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The politico today is uh reporting, but don't be fooled by that.
Politico is reporting today that uh employees at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, including top executives, received more than 170 cut rate loans from countrywide financial as Friends of Angelo.
The investigation revealed that Fannie Mae employees, including an assistant to the CEO, a government relations lobbyist and a vice president for sales, received 153 favorable loans, while 20 VIP loans were issued to employees at Freddie Mac.
The headline is countrywide probe snares Fanny Freddie exacts by Jake Sherman.
But the information about countrywide's latest VIP loans was not uncovered by political or by the watchdog media, the apparatus.
Well, their reporting is courtesy of Congressman Daryl Issa.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's who uncovered it all.
For jobless Americans struggling to, oh, by the way, we have a uh can't have this um uh summer recovery unemployment benefits message in the White House standing by, Mike, because this story uh relates to it for jobless Americans struggling to pay their bills and keep their homes, the restoration of unemployment benefits could keep their crisis from getting worse.
This from AP.
The same might be said of the broader economy.
The Senate expected to vote today to keep providing unemployment benefits for up to 99 weeks to more than five million long-term unemployed by extending the unemployment aid.
Congress will remove one potential drag on the economy.
Analysts say it reduces the likelihood of a double dip recession.
Which, of course, is a total sham.
Here's our special message from the White House.
So we're one-third of the way through the summer of recovery, which I guess means we're one-third recovered.
So things are going to be three times better the end of the month than they were last month, or the end of the summer than they were last month.
CNN congressional Democrats have had a fairly successful time pushing through their agenda since taking control of both chambers of Congress and the White House.
Congress passed items backed by blah, blah, blah, but the most recent wins came Tuesday.
Financial reform bill, Elena Kagan, but that might be the last victories Democrats see for a while.
With both parties starting to pay more attention to midterm elections than legislation.
Democrat strategist Julian Epstein said that there isn't any time left on Congress calendar this year to tackle controversial issues like climate change and immigration reform.
I just don't think there's going to be the time or the ability to develop political consensus on these issues.
Hey, Julian, there isn't political consensus on any of these issues now.
They didn't have political consensus on health care or the financial bills.
Now the headline in the story, Democrats' agenda running out of gas as midterms approach.
For Democrats in close races, any work on controversial issues could hurt them in November.
So again, the story here is not about news.
There is no story.
It's all about, oh no, oh no!
What's going to be the impact on Democrats?
What is going to happen to our precious Democrat buddies and our benefactors?
What is going to happen?
Oh no, that's the entire perspective of news.
Which isn't news.
There isn't any news.
From, let's see, this is uh Cybercast News Service, Terry Jeffrey.
Picking the winners and losers again.
How financial reform discriminates Unless your daughter goes to Wellesley.
Listen to this.
If your child is the correct gender and has the right grades, and you are poor enough to get financial aid or rich enough to pay the nearly $50,000 in annual fees, your daughter can attend Hillary Clinton's alma mater of Wellesley and put herself in position to capitalize on a special provision in the financial reform bill that just passed Congress,
just signed into law by the president that mandates the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve Banks, and all other federal financial regulatory agencies to recruit people like her as workers.
If your child is a boy, forget it.
He does not qualify to benefit from this provision.
If your daughter decides that she would rather attend the University of Virginia or Michigan or Notre Dame, or Georgetown or even Harvard, Princeton or Yale, you can also forget it.
She's just not the right kind of girl.
That's because to benefit from this provision, you must attend a women's college, such as Mount Holyoke, Smith, Bryn Maw, or Wellesley.
So you have to go to a women's college, have to be the correct gender, have the right grades, and the right money somehow, and your daughter can attend Hillary's alma mater and get a special provision to exempt yourself from the payment.
These are among the places where the financial reform bill mandates that federal financial regulatory agencies must recruit workers.
Each agency shall take affirmative steps to seek diversity in the workforce of the agency at all levels of the agency in a manner consistent with applicable law.
Basically, what was happened to the Democrats have just passed, and Obama has just signed a financial bill that imposes quotas on financial institutions, racial quotas, gender quotas, that is hiring for minorities and women, not race neutral and not sex neutral.
There are quotas throughout the financial regulatory reform bill.
Why should the government give a statutory advantage in the job market to a young lady who is a full-time boarder at Sweet Briar as opposed to a part-time student at San Jose State?
The answer is leftist elitism.
Only a few decades ago there were hundreds of all female colleges in the country, including some state-run colleges and many more small Catholic colleges than there are today.
Now, the website of the women's college coalition, which builds itself as an association of women's colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada lists 54 schools as members.
So leftist elites, this is again the ruling class, picking the winners and losers.
And the reason these schools are exempted and the students that go to these schools are given assistance and aid is because of how they're going to be educated, or I should say, shaped and formed and flaked.
It's how they're going to be taught.
It's what they are going to be when they come out of these places.
Perfectly suited to move easily into areas of importance in the ruling class.
Pure and simple.
And it's been codified now.
In the financial regulatory reform bill.
Caroline Baum, the author of Just What I Said, is a Bloomberg news columnist.
She's written a piece entitled Obama Omits Jobs Killed or Thwarted from the Tally.
This piece, this piece, folks, is a triple play of teachable moments.
It's an opinion piece.
It is about how nothing is real, which I have pointed out constantly.
It's about how Obama has to keep saying he supports business when he doesn't.
And it adds in how he's not really a pro-education president either.
Can you believe they're still touting that silly metric?
Jobs, jobs created, jobs saved.
When I heard last week that the White House would be announcing a number of jobs created or saved as a result of the stimulus bill, my first reaction was embarrassment.
As it ought to be for any real thinking economist.
And Caroline's point is this.
If you're going to fantasize about jobs created or saved, as Vice President Bite Me and Obama do, you have to subtract jobs destroyed or prevented.
You can't have it just one way.
Imagine how Christina Roomer must feel.
The chairman of the pro President's Council of Economic Advisors was dressed in a cheery salmon colored jacket, a compliment to the upbeat news she had to deliver on July 14th.
The stimulus enacted in February, which subsequently grew to $862 billion, increased GDP by 2.7% to 3.4% relative to where it would have been, and added anywhere from 2.5 million to 3.6 million jobs compared with an ex stimulus baseline.
By this estimate, the Recovery Act has met the president's goal of saving or creating three and a half million jobs two quarters earlier than anticipated, she said.
More than two and a half million non-farm jobs have been lost since the reform act was enacted in February 2009, all of them in the private sector, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and yet they still talk about jobs created or saved.
So how does the Council of Economic Advisors arrive at these numbers?
It uses two methods, she said, Romer said.
The first is a standard macroeconomic forecasting model that estimates the multiplier effect of fiscal.
Look it.
I don't need to read this whole thing.
What Caroline Baum does here in this piece.
It's a great job of breaking down economic theory and reality into easy to understand nuggets of common sense.
She outlines all these models, these Ivy League models that the BAM regime depends on to make economic decisions, or at least to fool Americans that what they're doing is good.
But none of it's real.
It's just like all these global warming bottles.
None of it's new.
They're real.
They're plugging in numbers into models and theories that they have sat around discussing in the faculty lounge, and they are saying that all of the things they're doing are working when they're not working because they theorize they would work.
Oh, nothing is real.
It's all made up.
It's all a mirage.
While we are losing jobs, while we are hemorrhaging money, the administration says they've saved or created three and a half million jobs and it would have been even worse if they hadn't acted.
Thank you.
It's fraud.
It's a total lie.
A 100% disconnect between the regime and reality.
We'll be right back.
And here's another one.
This is from the uh the uh well so-called associated press.
This is just the the apparatus of the ruling class, government watchdogs, mortgage program not working, bailout watchdogs say, Obama mortgage program failing to help homeowners facing foreclosure.
It's not working.
Treasury department has failed to fix the program.
The bailouts provided up to $50 billion for the mortgage modification program so far.
About $248 million in bailout money has been spent on the program, and it has not worked.
Again, this is another one of these ideas that the ruling class got from some model produced by some degreed economist at Harvard.
Nothing, not one aspect of anything economically they have done has worked in any way other than to make the situation worse.
Some of them in the regime are doing this on purpose, others are just blind bats, thinking that they're stupid panacea theories.
They're they're they're utopian theories are going to work, and they've never been anything but theories.
They're never tested by dynamism.
Just a bunch of egghead intellectuals who've never been in the real world, have never been in the private sector, who think they know better than everybody else who does make the private sector work, how to make it work.
One giant experiment destroying the country because of a bunch of arrogant, condescending SOBs who think they're smarter than everybody else.
And who are driven By an ideology that resents individual liberty, freedom, and success.
Here's Cindy in Chicago.
Great to have you on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
Oh, it's great to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
For a long, long, long, long, long, long time.
And happy National Junk Food Day.
Oh, thank you very much.
I I I I know you'd like that.
Um listen, I'm one of your many spies, because I know you say that you know you don't watch other ch uh, you know, networks and programs and and whatnot.
So anyway, um I'm talking about the Shirley saga, of course.
I was watching CNN, and I'm having a senior moment.
I can't think of the the the guy, the the the host's name, but he's a tall black bald guy.
What time what time of day?
Why what does it matter?
They're all the same.
Well, it just so that you could zero in.
You you c you played a clip Did you say a tall black bald guy?
Yeah, you you played a clip of him earlier today.
What's a black bald guy?
Oh, you mean a bald black guy?
Oh bald black guy.
I was gonna say, I'm sitting here, my gosh.
Well what am I on uh I'm sorry.
I'm nervous, I'm nervous, I'm you're telling me you have a senior moment.
You knew a term I don't know about.
I'm I'm saying what I never heard of a black bald guy.
I'm having a senior moment.
You wouldn't believe what I'm envisioning here.
Okay, so you know what I'm talking about.
Well, I know.
I don't know who you're talking about.
The only guy I know was he fat?
No, no.
You quoted him earlier today.
You played you played a segment from his show.
Anyway, he's he's in the middle of the day.
He's he starts like maybe in an hour from now or something.
Anyway, uh he was the first person I'm just you know, I'm I'm I'm stuck here.
Uh you you've got me trying to picture somebody black balls, and I'm I'm I'm not I bald and I'm not From CNN, you can't think of it in the in the in the early afternoon.
Well, I don't uh early after no, I don't have CNN.
I've got I've got I've got two monitors here.
Uh one of them has the NFL network on it, the other has Fox.
So I I don't have CNN on, so I don't I don't know who's on CNN at what time of day.
I I him today.
Uh pick one.
It doesn't matter.
Um they're all interchangeable.
Okay, but can I just tell you what what happened?
Well, yeah, I mean that's the point.
Yeah.
Okay.
I just thought that if you wanted to verify what I'm saying, you know, so that somebody doesn't say that I said something that wasn't true.
Anyway, it was CNN and it's this black guy, and uh he was interviewing Shirley.
Now he was the first person to interview her.
The first one.
So, you know, you you have to say that he did better reporting than other people.
So this is before she got handled and now she's doing nuances and whatever.
This is the original, original, original.
Well, of course, she was livid.
And she mentions three people that that she was furious with.
Number one was Cox.
Now, I've watched these channels.
Nobody mentions Cox.
How come nobody's interviewed Cox, you know, the undersecretary person who told her to pull over on the side of the the road.
You're talking about Peter Cox.
No.
Well, whoever the undersecretary is.
That was the person that told Shirley to pull over to the side of the road so she could resign.
Uh Peter Cox, okay.
Okay.
How come nobody's interviewed him?
Okay, so she was mad at Cox.
She was mad at the NAACP, and you will love this.
That's why I wish you would find the tape.
You'd love this.
She was furious with Roland Martin.
That was the third person.
And those are the only three people.
And if you find the tape, it's a CNN tape, you will see where she says, and Rowan Martin.
And of course the guy, because she's talking to a CNN person, you know, says, Well, why are you mounting Rowan Martin or I forget how it went, but anyway, she says thirdly, why?
Pardon?
He threw her under the bus.
She says, he didn't bother to call me.
He could have called me.
And so now Oh, she was upset that Roland Martin, who's probably is this is that the is that the the the black bald guy?
No, Roland Martin's not is he bald?
I don't think he's bald.
He's the fat guy.
Yeah, he's a fat guy.
No, no, no.
The host is the bald guy.
The host.
Uh.
Uh the uh You played the team.
Oh, let's see.
He said she was playing.
Campbell Brown.
Huh?
Campbell Brown.
No, that's a woman.
Oh.
Campbell Brown is a woman.
Oh.
Larry King.
You're so funny.
I just love it.
You're so funny.
But the point that I was trying to make, Rush, is that CNN, I don't know how they could do this with a straight face.
Rowan Martin is sitting there with John King, and they're playing a clip of you about the show thing, and Ronald Martin's sitting right there in about two or three hours.
Oh, okay.
We played that.
So he we yeah.
Well, now I finally know what you're talking about.
Since you mentioned they were talking about me.
Yeah, we played that soundbite earlier, I think.
Thank you, Cindy, very much.
You know, that this is incredible.
It never I I it never ceases to amaze me, the things that light people's fire.
My email is overflowing with people guessing who the black bald guy is on CNN that Cindy was talking about.
And I'm saying, how many can there be?
Everybody, who was it?
Was it Joe Johns?
Was it Tony Harris?
Was it Roland Martin?
Uh I wouldn't know.
I I really do not have CNN on here.
My whole point is, what does it matter which anchor it is on CNN?
They are all cardboard cutouts.
They're all apparatchics.
What what does it matter?
I mean, John King, Candy Crowley, Larry King, Campbell Brown, Roland Martin, Tony Joe, whatever.
They're all the same.
What what comes out of each of their mouths is identical.
So it doesn't.
Yeah, I think Larry's still there.
Just say it was Tony Apparachic.
That's all we have to know.
Doesn't matter.
Joe Aparachic, Campbell Apparatchik, Larry Apparatch.
If it's a CNN, I'm telling you a robot.
They're all obedient servants.
They're all identical.
They're the same.
Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city's manager earns an annual salary of $800,000.
An overflow crowd packed a city council meeting in Bell, California, mostly Hispanic city of 38,000, about 10 miles southeast of Los Angeles, to call for the resignation of Mayor Oscar Hernandez and other city officials.
The residents left standing outside the chamber, banged on the doors and shouted, Get out!
Fuerra!
It was the first council meeting since the LA Times reported about five days ago that Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo earns nearly $800,000 a year with annual 12% raises, and that Bell California pays its police chief $457,000, More than the L.A. police chief makes in a city of 3.8 million people, Bell, California's council members earn almost $100,000 for part-time work.
Thank you.
A town of 38,000 people.
A free uh feeding frenzy at the at the public trough.
Here's Thomas Jefferson in 1816.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Another Thomas Jefferson, quote, whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
Well, obviously the citizens of Bell California have had enough.
Because they're the ones paying for this.
How many citizens do you think are making 800 grand?
How many citizens of Bell California do you think are making 100 grand?
And these are just the salaries.
What do you think the pensions and the uh benefits packages of these public officials happen to be Adriana in Palocedra, California?
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Welcome.
Hello, Rush.
How are you today?
Very good, thank you.
Mago Digga, mega dedos to you, and God bless you for everything you do.
I swear to God.
Thank you very much.
And praise the Lord, you're out there.
But I was reading an article out of the weekly standard, May 3rd, 2010 issue, and you've been talking about who's running this country.
We fought a plague of A student.
A students that did everything they were told, like you said.
They got A's on everything they did.
They passed, they were the teacher's pets, whatever you want to call them.
And now we have them running our country, and they have no idea what they're doing.
Um like a good business would have always adhere to that maxim, which is A students work for B students.
Or as a businessman uh would also say, or put it, B students work for C students, A students teach.
Yeah, I mean my dad told me that.
Running the country.
My dad told me that when I was growing up.
Yeah.
Um that's why I always shot to be a C student or maybe even D. Yeah, I'm this.
I wanted to run the country sometime.
It is right on.
It talks about why it's so irksome being over or governed by the Obami.
Well, you know, William M. Buckley had his own saying on this, and I'm gonna have to paraphrase it, but he's I I'd rather be run or governed by the first five hundred names of the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty.
Might have been five thousand, or but I think he said the first five hundred names, but regardless, that's true.
You got the theoreticians.
You've you got the butt kissers, uh, and uh and you and you've got the arrogant perfectionists.
Yep, no question about it.
Thanks, Adriana.
This uh this next story uh is from the UK Daily Mail.
And I've I've read this a number of times.
I've tried to tell myself it isn't funny.
Every time I've read it.
But it's not working.
I I can't I can't read this story without without laughing.
Here here's here's here's the headline of the story.
Police officer blasts innocent man in groin with 50,000 volt taser by accident.
Peter Cox.
Peter Cox.
I would I would give anything to know this guy's middle name.
Johnson Willie.
Peter Cox was outside his partner's home, and a police officer accidentally shot him in the groin and ankle with a 50,000 volt taser.
Peter Cox was given the electric shock after he climbed out of his BMW to talk to officers who had been following him.
He had a brief conversation with them, but suddenly collapsed to the ground in agony when one of the cops discharged the weapon.
In a related story, Peter Cox's doctor said Peter won't be discharging his weapon for the foreseeable future.
Yesterday, Mr. Cox 49 said he was considering legal action against the force after it said the gun had been fired accidentally.
In addition, it later emerged Mr. Cox's car was insured.
The gun had been fired accidentally.
That's what they all say.
It later emerged.
I mean, the writer's having a field day with this story.
Mr. Cox.
Have to treat Cox with the proper respect here.
Anyway, I it's this.
The only thing that'd make this story better is if the guy's name was Mike Sweeney.
If you read the whole thing, I mean I don't I don't want to waste your whole time here, but when he stopped at the home of his partner, Donna Allen 47, Peter Cox, he was going to do some gardening.
He asked he asked the police what they wanted.
He was is going to his partner's house to do some gardening.
Peter Cox was going to his partner's house to do some gardening.
He said, I asked him to park on the other side of the road because we were working on the front garden.
The front garden.
The officer didn't say anything, but he got out of the car, he pulled out a taser, pointed It at me.
I didn't know this at the time, so I just went on with what I was doing, and I got a bag of stone for the garden out of the boot, and then he shot me.
bag of stone?
Mwah!
Thank you.
I mr. Cox denied acting aggressively, aggressively.
He said the taser missed his genitals by three inches.
But Mr. Cox is never the aggressor.
Just ask his girlfriend Donna.
Peter Cox.
Well mannered, everybody knows this.
He continued, I was really shocked.
I didn't know what was going on.
I got one in my groin and one in my ankle.
So Mr. Cox gets tasered, said he was shocked.
It really hurt.
It just stunned me completely.
It felt like somebody was stabbing me with a fork all over my body.
He added, the police should not be armed with tasers if they can't use them properly.
Which is what his Peter Cox's girlfriend Donna said.
It was incredibly painful.
It totally paralyzed me.
Mr. Cox was stiff as a board.
He could not move.
Paramedics treated Mr. Cox, who suffers from a debilitating syndrome, an autoimmune disorder which can cause paralysis on the front lawn in the front garden of the home.
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police confirmed the officers had wanted to speak to Mr. Cox as they suspected the BMW car he was driving was not insured.
Now we get to the meat of the story.
Cox wasn't insured, so he was tasered.
Let this be a lesson to those of you who don't buy Obamacare.
The force later issued a state of cops, later issued a statement saying that taser is a handheld device which discharges an electrical current to temporarily incapacitate a person.
Yes, handheld devices do on occasion discharge and temporarily incapacitate people when used correctly.
The effects are short-lived, but are designed to give officers control of the offender and the situation.
That's right, handheld devices do on occasion discharge and temporarily incapacitate people when used correctly.
Statement continued on Tuesday morning.
Officer stopped a man in Bridgewater suspected of driving a vehicle without insurance.
The man appeared to become aggressive.
The officer removed his taser in accordance with protocol on lowering the taser.
It was accidentally discharged.
People are now looking into this.
You know the British media, I have said it over and over again.
They are so much better than ours.
I mean, this reporter's way with words conjures up images.
Just don't stop.
The uh incident is the latest episode to raise questions over the use of tasers by police.
Uh it has been suggested that uh Raul Mote shot himself in the head during negotiations with police because of an involuntary action caused by being shot with a weapon.
Since being introduced in April of 2004, tasers have been used in more than 5400 incidents in England and Wales.
And Peter Cox ended up getting one in the front garden.
Let's just hope Mike Sweeney is never tasered back.
Wall Street Journal has a take here on the Quinnipiac University poll, which we mentioned earlier that basically says that um whites, men independents are deserting Obama in droves.
And I see this, and part of me goes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is by the way, maybe somebody in the police community out there can answer.
Do you police have to cock a taser before firing it?
Anyway, I'm looking at this story about all of these people deserting Obama, the whites, men independence.
These people, you know, you read about these disapproval numbers daily now, and it's just such a shame that these people didn't find out what they were voting on two years ago.
You really it's just a shame that they didn't find they have to we had to go through all of this destruction for these people to find out what they voted for.
By the way, Baghdad Bob Gibbs unable to answer any questions about who fired Shirley Sherrod, the White House involvement, he said the White House has apologized.
And that Vilsack is going to apologize on behalf of the administration.
Gibbs is apologizing.
But Obama didn't do anything here.
Obama didn't even know about it.
Gibbs says they have to look at what has happened over the last 24 hours, how we got into this mess.
And Vilsack is trying to find Shirley Sherrod to apologize.
So everybody's apologizing to her.
Gibbs apologizing.
Well, he's got to look into it.
He doesn't really know what happened.
He knows Obama had nothing to do with it.
But on behalf of Vilsack, they're apologizing at the White House, and Vilsack's trying to get hold of her.
There's a CNN, I guess.
I mean, that's everybody.
She's with the bald black guy or the black bald guy.
Probably applying for a job.
You know, the co-host with Elliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker on a nighttime talk show.
Why not?
Everybody else has one.
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I'm laughing myself silly here.
I'm watching Gibbs try to go through this press briefing as he's been grilled about Shirley Sherrod.
Folks, this is the sorriest regime ever.
Gibbs isn't even a good apparatchic.
Says we asked what we've happened over the last 24 hours to figure out how we how we got into this.
One of the reporters, and he's going, oh, we're so sorry here at the White House.
We're so terribly sorry.
One of the reporters said, look, she's watching.
You don't know where she is, Gibbs, but she's watching right now.
And uh, and it so if you could talk directly to her if you want to, what would you say to her?
Oh, we're so sorry.
We're we're we we're we're terribly sorry here at the regime.
Is Will is Vilsack still gonna have a job?
Oh, I don't know.
I haven't talked to the president about that.
Uh we're gonna look into all these.
We're gonna figure out what happened here in the last 24 hours.
You know, one thing to good, one thing good to come from this journalist business.
One thing that we have found out, it should encourage anybody who is afraid they might be too biased, too hateful, or too stupid to work for a newspaper.
That the field is wide open.
Anyone can be a tool of this regime.
You don't have to have an IQ of five.
And you could be a good apparatchic, serve the ruling class.