Rush Limbaugh’s Transcripts on Nancy Pelosi & Waterboarding: ‘If a Liberal Tells a Whopper Lie But Nobody Reports It, Is It Still a Lie?’
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on May 11, 2009
By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone
Rush Limbaugh, true American conservative
This brilliant transcript about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s lies will be available on Limbaugh’s website for the next few weeks for everyone to read, and is available indefinitely to members of Rush Limbaugh’s 24/7 Club.
RUSH: Folks, do you remember that line you learned when you were a little kid — the philosophy question, logic question — “If a tree falls in the forest and no one’s there, does it make a sound?” Remember that question?
Well, there’s a new version of this that I, ladies and gentlemen, would like to put forth: “If a liberal tells a whopper of a lie and no one reports it, is it a lie?”
Nancy Pelosi, who promised to clean up Washington — or was it to clean up in Washington? Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee. Nancy Pelosi is caught in a real whopper, such a whopper that she had to run off to Iraq in a “surprise visit” yesterday to reframe the news.
All right, all right. It wasn’t a lie. It’s a fashion statement. She wears Armani clothes, fashionable; Botox shots, fashionable; she’s against waterboarding, fashionable. Of course after 9/11 she was for waterboarding! That was fashion then: “Getting to the bottom of it,” finding out who did what, saving American lives, preventing future attacks.
Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats were as on-board as Dick Cheney was with waterboarding, whatever these “harsh techniques” that are now being described where, they were all for these. She is lying through the teeth about being unaware of this.
If a liberal tells a whopper of a lie and nobody reports it, is it a lie?
You know, it’s interesting to note that most liberals, when caught in a lie, will run off to NBC or run off to Chris Matthews to appear on the show, but she stopped all activities. She went all the way to Iraq. Now, I have a different spin on Pelosi’s bald-faced lie (well, her Botox-faced lie) and it’s going to drive the left crazy. But first let’s listen to a couple audio sound bites. Let’s go back to April 23rd in Washington. Here is Pelosi denying and repeating to make it clear that she was not briefed on waterboarding.
PELOSI: We were not. I repeat, re– uh — not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used.
RUSH: They were! A bunch of members of Congress were, and when they were told, they also reacted in a way that asked, “Is this enough? Are we really doing enough to get to the bottom of this?” The anti-Bush strategery — failure in Iraq, defeat for the United States — had not occurred to them yet. They had moistened their fingers and put them in the air, and they figured the American people were mad about this. The American people want to find out who did this and represented retribution — and of course the Democrats, always known as weak on national defense, had to go show that they were on board even more so. February 25th, Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC. When pressed by reporters, Pelosi gave an even more detailed denial.
PELOSI: No! No! The fact is they did not brief — Uh, well, first of all we’re not allowed to talk about what happens there, but — but I can say this. They did not brief us that these, um, enhanced interrogations were taking place. They did not brief us that was — They were talking about an array of, uh, uhhh, interrogations that they might have at their disposal.
MADDOW: Techniques in the abstract, as if they were not being used?
PELOSI: As — ah — uh — W-we were never told they were being used.
MADDOW: Were you told they weren’t being used?
PELOSI: Well, they just talk about them, but they — they did — they — th-th-the inference to be drawn from what they told us was that these are things that we think could be legal, and we have a difference of opinion on that. But they never told us that they were being used, because that would be a different story altogether.
RUSH: So I ask the question again: “When a liberal tells a lie and it’s not reported, is it a lie?” She’s compounding the lie here. The Republicans in a little-noticed hearing last Thursday in Washington — this was during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce hearing — and the attorney general, Eric Holder, testified. Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee: “What about members of Congress who were informed of these techniques or knew about them or approved them or encouraged them? Wouldn’t they also be appropriate parts of such an investigation?”
HOLDER: Our desire is not to do anything that would be perceived as political, as partisan. My responsibility is to enforce the laws of this nation — and to the extent that we see violations of those laws, um, we’ll take the appropriate action.
ALEXANDER: If you’re going to investigate the lawyers whose opinion was asked about whether this is legal or not, I would assume you could also go to the people who created the techniques, the officials who approved them, and the members of Congress who knew about them and may have encouraged them?
HOLDER: Hypothetically that might be true.
RUSH: “Hypothetically that might be true.” So here’s a Republican zeroing in. All right, if you’re going to go after the lawyers that wrote the techniques and if you’re going to go after all these, what about members of Congress who knew about it and approved? And of course Eric Holder, “Weeeeell, hypothetically that might be true.” He didn’t rule it out. But the bottom line here is, Pelosi is out saying she had no idea, which is patently false. As I say, which most of these people get caught in a lie they run off to NBC News, MSNBC, Chris Matthews, or whatever.
But I think Nancy Pelosi actually deserves our praise — and she might even deserve a medal.
She was the guardian of waterboarding. She knew about it. She was told it was going to happen. She knew it was happening, and she didn’t say anything. Without Pelosi’s cooperation, without Pelosi’s silence, waterboarding would not have been used — and all that intel we got, we would have never gotten. When all of these techniques were being used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the others at Guantanamo Bay, Nancy Pelosi knew they were being used. She was in on the briefings! She stayed silent. Nancy Pelosi was the guardian of waterboarding. Her silence permitted us to gain valuable intel. She deserves a medal.
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Ed Morrissey, Hot Air: A Conversation with Rush
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Snippet from Legal Insurrection: Pelosi Surrounds Herself With Herself
Pelosi has lost any measure of credibility on the issue of waterboarding. She would be credible if she said, “I knew about it but given the threat assessment and the need to protect the country, I went along.” Or, “I knew about it and made a mistake.” Almost anything other than the stories she is telling would have preserved Pelosi’s credibility.
Related reading:
Hot Air: Did DiFi just defend waterboarding? and Audio: Schumer in 2004 on enhanced interrogation techniques; Update: Hypocrisy confirmed
Stephan Tawney, The American Pundit: DiFi: You Know, We Have to Remember the Context in Which Waterboarding Occurred
All American Blogger: Dianne Feinstein Defends Pelosi…and Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and Pretty Much Everyone Else
Crooks and Liars: Nicole Belle, FNS: Newt Gingrich Questions Pelosi’s Version
Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin: Justifiable uses for waterboarding, part VI
CNNPolitics.com: Gingrich: Pelosi not truthful about waterboarding issue
Michelle Malkin: What Nan knew and San Francisco values: Pelosi says enforcing immigration laws is “un-American”
Reginald Cunningham III, World News Daily: Cheney: Limbaugh Is Model Republican
Politico: Pelosi: Torture protest improper in ‘03
Paul Kane, Capitol Briefing, Washington Post: CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of ‘Enhanced Interrogations’
Frugal Café Blog Zone: It’s Karma: Nancy “Liar of the House” Pelosi’s Exploding Scandal about Her Numerous Waterboarding Lies and Liars Never Prosper: CIA Memo Proves Nancy Pelosi Deliberately Lied about Waterboarding Knowledge and Hypocrisy Exposed in White House: Speaker of the House Pelosi’s Elitist ‘Flying the Friendly Skies in Style’ on America’s Dime
Sister Toldjah: Karl Rove: Is Pelosi an accomplice to “torture”?
The Washington Post: Pelosi Fuels Fire on Interrogations
Politics Daily: Memo Shows Pelosi Lied About Interrogation Briefings and Pelosi Taking Heat for Torture Hypocrisy
Hot Air: More confirmation that Pelosi lied and 2002 DNI report: Shameless liar Pelosi was briefed on Zubaydah’s waterboarding and Former CIA Chief Goss: I can’t believe what a shameless liar Pelosi is
The Michigan Messenger: Hoekstra: Pelosi knew about waterboarding
The New Ledger: Nancy Pelosi’s Waterboarding Denial
Gary Graham, Big Hollywood: Waterboard Pelosi — Let’s Get to the Truth!
ABC News, The Note: Intelligence Report: Pelosi Briefed on Use of Interrogation Tactics in Sept. ’02
Ernie Mannix, Big Hollywood: Inside the Head of Nancy Pelosi
Thomas Lifson, American Thinker: Pelosi lied about interrogation briefing
Porter J. Goss, Washington Post: Security Before Politics
Neovatera: Nancy Pelosi, War Criminal?
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: Thank the Popping Doll
GOPMom: Would someone please water-board Nancy Pelosi?
Fredericksburg.com: Dems love to use threats, intimidation
Scared Monkeys: Speaker Nancy Pelosi Sounding Like Bill Clinton … I Did Not Have Knowledge of Waterboarding, Not A Single Time
The Irascible Chef: Pants on Fire Alert!
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