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July 2, 2008 |
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Story #1: Crazy Joe Klein Wants You to Kill Your Air Conditioner
 RUSH: Joe Klein, TIME Magazine, latest issue. His piece is entitled, "Kill Your Air Conditioner." Now, this is a political reporter, Joe Klein. I've seen Joe Klein on TV a bunch of times the past two weeks, month, what have you, and I'm reading this piece, and I'm genuinely concerned: What has happened to Joe Klein? Joe Klein used to be a down-the-middle political reporter. He's always been a Drive-By, oriented toward the left, but he has become increasingly angry, bordering on being out-of-control. He's not making any effort to hide the activist agenda that he has been responsible for, but this piece is simply deranged. There is no other polite way to describe this. These are his words. "The unnecessary refrigeration of America has become a chronic disease. It seems to have gotten worse over the past few years, with thermostats routinely set at 68 deg. F, and sometimes even 65 deg., in the (far too many) hotel rooms I've suffered on the campaign trail.
"'Americans seem to keep their houses cooler in summer than they do in the winter,' muses Edward Parson, an environmental expert at the University of Michigan Law School." Seem to keep their houses cooler in summer than they do in the winter? I don't know how they could ever prove that assertion. How in the world does anybody know what the temperature in somebody's house in the summertime is versus what it is in the winter? Secondly, what is an environmentalist wacko doing at the University of Michigan Law School? Anyway, he says, "'Americans seem to keep their houses cooler in summer than they do in the winter,' ... But it's hard to know for sure, since there are no comprehensive studies that measure air-conditioning trend lines." So, Joe, why quote the guy?
What's happened to Joe Klein? He then says, "I will confess a bias here. I love warm weather, even when it slouches toward humidity. I detest the harsh, slightly metallic quality of the air forced through even the fanciest AC systems. The only air conditioner I own sits, unused, in my car; my home is happily unrefrigerated. But given the energy mess we're in, I can now gild my personal preference with a patina of high-mindedness: Air-conditioning is bad for the planet, and for national security, and for our balance-of-payments deficit. Unfortunately, it is not as bad as I'd like it to be -- in part because not all of our electricity is provided by fossil fuels (although coal does predominate). And also because air-conditioning represents a relatively small slice of our energy use, an estimated 4%."
So he's asking for a greater crisis. Joe Klein wants there to be a greater energy climatic crisis than there is, because of air-conditioning. (No, Snerdley, I don't know what his beliefs in toilet paper are. I don't know what his beliefs on flushing the toilet are.) Clearly, something's happened to Joe Klein. He's either on the meds or he's off of them. What a thing to get riled up about. What a thing to get upset about. But then when you stop and think, "No, he's in the left-wing media, and the left-wing media is on a crusade to promote the hoax of manmade global warming." Folks, if these people were ever to succeed with this... You just need to go back and take a look at the Twenties! You talk about the work output that would cease, the productivity in this country that ratcheted way up once air-conditioning was discovered?
Story #2: Why Obama Says He's Against the Fairness Doctrine
RUSH: You know, the Fairness Doctrine, this comes up and we talk about this every now and then. Now, Obama, I have to tell you, I've got the story in the stack. It's from a couple of days ago. Obama says, or somebody in his campaign said, "We don't care about the Fairness Doctrine. We got bigger fish to fry than that. We have no intention of reinstating the Fairness Doctrine." Obama doesn't have to say it because Nancy Pelosi has; a number of other Democrats have. But the Fairness Doctrine, they may try, folks, but, look: They're not going to just be able to succeed with this overnight if they try it. They're going to have all kinds of opposition and the kind of opposition that they fear most, and that's going to be from you, the American people.
The American people are not going to put up with it. There's too high a level, degree of sophistication now, understanding what would happen if the Fairness Doctrine were implemented and reinstated. The broadcast community, yes, it's regulated by the FCC. But when I started my national radio show in 1988, there were 125 radio stations doing talk. Today, some 20 years later, it's over 1200. Now, that means that the talk format has withstood all the other downturns, formatically, in radio. You know, certain music formats are having trouble. A lot of formats are having trouble. Talk radio is not. The industry is just not going to sit around and let the Democrats make it worthless without a fight. It's going to take much more than the snap of a finger or the waving of a magic wand to bring this about. I have no doubt the Democrats want to do it. I have no doubt that Nancy Pelosi wants to try it. They are typical in that way. They don't want to put up with people that they disagree with. They don't want to put up with criticism. They don't want to engage it. They just want to silence it. What do you think political correctness is? Political correctness is nothing more than using intimidating tactics to make people shut up and not say things that liberals don't want to hear, pure and simple.
Story #3: TIME: Ten Things You Can Like About $4 Gas
RUSH: TIME Magazine, Amanda Ripley: "'10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas' -- The world had long assumed that Americans were just unrepentant energy pigs." That's the lead. So the lead has to do with what the world thinks of us, talking about four-dollar gasoline. The world just assumed we're a bunch of unrepentant energy pigs. "If gas prices went up, well, we kept our Explorers aimed at the horizon, and little changed. We truthfully didn't have lots of options. Unlike Europeans, we didn't have jobs we could bike to or convenient public transit. Gasoline prices never stayed high enough long enough to force those kinds of shifts in how we lived. Now here we are. Gas prices are near $4 per gal., as no one needs to tell you, and they are likely to stay that way. Most of us still don't have the alternatives we need to adapt with grace." We don't have the ability, so... "we will adapt by suffering. We will run out of gas on I-80, ease our minivans over to the shoulder and tell the kids everything is O.K. We'll fall behind on Visa bills to pay for gas so we can buy food made ever more expensive by energy costs. But it's also true that Americans are finding options where there seemed to be none. They're ready to change -- just waiting for their infrastructure to catch up. They are driving to commuter-rail lines only to find there are no parking spots left. They are running fewer errands and dumping their SUVs. Public-transit use is at a 50-year high. Gas purchases are down 2% to 3%. And all those changes bring secondary, hard-earned benefits."
Now, here, in the final paragraph, is the real reason for writing this story. "Eric Roston, author of a new book about energy, The Carbon Age, says, 'You suddenly are reminded how the economy works. Nobody wants high prices for oil. But there's also no faster mechanism to change behavior.' The suffering will go on. But the story, like any good tragedy, is not without redemption." This is TIME Magazine, Amanda Ripley. And so what's the great thing about gas prices going up? You pigs will change your behavior. You unrepentant energy pigs will change your behavior, and you'll get on the rotten, unreliable mass transit, if you have any. Otherwise you'll find a job where you can ride your bicycle to like these brilliant Europeans. But you are an unrepentant energy pig, and it's about time your behavior changed, and thank God for four-dollar gasoline to do that.
So here we have the arrogance and the elitism and the snobbery of the Drive-By Media and their noted experts in a short little piece, "10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas," and it's all predicated on the fact that you are pig, that you are guilty, that you deserve to suffer, but there is redemption. And so we're happy for high prices in energy 'cause you are going to change your behavior, 'cause you are destroying the planet, you are greedy, you are this, you are that. Hello global warming. This is a microcosm. The same kind of arrogant, snob effetes want to tell you how to live 'cause you're too stupid to know how to live right. And when you are too stupid, and don't live the way they want you to live, then you embarrass them in the eyes of the Europeans. And our elite, effete-snob Drive-By Media leftists and other leftists do not want to be embarrassed in the eyes of the Europeans! So you, you worthless shreds of human debris, we're going to change your behavior -- because you're too stupid to live in a way that won't embarrass the elites.
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