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RUSH: Well, it hasn\u2019t vanished, even though the caller hung up. We had a guy from Chicago that was really mad at me because I linked Clinton\u2019s behavior with Lewinsky with the gay basketball player<\/a>, which makes me a homophobe. People do not listen, and they do not hear. That\u2019s not what my point was. I will make it again for the purposes of expression, communication and clarity when we come back.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019m actually glad this guy called. He hung up. He was guy named John from Chicago. Snerdley told me he was really ticked off. He wasn\u2019t very happy. He was angry that I had linked Bill Clinton\u2019s immoral behavior with Monica Lewinsky with Jason Collins<\/a>. Folks, those of you who are regular listeners here know how to listen to this program and you understand context. Plus you\u2019re not knee-jerk. You\u2019re intelligent, and you know exactly what I was saying.<\/p>\n

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I wager this guy John is typical of practically every knee-jerk, reactionary liberal listening to this program. He either purposely misunderstood in order to call here and try to mischaracterize, or else didn\u2019t get it. My point was very simple: If a celebrity\u2019s private life is so important, why didn\u2019t we celebrate Clinton\u2019s serial adulteries and sex with interns? When Clinton\u2019s sex came along, it was his sex life, and it was defended. Nobody said it was immoral, John.<\/p>\n

The people on the left said it was no big deal, none of our business. We shouldn\u2019t pay any attention to it. It didn\u2019t affect Clinton\u2019s job, didn\u2019t affect his leadership, didn\u2019t distract him. The sex pervert was Ken Starr! Everybody concerned about whether or not Clinton had lied under oath about it to a grand jury was a sex pervert. The Clinton team had a search-and-destroy mission, and they targeted anybody who tried to say that what Clinton did as president in the Oval Office was immoral.<\/p>\n

The left would not admit that Clinton did anything wrong! The left didn\u2019t say that what he did was immoral. They said it wasn\u2019t any big deal. In fact, they said it wasn\u2019t even sex, if I remember. (Clinton impression) “It wasn\u2019t sex. I — I — I never had sex a single time, not — not — not — not with that woman. I didn\u2019t have sexual relations. It wasn\u2019t sex. You can\u2019t say that\u2019s sex.” All right, then what\u2019s the big deal? My point, John, and the rest of you, is that Jason Collins comes out and we\u2019re supposed to take note.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re supposed to celebrate, and we\u2019re supposed to make a big deal of it, and we\u2019re supposed to say, “What a great country!” And we\u2019re supposed to all acknowledge that this is the biggest thing that happened in America yesterday. But when Bill Clinton engages in private sex and people find it, eh, a little problematic? “Nothing to see here. Shut up!” I think it\u2019s clear what I was doing. I was pointing out the hypocrisy, as I always do on this program, of the Democrats, the hypocrisy of the media, the hypocrisy of the left.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t equating anything, other than media treatment. It\u2019s pure politics, John, and all the rest of you who wanted to hear me say what you thought and hoped I\u2019d said but I didn\u2019t say. It\u2019s pure politics, and Bill Rhoden gave up the ghost. Bill Rhoden. Grab sound bite number four. Let him say it. He\u2019s African-American. He\u2019s a columnist at the New York Times.<\/p>\n

Norah O\u2019Donnell was terribly worried that Jason Collins may never work in the NBA again because he came out — and because he\u2019s 36 and because he scores 1.1 points a game, because he\u2019s not a starter, and because he played in six games last season. Six! The NBA has an 82-game regular schedule. He played in six of \u2019em. Norah O\u2019Donnell is very, very worried that Jason might not get a gig. It\u2019s so unfair.<\/p>\n

RHODEN: Right now I think they\u2019re great. Because all of a sudden now it\u2019s become a political thing where he may not have been — had a job, but I think now it\u2019s almost like, you know what, some team — and I think David Stern is going to get involved in this. He\u2019s got to be playing somewhere next year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “He\u2019s got to be playing somewhere next year.” He\u2019s got to be! It\u2019s political, which is my only point, John. I wasn\u2019t equating what Clinton did with whatever Jason Collins is. I\u2019m simply talking about the inconsistent, hypocritical media treatment of this. I\u2019m just saying: If somebody\u2019s sex life is so defining and so important that it has to lead the news and be all over every Internet website, then why wasn\u2019t Clinton\u2019s?<\/p>\n

Why did they go to great lengths to hide that and to shut everybody up, and everybody who wanted to talk about it was a sex pervert? You people on the left, you\u2019ve had it too easy. You get it every way you want it every time. You can\u2019t have it all three ways all the time, at least not on this program, despite what you want.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, grab sound bite 25. Bill Clinton this morning in Washington, Georgetown University, and he\u2019s still making Ken Starr jokes. I mean, right on schedule.<\/p>\n

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CLINTON: There was a hilarious cartoon that appeared in many newspapers in America at the end of my — middle of my second term when I was in a long-running battle with Republican special counsel, Kenneth Starr. So in this cartoon I\u2019m talking to the president of China, Jiang Zemin, and I said, “You know, you ought to allow more political liberty. In our country these people you keep putting in jail, they\u2019d be out there speaking on the street corner.” He said, “Yeah, and in our country, Kenneth Starr would be in jail making tennis shoes.” (laughter)<\/p>\n

RUSH: So even after all of this time, this guy still can\u2019t get over it. So my point, Ken Starr was the pervert. It was Clinton who ruined a woman\u2019s life, an intern, Monica Lewinsky, ruined her life. He\u2019s a hero for it. But we weren\u2019t supposed to talk about it. Sex, nobody\u2019s business, didn\u2019t affect his job, everybody does it. It was just BJs, it wasn\u2019t even sex. Ken Starr was the pervert. And here\u2019s Clinton, goes out and celebrates Jason Collins yesterday coming out, and today he\u2019s in Georgetown and he has to make a joke: Even a ChiCom says, yeah, you might have freedom. In our country, Ken Starr would be in jail making tennis shoes. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m here to tell you this guy still hasn\u2019t forgotten it. He still hasn\u2019t gotten over it. He\u2019s still bitter about it, and Starr didn\u2019t do anything. Remember that parody we did, Larry King interviewing Carville and Ken Starr? Carville says (imitating Carville), “He\u2019s a space alien, Larry. He\u2019s a space alien from Mars. He came here to get your kids smoking tobacco and destroy our president.” Larry King says, “Ken, are you really from Mars?” <\/p>\n

“Larry, come on.”<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s not only from Mars, he\u2019s trying to get all of your kids smoking cigarettes and tobacco products. He\u2019s out to destroy our president and kill your children.” <\/p>\n

“That\u2019s an awfully serious charge, Ken Starr. Are you really trying to get kids on cigarettes?”<\/p>\n

“Larry, come on. I\u2019m simply –“<\/p>\n

“And not only that, I\u2019ll tell you what else, Larry, this man is actually a pervert. He\u2019s a sex pervert, Larry. He\u2019s out to destroy our president.” <\/p>\n

“Scintillating charges from James Carville. Thanks for being with us tonight on Larry King Live,” blah, blah, blah, blah. We made a parody out of this. Clinton committed perjury in a sexual harassment case. He was the sexual harasser. He committed perjury, and he\u2019s telling jokes about how some ChiCom leader is reassuring him that Ken Starr would be in jail making tennis shoes. Talk about perverts. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell the ChiCom leader what our system does. Bill Clinton was held in contempt of court, and he was disbarred for what he did, and he could have been in jail making license plates. He could have been in jail making tennis shoes. He was disbarred, Mr. ChiCom leader. (Clinton impression) “Ha! I was talking to the ChiCom guy, Zhang Xiaoping, whatever his name is, and he told me in his country Ken Starr be an ass, too. They wouldn\u2019t put up people like Ken Starr in the ChiCom society, just like we wouldn\u2019t put up with him here.” Anyway, talk about being stuck in the past. Talk about being an old fuddy-duddy, old-fashioned. Bill Clinton is stuck back in 19-years-ago history. I wonder if they gave him free birth control while he was there at Georgetown University.<\/p>\n

They are known for that at Georgetown.<\/p>\n

They give it away to anybody who wants it.<\/p>\n

“I wonder if Clinton got as much as he needed, ha-ha, on his way out.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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