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July 31, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 31, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And we're back.
Great to have you with us, my friends, as always.
It's a thrill and a delight.
Highlight of today.
Sitting here with you behind the golden EIB microphone at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number is 800 28282 in the email address L Rushbone EIBNet.com.
All right, just wrap this up.
Now that it was as we continue our hilarity diversion.
You laugh along here with CNN.
This is the final soundbite of three has CNN pulling its hair out today, trying to understand how and why.
And I would be given a full hour on Fox.
I can't wait when they find out that there's going to be another one Friday night.
And then they're going to have to say, what?
Fox gave Limbaugh two hours.
Anyway, here it is is Carol Costello and Brian Stelter of the New York Times.
I also thought it interesting that Fox would give Rush Limbaugh a platform, you know, for almost an entire hour.
Why do you suppose the network did that?
Roger Ayles, the chairman of Fox News is close to Rush Limbaugh, and even though we don't see Rush on television very often, whenever he is on television, he goes on Fox.
I think that has something to do with it, that friendship behind the scenes.
Maybe Rush Limbaugh felt like he needed to remind everybody that he can still command an audience like that on television.
Okay.
So Stelter in the previous soundbite said, and there's a lot of prayers about whether or not Limbaugh is going to be as big in three or four or five years as he is today.
And then maybe Limbaugh felt like he needed to prove he can still command an audience.
CNN doesn't know what that is, commanding an audience.
CNN doesn't have the slightest idea what that means, nor do they know how to do it.
That's why they're so fascinated with it.
How is it done?
Anyway, I'm only playing those because I made the mistake in mentioning it at the top of the hour, top of the program is laughing about it.
And I didn't play them, and I started getting email.
So that's it.
In Hawaii, a UK Daily Mail story, Hawaii is set aside 100,000 to offer all 17,000 homeless people their one-way airfare back to the mainland.
Wherever their home states are.
Whatever their home state is, if they know, if they remember.
Hawaii is hoping to take the burden off its welfare system by saying aloha to its 17,000 homeless residents.
The state will offer one-way tickets home to any eligible homeless person to anywhere in the continental U.S. Hawaii is allotted a hundred thousand dollars for a three-year trial run of the so-called return to home program.
The return to home program, which could also even offer participants beds on cruise ships bound for home.
That's how badly Hawaii wants to be rid of them.
I thought I thought, you know, I've the homeless, you know, every Christmas.
We're we we're we're told to be very, very understanding and compassionate homeless because you know Mary and Joseph were homeless.
And the the next savior could come from the home.
We've got to be really compassionate and understanding.
And now Hawaii is full-fledged Democrat and leftist, Democrat and worse.
And they're tired of them.
Tired of home.
You No, you don't, no, no.
If you're homeless and you want a vacation in Hawaii, don't go there because they're gonna kick you out.
They're gonna they're gonna give you money to get back home.
Oh, you mean you get okay, so you get a one-way ticket to Hawaii and then go on the homeless rolls for a while until they find you, and then they'll kick you out.
You get a free vacation for all of them.
And a free trip back home.
Now imagine this.
Let's say that they actually implement this.
Can you imagine airline flights leaving Hawaii?
And you've got all these vacationers, which would include a bunch of liberals.
I mean, liberals go to Hawaii.
All these liberal whiners and do-gooders having a cow over all of these mean and evil Republicans and the new laws being enacted and so forth, the anti-homeless and so forth.
And it's been the Democrats.
We must help these people.
It's the Democrats that have had dumpster diving videos, you know, how to eat healthfully from a dumpster.
And it's been the Democrats who've been telling the Republicans and everybody else that it's the Republicans that are cold-hearted and mean-spirited and don't care about the homeless and don't have any compassion for them.
And now Hawaii stands up and is basically saying, we will pay to get rid of you.
All you have to do is show up and we'll put you on a one-way flight out of here.
Now imagine you're on the flight, you're a liberal vacationer, time to go home, and some guy's trying to get on the airplane with his shopping cart and put it in the overhead compartment.
And the flight attendants is no, you can't bring the shopping cart on, but it won't fit.
And no, you can't check the shopping cart because we don't baggage.
And a homeless might refuse to go.
They can't take their home with them.
And wait till the cruise ships, wait till the cruise lines get a lot of this.
Seriously, folks.
A hundred thousand dollars to just get rid of them.
Hawaii has no more compassion.
They don't have any more money.
They don't have any ability to take care of them.
They just want them gone.
What if other states started uh doing the same type of thing?
There's economic news out there.
Let's go to the uh audio sound bites.
The uh gross domestic product number is out.
And by the way, I don't, I don't know what this is.
There's a new way of measuring the GDP.
The Obama administration is measuring it in an entirely different way, which is showing growth.
The standard measure of gross domestic product is showing flat.
But this new measure, which the media is applauding and loving, is showing a growth rate of 1.7%, and it's being hailed.
The stock market earlier today was having a pretty good day.
I haven't checked lately.
But earlier today, stock market was having a pretty good day, and they were chalking it up to massive economic growth of 1.7%.
So I'm asking myself, is this another new norm?
So having 9 million jobs cease to exist.
All of these people out of work is the new norm.
Part-time work is the new norm.
And an economic growth rate of 1.7% is something that we are happy about and that we applaud.
At this stage of the Reagan second term, in fact, earlier than this stage.
This economy, under the policies of Ronaldus Magnus, the GDP was around 5.
I think 5.3%, it got up to 6%, with something like 500,000 jobs a month being created after two recessions in the early 80s.
Now we're at 1.7%.
We've just simply erased 9 million jobs from the job market, just gone.
And we're celebrating.
The media has got their stories left and right about how wonderful this is.
1.7% GDP.
Market hails GDP growth rate as stocks soar, is a headline.
So let's go to the audio sound bites.
Going to start on CBS.
It's right here at the top.
This is Jill Schlesinger.
She was on CBS morning with Charlie Rose.
And she's a business analyst there at uh CBS.
Charlie Rose says that uh this morning the government released details on economic growth in the last quarter.
Gonna come in at 1%.
The expectation was that the GDP would be 1%.
This is this is I should I should uh close the loop here.
The reason they're happy that 1.7 is because the experts predicted 1%, and it came in at 1.7.
And so everybody was just thrilled.
But before the news had hit, all we were dealing here with is a projection of 1%.
Here's what Jill Schleshinger said at CBS.
It's pretty bad.
When you look at the average growth rate in post-World War II era, it's close to three to three and a half percent.
Now the last three quarters we've seen sub-2% growth.
That's a slow growth recovery.
Now, two percent for the last couple of years, okay.
Now one percent.
This is not a good sign for the economy.
Now I don't know if this gal's gonna have a job tomorrow because this, see, this was before the the actual number was released at 1.7.
And when it was thought to be 1%, and it was she's being honest here.
This is dismal.
This is pathetic.
And as far as the trend line concern, it's horrible.
Now, I don't know how many of you care.
I don't know, it doesn't relate to anything.
But just to let you know, the ChICOM economy GDP is at 7.5%.
The second quarter economic growth rate, the ChICOM 7.5%.
I don't think it that's not gonna matter to anybody here, but uh it is fascinating that a communist economy is outgrowing ours.
I mean it's not even close.
7.5% for the ChICOMs and one, and by the way, this 1.7 is not legit.
It's because of a new formula that they're using to measure it that amplifies it.
So Charlie Rose said, because he didn't like what he just heard here.
They're not supposed to talk about bad economy in the same sentence with Obama.
So Charlie Rose said, but the emphasis on the economy is on jobs and how to create jobs.
When can we expect that to happen?
I really want to emphasize the president is going and talking in this Amazon warehouse.
What kind of jobs are these?
These are not high quality jobs, these are 11 or 12 dollar an hour jobs.
This is very consistent with what economists are calling a part-time economy.
People are losing full-time jobs with lots of benefits, and then they're working part-time, they're cobbling together two or three jobs together, and they're calling that a career, and they're making way less than they used to.
We still have a jobs crisis in this country.
11.8 million people are out of work.
Many more are seeking full-time positions and can't get them.
Whoa, what happened here?
How?
How did that report get past their editors?
Did you hear that?
That was real journalism there.
We we just had we just had some real journalism.
I really want to emphasize the president's going to this Amazon warehouse.
These are not high quality jobs, and she's right.
They're part-time, 11 to 12.
She my this this woman is singing from my songbook.
These are not career jobs, and people are having to work two and three, and they're losing their benefits.
This is not in any way.
It does not in any way constitute economic growth.
Not in any way whatsoever.
But I can't believe that I just heard this on CBS.
People are losing full-time jobs with lots of benefits.
They're making way less than they used to.
We still have a jobs crisis in this country.
Charlie Rose said, well, gee, Jill, is there any good news out there from the markets?
Corporate profits were very big in the first quarter, up about 9.7%.
The stock market is up 150% from the all-time low.
Here's your big butt.
53% of Americans have no holdings in the U.S. stock market.
All right, so under Obama, you know what's happening?
The income gap is widening under Obama at a faster clip than it happened in Bush Clinton years.
The income gap, the rich are getting richer faster, and the poor are getting poorer faster under Obama.
And the guy who used Occupy Wall Street to demonize Mitt Romney has produced a stock market bubble that most Americans are missing out on.
Now, the stock market is up 150% from the all-time low, and that's because Ben Bernanke is digitizing new money into it.
And the reason 53% of Americans have no holdings in the stock market is they don't have any money to put there.
Because mainstream real Americans, people who make the country work, are not investing in Wall Street.
Bernanke is.
The Federal Reserve is.
The Federal Reserve is not the government.
It's made to look like the government.
It's called the Federal Reserve, but it isn't the government.
It's an entirely independent agent.
Ednet works with the government, obviously.
And it has its own political preferences.
In this case, the political preference, the Fed, is for Obama.
And they have decided to pump up Wall Street, to have all this growth, to make it look like the economy is growing overall.
So the guy who creates Occupy Wall Street to harass Romney and make the case that Romney is only for the rich, doesn't care about the poor, has produced a study.
This stock market is a bubble, folks.
It isn't, when I say it isn't real, what I mean is it's not the result of normal everyday market flow and commerce.
It's the result of stimulus.
In this case, the stimulus is from the Federal Reserve.
The Federal Reserve is pumping 85 billion dollars a month.
And a large part of that is going to buy stock.
Securities.
It is a long, convoluted trail that the money takes.
But the end point is the stock market.
And so the stock market under Obama growing, and still the people there are still too big to fail.
The income gap is widening.
And here's Obama yesterday in Chattanooga.
He's an Amazon at a fulfillment center.
Just listen to this.
We can't be getting into a whole bunch of fans and pretend like, you know, you roll back Obamacare and suddenly all these jobs are going to be created.
Because the middle class was struggling before I came into office.
The middle class was losing ground before I came into office.
Jobs were getting shipped overseas before Obamacare was in place.
So we gotta be honest.
None of this is my fault.
Here's what the Commerce Department is doing.
They have made changes to how they're calculating the gross domestic product or economic growth.
And what they're doing now is they're going back five years.
They have revised data for the past five years to, They say reflect a more complete as well as additional statistics from a variety of sources, such as the IRS and the Department of Agriculture.
Why do you think they decided to go back the last five years to revise data?
To rewrite the horrible four and a half years of Obama.
There's no question.
It's just I don't know if it's fraudulent, but I mean they're cooking the books to make the O Yeah, they it in after cooking the books, after making it look as good as they can.
It's 1.7% economic growth.
And they're and they're applauding this, not a great it is.
Remember, Amazon's paying uh what, $12 an hour.
Remember, the DC City Council told Walmart, you better pay $12.50, it's not even a livable wage.
Obama's out there, you know, hawking and taking kudos for part-time jobs at Amazon as a sign of economic growth.
By the way, reminded by the editrics of the most widely read political newsletter in the country, the Limbaugh Letter, Diana Locos, and me a note here that reminded me we had a story in the Libo Letter back in 2010 about Hawaii deporting its homeless.
Growing number of homeless people living on Hawaii's beaches starting to concern local officials, considering offering them tickets back to the mainland.
And the two years this has been in order, three actually now, that it's been in the works.
Now there's this is what being on the cutting edge is all about.
Another great example, a prime example of the limbo theorem.
Have you heard the new EPA chief, environmental protection agency, Head Honcho, is telling everybody to shut up about jobs.
Doesn't want to hear it, just shut up about jobs.
While Obama is out campaigning on the need to create more jobs.
EPA director says, shut up about it.
I don't want to hear it anymore.
The EPA director.
While the boss is out, and this business, he's out there in Chattanooga, hey, there's unemployment before I got here.
And there's uh oh because this trouble is a little long before I got here.
It's exactly right.
All this stuff happened before he came along, and it's only gotten worse because all those people that were here before him really made it bad.
And so he's been trying hard, but he just can't fix it.
It's everybody else's fault.
Almost five years in, and Barack Obama is still blaming predecessors.
And I don't know if you heard, but he got a huge round of applause when he blamed his predecessors.
However, that may be a little misleading.
Hang on.
I have to remind you, this is hurricane season.
The drive-bys are camped out on the beaches hoping and praying for destruction.
Drive-bys can't wait for destruction from hurricanes, so they can say, see, global warming.
It's, you know, it's been a laugh.
These last two tropical storms, and they've had the cones, and they've had the forecast, and they've had the intensity, and they've both petered out.
They've both dissipated into nothing because they never were anything to begin with.
Obama runs a commerce department, that's a National Weather Service, that's the Hurricane Center.
They politicize everything.
And there's political agenda to be gained by blaming the climate and weather on capitalistic lifestyles.
So that's why there's all this focus on it.
It's amazing.
So any opportunity they get to uh to to predict and portend doom and gloom, they can't Wait to do so because they want to affix blame to it to advance their own agenda.
Okay, now a couple of interesting stories here.
Just cleared EIB newswires.
First off from Politico.
Listen to this headline.
GOP poll.
Half want a more conservative party, 54%.
Nearly two-thirds of Republicans want their party to change its direction.
And more than half say they want the party to become more conservative, according to a new poll.
It's a pew research centered poll.
When asked if Republicans just need to make a stronger case on its positions or whether it needs to reconsider some of those positions, 59% of Republican voters surveyed said the party needs to reconsider some policies.
36% said just needs to make a stronger case for existing policy, and 67% said the party needed to address major problems.
Now, how the party should move was a little bit more split.
54% of Republican voters said the party leaders should move in a more conservative direction.
40% said they should be more moderate.
The poll also showed the Tea Party is strong among primary voters, making up almost half of the Republican primary electorate.
None of this is surprising to me.
It's the Tea Party, though, that the Republican Party wants to push away.
Seemingly.
It's the Tea Party caucus in the House that the leadership wants to push away.
It's Tea Party voters that the Republican Party doesn't seem crazy about.
54% of Republicans want a more conservative party.
Second poll from a website called Potlicker, New Jersey.
It's a Monmouth University poll.
And it finds that Obama commands limited credibility with the middle class.
Here is the money number.
Less than half of the country believes that Obama wants to help the middle class.
According to this poll by Monmouth University, the American public is split on the veracity, the honesty of Obama's announcement that he wants to refocus the remainder of his term on helping the middle class.
Less than half believe the president when he says this.
The number is forty-six percent.
Exactly half, fifty percent do not believe him.
The vast majority of Democrats, 78%, take him at his word.
Nearly all Republicans do not, 87%.
Independents are more skeptical.
So here we go.
54% of independents do not think Obama is being honest when he says he wants to improve the middle class.
That is striking.
It's a New Jersey poll, Monmouth University.
Only 12% of Americans say the middle class has benefited from Obama's policies.
Only 12%.
Now, if this is accurate, if these numbers are accurate, what does that tell us?
Here we have on one hand a media which presents Obama as well.
The media day in and day out act as though Obama is the Katz Meow.
They don't really report data showing how popular Obama is.
They just act like he is with them and therefore with everybody else.
Now they will report Obama's dwindling approval numbers, but they don't give a lot of attention to it.
They don't give a lot of weight to it, and they certainly don't report it as trouble or as a crisis.
The overall way that Obama is presented every day is by the media more than acceptable.
Great guy, almost a king.
He just what is.
And he's incapable of doing anything wrong.
It's just here's what he's doing today.
There is no skepticism of Obama in the media.
There's no distrust, there's no dislike, there's no suspicion of a man with this much power, like there normally is.
The media normally distrusts anybody with power.
With Obama, there's none.
Just like there hardly is any with any Democrat, with Obama particularly, though.
So the impression, if all you do is watch mainstream media every day, you just assume by virtue of the way the media treats the guy that he's universally loved and adored, while you think that you're in a bubble and you're the only person that doesn't like what's going on here.
And you scratch your head and you say, what in the world is happening?
Our country it's falling apart right before our eyes, and nobody cares.
Well, it turns out, if this polling data is right, that over half the country doesn't believe him, and over to half the country doesn't like what's happening.
But that is not reflected in any of the coverage of Obama.
Yet, when George Bush's approval numbers got below 50, that's all they talked about, was how disliked and distrusted George Bush was.
And they created a national mood and attitude about Bush.
Apparently, we have a body politic which doesn't trust the guy and isn't happy and doesn't think that his policies are working.
And they turn on the news every day and they don't see that reflected.
Then you've got you throw the low information people in there who don't even know what we're talking about here.
And it just leads up, ramps up even more confusion and maybe even depression among people.
And then don't forget this political story, which is a pew poll.
54% of Republicans want that party to become more conservative.
My point here is that circumstances are ideal for a renaissance if the Republican Party would simply take the ring.
There is a majority of people just waiting to be grabbed and connected with on any number of things that add up to opposing what is happening in this country from Washington.
It's just, it's just, it's a sitting duck for the Republican Party to take hold of.
They're not doing it.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
By the way, the Pew Research Center, well, one little tidbit.
The highest of any Republican unfavorable.
In the Pew poll where I just talked about 54% want the party to be more conservative.
Don't like the current direction of the party.
54% want it more conservative.
Same poll.
Which Republican among the Tea Party Republicans got the highest unfavorable rating.
Who do you think it was?
I'll tell you, Chris Christie, the highest unfavorable rating among Tea Party Republicans.
Just a little tidbit, thought that I would throw that out there.
So it's either how Christie becomes a Democrat or how the GOP dumps the Tea Party.
One of the two things.
One of the two things has to happen.
Guess I've talked about this tomorrow.
Women at Merrill Lynch were ordered to seduce their way to the top.
I can't wait to hear about that.
And we'll do it tomorrow.
Whatever else between now and then.
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