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Story #1: Rasmussen Finds One-Point Bump for Obama
RUSH: I mentioned that Scott Rasmussen says he's seeing the beginnings of a bounce for Obama, and the Democrats of course talking about, "We're in a recession." They want everybody to believe we're in soup line America. The latest quarter growth rate is 3.3%. If there's any recession, it's in the Obama campaign! Who's been losing value ever since this convention started, and what was the bounce that Rasmussen found? The bounce that Rasmussen found after last night was one point! Yet, once again, we get treated to this claim that this party is a juggernaut and universally loved.
Story #2: No Recession: Economy Grows 3.3% in Q2
RUSH: By the way, from the Gateway Pundit blogspot, bouncing off of today's economic growth figure: GDP figure of 3.3%. We'll link to it; there's a couple charts here. There are really two excellent graphs here that indicate there is no recession. Obviously! It indicates that the unemployment rate in the Bush years is lower than in the Clinton years, and that the percentage of people in poverty during the Bush years has decreased. There are not more people in poverty. The Census Bureau numbers show it: there are not more people in poverty. This is just one of the never ending streams of lies that came out of both mouths last night. There is no greater percentage of poverty in America today than there was during the Clinton years.
Story #3: Dissention in the Ranks of the Drive-Bys
RUSH: You have probably heard that there is some dissension in the ranks at the Drive-Bys. MSNBC is about to implode because apparently Keith Olbermann runs the network now. He's in charge of who gets on it and who doesn't get on it. He's in charge of which hosts get airtime and so forth -- at least thinks he is. He and Matthews are going at it, and Scarborough is going at it with David Schuster, and one insider at MSNBC says, "My network's blowing up." Well, it's a bunch of kid libs running the show over there. You know something? For NBC to have allowed this to happen to MSNBC with no pretense -- I mean, you talk about Saul Alinsky radicals? It's a bunch of radicals on that network.
They're nowhere near to practicing journalism, and if they would say that, that's fine, if they to want call themselves the radical network. But the point is they're imploding, and NBC is letting it. Something tells me that they don't care about it anymore. I keep hearing these rumors that GE wants to dump NBC, just get rid of it, NBC Universal and all that. Now, of course all the NBC people deny this when they're asked about it, but for something to happen like this? This is childish and embarrassing.
And then there's Jonathan Alter, who writes for Newsweek. He has gone out after Carville and Mary Matalin. He doesn't like what Carville's been saying about the convention. He doesn't like how Carville's been ripping the convention for no message, no this, no that. He said (paraphrase), "I finally figured out what's going on. Carville needs Obama to lose so he and Mary Matalin can continue to have their act, their 'road show,' how they earn their money." So you get Jonathan Alter calling James Carville and Mary Matalin an "act." There is dissention in the ranks of the Drive-Bys, and the reason is there's a vacuum of substance at the top of the Democrat Party. They're having to spend up so much time with sweet nothings about Obama because there is nothing of substance about Obama -- at least that anybody wants to talk about.
Story #4: Putin Echoes Talking Points of American Left
RUSH: If this wasn't so dangerous it would be funny. It wasn't long ago, ladies and gentlemen, shortly after the Russians moved into Georgia, the American left -- and I can't recall who it was, it might have just been some wacko bloggers -- blamed America's neocons, blamed Dick Cheney for provoking Russia to invade Georgia as the political campaign season got into full swing. The idea was to enhance and improve Republican electoral chances in November. I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, a story from the UK Telegraph: "'Vladimir Putin Accuses US of Provoking Georgia War.' -- Putin accused the United States of provoking a war in Georgia to improve Republican prospects in November's presidential election. In comments designed to inflame tensions between the two countries, Mr Putin told CNN: 'The suspicion arises that someone in the United States especially created this conflict with the aim of making the situation more tense and creating a competitive advantage for one of the candidates fighting for the post of US president.'"
So, once again we have the American left, people close to the Obama campaign mouthing the identical thoughts of a communist member of the KGB, Vladimir Putin. Whether they are echoing the lines of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or whether they are repeating the philosophies and threats of Ayman al-Zawahiri or Osama Bin Laden, the American left cannot avoid being placed on the same side as America's enemies, over and over again. Never are they held to account for it. Now, we know how much the left in this country envy's Russia. They always have. For some reason they've loved it. Last thing they wanted was for the Soviet Union to ever be defeated and disbanded. So it will be fascinating to see how long it takes for somebody in the Obama campaign to pick this and up quote Putin as a source on the Republican Party and on Bush. I think it's going to happen before the week is out. Somebody in the Obama camp, it will happen on television, it will happen in a newspaper somewhere. Maybe not a direct association, but, you know, "Could this all have happened to help McCain? Putin may have a point." 'Cause, remember, Obama's initial reaction was to blame both Russia and Georgia, a moral equivalence. Rather than to take a stand with a Democratic ally of ours, he sought to blame them.
Okay, we found some instances, ladies and gentlemen, of Democrats and Drive-By Media types blaming Cheney and Bush for Russia's invasion of Georgia. One was in the LA Times blog by James Gerstenzang, and then outside the Beltway blog, a couple of bloggers: "Did US Provoke Georgia-Russia Conflict?" Quote, "Cheney went over to the Georgian embassy about a week before." And then George Stephanopoulos on August 17th on ABC News speculated that this might have been started by the Georgians, provoked by us. So here comes Pootie-Poot agreeing with the American Drive-By Media and fringe left bloggers.
 Story #5: Air Force One Replica Fuselage Brought to Stadium
RUSH: Somebody just sent me a picture. I'm assured that this is not a joke, it's not been Photoshopped. It is a flatbed truck delivering what it says here is a-full-scale replica of the Air Force One fuselage to Invesco Field at Mile High. Will Obama get in it? Will he get in it to simulate boarding and taking off? Heh-heh.
But, anyway, here's the explanation for the replica of Air Force One, the Boeing 707 fuselage, and it turns out it has screwed up a bunch of people in Denver. It is a traveling American Presidential Experience museum. It's got Air Force One, the Oval Office, it's got a whole bunch of things that travel around the country and they set it up and it is currently happening at Invesco Field at Mile High, and they've had to suspend it for tonight, and that picture of the fuselage showing up was when the exhibit was rolling into town, not today, and what happened was that people went out and bought tickets for something called the American Presidential Experience for August 28th, thinking they were getting into Obama's show tonight, and they're not getting into Obama's show, after spending 15 bucks for the museum exhibit.
"Sharon Stewart couldn't believe her good fortune - two tickets to Sen. Barack Obama's historic night in Denver for $15 apiece. She bought them on Ticketmaster for the 'American Presidential Experience' at Invesco Field at Mile High and invited a friend to join her as Obama accepts the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. But it turns out her tickets weren't for Obama's presidential experience but for a traveling museum of White House memorabilia. And the tickets are no good anyway because the museum won't be open to the general public Aug. 28, the day the Democratic National Convention moves to Invesco Field," at Mile High.
Story #6: Hackers Steal Credit Card Info from Best Western
RUSH: Folks, did you see this story? "Eight million people at risk of ID fraud after credit card details are stolen by hotel chain hackers." Eight million people! Best Western is the chain. Hotel hackers got in there and engaged in some ID fraud, the Best Western chain all over the world. The story is actually from the UK Daily Mail, and they have a picture here of the Best Western hotel in Amsterdam. "An Indian hacker broke into the IT system of Best Western Hotel Group and stole personal details of everyone who has stayed there in the past 12 months." Now, there's a way that this could have happened to you and yet not have happened to you, and that's if you signed up for LifeLock.
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