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RUSH: Monica Lewinsky, speaking of rejection, let me tell you something. It\u2019s about time that somebody — well, this is gonna be hard, because, look, there\u2019s a plausible explanation for her being messed up. You know that long, detailed monologue I did on the day we had that blockbuster story that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq<\/a> and that Karl Rove and people in the White House had made an active political decision to cover up<\/a> the discovery and what that begot us. <\/p>\n

That got five years of an insane Democrat voter base. Five years of Bush lied, people died. Five years just unnecessary — we lost the House and the Senate in 2006. I\u2019m convinced that those five years of pummeling that were not responded to, were not answered to, gave us Obama. We\u2019re still suffering from it. The military is still suffering from it. The whole premise of the War on Terror, we\u2019re still suffering from that. There\u2019s so much about what the United States does that\u2019s now considered to be illegitimate because that\u2019s what the Democrat Party said, and there was no reaction to it. <\/p>\n

<\/a>So, in a certain sense, Monica Lewinsky has been a victim of similar things with what the Democrat Party and the willing allies in the media did to her in order to save Bill Clinton. But at the same time, there\u2019s been enough time go by — I mean, she made a speech yesterday at some Forbes thing for women or people under 30 to talk about whatever they talk about. And she was just lamenting how the Internet destroyed her life. How Matt Drudge destroyed her life and the New York Post called her the Portly Pepper Pot, or some such thing. She clearly isn\u2019t over it, despite every attempt to make people think she\u2019s over it. But the thing that strikes me about it, Matt Drudge didn\u2019t do anything to her. Bill Clinton! And she\u2019s admitting, by the way, she was in love with the guy now.<\/p>\n

She was totally, completely gone in love with Clinton. And that Clinton knew, and even despite that, here comes Carville and Begala and all of the things they did to destroy her and her reputation in order to protect Clinton. Clinton\u2019s right in assisting all that. But at some point, she\u2019s found a way, I guess because she still loves the guy, she has found a way to absolve Clinton of any blame in what happened to her, to absolve Clinton of having any role in what happened. Instead she\u2019s blaming the Internet, blaming Drudge, or what have you, and that\u2019s not what did it to her. Bill Clinton did it. The Democrat Party did it. And she was right in there doing it to herself. <\/line><\/p>\n

She was 19 years old, and she knows the guy\u2019s married, and she knows the guy\u2019s wife is the first lady and is either right outside the door or upstairs, what have you. Well, somewhere, maybe in another wing, but she\u2019s there. The point is, Monica knows that Bill\u2019s married. Hillary\u2019s married to Bill on the days when that is useful. I\u2019m getting a little worn out with all of the, “Oh, the Internet deprived me of my privacy and the Internet destroyed my image and reputation.” There\u2019s a lot of people that did that before the Internet even got involved. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, one point I want to make, I didn\u2019t completely cross all the T\u2019s and dot all the I\u2019s here. I started to say, just like the five years of incessant, never-ending pummeling that this country and the military, the presidency took over the Iraq war, handed out by the Democrats and the media, five years, never ending, I mean, it was horrible. And I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve recovered from it yet. I think it\u2019s had a permanent effect on Republican branding. I think it\u2019s had a permanent effect on the War on Terror. I think it\u2019s had a permanent impact on the already existing distrust of these institutions that we need to trust. I think the same thing with this Clinton-Lewinsky business. <\/p>\n

I think that episode played out in a way that shocked people. I think a lot of people thought that there should have been and would be a serious price payed by Clinton for such reckless behavior, for such irresponsible behavior. From using the affections of a young intern, to lying as president under oath before a grand jury, and then we learn of all of the bullying this man engaged in with people like Kathleen Willey and Gennifer Flowers.<\/p>\n

The fact that Bill Clinton to this day is the biggest rock star of the Democrat Party I think still has a lot of people mildly discombobulated in the sense that it wasn\u2019t that long ago there were prices to pay for such lapses of judgment and morality in positions of power and authority. And today, the episode has enhanced Clinton\u2019s resume, it\u2019s enhanced his image with some people, and I think people are still scratching their heads over this and asking, “Why teach our kids right and wrong if wrong is how you win?”<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: What do you mean, why do I think this? Because I\u2019ve been told it. I\u2019ve had people share this point of view with me, and I frankly kind of pooh-poohed it. Initially I just chalked it up to jealousy on the part of guys, Clinton got away with it. But I\u2019ve rethought this, particularly given that blockbuster news about weapons of mass destruction. <\/p>\n

I would love to come up with yet another — I\u2019ve already been as persuasive as possible. I\u2019d love to come up with another way of characterizing those five years of the Iraq war, 2003-2008, and the lasting negative destructive impact on the national psyche because of that. Not just the Bush administration and not just the Republicans, but the national psyche. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019ve had, you know, over the years when Monica Lewinsky and the Clinton stories come up, I\u2019ve had people say, “Can you believe the guy\u2019s the biggest rock star in the Democrat Party after all this?” And I said, “Well, it\u2019s who the Democrats are. Failure is a resume enhancement.” But here comes Monica again. She won\u2019t go away. She keeps telling us how she\u2019s over it and she wants to move on, but she\u2019s not over it. She has been permanently scarred by this, and I don\u2019t think she\u2019s the only one. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to overemphasize or exaggerate here, but we all know — it\u2019s not a matter of opinion — it wasn\u2019t that long ago that for the kind of behavior Clinton was caught engaging in, there would have been a price to pay at least in terms of reputation, respect. I mean, here\u2019s a man who wantonly used a 19-year-old intern in the Oval Office of the White House countless times, lied about it under oath to a grand jury, while he was married, potentially subjecting himself to blackmail and other things.<\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019m just saying there are a lot of people in this country who expected there to be a price to be paid, that the institution would demand it. And instead, not only was there no price to be paid other than the loss of a law license that he never used for a year, there was no shame; there was triumph. (imitating Clinton) “That\u2019s right, Limbaugh, I got away with it, buddy, ha-ha. I\u2019m the biggest thing in the Democrat Party, Barack Obama notwithstanding. Everybody loves me. Women still want me with my pants down, Limbaugh, you know it\u2019s true, everybody does, and you just can\u2019t stand it, right?” <\/p>\n

And I\u2019ve had people say to me that, why should we bother telling our kids right and wrong when it seems like the bad guys\u2019 behavior outside the norms is what everybody wants; is what gets attention; is what sells; is how you stand out in a crowd with a lot of noise, how you make yourself known, renegade. I mean, that isn\u2019t new, but in the office of the presidency and distinguished positions of leadership, the short version of this is, I think that there has been a lingering, multiplying, sort of built up over time unease about all of this. <\/p>\n

And now the guy, not only did he not pay a price, he is the biggest thing in the Democrat Party. He\u2019s the biggest rock star. (imitating Clinton) “Limbaugh, you forget what I\u2019ve done. I have done so much image repair. Look at all the charity work that I do. I fly all over the world helping people out. I mean, I knew I had a problem. I\u2019ve rebuilt my image and I\u2019ve changed it around.” Yeah, and all of it\u2019s for show, and it\u2019s worked. My point is, folks, I think that there is a national malaise. I think there is rampant cultural rot going on in the country that has people very worried, above and beyond politics, even though it\u2019s part of it. <\/p>\n

The cultural rot has parents concerned. It has a lot of people concerned about the underlying decency and goodness of the country and has it been shattered and will nobody stand up for what used to be right and wrong, morality. We can\u2019t talk about it because nobody has the right to define it because whatever you think is moral, you don\u2019t have the right to impose that on anybody else, is the prevailing viewpoint today. <\/p>\n

Morality used to be clearly understood. Right and wrong used to be clearly understood. Now it\u2019s all gray, and the likelihood of getting away with it depends on how cool and hip you are to the media. The likelihood of getting away with it depends on whether you got a D or an R after your name. <\/line><\/p>\n

And one of the things I remember worrying about — ah, I didn\u2019t worry about it. One of the things I commented on, I warned people that the Lewinsky-Clinton affair was very likely gonna end up being seen as cool by young people. “Man, that was really cool. Finally got rid of the stuffed shirt behavior. Yeah, the president\u2019s just like us. He\u2019s a horn dog just like we are in college. Oh, yeah, man, I\u2019d do it if I could, props to Clinton.” And there you have declining standards, reputations, and so forth. <\/p>\n

And here\u2019s Monica. Now she\u2019s showing up at some Forbes event, 30 Under 30 summit. She\u2019s 41 years old. And she\u2019s out, she said her new objective in life is to eliminate bullying. She wants to be a spokesperson for bullying. She wants to stand up for the bullied. And yet the guy she admits being in love with was one of the biggest bullies that she\u2019s probably ever encountered. Ask Paula Jones, ask Kathleen Willey, ask Linda Tripp, ask Ken Starr, name it, the list goes on and on and on. And I know. I\u2019m not making it up. And a lot of people say it troubles them. <\/p>\n

All of this by itself, not big, but throw it all in with what Obama has done and what\u2019s happening to the health care system, what\u2019s happening to the economy, what\u2019s happening to jobs, the Iraq business, five years of incessant, everything that used to define the greatness of the country is under assault, it\u2019s under siege, it appears to people. Things that people used to count on. <\/line><\/p>\n

Do you remember last week or do you even know last week, a running back from the Dallas Cowboys by the name of Joseph Randle was caught shoplifting. Now, as a running back for the Dallas Cowboys, Joseph Randle doesn\u2019t have money problems, but he got caught shoplifting underwear and a cologne, bottle of cologne or whatever, and he got caught and he apologized to his teammates, and he said, “That\u2019s not who I am.” <\/p>\n

Really? That\u2019s not who you are? You shoplift, that\u2019s not the real you? “No, it\u2019s not the real me. That\u2019s not me. I\u2019m sorry to anybody who was offended by what I did,” blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, guess what\u2019s just happened? A Los Angeles-based brand called MeUndies has just hired Joseph Randle as their spokesman. A shoplifter hired as a spokesman. I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll have great TV commercials. I\u2019m sure the commercials for this are gonna make fun of the shoplifting. This guy loved \u2019em so much, he just couldn\u2019t wait to buy them. He had to have them right now. Took \u2019em and so forth. The company had to see this great opportunity. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the people who make this country work, that are out there toiling away in anonymity are left to scratch their heads and say, “What? How does this work?” And I think all of these things, and there are any number of them, when you tie \u2019em all together they feed off of themselves, and they, over time, created a giant unsettledness out there that makes people question what they\u2019ve always thought to be virtuous. They\u2019re asking what happened to it. Why is the opposite of virtue what triumphs? And then they say to themselves, “It wouldn\u2019t for me. If I get caught shoplifting, I\u2019m not gonna get hired as a spokesman for the underwear company whose product I stole.” You know if it\u2019s your kid, it wouldn\u2019t happen to your kid. <\/p>\n

So, my point of all this is, if Monica wants to take on bullying, and if she wants to try to say she\u2019s put this behind her, she\u2019s gotta stop blaming Drudge, and she\u2019s gotta start taking a little bit of responsibility for her role in this. And then she\u2019s gotta be willing to say that there was a coconspirator and it wasn\u2019t the Internet and it wasn\u2019t Matt Drudge, and it wasn\u2019t Michael Isikoff, it was Bill Clinton. And then you can throw Hillary in there too, because Hillary after all this broke, goes on the Today show and blames it all on a right-wing conspiracy. Go figure that out. And I, of course, am the Mr. Big of the right wing.<\/line><\/p>\n

What did we do? Did we hire Monica as an intern? Did we arrange for the pizza deliveries when we knew that Clinton would be in the Oval Office and she would be delivering to the Oval Office the just delivered pizzas? We did all this? And yet the media, she blames it on the vast right-wing conspiracy? Once again the Republicans are to blame. And this came shortly after that whole idea that the Republicans wanted to starve our kids. So I just think the cumulative impact of all these things matters.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: It has just been posited to me that the only reason Monica is doing what she\u2019s doing is because Hillary is running for the presidency, and if Hillary runs and loses, then it\u2019s over for Monica. With the Clintons out of the news, Monica will not have a chance to cash in. So she\u2019s doing what she can to help Hillary win. She needs Hillary to win to keep the Lewinsky story, Clinton-Lewinsky story alive? Is that… (interruption). Okay, she needs to bring attention to herself to get whatever money she can out of it. The theory rests on the fact that if Hillary loses, then it\u2019s over for Monica? (interruption) That\u2019s what I don\u2019t get. She doesn\u2019t need Hillary Clinton running. <\/p>\n

<\/a>She doesn\u2019t need Hillary Clinton to win in order to get coverage. All she needs is Bill Clinton to still be out there making speeches. Did I miss something? Did she have an affair with Hillary Clinton? What\u2019s Hillary got to do with it? Hillary is not even acting like the ticked-off wife. (interruption) Hillary isn\u2019t gonna react to any of it. Hillary isn\u2019t gonna react to any of this, other than to keep the theme it was the vast right-wing conspiracy. If Hillary does anything, it will be to express sympathy and sorrow for Monica, but not because of her husband, but because of the Internet or whatever.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t think she\u2019ll even mention Monica Lewinsky. Monica trying to cash in. I don\u2019t see Monica\u2019s chance to cash in being tied to Hillary winning or running or not. But I could be missing something here. I don\u2019t… (interruption) What\u2019s the only what left? That\u2019s what I don\u2019t get. I don\u2019t think she\u2019s doing what she\u2019s doing now because of anything Hillary\u2019s doing. And I don\u2019t think she needs Hillary to succeed in order to continue to be in the limelight. Because Hillary wasn\u2019t part of the original story, other than to blame it on the vast right-wing conspiracy. <\/p>\n

Maybe Monica will be brought up in the debates, but even if Hillary doesn\u2019t win or doesn\u2019t run, the press is always gonna be fascinated. All Monica\u2019s gotta do is change what she says her psychology of the day is. All she\u2019d have to say, “What you know? I\u2019m regressing. I think I\u2019m still in love with the president.” Bam. You know, Hillary could be back in China doing something, and that would make news. She doesn\u2019t need Hillary Clinton to make news. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t get you people. You think this is tied to Hillary\u2019s campaign? It may be strategically in some sense, but she doesn\u2019t need Hillary in order to make news. She didn\u2019t get invited to this Forbes thing because Hillary\u2019s running for president. (interruption) Well, that\u2019s because nobody cares about a Monica Lewinsky pocketbook or a Monica Lewinsky watch or a Monica Lewinsky scarf. That\u2019s not what she\u2019s known for. She\u2019s known for what she did with her mouth. And as long as she\u2019s using her mouth, she\u2019s going to be news, whether she\u2019s speaking or playing with cigars or whatever. (interruption) What are you people missing in there? <\/p>\n

You all have got Hillaryitis! I can\u2019t get over it, everybody is so scared of Hillary still. Anyway, don\u2019t blame me. The staff wanted to argue with me during the break. That\u2019s what got all this started, and I still don\u2019t understand. But I\u2019ve done my best to refute it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Come on, you guys, we already know what Hillary\u2019s gonna say if somebody asks her about Monica during a debate. She\u2019s gonna say, “What difference does it make?” And then what are they gonna say? “What difference it make now?” She\u2019s already used that once, about Benghazi. I think Monica needs to start marketing some lipstick, myself.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, before I move on to this Daily Beast stuff, I\u2019ve got some sound bites associated with this Lewinsky stuff that I want to get out of the way. I intended to get these in the last hour as well. First up is Monica herself. Yesterday in Philadelphia at the Forbes 30 Under 30 summit. She\u2019s 41. We have just a portion of her remarks, and then you shall be treated to media reaction to Monica Lewinsky yesterday at the Forbes 30 Under 30 summit.<\/p>\n

LEWINSKY: Thanks to the Internet and a website that, at the time, was scarcely known outside of Washington, DC, but a website most of us know today called the Drudge Report, within 24 hours I became a public figure. Not just in the United States, but around the entire globe. As far as major news stories were concerned, this was the very first time that the traditional media was usurped by the Internet. Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was patient zero.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sorry, folks. Now, do you have an idea why now I have the attitude I\u2019ve got? She\u2019s 41. She\u2019s not a 19-year-old kid anymore. She\u2019s 41. It\u2019s like she didn\u2019t do anything! She\u2019s minding her own business one day and all of a sudden the Internet decided to tell people what she was doing. And if it hadn\u2019t been for the Internet nobody would have known because the real media wasn\u2019t interested. See, the real media, Newsweek, they spiked the story. The real media didn\u2019t care. <\/p>\n

Monica, do you have any idea what you did? Do you have any idea with whom you did it? Do you have any idea the marital status of the man with whom you did what you did, where you did it numerous times? How in the world did you expect that not to be reported? How in the world did you expect that not to become known? Patient zero? “I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one”? What do you expect to happen when you do what you did? <\/p>\n

Now, don\u2019t misunderstand here, folks, she\u2019s 19 at the time. In some people\u2019s books that\u2019s an adult, and I\u2019m not denying she was exploited, she was used. This guy, Clinton, knew that she was infatuated. He knew that she was in love with him. He used it and he toyed with her and he just chewed her up and spat her out. But he didn\u2019t — (interruption) well, figure of speech. Now, come on, don\u2019t distract me again here. The fact of the matter is, he should have been humiliated, too. Not only that, Clinton went out and lied about it. <\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s Monica, who\u2019s just so much in love with the guy, and she\u2019s watching him and he\u2019s finally got a chance to go on TV and proclaim his love for her. Instead he goes out and says (imitating Clinton), “I never had sex, not a single time with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.” Like he didn\u2019t even know her. He wasn\u2019t humiliated. He never has been humiliated. She was. But it was not because of the Internet, and it was not because she\u2019s patient zero, and it\u2019s not because there was any bias or what have you. This kind of thing is a symptom, folks. It\u2019s clearly a teachable moment, symptomatic, so much in this to learn that instructs us why we are where we are on a whole bunch of things. <\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s go to the Drive-By Media. We have here a montage of Drive-By and entertainment media helping the Clintons and Monica rewrite history. And the rewrite of history is that she was a victim of cyberbullying, and she was the first victim of cyberbullying, and this cyberbullying has got to stop. Meanwhile, everybody engaged in the Internet on social media is doing everything they can to have everybody else know everything about them. And this has been going on for a long time because everybody wants to be famous. Everybody wants to be Monica Lewinsky in the Lewinsky story. Everybody wants to be the focus of television reports and television stories. Young people, I\u2019m talking about. Here\u2019s the Drive-By Media montage on this.<\/line><\/p>\n

NANCY O\u2019DELL: On the topic of cyberbullying, Monica Lewinsky.<\/p>\n

SHAUN ROBINSON: Monica says her reputation was completely destroyed thanks to the Internet.<\/p>\n

ANDERSON COOPER: Patient zero in the epidemic of cyberbullying.<\/p>\n

JASON JOHNSON: She is the first cyberbullying victim.<\/p>\n

JONATHAN KARL: Beginning of a full-blown campaign against cyberbullying.<\/p>\n

JONATHAN HUNT: She feels a victim of a bullying culture.<\/p>\n

KELLY WALLACE: To end the cyberbullying and online shaming that really damaged her.<\/p>\n

BRET BAIER: Hoping to use her experience to change the culture of public humiliation on the Internet.<\/p>\n

ANDREA MITCHELL: The first victim of cyberbullying, before Google, before Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.<\/p>\n

GLORIA BORGER: She was the pre-social media person who experienced bullying as a result of what happened to her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You see how this is working out now? You guys in there that have Hillary on the brain, if you want to know what\u2019s really going on, she is helping Hillary take this whole story off of Hillary\u2019s plate by rewriting it, repositioning it as cyberbullying, and we\u2019re gonna erase from everybody\u2019s memory that she was in the White House having oral sex with Hillary\u2019s husband. We\u2019re gonna erase that. That\u2019s not what this is gonna end up being about. This is gonna be about cyberbullying, bullying being the magic word. And if you guys think that Monica\u2019s complicit with Hillary in anything, the complicitness is in rewriting the story and giving Hillary a new issue, cyberbullying. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think she\u2019ll ever talk about Monica. I couldn\u2019t care less. I don\u2019t know what she\u2019s gonna do. But you see now how this is being rewritten. Poor Matt Drudge is building a business out there and he comes across a story that Newsweek has and spikes so he runs it, and all of a sudden he\u2019s the bad guy? Matt Drudge? The Internet\u2019s the bad guy? What did Monica do? Now, I realize I may be skating on thin ice with women. I know this. But, I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m the mayor of Realville. This is not about feminism. It\u2019s not about women. This is not political here. She\u2019s a human being. Did she not know what she did? <\/p>\n

It\u2019s as though what she actually did has no role in why she\u2019s a news story. How can that possibly be? Matt Drudge wouldn\u2019t have cared. Newsweek wouldn\u2019t have, nobody would have cared if not for the details of the story. How many other interns have been in that White House? Do we know of any of them? Hundreds. Do we know of any of them? Why? There were no Lewinskys going in there, that we know of. That we know of. <\/line><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, on the NBC Nightly News last night reporting about Lewinsky\u2019s new quest to end cyberbullying.<\/p>\n

ANDREA MITCHELL: The timing couldn\u2019t be worse for Bill and Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

SUSAN PAGE: I think no one was probably sorrier to hear Monica Lewinsky\u2019s name raised again than Hillary Clinton. An extraordinarily painful period of her life. One that she\u2019s moved on from.<\/p>\n

ANDREA MITCHELL: Bill Clinton is now the most popular Democratic surrogate on the campaign trail as memories of the Lewinsky affair have faded, at least until now. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. That\u2019s another thing I\u2019m missing. This is the second appearance of Monica at one of these kind of things to talk about cyberbullying. This isn\u2019t the first time she bashed Drudge. This happened a year ago. (interruption) Campaign what? (interruption) I don\u2019t care. She did it. This is not her first coming out trying this. This is not the first seminar she\u2019s attended. Somebody look it up. I know my memory is dead-on right about this. Monica Lewinsky has not faded from anybody\u2019s memory. She was out there a year ago trying this. My point is, here\u2019s Andrea Mitchell, “faded from everyone\u2019s memory.” She\u2019s not faded from everybody\u2019s memory. That\u2019s the whole point here. <\/p>\n

The people who remember this are still disgusted by it and trying to figure out how in the hell the participants in this thing end up unscathed, unshamed. It\u2019s just sort of perplexing here. The timing couldn\u2019t be worse for Bill and Hillary? So, once again, here\u2019s Monica out there doing what she\u2019s trying to do, and it still is about Bill and Hillary, you see? Oh, no. Is this going to hurt Hillary? Oh, no, is this gonna hurt Bill? Why are you asking? It never has. <\/p>\n

The Lewinsky story never hurt Bill Clinton. The Lewinsky story never hurt Hillary Clinton. The Lewinsky story isn\u2019t going to hurt them. Why, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, are you so worried that it might hurt them now? It never has. Moving on to CNN. Wolf Blitzer speaking with Jeffrey Toobin, the senior legal analyst, about this.<\/p>\n

BLITZER: We covered the whole Monica Lewinsky affair with the president. Why is this resurfacing right now?<\/p>\n

TOOBIN: What I don\u2019t understand, frankly, is why she persists in doing things in public which are just — is just gonna attract unflattering attention. And I think she\u2019d be better off working for her causes in private rather than in public.<\/p>\n

BLITZER: And if she\u2019s gonna work for good causes, don\u2019t start rehashing all of that painful past. Move on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, see, Wolf doesn\u2019t want any more it. Move on, painful past, why rehash it? Come on, get out of here, Monica, we\u2019re tired of it. They may be worried that at some point it will hurt. But I think we all have to agree, it hasn\u2019t hurt anybody except her from the get-go. It hasn\u2019t hurt Bill. It hasn\u2019t hurt Hillary in any demonstrable way. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: You talk about something I never intended to be spending this kind of time on. All right. My memory, as usual, flawless. I\u2019m holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from Vanity Fair — magazine to the stars — May 6th of this year<\/a>. June, July, August, September, October. Six months ago Monica Lewinsky published a book called Shame and Survival. Six months ago. <\/p>\n

Now, all of a sudden she shows up at this Forbes thing. And, by the way, it was covered by everybody, and she was on TV, and that was when she first complained about being bullied by Matt Drudge. This is not the first time she\u2019s done it, and yet these people in the Drive-Bys all think it is. And they\u2019re all wondering, “Oh, the timing, oh, this is so unfortunate, oh, it\u2019s so sad.” She wrote a book called Shame and Survival, and Vanity Fair had the exclusive: “Monica Lewinsky Writes About Her Affair With President Clinton.” <\/p>\n

So she\u2019s back in six months. Guess the book didn\u2019t sell well. Everybody\u2019s acting like, “Oh, oh, the timing, oh, it\u2019s so bad for Hillary, oh, it\u2019s so bad.” One other thing and then we\u2019re gonna get to the phones as I promised. Cyberbullying. They want to say that Matt Drudge was bullying Monica Lewinsky. What was he bullying her to do? What was the bullying? Was Matt Drudge bullying Lewinsky to shut up? Was he bullying Lewinsky to tell the truth? What was the bullying? I don\u2019t even understand how the word\u2019s being used. <\/p>\n

<\/a>All that happened was the details of her behavior with the president were made public. Where is the bullying? Drudge did not make her do something she didn\u2019t want to do. The Internet, nobody Internet bullied Monica Lewinsky into doing something she didn\u2019t want to do. This is almost like a half-baked effort to bully Drudge into stop reporting the news, is what this is. It\u2019s actually reverse bullying. <\/p>\n

Anyway, we go to the phones with David in Chester, Virginia. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Monica is showing exactly how naive she is. (unintelligible) That Drudge destroyed her, if she didn\u2019t have that blue dress, the Bill and Hillary political machine would have crushed her. There would have been no political cover. There would have been no job offer from Vernon Jordan. They would have absolutely destroyed her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, that is an excellent point. If she hadn\u2019t kept that semen stained blue dress, she\u2019d have gotten the dollar bill through the trailer park treatment from James Carville. They would have destroyed her, because it would have allowed Clinton to keep denying it. (imitating Clinton) “I never had sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky, not a single time. I don\u2019t even know who that woman is.” They could have literally destroyed her. They could have ruined her, and they would have been really bullying. They are the bullies. That is a brilliant, brilliant reminder, David.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Could I say one thing about your sponsor, one of your sponsors?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Depends. If you like it, yes.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: That\u2019s a good point. It\u2019s a good point. He\u2019s making the case for IDrive. He\u2019s making the case for off-line, off-site backup. (interruption) Now, what are you laughing at now? The staff is in their own world today. (interruption) Well, I didn\u2019t know where he was going, either. But I trusted him. See, that\u2019s the difference. You\u2019re in there shaking in fear, “Oh, no, where\u2019s the caller gonna go? I didn\u2019t screen it.” I had implicit trust. All I had to do was say, “If you\u2019re gonna say something good, fire away.” And he did. And it\u2019s a great point. I do remember Francis Ford Coppola lost everything. Because if the backup drive is part of your computer, or part of the array in your house, if it\u2019s all stolen or if it\u2019s all ruined, it\u2019s all gone. He\u2019s right. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Kathy in Austin, Texas. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s a great pleasure to speak with you today. I wanted to comment about the Monica Lewinsky story where she said that Drudge ruined her life, and I would argue that the left ruined her life. They were trying to protect Bill Clinton, and she was the sacrificial animal for that. People on the right thought she was a victim of a predatory president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s all true, too. I would prefer sacrificial lamb to animal.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you\u2019re right. Your point is on par with our previous caller. He said that blue dress saved her. They could not destroy her like was the business model. The bimbo eruption unit was there to destroy every Monica Lewinsky who surfaced no matter how or where. Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, the list goes on, Gennifer Flowers, it\u2019s an unending list. Well, it ends at some point, but we still don\u2019t know all the names that were possibly on it. <\/p>\n

But again, Kathy is right. It was Clinton\u2019s friends who aimed at Lewinsky. And, by the way, once the story comes out and it happened and Clinton denies it, here\u2019s Madeleine Albright leading a bunch of women working in the White House outside to a press conference, “We believe in Bill Clinton, and we think this woman is trash.” Well, she didn\u2019t say those words, but that might as well be the implication. So you add to this she\u2019s gooey eyed in love, see, and these people are playing around with that. Mean people, folks, mean.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Scott in Los Angeles. You\u2019re next. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir, Scott. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. Hey, you know, Monica says that Drudge has ruined her life, and Monica, you know, let\u2019s look at what she\u2019s ruined. The sanctity of marriage, the dignity of the presidency, and the respect of our country. I mean, she\u2019s ruined more with her choices that are now gonna have a lasting effect in consequences than anything in her pathetic little life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s pretty tough. She didn\u2019t do that single-handedly, you know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: She did not. She did that with the help of the media and with the help of that party, and it —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, she did it with the help of Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You can\u2019t leave him out of this equation.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Those are pretty tough charges to chalk all of that cultural rot up to her. She was a participant in it, there\u2019s no question.<\/p>\n

CALLER: She was a participant, and it might be pretty tough to go ahead and put that all on her, and of course she didn\u2019t destroy the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But she didn\u2019t get away with it, is the point. He did. Her life, who knows what it would have been, but you can\u2019t say she got away with it, at least in her own mind. She\u2019s humiliated, embarrassed, she\u2019s a laughingstock, and then they turn around and look at Clinton as some big superstar hero. And she did pay a price. She\u2019s admitting it. That\u2019s what all this public appearance stuff is about, Drudge bullying her.<\/p>\n

But Drudge didn\u2019t bully her. Bullying isn\u2019t even the right word here for what is going on. There\u2019s no cyberbullying here. Drudge didn\u2019t make her do anything, didn\u2019t force her to do anything. Drudge didn\u2019t have a role in what she did. Drudge came along after it was all over. Just like our previous caller said, she had just better be glad she saved that dress.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let\u2019s see. I\u2019ve spent about an hour and 45 minutes more on Monica Lewinsky than I ever intended to today. That\u2019s just the way things fall out. And we haven\u2019t even discussed the possibility of a porn career. And I don\u2019t think I\u2019m gonna go there. Some people have that idea, but I think we don\u2019t need to go there.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Bert, you\u2019re next, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you, Rush, from the top, bottom, and the side of my heart for everything you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Yeah, when you mentioned the culture earlier, it seemed to me like we went from a John Wayne culture to a Pee-Wee Herman culture. That\u2019s what we\u2019re stuck in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How did you settle on Pee-Wee Herman, of all people?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it was either him or Alfred E. Newman, which Obama reminds me of.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I could see that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: His famous staying, “What, me worry?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, that seems like our president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there have been some major cultural shifts, there\u2019s no question there have been. And I know why they\u2019ve taken place, political correctness and the whole idea that whatever you want to do is fine, nobody has the right to define right and wrong, and nobody has the right to define morality. So now right and wrong are an individual choice just like morality is an individual choice. And this results in the breakdown. <\/p>\n

You know, I think human beings, whether they want to admit it or not, like boundaries. They want rules. They want to know where the lines are that they have to not cross. And they\u2019re being obliterated for a whole host of reasons. And people who have a firm idea of where those lines ought to be are castigated and attacked as too rigid and they\u2019re bigots or what have you. But Pee-Wee Herman. Interesting choice, of all the people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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