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RUSH: Listen to this audio sound bite. This is Senator Barb ‘Babs\u2019 Mikulski on the Senate floor late yesterday. Listen to this.<\/p>\n

MIKULSKI: This tone of vitriolic, viciousness, I think, has got to stop The attack on the Graeme [sic–Frost] family, picked up by Rush Limbaugh, the same guy who\u2019s calling dissident military people ‘microphone Marines,\u2019 and the, uh, smear went on with them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Microphone Marines? (laughing) What is a ‘microphone Marine\u2019? I haven\u2019t called anybody microphone Marine! It\u2019s another smear job. It\u2019s another lie. Now they\u2019re linking me with this so-called attack on the Frost family kids. You know, folks, the point about the Frost family and this whole S-CHIP thing — and there\u2019s great news about that today, by the way. USA Today has a poll out, and get this. This poll has got to just devastate Mrs. Clinton and the whole socialized-medicine crowd. Despite the Drive-Bys, 52% of the American people back the president, and say insurance targeting poor kids should go to poor kids. Imagine that! Fifty-two percent actually believe the program should remain constituted as it is and not be expanded the way the Democrats want to. By the way, Republicans are going to have enough votes to sustain the president\u2019s veto on this. This is a big win for the Republicans, and they need to start acting like it. In this USA Today poll, 55% of the American people do not want private insurance dropped in order to go on the government dole. They do not want to have to drop their private insurance, and they don\u2019t want to be forced to drop their private insurance in order to take a government insurance plan for health care. Fifty-five percent! You know, this conflicts with some Rasmussen polls.<\/p>\n

Well, actually it doesn\u2019t. Rasmussen polls, I think the last one I saw was that over 50% — 55% — would love for Americans to be getting ‘free\u2019 health care, would love for Americans to get free health care, but not go on a government-run program. This poll actually is somewhat consistent with the second half of that poll. But the Drive-Bys — and, of course, everybody has been parading these kids around — the Democrats have come up with another kid now. Yeah, I have the story somewhere here in the stack. Well, yeah, this one\u2019s poor. This one is actually poor. But, in both cases, here\u2019s what everybody\u2019s missing: I don\u2019t care what had been said about the finances of the Frost family and the kids, the fact is that the program as presently constituted — I\u2019m sorry — ‘presently\u2019 is not the right way to say this. People misuse this all the time. ‘Presently\u2019 means ‘in the near future.\u2019 As at present — I\u2019m a stickler for language here as a consummate, as a highly trained broadcast specialist. As it is at present currently structured, the Frost family was covered. The Frost family is out there on television (whining), ‘I can\u2019t get health care! (crying) President Bush, wah, wah, wah!\u2019 No, President Bush is not trying to deny coverage to people like the Frosts, and this other woman, with a little kid that the Democrats are now parading out, is also covered by the current structure of the S-CHIP program.<\/p>\n

But I just think this is fabulous news out here that the Drive-Bys have done everything they can to push this whole notion of socialized medicine, to rip the president as being heartless, and cold, and cruel to children. See, this is why you gotta celebrate the new media, folks, and people like me. Because 20 years ago, this would have happened, and there wouldn\u2019t have been any opposition to it whatsoever, and you would not know the truth and you would believe what the media is telling you. Well, some of you would. I mean, there\u2019s always been a sizable contingent of people out there that didn\u2019t trust the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We finally found an explanation here for Barbara Mikulski, Senator from Maryland, using the term ‘microphone Marines.\u2019 But in typical Senate Democrat fashion, she got it wrong. They are making history on the Democrat side in the Senate of getting it wrong. Here again is Mikulski late yesterday afternoon on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n

MIKULSKI: This tone of vitriolic viciousness, I think, has got to stop.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

MIKULSKI: The attack on the Graeme [sic–Frost] family was quickly picked up by Rush Limbaugh, the same guy who\u2019s calling dissident military people ‘microphone Marines,\u2019 and then, the smear went on with them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, so we couldn\u2019t figure this out, ‘microphone Marines.\u2019 I\u2019ve never used the phrase. I certainly never used the phrase to discuss dissident what? ‘Dissident military people.\u2019 Well, we did a little research here, and there\u2019s column from October 10th. What is this? This is the 16th. So this is six days ago in the Baltimore Sun by Thomas Schaller entitled ‘Microphone Marines.\u2019 I\u2019m reading now from his piece: ‘These ‘microphone Marines,\u2019 such as Mr. Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter, have convinced themselves that their outrage-filled rants, disinformation campaigns and challenges to others\u2019 patriotism constitute national service.\u2019 So, this schlub is calling me a ‘microphone Marine.\u2019 It\u2019s just a new updated term, I guess, for ‘chicken hawk.\u2019 Mikulski couldn\u2019t even get that right! She thinks that I was calling dissident military people ‘microphone Marines.\u2019 (sigh) Anyway, the smear continues with this column. How does this idiot keep a job? This guy is a columnist at the Baltimore Sun, and he\u2019s dead wrong. I guess it doesn\u2019t matter. ‘They convince themselves that their outrage-filled rants, disinformation campaigns, and challenge others\u2019 patriotism…\u2019 I\u2019m the one who was called ‘unpatriotic,\u2019 idiot! (tearing up paper) I\u2019m laughing, folks. (laughing) I\u2019m not mad. This is parallel universe time like it\u2019s never been. The other side does not want to get it right. This is a great illustration, folks, of what they use the media monopoly for. They have their narratives; they have their templates. The truth is the most inconvenient thing to them. Fiction is what they need to survive, and in order to sell and peddle fiction, you need a monopoly and they don\u2019t have their monopoly anymore, but they\u2019re still peddling their fiction and they don\u2019t understand how it is destroying them and discrediting them — and, for that, ladies and gentlemen, I celebrate, and I say, ‘I\u2019m happy,\u2019 because it\u2019s succeeding.<\/p>\n

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