Limbaugh: Unemployment Rate Likely ‘Phony’
- Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:30pm by
Mytheos Holt
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On his show today, Rush Limbaugh hammered the Obama administration for claiming its budget would decrease deficits by $3.2 trillion, following CBO estimates that it would increase them by $3.5 trillion. “This is a lie,” Rush thundered, before proceeding to push the GOP to take a closer look at the President’s numbers in general.
“I mean, if they’re lying to us dramatically about the cost of health care, and if they are lying to us dramatically about budget deficits coming down, isn’t it likely that they are lying to us about their unemployment numbers every week?” Rush asked. “If those numbers are as phony as the original CBO Obamacare reports on cost and coverage — if the unemployment numbers are as phony as the promises of what the stimulus bill would do for jobs, if the unemployment numbers are as phony as recent poll numbers showing Obama with a 50% approval number, if the unemployment numbers are as phony as Obama’s budget deficit numbers are — then the unemployment numbers have to be a lot worse.”
The clip from Rush’s show is below:
In the same segment, Limbaugh also savaged the Obama administration for being blindsided by low poll numbers after claiming they were recovering in the polls. Here’s the quote:
The first two days of the week we had the polling data from the New York Times and the Washington Post, polls which were devastating to the regime, devastating to Obama. The New York Times poll has his approval at 41%, an all-time low in that poll. These polls were so bad that pollsters and Democrats and media people are now insulting the respondents by calling them “stupid” and questioning themselves as to whether or not their own polls are broken. But these polls had a devastating impact on the White House, because last week was supposed to produce Obama in the upper fifties.
If nothing else, this segment shows that Rush is embracing his supposed role as “de facto boss” of the GOP and hardly letting himself be discouraged by the arguably fake campaign to pull his advertisers.
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Comments (137)
SpeckledPup
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:28pmeverything these last 3 years coming out of DC and obama’s lying purple-lipped yap has been forgeries, frauds, hoaxes and LIES.
Report Post »9111315
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:54pmPlease don’t talk about the commander in chief like that. If our troops can’t trust their leadership, they will real helpless and abandoned. They will have no choice but to take things into their own hands when the others they are responsible for fall.
Report Post »Gary_K
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 12:17am@ 9111315
Sounds like the truth hurts you a little bit. I’ve got some news for you, thtroopsps already do not trust NoBama and this government. Just look how they are being treated.
Report Post »midwesthippie
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 2:11am…just show the evidence or STFU…
Report Post »dutchy
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 4:22am@midwesthippie O did say he was going to fundamentally transform the USA. You do not fundamentally transform something you LOVE!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 7:23amHippie, put down the bong, eject that copy of “Live / Dead” from your 8-track player and take a look around. The proof is everywhere you look.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 7:24amIn my opinion that would be an accurate statement. Anything involving numbers in Washington is quite frankly a lie, covered up with another lie and so on and so on and so on.
Report Post »teresa2010
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 8:52am@9111315…….The troops can’t stand the Democrats in general….the troops know they are anti-military….who are the ones calling them rapists, child killers..THE DEMOCRATS…OBAMA WOULD LOVE TO SAY ALL THOSE NASTY THINGS ABOUT THE MILITARY…
THE PEOPLE TAKING THINGS IN THEIR OWN HANDS ARE THE LIBERALS….THEY END UP BEING THE VIOLENT SHOOTERS AND PROTESTERS TO GET THEIR OWN WAY
Report Post »CLG 4
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 9:27amJust look this week they disarmed some marines when thier boss came to talk to them. Back to unemployment, the numbers only show the people drawing unemployment checks not the number that has been moved to the assistance roles of medicade, food stamps and welfare.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 9:43amhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Population_Survey#1994_CPS_Revisions
Sheesh, no kidding Rush…OLD NEWS dood…and it was under Regan that the change was implemented…Bush tweaked it…only minor changes
BUT I have been asking GB for years to check into BLS.GOV cause I dunno if they are on auto cruise, performing legitimately, politically run by progressives, or making these changes via EO.
I seriously think they (BLS.GOV) are on cruise control and doing these things on their own…and they are the ones that are the final authority for many things that affect our lives.
Get your mind around BLS.GOV…cause I don’t have a staff like you but I did use BLS.GOV for many negotiations, and it is used for many other things.
The tweak the stats constantly as they grow…called GOVERNMENT CREEP! Unintended or intentional??????????????
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 9:44amI live and employ in Florida ..and I KNOW its phony
just as phony as the man in the White House is …
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 9:53amThis may be true but look at all the money his supporters have made. Do you think all the CEO‘s of these Green Electric vechicles and battery Co’s.walked away without filling up their off shore accounts first? I would love to know how much Obama got and where the accounts are. Some comedian just gave Obama a million bucks to the re-election fund – what is he getting in return. I think he raped someones little boy and Obama put him on the pardon list.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 10:03amEmbracing his position as head if GOP???
Er, Rush has LOOOOOONG joked that he is the “TITULAR HEAD OF THE GOP.”
So, I’d hardly say he is starting to embrace it, but rather, he continues to live up to the perceived / effective position of a titular head. It’s kinda like all of us saying we are the head of the TEA Party.
Welcome to the war, Rush!
Hmmm… I need to research the events surrounding Rush’s departure from TV.
Report Post »I wonder if boycotts were used to strip him of his First Amendment rights then, too!?!?!!
Ruler4You
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 10:27amHonestly, it was a lie under Bush, too.
That being said, obango “IS” manipulating the numbers (via supportive career minions) for his own political gains. Personal lust and self aggrandizement are who obango “IS” in his tiny dark heart.
When you are not only ‘willing’ to manipulate others, to cause or allow the suffering of others for your own lusts, you ARE an evil person. Period. Whether it’s Bush, or B.J.Clinton or obango.
Even the communists understand that this “IS” a ‘game’ of “manipulation” and the very lives of anonymous persons are in the balance. But that only helps to make it ‘easier’ for them to ignore those consequences.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 10:33amRemember if you are self employed like contractors, store owners, and service folks you never even get to claim benifits. Every home builder in this crash was never counted. Anyone that gets a 1099 never counted. The numbers are at shadowstats if you want the real ones.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 10:43am.
Report Post »This is not news.
If the unemployment rate is 9% one would think this means 91% are working.
Nay, nay. The way Washington calculates unemployment is based on new claims.
So, if NOBODY had a job, and all gave up looking, Washington would say employment was 100%.
When the exact opposite is true.
MS-GlenNBC
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 11:35amGlenn takes Obama at his word…….
Glenn, “Obama said he was a Christian, I take him at his word”
Glenn, “Obama said he was born in Hawaii, I take him at his word”
Report Post »junkmaninohio
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 3:11pmTo 9111315…..the military troops were ordered to disarm and leave their weapons outside when Leon Penneta spoke to them this week in Afghanastan. Does that mean the leadership does not trust our troops to refrain from shooring the head of the Defense Department?
Report Post »Vernon Black
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 5:11pmRush, you are the Man! When Obama’s Socialist Utopia is fully implemented….I hope you and I share adjoining cells at the FEMA re-education camps….I’ll smuggle in the cigars!
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 8:46amNot since 1930‘s Germany has the world seen a propaganda machine like Obummer’s. Like Hitler said, “How fortunate for government that the governed don’t think.”
Report Post »BlenGeck
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 9:26pmYes….what is it with the purple lips on the freek anyway? Yuk
Report Post »rc30
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:14amI had to go to my home town of Flint Michigan from Texas. I was in Flint summer 2010. I can tell you this for sure. The crime rate is 10times worse. Jobs are poor and not getting better. GM Truck and bus did not have one new truck in the lot. I ask my friend why. I tought GM was doing better. He said that they are only running 1 shift. The trucks are put on the trailers right away and thing are bad. Now in 2008 before I left. That plant had new trucks waiting to be shiped. Murder out of control carjackings home invasion gun shots rapes. This is every day never stops. Its all ways been bad. But never like this am scared for my sisters and brothers rest of my family still there. Am staying right here in west Texas for a while.
Report Post »Zipit
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:22pmIt all makes sense to anyone with the intelligence to “PAY ATTENTION”
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:34pmHere is the video Rush talked about on his show today. It’s about the media and how they treated him in comparison to Bill Maher. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMToF_H7rqM
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:48pmThe thing about the unemployment rate is that is has hit private sector employees the hardest,the very people who pay the taxes to support the government…Government employees are the base vote for the democrats…they are voting for their own destruction…Obama will tax business into destruction and the government will collapse..the people who depend on government will all loose their jobs on the same day…
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:16pmI could accept your points until you had Obama taking us over the cliff on purpose. If you think one man, any man, has that much power, you are thinking way to simple.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:25pm@SimpleTruths
Report Post »If you haven’t checked, we are up against a lot more than one man. That side has a 24 hour cable campaign channel (msnbc) and lots of folks in congress, not to mention numerous prpaganda outlets and a complicit main stream media. And that’s just for starters.
Banter
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:27pm@Simpletruths
He has 535 (minus a few patriots) co-conspirators, Czars, Soros, and a few close allies (unions, Ayers, Muslim bros, et al).
He is not alone in progressive clown college.
Report Post »shogun459
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:42pmAnd so you have finally figured out what Obama meant by
Report Post »“A fundimental change in the way DC works.”
“I want to fundimentally change America.”
You know, it‘s not like he said that’s what he was going to do, oh right he did say that.
TheObamanation
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:39pmThe Inflation numbers are BS too
Report Post »9111315
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:55pmHand wave. These are not the inflation numbers you are looking for. Reverse hand wave.
Here, buy some U.S. Savings Bonds.
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 12:25amI hope those aren’t jazz hands
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 7:48amMost of the pain at the pump is deflation of the dollar too.
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:27pmbtw,
no such things as chemtrails, haarp…3months of google earth.
you to can find fun things…check area 51…or alaska haarp…russian haarp, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv8FxmfJZYo&feature=plcp&context=C477071dVDvjVQa1PpcFNMRzNgHU7ndb2CZqwTWt-b6WMROWS2BZI%3D
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:26pmJust wait until the September and October numbers. Gallup will say 11% and the labor department will say 5% And when Mitt get in the hack will still be there so January will be 12% for no reason. November numbers is 5% and just two months later it will be 12% under President Romney but with Obama hacks giving the numbers.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 12:02amIf those who have“dropped out of the labor force” and those unemployed under 25 are included in the stats the numbers look very different. Counting the way we did in the year 2000 we would be at 14.5% unemployed in the U3 numbers and 26% in the U6 numbers.
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:10pmYou are getting sleepy … very sleepy
Report Post »neverending
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:00pmThe bastard and chief and the entire circle of corruption that surrounds him are all pathelogical liars – plain and simple.
Report Post »johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:57pmOh, let me see now…..
Obammie and his slugs will sell over 2,000 high powered weapons to Mexican drug lords; AND, they may be lying about how many jobless there are in this country?
I’m absolutely aghast!
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:41pmis way more than 2000…
way the he77 more.
the blackmarket and other dealers are making record profits .
have heard from many friends in low places.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:50pmYOUDID- You’re as sharp as a razor.
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 2:57amwhy thank you …
Report Post »mensaman62
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:55pmIs this the first time El RushBo was posted on the Blaze? I have never seen it before. ? I had a great laugh when Rush’s sponsors started pulling out and he said he tried to call himself to cancel “Two if byTea” and couldn’t get through…I bought my first case of his blueberry tea…really good.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 12:14amGo, Rush! Been listening to him since 1990, the year my hubby retired from the Navy, we started listening and knew we had a new hero speaking the truth.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:53pmRush is right……we are tired of the lies……..and the lies about the everything that is wrong in this nation…..the smoke screens about birth control….voter IDs…..the debt……the wost president in American history……..11 more months………..VOTE
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:10pmOMG 2012!
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Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:31pmhow can we vote with continued voter fraud…
kinda like pi$$in’ in the wind.
jjw.
must safeguard the votes. too much for too long.
Report Post »gdogle9155
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 10:11amYOUDIDTHIS
Just be glad your not in Washington State, “ King County ” The Democraps just keep counting and counting and counting till they get a number they like. They always seem to find stacks and stacks of uncounted democrap ballots hidden or misplaced everywhere. The evil Republicans must have hid them.
Report Post »styxman65
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:51pmLying is what Obama does, deficit, unemployment, energy, you name it. Reminds me of what the Hit@ler did, the Soviet Union did, North Korea does, Chavez does, list goes on and on. Of course his mindless basement droids listen to him and believe every word dished to him and they worship the American flag , as long as Obama’s face is on it instead of the stars….. I prey to god every day that even good minded dems don’t fall for this classic Communist/ Socialist propaganda lies.
Report Post »swmopatriot
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:57pmJust think what the “Propogandar and Chief” will try to do if he wins a second term without having to worry about a reelection. God help this nation!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:26pmIf Obama wins re-election .. that will be the last election … America will be destroyed by “dear leader”
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:21pm“Lying is what Obama does, deficit, unemployment, energy, you name it. Reminds me of what the Hit@ler did, the Soviet Union did, North Korea does, Chavez does, list goes on and on.”
Report Post »You’re right; Reagan did, Bush did, Bush did.
youdidthis
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:58pmyes , many are complicit.
2 headed snake p.eople
or this;
Report Post »Former LA Police Officer Mike Ruppert Confronts CIA Director John Deutch on Drug Trafficking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=UT5MY3C86bk
Vickie Dhaene
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 11:30amYou are absolutely right. A must read: How Do You Kill 11 Million People? by Andy Andrews. You Lie to them. Also need to read Indivisible by James Robinson and Jay Richards.
WAKE UP AMERICA !!!
NewLife56
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:50pmGallups is closer, they have it at 9.1%, I think its closer to 10.5
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:56pmI think your numbers are close, but only if you don’t count those who gave up looking for a job, and you don’t count those that who have only been able to find part time jobs, and you don’t count those that have gone from decent paying jobs to minimum wage jobs.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:59pmNo polls count self employed people…who can’t find enough work…whats the number for the under employed…what about the young people who can’t find an entry level job..they are not being counted either…unemployment is closer to 20%
Report Post »dlivelli
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:49pmI think obama should give all his speeches from Disneyland. After all, that is the world he lives in …….Fantsyland. The more I listen to him…..well beside wanting to vomit…..I don’t believe a word he says….do you? I guess we are all little children that are to be mesmerized by his presence and voice…..AKA….. cris mattewized by him. Keep the leg tingling to a minimum please…it’s a family show.
Report Post »TurboCat
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 1:00amPeople who fight the left need to stop being so polite. Fight fire with hotter and bigger fire. It‘s not that the left are worried about ’disenfranchising’ the minority people; no. It is that THEY (COMMUNISTS) WANT TO CHEAT!
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 8:40am@turbocat
Agreed!
Newt Is THAT “Hotter and Bigger Fire!”
At The Very Thought Of Newt —
BHO Squeezes HImself InTo A Very Tiny Ball and Rolls Himself InTo A Corner and Cries!
Borrowing From Rush —
Newt Will Beat BHO “With Half His Brain Tied Behind His Back To Make It Fair!”
NEWT 2012
Report Post »http://www.newt.org
momprayn
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:49pmYes, of COURSE they are fake – EVERYTHING re Obama & Admin. is fake. I’m glad Rush pointed it out and pray that these facts that counter the lies will keep on coming out loud and clear. I hope the candidates and Congress listens to his programs – he gives great advice and he knows liberals inside out. Need to keep calling them out every single time and make it as loud as possible.
Report Post »gdogle9155
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 10:28amThey do listen. Thats why they hate rush and try to shut him down
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:49pmObama is hoping things stay together till November. They will lie, steal, cheat, and lie some more to paint a rosy picture. 47% of Americans are taking some form of welfare, and Obama knows all he needs to buy or steal is 4% of the votes.
Report Post »Voice_of_One
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:51pmYes, but if he thinks he will lose we’ll get martial law.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:00pm@Voice_of_One you are right, if they think Obummer will loose, first they will have OWS riot and then declare martial law. If they actually have the election and loose, they will declare that the election was stolen, no matter how badly they lost, and then have rioting, and then try to instate Obummer anyway, for the good of the country.
Report Post »toto
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:47pmThank God there are a few brave men and women in the media that are willing to tell the truth. Besides the even rarer honest politician that remains uncorrupted, there are too few Americans left that are willing to stick their necks out for the lame stream media to chop off. Hope they know how much we appreciate their voices and that we support them. I deliberately try to utilize the products of their advertisers and avoid the products of companies that have dropped people like Rush. He will survive, I do not wish the same for the cowardly sponsors that caved to the leftists.
Report Post »Snaker
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:59pmYup, me too. Carbonite stock is tanking.
Report Post »True unemployment is really like 17%.
They’re cooking the books to show favorable numbers.
desert buckeye
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:17pmThe Marxists are attacking us on our flanks with their boycotts. We need to fight back. I hope everyone has started their own boycott battle against left-leaning organizations.
Report Post »We need to “Fluke” them royally! Especially Hollywood. I would love to see those dimwits take it in the shorts.
lukerw
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:46pmThe President and Government has lied so much, and so often, that people do not react to the Sin any longer! We seem to stuck with Rulers who do not obey Rules, but force us… and we seem to have No Recourse!
In the Old Kingdgom of Ancient Egypt… the Sun God was worshiped. And, even though the Wheel was used in other lands… the Priests forbid the use of the God Symbol there. We have the same problem… we know the Solution… but we follow the Rules to our own demise!
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:43pmeverything that comes out of the peestream media is phony….they are invested in thier master..these progressive white slaves will do anything and everything to protect useless….even laugh at his incredibly stupid jokes…
Report Post »Snaker
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:03pmNBC and MSNBC get their daily mouth-marching-orders talking points
Report Post »from MediaMatters. That’s well-known. Now the white house is out with
a memo instructing those on how to “fight-for” Obamacare.
Pure propaganda…
JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:24pmCOOK COUNTY- ‘peestream media’! LOL! Perfect fit for their yellow journalism.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:41pmWhy would they be accurate? I don’t CARE!! The federal government needs to subsidize ammunition. My God! one round can cost $75.00. And thats just for a rifle.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:45pmGet a smaller caliber. You don’t have to hunt squirrel with a 105mm.
Report Post »gdogle9155
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 10:40amDarmok
Not smaller, larger – Try 155mm – you only need one round.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:40pmThese are not the unemployment numbers you are looking for (hand wave)…..the Jedi Mind trick only works on the weakminded. That’s why MSNBC REALLLLLY believes all the BS that comes from Jay Carney.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:00pmMSNBC and the WH work together to come up with talking points. Axelrod uses Matthews “de facto leader” crap about Rush. BHO uses Sharpton’s “a few at top do well and the rest of us struggle some where”. After all MSNBC is not news and they don’t have reporters and commentators – they are all campaigners for the demo-marxist party. Of course it could be MediaMatters, they are all working together.
Report Post »Less1leg
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:38pmI think the actual unemployment rate is much higher but the eco-liberal Democrats don’t want outrageous statistics being presented to the people because of the election forthcoming. If the real numbers were released the backlash will tip the tide to the conservative candidate. Its also why I believe ACORN is working behind the lines in the backrooms organizing fake voters, and fake registrations of voters to swing vote Democrats in large urban areas where their candidates are questionable to loosing.
Report Post »ALL4FREEDOM
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:48pmOf course. Why do you think they’re so dead set against voter ID?
Report Post »mensaman62
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:00pmJames O’Keefe just had another video out of Vermont about voting…Project Veritas
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:36pmduh…
Report Post »resme
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:35pmOf course its phony… It’s around 20% or higher.
The great one’s depression.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:35pmYou bet the unemployment rate is fake. Good for Rush and any other radio/tv people for pouring over these lies that the ‘despicable one’ and minions spread. This fact and many others need light every day, from every outlet possible. This is ‘the serious season’ now. “Silly season’ has past. We must beat Obama this year.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:56pmThat Fluke woman was a great gift.
Those sneaky democraps plotting this “war on women”
BACKFIRE!!!
Billy Maher is now the LibPig Mascot for Progressives.
Tom Hanks has screwed the pooch—-He can take those 17 minutes of crap regarding bho’s regime and put it in a league of its OWN, (LOL pun intended)
OMG 2012
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