Rush Limbaugh Get Ready For Another Charity eBay Auction To Hang Around Dems Necks!

Rush Announces eBay Charity Auction of Harry Reid’s Letter

Source: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101207/content/01125114.guest.html

October 12, 2007

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RUSH: It's special announcement time, ladies and gentlemen, and this special announcement, I'm going to play it for you in the form of an audio sound bite from last night's Rush to Excellence Tour in Philadelphia.  The video of what you are going to hear is posted at RushLimbaugh.com, at this moment, so you can actually see it as well as listen to it here on the radio.  So let's get the special announcement started with this excerpt of last night's Rush to Excellence performance in Philadelphia.

RUSH ARCHIVE:  Stalin, are you back there?  This is my security guy.

(laughter and applause)

RUSH ARCHIVE:  One second. Face the audience, please.  His name is Larry.  I hired him because he looks just like Stalin, which just irritates the hell out of the libs.  

(laughter)

RUSH ARCHIVE: As you can see, this is a titanium briefcase. He has it handcuffed to himself.  Ladies and gentlemen, I am holding here, the original letter Harry Reid sent to the CEO of Clear Channel.

(cheers and applause)

RUSH ARCHIVE: Here are the signatures of 41 Democrat senators. Hillary Clinton is on this page, the first page.  People are asking, "How come Hillary didn't weigh in on the Limbaugh controversy?"  She has!  She's recommended that a private citizen be censured, or whatever, by his own corporate partner -- and she wants to be president of the United States.  

(booing)

RUSH ARCHIVE: Screw that!

(cheering)

RUSH ARCHIVE: The CEO of Clear Channel, since they are my syndication partner, is a friend of mine.  He gave me the letter.  Here is what we are going to do with Senator Reid's letter.  Tomorrow at 1:30 in the afternoon on my award-winning program, I am going to announce that we are auctioning this letter on eBay.

(wild cheers and applause)

RUSH ARCHIVE: The proceeds of this letter will go to a charity for which I am a board member and have raised a lot of money for and have contributed: the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.

(deafening cheers, hoots, and applause)

RUSH:  That's a standing O happening here, folks.  This is a standing O.

RUSH ARCHIVE:  Thank you.

(cheers and applause)

RUSH:  I am now right here in the broadcast complex. I have in front of me the titanium briefcase containing the official real letter from Senator Reid, signed by 41 Democrat senators to Mark Mays, the CEO of Clear Channel, my syndication partner.  This titanium case -- I hold it up now for those of you on the Dittocam to see -- is manufactured by Halliburton.  Inside the titanium case -- I'm opening it here just as I did last night in Philadelphia -- this is the original letter.  There are four pages to this letter.  This letter is going to whoever bids the highest amount on eBay.  It is available now to be bid upon.  Simply go to RushLimbaugh.com, and there's a direct link from our website to the eBay page on which this is explained. There are pictures of the four pages of the letter, official documentation of where the money is going and so forth.  The one thing that we are asking you to do, and I hope you understand this, is when you place a bid on this auction, you will be asked before your bid is accepted to prequalify.  Now, the reason we're doing this is not to collect information on you.  We are doing this to make sure that no operative of Senator Reid nor the Democrat National Committee can attempt to buy back their own deceitful words here.  


We want this letter to remain with somebody in the public, and we fully expect that operatives from Senator Reid's office and the Democrat National Committee will try to enter the auction and buy it back.  So the prequalification, there will be no credit card information asked, anything like this.  The information on this page will be used for no other purpose other than to prequalify you to bid.  It will be destroyed, all the information you give will be destroyed at the end of the auction, which will go until next Friday at this time.  The auction will be up for one week, and it will end at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time next Friday, one week from now. 

It's just a bunch of basic information so we can verify that people's bids are legitimate and so we can make sure that... (interruption) The case is included.  Of course, the titanium case is included.  The handcuffs worn by Stalin last night are not included because they're official law enforcement handcuffs, and we are not allowed to distribute them beyond security personnel and law enforcement personnel.  So the handcuffs... (interruption, laughing) Now, now, now, now, now.  I had somebody from L.A. today ask me if they could buy the handcuffs, separately.  Just in their telling me that, this rules out San Francisco.  I said, "It's not just San Francisco. I have somebody in L.A. that wanted the handcuffs.  A girl. Yes!  So don't go there.  Don't go." Leonard, don't get me distracted here.  

Now, I want to explain to you what the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation is.  The Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation started actually pretty recently, in the nineties.  I'm on the board.  We've raised close to $30 million, and what this does is this establishes college scholarships for the children of Marines killed in action and, in certain instances, other federal law enforcement personnel such as the Oklahoma City bombing.  Almost 100 percent of what they raise goes to scholarships. Nobody makes any money on this. The staff and administrators do it for practically nothing.  It's almost just a direct transfer from donations to recipients, and it is a tremendous, tremendous charity that is doing tremendous work, and it was started by a bunch of Marines from the Vietnam era who are now in New York, in law enforcement, and on Wall Street and various businesses like that.  I feel very privileged to have gotten to know them.  I also would like to issue a challenge, because how did this all come about?  This all came about as the result of a smear on the part of a so-called left-wing media watchdog group, which is really nothing more than a Hillary Clinton front organization, an attempt to smear me as -- of all things -- somebody critical of the US military.  Anybody who has paid any attention to anything...

Over the last 20 years, I've been called a chicken hawk. I have been accused of being blindly supportive of the military.  Now, all of a sudden, I hate the military! All of a sudden, I'm critical of soldiers who are critical of the war -- which I have never been. I don't want to go through it, but you all know it.  It leads to Harry Reid writing a letter and getting 40 senators to cosign it, sent to the corporate partner -- the CEO of the corporate partner of mine -- Clear Channel, asking him to essentially censure me by making me apologize.  Well, I have the letter, and we're going to auction it off on eBay.  All the proceeds, every dollar raised, goes to Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. The expenses for this are going to be paid by the seller. That's us.  Every dollar raised, however much it ends up being, is going to go to Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.  And I would like to issue this challenge to Senator Reid and the 41 senators who signed his letter.  You say you support the military.  You say you're big, and you think it's patriotic, and that I was unpatriotic.  Well, I would like for each of you, Senator Reid, and the 40 Senators who signed, to match whatever the winning bid is.  Show us your support for the US military by all 41 of you pro-military people, Democrats in the Senate, match whatever the winning bid is and send that amount to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.  Again, the link, taking you to the eBay page is at RushLimbaugh.com right now.  The video of the unveiling of this last night in Philadelphia is also available.  It's about, what, 2:51? The streaming video is about two minutes, 51 seconds, just as the audio link here was.  So go for it, folks.  The auction will be open for a full week.  


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