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September 3, 2008 |
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Story #1: Wizard of Smart Friedman on Palin and Big Oil
 RUSH: The oil price is down to 108 bucks, and now they're saying it might go town to $100. You know what I heard, folks? Do you know what I heard? Tom Friedman, Mr. Wizard of Smarts, the lead foreign policy op-ed columnist at the New York Times actually said that the Big Oil sheiks happy that the price is going down. They're happy the price is going down 'cause they want it low. The lower the oil price, the less energy will be suspended on finding alternatives -- and of course the oil sheiks don't want anybody finding alternatives. So Friedman says these oil sheiks, they're very concerned about these prices going down, and so should we be. Friedman says we need a floor, a low price of $120 barrel because we need to get going on alternatives, and if the price keeps getting lower, that's bad news.
They're totally out of touch with the American people. The American people want gasoline to come down to a market-related precisely. They want the market to rule on this. The lower of price of gasoline gets, the higher of the quality of life the American citizen. All of that doesn't factor into the consideration of Thomas Friedman or anybody like him because the American citizen is a doofus, an unsophisticated rube who does not possibly understand that if we continue to buy gas and it gets cheaper, well, we're in her going to develop fart power, and we're never going to deliver gas power from cows! We're never going to deliver power from windmills to run our little cars. We are such rubes. Meanwhile, American business is taking seriously your concern about the cost of gasoline. General Motors is one of our sponsors. We are proud and honored that they are a sponsor of this program.
Everybody's out there flapping their gums -- Thomas Friedman, all these other people who don't know what they're talking about. General Motors is doing things, designing terrific cars, crossovers, trucks, SUVs, that use alternative fuels, different ways to power their vehicles. They even have the Escalade hybrid out there now to go along with the Tahoe hybrid, and they're working on all kinds of different technologies that will help you use less gasoline. One of the alternatives they're using is flex-fuel cars that use biofuels like ethanol if you want them, and they're making them if you want them. They have four million of these flex-fuel vehicles on the road, across the globe, and they're committed to building even more. GM has more modeled that are capable of running on E85 ethanol than any other manufacturer. The Buick Lucerne -- that's the one we're getting next to tool around here -- is one of the cars running on E85. General Motors, they respond to your concerns. They don't tell you you're stupid. You can see all their cars at RushLimbaugh.com.
Story #2: Oil Prices Come Down, Speculators Get Rich
RUSH: Oil prices right now are hovering around $109 a barrel. It's coming down and you know who's getting rich? You know who's getting rich on the oil price coming down? Speculators! Speculators are making out like bandits, but nobody cares when the price comes down, only when the price goes up. Yeah, the speculators are out there, those who were smart enough to sell short, and what's happening as a result of these evil, mean Republican speculators getting rich here with the oil price coming down. At the same time, these speculators are the ones who are destroying people's retirement funds because those retirement funds invested in oil, and the price of oil is coming down. The retirement funds are losing value, all because of the speculators. The price is coming down.
Story #3: Democrats Release Palin's Social Security Number
RUSH: Speaking of Social Security, did you hear about this? The Democrats got her Social Security number, Sarah Palin's, and released it, all but the last four digits. This is the same thing that Chuck Schumer's people did to Michael Steele. They wanted his credit report. They wanted to get a number of things to release this data on him. They're trying to do that with her, all the while blaming Sarah Palin for making the life of her 17-year-old daughter public. Don't worry, folks, I'm going to call her up, I'm going to tell her to use LifeLock. She won't have anything to worry about it.
Story #4: Two Lib Journalists Jealous of Sarah Palin
RUSH: Sort of a humorous piece at Slate.com today by two women, Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick, and it's kind of a funny read. They go through this, and they don't begrudge that she's doing all this. They think it's over the top for people to be attacking her daughter. They say all these things. These are two liberal women babes -- very, very liberal. But this is where it gets kind of funny, kind of interesting. Page three of this piece: "Which brings us back to Sarah Palin the Super Mom. The woman who evidently believes that having it all means doing it all and who seems to see asking for help -- be it child care or maternity leave -- as weakness." Okay. We don't begrudge Sarah Palin her decision to run for vice president, or her decision to have a baby with Down syndrome, or even the act of doing both at the same time. Under most circumstances, that kind of ceiling-cracking would have us burning our nursing bras in solidarity."
Get this now: "But oh how we wish we didn't have to hear about her pulling off all these feats without household help -- and without, or so she's determined to make it appear, breaking a sweat or gaining a pound." These are two liberal women; and they're more jealous, it seems, than anything else. Sarah does all this stuff without any help. She doesn't break a sweat, and she doesn't gain weight! "Most of us mommies wish we could tote our kids to the office and work uninterrupted as they macramé quietly in their Pack-'n'-Plays. It never worked for us, though. Does this woman sleep? Do conservative feminists really have to be the kind of larger-than-life working mothers who"... Sigh. This isn't Sarah Palin, when you get right down to it.
What the libs have been telling us that feminism is all about, other than pro-life? That's what it boils down to. It's no more complicated than that why they don't like her. "Think of the family-friendly policies Palin's example would seem to brush aside. No need for child care subsidies or universal preschool if a mother of five can run the state without a babysitter." Well, that does bring up an interesting point: how much money are we wasting on schools that are not doing their work, all these advanced preschool, child care programs and so forth. All on the pretext that parents just can't do it alone anymore, when none of these types of services existed until libs took over the social safety net (or hammock) back in the sixties, and people turned out okay.
Story #5: Kids Protest Rotten School in Obama's Chicago
RUSH: Chicago kids protesting their rotten school; got on a bus to go to a school 30 miles away. Obama's Chicago, ladies and gentlemen.
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