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Story #1: UN Secretary General: Four Months to Save Planet
RUSH: Ban Ki-moon the Secretary General of the United Nations made a speech in Inchon, Korea, for the global environment forum. I throw this in the health care debate because it's all part of the same mix. It's all part of the effort to redistribute wealth all over the world. Listen to this: "As we move toward Copenhagen in December, we must 'Seal a Deal' on climate change that secures our common future. I'm glad that the Chairman of the forum and many other speakers have used my campaign slogan 'Seal the Deal' in Copenhagen. I won't charge them loyalty (sic)." I think he meant "royalty."
"Please use this 'Seal the Deal' as widely as possible, as much as you can. We must seal the deal in Copenhagen for the future of humanity. We have just four months. Four months to secure the future of our planet" regarding the environment. Four months. If Ban Ki-moon doesn't get what he wants -- if the United Nations doesn't get what it wants, if Obama doesn't get what he wants, if all the world's leftists don't get what they want in four months -- we will not secure the future of the planet. I'm sorry, Mr. Secretary General, this isn't going to resonate with people. Nobody's going to believe that if we don't act whenever you want us to act or do whatever you want us to do, in four months we lose the planet. We fail to secure the future of the planet.
 Story #2: 2007 Flashback: Candidate Obama on "Quiet Riots"
RUSH: Remember this, by the way? Back on June 5th in 2007, FoxNews.com: "Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to diffuse a 'quiet riot' among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots did in Los Angeles 15 years ago. The first-term senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico still displaced 21 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building. 'This administration was colorblind in its incompetence' Obama said at a conference of black clergy, 'but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane. All the hurricane did was to pull the curtain back for all the world to see.'" Obama got an ovation from 8,000 people. He mentioned "quiet riots" three times in this speech because Bush wasn't doing enough for the victims of Katrina. Yet Obama supporters and people in the State-Controlled Media say that anybody who opposes Obama is racist.
Story #3: US State Department Gropes to Explain Hillary Clinton
RUSH: You know, I love this headline. We didn't talk about this yesterday because I am focused. I refuse to allow the State-Controlled Media to take me off course. You know, Hillary Clinton blew up over there. Where is she? She's in Africa somewhere? And somebody stood up and said, what does her husband think of some event, and she just lost it. "I'm not here channeling my husband. I'm the Secretary of State, and I can tell you what I think." And they said, "Well, no, no, no, no! The translator goofed up. The kid meant to ask what does President Obama think about" whatever else, and so now the people are trying to straighten this out because Hillary had a meltdown. You can understand it being married to this lughead. He's out there celebrating his birthday, he's got The Forehead, he's got Carville, he's got Greenberg.
He's out with a bunch of Hollywood playboys and they're having dinner out there in Las Vegas while Hillary is out there in the swamps of Africa doing something meaningless to US foreign policy to keep her out of the way from the real action. Obama's got her over there. So now they're -- they're trying to figure this out. This headline is from State-Controlled Associated Press: "US Official Gropes to Explain Clinton's Outburst." US officials are groping for Hillary! This is something none of us can see. "The State Department struggled Tuesday to explain Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's face-off with a Congolese student, suggested the questioner's nervousness sparked the outburst with the mention of her husband's name."
Story #4: Interest in Cash for Clunkers Program Begins to Wane
RUSH: The cash for clunker program "slips" in interest, fewer and fewer people are interested in it now. "Red hot auto sales under the U.S. government's 'cash for clunkers' incentive began to cool as dealer inventories tightened and showroom traffic showed signs of leveling off from its frantic pace of a week ago. One industry analysis released on Tuesday forecast a steady decline in 'clunker' related business even though the Obama administration and Congress added $2 billion to the" kitty in order to help pay for all this.
Story #5: Heritage: Seven Myths About Taxing the Rich
RUSH: The Heritage Foundation has a new study available: Seven myths about taxing the rich. Now, study written by Curtis Dubay, it's available for Heritage Foundation members. Now, it says among other things, 70% of federal taxes are paid by the top 20% of the workforce, the same group responsible for 86% of income taxes. It also asks this question: Just how much more will the Obama administration ask the rich to pay, for cash for clunkers or for health care reform or is it just the beginning of the show. Now, if you're a Heritage Foundation member, you have access to this study by Curtis Dubay, just like you have access to all kinds of reports and data made available on a daily basis.
Folks, have you ever wanted to be in a think tank? I remember when I was working for the Kansas City Royals and I was mired in the muck of a corporate structure I wasn't cut out for. They were not amuck. Just corporate structures are not for me. I learned this after three years, I'm not a conformist. Some people it's great for them. Nothing wrong if you like it. But what else? And I almost went to work selling potato chips for a company calls guy's foods. Well, they interacted with me in my role as marketing guy at the Royals and then there was a think tank in Kansas -- I'm a smart guy, I want to go to a think tank, I want to sit around and think. These people do great work. They're thinkers. They think special things. The Heritage Foundation is a think tank, and used to be that you couldn't access what they did. I mean they made it available only to their members or only to their big donors or to members of Congress, presidential administrations.
But the Heritage Foundation doing some of the best thinking inside the Beltway, some of the most fundamental founding principles guide the people at the Heritage Foundation, they now make available all of the scholarly work they did for a measly 25 bucks a year if you want to join. Heritage foundation is an organize engaged in the fight for conservative ideals. They're doing great work. In fact they're untainted by the inside the Beltway (unintelligible). They do prevail. They prevail because they are able to reach and influence millions of Americans with their work, and it starts with the members of the Foundation. You become one for as little as $25 a year, and you'll find out how quickly just how valuable an organization the Heritage Foundation is. And you'll walk around. It's a matter of great pride to say I'm a member of the Heritage Foundation because then people are going to think you're a thinker because of think tank, people sit around and think. You're a member of the Heritage Foundation they're going to think you're a thinker, 25 bucks, just check it out, AskHeritage.org.
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Story #6: Study: Macho Men Might Visit Doctor Less (Maybe)
RUSH: I have here a health care-related story, although the people who posted this story did not intend it to be part of the health care debate. It's posted at Health Daily News, and the headline is: "For Macho Men, Doctor Visits Are Less Likely -- It's no secret that men don't like to go to the doctor, but new research finds they're especially likely to stay home if they're big on being macho. Middle-aged men who are most devoted to traditional beliefs about masculinity are half as likely as other men to get routine medical care, researchers report." Now, what this tells me, at this brief point in the story, is that conservative men (who are real men) are putting far less stress and pressure, financial or otherwise, on the health care system. It is the wuss liberal guy showing up for every imagined problem beleaguering the health care system. What, Snerdley? The metrosexuals! Exactly right, Snerdley, the metrosexuals!
 "It's not clear whether feelings about masculinity directly make men avoid doctor visits; the study only indicates that a cause-and-effect link might exist. Nor do researchers know what this might mean for men's health." So we could ask: Well, what the hell do the story for? "It's not clear ... the study only indicates that a cause-and-effect link might exist," which means it might not. In addition to "It's not clear" and it "might" or might not exist, researchers don't know what it might mean! So why do it? Because they want to bash macho men. "Still, the findings suggest that 'we could help men's health if we could dismantle this idea that manhood and masculinity is about being invulnerable, not needing help and not showing pain,' said study author Kristen W. Springer, an assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey."
So here we have a study showing that real men, macho men (i.e., conservative guys) are not going to the doctor. They're not putting stress on the health care system. They're not going in for unnecessary operations. No feet getting chopped off, none of this. It's the wuss guys going. With all this pressure being brought to bear on the health care system, macho guys ought to be being celebrated! Instead, this story rips 'em a new one for not going to the doctor often enough. "Previous research has suggested that '"men are less likely to go to the doctor than women, across the board,' Springer said -- a notion she finds surprising because men are wealthier overall, potentially giving them better access to medical care." Oh, men are supposedly wealthier so they're going to spend more time at the doctor?
Story #7: Woman Who Can't Get Men to Play Her Sues City
RUSH: This is from the Raleigh News and Observer. The headline: "Woman Sues to Get Men to Play Her -- "Nancy Griffin prefers to play tennis against men. And she often beats them in a men's league sponsored by the city of Raleigh. Some men don't like playing Griffin. Three years ago, league members voted to rescind a rule that penalized them for refusing to compete against her or anyone else. The change has kept her from taking on some of the league's top players. Men have invoked both their wives and God to avoid matches against her. Now, Griffin has made her problems on the court a matter for a court. She is suing the city, alleging discrimination. She wants the penalty rule reinstated and the city to pay her $10,000 or more for emotional distress. ... [T]he 41-year-old substitute teacher says her fitness and unorthodox, self-taught technique make her a formidable opponent."
What? I'm not answering that, Snerdley. You're not going to trap me. Snerdley just asked me in the IFB, "What does she look like?" We all know that women's looks have nothing to do with anything. That's such a Neanderthal question. You ask this with a reporter here doing a story on me? Whose side are you on? Besides, it's too tough to tell here. It's a picture from the knees up on the court. That's not the point, what she looks like. Men don't want to play her and she's suing the city! For $10,000! Nancy Griffith says, "'I'm a follower of Jesus Christ; and I love everyone on here. I just want the program run fairly for everyone.' Griffin said the dispute has taken a toll, and she's experienced depression. But the fall season begins Aug. 24." This kind of reminds me back in the days of the early feminazis, back in the late eighties and the early nineties when Gloria Allred and...
Well, Gloria Allred was never a feminazi, but some of the early feminazis trying to take over men's clubs because they claim they were being deprived of the opportunity to do business. The pressure was brought to bear that some of these men at big city men's clubs were forced to take women in. That's not the way to provide for cohesive getting along. I remember when the women got in there was one club, I think it was in San Francisco. It's a true story. One club in San Francisco, the men had their own exercise room and their own gym and their own sauna, and the women, of course, didn't because women weren't admitted in there. So then the feminazis got in there started demanding their own exercise room and sauna and so forth, and the men had to do it. It became a matter of law. So at this particular club, the men set up the exercise room and the first piece of equipment in it was a vacuum cleaner. Ha, ha! It was. Ha, ha, ha! I laughed, of course. I did laugh on the air. I'm laughing about it even now. Because remember Gloria Allred on TV was just livid about all this.
Story #8: Marcus & Reich Livid Over Obama's Big Pharma Deal
RUSH: I mentioned earlier I've gotta get a couple stories in. I teased these. Robert B. Reichhhh yesterday, big story at Salon.com very upset that Obama is destroying democracy. He loves the idea of national health care but doesn't like something Obama did. Today Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post: "Change We Can't Believe In? ... [I]t turns out, the Obama White House has cut a backroom ... deal with Tauzin," Billy Tauzin, a former Republican, who's now a lobbyist for Big Pharma. "Drugmakers would ante up $80 billion in savings [quote, unquote] in return for a promise that Medicare wouldn't be allowed to negotiate drug prices," and Big Pharma has promised $150 million. Now, stop and think of this. Big Pharma... Well, it's between 80 and $150 million. I don't think the final figure is in. Big Pharma has promised between 80 and $150 million to Obama to spend buying ads to secure health care, television ads, as campaign ads, saying Big Pharma supports the whole deal.
In exchange, Big Pharma no longer is going to face price pressure. As long as they promise to save $80 billion in prices over some period of time, Obama has promised them we'll take out of any health care bill any pressure on you to lower your prices. Billy Tauzin, the lobbyist for Big Pharma, the associate director said, "'We need somebody to come in first. If you come in first, you will have a rock-solid deal,' Tauzin told the New York Times. ... The White House, playing the political version of 'Deal or No Deal,' is backing away, rather unconvincingly, from its initial confirmation. In New Hampshire on Tuesday, Obama raised the prospect of getting more from drug companies." But it's already done. It's a done deal, and the reason the libs do not like it is that they think that it's extortion.
They think Big Pharma is extorting poor old Obama! That's what they think. It's the other way around. If anybody's being extorted it's Obama extorting the drug companies. "If you want us to leave you alone, if you want... In other words, think of me as Tony 'Obama' Soprano and I will leave you alone in my health care bill for 80 to 150 billion, and they're saying, "Whoa, what a deal!" It might go up to 200 billion, but the point is what Reich was worried about yesterday and what Ruth Marcus is worried about is, "Well, what happens if somebody figures out that any piece of legislation can be bought and paid for simply by the administration making a deal with, say, Big Oil down the road? Or what if they make a deal with Big Retail like Walmart?"
Obama's out making deals with members of the liberals' enemies list. I mean, Big Pharma is among the most hated, despised industries the left has, and Obama just jumped into bed with them without a condom, and they are livid out there -- and they're afraid he may jump between the sheets with even more of their hated, evil, big corporations.
Story #9: WaPo Lament: A Recovery Only a Statistician Can Love
RUSH: The jobless recovery. Washington Post. "'A Recovery Only a Statistician Can Love' -- Data That Point to Improving Economy Also Suggest Continued Pain for Many." What this story is also is that businesses are planning on increased productivity as a means for not having to rehire people. Because what businesses are doing... The newspapers, for example. Look at the New York Times. How did they become profitable? How did they stem their losses? They canned everybody! That's why corporate earnings reports right now showing big time earnings don't mean we've turned a corner because they've all done it by laying off people, so their labor costs have gone down. This story is all about, "What if businesses find out they can run with two million fewer people? Just make their existing remaining employees work harder, make slaves out of them," per se. Just get more productivity out of them and you don't have to rehire people, ergo we got a booming economy with business doing well but no new jobs. So all of this in State-Run Media not happy with the way this is turning out vis-a-vis Obama.
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