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June 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 5, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It is unbelievable.
It's been a rogue trial, and now this is a rogue sentencing.
30 months, two and a half years for Scooter Libby on a case where no charge was ever brought related to the original investigation.
Meanwhile, while Scooter Libby is going to jail for 30 months if he ever sees the inside of a cell, some question about the appeal process had gone a while.
While Scooter Libby is sentenced to two and a half years in jail, all kinds of people crossing the border of this country illegally are going to be forgiven for it.
If the Senate bill ever becomes law, amnesty.
And of course, then we have Sandy Bergler, who committed a real crime and got a slap on the wrist, loses his law license, a $10,000 fine.
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It's uncertain.
This just happened right before Showtime.
So I am trying to keep track of all of this, even while hosting the program.
I can multitask.
But so far, I haven't heard anything other than speculation as to whether or not Scooter will be allowed to remain free during the appeals process.
He's appealing the original conviction and will appeal the sentencing as well.
And if he is allowed to remain free, this appeals process going for a year and a half.
I mean, it could take him to the end of the Bush administration.
The question of a pardon, people keep asking whether or not President Bush will pardon Scooter Libby.
President said he's staying out of this until all of the appeals processes have been concluded.
So there may not be any adjudication on this until that, as far as pardon is concerned, until the appeals process is done.
And that all depends on whether Scooter has to go to jail immediately or whether he is allowed to remain free during the appeals process.
If I know Patrick Fitzfong, he's going to push for immediate incarceration.
It remains to be seen.
One of the things about it, if Scooter is sent to jail early, that becomes a problem for the president and pardon.
It's technically, well, not technically.
It's historically, presidents are much less reluctant to pardon people who are in prison than those who are not.
Although you could say it's a rule of thumb, but it actually isn't.
It just seems like the whole thing was surreal.
There was no charge.
I mean, the leaking of Valerie Plam, the real liars and the people who obstructed justice and made a mockery of it are living free in Santa Fe, New Mexico, preparing to write a book, Valerie Plam and her esteemed husband, Joseph Wilson.
This is, you look at what happened.
Look at William Jefferson, Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
The Democrats are circling the wagons, just as I said.
I've got a story here from the AP.
They're all concerned what will happen to people of New Orleans.
Oh, no, they're still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
Oh, my gosh, we can't take away the most powerful congressman during this period of time.
It's an AP story about this.
You've got Jefferson federal indictment, 16 counts.
They've got him on videotape taking bribes, offering bribes.
They got $90,000 in cash.
It took him all this time to come down with the indictment.
Meanwhile, Delay thrown out of office on a hacked prosecution simply because the Republicans, in another one of their brilliant and esteemed moments when they assumed control of the House, Republicans eager to show America that they are clean and pure as the wind-driven snow and eager to see and show that they would run the House with great magnanimity, blah, blah, blah, passed a stupid rule that said if any of their leadership were ever indicted,
that member would automatically be forced to step down and resign his post in the leadership in the House.
Of course, that happened to Lay, you know, the old Ronnie Earle indictment.
So I'm telling you, folks, conservatives are the targets.
And in Washington, D.C., there are, even with Republican-appointed judges, there are two sets of standards for justice and criminality.
It's a, to me, it's just rogue, a rogue trial, a rogue sentencing.
A judge didn't let Scooter bring in his own experts on memory.
They wanted to bring in some experts on memory loss and so forth.
What's amazing about this is that the judge, and I read, and by the way, I'm not surprised at this.
A lot of people are.
I read some things earlier this week, late last week, from people who have been analyzing this.
The judge is going to have to be lenient with Scooter because the judge has seen all the classified documents and he has seen all of the great work that Scooter Libby has done in the defense of this country.
His daily agenda would exhaust an average triathlete.
And the judge has got to see this.
The judge has got to know that Scooter Libby has done great things for this country.
He's performed a great service, never had any run-ins with the law.
Blah, blah.
I say, isn't going to matter.
Isn't going to matter.
Said to myself.
None of that's going to matter.
Fitzfong went out there and said demanding three years in jail and so forth.
And it's the way the judges run the trial.
What happened today is perfectly consistent with the way the whole trial went.
Why anybody would think that there would be a vast difference in direction on the part of the judge at the sentencing is beyond me.
I think wishful thinking.
At any rate, that's what it is.
We'll wait to find out if the judge will allow Scooter to remain free during the appeals process.
That seems to be the conventional wisdom right now that he will be.
You know, the meanwhile, William Jefferson and the Democrats have just established a new caucus in the House of Representatives, a kickback caucus.
Congressman William Jefferson is now the new chairman of the kickback caucus.
They reward this kind of stuff.
Hey, Pelosi tearing their hair out.
All these were, oh, what do I do about Congressman Jefferson?
I want to pull him out.
But the Congressional Black Caucus said, not so fast, babe.
Not so fast.
Innocent until proven guilty.
You're not going to strip him of his committee.
And then these stories about the people of New Orleans will suffer so much if their most powerful member of Congress is taken away from them.
Oh, pity, pity, pity.
In the meantime, this, by the way, this, unbeknownst to most because it doesn't get reported, but there are real rifts between Pelosi and the Congressional Black Caucus.
It was one of the reasons why the Democrats are so eager to get all these illegal aliens legalized so they can become voters eventually down the road.
So, and I've got a couple stories about the problems in the Democrat Party.
You don't hear much about them, but they're there, and we'll spend some time dissecting them.
Richard Armitage, the original leaker in the Plam case, he gets no time.
He's not even getting a slap on the head.
Why, he didn't even get a subpoena to, what do you mean asking me about Armitage?
What do you do wasting my time bringing up real facts in this case?
This case is, this is a rogue case.
I know Armitage was the original leaker.
This is a rogue case.
It's a rogue trial.
And it's a rogue sentencing.
That's what makes all of this so surreal.
Let me throw all this other stuff.
Look at Mirtha.
You got Nancy Pelosi appointing Mirtha, tried to appoint him to her leadership committee.
That didn't fly.
But this, this, this, I think it's a bit of a public display of angst on her part to want to have to get rid of Congressman William Jefferson because the fact of the matter is, you know, Democrats are trying to make this claim that the culture corruption was something owned exclusively by the Republicans.
So she is kind of caught between a rock and a hard place with Congressman William Jefferson, now chairman of Kickback Caucus, a prominent Democrat.
You know, there are a lot of news stories.
Do you even mention his political party?
That's why I keep hammering to you people when I refer to this man, Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, because a bunch of stories don't even mention his political party.
So, anyway, the whole mess here, Diane Feinstein's business is not being pursued, the stuff with her husband.
I mean, so many double standards here.
We will explore them all.
I got to take a brief time out here.
We'll be back and continue with all the rest of today's exciting program on the EIB network right after this.
All right, here's the headline.
Now, yesterday, for those of you that were not here, yesterday when the indictment of Congressman William Jefferson was handed down, I predicted a series of media, drive-by media and Democrat Party responses.
And one of the most prominent predictions was that it wouldn't be long before the drive-bys of the Democrats began lamenting the fact that we can't get rid of Jefferson because he's so important in New Orleans and the death toll in New Orleans continues to pile up.
Post-traumatic stress disorder, don't you know?
The Katrina death toll, the Bush death toll continues to pile up.
And how can we, in good conscience, strip from the poor people of New Orleans?
My gosh, I got spittle coming out of my mouth like Chris Matthews does.
Excuse me.
How can we deprive the poor people of New Orleans, their most powerful member of Congress during such a traumatic time?
And lo and behold, listen to this headline that I hold here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It is an Associated Press story.
Jefferson indicted.
New Orleans recovery suffers more bad news.
The two have nothing to do with one another.
And yet, do I know these people?
Or do I, El Rushbull, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, maha-rushy, know these people?
Here's the story.
This story does not mention his party.
The corruption indictment today against U.S. Representative William Jefferson dealt another setback to a city struggling to recover from the economic and political devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
The investigations surrounding Jefferson had crippled his position as a champion for the city long before the 16-count indictment was handed down in Virginia.
Jefferson indicted.
New Orleans recovery suffers more bad news.
How damn stupid do they think we are?
They must think that we are a bunch of blithering idiots.
We all know that Congressman William Jefferson has such important sway in Congress that without him, the people of New Orleans will suffer.
This is right up the Libbs Alley.
Government is the lifeline of the American people.
And without it and without their member of Congress and without their senator, oh my good, people may not survive.
Why the death toll may climb even further.
Why there might even be suicides in New Orleans from people upset and distressed over the fact of losing Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
Right, everybody wants to work with an indicted member of Congress, right?
Everybody does, especially the new chairman of the Kickback Caucus on the Democrat side.
What do you bet this guy walks?
You know this guy, R. Kelly?
What is he?
Is he an RB singer or a rap singer?
What do he, R ⁇ B?
He's kind of both, kind of both.
Well, he's up there in Chicago, been indicted five years ago on what?
Underage sex, sexual, and nothing's happened.
Nothing's happened.
Nothing's happened to R. Kelly.
Now I'm going to, I got to be real careful here.
But first off, is that charge against R. Kelly federal?
Is it you don't think it find out for me if it's federal.
I just want to know if it's federal.
If it's state, that's a different matter.
But anyway, the I don't know.
They've got videotaped.
They have got Jefferson and the 90 grand out of the freezer and so forth.
And I was watching all day today and I was just, I was struck with the contrast in the drive-by media reporting, the disconnect, if you will, between the panting excitement over what might be the sentence for Scooter Libby and the reporting of this indictment, federal, federal indictment against Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
Now, let me explain something to you, Peter.
I know it's frustrating to you to understand and see this double standard, but there are some things here at work that cannot be denied.
Number one, we're talking about the drive-by media.
Who are they?
They're libs.
We're talking about the Democrat Party.
Who are they?
They're libs.
What is one of the many defining characteristics of liberals?
They will not discriminate against.
The last thing they want you to think about or think of them is that they see people differently.
See some people better than others, see some people worse.
They do not want you to think that.
Remember the story I told you out in Southern California, Palm Springs.
And I was having dinner with a major, well-known television personality in this country and some other friends when the subject of illegal immigration came up.
And the well-known national TV personality was a dunce on the subject.
He knew nothing.
And my host was peppering him with facts and figures and statistics.
And none of it mattered.
If this guy hadn't read it in the New York Times, it didn't exist.
And finally, after about an hour of being beat up on, after being pummeled, he was frustrated as he can be.
He said, well, I just want to tell you, if some poor person of color wants to come to my country and take a chance on improving their life and finding a better life, then I'm not going to keep them out.
And of course, my host just practically abandoned the dinner table.
But embodied in that answer is, I'm not going to discriminate.
I'm just not going to discriminate.
Poor person of color.
Well, here's Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
And I'll tell you how the libs look at this.
Yeah, it's bad.
It's bad.
It's not a good thing that he did, but look at the heritage, and look at the, look at the, we've, in fact, folk, we go back to the archives and find these stories about his sharecropper past, and how tough his young life was, and how much he has overcome.
And he just wants his piece of the pie.
Yeah, he went outside the boundaries of the law, but come on, look at where these people have come from.
They've got slavery and years and years and years history of discrimination and so forth.
And the libs aren't going to discriminate.
So part and parcel of not discriminating is not a sense of entitlement to break the law, but we're just not going to be too critical here because we understand the hardships.
And we understand a guy growing up so poor and eventually being surrounded by so much money wanting his piece of the pie.
And we all know everybody cheats and breaks the law now.
And this is the attitude.
So that's partially why there is a huge variance in the coverage of the upcoming sentence this morning, anyway, of Scooter Libby and the real reporting of the nature of the indictment of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
Now, House Majority Leader John Boehner moved quickly to force the expulsion of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, from Congress following his indictment yesterday on federal corruption charges.
Boehner, the Republican leader, for those of you in Rio Linda, will ask members of the House to vote on a resolution requiring the Ethics Committee to review the indictment filed against Jefferson in order to seek his expulsion from the House.
What Boehner's going to do is offer a privileged resolution on the House floor as early as today calling for the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to review the indictment's 94 pages.
The House will then vote on his resolution calling for the ethics panel to act.
The Justice Department indicted money laundering, racketeering, so forth.
Anyway, he's a kickback caucus leader.
The interesting thing will be to see how the Democrats react to this.
Now, the next story in the stack here from the Washington Post today, Democrats fear a wider black caucus Pelosi rift.
Folks, I'm not going to read this whole story to you, but the double standard.
I mean, it's hard not to have to go outside, take a long walk after reading some BS like this in the Washington Post today.
The double standard of Democrat versus Republican is so blatant and disgusting.
One of the lines in here, this is Representative Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee.
For the good of the people of Louisiana's 2nd District, who've been through so much, we hope this matter is resolved quickly.
And, of course, they mention delay in this story, how delay was indicted, you know, delay had to quit and so forth.
A serious rupture with the black caucus would divide Democrats at a time when unity is needed to confront Republicans on the war in Iraq as they face off with President Bush on domestic spending.
Maxine Waters said she would not discuss the case of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
This story is full of hand-wringing.
Oh my God, this is so bad for the Democrats.
What can we do?
What can the Democrats do to stop this rift from getting so big that it divides the Democrats in their much-needed battle to destroy President Bush?
Democrat leaders fear that Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, his indictment coming exactly one year after Pelosi engineered his ouster from the Ways and Means Committee could rekindle a smoldering dispute between the Speaker and the black caucus, who were once pillars of her power.
I'll analyze this story without subjecting you to any of the insulting details of it after we come back from this brief EIB extreme, obscene profit center timeout.
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So, the story out of the Washington Post, Democrats fear a wider black caucus Pelosi rift.
Here you have Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, caught red-handed taking a bribe.
He is indicted.
And the Democrats are debating how it might divide their ranks if he's treated harshly by Congress.
And then, of course, there's the politicized Justice Department, which is another thing I predicted yesterday.
And we haven't gotten there yet, but don't be surprised if you hear that this was purely political.
Alberto Gonzalez trying to deflect attention from his controversy over the firing of the eight U.S. attorneys.
In fact, this story does even allude to the politicized possibilities of the indictment here of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
I mean, when Tom DeLay was indicted by a hack local prosecutor on trumped-up charges, there was no discussion about whether he stays or goes.
He had to go.
And over at justice, everybody knows this case is handled by career prosecutors and career FBI agents.
This case is not being handled specifically by Bush appointees.
And everybody involved in this, from the journalists in the drive-by media, everywhere else, know this full well.
Now, as I said, you know, the Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, to show the world and to show the country that when they took over the House in 94, that they were clean and pure as the wind gribben snow.
Nobody should fear their leadership, acting totally defensively, acting totally out of fear, come up with this law.
They pass their own regulation or rule that if a member of the Republican leadership's indicted, he's gone.
Oh, the Republicans handed the Democrats Tom DeLay's head in the silver platter.
Not hard to find a hack Democrat prosecutor.
They found one in Ronnie Earle, did what he had to do to get the indictment.
Who cares it ever comes to trial?
That's it.
DeLay's gone.
You know, the assumption here that eight U.S. attorneys were fired for political reasons has never been proven.
Therefore, this case must be political too, despite the bribe.
This case is political.
The indictment is political despite the videotape, despite the evidence, and despite the $90,000 in cold cash.
I mean, the idea that Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, indicted on multiple federal felonies, caught on tape demanding and taking a bribe.
Cash actually found in his freezer.
The idea that this doesn't shame the House Democrats on the Congressional Black Caucus, especially just demonstrates how they know they're protected by the media.
You know, in the real world, the Congressional Black Caucus will be, they want to get rid of this guy as quick as they could because they don't want what his actions are and allege to have been to taint them.
Oh, no, no, can't have that.
Solidarity, innocence, until proven guilty, all that.
Predicted that too yesterday would be one of the, and it's true, but it, it, you know, I, if this, if some Republican, not even in the leadership, had been indicted, he'd already be gone.
And the first thing that you would have heard on the news was the Republican leader, whoever it would have been, would have gone out there and said, I just talked to so-and-so, scumbag.
Holly's indictment's making us look behead.
We are not going to tolerate this kind of behavior among our caucus.
And I didn't even get the guy out of there.
Something like this had happened.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post writing a story, how can the Democrats save themselves on this?
How can they stay unified?
It's so important to stay unified because they have to destroy Bush.
So the Democrat Party is now clearly the party of corruption.
You know, this business about, I mean, it makes me mad, but I laugh about it.
The people of New Orleans can't get by without their congressman.
He's such a lifeline.
It would destroy them.
They're in such dire straits now.
The death toll continues to mount post-traumatic stress disorder.
And Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, being stripped from the people of New Orleans now, who knows what the suicide rate would become.
Would the French quarter remain open?
Would the hotels shut down?
Would New Orleans find, would School Bus Nagan finally say, you know what?
This is it.
I'm pronouncing the city dead.
We're going to board it up.
Nobody's going to be able to move here.
We're going to move everybody out of here.
They just took our congressman.
Right.
I wonder, did Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, share any of that $90,000 in his freezer with his constituents?
Just how important to him is they?
Is he?
And of course, something else we're going to have to nip in the bud here, and that is that Katrina, this Hurricane Katrina, being used to defend every pathetic Democrat argument out there.
Last time I looked in eight years, the Clinton administration, they didn't do diddly squat for New Orleans and shoring up levees down there and this sort of thing.
Neither did the Democrat mayors do anything for New Orleans.
And neither has this Democrat Congress done anything for New Orleans.
Bush has done more for New Orleans and the recovery than the Democrat Congress has done, just as Bush has done more for Africa than Bill Clinton ever dreamed of doing.
And now we see, get this, noted film director Spike Lee has said that he will return to New Orleans to film a follow-up to his documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
That's right, the story is not over.
It's still something that's evolving, and we want to stay on top of it.
The only thing that's a story to Spike Lee and these people is another way to continue to bash Bush and Republicans and shore up the notion that the only way to protect America is to have government get bigger and bigger and bigger.
And that's why we can't take Congressman Jefferson away from the people of New Orleans.
Let's go back to the archives.
We have a couple of sound bites here from Congressman Jefferson.
If you people have forgotten the story, during the rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina, we had helicopters and we had boats and we had the drive-by cameras were showing and reporting a bunch of things that frankly weren't true, murder and rape in the superdome, mass suicides and this sort of thing.
But there was a humongous rescue effort going on involving National Guard troops and a number of things.
And during all that, Congressman William Jefferson commandeered National Guard vehicles to take him to his fashionable home, which had been flooded.
And they got in there and Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, went in there on his own, was in there for a while, came out with what the witnesses described as something looked like a microwave.
And the original vehicle that took him in there got stuck in the mud, and they had to send a helicopter over to rescue Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, send another truck or something.
In the midst of all these rescue efforts, Congressman William Jefferson, with all of this care and compassion for his constituents, commandeered rescue vehicles for his own personal reasons.
Well, this caused the drive-by meaty to circle the wagons around Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
And he appeared with Paula Zahn on her ill-fated CNN show.
Oh, by the way, you heard what Bernard Shaw has said about CNN?
Oh, he's upset.
It looks too much like Foxtim.
He's sorry to see what has happened to CNN.
And we'll have comments on that coming up.
Anyway, this is September 14th of 2005.
And Paula Zahn has Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, as the guest.
She said, so let's try to set the record straight here tonight for you.
On a day when you had some 10,000 people trapped in a superdome with no food and no water, living under just horrendous conditions, you end up using a National Guard truck to take you to your home where you retrieve personal belongings.
Why is that not an abuse of power?
The National Guard troops took me to the Superdome area, took me to the convention center where I visited with constituents, took me uptown to the Walmart area which had been looted, so I took a tour of that.
I saw people at the convention center and asked them how they were, and they talked to me about the need to get buses out and so on.
I then went uptown to the area where I live and to my neighborhood.
Every member of Congressman back to see what had happened in their own area, as I did.
The difference was I couldn't travel without guards because there was shooting and sniping and all that stuff going on in my district.
If I had been Bobby Jindahl, I could have gone without any help.
But they all told me I needed to have and must have National Guard or some sort of escort because they were worried about people being shot.
And that is the only reason they were with me.
Bobby Jindahl could go in.
How come Bobby Jindahl could go in there by himself without worrying about being shot, but Congressman Jefferson couldn't?
Why, their constituents love Congressman Jefferson.
Why, it's just a flat-out joke.
What's this guy doing going to Walmart area?
I mean, the fact that Walmart got looted, Democrats ought to celebrate that.
Next question.
Well, what was so critical inside your house, Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, that you wanted to retrieve?
I wanted to see the condition of my house, as every other congressman who went down there did.
Trouble is, as I've told you, they didn't have to have guards with them, and I did because they worried about me being shot.
But I went to the house to see whether it was underwater, whether it had been looted, that sort of thing.
There wasn't anything especially important to retrieve from the house.
Oh, of course not.
Just some cold cash that might have been in there.
So he's worried about getting shot, and he's worried about his house being looted.
He's worried about his home being looted while the poor sat in the sweldering superdome.
People are just trying to find food and televisions and water and ways out of there.
Congressman William Jefferson, so important to his constituents, ladies and gentlemen.
So important that the city may not survive if he's removed from Congress.
Well, there you have it.
And by the way, the drive-by media can tell you all this and they can go back to their archives and do all this.
And they can give you all the details rather than just report the news of the indictment and say, is it political?
They can give you, nope, still having the media orgasms over Scooter Libby on his 30-month sentence.
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Well, the fourth suspect in the JFK bomb plot has surrendered.
And the Libs will say, see, if he gave up, it didn't.
He didn't really mean it.
It's not that big.
These people don't surrender.
They killed himself.
He's got nothing to hide.
It was not a real threat.
Mark my words.
Our buddies at the Red State blog, RedState.com, have more details on the indictment of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
It turns out that he gave thousands to a bunch of Democrat freshmen, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee.
It could well be that Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, could set the record for the most corrupt acts, most corrupt acts carried out by a member of Congress.
He may be the most corrupt politician ever, far outdistancing Randy Duke Cunningham, who was indicted on four counts.
This is 16.
Jefferson's 16-count 94-page indictment for which he could serve more than 200 years in prison if convicted, eclipses the legal troubles of Randy Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, and Jim Trafficant.
Cunningham pleaded guilty to four counts, sentenced to eight years in prison.
Bob Day pleaded guilty to two, received a 30-month sentence.
If convicted, Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, would face sentencing on as many counts as Cunningham, Ney and Trofficant combined.
And they list all the different members of the Congressional Campaign Committee.
And let's see, black cock.
He spread that money around.
And this is one of the reasons why he contributed their campaigns.
It wasn't bribing.
Well, it wasn't bribing them.
I'll play this down the middle.
He was contributing to their campaigns.
He's not a dumb guy, this guy.
I mean, you say he's dumb what he did, but he's politically not dumb.
Let's go to the phones.
Leland and Wiggins, Mississippi.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You're first today.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you, Rush.
Every time I hear the term Hurricane Katrina and corruption in New Orleans together, I absolutely seethe.
I live here in South Mississippi.
We were affected by Katrina, and I have watched one Louisiana politician after the other pass the buck about the problems with Katrina when it comes down to nothing more than a culture of corruption, which has caused the levees not to be built and which has caused people like William Jefferson to flourish.
And I am glad, I am so happy to see that you at least are showing the hypocrisy of the media who have mentioned none of this.
Well, I'll tell you what, the thing about Mississippi that is interesting is that Mississippi was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Gulfport, a number of cities were wiped out by Hurricane Katrina.
And you didn't hear any complaining from Haley Barber, the Republican governor.
You didn't hear whining and moaning, and the drive-by media didn't even go there.
And the reason they keep harping on New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina is because there are pictures.
B, it tied it to Bush.
C, it's a Democrat state, and it was a Democrat town.
By the way, I think a lot of New Orleans people are being represented in Congress now because they live in Houston.
You know, one of the dirty little secrets here is that that city, some of those people fled and have no desire to come back.
So they are being represented, taking Congressman Jefferson away from them.
And it's going to be a big deal because they're still being represented where they live now in Houston and in other places.
But Hurricane Katrina, it's not even about a hurricane.
It's not about the devastation of a city.
You have to understand this.
It is about destroying the Bush administration.
And more than that, folks, I think this goes beyond Bush.
And I think this illegal immigration bill is a great example.
This is about the libs doing what they constantly try to do, and that's destroy conservatism.
That's who their enemy is.
The enemy of liberalism is conservatism.
That's why they're talking about the fairness doctrine.
They try to discredit any and all conservatives that they can.
Here's Doug in Pickerington, Ohio.
Doug, thanks for waiting.
Welcome to the show.
Yeah, Dennis, Rush.
You hit on really the most important point already.
If he's so doggone important to New Orleans, why hasn't there been more done down there?
Why is it still in this total oblivion or just a mess that it is down there?
Now, he's trying.
He's up against Bush.
He's up against the Bush administration.
He's distracted by this politically motivated indictment that he knew was coming.
He wants to help so bad.
Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, but let me say one other thing, too.
He should step down for one reason, because it's not, it's the seriousness of the charge.
It's the seriousness of the charge.
How many times have we had to listen to that about Republicans?
And it's about time they take a dose of their own medicine.
Well, who's going to give them the dose?
They're not going to take it themselves.
The drive-bys are not going to hand it to them.
So who's going to give them the dose?
We do what we can do here to shame them, but they pretend in circumstances like this, we don't exist.
You're exactly right.
Clarence Thomas had to go because of the seriousness of the charge.
The nature of the evidence irrelevant.
Ed Meese had to go because of the appearance of impropriety when he was the Attorney General during the Reagan administration.
The nature of the evidence irrelevant.
The seriousness of the charge here against Congressman William Jefferson Democrat Louisiana is the damage it could do to the Democrats.
And that's why it's being massaged the way it is by the drive-bys and the Democrat Party.
The nature of the evidence, why what evidence?
He hadn't been convicted yet.
Seriousness of the charge is something that gets thrown out.
I mean, I'd love for these people to get a dose of their own medicine.
The only place that happens is at the ballot box.
If you're living in hopes and dreams that they're going to face the same scrutiny and behavior from the drive-bys that we do, you're going to live the rest of your life disappointed.
Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, says he's going to take a leave, temporary leave of absence, from the House Small Business Committee after his indictment.
But that's not the big committee.
He's on the Homeland Security Committee.
That's the one they're concerned about, whether he should be removed from that one.
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