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July 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 3, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm a little hoarse today.
It's not bad, but I'm a little hoarse.
I was yelling at myself all over the golf course yesterday.
Yeah, not a good golf day.
I was not a good golf.
I did not have one meaningful shot in 18 holes on my team.
It was us two versus those two, and I did not have one meaningful shot.
You know, the more regularly I play this game, the worse I get.
No, live from Los Angeles, because of the holiday coming up.
It's a special edition of Open Line Friday.
Open Thursday.
Yes, sir.
Thank you, Johnny Donovan.
That's right.
So I will not play golf again for a minimum.
Well, let's see.
Three weeks.
And I guarantee you, the next time I play, I'll be 100% better than I was yesterday.
I played three times this week since we've been out here.
Progressively worse.
It was still a good time.
A great, great group of people yesterday, but, man.
And I don't know how I got hoarse because I really wasn't yelling at myself.
I mean, I was yelling at myself quietly, silently, but there must have been something in the air.
I doubt that you can even notice.
Folks, welcome back.
Great to have you.
We're doing Open Line Friday on Thursday today, which means we remove the restrictions and the limits and the, well, we expand the range of what you can talk about.
So just have at it.
Whatever you want to talk about pretty much is fair game.
Now, I want to go back to the Quinnipiac poll of a couple of days ago that shows the more voters, more voters than ever in the last six years see Obama as the worst president in modern times.
And I remember back when the Washington Post, their headline, by the way, in this poll, either Obama is the worst president since World War II or Americans just have really short memories.
Remember when the Washington Post wrote up an article like this one at the bottom of this page here to defend Bush when he was found to be the worst president of all time.
Remember that article?
Yeah, because there was a poll that showed that Bush was the worst president.
Bush approval numbers of 32%.
And I remember, I distinctly remember the Washington Post running a story saying, no, no, no, no.
American people just don't have it where their memories are.
I remember.
No, I'm making it up.
There was no such story.
Here is the Reuters story, a very despondent Reuters.
Two years into President Barack Obama's second term, more voters say they are dissatisfied with his regime's handling of everything from the economy to foreign policy, giving him the worst marks of any modern U.S. president, a poll on Wednesday said.
1,446 registered voters, 33% said Obama was the worst since World War II.
28% pointed to George W. Bush as the worst.
This was Quinnipiak University.
Now, folks, I have to tell you something.
In the White House, and they live and die by these polls, when they saw this, when they saw that fewer people Think Bush was the worst president than Obama.
That's the kind of thing that will send them exploding through the roof.
Because Bush is the benchmark.
Bush is the justification for everything Obama says is wrong in America.
Everything.
Everything is still because of Bush.
Everything going wrong, from the economy to Syria to Iraq.
Everything.
Bush, the absolute worst human being to ever occupy the Oval Office.
They have made their bones on that.
Obama is where he is because of that.
The news media and the Democrat Party got together again from basically 2004 on and did everything they could every day to drive Bush's approval numbers down to drive up hatred of Bush to diminish any achievement.
When Bush had unemployment of 3.3%, they called it a recession.
Obama's unemployment rate's a phony 6.1%.
We're in the biggest recovery you've ever seen.
So when they've got a poll that shows more people think Obama's worse than Bush, I guarantee this is the kind of thing that worries me because this will make them mad at us, at the American people.
These are vindictive, vengeful people, these Democrats.
And when the people do not appreciate nor understand what the Democrats are trying to do for them, then there's going to be hell to pay.
This, you got to remember, go back to 2008, 2009, year Obama was immaculate.
You remember those days?
Utopia was finally here.
We had vanquished this incompetent, stupid idiot that they had made Bush out to be.
And we were going to fix everything.
And we were going to unify.
And we're going to get rid of racism.
And we're going to get rid of partisanship.
And we're going to get rid of foreign policy mistakes.
And everybody was going to love us because we had just elected the smartest man that ever walked the earth.
And we had just elected a man unlike any who had ever walked the soil in the United States.
So it's so special.
We had made anybody could make Obama into anything they wanted.
Stacked against Bush, who was the absolute glittering jewel of colossal ignorance, a walking parade of human debris himself.
And now, six years later, the same American people who've been talked into hating Bush, the same American people who have been talked into blaming George Bush, now think Obama is even worse.
This is the kind of thing to make James Carville want to regrow his hair so that he could pull it out again.
This is the kind of thing that would just send them upside down in loop-de-loops.
Voters were split over which of the two most recent presidents done a better job.
39% saying Obama has been a better president than Bush.
40% saying that Obama is worse.
There's nothing in this that can make them cheer.
Over the span of the 69 years of American histoire and 12 presidencies, Barack Obama finds himself at the bottom of the popularity barrel.
Said Tim Malloy, the assistant director of Quinnipiac University's polling unit.
Now, Quinnipiac even tried to cover this up a little bit because I didn't actually read that to you the way Reuters wrote it.
Let me read it to you the way Reuters wrote it.
Over the span of 69 years of American history, 12 presidencies, President Barack Obama finds himself with George Bush at the bottom of the pub.
No, because 33 percent have Bush, have Obama as the worst, 28 Bush.
Obama owns the bottom.
He's not there with Bush.
He's not tied with Bush.
He's not even close.
So then the Washington Post: either Obama's the worst president since World War II or Americans just have really short memories.
Let me again get into some internals of the Zogby poll, which just happens to be focused on the same thing.
Some of these numbers are pretty, well, you might find them stunning.
Armed with new numbers that are depressing to an already deflated White House.
I don't believe they're deflated.
Snurdley, do you think the White House is deflated?
I'm asking you because I know you look at everything through electoral politics and that prism.
Do you think that the White House is deflated, Obama and Susan Rice, and Valerie?
So you don't think they're depressed at all.
See, I don't either.
I don't think they care a whit about the.
They will be bothered by the Bush number for a couple of reasons, but they don't care about this.
This poll isn't going to stop Obama because public opinion is irrelevant.
It always has been.
Public opinion doesn't matter a hill of beans to Obama, and it doesn't now.
So I don't think the White House is deflated.
I think they're energized.
Zogby on Wednesday found that most do not believe that Obama can lead the country.
And he compared the president to Bill Clinton following the Democrats' sweeping congressional loss in 1994.
Now, again, I get stuck on this.
It took the American people six years.
I guess I'm just got to live with this reality.
There's a thing about the office of the presidency in this country, and I guess it's a good thing overall.
And it is that most Americans invest a lot of trust and a lot of hope.
And all presidencies start out with a lot of built-in forgiveness, the honeymoon period, great expectations.
Every presidency starts even with a sense of bullions.
It didn't for me because I knew what was coming.
And I don't say this to brag, folks.
I say it actually with a tinge of disappointment and sadness.
I wish I were not the only one that saw it.
I wish it didn't take the American people six years to figure this out.
But then critics of mine would say, well, Rush, you can't expect people to act on what they think or don't even know.
You can't expect, I mean, you're out there saying that Obama's a lib socialist and it's going to result in X, Y, and Z. Most people don't want to look at it that way.
They want to think it's going to work.
They just elected the guy.
They think he's going to be good.
He's a new change from Bush.
You've got to look at it the way the voters look at it.
They do all this with a sense of optimism and hope.
I understand all that.
And so they're not going to react to people warning them how bad.
That it wouldn't take somebody if they understood the difference in ideologies.
I keep going back to that.
I think it's all about, you know, people tell me, rush this ideological rift.
It's over.
That's not how the country runs anymore.
The left-right paradigm, that's old hat.
That's not what America's about.
It damn well sure is.
And the more people on the right and the more Republicans who start believing that there's no left-right paradigm anymore are going to be buried because we are being dominated by an ideology.
We're being ruined by an ideology.
We're being assaulted by an ideology.
And it's known as liberalism, progressivism, leftism, whatever the appropriate names are.
It does matter, and the paradigm still does exist.
But I'm never going to get over being frustrated.
It takes six years.
And look, it took people a long time to see Nixon, too, so I need to understand this.
I don't want to open that can of worms because that's a whole different ball of wax.
But just a couple of from the Zogby poll.
I'm going to get into some of the internals here to go along with the Quinnipiac poll.
Obama's support has dropped two points among men from 44 to 42 percent.
He has dropped four points with women, 49 to 45 percent.
This is job approval and support.
He has dropped five points in 30 to 49-year-olds, 51 to 46.
He's even dropped four points among Democrats, 81 to 77 percent.
He's dropped seven points in Independents, 39 to 32 percent.
He's dropped even in the eyes of liberals by seven points, 83 to 76 percent.
He has dropped six points in Hispanics, 73 to 67.
And he's dropped 10 points in African Americans, 86 to 76.
And he's even down five points in union households.
Those are the findings from Zogbi.
Zogbi has approval number overall a little higher than what it is in some other polls in Quinnipiac.
It's really, really bad out there.
And listen to this montage.
Here are the drive-bys reluctantly talking about this Quinnipiac poll.
Some voters think President Obama is the worst U.S. president since World War II.
33% of people think Obama is the worst.
Bad news for President Obama.
A new poll shows it.
Many Americans believe he's the worst president since World War II.
The worst personal news President Obama's gotten in years.
A new poll showing President Obama is the worst president since World War II.
The title of worst U.S. president.
President Obama has earned that dubious title in a new presidential poll.
President Obama's topping a new poll.
He's been named the worst president since World War II.
The worst president since World War II.
President Obama, the worst president of the post-war era.
Obama, much worse than Nixon and Carter?
Yep, that's true.
That's what the Quinnipiac poll says.
Now, you heard that.
They are questioning it.
They are a little shocked by it.
They're saddened by it.
None of them are happy.
Nobody in that little montage was happy and regaling us with good news.
I want to take you back to this wolf-blitzer montage on one day, March 13, 2006.
It's 4 p.m. here in Washington.
You're getting the first look right now at our brand new poll.
The president's job approval rating has taken a downward turn again, falling to only 36%.
This represents his lowest rating ever in the CNN USA Today, Gallup.
The president's poll numbers are pretty bad, pretty awful right now, rock bottom as far as the CNN USA Today Gallup poll.
The president's a rock problem and his new low point in the polls.
His approval and policies now are at new lows.
The president's job approval number in this new CNN USA Today Gallup poll, rock bottom, the lowest it's ever been.
It's 5 p.m. here in Washington, where President Bush takes a beating in our latest poll.
His approval rating at a low ed, our latest CNN USA Today Gallup poll, just out in the past hour, shows the president at an all-time low.
His job approval rating at a new low.
That's rock bottom as far as our poll is concerned.
It's 7 p.m. here in Washington.
The war in Iraq comes home to roost for President Bush.
Our latest poll numbers showing his approval rating at a new low.
Also, President Bush hits a new low in the polls.
Now back to our lead story.
President Bush's approval rating now at an all-time low.
As we noted, a new CNN USA Today Gallup poll shows his job approval rating at a new low.
President Bush's approval rating at a new low, 36%.
None of that repeated.
4 p.m. to 8 p.m. March 13, 2006.
Wolf Blitzer could barely keep his pants up reporting this.
Can you imagine what would have happened on CNN that day if the news in the poll had been that people had voted Bush the worst president ever?
And we'll be back.
Don't go away.
You know, it's an interesting question.
These polls that are showing really horrible news for Obama.
You have to ask yourself, how is it happening?
The drive-bys are not reporting any bad news for Obama.
The drive-bys are not hammering Obama like they hammered Bush.
The drive-bys, the media is trying to cover for Obama every ever chance they get.
They're not reporting.
I mean, they're misreporting this flood of illegal Illian children.
What explains it?
I mean, the drive-bys, it took them four years to drive Bush's numbers down to 30%.
But they're trying to prop Obama for six years.
They haven't talked about anything that would impact Obama negatively.
So what must explain this?
It must be real life.
It must be that people are really living the mess that Obamacare is.
It must be that people are seeing the real mess that this unchecked illegal immigration is leading to.
It must mean that people are really living not having a job.
It must mean that people are really living the rising cost of gasoline and energy and food.
It must be that people are actually taking note of how bad things are because they are experiencing it.
And the drive-bys are not able to paper it over.
Now, you stop and think about that for a minute.
That's got to really upset the drive-bys.
This is not supposed to be happening.
These kind of poll numbers are not supposed to happen to a Democrat president.
The drive-by media is there to make sure this doesn't happen.
They are there to prop up Democrat president.
They are there to blame Republicans for the things that are going wrong.
They're there to blame the lack of cooperation.
Poor Obama, the Republicans just won't help him.
Boehner is an idiot, whatever you want to say.
But it's never, ever Obama's fault in the media.
He's not anything other than the smartest, most caring, deeply concerned, compassionate president we've ever.
And still, His numbers are falling apart on the downside.
It has to be reality interceding.
It is Open Line Friday on Thursday, and so let's go back to the phones.
Folks, I still got Boku points to make about this immigration business that's going on.
For example, just to give you a tease, White House, no change to immigrant surge strategy at this point.
It came out late yesterday afternoon.
What is Obama's strategy when it comes to anybody knows what his strategy is?
There's no change in it.
What is it?
What is his do nothing?
Same thing as in Iraq, same thing as in Syria.
Do nothing.
And so there's no change in it.
Excuse me.
Here is Jim in Jacksonville, Florida.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Rush, I pulled up the Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment report and went to table A1.
And the actual numbers show that these are the non-seasonally adjusted or the hard actual count where they count the unemployed.
That the number of unemployed people in America went up 450,000 people.
That is 450,000 more people unemployed in June 2014 than May.
Right.
But as you said, these are the unseasonally adjusted.
This is before they work their magic and convert 450,000 unemployed to 288,000 new jobs.
Well, I mean, if you don't have a job and they tell you, well, don't worry about it.
You're seasonally adjusted away.
These people still don't have jobs.
I mean, the hard numbers from the government, where they actually counted the unemployed people, their own chart shows that 450,000 more people were unemployed in June of this year than in May of this year.
I mean, it's incredible.
Well, you'll find that's pretty much the case every month during the Obama administration.
But the seasonally adjusted is a formula, and it's been around since before Obama.
So don't, that's not specific to Obama.
The seasonally adjusting things and then waiting WEIGHTIO waiting various factors.
This has been done a long time.
But the raw numbers are stunning.
450,000 brand new people lost their jobs.
However, that's mitigated by seasonal things.
And by the time they finish running the formula, 288,000 new jobs are created.
But I'm not going to repeat, I went through all these hard numbers earlier in the program.
And if you want to really get the truth about the job numbers, just go to the first hour of this program at rushlinbaugh.com.
Well, yeah, the bottom line is they're lying to us.
But I want to be very clear here.
The seasonal adjustment of unemployment numbers or economic growth numbers, the only thing Obama has changed is the way GDP is calculated.
This unemployment business has been going on this way for I don't know how long.
You can't really lay that at Obama, but now they may be playing further games with those numbers than have been played in the past.
It's bad enough without accusing them of anything.
And I don't let me, if you want to talk about the raw numbers, listen to these.
Of the 288,000 new jobs they say were created, here are the areas that grew the most.
Retail trade, 40,000 jobs.
Leisure and hospitality, 39,000 jobs.
Education and health, 38,000 jobs.
Government, 26,000.
Temporary help service, 13,000.
Now, those are not jobs.
Every job's a good job.
And I don't want to be misunderstood here.
But those are not entrepreneurial career-oriented fields.
They are for some.
Leisure and hospitality could be, but if you're looking at employees in those ways, those are transient jobs.
You have that job for a while, move on to something else.
Retail trade, you know, a clerk on the floor at Nordstrom's or whatever.
These are jobs that people have for a while and move on to other things, education and health.
You don't have really strong numbers in career-oriented jobs.
It's just a shame.
Well, that's the point Snerdley is shouting at me.
I would be shouting at you if I weren't so hoarse today.
The thing is that everybody knows there's not a growing economy because they're living it.
I'm going to tell you that.
If the economy were booming like they're trying to tell us it is, you wouldn't have Obama showing up as the worst president since World War II, and you wouldn't have his approval numbers down barely above 40, and you wouldn't have him plunging in every political and demographic group if there were legitimate economic growth going on.
If the unemployment rate were really 6.1%, and that we're not, it's such a fake number because it's meaningless.
The real number is the labor force participation rate is at, I know, I think it's since 1973 is the lowest it's ever been since 1973 at 63%.
63%, that's all of the available people to work.
Only 63% are.
And that 37% equals about 95 to 100 million people not working.
So, yeah, you can tell people are not living an expanding, growing economy.
Their incomes are not rising.
Wages aren't.
Healthcare costs are.
It's just.
But the drive-bys and the Democrats are trying to paint a picture otherwise, and it doesn't appear to be working.
I think that's fascinating and telling.
Jim, I appreciate the call.
This is Jonathan of Lawrence, New York.
You're next on Open Line Friday on Thursday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for having me on the show.
I wanted to talk about the immigration crisis going on, with all the kids flooding across the border and how the Democrats and the establishment, the whole amnesty crowd, they're saying how everyone is trying to stop these kids.
They're so cruel and evil and whatever.
And it made me think of the Democrat treatment of Elian Gonzalez.
So, yeah, and you're finding some hypocrisy there.
Elian Gonzalez, happily ensconced in a genuine relative's home in South Florida in Miami, was taken by armed U.S. agents under the orders of Janet El Reinho and flown back to a communist country to be with his oppressed worker father, Juan Gonzalez.
So Elian Gonzalez reunited with Juan Gonzalez.
was no way little Arian was going to be able to stay here.
They had us in it because families had to be together.
Families had to be reunited.
Now, Juan Gonzalez was a political case.
It was a way for Clinton and Janet Reno to make their bones with their base, as it were.
And that's exactly what Obama's doing with immigration in the other way.
Do you know, folks, that some of these children, unaccompanied from El Salvador, Ecuador, and Guatemala are being flown here?
And do you know that at the point they're being picked up and flown here, the trip to the United States is longer than the trip to take them back home?
And yet they're still coming here.
And Obama says he's not going to change his strategy.
This immigrant surge will not produce any change or even a reassessment.
The White House is not planning to reassess its strategy for handling thousands of unaccompanied minors streaming across the border amid mass protests.
In fact, the White House press secretary, Josh Ernest, said he had not even spoken to Obama about protests in California.
It's not even big enough for the press secretary to ask the president what to say about it if he's asked.
You've got massive protests in Southern California, and they're going to be popping up in Texas and Arizona and other places.
And the press secretary said, I haven't even asked him about it.
We don't care.
He didn't say we don't care, but that's the impression they're leaving.
Josh Ernest said that there's no expectation of changing strategies here to deal with the flood of minors at this point.
He said, nope, at this point, we're focused on making sure that we can ramp up the resources necessary to meet this growing need.
The White House press secretary said, no, we're not focused on anything other than making sure we can come up with the resources necessary to meet this growing need.
Whose need?
What is the need?
We have a need for illegal immigrant children.
That's an incredible thing to say.
The only thing we at the regime are concerned with is ramping up the resources necessary to meet this growing need.
Now, Obama, ladies and gentlemen, said that he wants to address the issues on the southern border.
And he said, by the way, well, let's be honest, because I imagine some of you have been shouting at me on the radio or at the radio.
Obama has said that the refugees can't stay.
Let's be honest and admit that he has said that.
He also said, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
And he also said, if you like your insurance plan, you can keep your insurance plan.
And he also said a whole lot of things that he didn't mean.
So he's not being honest with us about what he knows about the flood of illegals, and he's not being honest with us about his intentions going forward.
Now, the press secretary is, press secretary, oh yeah, the biggest concern we have here is ramping up resources necessary to meet the growing need.
And the need is, if you're a liberal, these are poor, suffering, stranded, abandoned, starving, thirsty children.
That's the need, Mr. Limbaugh, and that's what we must ramp up Rethorth for.
And that's the way they look at it.
It just happened.
Hey, a bunch of kids want to come to America?
What's wrong with that?
And who can blame them for that?
And so there's a pressing need now to provide for them humanitarian and human rights.
Yes, sir, Ebop.
And so we've got to ramp up the resources necessary to do that.
Refugee camps popping up on their own?
How does that happen?
See, here's the thing.
If President Obama was a sincere problem solver, he would open these centers, because we're told these kids are suffering.
We will not let, there's a U.S. Congressman tried to get in.
They will not let him.
They will not let a congressman in, the Border Patrol, and the ICE.
They will not let a congressman in one of these refugee camps.
They will not let the media in to see what's going on in there.
They will not let the kids be chatted to or talked to.
Nobody's allowed to see what's going on in one of these refugee camps.
Now, if the president was a sincere problem solver, he would open these refugee camps, these centers, whatever, of human suffering to the media.
If there's human suffering going on out there, we need to see it so that we can do something about it.
And he would demand that Congress send members to these camps to rally support for quick action.
To somebody with common sense, it looks like a well-orchestrated bullrush on the border using children as fodder.
I mean, who's what support or sympathy is there going to be for sending kids back?
Come on.
This is Caleb in Durham, North Carolina.
We're back to the phones.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
It's an honor to speak to you today.
I appreciate that, sir.
I really do.
Well, I made a bet with my mother a while back that she has a Windows computer and I have a Windows computer.
And I made a bet with her that if I could get on the show and have you recommend upgrading, I would say it's an upgrade to a Mac, that she would do it.
Now, wait a minute.
You made a bet with her that if you could get on the show and have me recommend upgrading to a Mac, that she would do it.
Absolutely.
She's one of your biggest fans, I think.
So when you recommend it, she's not all that hot to the idea.
Well, I think she mostly just wanted me to talk to you.
I think she's a good person.
Let me try it this way.
Does your mother have an iPhone?
No, she actually has the Samsung Galaxy.
I have an iPhone.
Oh, geez.
Okay, you have an iPhone.
Yes, sir.
Let me tell you what's going to change her mind.
Sometime this fall, more than likely in September, Apple is going to release iOS 8 and OS 10 Yosemite.
These two upgrades are the most dramatic, remarkable, great, fantastic upgrades in Apple software history.
They are going to convert If a person has an iPhone, but a Windows computer, they're going to ditch the Windows and buy a Mac to avail themselves of the new features coming.
If somebody, I don't have a whole lot of time to explain this, but I'm telling you, they are going to unify the iPad and the iPhone and the laptop or desktop computer with the iPhone as the central hub using iCloud.
And you're going to be able to take and make phone calls from your laptop.
You are going to be able to make or take SMS text messages on your laptop computer.
Your computer, if you have a Windows computer and an iPhone, you're not going to be able to do any of this.
But before you even get to that, before iOS 8 comes out and Yosemite comes out, I learned on a Mac, and so that's what I've been familiar with.
And to me, they're just commonsensical, easy, but they're the best.
Particularly, some of the latest Windows system software has been confusing to people.
But I think that your mother should give it a shot.
She's got you to show her how to do it.
And after she, she'll ditch the Samsung phone.
And she probably is going to join you in becoming an Apple fanboy before too long.
It's that remarkable what they have planned.
We'll take a break and be back.
Don't go away.
I'll tell you something else about what's coming from Apple.
Everybody, the most important thing for most people on their phones, computers is their pictures, their photos.
It's going to become simpler, better, easier to have every photo you have ever taken on any of your devices.
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