{"id":15536,"date":"2012-06-01T16:51:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:51:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-01T16:51:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:51:02","slug":"media_shock_over_jobless_numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/06\/01\/media_shock_over_jobless_numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Shock Over Jobless Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. They are in panic mode at MSNBC. They are in panic mode at CNN. They\u2019re in panic mode at the Daily Kos. They\u2019re in panic mode at the New York Times and the Washington Post. They are in panic. I don\u2019t know where they thought this was headed. I don\u2019t know what in the world they thought was going to happen. Could somebody tell me, what has happened in the last six months to suggest that anything other than this was on tap? We\u2019ve had three-and-a-half years of Obamaism. We haven\u2019t had any real growth in anything, other than bad news. Why is in unemployment report so shocking to people? Where\u2019s the evidence that it was going to be anything other than what it is? Where is the job growth? Where is the gross domestic product increasing? Where is there any good economic news? Why in the world would anybody expect today to be any different than it is? <\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m the mayor of Realville, and that\u2019s a place where things are so simple sometimes they\u2019re hard to understand. I have this story here, all these experts were expecting the consensus, 150,000 new jobs. By the way, why does that number keep popping up? Why every month is the consensus — and it is, if you read like I do — the experts every month are predicting that the job growth rate\u2019s gonna be 150,000. That number is not accidental. One-hundred-and-fifty thousand jobs created in a month in our current circumstances is the number of jobs you need to keep the unemployment rate from going up. That\u2019s all they care about. And they know what to report because the regime\u2019s told \u2019em what to report. It\u2019s the same thing, the old Soviet Union with their wheat forecasts. <\/p>\n

Even those who were alive back in the seventies and eighties, you may not remember this, but I was a Sovietologist because Mr. Buckley was, and I absorbed everything that National Review and the leaders back then were talking about. The Soviet Union every year, month, whatever, would come out with the most ridiculous forecasts on their wheat crop and everything else, and they were never, ever, right. We were bailing them out. We were selling them wheat, giving them wheat, what have you. Don\u2019t ask me to explain it now. That\u2019s a whole show in and of itself. But the point is, the Soviet media, state-controlled media, reported it anyway, because they knew the trouble they would get into if they told the truth.<\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s almost the same situation here. There\u2019s no consensus expert analysis that says 150,000 jobs are gonna be created. Where\u2019s the evidence for that? No, no. I\u2019m not trying to beat a dead horse. I\u2019m just trying to use my profound and abundant logic. Where is the evidence last week, last month, two months ago, where\u2019s the evidence that would give an expert any indication that we\u2019re gonna have massive job growth in the month of May? In other words, why did people have these expectations? I haven\u2019t. The sad thing is I am not surprised. There could be no other result than this the past three years. This is what liberalism does. This is what the Democrat Party is all about. This is what their ideology accomplishes. None of this is a surprise. That\u2019s part of the reason I\u2019m depressed<\/a>. Why don\u2019t other people see it? <\/p>\n

I checked an e-mail during the break. “Why do you care? You\u2019re doing okay.” Oh, come on. Don\u2019t make me explain that in great detail. I\u2019m insulted by the question. It\u2019s not just love-of-country. There\u2019s some personal reasons here. But who wants this? Sadly there are some who do. That\u2019s the real depressing thing is that some people are happy with this because of what they think it\u2019s going to offer them as an opportunity to coalesce even more power, oriented around fixing it. Some people believe that this is all purposeful. I\u2019m one of \u2019em. I don\u2019t know why anybody would expect anything other than what happened today. There is no evidence out there anywhere that anything other than this jobs number could be true. <\/p>\n