That\u2019s what Dustin from West Virginia was pointing out:<\/a> “Education is the gateway to a middle class life.” It\u2019s the gateway to a lot more than that, is Dustin\u2019s point. But then Obama said: “For the first time in a generation, nearly every state has answered our call to raise their standards for teaching and learning.” Okay. So then the question becomes: Well, how is Obama going to square that last part with the Chicago teachers going on strike because they don\u2019t want to be evaluated?<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaChairDNC.jpg\"\/)
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That\u2019s one of the reasons they\u2019ve gone on strike.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t want to be evaluated.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t want to have to take tests to prove that they\u2019re qualified. They don\u2019t want to have to take tests to prove that they know what they\u2019re doing. They don\u2019t want to be evaluated. They\u2019re also asking for a 16% wage increase. So my theory was, “My gosh, if there was ever something made to order! Where is this happening? It\u2019s not happening in Philadelphia. It\u2019s not happening in Dallas. It\u2019s not happening in Los Angeles. It\u2019s happening in Chicago, a town controlled totally by Obama forces.”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s totally controlled by the Democrat Party. The teachers union is in the tank for Obama. Rahm Emanuel, the mayor, is a former chief of staff. He said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” The teachers rejected 16% raises. Now, of course, Obama is not going to insert himself in this thing without a deal already having been struck. Of course, he\u2019s not going to do that. But what\u2019s to say that there aren\u2019t negotiations going on even now and the teachers will happily, say, take 10%.<\/p>\n
That will make Rahm look good. He talked them down to 10%. That\u2019s better than what everybody else is getting in this country. (Even 8% would be.) Then they\u2019ll make some deal on the evaluations. Tell everybody that the teachers are going to be evaluated, but they won\u2019t be. After all it\u2019s the teachers union. It\u2019s any union, any union and Obama: They\u2019re blood brothers. The teachers union head honcho is a guy named Michael Klonsky, a former member of the Communist Party USA.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s one of Obama\u2019s big supporters, fundraisers, bundlers. It may not happen either, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s cynical to suspect that something like this is possible. In the middle of a presidential campaign, everybody\u2019s talking about, “What\u2019s the October surprise going to be?” Who says we have to wait until October for it? It can still be an October surprise. Just have this thing happen in September. But even if Obama does nothing, there was still a point to my making the prediction — and that\u2019s the big question of the day.<\/p>\n
What was I really doing?<\/p>\n
After 24 years, like I said: The magician doesn\u2019t give away the trick. If somebody can call here and tell me what I was really doing — and you get it right– then you shall be rewarded with the prize. But I will not divulge the trick (i.e., in this case, the real reason I made this prediction) on my own. Somebody\u2019s going to have to figure it out. As we speak, ABC News has a story that says this: Paul Ryan “crossed party lines and voiced support for one of Obama\u2019s biggest backers today.” Paul Ryan said, “We stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel in his fight with Chicago teachers.”<\/p>\n
Well, my friends what do we have here?<\/p>\n
This is made to order for the GOP establishment.<\/p>\n
You realize the orgasms they\u2019re having? Well, guess what just happened?<\/p>\n
Ryan and the Republicans have just engaged in bipartisanship. Why, we\u2019ve just engaged in cooperation. We have just expressed solidarity with Rahm. The Republican ticket, and Romney did it yesterday, I got the story right here. “Romney Calls on Obama to ‘Stand Up\u2019 for Chicago Kids in Light of Teacher Strike.” Here\u2019s Romney\u2019s quote: “I\u00c2\u2019m with the kids and I\u00c2\u2019m with their parents and I\u00c2\u2019m not with the teacher union.” Now, Romney has been a critic of teachers unions. In May he called them “the clearest example of a group that has lost its way.”<\/p>\n
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So here are Ryan and Romney aligned with Rahm Emanuel, and thus with the children and parents of Chicago, bipartisan, joining a Democrat mayor. The teachers are isolated over there. The only friend they have left is Obama, who isn\u2019t saying anything about this yet. Perfectly studiously avoiding this. Lurking on the sidelines, as we say. So, do you like Ryan and Romney joining forces with Rahm here? Is there a political payoff for coming out against the teachers union? Our base is not crazy about the unions. This has given Ryan and Romney an opportunity to make that very clear. So as far as base coalition is concerned, that\u2019s good. But how do you feel about our guys actually trumpeting alignment with a Democrat mayor of Chicago, the ballerina, Rahm Emanuel? <\/p>\n
Rahm isn\u2019t going to like it. But I\u2019ll tell you, the Republican consultants are literally having orgasms. This is what they think it\u2019s about it: cooperation, bipartisanship, finding areas of common agreement and going for it. So the only person who hasn\u2019t spoken up here is Obama. Yet. But how does it look? In fact, both of these stories are ABC. And if you read the entire story, both stories, they make it sound as though Romney and Ryan have really come out against the teachers. Not the teachers union. We\u2019re talking perception here. Ryan and Romney, anti-teacher. <\/p>\n
Now, aren\u2019t teachers in our culture sort of sacrosanct and special and so forth? They used to be. I don\u2019t know. Just asking. In a roundabout way here I\u2019m trying to gauge your reaction to this. Ryan and Romney, “We stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel.” They make it a point. They made it a big point. They wanted a lot of attention focused on it and they got it. Ryan and Romney standing with Rahm Emanuel against the teachers and with the children. I find all this fascinating. And then, folks, 79% of the eighth graders in the Chicago public schools are not even grade level proficient in reading according to Obama\u2019s own Department of Education. Eighty percent are not grade level proficient in math. Seventy-nine percent of Chicago eighth graders cannot read. That\u2019s stunning. And the teachers behind this are asking for a 16% raise and no accountability. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s impossible to support them. And that\u2019s why the AB Stoddards of the world are saying it\u2019s toxic for Obama. He can\u2019t win supporting the teachers union here. They\u2019re not doing a good job. They\u2019re asking for far more than anybody else has got. But I disagree. I know liberals. I know how they think. I know how they set these things up. I know how they coordinate with the media to report something like a settlement on this thing. Believe me, if they wanted to structure a scenario where this thing gets settled and Obama gets all the credit, they could do it with a snap of their fingers. They could do it in a millisecond. And it\u2019s a perfect group to go along with it, the teachers union. But that\u2019s not why I made the prediction.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. I\u2019m through asking you. I\u2019m going to lay this out for you. I\u2019m going to tell you how it is. In Chicago, you got teachers. They\u2019re members of a union. Here\u2019s an undeniable truth of life. The conservative base of the Republican Party despises unions. The Tea Party especially, because unions beat them up at town hall meetings. Unions beat up Tea Party people. They hate them. Independents more and more are not crazy about unions, the teachers unions especially. Look at Wisconsin. The unions in New Jersey were hated. How do you think Chris Christie got elected? They hated them in Wisconsin. Scott Walker got elected. And then when they tried to recall him he won that with 53%. And what was Scott Walker identified with? Keeping the unions in line, particularly the teachers union. <\/p>\n
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So the teachers unions are on an island, particularly in Chicago. Even Rahm is publicly against them. What I think Obama oughta do is suspend his campaign and the presidency until the teachers go back to work. We need to take a page from 2008, the economic crisis, Obama should just stop everything, suspend everything until the teachers go back to work. That\u2019s the most important thing to him, of course, is education, education is your meal ticket to the middle class. <\/line><\/p>\n
To more and more Americans, teachers are just not doing their jobs. You go to Atlanta and you\u2019ve got the teacher scandal there. Teachers giving away test results so that their accountability scores are higher. Public schools in general are not polling well. So you throw Ryan and Romney into this mix, what have they done? Ryan and Romney have solidified the base, if they needed to. They have come out against teachers unions. They\u2019ve come out for the children. That can never hurt you. And they\u2019ve basically expressed their solidarity with Rahm Emanuel. <\/p>\n
Now, on the Democrat side of this. See, I\u2019ve had a long-standing theorem, sort of like Rush Tzu\u2019s Art of War, and that is when your enemy is imploding, you get out of the way and let it happen. When a caller is making a fool of him or herself, you shut up and let it happen. Well, Ryan and Romney have violated that. They have now helped speed this self-emulation along. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the teachers and Rahm and Obama… (laughing) I would love to see this. The teachers and Rahm and Obama, “The hell with being joined by these guys,” and they all unify and solve their problems, “The hell with Ryan and Romney. We don\u2019t want them involved in this. We don\u2019t want them on our side. The hell with those guys,” and solve the thing just to spite them. “We don\u2019t want anything to do with them.” Anything can happen here. But that\u2019s not why I brought it up. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: You know, Obama could call up his SEIU buddy, what\u2019s his name? Stern. Not there anymore, but he\u2019s still the de facto head, call up his SEIU buddy, and say, “Look, you need to head down to the streets there in Chicago and start breaking some heads of those teachers union strikers. You gotta show them who is boss. You can\u2019t have this happening in his hometown, with Rahm being embarrassed. It doesn\u2019t look good.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yes, it is an unsightly sight. Obama\u2019s biggest union supporters, the teachers unions in Chicago, are on strike. They don\u2019t want to be accountable. Rahm Emanuel wants them teaching more frequently. What is it Rahm wants? A seven-hour school day. This is one of the worst-performing teacher systems in the country. They\u2019re one of the highest paid. Emanuel wants a seven-hour workday, and they\u2019re on strike over that money and accountability.<\/p>\n
And Obama lurks in the sidelines waiting for the right opportune moment to move in. Of course, it\u2019s been predicted by me, El Rushbo, that the whole thing\u2019s a setup. You think Obama wants this dragging into his campaign? You think he wants it to become a factor in the election? It already is perhaps becoming that with Ryan and Romney coming out in solidarity with the kids and with the mayor. But that\u2019s going to tick him off. They may…<\/p>\n
Rahm and the teachers and Obama may unify! (laughing) They hate us, folks. They despise us. Do you think Rahm Emanuel is happy to have Ryan and Romney on his side? He doesn\u2019t want that. They hate us. They hate us more than they hate al-Qaeda. They would let the militant Islamists have a mosque at Ground Zero faster than they\u2019d let us build a church anywhere. It\u2019s going to be fascinating to watch how this thing manifests itself. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: By the way, Ryan has doubled down on it now. There\u2019s a tweet out there. Paul Ryan said he “stands” with Rahm Emanuel. Stands with him. So they\u2019re doubling down on this siding with the mayor and against the teachers union. He\u2019s “standing with” Rahm Emanuel. I don\u2019t know why that\u2019s a sign that Rahm\u2019s wrong, but anyway they\u2019re doubling down on this bipartisan business. They\u2019re showing that they are cooperating, that they\u2019re showing that there are areas of common ground and commonality.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So what\u2019s happening is that Democrats are out there tweeting that Ryan\u2019s support of Emanuel is proof that Emanuel is wrong. This is working out well, folks. Whacko Democrats are tweeting, they\u2019re probably all over Democrat Underground, that this is proof that Emanuel is wrong and the teachers are right. So Democrat base voters, Obama base voters, are lining up behind the teachers. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Steve in Lewes, Delaware. You\u2019re on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet, sir!<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019d like to take a crack at why you threw out that speculation regarding Obama and the Chicago teacher strike.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I am guessing that — and you know that the Democrats monitor everything you say.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s right. Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Democrats also know that you have a huge audience —<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — and that much of what you say ends up elsewhere on various networks. I\u2019m speculating. I think why you\u2019re saying that is because you\u2019re actually preventing them from carrying it out.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Shhhhhh! Shhh!<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I\u2019m saying that you are absolutely right. I think they had that in mind.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Shhh! Shhh! Shhh! Shhh!<\/p>\n
CALLER: By your speculation, your putting that out there, you\u2019re keeping them from doing it because what they would have to do then would be to admit that you were right. It would be a feather in your cap.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I have to hand it to you. You nailed it. You nailed it! It took us two hours and 45 minutes, but we got somebody who knows the game.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, I have to tell you that as soon as you threw that out there and made that challenge, I knew exactly why you were doing it. If you know the liberal mind — and it\u2019s not too hard to figure out; it\u2019s a pretty simple thing — it was an easy answer.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Exactly right. By accusing Obama of interceding, by politicizing the teachers\u2019 strike in Chicago, my attempt is to make it very difficult for him to do it because then it makes me look brilliant. It makes me look brilliant, which they don\u2019t want to do.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Bingo.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The last thing they want is for people to say, “Limbaugh called it!” The last thing they want to be said is, “Limbaugh said you would do this,” and so they don\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing) Absolutely right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You got it. You got it. But the media will never figure this out (even though I\u2019ve just explained it) because they don\u2019t listen. They\u2019ll get this from somewhere else. This won\u2019t be reported.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Door number one, door number two, door number three? Behind one is a new (well, soon to be old) iPhone 4S. The iPad 3 is the latest one, engraved. Or a MacBook Pro 15-inch Retina display. Door number one, door number two, door number three? You pick a door and I\u2019ll give you whatever is behind the door.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019d like the door that has the iPad behind it. Number two.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Number two?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That happens to be the iPad!<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, how about that?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I mentioned them in order: “Door one, door two, door three?”<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: So do you want black or white?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Black.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Black?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We\u2019ve got black back there. I\u2019m going to send Brian back there. I want to make sure we\u2019ve got black. If we don\u2019t, you have no choice. You\u2019ll get white.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019ll take white! (chuckles)<\/p>\n
RUSH: But the black one, it\u2019s going to be Verizon or AT&T. That\u2019s the LTE cellular. That\u2019s optional. You don\u2019t have to hook that up with an iPad. It\u2019s not a contract situation. It\u2019s month-to-month that you can cancel anytime, and that\u2019s totally up to you. But it\u2019s Wi-Fi, and it\u2019s fully loaded otherwise.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So hang on and Snerdley will get your FedEx address and we\u2019ll get it out to you and you\u2019ll have it tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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