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| April 28, 2008 |
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Story #1: Dean: One Candidate Must Drop Out by June
RUSH: Howard Dean has also changed his tune. Howard Dean, up until today was saying that the superdelegates have to make up their minds by June as to who's going to win this primary. Now he's is telling Obama and Hillary one of them is going to have to quit in June. Now, that's a far cry from getting the superdelegates to commit in June to solve this. If this is true, what it tells me is that Howard Dean is having major problems getting the superdelegates in line and so now he's throwing the onus back on the candidates -- "One of you guys has to quit."
Story #2: Drive-By Newspaper Circulation Plummets
RUSH: Have you seen the circulation numbers for major newspapers? The Dallas Morning News is down 10.6%, 363,313 daily circulation. Los Angeles Times is down 5.1%. The LA Times used to have over a million readers. They're down to 773,884. They all remain in denial about why. I don't know if you watched any of the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday night, but they remain as arrogant as ever. It's just fascinating to watch these guys at their newspapers just continually lose circulation and ad revenue and pages and fire or lay off employees or offer them contractual buyouts or something. There's trouble in the print phase of the Drive-By Media, and they won't -- even the slightest moment -- take time to analyze exactly why. They are alienating their readers, alienating their audience. As I keep saying, the news business is the one business where it is standard operating procedure that the customer is an idiot, is wrong, and doesn't know the first thing about what the business is doing.
So if you have a complaint about your local newspaper, your local TV or radio station, their reaction is, "You're not sophisticated enough to understand." Sort of like Obama and the way his elitist buddies look at the clingers in bitter America. They cling to God, they cling to church, when they're unhappy and the government's ignoring them and so forth. Basically a bunch of unsophisticated rubes is how the Drive-Bys, in large number, look at their own audiences. And the audience says, "I don't care to read you anymore. I don't need you. You're old hat." They're going away in droves, and the Drive-Bys are sitting there in total denial and blaming the customers for not being smart enough to understand the brilliance of the work they are putting out day by day in their newspapers.
Story #3: Kay Bailey Hutchison on the Ethanol Scam
RUSH: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is now writing that we have got to stop increasing the levels of ethanol in fuels. The vast majority of even the extremists in environmentalist wacko movement are now saying ethanol is a scam, this is bad. It's causing the food shortage, it's causing rising prices, and some people are saying we have to stop this. You know, everything liberalism does is a mistake. I don't care about the good intentions. Everything it does is a good intention. They can't mind their own business. They have to run your life, too. They have to run the lives of your kids. They have to tell you everything you can and can't do.
Story #4: Smoking Bans Lead to More Energy Use
RUSH: Look at this, folks. This is hilarious. It's a Reuters story. "Fewer cigarettes get lit indoors in bars and restaurants because of smoking bans from California to Ireland but something else is going up in smoke from a sidewalk in central Oslo -- about $100,000 a year in extra outdoor heating bills. The heated pavement, installed at a cost of about $400,000, may be the most extreme example of an environmental side-effect of smoking bans: rocketing power use." So you ban smokers inside and you send 'em outside. They're addicts, they go outside. Whatever the weather, they'll stand out there. They demand to be warm, government says fine, we'll put in some heated sidewalks and some overhead heaters just to make sure that you don't pollute our environment inside. And so the amount of power, electricity, carbon footprint that's being used to facilitate an indoor smoking ban is skyrocketing.
Story #5: Car Cat Causes Accident; Law Passed
 RUSH: Try this story. This is an example of how our government -- state and local -- are out of control. "Modesto police are blaming a scratching cat for an accident that toppled a power pole and shut down a street for nearly an hour. A police sergeant said Friday that a woman was driving with a cat in her lap. The animal scratched her, and she drove into the pole. The woman suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital. The cat was taken to a vet to treat an injured eye. On Wednesday, the Assembly Appropriations Committee approved a bill by Assemblyman Bill Maze that would make it illegal to drive with a pet in your arms or in your lap." It took two whole days to make a law for this one isolated incident of a cat scratching a driver and the driver driving into a power pole. Talk about the land of fruits and nuts!
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