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RUSH: Was it last Thursday or last Friday that we learned via the Columbus newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch, that the authorities — the attorney general and so forth in Ohio — had decided it was unlikely that they were going to prosecute me or charge me with voter fraud. Was that Thursday or Friday? All these days run together. Okay, Friday the 28th it was. Well, the Drive-By Media was distressed. So they went and they got this reporter. Fox News Channel went and got this reporter, his name is Mark Niquette, and they had him on Greta Van Susteren\u2019s show on Friday night. We have three sound bites. I just want to put this to bed now, because I know a lot of people have been concerned about being dragged to the hoosegow in handcuffs and so forth, charged with voter fraud. It\u2019s unlikely, but as you\u2019ll hear in the sound bites, it\u2019s not totally, totally over with. ‘Will Rush\u2019s dream come true,\u2019 Van Susteren says, ‘that he\u2019s led off in handcuffs? Mark, in your reporting have you discovered where there\u2019s a law that Rush could possibly be violating by encouraging people to cross over and vote Democrat for Senator Clinton?\u2019<\/p>\n

NIQUETTE: There is a law here in Ohio that if you\u2019re going to switch parties in the primary, you have to sign this form that says you support the principals of the other party whose ballots —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. It\u2019s unconstitutional. U-n-c-o-n-s-t-i-t-u-t-i-o-n-a-l. Unconstitutional! How many times do I have to keep mentioning? Loyalty oath? That wouldn\u2019t stand up for a minute in night court.<\/p>\n

NIQUETTE: — are taking, and, uh, as — as Rush suggested, the thought here in Ohio, it\u2019s very — it would be very difficult if not impossible to enforce that statute. In fact, uh, nobody I\u2019ve found has — has said there is somebody who\u2019s been prosecuted for essentially, you know, lying on this form. When we asked the attorney general\u2019s office here in Ohio whether they intended to prosecute Rush Limbaugh, the answer was they have no intention to prosecute because, uh, ‘lying through your teeth and being stupid is not a crime.\u2019<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Lying through my teeth and being stupid are not even relevant to what we did here in Operation Chaos. (laughing) We didn\u2019t lie to anybody, and there\u2019s nothing but brilliance associated here with Operation Chaos. By the way, an Ohio resident sent Koko, our webmaster, one of those leaflets or those doorknob things that Obama was passing out and putting on the doors of the homes of Republicans in Ohio; urging them to reregister as Democrats and go vote for him! This is why… They wanted to ‘frog march\u2019 Karl Rove out of the White House over the Scooter Libby thing. I don\u2019t want to be frog-marched in anywhere, but it was tempting for the handcuffs scenario. Sound bite number two. Van Susteren says, ‘Well, is this getting very much attention in Ohio?\u2019<\/p>\n

NIQUETTE: Well, it is. Uh, this process is not new in Ohio. We\u2019ve had people crossing over, uh, for, you know, many elections, but it\u2019s gotten more attention this year, in part because of, uh, Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Operation Chaos campaign, but again, the — the problem is, you know, how you prosecute someone for deciding who to vote for in a race.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. In an election, you can vote for whatever you want, as long as you\u2019re registered — unless you\u2019re an illegal and you don\u2019t have to be — and you can vote for whoever you want to for whatever reason! Next question from Van Susteren: ‘Is there any way to determine whether or not any of them crossed over because they thought Rush gave \u2019em a good idea?\u2019<\/p>\n

NIQUETTE: Well, there was some thought that you could prosecute people who openly admitted, ‘Yes, I voted only because Rush Limbaugh suggested I cause chaos in the democratic process here in Ohio,\u2019 people who openly admitted that they signed this affirmation form and — and weren\u2019t serious about it. In fact, there was some thought — or some — some s-suggestion in Cuyahoga County, uh, the largest county here in Ohio that some of these voters could be prosecuted, but the secretary of state, uh, in Ohio pretty much, uh, put cold water on that, saying, you know, that might be getting close to center — censorship, and not something they should really be thinking about doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, you see, the door hasn\u2019t been totally shut. They\u2019re still considering options, which is why you gotta be careful. I have to be careful, and some of you people in Ohio. You do not taunt law enforcement. You do not beg them to pursue you. (laughing) It\u2019s like the red flag being waived in front of the bull. Again, that was Mark Niquette. (N-i-q-u-e-t-t-e for those of you in Rio Linda). If you want to send him fan mail, he is at the Columbus Dispatch. He was on Greta Van Susteren\u2019s show Friday night on Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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