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RUSH: Folks, I don\u2019t know if you know this or not. I may be, in fact, the first person to tell you this. Do you know that Lindsay Lohan has an obscenity printed on her fingernail? Did you know that? What is our country coming to? Why is the media not covering something just as important as this? This is profoundly important news, Lindsay Lohan with an obscenity on her fingernail while she was in court. I know you haven\u2019t heard about this. That\u2019s why you listen to this show, because I am the first to tell you things people would otherwise ignore. <\/p>\n

Greetings, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network. Great to have you here. Telephone number, 800-282-2882. <\/p>\n

Actually, of course, yes, I\u2019m being facetious. Everybody and their pets know full well that Lindsay Lohan — there\u2019s nothing they don\u2019t know about her. Snerdley, I\u2019m watching this last night, I\u2019m thinking, you know what we ought to do? Just like we have an Official Obama Criticizer, we need to have an entertainment reporter. I\u2019m not going to deign to do it. I am not going to lower myself to do entertainment news, but we may as well go out and hire some idiot who really thinks it\u2019s important, you know, some valley girl type, ‘And, you know, like, wow,\u2019 to come in here and talk about this big news because obviously there\u2019s a market for it. I mean virtually everywhere you go, every cable news channel, every nightly newscast had a story on Lindsay Lohan going to jail. Meanwhile, you can\u2019t find any news about the oil spill. You cannot find any news about it anymore. You cannot find the truth about this Berwick guy and the reason he was recess appointed to be the health care, Medicare, Medicaid administrator. <\/p>\n

Do you know why he was recess appointed? He was not being blocked. Normally recess appointments are when the opposing party will not even give the guy hearings. The Republicans couldn\u2019t wait for hearings on this guy. They wanted to expose exactly what a left-wing redistributionist socialist he is and the White House didn\u2019t want that. Four months before the election, the White House didn\u2019t want the truth known about how their health care plan is going to be administered so they recess appointed — this is unprecedented. It is authoritarian, it is quasi-totalitarian. This is essentially another czar that\u2019s been appointed. We know who the guy is, but the administration, the regime, did not want this guy testifying in public. But he was not being blocked. We are not getting any stories about the lack of intellect and experience of Elena Kagan. That\u2019s off the radar. The hate speech of King Shabazz Seliz Skyhook, whatever, the New Black Panther guy in Philadelphia who wants to kill white babies and white crackers, can you imagine if this guy headed up some racist group of right-wingers or white people were saying stuff like this, it would be all over the news. But Lindsay Lohan, we\u2019re getting close-ups of her fingernails with the obscenity painted on there. <\/p>\n

Here from Broadcasting and Cable magazine: ‘Oil Spill Coverage Trending Down — The BP Gulf oil spill was the top story among a mix of media for the week ending July 4, but there are signs the story may be ‘losing some steam.”That\u2019s because the regime\u2019s not letting people out there to cover it. The regime doesn\u2019t want any news about this, and of course the media doesn\u2019t really care to cover it if the regime doesn\u2019t want it covered \u2019cause it\u2019s looking more and more like an absolute regime disaster. And they don\u2019t want any news of this. ‘According to the latest Project for Excellence In Journalism\u2019s (PEJ) weekly news coverage index,\u2019 the BP oil spill, uh, I\u2019m sorry, what did I say we should start calling it? Not the BP oil spill, the private-sector-caused natural disaster. ‘Captured 15% of the news hole, but that is down from the week before, when it had 23% for the number two spot behind the General McChrystal story.\u2019<\/p>\n

So we don\u2019t know if Obama\u2019s plugged the hole or if the State-Run Media has plugged the hole on Mother Nature and all these environmental disaster stories. We\u2019re not getting any coverage. But, folks, don\u2019t worry. It\u2019s only the Gulf of Mexico. It\u2019s just a bunch of fishermen. It\u2019s just a bunch of oil rig workers. They\u2019re the ones being hurt and they deserve to be hurt, they deserve to find out what it\u2019s like to have been a minority in this country for 200 years and find out what real pain and suffering is. It\u2019s called payback. We all know that Obama\u2019s pro-environment; we all know that he\u2019s pro-business; we all know that he\u2019s pro-fiscal responsibility. He says so. So why ruffle his feathers with pictures of some oil soaked birds? Obama says it\u2019s the biggest environmental disaster in history. Why beat it into the ground, it is what it is, let\u2019s get our priorities straight. <\/p>\n

The rumors are out now that LeBron James is going to pick Miami over New York. He\u2019s got this big one-hour show tonight on ESPN where he\u2019s going to announce his decision. He\u2019s going to announce a decision ten minutes into the show. This story rivals Lindsay Lohan and what she had printed on her fingernails. (interruption) Has LeBron ever won anything? In the pros, no. Are you trying to get me, Snerdley, to wade into the water of whether or not LeBron James is worth all this? ‘Cause I\u2019m not going there. Snerdley says he doesn\u2019t get the madness. It\u2019s not the madness over a basketball player. It is that there\u2019s so much else that is rotten and depressing and unnerving. Sports have always been an escape from the humdrum of reality for everybody else. We are on Fantasy Island with this. Everybody wishes they were LeBron James, they wish they had this kind of opportunity. Now, there are stories coming out of Cleveland today, if he doesn\u2019t re-sign with them, $48 million lost in economic activity every year. If he goes to Miami, remember what I said there, no state income taxes in Florida, and you can\u2019t discount that as part of the equation. <\/p>\n

Okay so we got Lindsay Lohan, we got LeBron James and his big decision tonight. We\u2019re not getting any coverage of the serious things happening in this country. In fact, there is a story in The Politico today about the Blagojevich trial and how the White House is sweating it out. But so far they\u2019ve dodged a bullet, because the stuff that\u2019s been learned in testimony, yeah, it might be grazing the administration, it might be brushing up against it but there hasn\u2019t really been any bombshells out there. This is like Walter Cronkite saying there hasn\u2019t been enough coverage of the Vietnam War, blaming everybody else for not — Politico, if there hasn\u2019t been enough coverage of the Blagojevich trial and how it might impact Obama, why don\u2019t you try covering it? Why don\u2019t you tell us what\u2019s going on? I mean, they touch on it briefly, but it\u2019s amazing to watch the State-Controlled Media analyze all the others in the State-Controlled Media and say the White House is dodging bullets here. Why? What bullets? Tell us what they are. <\/p>\n

‘Madison Square Shares Fall Before LeBron\u2019s Decision.\u2019 Here it is, and this is from Bloomberg News. Ladies and gentlemen, this is one of the lead stories in one of the leading news websites out there. ‘LeBron James had a meeting with six teams, including the Cleveland Cavaliers. Madison Square Garden Inc., owner of the New York Knicks, retreated in U.S. trading after ESPN reported that LeBron James is leaning toward playing basketball for the Miami Heat instead of the company\u2019s team. James, the National Basketball Association\u2019s Most Valuable Player the past two seasons, will probably announce at 9 p.m. New York time that he will shift to the Heat instead of the Knicks after leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers.\u2019 ESPN is reporting this, they happen to be the one that has exclusive coverage of the big hour long ceremony. How long would it take you, Snerdley, to announce where you\u2019re going to go in your next job? Twenty seconds max. Camera goes on, ‘Hi, I\u2019m Rush Limbaugh, I\u2019m leaving the EIB Network and I\u2019m forming a new network and I\u2019m going over to X. Thanks very much for watching. Now here\u2019s 59 minutes of commercials.\u2019<\/p>\n

But no, no. Sports Center, three-hour extended Sports Center leading up to LeBron James\u2019 hour-long decision show and then a two-hour expanded Sports Center after LeBron\u2019s hour-long decision show. They are going to have three people interviewing LeBron James. Going to have Jim Gray interviewing LeBron James, Michael Wilbon interviewing LeBron James, and Stuart Scott interviewing LeBron James, and LeBron James will probably interview himself and answer questions he wishes he was asked but wasn\u2019t. And then there will be post-decision analysis on what this all means for the NBA and what\u2019s it mean for Obama. What does the LeBron James decision mean for Obama, what does it mean for health care, what does it mean for global warming, \u2019cause everything will relate. In fact, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they have a cut-away to the White House with Obama watching the show and weighing in on his decision afterwards. And then they\u2019ll send somebody to ask Lindsay Lohan, ‘Before you go to jail, what do you think of the LeBron James decision here to play basketball somewhere else?\u2019 And then she\u2019ll just flip \u2019em the bird with the finger and say, ‘I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m going to jail. Why don\u2019t you cover that?\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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