Two parts of the speech. Seventy-five percent of the speech was standard Democrat boilerplate against Iraq. It's horrible. Bush is rotten. Everybody got lied to; people are dying; it wasn't worth doing, and then the last fourth of the speech was Kerry's four-point plan for what he would do -- which there was a noticeable loss of enthusiasm among his audience at New York University when he got into that because this is his problem. He's got two elements of his base. You talk about shoring up your...

Well, campaign contributions and TV ads, that's the essence of political speech -- and the federal government moved in with McCain-Feingold to control it on the basis that "money corrupts good people." Yes, if it weren't for the money in politics, why, the people would all be just clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. So get the money out of it and, voila! Our politicians will be saints. Well, the only problem in this is that the federal government by law, by constitutional amendment, cannot...

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RUSH: We are all wondering here, ladies and gentlemen. In light of the forged document scandal at CBS, in which forged documents -- forged documents -- were used to destroy a president of the United States, or to try to, we are waiting for those of you at TIME Magazine. We want to see a cover with Dan Rather on the cover of TIME Magazine, maybe a churlish look on his face with cigar smoke curling out of one corner, with the headline, "Is CBS News Good for America?"
We'd...

Now, get this next two paragraphs. This is on the CBSNews.com website: "According to the Washington Post, the network plans to say it was misled about the authenticity of the documents. The New York Times reports that CBS News officials met Sunday evening with anchor Dan Rather, the reporter of the contested story to discuss the network's next steps." For crying out loud, how do you explain -- I don't know that I have the vocabulary to explain this. Here is CBS News, the Tiffany network, quoting...

Just over the weekend he started trashing Australia and trying to tell them that they're going to die if they stay there. He's trying to unravel the coalition over the weekend and he gives this speech today. He's all all over the ballpark, and the calculation is, and this is a key calculation by the Kerry campaign, the key calculation is that all that he said up to Iraq to this point Sir, all the flip-flops don't matter because nobody's heard them, that only now are serious voters beginning to...

Anyway, "In a 60 minutes Wednesday story about President Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard, CBS News vowed to re-examine the documents in question and their source vigorously, and we promised that we would let the American public know what this examination turned up, whatever the outcome. Now, after extensive additional interviews, I, Dan Rather, no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically. I find we have been misled...