{"id":23790,"date":"2006-09-11T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:20:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:20:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:20:25","slug":"bush_s_letter_to_keller_vs_clinton_s_letter_to_iger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/09\/11\/bush_s_letter_to_keller_vs_clinton_s_letter_to_iger\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush\u2019s Letter to Keller vs. Clinton\u2019s Letter to Iger"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: I\u2019m holding, ladies and gentlemen, in my nicotine-stained fingers an interesting little story from New York magazine. There\u2019s lots of juicy stuff in this story, and a whole lot of this hasn\u2019t been picked up on yet because it\u2019s been overwhelmed by the remembrances today on 9\/11, but the editor in this story, Bill Keller, New York Times editor, says he &#8220;felt justified in publishing the leak on the National Security Agency\u2019s foreign surveillance program in part because the Bush administration had lost credibility,&#8221; and the Times couldn\u2019t give them less benefit of the doubt. Now, to set the table for you on this, the Bush administration brought Keller in there to the White House. Cheney was with them, and I forget who else was in there. <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/kellerigerbushclinton.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>But Bill Keller, the editor, Little Pinch was in the room, and somebody else from New York, maybe the bureau chief, Washington bureau chief, came in, and Bush implored them. New York magazine, in fact, has got a cover that replicates the New York Times front page, and Bush told Bill Keller, &#8220;You\u2019re going to have blood on your hands.&#8221; If you run this story, you are going to have blood on your hands because you\u2019re going to compromise a program that is working, and that\u2019s when Keller says, &#8220;We listened for a week, and we thought about it for a week, but we decided the Bush administration lost credibility and so we didn\u2019t know whether to believe him.&#8221;<\/line><BR\/>Well, what a cheap, childish, lowball thing to say. Why has the Bush administration lost credibility, Bill? You think you might have had something to do that, you and your buddies in the Drive-By Media? Here\u2019s Keller\u2019s quote. &#8220;&#8216;There was an erosion of the administration\u2019s credibility, not just with us, but with the public as more and more was revealed including in the New York Times, by the way, about the use of intelligence in the run-up to the war. As time passed,\u2019 added Mr. Keller, &#8216;they\u2019ve demonstrated that they\u2019re entitled to somewhat less benefit of the doubt.'&#8221; All right. Now, this provides an opportunity for an interesting comparison. Here you have the New York Times runs a leak, runs a story based on a leak of the National Security Agency\u2019s foreign surveillance program. <\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/> The Drive-By Media and everybody, lying about it, the Democrat Party calling it domestic spy program, creating the impression that President Bush actually goes somewhere and listens to your phone calls. Whatever you\u2019re saying to whoever, just wants to spy on you because Bush doesn\u2019t want you to have freedom and Bush doesn\u2019t want you to have civil rights and Bush doesn\u2019t want you to have human rights. He did all that even before he sent the hurricane to New Orleans to destroy it and the levees. They\u2019re out there creating all of this, and then they lament and whine that there\u2019s this loss of credibility. But what did Bush do? Bush brought \u2019em in. You\u2019re going to have blood on your hands. Don\u2019t do this. The program is succeeding. We\u2019re having tremendous success. <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/kellerigerbushclinton.Par.0010.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"379\" height=\"238\" class=\"alignright\"\/>It wasn\u2019t long after that, they leaked a story about how we\u2019d successfully interrupted the financial resupply lines of terrorists throughout the world. Now, let\u2019s compare that, Bush brings in the editors and the publisher of the New York Times and says please, don\u2019t do this. You\u2019re going to compromise a great program and you\u2019re going to have blood on your hands. ABC-Disney announces they\u2019re going to run The Path to 9\/11. It gets screened in Washington, DC, for a bunch of people. Amongst those seeing it are a bunch of Democrats. By the way, all this talk that I got this started is bohunk, because Richard Ben-Veniste saw this before I did, and Richard Ben-Veniste and one of his aides threatened the writer and the producer with action if they went forward with this. So the Democrats saw this. All this talk about Clinton hasn\u2019t seen it and all that, it was screened for a whole bunch of Democrats, including members of the 9\/11 Commission in Washington at the press club long before I ever saw. <\/line><BR\/> But that\u2019s just a side point. They screened the movie. The movie is about to air, and Bill Clinton sends his own four-page letter to Bob Iger at ABC, and then Clinton\u2019s lawyers send another letter threatening action and Sandy Burglar gets on the phone and says, &#8220;You can\u2019t fix it, just yank it&#8221; and then Senate Democrats send a letter to Bob Iger at Disney threatening broadcast licenses. Now let\u2019s compare these two things. On the one hand, you have George W. Bush calling the New York Times in trying to protect the country. In the other instance, you have Bill Clinton, Richard Clarke, Sandy Burglar, Madeleine Albright, Senate Democrats and their threatening letters and lawyers trying to kill a movie to protect Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton acted to protect himself. George W. Bush acted, the New York Times, to protect the country. No more stark comparison of reality could possibly be made. 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There\u2019s lots of juicy stuff in this story, and a whole lot of this hasn\u2019t been picked up on yet because it\u2019s been overwhelmed by the remembrances today on 9\/11, but the editor in this story, Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bush&#039;s Letter to Keller vs. Clinton&#039;s Letter to Iger - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/09\/11\/bush_s_letter_to_keller_vs_clinton_s_letter_to_iger\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Bush&#039;s Letter to Keller vs. Clinton&#039;s Letter to Iger - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: I\u2019m holding, ladies and gentlemen, in my nicotine-stained fingers an interesting little story from New York magazine. 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