on their own.
They are not getting all their guns.
But they are getting some here, and they had a great idea.
Didn't work, but that's what they tried.
And then to Mexican students, a lecture on the Constitution and the Second Amendment and how he always supports it.
But he's going to do everything in his power to pass common sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people.
What's that matter to these people in Mexico?
American law on guns has absolutely no impact on them.
None whatsoever.
They do not live under the U.S. Constitution.
It doesn't affect them.
The Second Amendment is irrelevant to people that live in Mexico.
What the hell is he talking about?
What is American policy?
What is American constitutional law have anything to do with people in Mexico, particularly students, beyond teaching them something, but that's not what he's doing.
He goes down to Mexico and he starts blaming this country for everything going wrong in their country.
Who's been president for four and a half years?
If guns are ending up in the hands of drug cartels in Mexico, if American guns, how's that happening?
Who's been president for four and a half years?
Who is it that actually concocted a program to see to it that guns from American gun shops ended up in the hands of Mexican drug cartel leaders?
Him, Eric Holder, his regime.
This whole thing is outrageous.
Who is the president?
Who is therefore responsible for all of these horrible rotten things he's telling these Mexican students about?
We're so grateful to Mexican Americans in every segment of our society for teaching our children and running our companies and serving with honor in our military and making breakthroughs in science and standing up for social justice.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told our chavez once.
And in fact, without the strong support of Latinos, including so many Mexican Americans, I would not be standing here today as president of the United States.
That's the truth.
So he wanted to thank them for their votes.
In addition, he wouldn't be president without them.
He's in Mexico, folks, thanking them for his election.
Thanking illegal immigration for his election.
Byron York, D.C. examiner, has done a fascinating, has a fascinating story.
Do you know?
Let me give it to you in a nutshell.
And I'll explain it in detail later on.
If Mitt Romney had received 70% of the Hispanic vote, he would still have lost the presidency.
That's how small the Hispanic vote was.
7% of the electorate was Hispanic.
If Romney had got 70% of the Hispanic vote, he would still have lost.
What's the Republican Party doing?
Desperately trying to get 70% of the Hispanic vote.
And yes, another subject.
I'm just so it's America's fault.
We're imposing our way on them.
We're imposing our will on them.
We are stereotyping them.
We're making fun of them.
We're laughing at them.
So Obama went to Mexico to apologize for all that.
Then he apologized for all the American guns that end up in Mexico where people are getting killed.
Then he apologized for American drug users.
And then he lectured them on the second amendment.
And then he thanked them for their votes.
This is the president of the United States doing all this today.
The United States Okay, folks, here is what Obama means by sovereignty.
Imposing our sovereignty.
You want to know what it means?
Get ready.
What he means is America is imposing our sovereignty on Mexico by asserting that Southern California and other parts of the Southwest United States are part of America.
La Raza and other Mexican groups have never consented that Southern California is America.
And Obama's essentially agreeing with them.
When he says that we're imposing sovereignty on Mexico, what Obama's essentially saying is he agrees with them that California is not ours.
They belong to Mexico.
That's what the president of the United States just said this morning to Mexican students.
Now where is he?
He's in Mexico.
He's in Meiko City, the anthropology museum, speaking in stereotypes, which is what he does.
He creates all these straw men.
In his case, it means attacking America.
See, he's better than America.
He's bigger than America.
America is this chump bunch.
He's doing what he can, but my God, what a bunch of embarrassing hayseeds.
He has to be president of.
But he's working hard.
He's trying to drag America forward in the 21st century so that it's everything Mexico is.
Now, when he's down talking to the Mexican students, does he talk to them about Mexico's immigration policies?
He talk about Mexico's need to reform its government and social policies?
Did he talk about how America helps Mexico financially with bailouts?
How we mistreat our illegals, all they all get welfare and health care and education when they come here and their children do.
Yeah, we're really rotten.
And if we're trying to impose our sovereignty on them, why is it that practically every phone call you make, the first thing you hear is press one for English.
We'll be back.
We'll be back.
Okay, so what this was a campaign stop for 2014.
Obama's not leaving it up to black turnout to win the House in 2014.
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