I tell you what, time is zipping by here, ladies and gentlemen.
We're already in the final hour of our busy broadcast today from the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, EIB, a network named by me and after me.
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I've been requested recently by many, many of you people to continue the broadcast.
We do fourth hours for website subscribers occasionally.
It'll not be broadcast over the air.
And a fourth hour is just more.
It doesn't necessarily mean the whole hour.
There aren't any commercial interruptions in the hour.
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There's hardly 30 seconds of downtime.
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Drudge has a little blurb here of a Robert Novak column that is going to be published tomorrow.
When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week that he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Playme Wilson is a CIA employee, Armitage obscured what he really did, Novak claims.
Novak, attempting to set the record straight, writes this.
First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he thought might be so.
Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chit chat, as he now suggests.
He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column.
Let's go back last week on the CBS Evening News, I think it was Thursday, Armitage being interviewed by CBS reporter David Martin.
And Martin says, so what was it that made the light go on to you, Mr. Armitage?
I was reading the newspaper column again of Mr. Novak, and he said he was told by a non-partisan gunslinger.
I almost immediately called Secretary Powell and said, I'm sure that was me.
I always thought that sounded odd.
I mean, you know you told Novak, and then you read it in a newspaper and you say partisan, not a partisan gunslinger, and you think it's you when you know it's you.
And Novak is saying, this is more obfuscation.
This is not at all what happened.
And then he goes, he went on to say in the interview that it was Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor, that told him shut up and not say anything about this all during the nearly three-year period that this dragged on.
So again, Novak writes, first, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he thought might be so.
Rather, he identified to me, the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked and said flatly that she did recommend the mission to Niger by her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
Harry, they're still out there lying about that.
Second, writes Novak, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chit-chat, as he now suggests.
He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column.
Well, that's even stranger when he's saying, oh, I've read Novak's column as partisan gunslinger.
Oh my God, it might be me.
We knew it was him all along.
Novak also slams Armitage for holding back all this time.
Armitage's silence for two and one-half years caused intense pain for his colleagues in government and enabled partisan Democrats in Congress to falsely accuse Karl Rove of being my primary source, Novak explains.
When Armitage now says that he was mute because of Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald's request, that does not explain his silent three months between his claimed first realization he was the source and Fitzgerald's appointment on December 30th.
Armitage's tardy self-disclosure is tainted because it is deceptive.
Hmm, makes me wonder what Armitage was thinking, going out there and speaking, knowing that Novak was going to contradict him or could if he wanted to and has apparently in a column that is going to run tomorrow.
I mentioned this earlier.
This is an Associated Press story.
World has tapped just 18% of global oil supplies, according to a Saudi executive.
The world's tapped only 18% of the total global supply of crude, says Abdullah S. Juma, president and CEO of the state-owned Saudi Arabian oil company, better known as Aramco, said the world has the potential for 4.5 trillion barrels in reserves.
That's enough to power the world at current levels of consumption for another 140 years.
Giant, see, I told you so here.
Oil executives are also saying this, but of course, nobody's going to report this because the drive-by media and the Libs action line on this is hybrids and alternative fuels.
We've got to get away from it, Mr. Limbaugh.
We just have to because they're running out of oil.
It pollutes the, even if we're not running out of oil, it's polluted that's causing global warming and blah, And he went on to reiterate: the world has only consumed about 18% of its conventional potential.
When nations, Rex W. Tillerson, by the way, the chairman of ExxonMobil, that's a hiss.
All you got to do is say, Chairman, ExxonMobil.
Libs go, boo, murderer, polluter.
When nations threaten to stop this flow, it stops economic progress worldwide, Tillerson said.
He said that the world demand for oil will increase by 50% in the next decade.
So this is bad news for the liberals out there, ladies and gentlemen, for the Church of the Environment.
Technology continues to find better and more efficient ways to extract the oil that we need and better, more efficient ways to use it.
And of course, all this has to do with the market rather than regulations from government forcing any kind of change.
And of course, I also think that, as always, nature, which to me is God, well, I happen to believe in creation, and nature is not mother.
Yours, mine, or anybody else's.
Nature is God.
And I always think it's better left alone, not regulated by a bunch of know-nothing human beings who think they can do it better than God.
One would think that all of that efficiency would be hailed by the evangelists of the environmentalist wacko movement, but of course, this is bad news to them.
All this oil is going to depress them.
Bad news, global warming and all of that.
We got lots of oil, lots and lots of it, without their regulations, without their doom and gloom.
And the church of the environmentalist wacko is now going to be turned upside down.
Have you heard about this new?
Oh, by the way, I just Drudge just posted this.
Apparently, Air America is going to file for bankruptcy this week or next.
They'll continue to operate, but I knew that was coming.
I've been hearing the rumblings.
Financially bankrupt.
Yeah, they've been morally bankrupt since they started, but I mean, before they started, but financially bankrupt.
And now the drive-by media is just having sort of like a vagina monologue moment here with the announcement that Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda and Rosie O'Donnell have mounted a radio talk show network to challenge me.
And one of the stories here, I've got to find this, get the right determination here because the story I have is from Newsmax.
And what I want is the AP story on this, because it's all about how they've got three stations that broadcast straight up.
You might be able to hear them five miles up, but you can't hear them 10 feet outside the tower.
Let's see, where is it?
Ah, here we go.
Greenstone launches all-women radio network.
Greenstone Media, a radio company whose founders include social activist Gloria Steinem and actress Jane Fonda, has launched an all-women, all-talk network across the United States.
They got three stations.
Four.
They picked a thing up.
They've got four stations now.
And, you know, what they say about is incredible.
They say that women are leaving talk radio in droves because it leaves them, it leaves them wanting.
They don't like people like me.
You women don't.
And they're leaving music radio because that's getting boring.
And they want to go to all talk women radio put on by Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem.
But guess what it is that they're going to offer?
They're not going to offer bra-burning classes.
They're not going to talk about militant feminism or any of that.
They're going to talk about children and cooking and home eck.
Feng shui.
They're going to do feng shui.
We did a morning update on this.
The icons of the feminist movement are going to do a women's talk radio network, basically, which is a seventh or eighth grade home economics class.
Now, what does that tell you about what's become of the feminist movement?
And I have to say, there already is a hugely successful women's talk radio network out there.
One woman does it, Dr. Loris Lessinger.
But you know, folks, can I tell you something?
I often don't indulge in this inside baseball kind of talk.
I leave that to others because I stick to the issues here.
But isn't it amazing if I just may do this for a moment before we go to commercial break?
In 1988, when the EIB network debuted on 56 radio stations, nobody gave it a chance because it had never succeeded in the daytime before.
Syndicated radio was always at night when they didn't have to sell advertising.
They used it as a loss leader.
So at the time in 1988, we had ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.
And that was it.
We also had the Democrats controlling Congress with Ronaldo's Magnus leading office and George Bush 41 assuming office.
Well, here we are in 2006.
And virtually every Democrat thinks and has thought for a while that if they are to reverse their plummeting fortunes, they have to find a way to succeed in radio.
They tried Governor Kumo.
They tried Jim Hightower.
They tried Gary Hart.
They've tried, I mean, the list goes on and on.
Air America was supposed to be the salvation.
Now it's going bankrupt and the answer.
That doesn't mean anything.
That's okay.
They serve their purpose.
Now progressive radio is firmly established.
Tom Dasho, after the 2002 elections, talked to some experts and was appalled when he learned that Democrats actually listened to this program and others and have on occasion changed their minds and become conservatives.
So it's just sort of undeniable that when the liberals think of their waning fortunes, they blame it on me and conservative talk radio and think if they are to reverse those fortunes, they somehow have to find a way.
I mean, everybody, Whoopi Goldberg is doing people have never done radio before doing it.
Everybody's got to get a radio show.
Satellite people, everybody is doing a radio show.
And in 1988, radio was thought to be dead, was thought to be on its last legs, other than the long-haired maggot-infested FM types.
AM radio certainly was thought to be dead.
And now everybody wants to be on it.
All the libs have got to have their radio show.
It's more important to have a radio show than it is to address the United Nations, as far as they're concerned.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Don't go away.
Right.
Oh, back to the phones now on the EIB network.
Michelle in Dearborn, Michigan.
Thank you for waiting and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
I've been a longtime listener since your program was here in Detroit on TV.
I'm a right-wing conservative, and I'm also a Muslim.
And I took offense to the Islamic fascists, not because of the word fascist, it's because they're associated with Islam.
You can call them subhumans, call them murderers, call them fascists, call them whatever you want, but they're not Islamic.
You said something earlier that they were marching to the orders of the Quran, and I'd just like to correct you on that because they are not.
Because the Quran does not condone the innocent.
No, I know that, but that's what they say.
Right.
You're right.
I agree with you there.
But the Quran does not condone the killing of innocent people.
And I just like to quote something Benjamin Netanyahu said one time because he's a very influential man, also, and he understands the region.
He said that they've taken one of the world's greatest religions and they've hijacked it.
And I think that's what they've done.
Well, I think everybody that's informed on this understands that, agrees with it.
And I think the term Islamo-fascist has roots in the way they, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, ran Afghanistan and how they run Somalia and other states when they do run states.
But, you know, let me ask a question about it.
Netanyahu says what he said, and you quoted him.
Can you explain to me?
And I'm just going to take the occasion of your call here.
I don't even mean this personally.
I'm just trying to learn.
When you have these statements made by, I don't care who the Zarkawi, Al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden, it doesn't matter, the guy that runs Hezbollah.
Why is there no outrage from people like you who reject what they say?
Why don't you stand up?
Not you, but why isn't there a mass worldwide uprising condemning these people?
You know, I understand what you're saying.
And actually, there is a lot of rejection to what they say, but I think people are just not heard.
They're not heard.
You know, the news media doesn't come and actually ask these people what they think because I personally am a Shiite Muslim.
And if I go to certain parts of the world, you know, some part, I could be killed because they consider me an infidel, even within my own religion.
It just goes to show what kind of people we're dealing with here.
And not all people, believe me, most Muslims in the world don't ascribe to what these people are.
And they have nothing to do with Islam.
They're ashamed of our religion.
And they've put a black eye on our religion.
And it's just not fear.
And you're a really intelligent man, and people look up to you.
And sometimes we go, if you tell somebody you're a Muslim, they look at us like we're kind of like the Ebola virus.
And I just would like you sometimes to make your listeners understand that Muslims aren't like that, that this is not what we ascribe to.
Yeah, you know, I can understand what you're saying, but when you look at the names and the pictures of people who hijack airplanes or who get caught hijacking airplanes, it's unmistakable that they are, well, I don't know, Muslim, Arabic, Egyptian, or what have you.
I mean, it's, you know, red-headed Irish people are not hijacking airplanes and flying them into buildings.
Right, I understand that.
But my point is that they're a minority in the religion, and they're not Muslims according to what we believe.
If you follow the Quran the way it is, these people are not Muslims.
They're subhuman.
Okay, then tell me this.
They're out there quoting the Prophet Muhammad all day, saying that Muhammad is telling every Muslim to kill every infidel, and that that's what Muhammad's mission was.
And they're just following the mission.
And it's people like you who are being untrue to the faith.
That's not true, because they're being untrue to the faith.
The Prophet has never said to go kill innocent people.
He's never ascribed to that.
Nor does the Quran.
If you read the Quran, it's a very peaceful book, and it teaches never to kill an innocent human being.
Not even an animal are we supposed to kill.
And what they're saying, I don't know where they get their ideology from.
Maybe it's rooted in lunacy.
I don't know, but it's nothing to do with our religion.
And I just like people to understand that.
Okay.
Well, I appreciate the call.
I do think that what we have is a radical ideology.
I think these people are hiding behind a religion to avoid any criticism and to guarantee themselves some sort of freedom, religious freedom.
Their beliefs are religious beliefs, so you can't condemn them.
You can't imprison them for it, these kinds of things.
It's pretty brilliantly conceived, especially to deal with an enemy that is governed by Western values, such as the United States and the UK and Western Europe in that sense.
But they are Islamic.
They're roots.
I mean, I've read enough to know what their founding positions are and where they came from.
And that the grand mufti of Jerusalem met with Adolf Hitler back then.
And there's an anti-Semitic aspect or a hatred of Jews aspect to these people and so forth.
I understand you feel being tarred by it, but there has to be something to wake this country up as to who these people are and what they stand for.
And I think that's one of the reasons for the term.
Okay, back to the phones we go.
And we have Katie on the phone from Arlington, Virginia.
Hi, Katie.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello, Ms. Kilimba.
How are you?
Couldn't be better.
Thank you.
Yesterday, you had talked about the Jim Moran rally in Arlington for 9-11.
And you had mentioned the screaming girl.
And that was me.
And I just wanted to give you some more context to why I had such a violent outbreak.
This is fabulous.
Let me play the soundbite that we had yesterday.
It's internet quality, but you will hear a woman who now we know is Katie interrupt Moran, and then she's going to give context.
Here's the bite that happened.
It was Monday night in Arlington, Virginia.
There are more people around the world who hate America and what they think it stands for than even life itself, that let us, that let us resolve.
All right.
So you said this isn't political.
And I got an email from some guy who said he heard you say that.
And also that there were people in the crowd telling you and others to be quiet that what happened to you and others who lost people on 9-11 weren't important that let the congressman speak.
Is that true, too?
That is true.
I had actually said, I was really upset because almost within less than a minute, I mean, maybe 20 seconds, he got on the stage.
He started 30 minutes late, too, which I thought was incredibly disrespectful.
But when he was finally on the stage, about 20 seconds into it, he started, well, first of all, he started saying that he was so proud of Arlington because we all came together and we all worked together and we were all one.
And then he said, but on the national stage, we haven't been as successful.
And then he went into international and started talking about Iraq literally within 20 seconds of his comments.
And I just felt my blood starting to boil.
I just wanted him to be a generic politician.
I wanted him to say a few kind words about the dead and let me go about my day.
That's really all I wanted from him and all I expected from him.
But when he started talking about the war, or basically just how hated we are, I just felt my blood boil.
And I just burst out.
I said, my brother died on 9-11, you creep.
Don't make this political.
And I regretted it.
I felt so embarrassed for having just had such a violent outburst, but I just could not stand it.
He was so repugnant.
He was so disgusting.
Like I said, he started late.
He was just rambling about the war.
And I just felt like, where's the mention of the victims of that day?
It was the fifth anniversary.
Some mention of the victims would have been nice.
Did somebody actually say to you or to somebody else that you heard it's been said to, what happened to the victims is not important and you're not important.
Let the congressman speak.
Yes, after I had turned to go, a man grabbed my arm, and in retrospect, I should have shoved him away.
But he grabbed my arm and he said, you're not important.
Your brother's not important.
Let the congressman speak.
And I was, at that point, I started crying and I just fled.
Why did you go in the first place?
Ironically, because I didn't want any drama at the Pentagon.
I just, I feel very vulnerable.
I feel very, I still feel very sad.
I don't feel like I've moved on a whole lot.
And I just wanted something extremely low-key.
And this memorial was near my house.
And I thought, you know, I'll just walk over there.
It'll be very low-key.
Is Moran your congressman?
He is.
And funnily enough, my boyfriend has actually written two letters before this telling him that he's got to keep the partisan stuff out of it because he sends out these newsletters where all he does is rant about Republicans.
And my boyfriend, John, has actually written him and said, you know, you represent all people in the district, not just Democrats, and try to keep that out of it.
But this was the final straw.
I just felt so like he's just absolutely worthless.
Well, have you voted for him, Katie, before?
No, no, I've never voted for him.
I vote Republican.
Well, that's good.
But I think, you know, there's always good in everything that happens if you dig deep enough to find it.
And in this, I would say the good is that you and probably a lot of other people found out just who Moran and his cohorts are.
To have a 9-11 memorial, which, by the way, Democrats will soon thereafter complain about the president turning political, your congressman goes on and starts talking about how there are more people around the world who hate America and what they think it stands for than even life itself.
This guy has a hate America problem himself.
He's probably talking about himself and projecting it to all these other people.
Well, I certainly feel like his only reason for life at this point seems to be to disparage the president and our foreign policy.
And I felt like that was just the wrong place.
I didn't want to hear that.
I just wanted something simple.
I wanted something about the victims.
And I certainly didn't want to be told that my brother wasn't important.
What about the ⁇ what was the reaction of others in the crowd?
Not to what happened to you, but what he was saying overall.
I think for the most part, people were pretty respectful.
They were just standing still.
I heard a little grumbling a little bit closer to him, but I didn't really see any outbursts or anything.
And when he got to the part about, you know, we're so hated in the world, I just lost it.
Don't blame you.
Glad you did.
What you did was not a violent outburst because all you did was utter words.
It wasn't violent.
Suburban Washington is becoming and has been for a while.
It's getting even worse.
Extreme liberal.
Very much so.
Oh, yeah.
During the election campaign, I would walk down the street and there were literally carry people just on every corner.
And I kept thinking, what happened to my little town, my little conservative Virginia town?
But it's not like that anymore.
It's extremely liberal.
Well, Katie, you went out there and you expressed your point of view, and there's no reason you shouldn't have.
He didn't even acknowledge it, right?
He just went on.
He just went on.
Yeah, a couple of people were mad at me for disrupting.
Like I said, the guy told me that I wasn't important and my brother wasn't important, which, I mean, it was clear.
He was exactly right.
We weren't important there.
And certainly to Jim Moran, we were not important.
What was important was getting his message out, which is that America sucks and Iraq is a mistake.
Right.
And so when John Boehner says it's apparent that some Democrats are more important or more concerned with protecting terrorists than they are with the American people, these people go nuts.
The Democrats go crazy and act totally offended and outraged.
And yet, guys like Moran are out there talking about how terrorists hate the country and others hate the country.
And it's our fault that they do.
And I wonder why they come under such criticism.
And I'm sure that he was probably a little stunned in the crowd that he drew to have a reaction like yours, too.
Well, I just, I could not be quiet.
And you're absolutely right.
I mean, he's such a hypocrite.
All of them are, it seems like these days.
I just wanted, after 9-11, I just wanted a very strong united force against the people who did this to my brother and the 3,000 other people.
That's all I wanted.
And I haven't got that.
I haven't anything.
You're not going to get it when you go to hear Jim Moran speak.
Katie, I'm going to tell you that Jim Moran is part of this fringe.
I don't even know how fringe it is.
It's becoming more and more mainstream in the Democratic Party who really think George Bush is responsible for this, who think George Bush is worse than the terrorists, and they have outrage, and I think they've descended into the stages of near insanity.
And this is reflected in the kind of things that you had to hear.
But you've learned a lesson.
You're not going to go to another Moran rally expecting anything to hear about unity.
No, no.
But, I mean, don't you agree with me that on 9-11, you should at least spend a couple of minutes, maybe just a fraction of the time, talking about 9-11 and the victims?
They can't do that, because I agree with you, but politically...
Why not?
Why can't they?
Well, because the terrorists at 9-11 are not the enemy.
Bush is the enemy as far as these people are concerned.
I'm not joking.
I'm not exaggerating.
I said yesterday, at least one day a year, they have to admit that it happened.
The Democrats, Katie, are trying to construct scenarios in the American people's imagination where 9-11 didn't happen, or that it was just a mere little episode that doesn't represent a war, that the real hatred for this country didn't start until Bush went into a rock, and that Bush represents the problem.
So if they come out and start getting into all this feigned unity and so forth, they have to admit we've got a common enemy, and they don't.
The enemy to them is Bush, and I am not, again, exaggerating.
And that's why you didn't hear him doing it.
You're probably correct, but also I figured out why you had said that they have to admit at least one day of the year that 9-11 happened.
And I figured that out.
It's the same thing with Katrina.
They're congratulating themselves on their coverage of 9-11.
They're not really mourning that day.
They're not exactly.
Very perceptive.
The television coverage was all about the personal remembrances of all the TV people that worked that day.
Right.
Nobody talks about the victims.
And you know, one thing I wanted to do, I wanted to get in Jim Moran's face and say, give me one name, besides Todd Beamer, give me one name of somebody who died on 9-11.
And I just don't think he can do it.
I don't think he gets the fact that this is a, you know, they were individuals, the real people who died.
And I mean, everybody wants Todd Beamer, but not only that, they were the essence of innocence.
Those people died.
The people in the World Trade Center and the two airplanes that hit the trade center and the Pentagon, those people died without the slightest idea of what had happened.
Can you imagine being in the trade center after the planes hit?
And you have no clue.
I mean, you might not even know airplanes have hit.
I don't know if you've got power up there, but they, but especially they didn't know why us.
Why us?
They had literally no clue where the essence of innocence, like a newborn baby or a baby in a womb, the essence of innocence.
And they went to their deaths dumbfounded.
Well, that's exactly true.
I don't know if you've listened to the last phone call of Kevin Costgrove.
He was in the World Trade Center.
And he's asking the dispatcher, what happened?
Where did the fire start?
What happened?
And she doesn't tell him, but he had no clue what had happened.
These people were completely innocent.
They were real victims.
I mean, and that's another thing is terrorism did not end on 9-11.
It happens today.
I mean, I wake up with this hole in my heart that just will not go away.
I mean, it's every day.
It didn't start on 9-11.
That's the thing.
The Democrats want you to believe that the war on terror started either when we went to Iraq or that terrorism started that day.
But of course, during the 90s, that was a Peachy Keen decade.
Nothing really of any consequence happened there.
Well, I'm glad you got this lesson.
I was going to ask you, if you didn't vote for Moran, though you obviously know who he is, and you know what the Democrats have been saying for three years, how could you not have known or been pretty good guesser as to what was going to come out of his mouth anyway?
Because I thought that he would have a little bit of human decency and talk about the victims of 9-11.
I mean, yesterday was traumatic for me.
Sorry, 9-11-06 was traumatic for me.
It was five years.
And I thought, okay, maybe even politicians have to have a heart.
They have to put this aside and say, yes, it was terrible.
It was a travesty, an atrocity.
What happened to those people?
But he just didn't.
I mean, I was stunned.
It was like he was a robot.
He just, he got up there within 10 seconds launched into his anti-war tirade, and I was just stunned.
I try to give Democrats at least the benefit of the doubt.
I try to believe that they at least have a point of view that they're trying to express.
They're trying to live by it.
I just think they're creeps now.
I mean, I know that's horrible.
No, Katie, you're a good person.
You held out all kinds of hope, and you had an unbridled optimism expecting certain things going into this.
And I think, I know you're Republican, you voted Republican, as you say, but for those of you who have listened to Katie in this phone call, I think this is just a microcosm of the things that are happening around and across the country.
People are slow to assume that Americans, some Americans, would actually not be interested in victory in a war.
I don't want to believe that.
But the more the Democrats talk and the more these things happen, more and more people who don't want to believe it are confronted with it and have no choice, as in Katie and Arlington.
Katie, it's a great call.
Thank you so much for trying to get through.
We'll take a brief break.
Be back right after this.
Stay with us.
Say, Katie, if you're still out there and all the rest of you, a couple of stories from our Jim Moran archive.
Jim Moran, Congressman, Virginia, Representative Jim Moran, Virginia Democrat, April 12th, 2000 is the date of this story.
Now says he may press charges against the eight-year-old boy who allegedly tried to steal a congressman's car outside an Alexandria recreation center.
According to Moran, the boy claimed to have a gun in his pocket and threatened to use it when he demanded Moran's car keys last Friday.
On Tuesday, Moran gave his side of the story on the Today Show, describing how shocked he was to be accosted by such a young chow.
Moran said he didn't blame the child.
He blamed the parents for failing in their responsibility to teach their son right from wrong.
As it turns out, the boy's parents blame Moran for the incident.
They filed a formal complaint accusing Moran of attacking their son after the boy told the congressman he liked his car.
He grabbed my little boy, and that's not right, said Alonzo Griffin in an interview with the Washington Times.
Moran says he grabbed the boy after the child demanded his car keys and threatened to shoot him.
Moran says he carried the child into the rec center and called the cops.
The child did not have a gun.
The Washington Times reports that several witnesses saw a beat red Moran carrying the boy, yelling and cursing.
At first, Moran didn't intend to press charges, but now he says he may change his mind.
I had hoped that this boy would learn that this is not acceptable behavior, but if the parents are not going to teach him that this is not acceptable behavior, then maybe the courts will.
The boy told the Washington Times he didn't do anything wrong, says it's the congressman who threatened him.
He choked me and then cussed me.
I thought he was going to kidnap me or kill me.
All I told him was that I liked his car.
Now, there's something missing in this story, is there not?
What is the race of the little boy?
Yeah, the little boy, eight-year-old black boy, and admiring Moran's car, and Moran assumes he's going to steal it and tells this story about how the kid threatened him with a gun when he had no gun.
Second story, this is from June 4th of 2004.
Longtime advisor to Congressman Jim Moran has lodged about the most damaging allegation that could be made about the congressman from Northern Virginia at this point in the reelection campaign that he heard him make an anti-Semitic remark.
Last night, the seven-term congressman said he's stupefied at the allegation by his former strategerist and pollster, Alan Seacrest, and called it a flat-out lie.
The dispute marks another unpredictable turn in the career of the Washington region's most talked-about congressman.
On Tuesday, 8th District Democratic primary, Moran faces a challenge from Andrew Rosenberg, an Alexandria lawyer and so forth, and apparently gone out and made anti-Semitic remarks from a former, according to a former advisor.
Moran is not the epitome of virtue and morality, regardless.
And the evidence, I think, is clear that when Moran says something, it makes more sense to doubt his version of it, including when he says that more people hate this country than love life itself.
There's plenty of evidence out there to doubt the honesty of Moran when he Democrat Jim Moran.
Congressman, Democrat Congressman Virginia, Dim Jim Moran.
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