{"id":16188,"date":"2012-03-22T16:24:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-22T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T16:24:42","slug":"brazen_media_backs_up_obama_s_keystone_lies_with_dishonest_news_stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/22\/brazen_media_backs_up_obama_s_keystone_lies_with_dishonest_news_stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazen Media Backs Up Obama\u2019s Keystone Lies with Dishonest News Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019ve never seen anything like it, folks. I\u2019ve never seen this kind of a mid-course correction. I don\u2019t even think I saw one like this from Bill Clinton. Suddenly the biggest believer in the Keystone <\/a>pipeline (or half of it), the biggest believer in drilling for oil<\/a>, the biggest believer in expanding domestic oil supplies happens to be Barack Obama! Who just two days ago (and every day prior to that) hated the very idea and was trying to dissuade anybody from believing that drilling for oil or pipelining oil would make any difference whatsoever in the gasoline price. <\/p>\n

My gosh, what difference a poll makes! <\/p>\n

<\/a>Another devastating Obama poll explains all that\u2019s going on. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna wade through this mess and try to make the complex understandable. Well, I\u2019m not gonna “try;” I\u2019m gonna do it. That\u2019s what we do here at the EIB Network. I\u2019ll tell you, Obama\u2019s campaign staff at the Associated Press never sleep. I don\u2019t think they even take naps. The latest from the Associated Press. (I\u2019m gonna give you sort of a headline rundown here, and then we\u2019ll get into the specifics.) Headline from the Associated Press: “Obama Defends Handling of Keystone <\/a>as He Puts Another Oil Pipeline on Fast Track.” He\u2019s the obstacle! The American people know he\u2019s the obstacle! The media know that the people know that Obama\u2019s the obstacle. <\/p>\n

Yet here\u2019s the AP! Folks, if I were you, I wouldn\u2019t believe a single word that I read in any AP story. I simply would regard it… I already do this. If I were you, I would regard every AP story, particularly this year, as nothing more than a propaganda piece for the reelection of Barack Obama. This is laughable: “Obama Defends Handling of Keystone as He Puts Another Oil Pipeline on Fast Track.” Another! Another? When was the first one? He opposes Keystone! And what he did today — we told you yesterday this is coming — is already happening.<\/p>\n

It was already in place. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not even authorizing anything that wasn\u2019t happening. <\/p>\n

It was already happening, this particular portion of the pipeline. This is breathtaking! “Obama Defends Handling of Keystone as He Puts Another Oil Pipeline on Fast Track.” There\u2019s a story also in the Stack here today that the American people… No. I take it back. The CNN story is “Rising Gas Prices Aren\u2019t as Bad as You Think.” Do you ever remember seeing a story like that when gas prices were going up with any previous president, including Jimmy Carter? Did you ever see we had gasoline prices going up, and here\u2019s CNN: Well, you know, it\u2019s not as bad as you think. Could be worse! You could live in a different part of the world.<\/line><\/p>\n

Ed Henry at Fox News has noted that Obama has suddenly dropped the phrase “There is no silver bullet” on lowering the cost of gasoline from his campaign speeches. And he was using that as recently as this week, “There\u2019s no silver bullet.” Now all of a sudden: “Obama Defends Handling of Keystone as He Puts Another Oil Pipeline on Fast Track.” What an amazing guy! Here\u2019s another one from AP: “Breaking News! US President Obama Directs Federal Agencies to Fast Track Oil Pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas.” Now, maybe I\u2019m mistaken (that\u2019s doubtful), but has there been a huge problem getting oil from Oklahoma all the way to Texas? <\/p>\n

What a mean feat our courageous president\u2019s pulled off here! Do you realize that before he acted there wasn\u2019t any way to get oil from Oklahoma to Texas, even though the states border each other? For those of you in Rio Linda, the northern border of Texas brushes up against Oklahoma and vice-a-versa. But up until Barack Obama saw the light, we had no way of getting oil from Oklahoma to Texas. “US President Obama Directs Federal Agencies to Fast Track Oil Pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas.” It\u2019s the same story as the previous headline, “Obama Defends Handling…” It\u2019s the same event, two different stories: “Obama Defends Handling of Keystone as He Puts Another…” (laughing)<\/p>\n

I think I\u2019m gonna go insane. I look at this, and I imagine you reading this stuff on your own, and I hope and I pray that you have the same reaction to this that I do, that it\u2019s just patently absurd. It\u2019s not even news. This isn\u2019t even journalism. This is not even a pretense of news or journalism. This is just pure campaign support propaganda from a new organization called the Associated Press. Speaking of Obama\u2019s energy tour… He\u2019s on an energy tour out there. Anybody remember that Obama doubled the Department of Energy budget in 2009? He gave \u2019em untold sums of money via the stimulus bill. What did they do with all that money? Can anybody else tell us what they did?<\/p>\n

Apart from giving loans to Obama\u2019s donors that soon went bankrupt, like Solyndra and other solar people, what happened? Oh! Steve Chu told us we should paint our roofs white. Remember that? To deflect the heat, we should paint our roofs white. That advice was probably worth a couple billions right there. So I guess now what we\u2019ve got here is Obama lobbied for the Keystone pipeline before he lobbied against it. Now, there\u2019s a poll out. You might be wondering, what is this all about? Oh, I hold here right in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the polling data from Gallup. And this is why Obama\u2019s on his energy tour this week. This is why he\u2019s in Oklahoma (laughing) “putting another key oil pipeline on fast track.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going nuts. I\u2019m officially going crazy here with this: “Americans who say they are very closely following news about the Keystone XL pipeline overwhelmingly think the government should approve the building of it, 78% to 22%.” Seventy-eight to 22% the American people paying attention to this want the Keystone pipeline. And overall, 44% of Democrats want the Keystone pipeline. “A solid majority of Americans think the U.S. government should approve of building the Keystone XL pipeline, while 29% think it should not. Republicans are almost twice as likely as Democrats to want the government to approve the oil pipeline.”<\/p>\n

And that is why Obama is in Oklahoma. That is why, ladies and gentlemen, there is this so-called fast track to have Obama complete this pipeline. “Americans who say they are very closely following news about the Keystone XL pipeline overwhelmingly think the government should approve the building of it, 78% to 22%.” I don\u2019t know what percentage of Americans are “closely following” it. It\u2019s a ten-page poll here, and I just got it, so I just pulled out the highlights in order to explain all of this. <\/line>From the Nevada Journal in Boulder City, Nevada: “President Obama will tout investments in ‘renewable\u2019 energy Wednesday at the local Copper Mountain Solar 1 plant, although the plant has only five full-time employees,” and it\u2019s gonna be bankrupt by the time he finishes. <\/line><\/p>\n

“The plant, owned by San Diego-based energy company Sempra, was built in late 2010 at a cost of $141 million. Funding included $42 million in federal-government tax credits and $12 million in tax-rebate commitments from the state of Nevada. Construction of the plant involved over 300 part-time jobs, but currently only five full-time employees operate the plant, a Sempra spokeswoman confirmed. That comes out to $10.8 million in tax-dollar subsidies per employee.” That\u2019s what it cost at a solar plant. Obama was there yesterday as part of the energy tour. Back in 2011 — in fact, just a little over a year ago — Bill Clinton, from The Politico: <\/p>\n

“Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that delays in offshore oil and gas drilling permits are ‘ridiculous\u2019 at a time when the economy is still rebuilding, according to attendees at” some conference. “Clinton spoke on a panel with former President George W. Bush that was closed to the media. Video of their moderated talk was … also prohibited.” Apparently Bill Clinton doesn\u2019t read the newspapers, \u2019cause if he did he would know that drilling in the US does not lower the gas price. One year ago Bill Clinton was out there saying we\u2019ve gotta get these permits up and we\u2019ve gotta start drilling for oil because it will affect the gas price. <\/p>\n

Ever since then, Obama has been saying, “There\u2019s no magic bullet! There\u2019s no silver bullet! You can\u2019t go out and drill for oil. That\u2019s not gonna do a thing to the gas price,” and the media repeated it. There\u2019s a story on that. There\u2019s a huge story from some news agency today that drilling for oil over the last 30 years has not mattered a whit to the price of gasoline. I mean, they\u2019ve pulled out all the stops. Bye-bye, fact! Bye-bye, curiosity! Bye-bye, serving your customers (i.e., the consumers of news). This is full-fledged, whatever Barack Obama says is now going to be backed up with publications disguised as news stories. Nothing more than that. <\/p>\n

“Obama Defends Handling of Keystone as He Puts Another Oil Pipeline on Fast Track.” Folks, I told you yesterday, this part of the pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas was already in the works. It\u2019s already done. It\u2019s already approved. Obama is doing nothing but showing up and glomming onto it, but this is not completing the Keystone pipeline. The Keystone pipeline goes to Canada. Obama is still opposed and has put the brakes on and is not permitting oil from Canada to get to Oklahoma so that it can get to Texas. There is no approval of the Keystone pipeline. <\/p>\n

Perhaps I shoulda said this at the top. <\/p>\n

There is no approval. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what makes this AP headline so incompetent. It\u2019s journalistic malpractice. “Another Oil Pipeline on Fast Track.” The Keystone pipeline has not been approved. He still opposes it. This is a pure political move to satisfy 78% of the American people who want it done. So Obama\u2019s doing nothing, and he\u2019s got a very supportive news media out there trying to convince you and everybody else that he just today authorized the Keystone pipeline. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on. It\u2019s as dishonest as possible. It\u2019s as dishonest and misleading as possible. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s another little piece of information you need to know: Obama couldn\u2019t stop this leg that he\u2019s out taking credit for. It was in the works. It was happening. He\u2019s simply there glomming on to what was already happening. And furthermore, he couldn\u2019t stop it if he wanted to. And he did want to! This is totally out of his control. It\u2019s is such… I don\u2019t know how to describe this. This so brazen. This is a slap in the face of the truth and of decency. It\u2019s just brazen. If you want to hear, I have some sound bites of Obama in Cushing, Oklahoma.<\/line><\/p>\n

We may listen to a couple of those, \u2019cause that\u2019ll just add a little fuel to this fire.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Obama could not stop this pipeline if he wanted to. This leg of the pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas was in the works. He doesn\u2019t have the authority to stop it. Not that that would stop him, by the way, but he doesn\u2019t have the authority to stop it. According to the US House Energy and Commerce Committee, there is only one category of pipeline that requires presidential approval. That\u2019s an international pipeline like the originally proposed version of Keystone XL, which would be from Canada (which, for those of you in Rio Linda, would make it international) down through Nebraska and other Northern Plains states into Oklahoma and then into Texas. <\/p>\n

So Obama could not have stopped this leg of the Keystone pipeline if he\u2019d wanted to.<\/p>\n

It was already in place. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s simply there… There\u2019s no other way to say it. He\u2019s just glomming onto it. It\u2019s like trying to be present when the Ten Commandments are given at the burning bush and claiming you wrote \u2019em. I\u2019m almost speechless here with the absolute brazenness of this. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Obama says, “I\u2019ve laid more pipe than any president except Bill Clinton.” That\u2019s where we\u2019re heading with this. The guy who steadfastly opposes drilling for oil and has not issued any permits to speak of, particularly since Gulf oil drilling moratorium — the guy who has made his name opposing the Keystone pipeline — is now out taking credit for it.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s trying to make people believe in this country that the entire Keystone pipeline, today, has just been authorized, and oil is going to be flowing through it. Never has it been more obvious that without the media, Barack Obama would not have a chance. Without the media, Barack Obama would be a national joke. But he has the media. He has the largest propaganda arm that a president has ever had. He has people willing to lie. He has people willing to publish his lies. He has people willing to work with him against the best interests of the people of this country. I\u2019ve been alive 61 years, and I have never seen anything like this. I\u2019m telling you. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s always been media bias, and the media were sickeningly slavish to things like Camelot, to JFK and Clinton. But this is unprecedented. I know they carried the water for Clinton for a while with Monica Lewinsky and that whole event, but even they drew some lines there. This has no boundaries. Whatever it takes. The only thing that a president can stop, again, is an international pipeline. In fact, the Keystone XL Pipeline is the first international pipeline that has ever been denied by a president. Keystone is the first international pipeline ever denied! <\/p>\n

And he was denying it as recently as Monday. And he was criticizing it as recently as Tuesday. And he was telling people that there was no silver bullet or magic bullet to any new oil in this country however we got it, via drilling or via pipeline. And in a space of less than 48 hours, we have had the equivalent of an atheist become the pope on oil and on energy. The Keystone XL Pipeline is the first time in history a presidential permit for a cross-border pipeline has ever been denied. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why I think it isn\u2019t gonna be long before Obama starts bragging about how much pipe he\u2019s laid. He\u2019ll start comparing himself to other presidents. “I\u2019ve laid more pipe than any president except Bill Clinton.” He\u2019s gotta throw Clinton in there for credibility. Obama does not control this segment of the pipeline\u2019s permitting process. It also says something about the guy\u2019s character. He\u2019s gonna go out there and take credit for this when people like him would not allow it if they had the chance? Hardworking, private sector Americans have done this to try to overcome the obstacle that he represents and now he\u2019s out taking credit for their work?<\/p>\n

Every bit of this is irritating. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: “In his speech this morning, Obama said, ‘Producing more oil and gas here at home will continue to be a critical part of our energy strategy.'” Will continue to be! This is the guy standing in the way of oil and gas production. This is the guy throwing money away on wind and solar and electric cars. I saw a story earlier this week: “Will the Volt be Obama\u2019s Edsel?” And then I thought: How many people reading that story know what the Edsel is? It “will continue to be a critical part of our energy strategy”? Obama is “producing more oil and gas here at home”? <\/p>\n

This is what the Democrats do, folks. This is what the left does. There is no moral core. There\u2019s no concern for truth and there\u2019s no concern for being caught lying, because Obama knows that his number one support group\u2019s not gonna call him on it. The only people who are gonna call him on it are people like me, and they\u2019re not worried about that. They\u2019ve got the AP on their side. They\u2019ve got the Washington Post, the New York Times. They don\u2019t care. But what it indicates is the good news about this: They know how deep the trouble Obama is in. They know how deep it is. They know the problems he\u2019s got. <\/p>\n

We have this: 78% of the people following this want the Keystone pipeline, and Obama\u2019s in the 22% opposing it. And his 22% counts for a hundred percent because he can stop it, and he has stopped it. So now he\u2019s out trying to make this little connection between Oklahoma and Texas appear to be the whole thing having been authorized. They\u2019re in deep trouble. They have the support, when you boil it all down, of no more than 30% of people in this country. When you boil it all down, Obama and the Democrats have no more than 30%. Why do they get more votes than that? Well, once again: How many people do you think are going to hear this stuff today and think it\u2019s true? <\/p>\n

He lies. The lie is carried forward. It\u2019s amplified, and it\u2019s codified. It has the stamp of journalistic approval on it. It\u2019s “true.” So we\u2019re left to hope that people figure this out on their own, and therein resides the fear that people have for the future of the country. It\u2019s wrapped up right in that whole concept: Will a majority of the American people see through this and understand what we\u2019re dealing with, not just on the oil-gas pipeline issue, but Obama and policy after policy after policy? Health care, you name it. Will the American people finally wake up? Are they waking up? Will they see through it? The 2010 election results say, “Yes, they do.”<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to the sound bites. Let\u2019s listen to some of this. It\u2019s unbelievable, folks. Incumbent in you listening to this is you must understand that for Obama to go out to Cushing, Oklahoma, and say what he said today — for the AP to write the headlines I shared with you — they must believe that you\u2019re stupid. They are counting on your ignorance. They\u2019re counting on it. They believe you\u2019re stupid anyway. Obama, leftists, Democrats have contempt for self-reliant average Americans anyway. They go into this thinking you\u2019re stupid. But you have to understand that for him to say the things you\u2019re gonna hear him say, the foundation for this is that he believes you\u2019re so stupid and so gullible and so ignorant that you will believe what he says about this.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Today I\u2019m directing my administration to cut through the red tape, break through the bureaucrat hurdles, and make this project a priority, to go ahead and get it done. Now, you wouldn\u2019t know all this from listenin\u2019 to the television set.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. I\u2019m sorry, but I can\u2019t let this thing go without stopping it. Cue it back up to the top. “I\u2019m directing my administration to cut through the red tape…” There isn\u2019t any. To the extent that there\u2019s red tape in the Keystone pipeline, it\u2019s his. “I\u2019m directing my administration to cut through the red tape, break through the bureaucrat hurdles…” Who puts them up? Who are the bureaucrats? They\u2019re not private sector people. Bureaucrats, by definition, work for the government. They\u2019re his! “I\u2019m directing my administration to cut through the red tape, break through the bureaucrat hurdles, and make this project a priority…” It already was. It\u2019s almost already done. <\/p>\n

Okay, here we go, from the top again.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Today I\u2019m directing my administration to cut through the red tape, break through the bureaucrat hurdles and make this project a priority, to go ahead and get it done. Now, you wouldn\u2019t know all it is from listenin\u2019 to the television set. This whole issue of the Keystone pipeline has generated, obviously, a lot of controversy and a lot of politics. Our experts said that we needed a certain amount of time to review the project. Unfortunately, Congress decided they wanted their own timeline. Not the company, not the experts. But members of Congress who decided this might be a fun political issue, decided to try to intervene and make it impossible for us to make an informed decision.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that\u2019s the northern half of the pipeline, again. Remember, what he\u2019s out there taking credit for today was already in the pipeline. It was already in the works. He can\u2019t stop this, and he didn\u2019t have anything to do with approving it. There is no Keystone pipeline, folks. The leg from Canada to the United States is still in limbo. He has not authorized it, and he won\u2019t until after he\u2019s reelected. Now it\u2019s “blame this on Congress.” They wanted it done within a certain amount of time! It\u2019s just all… Every word of this… Whew! I have to find a different way of dealing with this. I have to find a different way of trying to persuade people. I have been doing this for 23 years and these people, they keep getting away with it. Here\u2019s the next bite. Got three more to go. Here\u2019s the next one.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Today we\u2019re making this new pipeline from Cushing to the Gulf a priority. So the southern leg of it we\u2019re makin\u2019 a priority and we\u2019re going to go ahead and get that done. The northern portion of it, we\u2019re gonna have to review properly to make sure that the health and safety of the American people are protected. That\u2019s common sense.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, these pipelines rupture every day, you know. I mean, you heard about the pipeline ruptured yesterday, right? It killed a bunch of snail darters. It seeped onto Highway 70 in Missouri! You shoulda seen the traffic accident. All the cars that slipped off the highway. These pipelines, they rupture every day. You know that, don\u2019t you? We gotta be protecting the people and their safety and health. ‘Cause what\u2019s in that pipe? Oil! That dirty, rotten filthy stuff. Oil. We can\u2019t have that. (muttering)<\/p>\n

This is such a crock. Here\u2019s the next bite.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: If you guys are talkin\u2019 to your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, your aunts or uncles and they\u2019re wonderin\u2019 what\u2019s going on in terms of oil production, you just tell \u2019em: Anybody who suggests that somehow we\u2019re suppressin\u2019 domestic oil production isn\u2019t paying attention. I want everybody to understand this: We use 20% of the world\u2019s oil; we only produce 2% of the world\u2019s oil. Even if we opened up every inch of the country, if I put a — an oil rig on the South Lawn; if we had one right next to the Washington Monument; even if we drilled every little bit of this great country of ours — we\u2019d still have to buy the rest of our needs from someplace else if we keep on usin\u2019 the same amount of energy, the same amount of oil.<\/p>\n

RUSH: None of that is true, folks. We\u2019ve had documented stories with the facts, this week and last and in previous days, on domestic oil production, and here they are again. Domestic oil production on privately owned land where Big Oil has its rigs and smaller oil companies have their rigs, that oil production is way up. Oil production on federally owned lands is near an all-time low because that\u2019s what he has ordered. In addition there are no permits being granted for private sector firms to go drill for, find, explore, whatever, oil on federally owned lands. The third thing is, with shale oil and its discoveries in the Northern Plains of this country, we now have more oil.<\/p>\n

<\/a>This 2% has been blown out of the water, too. We now have, accessible to us, more oil than Saudi Arabia. We now have, accessible to us, more than the Saudis! I had the news from the Investor\u2019s Business Daily; they got it from the Oil Institute. We have enough oil in the lower 48 — well, let\u2019s count Alaska in this — to provide enough oil at current annual consumption rates to power this country for over 200 years. That\u2019s how much oil we have. We wouldn\u2019t have to buy any. We wouldn\u2019t have to import any. He\u2019s very sensitive to this charge about oil production being down, and he ought to be because it is down on land that he has control of. <\/p>\n

(impression) “You guys talking to your friends and neighbors, coworkers, and you tell \u2019em anybody suggests somehow we\u2019re suppressing domestic oil, they don\u2019t pay attention!” See, Mr. President, your problem is we are paying attention, and we know how you\u2019re making all this up. We know where the oil is being produced in this country and where it\u2019s being stifled by you. Come on, folks. You know that just two days ago, and every day prior to that, this man has opposed oil with every fiber of his existence. He\u2019s opposed getting more of it; he\u2019s opposed finding more of it. He is opposed to using it. <\/p>\n

Now with a Gallup poll showing 78% of the American people paying close attention to this want the Keystone pipeline, guess who\u2019s making it happen? Well, he isn\u2019t. That\u2019s right. Our brave, courageous president — up against such mean people as Rush Limbaugh — is overcoming profound obstacles put in his way by mean people like Rush Limbaugh. Yep! That\u2019s what he\u2019s fighting. He\u2019s doing it for you. I tell you, his logic here is just laughable. More oil won\u2019t help? Or it will? Which is it? This is shifting now by the hour! On the one hand, he says, “We can get all the oil that we have, and we would still have to buy some.” <\/p>\n

On the other hand, he\u2019s out there trying to take credit for the Keystone pipeline \u2019cause we need more oil. If all the oil we have would not change the equation, why? What\u2019s the whole point of this? More oil won\u2019t help, but he\u2019s gotta go out to Oklahoma to take credit for getting more oil. How is this possible? Now, according to the Heritage Foundation, “Oil and gas production on federal lands under Obama is down by more than 40% compared to ten years ago. And the year 2010 had the lowest number of onshore leases issued since 1984. And the Obama administration has held only one offshore lease sale in 2011.” None this year. <\/p>\n

One more bite. Nah, let\u2019s go to the break. That would be the responsible thing to do. We have sponsors who want their messages heard.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Rising gasoline prices: They are not as bad as you think. That\u2019s coming up. One more bite. This is Obama. Gas prices have nothing to do with oil. That\u2019s the last bite, the last sound bite we have. The gas price had nothing to do with oil. He\u2019s out there okaying what he wants you to think is the whole Keystone pipeline. We could get all the oil we have in this country, and it wouldn\u2019t matter because we\u2019d still have to buy some from somewhere else. But yet we\u2019re still gotta go do this. We\u2019ve got to go get this oil pipeline going. Except we aren\u2019t. We\u2019re not gonna really complete it, but this Oklahoma-to-Texas thing, which is already happening, I\u2019m out there and I\u2019m gonna take credit for it.<\/p>\n

Even though I couldn\u2019t stop it. Oh, I\u2019d love to. It\u2019d happen without me, but I\u2019m happy to go glom onto this. I\u2019m gonna insert myself. I\u2019m gonna make sure that I get the credit for this when I nothing to do with it. This is Obama. I\u2019m still gonna invest in all this wind and solar stuff. I\u2019m still gonna give tax credits and taxpayer subsidies to stuff that you don\u2019t want to buy so you\u2019ll buy it. The Keystone pipeline could generate up to 20,000 jobs. I\u2019m not interested in that right now \u2019cause I gotta keep my base happy, and they don\u2019t want that \u2019cause they hate oil. So I have to hate oil to get the votes of my base, so I\u2019m moving heaven and earth today to make you think that I alone am seeing to it that oil gets from Oklahoma to Texas \u2019cause we desperately need it.<\/p>\n

But oil and gas prices have nothing to do with oil.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The price of oil will still be set by the global market, and that means every time there\u2019s tensions that rise in the Middle East, which is what\u2019s happening right now, so will the price of gas. The main reason the gas prices are high right now is because people are worried about what\u2019s happening with Iran. It doesn\u2019t have to do with domestic oil production. It has to do with the oil markets lookin\u2019 and sayin\u2019, “You know what? If something happens, there could be trouble and so we\u2019re gonna price oil higher just in case.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: So why, then, are you doing anything? The way I heard that, we don\u2019t have any to say about it. We have no control over the price of oil or gas. There\u2019s nothing we can do. So what\u2019s going on here? “The price of oil will still be set by the global market.” Well, this is global oil added to the supply. CNNMoney.com: “Gas prices are once again dominating the national debate. But despite rhetoric, high gas prices aren\u2019t hurting as much as they used to.” No! Did you know that? “In 1981, when oil prices spiked following the Iranian Revolution, gasoline represented nearly 5% of the nation\u2019s spending, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.<\/p>\n

“In 2011, only 3.7% of spending went to gas, even though prices averaged at their highest level ever that year.” Now, even if that\u2019s true, all this really suggests is that the price of everything else — housing, food and so forth — has gone up and through the roof since 1981 because we all know the cost of living hasn\u2019t gone down, has it? If it has, I would like to know. We know the cost of living hasn\u2019t gone down, yet supposedly gasoline represented only 3.7% of the nation\u2019s spending as opposed to 5% back in 1981. If the cost of living isn\u2019t going down, then the price of something else has to have been going way up, right? Housing, food, other things. “In addition to spending less, we\u2019re driving more than ever, 90% more than compared to the early eighties.” Folks, I guess CNN says: Don\u2019t worry about the gas price. It\u2019s not nearly as bad as you think. Doesn\u2019t really matter as much anymore. <\/p>\n

And the only reason why is that there\u2019s a Democrat president who needs to be reelected.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: CNN says in this story, folks, that people are only mad about the price of gasoline because they\u2019re being encouraged to get mad by some in the media, political pollsters, and because Republicans are exploiting the issue. Honest to God! After exploiting nonexistent rising gas prices all during the 2000s, they now claim you\u2019re only mad about gasoline prices because Republicans are exploiting it and the media is exposing it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019ve never seen anything like it, folks. I\u2019ve never seen this kind of a mid-course correction. I don\u2019t even think I saw one like this from Bill Clinton. 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