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RUSH: The State-Controlled Media, Snerdley, today, oh, they are breathless over two things. (panting) One is they think that I am a big supporter of Eric Massa, and they\u2019re trying to link me to Eric Massa. I\u2019m not kidding. The Politico did it. Here\u2019s a media montage of how they\u2019re trying to do this.<\/p>\n

SHUSTER: Massa has left Washington but he burned every bridge he could find and has now become a right-wing hero.<\/p>\n

HARRIS: He\u2019s suddenly the new conservative hero. Rush Limbaugh was talking him up yesterday. <\/p>\n

CAPEHART: All these conservatives who have put him in a bear hug as their champion.<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: Now he\u2019s a champion of the right and now Rush Limbaugh. <\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: He was all over Rush Limbaugh yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

HALL: Even Rush Limbaugh is offering to help Massa air his grievances with the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Helping Massa air his grievances. No. Massa said he would consider rescinding. We want loose cannon kooks like this in the Democratic Party! We don\u2019t want him outta there. This guy, folks, we\u2019re talking eel, snake-like kind of slime here. We want this guy in the Democrat Party. I\u2019m no champion of his. This guy, do you know why he opposed the House health care bill? Because it\u2019s not far left enough; because it\u2019s not single payer. He\u2019s not one of us. But if this guy is going to run around and tell stories about Rahm Emanuel running nude into a curtain-less shower stall in the House gym, hell, we\u2019ll be happy to spread that story. He said he wants national coverage. Fine. We\u2019re national. We\u2019re helping out. They\u2019re trying to say that I\u2019ve adopted this guy and he\u2019s one of our great — no, no, no, no, no. We were hoping to keep him in the House \u2019cause he\u2019s a ‘no\u2019 vote and he\u2019s a kook, he\u2019s a freak. <\/p>\n

You know, I had forgotten this and I\u2019m not even sure I knew it at the time, but Massa — tell me if this rings a bell with any of you in there — during the phony soldier bit, Massa was a leading House member accusing me, alongside Harry Reid, of besmirching the troops. Did you know it? Michelle Malkin sent me a note today and said: ‘Do you remember this guy?\u2019 I don\u2019t remember, and I don\u2019t know if I ever knew, because these are all YouTube videos. He\u2019s out there challenging me to a fight. He wants to come on this show, calling me a coward on this phony soldier business. And these guys in the media are trying to say I\u2019m one of this guy\u2019s champions. Anybody who embraces this guy, including the Democrats, please do, but it isn\u2019t me. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, back to Eric Massa. Yesterday, I\u2019d never heard of this guy in my life. If I heard of him before, I had forgotten him. All I knew was that this guy was telling great stories about Rahm Emanuel and these guys being butt naked in the shower in the House gym. And he\u2019s talking about how the country is going to hell in a handbasket and how the Democrat Party is forcing things down people\u2019s throats and the consent of the governed and all this kind of stuff. So here we have a legitimate kook and he says, ‘I won\u2019t quit.\u2019 We need his ‘no\u2019 vote. We don\u2019t want this health care. We don\u2019t care who it is voting against it, kooky or not, and he says, ‘I might rescind my resignation if the story goes national.\u2019 I simply offered to help take it national. But ‘supporting\u2019 what he said? Who knows? Actually from the moment this thing started yesterday I suspected a rope-a-dope and I still think a rope-a-dope\u2019s going on and I still think that anybody out there who embraces this guy is in for big trouble. <\/p>\n

Anybody who embraces this guy is gonna get caught. Now, the reason that I never heard of this guy is that this is his first term in Congress. He was a candidate in 2007, he was running for office, and he was glomming onto Harry Reid during that ill-fated ‘phony soldier\u2019 business. Now, if you weren\u2019t here then, we had a bunch of lying, fraudulent people who claimed that they had been in Iraq who hadn\u2019t been. They were coming back, ripping the war effort and so forth. It was pointed out that they were phony soldiers because they hadn\u2019t been serving and so forth and I called them ‘phony soldiers.\u2019 Harry Reid goes to the floor of the House trying to take advantage of the fact. There\u2019s nobody on radio more supportive of the US military than me and everybody knew it, but they thought they could make some hay with the media by casting me as somebody criticizing these guys because they were criticizing Bush. <\/p>\n

So Dingy Harry writes a letter to the CEO of Clear Channel, my syndication partner, and in a very brave move the CEO of Clear Channel allowed me to have the letter rather than buck in fear to Harry Reid. Harry Reid\u2019s letter demanded I apologize and maybe be censored for awhile and so forth. I asked, ‘Can I have the letter? I want to post it on eBay and auction it off,\u2019 and at the end of the day we got $4.2 million for that letter for the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. We totally rammed it down Reid\u2019s throat to the point that on the day we closed bidding and got the high total bid of $2.2 million (which I matched) Reid\u2019s on the Senate floor trying to take credit for being part of this whole process. Now, I didn\u2019t know while all this is going on that there was this guy running for office named Eric Massa from New York who\u2019s using YouTube to glom onto this for himself. Michelle Malkin sends me a note today reminding me of all this.<\/p>\n

If I\u2019ve heard of this guy, I\u2019ve forgotten it. My memory is pretty good. Yesterday was the first day, I think, I never heard of this guy. But we\u2019ll have to check our archives. I may have commented on this guy back during this whole thing. Eric Massa, according to Michelle, ‘owes much of his career and political success … to Wesley Clark.\u2019 Ashley Wilkes! Massa served under Clark and worked on Clark\u2019s doomed presidential campaign. Clark provided the cash-strapped Massa critical [Political Action Committee] support,\u2019 help from the fringe kook websites of the left, ‘and funding for Massa\u2019s congressional bid.\u2019 In addition, in addition to that… Oh, look at this headline! This is from the Politico: ‘Massa New Conservative Media Hero.\u2019 He\u2019s not a ‘media hero\u2019 and he\u2019s not a ‘conservative,\u2019 and nobody ever said that he was. At least, I didn\u2019t. Anyway, that\u2019s how they try to tie it to me. But this guy back in November of last year outlined the reasons why he voted against health care, and he was going to vote against it because it\u2019s not liberal enough. He wants to lift restrictions on writing policies across state lines but he wants a far more robust public option. He wants the government to go single payer. He\u2019s against the Stupak amendment. Obama doesn\u2019t regulate private insurance companies near enough in this bill. He wants \u2019em put outta business. He\u2019s a single payer guy. Massa is not saving the union. Massa is not coming forth and providing something that we\u2019ve needed in a long time, and that is somebody in Washington to speak out. This guy is a loose cannon and it\u2019s a risk being involved with him. Now, let\u2019s go back, this is October 2 of 2007, YouTube channel, Massa for Congress.<\/line><\/line>MASSA 2007: Recently Rush Limbaugh called them ‘phony soldiers\u2019 because they disagreed with the president\u2019s policies even while they observe his orders. You know, last year Rush Limbaugh called Major Paul Hackett — also a candidate of the United States Congress and a decorated Marine — a ‘staff puke.\u2019 Now, you gotta remember: Rush Limbaugh never once wore a uniform, not in his entire life. In fact, he sought out and obtained deferments so he wouldn\u2019t have to serve in Vietnam.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I didn\u2019t ‘seek out and get deferments.\u2019 You can\u2019t seek out and get deferments. I didn\u2019t seek out anything. Here\u2019s the next bite, October 2nd, 2007, the YouTube channel Massa for Congress.<\/p>\n

MASSA: Rush, you\u2019re a schoolyard bully and I\u2019m sick and tired of it. And those of us in uniform are sick and tired of it. And we\u2019re calling you out, and we\u2019re standing up and saying, ‘You want to attack people like Senator Reid? You want to attack people like Paul Hackett? You want to go after those soldiers who are serving who are letting their views be known, both under the rules of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and in a respectful manner, calling into question the failed policies of George Bush? You should be ashamed of yourself. You\u2019re a pompous coward, and it\u2019s about time that someone call you out on it, and that someone is me. My name is Eric Massa. I\u2019ll go on your show any day, and I\u2019ll say it to your face, and I\u2019ll say it anywhere.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Meet me in the shower at the House gym tonight, six o\u2019clock. Oh, wait, you quit! So this guy\u2019s a kook. He\u2019s a literal kook. He jumped on this phony soldier business, simply because he bought all the left-wing websites, and he was obviously trying to score points in his congressional campaign as a result of doing this. And, by the way, Eliot Spitzer endorsed him.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, Jesse MacBeth, who was the phony soldier that I called a phony soldier. Jesse MacBeth, back in September 2007: ‘Man who posed as military hero sentenced to five months in prison.\u2019 This is from the Seattle Times. He was a phony soldier. I was dead right about everything I said. And now the media, in trying to lump me with Eric Massa… I mean, what are they actually trying to do here? They\u2019re actually trying to chide me for believing something a Democrat says? Are we not supposed to believe Democrats? So I\u2019m now associated with this kook? What is their headline here? ‘Massa New Conservative Media Hero?\u2019 Here\u2019s the bottom line: I\u2019ve done more for Eric Massa — I\u2019ve done more to illustrate that this guy is a lunatic fringe kook in the last ten minutes — than he\u2019s been able to do himself his entire life. <\/p>\n

‘Prior to my playing these audio sound bites of his YouTube campaign, there had been 13,000 views of his YouTube campaign of the particular sound bite where we\u2019re taking his audio sound bites. Now, I am told that since that time, just in the last — is this accurate? — 30 minutes, last 20 minutes, it\u2019s now 13,000 people times 278 is how many people have now seen the video. In other words, we did more in 30 seconds for Eric Massa to illustrate what a kook and an idiot and a fringe player he is than anything he did in his entire political career. He\u2019s now a national kook. He wanted to go national, and he is a national kook, and it\u2019s thanks to me — and the media is chiding me for not believing a Democrat! It\u2019s amazing. And never forget: Jesse MacBeth was a phony soldier, made it all up, got five months in prison. Here is the rest of that Massa for Congress YouTube channel thing, October 2, 2007.<\/p>\n

MASSA: You did your best to dodge military service while hundreds of thousands of Americans wear the uniform to give you the privilege of misusing the radio waves and [to] spread propagandistic lies that are wholly inaccurate about our military service members. I\u2019m tired of your tactics, I\u2019m tired of you shoving people around, and I\u2019m tired of you being a school yard bully. You might have a lot of weight to throw around, but it doesn\u2019t carry a lot of weight with me. Rush Limbaugh, I\u2019ll go on your show any day. My name is Eric Massa, and you know where to find me.<\/line><\/line>RUSH: I never heard of him until yesterday! I\u2019m convinced I never heard of him. I\u2019ve gotta confirm this. George, go do an archive search, a total archive search from 2007 to see if Eric Massa was ever discussed by me on this program, specifically in regard to the phony soldier business. That\u2019s the webmaster, and he\u2019s looking at it now. I honestly… (interruption) What\u2019s that? (interruption) What did they do? (interruption) Even despite this, PMSNBC is associating me with Massa? (laughing) You know, it\u2019s like trying to sink a battleship with BBs and for 20-plus years they have been so eager to get this done, and they just continue to make abject fools of themselves. Here\u2019s a modern-day Democrat Party right here. Here it is. Massa and ‘Client No. 9,\u2019 Eliot Spitzer. This is March 11th, 2008, an ad for candidate Eric Massa, featuring the then-governor, Eliot Spitzer.<\/line><\/p>\n

CLIENT NO. 9: I believe in Eric Massa because he believes in a better New York, starting on day one.<\/p>\n

MASSA: Together, we\u2019re going to reduce taxes for families.<\/p>\n

CLIENT NO. 9: Together, we\u2019ll make doing business upstate more affordable to create jobs.<\/p>\n

MASSA: Together, we\u2019re going to secure our future by investing in our schools.<\/p>\n

CLIENT NO. 9: And together, we\u2019re going to clean up waste, fraud, and abuse in government. He\u2019s Eric Massa, and he\u2019s running for Congress.<\/p>\n

MASSA: And I approve this message and ask for your vote on Election Day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Together.\u2019 Together, these guys have a sordid sexual history that would embarrass even Sydney Biddle Barrows, the original Mayflower Madam. Hang on here, Mike. I gotta find a sound bite. I\u2019m looking for Jonathan Capehart. I know it\u2019s coming up here. Where did I see it? Number 16, and then I went way past it. Yeah, yeah. Here it is. Number 16, Jonathan Capehart who is at the Washington Post and the editorial board, was on MessNBC today with Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Capehart wanted to talk about one other aspect of this story that nobody is really focusing in on. Now, I want to play this sound bite. You keep in mind Eliot Spitzer, Client No. 9 (running around with prostitutes and sluts) and we\u2019ve got the allegation here that Massa himself was running around sexually harassing male staffers. Here\u2019s Capehart\u2019s take. Now, remember we just heard the commercial: Eliot Spitzer and Eric Massa, ‘Together, we will…\u2019<\/p>\n

CAPEHART: (snickering) He didn\u2019t talk about the story about — Massa\u2019s story that — he told on that radio interview on Sunday on the ship in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.<\/p>\n

MIKA: That\u2019s what that…<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: (chuckling)<\/p>\n

CAPEHART: So he goes back to his room — which is really, really small —<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: This is what, he\u2019s in the Navy?<\/p>\n

CAPEHART: He\u2019s — (crosstalk) He\u2019s in the Navy they\u2019re on the ship in the Persian Gulf and they have bunk beds a fold down table and a sink.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Right.<\/p>\n

CAPEHART: This is what he says, and he walked in where his roommate was — as he said, euphemistically, remembering his wife; ‘his spouse.\u2019 He said, ‘I decided to walk in, pat him on the leg, and say, ‘If you need any help with that, let me know,\u2019 and then I went to sleep.\u2019<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Pat and I are uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

MIKA: I don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mika said she didn\u2019t understand what that reference means. Dawn, you know what that means? (interruption) You don\u2019t? Okay. I don\u2019t want you to talk about it. I\u2019m doing a survey here to see if people understand that he was ‘remembering his wife.\u2019 (interruption) No. Was he throwing up, remembering his wife? No. No, no. He was not vomiting when he was remembering his wife. No, no, no, no. Besides, Massa didn\u2019t offer to help him vomit. Massa was offering to help, you know, something else. So here you have client No. 9 and Eric Massa. We were just trying to keep a fringe kook in the Democrat Party, keep him in the House of Representatives, and it\u2019s been taken way out of context. Look, we have a Washington Times story from November 9th of last year. We\u2019ll link to it. Here\u2019s what he said, though, ‘I\u2019m not going to vote for 3200,\u2019 House Bill, ‘as it\u2019s currently written. Step one, I will vote for a single-payer option or a bill that does have a Medicare-coupled public option, which we don\u2019t have right now.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Questioner: ‘So if we got your meetings to sixty forty, you\u2019d vote&hellip;and there was single payer in a bill you would vote for it?\u2019 Massa: ‘Oh absolutely I would vote for single payer.\u2019 Questioner: ‘If there was sixty-forty sentiment in the room?\u2019 Massa: ‘Listen, I tell every audience: I\u2019m in favor of single payer.\u2019 So the reason the guy opposed the health care bill is not because he\u2019s a conservative, and not because he\u2019s worried about Washington corruption, and not because he\u2019s worried about the consent of the governed. He opposed it because it wasn\u2019t liberal, or enough or socialist enough or Marxist enough or whatever you want to call it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, we searched the archives of RushLimbaugh.com and we double searched it via Google, and I made one mention of Eric Massa on this program prior to yesterday, and it was October 20th of 2009 when we played a sound bite of Eric Massa talking about the House and Senate bills health care being on different planets, and Massa said, ‘As much as I want this administration to succeed, they didn\u2019t present a piece of legislation to the US Congress. We still don\u2019t have a piece of paper that says what his plan is. We\u2019re kind of like pilots flying blind.\u2019 And I responded, ‘That\u2019s right, Congressman, because you\u2019re going to take the hit on this. He gets to play Mr. Perfect up there, not have his name attached to anything,\u2019 and he still doesn\u2019t, by the way. So there was no mention of Eric Massa during the phony soldier business. The first time I heard of it was today, but we had to double-check out there \u2019cause so much massive amounts of information enters my cranial cavity, and I have a great memory, but this guy\u2019s name didn\u2019t ring a bell when all this started. <\/p>\n

My accuracy rating, you know, we\u2019re on a one-month suspension for the February audit of my opinions from the Sullivan Group because they\u2019re still assessing whether or not I actually was wrong in suggesting that Republicans not go up to the health care summit, but I\u2019ll tell you, it was just yesterday, it was just yesterday that I told you about this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jim in Williamsville, New York. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, Partagas Lusitania cigar-smoking dittos to you from a 15-year-veteran listener and first-time caller and dittos for everything you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Where are those Partagas cigars from?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I get them from Toronto.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah. Good, good. Congratulations —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Canada —<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Hey, listen, an interesting side-bar to that Eric Massa…Democrats. You know, our besieged governor, David Paterson, will be charged with naming a replacement for Massa, and I\u2019m wondering if there\u2019s any chance you think that Paterson —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — may exact some revenge on Obama, Emanuel, Cuomo, the whole Democrat gulag by appointing a Republican or at the very at least a DINO, Democrat in Name Only.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you sure that Paterson appoints, or is there a special election?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am reasonably sure that Paterson will be appointing the replacement. Assuming that he, you know, doesn\u2019t resign in the next 60 or 90 days.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s assume you\u2019re right. So David Paterson will become the Massa —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — who gets to appoint whoever gets to take Massa\u2019s place. So for the first time in his life Paterson is going to be a Massa. Interesting. Interesting. Would he choose a Republican or a DINO, a Democrat in Name Only? You know, it would be great if he chose Harold Ford. (laughing) Or put himself in the seat. Interesting. Thanks for the call out there, Jim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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