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October 22, 2009 |
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Story #1: If Fox is Talk Radio, CNN and MSNBC are Pornography
RUSH: So now Obama is out there saying that Fox News is talk radio. I am living rent free in this guy's head! Fox News is talk radio? If that's true, MSNBC is pornography -- and Obama likes MSNBC -- and CNN is child porn.
 Story #2: Obama's Washington DC: Crime Rate Skyrockets
RUSH: Here's more hope and change for you. Washington, DC: In light of all the skyrocketing and new unemployment, "metro officials say that they've seen a 40% increase in robberies in the first eight months of the year." Obama's Washington, DC. "Metro Transit Police statistics released ahead of Thursday's Metro board meeting show a 5 percent increase in overall crime in the transit system. There were 1,115 incidents in the first eight months of 2008 and 1,173 during the same period this year. The number of reported robberies grew from 370 between January and August last year to 524 during the same period this year. Meanwhile larcenies fell from 548 in 2008 to 470 this year." Rampant crime. This is just the tip of the iceberg. How is that hope and change working out for you?
Story #3: Senate Debates Extending Unemployment Benefits
RUSH: I'm looking for a story here in the stack about Congress working very hard to expand unemployment benefits. A bunch of poor Americans are set to see their unemployment benefits expire in December and Congress is working real hard up there -- which means print more money that we don't have to expand unemployment benefits to people who have already been unemployed for who knows how long. They've stopped looking for work. I looked at the story and said, "Why not focus on getting jobs created in the economy instead of all of this focus on never-ending benefits?" And then I had to stop and slap myself: "Gosh, Rush, you're missing the point. They're doing it on purpose. They want all these benefits expanded. They want more and more people on unemployment compensation." It's true, folks.
Story #4: Daniel Henninger: We're All Balloon Boys Now
RUSH: Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal: "We're All Balloon Boys Now -- With fakery everywhere today, people retreat into a shell of cynicism about everything. ... The 'balloon boy' floating over Colorado last week got me thinking of the Obama photo-op airliner flying around lower Manhattan last April at 9/11 altitude. This is not to suggest that the Obama presidency is a hoax, though more on that later. It is to suggest it's getting harder to know what's real and unreal in a world that always seems to be slipping slightly out of focus. The best thing to emerge from the balloon boy story, other than the uncontestable fact that six-year-old Falcon Heene was safe on the ground, is that the guy who did it thought that staging a hoax would get him into reality TV programming. It had to come to this. ... In 1938, Orson Welles caused a sensation when he did a 'reality' radio broadcast announcing a Martian invasion. Now we get the equivalent of a Martian invasion almost every day; or maybe it's every other hour.
"This week the mainstream media have been learning the danger of living in a cut-and-paste world. CNN's Rick Sanchez issued an apology for saying" after being totally shamed by it and the apology came after the damage was done, by the way, "saying during the Rush Limbaugh-NFL controversy that Mr. Limbaugh had spoken approvingly of American slavery. There was no basis for the quotation, which had been lifted from a newspaper. ... With fakery everywhere -- some of it amusing, some of it not funny -- people's ability to know where things fall on the spectrum between fact and falsity becomes so compromised that they retreat into a shell of cynicism about everything. And there is a lot to process: 9/11 deniers, Iranian Holocaust deniers, Obama birthers. Lily Tomlin provided the epigraph for our age: 'I try to be cynical, but it's hard to keep up.' ... The tea parties were ridiculed as right-wing activism." They are actually the only real thing we've seen in the past year.
"The current president seems taken aback that so many could doubt his good intentions. But politicians trying to sell big things, whether ObamaCare or privatized Social Security or even wars, need to get better at what they do. We are all balloon boys now, learning every day how to make sure the clever people don't take us for a ride." By the way, you know that Chamber of Commerce hoaxer? MSNBC had him on last night, CNN the night before. He's all over MSNBC. A hoaxer! A fraud! A fake, a phony, portraying himself at a phony press conference as a member of the Chamber of Commerce is now a celebrated guest on what has become news pornography: CNN and MSNBC. Henninger is right: We're all balloon boys now.
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Story #5: Hurl Alert: Kerry Becomes All-Around Adviser to Obama
RUSH: Associated Press: "Kerry Becomes All-Around Advisor to Obama." Now, folks, see I can't just do the headline to this story 'cause there is so much here in this one story: The liberals promoting their failures, John Kerry, the sycophantic state-run AP, the idea that we're doing everything for Teddy, the irrelevance of Hillary Clinton. The Democrat Party is a banana republic. This one AP story is one large teachable moment. So I can't just do the headline: "Kerry Becomes All-Around Advisor to Obama -- He's not president, a Cabinet member or ambassador, but Sen. John Kerry," who served in Vietnam, "has ascended to the unofficial role of President Barack Obama's global adviser on key issues that could reshape the nation's image around the world."
Well, good God!
 "Mediating Afghanistan's presidential election vaulted Kerry from the already prominent chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee into the most exclusive circle around a new president who is juggling but has not resolved a variety of domestic and foreign policy matters." Let me break this down. Kerry mediated Afghanistan's election, which is now called corrupt by Obama and the UN, who promptly hire Kerry as a key advisor. Why not go all the way and send Jimmy Carter over there to make sure the runoff is fair? "Beyond policy, Kerry knows how Washington works. Kerry and Obama also share a political pedigree. Both were mentored by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy." What, we gonna lose war for Teddy now, is that what? Lose the war for Teddy! Screw it all up for Teddy! Were both mentored by Teddy. Screw it up for Teddy! And while you're at it screw somebody for Teddy. Ha, ha! Sorry. I have to laugh at that one myself.
"Obviously, Sen. Kerry is somebody who has a broad range of experience," with a lot of broads, "and an in-depth knowledge of issues, ranging form energy and climate change to health care to foreign policy," and Swiss cheese on a Philly cheesesteak. "I think it's that experience and insight that (Obama) certainly greatly values." Oh. This is comforting. This is heartwarming. Obama cherishes, greatly values the experience and insight of John Kerry. "That cannot be overstated." You just did overstate it, AP. "Obama made his debut on the national stage at the 2004 presidential convention at which Democrats nominated Kerry to challenge George W. Bush. ... 'I'm here because of you,' Obama wrote Kerry on the January day he was [immaculated.] The note is framed and hangs on Kerry's Senate office wall." See, I should have given you a hurl alert. Go grab a wastebasket for your puke. It's what I feel like going through this story and I'm not even halfway through it.
"'I really tried to be the utility, you know, hitter or fielder at the time,' the 65-year-old senator, his voice hoarse and hip sore after an overnight flight home." Aw, sore hip! An overnight flight home from mediating a fraudulent election. What is it about the libs and the trauma of having to fly on luxury jets? They fly on luxury jets, they go over there, and they're always involved somehow in snipper fire. "Karzai, Kerry said, felt deeply that he had won the election and that he was being insulted for trying to have a democratic process. Kerry could relate." Oh, my God. So the AP here now dutifully comparing a fraudulent Afghanistan election to, what, 2000 or 2004, or both? Folks, I lost my place. "Kerry could relate." What, now Kerry really won somehow and Bush stole that one, too? "'Do I understand the day after an election where you think you've won, or you have votes that weren't counted or something? Been there, done that,' Kerry said." Folks, do you realize Kerry only thought he won because they believed the exit polls? The exit polls told Kerry he was the winner. When the real votes were counted is when the Democrat, "Uh-oh, there's fraud."
"Kerry's plane touched down at home around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. By lunchtime, he was advising Obama at the White House. Kerry says he advised the president to know the outcome of the Afghan elections before sending more troops there." You know what? As I go through this, I realize it's a damn good thing that we didn't wait for Hitler to lose an election before we landed at Normandy.
Story #6: Walmart, eBay Agree: This Christmas Will Stink
RUSH: This is from the Business Insider: "Walmart and eBay Agree: This Christmas Will Stink." Walmart and eBay, Christmas will stink! Hope and change, folks. Hope and change.
Story #7: Ad: Daddy Reads Global Warming Horror Story to Girl
RUSH: "Government TV Climate Ad is Propaganda." This from the UK Telegraph. Now, there's a link here where you can watch the ad in question. What it is is a daddy reading a horrible story on global warming to a little girl who's about five or six years old whose face shows utter fear. "Is there a happy ending, daddy? Is there a happy ending?" Now, Janet Daley is a columnist at the UK Telegraph. She is, and has spent all of her political life, on the left. She writes of this ad: "The government is trying to terrify you. That is the only possible interpretation of its latest television advertising campaign on the supposed dangers of global warming.
"Whether or not you accept the scientific premises behind the 'bedtime story' advert which is now to be investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority after attracting over 350 complaints from the public, there is no question that it is propaganda in the strict technical sense of the word. That is to say, it is an attempt by the state to manipulate opinion and evoke emotional reactions without offering argument or evidence for its case. It accepts uncritically the most extreme rendition of the anthropogenic global warming narrative as if it were entirely uncontentious and presents it in the most sentimentally evocative possible way (ie as a threat to one's own children and to defenseless creatures generally). It uses the techniques once associated with totalitarian societies not to persuade ... but to coerce: to create fear and guilt." A liberal in the UK is denouncing a government-run ad that does just that.
Speaking of which, this is from the Pew Research Center. "There's been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say that there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. Fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem. Thirty-five percent today down from 44% in April of 2008. More people are worried about the economy. But still 57% believe that there's solid evidence the earth is warming. Thirty-six percent believe it's because of human activity," which is still too high, but the numbers are plummeting, the number of people who believe it.
Story #8: Rosie O'Donnell Acknowledges "Issues" with Spouse
RUSH: "Rosie O'Donnell Acknowledges 'Issues' with Spouse -- Rose O'Donnell says that she had her spouse of five years, Kelli Carpenter, are undergoing rough patch in their relationship -- and passes up a chance to refute speculation that Carpenter has moved out of their home in Nyack, N.Y., and into an apartment in Manhattan." That's a real shocker, Rosie O'Donnell's relationship in a rough patch.
Story #9: Don't Take It! Obama Refocuses Bailout on Small Biz
RUSH: "Obama Refocuses Bailout on Small Business -- President Obama unveiled plans yesterday to refocus spending of the government's $700 billion financial bailout away from Wall Street's big financial institutions," because we've already taken control of them, "toward small businesses on Main Street. Now, see how this works? I hope some of you small business people are not going, "Yeah, yeah, yeah! Help me out! Help me out," because then Obama will tell you how much you can earn. Don't take it. I have to think... I really have to think. I probably see more of the news than most people do, and I'm going to tell you that there is a survey, a poll, a study, I've missed: The one that tells us what small business owners want. I have not seen it. Have you seen the poll that small business owners want a bailout? Have you seen it? You see a lot of news, Snerdley. I haven't seen it, either. I'm guessing, ladies and gentlemen, that what they want is not help from Obama, but I'm guessing that most small business people want Obama to get out of their way. Not that he cares. But I don't think most small businesses (which are basically a bunch of entrepreneurs) are excited about Obama coming in to "help" them.
Story #10: Deserted Shopping Mall Bleak Symbol of Fed Bailout
RUSH: "Deserted Shopping Mall Bleak Symbol of Fed Bailout -- A $29 billion trail from the Federal Reserve's bailout of Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns ends in a partially deserted shopping center on a bleak spot on the south side of Oklahoma City. The Fed now owns the Crossroads Mall, a sprawling shopping complex at the junction of Interstate highways 244 and 35, complete with an oil well pumping crude in the parking lot -- except the Fed does not own the mineral rights." But, at any rate, it's abandoned. The Fed owns it. "Bleak Symbol of Fed Bailout"? No! It's a bleak symbol of Obamanomics -- which I guess is the same thing.
Story #11: Calypso Louie: Swine Flu Vaccine Developed to Kill
RUSH: Calypso Louie "Farrakhan said the H1N1 flu vaccine was developed to kill people... 'The Earth can't take 6.5 billion people. We just can't feed that many. So what are you going to do? Kill as many as you can.'" (commercial break) Now, I just checked the e-mail: "Rush, it sounds like you don't think Farrakhan is kind of loopy here for saying that the swine flu vaccine was developed to kill people." Folks, it's hard to disagree with him on this. I mean, after the stories we have discussed just this week on cancer testing now being no good? We've had Cash-for-No-Babies, carbon credits for not having babies. That's the only way to save the planet. We got death panels in Florida. We have an administration in love with the teachings of Chairman Mao! So when Farrakhan comes along and that the swine flu vaccine was developed to kill people, he seems perfectly within the realm of reality to me with all the other news that's going on out there. He said that the people who won't take the vaccine are wise, which includes me! Ha! Minister Farrakhan has unknowingly (probably) pronounced me as wise. Now, on any other point of my life I would have think, "Wow, this guy has lost his marbles. He is a true fruitcake. He's gone over the edge and is an order of fries short of a Happy Meal," but with everything else going on in the country today how in the world can you just discard this?
Story #12: Oprah: Five Happiest Countries in World are Socialist
RUSH: Okay, we lost a caller here. Snerdley, quickly, what was her point? The Oprah show was doing a story on the five happiest countries, and a bunch are socialist countries, and The Oprah was impressed? Oh, the caller was impressed? So the caller's faith was shaken here, and she wanted me to restore order, and we lose the call. Well, somebody obviously did not want me to get the caller's mind right. It could be the FBI Los Angeles office. Who knows, folks? First they're telling people to call here and listen, and then they do, and then callers with deep intel that nobody else knows about happen to just be disconnected in the middle of their point?
Story #13: Recovery? Jobless Claims Rise "More Than Expected"
RUSH: All right, CNNmoney.com: "Jobless Claims Dent Recovery Hopes -- Initial claims jump 11,000 to 531,000, much more than expected." How is this unexpected? I want to know. This is cut-and-paste stuff. There's gotta be one keystroke that types "much more" or "much less than expected." The only people who could be surprised by unemployment rising are people who have their heads in Obama's colon. And here at AP: "First time jobless claims rise more than expected to 531,000, continuing claims fall. This puts a dent in the recovery." There is no recovery. Expecting the unexpected. Number of newly laid off workers filing claims rose more than expected. We're heading into the holiday season. There ought to be more jobs, not fewer. Maybe Obama will give us all a lump of coal as he tries to put that business out.
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