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Story #1: Norks Light Off Four Missiles Ahead of 4th of July
RUSH: So I went to bed last night safe and confident in the news that the Pentagon said that the Norks were not going to launch any missiles, that they'd gotten cold feet. I wake up this morning, I find out the Norks have lit off four of them. So then I said, "Well, I wonder what Obama's going to do?" He'll probably call Hugo Chavez to find out what to do about it except Hugo is in the hills marshaling forces to invade Hondurans, and if we had any good luck, Hondurans would send some people here and help us get our government back.
 Story #2: Ants and Jellyfish Take Over the World
RUSH: Have you seen these two stories: "Ant Mega-Colony Takes Over World." Have you seen this? This is from the BBC: "A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another." And then there's a companion story: "Japan Fears Massive Jellyfish Invasion This Year." This is from PinkTentacle.com, and there are some huge pictures, divers down there looking at these huge jellyfish. So the ants are going to rule on land, the jellyfish are going to rule in the water. We are surrounded! We always thought it would be the roaches taking over. It's the ants and the jellyfish.
Story #3: Staged News: MSNBC Talks Up Second Stimulus
RUSH: How's that stimulus working for you, eh? Nine-point-four percent unemployment. I'm watching some Obamaite on MSNBC this morning, I think it was Lisa Jackson from the Labor Department, and that idiot Carlos Watson who is a propagandist. I mean he takes dictation from Rahm Emanuel. (imitating Watson) "Lisa, are we approaching the point that we might need a second stimulus?" I'm watching this, I thought, "Where do they find brain dead people at NBC?" They must have an island where they grow 'em, like Fox grows the blondes on Bikini island, Ailes told me, they got a factory out there for the blondes, but MSNBC must have a factory where they grow dumb people and this Lisa Jackson blew the question, (paraphrasing) "Well, that's for the president and advisors to decide. I'm still trying to get my hands on the first stimulus money," she said. (laughing) She admitted that they haven't spent any! "I'm still trying to get my hands on the first stimulus," and of course Carlos Watson, "What?" Didn't quite fit.
You know, the health care town hall yesterday was staged. I wonder if MSNBC is staged. I wonder if everything that happens there is set up, prewritten, by Robert Gibbs and the Obama administration, they send it over at nine o'clock every day for Joe and Mika, and then they send it over for all the other shows. Joe and Mika, by the way, say it's not helpful for us to be criticizing Colin Powell, not helpful for us to be criticizing Obama. But of course they don't say anything about it being unhelpful for anonymous McCain aides to be ripping Sarah Palin again all over that Todd Purdum hit piece in Vanity Fair.
Story #4: Vice President Biden Fails to Draw Crowd in Erie
RUSH: By the way, Biden was in Erie, Pennsylvania, yesterday and did not draw a crowd. Fewer than a hundred people showed up at some little community center to hear Biden talk about something (whatever he was scheduled to talk about, I'm sure he'd go off path and talk about something else), but staffers were seen removing chairs from this place to make it look like the Biden event was full and sold out, but I'm told by eyeball witnesses that it was pathetic.
Story #5: Dr. Barack Fails to Cure DNC Staffer with Hug
RUSH: There is something going on. These people in the Obama administration are not magic. They don't have the magic. I also have been rethinking the staged whatever it was yesterday, the town hall meeting on health care. Remember how --if you've seen it now, I pointed out -- all these people look just depressed and sick and uninspired and uninterested and so forth, and I said, "Man, if this is a staged event and that's all they can get," and then I remembered: it's a staged event. What better way than to have a bunch of people show up who look miserable when the subject is health care? It's all Democrat National Committee people, union people. Every damn person in that audience was an Obama supporter, and the woman that went up and hugged him is a DNC staffer!
The woman that he hugged is a DNC staffer. This is in the Washington Post. And he said, "This is why we need health care," after hearing her sob story. "This is why we need health care," and she even said to the reporters afterwards, "I wasn't satisfied with his answer," because she was there to get cured. He's Dr. Barack! She was there to get cured. She was there to hear him say, "You're cured. I'm fixing it. I will not stand for the fact that you got cancer." She was there to hear his version of John Edwards saying, "Elect John Kerry and Christopher Reeve will be walking in four years!" The Democrats have created these expectations in people -- and there's no way, of course, that Barack Obama can manage them. He can't satisfy these people's expectations. At some point, my good friends. It's all going to crash.
Story #6: Python Strangles Baby 169 Miles from Pt. St. Lucie
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, as a powerful, influential member of the media I am asked questions frequently as though I am an expert -- which I am, of course. One of the most often asked questions is, "How in the world did Obama get elected? How can this happen?" I call your attention to the story here in Florida where a guy and his girlfriend are living together. The guy has a nine-foot python in the house -- and it does what snakes do, it snuck outta there. And it strangled the woman's baby girl. Now, who...? There are a lot of things that I don't understand. That's one of them. It's not the animal's fault. I mean, the python's a python. It strangles things. "Yeah, but, Rush, it was an albino!" So what? It's a sad situation.
Story #7: Gambia President Cures AIDS on Thursdays
RUSH: By the way, President Obama might be interested in this story. Here's the headline from al-Jazeera: "Gambia President Cures AIDS on Thursday." I got this from Sweetness-Light.com: "Welcome to Gambia. Land of sun, sea, sand and a president who cures Aids. Yahya Jammeh is commander in chief of the armed forces, secretary of state for defence and chief custodian of the sacred constitution of Gambia." He sounds just like Obama. "Now he is a self-styled miracle worker. He claims that he has a 'mandate', handed down by his father, to cure Aids -- as long as it is a Thursday. Asthma sufferers can also be cured, but only on a Saturday." So here is a leader Yahya Jammeh in Gambia that Obama might be following in the footsteps of, another great African leader here.
Story #8: LA Times Chick Blames Sanford Coverage on Men
RUSH: Sorry, ladies, but the Mark Sanford story just won't go away. This is great. Dawn, you'll love this one. From the Los Angeles Times, the infobabe here is Meghan Daum. The story of adulterous South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is still in the news, she's decided, because America's men see themselves reflected in him. Yes, Daum apparently feels that all men are adulterers," and I'm sure she was taught that all men are predators when she went to college, and that all men abuse their kids. She thinks "all men are adulterers, so they sympathize with [Mark Sanford] causing the story to keep bumping along." It is men who are keeping the story alive. Not the starstruck, left-wing, female chicks who have chickified the news. Here's what she says.
"So what's left to say about the Sanford saga? Call me crazy, but amid all this finger-wagging, am I detecting just a little bit of -- gasp -- empathy? Is there something about Sanford's puppyish comportment, not to mention the fact that, unlike many adulterous politicos, he seems to be truly in love with his mistress ... that's making him less a pariah and more a symbol of the male midlife crisis? For all his duplicity and entitlement, are some Americans -- particularly men -- feeling as much pity as outrage? Consider this small sample ... [A]s we slog through another week of the Jackson postmortem-paloooza and wonder at the fact that we're also still hearing about the South Carolina governor's love for certain tan lines, maybe it's worth asking ourselves why. Is it because we're uncategorically appalled? Or is it because maybe, just maybe, there's a tiny bit of Mark Sanford in, if not all men, quite a few of them?" What do you think, guys? There's a... Never mind. I was going to say there' a picture of her here. Irrelevant. It's irrelevant, I've learned that be it's irrelevant. This from NewsBusters.org, by the way. They culled the story from the Los Angeles Times so few people actually read it anymore who are not paid to. Meghan Daum. The only reason the Sanford story is alive is because us guys see ourselves all over him. Okay.
Story #9: WaPo Cancels Plans to Pimp Access to Obama WH
RUSH: I want to get this story in before I have to end the program today. "For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off the record, non-confrontational access to 'those powerful few' -- Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors." Can I tell you this again? The news is so incredible each and every day that it takes twice, two reports, maybe more, for it to sink in. If you walk into the Washington Post and pay 'em $25,000 to $250,000, they are offering you access, lobbyists, association executives, off-the-record, non-confrontational access to Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper's own reporters and editors.
"This offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its 'health care reporting and editorial staff.' The offer -- which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters -- is a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival."
The flier is called, "Underwriting Opportunity: An evening with the right people can alter the debate." Now, forget for a moment the most outrageous aspect of it which is the Washington Post is charging people and putting them together promising non-confrontational sessions with members of Congress and the Obama administration. Would somebody explain to me what members of Congress and the Obama administration are getting out of this? How can the Washington Post guarantee non-confrontational access to members of Congress and the Obama administration. They're supposed to be reporting on those people! It seems that they're out there flacking for them. I mean the excuse that there's the tight money, big whoop. Even Katherine Graham's gotta be spinning in her grave over that. What, Snerdley? Well, I'm not surprised they're backtracking from it. They never intended it to get out this way. They thought that whoever got the fliers would shut up. Can you imagine if somebody went to Walter Cronkite and said, "Hey, Walter, we at CBS, we're going to start charging people 25 grand, 250 grand to put you and these people together with Lyndon Johnson. And non-confrontational, Walter be you gotta respect 'em and Johnson can't be confrontational." Can you imagine that?
All right. Now, wait a minute. Everybody is deluging me, even people I never heard of from The Politico. "'Washington Post Has Cancelled the Lobbyist Event Amid Uproar.' -- Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth --" who is the daughter of Katherine Graham, "-- said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive 'salon' at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to 'those powerful few' -- Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors." I know everybody's focusing on the selling access, but how in the world can they guarantee these people? Well, the answer to that is they're no different, the Washington Post is no different than the Obama officials, they're all on the same side, and Democrat members of Congress.
I guarantee you they're not going to put 'em together with Jeff Sessions or John Boehner. Man, it was going to be at her house. A salon at her house! I'll bet what really happened here is Sally Quinn, who is the entertainment doyenne at DC, heard about this and said, "The only salon is my place," because her husband is the ex-editor, editor emeritus, Benjamin Bradlee, this is probably a squabble here because it's an entertainment thing. It's like high tea in the afternoon with the Obama administration and members of Congress, for 250 grand.
Story #10: Media Carnage: Gannett Cuts More Than 1,000 Jobs
RUSH: Gannett is cutting more than 1,000 jobs. "The country's largest newspaper chain plans to continue scaling back in 2009. Last year, Gannett shed 4,600 jobs and now plans on cutting another 1,000 to 2,000. Gannett, which publishes USA Today and more than 80 dailies, already mandated two unpaid furloughs this year in an effort to save money," but it didn't work. Now, this reported at Politico. And if you read the comments -- you remember the movie Apocalypse Now? You remember Robert Duvall, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning?" Somebody posted on the comments section of The Politico story, "I love the smell of liberal reporters getting laid off in the morning." How mean-spirited.
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