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October 16, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	What are you frowning about in there, Creeley?
	This is supposed to be the happiest three hours of your day, as it is everybody else's, including mine, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	Here we are, high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
	Now, remember, folks, as long as I'm here, which I am, it doesn't matter where he is.
	The telephone number, 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
	Well, ladies and gentlemen, keeping you updated on the behind-the-scenes goings on here at the EIB network, Mr. Snerdley has completed his suspension.
	However, I think he's angry with me.
	He called in sick today.
	Uh-huh.
	So, Mr. Snerdley on a self-imposed work stoppage using the usual, I'm sick, I can't make it in.
	Hope he gets better very soon.
	In the meantime, H.R. Kit Carson, trusted chief of staff, screening the phone calls today, 800-282-2882.
	I was on the Fox News channel this morning at 8.30.
	The video of I was on the phone.
	It was a phone interview.
	And the transcript and the audio, well, actually, the video is posted now at rushlimbaugh.com.
	We're going to replay it in its entirety.
	It runs about 12 minutes, and we'll do that at the bottom of the hour, starting right after the bottom of the hour break.
	It was a lot of fun with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmead.
	You're frowning in there, Creeley, and you're distracting me if you keep frowning.
	It's supposed to be the happiest three hours of your day.
	Oh, his arm is in pain.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I won't ask what you've been doing with it.
	His arm being painted.
	He's the primary chief engineer, ladies and gentlemen.
	That's Mr. Creeley.
	He's always in there making sure that everything goes well when we're here high atop the EIB building in Manhattan.
	You know, yesterday I was talking about Mrs. Clinton, Hillary Clinton, appeared on The View.
	And Whoopi Goldberg, something has, I did not make this connection yesterday.
	This thought did not hit me until today.
	But remember when Pelosi was on the show with her husband Paul out there in the front row, and Whoopi Goldberg said that she would like to, look, I'm just going to tell you what she said.
	So I'm quoting her.
	She said she would like to do Pelosi and her husband in a troika.
	And of course, Pelosi had the frozen smile on her face.
	They cut down to Paul, and Paul was, who knows what he was doing.
	It was a side view.
	But that made me realize that Whoopi Goldberg did not say yesterday that she would like to do Hillary, which means that Whoopi is in, of course, who would?
	Whoopi must be in the Pelosi camp.
	I think this is the fallout from this view appearance just continues.
	And we've got big Hillary news.
	She's out there telling bloggers that she's going to get us out of Iraq immediately.
	The Washington Times has a story where she says she's going to start pulling us out in 60 days.
	In the debate, the last debate the Democrats had, she said, there's no way we're going to get out of there by the end of my first term.
	She's all over the place.
	And the drive-bys, of course, they know this.
	They're just sealed lips, just ignoring the whole thing.
	Listen to this audio soundbite.
	This is Senator Barb Babbs-Mikulski on the Senate floor.
	Where was this?
	This was late yesterday.
	Listen to this.
	This tone of vitriolic viciousness, I think, has got to stop.
	The attack on the Graham family was quickly picked up by Rush Limbaugh, the same guy who's calling dissident military people microphone Marines.
	And then the smear went on with them.
	Microphone Marines?
	What is a microphone Marine?
	I haven't called anybody a microphone.
	It's another smear job.
	It's another line.
	Now they're linking me with this so-called attack on the Graham family kids.
	You know, folks, the point about the Graham family and this whole S-CHIP thing, and there's great news about that, by the way, today.
	USA Today has a poll out.
	And get this.
	Despite the drive-bys, this poll has got to just devastate Mrs. Clinton and the whole socialized medicine crowd.
	Despite the drive-bys, 52% of the American people back the president, and insurance targeting poor kids should go to poor kids.
	Imagine that.
	52% actually believe the program should remain constituted as it is and not be expanded the way the Democrats want to.
	By the way, Republicans are going to have enough votes to sustain or over sustain, rather, the president's veto on this.
	This is a big win for the Republicans, and they need to start acting like it.
	In this USA Today poll, 55% of the American people do not want private insurance dropped in order to go on the government dole.
	They do not want to have to drop their private insurance, and they'll want to be forced to drop their private insurance in order to take a government insurance plan for health care.
	55%.
	You know, this conflicts with some Rasmussen polls that, well, actually, it doesn't.
	The Rasmussen polls, I think the last one I saw was that over 50%, 55% would love for Americans to be paying, are getting free health care, would love for Americans to free health care, but not go on a government-run program.
	This poll actually is somewhat consistent with the second half of that poll.
	But the drive-bys, and of course, everybody has been parading these kids.
	The Democrats have come up with another kid now.
	Yeah, I've got the story somewhere here in this deck.
	Well, yeah, this one's poor.
	This one's actually poor.
	But in both cases, here's what everybody's missing.
	I don't care what's been said about the finances of the Graham family and the kids.
	The fact is that the program as presently constituted.
	I'm sorry, presently is not the right way to say this.
	People misuse this all the time.
	Presently means in the near future.
	As at present.
	See, I'm a stickler for language here as a consummate, highly trained broadcast specialist.
	As it is at present currently structured, the Graham family was covered.
	The Graham family is out there on television.
	I want Alec Kennedy and say, I'm doing President Bush.
	No, President Bush is not trying to deny coverage to people like the Grahams.
	And this other woman, the little kid that the Democrats are now parading out, also covered by the current structure of the S-CHIPS program.
	But I think this is fabulous news out here that the drive-bys have done everything they can to push this whole notion of socialized medicine, to rip the president as being heartless and cold and cruel to children.
	And yet, see, this is why you got to celebrate the new media, folks, and people like me, because 20 years ago, this would have happened, and there wouldn't have been any opposition to it whatsoever.
	And you would not know the truth, and you would believe what the media is telling.
	Well, some of you would.
	I mean, there's always been a sizable contingent of people out there that didn't trust the drive-by media.
	But Mrs. Clinton, we got her in the stack today.
	You know, Hillary Clinton is, I was thinking about this last night, the most cheated-on woman in the history of the world.
	Now, what does that say about it?
	When I say that to you, the most cheated-on woman in the history of the world, what do you conjure up?
	What is it?
	I mean, besides the raucous laughter, Well, yeah, of course her getting even, but what does it say that she's the most cheated-on what?
	And it's not because she's an innocent victim.
	You know, that's if you're thinking that I'm saying this in a sympathetic way, maybe I should change my tone about this.
	Most cheated-on woman in the history of the world.
	It means a lot of people feel the need to.
	A lot of people want to.
	A lot of people want to get out of that house to go watch football on Sunday afternoon, if you get my drift.
	I mean, it's not a sympathetic thing, and it's hardly complimentary, by the way.
	Before we go to the break here, very quickly, Vienna is to host the world's first ever divorce fair.
	Vienna to host what organizers have dubbed the world's first divorce fair this month, aimed at couples whose wedding dreams have turned sour and who need help in untying the knot as painlessly as possible.
	As the October 27, 28th event, would-be divorcees can consult anonymously, if they wish, a whole host of lawyers and mediators on their rights and obligations and seek advice on frequently difficult questions such as alimony and child access.
	Yeah, there'd be theater seating for this with all these lawyers and experts and stuff on the stage, lectures, slide shows, divorce fair.
	And then, of course, this is some big week.
	This is some big month.
	Oh, it's free speech week.
	This is either free speech week or free speech month, which means I have to shut up right now.
	I'll be back after this.
	And we're back on eBay.
	We're up to $51,100 for the Harry Reid smear letter signed by 40 of his Senate Democrat colleagues.
	We've had some people asking if the purchase, whoever wins the high bid, makes the high bid to get the letter.
	Is it tax deductible?
	Yeah, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation is a 501c3.
	It's deductible.
	Their IRS tax numbers on their website, and we've linked to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
	And just to remind you, I didn't make a whole big deal about this a lot of times yesterday, but people have been wanting to donate smaller numbers or smaller amounts to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation because they can't afford to bid now on the eBay auction because it's gotten so high.
	And as I said yesterday, we're making a copy of the Dingy Harry letter available to anybody who wants it just to download it.
	It's available now as a PDF file, a four-page PDF file at rushlimbaugh.com.
	I don't want you to have to pay for this twice.
	You've already paid for it once because these people were on duty.
	It was during work hours when they wrote and signed the letter.
	I would much rather you download it and distribute this letter to as many homes and people in the country as possible.
	It is such that if you want to make a small donation, you can do that, but I'm going to treat you like adults, not kids.
	And if you want to see it and you want to have a copy of it, go at it.
	Rushlimbaugh.com, four PDF files, four-page PDF file.
	I also got a note here from a subscriber at rushlimbaugh.com.
	Hey, Rush, excellent auction.
	However, I believe you really need to sell this more.
	This is an historic document in that you have 41 U.S. senators who willfully and knowingly lied to slander a U.S. citizen in efforts to discredit and or impede his free speech rights.
	That is a direct violation of their sworn oath of office to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States of America.
	Our founding fathers crafted such language to protect citizens from exactly this kind of behavior.
	Hopefully, the highest bidder will get some media time to explain just that and to think at least one of these oath violators wants to become president.
	Actually, Obama signed it.
	Chris Dodd signed it.
	Three of the signatories, the co-conspirators on the Harry Reid letter, want to be president of the United States.
	And I mentioned that when I made this whole announcement last Thursday night in Philadelphia, people were asking me, how come Hillary Clinton hasn't weighed in on this controversy?
	She has.
	She signed the letter, which was a blatant attempt to try to get me silenced, punished, shut up somehow.
	You know, I'm not unaware of the historical nature of the document.
	The fine line I have is that I don't want to make myself out to be a victim here.
	We're having fun with this.
	To sit here and talk about, look what they try to do to me.
	This is not the first time, and it won't be the last.
	And with each succeeding time they try this, more and more people become aware of it.
	As I've been saying for a couple of days now, I don't think they have really any idea how they appear to ordinary average Americans.
	And you, ordinary, average Americans, know, of course, who you are.
	You are observing all this, and you are agog and aghast, and they are just simply not aware of how they appear.
	And of course, this is one of the characteristics of having hubris, being arrogant, and being condescending.
	You have to lie to yourself about a number of things.
	So anyway, we're up to 51-1.
	The auction goes until Friday at 1 o'clock, and it is totally tax-deductible.
	Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation is a 501c3.
	Let's grab a phone call quickly because at the bottom of the hour, we're going to replay the Fox interview from this morning in its entirety.
	We'll go to Maple Grove, Minnesota with Chris.
	Welcome, sir.
	It's great to have you with us.
	Hey, Rush, how are you?
	Ditto.
	Diane, thank you very much.
	The reason I was calling, you just mentioned that Hillary Clinton, the smartest woman in the world, is the most cheated on woman in the world.
	And the reality is this is something that I hope comes out more and more because she's cheated on is because her husband cheated on her and she said, oh, no, no, it didn't happen.
	Then she said the president cheated.
	This was what was going on in Iraq, and then she found out it wasn't.
	So when you said she's the most cheated on, it's because she's gullible.
	And people are about to have the next president of the United States have men tricking her every and she later says, oh, oh, I'm sorry, I was just gullible.
	I didn't know that was really happening.
	Well, it's interesting.
	She does try to portray it that way, but that's not believable either.
	With the track record of infidelity that her husband had, it simply is not believable that she wouldn't believe Monica Lewinsky or wouldn't believe the story.
	But the fact that she chalked it up to some vast right-wing conspiracy shows that she makes herself a victim out of this stuff and then goes on and tries to redirect the whole focus of attack.
	I mean, they're a team and they protect each other.
	But the whole point about being cheated on, you could look at it that way, is, yeah, she allows herself to continually be tricked.
	And that's one way of looking at it.
	But I don't think she's knowingly tricked about a whole lot.
	I think it's something much more profound than that.
	We'll discuss it as the program unfolds.
	James Taranto, best of the web today from yesterday at opinionjournal.com, consider the following reasons why America might consider military action against Iran to save Israel, to prevent a nuclear arms race between Iran and neighboring Arab regimes,
	to keep Iran's mullahs from acquiring a nuclear deterrent, to topple Tehran's repressive theocratic regime, and another possible reason why America might consider military action against Iran to protect America's oil supplies.
	Now, what if we're told, or what if we told you that one of the presidential candidates accepted the last rationale, blood for oil, but rejected arguments for war based on concerns about human rights or nuclear proliferation?
	Based on the media stereotypes, you'd probably think that somebody else had thrown their hat in.
	But the Associated Press has the real story from Florence, South Carolina.
	Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton advocated talks to settle differences with Iran, but said Saturday Tehran would invite U.S. action if it were to disrupt oil supplies.
	I'll make it very clear to the Iranians that there are very serious consequences attached to their actions.
	She said, responding to a question, blocking oil shipments would be devastating to the world economy.
	So here's Mrs. Clinton, depending on the audience, depending on who she's speaking to, she will say a different thing.
	As you know, the left in this country, the hardcore left, the anti-war left, a lot of the mainstream left, in fact, opposes the whole notion of going to war for oil.
	No blood for oil.
	It was a common refrain during the first Gulf War, and it's been a refrain heard during this Iraq war.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, well, the only reason they went over there was for oil.
	Bush and his oil buddies in Alliburton want the oil supply.
	I mean, pure folly and idiocy.
	But here's Mrs. Clinton acknowledging, just as she did in a presidential debate, when she said we can't get out of Iraq before 2013, I just, I can't make that commitment.
	Now she's saying, the only reason I would threaten Iran with any kind of military action is if they blockade oil supplies or try to interrupt the world oil supply and distribution.
	We can't have that.
	Not to stop them from getting nukes, not to stop them from human rights violations, but to save the free flow of oil at market prices.
	Now, the drive-bys, for the most part, ignore this.
	A local AP runs it in South Carolina, but it doesn't get picked up anywhere else.
	The drive-bys are protecting her.
	This is not, folks, the smartest woman in the world.
	If there were an active media that were as interested in exposing her idiosyncrasies and foibles as they are in everybody else's, then there would already be serious questions raised about her competence, her ability to think and keep things straight, but they are mum on this and a lot of other things to protect her.
	As promised, ladies and gentlemen, here in its entirety is a phone interview I did at 8.30 Eastern this morning with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmead at the Fox News Channel.
	Rush Limbaugh right this second is in one of those buildings behind the Wiggles by about a block.
	Why?
	To talk to us.
	Here's the story.
	Senate Democrats wrote Rush a letter to get him thrown off the air.
	They wrote it to his boss at Clear Channel.
	Well, now Rush Limbaugh is auctioning off that very letter to raise money for our troops.
	Trans now on the phone, talk radio legend, Rush Limbaugh.
	Good morning to you, sir.
	Hey, hey, hey, Steve.
	How are you?
	It's such an honor to follow the Wiggles or whatever they are.
	The Wiggles, that's right.
	Okay, so right now you're auctioning it off on eBay.
	The bid is $50,300 with three days to go.
	What is the historical significance, Rush Limbaugh, of this letter that Harry Reid and company wrote you?
	Well, there's two things.
	First, it's an abuse of power.
	I mean, here you have Harry Reid on the floor of the Senate denouncing me for 10 minutes, reading this letter, then asking his Democrat buddies to sign it, of which 40 did.
	And, you know, that's a failure.
	He didn't even get them all to sign.
	No Republicans did.
	But they did this during work hours, and this is the smear of a private citizen by this greatest deliberative body in the world based on a total lie that they have to know as a lie.
	And so for that reason, it's historic.
	I mean, my parents would not believe this.
	I wish they could know what all is happening to their son and what their son is causing.
	You know, the thing about this, most people, I think, cower in this kind of situation, and I'm trying to laugh at it and make fun of them and fight back, which is probably putting a bigger target on my back as far as these people are concerned.
	But this is just something that you can't ignore.
	Most of the time, you ignore these kinds of things, but you can't this because this is unique.
	I don't think in modern American history there's ever been something like this happen where the Senate has gone after a private citizen and asked his partner in broadcasting to shut him up, censure him, apologize him, spank him, or what have you.
	Well, what Democrats are saying, and you know this better than anybody, they're saying, well, that's what you get, Republicans, for going after moveon.org.
	This is the thing that everybody's missing about this.
	The Democrats are saying this is tit-for-tat.
	Look, you guys did this to move on.
	You made us censure move on, so we're going to make Limbaugh get censured.
	The problem is, I didn't do anything here.
	I was minding my own business.
	I said what I said on the radio.
	The same group of people, MediaMattersMoveOn.org, it's the same George Soros, Hillary Clinton organization, did both things.
	They did the moveon.org ad, and they did the smear of me.
	I am the record.
	They twisted what I said on purpose, out of context, in order, I think, to deflect the Petraeus ad because it totally backfired on them.
	The country ended up loving Petraeus.
	The surge is working.
	MoveOn had to pay the full bill at the New York Times.
	It totally backfired.
	They had to deflect that.
	And so they came at me, but they created both of these.
	There can't be any tit-for-tat because they are responsible for both these episodes.
	Sure.
	Now, Rush, we're looking at some video from, I believe, Philadelphia over the last couple of days where you are on stage and you're exhibiting this letter that Harry Reed and the other senators signed and sent to your boss at Clear Channel.
	Now, as I understand it, whatever is raised on eBay, you're going to match it, right?
	And the money all goes to the Marines.
	The charity is a Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, started by a bunch of Marines and FBI agents here in New York in the mid-90s, and it funds college scholarships for the children of Marines and federal law enforcement officers who are killed in action, such as during the Oklahoma City bombing.
	There were a lot of customs people in there.
	There were Secret Service people that were killed, and, you know, not just military.
	And sometimes in massive cases, they also provide such scholarships for other service branches beyond the Marines.
	So, yeah, the money is being raised.
	We'll go through Friday at 1 o'clock.
	I think the big money is holding back here until Friday so as not to bid this up.
	I think it's going to get huge as we get toward the 1 o'clock Friday deadline.
	I'm going to match it.
	And I've asked Senator Reed and the other 40 Democrats that signed their letter to show their support for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation and ask them to match it as well.
	Yeah, good luck on that, Rush.
	You have not heard from them.
	Rush, speaking of Harry Reid, how do you, what kind of pleasure do you take in the fact that a local paper out in Nevada has done a public opinion poll and your approval ratings are actually higher than Harry Reid in his own home state?
	I love it because I'm not even a politician.
	He's been an elected official from Nevada for 30 years.
	Can you say Tom Dashall?
	You know, he's not up until 2010, but his negatives are higher than mine.
	I've got a higher approval rank, two points higher than he is.
	I saw that somewhere in the, it was a Las Vegas newspaper.
	The great thing, well, the last line was, the thing about Limbo, he's trying to be polarizing, which I'm not, but that's what they think.
	Harry Reid is just doing it anyway, which is not good.
	I mean, Hillary Clinton, if you look at that poll, too, you'll see that in Nevada, her negatives are 50.
	You know, everybody thinks there's this sense of inevitability about her, but I can't recall any time that this country has elected somebody as polarizing with such high negatives.
	So it's going to be.
	Look, and this is all part of the 08 race.
	Right now, the Democrats are running against me because I have a connection with a large percentage of the American people who think and are open-minded, and the Republicans haven't chosen a nominee yet.
	So right now, they're coming after me.
	And this is just like a badge of honor.
	Rush, you're not alone.
	They came after O'Reilly.
	They took some of his comments out of the context.
	And look at Media Matters, what they did to Imus.
	Yeah, well, that's a little, don't lump me in with that.
	O'Reilly and I have something in common and that we were lied about.
	Imus said what he said, but it shouldn't be.
	Right, but Media Matters, nobody really heard what Imus said until Media Matters brought the tape out and started sending a different journey.
	That is very key.
	The people that heard Imus say it didn't care.
	There was no brouhaha for two days.
	Like my comment with Donovan McNabb.
	I made it on a Sunday.
	It wasn't until Tuesday that the world blew up on it.
	But that was local Philadelphia media that did that.
	What you have to understand, at least from my perspective, is that 1988, when my radio show started and gave birth to all this new media, back then they had a monopoly at ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.
	That was it in broadcasts.
	You had the two newspapers, the news magazines, and they controlled what was reported, what wasn't reported, and what was commented upon.
	They've lost that monopoly.
	Liberalism can only flourish when they have a media monopoly.
	And so the Media Matters organization, and when you say Media Matters, say Hillary Clinton and George Soros.
	She's even admitted coming up with the idea and helping start it.
	And it is to try to discredit those of us in the quote-unquote new media from having any credibility beyond our existing audiences because they cannot come in the arena of ideas and debate us and win.
	They have to shut us up.
	They have to discredit us.
	This has been happening to me for 12, 14 years now.
	But I know exactly what's going on.
	And when you do, and you guys have a good beat on it, too.
	You know who what Media Matters is all about.
	It's a fascinating thing, too.
	And you made a good point.
	I want to elaborate on this, talking about Imus.
	Look, I've got a radio show, and I've got a website, and people can come to it.
	You know, you don't need a secret coder and a super secret radio to listen.
	You just turn on a radio and tune the station I'm on.
	You come to my website.
	You can hear what I say, read what I said.
	But the drive-by media doesn't do that.
	They take their lead from Media Matters.
	So whatever Media Matters says I said is what they think happened.
	Yeah.
	You know, during this whole thing, Steve, nobody from the drive-bys called me to ask me, did you really say this?
	They just ran with it because they're all on the same playing field.
	They're all on the same side of the aisle.
	The media, media matters, you name it.
	But we know this.
	We know how to combat it.
	And our connection with the audience is what sustains us during these controversies.
	Sure.
	Now, Rush, speaking of the mainstream media, you know, General Sanchez a couple of days ago was quoted as saying that it was a nightmare in Iraq.
	And that little soundbite was played everywhere.
	But what the mainstream media did not report, and I know you did, and so did we, was the fact that he went on to a larger lambasting of the mainstream media in general that their coverage essentially was dishonest.
	Or it was devastating.
	It was a devastating and accurate indictment.
	But here's, you know, what they do, Steve, is not a secret.
	They are who they are.
	Things are what they are.
	They do what they do.
	The thing people need to understand is why.
	The Democrat Party, the drive-by media are willing accomplices with one another.
	The media itself has now gotten more partisan and more obvious about it than ever before because they have lost their monopoly.
	So the Democrat Party's invested in defeat in Iraq.
	They cannot afford a political or military victory in Iraq because they have no way they can share in it.
	They have no way they can say we help.
	They have been deriding the troops.
	They have been calling them murderers.
	Harry Reid says that the surge didn't work.
	He waved the white flag of surrender back in May.
	Worst thing that can happen is for us to be showing success, which is happening in large numbers over there.
	And even Thomas Ricks of the Washington Post now has to admit it.
	And the Washington Post lead editorial on Sunday had to admit it.
	So when Sanchez came out and did his usual beat up the troops and beat up the effort and so forth, that's all they wanted to hear because that's the narrative.
	The narrative in the template is we're losing.
	We can't win.
	Bush has screwed it up.
	So ignore everything else, which means you never get the truth, or you very rarely do in the drive-by media anymore.
	Sure.
	And you mentioned Media Matters, which is an outfit run by this fellow by the name of David Brock, who was once again, once upon a time, worked on the right, but then went over to the left side.
	And in fact, this David Brock character has admitted that he published a bunch of stuff that he simply had made up.
	But his organization, which is supposed to be a watchdog of conservative misinformation, Media Matters only takes shots at guys like you, at Fox News.
	They never ever touch anybody on MSNBC.
	They never mention anybody on CNN.
	Well, they do, though, sometimes just for cover.
	They will rip a Democrat or a liberal media person if they attack Hillary.
	That organization exists for one reason, and that's to get Hillary Clinton elected.
	Make no mistake about this.
	Now, why do you say that, Rush?
	Well, because she started it.
	What do you think moveon.org means?
	Moveon.org was formed in the 90s.
	It meant, can we move on from the Clinton scandals?
	And you've got George Soros money with all these organizations in an indirect way.
	Brock is a funky.
	He's been all over the ideological map.
	Some of the stuff he wrote earlier about Anita Hill and troopers in Arkansas, he didn't deny the facts.
	He just said later he wished that he hadn't written them and published them and so forth.
	But who appointed them an official watchdog and who watches them?
	Nobody challenges on the left anything they have to say.
	Media Matters may as well be the executive producers and the line producers for MSNBC's primetime.
	I mean, if Media Matters went out of business, MSNBC primetime would have to go dark.
	All right, good point.
	Rush, before you leave, you've got 30 seconds.
	In addition to the historic letter that people are bidding on on eBay right now that Harry Reid sent you, what else do they get?
	They get the hat hash shake case and what else?
	Yeah, it's a hell of Burton Attach case, by the way.
	They get that.
	They get a letter from me thanking them.
	And a couple of other surprises.
	I'm still thinking about how we're going to mount this.
	I think I'm going to mount this in an official archival document as though it would be posted in the Smithsonian.
	All right.
	Well, once again, the bidding ceases in three days, four hours, 16 minutes, and 25 seconds.
	The bid right now on eBay is at $50,300.
	Rush Limbaugh, we thank you very much for joining us today.
	Pleasure's mine.
	It's great to be with you.
	All right, sir.
	Thank you.
	Thanks for the time.
	Fox News channel this morning.
	That was me with Steve Doocy.
	I think Brian Kilmead got a couple questions in there as well.
	We're going to take a break here.
	We'll come back and we'll have Jim Kalstrom from the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation who wants to weigh in on all this right after this.
	Stay with us.
	Just to correct the record, we're up to $51,100 on the auction for the Harry Reid smear letter when we finished the interview this morning.
	You were just at 50,006, I think, so it's gone up 500 bucks since then.
	Jim Kalstrom from the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, a good friend of mine, former head of the New York FBI office.
	Great to have you on the program, my friend.
	Thanks for checking in.
	Nice being with you, Rush.
	I have to call you because I want the listening public to know that the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, which you've been such a tremendous supporter of over the years, Rush, you've been our biggest donor by far.
	I mean, you've, ladies and gentlemen, this man has given millions and millions of his own dollars to the foundation.
	Plus, he's asked the loyal listeners, And they've donated millions and millions of dollars.
	Rush, every time you talk about the foundation, we get letters with $10 bills, with 50 cents, with $100 bills, you know, from thousands and thousands of your listeners.
	Now, we're not a political organization.
	We come from all different stripes.
	Most of us were in Vietnam.
	Some were in Korea.
	We didn't particularly enjoy coming back to the United States when we came back.
	There wasn't much of a welcoming committee.
	So we feel it's absolutely critical to take care of the troops, take care of these heroes that are fighting this war.
	Whatever the politicians think of it, they're over there supporting the United States, our freedom, our democracy.
	And to date, we've given an excess of 2,700 scholarships to these young children who have lost a parent.
	And Rush, you've financed probably 40% of those.
	I mean, you've done more for the military than anyone I know of.
	And I've been involved in military circles for a long, long time.
	So to call you anything but the true patriot, the true supporter of the military that you are, is just absolutely wrong.
	I mean, there's no one who has done more for these children, these families, these daughters, you know, these wives.
	You've helped fund tremendous work with plastic surgery and reconstructive dentistry to help the severely wounded.
	You've helped fund visits so the families can go to Walter Reed and can go to Bethesda, go to Brooke.
	DOD will pay for one trip for the immediate family, but some of these poor guys are in there for months and months and months.
	You've helped fund that.
	So, Rush, I don't know of anybody else in this great country who's done more for our military and for our law enforcement family than you have.
	So I just wanted your listening public to know that.
	And they all, you know, should give you a round of thanks, which I know they will, for all the work you've done.
	Well, Jim, I appreciate that.
	I'm almost speechless, which hardly ever happens.
	But when you say all that, you're leaving out somebody who was really crucial to MCLEF, and that was Zach Fisher.
	He recently passed away, but now there was a great man, too.
	Right.
	Now we have tremendous, if the listeners want to go to our website, mch-le-e-f.org, you know, they can see who's on the board here, and they're from all walks of life.
	I think the only thing we share in common is that we're patriots, and we want to do the right thing for the United States.
	We don't get involved in politics.
	We have supporters on both sides of the aisle.
	But we just can't stand by and let, you know, our principal supporter, our major supporter, and we have many, and you're the major one.
	We can't have such horrible things being said that basically are just a lie.
	And, you know, we can't stand by and not respond to that.
	Well, I appreciate that more than I can ever express.
	And it's been a sheer joy and a pleasure to be able to help and be involved.
	You guys invited me to be involved.
	I remember one of the founding meetings at Turickium's place.
	Right.
	And I just was moved by it, and I was flattered to be included.
	So, look, thanks very much.
	I appreciate it.
	Keep up.
	You know, you guys are doing the Lord's work, and everybody appreciates it.
	Well, Rush, I'll just remind you, you heard about us, and your comment was, you guys actually give away every dollar that you get?
	And the answer is yes.
	We don't have any overhead.
	We eat the overhead.
	So that was, I think, the first thing that attracted us to you guys.
	Because that really is rare.
	That's unique.
	Jim, look, all the best to you, my friend.
	Thanks so much again.
	Rush, simplify.
	Thank God for what you do.
	Jim Kalstrom from the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation and the former head of the New York FBI office will be back right after this.
	Hi, welcome back, Rush Limboy here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, the fastest three hours in media.
	We've already got one down.
	Again, we're at $51,100 on the eBay auction for the Harry Reid smear letters signed by 40 co-conspirator senators, Democrat senators, who continue to profess the lie in letters that they are sending to constituents asking for an explanation.

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