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Yesterday, I wrote about how the jury foreman, Denis Collins, worked at the Washington Post with Bob Woodward. I said that Mr. Collins was good friends with Woodward and Tim Russert. This transcript of Rush’s opening monologue offers more detail than I gave yesterday. Here’s what it says:

[RUSH:] I want to start with this juror, Denis Collins. It turns out that in the jury selection phase before Denis Collins’ name came out, he was identified as having worked with Bob Woodward. He was identified as being a neighbor of Tim Russert. Both would later testify in the case. So this juror, who I have no doubt took over the jury room and ran this whole show, lived near Russert, worked with Woodward and at the Washington Post, and said last night on Larry King Live he plans to write about this.

I’ll bet he took copious notes in there. And of course if you’re planning on writing about something it’s far better to write about a conviction than if you have to right about an acquittal. What’s sexy about writing about an acquittal here when you are a Democrat, a registered Democrat, as this juror was? People are saying, “How did he end up on the jury?” I asked that question myself to people last night who were able to answer it. The people close to the Libby defense trust, people that were raising money for his defense fund, said, “You would not have believed this jury pool. We had MoveOn.org people in the jury pool. We had as many leftists as you could think of, and we used up our strikes. By the time they got to this guy we had no strikes left, no peremptory challenges left, and we ended up being stuck with him.” He was on Larry King Live last night, and Larry said, “Denis Collins, you going to write about this?”

COLLINS: I am going to write about it. I’m not quite sure what the format or where it will be.

If that doesn’t sound like Scooter Libby was up against a stacked deck to you, then you’d best think through what constitutes a stacked deck. Those jurors sound like they started with the feeling that somebody from the Bush administration had to pay for Bush taking the country to war in Iraq.

[RUSH:] Like I told you yesterday, the unearthly difference that differing groups of people can have about a singular truth, the singular truth that Joe Wilson is not credible, that Joe Wilson is an out-and-out, confirmed liar. The Senate intelligence committee, no less, said so about him.
The Washington Post said so today in an editorial. Yet the liars are getting rich and getting famous, and Tim Russert has convicted Scooter Libby. Tim Russert, who said yesterday, “I take no joy in this,” was the same Tim Russert who said when the indictment came down, “We felt like it was Christmas morning.” The defense was not allowed to skewer Russert to try to damage some of his credibility.

One of the things that Russert had said was that he did not, he has a law degree, know that the grand jury testimony, people that were summoned to testify before grand juries, were not allowed to bring lawyers in there when in fact the defense had tape of Russert saying just the opposite on Meet the Press and on other television shows three other times. They were not allowed to introduce that, which will be one of the things that, no doubt, will be on appeal.

Let’s hope that the appeals court rules that Judge Walton’s ruling not allowing the defense to impeach Mr. Russert’s testimony violated Libby’s due process rights. I don’t know if that’s enough to toss this verdict out and mandate a retrial but I’d have to think that it can’t be taken lightly.

As Rush said, this verdict should get conservatives’ dander up. This should be a great motivating factor in getting out and winning people over to vote Republican in 2008. It’s time that we fought these people with the intensity that they’ve been fighting us with.

That brings me to another point that needs to be made. Republicans talk about Democrats as operating with a pre-9/11 mindset, which is true. What we haven’t talked about is that Republicans operate from a pre-Watergate mindset. What I mean by that is that Republicans operate with the naivete that the press will give them a fair shake. The post-Watergate press thinks that there’s a life-changing scandal behind every interview.

It’s time that Republicans talked to as many different groups about how the Agenda Media’s bias is affecting their lives. I suspect that most people’s eyes glaze over when they hear the term media bias. I further suspect that that would change if we started showing examples of how the Agenda Media’s bias is hurting our country and endangering our people. Republicans should take every opportunity to tell people that this is personal, that the Agenda Media think nothing of destroying people as long as the Agenda Media thinks that it serves ‘the greater good’.

It’s time that we told people all the things that the Agenda Media don’t report on. I’d bet that if we listed all the things that the Agenda Media went silent on, people would be shocked into anger. Right now, I think people are apathetic about the media because they’d rather believe that we live in a country where injustice is the exception rather than the rule. If we showed people all the things that get omitted from articles, I suspect that their beliefs would change dramatically.

That’s our only hope.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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