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Oct. 15, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 15, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Finally, it's time for me, ladies and gentlemen.
Here we are on Monday.
Time to clean up the messes made over the weekend of the drive-by media.
Happy to do it, Rush Limboy and the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
Here behind a golden EIB microphone from High Atop, the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, and the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, a uh a programming note, Mr. Snurdley has been suspended for the day.
Uh as you know, our call screener, Snurdley was sent home uh for the day earlier this morning.
He will be back tomorrow with all if everything uh goes as according to plan.
Uh two problems.
He uh he presented a call to me on the program last Friday involving uh human uh waste movements, uh clearly beneath the um the quality and decorum of this program.
Snurdly thought it would be funny because it was about a South Park incident in which the measurements were said to be in couricks.
Uh but the caller never got there because I maintaining the class and decorum known for this program uh interceded.
Secondly, you might remember the uh the call from Lynn last Friday, uh, who uh clearly uh how how would you describe it, H.R. What was she doing?
I mean, she was she was uh she was uh uh she made a play for me.
She's coming on to me.
It says make no bones of it.
Come on.
I I learned, ladies and gentlemen, over the weekend, Snurdley gave her a call.
This is just intolerable.
I that's funny, but I have to put my foot down on this.
So Snurdly, this is the second time we've had to suspend him in the uh course of this program, which is not too many times.
Uh the first time was uh I saw him shouting and arguing and yelling with a caller in there.
And you do, you gotta nip these things in the bud uh when you see them happening.
You gotta lay down the law, you get you gotta you you you can't let the line get crossed because then the line gets blurred, then the line gets invisible.
Did you people happen to see the latest polling data out of Nevada?
Uh Molly Ball of the Las Vegas Review Journal is reporting that Senator Harry Reid's favorable rating in Nevada has plunged dramatically, according to a new poll.
His favorable rating is at 32 percent.
His unfavorable rating is at 51 percent.
This is a uh a net 23-point drop from the last poll, which was taken in early May when Dingy Harry scored a 4642.
Favorable unfavorable rating.
Uh uh reporter is reporting this is the first time Reed's unfavorable rating has eclipsed his favorable rating.
Uh, also puts him below the uh favorable ratings recorded by President Bush and me.
They put me in this poll.
Yes, and I have a higher approval rating in Nevada than Dingy Harry.
Here are the uh the names in this poll in order.
John Ensign's at 51 and 19.
That's approval disapproval.
Bill Clinton of 5137, uh, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, 4217.
Hillary Clinton, 3851, Rush Limbaugh, 3450, President Bush, 3453, Senator Dingy Harry, 3251.
Uh, and uh Governor Jim Gibbons of 30 and 29.
Now, Brad Coker of Mason Dixon Research offered a wry observation of Reed and Limbaugh's similar ratings.
That's how polarizing Harry Reid's become.
Rush is trying to be polarizing.
Reed just does it anyway.
So Dingy Harry's approval rating lower than mine, and he's an elected official.
He's not up for election, re-election till 2010.
But his approval rating is lower in mind.
He's been an elected official for 30 years in Nevada.
And he gets fawning press.
I never do.
Uh, Mrs. Clinton, you know, she's four points higher than I am on the approval rating in Nevada.
And given the fawning press that she gets, I mean, she ought to be way higher.
But you see the 51% negative for Mrs. Clinton, uh, that's higher than my negative, which is 50.
I mean, statistically, it's a it's a draw.
But uh this is, you know, people, I I don't think people yet understand we just in this country do not elect such polarizing figures uh as president of the United States.
Now, since we've opened with Dingy Harry, let me tell you the latest on the eBay auction of the Dingy Harry Smear letter.
Let me check it here.
Uh-huh.
$45,010.
The auction will last until Friday at 1 p.m.
And you can go to Rush Limbaugh.com and see the link there.
Uh and we got a little widget, an eBay widget there on our home page, which uh constantly updates the number of hits and the uh and the current bid.
And we're getting a lot of emails.
And by the way, folks, I I forgot to announce this on Friday.
Of course I'm going to match whatever this is.
Oh, of course, I always do.
Whatever it ends up.
I'm going to match the dollar figure.
Uh, and I have asked, I have suggested that Senator Reed and the 40 other Democrats who signed the smear letter uh to Mark Mays, the CEO of Clear Channel, also match uh the donation that's going to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
It provides college scholarships for the children of Marines and law enforcement officials killed in action.
Uh I've suggested they should show their support for the military also by matching whatever the high bid is.
Um it's uh we left here Friday afternoon, a bid was at $5,500, and over the weekend it just climbed and climbed and climbed, and now it's at $45,100 and climbing.
And we are getting, I want to acknowledge this, tons of emails from people who want to buy copies of the letter for donations to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
And these the the that's really an uh a huge number of emails who want us to make copies of the smear letter uh for sale or for auction as well.
Uh I'm talking thousands of emails, because the price on eBay has gotten to the level now that a lot of people are automatically excluded.
Uh, just don't have that kind of money to bid, even if it does go to uh charity.
They simply can't afford to bid at the uh at the for the original at this point.
Now, here's the thing about I I um we're we're considering this, but in a in a way different than you might think.
The Smear Letter uh is an official correspondence from the United States Senate.
Hey, you doing, Eddie?
Good to see you.
The Smear Letter is an official correspondence from the U.S. Senate.
It is on Harry Reid's official Senate majority letterhead.
And it was signed by 40 co-cons uh uh senators, co-conspirators.
In the course of their working day, you've already paid for this letter.
This is one of the points to be made about this.
This was official Senate business, and you were not getting official Senate business done.
You were getting this distraction on a smear of a private senator for what you are paying these people.
So you've already paid for these letter.
Your your taxes support these distinguished nincompoops, and there's no reason that you should be asked to pay for it twice.
Why should you have to pay?
Here's what we're gonna do.
This is what we're gonna do.
And we want to raise every dollar we can for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, but unlike the Libs, we're gonna treat you as adults, not children who need to be told what to do.
I mean, I would love to see a copy of the smear letter in every house hold in this country.
I'd like to see a copy of the smear letter magnetized to everybody's refrigerator in this house.
Uh country, in this country.
If you have more than refrigerator, one refrigerator in your house like I do, then uh, you know, as many as refrigerators as you have is get as many copies of the of the smear letter.
So here's what we're gonna do.
Uh if you go to my website or the eBay auction page, just download it.
Just download it and print it.
We're gonna let you have it.
May take a while to get this up and running because I'm springing this as a surprise on the web people.
Uh, but just go to my website or the eBay auction page, download the uh the letter, uh, it's four pages, and print it out.
And if you got a color printer, you'll get an exact uh replica.
If not, you know, you'll get a black and white version of it.
Um we have reproduced it in full quality color, both places, my website and at eBay, so you can keep it as a memento.
Then, if you'd like, we leave it up to you.
If you want to go to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation's website, or we'll put a link on our website where you can get to it.
It's already up there.
You see the logo, and you can make a donation of whatever amount you want.
Five dollars, fifty, uh, five hundred, whatever you want to do.
And if you don't want to make a donation, you can't afford one, you don't have to do that.
It's your letter already.
You have already paid for this.
You have already paid because the senators who wrote and signed this letter were doing it on official time.
Uh now, we could we could go the other way and we could uh make this available for little donations, but that's I want to leave that up to you.
We're not gonna force you to make a donation if you can't afford it or don't want to, just to get a copy.
We want I want as many copies of this letter all over the country as possible.
Now, in addition about the original, a number of people have asked about the condition of the letter.
We've had it under guard, as you know, if you've been paying attention, in a in a Halliburton metal briefcase since its arrival.
And it's in the same condition that we received it.
It has not been folded, uh, and it has not been damaged in any way.
Uh it's generally pristine, but a couple things that you have to do, a couple flaws in it, but I don't I don't really consider them flaws.
This is what make the thing uh original.
And you can see both of these flaws, by the way, if you enlarge page two of the letter at the eBay auction page.
There's a there's a page two, there's a light blue pen mark about two inches long next to the top paragraph.
It's as though some senator of advancing years uh had a hard time holding the pen steady.
Uh or maybe it was signed after five o'clock.
We got an office pool on who made this blue streak.
Uh our our our office pool money is on Senator Lautenberg at this point.
There's also, and you've probably seen this if you've if you've looked at this any time in color, there is a small yellow smear on the paper on the left, in the left margin of page two.
We think uh that the Senator Kennedy may have been eating a hot dog when he signed.
Uh and was going through the pictures but I don't know what it looks like.
It's uh a little sharpie, a yellow sharpie or a uh a mark one of those mark mark out things.
Highlighter, highlighter.
But that's that's that's that's uh that's how it was, and we got it.
And we didn't do these things to it.
Nobody has touched this.
I mean, you see it as we got it.
Neither of these smears of smudges, uh, ladies and gentlemen, impede the value of the document in any way, but in the interest of full disclosure, we thought you ought to know because people have been asking about it, and it's a good question.
Uh quick timeout.
We come back, an embattled California dentist says that breast rubs are necessary to treating his patient's teeth.
You're guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, despair, torture, Turkish invasions of Northern Iraq, and even the good times.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, 800-282-2882, if you ought to be on the uh on the program, an embattled dentist in California, in Woodland, California, uh, has been accused of fondling the breasts of twenty-seven female patients.
He's trying to keep his dental license by arguing that chest massages are an important procedure in certain cases.
Uh Mark Anderson's lawyer says dental journals uh discuss the need to massage the pectoral muscles to treat a common jaw problem.
Uh police say Anderson said during uh recorded phone calls he routinely massaged patients' chests to treat temporary uh temporomandibular whatever joint disorder, TMJ, which causes neck and head pain.
Uh attorney Robert Zarrow told administrative law judge Jonathan Liu at a hearing Thursday that he should let Anderson keep his dental license while disciplinary appeals proceed.
Anderson's 48, the dentist of 48, needs to keep seeing patients so he can feed his seven children and pay for his defense.
Deputy A. G. Jeffrey Phillips gave uh uh the office three new complaints, including one from a 31-year-old woman who said that the dentist fondled her at least six times over two years.
Now, oh why did she keep going?
Why did she did she believe the story that this was necessary for the treatment of her of her dental work?
Man, oh man, oh man.
I mean it.
And then there's this, ladies and gentlemen.
This was this does not surprise me one little bit.
Child care workers, home health care aides, and other people who provide personal services have the highest rates of depression among U.S. workers, according to a new survey to be published today.
He found that 10.8% of personal care and service workers, 10.3% of food prep and serving workers, usually both very low-paying jobs, experienced one or more major depressive episodes in the year working with kids.
Does that surprise you, Mamone?
You don't have any kids.
It doesn't surprise me at all.
Working with kids would make anybody depressed.
Hillary Clinton was on the view today.
By the way, she's now playing the woman card.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, the uh uh campaign Monday made its most overt bid yet to highlight her historic potential as the possible first U.S. woman president, suggesting female voters could vault her to victory.
The front running Democrat kicked off a week of events highlighting her perceived appeal to women as her campaign released a memo implying she could best exploit that pivotal voting block in 2008.
Let's go to the audio tape here.
She's on the view today.
And uh Barbara Walters asked her a question.
You know, we were talking about some of the things that are different when you're a woman.
Even though you're running with men, and you know, if you win, you'll be the first woman president.
There must be differences in the way you run as a woman and the way men do.
I do think that there still is, you know, probably a tougher standard for women.
Of course.
Especially running for president.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, we've all been through it in some way or another, where you go and you try to break a barrier, you try to do the best you can, and people are saying, Well, I don't like her clothes, or I don't like her hair, or whatever.
But I think that we're getting beyond that.
Yeah, is that right?
Uh, interesting.
Uh on the view.
This, by the way, that was uh this morning on the here's another one on the on the view.
Let's go to cut 21.
Uh, Elizabeth Hasselbeck says, would you use extreme force to get information?
What's what's your theory now?
It's really important for the United States to make it absolutely clear that as a matter of policy, we do not condone or conduct torture.
I think that has to be our value because that gives us that gives us a lot of moral authority, which we have lost, unfortunately.
We also have to be smarter about how we interrogate.
There's a lot of evidence that you don't get accurate good information from extreme measures.
In fact, you get it by developing some kind of system that can really, you know, get people to feel that uh they need to give you that information.
You know the the real irony of this is that that's exactly what was going on at Club Gitmo.
What was going on at Club Gitmo is that those guys were being related to, and after a while they were becoming uh very cooperative, offering up all kinds of information.
Now, Mrs. Clinton speaking to an audience of women and particular types of women, women who watch the view, uh the chickification of the country.
And so she can she can sit there and just say nothing and then sound all full of platitudes.
But here's the real world.
U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly ten hours seeking approval to use wiretaps against Al-Qaeda terrorists suspected of kidnapping a soldier from Queens, Alex Jimenez, in Iraq earlier this year.
This according to the New York Post.
This week, Congress plans to vote on a bill that leaves in place the legal hurdles in the FISA Act, problems that were highlighted during the May search for a group of kidnapped U.S. soldiers.
In the early hours of May 12th, seven soldiers, including specialist Jimenez, were on a lookout near a patrol base in the Al-Qaeda-controlled area of Iraq called a triangle of death.
Sometime before dawn, heavily armed Al-Qaeda gunmen quietly cut through the tangles of uh concertina wire surrounding the outpost of two Humvees and made a massive and coordinated surprise attack.
Four of the soldiers were killed on the spot, three others were taken hostage.
A search To rescue the men quickly launched, but it soon ground to a halt as lawyers obeying strict U.S. laws about surveillance cobble together the legal grounds for wiretapping the suspected kidnappers.
We're talking about things in Iraq, folks.
This was not in the United States.
Lawyers impeding the search and rescue effort for a U.S. soldier from Queens in Iraq.
Ten hours, ladies and gentlemen, to get a warrant to wiretap these people.
We are at war with them.
This is the kind of thing that Mrs. Clinton wants these women in her audience on the view to believe is the right way to go about it.
We have to restore our moral authority.
That's code words for we have to restore our image in the world.
Our image in the world is just fine, folks.
All of this is another smear, frankly, of this country.
Serving humanity simply by showing up Rush Schlimbo.
Hi atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
You know, Mrs. Clinton is uh is a made amazing.
And in that bite on the view that we just played for you.
Play the second bite, Mike, and number uh whatever it was, the the second of the two Hillary bites.
Uh already put it at the bottom of the roster.
Number 21.
Listen to this again here, folks.
It's really important for the United States to make it absolutely clear that as a matter of policy, we do not condone or conduct torture.
I think that has to be our value because it gives us a lot of moral authority, which we have lost, unfortunately.
We also have to be smarter about how we interrogate.
There's a lot of evidence that you don't get to do.
All right, that's enough.
I've had it.
You know, I got tired of hearing the word smarter when John Carey, who served in Vietnam, had it as his practically theme word during the 2004 presidential campaign.
I would do it smarter.
I'd be smarter about here comes it.
We have to be smarter.
You you you Democrats have to have this impression of yourself, everybody else but you is a bunch of idiots.
And only you can do it smarter.
We can't trust the defense of this country to you, Mrs. Clinton.
Look it.
Did you notice she always says what she will not do to make us safer?
But she never tells us what she would actually do that would be effective.
All she does, I wouldn't do what the Bush administration's done.
I wouldn't do it.
Yay!
Yay!
And these idiots, pardon me, not a sexist comment here.
These idiots in the audio go, yay, yay!
We hate torture, we despite torture, we despite Bush, we hate Bush, yay!
All she ever does is say what she will not do.
And what she will not do is whatever Bush has done, other than keep the troops in Iraq through 2013.
Yeah.
Also, she talks about we have to restore our moral role in the world.
A question, ladies and gentlemen, is it moral to protect a terrorist who has information which he should use, he would use to blow up a city.
Is it is it moral to protect?
How about the case in Iraq from last May, where some Al Qaeda guys kidnap some soldiers.
The lawyers get involved and prevent wiretaps from being used for 10 hours on the suspected kidnappers from Al-Qaeda, so we can get a warrant under the FISA law.
And this is Mrs. Clinton practicing her morality or her uh her desire to have the country restore its own moral role and leadership boils down to we were protecting these people for 10 hours and giving them a great chance to get away.
Now, all's not well at the Clinton campaign.
Albert Hunt, who now uh writes for Bloomberg, has a somewhat scathing piece today on Mrs. Clinton and her campaign.
He opens this way During the past 15 years, I've been to three small dinners with Hillary Clinton as expected.
Her substantive command of whatever the topic was impressive.
Al, come on.
You just easily impress.
Al's one of these guys has been chickenified.
Al Hunt is one of these Washington, D.C. inside of Beltway media people.
It's been chicken.
Testicles in a lockbox.
And Alan Aldo is another one.
Michael Kinsley's another real men of Washington.
You know who they are.
Oh, by the way, would you hear about this?
This is funny as hell.
Sandy Burglar was driving around Washington the other day when his car conked out.
Uh And around the corner, just quite by accident came the WMAL news van.
And it's got this giant picture of me on it on one side, Hannity on the other.
Big, big huge picture.
And the guy driving the MAL van gets out and offers Sandy Burglar some help.
And burglars, yeah, I'd be glad to take it.
Burglar did not know how to pomp the hood.
Did not know how to pop the hood.
He stood around while the MAL guy fixed whatever he needed to fix.
And then Burglar offered a guy 20 bucks.
And the ML guy said, I wasn't going to take it, but I did in the end because he didn't offer a finger to help.
So burglar gets rescued by the WMAL Rush Limbaugh van.
Anyway, and this these are the kind of people that hang these, these are the real men of Washington.
Wait for the rush station van to come fix your car.
Because you don't even know how to pop the hood.
More surprising, writes Mr. Hunt, was that each time I came away, struck by her ability to charm and even by her decent sense of humor.
Al.
Really?
You're the only person I've ever heard talk about her charm and decent sense of humor.
In fact, it's one of the big problems people think that she's got is no charm and no sense of humor and no likability.
Ergo, that cackling laugh.
So did the others, including a cadre of hack political journalists like myself who attended two of the sessions.
It's surprising because this isn't the Hillary Clinton, a leading presidential candidate of 2008 who most Americans see out on the stump.
Her campaign's been brilliant.
It's great at small stuff like bracket scheduling, making sure she or a surrogate appears right before and after a major appearance by an opponent.
It's equally good on big stuff.
But goes on and on and then he says this the Clinton campaign is efficient, it's effective, it's disciplined and tough.
It also seems to be joyless, humorless, and lacking in heart and soul.
A take no prisoners, us versus them mindset has served her well.
She's widened her lead in the race for the Democrat nomination.
Most polls show her defeating any Republican in the general election.
Still, there's an unusual hostility from neutral and even some obstensibly pro-Clinton people, especially in the press.
The media has its sight on Hillary.
Really?
And scrutiny during the next month promises to be more vigorous than the relatively easy ride she's gotten so far.
This naturally happens to a frontrunner, but it'll be with more vehemence in this case because of greater enmity.
Her campaign is tailored to all of this.
Lots of titles and talk of a diverse set of decision makers.
The real impresario is Mark Penn, a brilliant, socially inept, disciple of Dick Morris.
What have I always told you about the Beltway crowd?
Everybody, you know, when discussing what happens to Republicans when they get there.
What happens to some Republican conservatives?
I've always maintained it's not just the pressure brought on by the drive-by media to make you grow and to get fawning press coverage or at least some attempt at it.
It's the social structure as well.
The libs run that.
And here in inside the beltway, and you know, everybody wants to have some sort of a social life.
Nobody wants to be hermits.
Nobody wants to be ostracized.
They want to be part of the action.
And here's Al Hunt admitting that this guy running Hillary's campaign is socially inept.
What's it got to do with anything?
Nothing, other than it matters to people like this.
So on the one hand, you've got Al Hunt here praising her charm and her sense of humor than you get to the campaign.
And uh tough as nails, no joy, take no prisoners, just whack everybody gets in your way.
Uh and it's just a shame that the public doesn't see the real Hillary.
I think we are seeing the real.
By the way, isn't socialized medicine great?
Did you see this?
Some English people have resorted to pulling out their own teeth because they can't find or afford a dentist.
And there's a picture of some guy's mouth.
And it's gross.
This is from the UK.
Six percent of those surveyed in English studies said they had resorted to dental self-treatment.
Six percent of those questioned in a survey of 5,000 patients admitted they had resorted to self-treatment using pliers and glue in order to do their own dental work.
Now this socialized medicine.
This is supposed to be nirvana.
It's supposed to be a utopia.
So where are we with the UK socialized medicine?
Well, the last two stories that we've had out of there are this dental story.
People pulling their own teeth with pliers, putting them back in with glue.
This previous story was about how the uh the National Health Service said, if you're gonna have a baby, stay away from the hospital.
We don't have time for this.
Go get a midwife, get a birthing pool, and gut it up when you have pain.
We just don't we don't have room here for.
Bottom line is we don't have the money.
So childbirth has been set back a hundred years in parts of the UK.
Ain't socialized medicine grand, folks.
Brief timeout.
Get to some phone calls after this.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh as usual.
Having uh more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
All right, and we've posted a PDF copy, PDF file of a copy of the Dingy Harry Smear letter at Rushlimbaugh.com.
People have been in the thousands asking us to uh make copies available for a small donation to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, and uh you've already paid for this letter, folks, because these senators that wrote it and signed it did so during normal business hours.
So we're giving it to you, and if you want to donate to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation on your own, please feel free in whatever amount that you want.
We're treating you as adults.
Uh we're still at 45,100 on the original at eBay and that auction open uh through one o'clock Friday.
Ken in Oakmont, California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, thank you for taking my call and thanks for being there.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, the reason I'm called this document, I think it has historical significance, only because it's such a classic example of abuse of power.
You know, just not too many months ago, I re I remember Rockefeller and I think Olympia Snow signed on to a letter to Exxon, threatening them with consequences if they continue to fund research to find out the real cause of global warming.
Right.
And now here's here they're going after a private citizen, you and using the powerful force of the Senate to try to coherce you and make you apologize for something you didn't do.
And it just makes me sick to my stomach.
And I wish everybody in America could get a copy of that thing because one of them is running for president, and people better be lookout because he's willing to sign up.
More than that, Chris Dodd's running for president, his signature is on there.
Uh John Kerry did run for president, his signature.
Oh, okay.
Uh I don't think Obama signed it.
I'm not sure.
I haven't I I haven't memorized the list.
But we're making it available today as a PDF file on our website.
Obama did sign.
Okay, so Obama signed it, too.
So you got two candidates on there.
We got two of the well, three, because Dodd's still in there.
I mean, he's not going to go anywhere.
He just did it for the money.
Yeah.
But but I'm just uh I'm so appalled that they they're getting away with this, and the media's not saying nothing.
Of course, they wouldn't.
Well, that's interesting, though.
That's a that that is a fascinating point.
I I I I had lunch uh yesterday with uh with Mr. Buckley up in Connecticut.
Yeah, we were where is he?
He's up at Connecticut.
That's what I know, but I I never see him or hear from him anymore.
I've read all of his books, including his his own.
Oh, he's working, he's I love that man.
He is working on a biography, uh, some sort of uh biography of the treatise on Reagan right now, within the research phase, and he's uh he's back to writing his uh his columns.
No, he was uh he looked great yesterday.
But we were talking about this at lunch, and and uh and Norman Fedoritz and Mitch Deckter were there, Jay Nordlinger from National Review, and I made the point to him.
I said, you know, the in this case, the uh the mainstreaming, the drive by media, the broadcast networks have not touched the story.
The New York Times came to it a week late, uh, albeit with a media matters press release.
The Washington Post has not done anything on it.
Time magazine hasn't done anything on it, Newsweek hasn't.
ABC, CBSNBC have not.
The cable networks have.
Now the the the truth of the story is that exactly what you said, Senate Majority Leader and 40 senators signed letters smearing private citizen on false accusation.
That should be news.
They haven't reported that either.
What this tells me is the reason they haven't touched it is because they know it's bogus.
They're waiting for a better shot to go at me.
Oh, yeah.
Next time around, rather than report what's actually news here, which is what you said, which is a private citizen has been focused and and with with attempted damaged reputation and ability to do business using the full force of the Senate majority leader.
And then they went after a private corporation, Exxon, for the same type of thing, because he did they disagree with who's causing global warming.
So they want to shut them up.
They said, don't use your money for any more research to disprove the theory that we're causing global warming.
Well, no, you're right.
It is historic.
There's there's uh there's no question about it.
And it's uh uh I I think look at uh I've been looking at uh the news coverage of this now, and uh I I think you know we we've we've turned the corner on this.
I don't I don't think Dingy Harry and these guys are getting away with this at all.
They're probably fuming.
The most interesting thing about this is, you don't do this to United States senators.
You don't do, folks, what we are doing to these people.
You do not publicly humiliate and embarrass them.
You just don't.
They you these people in in most of them in their minds, they are at the epitome of power.
And they they uh they have this this sense of entitlement about them, and what's happened here, I have no doubt, that in the cloakrooms I have an even bigger target painted on me now.
Now they really gotta get me somehow.
Now, it was one thing.
See, I should have known.
I should have known just to let them go ahead with their charade, which is what this is.
I should have understood that they're just doing this to satisfy their base, and I should have just dropped it.
But then to get the original, put it on eBay, auction it, give the proceeds to the Marine Corps, law enforcement foundation.
Why that's rubbing their nose in it.
They don't have the uh the uh the discipline to understand that they were well actually they they do.
They know exactly what they were trying to do.
They were trying to damage my reputation and my ability to do business by spreading a lie.
I'm just supposed to sit there and take it.
Just like Exxon and Walmart are just supposed to sit there and take it, or make campaign contributions, or do something uh to make them go away.
Protection racket.
And as you people know, I don't play it that way.
Uh fight these people.
But it just it's it's it's gonna put an even larger bullseye on my front or back, whichever way they happen to be aiming, uh, the next time.
But it is what it is.
It is historic and it's profound.
That's why I say I my I I my parents would not believe this.
They really would.
My dad would be fit to be tied of it.
I have to he would just like the vast majority of you are.
Here's Wayne and Slidell, Louisiana.
Great to have you uh on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, hey, Russ.
Yay.
Uh, just to make it short and sweet, uh Friday, uh tried to call about 480 times, which is okay.
But I wanted to make uh two suggestions, and you guys figured one of them out uh already, and doesn't surprise me at all, that uh some people could possibly be able to make donations to that.
Um charity of yours, the Marine Corps law enforcement, I believe.
Yeah, we've got one minute here.
Okay.
And I think if you were to deliver the titanium briefcase yourself in person, it might put the price way higher than well, I thought about that, but then I figure I might have to go to Senator Reed's office.
You know, depending on uh or the Democrat National Committee.
Depending on who I don't think I don't think it's unusual or odd to think that they might be trying to buy their letter back.
You think you think they might not have some offshore corporation or third or fourth uh removed person like a Norman shoe uh or one of his associates trying to to buy the thing back.
Uh but you know, I'll tell you something.
That where does that stop?
Okay, I've d I delivered.
Well, since I'm here, let's go to dinner.
Hey, why don't you stay let's play golf tomorrow?
Yeah, we can get all kinds of why don't I just stay in your house for the week and do the show in your backyard?
What can we generate with that kind of money?
All right, first hour soon to be in the can.
There's lots of stuff coming up on the program, including uh Turkey.
Uh getting close now to um uh making wall and crossing the border into northern Iraq, uh, which would be a terrible thing if Democrats are in the the ones responsible.
Nancy Pelosi's war, we will call it.
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