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Aug. 30, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 30, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, I'm coming up.
I'm leaving the airport in Minneapolis yesterday, and I thought, well, I better do my business before I get on the plane to come here to New York.
So I go into the restroom doing my business, and the guy next door in the next stall starts tapping my foot.
And I'm sitting there going, geez, this is really odd.
Finally, I've had enough, and I just turn to the guy and I say, Senator, would you knock it off?
And that's how my trip to New York started.
Hi, everybody.
Jason Lewis here.
Good to be filling in for the great one, El Rushbo, wrapping up his vacation.
Trust me, he'll be back on Monday.
Hang in there.
But it's great to be behind the golden EIB Mike and the Attila the Hun chair at the Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
That's pretty much what all the fill-ins say, wasn't it, guys?
That's pretty much wrapped it up right there.
Thank you very little.
He's got Snerdley in there, Kit Carson, Mike.
And the microphone is gold.
And I would never, I would never put a Mike condom on this microphone.
I just wouldn't do it.
That's the kind of guy I am.
That would be blasphemy.
It is great to be here, as I say.
I come from Minnesota.
And, you know, Rush saved AM radio.
We all know that.
And now he's doing the same for FM, FM News Talk, KTLK.
That's where I broadcast as well as Rush up in the Twin Cities.
Home of, well, let's think about the Twin Cities for a moment and Minnesota.
Home of Governor Jesse Ventura.
Could be Senator Al Franken.
Friends, this is living proof we've yet to win the war on drugs in Minnesota.
Jesse Ventura, Al Franken from one state, I tell you.
It is really quite remarkable.
We do want to talk about the scandals plaguing the GOP and the latest Hillary fundraising scandal.
This is, I guess you can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl when it comes to Hillary.
This is unbelievable.
And it's about a guy here in New York bundling millions of dollars, they think, right now.
But Larry Craig, I got to kind of get my two cents worth in on Larry Craig.
You know, Senator Norm Coleman from Minnesota, John McCain of Arizona.
They're all telling Craig he's got to go, and that he does.
He has to go.
But the Republicans don't know how to fight, my friends.
Well, it's exactly right.
He's got to resign.
And I guess he's already off the committees.
And, you know, he's going to go.
He's going to go back to Idaho.
You know, Idaho, that's the center of a lot of gay rights act.
No, that wouldn't be right, would it?
Anyway, the point here is, how do you like Barney Frank and the late Jerry Studds memory passing judgment on Larry Craig?
No, I'm not condoning what Craig did.
Frankly, I, unlike Snerdley, I do think he has to go.
I think he should have gone long ago.
But Snerdley doesn't care.
That's fine unless you're in that stall.
Then you'll care.
Have no money?
We don't care.
Don't intend to pay?
We care.
The old Carson bit there.
I mean, the thing about this is the old glaring liberal double standard.
You're being passed judgment by Barney Frank.
By the way, Barney Frank came to his defense.
Barney Frank said yesterday that Craig was a hypocrite on gay rights issues, but he didn't think he should resign.
Yeah, what's next?
Castro endorsing Hillary.
Thanks, Barney.
Needed that real bad.
The point here is, why didn't Barney Frank resign?
Jerry Studs got a standing ovation after he was censured for having a dalliance with male pages.
I still can't get over that.
Jerry Studds.
I mean, of all of the names in this whole thing.
Hi, I'm Jerry Studs.
How'd you like to meet me in the cloakroom after the session?
It just doesn't sound.
So here we have, you know, Larry Craig and McGreevy over here in New Jersey.
McGreevy in New Jersey, he's a hero.
He's a saint for coming out.
I've been battling my homosexuality for all these years.
Oh, isn't that great?
But Larry Craig, he's got to go.
Now, look, he's getting his own comeuppance.
I think Craig should have went.
But I just think that the law, I mean, we have this great common law heritage of applying similar laws to cases or treating cases that are similar in nature equally.
We ought to apply that to politics as well.
We ought to treat these cases equally, and there is a double standard when it comes to this sort of behavior, whether it's Jerry Studs or Barney Frank or L C Hastings or anybody else, and then it's a Republican.
Well, he's got to go.
And again, I mean, in a perfect world, they'd all go, but that's not a perfect world, or we don't live in it anyway.
A 1-800-282-2882, that's 1-800-282-2882.
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Now, this thing that's all the news in New York City today and across the country, the latest Hillary donor under a cloud in fraud case, that was a front page of the New York Times.
Front page of the New York Times is citing Hillary for being under a cloud.
I guess a blind squirrel can find an acorn once in a while.
I mean, the New York Times does this, and you know, we got something going.
Get this: Norman Shu has apparently raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Democratic candidates since 2003.
One little problem for old Norman Shu.
He's had a warrant for his arrest from a 1991 fraud case.
And the 1991 fraud case, which has got Kit Carson laughing all morning, is apparently all about latex gloves.
I don't know what this really means, except I think we've perked Larry Craig's interest all of a sudden.
Norman Shu hit a low, they say, in 1989 when he began raising a million dollars from investors as part of a plan to buy and resell latex gloves.
Of all the things you're going to defraud people over, you know, of all the things that are made up of latex, why would it be gloves?
I'm confused here.
This glove only has one finger.
Never mind.
The point here is he's charged with stealing the investors' money after it turned out he never bought any gloves and had no contract to resell them anyway.
Hasn't the Social Security Administration been doing this for quite some time?
I mean, kind of taking our money.
We have no intention of ever giving you this money later on.
So now he's been bundling money, not only for Hillary, but guess who else is in the mix?
Al Franken.
Al Franken from Minnesota, the putative Democratic nominee.
You know, in Minnesota, the guy's setting up to run against incumbent Norm Coleman, Al Franken, Hollywood liberal, and a trial lawyer who made his millions off of suing tobacco.
You guys are killing me here.
Franken now has been running this campaign against Coleman, saying, I'm tired of Norm Coleman living off special interest corporate money, special, you know, pharmaceutical money, big oil money, you know, all of the businesses that make the world go.
Coleman's running off of this special interest money, but Al Franken apparently will have to return all the donations from Mr. Shu.
Now, the crux of this is there was this family out in where was it, Daly City, California, I do believe.
The family, the head of the family, was a mail carrier, and he wasn't giving much money over the years, but all of a sudden he got real active when he met Norman Shu.
And Mr. William Paul, a mail carrier in Daly City, never donated, none of the PAWs ever donated to any candidate before 2004.
But all of a sudden, the adults in that family of modest means have given $213,000 to Democratic candidates in the last three years.
Now, Shu is one of these big Hillary fundraisers, a Hill Raiser.
And he's bundled over a million dollars for Hillary's campaign, some of it from the PAWS.
How these people got into this money, we never know, except possibly the allegation is that they donated and Shu reimbursed them for the donations, which is illegal, highly illegal.
You can't do that because the limits are $4,600.
I think it's per cycle.
Actually, it's per elect, yeah, per election cycle.
And you can't, if you contribute any more than that, you're outside the limits.
So when you say you contribute, I'll reimburse you.
The guy doing the reimbursing is actually giving much more than $4,600, which I think is the figure.
So here we go again.
Now, the campaign is denying any impropriety.
Hillary Clinton has not been available, though.
She was at a fundraiser at a Buddhist temple, so she had no comment.
Talk about scandal.
How long can the Clintons get away with this?
Why is it, my friends?
Why is it that all of the people who want to restrict your ability to donate to your favorite campaign, campaign finance here in America, are always taking money that's already illegal from foreign donations?
This goes back to the old, the old Clinton Chinese connection with James Riotti.
Remember that of the Hong Kong group?
He returned to Asia, never cooperated with investigators.
He had Charlie Tree.
My favorite, though, was the Indonesian gardener who donated hundreds of thousands of dollars and then said, I'll see you.
I'm going to Jakarta.
Talk to you later.
And he was gone.
So these guys donate these hunting, literally over the years, millions of dollars, primarily to the old Clinton Gore machine and now to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
And then they leave the country.
But I'll tell you what we've got to worry about.
We've got to worry about Larry Craig in those stalls.
That's what we got to worry about.
I mean, Snurdley is right about that.
A sense of proportion here might be important.
So, oh, by the way, this other guy indicted for making illegal contributions.
I'm loving this.
Michigan attorney Jeffrey Feiger.
You've seen the guy with the bad hair on the cable news show.
Is this not poetic justice?
The demagogic Feiger indicted for making illegal contributions to Democrat John Edwards' 2004 campaign.
Maybe, wait a minute.
I got it.
The guy that was supposed to cut Edwards.
No, no, that's not right.
The guy that was supposed to cut Feiger's hair never got around to it, and that's why Edwards had to pay the $1,200 for the haircut, because Feiger's the guy that needs it.
Nevertheless, Feiger lined up straw donors to make more than $125,000 in contributions to John Edwards and then reimbursed the straw donors.
It just keeps getting better and better and better.
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I'm Jason Lewis.
Minnesota's Mr. Wright filling in for the great one who I'm certain right about now is on the first tee, and I hope he's hitting them better than I am.
Last week, I played in the local club championship back in Minnesota, and I hit the ball wide, deep, and frequent.
Back after this for more EIB.
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And we are back on the EIB network.
Hi atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
I am Jason Lewis doing for Minnesota what Rush has done for America.
What an honor.
What a treat to be here filling in for the great one.
He will be back on Monday, so hang in there, gang.
1-800-282-2882.
That's 1-800-282-28882.
How many eights did I get in there?
Let's go to Jane and Courta Lane.
You're first up today on the EIB network.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program with me, Jason Lewis.
Hi.
Hi.
I just have a quick comment.
I'm from Idaho.
And, you know, Larry Craig's been a pretty good guy.
And I just feel like, you know, he hasn't been convicted of anything yet.
He may have been given a ticket, but he hasn't been to court.
And, you know, who knows how these things go unless you go to court.
I think that at that point, people should ask him to step down when he's definitely.
Well, look, I think, I don't think what Larry Craig is pleaded guilty to.
When you say he hasn't been convicted, that's not quite right.
He pled guilty.
I don't think that's going to fly in Sandpoint too well, Jane.
The fact of the matter is this guy's got.
Look, the Republicans are doing themselves in.
I'm a lifelong Republican.
I ran for Congress as a Republican.
So you don't have to convince me.
But you've got all of these, the senator from Louisiana.
You've had a couple resign from the House.
Now you add on to that the fact that the federal budget went up by 50%.
You haven't closed the borders.
You got no child left behind.
You've got all of these things that are, quite frankly, Democrat policies.
And then you put the scandals there.
The base is so demoralized right now that nobody's left to defend people like Larry Craig.
And that's my problem with the GOP.
We've got to rediscover our Reagan roots.
But with regard to Mr. Craig, it's not quite accurate to say he hasn't been found guilty of anything.
He pled guilty.
Okay, well, I didn't realize that, but I still say that people are jumping on the bandwagon too soon.
I think it, you know, there's a lot of consideration.
Well, I will say this.
It is a matter of accumulation.
You have had some of these scandals.
You have had the Louisiana Senator Vittner, I believe it was.
You've got a number of scandals, and then you had another one, and that probably gets more attention than it otherwise would have.
And it's quite frankly the salacious nature of this.
But look, I agree with you.
I don't think it's, I think it's entirely hypocritical for McGreevy to get a pass, for Jerry Studs to have gotten a pass, for Barney Frank, who now chairs a powerful finance committee in the House of Representatives to get a pass when his roommate was running a brothel out of their townhome.
And all of a sudden, Larry Craig, oh, isn't he bad?
The reason that Larry Craig is getting some of the criticism from the usual suspects is he wasn't for gay marriage.
As Barney Frank said, he doesn't support equal rights for gays.
That's hogwash.
Gays have equal rights.
They have the right to own property.
They have the right to vote.
They have the right to contract, just like everybody else.
But to say because they don't have the right to marriage, they don't have equal rights is to say, why, people that smoke dope don't have equal rights.
The state discriminates.
Yeah, they do.
That's what state law is about, regulating behavior.
So when Frank gets off on his high horse and gets away with it, I understand your angst.
Yeah, I just think gay people have the right to be in politics, too.
Well, sure.
I got news for you.
They are in politics.
Exactly.
I mean, it's all over now.
But they don't have the right to be in stalls in a public restroom.
Yeah, I don't really know what went down.
I don't know anything about hand signals or what they do.
But if he says he was guilty, then I guess he was.
I still don't know.
I wonder what it's like for some of these guys to watch a baseball game when the third base coach is doing all that stuff.
And you're going, hey, I know that guy.
All right.
Hey, Jane, thanks for the call.
I do appreciate it.
Down to beautiful San Antonio.
And Peter, you're up next on the Rush Limbaugh program with me, Jason Lewis.
Hi.
Hi, Jason.
First-time listener, first-time caller.
I'm concerned with these guys that get caught with their pants down or security risks for possible blackmail.
And I haven't heard too much discussion about David Vitter's particular scandal compared to this Craig stuff.
And I hope this doesn't get to be a gay versus straight double standard.
Well, you're right about that.
But, you know, you had a gay blogger trying to go after Craig.
The Idaho statesman was going after Craig.
They think they got another hypocrite on the right.
And it is not hypocritical, whether you're gay or straight, to say, look, I'm not for things like gay marriage because society can reserve unto itself what it wants to subsidize.
And it subsidizes marriage between a man and a woman because they procreate.
That's a good thing for society.
Just like we subsidize the mortgage interest deduction, although maybe we shouldn't have.
But nevertheless, we subsidize that, but we don't give it to renters.
Is that discriminatory?
Yes.
And that's what government public policy is.
It has nothing to do with equal rights or the Constitution.
There is no right to gay marriage in the Constitution.
So when these guys come down on Craig, and that's really why they're focusing on him because of the gay rights issue and not on Wittner in Louisiana, that's the reason.
But you do have an excellent point.
I mean, one of the reasons that John F. Kennedy, and by today's standard, he would be certainly a center-right Democrat.
But one of the reasons that he was a risk was he was sleeping around so much.
And that absolutely is a security risk.
And that's the same thing with Bill Clinton and everybody else.
So this whole notion that, well, leave my private life out of this.
Your private life is over when you enter the White House and to some degree when you go into public office.
Thanks.
Keep it up.
Peter, thanks for checking in.
Let's go to Steve in Middleburg, Virginia.
You're up next on the Jason Lewis show.
And don't you feel better now that the state has released that tough report on the Virginia Tech shooting?
Well, we really didn't find much to report on, is what it sounded like to me.
People aren't perfect, are they?
Jason, thanks for taking my call.
I'm sure you're of an age for a time in this country when people did not have sex in public bathrooms.
And I don't know what to do.
Really?
Doesn't everybody do that?
Right.
It's my contention that since the 60s, if you read Judge Bork's book, Slounching Towards Gomorrah.
Since the 60s, I think liberalism has taken the country and the culture into the included a climate where sex in public bathrooms is acceptable behavior.
It's my contention that as long as there's a double standard for Democrats versus Republicans, this might result in less Republicans and more Democrats.
And that's the sad irony.
It's going to result in more sex in public bathrooms.
Well, the irony is Democrats do not eat their own.
When Barney Frank, Jerry Studs gets a standing ovation, Barney Frank chairs the finance committee.
Why is it the Republicans now?
Granted, again, I'll say it again.
I think Craig ought to go.
But I will say this.
The Republicans are running away from this guy faster than Bill Clinton from church.
I mean, the bottom line here is the Democrats never do that.
They stick up for their scandal-plague members, and the Republicans don't.
Republicans have got to learn how to fight.
Democrats do not eat their own.
They don't say they're sorry.
They don't cut good deals for Republicans.
They cut bad deals.
And until the Republican Party learns how to fight and realize these guys mean what they say, this is not just a game.
This is life.
That you're going to see more of this.
And you have a complicit media as well aiding and abetting.
Yeah, well, gee, a newsflash, call 60 Minutes.
I mean, yeah, this is, I mean, you're absolutely right.
They love this.
The Idaho statesman loves this because they can get a Republican.
And Jane was right.
I mean, Craig does have a pretty good voting record, very strong on Second Amendment and all that sort of thing.
So the media are once again focusing on Craig.
And when they ought to be, and maybe they will this time, but Snerley doesn't think so, maybe they'll finally go after the no controlling legal authority.
Remember the White House coffees during the Clinton administration?
Al Gore stood up there and said, there's no controlling legal authority.
Really?
I used to think that was the Justice Department, but apparently not.
And we'll see if the Hillary scandal has legs here, but this is a pattern.
You can go back to April when the Pakistani immigrant who hosted fundraisers left town.
It's amazing how many of these people donate to the Clintons and then leave town.
What is it about the Clintons that makes people want to give them money?
I've got to get some of this.
So we can continue that.
Larry Craig, I want to get to the Virginia Tech shootings, too, because we all know if you're worried about what's going on on campuses, we all know exactly what needs to be done.
John Lott, Dr. John Lott, more guns, less crime.
That's one option.
The other thing is to revisit the inability of universities to expel students.
That's another option.
I want to get to the Virginia Tech report that came out today.
Larry Craig scandal, Hillary Clinton scandal, all coming up on the EIB network.
We are back on the Rush Limbaugh program.
I am Jason Lewis filling in for the great one today and tomorrow.
Rush is back on Monday.
So obviously everybody is waiting with bated breath on that one.
Great to be here in New York City.
Got to get to this Virginia Tech report that came out today.
We've got the Craig scandal to talk about, the Hillary scandal to talk about.
I mean, here we go again with the Clintons.
It's just amazing how some people never learn.
We can continue to talk about that because that is big news.
And it's got tentacles all over the Democrat Party, all over the Democrat Party.
It's not just Jeffrey Feiger and the Edwards campaign bundling money from other people then they reimburse.
You've got Franken's involved in it, Matt Suey's involved in it out in California.
So a number of Democrats giving back Asian tainted money or tainted Asian money.
The Chinese connection once again, perhaps?
That's on the docket at 1-800-282-2882.
Also, Virginia Tech, as they say.
The report came out, state panel, has criticized decisions made by Virginia Tech before last April's massacre, where 32 students died.
Now, this is quite amazing.
The report is kind of a CYA report, really.
The report says, quote, there does not seem to be a plausible scenario of a university response to the double homicide that could have prevented the tragedy of considerable magnitude on April 16th.
Now, it says that Cho, who's the purp in all of this, to kill 32 people, the university did miss indications of his problems.
They could have notified students.
They could have notified faculty members.
However, the report says there doesn't seem to be a plausible scenario that the university could have prevented this.
Sure, there is.
This is why there are so many lawsuits involved in this.
And the plausible scenarios are straightforward.
You'd have to be part of the liberal cognicente not to see them.
And that is let somebody arm themselves.
I hate to be politically incorrect here, but as Dr. John Lott, my old pal, who wrote a great book called More Guns, Less Crime, his new book, Freedomnomics, is a great read too, by the way.
He says, look, take a look at the one common theme in all of these shootings, whether it's 1991 in Texas at the Luby cafeteria, or whether it's the California McDonald's case in 1984, 21 people killed there, 23 in Texas, Virginia Tech 32.
What do they all have in common?
They are all gun-free zones.
The state of Virginia, in fact, had a very, very strict gun-free zone that they had just passed.
They had rigorously enforced its gun-free zone policy.
They suspended students with concealed handgun permits.
Now, since a number of states have liberalized their concealed carry laws, so you no longer have to go and plead to the constable for your Second Amendment rights, crime has dropped.
It hasn't gone up.
It's amazing how this works, gang.
When the bad guys think you might actually fight back and you might be armed, they start to rethink some of their plans.
I don't know, call it silly, but that's the way it works.
And that's why it's dropped in communities that have more liberalized concealed carry laws.
Well, why would we want to disarm an entire university community?
That's exactly what they did.
They disarmed them.
And there was no way.
Now, I'm not going to suggest that you could absolutely prevent this by arming the citizenry of a campus with a permit process.
But I am saying the carnage could have been stopped had somebody been there to fight back.
The carnage could have been stopped.
And as I say, Virginia has a very, very strict, in fact, they had just passed, I believe, in the state of Virginia, a very strict anti-gun or anti-gun on university campus law, and that was disarming the students as well.
The other aspect to this is the university could not have foreseen this.
Hello, a judge ordered the gunman to receive outpatient mental health treatment for making suicidal statements.
I've got a novel question for you.
What is he doing on campus?
The guy's got suicidal tendencies.
Come on, enroll.
Psych 101 might be good for you, pal.
This is insane.
So they've got gunman has mental health problems.
Enroll him in school.
Oh, and by the way, disarm the populace on the campus, the faculty, the campus security, the students.
The judge had already ordered this guy a threat, and the university couldn't do anything about that.
Now, here, quite frankly, is where the law comes in.
You had this situation at George Washington University with student Jordan Knott.
University officials years ago removed Knott from school, barred him from campus after school counselors had dealt with his severe depression, thought he was suicidal, might do something.
Well, didn't see this one coming.
The lawyers got a hold of this.
They sued the school for what he had called unfair treatment of mentally ill patients.
They ended up settling for $100,000.
The guy enrolls in another school.
Now, I'm going to say something that's not going to go over well for some folks, but I'm trying to keep within the rush political incorrectness here while filling in for the great one.
And that is, we had better think or rethink the laws like the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, N yes, the Americans with Disabilities Act, that puts these people on a pedestal that says, well, gosh, we ought to be compassionate to folks who are mentally ill.
We all agree with that, but that doesn't mean they're saints.
That doesn't mean they're incapable of harming other people.
And what the ADA has done that says you can't discriminate unless you can make a reasonable, or I should say, you can't discriminate as long as you can make a reasonable accommodation.
Well, what's a reasonable accommodation?
This is one of the most poorly written laws ever to come down the pike.
No business, no university has any idea what a reasonable accommodation is, so they don't suspend mentally ill students because they're afraid of the lawsuit.
Those two things, in and of themselves, could have prevented much of the carnage of Virginia Tech and other places.
1-800-282-2882, back to the phones we go.
In Sacketts Harbor, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
David, welcome.
Hi.
Hey, Jason, how are you?
I'm great, sir.
How are you?
I'm good.
I just wanted to make a comment that I think it's amusing that an elementary school would rush to expel a student who drew a picture of a gun with their crayon, but in a university like Virginia Tech can't expel a student that starts a fire in a dormitory.
Isn't that a sign of not only a dysfunctional legal system, but a dysfunctional, liberal, government-run bureaucracy?
I mean, the dichotomy there between pointing your finger too is considered a gun sign, drawing a gun.
We're going to eradicate those nasty guns.
We're going to go overboard on this PC in the elementary school.
But, you know, if you're mentally ill and you've got suicidal tendencies, oh, and by the way, the guy had already bought guns against the law, so much for gun control.
Come on in on campus.
I mean, it's absolute insanity.
And then for this report to come out and say, well, there really wasn't much they could have done, I think is a disgrace to the victims and the families.
So do I. Hey, thanks for the call, David.
Do appreciate it.
Let's squeeze in one more in Linwood, New Jersey.
Bob, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with me, Jason Lewis.
Hi.
Hey, Jason, how are you?
I'm great, sir.
How are you?
Real good.
I just was reading an article right now in the AP by Kristen Jelanew and Dina Potter about this whole incident, and I heard your voice, and I had a call.
Yes.
They are only interested in fixing blame in the Virginia Tech leadership.
And it's unbelievable if you read this article in the AP, how transparent it is and what they're attempting to do.
Well, look.
It's absolutely an embarrassment.
Look, I don't blame the leadership, although, I mean, they're typical spineless administrators in many universities who are afraid of the politically correct crowd.
But this is a public policy problem.
This is a political problem when you've got laws like the ADA that protect these people and shouldn't.
This is a public policy that's got to be changed when you've got a public policy by the state of Virginia that says no guns on campus.
I mean, not even with the security team.
I mean, the administrators are saying, look, our hands are tied.
We've got to live within the law.
Now, what they really ought to be doing is warning people and challenging the law and taking a stand.
But I do believe it's a public policy problem.
Sam in Fort Lauderdale, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program on EIB.
Hi.
Hi, Jason.
Haven't heard you before, but you sound great.
Thank you, sir.
I really wish Rush was here because I think this Larry Craig smokescreen is right out of the Democratic playbook, which he claims to know like every square inch of his, well, never mind.
In any event.
Now, watch that.
I'm sitting in his chair.
Yeah.
What I think is going on, due to the fact that this news came out like, what, three months after the event happened, or a couple months, anyway.
Three months.
I think somebody in the Democratic Party that controls these things has been sitting on this for two months, waiting for the right time.
Why would now be the right time?
Hillary's finance, Hillary's contribution thing from this guy, Sue, or Shu.
Yeah.
Norman Shu.
Yeah, I think that's the big deal, and I think they have a whole lot of these things waiting just to throw out at the right time.
If you watched Fox News last night, and that's the network you would expect to cover the finance scandal, they led with the Larry Craig thing.
Everybody was talking about Larry Craig, Larry Craig, Larry Craig, and the whole Hillary thing was just an afterthought.
This thing goes deep, and she is dirty in this, just like they've been in all of them, but they're so polished at deflecting attention.
Well, I got to say, you know, it may be the proverbial blind squirrel finding an acorn, but it was on the front page of the New York Times today.
Thank God.
Yeah, obviously we call that a mistake in the Times editorial rooms, I guess.
But nevertheless, you're quite right.
I think that they will try to brush this under the rug.
But how many, I mean, you get enough anecdotes, and you've got a pattern here.
And this is such a link between the old campaign finance scandals going back a decade ago.
I don't know that this is going to go away.
And plus, I will say this.
I don't know that Larry Craig in June, when he was at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, decided to do it then, knowing full well that it'd be a good time to cover for Hillary.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
But they've known about it for this long, and then they let it out.
Somebody should really look into the incident.
Or there might be a more innocuous explanation.
Maybe the news media aren't quite as competent as they say they are.
I'm Jason Lewis in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB network.
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I am Jason Lewis.
What an honor to fill in for the great one.
I'll be here tomorrow as well.
Rush back on Monday from his big golfing vacation.
Back to the phones we go.
And Mark in Sacramento, thanks for waiting.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Jason Lewis.
Hi.
Earth to Mark.
Are you there, sir?
Ah, those short naps are great, aren't they?
In Idaho Falls, Trent, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi.
I think as Republicans, we're way too eager to throw our own under the bus.
And, you know, the Democrats, the double standard's killing me.
I'm not a big fan of Larry Craig, but I really don't see what he's done wrong.
He tapped someone's foot under the bathroom stall and waved his hand.
I mean, if the guy were homosexual, the ACLU would be all over this saying, you know, what has he done wrong?
He hasn't committed a crime.
No, no, they wouldn't.
He's Republican.
And he voted against, I mean, he voted for DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act.
We cannot countenance that.
If he were really homosexual and someone else, the ACLU would be protecting him.
I just, you know, the double standard's killing us.
Well, you're right.
And it's not just this.
It's all over the board.
And that, I mean, when Republicans take their cues from the Democrat playbook, when they're afraid that the New York Times or the Washington Post or the L.A. Times, heaven forbid, is going to say something bad about them, and therefore that guides their actions, the battle is lost.
You ought to be, you know, you've got to charge into this stuff and you've got to defend yourself and stand up for yourself.
And people respect that anyway.
Now, I will say this: this restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport has been under surveillance by the undercover cops there because it's one of these hangouts.
Apparently, there's a website, I'm told, that lists 9,000 of these places where people can meet for anonymous public sex.
And this airport restroom, you know, Minneapolis is very, very progressive.
There are parts of Minneapolis where you can be certain to have twice the chance of a date on Saturday night if you get my drift.
And so they're checking these places out and doing that.
When they do that, I mean, they look for signs, signals, and one of the signals is they put the luggage right in the right spot by the door.
They got the foot signals.
They got the hand signals.
And it seems to me that Larry Craig should have been outraged.
He should have said, how dare you accuse me of this?
You're darn right I'm going to trial.
Instead, perhaps he thought, maybe if I plead guilty to disorderly conduct, you know, it'll just kind of go away.
It is not a signal.
I travel all the time and I put my luggage.
Where else are you going to put it?
I put it in front of the door.
Wait, that's not a sign.
How many times?
If you're not familiar with the signs, I mean, you know, I hadn't heard of that before.
Hello?
Yeah, go ahead.
Oh, okay.
You know, I hadn't heard of that before.
And when I heard it, I thought, tapping his foot, big deal.
Well, apparently.
Doesn't everybody do that?
Right.
Yeah, I mean, maybe he was humming a tune.
Well, no, It wasn't, according to the police report, it wasn't just everybody, it's a Broadway musical.
It's showtime.
No, it wasn't just tapping his foot.
It was his foot came over into the space of the other stall, according to the report, and was tapping the other foot.
Now, you first of all, don't most vitalize.
Maybe he was trying to get balance, I guess.
Maybe he's, you know.
Don't they have to have surveillance?
You know, I mean, I know they did.
It was an undercover cop in the other stall.
Yeah, I'm talking about some kind of video, you know, that actually proves.
I mean, right now it's his word against the cops' word.
Well, and the case may be reopened.
I mean, he can go back, and according to Minnesota case law, if you say you misunderstood the charge or you didn't have the right legal counsel, you may be able to reopen the case.
So we'll see how that comes down.
But it doesn't look good.
Let me put it to you that way.
In Roanoke, Virginia, Steve, you're next up on EIB.
Hi.
Hey, hello.
I'm just curious.
I saw all the talk shows yesterday concerning all the victims still living around Louisiana and the Katrina area.
I'm just curious, after so many years of slow help or slow government help getting down there, why don't these people just pick their things up and move to another place where they can find a job or a home and live comfortably elsewhere?
Why stay there if you've got nothing?
Novel thought.
Did you hear the latest?
They're actually suing the manufacturers of the trailers down there because the trailers weren't nice enough, I'm told.
Well, I heard about that.
Something about from Aldehyde and a family of five getting sick in this trailer.
Move to another town.
The GAO, and I want to get into the Minnesota Bridge collapse a little later in the program because they're interconnected here.
The GAO now says we have wasted a billion dollars in the Katrina cleanup.
A billion dollars.
But we've got to raise more money for infrastructure because we just don't have enough at the federal or state level.
I mean, it's absolutely bizarre.
Got to move.
Thanks for the call.
I'm Jason Lewis filling in for the great one, Rush Limbaugh, today on EIB.
All right, first hour, almost in the can, as Rush likes to say, but we've got two more coming up.
I'm Jason Lewis in for Rush Limbaugh on EIB today in San Diego, California.
Joel, you are next.
Welcome.
Hi, Jason.
Hey, I'm calling about your comments on the Virginia Tech tragedy, specifically the ones about concealed weapons and it being a gun-free zone.
Yes.
I think you'd imply that that tragedy could have been mitigated or less by having a more liberal concealed gun law or policy.
It's just ridiculous.
Really?
You don't think if somebody else were there and had a weapon, by the way, they don't have campus security that's armed.
Obviously, the administrators are not armed.
The students aren't armed.
So having a serial shooter without anybody else having the ability to defend themselves is preferable?
I'm not talking about campus security.
Give cops guns if you want.
That's have campus police.
So we can give them to the military at 18, but not kids here at home at 18.
We'll continue with this next hour.
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