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December 8, 2009 |
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Story #1: Why Not Name Every Storm, Not Just Hurricanes?
RUSH: I got an idea. Global warming is causing all these weird weather -- the climate change, right? Climate change is causing all these weird weather things like this unusually early snowfall in places like Houston, and now we've got this winter storm tearing up the Midwest and heading east. And it's been suggested to me that we ought to start naming these storms just like we name hurricanes. Global warming snowstorm Algore could be this first one. And we'll eventually get to global warming snowstorm Obama. It's a great idea to start naming these storms after these guys. They're the ones that claim these storms are happening because of climate change. We'll work on that.
 Story #2: Obama "Job Creation": Window Retrofitting Rebates
RUSH: Oh, yeah, more Obama job creation: rebates for retrofitting windows in your home for energy efficiency. Whoopee.
Story #3: Marist Poll: President's Approval Rating Drops to 46%
RUSH: Well, there's a new poll out on President Obama's approval. It's the Marist poll, and they have his job approval plummeting to 46%. Gallup has it at 47%.
Story #4: Study: Newspapers Don't Affect Composition of Vote
RUSH: This is from ChicagoBooth.edu: "The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics." This is from the faculty at this school, and actually, this comes from the National Bureau of Economic Research. "We use new data on entries and exits of US daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004 to estimate effects on political participation, party vote shares, and electoral competitiveness. Our identification strategy exploits the precise timing of these events and allows --" let me skip with the gibberish. To sum this up, you have a study here done by Ivy Leaguers who find that newspapers do not affect the composition of the vote since the introduction of radio and then television. In other words, for a very, very long time, newspapers have only a very small influence on the size of the vote, and I would say that's even more true today since there are fewer newspapers, and since the newspapers that exist have fewer and fewer readers.
Story #5: Liberal Group Puts Bounty on Commerce Boss
RUSH: "Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue is a wanted man -- at least according to the liberal activist group that's put a de facto bounty on his head. A network of liberal groups known as Velvet Revolution started an ad campaign offering $200,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man whose trade organization has become a thorn in the side of the Obama administration and congressional Democrats. The group is not leveling any specific charges of criminal behavior. Rather, it is casting a wide net, fishing for any whistleblowers from Donohue's past who might come forward with allegations of wrongdoing. ... The Chamber of Commerce, meanwhile, decried the ad campaign and threatened possible legal action. 'The media should be following the money trail behind this scurrilous group instead of giving credence to its outrageous tactics -- and we are considering legal options with the ad,' said the Chamber spokesman."
The guy that runs this Velvet Revolution, is a guy named Kevin Zeese, and he's described on Wikipedia as an American political activist who's been a leader in the drug policy reform and peace movements and in efforts to insure a voter verified paper audit trail. He was on the ballot as a nominee of the Maryland Green Party for a US Senate seat during the 2006 election. He got one-and-a-half percent of the total vote. Born in New York City in 1955, grew up in Queens, where he attended public school. His younger brother, Kyle, proved to be a huge influence. He received a bachelor's degree from State University of New York at Buffalo and graduated from George Washington University law school in 1980. So he's just a typical activist and casting a wide net for any damaging information on the head of the Chamber of Commerce.
This is not your traditional Republican Party versus Democrat Party political period. We now have the active attempt to dismantle the capitalist system and to criminalize those who are predominant in the free market, to criminalize their behavior. You think he's buds with Valerie Jarrett? Oh, you wonder if he's buds. Well don't speculate like that and make me say it. That's why you don't have a microphone. We don't know that he knows Valerie Jarrett. You just put it out there and you made me say that he might know Valerie Jarrett. We don't know that. I thought you said he did know. Now, we don't know that he knows Valerie Jarrett. We don't know that he knows Jeremiah Wright. We don't know that he knows Tiger Woods. He could know all three.
Story #6: Faulty Date: Swine Flu Was Not National Emergency
RUSH: Look at this! Looky here! "Swine flu far less severe in latest calculations." Hoax and Change. You mean to tell me after all of this -- remember Kathleen Sebelius? "You must take the vaccine, you must do this. We've got a national pandemic on the way here." You mean to tell me now that swine flu was not a national emergency? Hoax and change. Faulty data seems to be a theme these days, whether it's about jobs created or saved, whether it's about global warming, whether it's about Obamacare being deficit neutral or swine flu deaths. President Obama seems to deal exclusively in lies. "The calculations represent a marked reduction from an August report by the President's Council of Advisories on Science and Technology." Well, hubba hubba! There's no swine flu problem. Whoa.
Story #7: Cancer Rates Continue to Fall in the United States
RUSH: "US Cancer Rates Continue their Decline -- Fewer people are getting cancer and death rates continue to fall, according to the latest report on cancer in the United States, released on Monday. New diagnoses for all types of cancer fell by almost 1 percent per year on average from 1999 to 2006." It's dropping about like the temperature is globally. "Deaths fell 1.6 percent per year from 2001 to 2006, the National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." Now, remember, these are the same people that told us there's a swine flu epidemic. Now, my question here: how is this happening? How is this happening? We've got the worst health care in the world, it's unfair; it's unjust; it's immoral. How in the world can this great news possibly be happening if the current state of our health delivery system is as in a shambles as President Obama says it is? And we learned recently that if you're a woman and you want to get a mammogram, every other year.
Story #8: Liberals Working to Reduce Cancer Screenings
RUSH: Now, men, it's your turn. This is from Reuters: "The number of prostate cancers diagnosed in UK men each year would jump from 30,000 to 160,000 if the country introduced population-wide screening for the disease, new research shows. However, many of those cancers are low-risk and may not lead to death. Something similar happened in the United States in the mid-1990s, when giving men prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests to detect the disease became standard practice ... 'There was an epidemic of prostate cancer in America,' he said. 'The number of cases virtually tripled in five years.'" They weren't that bad. So now prostate cancer tests are going to be reduced along with mammograms. No more screening for men and women as the health care -- before the whole thing is even been implemented these changes are being suggested and made.
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