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RUSH: I want to go to a couple sound bites here. I commented on this in my speech in Sacramento on Friday. Dan Rather on Thursday night was on Larry King Live. King said in a question to Dan Rather, ‘In essence, you are saying that the network got rid of you, copped out on the report because of appealing to the Bush White House? Is that what you\u2019re saying, that they were trying to appeal to the Bush White House?\u2019<\/p>\n

RATHER: Yes, is the short answer to that. But I think that they and others have been doing it to part of Washington\u2019s power structure long before then. And what I\u2019m trying — look, in my own way, small way, perhaps I can\u2019t succeed, is say to people, whether you\u2019re Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative, big government and big corporations have far too much influence and are intimidating, especially investigative reporting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you hear that? Dan Rather, who never met a big government program he opposed, Dan Rather, who admires people who grow government and want it to get even bigger, is now all upset because, in his deteriorating mind, he thinks that big government has influenced news; big government is damaging the independence of people in investigative reporting; big government is stopping Dan Rather, or CBS News, from asking the tough questions. Now, when his ox gets gored by big government, why, it\u2019s horrible. Why, we can\u2019t have this. Why, this is too intrusive. Why, it\u2019s hurting our independence, it\u2019s hurting our ability to do the best we can, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But when Dan Rather looks across the country and sees American poverty and doesn\u2019t say, ‘Hmm, look what big government\u2019s done to these people?\u2019 He says big government is great. It\u2019s trying to help those people. When big government raises taxes on people, that\u2019s great, big government ought to intrude. When big government tells you what you can and can\u2019t eat, and where you can and can\u2019t smoke and what you can and can\u2019t smoke, that\u2019s great when big government does that. <\/p>\n

When big government tells landowners how they can and cannot use their land, that\u2019s really wonderful stuff. When big government gets into full swing and tells the public school system you better teach this or we\u2019re going to withhold your money, that\u2019s wonderful. When Democrats are running big government, that\u2019s even better, but when big government affects Dan Rather — and I\u2019m not accepting his premise — big government is like anybody else, they try to influence news coverage in their own favor. But these independent journalists are supposed to be guardians against the excesses of power, and it is their job to bring down power, especially after they\u2019ve helped those who get it acquire it, especially if they\u2019re Republicans. I just think this is great. I think this is wonderful because it exposes once again the pure hypocrisy of these people, and it just shows you the liberals are all for rules and limitations on us that they will exempt themselves from. Now, Dan\u2019s out there thinking in his paranoia that big government got him canned, that big government forged his documents, and that big government forced him to forge the documents, that big government probably created Bill Burkett for the purpose of discrediting Dan Rather — who knows what he thinks. By the way, some editorial board member, writer of the Washington Post, has a pretty funny piece today exposing Rather and his lawsuit. He asks a real simple question: Was Dan Rather\u2019s lawsuit forged?<\/p>\n

RATHER: Yes. And I think most people know by now that it was correct. By the way, I think there was a lot more in the president\u2019s military record that we don\u2019t know about. We have a wartime president whom I, among others, have supported him, and we want to support the troops, a wartime president whose own military records are rather mysteriously missing. We describe in that story what turns out to be the military record of President Bush. It wasn\u2019t — it wasn\u2019t a — a fraud. The facts of the story were true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s defending the story, he\u2019s insisting the story, wants to prove it. He is still going after George W. Bush, he\u2019s still saying nobody has proved that the story was wrong. No, Dan, the documents that you produced were forged. That doesn\u2019t matter. ‘Whatever it takes to prove the story is what we\u2019ll do. Nobody\u2019s denied the allegations of the story.\u2019 He\u2019s still out there trying to defend it. If this lawsuit ever goes to trial, if the Rather lawsuit ever goes to trial, do you know what will be incumbent upon CBS to prove this story was a fraud? They will have to prove that the story was totally bogus, which they\u2019ll be able to do, which destroys Rather\u2019s whole reason for going to court. It\u2019s almost sympathetic, in a way, but I\u2019m not that big-hearted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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