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Story #1: Sprint Cancels Annoying, Complaining Customers
RUSH: I'll tell you, folks. I love this story. I absolutely love this story: "Sprint Cuts 1,000+ Customers For Excessive Complaining -- Hundreds of cell phone customers are being given the boot, accused of being too high maintenance. Sprint-Nextel is disconnecting more than 1,000 subscribers on grounds the clients call customer service too often and make 'unreasonable requests.'" It's 1,200 that are being fired (laughing) 1,200 customers being canned. They're going to "have to find a new carrier by the end of the month. A Sprint representative said the average customer calls customer service less than once a month, but the 1,200 clients getting the boot call 40-50 times as often," and you know what's happening. They're complaining about everything. They're whining and moaning about the bill. They're whining about just everything. Sprint says it's not worth it. It's not worth having you people. I think this ought to happen in more industries, especially in the health care industry. The health care industry should say, "Get well on your own! You're not even sick. We've got more important cases here than you. Get out." It ought to happen in a whole bunch of places, because we've gotten to the point here where we're just bending over and grabbing the ankles for everybody that whines and moans and complains. "The customer is always right," is probably taken to an extreme here. I just love it.
 Story #2: Liberals Salivate over ChiCom Execution
RUSH: Folks, I have to tell you, liberals today and some Democrats are no doubt salivating. Did you hear what the ChiComs did? The ChiComs executed the former head of its version of the FDA. They executed the guy today, because he approved untested medicine in exchange for cash. This is said to be "the strongest signal yet from Beijing that it is serious about tackling its product safety crisis. The execution of the former State Food and Drug Administration director Zheng Xiaoyu was confirmed by state television on the official Xinhua News Agency. During Zheng's tenure from 1998 to 2005, his agency approved six medicines that turned out to be fake and the drug makers used falsified documents to apply for approvals, according to previous state media reports. One antibiotic caused the deaths of at least ten people." I have not read the whole story because you only need to read the first three paragraphs of any story to get the guts of it. Do you happen to know how he was executed, Mr. Snerdley? I know you read the whole story. A single bullet at pointblank range? That's the policy? I remember that now. The ChiComs make your family buy the bullet, and it's a single bullet. So you know this has the libs salivating here.
Story #3: Global Warming: Heat Hits New York in Summer!
RUSH: With the heat wave up in New York, my new shorts will be great. I have to tell you, 90 degrees, folks? Can you believe 90, 91 degrees in July? The fire hydrants are on and so forth. It's July, but it's global warming!
No, I know it happens every July, Mr. Snerdley, but that doesn't matter because this is an emotional play. It's a global warming causing this. It's not normal weather patterns. Here's the dirty little secret -- and I happen to know this because I'm going to be up in that region this weekend because I have a golf tournament championship to defend. I was looking at the forecast because there's all this heat wave stuff so I want to know how to dress accordingly for this, and it's going to be 20 degrees cooler this weekend than it is now. On Sunday, it's barely going to hit 73, 74 degrees up there. It may hit 91, 92, 93, somewhere like that today and tomorrow but it's going to be 20 degrees cooler. Now, when it's 20 degrees cooler this weekend, will anybody say, "Hmm, global cooling? That global warming didn't last very long," and it's not even that excruciating a heat wave. We're making a big deal out of it because own out in the west, when it was 116, 119 or whatever, the news was, HEAT WAVE MOVING EAST! Drudge, he plays along with it. He has this big picture: "Heat Continues to Test the Power Grids." Yeah, that happens every year, too.
Story #4: NAALCP Buries the N-Word
RUSH: I don't know if you saw this or not, folks. The NAALCP -- that's the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People -- had a funeral. When was this, yesterday? Yeah, they held a funeral yesterday for the N-word. They buried the N-word. Now, if this had any meaning, of course, then it would never, ever be uttered by any person in this country ever again. When you bury something, it's dead. But, of course, that's absurd! It's absolutely absurd. It's pure symbolism over substance. It was a total waste of time. All this symbolism, for what? To get noticed? Fundraising? It's certainly not to achieve any objective, because you know that it isn't going to.
Story #5: Juror in Trouble for Un-PC Answers
RUSH: Did you hear about the guy in Massachusetts, the Cape Cod man who claimed he is homophobic, racist and a habitual liar? He admitted all of this to avoid jury duty. Well, it made the judge so mad that the judge has referred the case to prosecutors for possible charges. The judge, Gary Nickerson, said, "In 32 years of service in courtrooms, as a prosecutor, as a defense attorney and now as a judge, I have quite frankly never confronted such a brazen situation of an individual attempting to avoid juror service."
The guy's name here is Daniel Ellis of Falmouth. He had been called to court with about 60 other potential jurors for possible service on a 23-member grand jury. On a questionnaire that all potential jurors fill out, Ellis wrote that he didn't like homosexuals and blacks. He then echoed those sentiments in an interview with" the judge. The judge said I gotta talk to this guy. So the judge said to Ellis: "'You say on your form that you're not a fan of homosexuals,' Nickerson said. 'That I'm a racist,' Ellis interrupted. 'I'm frequently found to be a liar, too. I can't really help it,' Ellis added. 'I'm sorry?' Nickerson said. 'I said I'm frequently found to be a liar,' Ellis replied. 'So, are you lying to me now?' Nickerson asked. 'Well, I don't know. I might be,' was the response. Ellis then admitted he really didn't want to serve on a jury. 'I have the distinct impression that you're intentionally trying to avoid jury service,' Nickerson said. 'That's true,' Ellis answered." So the judge ordered this guy taken into custody. He was released later yesterday morning. He could face perjury and other charges. What does this tell you? Does this not tell you what political correctness has become? Here's what you say you don't like, and what you don't hate, and you can be automatically branded a bigot. He just took it a little too far. Just say one of those things. He wasn't leaving it up to chance at all.
Story #6: Wrecking Ball Snaps Loose, Wreaks Havoc
RUSH: By the way, imagine this. You're walking along, minding your own business -- you're in Meadville, Pennsylvania -- and all of a sudden, no, it's not an airplane crashing into your sidewalk. A wrecking ball is rolling down the sidewalk in the street right at you! A 1500-pound, three-feet wide wrecking ball broke loose of a crane cable, rolled nearly a mile downhill. Imagine you're out walking and you just hear this thing and you turn around and say, "Whoa! What is this?" It mashed more than a dozen vehicles, and it injured three people "as it bounced from curb to curb across the street, and slammed into the back of a car stopped at an intersection. That force caused a chain reaction with two other cars at the traffic light. The driver, an Allegheny college junior, said he thought a car had hit him when his back windshield exploded. The wrecking ball finally came to lest in the trunk of a car and pushed it nearly 20 feet."
I want to know what kind of car has a trunk big enough to handle a 1500-pound wrecking ball. Well, it's three feet wide. Ah, it'd probably fit in a Prius. Do Priuses have trunks, or is that where the battery is? I have no clue. "Workers had been using the wrecking ball to demolish part of a library at Allegheny College when the cable snapped." Actually, you should have seen this: a whole bunch of people were running after this wrecking ball like crazy. They weren't trying to stop it. They were trial lawyers throwing out business cards like confetti all over the place.
Story #7: Hypocrite Democrat Lawmaker Opposing Deadly Force Bill Shoots Would-Be Thief
RUSH: I just love stories like this: "A Texas state lawmaker," a Democrat, "who opposed a law giving Texans a stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force, shot a man at the house he is building in Houston, the police say." Lawmaker "Rep. Borris Miles told the police he was fixing a leak on the second floor of the house on Sunday when he heard a noise downstairs, saw two men trying to steal copper wiring, he confronted them. One threw a pocketknife at him, and Mr. Miles, former law enforcement officer, shot the man in the leg." Give this guy the Feinstein award, ladies and gentlemen, for utter hypocrisy! So this is perfect: a Democrat, liberal, who reserves special common sense behavior as rights for yourself, but deny them to all of the plebes. The great unwashed, the hoi polloi, if you will.
Story #8: Latest Polls: Rudy, Hillary in Lead
RUSH: Presidential politics. USA Today/Gallup poll. Very briefly: Rudy is up by ten points over Fred Thompson. Hillary is up by 16 points over Barack Obama. That's pretty much all there is with that.
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