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October 14, 2009 |
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Story #1: Record Cold Temps; Hurricane Season a Bust
RUSH: Look at some of these headlines, ladies and gentlemen. "Storms Menace California, Burned Areas Risk Mudslides." "Heavy Snow Expected in Pennsylvania." "Chicago: Record Breaking Cold Continues." "Montana: Cold Weather Records Fall." And, of course, the '09 Atlantic hurricane season forecast blown to smithereens, the quietest hurricane season in ten years. How is that global warming and climate change working for you?
 Story #2: Michael Jackson Up for Posthumous Grammy
RUSH: By the way, Michael Jackson is up for some posthumous awards. What is this? The American Music Awards. "Singer Michael Jackson has been posthumously nominated for five American Music Awards (AMAs), including artist of the year. [He] is lined up against Lady Gaga, Kings of Leon, Taylor Swift and rapper Eminem in the key category. ... The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles on 22 November." Obama is going to win all these awards. What is everybody talking about? This is unfortunate. We already have it on good authority that Obama is going to sweep these awards, win all of the awards every category. It's a done deal, in one final diss to Michael Jackson.
Story #3: Pay Czar Examines Salaries of the "Unessential"
RUSH: Story from the New York Times: "Federal Pay Czar Tries Again to Trim A.I.G. Bonuses." The federal pay czar. Can you believe that we even have such a person? A czar! Not somebody confirmed by the Senate. Not somebody accountable to the voters in any way. We have a guy, a czar, who determines pay. And he "is trying to force the American International Group to reduce $198 million in bonuses promised to employees of its trading unit, where problems posed a threat to the global financial system last year." Kenneth Feinberg is the guy's name, and it says here in a disappointed tone in the New York Times that he "is running into legal hurdles because those bonuses fall outside new rules against bonus payments at companies receiving government assistance. The bonus agreements at issue were struck before last year's emergency rescues by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, and thus are not directly covered by the new rules."
Look at what happened. AIG, a bunch of entrepreneurs, found a work-around. They found a loophole. Can I give you a quote from this piece? "The new audit pointed out that the bonus program for the Financial Products unit was unusual because it included payments to unessential people." The federal pay czar looks at workers, employees, and some of them are "unessential." Unessential to whom, sir? He "cited a $7,700 bonus for a kitchen assistant, a $7,000 bonus for a mailroom assistant and $700 for a file administrator." So raises for the little people, raises and bonuses for poor people! All those Democrats that care so much about the poor and the little guy, they're going to really stand up for them -- and now the pay czar is going to stop them from getting their bonuses.
Story #4: CBO Director: Don't Know if Baucus Bill Will Save
RUSH: In the New York Times today: "The budget office said the costs [of the Baucus bill yesterday, committee bill] would be completely offset by new fees and taxes and by cutbacks in Medicare, so federal budget deficits in the next 10 years would be $81 billion lower than now projected. But Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, said his agency had not estimated the impact of the bill on overall national health spending, public and private, and could not say whether it would 'bend the cost curve.'" Buried here toward the end of the story, CBO said, "I can't say if this is going to save citizens any money. I don't know." Yet everybody's reporting that the CBO says it's going to save everybody a whole lot of money. There's no truth, literally no truth out there when we're talking about the corrupt mainstream media.
Story #5: Homelessness Hits All-Time High in New York
RUSH: Here's a story about how much homelessness there is, record high in New York City, and I can't believe it got reported. I don't doubt that it's true, but I still can't believe it. It's from CBS: "'Record Numbers Of Homeless In NYC.' -- According To Coalition For The Homeless, More Than 16,000 Children Were In Shelters By End Of September."
Now, this group says that this number has been growing for five years. I have a question then. And, by the way, before my question, let me give you some details here. "According to a new report, the number of homeless people sleeping in New York City shelters has reached an all time high at 39,000 -- many of them are children. … Mary Brosnahan, longtime executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless used the city's own data, and says homelessness has been increasing each of the last five years, and currently is at an all-time high. At the end of September --" this is the Obama administration now. I can't believe this is being reported.
But here's my question. If homelessness has been growing for five years, have Tom Friedman and Tom Brokaw bothered to drive through Central Park lately to see any of this destitution? They live there. Well, I don't think Friedman lives there; Friedman lives in Maryland somewhere. But I wonder if Brokaw ever finds his way into parts of the city where these people apparently are to report the news to an eagerly awaiting public wanting to know the truth.
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