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Story #1: If Obama Pressers Were a Show, They'd Be Cancelled
 RUSH: By the way, if Barack Obama's press conferences were an actual television show, they would be canceled. February 9th the pseudo-State of the Union address, 49.5 million watched. His March 24th prime-time press conference, 40.4 million watched, down from 49. And Wednesday night, 28.8 million. He's down from 49-and-a-half million to 28.8 million since February 9th. If this was a reality show, it would be in trouble. Now, if the press actually asked some tough questions at these things, the ratings might come back. Since that's not going to happen, the Obama primetime press conferences are in trouble, regardless what the critics and the media say. It was said to have been an unbelievable performance, enchanting, dreamy, brilliant, steamy, even. But fewer and fewer Americans are watching.
Story #2: Vanity Fair Recommends Anita Hill for Supreme Court
RUSH: A little aside here: Vanity Fair magazine, an editor there, has suggested that President Obama select Anita Hill to replace Justice Souter on the US Supreme Court simply to make Clarence Thomas's worst nightmare come true. Aren't the libs just a bunch of nice people? They're so nice. I love to hang around these people.
Story #3: ABC News Makes Interrogators Targets for Terrorism
RUSH: How about ABC showing the names and faces of two Americans hired by their country to help gather information from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terrorists involved in 9/11? Just put their names out there, put their faces out there, making them targets for the rest of their lives and their families as well. Way to go, ABC. Just over the line.
Story #4: Obama Foreign Policy: April a Deadly Month in Iraq
RUSH: In the month of April, this is now May 1st, how about that Obama foreign policy, the month of April, the deadliest month in Iraq since September. Now, it's being reported, the Drive-Bys got their story on it, but are you seeing any of the Drive-Bys trumpeting the story of the violence in Iraq and how things may be falling apart? You're not. Not at all. No, because the template is, oh, the world loves us so much more now, we've got the best foreign policy. Obama's apologizing for the country, nations around the world are very appreciative that we're acknowledging our weaknesses and our mistakes and our existence, blah, blah, blah. Deadliest month in Iraq since September. I'll just put this out there, something for you to ponder. Do you think, ladies and gentlemen, that the violence in Iraq might be on the upswing because Obama's made it clear we're getting out of there? Do you think that might be a factor? It could very easily.
Story #5: Why Rush Turned His Lights ON for the Environment
RUSH: Snerdley told me during the break, folks, that he had a call up there for Open Line Friday that went away. She couldn't hang on. Do you remember...? She was from the Midwest somewhere, do you remember...? Crocker, Missouri? I don't know where Crocker is. Oh, Roberta from Crocker, Missouri, okay, she's a mom. She was middle-aged, is that what you said, or in her fifties? She wanted to know... I wish she would've held on. It was a perfect Open Line Friday question. She wanted to know why I lit up my house like a Christmas tree the night everybody else turned off their lights. She said even if I didn't agree with them, why waste all the electricity?
I wish she would have held on, because that's such a teachable moment question. So I'm going to pretend that she's on the phone here and has asked me this question. Because remember, this was the thing that Edward Norton, the actor, went on Larry King Alive and promoted: Turn off the lights. It was to symbolize something about global warming and how we could all work together to make change. They were going to turn the lights out for an hour on a Saturday night. And when I heard that I was advocating everybody turn on every light you've got on in that hour, inside and outside. Put up your Christmas tree for the night. And she wants to know, "Why would you do that?" I would have a simple question for you, Roberta, if you're still there: "Why would you turn yours off?"
No, seriously. Just because some actor goes on Larry King Live or some leftist environmental group says, "Everybody turn your lights off for an hour," why would you do it? Why do they get the benefit of the doubt that their premise, that their reason is honorable and good and worthwhile? Why would you turn yours off just because these people say to do it? Why would you not resist the tug of popular sentiment? Do you make yourself feel better by going along with such nonsense? The reason I turned my lights on, Roberta -- and lit my house up as brightly as I could -- and the reason why on Earth Day I sent my airplane to California and back, burning jet fuel...
The reason I do all this is to do two things. A, to not conform with the tug of popular sentiment, which is a bunch of sheep. I refuse to be a sheep! I refuse to be a lemming, and I refuse to accept stupid, idiotic, erroneous premises. This premise being that if we all turned our lights out, somehow we're making a statement for the future of saving the planet. It's absurd. So rather than just not turn my lights off... Wherever there are liberals, Roberta, I oppose them. And this is nothing more than a bunch of liberal activists practicing mind-control and trying to create as many sheep as possible, and I have not been and I'm never going to be a sheep. So in do it, I was expanding the economy. I was keeping people working. I was simply expressing my political point of view and just shoving down their throats.
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