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Aug. 2, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 2, 2012, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And here we are, ladies and gentlemen, back at it, rivved up, ready to go.
Another three hours of broadcast excellence, hosted and presided over by me, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, Maha Rushi.
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Catherine went by Chick-fil-A yesterday afternoon after the program, and she went in there, and she was, like everybody else, she was stunned at the crowds.
They were huge.
And all of the political discussion going on inside the place, she said that's all anybody was talking about was politics.
Amazing.
Anyway, she bought some Chick-fil-A stuff.
She brought it home.
She brought it into the library.
That's, well, for you in the real Indo-Library.
And I sat down near my desk and we snapped a bunch of pictures and picked a couple of them and posted them at rushlimbaugh.com and put them on our Facebook page.
Let me go take a look at them.
I'm too famous to go to a Chick-fil-A.
So Catherine went in there and brought the stuff home.
We posed her picture.
Yeah, I ate it.
Yeah, yeah.
What?
What do you mean?
Yeah, the pictures are of me holding a chicken sandwich.
I must admit it was the first time that, you know, I don't know why.
I probably shouldn't say this, but I don't care.
I didn't, I thought Chick-fil-A was a grocery store.
You know, they've been co-sponsoring LPGA golf tournaments for years.
And I thought Chick-fil-A was an Atlanta-based grocery chain up until three or four years ago.
Then I found out that it was a fast food joint.
Anyway, folks, the gay lesbian community not happy about what happened yesterday.
The regime is not happy about what happened yet.
Can you imagine if everybody, if every one of you who went to Chick-fil-A put a Romney sign in your yard, what would happen?
Can you imagine if every one of you who went to Chick-fil-A started working grassroots-wise with the Tea Party for Romney and for Republican candidates?
Can you imagine what would happen and did so in a visual way?
Can you imagine what would happen?
Now, I was reading our old buddy website today, newsbusters.org, and I don't know who at Newsbusters wrote this, but it is a piece about Sally Quinn, who is the on-faith blogger at the Washington Post.
Sally Quinn, the ancient Sally Quinn, the wife of Benjamin Bradley, the editor-in-chief emeritus.
She has come up with a suggestion that whoever wrote this at Newsbusters says is so bizarre that I would not blame you for casting aspersions upon the veracity of your humble correspondent until you read it for yourself.
Again, I apologize.
I don't know which correspondent at Newsbusters wrote this.
Basically, Sally Quinn.
Well, I'd like to mention them.
I just give him a shout out.
Oh, speaking of shout-outs, over at the five, by the way, this show has just cracked the top five of cable news shows, the five at five on Fox.
And they gave me a 24th anniversary shout-out yesterday with Bob Beckle hissing in the background throughout the whole thing.
I personally want to shout out congratulations to Rush Limbaugh, fantastic, great conservative voice.
Today is his 24th year of EIB Network, the silent majority speech rush.
Congratulations, my good friend.
Shots, Rush.
24 years.
That's Bob making that noise in case anybody's wondering.
I'm sorry, not hissing.
He's kissing.
And not me.
He's mocking the other co-hosts at The Five.
I guess we know who the new Jack Germond is.
Beckle.
Anyway, thanks to the gang over at the five.
So PJ Gladnik is who wrote this for newsbusters.
And basically, Sally Quinn is recommending that gays and lesbians infiltrate Chick-fil-A restaurants to the point where they become gay hangouts to such an extent that even gay weddings would be performed there.
This is what Sally Quinn is urging in her on-faith blog at the Washington Post.
Now, if you think that recommendation is absurd beyond belief, you won't be alone.
Her blog is filled with commenters whose reactions can best be described as, well, face in palm, you can't blame them after reading this from Sally Quinn.
While Christians will be showing up at the restaurants in droves today, there's a movement afoot by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to stage kiss-ins in front of many outlets.
Mayors of Washington, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago have expressed their outrage at the Chick-fil-A policy.
What to do if you feel the same way?
A boycott soak liched.
And even the kiss-in doesn't really make the point.
Gays and lesbians should start applying for jobs at Chick-fil-A.
Get in there.
Become managers.
Take over to places.
Gays could begin patronizing Chick-fil-A's.
And I don't mean carry out.
Make the restaurants the gay hangouts of the community.
Gay partners, married gays could begin taking their children there.
They could start having birthday parties for their kids.
They could have gay pride events there.
They even have events managers as cold.
They could even have gay weddings there.
Sally Quinn is urging this on a blog at the Washington Post.
They're beside themselves.
How was Sally looking for a little action?
I mean, I just wonder what's going on here.
But this is what she's suggesting.
And it's an indication of just how they were thrown for loops yesterday.
This just wasn't supposed to.
See, you're not supposed to be reminded of numbers like this.
And you're not supposed to be reminded of energy like this.
This was, as much as anything, a huge realization of where momentum is in this country and where it is.
And you're just not supposed to illustrate that.
It's just not supposed to happen.
But the hatred, I mean, the vile, disgusting hatred that comes from people on the left.
Nobody at Chick-fil-A didn't think to anybody yesterday.
Nobody hurt anybody.
Nobody raised anybody's taxes.
Nobody said no, anybody couldn't do anything yesterday.
Just went in there and patronized the place to show solidarity.
And that's just God's people.
So keep a sharp eye.
Dingy Harry continues to smear Mitt Romney.
Ann Coulter has a good column today.
She points off.
I could summarize this real quick.
She says the reason that they are making a B-line for Romney's tax records is because he's too straight-laced.
He doesn't have a divorce that they can go look at.
And she recounts the history of every Obama campaign.
Every opponent had either divorce or custody records unsealed shortly before the election, which resulted in high embarrassment or even resignation of the opposition candidate.
And her point is that Obama has never won an election straight up.
Obama wins other than the 2008 presidential election.
The playbook for the Obama campaign is to find out whatever dirt there is on your opponent and get it out there, have the help of the media, and have it be so embarrassing, whether it's true or not, have it be so embarrassing that it just destroys the candidacy or in best instances, it forces the opponent to withdraw, which is what happened with a guy named Jack Ryan.
Well, in Romney's case, there isn't any of that.
There isn't a divorce, so there's not a divorce file.
There isn't any concentrated pile of what Obama and his team might be able to say was perversion, immorality.
So they want these tax records.
They want these tax records taxed so it can lie about that.
And they're doing everything they can to get them, including spreading the lie.
And it's a lie because they can't prove the charge.
But they're doing a Tom Foley on this.
They are saying Romney didn't pay taxes for 10 years.
They've got imaginary friends calling Harry Reid, just like imaginary friends used to call little Dick Gephardt.
Imaginary friends calling Harry Reid from Bay Campbell and say, hey, Harry, you know, Mitt didn't pay taxes for 10 years.
Dingy Harry doesn't know who these guys are.
He doesn't have proof.
Stephanie Cutter doesn't have proof.
But they're out there claiming that Romney didn't pay taxes for 10 years.
And what they're trying to do is pressure Romney into releasing these tax.
They don't care what's in them.
It doesn't matter once they get 10 years of tax records or five years.
I mean, in five years of tax records, with a tax return that would probably be fairly complicated compared to your average 1040 filer, they'll be able to point to something in there that will make the uninformed class think, well, that's outrageous.
How in the world did he move that off?
Oh, this guy's a tax cheat, Myrtle.
How in the world can we vote for a guy like that?
Something like that as their objective.
Doesn't have to be true.
All it has to do is be complicated.
All it has to do is be unusual.
All it has to have is something in there that is not quite common with your average 1040 filer.
And they're trying to put print.
Now, Romney knows that that's what they're doing.
And that's why he's saying he's not going to do it.
And he better hold to that.
He better hold to it because this pressure is going to mount.
Let's go to the audio soundbite.
The 24.
This is Dingy Harry.
This is a grotesque, as I said yesterday, little man, a vile little man.
And he went to the floor of the Senate today during the majority leader's remarks.
And this is a portion of what he said.
If a person coming before this body wanted to be a cabinet officer, he couldn't be if he did the same refusal Mitt Romney does about tax returns.
So the word's out that he hasn't paid any taxes for 10 years.
Let him prove that he has paid taxes because he hasn't.
There's no evidence that he hasn't paid any taxes.
This is no different than in 1988.
And I've mentioned this to you before.
In 1988, some guy at Columbia, Gary Sick, wrote a book.
In the book was the allegation that George W. Bush, H.W. Bush, had gone to Paris under cover of darkness, met with the Iranians, and struck a deal with them to make sure the hostages, the American hostages, were not released before the election.
Now, Tom Foley said there is no evidence, but the seriousness of the charge requires that we investigate this, as is all the Democrats are doing now.
They're putting the same page out of the playbook.
So the words out that he hasn't paid any taxes for 10 years.
Let him prove that he has.
So what we have here, we have Harry Reid saying he hadn't paid taxes in 10 years.
Yeah, where's your evidence?
Well, I don't have the evidence.
He's got to prove it.
Well, who's telling you he hadn't paid taxes?
Well, a couple people that used to work at Bay.
Well, how do they know?
Well, I don't know.
I'm just telling you.
He hadn't paid taxes in 10 years.
It's up to him to prove it.
Let him prove that he paid his taxes because he hasn't.
All this is, is a tightening of the ratchet trying to get Romney to release the records because all they want is to be able to employ the usual David Axelrod Barack Obama plan of going through the documents, whatever they are, making up a bunch of stuff about them and trying to get Romney out of the race.
That's all.
Here's Eric Fernstrom.
He is a Romney advisor.
And this morning on Fox News American Newsroom, Bill Hammer interviewed him, said, this is Harry Reid, played the soundbite.
I mean, there's obviously something behind his comments to drill this out every day, grab headlines.
What's behind this, Eric?
This reminds me of the McCarthy hearings back in the 1950s.
And it was another son from Massachusetts then, Joseph Welch, who finally asked the question that should be asked of Harry Reid, which is, have you no sense of decency, sir?
Is there nothing that you won't do in the name of dirty politics?
And I think it's just shameful.
And of course, it's directly contrary to the new kind of politics that Barack Obama promised the country four years ago.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right on.
But I don't know that that's going to be too effective.
Why?
They said they were going to unify the country.
That's he knows.
No, he doesn't have any shame.
We're talking about a despicable human being here.
Harry Reid, have any shame?
I think he drew the short straw on this.
They probably assigned this to somebody, and Harry got the short straw.
They sat around, somebody's going to take this public.
Romney hadn't paid his tax.
It's Harry, it's your turn.
Well, I don't, I don't know.
Harry, it's your turn.
You've got to do it.
You're going to take one for the team.
And it's entirely possible that Harry didn't have to have this assigned, that he was just willing to do it on his own.
It's very typical, but that's what this is about.
Let's take a brief time out.
Unemployment news is up.
It's unemployment Thursday.
Unemployment's up.
And we're back now unexpectedly.
Yes.
Yes, trying to make me happy.
Maybe it's an anniversary gift from Reuters to put the word back in the report.
Folks, I just got a phone call in the break.
And you know, I don't talk on the phone much.
But I was told you've got to take this phone call.
I said, I won't want to take the five.
Don't talk on the phone.
I can't.
You've got to take the phone call.
Okay.
Two and a half minutes.
I got on the phone.
Somebody, I don't know, never they said they went to school with Barack Obama at Harvard.
And the guy told me that Obama got the lowest grades that any Harvard graduate ever got, and that a bunch of professors gave him B's and C's when he didn't even show up to class.
And then he hung up.
Now, this guy from Harvard said that Obama, lowest grades anybody ever got at Harvard, had professors that covered for him, and he wasn't even there.
I said, Can you show me any proof of this?
No, no, no, no, no, I hung up the phone.
It took all of a minute.
I'm corroborating it now.
I'm telling you now.
So I am calling on Barack Obama to release his Harvard transcripts.
Based on this, I got a call.
I got a call from a guy at Harvard who claimed that Obama's got the lowest grades, anybody that went there and didn't even go to class sometimes, and the professors covered for him.
It's up to Obama to prove it.
The allegations out there.
It's up to Obama to prove.
I got this call from Harvard, and the guy said he sounded smart, said he went to Harvard.
He knew enough to get to call a phone number that would get to me.
This guy found a way to get to me.
He said, Rush, this guy got the lowest grades that anybody ever got at Harvard.
And he didn't even go to class a lot of times, and he got B's and C's.
So, the allegation's out there.
I think I know what do you mean the burden is on me to prove?
I don't have to prove anything here.
Look, the burden is on Obama.
He's the one that I've alleged got the worst grades in the history of Harvard.
It's up to Obama to prove this.
It's up to Obama.
So we need the transcripts.
And while we're at it, I wonder if I could get a call from somebody at Occidental.
And maybe I'll get a call from somebody at Columbia.
And maybe I'll get a call from somebody that attended an Obama lecture on the Constitution at the University of Chicago, who will tell me that he never even taught the Constitution.
What he taught was subverting it and overthrowing it, according to the way Saul Lilinsky said to do it.
But there it is.
Lowest grades ever in Harvard, never went to class.
Well, didn't a lot of times got covered for by the prof. I got a call.
Hey, quick question here, folks.
Why aren't these Bane whistleblowers on CNN telling the tale of Romney not paying any taxes?
At least when the Democrats went after Herman Cain, they at least dragged some women up there to claim that he had done some stuff.
If these whistleblowers are calling Harry Reid, why aren't they on television?
Why haven't they come forth?
Let us see who they are and show us how it is they know that Romney hasn't paid the taxes for 10 years.
You know, like little Dick Gephardt, Dingy Harry has a habit of making up people to suit his needs.
During the amnesty debate, illegal immigration amnesty debate 2007, Harry Reid told everybody, you might remember this, he told me about a phone call that he got from one of his constituents who wanted amnesty to be passed.
Dingy Harry said that the guy's name was Tommy.
And there are a lot of people said, well, bring Tommy forward.
Who is this Tommy?
You said Tommy called you and wants amnesty passed.
Let's hear from Tommy.
And Tommy never came forward because Tommy never existed outside of Harry Reid's fevered imagination any more than this number of people exist.
This is a common tactic.
Dingy Harry knows, in fact, he said, I don't think the burden to prove this is on me.
The burden should be on Romney.
He's the one I've alleged hasn't paid any taxes.
Why didn't he release his tax returns?
Now, what Dingy Harry knows is the media is going to pick it right up.
And they may give it some time, but they'll be in on this.
It won't be long before we'll see a story that Romney has remained suspiciously silent on the allegation.
Harry Reid is charged that Romney didn't pay taxes for 10 years.
And surprisingly, Romney hasn't refuted the charge.
You watch, it'll happen.
It's a technique.
We parodied this back during the Lewinsky scandal with Clinton.
You had Carville and Stephanopoulos and the whole war room crowd out accusing Ken Starr of some of the most vile stuff in the world.
And then Ken Starr would go on television and they would ask him about these accusations.
So we did a parody of it.
Good evening and welcome to Larry King Alive.
Our topic tonight is Ken Starr out of control in our Little Rock studios, special counsel Ken Starr.
Good evening, Larry.
And in our Washington studios, Clinton advisor and former campaign manager James Carville.
Hi, Larry.
I'm just glad you gave me a chance to show America what a madman, vicious dog Ken Starr really is.
He's a twisted evil man, Larry.
And I know what American people are.
Yeah, thank you, James, but let's hear from Ken Starr first.
Ken, are you a madman?
Larry, let me just say that I only want to.
To destroy the president, because he's crazy.
He's so crazy with tobacco money he's lost his mind.
You can hear it in his voice.
He not only wants to destroy the president, he wants to kill all your children.
He wants your babies dead.
He's been giving cottons of cigarettes to every kindergarten in America, and he ain't going to stop till all your babies are smoking like your camera.
Ken, why would you give cigarettes to five-year-olds?
Larry, I never.
You see, he just said he never didn't give no cigarettes to your babies.
And it also been running around showing your babies how to play matches because he's been taking all kinds of money from them Fippio Big Zippo light and match people because he's a madman, Larry.
A killer who wants a president and all y'all babies dead.
And you know what else?
Ken Starr's a space alien.
He ain't even a real man.
He's from Mars.
That's right.
A madman from Mars, and they're invading the planet.
He flies around a spaceship handing out cigarettes made by little green men to kill your babies and destroy our president.
Pretty serious charges, Ken Starr.
Are you an alien?
Honestly, Larry, I...
Hey, you can't trust a madman moshing out to kill your babies with cigarettes and matches and a straw present, the most moral man in America.
It's a war, Larry.
It's a war.
Bill Clinton against the invaders from Mars trying to kill you with secondhand smoke from your kindergarteners who then burn down your houseplaying with matches and lighters as Ken Starr flies around a spaceship.
That's it, Larry.
That's a plan to get us and our president.
Quite a compelling argument.
Well, we're out of time.
Now, tomorrow night, our show will feature a completely different subject.
A psychic who says that Ken Starr is using mental vibrations to keep Susan McDougal awake at night.
See you then.
It's in their playbook.
It's what they do.
You know, Harry Reid starting to sound like an angry old white mine, white man.
They just, he's sounding deranged.
You know, imaginary friends don't make good TV.
You can't, you can't show them.
And by the way, ladies and gentlemen, have you heard that Harry Reid's the butt-boy of some of the mafia dons that he works for in Las Vegas?
Have you heard that?
Have you heard about some of the shady real estate deals that Harry Reid?
The LA Times had the story.
We talked way back in the 90s.
And I think it's up to Harry Reid to prove.
Remember the phony soldier episode with Harry Reid carrying forth a lie that I was denigrating genuine military heroes.
Grab that parody.
We had a parody of this with the letter.
Remember the song with a box stops?
Let me know when you have that one.
I'll tell you what ought to be happening here.
IRS agents should be interrogating Harry Reid to determine who it is that supposedly leaked confidential tax information about a private citizen to him.
And Harry Reid, having disclosed publicly what he was told, should be investigated as well for passing such information on to the public.
This is a felony, what Harry Reid is doing.
So if anybody needs to be investigated, here it's Harry Reid.
IRS agents ought to be talking to him and try to figure out who leaked.
You know, who is this guy from Bain that's calling Harry Reid?
Who are these people?
And then he publicly disclosed what he was told.
And he doesn't know if it's true.
He's demanding that Romney prove it.
So Harry Reid's admitting he doesn't know if it's true.
If anybody should be investigated by government agents, it's Harry Reid.
Harry Reid's a public official.
In fact, this despicable little man has great power over the IRS and tax laws.
And he appears to be using his position, this powerful position, to disclose confidential tax information.
Now, the information need not be accurate, but the attempt to do such a thing would seem to be problematic enough.
If he actually has information about a private citizen's tax returns and is peddling it in public, he needs to be questioned by the IRS and the FBI because what he's doing is a felony.
This is not allowable under law.
And just because it's a political campaign does not excuse it, does not give him the opportunity to do this outside the law.
Romney hadn't violated the law.
Nobody has a serious allegation of this.
And all they want, they are trying to pressure Romney.
I tell you what they're really trying to do.
They're trying to get to the Republican establishment and the cowardly consultants to go to Romney and say, look, this is piling up.
I know there's nothing there, but you've got to release these records.
You've got to stop this.
You've got to turn this off.
That's how they think.
That's how they operate.
You probably have some people telling him that now.
Just like what was it recently?
Oh, it was about this three weeks ago.
All of the conservative intellectuals and intelligentsia started getting in line.
He should release the tax record just because the Democrats want them.
Just because the Obama campaigns, yep, just release those records and the story goes away.
That's what they all told us, the smart ones in the room.
And so I guarantee you, he's got some people advising him.
Mitt, you got to shut this down.
You got to get, you got to get, Mitt, there's nothing there.
Let them have them.
And that's precisely the point.
There's nothing there.
That's not going to stop them.
All that's going to do is give more life to this thing in ways that it will never have life if they don't release them.
There is no upside to releasing those tax returns.
Not now.
Not with what's going on.
What needs to happen is the focus needs to shift to Harry Reid and his questionable legal behavior here.
If anybody deserves to be investigated, it is Harry Reid for what he's doing and how he's doing it.
Here is the parody that we did with Harry Reid.
This is our white comedian Paul Shanklin with the vocal portrayal.
Give me an aspirin for this migraine.
And I won't care what Media Matters says again.
Reputation's gone.
They hate me back at home.
I shouldn't have written the letter.
How could I know it would make Limbaugh's day?
I just wanted to lean a little bit on Mark May.
Reputation's gone.
They hate me back at home.
I shouldn't have written the letter.
Well, I wrote in the letter, said I shouldn't be on the radio.
No.
Then he auctioned it for charity, made a fool of me, and he raised a lot of dough.
Anyway, yeah, give me an asking for this migraine.
I won't care what Media Matters says again.
Reputation's gone.
They hate me back at home.
I shouldn't have written the letter.
I shouldn't have written the letter.
What was the letter?
For those of you that weren't here, Harry Reid sent a letter to the then CEO of Clear Channel Communications demanding that I be made to apologize for insulting the heroes of the United States of America who wear the military uniform over a trumped-up mischaracterization of what I had said by Media Matters regarding a genuine phony soldier.
And what we did, we took that letter and we put it on eBay up for auction as a great illustration of the power of government.
I had the United States government lined up against me, led by Harry Reid.
Certainly accurate to say, the Senate of the United States.
And he had every Democrat sign this letter.
Not one Republican signed it.
I had the entire United States Senate trying to get me off the air, lined up against me.
And I remember saying at the time, gosh, I wish my father were alive.
He would not believe this.
And he'd be livid.
So we put that letter up for auction on eBay.
And I said, I'll match whatever we get because it's a clear illustration of where the country's headed, the overreach of federal government, denial of First Amendment, everything that's all wrapped up in that.
And we ended up raising $4.2 million for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, which is who we sponsor at 2ishByT.com.
Greatest tea in the country, by the way.
4.2.
It was 2.1.
I matched it.
$4.2 million total.
And when it was all over, Harry Reid went back to the floor of the Senate and tried to take credit for it.
Quick timeout.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, Mitt Romney is no tax cheat.
But even if he was, so what?
The Treasury Secretary of the United States is an admitted tax cheat.
And the Democrats didn't give a damn about that.
Harry Reed and his fellow Democrats in the Senate voted to confirm Little Timmy Geithner, the tax cheat.
Joe Biden is a plagiarist.
Anybody care about that?
Barack Obama fudged laws and a shady deal to buy his house with the help of a convicted felon.
His good pal Bill Ayers bombed the Pentagon.
Romney is none of this, not even close to it.
We have an admitted tax cheat that is the Treasury Secretary of the United States, Timothy Geithner.
Democrats don't care about it.
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And in the process, Harry Reid didn't disclose to Congress an earlier sale in which he had transferred his land to a company created by a friend and took a financial stake in that company, according to records and interviews.
Harry Reed's deal was engineered by Jay Brown, longtime friend and former casino lawyer, whose name surfaced in a major political bribery trial in the summer of 2006.
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There you have it, ladies and dingy Harry.
Custom land deals.
You can't get the deals he gets and stay out of jail like he does.
And even little Dick Gephardt, his imaginary friend, called him up, said, you know what, I'm rich, Dick, but I'm not paying enough in taxes.
Well, we learned a lot about little Dick's imaginary friends.
A lot of kids have imaginary friends.
Mommy, Cowboy Bob and I are going to go outside and play soccer.
That's nice, honey.
Dick Gephardt has a friend, too.
I have a very wealthy friend who came to my office the other day.
He told me that he had made $2 billion over the last 10 years.
Dick still has the imagination of a child.
But he said, let me tell you what I'd rather have.
I'd rather you keep my tax cut.
When a child pretends, people say it's cute.
How about you, Bobby and I are thirsty?
Tell me how some red eye.
But when Dick Epphardt does it, it's just another lie.
He said, in the end, if you practice democratic economics and invest in the people in this country, I'll really make money over the next 10 years.
Don't give me the money and tax cuts.
A message in the public interest from the EIB Network.
Now, in strict legal terms, it may not be that Harry Reid committed the felony.
But if somebody's calling him and telling him about Romney's tax returns, it would appear that person has committed a felony.
Now, the way to get to the bottom of this, folks, very simple: the IRS and the FBI must question Harry Reid about his source.
They have to do this in a formal investigation.
And if he's found to be lying about this while being questioned by federal investigators, then we got to process crime.
Then we got lying under rope or talking Scooter Libby.
But Reed has said this more than once, including on the Senate floor.
The IRS and the FBI cannot ignore this.
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