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Oct. 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 19, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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We have uh oh 53 minutes to go uh in the uh in the big eBay auction for the dingy Harry letter, the smear letter, truly an historic by the way.
Welcome back, Mr. Snerdley.
Mr. Snerdley served his one day suspension and has gotten off of uh his sick out and is back screening calls, wouldn't miss this day, would you?
We are at two million one hundred thousand and one hundred dollars.
We've been there most of the morning.
Uh I got up at four thirty today, my cat woke me up.
This happens every time I'm gone for more than four or five days, cat started headbutting me, and I just I had no choice, had to get up.
Uh, been up ever since, and uh it's it's been it's this has been a whirlwind, it has been exciting and peace.
Did you ever expect it to get two million dollars?
Um no, uh but I I did think it would exceed uh one million dollars.
Uh for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, here it is.
This is the Zero Halliburton Attach case.
And inside this attache case is the letter.
This mere letter from Dingy Harry Reed uh that he sent to the Clear Channel CEO, they are my syndication partner, uh, essentially asking that I be apolog made to apologize and spanked and so forth.
As you all know by now, the letter is uh is filled with distortions and lies.
I think it was sent uh knowingly in that sense.
So we uh got hold of it.
Mr. Mays gave me the original.
It is in this attache case, and uh in just fifty-one and a half minutes we will know how much it went for, including the case, including a really nice picture of me presenting the letter in public for the first time in Philadelphia last week, and uh a uh uh the case itself plus the plus the letter.
Two million, one hundred thousand, one hundred dollars.
Stop and think of this.
Let's put this in perspective, folks.
One day, a tree was cut down, and it was processed into paper.
The paper was then turned into stationary.
That stationary became a four-page letter with forty-one signatures that the free market, the free market, has now valued at two million one hundred thousand one hundred dollars.
How and why could four pieces of paper printed a mere seventeen days ago become so valuable?
The letter itself, the intent of the letter fell on deaf ears.
It accomplished nothing.
The signatures of 41 senators, frankly, aren't really worth that much.
How did these four pages of stationary become so valuable in so short a period of time?
Well, to understand this, folks, maybe you want to think time capsule.
That letter captures the essential reality of liberal politics in this country at this time.
The politics of personal destruction, the manipulation of reality for personal and political gain, the silence of the lambs, the so-called mainstream media, the drive-by media has said precious little about this.
They had nothing to do with valuing these four pieces of paper at 2,100,100.
To this moment, they have not discussed it.
I haven't heard the Today Show wanted to do something on it today, but I didn't find out in time to do it.
Wouldn't have had time because I've been swamped in here.
And we have had a request from the New York Times.
However, the uh the reporterette from the New York Times looked at some of her work, and she recently wrote a piece condemning charitable giving as robbing the government of needed tax revenue because of the charitable uh uh uh deduction.
So we'll pass on that.
Now I use mainstream media in this case rather than drive-by, because this goes all the way up to the high priests of journalism.
The letter also documents that 41 senators are either too ignorant of the facts or too willing to create facts, and so assured of their authority, I mean some call that smug, that they would actually sign on to this smear.
So totally confident that the media would let them get away with it, so unaware of the new media that would not let them get away with it.
And that, my friends, all that, part of what made that smear, those four pages, those four pieces of stationary, four pieces of paper.
The audacity that is on that paper, the current illustration of where liberal Democrat politics is in America today.
That is what has valued those four pieces of paper at 2,100,000 100 dollars.
When you stop and consider, um we don't know how high this is going to go.
I do I did know that this was going to happen.
Told everybody all week that the big money would be laying back toward the end of the week for the deadline so as not to get it bid up.
But apparently there's the there's been a little there's some uh three or four bidders out there that are that are going at this, duking it out.
Uh and it hasn't moved all day, hasn't moved all morning.
We expect well, let me let me just check.
Let me hit the refresh here and see what happens.
I have to turn away from the golden EIB microphone to reach my computer monitor and so forth.
Still at $2,100,100.
People are asking me, are you um are you gonna match this?
Yeah, I said it was.
Poor Dawn.
She's she's just she's just been so concerned about this.
I came in this morning and she's I I couldn't sleep.
I just can't believe I committed to doing this, it's no problem.
This is stop and think what's going to happen here, folks.
At least $4.2 million is going to end up to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, $4.2 million to help fund college educations for the children of Marines killed in action and the children of federal law enforcement officers who are killed in action.
And who made it all possible?
Harry Reed.
In the process of smearing someone who has a long record of supporting the military, Harry Reed, who never thought this letter would be made public.
I'm certain he never thought it would go beyond his press statement and his reading of it on the Senate floor.
Uh that letter and Dingy Harry with what they have done.
You talk about impugning and besmirching the troops.
Uh it's sweet justice.
It's poetic justice.
That Dingy Harry and those 40 signatories to this letter have uh made it possible for at least 4.2 million dollars to go to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
I got to take quick time out.
We'll do it now, be back after this.
Sit tight, my friends.
And we just passed one million views, ladies and gentlemen, on the eBay page for the Harry Reed smear letter.
Some of the people have been asking me, is this the most expensive?
Is the highest priced item that eBay has ever uh auctioned off?
No, I think the highest priced item was uh was a G2, a Gulfstream II corporate jet uh for $4.9 million.
But this is uh the most expensive item sold through a charity.
Uh prior to that, it was a celebrity signed Harley Davidson from Jay Leno in 2005 that sold for $800,100.
So we have blown past that.
So this is the uh most expensive item and the highest bid uh for an item on charity.
And we will be having uh other interesting facts and figures associated with this as the program unfolds before your very eyes.
I just want to warn you if you're a 60 minutes viewer, if you are uh paying with the drive-by media is ignoring this, but what they're not ignoring, further illustrating the narrative in the template.
What's her name?
Valerie Plame Wilson's book is out.
Sixty minutes doing a big profile over the weekend.
They're pushing the hell out of Valerie Plame's book all over the news media.
She's number 509 on Amazon.
Number 509, and they're still pushing it, and and uh because this this takes them back to Bush, it takes him back to the template that they they really love.
You realize nothing is going well for the Democrats.
They can't get us out of Iraq angering their base.
They caved on the S-Chip program, and wait you wait till you hear the had a little bit of this yesterday in terms of the Democrats' strategy on this.
There was Nancy Pelosi, who's really, really, really taking some hits in the media today over her ineffective leadership on the Armenian genocide resolution, and she's sort of faded away in one newspaper story about where she is.
Uh Democrats in the House not happy with her.
Uh they have they failed to override the S-Chip Vito veto.
They've they're just having all kinds of problems.
You add to it this uh Harry Reed smear letter, uh, and they're eager to take anybody's attention off of their failures and their ineffectiveness, and bam okay comes Valerie Plame's book uh for 24-7 media coverage just to relive you that that's another lie.
This whole that is as surreal as what happened to me.
It's as it's surreal as what happened to Scooter Libby.
She was not outed by Bush administration.
Well, Richard Armitage is in the Bush administration, but he's not sympathetic to the Bush administration when it came to the Iraq war.
He was the one that leaked to Novak.
He knew throughout the investigation that he was the leaker, and yet he didn't come forward, and Scooter Libby is uh is is convicted on a process crime.
The whole thing was surreal, the whole thing based on lies.
Joe Wilson's a liar.
Joe Wilson came back from Niger and told uh told a story about what he found there that the uh CIA and a Senate committee both say, hey, it kind of confirms what we thought about Iraq trying to get uranium from Niger.
The Senate Intelligence Committee labeled him uh I don't think they called him a liar, they just found in his report and his testimony was labeled in an op-ed piece that he wrote in the New York Times, which is riddled with falsehoods.
You know, it's a harsh thing to say.
I understand that this is a harsh thing to say.
I don't know how to say it any other way.
Uh liberals lie.
They have to have a monopoly in order to flourish, because in a monopoly, the liberals never the the lies never get challenged.
One of the lies that continues uh to be uh spread today is is the fact that conservatives, Mitch McConnell, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin trashed a 12-year-old little boy by the name of Graham Frost.
We beat up a defenseless little kid.
No such thing happened.
All that happened was the truthful investigation was undertaken.
Well, investigation is undertaken by some people, and the truth was revealed about the Frost family's financial circumstances.
They were qualified under those circumstances anyway, for medical insurance for the kids under the S Chip program.
The Democrats then found out about the kids because through the circuitous route from family plan, I don't know where it was, but it from from Maryland all the way to Washington, they found out about the kid and they made him do or let him do a response to uh President Bush's radio address.
And his um his theme, the 12-year-old's theme in the speech that he made was that he wants President Bush to sign the bill so that kids like him will be able to get medical coverage and treatment should they have a similar accident.
Well, and and the impression was that Bush didn't want little Graham Frost to be able to get medical care because he was going to veto it.
Well, Bush had proposed a four billion dollar increase, but as I keep pounding, the dirty little secret was that Graham Frost and his family were already covered and they were treated and got treated on the basis of the S Chip program.
Uh expansion was not needed.
My my point was that Graham Frost was used by the Democrats, a bunch of lies put into his head, whoever wrote the script.
He's 12 years old.
And yet the lie persists that his family was attacked.
And then he was attacked.
When in truth, it was the Democrats who were exposed.
And when you expose them, that's when they launch into action.
You're jot you're not supposed to challenge what they say.
They have become so accustomed when the during the days of their monopoly that whatever they said was, somebody comes along and challenges it.
And how dare you?
How dare you?
The most inconvenient thing for Democrats these days is the truth.
Fiction is their best friend.
The Washington Post has a story on this S chip thing, and the headline is Democrats press ahead on S chip.
As veto override fails, they plan bill with minor changes.
Now the spin of this story is that uh maybe I get this.
Maybe the Republicans will get their face-saving changes.
Uh what they stood up for.
It's Reed and Pelosi who have the bloody noses here.
It's Reed and Pelosi who ought to be embarrassed.
The two most ineffective leaders in my lifetime in the United States House and Senate on the Democrat side.
Reed and Pelosi bombed big time here.
By the way, do you know um the uh let me find it real quick?
There is a reason why Pelosi pulled the bill in the uh in the House, and it had to do with an uh an amendment.
Here we go.
Roy Blunt issued a press release late last night, lambasting the Democrats.
The opening paragraph is this.
The Democrats full-scale retreat.
Oh, I'm sorry, this is about FISA.
That's why it was this about FISA.
But it's a it's it's the same thing.
There's another failure.
This S chip, FISA, both of them failures.
And so now the way that the uh the uh Democrats are spending this, the new version will probably give Republicans some face-saving alterations, but no substantive change.
Democrat leaders suggested they get why do the Republicans need to save face, folks.
They found the courage to uh vote against the uh the the uh veto override.
Why do they need to save?
This is a this is an example of the hubris and the arrogance from the Democrats.
They think the Republicans are in trouble because they voted against this, and so well, we'll come back and we'll give you a chance to save your face.
If anybody needs to hide their faces these days, it's the Democrats in Washington.
Here's Philip in New York City.
Philip, I'm glad you called your first up today on open line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Great talking to you.
Twelve o'clock.
I happen to have uh C-SPAN on.
Harry Reed.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what time?
Twelve o'clock exactly.
When today or last night?
Right, just now, twenty minutes ago.
No, okay.
He made reference to you and the letter, and he basically praised you at the end.
He starts off saying, you know, uh Rush and I disagree on many things, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then he said, Um, you know, we had 41 uh senators signed.
We probably could have gotten a lot more democratic senators signed, but time was an essence.
So we had to submit the letter.
Lo and behold, the letter now is up on eBay.
The last I looked at it was uh two million dollars, and at the end he says, I encourage basically I'm encouraging people to go, and if they can afford to contribute, because Russia's doing the right thing where the money is going.
And to me, it was almost like a white flag on his part.
Uh was he on the floor of the Senate saying this?
He was on the floor, Madam Speaker and blah, blah, blah, blah, and the whole bit.
So if you can get the twelve o'clock tape at the uh Wow, this is I I had no idea.
How would you explain this turnaround?
White flag.
He gave up.
He couldn't do any more, and he tried he's trying to make uh bad amends, but he's trying to say faith.
So he's saying I disagree with Rush, but he's doing the right thing at the end.
He's taking this money and he's gonna help.
And he mentioned the organization you're giving the money to.
Wow.
He mentioned the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
So I had to get in touch with you and just let you know.
I appreciate that.
I would I uh I wouldn't have known that had you not called because we haven't had C-SPAN on today.
I just happened to be going through the dial and I saw him on and I thought.
You just happen to be you just happen to be surfing and you saw it?
Uh yep.
Wow.
Well, good.
Well, I'm glad to know that.
Uh we'll we'll try to dig into this a little more and find see maybe we can find some uh audio of this.
I'm sure there's a tape somewhere along the line.
Oh, well, we we probably know if we're rolling on C-SPAN too at the moment, but if we were, we'll get it up uh pretty soon.
I appreciate that.
Uh thanks much, Bill.
In uh in Chicago.
Hi, nice to have you with us, sir.
Thank you.
Uh, you know, given the long list of failures of the Democrats that you always uh go through here and the historical significance of the smear letter, I'd recommend that we begin to refer to the smear letter as the declaration of incompetence.
You have your 41 senators signing off on a letter that uh that is, as you said, a categorical lie.
And I agree with that, but I think you know, we need to frame this in a historical context, and what better way to do that than call this the declaration of incompetence?
That's uh that's funny.
That's an excellent idea.
Uh, and I think right along with it, I need to get the award, uh, the Congressional Medal of Distraction, because this distracted them from a number of things while they spent time on this.
Uh, and who knows how it might have contributed to their being discombobulated on other issues that came before them on the uh on the floor of the House Representative.
All right, quick timeout here, folks.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
I know, and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh Open Line Friday.
A broadcast brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed each and every day.
By the way, in the interest of accuracy, uh, ladies and gentlemen, the uh the statistic on the on the eBay page that says views is actually unique visitors.
Uh different people who have visited the auction.
So it's uh last time I checked uh.
1 million 200 and whatever it is.
It's I did I only read five figures here.
We need six now for it.
Uh but it's way past a million, so that's a million individuals.
The actual number of views is probably three or four times higher than that because people continually click to see if the uh if the total has been updated.
That is phenomenal.
Over a million individuals, and it's been going crazy all morning long.
Well, when it started last, when I left last uh last night, uh I think it was 180.
And I got home and I saw 511.
I said, why does this always happen after the show?
Then 511 became 750, then 750 became 850.
And I think then it would get 851.
Uh, and I think I crashed about eleven o'clock.
And uh maybe what did it was it did it get to one point one or two before 11 o'clock?
It did.
Yes, that's the last one I saw.
One point one or two.
So I uh went to bed, I got up, the cat woke me up with a usual series of headbuts, and I mean I tried to ignore it.
I I said must have laid there for a half hour trying not to wake up, and the cat just got more and more intense.
So I finally said, okay, got up and I went down and I fired up the machine, a computer, and I saw two million one hundred dollars.
I said, what happened here?
Why does this always happen when I'm not on the air?
No big deal, but I just was I was just curious about it.
So now we're at two million one hundred thousand one hundred dollars.
And we've got uh twenty-five and a half minutes to go here.
And it's uh what what are you staring at me?
This is snerdly to pull off this hole.
You ought to see this.
To pull off the notion that he's sick, he's got a surgical mask on today, and he's wearing latex gloves.
I can just barely see your eyes over the surgical.
I have never seen somebody go to such lengths to convince me that they're sick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Doctors said it was traumatic stress that caused you to get sick because of being suspended.
Your doctor told you that.
You can diagnose that medically.
Put that, put that where the sun don't you.
We're going to call Mothacker.
Mothacker's got his own back problems.
He called me the other day, wanting to know if acupuncture worked.
I said, Find out yourself, pal, you caused me more grief over 19 years.
Do something for yourself once.
Break out of the union mentality.
At any rate, we here's the transcript of what Dingy Harry said on the uh and we've got we're we're looking for it.
We'll have the audio.
But this is what Dingy Harry said on the floor of the Senate at noon Eastern Time today.
Madam President.
Early this month I came to the floor to discuss some comments made by Rush Limbaugh.
Following my remarks, more than 40 of my Senate colleagues and I co-signed a letter to the chairman of Clear Channel, Mark Mays, telling him we wanted him to confer with Limbaugh regarding the statements he made.
Is that not audacious?
The United States Senate getting hold of the CEO of a private corporation to uh confer with me over words that I had uttered.
I've since spoken to Mark Mays about this.
Mark Mays, in fact, called me regarding this letter.
This week, Rush Limbaugh put the original copy of that letter up for auction on eBay.
Mr. President, we didn't have time, or we could have gotten every senator to sign that letter.
What is that?
Yeah, we if we only had time, we could have gotten everybody to sign it.
How come not one Republican signed it?
He had a couple of days to do this.
I tell you this, this is uh that that's that's an amazing statement.
Had we had more time, well, was it not worth taking the time if this was such an important issue?
If you would have taken the time, Senator Reed, wouldn't a hundred signatures really have had an impact on Mark Mays, the CEO of Clear Channel, more than 41, and totally partisan signatures since it was all uh all Democrats He put the letter up for auction on eBay, continued Mr. Reed, and I think very, very constructively, left the proceeds of that it go to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
That provides scholarship assistance to Marines and Federal law enforcement personnel whose parents fall in a line of duty.
What could be a more worthwhile cause?
Rehabilitating Senator Reed is a worthwhile cause, which is, I think what this is.
I think it's really good that this money on eBay is going to be raised for this purpose.
When I spoke to Mark Mays, he and I thought this probably wouldn't make much no, see, he's been involved in it now, huh?
He's he's got worm his way into this.
He's not matching.
I don't think he's going to match.
And he hasn't apologized for this, by the way.
When I spoke to Mark Mays, he and I thought this probably wouldn't make much money.
A letter written by Democrat senators complaining about something this morning.
The bid is more than two million dollars for this.
We've watched it during the week.
It keeps going up and up and up.
There's only a little bit of time left on it, but it certainly is going to be more than two million dollars.
Never did we think that this letter would bring money of this nature, said Senator Reed.
And for the cause, Madam President, it's extremely good.
Now everybody knows that Rush Limbaugh and I don't agree on everything in life.
Maybe that's kind of an understatement, but without qualification, Mark Mays, the owner of the network that has Rush Limbaugh, their auctioning is going to be something that raises money for a worthwhile cause.
I don't know what we could do more important than helping to ensure that children of our fallen soldiers and police officers who have fallen in the line of duty have the opportunity for their children to have a good education.
Think of this.
He's did you he's using the word we has inserted himself into this, ladies and gentlemen.
He wants it's going so well, it's something nobody by his own admission ever imagined.
They want in on it.
We've got the audio now.
How long is the audio run?
I haven't had a chance to check the 336.
Well, here let's just listen to it rather than me read it.
Earlier this month, I came to the floor to discuss some comments made by Rush Limbaugh.
Following my remarks, more than 40 of my Senate colleagues and I co-signed a letter to the chairman of ClearChannel, Mark May, telling him that we had we wanted him to confer with Rush Limbaugh regarding the statements he'd made.
I've since spoken to Mark May about this.
Mark May uh in fact called Ma regarding this letter.
It's May's.
This week.
Rush Limbaugh put the original copy of that letter up for auction on eBay.
Mr. President, we didn't have time, or we could have gotten every Democratic senator signed that letter.
But he put the letter up for auction on eBay.
And I think very, very constructively, left the proceeds of that to go to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
What is the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
It provides scholarship assistance to children of Marines and federal law enforcement personnel whose parent dies in the line of duty, as well as health care assistance for disabled children of fallen troops.
What could be a more worthwhile cause?
And I think it's really good that this money on eBay is going to be raised for this purpose.
When I spoke to Mark May, I think that he and I thought this would probably raise much money.
A letter written by Democratic senators complaining about something.
This morning, the bid is more than two million dollars for this.
We've watched it during the week.
It keeps going up and up and up.
And there's only a little bit of time left on it.
But it's certainly going to be more than two million dollars.
Never did we think that this letter would bring money of this nature.
Stop the take here, say, stop.
Do you see what's happening here?
This is a clever move, rather transparent, to totally take the credit for this.
Had he not sent the letter, we didn't think it would ever generate this kind of money.
We think it's great to raise this kind of money.
We think this we he's hoping that this is the angle the drive-by's will cover.
Harry Reed taking credit for writing the letter that gets this money raised for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Resume tape.
The cause, Madam President, extremely good.
Now, everyone knows that Rush Limbaugh and I don't agree on everything in life, and maybe that's kind of an understatement.
But without qualification, Mark May, the owner of the network that has Rush Limbaugh on it, and Rush Limbaugh should know that this letter that they're auctioning is going to be something that raises money for a really a worthwhile cause.
I don't know what we could do more important than helping you to assure that children of our fallen soldiers and police officers who have fallen in line of duty, have the opportunity for their children to have a good education.
Think about this.
More than two million dollars is going to really help.
And that's again an understatement.
There's only a little bit of time left.
Will you have to do that?
And so I would ask those that are wanting to do more, that they can go to Harry Reid search, they actually go and say Harry Reed letter, and this will come up on eBay.
I'd encourage anyone interested in this with the means to do so to consider bidding on this letter and contributing to this worthwhile cause.
Hang on here.
I strongly believe that when we can put our differences aside, even Harry Reid and Rush Limbaugh, we should do that.
And try to accomplish good things for the American people.
Put our differences aside.
Has he apologized?
He is trying to horn in and act like he's part of this whole thing, folks.
This is unbelievable.
And now he's out there soliciting contributions on eBay, trying to make it then he believe me, this is what he hopes of all of the past two weeks that the drive-by's pick up on.
Well, I wasn't going to do this.
I wasn't going to go back in time.
But let's go back Monday, October 1st, 17 days ago, in the very same Senate floor, Harry Reid said this.
Last week, Rush Limbaugh went way over the line.
Way over the line.
His unpatriotic comments I cannot ignore.
During his show last Wednesday, Limbaugh was engaged in one of his typical rants.
This one was unremarkable and indistinguishable from his usual drivel, which has been steadily losing listeners for years, until he crossed that line by calling our men and women in uniform who opposed the war in Iraq, and I quote, phony soldiers.
This comment was so beyond the pale of decency that we can't leave it alone.
And yet he followed it up with denials and an attack on Congressman Jack Mertha, who was a 37-year active member of the Marine Corps, combat veteran.
I wasn't, I wasn't going to I wanted to go to back and relieve this, uh, relive this because this it's ancient history, we've been moving forward.
Senator Reed, you did not mention that I am matching whatever the final total is.
That is we.
You were offered an invitation to come on this program and say to my face what we just replayed you saying that I am unpatriotic, uh, and all of the other smears and lies that you believed from Media Matters for America, or whether you knew were smears and lies and just went ahead with it anyway.
So now all of a sudden, this is we, you and I have buried the hatchet.
You haven't even apologized for this yet.
And now he wants credit for helping raise this money as though he's been involved in it all along.
It's Orwellian.
It is it's surreal, it's alternate universe.
It continues.
Senator Reed, I asked you, I suggested that you and Senators in the Senate who can afford this, match it.
I haven't heard whether you want to match the final total.
I pledge to do so from the get-go.
By the way, one more time, it's Mays.
It's Mark Mays.
There's an S in the end of his name.
Rush Limbaugh took it upon himself to attack the courage and character of those fighting and dying for him and for all of us.
Rush Limbaugh got himself a deferment from serving when he was a young man.
He never served in uniform.
He never saw in person the extreme difficulty of maintaining peace in a foreign country engaged in a civil war.
He never saw a person in combat.
Yet he thinks that his opinion on the war is worth more than those who have been on the front lines.
And what's worse, Limbaugh's show is broadcasting Armed Forces Radio.
Which means that thousands of troops overseas and veterans here at home were forced to hear this attack on their patriotism.
Rush Limbaugh owes the men and women of our armed forces an apology.
Right.
And he wants to pretend now that uh he's all supportive of this and very happy about it, and that this is we and that we have buried the hatchet.
I still haven't been apologized to for any of this.
Back in just a second.
All right, we're back at uh the EIB network open line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh, eight and a half minutes to go until the auction closes.
No movement yet, still two million, one hundred thousand one hundred dollars.
You knew this was gonna happen.
Whoever's bidding out there is trying to be the last one.
They're trying to see to it that they are the last bid, trying to keep the price as low as they can.
They're both sitting at their computers, they're hitting the refresh button every five seconds to see if there's been movement.
Uh the drama that has to be felt by the people bidding on the Harry Reed letter must be palpable.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I I want this this this attempt by Harry Reed to take to the floor of the Senate at twelve noon Eastern time today to personalize this and make it about himself.
You just know the mainstream media, the drive-by's will get on this story now, and Reed will end up being very positively portrayed.
He's got a little quotes about we never thought that the letter would generate this kind of money.
We never thought.
Mark May and I, it's Mays.
Mark May and I talked about this.
Mark May and I said, Senator Reed, let me be clear about this one more time, or actually as many times as it takes.
It wasn't your letter that raised this money.
It was your abuse of power that is responsible for raising this money.
No other letter you have written would be people wouldn't pay a dime for it, Senator.
This one represents an abuse of power.
A federal government official, a U.S. Senator getting hold after besmeat besmirching me and smearing me by name personally from the Senate floor, gets hold of the CEO of my syndication partner and asks him to confer with me about something Senator Reed thought was said that was improper, words, First Amendment, free speech.
That, sir, is an abuse of power.
That is why your letter is historic.
Not because you signed it, not because 40 other people signed it, not because you wrote it.
It is because of what that letter represents a full-fledged, undeniable, 100% abuse of power.
And that's how this letter will be remembered by historians forever.
We'll see you in the next hour, folks, uh, with the winning bid and bidder.
Uh if we know it by then, we'll know the winning bid.
Translation for Harry Reed's speech on the Senate floor today.
You win, Rush.
Back shortly, folks.
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