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Sept. 30, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 30, 2005, Friday, Hour #2
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All right, so we're discussing what Bill Bennett said, and people are going through their various stages of shock and outrage or whatever it is.
And people are, I'm sure, have their own thoughts about this.
The thing that amazes me is we all get caught up in words and what people say and righteously indignant.
How dare that person say that?
Who do they think they are?
Of course.
And it's all within these confines of political correctness.
Okay, so Bennett is having a theoretical philosophical discussion with a caller about abortion.
And the caller is making the point that, hey, you know, if all these kids that had been aborted in the last 30 years had not been and had been born, a good number of them would have become productive members of society.
They would have become taxpayers.
We would have had that much more money in the Federal Treasury, and we might be not having a Social Security problem or anything else.
And Bennett said, ah, you know, you can go so many ways on that, and it gets tricky.
You can talk about if you abort here, if you don't abort there, but that's not the way to talk about abortion.
We ought to talk about an issue of morality.
It's life.
It's wrong to abort innocent life, pure and simple.
You're just following the lead of his caller.
And in the midst of his answer to the caller, he said, well, it's true if you aborted every black baby, you'd reduce the crime rate.
That'd be crazy.
It's reprehensible, morally indefensible.
It's silly.
You don't go there.
There's shock and outrage.
How dare he say that?
How dare he say it?
Who cares what anybody says?
It's only political correctness that's gotten into this place.
What about those who are doing that, folks?
What about those who are doing it?
Is talking about abortion, regardless what's said about it, worse than the act itself?
Where is the equal condemnation here?
How in the world are we going to sit around and get all worked up and bent out of sorts over words when abortion is happening to the tune of 1.3 million a year?
And it has been for 30 years.
Planned Parenthood.
Many of you think it's a grand organization, very worthwhile, doing great work.
Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood.
Margaret Sanger called for the sterilization of genetically inferior races in 1939.
Who is she talking about?
You don't have to ask.
I'll tell you.
1939, she organized the Negro Project and wrote, the poorer areas, particularly in the South, are producing alarmingly more than their share of future generations.
Hence, she called for the sterilization of genetically inferior races.
Margaret Sanger was the founder of the National Birth Control League, now known as Planned Parenthood.
She was an advocate of eugenics, improving human population by control of hereditary factors and reproduction.
There was a big eugenics movement in this country back in this era in the 30s, and they wanted to pick who could mate.
They wanted to determine who could have children and who couldn't.
And it was based on IQ and a number of other things.
They didn't want to mess around with all these inferior races and inferior groups and inferior intellects mass producing out there and creating a bunch of idiots.
They're going to live off the federal dime or whatever.
Now, you can't even say this about Margaret Sanger anymore.
Planned Parenthood advocates.
You are misrepresenting what our founders are.
No, I'm not.
Take a look at that.
Now, I'm not saying that the Planned Parenthood movement today is a carbon copy of Margaret Sanger's ideas, but we do know that Planned Parenthood's primary objective in life is to abort as many babies as possible, regardless of the color.
Now, you tell me, folks, where is the sense here in getting all upset over the words uttered by somebody when they're taken out of context when you first hear about them?
That's the only way you know about them.
They're taken out of context.
You get all upset.
I can't believe anybody would say that.
Well, I frankly can't believe anybody, like a doctor in Arkansas, would actually ask black evacuees from Hurricane Katrina to come to his office for abortions.
Where is our sense of proportion here?
Like I say, I'm through going on the defensive with these bunch of people who claim to be superior and morally and intellectually above everybody else.
They're the elites.
Hell with them.
I don't have to answer to these people.
They don't get approval rights over what I say or you say or anybody else says.
They want them, but they don't deserve them.
Burke in Costa Mesa, California.
Hi, welcome to the Open Line Friday edition of the program.
Rush.
Sir.
You're my idol.
I love you.
Thank you, sir.
You need to sell some posters in your store, though.
There's no posters.
I need something to hang on my wall.
We'll work on it.
We'll work on them.
I got some poster ideas.
Seriously, I've got your shirts.
I wear them to my law school.
I have to battle libs all day, so I need some posters, though.
As I say, we'll work on it.
Is that what you called about?
No, it isn't.
I apologize.
But anyway, what I want to call the, I'm a conservative Republican, and I like Bill Bennett, but I think what he said was indefensible because it smacks of racism to say that if you kill black people, it's a solution to crime.
I mean, what if he just said that?
Wait, Hold it a minute.
Hold it a minute.
Yeah.
Did he advocate that?
Well, he said it's true.
He said if he's a good person.
Wait a second.
Did he advocate it?
Last I looked, Bill Bennett had not committed an abortion.
He'd not performed an abortion.
Bill Bennett's never presided over one.
Last I looked, Bill Bennett's never killed anybody.
Yeah.
There are others out there who cannot say that, who are acting morally superior to Bill Bennett here.
Did he advocate that?
No, he did not advocate.
I think he did a good job saying it was morally reprehensible, but still what does that tell you about what he really thinks of the idea?
This is sort of dumbfounding to me.
He didn't advocate it.
You even admit now that he admits that such an idea is morally reprehensible.
But somehow, somehow, when you get right down to it, yeah, if you aborted every black baby, you would reduce the crime.
Oh, well, can't say that.
It's indefensible.
Who says you can't say it?
That's what this is about.
Who says you can't say it?
You're allowing somebody else to determine what you and others think is proper to say and improper to say.
And those people that you're allowing to make this determination are your political enemies and they are acting in the nature of enemies.
They're not acting out of any love for anybody.
They're not acting or protesting what Bennett said because they have deep affection for anybody.
They see this as an opportunity to discredit and destroy Bill Bennett.
That's what they're trying to do.
And over something like this, sorry, folks, this is not something that earns you destruction.
You know, all you Democrats that are ticked off with Bill Bennett, you ought to give back all the money you've taken from Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood's gone out there and raised a lot of money.
And they didn't it to a bunch of liberal Democrats and they and they get involved in the selection of judges to the Supreme Court.
Planned Parenthood tries to sit there along with the NARAL gang and the NAGs and sit there and determine who should be on the Supreme Court.
Where do they get the money?
From killing human babies.
From aborting human babies.
If anybody's got blood on their hands, it's Democrats that take money from Planned Parenthood.
Folks, I'm telling you, you're going to have to turn your thinking around on this 180 degrees.
This has gone on long enough.
We're going to get all upset over what somebody says, whether it's a mistake, whether it was maybe not the wisest thing to say, whether maybe it, you know, even if true or not true, it should have been so it's words.
And yet there are people out there actually doing this, and somehow we praise them and say, these are the advanced thinkers of our society.
It makes me sick, this whole thing.
The way we think, talk, react about abortion just makes me sick.
Quick time out.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with me.
And we're back.
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Folks, how many of you out there know what an RSS feed is on the internet?
Stands for really simple syndication, and the number of websites, and the number of websites that do this is growing every day.
You can go out and get what's called an RSS reader.
And these websites will update their content frequently during the day via RSS.
And they will, as they update their content, which is what they're doing, adding things to their website, you don't have to go to the website, just hit and miss a I wonder if there's anything new at CBS News today.
If you subscribe to the CBS RSS syndication service and you have an RSS reader, then every set it to download whatever is new every 30 minutes and bam, all these new additions to all these websites to which you subscribe will show up in your reader.
And click on the line and it'll take you to the website, read the whole story.
Well, I don't subscribe to the RSS of CBS.
I don't subscribe to the RSS of CNN or ABs or anything else.
Why?
They're the last people to know anything in the world.
But I do subscribe for the fun of it.
I have entered my name into a Yahoo RSS site that anything out there with my name in it gets fed to my RSS reader.
And guess what I just noticed about 20 minutes ago?
CBS.com, CBSNews.com, has retransmitted, recycled a two-year-old column by some hack named, what's his name?
Is it Meyer?
M-E-Y.
Brian got this too on his RSS reader and told me about it after I'd already seen it on mine.
I think his name is Dick Meyer.
This is a piece from October 2003 about my comments on ESPN regarding the media and Donovan McNabb.
It's two years old.
They re-sent it today.
Now, what is the coincidence of this?
You think there's a coincidence to CBS re-transmitting a two-year-old column on my ESPN comments about the media and Donovan McNabb on okay, it's a guy named Dick Meyer.
Is there any coincidence here to that being sent out a two-year-old piece today?
You think there's any coincidence to this, folks?
What could be in the news today that would make something two years old about me and the media and McNabb said on ESPN relevant today?
What's out there in the news?
Could it be this Bill Bennett story?
Folks, there is an all-out war going on, and I'm telling you that these clowns in the mainstream media, they are the cornered rats and they don't know what to do.
All they can do is reach out and attack the battle for 2006.
It is underway.
It started this week.
This is an all-out war.
And it's going to be fun.
It is going to be exciting here because these guys still don't know how to play the game.
They're still playing the game in the old predictable ways.
We're not surprised by anything they do.
And this war is going to really heat up whenever the president names his next Supreme Court nominee.
The Democrats are already promising a filibuster.
They don't even know who the nominee is.
And they're out there promising a filibuster.
And you know why?
They think that they can get away with the filibuster on the next nominee where they couldn't with John Roberts because Bush's numbers are now so bad, even though they've come back up to 45%.
The Democrats won't figure that out till next week.
They think that the people of this country are so fed up with Republicans because of delay and because of Bush and Katrina that they can now filibuster the next nominee.
Do you know what really bugged them?
Can I tell you what really, really, really, really iced them?
They tried every trick in the book to make the people of this country hate John Roberts and they couldn't.
They tried to say that he was anti-gay.
Then they tried to divide the right by saying he was pro-gay.
Then they tried to say that he was a racist.
Then they said he was too successful.
He had never known failure.
There were no Jews in the neighborhood where he grew up.
There were no plaques in the neighborhood where he grew up.
They tried all, people have forgotten because we all laughed at it, but they tried all.
They threw.
Oh, he supported abortion clinic bombers.
He defended abortion clinic bombers.
His children are too light-skinned.
His children are adopted from South America.
They ought to be darker.
How did this happen?
They tried to, they threw everything.
They couldn't make the American people hate the guy.
Believe me, if they could have, they would have.
They gave it every shot, and they're ginning up, and they're getting ready to do it all over again.
And they don't even know who the nominee is.
But they're convinced they'll be able to get away with it.
And I'll tell you something.
I have a theory.
I have a thing.
Delay, Tom Delay, he's out there saying that he met with Ronnie Earl's prosecutor a couple weeks ago, and that prosecutor said, Nah, we're not going to indict you.
Folks, you don't know how common that is.
That prosecutors lie to you.
You don't know, but I'm telling you, Delay says it happened.
And all of a sudden, here comes this indictment of delay, and he's gone.
And it's in the aftermath of Katrina.
And I'm wondering, what do the Democrats care more about than anything?
Supreme Court.
I'm just wondering if this indictment of delay is purposely timed and done to try to give the Democrats a climate in this country that they think will help them filibuster the next nominee or oppose the next nominee, whoever it might be.
Just a little theory.
But the Democrats sort of got their plans and they think they can win this.
They're going to have Democrats who are not on the Judiciary Committee out there talking down the next nominee.
They're going to just fire both barrels.
And a gang of 14 doesn't mean anything.
That agreement doesn't mean anything.
If they have to filibuster, they're going to filibuster it.
Bring it on.
Bring it on.
The president's poll numbers may be down, they may be up and down, but you Democrats think the American people like you?
You think they have any affection for you, the way you've been behaving the last five years?
You are so sadly mistaken.
And I just hope you try it so that you can find out just how little respect you have left.
In the meantime, Eric in Charlotte, North Carolina, welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Oh, Rush, you're going to have to carry me through.
I got this too important and juicy to let this be short.
But, you know, I'm a black American, and I am deeply, deeply saddened and troubled regarding the level of propaganda and deceit that's been thrown at black Americans to keep them on the Democratic plantation.
And especially through the comments of the likes of Charles Wrangel.
But before I go into that, I wanted to say something.
A few years ago, you were trying to look for the definition of liberalism.
And my definition of liberalism is that it's a form of spontaneous-triggered mental illness.
It's a form of mental illness, Rush, and it's expressed through their moral immaturity, their deceit, and really it's actually a type of rebellion against God and virtue through the justification of things like immorality, things like abortion, homosexuality, promiscuity, prostitution, racism, even race-centered thinking.
And, you know, the suppression of the.
I tell you what.
Hey, Eric, you're on a roll here, and I hate to stop you, but I have to.
So if you just hold your thought there, we'll take a break and come back and let your dissertation here, your oral final exam at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies go forward unimpeded.
You're listening to Rush Limbaugh on the Excellence in Podcasting Network.
I can't keep a straight face here.
CBS just re-sent that piece.
They're sending it out every 20 minutes from their website.
This two-year-old column written by a guy named Dick Meyer about the comments I made regarding the media and Donovan McNabb when I was on ESPN.
Comments made two years ago, a column written two years ago, and CBS is sending it out via their RSS.
And I've now picked it up four times just since, well, 45 minutes, the last 40 has been transmitted out.
Folks, again, is there coincidence here that a two-year-old column is being sent out via RSS, the CBS website, comments I made about the media while on the SPN about Donovan McNabb?
And something going on today that might make CBS think that column is relevant again?
Back now to Eric in Charlotte, North Carolina.
You were on a roll.
Let me set it up for people just joining us.
You think liberalism and you're an African-American, right?
I'm a black American.
African-American is a misnomer.
No more than just calling white folks European Americans.
You're an American.
You're an American.
I'm just darker skinned, Rush.
Amen.
Amen.
All right.
So liberalism is a mental illness.
It's born to people that do not like any judgmentalism against their depravity taken away.
Exactly.
Well, Rush, that's the exact reason why they're coming against you there on CBS the way they do.
Because you take a verbal stand for morality and virtue and so on, they have to make you look evil.
It's a form of mental illness.
It's spontaneous.
It's triggered.
These people are normal in every way when you talk to them.
But when you get on their little lightning button, I'll just call it, that's when they actually take on a form of incognition.
They become crazy.
It's a form of mental illness, but it's just spontaneous, short-lived, and triggered, and then they're back to normal.
So I hate to say that about them, but that's what liberalism is.
Rush, thanks to you.
I had a radio program.
It was called the Eric Woods program down here in Charlotte on 1110 WBT.
Thanks to you, I was the last black man to do a radio show there.
But it's because of you, but I can smell liberals from 10 miles away.
I know these people.
They are messed up mentally, emotionally, because of the fact they have to justify immorality.
It's a form of rebellion against God.
And so because they're rebelling against God, that's why they have to justify things like evolution.
Because if man came from slime, then they can say they're not accountable to God.
So they have to get rid of God.
And when you get rid of God, you elevate abortion, homosexuality, pornography, racism.
Black Americans are a little different.
They're more race-centered, which is a form of liberalism.
They don't care much about the abortion.
As a matter of fact, they don't like abortion and homosexuality by and large.
But the thing is, you can be liberal on one issue and conservative on another issue, and that's what's going on with black Americans.
But this is what prompted my call, Rush.
Charles Wrangel, the statement that he made last week, you need to play that every single day for a full month.
I would love for you to dedicate a program where we just want black conservatives to call in, to vent and express to black people, look, get off of this plantation that the Democrats have formed for us to stay on, to live on.
They entrap us through deceit by trying to make Republicans look like Republicans are racist and evil.
They have to do that.
And so you have the likes of Tabby Smiley, Tom Joyner, B.E.T. Television, Ebony Magazine, Julianne Malvo.
You go on down the list.
But they have to keep blacks on the plantation by making Republicans seem like they're all racist.
Now, Charles Wrangel, for him to compare Bush to Bull Conner, a Democrat racist down in the South, it is so twisted and evil.
You know what?
It's not just Bull Conner.
George Wallace was a Democrat.
Lester Maddox was a Democrat.
All of the Southern senators that opposed the Civil Rights Act of 64, Jay Bennett or J. William Fulbright are, they're all Democrats.
Well, the good thing, though, about George Wallace, guess what made him stop being a racist?
Religion, God.
Became more, he became embraced black people, but it was because of God, which is where the liberals are trying to expunge God out of schools and society.
They're trying to suppress God and religion.
This is why they want to keep church and state as separate as they can, because if they can keep God out of the public square, out of kids' mind, it allows these kids to maintain their immoral lifestyles or to live an immoral lifestyle.
But for Charles Wrangel to do this every single day, I would love for you to play this because the media will not play this man's tape or what his statement.
But what he's done is demonstrating clearly, he's demonstrating in the clearest way why blacks need to leave the Democratic Party.
Because here's Bush, a man who has elevated not one, but two blacks to the highest level in the cabinet, secretaries of state.
And they're calling this man Bull Connor, a racist.
And they're doing it.
Charles Rangan is doing this because he wants blacks to keep on the plantation.
I call it the slave, slave master, slave liberator mentality.
In order for that slave master to keep the slave on the plantation, he had to tell them that the North, the people who were coming down to free them, I don't want to get into that too much, but they were saying that the liberators were coming down to kill you and to take you away from your kids.
You have to deceive black people to keep them on the plantation.
There's another word I call it.
I call it the pimp, the prostitute, and the preacher syndrome.
That pimp has to keep the prostitute in his harem by lies.
If he can do that, if he can keep that prostitute away from the preacher, he's going to save her because once she starts going around this preacher, she'll stop being a prostitute.
And that pimp is going to lose money.
He's going to lose business.
He's not going to have his cash cow.
The Democrat Party uses blacks as the cash cow to keep them in their harem through the seed.
Eric, can you think of a modern relationship to this?
The pimp, the prostitute, and the preacher.
Can you give us some current names that you might say fit that role, fit those roles?
Well, clearly, Jesse Jackson, Tavis Smiley, Tom Joyner, Charles Wrangel, all of the Democratic delegation up there in Congress, all of them are the pimps.
Now, it includes white pimps as well.
You, of course, got the Ted Kennedys, and you go on down the list of all of those senators, but they're all pimps.
Anybody who's in the leadership position in the Democratic Party, they are the pimps because they try to keep blacks deceived.
Okay, if those are the pimps, who are the prostitutes?
Blacks are likened to the prostitutes.
It's a tough word to use, but I'm not saying that we're prostitutes.
No, but I think I know what you mean.
I mean, they're the victims.
They're the victims.
They're the ones that are propping up the pimps financially and with power and other things.
They are the ones.
The black people, we're innocent.
The word I preferred to use earlier was, of course, the slave and the plantation.
Okay, so you got the slave, and you've got the pimp and the preferred.
Yeah, let's get rid of prostitutes.
Okay, so we've got slave, we've got pimp, and we and we've got preacher.
Who are the preachers today?
The preachers are the Republican Party trying to tell the truth.
The people within the Republican Party and Independent, by the way, I am an independent.
I'm not actually a part of, you know, registered as a Republican.
I'm an independent because of the fact that once you're a black Republican, you're considered Satan and all of that.
Now, it's easier for me to talk as an independent instead of me calling myself a Republican and they immediately raise up a cross and trying to look at me as a vampire and all of that.
But the point is, the Republican Party, by and large, and those who are religious right, those are the preachers and the liberators trying to tell the truth about what the Democratic leadership, the Democrats, are doing to black people.
And it's an amazing thing when you really look at it, but they're all mentally ill.
It's a mental sickness.
The Bible actually calls them fools because they're rebelling against virtue and God.
Now, I'm not calling them fools.
I'm just saying the Bible calls them fools.
That's what they are.
Don't hold back there, Eric.
I mean, if the Bible can call them fools, you can echo the Bible.
Right, I'm calling them fools through the Bible, but people say you can't call someone a fool, but they don't understand what they're saying.
Well, who says, you know, that's another thing.
What are we caught up in?
Who says who says, who can say what somebody else can and can't say?
Screw that.
You know, the hell of it is political correctness.
If you say what you want to say on this program, I'm not going to sit here and tell you you can't say it.
You might be wrong.
You might be right, but you can say it.
Eric, look.
I've got to run here.
Let me ask you a quick question.
Are you a subscriber to my website?
No, I'm not, Rush.
You have a computer?
I do have a computer.
Well, you're a subscriber, and I'm going to make you a complimentary one-year subscriber.
You have earned it.
This is one of the greatest oral final exams and dissertations ever presented to the guy that runs the Institute.
That's me.
You just did a fabulous job out there, and you came prepared, and you didn't stutter around, and you had your passion.
You fit the definition of a great caller, and I'm glad to hear from you, Eric.
Now, stay on hold, and one of the preachers on my staff is going to give you whatever information we need to make you a complimentary subscriber for a full year.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Open Line Friday continues after this.
Let's turn back the hands of time here, shall we, ladies and gentlemen?
Audio soundbites.
Go back to March 4th, 2001, Fox News Sunday.
Tony Snow's guest is Robert Sheets Bird, the former Grand Cyclops of the KKK.
And here's what Bird said.
I just think we talk so much about it that we helped, I think, create somewhat of an illusion.
I think we try to have goodwill.
My old mom told me, Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.
We practice that.
There are white niggers.
I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time.
I'm going to use that word.
Might have been one yourself, huh?
We just need to work together to make our country a better country.
And I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.
Tony Snow asking him about race relations there.
Tony didn't ask him for names.
It's the only thing that disappointed me when he was saying they're a white.
When did his mom tell him can't go to heaven and he'd hate anybody?
Was that before he became a Grand Cyclops or after he became a Grand Cyclops?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Harry Reid nor Nancy Pelosi nor Al Sharp to Jesse Jackson never called for Sheets Bird there to apologize for that comment.
They didn't even denounce a KKK pass.
No, that's all.
Let's go back.
Let's turn back the hands of time even further.
Let's go back to the groove yard of forgotten favorites, shall we?
Let's go back.
March 28th, 1968.
This is Robert Byrd, Sheets Bird, bashing the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King fled the scene.
He took to his heels and disappeared, leaving it to others to cope with the destructive forces he had helped to unleash.
And I hope that well-meaning Negro leaders and individuals in the Negro community in Washington will now take a new look at this man who gets other people into trouble and then takes off like a scared rabbit.
Four years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed, Robert Byrd makes these comments about Martin Luther King.
You can see why I'm a little impatient with this ongoing effort of the American left to tag Republicans as racists and so forth.
It's a two-way street out there.
And I'm through going on the defensive about this, folks.
I am not going to any longer let those people who claim superiority over morality and ethics and justice and all that sit there and define the terms of what's proper in speech or not.
This political correctness is an absolute abomination.
It is an obstacle to truth that's been placed in the way of truth by the left.
It doesn't want to hear certain truth.
And that's all it is.
They are not guilty of political correctness ever.
They cannot violate it.
They are allowed to say whatever they want to say.
As Robert Byrd said in 2001 on Fox News Sunday with Tony Snow, Jim in St. Louis, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
It's going to be hard to follow that last caller.
You can do it.
You can do it.
Thank you.
How does Judy Miller fit into the liberals' plans?
I must tell you, this one is a big mystery to me.
I don't understand this Judy Miller thing.
She was going to get out of jail next month.
She was scheduled to get out next month.
She's in jail and refused to give up her source for a year on principle.
And she said that she's not going to testify because she doesn't believe that the waiver from her source, and everybody's known the source for a year.
We've known that it was Scooter Libby, who's Cheney's chief of staff.
And Scooter Libby told her a year ago, you're released.
And her lawyer told her, I think it was Floyd Abrams, somebody told her, well, it's not a voluntary release.
Judy Miller went to jail thinking that the source was coerced into releasing her, that the source didn't do it voluntarily.
So somehow, they got Scooter Libby back on the phone with one of her lawyers this week, apparently, and convinced Judy's lawyer, yeah, I was voluntary.
I voluntarily released her.
She can name me.
I saw that, and it didn't make any sense to me.
Well, none of it makes sense.
What's all this business of principle?
If she's standing on principle, then stay in jail until she's supposed to get out in October.
Why all of a sudden now do this 180?
Because we were all told she was standing for the sacred principles of journalism, protecting a source.
Blah, blah, blah.
Now it's all about.
And how does a Philadelphia newspaper scoop the New York Times when she works for the New York Times?
The Philadelphia newspaper had the story last night.
The Washington Post got scooped on Deep Throat's identity.
And now the New York Times gets scooped on its own reporter getting out of jail.
And I don't begin to understand.
The whole thing here, there probably is not even a crime committed, and all this has gone on.
She did testify today.
Don't know.
I saw her speaking when she came out, but I didn't.
It was during the program.
I couldn't hear it.
And I didn't want to take time to read the closed captioning, see what she said.
So I still know what she said.
To you?
No, I don't know.
But what about the timing of it?
Well, you mean to revive the Rove as a criminal bit?
Yes.
Is that what your suspicion is?
Well, wouldn't put anything past them.
Okay, hey, Judy, somebody goes in.
Judy, you know, we're losing this.
We thought we had Bush on Katrina.
We got Roberts on a court.
We couldn't stop him.
Bush's poll numbers are coming.
We got this delay out.
We need a full court press because we got Supreme Court coming next week, got a new nominee.
We need to get the attention focused on this because what's their mantra?
Climate of corruption.
Climate of corruption.
So here comes Judy, all of a sudden, and they're hoping that what she's going to say is going to dump it all back on Karl Rove, I suppose.
I don't really know.
I think what you have here is another media feeding frenzy brought on by the news cycle of how can we destroy George W. Bush.
And Rove, delay, that's what this is.
And what this, I don't pretend to understand this Judy Miller thing.
She didn't even write a story about this.
For all I know, she's the source that the special prosecutor is trying to find that spread all this around about Valerie Plain's identity in the first place.
That's what I've always thought, that she was the source telling everybody.
Who knows?
We'll find out in due course, maybe, but I'm not even going to care when we find out, folks.
This is the lowest thing on my radar screen today.
It took a phone call on Open Line Friday to even get me to talk about it.
We're going to have a special section at rushlimbaugh.com tonight recapping and reviewing everything about the Dan Rather CBS forged document story in which a major news organization attempted to affect the outcome of a presidential election.
Two can play this game, CBS, and my website is bigger than yours.
And we will be back, my friends.
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