Rush Limbaugh is being attacked for trying to buy the St. Louis Rams. That fine if the the attackers would deal with facts. The are accusing him of say slavery had a beneficial side, and generally summarizing his program as racist. I have listened to his show on occasion for 17 years. He is not a racist. It is sad that "professionals" participate in this and allow it to happen. If he said these things, the real journalist could prove it. Are there any real journalist left.

Here is Rush's defense is his own words. As usual, it will convince any clear thinking individual.

There is a genuine full-fledged smear campaign being orchestrated by liberal sportswriters and picked up by other liberals in the State-Controlled Media that it's breathtaking. I'm used to being taken out of context, but we have sourced it, we have found where it was found, these fake, totally made up quotes attributed to me which are being repeated without any fact-checking at all by liberal sportswriters. The interesting thing about this to me is I think back to Tom Brokaw and Tom Friedman saying, "Oh, the Internet is a sewer. They need us, professional journalists with filters. The Internet is a sewer out there, you can read anything, people believe everything that's out there, Tom, and, yes, our professionalism, we're highly trained professionals, and only we have the ability to filter the stench that is the sewer of the Internet."

All right, fine. Only professional journalists have the ability to wander through the sewer and figure out what's valid and what isn't. So a bunch of professional journalists are believing everything in the sewer, they're not checking it at all, they're not fact-checking, they are embarrassing themselves, and the sound bite roster today is largely about this. I'm in a dilemma here over whether to waste valuable broadcast time talking about some of this. So I'm going to mix the two.

There was a guy, a sportswriter on MSNBC yesterday morning. Zirin was his name, Dave Zirin from TheNation.com. And then we had Bryan Burwell of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And a guy named Drew Sharp and numerous personalities on ESPN have repeated that quote and another quote, both of them totally fabricated. It is breathtaking at his. There is no way anybody could have made -- and they say the statement happened in 1998. They all say that. Well, the guy that posted it, his name is "Cobra," by the way. That's his moniker on the Internet. You can hide and be anonymous on the Internet and he's been posting it all over the place, and he claims that he got it from a book.

By the way, the publisher is Nation Books in New York and the quote, he said he got it from a book written by some guy named Huberman, Huberman's book, 101 Worst People in America or whatever. It was published in 2006. The problem is he was spreading it in 2005. We know who the source of this is. We know that the guy that wrote the book did not source the quote! Nobody can source it because it wasn't ever made. I never said it. And look at all of these people who are repeating it without checking, and these are the people who tell us that they are the professionals, that they are the ones we should trust to weed out what's garbage and what's not garbage in the "sewer," they say that is the Internet. They are the sewer! They are the sewer, and they are in the midst of it...

I said that in 1998? I guarantee you the Clinton war room would have been all over it! In 1998? This quote sat dormant for 11 years and all of a sudden shows up with a vengeance in conjunction with a report that I am a minority participant, minority participant in a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams? You would think... You know, I'm not hard to reach. My office isn't hard to reach and the radio show is not hard to listen to.

Just find the radio and turn it on. Hit the seek button and you'll find me all over the dial. Whatever happened to journalists calling people and saying, "Did you actually say this? I'm doing a story on blah, blah, blah. Did you actually say this?" They didn't want to take the chance I didn't say it. They wanted the excuse to run the fabricated quote. They wanted the opportunity to do it. These people are scum. They are literal professional scum and they are responsible in many ways for the deteriorating standards and quality of journalism. They are leading the pack. They are found on both the news side and the sports side, and they are doing everything they can to promote disunity and discord throughout our culture and society while holding themselves up in their own minds as great unifiers and people who care only about social justice. When they're basically just incompetent, irresponsible, impersonators of journalism.

Here is an article and some good discussion on why America is not the greatest nation in the world.

On a relative measure, this is the greatest time and place in human history. Truth is people are people. It is the founders and the constitution that set this nation on its current path. There are more free, peaceful, healthy nations today (and hence, people around the globe), because of America. Americans are people like any other. Striving for freedom, looking for love in friends and family, and desiring to have good triumph over evil, both internally and externally. It is our freedom to innovate, share our ideas, and explore our spiritual side on our own terms, that make us great. Americans are probably not the happiest people in the world, but I think much of that is because we are being informed by the likes of this author. I have heard all my life that men are bad, the U.S. Government does bad things to the rest of the world, religion is bad, and Americans are bad. I have also heard that criminals need our sympathy, social programs will solve our problems, sex all the time is good, material things are good, and to look for happiness externally. Freedom is not always easy to handle. When our dark side causes problems, we have only ourselves to blame. And that can be difficult at times.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/10/13/one_nation_under_illusion/

By MATT MOORE and LOUISE NORDSTROM, Associated Press Writers –1 hr 13 mins ago

STOCKHOLM – After cleaning up in the Nobel science prizes, the United States scored another coup: the peace prize for a president less than nine months in office.

At a time when some had begun to question how long America's pre-eminence in science and diplomacy could last, nine of the 11 nominees who won or shared this year's five prizes handed out so far are American.

On Monday, the economics prize will be announced, and Americans are the favorites.

The scientists were recognized for work that led to breakthroughs in cancer therapies and antibiotics, and brought the world digital photography and high-speed Internet.

The chief of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences sees two big reasons for the U.S. dominance in science: money and ambition.

Gunnar Oquist, permanent secretary of the group that picks the chemistry and physics winners, cited a U.S. willingness to pour money into research and an eye for the big breakthrough, as opposed to incremental steps forward.

Europe and Asia have their share of Nobel Prizes, but of the 816 winners since the first awards were made in 1901, 309 have been American. The next closest is Britain, with some 114 winners.

NYT - As the health care debate moves to the floor of Congress, most of the serious proposals to fulfill President Obama’s original vow to curb costs have fallen victim to organized interests and parochial politics.

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Peter R. Orszag, the White House budget director, says containing costs will be a priority as health care legislation advances.

And now the last two initiatives with real bite that are still in contention — a scaled-back “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health plans and a nonpartisanMedicare budget-cutting commission — are under furious assault.

Most economists’ favorite idea for slowing the growth of health care spending was ending the income tax exemption for employer-paid health insurance to make lower-cost plans more attractive. But that would hurt workers with big benefit plans, and a labor-union lobbying blitz helped kill that idea by the Fourth of July.

Lobbying by doctors, hospitals and other health care providers, meanwhile, dimmed the prospects of various proposals to cut into their incomes, including allowing government negotiation of Medicare drug prices and creating a government insurer with the muscle to lower fee payments.

“The lobbyists are winning,” said Representative Jim Cooper, a conservative Tennessee Democrat who teaches health policy.

I couldn't fit all of my core beliefs above:

We live in the best time and place in the history of mankind.

In a free and educated society, the whole will make more right decisions than wrong.

The US is the greatest nation to ever exist. The U.S. Constitution lays the foundation for a free and just society where we can truly focus our energy toward the pursuit of happiness.

If you are not happy, look inward. This world is too beautiful, and life is too short to spend it unhappy. If you think sacrificing any freedoms will bring happiness, look inward.

Religion is a net plus as each of us searches for answers to the mysteries within us and in this wonderful world.

In each of us there exist darkness and light. Both are necessary to survive, but in the end we need to let our goodness and the goodness of mankind shine.

TimesOnLine - The Nobel Peace Prize is a notoriously difficult award to predict, but yesterday's decision was clearly a political choice, with three of the past six peace awards going to Bush adversaries.

In 2002 the prize went to Jimmy Carter as an explicit rejection of the Bush presidency in the build-up to the Iraq war. In 2005 Mohamed ElBaradei, the UN atomic agency chief who had clashed with Washington over the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, was honoured. In 2007 Al Gore received the prize for his warnings on climate change, denounced by President Bush as a liberal myth.

KISIT21 - The initial reaction this morning, across the board was, surprise, too soon, and what has he done? Obama himself said he was "shocked". He was nominated for the award about 12 days into his presidency. This is 6 days after SNL finally and accurately criticized BHO for not accomplishing anything. Note on SNL skit; CNN did a segment on fact checking the accuracy of SNL. I don't remember them doing that to Bush and Palin.

NYT - KABUL, Afghanistan — A car packed with explosives blew up beside the Indian Embassy on Thursday morning, leaving 17 people dead in what India’s foreign secretary said was a direct attack on the embassy compound, the second in two years.

The bombing comes at a delicate moment. President Obama is deciding whether to increase troop levels in Afghanistan, as the top military commander here, Gen.Stanley A. McChrystal, has advised.

Larry Kudlow - ...year-to-date, while the S&P 500 is up 18 percent—a great showing no doubt—gold is up even more. The precious metal is up 21 percent. In other words, measured in true, gold-backed purchasing power, stocks have really done nothing this year. Zip. It is most disappointing.

As Afghanistan takes the lives of 8 more Americans, the Democrats continue their march.

From politicsdaily.com

After Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) yelled "You lie!" when President Obama told Congress that illegal immigrants would not benefit from health care reform, the president responded, "That's not true." But behind the scenes, Democrats scrambled to make sure that the president was right.

In the days that followed, congressional staff added language to the Senate Finance Committee requiring verification of applicants' citizenship or legal residency to receive benefits. The bill already bill stipulated that illegal immigrants would not receive benefits, a provision also in the House version.

On Wednesday, Senate Republicans tried to push Democrats one step further with an amendment from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) to require a photo ID to verify a person's identity before he or she could apply for Medicaid or children's health insurance. Grassley said that photo identification would cut down on fraud and is routinely required for everyday activities like getting a fishing license. "Should states require more to get a $10 fishing license than to get health care"? Grassley asked.

This picture of Obama was in the Boston Globe this week. Can you imagine if a conservative published this.

American Spectator:

ACORN's lawyer warned ACORN 15 months ago to begin fixing its massive internal problems or face certain catastrophe. ACORN didn't listen. It let the problems fester.

The advice from Elizabeth Kingsley of Harmon, Curran, Spielberg Eisenberg LLP came in the form of an eerily prophetic legal memo to ACORN dated June 19, 2008, the day before ACORN's national boardfired disgraced founder Wade Rathke.

The memo is a kind of Holy Grail for ACORN researchers...

Founder Wade Rathke might have been wise to adopt an anti-nepotism policy. His brother Dale embezzled $948,000 from ACORN while working there. Even after Wade covered up the theft, he kept Dale on the payroll for eight years. Wade's wife, Beth Butler, and reportedly, his two children also work at ACORN.

Kingsley slams her client for not keeping political activities separate from other activities. "It may be that activities are carried out with adequate independence, but without formal policies and separation of staff functions, there are potential liabilities and problems of proof."

Another global warming setback - George Will column:

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/will100109.php3

The New York Times recently stated that they missed the boat on the Van Jones story. They blames it on being short staffed during the Labor Day weekend. Are you kidding? The New York Times. So, anyway, they decided that they would assign someone to watch Fox News so as not to miss the next one. I guarantee this leads to a detailed story about Fox News bias, lies, and ignorant viewers. Good luck NYT.