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Jan. 2, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 2, 2006, Monday, Hour #3
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All right, I got a lot I want to cram into this hour, folks.
So we're going to be speaking fast.
Yeah, which means you need to listen fast.
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I just saw some news clips here in the newsbreak at the top of the hour, both Rumsfeld and Bush saying you're not pulling out of Iraq.
It's way too soon to do this.
Yet, I mean, the LA Times has a story about this today.
This guy Fred Kaplan at Slate.com's got a story about this today, but oh no, oh no, Bush is gonna pull out.
He's gonna announce a pull out from Iraq.
Oh no, oh no.
They're worried about this because they think it would get Bush out of the fire.
Ah, this is what the American people want to be announced.
A troop withdrawal that brings Republicans' electoral trances back into play in 06, brings Bush's popularity back.
Oh, whoa is us, even though this is what they have been maneuvering for in the first place.
They've been trying to get well to get Bush to to cave and pull the troops out because they want they're invested in defeat.
And make no mistake about it now, to pull the troops out now to even announce it now.
I don't care if the timetable's not for six months to announce it now.
Be a mistake, the elections are not till December 15th over there.
If you start if you start announcing the date, give a timetable for withdrawal, the insurgents is going to sit back, they're gonna let us leave, and then they'll overrun the country.
As happened in uh in Vietnam will be pulled out of there.
This is what I mean when I say the Democrats are invested in defeat.
They are invested.
They can't support victory now because they've gone too far out of the way to make themselves opponents of victory, opponents of the policy, opponents of the war in Iraq, opponents of being there.
They regret their votes.
Their votes were the result of presidential lies all this.
Now when all this stuff works out, as it will, and it's all going according to the original timetable.
And Bush has said for over a year, as the Iraqis stand up, we're gonna stand down.
Standing up as the elections taking place, the uh security forces being trained.
There will be a troop withdrawal timetable announced at some point, but apparently not in this speech tomorrow.
At least it'd be strange if the president and Rumsville both just moments ago saying that no need to withdraw, there won't be a withdrawal to announce tomorrow be a little crazy.
Al Jazeera has broadcasted insurgent video today, shows four peace activists taken hostage in Iraq with a previously unknown group claiming responsibility for the kidnappings.
The unknown unknown group is the Swords of Righteousness Brigade.
And they said the four were spies working undercover as Christian peace activists, according to Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera said that it could not verify any of the information on the tape.
The aid group Christian Peacemaker Teams has confirmed that four of its members were taken hostage on Saturday.
German television broadcast photos today showing a blindfolded German woman being led away by armed captors in Iraq.
Six Iranian pilgrims, meanwhile, were abducted by gunmen north of Baghdad.
The pictures of Suzanne Osthoff were taken from a video in which her captors demanded that Germany stop any dealings with Iraq's government, according to Germany's ARD television.
Germany has ruled out sending troops to Iraq and oppose the U.S.-led war.
Yeah.
All right.
Now, let's take this at face value just for a moment.
This could all be BS.
I mean, we've never heard of the Swords of Righteousness Brigade.
This could all be a stunt, but let's let's take it.
Well, let's take it both ways.
We'll take it face value at first, then we'll look at it as a stunt second.
I said at the conclusion of previous hours, part of me that likes this.
And some of you might say Russia, it's horrible.
Peace activists taken hostage.
Well, here's why I like it.
I like any time.
A bunch of leftist feel-good hangringers are shown reality.
So here we have these peace activists over there.
I don't care if they're Christian or not.
They're over there, and uh, as peace activists, they've got one purpose.
They're over there trying to stop the violence.
Now, if this German group fits the mold, they are probably blaming the United States and coalition forces for all of this.
But more importantly, they believe that if they just go there.
Like these idiotic human shields before the war, if they just go there.
Mr. Limbaugh, it's real simple.
Something you wouldn't understand because you've never been to conflict resolution.
But it's real simple.
If we go there, and we tell them that we are people of peace, and that we want to stop the violence, and that we don't hold them responsible.
They will see and understand this is the way to bring peace.
Fine, they get kidnapped.
They get kidnapped at gunpoint.
And I if if that version of this is true, then you've met the bad guys, and you tried your technique on them, and now you're blindfolded in a room with guns pointed at you and knives at your throat.
I don't like that.
But any time a bunch of people that walk around with the head in the sand, practicing a bunch of irresponsible, idiotic theory, confront reality.
I'm kind of happy about it, because I'm eager for people to see reality, change their minds if necessary, and have things sized up.
Now, if this is a stunt, then the story's not over.
If the Swords of Righteousness Brigade are really a non-existent terrorist group, and if these pictures are nothing more than an attempt to evoke sympathy, then what will happen next is that these peace activists will be released in two or three days that with the news that they have changed the hearts of their captors.
Well, let's just see.
That's how we'll know if this is a stunt.
Now, for this to be a stunt, these captors cannot be terrorists or insurgents.
They wouldn't go along with it.
So it has to be a bunch of other peace activists pretending to be terrorists or insurgents, if this is a stunt.
If it's a stunt, it won't be long before these people are released, and they will have eaten better than they have in the past three weeks, and their captors uh will not be caught, and their captors will may issue a statement uh after talking to these people, we realize they are not our problem, and we cannot hold these people accountable.
Uh they made excellent points to us.
They connected with our hearts, blah, blah.
If that happens, I guarantee you this is a stunt.
And I'm I would not be surprised.
If that actually eventuates.
All right, let's go to the audio sound bites.
Joe Lieberman, great, great peace today in the Wall Street Journal, saying we have to stay in Iraq.
We cannot pull out.
The man has got guts.
This position is what doomed his chances in the Democratic primaries in 2004.
He never had a prayer.
He was the first Democrat voted out in the whole primary process.
He's written this piece today.
When I saw this, I said, hmm, I wonder if he'll be paraded all over television the next two days like John Mertha was.
I wonder if they'll go talk to Lieberman as oh he's some kind of a seer, some kind of a truth teller.
By the way, the Mirtha business.
Anybody wonder like I do about the timing of that.
Whatever it was he said, we've got to get out of there.
We can't win the the timing of this three weeks before the December 15th elections.
That's what's suspicious about Mertha doing this to me, but nevertheless, that's a side track issue for now.
Mertha or uh uh Lieberman did get invited to uh see an end of day the American morning show Soto Dead O'Brien interviewed him, and she said, and he's bucking his party, and he's making sense on Iraq, and and and she said, You've made four visits to Iraq over the last eighteen months.
You sound encouraged upon your return.
Why, you idiot?
She didn't say that, but you imagine it's in her heart and I did see progress.
Uh it's not perfect, obviously, but I saw progress economically, militarily, and politically.
I mean, some of the the kind of practical uh uh common interest stuff that I saw was just more cars on the streets in Baghdad and the other cities uh I I was in.
Uh almost every uh roof seems to have a satellite dish.
Uh the economy is beginning to move.
Uh politically, there's a full-fledged campaign going on in Iraq now for the National Assembly elections in December, and there's an independent, uh, a large number of independent television stations and newspapers covering it.
Militarily, uh the Iraqis are beginning to show much more self-sufficiency.
They're a long way from being able to take it on their own, and that's why we have to be careful not to Withdraw too soon, but progress really is being made.
She says then, so that's the category of progress.
Some people would put in a list of things that are not going well.
Security, not only for U.S. soldiers, but for the Iraqi people too.
Look, this is a war.
And uh the more I uh go back there, the more I see it at it as a war between twenty-seven million Iraqis.
That's their just about their total population, who really want to live a better, freer, safer life, who feel liberated to be rid of Saddam Hussein, and 10,000 terrorists who are prepared to blow themselves up and to go at to go at the Iraqi people and American and Iraqi military who are trying to protect the Iraqi people.
Why do they do it?
Because they want to establish uh a center, a base in Iraq to replace the one we took from them in Afghanistan.
They don't want Iraq to be free and modern because it sets back the terrorist wretched causes.
If they should win there, which is to say to get us out before the country is stable, uh, I think it'll have disastrous effects, not only on Iraq and the Middle East, but on American security.
All right, now this is key because what he says here, look at we got twenty-seven million versus ten thousand, and we're siding with the wrong people.
Meaning his party, his party signed with the wrong people, these ten thousand insurgents versus twenty-seven million people who want a different life.
But one thing he is really right on the money about here.
Right now, as far as these their terrorists are trying to keep Iraq as a stateless regime.
Remember the history of bin Laden.
Bin Laden only went to places that were stateless.
He went to Somalia, bunch of warlords, he could control them, uh uh Somalia, Afghanistan, all stateless.
Taliban took over in uh Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda was running Somalia, uh, still may be.
The Sudan is Al Qaeda.
But we've kicked them out of Afghanistan.
If we lose Iraq, they're just gonna go in and make Iraq the new Afghanistan.
He's exactly right about that.
But he's really gutsy, I think, because he's bucking his own party, he's standing up his own party, standing up to Jack Murpha, standing up to the media, standing up to all the left out there, and and basically giving them the facts and giving them reason and logic.
And they don't want to hear it because they're invested in defeat.
Lieberman's talking victory, and these people don't connect with that.
It's not in their lexicon.
O'Brien says, Well, here's what you wrote in the Wall Street Journal op-ed.
It runs today.
He says almost all of the progress in Iraq and throughout the Middle East will be lost if these forces are withdrawn faster than the Iraqi military is capable of securing the country.
I think you sum up in that line uh uh which is when.
Right.
And the when cannot be set by us here in Congress or anybody in the White House uh or the executive branch uh uh on a uh kind of mechanical basis.
The when has to be determined by conditions on the ground.
And the basic question is when are the Iraqi security forces able to protect their country and fight these 10,000 terrorists on bet on behalf of all the people of Iraq, uh, so we can begin to leave.
I I see improvement.
I think one of the most important things I saw on this trip, Soledad, is that the policy that the United States is following and our allies in Iraq has not remained stagnant.
It's changed.
Imagine that.
We have a Democrat senator who goes over there.
He's doing a better job of explaining what's going on over there than the administration is.
But more than that, one Democrat senator goes over there and tells an entirely different story than what we've been getting day in and day out from the leftist media.
Progress.
It's not stagnant.
We are changing and we are adapting.
James Q. Wilson, uh political scientist, sociologist, brilliant man, at a piece recently at Opinion Journal.com.
His piece was basically, President Bush, if I were you, and this is the speech I was going to give on Iraq, this is what it would be.
And he wrote that speech.
And it starts out basically says, forget about who's lying about this or that.
Talk about the fact that we're winning.
Give details on how we're winning, how well it's going, and that we're going to continue to win.
Now, Bush is has has made it plain we're not going to accept defeat.
Uh, but here Lieberman has just summed up what in three sound bites, summed up uh what's happening in Iraq in a far more positive, accurate way than I've heard from anybody.
We'll be in the at least in political circles.
Back after this, folks, stay with us.
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Okay, a little uh housekeeping note here.
As you know, we've been linking at Rush Limbaugh.com to videos that were made by the now famous Sergeant Clay, who called this program last week during our fourth hour that led to a fifth hour Tuesday blast one week ago today.
Uh such a powerful phone call.
We played it the next day during the over the air broadcast, and he mentions in that call that uh he's produced some videos and sent them to us.
We found them on the website and uh we've linked to them.
And so many people, so many of you have asked could you make them downloadable rush?
I want to show them to my friends.
And uh we didn't have permission from him to do that.
I mean, that's we're talking intellectual property and so forth.
But he has granted us permission to do that.
We got hold of him and uh he has uh provided the written permission.
So we are now gonna post Sergeant Clay's videos as downloadable files.
That'll happen when we update the site late this afternoon to uh include the contents, reflect the contents of today's program.
So another continuing service, responding to demands and requests made by the audience, all of this at no additional charge.
I'd like to edit one thing Senator Lieberman said when he said that this is a war between twenty seven million Iraqis and ten thousand terrorists.
What it actually is is a war between on one hand twenty seven million Iraqis and on the other hand, ten thousand terrorists, liberals and bush haters.
Because the Iraqis are not only facing the terrorists, the Iraqis have enemies in this country.
They well, they've got opponents to victory in this country, and they are the American left and the Bush haters that are invested in defeat and attempting to secure defeat.
And isn't this wonderful from all of these touchy feely, sensitive, open minded liberals?
Of course, they all have larger hearts than we do, and they care more than we do because they are good people, and yet when it comes to the Iraqis, screw them.
Screw 'em.
Let them die.
We shouldn't have been there.
Screw Bush.
Screw the Iraqis.
They are invested in defeat, so it's not just ten thousand insurgents that the twenty-seven million Iraqis face.
It's ten thousand terrorists, who knows however many liberals and bush haters in this country.
Here's Tony in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Tony, glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Yeah, I getting back to the Christian peacemaker teams that evidently had some people kidnapped.
It it's sadly ironic that three months ago they ended a year and a half campaign that they called Adopt a day excuse me, adopt a detainee.
Where they were writing letters to U.S. officials and Iraqi officials on a detainee's behalf.
And what's ironic or sad about this is Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, detainees.
You mean you mean by detainee, you mean prisoners, American prisoners of war, like like when we would take Al Qaeda, put them in Al Qaeda, Abu Grab those detainees?
Yes.
Yes, and those in Iraq.
A whole campaign.
They were writing letters on their behalf to U.S., Iraqi, and other officials.
And what's really sad about this is in this instance, to whom would they write a letter?
Who can they write to make sure that these people are going to be treated as well as U.S. people treated Iraqis or Al Qaeda people?
Holy cow, this is amazing.
Did they have an adopted detainee program?
They did.
They did.
The CPT did.
You are kidding.
I was making a joke.
No, from March 2004.
You mean you mean what they did was set up Iraqi well, not Iraqi, but Al Qaeda and terrorist detainees with U.S. citizens or world citizens as letter writers of pen pals, this kind of thing.
That's how you so I, if I wanted to, could adopt Mohammed down in Club Gitmo.
Yes.
And have an ongoing can you've got to be can't do that.
This is the bunch that got kidnapped?
Yes.
Yes.
From March 2004 till September 2005, a year and a half, they had this whole campaign where they were.
Why did they stop the campaign, do you know?
Uh that I don't know.
I don't know.
Probably because they didn't get any participants.
Well, it could be.
Or not enough to sustain it.
All right, so they were having all these letters written, and they were having these letters written to uh uh government officials in the in the United States.
Protesting abuse.
Protesting abuse at Abu Grab and Club Gitmo and so forth.
Correct.
And now here they are, held at knife point and gunpoint as hostages.
And who are they gonna write letters to?
Who would they write a letter to now?
How are they going to try to stand on their own behalf?
Yeah, as warped as these people are, you know they're gonna blame Bush for this because they wouldn't have been kidnapped because they wouldn't have been there in the first place if Bush hadn't gone and caused the war and created all these terrorists.
I mean, these people are liberals, they're warped.
What I mean, but what that's why there's I'm telling you folks, there's a part of me that likes this.
Probably even with this, though, you know, they're not gonna see the light of day.
They're not gonna I know let them take me out of context.
I don't care anymore.
All right, we got uh a little more news here on his CPT outfit.
Went to their website, and on uh 21st of September, they made this announcement.
Uh CPT announces closure of adopted detainee campaign.
And I finally found out why.
Here it is in the in the last two paragraphs, since the transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqis in June of 2004, CPT, which what is it, the Christian peacemaker teams, has experienced U.S. officials in Iraq becoming increasingly unresponsive to appeals for reform, both from team members on location in Iraq and from letter writers abroad.
Consequently, Christians' peace teams, uh, members in Baghdad decided they needed to shift their immediate focus in order to continue toward their long-term goals of violence reduction and human rights for Iraqi detainees.
While officially closing the adopt a detainee letter writing campaign, a Christian peace team uh in Iraq will continue to monitor the situation of Iraqi detainees and develop new strategies to reduce violence against the Iraqis still in detention.
And the next thing happened is they got kidnapped.
So uh anyway, uh what what they're admitting here is that people were telling them to go to hell.
Nobody was listening to them, and so they said we're wasting our time here.
Ever since sovereignty, ever since the Iraqis took over control of the country, now we're really out of the loop.
And so they had to examine other strategies.
And wouldn't wouldn't you know it?
The next thing that we hear about this bunch is they get kidnapped themselves.
You're gonna keep a sharp eye on this because I'm telling you, it could be a stunt, and we'll know very soon.
We'll move on to uh the Alito nomination here.
One of the one of the problems that I foresaw or feared, let me put it that way, when Senator Spector, by the way, I'm willing to make a trade.
Senator Lieberman for Senator Specter.
And maybe a senator to be named later.
I would give up two Republican liberal senators for Lieberman.
I would throw in, I'd throw this I'll trade to Democrats, Spectre and either Olympia Snow or Link Chafey for Joe Lieberman.
So what's Spectre doing?
He's an ardent Eagles fan, by the way.
He's chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He yesterday accused the National Football League and the Philadelphia Eagles of potentially violating antitrust laws in their treatment of Terrell Owens.
He actually had a news conference in Harrisburg, said he was investigating the matter.
He might refer it to the Senate panel's antitrust subcommittee.
The senator said that the National Football League in the Eagles had effectively blacklisted uh Owens by forbidding him from playing and by banning other teams from talking to him.
He called such treatment vindictive and inappropriate.
It's a restraint of trade for them to do that, and the thought crosses my mind it might be a violation of antitrust laws.
The NFL can have whatever rules it wants on authorizing suspension or keeping you on a team for the balance of the year, but they can't violate the law.
An NFL spokesman said yesterday it was difficult to see how antitrust laws might have been violated.
Greg Ayello, the uh NFL spokesman said the arbitrator's decision is consistent with our collective bargaining agreement.
Simply enforce the terms of the player's contract.
Spector said his interest in the antitrust issue was piqued by news yesterday that the Igles had filed a complaint with the NFL against the Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for tampering.
And a lot of people say, wait a minute.
How can they be upset with Jerry Jones saying on a radio show he might like to have Terrell Owens when they don't want him in the first place?
Well, there's this thing called because they want trade value for the guy.
They want, they want to, they're going to try to get something for him before they release him.
But there is this tampering.
And if red literally, Jerry Jones might have stepped over the line in talking about how.
Because he's he can't, you cannot make overtures to a player in public or directly to let him know you'd like to have him when he's under contract to somebody else.
You just can't do it.
Now, Jones, for his part, is playing it the right way.
Jerry Jones says, gee, I'm sorry I hurt the Eagles' feelings.
And so forth.
But the point of this is what Senator Senator Spector doesn't have time to convene the hearings on Sam Alito's Supreme Court nomination.
But he's got time to do a press conference to go out and make up some gibberish here about Terrell Owens and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Now, I understand it's a big deal of Philadelphia, but Spectre would just re-elected.
He's not gonna, he's not be running for re-election for a while, so one of the th you know it's not fair to what they're doing to Owens.
You don't, you you know.
He's getting paid.
What do you mean play him or get rid?
They have they've gotten rid of him, but they're paying him.
He can't go anywhere anyway.
If they got rid of him, they wouldn't have to pay him, then somebody else would sign him, but he's getting paid.
It's not as low he's being docked his pay.
Same thing happened to Keyshawn Johnson a couple years ago.
This is this is the look at federal government better keep its nose out of this.
They're getting involved in the steroids business.
The NFL has its own bylaws.
They've got a collective bargaining agreement.
I'll tell you, this is this is there's when these guys start getting involved in this kind of stuff while setting aside the real nation's business or the nation's real business that they're elected to send there to go up there and do.
You know, it doesn't sit well with me.
One of the things...
That I feared by delaying these hearings was it was going to give the left all kinds of time to start dibbling and dabbling into Alito's past and then dribbling and drabling all kinds of little leaks about the guy.
Lo and behold, right here in the Boston Globe.
I am holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the beginning of the drip drip drip drip of leaks.
Alito in 80s had an expansive view of police powers.
As a young Reagan administration, a lawyer, Samuel A. Alito took an expansive view of government law enforcement powers in numerous cases in which he was called upon to balance the prerogatives of cops and prosecutors with the rights of individuals, according to 400 pages of documents released yesterday by the Justice Department.
The documents show that Alito once advised against, including a ban on capital punishment for minors in an agreement by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Such matters should be left to individual states to decide, he said.
Damn A straight.
Three cheers for this guy.
Screw the U.N. and that idiotic convention on the rights of the child.
They do not run United States law yet.
And if we get more people like Alito and John Roberts on the court, they'll have less of a chance to run U.S. law.
But all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the press and the libs upset with a guy who wants to give expansive police powers.
Yet they never complain about Ronnie Earl.
You talk about prosecutorial zealousness, zealotry.
You talk about over-the-top politicization of just political activity and behavior.
I have my own involvement in a in a circumstance where I'm telling you that there's not a liberal in the world concerned about the wide arc and overstepping bounds of prosecutors.
But now all of a sudden, here comes Alito.
And we're upset that he would probably support Ronnie Earl.
Theoretically.
This is just it's cockamami crazy.
You know, liberals claim to stand up for the accused all over the place.
I don't see any evidence of it.
The draft agreement called for outlawing the death penalty and life sentences without the possibility of parole for those who are younger than 18 when they commit crimes.
Alito raised concerns about such a proposal.
There are states that presently impose the death penalty on such individuals.
Alito wrote in January in 87 in a memo to John Bolton, who was then an assistant attorney general, now serves as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Congress may at some point wish to have such penalties on the federal level, Alito told Bolton.
We therefore question whether the United States should agree with this provision of the convention, meaning the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Alito said the prosecutors need flexibility, particularly in cases in which there are multiple suspects.
Alito raised concerns about a proposed ethics rule that would have barred prosecutors from investigating an individual without a good faith belief that the person had committed a crime.
Let me tell you something.
Liberalism is basing its existence and its future on being able to do that.
Investigate people without any evidence of a crime and never stop the investigation.
Or have an indictment as delay gets with no evidence in the indictment.
Why the Democrats ought to be applauding Sam Alito.
Because what he's advocating here in these documents is exactly the way they are trying to run the judicial system when they're in charge of it.
Everywhere you look.
They have politicized the judicial system, down to these local DAs, all the way up to federal judges as whenever they get themselves in power.
They institute their personal political and policy preferences in the adjudication of cases in the law.
And yet here they are hypocritically.
Oh no, Alito wants to expand police powers.
He's dangerous.
We can't allow that.
The point is here.
They're painting this picture of Alito.
And these hearings aren't going to happen until January 6th.
So we get a whole month of this.
Expansive view of police powers, expansive view of religious liberty, limited views of federal regulatory powers under the Commerce Clause, likely to overturn Roe v.
Wade.
This is why Spectre needed to have these hearings now rather than put them off.
Democrats are going to be laying the foundation to oppose Alito.
He's still going to get confirmed because.
Well, he's just going to be confirmed, but it's just these guys with all this time are going to have a chance to pollute the man's character and do their best to try it.
But the AP has a story, this is from yesterday.
The American Bar Association is going to grade Samuel Alito in the coming weeks.
He's likely to receive the same rating he did in 1990 when Bush's father nominated him to the third U.S. District Court or Circuit Court of Appeals, unanimous, well qualified, highest rating.
That's what he got 1990.
A study by two law school professors ranked Samuel Alito 16th out of 74 of his peers for productivity, the quality of opinions, and judicial independence.
What is more surprising that the two law school professors found that Harvey Wilkinson, Michael Ludig, Edith Jones, Samuel Alito, Emilio Garza have high marks in judicial independence.
These are all conservative potential nominees, potential conservative nominees, and these two law school professors are these guys that they lead the league here in judicial independence.
So it's going to be tough to oppose the guy, but they're still going to try to pollute his character and reputation by comically, comically accusing him of having the kind of judicial mind that they are relying on now.
In order to prosecute their political enemies in court.
Quick timeout back after this.
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All right, Frankfurt, Kentucky, David High, welcome to the EIB Network.
Welcome.
Megadetta, sir.
First time caller, a pleasure.
Thank you, sir.
what I wanted to talk about was the fact that I don't believe that Judge Alito wants to expand the powers of the police.
I think he wants to restore them to where they used to be before leftist judges eroded their powers away to the point where they can't do their job effectively.
You know, uh I have to be honest with you about something.
Um, no, no, I'm trying to think how to phrase this.
I understand exactly what you're saying, and I on in principle, I probably agree with it.
But I've had for the last twenty-six months a personal experience which makes me have a whole different perspective on this notion of police powers and the the the criminals' rights, whatever have been expanded and so forth.
In some cases, I know it's true, but you know, my my own personal experience, there hasn't been any reduction in police power.
There's no there's no checker balance on overzealous uh uh baseless prosecutions.
I I w with my own personal experience, I now look at every one of these that I hear about on a innate.
What's that?
Where is that a Hello?
Is that you, sir?
What was that going on on your phone?
Oh, that was that was my car.
Your car?
Well, somebody stealing it.
I'm waiting for my daughter to get out of school.
Oh, oh, okay.
Okay.
Well, uh the the point is that that um I look at what's happening what's happening with Tom Delay, and I can see they indict him with no evidence.
And I look at that jury foreman of what he said, his mind was made up before he even heard any evidence.
I got my own circumstance.
Three weeks ago in a court hearing, the prosecutor in my so-called case admitted after twenty-five months, they don't have any evidence of a crime.
And they basically asked a judge to waive the doctor patient privilege, so they go talk to my doctors.
Because they they they thought, well, we're gonna get Limbaugh's medical records, and they they they put out there, folks, they said two years ago.
And they leaked it to the media.
They had ten felony counts of doctor shopping.
That's they already had that.
That is when they saw my pharmacy records.
Then they wanted to get the medical records, they think they'd have any more.
Well, they got the records.
They can't find a crime.
Prosecutor admits it in court, tells the judge we have no evidence.
And I I won't know if any if Limbaugh committed a crime until I can talk to his doctors.
And the judge said, the statute says you can't do that unless Limbaugh waves it, period.
And the prosecutor said, Judge, you need to look at this as common sense.
We can't investigate unless you let us talk to his doctors.
And I'm I'm I'm listening to all this.
After twenty-six months, after all these leaks, these guys say we don't have any evidence that Mr. Limbaugh has completed the elements of a crime, is what he said.
Twenty-six months, all these leaks.
So far I'm telling you, why when I when I look at these when I look at a case now with a prosecutor, I don't care who it is, could be an independent federal prosecutor, local prosecutor.
When they come out and announce what they've got, personal experience has made me I question it all now.
So now when we hear about well, Sam Alito, he just wants to restore police powers that have been eroded.
Yeah, on balance intellectually, because I know I'd have to agree that in a lot of cases they have, but I can tell you there's no shortage of prosecutorial or police power in this country.
We'll be back in just a second.
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Uh, one of my all-time favorite tunes, Al Wilson and uh show and tell, but let's go to Belgium.
Our final call today.
Patrick, nice to have you on the program, sir.
Got about one minute here.
I just wanted to say mega dittoes and mega thank you from a soldier overseas.
I just uh last week, a few days ago received my uh was adopted by by a former Air Force Colonel.
I wanted to say thank you to you, thank you to him, thank you to everybody.
It's a great program.
I'll tell you what, we thank you for what you're doing.
Everybody does, and the American people are so happy to be able to show their support by participating in the program.
It's great to hear from you.
Uh it's it's uh this is this whole thing is a real upper for all of us?
It's a it's a it's a big thrill.
When we hear from people like you, Patrick, uh it just it just brings it all together.
I'm so happy you were able to get through from Belgium.
This is a good time to remind all of you military people uh who haven't signed up for this.
It's easy to do.
Just go to rushlimb.com, the homepage, and there's a just a little form you've got to fill out so that we can verify that you actually are military, uh, and then we'll match you with an adopt a soldier donate.
If you're a family member of a military person, uh you can register them as well.
Folks, have a great day.
Be back tomorrow, all revved up, geared up to do it again.
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