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RUSH: Okay, Ginni Thomas is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Ginni Thomas is starting a website based on a tea party. The LA Times ran a hit piece on her Sunday, and the LA Times basically said, ‘She can\u2019t do that, why, what about the impartiality of her husband now? Why, everything that she does we\u2019re going to be thinking he\u2019s doing it, too.\u2019 This is absolutely silly, and it\u2019s purposeful. Do you know that Ramona Ripston retired from the ACLU after 28 or so years of heading the damn thing. For 28 of those years — well, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s all 28 — but for a whole lot of those years, her husband is on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, is the most leftist radical judge on that circus, his name is Stephen Reinhardt. Stephen Reinhardt\u2019s married to the head honcho of the ACLU and not once was his impartiality ever questioned. Oh, no, and she was praised as a liberal lion, and he\u2019s always written up that way, too. <\/p>\n

<\/a>So here\u2019s Ginni Thomas, who has her own life history of being involved as an activist in conservative causes, all of a sudden with a hit piece in the LA Times. This is why, by the way, the LA Times is losing readers: its content, content, content. They are trying to besmirch Ginni Thomas by pointing out that she likes me. This is little Ricky Sanchez on CNN yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

SANCHEZ: She has started her own tea party branch, loves Rush Limbaugh, refers to the president of the United States\u2019s administration as a hard-left agenda. Usually the wife of a justice, a Supreme Court justice, would not take such a public position. But that does not stop Virginia Thomas, who is publicly, if not downright aggressively taking on the left, taking on the president, and fighting for all causes from the right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. But, of course, not allowed, the liberals can do this. You know, the wives, husbands of liberal judges, they can be all over the place. Here\u2019s Nina Totenberg. This is on NPR\u2019s Morning Edition today, Linda Wertheimer is the host here, and it\u2019s sort of a montage.<\/p>\n

WERTHEIMER: Thomas\u2019 new role is raising questions about potential conflicts of interest for her husband.<\/p>\n

TOTENBERG: She was a top aide to Republican House leader Dick Armey, and in 2000 while Bush v. Gore was before the Supreme Court, she was working at the conservative Heritage Foundation helping to recruit staff for a possible Bush administration. Thomas describes herself as a fan of Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. This is not hurting her, Nina. Anybody associated with me is only elevated in stature. You\u2019re not hurting her; you\u2019re not hurting her cause. You people at the LA Times and you people at CNN and you people at NPR have given her the greatest gift possible. You have let the whole country know that there is a website out there pushing to save America that they didn\u2019t know about, you\u2019re creating all kinds of traffic for it, all kinds of curiosity. Ginni Thomas minding her own business one day, she started this thing in January, she started putting it together in January. Only now in the middle of March did the LA Times hear about it, and now they\u2019re having conniption fits out there while in the process making it known to virtually everybody. And, as I say, it\u2019s not going to hurt her or her website in the slightest. Here\u2019s Jonathan Turley. He was on MSNBC last night, Lawrence O\u2019Donnell was guest hosting. ‘Did you ever think it could come to this? The wife of a Supreme Court justice appearing at an anti-tax rally on tax day, the day when the government collects most of the money it uses to pay her husband\u2019s salary?\u2019<\/p>\n

TURLEY: It\u2019s, in a word, injudicious. I mean you\u2019re talking about spouses of justices who don\u2019t fall directly under the ethics rules but the fact that this is news is an example of the self-restraint used by most spouses previously. I mean this is not much to expect for spouses of justices, there\u2019s only nine of them, to try to refrain from direct political involvement, particularly to start a group like this so far into her husband\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Come on. For crying out loud, she\u2019s worked at the Heritage Foundation. She has worked at Hillsdale College. She helped recruit and educate members of Congress, she\u2019s been a legislative assistant, she has helped members of Congress, Republicans, come up with arguments to sell issues. They know all this. Besides, I thought women were supposed to seek their own identities? I thought the feminists had taught us that this is exactly what women should be doing, that they should not be appendages of their husband, that their husband should be appendages of them, uh, if you can picture that. Anyway, what happened to all that? Do you think that Ginni Thomas is the first spouse of a judge? Ramona Ripston at the ACLU, for crying out loud, with her husband on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. So they\u2019re squealing like stuck pigs. They will always tell us what they\u2019re afraid of, and they\u2019re doing it here.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: To all of you leftists in the media out there who are just beside yourselves that Virginia Thomas, wife of a Supreme Court justice, is starting her own website and that is oriented toward causes that are designed to save this country from the American left: Do you remember the name Hillary Clinton? Hillary Clinton was a spouse. She was a spouse, not of a Supreme Court justice. Hillary Clinton was the spouse of the president of the United States, and because the president of the United States had had dalliances with several women from trailer parks and television studios and pancake houses and so forth, she exacted a price. She got to play a role in policy in order to stay married and present the happy couple face. You don\u2019t think there was something unseemly about that? Hillary Clinton was a spouse and last time I looked she\u2019s the secretary of state and her husband\u2019s an ex-president, and he\u2019s running around making speeches all over the place. Where do you guys find the ability to draw the line here when it comes to Clarence Thomas and his wife? They will always tell us who they fear. They\u2019ll always tell us what they fear. It\u2019s obvious that this just terrifies them. They\u2019re scared to death. If they didn\u2019t care about it, they wouldn\u2019t be going for it. They wouldn\u2019t be going after Ginni Thomas. It\u2019s only helping her. This is what they never understand. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Has anybody ever heard of Tom and Linda Daschle? Tom Daschle was the Senate majority leader, and at the time his wife was a lobbyist working on things that came under, of course, his own work. And they said, ‘Oh, no conflict here! No, no, no. Don\u2019t worry about it.\u2019 Nobody had a care in the world about it. How many members of the media are married to elected officials, or how many members of the media have spouses who work for the media? I know one spouse. I know one CNN infobabe. Her husband was a prime advisor to Jane Harman. They\u2019re since divorced, but I don\u2019t think Jane Harman had anything to do with it. I mean, the resolving door between media and government spouses (non-spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, mistresses, for crying out loud) is all over. It\u2019s incestuous in that town. <\/p>\n

All of a sudden Ginni Thomas is going to start a website and the world\u2019s coming to an end. No, the world is coming to an end because of Barack Hussein Obama, who is essentially a Third World president — and what I mean by that is that he\u2019s willing to destroy his own country to save face like a Kim Jong-il or a Castro or a Hugo Chavez. All to save face. Health care is not even about health care anymore. It\u2019s not about insurance premiums. It\u2019s not about expanded coverage. It\u2019s about massive tax increases and saving Obama\u2019s face, so that when he looks himself in the mirror he still loves himself. Now, Nina Totenberg. Nina Totenberg is out there saying, ‘Wow, this is unseemly. We can\u2019t have the wife of a Supreme Court justice involved in partisan politics.\u2019 She\u2019s so concerned, so concerned that Ginni Thomas might create a conflict. This is a reporter, Nina Totenberg, was married to an ex-senator: Floyd Haskell. <\/p>\n

She was married to ex-Senator Floyd Haskell. There\u2019s no conflict there, right? She is best friends with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Nina Totenberg, a reporter at NPR, is best friends with one of the most liberal justices on the court. She\u2019s a parent. She has a kid. She\u2019s involved with Americans for Democratic Action, and she\u2019s a reporter concerned about conflicts? So what should Ginni Thomas do? Where does this end? If she has money invested in real estate and stock, does that mean there\u2019s a conflict whenever issues involving real estate and stocks are before the Supreme Court? What if she is a lawyer who works on anti-trust cases? Does that mean there\u2019s a conflict whenever an anti-trust case comes before the court? The Ramona Ripston- Stephen Reinhardt marriage was no conflict to the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, was it? How about as a taxpayer? Does that mean whenever a case is before the court that involves taxes, that there is a conflict, if Ginni Thomas pays taxes? I mean, it\u2019s just absurd on every level. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Quickly to Houston, this is Preston. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It seems to me that the LA Times just told Ginni Thomas to sit down, shut up, and get in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Exactly right. Who does she think she is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Doesn\u2019t she know that she is imperiling the US Supreme Court? (sigh) Fat chance. Anyway, folks, they are running around like stuck pigs. Nothing\u2019s going the way it was supposed to go. Health care was supposed to happen last August, if not earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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