ERROR, FACTUAL, Nov. 05^th, 11:54 a.m., Reagan won 49 states….Carter lost.

Our response: Not said in the same sentence this time, but from the syntax Rush Limbaugh still sincerely believes that the great Reagan won 49 states against Carter in 1980 just as he did at 11:27 a.m. on Oct. 09^th, 2007 and at 01:43 p.m. on Jan. 03^rd, 2008. This moves the results of the 1984 election to the 1980 election.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, November 10^th, verbal “Midway” for Rush Limbaugh. He made more errors in a shorter period of time than we sank Jap carriers at Midway!

Error, factual and analytical, 11:06 a.m. students protesting tuition hikes

Really? On Thursday, August 12^th at 1:18 p.m. Rush Limbaugh said that you there aren’t any high tuition complaints because of the college industry. So an older European country with more Socialist tendencies does not have a college industry?

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Error, analytical, 1:13 p.m. talked bout worthless pieces of crap that nobody wants (repeated)

Whoa! Except for that ignition system in the late 1980’s that a cheap copy of a key could strip, WHEN has Nissan manufactured garbage?

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Error, factual, 1:16 p.m. recharging electric cars would require coal

When did Monroe (mich) and Turkey Point (FL) convert from nuclear to coal?

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Error, analytical, 1:18 and 1:21 p.m. doubled pay to $5 a day (quoting some idiot who wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review)

Rush Limbaugh here showed his ignorance of the history of the American automobile industry. No, Henry Ford did NOT raise pay to $5 a day. That is a U.A.W. fairy tale. What really happened was that employees who stayed on the job long enough – for a certain period of time – got a bonus which, if added to the daily pay, would give the earned equivalence of $5 a day. And it was not offered to attract workers, it was offered to RETAIN experienced workers because men would work until they acquired x amount of money and then quit to go enjoy it. Ford had the same problem with workers at their Mexican plants in the 1990’s, and we’ve always had the teenaged girl working during summer vacation syndrome – in both cases they only want to work ‘til a financial goal is reached and then they have better things to do.

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Error, factual and analytical, 1:19 p.m. electric cars are based on a hoax

Professed oil shortages and resulting price manipulations and us being dependent on oil originating outside of our country are just a hoax?

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1:20 p.m. mass appeal of the product

Rush Limbaugh presumes that a $32,500 item does not have mass appeal because a $300 item can sell without incentives. Right, for those who keep safes crammed with $100 bills in their houses. Doesn’t everyone do that? Well, for the rest of us, there’s something called “the price elasticity of demand,” part of which, sadly, conditions us to expect that if the price goes up, the demand will go down except in special case situations where we can’t afford not to buy the product.

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1:21 p.m. state of the art Model T.

State of the art Model T? Does Rush Limbaugh not grasp the obvious changes in the what’s covered by the inherent definition of “state of the art”? Back then you didn’t have oil filters, fuel pumps, electronic ignition, automatic transmissions, air-filled tires, shock absorbers, probably not air filters, engines were much smaller in size and in horsepower, and an enclosed riding chamber was a luxury for the wealthy and even so, too bad for you if your car rolled.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, Nov. 24^th, 1:42 p.m., R.L. reciting his version of the Pilgrims and their first Thanksgiving, Joseph had Pharaoh cut taxes 20% in Genesis 41.

Our response: Huh? Our versions of the Bible, must translated that differently ‘cause in our versions Joseph recommends that Pharaoh appropriate 20% of the harvest during the current good years and put it in warehouses as a food reserve for the coming bad years. This is not “supply side,” this is rainy-day planning.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, Nov. 26^th, 12:50 p.m. (repeat broadcast), when a caller suggested that the assassination of J.F.K. had drawn us together, R.L. remarked that it didn’t L.B.J. re-elected.

Our responses: How many factual errors can be made in one statement?

1.      L.B.J. really couldn’t be “re-elected” in 1964 since he did not run again for Vice President.

2.      L.B.J. did get returned to office in 1964 in a major landslide.

3.      Between the assassination of J.F.K. in 1963 and the 1968 election a war that L.B.J. was not going to let happen happened, and his incompetence in fighting it made it drag on and become unpopular.

ERROR, FACTUAL, and analytical, Oct. 01^st, 11:09 a.m. to 11:11 a.m., Rush Limbaugh ridiculed the Anointed One for saying that it took time to free the slaves. Rush Limbaugh also said that it took the Civil War and “500,000 dead Americans” to free the slaves. Ridicule repeated.

My response: the 13^th Amendment ended slavery in this country, not the Civil War, and it was ratified after the guns were silent -  in December, 1865.

There were attempts to free slaves before this, such as the Quakers of Philadelphia freeing their slaves after the Revolutionary War. But slavery continued, and the duration between this event and December, 1865 would -“take time.”

Some Northern states started emancipation, but read the fine print. It wasn’t immediate, it was for slaves born after such and such a year, and they would be emancipated in such and such a year, once again, “taking time.”

Error, analytical,11:27 a.m., Rush Limbaugh said that a candidate wouldn’t have to shave to win in Michigan.

My response: Apparently Rush Limbaugh doesn’t understand that traditionally urban areas like Detroit and Flint can offset the rest of the state, even as N.Y.C. offsets the rest of New York.

Error, analytical, belatedly added. During the show, Rush Limbaugh recited another ode of love about the Junior Idiot (Bush 43), bewailing that he was the most abused president in history.

My response: Can E.I.B. “spring” for a lyre so Rush can strum it as professes his love for his buddy? Actually, Rush should not have any problem paying for a good one himself, and lessons if necessary. Anyway, Richard Nixon was belittled more and longer than anyone in my life time.

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Oct. 04^th, news item Rush Limbaugh didn’t have time to comment on. “Van Greta” reported on her show that a Wall Street Journal poll found that 86% of Americans surveyed felt that free trade was a bad idea and was responsible for us not being able to pull out of recession (ought to be called a depression by now).

My response: This was followed by the same number of respondents feeling that the sky is usually blue in color.

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Oct. 05^th, news item Rush Limbaugh didn’t have time to comment on, Ford is about to trim Lincoln dealerships.

My response: We are waiting for Rush Limbaugh to go on a tirade about Ford doing Obama’s dirty work, after all, according to Rush Limbaugh, the reason why we have persistent high unemployment is that G.M. and Dan Quayle Motors (ex-Ratmobile, ex-Chrysler) have been closing dealerships. Just ask that crybaby former Dan Quayle Motors dealer who ranted in The American Thinker.

But some of those among us who study automotive history realize that there’s been a surplus of dealerships for decades; this first reached our ears in Going for Broke: the Chrysler Story in the 1978-81 time period. Many are too tiny to survive in a post-1980’s world as evidenced by the string of Ratmobile, -er, Dan Quayle Motors dealerships on the Black Horse Pike between Collingswood and Turnersville – including Johnny’s County (originally “Country”) Motors which while not on the Pike was less than 5 minutes away from the Pike . And rather than join in the howls of that disenfranchised Dan Quayle Motors dealer, we welcome the purge.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, Omission, Oct. 13^th, 11:43 a.m., in ascertaining that Obama was on the payroll of the Chinese Communists, R.L. brought up that he bowed to them.

My response: and Bill O’Reilly pointed out that Nixon bowed to that mass-murder Mao Tse-Tung during his first visit to Red China.

ERROR, FACTUAL, omission, 1:12 p.m., R.L. mentioned that 1973 was the year of Watergate among other distractions.

My response: We remember an uncle saying in early 1972 that the public was sick and tired of hearing about Watergate, and that was true for the first half of the year but some time in July, we remember when the Watergate investigation blew up and captured the nation’s attention, and that was when the secret taping system was revealed. Wikipedia says it was on Friday the 13^th, we only remember it as being after the 4^th during our last careful summer of youth. From that point in time forward, the ‘70’s became ugly.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, 11:15 a.m., opening monolog R.L. was ridiculing Michelle Obama for saying something about “clean spirits” and prayer. R.L. went off on a tangent about hygiene.

My response: I can’t say I recall encountered “clean spirits” in the Bible version that I grew up with, but I sure remember “Come out from him, thou unclean spirit” being uttered as well as other references to “unclean spirits.” “Unclean spirits” are Satanic forces in the world doing harm such as demonic possession. We would PERCEIEVE (Iacocca-ism) then that a “clean” spirit would be anti-unclean spirit, the geometrically opposed opposite concept, i.e., good and helpful spirits such as angels.

1.      Zechariah 13:2

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

2.      Matthew 10:1, see also Mark 6:7

And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

3.      Matthew 12:43, also Luke 11:24

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

4. Mark 1:23-27, also Luke 4:33-36

And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out……

5. Mark 3:11-30

And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.

6. Mark 5:2-13, see also Luke 8:29

And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

7. Mark 7:25

For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

8. Luke 6:18

And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.

9. Luke 9:42

And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.

10. Acts 5:16

There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.

11. Acts 8:7

For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.

12. Revelation 16:13

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

13. Revelation 18:2

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

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Error, analytical, Oct. 18^th, 1:10 p.m., blaming Bush doesn’t go over well with the public, if it did, the Anointed One’s ratings would be higher.

My response: R.L. obviously wasn’t listening when Van Greta read the results of a Wall Street Journal poll several Mondays ago in which 85 or 86% of respondents said that “free trade” was a bad idea and responsible for our inability to get out of the depression. “Free Trade” was an obsession of the Junior Idiot, follow the trail and see where the fingers point.

Also, while many like ourselves blame the Junior Idiot for getting us into this mess, we also blame the Anointed One as well as the Junior Idiot for not getting us out.

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Error, analytical, Oct. 27^th, 11:39 a.m. - 76% of people surveyed knew someone who had lost their job – did not say how far back that cognizance went. With us, it goes back to the misrule of the Junior Idiot/Bush 43.

ERROR, FACTUAL, Oct. 29^th, 11:43 a.m. - referred to Crist as “cracker.”

Our response: a “cracker” includes the inherent understanding that the person being so called is a Anglo Protestant. Opa! Crist is a Greek.

ERROR, FACTUAL, Oct. 29^th,12:18 p.m. - scaring the seasoned citizens with cuts

Rush Limbaugh Errors for September, 2010

All times are CENTRAL unless noted

Error, analytical, Sept. 08^th, 12:38 p.m. - tax policies that are killing jobs. 12:40 p.m. - people not having jobs.

My response: Rush Limbaugh is referring to those few jobs not sent overseas wholesale by his pal the Junior Idiot (Bush 43) and his predecessor, the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Springs. Another way to reduce unemployment would be to bring those jobs back.

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Error, analytical, Sept. 22^nd, 12:21 p.m., commenting on some federal proposal for “Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders,” R.L. didn’t know what a Pacific Islander American was, suggested a Samoan

My response: yes, and Hawaiians, Midway, Wake, Guam, and those of Filipino ancestry would immediately come to mind.

Error, transcriptional misstatement, 12:44 p.m., R.L. referred to us having “the most expensive education system in the country” and then talked about us vs. the rest of the world.

Error analytical, 12:59 p.m., in follow up to a caller’s question, R.L. remarked that all economic downturns used to be called depressions but moved away from that.

My response: the depressions of the past that I’m familiar with were all preceded by “Panics” where investors lost their money and hence are rightfully called “depressions” not “recessions.”.

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Error, analytical, Sept. 23^rd, 12:17 p.m., in response to a poll, R.L. asked how many of his audience had given up on the American dream or had hopes for the future. He later answered himself with his usual “American exceptionalism is not be expounded” crapola.

My response: I saw warnings that my future was going away in February, 1992, during the final months of the misrule of the Senior Idiot (a.k.a., Ol’ Bold n’ Decisive, a.k.a. Bush 41). This started to come to fruition under his successor, the Horny Hound Dog o’ Hot springs, and the situation grossly worsened under his economically incompetent successor, the Junior Idiot (Bush 43). As it now stands, if you make too much money - the cheapskates “suits” and C.P.A.’s will send your job overseas while piously intoning “the global economy.”

Rush Limbaugh’s usual response to what I have just said is to be self employed. Well, lessee, if I inherited Daddy’s multi-media publishing empire like Sonny-Boy Forbes did, I would strongly agree. But for most of us being self-employed would be hawking fruits and vegetables or embroidery from a card table along the side of a road.

ERROR, FACTUAL, 1:36 p.m., 10% unemployment due to Obama and the Democrats

My response: This IS scary! My friends who lost their jobs while the Junior Idiot (Bush 43) was still in office lost them because of Obama? Has the Left mastered time travel and hence is able to do their damage even before they take office? Wait a minute! John Kerry was sent on a secret mission by Richard Nixon before Nixon assumed the presidency, so mebbe they have. Part of the assignment must have been for Kerry to travel back in time to before Nixon assumed office, thereby giving his administration plausible deniability. Yeow.

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Dangerous analytical error, Sept. 28^th, 11:15 a.m., opening monolog, Rush Limbaugh referred to certain wealthy people as being idiots for giving away their wealth

My response: I have read in a certain Book about Someone Who commanded the wealthy to sell all that they had and give to the poor. Does Rush Limbaugh have a similar opinion of this Person?

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Error, presumably misspoke, Sept. 29^th at 11:09 a.m. when Rush Limbaugh referred to a “paperback virgin,” and then continued talking about a book.

Error, analytical, 11:17 a.m., Rush Limbaugh asked rhetorically, “What’s wrong with being Gay?”

My response: check Revelation 21:8, which is mentioned in the PC(USA)’s current and soon to change version of the Heidelberg Catechism in their Book of Confessions.

Error, presumably misspoke, 1;12 p.m., Rush Limbaugh referred to “Hillary Rodham Rodham”

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Error, analytical, 11:39 a.m., Rush Limbaugh praised “burger flippers” as an occupation

My response: Uh, yeah, this is not an occupation that you can go through life on unless you rise to management or ownership. Think of the obvious, in order to keep prices low, costs have to be kept low, and what does that mean, pay wise? Traditionally McDonald’s was an employer of high schoolers/young adults, then in more recently the retired were added to their ranks. But thanks to the Junior Idiot (Bush 43) sending our unskilled and then our skilled jobs / high tech jobs overseas, people are desperate for work and seizing whatever they can - which is why unemployment is so high among the younger set. So much for “doing jobs that Americans just won’t do.”

ERROR, FACTUAL, July 06^th, 11:15 - 11:30 a.m. during opening monolog, R.L. asked where the fuel consumption requirements came from.

BLATANT HYPOCRISY, July 07^th, 12:26 p.m., R.L. said “I correct (myself)…soon as I hear them.

Error, analytical, 11:41 a.m., Rush Limbaugh asked how close Chuck Schumer’s district is to (wherever the I-Phone comes out of).

My responses: it came from the desire to cut oil consumption and by doing so reducing our dependence on oil imports.

Don’t we wish.

Not that close, buy you know, it could be that people in Schumer’s district buy the product regardless of how far away their district is from the I-Phone corporate H.Q.

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Error, analytical, August 10^th, 12:24 p.m. Iphone sales compared to Volt, Iphone doesn’t have tax credits.

Error, analytical, same date, 12:40 p.m., Jennifer Granholm was the architect of a state in decline.

My responses: uh, how much does the grossly overpriced Iphone cost and how much does the overpriced Volt sell for? Raise the selling price of the Iphone so it matches the Volt, and let us see how it sells without any break in price like a tax credit.

Also, Michigan has been in decline since 1973. Job loss and subsequent population loss started with the First Oil Scare of 1973 and raced back to life with the Second Oil Scare of 1979, but didn’t really get rolling ‘til recently. I predicted that the American auto companies would be bankrupt in 1992. Close, but no cigar. Roger Smith staved off bankruptcy at G.M. by some clever accounting tricks but G.M. almost went bankrupt something like 12 times under his misrule, and the Rat (Ratmobile, now known as Dan Quayle Motors) almost did in 1992.

This again shows Rush Limbaugh’s detachment from first-hand reality.

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ERROR, FACTUAL and incomplete information, Thursday, August 12^th, 1) 1:18 p.m. no high tuition complaints because of the college industry; and 2) 1:24 p.m. referred to the ruling class out of Harvard.

My response: I guess I’m imagining those student protests over higher tuition/costs. Be sure to send Rush a clipping the next time one occurs. In regards to Harvard, no disagreement, but I didn’t hear anything about Ol’ Bold n’ Decisive (Bush 41) or the Junior Idiot (Bush 43) being Harvard grads. Oh yeah, they’re friends of Rush so they can do no wrong.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, Friday, August 27^th, 1:10 p.m. – when was the last time that the liberal media “went gaga over religion” in regards to a candidate/politician

My response: Less see now, during the 1976 presidential election Jimmy Carter’s church and pastor got loads of loving media attention. You had a tribe of media descend on Plains, Ga. to hear him teach Sunday School, later when that Black guy walked the aisle and tried to join Carter’s church there was some media interest.

Rush Limbaugh Errors for July, 2010

All times are CENTRAL unless noted

ERROR, FACTUAL, July 06^th, 11:15 - 11:30 a.m. during opening monolog, R.L. said regarding Michael Steele that he felt like Julius Caesar in the Coliseum making a thumbs up or down decision on the Christians and the lions.

My response: WOW, how many factual errors can Rush Limbaugh make in one sentence?

            1. Julius Caesar was dead, D-E-A-D, before the coliseum was built. The Coliseum was built as part of the peoples’ revolt against Nero (who was the last of the Julio-Claudian line of emperors), got its name from the then-destroyed colossus of Nero, and was built on the site of Nero’s former palace.

            2. Julius Caesar was dead, D-E-A-D, before Christianity developed. Rush, reread Luke chapter 2! “In the days of Caesar Augustus…” Light bulb going on yet?

            3. Thumbs up/thumbs down was used in gladiatorial fights to decide whether or not the loser should be allowed to live. In lions vs. Christians, the lions settled that themselves without a paws up/paws down vote.

ERROR, FACTUAL, July 06^th, 12:26 - 12:28 p.m. during the Riverdale, N.Y. phone call, discussion over who did what, J.F.K. vs. L.B.J., error by misspeaking “J.F.K. finished off what L.B.J. started.”

My response: HUH? Did J.F.K. return from Hell and resume his office? Also, to answer the caller’s question, yes, L.B.J. was a capitalist albeit a gangster capitalist in various businesses. Read A Texan Looks at Lyndon: A Study in Illegitimate Power by J. Evetts Haley for more information if you can get a hold of a copy.

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BLATANT HYPOCRISY, July 07^th, 12:26 p.m., R.L. said “I correct (myself)…soon as I hear that it’s a mistake.”

My response: Uh, right, don’t we wish that were true.

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ERROR, FACTUAL and analytical, July13^th, 01:51 p.m. when caller brought up Charlie Manson as a racist, R.L. said that he was not aware of anyone Black being in those houses (where the murders took place).

My response: R.L. apparently does not know that “Helter Skelter” was an attempt to incite urban Blacks to rise up and kill the Whites. Since they were not doing it on their own, the Manson Family took it upon themselves to show them how it was done. “Helter Skelter” was written on the walls so that Blacks would recognize the code to start a race war.

            Charlie Manson’s belief was that after all the Whites were killed, the Blacks would realize that they could not keep society running and would look for surviving Whites to take control. The Mason Family, hiding in a desert nowhere, would return and would have control of the country handed to them.

            Sounds quite racist to me.

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Error, factual by caller, July 14^th, 1:24 p.m., caller referred to her father as being a “cracker” born in Palm Beach County in 1898. Caller also said her father drove cattle to Ft.Myers where it was shipped to Cuba, that’s where the term “cracker” originated.”

My response: speaking as lovers of Florida history, we would point out that her father was born in a portion of DADECounty that later became Palm BeachCounty (1909). The term “cracker” does indeed come from cracking the whips on the cattle drives, yes, but has been used for any native/resident of Georgia or Florida. Cattle drives to Kissimmee for shipment to the North is probably the best known of the Florida cattle drives. Cattle quality did not improve ‘til, say, World War II, combining a quality beef taste with an ability for the animal to survive in the climate, so it could be that Cuba was a better market than markets where cattle from other states competed.

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July 15^th, Happy Hunting Ground for Rush Limbaugh errors!

ERROR, FACTUAL, 11:14 a.m., Clinton’s tax policies led to economic downturn in 1994 (which the implication that everything was running fine since the great Reagan)

My response: “It’s the economy, stupid!” was a 1992 slogan, not a 1994 one.

Error, analytical, 11:0 a.m., in response to the federals demanding that heath care companies provide certain tests for free, why not require that Apple provide free I-phones and gas stations free gas.

My response: Rush Limbaugh is clearly out of touch with reality. They’re probably mandating this because they want preventative health care, not reactive health care, and catching things today may be cheaper than fixing things tomorrow. Also, companies like United Health Care are notoriously cheap in our experience when it comes to new ideas in testing and newly released generic drugs, they’ll drag their feet as long as possible to avoid coughing up the bucks while graciously allowing the consumer to buy generic drugs at name-brand pricing.

ERROR, FACTUAL and analytical, 11:21 a.m., most employer-paid health care programs already pay for testing.

My response: Yeah, unless it’s United Health Care and you want to do a Vitamin D Deficiency Test. The patient gets to cough up the first $400, and they graciously pay a minor percentage of anything over $400. Yup, employer paid, plain and simple.

ERROR, FACTUAL and analytical, 11:28 a.m., Rush Limbaugh railed against obesity screening saying all that you needed was a mirror, etc.

My response: That’s probably a reference to the relatively new concept of body mass testing, because the height, weight and age of the patient are not sufficient for a correct analysis.

ERROR, FACTUAL, 11:40 a.m., Rush Limbaugh claimed that Consumer Reports put a “do not buy” on the I-phone.

My response: Really? Earlier the same week we heard a spokesman for Consumer Reports on Prairie Purgatory’s talk radio specifically point out that they did NOT say “do not buy” because they were really impressed and thrilled with the phone but wanted a minor fix. While they did refrain from endorsing at the present time, they would gladly endorse it once the fix was made.

Error, analytical, 11:41 a.m., Rush Limbaugh asked how close Chuck Schumer’s district is to Cupertino (CA), when the Chuckster weighed in on the I-Phone.

My response: This is the same thing as “have you ever lived in (fill in the community name),” meaning that if you haven’t, you’re disqualified from commenting on it because you just couldn’t know…. But to respond, gee, maybe it has something to do with his constituents buying the product or somethin’ like that.

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Error analytical July 19^th, 01:17 p.m., R.L., on where have the jobs gone.

My response: R.L. answered that himself when he suggested India in mockery of the experts. R.L.’s answer of “Car dealerships” is ridiculous, while they appropriate substantial amounts of consumers’ money they are not a substantial presence in the labor market.

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July 20^th, 12:51 p.m., caller affirms that R.L. is right on unemployment ‘cause he’s in N.J. and he has clients who are having applicants turn down job offers ‘cause they can do better on unemployment. Caller said that in N.J. unemployment was $500.

My response: if he’s correct on the dollar amount and it’s for the same time period, that’s significantly more than what we received on Michigan unemployment.

      In Michigan, if you don’t look for work, or if you turn down a job offer, you’re supposed to lose your unemployment benefits. Hopefully that’s true in N.J. as well. In the past, N.J. had a problem with “seasonal” workers taking unemployment during the winter months. That was supposedly “fixed” when they got tougher.

      But this could be a question of survivability. Cost of living jumps around in N.J. depending on where you live. In Metro N.Y.C. it won’t go as far as it does, say, in CumberlandCounty. Cost of living leads in to how cheap are your customers being with the pay? I’ve heard the same wail form those who hire illegal aliens. Can your employees live adequately on what you pay? We know of unskilled LAWFUL immigrants who were “chased” out of the Chicago area ‘cause 1) illegal aliens monopolized the unskilled jobs and 2) because of the omnipresent illegal aliens the pay for those jobs that they didn’t fill was grossly lowered.

      On the other hand, we have heard of former unionized “workers” refusing to take lower paying jobs because it was beneath what they were worth, or decline a project because they’re convinced a better one is about to come their way.

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Error, analytical, July 28^th,11:15 a.m. - talked about people not making commitments because they didn’t have jobs

My response: I didn’t hear R.L. say anything about the number of jobs that exited the country during the misrule of his buddy, the Junior Idiot

Error, analytical 11:15 a.m. - nobody wants the G.M. electric car

My response: I would like the electric car - after we have a major technological breakthrough in batteries, or find another way to extend the range. Failing to buy something because they just don’t have it right yet is not the same as rejecting the product

Error analytical, 11:21 a.m. - suggested pulling special tax concessions for buying the electric car and then to see how it sold.

My response: I bought a hybrid used because I believed in the concept, not for the tax break. The problem with sales will be the price and vehicle’s range, and perhaps the ability to recharge upon arrival at destination.

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Error, misstatement, July 30^th, 11:10 a.m. – correcting something he had just said, said that he didn’t “say it on person” when from the syntax he apparently meant to say “on purpose”

ERROR, FACTUAL, 11:23 a.m. CAFÉ standards came from environmental wackos.

My response: it came from the desire to cut oil consumption and by doing so reducing our dependence on oil imports.

All times are CENTRAL unless noted

Error, analytical, June 03^rd, 01:23 p.m. - “…who benefits from the oil spill..” (besides the Anointed One)?

My response: the first ones to benefit are the ones brought in to stop the leak. Gov. Crist and others who opposed off-shore drilling will also benefit.

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Note: June 07^th, 11:22 a.m., Dr. Walter Williams said something about the Lesser Roosevelt (F.D.R.) prolonging the Depression by SEVEN years with his policies.

My response: We welcome Dr. Williams’ correction of what R.L. said on May 21^st at 11:25 a.m. during “The Phone Call”, when he stated that the Lesser Roosevelt had prolonged the Depression by 15 years. We pointed out that was preposterous even allowing for differences of opinion as to when the Depression ended.

We should also point out that per Johnson in The Modern Age, Hoover was told that if he just took a hands-off approach and let everyone be liquidated, it would all be over in SIX MONTHS.

Dr. Williams also said that F.D.R. was “Hoover on steroids,” and we welcome the comment, but would like to point out that F.D.R. ran against almost everything that Hoover was doing. Once installed in the Oval Office, he made a 180º turn and out-Hoovered Hoover.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, June 17^th, 11:14 a.m. - referred to B.P. being a bad guy ever since Rockefeller made his money in Saudi Arabia.

My response: Rockefeller was dead before oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia. He made his money in Pennsylvania and other places.

Error, hypocritical - 12:14 Rush Limbaugh admitted that speculators influence oil prices after years of denying such..

ERROR, FACTUAL, 12:25 - why aren’t gasoline prices rising

My response: They started rising a week after Memorial Day weekend, the oil companies showing amazing restraint by not raising them earlier. They may be afraid to raise the prices higher and, if so, we welcome this a refreshing difference.

Error, analytical 12:26 - referred to a single Wizard of Oz type guy who manipulates oil prices

My response: H’mm, must be the same guy who sets the prices at barbershops and hair stylists in my area, for some strange reason almost all charge the same price.

Error, analytical 1:12 - Hathaway and Gates tell the wealthy to give away half of their wealth to charity….don’t tell me what to do with my money, etc.

My response: Did Rush Limbaugh also mean Jesus Christ? Did not Our Lord during His earthly ministry tell the wealthy to give to the poor? Did not the early Church practice the taking care of each other by those who had more helping those who had less?

Error, analytical 1:12 - doesn’t care how airlines got their profits.

My response: those of us who fill the seats and don’t want to become crash statistics disagree. Can you say, “Jet Blue”? Remember, R.L. flies by private jet, only.

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bookmark this! Towards the end of the last full week of June, R.L. predicted that the Gulf oil spill may prevent hurricanes from reaching the Gulf coast. Wait n’ see.

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June 30

            Analytical error 11:50 a.m. - people were told that the Great Depression could not happen again.

            Hypocrisy 12:40 p.m. - talked about entrepreneurs benefiting from the oil spill

            ERROR, FACTUAL 12:41 p.m. - Soviets don’t have four year plans, they have life-long plans.

My responses: this was based on their having jobs, which were exported by the Junior Idiot (Bush 43) and the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Springs.

            See R.L.’s question of June 03^rd at 1:23 p.m. C.T.

            I guess R.L. never heard of Stalin’s Five Year Plans.

Rush Limbaugh Errors for May, 2010

All times are CENTRAL unless noted

Error, misstatement, May 04^th, 11:09 a.m. - “…our throats on those guys” referring to B.P.

ERROR, FACTUAL and analytical, May 04^th, 11:16 a.m. - ..problems that the Anointed One caused.

My response: once again, R.L. blames problems that originated with the detached, indifferent incompetence, in this case unemployment, of the “What, Me Worry?” Kid (a.k.a. the Junior Idiot, a.k.a. Bush-43) to the Anointed One. The Anointed One is inexperienced enough to make plenty of his own mistakes without being blamed for what damage his equally incompetent predecessor caused. This is Rush Limbaugh defending his precious darlings by attacking their enemies no matter if the enemies are, in fact, correct in their charges, and Rush Limbaugh’s conduct is beyond stupid, it is “mental.” Rush Limbaugh cannot see reality if it makes one of his darlings look bad, and this is a trait that goes back to the infamous days of the Idiot from Indiana.

ERROR, FACTUAL by misstatement, 1:36 p.m. - “D.D.T. is the worse thing to happen to humanity.”

My response: the context suggests that “the banning of” should have preceded the statement about D.D.T. as the rest of the monolog talked about the increase in malaria-related deaths.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, by misstatement, May 06^th, 11:47 a.m., R.L. reading news item on Emirates flight ordered back to gate referred to “N.B.C. Eyeball News”

My response: unless the N.B.C. flagship station in N.Y.C. is using “Eyewitness News” as their slogan - and not referring to such on their web site - I would say that C.B.S. has had the “Eye” logo since time immemorial.

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Error, analytical, May 07^th, 11:xx a.m., in reviewing the unemployment statistics story Rush Limbaugh made a remark that more people were looking for work because their unemployment had run out.

At 12:44 p.m. R.L. again showed his contempt for those on unemployment by presuming that the submarine/engineer caller was supporting his belief that persons on unemployment aren’t bothering to look for work.

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ERRORS, FACTUAL, May 11^th, 01:25 p.m. Viet Cong drilling for oil; 01:26 p.m. Britain doesn’t have oil.

My response: The Viet Cong were dissolved by the victorious North Vietnamese in the 1970’s, their ability to reconstitute themselves more than 30 years later would be quite impressive. Britain does not have any oil in their country, yes, but does have North Sea oil.

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Error, technical, end of the week, May 13^th and/or 14^th, when R.L. was battling the mayor of Highland Park, Illinois, the phrase “didn’t get their facts right” came up, I believe that mayor said that about R.L.

My response: R.L. did not catch the obvious, that facts cannot be wrong. Assumptions about facts can be wrong, vision problems may prevent one from viewing facts correctly, but how could one “get their facts wrong”? I thought of a friend who had been in the Air Force and represented the G-Force (multiplication of gravity, such as in a cure and/or dive) for a particular aircraft as being the Mach Number (speed represented using the speed of sound as a bench mark). He offered a correct value with an incorrect identifier. Other than that, facts are absolute and not subjective or relative.

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ERRORS, FACTUAL, May 20^th, 11:35 a.m. repeatedly and 11:47, R.L. repeatedly referred to the elections “yesterday,” that would be Wednesday.

My response: I suppose that some tight races might not be decided ‘til the next day, or even later, but as a general rule, which was what R.L. was using, he meant to say “two days ago.”

Error, analytical, 11:48 a.m., suggesting that boycotts of Arizona may be unconstitutional in that they suppress commerce.

My response: then so would any conservative boycotts of San Francisco, which are attempts to hurt them by cutting their revenue i.e., hurting their commerce.

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ERRORS, FACTUAL and analytical, May 21^st, during opening diatribe

11:16 a.m. Janet Napolitano wanting the National Guard on the border

11:17 a.m. Destroy Israel in one week.

11:19 a.m. small business and corporations to create jobs

11:25 a.m. F.D.R. extended the Depression by 15 years.

My response: those who doubted my earlier proclamation that Rush Limbaugh was contemptuous of those on unemployment are encouraged to hear his remarks during this phone call.

Make sure that those jobs created are here and not in China!

For the Lesser Roosevelt (F.D.R.) to extend the Depression by 15 years, with his ascension t to power in April, 1933, it would have to have still been going on in 1948! There is some discussion as to when the Great Depression ended. Some say it ended when previous wealth was recovered. As my family didn’t have much wealth to begin with, I go with a commonly accepted date of 1942 although I think it ended once the factories started producing for the war effort a few years earlier. I also think the Depression ended when its grip of fear was broken - the fear that I may lose my job tomorrow, my home, everything and go hungry ‘til killed by disease.

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Wednesday, May 26^th, THE PHONE CALL, from an angry Black woman. All sorts of things touched on.

12:24 - (accusation that he ridicules Obama) wish weren’t true. How much money I make is immaterial

12:25 - pay shrank…Unemployment was paying people to be lazy

12:26 - 8 million jobs disappeared because of the recession

12:27 - wish I were just making fun of him

My response: Wow, where to begin? R.L. contradicted himself by saying at the beginning of the conversation that he did not mock the Anointed One but towards the end saying that he wished he were just making fun of him.

The job disappearance was a trademark of the misrule of the Junior Idiot (Bush 43). R.L. continues to deny that the Bush-Obama Depression was going on during the Junior Idiot’s (Bush 43) misrule and magically started the day Obama took office.

If Rush Limbaugh truly was a Wesleyan, he freely admits to being raised United Methodist, he would use his wealth to create jobs to put people to work/keep people working, realizing that he was a steward accountable to God, and that his real wealth would be his reward meted out when he stands before God.

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Error, contradicting self, perhaps by misspeaking. Commenting on some presidential appearance, R.L. initially said that union people were told to stay home for their own safety, but at 12:54 he said that NON-union people were told to stay home.

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Error, was not cognizant of title of book title that had just come out (Monday, 24^th) about him, 1:07 p.m.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, 1:09, R.L. said that we were the only country in the world that ended slavery

My response: Right, that’s why runaway American slaves were so eager to get into Canada, ‘cause they continue to labor in a more comfortable climate. And that’s why British slave-holders in Canada were moving their slaves to the still British held Fort Detroit in what is now Michigan.

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Error, analytical, R.L. said at 1:44 p.m. that the Bush Recession may end socialism in Europe.

My response: R.L. ignored something he rambled off at the start of this monolog - jobs in Europe being outsourced. Socialism is a belief system, a gospel if you will, to a smokestack economy. If you take away its industry, the message collapses.

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Issue, analytical, May 28^th, 12:12 p.m. R.L. was talking about some liberal Democrat but credited him for backing containment.

My response: I’m not convinced that containment was the conservative ideal. Communism, like Nazism, is inherently aggressive and must go forward. Do we talk about containing cancer or gangrene? We probably would if either had nuclear weaponry.

Containment means that the Good Guys always play defense. The Bad Guys pick the place, the time, the means, and the situation to start trouble. Eventually, the Good Guys would tire out or at least become discouraged.

Arthur Schlessinger, Jr. said once, after praising the Left for coming up with containment, that the Republicans were slow to endorse containment doing so only after a certain year. I would hope that before that the Republicans were in favor of aggressively rolling back the Soviet Empire.

            At 11:27 a.m. (all times are Central unless noted otherwise), Rush Limbaugh retorted to the Anointed One’s statement that more people were looking for work by suggesting that they were forced to look for work by having been kicked off unemployment.

            An hour later, he suggested that a caller (the submarine / engineer call) was giving support to his view that more people were looking for work because their unemployment benefits had run out.

            These two episodes shows Rush Limbaugh’s belief that people on unemployment lollygag around enjoying the good life while getting paid to do no nothing. I find that VERY offensive having been in that situation before.

            Still not convinced? On April 08^th, at 01:25 p.m., a caller complained about Rush Limbaugh’s attitude towards the unemployed feel useless. At 1:29 p.m. Rush Limbaugh said that he never insulted the unemployed. Before that he said that the way to end unemployment is to for government to stop taxing and get out of the way, and that we had a blueprint for this from 1981-82. Later, after the 1:29 p.m. comment, R.L. referred to the unemployed as “victims of the regime.” At some point, though, R.L. railed against 99 weeks of unemployment.

            About a year earlier, a woman from upstate New York took him to task for his disparaging remarks about those on unemployment, explaining how hard it was for her to get by and, no, she did not enjoy doing so.

            I tie his comments to what he said on April 03^rd, 2009 at 12:11 p.m., to wit that someone unhappy with their job, quit and go on unemployment. I see. Perhaps New York is more generous than I realized, but states that I’ve lived in disqualify you from collecting unemployment if you leave the job.

            Rush Limbaugh has said in the past that he never took unemployment while he was out of a job. I didn’t the first time, either, but with longer stretches of unemployment those of us who aren’t wealthy find it harder and harder to get by and the unemployment pittance does help.

Rush Limbaugh Errors for April, 2010

All times are CENTRAL unless noted

ERROR, FACTUAL April 01^st, ? 1:38 p.m., one movie has stopped our nuclear energy program.

My response: Three Mile Island was a movie and not reality? We are so relieved! The fact that so many things went wrong that should not have gone wrong caused people like us to change their views on nuclear energy.

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Error, analytical, April 05^th, 11:11 a.m. current high unemployment rate may be the new normal rate of unemployment.

My response: thanks to all the jobs outsourced starting with the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Springs’ misrule.

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ERRORS, FACTUAL and analytical, April 07^th, 12:07 p.m., R.L. said that the mine with the disaster was being accused of putting profits ahead of mine safety.

My response: Fox News has already reported the company’s problems with past citations for mine safety. If the company more such problems than its competitors, we would suggest two reasons: 1) financially inability or 2) indifference. In this day and age we doubt that an employer would not have the funds for safety because they preferred to put in their employees’ pockets instead.

ERROR, FACTUAL by misstatement, same day, 12:11 p.m., $200 for security costs if the 9/11 terrorist trials were held in N.Y.C.

My response: he meant to say $200 MILLION. This illustrates what we noted earlier, that when you get Rush Limbaugh relaxed or agitated while talking, he starts misspeaking.

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ERRORS, FACTUAL and analytical, April 08^th, 01:25 p.m., caller complained about Rush Limbaugh’s attitude towards the unemployed feel useless. At 1:29 p.m. Rush Limbaugh said that he never insulted the unemployed. Before that he said that the way to end unemployment is to for government to stop taxing and get out of the way, and that we had a blueprint for this from 1981-82. Later, after the 1:29 p.m. comment, R.L. referred to the unemployed as “victims of the regime.” At some point R.L. railed against 99 weeks of unemployment.

My response:

1. On April 03^rd, 12:11 p.m. (C.T.), R.L. suggested that someone unhappy with their job quit and go on unemployment.
2. At some point in time in 2009, a woman caller from New York took R.L. to task for his attitude towards the unemployed, how she was on unemployment and how hard it was for her to get by. Rush tried to turn it all into a joke. Date and time not recorded as I was on the road driving to a favorite eatery for lunch and did not have writing implements with me. Too bad, but I got a good laugh out of the whole affair.
3. Just remember that the factory jobs that called people to work after a normal recession just aren’t here any more - remember the Fox News report that 1/6^th of the manufacturing jobs have been lost - they’re in China, Mexico, and elsewhere.
4. Unemployment became a problem thanks to the outsourcing of jobs that the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Springs started and the Junior Idiot (Bush-43) expanded upon. Problems were masked by the good years.
5. Unemployment will get worse as money-grubbing companies replace working Americans with cheaper labor overseas.
6. Note that we have seen consolidation of former competitors in aircraft manufacturers, airlines, banking, department stores, pharmaceuticals, railroads, and telecommunications since the 1980’s, which would result in reduction of employment.
7. Also note that supermarkets have been closing in both Michigan and Missouri. A&P has once again collapsed as chain and that crashed their fully-owned Farmer Jack chain in Michigan. Kroger’s Dillon’s chain has severely retrenched and local chains have closed in Prairie Purgatory.
8. Note that the Savings and Loans have disappeared since the late 1980’s, reducing employment in that field of “banking.”
9. Note that there has been a vaporizing of personal and corporate wealth, first with the S. & L. meltdown, then with the Dot-Com Bust, and then with the real estate meltdown, which weakened industry before the depression/recession was officially recognized.

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ERRORS, FACTUAL, April 15^th, 12:52 p.m., in response to caller Rush Limbaugh said that we were the first country to ban slavery. 12:58 Rush Limbaugh said by 1804 all Northern states had banned slavery.

My response: Britain pretty much banned slavery in 1833, but many knew this was coming at a much earlier because before Detroit was turned over to us after the Revolutionary War, slave-holders in Canada were moving their slaves to Detroit. Wikipedia says that the revolts for independence in Latin America also ended slavery, have not confirmed this.

As to slavery in the North, remember that N.J. still had slaves in the 1850 and 1860 censuses. Gradual abolition had been implemented in the North but not immediate emancipation so that when the Civil War was fought, there were slave-holding states on both sides.

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Error, analytical, April 19^th, 11:16 a.m., R.L. referred to the U.S. as the most regulated (business environment) for a free society

My response: that’s hard to gauge because different countries have different regulations. Canada has a nationalized railroad that competes with an advantage against privately owned railroads, while Britain and Switzerland nationalized all of their railroads – well, with some small lines popping up after abandonment in Britain. In comparison we have the federally-owned Alaska Railroad and AMTRAK.

We have a larger trucking industry than other countries do so we may have regulations that other countries might not have even thought of.

Someone at the Canadian Warbirds Museum told us that Canada was much more stringent with aircraft safety inspections than the U.S. was which results in them having more antique aircraft than we do. If the Canadians were inspecting Wings’ aircraft we may not have had that plane explode over Miami Beach after takeoff.

Error, transcriptional, 01:48 p.m. Iranian cleric blamed earthquakes on women who dress provocatively, leading men to promiscuity. R.L. referred to promiscuous women in a recap.

My response: an understandable slip of the tongue that’s normal for most of us, but then, most of us  boldly proclaim inerrancy for ourselves.

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Error, analytical, April 20^th, 01:42 p.m., some story, not found or corroborated, about a woman in Palm Beach County who declined a job in Broward County as it was a 30 mile drive.

My response: For those from Iowa and other places that don’t know any better including R.L., the amount of land in Broward and Palm Beach Counties between the waterfront and the Everglades is very limited and quite narrow. This limits the number of north-south expressways that may be built. Palm Beach County has two expressways, one is heavily traveled, and the other grossly overworked. Broward was able to add a third north-south expressway further west which we have not yet investigated for capacity. Speaking as children of Palm Beach County, we would point out that a drive down the I-95 corridor is a horrendous, a bumper-to-bumper, heavily accident-prone, New York City metropolitan area class driving experience. So we don’t blame her for not wanting to do the drive. There are other transportation options, but they may be too expensive for what the job would pay or impractical for her situation.

Now if she was driving from just over the border to just over the border, that could change our perspective.

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Error, analytical, April 21^st, 11:51 a.m., R.L. referred to Goldman Sachs being denigrated as had Big Oil.

My response: Big Oil denigrates itself, and B.T.W. will be giving us all a “present” at the pump around Memorial Day weekend. Oh, I forgot! They HAVE to raise prices ‘cause that’s when they pass out the annual pay increases! And the reason why the price comes down about Labor Day is because the oil company employees repent of the suffering they’ve caused their fellow Americans and accordingly forgo their raises.

Error, analytical, 1:06 p.m., R.L. read from a liberal’s posting about his having a “well-informed mind.”

No comment needed. If that were true, we would not feel the need to point out his errors.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, April 22^nd 11:11 a.m. R.L. referred to Moses coming down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments after the burning bush.

My response: This is the religious equivalent of R.L.’s “Reagan winning 49 states against Carter in 1980” and shows the lamentable Biblical illiteracy in the United Methodist Church. “Open Hearts, open minds…” but not open Bibles. These are two different events, Moses’ call to lead Israel (the burning bush), and his getting the law (coming down the mountain with the Ten Commandments).

ERROR, FACTUAL, April 22^nd 11:15-11:20 a.m. R.L. rambled about TARP money being thrown around, but failed to mention that this originated with his darling, the Junior Idiot (Bush 43).

Error, analytical, April 22^nd, 11:43 a.m., R.L. mentioned that is was “none of your business how much they make” in re. To Congress looking into how much Wall Street bankers earn.

My response: it is when my tax money is given to them to save their butts and they squander it on the incompetents who created the mess in first place.

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April 26^th Omission. After loudly and energetically defending the Golden Scrotum (Goldman Sachs) the previous week, I was disappointed that R.L. did not comment on their e-mails released by Senator Levin of Michigan, which had been chatter'ed about over the weekend.

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April 27^th Error, analytical, 1:17 p.m. R.L. referred to the Left’s response to Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigrants as “first time that they (illegal immigrants) broke the law.”

My response: Bill O’Reilly as repeatedly pointed out that traditionally, illegal immigration has not been a criminal offense but like a civil offense. Too bad, I still want those who hire illegal aliens publically executed.

Error, omission/factual, 1:15 p.m., R.L. railed against TARP money as government stepping in and created a problem.

My response: Rush Limbaugh has been pontificating as if TARP started with the Anointed One, and not his darling, the Junior Idiot (Bush 43).

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April 29^th, 12:50 p.m., R.L. comments Arizona immigration law.

My response: I am still waiting for someone else besides me to remember that Arizona was one of four (4) states that sued to have the 1980 census include a count of illegal immigrants. Two of the remaining three were New York and California, and I believe that the 4^th was Texas but am not certain. Arizona got what she wanted, in more ways than one.

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ERROR, FACTUAL and analytical, April 30^th, 11:15 a.m., R.L., reading some article that made reference to a recession in Dec. 2007 said that we weren’t in a recession in December, 2007 and that this was just anti-Junior Idiot propaganda to help the Democrats.

My response: in reviewing my notes, I see that on Dec. 01, 2008, there was a news announcement that we had been in a recession since DECEMBER, 2007, and that I had flagged this as a R.L. factual error.

Note that this was after the elections and would NOT, repeat, NOT have helped the Democrats.

Rush Limbaugh Errors for March, 2010

All times are CENTRAL unless noted

March 01^st, opening monolog, errors analytical, 11:05 a.m. ‘til 11:13 or so, went on about the false tsunami alarm coming from the Chilean earthquake, how the tsunami can’t be seen, the culture of crisis, how manipulative the scientific community is. About 11:13 Mr. Sneardly brought up the Indonesia earthquake.

My response: if you’re trying to track an underwater shock wave or current, there may not be any visibility on the surface ‘til you get near landfall when a wave materializes.

            Also note the “Rouge Wave” theory for ship disappearances on the Great Lakes and on the ocean and the “Triple Wave” theory for ship disappearances on the Great Lakes. Supposedly there are stories of massive waves appearing out of nowhere and capsizing ships. These are theoretically possible and may be reproduced in oceanographic laboratories, but eye-witness survivors from such are few, if any.

            Also, remember the 1962 Chilean earthquake which produced a tsunami that killed many on what is now called Sri Lanka.

Same day, 11:28 a.m., factual error, wanted to know if other presidents had been warned to moderate their alcoholic intake.

My response: “Was the President off his rocker tonight?” asked the great Goldwater after a dinner with then-president Nixon.

            He received the reply, “No, he was drunk.”

            I don’t know if Nixon was warned to moderate his drinking, but there was evidence that he was hitting the bottle as Watergate destroyed his presidency.

            Other presidents have had their problems with the bottle. Franklin Pierce was ridiculed in the newspapers for such and eventually died of cirrhosis of the liver. All of his children died young, one of which died in a train wreck which both he and his wife witnessed, so he had an unusual large dose of sorrow in his life.

            U.S. Grant had problems with the bottle during his duty post in California and during a particularly long siege in Virginia late in the Civil War. Supposedly an officer had to be assigned to him to keep him sober.

            Both these men probably lived in an age before annual physicals.

            In the future, we may hear of the Junior Idiot’s bottle lapses.

12:48 p.m. - G.E., which continues to do business with Iran including weapons assistance (per Bill O’Reilly), ran an ad, “imagination at work.”

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March 02^nd, 11:44 a.m., when did politicians become experts in a series of topics including high tech and automotive.

My response: the minute that they listened to me they became experts in automotive and high tech.; I can’t help ‘em with some of the other topics.

01:14 p.m., N.J. pays out $30,000 in unemployment benefits.

My response: If I may point out the obvious, $30,000 goes a lot further in Cumberland County than it does in Hudson County.

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March 03^rd, 11:29 a.m., caller from I-80 between Omaha and Lincoln, traveling 90 miles to work, can’t take public transportation, doesn’t want $7/gallon gas.

My response: True, but you could buy a diesel. Diesel cars are usually designed for long range driving and get better fuel efficiency than gasoline cars. Hybrid wouldn’t help at this point as manufacturers are not bright enough to mate hybrid with diesel technology.

01:58 p.m. R.L. read a note from the Sullivan Group saying that they would be suspending auditing ‘til April. This was repeated on March 04^th before 11:30 a.m. with the additional proviso that the Sullivan Group was an “opinion auditing” firm.

My response: I shall willing accept auditing duties and shall inform both the Sullivan Group and the E.I.B. Group of any and all errors during the Sullivan’s Group leave of absence.

            Translation: This Sullivan Group that supposedly audits the R.L. show for accuracy is fictitious... The original Sullivan Group was a group of real estate investors and who also happened to be buds with Rush, they were not professional fact checkers. At some point, no one is certain when, they disappeared as an organization, were presumed disbanded, and Tom Sullivan, the lead Sullivan, resurfaced with a spot on the Fox Business Channel. Now the Sullivan Group seems to be reconstituted.

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March 09^th, opening monolog, 11:17 a.m., R.L. clarified his comments on Costa Rica and national health care by saying that some were setting up medical centers in Costa Rica in anticipation of Obama-care.

My response: so this is where R.L.’s personal jet will be headed. Just don’t try to smuggle in any pain killers.

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Monday night in March, date not certain, Fox News reported that ONE out of SIX manufacturing jobs has been lost in the U.S. since 2007. While Rush Limbaugh would no doubt blame this on Obama and our foresighted captains of industry who knew he was coming, I would say Thank YOU to the Junior Idiot (Bush 43) for betraying our economy. Remember, decisions like this take time so that we may presume that the date to do this would be earlier during the Junior Idiot’s misrule.

Rush Limbaugh Errors for February, 2010

All times are CENTRAL unless noted

Feb. 10^th 11:14 a.m., error, analytical, a Ritz-Carlton in Las Vegas is closing due to lack of tourism, how many jobs has Obama created?

My response: to start out with, most people in my socio-economic level do not stay at Ritz-Carlton for obvious reasons, the Ritz-Carlton has never been in the normal tourist affordability range. It’s doubtful that any jobs created under any president’s policies would produce guests to stay there.

            More than likely, it’s closing because of a lack of convention business.

            Decisions to close hotels are made based on past performance and presumed continuing trends over an extended period of time, even though R.L. thinks that these happened just because the Anointed One assumed the Oval Office. Unsustainable vacancy rates may have started with the loss of higher paying jobs outsourced or corporate mergers allowed during the What Me Worry / Junior Idiot / Bush 43’s economic misrule and continued into the misrule of the Anointed One.

Same day, 11:25 a.m., error, analytical, 25% of snow plows inoperative in the D.C. area. Yesterday R.L. asked what company would allow that to happen.

My response: According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, S.E.P.T.A. was notorious for putting busses and trolleys on the streets with inadequate brakes. They were in the shop awaiting repair when ordered back into service by management. So we may proudly say that at least with this transit agency, if they had a fleet of snow plows, the plows would be out doing their duty regardless of their operating condition. Rush Limbaugh, jump to your feet and enthusiastically applaud S.E.P.T.A.!

Same day 11:28 a.m. error, analytical, the P-word here meaning “professor.”

My response: Coca-cola may have a copyright on that and may want to chat with you about infringement. To them, the P-word means “Pepsi,” per Max Headroom.

Same day 12:17 p.m. - Obama and bonuses for bankers.

My response: ABMN Amro went running to the governments of the Netherlands and Belgium, cryin’ their eyes out about their dire circumstances and how they needed a government bailout. They got help from both, and additionally they got salary cuts RETROACTIVE to Jan. 01, 2009 and the need federal approval to pay out any bonuses. This was not Obama’s or Barney Frank’s doing, and I applaud the government for taking such a hard line. May we speedily follow their example.

Same day 12:38 p.m. - where are people wealthy with socialism?

My response: special cases Denmark, Finland, and Sweden do quite well in their life style under socialism, how wealthy they were before socialism, whether this wealth continues, and how wealthy their populations could have been without socialism are different questions.

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Feb. 16^th, 11:11 a.m., error, factual, R.L. said that a year ago it was conventional wisdom that Republicans not returning to power for 40 decades. This was followed by R.L. crowing about being a “highly trained specialist like me.”

My response: O.K., but just let someone else do the math when it comes to calculating years. I don’t expect the Republican Party to be around 400 years from now, but I do hope to be living in the Millennium by then.

Same day, 11:12 a.m., error, factual, R.L. said that the only reason why we have not had a new nuclear power plant in 30 years is one movie, the China syndrome.

My response: like I’ve pointed out before, something called “Three Mile Island” happened and then something called “Chernobyl.” Those would worry people more than Hollywood hysteria mongering.

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Feb. 17^th, 11:10 a.m., error, factual, R.L. railed against employers laying off employees after the Obama election.

My response: Excuse me, but employers were laying off friends of mine long before the election, and it was during the misrule of the What Me Worry Kid (Bush-43).

11:11 a.m. same day, same rant, possible factual error, Obama spent more than F.D.R. did in the New Deal.

My response: are you sure about the calculation of the dollar amount in today’s dollars, assuming anyone bothered to take that in to consideration?

11:13 a.m., same day, same rant, R.L. said that no one referred to the 1990’s as the “Lost Decade.”

My response: Nowadays I sure do, I particularly refer to it as the “Lost Decade of Secure Employment Before the Junior Idiot (Bush 43) Outsourced Our Jobs.”

About that time, same day, same rant, possible factual error, R.L. referred to the date of Mein Kampf came out.

My response: I THOT R.L. said 1935 as the year it came out. If my hearing was correct, it’s a factual error ‘cause it came out in 1925.

1:11 p.m., same day, factual error, R.L. referred to that professor as getting a Grand Slam at I.H.O.P.

My response: Really? Only if she brought “outside food” into the establishment. Otherwise, Denny’s ought to be notified ‘cause “Grand Slam” is THEIR term and it’s probably copyrighted.

            This is going in to, and starting my “Rush Limbaugh’s Greatest Errors of 2010” list.

01:52 p.m., same day, factual errors. R.L. said that there had been four liberal Democrats in the White House “in my life time” and that not one had been in office more than one term.

My response: Rush was born in 1951 when the Idiot from Independence (“Truman”) was in office, other D’s would be J.F.K., L.B.J., James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, President Clinton and her co-president husband, and the Anointed One. Which ones were the “four” that he was talking about? The Anointed One has not had to face re-election yet. J.F.K., whom R.L. later described as “almost a liberal Democrat” was gunned down before re-election.

            But Truman and L.B.J. were returned to Presidential office after inheriting what remained of their predecessor’s term, both completed one full term, both were in office for longer than one full term, both became unpopular because of a war dragging on, both tried to run for a second full term (yes, Truman was in the running, he jumped in just before the deadline for getting on the ballot for the New Hampshire primary) and both withdrew after disappointing results in the N.H. primary.

            Clinton aced a 2^nd term running against Dole the Doofus.

            The only one who tried to run for re-election and failed at the ballot was Jimmy.

            The correct phrasing for what R.L. said would be “three who were able to do so failed to be returned to office for a second full term.”

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Feb. 19^th, time not recorded, factual error and analytical error as well as an act of hypocrisy. R.L. accused “disgruntled software engineer” Joseph Stack of being against the Reagan tax cuts.

My response: Excuse me, I read his “manifesto” and I did not see anything that attacked the great Reagan’s tax cuts. Because I have a depth of understanding on the topic and because I am used to hearing Section 1706 complained about by my coworkers in said industry, I did zero in on his unhappiness with Section 1706 of the 1986 tax reform for which he blames Arthur Andersen and Patrick the Patsy Moynihan, but not Reagan.

            Section 1706 makes it nearly impossible for those of us in data processing / information technology to operate as independent self-employed persons (wake up, Rush Limbaugh and Sonny Boy Forbes, this should alarm you, and, de facto, Rush Limbaugh was hypocritical when he condemned this troubled man) and forced us to go through “contract houses,” almost all of which in my experience may better be known by a word starting with the letter “W.” “Warehouses,” uh, yeah, right. Warehouses. Warehouses with red lights at their main entrances. Mr. Stack blamed it in particular on Arthur Anderson, but I have heard that the whole industry effectively lined up in support of it.

            “Patrick the Patsy” Moynihan enthusiastically and energetically jumped on the bandwagon ‘cause he knew how dishonest we all are and how we were cheating the (federal) government out of millions of tax $.

            Well, they got what they wanted, but the tax revenue did not improve, did it?

            Let us compare that to another industry. In Michigan, “entertainers” at “gentlemen’s clubs” are almost exclusively self-employed contractors and paid only in cash. In other states they usually work through “agencies,” but in Michigan agency work occurs so rarely that it’s effectively non-existent. Many of those people that I have talked with do not bother filing income tax returns - unless they want traceable proof of income for a mortgage or something. So why didn’t “Patrick the Patsy” target this industry? I presume because, while a notorious warehouse in their own right - great job auditing H.B.O.C., guys! - Arthur doesn’t provide personnel for this particular industry.

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Feb. 26^th, 1:15 p.m., tactical error, playing Stevie-With-the-Hair Wynn’s wail about Las Vegas

My response: Stevie with the Hair made all sorts of promises about what great and wonderful things he would do, if only N.J. would allow casinos in Atlantic City. He allowed the vision to circulate that the kindly casinos would take the chronically unemployed down-‘n-out off of the streets and turn their lives around by giving them good paying jobs. “Help Yourself!” was their campaign slogan.

            Many gullible in the northern part of the state eagerly received his snake oil, enough to force casino gambling on the southern part of the state.

            As it turned out, the ones who benefited from casino  employment were those already with experience - i.e., already working in the industry in Las Vegas - that were willing to relocate for some upward mobility.

            And jobs for those down-and-outers? One local commentator pointed out that the jobs they got were as chambermaids and parking lot attendants.

            And Stevie’s message was updated after he got what he wanted to something about the casinos not being able to solve Atlantic City’s social problems.

            So I disregard anything Stevie has to say.

            Secondly, why should I care about Las Vegas? It’s a wicked city built on greed and the illusion of instant wealth, nurtured by the Mafia. I have no desire to go there, nor do I have any sympathy for those employed there.

Rush Limbaugh Errors for January, 2010

All times are CENTRAL unless noted

Error, analytical, Jan. 04^th, 2010 Mark Steyn referred to Windsor (Ontario) being the Canadian center for Ford and G.M.

My response: Mark, Mark, Mark. Why do you say things like that? I enjoy your hosting, but you’ve apparently never been in Windsor. In glory years of the past I used to be in Windsor every weekend. Windsor is a BIG center for Ford, yes, you got that part right, but Dan Quayle Motors (ex-Ratmobile, a.k.a. Chrysler) is the other big one - granted, they’ve been closing plants left and right. G.M. has only their Walker Road plant - if it’s still open. Most of G.M.’s Ontario facilities are further away, the Toronto area and Quebec.

Error, analytical, Jan. 06^th, 01:13 p.m., …”at least Apple, Inc. didn’t suffer” such losses, comment on rebounding computer industry.

My response: Duh, regretfully, Apple has been reduced to an also-ran in the computer market and are now insignificant. Apple’s monetary success comes from being tied to a super-dooper cell phone.

            Manufacturers tied to the Windows operating system, which has the lion’s share of the industry in this country - took a big “hit” with Vista and may be taking a “hit” with it’s replacement (Windows 7) because consumers don’t want a replacement to XP, at least not one that requires a hardware purchase that in turn necessitates buying replacement software, and have rejected the product. (Memo to Bill Gates: Yes, XP has been a disaster ever since the first week after you released it, especially for security. But ‘ya should have stuck with the Windows 95/98/2000 line and just added another generation. No, you couldn’t do that, could you? After all, the buying public will line up for blocks around the stores just like they did for Windows 95 - NOT!)

            “Microsoft, making mediocrity the standard of the world,” as a former coworker used to grumble.

Error, analytical, 1:23 p.m. …comment that Obama Motors were in the tank, only Ford was doing well.

My response: According to the Detroit News, sales in December, 2009 compared to sales in December a year previous were down 5.7% at G.M. and down 3.7% at Dan Quayle Motors. Not good, but a lot better than what they had been doing. G.M. says that it’s due to Ford’s fleet sales. Could be, but G.M. can always make bad news look good by playing fast n’ loose with the facts.

            When I worked at Ford’s Sales and Marketing, we didn’t use the “tank” phrase to describe sales ‘til the lose was greater than 10%.

            Note that several manufacturers besides Ford showed a sales increase over the same time period a year ago.

            Also note that sales year-to-date compared to the same time period a year earlier look atrocious for almost all manufacturers.

Error, factual and analytical, Jan 22^nd, approx. 1:25 p.m., blamed Obama for millions being unemployed.

My response: The amount of people who can blame the Anointed One for their unemployment is growing, yes, and eventually will be solely his responsibility, yes, but presently most of the unemployment is still the legacy of the What? Me Worry Kid (Bush 43) and his detached indifference to American jobs being sent overseas and illegal aliens coming in.

            I can remember sweating out my employment future during the summer of 1982 and cursing Paul Volker for being obsessed with the non-issue of inflation when unemployment was the Big Issue. That happen further into the great Reagan’s presidency - close to a year and a half - than we are in the Anointed One’s presidency. And we all SHOULD know that the benefits of Reaganism did not arrive ’til even later.

Error, analytical, Jan 28^th, 1:42 p.m., went into a tirade about insurance companies and bankers being Americans, too, and not deserving to be considered enemies.

My response: and so were Jesse and Frank James (Jr.), and so were Bonnie and Clyde, and assorted other highwaymen and robbers. These were Americans. As to the presidential enemies list, many of them would be on my list of enemies of the people as well, nor were Truman and (Henry) Ford fond of bankers. But to R.L.’s “thinking” all businessmen everywhere any place any time are all unappreciated saints and angels, the fact that they could be evildoers never comes up. Why, they’re just maximizing profits for their shareholders.

Error, analytical, Jan 29^th, 1:54 p.m., question came up in the final minutes as to why Bush 43 didn’t drop Chaney so that a qualified heir could run in 2008 and not McKeating 5 from Arizona. R.L. didn’t know.

My response: because Bush 43’s has always been detached from and indifferent to elections other than his own, that’s been a complaint about him since 2002 from other R’s. Nor did he respond to the disaster in the Congressional elections when the D’s took over both houses. Some say that Bush 43 is lazy, regardless I dubbed him the “What? Me Worry? Kid” because of events where he was oblivious to what was going on around him.

Comments were held while R.L. was hospitalized. However on Wednesday, Jan. 06^th he was back in action, and regretfully running his mouth without thinking again. So, we, too, go back in to action.

Hypocrisy belatedly noticed. At some point in November, R.L. was illustrating the depth of the recession by pointing out that stores were not maintaining inventories. When he had work done on his house, his contractor had to pay the store which had to order some items which had to be shipped, etc.

My response: R.L. has been big on private citizens doing things rather than the government. R.L.., and other wealthy persons, could clearly demonstrate this by self-initiating jobs that would put people to work. DO they not have various projects around the mansion that they’ve been toying with doing? This would also clearly show how “trickle down” benefits many.

Error, analytical, Dec. 01, 2009, 11:17 a.m. - sea levels are not lower (10 months into the Anointed One’s rule).

My response: unless someone has a magic wand, it takes time to accomplish anything. Also, the Anointed One could blamed this on the R’s and others in Congress for not going along with the his glorious vision.

ERROR, FACTUAL, 11:18 a.m. - Iranians thumbing their noses at us.

My response: you mean like they did when the What? Me Worry Kid (a.k.a. the Junior Idiot, a.k.a. Bush 43) was in the Oval Office?

ERROR, FACTUAL, 12:37 p.m. - when has a third party ever advanced conservatism?

My response: I guess the election of Buckley to the U.S. Senate on the Conservative Party ticket and the eviction of Lowell Weicker were just figments of my imagination.

Error, possible factual, 01:25 p.m. - “forty years of scandal” in D-controlled Congress.

My response: Uh, starting from where, and ending where, and how many “houses” of Congress are we talking about? True, most of the scandals have been D, but some R’s were caught up in Keating-5, the House Banking Scandal (a former substitute host nicknamed “B-1 Bob”), and ABSCAM. If you go back to the 60’s you could add Adam Clayton Powell and Sen. Lowell Weicker who both got in to trouble and who both, on paper, were R’s.

News item R.L. didn’t have time to report: Fearful of the wrath of the people, Goldman Sachs Group’s top men are arming themselves. See “Arming Goldman With Pistols Against Public” by Alice Schroeder

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Error, analytical, Dec. 02^nd, 11:11 a.m. and 01:38 p.m., going on about “enemy camp” in opening monologue and when a caller tried to explain what was going on.

My response: it was a LITERARY TECHNIQUE. I use it myself even at work. Oops! Gotta go, some of the “enemy camp” are trying to get close enough to my "cube" to lob in grenades.

News item R.L. didn’t have time to report Dec. 02^nd, G.M.’s board forces Henderson out as C.E.O. and president. Like a friend said, “20 years overdue but still the right thing to do.”

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Error, analytical, Dec. 14, 11:13 a.m., something about why wasn’t there any outrage about federal employees making more than bank C.E.O.’s.

My response: Probably because they haven’t come before the public with their hats in their hands expecting a taxpayer-funded bailout to fix a problem that they, themselves caused, nor, having gotten such a bailout, have they rewarded their performance by passing out generous bonuses.

Error, analytical, 01:25 p.m. the Anointed One remarking on “the triumphant sense about war” R.L. took that as an insult to our military

My response: he also said “in the last eight years,” which, because such is the duration of two full presidential terms, made me think it was a swipe at the incompetence of the What? Me Worry? Kid’s White House. If so, it was a well-deserved criticism. Note that the Weekly Standard and the American Conservative have also been criticizing the arrogance in military affairs of the What? Me Worry? Kid’s administration for several years now.

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Errors, analytical, Dec. 16^th, opening monolog, 11:10 a.m., pollster saying that this is a deep recession, that we are not bouncing back from. 11:11 a.m. saying that many people will not be as successful as before. R.L. asked why a pollster is gauging a recession and not an economist, and blamed Obama for people not working.

My response: I am not an economist although I did study economics at Wharton, however I could clearly see the signs of a recession before it was officially declared, and also while R.L. was energetically denying that there was a recession - which he did as long his pal was in the White House.

            I knew that any recession from the late 1990’s onward would be more severe than previous ones because of the jobs that have been sent to other countries, starting with the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Spring’s N.A.F.T.A. agreement and greatly expanded under the misrule of the What? Me Worry? Kid (a.k.a., Bush 43). The factory jobs that would start calling people back to work are simply not here, they are in China, Vietnam, Mexico and elsewhere. Nor have replacement jobs been found yet.

            R.L. still wallows in the delusional Sonny-boy Forbes happy talk about all Americans wanting to be self-employed and that once they are self-employed their employment worries will go away and their standard of living will go up. Right. My standard of living will go up once I become the heir of, or an ex-spouse of the heir of, a publishing or broadcasting empire.

Error, misstatement, 01:39 p.m., R.L. picks up on Michael Moore quote that if Lieberman isn’t dropped by Connecticut, he’ll never set foot in that state again. R.L. said that if he were a resident of Vermont, he would think that this was the greatest thing ever, not having Moore coming into his state.

My response: !? Presumed misstatement of the state names.

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Errors, analytical, Dec. 31^st, Walter Williams opening monolog, stated how many dollars of manufacturing the U.S. had done.

  All times are Central

 Error, possible, tactical, Nov. 02^nd. R.L. repeated statement that the woman running as an R in NY-23 had committed multiple acts of bestiality because of all the R.I.N.O.’s she had screwed.

My response: I don’t have a problem with that statement, but others might. Being a tight race this might throw the vote. I would have kept my mouth SHUT ‘til the last person in line had voted.

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Error, possible, factual, Nov. 09^th, 11:12 a.m., R.L. went after the Muslim psychiatrist that went on the shooting spree at the Texas army base not being able to handle being teased.

My response: Even the Two Idiots on their show here in Prairie Purgatory grasped that he was a major and accordingly would not be subject to such teasing, at least not to his face, because of his rank. They suggested it was imaginary, I would go further, I suspect that this was an outright fabrication trying to do damage-control for the image of Islam.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, Nov. 13^th, 11:18 a.m. - R.L. referred to 73 virgins as being rewarded to devout Muslims.

My response: Usually the number cited is 72, however, someone did point out that the phrase was “at least 72”.

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Error, possible, analytical, Nov. 18^th, 1:19 p.m. - R.L. asked if the lives of anyone would be improved if the salaries of various Wall Street Malefactors was grossly reduced. In the process, R.L. admitted that he was not aware of a Depression Era attempt to reduce corporate pay.

My response: Yes, my life would be improved as would the lives of many others. A book written by the self-proclaimed world’s most successful complainer credited his success to the principle that those in positions of accountability will part with someone else’s money more readily than they will part with their own.

            Reflection on this led me to grasp that this went back to the underlying principle of “as long as it doesn’t affect me personally.” Once something bad affects them personally, you’ll see a change in attitude.

            Therefore I posit that seeing their buddies suffer will make others think twice, swallow nervously, and refrain from activity which would have required more of my money in taxes to bail them out. Since less would be taken from my wallet, then, yes, my life would be improved.

            Also, something that R.L. has never brought up. What happened to the idea that those at the top slashing their salaries when their companies are in distress? Granted, income from company stock won’t be cut. Roger Smith cut his salary a token amount when he demanded wage cuts from the “blue colors.” Walter Chrysler, as receiver for the bankrupt United States Motor Co., slashed the chairman’s salary.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, Nov. 24^th, 11:13 a.m. - R.L. referred to the Anointed One being the only American President to bow to another leader

My response: Other than Richard Nixon, who bowed to the mass-murder Mao Tse-Tung during a visit to Red China, perhaps his first. Fox News showed the footage on "The O'Reilly Factor."

Hypocrisy, 12:19 p.m., “as easy to read as members of Congress writing checks on money that they don’t have.”

My response: You mean like your ol’ pal and former fill-in host “B-1 Bob,” who bounced a check to a contractor? I remember him spending a lot of air time as stand-in host in agitated defense of himself.

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November 25, 2009 news item R.L. didn’t have time to comment on, “Electric cars’ batteries to boost U.S. grid” in the Detroit News. R.L. had ranted earlier this year about electric cars draining the power grid.

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ERROR, FACTUAL Thanksgiving Weekend, Dubai’s possible default on loans threatens economic crisis. Compare this to what R.L. said about Dubai on May 06^th, 2008 at 1:30 p.m., that Dubai’s success came from learning from our free economy

ERROR, FACTUAL and analytical, Oct. 07^th, 11:18 a.m. - R.L. compared Michael Jordan’s smoking a cigar on a golf course to the amount of smoke that comes up from grills at stadiums.

My response: When “drinking” is referred to as an offense, most adults grasp that there is an implied understanding that the beverage being consumed is alcoholic. In this case, there is an understanding that the ban is against smoke is TOBACCO smoke, not against any type of smoke, and not even against greasy smoke which probably splatters nasty stuff all over the place. Now if R.L. can prove that the stadium was frying tobacco leaves he would have a point.

            There are bans against other types of smoke such as felonious leaf burning in backyards. Why there must be SOMEONE SOMEWHERE in your community with respiratory problems. How could there not be? If you can’t find any, you haven’t looked hard enough. (Temporary bans on fires because of wind and/or dry conditions are only common sense precautions which I have no problem with.)

            Also note that grills at stadiums are probably $-makers for governments so they would automatically be exempt from any “health” concerns. After all, financial “health” comes before voters’ physical health.

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Error, analytical, Oct. 20^th, 11:10 a.m. R.L. during sign-on going on about higher unemployment rates, talked about how job loss in the last year and half erased previous job gains and that we would have to get used to higher unemployment rates.

My response: No doubts, here, but after saying that the Anointed One had been in office for 9 months, R.L., again, tried to pin all the job losses on him. Sorry, business is not that prescient, they could not have known that the Anointed One would be elevated to power and accordingly cut jobs in anticipation of this Blessed Event. The jobs lost referred to started under the watch of the What, Me Worry? Presidency of the Junior Idiot.

            The reason why this recession is harder and going to last longer than previous ones is that the jobs that would be hiring people have been sent overseas, and this is because the Junior Idiot (Bush 43) continued the trade policies of the Horny Hound Dog of Hot Springs. (Yes, he was born in Hope but his family moved to the resort/party town of Hot Springs at a very early age, per Michael Moore’s short-lived TV show. I may still have that episode on video tape somewhere. I did save it for several years.)

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Article R.L. may not have time to bring up. Wednesday, Oct. 21^st, “The auto bailout: How we did it” appeared on Forbes.com and was regurgitated on the Detroit News. I was absent during most of the broadcast. R.L.’s past policy has been to ignore anything that would glaring contradict him. However, I would LOVE to hear R.L.’s indignant response to the attacks on HIS friends, Wagner and the What? Me Worry? Kid.

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ERROR, FACTUAL, Oct. 22^nd, between sign on and 11:40 a.m., R.L. did not know the school where the children sang the praises of the Anointed One.

My response: “Bernice Young Elementary School is composed of students from pre-kindergarten to second grade. The Burlington County school is located in Burlington Township….”, article “Conservative group protests in Burlington over Obama drama that sparked big buzz”, Trentonian, Tuesday, October 13, 2009.

ERROR, FACTUAL, 1:15 p.m. R.L. reading/ad lib’ing article on John Kerry, referred to “Swiss cheese on a Philly cheese steak.”

My response: several cheapskate shops have insulted me by offering CheezWhiz on a Philly steak, but a true “steak” is made with provolone, not Swiss, allowed to melt over the meat as it sizzles.

Error, analytical, 1:40 p.m., the Anointed One has gone beyond Richard Nixon, “…Nixon just trying to get a fair shake.”

My response: Bombing the Brookings Institute and the New York Times would get him a fair shake?

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ERROR, FACTUAL, Oct. 30^th, 1:09 p.m., R.L. rattling off a list of industries that the federal government supposedly made a mess of.

My response: if the “assembly lines” referred to were automotive, they made a mess out of themselves and turned to Washington thinking it was a charity that stupidly dished out free money. Same for finance.

Error, HYPOCRITICAL, time not recorded but during this broadcast R.L. railed against Obama playing golf at a time of war.