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RUSH: This poll from USA Today and Gallup on closing Guantanamo Bay is interesting because it\u2019s part of a pattern. If you look at the polls of where the American people stand on approving or disapproving of various Obama policy initiatives, you find something very interesting. On practically every issue, a clear majority of Americans oppose Obama\u2019s policies, and yet his approval numbers remain 63 to 64%, yet they oppose or do not agree with his policy prescriptions for things. <\/p>\n

Now, what does this mean for the future? What does it mean? Well, it\u2019s interesting to discuss because we have the state-run media, who refuses to highlight any negatives about Obama. They carry the water for him. So you have these people who disagree with his policies, a lot of his voters disagree and disapprove of his policies but in the same poll his approval remains over 63%. This could mean, and it\u2019s a wild guess, that at some point the bottom will drop out of the guy\u2019s approval ratings. I don\u2019t know when and I\u2019m not sure that will happen. But this is the kind of thing that is interesting because it illustrates a point that I have made over the course of many moons, and that is Obama\u2019s popularity is not related to his policies, not related to his issues, contrary to Reagan\u2019s popularity. Ronald Reagan\u2019s popularity was directly correlated to his policy prescriptions: beating the Soviets, building up the US military, cutting taxes, reviving the US economy, and plus Reagan was a likable guy like Obama is. But there is no correlation between Obama and his policies. <\/p>\n

Now, at some point something has to give on this, and that is a light of optimism at the end of the tunnel down there that I think is gonna get brighter and brighter and brighter. Last week we had a call to the program, ‘Mr. Limbaugh, do you really think these Democrats that voted for Obama really wanted all of this?\u2019 And I said that\u2019s the great unknown. The answer to that question\u2019s crucial and we won\u2019t know this until some of these policies have been implemented long enough for their impact to affect people. So in light of that — see, the state-run media knows very well \u2019cause they\u2019re the ones doing the polls, they know very well that this is quite tenuous. When a majority of Americans oppose Obama or disagree with him on practically every issue, and here at Gitmo, closing Gitmo it\u2019s two to one. <\/p>\n

The American people apparently don\u2019t care about the image we have around the world. They don\u2019t want these SOB terrorists in their neighborhoods, even in prison, they don\u2019t want them here, keep the place open. It is a great prison, it\u2019s a great functioning prison. It has worked exactly as it was designed. So that\u2019s just one issue. There are other issues. The American people love Obama, but they don\u2019t like his policies. The state-run media is well aware that this is tenuous, that this has a breaking point. So what is the state-run media going to do to try to ameliorate or obliterate or blur this conundrum? Well, I discussed this on this program back in January on the 9th. This is 11 days before the Bamster was inaugurated. This is what I said.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: We\u2019re going to start seeing stories that will not be true, that feature man on the street interviews with people whose lives are starting to get a little bit better, they see the light at the end of the tunnel now, they go on more job interviews and they\u2019re doing a little bit better. The Drive-Bys will start setting the stage to create the impression in the minds of people that we\u2019re coming back, when we are not. Just as they try to set up this mood that we\u2019re going to hell in a handbasket when we\u2019re not, notice how that works. That convinces people, the old saw about, ‘Well, I\u2019m doing fine but I\u2019m hearing on the news my neighbor is about to lose his job, we\u2019re in trouble here.\u2019 So how does it play when you\u2019re out of work but you hear that other people are getting jobs? If you are an Obama voter, you think your time is just around the corner, you gotta be patient \u2019cause he\u2019s already working, his plan is already working. If you think a demagogic, flowery spoken candidate or president with an accomplice media can\u2019t convince people things are great when they\u2019re bad you got another thing coming. If they can convince people things are horrible when they\u2019re good, the opposite\u2019s also possible. To this day people who are alive and voted for Roosevelt think he\u2019s the greatest president we ever had, and not because of World War II. Because of Social Security, because of Medicare, don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t doubt me. So the state-run media, the state-run Drive-Bys will start doing stories on, ‘Hey, guess what? The economy is coming back.\u2019 This will blunt the reality of a sinking economy made worse by Obama policies on people. And, lo and behold, two examples already. MSNBC Morning Joe yesterday morning, the guest Donnie Deutsch. If you\u2019ve never heard of him it\u2019s \u2019cause he\u2019s on MSNBC.<\/p>\n

DEUTSCH: The American public is getting tired of negative and angry — and to show people of character, you know, people want to see those stories now —<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Optimism.<\/p>\n

DEUTSCH: And I think you\u2019re going to see, of course, all media now that positivity is the new black in a sense. Reality TV is going to change now and be a lot more inspirational.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do I know these people or do I know these people? I tell you, I know these people like every square inch of my even more glorious now naked body. There\u2019s less of my glorious naked body but it\u2019s even more glorious. Now, there\u2019s another example from our old buddies here at the Associated Press, official state-run media of the Obama administration. ‘Fresh signs emerged Monday that the recession is letting up. Manufacturing\u2019s slide is slowing. Builders are boosting spending on construction projects — including homes. And consumers aren\u2019t cutting back as much as some had feared. A trio of reports gave Wall Street a big lift on the same day that industrial icon General Motors Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection. The federal government is taking a majority ownership stake in the company, which announced new plant closings. Investors and economists focused instead on the encouraging news about the economy. The Dow rose 221.11, or 2.6 percent. Business inventories shrank, suggesting supplies will soon need to be replenished. That would boost factory production. <\/p>\n

”The data add to mounting evidence of an abatement in the deep factory-sector recession,\u2019 said Cliff Waldman, an economist at Manufacturers Alliance\/MAPI, a manufacturing research group. ‘The worst has clearly passed for US factories,\u2019 he said. ‘Nonetheless, a real recovery might be months away. The global economic picture remains difficult.” So exactly as I predicted on January 9th, it is now starting, ‘Hey, we may have turned the corner.\u2019 Obama himself last week, ‘We\u2019re back from the brink.\u2019 Then yesterday announcing 14 GM factories shut down, three parts suppliers closed, 2200 GM dealerships are going to close. Unemployment numbers are still heading up. The first quarter GDP, 5.1% negative growth, and yet here we have the stories coming, ‘We gotta go optimistic now, the economy is coming back.\u2019 So Wall Street goes up a couple hundred points, and all of a sudden it\u2019s due to Obama and it\u2019s related to what happens on Main Street. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets under Obama, that doesn\u2019t mean the economy is bad, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Wall Street, has nothing to do with Main Street when talking about economic trends blah, blah. <\/p>\n

So I\u2019m warning you, be on the lookout for positive news, and again, in the midst of all of this economic shrinkage and realignment into a socialist, fascist type economy, if they can convince you during times of plenty that we are in a recession or just around the corner from one, then believe me, they think they can convince people who are unemployed and can\u2019t find a job that things are booming and that hope and change are right around the corner from the unemployment office. That takes us back to the polls. A vast majority of Americans on issues disagree with Obama\u2019s approach but they love him personally. There\u2019s a tipping point in there somewhere where the bottom falls out. The state-run media knows it and so it\u2019s time now to get the people\u2019s minds right. The economy\u2019s coming back, everything is great. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have more state-run news. The state-run media is reporting great state news on the economy, again to buttress my prediction of January 9th. ‘The number of US home buyers who agreed to purchase a previously occupied home in April posted the largest monthly jump in nearly eight years. This is a sign that sales are finally coming to life after a long and painful slump.\u2019 Hip hip hooray. The state-run media is reporting great state news on the economy, pending home sales up 6.7% in April. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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