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July 14, 2008 |
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 Story #1: Humorless Libs Miss New Yorker Satire
RUSH: The New Yorker magazine has a cover out, and of course Obama and his side are going nuts. Now, the New Yorker is a bunch of socialists, a bunch of libs. I have the cover of The New Yorker, and it's a satire making fun of the way some of the right wing supposedly thinks about Obama. It's got Obama dressed up like Mohammed, with a big white turban and sandals and so forth, and his wife, Michelle (My Belle), is a big afro-haired terrorist with an AK-47 or something slung over her shoulder and they're doing the fist bump in the Oval Office, and the flag is burning in the fireplace and so forth. A photo of Bin Laden, that's right, a photo of Osama Bin Laden is over the fireplace while the flag is burning.
So the Obama campaign's going nuts about this. The Democrat Party is going nuts about this. Man, these people cannot take it. They just cannot take it. I mean, the New Yorker, here we have a bunch of liberals and they're having to explain the fact that people don't understand this is satire. See, liberals have no sense of humor. But here's the thing about humor, the thing I've always said, keep in mind who's doing this, folks, the New Yorker. These are rock-solid liberals here. Now, all good comedy has to have an element of truth in it or it isn't funny, and the Obama people are saying that this isn't funny. Some of the ways George W. Bush has been caricatured over the term of his eight years or Condoleezza Rice or whatever, I mean these people need to grow up out there.
Story #2: Anheuser-Busch Finally Sells to InBev
RUSH: Also, the federal government is just out of control here with these bailouts, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, all of these things. Anheuser-Busch finally sold to InBev at $70 a share. This is after August Busch IV saying that they would never sell back in the spring. The Busch family only owned 4% of Anheuser-Busch, and the board, they had a fiduciary duty here to do the best thing they could for their stockholders.
Story #3: Kids Warned Not to Copy Fairytale Characters
RUSH: This is from the Sunday Mail newspaper in Australia: "Teachers are being urged to give children safety messages after reading them fairytales warning not to copy characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and Hansel and Gretel. A new child protection curriculum being implemented by the Education Department also requires teachers to refer to children's 'sexual parts' and use their correct anatomical names with children as young as three. Child development experts have backed the measures, but critics believe they are an example of political correctness overkill that could turn children into 'little nervous wrecks.'"
I mean, this is political correctness run amok. So you go out and you read the kids fairy tales, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and Hansel and Gretel, and then the teachers are urged to give children safety messages telling them not to copy these characters, that these are bad characters, that these are bad people. It's incalculable the political correctness and the whining and the lack of confidence in anybody to take care of themselves and the desire that nobody ever get hurt, I don't mean physically, I'm talking about emotionally. This is just bad vibes for the future for these kids. They're going to grow up and have had no seasoning whatsoever. It's all because we've got so much prosperity, even in Australia, so much time on our hands, we've got people that sit around and worry about these kind of things.
Story #4: Bush Lifts Executive Order on Offshore Drilling
RUSH: President Bush is now announcing the lifting of the executive order banning offshore drilling. It won't mean anything. Congress still has to act, but he is announcing it as we speak.
Story #5: Government Proclaims Life Worth Less Today
RUSH: From the Associated Press, headline, from July 10th: "'Life Not Worth as Much, Says Government Agency' -- It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be." A government agency! "The 'value of a statistical life' is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May -- a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago." Five years ago you were worth $7.9 million. Today you're down to $6.9 million. "Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation, the devaluation has real consequences. When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the lifesaving benefits of a proposed rule. The less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pollution."
So the more worthless we are the less they have to do for us because the less there's going to be a return on their squalled investment in us. Another example of way too many people with way too much time on their hands, allowing them to do stupid studies and stuff like this. You could take this to a logical conclusion. The pro-choicers out there could say, "Well, look it, the value of life is plummeting. We used to be worth 7.9 million each. Now we're down to 6.9 million. We may as well abort some of these kids. Look what they're going to grow into. They've going to have a lifetime worth of 6.9 million." The day that we exist, folks, when the primary thing known about us is what our government thinks our value to them is, is the day we are in deep trouble. It looks like it's already started. I know it sounds funny, but it's not. This is one of these days everything just doesn't seem sane.
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Story #6: Iranian Missile Test Trick to Raise Oil Price?
RUSH: I want to go back to the Iranian missile launch last week. We now know that they faked the whole thing. They Photoshopped some of the pictures, several American Drive-By news operations got fooled. There weren't nearly as many missiles fired in the pictures as it appeared, but not only that, ladies and gentlemen, Iran's missile test last week demonstrated no new capabilities and may not have included one of the longer range Sahab-3 missiles or whatever it was called that Iran said was among those launched. That's the one that could supposedly hit Israel. Now, two things about this are interesting to me. Remember last week, right before this test, we were talking about the plummeting price of oil. It had gone down ten bucks. Remember that? I have a website here with a constant oil price on it, light crude, and it dropped I think seven or eight dollars in a day. It was down ten dollars over a very short period, number of days. And then all of a sudden they launched some missiles and say they've got a brand-new long-range missile, we can wipe Israel off the map, and the oil price just jacked right back up. So now it's, I don't know, $144, $145.
 I did some research, ladies and gentlemen, into the Iranian economy. When they did this fake show of strength with these phony missiles, the oil price went up to $146 or $147, but their economy is in the tank. According to Iranian official figures from a website that I found, unemployment in Iran is between eight and 10%. The inflation rate recently surpassed 25% in Iran. I mean, this guy Ahmadinejad is Jimmy Carter 2. Obama would be Jimmy Carter 3. However, economists estimate that the real unemployment rate in Iran exceeds 20% and that the real inflation level is at least 40%. "Experts say that economic sanctions of Iran have harmed the country's economy in more than one way. Now, these Big Oil prices, high oil prices, are the only thing keeping Iran solvent. One of the articles I found notes that Western countries are helping it get its oil out of the ground. Iran said it needs as much as $100 billion to develop its energy sector in order to significantly increase gas and oil export. Without investments from major Western energy companies, it's unlikely that Iran can raise the money to develop its oil and gas fields any time soon, but because of the sanctions, Iran or its agents cannot buy advanced Western technology both to develop its energy industry and other sectors." For example, Iran cannot obtain Boeing or Airbus aircraft. They have to rely on outdated Russian stuff.
So the bottom line is this. Iran cannot defend itself, it is headed toward bankruptcy, all it has is smoke and mirrors, and of course the most merciful Messiah, Lord Obama, who wants to talk to them and legitimize them. They are dying to meet with the most merciful Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, in order to buy time and cut a deal, maybe, stay afloat. And of course the most merciful Messiah, Lord Obama, wants to meet with Iran. So the fake missile launch results in the price right back up, and it is still there, on what? The experts say on fears of instability of Middle Eastern oil supplies if Iran launches a strike against Israel, which they can't do.
Story #7: Drive-Bys: SUV Love Story Comes to an End
RUSH: "SUV Love Story Comes to Sad End." Can I take you back to 1996 when the Sierra Club first mounted its attack on SUVs? I warned you, they're not going to rest until they can get you outta yours and there are going to be stories about how dangerous and destructive, how filthy, how unfair, all those things they are, and you pooh-poohed me, you said, "Come on, Rush, there's no leftist group trying to get rid of SUVs, we're gonna buy what we're gonna buy." Really? Take a spin by an automobile dealership. By hook or by crook, whether it's a gasoline price or whatever, people are not buying them as much, and they're trying to off-load the ones that they have, and so here we come with the Minneapolis Star Tribune: "The golden age of the big sport-utility vehicle has come to a rapid end."
This is the second such story from these punks in the Drive-Bys that I have seen celebrating this. "Surging gas prices are making tens of thousands of Americans reconsider their desire for ever-bigger SUVs, with the largest fuel-hungry vehicles turning from status symbols to expensive burdens. Sales of full-sized utility vehicles in the past three months dropped to less than half what they were at their national peak in 2002 and lower than they have been in at least 13 years. As recently as three years ago, light trucks and SUVs made up 55 percent of the new-vehicle market." Okay, fine, they're all happy, SUV love story has come to an end. You hate your SUVs now, so that's the first step toward you getting rid of your SUV. But, remember, remember all these stories we've had, these SUVs are not going to let you kick it out of the garage just like that. These things have minds of their own. Well, I mean they've driven people off the sixth floor of parking garages, they've flipped off of interstate highway bridges, they've run over people, they've backed into people's houses. No mention of ever having been driven. They just did it on their own. This was part of the campaign to get you hating the SUV. Talking about SUVs, I'm still sitting here struck by how quickly Congress dropped -- and, by the way, the SUV is going to be back, our economy is going to be back, and at some point the gasoline price is going to rationalize with everything else in the cost of living, and the SUVs are going to be back. Mark my words.
Story #8: Democrats Shift Focus from Big Oil to Speculators
RUSH: Now, I mentioned this earlier in the program. It was just a few weeks ago that the Democrats in Congress were railing at Big Oil, telling us that Big Oil was responsible for high prices and that Congress would be taking charge. Remember Maxine Waters? She let the cat out of the bag, said she wanted to nationalize the oil companies. Well, what happened to that solution? What happened to getting even with them? What happened to taking it to those guys, hmm? What happened to that solution?
Isn't it amazing, my friends, that the scapegoaters in Congress have literally dropped the issue of attacking oil companies now in lieu of oil speculators? So guess who won the debate when Congress debated the oil executives a few weeks ago? The oil executives, they manned up! The oil executives grew a set and they finally told Congress the facts of life when it comes to supply, demand, and overregulation, and look what happened? Congress was embarrassed, Americans figured out who the real enemy is, and Big Oil is off the hook because they got the facts out. As a result, Big Oil was dropped as a bad guy faster than a negative Lord Obama story. And oil speculators were instantly declared public enemy number one. Meanwhile, the speculators were simply reacting to fake news out of Iran, fake news promulgated by the US Drive-By Media.
I just find it amazing, folks, how quickly members of Congress and the Democrat Party dropped blaming Big Oil for the prices of gasoline and have moved on to the speculators. What a breathtaking quickness took place here, shifting blame from Big Oil to the oil speculators. It's a given that Democrat policies will never be examined regarding that or any other issue, so there's always going to be a distraction and the Democrats are always gonna need a demon. So does this mean that the decades of endless investigations and public rebukes and condemnations of Big Oil have been wrong? Seriously, folks, these are our members of Congress. These are the guys that pass the laws and then act like spectators. These are the guys that gave us the subprime problem. These are the guys that create all this. These are the guys that won't drill for oil. These are the guys that cause runs on banks, like Charles Chuck-U Schumer. They sit around and get to act like spectators. Now all of a sudden they drop the hot potato of Big Oil. Does this mean they've been wrong all these years? Does it mean it's been a total waste of taxpayer money to go after Big Oil all these years?
How many millions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on investigations and big show hearings, show trials targeting Big Oil? I think they were going on in the 1970s. How many hundreds of millions of dollars has it been? How many millions have the oil companies had to spend defending themselves and the countless hours of favorable news coverage at the same time devoted to Democrats showboating on TV, acting as prosecutor, judge, and jury with their declarations that Big Oil was ripping off Americans and getting filthy rich with their ill-gotten windfall profits. Whatever became of all that? Is that now just inoperative 'cause it's the speculators' fault? Big Oil was guilty until proven innocent, and there would be no innocents. There are no innocents in oil prices. Somebody is guilty. They're going to find somebody to get you mad at, and now it's the speculators.
Story #9: Ahmadinejad to Campaign for Obama in New York
RUSH: See where Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is coming back to the United States this fall for another United Nations General Assembly meeting? That's just a cover. He's coming in to campaign for Obama. He's going to facilitate that meeting.
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