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August 5, 2008 |
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Story #1: Shocker: ChiComs Didn't Live Up to Promises
RUSH: Here's a shocker, folks. I know you won't believe this. This is from McClatchy newspapers: "With four days left before the start of the 2008 Summer Games, Chinese officials have not lived up to key promises they made to win the right to host the Olympics, including widening press freedoms, cleaning up their capital city's polluted air and respecting human rights." No! I am shocked. I cannot believe this. They lied to us, the ChiComs lied! The ChiComs lied to the world, not just to us! The ChiComs lied to the media! The ChiComs lied to the Drive-Bys. The Drive-Bys thought they were going to have all kinds of new openness and access, and they're being shut down and severely limited.
By the way, did you see our bicycle team got off wearing black face masks to protect their respiratory systems? Ha! But the ChiComs are saying, "Don't worry, we're going to get rid of the smog and we're going to get rid of the rain. We've got this handled."
Anyway, the article continues: "Near Tiananmen Square in the heart of the city, police scuffled with protesters who said they were evicted from their homes to make way for Games-related development. Chinese censors continued to block access to politically sensitive Web sites for thousands of foreign journalists gathered at the Olympic press center." They lied to us! They lied to the world. I can't believe it.
Story #2: The Messiah Sinks Like a Rock in Zogby Poll
 RUSH: Obama's sinking now in the polls. Zogby offering more evidence that voters are becoming disenchanted with The Messiah. The net result Zogby found is a race that's neck and neck, with McCain supported by 42%, Obama by 41%, Libertarian Bob Barr by 2%, and Ralph Nader by 2%. Another 13% supported other candidates or said they didn't know. Zogby called the results a notable turnaround from a July survey he did that showed Obama leading 46-36. See, there's that precious ten points. That ten points is artificial. He's going to have to have a 15-point lead or this is moot. Don't doubt me.
Some of the groups among whom Obama has lost ground: Among voters aged 18 to 29, Obama lost 16% and gained 20%. Obama still leads 49-38. Among women, McCain gained ten points. Obama now leads 43-38. Among independents, Obama lost an 11-point lead. They're now tied. That has to shake 'em up. Among Democrats Obama support dropped from 83 to 74%. How do you explain that? Ha-ha-ha! (Don't ask, folks. Trust your instincts. You know.) Among Catholics, Obama lost the 11-point lead he had in July, and now trails McCain by 15 in the Catholic vote. The question, obviously, according to the gang at Power Line, is "whether that erosion will continue, as voters continue to learn more about Obama and see him less as a media phenomenon and more as a conventional but very liberal Democrat."
Story #3: Will Our Libs Follow German Court on Smoking?
RUSH: Listen to this. It is from TIME Magazine from Berlin. "Cheers and whoops resounded in small bars around the Germany on Wednesday as the country's highest court gave smokers cause to light up for a celebratory puff. In a nationally televised ruling, the federal constitutional court ruled unconstitutional the ban on smoking in small bars, forcing state legislators back to the drawing board in their efforts to protect public health." So now the enlightened European court system has told bar owners you can let people smoke in your bar, in your small bar. It was unconstitutional to tell people they couldn't. Yeah, it's something about private property. Will the Supreme Court of the United States' attempt to use this foreign law in adjudicating US cases? And will Obama, who spoke in front of throngs of cheering Germans, come out now for smoking in American bars once again, particularly in Chicago and New York because the enlightened Europeans and Germans have done so? Hmm?
Story #4: Germans Develop Bulletproof Police Bra
RUSH: You just gotta love the Germans these days. They make Obama look like an idiot. Their courts say that it's unconstitutional to tell people they can't smoke cigarettes in bars -- and now this: "It's being dubbed the new bulletproof bra." This is a BBC story: "A new kind of Wonderbra which could help protect thousands of women police officers in Germany," a bulletproof bra has just been made and designed. "It may sound like a joke, but this is a serious matter - the policewoman who came up with the idea said normal bras can be dangerous when worn in combination with a bullet-proof vest. 'The impact of a bullet can push the metal and plastic bits of the bra into an officer's body, causing serious injury,' said Carmen Kibat, an adviser on equal opportunities for the Hamburg-based Bundespolizei -- Germany's federal police force. 'I always thought normal bras posed a safety risk and I wanted to change that,' she said. 'These new bras are very important and they will help all our women officers.'"
What do they look like, you might be asking? Well, they look similar to sports bras. Huh? What? You're nodding your head, Dawn. You've heard of these? Hm-hm. Well, how do you know they've got no wire in them? I haven't said yet that it has no wire in it. How did you know that it has no wire in it before I mentioned sports bras? I think you know about the story. Do you have one of these? Okay, they look similar to "sports bras, the new bras are white, made from cotton or polyester and padded." Well, we had no doubts about that. "They also have the word 'Police' printed at the bottom. Crucially, though, the bras do not have any under-wire or fastener made out of metal or plastic. From now on, women police officers will be allowed to pick three bras from a range of designs, varying in size and style. 'These new bras represent pioneering work,' said Ruediger Carstens, a spokesman for the Bundespolizei. 'It shows that the safety of our officers is a top priority.'" At the end of the day, though, these are not mandatory. "It is up to each individual officer to decide whether she will go for the latest 'bullet-proof' lingerie -- a police spokesman was keen to point out that the new bras 'are optional.'" What? No, not go braless, Snerdley. Just use a normal bra and not have to put this thing on. Many of them probably take this one home and use it personally, find reasons to adapt it to their personal life rather than professional life.
Story #5: Cook County Cracks Down on Jail Guards
RUSH: This is from the Chicago Sun-Times. Now, get this headline: "It's Getting Harder to Get Into Jail." The subheadline: "Standards raised, so fewer guards being hired." Listen to the open of the story, and keep in mind that this is where Obama learned what he knows. "It's getting tougher for the dishonest, the mentally unstable and the overweight to get hired as Cook County jail guards these days. As a result, fewer guards are getting hired. Until recently, would-be correctional officers only had to pass a drug test, a criminal background check and a physical agility test that included bending over and picking up a chair. Now, Sheriff Tom Dart requires jail guard candidates to pass lie-detector and psychological tests, along with a more strenuous physical-ability test that requires people under 30 years old to complete 37 sit-ups in a minute."
Now, see what a rotten country we have? You see how unfair and discriminatory we are? So now the dishonest, the mentally unstable, and the overweight are being discriminated against even more in Cook County by essentially being told they cannot be guards at jail. What's the question, Mr. Snerdley? Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Well, yeah: they're having trouble filling the jobs because these requirements, which must mean that most of the staff is made up of the dishonest, the mentally challenged, and the overweight.
Story #6: Obama Was First to Make Paris Hilton Comparison
RUSH: Say, did you people hear about this? The Obama campaign, as you know, is all upset about the Paris Hilton and Britney Spears ad. It's racist for having "phallic symbols" -- the Victory Column and the Washington Monument -- in there. They say these are women who are known to be scantily clad at times (but were not in the ad) with a black guy, and that's a the racist thing. They also didn't like the fact they were trying to portray Obama as a celebutard; you know, as no different than a B celebrity like some of these other pop culture tarts are. Well, it turns out that Obama was the first to compare himself to Paris Hilton, not McCain! Obama did this himself. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, our friends at NewsBusters came up with this. They went back to their own archives. February 24th, 2005, Washington Post article: "There's nothing exotic or complicated about how phenoms are made in Washington, and more to the point, how they are broken. 'Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame,' said Barack Obama. 'Well, I've already had an hour and a half. I mean I'm so overexposed I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.'" So Obama has already compared himself to Paris Hilton. McCain didn't break any new ground there.
Story #7: Bill Clinton Won't Say Obama Qualified for Office
RUSH: From the New York Daily News: "Bill Clinton regrets some things he said and didn't say on the campaign trail, but there's one thing he still can't utter and that is that Barack Obama is ready to be president. Kate Snow of ABC News was interviewing Clinton and said, 'Do you think he's ready? Is he qualified?' And Clinton said, 'You know what, I mean, you can argue that nobody's ready to be president. You can argue even if you've been vice president for eight years, that no one can really be fully ready for the pressures of office.'" He just will not say it. He just will not say that Obama is qualified! He said his wife was, but, of course (chuckles) it's his wife. What's he going to say? "Clinton and his wife argued in nearly every speech that she was ready to be president on day one, obviously," but that Obama still today is not. I saw the video of this morning, just before the program began, and it was just funny to watch.
Clinton was saying, "Ah, you know, I don't think anybody's qualified. How do you know anybody's qualified? When I became president, I mean, I learned things in there. I didn't know what was going on before I got there. Who would have thought...?" He was right, there are a lot of us thought he wasn't qualified. He also said, "Hey, look, it's not for me to say. The Constitution defines the qualifications for president. The Constitution is the one that does that. And as long as he meets the qualifications of the Constitution, then I got nothing to say about it." Now, this is a former Democrat Party president who will not endorse the current nominee. In fact, ladies and gentlemen, they haven't even decided if Clinton's going to have a speaking role at the Obama convention.
And we have one more Clinton story here. This is from the Boston Globe: "President Clinton acknowledged an interview that he regrets some of his comments during the Democrat presidential nomination but he denies that he made racist statements about Obama. Ask whether he blames himself for his wife's loss, Clinton said, 'There are things that I wish I had urged her to do. There are things I wished I had said. There are things I wished I hadn't said, but I am not a racist. I never made a racist comment. I didn't attack Obama personally. They played the race card on me," and you know he's right about that. They did. They played the race card on him. You have to cut him some slack here because he's right. "I bragged on Senator Obama hundreds of times." He's in Rwanda, by the way, over there apologizing. He's continuing his private foundation work to fight AIDS in Africa.
"I never was mad at Senator Obama. I think everybody has a right to run for president who qualifies under the Constitution. I'd be the last person to begrudge anybody their ambition." This is three weeks now. The third day of this, rather, the third day of all this racist stuff, and it all bubbles up from the Democrat campaign. The Politico has a story by Ben Smith. "Race Card Flap Reopens Clinton Camp Wounds." I'll just read a paragraph to you. "When John McCain's campaign manager last week accused Obama of playing the race card, the Clintons or their supporters could have provided a powerful rebuttal. Instead they were silent and in private some even quietly cheered," because the Obama camp did play the race card against Clinton. No question about it.
Story #8: McCain Camp Doesn't Want Cheney at Convention
RUSH: We know now that Cheney will not be at the McCain convention. I happened to learn of this two or three weeks ago. The McCain people want to try to keep as much distance between the Bush administration and the convention as they can, so Vice President Cheney was informed that he would not have a speaking role at the convention this year. I don't know what they're going to do about President Bush, as far as the convention is concerned, but look: they read these polls and they do believe that Bush will kill 'em if Bush is seen there. They really think that the people of this country hate the administration so much that it will ruin them to be seen together, and I think it's a little sad, a little tragic, because the president is not hated. Besides, the McCain people have said themselves that they are aiming for people who are not traditional Republicans in order to try to win this race. So you might see Lieberman speak, but not Cheney at the Republican National Convention.
Story #9: Al-Jazeera Requests RNC Interview with Rush
RUSH: I'm not going to either convention. I've been asked, though. Hell, al-Jazeera asked! I just got the details. Al-Jazeera wants to do an interview, a full 22-minute interview for some 30-minute show that they have, and they pitched it. I just saw the pitch: 170 million English speaking people around the globe, and they want to talk to me about the Republican Party and so forth, but I'm not going to be up there. I'm too famous to go to that thing. If I go to those conventions, it would just be a nightmare. Plus, it's very difficult for me with my cochlear implant to remote the program from outside one of my two studios. If my hearing were normal, I could go anywhere. I could do it from a phone booth. But, you know, it's just so much legwork to get stations prepared with right electronics and so forth.
But I can't go this year because I'm more popular than the candidate. That's why I say I'm too famous to go to the Republican National Convention, and I would be too imperiled at the Democrat National Convention. Now, Snerdley, you're going to have to accept the fact that people like me will not be speaking at the Republican Convention. They won't ask me to speak anyway! I've never been asked to speak at a Republican convention, and I don't want to be. Why would you expect that to change now?
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