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Sept. 6, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 6, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 podcast.
You know, I'm I'm reading all of the um reviews of Katie Couric's debut last night on CBS.
And every one of the reviews talks about it wasn't bad for a slow news day.
Slow news day.
Yesterday was anything but a slow news day.
See, that's the difference in how they see the world and how we see it.
My gosh, I did three hours yesterday, and I didn't get to everything I had that was the last thing in the world yesterday was a slow newsday.
At any rate, greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It is the award-winning, thrill-packed, ever exciting, increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds.
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Lots on tap today.
Not a slow news day today either.
That Iranian lunatic, Mahmood Ahmad Ninizad is threatened President Bush because he won't debate him at the United Nations in uh in October.
Uh the New York Times uh editorializes today that it's time for answers from the special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald on his whole investigation.
The thing the thing just it made me laugh.
It was it was this thing is irrational.
New York Times is now spinning this like they are politicians, and they uh acting like they had nothing to do with this.
They and Senator Chuck Schumer are the culprits behind the whole investigation.
We'll talk about that as the program unfolds.
A little bit more detail than I had time to offer in today's morning update, new IRS tax data out.
Um, and it uh it it is very instructive in terms of who is paying what in terms of income taxes.
We have the uh Hewlett Packard CEO uh caught spying on the on the members of the board of directors because one of them was leaking, and she was monitoring their private cell phones and mail and email and found the leaker.
Uh now there's an uproar.
I think this woman uh uh obviously have a very good place in the Bush administration, this government.
Um she's obviously an excellent spy.
He had a big row yesterday in the uh White House briefing room between Tony Snow and David Gregory.
Snow accusing Gregory of asking questions that were essentially Democrat talking points.
Gregory pointing his finger or telling Snow not to point his finger at him.
This is the um I think this is the the second.
Well, and there's no tape of that, by the way.
There was uh that was the briefing that was not televised.
So we don't have anything but uh but quotes and uh in the web on that.
Uh but this is the second uh press secretary that David Gregory is having uh problems with.
And it leads me to indicate that there may be a problem with Gregory.
Um also Hugh Hewitt on his Town Hall blog has uh found some evidence that ABC has made some edits in the miniseries The Path to 9-11.
Uh they are minor, supposedly, but apparently the um the suits at Disney gave up their Labor Day weekend to meet behind closed doors to discuss what, if any changes to make in the miniseries because they were being hounded uh by calls from the Clinton administration.
Details on that coming up.
A fascinating piece.
Fascinating piece from the Brussels Journal.
It is very long.
Uh uh and I I've I've gone through it uh how many pages is at least seven or eight pages, maybe more.
Let me just give you the money quote from this page uh piece.
Um I heard one woman who was an ardent feminist in the 1970s later lament how many families they broke up and destroyed.
She was surprised at the reaction or lack of reaction from men.
We were horrible.
Why didn't you men stop us?
The title of the piece is How the Feminists War Against Boys Pave the Way for Islam.
I will share with you selected quotes from this piece.
Again, it's from the Brussels Journal.
It's uh it's fascinating.
But uh on top today, MSNBC is actually not actually, but it looks like they're running a telephon for Democrats today.
They are doing a day-long feature, trying to stake their claim to political coverage with a special blitz on the 2006 midterm elections.
It's entitled Decision 2006, Battleground America.
Started at 9 a.m.
It will include all of big names, Brian Williams, Tim Russert, Campbell Brown, David Gregory, Chris Matthews, Lester Holt.
It will air all day and into the night with live editions of all of their shows continuing the theme.
So I've been looking at this.
It looks like a telethon for Democrats, with the disease they're fighting being Republicans.
The only thing they're not saying is operators standing by.
Call now.
But I've it's incredible.
We have some audio sound bites to illustrate this.
Here is the promo that they have been running all day for this.
Republicans have it.
Democrats want it.
In two months, you decide who gets it.
Game on.
NSADC continues coverage of the battle for control Congress with one big day.
The biggest names, Russard, Gregory, Holt, Brown, Williams, Matthews, Scarborough, Carlson.
What are the key races?
How close will these elections really be?
Decision 2006 Battleground America continues all day on the Network for Politics.
MSNBC.
There's a killer disease out there, folks.
It's Republicans, and MSNBC is going to do everything they can to slay this disease.
And it this is uh it's an all-day the sense of urgency in this thing, and even including in that promo, is breathtaking.
There was an interesting, let's say go through the list of names in their own promo.
Interesting name left out.
Not going to tell you who it is, but very, very uh interesting.
Here is uh uh a montage of some of the anchors.
Lester Holt, Stuart Rothenberg, Chuck Todd of the Hotline, Tim Russert, Rom Emanuel runs a Democrat congressional campaign committee, Democrat pollster Peter Hart, all talking about the fall election and the Democrats.
Democrats need to gain 15 seats to take control of the House for the first time since 1994.
Then the Senate, Democrats need to pick up six seats to take control.
We see Democratic candidates doing surprisingly well.
Well, a voter that goes into the voting booth thinking about Iraq is voting Democrat.
The election were held today.
Do you agree with Stu that it would tilt Democratic?
I think it tilts Democrats.
If the Democrats capture control of the House of Representatives.
If Democrats took control, the Democratic control could do a couple of other things.
One, it could lead to significant Republican retirements.
It would certainly embolden Democrats.
Who the new Democratic Committee Chairman might be.
Speaker Pelosi.
Democrats are running as new direction Democrats.
And the American people are saying as they did in'74,'82, 1986, 1994, all big term elections, they're saying it's time for a change, it's time for a new direction.
This is equivalent of the ninth ward in New Orleans.
Essentially, it's underwater already.
But they don't know it.
Democrats win the House and they think comfortably.
I mean, that's look at that's we got two more sound bites to go.
I'm just this is a telethon for the Democrats.
This is you have to see this, and I'm not urging you to watch it.
That's we're doing that for you.
You don't have to waste your time.
Here's a here's another one, um, a montage of uh Chuck Todd from the from the hotline, David Gregory, uh, John Dickerson from Slate.com, and the DNC chairman, Howard Dean.
This is going to possibly just not just move from a 15 to 20 seat thing.
It could become tidal wave like a national wave here against Republicans.
If there's a wave, there's gonna be a national wave.
Okay, so now the the program is producing its own gravitas moment.
There's going to be a national wave uh as the MSNBC telethon attempts to uh cure the disease known as the Republican majority.
And here is uh uh well, that speaks for itself.
David Gregory asks Howard Dean, uh if it's the position of the Democratic Party that troops need to be immediately redeployed or pulled out of Iraq, what will that leave behind in that country?
The Bush line is we can't leave Iraq because it'll make us look weak.
So essentially the president is is proposing that we stay forever.
Well, that is that I hate to say it, but that's just patently ridiculous.
But I'm with George Aiken, the wonderful Vermont Senator who once said about Vietnam, declare victory and get out.
Oh man, can we really count on these people?
Any rate, that's what's going on all day and all night on the network.
Nobody watches.
PMS, NBC, an all-day telethon for Democrats to uh try to find a cure for that killer disease known as a Republican majority.
Quick timeout, we'll be right back after this.
Don't vanish, folks.
Stay where you are.
I'll tell you what's driving this MSNBC telethon today, Charlie Cook has this is a pollster, is an analyst of uh of congressional races, elections, this kind of thing.
One of his assistants, uh, one of his uh female assistants put out a report saying that there's 30 races out there that are competitive.
And the panting and the breathlessness has begun.
And that report, for two days, there's been an orgasm over this.
Uh Republicans could lose 30 seats.
30 seats are competitive.
Competitive.
They said 30 seats are competitive.
They did not say, and it's probably more like 40.
Everything is competitive.
The bottom line is that they have taken this and just run with it as though because their template is Democrats win, Democrats take back the House.
So far, in what we've seen, there hasn't been any attention, hardly any attention paid to the Republicans.
This is all about, oh, hallelujah, oh, glory days again.
We're going to get to the mountaintop.
We are going to run the show again.
A Democrats are going to be in power.
We can have parties again.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
It's sort of like when uh when Brian Williams interviewed that wacko Professor Princeton, this Dyson character who um came out and described George W. Bush as a patrician.
That became a template for a couple days uh regarding uh the two week orgy of one year anniversary coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that George Bush created, steered, and made the levees break.
And then didn't care about any of the destruction.
We came the uh the template.
Now on to perhaps what is the most laughable published story of all time, certainly of today.
It is a New York Times editorial calling for time for answers.
For three years, Washington has been periodically consumed with a question of who unmasked a covert CIA agent to the columnist Robert Novak.
It's been a huge distraction for the White House, resulted in the unjustified jailing of a reporter, and led to perjury charges against the vice president's chief of staff.
Last week it was reported that Richard Armitage, then deputy secretary of state, was the first to mention Valerie Plame, Valerie Wilson, and Mr. Novak, and that the federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, knew this more than two and a half years ago.
There's a better way to frame this.
The prosecutor, Mr. Fitzgerald, knew who the leaker was on the first day of his investigation.
And it should have been shut down at that point.
New York Times says the revelation tells us something important, but unfortunately it's not the answer to the central question in the investigation.
Whether there was an organized attempt by the White House to use Mrs. Wilson to discredit or punish her husband, Joseph Wilson.
Former diplomat, Mr. Wilson, debunked the claim that Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium from Niger to make nuclear weapons.
It's been proven to be a debunked debunk.
Wilson was lying through his teeth.
Everybody threw in with a liar, and there's a name that never gets mentioned in any of this as one of the mobilizing, motivating forces behind the scenes to get this whole investigation going, and that is Senator Chuck Schumer from New York.
The uh Times editorial concludes thus.
It's time for Mr. Fitzgerald to provide answers or admit that this investigation has run its course.
Otherwise, he risks being lumped in with the special prosecutor who spent a decade investigating the former Clinton cabinet member Henry Cisneros and wound up with nothing more than his conviction that he had yet to get to the bottom of things.
All right.
If you want to waste your time reading the whole editorial, you can't.
The Times spinning this like they're a bunch of politicians.
They are acting like they had nothing to do with it.
They still hold out hope, however, that there is proof that the White House was organizing and running a smear campaign against Valerie Wilson.
all of this is just patently absurd.
But my question is this what about Senator Schumer?
Senator Schumer was the one pressing for a criminal investigation from day one of this thing.
He put enormous political and media pressure on the then Attorney General John Ashcroft to appoint a special counsel, and now he walks away from this after making outrageous accusations against the president and Rove.
Is there no accountability from Senator Schumer?
Where are the cameras and microphones outside his home and outside his office, asking him to explain his role in all of this?
Nobody is talking about Schumer in this.
But I'd like to know what Schumer's involvement was in criminalizing this.
Schumer, and you remember we've talked about this, became very close to Joseph Wilson.
I'd like to know what communications there were between Schumer and Wilson.
I'd like to know if Schumer used his senatorial office to launch an illegitimate criminal investigation.
It appears that he did.
And if he did, why shouldn't he be censured?
They talk about no confidence votes on Secretary Rumsfeld will censor Schumer for his outrageous behavior here.
I know it'll never happen.
Nobody's even talking about it.
But he's a central figure in this.
He was I mean, Wilson was his protege.
He, Schumer, was Wilson's guiding hand through all of this.
There are a lot of actors in this play who have gotten away scot-free.
Richard Armitage, Colin Powell, Chuck Schumer, Valerie Plame, and Joe Wilson themselves are some of the major players here.
This was a frame-up from the get-go.
Folks, there's no other way to describe this.
It was a frame-up.
I have no doubt that it was hatched inside the city the State Department.
I just I hate to say this, but I just can't believe that Colin Powell is distant from this and was unaware of it.
I mean, Armitage is his sock puppet, best friend.
I mean, these guys, they were livid at the White House.
I think Powell was forever enraged and embarrassed over having to go up to the UN, show all those pictures of Iraq's WMDs, and uh it feels like it's destroyed his reputation, which is what people care about more than anything else inside the uh the beltway.
But here's another thing.
You know, they we talked about this yesterday, the Saturday New York Times story that came out on this, which was after everybody else knew that Armitage was the leaker had an interesting aspect to it.
And it was that Fitzgerald not only knew that Richard Armitage was the source of the leak, Fitzgerald asked Armitage not to say anything.
That's the story in the New York Times Saturday.
Everybody's wondering, well, why did Armitage keep quiet and let all these people in the White House, you know, be hung out to dry from Rove to scooter scooter to liberty to Cheney, and everybody assumed it was because there's no love lost between Armitage and Powell and people over there at the White House.
The New York Times story said that no, no, no, no, it's not that's not it at all.
It was uh Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor, asked Armitage to keep quiet.
Now, there is one reason uh of a possibility of two, there's one reason why he did that.
And that is, all right, he's been called in.
This is this is showbiz time.
This is the national stage in Washington investigating an administration.
I mean, that's an opportunity.
Fame and celebrity are seductive to even the toughest people who think they are immune to it.
It can reach out and grab you by the throat and before long you are addicted to it.
And so Fitzgerald, my gosh, his first date he finds out he's already got the answer to his question.
So he tells Armitage to shut up and starts his investigation and brings people before the grand jury in hopes that somebody will trip up and commit perjury and in the process lend credence to the notion that there was some side of uh some sort of conspiracy in order to destroy somebody that emanated from the White House.
And if that's true, that is sickening.
I also think that that that this whole damn thing was hatched by Schumer and Wilson.
Schumer wanting to take over the Senate as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
He wanted to paralyze Rove so he became the focus of the propaganda war here, and Wilson did this because he was about to be caught as a lying hack, so he's tur he turned his guns on Rove as well.
You nobody will convince me that Schumer and Wilson were not the orchestrators of all this, and then then they had some assistance from from uh Armitage and and Powell in the in the White House.
I think this is the untold story of this.
And I would love to know what went on behind the scenes between Schumer and Wilson.
I'd like his emails, his phone logs, I'd like an investigation into this, because what you have here is an attempt to destroy an elected president by partisan hacks who succeeded in using the criminal justice system to pursue their political ends.
This is one of the most outrageous things that's happened in this country.
If there was ever a time that journalism en masse should stand up and apologize, it's this, it'll never happen.
But it was just outrageous.
Yes, America's real anchor man.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Remember, ladies and gentlemen, it was Senator Schumer who called the prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor's prosecutor.
I mean, there that there is an untold story here, and uh it's just gonna be very difficult to get it out.
But this kind of notorious behavior must be exposed and punished.
The media wants this all to go away.
Well, they didn't get their men, they didn't get uh rove, they didn't get chiny, so uh never mind.
Never mind.
We move on now.
Well, not so fast.
The media, all their phony editorials, they know full well who was behind this.
They know who leaked to them, they know who was spinning them.
Uh media had a role in all of this, and for the New York Times in this absurd editorial to pretend otherwise, and write this self-serving piece as it did today is nothing more than diversion.
They need to come clean too, or at a minimum demand answers as I am demanding them today.
I mean, these are the people that have made the case that they care so much about ethics and government and keeping this administration in line, and there's so many outrageous violations of human rights and civil rights.
How about the corruption of the criminal justice system by a hack senator and a hack, whatever he is, plain old hack Joe Wilson, for the express purposes of destroying an administration in time of war.
That's what this story is.
That's what this case is really all about.
And all we've got to show for it is poor little old scooter libby, who couldn't remember who he told Watsman now charged with perjury in an investigation.
As I keep saying, that need not ever have happened.
There was no crime until this investigation began.
Stop and think of that.
You wonder about the criminal justice system in this country?
There was no crime until the investigation began.
You know, there's another case that you probably haven't heard much about.
It's on the business pages.
It involves Conrad Black.
Conrad Black used to own numerous newspapers, Jerusalem Post, number of papers in Canada, the Chicago Sun Times.
He's a conservative.
He ran a company called Hollinger.
The same prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, although he's not the lead line prosecutor in the case, but he is the prosecutor in Chicago, the U.S. attorney that's handling the case.
Conrad Black, without being convicted of anything yet, has been forced to give up 90 million dollars of property and possessions.
He's charged with looting the company, as large with false bonuses, a charge with paying himself and his cronies false bonuses and so forth.
And I have no idea what what case is.
I mean, I don't know what the truth of this is.
But without even a conviction, the government has been able to go in and put liens on all of his property, give him a spending budget, what he can and can't spend.
They've done every and and one of the reasons why, ladies and gentlemen, is simply because Conrad Black was conspicuous in his lifestyle.
Conrad Black's wealth doesn't approach anywhere near the Kennedy family.
But the Kennedy family runs out there and talks about how bad they feel about the poor all the time.
The Kennedy family they're conspicuous in the sense that they've got the compound in the Hyanis and so forth, but they don't they don't run around and look the wealthy parts that they are.
Conrad Black and his wife did, and that makes them a target in a class envy world.
Now, if he did the crime, fine.
File the charges, go to go to court and get a conviction, and then do all this.
But he is being wiped out on the basis of accusations.
And there's all, you know, see these seizure laws that uh that that prosecutors are able to use now in cases involving drug smugglers and drug runners and uh you know those kinds of things.
Uh it it's it's it really is fascinating to watch what is happening in the criminal justice system.
But this case with with Wilson and Schumer uh actively massaging and manipulating the criminal justice system to try to destroy a presidency in time of war, and that's exactly what this is, uh, is outrageous.
We got a hack politician in Schumer.
We got a hack insider in Joe Wilson hijacking the criminal justice system and using it to try to destroy a president in the middle of a war.
That to me is a crime.
That to me is a political conspiracy.
Now I I mentioned that there were two possibilities as to why Fitzgerald would tell Armitage not to talk.
Uh he could have been advised by his investigators, uh that being Fitzgerald, that they thought there was more to this than just Armitage.
And he could have been looking for some unique twist on some criminal statute and hoped to find a fact pattern to fit it.
He could have believed there was some big political scandal he wanted to uncover, like Watergate.
Who knows?
But his job, his assignment was to determine who revealed Playham's identity, whether any crime was committed, uh, and in revealing her identity.
Not another massive investigation in search of memory losses or even perjury.
No crime until the investigation began.
But these prosecutors have wide discretion, and everybody in the Justice Department got out of the way.
James Comey got out of the way, said Fitz, do what you want, go where you go, you got total freedom.
Ashcroft backed out because he he didn't want any part of this.
Uh he was getting ready to leave.
Uh so I think I think people can legitimately question the judgment of Mr. Fitzgerald.
It was monumentally poor judgment and taking this as far as he did, throwing reporters in jail, deposing the president and vice president, charging Libby, dragging Rove in front of the grand jury five times, all the while knowing that Armitage was the leaker to Bob Novak, all the while knowing this.
Five grand jury appearances by Rove, all of this time to what end?
A process perjury charge against Scooter Libby, and the media were out there cheering him on.
The court did nothing to stop him either.
Court allowed him to go on and on, never drawing any lines whatsoever.
Uh and it's been revealed now as a fiasco.
And there are a bunch of uh editorial calls, newspapers, and then and the count is increasing for President Bush to pardon Libby now and just be done with it.
Just pardon Libby and end the investigation.
I would love that.
I would absolutely it would just infuriate.
Can you imagine if he did it today?
He's got another speech on the war on terror coming up about 145 this afternoon, Eastern time, a little over an hour.
If he pardoned Libby today, I'm just playing here.
If he pardoned Libby today, can you imagine what it would do to MSNBC's telethon to cure the disease known as the Republican majority?
It would send them batty.
And it would take him off guard.
I hope he I hope he does it at some point.
I have no clue uh as to whether he will.
But I mean it's this this whole investigation has ended up being one of the greatest injustices played out before everyone's eyes with a bunch of two-bit players behind the scenes pulling everybody's strings as though they were marionettes and orchestrating this, knowing full well it was a sham from the get-go.
So the phones rick and Malibu.
I'm glad you called, sir, you're up first today.
Welcome.
Uh thank you, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes.
I'm glad to hear somebody else is as outraged as I am.
Um but I'd like to take it a step further.
The Democratic Party and the media have been using this for three years to undermine the credibility of the White House.
They've been saying that the that the White House was using this to smear people.
That and it started, and that started the whole process of Bush being undermined, as people doubting undermined.
You look at the polls now, and he's not trusted, and the Republicans aren't trusted.
Shouldn't it be congressional hearings to find out what Democrats knew and when they knew it?
What did they know about this trend about this about the situation?
Did they know when they were giving reports and press conferences to the media?
And what did the media know that truly it was Armitage that did the whole thing?
I think it's an ordered rapper to smear the White House.
It's a great question.
And I wonder if Schumer and because Schumer, remember, was was shepherding uh Wilson through this whole thing.
Schumer's the guy, I'm telling you, Schumer's the Democrat behind this who was orchestrating Wilson, who was guiding Wilson, who called for the investigation, called for the prosecution, praising Fitzgerald each and every day.
You talked about the effect of all this.
We mentioned this two weeks ago.
Uh uh one of the uh a blogger, I forget his name at the moment, uh, appeared on the American Thinker website, went out and looked at polling data over these number of years of this case.
ABC Washington Post polling data, Pew polling data, and they found that this uh never-ending daily barrage of accusations and assumptions that the Bush White House was unethical and was attempting to destroy a couple of innocent people's lives purely for politics, worked.
The polling data on Bush's ethics plummeted during this period.
And that's why you'd have to say that this whole thing worked.
That's why the media is not going to apologize.
It worked.
It accomplished everything that they wanted, except Rove being frog marched out of the White House, being indicted and perhaps going to jail.
That was that would have been the ultimate.
That would have been Fitzmas.
Uh, but in terms of everything else, it worked.
Behind closed doors, the media clapping, applauding themselves, patting each other on the back, they succeeded.
That's why there won't be an expose of this.
But which is why there won't be an expose, which is why the Congress, which is currently in the hands of Republicans, needs to call for congressional hearings, bring in the media, bring in Congress, find out what they knew and when they knew it.
Find out was this a coordinated effort.
Who are they talking about?
Separation of powers.
Separation of powers involves the uh judicial branch.
Uh it it it uh that that that would be a difficult, and you can't bring the media in.
I mean, that's that's uh what they what they could do if the Senate republics could could could demand Schumer explain some things, censure him, get the ball started that way, but it would it would be difficult to to have any kind of congressional hearings on this.
That's the thing about journalism.
They have First Amendment protection.
They they have to be uh accountable to themselves.
And of course, there isn't much, and there's uh less and less with uh with each controversial story.
Glad you called out there, Rick.
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A couple more things here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, about the independent counsel here, Mr. Fitzgerald.
And this this is this is just mind-boggling to me.
He knew all the poison being spewed by the media.
He was aware of all the poison being spewed by Schumer.
He knew what Wilson was doing, and Wilson was running around making speeches about how his wife's life had been ruined and destroyed and his too, while he's doing everything to become famous at the same time.
He knew that that was all false.
The independent counsel had to know that all the poison being spewed by the media by Schumer by Wilson was false.
He has to know that it was a political smear campaign against Bush and Cheney, and that it was all wrong.
He has to know all of this.
Yet he not only allowed it to continue by sitting on the Armitage information, but he apparently embraced Wilson.
We remember us asking when's Wilson get called up to the grand jury?
When's Valerie Plame get called up?
Apparently they never were.
You want perjury?
Go after them, Mr. Fitzgerald.
You want liars, you want people who steered this thing in a different direction.
Get Schumer up there.
Get Wilson up there, get Plame up there.
You still got a grand jury open.
Wilson never has faced the grand jury because of his lies.
His press conference, I hate the the the press conference on the last day of the grand jury that uh Mr. Fitzgerald gave.
I mean I it's it it's indescribable.
In the context of the Libby indictment, he spoke about how awful it is to reveal the identity of a CIA undercover agent.
And how that was endangering all agents, and it might even prevent others from wanting to join the CIA.
If their own government is going to release information about their existence.
Well, the indictment, the purpose of the press conference was to announce the indictment of Libby.
Libby was never charged with revealing the identity of a CIA undercover agent.
That was so disingenuous and it was so disappointing.
And now Mr. Fitzgerald says that her status doesn't even matter.
And he has blocked Scooter Libby's lawyers from getting information about her supposed classified status.
And the impression that he left at the news conference was that Libby outed plaim when he knew for certain it was Armitage.
This is a smear of Scooter Libby.
It's just I don't know, folks.
Uh it's frightening to me to see what is happening to the criminal justice system and how and I know there have always been examples of it being politicized.
I mean, especially when you have elected prosecutors to state level, when you have uh we we know that that presidents appoint judges who share their judicial philosophy and so forth.
I know all that.
But uh when it when it comes time for the guilty or innocent to be judged, uh it it's a crapshoot now.
And in this case, you clearly had uh the media and Chuck Schumer shepherding this hack Wilson through this whole case, protecting his lies, a prosecutor that somehow bought into all of this from the first day, knew that there was no need for an investigation.
Uh in terms of what the charge that he received was.
Find out who it was that leaked this woman's night identity.
Well, he knew that the first day of his investigation.
It's just outrageous and it is frightening.
We know for a long time liberals have been trying to politicize or criminalize conservatism.
They have been trying to criminalize conservative policy.
Tom Delay is an example of that.
It's been going on in my recent memory since the uh since the early 90s.
And there's some of it that went on during the uh the Reagan administration as well.
There is no question that this is how they're choosing to fight it because they can't beat it at the ballot box.
Liberalism can't defeat conservatism in open debate, so it has to criminalize.
These people are like Stalinists.
They are they they they uh they they are like communists.
They're like Stalinists in the way they're going about things.
Their birthright is to power.
It's theirs.
It's nobody else's.
And when they can't win it legitimately, why something's wrong and they're gonna get it no matter what they have to do, doesn't matter how, because they own power.
It is their birthright, and it is this arrogance and this condescension that we see on parade from these people each and every day, be they talking about the administration, be they talking about the war on terror, talking about the economy, talking about global warming, talking about the environment, it is nothing but outright lies and deception designed to frighten and scare and pollute the minds of everyday people who pay scant attention to this stuff until shortly before uh elections come up.
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Look, folks, we don't need hearings into any of this.
This is very simple.
It is very simple to resolve this whole thing.
The first thing that should happen is that the attorney general Alberto Gonzalez should fire Fitzgerald.
That's the first thing.
Then I think that President Bush should not only pardon Scooter Libby, he also ought to pardon Chuck Schumer for his conduct, even though he's not going to be charged just to paint him with the same tainted brush that they painted Libby with.
I know this will never happen, but we sit around with our dream scenarios, and here's mine.
This is the president speaking today.
I am pardoning Scooter Libby and Chuck Schumer.
I'm pardoning Libby to end an outrageous miscarriage against a patriot, and I'm pardoning Schumer because he's a sleazy backroom operative, and I want him to carry the pardon around with him for the rest of his life.
We can dream, can't we?
I mean, I haven't stopped dreaming.
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