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June 22, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 22, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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I'll tell you something else, folks.
If I were Hispanic, you know what would really trouble me?
To learn that the President of the United States had allowed assault weapons to be walked across the border to drug cartels and used to slaughter hundreds of Mexicans.
If I were Hispanic, that would really tick me off.
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We've actually taken three calls so far.
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Holder lied, Mexicans died.
We had a call at the end of the program yesterday from a woman who wanted, well, she kept hearing that the Democrats are blaming Bush for Fast and Furious.
You know, speaking of which, you know how the Democrats hate guns.
You know how the media hates guns.
I mean, you know, they just, they laugh at, they make fun of people who hunt.
John Kerry in the 04 campaign, going to some tackle and bait shop in Ohio.
Is this where I get me a hunting license?
Come on.
So they hate it.
The liberals, including in the media, hate it.
And yet here we have a total lack of interest about fast and furious.
No moral outrage at all.
Wouldn't you think that giving semi-automatic weapons to drug lords who use them to kill hundreds of Mexicans and at least one American border agent, wouldn't you think that would tick off people in this country that don't like guns?
Wouldn't you think that would tick the media off?
Wouldn't you think that's even more of a crime than sprinkling water up the noses of mass murdering terrorists?
I mean, if you have a problem with waterboarding, how can you not have a problem with this?
Well, it's clear the media, they're going to circle the wagons and they are going to protect this president no matter what.
It doesn't matter how much of their core beliefs they have to compromise.
It doesn't matter.
We have a one-party news media too busy remembering Watergate.
They can't get over Watergate.
They're all a bunch of Woodward and Bernsteins now in the White House Press Corps and they want to go back and they want to relive Watergate 40 years ago.
That's what this is giving them an opportunity to do.
Obama invokes executive privilege and they start doing retrospectives on Nixon and Watergate 40 years ago.
Too busy to bother to look into the Obama regime cover-up of Fast and Furious.
So we had a call late in the program today from a woman who wanted to know what the difference was because the Democrats keep saying that Bush started a program.
Jay Carney is saying they're all saying that Bush started this program.
Bush did have a program like this.
It was called Wide Receiver.
And I told you yesterday that I was going to explain to you the differences today in wide receiver and fast and furious, and they are significant.
They are profound.
Wide receiver was a small-scale law enforcement gun smuggling interdiction effort that involved Phoenix.
I mistakenly said Tucson yesterday.
And it involved Phoenix-based ATF agents working in conjunction with Mexican law enforcement.
ATF supervisors and Justice Department prosecutors in Arizona were trying to build a case against a violent group of Mexican drug smugglers.
Fast and Furious was an effort to build a case against American gun dealers in the Second Amendment.
That's the stark difference.
Wide receiver was an attempt to build a case against gun smugglers and drugs, the cartels to find out who they were, where they are.
The purpose of Fast and Furious was to build a case against the Second Amendment.
In a nutshell, wide receiver began in 2005.
It involved 400 guns.
All of the weapons in wide receiver had RFID trackers installed in them, and they were actively tracked.
Only the Phoenix ATF and DOJ were involved.
The Mexican government was kept fully informed.
They were an active participant.
In wide receiver, the ATF agents tried to track the guns using radio devices and aircraft.
They wanted to find out where the guns ended up into the hands of which cartels and where they were so that a case could be made.
It was an effort to track these people and find them, locate them.
The Bush administration, as part of wide receiver, notified the Mexican government when arms and drug smugglers were crossing.
When the guns were being walked across the border or when they had been purchased legally and being taken back to Mexico, the Mexican government was notified.
At least 1,400 arrests were made as part of wide receiver.
Now, once ATF found out the smugglers were disabling the tracking devices, the RFID tracking devices that were planted in the guns, they ripped them out and then the guns were lost.
So the program was shut down October of 2007.
Once the bad guys discovered the tracking devices, the program was ended.
In 2007, ended.
Now, here's Fast and Furious, by contrast.
Fast and Furious began in October of 2009.
Obama is in his 10th month.
Wide receiver doesn't exist.
It's been shut down for two years.
Fast and Furious involved over 2,000 guns.
Wide receiver, again, was 1,400 guns, roughly.
No tracking devices were planted in the Fast and Furious guns.
The regime didn't care where they ended up.
There were no tracking devices.
No effort was made to track them.
There were no helicopters.
There was no on-the-ground surveillance of the straw purchasers, none of it.
The guns were sold.
They were walked across the border, and that was it.
Four federal agencies were involved in maybe as many as 10 cities in five states.
In contrast to wide receiver, the Mexican government was not notified the program even existed.
They did not use tracking devices or aircraft to try to find and track the smugglers.
The local ATF field agents were ordered not to follow the straw purchasers.
Fast and Furious is as bad as everything you've conjured it to be in your mind.
Wide receiver has nothing in common other than guns crossing the border, and that's it.
Federal agents, furthermore, are you following all this, thirdly?
Federal agents were not allowed to interdict the guns.
And they even ran interference for the smugglers with local law enforcement on multiple occasions to make sure those guns made it across the border.
No effort was ever made to arrest the straw purchasers, the smugglers, by local law enforcement or anybody else, and none were arrested.
The program was closed down only after the deaths of at least 200 Mexican civilians and two federal agents, Border Agent Brian Terry and ICE agent Jaime Zapata, were linked to the smuggled weapons.
Now, it is important to understand wide receiver had been tried and it had clearly failed before Obama's team decided to undertake Fast and Furious.
Fast and Furious used many more guns.
They didn't track them.
They didn't try to stop or interdict the guns.
They knew that they were going to end up in Mexican drug cartels' hands, which is what they wanted to happen.
To me, it's almost an inescapable conclusion that they wanted to put American guns, American-purchased guns.
The guns were not stolen.
They were purchased at gun shops.
And then the straw purchasers working for the cartels were allowed to take them across the border.
And as I said earlier, local law enforcement was shoved out of the way if it tried to get in the way and stop this.
So it looks to me like they wanted to put American-bought guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels in order to outrage the American public so that you, upon hearing of all this mayhem, would finally understand that our gun laws are too lax and need to be tightened down, particularly on these kinds of guns, assault weapons, because this had failed in Congress.
The assault weapons ban had failed, and that's not good enough for Obama and Holder and the rest of the Democrats who don't want you having guns.
This was a way they created crimes.
They facilitated the creation of crimes.
There were 200 Mexican deaths at the hands of drug cartels.
You could not escape what was going to happen here.
In fact, it was just the opposite.
You had to know, if you're the regime, what was going to happen, and you had to want it to happen.
Now, that, again, that is quite different from the goal of wide receiver, which again, remember the objective of the Bush plan, wide receiver, the authorities wanted to build a case against the local drug cartel in order to put them out of business.
And it was a risky move.
You allow guns to cross the border so you can track them, find out where they go, where the cartel's headquarters are, what all is happening.
It's a risky thing to do.
And they shut it down when it didn't work.
When the tracking devices and the guns were found, they shut the program down.
There were no tracking devices in Obama's guns.
There was no effort to find out where they went.
And Holder has lied so much about it.
Oh, I didn't know about the program when I came into office.
It was already underway.
Nobody told me about it for months.
It was dead.
Wide receiver died in 2007.
There were two years dormant between wide receiver and fast and furious.
Wide receiver was a sting operation.
It doesn't seem to be any plan for any kind of a sting in Fast and Furious, at least not against the gun smugglers.
As I say, the simplest way to understand this is the Bush administration was trying to build a case, along with the Mexican government, against a violent group of Mexican drug smugglers.
Fast and Furious was an effort to build a case against the Second Amendment and American drug dealers, gun dealers.
Because after all, if Fast and Furious worked the way the regime wanted it to, guess who's in the crosshairs?
The people selling these guns in Arizona and elsewhere that ended up in the hands of the drug cartels.
Don't think that wasn't part of the plan either.
So now, whatever documentation there is on this is under protection of executive privilege.
It's got to be pretty bad.
Whatever's in there, Obama has got to be very worried about it, and that's why he's hiding it.
And so the question must always be here: what's Obama hiding?
And Dick Morris said a couple days ago that it must be pretty bad because to bring this up and now, you know, Fast and Furious before Wednesday this week, everybody laughed at it, other than us, but the mainstream media, the Democrats, they all laughed at it.
That was nothing more than a branch office of the birthers, a bunch of conspiracy kooks.
But now, my gosh, this is so big.
The president has invoked executive privilege.
Wow, what's in there?
In 2007, when the Bush administration closed down wide receiver, they said never again.
My guess is that somebody in the Obama regime discovered this program, thought it was cool, and might serve a different purpose.
And it's heinous.
It's heinous what they did.
Let's take a brief time out.
Open Line Friday will continue after this here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
And we go to Cincinnati.
This is John.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
I've got a projection, and I want to see what you think about it.
All right.
If the Supreme Court strikes down this individual mandate, which I feel they should and they will, I think you're going to see Obama and Holder pretty much say the heck with state threats.
They're going to go after and sue Massachusetts over its individual mandate just to distract and deflect and make another constitutional problem, put the spotlight on Romney.
Well, I think you have a point there.
They haven't done that yet.
Obamacare as the legitimate child of RomneyCare is something they have yet to spring.
They're going to do that.
We know that they are.
Sternly's in there laughing at himself silly, but it's the truth.
They haven't sprung that yet, but we know the RomneyCare authors, advisors are out publicly last year saying that they were called by the White House to put together Obamacare in the spitten image of Romney Care.
We all knew this during the primaries.
This is something that the regime is going to use.
They haven't used it yet.
But for all of you, when you hear like John Call here and say that Holder and Obama, they don't get their way, will just launch a massive national mandate, and you poo-poo it.
Look at, folks, you cannot poo-poo that stuff.
Barack Obama, a week ago today, basically said to the U.S. Constitution when he knowingly, because back in 2007, 2008, he admitted to a bunch of Hispanics that he just couldn't legally grant amnesty to illegal aliens.
It was against the law.
He said he couldn't do it.
Well, he did.
He just did it.
Political reelection and the desire for political reelection outweighed whatever is legal or not.
This bunch has behaved outside the Constitution a number of times.
That's just the most recent.
So it's not a stretch of the imagination to think that they would, in a fit of peak and anger, oh yeah, oh yeah, well, all right, try this, and then just do it on the theory.
Who's going to stop them?
They're in an election on November.
Who's going to stop them?
Pelosi and the Democrats in the House will go along with anything they did.
Pelosi is already out there encouraging.
In fact, this is another thing.
We had the story the other day that the debt limit may have to be raised in October, right before the election.
Another debt limit fight would not benefit Obama.
Raise spending.
I mean, that's why he's in trouble, for one of many reasons why he's in trouble.
So Pelosi is urging him under the Fourth Amendment, just to hell with Congress, just raise it.
She claims that there's a clause in the 14th Amendment that permits him.
And you remember this came up in one of the previous debt limit battles.
Pelosi has said, I'm perfectly happy with Obama granting amnesty to these 800,000 and more young Hispanics who are here through no fault of their own.
So if Holder and Obama want to spit on the Constitution next week, it's much easier to believe that something that has happened will happen again than it is to believe that something hasn't happened will happen.
And they've already done it.
So it's a legitimate fear.
It's a legitimate concern.
And when you understand Obama's avowed purpose is to just Obama's purpose is to strip this country's superpower status away from it.
There's still a lot of people who can't get their arms around that.
They just can't.
You tell them, you give them the evidence, you throw his words at them.
They still don't want to believe it.
They don't want to believe that we've elected somebody with that view of the country.
It's still a hard sell, but nevertheless, it's a legitimate concern to have what these people will do.
This is the signature legislation.
This is the reason Obama will have a presidential library, first president ever to have affordable health care for all Americans.
I know, but that's what he's angling for.
Ha!
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Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
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Back to the phones open line Friday.
Peter in Rochester, New York.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Listen, I wanted to give your millions and millions of listeners a heads up as to what we're up against.
I'm a doctor in upstate New York here, and I was seeing a patient in a room, and the patient said to me, Can you hand me my Obama phone?
So I said, what?
I think I know where you're going here.
I think I've heard of it.
Go ahead.
Well, I had not heard of that.
And so I asked, I said, what's that?
And he said, this is a free cell phone for poor people, and we get minutes and everything.
So that was all the conversation I had with him.
But it occurred to me that if these Obama phones are going out all over the country, they are.
Then would it be hard to believe that there's going to be text messages and phone calls and all kinds of things?
No.
In fact, let me give you a shocking statistic.
I read this just this week.
Obama has 27 million Facebook friends, followers.
Romney has 1.8 million.
And the Twitter numbers, I think, maybe Twitter.
No, it's Facebook.
And the Twitter numbers are not as large, but the supremacy by the Obama campaign on those social sites is overwhelming.
And with these Obama phones, of course they can send texts out.
Absolutely they can.
They probably do.
But the same thing happens if you follow Obama on Twitter or at Facebook.
That's not to say that everybody following Obama is a lapdog.
Eager Beaver can't get enough of Obama, but that's how many people have signed up, and there's always varying degrees of interest.
Everybody following me on Facebook is rabid, for example, but they're not that way for Obama.
We first heard about these Obama phones.
I was shocked, just like you are when you discovered it.
We were last year sometime.
And I had no idea.
And you're right.
These people get minutes.
It's all paid for.
The phone's paid for.
The usage is paid for by us.
Around election time, I'm wondering what kind of messages are going to be going out.
Meet at such and such a place.
Come here to get a carton of cigarettes and we'll take you to the polls, blah, blah, blah, like this.
I think your imagination is the only boundary limit.
Oh, God.
I do.
However, they could use this.
And that's a good catch.
Did you talk to this guy about it at all?
You just let it drop?
No, I let it drop.
He asked you to hand him his Obama phone.
Yeah, I was talking to him, and he, in the context of his medical care, he was going to need to make a phone call to family.
And so he asked me to hand him the Obama phone.
Well, let me just tell you.
Here are the details on this.
There's a website, ObamaPhone.net.
And from the website, I'm going to read to you, the Obama phone program.
What exactly is the free Obama phone?
The free Obama phone is a program that's meant to help the financially unstable who cannot afford access to a cell phone.
Communication should not be limited to people in relation to what they're able to afford.
So if you can't afford a cell phone, and they actually call it the Obama phone.
And here are some frequently asked questions from the Obama phone website.
How do I get an Obama phone?
What is the Obama phone?
Who qualifies for an Obama phone?
Who pays for the Obama phone?
Is the Obama phone real now?
In the who pays for the Obama phone, in Obama phone questions, Lifeline is a government-sponsored program, but who is paying for it?
Some people claim the government's using taxpayer money to run the program, but that claim is false.
Universal Service Fund, USF, which is administered by the Federal Communications Commission, along with the Universal Services Administration Company, pays for the Lifeline phone assistant program.
So you and I are paying for Obama phones via the charges that are tacked onto our phone bill for the Universal Services Fund.
The Al Gore tax, ostensibly to wire rural America.
Do you know that tax is still in your phone bill?
To wire farms for landline phones.
We are still paying that tax.
And then there are internet taxes, internet access for the poor, and other things.
And the outfit that administers that's the Universal Service Fund.
And there's a, if you can decipher your phone bill, you pay every month a tax that goes into the Universal Service Fund.
And that's what's buying Obama phones and providing service for the people who use them.
And of course, it's known who has them.
It's known what their numbers are.
And they can be mass texted individually, I would assume.
So it's, but look, before you panic, folks, this is not new.
This has been out there for years.
And Obama is in dire straits.
We hear about this and you think, how do we fight this?
My gosh.
These are the people that voted for him anyway, in large measure.
Rasmussen reports daily presidential tracking poll for today shows Romney at 48, Obama at 43.
Ditto in the Gallup poll.
He's down to 43% in the Gallup poll.
33%, just 33%, now believe that Obama's doing a good or excellent job.
That's down from 41% at the beginning of May.
So unfortunately for President Kardashian, the voters are paying attention.
Four months out, Romney has a five-point lead among likely voters.
It's 48 to 43.
So all this stuff that they're doing, yeah, it looks shifty, looks smart, looks like it's an advantage that we don't have.
We've not exploited anything like this, including Facebook and Twitter followers and so forth.
But we're still talking about an empty suit in many ways.
We're still talking about somebody who's running a country that's going down the tubes.
And I still maintain that there are far more people who care about that than don't.
Otherwise, Obama wouldn't be in any trouble whatsoever.
And we would all be making plans for Singapore or Auckland, New Zealand, or wherever.
And we're not.
Open line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh, back after this.
And we are back now, folks.
This cell phone problem.
Government-provided cell phones.
It's not a new program.
I don't know how long it's been around, but it's not a new program.
Calling them Obama phones is new.
That's what's new about this.
And of course, that's being done purposely to make people think that these free phones are coming from Obama's stash, that they're personal gifts from Obama.
And in fact, the Obama phone site looks like Obama's campaign site.
Logo and all that stuff.
The audio soundbites.
This is Trey Gowdy.
Trey Gowdy is from South Carolina, Republican on Daryl Ice's committee.
It was on last night with Greta Van Susteren, and she said, Leader Pelosi of the Planet Stupider said that this vote for contempt is a Republican plan to suppress the vote.
Her theory, I guess, is that you are trying to get rid of the Attorney General because he's aggressively going out there fighting a suppression of the vote.
What is your reaction to that?
I could not believe it when I heard her saying that.
Is that all you have to come back with?
It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous.
And the fact that she was once the speaker is mind-numbing.
Honestly, and I've heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.
I couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth.
But keep in mind, Greta, this is the same woman who said that she could have arrested Karl Rove any day she wanted.
So I don't know what was wrong with her yesterday or today or whenever she said that, but I would schedule an appointment with my doctor if she thinks that we are doing this to suppress votes this fall.
That is mind-numbingly stupid.
And we go back and forth.
Does she really believe it?
And the jury's still out, like in the Sandusky case.
Is she really this stupid?
It's entirely possible.
It could be a combination.
Yes, she's that stupid, plus it's a political ploy.
Speaking of the Sandusky jury, a lot of people wonder what in the name of Sam Hill's going on yesterday afternoon.
You could maybe understand, because one of the 50, some odd counts that they have to go through 49, 48 or 49 counts they've got okay fine, but it's the next day now.
Plus, one of Sandusky's adopted kids came up.
He wanted to testify.
The prosecution didn't use him.
One of his adopted kids say hey, abused me too.
Of course that's irrelevant as far as the trial is concerned, but I know you've got to be.
You've got to be pretty stupid to be the queen of the planet.
Stupider, I know, but it's still.
But the Sandusky trial, people say wait a minute now.
What's why?
If, if the OJ jury came back and after having poured through all of that DNA testimony in 20 minutes and find OJ not guilty, what in the world has taken this bunch so long?
And I just want folks.
I don't know how this is going to come out.
I don't know what.
The government didn't get Barry Bonds.
The government well, but they tried as the play got.
They had a jury, whether they had a case.
They tried.
My point is, well, listen to it.
Didn't get Barry Bonds.
They tried Roger Clemens for years.
I think what the government forgot here is like putting Tom Cruise on.
There's no jury going to find Tom Cruise guilty of anything not in our entertainment tonight.
Pop Culture.
Clemens is a star pitcher.
Athletes are the closest thing to royalty, second only to Hollywood people that we have.
Are you saying, Mr. Lumbaugh, that there was never a chance that Mr. Clemens was going to be found guilty?
Well, I'm just telling you.
What was the Clemens case?
Is Roger Clemens one of the most accomplished, one of the wealthiest, and therefore one of the people most available to access the best when it comes to medical care?
And when it came time to shoot up vitamin B12 in the buttocks, he goes and hires some gym rat.
Not the best doctor he can find, not the best medical professional, but a gym rat.
Not guilty.
If Tiger Woods ever went, I don't know.
I mean, there's this doctor in Canada that's been found guilty of trying to smuggle illegal drugs into America.
Galea is his name.
And a lot of American athletes use this guy to help them recover from injuries faster.
Knowing that he lives in Canada, knowing he's not licensed to practice here, knowing reputation is this guy's got what you need and you want to get back fast.
This guy's got stuff he can do.
I just, I don't think the government, they spent four years going after Clemens, didn't they?
Or was it five?
I think part and parcel of this also is not just the adulation that people have for athletes, but I really do think, I'm hoping.
I really, I can't substantiate this.
I'm just, I'm going to say I hope that what's also part of this, not necessarily good, by the way, in terms of the law, but what if these juries are simply, government, would you stop wasting everybody's time with this stuff?
There's far more important stuff going on.
We're not going to reward you for going after people like this who are not hurting anybody, doesn't harm a thing.
In the meantime, you're sitting around, we're watching our country crumble right before our eyes, and you devote five years to getting a pitcher in the major leagues.
There could be that as an element.
I don't know.
Have you seen any jury comments after it that allude to the I Have a Leader, but I haven't looked.
Let's take a timeout because we have to.
The constraints of time and the programming format dictate, like Castro, that we must go.
Hey, look, you got me a question on Apple's new iOS 6.
Christian in Mesa, Arizona.
Christian, hang on.
Don't hang up.
Don't go away.
We'll get to you soon as we can.
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