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Nov. 19, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay.
Okay, folks, greetings.
Great to have you here.
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Will you people excuse me?
I just got to do some inside baseball.
Brian, whatever you've done, everything sounds just absolutely perfect today.
The compression, the EQ, I mean, it is like a night and day difference from yesterday.
And I'm not kidding.
He's looking at it like, what is he talking about?
But I mean, is it just whatever is set today, take a picture of it, glue it, whatever, so that it can't change.
This is ideal.
The gain, well, that's a bad thing if the cleaning crew did it by mistake.
I mean, but I'm telling you, the potentiometers are, just glue them right where they are.
I don't care if this is an accident or not, but I mean, the pitch, the compression, the EQ, the audio levels, the mix minus, I mean, it's flawless.
And it does make a huge, because it's not a distraction that way.
When the sound in me, and when that sound is not good to me, it's distracting, and that's not a good thing.
And I have to use uber professionalism to rise above it.
Ladies and gentlemen, I need to start out today by saying, I'm not kidding.
I'm not, they're laughing at each other.
It never changes with engineers.
They're like doctors.
And when you tell them what's wrong, they say, nah, you don't know what you're talking about.
If it's not on the meter, it's not happening.
Anyway, enough inside baseball.
I probably ought to start out by saying that I'm ready for apologies from the drive-by media.
I'm open, and I will graciously accept apologies from everybody who mocked me and ridiculed me and made fun of me for questioning the unemployment rate last fall before the elections.
Now, I'm not going to hold my breath because I know the apologies aren't going to be forthcoming, but I want to go on record.
I probably should have told Cookie to go back and search the archives.
Just find two or three examples of me in months prior to the election predicting to you the unemployment rate would magically end up below 8% right before the election.
I predicted that for at least a year, and I was able to make it accurately because I knew that this regime is filled with fraudulent fraudsters and liars and people filled with deceit.
There's nothing real in this regime other than their ideology.
The reason why the unemployment rate would end up below 8% is because historically there's some statistic out there that no incumbent president had ever been re-elected with the unemployment rate at 7.9 or 8% or higher.
And the magic number was going to be 8%.
And I predicted for a year, going, I mean, casually predicted it and pointedly predicted that the unemployment rate would end up below 8%.
And when the unemployment rate the month before the election came out, I reminded everybody that, and you, I'm sure you remember me predicting this.
Now, there's a story, John Crudell in the New York Post today.
Crudell, he's one of their economics, probably the economics editor of the New York Post, and he's been in touch with a man who worked for the census, who it turns out does the monthly household survey for the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And that monthly household survey for BLS is where we get the monthly jobless rate.
And that man that Crudell talked to says that he was told by higher-ups to just make up numbers, to say he had surveyed more households than he actually had.
And it is highly possible that this guy alone might have made up enough numbers to have affected the jobless rate.
Now, we noted at the time, in August of 2012, it was at 8.1%.
And it went down from that to 7.8% in September, just in time for the real start of the 2012 campaign.
By the time you get to September is when the low information voters start paying attention.
And they dialed in and they heard the unemployment rate.
And by the way, there was an attachment to that number.
It was the lowest unemployment rate since Obama had been inaugurated.
It wasn't just that it was now magically below 8%.
It was that it was an all-time low for Obama.
And you remember back Jack Welch, the former CEO of GE, said the same thing.
He even tweeted unbelievable job numbers.
These Chicago guys will do anything.
And he caught holy heck from the drive-by medias.
I mean, they were all over Welch, and he didn't back down from it.
And he and I were both right.
Now, we've got to remember that one of the things that Obama did early on in his tenure was to put the census under the control of the White House.
And people were puzzled why he would bother to do that.
And maybe now we know exactly why.
And as Jack Welch and I both said back last fall, but I want to remind you, I was predicting this for months prior.
Now, I didn't pound my fist and make a direct, maybe I did a couple of times.
My predictions were casual.
You know, just in the Mystic Casual Conference, I said, did you watch that unemployment rate?
Magically, it's going to end up below 8%.
I remember making that prognostication several times.
Now, we pointed out, folks, Welch and I both, that the economy, for that number to drop from 8.1 to 7.8, don't forget, nothing was changing.
The number of people joining the people in the out-of-work labor force was continuing to climb.
The universe of the people, the universe of jobs available was shrinking because people were leaving the job market.
The labor force participation rate was shrinking.
And there was no way with people losing jobs and jobs being eliminated that unemployment was magically down because of job creation.
It was not possible.
The economy, we made this point at the time, the economy would need to be growing at a breakneck pace for unemployment to drop to 7.8% from 8.
Actually, it was 8.3 in July and then 8.1 and then down to 7.8.
And now we know that it wasn't the case at all.
The GDP was miserable in the fall of 2012.
There was no job growth because there was no economic growth.
Now, there's a bunch of companion stories.
Well, no, no, it just looks, they lied about it.
Folks, it's not just that they lied about that for crying out loud.
Let's look at Obamacare and all the lies about that.
Ben Ghazi swinging into the election.
The lies taking place about that.
The poor sap that did a video was responsible for what happened.
Same time, the IRS took out 500 Tea Party organizations to swing an election.
The IRS, also being run from the White House, we've learned, did not grant tax-exempt status to 500 Tea Party organizations.
We know all of this.
We got the Obamacare fraud about you being able to keep your policy and your doctors.
All of that was said to you falsely so you'd vote for Obama twice.
He was even throwing in the fact you get your premium to go down $2,500.
I mean, these are serial lies.
These are not standard, ordinary, just everyday political lies and misstatements.
These are the result of a calculated deceit.
Brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed fraud.
Of course, with help from the media, the media was right in there.
I mean, there was no way Obama wasn't going to get re-elected.
Whatever they had to report to convince people that things were getting better and the future was bright, they did.
So much so, ladies and gentlemen, there is a story in the Washington Post today.
Actually, there's a bunch of stories in the Washington Post.
One of them is Obama's ratings tumble after health care flaws.
And there's a Gallup poll on healthcare that is just devastating for the regime now.
And the Gallup poll shows that the American people have done a total reversal.
The vast majority now do not think the government is suited to run healthcare.
And that's new because just up to a year ago and prior, a majority of people were fine and dandy with the government running healthcare.
But in the Gallup poll, it's done a 180.
But there's also a Washington Post story that takes a look at all of the polling data today and they lump it in with all the Obama lies.
There's actually a story that if the election were today, Romney would win.
Why, what, I think, six points.
That was the scope of the fraud.
Oh, and as a little sidebar to the Washington Post story on Romney winning if the election were today, there's nothing in that story about the Hispanic vote.
Now, how can that be?
Because we've been told that the Republicans don't have a prayer unless they support amnesty in order to secure a percentage of the Hispanic vote.
Yet here's the Washington Post with a story today that Romney would win if the election were today, but there's nothing in it about Hispanics.
The reason Romney would win today is because people have discovered the truth about Obama.
This making up, this fabricating of the unemployment, this is serious stuff, folks.
Let Richard Nixon do this.
Let George W. Bush try to manipulate government numbers like this.
John Crudell has found one guy who said he was told by higher-ups to do whatever it took.
In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply, raising eyebrows in Wall Street to Washington, but not in the drive-by media.
The decline from 8.1% in August to 7.8% of September might not have been all it seemed.
The numbers, according to a reliable source, were manipulated, and the Census Bureau knew it.
The Census Bureau does the unemployment survey because they do the household survey.
Just two years before the presidential election, the Census Bureau had caught an employee fabricating data that went into the unemployment report, which is one of the most closely watched measures of the economy.
And a knowledgeable source says the deception went beyond that one employee that it escalated at the time President Obama was seeking re-election in 2012 and continues.
Today, the unemployment number that's being reported is bogus.
And everybody knows it.
In this case, everybody knows the economy is not growing.
We're not in the middle of massive job creation.
The unemployment number is coming down.
And even the media is now being reduced to reminding people the only reason it's coming down is because so many jobs are being lost.
91 and a half.
Let me put it to you this way.
91.5 million Americans not working.
And they want to tout the unemployment rate going down.
It doesn't wash, folks.
91.5 million Americans, human beings not working.
Stunning.
In the economic powerhouse of the world, 91.5 million Americans, adults are not working.
As I am wont to say, they're all eating.
They're all driving.
And they're all chatting on the phone.
And they're all watching Tom Brady drop the F-bomb at the officials on Monday night football.
Did you see that game last night?
I actually, see, here's the thing.
It was on, but I was activating my new iPad mini with retina display.
So I started that about, what was it, 5 o'clock?
And I finished at 9.
It took me a long time because I had a bunch of other stuff to do.
And the game started at 8 o'clock, and the game's on in the background.
I didn't start paying attention to the game, even though it was on until the mid-third quarter.
Yeah, that's not me.
I mean, in the old days, I would have waited to activate the iPad mini with a retina diswaitle after the game and been up till 3 in the morning doing it.
But I didn't.
There's no way, folks, we're creating jobs.
And whatever new jobs are being created are part-time because of Obamacare.
There's no way the unemployment number is coming down.
That Washington Post story, Romney would win by the same margin Obama won by.
And they don't say a word about the Hispanic vote.
Not a word.
And yet all these Republican consultants and all of these Republican establishment moderate types thought we can't ever win.
The Democrats thought we can't ever win again if we don't go get the Hispanics.
Here, the election were held today with everything being equal.
Romney would win by whatever, six or seven points, with no mention of the Hispanic vote.
John Crudell, the New York Post, has documents, by the way, to substantiate the charges that he makes from the source that he has.
He's got documents.
Census people acknowledged that manipulation happened.
That's not speculation.
91.5 million people not working.
That's pretty close to the same number of people who are going to lose their health insurance next year because of Obamacare.
Let's go to the audio soundbites, grab somebody.
Nope, we're going to hold off.
I want to have some significant time on the other side of the break.
We'll go to the sound bites on all this when we get back.
So don't go away.
Sit tight.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Here's just one example.
This is December 20th, 2011.
This is almost two years ago.
Let me read this first just to make some.
Yep, here we go.
Okay, December 20th, 2011.
This is me talking about what the unemployment rate would be by the time the 2012 election came around.
I said this 11 months before the election.
Let me tell you something.
The Washington Post, I think it's them.
They had a poll out today that show Obama's approval numbers are coming back.
And I just, I want to remind you, I have warned you this kind of thing is going to happen.
The unemployment number is going to precipitously drop, and it's going to get close to 8% by next November.
Just mark my words.
That's in the can.
It's in the cards.
That's 11 months before the election.
And that is just one of the many times in the year preceding the election that I warned everybody that the fix was in.
The fix was in on the unemployment number.
How did I know?
This is the same old question.
And it's the same answer.
And I would love to tell you that it's because I had inside information.
I'd love to tell you that, like John Crudell, I knew somebody at the Census Bureau and that they were telling me this was happening, but I didn't.
And I don't.
I don't know anybody in the Census Bureau.
I didn't then.
What I know is liberals.
It's no more complicated than that.
Wherever they are, media, White House, Senate, House, Town Council, dog catcher, I know them.
They lie.
As a matter of course, they lie.
They have no other choice.
So this was an easy call.
Can somebody explain something to me?
What is the media's obsession with this mayor in Toronto?
They will not let this go.
What is it?
I was chatting with a friend this morning, but we were sharing theories back and forth about what's going on here.
Matt Wauer just tore into the guy, and the guy is the mayor of Toronto.
Now, this is the guy who admitted he got drunk and what, smoke crack in a drunken stupor.
And he refuses to resign.
And they're trying to strip his powers as mayor away.
And his brother's backing him up, but he's not, he won't quit.
He's a big, obese guy, looks like Goldfinger with about 50 or 60 extra pounds, maybe 100 extra pounds or whatever.
Collar.
Well, I was going to, I was going to, it has to be partly that he's a conservative.
Well, yeah, he's white, but that wouldn't explain it.
I think what it is at this point, I don't know about when it all started, but the fact that he won't quit has got them ticked off to the point they're not going to let go of it until he does.
As far as the drive-bys are concerned, this is about their power.
And this guy is defying them.
I mean, the U.S. media cares more about this than the Canadian media does, and they want this guy gone.
And the Canadian media still cares about it.
Don't misunderstand.
But down here in the lower 48, they're really exercised by this guy.
And he doesn't affect us at all.
He's the mayor of Toronto.
And I think, okay, yeah, he's conservative.
Yeah, he's white, of course, but he's defiant.
He's not apologetic, not to the media, and he's not reacting to them.
And I think that's just got them all buffaloed.
So they're just going to stick with this.
CNN can't let go of the story.
They just can't let go of it.
And even Fox, to a certain extent, he is a fiscal conservative.
He's white.
He's fat.
I mean, I guess he fits the bill, actually.
Now, by the way, folks, this Washington Post story on if the election were today, Romney would win by the same majority Obama won last year.
In this Washington Post story, it says that Obama won women in 2011 by 11 points, according to the exit polls.
Today, Obama leads in women by one point.
In addition, Obama has seen his lead among young voters, 18 to 39, drop from 18% to 2%.
Now, I guarantee you, this is the kind of stuff that they care about in Washington, this kind of polling number data.
They care about it at the White House, and they're going to look at this, and they're going to see Obama losing women and losing the Utes.
And then they're going to start, you know, they're hell-bent now on saving Obamacare.
They really think it could go by the way.
So Obama went to make a phone call.
By the way, the website that did his phone call even crashed.
He made a phone call to fellow community activists last night.
He lying to him.
He told them that there have been 100 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare.
The number is 106,000.
It's actually half of that.
People actually enrolled is half of that.
It's 52,000, 54, whatever.
But the number of people that everybody is agreeing that went to healthcare.gov and had something happen to them is 106,000.
Obama told his fellow community activists and organizers on the phone last night that 100 million Americans had signed up.
They lie, folks.
I mean, it's just no more complicated than that.
People don't want to believe that, apparently, of their Democrat presidents.
But It is the inescapable fact and conclusion.
And that's why I was able to predict the unemployment rate was going to be below 8% the last report before the election.
There was no doubt.
When you know that there's a number out there that is historic, this is no president, no incumbents have been re-elected, the unemployment rate higher than 7.9.
Well, you just know.
I mean, these are people that were manipulating the IRS, manipulating the Tea Party, manipulating the truth on virtually everything.
A no-brainer, they would manipulate the unemployment number.
Go back to the audio soundbites.
This is me October 5th of last year when the September unemployment number came out.
There you have it, folks.
The economy's back.
The stimulus worked.
The job council's programs all worked.
Obamacare worked.
Look at all the job.
114,000 new jobs created.
And as I told you last December, this would happen.
The unemployment rate under 8%.
It's 7.9, but it doesn't matter.
7.8, 7.9, whatever's after the decimal point doesn't matter.
It's the 7 that matters.
And the reason it does is that no incumbent president has ever been re-elected with the unemployment rate over 8%.
It's that simple.
So they had to get the number down, and they found a way to do it.
Going back to my website, I went back and searched the archives just for three examples of predicting this very day.
And right here they are.
First, December 20th of 2011.
This is how the program started.
Let me tell you something, folks.
The Washington Post, I think it's them, had a poll out today that shows Obama's approval numbers are coming back.
And I want to remind you, I have warned you this kind of thing's going to happen.
The unemployment rate is going to drop.
It's going to get close to 8% by next November.
Mark my words.
That's in the can.
It's in the cards.
It played you that soundbite from December of 2011.
Here was another prediction in May of 2012.
I said, well, here we go again.
Here we are again, ladies and gentlemen.
The unemployment rate's gone down, and I finally figured it out.
While you might think I'm saying this to be funny, because I'm a naturally funny person, I know this.
One of the most naturally funny people you've run into, in fact, that's me.
I'm not trying to be funny here.
Barack Obama has decided that the only way to lower the unemployment rate is to kill off jobs.
The unemployment rate went down one-tenth of a percent, 8.2 to 8.1%.
But the number of people who left the labor force is an all-time high.
That was me in May of 2012.
I'm sure now that I've reminded you, all of you remember this prediction.
And again, I would love to tell you that I was able to make the prediction because I knew somebody at the Census Bureau and they told me they were fudging the data, but I didn't and don't know anybody, the Census Bureau.
I just and it's not a simplification, folks.
And it's not laziness and it's not simplistic.
Fact.
They lie.
They manipulate.
You know what this proves?
Obama can't win.
The liberals could not win an honest election in this country if Obama were ever honest about what his intentions were.
He'd have never gotten reelected and maybe not elected in the first place.
They have to lie.
They have to lie about their plans.
I mean, this keep your doctor, keep your plan, your premium down $2,500.
Those are fraudulent, strategic, planned, well-thought-out, purposeful, deceitful lies in order to impact the outcome of an election.
They lie, folks.
Here's Jonathan Carl, ABC's World News Tonight, back on October 5th of 2012.
As soon as the new 7.8% unemployment rate was announced, Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives said the White House had cooked the books.
Even Jack Welch, the former CEO of GE, went on Twitter to accuse the president of changing the numbers.
And we were right.
Again, John Crudell, the New York Post, got a source with documents in the Census Bureau about how the data was fudged.
Nothing is real.
You can't trust anything.
You realize what a bitter pill this is to swallow in view of the fact that all of the downsides of Obamacare were known a year ago.
All of the Obama knew them.
The Democrat Party, they all knew that what's happening today was going to happen.
They all knew that most people would not be able to keep their insurance that they liked.
They all knew this.
It just wasn't reported.
The news media's journalists and self-described fact-checkers were too busy attacking anybody who dared to point out the truth.
And the news media and the fact-checkers decided the people they had to smear were the people who were telling the truth, and the people who had to prop up were the people who were lying.
And that is exactly what happened.
We need not be here.
And we are here because of a series of lies that were allowed to stand.
Here's Jack Welch, same date, October 5th, 2012.
He's on Cavuto's show on the Fox News Channel.
Oh, by the way, did you see that the money honey is leaving CNBC and go to Fox Business?
Maria Bartieromo.
No one knows Barta Romo.
She says Barta.
There's a Brooklyn pronunciation.
Maria Bartcieromo is leaving.
Contract perspires next month.
And she's moving to Fox business and will ostensibly have a role at the Fox News channel as well.
And this CNBC's numbers are plummeting in the toilet.
They need Martin Bashir over there to save them.
How about that guy?
Did you hear, Dawn, what he did?
Well, there are a lot of children now listening to this program.
And mom and dad, if your kids are listening up, would you do me a favor?
I really, I don't want the kids to hear this, but I got to tell you, if you don't know this.
So I'm going to count down from five.
Give you a chance to turn the radio off for just 30 seconds or a minute.
If you leave the radio up and people hear it and they get offended, it's not our problem because we warned you.
I'm not trying to shock you here.
Okay, five, four, three, two, one.
Okay.
Last week, Martin Bashir, the British import, former host of Nightline, now the lowest rated show on MSNBC, which is saying something.
3 o'clock in the afternoon, Sarah Palin had claimed that all of this debt and all of this mess with Obamacare was going to enslave the American people to debt.
That Obamacare was enslaving people.
And he just lost it.
And he told a story about some Jamaican plantation owner who punished his slaves by requiring them to defecate in the mouths of other slaves.
And he suggested this is what needs to happen to Sarah Palin.
That somebody should defecate in her mouth.
Just abject pure, unadulterated, low-class hatred.
So he apologized yesterday with a heartfelt apology and so forth.
But I don't know how he's still there.
I mean, the fact that people at MSNBC didn't find that reprehensible in any way and let that stand for whatever.
How long?
When did he actually, was it Friday he made the statement?
So the whole weekend goes by, he didn't apologize till Monday.
And nobody over there at that network apparently had a problem with it to let it go on and on that long.
And then for that to just be mitigated with an apology.
These people are just this is what continues to amaze me.
These are some of the lowest, these left it, particularly at that network.
Some of the just most despicable human beings, forget liberals or whatever, and they're given positions of prominence and so forth.
And they just constantly embarrass themselves and everybody else.
And they do it with this smug arrogance, as though they're smarter and better than everybody else.
And Sarah Palin never did anything to this guy.
This guy's, you know, beloved president is embarrassing himself and plummeting in every way possible.
So we've got to go out and malign Sarah Palin.
Anyway, I got to know it didn't even come up yesterday.
I got to take a quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Jack Welch, I want you to hear his soundbite when we get back.
Don't go away.
Jack Welch, back on February, October 5th of 2012.
This is after this magic unemployment number is 7.8%, the last report before the election.
Magically plummeting from 8.3 in July, 7.8% in September.
Here's Jack Welch on Cavuto's show.
Cavuto, actually, Eric Bowling was guest hosting.
And he said the labor secretary is calling the charge that the numbers have been cooked here ludicrous.
The last two months, we've gone from 8.3 to 8.1 by changing the participation rate assumption.
Now we're going from 8.1 to 7.8 by changing the household numbers and assumptions.
Look, I don't know what the right number is, but I'll tell you, these numbers don't smell right when you think about where the economy is right now.
This whole number is made up of a whole mess of assumption.
Who's participating?
Who's not working?
Who's trying to work but has dropped out?
All these things.
It just raises the question.
I think there ought to be a good discussion about how this number is calculated.
That's all.
Yeah.
Well, now there is.
Now we happen to know how the number was calculated.
It was fudged.
It was fudged by a guy at the Census Bureau who was told by higher-ups to just keep adding households to the survey.
October 5th and 7th in 2012, a montage of the drive-by media calling me and Jack Welch and Donald Trump conspiracy cooks.
We are corroding trust in our government.
Donald Trump and Jack Welch, rich people with crazy conspiracies.
Conservatives continue to suggest that the president's labor department cooked the jobs report for his political gain.
The idea of a conspiracy theory.
This whole conspiracy theory.
This is crazy town.
Experts are dismissing all those conspiracy theories.
That kind of conspiracy talk coming from people like Jack Welch.
You're going to need more than a tinfoil hat to convince America.
This is silly.
Undermine the legitimacy of the political process.
Every respectable economist has said that is nuts.
Economic birtherism.
This is Mark Zandi who said, this is silly, undermining legitimacy of the political process.
Mr. Zandi, it's Obama and the Democrats and his administration who are undermining the legitimacy of the political process.
Again, census faked the 2012 election jobs report.
John Crudell, New York Post, with documents and a source from the Census Bureau.
And that's how they reacted.
This is exactly what I mean.
The media decided to smear the truth tellers and prop up the liars, which they have been doing since January 16th of 2009.
And I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but this audio sounds so damn good today.
This is, I can't, without getting inside baseball to bore you, I can't tell you why that matters.
Suffice it to say, it's not a distraction, which frees me up even more to be great.
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