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Oct. 13, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 13, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh, yeah, wait, wait a minute.
Yeah, the settings are right, but this really sounds odd.
I sound this to myself.
But anyway, that's my problem, not yours, ladies and gentlemen.
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Global warming scenarios falling apart pretty fast.
We got uh no hurricanes out there.
We got I mean, 350,000 families without power in Buffalo and Western New York because of Lake Effect snow.
We have snow in Detroit.
They're gonna play baseball this afternoon at 4:30, uh, with maybe spitting snow and 45 degrees.
Well yeah, snow.
Where else?
Where do I have snow?
Chicago.
Now you know what they'll say.
Well, this just proves uh these uh dramatic, uh unusual climate changes are because of global warming.
Great, and now, by the way, now it's gonna cost trillions to fix the problem.
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Yesterday, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I asked, where is the drive-by media on the Harry Reed story?
I went today, I was pointed to a blog called the Stratosphere.
It's uh put together by a guy named A. J. Strata, hence the name strata sphere.
And I printed out 18 pages.
Uh these 18 pages are of Harry Reed land deals in Nevada and Arizona.
I don't know when the guy has had time to be a senator.
This is I mean, I'm holding them up here for those of you watching.
Glad you're with us on the Ditto Cam.
I mean, this is this stuff is just it goes on and on and on.
These are these are official records.
Somebody just went to the website and looked the stuff up.
Sale prices, who owned what, who lent what, who borrowed what.
Um, and this is just the real estate deals.
I mean, I it's inconceivable that this is it.
I wonder what else the guy is into.
Uh i it it's it's mind-boggling here.
Um and and of course, the uh lead item here at the Stratosphere blog is the Reed Kickbacks.
Uh folks, read to the comments section where longtime reader SBD is working his usual magic and posting multiple real estate transactions with one Harry Reed regarding properties in Nevada and buyers and sellers from all over, including McLean, Virginia.
I wonder how many of these reports made it accurately into the public record.
So uh and then somebody says, Hey, Nancy, uh start with your own swamp before you start thinking about draining hours.
This is really, folks, um, it is it is very serious.
And now people are beginning to look into whether when this came up on this program yesterday.
Cutting edge societal evolution.
People are beginning to wonder whether Reed's son Rory was on the uh was on the county commission when these zoning changes took place, and if he was on the commission, did he recuse himself?
Some of the people on the commission are longtime Harry Reed flunkies anyway.
We've learned that much.
But some of these uh some of these votes are wondering if uh if Rory Reed, Harry Reed's son, recused himself or just went ahead and voted.
Uh, this isn't known.
But surely, ladies and gentlemen, the drive-by media will look into all of this.
Right?
Surely they will.
The drive-by.
Well, in fact, let's go to last night's world news tonight, shall we?
And let's see what uh our old buddy Brian Ross was busy investigating.
Uh, while the dingy hairy scandal was unfolding.
Twenty-three-year-old Marine Sergeant Heather Servity was sent to Guantanamo Bay in late September as a legal aid to a marine lawyer representing a detainee.
In a sworn affidavit filed with the Pentagon Inspector General, Servane says she meant several Navy prison guards at an on-based club, where over drinks, stop the table.
Has anybody heard the name uh Harry Reed here yet in uh in Brian Ross's report?
What are we getting here?
We're getting another story about how unfortunate people are treated at Club Gitmo.
Is that what I'm gonna have?
I've been listening for Harry Reed.
Here's the rest of it.
In detail, harsh physical abuse of the detainees.
Yeah.
The one sailor specifically said uh took the detainee by the head and smashed his head into the cell door.
Other ones specifically saying, you know, today that guy was annoying me.
You know, I smacked him in the head.
The new allegations come as the military and the White House have insisted any problems at Guantanamo in the treatment of detainees have long since been fixed.
And there you have it, Brian Ross, our buddy from ABC on the case, ladies and gentlemen, following up a story at Club Gitmo about which nobody's heard anything.
Breaking news from the investigative unit of ABC on Club Gitmo.
Meanwhile, Dingy Harry was out in um uh whereways, it was in Nevada yesterday, and he said this about collecting 1.1 million dollars on a land deal.
Remember this land deal.
There's something strange about this.
He's in league with a guy named Jay Brown who and uh according to all kinds of documentation has been investigated by the feds for suspicious activity with organized crime and so forth.
Dingy Harry buys a plot of land for 400,000 and sells it back for the identical figure, without even any interest accrual or inflation accrual.
Now, no, who does that?
And then four years later, after selling it back for 400 grand, the property flips, Dingy Harry turns it into 175% profit.
That outdoes anything ExxonMobil's ever done.
One point one million dollars.
And he was uh commenting on this yesterday.
Now he's off mic in this sound bite.
Let's listen to it, and if it's hard to understand, I will translate because I have the transcript.
Speaker checking the out this money.
And if there needs to be a change in the file, I'll be happy.
Remember, all the remuneration was the same.
Whether there's a technical change or not, it's all the same.
Uh, okay.
As we speak, we're checking it out, Dingy Harry said.
If there needs to be a change, a fine, I'd I'd be happy to do that.
But remember, all the remuneration, remuneration was the same.
Whether there's a technical change or not, it's all the same.
That's that's what's suspicious about this.
Who sells something that has obviously escalated in value for the same price you bought it at without even inflating it for the uh inflation value of money, uh or the inflation rise in money or any kind of interest.
Now he look how willing he is to pay a fun.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, he is still looking into it.
We're we're checking it out.
Uh meanwhile, the calls for Denny Haster and Republicans to resign over the Foley case get louder and louder and louder.
Meanwhile, all the news about the Foley case keeps expanding and expanding and spanning.
People are publishing private emails between Foley and Governor Jeb Bush.
They have nothing to do with anything.
Trying to keep that story alive.
Listen to this.
This is this is just so sweet.
It is a Reuters story.
Media outlets are finding it harder to protect the privacy of the politicians and stars they cover without losing scoops to blogs and other competitors, the editor of online magazine Slate said yesterday.
This is Jacob Weisberg at a Reuters Newsmaker event.
He said, I very much agree that we need to have standards, but I think that in practical terms, we don't control what people find out anymore.
Oh, yes.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is it In a nutshell.
The end of the drive-by media, and they know it.
We don't control what people find out any more.
From that may we presume, assume, infer, that at one time they know they controlled what people found out, meaning you.
And now the lid's blown and they have lost control.
And what a topic.
Harder to protect the privacy of the politicians and stars they cover.
Well, now what politicians' privacy do you want to protect?
Dingy Harry's, maybe?
Democrat politicians, is that who it is that you privacy you're concerned about?
And stars, why who would those stars be?
Uh what a topic.
Anyway, the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation Today is editorialized against Dingy Harry.
So has the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Post.
And we'll share with you the uh cutting remarks made in each when we come back from this brief time out.
Stay with us.
A question, ladies and gentlemen, if it were Bill Frist about whom uh kickbacks and shady land deals had been exposed.
Uh, do you think there would be any interest in it in the drive-by media?
And do you think Democrats throughout the Senate would be demanding full disclosure and a full investigation?
Uh yes.
Do you hear any Republicans demanding anything against Dingy Harry?
No.
Uh do you uh do you do you hear the drive-by media?
I mean, I you see stories out there, and the AP has follow-up today.
And you've got uh I saw a little bit on MSNBC uh this morning, but it was almost like they did it in a perfunctory fashion.
They couldn't wait to get back to Foley, and they're still talking about the um the Cory Lytle airplane accident and the ensuing investigation.
But there are some um some media outlets out there touching on this.
The Philadelphia Inquirer in an editorial today entitled Practice What You Preach.
That's how this case looks, too.
Unless Reed comes up with a better explanation for this lack of disclosure, Democrats should not keep him as their leader in the new Congress in 2007.
Philadelphia Inquirer, here is the Washington Post.
The best case for Dingy Harry Reid is that he was sloppy about financial disclosure rules in accounting for a real estate deal on which he made a $700,000 profit.
Uh that's 175% more than ExxonMobil.
The more unattractive case is that the Senator's inaccurate description of the investment was an effort to disguise his partnership with a Las Vegas lawyer who's never been charged with wrongdoing, but whose name is surfaced in federal investigations involving organized crime, casinos, and political bribery since the 1980s.
It's true, under the inadequate financial disclosure rules, even if Mr. Reed had listed the newly formed corporation, Patrick Lane LLC, that wouldn't have by itself demonstrated Mr. Brown's involvement nonetheless that Mr. Reed no longer owned the land, but instead had sold it for an interest in the Patrick Lane Corporation was not some mere technical change as the Senator would like to brush it off.
It's an essential element of financial disclosure rules, the purpose of which is to know how and with whom public officials are financially entwined.
Hey, post people.
Uh Fred Hyatt, editorial editorial page.
Go to Stratosphere.com if you can bear to look at a conservative blog and just take a look at the 18 printed pages of now when you look at it, you know, there's nothing in them that that rings suspicious.
I mean, it's just public records of uh sales, loans, and so forth involving Dingy Harry and his wife.
But for crime, I mean you uh what does this guy make?
You know, I look at everything from the and I think a lot of other people do too, and it's a mistake to do this.
But I look at these guys.
What does a senator make?
160?
160,000?
We know that the Democratic side of the Senate is uh populated with considerable wealth.
More millionaires, multimillionaires uh on the Democrat side than on the Republican side.
Uh and and it that's always struck me odd when the Democrats say that they uh have an understanding with the common man.
And by the way, you common people know who you are.
And the Democrats, they are they're able to relate to you.
They they understand, like I'm gonna just tell all you common people out there, you couldn't get close to accomplishing what Dingy Harry has accomplished apparently over and over and over and over again.
If the Ethics Committee really digs deep into this, this investigation is going to go on for a long, long time.
Now, why do you suppose the Washington Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Atlanta uh well uh journal constitution are editorializing on this and suggesting that Dingy Harry has a lot of explaining to do.
I mean, why are they not ignoring it?
Why are they not sweeping it under the rug?
Well, in in gift horse in the mouth, but not too many people read the editorials.
They read op eds, but there aren't too many people that read the editorials in a newspaper.
They're boring.
They're literally boring.
They're they're worst written aspect of the newspaper.
And so it's a way to get it into paper without getting it into paper.
But when they do write these editorials, they're pretty cutting to Dingy Harry.
And I think that there's a bit of a concern on some of these papers' parts.
It's too close to the election for this to come out.
If this guy's a problem, we've got to do something about it.
We've got to make sure that we aren't appearing to sweep it under the rug here at our paper and so forth and so on.
I d just hazarding a guess.
And what does the journal Constitution say?
Well, Senate Democratic leader Dingy Harry would be well advised to stop thundering about corruption in the Republican ranks or crying cover up over the GOP's failure to promptly and appropriately deal with Mark Foley.
Reed faces too many questions about his own behavior to crusade against the misdeeds of others.
Currently, he's trying to explain a land deal in Nevada on which he made a pile of money and which may not have been properly disclosed.
When the property was sold in 2004, it belonged to a company formed of a longtime friend and included a parcel that once had belonged to Dingy Harry.
Despite having transferred his parcel to the company for the same amount of loot that he bought it for, the Nevada Democrat continued to report in Senate documents he still owned it personally.
That's a breach of Senate disclosure rules, according to the AP, which first reported the transaction details.
Now, that is pretty stunning, as we we've we've covered this.
Continued to report in Senate documents, he still owned it personally.
And he wants us to oh, it's an oversight.
Yeah, I'll go ahead and pay a fine.
I'll fix it.
When you look at the number of land deals that Dingy Harry is involved in, you find out this a full-time involvement in it he has.
This is not something going on in the 10 or 20% of his day that he doesn't have to do Senate business or what have you, or party business.
This is a you when you look at these documents, we'll link to it at Rushlimbaugh.com.
We'll put it up there so you can uh look at it yourself.
This is this is an ongoing enterprise.
And these kinds of things uh uh people do not do hands off with no attention being paid and just verbal agreements.
Oh, yeah, you'll go ahead and take this reporter Grant, I'll give it back to you, and we'll uh I'll forget that I sold it to you.
I'll pretend I still own it, and you can pay me as the Hard to believe.
Reed is now considering whether he should amend his disclosure statement.
Two months ago, the Los Angeles Times reported that Dingy Harry had smoothed the way for a campaign contributor and friend to develop a huge tract of land northeast of Las Vegas.
Reed tried twice before he was successful to get a utility right-of-way moved from the proposed development site onto public land.
By the way, at Rushlimbaugh.com, there's a there's a LA Times story from the 90s that we dug up a long time ago that is um uh amazingly detailed and illustrative of the workings of the Dingy Harry family in Las Vegas and how they're all intertwined.
And nobody cared about that when it came out either, but we've got it permanently linked.
It's up there.
Well, not per essential stack of stuff, but we've got it highlighted on the uh front page so that you can access it as well.
The first effort of Dingy Harry's uh stall because of objections from the Bureau of Land Management and others that the developer wasn't going to pay for anything uh for a deal that would greatly increase the value of his development site.
Eventually that was determined the developer should pay the federal government more than ten million dollars.
Then there are the free boxing tickets that Dingy Harry took from the Nevada Athletic Commission.
The panel was hoping to block formation of a national boxing commission.
Reed favored one.
Only after the AP reported this summer that Reed got the expensive tickets, did Reed decide he no longer accepts such gifts.
Unfortunately, Dingy Harry's ethics meter only seems to work when it's too late.
This was written by David McNaughton for the editorial board.
They actually signed this editorial.
David McNaughton for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
And then Jed Babin wants to know why is it that none of the major TV networks and newspapers have managed to pay attention to the biggest real scandal of this season?
And that is Dingy Harry Reed.
Be calm, ladies and gentlemen, be cool.
At some point, they'll not be able to avoid this.
We'll be back.
We'll roll right on right after this.
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Um, not to make a big deal out of uh out of this, ladies and gentlemen, but falsifying the report, as Dingy Harry Greed apparently did, is a federal crime under Title 18, United States Code Section 1001.
It's a false statement, for which Reed could be sent to jail, according to the statute.
Uh now, as Jud Babbin says you're looking for this on tonight's Network News or on the front page of tomorrow's New York Times next to the latest foley reveal.
Um you uh won't find it.
MSNBC, as I said, did a little blurb on this today uh this morning.
Uh and they basically uh they they they print uh in addition to the original AP story here.
Uh and let me just highlight some of the things that are relatively new.
Other parts of the deal, such as the informal handling of property taxes, raise questions about possible gifts or income reportable to Congress and the IRS, ethics experts said.
Now, Reed and his wife Landra personally signed the deeds, selling their full interest in the property to this J. Brown's company, Patrick Lane LLC, for the same 400,000 doll they paid in 1998.
Now you buy something for 400 grand in 1998, you sell it back four years later.
Uh for the or actually six years later.
No.
Four years, yeah, four years later, for the same amount of money.
No inflation even factored in, much less interest.
Come on, who does this?
Who do?
Well, don't real estate wasn't booming, is it?
Real estate wasn't booming.
What was this?
Uh this is well, this was in the this is in the height of the Clinton uh economic uh 90s, uh, Mr. Snerdley.
Don't tell me.
Real estate wasn't booming.
Now, despite the sale, Dingy Harry continued to report in his public ethics reports that he personally owned the land until it was sold again in 2004.
So it was six years.
He claimed he owned it for six years when he didn't.
His disclosure forms to Congress don't mention an interest in Patrick Lane or the company's role in the 04 sale.
Reed isn't listed anywhere on Patrick Lane's corporate filings with Nevada, even though the land he sold accounted for three quarters of the company's assets.
Brown is listed as the company's manager.
Reed's office said Nevada law didn't require Dingy Harry to be mentioned in the filings.
Ethics experts say such informality raises questions about whether any of Jay Brown's tax payments amounted to a benefit for Reed.
It might end up having been a gift.
For years, Dingy Harry also had been encouraging the Interior Department to make land swaps on behalf of Del Webb, where one of his former aides worked.
We've been through um all of this.
Uh here's the rezoning aspect of this is cool.
Clark County intended for the property that Reed owned to be used solely for new housing.
Just days before Dingy Harry Greed sold the parcels to Brown's company, Brown sought permission in May of 2001 to rezone the property so a shopping center could be built.
Career zoning officials objected, saying the request was inconsistent with Clark County's master development plan.
The uh town board in Spring Valley, where Reid's property was located, also voted four to one to reject the rezoning, but Jay Brown persisted.
The Clark County Zoning Board, followed by the Clark County Commission, voted to overrule the recommendation and approve commercial zoning so the shopping center could be built.
Such votes were common at the time.
Before the approval in September 2001, Brown's consultant told commissioners that Reed was involved.
Mr. Brown's partners, Harry Reid, I think we have people in this community you can trust to go forward, put a quality project before you.
Harry's in on this.
No need to sweat it.
So now people are wondering whether Dingy Harry's son Rory had anything to do with any of these votes.
Andrew and Clifton, New Jersey, I'm glad you uh welcome uh call called the program your first on open line Friday.
A welcome.
What an honor to speak to you, Rush.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
You bet.
I wanted to know why the Republican leaders haven't asked for the resignation of Harry Reid.
We're six weeks out of an election.
The Democrats are calling for a hasterd's resignation.
Um they're basically building up a lot of political clout against this, and I want to know where the Republicans are on this.
Uh well, I'll I'll I'll I'll answer this again.
Number one, the Republicans don't have to say anything because we're doing their job for them here.
Uh number two, it's just not in them.
They just don't operate this way.
You could ask this about virtually when the whole Foley thing came, but where were they there?
They were running around like scared dogs with their tails between their legs or other body orifices.
Then they deserve to lose, then if they're not going to get up and do what needs to be done to the city.
No, they don't no, no, no.
Look, we don't deserve to lose.
Screw these guys.
We don't deserve to lose.
We don't deserve to have Democrats running this country at this point in our nation's history.
That's not what this is about.
Let me tell you something.
I I there's a there's a USA today.
There's a columnist, I forget his name right now.
There's a columnist at USA Today who heard me say that everybody's looking at this the wrong way.
The media has got everybody focused on the Republicans lose, will the Republicans lose?
Will the Republicans Republicans lose the House?
Republicans lose the Senate.
And I said in a brilliant monologue earlier this week, what if the Democrats lose?
If they can't win in this kind of climate and environment, they don't even deserve to be a political party.
And this guy picked up on it, thinks I have a point, starts examining whether or not the uh Democrats have even earned the right to govern.
He's a he's a media guy.
He begrudgingly acknowledges that I have a point.
Uh I've this whole thing needs to be turned around in terms of looking at the the context.
Why is it that the reporting day in and day out is always focused on Republicans lose?
Republicans lose the House, Republicans lose the Senate.
We really don't hear a whole lot of focus on the Democrats doing this to win back the Senate.
The Democrats doing this to win back the House.
What we hear are never-ending stories about how people hate Republicans, and we're never told that the people of this country have anything other than total adoration and love for Democrats.
If you to believe the mainstream press, there isn't one Democrat who's going to get one negative vote who's going to lose an election in this race.
There isn't one American who has any gripe with any Democrat.
All the gripes are aimed at Republicans.
Well, we know that's BS.
There are 20 million of us, and we have gripes with Democrats.
We're being totally ignored in this context.
So, you know, when you say the Republicans deserve to lose, we don't deserve to lose, is the way to look at this.
We certainly don't deserve to have this nation governed by lightweights like Nancy Pelosi and dangerous people like Chuck Wrangell, who will raise everybody's taxes faster than he can go to the bathroom after winning the race.
I mean, these guys they portend uh uh policies that will reverse particularly Very nice economic directions that the country is headed in.
Anyway, um why don't the Republicans come up?
Who knows?
Maybe they they don't want to be attacked themselves.
Maybe they got things they're hiding.
Who the hell knows?
All I know is they don't ever do it.
Uh Mark in Orlando, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
Mega mega dittoes, oh great one.
Thank you, sir.
Change the topic just for a little bit here if you don't mind.
I have been going crazy.
I haven't heard uh from the civil rights division, uh, the Rush Hawkins singers in a long time.
Is there any way to uh get a request played?
Absolutely.
You name it, we play it, the Rush Hawkins Singers, Civil Rights Division from the archives of the grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
The Rush Hawkins singers, the civil rights division of the EIB network.
By the way, the Rush Hawkins singers, big supporters of the civil rights work of Joe Lieberman in Connecticut.
A little holiday music here from Z Top.
Have you seen a Christmas uh stuff in the stores?
I don't go to the stores any Christmas stuff.
You have?
You have Christmas commercials on uh on TV.
Oh, the tree the trees and the big sand.
Well, no, it's not ridiculous.
You know, the uh I got a I got a box of new CDs today from Chip Davis, the uh the entrepreneur, the uh head of honcho, the grand poo-bah of Manheim Steamroller, whose Christmas music has been a staple on this program for many, many moons now.
And what it's Halloween, right?
It's uh it's Halloween.
Well, yeah, go ahead and bring one in.
Uh unfortunately it's tough for me.
I new music I can't hear.
Uh music I haven't heard before all sounds the same note to me.
Uh I'm not complaining.
It's uh well, I am complaining a little bit because I'd love to hear what this stuff is called.
Manheim Steamroller Halloween music.
Three disc Halloween party pack.
Uh uh deranged by Chip Davis Creatures Collection, three disc set.
There's videos, music, dance remixes, and so forth.
Uh there it is, ladies and gentlemen.
We have how many in the box, uh, Brian?
Do you think a ten or twelve in there?
Don't count it, just guess it.
Twenty.
Twenty of them.
Well, that's what happens.
You're powerful, influential members of the media.
They send you not one, but twenty.
Uh at any rate, uh I'll bet it's cool.
You guys are gonna have to listen to this and tell me if it um Halloween.
I know people.
I know people.
Halloween's their favorite holiday.
Is it uh Halloween's Halloween's the second or third biggest Halloween holiday in the country?
Celebrated?
Halloween's the third most celebrated holiday in the country.
How is it celebrated?
You talking about trick the costumes, trick and treat.
Come on.
Okay, so it's like a nationwide Mardi Gras now.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I I was stunned back when I lived in Kansas City where people Halloween was the biggest and prepared the nicest food, had the biggest invitation list.
All for um all for Halloween.
Well, hey, look, take a break here, folks.
A little long here.
We'll be back and continue after this on the EIB network.
Stay with us.
This really is unbelievable.
MSNBC is 90% foley today, and his impact on the elections, and in comparison, they are ignoring the Harry Reed store.
I'm not, folks, please.
This is three-hour program.
We're gonna talk a lot about a lot of things today.
And I I'm not trying to uh beat a dead horse in the ground.
I'm not trying to bore you, and I'm trying to frustrate.
Come on, Rush, talk about something.
This is important stuff.
This is this is great illustration of just how biased and agenda-oriented the drive-by media is.
You compare what Hastert did, didn't know, didn't do, compared to what Dingy Harry is already saying he's willing to pay a fine over.
And they're demanding it has to step down.
They're demanding that this person step down and that this person go public and be outed and all of this stuff.
Meanwhile, where is crew?
Where is the the so-called citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington?
Are they only around to expose and out gay Republicans and their Ms, IMs in their chats?
Are they only there to try to destroy people like Tom DeLay?
Will they ever get interested in the ethics of dingy Harry Reed?
Ladies and gentlemen.
And it looks like the Duke rape case is falling apart.
Ha ha.
I had I I This was so obviously political from the get go.
The fact that these three defendants are being forced to twist in the wind for all this all the way till next spring until the trial.
So uh Ed Bradley, complete with earring in the left ear to try to lower the demographics of the CBS audience, uh, the 60 minutes audience is one foot in the grave already.
He went out and he talked to um the um uh who did he talk to?
He talked to the second stripper uh from the Duke rape case.
We have a portion of his interview.
Uh Ed Bradley says, uh Brett Adam and Matt uh it's Kim Roberts, it's Kim Roberts.
Uh and Bradley's reading from the statement of the accusers is uh Brett Adam and Matt took me in a bathroom.
Were you holding on to each other?
Were you pulled apart?
Is that true?
He's asking the second stripper.
No.
Did she give you any reason to believe that she had been assaulted?
Abused in any way?
None none whatsoever.
D did she at any point that night say anything about being in pain or having been hurt in in in any way?
She wasn't.
She obviously wasn't hurt or because you know, she was fine.
Well, where's this been from the get-go?
You know, why why why now?
Anyway, Chris in Bend, Oregon, I want to get you on before we have to go to break.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Megadito.
This is the second time I've had the opportunity to talk to you by phone and uh tell you you're a great American.
Thank you.
Appreciate that.
Listen, I uh woke up this morning and was reading an article on uh in the Sacramento Bee.
I am from Bend, Oregon, but it was in my paper, you know, one of the wires towards.
And this is a story about a uh a little girl who has created her MySpace and uh in there has threatened uh George W. Bush by saying kill Bush and depicted some sort of a graphic picture showing him being stabbed in the hand with a knife and so the Secret Service did due diligence, went out and checked up on her, you know, and see what she is uh what she's doing and why she's doing this, I guess.
And she they pulled her out of school to talk to her and ask her some questions.
The parents are, you know, they understand that what she's done is wrong, but they're a little upset.
One of their complaints is that they I think that the Secret Service should have, you know, not done it at school and also should have not questioned her.
Well without being questioned.
I the Secret Service has to do with the Secret Service has to do.
I uh I uh that you know the thing that when I when I hear this story, my question is what the hell's the Secret Service doing pulling a a kid out of school when they're making movies in Canada about assassinating George W. Bush and writing books about it in 2004?
Are they looking into that?
Does that present them a problem rather than some little MySpace twerp?
All right, that's it.
Uh uh Oh, by the way, this the the stratosphere link is up at Rushlinbaugh.com if you want to look at all of the dingy hairy land deals that they have found.
Link is at Rushlinbaugh.com.
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