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October 23, 2009 |
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Story #1: Costly Fraud Reported in Home Buyers' Tax Program
RUSH: Get this. Talking about the redistribution of wealth: "The rush to implement a tax credit for first-time home buyers opened the program up to potential fraud by people who hadn’t bought a home or already owned one, Congress was told yesterday. J. Russell George, Treasury inspector general for tax administration, questioned the eligibility of some 100,000 claims out of the 1.5 million who have sought to take advantage of the $8,000 tax credit incorporated in the economic stimulus package enacted last February," which yesterday Christina Romer said, "We've already seen the big bang for the buck that we're going to get from it."
"He said that claimants include those who could possibly be illegal immigrants and that 580 people seeking $4 million from the first-time home buyer credit were under the age of 18. The youngest taxpayers receiving the credit were 4 years old, his office said." A four-year-old taxpayer? "George and an Internal Revenue Service official testifying before a House Ways and Means subcommittee stressed that many of the questioned claims may be deemed legitimate after further examination. But the hearing raised a yellow flag as Congress considers whether to extend, or even expand, the popular program ..." Snerdley, is that a program where they actually get a check? "The top Republican on the panel, Representative Charles W. Boustany Jr. of Louisiana, said that while the issue of extending the credit was not the purpose of the hearing, 'every time Congress creates a new refundable credit ... the incentive for fraud is magnified.'" They get a check. That's why I think... These people, it's not something you check off on your income tax. These people are getting a check for eight grand! "Hi. I'm from the government. I'm buying your vote. Here's eight grand."
 Story #2: Condom Update: DC Kids Say Sex-Ed is Antiquated
RUSH: You know, back in the old days when we had condom news, we played Up, Up and Away by the Fifth Dimension as our condom update theme, but time is precious here, and I'm just going to give you the story, this is a story out of Washington. "Participants in a survey of DC public high school students say their sex education is antiquated, and they don't trust school nurses. The survey conducted by the Youth Sexual History Project for the DC Council's health committee was reviewed at a hearing Wednesday. It consisted of 10 focus groups totaling about 250 students. Researchers say the small sample size doesn't represent the views of all 12,000 DC high school students." Well, then why the hell report anything? Why report anything if the sample doesn't represent -- how do they know that? How do they even know that?
Anyway, here's the meat of the story, if you will. "Students often passed up free condoms at school because they thought the brand of condoms was more likely to break. Students said they preferred other brands." Well, how about some of you students rejecting the brand of American history they're teaching you and demand something else? They thought the brand of condoms was more likely to break? When you get into sex education in schools, the kids always know more than the stupid teachers do about it. The teachers have no clue what the kids -- Ha, ha! I love this! I absolutely love it.
Story #3: Major Garrett of Fox News Alive Despite Swine Flu
RUSH: By the way, I'm surprised Major Garrett's alive. Did you know that Major Garrett had swine flu last week? And he's still alive! I don't know if he got a vaccine or not, but I know he knows how to sneeze right because he was there when Kathleen Sebelius demonstrated how to put snot on your sleeve instead of in a Kleenex. Congratulations, Major Garrett, he's still on the right side of the grass.
Story #4: Anita Dunn's Husband Top Contender for WH Counsel
RUSH: You ever heard of a guy named Bob Bauer? Bob Bauer is a top lawyer for the Democrat National Committee and personal lawyer to President Obama and his chief campaign counsel. He is emerging as a top candidate to replace Greg Craig as White House counsel. This is Major Garrett on his Fox blog. Also, Bob Bauer happens to be the husband of Anita Dunn. Yeah, Anita Dunn, whose favorite philosopher is Mao Tse-tung.
Story #5: Michelle Malkin Idea: Celebrate Obama's Halloween
RUSH: Dawn, I hate to break it to you, but your idea on Halloween is not original. Dawn had the idea of having an Obama Halloween, in which we take kids' candy and redistribute it to needy kids. But I have the evidence here. Michelle Malkin on her website last year in 2008 had a cartoon called "Happy Obamaween", and it is a guy at a front door taking kids' candy from their bags. Now, the idea was still original to Dawn because she had not seen the cartoon on the Michelle Malkin website, but this program does not steal. When we know that something's out there in the public domain and when we find out if we've had used it, we credit it. If we don't find out we don't, because we can't, but the minute we find out we do.
Story #6: "Hogwash!" Mike Pence Disputes Politico Story
RUSH: By the way, I want to thank Mike Pence, Republican congressman from Indiana. The Politico this week ran a two-day series on what horrible shape the Republican Party is in, and the second installment claimed that serious Republican leaders are very, very, very upset being defined by commentators on talk radio, such as by me. The Politico said that over 20 Republican leaders, "What do we do? What do we do? This is horrible. What Limbaugh and these guys are saying is really hemming us in here."
And Mike Pence, "chairman of the House Republican Conference says it’s 'hogwash' that GOP leaders are worried about what Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Party movement are doing to their party’s image. … 'You know, the American people cherish their freedom of speech and a free and independent press. That's why I found this morning's headlines so troubling,' Pence said Thursday. 'Goaded on by a White House increasingly intolerant of criticism, lately the national media has taken aim at conservative commentators.'" It's "hogwash."
Story #7: NY Times Behind White House War with Fox News
RUSH: The New York Times has finally found out what is behind the war between the White House and Fox, and it turns out it's the New York Times. "Behind the War Between White House and Fox," a story by Jim Rutenberg. It talks about a secret meeting between Axelrod and Ailes. I knew about the secret meeting. It took place at the Palm steakhouse in New York during the United Nations week, before the Palm steakhouse opened up. Ailes asked for it because he didn't like what the White House was doing, he didn't like the tension that was brewing between the White House and Fox News Channel.
"By the following weekend, officials at the White House had decided that if anything, it was time to take the relationship to an even more confrontational level. The spur: Executives at other news organizations, including The New York Times, had publicly said that their newsrooms had not been fast enough in following stories that Fox News, to the administration’s chagrin, had been heavily covering through the summer and early fall -- namely, past statements and affiliations of the White House adviser Van Jones that ultimately led to his resignation and questions surrounding the community activist group ACORN."
So the White House attack came after State-Run Media's flagship, the New York Times, admitted to Obama favoring malpractice by burying ACORN and Van Jones and all of his wacko friends' stories. The State-Controlled Media could no longer ignore it, and when that happened that's when the White House blew up. And that's not news. That's when the White House blew up and started going after Fox. So it is exactly as theorized here, the whole reason for approaching Fox is because they have the audacity to expose who Obama really is by virtue of these close associate pals of his, because he is Van Jones; he is ACORN; he is Anita Dunn.
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