Rush shows his cowardly ass
Published by Mike Stark May 9th, 2006 in Rush LimbaughI asked Rush how the leak of the existence of the NSA spying program hurt our national security.
He didn’t like the question, so he answered his own.
Me: …Alberto Gonzalez was asked in Senate testimony how exposing the fact that we’re listening in on Al Qaeda’s calls hurt national security… o I wanted get your take - how did that leak hurt national security?
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Rush: (incredulous) You can’t be serious!
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Me: Oh please Rush, inform me - how did telling Al Quaeda that we were spying on them hurt our national security? Did they not know that?
Rush: Uh… They got away with it prior to 9/11. … That whole event was planned on the phone.
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Me: They didn’t release the capabilities - and unless you are saying that Al Quaeda is using smoke signals and no longer using the phone, what’s your point?
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OMG I heard this call today and didn’t recognize your voice. I was cheering in my car that more people were calling in with a rational point of view…I check this site tonight and it was you
Cheers to you!
BTW Rush was so lame about the “cheep Radio Shack phone.” I guess when he does not have reality on his side he has to resort to trashing callers about not having good enough cell phones. What an ass these guys are.
Anyway, it was a great call.
Congrats on getting into school.
Dittos, Mike!
So, acknowledging the existence of a domestic spying program does damage National Security (TM) and yet the outing of an active CIA undercover operative does not. Because Rush says so.
Oh. By their words, Republicans have become reflexively treasonous.
I think what conservatives want to say, but haven’t the guts, is that the NSA program is illegal, and therefore Al Quaeda would not suspect it. In other words, the reason that Republicans are the “adults” to be trusted with National Security is they will break our own laws in pursuit of the terrists. Which liberals would never do.
They can’t come out and say this, but it falls in line with the general Republican distain for law. And they call liberals naive.
Glad you didn’t pause at the jab Rush made about the “cheap Radio Shack” phone - what a fool. His ratings are dropping, the man is past his prime. He’s floundering to put lipstick on the Elephant.
This call and your Hannity call from the day before are probably your best two calls since you started this site! Keep up the good work, Mike!
well, you actually didn’t bring up the issue. the leak wasn’t that they were spying on al-queda. the issue was that they were spying on us citizens WITHOUT warrants. you kind of took it to their arguement by not mentioning the us citizens or the warrants (which is the point of the leak).
john X — understand your point, I’d like to get the point out to these yo-yos…..but I think Mike had the right approach…no one who listens to Rush will believe the born again GW would lie about this program and actually be listening to ordinary innocent citizens. They are all onboard with the belief the NSA is only listening to the bad guys, dontcha know. (how they determine that in advance is a matter of NATIONAL SECURITY…. SHHHHHH!!!!)
SO by their own words, they are only they listen to terrorists, so as Mike asked, how could talking about wiretapping the known/suspected terrorists endanger national security? That’s like saying discussing the provisions in the Patriot Act endangers national security too. I guess the entire Patriot act and all of our constitutional protections should be made Top Secret. That way the evil doers can’t get around our laws.
I really love the ol’ Rush stall tactic as he is waiting for his minions to give him ammunition with which to counter Mike. …..Uhhhh…..Uhhhh….can’t understand you on your crappy Radio Shack phone….uhhh… (schnell you stupid interns, get me something to say in response to this guy!!)
i agree with john x, the leak of the nsa program was only significant because that program includes warrantless domestic surveillance. that was the only new information. im sure if you asked president bush a year ago, “are you spying on al qaeda communications?” i guarantee he would say yes. so, how does the knowledge that americans can be spied on without warrants help al qaeda?