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RUSH: This is Roseanne in Reidsville, North Carolina. Hi, Roseanne. It\u2019s nice to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I want to tell you what Senator [sic] Waxman\u2019s representative told me, and then I would like to tell you what I told him when he said something about the tone of the Internet. He told me that the senator\u2019s position was not being represented correctly, that what the senator actually believed and what was being reported weren\u2019t the same thing, which puts him in the same position you are in, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean Congressman Waxman? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, congressman. Sorry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You called his office after you heard the report that he has assigned investigators to monitor me and Hannity and Levin and our shows for irregularities?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I called him this morning and I asked him how he could make an attack on the conservative talk show hosts who aren\u2019t telling me what to think, but instead they\u2019re simply representing what I already think, and before I could say anything more, he interrupted me and told me that the congressman\u2019s position was being misrepresented.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The congressman\u2019s position is being misrepresented?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, well. So your point is, well, they misrepresented my position, so the congressman and I are pretty much on the same page?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, but there was an oddity about the call. I was told to stick to the point, but I think this is kind of the point. There was an oddity to the call. I wanted to further explain. I wanted to hear an explanation. I wanted more, but… The man was very pleasant, and he was very kind, but he kept cutting me off. He didn\u2019t explain anything, and when he said something about the tone of the Internet, it was odd because I felt like the call was being led.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The tone of the Internet?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir — and then I hung up and then I called back after I reflected on it, and I said to him, I said, ‘Do you realize when you say ‘tone of the Internet,\u2019 do you realize you can\u2019t or shouldn\u2019t regulate ‘tone\u2019?\u2019 And I said, ‘Do you realize that Hillary has always, as long as I can remember, attacked everything that I love and I believe in. If she had her own way, she\u2019d wipe me and my kind off the face of the earth — and, sir, tone, passion, is one and the same,\u2019 and I asked him to explain that to Mr. Waxman, that tone and passion, and that if somebody\u2019s trying to bring you to extinction, you\u2019re going to have passion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, I don\u2019t know how many people call Waxman\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yesterday I couldn\u2019t get through.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I\u2019m sure, and I\u2019m sure these guys had to devise a response, and they are probably tired, by the way, of taking all these calls, and that might have been why the representative working for Congressman Waxman was a little testy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, he wasn\u2019t. He was very nice.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, but you said he kept cutting you off — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and trying to make his points and so forth, because I\u2019m sure he wanted to get on to the next call. But it\u2019s interesting. The interesting thing that you point out that they say Congressman Waxman\u2019s remarks were ‘misrepresented.\u2019 He didn\u2019t deny it, huh? Did the guy deny it, Roseanne? Or he just —<\/p>\n

CALLER: He didn\u2019t explain, Rush. He just left it at that. He just left it that the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Misrepresented.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — congressman was being misrepresented, and the point that I asked him, if he would please make to the congressman was — I didn\u2019t say it this way, but I\u2019ll say it this way to you. Rush, I\u2019m an ornery woman. You can\u2019t put a thought in my head if I don\u2019t already have it, and I know you know that about women, because you\u2019ve made that very clear. You don\u2019t put thoughts in my head. I have my thoughts. You voice my thoughts and you make me feel — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly!<\/p>\n

CALLER: — like there\u2019s a tomorrow.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s one of the secrets of this program is, that I validate what people already think. You are not the mind-numbed robots in this society. It\u2019s the Democrats who are mind-numbed robots and the kook-fringe base. They\u2019re the ones that don\u2019t want to think. They\u2019re the ones that don\u2019t think. They\u2019re the ones that don\u2019t want to be challenged on their preconceived little worldview for their own security. You\u2019re exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Last week, when Harry Reid took you out of context, my nine-year-old screamed from his 360, ‘That\u2019s not what Rush said.\u2019 My nine-year-old knew how to put you in context.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s where they miscalculated. To attack me as being anti-military was a strategical blunder, totally, and the evidence here is a nine-year-old knew it. (A Rush baby, by the way.) Thanks, Roseanne. I appreciate it. Here\u2019s the problem. This is the first call we\u2019ve had from somebody who talked to somebody in Congressman Waxman\u2019s office. So this is the first time I\u2019ve heard that Congressman Waxman\u2019s office is saying that the comments that Congressman Waxman made were misrepresented. But I gotta tell you something: I can\u2019t afford to not take this seriously. Folks, I don\u2019t want to be dramatic here, but this is really dangerous. This guy has 50 people, I\u2019m told, on his staff doing all kinds of investigations. It\u2019s what he lives to do. But this is a committee, the government oversight committee, which is supposed to monitor irregularities elsewhere in the government. To train these investigators on a private citizen and then call in somebody from a federal regulatory agency, the FCC, to discuss the Fairness Doctrine while monitoring hours and hours of broadcasts and transcripts for ‘irregularities,\u2019 this is something we have to take very seriously. <\/p>\n

You know, this could end up — if it actually happens — to Congressman Waxman taking action that would interrupt my ability to make a living, to fulfill contractual obligations that I have — which would make him subject to legal action. You know, we\u2019re not just going to sit here and cower in fear over this. We\u2019re going to alert as many people as possible that this is what is coming on a grand scale if these people prevail and are victorious in 2008, from the White House on down. This is how they deal with it. It\u2019s in Saul Alinsky\u2019s book, Hillary\u2019s mentor. This is how they suppress the opposition. They don\u2019t debate the opposition. They don\u2019t try to win in the arena of ideas. They suppress opposing ideas, and destroy the people who are good at spreading the ideas and expressing them, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happening now. But when the full force — you know, it\u2019s often been said that if the federal government takes you to court, you have no prayer but to settle because they\u2019ve got unlimited money. If some US attorney wants to take you somewhere in a legal action, you can\u2019t compete with them financially. Well, it\u2019s the same thing here. The full force and power of the federal government in this case, a single United States congressman. So it has to be taken seriously. Can\u2019t just slough this off. ‘Oh, he said he was misquoted? Oh, he was misrepresented? Oh, okay. Good! Good.\u2019 I would like to be able to do that, but it would not be wise, and wise I am. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Rose Marie, Staten Island, I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I called Henry Waxman\u2019s office first thing this morning, and I told him I wanted to ask a question. He said, ‘Okay.\u2019 And I asked him if they believed in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and freedom of speech. He says to me, ‘Is this in reference to some talk show host?\u2019 I said, ‘Yes.\u2019 He said, ‘It\u2019s a rumor. We\u2019re trying to find out how it got started. It\u2019s not true.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a rumor?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s what he told me. It\u2019s a rumor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a rumor, and they\u2019re trying to track down the rumor and how it got started?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hmm. Well, it was in the American Spectator yesterday in a column called The Prowler. There were some quotes from Democrat staffers, unnamed, I think in the Senate — I\u2019d have to look at that — who pretty much supported the notion that Congressman Waxman\u2019s investigators are going to be pouring over transcripts, looking for any irregularities on this program and Sean Hannity\u2019s and Mark Levin\u2019s. Did you happen to believe this denial?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That didn\u2019t take you long.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wouldn\u2019t believe anything they had to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I love you. (laughing) A lot of good their office is doing, constituents — well, you\u2019re not a constituent, because he\u2019s from California, LA. Hollywood is one of his districts. He\u2019s got a partner, Howard Berman, the Berman-Waxman California machine is well, well known. That\u2019s great, Rose Marie, I appreciate that. Waxman\u2019s office denies and says it\u2019s a rumor. She didn\u2019t believe it for a moment. Another caller today said they said that we\u2019re misrepresented. They said it\u2019s a rumor and that we\u2019re trying to track it down, that it isn\u2019t true. That is a denial. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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