Posted on 10/06/2006 4:57:30 PM PDT by goldstategop
RUSH: I want to pick up on something I started with yesterday, and that is this list, "The List," it's being called, of gay congressional staffers. It is not so much gay congressman, although there may be some of them on the list, but this is a list that's being circulated -- I want to be specifically clear about this -- it's not Republicans who are pushing this list of gay lawmakers and staff. It is Democrats and gay politicos that are doing this. Nancy Pelosi heard about it, I'm told. Nancy Pelosi heard about this yesterday and got very angry. She got very livid and she tried to make it clear, "I don't want this list to be made public," but it may well be within days. She remembers what happened to John Kerry, as I pointed out yesterday, and the Breck Girl when they tried to out Mary Cheney in the debate.
It just rubbed everybody the wrong way, but I want to tell you people what the purpose of this list is. For those of you who say that there's nothing political going on here, that this is a legitimate scandal and we gotta get to the bottom of it and blah, blah, blah, and there's no conspiracy here, let me just tell you this, and I want all of you in the Christian right, the evangelicals, if you're a religious person at all, consider yourself a values voter, I want you to listen to this because this is the objective that the people with this list and the Democrats have in using it. They hope, by publishing this list, to illustrate for the first time how many gay Republicans there are in Washington, either as memberships of Congress or their staff. They are hoping that you on the religious right are shocked and stunned and outraged that there are so many of them, quote, unquote, in the Republican Party. They want you to abandon the Republican Party.
They want to you throw up your hands in anger and conclude the Republicans have been misleading you all the while on all this talk of family values and morals and so forth, and they want you to get upset with all those gays in the party, that the party has been trying to hide from you. They think that if they can dissuade you from voting -- and that's what this is really all about, is suppression, vote turnout -- if they can dissuade you from voting, they have a further desire and that is to dissuade you from even being a Republican. They are hoping that they can anger enough of you that you will simply abandon the party, because they know that without your steadfast support the Republican Party loses a considerable amount of its voting strength, if not a lot of other kinds of power. So that's what this list is all about, and this Foley story has provided the springboard for that. Foley is gone, and yet there was our old buddy Brian Ross, who I think has a penis fixation.
Brian Ross's Sex Obsession
Brian Ross at ABC posted a story last night, three more page stories, and it's nothing to do with journalism. It is nothing but below the gutter, prurient BS. None of these three, by the way, that Brian Ross seems to have just recently discovered, ever say that they told the Republican leadership about Foley, which is story line. The story line is GOP coverup. So what the hell is the purpose of the release of more transcripts, supposed transcripts, of supposed IM messages between Foley and supposed pages? What is the point? Especially from a group of people who said (doing Carville impression) "It's all about sex and there's nothing wrong with that. Sex, come on, everybody lies about sex, eating gumbo, eating a lot of things, lie about sex, of course to protect their family." We went back, we have searched the archives, we're going to go back and give you a lot of quotes today from Carville, Begala The Forehead, even Susan Estrich during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, all that in due course. It's coming very soon, might even get to it here before the break.
It serves no journalistic purpose whatsoever for Brian Ross to continue to post this stuff on his ABC blog, none, absolutely zero. Seems to me that there are a lot of people preoccupied with sex on this story. It seems to me there are a lot of people that may be really titillated by this personally. And look at what's going on out there at the same time. The North Korean communists are threatening to test a nuclear weapon; Iran is threatening to continue their nuke program; we are at war with terrorists; we are at war with members of the Democratic Party; we are at war with liberal federal judges; we are at war with elements of the Drive-By Media who want to undermine our ability to win the war on terror. National security remains the big issue here, I don't care how salaciously interesting this is. But it even gets worse than that. Democrats have promised to inflict pain on us if they win the House. Charlie Rangel, who would head the Ways and Means Committee, has pledged to repeal all the Bush tax cuts.
Nancy Pelosi will strip American businesses of tax incentives. She says she's going to have to drain the swamp, the cesspool that the House has become because of Republicans. More on that, of course, as the program unfolds. So why are we wasting time with a third-rate sex scandal? This isn't even real sex, folks. This hubbub is about Internet sex, cybersex, alternative lifestyle virtual sex. Give me an old-fashioned Washington sex scandal that actually had sex and actually had a woman in it! That's what I miss. If we're going to have a sex scandal, could we have some sex instead of some prurient, worthless in terms of journalism continuing dribs and drabs from ABC's Brian Ross about the -- what is the point? There is literally no point -- well, there is a point, and it's repulsing you and as many people on the Christian right as possible. It's about as repulsing as many people as possible. You can't tell me this is not an agenda to affect the outcome of the agenda. You know it is.
Gary Hart And Donna Rice
The Democrats and the media are talking about it as though it's already occurred every night on television. The page in question here, Jordan Edmund, has a criminal lawyer, was over 18 years old when the most explicit instant messages were transmitted, so from what I learned in the nineties, this is a private matter between consenting adults. Didn't affect Foley's work at all. Besides, everybody lies about sex, folks. Sex has been part of the Beltway and below the Beltway since before there was a Beltway. This doesn't rise to the level of impeachment or resignation. We've heard that before. Why is the House Ethics Committee looking into this? Are they sexually obsessed perverts? Now they're looking into the cover-up, they're looking into House -- they're not even looking into Foley, they can't, he's gone. But here's the real embarrassing thing about this, folks, and I know that I'm going to touch a lot of hearts and minds with this one.
This Foley sex scandal is making us the laughingstock of civilized Europe. They already think we're a bunch of backward twits, they already hate our guts, and now, look at the way we're going nuts here over an Internet sex scandal that doesn't even involve sex. They're not so uptight in Europe about real or virtual sex. The Democrats took these positions -- a-hem -- during the Clinton sex scandals. Why aren't they taking these positions -- a-hem -- now? Grab audio sound bite number one, just a preview here of what I have for you after the break. This is James Carville on Good Morning America in February of 1998 talking about Ken Starr.
CARVILLE: He's concerned about three things: sex, sex, and more sex.
James "The Ragin' Cajun" Carville
RUSH: He's concerned about three things: sex, sex, and more sex. Want to play that one more time for me, Mr. Maimone?
CARVILLE: He's concerned about three things: sex, sex, and more sex.
RUSH: Well, let's play the next one just to give you an idea. This is January 25th of '98, Meet the Press, Tim Russert, Carville says this about Ken Starr and the Lewinsky investigation.
CARVILLE: These skuzzy, slimy tactics of wiring people up, of getting them in hotel bars and threatening to -- to -- to arrest their parents and all that kind of foolishness. You know what? When this whole Starr thing started, I told the American people about it, and they can see that I'm right in spades, they can see that I'm right in spades. We start out with a land deal, and now with traipsing around with some 24-year-old intern. It's ridiculous.
RUSH: Yeah, it's nothing, about sex. It's a private matter.
Let's go back to these audio sound bites. I asked Cookie to go back to the archives today because of this prurient interest in sex that the media just can't get enough of and Brian Ross at ABC can't get enough of and provide enough of. All of these salacious details that are irrelevant in terms of journalism. Foley is gone. In fact, you know what, I'm thinking of doing a Brian Ross impersonation here. In fact, let me do a Brian Ross impersonation, ladies and gentlemen, in terms of putting out there as content on this program the equivalent of what Brian Ross is putting out on ABC. Everybody is interested in some sort of list out there, the gay list and this list and that list, who's gay in the Republican Party, in the staff, who's gay in the elected officials. Well, here's a list that I would like, and here's a list that I would like made public.
I want a list about sexual preferences, too, and I want a list for every liberal in the House of Representatives. And it's very simple. Do you prefer the missionary style, or do you want the woman on top? And I'll tell you why I ask. Because missionary is active male. Woman on top is passive male, and we're at war, and we need active males. We need alpha males. We don't need a bunch of passive people directing our war effort. We need active males. What is your preference, liberal Democrats? I want a list. Look it, if Brian Ross can get away with it and be credited for great journalism and breaking all kinds of news, this is the kind of thing I'm going to go for. I mean, they sit there and they talk about how low-ball and scum and low rent talk radio is. Take a look at major broadcast networks and the way they are covering this story. Snerdley is looking at me like you can't believe what I just did. Well, I did it, I did it, and it was more than seven seconds of it so we can't hit the dump button.
It's out there. You call this illustrating absurdity by being absurd, Mr. Snerdley. There's nothing violative in what I did. Nothing whatsoever. For crying out loud, what I did is far less prurient than what is on the websites of ABC and others about what's in these instant messages with Foley. And you don't think what I said has some relevance? We are at war. I don't want a bunch of passive males running the war effort, being dominated by women all over the place, including in the bedroom. That's the point I was trying to make. I mean, if this is what you have to do to win a Pulitzer Prize I want to get my hat in the ring. Now back to the audio sound bites. James Carville. This is February 11th, 1998, Good Morning America. The anchor says, "Why doesn't the prez come forward and explain all of this?" The Lewinsky thing.
CARVILLE: Let the media and let the independent counsel go in and subpoena now six women that -- you know, that denied that they ever had sex with the president. They're out subpoenaing these people, harassing and I’m sure that they're gonna try to threaten to put their mothers in jails and their family and hold them for nine hours in some room. People are sick and tired. After $40 million of investigating, these people are out leaking and investigating sex and the country is sick and tired of it.
RUSH: Really? I don't think so, James. Doesn't appear that way. Doesn't appear you're tired of it, either, and it doesn't appear Brian Ross is tired of, and it doesn't appear the Drive-By Media is tired of it. Now, let's go to The Forehead. This is back in the old This Week with Sam and Cokie show. Cokie Roberts says, "Should a married man be involved in a relationship with anybody but his wife?" And The Forehead says...
BEGALA: The president said he didn't have a sexual relationship with this woman, I did not ask anybody to do anything other than tell the truth. There is an investigation going on, and it will clear him. If we're going to shut down the whole country about that, then I think that's unwise.
Paul "The Forehead" Begala
RUSH: All right, now, here is a man who subsequently has been hired by CNN as an expert commentator and then as a participant on Crossfire, and now he's got a book out with Carville and they're running around as experts on things, stood up for a liar, he was hired to lie for a liar, and he did it pretty well. Snerdley is still chuckling. Are you chuckling are fear, or are you chuckling with humor in there? You can't believe that I did it. Well, get used to it. Now let's go to Susan Estrich. Sunday, February 28th, 1998, Meet the Press, Tim Russert, Russert says, "What do you believe will be the political, legal, moral, cultural fallout from the Juanita Broaddrick interview?"
ESTRICH: I don't think we should be convicting the president 21 years after the fact, and I'm a little troubled to hear the discussion as if these allegations are true. I mean, you know, this is very serious stuff, and even if 1978 some of it would have been called bad sex, and I think it would have been, Tim. You know, we can't convict the president on this kind of speculation.
RUSH: Well, we can Denny Hastert. We can convict Denny Hastert. We can force him to resign, we can force the whole Republican leadership, we can convict any Republican we want, can't we, Susan? Notice how the allegation of rape didn't bother them at all, it was so old, it didn't bother them at all, ladies and gentlemen, no, not at all. Notice how outraged they are over virtual Internet sex. Do you remember, ladies and gentlemen, I think it's December 18th of 1998 after the president was impeached, they had a little ceremony on the South Lawn and I dubbed it "The Politics of Personal Destruction Must End Show" in the Rose Garden. Gephardt was there and everybody was defending Clinton, and he was standing behind them, nodding in approval because they all knew that he had something on them, they had to go out there and defend him. We have a montage here of Gephardt, David Bonior, and Bill Clinton at that ceremony after Clinton was impeached, December 19th, 1998.
GEPHARDT: We must turn away now from the politics of personal destruction and return to a politics of values. The American people deserve better.
President Clinton And The Democrats In The Rose Garden, December 1998
BONIOR: The politics of personal smear is degrading the dignity of public office, and we must not let it continue. We must put an end to it.
CLINTON: We must stop the politics of personal destruction. (Applause) We must get rid of the poisonous venom of excessive partnership, excessive animosity, and uncontrolled anger. That is not what American deserves.
RUSH: Where does this uncontrolled anger stem? It's from the left. I mean, this stuff speaks for itself. Here's Little Dick Gephardt once again in the same setting.
GEPHARDT: The Democratic caucus in the House will continue to stand alongside our president, and we will work to enact the agenda that we were sent here to pass. (Applause) The president has demonstrated his effectiveness as a national and world leader in the face of intense and unprecedented negative attacks by his opponents. I am confident that he will continue to do so for the rest of his elected term of office. (Applause) RUSH: Hubba hubba, right on. So there you have it, and we have, let's see, one more of these. I don't have time to get it in before the break. But I just wanted to refresh your memory, the party of personal destruction today was so opposed it and so opposed to sex in politics not that long ago.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
This is December. I mean, it's the 19th, on the South Lawn, the Stop the Politics of Personal Destruction Show. This is the day he was impeached.
CLINTON: For six years now, I have done everything I could to bring our country together across the lines that divide us, including bringing Washington together across party lines.
President Clinton
RUSH: Right, okay. I just wanted to review these things. We had countless more, you remember all the times that people were out there talking about gotta stop all this sex, sex, sex, too much sex being discussed out there.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I have to admit, Im concerned about all this..
The Democrats are obsessed with sex, and they can go, uh, never mind.
This voter isn't buying what they're selling...
Well, if they have a hormonal imbalance driving their obsession, one could either try to cure it [if an MD], or [if a layman] to make a sad face and say "pity"...
That's funny that she doesn't want this list out in the public domain, because in a 2002 article by Doug Ireland, titled "Pelosi's Problems" she's reported as having had no problem attacking a gay activist:
"...after serving as fund-raising chair for the Democrats' 1986 U.S. Senate campaign — Pelosi was tapped by Phil Burton's brother John to take over the family House seat which Phil's widow, Sala, had occupied after her husband's death. Her opponent was San Francisco Supervisor Harry Britt, who'd been picked by the gay community as successor to the assassinated Harvey Milk. Pelosi buried Britt in money, and ran a nasty campaign that portrayed him as a "gay socialist."
Here's a link to the whole article:
Perform an anatomically improbable sexual act upon themselves?
Pretty funny. And he makes his point.
Pretty funny. And he makes his point.
William Cristol:
"This is a simple syllogism,
Foley is a creep
Foley is a Republican;
Therefore, Republicans are creeps.
I don't think the social Conservatives will fall for such smears. They're too smart. This scandal will outrage the Republicans, but basically to turn against the Democrats even more."
William Cristol said something like that yesterday on Fox News. Mr. Cristol has also made the good point about the ridiculousness of calling for Hastert's head over this. As Bill Cristol said, did Speaker O'Neil resign after the Gerry Studds and Barney Frank scandals? And they were from Speaker O'neil's homestate, too.
Rush says the Dems like to push their surprises on a Friday so he can't comment for a couple of media days (that's a lifetime now ). But, did something go wrong with today's story??
....hmmmm...
Rush ping
Republican Neverland Ranch
Posted by: Brad Watkins
No, that's not "the list." The list is supposed to feature people who are Congressional staffers and congresscreatures as well, some senators (like the esteemed lady from Maryland).
I would like to see this list to see just how far the gays have made it--I almost said "penetrated"--into our legislative system. No wonder they're able to advance their agenda if they've thoroughly infiltrated the House and Senate.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
He is about right. No one forced us to claim the moral high ground. We infer that we have better character. That is why we are held to a different standard.
I am outraged that we have so many hypocrites in the party. That could indeed make me abandon the party. Is it so hard to just do the right thing?
It is sad when Barney Frank has more integrity than Republicans. At least he is honest about who and what he is.
Anyone that thinks this is not going to hurt us is dreaming.
So would I. You know, I read the other day that the GOP has been digging and has a mother load of stuff. Well, where is it?
Yes, the two-party system would be more appealing if we didn't have these two parties. . . . (Instapundit)
Clearly the Democrat leadership has gone totally insane!
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