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Dec. 22, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 22, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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Yes, here I am, my friend, serving humanity amidst billowing clouds of fragrant aromatic first and secondhand premium cigar smoke.
We got all the other smoke out of the broadcast complex.
Had a big fire here this morning.
A Christmas display caught flames when candle wax leaked on stuff that was flammable that shouldn't have been.
But all is well now.
We survived, and we are here.
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I think we broke this story in terms of broadcast media.
We first hear about it from the Channel 5 website in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Rape charges have been dropped in the Duke La Crosse case, the DA down there, Mike Nifwong.
You talk about dumping news when nobody's paying any attention.
What he thinks.
Well, but I mean, this is, he could have done it Christmas Eve, did it today.
He had a conversation with the accuser yesterday, and the accuser told him, told his investigator, that she couldn't testify with certainty that she was raped.
That makes this even more incredible.
So anyway, the rape charges have been dropped, but the DA, Mike Nyphuong, said he plans to proceed with kidnapping and sexual assault charges against the three players.
My guess, this sounds to me like he is gradually trying to withdraw from this thing rather than do it all at once, trying to save a little face here and make it look like he's going to say they still did something.
Maybe not in a rape her, but they kidnapped her, and there was definitely some sexual assault in there.
So it's definitely moving backwards for Ny Fuang now.
And of course, without this woman's testimony, he couldn't have gone forward on the rape charges anyway.
And, you know, the lineup was a fraud, the way that was all handled.
And the, I don't know.
We had a story in the first hour that Duke University is mobilizing its marshaling its forces to try to repair its image.
And its image needs repair only because of the way Duke reacted to this, just assuming and presuming guilt at the first moment this case was charged or even alleged before it was charged and throwing its own students under the bus.
And now they've got to spend a whole lot of money to recapture their image because their recruitment is down, number of students.
And if you're a student, why would you want to go to Duke when you've got an administration like this?
You're the customer when you're the student.
And it is throw you under the bus at the first sign of any to protect their sacred image.
This has been just an embarrassment from the moment it started.
And there has been more than reasonable doubt from the moment this all started.
But this is, again, terrific example of how the drive-by media can get people all worked up into a chaotic frenzy With presumptions of guilt that were fueled by bigoted and prejudicial opinions.
White guys, rich, white.
Oh, yeah, everybody plays lacrosse.
Why?
They're elitist.
They're rich.
They've gotten everything they want.
They've never had enough.
They think they can rape people, particularly black women, and get away with it.
Well, not anymore.
That's what drove a lot of the thinking in the drive-by media that these guys had to do it.
You know, with liberals, never forget this, folks.
It's not the nature of the evidence that turns them on.
It's the seriousness of the charge.
And in the drive-by media world and in the liberal world, this just fit a template that better than anything could.
The template consists of America is a bigoted, racist nation.
America is guilty of bigotry and racism and sexism.
A poor struggling to feed her kid dancer comes up and says she was raped and she's trying to feed her kids and got raped by these guys.
And of course, this is, well, of course she did.
Why would she lie?
I mean, the seriousness of the charge.
Oh, what a great story we've got here that proves that the South and America are still in sin.
Still flawed, still imperfect.
It was just, it was just made to order for the nature of the evidence was irrelevant.
It's the seriousness of the charge.
Let's go to the audio soundbites, the Sandy Burglar case.
You know, we got some soundbites here on how this is being reacted to in the drive-by media and also some more details here from research that we did going back to 2004 when this thing all broke.
Surprisingly, CNN did a fairly good report on this situation room with Wolf Blitzer.
We have a montage of the reporter's report.
Her name is Kelly Arena.
In 2003, Berger snuck papers out of the archives building, all of them describing the Clinton administration's reaction to a terrorist plot to attack in 2000.
He says he walked out of the National Archives building with the documents stuffed in his pockets.
It was dark, and he headed this way.
He looked up and down the street, and then back at the windows of the National Archives building, then at the Department of Justice, which just happens to be across the street.
There was some construction going on right about here.
Berger says that he went through the security fence and he placed the documents under a construction trailer.
Then he made his way back into the building to continue his work.
When Berger got the documents home, he cut three of them into small pieces and put them in the trash.
Two days later, when he was confronted about the missing documents, he says he tried to find the trash collector but had no luck.
At first, Berger said he must have removed the documents accidentally or inadvertently.
Later on, it came clean.
If it had happened to them or anybody else, they would not have gotten away with this without having spent some serious time in jail.
She put that in her report on CNN.
That's me from yesterday's program.
Now, you know, of course, Burglar was out there saying that was inadvertent.
Accidentally, I'm hiding them underneath this construction trailer.
Yesterday, I had several callers here challenging me on my speculation of what the document was.
Berger himself admitted it in the Washington Post in 2004.
I think in the dates are June 20th, 21st, or July 20th, 21st, whatever it was.
It was the Millennium After Action Review.
And, you know, all the details around this document theft may not be known for years, But you can go back and research some various things that were written about this in 2004, and you can learn quite a bit.
Previous statements and testimony suggest the Clinton administration was well aware or should have been of an al-Qaeda cell operating within the United States in 1999.
It was suggested that the administration act to take it out.
Not only did the Clinton administration fail to act, they failed to pass that information along to the incoming Bush administration.
John Ashcroft made this clear, this much clear in his testimony before the 9-11 Commission.
Now, in a, I don't want to say perfect world, but in a different world, all of this involving Sandy Berger and al-Qaeda and all of these cells that the Clinton administration knew were in the country and didn't do anything about and didn't pass the information on to the Bush administration should be devastating to the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.
She should be asked about this at every campaign appearance.
It was thought, by the way, that this whole thing with Sandy Burglar would be damaging to the Kerry presidential candidacy.
Why?
Because Sandy Bergler was an advisor to the Kerry campaign at the time the theft took place.
And the Democrats were fighting an image of being weak on terrorism, an image that they have earned and an image that survives to this day.
Burglar was working for Kerry at the time.
So the theories that were running around, uh-oh, maybe he did something here to spare the Democrats any embarrassment that could impact negatively on the Kerry campaign, or that he was legacy protecting for Bill Clinton and the entire Clinton administration.
Anyway, brief time out, more audio soundbites and some background on this when we come right back.
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All right, here we have first, we got four basic stories here on the Sandy Burglar thing, just to remind you and put it all in context.
The National Security Council's Millennium After Action Review, this is the document that Sandy Bergler went in and took and did things to, declares that the United States barely missed major terrorist attacks in 1999 with luck playing a major role.
Among the many vulnerabilities in homeland defenses identified, the Justice Department surveillance and FISA operations were specifically criticized for their glaring weaknesses.
It is clear from this review, the National Security Council Millennium After Action Review, that actions taken in the millennium period, Y2K, should not be the operating model for the U.S. government.
People have seen that portion of the document.
That's what it says.
And this takes us back to the thwarted attempt to have a terrorist incident at LAX, thwarted by an on-the-spot customs agent.
And the Clinton people were trying to say, and we had a quote from Clinton yesterday, a little soundbite from 2004, oh, yeah, well, we did a great job on that.
Our plan really worked well, and we got it.
But the plan had nothing to do with it.
It was just a good agent, extremely competent agent.
Now, in March of 2000, the Millennium After Action Review warns the prior administration, Clinton, of a substantial al-Qaeda network and affiliated foreign terrorist presence within the U.S. capable of supporting additional terrorist attacks here.
Furthermore, fully 17 months before the September 11th attacks, the review recommends disrupting the al-Qaeda network and terrorist presence in America using immigration violations, minor criminal infractions, and tougher visa and border controls.
None of this was done.
And this leads to conjecture that Sandy Bergler went in and tried to doctor the document somehow so as to make this not appear the case.
Byron York, writing at National Review Online in May of 2004, Justice also knew, Justice Department also knew that the Clinton administration had done an after-action review of the Millennium matter, a study conducted by none other than Richard Clark.
The review was a scathing indictment of the last administration's actions, said the administration source talking to Byron York.
It was exactly how things should not be run.
And in fact, Richard Clark himself is quite critical of the handling of the Millennium plot in his book Against All Enemies.
The virtue of Ashcroft's testimony is that he came out and said it.
This National Security Council Millennium After Action Review declares, this is Ashcroft speaking in his testimony, declares that the United States barely missed major terrorist attacks in 1999 and cites luck as playing a major role, according to Ashcroft's testimony.
It's clear from the review that actions taken in the Millennium Period, Y2K, should not be the operating model for the U.S. government.
WorldNet Daily, a piece from 2004, in testimony before the 9-11 Commission in April, John Ashcroft pointed to a National Security Council document now at the center of the FBI's investigation of Sandy Bergler, urging the panel to ask why its warnings in blueprint to thwart al-Qaeda plans to target the U.S. were ignored by the Clinton administration and not shared with the incoming Bush security staff.
So we've got, I'm down the third source here.
We've got four sources, basically all analyzing the Millennium After Action Review the same way.
That it was blind luck.
Well, no offense to the customs agent in Seattle, but it wasn't any federal policy that led to the breakup of that attempted terrorist incident at LAX.
It was just a competent agent that the Clinton administration knew of an al-Qaeda presence, didn't do anything about it, and didn't pass on the extensive nature of the al-Qaeda existence to the Bush administration.
Drafts of the sensitive NSC Millennium After Action Review, this is still World Net Daily, on the Clinton administration's handling of al-Qaeda terror threats during the December 1999 Millennium celebration are reported to be among the documents still missing from classified materials Berger removed from a secure reading room.
Now, again, you go back to motivations.
What would Berger's motivations be?
He was working for Kerry at the time, and he could have been trying to get something out of there that would show up in the 9-11 transcripts or hearings or testimony that would make Democrats look soft on terror and uncaring about it, which would thus confirm an image that the Democrats have earned and thus negatively impact the Kerry campaign.
Or he could have been just going in there and trying to preserve the legacy of the Clinton administration in their lack of effort in fighting terrorism, or it could have been a combination of the two.
And then finally, Sandy Bergler used weasel words like inadvertent and accidentally discarded to wish away criminal acts that jeopardized national security and which were likely done to protect the Clinton administration from facing the tribunal of history and to save Kerry's presidential campaign, which Berger served as an advisor.
Berger would have disgraced himself and his comrades less had he simply refused to come in.
So this one got swept under the rug, and Berger's buddies are coming, oh, he's such a great guy.
He's still a little disheveled and this sort of thing, but this is serious.
And the Clinton administration, don't forget, has the documents.
They've got all the memos in his presidential library.
They have all of the originals.
They've got the drafts that went into making the final memo.
Landmark Legal Fandash Foundation has asked through Freedom of Information Act requests and the Government Papers Act or whatever for release.
And the Clinton Library has not released them, and they don't have to.
Presidents can hold on to these things for 12 years if they are, quote, classified relate to, quote, national security, which is a cover for letting the government do much of anything and former presidents keep much of anything private.
And my only theory on this is that if Clinton had such a great record on terrorism and fighting it and spending so much time on it, then that document would prove it.
And he would want it out.
And you combine this and he doesn't want it out because obviously it doesn't indicate that they spent much time or care on this at all, subject of terrorism.
Second thing is, if you just remember their reaction to the movie, The Path to 9-11, they didn't want that movie airing because the movie depicts this incident in Seattle with the customs agent as it accurately actually happened.
It doesn't give credit to the Clinton administration.
In fact, the whole period of time in the 90s covered by the movie Path to 9-11 makes it clear that the Clinton administration was not nearly as focused on it as they wanted everybody to believe and as they would like for everybody to be able to be made to believe today as they're trying to construct a legacy.
As I say, Berger, he admitted to it.
He got a misdemeanor and a $50,000 fine.
His security clearance has been revoked, but he'll get it back just in time to serve in Hillary Clinton's administration if she wins and if she so wants him to be a member of her staff somewhere.
He'll get his security clearance back about the same time, sometime in 2009, maybe late 2008.
I'm not sure about the exact date.
This is something she needs to be asked about throughout.
And you know it's not going to happen in a different world if she were a Republican and the exact scenario.
Democrats are going to spend all their time as much as they can investigating Bush the next two years once they get into office.
Scooter Libby is on trial for his freedom for a process crime that is just irresponsible and incompetent and nyphong-like, if you ask me.
And meanwhile, Sandy Burglar walks free with constant praise about what a great patriot he is and what a great guy, just a little disorganized and disheveled.
All right, back to the, oh, no, I've got a couple soundbites here I want you to hear.
First off, the where was this?
This is last night on CNN, the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
Guests are the forehead, Paul McGella, Democrat strategerist and member of the Clinton War Room, and Republican strategerist Bay Buchanan.
They have this discussion about Sandy Burglar.
The key here, I think, is what this exposes is a man in the Clinton administration, a top fellow national security, was deliberate in his effort to make certain documents were destroyed that would have obviously been incriminating to Clinton.
Not a criminal.
Do you think that this man went in there and stole documents and destroyed them that would make him look good or make Clinton look good?
I'm sure it's just him and his boss in my form business any bad light, but that's different from saying it was evidence of criminality.
Of course, no evidence of criminality.
On whose part?
Paul was a burglar who confessed when it was all a misdemeanor.
Donald Trump still firing away at Rosie O'Donnell.
She didn't say much yesterday.
Trump was on, let's see, Larry King last night.
King says, does she have a point in pointing out that you were setting yourself as a moral judge of this girl when there were more moral questions about you?
How do you react to that statement?
I think I'm a lot better on the morality front than Rosie.
I mean, take a look at Rosie.
What do you have?
The best thing Rosie has going is her girlfriend, Kelly.
Now, if Kelly ever leaves Rosie, she'll never find another one, believe me.
Because who's going to want Rosie?
How would you like to have to kiss that good night, Larry?
I wish I'd have seen this so I could see King's face when he was presented that option.
Then last night on Extra, Trump, I mean, just we got music in the background of this one.
Trump just kept pounding.
Living with this pig face is very tough.
And her life is a mess.
She's a mess.
Believe me, her girlfriend cannot be happy.
You look at that mess that she's got to look at every night, that she's got to kiss every night.
She can't be thrilled kissing Rosie O'Donnell.
What's worse than that?
Admit it, folks.
Admit it.
Part of you enjoy somebody saying this about Rosie O'Donnell.
Man.
Now, you know, it's going to be very interesting.
These are some pretty vicious comments.
These are some pretty vicious comments.
Far more vicious than anything I've ever said about anybody.
But we'll see.
We'll see how this affects Trump down the road.
Probably not.
He's a loved figure.
He's a great media get.
And people are afraid of him on a number of levels.
All right, Tom, in Kennewick, Washington.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Christmas Dittos, Rush.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Hey, I have a great open line Friday question for you.
Do you still have in your possession the gurgling wide mouth bass picture that you had on the Donahue show with you in the early 90s?
Yeah, it's up in the display case at the studio in the EIB building in Manhattan.
The gurgling cod.
The gurgling cod was given to me as a gift when I first went to Boston, and it was sold at a department store, and I'm having a metal block, trying to remember the name of the department store.
But the reason they call it a gurgling cod is that it is a pitcher.
It's white porcelain, I think, white something.
And you fill it half full with water and pretend to be pouring.
You don't have to pour it out.
Before the water even begins to pour, the water gurgles because of the acoustics and the shape of the vase in the shape of the gurgling cod.
And it makes the funniest noise when you do this.
And that's why they gave it to me, and then we all started making jokes about this is Senator Kennedy underwater and so forth, especially since it was given to me in Boston.
Yes, I thought it was great, Rash.
I just had been wondering if you still had that.
Yeah, where did you must go?
You must have been listening for a long time to have heard me do that on the radio.
Well, actually, I had to disobey my mother and listen to you on the radio because I told her about you, and she was like, you shouldn't listen to him.
So I went ahead and did it anyway.
And I actually converted her over to you.
But it was, I started listening to you when you had about 250 radio stations in the early 90s.
Yeah.
And I've been getting your young souls full of mush.
Well, that's that's, gosh, I, I just, I was just up there the other day and I just saw it in the display case.
And I just thought the display case is laid out so perfectly.
Cookie has made it so beautiful.
Don't touch anything in it.
It's got some great.
I ought to get that thing out of there and just bring back to life the gurgling cod.
Because it's especially for those of you watching on the ditto cam, you can see it.
It's just funny.
I don't know why, but it is.
When you hear the noise that this thing makes, you have to make sure you don't fill it.
You can make the move toward pouring it without any of it actually coming out of the gurgling cod.
But as the water moves inside this thing, and it gurgles, and it sounds like somebody trying to talk underwater.
It was.
It was a great.
And, you know, Rush, I just want to say thank you for being who you are.
A lot of where my ideology and growing up has come from listening to you and from my parents.
A lot of what I know about Ronaldos Magnus has come from you.
And so I did have a chance to call you at Thanksgiving, but I just wanted to, you know, my mom got me a subscription to your website yesterday, and I'm here at work hooking it up.
So, you know, I just want to say thank you, Rush.
Well, that's awfully kind of you.
Thank you very much.
But I have a question.
You've intrigued me.
Yes, sir.
When you were a young skull full of mush, by your own admission, mere moments ago on this program, your mother would not let you listen to this program.
You had to sneak around your parent to do this.
And now your mother is a convert.
Could you tell me how this happened?
Actually, yeah, I've got to be careful because she's listening right now as I'm talking to you.
Well, then, in that case, tell the truth.
Well, I can't say that.
I've gotten in trouble a lot of you to tell the truth.
So, yeah, go ahead.
Give us the story.
Okay, what had happened was I was over at my grandma's house, and I was just kind of rolling around the radio dial, and I came across you, and you had just finished playing the Philanderer piece on Ted Kennedy.
And I thought it was the funniest thing.
And so I told my mom, and she picked me up.
I was like, You've got to listen to this guy.
And his name is Rush Limbaugh.
He's the funniest thing, and he's making fun of Ted Kennedy.
And she's like, Oh, really?
So then she listened to you the next day.
And when she got home from work, she's like, I don't think you should be listening to him.
He's not a very nice man.
He's kind of dirty on some of his things.
But I went ahead and listened to you anyway, and finally, something I don't remember what it was, but she finally listened and realized that you were pretty good, too.
So, well, that's good.
She came around.
I don't know how I went from not being a very nice man to somebody it's okay for you to listen to, but I will take it.
Look, I appreciate all you said.
It sort of blows me away when people say those kind of things to me still, but I appreciate it more than you know.
Thank you, and thank your mom.
And as a Christmas present to both of you, from the archives, may as well dig it up.
Ted Kennedy swimming around.
Even as I speak, ladies and gentlemen, we are taking a couple pictures of the gurgling cod in the display case in the studio at the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
We'll have it on the website sometime later this afternoon.
John in Los Angeles, glad you waited.
Your next Open Line Friday.
Hi.
John, you there?
Yeah, yeah, I'm here.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I hear you fine.
Okay.
The topic that I wanted to discuss was something you left off on yesterday, which was the Swift Company immigration rate.
It is such a farce.
And I say that because I have personal knowledge of a major company in the Los Angeles County area that I've written to ICE about.
I've spoken.
I've written to Chertoff and gotten response.
And they do nothing.
What's the force, the farce about it?
What's the farce?
The farce is, if they really want to crack down on illegal immigration at these plants, why not go to a place that has the number two, at the very least, number of illegal immigrants working?
And that's Los Angeles.
You have not heard of a crackdown in any major city where illegal immigrants are.
Especially in Los Angeles, in California, period.
Well, that is an interesting point.
So you think it's all a bunch of BS?
I'm looking here.
I've got so many immigration stories in the stack here.
I can't believe it.
I'm going through them trying to find them now.
I just put them in there.
There's stories that'll amaze.
Oh, look at this.
UN agencies warn of impending North Korea food crisis.
They've had a food crisis in North Korea for 25 or 30 years.
Anyway, hang with me here.
Okay, and then, Russ, when you look at the type of companies that they're cracking down on, they're nothing.
I know.
Hey, hey, hey, Swift is the number two beef and pork packer and producer in the country.
It's not nothing.
I know.
But I'm saying, in terms of the world, for example, I have personal experience of, say, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, one of their companies that employ and have employees.
Okay, so I get your point is they could do these raids every day and clean them all out, all these, if they really wanted to.
This was just for show.
There you go.
That's what you think.
It is.
And like I said, it's all from personal experience and or knowledge.
Okay.
So they could do that, but they don't want to.
That's what I say.
Look at it.
We have had, I can't tell you the number of times I've told this story.
I forget an onion, whatever, in Georgia, some onion farm or some such thing, and in a couple of other states, too.
I think actually another meat packer in Ohio, or maybe it was Nebraska.
Yeah, it was Nebraska, and I forget it wasn't Swift.
I forget which one it was.
And now, this goes back to before there was ICE.
This is INS days, Immigration, Naturalization Service.
And these guys would do these raids.
And the owners of the company, after the raids, would call their respective senators.
And the senators would call the head of immigration and naturalization.
And he was told, look, I don't know what you think you're doing.
If you want to hold this job and if you want to be able to put your kids through college, you're going to cancel these raids.
I am not going to have my constituents this upset of me.
You can't do these raids at this time of the year.
This is crucial.
This is right before the harvest is right before whatever it was.
And the INS guy then ends up being threatened by senators in two different states representing their constituents.
And so what's he going to do?
I mean, obviously, he's going to back down a little bit and not make it as public what these raids have all been about.
Look, there's a, as everybody knows, when you start talking about illegal immigration, there's a sizable population, percentage of population, doesn't want to do anything about it.
And one of the groups in the sizable, I don't want to do anything about it population is business.
They love the cheap labor, and they've put forth the notion that it's jobs Americans won't do.
We sort of put the myth to that yesterday because one of these SWIFT plants knew that the raid was going to happen.
And before the raid, they increased wages, benefits, and bonuses because they're going to have to replace these workers.
I mean, in some places, they lost 1,000 workers.
They're going to have to replace them if they're to keep their productivity up.
And they hired, as the story said, a number of Caucasians to replace the illegal immigrants, the Hispanics, who had been thrown out in the raid.
So it's not that Americans won't do the job, it's that Americans won't do the job at entry-level, uneducated wage levels, which the companies knew, which Swift, seems to me, Swift knew, because they had to raise their wages in order to refill these jobs or fill these jobs vacated by the raid.
So if you pay, and there were lots of people lined up to take the jobs as well.
But there's a good number of people who want nothing to do with changing illegal immigration the way it is.
They benefit from it.
They don't consider it to be a problem in any way, shape, manner, reform.
And, you know, there's a bunch of people, particularly in Arizona, J.D. Hayworth, of course, there's a lot being misreported about his loss.
And another candidate, the pro-immigration, the pro-illegals, or the anti-listen, the pro-amnesty crowd, whatever you want to call them, are spinning these elections.
Trying to say, look at what happened to candidates in border states who ran on a very heavy platform of fixing illegal immigration.
They got beat.
And in some cases, you could make the case persuasively to future candidates that this is a losing issue, despite the cacophony and the rage from people in the country who are upset about it.
People that ran for office with that as their primary plank in the platform, some of them got shellacked.
Not all of them.
But all it takes is one or two for the opponents to point at.
See, see, the country is not that upset about this.
It's being totally manufactured and so forth.
And it's just going to create more and more doubt and a little fear on the part of future candidates to make it a big issue because it didn't seem to be that big a one in this last campaign.
It's certainly not one that propelled proponents of getting something done on border security to victory.
Brief time out here.
Thanks for the call, John.
We'll be back and continue in Uno Momento.
A week after the largest ever U.S. crackdown on illegal immigrants in the workplace, Hispanic leaders called yesterday for an end to such raids, saying immigration reform in Congress should be completed first.
This is the time to take action because families are being destroyed, said Rosa Rosales, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
She and others at a news conference called on federal officials to end the raid, saying the Roundups harm people who are simply trying to support their families.
Almost everybody's trying to support their family.
There are some exceptions out there.
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