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RUSH: Wow. I have to tell you, I\u2019ve had so many e-mail replies, e-mails period, friends, subscribers: ‘What in the world are these political wives doing? Why do they keep hanging in there like this? What in the world was Silda Spitzer doing standing next to this guy yesterday?\u2019 Look, folks, I have no clue here. I don\u2019t know these people, but I can make a fairly educated guess, and I think it\u2019s probably about the children. I read what Mrs. McGreevey said in her book about why she went out there when Jim McGreevey announced that he was resigning because he loved guys. She said she did it for her kids; she didn\u2019t want the kids to dislike or hate their father. I can understand that to an extent. There\u2019s also the political calculation that if the wife goes out there and stands next to the candidate, or the elected official who has been humiliated here, it sends a visual message, ‘Hey, look, she\u2019s standing by him, it must not be that bad, why can\u2019t we?\u2019 That\u2019s one of the objectives here. She may run for the Senate one day, who knows. I don\u2019t know that she has political aspirations. All I know is that she looks very elegant, she looks very sophisticated.<\/p>\n

When you indict a company, you pretty much kill the company. It\u2019s a publicly-traded company. So Greenberg resigned. He\u2019s never been indicted, not one thing\u2019s happened to him legally. Greenberg was a huge Republican donor, hugely active in Republican fundraising circles and so forth. I\u2019m watching this Spitzer-under-fire business, and our side is just tiptoeing along, making sure that we are honorable and understanding and compassionate and all of that. You know, folks, we are so worried, are we not, about the messages that boys get from sports stars? We worry about, ‘Look at the gang influence in the NFL. Look at the gang influence in the NBA.\u2019 We\u2019re worried about the messages that young boys who idolize these athletes are getting. But then we have these highly visible political wives, what are they doing? They send a message that it\u2019s okay to let men humiliate them in public. You think this is a healthy message for young women to see? Remember how upset the Clintons got, remember how upset Bill Clinton got when David Shuster over at PMSNBC said that Chelsea was being ‘pimped\u2019 out? Well, what about what Clinton did to Chelsea\u2019s mother? Didn\u2019t Clinton do the same thing? Didn\u2019t Clinton pimp her out? What message did Hillary give to Chelsea? And what would Clinton do? What would Clinton do if someday Chelsea marries a guy just like him, and someday has to do the downcast eyes, ashen face, Stand by Your Man thing? I mean, that\u2019s the role model that Chelsea has seen.<\/p>\n

We never talk about the aspect of the effect on young girls and women that this has. What does this say about feminism, if you want to bring politics into it? You might say, ‘Rush, it\u2019s none of your business.\u2019 But if we\u2019re going to sit here and get morally judgmental about what happens to young boys because of the effect athletes have on them, you can\u2019t take this out of the equation. There are so many people saying, ‘Well, you know, this whole prostitution thing, it\u2019s so outmoded, it ought not even be a crime.\u2019 All the intellectuals on the Internet are going back and forth on the whole premise that this is an outmoded law; it\u2019s a private matter; it doesn\u2019t affect anybody, particularly the way they do their job, just so unfair. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Here\u2019s just a montage of a whole bunch of people all over the Drive-By Media yesterday and last night.<\/p>\n

D\u2019AMATO: This is a tragedy, an enormous tragedy.<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: It\u2019s a tragedy.<\/p>\n

LIASSON: One of those political tragedies.<\/p>\n

KING: A personal tragedy.<\/p>\n

SHEINKOPF: This is a tragedy.<\/p>\n

SHAWN: A personal and political tragedy, a sadness and a tragedy.<\/p>\n

COLMES: This is a tragic thing.<\/p>\n

BARRETT: It\u2019s just an enormous tragedy.<\/p>\n

ZIMMERMAN: The reason I use the word ‘tragedy\u2019 is he showed such potential as attorney general.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you hear anything like this when the Mark Foley thing happened or when the Newt Gingrich thing happened or when anything like this on the conservative Republican side happens, do you hear any, ‘Oh, we\u2019re so sad, so sorry, what a tragedy.\u2019 No, all we hear about is what a bunch of hypocrites Republicans are in these circumstances. Well, why can\u2019t you say that Spitzer himself is a hypocrite? Because he clearly is. Here\u2019s a guy who sought to bust up two prostitution rings on the basis that they are destructive to society and families and so forth, while at the same time he\u2019s patronizing one. Just such a good Democrat, such a good liberal, had such a wonderful future. And, of course, our guys just sit around and tiptoe around this and do the same thing. Here\u2019s Mrs. Clinton last night in Pennsylvania at a campaign event. Here\u2019s a portion of her remarks about this.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: I don\u2019t have any comment on that, but I obviously am sending, you know, my best wishes and thoughts to the governor and to his family. Let\u2019s wait and see what comes out over the next days, but right now I don\u2019t have any comment, and I think it\u2019s appropriate just to wish his family well and we\u2019ll wait and see how things develop.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, she didn\u2019t want to get close to this. She didn\u2019t want to get anywhere near this. Can you imagine the nightmare she was having last night. It\u2019s like Spitzer was minding his own business, some conservative got inside his brain and sent him down to the Emperor\u2019s Club. I\u2019ve had female friends who said, ‘Why would a guy do this? Why would a guy do this?\u2019 (interruption) Have I seen what pictures? Oh, yeah, I\u2019ve seen the pictures of the girls at the Emperor\u2019s Club. Why pay for it? Why 5,000 bucks an hour? Why would somebody like this do it? I mean, above and beyond the psychological reasons, you know, the Type A personality, the risk, gotta take the risk to keep the adrenaline, I\u2019m not talking about that kind of thing. Why do it? (laughing) Ladies, Charlie Sheen said this when he was asked the same question. Why in the world, Charlie, I mean here you are a big Hollywood star, you\u2019re married to Denise Richards for a while, why are you out there buying all this sex? He said, ‘I\u2019m not buying the sex. I\u2019m paying them to leave.\u2019 That\u2019s what Charlie Sheen said. I\u2019m by no means an expert on this, ladies and gentlemen, so I could not answer these ladies\u2019 questions. I\u2019m a little offended they were asking me.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. I want to give you a flavor for some of the things that were said about the Spitzer situation, that seem to complain about the problem here being prostitution being illegal. We\u2019ll start with Alan Dershowitz. He was on PMSNBC Live and he was talking to the anchorette Contessa Brewer. She said, ‘What\u2019s your reaction, Professor Dershowitz?\u2019<\/p>\n

DERSHOWITZ: I feel that this is an America-only story that we have to put into perspective. You know, big deal! Married man goes to prostitute. In Europe, this wouldn\u2019t even make the back pages of the newspaper. It\u2019s a uniquely American story. We\u2019re uniquely, you know, pandering society and hypocritical society when it comes to sex.<\/p>\n

BREWER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See? We\u2019re so old-fashioned. This wouldn\u2019t even make the back pages of the newspaper in Europe. I mean, big deal! Married man goes to prostitute. Yip yip yip yip yahoo. So I guess what we are to conclude here is prostitution doesn\u2019t harm the family. No big deal, right? Let\u2019s ask Mrs. Spitzer and her daughters about that. Ask them how they\u2019re doing today, now that they\u2019ve found out about it. What about the value of human dignity? How many of these women — I don\u2019t care whether they\u2019re ‘high-priced\u2019 call girls or hookers prowling the corners — how many of these women go into prostitution willingly? How many of them become pregnant? How many of them seek abortions? How many end up having wholesome lives or even a chance at it? To view this as simply a commercial transaction — to me, anyway — is to reject the entire moral belief structure of (well, for lack of a better word) conservatism. These are attitudes that lack a moral belief structure. To excuse this, or blame it on us being Victorian or old-fashioned and not significantly advanced or evolved as a culture, is typical of the left. I don\u2019t know. Do the American people accept prostitution as an acceptable form of conduct? Do you think they do? Do they? I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m asking the question. This is a field I have not plowed. All I can do here is ask questions and share with you my virgin thoughts on this. Here\u2019s more of Dershowitz. Contessa Brewer says, ‘You\u2019ve called Spitzer ‘brilliant.\u2019 How does somebody ‘brilliant\u2019 get caught in something like this?\u2019<\/p>\n

DERSHOWITZ: Well, because men don\u2019t use their brains when it comes to something like this. They think with a different part of their body and that part of the body, the — the level of brains there are no relationship to the level of brains in the skull, unfortunately, and when people think with that organ of the body they make these kinds of really, really terrible mistakes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What, now it\u2019s a terrible mistake? I thought it was no big deal! I thought it was a ‘tragedy,\u2019 then it was ‘no big deal,\u2019 now it\u2019s a ‘terrible mistake.\u2019 Let\u2019s listen to Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. — Tucker Carlson — last night, on his own show, had this to say about Spitzer.<\/p>\n

CARLSON: Spitzer\u2019s true sins, in my view, are the ones that he commits in public — crushing other people for the sake of his own political career, for instance, which has been the hallmark of his time in public life — not going to a hooker. You know that\u2019s no way to get, in my opinion, at your political enemies. And to see the press — a group that, you know, frankly has pretty unconventional personal lives by and large — getting all high-handed about the fact that a grown man went to a prostitute is — is — is (snicker) — is nauseating. I think it\u2019s a shame when we go through these spasms of self-righteousness and we all beat our chests and say, ‘Look at the bad guy!\u2019 You know, ‘We\u2019re nothing like him,\u2019 when in fact a lot of us are like him, frankly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So there\u2019s Chatsworth indicting the Drive-Bys, saying they all go to prostitutes, or a number of them do, and that they\u2019re being hypocrites here in calling Spitzer out on it. Why is it illegal, if it\u2019s such an accepted thing? You know, the Drive-Bys said the same thing about Clinton back in Lewinsky days, ‘Oh, in Europe, why, it wouldn\u2019t even make the paper, much less the back page! We\u2019re the laughingstock of the world over this, and the world can\u2019t believe what we\u2019re reacting to with Clinton having an affair with an intern and so forth,\u2019 and this is what happens. You know, Democrats circle the wagons. It\u2019s like I was saying yesterday, folks. (sigh) We\u2019re in a war with these libs. Yeah, I feel sorry for Spitzer\u2019s family, and I think he needs to resign. Hillary and Obama, by the way, need to explain why they don\u2019t support it. They need to be made to weigh in on this. I mean, look. Foley, Bob Livingston, Newt Gingrich — who else? David Vitter, Larry Craig. You look at the posse that was formed to go nail these people and get them out of town within minutes of when the information was learned.<\/p>\n

McCain won\u2019t talk about this. Well, I know that\u2019s because Democrats are ‘honorable people\u2019 and we\u2019re going to run an ‘honorable campaign.\u2019 But, look, McCain is claiming to fight government corruption, is he not? What is honorable about the silence in the face of this? We had more noise about Larry Craig, Mark Foley and all this, than this. This guy was setting himself up to be blackmailed! This was not just a ‘private matter.\u2019 The possibility of blackmail was going on here. This is the governor of New York. (sigh) Anyway, here\u2019s James Carville, ladies and gentlemen, on Larry King Live. John King was filling in for Larry King. John King, filling in for Larry King, said to James Carville, ‘Many people in Washington say the last thing Hillary Clinton needs is a public discussion about sexual…\u2019<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: I don\u2019t think he should resign. The worst thing about this is you gotta listen to all these moralizing, self-righteous jerks on TV pontificate about all this. I mean, if this is what this man did and it\u2019s all he did, then it\u2019s a — it\u2019s a shame. It\u2019s a tragedy for his family. I\u2019m a little bit skeptical that this thing is not — there\u2019s not some political motivation that\u2019s going to be uncovered. I think the press needs to look into why are we sitting here going crazy on this about a man hooking up with a prostitute? This is not the first time it\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, James, why the hell did Washington shut down and go into a tizzy last October about Mark Foley? I mean don\u2019t we know, from looking at the House of Representatives, that certain members have always been running around with d\u2019pages? Some of them were even honored for it. Foley didn\u2019t do anything that hadn\u2019t been done before. In fact, Foley did far less! All he did was send some e-mails. They never found him in contact with any of these pages. Why the double standard here folks? This is what I was talking about yesterday. (doing Carville impression) ‘It\u2019s a tragedy, media running around out there, why, time in Washington, man goes…\u2019 I\u2019ll tell you what, James. Go see a prostitute and go tell Mary you did and see what happens, if it\u2019s no big deal. All you guys out there, all you libs who think prostitution is no big deal, go visit one and let the world and let the country find out that you did it and go home, and find out how big a deal it isn\u2019t when you get home. Mara Liasson says there will be no impact whatsoever on the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

LIASSON: The scandals really hurt a party when they — when there are a bunch of them and they happen in Washington. If it\u2019s a governor here and there, I don\u2019t think it has that same impact. I\u2019m saying when they\u2019re outside of Washington. They have to be national figures.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She may have a point. Hurt the Democrat Party? This is a resume enhancement in the Democrat Party, and you can hear it in the audio sound bites. (sigh) Brent Bozell\u2019s bunch in the Media Research Center went out there and they analyzed news coverage, and it was amazing. I think the networks last night didn\u2019t even mention he was a Democrat. The New York Times in their first report had him as a Democrat in paragraph three, then they revised the story later and were reporting him as a Democrat in paragraph 15. Don\u2019t tell me they don\u2019t think it hurts when they want to shield the party ID or identification of a suspect like this.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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