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What did he say about Vince Foster?

I became very suspicious about Foster when news leaked that his office was raided by three Clinton aids the night of his death. (At least two of them were Hillary's aids. I'm doing this from memory. Right now, I'm too lazy to go searching for the details.) Foster was killed in July 93. This was in Dec 93. During the middle of January, I got through to Rush's show wanting to talk about Foster and was told by Snerdley, (James Golden, really, but all of Rush's early screeners were Snerdleys.) "We're not ready to talk about that yet."

Toward the end of January, the NY Post published the first of Chris Ruddy's investigative articles that briefly broke the media silence about Foster. Rush led with the story that day (At least I think he led with it. He certainly talked about it during the opening monologue.) I got through again that day, and was the first caller permitted to talk about my suspicions regarding the Foster death.

This opened the floodgates and Rush talked frequently for about a month about questions surrounding Foster's death. I'm not sure he said so then, but it is important to remember that Rush was out of the country being given a VIP tour of Israel when Foster was murdered so he probably knew little about the event when it happened.

Then in March, Rush reported a rumor that supposedly came from Senator Moynahan's office (D-NY) that Foster had been murdered in an apartment used by Hillary and friends. I forget all the details but I'll end with a link where you might be able to get some of them. Within an hour of reporting this, Rush said that he had found out from a source he trusted (my guess, Chris Ruddy) that it wasn't true.

But the damage had been done. A left-wing media group that called itself FAIR took out full page newspaper ads suggesting that someone so irresponsible should not be allowed to be on the air. Maybe they called for sponsor boycotts, I don't remember. But they were certainly aided by their willing accomplices in the media in calling for Rush's scalp. IMHO, they were nearly successful.

There was a huge amount of disinformation put out during those days about Foster. (He was running money to Switzerland. He was involved in clandestine activities. He was involved in the Whitewater scandal.) The Moynahan rumor was probably part of this disinformation. Such stuff was used to discredit anyone with influence who repeated it.

There is even less known about Barack Obama's past than was known about the circumstances of Vincent Foster's death. I'm sure there is quite a bit of disinformation in what some think they know about Obama's past. And someone like Rush has to be very careful about repeating any of it. So he is.

I said I would give you a link where you can read some more about the Monayhan rumor. This is from an old newsgroup that I participated in and the discussion occurs soon after Rush reported the rumor. (Moynahan's office supposedly said it originated from the Smick-Johnson Investment firm so you may see these names associated with the rumor rather than Moynahan's.) If you search there for "Switzer" who used to post daily summaries of Rush's show, you will be able to see relevant parts from his summary of that first show where Rush discussed the Foster death.

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