Story #1: How Mrs. Clinton Can Assure No More Affairs
RUSH: For the last couple of days, ladies and gentlemen, I have been trying to get to the bottom of how in the world Mrs. Clinton’s going to enforce her claim. When asked about her husband, “Why, what about future scandals?” “I can assure you,” she said, “there won’t be any,” and I have been desperately seeking answers. How can she make this claim? She’s made it affirmatively. She made it decisively. She said she couldn’t predict the future but “there will be no future scandals” involving my husband. Now, I’m incapable of answering this question myself. I’ve asked women in the audience to tell me if they were in similar shoes, circumstances, girdles, as Mrs. Clinton; how would you handle this. I mean, how could you make that kind of claim? And we’ve only had two responses, and they said divorce. But here’s another one, and this is not even related to the Clintons. This is held over from yesterday. It’s a Valentine’s Day story. “Repairing a relationship requires openness and candor from the person who cheated.” This is how you recover from an affair. When I read this, I said, “Maybe we have an indication of what Mrs. Clinton plans on doing.” “He has to admit…” Note that the cheater is always the guy here in this story. You have to understand this. The cheater is always male, always the husband.
“‘He has to admit that he made a mistake and recognize the hurt of betrayal and say I want to be faithful,’ says author John Gray, who examines relationship problems in his latest book ‘Why Mars and Venus Collide’. The person who cheated needs to end the affair and take responsibility, he said. The adulterer must be willing to disclose all the details of his affair and agree to new degrees of openness, says Rick Reynolds, founder of the Affair Recovery Center in Austin, Texas. The new rules might include sharing e-mail and voicemail passwords,” so you don’t have separate e-mail accounts, “being constantly accessible by phone and checking-in regularly with a spouse. Angela Gilbert requires her husband to take an annual lie detector test. ‘I don’t trust him the way I did before,’ she says. ‘I feel safe because of the measures we put in place.’ At first, Chris Gilbert resented the new rules. But he’s gone along with it. ‘Deep down, you know it’s for the best.'” A yearly lie detector test would not work for the Clintons. It would have to be daily, maybe hourly. Aside from that, it says here, “It takes about 18 months for the hurt spouse to work through all the emotions that come with an affair, said Reynolds, who worked with the Gilberts. He counsels the spouse who cheated to answer any question his or her partner has. But he also sets a date when the questioning must end.” That’s where it breaks down (laughing), because the cheater hears about it the rest of his life. He’s gotta eat it for the rest of his life. There’s no question about it.
Story #2: Nostrilitus Waxman Regrets the Clemens Hearing
RUSH:Henry “Nostrilitis” Waxman is now saying he regrets that the Roger Clemens, Brian McNamee hearings were held.”A day after a dramatic, nationally televised hearing that pitted Roger Clemens against his former personal trainer and Democrats against Republicans,” Henry Waxman said that the “four-hour hearing unnecessarily embarrassed Clemens…as well as the trainer…who he thought was unfairly attacked by committee Republicans.’I think Clemens and McNamee both came out quite sullied, and I didn’t think it was a hearing that needed to be held in order to get the facts out about the Mitchell Report,’ Waxman said.’I’m sorry we had the hearing. I regret that we had the hearing. And the only reason we had the hearing was because Roger Clemens and his lawyers insisted on it.'” Also in this story, it’s now gone beyond the conspiracy websites.Now it’s in the mainstream media, that Clemens is going to get pardoned by Bush because Bush and his family are Texans; and Clemens is a Texan, and one day Clemens was out hunting whitetail deer and got a phone call from Bush 41, saying: Hang in there and be tough.So this is now become the conventional wisdom.
Story #3: FISA Failure: Bush Says Congress Putting US in Danger
RUSH: There’s an Associated Press story on this FISA business out there about how Congress has failed to re-up the FISA program. Bush is going to go ahead and go to Africa. The legislation passed on Tuesday in the Senate lapsed because the House didn’t even take it up. Recess started at noon today, or did it? I don’t know if they’ve actually left yet, but are taking a week or ten-day recess. Surveillance can continue against known terrorist groups but any new groups that form, no surveillance — (laughing) — all you gotta do, “Okay, we are no longer Al-Qaeda. We are Il-Qaeda, Incorporated, and you can’t surveil us.” But the AP story, the headline is: “Bush Says Congress Putting US in Danger.” The headline should be: “Bush Says Democrats Putting US in Danger,” because it’s the Democrats in Congress who are holding it up.
Story #4: Another Shooting in Gun-Free, Hate-Free Zone
RUSH: Northern Illinois University. I am told we have, what, seven people dead now? Another campus shooting. I am told that this is another one of these wonderful, Utopian, marvelous little college campi that is a gun-free zone. “That’s right, Mr. Limbaugh, gun-free. It’s the only way that we’re going to get rid of guns and random shootings in America.” Really? This guy, who was taking medication, whatever, this guy walks in there, starts mowing people down, has time to reload because there’s nothing anybody can do to stop him. Everybody’s gotta run away. Everybody’s gotta take cover. This is liberalism on parade. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve had conversations with, even Republicans, liberal Republicans here in New York, and these liberal Republicans in New York love to single me out and poke me, you know, put their finger right in my chest and say, “Why do you conservatives believe X?” These are Republicans I’m talking about. Some of these guys served in the Nixon administration.
The subject that always came up was gun control. “Why are you conservatives so opposed to gun control?” I said, “I’ll be happy to support gun control,” this was a Fifth Avenue apartment dinner party, this is way back in the mid-nineties, I said, “If you can convince me that after taking guns out of the hands of law-abiding people, that you’re also going to go into Central Park and get the guns out of all the creeps hanging around in there and everywhere else in this city. You get the guns out of the hands of the criminals, too, then maybe we can talk.” But you’re never going to be able to do that. This is another case in point where you have a liberal gun-free zone, hate-free zone. You go out and say you got something, but you don’t got it. Just because you say it doesn’t mean you got it. This wacko planned it. He planned it and executed it, and he knew that there wouldn’t be anybody else in the time he had to do his damage that had a gun to fire back at him. “Well, what are we supposed to do, Mr. Limbaugh, let every student walk in with a gun?” No. But you certainly don’t disarm security people around the place. You don’t disarm perhaps the professor. This is going to keep happening because there are demented people walking around in our society. Who cares what motivates them, they’re there.
You can debate all day why and you’re not going to solve the problem. Even if you diagnose somebody as schizophrenic or bipolar or whatever, you give them the medicine for that and they stop taking it, where are you? They freak out, they go get a gun, and they know full well nobody’s going to be able to stop them with another gun until after. They gotta know the cops are going to show up at some point, but they can still wreak their havoc long before anybody shows up to stop ’em and a number of people are dead in a gun-free zone. This is like these stupid sanctuary cities that will announce, “We’re not going to have this in our city. We’re not going to have that in our city.” It’s all around them. This is just classic symbolic feel-good liberalism that ends up putting people at risk because it fails to recognize that people are different. When it looks at either the demented or the sick or the truly sane who are yet criminally oriented, they look at them as no different than anybody else, we just treat them different. It’s like Obama the way he wants to go talk to some of the worst murdering thugs in the world, with just the power of his presence and the power of his ability to say nothing, can turn these people into a bunch of lambs and say to Mr. Obama, “You know what, Mr. President, you are right. We’re going to give up our evil ways. We’re going to give up our dictatorships. We’re going to give up our tyranny and we’re going to grant our people freedom just because you came and talked to us or because you allowed us to come talk to you in the Oval Office.”
By the way, President Obama, you better have armed guards in your Oval Office when these guys come to see you. Don’t forget, we let Yasser Arafat walk to the podium at the UN wearing a pistol! “If we just show them that we mean them no harm, Mr. Limbaugh, then don’t you think that alone will show that they have no reason to hate us?” No, it will show ’em what a bunch of weak, defeatable little SOBs we are, you little pansy, you run around, just show them we don’t mean them any harm? “That’s right, Mr. Limbaugh, you show them. The reason we’re in such trouble in the world, Mr. Limbaugh, is because of our nuclear arsenal, we’re stealing the world’s resources from the poor and we’re polluting the planet and destroying it. And Senator Obama will make sure that we’re not going to do any more, people around the world that hate us will have no more reason to hate us,” just like the gunman at Northern Illinois University. He knew that nobody in there could do him any harm, and so he had no animus for them, right? Liberalism is so stupid, I don’t understand why — the only explanation for people not getting liberalism is that they do not think. They feel, they hope, they want things to be different simply on the basis of their power of hope.
Story #5:Yes We Can! Save Big on a Select Comfort Bed
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, before we go to the commercial break, it is time for a little public service here. I’ve given away a couple Select Comfort Beds this week, and I’m getting e-mails about this. “Rush, I know you can’t give one to everybody, but,” and they start making the case. It’s one of the problems when you start giving these things away, because you can’t give one to everybody. It’s always a risk because do you make more….well, not “enemies,” but every person you please there’s a lot of others disappointed. “Why couldn’t it have been me?” Well, don’t give up hope. It could… (interruption) That’s right, Mr. Snerdley. (laughing) Don’t give up hope. Look, what I wanted to tell you is Monday is President’s Day, and we’re going to be here. We do not take these chintzy, little ski-holiday Mondays off. We are going to be here Monday doing broadcast excellence. But Monday’s President’s Day and if you do want one of these Select Comfort Beds they’re on sale. There is a President’ Day sale. It’s huge, and it’s going on now through Monday, the 18th of February. There are extra savings to be had. There’s no interest and no payments until 2009 if your credit’s good on all Sleep Number Beds. So you can go out and get your Sleep Number Bed, by Monday: no interest, no payments until 2009. There are 465 nationwide Select Comfort stores, and you can call 1-800-GET-A-BED. (interruption) What did he say? Yes, we can! Yes, we can. (laughter) Snerdley is doing an Obama impression: “Yes, we can! Yes, we can get a bed! Yes, we can!” No, it’s call 1-800-GET-A-BED. There’s no hope involved there. You just call. Get a video display of what this thing does, how it’s used, what is great about it. It is an incomparable bed. If you want to give up hope, then between now and Monday you’re going to get a fine bed, this is a chance to save big through Monday on the Select Comfort Sleep Number Bed, huge, gigantic, big-time sale.
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Story #5: Cute New Leopard Species Found in Borneo
RUSH: They found a new species of leopard in Borneo, and it’s a beautiful, beautiful cat. I happen to love cats, big and small, but in reading about this new leopard species, I say, “Wait. We’re supposedly wiping out all these species.” This leopard has two-inch fangs that are as large as a tiger’s fangs, but the tiger is ten times as large as the leopard. The fact sheet accompanying the story in the UK Daily Mail, says the leopard is just barely over a foot long. My cat’s bigger than that! I never knew leopards were that small. I can’t believe a leopard is that small. But it runs around in trees. It attacks from on high. Can you imagine something a foot long with two-inch fangs that’s only a foot long? I’d like to have one as a pet. Look at the picture of it. It’s a gorgeous cat. I never knew a leopard was that small. It doesn’t look that small in the picture. That has to be real. But then the tiger is ten feet long. I guess it might make sense.
Story #6: Democrat Whores Charge $20B in Pork to Support Troops
RUSH: We now know what the price for the continuing funding of the war is: $20 billion in pork! Now, all of you people were upset at the Republicans back in November for not doing anything about earmarks and not doing anything about pork and not doing anything about all this extraneous spending, looky here! We just learned the price. We know the Democrats in Congress are a bunch of whores. (They always have been.) We just didn’t know the price. Now we do. It’s $20 billion of pork in order for them to get some faction of the Democrat caucus to go along with the latest budget and Iraq bill.
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Story #1:El Rushbo Has No Plans to Buy an Airbus
RUSH: The Airbus A380 just now landing in Los Angeles.What an airplane.The Airbus A380 landed earlier today in New York at JFK.Theyhave two test models that are out there flying.They lost billions of dollars, Airbus did, with delays getting this airplane online. (interruption) No, I’m not going to get an Airbus.The problem with a plane that big is you have to go to commercial airports. You get stuck in ice, bad weather, snow. Nah. No, no, no.You don’t want to fly in one of those unless you have to.
Story #2:School Bus Nagin Sees Racist Conspiracy
RUSH: Have you heard about School Bus Nagin?This is from NOLA.com, the Times-Picayune website: “The slow pace of New Orleans’ post-Katrina recovery is part of a plan to change the city’s racial makeup, Mayor Ray Nagin told a national newspaper publishers’ group last week. According to The Washington Post, Nagin made those remarks at a dinner meeting Thursday of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a trade group for newspapers that target black readers. He told editors and publishers that the slow recovery is part of a plan to change the racial makeup, and hence the political leadership, of the city.” Hey, School Bus, where were you?This was the first thing some of the conspiracy theorists said in the week after Hurricane Katrina.Don’t you remember? Bush steered the hurricane there and ordered the levees not pictures so that black people, Democrats, would be forced to leave New Orleans and find a better life elsewhere in the country and never come back.This was one of the original conspiracy theories that this whole thing was a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant Bush ploy to take away a prominent Democrat state, Louisiana — and School Bus Nagin has now made the charge official.He said, ladies and gentlemen, “‘Ladies and gentlemen, what happened in New Orleans could happen anywhere,’ Nagin told the association. ‘They are studying this model of natural disasters, dispersing the community and changing the electoral process in that community.’ … Nagin referred to Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, his opponent in last year’s mayor’s race, as ‘the golden boy,’ and said Landrieu’s chances in the election seemed good because ‘they dispersed all of our people across 44 states with one-way tickets.’ ‘They thought they were talking about a different kind of New Orleans,’ Nagin said. ‘They didn’t realize that folks were awake, that they were paying attention.’ Landrieu did not return a call for comment….” Nagin said, “I, to this day, believe if it happened in Orange County, Calif., or South Beach, Fla., it wouldn’t have happened,” meaning Democrats sent packing with one-way tickets. “[A] foe of Nagin’s in the mayoral primary who endorsed him in the runoff against Landrieu, disagreed with the mayor’s remarks to the publishers last week. ‘I don’t think anybody could plan that well,’ Couhig said of the supposed plan by an unnamed ‘they’ to change the city’s racial makeup. He added that when he hears comments like that, ‘I always ask, ‘Who is the conspirator?’ and I don’t see anyone competent enough to pull it off.'” You guys, where you been?Bush did this! This was one of the original theories that was announced shortly after the Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.I think that School Bus Nagin may be overworked and stressed and might need some help. Look, we’re compassionate here, we love people, and we only want the best for people; but it may be time for a little visit from the guys in that little van that wear the white coats for School Bus Nagin.
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Story #1: Ruskies Withhold Iranian Nuclear Fuel
RUSH:Big news from the future nuclear capital of the Mideast: the Islamic Republic of the Peaceful Peoples of Iran.”Russian president Vladimir Putin has informed Iran that it will withhold nuclear fuel for Iran’s nearly computed…” or completed power plant, “Russia has informed Iran that it will withhold nuclear fuel for Iran’s nearly completed Bushehr power plant unless Iran suspends its uranium enrichment as demanded by the United Nations Security Council, European, American and Iranian…” That’s…? European? Who wrote this?This is the worst written sentence I have ever seen!It’s the New York Times.Basically here, European, American and Iranian officials are saying that Putin is withholding nuclear fuel because Iran hasn’t suspended its uranium enrichment as demanded by the UN Security Council. “The ultimatum was delivered in Moscow last week by Igor S. Ivanov, the secretary of the Russian National Security Council… Moscow and Tehran have been engaged in a public argument about whether Iran has paid its bills, which may explain Russia’s apparent shift. But the ultimatum may also reflect an increasing displeasure and frustration on Moscow’s part with Iran over its refusal to stop enriching uranium at its vast facility at Natanz. ‘We’re not sure what mix of commercial and political motives are at play here,’ one senior Bush administration official said in Washington. “‘But clearly the Russians and the Iranians are getting on each other’s nerves — and that’s not all bad.'” Well, that may not be all bad. It may be all well and good, but there’s an unanswered question here, and that is what will the Chinese do.The Chinese could step in here and fill the void if they chose to.You know, the Chinese would love for there to be as much instability regarding the United States foreign policy as possible — and Vlad needs the money.I mean, Russia is not floating in currency over there, and if the Iranians aren’t paying up, that could be the primary reason.It’s interesting that Putin is saying, “Hey, you guys won’t stop your uranium enrichment program?”I’ve never heard the Russians be that concerned about that. Story #2:Senate Bill Violates Separation of Powers
RUSH:”The Senate voted overwhelmingly today to end the Bush administration’s ability to unilaterally fill US attorney vacancies as a backlash to attorney general Alberto Gonzales firing of eight US attorneys.”Hey, anybody ever heard of separation of powers?Who is it that’s taking power?What branch is taking power from what branch now?All we’ve heard during the Bush administration is how they’re trying to usurp all this power from the judiciary, usurp all this power from the legislative branch. What the Senate did today, by a 92-4 vote, was pass a bill that
Story #3: Obsession Over Creator of the Hillary 1984 Ad
RUSH: By the way, in the San Francisco Chronicle today, they are obsessing out there over who put this anti-Hillary ad on YouTube, the one that has the remake of the ’84 Apple Computer ad in the ’84 Super Bowl that has a woman throw a sledgehammer at a big TV screen of Hillary Clinton mounting her clichs.”Just who is ParkRidge47 — the mystery figure who introduced an Internet political attack ad that has stirred the press and political junkies tuned into the early presidential campaign — and what does the videomaker have against Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton?”The story here is by Carla Marinucci.”The political question of the week is the identity of the anonymous person who reworked the classic 1984 ad introducing the Apple Macintosh computer to the world into a biting attack piece against Clinton — and posted it on the popular YouTube Web site. … Analysts have said the video is representative of the multiplying power and democracy of the Internet and is a harbinger of a brave new era of unauthorized ‘viral’ political ads made by individuals working independently of campaigns and consultants.” I will bet you they are concerned. You know how proprietary these people are.Media was this way when we came along.”Who do these interlopers think they are?Who is this new media, talk radio and the blogs?Who do these people think they are?”The campaign people are going to be out there saying, “Who do these people on YouTube think they are making their own commercials.We gotta track these people down and find out who they are and put ’em out of business.”This is not going to sit well, and it isn’t sitting well.”The ad was first placed on the YouTube site on March 5 by an anonymous poster signed ParkRidge47, a signature that appears to be a clever jab at the New York senator, who was born in Chicago in 1947 and raised in nearby Park Ridge, Ill. After the ad received more than 100,000 hits in two days…” By the way, I looked at the counter on this ad.Before the show yesterday, it was at 120,000 hits.At show time it was at 420 or 450,000 hits.After the show it was back down to the hundred thousands.Now, how can that be?Who’s turning down the Odometer on the hits on this piece on YouTube?How does it go from 450,000 to 120,000 in three hours?That’s the time frame I checked it.Now, the piece goes on here to suggest that this is actually Republicans doing this.”Chris Finnie, a Santa Cruz-based Democratic operative, said the widespread coverage given to the mashup in GOP circles suggests the ad could have come from a Republican operative and smacks of ‘Swift Boat’ tactics…”Boy, these people never get over it.They just never, never get over it.As I said yesterday, what leads me to believe this is a Democrat ad is they don’t really go after Hillary on substance, they just go after clichs and so forth.But it’s clearly somebody who doesn’t like Mrs. Clinton and somebody who has not drank the Kool-Aid that the Clinton, Inc., is offering.This is somebody out there who’s clearly — and, by the way, a Republican pushing Obama?That would be strange. Story #4: Mrs. Bill Clinton Attacks Obama on War
RUSH:Meanwhile, Clinton and Obama are sparring on the war.That’s the Washington Post headline, but that’s a misleading headline.What’s happening here is that the Clinton team is attacking.Mrs. Bill Clinton’s camp is attacking.Yet the Washington Post refers to this as “Clinton-Obama Camps Spar on War — Clinton strategist Mark Penn and Obama strategist David Axelrod engaged in a pointed and occasionally heated exchange during a public forum at Harvard University over the issue that has become the central point of dispute between the two,” and that’s the war.”Penn, responding to a question about Clinton’s vote for the resolution, used the opportunity to attack Obama, arguing that he had said in 2004 that he was not sure whether he would have voted against the resolution had he been in the Senate.’Obama said he didn’t know exactly how he would have voted in Congress because he didn’t have the full intelligence,’ Penn said.”So basically here the Hillary camp is out there attacking.
The Washington Post says that both camps are sparring.Rick Klein in the Boston Globe says, “Obama’s Record Shows Caution, Nuance on Iraq.”Let me summarize this for you.Obama said that he wouldn’t re-up funding for the war, and then he did re-up funding for the war.That’s nuance.See, with Kerry it’s a “flip-flop.”For Obama it is a “nuance,” and, by the way, we’re talking here about the “magic negro.”Barack Obama, the “magic negro,” so proclaimed yesterday by David Ehrenstein in the Los Angeles Times.So the Hillary camp is out there pressing Obama for clarity on the war, which is rich.Last week it was the New York Sun that quoted Bill Clinton questioning Obama’s position on Iraq.Mark Penn, the Clinton pollster, criticized Obama for not detailing his position on the war and voting for Iraq appropriations.So they’re going out of their way out there in both camps to portray each other as nuanced and all over the place on the war in Iraq.All of this is gonna be rendered moot when the surge works and Baghdad is rendered peaceful.
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Story #1:Man Gets Probation for Dead Deer Sex
RUSH: I have a lot of stuff in the Stack of Stuff we didn’t get to yet, and that’s because there is no program in America — no long-form radio program — that deals with breaking news any better than this one.I’ll give you an example.I have mounds of stacks of stuff here, stuff that we worked diligently on overnight and all morning long preparing this show.Then this Edwards thing happens, and we go wall-to-wall with current news, but that means there’s other stuff in the stack that we haven’t gotten to, such as this: “A 20-year-old man received probation after he was convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer. The sentence also requires Bryan James Hathaway to be evaluated as a sex offender and treated at the Institute for Psychological and Sexual Health in Duluth, Minn. ‘The state believes that particular place is the best to provide treatment for the individual,‘ Assistant District Attorney Jim Boughner said. Hathaway’s probation will be served at the same time as a nine-month jail sentence he received in February for violating his extended supervision. He was found guilty in April 2005 of felony mistreatment of an animal after he killed a horse with the intention of having sex with it.”Somehow, somebody got there in the nick of time.So apparently he was unrequited and made the move on the deer.“He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and two years of extended supervision on that charge as well as six years of probation for taking and driving a vehicle without the owner’s consent,” which means he stole it.”Hathaway pleaded no contest earlier this month to misdemeanor mistreatment of an animal for the incident involving the deer. He was sentenced Tuesday in Douglas County Circuit Court. ‘The type of behavior is disturbing,’ Judge Michael Lucci said. ‘It’s disturbing to the public. It’s disturbing to the court'”Really?Everybody?The State of Washington, remember Enumclaw?Guy out there snuck into the horse barn, but at least that horse was alive.In this case the deer was dead. Well, no, we don’t know that the horse in Enumclaw, Washington, consented.The law out there says that it’s not a crime to have sex with the horse unless you can prove the horse didn’t enjoy it.I’m not making that up.I don’t know how you ask.Story #2:Ugly Criminals Get Harsher Sentences
RUSH: We on this program are on the cutting edge of so many things — the Uglo-American, for example, and the plight that they face, and banning the ugly from the streets in daytime to ensure economic recovery.We took the lead on this way, way back in the late eighties, and now look at this: “Good looks could help guilty defendants dodge justice, researchers say.Ugly defendants are more likely to be found guilty than attractive ones.They reported that in an experiment jurors were more likely to convict suspects deemed ugly than those seen as attractive. It is thought that the principle applies elsewhere in life, with beauty being associated with kindness, intelligence and sporting ability.” That doesn’t have anything to do with it. “‘Attractive defendants are, it seems, rated less harshly than homely defendants, so perhaps justice isn’t blind after all. ‘People who are physically attractive are assumed to be clever, successful and have more friends – it is tragic in a way. It is interesting that being an unattractive black defendant only had an impact on sentencing and not on a juror’s verdict of guilt,’ Dr Taylor told the British Psychological Society’s annual conference in York. However, it is a positive finding that neither black nor white participants showed a bias towards their own ethnic group,'” when looking at ugly members of both ethnic groups.Interesting.Of course, every time you get one of these ugly stories, there’s a very logical question.Who decides who’s ugly or not?I’ve always said it’s a valid question, but the answer is simple.The ugly know who they are.They have to look in the mirror, too.This ought to help em’ out now when they start preparing their defenses.You say to the lawyer, “Look, I’m already — you saw that report.We’re in trouble here because I’m ugly, and you’re going to have to find a way to overcome this, and it can’t totally be overcome with wardrobe.”This notion that ugly people, beauty is associated with kindness, intelligence, and sporting ability.It may be, but that’s not the allure of beauty.In fact, most guys look at beautiful woman as probably an idiot.Well, not an idiot, but a dunce because they haven’t had to use anything but their looks to grab attention.This is not a put down.Talking about guys.I’m not making a judgment on women.I’m telling you what guys think.It may be borne of experience.I wouldn’t know.
Story #3:Letter Proves Plame Suggested Joe
RUSH: “If the Democratic controlled Congress is so hot to process a crime that has not been committed by trying to solicit perjury, why don’t they go ahead and prosecute the one that has been committed by Valerie Plame, who has now been caught lying to the US Senate as revealed by her recent house testimony?” This is an interesting question.The first answer I’d offer is that it’s Democrats that run the committees. Christopher Bond, senator from Missouri, is a member of the Senate intelligence committee. He said (paraphrased), “You know, we never heard anything about this junior underling that, phone call from Cheney’s office, and somebody else walking by suggesting Valerie Plame’s husband.”There’s a letter.Christopher Hitchens mentioned it. There’s a letter you can get that shows that Valerie Plame suggested her husband to go on that trip to Niger.It’s up to Democrats to do this.They run the House and the Senate, and I don’t think there’s going to be any interest on the part of Democrats to process Valerie Plame or put her through any kind of a perjury claim. You never know.The justice department is not going to do anything. It’s partisan politics.It’s the way it is.You have somebody who has told two different stories before two different committees (Gasp!) and nothing’s done, and then you got eight people haven’t done anything wrong. Rove has not lied, and he’s going to be subpoenaed for the purposes of trying to trick ’em into perjury. There’s no question.
Story #4:Pelosi Breaks Pledge to End Open Votes
RUSH:Another story. It’s in the Politico, no less, a left-leaning website that publishes a newspaper now and then, two or three times a week.It’s these guys from the Washington Post that left the dead tree paper, went over to the Internet, and started this Politico website.They are out saying to Nancy Pelosi, the honeymoon’s over.Steny Hoyer, who is second in command in the House for the Democrats, has decided that the House is going to continue to hold open votes rather than have a definite closed period for votes.This is something they excoriated the Republicans for doing.The Republicans always held the votes open longer than scheduled in order to round up the votes to whip the votes into place.Democrats screamed, “You can’t do that!That’s violation of the way the House operates,” which is not surprising. I’m just surprised anybody’s surprised about this.Story #5: Democrats Can’t Pass Any Legislation; Code Pink, Anti-War Kooks Freak Out
RUSH: Democrats can’t get anything done legislatively.There are stories are all over the Stack of Stuff today about how Democrats can’t come together on anything to do with Iraq. Code Pink is showing up at more congressional offices to protest the lack of things being done.
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Story #1:A Third of American Households Won’t Read This
RUSH: We keep hearing, “We’ve gotta spread the Internet. We gotta get it to the urban communities.We gotta get the Internet out there.It’s not fair.It’s just not fair so many people have the Internet, so many people don’t,” just like the old days, long-distance phone service, rural phone service.We had to have a tax on everybody’s phone bill to get it out there.Get this.”A little under one-third, about 29% of American households have no Internet access, and they don’t plan to get it, and they don’t want any.Most of the households see little use for it in their lives, this according to a survey released on Friday.Park Associates in Dallas said 29% of US households, or 31 million homes, don’t have Internet access.They don’t intend to subscribe to an Internet service over the nexttwo months, they have no need,” they see no need, a third of American households.That’s not insignificant.
Story #2:Gay Cops Told Not to Sway Hips
RUSH: Have you seen this story out of the Philippines?”Gay Cops Told Not to Sway Hips — Philippine police were on the defensive on Friday after gay cops were warned they could be sacked for swinging their hips or engaging in flamboyant behavior.Chief superintendent Samuel Pagdilao said: ‘The Philippine national police does not have a policy that discriminates against gays and lesbians.In short, all its policies are issued for everybody regardless of sex or creed.’But, he warned being a uniformed service, there are rules of conduct that apply to everybody for which violations may result in being fired or other sorts of discipline.”They can’t swish, can’t sway.It’s: Don’t ask; don’t sway.
Story #3:Will Sharia Law Rule in Minnesota?
RUSH: This is from the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Katherine Kersten, and the title of this is “Sharia in Minnesota?”Let me summarize this.In Minnesota, there are those who follow Sharia law (Islamic law) and are seeking special accommodation for these particular religious beliefs.Like this judge in Germany last week, honest to gosh, said that a Muslim man can beat his wife because it’s in the Koran.A Muslim man living in Germany can beat his wife because it’s in the Koran.Now, multiculturalism has run amok because it’s Germany, and Sharia law is not the law, or the law of the Koran is not the law in Germany, but this is total capitulation.This is being done out of fear, and in Minnesota, the same sort of thing is in the process of developing.They’re seeking special accommodation for their religious beliefs, the Sharia Muslims, and what I find funny you ask, “Why don’t they talk about Mahmoud and his religion?” They don’t talk about any religion other than Christianity in this country. Liberals look at evangelical Christians and so-called Christian right or any of these people who want to live what they hope is a godly life in public, and say, “Why, they’re a threat to the republic! Why, these people are dangerous. Why, even some Republicans want to get them out of the party. They say, ‘We’ve gotta fix this abortion problem. We’re never going to win an elections. We’ve got to shut up these hicks that live in the South. All these Christian right people are destroying our party!'”So we can have liberals criticize religious people in this country left and right if they’re Christian, but in Minnesota if Sharia law is going to be the law, and you don’t dare criticize it because it’s discriminatory, and in Germany, if an Islamic man wants to beat his wife up, it’s okay.So you ask, “Why doesn’t anybody explore what Mahmoud’s foreign policy might actually be based on in terms of his religion?” They’re afraid.It’s just simple fear.They’re afraid of being critical. Look at the Dutch cartoon scandal. After there were protests and riots all over the world about the publishing of those cartoons, the world cowered in fear.So there’s your answer, short and simple. Story #4:No Intelligent Motive for Hagel Bush Bash
RUSH: Snerdley and I were just talking about this. We can’t figure it out here.We can’t figure what the political upside for Chuck Hagel is in all this rap that he’s gotten into, now talking about the president might be impeached or could be impeachable. I just can’t figure it out, unless he’s running for the Democrat nomination.I don’t know what Chuck Hagel is up to.I’m one of the brainiest political analysts out there, and this is senseless.I cannot detect an intelligent motive for this.
Story #5: Nobody Shows for Immigration Anniversary
RUSH: Oh, did you see turnout waslow at theone year anniversary of all those millions of people protesting for illegal immigration? Nobody showed up. Story #6:Will the NYTimes Print on Panda Poop?
RUSH:One of the other interesting things on one of the Discovery shows last night, Planet Earth, had to do with pandas.They’re not plentiful, and one of the reasons is their diet.Panda eat bamboo.Now, we didn’t dictate that, God did.God designed pandas. Pandas eat bamboo.The problem is that bamboo is not all that rich in nutrients and they have to eat tons of it in order to get the proper nutrition.That’s one of the reasons that there’s a shortage of panda bears out there.Also the fact that Ron Popeil came along and started selling the bamboo steamer several years ago and that created a shortage of bamboo for the bears that eat this stuff.It’s nothing to do with us.This is in the Discovery show Planet Earth, and there’s just not enough bamboo out there.They eat bamboo shoots, but they have to eat so much of it and there’s not that much of it to be found.I have found a companion story about panda bears in the Washington Post today.It’s actually an AP story.It’s out of Beijing.Let me just read the headline to you.”Panda Poop to do Double Duty in China — There’s a new Chinese saying: When life hands you panda poop, make paper. Researchers at a giant panda reserve in southern China are looking for paper mills to process their surplus of fiber-rich panda excrement into high quality paper. Liao Jun, a researcher at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base in Sichuan province, said the idea came to them after a visit to Thailand last year where they found paper made from elephant dung. They thought panda poop would produce an even finer quality paper, he said.”They hope to have a product line available next year.This is going to put even more strains on bamboo because what do you think is the first step in the process of creating panda poop?So you might well soon be going to your office and supply store and picking up a new ream of paper and it’s going to be paper made from panda poop.In fact, my hope one day is the New York Times decides to print its daily edition on paper made of panda poop, and then I can run around saying, “I don’t need to read that crap.”The New York Times?I don’t need to read that crap.(interruption) Mr. Snerdley’s question is, “Who is it that decides what’s the right number for any species?”Well, look, putting on my science hat, the science hat would say you need a certain number to keep the species going.But the real answer is if the species can’t get going and if they can’t keep going, Darwin, natural selection, survival of the fittest.If they can’t keep going, it’s their problem.Now, we have stewardship over the planet.We find these animals that are cuddly and lovable and we make cartoon characters out of them, and we want the species to survive, like the condor.You know, we tried to save the California condor.The thing would drink antifreeze dripping out of cars and it woulddie.We went to great efforts to save the California condor.Like this new leopard that’s been discovered, first ever footage of this leopard that lives only in Russia, and I think, I don’t remember specifically, I think they said there’s 11 pairs plus the cubs, and it’s tough because they live in Russia where there’s not a whole lot of food in the wintertime, and they don’t move, they stay there, and there’s not a whole lot to be found.So the question would be, “Well, if they’re too stupid to move, then it’s too bad.”If they’re too stupid, like birds migrate, other birds migrate, migration is a big part of this thing as well.I think the correct number of a species is determined by humans who project their own attitudes on life toward these various species and so forth, but we do, we decide this, Mr. Snerdley, our scientists decide this, our animal warming experts, our animal rights experts.
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Story #1:50% Say They Won’t Vote for Mrs. Bill Clinton
RUSH:I just got a new Harris poll here, ladies and gentlemen, and it’s not good for the campaign of Mrs. Bill Clinton.It’s in The Hill newspaper today. “Half of voting-age Americans say they would not vote for [Mrs. Bill Clinton] if she became the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday. More than one in five Democrats that participated in the survey said they would not vote for [Mrs. Bill] Clinton. Overall, 36 percent say they would vote for [Mrs. Bill Clinton] and 11 percent are unsure… Forty-eight percent of Independent voters also said that they would choose another candidate over [Mrs. Bill] Clinton, the poll, which surveyed 2,223 potential voters, states. Fifty-six percent of men said that they would not vote for [Mrs. Bill] Clinton, while 45 percent of women said that she would not” vote for Mrs. Bill Clinton.” In addition, “69 percent of those 62 and older said that they would not vote for Mrs. Bill Clinton.” I wonder what that group has against her, 69% of those 62 and older.I wonder what they would have against her.She’s about that age, 60, something like that.I’m sure it’s the ex-wife-reminder factor. “Nearly half of the respondents said that they dislike [Mrs. Bill] Clinton’s political opinions and [Mrs. Bill] Clinton as a person. Fifty-two percent of people also said that ‘she does not appear to connect with people on a personal level.'” Now, I don’t know if they actually said that or if that was one of these multiple choice things you got in a poll.I don’t know how many people run around talking about people that don’t “connect with people on a personal level.”We in broadcasting do because that’s a objective, to go out there and connect with the audience, but I don’t know how many average, ordinary Americans out there return around and start assessing that about people.It’s just another way of saying she’s phony or that she’s plastic.Story #2: Worms Live Longer Eating Isotope Steaks, Chicken
RUSH: This headline’s intriguing.See if you can guess what this is about: “Worms Live Longer on Fortified Steak and Chicken.”It’s a new diet plan.I kid you not.No, for humans. They inject you with worms that eat what you eat.That’s simplifying it.This is from LiveScience.com: “Experiments with worms suggest humans might one day be able to eat themselves to a longer and healthier life.The new approach differs from previous studies which extended life in non-human animals by keeping food consumption to a bare minimum, a technique called caloric restriction.Researchers led by Mikhail Shchepinov, formerly of Oxford University, fed nematode worms, Caenorhabditis elegans, bits of steak and chicken reinforced with variations of certain atoms, called ‘isotopes,’ of elements like hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.Isotopes have the same number of protons as their natural counterparts but different numbers of neutrons. Carbon, for example, usually has 6 protons and 6 neutrons. An isotope of carbon, called C13, has 6 protons and 7 neutrons. “Worms on the specialized diet lived about 10 percent longer on average. Assuming people will one day routinely live to 100, a similar approach in humans could add an extra 10 years to a person’s life, the researchers say.The researchers think eating isotope-reinforced foods reduces molecular damage incurred by rouge [sic–rogue] molecules that roam the body called ‘free radicals,’ which have highly reactive, unpaired electrons. Many scientists think free-radical damage is one of the reasons why organisms age.According to Shchepinov, replacing atoms in chemical bonds susceptible to attack with their natural isotopes strengthens those bonds, making them harder to break.’Because these bonds are so much more stable, it should be possible to slow the process of oxidation and aging,’ Shchepinov told the science magazine Chemistry & Industry, where the research was first reported.The researchers suggest adding isotopes to animal feed so humans can benefit indirectly when eating animal products like steaks and chicken fillets. Isotopes could also be used in foods of pets or of soldiers, to provide added protection against radiation.” Worms live longer eating these fortified steaks and chicken fillets that have these isotopes in there. They’re working on doing this in humans, but I if they can control the worms to eat what you eat, that would be a hell of a diet.
Story #3:ADULT Stem Cells Regenerate Liver Tissue
RUSH:”Germany [sic] scientists have, for the first time, used adult bone marrow stem cells to regenerate healthy human liver tissue. Heinrich-Heine University researchers in Dusseldorf used the stem cells,” again, these are
Story #4: UK Judge Says Drunk Women Can Consent to Sex
RUSH: Now, good news out there, boys, in case you missed this.This is news from the UK: “A drunken woman can still consent to sex,” according to the UK court of appeal.I’m starting to really dig the evolution here of feminism.First this German judge says it’s okay for an Islamic guy to beat the hell out of his wife because it’s in the Koran.Even though Sharia law and Islamic law are not the cultural norm of Germany, this guy can still beat the crap out of his wife and get away with it because it’s his religion.You think of the possibilities here. Now in the UK, “Three senior judges were giving reasons for clearing a 25-year-old man of raping a student, aged 19, after both had been drinking heavily. Sir Igor Judge, sitting with Lady Justice Hallett and Mrs. Justice Gloster, said sex would amount to rape if the complainant had lost her capacity to choose as a result of drink.’However, where the complainant has voluntarily consumed even substantial quantities of alcohol, but nevertheless remains capable of choosing whether or not to have intercourse, and in drink agrees to do so, this would not be rape,’ he said.The judges could not set a level of alcohol consumption that would negate consent, they explained.Otherwise, ‘provisions intended to protect women from sexual assaults might very well be conflated into a system which would provide patronising interference with the right of autonomous adults to make personal decisions for themselves’.”What these judges are saying is, “Hey, you’re adults, 19 and on up, you’re adults.You’re out there consuming adult beverages with some guy, and if you consent, and even though you’ve been consuming adult beverage, if you consent, then you can’t come around later and say you were raped or taken advantage of.Gotta accept responsibility for what you’re doing, including swallowing the adult beverages.”That’s what they’re saying.”Benjamin Bree, a university-educated computer software engineer from Southampton ‘of excellent previous character’, was told after an appeal hearing earlier this month that his rape conviction would be quashed. He had served nearly five months of a five-year sentence.Criticising the way that Judge Jarvis had summed up the case, the Court of Appeal said the jury’s verdict could not be regarded as safe.Yesterday, the court decided not to order a re-trial.”Mr. Bree, who was in tears after the ruling, was advised by his lawyers not to speak to reporters. He was convicted at Bournemouth Crown Court last October of raping a university student who shared a flat with his brother Michael, also a student at Bournemouth university. Michael Bree and his girlfriend, Holly, spent an evening in February last year drinking with Mr. Bree and the complainant, identified as M.She drank two pints of cider and, over the evening, between four and six vodkas. Mr. Bree, who had been drinking earlier in the day, drank two pints of lager and then he too moved on to vodka and Red Bull.The girls walked back to her flat, letting themselves in. But both girls were badly affected by drink. Holly was sick in the kitchen and M was sick in the shower. Mr. Bree helped her wash her hair.M’s next memory, she said, was finding herself on the bed. Mr. Bree was having sex with her. She told the jury that she had not consented.After Mr. Bree was arrested, he appeared shocked and upset. His case was that, although M may have become less inhibited because she was drunk, she was lucid enough to consent to sex and had done so. Mr. Bree told the police that she seemed keen on sex.”The court of appeal found in his favor yesterday, overturning a previous verdict.Sum total, drunk women can consent to sex in England.Yes, this is in England.The way I read it, what these judges are saying, “Hey, if you’re going to be responsible to take the first drink, we gotta hold you responsible for that, too.I mean, there are consequences to actions.”Very odd.This is taking away the victim status of a woman.That’s profound. I don’t care where you go in American culture today, women are victims of everything.They’re victims of having been born, should have been aborted.After they have to undergo the humanity and the degradation of being born, then they grow up a second class victims of everything, predatory males, motherhood, you name it, glass ceiling.It’s all over the place out there that they’re victims.Now, this court of appeal in the UK is trying to bring some alternate thinking to this.
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Story #1:Knut’s Fame Kills Bystander Panda — Link One | Link TwoRUSH: Knut the polar bear over there, the little polar bear cub in the Berlin Zoo, had an accident over there yesterday. This polar bear’s drawn more visitors than the zoo’s ever had and they had so many they couldn’t fit them all in to where Knut is, so some of them went over there to the panda cage. There’s a 22-year-old panda in there, and the panda died.He was just not used to fame.All that fame, all that attention, you wish this would happen — well, never mind.But the point is they’re now blaming Knut for this. “He’s a disruption. He’s played a partial role in the death of a panda!”
That’s what is saying here in Der Spiegel, and then there’s a blog about this on the UK Guardian. He was partly responsible for the death of the panda because he’s so popular. He sent these people that couldn’t see him over to see the panda. “The panda said, “What’s this?” and died.The panda died! That’s what they said. The panda died because people were looking at it.In fact, if you read the story, you’re really not sure why the panda died, and you’re really not sure what this little polar bear has anything to do with it, but the story is still out there.
Story #2:San Francisco Bans Plastic Bags
RUSH: “The San Francisco City Council voted yesterday to become the first US city to ban plastic bags from large supermarkets to help promote recycling.”One of these guys said it “could save 450,000 gallons of oil a year by banning the bags and remove the need to send 1400 tons of debris now sent annually to landfills.” The mayor, Gavin Newsom, said, “That’s sensible,” and chances are good he’s going to sign it, said one of his legislative aides.The city has given grocery stores six months to get rid of them.I don’t know what they’re going to use.”The city’s department of the environment said San Francisco uses 181 million plastic grocery bags annually.Plans dating back a decade to encourage recycling of the bags have largely failed, with shoppers returning just 1% of the bags.”They think that will save 450,000 gallons of oil a year, because they claim that the petroleum industry manufactures these bags. They’re a petroleum product.I don’t know if that’s still true anymore, but I know it once was. Do you remember when you used to go to grocery store back in the good old days and get a good paper bag, a solid paper bag, a bunch of paper bags? When I used to go to the store, that’s what they used.You go in there and you put ’em out in the trunk of the car, the back seat or whatever, and you drive off and everything is hunky-dory and fine, then you can reuse the bags for whatever at home if you need to. They went to these plastic bags and everybody remembers the reason for this, because we had to “save the trees.” We had to save the trees. Paper bags were killing trees, and they weren’t easy to recycle, even though trees are a renewable resource. You just plant a bunch of them.I just remember a couple times — it’s been a long time since I’ve been in a grocery store, but when I used to go to grocery stores back in these days when the plastic bags came out, you had an option. I’d say, “Please, I want a paper bag,” and these snarky checkout people would look at me like I was some kind of devil that wanted to destroy the planet, like I kicked little cats around or something! (Continue to Story #3)
Story #3:Prediction: Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs Will Become the “New Plastic Bags”
RUSH:Now, keep that story about the shopping bags in mind, and here’s the next one.This is from Reuters.”Mercury in Energy-Saving Bulbs Worries Scientists.”(Gasp!)”There’s an old joke about the number of people it takes to change a lightbulb, but because the newer energy efficient kinds contain amounts of the mercury, the hard part is getting rid of them when they burn out.Mercury is poisonous.But it’s also a necessary part of the most compact fluorescent bulbs, the kind that environmentalist wackos and some governments are pushing as a way to cut energy use.With an estimated 150 million fluorescent bulbs sold in the US last year, with Wal-Mart alone hoping to sell 100 million of them this year, some scientists and environmentalists are worried that most rending up in garbage dumps.Mercury is probably best known for its effects on the nervous system. “The Mad Hatter in the book Alice in Wonderland was based on Nineteenth Century Hat Makers who were continually exposed to the toxin,” which is something I did not know ’til I read this story.At any rate, we have the environmental wackos once again at cross purposes.They care about the environment and they end up destroying it.Now, I just want you to remember this San Francisco business about getting rid of the plastic bags, because remember, they were the lifesavers. They were revolutionary. They would recycle. Why, this was one of the greatest inventions to come down the pike! Now? “Nope, gotta ban ’em.”These compact fluorescent bulbs are going to be the next plastic bag.I don’t know how long it’s going to take, but at some point we are going to hear from scientists that we’ve got to stop using these compact fluorescents because the mercury in them is destroying the environment and creating personal risks to our children, who play in landfills and dumps, and they encounter the mercury and may end up like the Mad Hatter.
Story #4:Stalinist Democrats Block Swift Boat Supporter
RUSH:I don’t know if you’ve heard about this, folks.I intended to talk about this, but I just learned something that sort of disappoints me.”As one of the GOP’s most prominent national fundraisers, Sam Fox should have an easy road to an appealing diplomatic post. But Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.,” who served in Vietnam, “and other Democrats are raising concerns about Fox’s nomination to be ambassador to Belgium because of a $50,000 contribution Fox made in 2004 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.Many Democrats blame the group for sinking,” the presidential hopes of John Kerry, who served in Vietnam. Of course, Kerry’s pathetic, dryball, dull personality and absolutely abhorrent politics would have nothing to do with him losing the election. No! It had to be the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. A vote on Sam Fox was scheduled for today on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry’s Vietnam crew mates on Tuesday sent a letter urging committee members to oppose Fox’s nomination.” He’s 77-years-old out of St. Louis. He’s the national chairman of the Jewish Republican Coalition, “and has donated well over $1 million to Republican candidates and causes since the 1990s…” John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, “grilled Fox about the Swift Boat contribution during the Feb. 27 hearing, asking him why he gave money to a group that was ‘smearing and spreading lies’ and had been condemned by members of both political parties.” Anyway, the White House has pulled Sam Fox’s nomination.This was free political speech.Do you think we have free political speech in this country?Go out there and try it. So he contributes 50 grand to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and the Democrats in the Senate hold up his nomination.”At the end of the hearing last month, Obama told Fox he found his testimony ‘somewhat unsatisfying.”I would have preferred you saying, you know, ‘In retrospect looking back, contributing to the Swift Boat campaign was a mistake and I wish I hadn’t done it,'” and Fox didn’t say it. He didn’t grovel to these guys.This is another example of the Stalinist tactics of the Democrats.So anyway, the White House — I don’t know exactly why yet or what the full reason is, but — they’ve pulled his nomination.Sam Fox will not now get a vote on the ambassadorial post to Belgium.
Story #5: Politico: Reverend Jackson toVote forObama
RUSH: ThePolitico.com has just posted on a blog that the Reverend Jackson has decided (this is just a report) to vote for the “Magic Negro.”That would be Barack Obama.
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Story #1: NY Times:The Great Depression Returns
RUSH: Have you seen the story in the New York Times? It’s a story by David Cay Johnston, and the headline of the story:”Income Gap is Widening,” and it’s a sob story.It’s a three handkerchief story about how the income gap is widening and the concentration of wealth in this country has never been in fewer hands than it is now.In fact, “The top 1 percent of Americans — those with incomes more than $348,000 in 2005 — received their largest share of national income since 1928.”What do you mean,
Story #2: Dilapidated Democrat Judge HangsOn
RUSH:There’sthis Democrat judge inSouth Dakota. Now, the Democrats are out there saying that the US attorney imbroglio is just about politics.They’re trying to criminalize it.There’s a story today, AP has it, a judge in South Dakota, an aging judge cannot perform his work load anymore. He’s a Democrat, he’s a federal judge, and other judges in the courthouse are picking up the slack for this guy so he won’t have to retire and let Bush appoint his replacement.So you got a Democrat judge who’s not able to work a full load any more hanging on trying to make it ’til 2008 when hopefully for him the Democrats win the White House and he can quit and have a Democrat appoint his successor.Now, you tell me that that’s not political.Probably a couple of US Supreme Court justices are doing the same thing.Just trying to gut it out and hold on as long as they can, don’t to want retire while Bush would have the opportunity to replace them.
These guys, they’re purely political.They’re out there charging the Republicans politics as criminal.It’s breathtaking to behold.These guys, the Democrat Party, I’m going to tell you something, folks.The way they conduct themselves, going after Republicans is a way of life for them.It’s even pathological to the point they believe all the lies they tell.They actually got themselves believing the election results in November were to set a date to get out of Iraq, they believe it. They’ve told themselves this so much they believe it.They spend every waking hour plotting against the Republicans how to advance their agenda.Republicans don’t do this.They don’t look at government this way.The libs do.You know, government is their house; government’s their home; government is their religion; it’s their everything. The days that they’re not working on the floor of the House or the Senate or whatever, they’re coordinating with their associates all over the country to make this as unified as they can, this constant, never-ending approach.It’s just who they are and what they do.The Republicans know it, they can see it coming.But they don’t do anything about it because it’s not in them to act this way.They don’t sit around and scheme about holding onto their power.Hell, there’s not enough party discipline in the Republican Party to pull it off even if they wanted to.By the way, one of the judges that’s helping this dilapidated judge hang on is a close friend of Tom Puff Daschle.So Tom’s talking to the guy. (doing Daschle impression) “It would really be helpful, we’re all concerned that he might quit, and if you could just pick up the slack from the dilapidated judge in our party, can’t work as much, it would really help, be real helpful so we won’t be as concerned, Tim, because we don’t want to lose this judge seat.”So the friend of Puff’s, taken over some of the dilapidated judge’s case load.(Laughing.)But, there’s no politics in that.
Story #3: Offended SeaWorld CustomerResigns Because of Rush
RUSH:Here’s an AP story out of Saratoga Springs, New York.The name involved in this story might ring a bell.”An administrator at an upstate college has resigned after her complaints about a patriotic display at a Florida tourist attraction hit the talk radio airwaves. Hilal Isler, who’s a Turkish-American Muslim, says the series of events that led to her resignation began when she and her husband visited SeaWorld in Orlando earlier this month.Isler says the driver of a tourist attraction bus made insulting comments about Muslims, then ridiculed the couple when they complained.Isler sent an e-mail detailing the encounter to the Orlando Sentinel, which published a story on the incident on March 16th. It had quotes from Isler complaining about a patriotic display staged during their visit to SeaWorld.” The “patriotic display” involved the flag, the American flag, and people at Sea World were standing up and applauding it.”The story caught the attention of syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh. Since then, officials at Skidmore say Isler has received upsetting e-mails and other messages from around the country. She resigned last week after just three months in her position as director of Skidmore’s student diversity programs. The bus driver has since been fired.”Well, we knew that.That was in the original story.These Turkish Muslims had gone to SeaWorld to see Shamu and so forth and they also saw the American flag and they flipped out.We did read the story.Apparently she’s been pressured now to split the scene and has resigned from Skidmore College as the head of diversity for students.I laugh.
Story #4: GenericRepublican Still Beats Democrats in ’08 Poll
RUSH: TIME Magazine, TIME.com, has Jay Carney writing in Washington.”Poll: A Surprising G.O.P. Edge for ’08” (Gasp!)”Could things be any worse for George W. Bush and his beleaguered party? In the new TIME poll, the President’s job approval rating continues to wallow near his all-time lows, at 33%, while his disapproval rating breaks the 60% barrier for the third consecutive survey.”It goes on and talks about all this polling data that he’s got and how bad it is for Bush out there, and then said, “It’s hard to know exactly why respondents who are generally unhappy towards — and in many cases fed up with — the GOP might still prefer a Republican for president over a Democrat. Much of it has to do with the individual candidates involved. In Clinton’s case, as TIME pollster Mark Schulman points out, ‘with Hillary the Democratic front-runner, most voters have made up their minds about her, both pro and con. “She may have limited upward potential against Republicans. The emerging anti-Hillaries, Obama and Edwards, suffer from low awareness at this point.'” Oh, no, no, no, not true for Edwards.His fundraising skyrocketed out there since the press conference last week.”Another GOP advantage in these match-ups is the way the party’s top two candidates are viewed by the public. ‘Giuliani and McCain are not traditional Republicans,’ says Schulman. ‘Rather they both have an independent streak that plays well in certain traditional Democratic bastions, such as the Northeast and California, the left and right coasts.’ … Democrats also may have a residual disadvantage going into 2008 — a long-standing disposition among voters to view Republicans as stronger on issues involving national security.” Jay Carney is surprised about this.The subtext of this is that despite all this polling data they’ve got about how Bush is supposedly hated and despised, same poll projects Republicans as the preference over Democrats generically in the ’08 presidential race because Republicans are perceived to be stronger on national security. Of course the Drive-Bys can’t believe this.Why, they’ve done their job, they’ve got that approval rating down to 33%, they think they’ve got half or more of the American people hating the war in Iraq and wanting out of there, and now this?It’s right in front of their face, and here the Democrats have voted to de-fund the war and to pull the troops out starting in March of 2008, and they’re scratching their heads over why it might be that Democrats are not trusted in the area of national security?
Story #5: Illinois Decides to Leave Kids Behind
RUSH: Here’s a story out of Chicago.This is just sad. “Almost 300,000 reading and math tests taken by Illinois students in 2006 weren’t counted because the state relaxed a rule under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, allowing some schools to dodge a warning they were failing.” (Gasp!)The left the children behind!The kids weren’t doing well, so they didn’t count the tests. “The tests most likely to be discounted were low-income and minority students, The Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday. Almost one in four black students and one in five low-income students didn’t have their scores counted.According to federal guidelines, a school’s progress under the law is evaluated on tests taken by students enrolled for a ‘full academic year,’ which each state defines.”It could be 180 days, 185, whatever it is. “Illinois changed its rule so that students must be enrolled May 1 of the previous school year to have their tests counted. Before last year, the state counted the tests of students enrolled by Oct. 1 of the school year.The change meant that 283,000 tests were not counted, letting 53 schools dodge a warning list of underperforming schools. Schools that make the list can face sanctions, such as offering students the chance to transfer to other schools.”So they’re admitting their school sucks. They’re not teaching minority kids.They’re not teaching poor kids.They’re not doing well on tests, found a loophole to discount the tests.This, folks, is what these educators do to keep minority and poor kids uneducated, and it is criminal.It is racism, and you can demonstrate it by virtue of the numbers. Look at who’s tests are thrown out.Why do they score badly on the tests in the first place?Yet these are the people that won’t let us close these schools.”Oh, no, no, no, we gotta keep these schools open, diversity, teachers union requirements,” or what have you.It is no wonder that parents of black kids and minority and poor kids are fed up with the public school system.But I also think there’s a little conspiracy.I think one of the objectives of liberals running the public education system is to keep kids dumbed down, they grow up as adults dumbed down, and therefore more easily made dependent.This a serious matter.
Story #6: Rudy’s Wife in Cabinet Meetings?
RUSH: Tell me I did not see that.I did see that?I couldn’t possibly.I have to be hallucinating here.Well, I saw it, I didn’t believe it, but I have seen it.MSNBC just ran a graphic saying that Rudy Giuliani says he wants his wife to sit in on cabinet meetings.Let’s wait for the quote.This is MSNBC, all right?You know, these things can just get blown and distorted.MSNBC is in the throes of depression right now because the Gonzales hearings fell apart, and they’re looking at anything to make themselves feel better here.
Story #7:NAGs Want Piece of Fatherhood Initiative
RUSH: The NOW gang, not only have they endorsed Hillary, the NAGs, is our favorite acronym for them here, the National Association of Gals, they’re upset over something called the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Initiative. “The Bush administration doles out up to $50 million annually to fund its programs to build job skills and help fathers connect better with their children. But the National Organization for Women says the effort is illegal because it’s only about men. NOW and Legal Momentum, another advocacy group, filed complaints yesterday with the Department of Health and Human Services alleging sex discrimination in the initiative that is funding about 100 programs this year.” Now, of course, the NAGs love WIC. What is WIC? The Women Infants and Children program. Yeah, no men are involved in the WIC program, but here’s something called the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Initiative, and the NAGs, they’re fit to be tied over this. NAGs are flexing their muscles, feeling their oats out there.
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Story #1: Brownstein’s Black Clouds for Democrats
RUSH: The LA Times. This is from Ron Brownstein, who’s now an opinion columnist. By the way, Brownstein’s wife works in the McCain campaign. I had a list the other day, and I don’t have it in front of me, of the number of media people whose spouses work for elected officials or on presidential candidates campaigns and so forth, and I remember that Brownstein’s wife I think works with McCain. At any rate, Brownstein’s piece today, “Warning Signs for the Democrats — There’s a black cloud in the majority party’s silver lining. … for all these indications of possibility, Democrats face two brightly blinking yellow lights. The first is that approval ratings for Congress are declining again, less than three months after the Democrats took control.
The new majority faces a genuine conundrum. After six years of Republican dereliction, tough oversight of the Bush Administration is not only justified but imperative. And Bush’s refusal to negotiate with the Democrats on issues from strategy in Iraq to testimony on the U.S. attorneys controversy leaves them with little choice but to confront him in headline-grabbing collisions, like the congressional efforts to impose a time limit on the war. But as McInturff notes, these repeated skirmishes are exposing the Democratic majority to a dangerous dynamic.”
I mentioned this on the air the other day. These people are doing nothing but making it look like they can’t legislate. They’re keeping the country in total chaos and tumult. That’s the dangerous dynamic that Brownstein refers to here. He says that, “Conflicts are proliferating while the initiatives they promised voters last year, such as a higher minimum wage, are stalled. If they can’t revive that agenda, even amid the fireworks with Bush on other fronts, congressional Democrats are asking for trouble. Relentless argument and sparse achievement isn’t an ideal formula for success.” Story #2: Nostrilitus Waxman’s Letter to Condi Rice
RUSH: This is a letter from Henry Waxman of the House oversight and Government Reform Committee to Condoleezza Rice. “Dear Madam Secretary. On March 12th, I sent you a letter renewing as formal request of the committee prior letter requests that I sent you between 2003 and 2006. These requests sought information on the claim that Iraq sought uranium from Niger. White House treatment of classified information, the appointment of Ambassador Jones as special coordinator for Iraq and other subjects. My March 12th letter is attached. The March 12th letter requested a response by March 23rd to several of the inquiries, but the committee received no response from you. I now request your appearance before the committee at a hearing on Wednesday, April 18th, at ten a.m., Rayburn House office building. At this hearing, you will be asked to provide testimony and respond to questions on the subjects outlined in the March 12th letter and the original request letters.
“I understand that being secretary of state there are significant demands on your time. If April 18th is an inconvenient date the committee staff is available to discuss an alternative date in April for your testimony.” A trip to Niger, trying to defend Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, dragging Condoleezza Rice — Waxman is an evil hack. But this is the kind of stuff that Brownstein’s writing about. Look, you guys keep doing this and you don’t accomplish anything legislatively — which they can’t because they don’t have the majority numbers — then you are in dangerous territory, you are asking for trouble. There’s another thing that Brownstein references here in this piece, and that is the presidential weakness that I discussed yesterday that essentially could be a problem for Democrats. Bush is not weak when it comes to Iraq, and he’s forcing them to walk the plank of defeat. While there was all kind of giddiness after the vote in both the House and the Senate, now reality is starting to set in with some of them.
Story #3: Drive-Bys Stunned by ’08 Polls
Story #4: Congressional Approval in Free Fall
RUSH: The Democrats and the Drive-By Media are in a tizzy over this latest poll, the two latest polls. One of them is the Pew poll that shows that Congress’ approval rating is plummeting now after three months of Democrat control, but there’s an even more worrisome poll out there, and that is that Hillary’s beaten by everybody, including Barack. McCain, Giuliani. Giuliani beats Obama by one point, and they don’t understand this. They think they’ve got the ’08 election already sewed up for one Democrat, at least one Democrat, and they don’t understand this. Of course the bottom line is when you get down to voting for president, you’re voting for somebody to protect the country, national security. The Democrats have just sewn up the fact that they do not get any credit whatsoever for that.
Story #5: Iraq Surrender Bill Could Die in Conference
RUSH: Again in the LA Times, Iraq: It may be a tough road to a Senate-House compromise. It seems that the Democrats’ surrender legislation isn’t in the bag yet. “Keith Ellison, a freshman congressman from Minnesota said yesterday he would oppose any bill that did not retain the House’s firm timelines.” Jerrold Nadler of New York, who had urged his colleagues on the Out of Iraq Caucus to back the bill, cautioned that softening the pullout deadlines would risk defections. He said, “If we substantially weaken the timelines, I have a real problem with that, but restrictive deadlines could cause support to evaporate in the Senate,” like Ben Nelson from yesterday, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, as well as Gordon Smith of Oregon and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, they provided the margin of victory, but some of them are saying,”Ifwe go to conference and you put a dead-certain date to get out of there in this bill,we are going to not vote for it.” So it’s not going swimmingly out there for the Democrats.
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Story #1:Feinstein Scandal Bigger Than William Jefferson (D-LA)
RUSH: By the way, we do have more onDianne Feinsteinresigning from the MILCON committee, the subcommittee in the Senate. This is a scandal that’s every bit as big — if not larger than — Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana). It’s going nowhere, and it was started by a bunch of leftists, alternative paper publishers out on the Left Coast, in the northern Bay Area, and it’s just garnering no interest whatever.Story #2:Rudy Backtracks on Judi in Cabinet
RUSH:Last Thursday, Rudy Giuliani and his wife, Judith — by the way, there’s a huge hit piece on Judith Giuliani today in the New York Post. Apparently she used to work for an outfit that did testing on dogs and then killed them or some such thing for people medicine or something. I just scanned the story. Basically, I just chalked it up to yet another hit piece on Giuliani, which I predicted. These things are going to come now as he has assumed front-runner status in the Republican primary field. But last Thursday night he was on Good Morning America with his wife, and he said that his wife Judith would attend and sit in on cabinet meetings, especially if the subject matter interested her. I first saw reference to this on TV during the middle of the program. I said, “Tell me I didn’t see that,” and they assured me on the other side of the glass that I had indeed seen that, because they did, too.I didn’t quite know what to say about this. It just stunned me, ladies and gentlemen. People do not want another Hillary Clinton. I said, “Rudy, if you’re going to do that, put her on the ballot so people can vote for her to be a co-president.” Well, Giuliani says she won’t be a cabinet member now. “He said Friday his wife will not be a member of his cabinet or attend most high-level meetings. He sought to clarify his previous statements, suggesting she would play a significant role in his administration. In the interview released last Thursday, he said he’d be open to his…” because he’s getting all these questions, and he said, “he would be open to his wife attending cabinet meetings on issues in which she’s interested. He said, ‘If she wanted to, yeah, if they were relevant to something she was interested in, I mean that would be something I’d be very, very comfortable with,'” he told this to Barbara Walters.It was on 20/20.”Late on Friday, the next day, the Giuliani campaign issued a statement in which Rudy suggested that would not be the case.”He said, ‘Obviously she’s not going to be a cabinet member or attend most cabinet meetings if any, but she will pursue a campaign to educating Americans opposite preventing illness and promoting overall health.'” Judith Giuliani used to be a nurse. Now, “In his statement the former mayor sought to play down his own remarks, suggesting any discussion of a policy role for his wife was merely prompted by the questioning. ‘Judith and I got a good laugh after we heard that she would be a member of the cabinet, especially after she made it clear in the interview with Barbara Walters that she’s not particularly interested in politics or policy. Like most couples, we rely on each other and support each other, but we have different interests. My interest is politics and policy. Judith is a nurse. Her interest is in educating people on how to stay healthy.’ In the interview with Walters, which aired Friday night, Giuliani described his wife as a close advisor who has as much involvement in his campaign ‘as she wants to have.'” So, anyway, the disavowal and the, “No, no, no, no! That’s not what we said!” statement was issued on Friday.Story #3:Escaped Bank Robber Holding “Guests”
RUSH:Just looking at the Fox News Channel. A bank robber convict in Ohio has escaped. They say, “He’s holding hostages.” No, he’s not! There aren’t any hostages there! They’re detainees! They’re guests! What is this “hostage” word? Everybody is throwing the hostage word around. The British people –there aren’t any hostages in Iran, they’re guests. They’re being fed. We can’t call them hostages, folks. It might infuriate the Iranians. Dianne Feinstein says you can’t call them that. What do you mean, “hostages”? Why, that might really upset the balance here! We gotta work on this diplomatically behind the scenes!Bush called them hostages, and you can’t do that.I assume this conflicted bank robber tookhostages in Ohio, but we’re just going to make this guy even angrier than he already is, if we refer to his
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Story #1:Prepare for ExactlyNine (9)Hurricanes
RUSH: Well, it’s Panic City again. The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, according to the experts at Colorado State University (that’s the team that’s headed and founded by William Gray) will have17 tropical storms. Nine will strengthen into hurricanes. They don’t know where they’re going to hit, of course. Well, I don’t know. Maybe they
Supposedly El Nio is gone or is waning, and the Sahara dust storms — which do affect a lot of our climate — might have had an impact on the down hurricane season last year. Both of those elements are said to be “less problematic” this year. The good thing about El Nio in the hurricane regard is it creates upper level winds right across the Atlantic Basin, and just rips the tops off those hurricanes when they form, and when you rip the top off a hurricane, you pretty much destroy it. That’s what happened, they think. They’re not sure, but that’s what they think last year.
Anyway, 17 tropical storms, nine of which will become hurricanes, and I’m just wondering if on June 1st, the traditional opening of hurricane season, we’ll have Drive-By Media camera crews on the beaches in south Florida (and of course we know we will in New Orleans), scanning the skies looking for hurricanes that might form anywhere near 15 or 2,000 miles away, and it will be time to scare everybody. It’s something that happens every year, and yet it will be treated as something unprecedented. So just get ready for it.
CNN has shown video of American soldiers being shot –sniper video from Al-Qaeda in Iraq.I wonder if we’ll get similar treatment of this episode inside the CNN headquarters.We’ll just have to wait and see. But both victims are black, according to the latest reports that we have, and one of them is a woman, and thus: “CNN Shooting: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.” That’s a predictable, perfunctory Drive-By Media headline on virtually every event that happens in the country. Anyway, Turner Broadcast security says that one of their officers shot the suspect at the CNN Center, which is cool. I’m just surprised that their security people are armed at CNN. Story #4:Brits Drop Holocaust Teaching, Appease Muslims
RUSH:Well, Winston Churchill is having a scotch in his grave right now asking the question: “How did 15 British sailors and Marines give up without firing a shot?” Churchill probably cannot believe this.You know, they pretty mothballed their navy. Great Britain, I’ll tell you, it’s gone PC in ways you wouldn’t believe.If you people haven’t heard, this I want you to sit down.This is from the UK Daily Mail: “Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils,” according to a government study. The study “found that some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity of the Holocaust for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.There is also resistance to tackling the Eleventh Century crusades where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using histories as a vehicle for promoting political correctness.”
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Story #1:Two Americas:
Elizabeth EdwardsonHer”Gun-Toting, Rabid, Rabid Republican” Neighbor
RUSH:Have you heard the latest about Elizabeth Edwards?This is an AP story, “Elizabeth Edwards says she is scared of the ‘rabid, rabid Republican’ who owns property across the street from her Orange County home,” the 28,000-square-foot mansion, “and she doesn’t want her kids going near the gun-toting neighbor. [She] particularly recalls the time neighbor Monty Johnson brought out a gun while chasing workers investigating a right of way near his property. The Edwards family has yet to meet Johnson in person.’I wouldn’t be nice to him, anyway,’ Edwards said in an interview. ‘I don’t want my kids anywhere near some guy who, when he doesn’t like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out. It scares the business out of me.’… Edwards views Johnson as a ‘rabid, rabid Republican’ who refuses to clean up his ‘slummy’ property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.”Johnson, 55, acknowledges his Republican roots. But he takes offense to the suggestion he has purposefully left his property, including an old garage he leases for use as a car shop, in dilapidated condition.Johnson said he has lived his entire life on the property, which he said his family purchased before the Great Depression. He said he’s spent a lot of money to try and fix up the 42-acre tract.’I have to budget. I have to live within my means,’ Johnson said. ‘I don’t have millions of dollars to fix the place.'”Monte Johnson put a “Go Giuliani” sign on his fence. He “posted a ‘Go Rudy Giuliani 2008′ sign on a fence just 100 feet from the entrance to the Edwards’ driveway, has criticized Edwards for the scale of their nearby home [while they’re] still putting the final touches on the property, which they purchased in 2003.’I thought he was supposed to be for the poor people,’ Johnson said. ‘But does he ever socialize with any poor people? He doesn’t speak to me.'” Now, to speak of a neighbor this way, “a gun-toting, rabid, rabid Republican” with “slummy property.”I guess there are two Americas. You know, John Edwards out there saying there are two Americas.There’s one America that fears its less wealthy neighbors because they’re different, and the other America does not.This happens all the time. In Marin County, they don’t want people like Monty Johnson living next to them.Marin says, “Habitat for Humanity? We don’t want it anywhere near here! Don’t put it anywhere near us. We’re all for the poor but don’t put it anywhere near here.” Disney doesn’t want poor people building subdivision, homeless, whatever it is, nearby out in Orange County. Now John Edwards doesn’t like this “rabid, rabid Republican” with the Giuliani sign living across the street from her.Gun-toting Republican!
Story #2: Candy Ass Edwards Is Still Afraid of FoxRUSH: John Edwards, the Breck Girl, is back. He’s a total candy ass.He wants to be leader of the free world, and he can’t even appear on a network that might oppose him!He has dropped out of another Fox News debate.”The Edwards campaign said it will not attend the September 23rd debate in Detroit hosted by Fox News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, but officials added that Edwards is looking forward to a different debate hosted by the institute and CNN in South Carolina in January of 2008.” So he’s canceling the Fox News Channel to appear on CNN?See, what Edwards doesn’t get here is that everybody knows that he’s other media outlets are just as agenda-oriented as they think Fox is!
So here’s Edwards, seeking the highest office in the land to become the leader of the free world, and it appears he doesn’t have the
Story #3:Michigan Democrat: An iPod for Every Child
RUSH:The Detroit News in an editorial over the weekend: “We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed the $1 billion mark, House Democrats Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michigan.No cost estimate was attached to their hare-brained idea to ‘invest’ in education. Details, we are promised, will follow.” What in the world could possibly be the educational value of this?They’re saying, “Well, we gotta make sure everybody’s got a phone! We gotta make sure everybody has wired Internet — broadband. We gotta make sure. We gotta make sure. We gotta make sure!”Why don’t you just cut to the chase in Michigan and make sure everybody gets a pair of Air Jordans?Let’s just cut to the chase and get to what’s really, really important when it comes to education.
Story #4: There Never Was a Clinton Juggernaut
RUSH: By the way, folks, I thought money corrupted politicians.McCain-Feingold.McCain’s out there saying, “Good people come to Washington, and we get corrupted by all the money,” and so we had to come up with this new plan to “take the money out of politics” which actually put
RUSH:This is from the Belfast Telegram at Telegram.com, obviously a UK paper from Belfast, Northern Ireland.It’s a story written by Julia Stuart, by the way. “What does it take for a healthy man to choose to have his testicles removed? Roger Davies is one of a surprising number who have found salvation in castration. Like many sensitive teenagers, Roger Davies felt different from his peers. He wasn’t into sport and abhorred the aggression he saw in other boys. When, at the age of 22, he still hadn’t grown out of his sense of isolation, he took radical action: he travelled to America and underwent castration. ‘I’m really happy with who I am now,’ says the 25-year-old cleaner and caterer from Southport. ‘I don’t have any desire to be accepted as a woman or change genders. I just didn’t like my masculinity.’ Roger is not the only British eunuch.”No kidding! (Laughing.)Ha-ha! “He knows around a dozen other men who have also had the operation, and estimates that there are hundreds of others in the UK. According to a Channel 4 documentary to be shown tonight [this is published April 3rd], every year thousands of men across Europe and the US seek out castration.” Hey, folks, I’ve been on the cutting edge of this one.We came up with the term here, “the New Castrati.”Well, I didn’t come up with the term, actually.I don’t even remember who it was.The title of an article is about the New Castrati.Can you believe this?”I feel threatened by my masculinity and I no longer feel threatened by my masculinity.”I would think every feminist reading this story would just be ecstatic, saying, “How do we get more guys to do this?” and they’re on the way, apparently.Thousands are doing this?There’s a medical term for this.It’s “a bilateral orchidectomy.”Hesays, “I started to resent my testicles.I didn’t like the way they made me feel.It wasn’t me.The feeling escalated with puberty.I really hated the urges to have sex. I didn’t like the idea of going bald or having facial hair, either.”So the New Castrati.I’ll tell you, I’m sorry, folks, but this is probably more widespread in this country than we know.And if you want to debate what’s causing it, but I’ll tell you right now the umbrella under which all other reasons would reside would be liberalism, including in there feminism and the pressure to care about something, the pressure to stand up and be somebody.(sniveling) “Eh, I don’t want to, Mr. Limbaugh. I’m part of the New Castrati.”Story #6: Crawford Peace House in Financial Scandal
RUSH:Have you heard about the financial crisis at the Crawford Peace House?This is Cindy Sheehan’s place in Crawford, Texas, near Bush’s property, where all these left-wing, New Castrati, renegade anti-war protesters gathered.”With allegations of money mismanagement, threats of court action and some members leaving, a group that has sponsored war protests in President Bush’s adopted hometown has been anything but peaceful. The Crawford Peace House recently lost its corporate charter with the state, and a former member who now has rights to the name is threatening legal action because the group continues operating.Sara L. Oliver and some others are calling for a state investigation as to why only $14,700 is now in its bank account, saying tens of thousands donated during Cindy Sheehan’s 2005 war protest are unaccounted for.’There are people who have said, “Don’t say anything because you’ll hurt the peace movement,”‘ Oliver said. ‘But if the peace movement isn’t pure and transparent and holy as it can be at its heart, then it’s just like George Bush: lying, thieving, conniving, backstabbing bastards.'” It seems this group is using the Air America textbook, folks.This is hilarious. “John Wolf, who co-founded the Crawford Peace House in 2003 in a two-bedroom, one-bathroom white-clapboard house just across the railroad tracks from downtown, denied allegations of wrongdoing. He said the claims were by only a few people and would not hurt the work of the Crawford Peace House, which is planning a fourth anniversary celebration Sunday.He said the Peace House has an accountant and has kept diligent records, which soon will be posted in its Web site. He said most of the $285,000 raised in 2005 was spent on food, van and bus rentals, gas and a large tent…” (Laughing.)Food? They spent nothing on peace.
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Story #1: Judge Rules Against Jose Padilla
RUSH: A judge has rejected the argument of Jos Padilla.I’ve heard some people pronounce his name Padill-a. It looks like it would be Padilla to me.Anyway, the judge has rejected the fact that he was tortured.”Jos Padilla claimed that he was forced to stand in painful stress positions, that he was given LSD or some other drugs as a truth serum, that he was subjected to loud noises and noxious odors and forced to endure sleep deprivation, extreme heat and cold and harsh lights.”Why, that doesn’t sound so bad. That sounds like your average college hippie party back in the 1960s. You’ve got LSD there. You got other drugs, truth serum, loud noises, noxious odors.It’s all there!
RUSH: Well, looky here!This is from Reuters, their health and science editor.”People from families prone to Parkinson’s who drink coffee or smoke are less likely to develop the disease, researchers said on Monday in a finding that reinforces earlier observations and offers potential paths to treatment.” I remember when I first heard that nicotine might have positive effects on Parkinson’s disease, I just chuckled, because that’s a classic illustration.They’ve kept us in tumult and chaos over tobacco and nicotine. “It’s going to kill us! It’s going to cause cancer!”Then for a while coffee was going to raise your blood pressure and lead to a heart attack. Eggs? Cholesterol is going to kill and destroy you and so forth.It’s just everything.Oat bran was supposed to be as healthy as you can possibly be.”Eat bran muffins, oat bran muffins!” It turned out that that turned out to be false.Now what are we supposed to do?
We have Parkinson’s disease sufferers who are being told “that a new finding reinforces earlier observations that people who drink coffee or smoke are less likely to develop the disease.The researchers doubt that smoking and caffeine protect from Parkinson’s, but they say the information offers clues about how environment works with genes to cause disease.Dr. William Scott of the University of Miami School of medicine who led the study said the findings point clearly to dopamine, which is a message carrying chemical in the brain that falls to low levels in Parkinson’s.’Dopamine’s important because both smoking and drinking caffeine affect dopamine in the brain,'” meaning they elevate levels.Dopamine is powerful stuff, folks.If the drug dealers ever figure out a way to make it, you can forget it.(interruption) Well, smoking and drinking coffee, if you’re worried about getting Parkinson’s, it may not hurt you.It may have some beneficial levels because you keep your dopamine up which is what falls when you get Parkinson’s decedent.On the other hand if you’re worried about getting lung cancer 50 years after you start, or whatever they say coffee is going to do, it’s a balancing thing.
What? (interruption) There’s nothing in here about embryonic stem cells and smoke and a cup of coffee.What are you throwing embryonic stem cells in here?Well, I know, I know, I know, I know. Embryonic stem cells are supposed to hold –even though there’s no evidence it does anything yet. They’ve had no success here. Cord blood and adult stem cells are showing a lot of success, but not embryonic, but I know that’s the big key.So maybe if we get embryonic stem cell research going and then get people to start smoking and drinking coffee, we’ll lick the disease, or at least limit its impact.Now, “Other researchers had noted that both smoking and drinking coffee seemed to reduce the risk of Parkinson’s, but no one had tracked it in families prone to Parkinson’s,” and of course if you get Parkinson’s. It’s too late.This is not something that’s going to change it, but it might reduce the risk, if you think that you’re going to get it.”When the disease runs in families, the study suggests that certain genes are causing it.We need to consider these environmental associations while looking for genes that are involved in Parkinson’s.”Anyway, for what it’s worth, it’s your life. Do what you want. Take all this stuff, take all this research.Every day there’s a different study that comes out and says, “This is going to kill you,” or “This is going to save you,” and your head’s probably swimming now.
RUSH:La Flor Dominicana Double Ligero Chisel dittos, ladies and gentlemen!That’s the cigar that I am puffing on, hosting the program today amidst billowing clouds of fragment aromatic smoke, first- and secondhand.You should smell it.Even people that hate cigars love this one. They love to smell it.They’re tempted to take a puff, it smells so good.
Story #4: Dems Subpoena Gonzales Documents
Story #5: Goodell Suspends Pacman, Henry
RUSH: For you NFL fans: “Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones of the Tennessee Titans has been suspended for the entire 2007 football season because of off-the-field activities.Chris Henry, a wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals received an eight-game suspension.Both of these players were suspended for numerous violations of the NFL’s personal conduct policy.Pacman Jones’ off field conduct has included ten incidents where he was interviewed by the police.The most recent took place during an NBA All-Star weekend in Vegas.Police there recommended felony and misdemeanor charges against Pacman Jones after a fight and a shooting at a strip club paralyzed one man.” This is one of the security guys at this nightclub.”Both the Titans and the Cincinnati Bengals said they supported the suspensions.The new commissioner, Roger Goodell, said, ‘It’s a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.These players and all members of our league have to make the right choices and decisions in their conduct on a consistent basis.'”
Ooh, baby! Full season suspension for off-the-field behavior!
Story #6: Violence Against Border Agents Up
RUSH: From CBS: “Along the desert stretch where Arizona and Mexico meet, there’s more flying in the air than just dust. There are rocks flying back and forth toward the border agents, CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports. It’s part of a nightly bombardment of Border Patrol vehicles and agents all along the southwestern border. Chris Van Wagenen, a senior patrol agent, says ‘it’s mostly going to be smugglers, guides, gangbangers basically. People who make money off of this. ‘This’ means smuggling people and drugs into the U.S. It’s gotten a lot harder to cross the border, and smugglers are reacting to more fences and more agents with more violence. ‘They believe, almost like a terrorist, ‘we’re going to intimidate you and hurt you until you back off,’ Van Wagenen says.” So violence against agents in Yuma, Arizona, up to 154 instances in the first six months of this fiscal year, which starts, as many of you know, on September 1st. Now, where is this on the news? Where is this story on the news? It’s nowhere.
Story #7: Sweeney Wants Union Rights for Guest Workers
RUSH: Speaking of the whole immigration problem, in the Los Angeles Times today, we shared with you that President Bush is going to come up with a new plan by August. John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, has written a column in the LA Times today, and he’s dumping all over this concept of guest workers. He doesn’t like this whole notion of guest workers, and this is a change for the labor unions. The labor unions have been backing this all along. The reason they backed it was that it allowed all these guest workers to come in here and eventual what it did was lead to higher wages. It would affect the minimum wage eventually and lead to higher union salaries, and it would lead to further opportunities for these workers to finally unionize. You know, unions have been losing membership dramatically for years and so these guest workers represented a pool of potential new union members. But Sweeney has now come out against the guest worker programs. He wants new permanent union workers! He wants them to be led in and join the union, essentially. “Foreign workers should enjoy the same rights and protections as US workers, including freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.” So he wants illegals to be able to form their own unions when they get here, or join one of his. Same difference.
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Story #1: Andy McCarthy on Drive-By Hypocrisy
RUSH: Andy McCarthy (clearing throat) excuse me, I always clear my throat when National Review is mentioned because it makes me think of Mr. Buckley.Andy McCarthy writing — I think it’s at The Corner at National Review — might even be a piece.I’m not sure, but, anyway, last paragraph is great.A lot of people have made this point.I just want to read it here.It’s well constructed.”The lamest part of this controversy, though, had to be watching Imus faves David Gregory and Craig Crawford on MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’ last night, explaining how Imus is ‘schizophrenic.’ They and all their NBC pals would regularly appear on the program, but they only spoke to the Dr. Jekyll Imus; Mr. Hyde only came out once they were off the air — and while they kinda, sorta knew there was this low-brow schtick going on, they were removed from it and, gee, didn’t realize how offensive itmust have beento some people.” Now remember who these are: the Craig Crawfords and the Gregorys and the Jonathan Alters. These are liberals.These are the arbiters of what’s right and wrong when it comes to race, when it comes to justice and injustice, when it comes to bigotry.They are the condemners.Liberals hate discrimination, they despise it, and they will not be accused of it, and yet they sat there and listened to it and laughed at it as they heard it.As they heard bigotry, as they heard discrimination, as they heard the, quote, unquote, powerless being made fun of, they chuckled at all of this.And that’s the lamest part of this controversy, to listen to these people act like they had no clue.Story #2:Wonkette Whines About Elite Imus Club
RUSH: Along these lines as the previous story, Ana Marie Cox, who had a blog — I guess still does, Wonkette, and TIME Magazine said, that’s our girl, uh, that’s our woman, uh, that’s our babe, uh, that’s our gal, uh, that’s our female, uh, that’s our feminist, covering my bases here.So they gave her an essayist position in TIME Magazine, and she’s going public on why she will no longer appear on the Imus show.I have to share this, I have to read this to you.She begins, “As the invites kept coming, I found myself succumbing to the clubhouse mentality that Imus both inspires and cultivates. Sure, I cringed at his and his crew’s race-baiting… but I told myself that going on the show meant something beyond inflating my precious ego.I’m embarrassed to admit that it took Imus’ saying something so devastatingly crass to make me realize that there just was no reason beyond ego to play along. I did the show almost solely to earn my media-elite merit badge.” There it is.Credit Ana Marie Cox for honesty.She went on that show because she wanted in the clique.She was a blogger, and she goes to TIME, big step up, not full-fledged member of the clique, though, wanted to be a merit badge wearing media elite member and going on that show was her way to do it.I don’t know if she never got her jollies in high school, maybe wasn’t part of the big clique in high school, but let’s face it, folks, that desire never leaves. A lot of people, as they grow up, everybody wants to be in a big clique, and in Washington, the big clique is the media elite.The politicians and the bureaucrats come and go, but the media elite, they’re there, and they define the social structure of the town and a number of other things.That’s the club you want to be in, and that’s why so many Republicans will go on these television shows and trash their party.They want to be accepted into the club, too, they want their merit badge.But here you have it, Ana Marie Cox, perhaps speaking for others indirectly as she admits her own reason for going on the show and ignoring what it was that she heard that she found just crass and devastating at each and every turn.
Story #3:Pelosi Should Negotiate with Suicide Bomber
RUSH:A suicide bombing today at the Iraqi parliament building.I think Nancy Pelosi should go over there and have peace talks with the suicide bombers, at least the family members of the suicide bombers and work her magic with the suicide bombers in Iraq, just as she worked her magic with Bashar Assad and wants to work her magic with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Story #4:Biden: Send Troops to Darfur Now
RUSH: Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democrat presidential candidate, said yesterday, “We need to use military force to end the suffering in Darfur.I would use force now.American force now,” at a hearing before his committee.”I think it’s not only time not to take force off the table, I think it’s time to put force on the table and use it.”Okay, predicted this.They’ll take us anywhere where we have no national interests at stake.They’ll put American lives on the line in Darfur or wherever when there are no national interests at stake, but the suffering that’s going on in Iraq, no way, we got it get the military out of there because, you see, we — in their view — are the ones causing it.
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Story #1: Shocker! Bush and Cheney Pay Taxes RUSH: Look at this headline: “With April 15th Nearing…” This story was published on April 13th, on Friday. “With April 15th Nearing, Bushes and Cheneys Do Their Taxes, Too.” What the hell is behind that headline?As though Bush and Cheney would normally be expected not to do their taxes and not to pay their taxes? Hey, Bush and Cheney going to pay their taxes, too!Cheney, by the way, paid too much.He had an overpayment in there. He is going to apply it to next year’s return.Story #2: The New Dating Scene Is All About the Mind? RUSH: As many of you people know, I am single.I’m not prowling, but I’m single, and I run across these stories during show prep about dating and theory and so forth, like Drudge has some story up there that chocolate is far more heartwarming and exciting and thrilling and satisfying than kissing.These things pop up here every now and then, but the Washington Post today has a story: “In the New Dating Scene…” The New Dating scene: capital N, capital D, capital S. “In the New Dating Scene, the Attraction Is a Beautiful Mind”Ha!How many times have we all heard this?The attraction is the personality. The attraction is the mind.Here’s one little excerpt.In this story, “Instead of dinner and a movie, the new dating scene says, catch a debate on modern feminism or join a late night museum crawl.”Now, in my mind, you can get both of those at the feminism lecture.You can get the lecture on modern feminism and a late night museum crawl together. They’re the same thing, because both are antiques.Anyway, I just wanted to throw that out.Story #3: More than 30 Dead at Virginia Tech UniversityRUSH:[12:32 EST] Look at this: at least 21 people dead at Virginia Tech, 19 of them in one dormitory.The gunman is now also dead.This is the second shooting incident I think in a year, at Virginia Tech.Beyond that, I don’t think anybody knows what it was that spurred this.But, of course, we’ll keep a sharp eye out and when this is explained, if it is, we will pass it on to you.[1:32 EST] ABC News is now saying 29 are dead at Virginia Tech, and the death toll is expected to rise.The suspect is dead as well.One thing I saw, when I had a chance to glance at the screen was that the shooter was looking for his girlfriend. He couldn’t find her, and was just lining everybody up and opening fire.It’s senseless.At this point, nobody can make any sense of this.It’s just utterly shocking.So we’ll have to wait, and find out what it was that was behind this.[1:57 EST] ABC now says 32 dead at Virginia Tech.There were two periods of shooting, and they kept classes open, apparently, but total confusion here as to what this is all about.Story #4: San Francisco Hostile to Black PeopleRUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I’m holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers an editorial from the San Francisco Chronicle from yesterday, and I have the story in the paper from last week that precedes this editorial.I never got to it, but it is a story about how black people are leaving San Francisco. It’s an inhospitable climate.They’re leaving out there.The newspaper decided to editorialize on this yesterday, and the summation that I would give you on this is, is that it’s notable because it’s saying in this San Francisco Chronicle editorial that San Francisco has an attitude problem with blacks and that they’re not open-minded — the population isn’t, not the blacks.”San Francisco officials are putting together a task force to develop a strategy to preserve the city’s rapidly declining African-American population, and possibly attract new African-American residents. This is a laudable goal, but at this late date — San Francisco’s black population has dropped from about 13.4 percent of the city to 6.5 percent over the last 25 years — is there anything the city can really do? “If so, are other San Franciscans likely to be as enthusiastic as are their officials? The mere fact that city officials feel the need to put together a ‘task force’ to stem the bleeding of African-American residents to other communities reveals how far this ship has already sailed past the horizon. San Francisco likes to bill itself as a diverse city, but the numbers — 53 percent white and 33.5 percent Asian, mostly Chinese — expose its relative homogeneity in comparison with other cities, such as Los Angeles or New York. San Francisco has the lowest proportion of black residents of any large city in the United States — even lower than Seattle or San Diego. Demographers have also noted that the African Americans who move out of San Francisco tend to be more upwardly mobile — so that the few black residents who are left constitute a poorer underclass. Certainly the isolation of these residents … underscores San Francisco’s uneasy feelings toward them. “It’s this last point that truly underscores the difficulty city officials will have if they are serious about [this task force]. Yes, housing is expensive in San Francisco — as it is [everywhere]. It’s also true that San Francisco, and the [Left] Coast in general, lacks the rich troves of African-American history that cities in the South, and east of the Mississippi, have to offer. It doesn’t help that when San Francisco bulldozed the Fillmore District in the 1950s, it destroyed not only a vibrant community, but also the city’s chance to create a repository for its own African-American history. That event, in fact, points to the real problem — San Francisco’s attitude.”So here you have the San Francisco Chronicle editorializing about black flight from the city as an attitudinal problem in the city of San Francisco among the people who live there.Now, this is a liberal Mecca, folks!San Francisco is a liberal Mecca.They pride themselves on all things liberal:diversity, tolerance, open-minded, and yet it’s the upwardly mobile black citizens who are fleeing the city in droves.Story #5: This One Sounds Like a ParodyRUSH: Let’s go to the Right Coast here.Well, Bradenton, Florida, is on the left coast of Florida, but let’s go east.”Five years ago, Arlene Sweeting — noted activist, radio host and unabashed free thinker — opened a tiny cafe near McKechnie Field.In time, Fogartyville Cafe became something more than a hole-in-the-wall joint that served tofu, organic coffee and ‘No War’ bumper stickers.It became a refuge for aging hippies, would-be radicals and part-time poets, a liberal landmark in a decidedly conservative city.But now, as Sweeting and co-owner Dave Beaton prepare to sell the cafe — to focus, in part, on a small radio station in Sarasota — the community that Fogartyville fostered is trying to save it.’We have to,’ said Billy Johnson, a stained glass maker … ‘We cannot let this place close. It’s too important.’Alas, though, the task of saving Fogartyville is bigger than it seems,” because Arlene and her pal have already moved on to their radio station and so forth.You know, when I read this in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune — it goes on to list all the things they could do to maybe save the Fogartyville Cafe — I thought I was reading Scott Ott at ScrappleFace or something from The Onion.I thought I was reading a parody.”Perhaps the regulars could start a co-op. Nah, they decided, there aren’t enough of them. Perhaps Fogartyville could be rented out. ‘That’s an idea,’ said another regular, Karen Fraley.Maybe they could lobby an investment firm for the cash. ‘Only if they promise to think like us,’ Tomsik said.” Liberal landmarks are falling by the wayside in several places.Story #6: Women May Be Able to Grow Own SpermRUSH:Did you see this story over the weekend in the UK Telegraph? 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Story #1: Democrat Candidates Kiss Sharpton’s Ring
RUSH: Everything you need to know for 2008 is encapsulated in this little blurb from ABC News’ The Note: “The Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network begins its annual convention at the Sheraton New York Hotel. Every 2008 Democrat presidential candidate is expected to address the convention over the next four days.” Can I give you a similar headline that would cause havoc? “The Reverend David Duke’s Whatever Whatever organization begins its annual convention at the Sheraton New York Hotel, and every 2008 Republican presidential candidate is expected to address it.” Can you imagine the fur that would fly if that happened? But yet every Democrat is making tracks to Sharpton’s gig.
Story #2: Reid Warns Against Rush to Gun Control
RUSH:Here’s that headline I was talking about: “Reid Warns Against Rush on Gun Control.” I thought, “Oh, no! The guy’s responding to me,” but no. “After the worst mass shooting in US history, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid cautioned Tuesday against a ‘rush to judgment’ on stricter gun control. A leading House supporter of restrictions on firearms conceded passage of legislation would be difficult. ‘I think we ought to be thinking about the families and the victims and not speculate about future legislative battles that might lie ahead,’ said [Dingy Harry], a view expressed by other Democratic leaders the day after the shootings…” Ha, ha, ha!
Dianne Feinstein, though, said, “‘I believe this will reignite the dormant effort to pass commonsense gun regulations in this nation.’ [She was] a leader in the failed drive to renew a ban on certain types of assault weapons that expired in 2004.” Why would she care about this? Her husband doesn’t have an interest in a gun company, does he? Obviously not.
RUSH: Thomas Sowell has a great column today. The lynch mob — the professors and the administration at Duke University — now many of them are trying to say, “We never tried to railroad those boys! We never meant to!” It’s one thing to be a member of a lynch mob and you don’t admit it when the lynch mob is proved wrong, but I’ll tell you what: the administration on that campus and some of those professors — the 88 that signed that letter — they’re a disgrace.
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Story #1: In Your Face: Bush Says Gonzales Stays
RUSH: Arlen Specter was on television yesterday, “Gonzales botched the justice department! Gonzales has to go! He’s making the administration look bad!” Bush said, “I loved the guy. I thought the testimony was great. He’s staying.” It was just an in-your-face — not just to Senator Specter, but to all these wannabes out there who are trying to tell the administration what to do so it will make their campaigns in 2008 a little easier.
Story #2: Drive-Bys Discover “Sleeping Giant” Immigration Issue
RUSH: You know what I saw on MSNBC this morning? I was sitting here — diligently working on show prep — and I see this graphic at the bottom of the screen: “Will illegal immigration be the sleeping giant issue of 2008?” I said, “What are they, two or three years late on this? What tuned them into this at the NBC newsroom?” And what do they mean “sleeping giant issue”? People like me have been warning about this for two years!
So I started scouring the print pages of Washington newspapers, and, lo and behold, there’s a story in the Washington Times about how the Democrats are in jeopardy on illegal immigration. It’s an indication how things end up on broadcast news. Generally, the New York Times is what directs the daily broadcast of news on networks; I’ve never known them to pay much attention to the Washington Times, but it’s out there. So anyway, that’s why MSNBC said, “Oh, my gosh! What have we missed?” If it’s going to present problems for the Democrats, then the Drive-Bys have to get on it and fix it. But I have been telling you by the saliency of this issue for both parties for over two years, and now all of a sudden MSNBC is out there acting like have some kind of a scoop.
Story #3: Catch 22: Stop Mentally Ill from Buying Guns
RUSH: Barack Obama, Democrat presidential candidate, said Thursday of last week that laws should be strengthened to prevent the mentally ill from buying guns. Well, that leads me to a question, Barack: Who is to say who is mentally ill? Isn’t that discriminatory? How discriminatory can we get to sit there and say, “You’re mentally ill. You’re mentally ill.” Who gets the right to do that? I mean, I think Alec Baldwin is a nutcase. Should he not have a gun? Who gets to say this?
So Obama says stop the mentally ill from buying guns, but my question is, are we moving into a Preparation H society? Because the Virginia Tech episode shows that everybody is trying to protect their rear end. You have the administration down there blaming the law, and you have the lawmakers blaming the guns — rather than looking at the real problems. The real problems are the excesses of trial lawyers, million-dollar lawsuits, the tyranny of the ACLU and political correctness, and the ineptness of bureaucracies to actually function. But in addition to this list of real problems we have the doublespeak of liberals — and Obama just epitomized it.
We can’t allow gun sales to crazy people. Well, okay, great! I’m all for it! Except we can’t reveal who’s crazy. We can’t reveal who’s mentally ill because it’s discrimination to say somebody’s mentally ill. We couldn’t even keep homeless people who can’t take care of themselves in places where they were being cared for because they didn’t know they were being incarcerated. It was a violation of their rights. We had to set them free. Now, if this isn’t one of the great catch-22s of all kind, I don’t know what it is. We can’t allow gun sales to crazy people, and we can’t reveal who’s crazy. Is it any wonder these liberals want the easy way out, a bumper sticker, a talking point, a fundraiser? Are you as amazed as I am that they could kick kids out of Duke University for nothing other than an accusation that fit a template, but they couldn’t remove a ticking time bomb from Virginia Tech?
Story #4: Citizens Stop Crime with Guns Across Fruited Plain
RUSH: Speaking of guns, I don’t know if you people saw this over the weekend, but here’s a great story: “Miss America 1944 stopped a robbery by shooting out the tires of the getaway car and then held the robbers, at her house, at gunpoint while she called the sheriff.”
What was the great equalizer here? Her gun!
“An Oakland, California pizzeria owner stopped a robbery. Armed with a pistol, joined by two other men, Hicks tried to rob Piedra inside the popular pizzeria at 89th Avenue and International Boulevard in Oakland. Fearful the assailants might hurt him his wife and his three children all of whom were inside the restaurant, he pulled out his 9mm semiautomatic pistol and opened fire. He killed Hicks,” which is the lead criminal. Now, the liberals have written about these two stories. These two stories are detailed in, I think, the UK Times or some UK paper, and they started out with their stories as though they are indictments of America and how we’ve lost it: “It’s the OK Corral out there with guns being used to defend people who are being robbed, attempted robbery, maybe even murder, attempted murder!”
Story #5: School Bus Nagin Knocks Philadelphia
RUSH: New Orleans Mayor “School Bus” Ray Nagin “criticized the cleanliness of Philadelphia after a visit to the city last week. He said, ‘Let me tell you something. You ought to go to Philly and you’ll appreciate how clean New Orleans is.’ Nagin said this Saturday to a crowd of New Orleans residents concerned about the city’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina.” The fact is he has apologized now. He apologized on Sunday for these remarks. He said he thought he was in Philadelphia, but he was in Camden, New Jersey. (I’m just kidding about this, folks! I’m just kidding about Camden, New Jersey.) But I’ll tell you what, Mayor Nagin: if you think Philadelphia is dirty now, wait ’til Sheryl Crow gets her way with the one square of toilet paper per bathroom visit policy.
Story #6: Bloomberg Proposes Manhattan “Entry Fee”
RUSH: I have a special note to me here: “Saying that he would not spend his final term in office ‘pretending that all is fine,’ Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg made a series of Earth Day proposals … to improve the environment of New York City, including charging a new congestion fee to drivers who come into parts of Manhattan during peak hours during weekdays. The $8 congestion fee was one of 127 initiatives included in a sweeping plan by the mayor to help the city of currently 8.2 million people cope with an expected surge in population that he said is sure to put a strain on its transportation, housing and energy systems…. A key objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2030…” Well, I know they’ve been floating this plan around for 20 years, but now they have somebody who’s going to do it. “The proposal that is sure to attract the most attention, and possibly objections, is one to impose the $8 fee on car drivers, and $21 for truck operators, to drive in Manhattan south of 86th Street.”
Well, that’s all the tunnels and the 59th Street Bridge. The only way you’re exempt here is coming in through the Bronx, coming in through Harlem or the George Washington Bridge. So guess what’s going to happen to those arteries? I happen to use the George Washington Bridge; I go into my private airport up there. This place is going to become a toilet!
Now, in Manhattan, you already pay a fee for driving in there. When you leave, they’re happy to wave good-bye to you. But you have to pay to get in there, on almost all the bridges and the tunnels, and they call that — for those of you that may be young — “a toll.” You people know that that have driven in there. They also charge you if you put your car in a parking garage, and the tax, if you park? The best way to do that is get a space by the month, but the parking tax, if you leave your car on the street and you get towed, you pay a huge fine to go get your car — if you can find it. If you drive into Manhattan for the purpose of working, you pay a state income tax. Hell, if you fly in to Manhattan to work you pay a state and city income tax, even if you don’t live there! Trust me on this, folks. Oh, ho-ho-ho. Trust me. So what’s one more tax?
But my question is, eight bucks plus all the tolls to get into Manhattan? What is it that illegal aliens pay to get into the country? Of course, the reflexive answer is zero. But that’s not true in every case. In some cases, the illegal immigrants have to pay the coyote, the smuggler, to get them in. Eight dollars every time? You go in there to work, and you work lower 86th during peak hours, that’s five days if you go in. That’s 40 bucks. That’s a significant amount of money. We could see the creation here (the free market’s the free market) of urban coyotes — people willing to smuggle people into Manhattan. Giant vans with New York City workers from outside the city going in there. It could be a lucrative, lucrative business.
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Story #1: Panic Over Arctic Fossil Footprints
RUSH: This is incredible. Svalbard, Norway, coal mine 7. “Fossils of a hippopotamus-like creature on an Arctic island show the climate was once like that of Florida [up in the North Pole], giving clues to risks from modern global warming…” How in the world do you get that? We’re talking something 55 million years ago! “Fossil footprints of a pantodont, a plant-eating creature weighing about 400 kg (880 lb), add to evidence of sequoia-type trees and crocodile-like beasts in the Arctic millions of years ago when greenhouse gas concentrations in the air were high.” Well, fine. There might have been greenhouse gas concentrations, but there weren’t any massive amounts of humanity producing them. All this does is illustrate that the Earth’s climate is this massively complex and constantly changing and that there’s nothing we can do about it.
In fact, let me just throw this out there. The Arctic Circle could have been the lost continent of Atlantis; you never know. All these shifts — it may have always been cold at the North Pole, it’s just that what is now the North Pole could’ve somewhere in the tropics and moved up there. We’re talking about 55 million years ago! The idea that this story somehow gives an indication of the ‘threat’ that we face (and are causing) from global warming is irresponsible.
Story #2: New Planet Will Replace Earth (If There’s No Oil)
RUSH: You know, we have this new planet that’s been discovered now. Oh, ho, ho! Yes, folks! But you have to understand the context of this story: we are destroying our planet! Stephen Hawking and others are saying it could be doomsday for us if we don’t find another planet to colonize — and fast — because we’re destroying ours. We have nuclear arsenals waiting out there to be ticked off. We have global warming. We have polar bears dying, stranded on ice floes. We got all these horrible things happening out there — and all of a sudden here comes this new discovery: this planet. It is, as they say in the story here: “In galactic terms, it’s relative nearby, 120 trillion miles away. But the star that it closely orbits is known as a red dwarf. It’s much smaller and dimmer and cooler than our sun.” Very good!
But until they learn whether or not there’s oil on that planet, it’s a meaningless discovery. Because if we discover oil, it means we will destroy that planet when we get there, too; you know how Big Oil is. In fact, when the first colonizers arrive thinking, “Oh, wow! We’ve just saved ourselves and we’ve saves our civilization,” they’re going to see oil derricks. It’ll be all over the new planet, and they’ll be depressed. I read this and I just started chuckling because I know the mind-set behind this story: “There’s hope for civilization! There’s hope for humanity! We have destroyed earth but we may have a new utopia that we could go to and not make the same mistakes, Mr. Limbaugh, and then we could all live in peace and harmony. There will be no war! We could start over!” But there’s always a bugaboo in these things. If there’s oil on this planet, the libs will not go there. Been there, done that. We ought to go and do a movie about this. You know, a space movie — colonizing this new planet but Big Oil gets there first. Ha, ha!
Story #3: Idiots Catch Big Break in Columbus, Ohio
RUSH: This is from the Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch. The headline says it all: “Senate Passes Bill to Remove ‘Insane,’ ‘Idiot’ from State Law.” “A bill removing words such as idiot, lunatic and insane from the pages of the Ohio Revised Code got final approval from the Senate yesterday. Ohio law refers to an idiot nine times. The word lunatic appears six times, while more than 50 instances of the term insane can be found in decades-old laws written to describe people suffering from a mental illness. House Bill 53, which passed 32-0,” what a great, politically correct vote that was, “will remove those words and others, replacing them with inoffensive phrases. Gov. Ted Strickland will sign the bill, a spokesman said. The changes will make Ohio law more sensitive and ‘help to reduce the stigma of mental illness,’ said Sen. Robert F. Spada, R-North Royalton. Removing the words from state law does not change the Ohio Constitution…” The words will stay there. Ha! “Article 5, Section 6 is titled ‘Idiots or insane persons.'” They actually have a section in the Ohio constitution dealing with “idiots or insane persons”! “The section includes this sentence: ‘No idiot, or insane person, shall be entitled to the privileges of an elector.’ Another section of the constitution, on public institutions, uses the phrase ‘insane, blind, and deaf and dumb.'” So in Ohio, the idiots have caught a break.
Story #4: Tune in to Bill Moyers Special for Laughs
RUSH: By the way, folks, if you’re not doing anything tonight and you want to watch something funny (while at the same time maddening), tune in to PBS. (After all, you’re paying for it.) PBS is going to run — ha, ha — a Bill Moyers special. You get to watch the media condemn themselves for falling for Bush’s supposed lies about the Iraq war. It’s Bill Moyers talking to a number of journalists, including Dan Rather, about how they didn’t dig deep enough and fell prey to the lies that Bush told about intelligence and weapons of mass destruction. They think they ended up facilitating the war, and it’s time to beat themselves up. This is the most introspective bunch of people I’ve ever seen! I have never seen a business — maybe Hollywood — that spends so much time talking about itself!
Now, Moyers is upset because, apparently, a bunch of people have been reporting on this and calling Moyers a liberal, and he’s all offended that he’s been accused of bias. He says conservatives smeared his show for a bias that didn’t exist. Well, I’m not going to watch it; I have other things to do. I will be out and about here in the Big Apple, but it will be a learning experience for you to listen to these people analyze themselves. They’ll end up saying, “This is why we’re on such a tear now because we have to make up for the mistakes of going along with lies that led to 3,000-plus American deaths, and who knows what kind of untold carnage in the nation of Iraq,” and so forth and so on. Of course, it’s being given great reviews by TV writers and critics all over the country who’ve been “fortunate enough,” quote, unquote, to see preview copies the special — paid for by you, by the way.
Story #5: We Need SDI: Subpoena Defense Initiative
RUSH: Well, this has been a long, protracted battle: Henry Waxman has been sending letters demanding that Condoleezza Rice show up before Congress. She’s been ignoring the letters and so forth, so now they’re going the subpoena route. I tell you, folks, we need a new SDI: Subpoena Defense Initiative. That’s become the primary weapon in the Democrats’ arsenal. They’re just trying to distract everybody; they’re trying to get rid of Cheney and they’re trying to get rid of Bush. But they’re just getting nothing done and — I’m telling you — this is not going to help them. All this stuff is going to catch up with them at some point.
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Story #1: EIB NorCom Dittocam is Slimming
RUSH: I have to admit, some of you people hurt my feelings yesterday. Toward the end of the show I started looking at some of the e-mails I had in the subscriber mailbox. There must have been ten of these (and they were worded differently, so I don’t suspect a campaign). They said, “You know what? You have been saying you’re losing all this weight and, frankly, I don’t believe you because I look at you in the Dittocam and you don’t look that different, but now that you’re in New York something’s really happened because now you do look like you’ve lost a lot of weight. You might want to change cameras down at the Southern Command.” So now I’m wondering if those of you who sent me those notes yesterday are watching today and thinking that I’ve put the weight back on. What, Snerdley? “Well you did go off the diet”? Look, you’re not going to gain 50 pounds in one meal, I don’t care who you are. It can’t be done. Story #2: Did Saudis Violate Rights of Terrorists?
RUSH: Did you hear about the Saudis? They have arrested over 170 suspected terrorists — including foreign-trained pilots — involved in a plot against their oil fields. The terrorists allegedly planned to use commercial airliners to smash into the oil facilities and disrupt the entire global economy. A spokesman said that all remained in the plot was to set the zero hour; they were ready to go.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, there are some serious questions that we need to ask about this, about how the Saudis did this. First off, was there a legal seizure and search involved here in capturing these people? (These are questions I would love to ask; I wish this had happened yesterday so the Democrat candidates at the press conference last night could have been asked these questions.) Were any of the civil rights of the Islamofascists violated? Was torture used? We have to know these things. We have to know whether or not the Saudis were violating the Geneva Conventions in thwarting this attack on their oil fields. How did they get to these guys? What did they do? Did they break into their homes? Did they violate the Fourth Amendment? Did they violate the UN Charter? Did they violate the Geneva Conventions? And, of course, if they used torture on them, folks, we may have to let these people go. These are just people that are trying to be heard, and we don’t know if the Saudis are telling the truth. The Saudis could arrest anybody and say, “Yep, they planned to do this. They were down to everything but the zero hour. All they had to do was determine the time,” and everybody is going “Yay, yay!” but we don’t know if any of this is really true.
Yeah, the Saudi royal family has some problems over there. They might have staged this whole thing just to shore up support among a wavering population. You never know. But, I mean, do they have their own version of Club Gitmo over there? What’s going to happen to these prisoners now? Will they be given proper legal defense counsel? Do you think they’ll be beheaded? That’s uncivilized. That violates the UN; that violates the US Constitution; it violates the Geneva Conventions. The next thing you’re going to tell me is they’re going to have them stand on their heads in underwear.
You know, the world has to start paying attention to these guys. I’ve this learned from watching the civil rights activists and the liberals in this country. I’m just telling you; we know how to run a resort for these jihadists who get caught and need a break from it all. So I hope these guys — wherever they are, if they still have their heads — get good lawyers. I hope they each get a clean cell, a new Koran, a prayer rug, unlimited contact with Amnesty International and any other lawyer that wants to go over there. I hope they’re allowed to face Mecca and pray five times a day, and I hope maybe some of them will get a shot on Larry King Live. Well, we have to be fair.
Story #3: French Bash Themselves More Than We Do
RUSH: Here’s a story from Reuters: “The French dislike themselves even more than the Americans dislike them, according to an opinion poll published on Friday. The survey of six nations, carried out for the International Herald Tribune daily and France 24 TV station, said 44 percent of French people thought badly of themselves against 38 percent of U.S. respondents who had a negative view of the French.” Frankly, I can’t blame the French for this; they’re just being honest with themselves.
Story #4: Volcanic Eruptions Caused Global Warming
RUSH: Volcanoes are being blamed for prehistoric global warming now. “Scientists believe they have solved the mystery of what caused the most rapid global warming in known geologic history, a cataclysmic temperature spike 55 million years ago driven by concentrations of greenhouse gases hundreds of times greater than today. The culprit, the researchers reported Thursday in the journal Science, was a series of volcanic eruptions that set off a chain reaction releasing massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. The eruptions occurred on the rift between two continental plates as Greenland and Europe separated. In 10,000 years — a blip in Earth’s history — the polar seas turned into tropical baths, deep-sea microorganisms went extinct, and mammals migrated poleward as their habitats warmed.”
Now, all of this was caused by volcanoes. But something also happened: it got cool after this. After this massive baking — 55 years ago — it got cool again. How did this happen? Did we do anything to cause either of these? We didn’t.
Story #5: To Find New Planet, Hang a Left at Uranus
RUSH: Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention something, folks. You know that new planet that they discovered out there? By that little red star? Well, people who think that Earth is lost and that the experiment of society and civilization here is gone — they look at this new planet as an opportunity to start fresh, to go to a place where there’s no racism; there’s no bigotry; there’s no environmental destruction, no oil derricks, no this or that. I forgot to tell you how to get there when I was talking about it. In galactic terms, it’s just a hop, skip and trip away. It’s 120 trillion miles. Now, I don’t know how many light years that is, but a lot of people want to start making plans to go colonize this new planet since we’ve blown it here on Earth.
Here’s what you do. You blast off from Earth and then you head out to the outer reaches of our solar system and when you get to Uranus, hang a hard left. The gravitational pull of Uranus as you make that hard left will take you right out to this new pristine paradise — ha, ha! — just waiting for you to get there and start anew, with no political parties and no countries, just one mass of humanity all getting along without any oil whatsoever. As I say, I haven’t calculated the light years, but make sure you go to the bathroom first.
Story #6: Fortune Tellers Shut Down, Didn’t See It Coming
RUSH: In Philadelphia they’ve shut down 16 psychics, 16 fortunetellers. “Alerted to a forgotten state ban, Philadelphia authorities have closed at least 16 storefront fortunetellers. One of the fortunetellers has alleged discrimination. ‘What we do is entertainment,’ said the owner of his fortune telling business on Walnut Street. ‘Shouldn’t they being cracking down on rapes and murders and not palm readers?’ City officials, however, said that most psychics were con artists who prey on vulnerable people, and that the Philadelphia fortunetellers didn’t see it coming.” Psychics didn’t see it coming? Ha, ha! Sorry, that might be racist in some places; I don’t know. If it is, I apologize.
Story #7: Swedes Mad About Comfort Shopping Ad
RUSH: “A group of local politicians in northern Sweden have lodged a complaint to the Swedish Consumer Agency after viewing an advert that promotes shopping. The three-member consumer delegation discussed the advertisement for clothing chain KappAhl at a meeting on March 23rd. The three people took exception to the ad on the basis that it fosters the development of retail therapy. ‘It’s an ad where a young girl is really depressed because her boyfriend has just broken up with her. Goldie Hawn, who is an actress, encourages her to indulge in some comfort shopping. We think that because there are so many people with shopping problems it’s not a good idea to encourage people to practice comfort shopping,’ Micael Melander told financial news site Dina Pengar.
“The politician was then asked whether the group’s stance was not simply critical of advertising in general. After all, is not the point of marketing to get people to shop? ‘Yes, maybe so. I’ll have to think about that. It was so obvious in this particular ad. I didn’t take this matter up myself; it came in as one of our cases,’ he said. According to Dina Pengar, all three members of the delegation took exception to the message of the advert and supported the decision to report it to the Swedish Consumer Agency.” So a bunch of politicians in Sweden came down on Goldie Hawn — for comfort shopping — and you think things are screwed up here?
Story #8: You Can’t Stop It: Kids Using iPods to Cheat
RUSH: You know, there’s a new way that students are cheating out there at Duke University. Well, actually, is it at Duke? No. (Something else happened at Duke.) But anyway, they’re using iPods to cheat. They used to wear baseball caps in there and put the answers in the headband and so forth, but now they’re using iPods to cheat and schools are trying to keep up with all this. I just want to tell the schools, “You’re not going to stop kids from cheating, no matter what you do.” Just like — remember back in the condom days? — the same school people would say, “Oh, we can’t stop kids from having sex! They’re going to do it.” That’s why we want to give them condoms and a pack of cigarettes for the morning table.”
Story #9: Fox: Suspect Tattooed, Making Gang Gestures
RUSH: There’s the funniest thing happening. Well, it’s not funny, but the way it’s being covered on Fox is funny. A couple bank robbers in East LA are being chased. The guy’s in some broken down rattletrap car with two flat tires, and the Fox News Channel headline graphics — one of them said, “Suspect is heavily tattooed.” Ha, ha! And the other headline said, “Suspect driving with two flats is making gang gestures out the window.” Ha, ha!
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Story #1: Did Al-Qaeda in Iraq Leader Assume Room Temperature?
RUSH: Iraqi officials, by the way, are saying that the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed by Sunni tribesmen. The chief government spokesman said that the information hasn’t been confirmed. The US government is saying the same thing. The US government said, ‘We’d love for it to be true, but we don’t know. We can’t confirm.”
“The statement by spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh followed a welter of reports from other Iraqi officials that Abu Ayyub al-Masri had been killed. Iraqi officials have released similar reports in the past, only to acknowledge later they were inaccurate… ‘Preliminary reports said he was killed yesterday in Taji area in a battle involving a couple of insurgent groups, possibly some tribal people who have problems with Al-Qaeda. These reports have to be confirmed.'” This is the guy that succeeded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. If it turns out to be true, obviously things are not well with Al-Qaeda in Iraq. This is hardly a sign of victory for them.
Story #2: NAALCP Will Hold Funeral for the “N-Word”
RUSH: Big story: the NAALCP “will hold a symbolic funeral for the ‘n-word’ at the organization’s annual convention in July as a part of its national Stop Campaign to end the prevalence of racist and sexist language, images and concepts in the media. … Holding symbolic funerals to demonstrate the end of a racially discriminatory practice is common practice for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People when they begin a campaign. In the 1960s, the NAACP held a funeral for the segregationist Jim Crow policies in the South, and most recently held a funeral for voter apathy. … The NAACP’s campaign calls on young people to stand up against anyone who argues that words are not hurtful, and calls for increased diversity in the music and television industries.”
Well, we know what that means. It means it’s time to get a minority host at MSNBC — and as you know, we agree with the Reverends Jackson and Sharpton on this. We ran a poll on our own website about who should resign in order to make their slot available for the first minority host at MSNBC, and you people in our poll selected Chris Matthews 49-47% over Keith Olberdork (and Tucker Carlson was in there at 4%).
Story #3: Rupert Murdoch Bids for Dow Jones, WSJ
RUSH: Rupert Murdoch has offered $60 a share for control of Dow Jones. (That would be the Wall Street Journal, essentially, and all of their subsidiaries.) That comes out to a total of $5 billion.
Now, this is a fascinating thing. I’ll tell you why: this offer is really sweet. This offer is way north of what you would think an opening bid would be. My guess is that an offer of $5 billion — 60 bucks a share — is going to tempt the family that owns Dow Jones, Inc. But the fear that a lot of people have is that other media powerhouses — like Google or Bloomberg or maybe a Soros outfit — would now step in with bids. Of course, Murdoch probably has the same mission as the Wall Street Journal has, but you couldn’t say that about Google or Bloomberg or maybe even a Soros front group or what have you. I think that’s one of the reasons why this price is so north of what an opening bid would be — to keep others from getting in on this. We’ll have to wait and see, but this is big, and it could turn out to be even bigger.
Story #4: “Leaked Bush Memo ‘Aimed at Kerry,'” Headline Written Backwards by Drive-By Media
RUSH: Here’s a great example of Drive-By Media behavior. This is from the BBC. I want to read you the headline and I’m going to ask you what you think this story might be about. “Leaked Bush Memo ‘Aimed at Kerry.'” What’s that sound like to you, Mr. Snerdley? Why, it sounds to me like somebody came across a memo that Bush wrote that was aimed at destroying John Kerry, right? It’s the exact opposite.
“A civil servant who leaked a secret memo about George Bush wanted it to be seen by US presidential candidate John Kerry, the Old Bailey [which is a big courtroom in London] heard. David Keogh, 50, from Northampton, is said to have passed a highly sensitive document detailing talks between Mr. Bush and Tony Blair to Leo O’Connor. Mr. Keogh told jurors the contents of the memo had preyed on his mind. Mr. Keogh and Mr. O’Connor, 44, also of Northampton, deny three charges under the Official Secrets Act. ‘The main person in my mind was John Kerry, I wanted John Kerry to get this memo.’ He admitted that he had ‘unfavorable’ views on Mr. Bush, but did not think the publication of the document would have any damaging effects to Britain’s defense or international relations.” So that’s a local story from the UK, but this headline: “Leaked Bush Memo ‘Aimed at Kerry.'” It was just the other way around!
Story #5: Gov’t Has Biggest Tax Receipt Month Ever
RUSH: This is from First Trust Portfolios. “The U.S. Treasury Department reported a gusher of tax revenue last week. Tuesday alone, the Treasury received $48.7 billion from individual taxpayers as their final tax payment for 2006, an all-time single-day record, and one-third higher than the same day last year.” I don’t know about that; I guess it could be. But anyway, “Based on information available through Friday, we estimate federal receipts at about $390 billion in April. This would be the largest tax take for any month in American history, up 25% versus last April, and up 18% versus the previous record high in April 2001. With incomes and profits growing rapidly, the U.S. budget deficit will fall to about $145 billion during the twelve months ending in April. To put this in perspective, the deficit was $455 billion as recently as three years ago (the twelve months through April 2004),” and they’re projecting it to be $145 billion at the end of this year.
And not one “thank-you”! Not one “thank-you” from the government! They never thank us for what we pay. You ever get a thank-you note from the government? I don’t. I just get another bill.
Story #6: Breck Girl: I’ll Raise Taxes More Than Clinton
RUSH: John Edwards has called for tax increases beyond tax cut repeal. Yes! Remember when Bill Clinton said to a Houston fundraising audience (about his ’93 tax increase), “You know, there are people in this room still mad at me, at that budget, because you think I raised your taxes too much. It might surprise you to know that I think I raised them too much, too.” I’ll never forget that story. There was one Reuters reporter in there that heard it and didn’t think it was any big deal, and all the other reporters knew it was a stock speech so they were out eating. It took two days for that to get reported! But anyway, John Edwards has come out and said, (paraphrased) “That tax increase was chump change compared to what I’m going to do. Not only are the tax cuts going to sunset, I’m going to raise taxes even more than Clinton did.” Now, why would anybody do this, given this gusher of tax revenue that’s pouring in now?
Well, we all know that it happen ain’t tax increases that did that, mama — it is tax cuts that brought this about. You have to understand: with the Democrats and taxes, it’s more about total control than it is the money. They’re not going to get the money one way or the other. If they have to borrow it for their programs, they’re going to get it. It’s not whether tax cuts or tax increases create more revenue, it’s about controlling us. It’s about controlling those who create wealth and what they do with it. And I know you people get frustrated with me: “Rush, why don’t you support this tax reform plan or that one?” Well, I do; I support them. But if you think that members of the House of Representatives and the Senate (I don’t care which party) are going to vote to give up the single greatest power they have — the social architecture they can create with the tax code — then you do not understand the reason they seek the job in the first place. It is about power. It is about control. If there’s anything intellectually honest that people in politics ought to admit to, it’s that if you need money to run the government and if you need things for a rainy day, tax cuts are the way to produce it and to produce a great economy. But none of this registers. Certainly not with the libs.
Story #7: Teachers LeavingTeachingin Droves
This is from the Contra Costa Times in California. “Stephan Goyne entered teaching as a ‘fight the good fight’ kind of guy, taking a job in East Oakland right out of college. ‘I come from a family of teachers. It wasn’t even a question of whether to do that,’ Goyne said. ‘The question was whether to do elementary, middle or high school.'”
“But after six years in the trenches — transferred from campus to campus, forbidden from organizing field trips and ordered to teach math only after lunch — Goyne left the profession. Now he works in real estate and runs a Brazilian jiujitsu studio in Oakland.’That last year, I had enough of it,’ said Goyne. ‘The biggest skill you’re applying is crowd control. You’re not really having a say in the curriculum or what goes into it.'”
Get this.”Nearly 22 percent of California teachers leave teaching after four years, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. With this type of exodus, the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning projects a 33,000-teacher shortage in California by 2015.” Well, there will probably be that many fewer students by 2015 because of global warming. But what does this all add up to? It adds up to, if you take this guy’s word for it, they’re no longer teaching people how to think; they’re not teaching people how to comparatively analyze, how to gather, process information. They’re indoctrinating. The teachers can’t teach math except after lunch? The guy says he can’t teach math ’til after lunch. I wonder why that is? Well, because you probably have a bigger excuse for all the failures because after they’ve eaten they don’t have as much energy to slow it down, not paying as much attention, you’ve got an excuse for the failing and falling math scores. I bet science came after lunch, too. Anyway, it’s a harbinger of things to come. “‘We have bureaucratic-ed ourselves to death,’ Kerr said. ‘Teachers are feeling like they’re not able to use the knowledge they have. Teacher and poet Paula Gocker, an Ed Fund teacher of the year, left El Cerrito High School in the West Contra Costa school district after she was ordered to teach using more excerpts rather than whole books. ‘I knew I couldn’t be culpable in that kind of education,’ Gocker said. She took a job teaching English at San Rafael High School, where she said her expertise is more valued and she has more input. ‘If teaching is going to attract bright and creative people, they need to see they’re teaching people, not just shoveling in curriculum.'”They’re being told to indoctrinate these little skulls full of mush.
Story #8: SUV Tries to Drown Woman, Fails
From Richmond Township, Michigan — we’re sensitive to Michigan news because we’re heading up there on Thursday. “A badly hurt woman spent two days inside her partially submerged sport utility vehicle before a passing motorist spotted the wreck in a pond, authorities said. Jennifer Bova, 21, was airlifted to a hospital Friday after a state trooper found her seriously injured inside the 1991 Chevrolet Suburban.” I tell you, these SUVs, we haven’t had much news about them lately, but I’m telling you, they’re still on the warpath out there, now trying to drown a woman. It just didn’t know to go into deeper water. Luckily, everything came out okay.
Story #9: Newspaper Circulation Down El Tube-os
RUSH: Have you seen local American newspaper circulation numbers? Plummeting. Down the el tube-os.
Story #10: UK Shocker: Prehistoric Man Had Sex for Fun
RUSH: This is from the Sunday Times of London (I’m starting to notice that all the really good stuff is coming out of UK papers). Basically, according to a study, prehistoric man had sex for fun. Anthropologists actually believed that back in the stone age sex was only for reproduction. Honest to God, that’s what they thought and that’s why this story is a shocker.
“He may have come down from the trees, but prehistoric man did not stop swinging. New research into stone age humans has argued that, far from having intercourse simply to reproduce, they had sex for fun. Practices ranging from bondage to group sex, transvestism and the use of sex toys were widespread in primitive societies as a way of building up cultural ties.” Is there anybody in the world who would believe that throughout the history of human civilization — be it stone age, the Cro-Magnon era, whatever — that sex is simply perfunctory? There’s nothing new about it! All the debauchery that you think is out there in the country today — all of the perversion, whatever you think is crumbling — it’s all been done before, and it was done back during the Ward and June days when nobody saw it. What? I don’t have time for a question Snerdley. What? I don’t know; I haven’t read the story to know what the prehistoric sex toys were! Dinosaur bones? What do I know? Well, one thing we know for sure, folks, and that is this: stone age sex toys were cordless, and in that sense you may have to use your imagination.
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Story #1: Joan Baez Banned from Walter Reed
RUSH: Did you see where well-known communist sympathizer Joan Baez was refused permission to sing for the troops at Walter Reed Army Hospital — and she can’t figure out why? Ha, ha! She can’t figure it out! Gee, why wouldn’t the troops want her to show up at Walter Reed?
Story #2: McGreevey Mulling Episcopal Priesthood?
RUSH: I kid you not! From the Newark Star-Ledger: “McGreevey Mulling Episcopal Priesthood — Former Gov. James E. McGreevey has started the process to become a priest in his newly adopted Episcopal faith and hopes to begin a three-year seminary program in the fall.” Okay. To each his own, out there.
Story #3: Heart Attack Fatalities Fall Dramatically
RUSH: Yeah, things are so rotten in this country: “Heart Attacks Plummet in Just Six Years — Study shows improved treatments, anti-cholesterol drugs are working.” Ah, what a country.
Story #4: Left-Handed Women Have 40% Higher Death Risk
RUSH: “Left-Handed Women Face Higher Risk of Death.” Yep, that’s what it says here. This is from the UK: “Left-handed women are at a higher risk of dying, particularly from cancer and circulatory diseases… Dr. MadeK. Ramadhani and colleagues from University Medical Centre Utrecht write: ‘Left-handers are reported to be under-represented in the older age groups, although such findings are still much debated.’… The researchers followed 12,178 middle-aged Dutch women for nearly 13 years, 252 of whom died.” Only 252 out of 12,000 died over 13 years? That’s not much. “When left-handed women were statistically compared with other women, the left-handers had 40 per cent more chance of dying from any cause, a 70 per cent higher risk of dying from cancer, and a 30 per cent higher risk of dying from diseases of the circulatory system…. The study could not pinpoint the mechanism for the increased risk, but suggested genetics and environmental factors may be involved.” Wow. Genetics and environmental factors. Left-handed women.
Now, who could possibly have anything against left-handed women? I mean, why in the world would somebody write a story that says left-handed women face death much earlier than others simply because they’re left-handed? Who would do this? What in the world would anybody possibly have against left-handed women?
Story #5: Can FDA Keep Food Supply Safe?
RUSH: I’m watching Fox right now, and they have this little story: “Can the FDA keep our food supply safe?” No, it can’t! We’re going to die, folks, do you understand? We are going to die! “Can the FDA keep the food supply safe?” Gee whiz! Look at the life expectancy.
Story #6: Not a Parody: NBA Refs Are Racists
RUSH: Now, normally upon hearing this next story, you would think that I’m doing a parody. I assure you, my good friends, I am not. “An academic study of NBA officiating found that white referees called fouls at a greater rate against black players than against white players, The New York Times reported in Wednesday’s editions. The study by a University of Pennsylvania assistant professor and Cornell graduate student also found that black officials called fouls more frequently against white players than black, but noted that that tendency was not as pronounced” among the black refs as it was among the white refs. “Justin Wolfers, an assistant professor of business and public policy at Penn’s Wharton School, and Joseph Price, a Cornell graduate student in economics, said the difference in calls ‘is large enough that the probability of a team winning is noticeably affected by the racial composition of the refereeing crew.'”
It’s time for the Justice Brothers! I mean, if there was ever something made to order for the Justice Brothers, the Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton, it is this controversy. “The study, conducted over a 13-season span through 2004, found that the racial makeup of a three-man officiating crew affected calls by up to 4-1/2 percent.” What is it they always say about sports? “Hey, you know, the refs, it’s a human factor. You can’t do anything about it.” Oh, ho-ho-ho-ho! Not so fast! “The NBA strongly criticized the study, which was based on information from publicly available box scores, which show only the referees’ names and contain no information about which official made a call.” Now, that’s absurd! Names from box scores? These graduate guys are looking at names and they’re assuming they know which ones are black or white? That’s a no-no — and then, they don’t even know which refs made what calls? How can this be?
“‘The study that is cited in the New York Times article is wrong,’ president of league and basketball operations Joel Litvin told The Associated Press on Tuesday night. ‘The fact is there is no evidence of racial bias in foul calls made by NBA officials and that is based on a study conducted by our experts…” Ha, ha! Well, sure, they’re going to do a study that says there is this. But anyway, their “experts who looked at data that was far more robust and current than the data relied upon by” the professors, the graduate students and so forth. The NBA has an observer, just like we have at this program. We have an official observer of the program. “The NBA has an observer at each game and closely monitors its officials, who are required to file reports after each game they work and are expected to be able to explain each potentially controversial call they have made.”
You know, there’s a solution to this. Look, folks: this is not going to go away, once this hits. Wait until those libs at ESPN and Sports Illustrated get hold of this: “Oh, there are not enough black referees!” Just get some Asians. Well, you couldn’t have the Asians ref a game in which Yao Ming is playing with the Houston Rockets, but just go get some Asians. See, we look for the liberal solutions for these problems. We just want to help.
Story #7: Hate Crimes Are Thought Crimes
RUSH: You’ve heard of hate crimes legislation. Hate crimes legislation is actually thought crimes legislation. Well, there’s a bill out — I think the Washington legislature is going to vote on it tomorrow — and a lot of people are up in arms about this because the proponents of this have created a whole bunch of categories of different kinds of sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill is HR-1592, and it creates special classes of victims based solely on behavioral identification with a group of people, and they call this “victim ranking,” and if the legislation passes, “it will allow greater punishment for a crime committed against a grown man than for the same violent crime committed against a child. It would make a new protected class based on sexual behavior equal with race, color, religion and national origin,” which, of course, has been tried in so many states, and in some places it has succeeded. I’m surprised they’re just now getting around to this in the state of Washington, but they are.
You can sum this up. Two guys are running around and they decide to rob and beat up some guy, let’s just say, and it’s later learned that the guy is gay. Well, there’s going to be a greater penalty for the crime, even though there are already stiff penalties, if the victim is a member of these new created victim classes that are all based on sexual orientation and gender identity. “There are 25 different sexual orientations and behaviors that are recognized in this legislation.” Twenty-five different ones? Man, am I missing out! Twenty-five different sexual behaviors and sexual orientations, and of course the gay activists out there say, “Well, you know, gender is fluid.” (Don’t think liquid, Rio Linda. We’re not going there.) “Sexual orientation and gender identity are impossible to verify or precisely define,” according to these people, which is why “gender identity is inadequately defined in this piece of legislation, and sexual orientation is left out altogether.”
This is a great example of how the left just never goes away. They just are constantly out there creating new breeds of victims, new classes of victims, and establishing the whole concept that there are thought crimes. When you hear the word “hate crimes legislation,” think thought crimes — and who is it that’s behind this? It’s the left, and who is it that wants to suppress dissent and penalize certain speech and certain thoughts? And now that thoughts can be an indicator in the severity of a crime and so forth, these people are claiming to be the guarantors of the First Amendment. These are the people who claim to have civil rights as their number one concern — when in fact it’s just the opposite.
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Story #1: Mexico Loses More Mexicans to U.S. than Death
RUSH: Now, try this story. This is from the Associated Press. The story says, “Mexico has lost more people to migration to the United States than to death since the year 2000, according to a government report released yesterday.” The only problem with this is — they’re not lost! Everybody knows where they are. If you want them back, come get ’em!
But anyway, the statistic is amazing. “Mexico has lost more people to migration to the United States than death since 2000… Immigration to the US has increased drastically since 1970 when 800,000 Mexicans lived north of the border. Today, there are about 11 million” (give or take), “Mexicans living in the US, both legally and illegally, the report found. The study also showed more and more Mexicans traveling illegally” — oh, really? We didn’t know that! The AP has it, folks: “More and more Mexicans traveling illegally to the United States.” It’s amazing what you can learn when you tune in to the Drive-By Media!Story #2: Recycled Psychobabble: Kids Turning into Loners
RUSH: Try this headline (UK again, the Telegraph): “Modern life ‘has turned children into loners.’ Children are struggling to make friends at school because they spend too long playing computer games and listening to MP3 players, according to teachers. An increase in ‘solitary pastimes’ has damaged children’s social skills and fuelled feelings of loneliness among a generation of young people, they say.” According to the charity, a rise in solitary activities has meant doom and gloom for these people, because they’re turning into loners. They don’t play games anymore like hopscotch, tag, and football. Of course not, they’ve been banned, haven’t they? You can hurt yourself playing hopscotch! Tag, it’s unfair to call somebody “it,” and football — why — they haven’t banned it.
So what do we have here? And, by the way, don’t we always get this story shortly after some lunatic goes on a shooting spree? I’ll never forget when John Hinckley shot President Reagan: “Yeah, was a loner. Never said much to anybody.” It surprised everybody; “Why, his parents said he never, ever got into trouble. He was all quiet and reserved, always kept to himself.” This is nothing new; it’s just another one of these recycled stories. Just like every year, Reuters recycles the pay inequity between men and women, and they calculate what women earn in the home and are not paid for. This story gets recycled every time some wacko goes on a shooting spree.
By the way, if you have a kid that never gets into trouble, get a straitjacket, because that — I’m telling you, folks — it’s not normal to not get in trouble. But to say that this is new? I’ve heard these complaints about television: “Kids today are a bunch of fat slobs because they’re watching television.” Only recently have they added video games and iPods to this. Just recycled psychobabble is all this is. There’s always going to be loners! Not everybody is going to be a Bill Clinton — some people are going to be spending time alone. They just do it. It’s who they are, for whatever reason. Some of them are sick, some of them aren’t, some of them prefer it, and some of them think other people are absolutely a waste of time. But to say that there’s some deep-rooted psychological problem? The only deep-rooted psychological problem you need to worry about is if your kid never gets into trouble. Find a way for the kid to get into trouble and enjoy it. Go through the hell. It’s a natural thing.
Story #3: “Experts” Say Nations Have Means to Tackle Warming
RUSH: Where is this from? The French News Agency. “Experts” — they always have that word in every Drive-By story — “say nations have means to tackle global warming. Nations have the money and the technology to save the world from the worst ravages of global warming, but they must start acting immediately to succeed.” Gasp! “The options laid out covered simple measures by switching to energy efficient light bulbs and adjusting the thermostat in the office.”
I read a story, by the way, in the local paper here that says malls and so forth are using cooling towers. We have a drought where we live, folks, and so they’re going to make people at the mall and these public places turn the thermostat to 78 degrees. I also saw that the water restrictions were guaranteed to cause your grass to die on one of these promos for the local news — and, of course, then came the scare headline: “Why Current Water Restrictions Might Become Permanent.” Now the “experts” have a means to tackle global warming. All this is? Tax increases. When they say they have the “means to tackle global warming,” what they mean is nations have taxes that they can levy under the guise of global warming.
Story #4: Idiots Ban Power Lines, Will Complain About Blackouts
RUSH: “East Coast lawmakers banded together yesterday in a bid to short-circuit a federal decision making it easier to build major power lines.” Now, why would somebody want to stand in the way of this? We need energy, for crying out loud! “From New York to Virginia, there is a prospect of new high voltage line construction after the Energy Department last week proposed a ‘national interest electric transformation corridor.’ A 2005 law gives the government new authority to approve line construction even if state officials object.” (A little federalism there.) “Various projects up and down the East Coast have met fierce local resistance… Yesterday, some lawmakers said they try to use the annual federal spending bill for water and energy to bar the government from going forward with the plan… The law establishing the electricity corridor is designed to relieve bottlenecks in the national power grid, decreasing the threat of blackouts like the one that swept from Ohio to New York City in 2003.”
Now, when I read this kind of story, it convinces me that we have our share of blithering idiots in this country. We had all these people that were fried, that were roasted, that were mad as hell after that blackout — and nobody could figure out what had happened and how it could have been stopped and why wasn’t power restored quickly. It was a week long I think in some parts of the country; maybe more. So now it’s going to happen again, and these same blithering idiots who are stopping progress here with power lines (for who knows why) are going to be the first ones to bellyache and whine and moan about the next blackout! And then they’re probably going to end up in a poll: “A majority of Americans think power lines are dangerous.” Then we don’t do it because a majority of ignorant idiots think we shouldn’t have power lines.
Story #5: Washington on Edge over DC Madam
RUSH: Well, as you know, all of Washington is going into this weekend with bated breath because the DC madam is going to name some names tonight on ABC. That network is sex obsessed! They gave us the Foley story, and now they’re giving us the DC madam story and people are worried that their name might be on the list. I don’t know the whole list, but there are some prominent names that are supposed to be released this week. But I think everybody misunderstands people that use these escort services. What? Ha, ha –they’re all laughing on the other side because they think I’m heading for trouble again here! But everybody does misunderstand what this is about. When they call an escort service — a madam or Heidi Fleiss — to send a girl over, they’re not paying for the sex, folks. These people that are doing this are not paying for the sex; they’re paying for the women to leave.
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Story #1 and #2:
Mr. Clinton Calls for Decrease in Troops;
Mrs. Clinton Says She Supports Troops
RUSH: A couple interesting headlines here. This is from the Philadelphia Inquirer: “Former President Clinton Calls for Cuts in US Forces in Iraq; says President Bush should draw down a very ‘substantial number.'” Next headline: “Senator Mrs. Bill Clinton Says She Supports Funding the Troops.” Must have been some signals crossed there during the pillow talk.Story #3: Algore Admits: It’s a Religion
RUSH: I would say (about my Nobel Peace Prize nomination) that I have done more for peace and liberty and freedom in this country than Algore’s global warming thing — which is not about peace or freedom at all. I’m not even going to get to it today, but he’s admitted — by the way, here’s another See, I Told You So — that global warming is “spiritual,” that we need to reorganize our spiritual lives to deal with this global warming problem. I told you people it was a religion! Algore is now admitting that it is! But you’re not going to have more freedom and liberty if these activists in global warming get everything they want, folks. Mark my words.
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Story #1: Starbucks Customer Offended by Anti-God Cup
RUSH: A lighthearted little story here. “A southwest Ohio woman who loves Starbucks coffee has decided to drop the Starbucks habit because she was offended by a religious-related statement the company printed on the side of a cup. Michelle Incanno, of Springboro, said she got an unexpected jolt when she saw the statement on a cup of coffee she bought last week. Printed on the cup was: ‘Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help? As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a figment of our imaginations for guidance? Why not search inside ourselves for the power to overcome? After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to endure.'” This is on the side of the cup! I’ve never been to a Starbucks, and my instincts have proven right: they’re proselytizing. Now they’re ripping God. Now they’re ripping religious people.
“The statement is attributed to Bill Schell, a Starbucks customer from London, Ontario, and was included on the cup as part of an effort by the company to collect different viewpoints and spur discussion.” Yeah, we’re going to have ‘dialogue’ everywhere. Dialogue is worthless if it’s two ignoramuses talking to each other. Dialogue is worthless if it’s two idiots or one intelligent person trying to talk to an idiot. That’s why I’m dropping the Channel 13 thing. “But dialogue! For the sake of dialogue, Mr. Limbaugh, we must have dialogue!”
So Michelle Incanno, who is Catholic, said, “As someone who loves God, I was so offended by that. I don’t think there needs to be religious dialogue on it. I just want coffee.” Now, the company chooses about 30 new quotes every few months, according to Tricia Moriarty, the spokeswoman for Seattle-based Starbucks. “By the end of 2007…” that would be this year for those of you who watch Channel 13 Sacramento, “…nearly 300 quotes will have been printed since the program began in January 2005.” Ha, ha! “We’re strong enough to overcome the catastrophes we cause. Why turn to a figment of your imagination?”Story #2: Big Oil Steers Money to DEMOCRATS
RUSH: All right: a little lesson here in Drive-By Media coverage as it relates to the way they cover news about Republicans and Democrats. Story here from the Houston Chronicle, written by Bennett Roth of the Houston Chronicle Washington bureau. The headline: “Houston-area firms steering PAC money to Democrats — PAC money is steered toward party that heads key committees.” Well, pretty boring, right? This is standard day-by-day stuff in politics, is it not? Let’s read further. “Several large Houston-area companies in the Republican-leaning energy industry…” hmm “…and other sectors have been shifting federal campaign contributions to Democrats, who are flexing their new power in Congress as they draft legislation on energy and the environment. Political action committees for companies including…” whoa! “…ConocoPhillips, BP Corp. and Continental Airlines gave a significantly higher percentage of their contributions to Democrats in the first quarter of 2007.”
Well, now, wait just a second here! Are we to now believe that ConocoPhillips, British Petroleum, and other Big Oil companies are companies in the energy industry? Why, I guess so! Why, when Big Oil gives money to Democrats, they are “Houston-area firms,” leading energy industry firms steering PAC money to Democrats. Now, can you imagine if this story was about these Big Oil companies giving money to Republicans? Do you know how this story would be rewritten? Do you know how the headline would be different? “Big Oil Firms Continue to Enrich Republicans,” whatever, whatever. It would be an entirely different thing! So now that Big Oil is lavishing cash on the Democrats, they’re just “firms” and “energy industries;” they’re not Big Oil.
Story #3: Fathers Parenting Makes Kids Obese
RUSH: Folks, try this next story. “Fathers Responsible for Fat Children, Study. Fathers who play less of a role in child rearing are more likely to have overweight or obese offspring, Australian researchers said. … The study found that a mother’s parenting style had little impact on whether a child was overweight or obese.” Now, give me a break and cut me some slack! This is the exact kind of thing that I’m talking about! Men are bad again. Women aren’t having any effect on this. All these fat slobs out there in the kid population are because of fathers. The headline ought to read, “Lack of Fathering Responsible for Fat Children.”
Story #4: Democrats Scold Colombian President
RUSH: Washington Post editorial. It’s from Sunday. “Columbian President lvaro Uribe may be the most popular democratic leader in the world. Last week, as he visited Washington, a poll showed his approval rating at 80.4 percent — extraordinary for a politician who has been in office nearly five years. Colombians can easily explain this: Since his first election in 2002, Mr. Uribe has rescued their country from near-failed-state status, doubling the size of the army and extending the government’s control to large areas that for decades were ruled by guerrillas and drug traffickers. The murder rate has dropped by nearly half and kidnappings by 75 percent. For the first time thugs guilty of massacres and other human rights crimes are being brought to justice, and the political system is being purged of their allies. With more secure conditions for investment, the free-market economy is booming.
“In a region where populist demagogues are on the offensive, Mr. Uribe stands out as a defender of liberal democracy, not to mention a staunch ally of the United States. So it was remarkable to see the treatment that the Colombian president received in Washington. After a meeting with the Democratic congressional leadership, Mr. Uribe was publicly scolded by House Majority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), whose statement made no mention of the ‘friendship’ she recently offered Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Human Rights Watch, which has joined the Democratic campaign against Mr. Uribe, claimed that ‘today Colombia presents the worst human rights and humanitarian crisis in the Western hemisphere’ — never mind Venezuela or Cuba or Haiti. Former vice president Al Gore, who has advocated direct U.S. negotiations with the regimes of Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, recently canceled a meeting with Mr. Uribe because, Mr. Gore said, he found the Colombian’s record ‘deeply troubling.’ What could explain this backlash?”
Well, before telling you what the Washington Post thinks, I can tell you: they are dangerous radicals in the Democrat Party, and they let it be known who their friends are. This guy has brought free market reforms, reductions in the murder rate. Kidnappings in Central and South America are a huge problem; he cut them by 75%. The drug traffickers ran Colombia; he’s cleaned it up. They hate him. Now, the Washington Post says, “Democrats claim to be concerned — far more so than Colombians, apparently — with ‘revelations’ that the influence of right-wing paramilitary groups extended deep into the military and Congress. In fact this has been well-known for years; what’s new is that investigations by Colombia’s Supreme Court and attorney general have resulted in the jailing and prosecution of politicians and security officials. Many of those implicated come from Mr. Uribe’s Conservative Party, and his former intelligence chief is under investigation. But the president himself has not been charged with wrongdoing. On the contrary: His initiative to demobilize 30,000 right-wing paramilitary fighters last year paved the way for the current investigations, which he and his government have supported and funded. … Perhaps Mr. Uribe is being punished by Democrats, too, because he has remained an ally of George W. Bush even as his neighbor, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, portrays the U.S. president as ‘the devil.’ Whatever the reasons, the Democratic campaign is badly misguided. If the Democrats succeed in wounding Mr. Uribe or thwarting his attempt to consolidate a democracy that builds its economy through free trade, the United States may have to live without any Latin American allies.”
It’s amazing. The Democrats don’t even hide it anymore — they don’t even hide the fact of their love and respect for dictators and socialists and so forth. A free market guy comes along and they totally disrespected him. All because the guy is a conservative.
Story #5: College Prof Sends Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, Threatened with Firing
RUSH: This story appeared on NewsMax.com yesterday. “A tenured college professor is set to be fired for simply sending out an e-mail to colleagues containing George Washington’s ‘Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of 1789.’ Already professor Walter Kehowski at Glendale Community College in Arizona has been placed on forced administrative leave and the school’s chief has recommended his termination. ‘It simply boggles the mind that a professor could find himself facing termination simply for e-mailing the Thanksgiving address of our first president,’ said Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). On Nov. 22, 2006, the day before Thanksgiving, Kehowski, a professor in mathematics in the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) sent the e-mail containing Washington’s message to all MCCCD employees, using a district-wide service designated for ‘announcements.’
“Within weeks, five MCCCD employees filed harassment charges against Kehowski, claiming his message was ‘hostile’ and ‘derogatory.’ They complaining employees also cited the fact that the e-mail contained a link to Pat Buchanan’s Web site, where Kehowski had found Washington’s proclamation. Buchanan, a conservative commentator, had also posted to his Web site criticisms of immigration policies. On Jan. 3, 2007, MCCCD found that Kehowski was guilty of violating policies limiting e-mail usage to messages that ‘support education, research, scholarly communication, administration, and other MCCCD business.'” Do you know what’s in that address? The word God. God is in Washington’s Thanksgiving proclamation repeatedly; he thanks God over and over for the inspiration of the United States of America. Now, the story says this tenured professor is facing termination for sending this thing out (that five people protested).
Now, why in the world would this professor have any fear about sending this out? He’s an educator. This is part of history. Five malcontents — five liberals — feel threatened by it because it challenges their cocoonish little world view, so they want to get him fired. They don’t just want to not have to hear him, they want him fired. That is intended to make sure nobody else tries to pull a stunt like this: pointing out what the first president of the country ever said in his first Thanksgiving proclamation.
This is why there are people all over this country — I myself am not one of them — who want to say things but they pause: “Will this get me in trouble?” It’s just like the stories we heard about the way it was in the Soviet Union — people in their own homes afraid to say anything for fear that the state was listening by bugging their apartments and homes. So people shut up. They gave up freedom, freedom of speech, what have you, in order not to get in trouble. I’m telling you, this is happening throughout our society today. It’s not that the state is listening, though, but people are nevertheless experiencing the same fears because these leftists — these Stalinists — are out there doing everything they can to punish and squelch anything they don’t want to hear. If this is true, this is just mind-boggling.
Story #6: Pelosi Gets Millions to Help Husband, Home District
RUSH: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used her clout to get lawmakers to back a San Francisco redevelopment project near her multimillion-dollar rental properties, disclosure documents reveal. Pelosi got House members to authorize $25 million to improve the Embarcadero port area, clearing the way for cruise-ship-dock development and other improvements to aid the neighborhood’s comeback.” One of the things that’s noteworthy about this is that her husband, Paul, owns four commercial real estate properties near the Embarcadero, which is home to many restaurants and hotels. Nancy Pelosi. This is in the New York Post. I wonder if the Drive-Bys will consider this as the appearance of impropriety, hmm?
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Story #1: Hurricane Andrea Mitchell Off Carolina
RUSH: I just want to know, has anybody seen an Al Gore or Laurie David press conference yet on Subtropical Storm Andrea Mitchell? It has formed off of the Georgia, north Florida coast and is heading southwest. It may not hit land per se. Some of the models say it won’t, but it’s up there near Jacksonville with 45 miles per hour sustained winds. This is made to order for the global warming nuts, is it not?
Anyway, during the break I went and looked out the window and there’s a playground right across the street from the EIB building here and all these kids are out there playing lacrosse, they’re playing soccer, they’re doing a number of other things. You look at the sky, and it looks like it’s going to rain. I said to Snerdley, “There are no clouds out there; that is smoke.” Then CNN happens to do a story on global warming and Tropical Storm Andrea Mitchell. There was a little map of where the tropical storm was and there are no clouds here. It is total, total smoke. Story #2: Pro-Divorce Billboard Taken Down
RUSH: Now, get this story from Chicago (one of my favorite towns, by the way). “The city of Chicago has taken down a racy billboard,” it says here, “that proclaimed ‘Life is short. Get a divorce.’ The billboard featured photos of a scantily clad woman and a shirtless man and was an ad for Chicago divorce attorney Corri Fetman.” Ha, ha! “The display drew criticism from some residents in the Rush Street neighborhood and from other lawyers, who say the ad sullies their profession.” That’s not possible. “The billboard was removed a week after it went up after Ald. Burton Natarus determined it didn’t have a proper permit. Fetman says her billboard was no threat to people in happy marriages and says it was taken down without due process. Her law partner, Kelly Garland, added that even people who dislike the billboard should worry about what its removal means for free speech.”
What in the world is happening to us, folks? People cannot laugh anymore? “Well, Rush, it wasn’t the message — it was the scantily clad women on the billboard.” Rush Street area. So what? What is happening to us? I’ve told you all week: everybody is just getting tighter and tighter wound, sitting around afraid to say or do anything out of fear they might offend somebody. This is absurd! This is patently, patently absurd! Everybody here just needs to lighten up.
Story #3: TV Ratings Down Because Shows Suck
RUSH: You know, the television networks — I have this story in the stack here — say that two and a half million fewer people are watching primetime television this season than last. They’re all trying to figure it out: “Why is this happening?” They’re chalking it up to the early Daylight Savings Time. Early Daylight Savings Time, my rear end! Try, “the shows suck,” maybe.
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Story #1: Gores Reunite, Nothing Happens
RUSH: How about this headline in the New York Observer: “Gore Supporters Reunite,” comma, “Nothing Happens.” Ha, ha, ha!Story #2: Rush for Peace Mugs Are Here
RUSH: Ever since I said yesterday that we received our first shipments of the Nobel Peace Prize mugs in honor of my nomination, people have been going, “Where’s mine? Where’s mine?” Well, I get mine first! You have to understand: I’m the grand pooh-bah. I get mine first. That means that yours are on the way, shipped at the same time.
I do want to apologize, however, for how long this has taken. I personally find it outrageous that it would take two months to get some mugs printed up, but we had all kinds of problems (like the color wasn’t right on a bunch of them), and so I apologize. But they’re manufactured now and they look good and they’re on the way to those of you who have become new subscribers to the Limbaugh Letter, the website — Rush 24/7 — or both. Again, it’s ridiculous for something like this to take two months, but it’s done now and it’s out there.
Story #3: Great News for the Democrats: Wal-Mart Takes it in the Shorts
RUSH: Great, great, news here, folks, for the Democrats. The headline says it all: “Wal-Mart Sales Decline Is Worst in 28 Years — Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. posted its worst monthly same-store sales results in at least 28 years, tallying a 3.5 percent decline in April due to this year’s early Easter as well as generally challenging economic conditions for consumers.” Ha, ha! Right! Wal-Mart: taking it in the shorts! Yes! Oh, the Democrats are going to love this! Wal-Mart biting the dust like this, 3.5 percent sales decline, the biggest sales decline in 28 years? This is news made to order for the Democrats. Can a recession be far behind? They’ll be happy. This may be a reprieve for mom-and-pop stores threatened by Wal-Mart’s existence.
Story #4: Missing Vulture Found
RUSH: A missing vulture has been found in the Netherlands. “The great Dutch scavenger hunt is over. Five days after thermals and gusty winds swept Abu the white-back vulture away from the private bird of prey breeding center where he lives, a police officer found him Wednesday and falconers coaxed him back into captivity. Abu is normally kept in an enclosure at the center in the southern Netherlands, but disappeared into the clouds last Friday while being trained for a flying demonstration.” He was discovered 80 miles away and a “policeman took a photo of him with his mobile phone and sent it to us and then we could see it was Abu… Catching him was easy,” said a staff member at the center. “They had food and he saw that and walked straight up to them.” So the white-backed vulture that’s been missing has been found!
Story #5: “Nappy Roots Day” Raises Hackles
RUSH: Dan Riehl has a blog, “Riehl World View.” There’s an amazing entry on his blog today. Well, first, have we bought insurance from the Justice Brothers? Because we’re going to have to use a word here that could get me in trouble. I mean, I know they’re official sponsors of the program, but I don’t know if we can do this. You know what? We can give them a few free commercials. That would be buying insurance from them (because I’ve got to read this).
“Democrat Rep John Yarmuth from Kentucky currently has an item on his website which, in part, praises the performance of “Nappy Roots.” a Kentucky-based rap group that, in 2002, then Kentucky Governor Democrat Paul E. Patton honored by declaring ‘Nappy Roots’ Day an official state holiday in Kentucky.”
This is incredible!
Following Lisa Tanner’s moving rendition of the Star Spangled Banner,” this is from the website “stellar performances from the Louisville Dems and Nappy Roots, and inspirational speeches from dozens of local officials, John Yarmuth and Barack Obama took the stage to thunderous applause.” Of course, when Imus made his comments, Obama said he didn’t just “cross the line,” he “fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters have to deal with today in America.” Yet Obama was there with John Yarmuth celebrating this rap group called “Nappy Roots.” They actually had “Nappy Roots Day” — an official state holiday — in the state of Kentucky! So when a Democrat honored a group called “Nappy Roots” with a state holiday, Obama showed up and praised them. Interesting.
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Story #1: Rape Isn’t Rape If Sex Obtained By Fraud
RUSH: Here’s a story the Kennedys are going to love. “A Hampden County, Massachusetts man who allegedly tricked his brother’s girlfriend into having sex with him by impersonating his sibling in the middle of the night cannot be convicted of rape[.]” This is in the Boston Globe today. This is the kind of thing the Kennedy’s will cut out of the paper and frame and put on all of their walls in the bedrooms and so forth. Anyway, this decision came from the state’s highest court yesterday. It’s “a controversial ruling that affirms the court’s long-held view that sex obtained through fraud is no crime.”
Oh, man!
“The Supreme Judicial Court unanimously ruled that a judge should have dismissed the rape charge against Alvin Suliveres, of Westfield, because Massachusetts law has for two centuries defined rape as sexual intercourse by force and against one’s will and that it is not rape when consent is obtained through fraud.” Oh, don’t you just love these liberal meccas? It’s not rape when consent is obtained through fraud!
“The unusual case dates to a night in January 2005. The woman had been living with her boyfriend, Duane Suliveres…in the basement of his father’s home.” His brother, Alvin, had been staying in another room for several months. “At 3 a.m., the woman later told authorities, she was awakened by the sound of the door opening in the dark room and said, ‘Duane, why are you home so early?’ but heard no response. Then, she said, she felt someone who she thought was her boyfriend get into bed, remove her clothes, and climb on top of her and had sex with her for about ten minutes. After he got up, he opened the door” and she saw it was Alvin Suliveres. “After Hampton County prosecutors presented their case, Suliveres’ trial lawyer asked Superior Court Judge Tina Page to acquit his client for lack of evidence.” The judge refused. The case went to the jury which couldn’t reach a verdict. Oh, Lord, folks.
Story #2: Murderer’s Pizza Delivered After Execution
RUSH: We love to focus on heart-warming stories here on Open Line Friday, and this is from Nashville. “Convicted murderer put to death in Nashville yesterday got his last meal wish after he died.” Now, you might be wondering how can this be? How can somebody have a last meal wish granted once they’ve been executed? Well, here are the details. “Phillip Workman had turned down the usual final meal of his choice traditionally offered to the condemned. He instead asked that a vegetarian pizza be given to a homeless person. Prison officials refused, but news accounts of his request touched a nerve with the public. Nashville’s Union Rescue Mission received 170 pizzas. Listeners to a radio station in Minnesota also reportedly orders pizzas sent to an organization for troubled youth.”
Such a nice murderer! Never thinking of himself, even in his last moments. In fact, he sends vegetarian pizzas to the homeless in a final act of selflessness right before being cooked. You just gotta love these heart-warming stories. By the way, I got an e-mail from somebody that said, “You know this guy that died in Nashville that refused his last meal and instead wanted the prison authorities to send a vegetarian pizza over to the homeless? That really wasn’t that thoughtful, Rush. If he really cared about the homeless, he would have ordered pepperoni pizza, because the homeless need protein.”
I have to admit that’s probably true.
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Story #1: Nouvelle Ton? Sarkozy Taps Anti-US Socialist
RUSH: Try this from the UK Times Online today: “Shock as Sarkozy Woo’s Anti-US Left-Winger.” This is the new president of France. Remember how after he won everybody was going gaga? “He’s America’s best friend! He’s going to talk about reformatting the 35-hour work week! He’s going to promote incentives and free market economics,” and so forth. Well, the story says this: “Nicolas Sarkozy, the right-wing reformer who becomes French President on Wednesday, upset both the United States and his opponents yesterday by offering the job of Foreign Minister to a Socialist veteran with anti-American credentials. Hubert Vdrine, 59 — a former senior aide to the late President Mitterrand — who served as Foreign Minister from 1997 to 2002, was considering the proposal yesterday. The prospect of Mr. Vdrine running foreign policy has infuriated the beleaguered Socialists and amazed the diplomatic world because he is the architect of a doctrine for containing what he called the abusive ‘steamroller’ of American power. His views on ‘the hyperpower’ — the term that he coined in the 1990s — would appear to conflict with Mr. Sarkozy’s pro-Atlantic views.
“Mr. Sarkozy approached. Mr Vdrine and other figures from the Left as part of his scheme to forge a slimmed-down government that will be politically inclusive and not limited to his Gaullist Union for a Popular Movement.” Now, what’s wrong with this? When you hear the story, does it ring any bells? Does it seem like, “Oh, my! We’ve been through this before”? This sort of reminds me of George W. Bush and the “new tone” after the horrible Florida aftermath. Well, after the French election, they had riots all over the place. The socialists were out there burning cars. Sarkozy was getting threats, and on and on. So what we have here is this guy appointing an anti-American as his foreign minister. He may as well be another Dominique de Villepin, only worse. What’s Sarkozy trying to do? He’s trying to appease the people who lost! He’s trying to appease the left — and the left is not going to accept a non-leftist trying to appease them. They want power. They want
I’ll tell you, though: I don’t know anything about this Sarkozy guy — and, after all, we are talking about France, so there’s a caveat to everything. If it weren’t for France, we would not have won the Revolutionary War, and ever since then, they’ve been on a downward spin. That’s a long time ago, folks, when the French were reliable. So this new guy gets elected, and he goes out just like the Republicans in Congress. “Well, let’s make friends with the Democrats. Well, let’s make friends with the socialists.” They lost. They’re tearing down the country. They’re burning it up. They’re exploding cars, and we have to have a new tone? It never works. It puzzles me why it is — with so much experience under our belts — that leaders don’t ever learn this lesson about not being able to appease leftists by being nice to them. Everything’s a blood war to them. They don’t want to like us, and that’s also the case in France as well. History repeats itself.
Story #2: Photo of Gasoline for $4.53 Wasn’t Accurate
RUSH: How many of you saw over the weekend this picture on Drudge about gasoline being four bucks a gallon? It was all over the place, but it was a misleading picture. If you didn’t know the details of the story, you would get the wrong idea about it. It’s a picture of this guy in San Francisco that we told you about last week. He’s fed up with Shell because he’s not making any money. He’s a big-time gasoline/oil company guy who owns this station in San Francisco, and he’s raised the price to $4.53 on his high test gasoline. But right across the street, it’s $3.75 and $3.87. They didn’t give you the picture right across the street over the weekend. They’ve now done it, but it was an effort to totally mislead people if they didn’t know the story about this poor guy who’s upset with Shell Oil because they’re running independents and others out of business. He raised the price because they’re closing him down at the end of the month anyway. Right across the street and around the corner, it was as much as 80 cents a gallon cheaper. So if you were caught in by this trap I wanted to pass this on to you — because you’ve been had.
Story #3: Former SecTres Snow Eyes Chrysler
RUSH: Snerdley was talking to me during the break. He said, “Why would anybody buy Chrysler?” You know, DaimlerChrysler is getting rid of Chrysler, and a private investment company bought them, and Snerdley said, “Why? They have all those union contracts, the legacy, the health care… Why would anybody buy them?”
I couldn’t tell you, but obviously they’re buying them because they think they’re going to make money doing it one way or the other. Either they’re going to flip it down the road or they’re going to make money operating it. Now, the name of the — I bet you don’t know this, Snerdley — of the private investment company that bought Chrysler is named Cerberus. Do you know who their chairman is? Does the name John Snow ring a bell? Yes: John Snow, the former treasury secretary. He succeeded in business, but he couldn’t succeed in monkey business (which is the government). I think he also was a member of the Augusta National Golf Club.
Story #4: Governor of Oregon to Live on $3 a Day for Food
RUSH: Governor Ted Kulongoski, Democrat (is there any doubt?) Oregon, is going to illustrate the plight of food stamp recipients by living on three dollars a day for food. Where to start with this? How inane. It’s going to accomplish nothing. It also misses the point, and that is he should be showing people who live on food stamps that they don’t have to anymore by inspiring them to do otherwise. Regardless, I don’t think he’s going to be on it long enough to gain weight. Well, you look at a lot of food stamp recipients and they do have a weight problem. This is absurd, anyway. The Department of Agriculture is out there advertising for more food stamp applicants like it’s not a bad deal. Three bucks a day? Give me a break!
Story #5: Iraq Tribal Leader: Tell Dems to Lay Off Bush
RUSH: Story in the New York Sun today: “As Surge Begins to Take Hold in Baghdad, Tribal Leaders Turn on Al-Qaeda.” The dateline of this story is Abu Ghraib. “In the aftermath of America’s recent troop surge in Iraq, tribal leaders throughout Iraq are turning on Al-Qaeda, and American military commanders are trying to exploit the new development by bringing tribe members into the Iraqi Security Forces.” Now, that’s interesting, but listen to the nut of the story: “Despite the rising antipathy,” that would be “anger” for those of you who watch Channel 13 in Sacramento, “toward Al-Qaeda, the tribal sheiks in the Sunni regions in particular are very clear that their new alliance with the Americans is merely a tactical one. Sheik Hussein summed it up: ‘We would like America, a friend, to rebuild the country. This is what we want, what the tribes want. But to stay here as a military force indefinitely is unacceptable.’ For Sheik Hussein, however, the process of a speedy exit is also unacceptable. At a luncheon at a home of one of his cousins,” he told the reporter on this story, Eli Lake of the New York Sun, “‘Please, tell the Democrats for now to stop pressuring Bush.'” So an Iraqi cleric, aware of the damage the Democrats are doing to the future of Iraq, has asked a reporter from the New York Sun to go tell the Democrats to lighten up on Bush for now.
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Story #1:Porn Star Endorses Mrs. Bill Clinton
RUSH: : I tell you, the Clintons get support from all over the place. Jenna Jameson is the most recent famous American to come out and endorse Hillary Clinton. Jenna Jameson has been called the world’s most famous porn star, is the author of the New York Times best-seller “How to Make Love Like a Porn Star,” talked about Hillary Clinton in an interview with PR.com on May 17th. That’s today. This is the 17th, correct.
Question: “Who’s your favorite Democrat front-runner for 2008, Obama, Hillary, or John Edwards?”
Jenna Jameson, the world’s most famous porn star, said, “I love Hillary. I think that in some ways she’s pretty conservative for a democrat [sic], but I would love to have a woman in office. I think that it would be a step in the right direction for our country, and there would be less focus on war and more focus on bettering society.”
Well, “Do you find the climate of the adult industry changes when there’s a Republican administration versus Democrat?”
“Oh, absolutely,” she said. Jenna Jameson, the world’s most famous porn star who has endorsed Hillary, said “the Clinton administration was the best years for the adult industry, and I wish that Clinton would run again.”
(Laughing.) I love that.
Story #2:EIB Best Wishes to Bo Diddley After Stroke
RUSH: We received some bad news about Bo Diddley. He was performing somewhere I think in Colorado, and suffered a stroke. He is in the hospital. He’s in intensive care in Omaha. I don’t have the story right in front of me, I think it’s in Creighton hospital. The stroke affected the left side of his brain, which is speech and speech recognition. He’s 78 years old. He’s always been a big friend of the show, and I’m sorry to see that, but we played the bump here and I wanted to acknowledge that.
Story #3:School Dinner Served in Hoboken
RUSH:I have said over and over again, ladies and gentlemen, don’t doubt me. Do not doubt me. Mere moments ago I referenced a story in the stack about school dinners. The upstart Snerdley on the IFB, “It’s a joke, right, it’s a joke?” Here’s the story. It’s from NewJersey.com, NJ.com. The Jersey Journal. It’s from Hoboken, Mr. Snerdley, your old stomping grounds. “The Community Foodbank of New Jersey, in conjunction with the Boys and Girls Club of Hudson County, has opened a Kids Cafe – the second such meal program in Hudson County and 10th in New Jersey – on Jefferson Street in the Mile Square City. Beginning today…” This was this past Monday, “‘it will serve free meals five evenings a week to local low-income children active in the after-school programs with which it is partnered. Following the after-school program activities, parents can allow children to stay and have dinner,’ said Meara Nigro, the Foodbank’s director of communications. The program, under the auspices of America’s Second Harvest, a national food bank network, was designed to combat hunger during the summer months when school lunch programs are unavailable and children are more susceptible to malnutrition.”
That’s what it says! I’m just reading it to you. Malnutrition sets in in New Jersey in the summertime when the schools aren’t open. Big problem out there. “Participating children are typically between the ages of 6 and 12, Nigro said. A core focus of the program is to provide meals that are both nutritious and culturally diverse.” Culturally diverse free meals. Well, you can imagine what a culturally diverse meal is. One night eat Chinese; the next night you eat Italian; the next night you eat hummus; next night you eat couscous; next night fried goat’s eyes; next night steamed sea lion claws; the next night frozen raccoon. Who knows? It’s all kinds of different meals. That’s starting in Hoboken.
Story #4:Food in Harlem v. Upper East Side
RUSH: The New York Post has a story today about grocery stores, Bodegas, Storefronts, and what the difference is in the food in Harlem versus the Upper East Side. Of course, in the grocery stores, the Bodegas in Harlem it’s all dangerously high in fat, calories, fried stuff, and on the Upper East Side, it’s much, much healthier. I need to print out this graphic with the details so that I can read it, but they attribute the difference to not as much interest in the health of African-Americans on the part of food business.
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Story #1: Daily Drive-By Doom & Gloom Produces Gloomy People in Drive-By Doom & Gloom Poll
RUSH: I talked about this last week; how prescient am I? This is what I mean when I say you are on the cutting edge of societal evolution. “Poll: American satisfaction at new low.” It’s an AP story: “It’s gloomy out there. Men and women, whites and minorities…” Ha, ha! It’s not “women and minorities,” it’s “whites and minorities”! Anyway, “Only 25 percent of those surveyed say things in the U.S. are going in the right direction, according to an AP-Ipsos poll this month. That is about the lowest level of satisfaction detected since the survey started in December 2003. Rarely have longer-running polls found such a rate since the even gloomier days of 1992 ahead of the first President Bush’s re-election loss to Democrat Bill Clinton.” They blame the gloom on public discontent with the war in Iraq and President Bush. “It is striking for how widespread the mood is among different groups of people,” and they break it down here. “Nine percent faulted the economy, 8 percent a loss of moral values and 5 percent gasoline prices. ‘We need to get out of war, get our economy back up, quit spending money outside of America and bring it here,’ said Democrat Lisa Pollard, 45, an insurance company analyst in Arlington, Texas.”
Let me tell you something, folks. I’d be gloomy too if I was stuck at home talking to a pollster on a land line. If that was my life, waiting for the phone to ring so a pollster could ask me questions… Who are these people talking to? Doesn’t matter, I guess. This is their poll. They are creating this poll to create this news and, by the way, who’s responsible? The media routinely peppers us with all of this doom and gloom and chaos. It’s no wonder that everybody out there is gloomy. So here you have the lying Associated Press telling us that you and I are unhappy with our country. Story #2: Get Ready for Gas Tax Hike
RUSH: Well, try this headline: “Frozen federal tax on gasoline leading to more toll roads, higher state fuel taxes.” AP again. “A cash crunch is fast approaching for the government trust fund that pays to build and repair highways and bridges. The federal tax on a gallon of gas has not risen in 14 years and Congress is reluctant to increase it. People are demanding more fuel-efficient vehicles, which means fewer dollars for the fund.” People are getting more miles per gallon with those little lawn mowers they’re driving out there! “States are looking for other places for road-building money,” and they’re talking about raising the gas tax.
You just aren’t driving enough now! People bought these new cars that got more mileage and the state realized, “Hey, we’re getting short-shrifted here on our tax revenue.” It’s like when people quit smoking. If everybody that smokes actually quit smoking, do you realize what panic there would be in state capitols and so forth? I just want you to get ready, folks. This idea that there’s a shortage of money anywhere is absurd. $2.9 trillion budget. We’re not short of money anywhere, but the idea here that the gas tax now is not enough to fund road and bridge repair and building and so forth…
Of course, when this tax goes up — and it will — then Democrats are going to raise taxes all over the place. The budget they submitted — the $2.9 trillion budget — is the largest tax increase in American history. It’s not just on the rich! They’re going to go out and tax other income levels and they’re going to raise the rate on capital gains. If they get in power in the White House this is what they’re going to try to do. So for those of you wringing your hands over the price of gasoline, prepare yourselves for down the road when the gasoline tax goes up. And that will be your government, once again, profiting without one penny of investment.
Story #3: First ChiComs Poison Our Pets, Now Us!
RUSH: “Tainted apples” and “toxic mushrooms” were among the “107 Chinese food imports detained at US ports last month,” it was reported yesterday. “The US Food and Drug Administration detained the imports along with more than 1,000 Chinese shipments of tainted dietary…” what are the Chinese doing? First they poison our pets, and now they’re poisoning us! “China for years has flooded the US with products unfit for human consumption,” and only a fraction of the products are believed to have been detected. “Consumer advocates and members of Congress are to renew their concerns during high level trade talks with China in Washington this week.”
Yeah, you know what’s going to come out of that? Zilch, zero, nada. If we need cheap labor, if we need cheap food, to hell if it’s contaminated! Nah, I’m just kidding.
Story #4: Indonesian Bitten by Our Fish Forefather
RUSH: Oh, they’ve discovered over there in Indonesia a couple of new fish species they thought died out 65 million years ago. Wait until you hear this about this! The fish that these expert scientists think were us before we climbed out of the primordial soup onto the beaches and assumed our rightful place as the dominate creatures on the planet — those fish that had limb-like fins? Well, they found a couple of them, and they haven’t evolved!
Story #5: Gay Flamingos Pick Up Chick
RUSH: I want you to listen to this headline from the French News Agency: “Gay flamingos pick up chick.” “A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British conversation organization said Monday. Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family.” We are talking about two birds here! Anyway, Carlos and Fernando, the gay flamingos, “had been desperate to start a family, even chasing after other flamingos and their nests to take over their eggs at the wild foul and wetlands trust in Slimbridge near Bristol, but their egg sitting prowess” — that would be Carlos and Fernando, the two gay flamingos – “made them the top choice for taking an unhatched egg under their wings when one of the greater flamingo nests was abandoned.”
Now, what’s the meaning of that? These gay birds are better than the hetero birds! The hetero birds abandon their kids, and here come the gay birds, rolling in to take over. I mean, look at the way this story is written. We’re talking two birds, here! Do they want a medal, or what? “The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats.” Gay flamingos are not uncommon it says here. You know, we’re writing about these animals like they’re people.
Story #6: Hef Bunnies Endangered by Pussycats
RUSH: I didn’t know this, but they named some rabbits after Hugh Hefner some time ago in Big Pine Key, Florida. And the population of the Hefner rabbit has dwindled by about 50% in the past two years. You know who’s wiping ’em out? Pussycats!
The actual name for the Hef rabbit is “Sylvilagus palustris hefneri.” Where am I reading this? AP. “The medium-sized dark brown cottontail Hef bunny with a grayish white belly was put on the federal endangered species list when the population in the Florida keys was estimated at 200.” And stray cats are wiping these things out! “Wildlife officials plan to begin a program next week to trap” these feral pussycats and stray pussycats, hoping “that keeping a predator away will mean that the population of the Hef bunnies will grow.” Not making this up.
Story #7: Los Angeles Gang Members Unionize
RUSH: I don’t know if illegals are going to join the unions, but I have to tell you who is: LA gang members. This from the LA Times. The gang bangers out there are finding a home in unions as the unions are out there seeking new members. “Shortly after his release from prison four years ago, Julio Silva entered the apprenticeship program at the ironworkers union, Local 433 in La Palma. To his alarm he learned that ironworkers called all first-year apprentices ‘punk.’ He had been an East LA gang member, a drug user, and a car burglar in and out of jail. In that world, a ‘punk’ was that world’s prison sex slave. But Silva tried not to let it bother him. The more he worked at his new job, the more his skills improved. Ironwork became the one legal thing he had done well. It also paid $29 an hour plus” — do you see where this is going?
Where do you think it’s going, Mr. Snerdley? You tell me, where is this story from the LA Times headed? Yes, only the unions can help gang bangers! Why, we may have found a worthwhile social redemption organization to save LA from the gangs, and that’s the unions. This guy Silva learned more in the union than he ever learned in prison or in the gang? Can he learn not to let this punk insult bother him? “Ironwork became the one legal thing he had done well.” Wait ’til he learns how to make guns! I’m just joking, couldn’t resist. “After Silva’s first year on the job, the ironworkers simply called him ‘Julio.’ They dropped the ‘punk.’ ‘I never thought my history would allow me to have something more than $3 an hour,’ said Julio Silva, who’s 37. ‘I don’t see this happening nowhere else but in the union. It’s given me the best opportunity of my life.’ Silva is among a large and growing number of southern California gang bangers who have joined building trade unions over the last decade as construction work as boomed.”
Whoa, whoa, whoa, what’s this? I thought it was illegal immigrants who were joining the construction trade! Now it’s gang bangers! “These good-paying jobs were once reserved for those with family connections as fathers recruited sons, but today, beset by nonunion competition and an aging membership, unions have stepped up recruitment in minority enclaves where many young men have criminal pasts. Now home boy recruits home boy. No one exactly knows how many gang members are in the building trades because the unions have stopped asking about recruits’ backgrounds. Some unions even would allow a man to remain a member while in prison.” Well, that’s not unprecedented. But I like living, so I’m not going to make any further comments about union guys in prison.
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Story #1: Drive-Bys Love Hurricane Forecast
RUSH: Oh, wow. What a day for the Drive-By Media. The National Hurricane Center has released its forecast: 13 to seven named storms, five big mamas. They want you to think five Katrinas, and the media is just as excited as they can be because now they get to scare us with these predictions.
And here’s a headline from Randolph E. Schmid, the AP science writer. “Coasts brace for busy hurricane season.” Now, let me ask you. I live on the coast. Do I look braced here today? Am I holding onto the flagpole? Am I tensed up? Or are any of you on the other side of the glass tensed up? No. Is anybody out on the beach, scouring the horizon looking for the first big mama killer hurricane? No! (Actually, it would be better if people did get braced instead of waiting for FEMA to come in after the fact. It would be a lot better if people started taking some responsibility in advance.)
You know, we live in Florida for a reason. There are a series of reasons, actually. And every day they pummel us — it’s either a hurricane or a drought that’s going to wipe us out. Media, just shut up! Just shut up! Things are normal! There are droughts! Hurricanes happen! There are things we can do to compensate for it! These things don’t mean the end of the world.
Story #2: Train Kills Man Trying to Kill Woman
RUSH: Listen to this story. This is from AP (the headline alone is funny): “Train Kills Man Trying to Kill Woman.” It’s from Los Angeles. “A man trying to kill his girlfriend by stopping a car in front of an approaching train was himself killed Monday when the train hit the vehicle and launched it into him as he tried to flee, police said. The girlfriend survived. The man drove the car in front of a group of other vehicles stopped at a railroad crossing in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Sunland, Officer Mike Lopez said. The driver, who was seen arguing with his girlfriend, parked the car on the tracks and jumped out, leaving her behind, Lopez said. A northbound commuter train hit the rear of the car, hurling it into the man. The girlfriend was taken to the hospital, where she was in stable condition, Lopez said. ‘She gets hit by a train and lives. He gets hit by his own car and he dies,’ Lopez said.” I know we’re not supposed to laugh at this stuff, but I mean this is… the headline alone.
Story #3: Pelosi to Visit Greenland Glacier
RUSH: Nancy Pelosi, in the meantime, is flying off to Greenland to look at glaciers. Now, we talked about this yesterday. I asked you a question and I’m going to ask you again: During the Clinton administration, does anybody remember the hysteria on global warming that we are hearing every day now during the Bush administration? It’s sort of like homelessness. When the Democrats are in the White House, we don’t have a homeless problem. When a Republican’s in the White House, we have plastic-bags-in-grocery-stores problems and we have homelessness. Everything is a crisis! Global warming is just a pure political issue, so what is Pelosi doing flying off to visit glaciers in Greenland?
Story #4: New French President Battles Muslims
RUSH: So why do the elites want to bring in all this cheap, uneducated labor? Because it’s easier to control; easier to make dependent; and easier to get the votes. Pure and simple. And I’m sorry, but all you have to do is take a look at France to find out where this is headed. France’s new immigration minister “ruled out [the possibility] of legalizing undocumented immigrants en masse.” He said yesterday that government policy would be firm and pragmatic: “We have to put aside massive legalization. It doesn’t work. It penalizes, even immigrants.” He said this on the radio yesterday. He said he would meet shortly with officials from the hotel and restaurant industries which rely heavily on immigrants, and Sarkozy, the new president, “has said that he wants to ensure that those who join families in France can speak French and that relatives can support the newcomers.”
Now, even France has seen what uncontrolled immigration leads to! And there’s a piece here in the Toronto Sun by a woman named Rachel Marsden. “As new French President Nicolas Sarkozy took office, Islamic terrorists reportedly threatened a ‘fierce battle at the heart of Sarkozy’s capital.’ Finally, a sign that France is on the right track. Sarkozy says he won’t tolerate Muslims ‘killing sheep in their bathtubs’ and having a bunch of wives.” It seems that “53% of the country had enough sense to vote for this guy.” This was part of his campaign, and he’s out there making no bones about the fact that France can’t continue as it was — not just with the immigration policy, but with the whole social welfare structure with and the 35-hour work week/you-can’t-fire-anybody. And this guy won big in his election. It’s good, but this won’t last because I can see the lawsuits coming now.
Story #5:English-Only Tests, Judge Rules
Of all places, Santa Cruz, California. “More than 10,000 native Spanish speakers in Santa Cruz County will have to continue to take standardized tests in English, a San Francisco Judge ruled Monday. Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer dismissed part of a lawsuit brought by eight school districts that demanded students be allowed to take the test in Spanish.” This is exactly the kind of thing that does not promote assimilation. It’s just the opposite. “The lawsuit claims that testing students only in English does not accurately measure their abilities because they get many questions wrong simply because they don’t understand English, which makes it harder to do word problems in math or show mastery of grammar. Twenty-three schools in the county are under sanctions of No Child Left Behind because of low scores on standardized tests, including more than a dozen in Watsonville. Each of those schools, which could eventually be taken over by the state or a charter school organization, is in trouble due to the performance of non-native English speakers.”
So what do we have? We’re not even talking about the education of these kids. No, no. We’re talking about a bunch of bureaucrats being able to take the easy road, continue to get their money passing “No Child Left Behind” and its restrictions, or its requirements, and the easiest way to do well, “Let ’em take the test in their native language.” It’s not going to help them assimilate; it’s not going to help them progress; it’s not going to help them learn America, and it’s not going to help them learn. But that doesn’t seem to be the concern. This is the problem with the elites, and it’s the problem with bureaucrats, and it’s the problem with people in government. They claim to have the best interests of people at heart. They don’t. It’s their best interests that are first and foremost that drive things like this.
Story #6: Halliburton Chairman Defends Move to Dubai
RUSH: This is the French News Agency. “Halliburton Chairman Defends Move to Dubai.” Here’s the lead. “The head of US oil services giant Halliburton, whose decision to relocate from Texas to Dubai set off a political firestorm in the Unites States, defended the move on Tuesday as a reaction to a shift in the company’s business focus to the Middle East.” What firestorm? Political or otherwise? I seem to have missed it. What political firestorm was there? We reported it when it happened. Nobody called here and cared about it. I thought it was cool. I love Halliburton, Dubai, those two words in the same sentence. The only thing that could make it better would be Halliburton and Dubai ports deal. But what firestorm? Might have been a firestorm in some newsroom. Doesn’t mean there was a firestorm in the country or a political firestorm. By the way, if there was — and I may have missed it; I don’t know how, because I don’t miss stuff — but if there were some elected officials in Washington upset that Halliburton was going over there, can they blame ’em? There were a few Democrats, wasn’t a firestorm. Democrats, for a day, less than a whole news cycle, were bellyaching about it. I remember saying, “Hell, if I’m Halliburton’s CEO, why the hell not get outta here? I’ve been a target of the Democrat Party, I’ve been a target of the Drive-By Media ever since George Bush was elected. Our business is over there, and look what they’re trying to do to the oil business in this country anyway.” They’re in the oil services business. You go to where the action is. There’s so much missing in news today. No professionalism. It’s pure hackery. There’s no curiosity, there’s no intellectual honesty anymore. It’s just striking.
Story #7: Meteorologist: Little Ice Age Receding
RUSH: Boy, I’m lucky I just found this story. I meant to give you the details of this earlier when I alluded to it at the beginning of the program. By the way, welcome back, RushLimbaugh.com, talent on loan from God. This is from the Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, and it’s about a guy named Reid Bryson, he’s 86, still goes to work every day. He’s a climate scientist, has a Ph.D. in meteorology, granted in the history of American education, held the 30th Ph.D. in meteorology. “Bryson is a believer in climate change, in that he’s as quick as anyone to acknowledge that Earth’s climate has done nothing but change throughout the planet’s existence. In fact, he took that knowledge a big step further, earlier than probably anyone else. Almost 40 years ago, Bryson stood before the American Association for the Advancement of Science and presented a paper saying human activity could alter climate. ‘I was laughed off the platform for saying that.'” I can’t read the whole thing to you because I don’t have the time to do it. It’s the WisconsinEnergyCooperativeNewsMagazine.com, WECNmagazine.com, and let me just summarize for you.
He points out that here that we’re finding evidence of civilization where the glaciers that are melting are melting, where they once stood. In Switzerland, for example, they’re finding silver mines under the glaciers. As the glacier retreats there, they’re finding the mine shafts and the mining tools stacked up and waiting, waiting for the mine workers to return as the winter snows melted but it seems that one year, those winter snows didn’t actually melt. Then year upon year passed and the snows grew deeper and finally they had a glacier there. It was the little ice age, they came to learn. Now the little ice age is ending, the glaciers are retreating, and evidence of civilization is emerging where we’ve known nothing but ice in our lifetimes. They’re also finding water management structures built by man where glaciers are retreating. In other words, yeah, it’s warmer, and as this guy points out all that’s happening here is we’re getting back to normal. There used to be less ice than now, we’re just getting back to normal. There are constant cycles on the planet. These glaciers, that was global cooling, a little ice age, it was much, much warmer, and before all this so-called talk about could she footprints and industrialization and so forth.
We’ve been there before. We’ve been warmer than we are now. We did it without SUVs and the industrial revolution. It’s a funky little source here, the Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News and the 86-year-old Reid Bryson, but I wanted to pass it on to you because once again this is something people have no historical perspective. I think the global warming crowd is pure politics. We never heard about this when Democrats are in office, just like we never hear about homelessness when Democrats are in office. It’s a purely political issue to advance liberalism, big government, and all that. Beyond that, one of the things that is troubling is if there were just a rudimentary understanding of science at the basic Junior High level, every citizen who had that would be able to debunk the global warming claims. I know there’s some psychology involved here, but we know the earth’s been much colder and much hotter than it is today, long before the current crop of people and their reasons for the warming now were ever around. I don’t know that a hundred thousand years ago, billions, did the people alive back then blame themselves for these changes? Hell no. They didn’t have that kind of vanity, didn’t have that kind of time. So it’s purely political. A little total, 100 percent political hoax, made all that much easier to accomplish by virtue of the fact that basic science education is so inept.
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Story #1: Female Sharks Can Fertilize Themselves
RUSH: Did you see this story? Everybody’s making a big deal about this and I don’t understand why. Female sharks can fertilize themselves. I’ve known this. We’ve all known this for a long time. Hillary had Chelsea. I don’t understand what the big deal is. The feminazis are going to be pleased with this. They’ve always been searching for a way to get this done without men, sperm banks, and — (Laughing.) I just slapped myself. I don’t regret saying it.
Story #2: More Gloom & Doom: RUSH: Get this. This is right along the lines of the things we opened up with yesterday. Here’s a story. This is from the Christian Science Monitor. “As summer begins, trouble in the US airways.” Is this not a regular story? You can go to the calendar and every year, the week before Memorial Day, we’re going to get a spate of stories about it’s going to be a scorching summer, hurricane season is going to wipe us all out, and airline travel in the summertime is going to be worse than ever.
Well, I’ll tell you why. “With airplanes packed with more passengers than ever before, forecasters predicting severe hurricane and thunderstorm seasons, and airline employee morale at what experts say is a record low, this summer could become one of the most chaotic. Some analysts are predicting it could even rival the summer of 2000, which was laden with work slowdowns, record flight delays, and passenger frustration. ‘All of the pieces are in place,’ says Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition in Radnor, Pa. ‘There’s so much dissatisfaction, and so many employees are burned out. They’re working longer hours for less pay in a system that is jammed to the hilt.'” Why, folks, it’s beyond horrible. This is catastrophic. We may not survive the summer. What with the hurricanes, the thunderstorms, and now the air traffic system about to fall apart before our very eyes. Meanwhile, have a good day.
RUSH: Doing show prep today, I find out that the Moody Blues are going to be at Radio City Music Hall on August 9th. I was out in Vail some years ago and went to bed one night after all the festivities at night. I turned on the local PBS station. I don’t know why, just happened to pop up as I was channel surfing around and the Moody Blues are in concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I still had my hearing. I was riveted to it. It was fabulous. I played those guys’ records as a struggling young disc jockey, star of the future. In fact, my first big gig, my first really big radio station in Pittsburgh, the number one song was “Knights in White Satin.” In the music rotation there, you played the number one tune every 58 minutes, regardless. I watched that concert on PBS, and I went out and bought the CD of it, and I listened to it all the time. Now they’re going to be at Radio City Music Hall on August 9th. I’ve gotta call in chips with people that have power at that building to get me August tickets. I haven’t looked up what day of the week that is, but it doesn’t matter, Moody Blues. I hope they do the same show that they did at the Royal Albert Hall.
RUSH: I know who’s going to be the next hire at CNN. Stoned Phillips. Stoned Phillips was blown out at NBC. Well, that’s what CNN does, they go hire the retreads the networks don’t want and think they’ve hired stars. That’s what John Roberts is. John Roberts used to be the weekend anchor guy when Rather was there. When he didn’t get the Rather gig, he said, “My days are numbered here at CBS,” and so he’s over now at CNN. If MSNBC hires you, you’re finished.
RUSH: Big news from the Rasmussen poll people, “just 26% favor the Senate immigration plan.” A national telephone survey conducted Monday and Tuesday night shows that just 26% of the American voters favor passage of this boondoggle. 48% are opposed. 26% are not sure. That adds up to 74% don’t like the Senate immigration plan.
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Story #1: Mood Music Played to Make Sharks Mate
RUSH: We have more shark news here today. Now, given the news yesterday, that female sharks can fertilize themselves, this next story is a bit puzzling. “Scientists desperate for reluctant sharks to mate plan to pipe the romantic music of Mozart, Beethoven and Puccini into their north-west England aquarium tank.” What, Mr. Snerdley? How can you call this Mozart, Beethoven and Puccini porn? This is not shark porn. This is romance!
“Display supervisor Carey Duckhouse” — somebody named “Duckhouse” runs the shark tank — “says 20-year-old male brown shark Bloodnose has spurned the advances of 15-year-old Lucy since they were introduced a year ago at the Blackpool Sea Life Center. She says other sharks have also turned out to be cold fish. ‘We want to play them the kind of soft and emotional music that inspires powerful emotions in humans,’ she said. ‘We hope it’s going to put them in a passionate frame of mind and get them mating.'”
What a bunch of idiots! These are sharks! Have you ever tried playing music for your pets? They’re clueless! This ongoing effort to humanize animals is hilarious to me. I just had to mention this.Story #2: Federal Gas Taxes Fund Seatbelt Roadblocks
RUSH: From TheNewspaper.com — although, I’m not quite sure what TheNewspaper.com is. Our show prep knows no bounds, folks. “Federal Gas Taxes Fund Seatbelt Roadblocks. More than 30 million dollars in federal gas tax funding” is being spent setting up roadblocks to ticket motorists who neglect or choose not to wear a seat belt. You heard me right. “More than $30 million in federal gas tax dollars will be spent between now and June 3 to encourage local and state police to set up ticketing roadblocks under a program called ‘Click it or Ticket.’ Orchestrated by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, Click it or Ticket offers local law enforcement officers overtime pay to stop and search motorists at random locations. Officers will then issue an expensive citation to anyone who neglects or chooses not to wear a seatbelt.”
Alright, now, what’s the point of this? You might be saying, “Rush, why are you sharing this with me?” Well, because we’ve had some stories in the last couple of days where the states and the feds are crying: “Oh, no! We’re running out of roads and highways! We might have to raise gas taxes! Oh, it’s so horrible!” Well, here we are in the midst of rising gasoline prices — and anger in the public over it — and the feds and the states are lamenting that they’re losing money, and yet we find out that they are going to spend $30 million from the gas tax fund to set up roadblocks to make sure that you are wearing a seat belt. $30 million — how in the world can anybody be short of money? This is the kind of nickel-and-dime garbage that happens every day that eats up the money. I mean, if this is important, why not go out and get a corporate sponsor to fund this and benefit from the publicity and the goodwill? Why does the government have to do all this stuff? Next time you hear somebody in the federal or state government say they are running out of money, remember these stories — because there’s no way we can be running out of money. They’re spending it frivolously, and it’s stuff like this going to cause them to have to raise taxes.
Story #3: SF Chronicle Dumps All over Nancy Pelosi
RUSH: The San Francisco Chronicle today is dumping all over Nancy Pelosi: “Why Pelosi never stood a chance with funding bill.” They refer to this as her “most significant setback.” Well, if this is her “most significant” setback, that means that there were others — and the reality is the Democrats haven’t done squat.
You know, the Republicans have this 30-second TV commercial they’re running against Pelosi, and I didn’t think it would be possible. I would think you’d need a 30-minute commercial to chronicle all of the boondoggles that have been in the Democrat House led by Nancy Pelosi. How can you put it all in there in 30 seconds? They had six things they were going to do, and none of them have gotten done. I marvel. I know brevity is the soul of wit, but there is no way you can chronicle her failures in 30 seconds. You need ten of those — 20 of those to even get close.
Story #4: 70% of Terrorists in Iraq Come Through Syria
RUSH: Here’s a story from the AP: “Seventy percent of insurgents fighting in Iraq come from Gulf countries via Syria where they are provided with forged passports,” according to an Iraqi intelligence officer. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait — I’m confused here. I thought it was a civil war over there! I guess it can’t be a civil war if 70% of Iraqi insurgents are coming from other Gulf states.
Story #5: Global Warming? It’s Freezing Out There!
RUSH: A little global warming news today, ladies and gentlemen; both hemispheres of the world are reporting unusual cold and snow. Can I share some headlines with you? “Colorado mountains under Memorial Day snow advisory, up to eight inches expected.” And Denver had one of the snowiest winters on record. “California seawater temperatures unusually cold.” “Family stranded in Oregon snow found okay.” “Highways closed, motorists stranded as snow buries China.” “A taste of winter, freezing rain, snow hits parts of Canada.” “Heavy snow forecast for Wyoming mountains.” “Winter arrives early as Australia’s snow season off to promising start.” “South Africa sets cold weather records as snow and ice continue.” “First snow in parts of South Africa in 33 years leaves poor out in cold.” “Twenty-one killed as South African cold snap persists.” “Homeless bear the brunt of the South African big chill.” Cold affects South African vegetable trade.”
It’s freezing out there! I saw that forecast for Colorado over the Memorial Day weekend, and twenty-one dead in South African cold snap? What global warming?
Story #6: Cold Sea Temps Make Worse Hurricanes?
RUSH: Oh, by the way, New York Times today has a story on a bunch of idiot scientists out there who say they’ve gone back, studied all kinds of stuff from thousands of years ago, and you know what? They found that some of the worst hurricanes happened when sea surface temperatures were cold. Yep — rising sea surface temperatures are not an indication of the number of storms coming or their violence. Now, why would they put that out, assuming this is true (and, of course, these are scientists — who are infallible — so it is true)? Well, they’re putting it out because everything’s tied to global warming one way or the other. So even if the sea surface temperatures are not as hot this year as everybody expects them to be, it doesn’t mean anything because global warming is the culprit and we can still have killer hurricanes. “You could still die” is the point of this story.
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Story #1: The Design-a-Vagina Craze
RUSH: We have to get to the “designer vagina” story that is out there. You haven’t heard about this yet, Dawn? Oh, ho, ho! Now Snerdley walks in here. Snerdley, have you heard about this “designer vagina” thing? I call it “design-a-vagina” surgery. It’s a cosmetic surgery that poses problems to both men and women. I’ll explain it later. Story #2: France Pays Immigrants to Go Home
RUSH: Did you see that the French are going to pay immigrants to go home? “New French President Nicolas Sarkozy made immigration a central issue of his campaign. Now, his new minister for immigration and national identity says its time to start paying immigrants to leave the country. France is home to over 5 million immigrants — and the new conservative-led government doesn’t plan on making things any more comfortable for them. While the new regime in Paris is determined to curb illegal immigration, is also looking to encourage legal migrants to reconsider their decision to stay in France.” This is from the German magazine, Der Spiegel. “Under the scheme, Paris will provide each family with a nest egg of $8,000 for when they go back to their country of origin. A similar scheme, which was introduced in 2005 and 2006, was taken up by around 3,000 families.” So they are dealing with 5 million immigrants now. Can you imagine if we had a minister of national identity like they have in France? Ha, ha! Can you imagine the hell that would pop up?
Story #3: Drive-By Hysteria: 747 with Engine Out
RUSH: Panic and crisis in the Drive-By Media: a 747 on the way to China had to return to Dulles International Airport in Washington. One of the four engines is out, and it’s is panic central! They can fly on two engines — it’s not good, don’t misunderstand — but the flight crews on these airplanes are highly trained and capable of handling these kind of things. Besides, you can land on three engines. You can even land on two engines! But anyway, the plane has landed safely. Drat! — from the Drive-Bys’ standpoint. They love crisis, panic, and chaos.
Story #4: Study: Drive-Bys Focus on Democrats
RUSH: This is an AP story by David Bauder. “By a wide margin, the news media concentrated on Democratic presidential contenders more than Republicans during the first three months of 2007, according to a study. Campaign stories in newspapers, on television, online and on the radio focused on Democrats 61 percent of the time and on Republicans 24 percent, said the Project for Excellence in Journalism, which regularly monitors 48 different outlets to gauge coverage trends. But don’t look to political bias as the most obvious explanation.” Conservative radio talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity “talked about Democrats 75 percent of the time and Republicans 13 percent.”
Wait a minute! Forget these numbers — do you realize what is happening here? The Drive-Bys are comparing themselves to me in order to show that they aren’t bias! Well, well, well! But there is a big difference, Mr. Bauder: we conservatives look at Democrat candidates critically — and we look at some of the Republican candidates critically. The Drive-By Media looks at Democrat candidates fawningly. They hardly offer any criticism, and any criticism they do offer to the Democrats usually comes in the form of advice. So there’s a huge difference.
Story #5: Obama Not Taking Shots from Media
RUSH: Speaking of Democrat presidential candidates, this is from the Missouri Valley Times, and it’s by Todd Dorman. “You get the distinct feeling hanging around Barack Obama’s presidential campaign that his heady rock-star period is ending. For a few months after he joined the race in February, it looked like the U.S. senator from Illinois could do no wrong. His crowds were in the thousands and his fund-raising was in the tens of millions. Hillary Clinton, we were told, was shaking in her pants suit at Obama’s meteoric rise. It had to come to an end, of course. The political media that built him up is now taking shots. He misspoke about the death toll from a Kansas” — he thinks that the media is taking shots at Obama? The only shots that Obama is getting are coming from the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times where they question whether he is black enough (or, as was the case yesterday, whether he is too black). Besides, he didn’t take any shots over this Kansas thing. He did misspeak about the death toll from the tornado and it was mentioned — but not in the front pages. The media didn’t run stories about what an idiot he is, as they would if Bush made such a
The story also says that Obama’s campaign “was accused of driving gas-guzzling vehicles and his staff took fire for covering up some racy paintings before a fund-raiser at an art gallery. A Kansas City TV station reported that some people were snoozing during one of his speeches. And that was just last week.” See, this is the difference. Obama is not getting criticized or taking heat. These are not “hits.” These are perfunctory mentions that had a lifespan of less than two hours.
Story #6: McCain Being McCain, Slams Obama
RUSH: So Senator McCain has come out and just slammed Obama. “McCain being McCain,” —
this is from The Politico — “he just can’t help himself and goes the next step in the statement kicker: ‘By the way, Senator Obama, it’s a “flak” jacket, not a “flack” jacket.'” The spelling with a “c” is how Obama spells it, and that’s wrong — there is no “c” in “flack.” And then a McCain aide said this about Obama after this vote: “Barack Obama wouldn’t know the difference between RPG and a bong.” Now, I know those of you in Rio Linda know what a bong is, but you may not know what a RPG is. It’s a rocket propelled grenade.
Well, this is pretty hot and heavy going into the Memorial Day weekend! A McCain staffer saying “Obama wouldn’t know the difference between RPG and a bong”? This is getting interesting. But don’t you think it is possible that that McCain aide said that Obama wouldn’t know a difference between RPG and a “bomb”? Rather than a “bong”? Just speculating.
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Story #1: Fat Chance! Louisiana Wants Money Back
RUSH: Tonight, School Bus Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans, is going to give a state of the city speech, and on the eve of this the state of Louisiana says they want thousands of state and local government workers to send back $10 million in unemployment pay that they received while still collecting regular pay after Hurricane Katrina. State audit found lax control (no kidding) by a state agency — in this case it was the state Department of Labor. “Lax control by the state Department of Labor was the main reason the 5,439 ineligible workers were able to collect up to $258 a week.” And with this, of course, they went to Vegas and they played the lottery and did any number of things. Administrative workers with the city of New Orleans got the most money with 2,233 of them wrongfully collecting $4.3 million. There were about 1,600 state workers, many with the state Department of Health and Hospitals, who got $2.7 million. So now they want the money back. Ha, ha! Fat chance! I remember when this all happened; some said they were entitled to the money in the first place.Story #2: Laptops Causing Slouching Crisis
RUSH: In today’s installment of “It’s a crisis! It’s chaos! It’s tumult! And we’re all going to die!,” this from the UK: “Booming sales of laptops have led to a surge in the number of computer users with back and muscle problems, experts have warned.” It’s those backpacks out there that the kids carry these little laptops around in; they’re destroying their spines, ladies and gentlemen. They’re going to end up being crooked out there — they’re going to stoop shouldered and not going to grow up and have good posture. They may be wounded and damaged for life, ladies and gentlemen, because of laptops!
“Girls as young as 12 are being diagnosed with nerve damage caused by slouching over screens, a group of leading chiropractors said. Millions of others are at risk of ‘irretrievable damage’ to their spines, necks and shoulders because of poor posture when using laptops,” and when carrying them around. So, you know, we’ve had the evil backpack and we’ve had cell phones, all of these things are going to wipe us out. Now after you take the laptop out of the backpack you are going to die because degeneration in the joints is occurring. It never ends! You can make book: this kind of stuff is going to show up every now and then in the press because the nanny state fed by the Drive-By Media.
Story #3: New Aquatic Insect Species Found in Thailand
RUSH: I’ll tell you, it’s amazing what we don’t know out there versus what we think we know. Some of you might think that we are destroying species on this planet left and right because of our profligate ways. Well, a “US entomologist has just discovered several new aquatic insect species in Thailand. Some of the bugs pack quite a powerful bite,” ladies and gentlemen. We’re finding new species all over the places, yet it’s Panic City out there. What a bunch of lies. It’s all a hoax.
Story #4: Nature Works: Stuck Whales Free Themselves
RUSH: You know those two whales that were stuck out there in the Sacramento River, up there in the delta? All that effort was made to try to get those two whales back 70 miles down the delta to the Pacific Ocean. Well, I get in here this morning and I’m feverishly doing show prep (getting ready for today’s excursion into broadcast excellence), and they have cameras posted by the Golden Gate Bridge. Apparently, the whales slipped out of there last night and made their way back to the ocean! Nature works once again, despite our best efforts to control it.
“Two lost whales seen just before sunset nearing their ocean home, after a two-week sojourn through inland waterways may have slipped back into the Pacific overnight.” Ha, ha! They had the cameras out there trying to find the whales coming back through the Golden Gate Bridge, but they couldn’t find them! The whales, they think, gave them the slip overnight. Here we did everything we could to befriend these whales, and they didn’t even stop to give us a couple of flippers good-bye! They didn’t even give us a couple bangs of tail.
Story #5: Drive-Bys Focus on Ginsburg Dissent
RUSH: Then there was a Supreme Court decision yesterday and the New York Times and the Washington Post write about this in curious ways. For example, the Washington Post’s headline is: “Over Ginsburg’s Dissent, Court Limits Bias Suits.” She was in the minority, her side lost, and yet the perspective is, “Over Ginsburg’s Dissent, Court Limits Bias Suits.” The New York Times headline was: “Justices Limit Discrimination Suits Over Pay.”
Anyway, here’s the Post: “A Supreme Court once again split by the thinnest of margins ruled yesterday that workers may not sue their employers over unequal pay caused by discrimination alleged to have occurred years earlier. The court ruled 5 to 4 that Lilly Ledbetter, the lone female supervisor at a tire plant in Gadsden, Ala., did not file her lawsuit against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in the timely manner specified by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. … The decision moved Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to read a dissent from the bench, a usually rare practice that she has now employed twice in the past six weeks to criticize the majority for opinions that she said undermine women’s rights. Speaking for the three other dissenting justices, Ginsburg’s voice was as precise and emotionless as if she were reading a banking decision, but the words were stinging. ‘In our view, the court does not comprehend, or is indifferent to, the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination,’ she said.”
This is classic — and this is important, by the way. It’s important because of the way this is being covered. “Over Ginsburg’s Dissent, Court Limits Bias Suits”? Why is this important? Because the New York Times and the Washington Post are taking the dissent in this opinion and amplifying it. They’re not reporting what the decision was. They spend most of their time praising and quoting Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now, they only do this with the liberals on the court. Ginsburg, in her statement, in her dissent that she read from the bench, called on Congress to change the law, which is extraordinary not because of her position on the law but because of her activism. The law allows 180 days to make a claim. That’s a six months; that’s half a year. Not 19 years. This woman waited 19 years to file her complaint, and the law is clear: you have 180 days. But Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissents, and that’s the whole focus of the story.
This is a lawless Gang of Four on the Supreme Court in the minority here. Four justices were prepared to amend the law right there and then extend it to 19 years. Do you understand what that would have meant? If this had gone through as Ruth Bader Ginsburg wanted, you could have gone back 19 years in your life, and if you’ve been discriminated against on pay basis, or think you have, you can file suit. This woman wanted the law to be changed from the bench — not via Congress — with a Supreme Court decision (which, my friends, is what we’ve been warning you about with activist liberal judges). This is striking, and none of this being reported the way I just imparted it to you. It’s all being reported as, “What a great activist. What a great sensitive woman she is, caring for human rights. This is the kind of people we need.”
Story #6: Blogger Digs Up Great Tony Blair Quote
RUSH: Lorie Byrd, a blogger who works on the Internet, found this quote from Tony Blair on another blog. He said, “I was stopped by somebody the other week who said that it was not surprising there was so much terrorism in the world when we invaded their countries” — meaning Afghanistan and Iraq. This guy said to Tony Blair, “No wonder Muslims feel angry,” and Tony Blair said to him, “‘Tell me exactly what they feel angry about. We removed two utterly brutal and dictatorial regimes, the Taliban and Saddam. We replaced them with a UN-supervised democrat process. And the only reason it’s difficult still is because other Muslims are using terrorism to try to destroy the fledgling democracy in Iraq and in doing so are killing fellow Muslims. Why aren’t they angry about the people doing the killing?’ The odd thing about the conversation is, I could tell…” this is Tony Blair talking “…I could tell it was the first time the man I was talking to had heard this argument.”
“It’s no wonder this guy had never heard such a concept when you consider the state of the BBC these days and other international reporting on terrorism,” said another blogger. The second thing is, they always call Tony Blair Bush’s “lap dog.” He’s nobody’s lap dog. He is so eloquent and articulate when he talks about the war in Iraq; he is able to succinctly, briefly convey important truths in an understandable way. Some idiot comes up to him and says, “No wonder Muslims hate us, we invaded their countries”? Good grief! And he’s not alone. There are all kinds of idiots in this country and around the world who have themselves believing the same thing.
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Story #1: Freed Whales: Ambassadors for the Ocean
RUSH: The Los Angeles Times, “Once-wayward humpbacks appear to be home free.” Now, we had this story yesterday, of course. The whales in the Sacramento Delta, the San Joaquin Delta gave the rescuers the slip! They got out of there under cover of darkness. Yesterday morning I’m sitting here doing show prep, and they have cameras trained out there by the Golden Gate Bridge, trying to find the whales. Nobody knows where they went, but they got out.
The thing about this story that I just have to share with you is a quote from some person named Trevor Spradlin: “We’re still holding our breath a little bit, but we’re just so pleased.” Trevor Spradlin is a “marine mammal biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, the federal agency that helped lead the rescue effort.” But, of course, that’s the agency that was befuddled and outsmarted by nature and the whales. Anyway, listen to this guy’s quote: “Armed with photos of the pair’s distinctive tails, experts should be able to pick out the wayward duo as they migrate up the coast. ‘In the meantime,’ said Trevor Spradlin, ‘these whales have been fantastic ambassadors for the ocean.'” Ha, ha! Fantastic ambassadors for the ocean? What? Ha, ha! They’re a couple of animals! They ended up in the wrong place! They found their way out and now they’re ‘great ambassadors for the ocean’? Ha, ah! You know, I marvel. I just continue to marvel at the way people look at things.
Story #2: Pelosi Upset with Fellow Traveler Chavez
RUSH: By the way, Nancy Pelosi is upset with fellow traveler Hugo Chavez for shutting down that opposition TV station. “The speaker called on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to reconsider a shutdown of the country’s most watched TV station saying the move suppresses free speech.” Hey, Madam Speaker, what Hugo Chavez is doing by shutting down the TV station is no different than what you want to do with the Fairness Doctrine here in this country! What a day when your fellow traveler gets out of line like this. I just wish she would have said as much when she went to visit Bashar Assad. She’s embarrassed! Hugo Chavez has embarrassed her and that makes the Democrats look bad, otherwise, why would she care?
Story #3: Musician Canned for Focus on Wrong Organ
RUSH: What do you think this headline is about? “Musician canned for focus on wrong organ.”
Story #4: Finger Length Can Predict Your Kid’s Smarts
RUSH: Because of the headline of the story here — “Finger Length May Foretell Academic Potential” — I almost didn’t do this, folks. It’s rife with potential danger. “The length of children’s fingers may hint at their natural abilities in math and language, a new study suggests. In a study of 75 children between the ages of 6 and 7 years old, researchers found that finger length correlated with how well the children performed on standardized tests of math and verbal skills. Specifically, boys whose index fingers were short compared with their ring fingers tended to excel at numbers and girls with index and ring fingers of similar length tended to do better on the verbal portion of the test. The findings are reported in the British Journal of Psychology. A number of studies have now found that ‘digit ratio,’ or the length of the index finger compared with the ring finger, is connected to cognitive performance, some personality traits, athletic prowess and the risk of certain medical conditions.”
Seventy-five kids they studied — that’s what disappointed me about the story. I thought it was going to talk about the overall length of fingers, like Clinton’s finger. You ever see Clinton’s finger? Oh, man! But it doesn’t talk about that, it just says the length of the index finger is related to the ring finger. Middle finger not calculated here in this survey. I don’t know. I think this is all bogus. I had a woman tell me in Kansas City once to look at somebody’s feet and if the second toe is longer than the big toe, then they come from refined stock. If the second toe is shorter than the big toe, then they come from peasant stock. And she believed it! It had me looking at women’s feet for about a year, you know, just out of curiosity.
Story #5: NFL Announces Team Function Adult Beverage Ban
RUSH: Wow, listen to this. The National Football League has just announced that clubs, NFL teams, “may no longer serve alcohol at team functions or on buses or flights, extending a ban that until now applied only in locker rooms. NFL owners and executives were told Thursday by commissioner Roger Goodell that the rule pertains not only to players but to owners, coaches and guests.” No adult beverages at team functions? Well, that could be a game! No adult beverages in the luxury suites up there where the owners are, and buses and team flights? Man, oh, man, oh, man. These guys better go to a baseball locker room. I better not say any more.
Story #6: Martha Burk Back from Obscurity
RUSH: I had a story in the stack yesterday but didn’t get to it. Martha Burk is back from obscurity. (Well, she never left.) She tried to get Augusta National to be forced to admit female members, and now she’s back and was doing something over there on C-SPAN — talking about the woman vote and how abortion is still all that matters to women. You know, if I’m a woman in this country and I listen to these groups make me into a monolith… The idea that women as a bloc think alike politically is ridiculous. And to reduce the female vote to something that simplistic is insulting, if you ask me.
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Story #1: Sunni Iraqis Turn on Al-Qaeda
RUSH: We keep seeing more and more of these types of stories; the Washington Post has it today: “Sunni Insurgents Battle in Baghdad. Residents of western neighborhood join group’s fight against Al-Qaeda in Iraq.” Al-Qaeda, in this story, gets its own roadside bomb. “Problems arose on Tuesday when the Islamic army, a powerful Sunni insurgent group posted a statement in a local mosque criticizing Al-Qaeda in Iraq for killing dozens of other Sunnis in Fallujah and Baghdad late Wednesday afternoon according to residents reached by phone who would not be quoted by name for security reasons.” (You’ll notice there’s a whole lot of that going on in the media — a bunch of people who won’t give their names.) “An armed group scrawled graffiti on a school wall reading ‘down with Al-Qaeda, long live the honest resistance.’ When Al-Qaeda and Iraq members came to wipe away the writing, a roadside bomb exploded, killing three.” I’ve been wondering: “Why haven’t we made our own roadside bomb?” Well, apparently it’s happening now because a roadside bomb wiped out three Al-Qaeda members. Anyway, more and more of these kinds of stories — Sunnis turning on Al-Qaeda — and yet the liberals are still out there talking about civil war, with the Sunnis versus the Shi’a. Guess the Iraqis are getting more and more fed up with Al-Qaeda. Story #2: Drive-Bys Panic over Start of Terrorcane Season
RUSH: I have five stories here — the details of which are irrelevant. What I want is to read the headlines to you. It’s the fear, crisis, “we’re doomed” type of stories; the standard daily template of the Drive-By Media. “Lake Okeechobee: 79 Years Later, Fears of Another Deluge;” “Galveston: Where the Nation’s Deadliest Disaster Hit, Only One Way Out;” “New York City: Dreading a Once-a-Century Storm That Washes Out Lower Manhattan;” “The Outer Banks: 75% of These Islands Could Be Gone;” “Miami: America’s Playground Risks Another Disaster.” All of these stories came out last night for today because today is the traditional beginning of hurricane season — not because nature says it is, but because we just decided to say hurricane season starts on June 1. The only thing they haven’t done that I thought they would do was send the cameras out to the beaches, scanning the horizons. But regardless, I think we need to come up with a new name for hurricane season; ‘hurricane season’ doesn’t cut it. I think we need to call it ‘terrorcane season’ or ‘horrorcane season’ because that’s how it’s being marketed.
Story #3: GM Bounces Back After EIB Advertising
RUSH: I just got a news flash, ladies and gentlemen. “General Motors and Toyota bounced back from a weak April showing, reporting solid gains in US vehicle sales for May.” Well, what did General Motors do in May that they weren’t doing in April and March and February? That’s right, Snerdley! They were advertising on the EIB Network. In fact, we just had a GM spot for the SRX Crossover. They made us give it up, folks; they took it away from us, and there were long faces here when they did that. We understand, though. We can’t put too many miles on it, but they’re going to come across with a new vehicle soon for us to start driving around in. Anyway, congratulations, General Motors! I knew that that would be the case. Advertising here never fails. What, Mr. Snerdley? Well, you don’t drive in New York! You take the subway! You take the PATH train! You know, when General Motors starts selling subway cars or PATH trains, then we’ll get you one.
Story #4: Musician Canned for Focus on Wrong Organ
RUSH: This is from yesterday, but I didn’t get to it. We put this on the website yesterday, but I didn’t have a chance to get the details. It’s from the Boston Globe, but the story is out of New Franken, Wisconsin. “Musician Canned for Focus on Wrong Organ.” Now, what do you think that’s about? Well, we’ll find out if it’s about his flute.
“A Catholic priest has removed his church’s organist and choir director from her duties saying her sale of sex toys was not ‘consistent with Church teachings.’ Linette Servais, 50, played the organ and sung with the choir for 35 years. Much of her work as choir director and organist was done without pay. When her parish priest asked to meet with her, she thought it was to say thank you. Instead, she was told to quit her sales job with company known as Pure Romance or she would lose her position in the church. Pure Romance in Loveland, Ohio, is a $60 million per year business that sells spa products and sex toys at homes parties attended by women. It has 15,000 consultants like Servais.” You know, I think we’ve gotten samples from this bunch over the years, but I don’t remember what. So she got fired from the church organ for dealing with…sex toys.
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Story #1: EIB Southern Command Gets Max U.S. Rainfall
RUSH: We set the record for 24-hour rainfall around the country on Saturday. There’s this website out there called WeatherStreet.com, and it actually listed the EIB Southern Command, Florida, as getting 6.64 inches.
Story #2: Murder in US vs. Murder in Iraq
RUSH: I just saw, posted on the Drudge Report, that the federal government has released the new murder statistics. You have to run estimates here to get the numbers because the story does not list the numbers. They just list the percentage increase in recent years. Anyway, the bottom line is that the estimates for the murders in America today are 16,185 every year, and rapes, 92,837. Doesn’t that sort of put in perspective, ladies and gentlemen, what’s happening in Iraq and the way news is reported concerning both?
Story #3: ChiComs, Socialist Helmut Schmidt on Global WarmingRUSH: I read this next story, and I am stunned at the role reversals that are happening in the global socioeconomic sphere. “Two days before the G8 summit, China laid out a climate change plan that stresses economic growth over tough emissions standards, and warned wealthy countries not to interfere with the growth of emerging economies.”
The ChiComs have basically said, “Screw you! We are not going to pay any attention to your worldwide emissions standards because we have a growing economy here and we’re going to keep it up. Furthermore, if you’re worried about it,
I love this: a bunch of communists teaching the rest of the world about economic growth! Meanwhile, we have people like Algore and the rest of the Democrat Party running around wanting to clamp down on economic growth — penalize it in a punitive way and bring it to a screeching halt — all on the basis of furthering a hoax.
“Meanwhile,” as this G8 summit’s about to begin, “former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt…” I don’t know how many of you people remember Helmut Schmidt, but above all things that you need to know about Helmut Schmidt is: he is a bona fide socialist. He “called for an end to the ‘hysteria’ over global warming in the lead-up to the [G8] summit. The topic is ‘hysterical, overheated, and that is especially because of the media,’ Schmidt told Germany’s Bild daily.” So you have the ChiComs, an “emerging” — what would you call them? I mean, the free market’s taken over there in ways that they really can’t rein in. They need economic growth. They need prosperity. They need automobiles. They need fuel. They’re not interested in slowing their economy down. They’re not interested in damaging it. Here you have a bona fide socialist former chancellor of Germany saying this whole thing is “hysteria” brought on by the media, a bunch of lies — and then you have Americans led by the likes of Algore and others who sound more like they ought to be running countries like China. It’s amazing.
Story #4: Congressman William Jefferson (D-LA) Indicted
RUSH: Big news just posted on the Drudge Report: “Sources tell CBS News that Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) has been indicted on more than a dozen counts involving public corruption. Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) has been the subject of an ongoing probe in which FBI agents allegedly found more than $90,000 in cash in his freezer. The justice department is expected to unveil the charges later today.” Indicted on more than a dozen counts involving public corruption: Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana).
People have been wondering where the hell this has been for the longest time. The big question out there now — if this actually happens — is: Who is going to replace Congressman William Jefferson on the Democrat-run Homeland Security Committee? Queen Bee Nancy Pelosi took him off Ways and Means, but put him over there
But in light of the “crisis” that is ongoing in New Orleans, can we afford to strip them of their highest ranking representative in the US Congress? I mean, would taking their most powerful congressman away from them not lead to an even further ratcheting up of the of the death toll in New Orleans? They already feel like they’re not cared about, and now here comes the Bush administration indicting their highest ranking congressman! I’ll bet they blame Alberto Gonzales for trying to deflect attention from the US attorney controversy he finds himself involved in. They’ll say, “Why now? Why, they’ve had all this information for years on Congressman William Jefferson. Why are they indicting him now? Gonzales is behind this! And, of course, Bush flees the country the day before this indictment is handed down! Yes, Bush still hates New Orleans. He’s still trying to turn it into a Republican stronghold, or eliminate Louisiana from the ranks of Democrat states.”
Do you want to make a bet that there will be some discussion about whether or not he should step down under indictment because New Orleans might not be able to take it? Can they take another attack from the Bush administration? Or it could go the other way. Pelosi could say, “This is something we don’t need because I want to keep talking about the ‘culture of corruption.’ I can’t do that with a guy in my party that’s been indicted 16 different counts.” So they’re probably huddling right now. Of course, the Congressional Black Caucus is going to have a say in this as will the Reverends Jackson and Sharpton, which will then cause the presidential candidates on the Democrat side to have to weigh in on this.
It could be fun.
Story #5: Katrina Death Toll Still Rising
RUSH: I saw this over the weekend (I’m constantly, feverishly working and preparing this program for you, ladies and gentlemen): “Is Killer Storm Still Taking A Toll?” This is an AP story about how people are still dying in New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina. They’re still trying to milk the Hurricane Katrina story for all it’s worth. Now it’s Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome killing off people in New Orleans — but
Do you know what this means? It’s perfect!
It means people dying five to ten years from now in New Orleans will still be Bush’s victims.
Story #6: Dem Congress Keeps Pork Under Wraps
RUSH: Speaking of the Democrats, “After promising unprecedented openness regarding Congress’ pork barrel practices, House Democrats are moving in the opposite direction as they draw up spending bills for the upcoming budget year. Democrats are sidestepping rules approved their first day in power in January to clearly identify ‘earmarks’ — lawmakers’ requests for specific projects and contracts for their states. Rather than including specific pet projects, grants and contracts in legislation as it is being written, Democrats are following an order by the House Appropriations Committee chairman to keep the bills free of such earmarks until it is too late for critics to effectively challenge them. Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., says those requests for dams, community grants and research contracts for favored universities or hospitals will be added to spending measures in the fall. That is when House and Senate negotiators assemble final bills. Such requests total billions of dollars.”
It’s one of the reasons that people speculate that Republicans were thrown out: because they were engaged in all this pork. The Democrats, of course, promised to fix it. But as I told you back then, they’re not going to fix this. They’re the
Story #7: The B-i-itch Mowed Me Down
RUSH: Have you read this story about this woman who drove through a festival in Washington, DC and injured a bunch of people? She later was said to have been smoking crack most of the day. Have you heard about that? Did you happen to hear where she worked? Yes, she was a temp at the offices of Marion Barry! So we’ve gone from “the bitch set me up” to “that bitch mowed me down.” B-i-itch. Sorry. It’s summertime. The youngsters, the crumb crunchers, are out of school.
Story #8: Spotted Owl in Trouble Again; Bush to Blame
RUSH: Here’s more typical liberalism. How many years did we spend talking about the spotted owl on this program? They tried to shut down the timber industry in northern California and Oregon because of the spotted owl. They also said the spotted owl could only live in “native, old-growth forests,” which is bogus because we keep finding them nesting in the Kmart signs in various shopping malls.
Well, guess what, folks? Now all of a sudden spotted owl is threatened again. “To save the northern spotted owl, federal authorities have listed the bird under the Endangered Species Act, set aside 7 million acres of forest for owl habitat, and imposed stiff fines on those who harm the chocolate-colored football-sized raptors. But the spotted owl population is still in deep peril nearly 15 years after President Clinton brokered a compact to protect its old-growth habitat. So the government has hit on another approach to saving an icon of the Pacific Northwest: shooting its cousins.”
So they’re going to go out and
“Under a proposal controversial in scientific and environmental circles, federal wildlife agents in Oregon, Washington and Northern California would be allowed to use shotguns to kill hundreds of barred owls.” Now, the barred owl is more aggressive and it’s larger, and it is not native to the Northwest — so it’s an interloper. It has also “stymied recovery efforts of the meeker spotted owl” in the last 20 years. “The barred owls muscle the spotted owls from their habitat and eat them — or, very occasionally, according to wildlife biologists, mate with them. The rare hybrid offspring, informally known as a ‘sparred owl,’ has a ‘very strange hoot,’ as one wildlife biologist put it, ‘sort of like a spotted owl being strangled.’ Critics say the shooting proposal (‘suppression,’ as it is known in government parlance) is an example of the Bush administration altering scientific findings to accommodate commercial interests — in this case, the logging industry.”
Let me read that again: “When the barred owl mates with the spotted owl, it has a very strange hoot sort of like a spotted owl being strangled.” That’s what it says! I’m just reporting the news here on the EIB Network. “Officials in charge of the recovery plan sharply dispute the notion that the final report was a bow to industry pressure to open more Northwest forests to timber harvesting. In this owl-versus-owl saga, they say, it is abundantly clear that the spotted owls need help, fast.”
Notice there’s no attempt at diplomacy here. There’s no attempt to get these two different species of owl together and see if they can co-exist. Actually, folks, if you have the spotted owl, smaller and meeker, and you have the barred owl horning in on its territory and all of a sudden mating now and then the spotted owl producing a strange hoot, it sounds like there’s rape going on here (hence the “strangled” hoot). The noise made by the barred owl could come from raping the spotted owl. But the bottom line here is that to protect nature, we have to kill other parts of nature — because the barred owl is an interloper.
You might be saying, “So what’s the big deal in shutting down the timber industry? Tough for the owls!” But “environmental scientists say evolutionary argument hardly applies here: Human interference — decades of clear-cuts and other widespread logging — first caused the spotted owl’s decline. The barred owls, which are native to the East Coast and began arriving here in significant numbers about two decades ago, are simply more adapted to the human-altered environment.”
Look, if we weren’t around here and weren’t noticing this, would there be a problem? All you have here are these barred owls from the Northwest kicking owl butt out there, so we have to go out and protect the spotted owl. I’m telling you: these owls do not need native, old growth, pristine trees. They’ve been spotted in Kmart signs and all over the place. This is one of the biggest environmentalist wacko hoaxes that come down the pike in I-don’t-know how long.
Story #9: Big News Out of South Africa
RUSH: Big news out of South Africa: there’s a big strike going on in the public sector unions, and these South African workers who are striking over pay and benefits are complaining that it’s so hard to be on strike, they no longer have the energy for sex. “Monroe Mkalipi, regional chairman of the powerful COSATU federations of trade unions, complained that work conditions are so tough that workers can’t perform in the bedroom. ‘The harshness that we have in all our workplaces is so severe to such a point that when you get home at night it becomes a problem expanding our families,’ he said. Public sector workers are negotiating with the…” I’m sorry. It’s not being on strike that’s the problem. It’s being
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Story #1: 4th JFK Suspect Surrenders, Drive-Bys Yawn
RUSH: Well, the fourth suspect in the JFK bomb plot has surrendered. I’m sure the libs will say, “See? If he gave up, he didn’t really mean it! It’s not that bad. These people don’t surrender; they kill themselves. He’s got nothing to hide. It was not real threat.” Mark my words. Story #2: Danny Glover Campaigns for Breck Girl; Venezuelans Tell Glover to Reconsider Chavez Cash
RUSH: Recently we reported the news to you that the Hollywood actor Danny Glover had been given nearly $18 million by Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez to make an anti-American, anti-Western imperialist movie about some guy down in Haiti or somewhere, and Glover is all excited about it. Well, two stories here about Danny Glover in the news. “Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards returns to his native state this week, as he and actor Danny Glover hold campaign events Wednesday in Florence and Lee counties. Edwards, a Seneca native and former U.S. senator from North Carolina, will be joined by Glover as the two speak to a group of Florence County Democrats at 11:30 a.m. The pair then will take a walking tour of Bishopville,” South Carolina, along with a couple state representatives. So the Breck Girl is going to be fraternizing with a communist sympathizer. He thinks this is a good idea in South Carolina? Wow.
And then this about Glover himself. “Venezuelan filmmakers have written a letter to Danny Glover asking that he reconsider using their country’s funds for his film. The thesp-activist received an $18 million commitment from the Venezuelan state for his biopic ‘Toussaint.’ ‘With all due respect, we feel that you are taking part in an unethical venture,’ the letter reads. The filmmakers go on to say that $18 million could easily finance 36 Venezuelan pics. They point out that the proceeds, which the Venezuelan congress said came from a recent bond sale with Argentina, were assigned to Glover’s project and others without the benefit of any competition. …Glover is a regular visitor to Venezuela. He is among a number of high-profile U.S. supporters of Chavez who include crooner Harry Belafonte and Princeton U. scholar Cornel West.” Why in the world would Edwards want to go to South Carolina and fraternize with a communist sympathizer? Got me. We’ll see how this all works out.
Story #3: Bernard Shaw Bashes CNN, Fox
RUSH: Now to Bernard Shaw. This is from a story in the Chicago Sun-Times today by Robert Feder. “For two decades — until his retirement in 2001 — Bernard Shaw was the front-and-center face of CNN. As one of its original anchors, the Chicago native set the tone for serious, insightful journalism on television’s first 24-hour cable news operation. So it pains him deeply to see what has become of the proud brand he helped create. Asked what he now thinks of CNN, Shaw told WTTW-Channel 11’s John Callaway: ‘I try not to. I’m very, very disappointed with the way the news management at my favorite network has gone. CNN has fine women and men working there. Lou Dobbs, one of the leaders there. Unfortunately, Fox News is the ratings leader… on the cable side of the business, and what Fox puts on the air is not news.’ What Fox does, he said, is ‘commentary, personal analysis.'”
You libs are going to have to get over it and understand that you are wrong about this. Have you ever watched Fox in the daytime? Absurd. “Calling himself ‘very straitlaced [and] very old-fashioned,’ Shaw said: ‘When anchors are reporting the news, they should report the news and allow the viewers at home to decide what they think about issues. I don’t want to hear an anchor’s personal opinion about anything. Just report the news.'” Ha, ha! I’m telling you, these people live in a different world, in an alternative universe. He says that “CNN continues to ape many of the on-air mannerisms of the Fox News Network, and I don’t like that.” CNN is aping many of the on-air mannerisms of the Fox News Network? It’s the Fox News Channel, by the way, Bernard.
This story is an old story, but I’ll repeat it again in light of Bernard Shaw’s being upset with the supposed opinion that makes its way into the Fox News Channel. Remember the first Gulf War? The bombing started and Bernard Shaw — and I think the late John Holloman — were in the al-Rashid Hotel. They hid under the desks in the room and they finally got out of there and got back home. Somebody at the CIA or the defense department wanted to debrief them, and Bernard Shaw refused: “I’m not going to tell you what I saw over there. My journalistic principles will not allow me to choose sides in this conflict.” I said to myself, “Well, that’s cool. I mean, you’re an American, right? The freedom granted to you to do what you’re doing comes from this country. You don’t want to choose sides? You want to help your country win here?”
And remember that at the same time there was some bombed-out building and Saddam went out there and had this cheap, little painted white sign with red paint on it that said “Baby Milk Factory” — and of course, the Drive-Bys fell for that! They started beating up the United States for bombing a “baby milk factory” — but they don’t put their opinions on anything, do they? Nope, you won’t find any opinion on CNN. You won’t find any opinion on PMSNBC. You won’t find any opinion on ABC, CBS, NBC, will you? You won’t find any opinion from the news anchors, will you? You won’t find any opinion in the way they select stories that will air and the way they eliminate others, will you? You won’t find any opinion, will you? Oh, no, no, no!
Story #4: Obama: “Quiet Riot” Among Blacks
RUSH: From Hampton, Virginia: “Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said [today] that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a ‘quiet riot’ among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago. The first-term Illinois senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building explosively as they did before the 1992 riots,” and, of course, this cannot be helped any by the fact that now Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) has been indicted.
“All the hurricane did was to pull the curtain back for all the world to see” — how incompetent almost all Democrat politicians are. No, he didn’t say that. I’m added that last part. Obama’s attack on “Bush prompted ovation after ovation from the nearly 8,000 people gathered in Hampton University’s Convocation Center, particularly when he denounced the Iraq war and noted that he had opposed it from the outset. ‘This administration was colorblind in its incompetence,’ Obama said … ‘but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane.'” So Obama says a “quiet riot” is out there waiting to erupt, and it’s Bush’s fault — just like the riots in South Central Los Angeles 15 years ago. Is this sort of like stoking a fire? The “quiet riot” that’s going on out there, Mr. Obama, is immigration. I think he’s just trying to manufacture a “quiet riot” here to prove he’s “down with the struggle.”
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Story #1: New Species Discovered, Already ThreatenedRUSH: Scientists have discovered 24 new species of wildlife in the South American Highlands of Suriname, including a frog with fluorescent purple markings. Conservationists have now warned that these creatures “are threatened by illegal gold mining.” Threatened? We just discovered them! They seem to be doing fine! My question about this frog is: I wonder how it tastes? You know, fry this thing up, put a little lemon on it — you never know. Purple frog, haven’t had one of those.
Story #2: Democrats See Opportunity in Senator Thomas Death
RUSH: We have the death of Senator Craig Thomas from Wyoming, a Republican. And right on cue, today’s Roll Call has a quote from a Democrat operative in Wyoming on Monday’s passing of the Senator. Quote, “The party, of course, sees this as a big opportunity but it’s too early to know how it’s going to play out.” These people on the Democrat side have lost all their humanity! The guy passes away and, “This is a huge opportunity.” Of course, this stuff is really not new; the stock market was plummeting back in the dot-com burst and Gephardt was easily counting up the number of seats per 100-point drop in the market that the Democrats would pick up. Remember when Tim Johnson fell ill? Remember all the compassion from our side? It was the Drive-Bys that began worrying about the Democrat majority when Tim Johnson had the cerebral hemorrhage or stroke: “Oh no, razor thin margin, what if Lieberman changes parties, oh, no, oh, no!” They began to look at it politically without any compassion whatsoever for Tim Johnson. We here at the EIB Network, of course, offered plenty.
Story #3: Thick Arctic Ice Blamed for Low Whale Count
RUSH: Get this. The headline: “Thick Arctic ice blamed for Piedras Blancas low gray whale count.” This is out of San Luis Obispo. “Thick Arctic ice may be the reason for a precipitous drop in this spring’s two-month gray whale count at Point Piedras Blancas. Only 115 gray whale calves were counted this year by scientists at Point Piedras Blancas, down dramatically from the 285 counted last year. It’s the fourth-lowest count in the 14-year history of the cetacean census.” Now, how can this be? There’s thick arctic ice, thick! Does this mean that global warming would be better for the whales if the thick ice would become thin? It is a moral dilemma!
Story #4: NY Times Buries No Child Left Behind Success
RUSH: The New York Times has done it again. On Sunday they buried the JFK terror plot story on page 30 (depending on the paper; I had the international edition and the story was on page 30, but it was on page 37 in the New York edition). Well, they’ve done it again: “New Study Finds Gains Since No Child Left Behind — Student achievement has increased and test score gaps between white students and black and Hispanic students have narrowed in many states since President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind law in 2002, according to a new survey of state scores in reading and math. But the study, released yesterday by the Center on Education Policy, an independent Washington group that closely monitors the law, cautioned that ‘it is difficult if not impossible to determine the extent to which these trends in test results have occurred because of N.C.L.B.'” The news is great, but… Yeah, the news, but… They have “buts” throughout the story. But the interesting thing is: Where was the story in the New York Times? The story was on page C-15, right before the sports pages — and we all know that none of those wimp sissies who read the New York Times give a damn about sports because it’s too macho, so we know that they’re never going to see this.
Story #5: Democrats Court Christian Conservatives
RUSH: Yesterday we had an extensive discussion on this program about that Democrat forum on CNN Monday night where they made their appeal to those of you who are Christian voters in America. I appropriately said, “What’s this? They normally hate you people. They resent the hell out of you. Now all of a sudden they’re out there courting you?” You know, to them, we have no room for religion in politics — separation of church and state and all that — but here come the libs trying to court you. This has been picked up on twice today.
Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post: “The Democrats’ Leap of Faith — You know it’s a different kind of candidate forum when Hillary Clinton allows that she sometimes prays. …When Barack Obama muses on the nature of good vs. evil. When John Edwards recounts that he ‘strayed away from the Lord’ in adulthood, only to find that ‘my faith came roaring back’ after the death of his 16-year-old son. This is not Michael Dukakis’s Democratic Party. Instead, as was shown by Monday night’s forum on faith, sponsored by CNN and the liberal evangelical group Sojourners, it is a party on a mission: to make inroads into Republicans’ ability to attract and, more important, turn out religious voters. ‘The biggest thing is that it happened,’ Mara Vanderslice, a Democratic consultant who headed John Kerry’s 2004 efforts to connect with religious voters, said of the event. ‘Think how far we’ve come from just a couple of years ago, when Republicans claimed religion and religious Americans.’ Why sweat the God gap? Voters who attend worship at least once a week account for 40 percent of the electorate, according to exit polls, and they tilt heavily toward the GOP.”
Forty percent of the electorate. What’s amazing about this to me is the Republicans — the blue-blood country club Republicans — are embarrassed of these people. I’m sure you remember me telling stories of many northeastern dinner parties where these country club blue-blood Republicans would up to me (this is in the early nineties): “What you going to do about those Christian voters, what are you going to do about them?” “What do you mean, what am I going to do about them?” “They’re destroying the party, all this abortion garbage. We gotta get abortion out of the party. It’s killing us. It’s going to destroy the Republican Party.” But that’s only the reason the Republican Party was winning all those elections! What was happening was these northeastern guys were getting henpecked by their wives and they just didn’t want to put up with it — plus they were a little embarrassed themselves to be in the same party as a moral majority and these kinds of things. So while the country club blue-blood moderate Republicans have been trying to drive these people out of the party, the Democrats are out there now making a big play for them.
Ruth Marcus says here, “For the 2008 campaign, the Democrats have the advantage of — you might say they are blessed with — three front-running candidates for whom religion isn’t a matter of conversion on the road to Des Moines.” Well, I think that’s a little debatable. I think these people don’t have a consistent track record of reaching out to religious voters. None of them do. Hillary doesn’t. Edwards doesn’t. Who else is in that mix-up? Well, we don’t know about Obama; he’s only been around the national scene for two years. I mean, these guys are not known for running around talking about God and participating in prayer breakfasts and that kind of thing.
Then in the Christian Science Monitor today, Linda Feldmann writes, “Can the religious left sway the ’08 race? — Democrat presidential candidates speaking openly about faith competing for values voters.” She refers to this thing on CNN Monday night as an intimate discussion of faith, but there was nothing intimate about it — that was the whole point, that was what was observable. When Mrs. Clinton said, “Yeah, I pray, and I have faith,” she didn’t say in what or in who.
Story #6: Discarded Drugs Found in Bull Sharks
RUSH: “Sharks in one Florida river are getting a dose of human medicine, and now scientists want to know if it’s a prescription for trouble. Scientists recently found traces of prescription antidepressants, cholesterol-lowering drugs and synthetic estrogens in the blood of young bull sharks in the Caloosahatchee River on Florida’s southwest Gulf Coast. This summer, they’ll study the issue more widely. On Friday, scientists with Mote Marine Laboratory fished for bull sharks as part of research to find out what drugs the sharks encounter most and whether the doses are large enough to alter how they behave and reproduce. The sharks come into contact with treated wastewater which includes traces of the medications previously identified as the cholesterol-reducer Lipitor, various antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft and Celexa. The Caloosahatchee receives treated wastewater from several sewer plants and passes…” Well, isn’t this interesting: prescription drugs in sharks. It would be interesting to know how it does affect their behavior and whether or not they’ll be as aggressive or will calm down a bit.
Story #7: Honda Discontinues Accord Hybrid Sedan
RUSH: Honda is discontinuing its Accord hybrid sedan. “With gas prices reaching record highs and increasing public interest in environmentally friendly technologies, you’d think…” this is the AP “…you’d think that any car labeled as a hybrid would sell easily.” No, we wouldn’t! It’s you people in the Drive-By Media who think all this stuff amongst yourselves! “Honda Motor Company on Tuesday announced it will discontinue the hybrid version of its Accord sedan citing disappointing sales. Analysts said that despite the Accord’s superior performance compared with some of its higher volume competitors, it just doesn’t fit with the current consumer demands for the smallest, cheapest hybrids with eye-popping fuel economy.” So nothing against Honda, obviously, but I cannot say that I’m disappointed in this because when I see things like this, it rewards my faith in the overall informed intelligence of the American people: they’re not buying into this ridiculous hype.
Story #8: More Turbulence to Hit Hillary Campaign
RUSH: All right, folks. I just had some little birds telling me… Well, let’s put it this way: more turbulence is about to hit the Hillary campaign. Somebody is leaking more campaign documents of hers (like the skip-Iowa document because she can’t win), but this time the leaks are to the New York Times — and might hit as early as tomorrow. Somebody is sabotaging, or trying to sabotage, the Hillary campaign. We’re keeping a sharp eye here.
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Story #1: Fox Must Keep Apologizing to John Conyers
RUSH: You may be aware of the hurt feelings of John Conyers, the esteemed congressman from Michigan. The other day the Fox News Channel was doing a story on the indictment of Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana), and they rolled tape of Conyers! (Ha, ha!) Conyers, of course, got very upset about this. He couldn’t believe they would make such an error — and of course the underlying “offense” that congressman Conyers felt was that Fox doesn’t know the difference between Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) and Conyers because they’re both black and the old saw that “they all look alike.” So Conyers was playing on that and demanded an apology, and Fox has apologized — twice. But that’s not nearly enough! I think Fox needs to apologize every day for awhile, and maybe even do an apology tour. I haven’t seen the Fox apology today, but Snerdley said he saw it yesterday. What time did you see it? It was during the show that’s on now? Well, regardless, I want to apologize to Congressman Conyers on behalf of the Fox News Channel, since they have not apologized today. I think that this is something that the Fox News people should continually apologize for, every day, and roll correct tape this time of Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) when reporting on the Conyers story so as not to leave any confusion about this. This is a horrible thing that happened. In fact, I don’t think Conyers has accepted the apology. Fox sent somebody to his office to apologize, but I don’t know if he actually accepted.Story #2: Cat Invasion Blamed on Global Warming
RUSH: Global warming news: “Droves of cats and kittens are swarming into animal shelters nationwide, and global warming is to blame, according to one pet adoption group.” This is from LiveScience.com. “Several shelters operated by a national adoption organization called Pets Across America reported a 30 percent increase in intakes of cats and kittens from 2005 to 2006, and other shelters across the nation have reported similar spikes of stray, owned and feral cats. The cause of this feline flood is an extended cat breeding season thanks to the world’s warming temperatures, according to the group, which is one of the country’s oldest and largest animal welfare organizations. ‘Cats are typically warm-weather, spring-time breeders,’ said the group’s president, Kathy Warnick. ‘However, states that typically experience primarily longer and colder winters are now seeing shorter, warmer winters, leading to year-round breeding.'” Honest to God, this is what she says! Honest! It amazes me that this movement has so many asinine, irresponsible, laughable claims are made in the name of global warming and there are still intelligent people who buy into this. Global warming should have been discredited long ago, but we’re not going to give up on discrediting it, folks — just like we’re not going to give up on killing the immigration bill.
Story #3: Cheney Criticized for Taking Action
RUSH: You want to talk about a non-story? Here’s the Washington Post today. “Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday. The meeting came one day before White House officials tried to get approval for the same program from then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who lay recovering from surgery in a hospital, according to former deputy attorney general James B. Comey. Comey’s disclosures, made in response to written questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, indicate that Cheney and his aides were more closely involved than previously known in a fierce internal battle over the legality of the warrantless surveillance program. The program allowed the National Security Agency to monitor phone calls and e-mails between the United States and overseas.” At least they got it right this time in describing what the program was. It was not “spying on Americans” — it never was. “Comey said that Cheney’s office later blocked the promotion of a senior Justice Department lawyer, Patrick Philbin, because of his role in raising concerns about the surveillance.”
Now, this is being reported as a crime. So what? He’s vice president! You know, I think he also urged the military to win in Iraq. Well, let’s impeach him! He was in favor of a program to help nab the kind of suspects that were nabbed in the JFK terrorist plot put on page 30 of the New York Times this past Sunday. So what? He’s vice president! If there’s somebody standing in the way of the program he wants, get rid of them. He’s vice president! He’s supported victory in the war, too. Wow, what a bad, bad man: Dick Cheney!
Story #4: Hurricane Surge May Be Nothing New
RUSH: “Hurricane Surge May Be Nothing New, Study Says — Surge in major Atlantic hurricanes over the last decade often cited as evidence of increasing global warming may not be a surge at all but a return to normal storm patterns. Using nearly three centuries of hurricane history recorded in organic storm debris encased in coral reefs, researchers found that the frequency of major hurricanes today was about the same as it was during the extended periods from the mid-1700s to the mid-1900s. There were periods that were just as active as we see…” Really? Why is this even news? There is not one weather occurrence happening on the planet today that has not happened before. Not one! There is not one temperature on this planet that has not been reached somewhere else on the planet sometime before. Besides, we didn’t have any thermometers way back when, and therefore we didn’t have records. At any rate, Max Mayfield said last year, “This is not global warming,” and William Gray said, “This is not global warming. This is a normal cycle.” But now we have a study that can back up what the experts have already said.
Story #5: Feel Good Overtures to Iran Don’t Work
RUSH: I guess that little outreach program we have with Iran is not working, ladies and gentlemen. “ABC News is reporting that Iran has been caught ‘red-handed’ shipping weapons into Afghanistan. NATO officials say that they caught Iran red-handed shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives, and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran’s proxy war against it United States and Great Britain. ‘It is inconceivable that it is anyone other than the Iranian government that’s doing this,’ said former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, an ABC News consultant.” Well, if Richard Clarke said it, then it’s gotta be true! “Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stopped short earlier this week of blaming Iran…” Of course he did, because we’re trying to make buds with them. We’re trying to make nice with them. He says the US “didn’t have evidence of the involvement of the Iranian government in support of the Taliban, but an analysis by a senior coalition official concludes that there is clear evidence of Iran’s involvement.”
So those feel-good overtures — hmm, must not have worked. This is an act of war, and they’re doing the same thing in Iraq and telling us what they’re going to do. Once again earlier this week Ahmadinejad came out and said the time is running out on Israel, that the “clock is ticking,” that their days are numbered. And everybody who hears him say this just says, “Ah, he’s just some little crackpot over there. Don’t worry about it, Rush! Nothing’s going to happen!” Sure. Okay. Fine.
Story #6: Rob Lowe Kills Iowa State Bird
RUSH: Did you hear about this? Rob Lowe was in West Des Moines, Iowa playing golf, and he hit a bird in mid-flight. He was hitting an approach shot on the fourth hole when his ball hit a goldfinch. Now, the goldfinch is the state bird of Iowa. He killed the state bird of Iowa — and he broke out in laughter and applause! He and his golf buddies started clapping and applauding: “Unbelievable… Who comes here and kills the state bird? Only me.” Ha, ha, ha. He also said, “I got my first birdie.” Hey, this is a sensitive, Hollywood guy who cares about animals and the environment.
Story #7: California Will Pay People to Drive Hybrids
RUSH: Try this. The state assembly in California is going to vote — probably today, maybe tomorrow — on a piece of legislation that’s been written by Assemblyman Ira Ruskin, who is a Democrat from Redwood City, which is over there in the Bay Area. “The measure would require buyers of gas guzzlers, which emit high levels of greenhouse gases, to pay a surcharge of up to $2,500. The revenue would be used to reward buyers of more fuel-efficient models with rebates of up to $2,500. The measure, Assembly Bill 493, would take effect in the 2011 model year. ‘This will change many people’s behavior and, more importantly, change the automakers’ behavior to make cleaner cars for everybody, which is what they should have been doing all along,’ said Dan Kalb, policy director for the Union of Concerned Scientists, a public health lobby that is sponsoring the legislation.” It’s a bunch of libs! “‘This will penalize large families and the working men and women of California who depend on larger vehicles for their way of life,’ said Charles Territo, spokesman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which represents Detroit automakers and Toyota, among others.” So, the liberals are who they are: “We have to take things away from people.” In this case, you go out and buy a Hummer — or some big mama like that — and they’re going to charge you 2,500 additional bucks and give it to people who buy these little lawn mowers with a couple of seats on them.
Story #8: PMSNBC Has No Idea What “Gut Check” Means
RUSH: I saw something on PMSNBC the other day; they’re doing a promotion called “Gut Check America.” On their website it says, “What keeps you up at night? Gut Check America is your chance to tell us what really matters in our country and to help determine what topics MSNBC.com covers.”
Now, this is a further effort by the Drive-Bys to keep us all scared and upset. It has seeped from feminist rhetoric and the chick-ification of the newsrooms into, “What keeps you up at night?” I have something for those of you at MSNBC.com. You need to come up with a new name for this. “Gut check” means facing your fears head on — not allowing them to keep you up at night, covering your head in the bed sheets or cowering in the corner quaking and quivering at the shadows in fear. If you are being kept up at night, it’s because you failed your gut check or you’re not having the gut check! I mean, the Drive-Bys wouldn’t know a gut check if it hit them in the stomach. You ought to see their graphic here — they have some metrosexual guy holding a flag with their graphic above him: “Stand and Be Counted: What Keeps You Up at Night?”
But I guess, you know, they have to call it “gut check” because if they said just, “What keeps you up at night?” the answer would be, “It ain’t MSNBC!” Ha, ha! Actually, since it’s not a gut check, what they ought to say is, “Are you wetting yourself at night? Tell us why. Are you so scared you are soiling yourself? Tell us all about it here at MSNBC.com.”
Story #9: Brazile: William Jefferson (D-LA) Should Resign
RUSH: Democrat strategerist Donna Brazile has urged Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) to resign — this via an interview that aired yesterday on National Public Radio. She said, “I personally hope that he would do what’s best for his family and his constituents and put his legal case before everything else and allow somebody else to step up and represent that district. If there’s one congressional district in America that needs a full-time lawmaker focused and committed on the recovery of the Gulf coast, it’s the second congressional district of Louisiana,” which is the district of Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana). She said that she believes the pressure on Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) to step down now will come from two sources: his colleagues on the Democrat side of Congress, and also from the people back home in New Orleans. I don’t know if that’s going to happen; we got a call from New Orleans the other day and the guy said that people down there are saying it’s a conspiracy against Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana). But don’t you know that Nancy Pelosi would love it if they could get some people in New Orleans to start demanding that he resign? It’d take her off the hook.
Story #10: Putin Tells Bush Where to Put His Missile Shield
RUSH: It could well be that Dingy Harry’s trying to light a fire under President Bush with this immigration defeat. Actually, right now, Bush is over there at the G8; he’s trying to deal with Putin and the missile shield business. But Putin told him where he can put his missile shield earlier today.
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Story #1:The Sopranos Keep Their Options Open
RUSH: I didn’t see it. I just got busy last night. I just didn’t see it. I’ve got it Tivo’d. I’ve been reading all about it, and it seems like people are livid and angry over the ending to this thing. I’ll tell you (interruption). Snerdley just said on the IFB that it was great. From what I’ve read, it sounds to me like it’s what we all should have expected. They never tie up loose ends on this show, why should they when it’s over? I told you last week, they gotta keep some of these characters around for something that might come up down the road later anyway.
Story #2:Bridge Built by Blind Man Collapses
RUSH: Try this headline: (This story is worth it just for the headline.) “Two Jailed After Bridge Built By Blind Man Collapses.” You heard right. “A Chinese court has jailed two officials after they let a blind contractor build a bridge which collapsed during construction and injured 12 people.” I shouldn’t laugh about this but (Laughing.)
Story #3:Breck Girl’s Terror Strategy: Peace Corps
RUSH:Did you hear about what the Breck Girl is going to do to fight Islamic terrorism? Peace Corps. Don’t we already have a Peace Corps? Didn’t JFK do this? Isn’t the Peace Corps still around? I know we got Clinton’s volunteers for freedom or whatever, he did his own. He had AmeriCorps. He had the sense to call it something else. The Breck Girl is out there saying this. I mean, really, folks. This is from a press release: “Senator Edwards outlining a new national security strategy that includes the creation of a 10,000-person civilian peace corps to stem the tide of terrorism in weak and unstable countries.” So we’re going to send a bunch of little lily-livered, linguini-spined liberal kids over to Middle East countries where terrorists are being born and (interruption). I know” America to Capture the Peace Act.
Story #4:Ohio School Serves Students Gin
RUSH: This is in Akron, Ohio: “Ohio charter school that emphasizes African history and culture served gin to sixth graders at a graduation ceremony. State educational officials said they plan to investigate it. Did you hear about this? “Four students were given a teaspoon of gin mixed with water on Tuesday in a ceremony modeled on a Ghanian rite of passage event.” No, no lime garnish, and there’s not even sparkling water. I mean, gin just with water. “The ritual was intended…” this is the truth now “…the ritual was intended to teach truthfulness.”The students were blindfolded, giving them the uncertain feeling that goes with moving from one stage of life to another, he said. Each student was given a teaspoon of water and a teaspoon of the gin-water mix, and then asked to identify which contained water. The students recognized that the gin wasn’t water and spit it out before swallowing, Whitaker said. The point is to teach the children to be honest, he said.”
Yep, “‘this is part of an ancestral African tradition,’ said Candie Nelson, whose 13-year-old son participated in the ritual. She had no objection to it. ‘It’s not like you’re drinking hundred proof alcohol here.'” This is an ancestral tradition designed to teach people to be honest. Man. Do you remember how they taught you to be honest when you were in sixth grade? George Washington and the cherry tree. But I guess that won’t work anymore, got to have gin in the sixth grade.
Story #5: The NAALCP Hits Hard Times; Goes Pro-Life?
RUSH: The nation’s largest organization representing black Americans,” the NAALCP — that would be the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People, “is cutting staff and closing…” By the way, this is not a story that you will see in the Drive-By Media. This comes from the website LifeNews.com. The NAALCP “is cutting staff and closing down some of its regional locations in the face of declining donations. The moves come on the heels of a flip-flop on abortion and some black leaders saying abortion is distracting from civil rights issues. The NAACP took an official position in favor of abortion in early 2004, a stance it quietly rescinded months later after significant backlash.” They’ve flip-flopped on this.
“A poll conducted by Black Enterprise Magazine found that 60% of African Americans disapproved of the decision. Then, last year,” the Justice Brothers, “the Revs. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Joseph Lowery kicked off a three day event in Dallas and said abortion has been used too much to block discussion of issues like voting rights and affirmative action. Now, the NAACP is cutting its staff of 119 down to 70 and with close some of the offices around the nation that it operates.” So they have rescinded their official position in early 2004, being in favor of abortion. So I guess we’re to assume from this that blacks are opposed abortion; is that right? Is that what we’re to assume from this? Because this is not written very well, I’m not sure I get what their current position is, pro-life or pro-choice. I don’t know what it is. But it doesn’t seem to make any difference. I know the NAALCP is losing money, but 90% of the black vote and the presidential race goes to Democrats and we all know what their position is on abortion. So that’s not going to affect the way they vote. It’s just affecting the NAALCP’s coffers.
Story #6: They’re Searching for Two (2) Mosquitoes
RUSH: Be on the lookout out there, ladies and gentlemen. This is from LaCrosse, Wisconsin. The headline here pretty much says it all: “Health Officials are Looking for Two Dangerous Mosquitoes — Local health officials will monitor Monroe County and other parts of southwestern Wisconsin this summer for two dangerous types of mosquitoes that can carry both West Nile virus and encephalitis.” These are armed and dangerous mosquitoes. When I saw the headline, I actually thought, “Two mosquitoes that they’re looking for?” Two? Not two “types.” You have to read the story to get to the nuts and bolts of it.
Story #7:Vitamin D Cuts Cancer, But Sun Doesn’t?
RUSH: How many of you people out there take lots of vitamins? This is another one of these health stories that just has your head swimming. “Study released recently concludes that increased Vitamin D intake reduces the risk of developing cancer. The findings are the latest in a growing body of evidence suggesting that current dietary guidelines for Vitamin D may be too low.” Now, your body makes Vitamin D when you are in the sunlight, ladies and gentlemen, but we’ve been told you can’t go outside. The sun is dangerous. The sun is going to kill us. The sun has nothing to do with global warming, but it can cause cancer. The sun has nothing to do with the temperature. The sun has nothing to do with the climate, but, boy, sunscreen? If you don’t use that, you could sunburn really bad, get various forms of skin cancer and so forth. So the medical community, aided by the Drive-By Media, has scared us to death over the sun. Now, maybe not being in the sun outside in the fresh air is what causes cancer, not a lack of Vitamin D. It’s just so confusing. I fully expect someday for them to say that being out in the fresh air because it isn’t fresh anymore, poses a health hazard. Somebody will start marketing fresh air pills. Do you realize that would be like the bottled water scam? Just get some capsules, gel capsules, and put nothing in them, and sell fresh air.
“Swallow this.”
I’m catching all kinds of flak now from the health nuts. “Dear Rush. Are you saying you don’t think the sun causes skin cancer? I think you know not what you say. My dad has skin cancer, and up until he retired at 70 he worked outside as a lineman for a public service company and as an electrician. Now he constantly has to go to the doctor to have biopsies done, mostly on his face and arms and neck.” No, I’m not saying that the sun doesn’t cause cancer. I’m saying that we have created a scare climate about the sun and people are afraid to go out in it at all unless they’re all covered up. Some people have sensitivities to it and so forth, but I’m just saying the sun is where we get Vitamin D. Keep all this in context. People are out there taking supplements. Now I’m going to hear from the supplement/vitamin crowd thinking I’m hurting their business, you know, just like the compact fluorescent guys. They’ve been on my case now for months.
Story #8:Study: The Death Penalty Deters
RUSH: Listen to the way this story starts out here in the Associated Press: “Anti-death penalty forces have gained momentum in the past few years, with a moratorium in Illinois, court disputes over lethal injection in more than a half-dozen states and progress toward outright abolishment in New Jersey. The steady drumbeat of DNA exonerations — pointing out flaws in the justice system — has weighed against capital punishment. The moral opposition is loud, too, echoed in Europe and the rest of the industrialized world, where all but a few countries banned executions years ago.” But, “What gets little notice, however, is a series of academic studies over the last half-dozen years that claim to settle a once hotly debated argument — whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent to murder. The analyses say yes. They count between three and 18 lives that would be saved by the execution of each convicted killer.” What did that study say? Yes, I know you’re asking me that, folks, and you heard right.
The scientists “count between three and 18 lives that would be saved by the execution of each convicted killer. The reports have horrified death penalty opponents and several scientists, who vigorously question the data and its implications. So far, the studies have had little impact on public policy,” because nobody knows about them! “‘Science does really draw a conclusion. It did. There is no question about it,’ said Naci Mocan, an economics professor at the University of Colorado at Denver. ‘The conclusion is there is a deterrent effect.’ A 2003 study he co-authored, and a 2006 study that re-examined the data, found that each execution results in five fewer homicides, and commuting a death sentence means five more homicides. ‘The results are robust, they don’t really go away,’ he said. ‘I oppose the death penalty. But my results show that the death penalty (deters) — what am I going to do, hide them?'” You don’t have to hide them, Naci, the Drive-By Media will do that for you. I’ve always thought it’s a bogus argument anyway. Whether it deters or not is not the point. Capital punishment is a form of punishment. The word is punishment. Whether it deters or not — you know it does deter, because that killer can’t kill again. I haven’t read the whole story. I don’t know how they arrived at these numbers. But this guy is a death penalty opponent. He’s out there making the case here that it does actually deter other bad guys from running out there killing people.
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Story #1: Bill Clinton: We Should Live in Huts
RUSH: Have you heard about Bill Clinton’s latest idea for global warming? Sod roofs, ladies and gentlemen. Thatch roofs like they have in the Third World. This is after we got Sheryl Crow and her one square of toilet paper per bathroom visit. Clinton is out making speeches to college students encouraging homeowners to skip the tar and the shingles and lay sod roofs. Well, what do you do in a drought? You gotta water the sod roof. If you don’t water the sod — this is absurd. Can you imagine in the United States of America in 2007 an ex-president is suggesting we put dirt and grass on the house? His reason is you put tar up there and shingles, that absorbs all kinds of heat in there, makes the house hotter, air-conditioning bills go up. So what you do is you put the sod roof, keeps the temperature in the house a little cooler right below the roof. Heck with that. Just put a tin roof up there and paint it white. Sod grass. I mean, that much roof, yeah, let’s all live in huts.
Story #2: “Campaign Fatigue” Covers for Democrats
RUSH: There’s a new disease the Drive-By Media is fearful of. It’s called “campaign fatigue.” I’m not kidding. I’m not kidding. We have details and a cure. Here’s the story from Reuters, and the authorette here, Ellen Wulfhorst: “Inundated with politics long before the 2008 presidential election, U.S. voters are in danger of suffering wearying bouts of the uniquely American affliction of ‘campaign fatigue’ in coming months. Experts say voters who follow the news closely are most at risk of the condition striking this year earlier than ever.” Folks (whispering), we have to be scared of getting campaign fatigue. All this is, is a cover that the Democrats are looking bad. There’s big news. I forget this poll. I have it in the stack here. Hillary Clinton cleans the clock of every Democrat contender but loses to every Republican — well, the top tier Republicans. She loses even to McCain, and it’s is not good news for the Democrats. This is all about… Campaign fatigue? This is trying to protect the Democrats. I’ve got the cure for this: turn off the television and just listen to me, and you will not get campaign fatigue. You’ll be more informed, and you’ll be more entertained and you’ll have a better outlook on life if you just turn off the TV.
Story #3: Dingy Harry’s Moment of Silence Digs Bush
RUSH: Dingy Harry Reid just informed Mitch McConnell that he’s going to go to the Senate floor at 2:15, ask for a moment of silence for the 3500 soldier deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, that was the original scheduled time for the president to address the press in the hall outside the Senate floor. He’s already done that, so the president must have gotten wind what was going to happen. He’s addressing the press about his meeting with Republican senators on the amnesty bill, the infiltration bill. So Dingy Harry has a moment of silence. This is simply to dig President Bush on the day that he came up to Capitol Hill in order to try to get Republican senators to change their minds on the amnesty bill.
Story #4: Tony Blair’s Version of “Drive-By Media”
RUSH: Tony Blair has just lashed out at the British media. “Britain’s media is like a feral beast that tears people and reputations to shreds.” He said this today in his parting shot at journalists after a decade in power. Most people think of feral as a wild cat. And it is. But what it actually means is a feral organism. You can have a feral pig. You can have a feral anything. A feral organism is one that has escaped from domestication. So we’ve domesticated cats, we’ve domesticated dogs. When you’ve got a feral dog, it’s a dog that’s escaped domestication. It’s gone back to its normal eat-anything-it-can-find mode, terrorize you and anything else it can do. But Blair accused the media of sensationalizing facts, breeding cynicism, and attacking public figures. “The fear of missing out means today’s media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits.” He made this speech at Reuters headquarters in London.
Journalists are “increasingly and to a dangerous agree driven by impact,” and this is driving down standards and doing a disservice to the public. Even he’s calling the Drive-By Media. He’s nailing it here. Great picture he’s painting: they hunt in a pack; they’re driven by impact, meaning they want destruction. They want to see Paris Hilton crack up. By the way, Paris Hilton, big story, no celebrities are rallying to her cause. Like Jodie Foster rallied to Mel Gibson’s cause. No celebrities and they’re puzzled out there, can’t figure it out, celebrities usually hang together. Can’t fool me on this. There’s nothing to protect. She’s a celebutard. There’s no celeb. She’s famous because she’s famous. Hasn’t done anything. There’s nothing to circle the wagons around here. Anyway, Tony Blair said, “The damage saps the country’s confidence and self-belief … it reduces our capacity to take the right decisions.” He said many newspapers have become “viewspapers” with opinion overtaking fact, that it was rare to find balance. That’s Tony Blair’s parting shot.
Story #5: Appeals Court Rules for Terrorists
RUSH: I’m sure you’ve heard here about the terrorist that’s been in jail here in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals basically said: Ah, ah, ah! You can’t hold this guy without charging him! “The Bush administration cannot use new anti-terrorism laws to keep US residents locked up indefinitely without charging them. A divided federal appeals court said on Monday, ruling a harsh rebuke of one of the central tools the administration believes it has to combat terror.” The headline of this story is: “Setback for Bush on Enemy Combatants.” It’s not a setback for Bush. It’s a setback for us! “It’s a 2-1 decision from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals…” You know, this story makes the case for keeping Club Gitmo open. This is why we should not close the place and move all these terrorists to the United States, and that’s what the people that want to close Club Gitmo want to do — and note who they are. They are all a bunch of liberals who want access to these people as clients. We are holding these people to keep ’em off the battlefield, not to try them for some crime yet to be committed. The courts used to understand this. Today, they don’t, and I have to tell you, after 9/11, I never thought the courts would drag this war into court, but that’s what’s been done. They say it’s a ruling against Bush, but it’s a ruling against us. Let me tell you about this guy al-Marri. He was lawfully in the United States on a student visa plotting to kill Americans.
The Fourth Circuit, and specifically a Clinton nominee and a Bush appointee, Roger Gregory — a black judge blocked by Republicans as being too liberal, but that Bush appointed him after Clinton left office. Clinton gave him a recess appointment and Bush, as part of the new tone to try to show the Democrats, “Hey, I’m willing to work with you. I’ll send President Clinton’s judge back up there!” Of course the Republicans passed him. So we have two Clinton appointees, and they’re the two to one in this ruling. Meanwhile, there are vacancies all over the Fourth Circuit, and they’re not being filled — and this used to be one of the most conservative circuits in the country. What the circuit court did yesterday essentially was rule that if you are in the US legally, in essence, and have managed to get some kind of legal stats then you have to be tried in the civilian system. Now, think about that. The most dangerous enemies we have are people who managed to evade detection by our immigration bureaucracy; they operate from within our country, within our borders to destroy us. This alone should be considered another blow to the amnesty bill. Keep these people in a military prison. Keep these people out at Club Gitmo or wherever.
Bring ’em in here, and this court says basically they are — well, anyway, this guy was entitled to it anyway because he was lawfully in the US on a student visa. To give blanket amnesty to more than 12 million people who were here after a 24-hour phony security check. Nobody believes a 24-hour security check’s going to be real. The result will be any terrorist found here being tried in a civilian rather than military court, if they are caught at all and if they are tried. Now, the judges — these two judges, the Clinton appointee and Roger Gregory — just overturned 200 years of law and policy on their heads. Of course, it’s being said about them, “Well, they’re upholding the Constitution.” Here’s the history of Roger Gregory. Jesse Helms had opposed Roger Gregory and stopped his confirmation, under Clinton. Clinton then recessed appointed him. Bush, after he was inaugurated him, gave Roger Gregory a full appointment — the new tone — and these appointments make a difference. This is an absolute disaster, and he’s the first black on this court. That’s how the libs and the media see it. There are several vacancies on the Fourth Circuit. It used to be the most reliably conservative of all these circuits — and, see, our old buddy Lindsey Grahamnesty? You might remember this. One of the Bush nominees for the Fourth Circuit was blocked by Lindsey Grahamnesty, former general counsel of the Army, because Grahamnesty was punishing him for his views on detaining and interrogating terrorists at Gitmo. Remember that? Lindsey Graham, doing a John McCain, was trying to get noticed and applauded by the left-wing Drive-By Media and so forth, and our own guys blocking our own judges from getting on these courts.
Story #6: Mel Martinez: Debate in Spanish
RUSH: You will not believe this next story: “Saying presidential debates have been ‘geared’ in the past to black Americans, Sen. Mel Martinez, Florida Republican, argues that a U.S. presidential debate in Spanish would only help educate ‘what has become the largest minority group in our country.’ One day after voting to make English the official language of the country, the former Housing and Urban Development secretary who in 2005 became the first Cuban-American in the Senate, was asked on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal’ program for his thoughts on such a debate, proposed last week by the Spanish-language media giant Univision. ‘I think it’s a great thing,’ Mr. Martinez said. ‘When I came to this country, I didn’t speak [English] but learned it, and I think it’s important immigrants to this country learn the language of this country, which is English. ‘However, having said that, I think it’s a way of allowing people to know that the issues that they care about are being highlighted. We’ve had presidential debates geared to the African-American community of our country. I think one could be geared to the Spanish-Americans of our country.'”
Oh, now they’re “Spanish-Americans.” Next thing you know, they’re going to be calling them “Illegal Americans.” You wait. It’s gotta be the case. (laughing) There’s somebody is going to call ’em “Illegal Americans” or “Undocumented Americans,” or some such thing. You wait. I predict it as one of the things they’re going to do to move it forward. Anyway… “As for the presidential candidates who don’t speak Spanish, Mr. Martinez suggested ‘interpreters’ and ‘technology’ could play roles in any debate.” This is the guy that’s head of the Republican National Committee! I have a better idea, a better idea than having a presidential debate in Spanish. I think what we ought to do is hold a presidential debate, maybe two, in Mexico. Actually have the debates in Mexico. Have it in Puerto Vallarta, Cabo San Lucas, or you could do Mexico City. That way future residents of America can actually participate and make up their mind which president would be more friendly to them when they decide to cross the border. If we’re going to do this, go all the way, go down there and have the debates. Have sign language interpreters and closed-captioning. There are any number of ways to make it work.
Story #7: ChiComs Say To Hell with Ethanol
RUSH: The UK Times Online: “Food Price Rises Force a Cut in Biofuels.” I just love this. “China’s communist rulers,” the ChiComs, “announced a moratorium on the production of ethanol from corn and other food crops yesterday at the very time that Western leaders are rushing to embrace alternative food-based fuel technology. Beijing’s move underlines concerns that ethanol production is driving up rapidly the costs of corn and grain. It appears to reflect a growing reality about food-based alternative fuel: it is far more expensive both economically and environmentally, than Western politicians are likely to admit.” So once again the liberals out there push something — biofuels — and it’s wrong. Whatever they end up telling us, it is wrong, ladies and gentlemen. The thing that gets me is, it’s the ChiComs — the ChiComs! — who are figured this out. They’re communists, and they’re saying, “To hell with this.”
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Story #1: Immigrants Know How to Carpool
RUSH: Get this. “More people than ever are driving alone to work as the nation’s commuters balk at carpools and mass transit.” I know what you’re saying: “Rush, the Democrats have declared defeat, they’re raising the white flag, it’s Flag Day, and you’re talking about the way people drive to and from work.” Stick with me on this, folks. You know that I never, ever waste your time. “Regardless of fuel prices, housing and work patterns make it hard for suburban commuters to change their gas-guzzling ways,” despite all the efforts of liberals and the government to get us to carpool in the HOV lanes. We ain’t doing it! We’re going solo! We like our freedom! We don’t want back seat drivers; we don’t want to have a bunch of chitchat in the car. We just want to get where we’re going in our own time, in our own way.
However, there is a great caveat here: “Carpooling is most popular in the West, driven in part by immigrants.” Yes, the only people doing it right! The only people behaving responsibly are immigrants! “Seven of the top 10 metro areas for carpooling are in California. Most are in the center of the state, where a lot of immigrant farm workers share rides.” Ha, ha! So here they’re doing another thing Americans won’t do. They do the jobs Americans won’t do and they do the carpooling Americans won’t do. They are virtuous. They’re carpooling because eight of them together can only afford one car.Story #2: Obese Men with Heart Disease Live Longer
RUSH: I love stories that disapprove all of the previous myths that we’ve been showered with. “Among men with symptoms of heart disease, those who are obese tend to live longer than their normal-weight counterparts, a new study suggests. Researchers found that among nearly 6,900 male veterans assessed for symptoms of heart disease, those who were obese were less likely to die over the next 7.5 years compared with normal-weight men.” So obesity now helps with heart disease! What’s the AMA going to say? What are all the politically correct friends of ours going to say?
Story #3: Executions of Cell Phone Users Up in N. Korea
RUSH: Let me just give you the headline from this one. This is an Associated Press story I found in the Jerusalem Post. “‘Executions of Cell Phone Users Up in N. Korea’ — North Korea has increased its public executions against cell phone users and those who circulate outside information in the communist country, a South Korean government think tank said Thursday.” They execute you for using a cell phone over there! Well, yeah, because that could lead to insubordination and insulation. That could lead to subversion or any number of things. It could lead to the truth getting into the country! You want to talk about a bunch of “mind-numbed robots”? That’s what citizens of North Korea are in the current state.
Story #4: Dubai Buys Barneys: The Terrorists Win!
RUSH: As you know, ladies and gentlemen, some of my all-time favorite news stories are those that contain the word “Dubai.” If the news story also contains the words “ports deal,” well, then I’m close to nirvana. This story doesn’t contain “ports deal,” but guess what? You know the big, big, big clothing outfit store in Manhattan — Barneys — where all the New York effete elites go? Dubai’s going to buy it! Ha, ha! Barneys says that the Dubai government is near a deal to buy them in New York. Barneys — yes! Barneys is where, you know, the Upper West Side crowd goes to have lunch and buy clothes. This means that if we continue to go buy suits at Barneys, the terrorists win. I don’t know, folks, but everything is hitting me as funny today.
Story #5: Judge Rules Scooter Libby Will Go to Jail
RUSH: Judge Reggie Walton has made his ruling. Scooter Libby will go to jail while his case is appealed. It’s sad, it’s unfortunate, and it also complicates the whole process of a pardon if there was even one being considered. Well, maybe not. He may actually only serve some time, but overall this is perhaps detrimental to him.
Story #6: Mexican Leftists Plan to Legalize Prostitution
RUSH: This is a Reuters story: “Mexico City’s Leftist Lawmakers…” I saw that and I did a double-take. Leftist lawmakers actually identified! Well, I guess they’re proud of them, but that’s not the story. “Mexico City’s leftist lawmakers plan to legalize prostitution, the latest step toward making the sprawling capital the most liberal in Latin America, following laws allowing abortion and same-sex unions.” Ah, but Snerdley, I don’t think this is why Mexicans are trying to get in here. They’ve been coming before this happened. Well, yeah, it’s excellent point you make: we’re told by the amnesty bill supporters that these people are entrepreneurs and big conservatives coming into our country, just waiting to sign up with the GOP! They can’t wait to go out there and start reading about Ronald Reagan and listening to Rush Limbaugh and so forth — and yet they legalized prostitution.
Story #7: Supreme Court Rules on Union Dues
RUSH: There was a big Supreme Court ruling today, folks, and it was unanimous, by the way. Not good for Big Labor. “In a unanimous ruling on Thursday, the US Supreme Court said labor unions may not spend union dues for political purposes without first getting consent from the people who paid those dues. The ruling stems from a case in Washington State, where even teachers who were not active members of the Washington Education Association were required to pay dues to cover the costs of collective bargaining. Some of the money was spent on political causes that some teachers did not support. The Washington Education Association said the case involved only a small number of union workers who decided not to be active members. But a conservative legal group hailed Thursday’s court ruling. ‘The WEA decision is a great moment for America’s workers,’ said Pacific Legal Foundation Attorney Timothy Sandefur. ‘It’s sad enough that American workers — most of whom are not union supporters — are often forced to hand over their earnings to unions against their will, but the Washington Education Association went even further and used the money to support political causes that the workers did not believe in,’ he said.” Unanimous! Even Ruth “Buzzi” Ginsburg voted for this! Unbelievable!
Story #8: Lawmakers Keep Gay Marriage Vote from People
RUSH: Well, your Democrat Party has shown its true colors again. The Democrats, if they had the opportunity, would take every issue away from the public vote and take it up to the courts with their judges. In Massachusetts, “lawmakers voted today to block a proposed constitutional amendment that would have let voters decide whether to ban gay marriage in the only state that currently allows it. The narrow vote was a victory for gay marriage advocates and a devastating blow to efforts to reverse the historic 2003 state court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.” It’s not a “devastating blow” to anything other than democracy. The headline here should be: “Massachusetts Lawmakers Keep Gay Marriage Vote From People.” I could do their jobs better than they can with half my brain tied behind my back — and I don’t even do their jobs! Well, actually, I do do their jobs. These people are just more and more pathetic every living day.
Story #9: Clinton Makes $10M on Speeches About Rush
RUSH: Senator Hillary Clinton — Democrat, New York, running for president — reported that her husband, former President Bill Clinton — Democrat, Arkansas — made more than $10 million in paid speeches last year. The couple held two accounts, a regular bank account and a blind trust, “each valued at somewhere between five million and 25 million.” Don’t you love these ranges in the reporting requirements? (The forms do not require Congress members to report exact figures, only to note the range that they’re holdings fall within.)
So they came to Washington with nothing, and now they’ve turned their public offices into a fortune. I might add that Bill Clinton is making this $10 million in speeches by talking about me. In every speech he gives now, he references me and the human genome project and this little line of his that he has learned that we’re all 99.9% the same and that he ran into me in a restaurant in New York one night and was tempted to tell me, “Hey, Limbaugh, you and I are 99.9% the same, but I didn’t have the heart to tell the poor man because I think he would flee the restaurant in tears.” That’s his line. And it’s now in every speech that he gives.
Story #10: Flailing McCain Going Down the Drain
RUSH: John McCain, by the way, is plummeting in the polls. His fundraising is in bad, bad, bad, bad shape. But he says: “I’m guardedly optimistic — and I emphasize guardedly — we can get the [immigration] bill to the floor of the Senate just before the Fourth of July recess and pass it through the US Senate.” He also took a shot at Hillary Clinton — Democrat, New York — for including earmarks or narrowly targeted spending requests in the defense authorization bill. (And by the way, Mrs. Clinton is the earmark queen.) McCain said that Hillary Clinton had over $100 million in such funds attached to the bill and added, “We can’t do this earmarking and pork barreling if we’re ever going to be careful and serious stewards of the taxpayers’ dollars.” Ha! That has to make you laugh. “Serious stewards of the taxpayers’ dollars.” Senator McCain has never met a tax cut he liked.
Story #11: Sowell on Home Invaders and Guest Workers
RUSH: Thomas Sowell has a great column today, and it effectively makes the point here about the proper terms of usage for the illegal immigration debate or the amnesty bill. He said, “People who are pushing for a ‘guest worker’ program show not the slightest interest in what has been happening under guest-worker programs in Europe. Facts are apparently irrelevant. So is logic.” We want to turn to Europe for everything else, but yet we don’t want to turn to Europe for this — and here’s why: “Guests are people you invite to your home. Gate crashers are people who come without being invited. Home invaders are people who break in, despite doors that have been shut to keep them out. If the discussion of immigration laws respected either logic or honesty, we would be talking about a program to legalize home invaders instead of a guest-worker program. As for facts, guest workers from third-world countries have created centers of crime and violence in Europe, and some guest-worker communities have become breeding grounds for terrorists.
“Just as crime and violence in American inner cities have led not only to ‘white flight’ but also to a flight of the black, Hispanic, and Asian middle classes, so in Europe much of the native-born European population has fled from cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Brussels. Joel Kotkin’s classic book, The City, noted the ‘influx of immigrants’ who were ‘recruited to Europe during the labor shortages of the 1950s and 1960s’ who have become ‘an increasingly angry and sometimes violent element in what long had been remarkably peaceful urban areas.’ Another classic book — Our Culture: What’s Left of It by Theodore Dalrymple — found a similar pattern in France. Long before the Muslim riots in Paris which shocked France and the world, Dalrymple pointed out how immigrants in France had become a major source of crime and violence, not only in Paris but in other parts of the country.”
So there’s evidence that guest worker programs are actually home invader programs. It’s clear the programs don’t work and they cause problems, and yet the evidence is being ignored by the likes of Senator McCain, Senator Kennedy and Senator Grahamnesty and all the others who can’t wait to bring the bill back to the floor to try again.
Story #12: GOP Blocks Pelosi’s Secret Earmark Plans
RUSH: Here’s the story on the Pelosi earmarks. This is from Fox News. “Republicans claimed victory today in the battle the force Democrats to abandon plans to bypass early disclosures on thousands of requests…” The “earmarks.” Why don’t these people just say “earmarks” rather than call them “thousands of requests made by lawmakers for pet projects”? Call them “earmarks”! “The fight over these pet projects” — earmarks! — “for two days held up a budget bill that would fund the Homeland Security Department. Republican leaders then announced an agreement that would allow floor debates on earmarks. John Boehner praised the agreement reached between Republicans and Democrats to bring an end to secret slush funds for earmarks. Boehner said, ‘I think that we won this round.'” What’s happening here is that the Democrats ran on the culture of corruption — “Republicans are corrupt! There are earmarks and all this pork barrel projects!” — and they vowed to clean that all up. David Obey of Wisconsin got involved and said, “No, we’re not going to clean it up. We’re going to put these earmarks at the end of the budget process. We’re going to do all of these things after the bill is signed, after it’s passed.” Then the Republicans said, “Damn well we are not going to do that!” and Obey replied, “You do it or I’m going to demonize you and make you pay for it.” The Republicans then said, “Go ahead. You demonize us every day anyway! What’s new about that?” They just stuck it to them!
Now, listen to the San Francisco Chronicle treatment of this story before the Republicans claimed victory. “For the second straight day, minority House Republicans ground the House to a standstill Wednesday as they drove home their objections to a Democratic plan to deny a floor vote on lawmakers’ thousands of pet projects.” Ear marks! “Pet projects,” my shrinking rear end! “Public anger over the surging number of special member projects called earmarks — derided as pork barrel spending –…” Not “derided.” It is pork barrel spending! Nothing’s ever what it is when Democrats are doing it, is it? I’ll continue: “…was a factor in the Republicans’ loss of House control last November, GOP members concede, and now they say they’ve gotten religion on the need for openness in government. … Democrats argued Republicans were engaging” — and get this now – “in partisan attacks to try to embarrass Pelosi.” This was business as usual! The Democrats were just conducting business as usual! And now the Democrats are whining that the Republicans have tried to embarrass Pelosi! Now, this story’s from yesterday, before the Republicans claimed victory. So if the Democrats started whining about this, then that means the Republicans had the goods on what Obey and the Democrats were trying to do.
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Story #1: Seligmann Testimony Nails Nifong
RUSH: I was watching Fox this morning, and they had live coverage of the trial of Mike Nifong in North Carolina. This is the hearing about Nifong being disbarred — it’s over his law license. He’s saying, “Yeah, I made some ethical mistakes,” but he’s just trying to limit the damage here. He’s trying to prevent himself from being disbarred by making some admissions to things here, like saying his comments that he made were improper and so forth. But he’s not the story today as far as I’m concerned. I watched Reade Seligmann, who’s one of the three lacrosse players who was falsely accused and harassed by students at Duke and the 88 professors and all kinds of malcontents in the courtroom when those guys had their court appearance. His testimony… When these guys had their press conference, I was blown away with their composure and their maturity.
Reade Seligmann’s testimony today was heart-wrenching. He broke down. He started crying when he started describing the phone call to his mother to tell her that he had been accused of rape — that he had been picked in a lineup. His mother had a camera on her, and she was crying, too. It was terrible, listening to this story. But even before he broke down and started crying, he was just remarkably composed and mature and truthful and said, “We volunteered DNA first thing out of the box because we knew we didn’t do this, and that’s the fastest way to prove it,” — and of course the DNA results were held back and nobody was informed them until they were leaked. They spent some time in this trial yesterday pointing out that, “Oh, there was no conspiracy here. That’s was an unfortunate mistake that happened.” But there are no coincidences, folks. This was the second time I’ve seen public speaking from these lacrosse players, and they are just profoundly impressive. They have obviously been raised very well, and they’re quality people that just exuded composure and class.
Of course, when you have the truth and passion on your side you can be a pretty good speaker. When you know your subject and when you know what you’re saying is the truth, it gets rid of a lot of the nerves and tension that some people face when they get up to speak publicly. I mean, this thing was heartwarming. At the same time, when Nifong started his testimony, they had a camera cut to the families, and I think one of the other lacrosse players — well, Seligmann and Colin Finnerty. The looks on their faces and their parents’ faces could have killed when Nifong was up speaking. I remember telling Snerdley yesterday, “You know what? I knew this trial was going to start. I think so much time has gone by, so much passion has dissolved here, and legal communities tend to stick together, I’ll bet he gets some kind of slap on the face but not much,” and I have totally changed my thinking on that now after what I saw today, with him admitting impropriety and unethical behavior and mistakes in his statements. Now he knows he could have the entire book thrown at him over this and is trying to limit that. I don’t know how long this is going to go, but if you have a chance to see some of this over the weekend or tonight, you should see Seligmann’s testimony.Story #2: Clintons Invested in Wal-Mart, Big Oil
RUSH: During the break at the top of the hour, I went back to Snerdley’s office (as I always do, just to make sure to keep his morale up and get his mind right. Open Line Friday is tough for him.) Anyway, he had C-SPAN on, and they cut away to a Clinton speech — and who was Clinton giving a speech to? Yeah, the “Women and Families Consortium,” or some such liberal group. The sound was not up, so I don’t know what Clinton was saying, but I can guess. He’s probably talking to some liberal group that wants as much control over families and women and their, quote, unquote, issues as possible. I’m sure he’s telling them what they all want to hear, about how “We all have to work together, you know? People out there want to destroy you, but you’re doing God’s work. You’re doing the Lord’s work and you’re hanging in for people disadvantaged and so forth, the downtrodden, the hungry, and the thirsty, and you’re doing the right thing, and don’t be talked out of it,” blah, blah, blah. And I’m sitting there saying, “There’s no way this guy and Hillary would live their lives the way they are encouraging these people to tell us to live our lives.” Then I stumbled across this story from the Associated Press.
“Hoping to avoid any possible conflict of interest, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband, the former president, liquidated a blind trust valued at $5 million to $25 million in April after learning that it included such investments as oil and drug companies and military contractors, her presidential campaign confirmed. ‘As a presidential candidate, Senator Clinton was required to make her assets public. As a result, she had to dissolve her blind trust,’ Howard Wolfson, a senior Clinton adviser, said late Thursday. ‘Upon its dissolution, she and the president chose to go above and beyond what was required of them and liquidate their assets in order to avoid even the hint of a conflict of interest.'” Would you like to hear what the investments were, ladies and gentlemen? Here we go: “several pharmaceutical companies,” Big Drug, “including Abbott Labs, Amgen, Genentech, Novartis, Pfizer and Wyeth, with assets in each company ranging from $100,001 to $250,000, The New York Times reported in Friday editions. Other assets included BP Amoco,” Big Oil, “Chevron Corp., ” Big Oil, ” Exxon Mobil Corp.,” Big Oil, ” Raytheon,” Big Defense contracts, “and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.”
So every industry and company that they demonize, they are invested in! (Or they were.) They have liquidated it, and I don’t believe this notion that it was in the blind trust and therefore — well, they had to know what they were invested in. “Blind trust” just means you don’t know how it’s doing, but they knew that this disclosure was coming up, and they were going to have to do this, and I don’t believe for a minute that the dissolution of the investments in these companies was for any highbrow reason of openness and sunshine and all that — it was to avoid charges of hypocrisy. I mean, here they are demonizing every one of these industries. In fact, during the health care attempt back in the early nineties, Mrs. Clinton was doing everything she could to trash these companies. I wondered back then if she was investing in pharmaceutical stocks and then selling short after driving the prices down, and I still don’t know. Who knows what’s been going on with any of that?
Anyway, according to these disclosure forms, their net worth is now approximately $50 million. They came to Washington with nothing. How does this happen? Clinton as president made 200 grand. Hillary as senator makes 60, 70, 80 — I don’t know. Clinton’s been out there doing speeches and they’ve written books and so forth, but we also know they have ties with some really strange people — like this Gupta guy — and they have ties with Dubai. In fact, Clinton was even helping Dubai lobby for the ports deal back when it happened! So this is just typical. These people, I’m telling you: everything they tell you is going to be wrong or is going to end up being in one degree or another a falsehood if you just sit around and wait. I mean, Wal-Mart, of all companies? She was acting embarrassed a while ago that she was on the Wal-Mart board! She was having to cover for that lately: “Well, that was in Arkansas a long time ago. I had to do that. I was in business down there. Wal-Mart was a big concern. But I left that board when I discovered that some practices that company was involved in were things I didn’t approve of.” How are you investing in Wal-Mart stocks, then? With some of their hard-earned cash that they have earned since the Clintons left the White House in January of 2001? There’s only one industry that they have not invested in — and that’s because they own it — and that’s Big Hypocrite.
Story #3: Judge Rules Canadian Can’t Have Girlfriend
RUSH: This is one of these headlines that really conflicts me. It was like that story on the divorce rate declining — that was a conflict for me. So here’s the story, and it’s from Peterborough, Ontario: “A judge has ruled that a 24-year-old Canadian man is not allowed to have a girlfriend for the next three years. The ruling came after Steven Cranley pleaded guilty on Tuesday to several charges stemming from an assault on a former girlfriend. Cranley, who has been diagnosed with a dependent personality disorder, attacked his girlfriend in an argument after their breakup. He tried to prevent her from phoning the police by cutting her phone cord and punched and kicked her. He finally stabbed himself with a butcher knife when police did arrive, puncturing his aorta. Doctors say Cranley has difficulty coping with rejection,” — You think? — “and runs a high risk to re-offend if he becomes involved in another intimate relationship. Justice Rhys Morgan said Cranley ‘cannot form a romantic relationship of an intimate nature with a female person’ for three years.” So no, he can’t casually date. Well, I guess he could casually date, he just “cannot form a romantic relationship of an intimate nature.” (And we know what “intimate” is a code word for.) I suppose he could go gay because it specifies female person here.
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Story #1: First Born Kids Win More Nobel Prizes
RUSH: Look at this headline: “Study Says Eldest Children Have Higher I.Q.s” Well, that’s me! I am a firstborn. Brian, are you a firstborn? Nope. I knew it. Dawn, you are? Well, that’s surprising — just kidding! What about you, Snerdley? You’re not the firstborn? Ha, ha. I may make this a requirement when I hire new staff members, because listen to this (here’s what really caught my attention in the story): “Firstborns have won more Nobel Prizes in science than younger siblings.” That gives me a leg up over Algore because he’s not the eldest in his family; he had an older sister. So I’m feeling a renewed optimism on the whole Nobel Peace Prize thing.Story #2: Supreme Court Kills Part of McCain-Feingold
RUSH: The Supreme Court in the news today with a very smart decision (a 5-4 decision). Anthony Kennedy, by the way, on the majority side this time — they’re calling him a “conservative” now. Anyway, the ruling basically gets rid of the provision in the McCain-Feingold bill that prevents issue ads 30 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election. What was so odious about McCain-Feingold was if you mentioned an incumbent’s name, you couldn’t run the ad — even if you weren’t advocating. The bill always assumed that you were advocating for or against, and you couldn’t do it. The real way to look at McCain-Feingold is as the Incumbent Protection Act of… whenever it was passed.
Story #3: June 25th and No Hurricanes Yet!
RUSH: Have you seen on Drudge this story, “Where are all the hurricanes?” Here we are June 25th. Where are all the hurricanes? The very fact they’re doing a story entitled “Where are all the hurricanes?” so early in the season shows that hurricane season is nothing but a bunch of over-hyped weather reports. There never are a lot of storms in June, even though we say hurricane season begins June 1st. God didn’t say it; we say it. It’s just absurd! It’s like this news out of San Jos, where they’re going to warn the population that they might die from a hot, humid day — as if people don’t have the brains to understand it.
Story #4: Dubai Buys the QE2
RUSH: If the Chinese don’t get secrets from us, they’re going to end up getting them from Dubai, which just bought the QE2 and is going to turn it into a floating hotel. Oh, yeah! Dubai just bought the QE2.
Story #5: Liberalism Decimates Black Family
RUSH: Reuters story. Headline is this: “Dad’s Absence ‘Decimates’ Black Community.” Now, this is something about which we have spoken on this program countless times, and we have had black callers call us and confirm and tell us why this is the case. It’s the American welfare system; the American welfare system became the black father. The father wasn’t necessary. People could have as many kids as they wanted, and the AFDC, when it was in force, would pay for them and there was no need for the dad to stay home. I’ve had a number of female black callers say, “They destroyed our community, they destroyed our family,” and I’ve had others who haven’t called say the same thing. Now, the statistic here is that 56% of black children live in single parent families.
“For Chris Gardner, who was played by Will Smith in the movie ‘The Pursuit of Happyness,’ fatherhood is the greatest job in the world. ‘There’s no pay. There are no benefits. You don’t get time off. You don’t get a break,’ he said. ‘But once in a while you get to see your child shine and you say to yourself, “That’s my boy. That’s my girl.”‘ It is also a job that Gardner and others believe is increasingly in trouble in the United States, even as the country gives its annual Fathers Day salute on June 17.” Oh, I forgot about that. I forgot about the fact that a bunch of people want to wipe out Father’s Day, like TIME Magazine — remember that? “More than 19 million children — about one in four — were living in households where no father, biological or other, was present, according to a Census Bureau report in 2005. Phillip Jackson, executive director of the Chicago-based Black Star Project, which helps children in mainly minority schools said, ‘Father absence in the African American communities, across America, has hit those communities with the force of 100 hurricane Katrinas. It is literally decimating our communities and we have no adequate response to it.'”
Now, the story does not give a reason. The story just laments the fact: “Oh, how horrible. This is just bad, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, what are we going to do?” Well, it is patently obvious. The reason I’m bringing this up is because it goes back to what I was saying earlier. Most people who know what the answer is here would not dare say it. “You racist! How dare you think that!” — and all of the other criticisms that would come your way if you did explain why this is the case. The whole purpose would be to discredit you and to shut you up. But here’s the reason: Liberalism, folks, has destroyed the inner city black family while claiming to be the one that has compassion for all of these people. It is the policies and the laws and the attitudes of the liberal mind-set that has caused this — from feminism, to welfare, to the nanny state, to horrible public schools, lack of church and God, all these self-esteem pushers out there, political correctness, etc. These reporters… you read this story, and they never once figure it out. Of course, they’re liberals; why would they? The whole story is a mystery to them, but it is not a mystery – and damn you if you dare say it.
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Story #1: Florida Man with Headache Finds Bullet in Head
RUSH: I have to tell you about this story because it happened here in Florida. “Man With Headache Finds Bullet in Head,” is the headline. “A woman was arrested Tuesday after her husband woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible headache and later learned he had a bullet lodged in his head. St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputies initially thought Michael Eugene Moylan had been hit by a stray bullet, but later realized the couple’s story did not match up, Sheriff Ken Mascara said.” Among other things, I am so glad I’m not named for eye makeup. At any rate, “April Moylan, 39, was arrested Tuesday and was in the process of being charged with attempted murder, Mascara said. Moylan, 45, woke up at 4:30 a.m. and thought he had suffered an aneurism or that his wife had elbowed him in his sleep, authorities said. … (ha!) April Moylan eventually told authorities she accidentally shot her husband. It was not immediately clear if she had an attorney.” He was a husband! That’s what he did to deserve it! Pure and simple, he was a husband.Story #2: Hurricanes Cause Teens to Smoke
RUSH: This is a story from Beaumont, Texas. “Teenagers in a southeast Texas county were more likely to smoke cigarettes if they or their family members were affected by Hurricane Katrina or Rita.” So hurricanes cause smoking. Well, this is a study that links hurricanes to teenaged smoking. I kid you not.
“The study by the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston surveyed more than 5,100 middle school and high school students in Jefferson County six to nine months after the hurricanes made landfall. ‘The physical damage was easy to see, but the psychological damage from the hurricanes was pretty well hidden,’ said Alfred L. McAlister, a behavioral scientist and an author of the study. ‘The hurricanes had an emotional impact on the youth and we need to recognize that and give them the help they need. Otherwise, they use tobacco as a crutch and then they become addicted.'”
So, actually, global warming is responsible for kids smoking because it’s global warming that causes the hurricanes. Heh-heh.
Story #3: Burr, Grahamnesty Inundated with Phone Calls
RUSH: Lindsey Grahamnesty needs to be defeated in a primary and head out to LA and get with his buddies out there on the left. I mean, that’s where all the leftists are! But anyway, we were talking about Richard Burr. I have friends in North Carolina — well, a mistress, as you know — and she’s telling me that Burr’s office is being flooded, that it’s a total electronic meltdown there. He was one of the senators who voted for cloture and people are going to be watching him to see if he changes his mind. He’s just one of countless senators being inundated with calls, and even if those guys claim not to care about it, folks, ultimately, they do.
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Story #1: White House Declares Executive Privilege
RUSH: The White House is declaring executive privilege today over the Leahy subpoenas. That is huge! But what is going on with Senator Leahy trying to subpoena and harass the Bush administration? This is nothing more than harassment. You might say it’s politics, but you can’t convince me these people don’t viscerally hate George W. Bush. They’ve hated him since the Florida aftermath.Story #2: Phoenix Overtakes Philly in Population
RUSH: I have an interesting story here from the Associated Press. “Phoenix has overtaken Philadelphia…” By the way, I’ve been predicting this. This little news story, I want you to listen up because it’s going to have electoral ramifications for the Democrats. “Phoenix has overtaken Philadelphia as the nation’s fifth largest city, underscoring decades of population losses in America’s big industrial centers. The nation’s population has nearly doubled since 1950 — adding about 150 million people. But of the 20 largest cities at mid-century, all but four have shrunk, some by a lot. Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Buffalo, NY, have all lost more than half their population in the past half-century. Philadelphia lost nearly a third of its residents, slipping to about 1.4 million people in 2006, according to estimates being released Thursday by the Census Bureau. Like many big cities in the Northeast and Midwest, Philadelphia has suffered through a decline in the nation’s manufacturing economy. City officials, however, have vowed to rebound. ‘Philadelphia is not going to disappear,’ said Gary Jastrzab, deputy executive director of the city planning commission. ‘We have a good quality of life here. We have major universities, major health facilities and a very active pharmaceutical industry.'”
Yeah, and every damn one of them is being targeted for the Democrats by destruction except the universities! So America’s big cities are getting smaller. Oh, how horrible! This is another one of these Drive-By Media stories that doesn’t dare — doesn’t dare, ladies and gentlemen — get anywhere near the truth of why it is happening. You may want to blame it on the manufacturing base shrinking or what have you, but you and I know the truth. These cities that we are talking about — Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Buffalo — they have been governed for the last 50 years by a bunch of Democrats, and they have created within these cities their own sub-welfare states. In addition to the federal and state welfare state, these cities tax their residents to create yet another one, so people have left these places in droves.
This is big — to lose half your population in a major American city in 50 years — and those who had the ability to leave got out. Those who can’t leave or for whom it hard to leave are the ones who are left, and so what you’re left behind with is an expanding welfare class that has trouble producing and contributing to anything — and then we wonder why inner city and city schools are in such bad shape. So while the Drive-By Media would never, ever tell the truth about this, this is what happens to places when liberals run the show. It’s pure and simple. Look at what’s happening in LA — in fact, some people are leaving whole states.
Story #3: New York State Losing More Residents
RUSH: All right, Snerdley was somewhat right on his anecdotal theory that New York City is losing population. This is the New York Sun, and it’s a story from April 20 of 2006: “New York State is losing more residents than any other state in the country, based on surveys taken between 2000,” — these are census numbers — “and 2004. The figures show that New York has replaced California as the net migration outflow leader, an average of 182,886 people leaving every year. That’s nearly double California’s average for the same period.” Now, the New York City metro region (not just the five boroughs) — the tri-state are — “also leads the country in migration outflow with an average of 211,014 people leaving every year. The number is higher than the state figure because many of those leaving the metro region resettle in other areas of New York, but despite the tremendous outflow, the overall city population at 8.2 million is growing due to increases in international immigration and a birth rate that is greater than the death rate.” So, New York City’s growing, but it ain’t the same city. But the point is, these places are run by liberals. Well, wait a minute. Bloomberg was a liberal Democrat, then he became a Republican, now he’s become an independent. When do you think he’ll say he’s a Midwesterner?
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Story #1: iPhone Debuts, But They’re Still Starving in AfricaRUSH: Everybody’s asking me if I’m going to get an iPhone. Well, I’m not going to stand in line for one, and I haven’t found anybody to pay to go stand in line. This has to be the biggest launch of a technogizmo that there has ever been. It just has to be. I bet they run out of them. I bet they don’t have enough of them made and distributed. I’ve been looking at it; I’m a technogeek and I love having the latest stuff, but I don’t use the phone. The problem with having a phone around is that people will call you. I use these portable devices for e-mail — very seldom do I surf the Web on these things — and I have a BlackBerry, and it’s got the EDGE network. I’ve never noticed it being particularly slow, but everybody talks about how slow it is. And do you know what’s happened today? The EDGE network from AT&T has mysteriously doubled in speed! Steve Jobs had even said, “Oh, don’t worry about the EDGE network. It’s going to be fine.”
Also, these phones also have Wi-Fi, which means if you have a wireless network anywhere in your office your home, or if you go to a coffee shop that has it, then it will take the place of the EDGE network. It looks pretty cool. At any rate, I must admit now I’m getting a little bit more excited about it than I was yesterday afternoon. Last night I read about all this stuff and today seeing the EDGE network is doubling in speed, I said, “Hmm.” And our technogeek here is going to go stand in line up in New York where he lives. I said, “If you have a chance, pick one up for me and I’ll reimburse you.” He said, “No, no, no. I’ll get it for you with all that you’ve paid me and all that I’ve overcharged you. I owe you this phone.” So things work out — just be patient.
And I got this sent to me today. It’s a cartoon. Let me zoom in on it for those of you watching on the Dittocam. You may not be able to read what’s in the voice bubble, but you can clearly see it’s a young, starving African baby, and he is reading something. The starving young African baby is reading a paper announcing the arrival of the iPhone, and the he’s asking himself, “Can you eat it?” So even today, with one of the greatest capitalistic moves in the history of technogizmos, we still have to relate it to the starving people of Africa, ladies and gentlemen! I marvel at how the liberals can turn anything into a statement on Africa. Yes, Mr. Snerdley, a question? Well, I don’t know if the folks at Cupertino will even see this. (Cupertino is the place in California where the Apple headquarters are.) They’ll probably come up with an edible iPhone. Maybe a sim card you can eat and we could ship them over to Africa. You know, a meal contained inside each iPhone. This may give Jobs an idea. You never know.
Story #2: Algore Clears Schedule, Could Run for President
RUSH: I just got a note from a friend who heard me say that Algore has canceled all his speaking engagements. Apparently, he’s cleared his calendar for the next six months. One of the places he was supposed to go give a speech at was Taipei, and the guy in Taipei said, “Well, we got hold of the Harry Walker agency,” which is a booking agency that Gore uses to do his speeches, “and they said he’s getting ready to prepare his presidential run, his announcement.” (Of course, Algore has been out there denying that he’s going to run.) And the first Live Earth concert is coming up on July 7th, and my friend said, “I predict that he’ll announce his candidacy on July 7th at the first Live Earth concert. Also, I hope it snows.”
Story #3: Poll: 52% Won’t Consider Voting for Mrs. Clinton
RUSH: “More than half of Americans say they wouldn’t consider voting for Sen. Hillary Clinton for president if she becomes the Democratic nominee, according to a new national poll made available to McClatchy Newspapers and NBC News. The Mason-Dixon Polling and Research study found that 52 percent of Americans wouldn’t consider voting for Clinton.” Former Massachusetts government Mitt Romney was second in the can’t-stand-’em category, with 46% saying they wouldn’t consider voting for him. “Clinton’s long been considered a politically polarizing figure,” it says here, “who would be a tough sell to some voters — especially many men — but also Clinton-haters of both genders.” “Clinton haters”? Anyway, Larry Harris, principal at Mason-Dixon said that the survey provides “a snapshot of the challenges that she faces” carrying a lot of baggage. I’m waiting for the first 2016 preference polls to be conducted by the Drive-By Media: “Who would you prefer — Chelsea Clinton or one of the Bush twins?”
That’s about how absurd all this gets. But remember, folks, the Clintons don’t need 50% of the vote to win elections. Bill never got 50% of the vote; he got 47% in 1992 because of Perot and he had 49% in ’96. They’ve shown that they can win the presidency without getting 50% of the vote, so this probably doesn’t scare them.
Story #4: Pelosi’s Cheap Thrill Attack on Republicans
RUSH: I was just sent this press release from the speaker of the House’s Office (that would be Nancy Pelosi’s office). “Pelosi, Reid discussed six months of Democrat accomplishments.” This is what we were watching in your office at the top of the hour, Snerdley. And what did it take? About 30 seconds for them to list their six months of accomplishments? She said, “We in the House, we don’t have to worry about Republicans requiring 60 votes like they do in the Senate.” Republicans don’t require 60 votes in the Senate! The Senate requires 60 votes! It’s the filibuster rule. I don’t know if she knows this. Well, obviously, she knows this. This was just one of these cheap-thrill attacks on Republicans. And I won’t bore you with what they say, because they really didn’t say anything.
Story #5: No Need to Live Right Until You Hit 55
RUSH: Here’s a story from Reuters. Ishani Ganguli is the author of this piece. “Late starters can benefit from healthy habits.” Get this. “Even in middle age, adopting a healthy lifestyle can lower the risk for heart disease and premature death within years of changing habits, researchers reported on Thursday.” Now, this is really good news for you young people out there because you can just keep partying on. You can do all the so-called unhealthy things in the world you want, and as long as when you get to be 50 to 55 you start living right, you’ll be fine. “Middle-aged adults who began eating five or more fruits and vegetables every day, exercising for at least 2 1/2 hours a week, keeping weight down and not smoking decreased their risk of heart disease by 35 percent and risk of death by 40 percent in the four years after they started. ‘The adopters of a healthy lifestyle basically caught up. Within four years, their mortality rate and rate of heart attacks matched the people who had been doing these behaviors all along.'”
So we’ve all been a bunch of suckers! We don’t have to start living right when we’re young! We can abuse ourselves and we can poison ourselves! We can eat, drink, and be merry — as long as when we hit 55 we straighten up and fly right! I’m happy about this because this is exactly what I’ve done — ha, ha! So all you people who have been telling me for all these years that I am doing damage to myself, I have scientific research on my side that says I have not and you have been wasting your time.
Story #6: Cats “Sort Of” Domesticated Themselves
RUSH: Try this headline: “Scientists believe that cats sort of domesticated themselves.” I’ve always said that cats have staff and dogs have masters. Well, they start out by saying that my hunch is correct, that your cat decided to live with you — not the other way around. And the sad truth is it may not be their “final decision” because they might get mad at you and leave and go feral again. I know why my cat lives with me. My cat cannot open a can or a sack — that’s why my cat lives with me.
I love my little cat, as you well know. Punkin is her name. I was gone all last week on this golf trip, and every time I’m gone for a week like this, I come back knowing there’s going to be hell to pay. I know I’m going to get head butted at three o’clock in the morning. I know I’m going to have the cat pull my hair while I’m trying to sleep and so forth — but this time it didn’t happen. She just would not leave wherever I went! I was a little surprised by this — the cat becoming a little dependent. She’s not like a dog, you know, serving my whims and needs, but I think last night she believed that I was home for good and so I didn’t see her. She was probably out prowling the house for lizards or some such thing.
Anyway, this research says that cats have been basically domesticated for 12,000 years — but they did it themselves. “The findings, drawn from an analysis of nearly 1,000 cats around the world, suggest that the ancestors of today’s tabbies, Persians and Siamese wandered into Near Eastern settlements at the dawn of agriculture. They were looking for food, not friendship.” And what they ended up finding was these huge piles of grain, but the grain was attracting vermin, like rats and mice, and so the cats said, “Hmm, these humans are giving me an automatic food supply.” They didn’t care about the grain, but they ate the vermin and kept that population down and so they were adopted by the humans that loved what they were doing. Carlos A. Driscoll, the University of Oxford graduate student who did the work, says, “We think what happened is that cats sort of domesticated themselves.” Now, this is a science report, and I just find it fascinating that the words “sort of” are in a report on science.
Story #7: Feminism Made This Woman a Lesbo
RUSH: This is from the Times Online — a UK newspaper — and it’s in the life and style section. I want to tell you that the name of the writer of the story is Nicola Woolcock. “Sue Wilkinson, 53, a university professor, was married for 17 years before the relationship ended in divorce. She has now been with her female partner, Celia Kitzinger for the same length of time. The couple married in 2003 in Canada, where same-sex unions are legal. Last year they lost a High Court battle to have their marriage recognized in Britain. Ms. Wilkinson, Professor of Feminist and Health Studies at Loughborough University, said: ‘I was never unsure about my sexuality throughout my teens or 20s. I was a happy heterosexual and had no doubts. Then I changed, through political activity and feminism, spending time with women’s organisations. It opened my mind to the possibility of a lesbian identity.'” So this woman is admitting that feminism made her a lesbo! “Ms. Wilkinson met Ms. Kitzinger, also a university professor, through their work at the British Psychological Society. She added: ‘I’d had a very happy marriage and a very good relationship with men. My husband took it very badly.'”
I wonder why! I’ve warned you people about this. I’ll tell you when this came up — during the arguments that people don’t choose a gay lifestyle, I’ve always said, “I know a bunch of women who become feminists at some point in their life and then become lesbians. The politics of it, the ideology, the people they meet — they do, for whatever reason.” I don’t know how frequent it is, I don’t know how widespread it is, but this woman’s not saying “I was a latent homosexual all my life.” She’s saying, “I was happy, I was hetero, and I was in a 17 year marriage. Everything was fine when I was in my teens and twenties, but when I got into feminism, that’s when I became a lesbian.” I’m just repeating what’s here, folks! All I’m telling you is when it comes to the notion of choosing it, this woman is admitting that she did — or that she might have been influenced into it.
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Story #1: Exercise Grows New Brain Cells
RUSH: Look at this headline. This is from LiveScience.com. Actually, it was from last Thursday, but I just got around to seeing it. “Exercise grows new brain cells.” Well, it’s a good thing that my brain has more brain cells than I need (and more brain cells than the average brain.) Therefore, exercise — once again — not something I need to do.Story #2: Stress About Obesity Causes Obesity
RUSH: “Obesity tied to chronic stress.” This was in the Washington Post yesterday; it’s about how a study on neurochemicals suggests ways to shrink fat or to grow it. “Scientists reported yesterday that they have uncovered a biological switch by which stress can promote obesity, a discovery that could help explain the world’s growing weight problem and lead to new ways to melt flab and manipulate fat for cosmetic purposes. In a series of experiments on mice, researchers showed that the neurochemical pathway they identified promotes fat growth in chronically stressed animals that eat the equivalent of a junk-food diet. The international team also showed that blocking those signals can prevent fat accumulation and shrink fat deposits.”
Well, as usual, ladies and gentlemen, you haven’t really heard what a story means until I tell you what it means. The premise here is that we’re so stressed, we’re so strung out, and we’re just wound so tight that that’s causing us to become obese. Well, what is the primary contributor to the stress that we feel in this country? I would submit to you that it’s the Drive-By Media. Yes, the Drive-Bys are always trying to stress us out over every little thing!
In fact, I have a story in the stack here today — here it is. “US consumers pay highest energy bills in decades. Kilowatts, gallons, they all add up. Energy is now sucking money out of Americans’ bank accounts at a record level,” blah, blah, blah. Who are we going to blame this on? We have panic or fear-related stories presented to us daily in the Drive-By Media. Therefore, the Drive-Bys are the ones making you obese because they’re the ones that are increasing stress in your life, for crying out loud! So if you want to lose weight, stop watching television and stop reading the Drive-By Media — and just listen here.
Story #3: Smoking Could Kill One Billion This Century
RUSH: I just found this during the break. “Smoking could kill one billion this century,” according to the World Health Organization. Now, we just had the story about the fact that stress is making us fat and how the Drive-By Media is the one creating the stress. “Smoking could kill one billion this century. One billion people will die of tobacco-related diseases this century unless governments in rich and poor countries alike get serious about preventing smoking, top World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Monday. ‘Tobacco is a defective product. It kills half of its customers,’ Douglas Bettcher, head of the WHO’s Tobacco Free Initiative said.” Hell, I gained weight just reading this story, folks! I got so stressed out over this! Anyway, the bottom line here is: “One billion will die unless government steps in now.”
Story #4: Struggling McCain Cuts Staff, Salaries
RUSH: John McCain has to be steaming today. “John McCain’s campaign, trailing top Republican rivals in money and polls, is undergoing a significant reorganization with staff cuts in every department, officials with knowledge of the shake-up said Monday. Some 50 staffers or more are being let go, and senior aides will be subject to pay cuts.” Can you say “immigration,” anyone?
Story #5: Challenger to Lindsey Grahamnesty Emerges
RUSH: John Cina — he’s a Somerville, South Carolina, businessman. He has never sought public office before, but he’s starting his political career by going after Senator Lindsey Grahamnesty. He says he’s going to oppose Lindsey Grahamnesty in next year’s Republican primary: “I’m not a politician, I’m an everyday citizen, an hourly wage earner. We need to consider what’s best for the American people, what’s best for South Carolina. We’ve sent people up to Washington for a purpose, and they don’t do anything we want them to do.” He’s a self-described grassroots, right-wing conservative with unwavering principles. He most recently worked as an engineering representative, processing permits for cable TV and telephone companies with Synergetic Design in Florida and in South Carolina. Said he began planning his bid in January, announced his intentions at the Dorchester County Republican executive committee meeting, said he hasn’t met Graham but is not happy with his record. Some people are saying this is a long shot, and of course it is. He describes it as strictly grassroots. “What I need to do is get myself known and for people to find out who I am and where I’m coming from.” He’s amassed about $3.7 million, more than all but two of the many Republican senators up for reelection next year. So that is what’s happening in South Carolina.
Story #6: What’s the Key To a Good Marriage?
RUSH: The Drive-By Media, as you know, just recycles things. Every year in May we’re going to get all the hurricane stories. Every fall we’re going to get all the possible snow stories. Now get this. Do you know what the key to a good marriage is? This is from Associated Press. Let me just take a little informal survey here among the staff. Brian, according to the AP (and it’s actually the result of public opinion polls of married couples, who both failed and succeeded, by the Pew Research Center), what is the key to a good marriage today? No, that’s not it. Snerdley, what would you say, given that you’re an expert here? You want a hint? As a man, when you were married, what did you always hear most about in terms of complaints? No, not what your complaint was! Sigh. The complaint that you got! No. Come on! I can’t believe you guys! This is a no-brainer! Dawn, you want to take a stab at it from a female perspective? No. The key to a good marriage is… sharing housework. I kid you not.
“The percentage of Americans who consider children very important to a successful marriage has dropped sharply since 1990, and more now cite the sharing of household chores as pivotal, according to a sweeping new survey. The Pew Research Center Survey on Marriage and Parenting found that children had fallen to eighth out of nine on a list of factors that people associate with successful marriages. Well behind sharing household chores, good housing, adequate income, happy sexual relationship, and faithfulness. In 1990, in a world value survey, children ranked third in importance among the same items; 65% saying children were very important to a good marriage. Only 41% said so in the new Pew survey. Chore sharing was cited as very important by 62% of respondents, up from 47% in 1990.” I guess this is sort of on a par with “you left the toothpaste lid open” or “you didn’t lower the toilet seat.”
Housework, sharing the housework — it’s a clich. It’s an absolute clich! “Well, you never help me with the housework.” You know what all these surveys are? I’m going to tell you exactly what they are: What do men have to start doing to fix the marriages that they inherently break up simply by being in them?
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Story #1: Cloth Diapers Just as Bad for Environment
RUSH: What is a nappy? They bring it up in a British story from the environmental stack today. “The great real nappy myth.” I think they’re talking about diapers. They’re just as bad for the environment as disposables, admits the energy minister. You know, if you just wait long enough, liberals will be proven wrong on everything. They said, “Cloth diapers, you gotta use those. You can’t use these disposables. They’re destroying the environment.” So everybody went out and started using cloth, I suppose. (I’ve never been blessed with children so I don’t know about diapers and these kinds of things.) It’s just like how oat bran and coffee was going to kill us — and then make us healthy and so forth. They’re still trying to figure it all out.
Story #2: No Sign of Any Tropical Storm Activity Whatsoever
RUSH: The Drive-Bys are all in a panic. Not only did Scooter Libby have his prison sentence commuted, forecasters said that the tropics are clear and there’s no sign of any tropical storm activity whatsoever. So it’s bad news for the crisis-oriented media. Of course, there very rarely are storms in June, so it’s really not a story whatsoever.
Story #3: Great Britain Has Elected a Breck Girl-Type PMRUSH: I guess you’ve heard what the new British prime minister said? Boy are we going to miss Tony Blair! This guy said (and I’m paraphrasing), “Don’t say terrorists are Muslims. Don’t say that, and we shouldn’t use the phrase ‘war on terror.'” So they’ve elected a Breck Girl — a John Edwards of their own — across the pond, I guess.
Story #4: UK Terrorists Defy Drive-By Profile
RUSH: A couple things about the UK terrorist attacks — one thwarted, the other one a near-miss. Everybody’s expressing surprise that highly educated, and very achievement-oriented people actually turned out to be the terrorists. The terrorist plot, by the way, was hatched in British hospitals, and the conventional wisdom is, if you listen to the Drive-Bys and American leftists, that these Islamofascists are just a bunch of poor nomads. “They’re a bunch of Bedouins, and they’ve been forced to live and eat desert sand all of their lives. They’re mired in poverty, and they have the indignity of having to be surrounding a nation filled with Jewish people, and it’s just too much, and they can’t take it anymore! So they’ve gone to blowing themselves up, and then they start blowing everybody else up that they can blow up, and they’re just a bunch of poor people and all they want is justice! All they want is freedom! All they want is a chance, economic prosperity. God, why do we deny everybody so much of what we have? Ahhh! Boo-hoo!” Then all of a sudden we find out that the conventional wisdom and the profile is dead wrong, and that these are the kind of people that the British have been seeking as immigrants. Now, it’s one thing to seek highly educated and skilled people for your immigrant population, but it’s another thing if you’re importing them from countries that are terrorist breeding grounds.
I knew something was up when I saw that the car that they loaded with all the explosives and the nails and stuff was a Mercedes. It was a small little Mercedes, but still it was a Mercedes. I mean, it wasn’t some thousand-year-old Volvo with a couple windows shattered out and duct tape holding the rear window together and a couple headlights missing — it was a Mercedes. So we find out that these people are all highly achieved. They are doctors. We found the same of Osama bin Laden and all of his buddies. His number two guy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is a doctor. Bin Laden’s family is a typical Middle East oil sheikdom, business people, billionaire people, and what they’ve done is use the poor and the underclass in their countries. That’s where the breeding grounds of hate are taking place — you don’t see these wealthy elites blowing themselves up, except this case in Britain. Of course, you never know. When they were young, this is obviously when the hate was instilled in them. But the wealthy elites are fanning the hate and the frustrations into actions that help the elites carry forth on their ideology.
It’s like Lisa Myers on NBC. She was talking to Lester Holt on the Today show this morning, and Lisa Myers said (I’m paraphrasing), “You know, this greatly complicates the profile, the fact that these two are doctors. The breeding ground here was in this hospital that hatched the plan, a bunch of doctors. Most of the recent plots had been the work of so-called homegrown cells with ties to Pakistan, disaffected young British Muslims who in some cases went to Pakistan for terror training. Here you have a group of highly educated foreigners, the kind of people that this country actually encourages to come to Britain. So it makes it very tough, Lester.” It does indeed!
And, you know, had the immigration bill survived cloture, the terrorist actions in the UK over the weekend would have doomed the bill in the House because it’s obviously abundantly clear that the war on terror goes on, and the profile of people involved is highly different than what we think it is. I’m glad it doesn’t come to that, but it might have.
Story #5: Can We Shoot Bald Eagles Again? (Just Kidding)
RUSH: I see the bald eagle is no longer endangered. Does that mean we can start shooting them again? I’m just kidding. I would never shoot a bald eagle. In fact, I have some great pictures I took of bald eagles when I was up there fishing for salmon. So yes, the bald eagle no longer is endangered, but the bottom line is malaria victims still exist (thanks to Rachel Carson).
Story #6: Amnesia Drug Could Erase Bad Memories
RUSH: You know, I heard about this some time ago. It’s from LiveScience.com. “Researchers at Harvard and McGill University (in Montreal) are working on an amnesia drug that blocks or deletes bad memories. The technique seems to allow psychiatrists to disrupt the biochemical pathways that allow a memory to be recalled. In a new study, published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, the drug propranolol is used along with therapy to ‘dampen’ memories of trauma victims. They treated 19 accident or rape victims for ten days, during which the patients were asked to describe their memories of the traumatic event that had happened 10 years earlier. Some patients were given the drug, which is also used to treat amnesia, while others were given a placebo. A week later, they found that patients given the drug showed fewer signs of stress when recalling their trauma. Similar research led by Professor Joseph LeDoux has been carried out at New York University on rats; scientists were able to remove a specific memory from the brains of rats while leaving the rest of the animals’ memories intact.”
I’m not so sure I like this. I know it sounds nice to be able to block our so-called bad memories. But, I mean, some bad memories are not traumatic. And isn’t it our life experience that shapes us? “Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, but you must realize that unlike you, so many people have so much pain, and if they could go through the day without remembering their pain then it would free them up to enjoy their life more. You just don’t care, Mr. Limbaugh!” Well, look: with you liberals out there, nobody is going to be stress or trauma free. You’re trying to inculcate us with crisis and death around every corner every day — sometimes multiple times a day! For all the bad memories that you’re going to be able to wipe out you’re going to help us create new ones just by having to deal with you! I mean, sure, I would love to be able to retract from my brain all memory of the Clinton years. Actually, I wouldn’t. They were very traumatic, but they have shaped me. Life experiences shape us.
This is not good, folks; I’m telling you it’s not good. I know it sounds nice, sounds sweet, but you start tampering around this way, there will always be unintended consequences. But even beyond the unintended consequences, the idea that you can shield yourself from bad things that happen to you — from the memory of them — even if it could be done… you would not be a real person.
Story #7: LA Mayor Admits Spanish-Language TV Affair
RUSH: “Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is in the midst of divorce proceedings with his wife, acknowledged he is in a relationship with a Spanish-language television reporter…” I met Mayor Villaraigosa one night when I was innocently minding my own business in New York at a restaurant, where approached our table — two times! — former President Clinton. The second time he brought with him Mayor Villaraigosa to distract me so he could chat up the woman I was with. Anyway, Villaraigosa said in a statement published in the LA Daily News, “‘It is true that I have a relationship with Ms. Mirthala Salinas. As I’ve said I take full responsibility for my actions, and I once again ask that people respect my family’s privacy. For my part, I intend to stay focused on my job, and to work as hard as I can every day…'”
I hope he gets the privacy he wants! What, Mr. Snerdley? Oh, oh. Well, he has to be working “as hard as I can.” Ha! “I want you to listen to me. I’ll tell you I did not have sex with that woman, sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky, not a single time. I never, ever asked anybody to lie. I gotta go back to work for the American people.” You’re right, Mr. Snerdley: it’s right out of the Clinton playbook. What gets me here is him asking for privacy. He’ll probably get it — I hope he does. And I certainly hope his family does. I know I have had many episodes in my sterling public career that I would have loved to have had privacy, and I just know damn well that if I’d ever brought it up, I would have gotten ten times the lack of privacy that I was already experiencing.
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Story #1: Warning: Memory Drug Could Cause You to Marry Spouse You Already Divorced
RUSH: On Tuesday on this program I discussed in some detail — and I think I was a little too lofty about this, a little too serious — the story about the memory drug. Apparently, they’re working on this drug that can wipe out traumatic memories. I got very deep, I think, in discussing nd opposing it, but now I’ve thought of a more practical way to explain why this would not be a good thing, and it’s very, very simple: you could end up marrying and divorcing the same person over and over again. Notice I didn’t say marry and divorce the same woman over and over — I said the same person, so it works for everyone. Ha! You should see Dawn’s face in there. Every time I bring stuff like this up, she gets a little grimace that eventually breaks out into a smile.Story #2: Shocker: Big Government Nutrition Program Fails
RUSH: Let’s see. Would you believe it if I told you there’s a story here that says a federal program has failed? Ha! That’s not news, is it? Well, listen to this. This is from Panorama City, California. “The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education — fresh carrots and celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit…” Well, they better be careful of that. It might inspire other things. Anyway, a billion this year “on nutrition education — fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel if you eat well. But an Associated Press review of scientific studies examining 57 such programs found mostly failure.” No! Say it ain’t so! Big Government programs fail? That’s right! “Just four showed any real success in changing the way children eat — or promise as weapons against childhood obesity. ‘Any person looking at the published literature about these programs would have to conclude that they are generally not working,’ said Dr. Tom Baranowski.” Well, that’s ok: let’s just increase the budget and get more programs. It’s like how the Soviet Union didn’t work because we didn’t “give it enough time” and they went into too much debt. If we’d just been a little bit more patient…
Back to the story. “Last year a major federal pilot program offering free fruits and vegetables to schoolchildren showed 5th graders became less willing to eat them than they had been at the start. Apparently they didn’t like the taste.” Why should that matter to liberals? Liberals want you to do what they think you ought to — whether you like it or not. Inmates running the asylum! If you really believe this stuff is good for kids, you force it down their throats! You inject them with a syringe with the nutrients if you have to! “In Pennsylvania, researchers gave prizes to schoolchildren who ate fruits and vegetables. That worked while the prizes were offered, but when the researchers came back seven months later the students had reverted to their original eating habits: soda and chips.” Really? How can we expect otherwise? Most kids learn what tastes good and what tastes nasty by their tenth birthdays. “‘If we don’t reach a child before they get to puberty, it’s gonna be very tough, very difficult to change their eating behavior,’ said Dr. Robert Trevino of the Social and Health Research Center in San Antonio.”
But, of course, this story would not be complete without the obligatory “women and minorities hardest hit” line — and this has it. “Poorer children are especially at risk, because unhealthy food is cheaper and more easily available. Parents are often working, leaving children unsupervised and with access to snacks. Low-income neighborhoods have fewer good supermarkets with fresh produce.” See how we hate the poor? See how we discriminate? If mom can’t find tomatoes in her local grocery store, nothing’s going to change! Now we’re even depriving poor neighborhoods of tomatoes! What a bunch of rotten evildoers we are! “Calorie burning has become the province of the wealthy,” said some guy named Zeitler. “I fear what we’re going to see is a divergence of healthy people and unhealthy people. Basically like everything else, it costs money to be healthy.” So now we’re even dividing people along health lines. We have racial barriers, we have sexual/gender barriers, we have ideological barriers, and now we’re going to have the healthy and unhealthy — all because a federal program didn’t work.
Story #3: CAIR Wages War Against Cal Thomas for Cancer Comment
RUSH: I want to talk about Cal Thomas here for just a second. Cal Thomas does audio commentary for a Washington, DC radio station, and recently he compared radical Islam to a slow, spreading cancer. So now the Council On American-Islamic Relations — or CAIR, with about 25 or 29,000 members — is waging war on Cal Thomas. All he did was dare to speak out against radical Islam! They’re trying to get all of their supporters to call the radio station and to complain about Cal Thomas.
Now, I read a reaction from Cal Thomas — and he’s not backing down, he’s not going to change his mind about what he said. This is good. CAIR is a group of 25,000 people, and to try to shut people down and get them fired is a little bit over the top — and what he said is an opinion! “Radical Islam, a slow spreading cancer, especially the aftermath of what went on over there in the UK.” And how many radical Islamists may be doctors in the National Health Service in Great Britain? Socialist medicine — they go out and they try to get doctors from countries around the world, many of them from Muslim countries. There’s not very much background checking going on from, what I understand, because they already think they got educated and highly skilled people and so forth. Must have people sitting on the edge of their chairs in the UK.
Story #4: Bill Clinton Mistaken for Bob Barker
RUSH: Speaking of Bob Barker, the Clintons were at some sort of Fourth of July parade yesterday or day before out there in Iowa, and apparently some old women that were there (because it’s something to do to get out of the house) saw Bill walking down the street and they started screaming, “It’s Bob Barker! It’s Bob Barker!” They thought Clinton was Bob Barker because of his white hair! Ha!
Story #5: Scientist Tests Husband’s DNA, Fidelity
RUSH: Lansing, Michigan. “A state forensics scientist who said she tested DNA in her husband’s underwear to find out whether he was cheating could be disciplined if investigators determine she violated the use of state equipment. Ann Chamberlain-Gordon of Okemos testified in a March 7 divorce hearing that she ran the test in September on the underwear of Charles Gordon Jr. Asked by his attorney what she found, she answered: ‘Another female. It wasn’t me.’ She also said during a May 25 hearing in Ingham County Family Court that she ran the test on her own time with chemicals that were set to be thrown away. Michigan State Police, which oversees the Lansing forensics lab where Chamberlain-Gordon works, started to investigate her after her husband’s attorney wrote to authorities and media outlets questioning how many times DNA tests have been improperly run. Investigators expect to decide by next week what they found. Her duties have not been restricted during the investigation, state police spokeswoman Shanon Akans said Tuesday. ‘We don’t know exactly what was or wasn’t done,’ Akans said.” So they’re still looking into this. She’ll get a pass. You know she’s going to get a pass! You know darn well! The indignity of all this… I mean, if you’re going to cheat, take some peroxide for the DNA — or do something.
Story #6: David Broder on Immigration: A Mob-Rule Moment
RUSH: David Broder has a piece in the Washington Post today about the defeat of the immigration bill, and I know he doesn’t write the headline, but the headline to the piece is: “A Mob-Rule Moment.” He says this. “Let a reporter who is not running for anything suggest that exactly the opposite may be true: A particularly virulent strain of populism has made official Washington altogether too responsive to public opinion.” And let me read to you the close of his piece. “The point is pretty basic. Politicians are wise to heed what people want. But they also have an obligation to weigh for themselves what the country needs.” That’s true, by the way. “In today’s Washington, the ‘wants’ of people count far more heavily than the nation’s needs.” That’s subjective, sir. “You can win elections by promising people what they want. But you win your place in history by doing what the country needs done.”
So, now, Mr. Broder is what he is — he’s a dean of the Washington punditocracy, but he’s also an inside-the-Beltway guy. And you people are just a bunch of rubes! You just don’t see what’s good for the country. Only the inside-the-Beltway people are educated and qualified enough to know what’s good for the country, and you people browbeated your poor senators until they caved. It did not make elitist Washington happy at all.
Story #7: Halperin Pans Bill and Hillary in Iowa
RUSH: TIME Magazine — Mark Halperin has been following the Hillary and Bill show in Iowa. (This is a guy who used to run the political unit at ABC News and was the lead writer for TheNote.com.) This is funny. The Clintons are out there saying that they’re running on change, that the American people want change. Halperin says, “Well, thanks to Bill Clinton’s eight years in office, Hillary Clinton is by association an established dynastic candidate rather than an emblem of change that Americans want from their next president. A strategerist for Barack Obama acknowledges that Clinton’s a wildly popular former president but notes that people are anxious to turn the page from the politics that we have now.” And then there’s this little ditty. “With the crowd duly warmed up, Hillary Clinton took the stage for 25 minutes dwelling on her biography and on her major issues: health care, environment, education,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. “She attacked the alleged corrupt practices and cronyism of the Bush White House just as her husband did 16 years ago, but the crowd seemed similarly ambivalent. About eight minutes into her speech some started to get distracted, holding audible conversations, even moving away from the stage rather than angling forward. The moment highlighted the risk of following the former president’s act. Bill Clinton sounds intimate, conversational, when he’s discussing energy policy. Hillary sounds like a policy wonk, when she talks about her mother’s childhood struggles.” So Clinton goes out there, warms up the crowd, and then Hillary takes the stage and everybody falls asleep! TIME Magazine reported it because they had to — there were witnesses.
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Story #1: It’s Terrorist Surveillance, Not Domestic Spying
RUSH: “A federal appeals court today ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush’s domestic spying program…” It wasn’t a domestic spying program! “The two-to-one ruling by the sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals panel was not on the legality of the program itself. What the ruling did was vacate an order by a lower court in Detroit last August that the post-9/11 warrantless surveillance aimed at uncovering terrorist activity was unconstitutional, violating rights to privacy and free speech. The ACLU led the suit on behalf of other groups, including lawyers, journalists, and scholars, it says have been handicapped in doing their jobs by the government monitor.” It was not “domestic spying,” and the AP knows it by virtue of how they write it up in the third paragraph.Story #2: Stupid Survey on Men and Women Talking
RUSH: You know, we love stories involving men and women on this program. It’s what makes the world go round. And there’s a new story out there. For the longest time there’s been the stereotype that women are the ones that just chatter away all the time, are motor mouths, and men that don’t chat that way. But it turns out, according to psychologists, that men talk just as much as women. “Sure, maybe guys talk more about cars and sports and the new iPhone, and women talk about their feelings, but at the end of the day, each sex uses an average 16,000 words a day, say researchers who studied the conversational habits of 396 men and women for six years. ‘I was a little surprised there wasn’t any gender influence, because this stereotype of women talking more is such a powerful, popular idea,’ said Richard Slatcher, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Texas and one of the authors of the study. ‘But we were able to directly test the notion, and it’s totally unfounded.’ The study, results of which were published today in the journal Science, debunks an age-old assumption that women aren’t just the fairer sex, they’re the chattier one, too. Tony Bennett sang about it in ‘Girl Talk’ … The stereotype is so pervasive that even scientists have long assumed that women talk more, and they incorporated that assumption in psychological gender profiles.”
Now, wait! How can there be scientists making assumptions on these things? I guess they came to a… consensus! “The stereotype is so pervasive that even scientists…assumed” it was true. Scientists “assumed”! Ha! You know what the answer to this is — and it’s contained in the story. The reason the perception is that women talk more than men is that when men and women are talking together, the guy is not saying a word. So anecdotally, just to the vision, you see the woman chatting away and the guy looking for a way out of it, trying to sometimes fake being interested. “The lack of male desire to listen to women is why the myth has persisted. It might not just be men who are frustrated, because conversations about relationships are often emotionally charged and intense. They take on more importance as far as presumed word counts go than they deserve.”
So, there’s perception. I don’t know how you can come to a scientific conclusion on the whole population with 396 men and women as your sample and then say that you’ve come to an inalterable scientific conclusion. Now, in this story, it should be pointed out the only respondents were college age men and women. College age men and women. Look, I only went to college for one year, but that’s enough for me to know enough about what’s going on in college. Men probably are talking more in college than women are because that’s the begging stage. You do anything you can to get to where you want to go, and you think that requires a lot of talking. It’s just after you get there that the whole thing kind of turns around, because you don’t want to talk about where you’ve been. You want to go again, instead of having to talk about where you were.
Story #3: Lawsuit over Test Question on Gay Marriage
RUSH: Did you hear about this lawsuit? “A Boston man who failed the Massachusetts bar exam because he refused to answer a question about gay marriage” caused him to flunk the test. His name is Stephen Dunne. He’s 30. “He is suing the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners and the state Supreme Judicial Court claiming the inappropriate test question violated his religious convictions and his First Amendment rights. Answering the question, he claims, would imply he endorsed gay marriage and parenting. The suit also challenges the constitutionality of the 2003 Massachusetts supreme judicial court ruling that made Massachusetts the nation’s first state to legalize same-sex marriage.” You want to hear the question? Here’s the question that he’s filed suit over and refused to answer, so he flunked the test. The question is this. By the way, he scored a 268.866 on the bar exam, a passing grade is 270, so refusing to answer this question was clearly a factor. Here’s the question. (laughing) The question is hilarious. You can’t blame the guy on this. I mean, I can’t even follow the stupid question.
“‘Yesterday, Jane got drunk and hit her spouse, Mary, with a baseball bat, breaking Mary’s leg when she learned that Mary was having an affair with Lisa. As a result, Mary decided to end her marriage with Jane in order to live in her house with Phillip, Charles, and Lisa. What are the rights of Mary and Jane?’ Dunne claims that the question was used as a screening device to identify and penalize him for refusing to subscribe to a liberal ideology based on secular humanism.” This is what he says in his lawsuit. “Homosexual conduct is inconsistent with Dunne’s Christian practices, beliefs, and values, which are protected by the First Amendment, the lawsuit states.” So, anyway, I know in Massachusetts I’m sure they think this is a relevant question. My question is, how does this happen in a happy and loving gay marriage? Why would Jane hit Mary with a baseball bat? I mean, that’s the question. If Jane is going to hit Mary with a baseball bat, why go for the legs? Why not choose a different target — and what are Lisa’s rights in all this? I mean, she’s got alienation of affections that she could pursue as well.
Story #4: Runaway Female Driver Leads Slow-Speed Chase
RUSH: We have a runaway female driver on I-5, heading into Bakersfield, California, right now on a steep incline. The cops have been giving chase for hours! She’s not violating the speed limit. They think she’s drunk. They’re not sure. I question that. I just saw… It’s kind of funny. You know, they throw these things out on a highway — they’re one lane wide — that have all kinds of nails in them designed to flatten the tires, and the driver just side steps it, just steers around it. At any rate, these things amaze me. This is not a high-speed chase. This is just a chase. It’s been going on since 11:30. It’s been going on for almost an hour and 20 minutes now.
Story #5: “Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History”
RUSH: I just saw the funniest thing. I went back to Snerdley’s office during the break, and he has two TVs in there. One of them had Fox on, and they were doing a wrap-up on this car chase near Bakersfield, and the other channel, he had the Teletubbies on. I said, “What the in the world are you doing watching the Teletubbies?”
He said, “That’s C-SPAN.”
“The Teletubbies? C-SPAN does a lot of wacky things but Teletubbies are not on C-SPAN.”
So he goes up there and starts changing channels and sure enough somebody had been tinkering with his tube back there because it wasn’t C-SPAN. It was some network showing the Teletubbies. So we found C-SPAN2, and when we found it, the former president of Planned Parenthood, some woman named Gloria Feldt, was wrapping up her comments, and the camera was focused tight on her, and that ended the event — and then the camera panned back and we found out on a graphic at the bottom of the screen that the program was the history of the women’s movement. Folks, we counted no more than 20 women. It looked like this conclave was taking place on somebody’s porch, and they had a little table set up with cheese and crackers and so forth, and then this woman shows up and smiles big as she can with a big T-shirt, and the T-shirt says, “Well behaved women rarely make history.” (Laughing.)
I said, “Where are those women? I want to meet them,” not the kind on this thing. Fourteen to twenty is what we counted. There were six speakers, and an audience of 14 to 20, and I looked at Snerdley and said, “How the hell does this get covered?” I didn’t see where it was. It looked like it was in a typical place, a typical house in Boston, but it was probably Washington or suburban Virginia or Maryland somewhere. I have no idea where it was. It took place in March. You know, nothing is going on in Washington right now, so everything on C-SPAN is reruns, highlights. But how does something like that get covered? Fourteen people, maybe 20, and we did see when they all stood up to go to the refreshment stand, there was one guy in there, and he was wearing the obligatory tweed jacket with the leather patches on the arms and unkempt hair, typical college professor type.
Story #6: Racial Discrimination Tied to Breast Cancer Link
RUSH: I don’t even know how to promote this next story. I don’t even know how to characterize this next story. About the best I can say is it just fits in the “everything-is-going-to-kill-us crisis; life is unfair; America sucks; Republicans are dangerous,” the whole bag of templates and action lines that the Drive-Bys use to manage the news. Get this. This is from Reuters: “Black women who feel like they have been victims of racial discrimination are more likely than their peers to develop breast cancer, according to a large study.” Now, let’s dissect this for a second. “Black women who feel…” They don’t necessarily have to have actually been victims of it. They just need to think they have, “are more likely than their peers,” i.e., black women who don’t think they’ve been discriminated against racially,” to develop breast cancer. (sigh) There’s no hope. If all a black woman has to do is think she’s been discriminated against, she can get that done by watching the news. Any day of the week, pick a news night. Pick a network. Watch a story. I guarantee you there will be a story about discrimination against some black woman. Yes, I think that happened to me. I am more likely now to get breast cancer.
“The study features 59,000 African-American women for six years. It found that those who reported more incidents of racial discrimination had a higher risk of breast cancer. The relationship was stronger among women younger than 50, researchers found. This finding is particularly interesting, they note, in light of the fact that unlike the case with older women, breast cancer is more common among young black women than young white women.” Well, they’re discriminated against right there! There is genetic racial discrimination going on right now. All they have to do is hear that, and then they “feel” that they’ve been victims of it, and bammo! They’re the pathway to breast cancer. “It’s possible that racial discrimination plays some role, according to the researchers, led by Dr. Teletia Taylor of Howard University in Washington. Women who said that they’d faced discrimination on the job, in housing, and from the police were 48% more likely to develop breast cancer than those who reported no incidents of major discrimination.” Well, these are scientists. These are researchers. They followed 59,000 African-American women for six years. How can we doubt this? How can you doubt this? By the same token, how can you believe it? Well, depending on who you are, it’s easy to believe it. I mean, this is made to order. This is made to order.
You have a built-in excuse for victimhood. You just have to think the wrong way. Remember, now, this is “feel like you’ve been discriminated,” not actually been, you just think so. Well, Mr. Snerdley, help me out. Folks, forgive me. I need to ask this question. What are the odds that most black people in this country, not all, obviously, most black people think they’re discriminated against every day anyway because they’re a minority and because black… Okay, Snerdley doesn’t think that most black people in America think they’re discriminated against every day. You don’t think they still think they’ve got an unfair, un-level playing field, that the deck is still stacked against them in housing, loans? Well, not the younger generation. Okay. Well, we’re not talking the real young ones here, but… No, this makes no sense. I don’t see the correlation. If you can just think anything and it’s going to give you a disease, could you not take the same tack, because this is all they’re saying is attitudinal. It’s not environmental. It’s attitudinal. Feelings are internal things, whether they’re true or not. So you have no immunity here. So therefore if you think you haven’t been discriminated against and if you go through life thinking you won’t be, does that conversely mean that your odds of getting breast cancer are less? (interruption) All right. So you’re telling me that what this survey actually means is that people who are pessimistic and full of doom and gloom are more susceptible to disease than people who are optimistic, upbeat, and happy? Well, that’s anecdotal, too. This is absurd. To hell with the political correctness! This is absolutely ridiculous. This is just irresponsibly ridiculous.
Story #7: Mayo Clinic: Optimistic People Live Longer
RUSH:Okay, Snerdley, we may have some backup for your point here. HR went and did some flash research, found a story from the Mayo Clinic in February of 2000. “An optimistic outlook on life could result in a longer and healthier life, said the Mayo Clinic in a 30-year patient study. The researchers found that the pessimistic group of patients had a 19% increase and a risk of death when comparing their expected lifespan with their actual life. The researchers said they couldn’t explain how a pessimistic style acts as a risk factor for early death. It could be through the mind. Optimists are less likely to develop depression and learned helplessness. It could be through the attitude toward medical care. Optimists might be more positive in seeking and receiving medical help with fewer tendencies to self-blame and catastrophic thinking.” Okay, I’ll accept that. I’ll accept that. My own theory on this is I think we all hear about situations where somebody is gravely injured and they’re in the hospital, not so much with a disease, a terminal disease, but they’re gravely injured, maybe even in a coma, and the doctor said, “We’ve done everything we can. It’s up to the will to live,” right? I think that’s what this means. Optimistic people obviously don’t want to die. They’re loving their life. Frank Sinatra didn’t want to die. I remember Frank Sinatra saying that. I attended a concert at the Super Bowl in 1987 in San Diego. It was the Redskins and the Denver Broncos, and they had a big Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra concert the night before. Sinatra was getting up there.
He went on and on and on. “I want to live forever.” Why wouldn’t he? The guy was chairman of the board! The guy ran everything. If there’s something to enjoy in your life, and you realize you only get one of them, and you want to do what you can to make it live, make it last as long as possible. Pessimists, depending on the degree of pessimism — I mean, I know a lot of pessimists who’ve lived a real long time, curmudgeons and so forth. So this is all anecdotal. But this still doesn’t square with the story that we had that if black females… Let me get the number here. I’m not going to make this up. “Black women who feel they’ve been victims of racial discrimination are more likely than their peers to develop breast cancer,” and it’s a huge percentage, and the explanation for this, really? Guess who’s filing this story away and preparing lawsuits right now? Well, John Edwards, after he loses this presidential race, but all of our trial lawyer buddies, because if you get so-called research, you know what you could do with this and a jury. You get so-called research that women who feel they’ve been victims of racial discrimination. Okay, so, a woman comes along, gets breast cancer, goes to a lawyer.
“I was racially discriminated against in the workplace, at the grocery store.”
“Oh, really? Now? Well, give us the details. When do you think you were discriminated against?”
They’ll take it to court, and guess who gets…? (interruption) Take black women out of the story and put who in? Women of…? (interruption) Okay, well, okay, you might have a point because that’s where this might be headed. Snerdley’s idea is take race out of this: Women who feel they have been victims are more likely than their peers to develop breast cancer. Bammo! Yep. First step. Liberalism is a very slow, incremental encroachment. Good thinking in there, Snerdley.
Story #8: Media Grapples with LA Mayor’s Infobabe Affair
RUSH: Let’s talk about the mayor of Los Angeles for just a second, Antonio Villaraigosa. By the way, his name is the combination of his name and his wife’s maiden name. His name is “Villar,” and her last name is “Raigosa.” So they combined it: “Villaraigosa.” He’s having this affair with the info babe at Telemundo. Did you know that this babe, the reporter, did the story on the breakup of his marriage for Telemundo? So of course now the Drive-Bys are wringing their hands and they’re asking themselves, “Is this a violation of journalistic ethics?” By the way, we should also point out that Mayor Villaraigosa is national cochairman of the Hillary Clinton for President campaign.
So this fits. Folks, look, it might be cool taking up TV time here with the question of whether or not the woman is having a violation of journalistic ethics by having an affair with the mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa — and I’m telling you, this is pure surface. This is just media introspection. There’s nothing serious about it. If they actually made something serious about this in terms of violating journalistic ethics then half of New York and DC news people would have to quit their jobs. It’s incestuous up there, the number of people doing this. Believe me. By the way, the Washington Post did a story on this, I should point out, and never once this the story mention that Villaraigosa is a Democrat. Never once.
Story #9: Mrs. Clinton’s Brother Nears Legal Settlement
RUSH: How about this headline one day after Hillary Clinton lectures Bush on ethics: “Clinton’s Brother Near Legal Settlement.” This is about Tony Rodham and the loans from the carnival clowns that he didn’t pay back. He got his pardon nevertheless.
Story #10: El Rushbo Corrects Obama on Hurricane Katrina
RUSH: “Barack Obama urged spectators at the Essence Music Festival to help change the course of American history by addressing the social ills brought to light by Hurricane Katrina. The Illinois senator reminded the crowd gathered Thursday that New Orleans was plagued by poverty, failing schools and high crime and murder rates for far too long before the catastrophic storm even hit.” Well, okay, let’s say that he’s factually correct. Senator Obama, who was running New Orleans all those years? Who was running Louisiana all of those years, Senator Obama? So can we add something to his litany here? He “reminded the crowd gathered Thursday that New Orleans was plagued by poverty, failing schools, high crime, and murder rates for far too long before the catastrophic storm even hit,” all brought to the citizens of New Orleans by Democrats. He didn’t say that of course. I’m adding that. So he’s using this because his campaign theme is, get this: change. Well, that’s unique. There hasn’t been a politician, I don’t think, that has ever run for office that hasn’t run on change. It’s brilliant for his team to come up with this, and he runs around and says, “You gotta do something. We’ve gotta do something.” Well, what have you done? Mrs. Clinton of course is trying to say she’s the candidate of change, too, but that’s not going to fly because she’s every bit as entrenched in the inside-the-Beltway culture as anybody could be.
Story #11: ChiComs Construct World’s Largest Public Toilet
RUSH:Have you heard about this China public restroom? It has a thousand stalls! “They’re flushed with pride in the southwestern [ChiCom] city where a recently opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music, and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 32,290 square feet. Automobiles for in Chongqing are preparing to submit an application to the Guinness World Records to have the free, four-story public bathroom listed as the world’s largest. ‘We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to gentle music and watch TV,’ said Lu Xiaoqing, an official with the foreigner street tourist area where the bathroom’s located. ‘After they use the bathroom, they’ll be very, very happy.’ Some urinals are uniquely shaped, including ones inside open crocodile mouths and several that are topped by the bust of a woman resembling the Virgin Mary. There are also plans to build a supermarket nearby, which will sell toilet-related items.” That’s a pretty damn good capitalist marketing idea for a bunch of ChiComs: a four-story bathroom, 1,000 stalls, music and television. I don’t have to tell you what all else is going to go on in there is once this got started.
Story #12: Grandma in Cake Contest: This Story Is Just Not Nice
RUSH: You know, two Mondays ago Juan Williams was talking to previous Sunday about the immigration bill and why it would be good to do. It was just a “nice thing to do.” It’d just be a nice thing to do, to legalize these people. It would be a nice thing to do. Well, I kind of ridiculed that. You can’t make being nice a policy. (sigh) It has the potential to be hugely problematic, if you start trying to be nice to everybody. Some people don’t deserve it. You can be nice, but you don’t have to assassinate yourself or ruin your own life in the process of being nice.
But, now this story, this is definitely not nice, what happened to this woman. This is a 62-year-old grandmother, Jennifer Brown. This is in the UK. “She entered a cake bake competition, and she baked a Victoria sponge cake, and she won second place, and she was delighted when she heard that she had won second place — until she found out that she was the only entry. She was the only entry, and she comes in second!” Officials at her village little party, their fete, “apparently felt that her baking just wasn’t worthy of a first class ribbon. She said she was a little taken aback at the decision. It was the first year that the fete had held a cake competition. Judging by the way her cakes are usually wolfed down, she thought she was in with a chance.” Now, this is just not nice. It’s just not. A 62-year-old grandmother wants to help the community, enter the cake baking contest, the only one who does, get a second place ribbon.
It’s just not nice.
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Story #1: Breck Girl Proposes Radical “Reward” for Work
RUSH: All right. We move on to presidential politics. This is from The Politico: “Edwards,” the Breck Girl, “to Announce a Poverty Tour — John Edwards plans to announce today he’ll take a break from fundraising and campaigning in early voting states next week for a three-day, eight-state, twelve-city Road to One America tour, aimed at calling attention to poverty in the deep south, the Mississippi delta, Appalachia, and the Rust Belt. The campaign points out that none of the states he’ll visit has an early 2008 primary and says Edwards will not be doing rallies. Instead, TV viewers will see Edwards in coal country, Edwards in a factory, Edwards on a farm, Edwards in a struggling neighborhood, Edwards in a school, Edwards in a health care clinic. ‘It’s an effort to show the rest of the count how 37 million Americans live their lives in poverty every single day,’ said a [Breck Girl] aide. ‘It’s not only their workplaces. It’s their homes and the places they get health care.'” This “swing is reminiscent of John F. Kennedy’s repeated coal-country campaigning before the West Virginia primary of 1960.
“His overwhelming victory ended Catholicism as an issue in the campaign and brought national attention to Appalachian poverty. Twenty-eight years later, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis donned a hard hat and overalls for an hour-long tour of a West Virginia coal mine. … The former U.S. senator from North Carolina has a plan for ‘ending poverty in America within a generation’ that includes an increase in the minimum wage, investments in rural community colleges, creation of 1 million short-term ‘stepping stone’ jobs, and a program to encourage responsible fatherhood and fight teen pregnancy. … Edwards will start next Sunday, July 15, with a walking tour of the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. The three-day tour will officially begin the next day in New Orleans with a town hall in conjunction with ABC’s ‘Good Morning America,’ where he’ll kick off the day’s theme of ‘Rewarding Work and Ending Poverty in America.'” Uh… “the day’s theme of ‘Rewarding Work and Ending Poverty in America'”? Ladies and gentlemen, I sit here dazzled, stunned speechless when I realize the brilliance of this little man, John Edwards. He comes up with solutions to problems; he doesn’t just complain, and he comes up with solutions to problems that nobody has ever thought of. Why has nobody thought of rewarding work before?
It’s so simple! What could we reward work with? Good idea, Mr. Snerdley! Excellent! A paycheck, money. Exactly! We could reward work with a check for every week worked, and we could call it a “pay check.” Yes! Wow, I’ll tell you what. You could get you one of these things if Edwards succeeds in this, because he’s going to finally reward work. As I say, it’s dazzlingly and blindingly brilliant. We will make the employer pay the worker a “paycheck”! Everybody who works will be rewarded for it, instead of taken advantage of and ignored and fired, laughed at, and made fun of. We need to dispense with all this campaigning and we need to make this man president right now so he can propose this legislation. There should be no debate in Congress. This is so brilliant, just have him sign the law. We need paychecks. We need to reward work! We’re a 231-year-old country, and it’s taken all of that time. With a paycheck, folks, you could afford a haircut! With a paycheck, you could afford — well, not a 28,000-square-foot mansion that you had to clear-cut a gazillion trees to build, but you could buy a tent.
Story #2: Yawn: Chuck Hagel Won’t Run as Independent
RUSH: Chuck Hagel was on NBC yesterday, saying he’s not going to run as an independent. He has no plan to run as an independent. Who cares? s anybody out there really going, “Whew!” or is anybody going, “Oh, no! Nooooo! Say it isn’t so, please!” No, it’s —
Story #3: Why Do Drive-Bys Want to Destroy Katie Couric?
RUSH: I don’t know if you people are following this, if you’ve seen this, but New York magazine has a story at a current issue that just destroys Katie Couric. It just destroys her. Some of the highlights of this are that had she known that she was going to have to do a traditional newscast rather than the new innovation she tried, she would have thought twice about taking it, and she’s not excited, and some days she wonders whether she did the right thing or not. She went over there and she found the ladies bathroom such a disgrace, she demanded it be renovated. There was an incident with a producer, Jerry Cipriano. She ended up slapping the guy around because he put a word in the script that she didn’t like. I don’t know if she slapped him around before or after the newscast, but it was regarded as playfully slapping him around, but on the arms. Now, I’ll tell you, if a male anchor had started slapping around a female producer, there wouldn’t have been any speculation as to whether or not it was “playful,” but the interesting thing to me is this. Why are the Drive-Bys trying to take her down? New York magazine is New York magazine, and the Associated Press has piled on here, too. Now, I know that there’s a characteristic in the Drive-By Media: they love to build people up just to tear ’em down. That’s part of journalism’s existing current formula, and destroying the powerful is all part of that, too.
But they’re not trying to take down Brian Williams. They’re not trying to take down Charlie Gibson. They both do the same thing: they read a TelePromTer for 20 minutes, and play Preparation H commercials for the other ten. That’s who’s watching the Nightly News these days. There are a lot of them, but that’s their demographic. So it’s interesting. I think some of it has to do with money. I think you have a lot of people inside CBS, and there have been some budget cuts over there to pay Katie her big-time bucks, and you still have some of the so-called Tiffany Network old guard, these dinosaurs walking around out there — Lesley Stahl, Bob Schieffer — and who knows what kind of arrows are being slung at Katie from inside the building? Still, even though they’re being slung, other Drive-By outlets are taking them and writing stories, and this one, I don’t know that it was intentionally devastating. It just couldn’t avoid being when you read it. How many what, Mr. Snerdley? Well, later on it was, yeah. Some of the same stuff was happening on the Today show. Maybe she’s just not a nice person. I might know a little bit about that, but I’m not going to say. The Drive-Bys generally don’t take themselves out. They circle the wagons and defend them, like they defended Rather after the fake National Guard story with the fake documents. But they clearly got Katie in the crosshairs here, and they’re trying to wipe her out.
Story #4: Idiotic Green Federal Building in San Francisco
RUSH: San Francisco Chronicle: “The View From Inside; Tower’s premiere: Futuristic Federal Building wins fans, foes among workers with its innovative features — When Nancy Pelosi and other dignitaries gather Monday to dedicate San Francisco’s Federal Building, the grand opening will be old news to people like Janis Olvarado and Anita Yeung. They’ve been working in the futuristic tower with its steel mesh sheath since March. They’ve dealt with eccentric temperature swings and unexpected glare. They’ve become acquainted with a neighborhood where there are more shopping carts than shops,” meaning the homeless live across the street. “By now it’s starting to feel like home — a home where every resident seems to have a different opinion about the provocative design and its environmental innovations. ‘It’s so futuristic, so politically correct, so green, I adore it. … It makes me want to come to work,’ said Olvarado…. ‘Everything is so gray. I just don’t find it appealing,’ countered Yeung, who works at the same agency. She has an umbrella propped above her computer to reduce the glare from the 13-foot-tall, south-facing window next to her cubicle.”
Get this: “The ceremony will stress the architectural emphasis on employee health and green design — such as natural ventilation that replaces air conditioning,” there’s no A/C in most of this building. “[T]he tower elevators stop only on every third floor, making employees use stairs,” for exercise and to reduce some of the power use. Now, there is a small little cab elevator for the disabled, and everybody is trying to sneak into it. The building is 13 stories and the elevator only goes to every third floor. “Elevators stalled and temperatures veered from one extreme to the other depending on the time of day. Another complaint: The floor-to-ceiling windows overloaded cubicles with sunlight … There also are changes along the plaza, where the mesh panels stop above a grass berm. Derelicts have scaled the berm at night, slid under the panels and dropped down into an area that will serve an about-to-open day care center.” So the homeless have found a way to sneak into this place, this future day care center, and spend the night — and it’s in a really rotten neighborhood. Sixth Street and United Nations Plaza are two of the diceyest locations in central San Francisco. It’s all for the green aspects.
Story #5: Why Not the Real Thing, Madonna?
RUSH: By the way, I read about Madonna and her performance over at Live Earth, and people are getting on her because of her huge carbon footprint. She has seven houses, 18 cars, a private jet, and so forth. But, you know, yip, yip, yahoo. Apparently she’s simulated sex with a guitar. Now, that’s not Madonna. That’s going soft. Simulated? Why not the real thing? This concert called for boldness. She could have done something to explain how the real thing was helping neutralize the carbon footprint or what have you. She’s getting old. She’s been at this a long time, and it’s tough to continue to cross the line. Simulating sex with a guitar? That’s just pure fakery. That’s not Madonna.
Story #6: Seasoned Citizen Jailed for Not Watering Lawn
RUSH: We here in south Florida, ladies and gentlemen, are under conditions of a drought. Actually, our reservoirs, the coastal areas where we live, we’re fine and dandy. We don’t really need to be under water restrictions anymore. Inland, they do, and the water management board is being inflexible here. “Well, we’re going to have restrictions or we’re not. You can’t change them every two months or so, depending on rainfall. So if we’re going to have restrictions, we’re gonna have restrictions,” meaning once a week you can water the lawn. It’s not necessary anymore because now you can’t stop it from growing, at least in the coastal areas because there’s been so much rain. But get this: “A seventy-year-old widow and a grandmother spent the morning in jail in Orem, Utah. She was arrested for refusing to give a policeman her name when he tried writing her a ticket for failing to water her yard. The women hasn’t watered her lawn in more than a year, and the condition of the yard violates a zoning order. She said she’s traumatized and shocked that she was hauled to jail just because she says she can’t afford to water the lawn.” Her name is Betty Perry. She said, “I never thought they would every do anything like that to a person that’s 70 years old. I never bothered anybody. I’ve never hurt anybody.” They’ve got pictures of her lawn. There is no lawn. So here’s a woman put in jail for not watering the lawn. That’s just not nice, to put a 70-year-old in jail.
Story #7: Middle America Volunteers the Most
RUSH: By the way, I’ve always said that you people are the people that make the country work. USA Today headline: “Middle America Volunteers Most — If you live in Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, or Austin, you’re more likely to volunteer in your community than if you live in other metro areas.” They rank the top 50 here, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Salt Lake, Austin, Omaha, Seattle, Portland, Kansas City. I’m looking for a blue city. Oh, there’s Pittsburgh, 13, and Bridgeport, Connecticut, 14. It’s amazing that you don’t find anybody on the coasts here in this list of who volunteers more. It’s middle America.
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Story #1: Sprint Cancels Annoying, Complaining Customers
RUSH: I’ll tell you, folks. I love this story. I absolutely love this story: “Sprint Cuts 1,000+ Customers For Excessive Complaining — Hundreds of cell phone customers are being given the boot, accused of being too high maintenance. Sprint-Nextel is disconnecting more than 1,000 subscribers on grounds the clients call customer service too often and make ‘unreasonable requests.'” It’s 1,200 that are being fired (laughing) 1,200 customers being canned. They’re going to “have to find a new carrier by the end of the month. A Sprint representative said the average customer calls customer service less than once a month, but the 1,200 clients getting the boot call 40-50 times as often,” and you know what’s happening. They’re complaining about everything. They’re whining and moaning about the bill. They’re whining about just everything. Sprint says it’s not worth it. It’s not worth having you people. I think this ought to happen in more industries, especially in the health care industry. The health care industry should say, “Get well on your own! You’re not even sick. We’ve got more important cases here than you. Get out.” It ought to happen in a whole bunch of places, because we’ve gotten to the point here where we’re just bending over and grabbing the ankles for everybody that whines and moans and complains. “The customer is always right,” is probably taken to an extreme here. I just love it.Story #2: Liberals Salivate over ChiCom Execution
RUSH: Folks, I have to tell you, liberals today and some Democrats are no doubt salivating. Did you hear what the ChiComs did? The ChiComs executed the former head of its version of the FDA. They executed the guy today, because he approved untested medicine in exchange for cash. This is said to be “the strongest signal yet from Beijing that it is serious about tackling its product safety crisis. The execution of the former State Food and Drug Administration director Zheng Xiaoyu was confirmed by state television on the official Xinhua News Agency. During Zheng’s tenure from 1998 to 2005, his agency approved six medicines that turned out to be fake and the drug makers used falsified documents to apply for approvals, according to previous state media reports. One antibiotic caused the deaths of at least ten people.” I have not read the whole story because you only need to read the first three paragraphs of any story to get the guts of it. Do you happen to know how he was executed, Mr. Snerdley? I know you read the whole story. A single bullet at pointblank range? That’s the policy? I remember that now. The ChiComs make your family buy the bullet, and it’s a single bullet. So you know this has the libs salivating here.
Story #3: Global Warming: Heat Hits New York in Summer!
RUSH: With the heat wave up in New York, my new shorts will be great. I have to tell you, 90 degrees, folks? Can you believe 90, 91 degrees in July? The fire hydrants are on and so forth. It’s July, but it’s global warming!
No, I know it happens every July, Mr. Snerdley, but that doesn’t matter because this is an emotional play. It’s a global warming causing this. It’s not normal weather patterns. Here’s the dirty little secret — and I happen to know this because I’m going to be up in that region this weekend because I have a golf tournament championship to defend. I was looking at the forecast because there’s all this heat wave stuff so I want to know how to dress accordingly for this, and it’s going to be 20 degrees cooler this weekend than it is now. On Sunday, it’s barely going to hit 73, 74 degrees up there. It may hit 91, 92, 93, somewhere like that today and tomorrow but it’s going to be 20 degrees cooler. Now, when it’s 20 degrees cooler this weekend, will anybody say, “Hmm, global cooling? That global warming didn’t last very long,” and it’s not even that excruciating a heat wave. We’re making a big deal out of it because own out in the west, when it was 116, 119 or whatever, the news was, HEAT WAVE MOVING EAST! Drudge, he plays along with it. He has this big picture: “Heat Continues to Test the Power Grids.” Yeah, that happens every year, too.
Story #4: NAALCP Buries the N-Word
RUSH: I don’t know if you saw this or not, folks. The NAALCP — that’s the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People — had a funeral. When was this, yesterday? Yeah, they held a funeral yesterday for the N-word. They buried the N-word. Now, if this had any meaning, of course, then it would never, ever be uttered by any person in this country ever again. When you bury something, it’s dead. But, of course, that’s absurd! It’s absolutely absurd. It’s pure symbolism over substance. It was a total waste of time. All this symbolism, for what? To get noticed? Fundraising? It’s certainly not to achieve any objective, because you know that it isn’t going to.
Story #5: Juror in Trouble for Un-PC Answers
RUSH: Did you hear about the guy in Massachusetts, the Cape Cod man who claimed he is homophobic, racist and a habitual liar? He admitted all of this to avoid jury duty. Well, it made the judge so mad that the judge has referred the case to prosecutors for possible charges. The judge, Gary Nickerson, said, “In 32 years of service in courtrooms, as a prosecutor, as a defense attorney and now as a judge, I have quite frankly never confronted such a brazen situation of an individual attempting to avoid juror service.”
The guy’s name here is Daniel Ellis of Falmouth. He had been called to court with about 60 other potential jurors for possible service on a 23-member grand jury. On a questionnaire that all potential jurors fill out, Ellis wrote that he didn’t like homosexuals and blacks. He then echoed those sentiments in an interview with” the judge. The judge said I gotta talk to this guy. So the judge said to Ellis: “‘You say on your form that you’re not a fan of homosexuals,’ Nickerson said. ‘That I’m a racist,’ Ellis interrupted. ‘I’m frequently found to be a liar, too. I can’t really help it,’ Ellis added. ‘I’m sorry?’ Nickerson said. ‘I said I’m frequently found to be a liar,’ Ellis replied. ‘So, are you lying to me now?’ Nickerson asked. ‘Well, I don’t know. I might be,’ was the response. Ellis then admitted he really didn’t want to serve on a jury. ‘I have the distinct impression that you’re intentionally trying to avoid jury service,’ Nickerson said. ‘That’s true,’ Ellis answered.” So the judge ordered this guy taken into custody. He was released later yesterday morning. He could face perjury and other charges. What does this tell you? Does this not tell you what political correctness has become? Here’s what you say you don’t like, and what you don’t hate, and you can be automatically branded a bigot. He just took it a little too far. Just say one of those things. He wasn’t leaving it up to chance at all.
Story #6: Wrecking Ball Snaps Loose, Wreaks Havoc
RUSH: By the way, imagine this. You’re walking along, minding your own business — you’re in Meadville, Pennsylvania — and all of a sudden, no, it’s not an airplane crashing into your sidewalk. A wrecking ball is rolling down the sidewalk in the street right at you! A 1500-pound, three-feet wide wrecking ball broke loose of a crane cable, rolled nearly a mile downhill. Imagine you’re out walking and you just hear this thing and you turn around and say, “Whoa! What is this?” It mashed more than a dozen vehicles, and it injured three people “as it bounced from curb to curb across the street, and slammed into the back of a car stopped at an intersection. That force caused a chain reaction with two other cars at the traffic light. The driver, an Allegheny college junior, said he thought a car had hit him when his back windshield exploded. The wrecking ball finally came to lest in the trunk of a car and pushed it nearly 20 feet.”
I want to know what kind of car has a trunk big enough to handle a 1500-pound wrecking ball. Well, it’s three feet wide. Ah, it’d probably fit in a Prius. Do Priuses have trunks, or is that where the battery is? I have no clue. “Workers had been using the wrecking ball to demolish part of a library at Allegheny College when the cable snapped.” Actually, you should have seen this: a whole bunch of people were running after this wrecking ball like crazy. They weren’t trying to stop it. They were trial lawyers throwing out business cards like confetti all over the place.
Story #7: Hypocrite Democrat Lawmaker Opposing Deadly Force Bill Shoots Would-Be Thief
RUSH: I just love stories like this: “A Texas state lawmaker,” a Democrat, “who opposed a law giving Texans a stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force, shot a man at the house he is building in Houston, the police say.” Lawmaker “Rep. Borris Miles told the police he was fixing a leak on the second floor of the house on Sunday when he heard a noise downstairs, saw two men trying to steal copper wiring, he confronted them. One threw a pocketknife at him, and Mr. Miles, former law enforcement officer, shot the man in the leg.” Give this guy the Feinstein award, ladies and gentlemen, for utter hypocrisy! So this is perfect: a Democrat, liberal, who reserves special common sense behavior as rights for yourself, but deny them to all of the plebes. The great unwashed, the hoi polloi, if you will.
Story #8: Latest Polls: Rudy, Hillary in Lead
RUSH: Presidential politics. USA Today/Gallup poll. Very briefly: Rudy is up by ten points over Fred Thompson. Hillary is up by 16 points over Barack Obama. That’s pretty much all there is with that.
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Story #1: Government Ethanol BS Raises Soap Prices
RUSH: This is just rich. Get this, folks, from the Wall Street Journal: “Government efforts to reduce U.S. reliance on imported oil are forcing up prices for another indispensable commodity: soap. Soap and detergent makers say they are being hurt by a double whammy of federal subsidies and mandates that has reduced the supply and pushed up the costs of a key ingredient, beef tallow. The steeply rising price of corn, driven by a federal requirement to use more ethanol, has pushed up corn prices, making animal feed more expensive and prompting farmers to blend the less-expensive tallow and other fats into their feed.” This is what happens when the government tries to make food into fuel. So not only is corn going up, but related things are going up. Tortillas, of course, are up, and now soap. I can’t wait for the Drive-By Media stories on the price of soap skyrocketing. It will be, “See? This is global warming! We need reduce our dependence on imported oil.” No, it’s exactly the opposite.Story #2: Five-Sheet Toilet Paper Shooter Rolls Out
RUSH: “Richard Thorne grins as he waves his hand under a toilet paper dispenser in a women’s restroom. The machine spits five sheets of tissue into his grasp. A year in the works, the electronic tissue dispenser is being rolled out to the masses by Kimberly-Clark Professional as it seeks to capture more of the $1 billion away-from-home toilet paper market. The company believes most people will be satisfied with five sheets — and use 20 percent less toilet paper. ‘Most people will take the amount given,’ says Thorne. … ‘People generally in life will take what you give them.'” Oh, man! Ha! Yes, but when to look at it as toilet paper as being “given.” It’s something you take. “Most people will take the amount given. People generally in life will take what you give them.” What, can you only hit this thing once per hand or something?
I’ll tell you what, I don’t care what they regulate and what they mandate, if they get rid of Porsches and they get rid of Ferraris, I’m going to find a way to have one, and I am not going to have any bureaucrat or company tell me how little our much toilet paper I can use, I don’t care if it’s private or public! This stuff is getting out of hand. I’m close to profanity here, so I’m going to take a break.
Story #3: Woman Jailed for Unwatered Lawn Wants to Move
RUSH: All right, remember the story yesterday of this 70-year-old woman in Orem, Utah, who was arrested and sent to jail for having an unwatered lawn? It was a very, very mean thing to do. A seventy-year-old woman had no grass in the yard, and they arrest her. That’s not nice. She now says she wants to move. “Since this has happened, I don’t want to live in Orem anymore.” Her name is Betty Perry. “‘I know now that I’ll never see another winter here.’ She refused to give her name to an officer who visited Friday to issue a ticket for failing to take care of her front yard. She fell and hurt her nose as he tried to arrest her.” It’s just not nice. “She was taken to a jail, where she spent more than an hour before officials decided custody was inappropriate. The officer, whose name has not been released, was suspended. ‘What happened was not the way that we prefer to do business,’ Lt. Doug Edwards said. ‘But clearly she did some things that were wrong, too, in not just saying her name.’ Mayor Jerry Washburn apologized to Perry. He said city law requires residents to maintain their yards and keep them free of junk, but few tickets have been issued for brown lawns…’That is not our policy to go around and enforce green lawns,’ the mayor said. Perry said she can’t afford to water her grass. ‘I want people to know that this is not American to handcuff and put somebody in jail because their lawn is brown,’ she said.” She’s right. It was a very mean thing to do. It just wasn’t nice.
Story #4: Healthy Mexican Kids Get Unhealthier in U.S.
RUSH: Here’s shocking news, ladies and gentlemen, shocking, shocking news. “Hispanics born and raised in the United States may be in poorer health than new immigrants — with higher rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.” I couldn’t stop laughing when I read this. “Poor eating habits, smoking and a lack of exercise are all likely to blame, the team at the University of Southern California, the University of California Los Angeles and the University of Pennsylvania said. The researchers looked at surveys of more than 4,200 whites, blacks and Hispanics aged 40 or older interviewed by federal researchers from 1999 to 2002. One possible explanation for this is that people who immigrate are healthy to begin with and they may also have come here with better health habits,” but then they come here to this stinking, rotten country, and they get diabetes and they smoke, and they’re lazy. So they come here in perfectly good health, and this country is killing the backbone of America, the illegal immigrant population, ladies and gentlemen! They come here healthy as they can be from their war-torn, economically deprived countries, and they get here as the picture of health, and we destroy them.
It’s a secret plot. “The researchers also found that immigrants born in Mexico were taller and had better childhood nutrition than those who stay in their country of origin. This may reinforce the idea that the healthiest people emigrate, they report in a study to be published in the journal Social Biology.” So illegals and other immigrants are better off before they get to America. See, where was this news before the votes in the Senate? If we’d have known this, we could have put this in the ammo arsenal and said, “We’re doing this to protect these people. They’re coming here and dying. First we don’t pay ’em diddly-squat, and we make ’em do jobs that we elitist Americans won’t do, and now they come here and they catch diseases because they eat our rotten food, and they drink our rotten water, and they smoke our rotten cigarettes — and then they can’t get health care when their blood sugar starts skyrocketing, and so they die.”
Story #5: Racism and Bigotry Found in Fat Genes
RUSH: In other health news: “Helping switch on an energy-burning type of fat called brown fat may offer a way to prevent obesity, researchers reported on Tuesday. They found a gene called PRDM16 in brown fat but not in white fat — the type of fat found all over the bodies of most adult humans,” and of course illegal immigrants who have even more of it after they get here than before they got here. “It may be possible to use this gene, or the protein whose production it controls, to help stop people from making too much white fat, the team at Harvard Medical School and the French research institute INSERM in Toulouse said. ‘Brown fat is present in mice and in human infants, where it keeps them warm by dissipating food energy as heat, instead of storing it as white fat,’ said Dr. Bruce Spiegelman of Harvard’s Dana Farber Cancer Center. In humans, it all but disappears by adulthood…”
So we have to find a way to create the brown fat in adults. “The question is whether humans can be taken back to an infantile state [in which] brown fat counteracts the buildup of white fat.” Yes, you know, even in the most innocent, harmless, mildly interesting health stories, we find racism. Racism and bigotry! Guess who the culprit is, even in this story? It’s the white fat. The white fat totally discriminates against the brown fat. It dominates it. It subjugates it. It subordinates it. It enslaves it to the point that it doesn’t exist. There’s white superiority even in fat, ladies and gentlemen; there’s just no justice.
Story #6: Call for Comity After Boehner’s Wimp Remark
RUSH: “Representative Heather Wilson, a Republican from New Mexico, called for comity…” That’s c-o-m-i-t-y. It’s peace. It’s not funny. For you people in Rio Linda, that’s “comedy.” This is “comity, “…during a meeting the Republican conference, after the minority leader John Boehner referred to Senate colleagues who have begun to favor a change in course in Iraq as ‘wimps.'” Boehner called Republican senators who are growing wobbly on Iraq wimps. “Heather Wilson declined to comment directly on what Boehner had said during the closed-door meeting but she noted that Senator Lugar’s speech was one of the more thoughtful speeches that she had heard in the Senate in a long time.” These guys have been there a long time. They’re worn out. They don’t have the fight in them anymore! What are they in their 80s, 75, 80? “She added that the war and the thoughts of her colleagues about the conflict should always be taken seriously.” So, anyway, this happened behind closed doors. Somebody in there has leaked it out. Boehner called the anti-surge Republican senators “wimps.” There’s nothing wrong with that. We like facts on this program.
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Story #1: Bogus Company Gets Radioactives License
RUSH: In case you missed the story, here it is. “Congressional investigators set up a bogus company with only a post box and within a month obtained a license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that allowed them to buy enough radioactive material for a small ‘dirty bomb.’ U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican, who planned to ask the NRC about the incident at a Senate hearing Thursday, said the sting operation raises concerns about terrorists obtaining such material just as easily. Nobody at the NRC checked whether the company was legitimate and an agency official even helped the investigators fill out the application form, Coleman said in an interview Wednesday. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission acknowledged more checking is needed in such licensing and said since being told of the GAO sting operation it has tightened licensing procedures.”
Oh! Heh-heh! I’ll tell you what — this is another testament to the inefficiencies of bloated government agencies and so forth. Yes, Mr. Snerdley? “What are the tightened procedures?” That’s a good question. What are they? Prove it. “Yeah, we tighten procedures.” Well, what are you doing? Is there a six-month waiting period before you can get licensed to go radioactive on us? You ask for their last names? Ha! That’s a good one. I’m sure they asked for their last names.Story #2: Roger Ailes Pops Up in New Nixon Tapes
RUSH: They’ve released some more Nixon tapes, and it’s amazing to me to go through the excerpts. Nixon was a firebrand. He wanted to bury these Democrats, and he was mad because the Republicans were too polite. Ha! You read these things, and you realize there isn’t much that’s changed. There really isn’t in the way the press treats Republicans, the way Republicans react to it and deal with it or don’t deal with it. And there’s an excerpt from my friend Roger Ailes, who is the CEO of Fox News Channel, and apparently Nixon was somewhere walking a rope line. It was a public reception or something, and Ailes was watching it on TV and flashed off a memo to Haldeman. He said, “Hey, you gotta get him to pay more attention to his wife. A couple of times he just left her stranded out there on the rope line.” Ha, ha! An updated version of that memo today would be: “Make sure you get some interns on that rope line so your wife won’t even be with you on the rope line.”
Story #3: “Targeted” Fat Tax Perfect Example of Liberalism
RUSH: Reuters story, ladies and gentlemen: “‘Fat Tax’ Could Save 3,200 Lives a Year,” and in the story: “A well-designed and carefully-targeted fat tax…” Have you ever seen a well-designed, carefully targeted tax of any kind that worked? I mean, this story is a perfect illustration of the way liberals and socialists do everything they can to try to control as much of our lives as possible. And right now this is just London, but you know the fat tax has been proposed here, too.
“A ‘fat tax’ on salty, sugary and fatty foods could save thousands of lives each year, according to a study published [today]. Researchers at Oxford University say that charging Value Added Tax (VAT) at 17.5 percent on foods deemed to be unhealthy would cut consumer demand and reduce the number of heart attacks and strokes. The purchase tax is already levied on a small number of products such as potato crisps, ice cream, confectionery and chocolate biscuits, but most food is exempt,” from the VAT. “The move could save an estimated 3,200 lives in Britain each year, according to the study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. ‘A well-designed and carefully-targeted fat tax could be a useful tool for reducing the burden of food-related disease,’ the study concluded.” See that? “Food-related disease.” The salt and sugar in fatty foods are all natural substances found on earth — just, by the way, as is oil. However, they said their research only gave a rough guide to the number of lives that could be saved,” of course! No, we wouldn’t want you to get specific because then you could be tied to it, “and said more work was needed to get an exact picture of how taxes could improve public health.” This is like how they operate, folks.
Can I ask your question? Who would be hurt most by an increase in the fat tax? Who would be hurt most? Just take a wild guess. The poor, and women, and minorities! It’s a formula. I don’t care what the story is: women and minorities are hardest hit, and here it is in this story. “Any ‘fat tax’ might be seen as an attack on personal freedom and would weigh more heavily on poorer families, the study warned.” This is right off the script for these socialists, folks. The tax is in keeping with the idea that these fat people cost socialized health care systems more money, and they’re dying, and plus we’re having to spend so much money on them before they die.
So what happens is first government takes over a private market function, which is you feeding yourself. Then as costs of that function skyrocket because it’s offered for free by compassionate socialists, they have to find ways to cut costs after they make a boondoggle out of their own program. But since they don’t know the role of prices in free markets, they can’t let prices adjust accordingly and make individuals choose the better uses of the product. They have to find other ways of going about it. They just aren’t going to trust you to make the right decision for yourselves. You are incompetent. You are incapable. You are eating the wrong things now, and you are going to keep eating the wrong things, and they’re going to tax you to get you to stop eating the wrong things. So they’re going to do this, they’re going to totally mess up the whole concept of market prices. And when that happens, it’s not just these three areas — salty, sugary, and fatty foods — that are going to be affected. It’s the unintended consequences of things that they never ponder.
Story #4: Not Nice: Illegals Bear Brunt of Housing Slump
RUSH: Try this story: “It’s a mystery that has Wall Street debating such terms as birth, death and illegal immigration: Why haven’t more U.S. construction jobs vanished in the wake of the housing market meltdown? Much of the attention has focused on complex forecasting models and polls that the government uses to track employment, but some economists say undocumented workers,” illegal aliens, “are quietly bearing the brunt of the layoffs in the building sector.” Oh, no! Illegals are bearing the brunt of the slowdown in the housing market! It’s unfair. Americans should be suffering, my friends! This is not fair. We are so mean. We’re just not nice.
Story #5: Novak: War Support Helps McCain with GOP
RUSH: A couple of days ago I talked about Senator McCain and the problems he’s having in his campaign, how the Drive-By Media is out there saying, “No, his problem here is he supported the war, the troop buildup. He’s too closely identified with George W. Bush.” We were all just incredulous here; how can they miss this? The blinders that these people in the Drive-By Media are wearing… and they all do. It’s amazing, the groupthink.
Anyway, we went through the list of things that harmed McCain, starting with McCain-Feingold, Gang of 14, the fact that he was against tax cuts. Immigration, he was on the wrong side of that, putting his arms around Ted Kennedy and so forth. I mean, those are the things. He was never the front-runner in the first place. He was just a Drive-By Media darling from the bus tour back in 2000, the Straight Talk Express. And I have here a story from the Chicago Sun Times. It’s by Robert Novak, in fact. “Staff Shakeup Gives Fading McCain a Chance.” We go to the end of the piece. “McCain’s slimmed-down campaign will concentrate on early contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina… [the new campaign guy] is far more adept than [the old campaign guy] at singing McCain’s praises.” Now, listen to this: “McCain supporters hope his eloquent support for the Iraq intervention will earn him backing from the Republican base.” Now, this is in a Drive-By paper, but it’s not the Drive-By Media. This is Robert Novak. So once again: Rush is right. “McCain supporters hope his eloquent support” of the war will revive and resuscitate his campaign.
Story #6: Sheltering Children from Scorching Summer
RUSH: This is from the Raleigh News and Observer. “Schools Want Sun Shelters for Hot Kids — Principals of at least eight year-round Wake County schools, worried about how schoolchildren will cope with scorching summer heat, want to raise thousands of dollars to erect large canopies and shelters over playgrounds. A handful of Wake schools have the shelters, which are more common in places such as Las Vegas. At least one has erected a 40-foot-by-60-foot shelter that covers the entire playground at a cost of $25,000. Even less extravagant shelters can still cost $7,500.” You know what’s surprising to me about this? I didn’t think they let kids outside anymore. I thought they canceled recess. Kids can’t play tag, can’t play dodge ball. Now they’re letting them outside? That means they’ll be subjecting them to all kinds of scorching temperatures in the summer, global warming, and, of course, cancer and melanoma.
Story #7: Pittsburgh Drops “Public” from Public Schools
RUSH: “In Pittsburgh, the schools there “will drop ‘public’ from its name and adopt a new, standardized way of referring to its schools as part of a campaign to brighten and strengthen the district’s image. For example, Schenley High School will be called Pittsburgh Schenley. Superintendent Mark Roosevelt’s staff unveiled the policy at a school board Education Committee meeting last night. Under the policy, the district simply will call itself the ‘Pittsburgh Schools.’ The district’s logo — a pattern of circles, triangles and squares — will still be used. … By dropping ‘public’ from its name, Randall Taylor said, the district might be able to avoid the negative attitude often associated with public schools.”
Let me tell you people in Pittsburgh something. It has nothing to do with what you call it! Gee! It’s called results! You just have to marvel at bureaucrats in the way they tackle a problem — they don’t fix the problem. They fix a name — that may get rid of the bad image — but it doesn’t fix the problem. Now don’t get mad at me — I love Pittsburgh. I lived there for four or five years in the early seventies. It’s just that bureaucrats are bureaucrats. Democrats are Democrats. Liberals are liberals. They never fix the problem, they just try to change the image. You know, “How can we fool ’em today?”
Story #8: Kerry’s Firefighter Union Pals Attack Rudy
RUSH: Here’s this Rudy and the firefighters story. This is fascinating. The International Association of Firefighters yesterday afternoon in New York “released a video full of angry testimony belittling Rudy Giuliani’s support of New York City firefighters.” They’re mad as hell, claiming Rudy is running around claiming he was a big leader and pulling everything together after 9/11, and he didn’t do diddly-squat. Firefighters died, Rudy didn’t care, blah, blah, blah. So this is being compared to the swift-boat attack. The news on this is portraying the Giuliani camp as seeking to avoid a Kerry-type mistake. Don’t worry, media. There’s no comparison between John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) and Rudy Giuliani, because Rudy is not a wuss. He’s going to punch back at this.
You know what Kerry’s problem was? What the swift boat guys were saying was true! I keep hearing all this, “He should’ve fought back.” What was he going to say? Nobody has discredited anything the swift boat veterans said! The big problem is if somebody charges you with something and it’s true, what are you going to do? You do what Kerry did: you try to ignore it. You don’t elevate it so that it gets any more attention. The problem is the swift boat guys kept running the ads, and the Drive-By Media asked, “When are you going to fight back?” Kerry was saying, “When are you going to defend me? I shouldn’t have to fight back. You Drive-Bys are on my side. When are you going to attack the swift boat guys?” Then the Drive-Bys, “Okay, we will.”
So they tried to attack the swift boat guys, and the swift boat guys were undaunted. They were undeterred. They had the facts on their side. It’s amazing what you can do when you have the facts, when you have the truth, and when the people you’re talking about know it and can’t refute it. All they can do is say, “This is out of place in American politics! Why, this is hitting below the belt. Why, this is unkind. This is just uncalled for,” blah, blah, blah, blah. That’s all you can do, and then you’re kind of toast.
And speaking of the International Association of Firefighters, guess who was their candidate in 2004? Ah, John Kerry (who served in Vietnam). They were all over the Kerry campaign in ’04. “The IAFF backed Kerry in 2004, helping salvage a listing campaign in the primaries. IAFF President Harold Schaitberger was a constant fixture behind Kerry as he took the stage in Iowa, New Hampshire and other arenas to claim victory on his way to winning the nomination…. The first blow from Team Giuliani came in a release mocking the union as the ‘International Association of Partisan Politics’ and showing pictures of Schaitberger standing with Kerry. The campaign pointed out that the IAFF has supported Democratic presidential candidates since 1988. Giuliani’s campaign also pointed out that Schaitberger has held a number of roles in Democratic organizations and has contributed financially only to Democratic candidates.”
Don’t forget the firefighters that called here. Remember the firefighters that booed Mrs. Clinton? This is another one of these union things, where the leadership’s coming out and saying, “Firefighters hate Rudy. Firefighters think Rudy is a phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock ‘n’ roller.” The rank-and-file doesn’t all think that, but the leadership does. So Rudy’s fighting back. It’s not going to be anywhere near the swift-boat thing because Rudy can fight back with facts and figures.
Story #9: Most Working Moms Don’t Want Full-Time Jobs
RUSH: This one interested me: “A new survey finds that 60% of working mothers do not want a fulltime job.” Say what? Sixty percent of working mothers don’t want a full-time job? Why, this is not good news for the feminists. This is horrible news. “An increasing portion of America’s working moms say their ideal situation would include a part-time job rather than working fulltime or staying at home.” It’s a Pew Research Center survey being released today, “and 21% of working mothers with children younger than 18 viewed full-time work as the best arrangement, but that’s down from 32% in 1977.” That’s a huge plummet. “Sixty percent of the working mothers said a part-time job would be best, up from 48% ten years ago; 19% said not working at all would be ideal, roughly the same as in 1997. Cary Funk, a Pew researcher on the survey, said, ‘The trend reflected women’s latest thoughts on the ideal arrangement for their children. It’s an expression of the difficulties of combining responsibilities of work and home.’ Only 16% of stay-at-home mothers…”
There’s a big shift in their thoughts, too. “Only 16% of stay-at-home mothers said their ideal situation would be to work fulltime outside the home, down from 24% in 1997.” Well, feminists are taking it here in the shor — on the chin. Phew! The problem could be solved with abortions, but they’re not having abortions anymore, not nearly as many. If they were we wouldn’t have the problem of having the children determine how your day can best be spent.
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Story #1: SUV Targets the Disabled
RUSH: I always like to start off with some lighthearted stuff, just because I just do. I saw this headline — and I’m sorry to do this to you because it’s a horrible story, but it’s an SUV story — and I had this reaction… Anyway, here’s the headline. This is from the Raleigh News and Observer. “Four Killed as SUV Hits Disabled Car.” Now, given the way SUVs have been written about, with minds of their own driving off the top levels of garages and going over bridges on interstate highways, my first thought when I saw the headline was, “My gosh, now SUVs hate the disabled. Now they’re out there targeting people who are defenseless, now they see a disabled car, retarded car, whatever, sitting on the side of the street…” So yes: that was my first reaction based on the conditioning that I’ve had with the Drive-By Media and the way they report on SUVs.Story #2: Americans Get Shorter, Health Care Blamed
RUSH: America was once the world’s tallest country, but we are not growing as fast as the rest of the world, and economists say that that’s bad. Too many of you people out there are small fry. You people are too short! You’re not as tall as you should be. Wait ’til you see where this story goes. “Young adults in Japan and other prosperous Asian countries now stand nearly as tall as Americans do. In Holland, the tallest country in the world, the typical man now measures six feet, which is two inches more than his average US counterpart.”
Now, why does this matter? It matters because “height is correlated with numerous measures of a population’s well-being.” Tall people are healthier, they are wealthier, and they live longer than short people, apparently. “The things that make you tall: a nutritious diet, good prenatal care, and a healthy childhood benefit you in other ways. That makes height a good indicator for economists.” It goes on to suggest here that one of the reasons we are not getting taller is because there are nine million children without health insurance. Ha, ha! It’s all because we don’t have universal health care, says this AP story!
But how do you leave genetics out of this? Of all the reasons they gave, they leave genetics out of this — but there’s another reason to do so, and Mr. Snerdley wisely pointing this out to me. We’ve had an invasion of a lot of people — very short people — and for all intents and purposes they get counted as Americans because they live here. So that’s the real reason, but they want to tie this to health care and make it sound like it’s just another thing to worry about.
Story #3: Germans Launch 24/7 Death TV Channel
RUSH: Now, get this. This is from Germany. “A round-the-clock television channel devoted exclusively to ageing, death and dying will be launched in Germany this autumn. Eos TV, which takes its name from the Greek goddess of the dawn, will feature documentaries about graveyards, televised obituaries, tips on finding a decent retirement home and even how to install in-house stair lifts. The project was conceived by Wolf Tilmann Schneider, 51, a former television producer…” obviously a lib, “… who has joined forces with Germany’s funeral association to launch the 24-hour, seven days a week, death-and-dying channel on cable television and the internet.”
Now, is there a market for this? Germany launching this TV station devoted entirely to 24/7 coverage of aging, death, and dying? Prozac might sponsor this. It’s just amazing. Everybody in the Drive-By Media is obsessed with death! And it has been pointed out to me, ladies and gentlemen, that we do have a death and dying network in this country. In fact, you can make the argument that we have two. The biggest death and dying network we have is MSNBC; all the talent there has one foot of their career in the grave anyway. Then, of course, there’s the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric — or even all three of the evening newscasts. They all have the smallest audiences they’ve ever had in, like, 25 or so. So the Germans got nothing on us.
Story #4: Another Moronic TV Car Chase
RUSH: You know, the more I see of these stupid car chases on cable TV, the more I’m convinced that we got some real morons that live in this country. Now, there’s a car chase, and the cable nets have it, and this one is near us. It’s on the Florida turnpike, it’s somewhere near Ft. Lauderdale. They think the car was involved in a hit-and-run in Miami-Dade County. Looks like it’s a silver Lexis. Anyway, this guy has had a helicopter following him for a half hour here. Now, anybody that gets in a car chase — anybody that tries to outrun the fuzz — has to know by now that a helicopter is going to track them down and follow them wherever they go. There is no getting away from this, especially when you’re on the turnpike. I mean, how in the world are you going to get off of the turnpike and blend in? It’s amazing, these things — even more amazing to me than the fact that the media covers them.
Story #5: The Group Hug, Arts & Croissant Crowd in Action
RUSH: Would you like to hear how Washington liberals deal with terrorists? Here’s a story from Friday. This is AP version that I have, and it’s been all over the place, because the liberals love this story. “A would-be robber was disarmed by hospitable hosts who offered him a glass of wine and sent him off with a group hug but no cash. A group of friends was finishing a dinner of marinated steaks and jumbo shrimp on the back patio of a Washington, D.C. home when a hooded man slid through an open gate and pointed a handgun at the head of a 14-year-old girl. ‘Give me your money, or I’ll start shooting,’ the intruder said… Everyone froze, including the girl’s parents. Then one guest spoke up. ‘We were just finishing dinner,’ Cristina ‘Cha Cha’ Rowan, 43, told the man. ‘Why don’t you have a glass of wine with us?’ The intruder had a sip of their [fine French Bordeaux] and said, ‘Damn, that’s good wine.’ The girl’s father, Michael Rabdau, 51, a federal government worker, told the intruder to take the whole glass, and Rowan offered him the bottle. The robber, with his hood down, took another sip and a bite of Camembert cheese.”
He had the wine! I’m not making this up. This is the Wine and Croissant Crowd in action, the Chablis and Brie Bunch. “The robber, with his hood down, took another sip and a bite of Camembert cheese. He put the gun in his sweatpants. Then the story took an even more bizarre twist. ‘I think I may have come to the wrong house,’ the intruder said… ‘Can I get a hug?’ Rowan, who works at her children’s school and lives in Falls Church, Virginia, stood up and wrapped her arms around would-be robber. The other guests followed. ‘Can we have a group hug?’ the [intruder] asked. The five adults complied. The man walked away a few moments later with a filled crystal wine glass, but nothing was stolen, and no one was hurt. Police were called to the scene and found the empty wine glass unbroken on the ground in an alley behind the house. Police classified the June 16 incident, which lasted all of 10 minutes, as strange but true. The witnesses thought the intruder might have been high on drugs. ‘We’ve had robbers that apologize and stuff but nothing where they sit down and drink wine. It definitely is strange,’ said Cmdr. Diane Groomes, adding that the hugs were especially unusual.”
So that’s how liberals will deal with criminals, terrorists, and intruders: a group hug and a glass of wine. I know some of you are thinking: “Boy, that’s really fast thinking, offering the intruder some wine and so forth. And he had a gun pointed at a 14 year old girl’s head.” It was fast thinking, but they let the guy go.
Story #6: So What? Joe Wilson Endorses Hillary Clinton
RUSH: Now, see, here’s a “Who cares?” Drudge just put up one of those flashes that Joe Wilson is going to endorse Hillary Clinton. So what? What’s surprising about that? Hell, the thing that would worry me is if Hillary is elected and she makes Valerie Plame the director of the CIA. But really, who cares? Wilson’s endorsement isn’t going to do diddly-squat. You know, the Hillary machine nobody knows is there — all these George Soros funded things that are trying to take out her enemies and so forth… I mean, Joe Wilson is a pimple on a pig’s butt. The people who are going to vote for Hillary are already supporting her.
I know some of you might say, “Wait a minute, Rush! Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Hillary is having trouble with the anti-war left, and the anti-war left loves Joe Wilson.” Come on, folks! Hillary having trouble with the anti-war left? She’s going to be the nominee, no question! It may not be a bad thing for our side, either. Anna Quindlen, the good Anna who used to be a columnist of the New York Times, is out there saying perfect ticket would be Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. But Joe Wilson? He went out to Santa Fe just to hang around with the Arts-and-Croissant Crowd out there — you know, group hugs and the like.
Story #7: Rasmussen: 75% See Liberal Media Bias
RUSH: This next story came out after the program on Friday of last week. It’s a Rasmussen Reports story, and it shows that “by a 39% to 20% margin, American adults now believe that the three major broadcast networks deliver news with a bias in favor of liberals.” It’s a national survive by the Rasmussen people. It found that “just 25% of viewers believe that ABC, CBS and NBC deliver the news without any bias. Similar results found for CNN and National Public Radio. By a margin of 33 to 16%, Americans say that CNN is liberal. The nation’s adults say the same thing about NPR by a 27 to 14% margin. There is one major exception to the belief that media outlets have a liberal bias, and that’s Fox News; 31% of Americans say it has a bias that favors conservatives, while 15% say it has a liberal bias.” I’m glad this is finally started to break through to the masses. The numbers are not big, but they’re not insignificant, either.
Story #8: Global Economy Booms as Tax Rates Drop
RUSH: We love to talk about good news on this program and the economy — especially when the economy is regularly disparaged incorrectly. This is from US News & World Report. It’s a story about the global economy “booming as worldwide tax rates are falling. The world economy is growing at a 5% rate. The study comes from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.” Global Economy Booming. You might say to yourself when you hear this, “It isn’t booming for me!” Well, it is booming! Make it happen for you! You have a booming economy out there that’s inviting you in! “But, Rush, it’s leaving me behind!” No, it’s not. You’re leaving yourself behind. The economy is waiting for you. It’s just wagging its finger at you. It wants you to come on in. It’s doing so great, but if you get yourself all bogged down with negative attitudes and defeatism and get a little envious or jealous of people you think are doing better than you, then you’re going to end up being paralyzed. There’s great opportunity out there — always is in America. Even when we go through recessions, there’s more opportunity in this country than you could ever find in the course of human civilization.
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Story #1: Global Warming Now World’s Most Boring Topic
RUSH: Just got this story. It’s from a website called TheAge.com. I’m not sure, this may be a spoof. If it’s a spoof, it’s too bad. If it’s a spoof, you know, all good comedy requires truth. The headline of this thing: “Global Warming Now World’s Most Boring Topic.” It is! “Global warming and the debate over whether man-made carbon gas emissions are having a detrimental influence on climate change has been ranked as the most boring topic of conversation on earth, according to a new report.” Ha! It’s a spoof. I’m just teasing. It’s just funny. “The issue of global warming far out-performed other contenders for the title, such as the production of goat cheese, the musical genius of the artist formerly known as P. Diddy and media speculation over the likely outcome of the upcoming federal election.” It’s true. It’s getting to be boring. That’s actually not good. People are going to tune it out. They’re not going to stay vigilant against it. It isn’t going to become boring because we’re not going to let it become boring on this program. We don’t let anything we talk about become boring so it will not be.Story #2: Kook Bloggers Turn on Mother Sheehan
RUSH: By the way, Cindy Sheehan, who has announced her intention to challenge Nancy Pelosi, says that she’s been declared
Story #3: Gavin Newsom Auditions for Hillary’s VP Slot
RUSH: James Taranto yesterday on BestoftheWeb.com. This is funny: “Mayor Gavin Newsom is running for reelection virtually unopposed, more popular than ever, after admitting to having an affair with a top aide’s wife and entering an alcohol treatment program. His approval ratings are running at 80%.” You know, that’s why I said that affairs are a rsum harassment for Democrats. Now, he’s up for reelection. “He expects a credible candidate to emerge eventually. So far, the challengers that he faces are a street performing clown, a homeless man, an advocate for nudism, and a candidate who pledges to wear a camera so voters can monitor his performance in office.” This is the same city that elects Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House. So Gavin Newsom is more popular than ever, and he had an affair with a top aide’s wife and entered an alcohol treatment program. That sounds like an ideal rsum for Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running mate.
Story #4: What Are We Really Doing with Iran?
RUSH: I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes. I saw a little blurb the other day that Vice President Cheney is trying to force some action on this from his office. I don’t know what. The only thing I can tell you is that with a situation like Iran, I would discount what you see said publicly. I have to think that there are all kinds of contingency plans being brought up and drawn up to deal with this. This is a gut feeling that I have. I just can’t see George W. Bush leaving office with a nuclear armed Iran, if they’re that close. Now, what that means, I don’t know. Don’t take it any farther. But the idea that they’re just sitting around not doing anything is something I don’t think is happening. We just don’t know what it is.
Story #5: Another Drive-By Newspaper Goes Under
RUSH: You see where the Scripps Howard news service closed the Cincinnati Post and another newspaper someplace? When a newspaper fails, does the forest sigh with relief? The staffers were all expecting it, but it still is a tough blow when the paper closes. Drive-Bys continue to have all kinds of problems out there.
Story #6: Seattle Mandates Table Scrap Recycling
RUSH: All right, you won’t believe this. Well, yes, you will believe it, given where it comes from. It comes from Seattle. “All single-family homes in Seattle must sign up for table-scrap recycling in 2009, the City Council decided Monday.” Yes, you heard right. “While residents will have to pay for the service, the city will not check whether they are actually dumping food in the new separate bin.” Yet. Now, what am I missing here? Table scraps? We all know what table scraps are. You people in Rio Linda eat them. Table scraps are leftover food that you don’t cover up and put in the fridge. Now, there’s a gadget that people use to dispose of these things. It’s called a “garbage disposal,” and I’m sure since Bill Gates lives in Seattle, they have them there. Snerdley, you lived in Seattle. Did you have a garbage disposal? All right, good, so we know that they have garbage disposals there. What is table scrap recycling at your home? You have to have a separate big garbage pail out back? I’ve been to Seattle a number of times. They’ve got three recycle bins already. Recycling is a bunch of nonsense. It’s a hoax, too. But it doesn’t hurt anything. It doesn’t accomplish anything, either. But what is table scrap recycling? And they’re not going to check? Come on! Then why do this if they’re not going to check?
You have to pay to do this but they’re not going to check whether you’re actually dumping food in the new separate bin? I don’t believe that for a second. “‘We can reduce the waste stream,’ said Councilmember Richard Conlin, chair of the utilities committee. ‘We can treat waste as a resource and continue to recirculate it as we reclaim, recycle it or turn it into compost.'” So they are making a big compost heap with a major American cities’ food scraps? Uh, let’s see. “Reducing food trash was a piece of a larger plan the council unanimously approved Monday to reduce the amount of garbage sent to the landfill…. Starting in April 2009, all single-family homes will be required to subscribe to food-waste recycling, a program that is now optional through the yard-waste collection program. A variety of containers will be available for different rates.” Why do people put up with this? This is exactly the kind of stuff I’m talking about. Well, okay, maybe in Seattle they’re going to love it. But this is inane. You know, you’re right, Mr. Snerdley. In Seattle, they’re probably sitting around saying, “Our government cares about us! Our government loves us.” I give up. The Left Coast, you know.
Story #7: David Limbaugh on Peggy Noonan Column
RUSH: I’ve had a bunch of people recommend that Peggy Noonan piece to me, and I haven’t read it. I got the notes about it over the weekend and I’ve forgotten it. I never went back and read it. I know my brother, who is a fabulous national columnist, wrote a column about it. He was stunned. I haven’t talked to Peggy in a long time, and I ought to go read the piece because I’m actually flying blind here. The only thing I can tell you about why I didn’t read it is because Bush-bashing is so common that it’s not going to affect me. There are larger things at stake here. But let me read it. I’m having some thoughts on it. I’m really ill-equipped to offer intelligent commentary. All I could do would be offer semi-intelligent commentary, and that’s too low a standard for me.
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Story #1: Al-Qaeda Leader, Khaled Abdul-Fattah Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, aka Abu Shahid, Captured
RUSH: I mentioned that the top Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq has been captured by the good guys. Here’s his name: Khaled Abdul-Fattah Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadani. That again is: Khaled Abdul-Fattah Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, also known as Abu Shahid. He was captured in Mosul on July 4th. If we had any damn sense, we’d waterboard this guy until he told us what he knows, and then we’d take him down to Club Gitmo for a little jihad relaxation.Story #2: Fruits, Vegetables Don’t Stop Return of Cancer
RUSH: All right, let’s change gears here, ladies and gentlemen. Headline: “Fruits and Vegetables Do Not Stop the Return of Cancer.” I just love stories like this. I’ll tell you why I love stories like this. It’s not that I like cancer returning. It’s that I love when all these nanny do-gooder types who try to tell everybody how to live get proven wrong. All these health nuts and health freaks demanding things… It’s not enough for them to eat the way they want to eat. They have to force everybody else to do it. They have to force-feed what they think everybody else should eat, like that little nerd from the Center for Science and the Public Interest who got coconut oil banned from movie theater popcorn. They’re out constantly attacking Chinese food or pasta or what have you. Just shut up, don’t eat it! If you want to look like a cadaver, go ahead, but leave the rest of us alone. They’ve been telling us for years, “Vegetables and fruits, and eat a lot of nuts. If you do that, you’ll stave off cancer. Your odds of getting cancer will decrease by X-number.” It’s all BS.
Here are the details. “Hopes that a diet low in fat and chock-full of fruits and vegetables could prevent the return of breast cancer were dashed Tuesday by a seven-year experiment involving more than 3,000 women. The government study found no benefit from a mega-veggies-and-fruit diet in comparison with the U.S. recommended servings of five fruits and vegetables a day — more than most Americans get. None of the breast-cancer survivors lost weight on either diet, researchers noted. That led some experts to suggest that weight loss and exercise should be the next frontier for cancer-prevention research.” Oops, sorry, forget the vegetables. Your kids are right. They don’t like them so you shouldn’t serve them. Just lose weight and start exercising. How old is that? “The study appears in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association.” Why don’t they look into the abortion-breast cancer risk just for the fun of it? I’ve heard things about that, but that won’t happen. Susan Gapstur of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine said, “It sends us back to the drawing board.” I love all these food stories.
You know, it was oat bran, had to have some of that, all the fiber and stuff. Turned out that wasn’t true. Coffee was going to kill you, increase the risk of heart attacks with caffeine. That wasn’t true. Nicotine, of course, now turns out to maybe show some promise for people with Parkinson’s disease. “Should we really have focused on dietary components like fruits, vegetables, and fat,” Gapstur asked, “or should we be focusing on, in addition to diet, on lifestyle factors including physical activity and weight?” As though they haven’t been focusing on that! You can’t turn on the TV, you can’t go get a women’s magazine anymore without finding five or six articles on exercise and losing weight. We’re pummeled with it. What do you mean, “refocus”? “The research was kicked off by a $5 million grant from the late Wal-Mart heir John Walton and got an additional $30 million in support from the National Cancer Institute.”
Anyway, the details are, in the seven years after breast cancer was discovered, they asked these women to start chowing down on all these vegetables and fruits and nuts and things, the cancer returned at about the same proportion of women in both groups. “About 10% of both groups died during that time, most of them from breast cancer. It didn’t matter whether the breast cancer was the most common type fueled by hormones or not. The special diet did not prevent the cancer from coming back.” You know the crime is that anybody ever thought that it would. But I can understand you’d do anything to ward off the return of cancer. But anyway, I love it when these little ne’er-do-well, nanny do-gooders who constantly can’t stay out of our lives are proven to be totally all wet.
Story #3: Girls Depressed by Constant Discussion of Problems
RUSH: Let’s change gears for just a minute here. Let’s head to the Lifestyle Stack. This is in Los Angeles Times today. It’s written by Denise Gellene, and it’s chick news. News, as you know, because we discuss it frequently here, has been chickified. But you’ll love this, Snerdley — this is right up your alley. I mean, I say “Chick News,” but it’s not. The headline: “Girl Talk Linked to Depression and Anxiety.” If you keep talking about it, you’ll be miserable.
“Constant venting over crushes, popularity or other personal problems may lead to anxiety and depression in girls — but not in boys, according to new research. A study of 813 students ages 8 to 15 found that excessive discussions and rumination about problems strengthened friendships for both sexes, but those tighter bonds came at a cost for girls. The study appears in this month’s issue of the journal Developmental Psychology. Lead author Amanda Rose [a chick], assistant professor of psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, said the results might reflect a cultural tendency among girls to blame themselves when they aren’t invited to parties or when boys don’t call back. ‘The more they talk about it, the more depressed and anxious they feel,’ she said. … Boys reported no change in feelings of anxiety or depression, but girls said they felt worse…” Amanda Rose, the study authorette, “said girls got caught up in a ‘vicious cycle’ in which depression or anxiety spurred rumination, which in turn led to increased depression or anxiety.”
They just kept talking about it. They never closed the loop and just kept making the circle. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever it is about, and it just makes you feel worse. So next time your little girl starts up, just tell her, “Don’t talk about it anymore.” She’ll feel better, rather than going over it again and again and again and again. You know, I wish they’d do this research on adults. I really do. I might even fund it and call it “relationship analysis.”
Story #4: First Muslim Congressman Compares Bush to Hitler
RUSH: “Keith Ellison, the nation’s first Muslim congressman said yesterday, he had erred in comparing the Bush administration’s response to September 11th to an event that led to Adolf Hitler’s consolidation of power in Nazi Germany. At an appearance before a group of atheists in Minnesota on July 8, Rep. Keith Ellison,” Democrat-Minnesotastan, “called Sept. 11 ‘the juggernaut’ that led to war, tolerating torture and increased discrimination against religious minorities.’ … Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag, the German parliament building, to suspend constitutional liberties” — and that’s what Ellison was saying that Bush was trying to do here and he called him BushHitler.
And a couple of Republican congressmen, Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) and Eric Cantor (R-Va.), were just outraged that nobody thought anything about this. This is a member of United States Congress saying this! So they sent a letter to Pelosi demanding she do something about it. You know what led to this? The ADL released a statement Tuesday calling on Ellison to apologize for his comments. “Abraham Foxman, the national director called the comparison ‘outrageous and offensive to all Americans. Whatever his views may be on the administration’s response to 9/11, the conduct of the war on terrorism, likening it to Hitler’s rise to power and Nazism is odious, demeans the victims of 9/11, the brave American men and women engaged in the war on terror. Furthermore, it demonstrates a profound lack of understanding about the horrors that Hitler and his Nazi regime perpetrated.'” So Ellison called the AP, and in a telephone interview, said, “In hindsight I wouldn’t have used that reference point. It was probably inappropriate to use that example because it’s a unique historical event without really any clear parallels.” Now, this is the nation’s “first Muslim congressman.” Uhhh… I’m pondering whether to go forward here verbally, ladies and gentlemen.
Story #5: Aggressive Policing Makes Gang Members Mad
RUSH: This is an amazing story. It from the AP out of Los Angeles. “Anti-gang legislation and police crackdowns are failing so badly that they are strengthening the criminal organizations and making U.S. cities more dangerous, according to a report being released Wednesday. Mass arrests, stiff prison sentences often served with other gang members and other strategies that focus on law enforcement rather than intervention actually strengthen gang ties and further marginalize angry young men, according to the Justice Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank that advocates alternatives to incarceration.”
That’s right, we’re making them mad. It’s the same reason why we have terrorists in the world, because Bush went to Iraq. “‘We’re talking about 12-, 13-, 14-, 15-year-olds whose involvement in gangs is likely to be ephemeral unless they are pulled off the street and put in prison, where they will come out with much stronger gang allegiances,’ said Judith Greene, co-author of ‘Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement Tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies.'” Now, the real pice de rsistance in this study is a quote from Wes McBride, the executive director of the California Gang Investigators Association, who dismissed the findings of the report, which he said was written by “thug huggers.” Ha! A bunch of thug huggers! So we’re making the bad guys mad by trying to catch them and putting them in jail. I guess we need to stop and come up with new strategies.
Story #6: Study Says Americans Don’t Understand Others
RUSH: This is from LiveScience.com. The headline of this story: “Study: Americans don’t understand others.” It gets worse. “Rugged American individualism could hinder our ability to understand other peoples’ point of view, a new study suggests. And in contrast, the researchers found that Chinese are more skilled at understanding other people’s perspectives, possibly because they live in a more ‘collectivist’ society. ‘This cultural difference affects the way we communicate,’ said study co-author and cognitive psychologist Boaz Keysar of the University of Chicago. The study, though oversimplified compared to real life, was instructive. Keysar and his colleagues arranged two blocks on a table so participants could see both. However, a piece of cardboard obstructed the view of one block so a ‘director,’ sitting across from the participant, could only see one block.
“When the director asked 20 American participants (none of Asian descent) to move a block, most were confused as to which block to move and did not take into account the director’s perspective. Even though they could have deduced that, from the director’s seat, only one block was on the table. Most of the 20 Chinese participants, however, were not confused by the hidden block and knew exactly which block the director was referring to. While following directions was relatively simple for the Chinese, it took Americans twice as long to move a block. ‘That strong, egocentric communication of Westerners was nonexistent when we looked at Chinese,’ Keysar said. ‘The Chinese were very much able to put themselves in the shoes of another when they were communicating.'”
You see how this works? Rugged individualism — that’s why the world hates us, and we’re blockheads because our rugged individualism makes us selfish, and we refuse to see the perspective of other people. We must change our ways and become more collectivist as a society! The long march of liberalism continues.
Story #7: An Object Lesson in Drive-By Media Lies
RUSH: Here’s an object lesson in how the Drive-By Media lies, misrepresents, and distorts on purpose in order to continue to darken the cloud that they have created over the administration. Here’s the headline. Reuters. “Ex-Cheney aide gets ten years in prison in spy case.” My first thought when I saw this, Sandy Burglar! Nah, he wasn’t a Cheney aide. So I read further. “A former White House official who took top secret documents from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and gave them to opposition figures in the Philippines was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in prison. Philippine-born Leandro Aragoncillo, a U.S. citizen and former Marine, pleaded guilty last year to taking the documents that included details on threats against U.S. government interests and military personnel in the Philippines.”
Now, if it weren’t for me, you would think, if you saw this story, “Oh, wow, what’s going on in Cheney’s office? First Scooter Libby, now this guy? This administration has lost control.” But I, ladies and gentlemen, am going to give you the whole truth: “Aragoncillo worked on the security detail assigned to the vice president from 1999 to 2002, where he held a top security clearance. He later took a job as an intelligence analyst with the FBI in New Jersey.” Now, this guy working in the office of the vice president from 1999 to 2002. Dick Cheney didn’t become vice president ’til 2001. The guy was in his position for three years before Dick Cheney showed up. He wasn’t Cheney’s guy. He was inherited, probably via a career bureaucrat path or whatever, he was in the office of the vice president, I don’t know who put him there, but he was in there during the Clinton administration. So the Drive-Bys try to paint this as yet another example of the failures and the corruption of this administration. It was the Bush administration which caught the guy. That’s the correct spin if you want to have any spin.
Story #8: Vick Charges Horrible If — IF — True
RUSH: Michael Vick has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges relating to a dog fighting probe, in connection with a property that he owned in Virginia. I read the indictment. You never know. I read these indictments, and (sigh). I’m going to wait for the trial or whatever else happens here. But if that stuff in there is true, the degree of cruelty to those dogs is breathtaking! Just because they lose, you hang ’em, you electrocute ’em, you drown ’em or what have you? It’s sick. Five years in prison he could face here. The libs are saying, “Well, hell, that’s five years more than Scooter Libby got for lying to a federal grand jury,” and what else? Who else is going to get more time than Vick? What was your example in there the other day? Oh, yeah, the woman that killed her preacher husband? Yeah, that’s right. The woman that killed her preacher husband got two years, yeah, because men are predators, and you gotta deal with them whenever they come at you, however you can.
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Story #1:Vitamin C Does Nothing to Stop a Cold
RUSH: We also have bad news.Well, good news for me, bad news for all of you who buy into all the hype and propaganda.Vitamin C does nothing to prevent a cold.How many years have we heard this?Who was it, Linus Pauling that came up with that?It was a long time ago.We’ve been hearing it all our lives and so forth, and all it does is change the color of your urine.It has no effect.There are lessons to be learned here.Story #2:Kristof and Sick Compare Cheney to Ahmedinejad
RUSH: Oh, get this.This is incredible.Yesterday we had the story, Keith Ellison, first Muslim member of Congress retracted his comment that Bush reminds him of Hitler, called him Bush Hitler on the floor of the House of Representatives.Today Nick Kristof in the New York Times says, no, that’s not the right comparison.The comparison is to Dick Cheney and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.He goes and gets a confirmation on that from the disgraced Iranian expert at Columbia University, Gary Sick.Does the name Gary Sick remind you people of anything?Gary Sick was the guy who made up the whole October Surprise thing and wrote a book about it.This is the story that George Bush in 1980 took an SR-71 or some other form of transportation over to France to meet with Iranian officials holding US hostages and made a promise to them, “Just hold these guys. Don’t let ’em go before the election so that we win and we’ll deal with you afterwards.”The charge came out, Gary Sick wrote this book some ten years after that.Tom Foley was the speaker of the House, and I remember Foley going to the microphone and saying, “These charges are very serious.We have no evidence here, but the charges demand an investigation.”The seriousness of the charge here overrules and outweighs the nature of the evidence, of which there is none, other than Gary Sick’s book.I don’t understand why this guy has any credibility.He was all over television, and the Drive-Bys were just lapping it all up in an ongoing effort to discredit the Reagan years from ten years out.It was 1990, something like that.So anyway, Gary Sick, now the expert, consulted by Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, says Cheney and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, they’re the same. They both have staffs that tell ’em what they want to hear.These staff members don’t care whether it’s right or wrong, they’re just pedal to the metal.Story #3:Chow Down!
Fat Will Be the New Normal in 2015
RUSH:”If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 75 percent of U.S. adults overweight and 41 percent obese, U.S. researchers predicted on Wednesday. A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore examined 20 studies published in journals and looked at national surveys of weight and behavior for their analysis, published in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews. ‘Obesity is a public health crisis.'” Well, hell, everything is a health crisis.Everything is a crisis.Everything in the media is a crisis.So of course it’s a crisis.”‘If the rate of obesity and overweight continues at this pace, by 2015, 75 percent of adults and nearly 24 percent of U.S. children and adolescents will be overweight or obese,’ Dr. Youfa Wang, who led the study, said in a statement.”I’m noticing a new trend here in journalistic style.The same information appears in just three paragraphs.Usually that’s not the way it is done.And, of course, overweight children and teenagers are commonly teased or ostracized by their peers, sometimes treated differently by teachers and even parents.”The stigma that society attaches to obesity can cause children immediate, and possibly lasting, harm, according to a research review. … Research has long demonstrated the weight bias that heavy children face. In a classic 1961 study, 640 subjects between 10 and 11 years old were shown six pictures…”Well, this is not going to be a problem, because in 2015 everybody is going to be fat, and the fat don’t make fun of the fat.So the fat people are going to be making fun of the skinny and in 2015, 2020, we’re going to be getting crisis stories about how the stigma attached to be skinny when you’re a kid in school can cause lifelong damage and harm, because they’re going to be normal.I mean according to the other research, in 2015, it’s going to be normal to be fat.So I’d chow down.I’d start making this stuff come true.Story #4:Judge Orders Placenta Returned for Consumption
RUSH: Get this. This is in Las Vegas:”A judge has ordered a southern Nevada hospital to return a placenta to a mother who sued to retrieve the afterbirth for her own consumption. Clark County District Court Judge Susan Johnson granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday, ordering Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center to return the placenta to Anne Swanson. Hospital officials said they will comply with the order to turn it over to Swanson within two weeks.”I’ll tell you… For consumption?At least you could say score one for private property rights out in the west.If you’re going to look at this, try to find the positive, you can find it there.Story #5: Getting to the Bottom of the Ban-Garlic Movement
RUSH: Here’s the NPR version of the garlic story.”In Italy, a debate is raging among chefs and diners about eliminating a pungent staple of the Italian diet: garlic.Critics say the herb stinks…” who, critics?That’s another favorite word of Drive-By Media journalists — critics.Is a critic credible?I’ll bet you it’s four people, just like the bunch that we have here, Center for Science and the Public Interest, two people and a fax machine, and the Drive-Bys love ’em.They put out a press release saying no more monosodium glutamate, it’s bad for you; no more Chinese food, it’s bad for you, and they try to get it banned for everybody else.Who cares who they are and what they say?”Well, they’re scientists, Rush.”Well, that doesn’t mean anything, either, these days, scientists, politicians, it’s all the same thing.”The debate starts in the center of Rome at La Trattoria restaurant, one of the city’s trendiest restaurants known for its innovative Sicilian cuisine. La Trattoria’s chef, Filippo La Mantia, has shunned garlic as the basis of his dishes in favor of other natural ingredients such as citrus and other herbs.La Mantia says that garlic is a leftover from when Italians were poor and used it to flavor their meager victuals. He says the average standard of living is high enough today that people can do without it. Italians consumed 108 million pounds of garlic in 2006, a 4 percent increase over the previous year, according to Coldiretti, Italy’s leading farmers association.La Mantia’s innovations have triggered a campaign to rid garlic from the Italian dining table. Supporters include a prominent TV journalist,” (Laughing)I knew it.I’m reading this, you’re hearing it as I’m hearing it.”A prominent TV journalist, who is writing a guide to garlic-free restaurants, and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was known to insist that his staff have mint-scented breath. But the campaign faces an uphill battle from average Italians who say they have history on their side. The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes advised athletes to eat garlic to increase their endurance during competition. The classic Roman poet Virgil said garlic increased sexual potency,” and of course it also does other great health things as well.Let’s see, toward the end of the story, “Indeed, garlic does carry a stigma says Anna Maria Tozzi, owner of Rome’s Montevecchio restaurant. She says the herb should be used in moderation, despite its odiferous aftereffects.’There are lots of prejudices that people who eat and smell of garlic are second class, backward, unsophisticated,’ Tozzi says. ‘It’s a class thing for many people.'”All right now that helps me to understand this.So you’ve got the Italian elites who are leading this movement.It doesn’t sound like there are too many of them.The AP story probably says much the same thing.
Story #6: Environmentalist Wacko TerroristsVandalize Hummer
RUSH: There’s a story out of Washington, DC.(video) The guy’s name is Gareth Groves, and “when he brought home his massive new Hummer, he knew that his environmentally friendly neighbors disapproved, but he didn’t expect what happened next.His Hummer was parked for five days on the street before two masked men smashed the windows, slashed the tires, and scratched into the body ‘for the environ.”The thought of somebody vandalizing it never crossed my mind,’ says Gareth Groves, who lives near American University in northwest Washington.’I’ve kind of been in shock.’Police said they’ve seen small acts of vandalism in the area from time to time but they’ve not seen anything so severe or with such a clear political message in recent years.Commander Andy Solberg said, ‘This seems to be an isolated event.’Investigators said they’re searching for the vandals but they don’t have many leads.Witnesses said they saw two men smash up the seven-foot-tall Hummer early Monday and then run off.As Groves contemplates what to do with the remains of his $38,000 car, he has had to deal with a number of people who have driven by the crime scene and glared at him in smug satisfaction.’I’d say one in five people that come by have that, you-got-what-you-deserve’ look,” said his friend Andy Sexton.” You know, you people on the left are going to have to get a grip.You’re out there shooting soldiers. You’re plotting blowing up fuel lines and so forth all because you think we need to get out of Iraq, and Bush lied, and the soldiers are killing innocent women and children and so forth.This vandalism… I mean, there have been violent environmental groups like Earth First and a bunch of these wackos that have tried to trash and set fire to whole dealerships full of SUVs for a long time, but now these are two wacko individuals in ski masks running through the neighborhood.Why would they care?I would think that they’re somebody in the neighborhood.Who would know outside the neighborhood?One of the neighbors who disapproves might have been waxing eloquent in their arrogant, condescending look-down-their-nose-at-everybody way, “Yes, you can’t believe what just happened in my neighborhood! (sniff)The guy down the street has a Hummer, and it’s up the street, and I have to see it every day, and I can’t handle it.” So he’s telling this or she’s telling this to some of her friends who live outside the neighborhood, “Well, we’ll do something about that for you.” They’re trying to intimidate the guy based on the kind of car that he drives.”Neighbor Lucille Liem, who owns a Prius hybrid, said, ‘A common sentiment in the neighborhood is that large vehicles such as a Hummer are impractical and a stain on the earth.The neighborhood in general is very concerned with the environmental.It’s more liberal leaning. It’s ridiculous to be driving a Hummer,'” in our neighborhood. (I wonder if it was a Prius that attacked the Hummer.) It’s another example of liberals and who they are, ladies and gentlemen.(interruption) Why can’t they just mind their own business? What do you mean, mind their own business? (interruption)Why, they’re not going to mind their own business, Mr. Snerdley! It’s the whole point of a liberal.A liberal’s job is to mind everybody else’s business, not his.He’s already doing everything right.He’s already driving the junk cars. He’s already doing all these crazy, irrelevant little environmental things to “save the planet,” and when not everybody else is doing it, “That’s not right, and we’re going to force you to not eat garlic. We’re going to force you to not use trans-fats. We’re going to force you to get rid of your Hummer if we have to vandalize it.”They think they’re doing the Lord’s work.In this case, the “lord” is Gaia.Story #7:Feds Warned to Retract Florida Mouse Habitat
RUSH: Well, here’s a story that you don’t see much.It is from the PacificLegalFoundation.org.”Federal officials must retract and reconsider their designation of thousands of acres in Florida and Alabama as additional ‘critical habitat’ for the Perdido Key beach mouse — or face a lawsuit. So warns a formal letter mailed to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service last night by attorneys with Pacific Legal Foundation’s Atlantic Center.The PLF-Atlantic Center lawyers represent Florida property owners who have been unable to rebuild after their homes were destroyed by 2004’s Hurricane Ivan, because of new government land use restrictions to ‘protect’ mice. The letter sent yesterday constitutes the ’60 day notice’ that plaintiffs must provide before challenging federal endangered species regulations. If federal officials do not comply with the letter’s request, the property owners plan to file a lawsuit in two months.
“Last October, federal wildlife officials designated 6,200 acres in coastal Alabama and the Florida Panhandle as additional ‘critical habitat’ for three mice, including the Perdido Key beach mouse, that have been listed under the Endangered Species Act.’In short, they ordered a ‘freeze’ on thousands of acres — harming hundreds of homeowners and other property owners — on the basis of slipshod scientific work,’ Fernandez continued. ‘This is why we’re on strong legal ground — and why the feds are staring at a lawsuit if they don’t admit their mistake and go back to the drawing board.'”I don’t think anybody at the fed ever gets worried about a lawsuit, because money is not a problem for them.Even if they lose big, what does it matter?The people involved in this are bureaucrats.They’re not going to have to pay any personal damages or losses if they lose.So I don’t know how intimidated they’re going to be, but it’s typical.Story #8:EU Declares: Men Must Do Housework
RUSH: In news from the European Union, ladies and gentlemen: “Men must take on more household chores for their pay differential over women to disappear, the European Union’s employment chief said on Wednesday in an appeal to all males in the bloc.The European Commission said in a report that women in the 27-nation EU earned 15 percent less than men, measured by gross hourly wages, against 17 percent in 1995, showing little progress on indirect sexual discrimination in the job market.’There is no sign of any sustainable improvement and this is quite simply unacceptable,’ Employment Commissioner Vladimir Spidla said, adding a pay gap between men and women existed even in the EU’s executive Commission.He said men, regardless of whether they worked full or part-time, contributed seven hours a week of unpaid household work.Women, on the other hand, contributed 35 hours a week if they also had a part-time job and 24 hours a week if employed full-time elsewhere. This made it impossible for them to devote as much time as men to their careers, Spidla said.’So this is an appeal to men: It is not possible to reduce the pay gap if we do not make a greater contribution at home,’ he told a news conference.” This is a news conference!Now, forget for a moment the issue, forget the pay gap, men and women and all that, because this is a cyclical story in the Drive-By Media both here and in the UK.The important thing here is that you have a high government official in the EU telling men what they have to do at home, and how much more of it they have to do in order for there to be equality.This is perfectly illustrative of just who liberals and socialists and big-government types are.Society is just not smart enough to work these kind of things out.The free market does not take care of these horribly unfair discriminatory practices! Why who knew this kind of discrimination was going on even in happy marriages? The Breck Girl is going to jump all over this one.This one is made for the Breck Girl.It won’t be long before his wife goes out and says much the same thing, because she does most of the talking in this campaign.She’s not doing anything at home. (sigh) So she’ll go out there and she can say, “This is the defining women’s issue of our time: poverty, women’s rights in the home.Hillary, she’s working like a man, so she doesn’t have to be at home.”Story #9:The First Ski Resort Victim of Global Warming
RUSH: Ah, this is just rich!This is just rich.A rottenly managed, a poorly managed ski resort in France, a town called Abondance, has shut down, and the people that blew it in running it, they’re blaming global warming.So we have the first ski resort victim of global warming. “Abondance is the French Alps’ first ski station to fall apparent victim to global warming. It will almost certainly not be the last…. Investors are not ready to write off Alpine ski resorts yet, noting how unpredictable weather-dependent investments are. … Restaurant owner Marie-Jane Teninge, 61, blamed bad management for the station’s closure. ‘I am skeptical about global warming. It’s just a matter of cycles,’ she said, adding that she was ready to pay more taxes to keep the station open.” I wouldn’t be surprised the people that run and own this place are a bunch of activists themselves.So anyway, for all intents and purposes, as far as the Drive-Bys are concerned, and this is AP, it’s the first ski resort victim to global warming — and certainly, certainly, certainly is not to be the last, ladies and gentlemen.Story #10:Democrats Aid Radical Islamists, Trial Lawyers
RUSH: News item:”Democrats are trying to pull a provision from a homeland security bill that will protect the public from being sued for reporting suspicious behavior that may lead to a terrorist attack…” This bill was proposed by Peter King, and it was in the aftermath of the flying imams, those six of them that got on an airplane in Minneapolis and started behaving in a manner similar to what was reported on the flights on 9/11.So some passengers and flight crew reported ’em, and the imams threatened to sue the airline and the passengers and all that.So they introduced this legislation that would protect the public from being sued for reporting suspicious behavior.But the government itself is telling us to do this.”Be vigilant out there! Keep an eye out! Keep a sharp eye out for suspicious behavior!”Now, the Democrats are trying to take this out.”This legislation moves to a House and Senate conference committee this afternoon and will implement final recommendations from the 9/11 Commission, and Peter King said, ‘Democrats are trying to find any technical excuse to keep immunity out of the language of the bill to protect citizens who, in good faith, report suspicious activity to the cops or law enforcement.It’s a slap in the face of good citizens who do their patriotic duty and come forward and it caves in to radical Islamists.'”It does!What in the world is the benefit to the Democrats of this? The trial lawyers! All right. “How dare you try to limit lawsuits?” is the answer to the question, ladies and gentlemen.The trial lawyers.This is a potential goldmine out there waiting to be raked in.I’m glad you asked.Story #11:Judge Throws Out Valerie Plame’s Lawsuit
RUSH: I want to pass one bit of information.The judge has dismissed Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against members of the Bush administration for leaking her identity.
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Story #1: Junk Food Makes Sea Rats Fat, Infertile
RUSH: Let’s see, “Seagulls fat, ‘infertile’ from fast food.” Seagulls, they’re nothing more than sea rats. Who cares? A seagull is the rat of the sea. “Seagulls, gorging themselves on greasy junk food…” Where is this from? This is Australia. “…are so fat, it’s affecting their reproduction. University of Tasmania researcher Heidi Auman has found that silver gulls feeding on fatty scraps being thrown to them from seaside cafes has caused them to become overweight. Ms. Auman has been comparing city birds to those on the remote Furneaux Islands, off Tasmania’s northeast, as part of her PhD for almost four years. She said the urban gulls were about 10 per cent fatter and had higher cholesterol, which was leading to poor quality eggs and a possible nosedive in their populations.” They’re also the poorest. That’s why they’re eating junk food. Oh, the things that make news.Story #2: Headline: Clinton Focuses on Female Bonding
RUSH: How about this headline in USA Today: “Clinton Focuses on Female Bonding.” Ha! What a headline! The story is worthless, but I love the headline.
Story #3: Study: They Think Ritalin Stunts Growth
RUSH: Headline: “Ritalin Stunts Growth.” “After three years on the ADHD drug Ritalin, kids are about an inch shorter and 4.4 pounds lighter than their peers, a major U.S. study shows. The symptoms of childhood ADHD — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — usually get dramatically better soon after kids start taking stimulant drugs. But this benefit may come with a cost, says James Swanson, PhD, director of the Child Development Center at the University of California, Irvine. ‘Yes, there is a growth suppression effect with stimulant ADHD medications,’ Swanson tells WebMD. ‘It is going to occur at the age of treatment, and over three years it will accumulate.’ Whether these kids eventually grow to normal size remains a question. Kids entered the study in 1999 at ages 7 to 9. The current report is a snapshot taken three years later. The 10-year results — when the kids are at their adult height — won’t be in for two more years. ‘The big question now is whether there is any effect on these kids’ ultimate height,’ Swanson says. ‘We don’t know if by the time they are 18 they will regain the height.'”
It was last week or two weeks ago we had a story on Americans are getting shorter. Tall people are becoming rarer, and they attributed that to what? Global warming, didn’t they? What was the reason Americans are getting shorter? Oh, that’s right, the measure of health in society is what it was. Yeah, we’re getting more obese, we’re getting wider, we’re getting shorter, not as tall, and so forth. Now we know one of the factors may be Ritalin. See, this is a great illustration. We’ve got this story that says they think that taking Ritalin stunts growth, and they won’t know for sure, because they’ve only studied age seven through nine.
Story #4: Climate Report Release Coincides with Floods
RUSH: From Reuters: “Human activities that spur global warming are largely to blame for changes in rainfall patterns over the last century, according to climate researchers today. The report is released as record rains cause deadly flooding in Britain and China.” What a coincidence! They released a report when there are deadly rains in China and in Britain! “‘For the first time, climate scientists have clearly detected the human fingerprint on changing global precipitation patterns over the past century.’ Researchers from Environment Canada said in a statement. Writing in the journal Nature, they found humans contributed significantly to these changes which include more snow that included Canada Russia and Europe, dryer conditions in the northern tropic and more rainfall in the southern tropics.” Now, human activities that spur global warming largely to blame for changes in rainfall patterns over the last century? Really? Well, what the hell were human beings doing back in the days when Noah had to build a damn ark? Tell it to Noah. They don’t know enough about precipitation patterns, because they can’t even study it accurately because they don’t know how much falls each and every day. It’s another part of the hoax.
Now, when they say human fingerprint, they actually mean the fingerprint of warming, which is assumed to be due to mankind. I got a note from Roy Spencer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, who, as you know, has appeared on the program. He’s a climatologist and a specialist in this, and he specializes in precipitation. He sent me a note, he said, “Weather-wise, the reason these floods are taking place, they’re being attributed to the jet stream being much farther south than usual, which is the same as saying cold air has been farther south than usual.” Well, there’s not supposed to be colder air with global warming.
I lived in Sacramento back in the mid-eighties, as you know. There was a huge flood out there one year, huge flood. Nobody was talking about global warming then. Everybody was saying, “Yep, hundred-year flood.” Everybody knows floods like this happen. They have happened since the beginning of time. They are, of course, weather-related but the audacity to say that the human fingerprint is on these floods now, is audacious. It is not scientific. It is purely political. It’s just the jet stream being further south. Now, if somebody can explain to me — and I’m open to this — if somebody can explain to me what humans are doing to move the jet stream, I would love to hear it. I want to know how we’re doing it, because if we’re doing it, then we ought to be able to stop it, or reverse it. If the jet stream is too far south, then we ought to be able to move it back to where it, quote, unquote, ought to be, which is further north. It’s chilly in a lot of places. I’ve been checking weather on my iPhone. It’s barely 70 degrees in New York City today. This is July 23rd.
In the Midwest, where it ought to be nearing a hundred degrees in places like Kansas City and St. Louis, it’s nowhere near it. A cold front moved through the south last week. It was colder in parts of Alabama last week than they can remember it being this at time of year ever. But that, too, is because of global warming, the jet stream and so forth. But, again, if we’re causing it, ladies and gentlemen, we can correct it. We can stop it.
Story #5: 9th Circus Halts Shell Oil’s Arctic Drilling
RUSH: “A federal appeals court has ordered Shell Oil to stop its exploratory drilling off the north coast of Alaska until a hearing in August. The order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit blocks the February approval by the federal Minerals Management Service of Shell’s offshore exploration plan for the Beaufort Sea. Vessels currently located in the area shall cease all operations performed in furtherance of that program and need not depart the area,” said the Ninth Circus. “Opponents contend that the Minerals Management Service approved Shell’s plan without fully considering that a large spill would harm marine mammals, including bowhead and beluga whales. They say polar bears could also be harmed, and they question whether cleaning up a sizable spill would even be possible in the icy waters.”
So here we are, the same damn people demanding energy independence standing in the way of drilling that an oil company, Shell, had been granted the right to do. The Ninth Circus, they are the most overturned appellate court at the US Supreme Court, but this is not anywhere near the US Supreme Court. What do you think the odds are that Shell will ever get the right to drill back, now that they’ve been ordered to be suspended? Slim to none and slim has left town, as they say.
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Story #1: Loose Dykes Spur China Flood Fears
RUSH: Try this headline: “Loose dykes spur China flood fears.” This is why we call them “levees” in this country. “Hundreds of sections of embankments along China’s third-longest river have become loose, threatening the homes of millions of people after three weeks of deadly floods across the country, state media said on Tuesday.” More rains in the forecast and the dikes are loose. Everybody is saying, “Whoa, this is incredible, global warming. It’s horrible out there.” The UK floods and now this China flood. I did a little research. Do you know there was a great flood in China in 1931? Well, you do now, Rachel, because I, El Rushbo, have so informed you. It was caused by a typhoon. They call hurricanes typhoons over there, and it was estimated, they didn’t have categories back then, but it was estimated to be a category five typhoon. The flood, in 1931 in China, killed three to four million people. Dykes that held back the Yellow River for centuries failed. Of course, dykes in a communist country, what can you expect? But that flood, 1931, remains the deadliest natural disaster ever recorded. Whatever is happening in China today is pretty bad, but it doesn’t compare. And guess what? I have a website here.
It just so happened that Charles Lindbergh was there. He took pictures from his airplane. He helped with delivering aid. So there is photo evidence of this. It’s just typical. Everybody’s historical perspective begins with the day they were born. The human condition is such, the way we’re built, is that every generation believes that things have never been worse during its time. Every generation thinks that things are going to get worse, they’re going to get bad, and they’ve never been worse, and that’s because history and history education is inept. Oh, yeah. There was a story last week that Great Britain itself, the island of Great Britain was created by a flood, glacier activity and so forth, and it eventually receded, and that gave us Great Britain. We’re talking gazillions of years ago here, folks, long before there was any global warming threat, man-made, what have you.
PHOTOS: The Forgotten Flood, as Seen by Charles LindberghStory #2: Former Club Gitmo Detainee Explodes
RUSH: Try this headline. This disturbs me for reasons that you will soon understand. “Former Guantanamo detainee blows himself up.” Now, we had a capture. We had a guy captured at Club Gitmo, and we released him. He took up arms alongside the Taliban after he was released from detention at Club Gitmo. He has blown himself up to avoid recapture, this according to Pakistani security forces. “Abdullah Mehsud killed himself with a hand grenade after he was cornered by troops at a house in the south-western Pakistani town of Zhob. He was wanted for the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers in 2004. ‘My information is that (he) killed himself,’ said Atta Mohammed, the head of the police in Zhob. ‘Thanks be to God that only he was blown up and our men were safe.'”
This is bad for business here at Club Gitmo. We’re running a thriving licensed merchandise business down there, and it’s how to get rest and relaxation from jihad but this guy was so terrified he had to go back down there, blew himself up. What, Mr. Snerdley? I know they released him. I know they released him at the height of all of the attention on all the torture and so forth going on at Club Gitmo. It is good illustration of the kind of people that are down there and why they shouldn’t be released, but we did under pressure.
Story #3: Study: Statin Benefits May Be Offset by Cancer
RUSH: All right, here’s today’s medical update. For those of you who take statins, medicine to lower your cholesterol, the heart benefits of taking statin drugs to reduce cholesterol may be offset by a slightly increased risk of cancer, although the evidence is by no means clear, US scientists said today. “A new pooled or meta-analysis of past studies involving 41,000 patients on statins found one additional incident of cancer per one thousand patients with low levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol, compared to those with higher LDL. The results will be published in the July 31st issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Richard Karas, professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston…” I remember, they did a study at Tufts once. Yes, was back in the seventies. I kid you not. They did a study at Tufts. The lower the bust size, the higher the IQ, and vice versa. I remember that. Anyway, “the Tufts University School of Medicine research stressed that the association did not prove statins caused the increase in cancer risk but didn’t disapprove it, either. The demonstrated benefits of statins in lowering the risk of heart disease remain clear. However, certain aspects of lowering the bad cholesterol with statins remain controversial and merit further research, she said in a statement.” It’s a risk of a risk. I don’t think they know anything. I don’t even know what they’re talking about. They’re just throwing out these things here, “May do this, might not do that, could do that, maybe won’t do that. Well, be careful, we think we do see this but we can’t be sure. We are experts. We are scientists.”
“These current findings provide insufficient evidence that there’s any problem with LDL lowering that outweighs its…” well, so what’s the point of the story? If the current findings say that there’s no evidence or insufficient evidence that taking a statin increases your cancer risk, why do the story? “One possibility is that the higher cancer risk in patients with low LDL reflects the fact they live longer and are therefore more likely to develop cancer.” All right, so they don’t know beans. They put it out here, scare everybody half to death. There isn’t a pill that you take that doesn’t have some impact on you, because the liver metabolizes everything.
Story #4: Latest Scare: Diet Soda Might Kill You
RUSH: We have another health story here, another “it’s going to kill you if you keep doing it.” This study says that diet soda is linked to heart risks. “People who drank more than one diet soda each day developed the same risks for heart disease as those who downed sugary regular soda, suggests…” get this “…a large but inconclusive study.” So once again, why do this? Why report it? Last hour we reported that the statins that you take lowering your cholesterol might cause cancer, but they’re not sure. Studies are inconclusive. So is this one. “The results surprised the researchers who expected to see a difference between regular and diet soda drinkers. It could be, they suggest, that even no-calorie sweet drinks increase the craving for more sweets, and that people who indulge in sodas probably have less healthy diets overall. The study’s senior author, Dr. Vasan Ramachandran, emphasized the findings don’t show diet sodas are a cause of increased heart disease risks. But he said they show a surprising link that must be studied.”
In both of these instances, folks, what you have here is two things combined into one. You have a Drive-By Media with a story that gets to keep you in chaos and fear and scared that you’re going to die, and that leads you to demanding international or national universal health coverage. Then the second aspect is you’ve got a bunch of researchers here that are begging for more money from some agency of the federal government to keep investigating this surprising discovery that might need to increased risk of cancer. Why, we can’t have that. “A nutrition expert dismissed the study’s findings on diet soda drinkers. ‘There’s too much contradictory evidence that shows that diet beverages are healthier for you in terms of losing weight that I would not put any credence to the result on the diet (drinks),’ said Barry Popkin, of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, who has called for cigarette-style surgeon general warnings about the negative health effects of soda.”
Story #5: McDonald’s Posts Loss, Liberals Cheer
RUSH: By the way, I just see here that McDonald’s has posted its second ever loss. McDonald’s, an American institution. Liberals today happy, another American institution losing money. Why do you think this happened? A negative, never ending drumbeat of how all that stuff is going to kill you and kill your kids.
Story #6: Starbucks Raises Prices on Designer Coffee
RUSH: Bad news for the libs again: “Starbucks Corp will raise U.S. prices on coffee, lattes…” How do you pronounce that? It is “lat-tay” or “lot”? Latte. Good. I got it right the first time. Even when I think I’m wrong, I’m right. I’ve never had a latte. I’ve never been inside a Starbucks. I’ve never been inside one. It’s not an active decision that I have made not to go inside a Starbucks, I’ve just never been there. Coffee is not a destination. Coffee is just not a destination. I drink it where I am.
Let’s see. Starting here at the beginning because I was rudely interrupted by unbelieving staff: “Starbucks Corp will raise U.S. prices on coffee, lattes and other drinks by an average of 9 cents a cup next week to help offset soaring costs for milk and other commodities…” Well, what happens if you order it black? Is it going to cost nine cents less? “The widely anticipated move marks Starbucks’ second price increase in less than a year and comes a month after the coffee shop chain’s chief financial officer warned it would be ‘very challenging’ for Starbucks to meet the high end of its 2007 earnings forecast, in part because of rising dairy prices,” which is no doubt because of global warming. “U.S. milk prices have soared recently amid strong global demand for dairy products and higher production costs. ‘We’re always looking at the business costs, and given the rising cost environment in which we operate, we think this is an appropriate time,’ spokesman Brandon Borrman said. The increase will vary by drink and by market, but will average out to about 9 cents a cup, Borrman said. Starbucks’ last price rise of about 5 cents per drink went into effect in October.”
Well, I’m terribly disappointed. These people are not supposed to be earning profits. This is a liberal outfit, and their customers are big time liberals. I know a lot of non-liberals go in there, too, but let’s face it. This place started in Seattle. Let’s not kid ourselves.
Story #7: Boom Rolls On: Record Airline Profits
RUSH: The economic boom rolls on, ladies and gentlemen. United Airlines’ parent company, UAL Corp. today, reported its biggest quarterly profit in seven years: $274 million. Was it Delta that just reported another over-a-billion-dollar profit? So the boom rolls on, despite the best efforts of the Drive-By Media and the Democrats to convince you otherwise. Yeah, they’ll say it’s a “windfall.” I’ll tell you, there is — I shouldn’t say, but there is — a downside to this. I hear more complaints about flying these days. Delays, all this stuff. They’re making money doing it this way. It ain’t going to change, folks.
Story #8: Blue State Party: Minimum Wage Goes Up
RUSH: Big, big day for the blue states out there today. “The minimum wage goes up 70 cents to 5.85 an hour today. This is the first increase in a decade. It ends the longest period without an increase since the federal minimum wage was enacted in 1938.” If you see any parties being thrown out there in the blue states, let me know. I would assume that this is something they would be celebrating.
Story #9: Woman Sues Over Con-Ed Steam Pipe
RUSH: “A woman whose sister died in the Sept. 11 attacks filed a lawsuit over last week’s steam pipe eruption in Manhattan, saying Tuesday that the explosion brought back horrible memories. Francine Dorf’s lawsuit accuses Consolidated Edison of negligence, saying the utility didn’t properly maintain the pipe that ruptured outside her office and sent a geyser of steam, mud and asbestos-tainted debris over the neighborhood near Grand Central Terminal. ‘I thought a building was going to collapse,’ said Dorf, 52, a legal secretary. She is seeking unspecified damages. Dorf’s attorney, Kenneth Mollins, said Dorf suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and ‘a legacy of fear’ from the 2001 attacks. He said the lawsuit is intended to force Con Ed to improve maintenance of its infrastructure.” That pipe was 84 years old, if I recall, and 84-year-old things sometimes tend to break.
Story #10: Where Have All the Hurricanes Gone?
RUSH: Get this. All of the Drive-By hammering about Hurricane Katrina and the global warming threats of even stronger hurricanes and more destructive hurricanes — oh, by the way, I meant to tell you about that. There was a piece in the American Spectator, Patrick Michaels, one of my all-time favorite anti-global warming scientists — well, anti-manmade global warming scientists — wrote a piece challenging this notion that hurricanes are more destructive than ever before, because that’s what the global warming crowd wants to say. He says there’s a little trick that they’re planning and the trick that they’re planning is to leave out certain economic realities. He said the simple fact of the matter is that Americans love the beach. They love building near the water. But guess what? It’s expensive, because there isn’t much of it, and there’s not going to be any more of it. I mean dirt’s dirt. You live on an island, you develop the island, and that’s it. You have to buy what’s there if you want something because there’s nothing undeveloped on these places, south, Gulf coast and all that. So people are buying larger places, they’re buying more of them, and of course if they happen to get knocked down and destroyed, the damage total is going to be pretty high, even though the hurricanes are no more destructive than they have been. In fact, Galveston hurricane and some of the others, when you factor in inflation, are far more destructive than Hurricane Katrina was.
Just a little aside. “About one in three people living in southern coastal areas,” which would include us here at the EIB Southern Command, “say that they would ignore hurricane evacuation orders if a storm threatened their community. That’s up from about one in four last year. “The survey found the most common reasons for not evacuating were the same ones that topped last year’s Harvard University poll: People believe that their homes are safe and well-built, that roads would be too crowded and that fleeing would be dangerous. Slightly more than one in four also said they would be reluctant to leave behind a pet. ‘It just shows how people can become complacent if they’re not immediately threatened,’ said Robert Blendon, the Harvard professor who directed the survey. Residents were asked how worried they are about hurricanes, what supplies they have in their homes, how confident they are about being rescued and how else they had prepared for possible storms. The poll found 78 percent felt prepared if a major hurricane struck their community in the next six months.”
Well, folks, this is horrible news for the Drive-By Media. The Drive-Bys have been trying to scare every one of us. By the way, where are the hurricanes? If we’re going to have all these 17 or 19 storms they predicted we gotta get started here pretty soon. We’re almost to August. Where are they? Of course, they’ve come up with the excuse, “Well, there’s dust from the Sahara Desert that’s in the air, it’s preventing the…” It’s like the dog ate my homework excuse. So the Drive-Bys have been trying to scare everybody about oncoming hurricanes and it’s not working. We find more evidence of the waning influence of the Drive-Bys every day. In a companion story from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, “New hurricane program goes for a spin. — It stands like a sentry, on the lookout for tempests around the clock. Yet until this year, South Florida’s primary weather Doppler radar had been unable to detect the most dreaded of tropical storms: those that explode in strength just before reaching land. Now, the bulbous installation in remote southwestern Miami-Dade County has been enhanced with a new program to better predict a storm’s intensity at the point of impact. That should spur better hurricane preparations and evacuations, officials said.” Well, they may be wasting their money because we’re not going to evacuate. The polls say we’re not leaving.
Story #11: Democrats Killed Secret Dubai Ports Deal
RUSH: You know the Dubai Ports deal? I’ve had this story in the stack for a couple days, because you know me: I love the Dubai Ports deal. This is a story by Bill Gertz at the Washington Times. Rowan Scarborough, who is a former writer at the Washington Times, “has written a new book revealing a key reason the Bush administration pressed hard for” the Dubai Ports Deal. “According to Mr. Scarborough, the administration wanted the deal to go through because the UAE government had agreed to let the United States post agents inside its global port network who could report on world shipping. Dubai Ports currently runs port facilities at key U.S. intelligence targets, including Venezuela, China, Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia. ‘Dubai Ports, in essence, was going to become an agent of CIA,’ Mr. Scarborough said in an interview. ‘The arrangement is helping us detect whether any kind of terror contraband was being moved around.'” Of course the thing got blown out of the water and never happened. But they had supposedly granted us permission to put agents at all these ports they have around the world so that we can inspect and spy and see what was happening there, while the Democrats were out there caterwauling about, “We don’t have the ports secure! We don’t have the ports secure.” The Bush administration had found a way but apparently didn’t want to make that public is the reason.
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Story #1: Anger Management Teacher Attacks Wife
RUSH: This from Gary Indiana, not far from Chicago: “An anger management instructor is charged with domestic battery after his wife accused him of grabbing and beating her during an argument.” Ha! I’m not laughing because of what he did, just that an anger management guy loses his temper. “Reverend Robert Nichols has taught anger management classes for defendants in Gary City Court for several years. His contract has been suspended while the charge against him is pending.” This according to Gary City Court Judge Deidre Monroe.Story #2: Arrest for Shooting Stray Cats with BB Gun
RUSH: From Indianapolis, another sad, sad story of animal abuse, ladies and gentlemen: “Neighbors of an east-side Indianapolis man are sympathizing with him after he was charged with a felony on suspicion of shooting stray cats with a BB gun. Police and animal care and control officers went to his home July 7 after someone reported he had shot a stray kitten. The man, 67, admitted he shot that kitten and other stray cats because they had become a nuisance and he wanted to lower the neighborhood’s stray-cat population, according to police. The kitten died…” Meanwhile, the city of Indianapolis euthanized 4,800 cats last year, but this guy gets a felony. There goes his NFL career.
Story #3: Promising Storm System Won’t Develop
RUSH: By the way, you know, folks, just got a heads up from a friend. There is a burgeoning — well, what would you call it? There’s a system, a weather system in the southwest Gulf of Mexico, and looking at it out there, got it here on the satellite photo, and as a frequent observer of hurricanes since I’ve lived here in Florida, it looks really promising for development. The people in Alabama would love it because they’re in a drought. However, I checked. The National Hurricane Center says nothing about it. There’s a wind shear effect that is ripping the top off of this storm. It’s just not going to develop. It’s a very disappointing thing to the Drive-Bys, very disappointing for the global warming industry, but it looks like there’s too much wind shear now for any development of this system.
Story #4: New York Times Leads Surge for Defeat
RUSH: New York Times editorial here today: “No Exit Strategy.” The way I would characterize this editorial is: “The surge for defeat begins, and quickly.” They don’t have too much time here — no time to lose. “The war plan drawn up by Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker simply assumes that a large-scale United States military presence in Iraq will continue for at least two more years. So much for Mr. Bush’s soothing incantations about a relatively short-term ‘surge’ of additional troops.” So they think Bush lied. “Even more unrealistically, the plan assumes that with two more years of an American blank check, Iraqi politicians will somehow decide to take responsibility for their political future — something they’ve refused to do for the last four years.” Yeah, let’s bring up that political progress. All of a sudden that’s so suddenly necessary. It didn’t matter a hill of beans when the security was not working.
Story #5: Who Should Decide When We Should Leave?
RUSH: There was a poll, Washington Post/ABC poll, yesterday, and it just dovetails great with this New York Times editorial. It was a splendid illustration of absurdity. We’re at war, and many of us want to win. But some of us want to quit; some of us want to lose; some are eager for the United States to lose. The key poll question should not be, “When or how or do we leave?” It should be, “Should we win or should we quit?” That would be a more accurate representation of people and their attitudes in this country. But check this question in this Washington Post poll: “Who should decide when we leave Iraq?” Now, the answer: the president, 31%, the Congress, 62%. That is stunning to me.
Another question. “Do you think Bush is or is not willing enough to change his administration’s policies in Iraq?” Well, how about this as a better question: “Do you think the Democrats in Congress are playing politics with the war?” The template and the action line is, “We have to get out,” and so you go take a poll: “Who should decide when we leave?” It’s not, “Should we win or should we lose?” Somebody ought to ask that question — a responsible pollster ought to ask that.
Anyway, you’ve got this 62% who say in the Washington Post poll that the Congress should decide. Frankly, I don’t think we have that many stupid people in this country. I just don’t believe it! Congress has the full authority to de-fund the war — that’s how we got out of Vietnam. But they don’t have the guts to pull the trigger on that. I don’t really think this is a measure of true public opinion. I think this is a measure of liberal spin and Drive-By Media repetition. It’s a measure of ignorance of Constitution, tragic lack of classes in civics. For those of you who number yourselves in the 62% that Congress should decide when we leave…
Well, that’s a good point, Snerdley. I want to apologize for just now whispering that some of you people are idiots for not understanding the constitutional delegation of power to the president, commander-in-chief, because I realize that some of you may not even know what the hell the Constitution is. So sorry.
Story #6: General Electric Launches Green Credit Card
RUSH: Here’s a story. This is in the Financial Times: “General Electric will today try to burnish its environmental credentials with the launch of the first US credit card aimed at encouraging consumers to curb polluting activities. The move is part of GE’s plan to have $20 billion in green sales by 2010. It comes as a number of financial institutions look to tap into US citizens’ increased awareness of climate change. Bank of America, the second largest US bank, plans to introduce a similar card this year,” along with their Bank of Amigo card for illegal immigrants. “The card would offer carbon offsets, credits bought by companies and individuals to cancel out the negative effects of their activities on the climate.”
Boy, what a scam. What an absolute scam! People ask me, “Rush, how is this scam being perpetrated? Why is it that major American corporations, like GE here, are trying to get in on this?” Folks, they recognize it as a marketing opportunity. They are reacting. You see, they believe that the majority of the American people, the majority of you think that there is manmade global warming, and they’re scared to death. The one thing a company (other than the news business) will not do is alienate customers — they just won’t do it. I mean, if the customers think the sky is black in the middle of the day, they’ll find a way to market products to those people. As I’ve said before, the news business the only business that takes pride in alienating its customers.
Story #7: The Prius Is the New Ribbon That Shows You Care
RUSH: There is a great, great column today in the Washington Post, and it is by one of our old buddies here, Robert Samuelson. It’s called “Prius Politics — My younger son calls the Toyota Prius a ‘hippie car,'” writes Mr. Samuelson, “and he has a point. Not that Prius drivers are hippies. Toyota says that typical buyers are 54 and have incomes of $99,800; 81 percent are college graduates. But, like hippies, they’re making a loud lifestyle statement: We’re saving the planet; what are you doing? This helps explain why the Prius so outsells the rival Honda Civic Hybrid. Both have similar base prices, about $22,000, and fuel economy … But Prius sales in the first half of 2007 totaled 94,503, nearly equal to all of 2006. Civic sales were only 17,141, up 7.4 percent from 2006. The Prius’s advantage is its distinct design, which announces its owners as environmentally virtuous. It’s a fashion statement.”
If I might add, it’s like wearing one of those awareness ribbons. “Meanwhile, the Civic hybrid can’t be distinguished by appearance from the polluting, gas-guzzling mob. The Prius,” writes Mr. Samuelson, “is, I think, a parable for the broader politics of global warming. Prius politics is mostly about showing off, not curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Politicians pander to ‘green’ constituents who want to feel good about themselves. Grandiose goals are declared. But measures to achieve them are deferred — or don’t exist. But it’s respectable make-believe. Schwarzenegger made the covers of Time and Newsweek. The press laps this up; ‘green’ is the new ‘yellow journalism,’ says media critic Jack Shafer. Naturally, there’s a bandwagon effect. At least 35 states have ‘climate action plans.’ None of this will reduce global greenhouse gas emissions from present levels.”
It’s “Prius politics” to say your “state will cut greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 … and is aiming for an 80 percent reduction below 1990 levels by 2050. However, the policies to reach these goals haven’t yet been formulated; that task has been left to the California Air Resources Board. … [T]he chances of reaching it are zero.” It isn’t going to happen. But your taxes are going to be collected to try to make it happen — make no mistake. “The government’s support for ethanol is instructive. In 2006, 20 percent of the U.S. corn crop went for ethanol; the share is rising. Driven by demand for feed and fuel, corn prices have soared. With food costs increasing, inflation has worsened. The program is mostly an income transfer from consumers to producers and ethanol refiners. Americans’ oil use and greenhouse gas output haven’t declined,” because of Ethanol. “Meanwhile, Prius politics is a delusional exercise in public relations that, while not helping the environment, might hurt the economy.” It’s like Douglas MacArthur said once: Old hippies never die; they just ride around in Prius hybrids.
To sum it up, the Prius outsells the Honda Civic five to one. Same base price, almost the same specs, but the Prius looks like it’s something out of the Jetsons, and the Honda Civic looks like the standard old run-of-the-mill car. So it’s not a status symbol. The Prius is a status symbol for aging hippies who want to tell everybody: “I care. What are you doing?”
Story #8: Air Travel Alert Raises Eyebrows
RUSH: Have you seen the story? I’m sure you have. “Police across the country should be on the lookout for what could be “dry runs” for a terrorist attack, the Transportation Security Administration advised after series of suspicious incidents occurred at U.S. airports… In one case last September, a couple in Baltimore, Maryland, checked a plastic bag with a block of processed cheese taped to another plastic bag containing a cell phone charger. Earlier this month in San Diego, California, a passenger checked a bag containing two ice packs covered in duct tape. The ice packs had clay in them instead of the normal blue gel.”
So they’re thinking that potential terrorists are out there conducting dry runs. Now, we all know this can’t be true. We know that TSA has to be overreacting here. I mean, “Terrorism is a bumper sticker. There is no war on terror.” These are just some pranks. Don’t worry about it, folks! It’s another one of these crisis things trying to get you all worried for no reason.
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Story #1: How Much Would Oprah Make If She Was White?
RUSH: Oprah Winfrey — I didn’t get around to mentioning this yesterday — earned $260 million last year. That’s more than a quarter of a billion dollars, for those of you in Rio Linda. We can only wonder, ladies and gentlemen, how much more would she have earned if she were not African-American. Well, we’re such a racist country, Mr. Snerdley. How much more would she have earned were she white? You have to wonder about these things.
By the way, nobody was even close to her on television. The next closest was Simon Cowell. I don’t watch American Idol. He was next at $45 million. Then you have the TV anchors in there. I think Katie Couric was next at $15 million, and then Charlie Gibson and the rest of the guys. Whenever we hear of the salaries and the total compensation packages of big-time CEOs, the Drive-Bys always tell us what the janitors at ExxonMobil are making, or what the secretaries are making, some of the underlings. I wonder, wouldn’t it be interesting to know what Oprah’s producers make? Wouldn’t it be interesting to know what Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson’s underlings make?
Story #2: Heroic Story About Ankle Biting Chihuahua
RUSH: Here’s a little dog story. Chihuahuas took the rap in the earlier hour, but I have a heartwarming story here about a Chihuahua, an ankle biter. This is from Masonville, Colorado. “When a rattlesnake lunged at her owner’s one-year-old grandson, Zoey the Chihuahua was a real bulldog. Booker West was splashing his hands in a bird bath in his grandparents’ northern Colorado backyard when the snake slithered up to the toddler, rattled, and struck. Five-pound Zoey, jumped in the way and took the bites. She got in between Booker and the snake, and that’s when I heard her yip. The dog required treatment and for a time it appeared she might not survive. Now she prances about.” Heartwarming story. Story #3: Cute Cat Predicts Nursing Home Deaths
RUSH: By the way, have you seen the story about that cat? People think this particular cat at a nursing home knows when residents of the home are going to pass away; it gets up on their beds and cuddles up before they die. This is definitely a cat you do not want around you.
Story #4: NY Times Op-Ed: Let’s Stack the Court
RUSH: You know, folks, I’m sitting here, I have an op-ed piece from the New York Times today by Jean Edward Smith, author most recently of the book “FDR.” It’s just amazing the agenda items that come slithering out of the shadows when the Democrats and the liberals believe they have a chance to win a presidential election. The author begins, “When a majority of Supreme Court justices adopt a manifestly ideological agenda, it plunges the court into the vortex of American politics. If the Roberts court has entered voluntarily what Justice Felix Frankfurter once called the ‘political thicket,’ it may require a political solution to set it straight. The framers of the Constitution did not envisage the Supreme Court as arbiter of all national issues.” I can’t believe a liberal is saying that! “As Chief Justice John Marshall made clear in Marbury v. Madison, the court’s authority extends only to legal issues.” Yeah, maybe. Anyway, this piece is entitled, “Stacking the Court,” and her suggestion — or his — I don’t know. I never heard of this person. Jean Edward Smith? You got a female first name and a male middle name. So I have no clue here what the gender is. John Edwards probably knows this person. But I don’t.
But the idea here: stack the court. They say there’s no reason we only have to have nine, we could have 11 justices. A Democrat president could add two more justices, and I believe we just do it, you have 11, and that way we could overwrite this ideological nature of the court, as though the libs are not ideological. This is the thing that amazes me. They think they’re not ideological. They’re just what is. The Roberts court, why, why, it’s adopted a manifestly ideological agenda? Smith says, “If the current five-man majority persists in thumbing its nose at popular values, the election of a Democratic president and Congress could provide a corrective. It requires only a majority vote in both houses to add a justice or two. Chief Justice John Roberts and his conservative colleagues might do well to bear in mind that the roll call of presidents who have used this option includes not just Roosevelt but also Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and Grant.”
So they’re slithering out of the woodwork, folks, and they’re telling us exactly who they are. They’re so brimming with confidence that they’re going to win the next election that they’re not even worried here about hiding behind camouflage or masks anymore. They’re telling us who they are. After they get done reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine, Jean Edward Smith advocates in today’s Times a little Supreme Court packing. And he/she should know all about it as expert on FDR! But the times are different now because the libs are desperate, and so the court is everything to them. I don’t care whether it would work or not, that’s not the point of the discussion here. It’s that they’re coming out of the woodwork and saying this is what they want to do. So listen up! They will do whatever they have to do to rid this country of any vestige of conservatism. This is why I get so frustrated when I listen to Republicans that want to make halfway deals with these people and go along with them. It’s like the minimum wage; we gave them their 70 cents an hour, but it’s not enough and they’re coming back for more. You can’t compromise with these people. They have to be defeated.
Story #5: Stock Market Drops, Drive-Bys Love It
RUSH: By the way, stock market is down about 400 points right now because of some housing news and other things, and of course the Drive-Bys cannot wait to do stories on it tonight. Experts will be brought in, “What’s wrong, what’s happening to the economy, how is Bush destroying it today?” They didn’t say a word about the market when it got up to 14,000 — they ignored it. They ignored it when it was at 13,500, they ignored it when it was 13,000 — they didn’t care a whit about it. And, of course, when they did comment on it, it was to say, “Well, it’s good for Wall Street, but it’s horrible for mainstream. The little guy is not helped by this.” But now they can’t wait. They’re already doing promos for their nighttime programs on focusing on what’s happening in the stock market, what goes wrong, when in fact the stock market has nearly doubled in, what, five years, from 7200, over 14,000. This is a little blip. It happens, but it will get back up. They are hoping that this becomes a big crash, that this just bottoms out, and that’s why they’re going to focus on it now — so they can get you worried about it and pull you out of the market, too.
Story #6: 57% Approve of George W. Bush, the Person
RUSH: A Bipartisan Battleground poll: 57% of Americans approve of George W. Bush as a person. The question was. “Whether you approve or disapprove of the way he’s handling his [gig], what is your impression of George W. Bush as a person?” 57% percent approve, 35% disapprove.
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Story #1: New York Times Questions Its Own Poll
RUSH: All right, remember earlier in the week we had a story on a CBS/New York Times poll that said that support for the initial invasion of Iraq had shockingly, surprisingly, unbelievably increased. We reported this, and we couldn’t believe the New York Times reported it. They, as it turns out, couldn’t believe they reported it, either. There is a story today in the Times by Janet Elder entitled, “The Story Behind a Polling Mystery. — The war in Iraq is the single most important ongoing news story right now,” she writes. “Public opinion about the war is a critical part of that story. That’s why when we had a poll finding about the war that we could not explain, we went back and did another poll on the very same subject. We wanted to make sure we had gotten it right. It turns out we had gotten it right. Support for the initial invasion of Iraq, as measured by a question The New York Times/CBS News poll has asked since December 2003, increased modestly compared to two months ago.”
So the Times, “We don’t understand this.” They did the poll, people were supportive of the initial invasion. It was a mystery to them. So they went back, and people were still supportive of the war when they did it a second time. I’m sure now the Times is worried that maybe the template’s not working. Maybe the action line simply isn’t working.
Story #2: Rudy “Most Electable” Republican Candidate
LINKS: Battleground Poll || Washington Post-ABC Poll
RUSH: “Among the 2008 presidential hopefuls, the Battleground poll shows that Rudy remains the most electable candidate for Republicans, even if Fred Thompson decides to get in the race.” That’s from Celinda Lake, the Democrat, who does the respected Battleground Poll with the Republican, Ed Goeas. A Washington-Post-ABC News poll fond the same results, with Rudy leading in electability.
Story #3: Cynicism on Rise Amid Great Prosperity
LINKS: Washington Times || Battleground Poll
RUSH: Here’s a story from the Washington Times today by Elizabeth Miller. “Cynicism about American politics has risen sharply in recent months, according to a new poll that finds…” look at all the polls that constitute news. How many stories today are poll-driven and then treated as news? “Cynicism about American politics has risen sharply in recent months, according to a new poll that finds growing numbers of voters feel the country is headed in the wrong direction and that fewer think politicians can fix the problem.” Hell, that’s good news! That means people are waking up. They are understanding the ineffectiveness of large government and bureaucracy. “More than two-thirds of likely voters, 71%, say that their member of Congress puts party politics ahead of them.”
These are the George Washington University Battleground 2008 Poll numbers along the same lines This is Ed Goeas and Celinda Lake, again. (She’s a Democrat; he’s a Republican.) It’s well-known, bipartisan poll. It was released yesterday. “Found that 70% of voters said the country is on the wrong track, 58% feeling strongly about it. Only 32% of voters think that their children will be better off than they are now. That’s a drop of seven percentage points since January,” which is actually very sad because they’re wrong. Frankly, with illegal immigration running amuck, I can understand how some people might think that your children’s future will not be as bright as your life, as it is today. “Cynicism may be the hot new political trend the politicians are going to have to fight against,” said Brian Tringali, vice president of the group that did the poll. “People hold such a cynical view of how things are run in Washington, that they’re going to have to try double hard.” What is so surprising about people being cynical about what’s happening in Washington, particularly after the immigration debate? What a debacle. This is great news. People have woken up. I predicted this. This is gonna be a great opportunity to illustrate to people the folly and the ineffectiveness, the unresponsiveness, the arrogance, the elitism of big government and the elites that populate it.
I think some of this is pretty positive news, but it does distress me. I understand the immigration aspect of this, but it does distress me that so many people, in the midst of the greatest prosperity the human race has ever known, think that for the first time their kids won’t do as well as they have done. That is something that the cynics and the doom-and-gloomers keep hoping for, they want to be able to discredit capitalism as an unfair mechanism for distributing resources and riches and so forth. But it hasn’t been the case. A simple historical examination of the economic performance of this country, the technological advances, the inventions that have improved our standards of living always gets better, and it always will. Every day in America is better than the day before. I’ve known this since I was ten. That’s why I always wanted to be older. And I’ve been right. Every year’s been better than the previous, for me.
Story #4: Congratulations, State of Texas
RUSH: I want to congratulate the state of Texas here, ladies and gentlemen. For the first time in at least a decade, Texas was declared drought free yesterday. Yes. John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas climatologist, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M, said, “We’ve gotten so much rain this year we pretty much made up for the past few years’ drought conditions in several areas of the state.’ There has been so much rain in fact that flooding has become a problem in some areas. Many farmers are struggling to salvage crops that remain under water. At least 16 deaths have been blamed on heavy rain since mid-June and property damage been widespread. The US drought monitor connected with the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration shows severe or extreme drought conditions in part of the southeast, much of the west, but Texas and most of the nation’s midsection is now drought free.” Hubba hubba hubba! Geat news!Thank God for global warming!Global warming comes along, causes Noah-like floods, but it ends the drought. You have to look at this as great news.
Story #5: Ethics Bill Threatens House Spouses
RUSH: I read this story. I feel so sad. “House members are complaining that their spouses could lose their jobs, their family incomes could drop and, perhaps, the entire pattern of their family lives could change if an ethics reform bill just passed by the House becomes law. The bill would bar campaigns from employing a lawmaker’s spouse. Its backers argue that employing a spouse creates an implicit conflict of interest, tempting lawmakers to overpay and tipping off contributors that some of their largesse will go directly to the lawmaker’s family. But what seems an obvious conflict to some is a way of life to others. Rhonda Rohrabacher has 3-year-old triplets and a work-at-home job as campaign manager to her husband, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). She made $57,000 in the 2006 election cycle, according to a recent report by the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.” Oh, CREW. Screw them.
“Under the proposed ban, Rhonda Rohrabacher would be out of a job. ‘It’s gonna hurt me,’ Rep. Rohrabacher said. ‘My family would be deprived of that income. I think it’s baloney. I think it’s just a way of not having to look at issues by making it a personal matter.’ … Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) paid his wife, Patricia, $110,000 in the last election cycle to do fundraising and prepare campaign finance reports.” Are there any Democrats mentioned in this? I can’t find any Democrats mentioned in this. I wonder why with CREW behind this. Wasn’t CREW behind the Mark Foley thing? This is probably the barest tip of the iceberg. You know it is. If the American public had actual knowledge of the incestuous nature of modern politics, there would be a public hanging from every street light once a day. The system was not designed to give whole families employment for decades. Maybe don’t run for office, I don’t know. Solution to the problem.
Story #6: Dems Clamp Down on Clamp Down on Terrorists
RUSH: This is mind-boggling. “The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday aimed at clamping down on the government’s collection of telephone and financial records of people it suspects of terrorism or spying.” You heard that right. The House passed legislation aimed at clamping down on the government’s collection of telephone and financial records of people it suspects of terrorism or spying. “By a vote of 281-142, the House approved a law enforcement spending bill for the fiscal year starting on October 1, which the Senate has not yet debated. The White House has warned that President George W. Bush would veto the bill because its overall price tag of $53.5 billion is $2.3 billion more than he requested. … The legislation passed by the House explicitly prohibits the FBI from initiating a national security letter in a way that skirts the law.”
Think back to 9/11, and think back to the immediate aftermath, and everybody was, “Why didn’t you know? Why didn’t the CIA know? Why didn’t the FBI know?” Well, it turns out, they knew a lot. They were able to name these 19 hijackers shortly after the incident. But everybody was, “Why didn’t you know?” And now, after that happens, the same people clamoring for “why didn’t you know,” are trying to stop us from knowing what might be happening in advance. Mind-boggling.
Story #7: GOP Candidates To Skip Snowman Debate
RUSH: “Four days after the Democratic debate in Charleston, S.C., more than 400 questions directed to the GOP presidential field have been uploaded on YouTube — targeted at Republicans scheduled to get their turn at videopopulism on Sept. 17. But so far, only Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) have agreed to participate in the debate, co-hosted by Republican Party of Florida in St. Petersburg. ‘Aside from those two candidates, we haven’t heard from anyone else,’ said Sam Feist of CNN, who’s co-sponsoring the debate with the popular videosharing site. Rudolph Giuliani and Mitt Romney, both with dozens of videos on their YouTube channels, have not signed up. Neither have the rest of the Republican candidates, including Rep. Tom Tancredo. … ‘We haven’t committed to any of them yet,’ Madden said. In an interview Wednesday with the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, Romney said he’s not a fan of the CNN/YouTube format. Referring to the video of a snowman asking the Democratic candidates about global warming, Romney quipped, ‘I think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman.'”
So it looks like most of the Republicans are not going to participate in the CNN YouTube debate. Guess they don’t want to be questioned by snowmen.
Story #8: Reefer Madness Can Be Real
RUSH: Look at this. It looks like reefer madness is real, or it can be. “Pot Smoking Linked to Psychotic Disorders — Among all cannabis users, including sporadic experimenters and habitual users, the lifetime risk of psychotic illness increased by 40%, according to a study published yesterday. ‘It’s not as if you smoke a joint and you’re going to go crazy,’ said Richard Rawson,” UCLA. He “was not involved in the study,” by the way. “But he cautioned: ‘It’s definitely not a good idea to use heavy amounts of marijuana.’ The researchers found that the risk for psychotic illnesses did appear to increase with dose, suggesting that stopping marijuana use would decrease risk, said coauthor Dr. Stanley Zammit, a psychiatrist at Cardiff University and the University of Bristol in Britain. Psychotic illnesses,” for those of you in Rio Linda, “include schizophrenia and disorders with such symptoms as hallucinations or delusions.” In other words, normal for you.
It doesn’t say anything about munchies or obesity. But of course if you hang around fat people, you’re going to get fat. There’s a study about that. If you hang around fat people you’ll get fat, because it can make you comfortable to be fat. You see other fat people. In fact, even if you have a fat friend that lives across the country just knowing the fat friend’s 2500 miles away and is fat, makes you comfortable being fat. But they say don’t throw your friends overboard. Well, why not? If fat friends lead to obesity, why not get rid of your fat friends? If you smoke pot, you won’t care. But if your friends smoke pot, are you going to smoke pot? All these things are socially contagious out there now. We don’t have a chance, folks. We’re just doomed.
Story #9: Bush Tells Congress to Pass Budget
RUSH: This is hilarious. This is absolutely hilarious: “President Bush said Thursday the Democratic-run Congress shouldn’t leave Washington for its August recess without at least finishing a spending bill covering the Defense Department. ‘In a time of war, one spending bill ought to take precedence over all the rest,’ he said.” This is a speech he gave. “Congress is due to begin a monthlong recess in about two weeks, and Bush said lawmakers must finish work on that defense bill even if they don’t get to 11 other government spending bills by then.”
Story #10: Iraq Gov’t Futility Matches Other Countries
RUSH: In a companion story to Bush yelling at Congress: “Missing from Thursday’s session of the Iraqi parliament were about half of the members, including the speaker. Also missing: a sense of urgency. Despite the high stakes here,” this is an LA Times story, “the Iraqi parliament appears to be deliberating at a pace to rival plodding legislative bodies around the world.” Do tell! Are they mired in endless investigations, too? What’s the Iraqi parliament doing? They can’t come to an agreement of the distribution of their oil profits, and our congressmen here are giving these guys all kinds of grief here for going on vacation in August because it’s hot over there, and they’re going to do the same thing. What a way to phrase it: “At a pace to rival plodding legislative bodies around the world…” The dirty little secret is that our brilliant Founding Fathers set up this system to deliberately so it would be plodding. They distrusted government power. They set it up so that it would take all kinds of time to get anything done.
Story #11: High-Tech Sex Toys Turning Japanese
RUSH: All right, this is one of those times where if your young children are listening with you, and if you yourself are offended by discussions of an intimate nature, I’m going to count down from five. When I get to one, I’m going to do the story. If you’re still listening when I get to one, and you are offended and you complain, nobody’s going to listen to your complaint because you have been warned. Five…four…three…two…one.
“Japanese love technology so much that now even sex toys are on the cutting edge. The ‘gPod’…” Have you heard about this, Mr. Snerdley? “The ‘gPod’, a phallic-shaped vibrator, is designed to respond automatically to sounds picked up by an accompanying handset, which can plug into anything from a telephone to a music player to a television. The gPod, referred to as an ‘iVibrator,’ takes its name and description from” iPhone, iPod, but Apple has no affiliation with it. The gPod retails for $243 and “was one of a number of toys that went on public view today at Japan’s first-ever sex toy expo in suburban Tokyo. ‘You can use it in many ways, for example hooking it up to your mobile phone,’ said Ichiro Kameda, the machine’s inventor. ‘The dildo vibrates through the same waves as a voice. ‘So one of the ideas is that you can use it here in Tokyo when your boyfriend in New York is talking to you on the phone.'” I knew you were wondering, some of you people, “What would you want to hook up to an audio source for?” I was waiting for the end of the story to tell you. Wow! Snerdley, you’re looking jazzed in there. He’s batting his eyes around. He’s very excited.
We want to get hold of some of those iVibrators, folks, and give them away here on the air like we did the iPhones. Can you imagine hooking up one of my podcasts to your iVibrator? We could blow your mind!
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Story #1: Mommy Guilt Has Been Around Forever
RUSH: Now, look at this. Here we go. It’s another one of these obligatory recycled Drive-By Media stories. “Mommy Guilt: A Fact of Life for Most with Kids — Caring for a 5-month-old son and a nearly 4-year-old daughter seems like a full-time job for Amy Little, but the Dunwoody, Georgia, mother also works 40 hours a week in sales at AT&T. ‘I feel burned out, doing too many things at once and get stressed,’ she says. ‘I think every mom feels guilty about something and I think working moms especially feel guilty.'” Oh, what is this setting up? Because I’m telling you people this is nothing new. Why is this story coming out now? This is such old news: women trying to have it all, and being guilty about everything. This is a derivative of our good friends the NAGs, the feminists. Try to have it all, and every woman’s got “mommy guilt.” Every woman has this. It’s nothing new! It’s been going on since birth was first recorded in human civilization. Story #2: Tomato Soup Boosts Fertility in Men
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, our show prep here knows now bounds. We will go and research anywhere to get the latest for you, including India. From TheTimesofIndia.com: “Craving for something sweet and sour at the same time? Don’t think twice. Just have a bowl of spicy and creamy tomato soup to satisfy your desire. A bowl of hot tomato soup every day can boost fertility among men, according to scientists.” Boy, am I glad I do not eat much of this stuff. “Researchers at the UK-based University of Portsmouth have discovered that Lycopene, which gives tomatoes their bright red color…” I thought it was chemical additives that Big Vegetable was doing that made tomatoes red! Okay, so it’s Lycopene, “can turn sperm into super sperm, sources reported. The conclusion came after researchers studied the effects of Lycopene in the diet on a group of six healthy men all in their early forties.” I’ll tell you what, when I saw this. I gulped a couple, three times, and said, “Thank gosh I don’t eat tomato.” If you already have super sperm, I guess you get super-super sperm. This enhances it.
Story #3: Sick of Crime: 71% Support Spy Cams
RUSH: Have you seen this ABC News survey? The civil libertarians are outraged. “Seventy-one percent of the American people are okay with news cameras in public places to record their activities is a way of stopping crime.” Civil libertarians are outraged! How can this be? The American people want their security. Very simple: they’re sick and tired of crime, and they’re sick and tired of terrorism. By the way, I think it’s unmistakable that they have seen these cameras in Britain and London help track down these terrorists who are trying to blow up subways and nightclubs.
Story #4: School to Install Foot Baths for Muslims
RUSH: Try this headline from the Los Angeles Times: “School to Install Foot Baths for Muslims.” The ACLU is fully behind the effort, as is Barry Lynn of the separation church and state crowd.
Story #5: Things Look Grim for Michael Vick
RUSH: Well, the situation is beginning to look a little more grim for Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick. One of his two codefendants who pleaded not guilty last week has flipped and has told the court he will plead guilty. No doubt he’s going to flip. People have been asking me, “Rush, where’s Al Sharpton on this?” Come on, folks, Reverend Sharpton likes dogs, too. This is a no-win in this right now. However, “the NAA[L]CP has urged public restraint today in judging Vick before he has his day in court. R. L. White, the president of the Atlanta chapter of the NAA[L]CP, said that the Atlanta Falcons quarterback has been vilified by animal rights groups, talk radio, and the news media and prematurely published by his team and corporate sponsors. White said in a news conference, ‘If Mr. Vick is guilty, he should pay for his crime, but to treat him as he is being treated now is also a crime. Be restrained in your premature judgment until the legal process is completed.’ Vick has pleaded not guilty to charges of sponsoring a dogfighting operation. Tony Taylor, codefendant in the case, pleaded guilty in Virginia to federal dogfighting conspiracy charges in a plea agreement with prosecutors. Purnell Peace, of Virginia Beach, and Quanis Phillips, of Atlanta, Georgia, are scheduled to stand trial in November. They remain free without bond. R. L. White plans to contact Vick to see what assistance the Atlanta NAA[L]CP chapter can offer. He predicted public opinion may worsen in the wake of Taylor’s pleading.” Really? Duh. What would make him think that?
Story #6: Big Government Causes American Negativity
RUSH: A fascinating piece at the Bloomberg website, a column by Kevin Hassett from today: “We found out Friday that the U.S. economy grew 3.4 percent in the second quarter. For macroeconomists, the number is a familiar one. The average annual rate of real growth in the U.S. gross domestic product from 1948 to the present was about 3.4 percent. The U.S. is indisputably a great and thriving nation. The economy right now is about the same that it has always been, delivering growth and general well-being that is unrivaled in world history. And yet, judging by the mood of the country, Americans seem close to despair. Why? Some say the problem is that the benefits of growth go only to the rich, but this argument rests on spurious data.
“The best measure of the people’s welfare, consumption, suggests the middle class is doing just fine economically. Iraq has certainly dimmed the country’s mood, but one senses the feeling will remain negative long after the war is behind us. The best explanation for this disconnect is that our government is failing us. Year after year, no progress is made on the big problems facing the country. When you form an opinion about a country, you can’t help but heavily weigh its leaders. Just as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sours us on Iran, our political parties sour us on America. Our country may be great, and our challenges may be as well, but our leaders are not.” You know, I loved reading this today because I have long thought that the real root of this so-called malaise or depression is the Democrats and the Drive-By Media pummeling never-ending doom and gloom, crisis and chaos day in and day out because they want people in that mood because they think it will deliver “change” in the ’08 presidential election. Everything in politics is about that, from the Drive-By side in the media and the Democrat Party side. If you want to understand what they’re saying and doing, you gotta look at it through the only lens they’re looking at, and that’s the ’08 presidential election. Now, Mr. Hassett says, “This is hardly new. Alexis de Tocqueville noticed a similar problem in America in 1831. In a passage called ‘On Great and Small Parties,’ he wrote, as if about today, that ‘America has had great parties, but they exist no longer.’
“He continued: ‘I cannot conceive a more wretched sight in the world than that presented by different coteries (they do not deserve the name of parties) which now divide the [United States].’ It is, he said, ‘a shame to see what coarse insults, what petty slanders and what impudent calumnies fill the papers that serve as their mouthpieces.’ If you want a wretched sight, look at the political speech of the leading Democratic candidates. President George W. Bush has, to put it lightly, made numerous mistakes. But he isn’t Satan. You would hardly know it if you listen to the Democrats. This is what Hillary Clinton had to say about Bush’s performance: ‘It is a stunning record of cronyism and corruption, incompetence and deception.’ Referring to Bush’s commutation of I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby’s jail time, Barack Obama said: ‘This decision to commute the sentence of a man who compromised our national security cements the legacy of an administration characterized by a politics of cynicism and division, one that has consistently placed itself and its ideology above the law.’ Both candidates, it seems are accusing Bush of being a criminal.” He isn’t, but to if you listen to the Democrats he’s not only a criminal, he’s an evil criminal. He goes on to say, “Our politicians mischaracterize their opponents’ motivations and focus on their personal failings, because they themselves have given up the quest for greatness. They have been honed into cynical creatures by the sharp blades of their own parties. Their failings reflect on us all, turning Americans into an unhappy bunch, even in the face of prosperity. … Americans know in their hearts what they yearn for. At some point, some successful candidate will read Tocqueville, and offer it to them.” You don’t have to go that far back. Read Reagan. Basically what he’s saying here is that what really makes us mad — what we’re upset about — is our government and its arrogance, its unresponsiveness and its inability to get anything done.
Story #7: Great Editorial Cartoon on the Founding Fathers
RUSH: I have a great, great editorial cartoon here. I don’t know who did this, but you’ve seen the painting of the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia at Constitution Hall, drafting the Constitution, discussing it among themselves. Benjamin Franklin is in there, all these guys. “Gentlemen, I just came up with a brilliant conspiracy,” says one of the founders to the group. “Why don’t we split from the British crown, become founders of a nation that will cause all of the world’s wars, crime, corruption, slavery, disease, torture, murder, assassinations, racism, sexism, violence, environmental destruction, cannibalism, and manmade hurricanes for all eternity? That’s the kind of country we want.”
Benjamin Franklin says, “Yeah, and then steal all their oil.”
Another Founder says, “Sounds like a plan.”
It’s a great, great, great cartoon because this is how libs see America today. It’s exactly how they see it.
Story #8: MPs Outlaw Satire in New Zealand
RUSH: Wait ’til the Democrats hear about this. “New Zealand’s parliament has voted itself far reaching powers to control satire and to ridicule members of parliament, attracting a storm of media and academic criticism. The new standing orders voted in last month concern the use of images of parliamentary debates, and make it a contempt of parliament for broadcasters or anyone else to use footage of the chamber for satire, ridiculous, or denigration. The rules apply any broadcasts or rebroadcasts in any medium.” You gotta be worried about this because our Supreme Court has said that they look to foreign law for guidance when they can’t find what they want in our US Constitution. Can you imagine, though? This is a very extreme, exaggerated example of what McCain-Feingold was about, pure and simple.
Story #9: What Arnold Wants for His Birthday
RUSH: Well, Governor Schwarzenegger is over in his homeland. He’s in Vienna, Austria, celebrating his 60th birthday. He says he has a simple wish that his United States, his adopted country, improve its reputation in the world — and he wants world peace, and no hungry anywhere, blue skies and green lights every day, socialized medicine, cool temperatures, no hurricanes, and he wants everybody in the world to sing in perfect harmony, all for his 60th birthday.
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Story #1: House Dems Create Impeachment Investigation Panel; Ruth Marcus: Gonzales Did Not Commit Perjury
RUSH: Well, isn’t this just rich? “House Democrats are going to put together what is being called an impeachment investigation.” They’re going to move this forward. I predicted that this would be part of their battle plan back in 2004 if they lost the presidency. So they want to put together some panel to do an impeachment investigation, to see if it is warranted. They also want to try to file perjury charges against Alberto Gonzales, but even Ruth Marcus, who is a lib columnist from the Washington Post, writes that it doesn’t fit the statute. This is a waste of time. This is purely political. There was no perjury. It doesn’t matter! The facts, reality don’t matter. This is just Democrats’ playbook: weaken the country; weaken the presidency; destroy our attempt at victory in Iraq. People aren’t going to put up with this much longer. Even Ruth Marcus warns the Democrats, look, if you guys keep going in these investigations and there’s no smoking gun, there’s no smoke — if there’s no crime here that the American people conditioned, if it’s something, and it’s one of these convoluted things that is ambiguous — you’re going to lose big on this. This is Ruth Marcus basically saying this in the Washington Post today. Absent a smoking gun, this is going to be perceived as purely what it is, and that’s politics.
Story #2: 237 Reasons Why People Have Sex
RUSH: There’s a column by John Tierney in the New York Times today on the why’s of mating. “Why We Have Sex: 237 Reasons Revealed,” and counting. This is also reported in a story at LiveScience.com. Two hundred thirty-seven reasons to have sex! Folks, this is not that complicated. There’s basically one reason. Well, for me. Maybe two for some of you. Heh-heh. Why do a survey on this? Well, I have some of the list. Some of it’s somewhat interesting.
“People have sex for more than 200 reasons, ranging from ‘I was bored’ to ‘I wanted to feel closer to God’ to ‘I wanted to get a promotion,’ according to a new survey. Researchers asked more than 400 men and women,” and they did this at the University of Texas in Austin, “ranging from 17 to 52 years old, to identify the various reasons why people have sex. Then, more than 1,500 undergraduate students were asked about their sexual experiences and attitudes. he top 3 reasons: * I was attracted to the person. * I wanted to experience physical pleasure. * It feels good. The combined results revealed 237 sexual motivations, which the [shrinks], David Buss and Cindy Meston of the University of Texas at Austin, sorted into four major factors and 13 sub-factors: Physical reasons — reduce stress (‘It seemed like good exercise’); feel pleasure (‘It’s exciting’); improve or expand experiences (‘I was curious about sex’); and the physical desirability of a partner… Goal-based reasons — practical considerations (‘I wanted to have a baby’); social status (‘I wanted to be popular’); and revenge (‘I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease’).” All of these reasons came up. So why people have sex. Then there were the Emotional reasons — love and commitment (‘I wanted to feel connected’); expression (‘I wanted to say “thank you”‘).” But the most interesting thing in this to me — this is according to the results here — is there has been a stereotype out there about women, and the stereotype is that women use sex to gain status or resources. You know, the casting couch thing. You know, women rise to the top and the stereotype’s been, “Well, who did she sleep with?” It turns out according to this survey, men do that far more than women do.
“‘Our findings suggest that men do these things more than women,’ said Dr. Buss. ‘They had sex to get things, like a promotion, a raise, or a favor.’ Men were much more likely than women to say they’d had sex to ‘boost my social status.'” One of the things they found was that men feel they can boost their social status if they succeed in mating with a woman that they think is out of his league.” Dr. Buss said, “‘Although I knew that having sex has consensus for representations.'” It surprised me that people, notably men, would have motivated to have sex solely for social status and reputation enhancement.'” That’s the thing about, you know, having sex with somebody you think’s out of your league but then you gotta brag about it because who else would know? And that’s not cool. You know, I hate to be nave and ignorant here, but I have to say, sex to get a promotion, from a man’s standpoint? This turns this whole sexual harassment thing upside down. Sex to get a promotion? Sex to get a raise? Sex to get a favor? Well, that’s… Yeah, see, that’s what the thing I’m wondering about here, Mr. Snerdley, since there aren’t that many female bosses out there, how in the world does this work for men? How do you go out there and have sex — Oh. Never mind. The boss is a guy. I get it! All right. That’s why it wasn’t computing here.
Story #3: Aging US Population at Risk for Eye Disease
RUSH: Get this, folks. This is from USA Today: “Aging US Population at Risk for Eye Disease.” Really? Blindness, ladies and gentlemen. “More than 43 million Americans” — gasp! — “will develop age-related eye diseases by 2020,” oh no! “and the majority of those who are most at risk are unaware. Medical costs have skyrocketed, about $2 million, it’s a financial burden, it’s a burden to your personal quality of life.” So we’ve got 43 million Americans uninsured. Now we’ve got 43 million Americans that are going blind and do not know it. They just won’t let up. They’re going to make us sweat and feel in crisis, if it’s the last thing they do.Story #4: Birds Beginning to Act Like Liberals
RUSH: This next story is serious, folks. I know it’s going to distress many of you, but it has to be told, it has to be reported, birds are beginning to act like liberals. This is from LiveScience.com. Well, it says here, “Birds Abandon Eggs for Swingers Lifestyle — Some avian parents hit the road when it comes to…” people in Rio Linda are going to have no clue. They’re going to think I’m talking about water. “Some [bird] parents hit the road when it comes to child-rearing: Both parents flee the nest, in search of new sexual conquests. Males and females of the penduline tit (Remiz pendulinus) can mate with up to seven different partners in one breeding season. So childcare can be a time drain[.]”
Please, spare me! Child care? We’re talking about child care in the bird world? Child care? “Childcare can be a time drain, keeping the birds from scoring more mates. A new study of the small perching songbirds in southern Hungary reveals that both parents are willing to abandon the nest to boost individual reproductive success.”
What happens to the babies? Is there a bird government that takes care of them? “These conflicting interests likely generated a tug-of-war over time and generations, as both males and females have co-evolved to outwit the other. ‘Our findings reveal an intensive conflict between males and females over care that has affected the behavioral evolution of this species.'” The only thing that I’m surprised at when I read the story is that global warming is not blamed. Wonder how long this has been going on, birds acting like liberals.
Story #5: One Marijuana Joint as Damaging as Five Cigarettes
RUSH: “Smoking one cannabis joint is as harmful to a person’s lungs as having up to five cigarettes, according to research published on Tuesday.” Not good news for the dope-smoking hippie and liberal crowd out there. “Those who smoked cannabis damaged both the lungs’ small fine airways, used for transporting oxygen, and the large airways, which blocked air flow, the researchers said. It meant cannabis smokers complained of wheezing, coughing, and chest tightness, the study by experts at the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand found. The researchers tested 339 people — those who smoked only cannabis, those who smoked tobacco, those who smoked both and non-smokers.” Bad, bad news.
Story #6: “Vegansexuals” Vow No Sex with Meat-eaters
RUSH: “Growing numbers of vegans are shunning sex with meat-eaters because they see them as “a graveyard for animals”, a New Zealand researcher says. These vegans not only refuse to eat meat or animal products but refuse to have sexual contact with meat-eaters because their bodies are made up of dead animals. … Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre of Human and Animal Studies at New Zealand’s Canterbury University, said she coined the term vegansexuals during her research. She discovered the vegansexuals while interviewing 157 vegetarians and ethical consumers for a study. ‘It’s a whole new thing – I have not come across it before,’ said Potts. ne vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them. ‘I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance,’ she said.” This actually is news to me, too. I know vegans don’t eat meat. I thought they liked a little during sex, though.
Story #7: Office Printers Emit Dangerous Particles
RUSH: More health news, ladies and gentlemen. This is from Australia. It’s just unbelievable the amount of this garbage that gets reported, gets studied. Get this: “Your office printer could be posing as much danger to the lungs as a drag on a cigarette, according to air quality tests by Australian scientists.” Is there anything worse than cigarettes? We’ve got a lot of things that are just as bad. I’m sorry: marijuana. One stick of marijuana worse than five cigarettes. Now, it’s office printers. “An investigation of dozens of laser printers revealed that almost 30 per cent emit potentially dangerous levels of tiny toner-like material into the air. These ultra-fine particles are capable of infiltrating the lungs and causing lasting damage on the scale of inhaled cigarette smoke, said researcher Professor Lidia Morawska, from the Queensland University of Technology. ‘Ultra-fine particles are of most concern because they can penetrate deep into the lungs where they can pose a significant health threat,’ Professor Morawska said.” This is utterly ridiculous. So now there’s going to be a move to ban the printer or change it or do something. You watch. This is how this stuff starts. The left eats is this had it stuff up! A capitalist success, making life easier and people’s lives become more productive, we have to stop that.
Well, we’ll just say that the stuff is as damaging as cigarettes because we’ve succeeded in convincing everybody that cigarettes are the absolute worst thing on the face of the earth. “The investigators say their results highlight a need for governments to regulate particle emissions from the machines.” Now, I know you hear this, and you hear me read it to you, and you think this is ridiculous. “This is stupid.” Remember, when I told you they were going to be coming after your SUV back in 1995 when the Sierra Club targeted them? You said, “Come on, Rush! You’re exaggerating. You’re a little bit paranoid of these people.” You have an Australian agency now, a research group, urging government to regulate particle emissions from printers. You don’t think that we have a whole bunch of liberal politicians and bureaucrats in this country who would love to be able to have that kind of control over you? You have a printer in your home, you have a printer in your house, and you may have employees, and they have no choice but than to be around your printer. It’s just as bad as cigarettes, and you can’t smoke around them in public now, employees. You can’t. Pretty soon you’re not going to be able to smoke in your house if you have household staff because they are exposed to it. They have no choice. They’re going to be victims. It’s the same thing now with your printer. Let’s just watch this. See where this goes. It’s in Australia now, but liberals everywhere are liberals.
Story #8: Seattle Fights Gangs with Classical Music
RUSH: All right, try this. This is how they’re trying to fight gang crime in Seattle. You’ve lived there, Mr. Snerdley. Tell me this will work. “Transit workers are installing speakers this week to pump classical music from [a Seattle radio station] into the Tacoma Mall Transit Center. The tactic is designed to disperse young criminals who make drug deals at the bus stop or use public transportation to circulate between the mall and other trouble-prone places. They’re going to use Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, following the theory that prompted the city stage pinochle games on dangerous street corners.” Do you think classical music will drive gang bangers away from the mall? Of course it won’t! But what are they going to do when it doesn’t work?
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Story #1: No Mention of “Parent” in Story on UK Kids
RUSH: Here’s a story from the French News Agency about the crisis involving the yutes in the UK. “British teenagers are among the worst behaved in Europe, a study by a leading think tank said yesterday, blaming government…” I want you parents to listen to this. “[A] study by a leading think tank said that British teenagers are among the worst behaved in Europe, blaming government policy failures for high levels of fighting, binge drinking, drug taking, and underage sex.” The Institute for Public Policy Research, a bunch of libs, said that “young Britons were left to their own devices through successive policy failures. The report – ‘Freedom’s Orphans: Raising Youth in a Changing World’ – was published as the government announced a new 184-million, 10-year strategy for young people.” So the government claims they screwed it up and so they come up with a new more comprehensive plan that’s going to spend even more money. Makes sense to me. “It will be supplemented by cash from bank accounts dormant for 15 years,” and this story goes on, and I could read the whole thing to you. Britain is getting slammed for failing its out of control teens. Not once in this story is the word “parent” mentioned. Not once in this story will you read the word “parent.”
You have a lib think tank analyzing why British teenagers are so out of control, and it’s because there are inadequate government programs. I got an interesting e-mail yesterday in the Rush comments line. Somebody who subscribes to the website sent me a note and said, “You know what? You had a caller the other day…” and I could just hear this guy typing in anger as he wrote this. “You had a caller the other day, and he said, ‘You gotta stop this play-by-play, Republicans versus Democrats.’ We all know what the Democrats are. We all know what the liberals are. You gotta start teaching conservatism. You don’t do that enough. You gotta be like Reagan. You gotta start teaching conservatism.” I thought about that, and he’s got a point up to a certain extent. But in the process of exposing liberalism, such as stories like this, are we not in fact teaching conservatism? Still, it’s a good point. Maybe what I should do after reading one of these stories, rather than just assume all of you know that this is whacked out and silly and stupid, but also dangerous. Government thinking it’s responsible for raising kids, nanny government. Liberals here do that. Maybe I should follow it up by saying how conservatives look at this and how we philosophize over this. Don’t I make that point when I say, “Not one time in this story will you see the word ‘parent'”?
Story #2: Actual Nanny State: NYC Bans Baby Bottles
RUSH: When I first read this story, I said, “This is absurd. This is just getting out of hand, and nobody’s stopping it. Everybody is going along with it. We’re losing New York,” and then I thought, “Well maybe I don’t know enough about this, because I’ve not been a parent,” but, you know, they’ve banned smoking in New York City, and they’ve banned trans-fats, and now they’re going to ban the baby bottle. They’re going to mandate breast-feeding by 2020. I’m not kidding. “Free formula samples and formula promotional materials are now banned from gift bags given to new mothers at the 11 hospitals run by the city’s Health and Hospitals Corp. Instead, new mothers will get a tote bag stuffed with disposable nursing pads, a mini-cooler for breast-milk bottles, and pint-sized T-shirts for the babies that proudly declare ‘I eat at mom’s.’ The move comes as World Breast Feeding Week is set to begin tomorrow. And today, city health officials will announce a campaign to promote breast-feeding instead of using formula.”
You know, I remember when I was a kid, I had dreams that I was Dolly Parton’s baby and she did put me on formula. My first reaction is, “It’s none of your damn business! If somebody wants to bottle feed the baby, get out of their lives!” But I don’t know enough about the medical aspect. We have this story from Great Britain and parents not mentioned in a story about how the government is responsible for “youth behavior.” British kids are running out of control, drinking, drugging, binging, all these things. They need more government programs to fix it. Not once in the story will you read the word “parents.” Now you have the City of New York telling people you can’t smoke, you can’t eat trans-fat, and now you can’t bottle feed your baby. Do you think it’s a good idea, Mr. Snerdley? I know I’m going to get a sexist answer to this. I shouldn’t even ask you. It’s healthier for the children? Breast milk is healthier for the children. Well, I’ve heard that, and that’s one of the reasons that I pulled that. But, do we have any known cases of babies dying having been fed formula? Do we know this? Like the woman in Maryland that aborted her own fetuses and buried them, was that because of formula? Well, no, they weren’t even born yet so it’s not even a factor.
Story #3: Daily Commute Not as Stressful as We’ve Thought
RUSH: By the way, ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know if you have seen this or not, but a new study has just come out, and according to this study, the daily commute is not nearly as stressful as we all thought. We know this because they’ve taken polls of people who engage in a daily commute. I have always chosen to live where I don’t have a commute. I have lived my whole life that way, because I think it’s important to be focused on work and not get distracted. After all, my friends, I am a performer. I have made an effort to live no farther than 15 minutes from work. Well, sometimes in Manhattan it can take 30 minutes to get to work because of traffic, but I’m riding there and working in the back of the car while on the way in. In Sacramento, I was 15 minutes away. Here, I’m 15 minutes away. I have made that an objective. So the stress thing in commutes has never been a big deal to me anyway.
Story #4: Galen: RNC Out-Fundraising Howard Dean’s DNC
RUSH: Rich Galen in his Mullings blog has some interesting statistics today. Everybody is looking at fundraising just within the confines of the presidential race. Of course, in the presidential race, the Democrat candidates are shellacking the Republican candidates in fundraising. However, you may not know that at the committee level, the national committee level, the Republican National Committee, is kicking the DNC’s wallet pocket. “In the month of June, the RNC raised about $6.4 million for the month. The DNC raised about $4.1 million for June. So what? Well, the Republicans had a short spurt which got them a couple million more in June. So this. If you look at fundraising for the cycle, the RNC has out-raised the DNC about $45 million to about $28 million. A fundraising edge of about $17 million — and then there’s the ever-important cash-on-hand number. Howard Dean and his DNC enters the second half of 2007 with cash on hand a touch under $5 million. The GOP goes into the second half with cash on hand of nearly $16 million.”
This is not being reported. It’s no mystery as to why. The picture, the template, is: Republicans are being abandoned by their ardent supporters. Republicans have no hope. It’s over. We may as well just crown the Democrats and whoever they nominate president after their primaries, because the Republicans don’t have a chance. Look at the fundraising.
It’s not exactly that way.
Story #5: Journalists at Bottom of “Prestige” Jobs
RUSH: A story here from Editor and Publisher says that a Harris poll measuring the public perceptions of 23 professions and occupations came out today. Journalists are in the bottom ten. “Just 13% of the 1100 US adults surveyed in June and July said the occupation of journalism had very great prestige. Only 13% said that, 16% said it had hardly any at all. Journalists are at the bottom of the list of prestige jobs.” This was not the case on this day, August 1st, in 1988 when this program started.
Story #6: You Gotta Wonder If She’s Available Next Week
RUSH: I was just watching the Fox News Channel, and there was this crawl at the bottom of the screen: “Jacksonville, Florida: 75-year-old guy claims that a hooker held him hostage for two weeks.” I’ve gotta wonder if she’s available next week.
Story #7: Democrats Scramble to Expand Eavesdropping
RUSH: In another unbelievable story; the headline is really all you need here. This is the New York Times: “Democrats Scrambling to Expand Eavesdropping.” Yes, you heard right. “Under pressure from President Bush, Democrat leaders in Congress are scrambling to pass legislation this week to expand the government’s electronic wiretapping powers.” Dingy Harry, “in a statement Monday night, said, ‘We hope our Republican counterparts will work together with us to fix the problem, rather than try again to gain partisan political advantage at the expense of our national security.'” What an absolute hoot! We hope our Republican counterparts will work together with us, the Democrats, to fix the problem? There wasn’t a problem until you guys came along and tried to dismantle it! Then to accuse the Republicans of gaining partisan political advantage at the expense of our national security? Ha!
Dingy Harry, if you read the whole story here, is blaming Republican in Name Only Republicans “for endangering American citizens by threatening to investigate President Bush and eavesdropping on suspected terrorists”! The
Story #8: Yes! Liberals Flee to Canada in Droves
RUSH: ABC News is reporting that emigration from the United States to Canada, has increased dramatically and that the people leaving are mostly liberals. Hollywood stars never get around to making good on their threats to leave but many every day liberal folks are carrying through on their plans. “The number of U.S. citizens who moved to Canada last year hit a 30-year high, with a 20 percent increase over the previous year and almost double the number who moved in 2000…. The current increase appears to be fueled largely by social and political reasons… ‘Those who are coming have the highest level of education — these aren’t people who can’t get a job in the states. They’re coming because many of them don’t like the politics, the Iraq War and the security situation in the U.S. By comparison, Canada is a tension-free place. People feel safer.'” Liberals leaving America for Canada. Yes! Finally, they’re following through on their promises.
Story #9: Laser Printer Will Become the New SUV
RUSH: I knew it. I did the story on how printer dust is the next environmental hazard. Fox is doing a big segment with this “expert,” all earnest and focused about how dangerous it is for all of us to be next to our laser printers. It’s going to be just like the SUV, mark my words.
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Story #1: Police Use Vomit Zapper for Crowd Control
RUSH: This is from Gizmodo.com.Cops have a new way for controlling the crowd.There’s a new flashlight out there that makes you throw up.”It’s so bright that it temporarily blinds you, and then it gets you all disoriented and dizzy.It uses special types of really bright LEDs.The flashlight’s beam pulses and flashes while quickly changing its color, and all this somehow makes you feel like you’re going to throw up.”Of course, if you want to avoid throwing up, you close your eyes so you don’t see the flashlight, but then if you close your eyes you can’t aim the gun at the cop or anybody else that is giving you trouble.You can start firing wildly.Intelligent Optical Systems is the manufacturer and they’re going to start testing the flashlight 15 inches this fall on some lucky volunteers at Penn State University.
Story #2: Panic: Coalmines Can’t Handle Earthquake
RUSH: A bulletin, bulletin, bulletin, bulletin, bulletin! Breaking news from ABC! It’s time, ladies and gentlemen, to stop the check writing in Minnesota.A coalmine in central Utah just collapsed, or earlier today after a 4.0 magnitude earthquake, trapping six miners inside.I’ll tell you, the infrastructure is going to hell under the Bush administration.My gosh, mines can’t even handle a 4.0 earthquake!What’s happening to this country? What do they think we are, Russia?China?(interruption) What do you mean, “Why are we mining coal?”That’s a good question.It’s a clandestine Bush project, obviously, mining coal to pollute the planet, destroy our climate.
Story #3: Light Exercise Is Better Than Running
RUSH: We have more health news here.”Moderate exercise like walking may be as good as or better than intense workouts when it comes to certain heart health measures, new research suggests.” I don’t even know where the new research is from.It’s on the second page of this and I threw it away, doesn’t matter.”In a study of 240 overweight, middle-aged adults, researchers found that moderate exercise, but not vigorous activity, improved participants’ levels of blood fats called triglycerides.Meanwhile, improvements in ‘good’ HDL cholesterol seemed to depend on how much study participants exercised, and not how intensely. What’s more, researchers found, both benefits were sustained when exercisers took a vacation from working out.” (Laughing) I’ve known this even though I haven’t known it.I have known this all my life, even though I haven’t known it.So I’m going to start changing the way I play golf.I’m no longer going to walk the course.Walking from the cart to my ball will be plenty of exercise based on this latest bit of health news.
Story #4: Woman Starves Children on Vegan Diet
RUSH: Hey, here’s a story for you, Mr. Snerdley.This is from a Fox television station, Arizona: “A Scottsdale woman who severely malnourished her three children was sentenced to 30 years in prison, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced Thursday. Kimu Parker was convicted on three counts of child abuse and received 10 years for each count…’Thirty years in prison is entirely appropriate for a person who almost starved to death three defenseless children.We will strongly oppose any attempt to reduce this sentence,'” said the state attorney there. “…Parker’s 3-year-old weighed 12 pounds, her 9-year-old child weighed 29 pounds and her 11-year-old child weighed 36 pounds,” and she had them on “a strict vegan diet.”
“This is one of the more heartbreaking cases of child abuse this office has seen in recent times,” said the attorney, Andrew Thomas. “We are relieved the children survived and are now doing well.” They just got back from McDonald’s.I just threw that in.”But we take great issue with comments made by the judge in this case that he may ask the State Board of Clemency to reduce this defendant’s prison sentence,” because after all they won’t have their mother.Of course, if they have their mother, they might die.So it’s like the Menendez case.What do we do?What do we do?
Story #5: Bad News for Birdcages: Smaller NY Times
RUSH: Bad news for bird cages today, folks.Did you hear about this?At the New York Times, they have cut back the width of their paper to 12 inches.They’ve lopped an inch and a half off of the newspaper.So there will be less room for lib news, unless they add pages on a given day because of the importance of news stories.
Story #6: Reuters Hails Achievements of Dem Congress
RUSH: AP’s Ron Fournier reported, “It is rare to hear Clinton…admit ignorance on a policy issue. But doing so came in handy as she fobbed off the question on Gore.” So now it was a brilliant strategy to act stupid!It was a brilliant strategy to be uninformed.It was a brilliant strategy to be ignorant on a policy question.Folks, if you ever have any doubts that the Drive-By Media work in concert to maintain and build these people’s images and get them elected, this story alone proves it — and I’ve got another one in here that is going to accomplish the same thing.I actually have a story in this stack by some idiot at Reuters, talking in a marveling and admiring way of all the accomplishments of the Democrat Congress.There aren’t any accomplishments!The minimum wage is it.But this is a piece designed to muddle the minds of people who read Reuters.It’s prop-’em-up time.
Story #7: Angry Men Make More Than Angry Women
RUSH: Well, we have another study out there, folks. We have another big-time study out there claiming that men who get angry at work are rewarded, and women who get angry at work are not rewarded, and the angry guys make more than the angry women.This just makes the women madder, so it’s a vicious cycle out there in the workplace.Add other factors, and the anger multiplies, obviously. There’s just nothing that can be done about it.
Story #8: Rudy’s Daughter Supports Barack Obama?
RUSH: As I reference occasionally, ladies and gentlemen, people say, “Rush, are you sure about this kids business? How much of this is just for show?” None of it is for show.I had this story last week. (I’ve had this perpetual fear ever since I saw it when I was a kid myself with other families.) We had this story out of Italy where this 61-year-old guy had still not left home and his mother finally kicked him out of the house, and he wasn’t getting a big enough allowance. She’s doing all the work! He’s 61 years old, still at home.So the fear is bankruptcy, poverty — for me!That’s the fear: nothing, destitution.There was another reason.I don’t know if you’ve seen this or not.This is Slate.com: “Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter is Supporting Barack Obama — There’s one vote that Rudy Giuliani definitely can’t count on in his 2008 presidential bid: his own daughter’s. According to the 17-year-old Caroline Giuliani’s Facebook profile, she’s supporting Barack Obama…designates her political views as ‘liberal’ and — until this morning — proclaimed her membership in the Facebook group ‘Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack).’ According to her profile, she withdrew from the Obama group at 6 a.m. Monday, after Slate sent her an inquiry about it.” See? If — with a capital I and a capital F — IF I ever became a candidate for anything, I would also not be burdened with this kind of thing: a rebellious, lunkhead kid running around causing me all kinds of problems.
Story #9: Tease: Global Warming News Coming Tomorrow
RUSH: We’re going to have some global warming news tomorrow but let me tease the headlines:
NewsBusters: Abnormally Cold Temperatures in Texas This Summer Threaten the Cotton Crop
The Sunday Herald in Scotland: Firms Guilty of Making Fake Green Claims
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Story #1: Elizabeth Edwards on Campaign TroublesRUSH: Speaking of women, I just had this fed to me: “Elizabeth Edwards on her husband’s campaign troubles, ‘We can’t make John black.We can’t make him a woman.'”Well, we don’t have to.We have already made him a woman, along with Kate Michelman.(Laughing.)They’re having trouble out there in the Edwards campaign.It was a story last week, big news, they’re all tied in Iowa.The big news in that poll was how much of a lead Edwards had lost.Story #2: Scientists Create Female Mice with Male Sex DriveRUSH: Since we’re talking about women: “Female mice became sexually voracious and tried to mate like males after scientists disabled a small sensory organ, casting fresh light on how gender-specific behavior develops in animals.The difference seems to lie in how male and female mice use the vomeronasal organ to process pheromones, said Catherine Dulac, the Harvard biologist who led the research published in the journal Nature on Sunday.Pheromones are chemical signals that many animals, including humans, use to communicate socially and sexually.” They go on to talk about this.Female mice, the way they alter them, just a sniff away from having the male sex drive.You people realize the potential out there?Now, here’s a quote here from a neuroscientist at Michigan State, not involved in the study.”‘This comes as a surprise to think that the neural circuitry for male behavior had been sitting in the female brain all this time.You feel sorry for the males.You imagine they’re confused when the females start replicating their sexual drive,’ said Mark Breedlove.”Yeah, when you feel sorry for the males, you imagine they’re confused, Breedlove, you are right.It’s called feminism.Story #3: 57% Say They’re Better Off Than Four Years AgoRUSH: Over the years, particularly during Republican administrations, when the economy has been great, as it is now, when the economy has been good, the Drive-Bys and the Democrats do not report it as such.In fact, they do just the opposite.They try to spread malaise, doom, gloom, as thoroughly and widely throughout our culture and population as possible.Yet, it’s always been amazing to me that if you talk to people individually, they say, “Yeah, I’m doing great. Oh, I feel good about my future. The family’s doing good. The kid’s messing up a little bit, but other than that, everything is hunky-dory.I’m just worried about the guy down the street.I’m not so sure my neighbors are doing well.”When I’ve heard that from people, I say, “Why, why do you think that? Do they look like they’re one paycheck away from homelessness?What’s your empirical data for this?” “Well, I keep hearing on the news how bad the economy is.”Lo and behold, from Rasmussen Reports: “Americans are fairly upbeat about their own lives, but far more pessimistic when assessing the state of the nation.57% of American adults say they’re better off now than they were four years ago.The latest Rasmussen report telephone survey found that 34% disagree, say they’re not better off today.At the same time, just 26% say the nation is better off than it was four years ago, 62% disagree.”Okay, there it is: 57% of the American people fairly upbeat about their own lives, better off today than they were four years ago, and yet, 62% say the country is not better off today than it was four years.Now, how do you arrive at that?If you are you’re going to give the poll any credence whatsoever, how do you arrive at that?You arrive at that by accepting my theory.The theory is that the Drive-Bys, the media, convince everybody that the place is going to hell in a handbasket while their own lives are pretty good and they make everybody feel guilty about it.By the way, this is the same technique being used to advance this whole hoax of global warming.
Story #4: Coffee Helps Old Ladies Remember, Stops TicksRUSH: “Drinking at least three cups of coffee a day helps protect older women against age-related memory decline, French researchers said yesterday.Men did not enjoy the same benefit.”In fact, another companion coffee story, “Drinking coffee can protect people from developing a tic in which an eyelid twitches uncontrollably, a new study from Italy suggests.”It wasn’t that long ago we were told that coffee would harden the arteries and it was going to cause heart disease and so forth.Now, my gosh, it can stop eyelid tics and help protect against age-related memory decline.”‘The more coffee one drank, the better the effects seemed to be on women’s memory functioning in particular,’ said Karen Ritchie at the French National Institute of Medical Research, whose work appears in the journal Neurology.They followed 7,000 men and women in three French cities.”I have to take the occasion of this.Our new sponsor, Boca Java, these guys came up a couple weeks ago, and they brought — I can’t tell you, it’s just unbelievable.They brought flavored coffee, the regular, and it’s indescribable the variety they have.They brought up a couple brewers, coffee pots.These guys take it seriously.They had a flavor, maple bacon morning.I said, “I have got to try that,” and I’ve not been a fan of flavored coffees.The vanilla raspberry swirl, the silken chocolate chips or whatever, this stuff was amazing.Snerdley brews it every other morning. One day I go straight, and then go flavor, the blueberries, I mean the stuff is just mind-blowing.If favored coffee is not your thing, they’ve got dark roasts, deep roast, they’ve got mild, it’s fascinating stuff.They brought so much up we’re going to have to build some more cabinets to put it all in.
Story #5: Let Your Dog Take a Bite Out of Michael VickRUSH: From the Chicago Tribune today, there is a story about a new toy out there called the Michael Vick dog chew toy.It costs $10.99 plus a couple bucks shipping.The toy “lets your dog take a bite out of Michael Vick.”It’s Vick smiling with a football in his left hand in his home black and red Atlanta Falcons uniform.It will be available for delivery starting today.It probably won’t last long because they didn’t get his permission.They’re using the Falcons jersey and using his name, probably infringing on NFL trademarks.The uniform doesn’t have any logos on it but it’s obviously the Falcons uniform.The NFL watches this stuff like crazy.But if you want to try to get one of these things, it’s www.Vickdogchewtoy.com.I don’t know how big it is, because there’s a tiny little picture of it here.I bet their server has melted already.Vickdogchewtoy.com.Your dog can take a bite out of Michael Vick.Story #6: More Black Women Dating Men of Other RacesRUSH: This was an AP story on Sunday: “More Black Women Marrying Men of Other Races, Census Reveals — For years, Toinetta Jones played the dating game by her mom’s strict rule.’Mom always told me, “Don’t you ever bring a white man home,”‘ recalled Jones, echoing an edict issued by many Southern, black mothers.But at 37, the Alexandria divorcee has shifted to dating ‘anyone who asks me out,’ regardless of race. ‘I don’t sit around dreaming about the perfect black man I’m going to marry,’ Jones said.Black women around the country also are reconsidering deep-seated reservations toward interracial relationships,” and are branching out.”It comes as statistics suggest American black women are among the least likely to marry.’I’m not saying that white men are the answer to all our problems,’ Jones said. ‘I’m just saying that they offer a different solution.'”Now, what could be going on here?What in the world could be going on here?Obviously it’s a dwindling pool.If you want to cut to the chase, there’s a dwindling pool out there because of cultural circumstances.Anyway, I’m passing it on.Story #7: 1 in 10 Satellite Radio Subs in Unsold CarsRUSH: You know these satellite radio guys? I have no brief against them, don’t misunderstand. I’ve explained why this program is not on satellite radio a number of times, not that it never will be, but in this current iteration, three-hour program Monday-Friday, it can’t be because we would be cannibalizing the terrestrial radio stations that have made this program, so I’ve assured them of that.But they report their subscriber numbers.I think the combined total for satellite radio to both of those companies is around 13 million or eight million.I’m not sure.Anyway, it doesn’t matter what the total number is, because one in ten satellite subscribers are in un-owned cars still sitting on the car lot.The way these people report it is the number of radios sold, or manufactured.Most of these satellite radios are in automobiles since they’re manufactured, but one in ten of satellite subscribers live in car lots, either in cars that haven’t been sold by anybody yet.Story #8: Amanpour’s Husband Joins Hillary’s CampaignRUSH: Here is an example, ladies and gentlemen, of the incest that exists in liberalism and the Drive-By Media.Christiane Amanpour’s husband, James Rubin, who was a state department spokesman in the Clinton years, is leaving his Sky News job and returning from London to join Hillary Clinton’s campaign.Christiane Amanpour will continue her bid of campaign on CNN.She will continue to campaign for Clinton on CNN, disguised as a reporter.And, of course, CNN nor Christiane Amanpour will see any conflict of interest in her reporting while her husband works on the Hillary campaign, and she works on the Hillary campaign disguised as a reporter at CNN.
Story #9: Bizarre Lead Crime Wave Sweeps UKRUSH: Last Friday I came out for lead paint.So therefore I love this story in the UK Telegraph: “Police have warned of a bizarre crime wave sweeping Britain as thieves strip millions of pounds’ worth of metal off buildings to ship to China and other countries where demand is soaring.”So I assume this is more lead that the ChiComs can put into the toys that they are selling us.Story #10: Pre-Schoolers Prefer McDonald’s PackagingRUSH: Ah! This is cool.Well, it’s not cool. It’s interesting.”Preschoolers preferred the taste of burgers and fries when they came in McDonald’s wrappers over the same food in plain wrapping, U.S. researchers said, suggesting fast-food marketing reaches the very young.” Really?Really!You mean the Happy Meal actually reaches eight-year-olds?Ronald McDonald actually appeals to young kids?Why, it took researchers to figure this out?”Overwhelmingly, kids chose the one that they perceived was from McDonald’s,” said obesity prevention expert Dr. Thomas Robinson of the Stanford University School of Medicine, whose work appears in,” Where do they get these magazines? “the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.”I swear, every day there is a new journal of some sort of opinion for some of these specialists.”Robinson and colleagues conducted a taste test with a total of 63 kids aged 3 to 5 who were enrolled in a Head Start preschool for low-income families… In about 60 percent of the tastings, the kids preferred food in the McDonald’s wrapper. ‘They actually thought the food tasted better,’ Robinson said in a telephone interview.” They even put carrots in a wrapper called them McCarrots, and the kids liked them.Now, you know where this is headed.Can anybody say the words “trial lawyers”?Story #11: Poll: Democrats Don’t Lead on Major Issues RUSH: This is a very, very good headline, and it’s from a Rasmussen poll company report: “Democrat presidential candidates have no advantage over Republican candidates on Iraq, the economy, or restoring the nation’s optimism. — While America’s voters are not particularly happy with the current Republican president, the leading Democrat presidential candidates have no advantage over the top Republican hopefuls when it comes to Iraq, the economy, or restoring the nation’s optimism.Democrat candidates do have an edge when it comes to the environment, while Republicans hold the lead on immigration.Among the nation’s pool of unaffiliated voters Republican candidates also have the edge when it comes to the economy.These surprising results come from a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey that asked voters to name which individual candidate they trust most on particular issues.On an individual basis, Hillary Clinton is the top choice or four of five issues among all voters.Another Democrat, Barack Obama did especially well among unaffiliated voters.”But when you boil it all down the Democrats do not have any kind of an advantage, and they presume that they do, by the way.They are thinking that they own this election cycle and that it’s only a matter of time because they think they’ve convinced the American people that Republicans are horrible, rotten to the core, Bush stinks, of course, and all of that.Story #12: Tarrasco Steel Owner Arrested for Hiring IllegalsRUSH: “The owner of Tarrasco Steel, a company that supplied workers on the Biloxi Bay Bridge, was arrested and charged with hiring illegal immigrants on projects in three states. Some had improper welding certification.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Jose S. Gonzalez, 32, at his office in Greenville Thursday, according to a news release. Tarrasco Steel was hired as a subcontractor for rebar installation services to major bridge projects in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. The federal government considers those bridges as critical infrastructure, and they were part of routine inspections of facilities that if damaged could pose a threat to national security and public safety.’There is a serious public safety concern when illegal aliens, who are not authorized to work in the country legally, and who do not possess valid welding certifications, are employed in the construction of bridges in our communities,’ said Michael A. Holt, special agent in charge of the Customs Office of Investigations in New Orleans, in a news release.” Well, no kidding!Story #13: UN Official Nabbed in Visa ScamRUSH: The companion story to the one above: “A United Nations translator was arrested yesterday on charges that he and two others used U.N. stationery in a visa-fraud scheme, prosecutors said. Vyacheslav Manokhin, a U.N. employee based in Manhattan, was accused of helping numerous non-U.S. citizens enter the country illegally by providing fraudulent documents so they could obtain visas to attend conferences that either did not exist or which they did not attend.” So it’s another UN scandal.How many scandals do we have here in the United Nations?Story #14: Fed Leaves Interest Rate Unchanged RUSH: The Federal Reserve met and did not change the interest rate. The short-term interest rate stayed at five and a quarter percent.They did admit that they are watching and are concerned about credit problems, the rising credit problems, but they made the decision to leave the interest rate where it is in deference to their concern over controlling inflation. It’s just the focus of things.They’ve been worried about inflation since the nineties.That’s been the focus: keeping inflation under control. I remember James Carville going off with it (impression), “What about the bond market?Who care about the bond market? Why all of a sudden does the bond market matter? The bond market? Who cares about the bond market?” because everybody was worried about inflation. I don’t do this kind of stuff.I stay out of the financial stuff, but they’re going to have to lower this at some point. When is the next time, October? You watch.It’s going to get lowered by October, going into the holiday season. You watch.Mark my words. (Fed bureaucrats impression) “We feel pretty confident we’ve got inflation under control here. We’re managing it. We’ve been scrutinizing the, uh, err, credit crunch out there, and think that trying here to pay attention to that and try to ward off whatever ill advised reactions could come if we don’t.” So they’ll cut it.I don’t know how much, but they will.
Story #15: Rich Lowry on Modern Liberalism and JFKRUSH: I read a column by Rich Lowry. He was reviewing a book that he had read, and the theory of the book was that the current state of American liberalism can be traced to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Story #5: Man Fatally Struck by Driverless SUV
RUSH: Lawrence, New York, this is not far from JFK: “A man was fatally struck by an SUV with no driver at the wheel. This happened on a sidewalk in Lawrence, Long Island yesterday. Nassau County cops said that the accident occurred at 2:46 in the afternoon. A woman had parked the SUV and had left the vehicle when it jumped the curb, struck a man walking on the sidewalk. The man was taken to St. John’s Hospital where he died.”
This is a genuine shocker.
I mean, “Oh, my God!” is the reaction you have.
“Oh, my God! What’s happening?”
Story #6: Breaking News: No Hurricanes!Breaking News: No Hurricanes!
RUSH: We have breaking global warming new, ladies and gentlemen. Breaking global warming news! There are still no hurricanes out there. By the way, you know why they revised these hurricane forecasts down? It is real simple. Anybody could do it. Hurricane season starts June 1, goes through November 30. They make the forecast for that six month period. You go through a month without a hurricane, you have to reduce the number. It’s just the law of averages. Another month without a hurricane, got to reduce the number. So we get through two months here without a hurricane, and that doesn’t matter because the hurricanes are irrelevant. Global warming is going to cause more volcanoes. Global warming is going to cause more earthquakes, which, by the way, we just had at 7.5 magnitude over in Indonesia.
Story #7: Why Would Anyone Want to Leave Cuba, UK?
Stories: Cuba | United Kingdom
RUSH: I have a headline here. I can’t believe this. I’m stunned. “Cuba May Skip Boxing Meet Due to Defections, Castro — Cuba is considering pulling out of the amateur World Boxing Championships in Chicago in October to avoid new defections by its boxers, Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Wednesday. ‘Imagine all the sharks of the Mafia wanting fresh meat,’ the convalescing 80-year-old Castro wrote in a column published on the front page of the Communist Party newspaper Granma.” Uh, why would anybody want to leave this island paradise? Why? They have free health care, free rice cookers for a lot of people. Not only is it free health care, the best medical care in the world. We have liberal activists telling us. Why would anybody want to leave Cuba?
A companion story: “4,000 People a Week Trying to Leave the UK — is facing a mass exodus of people looking to escape the crime and grime of modern living. The country’s biggest foreign visa consultancy firm has revealed that applications have soared in the last seven months by 80 per cent to almost 4,000 a week. Ten years ago the figure was just 300 a week. Most people are relocating within the Commonwealth — in Australia, Canada and South Africa. They are almost all young professionals and skilled workers aged 20-40. And many cite their reason for wanting to quit as immigration to these shores — and the burden it is placing on their communities and local authorities. The dearth of good schools, spiralling [sic] house prices, rising crime and tax increases are also driving people away.” It doesn’t surprise me, ladies and gentlemen. People flee modern liberalism wherever it ends up becoming dominant. They’re fleeing Cuba. They have been for a long time trying to. Now 4,000 a week are trying to get out of the UK.
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Story #1: High School Economics Education Improves!
RUSH: Shockingly good news, by the way. This is in the Wall Street Journal editorial today. Here is a pop quiz. “Which has been most important in reducing poverty over time: a) taxes, b) economic growth, c) international trade, or d) government regulation?” What would you say, Brian? You weren’t even listening, right? B, good. Superb! (clapping) Economic growth is something John Edwards needs to learn real fast. Get this. According to the Journal, “you’ll be pleased to know that 53% of U.S. high school seniors also answered ‘b.’ The latest version of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) asked this question, among others on economics, and the results will not please members of the Socialist International, or for that matter the Senate Finance Committee. Since its founding in 1969, the NAEP has become something of an annual exercise in American educational masochism.
“Last year, only 54% of students met NAEP’s ‘basic’ standard — the equivalent of a passing grade — on the science test. The previous year tested history; a mere 47% passed. But when knowledge of economics was tested this year, well, let’s just say the supply curve shifted. NAEP reported this week that 79% of twelfth graders passed this first-ever national economics test. Holy Hayek,” as in Friedrich von Hayek. “The exam, taken by a representative sample of twelfth graders at public and private high schools, tested students on micro- and macroeconomic principles and international trade. What, for example, is the effect of breaking down trade barriers between countries? A majority correctly said that goods would become less expensive,” which is true, they do! “They chose this over “the quality of goods available would decrease.” Maybe John Edwards should hire more teenagers for his Presidential campaign.” Maybe Edwards needs to go hire some of these high school students for his advisory team. Anyway, that’s great news. Story #2: Ethanol Sends Milk Price Skyrocketing
RUSH: Milk prices are skyrocketing out there now, average retail price of a gallon of milk. I would not know this, because I have fine calcium and bones and don’t use it. Well, I do have milk on cereal. I don’t buy it. Do you know what a gallon of a milk is Dawn, just off the top of your head right now when you go to the store? Ah, she buys it and doesn’t really look at it. Snerdley, do you have any idea? Oh, you’re a vegan. Yeah, you walk by the milk section and you probably get sick. (interruption) Organic milk? Well, do you know what organic means? Feces. That’s what it means. (Now that’s going to make the health food people really freak!) “The average retail price of a gallon of whole milk has never been higher — $3.80 a gallon — according to July Department of Agriculture statistics. Experts blame the price spike — up 51 cents since February — on milk shortages in Europe and Australia. … Also playing a smaller role in the price spike is higher demand for corn-based ethanol fuel, according to USDA analyst Ephraim Leibtag. Increased demand for corn pushes up costs for cattle feed, which is then added to the price of milk.” It’s why there is a steak shortage in some of the finest steak houses in New York. Ethanol. Obviously we import milk if there’s a milk shortage in Europe and Australia. It’s a supply and demand thing anyway. We export milk, I’m sure, too. It’s a total supply and demand thing. No question about it.
Story #3: We’re Number One with Guys Living in Cars
RUSH: I’ll tell you, the audience of this program is boundary-less. We cover all three sexes. We cover all the religions. We cover all economic strata, as evidenced by this guy in Kansas, Steve Graham is in a fight with his wife that’s been going on since 2000 — well, actually since 1999. He’s moved out of his house into his car. He has been living in his car since 2000. His wife is still in the house. The neighbors don’t like it, because he’s out there using the backyard in certain ways that you would use certain rooms in your house. Neighbors don’t like it, but he says he even likes it because he gets better reception on the radio out there in his car than he ever did in the house! “I listen to Rush Limbaugh every day, just about.” So see? We are #1 on this program, amongst guys who have left their wives but haven’t left the property, and are living in their cars. We’ve got the nation covered, folks. There’s nowhere else we can grow now.
Story #4: GOP Making Inroads with Hispanics
RUSH: Well, look at this headline! This is from our buddies over at NewsMax, but it’s an AP story. “GOP Making Inroads With Hispanics.” Now, now, wait! This can’t be because all the “experts” told us that were alienating the Hispanic vote with the rigid, racist, separatist, nativist position we had on immigration. “Democrats hold an edge with Hispanics in national elections, but Latinos’ growing tendency to register as independents and split their vote between parties is buoying Republican prospects for 2008.” This is an AP story out there. “Younger and college-educated Hispanics in particular offer fertile ground for the GOP, new data show. And while no one suggests Republicans have become the party of choice…” Oh, of course not! Of course not! Why would anybody in the Drive-By Media think that! No, of course not! Noooooo! No one would even think it possible, would they? “[W]hile no one suggests Republicans have become the party of choice would for the nation’s fastest-growing minority, Democrats have been gradually losing ground.”
Drip, drip, drip, drip.
“Although Hispanics tend to vote Democratic, the percentage of Latinos who call themselves Democrats has declined in the last decade, even as the overall number of Hispanic voters climbed.” How can this be, folks? After the immigration bill, we were supposed to be sunk! We were supposed to be fini! We were going to be alienating all these people who were never, ever going to vote for Republicans again. That’s what we were all told. In California “nearly two of three Hispanic voters were registered Democrats in the mid-1990s. By 2006, that figure dropped as low as 56 percent, according to polling and registration data.” You know, the point is not that the Republican Party needs to pick up a majority. Just a few percentage points can upset the whole balance out there! It would be the same thing in the minority vote, the black vote. You don’t have to get the whole thing. If Republicans ever figure out how to get 20% of it, do you realize the differences would the stunning? Those things, I have always thought, are extremely possible.
Story #5: Man Mails Himself Out of Prison
RUSH: I have heard it all. This escape convict that’s on the loose somewhere out there. This guy, his name is Richard McNair. He mailed himself out of prison in an escape pod. How the hell do you do that?
Story #6: Haditha Charges Dropped, Drive-Bys Ignore
RUSH: “All charges have been dismissed against two Marines accused in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, the Marine Corps announced Thursday. Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt, 22, of Canonsburg, Pa., was charged with murdering three brothers. Capt. Randy Stone, 35, a battalion lawyer from Dunkirk, Md., was charged with failing to adequately report and investigate the Nov. 19, 2005, combat action in which women and children were among the dead. In his decision to dismiss charges, Lt. Gen. James Mattis, the commanding general with jurisdiction in the case, said he was sympathetic to the challenges Marines on the ground face in Iraq. ‘Where the enemy disregards any attempt to comply with ethical norms of warfare, we exercise discipline and restraint to protect the innocent caught on the battlefield,’ Mattis wrote in his letter to Sharratt.” You know, I haven’t seen this in the Drive-By news cycle. Have you seen this in the Drive-By Media? I haven’t seen this story out there! Now, I remember when it happened we had pictures; we had allegations.
See, this is what the left does, the New Castrati. They go out there and say (impression), “See, this is the problem, Mr. Limbaugh, with the U.S. Military. This is the problem with war. This is an all-volunteer force. These are poor people that have no future in this country and so they join, and war turns them into murderous barbarians, Mr. Limbaugh!”
This is the mantra. That’s one of the many clichs and action lines that the Democrats and the left have, so an incident like this gets reported, “It’s true!” Just like the rape allegations against the lacrosse players at Duke. That fits another template: “Oh, it has to be true! Rich white guys taking advantage of a poor black woman? Oh, it had to happen! Lacrosse players? Absolutely!” Eighty-eight members of the faculty write a letter condemning the thing. The coach gets fired. None of it was true! None of it, and complicit in this… Nifong was the main culprit, but the Drive-Bys were the target. Why do you think he was doing what he was doing? It was to curry favor with the Drive-Bys so he could get his reelection chances up — and now this! And where’s Murtha? Where is the heroic ex-Marine conscience e of the House of Representatives, Jack Murtha on this? Have you seen an apology from Jack Murtha on this?
Story #7: Hillary Says She’s Not for “Socialized” Medicine
RUSH: Hillary Clinton says that her plan is not socialized medicine, and she’s right. It’s socialized health care, not just socialized medicine. She can’t fool me by playing little word games.
Story #8: Hello, Democrats! UN Expands Its Role in Iraq
RUSH: How about this? “The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Friday to approve a resolution to expand the role of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) in a move aimed at reconciling the country’s rival groups winning support for neighboring countries and tackling Iraq’s humanitarians crisis.” Now, setting aside the fact that the UN cannot accomplish anything, I just want to look at the vote. They probably could sabotage it if they wanted to, but why in the world…? Do you realize if you’re Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and you’re out there doing whatever you do on vacation and you get up and you read the UN is expanding its role in Iraq? When you’ve claimed it’s a defeat and it’s over and you have your Democrat senators saying the surge is working — you have Bush’s polls numbers rising while Congress’ are flat lining and falling — what must those people think? And what must their Democrat minions think? Do you realize this is not what they expected to happen after they won the elections in November?
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Story #1: Earthquake Hits Hawaii, Hurricane on Deck
RUSH: Just looking at something on television — I saw something that I thought I didn’t actually see. I looked at a graphic of the hurricane I thought was hitting Hawaii. (I’m going to Hawaii later this month.) It’s not the hurricane; it’s the earthquake, and the hurricane was not supposed to hit where it looked like it hit.Story #2: Condoms Good, Clown Balloons Bad
RUSH: “A British clown has had the smile wiped off his face after being told he couldn’t use balloons in his act because children might be allergic to latex.” Have you heard anything more ridiculous than this? The children — the little children — might be allergic to latex? Meanwhile, in every damn school in the country we’re urging them to wear condoms, for crying out loud! Well, what the hell is a condom made of? Give ’em condoms for every damn thing in the world that’s wrong with them, and then they can’t go to a circus and be around a clown with a bunch of balloons?
You know what? This stuff from the European Union is going to end up here, because it always does. The circus is going to be a problem — not because the lions and tigers might get loose and eat the kids, but because of Buster the clown and his stupid little balloons endangering our little children. Do you realize that in 25 or 30 years we’re going to have a nation of no adults? Well, not a nation of no adults; we’re going to have a growing percentage of our population as adults as the biggest bunch of wusses on the face of the earth. “Mommy, mommy, mommy, I’m not going to the circus, mommy, they have balloons! I’m afraid of balloons, mom! I want to go see the tigers, but I can’t go see the balloons!”
“The 47-year-old entertainer, also known as Tony Turner, has previously had to ditch his bubble-making machine because he could not get public liability insurance as companies assessed that youngsters might slip and hurt themselves,” as the bubbles hit the ground and they walk around. This is the chickification of our society: nobody is competent, nobody can do it, and everybody needs cradle to grave care. They must be shielded from bubbles! I remember when I was a kid you could go to the store, you get some of this bubble stuff — little plastic stick with a circle on it — blow through it, create bubbles. Wow, it was fun! But little did we know then that we were on the verge of personal destruction and danger with our bubble machine.
Story #3: Headline: Noose Tightens Around Vick
RUSH: Try this headline: “Noose Tightens Around Vick at Amazing Speed.” Michael Vick’s two buddies or his three codefendants are flipping, but it’s the headline here (it’s an AP story, but also it’s in USA Today): “Noose tightens around Vick.” Well, what an amazing choice of words.
Story #4: A Bridge in China Should Not Fall Down
RUSH: By the way, 14 people have died in that Chinese bridge collapse. 65 missing. Oops, it’s been updated. The death toll now rises to 29. You know, a bridge in China shouldn’t fall down, ladies and gentlemen. I wonder what year George Bush designed this bridge in China?
Story #5: Newark Should Try “Stab Proof” School Uniforms
RUSH: Headline from the UK Daily Mail: “Stab-Proof School Uniforms Go on Sale to Protect Pupils from Knife Attacks.” This, folks, would be a hot seller in Newark.
Story #6: GOP Should Skip Joke YouTube Debate
RUSH: Mr. Snerdley, when is that Republican YouTube debate? November 28th or something like that? “The on-again, off-again Republican version of the CNN/YouTube debate will be held Nov. 28.” See, I was right. Even when I think I’m wrong, I’m right. “The two-hour debate will be held in St. Petersburg, Fla., the cable network announced Monday. Online users were urged to submit their questions. The debate had been scheduled for mid-September, but candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney said they couldn’t participate because of previous campaign commitments.” I have a bad feeling about this. I thought it was a joke when the Democrats did it, and it’s going to be a bigger joke when the Republicans do it, but they’re going to go ahead and do it nonetheless.
Story #7: States Move Casinos Closer to Cities
RUSH: We are talking about taxes today, and now get this headline (this is also from USA Today): “States and cities frustrated by gamblers spending their money elsewhere are putting casinos in or near major cities to maximize tax revenue.” They are not content to just take our money — now they want to get us addicted to gambling, from lotteries to casinos. Here is a quote from Janis Hellard, economic development director in Sumner County, Kansas, near Wichita: “‘We’re sick of people from Wichita driving through our county on the way to casinos in Oklahoma. We want some of the action.’ Her county is one of four places in Kansas recently authorized to have casinos, although none has been built yet. Today, 40 states have casino gambling, and some holdouts may join soon. Massachusetts is moving toward permitting casinos for the first time, a change that could lead to more casinos throughout New England. ‘What’s changed the equation is Massachusetts residents are fueling the growth of giant casinos in Connecticut,’ says Clyde Barrow, director of the Center for Policy Analysis at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Also driving growth: states are loosening restrictions about where casinos can locate and how they can do business. The days of casinos being located outside of major cities — tourist destinations, often in economically distressed towns — are coming to an end.”
I’ve not been in any casino outside of Las Vegas. Well, I did a speech in one in Louisiana for Hal Sutton and David Toms and a charity thing, but I walked through to a private meeting room and then went to a ballroom, did the speech, and left, so I didn’t go in the casino. I think that’s the only Indian casino I’ve been in. You’ve been to one, Mr. Snerdley? Snerdley’s been in an Indian casino in Seattle with totally tax-free cigarettes. But you didn’t buy a cigar so you don’t know if cigars are tax-free, Snerdley? It’s the one great thing about casinos: you can still smoke in them and the people in them don’t care – although they’re starting to get some little Nimrods in there. And that’s one of the great things about going to Las Vegas: you can go to a casino, light up your cigar, play, and everybody accepts it. It’s just cool. It’s like a flashback to the old days when people weren’t panicked and trying to tell everybody how they had to live and so forth. But Snerdley says the Seattle casinos are tax-free on the tobacco products. It’s 40 miles outside Seattle? This tax-free business may exist, but trust me: it isn’t going to last — even for the Indians.
Story #8: Study: Baseball Umpires Racially Biased
RUSH: The last time we had a report on racism among officials in sports, it was in the NBA, basketball. White officials called the game differently than black officials. Well, get this. This is from the Austin-American Statesman: “Study finds that umpires’ and pitchers’ race matters when calling balls and strikes. First, one study claimed that basketball referees were racially biased. Now, a new study by a University of Texas professor says baseball umpires are guilty of discrimination, too. Major-league umpires are more likely to give favorable calls to pitchers who share their same race or ethnicity, UT economics professor Daniel Hamermesh and his team found in the study of 2,120,166 pitches over three seasons. The report comes three months after another scholarly study found racial bias among referees in the National Basketball Association in regards to calling fouls… White umpires, who researchers said accounted for 87 percent of the league’s umpires, were more likely to give a called strike to a white pitcher than to a pitcher who is Hispanic, African American or Asian.” How did they know?
Do you realize the flaw in this? Can somebody tell me? What’s the flaw? They examine 2,120,166 pitches. They have a black pitcher and a black ump, or you have a black pitcher and I white ump. Now, what is the flaw here? Who but the ump knows what a strike is? The researchers aren’t down there watching the pitch! I haven’t read this whole story, but don’t you have to have some sort of a way to determine what the pitch really was? You’d have to assume that the ump’s getting it wrong. If they called more strikes in favor of similar ethnic pitchers, then it would stand to reason, would it not, that they’re calling some balls strikes? So how do the researchers know that some of these pitches are not strikes? Take it the other way around. You have a white ump and a white pitcher, black ump and a white pitcher, take your pick. There’s nobody that really knows. I don’t care, there’s not a camera in the world that can tell. Even these super-duper slow mo things on ESPN, they still don’t give you the exact angle.
I didn’t read the whole story here. I must be missing something. I actually only printed out the first page because thought the whole thing is patently ridiculous. It’s just another attempt to keep the country roiled. Now there’s racism in baseball! Gasp! Racism in basketball! Racism in America! We so suck as a country! Racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia; everybody in this country is a reprobate! We don’t deserve to be a country! We are such a bunch of slime buckets, there’s racism in the national pastime — well, the former national past time. The next thing you know we’re going to get surveys on pass interference calls in the National Football League and the white side judges and the linesmen, whatever, the back judges will be calling more pass interference calls on black cornerbacks than white cornerbacks. There may not be white cornerbacks in the NFL. Well, they’ll come up with a way. There might not be any more white cornerbacks. Jason Sehorn was the last one, on the New York Giants, that was really speedy and so forth. I think there are a couple out there. There are a lot of safeties, Adam Archuleta, but the cornerbacks I’m talking about. Brian is in there going, “Oh, has he stepped in it now?” I haven’t stepped in anything! This is crazy! It’s just that you would have to know, out of all these 2,160,000 pitches, whichever one was a ball and which one’s a strike, and you’d have to see every one of them from a certain angle to know that the ref, the umpire, blew it or was cheating.
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Story #1: Rush Was Right! Men Happiest after 65
RUSH: You all remember, over the course of the many years of service to the nation that I have conducted here behind the Golden EIB Microphone, I’ve shared with you several intimate and personal details of my life, and one of those is that I always wanted to be older. From the time I started work when I was 16, I wanted to be older. My family, I happened to hang around with a lot of adults, and the adults always seemed to be happier and more secure and independent and free than I ever was as a kid. Childhood to me was prison; school was prison. I couldn’t wait to get out of those circumstances. I wanted to be on my own. I’ve had this instinct of mine confirmed every year of my life, that every year’s been better than the year before. When I was 25 I wanted to be 40. I wanted to go to those years behind me. I had to do ’em, but I was looking forward to getting older, which is rare and unique because most people dread it. Well, lo and behold, hubba hubba, I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers new research that indicates my instincts, in my case, were right.
“Men in their late thirties and early forties are the least content of all of us.” There’s new research out there that has been done, and this is from the UK, but I think it’s probably applicable in a number of Western democracies. “Whether they are mourning the passing of their prime or struggling to cope with the demands of a job and young family, those aged 35-44 invariably hit a mid-life crisis when their happiness level plunges lower than at any other age, according to a study for the Government. It makes them the least satisfied members of society, scoring well below teenagers, the elderly – and women of all ages. Researchers found that it takes men until they reach the age of 65 to start enjoying life as much as they did in their late-teens and early-20s.”
Now, that makes big sense to me. I didn’t particularly enjoy my life in the late teens and early twenties, as much as I am now. I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t happy-go-lucky frolic-around time because I started working. I had my first job when I was 13 shining shoes at a barbershop, but I started working when I was 16, and that’s when I got serious about it because I wanted want to get those years behind me. Research confirms it. “The overall average satisfaction level for both sexes was 7.3.” Whatever that means. “Most men rated their carefree teenage years between the age of 16-24 as one if their happiest periods, with an average score of 7.55 out of ten. But halfway through their careers, satisfaction levels dipped to a low of 6.8, only rising again to nearly 7.8 once they had crested retirement age.” It’s not a big deal, but I just love passing this on to you.Story #2: You Just Gotta Love the Irreverence of John Daly
RUSH: You gotta love John Daly. He’s won two majors on the PGA Tour. He’s over in Europe with the Scandinavian Masters tournament. After winning the PGA Championship last week in Tulsa, Tiger Woods said, “This heat was not a big deal to me because I work out. I work out a lot. I was used to it. I can handle it. I prepare for this.” So they asked John Daly, because Tiger keeps winning, because he works out, is Daly going to change his lifestyle, and he said no. “I have no intention of changing my lifestyle. I think I did better than most players last week who do work out. I don’t think it matters if you work out or don’t work out. I’m used to the heat. Fat boys like me can get through the heat. I tried, but every time I worked out I threw up. And I thought to myself, you can get drunk and throw up, so it’s just not for me. I’m flexible enough, there are probably some things I could do to keep my flexibility up but I’d rather smoke, I’d rather drink Diet Cokes and eat. I get enough exercise walking five or six miles a day.” You just gotta love this, the irreverence and the unwillingness here to conform. You might disagree with it, but the guy knows who he is and he’s not going to change himself for anybody, for any reason. He’s going to change himself for himself someday when he gets around to it.
Story #3: DNC Hacked Rush’s Wikipedia Entry?
RUSH: A story from the UK Guardian: “Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities keen for some good PR. But a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order to improve their public image. The Wikipedia Scanner, which trawls the backwaters of the popular online encyclopaedia, has unearthed a catalogue of organisations massaging entries, including the CIA and the Labour party.” None of this surprises me. What did interest me in this story is this. “[S]omebody from a computer traced to Democrat HQ edited a page on conservative American radio host Rush Limbaugh, calling him ‘idiotic’, ‘ridiculous’ and labelling his 20 million listeners as ‘legally retarded’.” Ha! I don’t waste time on this. I have never read my Wikipedia entry. I didn’t do it. I don’t know who did. I know anybody can add whatever they want. This is the first I’ve heard of this. Somebody at the Democrat National Committee went in there and hacked it. Heh-heh. It’s like high school prank time, as though they think this is going to make a difference, idiotic, ridiculous, and labeling the audience as legally retarded.
Story #4: Indiana State Fair Bans Trans Fats
RUSH: The Indiana State Fair is going to ban trans-fats. You know what’s going to happen? Years from now — it won’t be many, some years from now — they’re going to discover trans-fats are actually good for us and that we’re dying because we’re not eating trans-fats. That’s the way it happens with all of this junk. Banning trans-fats at the fair? For crying out loud, you go to the fair to eat that stuff!
But it’s the way it went it oat bran and coffee. It’s the way it went with all these substances that they say are going to kill us. One of the most deadly things that we eat out there, and one of the most dangerous things, is carrots. Do you realize how deadly carrots are? Do you realize that 99% of people who have been in an auto accident ate carrots the previous 12 months? Do you realize that 99.9% of all people who have died have eaten carrots? Do you realize how many people who have come down with cancer have eaten carrots? Do you know how many people who have had any kind of accident, be it an auto accident or whatever, just fell on the playground playing dodge ball, you know that most of them have eaten carrots in a limited period of time prior to the accident? Carrots are hugely deadly, more deadly than cigarettes. And yet nobody is discussing banning them.
Story #5: “The Mob” Insulted by Rove Comment
RUSH: It’s funny, there’s a story in the Washington Post today about Karl Rove by Monica Hesse. She’s all upset because she thinks that Karl Rove called her stupid. By the way, I’m not making this up. You will not believe this column. “In explaining the timing of his pending resignation, Karl Rove told the Wall Street Journal, ‘I’m not going to stay or leave based on whether it pleases the mob.’ The mob? It’s a three-letter grenade of a word — so French Revolution, so frothy-mouthed peasants torching the streets.” She spends an entire column defining “mob” and gets exercised about it. Listen to this. “The official definition of ‘mob’ now: (a) The disorderly and riotous part of the population. (b) The common mass of people; the lower orders; the uncultured or illiterate. As in, ‘The mob has many heads, but no brains.’ It is a word designed to rile, implying as it does that the people are not only (a) stupid, but (b) stupid in a collective cow-herd sense. … And yet we, the people, are a heck of a lot closer to the original definition of ‘mob’ then we’ve been in a long time. Mobile? You betcha. Not only do we still have the warp-speed ability to change our minds (Love/hate/love/hate/love Lindsay Lohan), but now we’ve also got warp-speed ways to disseminate that mind-changing among the masses (another iffy word). Think of what chaos the Romans could have created with texting and blogging technologies.”
She’s upset here, she’s very peeved, Monica is, because she thinks Rove called her stupid. This love-hate, love-hate, love-hate, love-hate — hey, Monica! For your side, for your mob, it has been hate hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate for seven years now! There hasn’t been any love from the Drive-By Media when talking about the country or when talking about Bush or Rove. It’s all just been hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.
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Story #1: Drive-By Fantasy: Hillary Welcomes Rove Criticism
RUSH: There’s a New York Times story on Karl Rove’s appearance on this program yesterday. “Rove Steps Up His Attacks on Clinton’s Candidacy — Karl Rove intensified his attack on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday, saying she lacked the vision to be president while saying she was ‘so weak’ on national security and support for the armed forces…. Mrs. Clinton, of New York, and her advisers have denounced the attacks while privately welcoming them, hopeful that Mr. Rove, a bte noire to Democrats, will spur liberal skeptics of Mrs. Clinton to rally to her.”
Now, when you stop and think, is that not hilarious? Here you have one of the most liberal women, people, running for the presidency. She’s quasi-socialist. The only reason she doesn’t have the full-fledged support is that this stupid Iraq business. Well, there are some people that don’t think she can win and so forth, but the fact that she needs to take bashing from conservatives to succeed, to get her liberal skeptics to support her? What kind of denial are these people in? They don’t think liberals like Hillary Clinton, but when Rove attacks her, liberals say, “Ohhhh, maybe she’s more socialist than we thought.” This is ridiculous! It’s also not the kind of reaction that comes from a position of confidence.Story #2: Internal Democrat Battle on Handling Petraeus
RUSH: The Democrats haven’t given up on Iraq yet. One of the things that they’re getting ready to say is that the whole Petraeus report is going to be a lie, that it can’t be counted on. “An Early Clash Over Iraq Report.” This is in the Washington Post. “Senior congressional aides said yesterday that the White House has proposed limiting the much-anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill next month of Gen. David H. Petraeus … to a private congressional briefing, suggesting instead that the Bush administration’s progress report on the Iraq war should be delivered to Congress by the secretaries of state and defense.” Rahm Emanuel said these guys “need to testify.” Testify? I thought they were issuing a report!
So there’s still a little internal battle going on in the Democratic Party over how to deal with this, but whoever is behind this effort here to reposition the Democrats on Iraq is having some success. They’re going to have to try to do something because they’ve gone over the cliff on this. I mean, we know what Petraeus is going to report — it’s already out there. He’s going to say he doesn’t need as many troops. He’s going to say we can start pulling some troops out of where we’ve been, and Democrats are going to say, “Well, that’s crazy. If the surge is working, why not leave them there?” They’re going to do anything they can to say that this was a prewritten report not based on actions. So some Democrats up on Capitol Hill, the ones running for election, they’re going to have to pander to the kook base on this, but there’s an overall effort — I think it’s being led by the Drive-Bys, actually — to reposition the Democrats on this all through the end of the year, because there’s no electoral future in defeat. There’s no electoral future in the United States Military being humiliated and proclaiming it and standing for it and being happy about it.
Story #3: Ruth Marcus on SCHIP: Attack Ads You’ll Be Seeing
RUSH: Because there are tobacco taxes in the new health care program, everybody thinks only smokers are going to be paying the new tax in order to fund the program. So they sit idly by, “Yeah! Yeah! Make ’em pay for it! They’re polluting world and making me sick! It’s filthy! Make them pay for it!” Well, in addition to taxes on tobacco, a kid is now qualified to be a kid up to age twenty-five in the bill. Do you know what else is in this bill, speaking of incrementalism? Free health care for illegal immigrant children! You thought you had beat that back! You thought you showed them! Well, the liberals are coming back, and they’re putting this stuff in a program for the wittwle childwren by taxing smokers. They’re not telling you about the children of illegals being covered here, but they’re covered, and that’s what a Ruth Marcus column in the Washington Post is all about.
So here’s Ruth Marcus writing about the SCHIP program in the Washington Post, and the title of it is: “Attack Ads You’ll Be Seeing — Here’s an emerging line of attack you can expect to hear more of in the 2008 congressional campaigns — especially if you live near a vulnerable Democratic incumbent: Democrats vote to give welfare benefits to illegal aliens. Or, even better: Democrats vote to take benefits away from deserving senior citizens to pay for welfare for illegal aliens. Ugly? Absolutely. Devastating? So Republicans hope. True?” Well, Ruth Marcus says, no, it’s not. But it is.
Story #4: Red State: Democrats Support Free Health Insurance for Illegals
RUSH: So Ruth Marcus actually writes this piece on the SCHIP program with the point being that Republicans are going to lie about it in attack ads against Democrats. So I did a little research. I went to our buddies at Redstate.com, Erick Erickson’s bunch. They did a little looking into this, and in the dead tree issue of the Washington Post is a letter that they didn’t put at the Washington Post on their website edition. But in the dead tree edition of the paper, there was a letter from Dennis Smith, who is the Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations.
“The conclusion in Ruth Marcus’s Aug. 8 op-ed column, ‘Attack Ads You’ll Be Seeing Soon’ — that public benefits will not be provided to illegal aliens in consequence of recent legislation — is incorrect. Under the reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program passed by the U.S. House, unprecedented new eligibility rules would not only allow public benefits for illegal aliens but would provide incentives to states to open Medicaid and SCHIP to do so. Mark B. McClellan, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was quoted as saying that an inspector general’s report did not find problems related to citizenship status in the current program. However, the very protections in the Medicaid system that work to prevent fraud would be gutted by the House. States would be allowed to turn eligibility determinations over to new ‘express lane’ agencies that would make children eligible on the basis of scant information. Incredibly, families could refuse to provide or verify information provided to a state agency by an ‘express lane’ agency. A state would also be allowed to determine eligibility for benefits without even taking an application.”
Now I don’t want to belabor the point here, but there’s so much illegal immigration in this children’s health care bill. It’s stealth and it’s a way of getting what they failed to do in a comprehensive way by getting it done incrementally. So whereas tax increases on cigarette smokers and cigar smokers may not have gotten your dander up — you might not have cared, even, that kids were going to be called 25 or under in this bill, and you might not have even really cared that you only had to make 82 grand to qualify to get your kid health insurance paid for by your neighbors essentially — I’ll bet when you find out that the illegal aliens and their kids get in on the deal, that might get your dander up. That’s why Ruth Marcus wrote the column yesterday, to try to dispel this notion of what’s in it. The way it was written, it didn’t expressly say, “By the way, illegals are covered.” What the program does is give the states the right to not even check — fast lane agencies to authorize people as legal participants in the program. If you don’t have to do checks on them, the states can do what they want, and you know what they’re going to do: they’re going to spend money as fast as they can.
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Story #1: Study: Too Much Exercise Can Cause Death
RUSH: All right. As you well know, ladies and gentlemen, I have firm attitudes on exercise, and that is: don’t do it. Well, I mean don’t do it because everybody says you have to. If you like it, go ahead and do it, but this business of, “You gotta do it or you’re going to die!” is silly. All of this stuff never ends. “Though exercise can be a key part of managing high blood pressure and heart disease, new animal research suggests there can be too much of a good thing. In experiments with rats, researchers found that excessive exercise worsened high blood pressure and progression to heart failure in rats with high blood pressure. Dr. Rebecca L. Schultz and colleagues at the University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, report the results in the journal Hypertension.” This is another one of these magazines I never heard of. I’d like to get a gift subscription to Hypertension magazine just to see what it’s like. “Regular physical activity has been linked to a lower risk of heart disease in numerous studies, but now they’re finding out that you can actually kill yourself with exercise. Health fanaticism can cause death.” Ha! I don’t want to mention any names here, of course, but more and more evidence is coming out here that exercise is not what all these gurus chalk it up to be.Story #2: Gas Tax Hike Hopes “Dimmed” by Baucus
RUSH: Interesting news: “There’s no need to raise the federal gasoline tax, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says[.]” This, AP reports, is “dimming the hopes of some in his party who want the increase to help pay for nationwide bridge repair. Montana Sen. Max Baucus, a longtime foe of [gas tax] increases, said in an interview that continuing to rely on gas tax revenue is not feasible, since more people are using hybrid cars and the cost of highway construction materials is going up. There are better alternatives, he said, but he would not provide details. ‘I don’t think an increase in the gasoline tax is needed,’ Baucus said. ‘I don’t favor it.'”
Story #3: The Jose Padilla Far-Left Fan Club
RUSH: From our buddies at the Power Line blog — Jos Padilla has a fan club out there, and it’s the far left. Jules Crittenden “toured the fever swamp of liberal websites to record their reactions to yesterday’s conviction of Jos Padilla… As you would expect, those that haven’t fallen silent are regretful at Padilla’s conviction.” And here’s a paragraph from an AP report: “U.S. officials said Padilla, while incarcerated in a military brig in South Carolina, admitted exploring the dirty bomb plot. But that evidence could not be used at trial because he was not read his rights and did not immediately have access to an attorney.”
Continues Power Line: “When you capture someone like Padilla and hold him as an enemy combatant, you’re not going to hire him a lawyer and read him his rights. Imagine the idea of regiments of lawyers on a battlefield, rushing in to read soldiers (in this case, terrorists) their ‘rights’ when they are taken prisoner. When the government decided to turn Padilla over to the criminal justice system for prosecution, they had to identify offenses for which such prosecution was viable. This illustrates the difference between war-fighting, the administration’s primary approach to terrorism, and criminal prosecution, the Democrats’ predominant if not exclusive method.”
In fact, John Kerry and others have been out there saying — maybe it’s Edwards; I don’t know, they’re all saying it — “Treat these people as criminals. Go out there and seek indictments.” And this is what happens. It is a fabulous illustration of the totally flawed way that the Democrats would deal with this problem that this nation faces as a national security matter. We’ll be making more of this in the coming months as we near the election. You can count on it. You know it and I know it.
Story #4: Wife Murder Used to Push National Healthcare
RUSH: Did you see the story about the guy who threw his wife overboard? He threw her off a balcony because he couldn’t afford health insurance, and she died. Tragic case of murder. And the way that the media are exploiting this is typical, and it’s a great illustration of the template that the Drive-Bys have in pushing the whole concept of national medical insurance schemes. The American Thinker, Steve Warshawsky, has a great treatment of this.
“An Associated Press story yesterday told a heart-wrenching tale of a ‘desperate’ husband driven to murder his ailing wife ‘because he could not afford to pay for her medical care.’ The man’s wife was 47 years old and suffering from uterine cancer and neurological problems. She weighed 75 pounds and was partially blind. According to the story, her husband kissed her goodbye, and then threw her off the balcony of their apartment building, to her death.”
Now, nowhere in the story is the guy condemned for this. The AP “does not question whether less expensive alternatives were available for his wife’s medical care (e.g., hospice care). Instead, the entire thrust of the story is that a lack of health insurance was the true culprit in this terrible situation. As the story noted, the wife ‘had no health insurance to pay for medical bills that ranged from $700 to $800 per week.’ According to the story, she only had $725 in monthly income (from oil royalties and social security disability), $6,700 in personal assets, and a parcel of property worth $20,000, which the husband planned to sell. Using the figures in the story as a guide, these assets could have paid for approximately one more year of the wife’s medical care. So it is not at all clear that the husband’s — and the AP’s — explanation for why he murdered her makes sense. Of course, murder is such an extreme act that something more surely was going on here, probably inside the husband’s deranged brain. Nevertheless, it is obvious that this story reflects a larger agenda. The AP is using a human tragedy — the wife’s murder — to argue, however subtly, in favor of a national health care system.”
And this story, Mr. Warshawsky theorizes, “will find its way into the speeches of those advocating ‘universal’ or ‘single payer’ health insurance. After all, if such a system were in place, they will claim, this terrible tragedy would not have occurred. Right? Honestly, we can never know. What we do know, however, is that ‘health insurance’ is no panacea for high health care costs. At the end of the day (or fiscal year), someone has to pay for the medical care rendered to the insured and uninsured alike.”
He’s exactly right about this. There’s this surviving myth out there: if you have health insurance, it’s over, it’s covered, you have no worries, and somehow the costs are not relevant. Not true. “If the wife in the AP story had health insurance, presumably her premiums and co-pays would have been less than the actual cost of her medical care (the $700 to $800 per week mentioned in the story). This is the only way her personal financial situation could have been improved by having had health insurance, as the AP suggests. Yet the actual cost of providing medical care does not go down, as if by magic, just because someone has insurance. Advanced critical care or end-of-life care is extremely costly to provide.”
That’s where most is spent, actually. But the point of this that Mr. Warshawsky makes here really well is that the AP tries to say, “We understand why this man would throw his 47-year-old wife over the balcony and kill her, so driven to despair by the inability to afford health care insurance because of the unfair, unfeeling attitude of the leaders of this country — this rotten, horrible country that would drive this man to commit such a brutal, senseless, and heartless act.” He’s throwing his wife over the balcony, and he’s getting sympathy for doing this! Just because of her lack of single payer health care. Great example of how the Drive-Bys are in existence for one reason, and that’s to advance the agenda of the liberal wing of the Democrat Party in this country — pure and simple.
Story #5: Orlando Police Trade Sneakers for Guns
RUSH: This is from Orlando. “Local law enforcement is hoping a free pair of sneakers will help them get dangerous guns off the street in their Kicks for Guns program. On Friday, the Orlando Police Department, Orange County Sheriff’s Office… are holding their annual program in which people can bring guns in and exchange them for a new pair of tennis shoes or gift cards. Police said they’ll take all types of guns with no questions asked. Last year, 116 firearms and 31 pellet guns were collected, including a machine gun, a grenade launcher, several sawed-off shotguns, and three stolen guns.
“The 2007 Kicks for Guns is taking place at two locations — the Citrus Bowl on Church Street in Orlando, and the Pine Castle Women’s Club on Oakridge Road and South Orange Avenue. Both events run” — well, it’s over. The morning session, seven to one; the afternoon session starts at four o’clock and goes to eight o’clock. So what happens is that these people, when they take their guns here to one of these two places, they probably get mugged leaving the parking lot and have their new tennis shoes stolen because the thugs know that they’re coming out of there unarmed. Ha! I’m just speculating. And, no, if it happened, I don’t think it would be funny. Sorry.
Story #6: Mayor Refuses to Fire Pistol to Start Race
RUSH: From Cincinnati: “Mayor Mark Mallory is refusing to fire a starter pistol to kickoff an upcoming road race, saying he doesn’t like the gun’s symbolism in a city that set a record for homicides last year. Mallory said he’ll blow a whistle at Saturday’s Rhythm Race 5K instead. A pistol filled with blanks is traditionally used to start races and track meets. ‘I think the symbolism is just bad,’ he said. ‘It’s just something I don’t do.'”
So symbolism over substance here once again. Can somebody tell me the last time anybody got killed by a blank? I know maybe sometimes somebody may get ear damage or something like that. I don’t know — a heart attack, maybe? You know, half the time the crowd can’t even hear the damn thing. I guess they probably wouldn’t use a shotgun to start a charity golf tournament, either. But anyway, I have a different idea, Mayor Mallory. Instead of using a whistle — I mean, there’s nothing special about that — just release some doves and have the race start then. Dub it the “5K Race for Peace” or whatever. They’ll fly out there. That would be really, really sensitive. And if anybody knows of a starter pistol with blanks wounding or killing somebody, please let me know.
Story #7: All of a Sudden We Can Find the Illegals?
RUSH: “The Census Bureau wants immigration agents to suspend enforcement raids during the 2010 census so the government can better count illegal immigrants. Raids during the population count would make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government workers who are supposed to include them… Deputy Director Preston Jay Waite said immigration enforcement officials did not conduct raids for several months before and after the 2000 census. But today’s political climate is even more volatile on the issue of illegal immigration. Enforcement agents ‘have a job to do,’ Waite said. ‘They may not be able to give us as much of a break’ in 2010.”
Well, talk about having your priorities out of whack. Suspend the raids for a whole year so we can get an accurate count of the number of illegals? Do you understand, folks, how we have been told throughout this entire debate, “Deport them? Why, you’re crazy, Limbaugh! We could never find them! Not possible! Not feasible!” I swear: every once in a while the government steps in it. Okay, so you suspend the raids. Fine. And then you go to these people and say, “Are you illegal? If so, tell us. We just want to know; we just want to get a count.” Now, if I were an illegal and aware of the climate in this country, I would think of this as a trick. I would think of this as a scheme to identify me so that then the raids could happen and pick me up and send me back to Guadalupe, or wherever I’m from. I just find this whole thing hilarious.
Story #8: Canadians Drive to US for Quadruplet Births
RUSH: “A 35-year-old Canadian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets, officials at a Great Falls, Mont., hospital said Thursday. Karen Jepp of Calgary delivered Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia by caesarian section Sunday afternoon at Benefis Healthcare, said Amy Astin, the hospital’s director of community and government relations. The four girls were breathing without ventilators and listed in good condition Thursday, she said. ‘These babies are doing grand,’ said Dr. Tom Key of Great Falls, the perinatologist who delivered the girls.”
You’re probably saying, “What’s the big deal, Rush? Quadruplets?” Well, here’s the point of the story. The Jepps drove 325 miles to Great Falls for the births because hospitals in Calgary couldn’t handle them — they were at capacity. “The difficulty is that Calgary continues to grow at such a rapid rate… The population has increased a lot faster than the number of hospital beds… Two of the girls were to be transferred to a Calgary hospital later Thursday. The other two could be moved Friday if their conditions remain favorable[.]” So much for the great Canadian health care system. What a miracle. What I want know on is why the Jepps stopped in Great Falls. Why not just head to Cuba? I mean, they’re from Canada — they could get into Cuba without any problem.
Story #9: Australia: Private Sector Saves Public Hospitals
RUSH: Here’s a story from Sydney, Australia. “Private hospital eyes public bed space — The State Government is considering a proposal to lease ‘excess space’ at the Prince of Wales Hospital to the private hospital next door. After sidestepping the issue for weeks, South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service confirmed it was looking at a plan by the Prince of Wales Private Hospital to have private beds in the public hospital’s cardiothoracic intensive-care unit…. The public cardiothoracic unit had enough space for 12 beds but only ever had four or five due to a lack of funding[.]”
So here’s the summary of the story. The state government in Sydney has come up with an ingenious plan to solve its public health system by letting the private sector do it. Shazam! The government over there doesn’t know what to do with excess space in their hospital? Who ever heard of that? So the government’s cardiothoracic unit has enough space for 12 beds, but due to a lack of government funding — i.e., taxes — it can only afford to keep four of the beds filled, so this meant that patients had to wait for three months to get into this unit with six or seven empty beds. They had to wait to get in six or seven empty beds! Funding, don’t you know. Government funding. Why, just wasn’t there. So anyway, the government’s proposing combining the private and the public sector. It just thrills the doctors; they think it’s the greatest idea since penicillin. Don’t worry though, the government spokesbabe in this story says, “There will be no change or reduction to the existing public cardiothoracic services at Prince of Wales Public should this proposal proceed.” You hear that? You hear that? No change. You will still have to wait for four months for urgent surgery — unless, that is, you choose the private sector option. You figure it out.
Story #10: Rush To Pull Out Cash from Countrywide Bank
RUSH: I just did a double-take over here during the commercial break. I snuck a peek at the Drudge Report, and there’s this headline in red, “Rush to pull out cash at Countrywide Bank.” And I thought, “I don’t have any money at Countrywide Bank. People are going to get the wrong idea. This is going to be a problem. It’s going to cause a run on the bank.” I know they meant “Rush” as in, “in a hurry,” but I couldn’t help but think that.
Story #11: Junk Food When Pregnant Causes Obesity
RUSH: Okay, let’s see here. “Junk food when pregnant may make kids overeat.” Okay, so obesity is NOW mom’s fault. No, wait. “Few obese adults get treatment plan from doctor” — so it’s the doctor’s fault. Never mind.
Story #12: Fluorescent Bulbs May Harm Kids
RUSH: “Study: Harsh lighting may damage embryo.” Oh, no! Those fluorescents are going to hurt kids! Oh, there’s a bunch of damage we’re going to have to talk about on Monday, folks.
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Story #1: Norwegian Criminals Don’t Show Up for Prison
RUSH: This story is intriguing: “One out of five Norwegian criminals fail to show up to serve their sentence.” This is from the Aftenposten newspaper in Norway. “Twenty percent of convicted criminals do not show up for their prison terms, according to the Norwegian Correctional Services. Prison authorities can do little but hope that the criminals will eventually come knocking on the prison door.” Honest to gosh that’s what it says! In fact, criminals sentenced to long prison terms are particularly prone to not showing up. This is classic. Norway, we’re talking just ber-left. They “hope” the criminals show up? You know what the problem is, folks? I go to page two of the story: “The dilemma facing the prison authorities is that failure to show up at prison is not yet illegal.” Wait ’til the libs in this country figure that one out!
Story #2: Consumer Confidence Up Despite Housing Slump
RUSH: “The gauge of future economic activity inched up in July, indicating that economic growth may pick up slightly in coming months, despite turmoil in the housing market.” Interesting.
Story #3: Guaranteed: If You Eat Carrots, You Will Die
RUSH: I’ve issued this warning over several broadcast years of service to you and this country: I have warned you of the danger of carrots. Everybody who has eaten carrots has died within 50 years of doing so. Everybody who has eaten carrots — well, 95% of people who have eaten carrots — has been involved in some kind of an accident within a year after eating carrots. It’s a big problem. And, look, from the CanWest News Service: “Consumers should not eat one brand of baby carrots sold recently at Costco stores because of contamination by shigella, which causes fever, nausea and vomiting, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has warned. The carrots are labelled Los Angeles Salad Company Genuine Sweet Baby Carrots, and they come from Mexico.” They’re not from China, no, no, no. Everybody thinks that poisoned carrots would be coming from China, but these are from Mexico. Doesn’t matter where you buy these carrots or other carrots, anyway; you’re still in trouble.
Story #4: Vanity of Humanity: “Experts” Predict Artificial Life
RUSH: Have you seen this story, folks, about how artificial life will be created in three to ten years? Some of the lines from the scientists in this story are amazing. The AP writer on this is Seth Borenstein, and he informs us of dramatic scientific advances. “Experts,” predict that we are three to ten years away from the creation of artificial life. Although that first cell of intersect life made from the basic chemicals in DNA may not seem like much to nonscientists — it will only be visible through a microscope. “It’s going to be a big deal. Everybody’s going to know about it,” said Mark Bedot, whose company ProtoLife, is working on it. “Creating photo cells has the potential to shed new light on our place in the universe.” What arrogance! He also said, “We could remove one of the few fundamental mysteries about creation in the universe and our role.” Sorry, Mark. You might think you’re going to do that, but that’s one of the answers that we, as humans, will never get on this earth. All this is pretty heady, as are the predictions for these artificial life forms. For example, these are just cells. We’re going to be able to create artificial life, according to these experts, “that will lock up greenhouse gases, that will eat up toxic waste. We’re going to create life forms that will fight all kinds of disease.”
Now, Mark Bedot acknowledges there are fears that artificial life forms may spin out of control, but, he says (get this): “When these things are created, they’re going to be so weak, it will be a huge achievement if you could keep them alive for an hour in the lab. The idea of these new life forms getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen.” Ha! Well, if you’re only going to keep them an hour in the lab before they die, how are they going to eat up global warming? And how many of them is it going to take, if these things are microscopic? You’re going to have a whole bunch of them out there?
By the way, what is artificial life? I thought that was robots. At any rate, I’ll tell you what’s amazing to me about this: all of these resources devoted creating cells in laboratories to cure what ails mankind, while inside the human body, real life — supremely advanced by the standards these clowns are talking about — is routinely discarded! It’s called abortion. Without any regard for its God-given potential, and nary a word from scientists about this. So we think we’re going to learn more about our place in the universe and creation in these laboratories as they create artificial life forms to eat up global warming and to cure disease — heh, heh. Do these guys have any clue about the natural disease-curing systems in the human body? Do they have the slightest idea what they are talking about? This is an example of the arrogance and the vanity that I think we, as human beings, can exhibit all too frequently — particularly in areas of science like this.
Story #5: Kooks: God Sent Hurricane to Texas to Punish Bush
RUSH: You know, in a way, folks — and it’s sort of a perverted way — we are making progress out there. There are some bloggers, some kook fringe left-wing bloggers, who say that hurricane Dean is God’s revenge on George W. Bush, that the floods in Texas and Oklahoma are God’s revenge on Bush for screwing up Texas and the country, and that the rains in Minnesotaare God’s revenge against George W. Bush. These are people who don’t believe in God who are saying this! So in a way, you could say that we are making progress.Story #6: UK Overrun with Obese Cats and Dogs
RUSH: There’s a story out of London — “Half of Dogs and Cats in the UK are Now Overweight” — and they have three pictures here of genuinely obese animals. They have an obese tabby cat. They have an obese — it looks like a white lab — and an obese, well, probably mutt. This is pretty sad to see these animals this way. But how in the hell do they know that half of the dogs and cats in the UK are overweight? How in the hell can anybody possibly know that? This is one of these headlines where I say, “Prove it! Prove it! Who did the survey? Who did the eye-to-eye, door-to-door inspection to find this out?” Then they say, “Well, we didn’t do that. We talked to the vets.” But not everybody takes their pet to the vet often enough to know this stuff. I mean, this is absurd!
Story #7: ChiComs Abandon Bicycles for Big Cars, SUVs
RUSH: Speaking of the ChiComs, get this story. This is not going to please Algore and the global warming clowns. San Francisco Chronicle headline: “China’s New Middle Class in Love With Cars, Big Cars — It was the frugal minicar that lured the Liu family to the showroom, but it was the full-size sedan that hooked them. Like countless other first-time auto buyers in China, the Lius were moving up in the world, and getting four wheels with plenty of steel was a key part of that process. ‘A car! This means so much to us,’ said Liu Yang, while her husband, Liu Yue, fiddled with the dashboard of the Chery Eastar sedan that they were about to buy in a showroom in suburban north Beijing. The biggest car-buying boom in world history is under way in China as vast numbers of people join the middle class, abandon their bicycles for autos and sport utility vehicles — and, in the process, add to China’s already fast-growing emissions of greenhouse gases.” Ha! So if this keeps up, we’re going to be pikers, folks, compared to the carbon footprint that the Chinese make. Well, the Chinese SUVs, I’m sure, will kill people.
Story #8: Plea Deal Might Not Be End for Michael Vick
RUSH: So Vick has copped a plea. He’s agreed to a plea deal on the dogfighting charges out there. Well, we’ll have to wait and see what the details of this are, but the preliminary reporting, of which we can trust very little, suggested he’d have to spend at least a year in jail. A grand jury convened today to consider additional charges. What nobody is talking about is how the state of South Carolina wants in on this action. They wanted additional charges, too. This is one of the things that held up the plea deal with the feds, from what I’m told. South Carolina wanted to charge him with things that, if convicted on all of them, would get him 40 years in jail (the fed charges five or six). From what I understand, the Vick legal team was attempting to — if he copped a plea — get in on the fed charges so the South Carolina ones would go away. We’ll just have to wait and see on what the details are.
Story #9: Senators Warner, Levin Praise the Surge in Iraq
RUSH: I want to take you back to last Friday. Last Friday we had a series of reports, and I admitted to being totally confused because earlier in the week the Democrats seem to be pretty much united. We hadn’t heard from Harry Reid or Pelosi. The surge is working. The Petraeus report is going to be what it is, calling for a troop drawdown, so they’d better come back over the cliff. Then on Friday, Dingy Harry and Pelosi essentially spoke up and said, “No, we think it’s going to be a lie. We don’t think the surge is working. The political process is falling apart,” and then they started complaining that Bush is going to write the report, not Petraeus — even though that’s exactly what the law says! “The president shall present to the Congress a report on the success of the surge…” So I thought I’d gotten it right. I thought these guys, somebody in the media or in the Democratic Party bowels somewhere, had understood that they are McGovernizing themselves. But when Harry Reid and Pelosi came out and said what they said Thursday and Friday about this, that it doesn’t change their minds on anything, I said, “Well, maybe I got it wrong.”
Now I’m confused again because Fox News just posted a story. Senators Warner and Levin traveled to Iraq and praised the surge results. Now, Carl Levin is head of the Armed Services Committee, and Warner is the ranking Republican on it. “After a brief trip to Iraq, Senators Carl Levin and John Warner said Monday they’re encouraged by the effects of the recent US military surge there, but,” nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, “they’re predicting, enthusiasm tempered by concerns about Iraq’s political climate,” which is obligatory — they have to say that. Well, what’s Harry Reid going to do now? Forget Warner. This is Levin coming back and saying it’s working. Now, I’m not saying he’s on board, but he’s reporting the surge is working and looks impressive — and that’s a big deal.
Story #10: Pelosi Deputy Sees “Real Progress” in Iraq
RUSH: By the way, another Democrat, one of Pelosi’s big guys (John McCaslin has this on Inside the Beltway today) is talking about the surge. Representative Brian Baird, a senior Democratic whip on the Democrat steering committee, just got home from Iraq and said the US military is making real progress there. So now we have Levin in the Senate and this guy who is obviously at cross-purposes with Nancy Pelosi and John Murtha. He said, “We’re making real, real progress over there.” You know what? I have to conclude here that there’s an internal, behind-the-scenes battle going on within the Democratic Party over what their official position on this is going to be, and that fight is spilling out in the public. These Democrats that are saying these things publicly about the success of the surge… Remember, though, that everything they do is out of self-interest. They’re trying to save themselves. They realize they have a problem out there and I think by going public with this they’re trying to put pressure on Reid, Murtha, Pelosi and whoever else, to stop this defeatist, we’re-doomed-and-we-can’t-win talk. We’ll have to wait and see, but I’m still fascinated by this.
Story #11: This Is Why the Obese Are Marrying Each Other
RUSH: This is from WebMD medical news: “Seventy-five percent of US adults will be overweight eight years from now, based on current obesity statistics,” and, of course, not far down the story, the obligatory reference: “The percentage of overweight and obese adults is particularly high among African Americans and tends to be lowest among Asian Americans.” All right. Well, if that’s true, if the percentage of overweight and obese adults is particularly high among African Americans, take them out and redo the survey and let’s see what it says. “Seventy-five percent of US adults will be overweight eight years from now, based on current obesity statistics.” This is why the obese are marrying each other, folks: because they have no choice. And, of course, this just begets more obese kids. We’re doomed! Even having gotten rid of trans fats, it doesn’t appear we’re helping ourselves.
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Story #1: The Dogs Must Have Heard About Vick Plea Deal
RUSH: Gig Harbor, Washington. “A 59-year-old woman has been hospitalized after being mauled by two pit bulls who came into her house Tuesday morning. Pierce County Sheriff spokesman Ed Troyer said the two dogs came through a door that was left slightly open and attacked the woman while she was in bed at about 9 a.m. The dogs did not belong to her.” Well, just another case of peace-loving pit bulls who never met a stranger they didn’t maul. Oh, by the way, the pit bulls also killed a Jack Russell terrier belonging to a neighbor during the attack. So they’re roaming and I guess they might have heard about the Mike Vick plea deal out there, folks, and now they’re lashing out. They wanted a trial. They wanted multiple years in prison, not just one.Story #2: CIA Report Validates “Path to 9/11” Movie
RUSH: We haven’t talked about this declassified CIA report that came out yesterday yet. There’s something very interesting in that CIA report that of course the Drive-Bys are not going to harp on, and it is this: Do you remember when Bill Clinton went on Fox News Sunday and Chris Wallace started to ask a question that was an offshoot of the movie The Path to 9/11 — by the way, Disney, where’s the DVD on this? I just thought of this. That show aired a year ago. Where’s the DVD? DVDs are long ago out on a show like this. I mean, I got the third season of House, MD. I got it yesterday, and that show didn’t end ’til May. That’s Fox, of course, but that DVD is out. At any rate, The Path to 9/11, the movie, made it clear that the Clinton administration was a little lax in a whole lot of areas going after by Bin Laden, and Clinton walked into the studio loaded for bear on this, and Chris Wallace dutifully asked him about it, Clinton blew up, and started wagging that finger: “What did I do? What did I do? I’ll tell you what, I worked as hard as I ever had! I actually signed an executive order to kill him! We tried to kill him every chance we got.”
This report says that Clinton only authorized the CIA to engage in operations that would lead to the “capture” of Bin Laden, and they didn’t take it all that seriously because the rules on capture were: no civilian casualties. You couldn’t do this and that. They said, “Well, there’s not much we can do here.” The report also details how the National Security Agency and the CIA were not sharing information, due to this wall or apparently two or three walls. It sounds like a lot of the declassified documents in this report validate some of the historical claims in the movie The Path to 9/11 — about which I still ask, where isthe DVD? The Drive-Bys are blaming Tenet. That’s my point. You’re not going to see that. I mean, this may be referenced. This is going to be at the end of a story. Isikoff writes about this, and it’s at the end of the story. It’s very long. It’s in Newsweek on their website today, PMSNBC.com. He references it. He doesn’t make a big deal about it, just kind of a little throw-in in there. The thrust of this is that Tenet was an absolute boob and a disaster. He’s the fall guy. He’s not around anymore. His book came out and didn’t do much, I don’t think.
Story #3: Boss a Jerk? You May Soon Be Able to Sue
RUSH: Here’s what I think. This headline, I think that this is what John Edwards is going to do when he drops out of the Democrat race next month or next two months. From CBS: “Boss A Jerk? Think About Suing Him — Is your boss a nightmare? Not just annoying, but so completely lacking in people skills as to possibly be a sociopath? There may now be more you can do than simply renting ‘Office Space’ for the 11th time. The Los Angeles Times reports that lawmakers across the country are considering legislation that would give workers grounds to sue their superiors ‘for being, basically, jerks.'” Let’s see. Lawmakers across the country? Democrat “lawmakers across the country,” paying back donations in kind from the trial lawyers, “are considering legislation that would give workers the grounds to sue their” employers “‘for basically being jerks.’ The specific standards for behavior that would justify such lawsuits are still being worked out.” Oh, yeah! “At least four state legislatures, including those in New Jersey, New York, Vermont and Washington, are considering such a measure…. To those who would argue that pushing around employees has been a part of bosshood since the advent of work, the Times offers a few theories to explain the recent surge of worker whining. Some experts contend the ranks of bullying bosses are growing as short-staffed companies tap managers with lousy people skills. Other experts point out that ‘baby boomers on the cusp of retirement and restless younger employees are more likely to complain or quit than suffer in silence.'” Well, then what’s the problem?
What I want to know is, will the legislation allow congressional staffers to sue members of Congress for being jerks? How about interns? Can they sue, say, the president for being a sexual jerk? I don’t know. I’m waiting to find out it’s in the legislation.
Story #4: Parents, Students Sue over Teacher Competence
RUSH: Speaking of lawsuits, where is this from? Looks like this is from Inside Bay Area. Yep, it’s the Left Coast. “Parents and students from the Hayward, Los Angeles and West Contra Costa school districts filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Education alleging that the department broke with laws meant to ensure a quality teacher in each classroom. When Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, lawmakers specified that teachers needed to be credentialed and teach in a subject where they received proper training in order to be considered ‘highly qualified.’ Districts must notify parents each fall if their child’s teacher fails to meet those requirements. The department, however, allows states to count teacher interns as credentialed even though they are still in the process of earning certification. Maribel Heredia, a parent of two Hayward students who is suing the department, said during a press conference that her son’s first-grade teacher is an intern who leaves twice a week to finish up college classes — leaving Heredia’s son, Jose Aldana, with a substitute twice a week. ‘I feel that this is wrong to call this teacher highly qualified,’ Heredia said. ‘I feel like I’m being lied to.'” You think so?
So we had a story yesterday on the incompetence of teachers in Massachusetts, failing to pass those tests, and now we have more evidence here that we don’t have a solid group of reliable teachers. I’m not trying to tar and feather all of you teachers. Please understand this. I know a lot of great teachers out there and I know they listen to this program, but we see evidence that not all among the teacher ranks are actually qualified.
Story #5: Boehner: Democrats Splitting on Iraq
RUSH: John Boehner, the Republican leader in the House, just “said more Democrats are ‘bucking their party leaders’ in acknowledging progress in Iraq. ‘Many rank-and-file Democrats have seen this progress firsthand and are now acknowledging the successes of a strategy they’ve repeatedly opposed. But Democratic leaders, deeply invested in losing the war, would rather move the goalposts and claim that a precipitous withdrawal is the right approach despite the overwhelming evidence of significant progress.'” Our message here is getting through to the great leaders in the hallowed halls of Congress. “We’re winning? We gotta quit now!” That’s the Democrat line: “We’re winning. We have to quit.”
Story #6: Illegal Presence in US Not a Crime, Court Says
RUSH: Have you seen this? I’m sure you probably heard about this already. It is from the Cybercast News Service: “A Kansas court of appeals has ruled that it’s illegal for an illegal alien to enter the country, but not illegal for an illegal alien to be here if the illegal alien can illegally make it past the Border Patrol without getting caught.” Honest, folks. It is the truth, what I have just told you. “Ruling that it is illegal to enter the country without the proper documents and permissions, but it is not necessarily illegal to be in the country if you don’t get caught upon entry, the court threw out the sentence of an illegal immigrant who pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and endangering a child.” So, what if I go rob a bank, and I get away with it, and they don’t find out about it for a week? Does it mean I get to keep the money? “Hey, you didn’t catch me! You’ve got it: possession is nine-tenths of the law, because you waited too long to come after me.”
Story #7: The SCHIP Battle Rages On
RUSH: Big story here in the Boston Globe. This is a great illustration, my friends, of the coordinated efforts of the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party. “Children May Lose Out on Insurance — New US rules, state plan linked. Thousands…” Thousands! “of Massachusetts children from low-income families could be denied health insurance under new rules imposed by the Bush administration late last week. The rules could cut federal matching funds for a state-run program that is a key component of the state’s health insurance initiative. But congressional leaders, including Senator Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, said yesterday that they would fight the changes, which are the latest volley in the national battle over the future of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP.” This is like the program that is going to allow the children of illegal immigrants to be covered with health insurance. This is a program that says a program is anyone from infancy to age 25. This is the program that says you are “low-income” and qualify if your family household income is up to $82,000 a year — and the Bush administration, the rules that they are talking about, in this story, the way they write it is: “The new federal rules could block enrollment of more children above 250 percent of the poverty level and could make it tougher for the state to continue covering about 4,500 already enrolled. State officials said they do not yet have a count of the number who are eligible but not enrolled.”
No, they like to keep that a secret! They don’t want you knowing how many are eligible but not enrolled, and vice-versa. But did you catch this? “The new federal rules could block enrollment of more children above 250 percent of the poverty level…” Now, somebody do the math for me. What’s the poverty level for a single individual, income of like $13,000 or $14,000, twelve, thirteen, something like that? What is 250% of that? Remember, we’re talking each person in the household here. Well, I don’t know, thirty grand or what have you. I asked somebody to run the numbers on this. I’d use my iPhone calculator. Snerdley says it’s close to 50 grand. Did you do this on a calculator, or did you do it by hand? You did it by hand. All right. So if Snerdley is right — hell, even if H.R. is right at $30,000 — 250% of the poverty level! This is a program for “poor children,” and you see how it’s escalated. The whole point of getting eligible “kids” up to twenty-five years old (this story doesn’t mention that, of course) and the 82 grand for family of four (it doesn’t mention that, of course) is this is a stealth way to get more and more people under the first couple steps of a state-run health program — and, of course, Bush hates kids, and Ted Kennedy loves them.
Story #8: CNN: Unsafe Sex, Pregnancy Fault of Smaller Gov’t
RUSH: All right, this is funny. It’s just funny. I have here, holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a little story here from the Business and Media Institute. They’ve got a website, BusinessandMedia.org. It’s a little story here written by a guy named Jeff Poor. The headline: “CNN: Unsafe Sex and Pregnancy are the Fault of Smaller Government — [CNN] concerned that deficit reduction eliminated federally subsidized birth control for college students.” This happened today, on, “August 22 CNN ‘American Morning,’ as part of its ‘College Week’ celebration, featured a segment…” We talked about this a long time ago in one of our morning updates. Remember that, Mr. Snerdley? Listen to this: “The August 22 CNN ‘American Morning,’ as part of its ‘College Week’ celebration, featured a segment about the rising cost of birth control at college campuses and provided an interesting peek into the background of one of CNN’s own employees. ‘When I was a student here at Columbia, birth control was cheap and plentiful,’ said a giddy CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen. ‘Well, not anymore. When students hit this campus next week, they are in for some sticker shock.’ That sticker shock of course is the rise in the cost of birth control – primarily birth control pills and the birth control patch. The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 pared [or cut] $39 billion in spending on federal programs, including reductions in Medicaid.
“That reduction changed the way Medicaid-related rebates that pharmaceutical companies pay to states are calculated and that has forced birth control manufacturers to stop offering colleges and universities discounted oral contraceptives. For the story, CNN paraded out several people who saw this as a serious crisis and to explain why the government should act. ‘It will mean that more college women will become pregnant in an unwanted pregnancy during their college student years,’ claimed Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) to CNN. ‘It will mean that many will have to drop out of school or face an abortion. It is a difficult situation to put college women in.’ However, the CNN report didn’t offer anyone who would regard a birth control subsidy as excessive government spending nor did they report on the moral elements involved with birth control financially supported by their government on college campuses. But” the reporterette, Elizabeth Cohen “did manage to find someone to point out the tough choices ahead for some student. ‘(Stephanie) Davidson (a Columbia University student) worries that these students will have to choose between food, books, and birth control,’ said Cohen.” It’s just like the seniors: dog food or medicine? In the story we in Indiana at the Sex Ed. Institute, some of these college co-eds are already mothers!
Look, the point is that CNN goes out and does a report that it’s the federal government’s job to provide birth control for kids in college! Why doesn’t the university provide them? What’s it cost to go to college, do you think, 20 grand a year, or semester? Why don’t they throw in some birth control pills, for crying out loud! Why is it always the government? You know, put some birth control pills in every dorm room. Put ’em in every packet when the student shows up to register This is classic, and of course the most obvious if you can’t afford — or better, if you won’t buy your own, tightwads! You college kids, you’re swimming in money. Don’t use the cell phone for three days and save up the money. Oh, forget that. Your parents are paying that. For crying out loud, walk instead of driving your Chevy or your car around all over the place. I mean, priorities are priorities. Why should the rest of us have to buy your birth control pills so you can run around and get pregnant and have an abortion in the first place? Why is it our responsibility to do that? The third alternative — well, okay, that’s a fourth alternative. The third alternative would be Lewinskys. Do it the Clinton way! The fourth alternative: don’t do it! If you don’t have the pills, you can’t afford them, and mean old government’s not paying for them, it’s called abstinence, and it works! Why do you assume you’re going to have an abortion and end up going to the clinic?
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Story #1: Correction: Oscar the Cat Is Not Dead
RUSH: I have to start off with a correction today. We had a story Tuesday about that cat Oscar in Rhode Island, who lives in a nursing home. This cat seemed to have a sense of when residents of the old folks’ home were going to cash it in; the cat would jump on the bed of the patient about to cash it in, and the patient would cash it in. They said, “Well, this is incredible! How does this cat know this?” and a lot of the patients were getting a little upset about Oscar. So there was a story yesterday that the cat had been found dead in the nursing home with a dented bedpan near the body. A very curious member of our audience, Jay Cochensparger, called the nursing home up there to confirm this, because he thought the story might have been a hoax. Not that I was making it up, of course, but he thought it was a hoax, and the lady who answered the phone up there said that Oscar is indeed alive and well.
They heard the story, too, on the program up there and were quite surprised. Apparently this show’s big in there with the staff. So Mr. Cochensparger (I hope I’m pronouncing his name right) wanted me to know that Oscar the cat is still alive. I guess the patients up there don’t care, otherwise this story would be true. So it was a well-written hoax and I should have suspected it. I let my professional guard down; I should have suspected it because there was no identifying link, source, or whatever, but it was written pretty well as a hoax. So, anyway, it was just a cat, no big deal. The cat’s still alive. The story ends well.Story #2: Farmer from India Solving Population Problem
RUSH: Did you see this story about this guy, where does this guy live? He’s a 90-year-old guy and his[21st] child was just born. He’s a farmer in India. His name is Nanu Ram Jogi, married to his fourth wife, and boasts he doesn’t want to stop — plans to continue producing children until he’s 100. “Women love me,” he says. There’s a picture of the guy here, and the fact that woman love this guy is probably established by the next story. Anyway, I was happy to see this because this guy is making up for my unwillingness in this department. And there is a birthrate replacement problem worldwide — at least my lack of willingness in this area is being compensated for by this guy.
Story #3: Women Attracted to Caveman-Like Faces
RUSH: This next story is from LiveScience.com (they have some great stuff): “Men With ‘Cavemen’ Faces Most Attractive to Women.” This Indian farmer doesn’t exactly look like a caveman, but he’ll never be on the cover of GQ, either. “Guys with bulldog-like faces have been chick magnets throughout human evolutionary history. A recent study of the skulls of human ancestors and modern humans finds that women, and thereby evolution, selected for males with relatively short upper faces.” What’s an upper face? A forehead? “The region between the brow and the upper-lip is scrunched proportionately to the overall size of their heads. Among the men who fit the bill: Will Smith and Brad Pitt.” Now, would any of you assign caveman-like faces to either of those two guys? I guess the next time a woman calls you a Cro-Magnon, it is a compliment, apparently.
Story #4: Gaza Strip Public Employees Paid to Stay Home
RUSH: Story from the Gaza strip: “Gaza’s public employees are getting paid on one condition: Stay home. Such is the irony of life in the Gaza Strip now that Hamas militants are firmly in charge. A rival pro-Western government in the West Bank is delivering salaries to most of Gaza’s civil servants as long as they don’t work.” For those of you in Rio Linda, this is government employees. “The moderate Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas doesn’t want its money propping up Hamas, which violently seized control of Gaza in June. But neither does it want to punish Gaza’s mostly pro-Fatah 90,000 civil servants whose salaries form the backbone of the already badly bruised economy.”
I only mention this story because it portends trouble down the road. When they’re going to raise all these cigarette and tobacco taxes to fund increasing amounts of health care insurance for the little children so high that they basically tax the product out of existence, guess what? There isn’t going to be any tax revenue to pay for all of the health care insurance benefits for the little children (which, by the way, are qualified as children in this program up to age 25). It probably won’t be long — just a matter of time — before state and federal governments do the same thing that’s happening here in Gaza because when everybody stops smoking there won’t be any money to pay all these federal employees to actually work. But we’ll not stop paying them; they just won’t have to go to work because there’s nothing for them to do.
Story #5: ChiComs Sold Used Chopsticks
RUSH: A Beijing factory and used chopsticks are in the news. Some Beijing factorysold used chopsticks. They sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, “in the latest of a string of Chinese food and product safety scares.” Do you believe that? Who recycles chopsticks, for crying out loud? Environmentalists wackos, I guess. I don’t even use them; I never learned how. Seriously, why would anybody recycle a chopstick?
Story #6: First Official Holiday Doom-and-Gloom Story
RUSH: “U.S. retailers…” This is so predictable. The only thing different here is that it’s August. I have for you, ladies and gentlemen, the first official doom-and-gloom story about the holiday season. It’s from Reuters. “U.S. retailers are still sweating through the back-to-school shopping season, but an early chill has already crept into their prospects for the all-important holiday season,” as it does every year in the Drive-By Media. They always present news to us that there is a chill over the retail outlook for the holiday season. They normally don’t do it in August, but they’re doing it today. “Numerous retailers, from Wal-Mart Stores to Target, have warned that the second half of the year will be more difficult than the first as the deteriorating housing market, higher fuel and food costs, and an undulating stock market take a toll on shoppers.” Wait a second, how could that be? I thought the stock market was for people in Wall Street! I thought Main Street didn’t benefit — oh, I take it back. When the market goes up, only the rich do well. When the market goes down, only Main Street suffers. Yup.
“‘There’s caution in the air,’ said Marie Driscoll, retail analyst at Standard & Poor’s. While saying it is too early to predict how holiday sales will unfold, Driscoll said that retailers will need to stock the ‘absolutely right product’ this holiday season or expect to have to resort to cutting prices and matching competitors’ discounts to win dollars from selective shoppers this year.” Have you ever noticed that every year when you people go out and Christmas shop, you search for deals? You don’t do it any other time of the year, apparently, but you’re always out there searching for deals and it’s up to the retailers now to make sure they don’t overstock the wrong items. Well, guess what? That is a concern. It’s part of the business plan 365 days a year, not just during the holidays. What did you say, H.R.? Oh, yes: I do that, too. Not only do I try to buy the wrong stuff during holiday time, I try to find the most expensive. In fact, if somebody is having a sale, I won’t go there, because I want to help the retailers who are charging full boat because I know they’re in trouble.
Story #7: “Experts” Stumped by Low Unemployment
RUSH: Companion story to the doom-and-gloom holiday one: “Fewer people signed up for jobless benefits last week, an encouraging sign that most businesses aren’t resorting to big layoffs amid a housing slump and the painful credit crunch.” Wait a minute. I thought we just heard that the holidays are going to be awful for these exact reasons! Here’s the story: “Deteriorating housing market, higher fuel and food costs, and an undulating stock market take a toll on shoppers,” it is thought. But, “Fewer people signed up for jobless benefits last week, an encouraging sign that most businesses aren’t resorting to big layoffs amid a housing slump and the painful credit crunch.” So what are we to believe? “The Labor Department reported Thursday that new applications filed for unemployment insurance dipped by 2,000 to 322,000 for the week ending Aug. 18. It marked the first drop in new claims in roughly a month. The showing was a bit higher than the 320,000 analysts were forecasting.” So once again the analysts, the “experts,” are stumped. Unemployment claims just didn’t come in the way they thought they were going to come in — as usual.
Story #8: Bail Them Out with Whose Money, Mr. Gross?
RUSH: Try this from CNN: “Famed bond fund manager Bill Gross…” Have you ever heard of “famed bond fund manager Bill Gross”? Have you, Brian? I’m in the bond market, and I never heard of the “famed bond fund manager Bill Gross.” Anyway, he said that “the White House should bail out the millions of American homeowners who face the dreaded prospect of foreclosure this year. ‘If we can bail out Chrysler, why can’t we support the American homeowner?’ Gross wrote in his monthly investment outlook on PIMCO’s Web site. With nearly 2 million homeowners at risk of losing their homes this year and with housing prices rapidly receding, Gross said President Bush, not the Federal Reserve, is the best hope for ‘almost homeless homeowners.’ … ‘Write some checks, bail them out, prevent a destructive housing deflation that (Fed Chairman) Ben Bernanke is unable to do. After all W”, you’re “the Decider,” aren’t you?’ Gross wrote.” Okay, famed bond fund manager, Bill Gross, a question. You want George Bush to rescue and bail out these homeowners. May I ask with whose money do you have in mind? I’d really like to know who’s going to bail them out.
Story #9: Aging Boomers Hope to Get It On in Old Age
RUSH: Here’s this story on CNN about the seasoned citizens having more sex than you think. Actually, this story does not relate to me because, I must be honest, I don’t think about seasoned citizens having sex — so I don’t know how they can be having more sex than I think that they’re having because I don’t think about it. In fact, I didn’t think about it until I saw this headline from CNN: “Seniors Having More Sex Than You Think — Many older Americans routinely engage in vaginal intercourse, [Lewinskys] and masturbation, a landmark study into a long-taboo subject reported Wednesday.”
Now — heh, heh — how many of you want to think about this now? “‘From a societal perspective, I would say that old people are young people later in life,’ said Dr. Stacy Tesler Lindau, lead author of the federally funded study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Sexual activity reported among the 3,005 men and women who participated in the survey did decrease with age, particularly among the oldest participants — from 73% among those 57 to 64 years of age to 53% among those 65 to 74 years of age to 26% among those 75 to 85 years of age… Among the survey’s many discoveries was that about half of those 57 to 75 years of age who remained sexually active reported engaging in [Lewinskys]… The figure on masturbation ‘reflects a level of sexual need, even among men at very advanced ages, and speaks to the fact that sexuality is a lifelong proposition,’ said Edward O. Laumann, a study co-author and a sociologist at the University of Chicago.”
Now, what is it do you think that prompted this? These things just don’t just happen. These scientists, these researchers, don’t just pop out of the jack-in-the-box one day and say, “You know, I wonder if old folks out there are getting it on?” I’ll tell you what the reason is why CNN is reporting this stuff — it’s because all of these Baby Boomers are about “me, me, me, me, me,” and wondering what it’s going to be like when they’re that old! They want to know if they can still go out and do the Lewinskys and all these other things so they decided to do a survey to find out what’s ahead of them… so to speak. I guess I could have said “in front of them,” but that would be worse.
Story #10: Walter Williams Column He’ll Discuss Tomorrow
RUSH: Okay, folks: I have the roster here of guest hosts for tomorrow and next week. We have Walter Williams on Friday. He has a great column today, too, and I didn’t get a chance to get to it. Tell Dr. Williams to share the theory in his column with the audience tomorrow.
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Story #1: Nepal Airline Sacrifices Goats to Fix 757
RUSH: Did you hear about this? “Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said on Tuesday. Nepal Airlines, which has two Boeing aircraft, has had to suspend some services in recent weeks due the problem. The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft on Sunday at Nepal’s only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said.” Well, you know, it takes all kinds. I mean, there’s a big world out there. Who are we to judge, ladies and gentlemen? Who are we to be rude? Who are we to be critical of things we just don’t understand? Those days are over for me. I’m Mr. Tolerant now.
Story #2: Safety Concern after ChiCom Condom GiveawayRUSH: How about this story from Washington, DC: “Safety Concerns After Giveaway of Condoms in DC — Tens of thousands of condoms provided free by the District to curb HIV-AIDS have been returned to the health department because of complaints that their paper packaging is easily damaged and could render the condoms ineffective. Demand at two distribution sites in the Southeast set up by nonprofit groups plummeted more than 80 percent after the condoms, in a mustard-yellow and purple wrapper, were introduced this year. More than 2,000 packets a week were scooped up in mid-March, but by late May, only 400 were being given away each week.” Guess where these condoms come from? The ChiComs, yes. Mattel has had to issue a third recall of toys made in China because of lead paint, and now the ChiCom condoms. Can you imagine how upset the ChiComs are getting at all this sitting over there? Let me ask you a question. Let me just ask you a pointed question. If 9/11 had occurred in downtown Beijing, and if there were two or three giant office towers bombed out of the sky by militant Islamofascists, what do you think the ChiComs would have done? I’ll tell you. What would happen is, there would be three hellhole fires in the Middle East, and the ChiComs would then ask questions later. They wouldn’t mess around. Now, this kind of stuff — if we keep rejecting their goods, folks — at some time, it isn’t going to be pretty. Now, in the meantime, what do we do? What do we do with all these defunct, flawed condoms? Well, one thing you could do is pass them out to Mrs. Clinton for her next fundraiser. Didn’t Gary Aldrich say in his book that they used those on Christmas tree ornaments at the White House, on the White House Christmas tree?
Story #3: The Hurricane Forecasters Are Getting Cocky
RUSH: Forecasters are saying that we should expect more hurricanes. These predictors are getting awfully cocky out there. We had two category five storms after going through a summer of zilch storms, now, all of a sudden in a two- or three-week period, we’ve had two category fives. So the forecaster goes, “See, we were right, and it’s getting even worse.” “With monster category five storms Dean and Felix striking in recent weeks, the 2007 hurricane season’s picked up steam and forecasters say this could be the start of a trend that lasts through November. In an unusual mid-season update, the well-known Colorado State University forecast team made monthly predictions for the remainder of the season, which ends November 30th, they said, ‘We expect the remainder of the season to be active.'” They’re talking about ten more storms, five named storms, four storms becoming hurricanes and two of those ramping up to major hurricanes. “The two-month period, October to November, should also bring a combined five named storms, two of those becoming hurricanes and only one strengthening to major status.” I can’t tell here if they’re forecasting ten, four more in September and then five in October-November or what. But regardless, they’re getting pumped up out there, two category fives, they’re getting all excited to warn us here about even more.
Story #4: Current, Former GOP Representatives Die
RUSH: I’ll tell you, Republicans are dropping like flies out there. “Ohio U.S. Rep. Paul Gillmor was found dead in his apartment Wednesday, a Republican leadership aide said. The aide said the body of the 68-year-old Republican was found by staff members who went to his apartment after he failed to show up for work. There was no immediate word on the cause of his death. Gillmor’s office did not respond to a reporter’s call.” He was elected in 1988. He was from the Bowling Green area of Ohio, which is the fifth district. And Jennifer Dunn, you remember her? From the Republican leadership days back in the nineties, she was from Washington. She has died, her family announced today. She was 66. “She collapsed from a pulmonary embolism in her Alexandria, Va., apartment and never regained consciousness,” said her son, King County council member Reagan Dunn in a press release. She was a member of the House from ’93 to 2005, representing Washington’s eighth congressional district. She retired in 2005. President Bush said, “She’s a superb legislator, a strong leader who has stood for the best of Washington state’s values and who has improved the lives of its people.” Wow, that is a stunner.
Story #5: Misleading Headline on Slain Rock Musician
RUSH: Here’s an example of how the Drive-By Media distorts the meaning of a story and the facts of a story with a simple headline. The story’s out of Dallas and it’s by Gretel Kovach, and the headline of the story: “Musician Is Killed for Banging on a Door.” Now, when you read the story, this is not why the musician was killed. But the purpose of this is to be critical of the new “anybody can carry a gun any time they want” in Texas law. Here are the details: “A Texas rock musician was shot to death here early Monday by a neighbor who fired through a closed door, thinking he was scaring off a burglar. The incident occurred just three days after a new law took effect strengthening the right of Texans to use deadly force to protect themselves and their property. The musician, Jeffrey Carter Albrecht, 34, a keyboardist with Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians and the Dallas rock band Sorta, was shot in the head after he startled a man and his wife about 4 a.m. by pounding and kicking at their back door, the police said. Mr. Albrecht had just assaulted his girlfriend, who lives next door and had locked him out of her house, the police said. The neighbor, who has not been identified by the police, was awakened by his wife’s screams that someone was breaking into their home, according to the police report. The man yelled for the person to go away, but when the pounding continued, he fired through the top of the door. Mr. Albrecht, who was about 6-foot-5, was struck in the head. … Mr. Albrecht’s girlfriend, Ryann Rathbone, said she believed he was having a bad reaction to the combination of alcohol and an antismoking drug they both had taken for a week. The drug had given them hallucinatory dreams, Ms. Rathbone said.’This was not a drunken rage,’ she said. ‘Carter would never have hurt me, ever,’ Ms. Rathbone said.”
So this couple decides this guy won’t stop. They beg him to stop pounding on the door, beg him to go away, he won’t stop, keeps pounding at the door and so forth. Killed for banging on a door is not quite accurate as to what happened. “Borris Miles, a Democratic state representative from Houston and a former schools police officer, opposed the legislation, which was signed into law in March,” which strengthened the right of Texans to use deadly force to protect themselves and their property. “In July, Mr. Miles confronted a robber at his home construction site and shot him in the leg. No charges were filed, but he said he still opposed the new law.” So a legislator can go ahead and use his own gun with deadly force to protect his property and himself, but he doesn’t want anybody else to have the right to do it. It’s sort of like Senator Dianne Feinstein of California. She’s against citizens lawfully arming themselves while she carries heat at the same time. You didn’t know she packs? Oh yeah, Dianne Feinstein packs. You might be saying, where? Don’t ask, folks. But she packs.
Story #6: Science: Kissing Means More to Women
RUSH: Well, today, get this: “A State University of New York team quizzed over 1,000 students, finding women place a big emphasis on kissing. They use kissing as a way of assessing the recipient as a potential partner, and later to maintain intimacy and to check the status of a relationship. But men placed less importance on it, using it to increase the likelihood of sex,” and that’s about it. “The questionnaires revealed men were less discriminating when it came to deciding who to kiss or who to have sex with.” And of course what’s it based on? Looks. Pure and simple scientific research. Look at what you learn, folks, on this program that you didn’t know. None of us knew any of this. “They were more willing to have sex with someone without kissing, to have sex with someone they are not attracted to and agree to have sex with someone they considered to be a bad kisser.” Sex was it. Shocking, shocking, shocking news, ladies and gentlemen. Who would have believed this until this research came out? It’s from the BBC, but it’s the State University of New York team: “Why Kissing Means More to Women.”
Have you found that to be the case, Mr. Snerdley? You are the expert in these matters. Have you found kissing means more to women? Okay, he said yes. Does it mean if you, as a man, become a really, really, really good kisser, will that stand you in even better stead since the woman places all kinds of emphasis on that? Have you tried to perfect the art? It works until they get to know you and nothing matters after that? Ha! We have such cynics on our staff when it comes to the wonderful male-female relationship world.
Story #7: Productivity Up As Union Membership Declines
RUSH: This is from Reuters, but it’s a European economics correspondent, and it really is interesting. “U.S. Keeps World Productivity Lead by Working More — U.S. workers are the world’s most productive, followed by the Irish, though productivity is rising fastest in China and much of the rest of Asia, according to the International Labour Organisation,” the ILO. Now, do you know what’s interesting about this? Apparently thanks to NAFTA, we don’t have any jobs — no manufacturing jobs, no this job, no, that jobs — plus union membership is plummeting! That’s what’s very fascinating to me. I don’t mean to be critical of you union people out there (as you well know, I like my kneecaps) but I have to make this observation out there. Our productivity, the productivity in the workforce as a whole, at large, is going up as the membership in unions declines. Now, I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, but nevertheless it’s interesting to point out. Well, no. Remember I got into that little snafu with the bricklayers back in the early days of this program, where I said in each new contract they required to lay fewer and fewer bricks with more and more breaks. They called and they raised hell. But we found it was accurate. What I had said, as it always is, was accurate. That’s been the objective of the unions: get a shorter workday and higher wages and so forth. So I just find it interesting that as union membership is going down, productivity is skyrocketing.
Story #8: Pickler: Clinton Promises to Save Social Security
RUSH: From our old buddy Nedra Pickler at the Associated Press, this headline:”Clinton Promises to Save Social Security.”Well, thank God somebody’s going to! I am just so thrilled.By the way, I haven’t seen the stories of Norman Hsu fleeing the jurisdiction.It ought to be a front-page with lead-item relevance since the guy didn’t turn in his passport as required.He didn’t turn it in. I guarantee you this guy is in China — Fort Marcy Park, maybe, but my bet is China. He has fled the jurisdiction. He’s outta there. We’re never going to see this guy again. Nobody’s going to go try to find him.He’s a big Democrat Clinton fundraiser.Anyway, “Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton promised retirees…” Let me translate this as I read it, okay, because I know how to read between the lines here with Nedra and the AP.”Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton promised retirees,” i.e., lied to old people, “that if elected president,” God help us, “she will not cut Social Security benefits; she will not raise the retirement age, nor privatize the system.”
That leaves only one thing, folks: a 78% tax rate!Your taxes and your kids’ taxes are going to skyrocket.That’s the only way. If we’re not going to cut the benefits and we’re not going to raise the retirement age and we’re not going to privatize it, and it’s going broke, there’s only one option: Throw more money at it — and whose money?Not hers!(Clinton impression) “She ain’t going to take mine, either, Limbaugh. I guarantee you that.I got mine sequestered away. Norman Hsu got some of my money.It’s going to be invested in a number of places, but she’s not getting mine for this program, I guaran-damn-tee you that.”
(AP) “The New York Senator told the AARP’s legislative conference she would bring a renewed national commitment to Social Security to the White House,” meaning keeping it as is and taxing young people to pay for it.That’s all she means.Last paragraph: “Republicans shrank from the political challenge of remaking a program that provides benefits to millions of elderly voters.”Nedra, Republicans shrank from the challenge?You helped, Nedra! You and your buds helped kill it by saying it was “privatization.” You lied about what the plan was! You lied about the whole privatization plan!The Drive-By Media, you Nedra and your buddies in the Democrat Party, killed what the president and the Republicans did try to do.Nobody has had the guts to do it, and Mrs. Clinton obviously didn’t going to do it, but Nedra Pickler says Social Security will be saved because Clinton says she’s going to do it.
RUSH: “Doctors are Warning Consumers of Popcorn Fumes in the Microwave.” If you go out there and you get butter-flavored popcorn, and you put it in there, “Consumers, not just factory workers, may be in danger of fumes from buttery flavoring in microwave popcorn, according to a warning letter because one person,” one person! “got sick from popcorn lung.” Do you realize how much popcorn you would have to pop in your house every day for many days in a row for the fumes to infect you? You’d have to be practically inside the microwave here, folks, either that or when you opened the bag you’d have to bury your head in it and then burn your face. But we’re going to have a warning label! We’re going to have warning signs. We already got warnings on everything. “Be careful when you open the bag, it’s going to be hot.” Now the warning is: “DANGER: Buttery Flavoring Could Kill You! You’ve been warned. Don’t sue us.”
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Story #1: Ethiopian Cook for Oprah/Obama Fundraiser
RUSH: Seems Oprah has this big bash going on out there at her big estate in Montecito, which is Santa Barbara, for Barack Obama. It’s a big-time fundraiser, and the musical entertainment, the song stylist, is none other than the great Stevie Wonder. But Oprah’s bringing in a chef from Ethiopia to fix a meal for 200 big donors — a chef from Ethiopia! Last time I checked Ethiopia, they were getting ready to slaughter tens of thousands of stray dogs. Before that there was a famine over there. I mean, it’s great to know that they have a chef in Ethiopia, because that means there’s food to cook there. Anyway, I have it on good authority, ladies and gentlemen, that they’re going to send the leftovers back to Ethiopia from the Oprah-Obama fundraiser.Story #2: There Are No Coincidences with Clinton, Inc.
RUSH: Where is Norman Hsu? Will he turn up dead, or will he be found somewhere in Hong Kong or China? And Kathleen Willey — the manuscript for her book to be published in November has been stolen. She’s convinced a Clinton operative has stolen her manuscript. Believe me, ladies and gentlemen, as I’ve said countless times, when the Clintons are involved, there is no coincidence.
Story #3: The Fred Thompson Anal Exam Begins
RUSH: Fred Thompson. Now, he has to know this is going to happen. Here’s a headline from Bloomberg News: “Thompson Runs for President Under Threat That Cancer Will Recur.” Really? Is that really what is on his mind? “Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson, treated for cancer three years ago, will always face the risk that the disease will return, doctors say. Thompson, 65…” it’s unknown, by the way, whether he likes microwave, butter-flavored popcorn, but I’m sure this will be discovered during the media anal exam that he will get starting today. I mean, do we ever get stories of any health problems that Democrat presidential candidates might be facing? “Mrs. Clinton runs for president under threat she could get cancer.” Theoretically, we all are going to get cancer. If we live long enough, every damn one of us would get cancer. So if I wanted, I could publish in my newsletter: “Mrs. Clinton Running for Office Under Threat of Contracting Cancer.”
And then there’s another story about Fred — ABC’s The Note or some blogger or something, they went out and they asked former DNC chairman, The Punk, Terry McAuliffe, what he thinks of Fred Thompson. Now, when was the last time they found a former RNC chairman to ask what he or she thinks of a Democrat presidential candidate? You know what The Punk said? The Punk said, “I am never again going to take a B-actor for granted. I am never again going to underestimate a B-actor.” That’s a little bit of a slam at Ronaldus Magnus.
Story #4: Bush Accepts Olympic Invitation from ChiCom Hu
RUSH: “President Bush in Sydney, Australia, today, said that he has accepted an invitation from President Hu Jintao,” the ChiCom leader, “to attend the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, a move likely to inflame China’s critics who are calling for a boycott of the games to protest human rights abuses in that country. Hu Jintao extended the invitation, reiterating an offer that he had made before during a 90-minute private session with Mr. Bush on the eve of an economic summit meeting of Asian nations. The talk touched on a range of topics from climate change,” and how the ChiComs can’t do anything about it, “to Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the recall of Chinese-made toys” — and the soon-to-be recall of the Chinese-made condoms, which are faulty and running around the nation’s capital. Maybe when Bush goes to Beijing in the summer of ’08 he can ask to find Norman Hsu while he’s over there. Get Hu to help him find Hsu!
Story #5: Everyone Knew iPhone Price Would Drop
RUSH: All right. I’ve had two or three people mention this to me so far today, and that is Apple cutting the price of the iPhone by 200 bucks. That’s 33%. Well, the original price was $599 for the 8G. They’re basically getting rid of the 4G. Nobody bought the 4G so you can go out and get one of those now for like $299 or $199 and be done with it. Two people came up to me today and asked, “Doesn’t this just make you mad?” I bought about 40 iPhones to give away to staff members and friends and so forth within the first month of the release of the iPhone, because I think they’re cool. And everybody I’ve sent one to just absolutely loves it. So they came to me and they said, “Aren’t you just livid?” I said, “No, no, no. It doesn’t matter to me at all. I knew this was going to happen. I knew the price was going to come down.”
And everybody in the world should know it. The first VCR was 1,200 bucks, but they were $129 bucks at the end of their lifespan. I knew the price was going to come down and I knew it would come down in time for “holiday gift giving.” They asked Steve Jobs about it. He said (paraphrasing), “Well, it’s technology. Everybody knows that the price is going to come down on these things.” Here’s the bottom line, folks. If you are one of the first to go out and buy one of these things and you think that you have been slapped with disrespect, you can’t be this nave. You have to know this is how these things work. Do you think that they’re going to improve it? What do you bet that by Christmas there will be a whole new different version of the iPhone, with maybe some different software, faster network capability, maybe smaller with fewer services? What are you going to do then?
I mean, you can’t run around being mad about it. When you volunteer, when you make the choice to be the first to buy the first issue of a product, you’ve got to know that it’s going to get cheaper and it’s going to get revised. And, you see, my perspective on this is perhaps a little different than most, ladies and gentlemen, and we’ve discussed this on the program before. There are suckers like me who will go out and finance the ultimate lower price that the vast majority of American consumers will then pay for the product. I will go out there the first time some brand-new gizmo is issued and buy it. Doing so gets the process started, gets the product in the market, gets the production line ramped up, and that’s what brings prices down. People like me are actually owed a debt of gratitude because it’s suckers like me who enable companies like Apple to drop the price by 33% in two months. Ha! So at some point people have to learn how this stuff operates.
Story #6: Nobel Prize Race Heats Up in Homestretch
RUSH: As you know, I’m a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo on October 12th, just a little over a month from now. This is from the Norwegian Nobel Institute today. “The secretive, five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee will select the winner of what many consider the world’s most prestigious accolade, from a near-record field of 181 nominees.” It is showdown time, ladies and gentlemen. “The committee does not disclose the names of nominees, but those who make nominations sometimes publish their choices, and this year’s include former US Vice President Al Gore for his efforts to raise awareness of climate change.” My name is not mentioned in this Reuters story as a nominee, but we did choose to announce. In fact, I almost renounced my own nomination when I found out that Algore was over there lobbying a member of the committee for the prize while giving some speech or presentation on global warming.
Story #7: Tunisian Prisoners Prefer Club Gitmo to Home
RUSH: I don’t know what’s happening out there. Der Spiegel has a story about two Tunisian men sent home to Tunisia, after five years at Club Gitmo. They thought they’d be free. Instead they faced imprisonment, abuse, threats, and solitary confinement. And now, these two guys are saying things were better at Club Gitmo, and they’d rather go back there than stay in their own country of Tunisia! Interesting.
Story #8: Study Says Early Risers in Deep Doo Doo
RUSH: How many of you people out there get up early? Well, you’re in deep doo-doo, folks. “Generations have praised the wisdom of getting up early in the morning, but a Japanese study says early risers are actually at a higher risk of developing heart problems. The study, conducted by researchers from several universities and hospitals in the western Japanese city of Kyoto… revealed a link between wake-up times and a person’s cardiovascular condition. ‘Rising early to go to work or exercise might not be beneficial to health, but rather a risk for vascular diseases,’ said an abstract of the study. The study, covering 3,017 healthy adults aged between 23 through 90, found that early risers had a greater risk of heart conditions including hypertension and of having strokes. However, [it] also noted that early risers were usually older.” Ha! You know what we can do with this? Throw it away. Any time you have a study with the word “might” in it, it’s worthless anyway.
Story #9: Drive-Bys Excited Over New Tropical Storm
RUSH: Have you noticed that the Drive-Bys are all excited about this potential tropical storm out there in the Atlantic? You don’t know about this? You have to look at the models on this thing. Relax, Snerdley! It’s not going to affect Florida. It’s off the coast of northern Florida and Georgia right now, and it’s moving east. But it’s supposed to, on the computer models, turn around and come back, and it’s going to circle up the East Coast. It’s going to run ground anywhere between North and South Carolina and then head to Cape Cod, but turn out. You ought to see the patterns of the models on this thing. It’s not a storm yet, but they’re just panting. They’re hoping for it to be the impending disaster. Do you understand how depressing it must be for these two category fives not to hit the United States? They have hit Belize, they’ve hit Jamaica, and they have hit Nicaragua and Honduras. Well, it was Bush’s fault that one hit Nicaragua. Yeah, a good communist country down there was being destroyed by another hurricane. He took out another blue country. Ha, ha, ha!
Story #10: Farmers Mull Replacing Illegals with Robots
RUSH: “Farmers are mulling replacing illegal workers with robots out in California.” Ha! I thought they said they couldn’t do that! Isn’t it amazing what the mother of necessity get done?
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Story #1: Study Shows Children Smarter Than Chimps
RUSH: Well, here’s a shock: “In another case of researchers reporting the … obvious, European scientists have found that children are smarter than chimpanzees.” Sometimes I don’t know about this, folks. Let’s read this and find out just exactly what age we’re talking about. “A unique study comparing the abilities of human [crumb crunchers] to chimpanzees and orangutans found that two-year-old children have social learning skills superior to the apes, the researchers said.” I still have my doubts. “In one social learning test, a researcher showed the [crumb crunchers] and apes how to pop open a plastic tube to get food or a toy contained inside. The children observed and imitated the solution. Chimpanzees and orangutans, however, tried to smash open the tube or yank out the contents with their teeth,” and when that didn’t work, when they couldn’t get to what was inside, they threw crap at the researchers!
No, it was the children that did that. It was the children that did that. “European scientists gave a battery of cognitive tests lasting three to five hours separately to 105 2-year-old [crumb crunchers], 106 chimpanzees and 32 orangutans over two weeks.” I love these research experiments! Ha! Who comes up with these things? Everybody knows that a chimpanzee is smarter than a two-year-old. “‘Using these multiple tests allows us to pinpoint where are the similarities and where are the differences,’ researcher Josep Call of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany said.” Well, we’re back to this crowd, the Max Planck bunch. What they’re trying to do, they want to establish, “See? The apes are smarter than our kids,” to show that we came from them. “The researchers believe their findings provide insight into the evolution of human cognition. People’s brains are three times larger than those of the closest primate relatives.”
How the hell did that happen? One thing I’ve never understood about evolution — and, folks, I’m just an average, ordinary American guy on this stuff, but I hear all this talk about evolution and we came from the slime, the primordial slime, the goop. We were swimming around in there with all the other vermin and for some reason we emerged on two feet, but it wasn’t us. It was a bunch of King Kong types and they’re walking around cherry-picking all the fruit from the trees and so forth, and all of a sudden from King Kong or from Ritthy the gorilla, people like you and me are born. How does this happen, if there are still King Kongs out there? If we evolved from the chimps, why are the chimps still there? Why aren’t they gone? Why didn’t they evolve away? And how did our brains get three times bigger? I mean, I’m not denying that there is evolution. That can’t be denied. But as a form of the creation of species, count me as one of the dubious.
Story #2: Another Female Teacher Admits Sex with Kids
RUSH: Get this headline here. “Ex-Teacher Admits Sex With 5 Students.” This is from Lawrence County, South Carolina. “A Former Lawrence County teacher pleaded guilty yesterday to having sex with at least five students. Alenna Williams Ward, 23, seventh grade language arts teacher at the Bell Middle School, said she had sex with several students in cars, parks, a hotel, even at the school. She pleaded guilty to six charges yesterday, three second degree criminal sexual conduct with the minor, three lewd acts on a minor. Family members and her lawyers accompanied her as she made an emotional statement to the court. She said, ‘Today I publicly admit my guilt and I would like to apologize. I sincerely apologize for the effects of my actions.’ The cops said that this woman had sex with at least five boys, three 14-year-olds, and two 15-year-olds. The students were at Bell Middle School and another student that was not named.”
You know, there must be a new case of this every day out there. It’s these female teachers. These female teachers are the predators. We don’t hear about too many male teachers. You hear some of it, but most of these teachers we hear about are female, and it’s disgusting. What? Oh, Snerdley, get off it. It’s totally disgusting. We can make jokes about, “Gee, where was this when we were kids,” and I’ve done that, but we have five cases here of abuse. This is more evidence of the total failure of the public education system. If these teachers were men, there would be hell popping out there! All kinds of hell would be popping out there. Female teachers? Ah, it’s happening, but there’s not nearly the emotional outrage.
Story #3: Steve Jobs Owes Rush $4,000 in Credits
RUSH: Steve Jobs really, really, really must have gotten hell yesterday from loyal early adopters of the Apple iPhone because he’s reversed course. Everybody who bought one of the early iPhones is going to get a $100 credit at the Apple Store; not a hundred bucks cash, a hundred dollars credit. That’s even though the price was cut $200. They cut the price on the 8G iPhone. They’re eliminating the 4G iPhone. They cut the price on it 200 bucks. That’s 33% in 67 days, just a little over two months. Steve Jobs’s first reaction was get used to it; this is the way technology is. I, of course, echoed that sentiment yesterday. Now, my feet have been cut out from under me by Mr. Jobs himself by ordering these $100 rebates. I bought 40 of the iPhones to give away to friends and people that are staff members here. That means I’ve got $4000 in credits coming. I don’t know how to do it. I’m going to buy some more iPhones. I may go out and buy one of those iPod Touch things.
You know the real reason the price was cut? The iPod Touch. Have you seen them? They have this new release. The iPod Touch is a dead ringer for an iPhone, just a little smaller. It’s a dead ringer for an iPhone. It’s got everything in it but a phone. You can’t text message, you can’t get phone calls, but it’s an iPod. It’s got Internet, the Safari browser on it. You can use Safari if you have an e-mail web client like Gmail or Yahoo. You can use it that way, and it’s like 300 bucks. He had to bring the price of the iPhone closer to that or he would cannibalize the iPhone. That’s why the price came down, no question. And there’s no question that the price was high at the outset because they knew they’ve got a cult following of people that would pay it. So, what the hell? What the hell? They have proven they can’t drive the cult following away. Believe me, they’ve tried. They’ve done some pretty dumb stuff over the years, and the cult following hangs in there with Apple. So I don’t blame Jobs at all. He’s responded to this. It’s the iPod Touch, it’s got Wi-Fi in it. You can download songs from the iTunes Store on the go. If you’re sitting there at Starbucks or wherever there’s a Wi-Fi network, log on to the iTunes store, Download songs and buy ’em without having to connect to your computer. Anyway, that’s why the price came down.
Story #4: John Kerry Issues Proclamation of Defeat
RUSH: I just love it, ladies and gentlemen, when losers declare us losers. US Senator John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, said that a new report on Iraqi security forces shows that the Bush administration’s Iraq policy is failing. Exactly what we need, proclamations of defeat from losers.
Story #5: Judge Acquits Nude Carpenter of Indecency
RUSH: You won’t believe this. Well, you will believe it because of where it comes from, but you won’t believe it. “Judge Acquits Nude Carpenter of Indecency.” It is from San Francisco. Well, actually, it’s in Oakland. It’s the Bay Area, San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.
“Percy Honniball, an Oakland carpenter with a fondness for working in the buff, was acquitted today of misdemeanor indecent exposure. ‘I wanted to go to trial to prove that the charge could not stick, that it was an over-reaction,’ said the 51-year-old building contractor. ‘You don’t expect to all of a sudden see somebody in the nude, but there was never a threat, never anyone in danger.'” Well, of course, why not? This is part of the culture in San Francisco. “In October 2005, Honniball was working on a bookshelf project at a client’s house in the Montclair district of Oakland when a neighbor spotted him carrying materials in the nude, said Honniball’s attorney, David Beauvais. ‘The neighbor happened to be a police officer in Berkeley, she reported him.'” It’s great to know the cops enforce the law out there. “‘He was engaged in an activity where he was not intending to draw attention, he was simply doing his work. He was not acting in a lewd manner,'” said his lawyer. “Honniball had previously clashed with local law enforcement over public nakedness – Berkeley had cited him three times since 2000.”
Anyway, the lawyer says, ah, he’s learned his lesson, “He’s not going to continue to work naked, at least not where he’ll be in a public area.” Apparently this guy has a history of this. He’s a contractor. He has a history of working naked. Who would hire this guy? I mean, walking around with construction equipment nude? You gotta at least be wearing the safety glasses. Why would you hire somebody to work around your house naked with sharp tools and so forth? What, Snerdley? Oh yeah, the perpetual butt crack. You don’t have to wait for the guy’s jeans to fall down when he bends over the sink.Story #6: Atlanta Cops Search for Dog Arsonist
RUSH: This from Atlanta: “Authorities in Atlanta are looking for the persons responsible for setting dogs on fire, including a six-week-old puppy. Since the beginning of July shelters have seen too many dogs coming in burned. Pet rescue groups, such as PAWS, say they believe it may be a new trend. Thursday six dogs were found burned, all in the same fashion. They’ve had a flammable liquid poured on them and then set fire Officials suspect it could be a gang initiation because the burned dogs are coming from a wide area. So they don’t think it’s the act of just one person.” I don’t understand how this even made news. This is just a cultural thing. Well, look, that’s what we’ve been told. We have to learn to accept these things that we’re told are cultural things, like setting dogs on fire to get initiated into a gang. No big deal.
Story #7: Obama Most “Likeable” Candidate
RUSH: Story: “It’s still only 2007, already the candidates have been measured on practically every scale. Now Gallup has borrowed one it calls the ‘feeling thermometer’ rating scale. And Sen. Barack Obama wins the race for warmth while Sen. Hillary Clinton leaves many ‘cold.’ Gallup said today that it recently tested the public images of several of the Republican and Democratic candidates running for president. ‘Of these, only one — [the adorable] Barack Obama — stirs up warm feelings in a majority of Americans,’ it found. But ‘Clinton’s image is the most polarized of this group: nearly as many Americans say she leaves them cold as say they feel warmly toward her.'” That’s not a surprise. We don’t need a poll for that. It’s another one of these obvious studies, like chimpanzees are smarter than two-year-old humans — or the other way around.
Story #8: Baptist Women Leery of Hillary
RUSH: This is Associated Baptist Press. This is a religious news organization. “Progressive Baptist Women Wary of Hillary Clinton’s Candidacy — Many Christian conservatives have put her in the ‘anyone but’ category — they’ll vote for anyone but Hillary Clinton. However, progressive Christians, who some think should be the senator’s natural allies, aren’t jumping on her bandwagon either.” What? What is that, progressive Christian? Liberal Christian? You mean there are liberal Christians? Well, this is going to shock Hollywood! Yeah, it’s going to shock them. Liberal Christians? How can that be? “While Clinton might win some evangelical support if she can portray her faith as authentic, say political observers, she simply must win support from progressive and liberal Christians to have a chance of regaining the White House.” Now, that’s a fascinating assertion. I’ve not heard that. I’ve heard she’s gotta get the dumb women’s vote and the smart women’s vote. Right now she has the dumb women’s vote; Barack’s got the smart women’s vote. She can’t lose the black vote, smart or dumb. She needs the Hispanic vote. She needs the union vote. She needs the teachers vote, but I’ve never heard she needs the liberal Christian vote. This is a new one. So, let’s keep digging in this story, shall we?
“Clinton’s campaign is aggressively cultivating liberal Christians who are enjoying some time back in the spotlight after years in the religious right’s shadow. But so far, such Christians’ response to Senator Clinton has been tepid. Even some Baptist feminists are saying they have yet to warm up to…” Baptist feminists? What? Is there such a thing? Well, obviously there must because I think one wrote the story: Hannah Elliott. Well, let’s keep moving here. “Many progressive Christians are attracted to Obama, who has a more liberal voting record than Clinton. According to the National Journal, he earned a rating of 86 (with 100 as perfectly liberal) in a 2006 tally. Clinton earned a rating of 70.2. Others say Clinton’s perceived aloofness is a main reason why more women haven’t jumped to endorse her. The perception of Clinton as an overly scripted candidate doesn’t set well with evangelicals… ‘Hillary is too polished. Very cool. There’s just something about her that people don’t like,'” said some guy named Garrison who wrote a book. Former Texas governor] ‘Ann Richards said it’s because she’s a strong woman, but I don’t know why.’
Agee, somebody that listened to the story, said Clinton’s manner is not the primary issue in her lack of enthusiasm for the senator. Get this quote: ‘I’m not curling up with you at night, and I don’t need a best friend in Washington,’ Agee said. ‘I need someone I feel comfortable with around the nukes — and my womb.'” So this liberal Christian is saying: Hillary, stop this business of being my friend and I’m not going to curl up with you at night on your website. I need somebody to feel comfortable with around the nukes, around my womb, and I don’t necessarily feel comfortable with you around, either. So these polls about Hillary and her unlikability, or numbers in unlikability, are pretty accurate because of the sentiment that has been there and understood by people long before the poll came out.
Story #9: We Can Build a Border Fence, If We Want It
RUSH: Look at this. This is Cybercast News Service: “Building a fence across the entire 1,952-mile border of the United States and Mexico can be done, with only two requirements needed, according to engineers. ‘All it takes is time and money,’ said Brian Damkroger, senior manager for border security and exploratory systems at the New Mexico-based Sandia National Laboratories. … David Hunley, vice president of Connico, Inc. a Nashville-based engineering firm: ‘It’s a large-scale project, but it’s not high tech,’ Hunley said. ‘You just have to have the people to throw at it. You would also need the political will to do it,'” and that’s exactly right. The idea that we can’t build a fence… Folks, you know, I’m very optimistic about this country, as you well know, but that doesn’t mean there are things that don’t trouble me — and not just culturally. (You all know what those are.) Can we go back to the 1930s? In the 1930s, what was happening in the Great Depression? Look at what we built in the 1930s. We built the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge, both in San Francisco. We built the Hoover Dam. The Empire State Building came in early and under budget! All this in a Depression! Now we’re saying we can’t build a fence? We’re not building things.
We still have a hole down there at Ground Zero, coming up on six years Tuesday — and you know why we got a hole down there? Because nobody can figure out what to do! I think they have now, but they should have just put the damn things up a foot taller than the previous building. Just rebuild them like they were, and this time put some asbestos in them. No, we can’t do that! Can’t do that! Can’t put asbestos in a building! We can’t put things on a space shuttle to save the crew. We gotta put things in the space shuttle to risk the crew’s life to save the freaking environment! We had a bunch of groups down there that wanted a 9/11 memorial that basically chastised America for all these PC acts: racism, sexism, introduction of syphilis, taking land away from the Injuns, environmental destruction, and they had some people down there that were going to go along with this because you’ve got a bunch of liberals running the town, you try to appease all these various interests rather than tell ’em to shut up and go to hell. It’s a 9/11 memorial. Take your garbage someplace else. We’re not building things if we’re going to get hamstrung and tied up. Are there going to be any trans-fats restaurants in the new towers? We can’t have that! It gets all bogged down. Are we going to have smoking areas for the smokers? What are we going to do about fires and all this garbage! Sigh… we’re just hamstringing ourselves in ways, totally unnecessary.
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Story #1: Discovery: Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water
RUSH: I want to ask you, do you guys remember, this might have been a week, two weeks, or could have been a month ago. Time flies when you’re having fun, and we always have fun here. I do remember that just a couple days ago I was in a sort of intense conversation with an environmentalist wacko about alternative fuels. You remember I told you, I don’t know how long ago, it was very recent, I said, “You watch, before it’s all said and done, the alternative fuel source that we’re going to discover out there for propulsion is going to be water.” Remember that? I told this environmentalist wacko, “If you think we’re going to be able to fly airplanes with wind farms and solar panels, you’ve got another thing coming.” This environmentalist is going nuts on me on oil and how it’s polluting, we’ve got to stop using it. It’s as natural as your hair spray. In fact, it’s probably more natural than your hair spray. Well guess what? I told this, just two days ago to this environmentalist wacko, I said, “Some American sitting in his basement, utilizing the unique freedom and creativity that we Americans have, is going to come up with a way to make water usable to produce hydrogen and propulsion.”
Lo and behold: “‘Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water.’ An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the ‘most remarkable’ water science discovery in a century. John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn. The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel. Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations. The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said. The discovery is ‘the most remarkable in water science in 100 years,’ Roy said.”
I told this environmentalist wacko, “You know what’s going to happen? If we ever do discover a way to make all the water on this planet provide pretty much the same energy that oil does, you are going to say we’re depleting the oceans and we can’t use it, and you’re going to give us predictions about how in 35 or 40 years the oceans are going to be depleted. I’m going to say that to you, no, because they’re melting up there at the North Pole and for every bit of the saltwater we use there’s ice melting from glaciers and so forth. So it’s going to replenish itself.” Saved, folks, we’re saved! Ha! Radio once again saves the day. Radio frequencies happen to be that which will ignite sea water. Now, naturally, it’s in its early stages, ladies and gentlemen.Story #2: Craig Wide Legal Stance Leaves Wiggle Room
RUSH: This is one of the funniest headlines I have ever seen. In this story about Larry Craig, you want to hear the headline? This is from the Politico.com’s website: “Craig Wide Legal Stance Leaves Wiggle Room.” You can’t help but stop and think of what people think of the poor guy: “Craig wide legal stance leaves wiggle room.”
Story #3: AFP: Despite Misery, Future of World Looks Bright
RUSH: Interesting story here, I’m stunned this is from the French News Agency. Let’s just see if this finds its way into the Drive-By Media in the United States. “Despite daunting challenges posed by global warming, water, energy, unemployment and terrorism, the world faces a brighter future with fewer wars, higher life expectancy and improved literacy, according to a report released Monday. ‘Although great human tragedies like Iraq and Darfur dominate the news, the vast majority of the world is living in peace, conflicts actually decreased over the past decade,’ says the 2007 State of the Future report,” published by the American council for the Tokyo-based United Nations University, a global think tank. “The study noted that the number of African conflicts fell from a peak of 16 in 2002 to five in 2005 and the number of refugees around the world is falling. … HIV/AIDS in Africa meanwhile has begun to level off and could begin to actually decrease over the next few years, although it continues to spread rapidly in Eastern Europe and in Central and South Asia, the study said. Among other bright spots, the report cited higher life expectancy, lower infant mortality, increased literacy, and increases in gross domestic products per capita and in the number of Internet users. On the negative side, it pointed to hikes in CO2 emissions, terrorism, corruption, global warming and unemployment and a decrease in percentage of voting populations.” But, nevertheless, they have concluded that the future is bright.
Story #4: Drive-Bys Ignore Democrat Scandal in New Jersey
RUSH: I was reading about New Jersey the other day — big scandal. Eleven elected officials were found to be corrupt and sent packing, ten of them were Democrats, but, you know what? None of the press accounts mentioned the party.
Story #5: Kucinich Blasts “Illegal Occupation” on Syrian TV
RUSH: Do you know where Dennis Kucinich is, or was? He was in Syria. He may still be there; I don’t know. He’s a Democrat presidential candidate, folks. He doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell, but nevertheless he is a Democrat presidential candidate. He went on Syrian television blasting George Bush’s illegal occupation of Iraq. Somebody needs to ask these people: “Have you no decency? Have you no sense of shame? Have you no idea the consequences of your actions and your words, sir?” You can ask it to Pelosi; you can ask it to Boxer; you can ask it to John Kerry; you could ask it to Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Joe Biden. You could ask it to the whole Democrat presidential roster. You could ask it of Hillary Clinton. You could ask it of Barack Ubama. You could ask it of virtually every elected Democrat who is taking these public positions that sound exactly like they are auditioning for the next Osama tape.
And, folks, can you imagine what these people like Bashar Assad and Ahmadinejad think about these people? What fools they must think they are? What puppets they think they are? They don’t think their words or actions have any consequences and they think they’re over there really impressing these people and making them think they’re smart. It’s just a lack of decency and vulgarity. It’s pure and simple.
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Story #1: NY Times Slashed Price for MoveOn.org Ad
RUSH: MoveOn.org’s ad. The Republicans tried to get the Democrats to condemn it yesterday in the Senate. They wouldn’t have any part it. I didn’t expect them to. But, anyway, do you know what a full-page ad (where that ad ran) in the New York Times costs? In their rate book, a full-page ad like the MoveOn.org ad costs $167,000. That’s what it costs. Do you know what MoveOn.org paid for it? $65,000. It’s $167,000, they paid 65, so they got a $102,000 price reduction. Now, you call it an in-kind contribution from the Times because MoveOn.org is a political group. Hell, yes! Now, here’s the thing. The Times doesn’t have to accept any ad it doesn’t want to, but they accepted this. It tells us who they are (even though we already know), and then they gave a price discount. Wait until the news of this gets out to broad quarters and their legit advertisers say, “Hey, will you give us a $102,000 price reduction if we put a political message in the latest Este Lauder ad? That Little Pinch, I gotta tell you, the people running that paper are idiots.Story #2: Oil Hits New High, But We Won’t Drill for More
RUSH: Oil. What is it, close to 80 bucks now? Yeah, oil is closing in on 80 bucks a barrel. The OPEC boys say they’re going to increase production. Eighty bucks a barrel — and, of course, what are we doing about it? Nothing! We’re not going to drill for any oil that we have anywhere.
Story #3: Higher Gas Price Would Reduce Obesity
RUSH: Okay. “Higher Gasoline Prices are Seen Trimming Down Americans.” This is Reuters, and it’s a story out of Washington University in St. Louis entitled, “A Silver Lining: The Connection Between Gas Prices and Obesity.” The author of this study at Washington U. found that an additional one dollar per gallon in real gasoline prices would reduce US obesity by 15% after five years. “Higher gasoline prices can reduce obesity by leading people to walk or to cycle instead of drive and eat leaner at home instead of rich foods.” How? What’s that got to do with it? Why is the high gas price going to determine what you eat? These libs…
I mean, you have to think about this in a responsible and reasoned, rational, intelligent way, guided by experience. Does the price of anything change somebody’s eating habits? Just because the price of gasoline goes up, and they can’t go restaurants, doesn’t mean they’re not going to have to eat. This is all ridiculous. If this price rise continues, what will happen is people are just going to buy smaller cars so that they’ll still be able to live their lives. We’re Americans! This is not the kind of thing that’s going to cause massive cutbacks.
Story #4: Men Worse for Environment than Women
RUSH: This is from Sweden: “Men are worse for the environment than women. They spend more on gasoline, and they eat more meat, both of which create greenhouse gas emissions. These are the conclusions of a new report by the Swedish Foreign Ministry” — their government! Now, you know who’s going to eat this up (figuratively) is the feminazis. They are going to love this. Men are the problem. Men are not only predators and rapists; now men are destroying the planet because they use more gas and they eat more beef. Now, I get a story like this and I’ll send it off to this cadre of my liberal friends. It’s fun to toy with them, and I send them all this wacko stuff and all the mainstream liberal stuff, and their reaction is, “That’s not all liberals.” I say, “It is! That’s the point! Liberals get these little views in their heads, these little worldviews, and nothing can penetrate the little soft cocoon that they have woven for themselves in which to live,” and they get these belief systems, and one of the belief systems is that there’s no evil in the world that’s not caused by the United States. I don’t care whether it’s war, whether it’s global warming, environmental destruction. Whatever it is, it’s all the fault of the United States. If the United States would just stop it, we could all have peace. We could all live happily ever after, and so forth. Reality simply doesn’t permeate. So I love to just flood them with reality: the reality of their friends.
Story #5: Bad News: US Life Expectancy Hits All-Time High
RUSH: “Life Expectancy of Americans Hits 78.” This is bad news, according to the Associated Press. “Life expectancy for Americans is nearly 78 years, the longest in US history, according to government figures. That age, based on the latest data available, was still lower than the lifespan in more than three dozen other countries, however. Here’s more bad news.” But wait a minute. I was thinking about the Russian bomb. Don’t we need more people dying? That’s less pressure on the environment and global warming. If the Russian bomb causes no environmental destruction and kills a lot of people, isn’t it helping the environment, in essence? At least, that’s what we’ve been told by the wacko left. So our life expectancy is 78, an all-time high, and it’s still bad, according to the Associated Press. The next line is this: “More bad news.” Ha! You have a story where the lead is: “Life expectancy now 78” — which gives me 22 more years, according to the actuarial tables now, 22 more years of broadcast excellence — and then they couple this with, “More Bad News: The annual number of US deaths rose from 2004 to 2005, a depressing up-tick after the figure had dropped by 50,000 from 2003 to 2004.”
Now, here’s the obligatory racial comparison paragraph: “Researchers also continued to note differences by race and sex. Life expectancy for whites in 2005 is 78.3 years.” Wait! That means I have 22 years and six months of broadcast excellence. That’s the same as it was in 2004. “However, black life expectancy only rose to 73.2, but still nearly five years lower than the white figure.” Gasp! What a horrible country we have! “Life expectancy for women continues to be five years longer than for men.” Eighty-three, is that right? The average life expectancy now for women in America is 83? What about black women? Does it say here? We can’t have that, because, “women and minorities” are always “hardest hit” in these stories — and, of course, that’s even better for women because that means they’re going to outlive their horrible, putrid, predatory husbands by five years. What? Yeah, they may be on Social Security money, if there is any by the time we’re talking about. Twenty or 30 years, isn’t that when all this is supposed to start going to hell in a hand basket and tax rates of 78% will be necessary to pay for it?
Story #6: As People Get Fatter, Libs Look to Legislate Health
RUSH: I’ve had this in the stack for a couple of days. This is from the Los Angeles Times. “As America gets fatter, policymakers,” whose business it is not, “are seeking creative approaches to legislating health.” It is none of their damn business, but they’re going to do it anyway. “They may have entered the school cafeteria — and now they’re eyeing your neighborhood. Amid worries of an obesity epidemic and its related illnesses, including high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, Los Angeles officials, among others around the country, are proposing to limit new fast-food restaurants — a tactic that could be called health zoning. The City Council will be asked this fall to consider an up to two-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in South L.A., a part of the city where fast food is at least as much a practicality as a preference. ‘The people don’t want them, but when they don’t have any other options, they may gravitate to what’s there,’ said Councilwoman Jan Perry, who proposed the ordinance in June, and whose district includes portions of South L.A. that would be affected by the plan.”
So, there’s a moratorium in South LA on new fast food restaurants. Huh? It’s more important than jobs? That’s right, Snerdley: more important than jobs. It’s more important than a lot of other things. This is why it’s just patently absurd, but this is liberals for you. This is who they are: people who want to control your lives. You don’t have the sense to eat right. You don’t have the sense to do right. You don’t have the sense to think right. They’re going to do all of that for you.
Story #7: Fred Thompson Leads Rasmussen Poll
RUSH: Well, now, looky here. The Rasmussen Reports daily presidential tracking poll for today shows that Fred Thompson is on top once again in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. “Thompson is now the top choice for 28% of likely Republican primary voters, matching his highest level of support recorded to date.” Now, how can this be, ladies and gentlemen? The conventional wisdom, and that is the conventional wisdom as created by a combination of so-called Beltway political consultants and the Drive-By Media, said that Fred Thompson got in too late; that he hasn’t raised enough money; that he can’t hold onto his staff; that he’s had to shake up his staff four times; that he is lazy; that his wife is a trophy wife and a control freak and she’s actually running the campaign and he really doesn’t want to be president; she wants to be queen, and he’s not serious about this. And now the latest is he doesn’t go to church, but at the moment he’s ahead. All of these excuses for his failure were part of the old conventional wisdom up until yesterday, all through the weekend, and so forth. It’s almost instinctive and habitual with me, and I get a read on the conventional wisdom, and I go the opposite way.
Story #8: Web Service Provides Alibis for Adulterers
RUSH: All right, for those of you in the audience who are adulterers, we know you’re there, and you know who you are. “Looking to get away for a weekend fling without getting caught? A new French company provides would-be adulterers with custom-made excuses that help take the danger of discovery out of cheating. Founded six months ago by former private eye Regine Mourizard, Web-based Ibila can cook up invites to phony weekend seminars, fake emergency phone calls from work, invitations to nonexistent weddings — anything to justify cheating spouses’ absence.” Now, it’s a woman, by the way, that’s doing this, Regine. She said that “her service is aimed at protecting couples and families by allowing adulterers to live their flings undetected.” Now, that’s really the way to protect the family, isn’t it? Ha! How many of you — not just men — how many of you people got real curious when I said, “for you would-be and current adulterers out there, a way to get away with it?”
“Here’s how it works: In an e-mail message or call to Ibila, the prospective client requests an alibi for a specific date and time. Mourizard concocts just the right excuse, taking into account the client’s profession and personal circumstances. She and her co-worker, a computer specialist, draw up fake restaurant and hotel bills, receipts and other documents to help shore up what Mourizard calls her ‘little white lies.'” Heh-heh. You ought to see Dawn’s face in there. It’s a woman doing this, Dawn! This is not a bunch of guys conspiring to pull this off! This is a woman doing this. Oh man, I’m getting daggers from her. She’s saying, “I would prefer you not talk about this.”
“If the adulterer was supposed to have been away for a seminar, the company can even provide the kinds of freebies — pens, hats and tee-shirts — sometimes given at such events. Mourizard said that because of privacy issues, she could only give details about one of her past clients, whom she called ‘Geraldine.’ Married to a ‘strict man,’ Geraldine was desperate to get out of the house for an hour-long meeting with an ex-boyfriend who lived abroad and was briefly passing through town. This man was practically the love of her life and she had to see him,’ Mourizard said. Together, they hatched a plan. Geraldine owned a driving school, so on the appointed day, Mourizard called her home pretending to be a student who needed a last-minute lesson before her driving test the following day. ‘The husband totally bought it. He even offered to get the car out of the garage for her,’ Mourizard said. The simplest excuses — like Geraldine’s — cost euro19 (US$27),” that’s all? “–while more the more elaborate and time-consuming alibis can run upward of euro150 (US$207)… Most of her clients — about 60 percent — are men, Mourizard said. They range in age from 25-60, but most are in their mid-forties. Mourizard, a 50-year-old mother of two, said it was her experience as a private detective that led her to open Ibila — Europe’s second such service, she said. ‘For 20 years, I worked to keep people from doing what they wanted to do. And I then thought, “what if I help them do it, in a safe way?”‘” You know, to protect families and reputations — her version and definition of family values.
Story #9: Burger Jockey Arrested for Salty Burger
RUSH: From Union City, Georgia: “A McDonald’s employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer’s burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick. Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail. Bull, 20, said she accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat and told her supervisor and a co-worker, who ‘tried to thump the salt off.’ On her break, she ate a burger made with the salty meat. ‘It didn’t make me sick,'” she told the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation newspaper. “But then Police Officer Wendell Adams got a burger made with the oversalted meat, and he returned a short time later and told the manager it made him sick. Bull admitted spilling salt on the meat, and Adams took her outside and questioned her, she said.” Heh-heh.
Story #10: Israelis Spot Nuclear Sites in Syria
RUSH: The Israelis, ladies and gentlemen, say that they spotted nuclear installations in Syria, and that is why they drop bombs — and the US has confirmed it. Also, there were weapons transfers from Iran to Hezbollah going through Syria, and that’s why the Israelis bombed. “Washington officials say that Israeli surveillance shows possible Syrian nuclear installations stocked by North Korea.” So the US is basically confirming that this is what happened.
Story #11: Libs Set Tone for Rutgers Anti-Military Heckling
RUSH: By the way, did you hear what happened Saturday at Rutgers when Navy came in to play Rutgers? Rutgers fans shouted obscenities, cursed and screamed at the Navy football team. Now, the fans are obviously responsible for doing that, but what do you think created such a climate in this country, ladies and gentlemen? Which political party do you think makes this fashionable?
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Story #1: NY Times Feels Backlash Over MoveOn.org Ad Discount
RUSH: I made a prediction yesterday. When we learned that the New York Times and that Little Pinch sold the full-page ad to MoveOn.org in Monday morning’s paper for $65,000 when the going rate on their rate card for that page is $167,000 — so they got a $102,000 discount — I predicted this is going to lead to problems with other advertisers in the New York Times. They’ve got back-page, full-page sponsors for cosmetics, whatever the hell it is. These people are going to say, “Hey, if I put a political message in my ad, will you give me a $100,000 price reduction?” Well, there’s an organization out there called Freedom Watch. Their spokesman, Matt David, said they’ve put full-page ads in the New York Times. They were charged significantly more than MoveOn.org, and they said they plan to run a response to the MoveOn.org ad in the Times, and they say they’re going to demand the same ad rate that MoveOn.org got. Now, the Times is a business. They can do whatever they want. They can accept advertising; they don’t have to accept it. I have no problem with that. You know, we do it all the time. We reject advertising on this program. Everybody can do that. It’s your business, you can do that. When you start messing around with the rate card like this, though, you’re going to have some problems. (interruption) Well, that’s a good point. The rate card may be $167,000, and maybe they’re not getting it, but I don’t think they’re discounting a hundred grand, H.R. There clearly was some sympathy, no pun intended here, but they’re obviously on the same page with MoveOn.org.
Story #2:Rudy Requests Same Rate for Friday Ad
RUSH: Rudy Giuliani wants to run a full-page ad Friday in the New York Times. He has asked for the same rate they gave MoveOn.org. The rate card is $167,000. The Times charged MoveOn.org only $65,000, a discount of over $100,000. Rudy Giuliani wants the same ad rate for a full-page ad in Friday’s New York Times. I knew this was going to happen. We will see if he gets it.
Story #3:Illegal Immigrant: Hurricane Humberto
RUSH:I’ve got my doubts about this storm named Humberto. By the way, how unkind is that, to name a potential hurricane after an illegal immigrant? The Hispanics are having a tough enough time in this country without making all this destruction resulting from this storm named after a Hispanic. That was not forethought down there at NOAA, the hurricane center, whoever names these storms. Out of nowhere, this thing hits the coast as a hurricane. There was no indication this was going to become a hurricane. They kept saying “tropical storm.” They gotta keep their predictions up. I’ve always had this suspicion that these winds in these hurricanes are always a little bit exaggerated. You know, maybe a year or six months after Katrina, we got the revised winds and they were down and it wasn’t one of the most powerful storms in the last whatever number of decades or centuries. It was a big storm, but it was not the record-breaker that they had told us it was at the time.
Story #4: Breck Girl Buys Ad on MSNBC After Bush Speech
RUSH: John Edwards, by the way, has purchased two minutes of broadcast time tonight on MSNBC to reply to President Bush’s remarks to the nation. He’s going to air his rebuttal. Bush going to go 15 minutes, so I guess the Breck Girl will be there about 9:17 or 9:18. He’s buying the time, and MSNBC can sell it. If he were smart, he’d buy it on Fox where people are going to see it. Or he’d buy it on NBC. He’ll get more than two minutes because they’ll talk about it before he starts; they’ll talk about it after he starts; they’ll analyze what he said, keep playing clips. Not a bad move for the Breck Girl, in terms of shoring up his credentials with the lunatics that that bunch needs to get their party’s nomination.
Story #5: AP News Alert: Bush Tax Cuts Lowered the Deficit
RUSH: We have a breaking AP News Alert here, ladies and gentlemen. The Treasury Department says that the federal deficit is running 9.8% lower than in the last budget year. Well, we knew this was going to happen. This just makes it official, but all that money came pouring in here because of the tax cuts, and the more-than-full employment that we have. But will anybody care, ladies and gentlemen? AP makes it a news alert, but will anybody pick it up? The Democrats don’t. They want to massively increase spending and deficits and so forth. They don’t want good economic news out there, especially now. But there it is.
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Story #1: Bosnian Couple Getting Divorced After Online Chat
RUSH: This, folks, is hilarious. You gotta hear this. Dawn, this is especially relevant for you. “A Bosnian couple are getting divorced after finding out they had been secretly chatting each other up online under fake names. Sana Klaric, 27, and husband Adnan, 32, from Zenica, poured out their hearts to each other over their marriage troubles, and both felt they had found their real soul mate. The couple met on an online chat forum while he was at work and she in an internet cafe, and started chatting under the names Sweetie and Prince of Joy. They eventually decided to meet up — but there was no happy ending when they realised what had happened.” They had been chatting with themselves and ratting each other out to each other. “Now they are both filing for divorce — with each accusing the other of being unfaithful.” (Laughing) You gotta be careful, folks, if you do this kind of stuff out there, going to these chat rooms.
Story #2: Stalinist Feminists Still Stalking Larry Summers
RUSH: I will not be here on Friday because I will be in Sacramento making a speech for the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce. By the way, one of the five speakers on the roster this Friday in Sacramento is former Harvard University president Larry Summers. He’s also the Harvard president who was thrown out of there by a faculty vote of enraged NAGs, the National Association Gals, of feminist professors. Well, guess what? He was invited to speak on Wednesday at a dinner or luncheon or something involving faculty at UC Davis, and the women at UC Davis erupted, and they got his invitation canceled. Now, this a former Clinton administration treasury secretary, he gets thrown out of Harvard by a bunch of enraged women, and now the faculty, you know, you laugh about this, but this is the ultimate suppression of free speech. Wait ’til you hear the reason they’re getting rid of him. They don’t want him to speak because they don’t want to be offended. So I don’t know what he’s going to do for a couple days in Sacramento before he speaks. I think I probably know what he’ll talk about now. I mean, it is funny in the sense that, you know, you like it when they cut down one of their own, but it just proves they’ll stop at nothing. I’ve been telling you for all of these years that these people are speech suppressors. That’s what political correctness is, and it’s all about if you offend somebody you can’t do it, you can’t say it, you can’t act it. “The Offended” have become an official minority victim group. They’ve turned it into political hay.
Story #3: Libs in Uproar over Melting Ice in Greenland
RUSH:I have a huge Global Warming Stack. One of the stories is that the Greenland ice shelf is melting so fast that there might actually someday, soon, be a Northwest Passage over water, and this would be good. (interruption) No, no, no! Hear me on this. I’m not saying this. This is just setup for where I’m going. But if the ice breaks up there, that we could actually have a shipping lane to the North Pole, and it would cut all kinds of emissions because it would take less energy and less distance for ships to get where they want to go, having to go around South Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, and the Panama Canal, and all this sort of stuff because there’d be a northern passage up there. All right, so they’re saying this. Now, one of the things that they’re saying is this is the first time they’ve seen this since 1978. 1978! For crying out loud, in the 1970’s Newsweek and TIME Magazine were prepping covers on global cooling, on the coming ice age. We’re going to go back to 1978 and say this is the first time? How the hell do we know it’s the first time? Which led me to thinking about the woolly mammoth. You’ve all heard about the woolly mammoth. The woolly mammoth was minding its own business one day, sitting there eating and chewing its own cud and a massive freeze descended, freezing these things in step, in mid-stride and when they found the carcasses frozen in the ice they found freshly eaten grass, stomach contents, and they said, “What the hell could have caused this? Do you realize this is like a flash freeze? This would have had to happen in split seconds!” Fine. We know it happened. We know it happened how many years ago, before there was coal smokestacks, before there were automobiles. If it got that cold in a flash, what the hell happened? Well, certainly mankind didn’t cause it! I offer this as just more evidence here to debunk this myth that whatever warming is taking place out there — there’s no indication it’s going to be bad, either — is man-made.
Story #4:Hello, DDT: Scientists Meet to Discuss Malaria
RUSH: “Thousands of physicians and scientists began meeting here Monday to debate ways to fight bacteria resistant to drugs and the effects of global-warming on germs. The American Society for Microbiology meeting is billed as the world’s biggest conference on disease-causing microbes. For the first time at the annual event, ‘the keynote session is going to be on climate change and the impact on human disease,’ Jim Sliwa, spokesman for the American Society for Microbiology which is organizing the event… ‘As global average temperature increases, we know … for example, the malaria line in mountainous regions will continue to rise,’ he said.” It’s called DDT, people! It’s called DDT. If you just simply stop with the Rachel Carson admiration and get DDT back, you’d get rid of malaria. It’s real simple. You’re not going to cause bird eggs to get soft, either. All of that was a myth.
Story #5: Dubya Has Some Great Friend in Vicente Fox
RUSH: What a friend George W. Bush has in Vicente Fox. Did you see what this guy said, as quoted in US News & World Report? Get this. Let’s set the table, shall we? Before I tell you what the story says, Vicente Fox, recently ousted president of Mexico, met with Bush all the time. Bush bailed him out. Well, Clinton bailed him out back in the nineties from big problems. Vicente Fox was working in concert with the American government to allow the illegal immigration of Mexican citizens. This country went out of its away to accommodate everything Vicente Fox wanted to do in that area and a lot of others — and he went and he had steak and barbecue fajitas, whatever, at the Crawford ranch. People were starting to say, “What is it? What’s this close relationship the White House has with Vicente Fox?” Well, get this: “At the White House, the president has got to be muttering ‘some friend’ when he pores over the new autobio[graphy] from his old buddy Vicente Fox, Mexico’s former leader. That’s because Fox raps his border pal as stubborn and ‘the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life.’ Revolution of Hope, out next month, is a well-written, well-researched book about Fox’s political career and presidency, which coincided with George W. Bush’s. While he expresses a kinship with W, he breaks with the prez on the war and slams the GOP’s immigration platform. He blames Bush’s stubbornness on Iraq for bad international relations, calls his Spanish ‘grade-school level,’ and admits he didn’t think Bush would ever become president. ‘I can’t honestly say that I had ever seen George W. Bush getting to the White House,'” he writes. You know the obvious here? You have the Greenspan book, it’s apparent that all of these people on the world stage or inside the Beltway on the Washington stage actually had drank the Kool-Aid, and they really do believe that the way to worm themselves into the approving and loving hearts of people around the world is to rip George W. Bush to shreds. This kind of disloyalty, I don’t care if it is the president of Mexico, just offends my sensibilities to no end.
Story #6: Richardson Statement on New England Patriots
RUSH: Last Friday, New Mexico governor and Democrat presidential candidate, Bill Richardson, released a statement about the New England Patriots and their punishment handed out by the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Governor Richardson said — and I kid you not on this: (paraphrasing) “The president has been allowed to spy on Americans without a warrant, and our US Senate is letting it continue. You know something’s wrong when the New England Patriots face stiffer penalties for spying on innocent Americans than Dick Cheney and George Bush. The Patriots were spying on innocent Americans.” Would somebody show me one American who’s been spied on? But what a statement! The New England Patriots face stiffer penalties for spying on innocent Americans, the New York Jets. (Laughing.) Innocent? 
Story #7: Chavez, Hillary Agree on Privatization
Links: The Associated Press || CNN
RUSH: This is incredible from CNN. This headline: “Clinton Unveils Mandatory Health Care Insurance Plan.” They’ve been trying to hide that aspect of it. Do you know what the name of her health plan is? It’s the “American Health Choices Plan.” The name of her health care plan is American Health Choices Plan. CNN bollixes this up, and properly characterizes it as “mandatory.” Did you hear what Hillary said? Hillary, on September 3rd, went over and talked to the AARP legislative conference, the American Association for Retired Persons. She said, “When I’m president, privatization is off the table. It is not the answer to anything.” By the way, Hugo Chavez has said
much the same thing about the schools. Hugo Chavez is going to take over the public schools over there because you can’t let the private sector just run away with things. So here’s Mrs. Clinton: mandatory socialism in the schools; mandatory health care in the country.
Story #8: Do You Remember Barry Manilow?
Links: News.Com.Au || TMZ.com
RUSH:Do you people remember Barry Manilow? Do you remember Barry Manilow? (shuffling papers) Do you love Barry Manilow? You, Dawn, to this day you still listen to Barry Manilow? All right. Well… “Barry Manilow has pulled out of his scheduled appearance on ‘The View’ tomorrow — because he strongly disagrees with host Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s conservative view! In an exclusive statement to TMZ.com Barry Manilow said, ‘I strongly disagree with her views. I think she’s dangerous and offensive. I will not be on the same stage as her.’ He’s currently on a press tour promoting the release of his new album, ‘Greatest Songs of the Seventies.'” In a related Barry Manilow story: “A Colorado judge has sentenced people busted for noise pollution to one hour of listening to unpopular or unusual music. Mostly young adult offenders were kept in a room and made to listen to Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You, Karen Carpenter and Barry Manilow with the volume up loud… Most offenders, who were not allowed to eat, drink, read or sleep, found the punishment funny at first. But then the boredom set in. ‘At about 20 minutes into it, I was trying not to fall a sleep,’ offender Luis Cano said. Judge Paul Sacco, who carries out the punishment about four times per year, said the sentence fit the crime. ‘When you have a person playing rap at extreme volumes all over the city, and they have to sit down and listen for an hour to Barry Manilow, it’s horrible punishment,’ he said. Judge Sacco said his love for music and helping youth inspired the unusual sentence.” Barry, you’re an idiot. You’re just an absolute idiot. You’re trying to promote an album out there and you just told half the buying public in the country that you don’t care if they buy your music or not. He’s an idiot, just an absolute idiot.
Story #9: Another Clinton Donor Put in Jail
RUSH: Another Clinton donor has been put in jail. “Federal authorities August 27 arrested two members of a New York family of political donors, and are seeking a third in India. A complaint filed in New Jersey Federal Court by an inspector of the U.S. Postal Inspection Services charges the three with mortgage fraud. They’re alleged to have bought properties, resold them to fictional buyers at higher prices, and taken out inflated mortgages. The father, Singh Sabharwal, is a prominent figure in New York’s Sikh community, who has contributed to political causes ranging from Chuck Schumer to the National Republican Congressional Committee. The two sons are currently being held without bail.” This is from the Politico.com. Another Clinton donor has been put in jail, ladies and gentlemen.
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Story #1: Rush to Excellence in Philadelphia on October 11th
RUSH: It just so happens that the next stop on the Rush to Excellence Tour is in Philadelphia, Thursday night, October the 11th, at the Academy of Music. It will be at Locust and Broad Streets. So yes: some 2,400 Dittoheads will be packing the place on the night of October the 11th.Story #2: Germans Treat Cancer with High-Fat Diet
RUSH: Get this. TIME Magazine: “The women’s hospital at the University of Wurzburg used to be the biggest of its kind in Germany. Its former size is part of the historical burden it carries — countless women were involuntarily sterilized here when it stood in the geographical center of Nazi Germany. Today, the capacity of the historical building overlooking the college town, where the Baroque and mid-20th-century,” blah, blah, blah. Will you people at TIME Magazine get to the stupid story? The bottom line of the story is they found a way to treat cancer patients with high-fat diets. They have found one of the “most unexpected” medications for cancer patients at the hospital at the University of Wurzburg. It is fat. “Their trial puts patients on a so-called ketogenic diet, which eliminates almost all carbohydrates, including sugar, and provides energy only from high-quality plant oils, such as hempseed and linseed oil, and protein from soy and animal products. What sounds like yet another version of the Atkins craze is actually based on scientific evidence that dates back nearly 80 years.”
They eliminate sugar from the diet of cancer patients, increase the fat, and it appears to be working in some of these clinical studies of people who have cancer. Now, a ketogenic diet (for those of you in Rio Linda), if you really go strict, if you eat zero carbs — and you can do this inside of a week, but if you go a week, sometimes sooner — you will transform yourself into a state that the medical community calls ketosis. You can actually go out and get strips at your local pharmacy to test your urine to see if you are in a state of ketosis. It turns purple, and what that means is you are burning stored fat. Here’s a diet that is said to be showing some success against cancer. It has been ridiculed by all these wacko medical groups here. It’s not really the Atkins diet, but it’s close to it. You can’t have a single gram of carbohydrate to pull this off. There’s another interesting thing that happens as a result of being on in this ketogenic state. You lose your appetite, and so you eat less, which is the real secret to the Atkins diet. So, anyway, I just wanted to pass this on, because one of the biggest enemies in the American nutritional triangle is fat, and in Germany, they’re finding that a high-fat diet is having some success in dealing with certain kinds of cancers.
Story #3: Muslim Dentist Told Patient to Wear Headscarf
RUSH: This is from the Daily Mail: “A Muslim dentist made a woman wear Islamic dress as the price of accepting her as a National Health Service patient, it’s alleged.” The dentist here, the Muslim dentist named Omar Butt, “is said to have told the patient unless she wore a headscarf, she would have to find another practice. Later this month Mr. Butt will appear before a general council presidential misconduct hearing which has the power to strike him off.” Strike him off? Some of these terms that the Brits use… Strike him off? I don’t know if you people in Rio Linda are getting all excited about that, but that means, “take him off the list of approved doctors in NHS.”
Now, who is this guy? “Mr. Butt is the older brother of former Islamic extremist Hassan Butt, who once declared he had no problem with terror attacks on Britain and who said that September 11th served the pleasure of Allah. He has since recanted and now calls for Muslims to abandon violence.” I admit, this is the first time I’ve encountered a Muslim with the last name “Butt.” Omar and Hassan.
Story #4: Clinton-appointed Judge Makes Good Ruling!
RUSH: From San Francisco. I can’t believe this. We actually have a fairly reasoned ruling from a Clinton-appointed federal judge in California. This happened yesterday. “A federal judge on Monday tossed out a lawsuit filed by California that sought to hold the world’s six largest automakers accountable for their contribution to global warming. In its lawsuit filed last year, California blamed the auto industry for millions of dollars it expects to spend on repairing damage from global-warming-induced floods and other natural disasters. But District Judge Martin Jenkins in San Francisco handed California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s environmental crusade a stinging rebuke when he ruled that it was impossible to determine to what extent automakers are responsible for global-warming damages in California. Many culprits, including other industries and even natural sources, are responsible for emitting carbon dioxide,” the judge said. He “also ruled that keeping the lawsuit alive would threaten the country’s foreign policy position.” Amazing! A Clinton appointee! San Francisco! Judge “Jenkins said it’s up to lawmakers, rather than judges, to determine how responsible automakers are for global-warming problems.”
Can you believe this? How did this guy sneak through the cracks there? Wait ’til the Clinton people hear about this! This is exactly opposite of what judges appointed by liberals are supposed to do! They are supposed to assume that they, as judges, are to determine the responsibility of everybody to be blamed for whatever liberals want them blamed for. The state sued Chrysler, Ford, GM, and the US subsidiaries of Honda, Nissan, and Toyota. “Michigan’s attorney general also filed court papers backing the automakers, making many of the same arguments that Jenkins ultimately adopted on Friday. Michigan said its economy would be severely crippled if automakers were forced to pay damages to California for contributing to global warming. Michigan said such policy decisions should be left for federal lawmakers.” Well, that’s not much better, but at least it’s a delay
Story #5: Latest Drive-By Scare Attempt: Killer Crocs
RUSH: All right, here’s the latest attempt of the Drive-Bys to scare the hell out of everybody. Once we all started using cell phones, of course, we’re all going to get brain tumors, and now that everyone wears Crocs — Do you wear Crocs? Do you know what Crocs are, Mr. Snerdley? You have some Crocs, Brian? Do you know what they are, Dawn? Your kids have any? I went over to Hawaii, I played golf and one of the eight guys had a pair of bright yellow Crocs. I’d heard the name Crocs, but I’d never seen a pair of Crocs. As this guy gets on the airplane with these bright yellow plastic things (they looked like something you’d wear by the pool), I said, “What the hell is that?” He said, “Oh, these are the most comfortable shoes you’ve ever worn. They’re Crocs.” “Oh,” I said, “that’s what a Croc is.” They’re apparently amazingly popular. And so, because they’re amazingly popular, they are deadly. Well, not deadly, but you’re prone to injury.
They are called shoe entrapments, because people are losing their toes in elevators while wearing Crocs. “At rail stations and shopping malls around the world, reports are popping up of people, particularly young children, getting their toes caught in escalators. The one common theme seems to be the clunky soft-soled clogs known by the name of the most popular brand, Crocs. One of the nation’s largest subway systems — the Washington Metro –” Doesn’t it figure that the largest subway system in the country would be in Washington, DC? At any rate, doesn’t matter.
“The Washington metro has even posted ads warning riders about wearing such shoes on its moving stairways. The ads feature a photo of a crocodile, though they don’t mention Crocs by name. Four-year-old Rory McDermott got a Croc-clad foot caught in an escalator last month at a mall in northern Virginia. His mother managed to yank him free, but the nail on his big toe was almost completely ripped off, causing heavy bleeding.” Well, that happened to me when I dropped a golf club on my toe! Well, I didn’t actually drop it; I was mad. But I didn’t run off to the Drive-By Media saying, “Golf clubs are causing toe damage on the golf course! So here we have another attempt to scare the hell out of everybody.
Another thing about this article — they interview escalator experts. They do, folks! They interview escalator experts! Now, I want to know, how do you find an escalator expert? I’d love to talk to this guy. What did you want to be when you grew up? “I wanted to be an escalator expert, Mr. Limbaugh.” Well, you’ve done it! Anyway, a quote from the story, “Face the direction the stairs are moving, keep feet away from the sides, and step over the teeth at the end.” This is what the escalator expert told the Drive-By Media, the AP, how to avoid losing your toes in an escalator if you’re wearing Crocs. Face the direction the stairs are moving, keep feet away from the sides, and step over the teeth at the end. I don’t know when I learned this, but I think it was certainly before the news media did a newspaper story on it. I think I learned it back in kindergarten.
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Story #1: Another O.J. Circus Kicks Off in Las Vegas
RUSH: Oh, this is just hilarious. This is going to be another circus out there. It’s the last thing we need, but what’s happening out there in Las Vegas today is hilarious. Lawyer press conferences after the O.J. bail hearing today, and Jimmy Kimmel’s guy somehow has weaseled his way into the view of the camera right next to the lawyer. He’s missing four or five front teeth, he’s got a T-shirt on says “O.J. ’07,” and a cap that says, “I love famous people.” He’s applauding the attorney. I don’t think the attorney knows who the guy is, and if you don’t know who he is, it just looks like some idiot that showed up and wormed his way into the press conference.
Story #2: Janet Reno CD Hits the Stores
RUSH: A couple lighthearted items here to start. Janet Reno’s new CD is in the stores now, folks. It’s a three-CD album of historical songs from Janet Reno, debuted yesterday. Song of America, 50-tunes “history book” that Reno helped shepherd is in stores now, the Miami Herald has reported. I don’t know if she does a duet with Barry Manilow on this CD. Ha! Truckers’ favorite? No, no. Janet Reno wouldn’t be on any truckers’ favorites list.
Story #3: Clueless Star to Appear Nude for PETA
RUSH: Alicia Silverstone, you know, she starred in a movie called Clueless. Alicia Silverstone will appear nude in a television commercial set to debut today in Houston for PETA. Alicia Silverstone, in the birthday suit, for PETA. You know, I read this, and I got to thinking, folks, we may have been too hard on this group in the past, PETA. We may want to encourage this group to take campaigns like this nationwide, not just in Houston. This is something I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing, what PETA is doing.
Story #4: In Seattle, Now You Can Ride the SLUT
RUSH: In Seattle, they’ve got a new street car in South Lake Union, and they’re calling it a trolley. The acronym for it is SLUT: South Lake Union Trolley. And nobody is going to change it. So in Seattle you can ride the SLUT. You can jump on the SLUT. You can do anything you want on the SLUT in Seattle. (Heh-heh.) When they figured out the acronym, they said it’s here to stay, “We are not going to change it.”Story #5: Smoking Ban Lifted for Medical Marijuana
RUSH: Santa Cruz, California. They’ve got a smoking ban out there. You can’t smoke in public parks. However, they’re going to lift the ban in Santa Cruz. They’re going to make an exception to the no-smoking ban. “The smoking ban, less than two years old, will be lifted temporarily for medical marijuana users to medicate at San Lorenzo Park during next week’s Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana annual festival.” They’re going to lift the smoking ban for five hours during the smoke-in for medical marijuana.
Story #6: Immigrant Kids Challenged by American Junk Food
RUSH: And here, this from CNN: “‘Immigrant Children Struggle with America’s Junk Food.’ Adrian McHargh grew up active and skinny in Kingston, Jamaica. An enthusiastic swimmer, he had the pristine waters of the Caribbean for a playground until two years ago, when he and his family moved to America. ‘I would always cook a healthy dinner,’ the 13-year-old’s mother, Visha Siew-Narine, says about mealtime on the island. ‘When he came here, I think the fascination of having all this food that we couldn’t afford in Jamaica, or that wasn’t really available, that was kind of new to him.'” So the kid’s out there, he’s porked up; he’s bloated up; he’s out there eating American fast food. And this CNN story says this is a challenge for immigrant children. They are struggling with American junk food. Well, you know what? Turn this around on them. Literal liberal idiocy can be turned right around on them. It’s time to use the sob story of liberalism against these people. America really is a bad place. It’s a horrible place; it can kill your children. The food that you will find when you come here is going to bloat you up; is going to lead to diabetes; is going to lead to heart disease. Your kids are going to die if you come to America. Spread the word, folks.
Story #7: Libertarian Strippers for Ron Paul
RUSH: There’s a movement out there: “Strippers for Ron Paul.” Honest to God! Here it is: “The issue at hand is ‘Strippers for Ron Paul.’ Why would the adult entertainment industry support such an obvious Christian? It is because the Christian congressman, Ron Paul, understands the proper role of government in the United States of America. Government should not dictate morality.” This is from a blog out there. “Strippers for Ron Paul.” So, we hope his candidacy holds on for a while. It’s getting interesting out there.
Story #8: Lights Go Out at Clinton Energy Speech
RUSH: You know, Clinton went out to give an energy speech in Brentwood, California, yesterday, and the lights went out at the house where he was speaking and they had to light a bunch of candles and nobody could see anybody. I thought that was hilarious.
Story #9: Richardson Makes Move for Fat Vote
RUSH: If you think that I am little bit exaggerating and over-the-top on my warnings to you that the Drive-Bys and liberals want to take away some of your freedom, listen to this. This is from the ABCnews.com blog: “Democrat presidential candidate Bill Richardson called today for obese Americans to be brought under the protection of the Americans with Disabilities Act.” Bill Richardson: fat is a disability. Do you understand this, ladies and gentlemen? Fat people can’t control it, can’t help themselves. They need to be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The funny thing about this is he’s obviously making a move for the Obese Vote. I thought Hillary had that wrapped up. Now, this is interesting to me because apparently the Fat Vote is still up for grabs out there, so to speak. I thought Hillary had that demo locked up but apparently not, because Bill Richardson here is making a move. The Fat Vote’s up for grabs, apparently, and Richardson is trying to corner the market here on the Fat Vote by suggesting that they need to be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act. I’m not making this up, folks.
Story #10: Carnie Worker Blames SUV Crash on Sex
RUSH: Here’s a case in Moscow, Idaho. Somebody in an SUV actually had an accident and they’re not blaming the SUV! That’s for the first time in memory. “A carnival worker who hit a phone pole with his SUV blamed the crash on two friends having sex in the back seat. According to a probable cause affidavit he said the movement of the sex in the back seat caused the SUV to become tippy. He lost control of it.” So you know what’s going to happen now. The government will mandate warnings on your sun visor up there: “WARNING! Sex in the rear of vehicle will cause it to be ‘tippy’ and you could hit phone pole.” It was a head-on collision, too, from what I understand.
Story #11: Man Hides Sex Toys in Sausage for Dubai Trip
RUSH: Look at this headline: “Man Hides Sex Toys in Sausage for Dubai Trip.” Yeah, I love stories with Dubai in it, especially if it’s got the words “ports deal,” too. “Staff at a German butcher’s shop were shocked to discover a customer had hidden two sex toys in their sausages for transport to Dubai, police said Wednesday. ‘It was two latex…'” I can’t tell you what they were. “‘It was two latex [blank-blank] with a natural look,’ said a spokesman for police in the southwestern city of Mannheim. After shopping there earlier in the day, the man, who spoke broken English, returned to the butcher’s with two large ‘Schwartenmagen’ sausages. He asked a shop assistant to wrap and cool them until he departed for Dubai the next day. But the assistant noticed the goods had got heavier and alerted police. Officers discovered the man, who was about 50, had removed some of the meat and packed the [sex toys] inside. ‘He could have used a loaf of bread,’ the spokesman said. ‘It’s not against the law here. But obviously I can’t speculate on what customs in Dubai will have to say about it.'” I’ll tell you, you don’t want to take stuff like that in Dubai. You don’t want to get caught with it. You do not want to do that. If you’re thinking of that, folks, stop yourself. Discipline, discipline, discipline.
Story #12: Reuters: Minorities Hardest Hit by Recession Fear
RUSH: Well, looky here, folks. This certainly qualifies as big news, doesn’t it? We have a poll out there. This is a Reuters-Zogby poll: “One in three Americans expects a U.S. recession in the next year, and less than a quarter think home prices will rise, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. Hispanics and African-Americans…” are hardest hit here, and “… more likely than whites to predict a recession, reflecting a deeper sense of job and economic anxiety among minorities.” What a crock; what absolute drivel.
I tell you, these people, they have their templates, and they have their narratives, and I don’t care what the hell the story is — what in the world? Emily Kaiser, by the way, we need to identity the professional journalist here. “Hispanics and African-Americans were more likely than whites to predict a recession.” Okay, fine, period. But no! No! We have to now editorialize. What does that mean, Emily? Oh, Emily is here to tell us.
“Well, Mr. Limbaugh, that reflects ‘a deeper sense of job and economic anxiety among minorities, who represent a disproportionately large share of lower-income groups.'” She doesn’t know this. This is just the way they look at it. Of course, minorities and Hispanics are going to be more filled with doom and gloom. They’re minorities. They’re victims of the evil majority of the United States of America, constantly pounding on, stepping on, keeping ’em down, and kicking ’em in the throat. Emily, I don’t care about numbers and the breakdown of people in your stupid poll, but I’m going to tell you why you got the results. One in three Americans expects US recession? Who the hell’s telling them that? You are, Emily, you and your buds in the Drive-By Media. And why is it news that a third of the idiots you talk to in this country think there’s going to be a recession anyway?
Story #13: Cate Blanchett to Drink Own Urine for Environment
RUSH: I read the other day — I’m not making this up — this actress out there, Cate Blanchett, is that how you pronounce her name? She’s from Australia. She’s lost her mind with this environmental stuff. She is going to drink her own urine for the environment. Well, it’s not exactly going to happen that day. She is going to put in something to recycle her own home’s wastewater and keep using it over and over again to save the environment. She’s doing it for the environment. I kid you not. I’m going to tell you something. This stupid story from Reuters about this stupid poll needs to be sent over to the wastewater in her house and mixed in with it, because that’s about what this is worth.
Story #14: Many of Earth’s Vital Signs in Bad Shape
RUSH: Here’s another Reuters story. The headline here: “Many of Earth’s ‘Vital Signs’ in Bad Shape.” Oh, no! Ladies and gentlemen, the earth is dying. We’re on life support. “More wood was removed from forests in 2005 than ever before, one of many troubling environmental signs highlighted on Thursday in the Worldwatch Institute’s annual check of the planet’s health.” I tell you, you know, I’m pausing here because I haven’t the time to deal with this as I would, so let me put it back over here in the Global Warming Stack for tomorrow.
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Story #1: Econ 101: Oil Hits $81 a Barrel, Gas Prices Drop
RUSH: Have you seen that oil is at 81 bucks a barrel? It’s a record price. And have you noticed that, just this morning, gasoline prices are dropping? How can this be, ladies and gentlemen? How can this be? Would you like an Economics 101 lesson? Let me give it to you. Summertime is over. School has started. The vacation travel season is done. It’s a little cooler out there in certain places, and all this has led to the demand for gasoline being down. The refineries are operating at full tilt. We haven’t had any hurricanes. There are no shortages out there. It’s all supply and demand. (Maybe there’s something to this stuff!) I know you conspiracy people out there think that with oil at a record price per barrel — 81 bucks — the gasoline prices would automatically be coming up, but they’re going down. And so some of you conspiracy people are saying, “They’re just setting us up for major increases down the road. They’re screwing with us!” But they’re not.
Story #2: Men Are Smarter (And More Stupid) Than Women
RUSH: Try this headline: “Men are Smarter (and More Stupid) Than Women, Say Scientists.” This is another UK website, the Daily Mail: “For centuries men believed themselves to be smarter than [women], who they felt were only equipped for wifely duties.” It’s a sad thing that that has changed. “Now a study has revealed that the male of the species is actually more intelligent. But there’s a catch — he’s also more stupid. When scientists measured the intelligence of more than 2,500 brothers and sisters, they found a disproportionate number of men in both the top 2 per cent and the bottom 2 per cent.” That’s how this works out. “There were twice as many men as women in the smartest group. But there were also twice as many men among the” idiots. “The subjects were tested on science, math, English and mechanical abilities. The average scores of the men were virtually identical to that of the women. One of the study’s authors, psychology professor Timothy Bates, said the phenomenon might have its roots in society’s expectations for the sexes. Men have long been expected to be high achievers, while women were expected to base their lives around the home.” Right, right. Men are also expected to be slugs and idiots, lugs, and all kinds of things. Ah, this expectation game.
Story #3: Most Would Give Up Friends, Sex for the Internet
RUSH: It’s still amazing to me what people study. “Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans with the majority of US adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one in three giving up friends and sex for the Web. A survey asked 1,011 American adults how long they would feel OK without going on the Web, to which 15 percent said a just a day or less, 21 percent said a couple of days and another 19 percent said a few days. Only a fifth of those who took part in an online survey conducted by advertising agency JWT between Sept 7 and 11 said they could go for a week. ‘People told us how anxious, isolated and bored they felt when they are forced off line,’ said Ann Mack, director of trend spotting at JWT, which conducted the survey to see how technology was changing people’s behavior. ‘They felt disconnected from the world, from their friends and family,’ she told Reuters,” and then there’s this little line here, this business about giving up friends and sex for the Web. One of the survey people says, “I don’t suppose their partners are too pleased about that.” Their partner is probably in the next room doing the same thing. Yeah, they’re probably speaking to each other more often on e-mail and instant messaging than they do in person. Story #4: Girl Scout Eagles Uniforms Distracted the Lions
RUSH: No, I’m not going to take credit for the Philadelphia Eagles’ victory yesterday. I would love to take credit for it, but I have to tell you, I don’t think the Lions could stop laughing all day at those stupid throw-back uniforms the Eagles wore. Did you see those things? For crying out loud, I think that was a strategic ploy! The Eagles wore the first uniforms ever worn in their history as a team, and the Lions probably came out there thinking they were playing with a bunch of women in the sandbox: “We can’t hurt these people. Look at those cute colors — the light blue and the yellow! Oh, those helmets! We don’t want to get these clothes dirty!” So, yeah, I think the Lions were totally distracted by the Girl Scout uniforms. I wouldn’t give the Eagles any credit for anything yesterday.
Story #5: Bill Clinton: World Leaders Pulling for Hillary
RUSH: I have a story here from the New York Daily News today, folks. The headline is this: “Bill Clinton Boasts that World Leaders are Pulling for Hillary.” Yeah. Robert Mugabe, Osama Bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il, and Fidel Castro. Of course, you can find some world leaders pulling for Hillary! I can tell you who’s pulling for Hillary without them ever having had to say so!
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Story #1: Supreme Court to Hear Voter Photo ID Case
RUSH: Get this: “The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether voter identification laws unfairly deter the poor and minorities from voting, stepping into a contentious partisan issue in advance of the 2008 elections.” Uh, that’s not what they have to decide. What they have to decide is whether it constitutes a poll tax. That’s the way the opponents of this are trying to persuade people, because you gotta go out and buy your ID. You have to go out and buy your ID, your photo ID, if you don’t have one, and if you’re poor you probably don’t have one because you don’t have a car, don’t have a driver’s license. Well, recent poverty figures would dispute that. Anyway, we know what this is all about. The Democrats want to keep cheating, and you can’t cheat if you have a voter photo ID that’s required. You can’t cheat. You can’t engage in voter fraud. So here come the race baiters again, the Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton, who can’t let go of the old “we’re all in slavery and bondage.” They do this on purpose, and it is a crying shame what this kind of advocacy has done for too many people in the black population of this country.
They portray them as idiots, portray them as incompetents, portray them as still in bondage and slavery, and convince them that the whole world is out to get them because they’re black. There’s nothing about this that is discriminatory! “Poll tax” is a loaded phrase. They call this a poll tax because everybody’s taught from the civil rights days of age-old gone by that the poll tax was the invention of evil white Republicans to keep poor blacks from being able to show up — when it was segregationist Democrats who came up with ideas like that. “The justices are going to hear arguments early next year that challenge an Indiana law that requires voters to present vote ID before casting their ballots. The state has defended the law as a way to combat voter fraud.”
Mr. Snerdley, where was the recent story where 23 different districts had photo ID required? Oh, yeah, Georgia. It was 23 counties in Georgia. Yeah. And there was no fraud, nobody reported any problems whatsoever after the election. Zip, zero, nada. It does work — that’s the whole point of it. But “the state Democrat Party in Indiana and civil rights groups complain the law unfairly targets poor and minority voters without any evidence that in-person voter fraud exists in Indiana. The party argued those voters tend to be Democrats.”
So nothing matters. There’s no way that the Reverend Jackson could make it work or would allow it to work. Any time something like this goes before the Supreme Court, I just cross my fingers and get scared to death because, if you lose this, it’s a dirty, rotten shame.Story #2: Hsu Bundled for Democrats Who Endorsed Hillary
RUSH: Of all places, by the way, this is in the Boston Globe today: “Disgraced fund-raiser Norman Hsu did a lot more than just pump $850,000 into Hillary Clinton’s campaign bank account: He also raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local, state, and federal candidates who have endorsed Clinton or whose support she courted.” She had a nice little operation going here. It’s just not conceivable that she’s telling the truth when she said she really had no idea who Hsu was because “we can’t vet all of our bundlers, we simply don’t have the records.” Terry McAuliffe went out there, “Yeah, we can’t do that, there’s too many of them. We ran Hsu through the computer, nothing showed up.” Hardy-har-har — not believable! “Hsu has been a major fund-raiser for Democrats since 2003. Hsu became one of Clinton’s biggest bundlers — gathering scores of individual checks and sending them to her campaign. But since revelations last month that Hsu was a fugitive in a 15-year-old California fraud case, Clinton has said she would return the $850,000 she has taken from him and his associates.”
Yeah, we never get proof that this happens. All we hear is that they say they’re going to do it. “In at least some cases, Clinton or her aides directly channeled contributions from Hsu and his network to other politicians supportive of her presidential campaign, according to interviews and campaign finance records. There is nothing illegal about one politician steering wealthy contributors to another, but the New York senator’s close ties to Hsu have become an embarrassment for her and her campaign,” because she’s denying that there have been any close ties. “In February, when former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack ended his own White House bid, he was about $450,000 in the red. A month after dropping out, Vilsack endorsed Clinton, and Clinton agreed to help him retire his debts. (Both insisted there was no quid pro quo.)” Why would anybody think that? No, of course not!
“Over the next few months, some of Clinton’s biggest fund-raisers gave Vilsack checks, including Hsu, who kicked in the maximum allowable contribution, $2,300. On May 3 after attending an event organized by Clinton’s campaign, Newsweek reported this month., an associate of Hsu’s, Paul Su, chipped in $1,000 on the same day. In other cases, Clinton helped direct Hsu’s money to influential politicians who have yet to endorse her but hail from key presidential primary states. Clinton raised at least $6,000 from Hsu and his network last year for Governor John Lynch of New Hampshire, according to Lynch aides. Lynch has no plans to endorse anyone before the state’s crucial January primary, aides said. Clinton said in a National Public Radio interview last week that Hsu’s past was ‘a rude awakening to all of us – I mean, not only in my campaign, but the dozens of campaigns going back to, I guess, 2003 and ’04 who, you know, took contributions. None of us caught this and we all ran searches.'” Oh, yeah: “We really tried to find out who this guy was, we just had no idea!”
I mean, two outstanding federal warrants and they couldn’t find out who he was. I guess you guys all had a rude awakening with Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana), too, when the 90 grand in cold cash was found in his freezer. So it stinks to high heaven and I just love this. The ethics the government crowd has out there on the left… They don’t want voter ID; they don’t want George Soros investigated or exposed for what he’s doing, and, of course, they’re running for the tall grass now from Norman Hsu. This is a lot of smoke, and with this much smoke, there has to be some fire.
Story #3: More Evidence: Socialized Medicine Doesn’t Work
RUSH: All right, for those of you who are all excited about national health care, we keep getting evidence from around the world where they have it, on how dire the circumstances are after just a few years of nationalized, socialized medicine. Here’s another example. This is from the UK Telegraph: “Pregnant women could face longer in labour under an NHS drive to reduce the high levels of epidurals and cesarean sections in hospitals, according to guidelines published by the Government’s health watchdog. The guidance represents the biggest shift towards natural childbirth seen in the UK. It says doctors and midwives should recommend that women have their labour, where possible, in birthing pools instead of taking drugs for pain relief. They must also be warned of the dangers of pain-relieving epidurals.”
Now, if any of you think this is all about natural childbirth and how it’s preferred, stop and think again. No intervention in childbirths unless absolutely necessary, according to these guidelines, and you know why? Because it’s too expensive! It’s too expensive for you to go to the hospital and give birth and stay there a day or two — and who knows whatever medical problems you encounter, since pregnancy, as we all have been taught by the militant feminazis, is a disease. So here you have the government, the British government, telling a woman to forget pain-killing drugs, just hop in a birthing pool. This is like rolling medicine back to the twentieth century. Midwives, the government telling you to get you and your midwife in a birthing pool. “Don’t you dare come to one of our hospitals for pain relief or an epidural — we can’t afford it! We don’t have the room. We got people waiting in line for new livers, for six months. You take you and your kid somewhere else. By the way, if you’re going to do an abortion, don’t come to us for that, either. Find your nearest Planned Parenthood clinic and leave us alone.”
Well, they don’t say that, but this is where this is headed. What are you going to do, just tie them down with leather straps if the pain gets too much? Well, yeah, if we’re going to go back that far, going to go back to the turn of the twentieth century, whisky on a rag, whatever it takes. But the point is, this is socialized medicine. This is what happens. They don’t have money for childbirth, and they’re couching this in the beauty, if you will, of “natural childbirth.” Whisky on a rag can’t cost too much, and leather straps can’t cost too much.
But here’s the difference. Back in the old days, we did not have the medical knowhow to help women in labor. But now it’s: “Don’t use it because we don’t want to spend the money on it.” That’s the bottom line.
Story #4: ChiCom Steroids Confiscated in Raid
RUSH: Have you heard about this giant DEA steroid raid? Do you know where a lot of these steroids came from? China! It says right here: “Federal authorities said yesterday they had exposed a sprawling underground distribution network for steroids, human growth hormone, and other illicit bodybuilding drugs supplied by 37 companies in China.” Those steroids must have lead in them.
Story #5: Burlesque Is Back — And It’s No Different
RUSH: Try this, folks: “Burlesque is back” — and it’s intellectual and political. “Fans of the fancy form of striptease that first flourished in downtown areas in the depression are back in at least 12 cities, and to permit it and to promote it, it’s being called intellectual and political, and it has artistic value and so forth.” Right. It’s still girls stripping, it’s still demeaning to women, and it’s still a bunch of dirty old men showing up to watch it.
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Story #1: Jane Goodall Dooms Ethanol
RUSH: Jane Goodall — you know, the babe that loves the gorillas? She says that biofuel crops hurt the rain forests and the race to grow crops for vehicle fuels is damaging rain forests in Asia, Africa, and South America. Well, that means that’s the end of ethanol, because when Jane Goodall speaks, she’s like the queen.Story #2: Celebrities Get Away with Murder in LA
RUSH: I’ll tell you what: if you are a celebrity, pop culture icon, and you want to murder a woman, do it in LA. You can get away with it. Phil Spector, hung jury 10-2 for conviction. We need the other names to remind you of this fact? No.
Story #3: What’s Going on at Rutgers University?
RUSH: What is it about Rutgers University? Listen to this. These are comments from a professor, an English professor at Rutgers University. Quote: “‘If you were giving the scholarship to an intellectually brilliant kid who happens to play a sport, that’s fine,’ [Professor] Dowling told the New York Times. ‘But they give it to a functional illiterate who can’t read a cereal box, and then make him spend 50 hours a week on physical skills. That’s not opportunity. If you want to give financial help to minorities, go find the ones who are at the library after school.’ Rutgers Athletics Director Bob Mulcahy called Dowling’s quote, ‘a blatantly racist statement,’ while University President Richard McCormick issued a statement that both censured Dowling and praised the athletics program. ‘Professor Dowling’s characterization of our student athletes is inaccurate and inhumane,’ McCormick said. ‘It also has a racist implication that has no place whatsoever in our civil discourse.'” You know, this is how a lot of these professors at these big time universities feel about the scholarships going to athletes and so forth, but it seems like everything coming out of this university has to with race lately.
Story #4: ChiComs Ban Sexually Provocative Sounds on TV
RUSH: Do you know that China “has banned sexually provocative sounds on television and pulled the plug on a show reconstructing infamous crimes by women ahead of major Communist Party meetings next month”? The order issued by the ChiCom “state administration of radio, film, and TV is the latest in a raft of measures which have included axing reality shows featuring sex changes and plastic surgery and banning talent contests during primetime.” Boy! If we did that in this country, there would be a lot of dead air out there. Do you realize how much programming we would eliminate from our airwaves if we had this kind of a ban? “Commercials containing sexually provocative sounds or tantalizing language as well as vulgar advertisements for breast enhancement and female underwear are also banned effective immediately, according to” the ChiComs. Well, there goes 75% of the magazine ads and newspaper ads that would be gone in this country, if we ever enacted something like that. “The watchdog group,” the ChiCom watchdog group “has also ordered an end to programs with titles including the names of sex-related drugs, products, or medical institutions.” What is a sexual sound?
Story #5: Our Daily ChiCom Lead Scares
RUSH: “Toys and children’s necklaces made by [the ChiComs] in China were recalled yesterday, including five more items from the popular Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway product line because they contain dangerous levels of lead.” So here’s our daily lead scare. The human growth and steroid rage with the DEA, found 37 manufacturing labs in China responsible for those drugs, and they had to have lead in them, otherwise we wouldn’t have found out about it.
Story #6: Three Drinks a Day Can Give You Breast Cancer
RUSH: Here’s a health risk, ladies and gentlemen: “Three or more drinks a day, whether beer, wine, or spirits, boost a woman’s risk of breast cancer as much as smoking a pack of cigarettes.” So does having an abortion, but nobody ever scares us with that!
Story #7: NAGs to Speak in North Carolina
RUSH: Speaking of abortion, NARAL, the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, is going to North Carolina. (My mistress there has filled me in on this.) Listen to some of the names of the places and streets where the NAGs, the NARAL babes’ president, Nancy Keenan, is going to speak. “At the Undercurrent Restaurant on Battleground Avenue in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nancy Keenan will speak at 721 North Bloodworth Street in Raleigh.” So the Undercurrent Restaurant on Battleground Avenue and Bloodworth Street. I don’t know. The names just kind of caught my fancy as I went through these details.
Story #8: Court: Break Engagement, Return the Ring
RUSH: Well, this is going to change things. A court, I don’t know which one, just getting a blurb of this, a court out there somewhere has ruled, you get engaged, and you get a ring, and then all of a sudden you don’t get married, you have to give the ring back. That’s bad news for the serial engagers out there. And they exist, folks. They’re all over the place.
Story #9: Apple Upgrades iPhone with Cool New Software
RUSH: I’m just telling the staff here, folks, that Apple has just updated the iPhone software to Version 1.1.1. They all have them in there. It will update the next time you connect to iTunes. These are cool, cool software upgrades here.
Story #10: Every Time: “Surprise” Decline in Unemployment
RUSH: There’s news about unemployment, and guess what? Reuters, the headline: “Jobless Claims Make Surprise Fall.” Surprise fall! “The number of laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level in seven weeks, an unexpected sign of improvement in the jobs market. The decline came as a surprise to economists who had been forecasting a rise in claims around six…” Every time (every time!) economic news comes out either it’s the AP or Reuters, and their “experts” are always surprised and wrong. They loved the little fall in August that “signaled a recession” coming. I’m going to tell you people something. This is journalist malpractice. I think it’s just a template. How in the world can anybody who does their job responsibly continually be surprised? How can they always be wrong and be called “experts”?
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Story #1: Bad News For Dems: We’re Winning Now in Iraq
RUSH: There’s an interesting column today in the Wall Street Journal, and you can find it at OpinionJournal.com. It’s by Frederick Kagan, who is resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, the author most recently of No Middle Way: The Challenge of Exit Strategies from Iraq. The headline of the piece is very interesting: “Why We are Winning Now in Iraq: Anbar’s citizens needed protection before they would give their ‘hearts and minds,'” and they have done so. It’s a long piece and I don’t want to read the whole thing to you, obviously. But it goes to show that the talking point, “The US presence is creating more terrorists,” is wrong. It makes this point brilliantly. Because we surged, because we kicked butt, and because we stayed in these regions after we kicked butt, we provided real and visible security — which corresponds with Iraqis joining the effort, and not being recruited to target the United States. It’s evidence like this, it’s truth like this that liberal Democrats, the Democratic Party and the Drive-By Media do not want to hear. Everything they tried with General Petraeus and the MoveOn.org ad backfired on them big time, and they are looking to distract people’s attention from their lack of patriotism and their attempt to secure defeat for this country and the US military — and it’s going to blow back on them again.
They’ve had 55 resolutions! Do you people know this? They’re tried 55 resolutions in the House and Senate to establish a date certain to get out of Iraq, and every one of them has failed. Now, these people talk about the ’06 elections being largely about the American people wanting to get out of Iraq. They’re misinterpreting that. To the extent the ’06 elections had anything to do with public mood on Iraq, yeah, people were upset about it, but a lot of people are upset that we weren’t being the United States of America, that we weren’t winning, that we weren’t kicking butt. To assess the results of the ’06 election and conclude the American people want us out of there is absurd. The American people don’t want to lose. They don’t want the US military to lose. They want to win! Americans love winners, especially in a fight. George Patton said it. If the Democrats really had all of this get-out-of-Iraq-now support, the first resolution would have passed — and certainly one of the 55 would have passed. None of them have, and they continue to lose ground each time they offer a new resolution. Of course, now where are we? Not only do Democrats and liberals lie, they will accept being lied to by their own people, by their own candidates. Mrs. Clinton, depending on the hour of the day, has a different position on the war. She has advocated getting out of there. She has suggested we can’t win — and she has told their troops, the kook fringe base, if she gets elected, she’s pulling them out of there.Story #2: GM Brings New Cars to EIB Southern Command
RUSH: I have to tell you a funny story. GM wisely decided some time ago to become official sponsors of this program, and every now and again they bring us cars to drive from the various GM lines. They brought us a couple Cadillacs. They brought us a couple Chevrolets. What we have now is a GMC Acadia, and it’s not a full-size Escalade-type SUV, but it’s not a crossover either. They call it a crossover, but it’s pretty large. It seats eight people. We’re all supposed to drive this thing over the course of two weeks, and Dawn’s had it for two weeks and will not relinquish it. She will not give it up. She keeps talking about the thing that she likes the most about it. It’s got a heads-up display of the speedometer on the windshield so you don’t have to look down to the dashboard to see what your speed is, which is important for Dawn. Heh-heh. Well, she’s been known to have a lead foot at times! But she won’t give the thing up. She loves the car. It’s an SUV, a truck, or what have you. And Brian, Snerdley, both been trying to get it, and she’s the girl — what are you going to do? You can’t go to the purse and get the keys. We’re going to lose it soon, too, but they’re going to bring something else.
Story #3: Drive-Bys: GOP Seeks to Stop Minority Voters
RUSH: You gotta hand it to the Drive-Bys. I have a story here from McClatchy Newspapers. They own the Sacramento Bee, The Fresno Bee. The reporter is a guy named Greg Gordon, and the headline is this: “Ohio and Florida Laws Could Dampen Democrat Voting.” Let me just give you a couple paragraphs here.
“Ohio and Florida, which provided the decisive electoral votes for President Bush’s two razor-thin…” second one wasn’t razor-thin, “…national election triumphs, have enacted laws that election experts say will help Republicans impede voting by Democratic-leaning minorities in 2008. Backers of the new laws say they’re aimed at curbing vote fraud. But the statutes also could facilitate a controversial Republican tactic known as ‘vote caging,’ which the GOP tried in Ohio and Florida in 2004 before public disclosures foiled the efforts, said Joseph Rich, a former Justice Department voting rights chief in the Bush administration who’s now with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.” If the name civil rights are in the group, they’re a bunch of libs. That’s all you need to know. “Caging, used in the past to target poor minorities in heavily Democratic precincts, entails sending mass mailings to certain voters and then using the undelivered letters to compile lists of voters for eligibility challenges. As the high-stakes ground war escalates heading into next year’s elections, Republicans have led the charge for an array of revisions to state voting rights laws, especially in key battleground states. Republican political appointees in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have endorsed some of these measures.”
If you go on and read this whole story — that’s why I say you gotta hand it to the Drive-Bys here — if you read this whole story, you will find that they know exactly how to paint a picture to fit their agenda, because by the end of the article you are supposed to endorse the notion that it is better for us as a country to let tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, dead people, non-citizens, and felons, let them all vote, than it is for a few dozen voters to be marginally inconvenienced by having to show their eligibility to vote. And, of course, in the story, the poor, and women, and minorities are hit hardest by this. The root of the issue, people against eligibility testing are in fact against laws which render felons and the like ineligible to vote. So rather than stand up for legal voting, this story tries to get the reader to believe, “You know what, it’s such an inconvenience for some of these few that are going to have trouble getting their photo ID or whatever it is, forget that, just go on the way it is, because this is penalizing these poor minorities.” And so that’s the purpose. The headline of the story ought to be: “Stopping Voter Fraud Hurts Democrats,” rather than: “Ohio, Florida Laws Could Dampen Democrat Voting.” Could dampen
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Story #1: Suicide Watch for Dems: Stock Market Soars
RUSH: The stock market over 14,000 today — despite the credit crunch stories coming out of UBS and Citibank. We need to put a suicide watch out on the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen. This is not supposed to happen. The stock market’s not supposed to be doing this well. Story #2: Democrats Use 12-Year-Old for Radio Address
RUSH: Remember that 12-year-old boy that asked President Bush at a press conference not long ago, “I don’t have any health insurance. Why don’t I have any health insurance?” The Democrats had that 12-year-old boy do their Saturday radio address, and this is a pure stunt. We know a little bit about who this little boy is and his family, and they are not poor. Huh? Well, yes, I did hear it, Mr. Snerdley. It’s nothing more than a typical Democrat stunt.
Story #3: Tax Hike in Michigan Is Liberalism in Action
RUSH: Hey, folks, also, if you want to see what the country would be like with today’s liberals in charge, not the JFK liberals and Democrats, but today’s liberals, take a look at Michigan. They had a government shutdown or close to it for a few hours over budget problems, and the governor up there came up with the last-minute solution to solve the problem. The last thing the state of Michigan needs is a tax increase, and they got one, a sizeable, healthy tax increase to, on paper, shut the budget deficit or close it. It’s just going to continue to stifle economic activity throughout the state of Michigan. I feel for you people, I really do.
But you know something? You people in Michigan, you are great patriots, you are doing something very valuable and you need to take pride in your own suffering and pain, because what you are doing is demonstrating to the rest of the country, the other 49 states, what will happen to this country if people like Jennifer Granholm and the Democrats and your legislature up there get control of the United States government and the Department of Treasury. So while I know it’s tough and I know you’re irritated, I know you’ve got to be spitting, fuming, mad up there, understand that you are providing a visible laboratory; you are doing a great service. Please don’t leave the state just yet, especially going into the election next year. Your suffering, your poverty will be a dynamic example for people like me to illustrate for the rest of the country just what will happen if today’s modern liberals end up in total control of the US government.
Story #4: Reprehensible Duke Apology on a Saturday
RUSH: How about the president at Duke University? Is this not rich? Richard Brodhead apologized Saturday, when nobody was paying attention, “for not better supporting the men’s lacrosse players falsely accused in last year’s highly publicized rape scandal.” Wrong. The AP wrote this. There was no rape. There was a highly publicized fraud scandal. I tell you who still hasn’t apologized is the Drive-By Media, for whom the narrative fit. The facts just didn’t work out. “Brodhead, speaking at the university’s law school, said he regretted Duke’s ‘failure to reach out’ in a ‘time of extraordinary peril’ after a woman accused three players of raping her at a team party in March 2006. ‘Given the complexities of this case, getting the communication right would never have been easy,’ Brodhead said. ‘But the fact is that we did not get it right, causing the families to feel abandoned when they were most in need of support. This was a mistake. I take responsibility for it, and I apologize for it.'” Fine, it’s all fixed now. This comes out at a time they are negotiating a settlement with these families.
This is about dollar signs. This was reprehensible. It wasn’t, Mr. Brodhead, that you didn’t better support them. You didn’t support them at all. These were your customers. These were your students. The parents of these students or scholarships, or something found a way to get these people, these young men, into the university, and they were your students, and you didn’t defend them. You bought the words hook, line, and sinker of somebody not from your university, because your mind and heart told you, “Hey, this is what happens with poor black women and rich white jocks.” Still unheard from, the 88 members of the Duke faculty who also embarrassed themselves and discredited themselves, like so much of the left is doing today.
Story #5: Hsu Associate, Winkle Paw, Goes Missing
RUSH: Bad news, ladies and gentlemen, Winkle Paw has gone missing. Nobody knows where Winkle Paw is. You don’t know who Winkle Paw is? Does the name Norman Hsu ring a bell, the Paw family, lots of pets, no money? “Winkle Paw seems to have vanished. Winkle Paw, as you may recall, is a close business associate of Norman Hsu and fellow big-bucks contributor to Democrats.” I think this is Pa Paw, I think you’re actually right, Mr. Snerdley. “Winkle Paw has served as everything from project analyst to CEO at a handful of Hsu’s companies…” Well, no, couldn’t be, because Pa Paw was a mailman. So this has got to be — well, I don’t know. “Paw has served as everything from project analyst to CEO at a handful of Hsu’s companies, including Components, Ltd., Next Components, Next Electronics, and CoolPowers.
“We also don’t know for sure that Winkle has deliberately vanished. It could simply be that the authorities aren’t looking for him (he’s not listed as wanted in California). But, if they’re not hunting for him, maybe they ought to be. The Orange County investors haven’t been able to reach him since the morning Hsu lit out for Denver. That was three weeks ago. If — let’s say — Paw was on that train, too, keeping his cool a bit better than his pill-popping partner, and if he had access to even a small fraction of the millions in liquid assets at Hsu’s disposal, Winkle just may have winked out of this story for good.” This is Clarice Feldman at American Thinker. Of course, the coming mantra from the Drive-Bys, “Well, there was no evidence found of any wrongdoing here involving Winkle Paw.” Oh, right, no. But anyway, Winkle Paw of the Paw family has gone missing.
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Story #1: Poll Says Democrats Should Cut Off Funds, Right?
RUSH: From the Washington Post today: “Most in Poll Want War Funding Cut; Bush’s Approval Rating Ties All-Time Low.” So the liberals out there keep running this poll ploy. You see, Democrats? The public wants you to cut off the funds, it says here. So do it! I mean, if the public wants the funds to be cut, why haven’t you guys done it? If it’s so obvious, according to these polls, how come all of your resolutions here have failed?
By the way, also in this story is a little conflicting poll data, and it is that the Bush plan on Iraq is preferred over the Congress plan at 52%. Now, I don’t know how this can be. How can you get a poll that says a majority wants the funding to the war cut and yet 52% prefer the Bush plan over the congressional plan to get us out of the war? Here’s the paragraph in question: “There’s a broader public agreement on how Congress should approach war funding. About a quarter of adults want Congress to fund fully the administration’s $190 billion request, 70% want the proposed allocation reduced, 46% wanting it cut sharply or entirely. About seven in ten Independents want Congress to cut back funds allocated for the war effort, as do nearly nine in ten Democrats. Forty-six percent of Republicans agree, yet 52% prefer the Bush plan.” It just doesn’t make any sense.Story #2: Good News from Iraq Is Bad News for Democrats
RUSH: There was a story yesterday in the stack we didn’t get to, but it’s this: “The number of American troops and Iraqi civilians killed in the war fell in September to levels not seen in more than a year. The US military said the lower count was at least partly a result of new strategies and 30,000 additional forces deployed this year,” i.e., the surge is working. Also in the stack yesterday: Locals are building cities up with oil revenue, as Bush said was happening. There has been a 40% decline in deaths, citizen deaths in Iraq during Ramadan. So the news continues to be good out of Iraq, another reason why the Democrats have to change the subject — change it to me, in the process of a smear on the floor of the Senate in order to placate their continually loony, lunatic fringe base, who is beside itself now when they have heard all the top-tier Democrat presidential candidates say, “Well, I can’t commit to getting out of there by the end of my first term if I’m elected. I can’t commit to that.” So they’re throwing up their hands in total frustration. When that happens, you have to give the rabble something to eat, so they’ve thrown me at them in order to distract attention from their own failures — Democrat leadership failures — in the House and the Senate.
Story #3: Sad: Biden’s Clarity on Iraq Stands Alone
RUSH: Interesting headline here, E. J. Dionne, Jr., a column in the Washington Post: “Biden’s Clarity on Iraq Stands Apart.” Now, what does that mean? I’m not even going to read the column to you. Doesn’t matter. He’s plugging Biden here. If Biden’s clarity on Iraq stands apart, it means that all the other Democrat leaders are unclear and confused and confusing on the top issue of the day, the year, the decade. The importance of this is that the Democrats and the Drive-By Media are just… everybody is frustrated with the Democrats on their side of the aisle. Everybody. I mean, we have to go to Joe Biden to find clarity on Iraq? Phew. Not good.
Story #4: School Bans Traditions to Appease Muslims
RUSH: From the Chicago Sun-Times, a story about Oak Lawn, Illinois, schools. “So long Halloween parade. Farewell Santa’s gift shop.” Now, we’ve been discussing just this kind of thing in relation to the separation of church and state and how anybody who’s offended can get something banned that has a traditional holiday aspect to it in this country. “The long-celebrated holiday traditions are facing elimination in some Oak Lawn schools this year after complaints the activities are offensive, particularly to Muslim students. Final decisions on which of the festivities will be axed will fall to the principals at each of Ridgeland School District 122’s five schools, Supt. Tom Smyth said. Parents expect the announcement to add to the tension that’s been building since school administrators agreed earlier this month to change the lunch menu to exclude items containing pork to accommodate Muslim students. News that Jell-O was struck from the menu caused such a stir that officials since have agreed to bring the popular dessert back.
“Gelatin is often made with tissue or bones of pigs or other animals. Elizabeth Zahdan, a mother of three District 122 students, says she took her concerns to the school board this month not because she wanted to do away with the traditions but rather to make them more inclusive. ‘I only wanted them modified to represent everyone,’ she said. Nixing them isn’t the response she was looking for. ‘Now the kids are not being educated about other people,’ she said. There’s just not time in the six-hour school day to celebrate every holiday, said Smyth, who personally sent the message to principals that they need to ‘tone down’ the activities that he sees as eating into too much instructional time already. ‘We have to think about our purpose,’ Smyth added.”
I saw a story the other day, I can’t remember the details, but I remember my reaction to it. It was, “So long, Britain.” It was something the schools are doing regarding getting rid of some traditions over there so as not to offend religious groups among the Muslims. This is the kind of thing that liberals support; the ACLU joins in this kind of stuff. They are about tearing down traditions, institutions that define the country.
Story #5: Republican Walter Jones Joins Dems Against Rush
RUSH: By the way, there has been a Republican in the House of Representatives sign on the Democrat resolution condemning me. The Republican’s name is Walter Jones, and he’s from North Carolina. He told Fox News late yesterday that I “went too far,” and that he will sign on to Udall’s resolution Tuesday morning. He’s one of the two Republican House members who have consistently supported anti-war legislation. So he’s fallen for the hoax, the smear, and so forth. But Walter Jones has mostly been voting with the anti-war left in the Democrat Party. He’s been taking a lot of heat for it in North Carolina, so he throws in with the liars and the hacks because he’s looking for cover. He wants to pretend he’s standing up for the troops in attacking me, because he’s been throwing in against them all this time. The fastest way to make himself look like he’s standing for the troops, when he doesn’t, is to throw in with this smear. He ought to be ashamed of himself.
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Story #1: Choppadicoffamy or Addadictomy?
RUSH: For those of you who are new to this program, we often keep track of sex-change operations on the medical front out there because federal funds and city funds are used in health care plans — say, in places like San Francisco — to pay for these operations. We affectionately named a female-to-male sex-change operation the “addadictomy”, and we have news about addadictomies today.
And realize that many of you are just hanging out there (well, that’s a bad choice of words, but it fits) on the edge your chairs, waiting to hear this latest news on the addadictomy research that has been done, so here it is. This is from Reuters Health: “Most people who undergo male-to-female sex change surgery are satisfied…” This we call the “choppadicoffamy”, by the way. Most people who undergo the choppadicoffamy, “are satisfied with the results, according to a follow-up study of patients treated at one UK practice over a 10-year period. Dr. Jonathan C. Goddard and colleagues from the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust reviewed the cases of 222 individuals who had undergone the procedure, known medically as feminizing genitoplasty.” But that’s such a long word, it’s so confusing, we have come up with our own terminology for this.
“At the first outpatient visit after the surgery, 88 percent said they were ‘happy’ with the results, 7 percent reported being unhappy.” So if you’re thinking about it, I just wanted to make sure…(interruption) What, Mr. Snerdley? I don’t know all the details; all I know is the results. We don’t have the questions, Mr. Snerdley, that the patients were asked. All we know is what they told the doctors. Story #2: Murder Charges Dropped in Alcohol Enema Death
RUSH: What else? People are dying out there because of enemas. It may sound odd to you, but I want to fill you in because we’re dying of everything, and now enemas have been added to the list. And you married people — this is something all of you might want to be on the lookout for: “Negligent homicide charges have been dropped against a former Lake Jackson woman who had been accused of killing her husband with a sherry enema that led to alcohol poisoning. Court records show the charge against Tammy Jean Warner, 45, of Texas City, was dismissed Aug. 31 because of insufficient evidence.” I wonder why that might be? You give somebody an alcohol enema, they have alcohol poisoning — you know what enemas cause — and there’s no evidence? This is clever! You better keep this in mind, those of you having marital strife!
I’ve heard of people doing this, by the way, but not to get alcohol poisoning; people who are worried about all the calories in alcohol — I have heard of alcohol enemas just to get the buzz, but not the calorie absorption. Yes, I’ve heard this, Dawn, it’s really true. Not a lot, but I’ve heard about it over the course of my life. Well, look, I have a wide and varied experience in life, and have thus met and run into many people.
Story #3: Democrat Atlantic City Mayor AWOL After War Lie
RUSH: I have a blog here, “JammieWearingFoolblogspot.com“, and the headline is: “‘Another Phony War Hero? Atlantic City’s Democrat Mayor Goes AWOL.’ Looks like we have another case of a Democrat embellishing his military record, though, of course, this account from the Philadelphia Inquirer doesn’t identify his party affiliation. To be fair, the Mayor of Atlantic City did, indeed, serve in the military, but claimed to be a Green Beret when he was not.” And, again, the Philadelphia Inquirer does not mention his party. There are a lot of stories on this guy as well; the Newark Star-Ledger has done a story and some of the local TV stations.
Here’s the Inquirer story. “Where’s the mayor? Not since ‘Where’s Waldo?’ and ‘Where’s the Beef?’ has such a query caused such a stir. In this resort, where the streets are literally paved by gambling revenues, they’re taking bets on what might have become of Mayor Bob Levy and whether his disappearance signals another impending scandal involving the city’s top job. Amid reports of a federal probe into false claims that Levy admits he made regarding his Vietnam military service, the mayor drove off last Wednesday in a silver, city-owned Dodge Durango and has not officially been heard from since. His lawyer says that Levy is in a hospital, but isn’t giving up anything else.
“Rumors flew last week that Levy was ready to resign and would hold a news conference. But his assistants insisted that none of that was true.” Then where is he? Might this have something to do with it? “Levy’s public problems started last fall, when he acknowledged to a reporter for the Press of Atlantic City that he misrepresented his military background during his mayoral campaign. He had claimed to have served in the Army Green Berets during the Vietnam War, but in November said he never was in the elite Army Special Forces group. Levy’s service record shows he served two tours in Vietnam and was decorated for bravery twice.”
And, as the blogger asks here, “Why would someone who was decorated for bravery twice find it necessary to embellish his record? Nonetheless, like many Democrat officeholders in New Jersey, many in Atlantic City face assorted corruption charges.” Get this: “Currently, one-third of Atlantic City’s City Council members are in prison or awaiting sentencing. Another city councilman was caught in a videotaped sex act with a prostitute last year. He said he was set up by political opponents.” Ha, ha! These are the people that denounce me! “Since taking office two years ago, Levy may have spent as much time out of his City Hall office as he did serving in it.” So the stories go on and on. He did serve in Vietnam two tours, but he never was a Green Beret and said that he was.
Story #4: India-Pakistan Nuke War Could Cause Starvation
RUSH: Try this headline, ladies and gentlemen: “Nuclear War Between India and Pakistan Could Trigger Mass Starvation.” Really? You mean the ones that weren’t fried might starve to death afterwards? I guess if the radiation from the nuke doesn’t kill you, you can get hysterical about starving. Sometimes, I just marvel at the sheer moron-ity that has invaded our journalism community out there.
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Story #1: Poll: One in Five Democrats Hope U.S. Loses War
RUSH: Have you seen this Fox News poll? Nearly one in five Democrats say the world will be better off if the United States loses the war. One in five! So, like, 20% of the Democrats. What was the other one… 35% of Democrats think that Bush knew about 9/11, now we have 20% of Democrats thinking the world will be better off if we lose the war. Does this surprise anybody? Another way to look at this, though, is it means four out of five Democrats don’t think that, so where the hell are they?
Mark Twain had a quote. I got this from National Review Online on The Corner: “In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a brave and scarce man, hated and scorned. When the cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” One out of five Democrats. By the way, 73% overall think it’s better if we win. That’s still a scary low number, 73%, or about three-fourths of the country.Story #2: Code Pink Vandalizes Military Recruitment Center
RUSH: You know the group Code Pink — they wear pink all the time, anti-war group, show up in congressional hearings… They were at the Petraeus hearings and tried to disrupt it, and they spout the same lies that the entire anti-war movement does. Anyway, they defaced a military recruitment office in Berkeley, California, while the recruiters were inside. Captain Richard Lund, who had to put up with the abuse, wrote an open letter to Code Pink, and he said the following: “While the protest that you staged in front of my office on Wednesday, Sept. 26th, was an exercise of your constitutional rights, the messages that you left behind were insulting, untrue, and ultimately misdirected. Additionally, from the comments quoted in the Berkeley Daily Planet article, it is clear that you have no idea what it is that I do here. Given that I was unaware of your planned protest, I was unable to contest your claims in person, so I will therefore address them here.”
And he goes on to contest their lies. And, of course, we all know what happened to the Marines arriving back at the Oakland, California, airport: They were spit on! This is the kind of behavior that the left is known for. That is who they are. And they have to try to deflect from it by throwing me in with people, which is ludicrous on its face.
Story #3: Drive-By Reports Accused Child Rapist Is Navy SEAL
RUSH: By the way, the Orange County Register’s come up with another phony soldier. It took just one two-minute phone call for Gordon Dillow, who is a columnist at the Orange County Register, to determine that fugitive accused child molester Chester Stiles was never a Navy SEAL. “So why did so many news organizations give the impression that he was? The answer, in my opinion, is simple: It’s because some people are only too happy to portray American military men not as honorable warriors but as losers and thugs and criminals. As you may know, Stiles is the creep who’s suspected of videotaping his rape of a three-year-old Las Vegas girl. The appalling crime prompted nationwide news coverage and a nationwide manhunt for the 37-year-old career criminal. Almost all of the news reports described Stiles as a ‘survivalist’ who ‘claimed to be a former Navy SEAL’ — although at least one TV station said that he was in fact a former SEAL.
“But Stiles was never a member of the Navy’s elite, highly-trained SEAL (Sea-Air-Land) special operations force. Not even close. According to Mike McLellan, a spokesman for the Navy Personnel Command, Stiles joined the Navy in 1988, was trained as an ‘engineman’ and was discharged as an E-1 — the lowest pay grade in the military — in 1989. McLellan couldn’t release the nature of Stiles’ discharge, but it’s likely that it was under less-than-honorable conditions. In other words, not only was this guy not a Navy SEAL; he’s not even a bona fide veteran.” He’s an accusedchild rapist, and the Drive-By Media reporting on this guy reports about him as though he’s a Navy SEAL. Mr. Dillow here is exactly right. Their purpose for doing this is to besmirch the men and women of the US military by suggesting war turns them into child rapists and so forth. These stories are quite common. That’s who the American left is. That’s who wants America to lose the war because they think America will be a better place.
Story #4: Feldman: Congressmen Accountable for Anything?
RUSH: Okay, so Code Pink is out there defacing military recruitment centers in Berkeley, and we got this guy Chester Stiles being portrayed as a Navy SEAL by people in the Drive-By Media who want to disparage members of the US military. I have this piece here from Clarice Feldman at the American Thinker.
Headline: “Are Members of Congress Accountable for Anything? — Are Congressmen above the law? The case of Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich against Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) tests this basic question. Of course there are other reasons to ask the same question. In a year when Congressional committees see no limits to what they will subpoena from the executive branch or about what they will interrogate its officers and employees, they rushed to court to keep the Department of Justice from subpoenaing the records of a Congressman caught with tens of thousands of dollars in his freezer. [Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana).] Bad as shielding suspicious Congressional cold cash from view may be, insulating Congressmen when attacking ordinary citizens, or worse yet active duty soldiers, is an invitation to tyranny. We are all potential targets if this holds true. Are they totally unaccountable for their conduct against ordinary citizens? I certainly hope not, but if that ultimately proves to be the case in court, I hope we have the strength to demand a change in the law.”
Wuterich is the guy who is suing Jack Murtha for defamation. He [Murtha] had all of these comments — “He is a murderer, he is a killer” and so forth, and of course the argument is “Hey, I’m a Congressman, I can say what I want, you can’t sue me.” Except Murtha made these statements in a press conference, not on the floor of the House, and a judge has said that Murtha has to testify to explain himself. “Wuterich offered Murtha an opportunity to resolve the dispute with a simple retraction. Congressman John Kline acknowledged that similar statements made by him were ‘premature and inappropriate’ and issued a public apology. Murtha has refused to do so and is the subject, therefore, of this suit.”
So she goes on to ask this question: “[I]f Congressmen are protected by statutory immunity from accountability after making facially libelous statements based on no solid evidence against the troops in time of war, something is wrong with the law.” And she is exactly right. Where does this stuff stop? They can say anything they want about anybody on the floor of the House, they can libel, they can slander, they can do anything — and nobody has any recourse. And if they get away with it, it is only going to continue because they’ll see it as being effective.
Story #5: Media “Surprised” Again By Job Growth
RUSH: Well, this is bad news for the Democrats, continued bad news. Here’s the Reuters headline: “Strong Job Growth Eases Recession Fears.” That’s not the right headline. The right headline should be read thus: “Strong Job Growth Eases Recession Hopes of Democrats.” It’s more bad news for our buddies on the left out there, hoping and praying that the country goes south fast in any which way. And if it doesn’t, they will lie and say that it is. You ever wonder why liberals care more about recycling cans than they do about defeating terrorist enemies? You’d go nuts trying to answer the question, because they’re loony. But again, what we have here, surprising job growth, surprising! Once again, surprising.
“Employers added 110,000 new jobs in September and August’s job loss was revised to a gain, the Labor Department said on Friday. … Stock prices were higher at mid-morning on the strong economic data. Bond prices were down as investors bet it reduced chances for any further early cuts in official interest rates by the Federal Reserve. … The unemployment rate edged up to 4.7 percent from 4.6 percent in August and was the highest since 4.8 percent in July 2006 as the size of the labor force increased,” meaning more people have jobs than ever before. The reason for this, of course, is the tax cuts, which are continuing to provide an impetus to economic expansion.
Story #6: More Know Big Mac Than Ten Commandments
RUSH: Catholic News Service: “More Americans know Big Mac ingredients than Ten Commandments. — The Big Mac has advantages, though. It has a jingle. There are only seven ingredients” — I could not tell you the seven ingredients in a Big Mac. Well, you got the special sauce, you got a bun, the cheese, lettuce, pickles and onions… Yeah, plus the jingle. “[T]hey have a catchy jingle behind them. McDonald’s Corp. has poured enough money into commercials that the decades-old jingle remains familiar today. The survey of 1,000 Americans, by Kelton Research, was undertaken to help promote the new animated movie The Ten Commandments, which will open on 700 screens nationwide Oct. 19. Voice talents featured in the movie include Ben Kingsley as the narrator, Christian Slater as Moses, Alfred Molina as Ramses and Elliott Gould as the voice of God.” 700 screens? When is the ACLU going to get in gear on this? A movie on 700 screens on the Ten Commandments? Why, what about separation of church and state?
You know, it might be interesting to read the Ten Commandments, just to irritate the liberals listening to the program. Well, we went through the ingredients of the Big Mac, so here’s a quick review of the Ten Commandments: “I, the Lord am your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the place of slavery. You shall not have other gods besides me. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day. Honor your father and your mother. You shall not kill. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal.” Sorry, with those last two, I’m thinking of Clinton campaign quarters. “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife nor his male nor female slave nor his ox or ass or anything that belongs to him.”
Now, this is chapter 20 of Exodus, from the 1970 edition of the New American Bible. What’s exclusionary? Mr. Snerdley thinks this is too exclusionary. It’s fine to honor your mother and father, but what about honoring other families? Especially different families, families that may not have a mother and father. What about them? Yeah. “God doesn’t know what he’s talking about” — that’s what the libs would say.
Story #7: Great Taranto Line on Justice Thomas and Angry Libs
RUSH: James Taranto, in the Best of the Web today at OpinionJournal.com, wrote about Clarence Thomas and how ever since his book came out, Anita Hill’s been all over the place. Well, not all over the place; she was on NBC and in the New York Times. But anyway, Taranto just recounts all of the coverage and commentary on Justice Thomas’s new book and closes it out with one of the best lines I have ever heard, and it is this (talking about the left versus Justice Thomas): “They imagine him to be angry and bitter because he holds up a mirror to the darkness in their own souls.” Meaning, they’re the ones who are angry, they are the ones who are bitter, and Justice Thomas makes them see themselves because he holds up the mirror.
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Story #1: Petraeus, Brits, Albright Warn Iran
RUSH: Well, this is getting interesting about Iran. General Petraeus is warning Iran, once again, that we have evidence of them being involved in the killing of American soldiers. The Brits have said that they are “on board” for US strikes on Iran. Madeleine Albright was over in the Czech Republic, and she said war with Iran cannot be ruled out at this stage. And, of course, the Democrats are out there all concerned about, “Well, wait a minute, now. It doesn’t make sense — the Democrats sounding war drums?” They’re all concerned about this in the kook-fringe base, so there’s that.Story #2: Rudy Hires Neo-Cons, Hillary Hires Ex-Cons
RUSH: By the way (and I predicted this), Sandy Burglar has been hired by the Clinton campaign — the Hillary Clinton campaign. I said he would be hired after the election; that’s when his community service — or whatever the sentence — ends. I said it would be just in time for Mrs. Clinton to hire him in the administration, but she’s hired him now! Sandy Burglar, expert in hiding documents, taking them out of the national archives in his pants and his socks, has been hired by Mrs. Clinton.
At the same time, there’s an MSNBC story in my stack about how all of the “neo-cons” are siding with Rudy. Of course, you have to understand how to read the Drive-By Media: When they do stories about “neo-cons,” they mean “Jews.” It’s an anti-Semitic slur, folks. It is tantamount to an anti-Semitic slur without it being one directly. You have to read between the lines on this stuff! So, anyway, bottom line: Rudy is hiring some neo-cons, and Hillary’s hiring an ex-con in Sandy Burglar.
Story #3: Italy Offers Tax Breaks for Overgrown Male Babies
RUSH: Ah hell, folks, it’s happening everywhere! I had this story from last week and didn’t get to it, but now it’s apropos. “Italy’s economy minister has sparked uproar by offering ‘big babies’ a tax break if they let go of their mother’s apron strings and leave home. More than a third of Italian men over the age of 30 live at home with their parents, a phenomenon blamed on sky-high apartment rents and bleak job prospects as much as a liking for mamma’s cooking. Economy Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa offered to come to the rescue with a 1,000 euro ($1,411) tax break for 20- and 30-something Italians who rent. He said the move was aimed at overgrown male babies.”
Amen for this guy! “The comment was immediately condemned by politicians from all shades of the political spectrum who said young Italians could hardly be blamed for a sputtering economy and high rents. ‘This absurd gaffe shows how he’s probably not clear how precarious is the situation afflicting an entire generation — the first generation that has to deal with social conditions worse than those of its parents.'” I wonder who made them that way? There’s a reason that these social conditions are what they are. This is not a phenomenon that’s only occurring in Italy, by the way; big babies are a phenomenon everywhere.
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Story #1: How ‘Bout That Monday Night Football Game?
RUSH: How about that football game last night? Did you see that football game? Five interceptions by Tony Romo, and they still win by one point with a 52-yard field goal! Too bad the game was on ESPN.Story #2: Muslim Terrorists Endorse Hillary for President
RUSH: Some stories in the stack about Mrs. Clinton. From our buddies at WorldNetDaily.com: “‘It’s official: Terrorists endorse Hillary in ’08 — On the record, Mideast jihadi leaders say she’s best hope for victory in Iraq.’ With presidential primaries approaching and the race for the White House heating up, Muslim terrorist leaders in the Middle East have offered their endorsement for America’s highest office, stating in a new book they hope Sen. Hillary Clinton is victorious in 2008.” They love the Hillster!
Here are some of the quotes. Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group, said, “I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq.” Well, now, there’s a bumper sticker for the Republican Party right there! “I hope Hillary is elected,” and then they can quote the terrorist leader, Abu Hamed blah, blah, whatever his last name is. “‘Hillary and the Democrats call for withdrawal. Her popularity shows that the resistance is winning and that the occupation is losing. We just hope that she will go until the end and change the American policy, which is based on oppressing poor and innocent people.’ ‘All Americans must vote Democrat,’ stated Jihad Jaara, an exiled member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group.”
“All Americans must vote Democrat.” Now, this isn’t new, this is just official. These guys have written a book, and they have personally endorsed Hillary, and they’re explaining why. It’s all about how they think that she will guarantee them victory — not only in Iraq, but wherever else. They know that about any of the Democrat candidates.
I mean, when Bin Laden releases a tape, when Zawahiri releases a tape, when Ahmadinejad speaks anywhere, they parrot Democrat Party talking points. Something tells me, in my wise mind and big beating heart — ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom — that average, ordinary Americans are offended and outraged when these kinds of radical Islamofascist terrorists are spouting the lingo of the Democrat Party, and now they’re endorsing Mrs. Clinton. A lot of them may not know about it, but we will spread the word and more will find out about it. “All Americans must vote Democrat.”
Story #3: Dem Pollster: Illegals Are the New Soccer Moms
RUSH: Jim Geraghty sent me this today from his blog at the National Review Online: “Hillary’s chief strategist and pollster Mark Penn told a British magazine last week that illegal immigrants may be the most powerful political force in the country. In an interview with the Spectator magazine, Mark Penn said, ‘The most powerful political force in America, the most important voting bloc in the upcoming elections, may not even be able to vote, but their cousins can, and they make all the difference.’ Interviewer Matthew d’Ancona also noted the radicalization of illegal migrants to America, according to Penn, could determine the next presidential election because their grievances will encourage their legally settled relatives to register and vote.”
Here’s what Penn wrote in a recent book called Microtrends. “Just look at what has happened in the US to illegal immigrants. A few years ago they were the forgotten Americans.” He’s talking about illegal immigrants! “They were forgotten Americans, hiding from daylight and the authorities. Today, they’re holding political rallies, and given where they and their legal voting relatives live, they may turn out to be the new soccer moms. Militant immigrants fed up with a broken immigration system just may be the most important voters in the next presidential election, distributed in the key southwest states that are becoming the new battleground areas.”
Well, hubba hubba! Thank you, Mr. Penn, for confirming what we’ve all suspected was the impetus in the Senate, led by Democrats, for the amnesty bill that was beaten back. It’s all about finding new voters, whether they’re legal or not. And now, Mark Penn — Hillary’s prime, number-one strategist — is pretty much telegraphing one of the areas they are going to go. So the battle continues.
Story #4: Democrats Authorize More “Spying on Americans”
RUSH: There’s a headline here in the New York Times — I’m going to take partial credit for this — “Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers.” Another disappointment for the lunatic fringe of the Democrat base! So apparently the Democrats in the Senate are going to sign on to spying on people outside the country without warrants. Ha, ha!
Well, after all this hullabaloo about all the “civil rights violations” of Bush and “spying on Americans”, now all of a sudden, when the rubber meets the road, the Democrats in the Senate say, “Guess what? We’re going to let him go ahead and do it. We’re going to extend his power.” What the hell is that? You people in the kook base have got to be scratching your head or kicking something in the corner. (Just don’t kick your dog or cat; draw a line there.) You people have got to be livid! You buy into all of this stuff: “This is a destruction of civil liberties and civil rights, he’s spying on Americans.” I guess now we can throw the Democrats in that group, too, then, because they’ve authorized more spying on Americans, have they not?
Story #5: Dingy Harry Drops Hedge Fund Tax Increase
RUSH: You people are aware that the Democrats are all for raising taxes on the rich, right? I’m sure that you are aware that the Democrats proposed a big tax increase above the capital gains rate of 15% on these hedge fund guys that went public and got all kinds of multiple billions of dollars. “This can’t stand” — I think it was Pat Leahy, whoever, a bunch of Democrats said something like that. Well, guess what? Dingy Harry has passed word that the Senate will not act on the tax increase on the hedge fund guys. The hedge fund guys went out and spent $3.4 million lobbying Democrats, and Dingy Harry has said, in effect, “Don’t worry, it ain’t going to happen.” Says the story: “Reid has told private-equity firms in recent weeks that a tax-hike proposal they have spent millions of dollars to defeat will not get through the Senate this year, according to executives and lobbyists. Reid’s assurance all but ends the year’s highest-profile battle over a major tax increase.”
They are getting nothing done that they promised their base, and they’re promising the base all these clichs that come right out of the identity of the Democrat Party: raise taxes on the rich, stop spying on innocent Americans. They’ve just reauthorized spying on Americans; they just told these hedge fund gazillionaires, “Don’t worry, pal, we’re going to keep your tax rate at 15%.” Happy, libs?
Story #6: Affluenza Rears Its Ugly Head Once Again
RUSH: Speaking of the rich, ladies and gentlemen, there’s a story from Reuters. “The surge in the number of millionaires in the world is spawning a fast-growing industry — wealth psychology. U.S. wealth managers are adding services such as psychological counseling for wealthy clients to set them apart from the competition, experts said. Some of these psychologists handle clients who feel guilty about inheriting wealth. Others help with problems such as how to raise children in an environment where almost anything can be bought, or intervene when spouses fight over money. ‘One of the biggest concerns when people become significantly wealthy is … “How am I going to raise my kids responsibly with all this money”,’ psychologist and consultant James Grubman told the Reuters Wealth Management Summit in Boston. Grubman, who works with rich clients of Wachovia Corp, the fifth-biggest U.S. wealth management company, predicted that within 10 years most financial management firms will offer psychological services.” This is Affluenza!
“‘The more cutting-edge wealth management firms and banks are beginning to realize they need to get people available and in house,’ said Grubman. The wealth management division of Wells Fargo recently hired two psychologists to meet with its clients, and is seeing demand for another new service for the wealthy — catering to the aging parents of millionaires. ‘A growing need for a lot of business executives, entrepreneurs and other people of wealth is somebody to handle some of their parents’ needs,’ Dean Junkans, chief investment officer of Wells Fargo’s wealth management division, told the Reuters Summit.”
Do you know what the wealth management industry exists to do? The wealth management industry exists to take the wealth from the wealthy in fees and this sort of thing. Now, they’re going to offer psychological counseling for guilt. I’ll tell you what you guys need to start doing. (I think it’s actually a fine thing. I’m only kidding about the fee structure of wealth management.) There’s a whole industry out there that’s designed the separate the wealthy from their money, and the wealthy don’t mind it because they’ve got it, it exists. But the wealth psychology that they should offer is this: “How to deal with being formerly wealthy after Hillary Clinton becomes president,” because when you lose your wealth is when you’re going to need the psychological counseling. It is not because you’ve spent it, but because it’s been taken from you. So the real psychological counseling that all of you wealth management, asset management people should be thinking about is the psychological counseling to deal with these people. You say to them, “You used to be wealthy before Hillary taxed you into poverty. We’re here to help you deal with it,” but then, of course, why would the wealth management people want to offer that counseling when the wealthy will have no money to pay for it?
Story #7: A Lousy Marriage Can Literally Make You Sick
RUSH: Well, it’s been certified medically as official. “A lousy marriage might literally make you sick. Marital strife and other bad personal relationships can raise your risk for heart disease, researchers reported Monday.” Well, isn’t this just peachy keen.
So let’s see… They said at one time that fatty foods would cause cholesterol to rise and give you all kinds of heart problems; that consensus went by the wayside. Coffee was going to, smoking — all these things. Being single was going to cause you to have a heart attack and so forth… Most people are married or else live together, and there’s always strife in a relationship. Show me a relationship where there’s no strife, and I’ll show you a relationship where there’s no communication, contact, separate houses, and all that. But even that’s rare; there’s strife in every relationship. But now, in their daily effort to scare everybody into thinking life is going to end tomorrow, simply by virtue of you living normally, they have decided to include the biggest group of people possible outside of kids, and that is people who are married.
The experts say here that “What it likely boils down to is stress — a well-known contributor to health problems, as well as a potential byproduct of troubled relationships.” Folks, I don’t know about you, but in my opinion, it’s impossible not to experience stress. You can experience stress because you haven’t mowed the yard or because the staff hasn’t mowed the yard at the right time. The idea that it’s possible to live a stress-free life… I’ll bet even the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who has reached cosmic consciousness through transcendental meditation, suffers stress. So you see, you’re dead, you’re cooked, you were born to die just by living your life normally. You may as well vote for Hillary and be as happy as you can before you die! You’ll die penniless anyway, so you don’t have to worry about who’s going to inherit it.
“The study, in Monday’s Archives of Internal Medicine, follows previous research that has linked health problems with being single and having few close relationships. In the new study, researchers focused more on the quality of marriage and other important relationships. ‘What we add here is that, “OK, being married is in general good, but be careful about the kind of person you have married.”‘” Shouldn’t it be, “Be careful about the kind of person you intend to marry”? Because once you’ve married the person, how can you be careful about it? It’s already done. “‘The quality of the relationship matters,’ said lead author Roberto De Vogli, a researcher with University College in London.” This is a big problem. People have no clue what the spouse is going to be after they get married.
Very rarely does the person you marry, male or female, turn out to be the same person after you’ve sanctified the whole thing. There are a lot of people out there that never let you know who they really are until they have hooked you, then they think, “Okay, I’ve hooked the person, now I can be who I really am.” It happens out there, folks: Trust me on this. I know. “Ending a bad marriage is not necessarily the answer either, he said, given evidence that being unmarried also could be a risk.” So, you’re in a rotten marriage, it’s causing stress levels to rise, you’re going to have a heart attack. But now don’t get out of the marriage necessarily because being unmarried could also be a risk. So we’re fried. We’re literally fried.
Story #8: Dan Bartlett Rips Every GOP Candidate Except Rudy
RUSH: Okay, see what you think of this. On a Washington Post blog, called the Morning Cheat Sheet, there’s a report on a recent speech made by Dan Bartlett, who was one of the president’s top aides, closest advisor, in the communications office. “Bartlett has a brutally candid analysis of the Republican nomination battle: Fred Thompson is the campaign’s ‘biggest dud,’ Mitt Romney has ‘a real problem in the South’ because people will not vote for a Mormon, Mike Huckabee’s last name is too hick and John McCain could end up repeating 2000 by winning New Hampshire but losing the nomination. Dan Bartlett, who stepped down as White House counselor in July after working nearly his entire adult life for Bush, gave those frank assessments of the Republican presidential candidates during a recent appearance before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that went unnoticed outside the room. Never before has Bartlett opened up in a public setting with such an unvarnished analysis of the race. And while he no longer formally speaks for the president, Bartlett spent 14 years channeling Bush and remains virtually his alter ego, so his views could be seen as a revealing look into the thinking within the president’s inner circle.” Well, that’s a big leap! So this is actually Bush talking? Please!
“Bartlett was harshest in his judgment of Thompson, the former Tennessee senator who jumped into the contest a month ago and faces his first televised debate today. Thompson, Bartlett said, was the ‘biggest dud’ because he peaked last spring when he first started talking about running and since then has yet to articulate a compelling vision for why he is running. ‘The biggest liability was whether he had the fire in the belly to run for office in the first place and be president,’ Bartlett said. ‘So what does he do? He waits four months, fires a bunch of staff, has a big staff turnover, has a lot of backbiting, comes out with his big campaign launch and gives a very incoherent and not very concise stump speech for why he’s running for president.'”
“The Bush adviser was most enthusiastic about a contender who seems to have even less chance. He called Huckabee the ‘best candidate,’ one who seems to most mirror Bush’s own vision of compassionate conservatism. ‘He is the most articulate, visionary candidate of anybody in the field,’ Bartlett said. Initially, he admitted, he was perplexed that the former Arkansas governor was running. ‘But the more I watch him, the more impressed I become.’ When it comes to advocating conservative positions on social issues, ‘he does it in a very positive, optimistic way.’ But Huckabee probably cannot win, Bartlett added. ‘He’s got the obvious problems — being from Hope, Ark., and, quite frankly, having the last name “Huckabee,”‘ he said. ‘I hate to be so light about it, but it is, it’s an issue. Politics can be fickle like that. I mean, you’re trying to get somebody’s attention for the first time. … “Huckabee? You’ve got to be kidding me! Hope, Arkansas? Here we go again.”‘”
“The only top-tier candidate Bartlett did not criticize…” — ah-ha! — “…was Rudy Giuliani, whom he credited with the ‘best message,’ particularly because the former New York mayor has kept his focus on attacking Democrats, not fellow Republicans. … ‘He’s doing it particularly with Hillary,’ Bartlett said. ‘There’s headlines the other day. He wants to engage in this debate. And there’s a very practical aspect of it.” I must say that doesn’t surprise me that they would have the most praise, in terms of winability and electability, for Rudy.
Story #9: Mexican Taco Bell Story Burns Mort in Keokuk
RUSH: I got an e-mail here from a guy named Mort in Keokuk, and he has sent me a story from the Houston Chronicle. Mort’s not happy. Story is, Taco Bell is going to open a restaurant in Mexico. They used to have restaurants in Mexico, but I guess this is the first time in 15 years that they’re going to reopen a restaurant in Mexico. “Defenders of Mexican culture see the chain’s re-entry as a crowning insult to a society already overrun by U.S. chains from Starbucks and Subway to Kentucky Fried Chicken.” So Mort’s note is, “See, your glorious free trade policies have now shipped our hamburger flipper jobs down to Mexico, too. Hope you’re happy sitting in your mansion.” Heh-heh.
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Story #1: Hillary Is Not Pulling Out… of Michigan
RUSH: Did you see the story? Five Democrats have withdrawn from the Michigan primary. Well, I don’t care that five Democrats have withdrawn from the Michigan primary. What’s funny to me is that — and it’s such a delight to be able to say this — Hillary is not pulling out of Michigan. Okay, there, I did it. Story #2: Pelosi Sick of the Kooks in Her Garden
RUSH: A couple of things I want to get to before we get to an analysis of the Republican debate last night. We have some truly hilarious news about Nancy Pelosi today. Do you realize that she’s been Cindy Sheehaned for the last five minutes? The kooks, her fringe base, have been camping out in her yard, in her garden, and she’s fit to be tied about it. She can’t get rid of them because the T-shirts they’re wearing say “Impeach Bush,” which is a free speech issue. They’re out there politically protesting. When Cindy Sheehan’s across the street from Bush’s house down in Texas, well, that’s worthy of celebration, well, that’s just cool, we need to support her. Now that Pelosi’s being bugged by her own kooks and irritating her neighbors, ah, she whines, and moans, and complains about it.
Here’s what she said. She launched into a surprisingly personal description of the protesters camped outside her house. “I’ve had four or five months of people sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco and angering my neighbors, hanging their clothes from the trees, building all kinds of things. You can just imagine my neighbors’ reaction to all this. If they were poor and they were sleeping on my sidewalk, they would be arrested for loitering. But because they have ‘Impeach Bush’ across their chest, it’s the First Amendment. … So I’m well aware of the unhappiness of the base.”
Nobody knew this until she told us. This is not leaked out beyond San Francisco. Obviously people in San Francisco have known it, but nobody knew this, but now notice how she doesn’t like it and the neighbors don’t like it. It was fine and dandy when Cindy Sheehan was down in Crawford and causing all sorts of hassles for people down there. But, if they were homeless, if they were just poor, we could just sweep ’em away like General Dinkins did for the Democrat convention in 1992. You sweep ’em down to lower Manhattan, sweep ’em over to Tiburon or something. Put ’em on a boat and take ’em out to Alcatraz if they were poor. Just treat ’em like dirt, if they were poor. But, no, they got “Impeach Bush” shirts on, so I can’t do anything about it. This is your speaker of the House, ten months of the most nothing, ineffective leadership, and coupled with Dingy Harry, he’s had a bad ten months, too, over in the Senate. What they’re both known for is collecting the lowest approval ratings of Congress in my lifetime.
Story #3: Egghead Chemist Wins Nobel Prize for Ozone
RUSH: A Nobel Peace Prize in Chemistry has just been awarded to some egghead who did a lot of work understanding the thinning ozone layer. So it appears that this year’s committee is focused on radical environmentalism as being equal to the peace movement. Now, who has received this peace prize? Mother Teresa has received the peace prize, and others who genuinely worked for people. They may be dubious awards themselves, but they were focused on people. Gore is about to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for making a movie about himself! It’s now got at least 11 documented lies and falsehoods in it, according to a British court, ladies and gentlemen. I haven’t seen the details of this chemist’s work on the thinning ozone later, but I can bet — I shouldn’t speculate. I’ll just remind you. It was only last week that we had news, maybe two weeks ago, that discovered that the chemical reaction they thought was causing the depletion of the ozone now cannot explain it. It’s not the cause in 70% of the ozone depletion, plus the hole keeps filling in. So we’re back to square one. We don’t know diddly-squat, and so the Nobel chemistry prize has gone to some chemist who’s helping us understand the thinning ozone layer. I’ll print the story out here in a moment, get the details and find out what his theory is and see if he’s this new guy.
Story #4: Condor Impersonator Treated with Vodka Drip
RUSH: This is one of the oddest stories: “Australian doctors used an intravenous feed of vodka to keep an Italian tourist alive after he consumed large quantities of a poisonous substance.” This guy was doing his impersonation of a condor. You know, the California condor that was in danger? The thing would eat antifreeze. It looked good to them on the street when it dripped from people’s cars, and it contains a poison: ethylene glycol. “Doctors speculate that this 24-year-old man was trying to hurt himself, maybe commit suicide by drinking some ethylene glycol. So they administered pure alcohol, which is the conventional antidote to this, but they exhausted the hospital’s supply. Desperate to continue the treatment, the doctors at Mackay Base Hospital in Queensland hooked up an IV feed of vodka.” Now, let me get this straight. The hospital has plenty of vodka, but it runs out of pure alcohol, and they’re not going to run out of vodka. “‘The patient was drip fed about three standard drinks an hour for three days in the intensive care unit. Fortunately for him, he was in a medically induced coma for a good portion of that. By the time he woke up, I think his hangover would have well and truly gone. The hospital’s administrators were also very understanding when we explained our reasons for buying a case of vodka,'” because they ran out of pure alcohol.
Story #5: Great Liberal Quote on San Francisco Homeless
RUSH: You know, there’s a big, big, big homeless controversy brewing in San Francisco. C.W. Nevius is writing about it in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. “‘Enough is Enough,’ S.F. Says of Homeless — Residents of a famously liberal city appear to be changing views. The liberal, left-coast city conservatives love to [make fun of] could be undergoing a transformation when it comes to homeless people. Although the city would still be a poor choice for a pep rally for the war in Iraq, indications are that residents have had it with aggressive panhandlers, street squatters and drug users. ‘Maybe there has been an epiphany,’ says David Latterman, president of Fall Line Analytics, a local market research firm. ‘People have realized they can hate George Bush, but still not want people crapping in their doorway.'” Would somebody explain that to me? This is pure liberal-speak. This is one of the greatest examples of liberal-speak and liberal thought that I have ever encountered. “People have realized they can hate George Bush but still not want people crapping in their doorway.”
This from a market research firm! I guess their tolerance for homelessness up ’til now has been based on the fact that they had to tolerate the homelessness if they were going to hate Bush, to show how good people they are? Anyway, I say falling apart, the support for the homeless. They’ve had it out there. And this is a great illustration of how liberalism doesn’t work. They’ve been dealing with the homeless by encouraging homeless people, by encouraging the behavior, by not controlling them, by letting them harass merchants, and stores, and restaurants and so forth, then giving them an official place to stay right across from city hall, thinking, “If we’re just kind to these people, they’ll understand our kindness.” No, it just encourages more and more of the same kind of behavior. Now they finally have their fill of it. But they’re conflicted because they hate Bush, and their hatred of Bush made ’em a little bit reluctant to deal with the homeless problem, for whatever asinine, stupid reason. But now they finally realize that they can still hate Bush and they get mad at the homeless as well.
Story #6: Union Strikes Ain’t What They Used to Be
RUSH: Thompson was talking about how robust the economy was, and he was saying throughout our history, even in good economic times, you’re going to have pockets of places in the country that are not doing well, and he cited Michigan because the debate was in Dearborn. Well, Michigan isn’t doing well, and it isn’t doing well for specific reasons that have nothing to do with the US economy! It has to do with the local economy, tax increases, overspending by the governor there, and the legislature. It’s textbook. You know, Michigan is a great example of what the whole country will be if liberals get unfettered, unchecked access to all aspects of government. By the way, Chrysler workers went out on strike today. I saw a picture of this on television at the top of the hour. I counted ten people on the picket line from an overhead camera, maybe on a helicopter or some such thing. It’s just not the good old days when the unions went on strike. Last time the autoworkers went on strike at General Motors, it lasted two days.
Story #7: Popularity of Personal Chefs Rises (Thanks, Rush)
RUSH: Once again, ladies and gentlemen, I have pioneered a service. In the process of pioneering this service, I have brought the cost of the service down for all. The headline here in this AP story says it all: “‘Popularity of Personal Chefs Rises.’ As lives get increasingly busier with careers, kids, commutes, and other chaos…” of course, my life has none of that kind of chaos. Well, career; kids and commutes no. “… a growing number of people are turning to personal chefs to make sure that there’s a hot meal on the table at the end of a long day. Hiring a professional to cook for you isn’t a whole lot different that hiring someone to clean your house or walk the dog, and it’s not just for the wealthy, said John Moore, executive director of the United States Personal Chef Association.” Ha! They actually have a group! ‘It’s not “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,”‘ Moore said. ‘People don’t have personal chefs because they have tons of money, they have them because it solves a problem. It puts dinner on the table.'” How many people have personal chefs, but are not buying their own health insurance? It’s a legitimate question. How many are paying for a personal chef but not buying health insurance?
If this keeps up, it’s not going to be fair, folks, that a lot of people have personal chefs, but other people don’t. So the Democrats will propose a program called S-CHEF, which will put a personal chef in every person’s house, and they will do this because it’s not fair that there are people who do not have chefs. What? Well, that’s right, Snerdley. See, it’s a great idea, too, because the S-CHEF program that the Democrats will now come up with as a government-mandated program, the S-CHEF chefs will have to be under federal guidelines as to what they can prepare and what they can’t prepare, and so the government could solve its panic and fear over our nation’s obesity problem by making sure the S-CHEF only can fix certain so-called healthy meals. Thanks and, once again, I pioneered the personal chef a long time ago. It’s sort of like buying the first big screen TV. I paid the full boat price when they came out, allows the production to continue, and the prices fall so they become affordable for more and more people. Yes, Mr. Snerdley, what’s the question?
Mr. Snerdley’s idea is, this could solve the whole school lunch program, the whole hunger program, just get a chef in every house, the S-CHEF program, and the S-CHEF fix meals, day-long, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, so that the schools don’t have worry about it. That will never happen. Government is not going to take away the power it has to attract people to those indoctrination centers called schools, and the power that attracts them is food. You don’t think those kids are going to class, do you? They’re going for the food. Breakfast in the morning, whether you can afford it or not? Hell, that started back when I was in junior high. I knew it was all over then. We didn’t have a prayer then.
Story #8: Texas Tech Bans Sale of Vick ‘Em T-Shirts
RUSH: This is funny. This is from Lubbock, Texas. “Texas Tech has banned the sale of a T-shirt bearing the likeness of Michael Vick hanging the dog mascot of rival Texas A&M. The red-and-black shirts, with text that says ‘VICK ‘EM’,” and on the back it’s got a likeness of Vick and his football uniform, big No. 7 on the jersey, holding his helmet in his left hand and a dog hanging… this is pretty entrepreneurial. Vick ’em. “The red-and-black shirts, with text that says ‘VICK ‘EM’ on the front in an apparent reference to the Aggies’ slogan ‘Gig ’em,’ was created by a Tech student who was trying to sell them before Saturday’s game in Lubbock. The back of the shirt shows a football player wearing the No. 7 Vick jersey holding a rope with an image of the mascot Reveille at the end of a noose. Tech officials late Tuesday announced the fraternity that sold the shirts was suspended temporarily and will face judicial review for allegedly violating the solicitation section of the students’ code of conduct. The school said it wouldn’t allow the sale on campus of items that are ‘derogatory, inflammatory, insensitive, or in such bad taste.’ No more shirts are being produced, the school said in a release. A&M officials, in a statement, thanked Tech administrators for ‘their response and action regarding this matter.'” Now, the creator of the shirt, Geoffrey Candia, declined to comment in an e-mail to the AP on Tuesday and said he may make a statement after meeting with the dean of students. Boy, if there are any of these shirts out there, do you realize what they are worth? Vick ’em.
Story #9: Interesting: J.R. Dunn on The Problems of Victory
RUSH: I’ve been meaning to get to this, “The Problems of Victory” piece, how we’re on the verge of victory in Iraq. Let me just give you a heads on this. This is by J. R. Dunn in the American Thinker today. He said, “We’re closing in on victory in Iraq. … The Jihadis are nearing collapse across the country. With the exception of a few Ba’athist holdouts, the Sunni population is coming over in ever-greater numbers. Scarcely a day goes by without another Al-Queda [sic] kingpin being bagged by the Coalition. … The Jihadis have shown no ability to put together any kind of workable counterstrategy. According to Iraq the Model, the Jihadis have begun targeting remote villages (as predicted here last month), a practice that can only increase their isolation and accelerate their death spiral. Even Moqtada al-Sadr, Iraq’s version of the rebel without a cause, appears to have smelled the coffee. This past weekend he at last shook hands with his mortal enemy, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), the largest Shi’ite political party. This ends both [Mookie’s] boycott of the government and the gunfights between the SIIC and [Mookie’s] Mahdi Army.
“With the Shi’ites pacified and Al-Queda [sic] on the run, all that remains are the freelancers and bandits. Victory holds its own set of challenges. We often think of military victory as something that unfolds of itself, a series of events on the order of a natural phenomenon. But victory in war is as much a product of human reason and passion as it is of luck and circumstance. Victory requires management, the same as any other aspect of war,” then draws analogies. We’ve gotta be on the lookout, even more so after victory, in other parts of the world and not get lazy. “One of the most common methods of fumbling a victory is to allow the enemy one last great blow before the end. This is what occurred in the Ardennes in the last months of WWII. The Allied advance slowed to a halt for the winter of 1944, the troops taking up bivouacs in central Belgium. The commanders, above all Omar Bradley, were not at all worried. The Germans were whipped. They had left their equipment and tens of thousands of their best troops behind in France. Besides, the Ardennes Forest was far too dense to allow an army to maneuver through it.
“Only George Patton, far to the south facing the Palatinate, recalled that the Ardennes was the exact route taken by Guderian’s tanks during the 1940 conquest of France. Inspecting a map of the area, Patton mused, ‘Brad could get in trouble up there in short order,'” and he did. “Scarcely had the words left his lips than German armored forces, spearheaded by SS units, broke through Allied lines. The American units facing them had been at the front only a few days. They collapsed and ran for it. Many GIs froze in the woods. Large numbers were taken prisoner. Some were gunned down by the SS after being captured. Only ferocious resistance by a few veteran units – above all the 101st Airborne in the town of Bastogne – allowed the Allies to hold on long enough for Patton to dash north and cut off the advancing German columns. It required a month of fighting to restore the lines, at the cost of over 60,000 casualties.” Now, the point of this analogy is to suggest that, at that point, we thought we had the war won and the Germans were whipped and they mounted one last charge which led to the Battle of the Bulge — and he goes to say here, Mr. Dunn does, that the jihadists cannot allow for the world to see their loss in Iraq as a loss. They’re going to have to do something somewhere, major and big, to show that they’re still viable, still capable of conducting terrorist operations.
And he says that the United States — and obviously they’ll pick a soft spot — and he says of all the countries in the world right now, the US might be one of the biggest soft spots, given our open borders, given the fact that so many likely cells of jihadists are already in the country. So it’s just a call for vigilance. But what I found interesting about it was the assumption here that victory is just a matter of moments away here, that you don’t hear any of this in the Drive-By Media. We are not seeing the burning cars and the smoldering embers every night on the news, and there’s two reasons for that. A, it’s not happening, but, B, the Democrats have decided to drop Iraq as an issue — and, dutifully following behind, the Drive-By Media has gotten off of Iraq, too. You will notice that whatever is a front-burner issue for the Democrats is what the Drive-By Media focuses on every day in the news. It happens to be S-CHIP right now. It happens to be FISA. They’ve dropped Iraq, because the Democrats have dropped it. So if you want to know what the Democrats’ agenda is and what the latest smear they’re trying to run is, the latest scam they’re trying to perpetrate, watch the Drive-By Media every day; read the Drive-By Media; look at their two or three lead stories, and you’ll find out what the Democrats are doing.
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Story #1: Walter Mondull, Loser, Endorses Hillary Clinton
RUSH: Former vice president Walter Mondull, the ’84 Democrat presidential nominee, is planning to endorse Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. That’s a good thing? A loser endorses Mrs. Clinton? It’s a fait accompli.Story #2: Deficit Numbers Way, Way Down; Libs in Denial
RUSH: Now, when I was flying up to Philadelphia yesterday, I had the TV on, and I was watching Neil Cavuto’s show on Fox in the afternoon, and the deficit numbers were released yesterday. The White House went out and made a big deal about the deficit coming way, way down. Let me give you the numbers, by the way. Since the 2003 tax cuts — and that is an appropriate starting point for this. Since the 2003 tax cuts took effect, the deficit, despite what’s been spent on the war, despite the national disasters like Hurricane Katrina, despite the necessitated recovery after 9/11, despite all of the growing federal entitled programs. Since 2003, when the tax cuts went into effect, the federal deficit has gone down by nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars. In February of this year, the budget deficit for 2007, this year, was projected to be $244 billion. The numbers yesterday came in. The budget deficit is now just $163 billion. Now, it’s interesting, you say, “Just $163 billion.” That’s a lot of money, but it’s coming way, way down. This is inarguable as to why. It is the tax cuts. They create jobs. They create more taxpayers. They create more economic activity, which leads to more taxing.
It’s the old volume discount plan, folks. It works. You get more people paying smaller rates of taxes, the small tax rates, or the reduced tax rates. They’re not small, but the reduced tax rates create incentive to continue to earn dollars. It’s the Wal-Mart strategy — and that really irritates the left when you do that. So I’m watching Cavuto’s show, and he had one of these usual television debates on there. He had Al D’Amato speaking in favor of tax cuts, and he had some babe from the Democrat National Committee. She looked like a NAG member, by the way, National Association of Gals, who I guess was a lieutenant to Howard Dean. So D’Amato is making the case for tax cuts pretty well, and Cavuto goes to the babe. And the babe says, “Well, there’s no way the president can take credit for this. There’s absolutely no way. The president has added to the debt, irresponsibly.”
Cavuto said, “Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. The debt is a total different thing than the deficit. The national debt is the sum total of all the deficits in the history of the country. The deficit, the annual budget deficit is how much the government spends, how much more it spends than what it takes in, and it’s taking in a lot more than anybody projected, because nobody dynamically scores the effects of tax cuts.”
And the Democrat babe said, “If Bush were really responsible for all of this, then he wouldn’t have vetoed the health bill for children.” It’s a total non sequitur. The babe knew she had nowhere to go, so she had to go get political and attack Bush for this silly attack they are making on the S-CHIP expansion.
Story #3: Good Economic News Surprises Media Again
RUSH: We were speaking early in the program about the federal deficit and how it’s come way, way down and how it’s the tax cuts since 2003 that have caused this to happen. It’s inarguable. Democrats are doing everything they can to dispute it. “Retail sales posted” the usual “stronger-than-expected gain, and prices at the wholesale level jumped up significantly in September. The commerce department reported Friday that retail sales increased 0.6% last month compared to August as a big increase in auto sales helped offset weak demand for clothing. The strength in retail sales should ease concerns that the worst slump in housing in 16 years and this summer’s financial market turmoil could push the economy into a recession.” They’re just hoping for a recession. The Drive-Bys are just dying for a recession, while Bush is in office, to give the Democrats something else to run on. It is striking. Every story is another dang surprise. Every economic story is a dang surprise. They can’t believe it! Stronger than expected! Experts surprised! I thought that I heard yesterday that JCPenney and Nordstrom were reporting bad September sales. This was a harbinger of a very bad Christmas. There’s a story in the stack here: There might be a toy shortage this Christmas because of the ChiComs putting lead in all the toys, which has led to a recall, and if there’s a shortage of toys, of course, we’ll not have as many toys sold. That will lead to a recession.
Story #4: Danger: ChiCom Lipstick Loaded with Lead
RUSH: Have you heard the latest? There’s lead in lipstick. Have any of you heard of a woman using lipstick dying from lead poisoning? No, of course you haven’t. So the toy shortage: Retail sales yesterday were going to be very, very, very bad. I couldn’t find the story last night after I had heard it, but they’re going to continue to pump out this nonsense that the economy is on its last legs, because they’re trying to create that in your mind, and the economic news continues to befuddle them. They will not look honestly at the reason the economy is growing, the tax cuts, because that doesn’t fit the narrative of the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party.
Story #5: Bernstein Rips Reporters for Drive-By Tactics
RUSH: One more thing here before we go to the break. This is classic. “Fort Wayne, Indiana — Carl Bernstein took reporters at a news conference to task for not spending enough time on stories when he found out many weren’t staying to listen to his speech.” We all know that Bernstein partnered with Woodward, breaking the Watergate scandal. He “spoke to journalists before a speech Wednesday at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. When he asked how many reporters were covering his evening speech, many said they were not, citing early deadlines.”
Bernstein, when he found out that few reporters were going to hang around and listen to his speech, said this. He “criticized reporters for rushing from event to event and not taking the time to do in-depth stories — even if they had to work off the clock.” Have you ever heard a more accurate description of the Drive-By Media, other than mine, than this? They rush from story to story. They don’t do anything in-depth. They rush from story to story; apply the narrative that’s already in their minds, the template that’s already in their minds. They basically blow up whatever situation they run into; create this big, giant mess; filled with lack of accurate reporting; a bunch of lies based on a narrative — think the Duke rape case — then they move on down the road in a convertible and do it all over again. Bernstein, without using the term, has just now said: They’re Drive-By Media. They rush from story to story. Now, his motivation was he was angry because not enough of them were hanging around to hear what he had to say, as though he is a story. But, whatever it takes.
Story #6: World’s Top Condom Experts Convene
RUSH: Try this. This is an AP story. “As the world’s top condom experts convene this week to update international…” condom experts? (Doing mother/son impression) “Hey, little Johnny, what do you want to be when you grow up?”
“Mommy, mommy, I want to be an expert in condoms.”
“Really, little Johnny?”
“Yeah, I see them in dad’s shoes all the time, I want to be expert.”
How do people end up in certain jobs? Condom experts? Anyway, the condom convention is taking place because an “American entrepreneur has a simple message: Size matters. It’s shaking up an industry that has generally taken a one-size-fits-all approach. Frank Sadlo, founder of TheyFit, which makes what he claims are the world’s first custom-fit condoms, is pushing for updated standards to allow greater variation in condom size.” Do you mean to tell me they’re regulated? Something sold in the bathrooms at gas stations are regulated? There have to have been leaks in this department. We wouldn’t have known the story if there hadn’t been leaks here.
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Story #1: Sandy Burglar Rescued by WMAL Rush Van RUSH: Oh, by the way, did you hear about this? This is funny as hell. Sandy Burglar was driving around Washington the other day when his car conked out. Around the corner, just quite by accident, came the WMAL news van. It has this giant picture of me on it, on one side, Hannity on the other, big, big, huge picture. The guy driving the MAL van gets out and offers Sandy Burglar some help. Burglar said, yeah, glad to take it. Burglar did not know how to pop the hood. He stood around while the MAL guy fixed whatever he needed to fix and then Burglar offered the guy 20 bucks, and the MAL guy said, “I wasn’t going to take it, but I did in the end because he didn’t offer a finger to help.” So Burglar gets rescued by the WMAL Rush Limbaugh van. Ha! Anyway, these are the real men of Washington. Wait for the Rush station van to come fix your car because you don’t even know how to pop the hood.
Story #2: Dentist Claims Breast Massage Necessary Treatment
RUSH: An embattled dentist in Woodland, California has been “accused of fondling the breasts of 27 female patients. [He’s] trying to keep his dental license by arguing that chest massages are an appropriate procedure in certain cases. Mark Anderson’s lawyer says dental journals discuss the need to massage the pectoral muscles to treat a common jaw problem. Police say Anderson said during recorded phone calls that he routinely massaged patients’ chests to treat temporo-mandibular joint disorder, or TMJ, which causes neck and head pain. Attorney Robert Zaro told administrative law judge Jonathan Lew at a hearing Thursday that he should let Anderson keep his dental license while disciplinary appeals proceed.” The dentist is 48 and “needs to keep seeing patients so he can feed his seven children and pay for his defense. … Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Phillips gave Lew three new complaints, including one from a 31-year-old woman, who said Anderson fondled her at least six times over two years.” Now, why did she keep going? Did she believe the story that this was necessary for the treatment of her dental work? Man, oh, man, oh, man!
Story #3: No Surprise: Working with Kids Makes You Depressed
RUSH: This does not surprise me one little bit. “Child care workers, home health care aides and other people who provide personal services have the highest rates of depression among U.S. workers, according to a new survey to be published [today]. It found that 10.8 percent of personal care and service workers and 10.3 percent of food preparation and serving workers — both usually low-paying jobs — experienced one or more major depressive episodes in the past year.” Working with kids: Does that surprise you, Maimone? You don’t have any kids. It doesn’t surprise me at all. Working with kids would make anybody depressed.
Story #4: Socialized Medicine: Dental Patients Pull Own Teeth
RUSH: By the way, isn’t socialized medicine great? Did you see this? Some English people have resorted to pulling out their own teeth because they can’t find or afford a dentist. There’s a picture of some guy’s mouth, and it’s gross. This is from the UK: Six percent of those surveyed in English studies say they have resorted to dental self-treatment. “Six percent of those questioned in a survey of 5,000 patients admitted they had resorted to self-treatment using pliers and glue in order to do their own dental work.” Now, this is socialized medicine. This is supposed to be nirvana. It’s supposed to be utopia. So where are we with the UK socialized medicine? The last two stories that we’ve had out of there are this dental story, people pulling their own teeth with pliers, putting them back in with glue. The previous story was about how the National Health Service said, (paraphrasing) “If you’re going to have a baby, stay away from the hospital, we don’t have time for this. Go get a midwife; get a birthing pool; and gut it up when you have pain. We don’t have room here for you. Bottom line is we don’t have the money.” So childbirth has been set back a hundred years in parts of the UK. Ain’t socialized medicine grand, folks?
Story #5: NASCAR Crowd Reacts to Democrat Immunizations
RUSH: See, liberalism, folks, cannot flourish without a monopoly, because any challenge to it, any valid challenge, any opposite point of view that forces liberalism on the defense makes it bad for them because the whole thing, all of liberalism, is a lie, it’s a disease, it’s a phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n’ roller thing that is very, very dangerous. In fact, I’ll give you an example. This story that we had on Friday that these House staffers going to Charlotte, North Carolina, for the NASCAR race on Saturday night, they were supposed to get inoculated for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, diphtheria, the worms, or whatever else, and flu. And, of course, somebody leaked this. They were going down there to study this for homeland security. And the NASCAR crowd said, “What the hell? We don’t spread these diseases around. We go to all these races.” Somebody in the NASCAR crowd came up with a brilliant reaction to this. The NASCAR crowd said, “Well, what about us? If hep A, and hep B, and the worms, and diphtheria are running around down here, why don’t you immunize us, too? You’re just content to let us get this and spread it while you come in here and save yourselves investigating us?”
This is the kind of stuff, you know, the Democrats have been making big plays for NASCAR for the last two elections, the “NASCAR Dad.” Believe me, these are the Reagan Democrats, a lot of the NASCAR crowd is, and they already know they’re made fun of as a bunch of hayseed hicks with gun racks in the back of their pickup trucks and all this sort of stuff, getting to church on Saturday night for the first parking space, and whatever it is. These people are well aware that the Dems have this snobbish, elitist attitude toward them, and this is not going to help it. But this is a classic illustration of the elitism, and the arrogance, and the condescension that are liberals. Democrats needed to get inoculated. Nobody gets inoculated for these kind of things traveling in this country. You only do this when you travel to foreign countries. Get shots to go to NASCAR? As they say, “What about the people who are already there? What about them? If these diseases are running around, shouldn’t everybody be vaccinated? Or are we just content to let the NASCAR crowd get sick?” If I were you people in NASCAR, I would be so profoundly infuriated by the snobbery of this, that I would never forget it.
Actually, I have one better. NASCAR people ought to get inoculated against these Senate Democrat staffers, these House staffers that come down because they’ve got this incurable disease called liberalism. Well, it’s not incurable, but it certainly is damn well destructive.
Story #6: Governor Asks Citizens Not to Wash Their Cars
RUSH: Listen to this. The governor of North Carolina is a guy named Mike Easley. He has “asked communities and individuals today to step up water conservation by taking steps ranging from ceasing all outdoor watering to turning off the faucet when brushing teeth. Easley said he did not want to invoke his emergency powers to require water rationing. Instead, he said, local public officials should respond to the problem themselves to avoid running out of water. ‘There’s a solution to this problem,’ Easley said, addressing local officials at a conference of the N.C. League of Municipalities. ‘We can either create more water or we can use less. I don’t know about you, but I cannot make it rain.'”
Among the edicts, or the suggestions for now, don’t wash your car. “A dirty car is a sign of civic responsibility nowadays,” said the governor of North Carolina. A dirty car. Do you realize all the dirt, what it’s going to do to gas mileage? Oh, yeah, got all that dirt and grime, you’re going to glide through the air with more friction, we are going to burn more fossil fuel. Folks, we can’t win. Drive around with a dirty car. You know, I’ve got five of them, and they get washed every day because the saltwater — my gosh, you know, my air-conditioning system, I can’t have outdoor compressors. I have to have water cool tower air-conditioning, because those things, they’re destroyed by salt air — I’m on the ocean — every five years. Yeah, and the same thing would happen to cars, even if they’re in the garage, salt air gets in there, east wind pulling — mine get washed every day. We don’t waste water when doing it, but it’s a matter of protecting investments, Governor Easley. For crying out loud.
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Story #1: Divorce Fair Kicks Off in Vienna
RUSH: “Vienna to Host World’s First-Ever ‘Divorce Fair’ — “Vienna is to host what organisers have dubbed the world’s first ‘divorce fair’ this month, aimed at couples whose wedding dreams have turned sour and who need help in untying the knot as painlessly as possible. At the October 27-28 event, would-be divorcees can consult, anonymously if they wish, a whole host of lawyers and mediators on their rights and obligations, and seek advice on frequently difficult questions, such as alimony and child access.” Yeah, there will be theater seating for this with all these lawyers and experts on the stage, giving lectures and slide shows. Divorce fair. Ha!Story #2: Did You Know It’s Free Speech Week?
RUSH: Of course, this is a big week: Free Speech Week. Which means I have to shut up right now.
Story #3: Mrs. Clinton’s Eavesdropping Past
RUSH: I have some more stories about Mrs. Clinton in the stack that I want to share with you here. This is from The Hill magazine, and it’s about the Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta book on Mrs. Clinton. “Republicans plan to seize on an allegation from the 1992 presidential campaign to tarnish Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) on the red-hot issue of government surveillance. Government surveillance will be at the forefront of the political debate this fall as congressional Democrats and President Bush square off over legislation allowing electronic spying on U.S. soil without a warrant,” in order to nab terrorists in the act of planning the next hit. “Republicans are focusing on an allegation in a recent book by two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, which suggests Clinton listened to a secretly recorded conversation between political opponents.” The book was written by Don Van Natta, Jr., and Jeff Gerth, and the book is entitled: Her Way.
“Gerth, who spent 30 years as an investigative reporter at the paper, wrote: ‘Hillary’s defense activities ranged from the inspirational to the microscopic to the down and dirty. She received memos about the status of various press inquiries; she vetted senior campaign aides; and she listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation of Clinton critics plotting their next attack. The tape contained discussions of another woman who might surface with allegations about an affair with Bill,’ Gerth and Van Natta wrote in reference to Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton. ‘Bill’s supporters monitored frequencies used by cell phones, and the tape was made during one of those monitoring sessions.'”
Now, we know that this has happened elsewhere in the Democrat Party. Remember that grandmother and grandfather, this couple down in Florida, driving along in their Cadillac on the way to the mall, and just like all of us, they happened to turn on their cell phone receiver, and they happened to monitor, like we all do driving around, other people’s cell phone calls, and they happen to overhear a phone call between John Boehner and Newt Gingrich. They thought, “Wow this is historic. I wonder what we should do with this.” They sent it to Jim McDermott from the state of Washington, a congressman, who then gave it to the New York Times who then published the contents. This is warrantless, illegal surveillance of a private phone call. McDermott has been found guilty and has to pay damages on this for violating privacy of a conversation between Boehner and Newt. So Hillary was doing this, she was in charge of the bimbo eruptions. Everybody thinks that it was Betsy Wright that was in charge of the bimbo eruptions. It was Hillary because she knew about them. She’s the most cheated-on woman in the history of the world, folks, and she knew it, and she let it happen right in front of her eyes, right behind her back. She let it happen. She allowed herself to be humiliated and disgraced because that’s what it required to get her where she is now. She had to keep her husband in office wherefore he was, if she was ever to have a chance to go anywhere.
So, she’s out there monitoring these phone calls about potential bimbo eruptions. The point of this story in The Hill is that the Republicans are going to go after her on this. Van Natta and Gerth totally stand by this in their book. “A GOP official said, ‘Hillary Clinton’s campaign hypocrisy continues to know no bounds. It is rather unbelievable that Clinton would listen in to conversations being conducted by political opponents, but refuse to allow our intelligence agencies to listen in to conversations being conducted by terrorists as they plot and plan to kill us. Team Clinton can expect to see and hear this over and over again over the course of the next year.'” Republicans have made it plain that they’re not going to forget about this.
Story #4: Jeffrey Lord Envisions a Clinton Presidency
RUSH: The second Hillary item today is — and this will wrap up the Mrs. Clinton segment for the day — Jeffrey Lord writing in the American Spectator. He presents as a hypothetical — I’m going to paraphrase this because I don’t have it right in front of me — “Let’s go to Hillary Clinton’s first day in office. She’s sitting at the Oval Office very proud and very full of euphoria, she’s pulled it off, and she’s sitting there, and she’s sitting at that big desk in the Oval Office…”
And Jeffrey Lord properly points out, “What’s one of the first things that newly inaugurated presidents do? They fire all the US attorneys and replace them with their own. Her husband did it. A lot of presidents have done it. Bush did not do it. But every president is entitled to. It is almost standard operating procedure. But wait. Mrs. Clinton was part of a Democrat cabal that tried to criminalize the Bush administration for replacing eight US attorneys last year, tried to get him in all kinds of hot water; tried to criminalize it; tried to criminalize the attorney general; they sought documents from the White House about anything Karl Rove might have been involved in. The theory is that once Mrs. Clinton tries to fire one US attorney appointed by Bush, that the Republicans in the Senate can say, ‘Ah, ah, ah, ah, you are engaging in criminality, tit-for-tat, Mrs. Clinton. You tried to criminalize President Bush for getting rid of eight. You want to get rid of 93.’ She may be hamstrung. All this depends on whether Republicans have the guts to do it. Hopefully they will.”
Let’s cite another example. Mrs. Clinton, after being inaugurated, is informed that one of the 2,000-year-old liberal judges on the court has finally decided to retire. The guy’s been hanging on until Mrs. Clinton or a Democrat were elected so as not to be able to give Bush a chance to nominate his replacement. Of course, right now the court’s basically — you’d have to say 5-4 conservative, maybe 4-4 with the swing vote there in the middle, Anthony Kennedy, depending on which way he goes. But the libs look at it now as 5-4 conservative. So you got this, hypothetically speaking, this dinosaur justice who decides to hang it up now that Hillary is there and can appoint his replacement. The Republicans could say on the Senate Judiciary Committee, “Uh, nope, we’re going to filibuster this. You guys wanted to filibuster, we’re going to filibuster this nomination. We don’t care if there’s a ninth justice. We’ll be happy to sit there at 5-3. Well, you were trying to criminalize all of our nominees, Mrs. Clinton, for all of these years, the Borks, the Thomases. Look what you did to Alito. Look at what you did to any number of potential appellate judge nominees and Supreme Court nominees, tit-for-tat.
Lord gives a bunch of other examples of this, of how, because of the actions of the Democrats in the last six years, or seven now, with Bush, and trying to criminalize normal executive power, that the Republicans can take the same playbook and throw it right back at the Democrats. Now, we know if they did this that the Drive-Bys would ignore that the Democrats had done this in the past. But there’s more than just the Drive-Bys out there now. This would be delicious. It’s not going to stop her, don’t misunderstand, but it is an interesting way, I thought, to look at what a potential Hillary Clinton presidency could look like, as in no honeymoon whatsoever. You fire the US attorney, that’s one of the first things that you do, it’s one of the first things that Clinton did. If one of these dinosaurs on the court holds on through January 2009 and a Democrat wins, the dinosaur will quit, maybe two of them. They’re holding on now just to make sure Bush doesn’t get the chance to nominate the replacement. There are any number of additional examples like this.
Story #5: Supervised Drug Injection in San Francisco
RUSH: Try this headline, folks: “Support for Supervised Drug Injection is Growing.” When I was first told about this, I said, “Where, in New York? They’re doing everything else in New York. We can’t do this. We can’t do that. We can’t go here. We can’t go there. We can’t see there. We can’t look there. We can’t not look there, and so forth. So it’s has to be New York. The nanny here, Bloomberg, is…” No. It’s not New York! It’s San Francisco.
C.W. Nevius writing in the San Francisco Chronicle: “Two months ago I wrote about an idea for a place in San Francisco where intravenous drug users could shoot up under the supervision of trained personnel. A lot of people thought it sounded crazy. Well, get ready to hear about it again, because the idea is gaining momentum. On Thursday, an all-day symposium — co-hosted by the city Department of Public Health — will examine the idea of creating safe injection centers where users could bring their drugs, shoot up and leave, without fear of arrest. The idea is to decrease overdoses, keep dirty needles off the street, and cut the risk of spreading HIV and hepatitis C. Those are all good things. It is the idea of providing addicts with their own injection clinic that riles people up. ‘What’s next?’ a reader wrote when the first column appeared. ‘Giving them the drugs, too?’ No. But there’s…”
Well, why not? They gotta get ’em someplace, and they gotta be committing crimes to get ’em. So why not give ’em the drugs? They’ll get a better quality drug. Give ’em the nice back seat of the car, a couple packs of cigarettes and so forth. They’ve tried this in Sweden, haven’t they, or one of those places over there? I don’t think it worked out too well because just more and more addicts happened to be created. “‘It would be huge international news,’ said Peter Davidson, a researcher at UCSF in the epidemiology and biostatistics department. ‘It would be the first facility in the United States, and there would probably be a firestorm for a while.’ You can count on that. The conservative radio talk show hosts are probably already jump-starting their tonsils. Wacky San Francisco, providing a party room for junkies.” Now they’re putting words in our mouths. “Nor are public officials eager to jump on the bandwagon. Asked for a comment from Mayor Gavin Newsom, spokesman Nathan Ballard said, ‘The mayor is not inclined to support this approach, which quite frankly may end up creating more problems than it addresses.'” Just when they thought they had the homeless problem in proper focus to do something about, they want to exacerbate it. San Francisco.
Story #6: Democrats Trot Out New SCHIP Family
RUSH: This is from The Politico of yesterday: “Bethany Wilkerson is the latest child being profiled by Democrats arguing for an override of President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program bill.”
This Bethany Wilkerson follows 12-year-old Graeme Frost who was brought out. This is the Wilkerson family. Their two-year-old daughter Bethany is covered by SCHIP, had life-saving heart surgery when she was an infant. “On Monday the Wilkerson family held a conference call, sponsored by USAction, a liberal grassroots advocacy group lobbying in favor of the $35 billion SCHIP expansion. For the record, Bo and Dara Wilkerson say they make $34,000 in combined income from restaurant jobs in St. Petersburg, Fla. They rent their house and the couple owns one car, which Bo calls ‘a junker.'” The Frost family and their income became an issue. Everybody is missing the point about this. The Democrats once again are trotting out a family who qualify already under the current iteration of SCHIP. They’re out there making it look like these people will not be covered unless they vote the expansion. They’re just dumb. Well, they’re not dumb. They know what they’re doing because they know that the Drive-Bys are not going to report this. All they’re going to do is report once again that “Michelle Malkin, and Rush Limbaugh, and the conservative fear are going to go out and try to destroy another harmless, and struggling, and just very decent Democrat family; it’s not fair. Whaaa.” They’re just going to try to create this whole notion.
But the dirty little secret, folks, is that both of these families — the Frosts and the Wilkersons — are covered under SCHIP, as it exists. What the Democrats need to do is go out and find some family that makes between 60 and 80 and get 25-year-old parents who have two young kids and say, “These people will not be covered under SCHIP.” Tell the truth about it. This is just classic. It’s how liberals get what they want, and they use willing accomplices in the press to spread propaganda and lies and distortions. Nobody, under this program, would deny either the Frost family or the Wilkerson family their health care coverage, and the president only wants to increase the program, $4 billion. But, of course, that’s not good enough.
Story #7: Poll: 52% Agree with Bush on SCHIP
RUSH: There’s great news about that today, by the way. USA Today has a poll out, and get this (this poll has got to just devastate Mrs. Clinton and the whole socialized-medicine crowd): Despite the Drive-Bys, 52% of the American people back the president, and insurance targeting poor kids should go to poor kids. Imagine that! Fifty-two percent actually believe the program should remain constituted as it is and not be expanded the way the Democrats want to.
“A majority of Americans trust Democrats to handle the issue of children’s health insurance more than President Bush, but they agree with the president that government aid should be targeted to low-income families, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows. Two days before the Democratic-controlled House attempts to override Bush’s veto of a five-year, $35 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the poll shows that opinions on the issue are mixed. Fifty-two percent of respondents say they have more confidence in Democrats to deal with the issue, compared with 32% for Bush.”
But — “Fifty-two percent agree with Bush that most benefits should go to children in families earning less than 200% of the federal poverty level — about $41,000 for a family of four. Only 40% say benefits should go to families earning up to $62,000, as the bill written by Democrats and some Republicans would allow. Fifty-five percent are very or somewhat concerned that the program would create an incentive for families to drop private insurance. Bush and Republican opponents have called that a step toward government-run health care.” The American people have made it plain now in two different polls I’ve seen, this and a Rasmussen poll, that they have no interest in government-run health care. They don’t want to have to give up their own insurance. That has to be a slap at the face of Mrs. Clinton, the most cheated-on woman in the history of the world. Has to be a slap at the face. Because they’ve done everything they can throughout this whole S-CHIP program to convince people that Bush wants to deny health care coverage to poor kids, and it isn’t working for them. Another great sign here, folks, of how the Drive-Bys and the Democrats can in fact be beaten back and overcome.
Story #8: Air America Faked Right-Wing Attack on Host
RUSH: By the way, I haven’t talk about this because I knew we were being had at the outset. This morning during preparation of this excursion into broadcast excellence, I was made aware of a blog, “Talking Radio” or some such thing that had a story. A woman who hosts a talk show on Air America — I’m not going to mention her name, to protect her; she is literally insane, and the more people find out about her the more who will know that she’s, you know, really ready for the funny farm. At any rate, the story was announced last night on Err America — (E-R-R America) — that she was out walking her dog in Manhattan and got mugged, that she got mugged wearing a sweat suit and no jewelry and no this, so it didn’t look like a typical New York mugging for money. Then all these libs started speculating that she was mugged and attacked by angry right-wingers who are upset that liberal talk radio is starting to win. Now, when I saw this, my instincts are, “Liberals lie.” I didn’t talk about it. Just 30 minutes ago we found out the New York police and her lawyer said, she wasn’t mugged. She fell. By the way, she’s going to miss two days of work, lost a lot of teeth. She’s in a lot of pain. This was all announced on her network. But we found out she just fell. She didn’t really know what happened, but she wasn’t mugged. The cops say she wasn’t mugged. There was no police report, and her lawyer said she wasn’t mugged. So the whole… What, H.R.? I don’t have any idea. I don’t know any more than what I’m telling you, other than they lie. They just flat-out lie. They flat out freaking lie!
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Story #1: Experts: Obesity Is the Fault of Modern Life
RUSH: You know, we’ve been hearing a plethora, ladies and gentlemen, recently of stories about the fat, the obese, the slobs out there — and why they’re slobs, why they’re fat, why they’re obese. All these different theories abound. Get this. Researchers have just thrown in the towel out there. This is from Reuters. Headline: “Obesity a Result of Modern Life.” It’s just life’s fault, folks! The fact that you are alive explains why you tend to be fat and obese. “Obesity does not result simply from over-eating and a lack of exercise, but is a consequence of modern life, a British government think-tank said on Wednesday.” Yeah, the experts on everything! Be it the Brits, be it us, the government is always the experts. “Weight gain does not result from people’s actions — such as over-indulgence or laziness — alone, and is a far more passive phenomenon than is often assumed, according to Foresight. It found that the technological revolution of the 20th century has led to weight gain becoming unavoidable for the majority of the population, because our bodies and biological make-up are out of step with our surroundings.” Oh, we’re cooked! We’re fried. We’re broiled. We’re finished. We have no choice. It is life, ladies and gentlemen, making us fat, and there’s nothing we can do about it. It’s unavoidable. It’s unavoidable for the majority of the population. Don’t even try. Don’t even try to be disciplined or get rid of the weight that you really wish you weren’t carrying about. The government of Britain has just offered you a built-in excuse for remaining a slob. Story #2: Awareness Ribbon Needed for New Staph Germ
RUSH: Hey, we’ve got a new bacteria out there that’s killing more people than AIDS. “More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph ‘superbug,’ the government reported Tuesday, in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ. Deaths tied to these infections may exceed those caused by AIDS,” said one “public-health expert.” Another “expert” from the government, commenting on the new study. “The report shows how far one form of the staph germ has spread beyond its traditional hospital setting… The overall incidence rate was about 32 invasive infections per 100,000 people. That’s an ‘astounding’ figure, said an editorial in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association…” Well, we need a ribbon! We need a ribbon for this germ. I mean, we’ve got the AIDS ribbon. We got the breast cancer ribbon. We’ve got ribbons for everything, and you put those ribbons on, you know what those ribbons say? “I care more than you do, if you’re not wearing one.” That’s what those things all mean.
Story #3: Sex Competition Kills Men Earlier Than Women
RUSH: You ever wonder why men die before women? You ever wonder why males die before females? Well, the quick answer is because they want to. But there is scientific evidence here to suggest why they want to. “New research suggests that males die before females because of intense competition over sex.” The scientists went back and they looked at animals and so forth, animals that are monogamous, like swans and mongooses, or whatever. They find that males in monogamous species naturally compete less over females, and the polygamists, they compete a lot more. So the researchers explain it, “As competition among males for sex grows more intense, each male on average has less time to breed. As such, there is no strong incentive to evolve longevity among males in such species.”
Now, get the last line of this, though. This is from Live Science. “Since men age faster and die earlier than women,” because they want to, “these findings suggest that ‘at the time when current human physiology evolved, perhaps around the late Stone Age, polygynous breeding was the norm,’ Clutton-Brock told LiveScience. ‘Of course, this doesn’t provide any justification for polygyny or promiscuity now for males.'” Stone Age guys did it, but that’s not good; we can’t do it now. So yeah, many affairs. Heh-heh. “Honey, the doctor said I should have many affairs, otherwise I’m going to die before you.” The dirty little secret is she wants him to die first, too.
Story #4: Crisis: Kids Fall Off Bikes, Go to Hospital
RUSH: Bad news. More bad news out there. It’s all bad news if you access the Drive-By Media. More bad news here for kids. Get this number, folks. “More than 10,000 children and teens go to the hospital every year in the United States,” and when they’re there, they run the risk of getting this new germ out there that’s wiping us all out. We need a ribbon for that. I’m telling you because 25% of the people get it, get it in the hospital. Hospitals have more germs running around in there because people in there are sick. So these kids, “10,000 children and teens go to the hospital every year [for] falling off or crashing their bicycles,” and in the process, they rack “up $200 million in hospital fees, researchers reported on Tuesday. They estimated that 10,700 children are hospitalized annually for a bicycle-related injury, with an average stay of three days. And too few appear to have been wearing helmets. … ‘An estimated 500,000 bike-related injuries are treated in emergency departments each year in this country,'” with 10,000 of them needing to go to the hospital.
We need BikeCHIP. These kids, do we know that they can afford these three-day stays in the hospital? By the way, so what? Is this new? I rode a bike. I remember when I learned to ride a bike. My dad took me over to the local high school and I ended up scraping the knuckles of my right hand on the brick wall of the high school as I was learning to balance myself, and, “Wah-hah-hah!” He said, “Just stop crying! If you don’t want to hit the side of the wall, balance.” It was just part of teaching me how to ride the bicycle. We never once thought of going to the hospital, nor did we think of calling a reporter and saying, “Guess what? My son was just in a little accident riding a bike. Do you want to put it in your new figures you’re gonna put out next week to scare everybody about bicycles?” Do you realize what a bunch of wusses we’re becoming? Just an absolute bunch of wusses, so selfish, so focused on ourselves, feeling sorry for ourselves, thinking we’re the biggest victims. Ten thousand kids go to the hospital every year! Maybe so, but at least we have hospitals. What if there were no hospitals. We handle these things, folks. We’re adults; they’re kids. We take care of them. One thing missing from this story was — and it’s rare when this happens — no reference to minority kids and girls hardest hit by bike accidents.
Story #5: Fewer Deaths Hurting Iraq Funeral Business
RUSH: No matter what the news, it has to be bad. There was recently a news story from Iraq and the focal point of the news was, “Are we sure we really want fewer people to die? Because the Iraqi gravediggers association, the funeral parlor, and so forth are in a pinch.”
Now, just stop and think of that, folks! Literally stop and think of that. The narrative and the template in Iraq is such that the news has got to be bad no matter what. So we’ve been clamoring and talking about all the increased deaths and the citizen deaths and the soldier deaths, and this is horrible. Now they’re going down, and nobody can deny it. But the narrative still is, “We shouldn’t have been in Iraq in the first place. We shouldn’t have gone to Iraq. We’ve botched it. We’re making a whole mess. The world hates us,” and so the narrative of negativity has to survive, and it did by claiming that these fewer deaths are putting a real strain on the funeral business in Iraq! And, of course, what are we supposed to do — start killing more people so the funeral business comes back in Iraq? This is why I don’t think these people have a clue anymore how they are now interpreted and understood.
Story #6: Bleep Yeah! Cursing at Work Boosts Morale
RUSH: How about this? “Cussing and Swearing at Work Boosts Team Morale and Spirit.” [Bleep] yeah, man! We’ve known this around the EIB Network for who knows how long. You would not believe the lingo that gets bandied about here behind closed doors.
Story #7: Scavengers Steal from Dying Arizona Man
RUSH: You know, this is the kind of story that can really destroy your faith in your fellow citizens; it can challenge your upbeat version of mankind. The story out of Mesa, Arizona: “The sight of an old man being hit by a truck in Arizona touched off a feeding frenzy among witnesses who allegedly stole the dying victim’s groceries. Not only were the man’s groceries taken, but the only person who tried to help him also had his own bags taken. Mesa police told KPHO-TV in nearby Phoenix that the scavengers could face theft charges if they are eventually tracked down. The elderly victim was waiting for a bus Tuesday night when a pickup truck swerved off the road and plowed into the stop. The man was sent flying as were his bags of groceries. As the truck sped off with a white plastic bag flapping on its grill, witnesses began grabbing whatever scattered food they could get their hands on. Boro Mitrovich, who was himself nearly struck, said he ran to help the man and had his bag disappear as well. ‘One minute it was on the ground, the next minute it was gone,’ Mitrovich told KPHO.” Stealing an old man’s groceries right after he gets hit! There is one positive thing, and that is that an old man was able to afford groceries in America. This is something that the Democrats tell us is not possible.
Story #8: Oakland Passes New Outdoor Smoking Rules
RUSH: Here’s another great example of your wacko government at work. This is Oakland, California, where officials there “have passed new rules putting restrictions on where smokers can light up. The Oakland City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday that makes it illegal to smoke in outdoor dining areas, ATM lines, parks and bus stops. Smoking will also be banned in child care centers and municipal golf courses. Besides prohibiting smoking in some areas, the new rules will require landlords and condominium owners to notify prospective tenants and buyers of the smoking status of units they intend to move into.” The new law will go into effect in one week. Now, I know this is not news. New York is restrictive as this, other than the condo thing, although that’s starting to creep in here, I saw that in the local paper the other day, certain parts of the Bronx and the Queens area. It’s just a matter of time before they move into this whole, “You can’t smoke in your house, your apartment, your condo,” or whatever.
The point here is, again I say, your federal government, your state government, your city government is taxing cigarettes, and they are using those taxes, and they are astronomical, to pay for all kinds of things, including child health care. If they continue to restrict the use of this product, nobody’s going to buy it. Why buy it if you can’t smoke it, and why smoke cigarettes or cigars if you run the risk of having the authorities come down on you? Do you realize the ACLU and others will defend to the end of their existence a terrorist’s right to be a terrorist. You end up getting caught smoking in a building in New York City, or in Oakland, or wherever, and the board of health finds out about it, and you get Gestapo-like warnings and fines, and they keep an eye on you, and this is how they control your behavior. You get to the point where, “Can I light up here?” outside this is happening. Pretty soon they’re going to ban these clusters of smokers outside buildings because it looks bad. The point is, these brainiacs are raising all this money off of this product, and they’re in the process of severely limiting its use. At some point, the revenue from all these taxes on tobacco products is not going to meet what they’ve all projected because there aren’t going to be enough people buying the stuff since they can’t smoke cigarettes or cigars, and bammo, the rest of you will be targeted for your taxes to go up because the programs can’t get canceled.
Story #9: Be on the Lookout for More ChiCom Lead
RUSH: Well, the Dalai Lama is getting his Congressional Medal of Honor, and the ChiComs are livid about this. That means you can look for more lead in products exported from China to us, the good guys.
Story #10: Nobel Prize Winner: Africans Less Intelligent
RUSH: How about this story from the UK Independent: “One of the world’s most eminent scientists was embroiled in an extraordinary row last night after he claimed that black people were less intelligent than white people and the idea that ‘equal powers of reason’ were shared across racial groups was a delusion.” Africans are less intelligent than westerners, according to this scientist. He is a pioneer in DNA. He has won a Nobel Prize. Well, duh. “James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in the unraveling of DNA who now runs one of America’s leading scientific research institutions, drew widespread condemnation for comments he made ahead of his arrival in Britain today for a speaking tour at venues including the Science Museum in London. The 79-year-old geneticist reopened the explosive debate about race and science in a newspaper interview in which he said Western policies towards African countries were wrongly based on an assumption that black people were as clever as their white counterparts when ‘testing’ suggested the contrary. He claimed genes responsible for creating differences in human intelligence could be found within a decade,” and that they will be different by race.
Now, this is not his first brush with controversy. “In 1997, he told a British newspaper that a woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual. He later insisted he was talking about a ‘hypothetical’ choice which could never be applied.” Oh? I have often wondered what’s going to happen when gene science progresses to the point that they’re going to be able to tell you not just that your kid may be gay, but it’s going to be fat, prone toward obesity, redheaded, freckles and so forth, and the parents, “Ah, I wouldn’t want to bring a child into the world like that.” You’re going to see the fastest turnaround from pro-choice to pro-life if they ever find this gay gene, if there is one. You wait, and this guy alluded to it. People like him are trying to find it. That’s what geneticists do. He later insisted, of course, it was a hypothetical choice.
“He has also suggested a link between skin colour and sex drive, positing the theory that black people have higher libidos, and argued in favour of genetic screening and engineering on the basis that ‘stupidity’ could one day be cured. He has claimed that beauty could be genetically manufactured, saying: ‘People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.'” This guy won a Nobel Prize! I guess he got a Nobel Prize in science. Now, you have to wonder about this guy. He’s 79 years old, so that may be one factor here. Even if you think this, you have to be careful who you say this kind of stuff to. Political correctness does not allow this kind of, “This is what I think. I’m in this business, this is my business, genetics, this is what I think.” Doesn’t allow this. This guy, have they ever taken the Nobel away from anybody? I’m not aware of it.
Story #11: Two Stories of “Poverty” in California
RUSH: A couple of stories, both from the Left Coast: one from San Francisco; one from Los Angeles. Let’s do Los Angeles first and we’ll get to your phone calls here el quicko. “‘Poverty line out of touch with costs, advocates say‘ — A report by the California Budget Project estimates that a two-working-parent family in L.A. needs $74,044 to make ends meet.” Are they saying that should be the new poverty line? “A person working full-time for the state’s minimum wage of $7.50 an hour earns $15,600 annually. But a single adult in Los Angeles needs to make $28,126 a year to live modestly, while a single parent needs $62,393, according to the California Budget Project, the policy group behind the report being released today. A two-parent family in Los Angeles with one working member needs $51,035, while a two-working-parent family needs $74,044, the report calculated. Calculations were based on families who do not receive healthcare through employment, rent rather than own real estate and have a car.” Ahhhh! You see, if you read far enough here, and you don’t have to read very far, you see what this is really all about.
“They don’t have any health care, Mr. Limbaugh! They don’t have any health care! They’re good people, but they don’t have any health care, we need Hillary health care,” is what this is all about, plain and simple. “‘The standard of living envisioned is more than a “bare bones existence,”‘ the report says, ‘yet covers only basic expenses, allowing little to no room for “extras” such as college savings, vacations, or emergencies.’ … The report ‘really points out the need for healthcare reform,’ said Annelle Grajeda, president of the Service Employees International Union Local 721. ‘That part of our everyday life should be taken care of.'” Of course, absolutely right, health care should be taken care of. Yes. But at 74 grand a year with a family of four, you can’t afford it, but you can be on the SCHIP program if the Democrats got their way. This is so insidious.
Out of the San Francisco Chronicle: “A Bay Area Couple with Two Kids Can’t Make it on $50,000 a Year,” and, of course, we start out with an example. “Maria Frias thinks of herself as middle class. She works as an office manager for Bay Area Legal Aid…” Sigh… Get a real job! “…where she draws a salary of about $27,000 a year. Her husband, Ricardo, drives a laundry truck and takes in about $26,000.” Well, have him work for Legal Aid. You’d increase your annual by a thousand. “But all they can afford is a $750-a-month, one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco’s Excelsior neighborhood. They sleep in the same room as their daughters, Stephanie, 10, and Andrea, 6. They have no telephone. And Frias has to set aside about $400 a month to pay off a credit card balance that went into collection. ‘It’s so hard,’ Frias said. ‘I’m falling behind.’ The hard truth is that $53,000 a year doesn’t cut it anymore in the Bay Area. Tens of thousands of working families in the region, even those with what many would consider decent-paying jobs, find a modestly comfortable standard of living is out of their reach.”
This is not a secret. Everybody talks about real estate prices and so forth. They have been higher in San Francisco than even in New York at times in the last 15 or 20 years. Just totally ridiculous. “A family of four in the Bay Area with two working adults must earn $77,069 –” You need three grand a year more in San Francisco if you’re a family of four, just to pay for basic necessities, a study released today calculated — oh, well, looky here, it’s the California Budget Project again. Why, it’s in two different newspapers. Granted it’s a California story. Isn’t this amazing, ladies and gentlemen? So let me see, where’s the health care reference in this story? Oh, there it is, child health care. If you read the story far enough, you’ll find out what this is really all about.
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Story #1: McCain for Senate Apology on Slavery, Segregation
RUSH: Listen to this. This is from Bill Sammon today in the Examiner. It’s a story out of Columbia, South Carolina. “Republican presidential candidate John McCain said [yesterday] the Senate should apologize for slavery and segregation, calling them ‘dark chapters in our history.’ McCain said he would support a planned resolution by fellow Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, who is also seeking the presidency” — he’s dropped out, I’ve heard — “to apologize for racist laws, some of which ended more than a century ago.” This makes your point. The current Senate did not author those bills! The current Senate had nothing to do with it. The current Senate cannot apologize for what the old Senate did. Now, if McCain wants to apologize personally for it for whatever reason, here we are in a presidential primary and he’s trying to resurrect himself — and, by the way, I should point out that there are a lot of people, well, I don’t know “a lot,” but there are some in the Drive-By Media who claim that he has revitalized himself. Joe Klein is one of them. I’m looking for the piece now. I’ve got too many stacks here. Anyway, he’s starting to revive himself. “John McCain is back!” Well, not with this. You know what he’s trying to do? He’s trying to get his base back, and who’s his base? The Drive-By Media. This is nonsensical.Story #2: Mrs. Clinton’s Thirty-Five Years of Experience at What?
RUSH: Let’s go presidential politics here for just a second. In the Hill newspaper today there’s a story by Bob Cusack in which Mrs. Clinton is saying she has “35 years of experience.” You know, she’s being hit pretty hard by Barack Obama (who’s fading away, by the way, big time) and the Breck Girl. The Breck Girl is saying, “She doesn’t have any experience. What experience does she have?” It’s getting a little rough out there. So Mrs. Clinton feels the need to come forth and suggest that she has a lot of “experience.”
“In a concerted effort to deflect attacks on her presidential credentials, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and her allies repeatedly say she has 35 years of relevant experience. She has been an elected official only seven years, but the drumbeat of sound bites and statements touting the 35-year figure appears to have paid off. Even her Democratic rivals prefer to assail her electability rather than her experience.” What experience does she have? You know, folks, she’s got 35 years of experience in bimbo eruptions, and I’m not trying to be funny. Well, Dawn, you can sit in there and laugh, and I know it is funny, but she does. Thirty-five years experience with bimbo eruptions. But what else does she have experience doing that you can point to and say it was done well? She took over education in Arkansas. I think Arkansas ranked like in the low forties when she took over. When she left, when they left and she was through running it, it was 49th. She bollixed that. About the only thing you can say she did well and did right was the cattle futures thing, $10,000 became $100,000, or $1,000 became $100,000, whatever it was. But she goofed up the administrative duties of the health care plan in 1994, ’93. She messed up handling the Paula Jones case.
You can go down a list of things here. I ask people every time Hillary comes up and they start talking about her, “Stop, stop. Would you tell me why in the world we’re even talking about her? Why in the world does this woman qualify as being the only one person who can be the architect of health care reform in this country? Where did this notion settle in? The first time she tried it, it was horrible, and the details of her plan were frightening. It went nowhere once people found out about it.” Where does this assumption come from? It’s remarkable that somebody who really has done nothing of any consequence — even in the Senate, frankly — can talk about how she’s going to change various industries, how she’s going to fight wars. If she’s elected, folks, she’s going to have less experience than any president who comes to mind. Her entire record, such as it is, is full of talk about what she supported, what she said 35 years ago, where she traveled to, who she spoke to. There’s nothing there. There’s no “there” there. All she can point to are the things she cared about, the things she thought about, the people she “fought” and beat, but there’s no rsum here. This is something we were talking yesterday, about don’t accept the premise or the various premises of liberalism.
One of the premises here is: “She’s the smartest woman in the world.”
“Evidence, please? Can we have the evidence?”
“She’s the only woman that can handle health care! She cares about it so much.”
“Evidence, please? Can we have the evidence?”
She was not a great lawyer based on her own activities in Arkansas. She’s never run anything of consequence. She never produced anything. She has never employed more than 14 people or so in her Senate office, but she doesn’t have to make that payroll. You make the payroll! You pay for her staff. You pay for her. She can talk about bills that she introduced and advocacy groups that she supported, but that doesn’t mean very much. She damns every industry and insists that they need to be controlled by government, their profits need to be taken. We’ve been sold a bill of goods, ladies and gentlemen, about how smart and about how experienced Hillary Rodham Clinton is. The fact is, she has never shown us anything in anything she’s ever done, how smart she is. She has no experience that relates to serving as president. The things that we know that she’s done, we all question. We all wonder why in the world she’s receiving accolades for this stuff when they were botched. Yeah, she was first lady. But I’m talking about the kind of experience you earn on your own, that makes you prepared for the presidency. First lady is the first lady, but at the end of the day, nothing was on her shoulders. No full-fledged constitutional responsibility was on her shoulders, and she didn’t get elected. She probably doesn’t realize that. “Blue plate special: Buy one, get one free.” She probably thinks she was, but she wasn’t. So she can take on whatever she wanted to take on that her husband gave her. At the end of the day, it’s not her responsibility. She’s never been a diplomat. She’s never been a governor. She’s never been a general. She’s never worked in any of the industries that she wants to regulate.
Story #3: Harris Poll: Americans Less Pessimistic on Iraq
RUSH: A poll out there: “Whether because of the news from Iraq, or the messages from the White House, Americans are less pessimistic than they were about the future prospects in Iraq. The percentage of those who believe that things are getting better for U.S. troops has increased from 13 percent in March and 20 percent in August to 25 percent now. Those who believe things are getting worse…” this is a Harris Poll, by the way. “Those who believe things are getting worse have fallen from 55% in January to only 32% now.” The Drive-Bys have been covering stuff like this up. We’re not reporting any good news out of Iraq.
Story #4: Democrats Wasted Lots of Money on SCHIP Fight
RUSH: By the way, folks, it would be worthwhile to point out that the Democrats spent a ton of money trying to override the president’s S-CHIP veto. They were running commercials against various Republicans in their districts about this. It didn’t work, but they spent a lot of money out there on this and still failed to override that veto. That’s salient, and needs to be mentioned.
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Story #1: Congrats to Louisiana Governor-Elect Bobby Jindal
RUSH: By the way, congratulations to Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, a 36-year-old Republican elected governor over there on a platform of cleaning up corruption. You have to understand: This isn’t supposed to happen. Liberals aren’t supposed to be losing elections here when they’re “about to win the White House,” quote, unquote. This is not supposed to happen, especially in a state that they have run since the 1800s. So, congratulations to him. It’s absolutely great.Story #2: Philadelphia Is Uglo-American Capital
RUSH: We announced the Dingy Harry smear letter in Philadelphia on the night of October the 11th, so imagine what I thought when I read this: “Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States,” this according to a survey of visitors and residents. It was published on Friday. “The city of more than 1.5 million people was also found to be among the least stylish, least active, least friendly and least worldly…” This is distressing and disturbing to me because I received one of the warmest, loudest, longest sustained greetings, several standing ovations, during my presentation that I can recall.
Guess who Philadelphia just barely beat out? This I can understand. Washington, DC, was next up as an Uglo-American capital, but then it was Dallas/Fort Worth. Now, I wouldn’t put Dallas/Fort Worth near the bottom in Uglo-Americans. Every time I’ve been down there, which is somewhat frequently… Dallas, Uglo-American capital of the world? Have you seen the women down there? That just can’t be. I don’t know how in the world Dallas/Fort Worth ended up in this. But anyway, “Philadelphians’ self-esteem has been undermined by national surveys showing they are among the fattest people in the United States,” including the ugliest. “The American Obesity Association ranked the city in the top 10 for overweight people every year between 2000 and 2005.” Stunning and shocking.
Story #3: A Whole Stack of Teacher Sex Scandal Stories
RUSH: I have, as a result of show prep today, one, two, three, four, five, six stories! We have a special stack today for teacher abuse stories. This is unbelievable, 2,750 cases. This is a survey by AP. “Five years of state disciplinary actions against teachers found 2,570 educators were punished for sexual misconduct. In the cases where the victim’s gender was clear, the large proportion were female.” What does that mean? In the cases where the victim’s gender was clear? What am I missing here? Oh, okay. Some of it’s not reported. I guess you can’t tell from names anymore. This doesn’t say anything about not being reported. This said, in cases where the victim’s gender was clear. Let’s not go any further. This is just typical journalism today. The large proportion were female. “But the boys who were drawn into sexual relationships with their female teachers get an overwhelming amount of attention, especially when the woman’s attractive.” Well, duh! These people have no clue about human nature. At any rate, they’re “the subject of heavy news coverage, jokes from late night TV comics, websites with photos, videos…” Oh, I see what they’re saying: The press is saying when the teacher is from Philadelphia or Dallas/Fort Worth or Washington — the Uglo-American capitals of the country — it doesn’t get as much coverage because the female teachers are not attractive.
“What’s more likely to be described as rape or sexual abuse when the victim is female turns into a tryst or a sexual liaison when the perpetrator is female and the victim is male. Sexual misconduct by teachers is remarkably common in American schools,” according to AP, “but how Americans react to it is deeply split depending on the victim’s gender.” Then there’s another story in this stack that says that 4.5 million have been abused, in these 2,500 cases. We’re talking about groped, being raped, pursued, seduced, end up thinking that they are in love, 4.5 million have been abused.
And then, there’s this story from today in the Los Angeles Times: “‘Professor Makes a Case for Faculty-Student Romance.’ — UCLA’s Paul Abramson argues that colleges shouldn’t restrict dating by consenting adults — provided grades aren’t involved.” He’s leading a campaign so professors can hit on their students. It’s as basic a right as free speech, he says, when both are adults.
“To allay legal fears, he suggests an alternative: All faculty and students would read and sign a release (a ‘love contract’) that would warn about the power differences and favoritism that can arise from faculty-student dating. They then would promise, as in a medical release, not to hold the school responsible if the romance goes sour.” Of course, this is a responsible approach, ladies and gentlemen, this is the adult response; this is the evolving approach here as our culture continues to, uh, evolve. So to protect the professor when the romance goes south, both will sign a love contract, claiming that they will not sue each other and the student won’t sue the school, as long as it can be perfectly ascertained that there was no influence on grades involved here. So while we’ve got all these cases of abuse, which we’re not even talking about the mental results of this, the emotional scarring of these young kids in junior high and high school, now we’ve got this guy at UCLA who wants to sanction this under the guise of a love contract. If that ever got done, don’t you know that would filter down, they’d find a way to get around the consenting adults business in the other schools.
Story #4: Dr. Roy Spencer on Why We Can’t Steer Hurricanes
RUSH: Before we get to the audio sound bites, ladies and gentlemen, of the Republican debate last night, a story in the UK Telegraph that basically says, “Based on computer model simulations, researchers think that they can spread pulverized car tires through the clouds to affect the path of a hurricane.” Now, supposedly turning a part of the hurricane into a giant solar collector would affect how the whole storm evolves by a tiny bit, changing its track. I ran this by our official climatologist here at the EIB Network. That would be Dr. Roy Spencer. Dr. Spencer said there are so many pitfalls to this idea it’s hard to know where to start. First of all, you have to understand Dr. Spencer is a scientist.
Dr. Spencer says, “It’s not like we’re ever going to be able to give the storm a giant shove to one side. In order to move a big hurricane, it would probably take many nuclear weapons, days before landfall, to accomplish something like that. Instead, the idea partly takes advantage of the butterfly effect. According to the butterfly effect, everything affects the weather at some point in the future. A tiny change in one location will supposedly over the course of several weeks dramatically change global weather patterns. Of course, since there are an almost infinite number of small and large influences going on all the time, the butterfly effect has little practical significance. Also note that the butterfly effect in this story, Rush, can only be demonstrated with a computer model. In reality, you cannot change one tiny thing in the atmosphere to see how it affects weather later because you don’t know exactly how weather would have changed without that tiny change.”
So you can only do this on models. You would never be able to know if what you did worked. Let’s say they got a bunch of granulated car tires and they throw ’em into a hurricane and all of a sudden it changes direction. How do we know the granulated car tires made it happen, because had we not put the car tires in there, it might have made the same turn. We’ll never know once we start affecting things like this. But, of course, the computer models are gospel. Computer models, in fact, are the bible of global warming, ladies and gentlemen. Computer models are the scripture of the religion of global warming, and so whatever the models say, we will believe it. All of this leads to the next problem. That is that you don’t know all of the different big things that are going to happen in, say, the next few days that will alter the hurricane’s course anyway, for example, a cluster of storms that happens to form on one side of the hurricane rather than the other side.
You would have to be able to predict the weather in advance for many days in order to know exactly where the storm is going to go and then try to change its direction slightly days in advance. This is totally preposterous and foolhardy. This cannot be the work of genuine scientists coming up with this. This is so laughable. All you have to do is look at this year. I have shared with you my observations. I’m just a layman when it comes to all of this. But I have gotten the biggest kick out of they got a little storm out there and they’ve been desperate for storms this year obviously so they’ve been naming the subtropical storms. That’s never happened before. Then they put all these models out, these tracks on where it’s going to go, and there is likely quite a bit of divergence in the tracks, so the hurricane center will pick the middle of the various tracks if there’s a wide convergence just to be safe. But nobody knows where they’re going to go, and these haven’t developed. Four of them have developed into hurricanes. One was a Cat One that went into Texas. I think they fudged that Cat One just to be able to call it a hurricane. Two of them went down there into the Yucatan Peninsula area. I forget where the fourth one went.
We’ve had nine hurricanes since Hurricane Katrina and all the global warming people were predicting massive 15 to 20 hurricanes a year after that because of global warming. It has been laughable to watch the hurricane experts this year desperately trying to make every disturbance out in the Caribbean or the Atlantic into a hurricane or a huge tropical storm and they’ve all fizzled. What’s caused them to fizzle this year, apparently, is wind shear, which wasn’t supposed to happen this year because the La Nia/El Nio effect was not conducive. Yet there’s been a lot of wind shear ripping the tops off of storms. Before they discovered wind shear, it was Saharan Desert dust that was screwing these. The bottom line is that to come up with computer models like this to suggest throwing a bunch of granulated car tires into a portion of the hurricane is going to cause it to move in a predictable way is simply stupid! It is simply not possible, because you don’t know for sure what it’s going to do before you drop the granulated car tires.
By the way, the purpose of the granulated car tires is that they’re black, rubber — supposed to attract solar energy, and that new solar energy introduced into the storm is supposed to have some sort of impact. But then when do you do it? Do you wait for two days out? Do you do it a week out? When do you do this? The audacity of people who think that we’re on the verge of being able to steer hurricanes, and it’s the same bunch of people no doubt who believe in global warming models. It’s getting more and more ridiculous with the passing of each day.
Story #5: Bin Laden to Broadcast Democrat Talking Points
RUSH: Hey, news flash here, folks. Al-Jazeera has announced that it will soon air another audiotape by Osama Bin Laden with the subject being Iraq, which means more Democrat Party talking points are soon to be coming our way via al-Jazeera. Snerdley is sending me a note here, “Are you sure Bin Laden’s not going to be talking about phony soldiers?” Ha, ha! Would that not be great? ‘Bin Laden reads Media Matters for America, too.’ Bin Laden with a tape on phony soldiers… Oh, no, we couldn’t be that lucky. However, we’re hearing a rumor that the subject matter of Osama Bin Laden’s new audiotape is, in fact, the SCHIP program — the State Children’s Health Insurance Program — and how money could be better spent if it was taken from Iraq and put into that program.
Story #6: Someday, We’re Going to Wake Up with No Energy
RUSH: You know, folks, one day we are going to wake up, and we are going to have a real severe domestic energy shortage. One day we’re going to wake up and we’re not going to have any energy. Get this. “On Thursday, for the first time in American history a state…” in this case Kansas “…denied an electricity producer a construction license for a coal-fired power plant due to manmade global warming fears.” It was reported by the New York Times on Saturday. “The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday turned down a permit for twin 700-megawatt coal-fired generators that a group of electric cooperatives is seeking to build near Holcomb in southwest Kansas. The ownership and the electricity would be shared by 67 cooperatives in Kansas and neighboring states.” Roderick Bremby, secretary of the Department of Health and Environment in Kansas, said in a statement, “I believe it would be irresponsible to ignore emerging information about the contribution of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to climate change and the potential harm to our environment and health if we do nothing.”
The Washington Post reported on this Friday, and they said: “The decision marks a victory for environmentalist wacko groups…” they didn’t publish “wacko”; I threw it in there “…that are fighting proposals for new coal-fired plants around the country. It may be the first of a series of similar state actions inspired by a Supreme Court decision in April that asserted that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide should be considered pollutants under the Clean Air Act.” That’s just outrageous. It’s just absurd. I’ll tell you, the Chinese are going to continue to build coal-fired plants. They won’t let us use nuclear. They won’t let us drill for oil. Now they’re shutting down, this is the first of a trend, the destruction of new coal-fired plants. Coal is our most abundant energy resource. We got tons of it. And they’re going to try to shut this down. We’re going to be in heap big trouble, folks. We’re going to be in deep doo-doo if this trend spreads. With the Supreme Court granting the EPA the right to treat this stuff as pollutants and so forth, now the court gets involved in energy creation in our country. And, of course, it’s all based on a total hoax. It’s like the alternative universe.
This guy at this Kansas department knows only one thing on global warming. He hasn’t tried to find out if Gore’s movie is chock-full of lies, if the science behind it is not a consensus and is also fraudulent. It’s like the same people who refuse to see the truth about the Dingy Harry smear letter he wrote to me. They think that whatever Media Matters said I said, that I said. So many damn closed-minded people on the left and they profess to be the open-minded among us, they see the gray, they see the nuance. These people are the most closed-minded, shut away from reality I have ever encountered among the sane, and that’s saying something. They’re literally shut-ins. They are shut in away from reality by design, on purpose, so they don’t have to have their little cozy world turned upside down by evidence that conflicts with the falsehoods they tell themselves in order to feel good every day.
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Story #1: Laugher: Democrats to Circumvent Drive-By Media!
RUSH: The Politico has an amazing story today. It’s a story by Patrick O’Connor. The headline is a laugher; I was rolling on the floor when I saw it this morning: “Battered Democrats to Circumvent Mainstream Media.” Ha, ha! “House Democrat leaders concerned about the public’s downbeat view of Congress launched a PR offensive today to polish the image of the new majority after a series of legislative setbacks this month. The campaign, ranging from traditional events to conference calls with groups outside of Washington, is designed…” Well, they’ve been doing all of this. They’ve been doing it behind closed doors and under the cover of darkness. “Democratic operatives believe that Washington reporters are so fixated on the party’s standoff with President Bush over Iraq, that no other message is reaching the public.” Come on, you guys! You talked about me for 17 days, almost three weeks! You talked about S-CHIP for two weeks! Whatever Democrats want to talk about, the Drive-By Media follows suit. We’re dropping Iraq because the news is good over there — and so, therefore, there’s no news. They think they have to circumvent the Drive-Bys, now? Whoa! Whoa! They really believe the mainstream media is sabotaging them and not getting their message out. This is unbelievable.Story #2: Bush Approval at 38%; Congress at 25%
RUSH: This is from TheHill.com: “Pelosi to Launch PR Blitz to Beat ’08 Media Frenzy.” What is this? How do you promote a positive message when you’re talking about surrender? When you are immersed and invested in defeat, when you hope the US military loses, how do you put a positive spin on that?
The latest poll that has them all bugged, Bush at 38% approval, Congress at 25%. It’s a Stan Greenberg poll, and the message here: “In a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter sent last week to lawmakers, the six senior House Democratic leaders noted that bipartisan majorities have passed lobbying and ethics reforms, an increase in the minimum wage, a massive increase in student aid, legislation to implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations and other initiatives that President Bush has signed into law. Democratic leaders want the rank and file to do more to publicize those details, because they are concerned that the public is unaware of those accomplishments.” They aren’t accomplishments! Compared to what the Democrats’ expectations were of this bunch of misfits that they elected to the majority in November last year, this is diddly-squat. This is absolutely nothing.
So you go out and tell the voters we passed a bunch of things that haven’t taken effect or are ineffective. I’ll tell you something, in the bowels of the House, the Democratic leadership is seriously concerned and pondering the IQ of Nancy Pelosi. This business of the Turkey-Armenian thing? That resolution? A disaster! Absolute disaster! They had to abandon her on this to save themselves. I’m telling you, I have a couple quotes in the stack here about how worried the leadership in the House is, and they ought to be worried — as well as the Senate.
Story #3: Contrast: Qualcomm Stadium vs. Superdome
RUSH: Here is an interesting story. It’s a good thing Ray Nagin is not in California. This is the AP. “Civility Reigns at San Diego Stadium — Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years ago in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled to Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, waiting out the calamity, worrying about their homes. The similarities ended there as an almost festive atmosphere reigned at Qualcomm Stadium.” They had bands there! “Bands were belting out rock ‘n’ roll. There were lavish buffets serving gourmet entres. There were massage therapists to help relieve…” I kid you not, “massage therapists to reveal the stress of those forced to flee their homes because of wildfires. ‘The people are happy. They have everything here,’ Governor Schwarzenegger declared Monday night after his second Qualcomm tour.” Now, “Although anxieties ran high the misery index seemed low. As the governor waded through the mob, scarcely a complaint was registered with him.” Everybody was asking for pictures with Arnold. Now, in fairness, we have to mention that Qualcomm is not threatened by fire at the moment. The Superdome was right in the middle of Hurricane Katrina and the roof blew open. So it’s not quite a perfect comparison, but it still is juicy.
What, Snerdley? Well, that’s the thing. I don’t know how many people might have just shown up for a massage and didn’t lose a home. If I found out they’re doing massages in there and have gourmet entres, I’d say, “Yeah my home is threatened, here. I saw it on the news. The Drive-Bys say so,” and they get in there and so forth. But it is an interesting contrast nevertheless. It’s just a fascinating contrast. San Diego is, in large part, conservative community-oriented. Louisiana is not. People are pitching in and so forth. It’s just a fascinating contrast, I think.
Story #4: Unity Parade in Iraq Day After Bin Laden Tape
RUSH: You know, Bin Laden puts out this tape from al-Jazeera in which he demands “unity” from Al-Qaeda in Iraq. He sounds like Mrs. Clinton when he says, “Look, we have to hang together here. Going our own way individually is not good. We have be part of a team,” so forth and so on — which is hilarious, because I have a story here from the AP out of Baghdad. “To showcase the success of the tribal alliance,” the Sunnis and the Shi’a, “the US military plans a unification parade today in Ramadi, the Anbar provincial capital.” Ha, ha! So while Bin Laden is calling for “unity,” the tribal sheiks have put together a unity parade in Ramadi! Ha! This is so bad for the Democrats. Everything they’re trying to do is falling apart.
Story #5: Arnold Uses Inmates to Fight Fires
RUSH: I can’t be sure about this… Yes. “Inmate fire crews assist firefighters.” Saw it some time ago on Fox, but I wasn’t sure I saw it. Governor Schwarzenegger has sent inmates — I assume this means prisoners, people behind prison walls who are being let out — to join firefighters. Inmate fire crews? Does that mean the fire crew at a prison? Inmate fire crews. (They could be the schools, too. I always look at school as a prison.) Anyway, “Governor Schwarzenegger is sending inmates out to assist real firefighters in battling the California blaze.” Now, what do you think of that, folks? I’ll tell you what. Yes, Snerdley? No, he’s not risking the felon vote. He’s gaining it. He’s angling for the felon vote. I just find it fascinating they’re letting inmates out of there, but they’re not using illegals to join the firefighting crews out in California.
Story #6: Racism Charged in Hillary/Chinatown Investigation
RUSH: We were talking about Mrs. Clinton yesterday and the Chinatown dishwashers, $1,000, $2,000, from people who live in tenements, reporting addresses that are actually clinics for STDs, hemorrhoids, and other things. The Washington Post has a blog today, and actually, it’s hilarious. They’re trying to turn — I’m not going to read the blog to you, but we’ll link to it at the website — the scrutiny of these donations and the abuse of these people into racism! The LA Times and the New York Post trying to find out who these people are in Chinatown is nothing more than racism to the Washington Post. Now, I would think that a group — and this group is identified here as the one charging racism, an Asian interest group — that has, as its purpose, the reputation of the Asian-American community, would be concerned about how these individuals were put upon to make donations, when they were dishwashers and the like, and how the community was used to launder money in cases where there were no donors. If I were a genuine, honest representative of the Asian community, I would be more concerned about that than charging racism against people trying to find out who these people are.
Story #7: Snap Judgments Better Than Intense Study?
RUSH: This is from the Associated Press: “People asked to rate the competence of an individual based on a quick glance at a photo predicted the outcome of elections more than two-thirds of the time. Nearly 300 students at Princeton University were asked to look at pairs of photographs for as little as one-tenth of a second and pick the individual they felt was more competent, psychologist Alexander Todorov reports in Tuesday’s issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The participants were shown photos of leading candidates for governor or senator in other parts of the country, but they were not told they were evaluating candidates. Those who recognized any of the photos were not counted. When the elections took place two weeks later, the researchers found that the competency snap judgments predicted the winners in 72.4 percent of the senatorial races and 68.6 percent of the gubernatorial races. ‘The findings suggest…”
Do you follow me on this? “‘The findings suggest that fast, unreflective judgments based on a candidate’s face can affect voting decisions,’ Todorov said in a statement.” Can? What’s this “can”? Seems like “do”, 74.4% of the time. This explains John Kerry. They didn’t test presidential candidates, but if it works for governor candidates and senatorial candidates, it would have to work for presidential candidates. This would explain Kerry’s problem. “‘The findings suggest that fast, unreflective judgments based on a candidate’s face can affect voting decisions,’ Todorov said in a statement. ‘Voters are not that rational, after all. So maybe we…” Ohhhhh, I see what this is about! Ha! This is the guy that did that survey: “Voters are not that rational, after all. So maybe we have to consider that when we elect our politicians.” So what he’s saying is: “We can’t think that because voters elected Reagan they were rational, and we can’t think that because voters elected Bush, they were irrational. It’s just that they didn’t like the looks of the Democrats who were running. What a sneaky way to attack the intelligence of voters. I reject it. I don’t doubt that this may have some truth to it, but I don’t think it says that voters are irrational.
Story #8: Bogus BBC: Cuba Begins National Elections
RUSH: The BBC has a story here, and the headline is laughable: “Cuba Begins its Election Process.” Heh-heh. “However, critics like the US and the EU, along with dissidents on the island, disagree. They say the electoral process in Cuba is merely a cosmetic democratic exercise, which has no place for government opponents, as it is fully overseen by the country’s ruling Communist Party.” You know, I was watching something this morning, channel-surfing around while waiting to go on the Scarborough show. It was Scarborough and that Mika Brzezinski babe, and they were arguing about Iraq, and they weren’t agreeing on anything. They solved it, and it was a beautiful thing, by saying, “Well, yes, there are two sides to every story.”
Well, there might be two sides to every story, but there are not two sides to facts. And the facts are that elections in Cuba are bogus! They are irrelevant! They don’t matter a hill of beans! Elections in Iraq were bogus. So here we have the BBC: “Millions of Cubans have voted in municipal polls, starting an election cycle that could decide if Fidel Castro will officially stay Cuba’s leader.” These are idiots. These are blooming idiots. Castro’s reign is not determined by elections. Who cannot know this? What do Cubans do, put out a press release, and the BBC, because it comes from a government of a socialist dictator, believes it? Then they had to go to critics to balance the story. Two sides of a story is such… and it’s such a staple of journalism, and it is so bogus.
Story #9: Tsongas Race Makes Drive-Bys Nervous
RUSH: By the way, there was an election last week in Massachusetts fifth congressional district. “Last week’s election of Niki Tsongas should have been a moment of celebration for House Democrats. One of the party’s most successful and influential franchises, the all-Democratic Massachusetts delegation, gained a new face, its first woman in decades. A storied name in Massachusetts and national politics returned to elected office. Instead, the focus was largely on what some saw as Tsongas’s disappointingly small margin, amid growing worries that the Democratic-led Congress was going off its rails. Both the House Republican leadership and the Republican National Committee touted the fact that Jim Ogonowski, a candidate largely ignored by the national party, had come within six points of victory in a solidly Democratic district. The RNC declared that the Democratic wave had finally crested. … The big issue last week was children’s healthcare, and the exertions of Democratic leadership in moving to expand the SCHIP program,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
“It now seems as though the Republicans, despite embarrassments like the scandal surrounding Senator Larry Craig of Idaho, have regained some of their political footing.” Gasp! Blow me down! This probably is not unusual. They create these expectations of a Democrat sweep, a mind-boggling landslide. Democrats are going to take over everything because the country hates Bush; the country hates the war; the country hates Republicans. Then they have this special election, and it’s a six-point win, where it should have been a 20-point win. And now they’re all, “Oh, no.” I mean, the headline: “Congress’ Slim Victory Signals a Derailed Congress.” That slam-dunk in 2008 that they’ve got planned for themselves is getting a little shaky out there. It always comes back to bite you when you start thinking you have it in the bag and it’s a year away.
Story #10: Beltway Crowd Discovers Illegal Immigration
RUSH: This from the Washington Post today: “‘GOP Finds Hot Button in Illegal Immigration’ — Special Election in Massachusetts Could Be Indicative of Democratic Weak Spot.” Where have you people in the media been? How can you write a headline: ‘GOP Finds Hot Button in Illegal Immigration’? Did you not see how the amnesty bill was swept aside twice? Where have you been? The disconnect between people inside the Beltway, the Washington-New York-Boston axis, that Corridor, is stunning. How in the world — GOP finds hot button in illegal immigration? And then it’s portrayed here as “more worries for the Democrats. Immigration is not a winner for them.” Really? They were counting on immigration being a winner? My God, we shouldn’t have derailed it, then. Well, I don’t mean that. We shoulda let ’em keep thinking that they could win on immigration by talking the way they were talking. Amnesty is a winner? Good grief, ladies and gentlemen. Massachusetts race that was close, too close because of that issue, Republicans led on the issue. The Democrats want a mini-bill the liberals won’t support on all of this. That’s the summary of this story. But it’s the headline here: “‘GOP Finds Hot Button in Illegal Immigration’ — Special Election in Massachusetts Could Be Indicative of Democratic Weak Spot.” Good Lord.
We ought to be so much more confident than we are. We do not realize just how out of it the Democrat Party is with the American people, as evidenced by their willing accomplices in the Drive-By Media. They are just out of it on seminal, salient issues. Immigration, for crying out loud, they actually think that amnesty, the things they supported, was a winner, after it got thrown out, massive national protests twice? You know what they think? I guarantee you, the only thing they know about it and remember is they saw these million people protesting back last spring. That’s what they see. They see public protests, a bunch of lazy people who don’t have anything better to do, going out on the street, rent-a-mobs, that’s where they see strength and power. They resent those of you that called their offices and got this whole thing scuttled, you are to be beaten, you are to be overcome, you don’t tell Congress what to do, no, no, no, you don’t. They tell you what to do and this got slapped right back down their throats as well. Fascinating headline; fascinating story. I think we’re in much better shape than anybody’s willing to admit. Don’t get overconfident, don’t even talk to me about that. I’m just saying, if you look at the disarray the Democrats are in, and you see a story where they now are surprised that immigration is a hot-button issue for Republicans, sweet.
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Story #1: CNN Predicts “Century of Fires”
RUSH: I have a little story here about CNN, Anderson Cooper, Tom Foreman, and their show last night. The headline of the story says it all (Business & Media Institute is the website for the story): “CNN Predicts Possible ‘Century of Fires’ Due to Global Warming.” Now, where did we last hear this theme? We last heard this theme after Hurricane Katrina. Remember? “Oh, my gosh! Global warming! We’re going to have hurricanes that are going to wipe us out! We’re going to have 15, 20 of these babies a year! The ocean, sea surface temperatures are warming up, fuels those hurricanes, it’s going to be bad out there!” Blah, blah, blah. And, of course, we’ve only had nine hurricanes — four this year, five last (not even half the number of named storms that we had during the year of Hurricane Katrina).
Anyway, CNN has this big show on — they’re doing this week-long series – “Planet in Peril.” The president of CNN Jon Klein has sent a memo out to the staff: “Don’t irresponsibly tie the fires or these events to global warming.” Now, this comes after last night’s show, where Anderson Cooper and Tom Foreman said that the century of fires is possible now due to global warming. And if you heard it or hear about it down the road, keep in mind, ladies and gentlemen, that the last time you heard stuff like this was with hurricanes and global warming after Hurricane Katrina.Story #2: Drive-Bys Hope Scaife Loses Money in Divorce
RUSH: Seems the Drive-Bys are all excited because they hope Richard Mellon Scaife’s divorce will bankrupt him. But Richard Mellon Scaife is a piker compared to George Soros and what he’s done!
Story #3: Bill to Aid “Children of Illegal Immigrants”
RUSH: The DREAM Act failed to get cloture today, which means they tried to shut off debate, tried to get 60 votes and vote on it and make it law. It’s an amnesty bill! It’s a stealth amnesty bill, but it failed to get 52 votes. They can bring it back any time they want, but it was a Dick Durbin and Harry Reid special. So Congressional Quarterly at 1:08 this afternoon posted a story about the DREAM Act. Get this headline: “‘Senate Refuses to Consider Bill to Aid Children of Illegal Immigrants.’ The Senate on Wednesday blocked the latest effort to address the thorny immigration issue, refusing to call up legislation that would allow some children of illegal immigrants to legalize their status in the US.” That is not what this was! It was a part of it, but that’s not what this was! To allow children of illegals to legalize their status? Senate refuses to consider bill to aid children of illegal immigrants? “Do it for the children, it’s supposed to pass”; what happened here?
This bill, quite simply, would have said to any illegal, “If you can prove that you were here before you were 16, you get conditional legal status. And, by the way, bring all your friends and family in with no DNA test so you won’t have to prove that they’re your family. Just bring ’em all in, and they get conditional legal status, too.” Then they get the time spent prior to when they were 16 to now applied to their application for a green card. Legal immigrants don’t even get that! But the idea that they can report this: “Senate Refuses to Consider Bill to Aid Children of Illegal Immigrants” — this was an amnesty bill, for crying out loud! Journalistic malpractice. What’s happening in the media is bordering on criminal, folks, free speech notwithstanding. This is just outrageous.
Story #4: Mrs. Clinton to Give Up Power? Like Hell!
RUSH: I have to laugh, folks. I have to laugh at this story I just saw from the Associated Press: “Clinton Says She’d Give Up Some Powers — If elected president in 2008, Democrat [Mrs. Clinton] would consider giving up some of the executive powers President Bush and Cheney have assumed since taking office.” Hah-hah-hah! What kind of idiots do you people at the AP think we are? She’s going to “give up power” like I’m going to give her my airplane — it ain’t going to happen! She may try to take it from me with these “powers” that she can’t wait to grab… Yeah, after she nationalizes one-seventh of the economy, and after she does some other things — takes all the profits of ExxonMobil — then maybe she’ll sit back and relax for a day or two and give up some powers, but then the question becomes: “How much of it will be transferred to her husband?” I just can’t believe this story, and the Drive-Bys are buying into this. I think I’ll do a Morning Update on this — for tomorrow, in fact, ladies and gentlemen.
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Story #1: Illegal Immigrants Arrested for Stealing at Qualcomm
RUSH: Six “undocumented Mexican immigrants,” illegal immigrants, were arrested by Border Patrol agents at Qualcomm Stadium after a report they were stealing food and water meant for evacuees. Nice.Story #2: Arrogant Environmentalists on California Wildfires
RUSH: This is an AP story by Noaki Schwartz from Los Angeles: “The wind-driven infernos that are scarring vast swaths of Southern California’s landscape may leave more than just a temporary path of destruction when they are finally extinguished. The wildfires could leave a legacy of environmental devastation that will be evident for years to come, scientists say, especially in areas that have been scorched several times recently. Some of the damage may never be reversed. Invasive weeds and grasses could crowd out native plants and shrubs, accelerating erosion and leading to more frequent wildfires. Pine stands that have been a signature feature of many mountainside communities could become just a memory in places. Small birds, rabbits and other animals dependent on California’s rapidly disappearing native vegetation will struggle to maintain a foothold, while some endangered species will find themselves locked into increasingly imperiled islands of refuge.”
They won’t know what the hell’s going on! “Will find themselves…”? Do you think the endangered species even though they’re endangered — do you think they run around talking to each other about it? “My gosh, we’re locked here! We don’t have anywhere to go.” They will thrive. They will do what they have to to thrive. “Scientists say it will take years to know the extent of the long-term damage. They also say that not all the news may be grim: Nature has a way of providing pleasant surprises.” Ha! Arrogant, arrogant people! “The fires burning across San Diego County are covering much of the same territory stripped during the 2003 Cedar Fire, an area that had started the slow process of growing back. After this week’s blazes, those young, native shrubs may not come back because they are not mature enough to have dropped seeds. That could allow more flammable invasive plants to take root, experts said. ‘If you want to get rid of native shrubland, this is how you do it,’ said Rick Halsey with the California Chaparral Institute, as he watched a hillside burn near his home in Escondido. ‘The problem now is you get a habitat covered by exotic weeds, and that can regenerate every single year and carry a fire every single year.’ … California’s natural landscape is engineered to benefit from periodic fires.” Really?
Story #3: Popular Mechanics: The Big Burn of 1910
RUSH: There was a huge fire in 1910, in August of 1910. It was called “The Big Burn.” You can read about this in Popular Mechanics. It was in Idaho and Montana, and it was whipped up by a cold front. You know how many acres burned in The Big Burn in Idaho and Montana August of 1910? Try three million acres. I don’t think we’re up to even 400,000 yet in California. I’m not trying to diminish this fire. Please don’t misunderstand. It’s just that everybody wants you to think: “This is it’s the worst it’s been!” You just heard this report that I read. Eco-disaster awaits! A fire is Mother Nature, folks, and it does what it does. If we weren’t around that fire would not be put out. Now, here’s an interesting little passage from the Popular Mechanics story on the Big Burn that I want to share with you, because I have caught grief — I can’t tell you how much grief I have caught over the years — when I have made the statement that we have more forestland, more tree-covered acreage in the country today, than we had back at the founding [of the country]. They ask, why did the Big Burn burn? Why did it burn three million acres? Because we had too many trees when we don’t cut them down!
“Because fire has not been allowed to thin forests naturally, land that has historically had 30 trees per acre now has 300 to 3000 per acre — resulting in plenty of fuel for the next lightning strike. In fact, the area of forestland that burned between 1994 and 2002 more than tripled from 2.5 million to 7 million acres.” This goes back to the fact we are not thinning the forests because the environmentalist wackos say, “Those trees precious! You can’t cut down those trees. This is horrible.” Earth First, an early movement in the logging business trying to shut them down. The spotted owl controversy was all part of this. “We want to preserve the pristine nature of the forest,” and what have you. Who can define ‘pristine’? For pristine, you’d have to go back to Creation. What the hell was it? Was there even a North America continent in creation? Doubt it. So what is pristine? We’ve let these people take hold of us and policy under the guise that they are preservationists. They’re preserving things, and they’re making sure that nothing is destroyed. Mother Nature destroys herself or elements of herself, all the time. The stuff grows back. Now they got this doom and gloom going on in California, “Oh, hell is going to freeze over here! We’re going to be overrun by wild weeds and there are going to be fires every year!”
Story #4: 1936 Was Worst Year for Wildfires in California
RUSH: There are fires every year in Southern California. There are mudslides every year, too. We do what we can to thrive, and that means alter our environment. The next thing I looked at: 1936 was the hottest year on record for this country. It is important to note that 1933 was a time when there was no CO2 hysteria. Nobody worried about how much carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, footprints. None of that was happening in 1936; 1936 is a time when it couldn’t be argued that man pumped the atmosphere so full of CO2 that he caused the planet to get sick and global warming. There was nothing going on in 1936 like it’s going on now. So if you go Google “1936” and “California wildfires,” this is what you find. The article, by the way, was written in May 16, 2007. It’s a Reuters story. “During Santa Ana conditions, fires can be sparked by lightning or by people through arson, machinery running near dry brush, campfires or carelessly tossed cigarettes. Though California wildfires make worldwide news as the latest natural disaster to befall the state, experts say they have been occurring regularly since before the region was settled by Europeans. ‘It’s a natural phenomenon, just part of Mother Nature’s way of cleaning out the forest,’ California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant said. ‘Sometimes we hear, “This is the worst fire season ever.” But it’s really an ongoing thing.’
“Now, if there was a worst fire season in the last century or so, Berlant said, it would probably be 1936 — when flames swept across more than 1,250 square miles of California, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island.” So all these people out there trumping global warming as the cause of this, it’s absurd. It’s asinine: 1936 was the hottest year on record, and also the worst fire season on record in California. Flames swept across more than 1,250 square miles. So 1936, hottest year on record — some a little hotter that year, man’s ego a lot smaller in 1936. No one was accusing FDR or Hitler of messing around with Mother Nature as happens today. It was a hot year. It was probably no coincidence that California experienced a historic number of fires. The only problem is it wasn’t George Bush’s fault back then. You couldn’t blame SUVs or Algore’s private jets or any of the usual suspects or culprits today. In 1936 for this huge fire in California, you cannot blame a single man. You cannot blame a single woman. You cannot blame man, period. You can blame the weather. You can blame the sun. You can blame Brother Nature — well, Mother Nature. (I look at nature as my brother.) Nevertheless, the inconvenient truth here (ahem) is that the sun warms and cools the planet. It’s been hotter in the past; it’s going to get cooler in the future. There’s nothing we can do about it, not even Algore and his movie. Reuters, May 16th, 2007: the worst California fire season was in 1936.
Story #5: Great Chicago Fire of 1871 Was Deadliest US Fire
RUSH: Let me ask you this, folks, staying on the subject of fires. Does anybody out there, off the top of your head, happen to know in what fire we experienced the greatest loss of life in US history? Anybody know? If you said San Francisco, you would be wrong. If you said Chicago, you would be right. It happened October 8, 1871. It also occurred during strong winds after a cold front passage. As many as 2,500 people are believed to have perished, second only to the September 11th attacks. The Great Chicago fire occurred on the same day that the great forest fires in Wisconsin and Michigan were mostly ignored. Prestigo, Wisconsin, was rapidly completely consumed by fire where a tornado of fire threw train cars and houses into the air. No historical evidence that global warming was claimed to be the cause of the Great Chicago fire. And how did it start? It started in a totally natural way.
You had a cow, God’s creation, a beast, a beast of burden, the essence of pristine nature. The cow was in a barn, a barn built by human beings to shield the cows during cold weather and to provide milk for the young children of Chicago. The cow kicked over a lantern. Nobody claimed that the cow was upset over global warming.
Story #6: Anderson Cooper Reports Greenland Falsehood
RUSH: I mention all these statistics only because of the hysteria that accompanies fires in the midst of a political crusade to establish a hoax as legitimate, that, being manmade, global warming is to the point that we’re going to destroy the planet and it’s a catastrophe and so forth. Last night on CNN, there was a report by Anderson Cooper: Greenland’s ice sheet, 30% of it gone in the past 30 years. Not true. It is total and outright false. It is an incorrect assertion. Greenland has cooled since the 1940s. The melt rate from 1920 to 1930 was twice as fast as the current melt rate in Greenland. Now, this mistake was verified with a Greenland scientist this morning, the CNN mistaken. The scientist said that if Greenland lost as much ice, 40% of its ice as CNN reported last night, there would already be a ten-foot surge in sea level.
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Story #1: Environmentalists Fueled California Fires
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RUSH: A couple things here about the fires in California. This is from the New York Times, a couple days ago. “As Californians sift through the cinders of last week’s deadly wildfires, there is a growing consensus that the state’s war against such disasters … cannot be won. ‘California has lost 1.5 million acres in the last four years,’ said Richard Minnich, a professor of earth sciences who teaches fire ecology at the University of California, Riverside. ‘When do we declare the policy a failure?'” Hey, I did it last week, Doc, when I suggested we pull the firefighters out of there. We can’t win! We can’t beat the fire. It’s too big. We’re risking of lives our brave firefighters for nothing because even if we do beat the fire this year, it’s just going to come back next year. Pull ’em outta there. I’ve already suggested that we declare the current policy a failure, but it’s not because we can’t fight the fires. It’s because we’ve made them impossible to fight with stupid environmental wacko policies. “Fire management experts,” I’m now reading from this story, “like Professor Minnich, who has compared fire histories in San Diego County and Baja California and Mexico, say the message is clear: “Mexico has smaller fires that burn out naturally regularly burning out combustible underbrush and causing relatively little destruction because the cycle is still natural. California has giant fires because its longtime policies of fire suppression in which the government has kept fires from their normal cycle has created huge pockets of fuel that…” In other words, we have Mexicans doing the jobs Americans won’t do, only this time in Mexico. The Mexicans are clearing the underbrush and limiting the size of their fires and making it easier to fight them, but we’re not doing that here. They’re thinning the forests.
I want to read a letter to the editor to you from a man from Sikeston, Missouri, a letter to the editor in southeast Missouri in my hometown and hometown newspaper. “To the editor: California is burning. The raging inferno has reminded some of hell. Remember the platitude ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’? News flash: Wood and biomass burn. The more fuel, the bigger the fire. And big fires are more likely to burn out of control. The weather is obviously the primary culprit. However, the West Coast has been working toward this disaster for decades by de facto waging war on the timber industry. The environmental extremist Luddites have done everything in their power to prevent any brush from being cleared or any tree from being harvested. According to an Oct. 25 news report, where even limited (but sensible) woodland management was permitted over the environmentalists objections, not a single home nor life was lost. There really is a time to reap, even for trees. If man does not harvest the timber, Mother Nature will, and she can be quite ruthless. Imagine trying to tell a farmer…” I love this line: “Imagine trying to tell a farmer he cannot harvest his corn because some third party thinks it is pretty.” We can’t harvest the trees? It’s a crop! A tree is a crop. We can’t cut it down. We can’t harvest because the environmentalist wacko thinks it’s pretty. “Mr. Limbaugh, we must maintain the pristine nature of our planet,” blah, blah, blah. “But as for these hundreds of thousands of acres of scorched earth, go find a kangaroo rat or a spotted owl on them now.” You won’t. That letter was written by Ed Masters of Sikeston, Missouri.
Story #2: Hilarious Sour Grapes Limbaugh Cartoon 
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RUSH: Oh, I’ve gotta tell you this. I saw this over the weekend. There was a cartoon, an editorial cartoon — this is about two weeks ago now, whenever. It was the Saturday after the Nobel Peace Prize was announced and Algore won, and the editorial cartoon in the Honolulu Advertiser was hilarious. The drawing was of grapes: a bunch of grapes with my face drawn in there, and underneath it said, “Sour grapes,” and on the left side it talked about how Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize; on the right side of the grapes, it had me railing against the Nobel Committee as a bunch of biased “Swedes.” They’re Norwegians! I just… (laughter) Oh, it’s just so fun. I just love putting people on, and these people fell for this hook, line, and sinker. They can never take my nomination away from me.
Story #3:British Brains Dominate Top Living Genius List
RUSH: More news from across the pond: “British Brains Dominate the List of Living Geniuses,” and I did not make the list. On the list of 100 geniuses worldwide, there are more British people on it. First I get shunned in the Nobel Prize, and now I’m not on this list of geniuses, and wait ’til you hear of some of the people who are. “Britain has more living geniuses per head of population than anywhere else in the world, according to a new survey which reveals the country’s influence on science, technology, business and the arts. Almost a quarter of those featured in the list of 100 living geniuses are Britons…” Osama Bin Laden is on the list at number 43. He shares that with Bill Gates of Microsoft and Muhammad Ali. You want to hear some of the names on the list here? George Soros, number three. I guess I should tell you the number one. The top living genius, is a tie: Albert Hoffman is a chemist from Switzerland, and Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist in Britain. Rupert Murdoch is number 20. Steven Spielberg is number 26. The Artist Formerly Known and Now Currently Once Again Known as Prince is number 32. Bin Laden 43. Bill Gates 43. Muhammad Ali 43. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, number 49. Now, I have to be kind here. I don’t know what genius… Stevie Wonder is also tied at number 49. Henry Kissinger is number 49. Meryl Streep at number 49. Paul McCartney is 59. Stephen King, the author, is at 58. David Bowie, the musician, at 67. Hell, Dolly Parton makes this list, and I don’t! Dolly Parton is number 94. This is as insulting as the annual 100 Most Influential People in America list that TIME Magazine puts out. I’ve never made that. How can that be the case if not for bias?
Story #4:Socialized Medicine: Brits Go to India for Health Care
RUSH: More on health care from the UK. You know, we’ve talked about how because of the National Health Service, universal socialized medicine in the UK, there has developed a gap, if you will. There are two ways to do it. You can stay in the socialized system and suffer, or if you’re wealthy, you can go to a clinic (the private sector is building a number of them) and get personalized care, for a steep price. But it’s good care, and it’s when you want it, and there are no lines, and you can avoid the socialized system. Now something else has happened: “Record numbers of British people are traveling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS” (the National Health Service). “More than 70,000 patients are expected to fly this year. By the end of the decade, two hundred thousand health tourists will fly as far as Malaysia and South Africa for major surgery to avoid long waiting lists and the rising threat of super bugs, this according to a new report. Patients needing major heart surgery, hip operations, and cataracts are using the Internet to book operations to be carried out thousands of miles away.
“India is the most popular destination for surgery, followed by Hungary, Turkey…” Folks, do you realize how bad it has to be? I have nothing against other countries, but if you live in Great Britain and you’re willing to go to Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Malaysia, Poland, and Spain to get medical care? “Dozens more countries are attracting health tourists as well. New research has shown that the growing NHS bureaucracy has left nurses will little time to see patients, most of them spending long periods dealing with paperwork. Katherine Murphy of the Patients’ Association said the health tourism figures reflect a shrinking public faith in the government’s handling of the National Health Service.” Amen! This is headed our way, folks, if we aren’t careful. That’s why we gotta get that 86% critical figure of Hillary higher. We gotta get it higher on the basis of her health care scheme and plan. That 86%, I have a goal, will be 100% by the next time the Shorenstein crowd and that Project for Excellence in Journalism (what an oxymoron) does their next survey.
Story #5: Rush Raves About New Apple Leopard OS
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RUSH:I just installed the new Apple OS X Leopard last night and this morning. It’s just amazing. It really is — and I haven’t found any bugs. I’m sure I’ll find a couple of things, but nothing like happened with the previous one. It took a couple months to iron it out. This just seems stable and great. I can’t wait to play with it after the program is over, but don’t sweat it. I will give everything I have to this show. Don’t worry.
Story #6: Everybody Who Has Eaten Food Will Die
RUSH: Here’s a story from Alan Caruba writing at the website AnxietyCenter.com, and the headline is, “Eating Food Will Kill You.” I kind of like this story because it’s a takeoff on the point that I have been trying to make with all these scare tactics and stories out there about various food killing you and so forth. Remember, folks, my example of many, many years ago that I have repeated over and over again. Anybody who’s been in an auto accident in the last couple weeks ate carrots within six months prior to the auto accident. Anybody that died in the last two days ate carrots in the previous year. He takes this one step further. “Eating Food Will Kill You — It is now a proven fact that eating food — any kind of food — will kill you. No one who has eaten food in the past is alive today and everyone currently eating food will die. Therefore, those noble people who seek to save us from eating every kind of food that the earth provides should be hailed and saluted for their efforts to keep us alive. I say this as the son of a woman who taught the art of haute cuisine for over three decades and authored several cookbooks. That poor woman died at age 98 and I am convinced it was all that fabulous food that killed her. Ridiculous? YES!
“These thoughts were occasioned by word that two groups, the World Cancer Research Fund International, based in the United Kingdom, and the American Institute for Cancer Research, will likely announce that eating meat will give you some form of cancer at a press conference scheduled the same day as Halloween. … In mid-October The New York Times ran an article, ‘U.S. Cancer Death Rates Are Found to Be Falling.’ It cited a decline ‘by an average of 2.1 percent a year…a near doubling of decreases that began in 1993…’ Now this is, of course, good news. The bad news is that smoking appears to be a significant cause of cancer. In the U.S. cancer remains the second leading cause of death after heart disease… Bear in mind that at least 10,000 Americans on the average die every day from something, not infrequently just old age and the infirmities associated with it. If you live beyond age 85 or into your 90s, the odds of dying from something are pretty good. So why is it that meat is so often singled out as lethal? Well, for one thing, there are any number of vegetarian groups that, like some weird religious cult, flood the Internet and other media with fulminations against eating meat of any kind.
“A Google search for ‘Meat + Health’ will turn up links to literally thousands of studies that proclaim that eating meat will cause breast, prostrate, colon, and other forms of cancers. That said, if you search all the studies, you will also find those that confirm that meat is as healthy a part of diet as anything else. For example, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USDA) 2005 Food Guide and its Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Eating Plan recommend two to three servings a week of lean meat. What so many of the anti-meat studies do not tell you is that the subjects of their studies were, as often as not, also exposed to other risk factors that might have contributed to whatever form of cancer is being cited. The correlation between eating meat and the cancer risk cited is a statistical conclusion, but not necessarily the actual cause. As often as not, if you read the abstract of these studies you will find mitigating phrases such as meat as a ‘suspected’ cause and that those who have a diet high in meat ‘may’ be ‘particularly’ exposed. Now, I admire people who devote their lives to unraveling the mysteries of medical science, but I also know that when you do this for a living, you also have to keep finding correlations or find another [gig].
“I also know there are organizations whose funding and support is dependent on periodically announcing that just about anything you eat, from popcorn to fish, will kill you. … What people are rarely told these days is that meat is a great source of high quality proteins that a vegetarian diet is not able to provide. It also contains all the essential amino acids the body requires. This is true as well for phosphorous which is more easily absorbed than that present in cereals and legumes. Meat is rich in vitamin B12. Nutritionists will also tell you that, in general, preserved meats such as ham, bacon, salami, et cetera, should be avoided because they are contain large amounts of fats, salts, nitrites and (increase) rates of cancer,” but damn they taste good, especially bacon! So food will kill you, folks. Everybody who has eaten food, will die. Mr. Snerdley, who is a… Vegan? Vegetarian? What’s the difference? Are you a vegan? He’s a vegetarian. I don’t think this is slamming vegetarians, but the vegetarians are activists! The vegetarians are like little liberals, the activists. You are not. You’re not out here proselytizing when Dawn and Brian are having lunch. You don’t walk in there and say, “Ewww! You’re going to die. You ought to stop that,” and sweep it off the table. (interruption) Oh, he does do that? He does? You do do that? You go in there and do that? I’ve never seen it. Pardon me. You go in there and give them grief? See, we who don’t limit our diets to only vegetarian intake do not preach to you. We have our Burger Kings and the vegetarians come in and say, “You gotta sell soy burgers in there!”
“No! We don’t have to sell soy burgers.”
I know you’re not one of those, but they are the activists. You know, meat-eaters are not. It’s like liberals versus conservatives. If you want to eat vegetarian, fine and dandy! If you want to eat fried cheese and you think it’s a vegetarian diet, you go right ahead. But don’t tell us to get rid of our bacon at the same time because we’re going to die because everybody who eats is dead!
Story #7: Brownstein: Mrs. Clinton and Educated Women
RUSH: Ronald Brownstein writing in the National Journal, now, I don’t know, Ronald Brownstein used to be at the Los Angeles Times. He was a reporter, and his wife works on the McCain campaign. They took him off the reporter beat and made him a columnist. So I don’t know if this is just a make-some-extra-cash column for the National Journal and he’s still with the Times or not, but remember when the Obama candidacy was in full bloom and the Drive-Bys were just gushing, and they’re reporting on how popular and how brilliant and so forth? They pointed out that Obama was picking up the educated female vote, and Hillary was getting the dumb ones and the poor ones. Well, now, Brownstein’s piece is Hillary Clinton’s surge in the polls is largely due to support from women with college degrees. “An irony of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s political career is that the women who resemble her most have often appeared to support her the least,” but now that’s changing. That’s turning around.
“College-educated and professional women — who have more in common with Clinton — have been a greater puzzle for her. Some view her as cold and calculating. Others think that she betrayed the ideals of feminism by remaining with her husband, former President Clinton, despite his publicly acknowledged infidelities. ‘There has been a bigger hurdle to overcome with those [upscale] women,’ admits Mark Penn, the chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.” Okay, so Penn’s involved in this. We’ve heard from Penn and, guess what, we’ve got polling data. People love Hillary all of a sudden. Then there were three days of stories about that. And now we have the smart babes that are finally gravitating to Hillary; probably going to get some more stories about that. And then more Republican women will vote for — yeah, we had that story recently. A lot of Republican women, fed up with what they see on the restrictionist and these predators that are Republican candidates and they’re switching in droves to Hillary.
Story #8: Rudy Blasts Hillary on “Cowboy Diplomacy”
RUSH: Meanwhile, “Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Sunday blasted Hillary Rodham Clinton for talking about what she would do on the diplomatic front between her possible election and inauguration. Clinton has told crowds she would send ‘distinguished Americans of both political parties to travel around the world on my behalf with a very simple message to the governments and the people alike: The era of cowboy diplomacy is over.’ Giuliani, pointing to a story in Sunday’s Des Moines Register about her statements, said such comments hurt the United States and undermine the balance of President Bush’s term, which ends Jan. 20, 2009. ‘I think that it’s important that we conduct this debate in a way that we don’t interfere with the ability of the country to function in a proper way, between the now and (the election),’ Giuliani said at the start of a town hall-style meeting in Peterborough. Campaigning with his wife, Judith, the former New York mayor said Clinton should retract the statements and respect Bush’s responsibility.” Well, Hillary says to hell with that. “A spokeswoman for Clinton said Giuliani missed the New York senator’s point. ‘Senator Clinton and Mr. Giuliani have a fundamental disagreement. She will end the war in Iraq, reverse the Bush era cowboy diplomacy and restore America’s standing around the world,’ said Kathleen Strand. ‘Mr. Giuliani wants to escalate the war in Iraq and supports President Bush’s failed foreign policy approach.'”
Giuliani said, “Well, Hillary is not president-elect, last time I checked. We’re going to have something to say about that. Hillary’s not even the nominee of her party. It’s very, very premature to be talking about sending ambassadors all around the world even before she becomes president to interfere with the foreign policy of the United States.” Well, that wouldn’t be anything new. Nancy Pelosi’s been doing it for quite a while, went over to Syria to try to tell Bashar Assad, (paraphrasing) “Hey, don’t hold it against us. We Democrats love you. Just give us the chance to neuter Bush and take care of that and you won’t have any problems with us anymore.” I’m surprised she didn’t schedule a meeting with Bin Laden to basically tell him the same thing. What do you think about that? Folks, I’m going to tell you, the hubris and the sense of conventional wisdom and inevitability, Mrs. Clinton is now going to send distinguished Americans of both parties around the world as ambassadors after she’s elected but before she’s inaugurated, to tell the rest of the world no more cowboy diplomacy. A bit far reaching, not very professional, but typical of power-mad liberals.
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Story #1: Drive-Bys Love Tropical Storm Noel
RUSH: Oh, man, you just know how much the Drive-Bys love this headline: “Caribbean Storm Kills 20 People.” Finally we’ve got death; we’ve got devastation, and we’ve got pestilence. We’ve got a tropical storm out there, folks. Yes!
It really is funny. It really is laughable. I got up today, I got in here and started doing diligent show prep work, and I, of course, checked out the tropical storm Noel. Yeah. They’re forecasting 12-foot waves for us on the beach tomorrow, they say, and maybe 40-mile-an-hour wind, gusts and so forth. Then it all turned further to the east. I remember the first year I was down there, 1997, in October. We had five days of sustained 60-mile-an-hour winds on the beach. You had to wear goggles if you went out there. Clear as a bell. These seas were not 12-feet. It’s a shame it isn’t going to hit us because we could all use the rain here. But nothing’s working out for the Drive-Bys on this hurricane disaster front, nor for the hurricane people.
By the way, I got a quick note from our official climatologist today, Roy Spencer, about the lack of hurricanes. He said, “The lack of hurricanes, Rush, is not good. One of the great things about hurricanes is they are nature’s way of getting rid of excess heat. Without enough hurricanes, the world’s oceans will heat up even more, and that will cause super ‘canes down the road.” So these two years, when we’ve bought a little goodwill with no big hurricanes anywhere near the United States — well, the way it happens is, these things are powerful storms, and it’s called the churn. They churn the deeper water, which is cooler and bring that to the surface, and that dissipates the heat that is on the surface, the sea surface temperatures of the water, and so it’s nature’s way of getting rid of excess heat. We haven’t done that, and so it could lead to super hurricanes on down the road.
Story #2: Slutty Halloween Costumes All the Rage
RUSH: Halloween is coming. Dawn, your kids go out trick-or-treating? I’m fortunate, I don’t answer the door. Nobody can get to my door on Halloween. But there’s a fascinating story here in the Washington Post. By the way, do you know what the ugliest Halloween costume voted on by the American people is this year, including Democrats? Hillary Clinton. You didn’t see that? The ugliest Halloween costume would be Hillary Clinton.
Washington Post, “Preteens Trading Fairy Wands for Fishnets — Halloween Trend Toward Racy Get-Ups Vexes Parents.” This is a Washington Post story, and it’s all about the way little girls, preteenaged girls, are dressing up to go out trick-or-treating, and let me share with you this line: “Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” In the Washington Post. We’re talking about preteenage girls. “‘No one does scary costumes anymore,’ Megan said. Blame that on the teen movie ‘Mean Girls,’ she said, quoting a line verbatim: ‘Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.'” Ha! And they worry about standards declining in the pop culture.Story #3: David Brooks on the “Happiness Gap”
RUSH: David Brooks has a column today, and I actually like seeing it because I talked about it yesterday. We talk about it a lot on this program. He’s talking about the happiness gap. The happiness gap is the gap between the people that are happy and are not happy. He points out that most people, 82% of the people in the country are very satisfied with their lives, and they’re very satisfied with their future. But, they think everybody else is going to go to hell in a handbasket pretty soon, so they’re not happy. They temper their own happiness with it and so forth. This is, of course, a theme and a phenomena that I, as your host, have pointed out for almost two decades on this program. I first noticed it in actual polling data back in 1992. During the presidential campaign, Clinton and Gore, Carville running around, “It’s the economy, stupid,” they were claiming the worst economy in the last 50 years. Little itty-bitty little recession, and it wasn’t the worst economy in the last 50 years, it wasn’t a bad economy at all. They went out and talked to people about it. “Well, I’m doing pretty well, but the news is the economy’s in bad shape, I’m worried about my neighbors,” that’s where this all started. So the happiness gap is something David Brooks explored.
Story #4: FedEx Expects Record Holiday Season
RUSH: This is from the Memphis Biz Journal: “FedEx Expects Record Holiday Volume.” Now, how many times already, starting back in September, did we see the obligatory Drive-By Media stories about how retailers were very, very concerned about the upcoming holidays? Every year we get these stories, retailers, where they make the vast majority of their yearly income are worried about the economy and its effect on the Christmas season, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, every year we get the obligatory story. “FedEx Corp.’s busiest day this year is expected to be Dec. 17, when the package shipper expects to break its all-time volume record. About 11.3 million packages are expected to move through the FedEx Express and FedEx Ground global networks on Dec. 17, compared to 7 million packages on an average day. Frederick W. Smith, chairman, president and CEO of FedEx, said in a statement that, while overall economic growth has slowed, there are ‘several indicators for a healthy holiday season.'” Now, this is not the Drive-By Media, this is the Memphis Biz Journal, which, of course, is where FedEx is headquartered.
Story #5: Scientists Find Oldest Living Clam, Then Kill It
RUSH: FoxNews.com: “British marine biologists have found what may be the oldest living animal,” and then they killed it! “The team from Bangor University in Wales was dredging the waters north of Iceland as part of routine research when the unfortunate specimen, belonging to the clam species Arctica islandica, commonly known as the ocean quahog, was hauled up from waters 250 feet deep. Only after researchers cut through its shell, which made it more of an ex-clam, and counted its growth rings did they realize how old it had been — between 405 and 410 years old.” The ocean quahog. “Another clam of the same species had been verified at 220 years old, and a third may have lived 374 years. But this most recent clam was the oldest yet. ‘Its death is an unfortunate aspect of this work, but we hope to derive lots of information from it,’ postdoctoral scientist Al Wanamaker told London’s Guardian newspaper. ‘For our work, it’s a bonus, but it wasn’t good for this particular animal.'” No kidding. Ha, ha!
Story #6: Amazing Rasmussen Story on Wet DREAM Act
RUSH: An amazing, amazing story here. This from Scott Rasmussen and Rasmussen Reports: “‘Senate Heeded Public Opinion By Rejecting Dream Act’ — Having been burned once, the Senators were much quicker to capitulate when the Dream Act, a more limited immigration proposal, was brought up for a vote last Wednesday. The measure failed to generate enough support to even begin a formal debate. That’s fine with most voters. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that only 22% of voters support the proposal introduced by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). … Fifty-nine percent of all voters oppose the Dream Act concept. Republicans oppose it by a 5-to-1 margin and unaffiliateds are opposed by a 3-to-1 margin.” That would be the famous independents, the moderates. “Democrats are a bit more evenly divided — 49% opposed and 31% in favor — but Nancy Pelosi’s party certainly doesn’t provide a base of support for the Dream Act. … The Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey also found that just 16% of voters believe that the children of illegal immigrants should qualify for in-state tuition rates at colleges and universities. Seventy-one percent disagree.”
Now, the headline, “Senate Heeded Public Opinion By Rejecting Dream Act,” the question you can ask here, “Do they really get it now?” Ladies and gentlemen, after the boondoggle that was amnesty, comprehensive immigration reform, after the people in Washington saw what happened, they still went out and tried to get the DREAM Act. It’s not a matter of whether they get what we want or not. It’s a matter of what they think they can get away with. The Democrats need those illegal immigrants as voters. They need the children of illegal immigrants granted citizenship so they can vote in a couple years. They need ’em in universities and high schools and so forth so they can start propagandizing them. I’m not joking about this. That’s why they tried it. They have to get these votes. It doesn’t matter whether they get it.
What they’re now plotting, is how can they do it again and somehow get it past everybody because there’s no way they couldn’t have gotten it the first time around. After the massive, massive rejection of the amnesty bill, to come back three months later with a much smaller approach called the Dream Act? Uh, they’re not listening to what we say in terms of being guided by what to do. They know full well that the nation — look at these numbers — opposes this three times now. For the Democrats, it’s simply a matter of how can they maneuver this, and to get this into law without anybody knowing about it, because they need these votes. They need this new bunch of victims. They need this new influx of people to become future Democrat voters.
Story #7: Disgraced Nobel Scientist Donated to Democrats; Received Earmark from Mrs. Clinton in Return
RUSH: You know the Nobel Prize winning scientist, James Watson, who went out there and said that Africans are dumber than people elsewhere and so forth? He’s quit now, he’s resigned whatever he was doing. Lawmakers, including Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, have taken thousands of dollars in campaign money from him. “Clinton and Sen. Charles Schumer, also a New York Democrat, requested a $900,000 earmark in June for the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where James Watson served as chancellor before resigning last week after apologizing for comments that suggested people descending from Africa aren’t as intelligent as those from Europe. Federal campaign filings show that Watson has donated more than $70,000 to candidates and their political causes, including $3,000 to Clinton’s presidential campaign on May 17 and June 25. Two days later, a Senate committee report showed that Clinton and Schumer earmarked $900,000 for the lab.” Earmarked! AMT! You want to pay for the AMT, get rid of some of the earmarks. Nine hundred grand to this guy’s lab, and the guy had to quit the lab because of what he said, and two days after she got a $3,000 presidential campaign donation, that earmarked happened.
“The majority of Mr. Watson’s donations over the years have gone to Senator Tom Harkin, of Iowa.” By the way, Senator Harkin, I don’t know about the intelligence of Africans, but whatever it is, yours doesn’t match ’em. Harkin has received more than $30,000 from James Watson, the disgraced Nobel winner. “Mr. Harkin is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Human Services and Education. … A spokeswoman for Mr. Harkin yesterday said the earmark is not likely to move ahead, partly because of the furor over Mr. Watson. ‘There will be an overall reduction in earmarks from the Senate bill as we go to conference, and it was jointly decided by senators that, in view of recent news, this project should not be included,’ said Harkin spokeswoman Jennifer Mullin.” So Mrs. Clinton and Chuck Schumer with an earmark for this clown after taking campaign donations.
Story #8: Schumer, Hillary Silent on New Spitzer Plan
RUSH: Now, I’m sure you’re all familiar with the controversy in New York State over driver’s licenses for illegals that the governor there, Eliot Spitzer, just wanted to ram down everybody’s throats. And of course some people said, “We’re not going to do this.” I don’t care where you go in this country, illegal immigrants getting away with breaking the law, when the state is going to storm your house and take your baby that’s five weeks old and take it away for six days to give it some blood tests and yet let illegals walk scot-free, give them driver’s licenses, and let ’em into college, the American people are not going to put up with this. If federal or state authorities have the energy and the impetus and the time to go into people’s houses and take their five-week-old babies from them for six days to get a test, they can certainly do what they can do to enforce the law on illegal immigration. Spitzer proposes this driver’s license thing for the illegals and all hell broke loose. So he’s come up with an alternative plan.
“New York’s plan to create three types of driver’s licenses, including one for illegal immigrants, has everyone talking — everyone except the state’s Democratic senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a fellow Democrat, announced over the weekend that he had struck a deal with federal homeland security officials to create a three-tiered state system of licenses. In doing so, New York agreed to adopt Bush administration goals on tighter identification security, but Spitzer stuck to his much-criticized plan to allow illegal immigrants to get licenses. The license debate, hard-wired to issues like immigration, terrorism, and civil liberties, may simply be too radioactive for either a presidential candidate like Clinton or a powerful senator like Schumer. For years, Clinton and Schumer seemingly couldn’t stop talking about the government’s looming border ID rules. Now it’s different.”
This story, the reason I’m sharing it with you, is not really about New York driver’s licenses. What is amazing to me about this is how Mrs. Clinton gets to be quiet when she wants to be quiet. This is her state. The fact that she’s a presidential candidate only adds to the fact she should be asked about this. The fact that she’s a senator from the state of New York and is not being peppered by the press, “What do you think of the governor’s plans here for illegal immigrants getting driver’s licenses?” It’s amazing how she’s able to skate. This is an Associated Press story, Devlin Barrett, “may simply be too radioactive for either a…” well, go ask her. What do you mean, may be too radioactive? You expect her to come out and make a statement on it? Go ask her. I’ll bet she’ll say it’s a state issue, but she’s a senator and illegal immigration is a national issue, and she’s running for president. She doesn’t have an out here.
The point is, she’s given a pass. It’s too radioactive for her, writes the AP. Man, oh, man, oh, man would I have loved over several occasions the last 18 years for you dummkopfs in the media to think certain issues were too radioactive for me to talk about. Good grief.
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Story #1: Economy Surged in 3rd Quarter; Experts Shocked
RUSH: “The US economy grew at an annual rate of 3.9% in the third quarter, the fastest pace in one-and-a-half years, according to the Commerce Department. Surging exports, stronger consumer spending helped counterbalance the weakening housing sector. The gross domestic product report suggests that the economy is, thus far, holding up well to the strains in the housing and the credit markets which had intensified during the third quarter.” So we have 3.9% growth, the best in one-and-a-half years, heading into the holiday season, the federal… Oh, stunned! Experts were shocked. Experts were totally stunned, and the fed is expected to have an announcement, a meeting, something, at 2:15 this afternoon is when it’s expected. That’s a little less than 45 minutes from now, and the experts are expecting another quarter-percent cut in the interest rates, and if they don’t get it, look for the market to go bonkers this afternoon. If they do get it, look for it to shoot up.
Story #2: Kucinich Questions Bush’s Mental Health
RUSH: Dennis Kucinich, presidential candidate, Democrat, said he saw a UFO, has questioned President Bush’s mental health in light of comments he made about a nuclear Iran precipitating World War III. That’s just rich, isn’t it? That’s just really, really rich.
Story #3: Judge Who Lost His Pants Loses His Job
RUSH: By the way, remember that judge, Roy Pearson, the administrative law judge, who lost that $54 million lawsuit against the Asian dry cleaners? He “lost his job yesterday and was ordered to vacate his office… Pearson, 57, who had served as a judge for two years, was up for a 10-year term at the Office of Administrative Hearings, but a judicial committee last week voted against reappointing him. The panel had a seven-page letter hand-delivered to Pearson about 3:30 p.m., directing him to leave his office by 5 p.m.”
He lost his pants, lost the shirt, and lost the suit, and then lost the job. “Pearson’s term ended in May, at the height of his battle with the dry cleaners. Since then, he has remained on the payroll, making $100,000 a year as an attorney adviser. A source familiar with the committee’s meetings said Pearson’s lawsuit played little role in the decision not to reappoint him. Instead, the committee said it had reviewed Pearson’s judicial decisions and audiotapes of proceedings over which he had presided and found he did not demonstrate ‘appropriate judgment and judicial temperament,’ according to a source who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case.” Yeah, right! It didn’t have anything to do with the lawsuit. Ha! How stupid do these people think we are? I don’t doubt that he was incompetent to boot. The $54 million dollar lawsuit sort of indicates that.
Story #4: Man Sentenced in Pickle Assault
RUSH: Speaking of oddball stories, this is from Niles, Michigan: “A judge gave a 35-year-old man probation in a case that police said involved an assault with pickles. According to police reports, the pickle problems began when Bobby Lee Bolen of Buchanan was hanging out at his then-friend Jody Lee’s home in Buchanan on Aug. 20. Bolen went to the refrigerator and helped himself to some pickles. According to the report, Lee told Bolen he couldn’t afford to feed everyone and not to eat his pickles. Bolen then began yelling and swearing and stormed out, according to the report. Later, Bolen barged back into the house and got into an argument with Lee. Lee told police Bolen slammed him down on the couch and threw two large pickles at him and said, ‘Here’s your damn pickles.’ Bolen also shoved former friend J.W. Romanski III and beat Lee with a telephone when he tried to call 911, according to the report.” The guy called 911 after being beat up with pickles! “‘If this is not the silliest case I’ve ever seen in this courtroom, it certainly is in the Top 10,’ Berrien Trial Court Judge Scott Schofield said. ‘The fact that it’s silly doesn’t mean that it’s not serious.’ Defense attorney Robert Lutz said alcohol appeared to be at the root of Bolen’s problems. Bolen’s sentence included 54 days in jail with credit for 54 days served and one year of probation,” all for attacking a guy with two pickles! Well, I bet he did “relish” the sentence. Fifty-four days, he gets credit for 54 days served without having to serve, and a year probation?
Story #5: Ralph Nader Sues the Democrat Party
RUSH: “Consumer advocate and 2004 independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader sued the Democratic Party on Tuesday, contending officials conspired to keep him from taking votes away from nominee John Kerry,” who served in Vietnam. Nader’s lawsuit “also named as co-defendants Kerry’s campaign, the Service Employees International Union and several so-called 527 organizations such as America Coming Together, which were created to promote voter turnout on behalf of the Democratic ticket. … Among other things, the lawsuit alleges that the DNC tried to bankrupt Nader’s campaign by suing to keep him off the ballot in 18 states. It also suggests the DNC sent Kerry supporters to crash a Nader petition drive in Portland, Ore., in June 2004, preventing him from collecting enough signatures to get on the ballot” there. Well, he doesn’t have a chance here but you can only hope that he bankrupts the DNC with the action. That’s somewhat doubtful.
Story #6: Harvard: Drive-Bys More Biased Than Talk Radio
RUSH: Hey, get this, folks. According to a new study released Monday from the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Harvard Shorenstein Center, which we discussed, found that newspapers and broadcast TV outlets devoted far more time to covering Democrat candidates than the Republicans, and that the tone of those stories was much more favorable to the Democrats, which mirrors the results of a Media Research Center study that was released in August. “According to a new study, those news organizations that hold themselves up as the most neutral and professional — big newspapers, the broadcast networks and taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio — are actually producing campaign stories that are the most tilted in favor of Democrats, while online news and talk radio have actually been the most balanced.” The Drive-Bys are more biased than talk radio! This is Harvard University, the Shorenstein Center there in the Project for Excellence in Journalism, claiming that the Drive-Bys are more biased. Now, how can that be? I tell you how it can be, is they don’t tell you what their bias is even though it’s noticeable now. We, of course, on talk radio do.
Story #7: State of Iowa Taxes Pumpkins for Halloween
RUSH: This is from the Des Moines Register today: “The Iowa Department of Revenue is now searching for pennies in pumpkins. A new department policy this year has made Halloween jack-o’-lanterns subject to the state sales tax, and many Iowa pumpkin growers are feeling tricked.” The guy is right. The caller is right. If you buy the pumpkin to decorate it for Halloween, then you pay a tax on it. If you say you’re going to eat the pumpkin, but you have to send them a form to the state claiming that you ate it, and then get a rebate, it costs you money to send the form. What’s a stamp these days? Forty-one cents? Is that what it is? See, I have not lost touch. I know what the price of a stamp is. Anyway, they’ll tax everything, is the point.
Story #8: Minorities Hardest Hit by Trick or Treating
RUSH: All right, here’s the story. It’s an AP story. You gotta wonder. Somebody at AP — an editor, assignment editor, or somebody — gets the idea for this story. The idea to do the story is what interests me. Somebody at the AP assignment desk said, “You know what? It’s Halloween. Those rich white kids are going out tonight and getting candy and so forth. I bet a bunch of black kids aren’t going to be as fairly treated. I bet they’re not going to go out. We need to do a story on that.” So they went out and did a story on it. Even on Halloween, America is a racist, mean country. Even when it comes to the distribution of candy, there is racism: minorities hardest hit. “Two-thirds of parents nationwide say their children will trick-or-treat this Halloween, but fewer minorities will let their kids go door-to-door, according to a nationwide poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos released this week” They actually did a poll! “The survey found that 73 percent of whites versus 56 percent of minorities said their children will trick-or-treat” tonight. “That disparity in the survey is similar to the difference in how people view the safety of their neighborhoods, according to the poll. Lower-income people and minorities are more likely to worry that it might not be safe to send their children out on Halloween night, according to the poll.
“Thomas Link, 50, and his family are new to their trailer park in Palatka, Fla. He said he considers it unsafe because he does not know many neighbors, but had not decided whether to let his three young children trick-or-treat. ‘I’m very particular about who I let my kids deal with,’ he said. Overall, 86 percent of those questioned in the survey said their neighborhoods are safe for trick-or-treating. Ninety-one percent of whites, compared with 75 percent of minorities…” What, Snerdley? I don’t know if they… Yeah, it is interesting surveying some guy in a trailer park in Palatka, Florida, but what about in the inner cities? I mean, if you happen to live in a high-rise apartment building say in New York or out in Queens or whatever, wouldn’t it be simpler to go trick-or-treating? You’d never leave the building. Just get on the elevator, knock on he neighbor’s door and then go back to where you live. I wonder what James Watson, the former Nobel Prize winner — who was contributing to Hillary Clinton’s campaign and vice-versa — would say about this. He’s the guy that said that people in Africa just don’t have the same IQ, the same brains as Europeans do, and that’s why, when you treat ’em the same, social policies, they don’t get it. Of course, he’s been dispatched here to the Ash Heap of Stupid Statement People.
Story #9: Fed Cuts Interest Rate 1/4 Point
RUSH: It’s as I expected; I forgot to mention this. It happened a half hour ago. The Fed did cut the interest rate a quarter point — “in order to protect the economy from the failing housing market,” is the Drive-By Media add-on, but they did cut it.
Story #10: Iraq Attacks Fall Sharply Again in September
RUSH: “Attacks by insurgents and other fighters in Iraq against U.S. troops, Iraqi forces and civilians dropped sharply in September,” another shocking surprise to experts, “to their lowest level since early 2006, continuing a decline in violence since June, according to a new Government Accountability Office report released yesterday. But progress on political goals and reconstruction has been stalled by weaknesses in U.S. strategy…” Oh! We have great, great, great, great, great news on the front that the Drive-Bys and the Democrats have been opposing Iraq since the get-go: troop deaths. It’s great, great news. But the political? It’s just falling apart, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Story #11: GOP Women Too Smart to Fall for Hillary’s Ruse
RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, we’ve been talking about Mrs. Clinton a lot today because of her really horrible performance on stage at the Democrat debate last night at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The only thing worse was the performance of these other schlubs on stage with her, who, for whatever reason — and we could roll the dice on what all those reasons are, and probably be right about all of them — never made one serious move to capitalize on Mrs. Clinton’s blundering, bumbling performance last night. So in keeping with the theme that Mrs. Hillary Clinton is the show today, there’s an interesting piece today by Kyle-Anne Shiver at the American Thinker. “Republican Women Too Smart to Fall for Hillary’s Ruse.” Let me just read some excerpts for you. “Last week, my hometown paper, The Atlanta Journal & Constitution, ran an online story entitled, ‘Clinton Pollster Predicts Defection of GOP Women.’ Depending solely on his own ‘internal’ polling, Mr. Mark Penn — Public Relations guru extraordinaire, and Hillary’s campaign strategist — says that a full 24% of Republican women will punch their ballots for Hillary based on the ’emotional’ appeal of electing the first woman President. Clearly, Mr. Penn is either purposefully spinning or indulging in a rather perverted, nearly delusional form of magical thinking.
“We Republican women are far, far too smart to fall for Hillary Clinton’s ruse. We are not the mindless ninnies that vote with the Special-Interest Express. We think for ourselves and vote for the candidate of our choice based on merit. We cast our precious votes for the candidate we believe would be the best President, not the one with an ’emotional’ appeal aimed at our womanhood. Mr. Mark Penn, I have read, is currently the worldwide CEO of one of the largest public relations firms in the world, Burson-Marsteller. He is also the president of his own polling firm, and is best known for his service to Bill Clinton as pollster and political adviser from 1996 through 1999. His chief talents seem to be polling and messaging, with special corporate expertise in image, branding and competitive marketing assignments. Wow; I’m impressed. … I think Mr. Penn has been hanging out with Democrat women nearly all of his life and maybe doesn’t know one whit about the female portion of the Republican Party. For all of his astounding political prowess, he probably thinks that women who think like Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Janice Crouse, Melanie Morgan, Sandy Rios, et cetera, et cetera, are just very successful aberrations of a sort, and that the rest of us have done absolutely nothing all of our lives but stay home, bake cookies and let other people raise our children while we watch The View.
“(I personally don’t know any woman who has ever seen that show, but I hear they have some really great cat fights, and that occasionally one of the women even makes a coherent statement.) Most of the women I know have spent a great portion of their lives … doing volunteer work in our communities trying to put band-aids on the myriad of social problems that have become epidemic in the wake of Democrat social policies. Unwed motherhood. Broken families. Absent mothers and fathers. Broken government schools. Sex education that teaches nothing but how to do a great imitation of an alley cat in heat. These mostly Republican women are still trying to make sense out of a political Party that would so strenuously object to pornography filters on public library computer terminals, while exposing their seven-year-olds to lessons in how to put on a condom. These ‘soccer moms’ (a phrase coined by Mr. Penn) give hours each week to Crisis Pregnancy Centers that offer actual help to young girls whose boyfriends flunked the condom lessons, but got the alley-cat impersonations down perfectly.
“These conservative women are providing meals to homeless shelters and holiday celebrations and gifts for those in need. These women are a veritable army of soldiers on the front lines of social decay, fighting not with the empty rhetoric but with actual labor to right real wrongs. So, when Hillary Rodham Clinton wails about those in our midst who have been ‘invisible’ to Republicans, we women stand, with our mouths agape and our consciousnesses fully raised, in utter incredulity. For ‘the smartest woman in the world,’ she comes off as pretty darned dumb or blind. You pick. From where we’re sitting, Mr. Penn, it looks like you and Hillary don’t get out of your little self-created bubble enough. We Republican women are plum full of emotion every time we see Mrs. Clinton put on yet another female face for the cameras, but it isn’t the kind that you ever want to be with in a dark room alone.” That’s Kyle-Anne Shiver at the American Thinker. She really writes some great stuff. She just popped up there on the scene not too long ago at the American Thinker.
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