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November 20, 2009 |
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Story #1: Oprah Ends Show, Leaves Chicago. Daley Rips Press
 RUSH: The Oprah, ladies and gentlemen, is leaving Chicago. She's not just quitting her TV show. She's gonna quit her show in September of 2011 and she's going to announce it on her show today, but she's also leaving Chicago. Mayor Daley is upset about it. Mayor Daley is blaming the media for forcing The Oprah out of Chicago. Apparently during her season premiere week in September, they shut down the Miracle Mile up there for a while, it caused all kinds of traffic snafus and other problems. The Oprah reimbursed the city for all that was shut down, but apparently The Oprah took a lot of heat, and Mayor Daley is blaming the media. But Oprah, she's going to start a cable network, and she wants it based in Los Angeles, not Chicago. She said, "Why would anybody stay in Chicago? It's freezing here, and I have a mansion in Montecito that I haven't been able to enjoy." I don't know why The Oprah is bailing. It's 25 years, maybe there's a magic number.
Judge Judy, that show is getting higher ratings than The Oprah. Yeah, it did recently. I think also, you know, when all else is failing you go to cable, and she wants to do her own cable network. I'm not going to speculate on this, I have no idea. I'll wait for her pronouncement to see if she explains why. Other than that it would just be idle speculation. What do you think? You obviously have a theory. Why do you think The Oprah is packing it in a year from now? (asking Snerdley) Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You people in the audience do not know what it's like to be me. You all think you want to be me but you do not know what it's like to be surrounded by my staff. They are the finest, most underworked people you will ever find, sometimes overrated, but nevertheless their loyalty is just over the top. For example, Snerdley thinks that I'm the reason The Oprah quit.
Snerdley believes that I have far more impact and power over things happening in the country than I ever would think I have. I don't even contemplate that. It's not even part of my makeup. Snerdley thinks -- and I disagree with this, but I tell you this to show you how hard it is for me to keep a level head. A lot of people in my position would be walking around with head and ears bigger than Obama's. If I believed everything my staff told me about me I would need to drill a giant hole in the wall because I wouldn't be able to fit in the door to get in here. So yesterday I made mention of the fact that Sarah Palin got Oprah her highest ratings in two years. But it was not comfortable because Oprah got creamed by her own audience when it was announced, she got creamed in e-mails and phone calls and so forth. Her audience didn't want to hear Sarah Palin, didn't want to see Sarah Palin, and The Oprah is not used to that kind of criticism.
The Oprah is one of these media people that gets constant adulation, adoration, and love built up living on a pedestal, goddess-like. That has been the rarefied air in which The Oprah has lived. People who don't get the kind of criticism from their own audience, and perhaps other political quarters, that The Oprah got on this, if they're not used to it, they don't know how to deal with it. So Snerdley's theory is that that criticism, not that I had anything to do with it by mentioning it -- that The Oprah, the numbers aren't there, and now she's getting creamed and complained at, bitched at by her own audience, that's not the world that she's been living in. That's another aspect. Now she needs conservatives to build her audience. Oh, not good. If she needs conservatives to build her audience she's gonna become distant from her own cocktail crowd circuit and so forth, they're not going to be happy about that. So a number of factors here, folks, and they all could be relevant in their own way.
Story #2: There's a Market for Used Fat? People are Stealing It!
RUSH: What is this I just saw? From Lima, Peru, it's Lima, Ohio, but Lima, Peru. A gang accused of killing to sell human fat for cosmetics. Who knew? There's a free market for used fat out there.
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Story #3: Read Steve Forbes' Book: Capitalism Will Save Us
 RUSH: It seems like everybody's got a book out there. I was just walking out at the top-of-the-hour break and see Snerdley in his office, John Gibson's got a book, John Gibson, Fox News Radio, Fox News Channel. And this week -- I really want to suggest this one to you -- Steve Forbes has sent me a copy of his book: "How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy." I'm saddened that this is necessary, but it's kind of like these books on the power of positive thinking. You gotta keep reading 'em. You forget how to think positive. We're in such an educational decline that the real engine that made this the greatest country in the history of human civilization is not being taught, it's being maligned, it's being impugned, it's under assault, it's under attack. And Steve's book, he wrote it with Elizabeth Ames, and it is not in any kind of wonk language or economist-speak that you can't understand. It's just as straight down the line layperson language.
I'll show it to you people watching on the Dittocam. It's got a very, very strikingly bold yellow cover. It's called How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy. So while you're out there trying to thumb through Palin's book without buying it -- I know how you people are in the bookstores -- pick up a copy of Steve's because it is good, and Thomas Sowell has a bunch of great books on economics. I know. And Sowell has -- I can't wait for this one -- he's got one coming in January on the elites, the intellectual class and what they have done to American culture, American education, and American politics. That's going to be a biggie.
Story #4: Oops! Swine Flu Down, But Beware Thanksgiving!
RUSH: Well, well, well, well, well! Looky here! It looks like the old swine flu is not cooperating, folks. From the State-Controlled Associated Press medical division: "Health officials say the swine flu appears to be declining through most of the United State, but," the obligatory BUT "the specter of Thanksgiving gatherings makes it hard to predict what will happen next." (Gasp!) Just when they tell us it's okay to come out of the closet. Heh-heh! "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that reports of swine flu illnesses were widespread in 43 states last week, down from 46 the week before." This is another example of good news that the left will not widely disseminate via the State-Controlled Media. Now, folks, we had a story earlier this week that along with this, they say there's a new strain of "rhinovirus;" which for those of you in Rio Linda is not about rhinoceroses. It's about the nose. It's a cold, the common cold virus.
It's out there, and it's confusing people because it starts out much like the swine flu does. A lot of colds do. A lot of people think they've got the flu when they've got a cold. Here's how you find out. There's one way, off the top of my head, to find out if it is a cold and you will be thanking me. Get Zicam! It's a big orange box, found anywhere. There are two different ways to take it, either one, whichever one you like. They got lozenges, Liqui-Lozenges, different flavors and so forth. If you catch it early -- the moment you get the scratchy throat, the sniffles, whatever, the watery eyes, whatever you think it is -- take it and keep taking it, every three hours, whatever the directions say. And if it's a cold, the duration will be much shorter and the severity will be much less. And if it doesn't happen then you may have the flu, but there is a new strain of common cold virus out there. Zicam won't zap it. I don't want to create unrealistic expectations, but it will certainly shorten the duration and the severity. You gotta catch it early.
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