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July 14, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 14, 2005, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
You may think you know what the big news is today, folks, but you haven't a clue.
That's why you're here.
Greetings.
Oh, here's the here's the big news.
Men can also offer their babies a nipple.
Uh infants in the sucking phase of development are also soothed by their father's breasts.
Right here, who's got him?
I'm not making it up.
It's an actual news story.
I just I just got it.
Anyway, greetings and welcome, ladies and gentlemen, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
It's the excellence in broadcasting network, and L. Rushbow, firmly ensconced here as America's anchorman behind the golden EIB microphone at the Distinguished Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
What were we all doing one week ago today?
What were we all doing seven days ago?
We were um we were all commenting on the terrorist bombing in London.
Now it is seven days later, and as we mark the week after the terrorist bombing in London, as much of the world joins all of England in noting the day.
Uh in Baghdad, how many how many children were blown to bits by a car bomber while uh being fed candy by American soldiers?
Nineteen kids blown to bits while uh being fed candy by American soldiers.
In Israel, how many how many children have been blown to bits in just this past week?
Uh elsewhere around the world, how many volunteers have been blown to bits uh just in this past week and yet and yet in Washington, the party out of power and the media that wants them back in power focused on their issue one, which is the non-story of Carl Rove.
We don't care whether he's innocent or not, we don't care if he's charged or not.
We want his head, that's what they're saying.
They don't care if he's innocent, they don't care if he's guilty, they don't care if he's charged or not.
It isn't it it strikes me as odd, uh ladies and gentlemen, how the word extremism has hit on two arenas.
In the real world, in the real world, extremists are those who blow up children, but in Washington, at least in the left wing of the beltway, extremists are anybody to the right of Ted Kennedy.
And so we have truth really, really stranger than fiction.
And so while we uh were just one week removed from the bombings in London, this news comes across the wires.
Chuck Schumer and uh what's his face, Joe Wilson are holding a joint press conference this afternoon at three o'clock Eastern time, ladies and gentlemen.
Is that not interesting timing, ladies and gentlemen?
At three o'clock this afternoon, the ambassador, quote unquote Joe Wilson, will have a joint press conference with uh with Chuck Schumer, where they will ask for the suspension of Carl Rove's security clearance.
The White House should suspend Rove uh while this investigation is pending until the plane leak is resolved.
That will be the point.
In light of time reporter Matt Cooper's confirmation at Rove was a source in the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plaim's identity, Schumer and Wilson call for suspension of Rove's security clearance.
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, Ambassador Joe Wilson hold a press conference three o'clock today in the Mansfield room of the U.S. Capitol to call for the suspension of Carl Rove's security clearance until the investigation of the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plaim's identity is resolved.
All right, now why Schumer?
What's Schumer got to do with it?
Joe Wilson says he's nonpartisan.
He's not.
I mean, Joe Wilson is a Democrat hack and always has been.
And I'm gonna tell you what I think about all this.
What I think is I think that Schumer and Wilson and whoever else, I think the Democratic Party hatched this whole thing.
I think they arranged for Wilson to be sent to Niger or go there.
I think they set this all up as a means of undermining the war in Iraq and ultimately the war on terror.
I think Wilson's deeply in bed with the Democrats in weasling his way to Niger with the help of his wife at the CIA.
I think this plot was hatched by him.
He is a liar.
He is a cheapskate.
He is a Democrat hack.
And I think he and his Democrat buddies have been in on this from day one.
Now, why Chuck Schumer?
How long have you guys known each other?
How far back do uh did Joe Wilson and Chuck Schumer go?
Why in the world is sh does Wilson need to go up there with Chuck Schumer at all?
If Wilson, he's already been on the Today Show today, he's already been on, he's being interviews to blogs, ladies and gentlemen.
He was giving interviews to wacko liberal blogs last night, and now he's going to have this press conference.
Why does he have to go out there with Schumer?
Why can't he just go out there on his own?
Why can't Joe Wilson stand up by himself?
Why'd he go out there with his wife even?
Why don't he and Valerie Plain go out there and do this as a joint man and wife team?
You know, do the double dose, do a combo here.
But why Chuck Schumer?
How far back do these two guys go?
I mean, if if he's gonna show up with Schumer, folks, I would love to know just how deep their relationship is.
I would love to know just how far back these two guys go.
I want to know how closely they've worked together.
It'll never happen, but I would love to see emails, cell phone records, hardline phone records, whatever we can get so that we can see the extent to which these two leftists have been strategizing and conspiring over the years.
Because I don't think it's an accident that Joe Wilson's gonna show up with Chuck Schumer at three o'clock at a press conference this afternoon to not call for Rove to be fired now, but to call for his security clearance to be revoked, pending the outcome and the completion of this investigation.
Now, this is being made to look like, oh, you know what, this just snap crackle pop came together today.
This just came together, and these two guys uh, you know, they they're they're both alarmed Americans, very, very troubled over the leaks coming out of the White House and why we've got to get together and save America and so forth.
Remember, this is all just one week after the London bombing, and I ask you to again remember just who the left in this country is focused on as their number one extremist and terrorist, and that is George W. Bush and anybody in his orb.
But I'm telling you, folks, uh there's something really smells to hear as far as Wilson heading up there with Schumer.
I have believed for a long time that Wilson's a Democrat hack.
I have never bought this business that he's nonpartisan.
I know he's contributed to the Kerry campaign.
I know that he was an advisor to the Kerry campaign.
I know he has said over his dead body would he ever vote for a Republican.
He can't he tries to present himself as some disinterested nonpartisan who's here just concerned about the future of his country and upholding American ideals and so forth when the fact is he's a Democrat hack.
There are a lot of Democrats he could have chosen to have this press conference with today.
But when he goes after Chuck Schumer, who's also preparing, busily preparing for the war on judges, as he shelves the war on terror aside.
Schumer's got time to take time out from the war on judges to now meet with a nonpartisan.
So-called nonpartisan, great man, great ambassador, a man whose wife has been outed and her career destroyed and her life threatened, blah, blah, blah.
Let's play the violins.
This is all so much BS.
It's a bunch of smoke and mirrors, and it is a diversion.
The simple fact of the matter is Wilson doesn't have the guts to go out there by himself.
He needs some Democrat standing in.
In fact, I don't know who's responsible for the idea.
I don't know if it's Schumer's idea.
I don't know if it's Wilson's idea, but I will guarantee you the Democratic Party is deeply involved with this Wilson guy.
He's deeply involved with them.
These kinds of press conferences just don't come together on a phone call last night.
Hey, Joe, I got a great idea.
Let's go out and do this because of what's happening here.
This is all part of some plan and strategy, folks, and there's there's there's more to this than meets the eye.
Much more to this than meets the eye.
You know, this is this is uh, as I said, I I I I don't I don't doubt that Wilson has been working with Democrats and weasling his way over to Niger with the help of his wife at the CIA.
Uh and I I do think this was a plot hatched by him and his Democrat buddies from day one, and maybe even some rogue members of the CIA who were hellbent on destroying George W. Bush.
We know that he's a liar.
The Senate Select Committee has found that Joe Wilson is a liar.
Senator Pat Roberts found him lying on numerous occasions.
It's part of an appendix to the Senate Intelligence Committee report.
He lied about documents.
He lied about what he found in Niger.
He's lied about who sent him on the trip, and now he's appearing with Chuck Schumer, demanding the revocation of Rove's security clearance until the investigation is over.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue with all the rest of today's program in just a jiffy.
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Because the views expressed by the host on this program are rooted in a daily relentless and unstoppable pursuit of the truth.
All right.
Let's go back in time, shall we?
Let's turn back the clock.
October 27, 2003.
I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the printed copy of an article in Time magazine.
Michael Duffy and Timothy Berger wrote.
And again, it's October 27, 2003.
See, I think this investigation is looking at all the wrong places.
This is the public investigation.
I don't know what the prosecutor's doing, but the public investigation is looking all wrong places.
Rove's not the place to look.
Rove hasn't done anything wrong, and he hasn't lied to anybody.
It is Joe Wilson and his wife who need to be looked at here, folks.
And if you go back to this Time magazine story, it's amazing what the media forget that they themselves publish.
October 27, 2003, the title of this piece, The Unmasking of Valerie Plame, sheds light on the shadowy world of NOCs, spies with non-official cover.
It's an NOC.
I'm just going to read to you two paragraphs from this opus.
Plame worked as a spy internationally in more than one role.
Fred Rustman, a former CIA official who put on 24 years as a spy master and was Plaim's boss for a few years, says Plame worked under official cover in Europe in the early 90s, say as a U.S. Embassy at a Shea, before switching to non-official cover a few years later.
Mostly Plame posed as a business analyst for a uh or a student in what Rustman described as a nice European city.
According to her boss, Valerie Plame was never a so-called deep cover in O.C., he said, meaning the agency did not create a complex cover story about her education, background, job, personal life, and even hobbies and habits that would stand up to intense scrutiny by foreign governments.
NOCs, deep non-official cover agents, are on corporate roles, and if anybody calls the corporation, the secretary says, yeah, he or she works for us, says Rustman.
The degree of backstopping to an NOC's cover is a very good indication of how deep that cover really is.
But Plame was never a so-called deep cover NO.
C. Though Plaim's cover is now blown, remember we're reading from October 27th of 2003 Time magazine.
Though Plame's cover is now blown, it probably began to unravel years ago when Joe Wilson first asked her out.
Rustman, her boss, describes Plame as an exceptional officer, but says her ability to remain undercover was jeopardized by her marriage in 1998 to the higher-profile American diplomat Joe Wilson, Democrat Party hack, well known.
Plame all but came in from the cold last week, making her first public appearance in a Washington lunch in honor of her husband, who was receiving an award for whistleblowing.
The uh blown spies once not so secret request.
No photographs, please.
So, Time magazine.
Uh, two years ago.
She wasn't a deep cover operative, and her cover actually uh was blown when she started dating Wilson and when they got married, it was over.
So this is all just smoke and mirrors.
All this is is the Watergate template and the second term scandal combined, the second term scandal template being combined, uh, for the express purpose of running Bush out of town and destroying his uh his uh status here in the second term, creating a lame duck out of him.
Here's also this is a story from uh USA Today that they posted on their website at 109 this morning.
Yes, my friends, I was up late last night, serving humanity, working for you.
USA Today Stories by Mark Memet, or Mammott, not sure how he pronounces it.
The alleged crime at the heart of a controversy that has consumed official Washington, the outing of a CIA officer may not have been a crime at all under federal law.
Little notice details in a book by the agent's husband suggest.
In other words, here's the lead.
The outing of Valerie Plane may not have been a crime at all under federal law, according to Little Know's details in her husband's book.
In the Politics of Truth, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson writes that he and his future wife both returned from overseas assignments in June of 1997.
Neither spouse, a reading of the book indicates, was again stationed overseas.
They appear to have remained in Washington, where they married and became parents of twins.
Six years later, in July 2003, the name of the CIA officer, Valerie Plame, was revealed by the columnist Robert Novak.
The column's date is important.
Because the law against unmasking the identities of U.S. spies says a covert agent must have been on an overseas assignment within the last five years.
The assignment also must be long-term, not a short trip or temporary post.
Wilson's book makes numerous references to the couple's life in Washington over the six years up to July 2003.
Bruce Sanford, an attorney who helped write the 1982 act that protects covert agents' identities, said unless she was really stationed abroad sometime after their marriage, she was not a covert agent protected by the law.
That I helped write.
Peter King, Congressman from Long Island, was on Scarborough Country on Tuesday night, and I have a little transcript of it here.
Scarborough says the last thing you want to do at a time of war is reveal the identity of undercover CIA agents.
And King said no.
Joe Wilson.
She recommended his wife recommended him for this job in Niger.
He said the vice president recommended him.
To me, she took it off the table.
Once she allowed him to go ahead and say that and write his op-ed in the New York Times to have Dim Russert give him a full hour on Meet the Press, saying he was sent there as a representative of the vice president when she knew, she knew herself that she was the one that recommended him for this job.
She allowed that lie to go forward, involving the vice president of the United States and the president.
Then to me, she should be the last one in the world who has any right to complain about anything.
And Joe Wilson has no right to complain.
And I think people like Tim Rustert and the others who gave this guy such a free ride in all the media, they're the ones not to be shot, not Carl Rove.
You know, and look, maybe Rove wasn't perfect.
We live in an imperfect world.
I give him credit for having the guts, though, and I really tell you, Republicans are running for cover.
They ought to be out there attacking Joe Wilson.
We should throw this back at him with all the nonsense that's been said about George Bush and all the lies that have come out.
Let's at least stand by the guy.
He was trying to set the record straight for historical purposes.
Rove was to save American lives.
And if Joe Wilson's wife was that upset, she should have come out and said that her husband was a liar when he was.
That's Peter King.
Who's right on the money?
You want a list of some of Joe Wilson's lies.
Ladies and gentlemen.
He insisted that the Vice President's office sent him to Niger.
Vice President Cheney.
I don't know Joe Wilson.
I never met him.
And Joe Wilson, I don't know who sent Joe Wilson.
He never submitted a report that I ever saw when he came back.
Meet the press, September 14th, 2003.
George Tennett, in an effort to inquire about certain reports involving Niger, CIA's counter-proliferation experts on their own initiative asked an individual with ties to the region to make a visit to see what he could learn.
He lied about Cheney.
He lied about the vice president's office being involved.
It never was.
Wilson claimed the vice president and other senior White House officials were briefed on his report.
They weren't.
Wilson has claimed that his Niger report was conclusive and significant.
But the there's a in Time magazine as a headline, official said evidence in Wilson's Niger report was thin.
His homework was shoddy.
The Senate Select Committee of Intelligence and their unanimous report, conclusion 13.
The report on the former ambassador's trip disseminated in March 2002 didn't change any analyst assessment of the Iraq Niger uranium deal.
His report was so insignificant and so inconclusive, it didn't change anybody's thinking.
Wilson denied that his wife suggested he travel to Niger in 2002, but the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence received not only testimony but actual documentation indicating Wilson's wife proposed him for the trip.
Wilson has claimed his 99 trip to Niger was not suggested by his wife.
In fact, his wife suggested him for a 1999 trip as well.
This is from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from July 7th of 2004.
That's five of the ten lies.
And there are more than ten, but that's five of the ten lies Joe Wilson's told.
And yet he's a hero to the Democratic Party.
They know they can't rely on their ideas to triumph.
They can't rely on their policies.
All they can rely on is scandal and they'll lie and get any liar to help them lie if it can advance their agenda, which is scandal and so Schumer.
And how close is he in terms of friendship with Wilson today at three?
Now we're going to find out, Mr. President, if you'll keep your word.
Who do you value more, Mr. President?
Do you value intelligence operatives defending the United States of America, or do you value political operatives from Texas?
Who do you value more, Mr. President?
The security of the American people or your political cronies.
Will you keep your word, Mr. President?
We're going to find out if the President of the United States will keep his word.
So you see, Howard Dean is concerned that Carl Rove is a Texas operative.
There is some suspicious association alone with that.
Welcome back, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program today, we'll start.
No, no, we'll start up when uh in uh Tupelo, Mississippi.
Scott, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush.
Great to uh great to be on with you.
Uh just to uh get ahead of you a minute, I'm sure I'll be pigeonholed as a liberal, so I'd like to say I am uh pro-life, pro-gun, pro-military, evangelical liberal, uh, as it were.
Uh the congratulations, you've got a really, really fine job of sticking with the uh RNC's talking points on the whole rogue issue.
But I would I'd like to ask you a question.
If there's no uh indiscretions or illegalities there with him, uh well, I was a grand jury convened and and who was it that convened it for one?
And if I could ask uh a second question of you if you want to if you want to cut me off after that, I'd understand, but uh uh uh you got to be a good one.
Well, wait a minute, no, wait, wait a second.
Why why would I want to cut off a pro-life, pro-gun, pro-military evangelical liberal?
I've never talked to one before.
This is uh this is uh the after say almost 17 years, this is one of the most exciting days of my career.
I've never talked to anybody like you before.
I'm flattered.
I'm flattered.
So you, I mean, yeah, I'll answer any question you've got.
Why why if there if no crime was committed, why was a grand jury convened?
Yeah, that's my first question, yes.
Uh well, do you think that grand juries are only convened when there are crimes alleged?
There are many grand jury.
There's a grand jury sitting somewhere all the time.
There's a grand jury sitting there somewhere all the time that is waiting.
Now, Scott, classic.
Scott.
Uh Scott, I'm trying to explain the legal system to you.
If you don't want to listen to the answers, I was also uh uh a law major at one point in my life, too.
So you don't you don't need to.
There are there are grand juries that sit for six months that sometimes never hear a case.
There are grand in this case, the grand jury was re is the requ is the result of the special prosecutor who was asked for by the Democrats and the media in light of all this.
Right, who control absolutely nothing in Washington, right?
Uh you're not interested.
You're not interested in all the White House or Congress or something.
Well, no, are you telling me wait wait a second, Scott?
Are you trying to tell me that the the uh the political process corrupts the legal system in America?
Of course it does to some degree.
Oh, it does.
You've got you got judges that are appointed by political.
No, I mean, I mean the because what happened was the Liberals demanded the independent council on this.
The administration said, fine, here you go.
You want an independent council, you'll go it.
The administration asked for it because it was uh or gave it, granted it because it was asked for by the media and asked for by the Democrats, and therefore you've got a grand jury.
So you're not gonna be able to do that.
But we don't know that there's been a crime committed.
You are Violating one of the central tenants here.
You've already assumed that a crime's been committed because there's an investigation.
You think just because an investigation is going, this is one of the big problems we have in the country.
Everybody thinks that when law enforcement starts an investigation, there's automatically guilty involved or a crime involved.
And that's not always the case.
As to the second thing you're going to say, which I I know what you're going to say, you're going to say that Niger didn't sell Iraq yellow cake.
Nobody said they did.
What the allegation was to go see if Iraq had tried to purchase yellow cake uranium from Niger, and the British to this day stand by their report that the Iraqis did try.
And Wilson's report sheds absolutely no light.
In fact, Wilson lies about this in uh in his report.
So uh I know you think you're a smart guy, Smart, Scott, but you're you're a little you're you're too smart by half.
Now you gotta if you're a rank amateur here playing with the professionals, and we've dealt with people like you over the years.
You think you can trick the host, but you can't.
Try again some other show that fewer people listen to, you might have better luck.
Uh Mike in Libertyville, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Hey.
Hey, um, I wanted to talk about uh I believe that you're misrepresenting the facts regarding uh Joe R Joe Wilson's mission to Niger and uh the findings of the Senate Select Committee.
Really?
How so?
Well, you keep saying that he's making the claim that the vice president personally sent him on this mission.
And there's nowhere in the Senate Select Committee that states that he made this claim.
Or you're not saying that came from the Times.
I was like, I didn't tell your I didn't say it came from the Senate Select Committee.
Here is what I said.
Wilson insisted the Vice President's office sent him to Niger.
Wilson said he traveled to Niger, CIA request to help provide response to Vice President's office.
In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the CIA that Vice President Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report.
The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the Vice President's office.
That's from the New York Times in his op-ed, July 6th, 2003.
Vice President Cheney, I don't know Joe Wilson.
I've never met Joe Wilson, and Joe Wilson, I don't know who sent Joe Wilson, never submitted a report that I ever saw when he came back.
George Tennant, in an effort to inquire about certain reports involving Niger, uh the CIA counterproliferation experts on their own initiative, asked an individual with ties to the region to make a visit to see what he could learn.
This is from the CIA statement by George Tennett, director of the Central Intelligence at a press release on July 11th of 03.
Joe Wilson said why they did what the office of the vice president did, and in fact, I believe now for Mr. Libby's statement, it was probably the vice president himself.
This is what Joe Wilson said on CNN's late edition on August 3rd, 03.
He's out there saying that the vice president sent him.
He wrote in the New York Times and his op-ed something totally different.
He's lying through his teeth every time he opens his mouth about this.
Scooter Libby has no clue about about this mission of Joe Wilson's, nor does the vice president.
And furthermore, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, in their in their report, conclusion 13.
The report on the former ambassador's trip to Niger, disseminated in March 2002, did not change any analysts' assessment of the Iraq Niger uranium deal.
For most analysts, the information in the report, Wilson's report, lent more credibility to the original CIA report on the uranium deal.
But State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research Analysts believe that the report supported their assessment that Niger was unlikely to be willing or able to sell uranium.
So you have here a conflict.
The CIA said his report didn't change anything we have here.
The State Department said, eh, we might have buttressed what we thought all along.
The bottom line is the British stand by it.
They say that there was an attempt.
They stand by their report.
Now we know that we have in the CIA, and we know that we have in the State Department rogue elements, liberals, career people who have been trying to undermine the Bush presidency since 2001 when he was inaugurated.
And that's my point.
I think Wilson's Part of it.
I think Valerie Playm's part of it.
The fact that he's showing up at a joint press conference at the suspicious time of three o'clock this afternoon with Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer.
While all along he claims he's nonpartisan.
Joe Wilson claims he's nonpartisan.
He doesn't care about politics, but he's a he's a carry donor.
He was a carry advisor.
He's contributed thousands of dollars to Democratic Party causes and candidates.
He is a political hack.
I think he was in on this project from the get-go.
I think the whole point was to go over there and come back with a report saying that there's nothing to this.
Bush is a liar.
They wanted to start that whole refrain.
Bush lied, Bush lied, Bush lied.
You got a bunch of Democrats operating in cohort and concert here.
And now you've got this press conference.
I'm telling you what I think.
This is my speculation based on all of this.
One thing I do know is you can't expect to get the truth from Joe Wilson.
You cannot expect that when you hear what he says, he's telling you the truth.
He nor his wife.
He has lied through his teeth a number of times about his political nonpartisanship, about his his report, and about who sent him to Niger.
It has been it has been confirmed that it was his wife who recommended him, that it wasn't the vice president's office.
This stuff is not that stuff's not even arguable.
That's not even a matter of debate.
What we have here is a clear effort by the Democratic Party and one of its hacks, Joe Wilson, to try to take out a president.
It's a typical Democrat strategy, and it's something they've been working on since the earliest days of the Bush administration.
That primarily when the when the war with Iraq began, that's when they started gelling and coming together and formulating all these plans.
Bush lied.
I don't care what it is.
They've tried to get delayed, they've tried to downwrap the economy, they've tried to say this and that's going to hell, and they've been wrong about it all.
And they're wrong about this.
And the thing that everybody ought to note here is that while the economy is doing well and the war on terror and the war in Iraq is doing well, and oh, and by the way, there was no torture at Gitmo.
We now know that there were some abuses like forcing a prisoner to wear a bra.
Oh, wow, is that really horrible?
That's just full of stench, isn't it?
I mean, how can we as Americans dare do that?
You ever been to a drag club in this country in New York City?
For crying out loud, folks, this is just absurd.
But now this report came, but there wasn't any torture.
There wasn't any torture at Gitmo.
And the New York Times has to report that story today, but guess what?
In reporting the story, the New York Times conveniently forgets to mention that it was a faulty FBI report that cannot be confirmed, cited by Dick Durbin to make his famous poll pot, Soviet gulag, and uh uh Nazi Germany analogy to our interrogators.
I'll have more on that coming up as the program unfolds.
But it's clear what's going on here.
It's clear who Joe Wilson is.
As I say, this is not an accident he's showing up with Chuck Schumer at three o'clock this afternoon.
There's any number of people he could show up with, but he's out there claiming to be nonpartisan, and all of a sudden he's going to be joined at the hip with Chuck Schumer.
What interests me in this whole case is Joe Wilson and who he is and how deep are his contacts and his behavior and his plan and his strategy with the Democratic Party.
That's what I want to know.
And I joined Peter King, Congressman from Long Island, and urging a bunch of Republicans to sit there and start throwing some of this mud back rather than just sit there and act frightened because of where some of it might land.
We know where it's coming from.
Quick time out.
We'll be back after this.
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Robert in Paranus, New Jersey, your next sir.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
You keep coming after Wilson.
You should be going after Rove.
His lawyer already admitted that he was the one that gave the name out.
And this is a coordinated effort by the White House.
They they sent two administration officials out there to give the names to six reporters.
Novak stated that the officials came to him and gave him the name of Plain.
So it's not, it's it's Rove has already been identified.
He's leaked the information.
This Wilson thing that you're doing is just to spin it around and take the attention off of him, discredit it.
Oh, uh well, that's I know that's your take on it, but that's the case.
No, it's not the case because Rove is not a target.
The prosecutor has said Rove is not a target.
That ro what Rove did, everybody knows.
He's not hiding anything.
Wrote a rove.
In fact, I'll tell you something else.
You remember this big song and dance, all these violins, Matthew Cooper on the day he's supposed to go into jail, saying that he was talking to his six-year-old the night before, and saying, I don't know when Daddy will see you again.
I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, little Matt Jr., whatever his name is.
And then the next morning, miraculously, there was a last-minute phone call from the source.
Granting the specific waiver that said, Go ahead, Matt, release my name.
Turns out that's a lie.
Rove had granted the waiver a year prior.
What happened was that Rove's lawyer called Cooper to remind him.
By the way, you've got the waiver here.
Rove had granted it a year prior, not that morning.
Rove has never tried to hide anything here.
That's not.
Robert, you got to get with your lib buddies and understand what they're trying to.
They're trying to say that Bush is not honest.
They're trying to say that Bush ought to get rid of Rove because they lied about some I don't know what.
They've shifted away from Rove being guilty of anything here.
Rove is not a target of this investigation.
Now, I I'm my curiosity is Judith Miller.
I hope you've listened all week long.
Judith Miller's in jail, and she's got a waiver.
She has the same waiver that Carl or that uh that Carl Rove gave Matt Miller.
Or Matt Cooper, and yet she's sitting in there protecting a source, and uh that source must be pretty embarrassing.
But it must not be Rove.
Because Rove has already given himself up, and the confidentiality is the prerogative of the source.
So I think the New York Times is engaged in a cover-up too here as well.
I think the New York Times is trying to cover up what Judith Miller did or didn't do, or knows or doesn't know.
Uh and letting her sitting away, sit away and rot in that jail.
But as for Joe Wilson, I mean, this guy is the last guy you libs want to depend on to make a case against somebody because he can't tell the truth from one time he opens his mouth to the next.
So I'm not trying to spin anything here.
What's happening is that events that have taken place that everybody knows have taken place are being misinterpreted and spun.
And the at I'm in fact, all these law and order libs, the law and order libs is what we can call you guys all concerned about law and order, all concerned about somebody lied out in an age of what about you, law and order libs when Bill Clinton was cited for contempt for lying to a grand jury, cited for contempt by a federal judge and lost his law license for a year.
Where were you law and order libs when Sandy Burglar was stealing documents from the National Archives for testimony preparation during the 9-11 commission hearings?
And where were you libs when Sandy Burglar was bringing stuff back, and nobody knows what he took back and what he took out?
Nobody knows what he ended up with.
And and I don't remember any law and order libs concerned about ethics and integrity then.
So you can't fool us, uh, those of you on the left.
Your playbook is an open secret.
We know we can see the plays that you're gonna run before you see them because we've been watching them for 30 years.
The the big the dirtiest little secret in town is that you guys think you're pulling surprises on everybody, and yet we all know where you're going before you even hit the road.
Quick timeout, back after this.
Don't go away.
All right, that's it.
The first hour's in the can, and uh well, soon we'll be in the can, hermetically sealed in a container able to withstand terrorist bombs, and soon to be sent by armored courier to the secret warehouse housing all of the future artifacts for the Limbaugh Museum.
We have a second hour coming up, the Ditto Cam also coming up later in the program today.
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