Rush Limbaugh: Media Mandate: "Whatever It Takes" (Rush nails Dan Ratherbiased on Watergate)

RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 6/3/05 | Rush Limbaugh

[ashtanga]

Texas Eagle, even Rush admitted that Nixon gave the Socialists a nice slab of their goodies, including the EPA. Bush, though I respect him at a certain level, called the Minutemen "vigilantes." Where to turn? The birkenstockers don't even know that the so-called conservatives are in their corner, for the most part. I think that they hate Bush because they are only allowed to vent their poison on white Christians. All else is lost in marijuana fog.

[ashtanga]

I have a few problems with Rush, and Lord knows I don't need another Republican apologist, but Rush is utterly fascinating when he dissects the main stream news. His analysis is uncanny, brilliant, explosive and addictive. So fascinating is he sometimes that I can feel my breathing patterns change as he gets ready to probe even more deeply into the festering lie that the gimmicrat party has become.

[potlatch]

Good link, I saved it under Hillary!!

[Texas Eagle]

Where to turn?

Yeah, President Bush's criticism of The Minutemen sticks in my craw, too. The best we can do is vote for the man who we think will best serve the American peoples' interests and pray that they do so.

The Godless Left hated Nixon because he had the letter "R" in parentheses after his name. They hate President Bush for the same reason.

They don't realize it, but they can't keep up the same fervor that brought Nixon down and they can't pass that hatred on to their posterity in sufficient numbers to sustain their worldview.

The future's so bright you gotta wear shades. And suffer the occasional foray to the left by fine men like President Bush. As aggravating as that may be, in the long run Christianity and Conservatism (in that order) will carry the day.

[TBP]

This is nothing new, nothing we didn't already know. But maybe Dan needs a fake memo to explain it to him.

[CyberAnt]

Good point!

[Varmint Al]

I was a charter subscriber to Rush 24/7. I signed in the first hour when Rush first said it was available. Not to wait around, I signed up today for the automatic Pod-Cast and just listened to the second hour's MP3 file while I was reading along with the text. Rush reads very well. As only a professional can he really bring out the meaning and emphasis of an issue. By the way, the Automatic Pod-Cast worked and each hour is 12,700Kb. At this compression rate, an 80 Min CD will hold approximately 17 days of broadcasts. A DVD+R will hold about 123 days or 25 weeks of broadcasts.

  Good Hunting… from Varmint Al

[JasonC]

Every elected official currently in office, and every elected official who has held office for the last 30 years, has taken bribes. Might shock you I suppose, but that is the truth. Not all of them have been removed from office over it. Precious few, in fact.

[Lancey Howard]

Good post! But the title is misleading. I thought that Rush had "nailed" the "ratherbiased" website. I said huh?

[syriacus]

Rather: The story was not -- the story was not born of any personal or political bias [sic].

It was born of out of the Liberal view of what "justice" should be like...
a Star Chamber
where

• lives are destroyed
• verdicts are handed down before legal investigations are completed and
• there is no opportunity for self-defense

[driftless]

Have to agree with you about the direction Hannity's taking. Is he getting paid by Fox to babble about these inconsequential events? What true conservative wants to listen to him go on about a celebrity trial or some nut who ran away from her wedding? Certainly not me. Is Hannity more concerned about Sean Hannity Inc. than presenting a good conservative talk show? I wonder. Hey Sean, here's some free advice. Save the soap opera fluff for Larry King.

[virgil]

Nixon was liberal on some fronts. I wouldn't call him the best president ever, but he was not soft on the commies and the left hated him for it. I think it goes back to Alger Hiss. I don't think Nixon was the beast that he was made out to be then and in the 30 or so years since. He did wrong and he decided to resign for the good of the country. There is no such morality or self examination on the left. To the left, there is only rationalization. Morality does not come into play.

[Matchett-PI]

"Rush was absolutely on fire.." ~ wagglebee

You got it. Here are the links to the articles he talked about:

(WBAL: Deep Throat Also Leaked Information In Agnew's Case)
http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/4561061/detail.html

(NRO: Friday, June 03, 2005 - Woodward & Bradlee etc -Michael Ledeen) Woodward and Bernstein admit to a wide range of unethical and illegal behavior http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp

(NY Times: Three Decades Later, 'Woodstein' Takes a Victory Lap)
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/politics/03woodstein.html&OP=1af4ebc8/mETQ5BmZ9Q60Q2AK99rNmN__Gm_6m_}mQ3C9JQ5DrQ5DQ60Q2Am_}E99ZQ2ArTQ5DQ22PSrdJ

(American Spectator: I Don't Feel for Felt - Ben Stein)
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8255

(American Spectator: Chic Crassness - George Neumayr)
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8254

(MRC: ABC & CBS Counter Felt Critics, Contend Felt Had to Go to Media)
http://www.mediaresearchcenter.com/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050602.asp#1

[Matchett-PI]

Newsmax http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/6/3/00901.shtml

Friday, June 3, 2005 12:02 a.m. EDT

Kerry Touts Bush Impeachment Memo

Failed presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that he intends to confront Congress with a document touted by critics of President Bush as evidence that he committed impeachable crimes by falsifying evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"When I go back [to Washington] on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," Kerry said, referring to the Downing Street Memo in an interview with Massachusetts' Standard Times newspaper.

"I think it's a stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth and a profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home," the top Democrat added.

The Downing Street Memo, first reported on May 1 by the London Times, was drafted by a Matthew Rycroft, a foreign policy aide to Prime Minister Tony Blair. It is said to be minutes of a July 2002 meeting where Blair allegedly admitted that the Bush administration "fixed" Iraq intelligence to manufacture a rationale for war.

Citing the Downing Street Memo, former presidential candidate Ralph Nader called for an impeachment investigation on Tuesday in an op-ed piece published by the Boston Globe.

"It is time for Congress to investigate the illegal Iraq war as we move toward the third year of the endless quagmire that many security experts believe jeopardizes US safety by recruiting and training more terrorists," wrote Nader with co-author Kevin Zeese. "A Resolution of Impeachment would be a first step."

The British memo, however, contains no quotes from either Bush or Blair, and is notably slim on evidence implicating Bush in a WMD cover-up.

Though largely ignored in the U.S. outside of rabid anti-Bush Web sites like MichaelMoore.com, the Downing Street Memo won Sen. Kerry's endorsement in the Standard Times interview:

"It's amazing to me," the top Democrat said, "the way it escaped major media discussion. It's not being missed on the Internet, I can tell you that."

[Matchett-PI]

More from Rush's Friday show:

Posted 6/2/2005 8:28 PM Updated 6/3/2005 1:29 AM
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-02-detainee-records_x.htm

N.Y. judge orders release of Abu Ghraib videos, photos

[Matchett-PI]

More from Rush's show on Friday, 6-3-05:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_060305/content/see_i_told_you_so.member.html

Kerry Echoes Kook Impeachment Rumblings
June 3, 2005[]

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I have a little blurb here that I got earlier today from another website. We're already seeing rumblings of the next big thing for the Democratic Party.

It's impeachment. Google Results 1 - 10 of about 610,000 for Impeachment bush. (0.08 seconds)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=Impeachment+bush

Let me count them: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten different web links that you can click on and find impeachment websites or petitions for people to sign.



Now, they're kooks. They're kook sites but, hey, who is dictating things to the Democratic Party these days? They're kooks. I told you before last year's election, "If Bush wins this, keep a sharp eye. They'll start on impeachment," and I'll tell you what it's going to be. Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. This judge, Alvin Hellerstein has decided that not only should pictures from Abu Ghraib be released under the Freedom of Information Act, so should videos. This is a Freedom of Information Act brought by the ACLU. Judge Hellerstein the other day said, okay, the more pictures, the better. Now videos as well, and the purpose, the ACLU says, "is to demonstrate that it's not just a bunch of renegade soldiers but that this went to the top," ergo, impeachment. I'm just warning you. It's percolating out there on these kook Democrat websites, and I predicted it. In fact, there's even one of these links is to a letter to the editor in the South Florida Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, and this letter to the editor talks about how Bush needs to be impeached.

[] Now, my experience with letters to the editor in south Florida newspapers is that they generally are the forerunners of upcoming editorials. So I wouldn't be surprised if there was an editorial from this newspaper someday about the need maybe to look into impeachment, because of Abu Ghraib or whatever they come up with. Forged documents that are true, whatever they come up with. Now, get this: Along the same lines, our buddies at NewsMax today, our old buddy Carl Limbacher has the story. "Failed presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that he intends to confront Congress with a document touted by critics of President Bush as evidence that he committed impeachable crimes by falsifying evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." John Kerry, on the floor of the Senate -- well, I don't know if he was on the floor of the Senate -- but he said he intends to confront Congress with a document touted by critics, and I'll guarantee you it's from one of these wacko kook websites. Kerry said, "'When I go back [to Washington] on Monday, I am going to raise the issue,' referring to the Downing Street Memo in an interview with Massachusetts' Standard Times newspaper. 'I think it's a stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth and a profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home.' The Downing Street Memo, first reported on May 1st by the London Times, was drafted by a Matthew Rycroft, a foreign policy aide to Prime Minister Tony Blair. It is said to be minutes of a July 2002 meeting where Blair allegedly admitted that the Bush administration 'fixed' Iraq intelligence to manufacture a rationale for war. Ralph Nader called for an impeachment investigation on Tuesday in an op-ed piece published by the Boston Globe. 'It is time for Congress to investigate the illegal Iraq war as we move toward the third year of the endless quagmire that many security experts believe jeopardizes US safety by recruiting and training more terrorists,' wrote Nader... The British memo, however, contains no quotes from either Bush or Blair, and is notably slim on evidence implicating Bush in a WMD cover-up." So when you got John Kerry out there going to confront Congress with this, and I've got Teddy's ten website links, I just want you to remember: I predicted it right here on this program.

They are failing to get Bush discredited any other way. They have three of these judges that they despise who are going to be confirmed to the Circuit Court. There's going to be a Supreme Court nominee coming up, and remember what the purpose of this is. I'm convinced the purpose of the Democratic Party is to live out these eight years with Bush in the White House and at the end of the eight years, have as little to show for it as possible. To them, these whole eight years are illegitimate because 2000 Florida was illegitimate; 2004 was thus illegitimate because Bush was "selected, not elected" so he didn't have a right to run for reelection in 2004. Then he won. That's fraudulent because of the voting machine problems in Ohio, the race was too close to call except for those 130,000 votes (Clearing throat) and so they're trying to de-legitimize these whole eight years. That's their policy by obstructing everything and now to attempt to tie the administration. You watch, this impeachment stuff is not just going to remain on websites. It now hasn't. It's now been actually mentioned by John Kerry.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT
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RUSH: Adam in California, welcome to the EIB Network.

CALLER: Rush, conservative first Republican, second greetings from the West Coast.

RUSH: That's the way to be. Thank you very much.

CALLER: Yeah. Second time caller. Long time listener. I just want to know -- and it's interesting you brought up that impeachment -- Barbara Boxer, dark horse candidate for 2008? What do you think?

RUSH: I don't think so. I mean, look, I have to tell you something, folks. Maybe I'm getting swept up here in all the hullabaloo and the conventional wisdom myself, but back, you know, a year ago or six months ago when the conventional wisdom was that Hillary has a nomination for asking I said, "Folks, I'm not going to go along with this. Conventional wisdom four years out, it's a bit premature," but I'm just looking. I'm looking at this and she's already gobbling up all the money. She just finished a bunch of LA fund-raisers in secret. Three of them, in fact, that generated a million bucks. I think it's pretty much hers if she wants it. She's got to win '06. You know, that's the next election up. But I think if she wants it, it's hers. Now, there are other candidates that want it. []There are dark horse candidates. John Kerry wants it, which is why he's trying to get his name attached to so much legislation, why he's being so vocal, so often. I think it's why he's leading this impeachment drive. The New York Observer this week had an interesting story, too: "Democrats Trek to Park Avenue for PAC bucks." Now, here are the names in this story: Kerry, the Breck Girl, Wesley Clark -- you remember Wesley Clark; Wesley Clark wants to run again -- Evan Bayh, Mark Warner, Bill Richardson and Joe Biden. They all made recent trips to New York to try to focus their campaigns and to get money from deep pocket liberals in Hillary's own state. Now, let me give you a little pop quiz. I want to ask you who said this: "Most of the candidates are like dogs, beneath the dining room table, hoping for surreptitious handouts." Who said that? Do you think it was me? Somebody on talk radio? Somebody on FOX News? No, it was Chris Laheinous -- Chris Lehane, the former Clinton spokesman; we call him "Laheinous" here -- commenting that there's very little ground to harvest, given Senator Clinton's role. The translation is: She's not yet running, but she's sucking all the money out of all the donors. If she's already made a California trip and soaked up a million dollars, where does it leave Kerry, Edwards, Clark, Evan Bayh, Mark Warner, Bill Richardson, Joe Biden? They're having to trek to her state to try to get money from New York liberal PACs? I don't know. I've heard Barbara Boxer's name as a dark horse candidate because the left kooks so much love her, so very much love her, but it just appears that there's a steamroller going on out there with Hillary at the wheel.

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Read the Articles...
(NewsMax: Kerry Touts Bush Impeachment Memo) http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/6/3/00901.shtml

(USAToday: Judge: Release Abu Ghraib material Wants videos, photos)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-02-detainee-records_x.htm

(Boston Globe: The 'I' word - Ralph Nader & Kevin Zeese)
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/31/the_i_word?mode=PF

[Matchett-PI]

Ralph Nader,etal: "IMPEACH Bush and Cheney"

The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/31/the_i_word?mode=PF

The 'I' word By Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese | May 31, 2005

[snip]

[Matchett-PI]

McGovern: New 'Deep Throat' needed for Iraq, says Nixon rival

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050602/ts_alt_afp/usiraqwatergatebush

New 'Deep Throat' needed for Iraq, says Nixon rival

Thu Jun 2, 5:05 PM ET

[Matchett-PI]

I Don't Feel for Felt
By Ben Stein
Published 6/3/2005 1:09:24 AM
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8255

Just a few more thoughts on the events of the day:

Now, we read that Mark Felt's family and Mark Felt put out their story solely to make money off it. So, this makes the family's karma even more unnerving. The father, patriarch, Mark, took out his anger and frustration for being passed over at the FBI, by ruining the career of the peacemaker, Richard Nixon. So, he condemned a whole subcontinent to genocide and slavery and poverty to please his own wounded vanity. (Maybe his nickname should be "sour grapes" and not "deep throat" because he has as much in common with that fox as with a porn star.) And, blood will tell, as the old saying goes: his posterity is now dragging out his old body and putting it on display to make money. (Have you noticed how Mark Felt looks like one of those old Nazi war criminals they find in Bolivia or Paraguay? That same, haunted, hunted look combined with a glee at what he has managed to get away with so far?)

And it gets worse: it's been reported that Mark Felt is at least part Jewish. The reason this is worse is that at the same time that Mark Felt was betraying Richard Nixon, Nixon was saving Eretz Israel. It is a terrifying chapter in betrayal and ingratitude. If he even knows what shame is, I wonder if he felt a moment's shame as he tortured the man who brought security and salvation to the land of so many of his and my fellow Jews. Somehow, as I look at his demented face, I doubt it.

Third, correct me if I am wrong about this, but isn't it a crime not only to dispense classified information but also to receive classified information? Why wasn't anyone ever prosecuted about this? Is there a statute of limitations?

Finally, there is a lot of debate about whether or not Mark Felt was a hero. Obviously, I don't think so. I think the hero was Richard Nixon, fighting for peace even as he was being horribly mistreated and crucified just for his fight for peace.

But there was and is a bigger story here. Frankly, Nixon is no longer alive. If he was a hero, he is a deceased hero. Bob Woodward is no one's idea of a hero. A super businessman and accomplished writer, but no hero. Mark Felt is only Richard Ben-Veniste's hero. But there are major heroes out there every day. There are 140,000 of them in Iraq and about 15,000 in Afghanistan, at lethal risk every minute of every day. There are a million more ready to go. There are millions of family members of these heroes. Can we possibly, possibly, conceivably forget them? Somehow, I think we have. The lead news stories are almost never about them. The story is about Michael Jackson or about Mark Felt. This is desperately wrong, and I do mean desperately. I am going to write a lot more about this Monday, but in the meantime, let's remember there's a war on, and the best and bravest of our nation are dying every day -- to protect a great nation, but one which seems lately to have forgotten even what the nation is all about.


Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer in Beverly Hills and Malibu, and author of "Ben Stein's Diary" each month in The American Spectator. He is also a former presidential speechwriter. Click here to subscribe to The American Spectator.