{"id":8697,"date":"2014-08-06T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-08-06T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:41:19","slug":"limbaugh_theorem_nbc_ignores_obama_s_all_time_approval_low_in_their_own_poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/08\/06\/limbaugh_theorem_nbc_ignores_obama_s_all_time_approval_low_in_their_own_poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh Theorem! NBC Ignores Obama\u2019s All-Time Approval Low in Their Own Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019ve got the NBC poll<\/a>. “On Tuesday,” yesterday, “the latest NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll found that President Obama\u2019s popularity reached its lowest point since he first took office in 2009. Overall, 54% of Americans disapprove of the job the president is doing compared to the just 40% who approve.” <\/p>\n

At Gallup, Obama is still at 39% approval. In the NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll, he\u00c2\u2019s at 54% disapproval — and when you get to immigration, it\u2019s even higher. But despite these low numbers, NBC Nightly News failed to cover its own results during the Tuesday night NBC Nightly News. This poll “also found that a strong majority of the Americans, 60%, disapprove of Obama\u2019s handling of foreign policy. <\/p>\n

“Only 36% approve of the way Obama is handling foreign policy. The same poll found that “33% of Americans have very negative feelings towards Obama, which ties the record high in this poll from December of 2013,” and instead of covering this, the anchor for the NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams, spent 40 seconds promoting a video of a Norwegian mother trying to get her two-year-old son to go to bed on a hot summer night. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. <\/line><\/p>\n

We have the Today show today, the chief White House correspondent F. Chuck Todd joining the correspondent Carson Daley “live in the Orange Room Digital Space,” whatever that is. They\u2019re talking about the new NBC News poll on Obama\u2019s job approval. You will not hear F. Chuck Todd mention it. F. Chuck reports on the poll on that shows Obama at a new low, but he doesn\u2019t mention it. He says the public\u2019s “angry at Washington,” and furthermore all the Republicans want to do is impeach Obama.<\/line><\/p>\n

TODD: (bouncy music) It\u2019s not just an angry public. It\u2019s not just a frustrated public at Washington. It\u2019s almost an exasperated public. We used this poll to try to understand how hard was it to dig out of the Great Recession, and these people are angry, and they are fed up with Washington and throwing up their hands.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Limbaugh Theorem is on display in spades here. What is the Limbaugh Theorem? The Limbaugh Theorem explains how it is that Obama escapes blame, how it is that Obama escapes accountability for anything happening as a result of his policies and his presidency. The way he does it is to act like he\u2019s not really governing. Somebody else is doing that. Somebody else is causing these problems. He\u2019s outside Washington!<\/p>\n

He is at campaign-style appearances, and he\u2019s complaining and whining and moaning about the same thing people in the poll are. He\u2019s complaining about Washington and how you can\u2019t get anything done there, and how nothing gets done there, and how nobody will work with him and it\u2019s full of hate and all this. Therefore, these stupid idiots that he gets to sit behind him in these public appearances applaud all of this.<\/p>\n

In that way, Obama is able to create this impression that he\u2019s got nothing to do with what\u2019s going on. Now F. Chuck Todd takes a 54% disapproval rating for Obama and translates that into people hate “Washington.” They\u2019re fed up with “Washington,” they\u2019re fed up with the Republicans, they\u2019re fed up with the recession. Never once mentioning Obama! This is how the Limbaugh Theorem is using each and every day, not only by Obama, but by the Drive-Bys in order to insulate and protect Obama. <\/p>\n

So Carson Daley, after that sound bite from F. Chuck, said, “Well, let\u2019s break it down into parties, Chuck. We\u2019ll start with the Democrats. What was the word cloud to represent…” Now, this… What they do is they have this graphic, and they create a cloud or series of clouds to illustrate how often words are used, and the more often a word is used, the bigger that cloud is on their graphic. Because, you see, everybody\u2019s stuff is in the Cloud now, so they do these word clouds. So Carson Daley is saying, “Okay, Chuck, we\u2019ll start with the Democrats. What was the word cloud to represent that?”<\/p>\n