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Oct. 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 3, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Hiya, folks, and welcome back to Fastest Three Hours and Media.
And there are other things going on there.
Lots of things happening out there despite the raging incompetence on how to deal with Ebola.
And I'm not going to allow that to let the regime sneak that stuff past us.
Live from the left coast at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
It's open line Friday.
The swansong hour of our week-long excursion to Los Angeles is now Rush Limbaugh from the left coast.
Open line Friday at 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbo at eibnet.com.
All right.
This, what is his name?
Thomas Frieden?
I'm getting him confused with Tom Friedman.
It is Thomas Frieden, Thomas Frieden, Centers for Disease Control.
I'm telling you, if you try to keep with this guy, you will go insane.
Here he is.
This is liberal logic.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control, Thomas Frieden, says we have to stop Ebola in its tracks in Africa.
That's the only way to keep it out of America.
We can't shut down our board.
We can't shut down flights.
We got to stop it in its tracks in Africa.
But we can't keep people in Africa, he said.
They're going to be flying all over the place.
Now, if we have to stop Ebola in its tracks in Africa, but we can't keep people in Africa.
I mean, they're going to be flying all over.
Is there any logic there?
Does that make any sense at all?
Of course, it doesn't.
And why are they using quarantines in Africa if they don't work?
And why did Obama send 3,000 troops to help enforce the quarantines in Africa if they don't work?
Why don't U.S. airlines simply stop accepting passengers traveling from Ebola countries?
How hard?
Well, because they'll go to other countries, Mr. Limbaugh, and he'll get on for it.
Well, not if those countries aren't letting them out.
I mean, we, folks, we are really at great risk here because of this deranged, politically correct thinking.
I just, I had a friend of mine send me a note.
He's a little worried.
This guy happens to read Twitter a lot.
That's another thing that bothers me.
But I shouldn't get into this.
And I won't, not right now.
But anyway, this guy's quoting Twitter to me.
He says, Rush, there are a lot of people I'm reading who you would think are smart.
I don't know how he knows this.
Maybe they're his friends.
They're on our side.
And they're asking, why wouldn't Obama just simply not allow flights from these countries?
He has the authority.
Why wouldn't Obama simply close the border to these people?
And the guy's worried that they don't understand the answer to the question.
And of course, the answer to the question is if Obama closes the border here, then he has just given himself a real problem with amnesty.
Obama can't close the border, folks, for Ebola.
He can't.
The border has got to stay open so that he can do amnesty with as little friction as possible.
Anyway, Saudi Arabia has banned Ebola-stricken countries from the Hajj pilgrimage.
Two million people from around the world ascend on Saudi Arabia, Mecca, for the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
And the Saudi government has banned the entry of travelers from three countries, Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.
The decision to reject visa requests from these countries has affected 7,400 people.
Even despite this, hospitals in Saudi Arabia are preparing in the event of an outbreak by setting up isolation and surgery units as well as dispatching medical staff to airports.
So they're going to do everything they can to keep Ebola patients out, but they're going to prepare in case some get in anyway.
But they're making no bones about it.
And of course, the politically correct in this country would say, do you want to be like the thoughties?
Do you want to be like those mean-spirited thoughties where the terrorists come from?
Or do you want to be open to everyone?
Come on in and enjoy America kind of country.
I can just hear the politically correct now.
Anyway, but as I say, there are other things going on out there.
And I'm not going to let this overshadow the fact that we don't mention those things.
I am going to do so.
First off, the jobs news.
Isn't it amazing?
Just prior to the 2012 election, for the year or two years leading up to the 2012 election, the drive-bys repeatedly reported a statistic.
The statistic was that no president had ever been reelected if the unemployment rate was 8% or higher on Election Day.
In fact, the month before the election.
Well, that was obvious what was going to happen.
And ISO stated that miraculously, the unemployment rate would end up, the last report before the election, November 12, would have it below 8.7, 8.0%.
And it did, 7.9.
It was a magic thing.
The last jobs report before the 2012 election came at 7.9% unemployment.
And on queue, the drive-bys went banshee.
They went bonkers with happiness and glee and said, okay, so we've taken care of that stat.
So Obama's no longer prisoner to that stat.
We've got an unemployment rate that came out under 8%.
The way they did it was to massage the numbers.
The unemployment rate came down because more people stopped looking for work.
It had nothing to do with how many people found jobs.
It was the universe of jobs fell because of people leaving the labor force.
So the percentage of people out of work also fell since the overall number was smaller.
Well, we have an election coming up in November.
Isn't it amazing?
Two years later.
And look at this.
The unemployment number is at 5.9%.
It's such a beautiful thing.
It's under 6%.
This is as low as it has been since Obama's first year in office.
Isn't this amazing?
Why, it was just yesterday that Obama was out talking to some college students and telling everybody how great the economy, even though you don't know it, even though you don't feel it, don't doubt me, the economy is roaring back.
And he alluded to all the new jobs that were being created.
And lo and behold, the next day, we have unemployment at 5.9%.
And that's what the low information voter is going to see.
The low information voter is not going to know that the labor force participation rate is now at a 36-year low.
92.6 million Americans are not working.
An increasing percentage of those 92.6 million are not even looking for jobs anymore.
That's why the unemployment rate is falling.
The real unemployment rates are at 11 or 12 percent, but the one that gets reported is at 5.9 percent now, two things in addition to the labor force participation rate.
Well, one additional thing.
Four out of the five top job additions in September were low or minimum wage jobs.
Four of five top job additions in September, low or minimum wage.
80% of the jobs that were reported created are either minimum wage or barely above it.
There were no career jobs created.
And again, the rate fell.
The unemployment rate fell because an increasing number of people have stopped looking.
The unemployment rate that's reported consists of two things, people unemployed and people looking for work.
When those numbers, when the unemployed rise, however, when the people looking for work stop looking, they're no longer counted as unemployed.
So the number automatically goes down, not when people find jobs, but when people stop looking.
It's just the way the number is tabulated.
The bottom line is there isn't any great job creation.
George Will last night on the special report show at Brett Baer said the president went to Illinois to brag about the economy.
Now, Illinois has 300,000 fewer jobs than it had in 2008.
This is Obama's home state.
Well, Hawaii is his home state, but Illinois is where he lives now or lived.
300,000 fewer jobs today than Illinois had in 2008.
For the last four years in the state of Illinois, the number of food stamp, new food stamp recipients, has increased twice as fast as the number of new job recipients.
Obama was speaking in Illinois on a college campus.
He did not mention that 40% of recent college graduates are either unemployed or underemployed.
That is, they're in jobs that don't require college degrees.
And one in three recent college graduates is living at home with their parents.
Now, the president we just heard disparaged trickle-down economics while bragging about doubling the stock market value.
What he doesn't know is he's practicing trickle-down economics by doubling the stock market.
He, and for six years now, and most recently under his choice to be head of the Fed, Janet Yellen, have had zero interest rates, the intended effect of which is to drive people out of bonds and into stocks.
Zero percent interest rates is trickle-down economics.
And so Obama has presided over a doubling of value in the stock market because with zero interest rates, it's the only place to put your money.
Plus, the Fed's been printing money to buy stocks with.
This is why there's been a boon to the 10% of Americans who own 80% of all directly owned stocks.
And this is why 95% of the wealth created in the last six years have gone to the dreaded top 1%.
Now, that 1% thing, problem with that.
But the point is, Obama goes to Illinois and touts his roaring economy, and it ain't roaring, and there aren't any new jobs, food stamp recipients, double job recipients, and every other state other than where fracking is taking place, the story is pretty much the same.
Obama also had a big appearance before immigration activists yesterday, in which he promised no force on earth can stop us.
We have the audio soundbites of that.
We have more of your phone calls coming up.
But first, an obscene profit timeout.
So sit-tight, we'll be right back.
Yeah, when Obama got back from Illinois and telling big whoppers about jobs and the economy to the students at the college there, he went to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus dinner last night and fired up the crowd about illegal amnesty.
The moment I act, and it will be taking place between the November elections and the end of the year, opponents of reform will roll out the same old scare tactics.
I'm going to need you to have my back.
I'm going to need you to have my back.
Anything I can do can be reversed by the next president.
You already know how powerful the Latino vote can be.
In 2012, Latinos voted in record numbers.
But despite that record-breaking turnout, only 48% of Hispanic voters turned out.
Fewer than half.
Fewer than half.
So the clearest path to change is to change that number.
Si se puede, si votamos.
Yes, we can if we vote.
Si se puede.
Was the crowd loud there or not?
It wasn't.
Well, well, I know we've heard it, but this crowd, I'm trying to gauge the response.
He was all fired up.
And it sounded like a few loud voices.
Yeah, but it's a big room, and maybe they didn't capture the applause.
Anyway, he wasn't finished.
Obama kept going.
He's all fired up here.
America isn't Congress.
America isn't Washington.
America is the striving immigrant who starts a business or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life.
America's the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
America's the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college.
The citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes.
The young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream.
That's what America's about.
Folks, Ned.
I'm telling you, that tells you everything you need to know if you just listen to it about how Barack Obama and people like him look at this country.
America is the striving immigrant who starts a business.
We're going to get a list of victims here.
America is a list of victims.
America is the land of the oppressed overcoming the evil majority.
That's what America is.
America is the schlubs of life getting even with the majority who would keep them down.
That's what America is.
There's no exceptionalism.
There's no optimism.
There's no greatness.
America is the land of grievances.
America is a land of anger being redeemed and grievance being rewarded.
America is a land of victims taking control.
Striving immigrant who starts a business, the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life.
That's America.
America is a stack deck where women have to work two pitiful jobs that don't pay anything just to give her kid a better life.
Why?
Because her husband's flown the coupe for whatever reason.
America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
It's always America is a land of the weak and the put upon and the victims and the discriminated against getting even.
America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college.
What is defying the odds about that?
We give away money to send people to college now.
We've stigmatized going to college to the degree that people have no business going to college want to go, and they get in.
We got more colleges, universities, junior colleges, junior, junior colleges, vocational tech.
We got more education institutions that are screwing people up than we've ever had before.
And yet, in Obama's world, college education is way over there in the Emerald City, and it's only for the odds to determine who gets to go.
And so a student who defies the odds to become the first in a family of poor immigrant, wretched oops who finally overcome the obstacles that America represents in order to get someplace.
America is the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes.
He forgot to add 10 times.
What is this?
The citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes?
You can't live in a city where the Democrats aren't sending some bus to pick you up to take you to the polling place.
You don't even have to do that.
You can mail in your vote.
You can vote early.
What is this?
The young person, America is the young person that comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream.
Demand the right to dream?
You can dream and nobody even knows you're dreaming.
You don't need the right to dream.
And here's one more if you can have it.
Six years ago, I asked you to believe and tonight I ask you to keep believing not just in my ability to bring about change, but in your ability to bring about change.
Because in the end, Dreamer is more than just a title.
It's a pretty good description of what it means to be an American.
That's the spirit that's alive in this room.
That spirit is alive in America today.
And with that spirit, no force on earth can stop us.
No force on earth can stop you from what?
So you see, folks, America is a really mean and lonely place that has to be overcome.
America is a place that has to be conquered because the deck is so stacked against you.
And that's just sick.
And we're back, Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
And back to the phones.
This is Court, Fleming Island, Florida.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
First time caller, but I've been a listener since the very beginning.
I appreciate that, sir, very much.
I mean, the very beginning.
The only time I missed any of your shows was when I was in the Navy overseas and we couldn't get them.
Well, that's an acceptable excuse.
If you can't get it, you can't get it.
And we're not going to hold out against you.
Well, listen, Rush, the reason I called, and I'll get right to the point is, is that when I saw the 5.9% unemployment number today, I also remembered the unemployment dropped to 7.9% back in 2012, about a month before the election.
But what I wanted to ask you is, is do you remember the news conference that the administration held to put out that number?
And when the spokesman actually said 7.9% unemployment, the business reporters in the room burst out laughing because they didn't believe it.
I do remember.
It's not that I don't think they didn't believe it.
I think they laughed because they expected it.
They're in on the gag.
I mean, they expected this to happen, and the regime did it in front of everybody.
They made no effort to hide it, and so it was worth laughing at.
Did you get the impression that they were engaging in derision?
Were they making fun of these people announcing the number?
Well, these were business reporters.
So I tend to believe that they knew what the numbers were.
They knew what the signs were.
They knew what the real data was.
So I don't think they believed it.
I think they were just stunned about that number.
And I think if they'd have been regular mainstream reporters, they might have, you know, helped that scenario along.
But this was a business conference.
So yeah, I do think they were kind of laughing it up because they knew it wasn't true.
Well, maybe some of them, but Court, let me assure you that a reporter in business, in sports, in fashion, in entertainment is a liberal.
Wow.
The ones who aren't are exceptions.
In fact, John Crudell is one of the exceptions.
He had a story in the New York Post detailing how that 7.9% number was entirely made up.
He did a column on how it was created, how it was artificially manufactured and how they massaged it to make it 7.9%.
He did a piece on how it was illegitimate.
And he had been warning prior to the number how they were going to do it.
And he did a column detailing how they did it and so forth.
But most of the porters, my guess is most of the reporters were laughing in support.
They laughed at the audacity.
I mean, everybody knew it was coming, and they did it.
They didn't try to hide it.
And I think they were laughing at the audacity.
There might have been some laughing at them.
But I don't remember too many business reporters doing stories which questioned the legitimacy of the number.
John Crudell, New York Post, was one.
But I don't believe there were a whole lot of those stories where he was where the whole thing was held up as phony.
But this today is as illegitimate.
This 5.9% number is even more illegitimate than the 7.9% number.
There's no way that this country has an economy producing jobs with an unemployment rate of 5.9%.
It just isn't happening.
Take a look around.
There's a reason Obama's having to do speeches and tell people the economy is going great.
You just don't feel it.
They don't feel it because it isn't real.
Mr. Sturdly just asked me down the IFB, speaking of sports reporters, is the NFL domestic abuse thing over?
Yeah, why?
What makes you think it's over?
They just found.
Well, they're not through trying to get Goodell.
They lost the first round, I think.
I think what happened, there was a story that came out early this week quoting several owners in which it was made clear that Goodell is not even on thin ice unless the Mueller investigation finds him to have been lying about what he knew about that tape inside the elevator.
He has said that he never knew.
He never saw that tape.
He didn't know what was on it.
And that Ray Rice's explanation was sort of ambiguous.
If the Mueller investigation reveals that Goodell was lying, owners are on the record saying that'd be a problem.
But right now, the owners are saying we have no desire to make a change, which has kind of shut the first wave of get Goodell media focus down.
But Mr. Snerdley, there was a story just last night.
There's a Dallas Cowboys player who's been accused in the last couple days of domestic abuse.
I didn't even read the details of the story.
I said, it's never over.
You haven't read anything about the Redskins' name change this week either, but do you think that's over?
It's not over.
It's not.
This Sunday is the first Sunday where it's all pink in the NFL.
This coming Sunday is when Pink Month starts.
You think that's not going to gin up a whole bunch of new chatter about this?
Believe me, they have not given up on the quest to it would be bad form to talk about getting a scalp here, I think.
But you get the drift.
They haven't given up on the dream of getting Goodell.
Do not think that.
That's not the way they operate.
They never say, oops, well, didn't work that time.
How many times did they come after me, Mr. Snerdley, when you thought it was over and that they have given it their best shot?
They keep coming.
And they're going to keep going after Goodell, too.
You wait.
Time will tell.
Here's James.
Well, some days I'm a fundraising vehicle.
Other days I pose a real threat.
That's why I think they'd really be worried if they actually did get rid of me because they couldn't fundraise off me anymore.
Here's James in Evansville, Indiana.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks.
It's an honor to talk to you.
I've been listening for years.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Yeah, just calling in about Obama.
I mean, I don't know at this point this late in the game why anybody surprises his actions.
I mean, he's coming to town here, actually, to Gibson County.
He's flying into Evansville just to basically, you know, further the liberal agenda by exploiting a minority business.
What do you mean, exploiting a minority business?
Well, he's going to further his goals, the Liberals and the Democrats.
Well, he's visiting Millennium Steel that is minority owned by an individual that was a Vietnam vet.
I'm sure he's a fine upstanding gentleman, but he didn't need the government to build that business.
I don't see how that could have helped.
He's just using it.
It doesn't matter.
The guy is an immigrant, and so Obama can use it.
He's out.
He's setting the stage.
He's setting the table for his amnesty.
He just told the Congressional Hispanic caucus last night, it's going to happen.
He promised it between after the election and the end of the year.
He promised them last night.
He said it's going to happen.
And I'm telling you what he's waiting on, folks.
See how many of you remember?
Because I mentioned it earlier in the busy broadcast week.
That's right.
The early thinking is that there's going to be a runoff in the Marylandrew Senate race.
And he's not going to do anything on this until after that runoff is over and she either wins or loses because there isn't going to be any credit to anybody for doing this.
The reason he's waiting until after the election is so Democrats are not hurt by it.
And the last Democrat is Mary Landrew.
And if she does indeed go to a runoff and it looks like that race is going in that direction, polling data is indicating that.
Then he'll wait for that runoff election to take place, which will be after the November election, sometime in December, and then do it, whether she wins or loses.
But he's not going to do it before the runoff so as not to add an extra onus or obstacle to her re-election.
But, James, in Evansville, I think there's one thing.
If you want to have a little fun with people that live there, you say Obama's coming out, he's going to celebrate and exploit this immigrant.
You need to tell everybody he didn't build that.
He didn't build Millennium Steel.
That immigrant didn't build that.
He didn't build that.
No entrepreneur built what he built.
That immigrant didn't do diddly squat.
He wouldn't have had a chance if Obama and the Livs hadn't built the roads that enabled him to take the material for the factory to be built.
If they hadn't put the water lines in, they hadn't put the gas lines in.
They hadn't run all the infrastructure.
He didn't build that.
You need to tell people, James, that are heading out to this thing today that they need to shout.
When Obama starts praising this immigrant for building this business, there needs to be a shout from the audience.
Wait, I thought you said he didn't build that.
This is Carl in Rome, Georgia.
Carl, thank you very much for waiting and welcome to the program.
Thank you, sir, for letting me speak with you.
You bet.
My question is: I got to thinking the other day in where the term red state, blue state was derived from.
And the reason I said that is because I got to thinking about it.
And red denotes anger and frustration.
And blue kind of you're kind of made to think about intelligence, calmness, and it's more desirable.
And I wondered who came up with this.
Well, it's interesting.
When this all first began, this red state, blue state thing, I always assumed that Democrat states were the red states because communist countries like the red Chinese, for example, the Chikoms, the Soviet Union flag is bright red.
And in the 50s and 60s, the communists were always referred to as the Reds, be it the Red Chinese or the Chikoms or what have you.
And I always wondered how it got turned around, too.
I never really knew because it used to be the opposite.
The drive-bys used to use the colors backwards.
The red states, the reds were always Democrats, blues were always Republicans, and I don't really remember how it got switched around.
Well, it's interesting.
It just kind of seems to me charred that way.
All.
I have just been told, Carl, that one of our quick-thinking staff members actually went to Wikipedia here while I was chatting with you.
And Wikipedia says that Tim Russert is the reason.
On Meet the Press, Russert used to have these little charts and graphs and his little whiteboard that he would use to illustrate things.
And he was the one who made Republican states red, and it just blew from there, and it got picked up from there.
That's what Wikipedia says.
And for lack of anything else, that's what we'll go with.
So you can take it.
Well, that's it, folks.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast time here for our busy broadcast today.
Our final show of the week from Los Angeles.
Be back in South Florida on Monday.
Of course, that doesn't matter to you.
It doesn't matter where I am as long as I am, and I am wherever I am.
So everything's cool.
Thanks so much for being with us.
Have a great weekend, and see you back here Monday.
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