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Story #1: Oprah Experiencing Obama Backlash
RUSH: "Oprah Winfrey's recent campaign swing with Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama was greeted with wild cheers and record-breaking crowds." It might have been a Democrat record-breaking crowd, but it wasn't a record-breaking crowd. Twenty-nine thousand people at that football stadium; El Rushbo, drew 40,000 in Puyallup, Washington, for a statewide candidate running for governor, John Carlson. That's record-breaking. But, besides the point. "Some of Oprah's fans are not happy that she's become politically outspoken. Many are sounding off on her website. One of them says, 'Oprah, count me as tuned out for now.' Another one says, 'It's a real turnoff for a lot of your fans.' Another one wrote, 'She's crossed the line and lost my trust completely.' But what's especially interesting about reading Oprah's website is why some of those fans seem to be upset. The way she stumped for Obama, they say, seemed to pit white against black. 'I've been inspired to believe that a new vision is possible for America,' Oprah said while on the stump with Obama. 'Dr. King dreamed a dream, we get to vote that dream into reality.' But back on her website, one commenter wrote, 'Winfrey has artfully begun her stump speeches alongside Obama with a negative racial tone.' Another commenter wrote, 'Don't pit blacks against whites.'"
You know what the most amazing thing is to me about this? Not the black versus white, but that people think Oprah is not political! Just because she's with a candidate for the first time means this is the first time she's political? Oprah Winfrey is as political as anybody in the Drive-By Media! See, this is how ignorance is the most expensive thing that we pay for.
 Story #2: Anyone Can Vote in Iowa, New Hampshire
RUSH: Get this: "The major presidential campaigns are flooding the state with hundreds of field staffers, and there's at least some concern that those operatives could show up for the Jan. 3 precinct caucuses and distort the outcome of the opening test of the presidential nominating season." The number of operatives, an estimated 150,000 people on the Democrat side, over 80,000 on the Republican side. "Most of the concern comes on the Democratic race, where -- unlike the GOP -- the rules governing who can participate in a caucus technically include recent residents who may leave the state immediately afterward." We went through this. You basically can show up that day, say you want to participate in the caucus, and you can go to one and you can vote there, and you can leave.
In New Hampshire, you can do the same thing. Yeah, I intend to move here. Now, this reminds me of Florida 2000. You remember in Florida 2000, literally planeloads of Democrat Party lawyers flew into this state to try to get involved. They just can't help but cheat. They just can't help it!
Story #3: Democrats Honor Ramadan, But Not Christmas
RUSH: Simple resolution in the United States Congress to simply recognize the importance of Christmas. "A rather meaningless resolution," it says here, "recognizing the importance of Christmas." Nine Democrats voted against it. They had a vote to honor Ramadan a little earlier, back in November in the House, unanimous support for that. Nine Democrats vote against a resolution recognizing the importance of Christmas, all libs. Christmas is a national holiday, forget the religious aspects of it for a moment. It's a national holiday.
Story #4: Chickification? Recess Emasculates Boys
RUSH: New York Times today, and the headline says it all: "School Recess Gets Gentler, and the Adults Are Dismayed." The New York Times just came up with this. This has been something that's been percolating throughout our culture for years. It's from Montville, Connecticut. "Children at the Oakdale School here in southeastern Connecticut returned this fall to learn that their traditional recess had gone the way of the peanut butter sandwich and the Gumby lunchbox. No longer could they let off their youthful energy -- pent up from hours of long division -- by cavorting outside for 22 minutes of unstructured play, or perhaps with a vigorous game of tag or dodgeball. Such games had been virtually banned by the principal, Mark S. Johnson, along with kickball, soccer and other 'body-banging' activities, as he put it, where knees -- and feelings -- might get bruised." Where has the New York Times been? This is a cultural story that's been around for ten or 12 years, if not longer.
"Instead, children are encouraged to jump rope, play with Hula Hoops or gently fling a Frisbee. Balls are practically controlled substances, parceled out under close supervision by playground monitors. The traditional recess, a rite of grade school, is endangered not only in the Oakdale School here in Montville, [Connecticut]. From Cheyenne, Wyo., to Wyckoff, N.J., recess ... is being rethought and pared down." Frankly, Mrs. Clinton, what are you going to do about this? You're not going to rest until "every child has a chance to live up to his or her potential." When the National Education Association teachers union (a bunch of libs, that's who's behind this) says, "We can't push our children too far, Mr. Limbaugh. These are gentle young things. We make 'em grow up too fast as it is. They could get terribly hurt. They could get bruised egos, and in tag if you're not IT, your self-esteem suffers." You know, this is the way these people think. Now, I think that at the root of this is modern-era feminism, which has emasculated a bunch of heretofore, men. Men, in too many places -- particularly in education -- are not men anymore. They've been emasculated. The chickification, the feminization of the culture -- and it's rife throughout. It's not just here in recess. It's even in the classroom in some of these skrools.
Story #5: Huckabee Jumps Ahead of Rudy in Florida
RUSH: The shocking political news is not confined just to the Democrat Party. In Florida, a Rasmussen poll, Huckabee has wrested the lead from Rudy Giuliani. It's Now Huck. Rudy owned Florida, Huckabee 27%, Mitt Romney 23%, and Giuliani 19% now.
Story #6: Liberals Will Use Obesity to Control Population
RUSH: From the BBC: "Obesity cannot be tackled by just encouraging healthier eating and more exercise, health experts say." Oh, really? When I read that, my antennae went up, the red flags ascended. "The experts, led by a London-based academic, say governments--" ooh, governments! "--should adopt more sophisticated approaches. Work conditions, food subsidies, town planning and advert restrictions are all key, the experts wrote in the British Medical Journal. ... These experts, led by a University College London academic, agreed, saying tackling obesity was far more complex than just encouraging healthy eating and more exercise. They said large supermarket chains had displaced small, family-run stores and encouraged bulk purchases, convenience foods and super-sized portions. They also criticised the impact of food advertising which they said encouraged children in particular to desire foods 'high in saturated fats, sugars and salt.' And they said urban planning and design could play a key role in encouraging people to walk around towns rather than rely on cars."
I'm going to tell you what all this means, Mr. Snerdley. What it means is that they, in Europe, and it's soon to follow here, are going to use obesity as a method of control of the population. This is what liberals want, it is what they do. It has all the ingredients. You people are too stupid to know that going to Costco is killing you, all these bulk purchases, big supermarkets, gotta get rid of them, like here we gotta get rid of Wal-Mart. We gotta change the way food advertises. We have to have new urban planning so more people can walk places. This is nothing more than an effort, under the guise of government caring about you, to control you. Plain and simple. Rachel, you look doubtful in there. I'm sure a lot of you people are doubtful. You cannot believe, because you don't want to believe, you don't want to believe that government would do this, to this extent, to control the population. Wake up, folks. We're way on down that track. Because the urban communities they're talking about would ban the use of automobiles in certain parts and you would have to walk.
They have been urging healthy eating and lots of exercise, and miraculously, somehow it's not working! We need stricter measures, because we care about people, we care about obesity, it leads to diabetes, and heart disease, and stroke, and death, and we, your government, want to protect you from yourself, because you can't do it yourself. Your impulses have lead to these unhealthy foods that you want to eat in too-large portions. It's none of their damn business. I know this is the UK. But the UK just signed away its sovereignty, folks, joining this giant European Union. They literally just signed away their sovereignty. So did the French. So did the Germans. They don't think that's what's happened. But they're trying to become the United States of Europe, essentially, and it's a bunch of socialists, the ruling classes of Europe. They think they know better than everybody else. They think they're going to get a better handle on immigration. They think they're going to have to more economic output by pooling their resources. They still don't get it. It has nothing to do with any of that, or not as much as it has to be with the genuine overall culture.
Story #7: Saturated Fat Not Proven to Cause Heart Disease
RUSH: In the meantime, next story, this is from MSNBC.com, and it's their Men's Health section. "Suppose you were forced to live on a diet of red meat and whole milk. A diet that, all told, was at least 60 percent fat -- about half of it saturated. If your first thoughts are of statins and stents, you may want to consider the curious case of the Masai, a nomadic tribe in Kenya and Tanzania. In the 1960s, a Vanderbilt University scientist named George Mann, M.D., found that Masai men consumed this very diet (supplemented with blood from the cattle they herded). Yet these nomads, who were also very lean, had some of the lowest levels of cholesterol ever measured and were virtually free of heart disease. Scientists, confused by the finding, argued that the tribe must have certain genetic protections against developing high cholesterol. But when British researchers monitored a group of Masai men who moved to Nairobi and began consuming a more modern diet, they discovered that the men's cholesterol subsequently skyrocketed," when they started eating the more healthful food. This story goes on, it's a long story, and we will link to it at RushLimbaugh.com. But the point of this story is that no one has ever proved, in science or anywhere else, that saturated fat clogs arteries or causes heart disease. Nobody has ever proved it. It's just, somehow, everybody believes it.
So let's go to the salient paragraphs: "In 1977 it was still a promising idea. That was the year Congress made it government policy to recommend a low-fat diet, based primarily on the opinions of health experts who supported the diet-heart hypothesis. It was a decision met with much criticism from the scientific community, including the American Medical Association. After all, officially endorsing a low-fat diet could change the eating habits of millions of Americans, and the potential effects of this strategy were widely debated and certainly unproved.
We've spent billions of our tax dollars trying to prove the diet-heart hypothesis. Yet study after study has failed to provide definitive evidence that saturated-fat intake leads to heart disease." It has yet to be proved. "The most recent example is the Women's Health Initiative, the government's largest and most expensive ($725 million) diet study yet. The results, published last year, show that a diet low in total fat and saturated fat had no impact in reducing heart-disease and stroke rates in some 20,000 women who had adhered to the regimen for an average of 8 years." Nobody has ever proved saturated fat clogs arteries or causes heart disease, and they have spent gazillions trying. I'm not surprised. All the myths that are out there in food and health, and yet we're supposed to believe these global warming scientists when these idiots can't even get this little thing right?
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