Transcript from Rush Limbaugh
September 30, 2004
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CBS has done it again, and this is happening too much under the radar. I mean, some people know about this, and more and more people are learning about it, but I want to add an exclamation point to it. CBS News did a report recently, and I think it was late last week or early this week, this is already Thursday, so it probably was early this week. Dan Rather did it, in fact, quoting sources that there's a secret move to reinstate the draft after the election, that the Bush administration is working on it. And Rather's sources for this, my friends, are these -- and you've seen these -- these absolutely wacko Internet e-mails.
Now, I don't know what's going on with Dan Rather. Somebody needs to sit him down and send him somewhere to get an examination, because first off you have the forged document story when he goes on the air to deny that the documents are forged, and to do what he did. He claimed that the opposition and the people that were claiming the documents were forged were these partisan political operatives. He was referring to the bloggers on the Internet, and he said disparaging things about them. The mainstream press resents the Internet, resents bloggers, resents all of the new media.
So what has happened is they ran a story on the CBS Evening News about the draft coming back. Rather's sources are all of these Internet conspiracy kooks that are running around making the charge -- and he even went out and interviewed somebody, a woman, put her on the newscast, and she was in tears or near tears and talking about how she was scared to death. She didn't want her son to get killed, didn't want her son to be drafted, didn't want her son sent to die blah, blah, blah. Real gut wrenching, heart wrenching story and so forth. The whole thing is bogus. The woman is an anti-draft activist. She's an anti-war activist. The only legislation, and there is legislation in Congress to reinstate the draft. It has two cosponsors, both Democrats. One is Charles Rangel from Harlem, and the other is the outgoing retiring Ernest Hollings from South Carolina, and it's not even serious. They know they'll never get the votes for it. It's not even to reinstate the draft, it's nothing more than a political trick to generate this kind of phony, fraudulent, kooky e-mail used by wacko mainstream news sources now like Dan Rather and try to pass it off as genuine news.
What Rangel's stated purpose is, is he doesn't believe the sons and daughters of the rich are there, in Iraq or anywhere else, fighting for freedom or fighting for America. He thinks it's unfair, and he thinks that if the draft were actually reinstated we'd find out how people don't really want to fight this war on terror, and that's the only way to show it is when kids and parents refuse to support a draft. That will mean the country doesn't want to do this, it will show Bush is wrong, it will illustrate to the country. The whole thing is nothing more than a trick. And of course these Internet groups now have started mass mailings and producing posters and so forth warning kids between 18 and 25 that there's a Bush secret plan to get them drafted and sent off to war and die, and their parents are supposed to be just as alarmed, when it's all BS. Not even Rangel is serious about getting the draft back. It's all an election year trick.
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Something else on this draft business. You know, CBS' parent company is Viacom. Viacom has many units. One of the Viacom units is MTV. So MTV and CBS are, shall we say, brethren under the Viacom umbrella. And there's a new initiative. MTV's Rock the Vote has now leapt onto this mock, stupid, false, phony draft story and said, "If young Americans aren't drafted to vote they may very well be drafted to serve in Iraq," according to MTV's Rock the Vote. A new initiative by the nationwide youth voter campaign, which also claims to be bipartisan but that's a bunch of gunk, is using the idea of a potential draft to inspire voter registration in the last days before the election. Visitors to the MTV Rock the Vote website can send out mock draft cards to would-be voters urging them to show up at the polls on November 2nd. The effort points out, among other things, that it would only take two or three days for a draft to be authorized and plans set in motion. Ladies and gentlemen, I have to tell you something. This is the federal government. They can't do anything in two to three days. They can't agree on a sentence in two to three days, much less how to punctuate it. But yet Rock the Vote's putting this notion out there that it would only take two or three days for a draft to be authorized and plans set in motion and, get this, 20-year-olds would be the first to be called up and women would be more likely to be included in the draft.
Well, wait a minute. Now, just one brief aside. What's wrong with that? We've just gone through ten years of a nationwide debate on women in combat, and the feminist movement told us hell's bells, damn right women in combat. So that's why we created the All American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion here to symbolize the first combat-ready battalion of women in constant states of PMS led by people like Molly Yard. We've been on this for a long time. Now all of a sudden MTV's Rock the Vote's upset that women might be drafted? What is this 20-year-olds go first? 18-year-olds go first and everybody knows that. 20-year-olds are probably the number 1 demographic of interest to them at MTV. So it's a hoax, the whole thing is a hoax. There is draft legislation but Democrats have sponsored it. The last draft that existed in this country was canceled by Richard Nixon, a Republican, and guess who his defense secretary was who authorized it? Donald Rumsfeld. And it's Donald Rumsfeld and everybody else on the Republicans side saying we've got no plans for a draft. In fact, we have more people in the Armed Services today, folks, than we had pre-9/11. There are more people serving in the armed forces today than pre-9/11. This whole notion of a draft is nothing more than late campaign fear tactics aimed at people that don't vote, to try to get 'em to vote, the so-called unlikely voters the, you know, American yute, these young skulls full of mush out there who spend all day long soaking up this garbage on MTV while they're not over at votergasm.org. So you go to votergasm.org and you go out there and get sex if you vote on election night. Then you go to Rock the Vote and make sure that you don't get drafted by voting for the right guy before you go out and get sex for it over at votergasm.org.
This is how the youth of America are being campaigned to. Then you got Kerry on Good Morning America today saying that the Bush campaign's out there trying to scare American parents! It's a 180 degrees out of phase.
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All right, folks, I want to go back to this fraudulent draft story again. Dan Rather knows better than this. There is no plan by the Republicans to institute the draft. There never has been a plan by the Republicans to institute the draft. MTV's Rock the Vote and CBS News are utilizing phony, fraudulently kook e-mail. I mean, they're relying on sources I wouldn't even rely on, on this program, that nobody would rely on, because we've learned over the years that you believe 94% of what you get in e-mail is fraudulent anyway, or kooky, or wrong, and yet Dan Rather has gone with that and based an entire story on CBS News about the fact the Republicans want to reinstate the draft. There is reinstate the draft legislation, it's been proposed by two Democrats, Charles Rangel and Ernest Hollings, and it's not even for the purpose of reinstating the draft. It's to scare young people into thinking that Bush is going to draft 'em and send 'em off to die, and to scare their parents into doing the same thing so that they will register and go out and vote in this election, which they don't normally do. And the reason they're doing that is because they know Kerry is pretty much down to having no more than a wing and a prayer winning this thing and if they don't get people who haven't voted before to go out and finally vote, they're thinking it's pretty much over and hopeless. And the fact that Dan Rather would be complicit in this is something that is not surprising at all.
I want you to hear how Dan Rather dealt with this on the CBS Evening News on Tuesday. We've got two sound bites. He went out and found a mother. He went out and found a mother who's -- (crying) -- I don't want my son to die -- (crying). She's a fraud, she's an anti-war, anti-draft activist, she's not just some woman that they found walking down the street coming out of Wal-Mart that they thrust a microphone. Her name is Beverly Cocco. She's a crossing guard for children. Dan Rather says, (doing impression) "It's no secret the old volunteer U.S. military, especially the Army, Marines, and many Reserve units are stretched thin in Iraq and Afghanistan. So what about bringing back the draft? Well, a lot of Americans are worried about that. Where do the presidential candidates stand? CBS' Richard Schlessinger tells you in the eye on America election series, what does it mean to you?"
VOICE: Beverly Cocco has spent most of her life protecting children in Philadelphia. She usually worries about other people's kids. But as Election Day approaches, it's her own two grown sons who Beverly is most worried about.
COCCO: I go to bed every night and I pray and I actually get sick to my stomach. I'm very worried, I'm scared, I'm absolutely scared, I'm petrified.
VOICE: Beverly is petrified about a military draft, and she's not alone. Mass e-mails are circulating among worried parents.
RUSH: The report continued.
VOICE: But Beverly is not buying it. She's a Republican, but she's also a single-issue voter.
VOICE: Would you vote for a Democrat?
COCCO: Absolutely. I would vote for Howdy Doody if I thought it would keep my boys home and safe.
VOICE: The machinery for a draft is already in place and the acting director of Selective Service believes he could start drafting people quickly.
VOICE: I think that we could do it in less than six months if we got the call.
VOICE: This time there would be no long deferments for college students, and a lot more people could be eligible for the draft than ever before. Men and women, age 18 to 26 could be called up. Of course, there hasn't been a draft since 1973, but that's not much comfort to Beverly Cocco. So she's keeping a sharp eye on the political traffic. She's a Bush supporter today. And if she doesn't like what she hears between now and November, Beverly could easily cross over.
RUSH: That's just so much poppycock. Beverly Cocco is an anti-war activist and an anti-draft activist. I don't know whether she's pro-Bush or not, but the idea that they just happened upon this woman and she's a static representative of the average thinking in America on the draft is a bogus premise. Typical of CBS. And you even heard in the first report that they're talking about these mass e-mails circulating among worried parents. It's an ad campaign, it's nothing more than a MoveOn.org type of thing. It's being sponsored by a bunch of people who are trying to get kids in this country all scared to death. Well, I'd take Votergasm.org over this. Votergasm.org is more responsible than this. But the point is, there's nothing to it. The only pro-draft legislation out there is by Democrats.
It's nothing more than an attempt to generate this kind of stuff, and then you get your willing accomplice, Dan Rather, on CBS to run with it and try to make it out to be a news story that it isn't, trying to make it out to be a Bush administration proposal. You go get the director of the Selective Service who has to answer questions, "If you got the order, how long would it take?" He's got no choice, Selective Service is always in existence, you never know when there's going to be an emergency, but the only plan to bring back the draft has been offered by Democrats! As this guy said, the draft ended in '73. Nixon ended it! Rumsfeld, secretary of defense, Rumsfeld, current secretary of defense, we're not going to do the draft. There are more armed forces in uniform today than there were pre-9/11. So don't fall for this, folks, it's just a late-game election trick born of desperation because it means that Democrats and the Kerry campaign know, that among the current universe of voters, they don't have a chance.
And . . . What do you suppose this is all about?
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