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Oct. 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 19, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Well, we have a winner.
The auction is over.
The final bid remained at 2, 100, 100.
The winning bidder, the high bidder, Betty Casey.
And more about Betty Casey in due course.
In the meantime, welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program, my friends.
It's Friday, live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And you know the drill.
Thank you.
Open line Friday, and that means, ladies and gentlemen, that we go to the phones.
The program is all yours.
You can talk about whatever you want.
Monday through Thursday, we discuss only what interests me.
I'm a benevolent dictator, but on Friday, there are no limits on what you can talk about.
Feel free.
And the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
Betty Casey, $2,100,100.
She now's the proud owner of the smear letter written by Dingy Harry Reed, read by him on the Senate floor, mailed to the CEO of Clear Channel Communications, my syndication partner.
This, ladies and for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, this is the Halliburton, a zero haliburton metal attached case.
And inside, I'm going to be very, very careful with this, is the letter.
And I am holding it up now so that you can see it watching on the Ditto Cam.
Here is the first signature page that contains Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Also contains Senator Reed, the Senate leadership and so forth.
The attache case, the letter, a very, very well-written and nice thank you note from me will be included, as well as a picture of me giving this away or introducing it publicly, displaying it publicly for the first time last week in Philadelphia.
Now, uh, folks, let me let me, while I'm waiting on the information here to fill you in on Betty Casey, uh, who is, I do know that she is a noted philanthropist.
I want to share with you just a couple thoughts here about this.
Uh everything about this, the letter, and by the way, I have to tell you that you know Harry Harry Reed uh in a speech on the Senate floor at twelve noon today, a little over an hour ago, attempted to horn in on all this and take some credit for it, claiming that he and I had buried the hatchet or implying that that had been the case, uh, and then kept using the pronoun we in discussing how good this was, the money going to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
So the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, it's now official, is going to get in excess of 4.2 million dollars because I am matching Betty Casey's bid on eBay.
4.2 million dollars.
Uh I asked Senator Reed to match, and all the other senators who can afford to do so haven't heard from them on that.
Um I ask Senator Reed to come on the program and discuss his discussing discussion of me as unpaid unpatriotic.
He did not accept my offer to do that, uh, and now has the uh the audacity to climb aboard this, praising the effort, saying that he never knew that it would get this kind of money.
It it got this kind of money because it represents one of the most outrageous abuses of federal power in modern American history, and that is what makes it a collector's item.
Uh, this letter that Senator Reed wrote will forever memorialize him as a demagogue.
Uh, and the same for the other 40 uh who signed it.
Uh Senator Reed will be remembered forever here as a disgrace.
But let's put this in perspective.
I think it's fascinating to see what what happened here.
Look at what happened.
The Senate leader, the Senate majority leader, smeared a private citizen.
A private citizen, I, me, who has donated time and money to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
The uh the government tried to take away my living by sending this letter to Mark Mays at Clear Channel and asking him to confer with me About my remarks.
So that was an attempt to take away from me my living and in the process my ability to support charities like this, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
This is the government, by the way, that our founding fathers warned us about and tried to protect us from with a bill of rights.
As a result, and this uh I I got I I have tingles going up my my spine here, and I have had all week long.
Fellow private citizens took up the cause.
They bid their own hard-earned after tax dollars, and many of you are sending your money in small amounts, large amounts to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, the charity that Senator Reed indirectly attempted to damage when he smeared the charity's board member and and uh very active donor and fundraiser.
The government was used as a blunt interest uh instrument here on me, and uh almost you could almost say is uh blunt interest on people in need.
Private citizens of their own accord, without a government mandate, without an Al Gore pledge, responded with creativity and charity and a sense of fun.
See, in the private sector, ideas matter, individuals care, and things get done.
I guess conservatives are compassionate after all.
Uh winning bidder is, and this is subject to the receipt of funds, of course, uh, wonderful woman named Betty Casey.
She is a trustee of the Eugene B. Casey Foundation.
She gives significant sums of money to uh hospitals, hospices, colleges, and private schools.
Uh these include the Eugene B. Casey Diabetes Education Center, the Eugene B. Casey Swim Center, and the Eugene B. Casey Academic Center, and the Casey Home Hospice.
She has also donated tens of millions from the Foundation and her personal funds to the Washington Opera.
Uh Betty Casey has been a listener to this program since its inception.
She's a huge fan.
We would expect nothing else.
And we cannot thank her enough for her support in this.
And I am honored and proud and happy to be matching her two million one hundred thousand one hundred dollars.
Uh we also want to thanks uh give thanks to eBay uh Giving Works, eBay Giving Works for allowing us to break their website in the closing moments of the auction.
Uh we were trying to get the latest bid amount in the last ten seconds, and on three different computers, we got a system down message.
We broke eBay.
I don't know that anybody has ever broken eBay.
And as such, we have heard from South Florida lawyers, ladies and gentlemen, who suspect that there might be a a hanging chad scenario here.
We are, of course, are going to just flick that away as we would a Lake Erie midge during a New York Yankees game in the American League Divisional Series playoffs.
Uh Action Cause also is uh is uh an outfit we want to thank because they managed all of this on eBay.
They were our consultant pre-qualifying bidders and uh developing the auction.
So thanks again to uh to Betty Casey, who is a trustee of the Eugene B. Casey Foundation, a fan and listener of this program from the beginning.
Two million one hundred thousand one hundred dollars for the Harry Reed letter and this uh attache case from Zero Halliburton.
Quick time out.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh on open line Friday behind the golden EIB microphone.
Once again, Betty Casey is the high bidder, two million one hundred thousand one hundred dollars.
But in addition to thanking Betty Casey, uh I I want to include uh all of you.
There were a number of people who bid, and there were a number of you who couldn't afford the level shortly after this auction began, uh, who have made uh uh donations of various sizes to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Uh it's it this has just been an incredible week.
And folks, hear me on this.
This whole episode this week has been a great illustration of how America is great.
This is the kind of thing that makes this country great.
The private sector has a heart.
The government does not.
Harry Reed may want to now try to claim some credit for this, as he did uh in a in an in an implied way in uh remarks he made on the Senate floor at noon.
But let's not forget his was a smear letter, and it was posted on eBay as a smear letter, and it was portrayed by us as a smear letter.
All over eBay, that word smear was there.
It was an abuse of power, and that is why it it uh it went for two million one hundred thousand one hundred dollars.
I want you to remember this week in November of 08.
Private sector made up of millions of people in this audience demonstrating what real compassion is.
If you vote Democrat, you're voting for another major step towards socialism of even more government.
More government for Harry Reed to use as a blunt instrument against the people who pay his salary.
I mean, this episode is uh is uh highly visible microcosm of the larger battle that we conservatives fight on a daily basis.
And this has truly been a brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed excursion into excellence on the part of all of us this week.
We ran circles around a liberal regressive, and we did it with half our brains tied behind our backs.
We did it ourselves.
We didn't have any push, we didn't have any assist, we didn't have not that we expected it nor wanted it, but the usual media amplification on a story like this never happened.
It was nowhere to be found, and yet look, we broke eBay right before one o'clock Eastern and we set the record for the highest bid for a charitable item, breaking the record of $800,000 for a Harley Davidson owned by Jay Lenos.
So thank you, folks, all of you, including Betty Casey, because so many of you got involved here.
Uh I don't know what the record for uh for view is on uh on eBay is, but this was uh well over a million.
Uh and that's individuals.
The number of hits has to be a multiple of that, uh, with people hitting it often and again trying to get updates on the latest bid.
Back to the phones, Temecula, California.
This is Jake.
I'm glad you called, sir, and welcome to Open Line Friday.
Rush, I'd like to uh pose a challenge to you and nine hundred and ninety-nine other listeners.
I think four million is a great number.
I think five is better.
And my idea is while you're sitting around one evening watch of your what watching one of your preview movies, you will find one thousand autograph copies certified of this letter and allow one thousand of us citizens to contribute one thousand dollars each and up the empty one more million dollars, and I will buy the first one.
You don't think there'd be a little overkill.
I think you have a couple of days to do this.
I think it's a worthy cause, and I think a lot of us who don't have two million dollars wanted to make our statement, and I think a thousand dollars for me is a great statement.
Um that is an interesting.
I said ph this is exactly what I was just talking about.
I just I had no idea this is what you were going to say.
All it says up here, don't end it, another idea.
And you are making the point I just made about the compassion in this country actually lying in the in the private sector, uh, and the desire to to be involved in something like this.
It's it's a great idea.
Let me ponder it.
I cannot commit to it sitting here on the air because I just we I gotta run I gotta uh I can't find anything wrong with it.
I just I want to I want to I want to think about it because it's uh it actually is a good idea.
You think we get uh uh thousand people pay a thousand bucks for it?
I think we could get it done probably in the next five days, put it on the website, offer them an easy way to pay with their credit card.
You'll have a thousand people probably by next Friday.
With my signature, you think.
And you can take your time and send them to us when you can.
Yeah.
Well, how how gracious of you.
Well right.
Look, um uh I'm gonna hold on.
You're gonna hold on.
Oh, Snarly Snurley wants to what does he want your phone number for?
He can take my name and address so I can send the first thousand dollars.
Oh, I see, I see, I see.
Okay, all right.
Jake, don't go away then.
Uh, Mr. Snurder will put you on hold.
Great idea.
This is David in uh Colorado Spr or is it Solo Spring.
It's Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Nice to have you with us.
I I love you, Rush, and that's my way of saying make a ditto.
I think you do a great service for the United States.
Uh I think the only thing is that I would have to say is that I think that you could reach more people.
A lot of people turn you on and either are either like you or dislike you right off the bat.
That's kind of kinda like Hillary Clinton.
Except that I think I'm not sure if I would call it uh uh I I I feel very confident in what I do also, and that's what you come across as, but a lot of people take it as arrogance or or egomaniac or something like that, and I just love to see you reach more people because there's more people that need to be reached, or we wouldn't have the problem with the demonstration.
What are you suggesting I do?
I I uh uh I I you know I I don't really have an answer for you.
I it's just Yes, you do, you're just afraid to say it after saying you're so sure of yourself.
Uh tone yourself down, I guess.
There you go.
You think I should stop the arrogance in the Braggado show and the pompousness and the bombast and all that.
No, and and that's not how I feel about you.
It's just like I say, I think that a lot of people who turn turn you on for the first time feel that way sometimes, and and I think that if you didn't if you didn't turn people off right on the room.
Let me ask a question then.
How is it that twenty-two million people don't?
That don't what?
Think that.
Oh, I don't know.
I because they feel the same way as I do.
They they agree with you.
They they they realize that you're right so much of the time.
But because eight percent, yes, almost always right, ninety-eight point eight percent.
Well, always mention a figure when you talk about my accuracy.
Oh, I'm sorry, ninety eight point eight percent of the time you're right.
And if more people out there would listen to you, they'd know you were right, and I think that it by by turning some people off y like I said, they they either love or hate you right off the bat, and if you could get more people to love you and more people to listen to you, let me tell you something.
I I I hear this somewhat.
I don't hear it a lot.
I used to hear it in the early days of uh of this program, but I I hear it somewhat.
I I um you know, I'm being who I am here.
The the the uh this is showbiz and there's a performance aspect to this.
Uh uh how how do you know this this didn't happen by accident here.
Uh you're you're basically asking me to be boring.
You're asking me not to offend people who are waiting to be offended.
I know who these people are, and I know exactly what the problem is.
We are see that I'm gonna say something here that you will probably cringe internally wish I wouldn't say it, because you think I'm gonna be turning off uh potential uh audience members.
But we we live in a country of of people.
We are so effluent, that's why I have to laugh when people tell me we're on the verge of a recession and so we are so effluent that people have so much time on themselves to make them the focus of their lives, themselves, and their feelings, and whether they feel offended or whether they're made nervous or or what have you.
And along comes somebody like me who's confident, sure of myself.
Uh that that's gonna that's gonna intimidate a lot of people who don't think anybody can be that sure of themselves.
And there are a lot of people that think, well, there's no black and white out there.
I mean, it's the uh th th there's just aren't any firm answers.
People do not want to be considered closed-minded, and so they p pass themselves off as nuanced, see a lot of gray area, and uh and they that this is how this moderates.
Uh these are these are people that really don't stand for anything, and nothing I do is going to make them stand for anything because one thing I can't do is stand down for my principles and stand down for the things I'm passionate about.
And I actually think it's a combination of passion and confidence uh that leads people to think that I have no humility.
But the people like you who listen to this program regularly know that that's uh that that's not the case.
I've warned people it takes six weeks of steady listening to this program to get an understanding, a full understanding of exactly what all can happen on this program and uh and how.
I appreciate your thought, and I understand your desire that uh we reach more people, and we are that's our objective too.
Uh make no mistake about it.
This is uh Don in um Wannakey, Wisconsin.
Hi, nice to have you here.
Uh listener from year one, Rush, and uh thank you for your service to our country.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to make a point to tie in your point with uh Valerie Plain's book and Joe Wilson.
Um there was an article in the Washington Post on September first, 2006, which to me is the greatest example of hypocrisy I've run across.
Their last nine words after putting the blame on Joe Wilson through the whole article, they stated It is unfortunate that so many people believed him.
Joe Wilson, that is.
Now, that this was just under the four hundredth article they'd written on Joe Wilson.
And up until this, you know, article, they weren't blaming Joe Wilson.
One other point on Joe Wilson.
I nailed him when he was in Madison, Wisconsin, uh, for John Kerry.
And I asked him two points.
Number one, in his op ed nine references to the purpose of his trip.
It had nothing to do with seeking uranium.
It was a purported actual shipment.
Okay, hang on.
Hey, Don, Don, I've got a break coming up.
Uh we're gonna I want to resume with you uh after the break at point one of the two points you made to Joe Wilson where you nailed him.
I want to hear about that.
We'll do that right after this, folks.
Stay with us.
Hey, Jake.
A lot of people like your idea out there, pal.
More on that in a moment.
Let's go back here to Don in uh Wenaki, Wisconsin.
Uh you met Joe Wilson in Madison, you you nailed him on two things.
Very quickly, what were the things I nailed him on?
Uh I I repeated the uh his New York op-ed uh article were nine times he referred to the purpose of the trip, and it was only to check out a supposed actual shipment from the nineties.
The second point I asked him was in an interview with George Ann Geyer about a week or two after the op-ed page, she asked him why did it take about a year to come out with this, Mr. Wilson.
He said because it was such a minor item compared to all of the other more important reasons to re remove Saddam and his regime, he'd forgotten about it.
Now, secondly, and this is the key point, the Senate Intelligence Committee pinned him down on the same issue, namely three Republican senators.
And in a letter to answer their questions, he made the statement there is no way I refuted the sixteen words that Joe uh President Bush had in the State of the Union message, because there's no way I could have known about that.
Now, my point to you is I think I'm a pretty honest conservative with high morals and principles.
Do you think I should give all this up to write a book about how terrible Bush is and make multi-millions of dollars and not be able to sleep at night?
Yeah, I think this guy is this guy is an absolute disgrace.
Uh and he is now I I think it's a little they call it pathological.
I think he believes the lies he's been telling now.
I think that has they have become his reality.
And he's uh he's now making money off of it, and he and his wife have become famous, pretending and playing the victim role.
She's now got her sixty minutes piece excuse me, on on Sunday night.
And the hypocrisy, including the Washington Post, at the end of the last sentence, and I memorize this, I'll carry it to my grave.
It is unfortunate that so many people believed him.
After they wrote about four hundred articles on him.
Well, but they continue to push him today.
I mean that because there's a whole narrative here that's established, and that is that the White House tried to destroy his wife.
Uh and it keeps Democrat money rolling in, by the way, to uh from the fringe kooks out there.
I just I brought this up in the last hour only because while the drive-by media was not covering our cause whatsoever here, uh, that ended up raising one or two million one hundred thousand one hundred dollars for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, they can't stop talking twenty-four-seven about Valerie Playm's book, which is still at five hundred nine or was on uh on Amazon, it's not worth reading, folks.
I don't often say that, but it's it's not worth reading.
Michael, in uh in old Say Book, Connecticut, nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Rush, it's uh wonderful to be with you.
Long time listener since nineteen ninety-two.
I've just got the feeling that uh Reed just finally put his foot in his mouth for the last time.
I think this is something that'll go down in history.
And I'm proud to be one I would love to be one of those people to have a copy of that night.
A thousand dollars would be well worth the investment.
I wish I had a million, but a thousand would definitely work for me.
Well, now wait a minute.
Uh is the thousand dollars you're willing to pay just for the letter?
Because if if you'd pay a thousand bucks for the letter, I won't have to sit around and sign a thousand of them.
I think uh I think it's much more than the letter, and you know what I'm talking about.
It's much more than that.
And uh I think it's the principle.
Um it's a wonderful cause but the principle.
I think Harry Reid stepped in it, and I I got a feeling that he's gonna come back to bite him in the law.
Well, you're just you're you're one of many uh phoning in, writing in, suggesting that this is or agreeing that it's a uh it's a good idea.
If you if you're just joining us and you missed this, uh caller in the last hour, Jake from Temecula, California suggested that uh we could raise a lot more money here.
We needn't stop this.
The cause is good.
There are a lot of people who would really love to have been able to contribute to M. Cliff uh and have some involvement in this, but once the bidding got so high most people couldn't afford it.
So his idea was that we uh make some official reprints of this that I signed that I autograph and uh make them available for a thousand dollars each.
Uh and uh everybody's not everybody, a lot of people in the email, a couple people here on the phones have called to second it because see this is this this is the great thing.
Everybody wants to be involved in this for the obvious reasons.
You're all good people and you know this is a great cause.
It's been an exciting thing to be part of.
It's been very dramatic.
Uh and uh some of you just you felt like you couldn't do anything and you wanted to because the bidding got so outrageously high.
So uh I just I just love all you all of you for this.
This is can't I can't tell you how uh uh heartwarming this is and and how uh how d filled with a glow uh that that all of us here have felt all week long.
Tom in South Holland, Illinois, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Rush, talk show host, great man and a great American.
It's a real pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
Two points I wanted to make, Rush.
I work in the industrial trades where we encourage our men to come up with new and innovative ideas for strengthening our customers' equipment when we're working on it.
And having done so, we always give credit where credit is due so that we can get more and fresh ideas from these men.
Having said that, we think nothing is more vile or repugnant than somebody that would grab the credit for another man's actions.
Which brings me to point number two.
After hearing Harry Reed this morning, I immediately went to my industrial catalogs and started looking, and I find that even in the industrial section, we don't make a wheelbarrow big enough to carry Harry Reid's testicles.
Nor is Hillary's lockbox large enough.
Excellent.
Excellent show, Rush, and it's an excellent idea with a thousand dollars.
And uh if you do if that does come to fruition, I will be back on the phone.
Well, thanks very much.
See what you're saying is you're you're you you j you're upset that Reed uh tried to horn in on this at the very end and claim some credit for it using the pronoun we and this sort of thing.
I would have uh an employee like that if he was mine, I would have brought him in the office, dressed him down, and told him one more infraction like that, and you're fired.
Well, look at there's a there's a way to translate two words, three words that translate Harry Reid's Senate floor speech at noon today.
They are rush, you win.
He wants to be part of this, he wants to claim some partial credit.
Uh but he hasn't apologized to me for this smear letter.
If he wants to claim credit, he's got to realize this was sold as an abuse of power, a smear letter written by him.
He also has to know that I've matched this.
Uh I invited all these other senators who have the funds and the and the means to also match the high bid.
Haven't heard from any of them.
Uh and I doubt that I uh I doubt that I will.
So uh you know it it's it's just it's fascinating to watch this.
And frankly, very unexpected, but now that it's happened, I can't say, given uh the way Liberal Democrat politics is uh these days that I'm surprised.
This is uh Mary in Las Vegas, your next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi.
Good morning, Rush.
I first of all have to tell you I am so nervous I can hardly breathe, but I just have such respect for you.
And uh one thing that you've heard of Village Idiot, I believe Nevada has its idiot, and that's Harry Reed.
He just constantly puts his foot in his mouth.
And one thing that he says that just makes me cringe is when he makes the comment that you didn't serve in the military.
And I believe that God's gifted everybody differently.
And I believe you you are using your gift that God has given to you.
I know you kind of, you know, in your um I forget exactly how it is you put it.
Talent on loan on loan from God.
From God.
And I r I do believe you are you are so talented in what you do.
And um I grew up in a little farming community in uh central Illinois.
So I basically kind of had conservative values anyway.
But we moved uh to Las Vegas in seventy-eight, and I've been listening to you almost since you were on the air, and I just am So much more conservative now than I was then.
Just because you've taught me to think things through and to look at things differently, you know, to not listen to the mainstream media and I just I just love you.
You are you are like a highlight of my day.
Just ask my husband.
He's he's made the comment before about how much I listen to Rush, but I do appreciate what you do.
Well, thank you.
Thanks again very much.
I I appreciate that.
You know that that comment that uh Harry Reed mentioning and I didn't serve.
Uh you know, that this is another tactic, uh a neo Stalinist tactic of the left, it's sort of like political correctness.
They're trying to shut people up and they do many ways, do it in many ways.
And this latest technique, and it's really not that new is hey, you didn't serve, you can't discuss the military.
You can't debate the military budget, and you can't have any thoughts on it.
Where were you when you had a chance to kill commies?
You were nowhere around.
I don't think Harry Reid served either.
But of course, he will not deny himself uh the opportunity to declare v uh defeat and wave the white flag when the surge has barely begun.
Uh so it's it's uh you know one way street.
Worse worse than the the I didn't serve comment was he actually called me unpatriotic here.
Uh you know, and then this the Democrats that are running always screaming, you can't challenge my patriotism, but they are exempt from the very rules that they designed for themselves.
Be right back.
Thank you again for the call, Mary.
Sit tight, folks.
And the cutting edge societal evolution rush limboy at 800 two eight two two eight eight two.
It's open line Friday, Verona, California.
Nick, great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Oh, Rush, I want to say it's a great honor to speak with you today.
Thank you.
I've been listening to you for seven years now.
And I just want to let you know two things.
One, congratulations on raising all the money for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
It's excellent what you've done there.
And I do agree with you 100% that uh it shows uh the reason why so many people are interested in this because it does show uh an abuse of power, and somebody is actually able to harness that or show you know the abuse of power there and uh kind of turn it around and do something good with it.
Wanna thank you for that.
And two, I just want to let you know that I'm shipping off to basic training in a few days, and uh you're one of my inspirations.
You kind of helped me to realize there's uh I don't want to say there's more in life, but answer the calling, and I want to say you've done a great job for uh, you know, pushing uh done a great job for the troops over the years and uh I think you're a great American.
Well, thank you very much.
Uh you're very welcome.
I wish I had more to say.
I'm just so nervous right now.
You you you brevity is the psalm of wit.
You don't need to say any more.
It it's all of us that really need to you know start saying a lot of thanks to you uh things to you and including uh thank you and how much we honor what your intentions are, what you're gonna do and how much in awe most of us are, because we'd never do it.
Most of the country people of country would never join and haven't.
It's a special breed that do.
What where where are you shipping out?
Well, I'll go into uh Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
What branch?
Oh, Army, National Guard.
Well, congratulations.
And and thanks so much.
I really appreciate what you said more than you'll uh you'll ever know.
No problem, Rush.
Thank you keep up with the work.
You bet Tom.
Thanks uh appreciate that very much.
No, that was uh uh that was Nick.
This is Tom in uh Tremont, Illinois.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, how you doing, Rush?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
Hey, I just want to tell you something.
I just uh my son just got on a bus yesterday to go to Iraq, and I really appreciate what you've done for these Marines.
And these you know, this was kind of I think your gift to us parents that have marines and go through the struggles and the grief and also the pride that we have in these kids, and I just want to thank you and tell you that those Marines, I talked to him, I was out in Camp Pendleton uh last week for about four days, and those guys really appreciate what you do for them.
Well, I just want to thank you.
Thank you.
Uh you know, we um i uh the the vast majority of people in this country have such a great appreciation for what uh people like your son are doing that it's difficult for us to uh to express.
Uh but I y I you know, I I I don't know what to say.
I I uh you're you're ca can I tell you can I tell the people out there something?
Yeah.
There is nothing that makes a person prouder than going to like a Marine Corps graduation or something, or not just Marine Corps, but the military graduation.
These people need to everybody needs to experience that once.
And the sacrifices that these kids go through.
We took uh my boy Ben and all his buddies and their wives out for supper while we were out there, and then we cook supper for them the next night.
Uh it's kind of a going-away present for them.
And these kids are sacrificing things that the the ninety percent of the American people don't realize what they're doing.
They're giving up uh, you know, basically four or five, six years of their lives for service to this country.
And people need to realize that.
You know, no way to the the vast majority of the people in this country do.
I I'll take that back.
Yes I'm gonna do it.
It's a cry it's a it's a crying shame that uh that statement that I just made surprises so many people.
There has been a coordinated assault on this mission uh because of politics uh for the last four years.
And in the in in the midst of that assault, the uniformed personnel, the boots on the ground, have also taken flack.
They have been impugned by various Democrats that's been reported in the media.
Do I need to mention names, Jack Murpha?
You know, all of these baseless now accusations about these uniformed people being uh rapists and and murderers, uh all these phony soldiers that have come along, never been to Iraq, said they were there, lie after lie after lie, and that has been one of the things that's been so sickening to so many about this is that the political opposition to the war has included attacks on people who are volunteering to sacrifice their
lives for the national security of this country.
It is unconscionable to all of us, and far more people than you know share the view that I just expressed to you.
Right.
I asked uh those guys one night out there, I said, Do you think the majority of the people are standing behind you?
And one of them said, Well, everybody that voted for Bush and whoever listens to Limbaugh stands behind us.
And I I just want you to know that you do a good service for those guys, you know.
And also, they also hear that what you're talking about, Mertha and those guys, they they hear that stuff and and and they're they are really concerned about it.
They they don't they don't like that stuff, you know.
And and anyway, that's about all I wanted to say, Rush, but thanks for your support.
Thank you, Tom.
Uh thank you.
Quick time out, folks.
Back with more in just a second.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh highly trained broadcast specialist with half my brain tied behind my back, just to make things fair.
Ace, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Hey, ace.
Hi, Rush, how are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Megadettles from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Great to have you on the program, Ace.
I'm a Vietnam veteran and a Marine.
And I want to thank you so much for what you've done for our troops and for awakening a sleeping giant out here.
These these comments from Denji Harry and Mertha has rejuvenated me.
And because of your stance, I I'm fired up.
These guys have got to be gone to a halt quickly.
Anybody, anybody that speaks so badly of our troops, need to be kicked out of office and need to be brought up on charges.
We fight for our freedom and we fight for our country.
And these young men like Nick, I want to thank him for following.
And just thank you and God bless you for what you're doing out there.
I wish I had the means to send more money.
Uh I'm a member of a Marine Corps league here in Cincinnati and and we stay active.
And it's because of Americans like you who take the stance on truth and stand up and speak it that you've awoken a sleeping giant, and I believe you're going to see a rejuvenation across this country because of people like you.
God bless you.
God bless you, Ace.
Thanks much.
Just one just just one thing.
There is no such thing as too little money when you talk about contributing to uh any charity whatsoever, but particularly in this instance, uh, with as many as there are in this audience, there's no such thing as I wish I had more.
I mean, I can understand you wishing we all wish we had more, but there's no there's there's nothing wrong with whatever amount that you can give and that you do.
Uh and whenever you give it, whatever amount it is, you know.
When you I tell you when it goes to M. Cleff, uh they're all appreciated equally.
Uh don't think less of yourself or anything other than that you're doing great work when you give.
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