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Story #1: MSNBC: Iran "Caught Red Handed" on Nukes
RUSH: Look at this: MSNBC right now is saying Iran was caught red-handed, building a second nuke -- they weren't caught. They admitted it! They just out and out told us! What are we supposed to -- Obama is so smart, he's so good, he's caught the Iranians building a second nuclear plant? They admitted it!
 Story #2: Translator Collapsed During Khadafy Speech
RUSH: Here's the story I was mentioning earlier about Khadafy's translator: "After struggling to turn Moammar Khadafy's insane ramblings at the United Nations into English for 75 minutes, the Libyan dictator's personal interpreter got lost in translation. 'I just can't take it anymore!' Khadafy's interpreter shouted into the live microphone in Arabic. At that point, the UN's Arabic section chief, Rasha Ajalyaqeen, took over and translated the final 20 minutes. 'His interpreter just collapsed. This is the first time I have seen this in 25 years,' another interpreter told The Post." He just couldn't take it. "'He's not exactly the most lucid speaker,' another Arabic interpreter said. 'It's not just that what he's saying is illogical, but the way he's saying it is bizarre.'" However, I think I could've made him sound a lot better, but I just couldn't handle it anymore.
Story #3: Governor Paterson's Wife Rips President Obama
RUSH: "Gov. Paterson's wife -- emotionally stunned at President Obama's request that her husband not run for another term -- ripped into him today, saying that it's 'very unfair' the president asked New York's 'first African-American governor' not to seek office. 'You never heard of that before,' Michelle Paterson, in her first comments on the situation, said following a luncheon in Midtown. 'David's the first African-American governor in the state of New York and he's being asked to get out of the race. It's very unusual and it seems very unfair.'" Hey, Michelle, you gotta learn something. It doesn't matter to Obama that your husband is the first black anything. He's the only first black anything that matters and your husband stands in his way. So your husband's gotta go.
Story #4: Terror Threats Uncovered All Across the Country
RUSH: All of these terror plots. Look at this: "North Carolina Terrorism Plot Targeted Military." "Man Accused in Dallas of Bomb Plot." Also, terrorist plots uncovered in New York and in Illinois. Do you remember when the government announced these threats, the Democrats all said, "It's lies, Bush is lying, he's just trying to distract from his failures in Iraq. He's just trying to keep the country on edge. He's just trying to make the country think we have a security threat when we don't. He's making it up." Now we've got five threats here over the course of two days. And while we got these threats, your Democrat Party is actively working as we speak to tear down the laws that help us apprehend these guys. And will anybody in the Drive-By Media suggest that these are trumped up, fake, phony charges by Obama? No, I don't think so. This stuff's not going to happen. This stuff wasn't supposed to happen when Obama was elected. There wouldn't be any more terrorism, people are gonna learn the United States is a good country again. We got rid of Bush, we got a new president, we got our redeemer and so no reason to hate us. One of these terrorists is an American convert to the peaceful religion of Islam.
Story #5: Democrats Promise Not to Interrogate Terrorists
RUSH: Back to these terror suspects. The FBI says they do not know if these individual terror suspects are acting alone. The Democrat Party is, as we speak, undoing the laws that would help us catch these people. We already know what the Democrat Party and Obama think of interrogating these terrorist types. So what kind of questions are we asking them? We don't know if they're working alone. Where are we conducting the interrogations? Starbucks? What can we ask 'em? If they don't cooperate, what can we do? I'm serious. What good is interrogating them when any form of interrogation, according to this administration, is torture, and Obama just told 'em at the UN that we're not going to do that anymore. What can we possibly learn? Do we sit down with them at Starbucks and say, "Would you please tell us if you're working alone or if you have associates?" I guess they'll just tell us. That's how it works? Well, if they don't cooperate then what do we do? Buy 'em a second cup of coffee? Maybe take 'em for lunch instead of just to Starbucks? "Look, we really don't mean you any harm. We're really just trying to help you. We need to know, do you have any associates here that were planning on blowing up the building with you?" "Screw you! I'm not talking!" "Oh, darn it. Please?" How are we going to get any information from these people? I'm just asking. Just asking.
Story #6: Media Calls Leftist Pittsburgh Protestors "Anarchists"
RUSH: These protests at the G20… I've noticed something about these. Any time there's a G-anything protest, have you noticed the protesters stop being leftists, they become anarchists? Have you ever noticed this? Isn't it funny, isn't it funny how as soon as these peace-loving leftists put down their daisy chains and they start throwing rocks through store windows, the media stop calling them leftists, they suddenly become anarchists, and of course anarchists are never described as being from the left or the right, we're supposed to think that they're from both sides of the political spectrum. That way the left isn't tarred with being violent and destructive, but it's the same bunch of people that always protest everything, the same exact groups that you would see at any peaceful leftist protest on any issue.
Even Code Pink is in Pittsburgh camping out in tent city like Khadafy did. I mean some of them put bandanas over their faces and they wear black clothes, but it's the same usual suspects, it's the animal rights crowd, it's the environmental wackos, it's the same bunch. The nuclear freeze people, the anti-nuke people, the global peace march for whatever people, it's the same bunch of people every protest. But now all of a sudden when they get violent, it's those darned anarchists. The anarchists, the last time they showed up was in Seattle when we had a G-something there. Otherwise, it's just peace-loving leftists.
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Story #7: Hysteria: Planet Will Warm 6.3 Degrees This Century
RUSH: And then there's this. Folks, I want to tell you something. I think this next story is absolute proof that the issue is dying. People are not hysterical over it enough so they make up more and worse sounding numbers. From Juliet Eilperin in the Washington Post: "'New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase.' -- Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century." This sort of reminds me of the  minimum wage. Remember it had to be seven dollars an hour. And you said, "Wait, why don't they make it ten an hour? Why stop there? If seven's good, why not ten?" "Yeah, make it ten!" "How about $15 dollars an hour?" "Yeah, that's even better!" "Let's make the minimum wage $20." "That's even better. Exactly right." "Well, let's make it $30." "No, a little bit too high." Why? It's the same thing happening here. They can't get enough hysteria, people aren't buying into it. In the last 12 years temperatures have plummeted, they're not rising, so now they're giving more and more dire predictions.
But the thing about this is that they say, they admit that even if we implement every carbon emission program designed to stop it, it won't matter. Listen to this: "The planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program." I don't know about you, but out in Los Angeles the weather forecasters couldn't even get yesterday right and these guys are now talking about the end of the century. But even if we implement everything, it won't matter. That's dire, that tells me the issue is dying. 'Cause when you gotta throw that in there then why do anything at all? Why do anything at all if it isn't going to matter?
"The new overview of global warming research, aimed at marshaling political support for a new international climate pact by the end of the year." Oh, I see. Scientific research now has an aim. They admit that scientific research has an objective and that objective is to marshal political support. "Even under the optimistic scenario of reducing carbon emissions somewhat, the average global temperature is likely to warm by 6.3 degrees." Okay. So we can do one of two things. We can ignore all of this and just take our chances, or we can go find a cave and live without toilet paper.
Story #8: Environmentalist Wackos: Soft Toilet Paper Must Go
RUSH: That's right, folks: soft toilet paper has gotta go. Clogs up toilets, clogs up pipes, soft paper, like Charmin, we gotta get rid of it. Now, in 1989 or '90 we had the list from some environmentalist wackos, 50 things we need to do to save the earth and getting rid of toilet paper, everybody laughed. In 1997, "We gotta get rid of SUVs," what are we doing today? Twenty-five years ago Richard Lamm, governor of Colorado, says, "Old people have a duty to die and get out of the way," 25 years later Newsweek magazine cover story: "The Case for Pulling the Plug on Granny." So this all just continues.
Story #9: State Dept. Still Considering Aid to Khadafy Cause
RUSH: Do you know that we were going to give two-and-a-half million dollars in aid to Libya through the State Department, the US Agency for International Development? The State Department is rethinking this, giving two-and-a-half million dollars in aid to Libya including two foundations run by Khadafy's sons. This is after lawmakers on Thursday asked it to cancel the plan because of Khadafy's speech. But we were going to do it in the first place.
Story #10: $3M Fire Management Funds Diverted to Green Jobs
RUSH: Unemployment in America has skyrocketed. We got our stimulus plan here and guess what about that, folks? How is this hope and change working for you? "Nearly $3 million in stimulus money targeted for fighting wildfires is being spent to restore public parks and watersheds in the nation's capital, which has no national forests. The Forest Service has directed that $2.8 million in 'Wildland Fire Management' funds, approved under the economic stimulus law, go to groups that will create 'green jobs' in the District of Columbia. The projects are intended to restore public parks and watersheds in the city and highlight the value of urban parks, including a park 2 miles north of the White House that once was plagued by crime." What are we doing fighting fires with stimulus money anyway? But even so, okay, we've allocated it to fight fires and somebody gets their mitts on it and says, "No, no, no, no, green jobs in parks, national parks in Washington." There aren't any parks in Washington. Doesn't matter. And unemployment, as I say, approaching 10%.
Story #11: Store Develops Left-Handed Underwear for Men
RUSH: This is from London. It's a Reuters story: A British store is launching a range of underpants for left-handed men, an innovation it says will save them both time and embarrassment in front of the porcelain. … 'In our view, this is a vital step toward equality for left-handed men,' said Rob Faucherand of Debenhams store. Almost 10 percent of British men are believed to be left handed but men's Y-fronted underpants have traditionally had a right handed opening from the time they were invented in 1935. 'As a result,' Debenhams said, "left handed men have to reach much further into their pants, performing a Z shaped maneuver. Who knew any of this until this store conducted this great research? Left-handed underwear for left-handed men. This reminds me of the time that I called a bunch of sporting goods stores in Pittsburgh asking for a left-handed baseball bat. Now, that was funny.
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Story #12: Fox's Megyn Kelly Gives Birth After Full Day of Work
 RUSH: Oh, do you know what I just remembered? Megyn Kelly, Fox News, gave birth today. A baby boy, seven pounds, ten ounces. It was human. She worked all day yesterday and even did her regular appearance on O'Reilly last night and gave birth today. Now, I knew her due date was October, so it's a little early, but I never heard of this. I thought with maternity leave now you take, what, a month? What do you do take, Dawn? What is it, two weeks before you give birth, you get outta there, and then three months before you come back, and at the end of the three months you decide, "I don't like working any more, I want to stay home and raise the kid," and that makes the feminists mad. What's that, Brian? That's what your wife did? Two weeks before took maternity leave? Right. Six months total. But did she go back to work or not? Hm-hm. Well, that's it. Brian's wife went back to work one day every two weeks, so enthralled with the child. Huh? Depends on if grandma is around? No, it doesn't. It doesn't depend on if grandma's around to help with the kid. It's a matter of if you can afford a nanny or not. Well, what do I know about it? I shouldn't even be weighing in on this. I don't know a damn thing about this. I'm stunned that she gave birth today, worked all day yesterday. It's just not done. I mean I'm giving her a compliment. Don't misunderstand. I'm not criticizing her. I congratulate her and her husband Doug on the new human baby.
Story #13: Mondull Calls Obama Foes Racist; Is McGovern Next?
RUSH: Well, the Democrats are really pulling out all the stops now. Another dull Democrat loser says that criticism of Obama is racist. That's from Walter F. Mondull today, who says that there is a racial edge to Obama's foes. Next they'll bring out McGovern. Is he alive? Okay. Good. Good. They'll bring McGovern out next. I mean they're hitting the bottom of the barrel on this now. Who's left?
Story #14: Gallup Poll Nightmare for Obama: Do More MSNBC!
RUSH: All right, folks, we have a bulletin. A good old-fashioned bulletin. This just in. A daily Gallup nightmare for President Obama. He's on the cliff's edge. The nation is showing a pulse, the body just twitched. Obama is at 50% approval in the daily Gallup poll, 50-42%. He's on the edge of the cliff. Now, the question is, what stunt will he pull next? Gotta do something. Every time a poll comes out and he's down, he does something. There's still that judge seat on American Idol. How about another round of Sunday shows? Maybe do Fox this time. How about another primetime speech before Congress? How about a guest spot on NCIS? How about hosting Letterman next time rather than just guesting? In fact, host Letterman and have Ahmadinejad as a guest, and Hugo Chavez. Do something to get the numbers up here. People would watch that. I'll tell you, that's what he ought to do. He just said today at the G20 in Pittsburgh, "All right, they got a second nuke facility? We're going to really talk to them now, we're going to really start jawboning them now." Do it on Letterman! Let Letterman go over and orchestra the band and have Obama host and have as his guest Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Story #15: Senate Health Care Bill: Buy Insurance or Go to Jail
RUSH: In the Senate version of Obamacare, the Max Baucus bill, it's either buy health insurance or go to jail. Did you hear me? Buy health insurance or go to jail, as it stands now in the Senate version of Obamacare. "Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance. Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it 'Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold.' The note was a follow-up to Ensign's questioning at the markup," of the bill. It's in The Politico. I have it right here in The Politico. John Ensign's got a signed letter from the chief of staff, the Joint Committee On Taxation, House and Senate, actually. It said if you don't pay the $1900 fee, the penalty, for not buying insurance, you'll be charged with a misdemeanor and maybe face a year in jail and a $25,000 fine. I'm not making it up.
Story #16: Fantastic Heritage Foundation Piece on Obamacare
RUSH: The Heritage Foundation has a brilliant report out today: "Obamacare Puts Transparency and Accountability on its Death Bed." Let me summarize what the report here is. During yesterday's Senate Finance committee markup the CBO realized only after the vote that they had made a $600 million mistake in scoring an amendment by Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow. A $600 million mistake that they only discovered yesterday in a health bill that Obama actually wanted signed into law last month. No one in Washington has one clue what this plan is in its entirety. But they're voting for it, they're going to vote for it anyway. They're not going to give 72 hours to study it, as was promised. You can read about so much of the disaster that's gone on here in this health care bill in the Senate at The Heritage Foundation, it's a great, great, great report on it. Just go to AskHeritage.org. and become a member, and the world will open up to you. It is amazing the work they continue to do, and they are untainted by being in DC. This is a great thing about the Heritage Foundation, great scholars there, and they do make the complex understandable. AskHeritage.org.
Story #17: California Admits Regulations Have Hurt the Economy
RUSH: This is quietly reported. San Francisco Chronicle: "Regulations on small businesses in California have cost the state's economy $492 billion and 3.8 million jobs, according to a report quietly released by the governor's office this week." They admit it! Regulations have hurt California's economy.
Story #18: It's Another Weekend of NFL Games and Weddings
RUSH: Have a great weekend, folks. The NFL's up and a bunch of weddings out there, not mine, but they are happening.
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