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March 16, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 16, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What a propaganda fest.
Now I know a lot of you people have been watching the uh appearance of Valerie Plame Wilson before this uh Henry Waxman propaganda committee upset at the Republicans because their questions seem inept.
What you have to understand is that there were ground rules set, and none of the questions that are meaningful could be asked.
And Tom Davis expressed that frustration at the end of his uh his uh his side's time at the Dutch Friday.
Let's let's just go here.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Let me look here.
Um Myron York, National Reunion, has a list of ten questions that he thinks play should be asked, but the ground rules were such that uh she couldn't be asked anything.
And even at that, uh the fact that she's not entirely honest was fairly well demonstrated today.
I know I printed this stuff out.
Where did I put it?
But I had it on the top.
I know, I know, Rush.
Why aren't you prepared?
I am prepared, folks.
Just sit tight.
Well, I'll print it again.
It's open line Friday, and you know what that means?
We go to the phones, you own the program.
You get to talk about whatever it is that you want to talk about.
Here's the uh, and that's a big career risk for me.
Turning over the um subject matter, content of the program to um rank amateurs.
It's it's a risk, though, that I love taking each and every Friday.
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Uh you know, I looked a weather forecast for where we live uh this weekend.
We're here in Palm Beach, Florida, Palm Beach County.
And I looked at the forecast because the tornado warnings about uh 45 minutes south of us.
So look at the forecast, and we got a big chance of boomers, 80% chance of boomers this afternoon and tonight.
And you know what?
It's it we have in all this global warming BS, we've got a cold front coming in here.
We got a cold, it's it's only gonna be 71 degrees tomorrow, Snerdley, with the winds out of the north at 17, we're gonna have a wind chill factor here.
It's only gonna be 69 on Sunday.
This doesn't happen here.
Temperatures below 75, 78 degrees in March, mid-March doesn't happen.
We're gonna have to break the polar bear coats out.
I bought one the other day, folks.
I bought a polar bear court uh coat, and I'm gonna I'm gonna break it.
I got a dinner party ought to go to tonight.
It's a nice white thing.
It looks like what Joe Namath used to wear.
Uh when he wore the uh when he wore the white mink.
Let me check one more stack for this Myron York piece, but I don't think I put it's not here.
I'm gonna Ah, there it is.
Okay, got it.
We'll get into this as the program unfolds.
Also a reminder.
Uh it starting our next hour, we will have Tom Delay here to talk about his uh his new book that uh that hits soon.
It's already uh it's out in certain circles.
I, of course, a powerful influential member of the media have the book.
Um that shows no mercy to uh Dick Army and Newt Gingrich and so forth.
And some of you people are gonna like this.
I mean some some are gonna cite uh the 11th Commandment of Ronald Reagan, thou shalt not attack another Republican.
You've got to remember, though, that Ronald Reagan threw the 11th Commandment out in 1976 when he went against Gerald Ford uh for the nomination, tacked Ford very aggressively.
Uh that that 11th commandment is uh is one that gets selectively applied.
Now, some of you people are so upset because of the lack of fight that seems to exist anywhere in elected Republican leadership will probably get a kick out of hearing some from Tom Delay today.
So you'll be here in about an hour, a little bit less than an hour.
Now, Valerie Plame today in her uh in her opening statement before the Waxman Propaganda Committee insisted time and time again that she was covert.
Uh this is something that nobody has known up till now.
Uh the jurors in the Libby trial were not allowed to know.
The judge said he didn't know.
Uh she didn't prove today that she was covert.
And in fact, under some good questioning by Tom Davis from Virginia had to admit that the um intelligence identities protection act did not apply to her.
It would have if she were covert.
They're playing word games here with covert and undercover.
Uh but the the the one big question here that I have, uh, ladies and gentlemen, to Valerie Plame and to Patrick Fitzgerald is this.
If she was covert, if she was covert, why in the world didn't Fitzgerald prosecute on that basis?
Because if she was covert, it would have triggered the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.
Because that act makes it a crime to knowingly disclose the identity of a covert agent.
Nobody established today that anybody in the White House knew what her status was.
In fact, she said, I don't even think they're aiming at me.
I think they were trying to discredit my my lovable husband Joe.
She admitted that she went to Democrat Party strategy sessions and meetings, but I only went there as a spouse.
She was asked what her husband's party affiliation is.
We all know he's a 60s liberal retrench.
Well, he comes from a very deeply rooted Republican family, but he is a Democrat.
Now, what are you, Miss?
I don't see what that has to do.
Oh, Copy, you can't answer.
Okay, I'm a Democrat.
Forcing uh Nostrilitus Waxman to say, well, it doesn't matter what party affiliate.
Hell a hell it doesn't.
The whole Democrat Party has been oriented toward discrediting everything about the war with Iraq and the administration's decision to uh to go there.
Now, here is why uh, ladies and gentlemen, Patrick Fitzgerald did not prosecute anybody on the leak of Valerie Plame's name, even though she's insisting all day this morning that she was covert.
The uh Intelligence Identities Protection Act requires poof beyond a reasonable doubt of specific intent to harm the United States or help another country, and the evidence is virtually non-existent that Libby intended any such thing, nor is there any evidence that anybody intended any such thing.
On the covert agent ID Act, the government would have had an even tougher case since, for example, it's a def it's a it's a defense if the agent's ID was previously known by the government itself, and there are indications that play was blown to the Cubans and the Russians before the events of uh of 2002.
So there was, even though she's out there maintaining that she was covert and that her life was destroyed and all of these people were placed in danger, the independent counsel looking for anything.
He would have loved to be able to go after this.
He would have loved to be able to nail Cheney or anybody on the violation of this act, couldn't find any proof beyond a reasonable doubt of specific intent to harm the United States or help another country on the part of anybody who mentioned her name, and there was one name consciously well, consciously, I it was conscious.
There was one name also that suspiciously did not come up today so far in these hearings, and that name is Richard Armitage.
And Richard Armitage is the leaker.
The one name that was mentioned more often than anybody else's was Robert Novak's.
Now, Novak, he was a little ticked.
They took a break uh on the Fox News channel from the coverage right after her opening statement, and Novak said, I'm incredulous about something here.
How in the world can she say she was covert when she was going to work at the CIA building at the Langley headquarters every day?
She'd drop her little crumb crunchers off to scroll, and then she'd head over to CIA headquarters and Novak said, how how covert can you be if you're going to work every day at the agency?
Be easy enough for somebody to follow you going there.
She was asked about that later on, by the way.
She said, Well, we we all have training on how to detect uh tales of people tailing us.
Uh we have training on how to detect them.
Uh, this is common knowledge of anybody in the uh in the in the CIA.
She also said something else very interesting or curious to me.
She made it a point in her opening statement to say my covert status was not widely known on the Georgetown cocktail circuit.
Was not widely known.
That means it was narrowly known.
It was partially known.
I would think if you're a CIA covert agent, no one would know.
But yet her own husband listed her in who's who.
There are any number of people in the Washington cocktail circuit who did know, and that's what I would like to know.
She's going to say she wasn't widely known as a covert agent in the cocktail circuit.
Somebody asked her, well, who did know?
They had a chart up there, and they had all these names of people that know with arrows going to all these different boxes with people's names as to who knew what and who told who.
There's like 20 names up there and different agencies and so forth.
Uh uh, and of course the uh Democrats try to take that chart uh produced by the Republicans and make it look like it was a purposeful willing effort to blow her cover and to ruin her career and so forth.
Uh my my question would be if this many people knew it, how in the world could you have been covert?
There was this one very interesting black box unknown.
So apparently, according to this chart, there's still someone out there who knew she was working at the CIA, and we don't know who it is.
Uh at any rate, uh we've got some audio sound bites on this to uh to illustrate the point.
Uh I'll get to Byron York's suggestion uh suggested questions that you have to understand.
I that there's I can't prove this, just like she can't prove that she's a covert agent.
You know why she can't prove it?
Because she's not allowed to say anything.
That is uh natural security.
So this is this is nothing but a propaganda fest aimed at the Bush administration.
I just like you know, she can't prove she's covert, I I can't prove this.
Well, I wouldn't doubt that uh Plane got together with the Democrats and planned a strategery here and uh and all this.
Because it's plain as day what this is.
It's just it's just more of the relentless assault hearings, and we knew these things were coming, by the way, uh against the Bush administration.
Hell, Dennis Kucinich today, in his questioning of plane, brought up the fired U.S. attorneys, General Shinseki.
Uh he used his question period specifically to make his anti-war case as a potential Democrat presidential candidate.
At any rate, uh brief time out here because of the constraints of time, sit tight, we'll be back and continue.
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One other thing uh about about this point that Robert Novak made, uh how can she say she covert when she's driving to the CIA headquarters every day?
And her answer was, well, Congressman, we we uh we covert agents, why we have training.
Why, we're we're we're trained to spot people that are tailing us.
Yeah, we're we're taught to take evasive measures.
Now I don't doubt that that's true.
I'm sure they all have such training.
They're CIA agents.
But as we all know, the training's probably far from foolproof.
But what does it do?
It teaches you how to notice whether you're being followed.
Okay, good.
But isn't there an ancillary point or an additional observation that someone brilliant like me could make?
Yes, there is.
If you're being followed, it means they already know that you're worth following.
If somebody was following Valerie Plame after she dropped the crumb crunchers off at school and then headed out to CIA headquarters in Langley, it means somebody knew who she was.
No, she didn't say this had happened.
Novak's making the point, how can she say she was covert when she's routinely driving to the building in public every day?
And her answer was, well, we have we have training to spot that and evade it.
Uh training obviously shows you how to shake the tail, but it has nothing to do with what the person following you knows about you, just knows enough to follow you.
Uh and she never asserted that she was being followed.
So uh you know, I I tell you what I'd do.
I if if I Republicans ought to do that.
They can't do this because they don't run the committee, but you know, I would subpoena the Washington cocktail circuit.
I mean, if if Valerie Plame is out there saying it wasn't widely known that she was in the CIA on the uh on the uh Washington, the Georgetown cocktail circuit, it means it was narrowly known, so subpoena.
They were using alcohol.
That's what a cocktail is.
Cocktail is an adult beverage, an adult beverage by definition, one only adults can legally consume.
Subpoena the Georgetown cocktail circuit.
Find out who it was that knew it.
Andrea Mitchell is certainly part of the excuse me, Georgetown cocktail circuit.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, a brief time out here.
Mr. Sturdley was was away yesterday.
Uh plumber had to come to his house.
The other day he was gone, it was his car washed.
Yesterday it was a plumber.
And he didn't hear the Al Sharpton megaphone bullhorn bit with uh Sharpton outside Obama's house or headquarters.
And you gotta hear this.
You gotta hear this, Mr. Snerdley.
So here it is.
Today I challenge Barack Obama to come out here and explain yourself to the community.
Where were you, Obama when we marched for justice in summer?
Where were you when Kawata Poly was abused for telling her story?
Where were you when Freddie's fashion my bird to the ground?
Oh, I I wasn't home.
Uh uh, come out here now and explain those white intellect running your campaign, or I'm gonna talk about your mama, and I won't stop till there is justice.
Okay, Obama, your mama's so fat.
If you poke her in the leg, she leaks gravy.
Your mama's so fat on a scale of one to ten, she's a 737.
Your mama is so fat, she has to have euros in one pocket and pesos in the other.
Your mama's so fat scale of one to ten, she's a 747.
Ladies and gentlemen, Al Sharpton did not leave.
Obama's headquarters.
He had even more to say.
All right, Obama!
Your mama is so fat when she puts on her little black dress, she looks like out of space.
When she was diagnosed with a flesh-eating disease, the doctor gave her 87 years to live.
She puts mayonnaise on aspirin.
When she goes to a restaurant, she looks at the menu and says, okay.
Reverend Sharpton, of course, upset.
Uh that uh Obama not down for the struggle.
And uh is replacing great civil rights activists and leaders like himself and the uh uh Reverend Dax.
All right, a little more analysis here of Valerie Plame and her testimony will get to the audio sound bites of this, but just just some of the thoughts that that I jotted down here as I was listening to this Waxman kept saying uh she was a covert CIA employee.
We have no evidence of this.
Um and Waxman made the point here, we can't delve into it.
They had restrictions, of course, national security.
CIA won't let a whole bunch of things be asked here.
Uh but you know, she served as a covert officer.
She didn't say when.
Uh I started at that point to ask uh to myself uh uh how much she coordinated with the Democrats in this hearing.
Of course, uh asked and answered moments ago.
If she was covert, why was there not a charge against somebody who leaked her name?
Uh and you know, they're playing word games with covert and undercover, undercover is uh uh probably the uh the question, and that's a description that she uh she doesn't want to uh to deal with.
Uh there was a Republican did ask a couple good questions, wanted to know why she went to a Democrat policy meeting with her husband.
She said because she was a spouse.
She then said she had no involvement in sending her husband to Niger.
The Senate Intelligence Committee says the junior uh just the exact opposite.
In fact, her story was that a junior person whose name she doesn't remember had a message on her desk from somebody calling the from the VP's office.
And another colleague just happened to be walking by her desk, and that colleague suggested her husband.
This sounds like the screwyest operation of CIA you can imagine.
I want to go over, I want to review this point uh one more time because it was a Democrat who asked her the question.
It's been out there, Ms. Plame, Ms. Wilson, that your husband uh was recommended for the trip by you.
And she perked up and she said, I'm glad I'm under road.
And I really can't wait to answer this question.
Because I want to put this in context.
And the story that she told uh ends up I mean, you have to conclude that the uh three Republicans on the well, the whole Senate Intelligence Committee report was a lie because the Senate Intelligence Committee report was that she did recommend her husband.
She's calling those people liars.
And the story she told to explain how this happened was that she was minding her own business one day, and somebody near her at a desk got a call from somebody in the White House.
A junior person whose name she doesn't remember had a message on her desk from somebody calling from the vice president's office.
At that point, another colleague happened to be walking by Plame's desk, and this colleague suggested her husband and asked her to write an email to this effect, and that email is what caused the out of context conclusions to be drawn about all this.
So if we are to believe this, she's at her she's at her desk in there doing her covert work.
The vice president's office calls a junior assistant sitting next to her, says something about Saddam and Yellow Cake and Niger.
The assistant or the junior uh person mentions it to Miss Plame, and just at that moment, another colleague happens to be walking by her desk.
What's going on here?
Well, this uh guy just got a call from the White House office.
Penny over here, the junior uh assistant just got a and the colleagues as well.
This is a Valerie, you know you could you ask your husband when you get home tonight.
This is what she actually said.
Could you ask your husband if he'd be willing to do this?
Oh, of course I would.
So it came from her area of the CIA, but it was not prompted by her.
Uh Strains credulity.
Uh uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh she she she went on to say that she was, you know, passive.
In fact, in a brilliant piece of testimony, she said, actually, I wasn't excited about this Congressman because we just had the two-year-old twins.
And at the thought of being home alone for all that time with two-year-old twins, I don't know that I was in favor of my husband going to Niger.
And of course, all the women in the background of the picture of the camera view were laughing and shaking and nodding their heads.
Uh, as oh, yeah, she couldn't possibly have wanted her husband to go.
So uh I don't know, uh some of this was just it was in fact they're gonna make a movie of this, as you know.
She ought to play herself.
She's a great actress.
She's an absolutely fabulous actress.
She also she talked about the unprecedented.
Get this, the unprecedented number of times that the vice president came to the CIA, and she said that was intimidating.
It was it was intimidating.
Now, the CIA briefer who testified in the hearing specifically testified that people CIA were not intimidated and did not feel that way.
The Senate Intelligence Committee in various investigations also found that no one said they were intimidated with the vice president showing up.
But so what if so what if they were?
He's going up there to find out what they know.
The vice president personally cared about it.
He wasn't sending an emissary, didn't send Libby.
He went up there personally to find out what was going on.
Who cares if they're intimidated by the arrival of the vice president?
Anyway, she says they were, and everybody else says that uh that they weren't.
Uh now there are other things.
That basically sums it up.
Let me go to the audio sound bites.
This is a good one.
Tom Davis had this exchange with Valerie Plame Wilson.
The Intelligence Identities Protection Act makes it a crime to knowingly uh disclose the identity of a covert agent, which has a specific definition under the act.
Um did anyone ever tell you that you were so designated?
I'm not a lawyer.
That's why I asked if they told you.
I'm not asking for your interpretation.
No, but uh I I was covert.
I did travel overseas on secret missions within the last time.
I'm not I I'm not arguing with that.
Uh uh what I'm what I'm asking is for purposes of the act, and maybe this just never occurred to you or anybody else at the time.
But did anybody say that you were so designated under the act, or was this just after after it came to fact?
No, no one told me that.
And how about after the disclosure?
How about after the disclosure?
Did anyone then say, gee, you were designated under the act?
This was should not have happened.
Did anybody in the CIA tell you at that point?
No.
Forced to admit there that she was not covered by the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.
We know that she wasn't or Fitzgerald would have prosecuted somebody on it.
She wasn't.
That's why her use of the word covert all day today is strategic and misleading.
So it was time for Henry Waxman uh to try to, you know, cover some of the damage here.
So I'd like to ask you to forget for a moment that he was talking about you.
Imagine he was talking about another undercover agent working on sensitive issues, and that undercover agent, that undercover agent's life was on the line.
Do you have a reaction to that?
Absolutely.
This happened to me, but I like to think I would feel just as passionately it had happened to any of my former colleagues at the CIA.
Is there any circumstance that you can think of that would justify leaking the name of an undercover agent?
No, Congressman.
Whoa, of course not.
Of course not.
Uh how about a double agent who's been caught?
Aldrich Ames uh comes to mind.
At any rate, uh, ladies and gentlemen, it's all it's all you know, it's all poo-poo.
Uh she wasn't covert, and uh she wasn't covered by the act.
It's gonna be real interesting.
Victoria Tenzing, who helped write that act, is going to be a witness this afternoon, and it'll be fascinating to see what she does with Plame's uh testimony.
One final question.
This is Representative Elijah Cummins, said, uh, can we clarify one crucial point?
Whether you worked undercover for the CIA.
You said that your position was covert, but I've heard others say that you weren't covert.
In fact, one of the witnesses who will testify a little bit later, Victoria Tenzing says, quote, Flame was not covert.
She worked at CIA headquarters and had not been stationed abroad within five years.
End of quote.
I know there are restrictions on what you can say today, because we place them on you.
Uh but is Ms. Tenzing's statement correct.
I know I'm here under oath, and I'm here to say that I was a covert officer of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Just like a general is a general, whether he is in the field in Iraq or Afghanistan, when he comes back to the Pentagon, he's still a general.
In the same way, covert operations officers who are serving in the field when they rotate back for a temporary assignment in Washington, they too are still covert.
Temporary as I didn't.
Uh what?
When they rotate back for a temporary assignment, she wasn't rotated back on a temporary assignment.
She came back from wherever she was, and that was that.
Uh I guess it's sort of like her husband is no longer an ambassador, it's still called an ambassador.
I'm I'm always going to be covert, Congressman.
I'm always going to be covert.
No, you're not.
You've been outed.
Well, I don't care.
I'm still covert.
I want to be covert.
Got it.
Going to be covert.
I'll call Mrs. Clinton for the testicle lockbox.
Here's David uh talking to us in the New York through way.
David, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
Great.
Let me talk to the police officer coming up for listen, uh, Valerie Plane is not covert if she's working at Langley.
I worked for CIA for seven years, and when she's overseas, she's covert.
But when you're working in headquarters every day, you are not.
Phone call, sir, that's all.
Yes, sir.
Um let me ask let me ask you a question, David.
Don't take this personally, but anybody can call here and say that they're anybody in anything.
And I understand that.
No, no, But but what how can you talk about what happened at the CIA?
You're former what gives you the right to talk about things there.
Without clearing it with headquarters.
Other than well, I haven't worked for him for quite some time.
I was administration for seven years.
I worked overseas most of that time.
And when I was overseas, every any agent any employee of the CIA that goes overseas is covert.
But when they rotate back to the States and work every day at Langley, that covert status is no longer in effect.
Wait a minute, but boy, wait a minute.
She just said that once you're covert, you're always covert, even when you rotate back.
No, because like you said, anybody can follow anybody.
All you gotta do is sit outside the gates and watch people walk in.
That blows covert status.
So maybe I would think so.
I would think so.
Whether you're CIA or not, this this sounds sensible to me.
Absolutely.
And and she's she's lying out her case to uh promote this democratic agenda that they're working on.
Yeah, there's no question about that, too.
Look, David, I appreciate the call.
Thanks, El Mucho.
Little Spanish lingo there.
One more call before we have to go to the break.
Remember Tom Delay at the top of the next hour about his new book, Kennewick Washington.
This is Ted.
Nice to have you with us on Open Line Friday, sir.
Rush, it is an honor.
Um first a compliment on uh ball of fire sauna, Johnny Cash song uh here a couple weeks ago.
I'm still laughing about that one.
Thank you, sir.
Um I just wanted to ask you, I guess, as the you know, someone I emulate uh somewhat, or you're on my list of people I emulate.
I would ask that you would live responsibly, not pollute.
You've been talking about SUVs and global warming.
I don't buy the global warming thing uh much either, but don't you think that pollution, I mean if you can live responsibly and not pollute, shouldn't you do that?
I do live responsibly and I don't pollute.
Okay, because I I was under the What about Now wait a minute.
What is all this?
What you you're you're calling here with the assumption that I live irresponsibly and pollution.
Not some not irresponsible.
I just uh in your talking about uh your vehicle driving an SUV and and I don't have an SUV.
The staff has the SUV.
Okay.
It just the impression I got when in listening to you over the last couple of weeks.
I don't like SUVs, frankly.
I don't like riding in them.
I don't like driving them, but the staff needs one to go to all the stores.
Sure.
Um I guess my point is as somebody who holds as much esteem as you do to encourage not not necessarily because of global warming.
I don't like I say, I don't agree that's uh that's the case either.
It's cut to the chase here.
You you're you are accusing me for some reason of living life to an excess, correct?
You you think I am I'm I'm uh uh doing more than I should be doing.
I'm I'm living life uh excessively.
I'm going overboard, I have things I don't need, I go places I don't need to go.
This this is what you're saying, correct?
No, no.
What I is the impression I got uh in listening to you over the last couple of weeks is that uh it's uh it you're entitled to uh you know blow off living uh you know pollution or trying to diminish your pollution.
You need to be calling Al Gore.
Al Gore's the one is a big house and buying all this and going out and buying carbon credits and not cutting back on what he's what he's using.
I'm still clueless as to what I'm guilty of here.
I'm not accusing you of living large or living irresponsibly.
But you should because I do.
I have earned it.
I like I like living large and I like being a role model.
I would hope others would emulate my example just as I have emulated others.
I am proud as I can be of what I've accomplished and what I have and what I do with it.
I am I am proud as I can be of my philanthropy.
I am as proud as I turn off lights at night.
I guess about how many in the house do I have?
I only leave a hundred of them on, something like that.
All right.
I guess until there's more testimony this afternoon, we've exhausted my in-depth exhaustive analysis of the Valerie Plame appearance before the uh House uh government oversight uh and legal defense committee today.
But I have to tell you something, folks.
After all is said and done, I frankly don't care.
This woman is a babe.
This woman is a babe.
And if she weren't married, I don't care what she's done or what her political affiliation is.
I'd be throwing my hat in the ring.
And now back to the phones.
Lee in in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Yes, hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Let's talk about the college Sheikh Mohammed situation.
And I personally believe that the government passes simply because there's overwhelming evidence indicates that September 11th was an inside job.
Government used explosives to blow up World Trade Center 7 and Twin Towers.
Look at you you've uh I appreciate your calling.
Uh your happening to get through in this program is not your fault.
Your time is up.
Uh Mr. Snerdley is to blame for allowing you to get through.
Open line Friday is what it is.
We don't allow cooks.
Kookery is never allowed here.
And if you're going to talk about 9-11 being an inside job and the Khalik Sheikh Muhammad, if you're going to start agreeing with Rosie O'Donnell, I would suggest rehab and treatment, counseling and so forth, because unlo you know, like Rosie, you've probably got really deep issues from your childhood that need to be resolved.
Because you, sir, are a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance, and I simply am intolerant of it.
I don't care what day of the week.
Montgomery, Alabama, this is Mora.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
It's a very good thing.
Fine and Andy.
Couldn't couldn't be better.
Oh, yes.
And tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, so I want to wish you a very happy St. Patrick's Day.
Thank you.
But I I I have been listening to you now for 19 years, and next year we'll be 20.
Are you planning a big celebration for your 20th anniversary?
Yes.
Oh, good.
We're looking forward to that.
So we're working working on a number of things.
I mean, you have to do it.
Uh 20th anniversary, yeah, you have to do it.
Yes.
Well, we're looking forward to that, and we just wish you lots of luck, uh Russ.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thanks.
Thanks so much.
You're that's going to happen a year from August.
Our 19th anniversary will be this August the first.
Uh, and the 20th anniversary.
The problem with the 20th anniversary, can't do it all in one day.
Uh, we might have to spread it out over.
It may take three months to celebrate the 20th anniversary.
And it's going to be a challenge to incorporate our retrospectives along with uh current events that we comment on because it's going to be an election year.
So it's uh it's gonna be exciting.
It'll be any number of uh things.
I I we don't have anything specific, but I we we know that we uh we're going to do something.
That's great.
Well, I appreciate your calling, uh Mora.
Thanks.
Tom and Long Island are out on Long Island.
Nice to have you with us.
We got one minute, one minute, make it count.
Okay, Rush.
Um, been listening since 1996.
I listen to you on the internet, and I get the station WLS.
And um, they play commercials during your show advertising a website that is for fights global warming.
And they make some very egregious claims.
Well, that's fine.
You can't hold WLS to blame for this.
So WLS, like all of our affiliate stations are in it for the money.
It's a business.
Don't misunderstand that.
And the global warming crowd, why should they advertise to their choir?
They advertise uh at least once an hour every day on your show.
Fine and dandy.
It means they're worried about us here.
It means that we're effective.
I applaud WLS for taking this kind of advert.
Now, I am a little offended.
I've been getting words that um uh you know uh some of the spots run on our smaller affiliate stations, like for penile enhancements.
Uh that is a concern.
But uh the libs buying global warming spots on LS, bring it on.
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