Media Praise Kim Jong-Il

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RUSH: Kim Jong-il is now Kim Jong-dead, and the news media is making a business fuss over how the North Korean media and the people on the street have been weeping at the sad news.  Of course they wept in the Soviet Union when Stalin died, too.  And they'll weep when Obama dies, and even the prisoners in the gulags wept when Stalin died.  Tear gas will do that to you.  North Korea is nothing more than one giant Soviet gulag. 

Listen to this media montage.

MEADE:  Smart and ruthless.

WILLIAMS:  Diplomats who dealt with him describe Kim as shrewd and calculating.

SCARBOROUGH:  In a demented sort of way, brilliant.

HAAS:  Tactically brilliant.

RADCHENKO: A very cunning person and very smart person.

MITCHELL:  Was profoundly important around the world.  I actually met him when I traveled there with Madeleine Albright.

RUSH:  Wow.  That was Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.  "I actually met Kim Jong-il."  Wow, "I actually met him when I traveled there with Madeleine Albright."  Meanwhile, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann are stupid.  Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann are "dumb" and "stupid," but Kim Jong-il was "mercurial," "enigmatic." That's how the AP described it. His people are starving. They're eating dog.  They wish they had dog.  Yeah, it's gotten worse, those that are still alive wish they had dog. 

Bush was the devil.  George W. Bush was stupid, and he was the devil.  He was the devil incarnate and Kim Jong-il, now Kim Jong-dead, very cunning, very smart person, profoundly important around the world.  "I actually met him when I traveled there with Madeleine Albright." Speaking of Madeleine Albright, here she is, a montage of her on Kim Jong-il, now Kim Jong-dead, between 2003-2006.

ALBRIGHT:  He said that he would really have loved to have been a movie director.  He knew a lot about American movies and had suggestions for Oscar nominations and, you know, he also liked American sports, he liked Michael Jordan.  It was possible to talk with him.  He's not a nut.  I think that's the main kind of point.  I think that it's important actually not to make fun.  He wanted me to e-mail with him.  I think the thing that's interesting, Larry, is I do not believe that he's crazy.  I know a lot of people have said that.  I don't think so.