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April 30, 2008 |
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Story #1: Biofuels Make One Billion "Food Insecure"
RUSH: There's a story here in the Associated Press -- one billion people are "food insecure" now. "Some top international food scientists yesterday recommended halting the use of food-based biofuels, such as ethanol, saying it would cut corn prices by 20 percent during a world food crisis... If leading nations stopped biofuel use this year, it would lead to a price decline in corn by about 20 percent and wheat by about 10 percent from 2009-10, said Joachim von Braun. He heads the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, the policy arm of CGIAR. The United States is the biggest biofuel producer." Right, it's our fault. Everything is our fault! Let's not talk about Brazil and their biofuels using sugar. No, no, no. It's always our fault. Which is one of the aims of all this. All this price chaos, all these food riots, all this stuff happening in China and India, Egypt, finger of blame will eventually come right back to us. We're the biggest producer; we're doing this and that. You watch, folks. That's one of the objectives here.
Story #2: Suddenly, Drive-Bys Don't Love the '90s
 RUSH: Wall Street Journal today, Amy Chozick has a story about the Clintons. "Sen. Hillary Clinton is reminding economically hard-hit voters how much better they had it in the 1990s, but bringing up the past also risks taking them back to the scandals and partisan divides associated with former President Bill Clinton." Now, wait a minute. This is the Wall Street Journal, and it's a news story. This is not the conservative editorial page writing this. To the Drive-Bys, the legacy of the '90s is this: "Whoa! What a great period of time! Economic prosperity and peace -- just happy as we could be." We had peace -- really? Somalia, Khobar Towers, USS Cole, World Trade Center. Peace? In the '90s?
Story #3: Volvo Vows to Stop "Death and Injury" in Cars
RUSH: Did you see this? Volvo sets a target to eliminate death and injury in its vehicles in 2020. They're going to stop making cars, I guess.
Story #4: Will the Michelle Volcano Explode on CNN?
RUSH: In the last half hour, we learned that Michelle Obama is going to be on CNN tonight to discuss Reverend Wright, and I said, "Why? If they think they've put this behind 'em, why in the world are they going to bring her out?" She is a volcano waiting to erupt. With the wrong question or two, this woman could go ballistic. I mean, she's got about the same amount of hate for this country as old Jeremiah does. I think part of it is counterprogramming the fact that Mrs. Clinton tonight is going to be on O'Reilly.
Story #5: Fox News Analyzes Hillary's Facial Expressions
RUSH: Oh! Ha, ha -- I have to tell you this. I am so glad that I don't work in cable TV. I was just watching Fox News for about 15 minutes, and my good friend Martha MacCallum had a guest who was an expert at analyzing facial expressions. So they played a little snippet of Mrs. Clinton on O'Reilly's show tonight, and they went to the facial expression expert. They said, "Tell us, what did you see in Mrs. Clinton's face there?" and this facial expert, the woman, said, "Well, it was obvious. Mrs. Clinton was raising her head, raising her chin far more than she usually does. It was obvious to me she wanted to be able to look down her nose while speaking to O'Reilly." Ha, ha! I didn't hear it; I was reading this on closed-caption while I was talking to a caller.
"She held her head up so she could look down her nose at O'Reilly while speaking." Where do we get these people? If you work at cable TV and you want a facial expression expert, where do you go? The Yellow Pages? Probably not. These people are probably flooding cable TV with e-mails and faxes, saying, "Hey, we're experts in this," and the producers keep it on file.
Story #6: Some Quick Math on Home Foreclosures
RUSH: "Homes facing foreclosure more than doubled in the first quarter from 2007." Okay yip yip yip yip yahoo. You know what the number is? One out of every 194 homes foreclosed on in the first quarter. Do you know what percentage that is? I ran the numbers on my Macintosh computer: .5%. Point five percent! One half of 1% of homes in this country are being foreclosed on -- one half of one percent, or one out of every 194.
Story #7: Greek Court Asked to Rule in Lesbos v. Lesbos
RUSH: Have you ever heard of the Greek island of Lesbos? There is a Greek island called Lesbos for those of you who didn't know. "A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women. Three islanders from Lesbos -- home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women -- have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name. One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the association, Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, 'insults the identity' of the people of Lesbos, who are also known as Lesbians. 'My sister can't say she is a Lesbian,' said Dimitris Lambrou. 'Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos,' he said." So an argument here over terminology taking place in Greece.
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