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	And greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, and conversationalists all across the bountiful fruited playing Rush Limbaugh on the fastest three hours in media and the fastest week in media.
	Already we are at Wednesday.
	It's great to have you with us.
	The telephone number if you'd like to join us, 800 282-2882, and the email address is Rush at EIBNet.com.
	For those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, during the top of the hour break, we uh we placed a plaque here with the uh with an American Eagle riding atop the Stars and Stripes, the American flag, and I did this for a reason.
	Because I want to play for you an audio soundbite uh from Monday on Capitol Hill, Cybercast News Service interviewed Senator Warner of Virginia, Senator John Warner, about the uh phony soldier remark, the Jesse Macbeth story.
	Uh this is what Senator Warner said.
	I've met Rush Limbaugh.
	I find him to be uh to the extent there's any clear definition of patriot.
	I think he would fall in within the various definitions of being a patriot.
	And I don't think about this instant.
	I don't think he could do anything to malign the men and women of the armed forces.
	That's my own view.
	Now, let me tell you why Senator Warner said that, and it is um uh because of this award here.
	This award is given annually by the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, of which I have been a member of the board.
	I have raised uh lots of money, you have donated lots of money to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, and uh I have donated uh my share as well.
	Every year they offer this award to someone special.
	It is the Johnny Mike Spam award.
	It is a the Memorial Semper Fidelis Award presented by the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
	This was presented to me in March of 2003 at the Plaza Hotel at their annual dinner.
	Uh in attendance every year is the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
	Uh that year, Senator Warner presented this award to me.
	Johnny Mike Spam, of course, a CIA agent killed in Afghanistan.
	Uh he was uh he was the first, and we have this, and I I don't I don't have uh very many of the awards I've been given.
	I'm not a big award guy anyway, but I don't have them at home.
	Um if you were to walk into my home, you you'd you'd see a couple pictures, but that's it.
	And you'd see that American flag.
	If I took you upstairs in my library, you'd see the American flag flown in my honor, unbeknownst to me, uh, during the original invasion of Iraq on five different aircraft in a ziploc bag, folded flawlessly.
	I got home one day, and uh that flag was in a FedEx box with certificates authenticating a pictures of the aircraft, authenticating those flights and when they happen, the pilots.
	Uh, and a letter on yellow legal pad from Mark Hassara, whose uh nickname is Sluggo, has become a very good friend of mine, uh, since he organized this.
	Uh we've talked about Taz, the um uh man who called us from the control tower at Baghdad International through the cheap quality French refrigerator off the top.
	Taz was part of the group uh that flew the flag in my honor, unbeknownst to me.
	Uh that is on display, framed, the flag unfolded in the uh the certificates.
	Uh but you have to go upstairs to see it.
	I I don't put this stuff on display often.
	I don't talk about it much.
	Uh this award and most of the awards that I've won are here, the Marconi's and so forth, was a went got from our living room area here of our broadcast complex.
	I asked Brian to bring this in because it is heavy.
	Uh and uh but I wanted I wanted this to be on display because it was presented to me by Senator Warner uh in the spring of 2003.
	This award every year is given uh in honor and recognition of uh somebody who has uh done a lot to support the Marine Corps, the Law Enforcement Foundation, which, by the way, uh raises money for the children of Marines killed in action.
	It is uh basically college scholarship program.
	But the reason it's uh called the Law Enforcement Foundation is because in uh certain disasters, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation also extends college Scholarships to other branches of the military as well as uh other law enforcement agencies of the United States government, such as Customs, the uh the Coast Guard, uh, the FBI.
	For example, they they they went into gear during uh the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing.
	Of course, in the in the Mura building, there were a number of federal uh law enforcement agencies represented who were killed who had children.
	So uh we at the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation went into gear and uh and raised significant amounts of uh of money uh for the children, and this is an ongoing effort uh, and there's a new recipient of this award each and every year.
	This uh I can't tell you that they spare no expense on this.
	This is uh it's as heavy as it looks.
	Uh let me scoot it out of the way so I have access to my uh my mic.
	In fact, let me move it, just get a shot of it here.
	Uh for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, be an idea.
	That's what the eagle uh looks like.
	And you can see compared to me how large this is.
	I, my friends, am not Tiny Tim sitting here.
	This is a uh quite by the way, speaking of Tiny Tim, have you seen I saw Barack Obama a moment ago on television looking depressed as he could be because these fundraising numbers are out.
	And Mrs. Clinton, Queen of the Quarter.
	She crushed Obama in CEPI in a surprise fundraising surge.
	What are the numbers?
	30 some odd mi 27 million for Mrs. Clinton, 19 million for Barack Obama.
	And everybody said, Wow, how did this happen?
	Folks, it's easily understandable.
	There are one billion Chinese.
	One billion Chinese, it's not difficult to come up with uh with 27 million, even if one of your chief bundlers, Norman Shu and uh and uh Winkle Paw can't make bail or can't be found.
	One other thing to mention.
	Um the Adopt a Soldier program here on this uh on this program.
	The uh because of the negative press coverage that was in abundance during the early years and well, through most of the years of this current uh conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	Uh we would hear from soldiers and say we only get one hour of view of Armed Forces Radio, which by the way is one of the real targets of uh Harry Reed and Tom Arkans uh uh actions on the Senate floor is to try again to get this program taken off Armed Forces Radio.
	Harkin did it once before a few years ago.
	So what we did um, we started the Adopt a Soldier program, uh, and uh there are tens of thousands of U.S. military personnel with complimentary access to RushLimbaugh.com so that they can listen to this program via streaming if they are able to connect to a server that permits it.
	Uh and that was a caller suggestion, by the way.
	Uh and we've had uh since that started numerous emails from soldiers who have thanked us for keeping the uh flow of positive news uh 24-7 their way.
	So just wanted to mention these two things and explain Senator Warner's comments from the Washington Times today.
	Um most in poll want war funding cut.
	Bush's approval rating ties all-time low.
	So the the Liberals out there keep running this this poll ploy.
	Two yards and a clouded dust.
	They can't even gain three yards with it.
	You see, Democrats, the public want you to cut off the funds, it says here.
	So do it.
	I mean, if the public wants the funds to be cut, why haven't you guys done it?
	I mean, this is this is uh if it's so obvious according to these polls, how come all of your resolutions here have uh have failed?
	By the way, um also in this story is a little conflicting poll data, and it is that uh the Bush plan on Iraq is preferred over the Congress plan at 52 percent.
	Now I don't know how this can be.
	How can you get a poll that says a majority uh want the funding for the war cut and yet 52 percent uh prefer the Bush plan over the Congressional plan to get us out of the war?
	Doesn't make any sense.
	Here's the paragraph in question is a broader public agreement on how Congress should approach war funding.
	About a quarter of adults want Congress to fund fully the administration's 190 billion dollar request, 70 percent want the proposed allocation reduced, 46% wanting it cut sharply or entirely.
	About seven in ten independents want Congress to cut back funds allocated for the war effort, as do nearly nine in ten Democrats.
	Forty-six percent of Republicans agree, yet fifty-two percent uh prefer that there are um uh prefer the Bush plan.
	Now there was a story yesterday in the Snack, we didn't get to, but it's this the number of American troops and Iraqi civilians killed in the war fell in September to levels not seen in more than a year.
	The U.S. military said the lower count was at least partly a result of new strategies and thirty thousand additional forces deployed this year, i.e.
	the surge is working.
	Also in the stack yesterday, uh locals are building cities up with oil revenue, as Bush said was happening.
	There has been a 40% decline in deaths, citizen deaths in uh in Iraq during Ramadan.
	So the news continues to be good out of Iraq.
	Another reason why the Democrats have to change the subject, change it to me in the process of a smear on the floor of the Senate in order to placate their continually loony, lunatic fringe base, who is beside itself now when they have heard all the top-tier Democrat presidential candidates say, well, uh I can't commit to getting out of there by the end of my first term if I'm elected.
	I can't commit so they're throwing up their hands in total frustration.
	When that happens, you have to give the rabble something to eat.
	They've thrown me at them in order to distract attention from their own failures.
	Democrat leadership failures in the House and the Senate.
	Half my brand tied behind my back just to make it fair, utilizing talent on lawn from God.
	Uh interesting headline here.
	E. J. Dion Jr., a column in the Washington Post, Biden's clarity on a rock stands apart.
	Now, what does that mean?
	I'm not even going to read the column to you.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's just easy to plug in Biden here.
	If if Biden's clarity on a rock stands apart, it means that all the other Democrat leaders are unclear and confused and confusing on the top issue of the day, the year, the decade.
	And the importance of this is that the Democrats in a drive-by media are j they're just they're everybody was frustrated with the Democrats.
	On their side of the aisle, everybody's frustrated.
	We've got to go to Joe Biden to find clarity on a rock.
	Uh not uh not good.
	We have a sexual harassment update, ladies and gentlemen.
	Thank you.
	Frankie Valley.
	Minus the uh four treasons.
	My hands explored you.
	There you have it, our sexual harassment update theme.
	It kind of goes back and forth.
	We rotate them with another uh Frankie Valley tune, Can't Take My Hands Off You, uh, which was a big heart melter.
	Uh boy, when you play that song, I was uh that song I was sixteen or seventeen when that song came out.
	Yeah, the high school girls' hearts just melted.
	They just they started crying when that song came because they were the ones pretending about marriage.
	Fantasizing and so forth back then.
	Any rate, Isaiah Thomas found guilty of sexual harassment.
	This was not a surprise because the jury sent a note to the judge yesterday asking about punitive damages.
	If they've gotten that far, not supposed to get that far till they've come to a verdict.
	Uh he's out there saying he's gonna demand he's gonna appeal this.
	Uh I haven't seen, I haven't had a chance to spend much time watching television, but I haven't seen uh any uh information on on if what whatever whatever amount uh is involved.
	I don't even remember what she was suing for, what the uh what the amount was.
	But this was uh woman at work at uh Madison Square Garden.
	They have also been found liable uh in this.
	To the phones we go to George, South Windsor, Connecticut.
	George, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Nice to have you here, sir.
	Yes, Rush.
	Uh four or six inch above the waist bouncing dittoes.
	Thank you, sir.
	Appreciate that.
	If you ever had a best of show, that was one of the funniest segments.
	But anyway, the reason I called us I know why the Democrats are doing this.
	If you remember before the sixth election, the whole Michael J. Fox thing that the media totally took out of context about stem cell research.
	They did affect that election to their standards anyway.
	They think they affected it.
	So they're thinking if they do the same thing, same playbook, same play that they can affect negatively against the Republicans.
	And I think they're totally misunderestimated themselves on this one.
	Well because you have the facts behind you.
	You are a huge advocate for the troops.
	Always have been, always will.
	They're dead wrong.
	Yeah, it'll backfire on them.
	I I I I I it's I think it's in the process of backfiring on them now.
	But uh the whether they're trying to use this to secure the uh well, look, you're right, in one in one in one uh uh sense, you're actually dead on right because the origin of this is Media Matters for America.
	Who started Media Matters for America?
	Well, let's listen.
	Go back to August 6th of this show to listen to Mrs. Clinton.
	This is Hillary Clinton.
	We have several sound bites here.
	We are certainly uh better prepared and more focused on taking our arguments and making them effective and disseminating them widely and really putting together a network uh in the logosphere in a lot of the new uh progressive infrastructure, uh institutions that I helped to start and support, like Media Matters and Center for American Progress.
	Whoa, there you have it.
	Media Matters for America has now been officially claimed as a Hillary Clinton startup by Hillary Clinton.
	So to that extent, anybody in media on any side of the aisle ought to now understand that anything coming out of Media Matters for America is designed to take issue, destroy, harm whatever, anyone who gets in Mrs. Clinton's way in her quest for the White House.
	So in that sense, yes, this is purely political, trying to affect an election, much like Dan Rather did with his forged documents.
	So uh with Mrs. Clinton having admitted this, that she helped start, and that she supports media matters.
	I've had a lot of people say where you keep saying I think it's George Soros rush.
	Well, Soros money goes in there, but not directly.
	Soros has this, forget the name of it, but there's this shell operation.
	The money goes in there, and then that organization distributes it so that uh Soros and his bunch have direct plausible deniability.
	In fact, if you talk to Soros' people, they'll probably say, well, yeah, we uh we're really we're upset about what uh media matters are doing, and a little bit over the line, which is all BS.
	But the bottom line, it's Mrs. Clinton's organization, and so anything it does is designed to help her.
	By helping her, they try to impede anybody getting in her way, destroy or what have you.
	Hence this smear of me.
	And it's as this is I I I said yesterday, or the day before.
	By the way, I said earlier this is Wednesday.
	It feels like Wednesday because we've been talking about last week when all the you know the the fire storm hit, and it hit on a Wednesday, and this is a Wednesday in my mind.
	So I know it's only Tuesday here.
	Still the fastest week in media.
	So fast on Tuesday seems like Wednesday.
	But nevertheless, uh the the purpose here uh is to illustrate what their playbook is going to be.
	It's only gonna get worse.
	Here's there's another aspect of this, folks, and I think you ought to understand too, that the what Media Matters is attempting to do with this smear is not just smear me, but in the process of smearing me, they want, they hope, to discredit me as somebody the mainstream media would reference or discuss as the election moves forward.
	Uh but they chose a horrible example.
	A horrible instance, because all they've done is discredit themselves.
	And they have uh really opened the blinds and everybody see who they are, but Mrs. Clinton admitted she started the organization and supports it.
	So any drive-by media outlet that uh relies on media matters in the future has got to admit that they're relying on a Hillary Clinton front group for news.
	From the Chicago Sun Times, a story about Oak Lawn, Illinois schools, so long Halloween parade and Farewell Santa's gift shop.
	Now we've been discussing just this kind of thing in relation to the separation of church and state uh and and how anybody who's offended can get something banned That has a traditional holiday aspect to it in this country.
	The holiday traditions are facing elimination in some Oaklawn Scruels this year after complaints the activities are offensive, particularly to Muslim students.
	Final decisions on which of the festivities will be axed will fall to the principles that each of Ridgeland School District's 120 or 122 is five schools.
	Parents expect that the announcement's going to add to the tension that's been building since officials agreed earlier this month to change a lunch menu to exclude items containing pork to accommodate Muslim students.
	News that jello was struck from the menu caused such a stir that officials have agreed to bring it back.
	Gelatin, often made with tissue or bones of pigs.
	Or other animals.
	The controversy now appears to have been dwarfed by La Holiday debate, which became so acrimonious uh last Wednesday that the uh police were called to Columbus Manor Scroll to intervene in a shouting match among parents.
	It's difficult when you change the school's culture, said Columbus Manor Principal Sandy Robertson.
	Elizabeth Zodon, a mother of three students, says she took her concerns to the school board this month, not because she wanted to do away with the traditions, but rather to make them more inclusive.
	I only wanted them modified to represent everybody.
	Nixing them isn't the response she was looking for.
	Now the kids are not going to be educated about other people.
	There's just not time in the six hour scroll day to celebrate every holiday, said Smith, who sent the message to principals and need to tone down the activities that he sees as eating too much into instruction time.
	We have to think about our purpose.
	Saw a story that saw us to do the other day.
	Oh, could I can't remember the details?
	But I remember my reaction to it was so long Britain.
	Uh it was something the schools are doing uh regarding getting rid of some traditions over there so as not to offend uh religious groups among them Muslims.
	I can't remember what it is, so I'd better not hazard a guess.
	Well, I the reaction was good by Britain.
	Uh so and you know, this is this is the kind of thing that liberals support.
	ACLU joins in this kind of stuff.
	They are about tearing down traditions, institutions that define the uh country.
	Kathy and Reno, I'm glad you waited.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Hi, Rash.
	It's a pleasure to speak with you today.
	Thank you.
	I'm calling about Harry Reed because I am from Nevada, and in his last election, the people of Nevada, including a lot of Republicans, voted for him because they thought he would be good for Nevada.
	He was set to he was a senior senator, set to move into a a powerful position, and so people thought that will be good for Nevada.
	But I think that Harry Reed knows that his political future in Nevada is toast.
	And so he has nothing to lose.
	I think that he knows his constituents can't hold his feet to the fire because we are gonna toss him out in the last next election.
	He's gonna be like Tom Dashell.
	So he has nothing to lose, and he says the outrageous things he says, even though people back home do not like it.
	You know, I I haven't seen any polling data on uh on Senator Reed and uh how he's doing out there, so I'll just accept your word for it.
	Uh but you're right, the Dashel the Dashell analogy holds.
	Uh Dashell's a Senate majority leader uh and was not articulating positions and leading in a way that represented his constituents, and he paid the price.
	And I have predicted what you just said that the same thing is gonna happen to Harry Reed uh in Nevada.
	That's uh it's a it's a long shot, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does have the call, Kathy.
	Thank you much.
	St. Joseph, uh, Missouri.
	This is Sarah.
	Glad you waited.
	You're next on the uh big program.
	Nice to have you here.
	Thank you, Russ.
	How are you?
	Good.
	Never better.
	Um, I have a son in Afghanistan, a son-in-law in Iraq, and these phony soldiers, and by that I mean these guys that were not men enough to cut basic or to get through basic.
	They make me sick, they make me I'm so angry, I'm shaking.
	And Harry Reed to get up there and make us think he cares one whit about our guys, our family members, our loved ones.
	It's just so wrong.
	And and isn't censorship comes from the government, right?
	Right.
	And Harry Reid being the leader of the Senate, isn't he coming close to censoring you?
	Trying to.
	In ways in ways I I really don't want to mention, but yeah, you're very perceptive.
	And because you know, my son and son-in-law are going through things that these I'm not gonna even call them men because they don't these deserve to be called men.
	They have no idea.
	And they're doing it because they love this country, they love us.
	They, you know, my son and son in law would be the men that would they would give their life for you regardless of whether they were on the battlefield or not.
	And and for Har Harry Reed to denigrate them like this and to denigrate you, because you have done so much for our soldiers.
	I'm sorry, I'm getting emotional now.
	So am I. We're in it together.
	And you know I'm just I'm just so angry, and he has no right to do this.
	And you know, th the things that him and Dick Durbin the things that they have said about our guys, and I'm sorry, I'm just um I'm aggravated.
	I know what you mean.
	Durban uh called the uh soldiers in our that run the prisons uh Nazi uh gulags, uh Soviet gulags, Nazi assassins and poll pots murderers.
	Uh he had to uh do a quasi apology for that because there was uh an outraged reaction to it.
	Um You know, Sarah.
	Yeah when you um when you say that your sons would would uh die for me on or off the battlefield, I mean I'm you render me speechless.
	We um th those of us in this country who have a a great and deep appreciation for what people like your son and your son-in-law do, uh know full well they volunteer.
	That's right.
	To lose their lives in the battlefield for the country.
	It's why we are so offended when their service is impugned or their character is impugned or when they're demoralized or when leaders of their government attempt to sabotage their their mission.
	Uh I you know, I th I d I just I th I think that the country has a debt of gratitude to you and uh your family members who serve that they can never repay.
	Uh I know I can't.
	You don't owe me anything.
	Well not not that we owe you anything.
	It's the it's we we it's it's a it's this is a simple form of gratitude and wanting to show it, and sometimes it's difficult uh beyond words, um charitable donations, this kind of thing to um to do so.
	And so the support for what they do, particularly in light of the uh criticism they get, is uh something we em we embrace eagerly.
	Uh it's uh it's a great honor.
	You know, to have such members of our population and country as your son and son-in-law.
	I just ask that people pray for them.
	That's all I ask.
	Well, I guarante I guarantee you that'll happen.
	What are their names?
	My son's name is Vance and my son-in-law's name is Kevin.
	Vance and Kevin?
	Yes, and I love them very much.
	How old are they?
	Kevin is twenty, almost twenty-five, and Vance is twenty.
	And they've been gone how long?
	Kevin has been gone since middle of January.
	I might add about three weeks after his son was born.
	My son has been in Afghanistan since April.
	And I don't even know where he's at.
	He's he's an airborne trooper, he's airborn.
	I'm not exactly sure where he's at.
	How often do you hear from either of them?
	Infrequently.
	But every I send them packages and letters often.
	Every time I do, I tell them how much how proud I am of them.
	My son was disheartened after the November election because he felt like the people, he said he he he didn't care about the politicians.
	He didn't expect any more from them.
	But he felt like the people were turning their back on him.
	And he wants to know why people pretend that they're not in Afghanistan.
	And that you know that's a good point.
	That is a the critics say we ought to be in Afghanistan.
	We've diverted to Iraq, we ought to be in that is an excellent we're we are in Afghanistan, and we're in combat missions in Afghanistan, and we are engaged in successful combat missions, routing out warlords in the Taliban there.
	Uh that that's um that's an excellent point.
	Well, You know, when I was there on the troop visit, it was uh pretty quiet.
	There was in the in the eastern parts uh there were some skirmishes that I mean, I heard the the gunfire when I was on the base there.
	Uh but it was pretty quiet.
	The question is I got in the troops.
	How come how about nobody's talking about us in the media?
	How can't all the way about Iraq?
	And I said, because you guys are succeeding here.
	Right.
	Uh no there are no trouble to report here, so you guys are being ignored right now.
	It may not be as quiet there now.
	No, it's not.
	It's not.
	Taliban's trying to trying to move back in via Pakistan with uh bin Laden and his buddies.
	Right.
	And and he he's on blackout quite frequently, which I mean, you know, no contact.
	But we just we have we live our lives one day at a time.
	We have to.
	Because if I if I let the Baron Worry overtake me, I would be in a ball in the corner talking to an imaginary.
	Well, that's I know, and this is what we all know.
	Um this perhaps an unfortunate thing to say, but the strategy, the political strategy behind the uh the Democrat Party's anti-war movement is that when it comes to elections, there aren't that many members of this population who are military or military family, maybe two to three million.
	And so their attitude is, well, we can lose them.
	We'll pick it up in some other group and still win the election.
	Remember, this is the bunch that tried to not count military absentee ballots in Florida in 2000.
	Uh it's got to be tough.
	I mean, you're you're your son and son-in-law volunteer.
	It's always been uh something valorous.
	Uh an admiral to be a member of the U.S. military, and now all of a sudden, for the first time in American history, well, it it got bad in Vietnam for a while, but but but it never to the extent that I've seen it here.
	Now all of a sudden, uh there's a there's a whole political movement out there designed to secure defeat.
	Right.
	Wave the white flag of surrender for the whole country, and in the process uh impugn the character and integrity of people like your son and son-in-law who volunteered to do this.
	And I will never vote Democrat again, ever.
	I don't care who the person is, they will never get my vote.
	Well, if it's Joe Lieberman someday, you can you can vote for him.
	No, because he's part of Democrat.
	Well, he's an independent.
	They tried to drum him out of this.
	Yes, I know.
	That's what they do.
	And I've had it with them.
	They are less than zero to me.
	Sarah, I have to go, but I I uh I've really enjoyed talking to you.
	Thank you uh so much, and God bless you and your your family and your son and son-in-law from all of us, okay?
	Okay, thank you, Russ.
	You bet.
	We'll be back, folks.
	Continue after this.
	Ha, how are you?
	Welcome back.
	Uh uh get the Oh, by the way, folks, that last call from Sarah uh is a great illustration of uh what I was talking about in an opening monologue of this program, and that is how the Democrat Party, led by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Moveon.org, Media Matters for America.
	Uh that's why it's so upsetting.
	The the continued use by Hillary's groups and the liberals in Congress of the troops for political games self-aggrandizement is just more of the abuse of our armed forces.
	You heard this mother describe what it has been like listening to Democrats while her son and son-in-law are in um Afghanistan.
	It's uh it's it's just abuse.
	It's just play.
	We owe them respect.
	And a lot of Democrats can't even do that.
	Just stunning.
	By the way, there has been a Republican in the House of Representatives sign on the Democrat resolution condemning me.
	The Republican's name is Walter Jones, and he is from North Carolina.
	He told Fox News late yesterday that I, quote, went too far, unquote, and that he will sign on to Udall's resolution Tuesday morning.
	He's one of the uh two Republican House members who've consistently supported anti-war legislation.
	So he's fallen for the hoax, the smear, and so forth.
	But Walter Jones, that's right.
	It mostly been voting with the anti-war left uh in the Democrat Party.
	He's been taking a lot of heat for it In North Carolina.
	So he throws in with the liars and the hacks because he's looking for cover.
	He wants to pretend he's standing up for the troops in attacking me.
	Because even throwing in against them all this time, the fastest way to make himself look like he's standing for the troops when he doesn't is to throw in with this smear of me.
	She ought to be ashamed of himself.
	Okay, we've talked today about some of the media that's not gotten this right.
	CNN yesterday, Wolf Blitzer.
	I'm I was disappointed.
	Wolf's a good journalist.
	I still maintain that.
	But but Wolf fell hook, line and sinker for the Media Matters premise and started with that premise as established, and then took a report.
	Well, Limbaugh saying something else.
	Well, but Limbaugh, of course, would say something else.
	But there have been people who have stood up.
	O'Reilly last night on the O'Reilly Factor with uh uh Brian Maloney from the Radio Equalizer blog, which we post at Rushlimbaugh.com now and then, uh, did a great segment on Media Matters and its funding and who's behind it.
	Uh this morning on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough had a couple of guests on.
	Uh Willie Geist and a news babe there, Mika Bruzinski, and Scarborough says, you know, the Democrats are so funny this way, they're always a step behind.
	So now they're they're going after Rush Limbaugh thing, and he claimed that if you're against the war, you're a phony soldier, but really it's really not the case, is it?
	Well, he was talking to a caller on his show, and they were talking about people from the left who have attacked the war.
	And he said, Limbaugh said they tried out these quote phony soldiers.
	Now he says he's referring to this guy, Jesse McBeth, who is in fact a phony soldier.
	Phony soldier.
	But people like Tom Harkin came out the other day and said, quote, maybe he's on drugs again.
	Rush.
	Okay.
	Well, I don't know.
	Maybe that was a nice Mika Brzezinski wearing in there, and then uh weighing in.
	Uh then there was uh uh uh correspondent Courtney Hazlet.
	Uh and uh and and Geist said to record me before we let you go, I want to ask you quickly about this Rush Limbaugh situation, a phony soldier quote that we're hearing.
	The phony soldier quote, completely taken out of context, but I have to say, when I immediately heard it as well, when all you had was the Media Matters contacts to look at it in, it did on paper look really, really badly.
	And when you have a radio show and you're talking for hours and hours, pulling something out of context, of course, is going to create issues.
	But I think it's just so interesting that media matters, because it's their sole job to look at everything under such a microscope.
	Yeah, they seem to have this new right now to really trash people in the press.
	So I just think it's interesting that they've got this type of leverage, and nobody is looking at the big picture and saying that you know what, maybe Media Matters should take a step back a little bit, and we should give everyone a little bit more of a shot.
	At some point, you have to look at these watchdog organizations and say, okay, how seriously are we going to take them the minute after they publish something?
	More time should have to lap.
	Unbelievable.
	The most brilliant, reasonable comment we have heard in a drive-by media about these watchdog groups.
	That's Courtney Hazlet, a reporter for MSNBC on Joe Scarborough's show this morning.
	Uh and getting it right, radio people.
	But this this was not even I mean, this was a purposely smeared and took it out of context and lied about it on purpose.
	But the uh magnifying glass is now on them, folks.
	Let's not forget what this was or is.
	Media Matters for America took two words that I uttered and used hundreds and thousands of words to create a lie and a smear out of two words that I uttered.
	See you tomorrow, folks.

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