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October 31, 2008 |
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Story #1: The Obama Way: Authoritarianism on the March
RUSH: There's a story today in the paper. Hugo Chavez is doing the same thing to the media in Venezuela. This is an authoritarian on the march -- and, by the way, we mentioned this at the top of the program. This is who Obama is. Look at his friends. Look at his alliances. That's why they're important. They shut up opponents. Look at Obama's electoral experience. He gets rid of opponents before they can even oppose him in a race. These people play for keeps. This is authoritarianism. Okay, so you have three newspapers: The New York Post, the Dallas Morning News, and Washington Times were kicked off the Obama campaign plane today 'cause they've endorsed McCain. Joe the Plumber -- an average, ordinary hardly wealthy guy -- was investigated by Democrats using Ohio state government computers. And you're right about the anchor down in Florida, not only taken off the interview list, her husband was targeted for harassment because he's a Republican. They're going to eventually come after anybody with power who opposes them, if they have unfettered control of the government.
 Story #2: Earnings Plummet for Papers Endorsing Obama
RUSH: Remember all these newspapers, many newspapers that have endorsed Obama are seeing their earnings plummet. Layoffs are exceeding the national average by a gazillion percent. The Washington Post's earnings are down 86%. The New York Times has been rated "junk" by Standard & Poor's. The Los Angeles Times is headed in the same direction. It refuses to report the news. Good riddance to the Drive-By, propaganda-driven media. Newspapers endorsing Obama: Earnings plummet.
Story #3: Attractiveness Matters When Electing Women?
RUSH: I saw something on television here just mere moments ago that I do not believe. A study says that women's candidates' looks are more important than a male candidate's looks. That cannot possibly be true. All you have to do is look at elected Democrat females to throw that one out. If looks matter in electing women, most of these current Democrat babes would not have won office. I have to throw that in. This is an attack on Palin.
Story #4: Murtha Sends Out SOS: William Russell Winning
RUSH: Murtha's asked for a million-dollar campaign donation. He's in trouble. Jack Murtha's in trouble in his "racist" "redneck" district, quote Jack Murtha, unquote, near Johnstown. He's in trouble. There's a lot going on here that the Drive-Bys are not reporting because they've been swept up in all that we have learned here from the inside Obama campaign that the entire campaign has been to create an illusion. The entire campaign has been to create an illusion -- starting with skewing pollsters and co-opting the Drive-By Media -- to make it look like this is a fait accompli from the get-go. And this is why in the past week to ten days, I've made the point repeatedly here, not to fall prey to what you see on television and read in the dwindling editions of newspapers that are out there. Here's Murtha.
"'We need to raise another $1 million to compete,' his campaign fundraiser Susan O'Neill wrote in the e-mail obtained by The Hill. 'We need money immediately.' O'Neill blamed Republicans from outside Pennsylvania for Murtha’s problems." Of course, the left never blames themselves for their problems, but Murtha has sent out a last-minute plea. By the way, his opponent's name, for those of you in Murtha's district, is William Russell. William Russell is opposing Jack Murtha. He's a 46-year-old Iraq war vet. He's a retired Army colonel. He has outraised Murtha so far. "As of Oct. 15, William Russell had raised $2.9 million compared to Murtha's $2.2 million." Murtha is begging for money! This is delightful.
Story #5: MIT Scientists Baffled by Global Warming Theory
RUSH: A great story today: "Scientists at MIT have recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide increase in methane levels. This is the first increase in ten years, and what baffles science is that this data contradicts theories stating man is the primary source of increase for this greenhouse gas." Scientists are baffled. The world is warming without increased manmade activity!
Story #6: Is California Really Poised to Reject Gay Marriage?
RUSH: One little poll. I can't believe this. I will believe in divine intervention if this happens. "Californians appear poised to support the right to same-sex marriage when they go to the polls on Tuesday, but support for a ballot measure to ban the practice has increased." In other words, the poll shows there are Californians, if you read the whole story, growing opposed to gay marriage.
Now, California, you would think of all the states, like New York, California's got to be in the bag for Obama, wouldn't you? Well, it probably would be, except for one thing. This Proposition 8 has people more fired up in California than the presidential race does, and Obama's running ads out there in order to deal with the turnout, the Republican turnout coming out on Proposition 8. Proposition 8 next Tuesday would change the "California Constitution to eliminate right of same-sex couples to marry." It would limit marriage to male-female couples. The polling on Prop 8 is leading, and this has the Democrats in a tizzy. They can't quite figure this out.
So Obama is running all kinds of ads out there to gin up turnout because all these Republicans are showing up apparently to vote on Proposition 8. Now, on October 29th, there was a story from the Santa Cruz Sentinel. The mayor of San Francisco, Gavin "Nuisance," he went up to UC Santa Cruz "to urge hundreds of students to vote against it," and here's what Mayor Nuisance said. "If voters approve Prop. 8, which would define marriage in California as the exclusive right of one man and one woman, Newsom said it could open the doors for those who oppose interracial marriage to place a proposition on the ballot further limiting who can legally wed. 'It wasn't that long ago,' he said, that women and minorities had few rights, and it took hard-fought social movements to reverse them."
So he's trying to scare people in California: "Look, if Prop 8 passes, it's not going to be long before these racist hicks ban interracial marriage as well," which, of course, is BS. But this is how tight this thing is in the state of California; and that's why Obama is still spending some money out there.
Story #7: Proposed Auto Industry Bailout is a Union Bailout
RUSH: Remember how we needed this bailout, or we were finished? We had to have it tomorrow. Now cities are asking for money, states are asking for money, California and New York. The auto companies are asking for money. And, by the way, I'm going to take up for the auto companies on this, and I've got some backup, by the way. A guy named Steven Pearlstein was on CNBC last night and he said General Motors cars are much better made, they're doing great, they've made some changes, but what this really is, this proposed bailout of the GM-Chrysler merger is a union bailout, it is a bailout that would enable General Motors to meet all the union requirements. This is an economist, by the way, Steven Pearlstein is, wrote a column in the Washington Post on Wednesday, but he's an economist extraordinaire, and he was on with Kudlow on CNBC last night, and he said the United Auto Workers bailout is a reverse of free market capitalism, and we had Jack Welch yesterday saying, "You look at the three most troubled industries in America today, and you'll find that they're all unionized." He was talking about the dangers posed by Obama's Employee Free Choice Act, which is just the exact opposite.
Story #8: Mortgage Plan May Irk Those It Doesn't Help
RUSH: The New York Times: "Mortgage Plan May Aid Many and Irk Others." Get this. This bailout, what a joke. You know what I'm enjoying? I don't like we got the bailout. So many people, including some on our side were so insistent we needed the bailout, we had to do it, we had to do it, we had to do it, and now that we see what it's being used for, which we warned them, now they're acting shocked, conservatives acting shocked that government would lie about what they're going to do with money that they appropriate or print. I'll tell you, I don't know when it started but this intellectual movement on the conservative side to believe in a big, interactive, compassionate government, somebody's gotta get these people heads together and knock sense into them. I don't know when this happened; I don't know how it happened; it's not good. So many conservatives thinking this is as an executive with Big Government, that we're in charge of, that reaches out to certain people that we need to help, show that we have compassion. Then when we do that and the government starts making all these stupid moves and the banks don't lend the money and they start rewarding the shareholders themselves, "Oh, this is not what we --" what did you think was going to happen?
So here we go: "As the Treasury Department prepares a $40 billion program to help delinquent homeowners avoid foreclosure, it confronts a difficult challenge: not making the plan too tempting to people like Todd Lawrence. An airline pilot who lives outside Norwich, Conn., Mr. Lawrence has a traditional 30-year mortgage that he has no trouble paying every month. But, thanks to the plunging real estate market, he owes more on his house than it is worth, like millions of other people. If the banks, which frequently lent irresponsibly, and many homeowners, who often borrowed irresponsibly, are getting government assistance, Mr. Lawrence says he believes sober souls like himself are also due a break. 'Why am I being punished for having bought a house I could afford?' he asked. 'I am beginning to think I would have rocks in my head if I keep paying my mortgage.'"
This is a guy whose legal, legit, got a mortgage he could afford, he sees everybody else being bailed out, said, "Why the hell should I not get bailed out?" We could have all seen this coming. "Washington and Wall Street are frantically seeking to stabilize markets by curtailing the onslaught of foreclosures. There are now at least four major plans to aid homeowners. But experts say it is difficult to design these programs in ways that reduce the indebtedness of the distressed without giving everyone else a reason to mail the keys back to their lenders." You know, I want to use the "n-s-s" phrase. No kidding, Sherlock, no kidding. Ask a beat cop, when you start giving things away, all of a sudden people who don't even live where you're giving it away hear about it and show up. I'll tell you what I'm going to do, I'm going to go out and I'm going to buy another mansion on the ocean, there's one for sale, I'm going to get a mortgage and not pay it. What's to stop people doing this? Well, not that, but I mean this guy's got a point.
"Michael H. Krimminger, special adviser for policy at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which is working with Treasury on the latest plan, 'This is not about trying to create fairness. The goal is to keep people in their houses.'" That will surprise a lot of even our conservative intellectuals who think this is all about fairness. "Still, he acknowledged, 'a lot of people are angry because they feel some people are getting something they don't deserve.'"
They are! And a whole hell of a lot more are going to start getting a lot they don't deserve. But on the other end of the scale, if Obama is elected, we're all going to get the hose. We're going to get a lot of stuff we don't deserve, like tax increases. This just infuriates me. Everybody with a brain on our side used to know that this is exactly what's going to happen when you start bailing people out.
Story #9: Joe Biden Told Us All This Would Happen
RUSH: "The world faces a growing risk of conflict over the next 20 to 30 years amid an unprecedented transfer of wealth and power from West to East, the US intelligence chief has said. Michael McConnell, the director of national intelligence, predicted rising demand for scarce supplies of food and fuel, strategic competition over new technologies, and the spread of weapons of mass destruction." How can this be? We are four days away from electing The Messiah! Wait, I forgot, Biden told us all this was going to happen. Biden told us that the little squirrel was going to get tested and make the wrong move and then beg for loyal support. Growing risk of conflict over the next 20 to 30 years, unprecedented transfer of wealth and power from West to East? We're the West! We are the West. Who are we transferring our power to? Transfer of wealth and power from West to East? Anyway, it's going to be bad out there, folks. So all you Obama supporters expecting utopia -- he-he-he-he -- get ready for the draft. Wouldn't that be ironic? Obama and Ayers and his anti-Vietnam buddies reinstituting the draft. It would be delicious, it would be ironic and delicious as it can be and they're probably going to have to because who's going to want to volunteer and serve this guy in the military?
Story #10: Erica Jong and Jane Fonda Having Back Trouble
RUSH: Matt Drudge just posted recently here a story we had for you yesterday: Erica Jong telling Italians that if Obama loses, it "will spark the Second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets." We had this story yesterday, but I wanted to remind you here what Erica Jong said. She said, "The record shows that voting machines in America are rigged. Yesterday, Jane Fonda sent me an e-mail to tell me that she cried all night. She cannot cure her ailing back for all the stress that has reduced her to a bundle of nerves." Jane, stay off your back! Try that. Erica Jong says that her back is also suffering from spasms. Both of you, try staying off your backs. It works sometimes. Not every time it's tried, but it does work sometimes.
Story #11: NFL: Rush to See Pats-Colts, Maybe Steelers-Skins
RUSH: I'll be in Indianapolis Sunday for the Patriots-Colts, and maybe Washington Monday night for Steelers-Redskins. I'll be back Monday, though. See you then.
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