I hate prank callers. If you call someone pretending to be someone else, that's got to be illegal. That's got to be fraud, and the guy deserves to go to jail. Whatever happened to journalistic integrity?
Having said that Rush says that he also used to make prank calls when he was a disc jockey, though he never called any governors.
Well, I've never understood that type of humor.
And it shouldn't be encouraged.
Here's only a bit of what Rush had to say.
RUSH: You probably heard by now (if you haven't, I'll tell you about it) the panic call to Scott Walker from a leftist "journalist." An obscure, wacko, extreme leftist publication, journalist pretended to be David Koch. Now, I know David Koch. Little disclosure here, I know David Koch. I know his brother Charles Koch. The so-called evil Koch brothers are nothing of the sort. They are, as is typical, the exact opposite of the way the Democrats and the media portray them. They're just like any other people. They have organizations that are designed to influence and shape the country in ways they believe in. They happen to be constitutionalists. They happen to be conservatives.
They happen to have a strict moral code, and they're very concerned about what's happening in the country, and they have organizations that defend and protect their beliefs as they relate to the founding of the country. Pure and simple. They come from the Koch petrochemical and oil family from Wichita, Kansas. Charles Koch still lives there; Dave Koch lives in New York. David Koch is the man who bought Jacqueline Onassis' apartment on Fifth Avenue after she died and it was put up for sale. He has since sold it and moved to another place in town, but I've met them at charitable events. I have met them at prostate cancer charitable events.
I've met them at a number of charitable events -- and they are, as is typical of people who are not in line with the American left, maligned in ways that in no way close approach who these two men are and their families. Now, you've probably heard by now that this prank call from a journalist at a fringe, extremist, leftist little rag newspaper pretended to be David Koch, who is referred to as "a fat cat conservative donor." So this guy calls the governor's office in Wisconsin and claims to be David Koch. That name rings bells in the governor's office amongst the underlings and he puts the call through, assuming it's David Koch.
So the governor end up talking to "David Koch" and now the AP has this story. In fact, it's the top story at AP now. "Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has been lured into a conversation about his strategy to cripple public employee unions by a prank caller pretending to be a billionaire Republican donor. Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie confirms the governor is on audio of the call posted Wednesday on the website of the Buffalo Beast, a left leaning New York newspaper. The governor believes the caller is David Koch. He talks about plans for layoff notices and what can be done to punish lawmakers who have left the state. The caller suggest that Walker take a baseball bat when meeting with Democrats. Walker jokes that he's got 'a slugger with his name on it.'"
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