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July 3, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 3, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Thank you, Johnny Donovan, and it's a pleasure and a privilege to be with you once again in For Rush, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, where there is never a final exam, but we are tested every day.
I am fellow student Paul W. Smith and elevated for the day, at least, to teaching assistant.
But I'm really just one of the students, just like you.
Nice to be with you.
We've got a great show with a great lineup.
Bo Snerdley has done a magnificent job once again.
He is filling in for HR, Kit Carson, the executive producer.
Bo is handling the duties.
Mike Mamon, our engineer out of New York, Mike Abbott's here in the Golden Tower of the Fisher Building in Detroit, and there's lots going on.
If you can hear me now, can you hear me now?
Okay, if you can hear me now, that means apparently the asteroid 2004 XP-14 missed us.
There was a rather large asteroid that was coming our way today.
It's an Apollo class of asteroids, which are those that cross orbits with Earth.
And there was some concern because it was going to be just 268,624 miles away, just slightly further away than the average distance of the moon from Earth, and there was concern.
But it apparently, if you can hear me, has passed by and everything's a-okay.
No word on how this may affect global warming, however.
No word on that.
Fireworks, people are fooling around with them, have been for days now.
Please be careful.
Some are illegal, obviously.
Some people still do it, but you might want to go to fireworksafety.com for last-minute information.
Do that.
Yes, that is right.
Mamon is going through the instructions you'll find at www.fireworksafety.com.
It says, do not hold in hand.
Light and run.
But on a serious note, please be careful, because, you know, the next day or two or three, our news departments at this, your favorite radio station, are going to have to report on people who have lost fingers or eyes or worse every year.
And speaking on behalf of our news department here at your favorite radio station, we don't want to do that anymore.
So please be careful with those fireworks.
NASA, oh man, they're foaming at the mouth regarding the latest trouble holding back their blast off.
No fireworks there.
They're going to have a press conference here shortly.
It's not the weather this time.
A shallow crack in the foam on the space shuttle's fuel tank could scuttle the shuttle.
At least the launch they were hoping to have as a real blast off for the 4th of July.
We'll see.
This is an unbelievable story.
I mean, if I didn't read it in the, well, wait a minute.
I read it in the New York Times.
What does that mean then?
Well, if I didn't read it in the paper, I wouldn't have believed it.
But listen to this.
Reverend Jesse Jackson.
You try to figure this one out.
Reverend Jesse Jackson has been named the co-national manager of the Jockeys Guild.
Now, this is a paid position, along with another guy, Dwight Manley, who was a former sports agent who represented Dennis Rodman, a paid position to represent over 1,100 members in the Jockey Union.
The Jockey Guild, even some of the jockeys.
Could I have that trumpet here, Maimon?
This is perfect here for the jockey story.
Do you have that?
Yeah, well, some of the jockeys are saying they have no idea why Reverend Jesse Jackson was hired.
How does he fit in the picture?
What does he know about racing and the issues?
One guy's quote is, this is a horrible idea.
Neither person, Dwight Manley nor Jesse Jackson, is a person who is experienced in racing or knows jockeys.
So that is just one of the oddest out of many historically odd stories regarding the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
A big story out there, too, about how we should tell kids, or if we should tell kids, that they're fat, or how we should say it, I guess, how blunt parents and doctors should be in telling their children and their teens they're fat.
Medical professionals are actually debating whether it's time to replace the fuzzy language favored by the federal government with the painful truth, telling kids they're obese or overweight may be painful to hear, but it addresses a serious problem.
Some say the term obese sounds mean.
The diplomatic approach used by many doctors avoids the word obese altogether because of the stigma.
And they say things like they're at risk of overweight.
Well, they are overweight.
And in fact, my friend Oakland County and Oakland County, Michigan executive El Brooks Patterson discovered this, and which is why he started a steps program, a healthy steps program, that because of this obesity, because of this problem, this very real problem with our kids and the problems that are associated with obesity that starts out when they're young, like later in life, diabetes and stroke, we've got a whole generation of children.
This generation of children we're raising today will be the first generation in history not to have a longer lifespan than their parents.
We better get to the point, no matter what we call it, at risk of overweight or obese or fat.
It's a problem that has to be dealt with and it has to be dealt with right away.
Well, a couple of other things in the news and things that are going on.
President Jimmy Carter is in the news and we'll get to that in a bit.
First, I want you to hear from a morning update with the Rush limbo, just a part of a morning update addressing the issue we're about to face with Lieutenant Governor Mike Steele.
Listen to Rush on one of his morning updates.
When Maryland, Democrats face the quaeasy problem, Kwaezi Mfume.
A young street thug turned his life around, went into politics, led the Congressional Black Caucus, left Congress to run the NAA LCP.
Now he's running for Senate.
Despite his party loyalty and high-profile party bigwigs have endorsed Ben Cardin, who entered the race late.
Cardin is white.
No Maryland primary voters are 40% black.
Mfume is getting the same treatment that Carl McCall got running for governor of New York and Maynard Jackson got when he ran for chairman of the Democratic Party.
No support and disrespect.
You might remember in Maryland, the Republican candidate is Michael Steele.
Chuck Schumer's group illegally dug up his credit records.
Mike Steele, like Mfume, black.
There's only one solution for blacks and second-string liberals wishing to advance the Democratic Party, and that's learn Spanish el quico, Miamigos.
Well, the Maryland Senate race among the most watched Senate races in 06, and the Republican running Lieutenant Governor Mike Steele is on the other end of our line.
And boy, did you get yourself in the middle of something there, Lieutenant Governor?
You know, when you're at 6'4 African American, Roman Catholic Republican, you know, it's nothing like a bullseye, right?
Yeah, add to that, conservative.
You're in big trouble here.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Well, you know, leave it to Rush to put a fine point on it.
And, you know, the reality of it is that this is a change election for Marylanders.
For the first time, they're going to have not just a competitive race for the United States Senate, but a race in which you'll have a candidate, namely me, talking about empowerment, opportunity, ownership, and something I like to call legacy wealth.
It's all wrapped up in a way that people understand it, they digest it, and they want to be a part of it.
And that's what's scaring them, that this is a new style of political activism, actually inviting people to be a part of the process and to engage in the debate.
And my opponents, as you've noted, want to steal my credit report.
They want to remind people that the President of the United States supports me, and somehow that's a bad thing.
I'm sure Kwiese and Fumé would love to have Howard Dean come in and do a fundraiser for him.
But the reality of it is that's not part of the Democrat agenda.
It is to take candidates that appear to be of African-American hue and sort of set them on the shelf one way or the other.
And I told Quiesz up front, I said, I don't know what you've done to engender such attention from your own party.
You would think that they would treat you a little bit better, brother, but they're not.
It's amazing.
Here, he was the congressional-backed caucus, the head of the NAACP, and all of these things.
And they aren't treating him very well, are they?
No, they're not.
In fact, they've dried up his money.
They have mitigated his exposure to the electorate.
They have done everything they can to really let people know that, well, we really want Ben Cardin.
And the reality of it is, let the people decide who they want.
And, you know, the chance to have two African Americans, one Democrat, one Republican, vie for the United States Senate seat in Maryland is a huge, huge national opportunity.
But Stenny Hoyer, who once referred to me as a token, by the way, feels that he knows best what's in the best interests of people in our state.
Your television ad, which I went online to see when I was told you were going to come on the program, is very good.
There you are on the front porch, very relaxed, picking up the newspaper, saying, if you think Washington works just fine as it is, I'm not your candidate.
But if you're ready to make a change, then I'm your man.
That's it.
But you are getting hit from all sides.
You mentioned about stealing your credit information.
Chuck Schumer apparently did that.
Can you tell us the story there?
And has he ever apologized or said that he shouldn't have done it?
Well, this is the interesting thing about it.
They have done everything that they can to ignore the fact that two of their employees, the director and the deputy director of one of their programs, went online, entered my Social Security number, which they received, which they got from court documents here in Maryland, procured a copy of my credit report as me.
So they used my identity falsely.
They used my Social Security number illegally, and they obtained illegally my credit report.
For what purpose?
Lord only knows.
But the reality of it is they got caught.
The young woman who took the fall for her boss is now pled guilty to federal charges of stealing my credit report is now doing community service for the next 18 months or so.
And Chuck Schumer has yet to even acknowledge this has ever happened.
He has yet to send my wife flowers, let alone a note apologizing because she is part of my credit report as well.
I mean, we have joint accounts.
So if you don't want to apologize to me, at least apologize to the Mizes who you've inadvertently pulled into this mess.
But he has yet to do so.
He's yet to formally say anything.
And of course, the DNC operatives say, well, we apologize, and I want to know to whom.
Standing in front of a microphone and saying we apologize is not the same as saying we've done it and actually doing it.
But I put the word out to Mr. Schumer and others.
You can either apologize to me now or you can wait till I show up on the Senate floor and do it then.
But one way or the other, you're going to do it.
Well, Lieutenant Governor Mike Steele, can you hang on just a moment?
Absolutely.
Because the other word there is that they're spreading, they, the Democrats, because they are frightened of you, is that all of your supporters, or many of your supporters, your biggest supporters, are racists.
That is Lieutenant Governor Mike Steele, the African-American conservative Republican running for Senate in Maryland.
His big supporters are racist.
We'll talk about that when we return on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Paul W. Smith.
Lieutenant Governor Mike Steele with us, the first African-American elected to statewide office in Maryland, Republican whose strategy for winning a Senate seat in a state dominated by Democrats has involved the aggressive courtship of black voters.
He has Jack Kemp as his national campaign chairman, Senator John McCain, is supporting him and campaigning for him.
Maybe you want to speak with him, 1-800-282-2882.
That's 1-800-282-2882.
You can also go online at rushlimbaugh.com.
I'm Paul W. Smith in for Rush.
And Lieutenant Governor, I mentioned that they're saying that your supporters are racist and that you've accepted money from people who have harmed African Americans.
Most notably, they say Floyd Brown's Citizens United Political Victory Fund, and it was, of course, Floyd Brown who produced the Willie Horton ad, which helped torpedo Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign by drawing attention to the truth to a weekend furlough program that released a black convicted murderer serving a life sentence.
Yeah, you know, this is a race of, okay, let's throw as much mud as you can and see what sticks.
And, you know, the fact that I've outraised the Democrat candidates for the United States Senate for the last two quarters, hope to do it again when our reports are filed for this quarter.
The fact that I have support from the national leadership of the Republican Party as well as state and local leadership, they figure, why not?
Let's just start picking out every little thing and throwing it up in the air.
And it is such an inane argument to make.
It is such a stupid argument to make.
The fact that someone runs a commercial and a heated political campaign to draw parallels and distinctions between one individual and another, that hurts or harms African Americans.
That's the craziest thing in the world.
You know, I didn't hear people screaming and shouting and jumping up and down when they were doing their commercials that tried to link the President of the United States to the death of the African American who was dragged behind a truck a few years ago.
And that was not, you know, no one's jumping up and down about who's writing checks and who's sponsoring Democrat candidates who were part of that effort.
You know, the reality of it is I'm honored to have the support of my national leadership.
I'm honored to have the support of Republicans from around the country and certainly in the party.
And, you know, I just, I'm grateful.
I'm grateful for that.
And it doesn't necessarily say I agree with everything they say or everything they've done.
They say that in this race, this is a candidate that we support who happens to be African American.
If these folks are so anti-black, do you think that they would write a check to me?
Do you think that they would support the only African-American lieutenant governor in the country who happens to be a Republican?
And yet I don't hear on the other side people saying, well, hmm, is Senator Bird supporting anyone in this upcoming election?
I'm sure that I'd be curious to see who he's writing checks for from his PAC and who he's supporting as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan.
I don't hear anybody talking about that.
So the reality of it is they try to have it both ways.
Well, they try to make it sound like you're taking money from the Ku Klux Klan and skinheads and others.
Exactly.
It's a pretty amazing.
That's so crazy.
Let's take this up.
Let's take this opportunity, Lieutenant Governor Mike Steele, to hear from some of the folks from around the country and in your own backyard at 1-800-282-2882.
In your own backyard, we go.
Whoops, we lost.
We're going to Manny in Somerset, Massachusetts.
Hello, Manny.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Paul.
Doing a great job filling in for Rush already.
Thanks, Manny.
And I'd like to ask Mr. Steele a question.
Sure, Manny.
Mr. Steele, glad to have you running for the Senate.
And as I was waiting for the call, I was repeating Senator Michael Steele.
It sounds really great to me.
And I hope we can get more conservatives like you in the Senate.
I just wanted to ask you maybe to give some of the listeners maybe your first top one and two or two priorities in the Senate once you're elected.
Well, I think one of the top priorities that I will focus on certainly will be in the areas of economic empowerment, which I think is important across the board.
We've got a booming economy.
We've got a lot of strength in our economy, which I'd like to see us continue to build on.
And I tie that to a number of issues like immigration and Social Security and health care as well.
That economic core of our economy has to be protected in order to grow.
So the level of spending that we see going on, there's got to be some voices standing up and saying enough.
I'm not voting for spending packages that don't have the requisite dollars in place to cover it.
I have to live.
You have to live.
All of us have to live within our means.
I can't go write a check and expect the bank to just put the money in the account for me.
I can't go out there and spend up my credit cards and expect the credit card company to say, oh, well, you don't have to pay us this month.
The reality of it is I've got to live within my means.
So should our government.
Got a quick call here from your backyard, Salisbury, Maryland.
Grace is here on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Grace, say hi to the Lieutenant Governor.
Oh, Lieutenant Governor Steele, I just can't wait to vote for you.
Oh, thank you so much, Grace.
I taught for years.
Color makes no difference.
Let's just take it out of it because I might be a woman.
That's racist, too.
And I'm also over retirement age, but I pick the person and vote for the person.
And I watched you at the Republican convention.
I love your ideas.
You've been to Salisbury.
I guess you know that Waitamaca County is now the murder capital of Maryland.
But you're up against the good old boys.
This is all we are in Maryland and have been.
We've been the most corrupt state.
People don't even realize this.
Yeah, they don't.
And you know what, Grace?
You did.
I hate for that to be the thing they remember about the area there, but we've got to run.
I just want to thank you, Lieutenant Governor Mike Steele, for the opportunity to hear from a couple of people.
Well, I really do appreciate it.
And if folks want to know a little bit more about what we're doing, www.steeleformaryland.com.
Can't beat that.
Good advertising for you here on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Paul W. Smith.
As we continue on the Rush Limbaugh Show, I'm Paul W. Smith.
Nice to be with you on this, the third day of July, getting ready for the big celebration of the 4th.
We'll talk about that a little later.
But we're moving from Maryland to Georgia now and checking in on the story that broke last week where the Senate Republicans have sharply criticized the New York Times and some other news media outlets for disclosing a secret administration effort to track terrorist financing.
And you've probably seen the quote by now.
While, quote, a free and objective independent media is necessary to the maintenance of liberty.
That's from a draft of the resolution that goes on to say, the New York Times and other media outlets that solicit the discovery of sensitive information and unilaterally determine to publish such information could be placing lives at risk.
Today, the New York Times, or rather, no, I guess this was Saturday's, Saturday's New York Times, had an op-ed piece signed by both Dean Back, I'm not sure how to pronounce that, editor of the Los Angeles Times, and Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, defending their publishing the secret.
Under the headline, When Do We Publish a Secret, they probably talk about the Pentagon Papers, et cetera, et cetera.
Well, people are not happy about this.
Representative Jack Kingston, member of the House GOP leadership, says that Republicans are mainly concerned about the New York Times because of what is truly a record of publishing classified information.
Quote, somebody clearly broke the law in leaking this to the New York Times.
The New York Times, in my opinion, has simply acted irresponsibly.
Let's get Representative Jack Kingston from Georgia on the line right now.
Representative, nice to have you here on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Paul W. Smith.
Paul, it's great to be with you, and greetings from an old Michigan State Spartan.
I know that's your neck of the woods up there.
Generally, it hurts.
Being a University of Michigan grad, it hurts just a little.
You are all over Ann Arbor.
I had to say that.
I'm sorry.
Well, listen, here's what we're concerned about: it appears that partisan journalism has blurred the lines of what's responsible, what's in America's interest, and getting after George Bush.
And it always seems that the bottom line is anytime they can do an I got you or I've embarrassed you or I've underpinned you, they're going to do it.
The interesting thing is the New York Times was the very paper that on September 14th, 2001 wrote an editorial saying that Bush has to get after the finances, that just going after the terrorists itself wasn't enough.
They had to track the money.
And so here we've got a completely legal, perfect program doing what they were the first ones to say you've got to get out and do, and they decide to tip off the terrorists that this is going on.
And I don't understand, and maybe you can help me because the dust has settled a little bit.
But who are they helping by making this announcement when they claim that it's their job to keep an eye on the government and to make sure the government is on the straight and narrow and all of that?
When Hugo Black wrote the government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the government.
Who are they helping here other than the terrorists?
You know, I think it's just this idea of blame America first, and that's what sells newspapers.
Get out there and show that our country is doing sleazy things or cutting the rules or pulling the rug out from under somebody and doggone it.
We all know the real problems in the world are because of the United States of America and George Bush is the center of that.
And so we've got to hate ourselves.
And this is, I think that's just their way of selling paper.
But in this case, you have people's lives truly at risk.
And Paul, as you may know, I serve on the Defense Committee.
We have lots of classified briefing on the tracking of terrorists and what goes in it.
And finding somebody or finding the IED in the road, that's only just a fraction of the hunt.
You've got to follow the money, and you've got to do that internationally, and you've got to do it from the first stage.
And a lot of times that means going after white-collar folks who don't look like terrorists, who don't act like terrorists, who don't hang around with terrorists, but they're fencing money back and forth, and they're shelling corporations or whatever so that they can get the money to the terrorist hands and try to keep the money clean until then.
But you've got to follow the money.
And we hear that in the Defense Committee over and over again by the military community.
You know, and by the way, with us on the line, Representative Jack Kingston of Georgia.
We're talking about the whole New York Times thing, although other newspapers like the L.A. Times and Wall Street Journal and others followed up.
But the leak came through apparently to the New York Times.
And when you say, Representative, about the piling on and anything to make our president look bad all the time, anytime, is clearer still with the story out today, the Washington Post, by former President Jimmy Carter, who couldn't help himself weighing in on this.
And he points out that the U.S. Freedom of Information Act turns 40 tomorrow, the day we celebrate our independence.
He goes on to say, but this anniversary will not be a day of celebration for the right to information in our country.
Our government leaders have become increasingly obsessed with secrecy.
Obstructionist policies and deficient practices have ensured that many important public documents and official actions remain hidden from our view.
The events in our nation today, war, civil rights violations, spiraling energy costs, campaign finance, and lobbyist scandals dictate the growing need and citizens' desire for access to public documents.
I'm not sure which public they're talking about because the public I know, at least in the heart of these United States, still believes that the President of the United States must, has the right to, and in fact should do everything he can to try to keep us safe.
And these would be the first people to jump on Bush' next attack, saying that he didn't do enough to prevent it.
You know, Jimmy Carter is only second to Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General, trying to find relevancy and attention.
And it's sad.
I mean, we go back to Coretta Scott King's funeral and remember.
Ramsey Clark, in case people have missed this, is the famed attorney for not Osama bin Laden, but what's his name?
Well, he was on the Saddam Hussein bandwagon.
So isn't he still doing Saddam Hussein, or is he now trying to represent Osama bin Laden?
I think he was getting business cards desperately trying to say, please hire me.
It's sad, but here's Jimmy Carter at Coretta Scott King's funeral, certainly a national audience for a national icon.
And he has to allude to wiretapping of Martin Luther King had nothing to do with the current wiretapping program at all, but it was just a very cheap partisan shot at George Bush.
And, you know, Mr. Carter, unfortunately, hates being the best ex-president.
He wants to be able to do that.
But no, but he blew that.
He really did.
He was at one time.
I've said it myself, but I've rescinded it.
I gave him that title a long time ago.
Many of us did.
He lost that title.
He used to be the best former president we ever had.
And what was that book that said the 50 people who are destroying America?
Goldberg's book.
Yeah, Bernie Goldberg.
And it just said, you know, here's an ex-president who all routinely, he's worse than the Dixie chicks about running his mouth internationally.
Well, their comeback has not worked very well either, has it?
No, no, it hasn't, and I'm glad to see it.
But, you know, we had a letter that Lieutenant Tom Cotton, who's in Baghdad, he's an active soldier, wrote Mr. Heller Keller at the New York Times, and he said, you may think you have done a public service, but you have gravely endangered the lives of my soldiers and all other soldiers and innocent Iraqis.
Next time I hear that familiar explosion, I will wonder whether it could have stopped the bomb that you not had you not instructed terrorists on how to evade financial surveillance.
And then he goes on to say, and by the way, I'm a Harvard lawyer, so don't think that I'm just somebody out in the field who doesn't know what he's talking about.
You have truly broken classified information and espionage laws and all.
I mean, this is a smart cookie.
But he's really tying it down to what does your article mean to the soldier driving down the road in Baghdad?
It might mean one more IED.
And, you know, that just, that just, I get a chill when I think about that because that's how serious this is, this game that these guys are playing with our young men and women at war.
And it just seems like they just don't accept the fact that we're at war.
Our soldiers are at war.
These publishers of newspapers apparently are not.
You know, I have been to not just Iraq a couple of times in Afghanistan, but I've been to Walter Reed Hospital and talked to lots of these guys who are 19, 20, 21 years old, and they've lost a leg, they've lost an arm, maybe both arms and legs.
And I mean, just, and they look you in the eye, and their biggest regret is that they can't go back to the field and be with their fellow soldiers.
These are guys who just are so humbling to talk to that you realize this is what America is all about.
These guys, tomorrow, while we're all eating barbecue and riding our boats and having a big time watching baseball games, they are the ones that are making it possible.
And they are the ones that are going to be on the front line taking the IEDs, taking the hits, because the New York Times wanted to sell more newspapers.
They claim to be serving America's public interest.
I don't know what that means at all, and I don't think they can really explain it very clearly.
I can say that we'd like to have you stick around a little longer if you could.
U.S. Representative Jack Kingston is with us.
He's on the line.
He's served Georgia's 1st District for the past 14 years, now in his seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives, member of the House Appropriations Committee, responsible for deciding how the federal budget is spent.
Congressman Kingston serves on the Defense Subcommittee, oversees all military-based funding, and just has a whole lot going on, special interest in America's defense abilities, et cetera, et cetera.
We'll come back.
We'll continue to talk a little bit about this.
Also, the Supreme Court decision on Gitmo and some other issues.
But people are lining up want to talk to you, too.
So we'll do that if it's okay with you, Congressman.
1-800-282-2882.
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I'm Paul W. Smith.
New York Times, Los Angeles Times, they're saying that they, in their op-ed piece on Saturday, last week our newspapers disclosed a secret Bush administration program to monitor international banking transactions.
I don't understand who they're helping with that.
And I do certainly understand that they're very possibly placing lives at risk.
It doesn't make sense to me.
1-800-282-2882.
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The direct line to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Paul W. Smith in for Rush.
There'll be a best of rush tomorrow for the 4th of July celebration.
Then he's back in the big chair the following day.
We're talking with Congressman Jack Kingston of Georgia and enjoying our conversation.
I hope you will too.
Let's go right to Bob on his cell phone in Miami, Florida.
Bob, you're with the Congressman.
Yeah.
Hi.
Paul, largely unreported in this whole SWIFT issue, although I've seen it once or twice, is the issue of losing our collaborative countries all over the world who have been part of this SWIFT program.
Now, even if we were to assume, and I don't, but even if we were to assume that the terrorists already knew about the program, they don't always know which countries are cooperating with us.
And we are going to lose a lot of countries in this collaborative effort to try to track down and stop the funding of terrorists.
Congressman Kingston, I would guess you would agree with that.
Bob, I think you've raised a really good point.
And one of the assertions that a reporter asked me last week was, well, did we force those countries to play ball with us?
And so, you know, there again, the mentality is, huh, it must be America's fault because obviously they would not be cooperating on a war like this because they're pro-terrorism and they're pro-insurgency or whatever it is.
But I think you've raised a good point.
There are a lot of people who are maybe in the closet but want us to win.
And they have to stay in the closet because they're in the Middle East or they have some connections or some sensitivities.
But it serves us, particularly in an operation like this, for them to not be known and not to be out front.
So you raise a great point.
Appreciate the call.
Bob Bernie is checking in from Northbrook, Illinois.
It occurs to me, Congressman, New York Times is working harder at guarding their customers' mailing lists, email addresses, more so than our national secrets.
Well, that's because, you know, in that article that you've alluded to by Bill Keller and Dean Banquet, our banquet, they don't say what their source was or who their source was.
So if they're so proud of it, and if it's so above the board, why don't they disclose who gave them the information?
Let's see what Bernie has to say out of Northbrook, Illinois.
Bernie, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thanks.
Quick little sidebar first, Congressman.
I was stationed at Walter Reed between 1966 and 1968, and I heard the same thing from our Vietnam fellas, too.
They wanted to go back.
They wanted to join their buddies again, even during Vietnam.
But in any case, I heard the most lucrative statement by this guy, Keller, on the Sunday morning show, stating that this is the most secretive White House since the Nixon era.
And I wanted somebody to ask him, well, this is the first time we've been attacked since 1941, Roosevelt era, number one.
And number two, how does he know this is the most secretive White House since Nixon?
If in fact he knows all the secrets of every administration since Nixon.
That's a good point.
That's a real good point.
I was in Congress.
I've actually been a member since 1993.
And what I can tell you is the pre-9-11 mentality is what terrorisms.
And, you know, the incidents at USS Cole and Yemen and the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Africa and Somalia, those were just acts of crime that wasn't a big deal.
It wasn't connected to anything.
And then when 9-11 happens, these are the same people who were telling us those were just isolated crimes.
They turn around and saying, well, why weren't you looking out for this?
Where was the intelligence?
Right.
Let's go to Jim.
Jim in Kansas City.
Before we run out of time with Congressman Jack Kingston.
Jim?
Hi, Congressman.
I have a question, and I just don't understand.
If you and I get together and plot to commit a murder, and we take a, one of us takes a substantial step toward that plot, we are both guilty of the crime of conspiracy to commit murder.
And that in and of itself is a crime.
Now, if a reporter goes to a leaker and says, I'll help you disseminate this information, obviously he's a reporter.
That's what he's going to disseminate it.
Why is that not a crime?
I don't understand why that's not a conspiracy.
Jim, that's a good question.
When I applied for Congress, they told me there were too many lawyers.
So I said, well, I'm not a lawyer.
I actually, I was a businessman, and so that's just a long way of saying I don't know the legal answer to your question.
I think it's a great question, but it would appear to me that at some point that finding who was the perpetrator of this classified information, who was the leak, you would get some sort of cooperation from the press on it.
But legally, somehow they're protected.
Paul, you may know the answer to that, but I don't know it offhand.
I just know that we've got to find the guy on our own.
Well, I'm not a lawyer either.
My brother's a lawyer, Mark, but I'm not a lawyer, and I don't have a legal answer for that at all.
It sounds like it makes good sense to me, though.
Congressman, you make good sense, and we really appreciate you coming on board the Rush Limbaugh Show to share some of that with our listeners.
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