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Dec. 12, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 12, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Attention.
All of you listening on WLS 890 AM in Chicago.
Certainly some of you, certainly one of you, uh has to know the columnist Andrew Greeley from the Chicago Sun Times.
If any of you know Andrew Greeley of the Chicago Sun Times, please call him and ask him to turn on his radio.
He won't have to listen long, just the next maybe 10 to 15 minutes.
I have something to say to him.
Greetings, uh ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
This is uh the one and only EIB network.
This the program that meets and surpasses all audience expectations on a daily basis.
I got an email today from a subscriber at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Dear Rush, I love you.
I am moving to Washington, D.C. in a few weeks.
I love you.
Uh I have been selected to intern at Senator Such and I'm not going to mention the Senators, and I've been selected to intern at Senator such and such's uh office.
Any advice?
P.S. I love you.
Um I wrote her back.
I uh I didn't have time to go into any depth with the advice.
I just told her to stay away from Bill Clinton.
It's the first thing that came to my mind.
The Senator's office she's going to work in uh is a non-threatening environment.
This I know because I know the um I know the uh I know the Senator.
Christmas tree is going back up at the CTAC Airport.
Holiday trees that went away in the middle of the night are back.
Uh the Port of Seattle staff began putting up the trees last night that they had been uh taken down on Friday night after a local rabbi questioned and requested that a Hanukkah menorah also be displayed.
Uh port official said the rabbi's lawyer had threatened to immediately file a lawsuit, leaving them with insufficient time to consider all of the issues.
Uh Port of Seattle Commission President Pat Davis said, yes, there's been an unfortunate situation for all of us in Seattle.
The rabbi never asked us to remove the trees.
It was the port's decision based on what we knew at the time.
Uh we very much appreciate the rabbi's willingness to work with us as we move forward.
The menorah will not be displayed this year.
Uh, Port Spokesman Bob Parker said, We look forward to sitting down after the first of the year with not only Rabbi Bogomilski, but others as well, finding ways to make sure there's an appropriate winter holiday representation for all faiths.
Uh, we we want to find uh a way to celebrate the winter holidays.
That is sensitive to uh to all faiths.
So a crisis averted, but it was silly that it happened in the first place.
Ladies and gentlemen, just uh just asinine.
This this kind of hypersensitivity that's being displayed by people is ultimately a sign of of cowardice.
I I just I don't know.
I said yesterday that you know we had the story from the South Florida Sun Sentinel about a guy down here is upset that a polling place is a church, why he remember, he might see a cross in their crucifix.
Why he he had he saw the Ten Commandments and he saw that we uh we're all under God as when he went into vote and said, Whoa, I can't handle this.
This is this is too much.
I what's the fear?
If uh if my polling place were a synagogue and I walked into a synagogue and I didn't see any symbols that represent my faith, I wouldn't be afraid, I wouldn't be intimidated, and I certainly wouldn't call somebody and demand that this polling place be called.
Where we're close, where do where did all this fear come from?
Where did all this squeamishness come from?
Where do we all of this all this insecurity?
That's all this is.
Can you believe somebody how good is your faith if you walk into a church and you see symbols and they threaten your faith if it's not the faith represented by the church?
What is uh uh oh rush, you're missing the point.
This is a subtle attempt by election supervisors to force religion on Oh, give me a break.
That's another sign of insecurity and weakness, trying to force things on people.
You know, we've got a tyranny of the minority going on out there, and I don't care what the minority is.
The minority is upset and angry that they're not the majority, and by gosh, they're gonna turn around and make themselves the majority if they have to.
And of course, the majority is full of a bunch of guilty people over the fact they are the majority.
They've done nothing to do about it or had nothing to do with it.
They just are.
And of course, they're made to feel guilty.
And so we have all this meaningless little strife that comes up during during a time of year that's supposed to be filled with joy.
Now I know it's not joyful for everybody.
Nothing ever is.
And because it's not filled with joy for everybody, we've gotten to the point where nobody can experience joy.
And I'm sorry, that's just perverted.
And I choose not to participate it.
I am not going to let a bunch of malcontent, weakling, insensitive, insecure cowards, rob me of my joy.
And I don't think any of the rest of us ought to either.
Who are these people?
They've got problems.
Let them go seek therapy.
Let them go, you know, talk to somebody about whatever problem they've got.
They've they're running around in this country thinking they are living under the jackbooted thug of oppression.
And so plastic Christmas trees have to come down in an airport, then all hell breaks loose, pardon me, use of the term at this joyful time of year.
And the plastic trees go back, oh, it was all a misunderstanding.
It was not a misunderstanding.
It was a failed effort by a lawyer to intimidate people who simply didn't play along, and it ended up as it should have, embarrassing this lawyer who was out trying to oppress, by the way.
And uh who knows, there might have been an attempt to get money in this.
Certainly fame and uh and notoriety.
Reminder, those of you in Chicago listening at WLS 890 A.M. I'm gonna give you a few more minutes here, five or ten minutes to contact Andrew Greeley, a columnist for the Chicago Sun Times.
He uh had a piece on December 8th that I wish to comment on, a specific portion of it uh directed at him.
So if any of you there know him, and I know, look with the vast reach of the tentacles of this poisonous program, as he referred to it in his column.
He referred to me as poisonous.
The poisonous tentacles of this program reach throughout the city of Chicago, even I'm sure into the office of Barack Obama.
Did you see Barack last night opened the uh broadcast on uh on uh ESPN's Monday Night Football?
You know, I love the way ESPN has held to it that there's to be no politics on their uh on their network and no political figures and uh and and no political disgust.
I love the way ESPN sticks to its policy manual, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Also, uh, we got a call today from the uh nurses.
Uh now as as I as we left you yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, we were we were teasing you with this story from Tempe, Arizona, the Heart Attack Grill, a theme restaurant.
Specialties include the quadruple bypass burger and flatliner fries, which are cooked in pure lard, making health care professionals blood pressure rise, and not because of the uh because of the menu.
It's because of the waitresses.
The waitresses are dressed as naughty nurses.
They uh waitresses are dressed up with uh as scantily clad nurses.
They wear skimpy cleavage-bearing outfits, high heels, thigh-high stockings, which it says here is a male fantasy that some nursing organizations say is an insult to the profession.
I have to go on record, and I realize uh I'm not your average guy.
You average people know who you are, and I'm not one, but I have never fantasized about nurses, and I certainly don't fantasize about thigh-high stockings.
They just are something else to be taken off.
They just get in the way.
You know, there's the you know I I I've never understood that.
A lot of people have these fantasies about it, dominatrixes and stuff, but you know, why delay the inevitable?
You know, that's just thigh-high stockings ever been exciting thing to you, Sturdley.
Well, you're an odd guy.
No, probably you're an you're an average.
Don't they don't excite the imagination.
Well, not they don't mind.
They just they obscure the real view.
I mean, they don't they what this incite the imagination.
And anyway, uh several nurses have complained the Arizona Attorney General's office in a national nursing group has asked the heart attack grill owner, John Basso, to stop using the outfits.
Sandy Summers is executive director of the Center for Nursing Advocacy based in Baltimore.
She called our offices right before the uh right before the program.
You talked to her, H.R., is that true?
He did.
And right before the program, and I have oh, okay, there's your note.
At any rate, uh Sandy Summers, executive director of the Center for Nursing Advocacy in Baltimore, on the case about a restaurant in uh Tempe, said that nurses are the most sexually fantasized about profession.
We're asking people if they're going to have these fantasies.
Please don't make it so public.
Move these sexual fantasies to other professions.
Well, she says she didn't say that.
She told H.R. that they misquoted her and that she did not say move these sexual fantasies to other professions.
Well, wouldn't have bothered me had she said it.
I mean, back in the good old days, it seems like I vowed I would never say that as I got older, back in the good old days, but you can't help it.
The mess this country's in now.
Remember when you could call them stewardesses.
Now there was a group that people fantasized about.
But there was a group that people fantasized.
Then the feminists got a hold of that line of work.
And undeniable truth of life number 24 was implemented.
Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And there went that fantasy.
And then, of course, when they started putting the stewards, the guys on there, well, that that uh that ended that.
Um, Hooters, Hooters came out.
Yeah, people, yeah, people were having uh, you know, going nuts uh over Hooters, but Hooters survived the controversy, and I certainly hope here that Mr. Basso out in Tempe at the Heart Attack Grill survives the controversy over his restaurant.
I love theme restaurants like this.
I remember um when I was I did what?
I think I did a Hooters ad, but I uh yeah, I did many Hooters ads.
Uh back in the early days of the program, back in the good old days.
But I remember in Sacramento, I was toying with the idea.
I was there from 84 to 88, and some friends of mine and I were targeting our toying with the idea of doing a theme restaurant then uh called the current events cafe, and the menu would change to reflect uh uh the events of the day, and they were building a light rail system at the time, which was late and it was doomed to fail.
It was doomed to be a money waster, it was doomed to not come in on time in terms of construction.
So we were gonna have the late rail burger.
Uh you order it, but what it what what's delivered to you is late, not what you ordered, and it's more expensive than what was on the menu.
Uh little little things like we never got around to doing it, but I love this kind of thinking.
Um I also toyed with the idea of a restaurant where the uh entree is free and the salad bar is 4995.
Uh any number of fun things.
So this this um this guy Basso at the Heart Attack Grill says the most serious complaint he's faced was made to the Arizona Attorney General's office by the State Board of Nursing in September.
The A.G.'s office wrote Basso a letter informing him that he is illegally using the word nurse at his restaurant and his website.
I'm not kidding you.
I'm not kidding.
Not joking.
He was told that he was illegally using the word nurse.
They cited Arizona Statute ARS 32-1636.
The attorney general said only someone who has a valid nursing license can use the title nurse.
Now, Basso refused to remove nurse from his website, but inserted an asterisk next to every nurse reference and included the following disclaimer.
The use of the word nurse above is only intended as a parody.
None of the women pictured on our website actually have any medical training, nor do they attempt to provide any real medical services should you have a heart attack eating at our restaurant, the heart attack grill.
It should be made clear that the heart attack grill and it's we can't laugh at you know, nobody has a sense of humor anymore.
And that's another everybody's wound up so tight, waiting to be offended.
A bunch of insecure weaklings out there, just afraid to confront anything that doesn't conform to their cocoonish, tiny, irrelevant worldview.
I'll have more, ladies and gentlemen, but it's profit time here on the EIB network.
We'll be right back.
Welcome back.
Here we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Ward Churchill is back in the news.
Details coming up.
I want to say a little bit about the Heart Attack Grill Don Basso.
Is it Don?
Am I getting that right?
Um Mr. Basso, I don't know if John Basso.
John Basso says that the uh complaints against his restaurant, the Heart Attack Grill have been good for his business.
All they've done is ensure there's going to be a gajillion of these all over the country.
They opened a year ago to Hooters Like Formula, red meat, sexy waitresses dressed as nurses here.
Diners choose from among four cheeseburgers, the single, double, triple, and quadruple bypass.
The quadruple is uh four half-pound beef patties, four pieces of cheese, and a mound of bacon.
Basso says essentially it's nutritional pornography.
It's so bad for you, it's shocking.
Now, some of the uh waitresses.
Uh Courtney Chapman, a 20-year-old waitress at the grill, said she found nothing wrong with the uniform or the stares that she gets.
Yeah, they definitely look at us, but they're guys.
That's what guys do.
Hallelujah.
An enlightened woman who's not offended by nature.
If our butts are coming out the bottom of our skirts and our boobs are coming out of the tops of our shirts, we're kind of asking for it.
Well, it won't sit well with the feminists, and that's why we like it.
All right, now moving on to uh Chicago, and Andrew Greeley, who I'm told is a Catholic priest in Chicago, had a uh column on December 8th in the Chicago Sun Times uh about Barack Obama, and the headline uh if he does, he better be ready to face nasty opposition.
Should uh Barack Obama run for president, Mr. Greeley or Father Greeley opens his piece.
It'll be a tough call for the Senator and for those who admire and respect him personally if he runs.
He has a good chance of winning because he represents what Americans want in their president at this very troubled time in their history, a man of firm principles, but not an ideologue.
Yes, he is Mr. Greeley, but that's not the point.
A moderate, no, he's not, Mr. Greeley.
That's not the point, who can sympathize with its opponent's position.
He sympathizes only after he defeats the Mr. Greeley.
At any rate, uh the uh the piece uh went uh went on.
A second reason for not running is that the political rhetoric in this country is toxic.
Attack ads, negative campaigns, personal assaults are an essential part of American politics.
But why should Obama fear uh any of this, ladies and gentlemen?
He's done nothing wrong.
I mean, he's exactly what everybody wants.
He may get the media anal exam, but it won't find anything.
He's perfect.
Bloggers, radio talk show hosts like the poisonous Rush Limbaugh, who calls the Senator Osama Obama.
And that is the point.
This is beginning to stick out there, and the reason it's beginning to stick is because leftists and columnists and democrats, and apparently priests like Andrew Greeley, uh get their sources of information on me, not from me, but from websites whose primary purpose is to misquote, misrepresent, and ultimately dehumanize me.
So, Mr. Greeley, Father Greeley, I hope you have been contacted.
I hope you have your radio on.
I would like to show for you again.
This is about the twentieth time we've done this.
I would like to play for you an audio soundbite from January 11th, 2005, the National Press Club.
Senator Kennedy has just finished a speech and has been asked a question.
Question is irrelevant.
Uh here is Senator Kennedy's answer.
There you go.
Why don't we just ask Osama bin Laden Osama Obama uh Obama what this since uh he won by such a big amount?
And it was at that point, Mr. Greeley, that we began to have fun with once again another humorous verbal misstep on the part of Senator Kennedy, a prominent Democrat, who referred to Obama or Osama.
See, every time he does it, I get caught repeating it.
It was Senator Kennedy, who referred to him as Osama bin Laden, and then Osama Obama.
And we then produced a parody tune.
In fact, uh Ed, if you can find that parody tune during the break, we should play that for uh uh uh Father Greeley as well, and anyone else out there.
Do I expect this to change the record?
No.
The record will remain that I called Osama Obama.
I called Obama Osama, right.
Uh when it was Senator Kennedy who actually said this first at the National Press Club.
And I find it interesting that no one there at the National Press Club chose to report what Senator Kennedy said.
Our microphones were there, and we heard it, and we have played it and made a little parody song.
Here again, Audio Soundbite number one, Ed.
This is Senator Kennedy, January 11th, 2005, National Press Club answering a question from the media.
There you go.
Why don't we just ask Osama bin L Osama Obama Obama what this since uh he won by such a big amount.
And by the way, Father Greeley, Mr. Greeley, there was lots of laughter at this answer.
People were people found it very humorous that Senator Kennedy made this faux pas, uh this uh Freudian slip or what have you.
But note the anger on the part of Democrats when they're told that I originated this.
No sense of humor whatsoever, which is the case most of the time.
We'll be back.
Sit tight.
Broadcast excellence rolls right on after this.
I've had this story on the desk since Monday.
I intended to get to you yesterday.
It's a bunch of stuff from yesterday's stuff uh stack that uh that I didn't uh get to.
Welcome back, folks.
L. Rushbow.
Speaking of Ted Kennedy, uh I know now I've poisoned Ted Kennedy.
I put the words in his mouth, and of course I'm a mean spirited SOB because I took a harmless slip of the tongue and have now blown it up uh into an insensitive, mean spirited, not funny attack on both Senator Kennedy and Obama.
This is how it will be played, uh, ladies and gentlemen, because there's no sense of humor on the left.
Absolutely none.
Zip zero not uh yes, Barack Hussein, uh, Obama.
Senator Kennedy, by the way, dropped yesterday his public commitment to support Senator Kerry in a 2008 presidential race, saying he won't wait indefinitely for Kerry to declare his intentions while the Democratic Party field takes place.
Now there's a lot of hubbub was caused over this, and Senator Kennedy has sent well um Obama, Obama's uh uh uh what was I gonna say?
Oh, yes.
Uh he will still support Kerry if he announces in a timely fashion.
Uh Kennedy's office issued a statement clarifying a typical clarifying statement.
I think they did this they didn't do this after the January eleventh, two thousand five uh national press club appearance, uh saying that Kennedy will support Kerry if he declares his candidacy in the near term, though Kennedy aides declined to define that schedule.
And then it says here, Kennedy's comments come at a difficult time for Kerry.
Early polls show him far behind the leading Democrats in potential presidential fields, and many party activists want Democrats to look for a fresh face, 2008, and they found it.
Uh folks, there's no way that uh John Kerry uh can uh who has the face of a St. Bernard who has not made the rescue on a snowy mountainside.
Um very sad.
Uh there's no way he can compare in any or compete in any way, shape, manner, or form with Barack Obama.
It just can't be done.
I'm not sure Mrs. Clinton can either.
I'm not sure anybody can compete with Barack Obama, Barack Hussein Obama.
I just don't think it can be done.
And certainly, certainly not Senator Kerry.
Senator Kennedy knows this.
He doesn't want to attach himself to a losing horse uh two terms in a row to the phones.
Michael in Tempe, Arizona, your next and first today on the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Oh, well, thank you, Rush.
It's my honor to be on your show.
Well, it's it's uh that's something I understand.
Um yeah, so I was I was calling I last night um I went out to the old heartache grill, heart attack grill, um, and I had to see for myself what all the hoopla was about.
And and honestly, I was I was uh pretty disappointed to hear some of the things that have been said about it and and such a commotion has been caused when really there is no need for it.
It's it's it's a pretty typical restaurant.
It's it's a good idea.
Um and wait a minute, Michael Michael, cut to the chase here.
Tell us about the waitresses.
Well, they they're nothing that you wouldn't see, you know, out on the street on Halloween night.
You know, there's there's nurses out all over the place for for Halloween.
No, no, no, no.
No, Michael, Michael, Michael, host guidance here, tell us how they're dressed.
They are dressed scantily clad.
Um that wasn't any big deal to you.
I mean, how many restaurants do you go into uh with scantily clad waitresses?
Well, I wouldn't go into a restaurant with scantily clad waitresses if I was not expecting to see scantily clad waitresses.
I went in there specifically to see how scantily clad they were dressed.
And and it wasn't anything that was shocking.
Um I wouldn't have gone in there had I, you know, not known what I was going into.
And and it's not anything surprising.
It it's it's a big thing.
All right, let me ask you this.
Let me ask you this.
Did you think that nurses were being lampooned and disrespected and impugned by the way they're being portrayed by the waitresses?
No, not at all.
Not at all.
And and um I think that's that's just a cop out excuse by by that side to try to get away.
Okay, so I I think I I I get what you're doing.
You're you're trying to cover for the rest.
It's not that bad.
It's certainly not what I was expecting after all this hullabaloo.
It certainly is right, right.
But were they hot?
We do we want to know were the waitresses hot?
Well, definitely so.
I Well, then why wasn't that the first thing you said?
That's what everybody wants to know here.
Well, my apologies, Rush.
I'll say it right now.
The waitresses were amazing.
All right.
Now, did any of them have stethoscopes?
Because I think what this place ought to do, these these waitresses ought to have stethoscopes and stuff you know, uh uh put the uh the the thing on your chest there to take your heartbeat after a couple bites of the uh quadruple bypass burger just to make sure you're healthy as you eat dinner.
Now that's something I think would anger the nurses, but the way they're dressed, I mean I like to go to the limit.
I like to take it to the line, you know, maybe cross the line now, push the envelope a little bit.
Oh, definitely.
And and that they I would say they they push the envelope a little bit.
I mean, it it's not anywhere where you would definitely maybe want to take your wife and and your two five-year-old kids.
I mean, that's definitely not the restaurant you have to do.
Well, it doesn't sound like that kind of place.
I know a lot of wives that love to go.
Well, and actually I saw a numerous amount of women in there last night, and it really did surprise me.
And did you see smiles on their faces?
Oh, definitely.
They were all in our conversations with that.
That would really make the feminist mad.
That would really upset.
How was the food?
I gotta go here very quickly.
How was the food?
The food was delicious.
The hamburgers are absolutely enormous.
I mean, and and the way it's set up, um, you get your pick from only four burgers, you get your fries, and you get a drink.
And one thing that I really like, Rush, was the fact that um you can pick up a pack of Lucky Strikes or uh Marlboro Reds or Camel filters.
And now I don't smoke personally, but it was interesting to be able to walk into a place and and have that atmosphere of the nurses back in the day.
If you if you order the cigarettes, will the nurse waitresses bring them to your table?
They sure will.
You're not allowed to smoke in my job, but they sure will bring you the cigarettes.
All right.
Well, it's good to know you went in there and you're alive today.
Uh Michael, we you appreciate it.
Uh thank thanks for this uh review, even though it d it did take coaching from this is why I've often said you people should not try this at home.
Uh next up is Paul from Amarillo, Texas.
Paul, welcome.
Glad you waited.
Uh you're on the EIB network.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh I'm a I'm a Republican, not because of Jimmy Carter, but uh a lot to do with you.
And uh uh thanks for your service.
Thank you, sir.
I saw this going through school and during the last four years I've worked as a nurse, but I don't know where it comes from, but it's comparable to female cops who think they have something to prove and usually have some kind of chip on their shoulder.
But it seems that a disproportionate number of nurses have some kind of holier than thou condescending attitude.
Once they get out of school, they seem to think they have as much or more knowledge as doctors, and that because they're in demand, you know, they think their proverbial crap doesn't stink.
And there's a lot of people, even non-nurses that can back me up in and it seems like it was worse going through school how they treated the students, you know.
Well, no, we must we must we we we must say here, Paul, that this is uh anecdotal on your part.
We certainly cannot cast such a wide pall uh over all nurses and the entire nursing profession.
You're you're exactly right.
I've met just as many good good ones as I have bad ones, but it just seems disproportionate wise that anywhere, any hospital you go into, the the nurses have this kind you know, they they write it off as being busy.
Well, I'm a nurse too.
I know what it I know what it's Well, what wait a minute.
What's the chip on their shoulder about in your experience?
I've never seen that.
I've just I mean a lot of the nurses that I've experienced are bossy because they have to be.
They they can you know the patients don't run the asylum in there.
Uh the medical staff do, and and there's a lot of responsibility nurses have.
Uh it's really not so much uh a chip on the shoulder as it is a condescending attitude.
They think I I guess whatever, you know, they get it out of a two or a four year program.
They think that they have all this knowledge when really they don't they don't have any experience, and they go in there thinking that you know it's just I can't explain it.
It's palpable, though.
So you're saying you're saying it's fair to satirize them as waitresses at the Heart Attack Cafe.
What I'm saying is that they need to spend their time and energy somewhere else.
State Board of Nursing has no business getting involved in something as petty and stupid as this.
It's just pathetic, you know?
Everyone's got a...
Well, again, Again, this is anecdotal.
I I you you uh you uh uh you're a male nurse, and I guess I guess you would you uh have have a little bit more intimate knowledge than I uh about this, but I don't want to sit here and cast a paw over the entire nursing profession.
I've I uh I had a crush on a nurse once when I was sixteen.
Uh but I mean, had crushes on everybody when I was sixteen.
Uh at any rate, uh uh in fact, I you know, the the one thing I don't I don't get about about the the nurses what was her name, Sandy.
I've already put this at the bottom of the stack.
Here it is, Sandy uh Summers.
Um see, this is the disconnect for me.
And I'm I I just I I would think that most women would love to be fantasized about.
Uh oh, you shaking your head in there, Don?
Oh, come on.
If then nothing's normal anymore.
If if women are going to be offended being fantasized about, then you know, we may as well go to the artificial womb and be done with all the fun stuff that leads up to that back in just a second.
I think something else something else they ought to do at the Heart Attack Cafe is have the waitresses roll a customers out of the restaurant in wheelchairs after dinner to uh.
Avoid liability issues, of course, and of course not put too much stress on the heart after eating such uh such fare.
Oh, stethoscopes, uh uh wheelchairs, any number of possibilities here that can be can be added to.
Democrat campaign operatives, and this this is a story in the Washington Times, and it doesn't surprise me.
In fact, I think we could go back to the archives and we could find evidence of my suggesting that this was the case.
Democrat campaign operatives pushed newspapers to write about Mark Foley's emails to teenage pages in the hope that a scandal would emerge before the midterm elections, this according to the House ethics report.
The findings were bolstered with an aid to Representative Rom Emanuel, Illinois Democrat said the Congressman also knew about the emails, which were dubbed inappropriate by the ethics panel.
Ram Emanuel, uh chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, uh said when uh Foley's sex scandal broke in late September, he denied knowledge of the Florida Republicans' emails.
He didn't know anything about it.
The House Ethics Panel formerly called the standards of official conduct committee, uh released Friday its final probe.
Interesting choice of words here, uh the Foley scandal, uh, into Mr. Foley's behavior, scolding Republicans for failing to act on years of troubling signs and naming Democrats who knew about the uh emails.
On October 8th, Rahm Emanuel was put on the spot during his appearance on ABC's this week, when uh uh another former Clinton operative, George Devonopoulos, said, Did you or your staff know anything about these emails or instant messages before they came out?
Emmanuel interrupted with no, George never saw them.
When Representative Adam Putnam, chairman of the Republican policy committee, and a guest on the show started questioning Emmanuel, the DCC Chairman Blanched.
What you guys want to do is take your dirty laundry, throw it over the fence and try to blame other people for the problems, Emmanuel said.
Representative Patrick T. McHenry, North Carolina Republican, called the news stunning, accused Emmanuel of letting a predator roam free for cold calculated political advantage.
Why is this so hard to believe?
The media uh was was being shopped this stuff for months by this guy who used to work at the human rights campaign, moved to Minnesota or Michigan, I think it was, and set up his website from which all this stuff was disseminated.
Brian Ross got this stuff in advance.
There's no question this was to be the big October surprise.
What was happening was that the Republicans were coalescing.
Bush's approval numbers were coming up.
The situation in Iraq was being reported in a more positive way, and the Democrats had no choice but to launch this in September.
And their buddies in the drive-by media did them a favor by keeping it alive for three weeks or longer through the campaign.
I'm not surprised Emmanuel knew about it.
I'm not surprised he lied about knowing about it.
The problem, once again, here is that there was no effort to make him accountable for what he was saying.
Stephanopoulos accepted what he's saying.
The rest of the drive-by media accepted what he was saying and immediately turned the whole thing around to a story on the on the on the rascally, mean spirited Republicans.
And it became Hastard has to go.
Hastard has to resign, all because they knew that Foley was out there acting as a predator and didn't do anything to stop it.
So did the Democrats and so did the media for months and months and months.
They don't care about the pages.
It was never about the pages.
If you think it was about the pages, look at the way they honored Jerry Studs when he died, gave him all kinds of honors and memorials, and he did worse than what Foley did.
Foley never touched him as they were minors.
He just, you know, sent his little emails around and instant messages.
Such a double standard.
Here's David in North Glenn, Colorado.
You're next on the uh EIB network.
Hi.
Oh, hey, Rush.
Mega Dittoes.
Long time listener.
Thank you, sir.
Long time listener.
You first uh uh I first started listening to you back in oh gosh, this must have been early nineties.
And you got me with the um the super soaker controversy.
Way, way back when.
When they were uh and uh that was when I first started listening to you, and I was still mowing wands, and uh I was hooked ever since then.
I appreciate that.
Well anyway.
The story indicates what happens to anybody who actually listens, which is why a lot of libs don't.
You get hooked.
Yeah.
Well, I was gonna what I was gonna say is uh I don't have a heart attack grill in my area, but I do have a Hooters.
And I was gonna tell all your uh male listeners, the best way to get attention from the women there is to take your young son.
I take my young son, he's 14 months in, and uh you take the the y my young son in, and all the women just flock around them.
They all you mean the you're talking about the waitresses.
Oh, yeah, all the waitresses.
Oh, you take the younger.
I I have to ask the question again.
Twenty seconds here.
I have to ask the question.
You're married, you got your 14-month son.
Why do you care about attention from the uh Hooter girls?
It is fun.
I mean, my wife knows.
I'm on a diet, but I can still look at the menu.
Yeah.
Well, I like the advice.
Uh, you know, and and there's no question that uh uh young women, uh especially the suckers for infants.
There's no question.
Good advice.
So uh people heading to the um heart attack grill might take it.
We'll be back.
We'll continue here in just seconds.
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