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Oct. 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 19, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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Thank you and welcome back ladies and gentlemen Rush Limbaugh the Excellence in Broadcasting Network on Friday live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
One of the features of Open Line Friday ladies and gentlemen is that we take more calls on Open Line Friday.
I just cannot get used to seeing you in that surgical mask.
You look like you're in a horror movie.
Snurdly back continuing the ruse that he is sick after the one-day suspension.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
The email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Our winning bidder for the Harry Reid smear letter on the eBay auction at $2,100,100 is Betty Casey.
She's a wonderful woman.
She is trustee of the Eugene B. Casey Foundation.
She's a philanthropist, essentially.
She gives lots of money to hospitals, hospices, colleges, and private schools.
She has been a listener to this program since its inception.
We have spent some time with her on the phone.
She spends time quoting things that she's heard on this program over the years and how this was the last straw for her, this kind of smear, what Congress did here, what Harry Reid did from the Senate.
So she's already in the process of wiring the $2,100,100.
And I have, I put it away so nobody can damage it, but we've got the Halliburton case, the Adashate case, and the Harry Reid smear letter waiting to deliver to her.
So thanks to Betty Casey, and of course to all of you.
The idea has been floated, ladies and gentlemen.
Brian, I'm going to go ahead and announce that we're going to do this, okay?
The idea was floated by a guy on the phone earlier today, Jake from Temecula, California.
He said, you know, there are a lot of us out here that wanted to participate in this, but couldn't once the bidding got as high as it did.
It just eliminated a lot of people because of the, well, once in $100,000 and on up.
I mean, even before that.
So Jake's idea was, why don't you print whatever number copies, certified copies of the Harry Reid smear letter and sign them and then offer them for $1,000 on your website.
And he said, we'll get 1,000 people.
I mean, easily with 1,000 people to pick up, we'll raise another million to 5 million.
And what I've been thinking about this since, I want to do this without placing a limit on it.
If 10,000 people end up wanting a signed copy signed by me of the Harry Reid letter, then we'll do it.
If it ends up being $1,200 or what have you.
I don't want to set a specific dollar amount on it.
By the way, the money will go to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, just as Betty Casey's money will and the $2.11 million that I am going to match.
So the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation is going to get $4,200,200 here.
Now, we're going to have to get in gear on this as quickly as we can in there, Brian, because we don't want to lose the old mole on this.
So, well, we haven't made the copies yet, but I'm going to start signing as quickly as I, as quickly, we can start making it available on the website, ASEP.
And we got great graphics.
Michelle's great graphics up there at rushlimbaugh.com.
So we could, this is a great eBay page you guys put together.
Our staff did a great job on this whole thing, too.
That's one of the best-looking eBay pages that there's ever been.
In fact, it's the only eBay page I've ever seen because it was my first time on eBay.
This whole thing has just been such a win-win all the way around, particularly when you consider that this letter written by Harry Reid was an effort to destroy me.
It really was.
And it called me unpatriotic, and you know the drill.
And now we put it on eBay.
And by the way, special thanks to Mark Mays of Clear Channel for releasing it to me for this purpose.
Now $4.4 million going to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Not because Harry Reid wrote a letter and had 40 of his colleagues sign it.
It's because of what the letter was.
It was an abuse of power.
Perhaps the most egregious abuse of federal power against a private citizen in modern American history.
Now, who started all of this?
An outfit called Media Matters for America started all this by taking two words that I said, phony soldiers, out of context and amplifying it to all of their buddies on the left.
It ended up finally with Senator Reed, and it ended up in his letter, surreal, just 100% distortion and lie and smear for the express purpose of destroying me.
Media Matters for America, which is a group started by Hillary Clinton to facilitate along with moveon.org, which is also a Hillary group.
It was founded in the 90s, and what it means is move on from the Clinton scandals.
Can't we move on from the Clinton scandals?
It's the same type of people.
You've got John Podesta of the Center for American Progress, another Clinton think tank.
George Soros is in the mix here in terms of funding.
Media Matters for America is a tax-exempt charity.
The same tax-exempt status as the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Can you believe that?
Media Matters started this by lying and then spreading their lies about me and the troops.
They do it every day.
They do it not only to me, they do it to others.
And this is where the left puts its money.
Last hour, I made a salient point about how the private sector is where you find the heart of this country.
The private sector, you, the people who make this country work, is where you find the compassion in this country.
You want to donate to things like the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, which does genuine good works.
The left puts its money into places like moveon.org and Media Matters for America.
This should demonstrate to one and all what a fraud of an organization this is, Media Matters for America.
They not only exposed themselves again, but they drew their puppet politicians into this.
And in the end, they damaged them and their group.
Why contribute to some outfit like Media Matters, a political operation, skates on the edge of IRS rules?
You know, you cannot be political in any way as a 501c3.
You can't endorse, you can't raise money for candidates, and so forth.
They're skating on the edge of this.
The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation is not political in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Doesn't matter to who, to them, what the politics, the religion, or the race of any of the recipients of their charitable donations are.
It's just, to me, it's a stark contrast, and it's a great illustration of you have two charities.
Media Matters has filed and structured as a charity compared to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Look at what the two do.
Media Matters attempts to destroy people.
The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation provides college education scholarship bonds for the children of Marines and law enforcement officers killed in action and in the line of duty.
In addition to Mrs. Clinton's Media Matters skating on the edge of IRS rules, this organization exists to promote her candidacy.
Not directly.
What they do is smear and get in the way of and criticize and try to harm anybody who is just critical of Mrs. Clinton.
Senator Reed made a big point in his initial letter and speech on the Senate floor 17 days ago that I didn't serve in the military.
I don't smear the military either.
Contrary to what Senator Reed and his cohorts attempted to say.
Now, we're going to put a transcript of Senator Reed's Senate floor comments today at rushlimbaugh.com, as well as the audio from Senator Reed's.
In fact, we'll play it again here before this hour ends, but you need to hear it.
We played it in the first hour.
It is sickening to hear Senator Reed attempt now to get in on this at the very end on this auction, using the personal pronoun we, making it sound like he and Mark May, it's Mays, but he keeps calling him May, are good buddies, and they talked about this, and they didn't think it would raise a whole lot of money, blah, It's brazen.
It's almost indescribable.
In fact, we'll take a break here.
We'll let you hear it when we come back from this.
Then we'll get to your phone calls as we resume Open Line Friday.
If you are just joining us, ladies and gentlemen, we were minding our own business, counting down the minutes to 1 o'clock Eastern Time in the end of the eBay auction when we got a phone call from a guy who said he had just been watching, quite by accident, C-SPAN 2 and had heard Senator Reed bring this whole issue up again on the floor of the United States Senate at 12 noon today.
So we're going to play this a little aside here to the broadcast engineer.
Be prepared for stop the tape a number of times during this, and then we'll play it in its entirety after I analyze some of this sentence by sentence.
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 Clear Channel, Mark May.
Stop.
It's Mays.
It's Mays, not May.
Why not repeat your comments?
You call me unpatriotic.
You lied about something that I never said, smearing active duty troops who oppose the war, have never done it, never would do it.
That's what your letter was.
40 of your colleagues, all Democrats, signed it.
Telling him that we wanted him to confer with Rush Limbaugh regarding the statements he'd made.
Stop the tape.
Confer with Mark Mays.
The 41 Democrats who signed the letter wanted Mark Mays, CEO of Clear Channel, my syndication partner, to confer with me about what I had said.
When you run a business that's federally regulated and a Senate majority leader tells you that he wants you to confer with me, what he means is you get him to stop criticizing us.
You get him to apologize.
You make him the, there's an implied or else when the Senate majority leader calls a CEO of a broadcast company and says those things.
That's the abuse of power.
That is the arrogant abuse of power and an attempt to essentially negate what I do and to render me unable to do it.
I've since spoken to Mark May about this.
Mays.
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 Democratic senator to sign that letter.
Stop the tape.
This is really insidious.
We didn't have time or we could have gotten every senator to sign the letter.
Do you know what that means?
It would have been even more valuable if all of us in the Senate had signed it.
He is trying to twist this and turn this into something that it never was.
Classic, the way liberal Democrats operate this way.
Every Democrat senator did not sign it.
He wanted to get now say every senator could have, he just didn't have time.
Senator Reed, write another letter and have the remaining senators, the other 51 or 50, whatever it is, 59, sign it.
The way to do it, just write another letter and get their signatures.
I will put it back on eBay and do it all over again.
Resume tape.
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?
Stop the tape.
Now, all of a sudden, what I did is a good idea, a very constructive idea, to take his letter that attempted to destroy me and put it up for sale on eBay.
Now he's going to describe 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 probably wouldn't raise much money.
Stop the tape.
He spoke to Mark May.
Mays?
He spoke to Mark May.
He and Mark May conferred.
They discussed this.
We didn't think, he said, it would raise that much money.
As though he's involved now in the fundraising effort.
Letter written by Democratic senators complaining about something.
This morning, the bid is more than $2 million.
Rush, you win.
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 $2 million.
Never did we think that this letter would bring money.
Stop tape.
We?
Who is this we?
Who is this?
Senators who wrote the letter to raise money?
They didn't think it would raise this money, he and Mark May.
Truth of the matter is, as they were watching eBay, they watched in horror.
Everybody has to know they were watching in horror as the amount that was bid kept increasing.
We have to assume here, ladies and gentlemen, Harry Reid was mortified that this letter ended up in public on eBay.
Mortified and angry.
You don't do this to United States senators.
And then they watched in horror as a record was set on the amount of money raised for a charitable item on eBay.
So now it's time to make it look like we intended this all along.
Of this nature.
And for 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 worthwhile cause.
Yeah, stop tape.
But why?
Because it's an abuse of power.
So that was Dingy Harry.
That's the end of it, right, Mike?
Oh, there's another.
There's a little stuff.
Okay, I thought I heard the end of the hiss that is common on superheterodyne diodes.
Go ahead and hit the rest of it.
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 that.
That's the million dollars is going to really help.
That's, again, an understatement.
There's only a little bit of time left.
And so I would ask those that are wanting to do more.
Stop the tape.
He doesn't go to the 40 who signed it.
So, you know, Limbaugh said, match the bid.
Maybe he is talking to these senators, but he's on C-SPAN here.
C-SPAN 2 at noon.
If he really wanted to raise money on this, he'd be sending out fundraising letters.
He'd be the letters to his constituents.
He'd have gone on the networks to do this.
But he's in the Senate floor here, or on the Senate floor, doing his best to make it look like he's just trying to clean up the mess here, folks.
The translation for these remarks is you win, meaning to me.
That they can go to Harry Reid and search, they actually go and say Harry Reid 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.
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.
Well, he's put our differences aside.
Okay, where is the apology for calling me unpatriotic?
Where's the apology for repeating a smear and a bunch of lies from Media Matters for America?
Mr. Snurdler, you've been paying attention to this while faking being sick all week.
Have Harry Reid and I buried the hatchet on this?
Does it seem to you, Dawn, like we've buried, does this these remarks by Senator Reed make it seem like we've buried the hatchet?
I didn't think so either.
But I wanted to get outside opinion on this so as not to be too judgmental.
Thank you, and now back to the phones on Open Line Friday.
This is Bridget in Danielson, Connecticut.
Hi, and welcome to the program.
Semperify Rush.
And the next time someone insinuates that you have not served, you can show them $4.2 million worth of you've served.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
We have a boy in Iraq.
He's been there about a month.
He is a 22-year-old combat engineer.
And he said, I won't lie to you, I'm scared, but I want to do this.
I have to do this.
And all his buddies are there doing that as well.
And I know firsthand how hard it is to raise even a little money for a charity.
Two weeks ago, we spent about 12 hours out in the sun raising money for the Marines Helping Marines for the Wounded Marines Foundation.
And we raised $1,600 in 12 hours.
So for you to raise $4.2 million just by the power of your voice and your position is absolutely wonderful.
Well, thank you.
And it's a testament to the audience.
The audience, a lot of people in this audience participated in bidding, that bid the price up.
The one thing that I've never forgotten, and I usually say this around Thanksgiving time or Christmas when all these emotions well up in me.
But it, to me, I still pinch myself when I stop to think that there are that many millions of people deeply connected to this program and very loyal to it from all walks of life in any which way you want to imagine.
And they all, like you and others have called here thanking me for what I do.
And I'm basically speaking.
You've got a son in Iraq, as have many of the other callers today.
And I appreciate what you tell me about what the show means to you, but you and all the rest of the audience will never, ever be able to know what all you all mean to me in so many ways.
Look at you.
Your son is in Iraq.
All of his buddies are over there.
He admits he's scared, but they felt a calling, a sense of duty to go do it.
That is honor.
That is just especially in the atmosphere in which all of this is being conducted in this country today.
It is people like me and throughout this audience who are profoundly grateful for what you do.
Yeah, it might take you 12 hours to raise $1,600, but you raised $1,600.
Yeah.
And, you know, this is one of those things where the effort is as valuable as the result.
And you think that this is going on all over the country every day.
So while your amount individually may seem not as much as you'd like it to be, you pool it with all the other military charities that are getting largest of this kind.
It all adds up.
This is a national effort that's taking place, the things like you described doing.
And you should feel very good about it.
I truly do.
And I have to tell you that you are a counter to all the negativity.
They being the people that I know in the Marine Corps, and I know quite a few of them, that look to you for that uplifting support, that conversation that indicates that the rest of America doesn't feel what they see on the news.
Well, I appreciate that too, but it's, you know, it's unfortunate that the media has created the impression that a lot of Americans have no respect for the military.
It's not the case.
It just isn't the case.
It's just that those who are out there trumpeting their dislike or disrespect for the military happen to be having their voices amplified by a sympathetic media.
And then when you have elected Democrats saying what Dick Durbin said about prison guards at Abu Ghrab and Club Gitmo, when you have John Kerry referring to U.S. troops in Afghanistan engaging in terrorism, storming into the homes of Iraqi citizens at night, when you have Mirtha, before questioning the evidence, even waiting for the evidence to be presented and judged, concluding that we have murderers, and then he couches with overworked.
There's not enough of them over there.
There's too much pressure on being driven nuts.
They're murderers.
This has to affect them.
And of course, the impression is that that represents a majority thinking in this country, and it doesn't.
And never, ever think that it does.
If it did, we wouldn't be there.
Bridget, if all of these things, all these polls, people want us out of Iraq, if they were really accurate, then the Democrats would have the political guts to go ahead and vote to defund it.
The reason they don't is because they know that the majority of the American people do not want to lose, do not want to demoralize the U.S. military, do not want them coming home after having waved around a white flag.
Be confident about that because I'm certain of it.
Thanks very much for the call.
Bob in Colorado, nice to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Yes, sir.
I'm calling to let you know that not only does your program and your opinions serve to interest people in the truth and get interested in the military and give them a reason to join.
Excuse me.
My son was killed April this year over there.
And what you do and say gives us a reason as survivors of people who made that sacrifice, a reason to believe in what they did because we know they believed in it.
This is his second tour.
And it does a lot to comfort us and make us know that it was just worthwhile.
It was to say that, but it is.
I appreciate that.
I cannot, I can only try to relate to your loss.
It's something that losing a child is something that nobody expects to happen.
This is not the way things are supposed to happen.
But this happened engaged in a duty of honor, and he was doing it for his country, which is entirely honorable.
The thing, if I may say so, Bob, that infuriates me is in the midst of all this, your son giving his life and others in Iraq and Afghanistan.
While this is going on, we have politicians in this country who want to just quit, bring them home, render their loss meaningless by saying that what we're doing is meaningless, that what we're doing is based on a lie, that it has no business taking place, that there's nothing to fight for.
It's just a civil war.
We can't win.
I can't imagine how that infuriates you.
And it is not honorable.
It's the exact opposite.
It is dishonorable.
And this has been going on for far too long.
And it's happening precisely because a political party thinks it needs to do this and say these things in order to get elected to the White House.
And it's disgusting.
It is sickening.
To me, it's almost indescribable, which is why for me, it is a privilege and an honor to continually sing the praises, both morally and spiritually, and courageously, speaking of the courage of people like your son.
It's a courage and a bravery that a lot of Americans don't have.
And that's not a criticism.
It's a special thing that your son volunteered to do.
And I know you're as proud as you can be, even though you're still in pain over the loss, and I can totally understand that.
But I'll speak on behalf of everybody in this audience.
If we could come to your house and thank you in person and share our grief with you, we would do it.
Well, thank you, sir.
We owe you a debt that we can't repay, but it's all the good work.
You know, this has really hards me.
I appreciate that.
I'm trying to get better at receiving.
And I'm not going to reject what you said.
I appreciate it.
But it just humbles me.
To be compared to what your son did.
I've told this story a couple times.
I'll tell it again.
National Review's 50th anniversary dinner was at a little museum in Washington.
They invited some wounded troops from Walter Reed to come for the evening.
And the troops at Walter Reed have suffered severe injuries.
One of the guys that I spoke to lost an eye, was wearing an eye patch.
Some were without an arm.
And a couple of them came up to me.
I was told that they wanted to meet me.
They came up to the table where I was sitting with Mr. Buckley, and they started thanking me for what I was doing.
I felt three inches tall.
I mean, look who I'm talking to.
And I said this to him.
I said, look, I really appreciate this, but I'm flapping my gums.
You guys, look what you've given up here for your country.
Stop it, sir.
They always call everybody, sir.
He said, we all have our roles to play.
We all have our roles in this.
When I toured Arthur, Walter Reed, I was there mere moments after Senator Kerry had left and heard much the same thing.
And I saw the serious injuries.
This was the amputee rehab wing that I went to visit.
It was the day I spoke at a theater in Washington on a Russia Excellence tour later that night and toured the Fisher House, which is Max Fisher and his family have built a number of these homes near military bases where recovering wounded soldiers who are no longer in required hospitalization can stay.
And they're, it's sort of like a Ronald McDonald's house for the military.
They call the Fisher's house.
And these guys were all, they were working really hard in a swimming pool on the exercise machines, doing rehab, learning to walk again and so forth.
And they were just all, I didn't see any misery.
I did not see any doom and gloom.
I'm sure they feel it.
They have to.
But they were all in a good mood and they would happily discuss their service.
And they would tell you what happened if you asked.
And they were speaking excitedly about their future once they'd gotten well.
It's inspirational to talk to people who do these kinds of things.
And like your son.
And I wish more people could meet them personally because it's especially in the climate that we're in now.
It would slap people into a sense of reality as to what people are actually doing.
And they're volunteering to do it because they believe the threat that we face is real and they want to defend and protect their country.
It's really a special thing.
And it's been an honor for me to be associated with it in however which way.
All of us here are.
So, Bob, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
We must take a brief time out here.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
I can't tell.
The surgical mask is so big.
Internal question here, Inside Baseball, broadcaster-only question, folks.
Sorry.
Waco, Texas, this is Frank.
Nice to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Rush, it's an honor.
Thank you.
Once again, the liberals engage in double talk.
I mean, here they sit here and question your patriotism because you didn't serve, and they turn right around and call you a microphone Marine.
They can't get it straight.
Well, I know.
Well, that's an insult.
That's a new term for chicken hawk.
Yeah, well.
But look, that's just that's who they are.
Look, it's notice they do not dispute what I say, and they don't argue with me about it.
Well, except in this case, they perpetrate a lie.
This is just name-calling.
It's the politics personal destruction.
It's an attempt to discredit and destroy.
That's who liberals are.
Once you understand that, everything falls into line and makes sense.
I know, I know.
I have a question, Rush, and I've been pondering it all week, and I figure if anybody can answer it, you can.
The question is: why don't Americans vote their radios?
And what I mean is, conservative radio is flourishing.
Just all around the country is flourishing.
Liberal radio fails every time that it's tried.
Well, that would imply that there are far more conservatives in the country than there are liberals.
So why is that not reflected when it comes time for national elections?
Well, when you compare conservative radio to liberal radio, you come to that conclusion.
What you have to do is compare conservative talk radio to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC Cable, CNN Cable, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe.
Pick your paper.
Time magazine, Newsweek, pick your magazine.
That's what we're up against.
They used to have a monopoly.
They don't have a monopoly anymore, but they're still big.
And they coordinate, by the way.
Have you ever noticed if you watch CBS Evening News, the first two stories or three will always be the same on every network with the same take.
You don't need to watch any of them.
You can know what they're all doing by watching one.
It's striking.
It is a great example of groupthink.
So that's what we're up against.
I think people are voting their radios.
Okay, well, thank God that we have you there to get that vote out.
Amen.
Appreciate that.
Rodney in Palm Springs, California, you are next, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Well, hey, Rush, I'm one of those million listeners that support you and your conservative values.
I appreciate that, sir, very much.
And I just called to give you her time about Betty Casey's letter that you're going to sell to everybody.
We're going to sell Betty Casey's letter.
What doesn't she own it now?
She owns it.
Well, yeah, I still have it here, but it's soon going to be hers.
Yes, it is hers.
She's purchased it.
The money, as soon as it clears the bank, she's sent the wire out just to matter the wire post.
Yeah, she owns it.
Yeah, I'm just giving her a time, Rush.
But you sell on those copies of her letters.
Doesn't she have the own everything?
Well, now that's a good point.
We are looking into this as to A, whether, can it be said that we own the copied images, or do we need to get Betty's permission for this since she owns the original?
But we're looking into that.
That is an excellent point because we don't want to devalue what she has and what she's spent $2.1 million on and what I have matched.
So if it doesn't fly right, we're not going to take off.
Well, that was my only concern yesterday.
She spent a lot of money on it, and I think you had to get her permission to we wouldn't be capitalizing it.
It'd be going to a great charity, but no, I understand what you're saying, and that's I'm glad you brought it up because you reminded me to mention this.
Before we can officially announce that we're going to do this, we have to find out, as I say, that this is if it works.
And if there's anything slightly askew or improper with it, then we will suspend it and find some other way.
But your thinking on this is very ethical, very moral, and I'm not surprised that somebody in my audience had come up with this.
Well, it's got one thing to say.
I was going to give you diddles, but I'm going to give my diddles to Bob, his loved ones, and his family from your third call about two or three callers ago.
Thank you.
I'll be glad.
Give him all my dittos.
Okay, you have a good day, Rush.
Thank you.
You do the same.
Las Vegas, this is Larry, and you're next.
So hello.
Yeah, Mega Dittos, Rush.
I'm a retired Vietnam vet, and I want to, since Harry Reid will probably never apologize to you, I want to apologize to you for voting for him.
I can't believe he spends 99% of his time fighting everything I believe in.
Well, you know, it's what happens when you become the majority leader of the party.
You're not really a senator from Nevada or South Dakota anymore.
You've got to advance the party cause, and in this case, it's the Hillary Clinton cause.
And this is what happened to Tom Daschell.
Tom Daschell's from a very conservative state and was just doing the same things that Harry Reid is doing here and ended up losing when it was re-election time.
So I appreciate that, Larry.
A brief time out.
We'll be back and close it out right after this.
We'll have an answer for you on Monday on the prospects of the signed by me copy of the Harry Reid letter.
Speaking of which, we have transcripts of my announcing the winner and of Harry Reid's speech today on the Senate floor at rushlimbaugh.com.
Have a great weekend, folks.
Thanks so much for everything that you did to make the past two weeks one of the most fun times we've had here at the EIB Network.
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