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My gosh, there\u2019s Chucky again. He looks like Anthony Hopkins in that Hannibal Lechter movie. Look at that! They\u2019ve got his mouth shut with black duct tape. Ah, wait till the animal rights people see this. Oh, now there\u2019s a human being sitting on Chucky like they\u2019re riding him. Ah, alligators aren\u2019t — and now they\u2019re… Awww, they\u2019re petting him. Never mind, folks. It\u2019s okay. Chucky is being comforted before he\u2019s — Awww, look. Little kids are playing. Ah, isn\u2019t that just cute? I like that. My heart\u2019s melting here.The question about CBS, and I don\u2019t mean to be skirting this, but I don\u2019t know how they expect us to trust them on anything else they do, particularly when it\u2019s in this presidential race. This is a problem for them, folks. Now they\u2019re trying to make it go away by stonewalling it with this independent commission but you\u2019ve got a major, major federal crime here. This is forgery and you\u2019ve got so many different stories coming out of the DNC. Let\u2019s not forget, Stephanopoulos tried to cover for Lockhart back on morning America on September 10th by saying, “By the way, Lockhart says he didn\u2019t know anything about this till he saw it on TV.” Well, that\u2019s not true. That\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n

The Kerry campaign was working on this story and put a press release out in April talking about this angle. There\u2019s another thing. Don\u2019t forget, folks, that their fortunate son campaign, the Democrats\u2019 fortunate son campaign launches the day after CBS does this story. There had to be some coordination going on here, and we now know that the story is changing from the Kerry campaign. It started out, “We didn\u2019t know about this till we saw it on TV.” Now we know that what happened is, is that Burkett wanted to talk to the Kerry campaign and his price for giving Mary Mapes of CBS these documents was the connection at the Kerry campaign. So Mapes calls Lockhart before this thing ever went to TV. Lockhart knew about this long before it hit television, as George Stephanopoulos said, and Lockhart is told by Mary Mapes, “Look, we\u2019ve got this guy, is a good source but needs to talk to you.” Lockhart says, “Yeah, we do this thousands of times a day. I\u2019ll be glad to talk to this donor of yours, this source, thousands of times a day.” Lockhart talks to the guy. They didn\u2019t talk about the documents, and they didn\u2019t talk about the National Guard. No, why would they? No, they talked about the swiftvet campaign and how upset Burkett was about it — and apparently Lockhart liked Burkett\u2019s strategy on this so much that he told Marybeth Cahill, who then told the candidate, John French Kerry.<\/p>\n

So from going to we didn\u2019t know about this till we saw it on TV, to Mary Mapes calling Lockhart and saying, “Hey, would you spell talk to Burkett? Say, ‘Well, give me the documents?'” Okay, fine. That conversation gets reported all the way up the chain of command to Kerry, and the documents were never discussed? I know we shouldn\u2019t assume, but, folks, come on.<\/p>\n

Ah thank you, Mr. Snerdley, that\u2019s true. I have been mischaracterizing this. Let me correct myself. Technically this wasn\u2019t even a conversation. Lockhart just listened. Lockhart says he just “listened” for three or four minutes to Bill Burkett, and then hung up, and then he called Marybeth Cahill, who called Kerry to report what Lockhart had just listened to. They\u2019re asking us to believe quite a lot here. Here\u2019s Margaret in Ridge, New York. Hi Margaret, glad you waited. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush, I think you\u2019re great.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Do you think that regarding the CBS story, do you think that NBC would have touched it with a ten-foot pole, Tim Russert or Tom Brokaw.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that really is calling for speculation, and there\u2019s no reason… This is serious enough without impugning somebody else with something else that\u2019s a pure hypothetical.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, but I mean I don\u2019t think they would have touched it with a ten-foot pole.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because I think they\u2019re a little smarter than the CBS and Mr. Rather. I think Rather was delighted to get it because of how he feels about the Bushes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, there is that suspicion, that Rather is actually on a vendetta. CBS was not misled and they weren\u2019t just following up some tip. They\u2019ve admitted Mary Mapes working on this story for five years.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is an agenda item. Let\u2019s make no mistake about it. CBS is carrying out an agenda. They\u2019re not just reporting the news here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you don\u2019t see an agenda actually being carried out by NBC in this regard —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — is what you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I would have to agree with you on that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think Rather was delighted to get it. That\u2019s my personal opinion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He certainly acted like it, and then when he got — you know, remember all the life lessons: When you get caught, just, “Okay, the jig\u2019s up,” and admit it and so forth. But he starts blaming his accusers, and that\u2019s why people — one of the reasons people are saying this is Lockhart. This is like Watergate, you know, because that\u2019s what Nixon said, “Ah these are just a bunch of liberals that hate me. You can\u2019t believe what they\u2019re saying,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

“Well, what about the question, Mr. Nixon?” He stonewalled, stonewalled. We all know what happened. As I said, it\u2019s fascinating to watch CBS in this, particularly Rather and his unit because they have become what they hated. They have become Watergate-like. This is much more serious, I think, than anybody even in the mainstream press is alluding to here. They\u2019re trying to make it out to be a journalistic mistake. It\u2019s not a journalistic mistake. This is a criminal conspiracy scandal, folks.<\/p>\n

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