{"id":22816,"date":"2005-08-18T06:45:34","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T10:45:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-28T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:40:53","slug":"rush_sets_record_straight_on_sheehan_s_absolute_moral_authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2005\/08\/18\/rush_sets_record_straight_on_sheehan_s_absolute_moral_authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Sets Record Straight on Sheehan\u2019s “Absolute Moral Authority”"},"content":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Now, I\u2019m going to do something here that I have a policy of not doing, and I want to explain the policy because I hear from people all the time, “Rush, did you hear what they said about you on X?” and they usually cite some cable network or cable show, and normally I haven\u2019t heard about it because I don\u2019t watch it. I gave up watching these things long ago, but I hear about it because I get e-mails from some of you — and many of you ask, “Why don\u2019t you respond? You can\u2019t let these people get away with this! Why don\u2019t you fight?” Folks, everybody takes shots at the guy at the top of the mountain. If I responded to these little ankle biters, these yipping little Chihuahuas out there, it would be all I would do — and all I would do would be elevate them in importance. There are other things to do here far more important than dealing with a bunch of inconsequential wannabe powerbrokers. But there are exceptions to everything, and this has been going on all week and I want to set the record straight once and for all. Now, I don\u2019t expect this to work, because the people who are making erroneous, fallacious, lying comments about things I\u2019ve said on this program don\u2019t even listen to this program, and don\u2019t even go to my website to find out what I say. They rely on little pimple-faced kids that are working at wannabe websites who excerpt this program and others, take them out of context, and that\u2019s what they use as their source material. Yesterday afternoon on Wolf Blitzer\u2019s new show, the Situation Room on CNN, The Forehead appeared, Paul Begala. Jump to audio sound bite #3. Let\u2019s start first with what The Forehead had to say. They were talking about the Cindy Sheehan story, and Wolf said to The Forehead, “Do you think Cindy Sheehan is going too far?”THE FOREHEAD: No. She has a perfect right. She has absolute moral authority. She is a Gold Star Mother. She gave her son\u2019s life for her country, and she has the most position — pristine position — to speak about these things. I think the conservative activists that they\u2019ve talked about are overplaying this in a terrible way. They could be having a legitimate debate over America\u2019s role in Iraq. Some people think we should do more, some less. It\u2019s an honest debate. Instead, they are attacking her personally. Rush Limbaugh, who is very close personally to George W. Bush and very close to the White House, has gone on his radio show and alleged that she\u2019s making this up [sic]. He said, “Oh she\u2019s just like the guy who forged documents allegedly about President Bush and the National Guard.” That\u2019s not true. She\u2019s not making this up. Her son actually died.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, is this not patently absurd on its face? I\u2019m making it up? She doesn\u2019t have a son? She doesn\u2019t have a son who died in Iraq? Begala will read this on some third-rate partisan website and will believe it, will not even check it out? Wolf Blitzer said, “Making what up?” and Begala came back with this:<\/p>\n

THE FOREHEAD: You gotta ask Rush. He\u2019s suggested that she\u2019s making it up, that her son died [sic]. They\u2019re attacking her personally instead of attacking her position on the war. You cannot ever win attacking a Gold Star Mother personally.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And Bay Buchanan, also clueless, agreed with Begala that you cannot attack a Gold Star Mother personally. Let\u2019s go back. I\u2019m going to play for you the excerpt. I\u2019ve got two excerpts here and then other comments. Let\u2019s go back to August 12th on this program, and when I first discussed Cindy Sheehan. I had not even discussed it prior to then, prior to that moment, because I think it\u2019s a sad situation all the way around what\u2019s happened to her, and the influences that have been exerted on her and the way she is being used. I think it\u2019s despicable on the part of the left the way they\u2019re doing things. I avoided it, but I got a phone call about it. I got a phone call and the guy told me what he thought about Cindy Sheehan and wanted my reaction. This is August 12th, and here\u2019s what I said:<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I find it difficult to be critical of Cindy Sheehan. I think she\u2019s a woman who lost her son, and I know there have been a lot of people lose their kids in war, and I don\u2019t care who they are, it\u2019s not easy, and people deal with it in their own ways. I think the real shame here is her exploitation by the Democrats, by John Conyers. John Conyers dragged her to his impeachment meeting over the Downing Street memos. They have made her a star in her own mind and this attention that she\u2019s getting, I\u2019m sure, is helping to assuage her loss. The media is exploiting her like she is a genuine spontaneous eruption. They are not telling the truth about how this woman has been shepherded by Joe Wilson. There are pictures of her with Joseph Wilson — yes, of Valerie Plame fame. She has showed up at all these anti-war rallies. She was an anti-war mother before any of this began to happen — and speaking of Valerie Plame, I think the Valerie Plame story flamed out and they had to have something come up to replace it, just like Richard Clarke failed and he flamed out and then the Jersey Girls flamed out and then after that Valerie Plame flamed out. They had nothing on Rove; they\u2019ve got to fill the vacuum. It\u2019s right out of the playbook. They\u2019ve got to fill the vacuum. Bill Burkett it\u2019s all part of the same playbook. It\u2019s all part of the same strategery out of the left.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you heard it, August 12th: “I think she\u2019s a woman who lost her son, I don\u2019t care who they are, it\u2019s not easy.”<\/strong> Okay, so there it is, August 12th. I find this patently absurd that this is even necessary. Now, here is a bite from August 15th, three days later, and this is the bite that I contend is being taken out of context because I first said on August 12th and in ensuing days, acknowledged she lost her son, talked about it, was even sympathetic and then went on to make the point that all she is, is an opportunity, like Bill Burkett was an opportunity to bash Bush, like the Jersey Girls are an opportunity to bash Bush, like Valerie Plame is an opportunity to bash Bush and bash Rove. Like the Jersey Girls were, she\u2019s just the next in line, and here\u2019s what I said on August 15th.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE AUGUST 15, 2005: The fact is that they are too eager. I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents. There\u2019s nothing about it that\u2019s a real, including the mainstream media\u2019s glomming onto it. It\u2019s not real.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. That is what is being taken out of context. When I say, “Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett, her story is nothing more than forged documents, there\u2019s nothing about it that\u2019s real including the mainstream media\u2019s glomming onto it,” meaning the whole thing is staged. The whole event is staged. I have just said three days earlier and every day hence that she lost her son, and anybody who cares to research my website and listen to this program knows it. To then put out a message that I think she\u2019s lying about her son even being alive, that she didn\u2019t have a son, and she didn\u2019t have a son that died in Iraq, shows the desperation and the depths to which the people on the left will go to discredit people like me who they consider are their enemies because they cannot beat us in the arena of ideas. They cannot answer what I am saying about Cindy Sheehan. They can\u2019t answer what my accusations about the way she\u2019s being used are. They don\u2019t dare even go there, so they have to try to discredit me in the eyes of people who may not listen to this program or other people in the media who are supposedly reporters, who are supposedly curious, who supposedly would want to get to the bottom of this. If something like that is really being said, find out about it. But nooooo! Just accept what happens to be written in other places on the World Wide Web. The real interesting thing to me is these people are totally ignoring what Cindy Sheehan is saying. She is, apparently, their story. She is their God\u2019s gift that\u2019s just been handed to them to keep the Bush bash-up and in rhythm, and they ignore what she is saying, and they want to focus on everybody who\u2019s criticizing the whole element of movement that surrounds this Cindy Sheehan story — and to me they\u2019re missing all of that on purpose. They don\u2019t want any scrutiny of what Sheehan is saying.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why they come up with this asinine indefensible phrase that she has “absolute moral authority.” Because she lost a son in Iraq, she can criticize anybody and lie and say whatever she wants, as can her supporters, but nobody can call attention to her lies or the way she\u2019s being used because she has absolutely moral authority? Is that what we\u2019ve come to now? You lose a son or a daughter in Iraq and you are insulated from criticism and you have a license to lie as long as you\u2019re doing it about George W. Bush? What is this “absolute moral authority” business? These people are tattering, folks. They\u2019re shredding. They\u2019re coming apart intellectually, emotionally, and every which way. They have no substance whatsoever that backs them up. They\u2019re standing in quicksand as I\u2019ve always been saying — and they know it, and they\u2019re lashing out. The thing that\u2019s got them upset is that Sheehan is not working. It\u2019s not affecting anything. It\u2019s not changing public opinion. It is not affecting Bush\u2019s policy one way or another, one iota, and so they just continue to get more extreme and outrageous, and try to discredit the critics. Here\u2019s the latest that we\u2019ve learned about Cindy Sheehan. This is from a speech that she made during a rally at San Francisco State University April 27, 2005. I can\u2019t repeat all of this because it\u2019s profane and obscene. She said, “We\u2019re not waging a war on terror in this country. We\u2019re waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush.” She\u2019s got absolute moral authority, so you can\u2019t question that, folks. Sheehan is demanding a second meeting with Bush. She said, “We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now.” We can\u2019t question this. She has absolute moral authority.<\/p>\n

“They\u2019re a bunch of [bleep]ing hypocrites, and we just need to rise up…” Sheehan said of the Bush administration. “If George Bush believes his rhetoric and his b– s—,” and she said the word, “that this is a war for freedom and democracy, that he\u2019s spreading freedom and democracy, does he think every person he kills makes Iraq more free? The whole world is damaged. Our humanity is damaged. If he thinks that it\u2019s so important for Iraq to have a US-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two party-animal girls. They need to go to this war,” and of course the left thinks that\u2019s a brilliant analogy: “[A]ren?t willing to send your own children, or if you\u2019re not willing to go die yourself, then you bring there rest of our kids home now. It is despicable what they\u2019re [blanking] doing.” We can\u2019t question this. She has absolute moral authority. Nobody focuses on what she\u2019s saying. They don\u2019t dare. All they do is tell you she\u2019s an out-of-sorts mom who desperately wants to meet with Bush, but Bush is so mean and insensitive he doesn\u2019t care and he\u2019s avoiding her because he\u2019s afraid of her. But when you get into the specifics of this they don\u2019t hold up and they can\u2019t handle it and so they have to start lying about people like me and discrediting people like me, but they fail each time they do it because they\u2019re lying. Their whole movement, all of their efforts, are based on lies. They can\u2019t even be honest about who they are. They can\u2019t be honest about what their plans for the country are. They can\u2019t be honest about anything, folks, because if they were they\u2019d be finished for good.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: My adopted hometown, Sacramento, California. Hi, Leo. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, how are you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just fine, Leo. Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I just wanted to comment on that situation with Ms. Sheehan. Ms. Sheehan can speak for herself, but Terri Schiavo couldn\u2019t, and I\u2019m just saying politicians will use this, political groups will use any issue that a grieving parent has, depending on which side of the political aisle they\u2019re on, and this is not much different than what happened with Terri Schiavo. It\u2019s just being used. But don\u2019t blame the mother for her grief and that her mindset might be to use any group that she can use to get her point across.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait! Wait a second. Wait a second. Here we go with more left-wing moral equivalence. I thought that you people thought that she was dead anyway? I thought Terri Schiavo was dead and wasn\u2019t worth any of this. I mean, this is absurd. This is classic. I make a point that you can\u2019t defend and you have to come up with Schiavo and then you say, “Don\u2019t be critical of Sheehan and her grief”? Where does she get this immunity? Where in the world did she come up with this immunity? You didn\u2019t give Schiavo immunity. You didn\u2019t have any compassion for Terri Schiavo whatsoever. You can\u2019t cite to me the number of times Republicans do this kind of thing. I\u2019ll tell you the major difference, Leo. When the Republicans tried to defend the life of Terri Schiavo, the media didn\u2019t join them and the media didn\u2019t promote them and the media didn\u2019t give them moral authority. The media was with the Democrats and the rest of you liberals opposing any opportunity to find out if Terri Schiavo had a life that was worth living. You couldn\u2019t care less. You wanted to condemn that woman: She may as well have been dead. You call here and want to draw some kind of comparative analogy to the two things. You know damn well if you have any shred of intellectual honesty in you that this whole Sheehan thing is a setup — and if you listen to me carefully, I have not criticized Sheehan. I have criticized the media for exploiting her. I have been crystal clear on this, and once again the fact that you can\u2019t respond to what\u2019s right in front of your face and going right into your head via your ears is proof positive to me that you guys are actually on the defensive while you think you\u2019re on the offensive in scoring points out here. This is just breathtaking to watch and to listen to this. Give me another example besides Schiavo. Where in the world are these efforts that Republicans use to come up with citizens that are out there telling lies about other people and having it promoted? You know, it\u2019s absurd. If you want to talk about the difference here, look at the people that you champion. Look at the causes that you champion. You\u2019re basically just championing an anti-Bush cause in the case of Cindy Sheehan. Condemning little kids like Elian Gonzales to go back to a Soviet-inspired gulag in Cuba, and you want the mantle of compassion and big-heartedness. You guys think you deserve this. It\u2019s like I said the other day: “This country\u2019s got a big challenge ahead and that\u2019s keeping you people from ever ending up in positions of leadership running this country.”<\/p>\n

Suzanne in Bloomfield, New Jersey, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I just wanted to say that as a fan of the show, when I hear the lies about you in the mainstream media, it doesn\u2019t make me mad; it makes me smile because it just proves to me once again over and over every single time that lies and deception are all they have. Never — never once — have I heard anything that was attempting to represent your position that was accurate, and people that listen to the show should just sit back and think it\u2019s funny and say, “See, all they\u2019ve got are deception.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I have the same attitude you do 99% of the time. I think it\u2019s just a testament to the effectiveness of this program, quite frankly, when they have to go lying about it and distorting it and I sit back and smile, and I was telling some people last night, “You know, the current media stories are that I am somehow fading away now. The arrival of liberal talk radio has caused the bloom to come off the Limbaugh rose,” and yet you cannot read a major newspaper or watch a cable news network without my name being mentioned, and I am the gold standard for apparently what the right-wing thinks and says — and they have to lie about what I\u2019m saying. It\u2019s just a testament to my effectiveness, is how I look at it, but I can also understand people watching this getting fed up at it, and so now and then it is time to respond to some of it — especially something as egregious as this, being accused of saying she\u2019s lying about having a son who didn\u2019t die in Iraq. I mean, at some point you can\u2019t let certain things stand, and you pick your spots, as I just did.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Richard Dreyfuss, the actor — yip yip yip yip yahoo, yes — and he was in California at a protest supporting Cindy Sheehan, and here is a small portion. It\u2019s all you need to hear, to get the gist of it.
\nDREYFUSS: No one should come for my son and tell my son to go and kill someone or put himself in harm\u2019s way unless I understand and agree to the need.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, Richard, what do you think is going on out there, the draft? You think people are stealing into your backyard under cover of darkness and knocking on your door when nobody is home and going in and stealing your son? What a blithering idiot. You know, these people think they\u2019re brilliant and they think they\u2019re making these sentimental and very serious, deep thoughts and points, and they just don\u2019t get it. They don\u2019t see how they\u2019re perceived; they continue to just make absolute idiots of themselves. Now, this morning — back to CNN — on their morning show, Miles O\u2019Brien, talked to Debbie Argel Bastian. Her son, Captain Derek Argel, died in Iraq. The question was, “What concerns did you have when you heard that your son\u2019s name was on one of those crosses — not down in Crawford, a different location, but similar kind of thing. What were your concerns about that?”<\/p>\n

MOTHER BASTIAN: My son Derek fully believed that everyone has the right to protest and express their opinion, but our family very much objects to the fact that, you know, after my son\u2019s death that his name be used in this way. He would never have participated in any sort of an anti-war protest, and it\u2019s our understanding that there is a name on a cross in Crawford, Texas, as well. It came up on a website. My son was very much in favor of President Bush and the Bush administration and had great respect for him as commander-in-chief. Derek was a special escort for Mrs. Bush when she made her trip to Iraq and Afghanistan and for the president and for the US ambassador to Iraq, and it\u2019s just inappropriate not to ask the families.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They don\u2019t care about the families. That\u2019s the whole point! They don\u2019t care a whit about the families, folks. They don\u2019t care about Cindy Sheehan\u2019s son, and they don\u2019t really care about her. They care about the opportunity. You know who these people are? They are just plain miserable and unhappy. They get up every day and they are miserable. They only make themselves feel good by sharing their misery with others and spreading it around. They are made to feel good when they make other people feel miserable. They have to go out and lie as this woman has pointed out, and appropriate members of their so-called protest that would not choose to be if they had a voice — and a little side note: What is this about crosses? I thought these people were against religious symbols being posted anywhere on public land, and yet here they come. When they want to bash Bush, when they want to take the opportunity here to try to move the bar a little bit and gin up anti-war support in America, what do they do? They go out and use a bunch of crosses and act like they\u2019re religious, and act like this is solemn. Well, you put a cross in your yard or erect a Nativity scene in these people\u2019s neighborhood and you see what happens to it. I mean, the hypocrisy and the shame here, is off the charts. Last night, Christopher Hitchens — this was sort of funny — was on Hardball. Norah O\u2019Donnell (she of the bathwater that you probably would drink), was co-hosting for Chris Matthews, and Christopher Hitchens who has written about the folly of this whole argument that people who lose sons and daughters in war have some sort of moral authority. one) He fired both barrels last night. Howard Fineman was also on the panel along with Norah O\u2019Donnell, and it was plain — and we can\u2019t show you this because it\u2019s audio — but when Hitchens launched into some of his comments about Cindy Sheehan, you could see the blank looks of stunned shock and surprise on the faces of Norah O\u2019Donnell and Fineman. It was like either they can\u2019t believe he\u2019s saying this or they don\u2019t know this about Sheehan. I assume that it\u2019s the latter. Here\u2019s the first question. “Cindy Sheehan, been camped outside Bush\u2019s ranch now demanding a meeting with the president, saying she won\u2019t leave \u2019til that happens. Christopher, do you think that this represents and that she represents some sort of tipping point in public opinion in America?”<\/p>\n

HITCHENS: Certainly not. She has, just today, lied about a statement that she made several times before to the effect that her son was killed in a war run by a secret Jewish cabal within the administration. She now says she didn\u2019t make that statement. She did make that statement. So as well as being a hysterical paranoid ideologist, or at least being manipulated by people who are, she turned this into camp fruit-bag and camp nut-bag. She has decided not to have the courage, or maybe the cowardice of her convictions. She now says she didn\u2019t make a statement that she definitely did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When Hitchens mentioned the fact that she\u2019s accused “a secret Jewish cabal” of running the war, that\u2019s when everybody else on the panel\u2019s faces fell. Like, “We didn\u2019t know that! We didn\u2019t!” Of course, you don\u2019t know that, you\u2019re reporters! You don\u2019t know diddlysquat. You reporters couldn\u2019t have any less knowledge when you were trying to be ignorant about things. I don\u2019t know where it is you get your information, but it\u2019s all over the place. It\u2019s in countless places on the Internet, for example, that you apparently never go. I think news has become something nothing other, actually, than a giant… I\u2019ve gotta watch my language. The first word is “circle;” the second word begins with a “J.” They\u2019re sitting around talking to each other. They\u2019re sitting around trying to impress each other, and they all think the same thing. They all say the same thing. They\u2019re trying to say it in more creative, different ways, and they\u2019re all trying to get to the head of the class by being the one that moves the ball forward. There\u2019s so much out there. That\u2019s why they\u2019re losing audience. There\u2019s so much news that they don\u2019t even know. They come to the Sheehan story; she\u2019s the latest Jersey Girl, the latest Bill Burkett. “She is infallible! She has moral authority. You can\u2019t criticize her,” and of course nothing she says is to be held against her because she is in the throes of grief. “How dare you, Christopher, say this!” What they do is they end up embarrassing themselves. They end up being uninformed, unaware — and more than that, uncaring when they find out that there are some bits of information contradictory to what they are saying. One more bite. O\u2019Donnell says, “So, you think there\u2019s going to be a huge backlash against Cindy Sheehan?”<\/p>\n

HITCHENS: Well, I think there should be. I think our profession should stop acting as her megaphone. Until I published her real political opinions in Slate yesterday, she had to answer no more questions than, “How does it feel?” OK? I object. I shouldn\u2019t have had to do that. I said, “This woman is mouthing the most sinister piffle from Michael Moore and David Duke. She should be held responsible for what she thinks.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Christopher, what makes you think your pals on the left are going to do this? She\u2019s too valuable to discredit. Doing what you suggest would be to blow her up and blow up the whole opportunity, would cause her to flame out. They can\u2019t afford that. They\u2019ve got to get Bush somehow. They\u2019ve got to move the ball. They\u2019ve got to create all this anti-war sentiment. She\u2019s the latest vehicle to do so. There is a backlash, and it\u2019s already happening. I talked about it yesterday, and the backlash is being caused by saturation coverage. The American people are fed up with it. They don\u2019t want to hear it, not in that context. I\u2019m sure this audience loves all this being nuked to smithereens, as it should be, and put in its proper context and perspective. But they don\u2019t want to hear the media\u2019s idolatry. They don\u2019t want to hear the media talking about this woman has God\u2019s gift to humanity and America and she should run for office. It\u2019s not what the American people want to hear. The American people don\u2019t want us to lose the war in Iraq. The American people want us to be dishonored. The American people don\u2019t think a Jewish cabal is running anything. The American people don\u2019t think this is a war about oil. If this were a war for oil you know how easy it would be, ladies and gentlemen, for George Bush to get oil? We\u2019re in Qatar, right? We have an airbase in Qatar. That\u2019s where the actual theater of operations is being run. We just claim it! We just say, “Qatar is ours.” I\u2019m sorry, “Cutter,” for those of you in the mainstream press. “Cutter is ours.” What are the imams and the leaders of Qatar going to do? We just take it.<\/p>\n

Same thing with Kuwait: “Hey, Kuwait, you know we bailed you out of the fire enough times. We\u2019re taking your oil,” and we wouldn\u2019t have to go to war at all to get it. It\u2019s so patently absurd. The intellectual absurdity of all these arguments never once analyzed, thought of, or challenged by the people who are indeed acting as the megaphone and that\u2019s why they\u2019re losing their credibility left and right, and that\u2019s why in the face of genuine, legitimate criticism such as from me or Hitchens, they have to then resort by discrediting the critic, lying about the critic, taking things the critic didn\u2019t say, amplifying them as lies, to try to distort the message of truth that is being said — and it\u2019s been their line of attack with me for 15 years, and of course we\u2019d have to say, based on election results and other obvious factors that their effort to nail me has failed every which way from Sunday that they\u2019ve tried, and it will fail here as it always has in the last say ten to 15 years. The gig\u2019s up for these guys and they just don\u2019t know it. Eh, maybe they do and they\u2019re trying to stop it and forestall it which causes them to get even more extreme and just continue to shout the same things, figuring we\u2019re too stupid to figure it out and that\u2019s how they cause the backlash.<\/p>\n

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