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Jan. 22, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 22, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Okay, quick.
How many of you have heard the name Bob McConnell?
Quick.
If you haven't heard of him, he was the governor of Virginia for um well for a few years.
And I I have to tell you, I had no idea he was a threat to Hillary Clinton.
I didn't even know that McConnell was planning on running for president.
But he must be something because the Democrats, after he's left office, have indicted him out there.
And by the way, greetings, folks.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh.
Already hump day.
Already hump day.
Here it is, Wednesday, fastest week in media.
By the way, I don't know what about Hump Day reminded me of this, but the long range forecast for the Super Bowl is for that weekend is from Actweather.com, a major storm system moving into the tri-state region.
They don't yet know if it's going to hit on a Sunday or a Saturday, maybe Monday, and they don't know if it's going to be rain or snow.
So basically they don't know.
They are just, it's a the Accuseweather.com wild guess, long range.
They're putting it out there that something big, something major, could be coming on a day where have you seen pictures of uh of Met Life Stadium where they're gonna You know, this is amazing.
That this would be the time to be getting the stadium ready.
Uh I assume the field's already painted and covered.
But other things to be going on in there that uh the the snow cover is obviously delaying them.
It's gonna be fast.
This is the this is uh people you go in the Super Bowl?
No way.
When I read what it's gonna take to get into the place, um over half the parking spaces are being removed from public use.
So that they create a perimeter around the stadium security-wise.
So it's it's it's uh mass transit and mass transit is not me, folks.
And yes, I would.
What do you mean I wouldn't have to go through?
I'm as an ordinary guy as anybody else would.
I'd have to go through if there's there's no escaping that.
Um the the limos, that's not no, there aren't any.
The the the limo, that's not the none of the limos don't drop you off.
Not I would not get an escort uh into the place.
No way, Jose.
Anyway, that's just something about Hump Day reminded me of that.
Because it's just this ten days away.
Is uh is all it is, another major blizzard.
Here it is, de Blasio, already the rich on the Upper East Side are claiming that de Blasio's not plowing their streets to get even with him for being rich.
And de Blasio saying, no, no, no, no.
It has nothing to do with the fact that I hate you, and I do.
Uh it has nothing to do with that.
It it is that uh our snow plow GPS was tuned to CNN for the Farid Zakaria show and and missed the Upper East Side.
We didn't get there.
It was just a GPS problem.
But it wasn't the fact that I hate the rich.
And it wasn't that I wanted to get even with you and have you find out what it's like to live in the outer boroughs where no snow is removed.
No, it has nothing.
Just a coincidence that you are finding out how the other half lives.
Just a quick I have no my genuine resentment and envy and hatred for you on the upper east side's got nothing to do with it, said the new mayor.
Bill De Blasman.
And he's been hit with his second snowstorm in less than a month of being in Orifus.
You know, those are the things that in large part determine whether or not a mayor is successful in a in a city like New York.
So anyway, here it is at Bob McConnell.
Let me tell you what's really going on with this.
Um, and I don't mean to make light of the charges.
I mean, here's what's alleged.
Bob McConnell, the uh recent governor of Virginia, and his wife, it is alleged, were given lavish gifts over the years, like a Rolex watch and designer clothes, and 140,000 in cash.
They also allegedly got free rides on jet airplanes and a joy ride in a Ferrari.
So these are very serious charges, unless you're a Democrat, and then this is standard operating procedure.
The only thing that didn't happen here is McConnell did not go to the Dominican Republic and fall asleep on the beach, like Charlie Wrangle did.
And I don't think McConnell had two offices, one of which was his home, both paid for by the government.
And I don't think uh I mean this is this is this is I'll tell you what this is.
It's really it's not, I was joking.
McConnell's not seeking the office of president.
You know what this is?
This is how.
Got to keep everything in perspective.
You gotta look at this through the prism of the effect or the impact of a story like this on low information voters.
And the reason that they went after delay, the reason they're going after McConnell.
Bob McConnell is kind of like Saxby Chambless.
If it weren't for his varicose veins, this would be a totally colorless guy.
And yet they're going after this guy.
And the reason is very simple.
Charging this guy, noted Republican, by the way, you don't have any problem seeing the word Republican in every story about Bom McConnell.
If he were a Democrat, that wouldn't be in the story.
But he's a Republican and it's plastered everywhere.
And the purpose here is to create the image or to further the image that's already been created, that Republicans are corrupt, they're in pow wow situations with the rich, that they hang around with rich criminal CEOs,
and the rich criminal CEOs give them things in exchange for favorable policy decisions from McConnell.
And that's what this is.
So he gets indicted, there are the charges, and out there in low informationville, see these Republicans are just corrupt, it just cheats or frauds, they hang around with the rich, and they screw us and they don't care, and that's why they do it.
They don't if he's convicted or not, irrelevant.
The uh mission, essentially, here is already um accomplished.
If you're a Democrat, on the other hand, all this would be chalked up to run of a milk crony capitalism.
I mean, did anybody go to jail over Whitewater?
I mean, any politician did uh how about Cattlegate?
Where Hillary gave 10 grand to Robert Red Bone, and it turned into a hundred grand in the cattle futures market to pig futures, whatever, and she said, well, I I read the Wall Street Journal Tyler to do that.
Oh, okay.
That explains it.
How about all the various Clinton foundations?
Uh how about any of Obama's kickback schemes?
Do you want to talk about kickback schemes?
How about every green energy deal that Obama has been involved in?
Which is nothing more than Democrat Party money laundering.
Uh how about Michelle's no-show job uh at the Chicago hospital?
$357,000 a year just to show up.
Well, she did show up now and then to come up with plans to encourage the poor not to use that hospital.
I'm not making it up.
I'm making it up.
So the purpose here is to simply further the image, the brand of Republicans as cheats, associates of the rich, corrupt, stealing from the poor in bed with the corrupt rich, that kind of thing.
And the indictment coming after he leaves office.
And let's keep in mind, by the way, too, that's this is very important to point out.
While in office, the conservative McDonnell did his best to be bipartisan and to reach across the aisle.
And we see all the good that it did him.
Now, if this stuff is true, this is literally stupid.
Accepting a Rolex watch, $140,000 in cash, who would how dumb do you have to be to do that?
I mean, if if all he would have had to do was wait until after he served, is out of orifice.
If he wanted to start raking in the big bucks, he could have started a foundation, started giving speeches for whatever 30,000, well, I don't know what the going rate is, and really started selling his influence the old-fashioned way, the Clinton way, after you're out of office.
Sell access afterward, you know, the lobbyist type stuff.
But this is chump change.
And what is the potential jail time here?
I mean, it's big if he gets convicted.
A joy ride in a Ferrari is a is a is a political crime.
A joy ride in a Ferrari.
What is this guy's a Bob Menendez, the senator from New Jersey, how many free trips on private jets did he take down to essentially whorehouses in the Dominican, or whatever was going on down there?
The illicit women on the premises, wherever he was.
And we're just, well, nothing to see here.
I mean, Menendez is a nice guy, he's pro-choice and cares about the poor, so there's nothing to see.
The uh country continues to talk about Richard Sherman and everybody coming up with an opinion to explain Richard Sherman, even though Richard Sherman has been very clear why he did what he did.
The uh the psychoanalysis continues on uh on Richard Sherman, and of course, the perfunctory totally misunderstanding a point that I made about it is in full swing.
I don't even think it's worth mentioning to you, folks, so I probably won't.
Because I I made a point.
Here's here essentially, when uh in that rant, right after the game, the rant that got everybody all ticked off about Sherman, one of the things he said was, don't you ever talk about me.
Don't you ever talk about me?
And he started raking on somebody, and remember the info babe, Aaron Anderson, who are you talking about?
He said, Crabtree.
And it's my contention that Richard Sherman's ego, and this is not a criticism.
Well, even if it is, I wouldn't care.
It's not the point.
I just I know egos, folks have studied them.
Political performer, professional, uh, insensitive, uh, insecure.
I know egos.
I know.
And I'm just telling you that that Richard Sherman is lost in himself, and and I I guarantee he thinks that everybody knows that he doesn't like Crabtree.
He thinks that everybody knows that Crabtree is a motormouth.
He thinks that everybody, so all he's got to say is you don't talk about me, and he thinks everybody knows what he's talking about.
That's the mistake.
Nobody had any idea outside of Ardent fans he's gotten in and going with Crabtree.
Number 15, the wide receiver for the San Francisco Foreigners.
Anyway, so he gets caught up in that, and I made an analogy.
You know people like this.
Do you know people who who are so lost in their egos that they think that everybody's thinking about them all a day and all the time?
And I used as an example Obama as a large ego type person, who I'm sure is he probably sits around in private.
You know, I love asking people a question.
When I I've been asking people this question since uh well for 30 years, successful people.
I mean, I asked George Will once when I interviewed him, I was uh my radio show Sacramento and went to Washington for a week.
And I said when the family's gone to bed, you're the only one up.
It's late at night, most of the lights are off, and you're sitting around and uh whatever you're doing.
You reflect, do you ever stop to reflect on what you mean to so many people and how much influence you have over so many people?
And he looked at me and cocked and said, No, I don't think about what I have to do tomorrow.
I'm not Sitting around thinking about my influence on people.
And I've asked a lot of people that question.
And every one of the profoundly successful people I've asked that question all say the same thing to one degree or another, George Will said.
No.
I'm not thinking about me.
I'm not thinking about not sitting there thinking what a great guy I've been or how influential I am or how smart I am or how many people can't wait to see what I think.
But there are people like that.
And I just think I think Obama's probably one of them.
I'm not even thinking, I know it has to be.
And uh in the case of Richard Sherman, this is not even really a criticism.
I just think that when he went and get into that ring, he just assumed because what he's doing is best in the world at it that everybody thus knows, and that they would know he's got this running little feud or rivalry with Crabtree, when most people had no idea, not even the reporterette.
That's why I showed who are you talking about?
Crabtree.
And Crabtree is a trash talker motormouth.
Crabtree, they did have an incident last summer at a Larry Fitzgerald uh charity of an Arizona Cardinals.
Uh I don't know what it was, but and Crabtree apparently did start this thing uh in Seattle on the field during the game on Sunday, or afterward, gave uh Sherman a shove in the face when Sherman was congratulating him on a great game, but that was probably a little bit in your face, too.
Hey, bro, I just won the game for my team.
Great game, bro.
Great because he's kind of digging him.
Crabtree says, screw you, and shoved him in the face, and man, that started it.
Anyway, the psychoanalysis continues at Sherman, plus Sherman talking, so we've got sound bites on that.
And Ken Cuccinelli.
Ken Cuccinelli, who who Christie would not go to Virginia and help, and would not endorse in his uh race for the governorship of Virginia, Cucinelli is saying that he thinks that Christie should step down now as the chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
As Wendy Davis woman, uh, frankly, I probably shouldn't say this.
That whole story bores me to tears, but I will endeavor.
I uh uh why does it bore me to tears?
I don't really know.
I just I um I I guess well, I guess here's the thing.
To me, there's nothing remarkable about it.
So she is Democrats, she made up stories.
She lied about people, about her biography, lied about it.
What's new about it?
That's exactly what Democrats do.
And yet I'm watching all these, oh my God, we've got her in the crosshairs.
No, she well, for Christ's sake, point me a Democrat that doesn't do what Wendy Davis is doing.
They could all be gone after on that score, but they're not, for whatever reason.
So anyway, we'll uh uh touch on it, just give you the latest, bring you up to speed on it.
Colorado ballot measure is proposing education classes before you can get married.
A ballot initiative.
You must go to marriage school and pass.
Before you can get married, it's on the ballot.
Target has announced that they're going to drop part-time employees from their health care plan.
It's uh more fallout from Obamacare.
Sit tight, my friends.
Even with all of this, we have yet to scratch the surface.
Sit tight, be right back.
I have just an innocent little question, ladies and gentlemen.
The New York mayor Bill De Blasio, de Blasio, sorry.
Admittedly, his regime did not snowplow the streets where wealthy New Yorkers live on the Upper East Side.
And there were allegations that he did this on purpose.
People live on the Upper East Side think that he did it on purpose.
Some of them do, as a means of getting even with them.
Because they're rich Or wealthy.
And he doesn't like them because of that.
Some of them think that he did this so that the wealthy can find out what it's really like for most people in this snake pit of a country.
Well, given all of that, given that the streets in the Upper East Side have not been plowed, would you assume that there are traffic problems there?
I would.
I would assume that there are traffic delays, bottlenecks, perhaps even for emergency service vehicles, much like there was when the lanes from Fort Lee were blocked on the George Washington Bridge.
So is this kind of like what Christie did, or is allegedly of de Blasio punishing his political opponents by not plowing the streets where they live?
And I'm wondering, well, will there be an investigation of this?
All right, so I checked the email and people want to know the details about marriage school in Colorado.
There aren't really a whole lot of details here, folks.
Here's the story.
It's from the Denver Post.
As if getting married wasn't complicated enough, a proposed ballot initiative would require mandatory pre-wedding education before couples could say I do.
Lumped onto the hours spent debating centerpieces, picking a photographer, finding that perfect dress, and corralling future in-laws.
The proposed Colorado Marriage Education Act calls for 10 hours of pre-wedding marriage education.
However, if either the bride or groom to be is marrying for the second time, the requirement kicks up to 20 hours minimum of premarriage wedding school or pre-wedding marriage school.
And it goes up to 30 hours for people getting married the third time, because the presumption is you really don't know what you're doing.
So the second time you get married, it's 20 hours.
The third time it's 30 hours.
A remarrying widow would be held to the same standard as a first-timer.
So a widow who's getting married again would have to go through 10 hours of marriage school.
The law would not apply to civil unions.
Meaning homosexuals are exempted from this.
And that may be because there's nobody to teach them yet.
There just isn't a whole lot of data.
I don't think it's necessary to mandate in my private life, said Margie Rogers is going to walk down the aisle June 7th in Boulder Rogers and a fiancee completed premarital counseling to their church.
Proponents, David Shell and Sharon Tacodian of California-based kids against divorce, say that the intended purpose of this is to better prepare individuals going into marriage to fulfill their new roles as spouse and potentially as parent.
So you're gonna have again, some people have appointed themselves as the experts, and they're the ones in sp in in charge of the initiative, and they're gonna set up schools, and they will then tell you, if you live in Colorado, what you have to do and uh what marriage is in their view, and all of that.
I don't know about this state.
Uh, but I guarantee you this is just the first state.
This group, this group isn't gonna stop in Colorado.
Isn't it amazing, folks?
There are no classes about getting pregnant.
No classes uh about buying birth control when you're 12.
As no education on actually I'm wrong.
There probably is abortion education.
Yeah, I'm sure that's taught from kindergarten on where to go how to do it, how to get money from your parents to pay for it.
I'm sure that's part of the early indoctrination of these people.
Do the marriage classes promote Well, you know, this is, you know, in a in a way, I'm sure some of you say, Rush, come on, what is it?
Well, it dovetails what we were talking about yesterday, about the various way different people in the world presume and look at freedom.
For example, we in the United States, we just instinctively believe, because of our founding and because of our understanding of where our freedom comes from, that's part of our creation.
We think that everything is legal until there's a law passed saying that it isn't legal, and we believe that it is our culture that defines right and wrong, good and bad, good and evil, and leads to our laws.
Now, in many parts of the world where there has been totalitarianism, authoritarianism, statism, it's just the opposite.
A lot of people believe that everything is illegal until the state comes along and passes a law saying it is legal.
Now stop, you know, I talked about this yesterday, stop and think of the difference.
Imagine yourself in both circuits.
You're an American, and it's just whatever you want to do is fine, until we as a society come up with a law saying no, it's not fine.
But then imagine growing up.
Imagine the fear of the state.
Imagine the constraints, the fright that you must go, that everything you do is presumed illegal unless the state has authorized it.
Now, this is a ballot initiative in Colorado.
Now, I don't want to make too big a deal about this, but I think the starting point for this is all right.
To accept this, you must accept the presumption that you don't know anything about marriage until some people you've never met who claim to be experts can teach you.
If you're going to accept this, this thing ought to be voted down on matters that have nothing to do with marriage.
It's nobody's business.
And who are these self-appointed experts?
And are they state-sanctioned?
And who are they?
What values do they have?
What the hell are they going to be teaching people about marriage and parenthood?
And what are their credentials?
But if people blindly accept this, they're accepting the premise that they ultimately are not in control of their lives, and that they ultimately don't know what's best for them, that they can't do anything, include getting married, unless it's taught, sanctioned, and approved by a higher authority.
I think it's just flat out ridiculous.
And it's the blind acceptance of this that permits other kinds of control to be handed out on people, even from entities that are not connected to government.
Who are these people?
Just a bunch of activists who think they care more about good marriage and kids than anybody else.
Now, if your church does it, that's a different thing.
You can choose that, and this is just going to be a ballot initiative, so people are going to vote on it.
But I think the premise of this is illustrative of the challenge that we face as a country.
And right here is the presumption that the vast majority of people don't know what they're doing.
And of course, the proponents would point to the divorce rate.
Well, they don't.
I mean, look at the divorce rate.
And that's not an indication that people don't know how to do marriage.
It might be an indication they married the wrong person or got married at the wrong time, or who knows?
I mean, there are all kinds of different reasons for divorce.
But the fact that we're going to establish a body of people, a group of people, are the experts in it?
What else do they believe?
Man-made global warming.
What else do they believe politically?
You're going to have to register Democrat as part of your wedding and marriage school.
I mean, what?
I just think the whole premise is indicative of a problem I think this country has, and that is low self-esteem on the part of way too many people, which has been inculcated and talked to them.
They've been told they're incompetent.
They've been told they're uncapable.
They've been told they can't do anything unless taught or taken care of.
Holding actually bugs me.
Not Target.
Target Corporation announced yesterday will no longer offer health care coverage to its part-time employees in a blog post.
On the company's website, the executive vice president of human resources framed it as a positive development for part-time employees.
The health insurance marketplace provides new options for health care coverage that we believe our part-time members may prefer, she wrote.
In fact, by offering them insurance, we could actually disqualify many of them for being eligible for newly available subsidies that could reduce their overall health insurance expense.
So Target is coming along, and they're just eliminating health insurance or part-timers on the basis that they're doing something good for them.
Now, I, on the other hand, folks, I've got an AP story here today.
It's an AP story today that tells me that the Target must be lying about this because the AP story is all about how Obamacare will affect employers.
And the AP story says several times that it will not cause anybody to have their hours cut or lose their jobs.
There is an AP story today reporting that.
Nobody will have their hours cut.
Well, what about those who already have?
And nobody will lose their health insurance or their jobs because of Obamacare.
Let me give you a, for instance, from the article.
The law, Obamacare, isn't expected to prompt sudden radical changes for workers.
So you probably won't lose your job due to the overhaul, despite claims by the law's opponents.
Really?
You won't lose your how many people already have, and how many people have been converted from full-time to part-time?
How many people have lost their health insurance?
Right here it is.
AP says today none of this is going to happen.
And this story is one of the headliners at Yahoo News, which is low information headquarters.
This is where they go to soak this stuff up.
Here's here's another uh excerpt.
Some companies have said they are cutting part-time workers' hours to keep them below that threshold.
But the anecdotes of companies cutting employees' hours aren't showing up in official U.S. employment numbers.
In fact, recent government figures show job gains, not losses.
It is an out-and-out lie.
There aren't any job gains.
There haven't been 44 months consecutive job growth.
Employment is not expanding or increasing.
And in fact, ladies and gentlemen, the real unemployment rate, the actual real unemployment rate that makes total sense is 37%.
I'll have details when we get back from this obscene profit timeout.
Don't go away.
Paul Medard and the Washington Examiner.
Actual unemployment, 37%.
Be honest with yourself, folks.
You hear that uh 92 million Americans are not working.
92 million global unemployment is just over 200 million people.
Half of the world's, this is the industrialized world now.
Half of the industrialized world's unemployed are in America.
And they tell us that the unemployment rate is what 6.7%.
There are today nine million fewer jobs in the labor force than when Obama was inaugurated in 2009.
Nine million jobs that have just vanished.
They don't exist.
They are not job openings waiting to be filled.
They just represent closed businesses, shut down small businesses, reduced workforces at various businesses.
It's not a pretty picture.
And everybody knows it.
College graduates can't find career work.
Heck, can't even find part-time work.
I mean, full-time work's being converted to part-time because of Obamacare.
There isn't anything positive in the job market.
And it's got people scared to death for their kids, their grandkids, and even for themselves.
And it is causing theoretically now, it is causing baby boomers to not retire.
They can't afford to.
They've got to keep working.
So they are not turning their jobs over to others unless they are fired, which is also happening.
But it's an insult to everybody's intelligence that the unemployment rate 6.7%, even the drive-bys in the last two reports, have had to admit the numbers coming down not because of job growth, but because of the reduced labor force.
What's the adult population of the country?
210?
225 million adults in the country, 92 million aren't working, and they want to tell us the unemployment rate's 6.7%.
So here's this story.
Don't believe the happy talk coming out of the White House, the Feder Reserve, Treasury Department when it comes to the real unemployment rate and the true misery index, because according to an influential Wall Street advisor, the figures are a fraud.
In a memo to clients provided to Paul Bedard, his columns called Secrets at the Washington Examiner.
David John Murata calculates the actual unemployment rate of those not working at a sky-high 37.2%, not the 6.7% advertised by the Fed.
He said the misery index is over 14, not the eight claimed by the government.
Murata, who recently advised those worried about an imploding economy to get a gun, said that the government isn't being honest in how it calculates those out of work, nor is it being honest about how it calculates inflation, which are the two numbers used to get to the misery index figure.
The unemployment rate only describes people currently working or looking for work, which is true.
It's called in labor department lingo the U3, letter U-3, and that's the 6.7%.
And it only counts people who are looking for work who can't find it as unemployed.
Now the U6 number includes people who have recently quit working after 99 weeks of unemployment compensation.
And that number is 11.3%.
The claim here is that unemployment in its truest definition, meaning the portion of people who do not have any job in this country, who are able is 37.2%.
Now that number obviously includes some people who are not or never plan to seek employment, but it does describe how many people are not able to, who do not want to, or who cannot find a way to work.
Policies that remove the barriers to employment, thus decreasing this number are obviously beneficials that he and his colleague Megan Russell in their new investors note from their office.
So these people counsel investors.
They advise people where to put their money, you know, where to remove it.
And in the misery index later, which I haven't seen reported much either way, anyplace.
But it's a it's a joke that the unemployment rate 6.7%.
It's a joke that there have been 44 months of job creation.
It is a joke that the economy is growing.
It is a joke.
Obama's numbers are going to be 38%.
Obamacare would be universally popular, but it isn't.
And it isn't, and it hasn't happened.
It's not going to happen.
Job growth, it's impossible.
Obama's shrinking the job market.
92 million out of work.
Million people.
92 million able-bodied adults aren't working.
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