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RUSH: A big-time crane collapse, Upper East Side, Manhattan today, First Avenue and East 91st Street, [two dead, including] the cab operator… when the thing snapped off. They\u2019re going to investigate this. They had another crane accident in New York in March. And I just wonder — I mean, this is speculation, but if the mainstream media can do it, I can do it. You know what the mainstream media speculation is? Every global warming story is speculation, every one of them. It is not fact. Every global warming story says something ‘might\u2019 happen. That\u2019s not news. News is what ‘has\u2019 happened. News is what ‘did\u2019 happen. News is what ‘is\u2019 happening. News is not what ‘might\u2019 happen 30 years from now, 50 years from now. So if they can speculate, I, El Rushbo, can speculate. <\/p>\n

I\u2019d just like to know if any of these cranes and their manufacturing process and the deployment process and the use process of these cranes, I wonder if there are new environmental regulations in New York City, because there are environmental regulations in practically everything: no trans fat in the restaurants, for example. So I just wonder, the commissioner of buildings went out there and really laid into them: the contractor, the crane owner, the concrete provider and so forth, because the Drive-By Media wanted to know all about who was responsible for this. On WCBS-TV\u2019s news coverage today they took some phone calls, and they got New York City councilman Tony Avella, they got him on the phone. The anchor, Maurice DuBois, said, ‘Councilman, easy to say something has to be done. In your opinion, what needs be to be done here about the crane collapse?\u2019<\/p>\n

AVELLA: Every crane operation in the city needs to be shut down at this point until it\u2019s fully inspected. We can\u2019t keep putting people in jeopardy. And what has to happen is some real legislation, not just talk about it, and it\u2019s interesting, the mayor\u2019s comment was, ‘Oh, we\u2019re not just going to talk about it, we\u2019re going to do something about it.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Legislation? The crane was inspected last weekend. I think I heard the mayor say that today. The crane was inspected, it passed inspection. So here\u2019s a city councilman: ‘We need to shut down all these cranes.\u2019 Yeah, only the government can do this right, huh? Okay, so we shut down the cranes, Mr. Avella, and then you go inspect \u2019em all and then when you\u2019ve approved \u2019em, then you go climb one and operate it. You guys know how to do this? As the mayor said, ‘Construction is a risky business.\u2019 Listen to this from Lester Holt. We have time to squeeze this on from NBC.<\/p>\n

HOLT: For the last several months New Yorkers have all walked around looking up at these cranes. The city is in the middle of a construction boom. You take these things for granted —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. Construction boom? This is NBC. This is Lester Holt, Drive-By Media specialist. New York City construction boom? Construction boom? Lester, haven\u2019t you gotten the memo? We\u2019re in a recession, pal, recession!<\/p>\n

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RUSH: During the break here at the top of the hour, ladies and gentlemen, a noted climate scientist and specialist posited to me — and he\u2019s just guessing, of course, like all the other climate scientists are doing in the Drive-By Media, but he suggested to me — that there may be an unexplained reason (a very understandable one, though) for the crane collapses in New York City in March and this morning; and it could very well be all of the carbon dioxide that we are pumping into the atmosphere has led to air pressure in the upper atmosphere like 30 stories up, 20 stories up. These cranes just can\u2019t handle it! The cranes cannot handle the additional air pressure. It\u2019s just speculation here, of course. Of all of the CO2 that has been pumped into the atmosphere. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, during the top-of-the-hour break, I moseyed into Mr. Snerdley\u2019s office where he goes to reenergize for another hour of screening calls. Much tougher job screening calls than anybody can possibly imagine. He has to decide in seven seconds, no more, no less, whether somebody\u2019s got it. After seven seconds, if he can\u2019t tell — and he can tell, he\u2019s good at it — then you move on, if somebody doesn\u2019t have it. Sorry, move on, because there are too many people trying to get through. Gotta get the right one. But it\u2019s a pressure-packed job. So he goes back to his office to reenergize, decompress awhile and refocus. He had CNBC on in there on one of his TV sets, and the Street Sweetie\u2019s show is on. We like the Street Sweetie here. She\u2019s a superb journalist, a superb economist. She knows her stuff. They opened their hour with exactly what I was talking about earlier in the program, what has become news, that isn\u2019t news. Any news story that tells you what might happen without telling you anything that has happened isn\u2019t news. It\u2019s speculation. It\u2019s bias. It\u2019s opinion. <\/p>\n

For example, every global warming story, let me just give you an example; let me see if I can find one here in the stack. Okay, let\u2019s see here. Nah, the stories I\u2019ve got today are all about the cap-and-trade deal next week, which we\u2019re going to talk about next week, the thing goes before the Senate. Maybe I\u2019ve got one here that I haven\u2019t used. You know what I\u2019m talking about. A story that talks about what might happen is speculation. It isn\u2019t the news. So they did a feature on the worst hurricane season starts Sunday, June 1st. Hurricane season starts, and of course the Drive-Bys all go camp out on the beaches looking for the next hurricane. There already is one down in Central America. At any rate, they did a feature on the apocalypse. The right hurricane, at the right place, would be the apocalypse, would be the perfect storm. It was all about the right hurricane at the right place destroying our oil business, our oil fields. And it was complete with footage of hurricanes from years ago, the palm trees sideways, cars rolling down the streets, and they got some guy from the oil price services coordinator complex on there, whatever it was called, and he was describing what would happen. <\/p>\n

Now, some people might like to see these kinds of stories, ‘Well, Rush, we have to be prepared for this, it\u2019s good that we\u2019re being told.\u2019 I\u2019m sure the people in business are prepared. I\u2019m sure the oil companies have a battle plan, but to present this as a news story, I don\u2019t know that we\u2019re going to have any hurricanes this year, we don\u2019t know that. And if we do, we don\u2019t know how bad they\u2019re going to be and we certainly don\u2019t know where they\u2019re going to be, but we\u2019re not hoping for the right hurricane at the right place giving us the perfect storm! None of us are hoping for this, except maybe Scott McClellan. But besides him, I don\u2019t know that anybody\u2019s hoping for this. Don\u2019t call the Street Sweetie. I\u2019m not being critical of her. This just cemented my point in my mind, so much news out there about what might happen, not what has happened, and all of global warming is that way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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