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RUSH: Vinny in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Great to have you with us here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Uncle Rush. I\u2019d like to say that President Clinton, well, the formerly impeached-for-lying president, should put his money where his mouth is, and he should match what you put into the Marine Corps fund, if he\u2019s really not lying. He\u2019s the liar. Hillary Clinton, from the floor of the House, literally regurgitated word-for-word what the impeached president was saying about Iraq. She said it from the Senate floor. She lied about everything, and accuses the president of being a liar.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Every one of these Democrats, except for Obama, is lying about it. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Except for Obama, I think Edwards, too. Edwards did support the war, right? Everybody in the field —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure, he voted for it, just like Hillary —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hillary lied about it, they all lied about this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. And it\u2019s time — and you have brought that out, and you bring it out, and I think that\u2019s why you see these other reporters that are from the left starting to change their motion and writing stories that aren\u2019t in favor of the Clintons. But it\u2019s time to shut the Clintons down and I think you\u2019ve been doing an excellent job at it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. Somebody has to do it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You remember Uncle Sam, right? That\u2019s why I say Uncle Rush because you are the new Voice of America, and I think Benjamin Franklin would be very proud of you today on the same stage as him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I appreciate everything you\u2019ve done for this country, and I\u2019ve been listening for a long time, since \u201992, and my parents are listening right now. I have two nephews who are based out of Fort Benning who listen to you on Armed Services, one of which is the skeet champion of the world, he\u2019s number one, holds the record for a perfect shoot. We have a rich country of people like that, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: And those are the people that make the country work.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They absolutely do. And for people like Clinton, just a disgraced person, it beguiles me to hear him speak in any ill form of our current president, because he is ten times the man, stature and grace that Clinton could have ever been. Clinton wishes at night that he was like President Bush. I met President Bush down in Boca Grand, Florida, where I got the pleasure of shaking his hand and looking straight in his eye, and let me tell you something, that man is not a liar, he\u2019s never lied. And for these people to call him that just goes through me, especially when my nephews are serving under him and all their buddies that are there with them in Iraq.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now I have a better idea why Clinton and his words so upset you, because one thing you mentioned that\u2019s worth repeating, Clinton said, after he was opposed to the war, remember, he says this in the context of criticizing Bush\u2019s tax cuts, he made it sound like he couldn\u2019t support the troops because he didn\u2019t get a tax increase, meaning financial support. We had to go borrow money from other countries, Clinton said, in order to fund the war because people like me — he cannot stop telling people how rich he is, by the way — were not given a tax increase so all he\u2019s gotta do in his mind is sit around. This is what bugs you. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes —<\/p>\n

RUSH: All he\u2019s gotta do is sit around and have the government take a little more money from him and he thinks he\u2019s supporting the troops.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, instead of voluntarily doing it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Like my nephew, who could have gone to any Ivy League school in this country and decided to perform for his country. It\u2019s an amazing story, actually.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know you\u2019re making an excellent point. If Bill Clinton thought it necessary to fund the troops somehow, then write a check.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why sit around?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Just like you. You put your money where your mouth is. Time and time again. I\u2019ve heard you over 15 years now do it and he\u2019s never done it, not once. All they\u2019ve done is bad mouth you. And that makes me sick to my stomach, too. I guess I\u2019ve been listening to you for a long time, and I hear your words, and they\u2019re graceful in every form, and as a matter of fact, I think it was your \u201992 issue, no, \u201994 issue, it was like the big lie or something, they were talking about the \u201994 Congress, and you wrote just an exquisite piece. And then foreseeing in your book, I think it was See, I Told You So, page 155, you actually wrote Algore in the same line as environmental wacko, and you knew back then that he was on the trail to doing what he\u2019s doing today, lying about the environment, you know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re the liars — I just want that straightened out, if anything — not us. We don\u2019t lie. We just put the facts out, just the facts, man.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s what they can\u2019t deal with. The facts are the biggest inconvenience to them in their daily existence. Look, you blow me away here. You\u2019re quoting from my book by page. He\u2019s right. See, I Told You So. Well, I debated Gore on the environment on Nightline in 1990. He was off on the wacko trail back then. It\u2019s interesting, though, that when he became vice president he really didn\u2019t do much about it. He sort of took the low road because he had, of course, to be subservient to the co-presidents and had to put it on hold for awhile. He wrote a couple books back then, but didn\u2019t do much publicly. Look, Vinny, I appreciate that very much. Thank you so much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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