RUSH: On eBay we're up to $51,100 for the Harry Reid Smear Letter, signed by 40 of his Senate Democrat colleagues. We've had some people asking if the purchaser, whoever wins the high bid, makes the high bid to get the letter, is it tax deductible. Yeah, the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation is a 501(c)(3). So it's deductible. The IRS tax number is on their website and we've linked to it at RushLimbaugh.com. And just to remind you, I didn't make a whole big deal about this a lot of times yesterday, but people have been wanting to donate smaller amounts to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation because they can't afford to bid now on the eBay auction, because it's gotten so high. As I said yesterday, we're making a copy of the Dingy Harry letter available to anybody who wants it, just download it. It's available now as a PDF file, a four-page PDF file at RushLimbaugh.com. I don't want you to have to pay for this twice. You've already paid for it once because these people were on duty, it was during work hours when they wrote and signed the letter. I would much rather you download it and distribute this letter to as many homes and people in the country as possible. It is such that if you want to make a small donation, you can do that, but I'm going to treat you like adults, not kids, and if you want to see it, you want to have a copy of it, go ahead. RushLimbaugh.com, four-page PDF file.
I also got a note here from subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com. "Hey, Rush, excellent auction, however, I believe you really need to sell this more. This is a historic document in that you have 41 US senators who willfully and knowingly lied to slander a US citizen in efforts to discredit and/or impede his free speech rights. That is a direct violation of their sworn oath of office to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States of America. Our Founding Fathers crafted such language to protect citizens from exactly this kind of behavior. Hopefully the highest bidder will get some media time to explain just that. And to think at least one of these oath violators wants to become president." Actually, Obama signed it, Chris Dodd signed it, three of the signatories, the co-conspirators on the Harry Reid letter, want to be president of the United States. I mentioned that when I made this whole announcement last Thursday night in Philadelphia. People were asking me, "How come Hillary Clinton hasn't weighed in on this controversy?" She has. She signed the letter, which was a blatant attempt to try to get me silenced, punished, shut up somehow.
I'm not unaware of the historical nature of the document. The fine line I have is that I don't want to make myself out to be a victim here. We're having fun with this. To sit here and talk about (crying) "Look what they tried to do to me (crying)." This is not the first time, and it won't be the last, and with each succeeding time they try this, more and more people become aware of it. As I've been saying for a couple of days now, I don't think they have really any idea how they appear to ordinary, average Americans. You ordinary average Americans know, of course, who you are. You are observing all this and you are agog and aghast, and they are just simply not aware of how they appear. And, of course, this is one of the characteristics of having hubris, being arrogant and being condescending, you have to lie to yourself about any number of things. Anyway, we're up to $51,100, the auction goes 'til Friday at 1 p.m., and it is totally tax deductible. Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation is a 501(c)(3).