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Sept. 13, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 13, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Wowie Zowie!
Did John Boehner fire a shot in Washington yesterday?
Holy cow!
Hubbahubbit, you don't know what I'm talking about?
Well, of course, it is the limbo echo syndrome, but when it comes from an elected Republican, that's good.
Ooh, baby.
Democrats called out, and their reaction is quite illustrative.
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We have coming up on the program today, Robert Novak uh calling out Richard Armitage, uh saying Armitage has not been forthcoming and honest about his role in the whole plane leak uh uh affair.
Uh this movie on the assassination of George W. Bush has found an American distributor now, uh, and it will play in this country prior to the election.
That's good.
It's despicable, and it's sickening, but politically that's good.
While the movie is airing and uh in Toronto, and while they have plans to air it in the United States of America, Kellogg's is getting hell for doing a television commercial showing a person riding a dog.
A television commercial showing a person riding a dog has called uh caused all kinds of outrage and demands the commercial be pulled.
There hasn't been one such uh demand that I know of uh for the movie showing George W. Bush assassinated in Chicago.
So a movie showing the president assassinated his uh outraging people, a commercial in the UK showing a person riding a dog's Kellogg's commercial uh is is causing outrage.
New ABC news poll that shows the whole issue of terrorism is uh becoming more and more important to the American people.
Um Saudis are saying that we only have tapped 18% of our global oil supplies with 140 years of oil out there.
It's a C I told you so, been telling you this for the longest time.
Another Democrat went on the Oprah show yesterday, Jim McGreevy, in anticipation of his big tell all book coming out.
This couldn't be playing out better.
Um we got Demor Democrats doing movies about assassinating the president, writing books about it.
We got McGreevy out there uh going public on Oprah.
Crowd uh audience not really crazy about it.
Um a lot going on out there.
It's it's it's it's really exciting, and the Democrats are continuing, I think what is uh a slow but sure implosion.
Let's go to the big fireworks story that uh erupted in Washington yesterday.
This is late yesterday on Capitol Hill.
A Republican House leader, John Boehner responds to Senator Dingy Harry's comments that he had made earlier that morning, yesterday morning on the floor of the Senate on the president's 9-11 speech.
Here is a portion of Boehner's remarks.
This is what got the fur flying all day yesterday in Washington.
Sometimes, based on the votes that get cast, you wonder whether they're more interested in the rights of the terrorists than in protecting the American people.
Oh, man!
Now we've said this constantly on this program, but here's John Boehner out there saying it.
What is there to dispute about this?
These are the people that try to shut down the uh surveillance program.
These are the people that applauded when they thought they killed the Patriot Act.
These are the people that are trying to bestow upon Al Qaeda a constitutional bill of rights.
These are the people that want to continue to fight this as though it's a law enforcement issue.
These are the people who can't stand the term Islamo fascist being used because they're afraid it might offend the Islamo fascists.
Here is Dingy Harry's response.
Haven't we moved beyond that?
Haven't we moved beyond the Republicans are more religious than Democrats?
Haven't we moved beyond the fact that Republicans are trying to save us from the terrorists and Democrats aren't?
I think we've moved beyond that.
You may wish to have uh moved beyond it, but we haven't, Dingy Harry.
Uh you just indicted yourself.
Haven't we moved beyond The reb Republicans are more religious than Democrats.
Who is it that every week is mounting a new effort to try to connect with religious voters?
Who is it that's trying to come up with a values-based campaign?
Who is it that's out there trying to come up with another way after previous failures of showing Christians that they don't hold them in disrespect when in fact they do?
They constantly impugn them and make fun of them, and yet when elections roll around, they come up with these plans to go out there and uh and smoke the peace pipe, so to speak, move beyond the fact that Republicans are trying to save us from the terrorists and Democrats aren't.
We are at war, Denji Harry.
And every time the president makes a comment about the war on terror, you people go ballistic and say we need to get out of Iraq and we need to do this and we need to do that.
You pass resolutions in the Senate, you vote on them that well, you you you authorize resolutions, but you can't pass them to get out of Iraq.
Um it's it's it's clear as day to anybody that watches that the uh the Democrats are trying to undermine victory against this enemy.
There is no question about it.
It is why I said on the radio a long time ago, you know, I'm I've I'm through um lobbing softballs and walking on eggshells when discussing patriotism.
What in the world is patriotic about people who are invested in our defeat?
Now they may say, well, we're not invested in our defeat, but we think President Bush is wrong and we want to defeat his policy.
What's the difference?
If the president's policy is victory over the enemy, the Islamo fascists, and you oppose that.
Who cares what your reasoning is?
Why do we sit around and have to say, no, we're only questioning your judgment?
The Democrats know they've been hit here.
They don't want the president sounding strong.
They don't want the Republican Party sounding strong.
They can't even stand the term Islamo fascist to be used.
What does that matter?
What is the whole problem with using the term Islamo fascist?
Why in the world make that an issue?
They afraid it's going to offend the world?
Is it going to offend our enemies?
Why make such a big deal out of interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib?
They're afraid of offending somebody?
Are they what it surely gives the impression they're not interested in winning?
Bahner has nailed it here, folks, and you can tell, as I've always told you, watch the reaction to people who've been criticized.
Watch the reaction to they act like stuck pigs, then you have hit the bullseye.
Let's go back Friday, December 16th of 2005.
Uh, this is after the vote on the Patriot Act, dingy Harry talking to the press.
Think of what happened 20 minutes ago in the United States Senate.
We killed the Patriot Act.
The Patriot Act.
Yeah, they're trying.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, yes, we killed the Patriot Act.
They're applauding.
Uh, not quite a year ago.
What did the Patriot Act do?
The Patriot Act is what tore down the wall that the Clinton administration had uh built that prevented various agencies like the CIA and the FBI from sharing intelligence uh and information that they'd learned.
The Patriot Act tore that down.
These people wanted to kill it.
They thought they had, and a huge round of applause.
They have mischaracterized the FISA situation, the NSA foreign surveillance program.
They continue to refer to it as a domestic spy program, as though Bush voyeurishly wants to just spy on you for his own titillation.
Uh I don't know what people must not listen to themselves.
This morning on the House floor during one minute speeches, uh, Georgia Democrat John Lewis.
Mr. Speaker, the statement by majority leader boyner was shameful and disgraceful.
To suggest on my fellow Democrats care more about protecting the terrorist than American people is not right.
It is not fair, it is not just.
It is not the American way.
Democrats will not stand by and let a single attack go on answer.
You may play the politics of fear.
But this dog will not hunt.
This dog just will not hunt.
Oh, you want to bet this dog will hunt.
Uh, this dog is already hunting, and this dog has already found its prey.
Uh that's what this means.
Compare something here.
Note the contrast.
Here that the the the the uh Republicans come out and they and they criticize the Democrats Boehner does of uh seeming to be more interested in the rights of terrorists and protecting the American people.
They start squealing like a bunch of little kids.
Look at the way Bush reacts to all of the lies that the Democrats have told about him for five years.
Does he run around squealing fair?
It's not fair.
And you can't do that.
You know, get with it, Democrats.
You're playing in a big leagues, and you are going to be criticized and characterized for the things that you do and you say.
This is all timed perfectly as the election season gins up.
We've got a brief break.
There are more audio sound bites uh on all of this, including a couple great ones from Tony Snow.
Sit tight.
We'll be right back and move right on.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair.
Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being, should be allowed to have back to our audio soundbite roster, Washington exploding on fire over John Boehner's comments yesterday, essentially saying that uh sometimes you wonder whether the Democrats are more interested in the rights of the terrorists than they are in protecting the American people.
On the CBS early show this morning, the commentator Bob Schiefer appeared, also their chief Washington correspondent.
Co-host Harry Smith asked him a question.
I'm gonna talk about President Bush.
Spent the last uh part of uh two and a half weeks talking about the war on terror, even on the night of 9-11, still talking about the war on terror and what else are you gonna talk about on 9-11?
What was 9-11?
Am I are we to understand here that bringing up the war on terror on 9-11 is somehow playing politics?
Yes.
I guess we are.
His question to Schiefer is this gonna help those Republicans or is it gonna hurt them?
The fallout since the president's speech is just been extraordinary.
You had John Boehner, the Republican leader in the House yesterday, saying that he was beginning to wonder if Democrats were more interested in protecting terrorists than they were in protecting Americans.
I mean, it's gonna get low and it's gonna get mean, and we're already seeing it.
Whoa, it's gonna get low?
It's gonna get mean, Bob?
We got a movie coming to this country about assassinating President Bush because of this.
Because of the war on terror.
What do you mean, Bob?
It's gonna get mean and it's gonna get low.
What the Democrats say each and every day about Bush and the Republicans, it's just one long, mean, nasty, hateful diatribe, and they've been doing it for years, Bob.
You know, these Democrats they can take it or dish it out, but they cannot take it.
They can dish out all of some of the most disgusting, vile stuff.
And you know what, folks?
This is getting disgusting.
It's gotten to the point now where it's it's even beyond disgusting.
It's gotten to the point that Democrats ought to be ashamed of themselves.
If they want to oppose uh certain things, there's there are the ways to do it.
They're making it personal, and they are actually, hey, how about all this talk that Bush is the real terrorist?
You know, Democrats are aren't saying that.
Bush is creating terrorists.
Why there weren't any terrorists before he went into Iraq and before 9-11 on Bush?
Bush is making Bush.
Who was it just yesterday?
The Boston Globe, Bob.
The Boston Globe yesterday editorialized that uh uh Bush is gonna end up being worse for the country than the terror attacks of 9-11.
But what do you mean, Bob?
It's gonna get low and gonna get mean.
Let's move on to the Today Show today.
Brand new hostette Meredith Vieira talking with Tim Russett.
And she said, Democrats say the president took advantage of the very solemn occasion in this country to push his agenda about a rock and tie it to the Greater War on Terror.
House Speaker criticizing Democrats for criticizing the president, saying soft on terrorism.
Um that's worked effectively for the Republicans in the past that argue you think it still worked, Tim?
The words that Congressman Boehner used, almost suggesting the Democrats are aligning themselves with the terrorists, really sent shockwaves through Washington.
You can accuse people of not being vigorous or strong on national defense and national security.
But when you start suggesting that they are closer to the terrorists than they are to protecting the American people, I think people in both parties think that crossed the line.
Uh I'm aware, Tim.
Maybe in maybe a few Republicans in Washington, like Link Chafey and Lindsey Graham and John McCain.
Let me tell you something.
This resonates outside the country, outside the the the belt wave.
This is uh I I don't think the inside the beltway crowd, particularly Republicans has any idea how livid the American people are and have been consistently with the mean-spirited criticisms of Bush, the outright lies, the movies, uh wishing for his assassination.
Let's make no mistake.
Why else do the movie unless you're wishing for it to be true?
And they've uh, you know, cable television networks have gone out and gotten uh art uh and and movie uh professors.
Uh and asked them to condemn it, and they won't do it.
They won't condemn the art.
No, no, no, no.
Well, I'd like to see the reaction if we actually did the EIB production of the kidnapping and beheading of Bill Clinton.
I'd like to see what they would react to and how they would react to that.
And this assassination movie is just one of the things.
There was an assassination book two years ago in the 2004 campaign.
Since that didn't work, now they're doing an assassination movie.
Neither of these have been condemned.
People in the country are fed up and livid with the fact that the New York Times is giving away secrets that would help us win the war on terror.
People hate the New York Times.
They despise the New York Times.
They're not happy with the Washington Post or must many else in the drive-by media.
The people of this country are outraged every time they have to listen to Dick Durbin or Ted Kennedy or John Kerry talk about how we're mistreating the people that want to kill us.
The Islamo fascists that want to kill us, and how they ought to be having constitutional rights.
The people of this country are fed up with the ACLU and liberal Clinton judges in Michigan saying the president is acting as commander-in-chief in an unconstitutional fashion.
You better bet your bippy people are upset.
And it's this is this is by no means anything.
This is simply a confirmation of what a lot of Americans think.
Now we go to Tony Snow.
He was on American Morning today with Miles O'Brien.
We've got a couple sound bites here.
Miles O'Brien's first question not long after that speech, the majority leader John Boehner uh said what he said about the Democrats being more interested in protecting terrorists than the American people.
Not a lot of unity in that statement, is there?
Rather than focusing on John Boehner's statement, you got one statement from a Republican.
Think of Carl Levin going on your network.
Can I ask about Republicans first, Sal?
Let's just talk about Republicans.
Let's get our timing right.
Because the moment the president gave his speech, boom, people are hitting the send button already hurling accusations.
Now, what John Boehner was doing is he was musing and he was asking tough questions.
For instance, in listening to people who want to go ahead and kill Americans.
The terror surveillance program.
The president has asked both parties to join together to do this a perfect way of expressing unity.
And instead, what I get is Democrats saying how offended they were either by the president's speech or by Representative Boehner's comments.
They don't want to talk about their position on the issue.
They don't want to talk about their position on the war on terror.
The Democrats do not want George W. Bush or Republicans reminding this country of the threat that exists from Islamic fascists.
In fact, they don't even want those words spoken.
Feingold's running around acting like a stuck pig.
How is it not?
Don't call them Islamo fascists.
How can you why not?
Because they don't want those people to be perceived as the enemy Bush to be perceived as the enemy.
It's what they hated about the path to 9-11.
The path to 9-11 doesn't fit the template of Bush being the enemy.
They want Bush and the Republicans to be the enemy, not the true and real enemy that we face, the Islamo-fascists.
They certainly don't want Bush reminding the world he's trying to deal with that threat while the Democrats talk of withdrawal and appeasement and cutting and running, and now with McGreevy on Oprah, they're talking about their sex lives.
One more bite here.
Miles O'Brien says, is the president uh little concerned that his majority leader was basically ignoring his call for unity.
That's not a unifying statement by any means.
Well, again, Miles, you're asking a question in a vacuum.
Within moments of the president finishing his address to the nation.
The head of the Democratic Senatorial Committee, the head of the Democratic House Committee, and Senator Kennedy were out blasting.
I just want you, I just want you to talk about Republicans for a moment.
I see.
Okay.
Forget the Democrats for the moment.
You know what it sounds like, Miles?
I hate to tell you this.
Yeah.
But sometimes in politics, people make tough arguments.
It happens.
The President's been called a liar and a loser by the guy who's the top Democrat in the United States Senate.
Does he worry about it?
No.
No, he doesn't worry about it.
That's a grand slam home run.
I'm Miles O'Brien.
I don't want to talk about Democrats.
Of course you don't want to talk about Democrats because they're indefensible.
You want to try to indict Republicans.
Well, you put your little toe in the water, Miles, and uh and the lake froze.
And you couldn't get out.
The president's been called worse than a liar and a loser by Dingy Harry and other Democrats.
Does he worry about it?
No.
Does he run around acting like a little child stuck with a little pinpr?
No, not whatsoever.
Just goes about doing his business.
Democrats, a bunch of spoiled rotten kids who cannot deal with the truth about them being articulated or broadcast.
Back in a moment.
Hey, look, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, there is a supposedly moving closer to the mainstream bunch of people that believe George Bush blew up the World Trade Center.
And this is becoming more and more mainstream, we're told.
Despite the fact that popular mechanics has written a huge magazine article on a whole book debunking every charge they make.
College professors, liberal entertainers, Democrats all over the place are coming to the belief that the World Trade Center was blown up by Bush.
Now the terrorists flew to planes in there, but Bush was in on that too.
And Osama took credit for it, but that was all to hide what Bush and Cheney did.
Bush and Cheney wanted to blow up the World Trade Center so they could start a war against Islamo fascists and corner the market in oil.
And so this is becoming more and more mainstream.
Now who's saying this?
What political party and ideological persuasion believes this rot gut?
Liberal Democrats.
And they wonder why in the world John Boehner would say what he's saying.
It is Democrats becoming more and more mainstream now, who are accusing George W. Bush of blowing up the World Trade Center, killing 3,000 Americans.
Doing movies and books on Bush's assassination.
And now there's a story from the Associated Press out there.
They're covering Hugo Chavez.
He's saying the 9-11 conspiracy theories are not nuts or the theorists are not nuts.
It was a totally reasonable thing to consider.
Chavez, he's not saying it happened, but he says it's a it's entirely believable and plausible that this administration, which has been likened to Hitler by liberal Democrats, uh, would indeed uh blow up the World Trade Center.
Now, what are we supposed to say to this Dingy Harry or Tim Russert or Bob Schiefer?
You think it's getting dirty?
You think it's getting low or is going to get low?
You think what Boehner said rocked Washington?
How about what the Democrats have been saying for four years rocking the country?
You wonder why there's no unity, and you want to blame it on Bush.
You wonder why there's no unity.
Listen to your own buddies in the Democratic Party and what they have been saying.
And they're editorialists and their willing accomplices at the at the drive-by media.
The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the list, and examples are endless.
Back to the audio sound bites, back to CNN's American Morning co-host Miles O'Brien.
Interviewing CNN's Michael Ware, liberal journalist, is in Baghdad.
O'Brien says, You're on the ground in Al Anbar province.
What are they saying there on the ground?
The last three or four months, new U.S. tactics has forced Al Qaeda to shift its tactics.
But as the brigade commander who owns Ramadi says, we are in contact with the enemy every day.
And that enemy is Al Qaeda.
There's a direct link between the men we fight, straight to straight, face to face, day-to-day, and the people who brought down the World Trade Center.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Does this guy still work at CNN?
This guy just established here a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
I know what the Democrats will say.
Well, they weren't in Iraq before Bush uh went to war there.
Al Qaeda didn't care, but you know, it doesn't it strain believability, ladies and gentlemen, to believe that.
I mean, Al Qaeda was everywhere before March of 2003.
They were in the Philippines, they were in Singapore.
They were in Chechna, they were in Bosnia.
Uh militant Islamists, Islamo fascists were everywhere.
They were in Kuwait.
Uh They're in Egypt.
They uh they're in uh in Lebanon.
Uh they're mixed in with the Palestinians.
But you know, for they were in a run.
They never went to Iraq.
The one country in the planet.
Al Qaeda never went.
We are led to believe by Democrats is Iraq.
Now, listen to this, folks, and you tell us if we're um if we're losing it, uh, dingy Harry.
This is fine gold Monday night on Capitol Hill.
The use of certain terms, like Islamic fashion, I think loses in the wrong direction.
I can care less with it, obviously with the terrorist thing about what they're called.
You can call them anything you want.
The worst names possible.
But to use the name of Islam in connection with fascism is an insult to Muslims all over America and around the world, and I think that hurts us.
Our goal is to isolate the terrorists, not to isolate Muslims.
Uh, that's what Islamo fascists do.
If they are Islamists, uh, Senator Feingold, and they're out there talking about uh the uh Quran gives them their daily marching orders.
What are we supposed to call them?
Why do you really care, Senator Feingold?
Why do you really care that they're called Islamo fascists or Islamic fascist?
See, I don't think it's Islamo they disagree with.
I don't think they like the term fascist.
That's a term reserved for them to call people like us.
Nazis fascists and this sort of stuff.
And now people with whom we are at war being, they're just afraid that that's gonna resonate with the American people.
We can call them Islamo-Nazis.
They'd probably bug people.
Islamo-fascists.
If you don't believe they're fascist, Senator Fine Gold, go take a look at what they did to Afghanistan when they ran it.
Take a look at what Al-Qaeda and the Taliban did to Afghanistan when they ran.
If you think that wasn't a fascist, it was worse than that.
But that's not even the point.
Why are they so afraid of that term?
Why is Feingold making a big deal out of it?
The Democrats all join in saying the term is not useful.
It is damn useful because it identifies them.
It just focuses attention again on the fact that they have no interest uh in in actually defeating that enemy.
They are more interested in defeating George W. Bush.
Well, Mr. Snerdley, what yeah, I wonder if we did call them Christian fundamentalists, if uh Senator Feingold would be upset about that.
Uh probably not.
Speaking of that, uh yesterday on ABC's The View during the hot topics discussion about the president's 9-11 speech, Elizabeth Hasselbeck said to Rosie O'Donnell, we're on the offense because we were attacked five years ago, Rosie.
We were attacked not by a nation.
And as a result of the attack and the killing of nearly 3,000 innocent people, we invaded two countries and killed innocent people in their country.
Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam.
In a country like America, where we have a separation of church and state.
A glittering jewel of colossal ignorance who believes that she's the smartest woman in the world next to Hillary because she has a fawning New York entertainment media propping her up.
And there are various reasons why that happens.
None of them have anything to do with her brain or her intelligence or her IQ, uh, or her knowledge.
Rosie O'Donnell on ABC's The View, radical Christianity just as threatening as radical Islam.
And yet Dingy Harry and Tim Russert and Bob Schaefer somehow miss this.
And it's important that they catch this because this is what the American people watch.
Now, I want you all to relax because I'm telling you, this.
I know you heard some applause, but remember where they are.
They're in New York when this show goes on.
They've got an upper west side of Manhattan audience in that show, the studios on the upper west side of Manhattan.
Uh and there's there's a there's a lot of fear of Christianity in a whole bunch of different parts of this country.
Yet the Democrats are out there all upset about the fact uh what was it?
What was the first time about what we played?
Somebody uh upset about uh Dingy Harry.
Dingy have haven't haven't we moved beyond the Republicans are more religious than Democrats, and they go to write the Rosie O'Donnell show, where uh Christians are criticized and the audience erupts in applause.
I don't think these people have slightest touch.
People tell me I'm out of touch with the country.
Oh, I beg to disagree.
I don't think the people inside the beltway have the slightest clue what's going on in this country.
A lot of them in both parties.
So here you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
That that's that's the issue that has Washington roiling.
Uh what they don't get is it's had the country roiling for years.
The fact that they're just now picking up on it, stunning.
Here's Dick in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Rush, my tree, and uh second generation dettos to you.
My family, my son uh who's on his way to hopefully firepilot to the Air Force.
We've uh we've grown and listened with you for a long time.
Thank you.
I think there's a significant part about this whole Democratic position on restriction of internal security and everything.
The president, like the oath I took as a Marine going to Vietnam, has sworn to protect our enemies, both foreign and domestic.
And enemies is a pretty subjective term.
Many of these people are lucky he hasn't declared them as enemies, including the head of And taken much more severe action.
For my part, I wish you'd swallow hard and really get in gear as a warrior and and uh you know take some of these people into custody if they truly are obstacles to our success.
And lastly, I I find it very interesting that Democrats would compare Bush to Hitler.
Hitler walked into a ballroom on his rise to fame, and many people stood and applauded.
I would suspect that many of today's liberal Democrats would have been in that ballroom and later would have been dragged into death camps to help clean up.
They were on the wrong side of the argument.
I think George Bush is a bigger statesman than anybody I've seen recently since uh John Kennedy.
And there we have it.
Dick from Kalamazoo on the record on the EIB network.
Thank you, Dick.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
I want to go back to one of the soundbites that we just aired.
I want to go back to John Lewis.
Uh Democrat from Georgia on the uh House floor this morning during one minute speeches.
Mr. Speaker, the statement by Major Salida Boehner was shameful and disgraceful.
To suggest my fellow Democrats care more about protecting the tours than American people, it's not right.
It is not fair.
It is not just.
It is not the American way.
Democrats will not stand by and let a single attack go unanswered.
You may play the politics of fear.
But this dog will not hunt.
This dog just will not hunt.
The uh the line in there that I've that I find interesting is is when uh Congressman Lewis says, Democrats will not stand by and let a single attack go unanswered.
That is precisely what you did all during the nineties.
When the Islamo fascists attack, they didn't do anything.
When John Boehner utters some words you don't like, you march to the well of the house and you go bonkers.
And you send Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi out there to do the same.
Uh George Bush is your real enemy, Congressman uh uh uh Lewis.
At least that's what you seem to indicate, that's how you make it appear.
Uh we don't hear any condemnation of Al Qaeda from you people.
We don't hear any condemnation of the Islamo fascists from your people.
We really don't.
Well what we hear about is your concern for the way they're being treated when they're prisoners.
We don't hear any condemnation when they behead people, when they uh uh blow up and murder innocent people.
We don't hear any condemnation of that.
We really don't.
They don't hear you criticize it.
We don't even hear you agitated or angry about it.
Boy, what John Boehner says something and the world comes to a screeching halt while you guys make sure that every attack goes answered.
All right, now if you'll forgive me, ladies and gentlemen, I must delve here a little bit into something that has to do with me.
Uh last night, the big story with John Gibson, Lanny Davis.
Gibson says, Do you think this is an example of what you're talking about in your book?
They're talking about um The Path to 9-11.
And of course, liberals cannot defend Clinton's failures on terrorism, so they do what they always do, and they send an attack dog out there to try to discredit the critics of Bill Clinton, and that's why Lenny Davis was on.
He's got a book out.
What uh what's his name?
Book is uh uh what's the name of a stupid book.
I can't even remember the name of the book.
Um At any rate, uh, this is what Lanny Davis said in response to John Gibson's question.
The very same people like Rush Limbaugh, who were very, very uh happy to see this particular false depiction of President Clinton go on the air, were at the forefront of trying to get the Ronald Reagan and successfully did get CBS to pull Ronald Reagan.
Rush Limbaugh engages in hypocrisy.
Right.
Now, uh uh stick with me on this.
Later on the same network, the Fox News channel, the O'Reilly factor.
He's talking to Lanny Davis.
And O'Reilly says, I believe the media is driving the gotcha game.
It's the media, and then some of the folks unfortunately follow along.
The ABC movie was just as unfair and fictionalized in many respects as was the CBS depiction of Ronald Reagan.
Where was Rush Limbaugh about Ronald Reagan?
He wanted that pulled.
All right, now I didn't see either of these programs.
I got emails from people last night describing for me the comments made by Lanny Davis.
And my initial reaction was I didn't remember talking about the Reagan movie at the time.
And I I certainly don't remember suggesting that the movie not air.
So I got hold of Coco, uh, the webmaster at Rush Limbaugh.com, and I said, I needed you, I need you to do an archival search on everything I said about this movie.
And there's a reason, ladies and gentlemen, why I don't remember saying about it.
I was off the air for five weeks during the controversy.
Uh I was out uh in Arizona undergoing uh rehabilitation for my addiction to prescription painkillers.
I had nothing to say, but when I got out, the controversy was over.
The controversy controversy was, and I weighed in on at that point.
But even looking at the transcripts of everything I said about it, I never once suggested that the miniseries or the movie on Reagan be pulled.
And I've got and we're gonna put the transcripts up at Rush Limbaugh.com on uh let's see, the the first thing I said, June, let's see, November 17th of 2003.
Look at the Reagan movie.
The Reagan movie got canceled off CBS.
They moved it to Showtime.
I mean, would that have happened ten years ago?
Would that have happened 15 years ago?
Hell's Bells, no way, folks.
Not only would the Reagan, it would have been, it would have been in the theaters first and then on CBS.
And it would have been produced ten years ago.
They snuck around, they tried to wait and sneak it in on us, but no be confident out there, folks.
These people have had their day.
Uh November 21, 2003.
The Reagan story, look what they're going to do with that.
Show you how America's has changed.
It got canceled.
Media says a bunch of right-wing wackos did it.
Nope, the American people know the truth about Reagan and didn't want to see that fine man besmirched by Barbara Streisand and her husband in connection with CBS, particularly when he was was not able to defend himself about it or react to it.
November 25th, 2003.
That's why that stupid movie on the Reagans was a bunch of hogwash, because the essence of Reagan wasn't even in that movie because the people who hate Reagan don't.
I mean, they had the essence, and they're nowhere near oriented toward promoting that.
And then in June of 19 uh 2004, uh go on to describe it some more, and then talking about what they're really angry about, folks, is that Reagan didn't turn his presidency over to AIDS.
This was during the uh uh the funeral and aftermath of so forth.
So um at no time did I ever engage the public or encourage anybody to pull a movie.
And it already happened when I returned back to the golden EIB macrophone after five years.
It's not a big deal, and unlike John Lewis, I'm not gonna sit here and go batty about it.
But I did I got I got was a little curious last night because I didn't remember participating in this.
This and this and there reason why.
Um, the uh maybe we will do a movie, Lanny, how a stained blue dress destroyed a presidency.
You know, we could do that.
Wait, but then we got after that we can go out and do the kidnapping and beheading of Bill Clinton and send it to some film festival, see what reaction we get to it is.
But uh at any rate, Lanny Davis uh may not have even he may probably just assumed, since I am the conservative movement.
Since I am the leader of conservative thought.
They just assumed Limbaugh had to be behind it.
Because Limbaugh, they think, is the power that made ABC run this miniseries.
I just wanted to correct the record because I didn't say anything about it, primarily because I didn't have the chance to say anything about it.
Lanny, here what you just say it was a dramatized quote, and you don't have to be held to total actors.
Just say that and I'll forgive you.
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