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May 23, 2008 |
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Story #1: Why Do We Care About Denise Richards?
RUSH: That's a good question. Why do we care about Denise Richards and her divorce from Charlie Sheen? Why do we care? You people who care have to get some serious meaning in your life. H.R. says, "Who's Denise Richards?" Exactly right, she had one big role, she was a Bond girl and she was married to Charlie Sheen. Anyway, I'm sorry for bringing it up.
 Story #2: Drive-Bys: Hooray for Oil Price "Rebound"
RUSH: Let me explain an AP story to you. Here's what they say: "Oil prices rose Friday on worries that supply can't keep up with growing global demand, after tumbling around $4 overnight from a record above $135 a barrel." Now, the headline to this story is: "Oil prices rebound," the perspective in this story is it's a good damn thing that oil prices came back up. Oil prices rebound. And, of course, for some in the speculator market, that's probably good news. It's just an example of the contradictory reporting that we get on this from the Drive-By Media.
Story #3: How Will We Know When Economy Rebounds?
RUSH: The AP is well aware that at some point the economy will revive. So Jeannine Aversa of AP has written a story today just hand-wringing, oh, no, of course the economy will revive someday, but how will we know? "With any luck, the second half of this year will be better than the so-far rocky first half. The Federal Reserve chief hopes that is the case. So does President Bush. For the rest of us mere mortals, it feels like the pain is getting worse. When the economy begins to snap out of its funk, how will we know?" Come on, Jeannine! You'll get your marching orders from your editor. The economy will miraculously improve once Democrats win the elections in November. In fact, it will take less than a week after the elections, and you are going to be told, you're going to be assigned stories by your editor, go out there and discover the overwhelmingly new positive and excited attitude among the American people. And this will bring about the economic revival that everybody has been waiting for. That's how we will know. Mark my words.
Story #4: Father's Day Cards Portray Men as Louts
RUSH: From the AP, Hillary Rhodes, a woman writing a story here about Father's Day cards; and basically what this story says is that you go out and you look at a Father's Day card and the odds are that you're going to have trouble finding one that does not refer to your dad as some kind of a loutish boor. "Fathers sleep a lot, and they snore loudly. When they're awake, they like to fish or golf, but they're comically bad at both. They drink so much beer they're practically alcoholics, and they're complete couch potatoes, always watching television and hogging the remote. At least, that's the less-than-favorable image of Dad on Father's Day greeting cards. It's a striking contrast to the poetic praise often expressed at Mother's Day. Many men say they are tired of the put-down cards and would like some affirmation for a change -- and at least one greeting-card company is listening. One father in Washington, DC, who used to stay home with his kids and blog about his life as an at-home father, says the golf and fishing cards don't bother him, but he doesn't like the ones that make dads look incompetent. 'This idea that men are somehow biologically incapable of caring for their children is the sort of thing that I don't find particularly funny,' says Brian Reid, father of two."
Why is this guy shocked? Why is anybody surprised by this? I mean, men are predators, lousy louts, lazy lugs, dirty and filthy. This is a stereotype that's been out there for quite a while, and it's been fed by militant feminazi-ism. Yes, Mr. Snerdley? The program observer has a question. Well, that's a good question. Snerdley's question is, "Do real men get upset over greeting cards?" It's a good question. Apparently this guy does. Apparently, he's walking around there ready to be offended. You know, there's certain things that men should not get offended over, they should get mad at. The idea that they're predators; the idea that they have no stake in seeing their kids if there's a divorce. But the greeting card thing, I have to agree with you. What do you do with it? You open it, you read it, you tell the person that gave it to you you like it when you couldn't have cared less, you throw it away. It just ends up as trash. They write these little notes on it, you gotta go, "Oh, that's so sweet, thank you!" Okay, Dawn just said she's not getting me any more cards. Hubba, hubba! I got a couple cards in the mail today. I don't even remember what they are. Opened them up, looked at 'em, yep, trash. We get enough junk.
Story #5: Liberals: Is It Time to Drive 55 Again?
RUSH: Would you be surprised if I were to tell you that there is pressure mounting again now from the environmentalist left to lower the speed limit on interstate highways to 55 miles an hour? Is this not amazing how history recycles and repeats itself? We did 55 miles an hour back in the seventies during the contrived shortages then, under the guise of saving fuel and so forth, and highway safety, of course. Now we're going to add to this the specter of global warming. This is from a blog called Wired.com. The headline: "With Gas Prices Rising and the Planet Warming--" It's not warming, and it hasn't warmed in eight years! "--Is it Time to Drive 55 Again?" This is by Doug Newcomb. "Congress adopted a nationwide 55 mph speed limit law during the oil embargo of the 1970s and threatened to withhold highway funding for any state that didn't comply. It repealed the law 13 years ago, when oil was cheap and gas plentiful. But with prices going through the roof and everyone worried about global warming--" hey, Doug, not everybody's worried about global warming.
Not everybody is as big a sponge as you are. "-- there are increasing calls for Congress to bring back the double-nickel speed limit. Advocacy groups like drive55.org say rolling the speed limit back to 55 will save fuel, reduce pollution and save lives. It seems logical, but not everyone is convinced slower speeds bring any real benefit, and the debate is heating up. 'Sheer physics tell you lower speeds equal better fuel economy, fewer injuries and lower emissions,' said Justin McNaull, director of state relations for AAA. 'But what happens when you change the speed limit is a little less clear.' ... drive55.org also says the average speed people travel on the highway has been rising for 20 years. McNaull notes that advances in vehicle design, such as better windows and soundproofing have changed peoples' sense of how fast they're going, which is one reason people regularly exceed the posted speed limit. 'Doing 60 mph in a 2008 vehicle feels a lot different than in the vehicles our grandparents drove.'"
They're designed for 70 miles an hour, designed for 80 miles an hour. I'm a good driver, I go 80, the speed limit is 70, they give you 10% -- I go with the flow. When I'm out there, you go with the flow or you're in trouble. If you're going to slow-poke it and everybody else around you is doing 80 miles an hour, you're going to cause all kinds of potential problems, so you go with the flow. And 55 means a bunch of more tickets; it means a lot more impatience; it means a lot more kids, "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" for a lot longer because trips are going to take a lot longer. I have a car, 12-cylinder, bi-turbo, 612 horsepower. The other day I was out, I drove to Palm City to play golf, which is up in St. Lucie County by about two feet. Well, the golf course was. And coming back, I was just going with the flow, and I looked at the speed limit, it was 94 miles an hour. And honestly, this guy's got a point, I felt like I was doing no more than 60, if that.
When I got off the bridge to get home where the speed limit's 30, I felt like I was doing 2, I felt like I was on a lawn mower. Anyway, it's a silly idea. Let me sum this up, folks. Conservation is all well and good, and nobody that has a brain is against conserving anything. But as a means of growth, it is not. Driving 55 will not produce more oil. Driving 55 will not reduce oil imports. Driving 55 will have not one smidgen's worth of difference on the climate. Driving 55 might save you a little money, but driving 55 is going to frustrate you so much that you're going to end up spending in speeding tickets what you're going to save.
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Story #6: Investor's Business Daily on the Polar Bears
 RUSH: Investor's Business Daily yesterday had a great editorial on this whole sham of putting the polar bear on the endangered species list. "Alaska says it will sue to challenge the listing of polar bears as a threatened species. The designation could block vital oil and gas development. But that was the whole point in the first place." It goes on to cite all the stats of how many more polar bears there are today than 1974. Ted Stevens is quoted, senator from Alaska, "Reinterpreting the Endangered Species Act in this way is an unequivocal victory for extreme environmentalists who want to block all development in our state." Yes, Senator, and everywhere else, for that matter. If all these guys, if all these Republicans know this, like Ted Stevens, where is it on our agenda? Every time I read a report from a Republican reacting to this, they always say the right things but where the hell is it in our platform? Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. I forgot our presidential nominee is on the other side of the issue. The conclusion in the Investor's Business Daily is great. "Just as the caribou thrived at Prudhoe [the Alaskan pipeline], the polar bear will adapt and thrive. The polar bears aren't threatened. It is they who are threatening us -- with $200-a-barrel oil." Do you realize the automotive-owning-American public is a threatened species if all this keeps up?
Story #7: McCain's Media Base Begins to Turn on Him
RUSH: McCain's health records are out. Did you see what ABC News did last night? Thursday night, yeah. They had their medical guy on, Tim Johnson, 72 years old. He's older than McCain. They had their medical guy on, the medical guy says, (paraphrasing) "Well, you know, yeah, he's in pretty good health but he could get dementia at any moment. He's got a 16 or 36% chance of losing his mind, going nuts, and getting dementia because he might live to be 86 or 89." I mean, here's a guy, the Drive-By Media was his base, and they're starting to turn on him.
Story #8: Jonah Goldberg Suggests McCain Pick Dem VP
RUSH: There is the most amazing piece at National Review Online today by Jonah Goldberg. Now, Jonah is a brilliant guy. He wrote a book recently that sold very well called Liberal Fascism, and in this book, he basically associates and points out how liberalism and fascism and communism are all interlinked, with great examples. It was a fascinating book. And yet today, he has a piece at National Review Online suggesting that McCain choose a Democrat as his vice presidential nominee. He writes a great book about liberalism and fascism and then talks about a national unity ticket in which John McCain would pick a Democrat. Goldberg is a very conservative guy. The Republican nominee promotes the Democrat Party, the 71-year-old McCain should pick a Democrat?
We have David Frum; we have Bill Kristol; we have David Brooks, and all of the learned conservative intelligentsia are all looking for ways to water down conservatism now. He just wrote this book slamming the left, but now we should unite with them, we should unite with the left. McCain, if elected, will be facing a heavily liberal Congress. Regardless what happens, we need a Democrat on our ticket. You know, I've got an idea. Why don't we quit tiptoeing through the tulips? Why don't we just shut down the Republican Party and all become Democrats, if that's the way to go. If McCain picking a Democrat, if unifying with Democrats, if walking across the aisle to do deals with Democrats, if that's the way to go, then to hell with Republican Partyism. Let's just all become Democrats, why put up a fight? Just become Democrats and end it. Because we have to end the partisan rancor. We have to end the partisan rancor and show that we have a big tent. Well, we have rancor in a democracy. Rancor is a good thing in a democracy. Maybe McCain should pick a female Hispanic lesbian Democrat running mate. That would unite us. That's the way to go.
Story #9: McCain Pushes Amnesty for "God's Children"
RUSH: My friends, in case you've missed it, Senator McCain, since we are speaking about him today here on Open Line Friday, Michelle Malkin has this in her blog, MichelleMalkin.com. Senator McCain is talking amnesty in full force once again. He was careful not to be so bold about this when he was competing in the primaries. In the primaries, he was telling people that's an issue that's dead and gone. "I would support the bill if it came up again but it's not what the American people want." But today McCain, who is now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said that an immigration program "is needed that protects America's borders and national security. He called for punishing employers who hire illegal immigrants, but he also advocated a humane approach that treats illegal workers as God's children." Who else said that in the campaign? Was it Lindsey Grahamnesty? No. God's children. Oh! It was Huckabee. It was Huckabee out there using the same term.
Okay, McCain said that "they should be allowed to seek legal status in a humane and comprehensive fashion through a program they can count on and trust." If you read the piece there's not one word about what's right, not one word about the rule of law -- I don't understand, after all of this -- yes, I do understand it, sadly I do understand it. After all this that's happened, members of the House and Senate do not get it. All the American people want is existing law enforced. We don't need reform. We've done the reform bit. We just ain't reforming the reform, and we are not enforcing it. The bottom line is, they know that, they want this whether we do or not, and they're going to find a way to get this done despite what the American people want. That's the real meaning of this. So at a global competitiveness event, global warming event, McCain promotes amnesty again. And this God's children business, we're all God's children, for crying out loud! It's so absurd. We have to remember, see, we xenophobes and we racists and we nativists, we have to remember that the illegals are God's children.
Story #10: Obama-Hillary VP Offer Deal Falls Apart
RUSH: Supposedly Hillary had agreed to get out of the race this afternoon if Obama would publicly offer her the VP slot -- she would say no, turn it down. But the Obama people turned the deal down because they don't trust her to say no.
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