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Story #1: Age of Insanity: ABC Nixes Skywriting to Limit CO2
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I said yesterday that I felt like I'm living in a nightmare. I desperately want to wake up and find out that that's true. But I have now learned, I went to bed and I woke up and it was not a nightmare. We are living in the age of insanity. Listen to this. ABC has a new TV series that they're going to put out there, is it a series called V and it's premiering on November 3rd. It's an alien invasion drama. They have scrapped an ambitious plan to cover the skies of major cities with giant red Vs, via a skywriting airplane.
"The network was readying to employ skywriters to promote the show above 26 U.S. landmarks -- such as the Statue of Liberty, Fenway Park and Santa Monica Pier. After THR broke the marketing story, Washington Post reporter Lisa de Moraes wrote a column estimating the amount of pollution the skywriting campaign would cause (800 grams of lead, three tons of CO2, etc), and noted ABC's parent company Disney had recently promised to cut its fuel emissions in half by 2012. Giant red 'V's in the sky might have also freaked a few people out. An ABC spokesperson said network has simply decided to spend its money in other ways." I mean, this is the age of insanity, the age of insanity. We have a Washington Post reporter who is calculating the emissions in skywriting? How is it they never calculate the emissions in a volcanic eruption, i.e., Mt. Pinatubo.
 Story #2: Stimulus Jobs Emerge as Issue in NY-23 Race
RUSH: I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the copy of today's Watertown Daily News. It's in NY-23. Headline: "'Stimulus Emerges as Issue in 23rd Race.' The federal economic stimulus has poured about $100 million into the 23rd Congressional District, but has saved or created only about 200 jobs, by government estimates."
Now, this is a great illustration of what a bunch of sheep the media are. There's no way to calculate saved jobs, but Obama puts it out there and that becomes part of the template, there's probably a macro of keystrokes that print it out for them. Stimulus on the scene.
Story #3: Wall Street Wizards of Smart Figure Out Phony GDP
RUSH: Boy, the markets are plunging. NASDAQ is down 45, the Standard & Poor index down 25. Dow Jones, minus 215. We're having a round trip. We were up 200-something yesterday, down today, what do you think it is, Snerdley? What do you think it is? I think what it is is that the wizards of smart on Wall Street finally figured out what I knew yesterday and that is that GDP number, which drove it all up yesterday was fraudulent, fake, phony, and a lie, and now the fake jobs created or saved, the details on what kind of jobs. Consumer spending down like crazy, deficit at an all-time high, down 215 points as of right now. Stand by.
Story #4: Obama Stimulus Package is Saving Marriages
RUSH: Story from Reuters: "Financial woes often drive couples apart but the current recession seems to be having the opposite effect, with fewer couples able to afford the cost of a divorce." And I think the Obama administration is preparing to announce -- don't know what the figure is going to be, the Commerce Department's working on it right now, Health and Human Services, number of marriages saved because of the stimulus package, which is wrecking the economy.
"The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) said more than half of the respondents to its latest survey among its 1,600 members had cited a drop in divorce filings during the current recession which has cut jobs, salaries and house prices. In total, 57 percent of the attorneys noted fewer divorce filings since the last quarter of 2008. ... 'Forced to weigh damaged marriages against tight budgets and uncertain financial outlooks, many spouses seem more willing to try and wait out the recessionary storm.'"
This, as I say, from Reuters. So the Obama administration is preparing statistics to show how many marriages have also been saved. And here's the practical result for women. When you find out that your husbands have been screwing 20-year-old interns at ESPN, you're not going to be able to divorce 'em because the guy's not going to have enough money to pay you what you genuinely deserve. So you're going to have to hang in there and be miserable, look for a job in the Obama economy, and wait 'til the recession ends, if it ever does, and then go the divorce route. In the meantime, you gotta watch your husband continue to go through phony sex rehab after screwing interns at ESPN, or wherever he's screwing interns, and Obama will be taking credit for this sometime next week, I am told.
Story #5: Reuters: Thank Heavens for the Economic Downturn?
RUSH: Here's the latest from Reuters: "It seems the financial crisis isn't all doom and gloom: one in four people are glad the world's economy slumped like it did, because it helped them realize their priorities in life, according to a global survey. Market research firm Synovate polled around 11,400 people across the world." I wish I were good enough with figures to understand what percentage of six billion 11,400 is. I want to know the margin of error on this worldwide poll.
"Market research firm Synovate polled around 11,400 people across the world and found more than half had permanently changed their attitudes toward money over the last 12 months." Well, maybe those people are made up of those who think they don't need money now because the government's going to take care of them. "Another 47 percent, however, said they were looking forward to being able to spend freely again." Well, good. Some people are still alive. Twenty-five percent are glad the economy slumped. Let me tell you something. If you're going to say this, if you're gonna put out a poll saying 25% of the people are happy the economy is slumped, you gotta credit Bush because Obama and everybody are blaming him. Hee, hee, hee.
Story #6: Virginia Voters No Longer Under Obama's Spell
RUSH: In rural Virginia -- this is from Public Policy Polling -- and remember they're a lib bunch, they're in North Carolina. "Here is perhaps the most amazing stat on the Virginia Governor's race. This week last year we found Barack Obama trailing John McCain 63-31 with rural whites in Virginia. We have Creigh Deeds trailing Bob McDonnell 68-29 with that group." I'm reading from their blog post. "Obama, the black guy from Chicago, was running seven points better with rural whites than Deeds, the white guy from Bath County. These numbers would seem to indicate the much maligned Deeds Country tour in August was very necessary- it just wasn't very effective. That's nowhere near Deeds' worst problem- that would be his running 33 points behind Obama in suburbia- but it does sort of encapsulate his troubles getting off the ground." It just goes to show that last year at this time everybody was under a spell. A lot of people were under a spell, and now they aren't.
Story #7: TIME Inc. to Cut $100 Million, Lay Off More Journalists
RUSH: How about Gibbs? Robert Gibbs is out there telling Bill Plante, "What you need to do out there, Bill, is go put 50 cents in the box, pull the lever, and get a newspaper out of there." Newspaper? Who reads newspapers anymore? I have here a story about TIME Magazine: "Signaling that worse times are ahead for magazines, Time Inc. is expected to announce next week that it will cut $100 million from costs, including another big round of layoffs." That means journalists.
"Time Inc., the publisher of magazines like Time, Fortune, and People, has already cut costs drastically: a year ago, it announced it was dismissing 6 percent of its work force, or about 600 people. The timing is coordinated with the third-quarter earnings announcement from its parent company, Time Warner, sources said. That is scheduled for Wednesday morning. ... But that was apparently not enough to make up for revenue declines. The $100 million in costs is expected to come largely from layoffs, said sources, who asked to remain anonymous as they were not authorized to discuss the matter. ... A number of Time Inc. employees are covered by a union contract, which mandates severance in case of layoffs. Employees of Time, Sports Illustrated, People, Money, Fortune and Fortune Small Business are covered by agreements with the Newspaper Guild of America." You always find a union in these messes, don't you?
Now, I wonder how these journalists are feeling about hope and change these days. These journalists that work at TIME Inc., I wonder how they feel about this hope and change. I predict to you that there will be a bailout of newspapers. Small town newspapers to start, but I predict to you that there will be a bailout of media at some point.
Story #8: Even at Gawker, They Don't Buy So-Called Recovery
RUSH: And Gawker… Gawker is a leftist gay gossip site. I don't believe this little bit was posted there. "'America Scared to Tell Wife It's Unemployed, Just Sits in Park All Day.' -- The Way We Live Now: In secret shame. We walk around in public acting like the recession is finally over. But look in your dirty closet, America! Our fanciest corporations are undercover paupers. Our homeless are disappearing. Into the void! Sure it's so great to watch as the US economy 'Roars to life,' as the media puts it, in a lie. What is really roaring? Profits at Exxon, the most profitable of profitmaking enterprises ever undertaken for the purpose of profiteering, is down by 68%," and Versace, they're laying off a quarter of the staff. Where is this so-called recovery? Even at Gawker they don't buy it.
Story #9: Swine Flu Closes 157 Michigan Schools; Kids Starve
RUSH: Swine flu has closed 157 Michigan schools, according to the Detroit News, 157 schools in Michigan closed. Somebody needs to call Kathleen Sebelius and ask her, "Are the kids that go to these schools, are they starving?" Because they said she wasn't going to close these schools because then the children wouldn't have lunch. Well, are they starving?
Story #10: Our Own Thought Experiment on Andrew Revkin
RUSH: Oh, yeah. Andrew Revkin of the New York Times, I keep forgetting to bring this up. Let me see if I can squeeze this in here real quick. Andrew Revkin in the New York Times said the law should be used to pressure couples into having only one child. He was talking about carbon footprints, and if people are big polluters, then have fewer people. And I said, well, okay, if this is what you really think -- he said he was engaging in a thought experiment, he wasn't really advocating it. What's the difference? And I said, well, look, if that's what you want to do, then show us. You guys always tell us what everybody else ought to do. We should not have kids, we shouldn't do that, we shouldn't drive this, we shouldn't drive that. Why don't you show us how it's done, I said just go die. Well, he got profoundly offended. He said he's gotten hate mail. He said that I should apologize to him and his family. His older son is a regular listener, currently serving in the Israeli military. Mr. Revkin, for crying out loud, I'm making a point. I'm not advocating death. I do not advocate death on this program. I do not advocate control over anybody else's life. And all these people out there trying to exert control over ours is starting to bubble over in me.
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