Did he talk about the Obama tapes?

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Posted by DougOut on 3/10/2012 11:07:00 AM (view original):
Just remember, folks, in 2005, 2006, unemployment in this country was at 5% under the hated, despised, and dreaded George W. Bush. "Job Growth Remains Brisk in February." "Healthcare Continues to Lead Employment Growth," TheHill.com. "Employment Grows Solidly for Third Straight Month." So the new normal is more than twice as high as unacceptable unemployment under Bush. The new normal, what the media says is a roaring economy; what the media says is a steady economic upbeat; what the media says is job market improving; what the media says is brisk job growth. Eight-point-three percent unemployment is more than twice as high as what was unacceptable unemployment during George W. Bush.

lol thats really good math there 8.3% is more then twice as much as 5%?  what kind of school did Rush go to?

rush likes to conveniently forget about the fact that when Bush left office the unemployment number was at 8.1%  Considering that employment was on a death spiral downwards when Bush left office Id think that having it back down to 8.3 might not be so bad.

Posted by DougOut on 3/10/2012 11:23:00 AM (view original):
 In addition, ladies and gentlemen, to the fact that it has been 49 months since the US hit peak unemployment back in January 2008 (that's a year before Obama) and since I told you that, it will take some ten million new jobs being created to rehire all of those who have lost their jobs and to absorb new workers coming out of college, for example. It's massive what we have to do here. To reemploy the people who've lost their jobs and take care of those coming out of school, either high school or college who want work, we're going to have to create some ten million new jobs. We've lost two million jobs since Obama was inaugurated, right?

There is no economic recovery.

There is no economic growth.

really eh?  unemployment was highest in January 2008?  Nope, it was 6%, It hit about 10% in around Oct 2009. so, yet another "fact" from Rush that is just plain wrong.  These fact checkers that Rush employs are either weetahded or are just plain liers...   How do you spell AGENDA???
Its easily disproven "facts" like this that make the let not believe a word that Rush says... or at the very least take everything he says with a huge grain of salt.

Posted by DougOut on 3/10/2012 10:59:00 AM (view original):
  Here he is folks. Rush Limbaugh. Back by popular demand. #1 broadcaster and most listened to person in the world. Americas truth detector. 

  Here are some quotes from Rush Limbaugh, harmless little fuzzball and the working mans equal time.

  And this is just from yesterday. 3/9/12 

You say that Rush is the most listened to person in the whole world?  wrong!  according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-listened-to_radio_programs#Worldwide_broadcasts BBC world service has more then 10x the listening audience.  Now you might say but thats not a person!  ok, then how about A State of Trance with Armin van Buuren has more than 30 million listeners, or American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest has an estimated 20 million listeners worldwide  Last I checked Buuren and Seacrest are both people, and they stomp all over Rushs 15 million.

Yet another "fact" proven wrong...

Posted by DougOut on 3/10/2012 10:59:00 AM (view original):
And you see the exit polling data: 75% coming out of Super Tuesday polling places said their number one issue is the economy. Number two issue, economy. Number three issue, economy. You couldn't find contraception anywhere on the left. You couldn't find a war on women. It wasn't there.

Actually, it wasnt 1st 2nd and 3rd.  In Georgia gas prices were actually the number one issue with 81%, and the rest of the southern states in super tuesday considered it highest too.  "fact" check FAIL

Posted by DougOut on 3/10/2012 11:16:00 AM (view original):

So the Reuters explanation: we've got people being hired left and right. Why, there are jobs being created left and right. What's the problem? Why is it staying at 8.3%? Well, because people who previously had given up are now back in the market looking for work, damn it. That means they've gotta be counted, damn it, and that means the unemployment rate stays at 8.3% when it ought to be coming down, damn it. So you people who were out of work and quit looking for jobs now have decided to start looking for jobs, you're the ones who are screwing up Obama's economic report. Because if you would just stay out of work and not come back to the labor force looking for jobs we could get that number down to 8.1%. Now, you don't care about Obama, no, you're so selfish, you have to come back to the labor market, start looking for work, and that's why we can't lower the unemployment number.

I am not making up a word of that. I may be adding, shall we say, verve and color to the way I explain it, but everything I told you is factually true, and Reuters here explains the unemployment rate held to the three-year low because more people returned to the labor force. So that's that. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that there are 12.8 million unemployed persons. When Obama's stimulus bill passed there were 12.5 million unemployment persons. Obama spent over a trillion dollars to lose an additional 0.3 million jobs. That's almost as impressive as awarding $10 million to some outfit to create a 50-dollar light bulb. That story is coming up.

So, the stimulus should have been effective immediately?  Is that what Rush is saying?  How crazy is that?  You cant legitimately start counting the effectiveness of the stimulus bill the moment it gets signed.  When do you start?  I dont know, but not the very day it was signed.  But here is some cold hard data, unemployment according to BLS was at 10% in oct 2009.  And now it is 8.3.  Is it fair to say that the stimulus was really starting to show results in Oct?  maybe, maybe not.  Maybe its more fair to say it started being more effective 5 months down the road so say June when it was 9.5 so its dropped 1.2% since then.  Not great, but a lot fairer to say that then the 0 that Rush is saying.  again AGENDA much?

BTW Dougout, your fav unemployment rate the u6 shows 6 straight months of improvement in the states.  From 16.4 in Sep to 14.9 in Feb.  a drop of 1.5 in 6 months.  If that isnt good, then what is?  

Dammit.  The thread sucks again.