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RUSH: Andy in El Paso, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah, Rush, this is Andy in El Paso and I\u2019d like to give you University of Missouri-Rolla class of \u201983 dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What I plan on doing in the Texas open primary is voting for Obama because I\u2019d like to return the favor to the Democrats for giving us John McCain by voting in our open primaries, and I have four reasons that I plan on supporting Obama in the open primary.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold it. I want to understand, I\u2019m not sure I got it. You want to return the favor to the Democrats for giving us McCain by voting in open primaries. What\u2019s the favor you\u2019re returning? Oh, I see. Democrats have nominated McCain is your theory, in the Republican primaries, independents, and so you want to have a role in what the Democrat primary is in Texas?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s like the Republican primary is essentially over. There\u2019s no reason for me as a lifelong Republican to vote for McCain. Well, I wouldn\u2019t have voted for McCain —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, that happened in Virginia yesterday. This is anecdotal, but e-mails from people said, ‘Look, there\u2019s no reason to vote on the Republican side, it\u2019s been decided. I voted for Obama.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. And I have four reasons why I want to do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The first is it will make the Clintons furious slash crazy that the right-wing conspiracy is hard at work against them again. The second is that if I do have to have a Democratic president, I prefer someone whose primary principal accomplishment as a politician is to vote present. I don\u2019t think Obama has nearly the skill to accomplish his or Hillary\u2019s agendas, which are essentially the same. Hillary is much more capable of causing that agenda to be accomplished. My third reason is that a President Hillary Clinton will make J. Edgar Hoover look like an amateur. The stack of FBI files that she had to use against people during her time as first lady will be nothing compared to what she\u2019ll be able to try to do to the conservative movement and what she\u2019ll do to advance her agenda.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you were singled out for selective prosecution, you can imagine how miserable the government can make our lives when they\u2019re hard at work against us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, speaking of that. I\u2019ve got a little audio coming up on this. This is eerie to sit here and watch a congressional committee go after a private citizen, Roger Clemens and this trainer up there, Brian McNamee. Now, I followed this. I understand what this is all about, but to paraphrase Bill Clinton, no hearing on steroids in baseball ever fed a hungry child. I don\u2019t know what Clemens is doing there. Has he lied to Congress before his deposition this week or did they call him up there because of the Mitchell Report and he went public and said The Mitchell Report\u2019s not true so then Congress said we want to get in the act? So I think that may be Congress\u2019 reason for wanting to get involved in this. Look, nobody recommends people take HGH or steroids, athletes, kids being influenced by it and all that, but it\u2019s sort of like Congress wanting to get involved in the New England Patriots spying on opposing teams. The league\u2019s supposed to handle this kind of stuff. It\u2019s really up to the league. They can hold over the anti-trust exemption over baseball. We\u2019re going to remove it, we\u2019re not going to give you that exemption anymore so baseball has to cooperate, go out and do this dog and pony show. The sad thing is when you watch this, and I watched a lot of it before it started, but the meat of it got going about 10:30. <\/p>\n

Henry ‘Nostrilitis\u2019 Waxman is the committee chairman, and he gave a long opening statement. Clemens gave his statement, started answering questions, same thing with McNamee, about 10:30 a.m. So I watched a little bit of it for an hour-and-a-half while doing show prep here, getting ready for today\u2019s excursion into broadcast excellence. And one of these two guys is lying, and they\u2019re both under oath. Somebody\u2019s life today has just been destroyed, and I don\u2019t know who. I haven\u2019t the slightest idea who to believe. I haven\u2019t the slightest clue. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s happened since the program started today at noon Eastern, but before that it seemed to me that the Democrats on the committee were sort of siding with the trainer, McNamee, and really sticking it to Clemens. You go to the Republicans, and they seem to be sticking it to the trainer and defending Clemens, and I got two sound bites here. Dan Burton is on this committee, Republican, and in his session here, Dan Burton leads the trainer, Brian McNamee, down a list of his previous lies. Burton says, ‘Mr. McNamee, I\u2019m going to read to you a series of prior statements attributed to you regarding steroid use or the lack thereof by Mr. Clemens or Mr. Pettitte. ‘I never gave Clemens or Pettitte steroids. They never asked me for steroids. The only thing they asked me for were vitamins.\u2019 That was William Sherman and T. J. Quinn. [A story headlined] Andy Totes Baggage to Bronx in the New York Daily News, December 10th, 2006. Did you say that Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens, you never gave them steroids, did you say all that is?\u2019<\/p>\n

MCNAMEE: Yes, I did.<\/p>\n

BURTON: Is that a lie? <\/p>\n

MCNAMEE: Yes, it is.<\/p>\n

BURTON: Oh, it\u2019s another one. Okay. ‘I told federal investigators twice that Roger and Andy had nothing to do with it.\u2019 Is that right?<\/p>\n

MCNAMEE: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

BURTON: Is that a lie?<\/p>\n

MCNAMEE: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

BURTON: Mr. McNamee, I\u2019m going to read you a series of statements attributed to you regarding your involvement with steroids. ‘I don\u2019t have any dealings with steroids or amphetamines. I don\u2019t buy it, sell it, condone it, or recommend it. I don\u2019t make money from it. It\u2019s not part of my livelihood and not part of my business.\u2019 Did you say that?<\/p>\n

MCNAMEE: Yep.<\/p>\n

BURTON: That\u2019s a lie, right?<\/p>\n

MCNAMEE: Partial.<\/p>\n

BURTON: Partial?<\/p>\n

MCNAMEE: Partial lie.<\/p>\n

BURTON: (laughing) ‘McNamee pleads guilty to knowing the ins and outs of steroids but says I have no involvement as far as supplying it, getting it, selling it, telling them to use it. Jon Heyman, The Sixth Man, Clemen\u2019s trainer, denies link to Grimsley — is that a lie?\u2019 <\/p>\n

MCNAMEE: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Then Burton unloaded.<\/p>\n

BURTON: This is really disgusting. You\u2019re here as a sworn witness. You\u2019re here to tell the truth. You\u2019re here under oath, and yet we have lie after lie after lie after lie where you told this committee and the people of this country that Roger Clemens did things — I don\u2019t know what to believe. I know one thing I don\u2019t believe, and that\u2019s you. Roger Clemens is a titan in baseball, and you with all these lies, if they\u2019re not true, are destroying him and his reputation. Now, how does he get his reputation back if this is not true? And how can we believe you, because you\u2019ve lied and lied and lied and lied? If he\u2019s done something wrong, he ought to be indicted, he ought to be prosecuted, and he ought to be punished for it. But I don\u2019t see any evidence of that so far. And, with that, I\u2019ll stop.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And at that point, ‘Nostrilitis\u2019 Waxman banged the gavel and said, ‘The gentleman\u2019s time has expired.\u2019 But that was Burton unloading, and the Republicans generally have been unloading — at least before noon, on the trainer McNamee, and the Democrats have been unloading on Clemens. But I don\u2019t know, might be to some of you people watching it out there, but I don\u2019t know who\u2019s telling the truth here. McNamee has been confirmed to be telling the truth about two other people, Andy Pettitte, he said, ‘Yeah, they told the truth about me in the Mitchell report,\u2019 and I forget who the other was. Some people are saying, ‘Why would he lie about Clemens? Why would he make it up?\u2019 He cooperated with the Mitchell Report, with federal FBI agents, prosecutors, US attorneys all over the place, ‘You lie to us, pal, and it\u2019s behind bars for you.\u2019 His life is over anyway. He\u2019s got a very ill child. These guys, I\u2019ve seen so many of them, they\u2019ll do anything to hang around athletes. They will do anything to hang around jocks and sports. It can destroy people, the groupie aspect of it all, the celebrity attraction of it all. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s McNamee or not. But one of these two guys is lying under oath, brazenly. I don\u2019t know how this ends good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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