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June 23, 2008 |
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Story #1: The Messiah Unveils His Own Presidential Seal
 RUSH: The messiah, Barack Obama, is now accusing the Republicans of race. Anything that we say, anything we do, he's predicting that McCain and everybody else going to attack him on race.
Never mind it was the Democrat Party that made racism and sexism the hallmarks of their campaign. This is typical. This is Obama trying to shut it all down, and it actually is insulting.
We'll get into details of this as the program unfolds. Obama unveiled his own presidential seal. He redid the presidential seal and puts it on his podium. This guy is something. I'm telling you. He's the Chosen One.
Story #2: Puff Daschle Up to His Ears in Ethanol Money
RUSH: Tom Daschle is out there talking about how Obama is commander-in-chief. You know, the Puffster is one of Obama's big supporters, and guess what? Daschle's up to his ears in ethanol. He's on the board of three different ethanol companies. I've been wondering, what in the world's Daschle supporting Obama for? Daschle's in it for the personal wealth and of course obviously to try to rebuild a legacy for his failed Senate career.
Story #3: Majority of Brits Unconvinced on Climate Change
RUSH: "The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans -- and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem, according to an exclusive poll for The Observer." Now, the Observer, this appears in the UK Guardian. "The results have shocked campaigners who hoped that doubts would have been silenced by a report last year by more than 2,500 scientists for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which found a 90 per cent chance that humans were the main cause of climate change and warned that drastic action was needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The findings come just before the release of the government's long-awaited renewable energy strategy, which aims to cut the UK's greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent over the next 12 years."
This is the second such poll like this I've seen where a majority of -- not just the UK, in this case it's UK, a lot of people throughout the entire European Union are not buying the notion that it's their fault. One of the reasons so that they have been suffering the consequences a lot longer than we have. People in the European Union and the UK have seen tax increases out the wazoo to deal with carbon footprints and global warming. Their taxes have gone up. They have seen no improvement in the global warming situation, and in fact the leaders keep blaming them. Even after all these tax increases, the proponents of manmade global warming continue to say, "It's getting worse, here!" So people in the UK, Europeans even are saying, "Wait a minute. You've raised our taxes -- we're paying out the wazoo for all these things, we've done all the things you've told us to do about changing lightbulbs, all this other crazy stuff -- and yet you now say it makes no difference?" So they're starting to doubt it. They're away ahead of the curve over there, way ahead of us.
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Story #4: Rush Reveals Fondness for Scented Candles
 RUSH: I want to tell you a short little personal story here before we move on. Over the weekend I got some new candles. I'm a big Jo Malone candle freak, and I found these once when I got dragged into a department store, long, long time ago, got dragged into a department store shopping. I even forgot what the store was. They smell pretty good, and then I found out that they make these giant things, they call 'em luxury candles, but they have limited fragrances. The fragrances are good, but they got many more fragrances in their little, small candles. Frankly, I have large rooms in my house, and I don't want to have to buy 15 or 20 little candles to scent the whole room, and these large candles do it. So every once in a while I check the Jo Malone website to see if they've added. What I'm looking for is gardenia. I love gardenias. I love gardenia flowers. I love the scent of gardenia. They've got 'em in these little dinky things, and they don't have them in the big ones. I check the website every now and then to see if they've added.
I finally, on the website this morning, about an hour before the program, I clicked on the "contact us" button, and there was an option there, if you want to get hold of somebody to make a fragrance recommendation. I said, "Well, that's me." So I clicked on it, and I put in the e-mail address and my name as they have it in my file. And I got instantly a reply: "Hi. I'm Beth. How can I help you?" I said, "This has gotta be a computer talking to me; nobody is going to respond this fast." So I put in a couple things, "I love the candles, I wish there was a large one, luxury candle with the gardenia scent," blah, blah. And I got some perfunctory answers like a computer would be answering. So I thought I'd throw a curveball in there and ask a specific question that the computer couldn't handle, and, lo and behold, it was answered specifically, and I thought, hmm, this is a real person. Beth is not a computer, it's a real person. So I made the request and other things. She wrote back, "Are you a big fan of Jo Malone?" I said, "Check my file." She did, came back and said, "Well," and then she said, "I just have one question. Is this the Rush Limbaugh?" And I said, "Well, yes, indeed it is." "Well, I'm stunned." I said, "Why? Because you have mostly female customers?"
She said, "No, that I'm actually talking to you," and she said she was in Virginia. The point is she's going to forward the request on to the higher-ups, which is all I wanted. I don't know how to get hold of the grand pooh-bahs at Jo Malone. I mean, they're in London, for crying out loud. So anyway, I've been searching on the Internet for gardenia-scented -- Snerdley, do you know what's happening in the audience right now? "Limbaugh, gas prices are approaching five bucks, and you're telling us about candles?" (laughing) I know, folks. Anyway, I've been looking for large gardenia-scented candles on the Internet, and I can't find any big ones. Everybody makes these tiny little things, by tiny I mean like three inches diameter, three inches tall, and so forth. So we'll see if Beth -- she said she was a big fan, she and her father. She was nice as she could be, said she was going to forward the request on to the grand pooh-bahs up at Jo Malone to see if I could get a gardenia -- and I'm not looking for anybody to try to find me a gardenia -- I've got it under control, that's not what this is. It was a nice chat and I started off thinking it was a computer because the responses came fast and some of the responses had clicks for various areas on the website, well, we do have a gardenia candle, go here, even though I'd said I know, but do you have big ones?
Size does matter, Snerdley, especially in candles. Well, when you have a large room, absolutely size matters. Why would want 18 little things. Well, that's about the only bright side, big carbon footprint with 18 wicks burning, that's true. But they don't last as long as the big ones do. (interruption) What do you mean, what's happened to me? Oh. Candles, kitty cats, what's happened to me? What do you think's happened -- the staff on the IFB, folks. Very sensitive? I've always been sensitive. What is this? That's why I asked her if she was stunned because a guy was asking her questions about candles. I have always loved lots of candles in rooms scented with different fragrances, ever since I was in Pittsburgh when I moved out of my house. It's nothing new here. I've spoken of this before on the program. You people are starting to make me -- I'm talking about the staff here. What's happened to me? You guys sound like a bunch of liberals. "Limbaugh tried to soften his comments on Obama by then discussing his troubles in finding large gardenia-scented candles."
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RUSH: The staff is continuing to give me grief over my confessed affection for scented candles in my home. Levin says, "What, are you going through menopause, or are you just a pyromaniac?" Ladies and gentlemen, let me just tell you: Only a man secure in his masculinity would ever admit that he loves gardenia-scented candles. This is not metrosexuality. You people are getting a little wacko. At least I didn't go to a baby shower like somebody here did!
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Story #5: Drive-Bys Purposely Avoid Good News in Iraq
Background Stories: The New York Times || USA Today
 RUSH: Iraq war news. The New York Times' Brian Stelter. "Getting a story on the evening news isn't easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is especially hard, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News. So she has devised a solution when she is talking to the network. 'Generally what I say is, "I'm holding the armor-piercing R.P.G., [and] it's aimed at the bureau chief, and if you don't put my story on the air, I'm going to pull the trigger."'
What's happening here is that, "A decline in ... violence 'is taking the urgency out' of some of the coverage..." This is what news executives are saying: "A decline in ... violence 'is taking the urgency out' of some of the coverage," therefore, success in Iraq is not a story because the template -- the narrative, the action line -- does not include success in Iraq, and so these foreign correspondents, some of them who want to report good news, said they can't get their stories on the air. Then USA Today has a story today: "Roadside Bombs Decline in Iraq by Almost 90%." Roadside bombs decline by 90%? That is a story, but only in USA Today, it seems. So the good news that's happening in Iraq is purposely and studiously being avoided by the Drive-By Media, as we knew. We're not surprised by this at all.
Story #6: AMA Excludes Menthol from Cigarette Ban
RUSH: Okay, speaking of the race card, do you remember the story where the AMA or the Food and Drug Administration was going to ban all flavorings in cigarettes except menthol, after they learned that 75% of blacks smoke menthol cigarettes? So they didn't want to ban menthol because they thought it would be racist. Guess what? The country's largest organization of doctors last week refused to challenge a controversial tobacco bill that would ban many flavor additives and cigarettes sold in the US but exempt menthol. So the AMA's gone along with the FDA. Fine, we're going to leave menthol flavorings "under a bill before Congress that gives control of tobacco products to the Food and Drug Administration. The bill would ban flavor additives such as mint, clove and vanilla, which appeal to young people," but menthol flavoring would be allowed. Menthol preferred by more than 75% of black smokers. Hey, Obama, this is made to order for you, bud. The AMA, FDA want to ban all flavorings except those preferred by blacks. Can we infer from this that the AMA and the FDA would prefer blacks continue to smoke? Why? Smoking does what, it makes people sick? It shortens their life? And the FDA and the AMA, we infer here, want blacks to continue to be able to get the flavor that makes 'em smoke the most?
Does Obama smoke menthol? That's the thing. He smokes. He tried to quit, but he got off the wagon, the Nicorette didn't do it for him. I don't know if there's menthol Nicorette. (interruption) He's not authentic, this doesn't apply to him, Mr. Snerdley, because he has no slave blood, so if Obama smokes menthol he's exempt because he's not really black, according to Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Michelle's black because she's got slave blood, but Obama isn't black, not authentic anyway. But it's still made to order for him. I mean here's two powerful agencies, one a government agency saying, "You keep pumping out the menthol, Big Tobacco, keep pumping it out." You draw your own conclusions.
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