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April 24, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 24, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Thank you, Johnny Donovan.
Oh, I was running down the hall there.
Woo!
I had to get some liquid refreshment here to, well, that's an old expression, wet my whistle.
Hmm.
Well, there's a lot going on, and in this final hour together, it's certainly nice to have you here knowing that you'll continue to be on the cutting edge of societal evolution tomorrow, because Rush will be back.
America's anchorman will be back in the chair, and all will be well.
I am coming to you from the Midwest campus of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, where, as you know by now, there is never a final exam, but we are tested every day.
Paul W. Smith from Detroit, Michigan, Motown, the motor city.
In spite of what you're hearing in the news about Toyota topping GM in the first quarter global sales for the first time ever, Toyota sold more vehicles globally in a quarter than General Motors, the preliminary January through March figures showing the clearest sign yet that the Japanese company is on track to overtake its U.S. rival as the world's top automaker.
Everybody knew it was coming.
It's just here, it seems, at least for the first part of 2007.
And it does affect all of us in a variety of ways.
Meanwhile, we are also home of the growing life sciences corridor and of the largest supply of fresh water in the world.
Although there is news in the news today regarding some kind of a bug or bacteria or something, some problem possibly happening in the Great Lakes.
That's all we didn't need to hear.
Thanks to our executive producer, Cookie Gleason, our chief of staff, Russia's chief of staff, of course, H.R. Kit Carson and the engineer Mike Maimon, and all the rest of the folks on the team here and there.
Here is in Detroit, in the Golden Tower of the Fisher Building.
There is in New York.
There's the Southern Command.
They're all over the place as they always tidy up and get ready for Russia's return tomorrow to the program.
All right, open line, if you will, whatever is on your mind.
I'd like to hear a thing or two from you at 1-800-282-2882.
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We know that the president is at least at this point standing firmly against a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
He is saying, again, he will veto the latest war spending bill taking shape in Congress.
He's disappointed, obviously.
Can't be surprised, but disappointed, as he puts it, that the Democratic leadership has chosen this course.
They chose to make a political statement, further quoting the president.
They chose to make a political statement.
That's their right, but it's wrong for our troops and it's wrong for our country.
To accept the bill proposed by the Democratic leadership would be to accept a policy that directly contradicts the judgment of our military commanders.
Read my lips.
A veto is coming.
No, he didn't say that.
He did not write that.
Peggy Noonan didn't write it.
None of the script writers wrote that.
He just, that's what he's saying in a sense without using those words.
We'll see what happens.
It will be fascinating, and Rush will cover all of this when he is back with you tomorrow.
Meanwhile, mourners, some clutching flowers, weeping, filing past the open casket of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush will represent the United States at tomorrow's funeral.
Oftentimes, when listening to Rush, hear him refer to himself, as do you, as America's anchorman, well, there is an unanchor woman who's in big trouble.
In fact, there are people already saying Katie Couric is on the way out.
I can't, I would find that hard to believe.
There's a lot of money involved here that was committed to her.
It is a sad and unfortunate situation because she was great in the morning on the Today Show.
She did a great job.
That's what she did very well.
She couldn't help herself.
She wanted to do more.
She was offered a lot of money to do more.
And unfortunately, people miss the fun Katie, apparently.
And it's not easy to be the fun Katie when you've got the news stories that are out there day in and day out.
I'm wondering what this book will be like.
Carl Bernstein's biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton to be published by Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf, in June, called A Woman in Charge, The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
640 pages.
And it covers her life right up through her decision to run for president.
That can't be true because she made that decision years and years ago with her husband.
That's part of the deal.
But they are saying, they, the publicity people, that this book by Carl Bernstein reaches conclusions that stand in opposition to what Hillary Clinton has said and written about herself.
Hmm.
Mr. Bernstein has been working on this book, which was done without Mrs. Clinton's at least official cooperation.
He's been working on it for eight years.
And the initial print run, 350,000 copies in the United States alone.
Do you think?
Well, do you think you'll buy it?
Or do you have to hear what it's about?
If it's negative, if it has a lot of new information or whatever, maybe that would make you want to buy it.
Or maybe there's no way you would buy a book about Hillary Rodham Clinton no matter what.
I must tell you, if you were to just compare Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and with everything I know about Senator Clinton and with as little I know about Senator Obama, you can't help but lean toward Obama at this point.
It'll be a fascinating, a fascinating fight, that's for sure.
Alrighty, we, oh, I do have, I have a problem.
I need your help.
And there's no better place to come than to hear on your favorite radio station, on your favorite radio program, the Russian Limbaugh program, I need your help.
I need you to tell me what is going on with the Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez.
What is going on with the president, our president, saying that now more than ever, he supports Alberto Gonzalez.
That's since seeing the Attorney General on the stand before Congress, since hearing about it, seeing it, reading it, however he took in the information that he needed to, he said, quote, it was clear the Attorney General broke no laws.
This is an honest, honorable man in whom I have confidence.
And Gonzalez then says he would remain as Attorney General, quote, as long as he can continue, as long as I can continue to serve effectively.
He's got guys out there, like Carl Inspector, not a big surprise, but like Carl Inspector, saying this guy can't possibly serve effectively.
And frankly, I don't know how he can either.
I just, he can't be that stupid.
So, of course, there are those saying that he's covering up for the president, covering up for Karl Rove.
The problem I have is that the Attorney General got himself in this position when he didn't need to.
Because all he had to say was we replaced these prosecutors because we wanted to.
And he shouldn't have said anything else.
He shouldn't have been worried about how they'd react if he knew history and the positions that have been taken in the past.
He shouldn't have said anything.
Well, unless he wanted to say, well, of course, as you all know, asking me this question, this is the way it's always been.
Federal prosecutors serve at the pleasure of the president, and the president has decided to make a change.
Why?
Because he's decided to make a change.
Why?
Are they doing a bad job?
The president has decided to make a change.
So, regardless of all the other stuff and this being handed to the Democrats and the opposition on a silver platter, he is, if not anything else, responsible, he, Alberto Gonzalez, for this incredible mess.
Now the president, who's always been loyal to all of his people, is forced into standing by him right up until he doesn't.
Or at least Alberto Gonzalez says, you know, maybe I can't continue to serve effectively, and he makes the move.
But the point is, somebody please help me understand.
I understand wanting to be loyal to someone on your team.
I understand not wanting to cave to the ridiculousness, the firestorm from the Democrats.
It is the biggest non-story that I know of ever in Washington, and yet it's become this.
And the president continues to stand by him.
And at this point, for the mistake alone of not just not talking, of not just saying, we have replaced these prosecutors because we wanted to.
The president decided to.
If anyone can help me understand, it's you.
What am I missing here?
I'm a strong supporter of our president.
I don't say he hasn't made mistakes.
He's made lots of them.
But I don't know what's going on here.
And maybe you do.
Maybe Rush has explained it and I've missed it.
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I am Paul W. Smith.
It's making me think of John Travolta, one of his many green, I'm sure, planes that he has.
It's not easy to dance like this and stay right in front of the microphone either.
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I can't even read this story from the New York Post.
This was sent to me by the guys.
April 24th, today's New York Post.
You can probably go to New YorkPost.com under the headline, Rosie Grosses Out Media Elite.
Now, they hire Rosie O'Donnell to be their MC, a big event for women in communications, an annual luncheon honoring all these women.
And 2,000 people there, and they're grossed out by what Rosie O'Donnell says.
Now, I can't say any of I can't say anything that she says on this thing, but you'll have to read it and get a kick out of it.
What do they expect?
This is like when they had Don Imis down there for that dinner in Washington, and there's President Clinton, and at the time, First Lady Clinton, and Don is doing what he does, and what he's done and gotten away with for 30 years.
I've never liked it.
I don't like him.
He's not a nice man.
He's a troubled, miserable guy.
But it's what he always did.
So when his company fired him, it was because he crossed a line.
That was the bottom line that he crossed.
And as soon as people started complaining and canceling advertising, then, of course, they saw the light and really their selective indignation came in, and they said, oh, boy, we've got to get rid of this guy for doing what he's been doing for 30 years.
You know, he just signed a new contract, $10 million a year, five years, I think it was.
And they'll say in there, well, you're fired for cause.
And then all his lawyer has to do is play any other Don Imis show in court, and the case is over.
It's what he's always done.
But anyway, so you hire Don to do something.
You get what Don does.
You hire Rosie O'Donnell to get something to do something, and you're going to get Rosie O'Donnell.
That's the way it is.
She was actually genuinely funny the other day.
I didn't see it, but I've seen it.
And that's like all over the web and everywhere else on that ridiculousness.
Cheryl Crowe wants to go.
She wants to get rid of global warming one toilet tissue square at a time because she feels that's what we should be limited to to help our planet.
And Rosie O'Donnell, the other day on The View, said, Hey, Cheryl, have you seen my big behind?
Oh, oh, I just had a picture in my mind there for a moment.
I'm sorry, I probably shouldn't have done that.
But anyway, it actually was, it was funny.
And I am one of those guys who believes that there is an effect that we have on our climate, on our environment.
We do.
I just don't believe that it's as bad as they make it out to be in that industry and that we don't have to stop doing everything.
And that I don't think we'll ever be at a point where we can only use one square of toilet tissue.
Anyway, let's move on to you at 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
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Paul W. Smith in for Rush Rush is back tomorrow, and we're going to Felicia in Huntington.
Hello, Felicia.
Hi, Mr. Smith.
Thanks for taking my call.
I just wanted to get back to Mr. Gaffney's film.
I think everybody's missing the point.
PBS won't air it because it might actually show the American people that Bush is right and Bush knows what he's talking about.
You know, a lot of people say the war is being fought wrong.
There's mistakes.
Every war has mistakes.
But Bush knows the evils of that religion.
And that's what part of this film probably will show.
And God help us if we actually stood by the president and showed that he might know what he's talking about.
Well, you'll never get the institutional media to stand by the president.
That's it.
It's over.
There's no chance.
And certainly public broadcasting isn't going to stand by.
But this was an opportunity for Muslims in their own words and own way to talk about what they agree with and what they don't agree with.
And that's truly unfortunate.
But I have a great deal of confidence and faith in Frank Gaffney in getting this before us on another channel.
If he can do that, they may say they own it.
If they fight him and keep it off other channels, then boy, you'll really know that they're up to no good.
That's for sure.
And that's a good point.
And I appreciate the point, Felicia, as we go to Terry in St. Peter's, Missouri on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Terry.
Hi, Paul W. Transplanted Detroiter Dittos to you, buddy.
Oh, isn't that nice, Terry?
We miss you, but we're glad you're doing well.
As well as can be expected.
You know, Mr. Gonzalez, not necessarily the swiftest bear in the forest, but Bush has no choice in this matter but to stand by him, A, because nothing was done illegally or improperly, just sloppily.
That's the point.
That's the point.
That's the problem.
But the problem is this.
Like Carl Rove, Gonzalez is nothing more than a proxy for Bush himself.
And you got the sharks in the tank.
And if they get this piece of meat, they're going to go after another piece of meat.
So all you're doing is rewarding their behavior if we succumb and give Mr. Gonzalez his walking papers.
It's almost like saying the president has finally figured out that the Democrats won't rest until they have destroyed the president, which he should have known that a long time ago.
Well, you know, as much as I love the president and have been a card-carrying member of the Republican Party for many, many years, I've come to the conclusion that their IQ really does challenge the level of a pet rock.
And they just don't have within them the fighting spirit to take these guys on.
These are not nice people.
I mean, if you look at our friend from Pennsylvania, former chairman of the committee, I mean, he owes Bush his seat in the Senate, and he's biting the hand that fed him.
This is nothing new.
You know, this is nothing new for Senator Arlen Spector.
I've always liked him personally.
I lived and worked in Philadelphia.
I'm aching for Philadelphia right now with the murder problems they have that are making the news like one a day.
And our affiliate to WPHT there, and I know what they're all going through, and I feel for them.
But the fact of the matter is, I'm sorry, I forgot where I was going with that because I just found out we're out of time.
And so we'll get back to your calls here.
Sorry about that, Terry.
at 1-800-282-2882, and I'll try to think about the point I was making about, oh, Arlen Spector, yes, because I worked in Philly, and I always liked him, but I've always, he's always been more like a Democrat than a Republican in so many ways.
We'll get back to that coming up.
Thanks, Johnny Donovan.
Thanks to Ray Prosser here in Detroit with me, pushing all the buttons that he has to push.
And, of course, they're in the East Coast offices of the or the East Coast campus of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Our executive producer, Cookie Gleason, Chief of Staff, H.R. Kip Carson, engineer Mike Maymone, and that entire team of people that work so hard to make this show and this show's products and items like the newsletter, like the website, rushlimbaugh.com, and everything that we enjoy so much about this program.
So good.
They do such a great job behind the scenes.
Let's go to you on the telephone, 1-800-282-2882 with whatever's on your mind.
I completely lost my train of thought here as we were talking about Philadelphia because Arlen Specter came up.
Arlen Spector once said, Senator Erlen Spector, of course, once said that he would have loved to have been a radio talk show host.
And he used to come to the radio station there in Philly and the old WWDB and talk about it.
And it was something.
Let's go to David and see what's on David's mind here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello, David.
Hello, Paul.
How are you doing?
I want to take a quick opportunity to jump on you and give you some clarity on why President Bush is sticking with Gonzales.
Yeah, that would be helpful.
He's taken on the media.
This is the thing, Paul.
If you reverse this situation, and if this was Orrin Hatch attempting to make a media spectacle that Janet Reno needs to come down to Congress and testify publicly under oath of why she fired eight of Clinton's U.S. state appointees, they would just make it, the media would just laugh and make Orrin Hatch look like somebody who was trying to undermine the executive branch's ability under the Constitution.
And this is the power of the media.
And that's why at MediaReform.com, Paul, we're leading a revolution to take back our country from the media utilizing just conservative talk radio listeners alone.
There's 40 million conservative talk radio listeners.
David, I appreciate that, but we aren't in the, you know, I already felt very uncomfortable, frankly.
I love Frank Gaffney on as a guest, but he was giving out phone numbers and all of that.
We've never.
Rush has gotten hits for, people have said in the past, this goes back years, that people say, oh, Rush Limbaugh, he would tell everyone to call us and he jammed up our phone lines.
He never did that, ever, ever, ever.
So when this guy started, when Frank started giving phone numbers, well, call your congressman and do this, and he gave a phone number, I was like, but I wasn't able to hit buttons to turn him off at that point or to talk to him in between time, say, let's not do that.
But I certainly have to do that with you, David, right now with your website, and I appreciate that.
But my problem here, and I understand loyalty, and this president has been very loyal to a lot of people.
But what I don't understand is how this happened in the first place.
That's the part I don't understand.
Why the Attorney General didn't just say because.
Why did the President do this?
Because he can.
Check the Constitution.
Check the history of the last several administrations.
Next question.
Well, were they doing a bad job?
This has nothing to do with anything other than these people serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States, and a change is being made.
Well, yeah, but is it fair to do what blah, This is what's happening.
Next question.
And then we wouldn't have all of this.
And we wouldn't have the president having to stand by his man because the opportunity was once again handed on a silver platter to the opposition party, which includes the media, much of the mainstream cold or drive-by, as Rush might say, or institutional, as I might say, media.
So that's the problem.
That's where the questions come up, I think, at least.
Let's go back to you on the telephone with whatever is on your mind.
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I'm Paul W. Smith, and this is Chris in Albuquerque.
Hello, Chris.
Hi, Paul.
Thanks for taking my call.
It's why we're here.
I don't mean to keep coming back to this subject, but I've kind of been in and out all day listening to the show, so kind of bear with me.
But I was listening to about this PBS program, and, you know, that's not going to get shown.
And I am a Muslim living here in America, my husband and I.
And I'm just really disappointed.
I'm fortunate that I get to live in a city where it's pretty tolerant.
You know, we have such a wide mix of people, so we don't feel or see a lot of the, what am I trying to say?
The, you know, we don't feel a lot of hate, you know, crimes and stuff towards us here.
But I'm just very disappointed because, you know, I've heard people talking all day, you know, about the evil of Islam, the evil of this.
And this was an opportunity for people, you know, well-bred, educated people, to see that that's not what it's like.
You know what I mean?
That's not, and what we have to deal with, you know, living here in America as Muslims.
And, you know, it's not an evil.
Of course, I'm not going to preach anything about my religion and what I believe and everything, but it would give an opportunity, you know, for people who are really scared and afraid these days of Muslims living in America and what we're up to and what we're doing and what we're trying to scheme.
And it's so not like that.
And I'm just so disappointed that they're not going to, I mean, I hope they do allow this to err.
But, you know, I just, I, you know, I challenge those out there, you know, who are afraid and are afraid of any of the word Muslim or somebody from who's overseas to take the time.
And if you're in a big city, go talk to somebody who believes in the religion and find out for yourself.
You know, don't believe everything that you hear media-wise, whether it's newspaper or on TV or whatever.
You know, go find out for yourself.
You'd be very, very, very surprised what a person of the Islamic faith believes.
And, you know, don't be afraid of it.
And if you really want to be knowledgeable and you want to find out for yourself, go talk to somebody.
Nine times out of ten, a person who believes in the faith is going to talk to you and say, hey, look, this is what we believe.
And what's going on overseas with the extremists and stuff is not what we believe.
And we're totally against that.
And I just hope that it's able to be shown.
I want to see it for myself.
And hopefully it'll ease maybe ease some fears of a lot of the people across the United States who are afraid of Muslims and what they believe.
Because we're generally truly not an evil people.
Chris, do you realize how important your call is and how meaningful it is for people to hear you say, I'm a Muslim living here in America, and all I hear is about Muslims and hate and fear and all of that.
Although a lot of the conversation today was, if there was hate, and we don't use that word anymore, it was against PBS for keeping us from seeing another point of view or another perspective in their America at the Crossroads series in the film that Frank Gaffney, our guest, was a co-producer of, Islam versus, do you say Islamists or Islamists?
Islamists.
I say Islamists too, but Frank Gaffney kept saying Islamists, and so I tried to copy him figuring he knew better than me.
Oh, it's a weakness on my part.
But he made the film.
But anyway, Islam versus Islamists, voices from the Muslim Center.
Obviously, we need to hear Muslims standing up and saying what you just said.
So what you just said is, I presume, part of what that film is about.
And that is, wait a second, that isn't us.
We aren't all like that.
Those are the extremists.
All right, but then, Chris, unfortunately, it begs the question, where are all you guys when something like this happens?
Good question.
Good question.
Be honest.
No, no, that is a very good question, actually.
I guess for me, you know.
Do you fear for your life?
Me personally, no.
If you speak out against the extremists.
No.
You know what?
I guess having said that, again, I'm living in the United States.
I myself am a convert.
My husband is born and raised overseas.
You know, he's actually from Egypt.
Now, now let me tell you, I have lived overseas as well.
And actually, we moved there about six months after 9-11.
We were in Cairo.
I taught English while we were living over there.
And I have to be completely honest, during that six months after 9-11, I was actually in Cairo when 9-11 happened.
The six months to a year that we were there afterwards, oh, no, no, no.
I didn't admit where I was from that I was an American.
You know, all my flag t-shirts, and unfortunately, I hate to say it, but went into the doors and stuff.
I was very careful about, you know, because I got questioned a lot and I got looked at a lot.
Now, if I'm overseas, wait a second.
For those six months after 9-11, you were concerned?
I thought the world was with us after 9-11.
Keep in mind, we were only there for the year afterwards, and then we came back to the United States.
So, I mean, when I was over there, you know, there was a lot of, I don't know, I guess it's hard for me to explain because I'm not really involved with politics.
I'm one of these people who, you know, I get, I don't know, I guess I don't know how to explain.
I'm not really involved in politics.
There's so much going on in my life.
I don't take the time I wish I did.
But after 9-11, yeah, I was, I guess I was, I guess I was more concerned about being from America, you know, than as far as my religious basis.
But that's my point.
That's what confuses me, Chris.
Forgive me.
I'm just trying to follow and pay attention.
And that is right after 9-11, we were under the impression the world was with us.
We had not yet attacked anybody.
It was only six months after you said you were there.
So for those six months, I wouldn't have thought, I would have thought of anything.
I was in Germany, for example, when 9-11 happened.
And all I got, obviously we're talking apples and oranges, but all I got was compassion from the Germans when they found out I was an American.
Well, yeah, no, you know what?
And for most of the people, the circle of people that I hung out with, friends, family that were over there, that was compassion.
But like out on the streets, people that I didn't know, as far as where are you from when they heard me speak, where are you from?
And, you know, America, you know, or if they knew that I was from America, there were a lot of people who, for whatever reason, you know, didn't, you know, weren't real happy with knowing where I was from for whatever reason.
All right, let's jump ahead to.
You do understand, though, how many people wonder when something horrific happens and some Islamic group takes credit for it or whatever, that we don't hear an outcry from other Islams, other Muslims about this to defend Islam or whatever.
Now, you may think in your mind, well, I don't have to defend that because that's not what we do.
That's not a religion.
But we don't understand that.
And you know we don't understand that.
You need a Muslim PR agency.
I got to run, Chris.
You're absolutely right.
And I guess I'm not very, you know, I'm not very.
I wish I was more active.
Well, you could go out there and speak and let people know how you feel and how we should have a better view of you and others that think like you that we don't hear about very often and certainly didn't get to see in Islam versus Islamists voices from the Muslim Center that we spoke about earlier with Frank Gaffney.
Thanks for your call, Chris.
I really appreciate it.
As we continue here on the Rush Limbaugh program, I'm Paul W. Smith.
All right.
Maybe not a surprise to you at all, you staying on top of everything here on your favorite radio station and with Rush three hours a day, including tomorrow back in the chair.
We are taking your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
That's 1-800-282-2882, the Rush Limbaugh program.
Paul W. Smith, filling in from Detroit, Michigan, and passing along this bit of news.
You've heard of the Rasmussen poll on the heels of a burst of successful fundraising.
Democratic 2008 presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama has pulled even with frontrunner Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Even they both have 32% among likely Democratic voters.
That's from the Rasmussen report.
And in late March, just last month, Senator Clinton held a 12-point lead over Obama in that same poll.
That's amazing.
And interestingly enough, former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina was third in the poll with 17%, showing that the waxing obviously worked.
1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882 with whatever's on your mind, Bill in Melbourne, Florida.
Hello, Bill.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Yeah, hey, Paul, that's Phil.
Finally, I'm sorry.
Would you consider changing your name to changing your name to Bill?
No, I wouldn't, buddy.
All right, all right.
Phil, go ahead, Phil.
Anyway, listen, this is in reference to the call our free was talking about Attorney General Gonzalez.
You know, I mean, did you just wake up some morning to decide he was guilty, or was it after you heard it in the press and the Congress was going to be in there?
You know, I mean, Phil, changed your mind.
Have you been listening, Phil?
Yes, I have.
Well, what part of this in anything that I said?
Can I speak for just a moment while you stop for just a second, Phil?
I let you be heard.
Now you're going to hear me.
Or you can hang up in anger if you'd like, but I'll keep talking because I never hang up in anger.
Phil, I haven't said that Gonzalez is guilty of anything but opening his mouth and speaking and saying too much about something he shouldn't have.
And he's a lawyer and knows how dangerous that is.
Are you still there, Phil?
Yeah, I'm just waiting you finish.
All right, Phil.
I will signify I'm done by a short beeping sound.
Beep.
Okay.
First, I mean, several of the adjectives you use to describe him and stuff.
He wasn't guilty of anything, hasn't been guilty of anything.
I didn't say he was.
Okay.
Just a minute.
That was good, Phil.
Good.
He wasn't guilty of anything.
This is just a matter of just like they did with Scooter Libby.
They're going to be bringing him to the Congress and be bringing him up there just to find something wrong.
That's all it is.
It's a witch hunt.
It's all it has been.
But when will they learn that when they haven't done anything wrong by saying things and contradicting themselves like Scooter Libby, now like the Attorney General, that's when the Democrats, the opposition party, jumps on them and repeats this stuff because the media is thrilled to be a part of it.
Do you disagree with me, Phil, that all the Attorney General had to say was, we did it because they serve at the pleasure of the president and the president decided to make a change?
I agree in hindsight.
There's many innocent people.
No, many hindsight.
Where have they been this last several years understanding the way they're going to get jumped on?
This is not hindsight.
That's never going to stop, though.
As Rush has said many, many times before, over and over and over again, these are liberals.
These are Democrats.
This is the media.
I understand that.
They do.
So let's say.
They're not going to do anything right.
But at least they wouldn't be doing this because they wouldn't be able to.
Well, I mean, I just give the man a little bit more ability in that.
He made a mistake.
It wasn't enough to get him fired.
It wasn't enough for everybody to come down on the way it was.
He did not.
No, but it's been enough to take all of this time, all of this effort on something that's meaningless.
We've got plenty of problems in our country that need to be dealt with.
Not wasting time on this kind of foolishness.
And if you think the mainstream media, the institutional media, the drive-by media is going to stand up and take responsibility for it, come on.
They're not.
But this is nothing new.
And so you say to yourself, not again.
This is the Rush Limbaugh program.
I'm Paul W. Smith.
I know that team at rushlimbaugh.com.
I bet you can find the piano-playing cat who caused the internet sensation there later.
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