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May 12, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 12, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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The views express by the host of this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying.
And you know why.
It's Friday.
Let's just keep rolling.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Yeah.
Ladies and gentlemen, open line Friday, we go to the phones.
The program is all yours, meaning you can call and talk about children.
Um, whatever.
The mating habits of the Australian rabbit bat and whatever strikes your fancy does not have to be things I'm interested in on uh Friday.
One hour left to go before the big weekend, 800-282-2882 is the number.
And I want to go back to Steve in St. Louis.
Steve, thanks for your patience.
I have one other question, but I need to reset the table with he's he's a um uh correct me if I'm wrong, but you used to work in the Department of Defense Intelligence and you did uh phone call monitoring for the NSA, is that right?
Yeah, I used to work for the military in NSA at the end.
And what and what he said right before the hour ended, the previous hour he said if he's monitoring phone calls and he overheard, for example, a phone call between me and Snerdley, which we're planning to rob a bank, he could not tell anybody about it because he had not received a warrant to monitor our phone call, and so if he did mention it to anybody, uh he would be put in jail before we were if we robbed a bank.
So we could rob the bank, even though he knew we were gonna do it.
And I asked him, now if you're monitoring foreign phone calls, known terrorists, and you hear something like that, you're not under the same limitation, and you said yes.
My question to you is how would you have stuff in in what circumstance would you stumble across a phone call between me and Snerdly planning on robbing a bank when both of us are in the country and uh and neither of us have known ties to terrorists.
How would you encounter that phone call if you're not supposed to be listening to them in the first place?
Purely by accident.
We go through a set of frequencies, and every once in a while they bleed over.
We hear conversations that we're not supposed to.
But we gotta determine where they are.
Because what we're listening to internationally is close to the frequencies that are used domestically.
It's possible to hear stuff.
We didn't get it often.
But every once in a while we'd get something.
It usually be mundane.
Uh we're gonna go out on Friday night type thing.
But if we ever did hear anything in criminal ill activity, we'd go through a training session every year on what we can and cannot listen to and how long we can listen to it.
Well, you probably can't answer this next question on the basis of it's classified, but I'm gonna ask it anyway.
Could you, as a as a human being, as a rogue agent in there, choose a phone number or person whose calls you wanted to monitor and zero in on it.
Uh yeah, you're um stepping on the line there.
Yeah.
Um, I only asked you that because you said you'd you'd stumble across the snerdly and I robbing a bank phone call by accident because frequencies crossover.
Right.
But you know, there are limitations on what we can do on anything.
If we know, let's say like we suspect you, we can go out and go ahead and get a warrant to listen to your conversations.
That was how we that would how that would be how we would get around the rogue.
But anything else, if we get anything on anybody in uh interstate, we can't do anything with it.
We're breaking a federal law.
And I wouldn't even get a trial.
I wouldn't have even gotten a trial.
I would have gotten uh military court taking about 30 seconds to go, yeah, you heard it, you turned it over, you're going to Leavenworth for 15 years.
And that's a minimum sentence.
Because we can't spy on our own people.
Um not surprising to hear this.
Isn't that you guys all have supervisors monitoring what you do?
Oh, yeah.
We get monitored and we turn everything in that we get to um uh supervisor who has a supervisor who monitors him.
There's so many levels you gotta go through to get anything anyway.
That you know, everybody says there's a failure of intelligence before 911.
It wasn't a failure of intelligence, it was a failure to connect the dots because we got eighty-five different groups doing it.
Well, are we any better at it now?
You know, I don't know.
The fact that we haven't been attacked again in almost five years probably says yes.
But like the president said early and early on in this, you're not gonna hear about a successes.
You're only gonna hear about the failures.
You know, in the twenties plus years that I've that I've done I did this, we probably had thirty failures and three thousand successful stops.
Wow.
So when you hear the uh the political uh cat calls uh of opposition and mischaracterization of the of the data mining program, what what how do you how do you react to that personally when you hear it?
I want to I'm gonna I'm a big tri I'm a I I'm driving a big rig, and I just want to find them and run them over.
Because they're lying.
They're putting out information that isn't even close to the truth.
This program's been going on since the 70s that I've been involved in it, and I know it was going on before that.
When I said earlier today in explaining this to callers that uh the data mining program that we learned about in December from the New York Times that the uh USA Today regurgitated yesterday is different from the foreign surveillance going on of known Al Qaeda terrorists.
When I pointed out this is they're just they're just collecting phone records from participating phone companies, and not until somebody they already know is a terrorist or suspected terrorist calls a number on that list is that list gonna ever be used.
Is that true?
That is true.
That is true.
They until we have a number that we know is somebody that we've been monitoring to begin with.
And in that case you'll go get a in that case you'll get a warrant, right?
That case we'll go to go get a warrant because we can't do anything until that point.
If we already got the numbers under surveillance.
But you don't need a warrant for the foreign phone calls.
No.
Because we can get those anywhere in the world.
The only difference between that is we can't when I'm when you're we're we're in a foreign country, we can't monitor in the country the home country.
We can't monitor any of theirs either.
But we can monitor everything else.
Yeah.
Well, it all makes perfect sense to me.
Uh and I can understand how you would be livid when you hear your work being mischaracterized because essentially, you know, the critics are trying to say that Bush is doing the spying.
Bush is the guy monitoring and eavesdropping on innocent American citizens.
But actually it's people like you that are doing it, and uh you're doing it for the express purpose of national security, correct?
You're a patriot.
You believe in what you're doing for the cause.
I took an oath twenty almost thirty years ago to defend this country, and I still believe that oath.
I'm we're trying to defend the country.
We don't always succeed.
We own but um people only find out about us when we fail.
If we hadn't been doing our jobs, many more attacks like we had on September eleventh would have happened.
Prior prior to September eleventh, you mean.
Yeah.
And after.
I guarantee you we've fought we've foiled three hundred since September eleventh that no one will ever hear about.
Because we stopped them.
And if we tell people how we stopped them, they're gonna find out what we do.
And that's what really upsetting me about this is the now the bad guys are finding out what we do.
So now they're gonna change their patterns.
Make it tougher on us to do our job.
Well, I know that's the frustrating thing.
And a lot of people have um suspected that this is a problem, and I appreciate your calling because you've you've been able to put the um uh uh well, a face on this, and you've been able to add the personal perspective because up until the time you call,
we're talking about nameless faceless individuals who by uh intimation are being smeared as as spies and perverts who just want to spy on the American people for George Bush for who knows what nefarious reasons when in fact it's just the opposite of what you're doing.
However, I'm sure that that this is uh has been all part of the job for you all along as well, because it's gotta be duff.
It's gotta be really tough not to be able to talk about your work.
Most people take their identity from their work, and you can't talk about yours.
No, I have no tell I could probably go to jail for what I'm telling you now.
Well, you still are you still there?
Uh no.
But I still have a another ten years before I can even do some things.
Wow.
Well, we trust that uh you have not been compromised with your call.
We are not monitoring your call here.
And even if we were, we wouldn't turn you into anybody.
I'm glad you called.
I'm glad you called Steve.
Thanks so much for spending so much time with us.
Uh thank you.
You bet.
Have a great day, great weekend.
We'll take a quick break and be back and resume right after this.
All right, we've got interesting Dubai Ports deal news, ladies and gentlemen.
This uh this from a actually editorial in the uh Washington Times yesterday.
It's entitled Schumer's Dubai Deal.
Nearly three months ago, New York Senator Chuck Schumer led the charge against the Dubai Ports deal.
We shared his worries that a Dubai firm running U.S. ports might be more easily infiltrated by Al Qaeda or other terrorists.
But now Mr. Schumer wants to outsource cargo screening to the very same company.
Mr. Schumer.
Mr. Schumer might not even fully know what he has proposed in a failed amendment to the emergency spending bill.
Chuck Schumer tried to force all ports participating in the container security initiative, which is more than forty of the world's busiest ports, including Singapore, Rotterdam, and Tokyo, among others, forced them to model their cargo screening systems after Hong Kong's if they want to keep sending cargo to the United States.
Beyond its bullying unilateralism, this would have ended up handing much of the country's foreign cargo screening records to Dubai Ports World.
Hong Kong's new system, though innovative and worthy of study, is criticized by industry insiders as vendor-driven.
That means that private firms handle the screening records.
And it happens that the emerging private vendor on the world scene is Dubai Ports World.
Since its recent acquisition of CSX uh corporations terminal business in China, Australia, Germany, and elsewhere, Dubai Ports World is literally expanded all over the world.
So if Schumer had had his way, the same company that he helped bounce an American ports would be handling our cargo screening records just about everywhere else.
How ironic.
It's not just the Dubai Ports World either.
Mr. Schumer's proposal would also have made Hutchison Wampoa, a Chinese firm with close ties to the SHICOMS, eligible for the same function.
Hutchison, the CIA once worried, could provide a conduit for illegal shipments of technology or prohibited items from the West to the SHICOMs, or facilitate the movement of arms and other prohibited items into the Americas.
Some Republicans are worried that Senator Schumer might try to insert this language into other legislation.
Key targets might be the Senate's port security bills, including the one spearheaded by Senators Ted Stevens and Daniel in no way.
Uh the other possibility is Schumer might try to insert it into an unrelated bill, as he did recently.
Well, now, this doesn't say it all.
Here's the guy who led the charge, wanted to be seen as the leader in keeping the Dubai Ports World outfit out of our ports operations.
And you remember, I don't know if you do or not, but this was just hilarious.
The Republicans and Democrats were in a race to see who could first stop the deal.
And the Republicans got there first.
And Harry Reid called a press conference.
It was Senator Schumer who did it.
Senator Schumer, you led the way on this.
We're proud that you led the way.
All right, fine.
Senator Schumer led the way.
Now he wants to outsource cargo inspection coming into this country to a Hong Kong firm that's actually run by Dubai Ports World.
I just love this story.
I have always loved this story.
I don't know why I love the story, but I continue to.
Andrew in San Diego, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Megadados.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, um, reason I'm calling, I just graduated from law school uh two weeks ago, and at the same time just started a radio station with one of my professors who is very liberal, and I'm obviously very conservative.
So wait, wait, wait, wait.
You oh, you just started a radio station?
No, a radio show.
Radio show.
Yeah.
Um we found an empty slot on a college station and basically contacted the station managers and they gave us the slot on Sunday nights.
So we've uh we've actually had two shows now.
So you're doing a show with the your liberal professor and you and you're a conservative, I assume, and you're you're doing a sort of a crossfire type thing.
Yeah, essentially that's what it is, a crossfire thing, and we're we've been focusing on more the legal side um since I don't think either of us expect to measure up to such programs as this one.
Um, you know, we focused on a couple of the hot legal issues right now, like the Ten Commandments monuments and the Mount Soldat Cross here in San Diego.
Right.
Stuff like that.
Um we've got a uh big case in the Ninth Circuit that we're talking about this weekend about a high school student who wore an anti-gay t shirt to school.
Um so I guess basically why I was calling was to uh solicit some advice you know from the king.
I uh I don't know, it's it's difficult, I guess, going up against someone who's the polar opposite of me, although I'm very sure of what I believe.
Uh well, that's all you need.
For something like this, th this is a professor who's older than you are.
Yes, she is.
I mean Oh, it's a short.
Is a sheet she's older than you are.
What do you have a decent relationship with her off the any in during just the the the normal day?
Yeah, absolutely.
She uh is probably the only liberal I could I could say you know, the things I say about her.
She's just I don't I don't it's it's very atypical, I guess.
I mean almost all the faculty in the law school is liberal, but there's there's so many ways to go here.
I I um you know the the the in terms of just doing a a talk show, I or anything.
I mean the the first thing you have to do is is learn to speak the language as well as you can um and be able to articulate what you really think without stumbling around and and in vain search for a thought and and that's you know that's just a matter of of uh education.
Second thing is passion.
I mean you have to I I've always believed that uh what no matter what you're doing, that the desire and passion for what you're doing are eighty percent of succeeding at it.
Uh all things being equal.
You mean if you really, really, really want to do it, then you will do what's necessary uh to succeed at it.
You'll work as hard as you'll have your ambition, uh you'll you'll you'll do what's necessary to uh improve and get better, and you'll be your own le uh you're you'll be your own best judge as to whether you're meeting your own expectations or not.
And you won't need to be told by somebody whether you're doing it well, doing it badly, doing it poorly or whatever.
I mean, it's not bad to have coaching, but you're in a basic you you have to understand that you're you're you're in a in a talent business as well.
And it's not just that uh you might have the facts and you might have the ideas and you might be able to express them, but you've got to do it in a way that's gonna make people want to listen to you.
Um and it's so many factors into this.
It's not gonna necessarily be whether you win every argument is not gonna be whether she does.
It's not gonna be uh uh those are not gonna be the determining factors in who listens.
I mean you're gonna have people that agree with you and you're gonna have to make sure that you stand up for what they think and don't cave.
Otherwise, you know, why be there?
Um and and you're gonna have to, you know, you you can decide for entertainment purposes whether you want to get personal with her now, and then like like Jane, you ignorant whatever, uh trying to be funny about it.
But that'll happen as you as you loosen up.
It's gonna depend on your relationship with her, whether she does the same thing uh with with you.
Uh the but the next thing is don't become caller dependent.
You know, don't don't look at the phone board and say if nobody's calling, nobody's listening because it the two don't go together.
Uh the maximum percentage of an audience ever tries to call is one tenth of one percent.
So don't do the phone show or telephone show or a talk show for telephone callers.
Don't don't aim what you're doing to get calls, aim what you're doing to get listeners.
Uh but just keep doing it.
There's nothing that will uh there's no amount of advice that can that can compensate or count for more than experience.
Uh so once you start it, just uh just keep doing it and uh understand that there's a performance aspect to it too.
That's uh what I mentioned this earlier.
It's not just having the facts, but if you present the facts that you have in a boring and dry, stuffy uh NPR type way or PBS type way, uh, I don't think you're going to achieve what you want to achieve.
Right.
And I think that's partially why we're selecting, I guess, the topics we are, which are, you know, very controversial, contentious topics.
I mean, everything that we've talked about.
You know, about that.
I've got to run here, I've got to run here real quickly.
But when you choose topics, um, and I guess if you do a show once a week, you have to choose topics.
Make sure you care about it.
Don't choose a topic just because it's in the news.
Because if you don't have if you don't care about it, and if you're not passionate about it, you won't you won't do well.
You're gonna sound bored talking about it, and you're not gonna work hard to prepare yourself to get rid of don't get talked into doing stuff you don't care about.
And once a week, that shouldn't be too hard.
On the radio is right.
Great to have you.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882.
All right, have you how many of you people are aware of the website Myspace.com?
Yeah, it didn't been in the news a lot lately.
Now listen to this.
New this is again from yesterday, uh, when I was out.
I don't know if Hedgecock got into this or not, but nevertheless, new legislation from Congress would block access to social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook in Screws and Libaries, uh, including instant message services.
Wait a minute, block access, doesn't that restrict somebody's freedom?
Is isn't isn't that per se bad?
Uh the bill known as the deleting online predators act, introduced by Representative Michael Fitzpatrick, Republican Pennsylvania, aims at protecting minors from online child predators.
Well, child predators and terrorist plans should be foiled, right?
I mean, we we should protect ourselves from them, shouldn't we?
Yeah.
According to the bill, it prohibits access to commercial social networking websites or chat rooms through which minors can access obscene or indecent material, be subject to unlawful sexual advances or repeated offensive comments of a sexual nature from adults, or access harmful information.
You mean someone cross-checked IP addresses, visited by sexual predators and decided to act on that information?
Can we do that?
Doesn't that doesn't that violate law-abiding citizens' rights to visit otherwise public websites?
How can we do this?
How can we track down sexual predators and their IP addresses and then decide to keep them from um uh being able to log on to these sites?
The bill terms a social network website is one that allows users to create web pages or profiles about themselves, as well as offers communications, including a forum, a chat room, email, or instant messenger, while a chat room is termed a site that allows multiple users to communicate in real time via text.
Sites like MySpace and Facebook have opened the door to a new online community of social networks between friends, students, and colleagues, said Representative Fitzpatrick.
However, this new technology has become a feeding ground for child predators that use these sites as just another way to do our children harm.
Well, yeah, I understand that.
We ought not let this happen.
But you know, telephones are used by terrorists who are eager to kill Americans.
What's the difference?
Why can't we know what telephone numbers they're calling?
The bill specifically would require scrubles and libraries to implement security systems to prevent students from being exposed to obscene and objectionable material.
Yeah, okay.
And the NSA implemented security systems to prevent terrorists from freely using our phones to commit their crimes, all done without violating anybody's constitutional rights.
So my question here.com and and uh and other such sites.
But it's not okay to protect all Americans by figuring out what telephone numbers that terrorists are calling.
I mean, how how is how is it okay to protect children by figuring out which IP addresses sexual predators are visiting, but we can't zero in on terrorists using a phone To plot an attack on the country.
What am I missing here?
Well, I know they're doing it for the children, but it's the same trying to make a point here.
I mean, if we know that criminals or terrorists are calling phone numbers or visiting websites for the purposes of committing a crime, we ought to act on it, right?
It's a good idea to know the phone numbers and the IP addresses that these monsters use, right?
We'll agree with that.
And if we can get this information without violating constitutional rights, we should do something with the information, right?
I don't get it.
Why all this panic over the Oh, he's a the presence above all.
The president's doing above the law all I see.
Okay.
I you get my point here, folks.
I mean, we're out there, we're we're we're restricting everybody's privacy and freedom all over the place if they're if they're predators, if they're uh if they're engaged in obscene lewd activity.
We have all these law enforcement people going on these things under fake names and deceiving these criminals.
And yet people who support this legislation support this somehow can't find a way to understand how important it is to stop Al Qaeda from blowing up the uh country.
Uh get this.
Two stories here, both related.
Robert Rubin, chairman uh for Local Initiatives Support Corporation, that's L I S C and former U.S. Treasury Secretary, and Senator Hillary Clinton, uh uh together announced a one billion dollar nationwide effort to build more than fifteen thousand affordable homes with high speed digital internet connectivity.
Lisk and its subsidiary National Equity Fund, NEF, in partnership with One Economy, launched the initiative Access at Home.
The program expects to connect approximately a hundred thousand people, offering low-income families personal access to computers and technology services in addition to online connectivity.
All right.
Fine.
Hunky dory, hubba hobba dooba doobo whoopy.
Next story.
Today from Washington.
Senator Hillary Clinton lashed out at the instant gratification generation yesterday, saying young adults think uh work is a four-letter word.
Uh Hillary, uh, work is a four-letter word.
How many how many letters do you think it has?
W O R K. She said kids for uh whatever reason think they're entitled to go right to the top with 50,000 or 75,000 a year jobs when they've done nothing to earn their way up.
This coming from the Cattle Futures Baron, who lied about all on her own taking a thousand dollars and turning it into a hundred thousand dollars while she did maybe it was ten thousand dollars.
Um and also uh Mrs. Clinton has talked about how the country is too slothful.
Kids are too slothful and they're and they're lazy and they're sitting around there getting fat, she's worried about all this.
Her husband's out there banning soda pop from the scrubs, doing great work out there.
Um, and yet she's going to wire homes for low-income uh families so they can sit there on their rear ends, not learning the definition of work and keeping them lazy, couch and chair potatoes.
Mrs. Clint.
Uh well, yeah, it's a good that is a good idea.
That is m Hillary.
If if if she says that not enough people know how the real world works, and she says it's people want things too fast too soon.
Whitewater, cattle futures.
People want things too soon.
She needs to take these people and and advise them on a way uh to learn about how the real world works when it comes to work.
She ought to sponsor an intern program.
If these people do not understand exactly, if she thinks that they think work is a four-letter word, then she needs to get them in an office environment somewhere so they can understand exactly what happens.
Intern program.
Let Hillary and Bob Rubin set an intern program up along with these 15,000 low-income homes are going to build with high-speed Internet online.
Arlene in Wappinger's Falls, New York.
Welcome to the EIB network.
You're on Open Line Friday.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
God bless you for what you're doing.
Thank you.
Um, I just wanted to let you know that uh you know, people Um who think the government is doing something wrong or are really um uninformed or they're just totally ignorant because I can get any information on anybody I want just by going on the computer in my own home.
And if you'll bear with me, I'll give you a quick list of some of the information that I can get.
Uh for instance, um, oh, let's say I um Google on somebody like Patrick Leahy, for instance.
Okay, I can get his uh address, his phone number.
I can find out who 30 of his neighbors are with their addresses and phone numbers.
Uh let me see.
I can get um Yes, but can you get his phone records if you Google phone records?
Have you done that?
Google phone records and find out how many phone records you can buy out there.
They sell 'em.
Cell phone records, people are selling them all over the place.
There's legislation to try to stop it, but you can buy people's phone records.
I don't know if you can buy Pat Leahy's, I don't know if you'd want them.
Yeah, well, I I wouldn't want them, but I I can also uh also find out uh who his uh relatives are and uh who his roommates were in college.
I can get his school records.
I can find out if he was ever involved in uh bankruptcy or tax lien, a small claim civil judgment.
I can get his marriage and divorce records, I can find out about his uh home uh and what it's worth.
I can find out if he had any aliases, I can go to his um find out where he went to school and find out who his um schoolmates were.
Um I can find out if um he has the pilot's license where his aircraft is registered, um, if he was ever involved with uh DEA controlled substances.
Um, you know, I mean I can find out anything about anybody just by getting on a computer.
You know, so I mean, you know, the I probably have more information available to me than what the government is even willing to research on any citizen in this country.
You know, so it's I don't know about that.
I I don't if you I don't when you combine just the census in the IRS uh our our good buddies at Big Brother have quite a lot of information about us.
Uh and the social security number will tell them a lot.
Um I you know, there's there's just two things to say here.
People have my whole life, people have been warning that what's happening is going to happen.
That there will be constant invasions of privacy, gonna lose it.
We gotta be vigilant.
Uh and and they I was warned it's all gonna happen under the guise of law enforcement and security and protecting you and so forth, and lo and behold, it's happened.
Now this is it it's it's it's what it is, and there are some people who would be rightly concerned about all this.
That is why it is crucial that we have responsible leaders uh assigning and appointing responsible people in these positions because the genie is out of the bag.
Anyone who thinks that you still have total anonymity and privacy, just because you're not on television and you're not a media star, you have no clue what can be learned about you, as Arlene has just pointed out.
So the genie's out of the bag.
You can sit here and memoan it all you want, but the genie is out of the bag.
Every time somebody brings up the idea of a national ID card, I just chuckle because no, no, no.
That's the end of our privacy.
I maybe track what do you think social security card is?
They can track you anywhere.
You got an easy pass, cross a bridge, going through a tunnel or whatever.
My gosh, folks, uh the they're putting cameras at at uh at at intersections to follow you seeing whatever you what are you?
Don't break a law or do break a law or what have you.
All being done with the guise of security, privacy, protection, uh these kinds of things.
Uh um well, now sternly just with the exception of identity theft, who cares?
Um well, that that's the point.
A lot of people do care.
My but but but the the real thing that needs to be said here, this this reaction to this that the Democrats at the drive by media are having is infantile.
It is juvenile.
It is it is a willingful, purposeful uh ignorance of what has been happening in this country for years, and as we have learned today, many of these initiatives they voted for.
Many of these initiatives they sponsored.
Many of these initiatives they initiated in the be redundant.
It was their idea.
The Clinton administration came up with the whole notion that the federal government will get cooperation from phone companies in sharing phone records with the government when the government wants it.
Don't need a warrant to get it.
That Clinton administration did it.
A voice vote in a Democrat House and a Democrat Senate made it law when Clinton signed it.
And Senator Kennedy was there and voted for it in a vost void voice vote.
Senator Levin was there.
Senator Spector was there.
Senator Leahy was there.
So these people acting like we all have total 100% anonymity until George Bush came along.
And then blew everything up.
And Bush secretly at night.
They say he goes to bed at 9 30, but no, he's spying on you.
Because he's a pervert voyeur.
I mean, it's just absurd.
All of this is patently absurd.
I gotta go.
A little long in this segment.
Be back after this.
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Let's not forget, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, some of the same Democrats wailing and whining and moaning about oh, the best fix is buying.
It's horrible.
Uh, same people that stole Michael Steele, Lieutenant Governor Maryland, uh, social security number for the purposes of getting his credit report.
That was Senator Schumer's staff at the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Bunch of hypocrites.
Let me just let me shoot you straight here, folks.
Scott McNeely, computer guy.
Had dinner with him at the ATT at the golf tournament last uh last uh February.
You never heard of Scott McNeely?
You know who Scott You know Scott McNeely Scott McNeely had this to say about privacy.
You don't have any privacy.
Get over it.
Josh in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Welcome to the program.
Everybody, not just me.
He was that we don't have privacy.
None of us have privacy.
Get over it.
Josh in Grand Rapids, welcome to the program.
An honor to speak with you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I regret to inform you I've been selling myself as a political prostitute.
Well, everybody has to be something.
Why why did you do it?
I'm a first-year college student in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I have to sell my conservative views in order to get a better grade in school.
Well, but you didn't really sell them.
You you I mean, because you still hold them, right?
You still have them.
Well, yes, yes.
Yeah, you just acted.
You just you just tried to make the professor think you weren't what you are so as to get a grade.
Yes, exactly.
You made a risk-reward assessment.
You made a damage assessment.
And you figured this was the best thing for you because you figured the grade is more important to you at this stage in your life Than uh the standing on principle of this professor, correct?
Yes.
And you're calling me for absolution.
Yes.
I I feel dirty every time I do it, and uh sometimes I have used you in my papers.
And uh, you know, that almost guarantees me uh a better grade, by the way.
Um wait, wait, wait, wait.
If using me in the papers gets you a better grade, then why do you compromise your conservatism?
Well, because I uh I'm not sure.
Oh, you're gonna say don't say it.
Don't say it.
You're going to say you criticize my views in your papers.
It's hard to do because it's hard to find uh uh things to criticize you about, sir, but uh yes I do.
Well, I don't know what to do about this.
Uh tell you what, uh you you I gotta give you guts for calling and admitting this.
Uh I I can tell you want to get it off your chest.
It's bothering you, it's plaguing you.
You have a guilty conscience over this, you want absolution from me.
Yes, that's what I'm looking for.
I need to know that it's uh okay for me to do.
And uh the thing is, though, isn't it Let me just say, because I'm running out of time, I'm just running out of time.
If you find it convenient to sell out your principles, uh run for office.
That's that's where you're needed.
Back in Justice Egg.
And let's not forget old Baghdad Jim McDermott selling or giving at phone transcript, phone call of Newt Gingrich and John Boehner intercepted by that little grandparent couple down in Florida, the New York Times.
That was just free speech, of course.
That wasn't spying on anybody.
Have a great weekend, folks.
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