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September 1, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
I'll tell you what, folks, it's resonating out there.
It's resonating out there.
Rumsfeld with another op-ed today in the LA Times.
Ed Koch, real clear politics today.
All echoing the sentiment that we are at war with Islamo fascists, and the left is just beside itself.
They just can't deal with calling the enemy Islamo fascists.
And they're all upset about their patriotism being challenged when I don't know that anybody really has other than me.
Awfully defensive about it.
It's work and the administration is not flinching.
It's Friday, and we go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Now let's see.
How many weeks has it been since I've worked a full week?
Um I am tired.
Actually, I am tired, but it's not because of that.
Heck.
There was a uh hectic seven.
No, it's just a hectic seven days in New York.
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
At any rate, open line Friday.
You know the rules here, folks.
Uh when we go to the telephone, the program is yours.
I, your host, L. Rushboat, take a tremendous career risk.
Turning over the uh content of the program, basically, to rank amateurs.
Look forward to it, though.
It's always fun.
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You know, I I I've got to start with this.
I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on it, but uh, the MTV uh music awards were last night.
And uh, you know, the EIB Southern Command's very near where that took place.
It was a zoo up there all week as they were getting set.
Uh and I've noticed every time there's an Academy Award show or an Emmy show or one of these kind of shows where they're dull and boring and really nobody uses any profanity or anything.
All the entertainment media just gets angry at how dull and boring, and listen to this.
This is a review from Nikessa Moombi Moody.
Writing for the AP.
When a wooden politician delivers the best line of the MTV music video awards, you know the thrill is gone.
So was the decadence, so was the outrageousness and spontaneity that used to make the video music awards such a guilty pleasure.
And she goes on to lament that it was so dull and it was so boring.
Nobody threatened to kill anybody.
There wasn't any profanity.
There was no nobody had an edge.
And then she said, nobody except a video choreographer's mother watches this show for the awards.
Fan watch for the FCC flaunting skits, nearly naked starlets, foul mouthed speeches and those embarrassingly bad dance numbers.
They do not watch for lectures from former vice presidents on global warming.
When does the phrase, here's a photo of a glacier melting, ever fit into an award show?
And yes, ladies and gentlemen, Al Gore showed up on stage at the video music awards last night and did present a lecture on global warming, and also did do some slideshows.
Probably to a bunch of airheads that have no idea who he is or what global warming is.
Well, I know Lil Kim used mild profanity.
She said uh you can't keep a good BI itch down.
Uh she just got out of jail or something.
Well, whoopee do.
I mean, that's not enough to excite the entertainment media.
Here, give you a flavor for the night last night.
Here is Al Gore, pathetic at the MTV music video awards.
Our planet is in trouble.
Many of you already know this and have long since been connecting the dots.
In the latest MTV poll for the very first time.
The environment was the number one response when you were asked what is the biggest problem your generation will face.
We we can solve it, but we must act quickly.
You are the generation that can and will literally save our world.
Visit think.com to learn more with your help.
We will rise to this challenge, and we will secure our future.
Oh man, no wonder they thought it was dull and boring.
Anyway, this is this is, I think, an example of the desperation of the left, ladies and gentlemen.
Trot this dinosaur Out there and show slides of melting glaciers uh when they are expecting all kinds of risque raunchiness.
Uh I just uh it's typical.
I think it's just I think it's amazing.
It's where the left is headed, where they are, and it's a clear sign of desperation.
They have to take a, you know, an entertainment event and campaign in the middle of it.
That's uh I don't care what they think about their chances, it's not a good sign.
All right, yesterday, uh by the way, we've got an amazing Washington Post editorial today about Joe Wilson uh blaming him for the whole problem, and there's this line in there it's a shame anybody took him seriously.
Hey, Washington Post, you know, you don't get to say like Gilder Randard did, never mind.
You were one of the people that took him seriously.
As did Chris Matthews at Hardball and Tim Russert, and a whole bunch of people in the drive-by media built their careers around Joe Wilson for three years, and now you say, never mind.
Never mind.
More on that later.
I told you people yesterday and the day before of a movie, a mini-series running on uh on ABC on September 10th and 11th called The Path to 9-11.
And I told you that I had the DVDs.
I also told you because I am in touch, I am poor when I'm in New York.
I do not have a DVD player.
Um so I was I don't.
My my apartment's got an old uh media room in it.
No, it's got a laser disc player in it, but it doesn't have a DVD.
Well, uh well, actually, it has a DVD player in it, but the TV doesn't work, the projector doesn't, and it's it's the only room in the house where there's a DVD player, and I can't watch DVDs on computers because I can't hear well through computer speakers.
Uh so I watch there it's four hours.
I have the DVDs there right here.
I'm holding them my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
I watched uh on the plane flight uh home uh last night.
I watched uh part of the first one.
I had to go to the airplane to watch it because my my I tell you this is called being in touch with the uh average American.
Couldn't watch a DVD at home.
Well uh at any rate, let me just give you the upshot of this because I've uh I've mentioned to you, even without having seen it, I know what it's about.
The path to 9-11 essentially chronicles everything we know that happened in the 90s that prevented the capture of Osama bin Laden.
It indicates the Clinton administration, Madeline Aldright, Sandy Berger.
Uh it uh it is just devastating to the Clinton administration.
Uh it talks about how we had chances to capture bin Laden in specific detail, which I will get to in just a moment.
That's not the point.
I mentioned to you yesterday or the day before, these days are running together, that uh and a friend of mine did this.
His first name is Cyrus, uh and and Cyrus has got some other film credits.
He took it to Washington uh middle of last week and screened it for people.
And it caused nearly bloody uproar where they showed it.
Richard Ben Venist went up in Cyrus' face and told him it was it was disgusting.
This film was disgusting.
It caused all kinds of havoc, and that led to uh uh uh the creation of efforts to try to get this program banned, uh, put pressure on ABC to get it canceled and not run and so forth.
It also had a lot of people in the room that loved it.
There were many people.
Michael Barone saw it, a lot of people were in the screening there and loved it.
Here is what is happening today.
Bill Clinton himself is going to call Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, and demand or ask that this miniseries, the Path to 9-11 be re-edited and recut so as not to depict Bill Clinton and his administration as they are currently uh portrayed in this uh in this mini-series.
Bill Clinton himself is gonna call Bob Iger.
Uh, and and this is uh uh this is not breaking news.
This uh this uh I got the email on this last night, and there have been some local uh hosts out in California who have been uh uh talking uh about this.
But there is a huge movement afoot from inside the Clinton administration uh to put pressure on ABC uh to get this thing recut, re-edited, uh uh, if if not, if not more.
Uh the very powerful players, obviously, uh much higher than just Richard Ben Veniste Uh and so forth.
Uh it, you know, folks, the whole 9-11 commission, if you go back and look at these um things that we we know now, the Clinton administration's ability to camouflage history to rewrite it is just amazing.
Look at who they got on the 9-11 commission.
They got Jamie Garellick, who authored the wall, and this mini-series explains the wall and gives illustrations of fact of how it hurt our ability to capture Osama bin Laden.
I'll get to that in just a second.
They had they had Gorelic on there, they had Ben Vanist, who is a partisan hack lawyer from the Watergate days, and Tim Romer, uh, who is a Democrat from Indiana, and that was to ensure that the Clinton administration was protected and so that the top structural uh explanation for intelligence failure was whitewashed.
The final report of the 9-11 Commission is a particular disgrace in that regard.
Uh they they had Sandy Burglar.
To this day, we have we have uh we've never really been told what classified document Sandy Burglar purloined and destroyed and maybe put back in the National Archives while he was helping prep Clinton for his 9-11 commission testimony.
Remember, we heard Bush had to take Cheney in there because he couldn't do it on his own, and he was in there in Cheney and some lawyers, and then Clinton by he went in by himself, and Clinton was masterful.
We find that Clinton was in there with Bruce Lindsay and other lawyers as well.
All of this that we heard uh was a was a smoke screen.
I don't understand why the Bush uh uh administration, the Department of Justice gave Burglar the sweetheart deal of the century, then suppressed all the evidence involved in his uh in his action.
Like I asked at the time, can you imagine if uh if Condoleez-Rice had pled guilty to a misdemeanor, mishandling of classified information, the media sitting silent about it?
Uh anyway, the reason the Clinton administration keeps doing this, the reason they keep engaging in their camouflage of history and their whitewashing of history is because they keep getting away with it.
Why wouldn't you keep doing it if you keep getting away with it?
Now, uh take a brief break and come back and give you some examples of what this miniseries says and portrays.
It's the path to 9-11.
Touchstone TV did it.
Uh and uh it's nine o'clock out there on the left coast.
I don't know if Clinton's called already or not, uh, but he uh the the word is that he is personally going to call Bob Iger and do everything he can to get this thing re-edited, recut.
Uh I wouldn't be surprised if they if he asked him not to run it.
Hey, Bob, you know that thing's full of pegs packed full of lies.
I mean, I uh uh I've heard about this.
There's nothing this is crazy.
The important thing here is that um uh I don't uh if I were ABC, I would love I would love the uh the controversy because of the attention the publicity thing is getting.
You don't know if they're gonna look at it that way.
If they if they demand that it be re-edited and recut, the whole world's gonna know that Bill Clinton was able to tell ABC what to do and what not to do uh with some of its programming.
So uh, you know, ABC is going to be in a little bit of a tight spot no matter what they do here, but it's I would think that um uh they've had to clear this already uh for it to have been put on the schedule.
And anyway, a brief break, a brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Stay with us.
Open line Friday, America's real anchor man, Rush Limbaugh, heading into the Labor Day weekend.
Looking forward to chatting with you when we go to the phones, 800-282-288-2, and the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
I'm sure the time's uh on September uh 10th and 11th, uh uh was it seventh is it?
Thursday.
Look at the calendar in front of you.
Find out what days of the week there.
But I'm sure it's it's probably a Sunday and Monday night.
It's a uh I'm sure it'll be nine to eleven o'clock, your local ABC affiliate.
Let me just give you uh, as I say, I haven't been able to watch the whole thing.
It's four hours, and I uh I had a chance to watch a little bit of it uh flying home last night from uh from New York.
There is an unbelievable scene.
Well, uh unbelievable, an amazing scene.
Uh sequence, actually.
It shows the CIA and the Afghanistan Northern Alliance surrounding bin Laden's house in Afghanistan.
They are on the verge.
This is this is during the Clinton administration.
This is long before 9-11, which is the point of the of the mini-series.
How did we get there?
So the CIA, the Northern Alliance, uh surrounding House where Bin Laden is in Afghanistan.
They're on the verge of capturing, but they need final approval from the Clinton administration in order to proceed.
So they they phone Washington, uh, they phone the White House.
Clinton and his senior staff refuse to give authorization for the capture of bin Laden because they're afraid of political fallout if the mission should go wrong and if civilians were harmed.
Sandy Burglar uh essentially tells the CIA team in Afghanistan if they want to capture bin Laden, they're gonna have to do it themselves without any official authorization.
Uh in that way, their necks would be on the line, not his and not Clinton's.
Now the CIA agent in this is portrayed as being astonished.
Uh he's are you kidding?
He's he asked Berger over and over, is this really what you guys want?
Uh Berger then doesn't answer after giving his first admonition, you guys go in there on your own if you go in, we're not sanctioning this, we're not approving this.
And and Berger just hangs up on the agent after uh uh not answering any of his questions.
So the CIA team and the Northern Alliance of the Afghanistan people are just a f they're just I mean, they're right there as it's portrayed uh in the miniseries give up.
They abandoned the whole mission.
And it not long after that that bin Laden and Al Qaeda bomb the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, killing over 225 uh men, women, and children, and also uh wounded over 4,000.
There's also a scene that I saw in which the CIA has crucial information, identifying some of the 9-11 hijackers in advance of 9-11, but the CIA refuses to share the information with the FBI because of the wall that was erected by Jamie Garelic and others to prevent information sharing between government agencies.
So the CIA is depicted here as sitting in a meeting with the FBI, John O'Neill is present, showing the FBI surveillance photos of terrorism suspects, some of whom will later turn out to be the 9-11 hijackers.
The CIA asks the FBI for help uh in identifying the guys in the pictures, but refuses to give the FBI any of the information they have on who the men are.
John O'Neill uh protests that it's impossible for the FBI to help the CIA identify these guys if they won't provide any information whatsoever on them.
So O'Neill tells the FBI to keep the photos so they can at least work on them.
The CIA becomes hostile to O'Neill, takes the pictures back.
Now, O'Neill, as you recall, tragically dies in the 9-11 attacks, in part because agencies like the CIA refuse to share crucial information like this.
Uh and I tell you that the the scenes like these um uh really challenge what is the prevailing liberal uh mindset by showing that the Patriot Act's information sharing and surveillance provisions are in fact crucial to the safety of the country, and that political correctness and bureaucratic inefficiency are Islamic terrorism's greatest friend.
This this thing is just incredible, and it's you know, you watch it, and I guess if you get to see it uncut, uh I I I've I'm uh loath to predict what uh ABC will do amidst mounting pressure from Bill Clinton and others who uh going today to call Bob Iger at ABC to demand some of this stuff be edited out.
I don't know what specifically, but uh they're not happy about this just this this caused a real ruckus at the screening, the private screening in Washington uh last week and a week before last.
But when you watch this, when you see it, none of it will surprise you.
I mean, if you're a regular listener to this program, uh because this is stuff that we have been told and we've known for the longest time.
What surprises us is the whitewash of all this and how they were so successful at doing it at the 9-11 Commission.
Clinton is uh, you know, he's on tape talking about how the our buddies at Newsmax have this tape.
He's making a speech somewhere, I think in Long Island.
Maybe it was Canada, I'm not sure where, but he was talking about how they they had bin Laden, but they couldn't move on him.
We know the Sudanese offered him a bunch of times.
Uh this episode in Afghanistan, the CIA and the Northern Alliance surrounding bin Laden administration wouldn't give the go-ahead.
And it it it you know it's amazing to watch something that that in the in the what we call the mainstream media that that reflects accurately what we believe, what we know to have happened.
Where's I'm so unused to seeing that.
I'm so s I'm so used to seeing a liberal agenda in everything.
Uh so you're not surprised by what you see, because you know it.
I wasn't surprised, because this is the version of events that I believe happened and that I know to be true.
I know the wall was erected.
We know it was.
Ashcroft read the memo, read the at the 911 Commission hearing.
We know all of this.
You just don't expect to see it, and that's that's the uh the pleasant surprise watching it.
Yes, yes, happily so, uh, making the complex understandable.
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Here is a quote from uh from Cyrus, who was uh a friend of mine who produced and wrote The Path to 911.
There's a review of the film, by the way, at uh at frontpage.com, David uh Horowitz's website.
This miniseries is not just about the tragedy and events of 911, it dramatizes how we got there going back eight years to the first attack on the World Trade Center and dealing with the Al Qaeda strikes against U.S. embassies and forces in the 90s, the political lead up, the hatching of the terrorist plots, et cetera.
We see the heroes on the ground like FBI agent John O'Neill and others, who after the uh uh 93 attack felt sure the terrorists would strike the World Trade Center again.
It also dramatizes the frequent opportunities the administration had in the 90s to stop bin Laden and his tracks, but he lacked the will to do so.
We also reveal the day-by-day lead up of clues and opportunities in 2001, right up to the day of the 9-11 attacks.
This is a terror thriller as well as a history lesson.
I think people to be engaged and enlightened.
Uh it illustrates the, you know, the the big problem in the administration, everybody was not Monica Lewinsky.
The big problem was what the Lewinsky circumstance with Clinton caused to be ignored and not dealt with.
And of course there are reasons other than Lewinsky as well.
The Clinton administration simply didn't want to tackle big things.
They were happy for the 90s to be thought of as a happy-go-lucky carefree time where there were no threats, because of course Bill Clinton was loved universally, adored universally around the world.
Uh the economy was going great guns, and all through the nineties we had repeated terrorist attack after repeated terrorist attack, with no action taken uh to stop them.
Now, I I don't know what Bob Iger's going to say.
If Clinton does call him, which uh uh what believe me, last night that was uh and I have this on good authority.
This is not gossip.
Last night Clinton was intending to call today Bob Iger to get him to uh edit the thing to recut it in certain ways.
I don't know how you do that without you know, there's no time to go in and re-film things, but at any rate, i if I were Bob Iger and I'm not, uh, you know what I would say if Bill Clinton does call me, say, hey Bob, you know, I've heard about this thing you're running on, but some of my friends are saying this it's a pack full of lies, Bob, is this it is packed full of them.
I mean, uh I mean it uh we did our best.
We'd never worked hard or anything in my life, and you know that, Bob.
I kept you briefed on all this.
And uh I supported you when you wanted to be uh Eisner's replacement.
We all know Eisner was full of it, and I I I'm very much happy that you're in your job right now, but I gotta tell you, Bob, is a BS is not gonna help ABC whatsoever.
All right.
If I'm Iger, I say, Mr. President, I understand all that, but uh if you're so upset about this, could you show me where it's wrong?
Could you could you sort of prove to me that what's in this is not accurate?
Uh if you can do that, then uh yeah, but I can't just do this because you want me to.
Since everybody now knows you called me anyway, if I order this thing redone, I'm gonna look like a sock puppet of the Clinton administration.
And I'm trying to establish my own identity here as the brand new CEO of ABC and Disney.
So I I I don't know what I could if Mr. President, if you can prove to me that that uh that that the charges made in this thing and that the evidence here is really wrong, then I'd be glad to have them redo it.
Uh but I don't think the Clinton administration wants to do that because I I don't I don't think they can.
If they could, they would have done it long ago.
The 911 committee was nothing more than camouflage.
It was nothing more than a in fact, you know what the word for it was to get Gorellick and Tim Romer and Ben Venist uh on the 9-11 Commission, they were censors.
What Clinton wants ABC to do is censor certain things.
Now, if Clinton could offer evidence that what Cyrus has put together here is BS, then let him do so.
But they would have done it up to now if they could.
They wouldn't have had to have Sandy Burglar sneaking into the National Archives, walking out of there with documents in his pants and his socks or whatever, and then walking back in, and as I say, who knows what he put back in.
Uh everybody was focused on what he took out of there.
I was frankly a little bit more interested in uh in what he put in there.
Uh uh uh National Archives, the quote unquote historical record.
So anyway, I I um I hope this thing uh stands as is.
It's just brilliantly done.
And it's it's it's it's uh it's not a docudrama, but it's a it's a mini-series, it's like a movie, but it's historically based.
And as uh as Cyrus describes it, it is uh history lesson, it's entertaining, it's it's terrifying.
Uh it Danny Wahlberg is in it, uh Harvey Kaitel is in it, get some major actors in this thing.
So it's um it it's you know it's not some phony put-together uh thing using footage in it, but I mean it's it's written based on the historical record.
Uh Gail cell phone call from Texas.
You're up first on open line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you.
Hey, um, I'm here with my husband.
We're driving through Texas listening to you, and uh thought came to our mind if ABC won't show the documentary uncut, perhaps you, Rush, could use the power of the EIB network as a place where we 20 million listeners could purchase the CD and get the uncut version.
Well, the you know, it's interesting question.
I uh uh we don't own it.
Uh this is this is a touchstone television that did this, which is a division of Disney.
Well, but you know lots of people.
I'm sure you could work something out.
Well, I am so flattered and moved by your uh by your confidence.
Uh it'll be interesting to see what does happen with this, and if there does become an alternate way to uh to distribute it.
Uh but if if if Touchstone wants to bury it, they can.
Now, I should tell you that I don't want to get the wrong idea.
People that they're standing by it now.
The the the Clinton phone call, I have no idea how this is gonna go, but they've been pressured since a week and a half ago, folks.
I mean, there are people are gonna take out ads against this thing, trying to discredit it.
Uh the the the a lot of the Lib Democrats who saw this at the screening in Washington were just outraged by it.
As you can well imagine, their whole lives during service in the Clinton administration and in the years since has been to cover up the lack of action in this area taken by this administration and to try to present it as just the opposite of what happened.
Uh the Clinton administration has forever been in search of a legacy.
It has been doing everything it can to try to come up with a uh a legacy.
Uh, and this involves the uh uh uh uh the massaging of news, the censorship of certain things.
Uh and it's uh, you know, I think it's it's quite uh telling that they now upset about this, because this is going to, if it airs, cause people to think about everything they've heard about 9-11 from the 9-11 Commission and from the uh and from the drive-by media.
Greg in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, your next open line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, good afternoon.
What a nice uh way to end my work week and a great way to begin my Labor Day weekend is to talk to you.
I've been a long time listener since the 1994 rush.
So I appreciate the opportunity that you took my call.
Uh I would hope that Clinton would at least have some degree of outrage uh from this uh mini-series that's coming up about his administration and the 911 Commission and everything that happened uh to this uh this controversy about uh President Bush and this movie that's going to be made about him, or this series up in Canada.
I hope he would have as much outrage against what's going to be said about Bush if this movie is in fact coming out as he is against saving his own skin and uh Oh, come on.
You can't I know Rush, I know.
You can't convince me you've been trained better than that, Greg.
I I I know, Rush, but it's just it's it's so ridiculous that this guy is so quick to save his own Lily White behind that you know, here's President Bush, you know, a member, an exclusive member of the same, you know, club that he was part of.
You know, why doesn't he want to defend him?
And I again, Rush, I know that he's just he's trying to save his own behind, but it's just it's amazing this double standard these liberals keep complaining.
Well, I want you to everybody hope.
I would hope, you know, when this does come out, you know, some of the people that are on the fence, well, you know, are locals really that bad.
Well, yeah, they really are.
You know, if they want to save themselves before they want to, you know, speak the truth or uh save their own, you know, all right.
All right, look.
Now uh Greg, I want you to keep the radio on because I've got some interesting sound bites from the drive-by media analyzing this movie uh involving the assassination of uh George W. Bush uh in Chicago.
I just happened to be glancing uh during my most recent monologue of CNN at CNN International on, and I saw and said, Whoa, what's that?
I said they they showed some footage of the 24 seminar that I moderated back in June at the Heritage Foundation.
So I kept watching this, even while I was speaking to you people, not missing a beat.
I was watching it, and it was all about television shows in which presidents get assassinated, right?
It's what it was.
It was all this is not a big deal, they're trying to do is that what they're trying to say?
Okay.
All right.
They're comparing, get this.
CNN International put together a piece comparing this movie made in Canada, featuring the assassination of George W. Bush with a 24 episode last year in which the pres or two years ago, which the president of the United States is shot down out of the sky and killed uh uh in Air Force One.
Now, come on, folks.
What's the big difference here?
There have been many movies in which presidents have been targeted for assassination.
Clint Eastwood did one, uh, I think it's called In the Line of Fire.
There have been countless television shows and movies in which fictional presidents, names that of of men who have never been president and not even close, have either been assassinated or targeted for assassination.
This is the first time a movie, a knocudrama, has actually been made that depicts the assassination of a sitting president, an actual sitting president.
As I said yesterday, can you imagine just reverse this?
Reverse this.
EIB Productions will produce a movie in which former Clinton, uh former President Clinton is beheaded, kidnapped, and beheaded, and we will do a study.
The movie will be an exhaustive look into contemporary American society and how it deals with this sad event, the beheading of Bill Clinton, we will call it, by Al-Qaeda terrorists.
Uh can you imagine?
Can you imagine it?
Would you think there would be a bunch of news stories comparing, well, you know, we'd have to look into this and understand the deep uh significance it might happen.
Current common culture and then start putting together a bunch of seminars.
There would be outrage on the left like you can't believe.
You got to hear some of this uh some of this audio from uh various media analyzing the meaning of this uh movie about the assassination of Bush.
We'll take a break and be back after that, let you hear it.
Stay with us.
By the way, folks, I erred a moment ago on 24, the president actually didn't die.
When he was blown out of the air on Air Force One, uh Joel Cerno, the uh creator, said that they asked him not to have the president die.
So it was just in a perpetual coma.
Uh, but he never does.
So the comparison that CNN was making is uh bogus anyway.
All right to the audio soundbites, MSNBC this morning, the anchor Alex Witt interviewing film and Hollywood gossip rag In Touch Weekly editor Tom O'Neill about the movie Death of a President.
What's interesting about this?
She asks him not about the movie, but about what I said about the movie.
It's it it's just like after the Survivor thing, people were critiquing me.
After we handicapped the uh the competition of Survivor, they stopped critiquing the show.
They started critiquing me what I said about it.
Like I was the show.
And so here on MSNBC today, this this uh this gossip rag editor, Tom O'Neill from In Touch Weekly is asked what he thinks about what I said about this.
And she played a clip for him of me saying the following.
Said around October of 2007, President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago.
Whatever happened to the notion that if you talked about this, threatened to do this or what have you, the Secret Service was knocking on your door inside of ten seconds.
They play that, and then uh and then Witt says, What do you think about Russia's comments there?
Rush, of course, being a political conservative, has a different point of view on this.
I think the question is perfect for a kind of film that this is trying to make.
Let's look at it from a sympathetic.
Stop the stop the tape a minute.
Stop the tape, and I want you to re-cue it to the top.
Listen to what the first words out of this guy's mouth are Rush, of course, being a political conservative, has a different point of view on this.
Is he admitting that liberals will support a movie, advocating and showing the assassination of George W. Bush?
Apparently so.
If I, as a conservative, am going to be opposed to Bush being assassinated, well, that means somebody obviously is gonna be a favor of it.
This is an ideological thing.
Assassinating a president is an ideological thing.
Liberals are before it, conservatives will be against it.
Gossip?
Rag editor.
All right, so here's her question.
Uh, what do you think about Russia's comments here?
Rush, of course, being a political conservative, has a different point of view on this.
I think the question is perfect for a kind of film that this is trying to make.
Let's look at it from a sympathetic Republican point of view and say this.
We know how low Bush is in the polls right now.
Just the whole idea of this is so shocking, so important.
I think it makes a lot of the members of the left think, you know, wow, this really is terrible.
You know what I'm saying?
You have to be sympathetic to Bush in this situation and remind us, well, what if he did get sassy?
How terrible that would be.
And it in a way, in sick, strange, twisted way, it makes us sympathetic toward the man.
In a sick twisted way, it makes us sympathetic toward the man.
Let's look at it from a sympathetic Republican point of view.
Unbelievable.
These guys just find absolutely nothing conceptually wrong here.
Next question from uh Alex Witt to Tom O'Neill.
Oh, when you have those cop killer rap music things that can be so outrageous to some and yet so accepting in other elements of society.
What about this and the influence it might have?
Right.
I think in the cop killer cases with those rap songs, the message is go out and kill a cop.
They're creeps, you know, they're pigs, they deserve it.
No one's saying here that the this film is a i is egging on people to shoot Bush.
The uh eggs the focus of this film is on what happens to America around him in the aftermath of that.
So I think they're essentially different.
Really?
There's no agenda here.
Oh, no, no, no, no agenda.
Um this is only the second time the left has tried this last summer or 04.
It was a book on how to assassinate Bush from the kind of weapon to where you should station yourself to the kind of ammo to the angle of attack and all of this.
And that was treated the same way very serious work here by the author.
We must delve deeply into the literary construction of this amazing piece.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And so no, no, no, this doesn't advocate Anything.
No, no, no, no.
The focus is on the aftermath.
The aftermath of what?
The assassination of George W. Bush.
Okay, we'll take a break, folks.
We'll be back and we will roll right on despite all this lunacy.
Maybe George W. Bush ought to call Stephen Harper in Canada, the prime minister up there, and try to get him to recut that movie so that Bush lives and kills his assassin himself.
We'll be back.
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