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Sept. 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 18, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Man, oh man, I just finished in a nick of time here, folks.
I had to do some um well they call them pickups.
That wasn't good.
I popped at pee.
Professional broadcasters do not pop their peas like I did.
Yeah, folks, I was nipping tuck here.
I mean, I uh I was I had to I had to do some what are called pickups for the uh audio version of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
Ah, these nitpickers up there.
Um any time they heard just a tiny little I'm reading the book and there's a little Did you hear that?
Well, they did.
If they hear what I'm you know, sometimes I gesticulate and I may tap the desk here.
Oh no, no, gotta do that again.
There was a noise in there.
Oh, geez, okay.
And there was about four pages of these things.
And they gotta get done immediately.
I didn't have time to do them after the program today because super secret meeting I have to go to after the program.
So I just barely finished this stuff in the nick of time uh to start today's program.
Uh audio version, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims Time Travel Adventures Exceptional America, the audio version.
I am really proud of some of my if I if I don't, did you hear that?
And then they say, You got it, you got well, I didn't ever do it that loud.
But uh and then they said I mispronounced starboard.
You know, I mean, this is just so I had to uh I don't know if there's a Northeast No, they just said you mispronounced it, get it right.
Um so anyway, I just barely barely finished this.
I bet this I've never done anything like this before, this interpretive reading.
I was really um really proud of it.
Is it some of the I think I'm putting pressure on myself because you people may disagree, but I think it's some of the best work I've done.
Took four nights to do it, plus these pickups today, and there'll probably be some more next week.
Uh but that's okay, because I mean these people are they're pursuing perfection, and they know that I can achieve it.
And so that that makes sense.
Anyway, here 20 29th, yeah.
Uh 29th uh is when the all of it comes out.
Anyway, great to have you here, folks.
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If you will indulge me for just a moment, I know that most of you do not take time, even though I've talked about them a lot, and I've mentioned some of them.
I know you don't take a lot of time to read uh blogs about high-tech.
But the new iPhone, IOS 7, the system software update will be released today in about 50 minutes.
The best I can tell, it'll happen at one o'clock.
And the only thing, if you have heard some of these quasi experts saying, don't update, wait until the revised update.
Never go with this when you're gonna find problems.
There aren't any problems in it.
You should feel totally free to update.
It it's functionally, the whole thing doesn't change.
Maybe some minor functional changes, but it's such an improvement.
It is so much fun to use.
It is a vast, vast improvement from what was getting stale.
And if if you've heard any of these do-gooders suggesting that you wait, uh, because there are always problems in the f like you never buy the first car off the assembly line, or you never do this.
Don't if you want to update, do it.
If you don't, fine.
But there's no reason to be afraid of it in any way, shape, manner, or form.
It's actually it it's it's it's gonna be more like a new phone than if you get a new phone.
Guarantee you.
Now, to the news as America's anchor man, I am finding something very curious.
You know, a couple days ago, Obama went out there and really behaved in an inappropriate, uncouth way.
Um it was certainly no class.
It it there was there was no dignity in what he did.
I mean, he went out and and paid lip service to people being shot at the naval yard, Navy Yard, and then launched into a partisan attack filled with untruths and misrepresentations about the Republicans as it relates to the upcoming continuing resolution fight, the debt ceiling fight, the defunding of Obamacare, and all that.
And he just launched into them.
And here I have here the uh mediaite has a story on Andre and Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, and Chuck Todd sitting around, worrying that Obama really did blow it.
That his behavior a couple days ago, that one of the worst mistakes he could have made for the low information crowd.
Because they can't cover for it.
They can't explain it away.
They've tried, but they can't now.
They can't.
Oh, he's so busy.
Oh, he's got so many responsibilities.
So Andrea Mitchell and F. Chuck were surmising that at the White House, well, they really wish they had that day back.
He really doesn't seem like they've got their footing here.
First on Syria, and now this Andrew Mitchell, NBC News Washington.
And then uh F. Chuck said, yeah, I think they wish they had yesterday back.
They're just, they're not saying it.
They're not saying it, but you can feel it.
And I think Grab Sunbite number 13, I think this is part of it anyway.
This is F. Chuck on CNBC's power lunch yesterday, talking about Obama's speech and his appearance and everything.
And the co-host at CNBC said the president's been criticized the past 24 hours making a speech about the financial crisis.
The speech came in the middle of shootings, blah, blah, blah.
F Chuck, is this an instance of a guy who is usually very tone adroit?
Have you ever heard that phrase tone adroit?
For those of you in real Linda means skilled.
So then what they mean is here's a guy who really he's aware of his surroundings.
But he was, was he tone deaf that day, F. Chuck.
Their official stance on this, and I've talked to aides, and I hear no regrets on what they did, that they defend what they did, and they feel like they addressed all the major topics of the day, the shooting at the top of his remarks, then the Syria thing, and then going into the fifth anniversary.
But I get the sense that had they had to do it over again that they might have done things differently, maybe stacked the speech differently, maybe not had people behind him.
I could tell you it just seemed off.
It just didn't feel right.
It just didn't work.
See, everything still is about him.
Everything still is about Obama.
Yeah, it just didn't feel right.
Yeah, it just seemed off.
Yeah, shouldn't they have the people behind him, shouldn't have the props behind him.
And then F. Chuck, it was it was, I think, on MSNBC where F. Chuck said that uh, yeah, you know, if they uh they they wish they had yesterday back.
I wish that we had the last five years back.
These guys are all worried about a lost day.
But all of us are worried about a lost five years.
But that's not the only one.
Did you see the politico?
The politico is asking what's wrong with Obama, and they mention that what's wrong with Obama might even be his mind.
We haven't seen this kind of racism in the drive-by media in I don't know how long.
Well, I mean, real racism.
I mean, aimed at Obama.
I mean, we seen racism aimed at George Zimmerman, but I but we have not seen this kind of racism aimed at Obama in the drive-bys.
What's wrong with Obama?
And they mentioned it might be his mind.
Here from the article, the president's harried, serial about faces on Syria coupled with a collapse of Larry Summers' candidacy for chairman of the Fed have combined to highlight some enduring limitations of Obama's approach to decision making, public persuasion, and political management.
Oh, now they tell us.
Now they tell us the guy doesn't know what he's doing.
He doesn't know what he's doing, and Now he is confronted by his own inability to know what he's doing.
Here's even more from the political piece.
Here's a short list based on nearly twenty years of close observation of the presidency, of what's wrong with Obama at the moment anyway, and what's at the top of the political list, his mind.
I kid you not, it's like they're questioning his sanity in the political.
I'm not making this up.
How odd is it that the politico should run a story about Obama's mind when everybody is saying after the Navy Yard shootings that now's the time to finally address the problem of mental illness in our society?
I wonder if the politico.
This has to be a coincidence.
That the politico is worried about Obama's mind while at the same time our culture is asking itself.
Why are we not addressing mental illness?
I think, you know, if they can ever prove that uh Aaron Alexis ever played football, had a concussion.
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine the ducks in a row they could?
Oh, at any rate, speaking of uh coincidences, as you know, there are no coincidences.
The Clintons have taught us this.
And today on C SPAN, ladies and gentlemen, C SPAN today was overrun with callers ripping me to shreds, blaming me for all the problems in America, blaming me for having a chokehold on the Republican Party that's preventing them from doing what's right and following their instincts.
It was like a uh a programmed bunch of caller automatons, and we have just a couple of samples here.
First up is a guy who called himself Andrew from Rochester.
The Republicans have a problem in that they're being pulled too far right by people like Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh wants the Republicans to fail so that he can have the Democrats running things so that he can yell and scream about the Democrats screwing things up all the time.
Rush Limbaugh is Barack Obama's best friend because Rush Limbaugh wants Barack Obama to be in office so that he can make more money.
You believe this?
So this is what they tell themselves that I'm lying to you, that I actually love this situation, just like I loved Clinton being in Oh yeah, because I can only I can only do this job when I got things to complain about, when I got things to oppose, when I have things to gripe about, when I have things to disagree with.
I can I can't I can't do this show when my guys are in office because there's nothing to criticize them about.
These people actually they talk themselves into believing this nonsense, and they run around.
This is what they tell themselves.
Because in their hearts they know, despite what they say I'm not stupid.
They all think I'm, you know, publicly this Limborgh, he's an embarrassment, he's stupid, he's still secretly they know I'm a genius, so they're trying to figure out.
They don't understand opposing Obama.
In their world, it doesn't make any sense.
It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.
If the Republicans just sign on to everything, we'd be in utopia.
That's the point of the next caller on the C SPAN flood the zone with limbs, the problem calls today.
This guy, Pat from Cleveland.
This president, he's not going anywhere.
He's gonna be fine.
His family is gonna be fine.
You're not gonna hurt him.
He's already made his legacy.
But instead of trying to work with him, if the Republicans was fine off of the infrastructure, you get more tax money into the government.
You wouldn't need all these food stamps.
You would have what you need.
You'd be able to get teeth, you'd be able to get health insurance, you'd be able to get a job, you'd be able to get a house.
But you can't because you're stuck on those Republicans and that idiot Rush Limba, the man's worth over a hundred million dollars.
Folks.
Oh, this is one of these days I wish my parents were alive to see this.
Did you hear what this this woman said?
If the Republicans would sign off on this, you talk about persuading people and what we're up against.
These are low information people who think they are the smartest in the world and they've got it all figured out.
If the Republicans would sign off on infrastructure, whatever that means.
The last I knew, Obama fixed that.
We did a stimulus for that.
As far as that's concerned, uh roads and bridges and screws all been repaired.
Although we know they haven't, but I mean, as far as what Obama wants people to believe, that's done.
So if Republicans would sign off on infrastructure, get more tax money into the government.
Yeah.
And you wouldn't need all these food stamps.
And you would have what you need.
You'd be able to get peace.
You'd be able to get health insurance.
You'd be able to get a good job.
You'd be able to get a house, but you can't.
Because you're stuck on these Republicans, an idiot Rush Limbaugh.
And it's Rush Limbaugh that is preventing the Republicans from signing off on the infrastructure.
And then she insults me by saying I'm worth a hundred million dollars.
You know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen, it's freedom.
Freedom and liberty.
And that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.
That infrastructure certainly does need some attention.
That's whatever she's thinking of roads and bridges are going to lead to peace and prosperity and the Republicans agreeing and all that.
The other day also, we had economic news not good about the widening gap between the rich and the poor.
We had the news that the uh the the smarter are getting wealthier and the stupider are getting poorer.
I mean, it it wasn't good, and that the wealth gap was wider, much wider today between the top 1% and everybody else than five years ago when Obama took office.
You have more details on this, and one of the fundamental aspects of the story we had was the median income.
And we pointed out the median income in the United States, $51,000 a year, but that there are six counties in America where the median income is over twice the national median, and four of those counties are suburban Washington.
The median income in those four counties is around 101,000.
Now, you know the difference in a mean and an average.
Mean is that point where there are just as many above the number as there are below it.
An average is not that.
This is the mean.
And the mean income in this country, 51%.
Well, I've always said if you earn $50,000 or more, you're in the upper 10%.
But that's getting worse.
It it ought to be, it ought to be trending in the other direction.
Of course, it can't with economic policies like these.
Well, another way of looking at this is median incomes in the United States are $644 less than they were in 1989.
And the New York Times has this story, household income remains flat despite improving economy, and they're puzzled, and they're wringing their hands.
And this has some fascinating data in it that uh I'm gonna get into in some detail when we get back.
Now, on this story about household income remaining flat despite an improving economy, the New York Times is wringing their hands, they're very puzzled over it.
Uh others have dug deep into the Census Bureau, which is the source for the for the data for the information, and they've done great work.
Now, the New York Times starts out this way.
Despite the addition of more than two million jobs last year, despite Soaring corporate profits, despite continuing economic growth.
Income for the typical American household did not rise in 2012, and poverty failed to fall, according to new data from the Census Bureau.
Now what's wrong there?
Here you have a story about two million jobs created, soaring corporate profits, continuing economic growth, and no new jobs that pay anything.
American household income didn't rise in 2012.
How can there be an economic recovery here?
How can there be economic growth when the people of the country are losing ground?
So clearly the inference that you're supposed to draw is that all these evil corporations are hoarding the money.
They're making all these profits, and they're not giving any of it to you.
Two million jobs created last year.
What kind?
The sad fact is that over two million jobs have been lost from the entire labor force since Obama took office.
You've heard me talk about this ad nauseum.
The labor force participation rate.
Literally, I guess we're getting close to three million jobs just wiped off.
The books, we have 90 million Americans out of a population of around 300 million not working.
We have a record number of Americans on food stamps.
We have people in poverty in greater numbers and at a higher percentage than ever.
And yet they want to maintain this fiction that there's some kind of great economic recovery going on, with soaring profits and jobs being created.
If there were two million jobs, and I guess they're arriving at that number by adding up all those phony numbers that we get every month.
And uh added 173,000 jobs this month.
So I guess they've added that up and they've come up with two million jobs in the last year, but they're not talking about the number of jobs lost.
They don't talk about the number of people that have stopped looking.
And so they're really puzzled here.
How is it that household income is remaining flat despite all this great work by Obama?
And then they say, over a longer perspective, the figures reveal that the income of the median American household today adjusted for inflation is no higher than it was for the equivalent household in the late 1980s.
In fact, the median income is lower than it was in 1989 by about $644.
We're losing, everybody is losing ground.
And note the year, 89, when Ronaldus Magnus left office, and there began immediately an effort by everybody to tear down the economic policies that he had put into place on the basis they didn't work.
But since 1989, since Reagan left office, the median income is down.
That's that's a st it's astounding.
The government's authoritative annual report on incomes, poverty, and health insurance underscores that the economic recovery is largely failed to reach the poor in the middle class, even as the unemployment rate continues to sink and growth.
The unemployment rate sinking is a mirage.
This is journalistic malpractice.
The unemployment rate is what, 7.3%, 7.4% if it were based on the same number of jobs that were available to be held, to be filled in 2009, if those jobs existed, the unemployment rate today would be 10.8%, almost 11%.
Nothing to sing about.
So they're hyping this lowering unemployment rate, which even the media admits is coming down because more people have given up looking for work and they're no longer counted as being unemployed.
Unemployment levels are still at recession level.
GDP is only around 2%, even after being adjusted to make Obama look better.
There isn't any economic growth to speak of here.
real question is, do these people really believe all this, or is this just PAP?
Designed to be propaganda?
And who knows?
These are true believers.
Since the recession ended in 2009, income gains have accrued almost entirely to the top earners.
Again, since Obama, income gains have accrued almost entirely to the top earners.
Little side note here.
Remember, everybody thought that the election of Obama was going to mean prosperity for everybody.
Finally.
We had somebody who really cared about the little guy now.
We had somebody who really was going to be brand new in politics.
We're going to have somebody going to get rid of all disagreements and all partisanship.
We're going to be unified.
We're going to be happy.
Kumbaya is here, and everybody's going to do well.
They need a new new car, they're going to get it.
Need a new dishwasher, they're going to get it.
It's just magic was going to happen.
Well, come to find out that Obama's policies are killing all that off.
None of what the Times claims is happening is possible, given the Obama economic policies.
And there's a little story that's out today about how black leaders, after a few short months of Obama being in office, had to complain to Obama that he had no black officials high up in his in his campaign.
Everywhere you looked in his campaign, it was white people.
And aside from Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett, everywhere you looked in the regime was white people.
And it was black leaders had to come along and put pressure on Obama to hire black people.
And this guy was Mr. Civil Rights, we were told.
He was he was Mr. End of Slavery.
Mr. End of Racism.
Mr. all of this, all this wonderful magical stuff was going to happen.
And yet he had to be pressured to hire African Americans.
The first black president had to be pressured by civil rights activists.
So not only did he not follow through on what they thought would be automatic, that every position of power and wealth in the regime would go to somebody African American.
In fact, none did.
Well, so too.
Everybody thought that Obama and his magical policies are going to bring prosperity to everybody, but that hasn't happened either.
So more failed promises, false premises that have not materialized.
All the magic that was assumed has never happened.
And most of all, in 2008, Obama ran as the guy who was going to fix the recession that Bush caused.
What do you think that yes we can business was all about?
Yes, we can.
CC Puede or C C Puede, whatever.
Well, yes, we can.
And we're the ones.
We're the ones they've been waiting for.
I'm the one Juman.
Whatever it was, was all about ending the recession.
It was all about economic revitalization.
But again, sorry to beat a dead horse, not possible with uh economic policies that Obama has.
Now from the Cybercast News Service, Terry Jeffrey census on Obama's first term.
Here come some real numbers.
The real median income is down 2,627.
Real median income is down under Obama in his first term.
The median family income, families have lost $2,627 annually.
People in poverty up to $6,667,000.
We have a record number of new poor.
None of this are now poor.
None of this was in the New York Times.
This is all in the Census Bureau data that they didn't publish.
A record 46,496,000 Americans are now considered poor.
90 million Americans are not working, population around 300 million.
People in poverty up 6,667,000.
In 2008, the year Obama was elected, real median household income in the U.S. was $53,644.
According to the Census Bureau today, $51,017.
So real median household income is dropped.
I know what you're saying.
Rush, we know all this.
Come on.
I'm putting the numbers to it.
These are facts.
And these numbers constitute the way people are living.
These numbers represent real life in this country.
And it's getting worse.
In a country where everybody's expectations are rising incomes, increased prosperity, standards of living.
They have to work for it.
But people don't even have that chance now.
Fewer and fewer people have an opportunity to work for it, and because of Obama's policies, the place in this country where people go to make their mark is what we call a private sector.
But that's getting smaller.
Because Obama's co-opting more and more of it for the federal government, like health care.
That's one sixth of the private sector just taken away.
Look at it the same way you look at Obama closing federal lands, closing down parks.
People can't go visit it because it's people that destroy these things.
People destroy the parks.
People create global warming.
So we're just going to close them off.
You can't go in there.
Federal land, national parks, areas closed down.
You can't go.
Well, the same thing's happening to the private sector of the economy.
Obama's taking it inch by inch, mile by mile, dollar by dollar.
He's taking it, and he's pro-opting it for the gov for the federal government.
And they take it and they use it and they redistribute it in a basis they call fair.
But there is less money.
The pie shrinking, let's put it that way.
The pie that everybody wants a piece of is shrinking.
Precisely because of Obama economic policies.
Okay, welcome back.
Now just one more bit of information on this median income business.
Next, we want to look at this by race.
And this is from the Business Insider.
Census Bureau has released its annual report on poverty income and health insurance.
Now remember, I mean, this stuff may run together all these numbers, and it may even bore you, but I hope it doesn't because the uh the point is that the left and the media want you to believe that life in this country for minorities is just unfair and mean and in in all that because of racism and because of discrimination.
And because this country's unjust.
This country was founded in an immoral, unfair way.
This country was founded so that white people would forever hold all the cards, all of power, all the money, and white people would subjugate everybody else.
This is taught more often than ever before in this country today.
And we've had the Democrat Party, which is responsible for making this charge largely in power since 2006.
The Democrats took, well, Democrats took over the House of Representatives starting in 2007.
They held it until uh just last year, a couple years ago.
They've got they've got the White House.
They basically were able to shut Bush down in his last two years, had Clinton for eight years, they ran the House of Representatives for 40 years prior to 1994.
They had FDR who set the table for a lot of things with a Great Society New Deal and well the New Deal and the LBJ then added to it and Woodrow Wilson and the Democrat Party liberalism has been a dominant aspect of American life.
And in the past five years, we have had radical liberalism running this program.
This country, radical leftism.
And these are the people going to fix all this unfairness.
These are the people going to fix all this injustice.
These are the people going to fix all this immorality.
These are the people who are going to get even with these white Europeans who came here and founded this absolute disaster of a country with racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia, and this crap is taught to young kids today.
So with these people being in power for so long and supposedly being the remedy for all of this injustice, then how can this be?
Among the race groups, Asian households had the highest median income in 2012, $68,636 a year.
The median income for non-Hispanic white households, which would of course exclude George Zimmerman.
The median income for non-Hispanic white households, $57,000 a year.
The median income for black households $33,000 a year, which is falling after nearly five years of the first black president.
After all of these years, 50 years plus that the black population of this country have been voting by 93% every four years for the Democrat candidate, under the premise that the Democrats are the ones looking out for them.
With the belief that the Republicans are keeping them down, but the Democrats are going to sweep those old guys away.
We're going to bring in a new era of prosperity and love and whatever else for everybody.
And yet, black unemployment remains the highest in the country.
Black median income at the lowest.
teen black unemployment.
It's unacceptably, almost criminally high.
Thank you.
And for the vast majority of the last five decades, this country's been run by the Democrat Party.
Or, if not the well, not or the Democrat Party and or a bunch of moderate Republicans.
So where's all the relief?
Where is all of this success that's been in waiting?
Where is all this prosperity for all the downtrodden?
And by the way, the Asians don't have anybody looking out for them.
And they're at the top of the list.
Nobody.
68,000 median income.
Hispanic households are higher than black.
39 grand.
African Americans, arguably the beneficiaries of the most federal largesse in attention in 50 years, at the bottom in median household income.
My friends, a sad thing here.
We have to stop the program.
Brief interruption.
It always happens at the end of the hour.
But sit tight and be patient, because we're just now getting wound up.
We'll be back here in mere moments and continue here on the EIB network.
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