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October 2, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2

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	Greetings, my friends, and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, serving humanity simply by showing up.
	Telephone number, we'll get to your phone calls in this hour.
	Is 800-282-2882.
	If you're on hold, stay there.
	It means that we want to talk to you.
	We're going to continue now with the dissection of the smear campaign against me launched by Harry Reed on the floor of the Senate yesterday.
	Of course, this is in conjunction with Moveon.org and Media Matters for America and organization.
	Hillary Clinton admits to well founding and helping start and organize.
	But I want to go back to this clip from Senator Harkin yesterday on the Senate floor.
	What's most despectable is that Rush Lemba says these provocative things to make more money.
	So he castigates our soldiers.
	Stop the tape right there.
	Um I got a book today.
	Now the clear blue.
	It's called Hardcore.
	From Gangster to Marine Hero.
	It's by Marco Martinez, Dana Point, California.
	Dear Mr. Limbo, I'm writing to tell you how grateful I am for all you do to support my brothers and sisters in arms still in battle in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	Unlike these liberal whack jobs, you stand up for us, and I can't say thank you enough.
	As a small token of my appreciation, I wanted to send along an inscribed copy of my forthcoming book.
	I was honored to have been given the privilege to fight in Iraq and to have been awarded the Navy Cross second only to the Medal of Honor for my actions in Iraq.
	My former life as a gang member.
	Still makes me shudder in shame, but I felt I had to be raw and honest about my past and how my beloved Marine Corps saved my life.
	My book comes out October 2nd.
	I hope you enjoy it.
	Hardcore, Marco Martinez.
	He goes on to tell me his thoughts on some other issues like illegal immigration and this sort of thing.
	Anybody who listens to this program regularly knows that we do not castigate the troops on this program.
	In fact, it is just the opposite.
	Here's more of Senator Harkin.
	Makes more news.
	It becomes in the news.
	More people tune in, he makes more money.
	Well, I don't know.
	Maybe he was just high on his drugs again.
	I don't know whether he was or not.
	Stop the tape.
	Now with that comment right there.
	Uh Tom Harkin said something about a private citizen on the floor of the Senate that he could not say about any other member of the Senate.
	He said something about a private Senate uh citizen that I could not say were I a witness before some Senate committee in a hearings.
	I could not say something like this about one of these senators.
	Uh would he say that to Patrick Kennedy?
	If he disagreed with Patrick Kennedy, for example.
	Would he say that about Ozzy Osborne?
	You can run the gamut here.
	So what we have, ladies and gentlemen, is not long ago.
	Harry Reed takes a trip to New York on a Monday night.
	He meets with leaders of the anti-war movement.
	They were not identified by group.
	He comes back from that meeting.
	I'm sure he got the riot act read to him.
	He also tried to explain to them the trouble they were having getting things done, because they don't have sixty votes in the Senate, which is what Pelosi has had to do to her kooks in the House, explain to her fringe base why they can't get anything done, because they don't have a veto-proof Congress over there.
	As such, he comes back and starts this um this campaign to smear a private citizen.
	And it is done, I'm telling you, to distract the outraged and disappointed Democrat Party base who expected to be gone from Iraq by now, or for the process to get out and in defeat to have begun by now.
	And so they have to turn this and aim it against me.
	Now we don't have the bite, not important, elsewhere in Harkin's speech.
	This is really surreal.
	He attributes to me an article about seven soldiers in the New York Times criticizing the war.
	Two soldiers were later killed.
	Now he he bizarly assumes and states that I was talking about them when he says, You castigate these soldiers.
	He talks about this New York Times article.
	Then says it is despicable that I say these provocative Things.
	Why didn't say it?
	This is the first time I have mentioned the New York Times article about seven returning soldiers.
	I have never referenced it on this program.
	He hangs what I didn't say around my neck, then accuses me of being deranged because I'm high on drugs.
	I never mentioned that article.
	I never mentioned those men.
	It is irresponsible of someone holding the position of Senator, the United States of America, to not understand the truth and to blatantly lie as Senator Harkin did yesterday on the floor of the United States Senate.
	He took to the floor and accuses me of mentioning something I haven't mentioned.
	So if they are going to lie about one thing, is it reasonable to assume they are willing to lie about it all?
	This is a straw man deception, folks, plus a slander for good measure.
	Many of you have said, you ought to sue.
	I can't, folks, I'm a public figure.
	This is part of the process.
	Can't, it's not doable.
	There are other ways of dealing with this.
	I was shocked when I heard Senator Harkin say it.
	Uh and I've I've thought about what he actually said.
	I'm blown away.
	He attributes to me referencing seven soldiers in a New York Times story that I had never ever referenced.
	I'd never have done so until this very moment on this program.
	Now there are also some people who are talking about this story.
	CNN did a story yesterday afternoon accepting the Harry Reed at Media Matters founded by Hillary Clinton premise.
	There have been others who have done so, and not one of them has got into detail about Jesse Macbeth, the man I was referring to, and others like him as phony soldiers.
	So let me again detail for you, Jesse Macbeth, because this is the celebrity, the anti-war left props up and loves.
	Army Ranger, he said, 23-year-old corporal, said he won a purple heart.
	Said he was afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.
	And what made Army Ranger Jesse Macbeth a hero to the left wing was his courage, in their view, off the battlefield.
	Without regard to consequences, Macbeth told the world, and his remarks were printed and reprinted in Arabic, all over the Middle East and the Internet.
	He told the world about abuses he had witnessed in Iraq.
	American soldiers killing unarmed civilians, hundreds of men, women, and even children, hanging them in mosques.
	That's one gruesome account, translated into Arabic, spread widely across the Internet.
	Macbeth described the horrors this way.
	We would burn the bodies, and we would hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque.
	risk.
	This is who I was discussing.
	And everybody in the drive-by media reporting on this knows this is who I was discussing.
	ABC reported on this man two days before I began this very commentary, a week ago yesterday, week ago Monday, ABC World News Tonight did the story, and still the drive-by media who are talking about this do not detail for anybody who Jesse Macbeth is.
	Well, here's the grand finale.
	Jesse Macbeth, a poster boy of the anti-war left, heralded as a hero, had his day in court.
	He was sentenced to five months in jail, three years probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs claim.
	His Army's discharge record as well.
	Yes, Macbeth was in the army for 44 days.
	He washed out of boot camp.
	He is not an Army Ranger.
	He is not a corporal.
	He never won the Purple Heart.
	He was never in combat to witness the horrors he claimed to have seen.
	But don't look for any retractions from the left.
	Don't look for any TV ads about this guy from the left, not from the anti-war left, the anti-military drive-by media or the Arabic websites that spread his lies about the troops.
	Because fiction, fiction, ladies and gentlemen, fiction is what serves the purpose of the anti-war left from Tom Harkin to Harry Reid to these groups that Prop up phony soldiers like Jesse Macbeth, groups like the New Republic, which run phony accounts, from soldiers in Iraq lying about what they've seen.
	These are the heroes to the anti-war left.
	Fiction is what serves their purpose.
	The truth is just too inconvenient.
	The next ruse the left is saying he couldn't have been talking about Macbeth because he used the plural.
	He said phony soldiers.
	He didn't say phony soldier.
	Again, this is a willful and purposeful missing of the context of this program.
	We have discussed many of these phony soldiers over the course of the past few months.
	We discuss them constantly.
	Macbeth was just the latest.
	I have a press release here from the United States Attorney's Office, the Western District State of Washington, September 21st of this year.
	Headline, Northwest crackdown on fake veterans in Operation Stolen Valor, phony vets, scam more than 1.4 million and damage image of honorable veterans.
	U.S. Attorney Jeffrey C. Sullivan today announced some of the results of Operation Stolen Valor, a year-long effort to investigate and prosecute those who lie about their military service for financial gain or other reasons.
	Sullivan and Doug Carver, special agent in charge of the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, detailed eight prosecutions in the Veterans Affairs Northwest region in 2007.
	As a Vietnam veteran, the father of a decorated Army officer currently serving, I feel very keenly the damage done by these Macbeth and these other fakes.
	Macbeth's lies fueled hostility to our servicemen in Iraq and here at home.
	Those who falsely claim medals for heroism cheapen the recognition of our true war heroes.
	The phony war hero phenomenon plagues the American landscape and tarnishes the service of thousands of veterans who have served honorably.
	It strangles VA resources from providing critical care and benefits to deserving veterans returning from war, said Doug Carver, the special agent.
	It all boils down to this.
	These phonies submit claims to the VA for compensation and medical benefits they are not entitled to, and it takes away valuable resources from those who are entitled.
	There are phony soldiers.
	Eight of them have been prosecuted successfully just in the state of Washington by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District.
	We have all known of these cases, and we have all known of these various phony soldiers.
	So does Harry Reed.
	So does Tom Harkin.
	So does Moveon.org.
	And now move on.org and his vote vets group, bringing forth some genuine heroes, wounded in battle, who disagree with the policy in Iraq and Afghanistan, telling them a bunch of lies about what I have said about them when I have never discussed them.
	I have never impugned them.
	I have never impugned any military person in who is retired or active duty, in or out of uniform, for their service to this country.
	And yet, that is the lie and the smear that is taking place of all places now on the floor of the United States Senate, all ginned up, a lying smear by an organization founded and started by Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose job it is, this organization Media Matters to make sure that anybody gets in her way is dealt with.
	I again extend my invitation to Senator Reed.
	Come on my program and say to my face what you said about me on the floor of the United States Senate.
	And let's discuss it.
	Man to man.
	It's unconscionable what Senator Reed and Senator Harkin and these other Democrats are doing.
	And I again I want to apologize today to all of you in the United States military active duty and retired.
	For this smear, I'm not apologizing for myself.
	I'm apologizing for MediaMatters.org for Hillary Clinton, for Harry Reed.
	I'm apologizing for all of these groups who are undertaking efforts to demoralize you.
	They will not apologize to you for their actions, nor will they apologize To me.
	But I want to apologize to you on their behalf for this storm having been created out of thin air out of a total lie.
	Breaks my heart, but I know you're tough enough to deal with it, much tougher than they are.
	And you deal with it honestly up front and facing bullets, real bullets.
	The rest of us are just facing words.
	You all are the real heroes.
	Your work is being mismirched and impugned, and several in this country are seeking the defeat of you and your mission.
	We will not let it happen.
	Be right back.
	All right, their case is starting to fall apart.
	First they tried to say, hey, Limbaugh was speaking in a plural.
	Phony soldiers.
	He couldn't have been talking about Macbeth.
	Now what they are saying is he didn't bring up Macbeth until after the phone call on Wednesday with the guy where he used the term phony soldiers.
	You people on the left at Media Matters had you had better be careful.
	I would think after all this, that you would have finally learned that you cannot spread lies about me and get away with it.
	The Jesse Macbeth story was done early morning on Tuesday, September 25th, on our 600 plus radio stations around the country as a morning update, we call it.
	The video podcast of that update went out Monday afternoon to our subscribers at RushlinBoard.com.
	The Jesse Macbeth story and all the other stories, Scott Scott, whatever his name was from the uh New Republic, and there are any number of them, have been told on this show for weeks and months prior to this phone call on Wednesday, where you lift the term phony soldiers and try to create a smear out of it.
	The Jesse Macbeth story was told on this story a day before this happened, not after, as they are now claiming, which is evidence their whole little plots falling apart on them.
	As well was it told on ABC's World News tonight on Monday, September 24th, in a special investigative series by Brian Ross.
	I wonder if the if the MediaMatters.org people and move on.org are going to demand a Department of Justice investigation of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of the State of Washington be for referring to these frauds as phony soldiers.
	They're going to be legitimate legitimate about demanding action against people calling legitimate troops phony soldiers, which didn't happen here, then they got to be consistent.
	Long before I used the term count.
	Fox News headline in May, I think May 20th on their website, phony soldier, Jesse Macbeth story.
	Isn't it interesting that Jesse Macbeth story did not enter the public domain in large numbers until I did it on Tuesday morning and Wednesday of last week.
	That is another real story.
	On the floor of the Senate yesterday, an expert on patriotism, by the way, calling me unpatriotic.
	Rush Limbaugh went way over the line.
	Way over the line.
	Maul, I respect his right to say anything he likes.
	His unpatriotic comments I cannot ignore.
	During his show last Wednesday, Lembaugh was engaged in one of his typical rants.
	This one was unremarkable and indistinguishable from his usual drivel, which has been steadily losing listeners for years.
	Until he crossed that line by calling our men and women in uniform who opposed the war in Iraq, and I quote, phony soldiers.
	This comment was so beyond the pale of decency that we can't leave it alone.
	Except it wasn't made.
	It wasn't in the middle of a rant.
	It was two words thrown away in a conversation with a phone call.
	I think tit for tat's in order here.
	If Harry Reid is going to call me unpatriotic, then Senator Reid, you may qualify as a phony patriot.
	it.
	Trying to all of a sudden position yourself now as a supporter of the troops?
	Can we go back and listen to some previous Harry Reid soundbites?
	He wants everybody to believe he's such a supporter, has such love and adoration for the troops.
	Here is Harry Reid on April in April of 2007 about the surge and the war in Iraq.
	Hell, that's really inspiring, Senator Reed, that's really patriotic.
	That's really motivational.
	That'll really get them around with the troops up.
	That night he repeated the same smear from the Senate floor.
	As long as we follow the President's path in Iraq, the war is lost.
	December 16th, 2006.
	Harry Reid celebrating when he thought Democrats had killed the Patriot Act.
	Think of what happened twenty minutes ago in the United States Senate.
	We killed the Patriot Act.
	Here is Harry Reed, September 7th of this year, talking about General Petraeus.
	He's made a number of statements over the years that have not proven to be factual.
	That is now not his report.
	It's President Bush's report.
	So attack General Petraeus, attack the troops, tell them they can't win.
	The war is already lost, and now today and yesterday try to make himself out to be a super patriot.
	It's not flying, Senator.
	I know, and thank you.
	And let's not forget these other two things about Senator Harry Reed.
	He told school children in Nevada that George Bush, the commander-in-chief, was a loser.
	He essentially called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas illiterate, was asked what he thought about Thomas.
	He's not very good.
	His opinions don't make any sense.
	They're not written very well.
	Harry Reid said.
	This is a party which cannot survive on the basis of its ideas, the Democrat Party.
	Liberalism cannot triumph openly in the arena of ideas.
	It can only triumph by destroying the character assassination and other things, its opponents.
	They don't dare come join us in the arena of ideas for open debate on issues.
	And if they do, it'll soon descend into personal assaults and attacks, as evidenced by Senator Harkin on the floor of the Senate saying things about me that he couldn't say about any other senator, nor could I say to a senator, were I appearing before some committee testifying about something or other, which, by the way, I would love to do.
	But now, folks, it's time to go to the phones.
	People have been patiently waiting.
	We'll start in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
	Bill, thanks uh for all your patience.
	I appreciate it.
	All right, Megadetto and uh from the left coast, and it's a real honor to talk to a true American patriot and a great American as yourself.
	Thank you, sir, very much.
	Um I am a return a um Iraqi uh war veteran, and I am extremely appalled by you know everything I hear from uh the Democrats in car in the Congress and the Senate, and even some Republicans, and I am truly um grateful for your support of uh the patriots as ourselves and the ones who truly go out there and fight and uh separating us between from the phonies.
	Well, I I appreciate that.
	I'm I um you know I've I've been to Afghanistan and I've spoken um to a number of different assemblies of of uh of of of combat troops and to Walter Reed and so forth.
	And and um, you know, one of the reasons I like going and seeing them is to is to thank them.
	And one of the reasons I love having people like you call is to be able to thank you because you're getting abused.
	You are there there's a whole political movement in this party seeking to demoralize you and to impugn you and secure your defeat.
	There is a movement and a political party in this country which impugns you and your fellow warriors by suggesting you only join the military, not because you really want to defend the country, but you have no other options.
	You come from poor backgrounds, poor neighborhoods, you can't get an education.
	Your only way out of the ghetto that is America is to join the military.
	They stop at nothing to impugn you.
	They they lie, they they're they're willing to you know say anything to boost their political career, and it just uh irks me every time I I hear and every sound like your uh your playing just tears me up inside because they're truly tearing our country apart, and they don't understand what they're what they're doing.
	Yes, they do.
	This is what everybody must understand.
	They know exactly what they're doing.
	We know why they are doing it.
	Uh, you know, this this is it's it's why it is is reprehensible, but it's all starting to backfire on them now.
	Fifty-five resolutions to get out, they failed.
	The Petraeus ad failed, miserably backfired big time approval ratings for Petraeus were sixty-one percent.
	The Congress is on a losing end of this because of their treatment of a decorated four-star general sitting before them, being accused of lying and being a patsy for George W. Bush.
	They now have to try to spin this.
	They're they're They're trying to all of a sudden how to make themselves sound like the biggest patriots ever, the biggest supporters of the war, the biggest supporters of the military, because they've got to try to reverse the damage that was done to them by the betrayus ad, and so I, and this attack on me.
	This smear has become their way of doing it with their base.
	Their base is getting impatient, fit to be tied.
	Their base needs to be distracted from the failures of Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi to do what their voters expected them to have accomplished by now.
	Here's Emily in uh Fort Washing Fort Washington, Maryland.
	Nice to have you on the program.
	Thank you, Rush.
	It's a privilege and a pleasure to speak to you after all these years.
	I've been with you since back before the famous bake sale.
	And I want to send my uh warmest regards to you from Helen Megless and Matty Dunn in Clinton, Maryland, and they're big supporters of you, Rush.
	I'm telling you, they're with you every single day, as I am.
	And we want to tell you that we support you, we love you, and we we thank you for all that you have done for us in the audience, and of course, the military.
	And nothing that the left is going to do to distort that conversation yet you had is gonna deter us from listening to you and getting our information from you and spreading your good word to other people that we know.
	There's nothing they can do.
	I also called uh Senator Harkin's office, Senator Reed's office, Hillary Clinton's office, and I let I let them have it.
	I told them flat out that they are wasting their time in the Senate.
	There are other things that need they need to be doing, and if they can't do it, they need to get the hell out.
	Bravo.
	And don't need to add anything to that, other than thank you very much.
	You're welcome.
	I I appreciate it.
	I I think you know what what they're doing is enabling uh uh this broadcast and and my words to be heard by even more Americans, uh, which they do each and every time they make me the focal point of one of their diet tribes.
	Uh let's let's do a little little uh mental exercise here for a second, folks.
	Let's swerve away from patriotism to uh morale building.
	Just as an illustration.
	Who builds morale and who demoralizes?
	You know, politicians love polls.
	Let's conduct a poll.
	I'll pay half.
	I'll pay half of the poll.
	I'll let them pick the pollster within reason.
	Go to the troops, go to Afghanistan, go to Iraq.
	Go to troops in this country who have returned from service in both theaters.
	Ask them a simple question.
	Who lifts your morale more?
	Harry Reed or Rush Limbaugh.
	I'll even let them select who goes first, Reed or Rush, doesn't matter to me.
	Do they really think that fifty liberal senators would do more to rally the troops than fifty Rush Limbaughs?
	These are the people in control of the United States Senate.
	The people who are responsible for your taxes, your energy production, your security, your country.
	Are they so out of touch, that out of touch with reality?
	Sadly, they are.
	The left has struggled for years trying to get on the right side of moral values.
	Now they've created a whole new mess for themselves with morale values.
	Do they really want to make troop morale an issue?
	Of all the fights they can pick to hush me up, the lamest, the flimsiest is troop morale.
	Of all of my strong points, and there are so many of them it's hard to list them all.
	But of all of my strong points is not troop support right up there at the top.
	And of all of the weaknesses, and there are too many to list here.
	All of the left's weaknesses isn't undercutting troop morale one of their biggest messes.
	And yet here they are attempting to suggest that it is I undercutting troop morale.
	Let's do a poll On it.
	And let's ask the troops.
	I'll pay half.
	Kenneth Abilene, Texas.
	Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
	Rush, how are you?
	Good, sir.
	Thank you.
	It's a pleasure to talk to you, sir.
	I'm a longtime listener, first time caller, and I'm angry.
	I'm angry at the smear campaign that uh the liberal left is has imposed upon you.
	I'm a real veteran.
	I've served in every war from Vietnam with the exception of Grenada to Desert Storm.
	My son is now serving in Iraq.
	Uh there are a number, a number of false soldiers.
	A number of uh people who like to claim that they were soldiers, claim they were in the military and were not.
	Uh you can go to a number of websites to to find uh uh myth versus fact on on our military.
	I'd like to say, sir, I'd love to stand soldier to soldier with you side by side with you anywhere in the world.
	You have supported the American soldier beyond belief.
	You supported me through a number of of conflicts, and now you're supporting my son.
	I love you, right.
	Love you too, sir.
	I love all of you.
	Thank you very much.
	I appreciate it.
	Uh we'll be back.
	Stay with us.
	By the way, you know what one of the funniest things in Harry Reed's comments on the floor of the Senate yesterday was this.
	I can't help but wonder how my Republican colleagues would have reacted if the tables were turned.
	If a well known Democrat radio personality had used the same insulting line of attack against troops who support the war.
	What's funny about that is what well known Democrat radio personalities are there.
	The fact is there are several Democrat radio personalities who do just what Senator Reed said.
	They trash the troops daily and have been for four years.
	It's just that nobody hears it because their audiences are minuscule.
	You could put the totality of their audiences in the thimble.
	And still have room left over for some scotch.
	Or rum.
	Vodka, whatever your preference, even diet coke or snapple.
	Here is Leon.
	Leon's in Frederick, Maryland.
	Uh great to have you, sir.
	Nice to have you on the EIB network.
	Thank you, Rush.
	I'm going to give you old fashioned traditional liberal uh dittos from Jefferson and Locke, the people who really understood what liberalism were was, the inventors of the concept, which is individual rights, individual values, the basis of the the Democrat party supposed to be the basis of our democratic con country.
	I'm appalled at the contemporary anti-war movement.
	I was a leader of the anti-Vietnam movement.
	You could argue that the differences, and there's appallingly easy to see.
	Vietnam, we were sticking our nose in somebody else's business.
	Here we were attacked.
	You can't argue that.
	You can argue everything else, but you can't argue we were attacked.
	These idiots that are our competition in America don't have any concept that the people we're fighting want to kill us.
	And the first ones they'll put against the wall will be Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
	And the rest of them.
	We have absolutely no way to argue the war because there is no conscious, competent other side to talk to.
	There's an offer nothing.
	And I am brokenhearted by it because it totally destroys the concept of a balance of uh conversation.
	And I just pun time.
	This is way cool.
	You are a leader of the V Vietnam War anti-war movement, and you are saying that the current crowd of anti-war people is embarrassing and doing your cause, your reputation's great harm, correct?
	Horribly harm.
	It's atrocious.
	I mean, I was uh my specific job in the anti-war movement was to run the marshaling program in DC to make sure that the crazy people did not embarrass us by attacking the police or doing anything stupid.
	We succeeded because we cared about a civilized discourse.
	There's no civilized discourse now.
	It's already attempt to want upmanship without any understanding about what the issues are.
	You and I could argue domestic policy between now and the cows come home, but if the Taliban or uh Al Qaeda or any of these people win, you and I are both out of business.
	And they don't have a clue.
	Well, you hit the nail on the head with that.
	You are you are so right on the money.
	Uh not only that, this current crop has to lie, and they have to prop up phony soldiers in order to make their anti-war case.
	I know.
	It breaks my heart.
	The first anti-war movement of demonstration, I was involved when it was in 1966 in Baltimore.
	The first ten people were in wheelchairs.
	They were real soldiers.
	I don't see anybody today who would even announce what they truly did.
	Now it could be okay to be a soldier and be against the war.
	You can be an honorable person to be against the war.
	But when you are a liar and then you prove it, all it does is diminish the position that you're supposed to be supporting.
	They have no clue.
	It makes it makes them even more.
	Here's here's another big difference.
	You guys succeeded in turning public opinion.
	They haven't, and so they've now they're desperate, and they have to resort to lies and false pictures and false images in order to try to convey the notion that they have succeeded in converting public opinion on a majority basis to victor to defeat, to get out now, to lose.
	Absolutely, because the basis of their argument is false.
	If we walk, we can still survive.
	All right, look, thanks.
	I appreciate the call so much, Leon.
	I really do.
	All the best to you, sir.
	Bless you, Brush.
	Nice to talk to you.
	Michael in uh in Rochelle, Illinois.
	Thank you for waiting.
	Your next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rush.
	Uh, I just wanted to make a point here as a young Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran and as a young fellow talk show host with a minuscule audience compared to yours.
	For people outside of the military, there is nothing you can do that supports the troops more than what you do every day, Rush, and that is supporting the mission of the troops.
	And you do it on the most massive scale.
	I I left the Army in late 2003 after six years on active duty, served in the combat zone of Kuwait in Iraq for a year, and I asked myself when I got out, what could I do uh to support this war effort and this mission, and I found my way to talk radio.
	And you're the you know, number one guy on talk radio.
	Uh, you don't have to have served in the military to support the troops and their mission, just as you don't have to have been a policeman or a fireman to support those men and women who also put themselves in harm's way for strangers every day.
	Excellent point.
	What you do supports the mission of the because you explain why it's so important why this fight is necessary, and I thank you for it, Rush.
	I appreciate that very much, Michael.
	You know, so he reminds me of the good point.
	It's who who is it that's always having to defend the fact they support the troops.
	It's the Harry Reeds of the world, and it's their it's Harry Reid's supporters.
	Hey, we support the troops, don't but we don't support the mission.
	Well, the way you support the troops is supporting the mission.
	If you have to come out and say, hey, wait a minute, we support the troops.
	There must be some doubt about your support of the troops.
	Leftists.
	We are back, ladies and gentlemen.
	Not enough time.
	Well, that actually there uh let's see.
	There he is.
	Let's go to audio sound by 13, uh, Cybercast News Service uh interviewed uh Senator Ben Nelson, a Democrat from Nebraska about the uh the phony soldier thing, and this is what Ben Nelson said.
	What we've got into right now is the situation where uh move on.org was hammered by the other side, uh, so it's not surprising that now you've got a sort of the return of that uh in the case of Limbaugh.
	Uh quite honestly, I don't get involved in those uh unless it's about me.
	And I've considered talk radio, uh, entertainment as well as news, and uh so I just don't pay much attention to it.
	It's not about him, he doesn't care.
	Here is Daniel Makaka from Hawaii saying we don't need legislation aimed at Rush Limbaugh.
	Well, I feel that any citizen has a whole uh right to voice the opinion, you know, on anything you want to do.
	And I think this uh limball, although I don't agree with him on many things, so there's a right to say what he says.
	And I I don't think we uh need to do legislation to get at him.
	Uh that's Senator Daniel Akuka.
	Always enjoyed pronouncing his name.
	He's always first on a roll call.
	Senator Akaka, they say.
	By the way, Senator Akaka, I love going to your state.
	Beautiful state.
	Gotta take a timeout.
	We got one hour left to go.
	Other items in the news, plus uh your phone calls and one more sound bike to go.

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