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September 12, 2007 |
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Story #1: NY Times Slashed Price for MoveOn.org Ad
RUSH: MoveOn.org's ad. The Republicans tried to get the Democrats to condemn it yesterday in the Senate. They wouldn't have any part it. I didn't expect them to. But, anyway, do you know what a full-page ad (where that ad ran) in the New York Times costs? In their rate book, a full-page ad like the MoveOn.org ad costs $167,000. That's what it costs. Do you know what MoveOn.org paid for it? $65,000. It's $167,000, they paid 65, so they got a $102,000 price reduction. Now, you call it an in-kind contribution from the Times because MoveOn.org is a political group. Hell, yes! Now, here's the thing. The Times doesn't have to accept any ad it doesn't want to, but they accepted this. It tells us who they are (even though we already know), and then they gave a price discount. Wait until the news of this gets out to broad quarters and their legit advertisers say, "Hey, will you give us a $102,000 price reduction if we put a political message in the latest Estée Lauder ad? That Little Pinch, I gotta tell you, the people running that paper are idiots.
 Story #2: Oil Hits New High, But We Won't Drill for More
RUSH: Oil. What is it, close to 80 bucks now? Yeah, oil is closing in on 80 bucks a barrel. The OPEC boys say they're going to increase production. Eighty bucks a barrel -- and, of course, what are we doing about it? Nothing! We're not going to drill for any oil that we have anywhere.
Story #3: Higher Gas Price Would Reduce Obesity
RUSH: Okay. "Higher Gasoline Prices are Seen Trimming Down Americans." This is Reuters, and it's a story out of Washington University in St. Louis entitled, "A Silver Lining: The Connection Between Gas Prices and Obesity." The author of this study at Washington U. found that an additional one dollar per gallon in real gasoline prices would reduce US obesity by 15% after five years. "Higher gasoline prices can reduce obesity by leading people to walk or to cycle instead of drive and eat leaner at home instead of rich foods." How? What's that got to do with it? Why is the high gas price going to determine what you eat? These libs...
I mean, you have to think about this in a responsible and reasoned, rational, intelligent way, guided by experience. Does the price of anything change somebody's eating habits? Just because the price of gasoline goes up, and they can't go restaurants, doesn’t mean they're not going to have to eat. This is all ridiculous. If this price rise continues, what will happen is people are just going to buy smaller cars so that they'll still be able to live their lives. We're Americans! This is not the kind of thing that's going to cause massive cutbacks.
Story #4: Men Worse for Environment than Women
RUSH: This is from Sweden: "Men are worse for the environment than women. They spend more on gasoline, and they eat more meat, both of which create greenhouse gas emissions. These are the conclusions of a new report by the Swedish Foreign Ministry" -- their government! Now, you know who's going to eat this up (figuratively) is the feminazis. They are going to love this. Men are the problem. Men are not only predators and rapists; now men are destroying the planet because they use more gas and they eat more beef. Now, I get a story like this and I'll send it off to this cadre of my liberal friends. It's fun to toy with them, and I send them all this wacko stuff and all the mainstream liberal stuff, and their reaction is, "That's not all liberals." I say, "It is! That's the point! Liberals get these little views in their heads, these little worldviews, and nothing can penetrate the little soft cocoon that they have woven for themselves in which to live," and they get these belief systems, and one of the belief systems is that there's no evil in the world that's not caused by the United States. I don't care whether it's war, whether it's global warming, environmental destruction. Whatever it is, it's all the fault of the United States. If the United States would just stop it, we could all have peace. We could all live happily ever after, and so forth. Reality simply doesn't permeate. So I love to just flood them with reality: the reality of their friends.
Story #5: Bad News: US Life Expectancy Hits All-Time High
RUSH: "Life Expectancy of Americans Hits 78." This is bad news, according to the Associated Press. "Life expectancy for Americans is nearly 78 years, the longest in US history, according to government figures. That age, based on the latest data available, was still lower than the lifespan in more than three dozen other countries, however. Here's more bad news." But wait a minute. I was thinking about the Russian bomb. Don't we need more people dying? That's less pressure on the environment and global warming. If the Russian bomb causes no environmental destruction and kills a lot of people, isn't it helping the environment, in essence? At least, that's what we've been told by the wacko left. So our life expectancy is 78, an all-time high, and it's still bad, according to the Associated Press. The next line is this: "More bad news." Ha! You have a story where the lead is: "Life expectancy now 78" -- which gives me 22 more years, according to the actuarial tables now, 22 more years of broadcast excellence -- and then they couple this with, "More Bad News: The annual number of US deaths rose from 2004 to 2005, a depressing up-tick after the figure had dropped by 50,000 from 2003 to 2004."
Now, here's the obligatory racial comparison paragraph: "Researchers also continued to note differences by race and sex. Life expectancy for whites in 2005 is 78.3 years." Wait! That means I have 22 years and six months of broadcast excellence. That's the same as it was in 2004. "However, black life expectancy only rose to 73.2, but still nearly five years lower than the white figure." Gasp! What a horrible country we have! "Life expectancy for women continues to be five years longer than for men." Eighty-three, is that right? The average life expectancy now for women in America is 83? What about black women? Does it say here? We can't have that, because, "women and minorities" are always "hardest hit" in these stories -- and, of course, that's even better for women because that means they're going to outlive their horrible, putrid, predatory husbands by five years. What? Yeah, they may be on Social Security money, if there is any by the time we're talking about. Twenty or 30 years, isn't that when all this is supposed to start going to hell in a hand basket and tax rates of 78% will be necessary to pay for it?
Story #6: As People Get Fatter, Libs Look to Legislate Health
RUSH: I've had this in the stack for a couple of days. This is from the Los Angeles Times. "As America gets fatter, policymakers," whose business it is not, "are seeking creative approaches to legislating health." It is none of their damn business, but they're going to do it anyway. "They may have entered the school cafeteria -- and now they're eyeing your neighborhood. Amid worries of an obesity epidemic and its related illnesses, including high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, Los Angeles officials, among others around the country, are proposing to limit new fast-food restaurants -- a tactic that could be called health zoning. The City Council will be asked this fall to consider an up to two-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in South L.A., a part of the city where fast food is at least as much a practicality as a preference. 'The people don't want them, but when they don't have any other options, they may gravitate to what's there,' said Councilwoman Jan Perry, who proposed the ordinance in June, and whose district includes portions of South L.A. that would be affected by the plan."
So, there's a moratorium in South LA on new fast food restaurants. Huh? It's more important than jobs? That's right, Snerdley: more important than jobs. It's more important than a lot of other things. This is why it's just patently absurd, but this is liberals for you. This is who they are: people who want to control your lives. You don't have the sense to eat right. You don't have the sense to do right. You don't have the sense to think right. They're going to do all of that for you.
Story #7: Fred Thompson Leads Rasmussen Poll
RUSH: Well, now, looky here. The Rasmussen Reports daily presidential tracking poll for today shows that Fred Thompson is on top once again in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. "Thompson is now the top choice for 28% of likely Republican primary voters, matching his highest level of support recorded to date." Now, how can this be, ladies and gentlemen? The conventional wisdom, and that is the conventional wisdom as created by a combination of so-called Beltway political consultants and the Drive-By Media, said that Fred Thompson got in too late; that he hasn't raised enough money; that he can't hold onto his staff; that he's had to shake up his staff four times; that he is lazy; that his wife is a trophy wife and a control freak and she's actually running the campaign and he really doesn't want to be president; she wants to be queen, and he's not serious about this. And now the latest is he doesn't go to church, but at the moment he's ahead. All of these excuses for his failure were part of the old conventional wisdom up until yesterday, all through the weekend, and so forth. It's almost instinctive and habitual with me, and I get a read on the conventional wisdom, and I go the opposite way.
Story #8: Web Service Provides Alibis for Adulterers
RUSH: All right, for those of you in the audience who are adulterers, we know you're there, and you know who you are. "Looking to get away for a weekend fling without getting caught? A new French company provides would-be adulterers with custom-made excuses that help take the danger of discovery out of cheating. Founded six months ago by former private eye Regine Mourizard, Web-based Ibila can cook up invites to phony weekend seminars, fake emergency phone calls from work, invitations to nonexistent weddings -- anything to justify cheating spouses' absence." Now, it's a woman, by the way, that's doing this, Regine. She said that "her service is aimed at protecting couples and families by allowing adulterers to live their flings undetected." Now, that's really the way to protect the family, isn't it? Ha! How many of you -- not just men -- how many of you people got real curious when I said, "for you would-be and current adulterers out there, a way to get away with it?"
"Here's how it works: In an e-mail message or call to Ibila, the prospective client requests an alibi for a specific date and time. Mourizard concocts just the right excuse, taking into account the client's profession and personal circumstances. She and her co-worker, a computer specialist, draw up fake restaurant and hotel bills, receipts and other documents to help shore up what Mourizard calls her 'little white lies.'" Heh-heh. You ought to see Dawn's face in there. It's a woman doing this, Dawn! This is not a bunch of guys conspiring to pull this off! This is a woman doing this. Oh man, I'm getting daggers from her. She's saying, "I would prefer you not talk about this."
"If the adulterer was supposed to have been away for a seminar, the company can even provide the kinds of freebies -- pens, hats and tee-shirts -- sometimes given at such events. Mourizard said that because of privacy issues, she could only give details about one of her past clients, whom she called 'Geraldine.' Married to a 'strict man,' Geraldine was desperate to get out of the house for an hour-long meeting with an ex-boyfriend who lived abroad and was briefly passing through town. This man was practically the love of her life and she had to see him,' Mourizard said. Together, they hatched a plan. Geraldine owned a driving school, so on the appointed day, Mourizard called her home pretending to be a student who needed a last-minute lesson before her driving test the following day. 'The husband totally bought it. He even offered to get the car out of the garage for her,' Mourizard said. The simplest excuses -- like Geraldine's -- cost euro19 (US$27)," that's all? "--while more the more elaborate and time-consuming alibis can run upward of euro150 (US$207)... Most of her clients -- about 60 percent -- are men, Mourizard said. They range in age from 25-60, but most are in their mid-forties. Mourizard, a 50-year-old mother of two, said it was her experience as a private detective that led her to open Ibila -- Europe's second such service, she said. 'For 20 years, I worked to keep people from doing what they wanted to do. And I then thought, "what if I help them do it, in a safe way?"'" You know, to protect families and reputations -- her version and definition of family values.
Story #9: Burger Jockey Arrested for Salty Burger
RUSH: From Union City, Georgia: "A McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer's burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick. Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail. Bull, 20, said she accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat and told her supervisor and a co-worker, who 'tried to thump the salt off.' On her break, she ate a burger made with the salty meat. 'It didn't make me sick,'" she told the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation newspaper. "But then Police Officer Wendell Adams got a burger made with the oversalted meat, and he returned a short time later and told the manager it made him sick. Bull admitted spilling salt on the meat, and Adams took her outside and questioned her, she said." Heh-heh.
Story #10: Israelis Spot Nuclear Sites in Syria
RUSH: The Israelis, ladies and gentlemen, say that they spotted nuclear installations in Syria, and that is why they drop bombs -- and the US has confirmed it. Also, there were weapons transfers from Iran to Hezbollah going through Syria, and that's why the Israelis bombed. "Washington officials say that Israeli surveillance shows possible Syrian nuclear installations stocked by North Korea." So the US is basically confirming that this is what happened.
Story #11: Libs Set Tone for Rutgers Anti-Military Heckling
RUSH: By the way, did you hear what happened Saturday at Rutgers when Navy came in to play Rutgers? Rutgers fans shouted obscenities, cursed and screamed at the Navy football team. Now, the fans are obviously responsible for doing that, but what do you think created such a climate in this country, ladies and gentlemen? Which political party do you think makes this fashionable?
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