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Great Piece on Narrative as News: Nothing Is Real<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, it reminds me, Sunday, I guess, in the New York Post there was a — I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a column or if it was just an essay.  It was by Maureen Callahan, called, “Everything Today is a Lie.”  It\u2019s a long piece because it\u2019s filled with examples.  It starts this way. <\/p>\n

“We\u2019re officially in the era of the epic troll. Let\u2019s review the last week alone: Gwyneth Paltrow, high priestess of pretension, offers a $15,000 gold vibrator on her website, Goop. ‘Sex toys have long since graduated from the floppy rubber things you hide in your bedside table to beautiful works of interactive art,\u2019 goes the super-literal copy.<\/p>\n

“Gwyneth, who well knows what the world thinks of her, doubled down on her good friend Chelsea Handler\u2019s new talk show, which, by the way, debuted last Wednesday on Netflix. ‘We started talking about, “Is lube toxic?”‘ Paltrow said. ‘We\u2019re very conscious about non-toxic products at Goop, and we learned that lube is actually very toxic,\u2019 and so go to her site to buy $13 organic…”  It\u2019s just absurd stuff.  None of it true. <\/p>\n

“On Game of Thrones, Jon Snow comes alive — despite dying in last year\u2019s season finale, despite multiple, HBO-stamped statements to incredulous fans. ‘Jon Snow is dead,\u2019 said showrunner David Benioff at the time. ‘Deader than dead,\u2019 said the episode\u2019s director. In January, Kit Harington, who plays Snow, told the BBC that ‘all I can tell you is Jon Snow is dead. He died at the end of last season.\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

“On March 27, six weeks before Jon Snow came back to life, Harington told the Guardian, ‘I\u2019m really dead. I\u2019m not coming back to life.\u2019 Last Sunday, Jon Snow was up and about, executing the traitors who\u2019d killed him so poorly.”<\/p>\n

Not real.  I mean, everybody\u2019s being lied to, is the point.  And it goes on.  “All last week, pop star Meghan Trainor claimed that she was outraged to see her latest video, body much thinner, go online without her approval. ‘I was like, “Why are the fans messing with my waist?” And my glam squad was like, “That\u2019s not your waist.”‘  No mere pop star she: Trainor has much larger, more important concerns than ‘the fans\u2019 and her glam squad. Concocting the ridiculous premise that a major record label would betray one of their top-selling artists … Trainor elevated herself to solo feminist warrior, dismantling faceless, sexist, body-shaming executives in corner offices.”<\/p>\n

It turns out the whole thing was a publicity stunt planned from beginning to end.  If you don\u2019t know who this is, it doesn\u2019t matter.  It was a brilliantly conceived, flawlessly executed publicity stunt made to look like this woman had been betrayed by her own company with fake photos of her published and it was all a lie to sell whatever it is she\u2019s got to sell. <\/p>\n

“Queen of the Anthems is, of course, Beyonc�, whose new album and accompanying short film, ‘Lemonade,\u2019 strongly implies that her husband — the equally private, micromanaging, business-minded Jay Z — has been cheating on her with multiple women, including one she calls Becky.  While the internet went crazy trying to guess who Jay\u2019s ‘Becky\u2019 was — and beta celebs like Rachel Roy and Rita Ora inserted themselves in the mix — the true point was lost: ‘Lemonade\u2019 is only available on Tidal, Beyonc� and Jay Z\u2019s flailing streaming service.”<\/p>\n

They\u2019re making up the fact that he had a babe. They\u2019re making up the fact that he had marital problems.  The whole thing is a concocted PR scam designed to separate people from their money.  Nothing is real.  Substance cannot sell what needs to be sold, is the bottom line.  People have lost faith that reality can sell anything.  People have lost faith that reality can persuade, that substance has meaning, everything must be lied about, everything must be spun.  In fact, everything is a narrative today.  A narrative has become a substitute to the news.  A narrative has become a substitute for substance. <\/p>\n

“As of last Friday, the New York Times reported that ‘Lemonade\u2019 has generated 306 million global streams, with 1.2 million user subscriptions in the album\u2019s first week. In a soapy, concurrent Us magazine cover story, Beyonc�s agony and artistry got six pages of coverage, with telling quotes buried at the end. ‘Everything was planned, and they are both in on it together,\u2019 a source close to the couple said. ‘Everything she is doing is to break records,\u2019 said another.”<\/p>\n

Everything they\u2019re doing is lying. Everything they\u2019re doing is misleading.  They can\u2019t rely on the substance of her talent.  They don\u2019t trust it.  It\u2019s got to be spun.<\/line><\/p>\n

“Sharon Osbourne, long-suffering wife of addled rocker Ozzy, leaked word that she was leaving him after 33 years of marriage after catching him with the hairdresser. On Tuesday, Sharon … dramatically returned to her CBS daytime show, ‘The Talk.'”<\/p>\n

Remember who this babe is.  She turned her family into the Kardashians before there was the Kardashians.  When she got back to her TV show her agony and her hurt, “she shared her rapid emotional arc, from humiliation to fear to courage to independence, with her 2.9 million viewers. … ‘I can\u2019t keep living like this,\u2019 she told her co-hosts, while simultaneously claiming she was \u2019empowered.\u2019<\/p>\n

“As she sat, emotionless, she sipped from a tall glass of lemonade, trolling us all. By Thursday, Sharon was photographed cuddling with Ozzy at a promotional event for his upcoming ‘farewell tour\u2019 — which, as his longtime manager, she oversees. ‘Sharon is the queen of publicity stunts,\u2019 a source told Page Six last Friday.”<\/p>\n

Well, yeah, but these are more than publicity stunts because this stuff is now happening in politics.  Look at Ben Rhodes, the New York Times story on the Iranian deal, and now everybody is being lied to.  It\u2019s everywhere now.  And Maureen Callahan moves on to the serious stuff from the entertainment stuff.  I have to take a break here.  But the point is, everything today is a lie, everything is spun, everything is PR, substance and reality, nobody has confidence to be persuasive or to be victorious.  <\/p>\n

It\u2019s Now Sexist to Say a Woman Looks Tired<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: According to Katherine Timpf at National Review Online (she actually quotes a piece here in the UK Telegraph), “it\u2019s sexist to tell women that they ‘”look tired” at work.\u2019 ‘Chances are if a woman has a totally bare face, she\u2019ll be told by both male and female colleagues that she looks exhausted, hungover or [sick] … people are so used to seeing made-up women at work that [if they show up without makeup it] seems anything but natural,'” and women sometimes are told, “Are you okay?  You look kind of worn out.  You look kind of ragged.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s now sexist.<\/p>\n

“Radhika Sanghani writes … ‘It\u2019s sexist to tell a woman she “looks tired” at work — and here\u2019s why.'” And it goes on to explain how that has become discrimination and sexist.  And, you know, these are the kind of things we laugh at.  But every one of these things that we laugh at, they end up becoming real standard operating procedures, and everybody ends up being caught short by it all.  <\/p>\n

Drive-By Panic: Trump\u2019s Appeal Stretches Into Blue State Suburbs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH:  The Washington Post has a story today that relates to something that I have been mentioning around the edges lately.  They\u2019re very, very worried in various places around the country that Trump\u2019s appeal is stretching to the suburbs that had been trending Democrat.  They are surprised that Trump is not nearly as toxic in suburbia as the Democrats had calculated.  <\/p>\n

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Mitt Drops Search for Third-Party Candidate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH:  It looks like Mitt Romney has dropped the effort to recruit an independent Trump challenger.  I know that means Bill Kristol has (unintelligible) but Romney has given up the ghost, doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s possible.  <\/p>\n

Trump Meets with Dr. Kissinger<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what I find intriguing?  That Trump is gonna have a powwow with Dr. Kissinger.  I would love to be in the room to listen to that conversation, Donald Trump and Henry Kissinger.  <\/p>\n

Obama to Secure Summer Jobs for Refugees<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: Look at this headline: “Obama Spending Millions of Tax Dollars on Summer Jobs for Refugees.”  Not for your teenager. Not for African-American teenagers with a 25 to 45% unemployment rate.  No. “A new report reveals that President Obama is throwing the weight of the federal government behind a program to secure summer jobs for hundreds of ‘refugees\u2019 brought into the US by the president\u2019s refugee program guided by the United Nations.”<\/p>\n

Many of these refugees happen to be from Somalia.  There is another story out of Minnesota.  The US infection rate for tuberculosis about 4%.  But some refugees that are being brought in from around the world are upping that in Minnesota to 28% now.  Twenty-eight percent of these refugee arrivals are testing positive for TB<\/a>. <\/p>\n

And you think, “Well, wait \u2019til Obama finds out about that.”  No, no, no.  No, no, folks.  That\u2019s not “wait \u2019til Obama finds out about that.”  That\u2019s mission accomplished.  Remember the root of all evil as seen by Obama.  White male Christians.  It\u2019s not opinion.  You just follow what Obama and all these leftists Democrats say. Look at every grievance they\u2019ve got, trace it back to its original, and you\u2019ll find one group of people they blame for it all.  They founded the country and they ran the country and they did it for themselves and they set it up to discriminate against everybody else and it\u2019s time they got paid back.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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