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RUSH: For those of you who read the book 1984, Big Brother was everywhere, no matter where you went. Big Brother was on television, on the radio. It didn\u2019t matter where you went. I have a simple question. When do all television sets just eventually default to the Obama channel? There has to be an Obama channel now, and at some point the government, the FCC, is gonna encode broadcast signals so that your TV or your receiver defaults to the Obama channel all the time. It\u2019s the same thing with your computer defaulting to the Obama page. Last Thursday we had Obama on Leno. On Sunday, we had Obama on 60 Minutes. On Monday, we had the networks replaying Obama on 60 Minutes and Leno. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday, we had the all-channel press conference — Tuesday night. Now, wait a minute. Scratch that. On Thursday we had Leno. On Friday we had wall-to-wall media coverage of Obama on Leno. Then on Sunday we had 60 Minutes. Monday we had wall-to-wall media coverage of Obama on 60 Minutes. On Tuesday, we had the all-channel press conference from the White House. Yesterday, wall-to-wall media coverage of the Obama press conference. Today, Thursday, is a virtual town meeting in the White House: Obama doing an Internet online town meeting. Tomorrow, it will be wall-to-wall coverage of the Obama town meeting. I don\u2019t know how many of you read Orwell\u2019s 1984, but the supreme leader was Big Brother, and not only was he on TV 24\/7, you couldn\u2019t get him off of television. So we have audio sound bites from Barack Obama all over television today. He had an Internet town meeting that the networks… Well, the cable networks spent some time televising. We have three sound bites, one of which you just heard. Here is, let\u2019s see, this is a question for the president from Harriet in Georgia.<\/p>\n

HARRIET: Hello, President Obama. Here is my question for your online town meeting. When can we expect the jobs that have been outsourced to other countries to come back and be made available to the unemployed workers here in the United States? Thank you so much for all your hard work. God bless you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, before we play… (laughs) I don\u2019t believe any of these questions actually came from people that just created the question. But before I play you Obama\u2019s answer, let me remind you of IBM yesterday. IBM announced layoffs of American workers and said that the work being done by the laid-off Americans would be picked up by IBM employees in India. In essence (this was in the Wall Street Journal yesterday) IBM is outsourcing jobs. So here\u2019s this question from Harriet in Georgia: ‘When are you going to bring these jobs back and make them available to the unemployed workers here in the United States? Thank you so much for all your hard work and God bless you.\u2019 Here\u2019s Obama\u2019s answer.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The answer to the question is, not all of these jobs are going to come back, and it probably wouldn\u2019t be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, frankly, uh, there\u2019s no way that people could be getting paid a living wage on some of these jobs, at least in — in — in order to be competitive in — in international setting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you people hear this?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: So what we\u2019ve got to do is create new jobs that can\u2019t be outsourced, uh, and — and that\u2019s why energy is so promising. I don\u2019t think that we\u2019ve lost all the jobs we\u2019re going to lose in this recession. We\u2019re still gonna be, uhhh, in a difficult time for much of this year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s inspiring. The jobs aren\u2019t coming back. We don\u2019t want \u2019em back. They don\u2019t pay very much; we need new jobs that can\u2019t be outsourced. (There\u2019s no such thing.) We need new energy jobs. We can\u2019t blame this on the teleprompter. I don\u2019t think the teleprompter is making him say this. I scoured. I watched. I couldn\u2019t find any evidence that the teleprompter is there. I\u2019m sure the teleprompter\u2019s feelings are hurt. Wait, I take it back. I take it back. The teleprompter was there in his opening statement. The teleprompter was there, and then what he would do is he\u2019d turn his back to the camera to read the question on his giant monitor that people had sent in, then he would turn back. There was a teleprompter there! Maybe the teleprompter did tell him to say it. <\/line> <\/line> I don\u2019t know if he knows the questions in advance. It would be easy to sit there and be cynical and say that Obama\u2019s people wrote the questions and then wrote the answers and all of it\u2019s on the prompter. But even if they did write the questions, they had to do it through real citizens, and he\u2019s got a network of people that go for this. ACORN. He\u2019s got a bunch of people that would go for this. But forget that for a second. This answer: ‘The jobs aren\u2019t coming back, and we\u2019re going to lose more jobs this year. But that\u2019s okay, because we\u2019re going to create new jobs; we\u2019re going to create energy jobs, jobs that can\u2019t be outsourced.\u2019 So I hope all of you losing your jobs out there are inspired here by the fact that you\u2019re losing jobs to outsourcing and those jobs are gone, they\u2019re not worth it anyway and they don\u2019t pay much money. I don\u2019t think IBM\u2019s paying chump change even in India, ladies and gentlemen. <\/line> <\/line> But regardless, your president is not inspiring. Your president is not giving you any hopefully signs of improvement in the economy this year. He wants you depressed, he wants — and it\u2019s all stuff he ‘inherited.\u2019 He opened his little statement today on the prompter, prompter told him again to say that he had inherited all this. This guy is a gutless wonder. He is seeking as much chaos and depression among average Americans as he can get. Now, here, this again. This is part of his response to Harriet. Now, remember, Harriet said, ‘Hello, President Obama, my question for you, when can we expect jobs that have been outsourced to come back and be made available for the unemployed workers here in the US? Thank you so much for all your hard work. God bless you.\u2019 (kissing sound) Please call me when Michelle is out! He tells her those jobs aren\u2019t coming back, we need new green jobs, and then this was the next part of the answer.<\/line> <\/line>OBAMA: We could set up systems so that everybody in each house have their own smart meters that, uhh, will tell you when to turn off the lights, when the peak hours are, can help you sell back energy, uh, that you\u2019ve generated in your home through a solar panel or through, uh, eh, other mechanisms. All this can be done, but it also creates jobs right now. Our biggest problem, we don\u2019t have enough electricians to lay all these lines out there.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: We\u2019ve been laying lines in this country ever since the \u201990\u2019s! We\u2019ve been laying lines in this country since the 1800s. We got cable lines into every home in this country practically. We got telephone lines. We got computer lines. We got wireless. We got Wi-Fi! We got more ways into your home than you know! There was an explosion of electricians. With the housing boom, who the hell do you think wired all those houses that were built? A shortage of electricians? But aside from that, folks — aside from that — ‘We could set up systems so that everybody in each house have their own smart meters.\u2019 You see, you are too stupid to know when it\u2019s peak usage, despite the fact that your Drive-By Media and utility companies are warning you every five seconds every day when it\u2019s a hundred degrees in August. <\/line> <\/line> You might also know you\u2019re at peak usage when you\u2019re in brownouts in California. (Thanks to Enron. Yes, we know.) But you\u2019re too stupid to know even this so you need a smart meter in your house. A ‘smart meter\u2019 is called a thermostat. And many people already have them in their homes. But according to Obama, you don\u2019t know how to use them. So we\u2019re going to put another thermostat in there that\u2019s going to send out little warnings or red lights to start blinking when you\u2019re at peak usage and you can then turn off your lights, and then you can turn down or up your thermostat, whichever is called for — and then we\u2019re going to help you sell back energy that you\u2019ve generated in your home through a solar panel. And we can create jobs doing this right now. <\/line> <\/line> How? Obama just said that the federal government is going to find a way into your house to tell you how and when you can set your thermostat. And he wants to hire a bunch of new government workers to get in your house to do this. Remember, in the UK, they\u2019ve already spent 30,000 pounds (we had the story yesterday) with spy planes flying over neighborhoods with cameras that produce an infrared reaction and they can detect homes that are overusing the approved amount of electricity and energy. We don\u2019t even need electricians in your home. We can just have spy satellites do it. The point is the Obama administration wants to know when you are breaking the rules. The Obama administration wants to know when you are exceeding your allotment. <\/line> <\/line> All this couched in, ‘You can save the planet and we can help you do it!\u2019 It\u2019s tyranny: pure, unadulterated tyranny. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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