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RUSH: You know, now would be a time for President Obama to give a speech on inflation so he can stop that dead in its tracks. We already had the president go out to Tucson and stop dead in its tracks the actions of insane lunatics. We had the president give hundreds of speeches on health care and the American people still don\u2019t want it. So don\u2019t be surprised that, absent a speech by Obama on the subject, inflation will be one of the top stories by the yearend, but if the president can ask the country to stop inflation… I was gonna say ‘whip,\u2019 but that is a dangerous word. ‘Whip\u2019 is an angry word. It has historical notations that we don\u2019t want to dredge up. So if he can beat… Well, that\u2019s problematic now, and ‘dead in his tracks\u2019? I said that.<\/p>\n

See, I\u2019m trying to be civil here as requested by the left. Anyway, if the president could ask the country to stop inflation, to Stop Inflation Now… SIN, S-I-N, Stop Inflation Now. Yeah, Gerald Ford was ‘whip inflation.\u2019 He even had buttons: ‘Whip Inflation Now,\u2019 WIN buttons. Now if we have SIN buttons, then we don\u2019t have to worry… (interruption) No, they didn\u2019t work. They didn\u2019t work, but Obama has unique powers, oratorical skills — ‘a gift,\u2019 as he said to Harry Reid — and, folks, in the UK… Oil is at $90 around the world now and Mohammad Ali Khatibi said by phone from Tehran it\u2019s not a big deal. It\u2019s ‘not an extraordinary situation.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Kuwait\u2019s oil minister said he considered oil at $80 to $100 a barrel to be a ‘fair price\u2019 and did not expect OPEC to increase output…\u2019 All the front pages of the papers in the UK all this week have been about the rising, near-record gasoline prices. The American State-Controlled Media is suppressing the story. Their marching orders are to continue to focus on Sarah Palin, and so the State-Controlled Media in this country with marching orders from the White House is focusing on Palin, ‘civility,\u2019 the dangers of the right wing, and the brilliance of Obama\u2019s speech in dealing with the right wing. In the meantime, nobody wants the health care bill. Seventy-five percent want it repealed; the Republicans start dealing with that next week. <\/p>\n

Gasoline prices are rising. Reuters story: ‘Rising gasoline prices beat down U.S. consumer sentiment in early January, overshadowing an improved job outlook and passage of temporary federal tax breaks, a survey released on Friday showed. A year-end surge in gasoline prices ratcheted up consumer inflation expectations to their highest in more than two years, according to the latest data from Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan.\u2019 So things the American people come in contact with every day, things that matter to them, the sentiment is not good. Gasoline prices, food prices are on the rise. The cost of living is going up. That means inflation. Health care is coming with all the tax increases. <\/p>\n

The American people simply are not focused on that which the media and the White House wants them focused, and that\u2019s Tucson and Sarah Palin. Now energy and food costs do not count in the federal core inflation statistics. In case you\u2019re wondering how inflation reports don\u2019t show much inflation, energy and food costs are not considered. They\u2019re never have been because they fluctuate too much, but it\u2019s awfully handy to not have to count those things. Now, the price of oil has about doubled in five years — and again it\u2019s the big story in the UK. There are riots in places of the world over gasoline prices. The American media is protecting this story; the American media is covering it not at all. <\/p>\n

Remember, the instructions from the White House are you keep focusing on Palin, you keep telling the American people what a dangerous, unqualified boob Sarah Palin is. David Cameron, prime minister of the UK, is set to act over soaring petrol prices. The London media is pushing him, but silence in the USA. From Express.co.uk: ‘Petrol Prices may Kill the Economy and the Coalition.\u2019 They are severely worried about the economy blowing up because of rising energy prices in the UK, the same prices that are going up here. You\u2019re just not having it reported. Lots of urgency in the UK. But here it\u2019s all Palin bashing, on orders from the White House news center. ‘UK, fuel prices yesterday nudging their record highs of July 2008,\u2019 and Obama wants us talking about the strange harmony BS! <\/p>\n

Just can\u2019t we all get along here?<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s time for a speech here! Here. This is a DC gossip blog: ‘Washington insiders are wondering if the next real economic crisis facing President Obama is when gasoline prices spike to $4 or $5 per gallon. At today\u2019s press briefing, a White House press spokesman rebuffed queries about the possibility saying ‘ there are many people that would get upset at me if I started to opine on oil and gas prices, so I won\u2019t,” and besides, we have our orders from the White House news center to focus on Sarah Palin and whether or not the president can make sure the American people are once again ‘civil\u2019 to each other. We\u2019re gonna focus on that and we\u2019re gonna focus on Palin. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re not gonna talk about oil prices. We\u2019re not gonna talk about anything to damage the economy because we\u2019ve sent out word from our news center that there is a robust recovery going on, and we can\u2019t feature any news in the American media that would contradict that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Lisa in Prairie Home, Missouri. Nice to have you up first today on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very good, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I want to give you a happy belated birthday, and I want to tell you I\u2019m sleeping wonderful on my Sleep Number Bed that you gave me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hubba hubba.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Anyway, I have a comment to make. I\u2019m disappointed also in Charles, about his comments that he made about Sarah Palin, about the shooting. Sarah Palin can\u2019t win no matter what. Just to give a flip side of it, what if she would have came out immediately in response to it, and then they did find a book of Sarah Palin\u2019s at his house? Then they would have creamed her all over again. She just can\u2019t win. You see what I\u2019m saying?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the point. It is clear to me, ladies and gentlemen, that the White House considers her their number one threat. That\u2019s all this means. They don\u2019t think anybody else in the Republican hierarchy right now is the number one threat. It\u2019s no accident and it\u2019s not a coincidence that you can\u2019t get up every day without seeing a couple, if not more, stories — newspaper, TV — aimed at ripping, criticizing, destroying Sarah Palin. It\u2019s gone beyond the realm of belief now that there\u2019s serious news behind all of these stories, that there\u2019s any real journalism going on here. It\u2019s not that at all. It\u2019s attack dog journalism and it\u2019s largely in the White House news center. I\u2019m dead serious about this. It\u2019s also to ignore and not report on the rising oil and gasoline prices and the rising food prices and the obvious impact this is going to have on the economy and a recovery they desperately want you to believe. <\/p>\n

The White House has essentially, in journalistic terms, put crosshairs on Sarah Palin. There\u2019s no question that this is what they\u2019re trying to do. Sarah Palin, that\u2019s who they are trying to destroy because that\u2019s who they fear is the biggest threat to Obama. And don\u2019t think for a moment the Republicans don\u2019t know that, either. They know it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Johnny in Indianapolis, welcome to the EIB Network and Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, sir. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, if an event such as the one that took place in Tucson had happened in Canada, the UK, or Germany, do you think the congresswoman would still be alive?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. You\u2019re talking about health care?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I have no way of speculating on that. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I just think that she\u2019s got the best treatment in the universe.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know what you\u2019re saying but the best health care in the world still exists in parts of Canada for certain people. If one of their elected officials got shot I\u2019m sure their elected officials would get the best. Our problem with the Canadian health care system is not that it\u2019s horrible. It\u2019s that it\u2019s unfairly distributed. We\u2019ve heard of all the lines, people having to come to the United States for routine procedures. But the ruling class is always gonna get taken care of, same thing in Germany. Hell, even in Germany we\u2019ve got US military installations with fabulous health care there. I know what your point is, we\u2019ve got the best health care system in the world, and this episode demonstrates it. And I think that\u2019s true, because no matter where you go in this country you\u2019re gonna get the best health care. It could happen in Tucson. It could happen in San Antonio. It could happen in Buffalo. You\u2019re going to get the best in this country. That\u2019s why people are so concerned about Obamacare, because it\u2019s gonna destroy this. It\u2019s going to motivate people — that\u2019s the right word — to not even go in to the medical profession. I mean in this country if you are an illegal immigrant and have no money, you still get the best health care in the world and with a smile on the professionals\u2019 faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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