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I want to tackle something here, folks, for those of you watching on the Dittocam, this is in the stack. This is the remaining stack today that I promise we\u2019re going to play the hits, we\u2019re going to get more stuff from this stack in this hour than any other host. It\u2019s good stuff. There\u2019s something I want to say first. And it\u2019s just to explain something to you as I see it. Last week I got a call that prompted me to say it. Somebody wanted to know if I was a hypocrite about my use of painkillers and the fact that it was wrong or that I have ostensibly said in the past that people who use drugs ought to be punished for it. <\/line>And my answer was, no, it\u2019s not hypocritical because my behavior doesn\u2019t determine the value of right and wrong. Nobody\u2019s does. I mean right and wrong, there are absolutes of right and wrong. And there are people who waver from right and do wrong, and I\u2019m one of them. We all are. Various stages, various levels. It doesn\u2019t change what right and wrong are. And there may be some people who are genuinely interested in trying to get me portrayed as a hypocrite for their political purposes. I think people doing this are primarily people who are on the other side the political spectrum from myself, but here\u2019s what I think is really going on about this, and it dovetails with what we talk about here all the time. You know, a lot of people say, “Rush, you\u2019re too rigid. This right and wrong business, you have to understand there\u2019s a lot of gray area out there.” And those are people who wish to be exempt from any moral judgment, and so they are taking the occasion of my story to try to weaken the whole concept of right and wrong by taking shots at me. And let them do that. They can do it all they want. And whatever I did, I did, but it doesn\u2019t change what right and wrong are, which I think is the real objective of people who are taking this opportunity.<\/line><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back to the Clinton inaugural. This is one of the greatest examples that we can cite. Remember the week before the inauguration, there were all these song stylists and performers on the mall, and they were all singing songs, Aretha Franklin and others about how they\u2019re free, we\u2019re free, we have been released from the shackles. I thought, what are these people talking about? And it struck me that one of the things they were talking about was they were free from any moral judgment because there had been a lot of that, given party politics back in the late eighties into the early nineties, and you had Clinton himself who, by the way, is no innocent poster child for what\u2019s right.<\/line>But, see, when Clinton did it, oh, no, it\u2019s just about sex, it doesn\u2019t matter, and so forth, and people didn\u2019t want any assessment of right or wrong to take place, and so they harped on this business, well, there\u2019s gray areas out there and you really don\u2019t know until you walk in someone\u2019s shoes, da-da-da-da-da. Then, of course, the big jets flew over in a rehearsal of a flyby and Ron Silver was there who at the time, he\u2019s a big conservative now, at least a Bush voter, but at the time he was a big lib Democrat, and he got offended. He was offended when the jets flew over. And he looked up in the sky, saw Navy jets, the Air Force jets, and he was standing there. He said, “How dare they pollute our inaugural with those jets!” And somebody jabbed him in the elbow or the ribs and said, “Ron, those are our jets now.” Oh, yeah, okay, since we won the presidency, the military is ours, and so we can like it. <\/line> <\/line>But, you know, we all in life have made mistakes, and I\u2019m not trying to excuse mine by including others. I have made mistakes, and I\u2019ve owned up to them and will continue to do so. But just because of that does not mean that I don\u2019t know the difference between right and wrong, and I\u2019m not going to shy away from what I think is right and wrong just because I failed to behave in the quote, unquote, right way. It\u2019s like the liberals do the same thing with defense. They try to say that people who didn\u2019t serve in the military can\u2019t talk about defense, have no credibility on defense. Why, you can\u2019t speak up for the defense of the budget, where were you when it was time to kill commies? And they do it on a lot of things. <\/line>You haven\u2019t been to the moon, what do you mean we need to spend money on the space program? You haven\u2019t been an astronaut. And what they\u2019re really trying to do, in addition to discredit people who do speak out for right and wrong, they\u2019re trying to blur the line between right and wrong anyway. I think that\u2019s the real effort that\u2019s being made, because nobody can live on the right side of the line all the time, a hundred percent. And there are some people who want an excuse for living on the wrong side of the line, or the fence, and if they can get as many people in the country, the population, say, yeah, we all make mistakes, right and wrong is a subjective thing, then there\u2019s going to be less judgment of them. <\/line>I do think that that\u2019s what this is primarily all about which is why I am not going to admit to being hypocritical about anything here, because if I were to admit that I\u2019m a hypocrite, then I\u2019m going to be disqualified from being able to say what I think is right and wrong. I\u2019m not going to give that up. I\u2019m not going to let anybody take that away from me, so that\u2019s my answer to this. There\u2019s some e-mails coming in and we had this prank phone call earlier about it and I just decided that I wanted to tackle it and tell you what I really think is going on with all this. Just so you can be aware of what the real motivation is.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/emphasize><\/strong><\/line><\/p>\n

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