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RUSH: Here\u2019s Eric in Nashville. Eric, I\u2019m glad you called, sir, glad you waited, welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Dittos to you, Rush, good to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to say hi to my mom Sandy in Louisville and my buddy John down in Texas. Listen, this is being bandied about by folks as a First Amendment issue, the way some people want to talk about it as a First Amendment issue. As many — First Amendment — you know, tests of the First Amendment that we\u2019ve seen paraded up and down the halls of government over the years, you\u2019ve got a unique opportunity here to test the First Amendment, but not the free speech part of the First Amendment that we\u2019ve been talking about. I\u2019m talking about the last nine words in the First Amendment, that\u2019s petition Congress for redress of grievances. They have attacked a private citizen. They\u2019ve tried to smear you based on lies, based on fraud, and I think you have a unique opportunity here, Rush. I\u2019ve got this mental picture of you strolling up the center aisle of the United States Senate and setting these people straight. And I think you\u2019ve got a unique opportunity to do something like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there\u2019s only one problem with that. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s true in the Senate. But nobody but a member or a member of their staff or a page is allowed on the floor of the House of Representatives at any time. I\u2019ve been there. I\u2019ve seen the House in action, could not go on the floor. Unless a member wants to make a special citation, if there\u2019s some special joint session, something special going on like a head of state coming in. I think we are redressing them now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think you are. (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: A lot of people are starting to weigh in on redressing them now. It is a dream. I have fantasized about being able to do that. But, look, this is what, day three that I have had my invitation out to Senator Reid to come on this program behind my microphones and say to my face what he said on the floor of the Senate on Monday afternoon. He hasn\u2019t appeared. I don\u2019t expect him to, but the offer is made in all sincerity, and it is made here again today. They\u2019re always saying their ideas get frozen out. They don\u2019t get discussed fairly on talk radio. Here\u2019s a chance for Senator Reid to come on, say these things to my face, and we can talk about this smear, and we can talk about the truth behind this, if he\u2019ll just come.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, on the Fox News Channel right now, they\u2019re debating this. They got their little panel and roundtable, and Bob Beckel is just all atwitter because I have referred in the last hour, about an hour ago — and maybe in the first monologue segment of this hour — to today\u2019s modern liberal Democrats as not being driven just by ideology, but that they are Stalinist-like. They are using the fear imposed by the state to intimidate, to try to intimidate private citizens from saying and thinking what they think. They are associating themselves with political operatives out there, Media Matters, and essentially interpreting my meaning for people, interpreting my thoughts. They are trying to do everything they can to control as much of people\u2019s lives as possible. They\u2019re not being honest about what they really think or believe. The truth is not important to them. What\u2019s important to them is what they want, and so I said they\u2019re Stalinist-like. So Beckel is all atwitter over this, and now they\u2019re back saying, ‘Well, you know, the MoveOn.org was this. Limbaugh said this. It\u2019s appropriate for Congress to disapprove of.\u2019 Look, for anybody else who is going to go on one of these TV shows this afternoon or tonight, here\u2019s the thing about this. <\/p>\n

MoveOn.org — which is Media Matters. They may not be the same organization, but they have the same thinking. They\u2019re the same kind of people — created the Betray Us ad. I did nothing. They also created the phony soldier smear. They want balance between their two mistakes? I didn\u2019t do it. I didn\u2019t do what they said. I didn\u2019t think what they say I was thinking. (laughing) It\u2019s absurd. They create both of these scandals. And now they want tit-for-tat treatment. So it\u2019s laughable. It\u2019s becoming laughable. I wonder if Harry Reid is beginning to regret that he did this. It didn\u2019t work out, gang, like he thought it was going to work out. (interruption) It did not work in terms of shutting me up, silencing me, or anything. It did not work, Mr. Snerdley. He\u2019s always been ‘endeared\u2019 to the kooks. The kooks aren\u2019t going anywhere. What he now knows is he\u2019s got a bigger target on his back in terms of reelection in Nevada. You know, I guarantee you — and I\u2019ll betcha some Democrats in the House and Senate are going to the leadership, saying, ‘You know, back off a bit.\u2019 I mean, people are starting to say, ‘What are we doing, worrying about a single private citizen? We\u2019ve got real legislation to work out up here,\u2019 and I am doing a service preventing them from getting to that. There\u2019s no question about it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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