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RUSH: This is from July 6. This is our old buddy Tammy May from Pleasant Gap, Pennsylvania. Bob Casey, Senator from Pennsylvania, was on the floor of the Senate, and C-SPAN, was covering this. This is during Ben Bernanke\u2019s delivery of the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report before the Banking Committee, and this is what Senator Bob Casey said about one of his constituents. <\/p>\n

CASEY: Tammy May, a single mother of two in Pleasant Gap, Pennsylvania, probably said it best in just one line. I\u2019m quoting here. She\u2019s a single mother of two. Quote, ‘Pretty much we have reprioritized. The house payment is first, then day care, then we worry about gas, then food,\u2019 unquote. In light of that economic misery that I\u2019ve just highlighted, how do we deal with this question of what is a recession and what it isn\u2019t; and do we need some new definitions and some new terminology to better define what\u2019s happening to real families and real people?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Asking this question of Bernanke, who is the fed chief, and he\u2019s quoting from a newspaper story of the lovely and gracious Tammy May, the single mother of two, who has reprioritized. Now, I heard about this from just a friend of mine who sent me a note, a very sketchy note, did not explain any of the details, but I assume from the note that Casey had read a letter from a constituent. So that is what we went with. Then when I later found out during the show, ‘No, no, no. She didn\u2019t send a letter to Casey. It was in a newspaper story that Casey found.\u2019 I said, ‘Okay, now, we got it right.\u2019 The point is that we then discussed the reprioritizing of Tammy May, and I did raise questions. She put food last; she put housing first. Now, it turns out she did not write a letter to the editor of the newspaper. She was quoted in a story. Well, this is July 6 this happened. <\/p>\n

Last Friday, an info babe reporterette from the newspaper, the Central Daily Times, Anne Danahy (she wrote the original article, too) called the EIB offices at the EIB Building in New York and wanted to talk to me about this, from July 6 to July, whatever it was, 25th, 26th, whatever Friday was. I was on the way out. I didn\u2019t have a chance to speak to her, and I knew it didn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s the Drive-By Media, local Drive-Bys. So here is the story that ran yesterday in the Central Daily Times, or Centre Daily Times by Anne Danahy: ‘Limbaugh Quotes Local Woman, Misrepresents Her Comments — When a mother of two in Pleasant Gap agreed to talk to a reporter about an article on rising costs, she didn\u2019t know her comments would end up on the Rush Limbaugh show. Or that they would be misrepresented. <\/p>\n

‘Tammy May was quoted in an article that appeared in the Centre Daily Times July 6. She talked about how she is trying to handle the rising prices of gas and food along with the cost of housing and child care. US Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., saw the article, and read May\u2019s comments aloud during a July 15 hearing with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke. From there it made its way onto Limbaug\u2019s [sic] syndicated radio show. While Casey said he was quoting from a CDT article, Limbaugh initially said May\u2019s comments were made in a letter she wrote to Casey…\u2019 This is what I was originally told and we were at the seat of our pants with this \u2019cause the point was it didn\u2019t matter, you know, how Casey ended up with this, whether she had written it or whether she was in a news story and we didn\u2019t focus on this. We focused on what she actually said.<\/p>\n

It was brought to our attention not by the Centre Daily Times, but rather by Senator Casey; and Senator Casey did quote her accurately, however and wherever it appeared. But what this story is about is correcting the errors that were made by me because we were on the fly here and didn\u2019t have a chance to check out what we thought were not the unimportant details. What she said was what\u2019s unimportant. So I said, in fact, May didn\u2019t write a letter. ‘She was contacted by a reporter, and in response to the reporter\u2019s questions said she is cutting corners where possible. ‘Pretty much we have reprioritized,\u2019 May said. ‘The house payment is first, then day care, then we worry about gas, then food.\u2019 Limbaugh jumped on that. ‘This constituent of Bob Casey\u2019s put food last on her list of new priorities,\u2019 Limbaugh said, according to the transcript. <\/p>\n

‘While May is trying to save money, she didn\u2019t say she isn\u2019t budgeting enough for food. Likewise, she wasn\u2019t asking Casey for help, as Limbaugh suggested. He also suggested she wrote the letter to tell others how to reorder their priorities.\u2019 Well, what does ‘we need to reorder our priorities\u2019 mean? What is this, we need to reorder our priorities? I don\u2019t care if she said it in a letter to the editor or as a quote talking to a Drive-By info babe. ‘Limbaugh\u2019s chief of staff, Kit Carson in New York, said while they regret the improper sourcing of the information, ‘our discussion of the issues, values and politics surrounding the story is something that he stands by,” and I do. ‘When asked about it May said, ‘It\u2019s just a shame that he took that and made it into something it\u2019s really not. He doesn\u2019t even know me.” <\/p>\n

Now, look. Their grievance, I\u2019m telling you, their grievance here is with Casey because Casey is the one who read her comments to the Federal Reserve chief: ‘We need to reprioritize. Pretty much we have reprioritized, the house payment is first then day care,\u2019 and Bob Casey was using her comment to try to convince Bernanke and anybody else who was listening just exactly how rotten the US economy is, how hopeless and horrible it is. A single mother with two is having to put food last, that was his point.\u2019 And using people is something the Democrat party has excelled at. Usually they parade \u2019em up to the Senate or House of Representatives as visual and personal props. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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