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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 rules 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 Reed Smear Letter on the eBay auction at $2,100,100 is Betty Casey.
A wonderful woman.
She is trustee of the Eugene B. Casey Foundation.
She's a philanthropist, essentially.
She uh gives lots of money to hospitals, hospices, colleges, and uh, and private schools.
She has been a listener to this program since its inception.
Uh we have uh spent some time with her on the phone.
She's uh she spends time quoting things that she's heard on this program over the years, and uh, and how uh the the this was the last straw for her, this kind of smear.
Uh what Congress did here, what Harry Reed did from the Senate.
So she's um she's already in a process of wiring the two million one hundred thousand one hundred dollars.
And I have put it away so nobody can damage it, but we've got the Halliburton case, the attached case, and the uh Harry Reed smear letter uh waiting uh to deliver to uh to her.
So thanks thanks to Betty Casey, and of course, to uh to all of you.
The idea has been floated, ladies and gentlemen.
Brian, I'm gonna go ahead and announce that we're gonna do this, okay?
I'm just 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 uh as high as it did.
It just eliminated a lot of people because of the uh uh well once in $100,000 and on up.
I mean, even before that.
Um Jake's idea was why don't you print whatever number copies, certified copies of the Harry Reed Smear Leader letter and sign them.
And then offer them for a thousand dollars on your website.
And he said, we'll get a thousand people.
I mean, easily with a thousand people to pick up and we'll raise another million to five million.
And what I've I've been thinking about this since, and 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 Reed letter, then we'll do it.
If uh if it ends up being 1200 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 uh 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.
Uh now we're gonna have to get in gear on this as quickly as we can in here, Brian, because I, you know, we don't want to lose the old mole on this.
Um, well, I can't sign we haven't made the copies yet, but I'm gonna start signing as quickly as I as quickly, but we can we can we can start making it available on the website ASAP.
Uh with we got great graphics.
Michelle's great graphics up there at uh at Rush Limbaugh.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 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 I this it was my first time on eBay.
Uh but it was this whole thing has just been such a a win-win all the way around, particularly um when you when you consider that that this letter written by Harry Leed Reed was uh it was an effort to destroy me.
It really was.
Uh and and it called me on Patriotic, and you know, you know the drill.
And now we put it on eBay, and and by the way, special thanks to Mark Mays of Clear Channel for releasing it to me for this purpose.
Uh now 4.4 million dollars going to the Marine Corps, law enforcement foundation.
Not because Harry Reed wrote a letter and had 40 of his uh 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.
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 it what it means is move on from the Hillary from the Clinton scandals.
Can't we move on from the Clinton scandals?
It's the same type of people.
You've got John Podester 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, but 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, who the uh what the politics or the religion or the race of any of the recipients of their charitable donations are.
Uh I I it's just a 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'll 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, uh making it sound like he and Mark May, it's May's, but he keeps calling him May, uh, are good buddies, and they talked about this, and they didn't think it would raise a whole lot of money, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Uh, 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 one o'clock Eastern time and 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.
Uh 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 May's, not May.
Uh 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.
Forty of your colleagues, all Democrats signed it.
Telling him that we had 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 ClearChannel, 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 uh negate what I do and to render me unable to do it.
I've since spoken to Mark May about this.
Mays.
Mark May.
Maybe in fact called May 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 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 to every senator could it be.
He just didn't have time.
Senator Reed, write another letter and have the remaining senators, the other uh thifty one or fifty, whatever it is, 59, sign it.
The way to do 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, 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.
But provide 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 uh this money on eBay is going to be raised for this purpose.
When I spoke to Mark May, Mays.
I think that he and I thought this would probably raise much money.
A letter written by the S. Stop tape.
He spoke to Mark May.
Mays.
Spoke to Mark May.
He and Mark May conferred.
They discussed this.
We didn't think he said we 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 two million dollars.
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 two million dollars.
Never did we think that this letter would bring money.
Stop to stop to 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.
You 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.
Clear channel.
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.
Yeah, stop tape.
But why?
Uh 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 snuff.
Okay, I thought I thought I heard the end of the hiss that is common on super heterodyne diodes.
Here you 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 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.
And so I would ask those that are wanting to do more.
Stop the stop the tape.
He doesn't go to the 40 who signed it.
So, you know, Limbaugh said match the bid.
He doesn't maybe he is talking to the Senators, but he's keep his.
He's on C-SPAN here.
C-SPAN too at noon.
If he really wanted to raise money of 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 search uh 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.
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 uh put our differences aside.
Okay, where is the apology for calling me on patriotic?
Where's the apology for repeating a smear and a bunch of lies from media matters for America?
Uh Mr. Snerdler, 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, Don, like we very does this these remarks by Senator Reed make it seem like we've buried the hatchet?
I 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 uh Danielson, Connecticut.
Hi, and welcome to the program.
Semplify Rush, and the next time someone insinuates that you have not served, you can show them 4.2 million dollars worth of you've served.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
We have a boy in Iraq.
He's been there about a month.
Um he is a twenty-two-year-old combat engineer.
And he, you know, he's 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 it I know firsthand how hard it is to raise even a little money for a charity.
Two weeks ago we spent uh about twelve hours out in the sun and raising money for the Marines helping Marines for the Wounded Marines Foundation, and we raised sixteen hundred dollars in twelve hours.
So for you to raise four point two million dollars just uh by the power of your voice and your position is absolutely wonderful.
Well, thank you.
Uh it was uh you the audience a lot of people in this audience participated in bidding that bid the price up.
Um the one thing that I've I've never forgotten, and I I usually say this around Thanksgiving time or Christmas when the uh when the when all these uh emotions well up in me, but it to me is I still pinch myself when I stop to think that there are that many millions of people uh deeply connected to this program and very loyal to it from all walks of life,
uh in any any which way you want to imagine, and they all you know, like you and the others have called here thanking me for what I do, and I'm basically speaking, uh you've got a son in Iraq, uh, as have many of the other callers uh today.
And and I appreciate what you uh 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 see, they felt a calling, a sense of duty to go do it.
That's r that's that's that is honor.
That that is that is just especially when you in the atmosphere in which uh all of this is being conducted in this country today, um, it is people like me and throughout this audience who are profoundly grateful for what you do.
Yeah, it took you it might take you twelve hours to raise sixteen hundred dollars, but you raised sixteen hundred dollars.
Yeah.
And and uh, you know, the uh this is one of those things where the effort uh is as valuable as the result, and you think that the stop this is going on all over the country every day.
So while your amount individually may seem uh not as much as you'd like it to be, you pool it with all the other military charities that are getting large S of this kind, and all adds up.
It's uh this is a national effort that's taking place that the things like you describe doing.
And you should feel very good about it.
I I truly do, and I have to tell you that you are a counter to all the negativity.
They being um 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 that conversation that indicates that the rest of America doesn't feel what they see on the news.
Uh well that's that's I appreciate that too, but it's it's it's you know it's it's unfortunate that the 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 for the for the uh for the military happen to be having their voices amplified by a sympathetic media.
Uh 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 uh storming into the homes of Iraqi citizens at night,
when you have Murph before questioning the evidence, even even waiting for the evidence to be presented and and uh and uh judged, um concluding that we have murderers and any couches where they they're they're overworked, there's not enough of them over there.
We have no too much pressure on being driven nuts or murderers and so 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 that if all of these things, all these polls, people want us out of a rock, 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 you know 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.
Uh yes, sir.
I'm calling to let you know that uh not only does your your program and and your opinions serve to interest people in the truth and and uh 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 as uh survivors of people who've made that sacrifice, a reason to believe in what they did because we know they believed in it.
It was his second tour, and uh it it does a lot to comfort us and make us know that uh that it it just it was just worthwhile if to say that, but it is.
I appreciate that.
I I uh I I cannot I can only try to relate uh to your loss.
It's something that uh losing a child is something that that nobody expects to have.
This is not the way things are supposed to happen.
But this this uh this happened in a in an uh uh engaged in uh in a duty of honor, and he was doing it for his country, which isn't entirely honorable.
The thing, if I may say so, Bob, that infuriates me, is in the midst of all this, uh your son giving his life and and and others in Iraq and Afghanistan, uh 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.
Uh and it it it is not honorable, it's the exact opposite.
It is dishonorable, and this has been going on uh 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 uh to the White House.
Uh and it's it's disgusting.
It is sickening.
Uh to me it's it's almost uh it's almost indescribable.
Which is why for me it is uh privilege and an honor to continually sing the praises, both morally and spiritually and courageously of the uh of speaking of the courage of people like your son.
It's a courage and a bravery that uh a lot of Americans don't have, and that's not a criticism.
It's it's a special thing that your son volunteered to do.
Uh and I know you're as proud as you can be uh, 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.
Uh if we could come to your house and thank you in person and um uh share our grief with you, we would do it.
Well, thank you, sir.
We we owe you a uh a debt that we can't repay, but you don't work you've got to uh you know uh this this is really hard to me.
I appreciate that.
I'm not I'm I'm trying to get better at receiving.
And I uh I'm not gonna reject what you said.
I uh I appreciate it.
it, but just humbles me.
It's uh to be compared to what your son did.
I I've told this story a couple of times.
I'll tell it again.
Uh National Review National Review's fiftieth anniversary dinner was uh at a little museum in Washington.
They invited some wounded troops from Walter Reed to come for the evening.
Uh and the troops at Walter Reed have suffered uh severe injuries.
The one of the guys that I spoke to at lost an eye, was wearing an eye patch, some were without an arm.
And um a couple of them came up to me.
I was told that they wanted to meet me, and they came up to the table where I was sitting with Mr. Buckley, and they started uh uh thanking me for what I was doing.
And I I felt three inches tall.
I mean, look who I'm talking to.
And I said this to them.
I said, Look, I really appreciate this, but you know, I'm flapping my gums, you guys look what look what look what you have given up here for your country.
Yeah, uh stop it, sir.
They always call everybody, sir.
He said we all have our roles to play.
We all have our roles in this.
Uh uh when I toured Arthur uh Walter Reed uh I was there mere moments after Senator Carey had left.
And uh heard heard much the um much the same thing, and I saw you know the the serious injuries.
Uh this was the amputee rehab wing that I went to visit.
Uh I it was the day I spoke at uh at a theater in Washington on a rush to 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 uh wounded soldiers who are no longer in required hospitalization can stay in their it's sort of a Ronald McDonald's house for the military, and they call the Fisher's house.
Uh and these guys were were all and they're 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 I did not see any doom and gloom.
I'm sure they feel it.
I they have to.
Uh but uh they were all in a good mood and and and uh they would happily discuss their service and and they were they would tell you what happened if you asked.
Um and they were speaking excitedly about their future once they'd gotten well.
Uh it's inspirational to talk to people who do these kinds of things.
And like your son.
Uh and I I wish more people could meet them personally because it's especially in the climate that we're in now, uh it would it would slap people into a sense of reality as to uh what people are actually doing and they're volunteering to do it uh because they believe the threat that we face is real uh and they want to defend and protect their country.
It's it's really a special thing, and it's been uh an honor for me to be associated with it in however which way.
All of us here uh 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 a uh the surgical mask is so big.
Can't tell internal question here, uh inside baseball uh 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, uh Yeah.
I know.
Well, that's an insult.
That's that's a new term for chicken hawk.
Yeah, well, but look, that's just that that's who they are.
Look at it.
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.
Yeah.
You you once you understand that, everything falls into line and makes sense.
I know, I know.
I have a question, Rush, and and I've been pondering it all week, and I figure if anybody can answer it, you can.
Uh the question is, why don't Americans vote their radios?
And what I mean is conservative radio is flourishing.
Just all around the country it's 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 election?
Well, you're you when you compare conservative radio to liberal radio, you come to a 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.
Now they're they're you know, there's the that they used to have a monopoly.
They don't have a monopoly anymore, but they're still big.
Um and and they coordinate, by the way.
Have you ever noticed if you watch CBS evening news with the first two stories or three will always be the same.
Oh, yeah.
On on every network, with the same take.
At you you don't need to watch any of them.
You can know what they're all doing by watching one.
Uh it's it's uh it's striking.
It is a great example of group think.
That's what we're up against.
I think 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 uh conservative values.
I appreciate that, sir.
Very much.
And I just called to give you her time about uh Betty Casey's letter that you're going to sell to everybody.
We're gonna sell Betty Casey's letter.
Well, doesn't she own it now?
She owns it, and she well, yeah, that I still have it here, but it's soon gonna be hers, yes.
She's she it is hers.
She's uh she's purchased it.
The money soon as it clears the bank, she's sent the wire out just to matter the wire pole.
Yeah, she owns it.
Yeah, I'm just giving her a time, Rush.
But uh, do you sell on those copies of her letters?
Doesn't she have the uh doesn't she own everything?
Well, now that's a good point.
We are looking into uh into this as to a whether uh you know can can it be said that that that we own the copied images or do we need to get Betty's permission for this since she owns the original.
Uh but we're looking into that that that is an excellent point because we don't want to devalue what she has uh and what she's uh spent two point one uh million dollars on and what I have matched.
So uh we're if if it if it's not if it doesn't fly right, we're not gonna take off.
Well, that was my that was my only concern yesterday.
She spent a lot of money on it, and I think you had to get her permission to uh we wouldn't be capitalizing on it, be going to a great charity, but no, I understand what you're saying, and that's that's uh I'm glad you brought it up, because you reminded me to mention this before we can officially announce that we're gonna do this.
We have to find out, uh as I say, that this is if it works.
Um and if if if there's anything slightly askew or improper with it, then we will uh we'll suspend it and find some other way.
But uh no, you're your your thinking on this is uh very ethical, uh very moral, and I'm not surprised that somebody in my audience would come up with this.
Well, it's got one thing to say I was gonna give you ditdles, but I'm gonna give my diddos to Bob, his loved ones, and his family from your your third caller buck two or three callers ago.
Thank you.
I'll be glad uh give him all my didos.
So okay, you have a good day, Roger.
Thank you.
You do the same.
Las Vegas, this is Larry, and you're next, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, Mega Dettdo's 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 I can't believe he spends ninety-nine percent of his time fighting everything I believe in.
And uh Well, you know, it's what happens when you become the majority leader of the party.
You you're you're not really a senator from uh Nevada or South Dakota anymore.
Uh you got to advance the party cause, and in this case it's the Hillary Clinton cause.
And uh this is what happened to Tom Dashell.
Tom Dashell's from a very conservative state.
Um, and was just doing the same things that Harry Reid is doing here uh and ended up losing uh 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 uh prospects of the signed by me copy of the Harry Reed letters.
Speaking of which, uh we have transcripts of uh the well, my announcing the winner, and of Harry Reed's speech today on the Senate floor at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Have a great weekend, folks.
Uh 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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