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February 12, 2008 |
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Story #1: EIB Northern Command Braces for Snow
RUSH: We're bracing for snow here after three o'clock this afternoon in Manhattan. Not going to be major, but we are going to get some snow. A little cold -- got off the airplane last night, it was 22 degrees, and as I promised, got off in my shorts, walked to a waiting bus at the bottom of the stairs, went to the car, was outside maybe eight seconds.
 Story #2: Dolly Parton's "Puppies" Postpone Tour
RUSH: I have a story here, my friends, I'm holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. "'Dolly Parton Blames Breasts for Postponed Tour.' -- Dolly Parton's breasts may be two of the wonders of the entertainment world, but the country music icon says they are a pain in her back. Parton, 62, said on Monday she would postpone her upcoming North American tour after doctors told her to take it easy for six to eight weeks to rest her sore back. 'Hey, you try wagging these puppies around a while and see if you don't have back problems,' she said in a statement." This brings back the old joke. I'm sure you people have heard this joke before, but I had a dream last night, actually a nightmare. I dreamt that I was Dolly Parton's baby, and she put me on formula. All right, yeah, it's an old joke. Sorry about that.
Story #3: Chesapeake Primary Looks Good for Obama
RUSH: Now, before we get back to the politics stuff, I know this is the Potomac primary, and Obama's going to sweep it today. Hillary's going to open tomorrow down in Texas. Her latest firewall is Texas. New Hampshire was a firewall. She's had some other firewalls: New York and California. She's going to head down to Texas hoping Texas and Ohio will slow down Obama. Obama's going to win big in the three states today, and that's going to give him momentum like crazy, but that says, "Winner! Winner! Winner!" This is going to be, what, eight in a row; seven in a row that he will have smoked Mrs. Clinton? He will have beaten Mrs. Clinton profoundly. So it's going to be hard to turn this momentum around, but remember now we're talking about the Clintons, and as I said yesterday, "Imagine something you've wanted more than anything in your life. It consumes you, and you couple that with this arrogant notion that you are owed it and that it's only a matter of time, and you will do anything to get it." So even though Obama is going to sweep, it's going to be fun to watch.
Story #4: Stunning: White Evangelicals Vote Democrat!
RUSH: This is a Reuters story. "Exit polls during the US presidential primaries in Missouri and Tennessee last week show the Democratic Party has some support from white evangelicals, a group strongly associated with the Republican Party." No! Really? You mean there are actually Christians in America who vote for Democrats, and the Drive-Bys are just discovering that? Why, how can this be? You know, it's another one of these myths. This story is akin to the TIME Magazine cover back in 1996 or whenever it was. You remember this cover that said: News flash! Boys and girls are actually born different! Men and women born different? Can you imagine for that to be a cover story, what the editors had to think about boys and girls -- and that when they learned they are born different, it was such shocking news they made a cover story out of it? So now Reuters has been looking at exit poll data, and, lo and behold! They're finding out there's some white Christians who vote Democrat. Good Lordy! Who would have ever thunk it?
"Commissioned by Faith in Public Life, a non-partisan resource center, and conducted by Zogby International," who has gotten every single poll wrong throughout the primary, by the way, "the surveys were the first to ask Democratic voters..." the first! "...to ask Democratic voters if they were evangelical or born-again Christians. The findings reinforce other surveys showing that Republicans still command most of the support of this voting bloc but by no means have a monopoly on its affections." Really? Why, I'm shocked! "In Missouri, the polls showed 34 percent of all white evangelicals who voted took part in the Democratic primary versus 66 percent in the Republican primary." How many Democrats is this going to embarrass? You know, there are a lot of establishment Republican types -- I've told you the stories over and over again -- that are profoundly embarrassed that evangelicals and born-again Christians are in their party, because of abortion. I wonder if this is going to embarrass Democrat liberals to find out that they have Christians, white Christians, in their party voting for Democrats. Stunning.
Story #5: Is McCain Serious About Global Warming?
RUSH: Even my trusted and loyal staff attempt to trip me up during the break here. My trusted aide, chief of staff, H.R., said, "I got a question for you about McCain." I said, "Fire away." "Do you think this stand of his on global warming that he's all for Kyoto and things like it, but only if China and India sign on, do you think that's -- I mean, he's gotta know they're never going to sign on. Is that his out?" And I said, "We can hope. But, don't forget McCain-Lieberman, which had nothing to do with Kyoto or any of that. One of these carbon offset buying and selling pollution credit programs that's going to make energy more expensive, and he's doing that independent of China and India signing up." And I said to H.R., "You're just looking for any reason at all to like the guy." He said, "No, I'm just examining the better angels of my nature." Glad you asked. You know, where would you be if you hadn't asked? Always ask.
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