Posted on 01/07/2006 8:38:11 PM PST by lainie
On Friday, January 6, 2006, El Rushbo said the following:
Transcribed from rushlimbaugh.com "It's Open Line Friday… Clip: Does Anyone Remember Wen ho Lee?" Windows Media Player, paid subscription required
'Phil from Prescott, Arizona': "What I wanted to talk about: you were mentioning how Bill Clinton never seemed like he was interested in tackling huge national security issues, but I seen an example in the Wen ho Lee case where they actually railroaded Wen Ho Lee so they could at least LOOK like they were tackling national security issues..."
Limbaugh: You know, this is a fascinating case, and I don't think enough people A) know about it or B) remember it. Wen Ho Lee, Chinese descent, working out at Los Alamos, right? Los ALamos nuclear lab. Wen ho Lee was accused, by the Clinton administration, of stealing secrets and sending them back to China. During the whole period where the Clinton administration was involved in all this funny money coming in from China, and the 1996 presidential campaign, and the John Huang/Charlie Tree days, and all of this. There was NEVER...this man was kept in jail for, I don't know how many months, but, at one point, when they took him into federal court, a federal judge...now, he sent me his book. Wen ho Lee sent me his book, and it opens with this judge's apology. The judge, I forget his name, federal district judge, apologized to Wen ho Lee for everything the United States government had done to him: falsely accusing him, keeping him in jail; this is unprecedented. Sometimes charges are dismissed and they're thrown out, or what have you. The judge made it plain that he was apologizing on behalf of the United States government for what had happened to Wen ho Lee. And Phil's point here is, he's taking off on the opening monologue today which is, the Clinton administration, during 2000, had this CIA plan to try to leak phony information to the Iranians so that when they put their nuclear bomb together, it wouldn't work. Now, the point of this was that the Clinton administration knew in 2000 the Iranians were working on nuclear cweapons, and they didn't do anything about it. And they had this CIA plan that was so bad that it was doomed to fail, and it did. And his point is Clinton just wanted to look tough on this stuff, just wanted to look big on this, so we indict Wen ho Lee, when no evidence, keep him in jail, and, uh, you know, it was worse than what happened to Ray Donovan, he was, 'where do I go to get my reputation back?' And now he's filed a counter suit. I think the last I heard was he's filed some sort of a counter suit. But I won't forget what this judge said to him, as his book opens: apologizing profusely for the entire U.S. government for what he did. And of course, the mainstream press and all of Clinton's buddies hardly gave it scant attention, folks. This is the bunch that did the Waco invasion, Ruby Ridge, uh, one other example I'm leaving out, but, we talk about civil liberties today and how we're losing it."
It bothers me to see stalwarts of the right mix up historical facts in this way. In the ever-increasing chasm between conservatives and republicans, I'm sensitive to falsehoods.. call it paranoia or just irritability. Either way, a policy of truth is SO important.
I checked the 1/6/2006 live thread, and as far as I can tell, it was also missed there.
Ruby Ridge and Waco are mentioned in the same sentence so often. He just misspoke, that's all.
He WILL correct it.....he's ONE who DOES make FULL-OUT corrections to his FEW mistakes.
BFD, WGAS?
I caught that too. Wondered if I was mistaken about it. Guess I wasn't.
Ditto.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1553917/posts
So the Democrats don't know Jack hmmmmm?
So the Democrat Party is running a TV ad claiming Democrats "Didn't know Jack". OH Really? Let's see what a Non Partisan Campaign Watchdog group says.
Here is the WHOLE Open Secrets list for those who "Want to be fair".
http://www.capitaleye.org/abramoff.asp
List of Democrats who got Abramoff's money
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte $121,500
Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte $354,700 Democratic National Cmte $65,720 Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) $42,500 Patty Murray (D-Wash) $40,980 Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) $36,000 Harry Reid (D-Nev) $30,500 (By way of comparison here is that "EVIL Republican" Tom Delay-Tom DeLay (R-Texas) $30,500 Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND) $28,000 Tom Daschle (D-SD) $26,500 Charles H. Taylor (R-NC) $25,750
trying this again...
Yeah, hope so. Like I said, there's no reason not to reiterate the truth, is all.
Nope, you weren't. I listened to it several times this evening. I didn't double check spelling on the other folks' names, though. Hope they're right (but they're not germane to this discussion).
I think this kind of mistake is understandable. The first Bush administration was such a downer that it's kind of natural to get confused about which of these low points occurred from 1990-92 and which ones occurred from 1993-1995.
Yes, I did notice that when he said it. I just chalked it up to a foggy memory. There is, though, a tendency in many conservatives to forget that big government just doesn't work under Republicans as well as Democrats.
Thanks so much for that riveting commentary.
Wen Ho Lee .... also a name of a victim in an Agatha Christie novel.
I won't be bullied into feeling badly about a misstatement on anybody's part, particularly one that I didn't make. Of course the democrats lied -- they always lie.
Exactly my feeling.
I heard that too and it's good that you pointed it out and I am sure Rush will correct himself when he gets wind of it, just as anybody who has class and is engaging in the arena of ideas and truth. But, you would never ever see a slimeball Dem or lib (sorry for being redundant) correct themselves; hell, they even deny they said things when there's a voice or video recording of them saying it!!!
I am totally amazed at what Rush can pull off the top of his head while doing a daily (5 days a week minus holidays & time off) 3 hour talk show (with videocam much of the time). I would be a lot smarter if I knew 0.1% of what he does. If he makes one mistake like this every thousand or so attempts, I'll give him a pass on this one :-)
; )
I know; I debated all day whether to bring it up. In the end, I figured we're all adults and no one's accusing Rush of particularly nefarious wrongdoing. It's worth a mention. You're right about both administrations -- thanks for saying so.
Alright, Drudge Ping...
Hey this is Saturday.
Never mind.
But have a nice night.
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