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More "indoctrination": Conservative media attack Obama's proposal for more school

http://mediamatters.org/items/200909300027 Glenn Beck and other conservative media figures are now attacking President Obama's proposal to extend the length of school days and the school year, adding to conservative media's recent penchant for fearmongering about children in order to smear progressives. Beck and Rush Limbaugh claimed government mandates for longer school days would give the government more time to "indoctrinate" kids, and Michelle Malkin said Obama is acting as "school czar." Beck, Limbaugh, RedState.com attack Obama's school proposal as a time grab for "indoctrination" Beck: "Longer school days, more indoctrination? I don't think so." On his September 29 radio show, Beck, presumably referring to YouTube videos of kids singing about Obama, said of Obama's school proposal: "We have the new indoctrination happening at school. Then, the president has come out and said that parents need to have their kids spending less time at home with the family and more time at school. He wants now to have longer school days. ... Longer school days, more indoctrination? I don't think so." Beck also said the government is "pushing daycare," which would also mean "they can indoctrinate." From the show: BECK: We have the new -- we have the new indoctrination happening at school. Then, the president has come out and said that parents need to have their kids spending less time at home with the family and more time at school. He wants now to have longer school days. He wants them to go year-round. I -- you know what? I don't have a problem with the kids going year-round. That's the way it happens in Utah, I believe. PAT GRAY (radio host): Yeah, they do. BECK: And it works. I mean, we no longer have to have kids go out and plow the fields in the summer. And that's the reason we had it that way, because the family needed help in the summer. They retain more. Longer school days, more indoctrination? I don't think so. [...] BECK: We now have the government coming in and saying friends can't drop, you know, their kids off at your house so you can get to work. This is crazy. Why would they want -- why would they want to stop somebody from doing that. Because, as we told you last week, they are pushing daycare. They are pushing daycare. That way, they can control the money that goes into daycare, which means they can control the environment, and they can indoctrinate. [Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Show, 9/29/09] Limbaugh: "[W]e all know why he wants this done. This is just more indoctrination time." On his September 29 show, Limbaugh said, "Obama is among those making a case that American kids aren't spending enough time in school; wants to get rid of the summer vacation and have kids in school year-round. Has anybody thought about -- we all know why he wants this done. This is just more indoctrination time ... more time to be indoctrinated into Obamaism and so forth." RedState.com: Longer school day pitch is "Obama-speak" for "gosh darn it all, indoctrination takes time!" On September 29, RedState.com contributor "mailloux" purported to translate Obama's statement about the proposal -- what he referred to as "Obama-speak" -- into "everyday English." Mailloux wrote that Obama meant that he "would like to lengthen the time I hold them as a captive audience." From the post: Translation from Obama-speak into everyday English? Any revolution worth its salt knows its future depends on how well the youth are indoctrinated. And, gosh darn it all, indoctrination takes time! So, instead of strengthening families which will surely draw your children away from me, I would like to lengthen the time I hold them as a captive audience. You know ... stretch out the school day, shorten the summer, and maybe even make them attend Saturday sessions. Families are overrated anyway. It's the village that counts. I heard that somewhere ... oh yeah, and did I mention I'm the village chief! Townhall.com: "Year-Round Indoctrination?" On Townhall.com, Matt Lewis wrote, under the headline "Year-Round Indoctrination?" that "President Obama wants longer school days and a longer school year." He then wrote, "Will more time at school = more time for this???," linking to a FoxNews.com article about a YouTube video of New Jersey schoolchildren singing about Obama. Malkin: "Obama plays summer school czar." In a post on her website titled, "Obama plays summer school czar," Malkin wrote of Obama's proposal, "If schools wasted less time on 'social justice,' 'Everyday Math' crap, eco-zealotry, field trips to gay weddings and illegal alien day labor centers, rappin', revolution , and radicalism, and searching for children's 'inner Obamas,' they wouldn't need to make up all the squandered days and weeks during the summer." Media recently fearmongered about New Jersey school kids "SHOCK VIDEO" as evidence of "indoctrination" Conservative media: Video is evidence of "indoctrination." Numerous media figures, including Fox News' Monica Crowley, Bill O'Reilly, and Beck, and CNN's Lou Dobbs, claimed a video -- originally flogged by the Drudge Report -- that purported to show "[s]chool kids taught to praise Obama" was evidence of "indoctrination." Others compared the kids' performance to what might happen in a dictatorship. Beck said that the song sounded like "a hymnal for a dictator." Limbaugh compared the school activity to those seen in Cuba and Venezuela. MSNBC's Contessa Brewer said it's something "you might see coming from North Korea." On Fox News'Hannity, guest S.E. Cupp said, "It's like Havana elementary school," and Nina Easton claimed, "Mao would be proud." "SHOCK VIDEO" timeline: From YouTube, to conservative blogs and Drudge, to Fox News. Taking cues from conservative blogs and the Drudge Report, Fox News and its online properties flogged the video. Indeed, in discussing the significance of the story, Fox News host Megyn Kelly said that the video, which the school's superintendent has said was unauthorized, "is getting attention on the Drudge Report website this morning." Conservatives fearmonger about kids to smear progressives. Beck and other right-wing media figures have recently fearmongered about how Obama and progressive policies will harm children; among other things, Beck and these other media figures have repeatedly accused Obama of "indoctrinating" schoolchildren, aired unauthorized videos of children singing Obama's praises, and attacked Obama's "school safety czar." On his September 28 television show, Beck continued the trend by hosting 9-12 Project mothers, along with their children, who are "concerned" about "their kids' futures." Transcript From the September 29 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: LIMBAUGH: So you had kids here singing the songs -- and we meant to get to this yesterday, and I didn't get to it. Obama is among those making a case that American kids aren't spending enough time in school; wants to get rid of the summer vacation and have kids in school year-round. Has anybody thought about -- we all know why he wants this done. This is just more indoctrination time. Plus, it's a way to get raises for the teachers, which is a big union supporter. More raises -- I mean, they gotta teach year-round? Oh, we need more money. Oh, of course, that's the whole plan. And more time to be indoctrinated into Obamaism and so forth. Contact: Townhall.com Townhall.com  Townhall.com  214 Massachusetts Ave NE  Washington, DC 20002  202-608-6099 Contact: Glenn Beck Glenn Beck http://twitter.com/glennbeck Contact: Michelle Malkin writemalkin@gmail.com http://twitter.com/michellemalkin Contact: Rush Limbaugh ElRushbo@eibnet.com http://twitter.com/Limbaugh

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Beck guru Skousen's "story of slavery" suggests slave owners were "worst victims of the system"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200909300024 Fox News' Glenn Beck has heavily promoted the writings of far-right activist W. Cleon Skousen, even making Skousen's book, The 5000 Year Leap, a central part of his 9-12 Project. Skousen is the author of several controversial works, including The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution, which presented as "the story of slavery in America" a passage from a book that attacked abolitionists for delaying emancipation; cast slave owners as "the worst victims of the system"; claimed white schoolchildren "were likely to envy the freedom of their colored playmates"; and claimed that "[s]lavery did not make white labor unrespectable, but merely inefficient," because "the slave had a deliberateness of motion which no amount of supervision could quicken." Skousen: a fringe conservative embraced by Beck Salon: "Skousen was not a historian so much as a player in the history of the American far right; less a scholar of the republic than a threat to it." In a September 16 article titled, "Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life," Salon's Alexander Zaitchik chronicled Skousen's controversial writings and associations, as well as the central role Skousen's writing plays in Beck's activities. According to Zaitchik, Skousen was "a professional anti-communist" who, according to FBI memos, "affiliated himself with the extreme right-wing 'professional communists' who are promoting their own anticommunism for obvious financial purposes." Zaitchik also noted Skousen's links to the far-right John Birch Society and its founder, Robert Welch, writing that Skousen "aligned himself with Robert Welch's charge that Dwight Eisenhower was a 'dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy.' " In 1963, Skousen wrote apamphlet titled, "The Communist Attack on the John Birch Society," in which he argued that those who criticized the group "usually did so without realizing they were promoting the official Communist Party line." Beck frequently touts Skousen's "divinely inspired" work. Zaitchik documented instances in which Beck "furiously promot[ed]" Skousen's books on his radio program, asking his guests if they had read any of Skousen's writings and exhorting his listeners to purchase The 5000 Year Leap, which Beck sells through his website. Zaitchik also noted that Beck authored a foreword for the 30th anniversary edition of The 5000 Year Leap, in which Beck wrote, "I beg you to read this book filled with words of wisdom which I can only describe as divinely inspired." Skousen at the center of 9-12 Project. On the March 13 edition of his Fox News program, during which Beck announced the launch of the 9-12 Project, Beck told his studio audience: "Do we have the books? Where are the books? Underneath everybody's seat here in the audience, there are some books here. I've got a couple of books for you that you can start. This one is called The 5,000-Year Leap. It is fantastic. I want you to know I don't make any money on these things. The 5,000-Year Leap -- it is the 29 principles that our founders put together, and how they put this genius country together." Beck added: "You read these and you read them with your friends. And you meet once a week or, you know, a couple of times a month. And you start small, and you just really figure out what you believe in." [Fox News' Glenn Beck, 3/13/09, retrieved via Nexis] The Making of America featured in 9-12 Project meetings. Several local chapters of the 9-12 Project have conducted seminars to discuss The Making of America. The seminars appear to have been organized in conjunction with the National Center for Constitutional Studies, which, as Zaitchik noted, was founded by Skousen in 1971. Skousen's The Making of America advances controversial "story of slavery in America" Skousen: "Slavery is not a racial problem. It is a human problem." In The Making of America, Skousen wrote of slavery: In the history of the world, nearly every nation has had slaves. The Chinese kept thousands of slaves. Babylon boasted of slaves from a dozen different countries. The dark-skinned Hittites, Phoenicians, and Egyptians had white slaves. The Moors had black slaves. America had black slaves. The Nazis had white slaves. The Soviets still do, with several million white slaves wearing out their starved, near-naked bodies in slave labor camps. So the emancipation of human beings from slavery is an ongoing struggle. Slavery is not a racial problem. It is a human problem. [The Making of America, page 728] Skousen's "Story of Slavery" controversial when first published. In The Making of America, Skousen capped his analysis of the 15th Amendment by quoting several pages of historian Fred Albert Shannon's Economic History of the People of the United States (1934), saying that they "tell the story of slavery in America." [The Making of America, page 729] As Zaitchik wrote in his September 16 Salon article, Skousen's use of Shannon's work aroused controversy shortly after the book was first published in the early 1980s: Toward the end of Reagan's second term, Skousen became the center of a minor controversy when state legislators in California approved the official use of another of his books, the 1982 history text "The Making of America." Besides bursting with factual errors, Skousen's book characterized African-American children as "pickaninnies" and described American slave owners as the "worst victims" of the slavery system. Quoting the historian Fred Albert Shannon, "The Making of America" explained that "[slave] gangs in transit were usually a cheerful lot, though the presence of a number of the more vicious type sometimes made it necessary for them all to go in chains." Shannon's account of slavery sympathetic to slave owners, hostile to abolitionists, minimized suffering. The following are excerpts from Shannon's account of life in the antebellum South, as presented by Skousen in The Making of America as "the story of slavery in America." In them, Shannon claimed that children of slave owners envied the "freedom" of slave children and that "impermanent" marriages between slaves were a "blessing of slavery." Shannon also dismissed accounts of cruelty toward slaves as rare or unfounded but addressed in great detail the "fear" Southern whites had of slave rebellions against "white civilization." Abolitionists at fault for delaying emancipation. "Gradual emancipation by legislative action was talked about in the South for two generations after the Declaration of Independence. A fierce contest, waged over this issue in the legislature of Virginia as late as 1832, was lost by the emancipationists largely because of resentment against the interference of Northern abolitionists and terror over the Nat Turner insurrection of the preceding year. "Had the result been different the effect upon the border states, where slavery at best was of questionable value, may well be imagined. By too militant action the abolitionists themselves did much to perpetuate slavery in the northern group of the Southern states." [The Making of America, page 730] Newly sold slaves "usually a cheerful lot." "The tendency was to sell families as units, if for no other reason [than] to keep the slaves contented. The gangs in transit were usually a cheerful lot, though the presence of a number of the more vicious type sometimes made it necessary for them all to go in chains. At the other extreme, when the Central of Georgia railroad company in 1858 equipped a Negro sleeping car to assist in the slave trade it set a standard not always maintained in a later generation. When on the block, the slave was as likely to hinder as to help in his sale. Some, out of a vain conceit in bringing a high price, would boast of their physical prowess, in which case an unwary purchaser would likely be cheated. Others would malinger, because of a grudge against owners or traders or in order to bring a low price and be put at less tiring labor. Dealers, also, adopted the tricks of horse traders to make their merchants more attractive -- the greasiest Negro was generally considered the healthiest." [The Making of America, pages 731-732] Slaves hampered efficiency of white labor. "In the management of slave labor the gang system predominated. The great majority of owners, having at the most only one or two families of Negroes, had to work alongside their slaves and set the pace for them. Slavery did not make white labor unrespectable, but merely inefficient. The slave had a deliberateness of motion which no amount of supervision could quicken. If the owner got ahead of the gang they all would shirk behind his back." [The Making of America, page 732] White schoolchildren would "envy the freedom" of "colored playmates." "Slave food, even if monotonous, was plentiful. Corn bread and bacon were the mainstays, with plenty of fruit and vegetables in season. In hog-killing time, countenances were unusually greasy. Clothing also was on the par with that of the poorer white people and no less adequate in proportion to the climate than that of Northern laborers. If [negro children] ran naked it was generally from choice, and when the white boys had to put on shoes and go away to school they were likely to envy the freedom of their colored playmates. The color line began to appear at about that time." [The Making of America, pages 732-733] Cruelty rare, slave owners "the worst victims." "Excessive toil occurred only where the masters or overseers were feeble witted as well as brutal. A persistent rumor among abolitionists was that sugar planters followed a policy of working slaves to death in seven years as a matter of economy. The persons spreading such reports were as ignorant of Negro nature as they were of conditions in the sugar mills. Furthermore, they overrated the ability of the masters to know how to kill a slave in the given time instead of leaving him a broken-down burden to the plantation. When they set out to prove the accusation they returned with no evidence, but convinced that the practice existed in some obscure region which they had not succeeded in ferreting out. Harriet Martineau, after watching slaves go through the motions of work without tiring themselves, considered the planters as models of patience and observed that new slave owners from Europe or the North were prone to be the most severe. Numerous observers, of various shades of opinion on slavery, agreed that brutality was no more common in the black belt than among free labor elsewhere, and that the slave owners were the worst victims of the system." [The Making of America, pages 733-734 Broken marriages "one the blessings of slavery." "Negro weddings were attended by white people who joined in the celebration. If the marriages were of a rather impermanent nature, that fact was frequently considered as 'one of the blessings of slavery.' At church and camp meetings the Negroes, in their own section of the building or tabernacle, enjoyed the experiences immensely. They could shout without restraint, while the masters, in order to preserve their dignity, had to repress their emotions. It made little difference if religion was thrown off soon after the camp meeting dissolved -- backsliding was pleasant, and there was always a chance to get intoxicatingly converted again." [The Making of America, page 734] "Negro preachers" warranted surveillance. "The worst offenses of slaves against the white men's code were rebellion and running away. Drunkenness, stealing, hiding out from work, personal filthiness, carelessness of property, fighting, and general brutality had various positions in the scale of misdemeanors. Negro preachers often bred discontent by their unnecessary restraint upon pleasure, and, if itinerants, had to be watched closely for abolitionist or seditious doctrines." [The Making of America, page 734] Southern life a "nightmare" of fear -- for white people. "The constant fear of slave rebellion made life in the South a nightmare, especially in regions where conspiracies were of frequent occurrence. The extermination of white civilization in Santo Domingo was followed in the nineteenth century by several other bloody outbursts in the West Indies, which never failed to cause ominous forebodings in America. [...] "In the nineteenth century, conspiracies headed by George Boxley and Denmark Vessey in South Carolina (1816 and 1822), and the Nat Turner insurrection in Virginia in 1831 were the outstanding examples. Boxley, a Negro with a sort of John Brown intelligence, escaped while six of his followers were executed. The Vessey plot, prematurely revealed, resulted in 130 arrests which culminated in the hangings of 35, deportation fo nearly as many, and imprisonment of 4 white participants. Nat Turner, a mystic type of Baptist preacher, set out to annihilate white civilization, and succeeded to the extent of 10 men, 14 women, and 31 children. He was finally hanged with several of his followers, but the after-effects of the uprising were deplorable." [The Making of America, page 735] Southern slavery better than Northern freedom. "The free Negro had rather more opportunity for economic advancement in the South than in the North. The Southerner was bothered by the race problem but knew how to handle the individual Negro, while the Northerner professed a benign interest in the race so long as its members were as remote as possible. Neither section was willing to grant equal rights in education, suffrage, or legal standing, while many states of all sections had laws prohibiting the immigration of free Negroes. Abraham Lincoln could not have maintained his standing in the Republican party had he not been a staunch supporter of the Illinois exclusion law and a firm opponent of political and social equality. It was most difficult for a Negro to get a job in the North, except at the most loathsome of tasks. Some Negroes, having been freed and sent to any Northern state which would receive them, became so miserable as to solicit a return to slavery." [The Making of America, pages 735-736] Emancipated slaves hated because of Civil War and "carpetbag regime." "This seemingly hopeless situation was by 1860 approaching a solution which was not allowed to materialize. The limits of slavery expansion either by purchase or conquest had been reached. The natural increase of slave population in a few decades would have checked the opportunities for profitable sale. It seems futile to believe otherwise than that, before the end of the century, the diminishing returns from slave ownership would have driven slave prices so low that, in self-defense, owners would have made tenants of their laborers, thrown them upon their own resources, and placed dependence upon rentals for profits. It likewise seems reasonable to believe that by this solution the Negro might have escaped the revulsion of feeling against him that resulted from forcible emancipation and the carpetbag regime." [The Making of America, page 737] The end picture-caption. At the end of Skousen's extensive quotation of Shannon,The Making of America features an illustration of two dark, manacled hands with the accompanying caption: "In some ways, the economic system of slavery chained the slave owners almost as much as the slaves." [The Making of America, page 737] Contact: Glenn Beck Glenn Beck http://twitter.com/glennbeck

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Beck leads conservative media in raising specter of Chicago cronyism to attack Obama's bid for Olympics

http://mediamatters.org/items/200909300019

Conservative media have suggested or claimed that President Obama is
advocating for Chicago to host the 2016 Olympics in order to return
political favors to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley or forward the
financial interests of other "Chicago pals." For instance, Glenn Beck
advanced baseless speculation that Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett "may
personally benefit" from the Olympics, and Michelle Malkin wrote that
Daley "cronies" in Obama's circle are "returning the favor for their
hometown boss" by pushing for the Chicago Olympics.
Conservative media suggest Obama's Olympics bid is cronyism

Beck advanced baseless speculation that "some people say" Valerie
Jarrett "may personally benefit" from the Olympics. Beck stated on his
Fox News show, "President Obama is heading to Denmark this week to
help sway the International Olympic Committee into picking his own
hometown of Chicago for the 2016 Olympics. This would be great for
Chicago, sure, but will it benefit anyone else?" He later said that
"some" were speculating that Jarrett "may personally benefit." [Glenn
Beck, 9/29/09]

Pat Caddell: "[W]hat we're going to have is gangster politics that
will make Al Capone so happy." Fox News contributor Caddell told Beck
that "in Chicago, what we're going to have is gangster politics that
will make Al Capone so happy. We are going -- this is the biggest
outrage ever done." When asked, "[I]s it possible that [Jarrett] is
going to benefit if the Olympics come to Chicago?" Caddell stated,
"Well, that's the word. She certainly had a lot of dealings going on
in real estate." [Glenn Beck, 9/29/09]

Malkin: Obama pushing Chicago Olympics for "[p]olitical payback."
Malkin wrote that after "help[ing] pave Obama's path to 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue," Daley "cronies" are "returning the favor for
their hometown boss." She added, "It takes a crony-filled White House
to raise a Chicago Olympic village. Daley and Obama will get the
glory. America will get stuck with the bill." Malkin has also labeled
Jarrett "[d]e facto Olympics czar." [MichelleMalkin.com, 9/30/09]

Hume: "[A] lot of people will ... not ever get over" the idea that
Obama "was on a political errand for Mayor Daley." Fox News
contributor Brit Hume stated that if Obama succeeds in bringing the
2016 Olympics to Chicago, "It would be a win, and it would be
President Obama engaging with the rest of the world and getting
something for it. Even if he does, though, there are going to be
people who will always suspect that he was on a political errand for
Mayor Daley of Chicago, who has staked a lot of prestige on landing
the Olympics. And a lot of people will, I think, not ever get over
that idea." [Fox News' Special Report, 9/29/09]

Jim Quinn: Jarrett is "looking to pull the strings with the federal
government." Quinn stated on his radio program, "[Obama] took Valerie
Jarrett with him. ... Now what's her interest here? Well, she's a
slumlord in Chicago. She's got a bunch of developments in Chicago. So
she is looking to the federal government -- she's looking to pull the
strings with the federal government to pick up the tab for what
Chicago should pick up the tab for, which is housing, you know, the
Olympic athletes and all the accoutrements that go with it." [Clear
Channel's The War Room with Quinn & Rose, 9/29/09]

Fox & Friends: Is Obama going to Copenhagen for "payback to his pals
back in Chicago?" Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy stated, "[W]hy is
the president going to Copenhagen? Is it, or could it possibly be,
simply payback to his pals back in Chicago?" Citing Malkin's column,
Doocy aired photos of the "president's Chicago pals" and stated that
"a lot of those people there have a connection not only to the
Olympics but to the Obama campaign." Doocy later discussed "the
connections about whether or not some of his pals are making money"
and stated that Malkin will appear on the next day's edition of Fox &
Friends "to explain the connection between the Olympics and the White
House." [Fox & Friends, 9/30/09]

Hannity promo: "Are Barack's Chicago buddies banking on a successful
[Olympic] bid coming to town?" A FoxNews.com description of the
upcoming September 30 edition of Fox News' Hannity reads:

Fox News has repeatedly attacked Obama's efforts to promote Olympic bid

Fox News has repeatedly attacked Obama's Olympic efforts for a variety
of reasons, including citing Chicago's crime rate, the war in
Afghanistan, and the "carbon footprint" of Obama's trip to Copenhagen.
In recent days, Fox News hosts, contributors, and guests have used
Obama's promotion of the bid to host the Olympics in Chicago as an
excuse to attack him, while Malkin and Matt Drudge have baselessly
linked the murder of a teenager in Chicago to the Olympic bid. Attacks
on Obama's efforts include Sean Hannity saying that "it sounds" like
Obama "is more concerned about bringing the Olympics to Chicago than
winning the war in Afghanistan"; Media Research Center president Brent
Bozell claiming Obama's trip to Copenhagen to promote the Chicago bid
"is evidence that this man just cannot stay away from the klieg
lights"; and Special Report host Bret Baier invoking the "carbon
footprint" of Obama's trip to Copenhagen to smear the president.

Transcript

From the September 30 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

DOOCY: In the meantime, why exactly -- why is the president going to
Copenhagen? Is it, or could it possibly be, simply payback to his pals
back in Chicago? Michelle Malkin writes in her syndicated column today
that it is political payback and, in fact, takes a look at the fact
that -- we've got some of the president's Chicago pals up on the big
screen over there. Richard Daley --

BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): You don't have a chalkboard, do you?

DOOCY: I don't.

KILMEADE: No, that's 5 o'clock today.

DOOCY: We've got this right here. Richard Daley, the mayor of Chicago
since '89, he came out early and supported Barack Obama. And so he
would really like to see, obviously, for obvious reasons, the Olympics
come to Chicago. But then you look at these other faces and suddenly a
lot of those people there have a connection not only to the Olympics
but to the Obama campaign.

KILMEADE: Well, it's logical, though.

GRETCHEN CARLSON (co-host): Yeah, it's totally logical.

KILMEADE: I mean, that's where the center is. Valerie Jarrett's there,
was on the Olympic advisory committee, was -- and -- before Mayor
Daley. David Axelrod used to work for Mayor Daley. So you understand
that they'd like to see the hometown get -- it would be probably good
news for Chicago. It would be great news for NBC, because it would
save a lot of money. And we know how tight NBC is with the
administration. It would save a lot of money covering the Olympics
with it here domestically in a time zone that it's going to give them
the maximum amount of viewers.

CARLSON: I mean, let's face it, whether or not it's a Republican or
Democrat in office, they're going to pull for their hometown --

KILMEADE: Yeah.

CARLSON: -- to get the Olympics. I don't have a problem with that at
all. And of course there's going to be political payback. That's the
way politics works, unfortunately or fortunately.

What some people have a problem with is the fact that the president
has a tremendous amount of domestic issues and international issues on
his plate right now, and whether or not this sends the right message
that he has time to go to Copenhagen and not time to call General
McChrystal in Afghanistan. To me, that is the issue about whether or
not he should take this trip.

DOOCY: There are also the connections about whether or not some of his
pals are making money. Axelrod's firm, although he's kind of stepped
aside since he's got that big job at the White House now, has been
doing consulting for Chicago 2016. Also, a woman by the name of Penny
Pritzker, who was influential in the Obama campaign, she heads up a
realty firm and, according to Michelle Malkin, you know, they stand to
make millions of dollars if this is really developed in Chicago.

KILMEADE: All right --

DOOCY: So, anyway, email us right now. Do you think it's appropriate
that the president goes off to Copenhagen while so many looming issues
are on the horizon? Michael Steele of the RNC says don't go Mr.
President. But Robert Gibbs says, look, it's in our best interest.

[...]

DOOCY: Tomorrow on our show Michelle Malkin's gonna be dropping by.
She's written a column about the number of people who are really close
to Barack Obama who are actually involved in the Chicago 2016 program.
We've got a shot over there of a whole bunch of guys. She will be by
tomorrow to explain the connection between the Olympics and the White
House. You're not gonna want to miss it.

From the September 29 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier:

HUME: Standing by itself, there's nothing much wrong with President
Obama's trip to Denmark later this week to promote his hometown of
Chicago's bid to land the 2016 Olympics. It would perhaps be good for
both the U.S. and Chicago if he succeeds, and possibly even worth a
try even if he doesn't. But in politics, nothing occurs in a vacuum,
and this trip occurs at a time when the president runs the risk of
appearing to go out of his way to pursue a clearly minor objective at
the expense of other major ones.

He says, for example, he will take the time to get the strategy right
before deciding whether to dispatch more troops to Afghanistan, but he
announced the strategy back in March and sent general McChrystal to
achieve it. Now that the general wants more troops, Mr. Obama wants
more time. How often has he spoken to the general? Once in the past 70
days.

Initially the president said he was not going to Denmark because he
was too busy pressing for health care reform. The White House says
that situation has improved. Really? The latest polls show support for
his health care ideas at an all-time low. And Iran, which has met Mr.
Obama's overtures of engagement with nose-thumbing and missile tests,
now says it won't even discuss that recently uncovered nuclear plant
when it meets with the U.S. and others in Geneva later this week. An
awkward moment, perhaps, for a foreign trip to promote a sports event.

BAIER: And if he does succeed?

HUME: Well, that would help. It would be a win, and it would be
President Obama engaging with the rest of the world and getting
something for it. Even if he does, though, there are going to be
people who will always suspect that he was on a political errand for
Mayor Daley of Chicago, who has staked a lot of prestige on landing
the Olympics. And a lot of people will, I think, not ever get over
that idea.

BAIER: We'll cover it. Brit, thanks.

From the September 29 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:

BECK: President Obama is heading to Denmark this week to help sway the
International Olympic Committee into picking his own hometown of
Chicago for the 2016 Olympics. This would be great for Chicago, sure,
but will it benefit anyone else?

Let me show you this. This is the new book that's out -- Arguing With
Idiots. It has been out for a week now. This is -- if Common Sense,
the book I wrote last summer, was the problem, this is the cure for
it.

It is the facts -- everything. Here is Barack Obama. These are the
people that he has surrounded himself with, just with the SEIU -- the
unions, ACORN, special interests are running this country. Read about
it in Arguing With Idiots.

We have now Pat Caddell with us. Pat Caddell is a former senior
adviser to President Carter. He's a Democrat and a proud Democrat, not
a Democrat that agrees with the crazy revolutionaries that seemed to
have hijacked his party.

Pat, I'm trying to figure this one out. Vancouver lost -- how much was
it? They lost $1 billion when they had the Olympics. How is the city
of Chicago in Illinois, that is broke, going to benefit from having
the Olympics?

CADDELL: Well, let me tell you who is going to benefit. But before I
say that, let me just say I agree with what you just said about "The
Battle Hymn of the Republic."

I always quote the stanza that this is -- that proclaims the purpose
of this nation: "As he died to make them holy, let us die to make them
free." It is what makes us different from any other nation.

BECK: It is. It is.

CADDELL: Now, in Chicago, what we're going to have is gangster
politics that will make Al Capone so happy. We are going -- this is
the biggest outrage ever done. The president of the United States, who
cannot find -- who's found only one moment in more than two months to
speak to the commander of his troops in Afghanistan, is going to get
on a plane and fly to Denmark Friday -- or Thursday.

He is going to go over there with Valerie Jarrett, who was last seen
with the NEA pumping up their use of, you know, money and they are
going over there --

BECK: And Van Jones.

CADDELL: And Van Jones -- all of our people that she runs. She is the
former commission head of the -- co-chairman of this Chicago thing.
Chicago, by the way -- remember, they're closing the government
several days a week because they cannot afford to be open.

They are going to go, and they are going to reward -- this is the
biggest scandal. This is going to be corruption on a scale
unimaginable. And let me just say -- let me give you some of the
characters.

You've got Valerie Jarrett there, right? Valerie Jarrett -- she is the
person that runs Chicago and the White House for the president and the
first lady. She is the one who is involved meeting with HUD a month
ago to see how we were going to finance this. This city has no money.

They have put in charge -- 50 percent of the people in Chicago are
against having these Olympics. They have voted in the City Council 49
to nothing to have the Olympics. The mayor, Mayor Daley, and his
friends and contributors -- they have appointed alderman Eddie Burke.

And let me just say --- I don't want to explain -- just to tell you,
it is like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank.

BECK: OK --

CADDELL: He is going to watch the financial stuff.

BECK: Pat, let me ask you this. Fox TV in Chicago was told they can't
run a story on the negative part of the Olympics. And Valerie Jarrett
-- some people say she was a slumlord and she may personally benefit.
I'd like to ask you that question. Can we do that next? Can we have
Pat back? OK, when we come back in just a second.

[...]

BECK: For the first time in American history, the president is going
to take Air Force One and fly across the ocean to meet with the
Olympic committee to pitch Chicago as an Olympic city. Wow, who is
going to benefit? Well, he's going with his wife -- President Obama
and Valerie Jarrett.

Pat Caddell is here, former senior adviser to President Carter, Fox
News contributor -- a guy who wants to hold people accountable in
Washington, get rid of corruption.

Is Valerie Jarrett -- is it possible that she is going to benefit if
the Olympics come to Chicago?

CADDELL: Well, that's the word. She certainly had a lot of dealings
going on in real estate. Remember, all the venues will take place only
inside the city of Chicago. This is -- they have got every
contributor, every real estate person.

Look, Tony Rezko, in the end, probably will make money on this. This
is the greatest outrage, and people need to tell the Congress right
now to pass a law -- not a penny, not a dime from us to bail it out
for stimulus grants to pay for this. This is going to be a disaster at
a level we've never seen in American politics financially.

BECK: Unbelievable. Pat, thank you so much for being an honest -- you
know, just an honest American. We don't agree on everything --

CADDELL: No, we don't.

BECK: -- but we agree on accountability, and I appreciate that, sir.
Thank you very much.

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Carper’s New Public Option “Alternative”: Not New, Not Public, and Not an Option http://bit.ly/3DiDHN

Carper's New Public Option "Alternative": Not New, Not Public, and Not
an Option http://bit.ly/3DiDHN

Here's some numbers Kent Conrad doesn't want you to contemplate about
yesterday's vote on the public option: http://bit.ly/15sJeS
though Senate Fin Cmmte defeated public option nearly 6 mil more
Americans voted for 10 sens who supported it than 13 sens who opposed
it. Moreover, sens who voted 4 public option won on 63% of the vote in
their last elections compared 2 59% 4 the senators who voted against
it.Another way of saying it: anyone who claims the public option
doesn't have public support is full of bull.

Critics say pandemic emergency bill tramples privacy rights http://bit.ly/kzFqE

Grayson's Right: Under The Republican Plan, 'Don't Get Sick' (Or You
Might Have To 'Die Quickly') http://bit.ly/aazVo

Rep. Grayson on GOP plan: If you get sick, 'die quickly' http://bit.ly/1a9WJ7

Why isn't Sen. John Ensign up in arms about government-mandated car
insurance? http://bit.ly/19JZpN

New Film Blames Bayer Pesticide for Plight of Honey Bees http://bit.ly/GdYjw

National Review’s John Derbyshire: Women Should Not The Have The Right To Vote http://bit.ly/1V4SFJ

National Review's John Derbyshire: Women Should Not The Have The
Right To Vote http://bit.ly/1V4SFJ

What Is Single Payer? youtube http://bit.ly/5HdYO

Fool Me Once: The Insurance Industry Looks to Tort Reform to Pad
Profits http://bit.ly/d1sE8

wtf?! Democrats crafting bill to shield big banks from tougher state
laws http://bit.ly/3DY1R6

Grayson: GOP Health Plan = You're Sick? Die Quickly. http://bit.ly/2Yh2HK

People reluctant to book Palin for speaking engagements because 'they
think she is a blithering idiot.' http://bit.ly/4hJQn2

New Study Confirms Male Fruit Flies Are Lazy Douchebags http://bit.ly/jGWzl

Key Senate Democrats Opposing Public Option Get More Cash from Insurers and Pharmaceutical Companies

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/09/committee-members-opposed-to-p.html

Published by Lindsay Renick Mayer

Today was not a good day for supporters of a government-sponsored
health care plan.

Two senators, John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.),
offered two amendments that would add such an option to the the Senate
Finance Committee's version of the massive health care legislation
Congress has been considering for months -- and the committee handily
knocked each down today.

CEOs of insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies, who tend to
oppose the public option, might sleep a little easier tonight. These
industries have been implementing a variety of strategies to thwart
amendments such as these, including spending big bucks on lobbying and
campaign contributions. Lawmakers who sided with these industries have
collected more money, on average, than those who voted for these
amendments, the Center for Responsive Politics has found.

Here are the details:

The Rockefeller Amendment

The 15 lawmakers to vote against Rockefeller's version of the public
option have collected $69,137 more, on average, from insurers
(including HMOs and health services and health and accident insurers)
through their candidate committees and leadership PACs since 1989 than
the eight who voted for his amendment ($297,089 versus $227,952).
The lawmakers who voted against Rockefeller's amendment have brought
in $167,264 more, on average, from pharmaceutical and health care
product companies since 1989 than those who supported it ($467,427
versus $297,163).
The Democrats who voted against their colleague's proposal have
collected $97,472 more, on average, from insurance companies since
1989 than the Democrats who voted for it ($325,424 versus $227,952).
The Democrats who voted against Rockefeller's amendment have brought
in $163,876 more, on average, from pharmaceutical and health product
companies since 1989 than the Democrats who supported it ($461,038
versus $297,163).

The Schumer Amendement

 The 13 lawmakers who voted against Schumer's version of the public
option have collected $93,177 more, on average, from insurers
(including HMOs and health services and health and accident insurers)
through their candidate committees and leadership PACs since 1989 than
the 10 who voted for his amendment ($313,553 versus $220,376).
The senators who voted against Schumer's amendment have brought in
$210,470 more, on average, from pharmaceutical and health product
companies since 1989, than those who supported it ($497,757 versus
$287,286).
The Democrats who voted against their colleague's proposal have
collected $195,284 more, on average, from insurance companies since
1989, than the Democrats who voted for it ($415,660 versus $220,376).
The Democrats who voted against Schumer's amendment have brought in
$315,923 more from pharmaceutical and health product companies since
1989, than the Democrats who supported it ($603,210 versus $287,286).

Senate Finance Committee

At $675,350, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the committee's chairman, has
since 1989 collected more from health insurance companies, including
HMOs and health services and health and accident insurers, than all
but one other member of the committee -- Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.).
And Kerry only collected big funds as a presidential candidate in
2004. Meanwhile, only Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has raised more from
pharmaceutical and health product companies in that time ($1.6 million
versus $1.1 million). Baucus voted against both amendments.
Insurers have contributed $265,441, on average, to individual
Democrats on the committee, while pharmaceutical and health product
companies have donated $360,192, on average, to individual Democrats
since 1989.
Insurers have given $282,921, on average, to individual Republicans on
the committee, while pharmaceutical and health product companies have
contributed $466,121 since 1989.
For a list of contributions from health-related industries to members
of this committee, visit our health care tools committees database.

Limbaugh Compares School Kids' Videos To Nazi Indoctrination

http://mediamatters.org/items/200909290035 By Greg Lewis Rush explains how the "media guys" "want" Obama to succeed in destroying the U.S. as founded Rush got Tuesday going by reading a "state-controlled" Associated Press headline: "Consumer Confidence Unexpectedly Falls in Sept." Rush, as usual, mocked the use of the word "unexpected," implying that it shouldn't be labeled as such. Then Rush said something was going on -- yesterday, Howard Fineman was asking Obama to get off television, and today, Richard Cohen was asking Obama to "cool it" with TV. Rush explained that Obama is bothering the "media guys" because they want Obama to succeed in destroying the U.S. "as founded." Rush went on to refer to the media as Obama's "enablers," and said that these "enablers" are admitting they can't help Obama if he's undermining them. Continuing, Rush read excerpt's from Cohen's column, and expressed his surprise that somebody in the "state-controlled" media was writing a column like this. Next, Rush read from a Politico article about "outcry" by Republicans to get Gen. Stanley McChrystal's to testify before Congress about the need for more troops in Afghanistan. Rush complained about how the drive-bys report on important issues like Afghanistan as a horse race, and accused the media and Democrats of having always "politicized" war. Rush "reminded" us that Democrats wanted Gen. David Petraeus to testify so that they could call him a liar, and claimed that Obama's commitment to Afghanistan was political. Rush says Wash. Post's Ceci Connolly is "in the tank" for the Obama administration Then Rush read from the Ceci Connolly's latest article in The Washington Post, calling Connolly one of the more "blatant" cases of someone being in the tank for the Obama administration (really?). Anyway, Connolly made the case in her article that more health care isn't always better. Rush rebutted Connolly by arguing that the history of the world has shown us the opposite. Rush mischaracterized Connolly's argument even further, by saying her article means that African health care was the new model. Rush concluded that this article was to set up the case that we're going to cut health care while having more health care for more people for less money. After the break, Rush talked about the Canadian National Post article he discussed yesterday, which reported how "irritated" French President Nicolas Sarkozy was with Obama in dealing with Iran. To add to this, Rush read a Wall Street Journal report citing a Le Monde editorial which stated that France and Britain wanted to confront Iran about their secret nuclear facility a day earlier at the U.N., but the Obama administration didn't want to spoil Obama's image, and wanted to wait for the G-20 summit the next day. Rush went on to bemoan the lack of coverage of Le Monde's editorial, despite the fact that he was reading about it from the country's most widely circulated newspaper. Rush also took this opportunity to mock the French and their "surrender" national anthem. However, Rush added that the French, in this case, have "bigger gonads" than we do on Iran, and praised Sarkozy. Rush went on to discuss Sarah Palin's upcoming book, and hoped that it would sell 5 million copies. He also complained about the media's unfair coverage of her, which he explained means that the media and Democrats are afraid of her. Limbaugh came back from the next break discussing Sen. Kennedy -- err, Sen. Kerry -- introducing cap and trade legislation into the Senate: LIMBAUGH: And now cap-and-trade's in trouble. Boxer, Kerry set to introduce climate bill in the Senate, but they wanna change the name. John Kerry said that "It's not cap and trade, it's a pollution reduction bill." Kerry said, "I don't know what cap-and-trade means. I don't think the average American does." The average American does, Senator Kennedy, and it -- that's why the average American is calling it cap and tax, and that is why you have to change it, because the American people do understand it. U.S. Northeast may have coldest winter in a decade, from Bloomberg News, details coming up. Rush asks: "Why do we let [Democrats] set the agenda?" Rush also mentioned that the Senate Finance Committee was discussing a public option amendment today. Rush warned that the "whole thing" is a public option, otherwise there's "no reason" to do health care reform. The next caller said that Rush is helping people take the argument back, to which Rush responded: LIMBAUGH: I wanted to thank you because you have -- you have -- you've made an excellent point here that I have often -- another thing that I have lamented for years. And that is, why in the world do we accept the premise for every issue that the left puts forth? Why are we even debating a health care bill? I mean, it's a bad bill. Now, the Republicans are doing the right thing here by staying away from it. He continued: LIMBAUGH: Why do we let them set the agenda? "Well, Rush, they won the election." So? So what? Their agenda's damaging to the country. Their agenda is dangerous. Their agenda will wreck the opportunity for prosperity on the parts of millions and millions and millions of Americans. Why accept that premise and start nibbling at it around the edges? Why let them set the agenda? And I don't. Now, I'm not a Republican, and I'm not -- in terms of -- I'm a conservative first, and I'm certainly not elected to anything, but I just -- not only should we not let them set the agenda, we should -- because that constantly puts us on the defensive. And of course it's offense, offense, offense, offense. Rush baseless claim: "By the time this guy gets through, the taxes and the wealth of 70 percent of the American people will be redistributed to the bottom 30 percent" This led Rush into another extended rant about the media, and how they are trying to destroy Sarah Palin. He also ranted about calls for "civility," still claiming that the Democrats are the ones who send "union thugs" to beat people up. Rush concluded: LIMBAUGH: I'm a commentator, just like our president. A president's a commentator, that's all he is. Well, actually, the public impersonation of Obama, or impression, is he's commentators, he's actually doing dastardly stuff behind the scenes while everybody's distracted by this health care debate, probably so we ought to be focusing on it. But I mean, he's taken over the student loan program; it's been nationalized. Mortgage industry has been nationalized. By the time this guy gets through, the taxes and the wealth of 70 percent of the American people will be redistributed to the bottom 30 percent. That's what he's aiming for. Wait, what? "By the time this guy gets through, the taxes and the wealth of 70 percent of the American people will be redistributed to the bottom 30 percent, that's what he's aiming for." We're going to go out on a limb here and say that Rush has gotten to the point where he's clearly just making things up. Then Rush briefly got back to the aforementioned story that the northeast U.S. may have its coldest winter in a decade. Predictably, Rush tried to make it about global warming by tying it into John Kerry introducing the climate change bill to the Senate. Except the story really had nothing to do with global warming -- it was about El Niño (which Rush mentioned, but his tying the story into climate change was egregious nonetheless). On the flip side of another commercial break, Rush took a caller who asked what Rush would do about Afghanistan if he were president. Rush said he would listen to his generals, and he would win. After a quick sound bite of Obama talking about the importance of NATO's mission in Afghanistan, Rush picked on Obama for saying this isn't an "American battle," but NATO's. Rush bemoans the AP's use of the Marxist word "worker"; decries "leftist lingo trickling into our lexicon" Hour two began with some personal anecdotes, with Rush getting to actual content when he read an AP report about the US income gap widening "as poor take a hit in the recession." Rush picked apart the article, criticizing some of the experts cited and claiming that Obama was going to take from the rich and give to the poor so we'd all be "equally mediocre." Rush talked about Obama destroying the private sector, and took issue with the article's word choice: LIMBAUGH: I've been mentioning this since I started this show. "Workers" is a communist word. "Workers" is a socialist, a Karl Marx word. Workers of the world unite, workers -- we don't have workers; we have citizens, we have employees. We have associates. When I worked at the Kansas City Royals, the team was owned by Ewing Kauffman, who also owned Marion Labs. He never called one person a worker or an employee. Everybody was an associate, from the custodial staff on up. Workers? All this little leftist lingo trickling into our lexicon. Then Rush went on for a while about being asked to judge the Miss America pageant, and was asking his audience whether it was worth taking a week off from his show to do it. Then Rush read about Andy Williams' latest criticism of Obama's Marxism. After the break, Rush read a few responses from his audience about whether or not he should judge the pageant. One response said Rush was "not gay or irrelevant enough" to be a judge, and another response said the invitation was a White House plot to keep him off the air for a week. Rush plays Shanklin skit comparing Obama-themed sing-a-longs to Nazi indoctrination Moving on, Rush played sound bites of all the recent examples of Obama "indoctrination" -- i.e., kids singing songs about their president. Then he introduced a new Paul Shanklin "comedy" skit, a fake advertisement for a "kid songs of the revolution" album. The skit featured Shanklin as Obama talking about the album, which included audio bites of German children singing songs. Shanklin as the announcer concluded the "ad" by saying: "Indoctrination hasn't been this much fun since 1933." After the next break, Rush commented on the idea that kids should attend school year-round: LIMBAUGH: Has anybody thought about -- we all know why he wants this done. This is just more indoctrination time. Plus, it's a way to get raises for the teachers, which is a big union supporter. More raises -- I mean, they gotta teach year-round? Oh, we need more money. Well, of course, that's the whole plan. And more time to be indoctrinated into Obamaism and so forth. Then Rush got to the next caller, who was a military veteran who served several tours in Afghanistan, and said that Obama should listen to his commanders and send more troops. Rush said that Obama has to satisfy his fringe lunatic base who are "anti-military" and "anti-victory." The next caller on the program didn't agree with Rush's assertion that the American people are uniformed because they're just not wired for politics. Rush denied that he made this assertion, and went on to explain how liberalism is an "emotional pursuit," and that he was heartened how every agenda item Obama is pushing is losing in the polls. Rush concluded that he will always have faith in the majority of the American people. Rush defends "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy" signs Then Rush aired a sound bite of comments Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) recently made about the health care debate. In the clip, Kennedy expressed concern over the "Bury Obamacare With Kennedy" signs that were prevalent at the 9-12 protests in Washington, adding: KENNEDY: My family's seen it up close too much with assassinations and violence in political life. It's a terrible thing when people think that in order to get their point across they have to go to the edge of violent rhetoric and attack people personally. Rush responded to "this dud" Kennedy by defending the signs in question: LIMBAUGH: "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy"? That's uncivil? I'm sorry, Kennedy had died, he was going to be buried. It was his signature issue. It's a bad plan, it's a bad policy. Rush continued: LIMBAUGH: They're focusing on it for a reason. It scares 'em! It's effective! The sign was effective. How many words is it? One, two -- four words! And this guy's doing a town hall meeting about it. Four words! Brevity is the soul of wit. The fewer number of words required to make a point, the more powerful the point. And he wasn't through. He said the debate here's dangerous to the fabric of our country. So, no debate. The debate is dangerous. The debate is dangerous to the fabric. And we're supposed to just shut up, sit down, get out of the way, so these Marxists can have their way with no opposition and do whatever they wanna do. And it doesn't work that way, Congressman Kennedy. After another bite of Kennedy elaborating on his point, Rush claimed that he's "not attacking any of you people personally -- that's what you do." We're not sure how Rush said that with a straight face -- just moments earlier, he referred to Patrick Kennedy as "this dud." Rush came back from the next break with a caller who said it was pathetically comical that we were being made fun of by the French. Rush said that what was really going on was that the French president is going public about what a "naïve little kid" Obama is because the French and British are scared about what Obama said in his UN speech. Rush then cited a recent David Broder column which noted that Obama's "comprehensive approach" to policy "fits uncomfortably with the Constitution." Rush explained -- poorly -- how Obama looks at the Constitution as an obstacle, and sees the Bill of Rights as "negative rights," but that he wants the Constitution to spell out what the government can do to people. Rush added that if all his czars are not unconstitutional, they are "certainly extra-constitutional." At the start of the third hour, Rush added that the "Bury Obamacare" signs were distributed by the anti-abortion group, the American Life League. Rush accused the media of covering up the organization's logo on the signs in all of their pictures of them. Anyway, Rush continued to deliberate whether or not he should judge the Miss America pageant. Rush cracked a few jokes as he read emails from his listeners: LIMBAUGH: Now, among the people who think I should do it are these reasons. "You can say that you're going to be a judge to do research into why women that age are so sad and depressed and unhappy." Well, you don't know this, Rachel, but we've had stories all last week about women are just unhappy. The Huffington Post has a new blog about why women are so unhappy. And I could probably fix that single-handedly. [...] LIMBAUGH: "Once you officially judge beautiful women, it makes you an expert on beautiful women and gives you the right to talk about beautiful women, as it relates to the women's movement." You know, which I've always said, I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it. Then Rush went back to yesterday's topic of Bill Clinton talking about the "vast right wing conspiracy." Rush reminded us that the VRWC was a creation by Hillary Clinton to distract from the fact that her husband had "unzipped his pants" with an intern. Rush continued to imply that the VRWC only referred to the Lewinsky scandal -- ignoring his role in pushing conspiracies like the Vince Foster murder. Rush went on to air a few talking heads discussing Bill Clinton's recent remarks, most of whom noted Rush's role in the VRWC of today and the 1990s. One clip featured Donna Brazile on CNN, describing how Rush said he was working to make sure Obama failed. Rush responded: "Damn straight it is. Happily, proudly shout it and say it as often as necessary." After the break, Rush read transcript from Hillary Clinton's interview with Matt Lauer when she first talked about -- according to Rush -- the vast right wing conspiracy. Rush said the whole notion that the VRWC set in motion the Lewinsky scandal "is absurd." Rush: Only the women "who bought into militant feminism in the early '70s on, are miserable and unhappy and unfulfilled" The next caller on the program thought Rush should be a judge in the pageant, which got Rush talking about Maria Shriver's upcoming series about "the state of 21st-century U.S. women." LIMBAUGH: Well, last week we had these stories about how women are unhappy and miserable and unfulfilled, and of course the answer to that is only those who bought into militant feminism in the early '70s on, are miserable and unhappy and unfulfilled. After another break, Rush was still talking about the Shriver series, and read a U.K. Guardian article about a new book about why women have sex (Dear Limbaugh Wire readers: Sorry). Rush gracefully segued from here to his next topic, Hillary Clinton: LIMBAUGH: What better interval than to go back to a Hillary Clinton sound bite: Why do women have sex? Ask that question when looking at a picture of Hillary. And the question becomes not why do women have sex, but do women have sex? Sigh. Anyway, Rush aired a Hillary campaign ad from the primaries which criticized Obama for not holding any hearings in the Senate about the war in Afghanistan. Next, Rush aired a couple of soundbite montages of Larry King's interview with Muammar Gadhafi. Then, Rush took a caller who was concerned about the indoctrination of our children, and asked how long people should wait before they "take action" and take up arms? Rush side-stepped the violent implications of the caller's questions and retold a story of a local South Florida teacher who was really liberal and made her students and their parents watch An Inconvenient Truth. The final caller on the program was a former Miss America contestant (in 1960, apparently), who told Rush that he should judge the pageant. Zachary Aronow and Zachary Pleat contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire. Highlights Outrageous comments LIMBAUGH: And now cap-and-trade's in trouble. Boxer, Kerry set to introduce climate bill in the Senate, but they wanna change the name. John Kerry said that "It's not cap and trade, it's a pollution reduction bill." Kerry said, "I don't know what cap-and-trade means. I don't think the average American does." The average American does, Senator Kennedy, and it -- that's why the average American is calling it cap and tax, and that is why you have to change it, because the American people do understand it. U.S. Northeast may have coldest winter in a decade, from Bloomberg News, details coming up. [...] LIMBAUGH: I wanted to thank you because you have -- you have -- you've made an excellent point here that I have often -- another thing that I have lamented for years. And that is, why in the world do we accept the premise for every issue that the left puts forth? Why are we even debating a health care bill? I mean, it's a bad bill. Now, the Republicans are doing the right thing here by staying away from it. But they put forth their legislation, they put forth their agenda items, and of course the policy wonks involved -- "Oh, a piece of legislation. Well, will there be a bill? Well, we've got to see the bill because we can't come here and not do bills. We can't come here and not pass a bill." So the Republicans generally say, "Well, when I get a hold that bill, then we'll change that bill." Why do we let them set the agenda? "Well, Rush, they won the election." So? So what? Their agenda's damaging to the country. Their agenda is dangerous. Their agenda will wreck the opportunity for prosperity on the parts of millions and millions and millions of Americans. Why accept that premise and start nibbling at it around the edges? Why let them set the agenda? And I don't. Now, I'm not a Republican, and I'm not -- in terms of -- I'm a conservative first, and I'm certainly not elected to anything, but I just -- not only should we not let them set the agenda, we should -- because that constantly puts us on the defensive. And of course it's offense, offense, offense, offense. [...] LIMBAUGH: I'm a commentator, just like our president. A president's a commentator, that's all he is. Well, actually, the public impersonation of Obama, or impression, is he's commentators, he's actually doing dastardly stuff behind the scenes while everybody's distracted by this health care debate, probably so we ought to be focusing on it. But I mean, he's taken over the student loan program; it's been nationalized. Mortgage industry has been nationalized. By the time this guy gets through, the taxes and the wealth of 70 percent of the American people will be redistributed to the bottom 30 percent. That's what he's aiming for. [...] LIMBAUGH: I've been mentioning this since I started this show. "Workers" is a communist word. "Workers" is a socialist, a Karl Marx word. Workers of the world unite, workers -- we don't have workers; we have citizens, we have employees. We have associates. When I worked at the Kansas City Royals, the team was owned by Ewing Kauffman, who also owned Marion Labs. He never called one person a worker or an employee. Everybody was an associate, from the custodial staff on up. Workers? All this little leftist lingo trickling into our lexicon. [...] LIMBAUGH: So you had kids here singing the songs, and we meant to get to this yesterday and I didn't get to it -- Obama is among those making a case that American kids aren't spending enough time in school, wants to get rid of the summer vacation and have kids in school year-round. Has anybody thought about -- we all know why he wants this done. This is just more indoctrination time. Plus, it's a way to get raises for the teachers, which is a big union supporter. More raises -- I mean, they gotta teach year-round? Oh, we need more money. Well, of course, that's the whole plan. And more time to be indoctrinated into Obamaism and so forth. [...] LIMBAUGH: Now, this -- I mean, even for this dud, this is a bit beneath the pale. Invoking the Kennedy assassinations and linking them to opponents of socialized health care reform? "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy"? That's uncivil? I'm sorry, Kennedy had died, he was going to be buried. It was his signature issue. It's a bad plan, it's a bad policy. See, they will tell us what we're doing that's working. I know it was just one sign, one sign out of millions, but they'll still tell us what's working. This is my whole point. We all -- too many people look, "Oh no, look at that sign, it's destroying our cause, it's destroying it 'cause they're focusing on that." They're focusing on it for a reason. It scares 'em! It's effective! The sign was effective. How many words is it? One, two -- four words! And this guy's doing a town hall meeting about it. Four words! Brevity is the soul of wit. The fewer number of words required to make a point, the more powerful the point. And he wasn't through. He said the debate here's dangerous to the fabric of our country. So, no debate. The debate is dangerous. The debate is dangerous to the fabric. And we're supposed to just shut up, sit down, get out of the way, so these Marxists can have their way with no opposition and do whatever they wanna do. And it doesn't work that way, Congressman Kennedy. [...] LIMBAUGH: That's it. That's all we need to hear. He's just described his own side. Go to the edge of violent rhetoric, attack people personally, attack their motivations without attacking just the issue. We are attacking the issue. We're not attacking any of you people personally -- that's what you do. Simple case of projection. [...] LIMBAUGH: Damn straight it is. Happily, proudly shout it and say it as often as necessary. Ladies' man LIMBAUGH: Now, among the people who think I should do it are these reasons. "You can say that you're going to be a judge to do research into why women that age are so sad and depressed and unhappy." Well, you don't know this, Rachel, but we've had stories all last week about women are just unhappy. The Huffington Post has a new blog about why women are so unhappy. And I could probably fix that single-handedly. [...] LIMBAUGH: "Once you officially judge beautiful women, it makes you an expert on beautiful women and gives you the right to talk about beautiful women, as it relates to the women's movement." You know, which I've always said, I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it. [...] LIMBAUGH: You know, interesting -- I was just checking some media news during the break, and get this. Sometime in October, NBC News is gonna do a month-long series of reports -- here, let me call it up, I want to get this in -- Maria Shriver is doing it, a month-long series of reports on the state of women in America. Well, last week we had these stories about how women are unhappy and miserable and unfulfilled, and of course the answer to that is only those who bought into militant feminism in the early '70s on are miserable and unhappy and unfulfilled. [...] LIMBAUGH: What better interval than to go back to a Hillary Clinton sound bite: Why do women have sex? Ask that question when looking at a picture of Hillary. And the question becomes not why do women have sex, but do women have sex?

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