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Aug. 8, 2001
Rush takes aim at UFO politics
By Billy Cox
A FLORIDA TODAY column
Judging from the brevity of the exchange, which was recorded by CNN on
July 28, 2000, you can almost hear George W. Bush's eyeballs clicking
against the socket ceilings. Addressing the media horde as the
Republican Convention in Philadelphia winds down, this one guy,
Charles Huffer, manages to squeeze a response from the Texas governor.
What the guv doesn't know is, Huffer's a state regional director for
the Mutual UFO Network in Arkansas.
Huffer: "Half the public believes that (unidentified flying objects)
are real. Would you finally tell us what the hell is going on (if
elected president)?"
W.: "Sure I will."
Huffer (gesturing to running mate Dick Cheney): "This man knows. He
was secretary of defense."
W.: "And a good one."
A few minutes later, off camera, Huffer catches one more Bush blurb on
his audiocassette: "It'll be the first thing he (Cheney) will do.
He'll get right on it."
Yeah, sure, whatever. The only reason for presenting this otherwise
inconsequential snippet from the margins is that recently, $120
million gasbag Rush Limbaugh decided that no attack on the Bush clan -
not even those related to UFOs - should get a free pass. Limbaugh drew
a bead on Daniel Sheehan, chief counsel for the Disclosure Project, a
group of former government, military and corporate types who gathered
in Washington, D.C., on May 9 to lobby Congress for open hearings on
the UFO phenomenon.
Sheehan and Disclosure Project director Steven Greer argued that the
recovery and exploitation of crashed UFOs has led to the development
of technologies that can harness free energy, enough to end
petroleum's hammerlock on the world economy.
But they also contended the innovations were buried deep inside black
budget operations to keep from destabilizing financial institutions.
Media coverage of the witness testimony was scant and yawning. Three
months after the press conference, letter-writing campaigns haven't
generated many blips on political radar screens. Senate heavies like
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) brush off constituents with form-letter replies
referring all queries to the long-dead Project Blue Book archives.
Lesser-known rubber stamps like Sen. James Imhofe (R-Okla.), who
support pouring billions of dollars into National Missile Defense,
write that "it would be irresponsible to spend taxpayer money on
hearings and legislation related to such phenomena."
So, obviously, if you're just another brick in the wall, the smart
thing to do is let this Disclosure Project thing die a slow, natural
death. But then, along comes Limbaugh - you know, the guy with talent
on loan from God? With half his brain tied behind his back? On the
cutting edge of societal revolution? Limbaugh makes an issue of
Sheehan's charge that President-elect Carter's attempts to honor a
campaign pledge to declassify UFOs were stymied by then-CIA director
George Bush in 1976.
"So let me get this straight," Limbaugh says. "The Bushes are at the
heart of the vast right-wing conspiracy to keep the oil companies rich
by hiding extraterrestrial solar panels or super-warm sweaters or
whatever it is they showed Jimmy Carter."
Limbaugh's bottom line: UFOs are just another "liberals from Planet X"
Bush-bashing platform. "You may be surprised to hear me say that Mr.
Sheehan is half right," Limbaugh says. "There is alien life - but we
are not hiding it. We see Dick Gephart plain as day!"
That's a real seam-splitter, dude.
Too bad the godfather of Republican conservatism, Barry Goldwater -
Mr. Extremism In Defense of Liberty Is No Vice - isn't around to untie
the other half of Limbaugh's brain. Goldwater aired his frustrations
to no less than Larry King regarding his inability to access
top-secret UFO data when he was chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee.
"This thing has gotten so highly classified . . . that it is just
impossible to get anything on it," Goldwater wrote to one constituent.
To another, he added: "I have no idea of who controls the flow of
'need to know,' because frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way
that it was none of my business that I've never tried to make it my
business since."
Glib campaign sound bites to the contrary, the status quo is safely
entrenched. Limbaugh attacking UFO declassification as a "liberal
agenda" is like a hippo break-dancing in Spandex. He draws
major-league attention to what his fellow ideologues would just as
soon leave under a rock, and the guy winds up looking like a dork.
Billy Cox's column runs every Wednesday. He can be reached at
242-3774, or Florida Today, P.O. Box 419000, Melbourne, FL 32941-9000.
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