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Rush Limbaugh: Al Franken Is a 'Parasite'
America’s top radio host Rush Limbaugh lavished high praise on Peter Schweizer’s new book "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy” during a lengthy conversation with the author published in Rush’s own publication The Limbaugh Letter.
In his blockbuster book – which reached the No. 1 spot on Amazon.com’s list of best-selling nonfiction works – Hoover Fellow Schweizer reveals the glaring contradictions between the public stances and real-life behavior of prominent liberals. [Check out NewsMax's FREE offer for this book -- Go Here Now.]
Story Continues Below Rush told Schweizer he had an amazing reaction to the book. "When I went through your book, I had so many emotional reactions, like, ‘Yeah!’ and ‘Why hasn’t anybody done this before?’ I want to congratulate you for reaching No. 1. Are you surprised it’s taken off as it has?” Said Schweizer: "A little bit. But people are outraged when they find out how blatant the hypocrisy is.”
Discussing the liberal hypocrisy disclosed in Schweizer’s book, radio’s most listened to talker said: "The Democrats cannot advance an agenda; liberals don’t have an agenda they want to be honest about. So for much of my adult life they’ve tried to impugn and discredit their critics, using hypocrisy as an argument.
"They’ve said I’ve never served in the military, so how can I be so pro-military? My response has always been, we all have personal failings, and just because I’ve had some, that doesn’t change what the truth is. Now, you’re trying that approach yourself.”
Said Schweizer: "You’re right; we all struggle with hypocrisy. It’s part of the human condition. "I think there’s a huge difference between conservative hypocrisy and liberal hypocrisy. When we conservatives are hypocrites and abandon our principles, we end up hurting ourselves … But ironically, liberal ideas are so bad that when liberals abandon their principles and become hypocrites, they actually improve their lives.”
After mentioning a possible liberal backlash against "Do As I Say” from booksellers, Rush disclosed that "when my two books came out, bookstore employees put them in the fiction section, in the cooking section . . . Have you heard any stories like that?”
Schweizer answered: "There are a few blogger stories about people going into bookstores and not being able to find copies and being frustrated.”
Rush asked Schweizer – who took two years to research his book – how he uncovered his eyebrow-raising information.
"Let me say first off that none of this was obtained illegally or unethically,” the author explained. "I didn’t do any dumpster diving, and I didn’t go through anybody’s mail. I simply made use of public databases.
"For example, I discovered that Michael Moore and his wife had set up a tax shelter where they were sheltering some of their assets, and they were required to file a Form 990-PF to obtain and maintain that tax status. I learned from the IRS that you can obtain those documents legally. So I went about acquiring them.”
Schweizer reveals in his book that corporation-basher Moore, who has said he doesn’t own a single share of stock, actually owns tens of thousands of shares through his foundation.
Among the other highlights of Rush’s conversation with the author: Schweizer: "Over the last 40 years, there have been precious few new ideas on the left. They’re simply recycling speeches from the 1930s and 1940s.” Rush: "Al Franken in the course of his career, over the last 12 years, has hired 115 people. Only one of them black. Barbra Streisand laments the way labor unions are treated in this country, yet gets all of her movies produced in Canada.” Schweizer: "Of all the people I profiled, [Moore’s] case of hypocrisy regarding the stock market is probably the most pathological.”
Rush: "Franken’s a parasite, among other things. If it weren’t for other people’s names he puts on the cover of his books, they wouldn’t sell. Just like his movies don’t sell.”
Schweizer: "The conservative philosophy is on the ascendance. It is, in a sense, the major philosophy in America today.” Rush: "[Liberals] are in deep trouble … I will bet, Peter, that you’ll have a chance to write volumes two and three, as more people will open up and tell you things . . .
"You’re doing the Lord’s work. Congratulations on the book.” Amen to that. Editor's note:
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