Thread: Rush Limbaugh: Obama’s America: The Land of Victims Getting Even

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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!



Obama’s America: The Land of Victims Getting Even
RUSH: America is a land of anger being redeemed and grievance being rewarded.
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Obama’s America: The Land of Victims Getting Even

October 03, 2014


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RUSH: 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 -- ah! -- amnesty.
OBAMA: The moment I asked -- and it won't 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 gonna need you to have my back! I'm gonna need you to have my back! Anything I can do can be reversed by the next president. We already know how powerful the Latino vote can be.
AUDIENCE: (applause and isolated hoots)
OBAMA: In 2012 Latinos voted in record numbers. But despite that record breaking turnout, only 48% of Hispanic voters it 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.

RUSH: Was the crowd loud there or not? I... (interruption) It wasn't? (interruption) Well... (interruption) Well, I know we've heard it, but this crowd I'm trying to gauge the response. (interruption) He was all fired up, and it sounded like a few loud voices? (interruption) Yeah, but it's a big room, and maybe they didn't capture the applause. Anyway, he wasn't finished. Obama kept go. He's all fired up here.
OBAMA: 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 is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger. America is 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.
RUSH: Folks, that... 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 gonna 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. The 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's a stacked deck where women have to work two pitiful jobs that don't pay anything just to give her kid a better life. (Why? 'Cause her husband's flown the coop 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 the 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 who have no business going to college want to go, and they get in! We've got nor colleges, universities, junior colleges, junior-junior colleges, vocational tech schools than ever.

We've got more educational 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 Oz to determine who gets to go. So, a student on who defies the odds to become the first in a family of poor immigrant, retched oafs to 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 forget 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 some polling place! You don't even need to that. You can mail in your vote. You can vote early. What is this?
"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 handle it.
OBAMA: 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 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.
RUSH: "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, 'cause the deck is so stacked against you.
And that's just sick.
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RUSH: Here's James in Evansville, Indiana. Welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks. It's an honor to talk to you. I've listened for years.
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.
CALLER: Yeah, just calling about Obama. I mean, I don't know at this point, this late in the game, why anybody is surprised at his actions. I mean, he's coming to town here, actually to Gibson County -- he's landing in Evansville -- just to basically further the liberal agenda by exploiting a minority business.
RUSH: What do you mean, "exploiting a minority business"?
CALLER: Well, using it to further his goals, liberals' and the Democrats.
RUSH: Well, he's --
CALLER: 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 that business, and I don't see how that could have helped him.

RUSH: Doesn't matter. The guy is an immigrant, and so Obama can use it. He's setting the stage, he's setting the table for his amnesty. He just told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus last night that it's gonna happen. He promised it between after the election and the end of the year. He promised them last night. He said it's gonna happen, and I'm telling you what he's waiting on, folks.
Let's see how many of you remember, because I mentioned it earlier in the busy broadcast week. (interruption) That's right. The early thinking is that there's gonna be a runoff in the Mary Landrieu Senate race, and he's not gonna 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 Landrieu.
If she does indeed go to a runoff, and it looks like that race is going in that direction (polling data is indicating that), 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 gonna do it before the runoff so as not to add an extra onus or obstacle to her reelection.
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 and he's gonna celebrate and exploit this immigrant business -- you need to tell everybody, "He didn't build that. He didn't build Millennium Steel. He 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 libs hadn't built the roads that enabled him to take the material to the factory to be built, if they hadn't put the water lines in, if they hadn't put the gas lines in, if 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."
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So the crowd at Zabar's this morning got up, read the New York Times, "Wow. Wow. Holy cow! The Secret Service might have actually let those bad guys in there 'cause Obama's black? Really?" Unbelievable.



Liberals Think the Secret Service Doesn’t Want to Protect Obama Because He’s Black - The Rush...
RUSH: A couple members of the Congressional Black Caucasians -- one of them's Elijah Cummings, the other one is Emanuel Cleaver -- are running around, and...
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Liberals Think the Secret Service Doesn’t Want to Protect Obama Because He’s Black

October 03, 2014


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RUSH: Have you heard this? A couple members of the Congressional Black Caucasians -- one of them is Elijah Cummings, the other one is Emanuel Cleaver -- are running around, and they are saying that their constituents (who would obviously be African-Americans) are asking them if the Secret Service is purposely letting people in the White House because Obama's black and they don't care as much about protecting him.

You know where that story is? That story is in the -- dadelut dadelut dadelut, wait for it -- the New York Times. So the crowd at Zabar's this morning got up, read the New York Times, "Wow. Holy cow! The Secret Service might have actually let those bad guys in there 'cause Obama's black? Really?" Unbelievable. Never mind the fact that the Reverend Jackson has run for president and had a Secret Service detail.
He's still walking and breathing and talking about it. Reverend Sharpton had a Secret Service detail. Much as many people thought it was a waste of money and time, he got one. He's still alive. He's still living and breathing and talking. Why don't they go ask those guys about it? But, oh, no. Because we've got to have the possibility -- and all it is is a possibility.

In fact, Emanuel Cleaver and Elijah Cummings told the New York Times, "Oh, of course that's not the case." They're telling their constituents this. "Of course that's not the case. The Secret Service would never do that." But then they say (chuckling), "But we can understand why our constituents think it." It's just unreal. Just unreal.
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Rush Limbaugh

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.



Amazing! The Unemployment Rate Falls Before Another Election
RUSH: The unemployment rate that's reported consists of two things: People unemployed and people looking for work.
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Amazing! The Unemployment Rate Falls Before Another Election

October 03, 2014


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RUSH: 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, it was obvious what was gonna happen, and I so stated that miraculously, the unemployment rate would end up, the last report before the election, November 12, would have it below 8.0%. And it did, 7.9. It was a magic thing. The last jobs report before the 2012 election came in at 7.9% unemployment, and on cue, the Drive-Bys went banshee. They went bonkers with happiness and glee.
They said, "Okay, we've taken care of that stat. So Obama's no longer a prisoner to that stat. We've got an unemployment rate that came in 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 is.
"Even though you don't understand 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. Lo and behold, the next day -- dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut -- we have unemployment at 5.9%. And that's what the low-information voter is gonna see. The low-information voter is not going to know that the labor force participation rate is now at a 36-year low.
Yes, 92.6 million Americans are not working. A 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 rate's around 11% or 12%, but the one that gets reported is 5.9%. 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, and 80% of the jobs that were reported created are either minimum wage or barely above it. There were no career jobs created. 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.

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 was on the Special Report show with Bret Baier.
He said, "Well, the president went to the state of Illinois to brag about the economy. Illinois has 300,000 fewer jobs than it had in 2008..." This is Obama's home state. Well, Hawaii is his home state. Illinois is where he lives now, or lived. He said that "Illinois has 300,000 fewer jobs than it had in 2008. For the last four years in the state of Illinois, the number of 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." Quote: "Now, the president we just heard disparage trickle-down economics while bragging about doubling the stock market value."
What he doesn't know is "he is practicing trickle-down economics by doubling the stock market. he and for six years now, and most recently, under his choice to be the 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 assets like farmland, but particularly into stocks."
Zero percent interest rates is trickle-down economics. 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. "That is why this has been a boon to the 10% of Americans who own 80% of all the directly-owned stock, and this is why 95% of the wealth created in the last six years [has] gone to the dreaded top 1%."
Now, that 1% thing, I have a 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. In every other state (other than where fracking is taking place), the story is pretty much the same.
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RUSH: This is Curt, Fleming Island, Florida. Great to have you on the program. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. First-time caller, but I've been a listener since the very beginning.
RUSH: I appreciate that, sir, very much.
CALLER: 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 'em.
RUSH: Well, that's an acceptable excuse. If you can't get it, you can't get it, and we're not gonna hold that against you.
CALLER: Well, listen, Rush, the reason I called -- and I'll get right to the point -- is that when I saw the 5.9% number today, I also remember the unemployment number dropped to 7.9% back in 2012 about a month before the election. But what I wanted to ask you 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 'cause they didn't believe it?"

RUSH: I do remember. 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.
CALLER: That's true.
RUSH: They make no effort to hide it. 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?
CALLER: 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.
RUSH: Now --
CALLER: I think if they'd have been regular, mainstream reporters they might have helped that scenario along. But this was a business conference. So, yeah, I do think they were kind of laughing it up 'cause they knew it wasn't true.
RUSH: Well, maybe some of them, but, Curt, let me assure you that a reporter in business, in sports, in fashion, and entertainment is a liberal.
CALLER: Wow.
RUSH: There they the ones who aren't are exceptions. In fact, John Crudele 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 gonna do it.
So he did a column detailing how they did it and so forth. But 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 has been some laughing at them, but I don't remember too many business reporters doing stories which questioned the legitimacy of the number.
John Crudele, New York Post, was one. But I don't believe there were a lot of those stories where the whole thing was held up at phony. But this today is just 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.
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• CNSNews: 92,584,000: Record High Not in Labor Force; 62.7% Participation Rate Matches 36-Year Low
• RushLimbaugh.com: I'm Ready to Accept Apologies, Drive-Bys: As I Told You, the Regime Manipulated Unemployment Numbers Before the Election - 11.19.13
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