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May 14, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 14, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Told you yesterday we'd be back, and I always do what I say.
Here we are, back at it, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Distinguished Rush Limbaugh Institute, or Advanced Conservative Studies.
Happy to have you here, folks, as always.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is at this very moment an impromptu press conference going on at the White House with the President and our microphones are there.
Mr. President, you say the Republicans simply will not cooperate with you.
You thought they might after you won your second term.
Why exactly won't they help you?
It's Rush Limbaugh's fault.
Uh Chris.
It has been learned that the IRS did indeed target Tea Party and other conservative groups for tax audits and harassment during applications for tax exempt status.
Did you know about this, sir?
And if so, when did you learn about it?
And what do you intend to do about it?
That was Rush Limbaugh's fault.
A follow-up, sir.
Uh, it's also come to light that the IRS officials in Washington were involved in the targeting of conservative groups, not just some low-level employees from Ohio.
Could that imply a direct connection to your administration?
That was Rush Limbaugh's fault.
Uh, yes.
Sir, you said yesterday that the talking points on Benghazi had not been altered, that they were only done at the request of the Republicans in Congress.
No, that was Rush Limbaugh's fault.
Uh, Bill.
Susan Rice went on five Sunday morning television shows and claimed that the attack in Benghazi was due to a YouTube video making fun of Islam.
It has since been learned that your administration knew well in advance of her appearance that the attack was a planned orchestrated terrorist attack.
Why was Susan Rice sent out so many days later to continue to say it happened because of the video?
Uh that was Rush Limbaugh's fault.
Uh Ed.
Sir, the Justice Department has secretly collected two months of phone records of the Associated Press reporters and editors, ostensibly to find the source of a leak.
The White House says it has no knowledge of the investigation, but isn't the press protected under the First Amendment?
It's Rush Limbaugh's fault.
Uh Matt Dendit.
Mr. President, some Obamacare premium cost estimates are skyrocketing to as high as 400% of current premiums.
Can you still honestly say health care costs will come down under your plan?
That was also Rush Limbaugh's fault.
Sir, the recession will have ended four years ago this summer.
Yet this is the weakest recovery since the Great Depression.
Why haven't you done more to promote economic growth?
It's Rush Limbaugh's fault.
Uh thank you for being here today.
Now, for those of you wondering what in the world that was all about, let me fill you in.
Yesterday I'm at home.
I'm already working on today's program, in fact.
I'm minding my own business.
Bothering no one.
And I got an email from a friend.
Obama just told Justin Timberlake and Jessica Beale and Harvey Weinstein that the reason he can't get anything done is because of you.
And then the next email contained a link to that story.
And it was from the Atlantic Wire.
And it was indeed what I had been told.
Obama was at a fundraiser at the West Village Townhouse of Harvey Weinstein, the famed movie producer.
And he had uh in the audience Jessica Beale and uh and Justin Timberlake, Uh newly married man and wife.
And in fact, Obama's talking about his stalled second term.
And he's saying that he can't get anything done.
And he's blaming me.
He told everybody in that audience that he expected, after he won re-election, that the Republicans would say, okay, let's cooperate with the guy because he won, and he's essentially a lame duck, and we can't beat him again, so let's go ahead and work with him.
But they will not work with me, Obama told them.
And the reason they won't is because of Rush Limbaugh.
And the reason that that's it's my fault is that the Republicans are afraid of me.
All of the elected Republicans in the House of Representatives and all of the elected Republicans in the Senate are afraid of what I will say about them if they cooperate with Obama.
This is what Obama told Timberlake, Jessica Beale, Harvey Weinstein, and whoever else was at the fundraiser.
Now let me tell you what he's doing, folks.
He is essentially begging any Republican to denounce me.
He is fixated on me.
He simply cannot get me off of his mind.
I live rent-free in his head.
And he is using me as his convenient mistake or excuse for not being able to get anything done.
He really thinks the Republicans would work with him if it weren't for me.
So he's telling these Hollywood people, and you got to understand they're sitting there and they're very sympathetic, and they love Obama, and they want Obama to succeed.
And I'm the guy who said, I hope he fails.
So Obama's sitting there and he's telling these Hollywood people, you know, this Limbaugh guy, this Limbaugh guy, that's if it weren't for this Limbaugh guy, good lord, look what I could get done.
And the Hollywood people are supposed to hear that and say to themselves, hmm, let's figure out a way to help.
What can we do in dealing with limbaugh to help our president?
And then he is also sending out a similar message to the Republicans.
He's just begging one of them, just one.
He's just begging, enticing one of them to go to the microphone and agree with him.
And if not agree with him, to denounce me.
Because that's his objective.
Obama's objective is to eliminate all opposition.
Now let's be honest, folks.
Who am I?
I am your beloved host, L. Rushbow.
I'm a guy on the radio.
The fact remains, the truth of the matter is, by his own admission, I am the opposition to Barack Obama, not the Republican Party.
Not any of the Republican think tanks, not any of the Republican consultants, not any of the Republican political action committees.
I, your beloved host, L. Rushbow, soon to celebrate 25 years behind the golden EIB microphone, I am the obstacle.
I am the wall.
I am the obstacle.
I'm the one thing in his way.
And he's very comfortable in telling people.
That I'm it.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States is in trouble.
As you know, this IRS scandal is blossoming.
We know now that it was not a low-level bunch of people in Cincinnati who directed this.
We know it was the Washington, D.C. office of the IRS.
This from no less than the Washington Post.
We also have the Associated Press, which has acknowledged that the Justice Department of the Regime, Eric Holder, illegally monitored and tapped a number of their telephone lines to procure information that they thought the AP had.
The AP has written a letter of protest and anger Over this.
The Benghazi scandal does not go away.
It continues to percolate, primarily because of the president's treatment of it.
Continues to go to the microphones and essentially say things which everybody knows to be untrue about what happened at Benghazi and what happened in the aftermath of Benghazi.
When he opened the White House correspondence dinner.
What was that now?
A couple of weeks ago?
First thing out of his mouth.
He comes out, well, he's introduced, he's sitting there on the day as he's introduced.
They start playing a rap tune.
Obama says, Rush Limbaugh warned you of this second term, baby.
I don't know how many times it is that Obama has blamed me.
You remember the first time this happened was two weeks into his administration in 2009.
There was a meeting in the White House of congressional leaders from both parties.
Near the end of the meeting, the president looked to John Boehner and said, you know, you guys just can't listen to Rush Limbaugh anymore.
That's not how things get done in Washington.
You just you've got to stop listening to Limbaugh.
That ended up being reported.
I had a meeting with Boehner, coincidentally, a few short weeks later here in my humble EIB Southern Command offices.
And Boehner told me about this.
And he said, I don't know why.
I don't know why he would say that to us, Rush.
I said, let me tell you why, Mr. Speaker.
Because he was hoping that just one of you would leave the White House, stroll to the microphones outside, and agree with him.
And he has been hoping for five years that just one, just one elected Republican somewhere will stand up and agree that I am the problem.
So let me do this in the spirit of doing whatever I can to move things forward in this country.
I would like to make myself available to the President of the United States to sit down and talk with him at a place of his choosing and discuss the problems facing the country, and maybe working together since I am the opposition, since I am the obstacle, since I am the reason he can't get things done.
I'll be glad to sit down with him any time, any place that he wants, perhaps we can hash this out and come to a I don't know, mutual understanding or agreement of how to get things off the dime.
And to move things forward.
Now, I have tried this before.
If you recall, ladies and gentlemen, when the president first presented the stimulus proposal, I offered a counter in the form of an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
Well, And I said to the president, okay, you won the election, and let's let's just pretend that you won our 60 to 40.
You want to spend basically a trillion dollars on your stimulus.
I said, I'll offer you a counterproposal.
You take 600 billion of your stimulus and you do with it whatever you want, and I'll take 400 billion and do it my way, and we'll see which way actually leads to more economic growth.
The Wall Street Journal published this op-ed.
I, of course, heard nothing from the White House after my gracious offer to help.
Because everybody who listens to this program knows my fervent interest is this country and its growth, its economic growth, its spiritual growth, its cultural growth, its advancement.
And yet the president of the United States once again has told loyalists, this time in Hollywood, that I am the one thing standing in his way of success.
Now the president's had beer with a cop from Boston.
There have been numerous summits.
I'm offering to make myself available to the president at a summit so that we can hash this out.
So that I can explain to him why it is that I oppose what he's trying to do, and maybe we can come to some sort.
My mother always told me, son, talk it out with people.
Don't go off mad and don't get all uppity and don't get off.
Talk it out with people.
See if you can solve it with them.
And I'm offering that today here on the EIB network, since I am the obstacle.
This is the third olive branch that I have offered in this spirit of cooperation, assistance, and help.
So I offer it again.
Now a brief time out as we continue here on the EIB network.
Do not go away, folks.
We've just gotten started.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh serving humanity behind the golden EIB microphone here at the EIB Network.
I, ladies and gentlemen, would be happy to advise the president on how best to proceed.
You remember, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I even extended an invitation to play golf with President Obama.
The invitation was extended via Zev Chaffetz, the author of the book, An Army of One, a book about me.
And Zeb Chaffitz extended the invitation to Obama via David Axelrod.
He called Axelrod and he said Rush would love to play golf with President Obama and hash things out.
And Axelrod said to Zeb Chavez, no, he can go play with himself.
Now, the President of the United States says constantly that he's eager to work with Republicans.
He said he was eager to work with Republicans on the stimulus.
He was eager to listen to people, Republicans who had good ideas on any number of the debt limit deals, budget deals, any number of things.
I even offered during my op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on his stimulus that if my plan worked, that I would give him all the credit for it.
He's the president of the United States, and had he been gracious enough to let me have 400 billion dollars of his stimulus and do with it what I thought would generate economic growth, that if it worked, I would give him the credit for it.
I heard nothing.
All I hear is how I am the problem.
This is the fifth or sixth time now.
The president has told supporters that the one obstacle to him moving his agenda forward is me.
Rush Limbaugh, because the Republicans are afraid to agree with him.
He paints a picture of the Republicans in Congress eager to work with him.
They really want to help him.
But they are more afraid of me and what I would say about them if they did help him, then they are eager to work with him.
And so he continues to do what he can to have the Republicans just one.
It would be the crowning achievement of his administration if just one elected Republican would stroll to a microphone and denounce me.
In the same terms that Obama has denounced me.
If a Republican would stroll to the microphone, you know, the president's right.
Rush Limbaugh's a problem in this country if we just can't get things done as long as he's on the radio.
Of course, just last week, folks, I was irrelevant and about to be thrown off the radio.
Because I'm so insignificant.
This changes, seemingly, on a weekly basis.
So I continue to make the offer, and I'll make it again today.
I'd be happy to advise the president on how best to proceed, given current circumstances.
Now, it was just yesterday at the press or at the uh at the fundraiser at Harvey Weinstein's fashionable West Village home in Manhattan.
Again, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Beale in the audience.
This morning on Good Morning America, here's a portion of Jonathan Carl, a White House correspondent's report about the IRS scandal, and lo and behold, I end up being in this report.
That's not good enough for some conservatives who point to past references the president has made to Tea Party groups.
I've been a little amused over the last couple of days where people have been having these rallies about taxes.
You would think they would be saying thank you.
The Obama regime is using government to investigate people.
And now some of those who say they were unfairly targeted are speaking out about their experience and those inappropriate requests.
The IRS wanted to see my personal Facebook page.
They wanted to see my personal Twitter account with pictures of my children on it.
There are almost certainly more shoes to drop.
And one of them dropped this morning in the Washington Post.
IRS officials in Washington were involved in the targeting of conservative groups.
IRS officials in Washington, not low-level employees in Cincinnati.
And this, of course, is my fault too.
Ladies and gentlemen, very, very minor correction when Zev Chaffetz extended the invitation to play golf with me to the president.
He called David Axelrod, but it was not Axelrod who responded.
David Axarod did not call back.
Zeb Chaffetz got a message from somebody very high in the Democrat Party with connections to the White House.
And the reply was tell Limbaugh to play with himself.
Now let me explain.
By the way, Snerdley just said to me during the break, he said, Well, you know, nobody does a radio bit better than you.
This is not a radio bit, folks.
The President of the United States, let me read it to you.
This is this is from the Atlantic Wire.com and it's from late yesterday afternoon.
Obama told donors like Jessica Beale, Justin Timberlake, and Tommy Hilfiger, that Washington Gridlock is pretty much Rush Limbaugh's fault on Monday evening at a fundraiser at Harvey Weinstein's house in Greenwich Village.
Obama admitted that his theory that after the 2012 election the Republican fever would break, and they'd decide to co-sign some of his agenda was wrong.
Quote, my thinking was that when we beat him in 2012, that might break the fever.
It's not quite broken yet.
I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us, but they're fearful of their base.
They're concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them.
As a consequence, we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government.
That's what he told the fundraisers, and my fault, the fundraisers.
Let me translate this for you.
What the President of the United States really saying is that Republican senators, Republican members in the House of Representatives, do not vote the way he wants them to, because they're afraid that I will tell the truth about them.
If it were not for me, the news media would be able to protect them.
In fact, what the president is saying is that these elected Republicans actually do want to help him.
They do want to vote with him.
They do want to join him in his agenda.
But they can't.
Since I will actually report what they're doing, they have to worry that their constituents will hear the truth from me and get mad at them.
If I weren't around, they could vote for Obama, vote with Obama, and the media would cover for them.
And there would not be any criticism of them.
This is what the president is saying.
The president is telling his donors that there are plenty of Republicans that can't wait to help him move his agenda forward, if not for their fear of me.
CNN has a headline on their website running at the moment.
Is Rush Limbaugh still relevant?
They do.
Let's go back to the audio sound bites this morning on Fox Business Networks, Varney and Company, Stuart Varney talking with Charles Payne, one of the Fox correspondents about Obama's denunciation of me blaming me last night during the fundraiser at movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's house.
Varney said President Obama said that Rush Limboss to blame for the gridlock in Washington.
He said there's a fundraiser at Weinstein's house.
Timberlake, Jessica Beale among the attendees, president told him that he thought his win in 2012 would break the Republican fever.
The fundraiser was attended by more than 60 people, $32,000 per couple for the event.
So Charles, is it?
Is it really all Russia's fault?
Rush was feel pretty good today.
Imagine that that he has more juice than Justin Timberland, Jessica Bill.
And all of these Hollywood couples that can fork over 32 grand to have dinner with the president.
Here's the real deal, and it really speaks a lot to the president and the idea that he thinks he knows everything, that he thinks he is 100% right on everything, and that sooner or later people, if you don't come around to him, you're suffering.
You are actually delusional.
You are suffering from something that he calls a fever.
And that perhaps if we beat you enough, if we beat you a second time, you'll have an epiphany and come out of your fever and see that I'm right.
That's Charles Pay at Fox Business, and that's pretty much exactly right.
The president's saying the Republicans really do want to help him.
They really want to help him advance his agenda.
So let I I'm just uh saying again, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that I will sincerely, I am sincerely offering myself, I'll make myself available to the president to offer him advice on how to move things forward.
Now, I wouldn't be surprised if they responded and say it'll cost you $32,000 to meet with the president.
That point, which one I would balk.
But if the president thinks it would be worthwhile, if I'm the obstacle, if I'm the one thing standing in the way of what he thinks is the best thing for this country.
The president of the United States, let's take him at his word.
He thinks his ideas are the best thing to ever happen to this country, and there's one person standing in his way.
Me.
If I weren't around smooth sailing, Republicans would be eagerly signing on to his agenda, agreeing with him, and the country would move in the direction Obama wants it to go.
I am preventing him from getting cooperation from the Republicans, Mr. Snerdly.
My presence, my microphone, my existence makes the Republicans fearful.
Okay.
That if they agree with Obama, if they help his agenda, that I will criticize them.
And that, he says, they're afraid of.
He says the Republicans fear that I will criticize them for agreeing with him, and that their constituents will hear about it, and the Republican base will hear about it, and that's why they don't do it.
So, if I weren't there, if I weren't here, then it would be smooth sailing.
Anyway, let's move on.
There are other items in the news, of course.
The Associated Press Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records, of reporters and editors for the Associated Press, in what the News Cooperative's top executive called a massive, unprecedented intrusion into how news organizations gather the news.
The Obama administration is spying on state-controlled reporters from the Associated Press.
Don't they know that the AP would have given him this information if he just asked for it?
The records obtained by the Justice Department, at least in the United States, listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, General AP office numbers in New York and Washington and Hartford, Connecticut, and the main number for AP reporters in the House press gallery, according to attorneys for AP was not clear.
If the records also included incoming calls or the duration of calls.
Now the Obama administration would not say why it sought the records from the Associated Press.
Obama officials previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information contained in a May 7, 2012 AP story about a foiled terror plot.
That story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaeda plot in the spring of 2012, a detonated bomb on an airplane bound for the U.S. in the letter notifying the AP received Friday.
The Obama Justice Department offered no explanation for the seizure, according to the lawyer, and attorneys for the AP.
The records were presumably obtained from phone companies earlier this year, although the government letter didn't explain that.
None of the information provided by the government to the AP suggested actual phone conversations were monitored.
But that doesn't get around the fact that the Obama regime is spying on AP reporters, and who knows who else.
You have to wonder what all these mainstream news reporters think of this.
You know, you let a president like Richard Nixon do something like this, and there are calls and demands immediately for impeachment.
The administration will probably say that the Department of Justice was collecting AP phone records of low-level workers.
At the AP, not anybody really major.
But, I mean, this is a...
This is a pretty big thing.
Now some have speculated, you know, Rush, the AP not going to be upset about this.
The AP not going to be bothered at all.
I mean, maybe they may act upset for a while, but at the end, they're going to end up forgetting it.
Because the last thing the AP wants is to hand conservatives a victory, and they're not going to help us in categorizing Obama and his administration as anything chicanerous.
But I'm not sure about that.
Folks, if that were the case, if the AP didn't think anything of this, they would not have written that letter to the government protesting what took place.
I know that they're pro-Obama all the way.
But that doesn't hide the fact that the AP was spied upon.
The AP was attacked.
Now it may not last.
But they went public with their attack.
And they have done some damage.
This is the kind of thing that Obama's supporters think is impossible with Obama.
Spying on their own.
Now, if this if if the AP had been replaced by a conservative news organization, Obama was spying on a conservative organ, they would have applauded that.
But this is the regime spying on its own stenographers.
And I guarantee you, Obama supporters are scratching their heads because they're made up of civil libertarians and people who have these lofty ideals about Obama.
Fact is Nixon never did anything like this.
Nixon never really used the IRS against his enemies.
And he also never really had an enemy's list.
I mean, those are popular media myths.
So-called enemies list was created and maintained by John Dean, but Nixon.
Nixon was pretty much a stranger to it.
Anyway, must take a brief time out.
We'll be back at uh just a jiffy with much more.
Sit tight.
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Executing a signed host duties flawlessly into the phones we go.
We're going to start in Santa Monica, California.
This Nancy.
Thank you for calling.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Thank you.
Well, I was listening and every day, and today I just can't take it anymore.
If Obama is complaining that you rush are stopping everything in Washington or everything happening that he wants to have happen, then Obama is not the uh most powerful man in the free world.
You are.
Well, I see your point.
Um I I actually understand what you're saying.
Here's the president of the United States who finds his agenda blocked, thwarted, stalled, and his stated excuse and reason is me, a radio talk show host.
Yeah.
So I can see where you would think that I have become problematic and perhaps on the same level of power, if not more so than the president.
Absolutely.
Now, what is he also saying about the Republicans?
What a bunch of cowards they are.
That's what he's saying.
They're afraid of me.
Well, and he's crazy if he thinks that they're just going to turn everything over to him because he got elected the second time.
He's just nuts.
That's the way he thinks.
That's the way he thinks.
Look at his his modus operandi, Nancy, is to eliminate all opposition.
One of Obama's signature moves, by the way, is to find secret documents on opponents that are embarrassing and that are sealed and find a way to release them.
He won two elections that way, one over Bobby Rush and another in his Senate race in Illinois.
See, his modus operandi is to simply eliminate all opposition.
He doesn't debate people.
He he doesn't sit down in the arena of ideas and try to prove the supremacy of his ideas.
He tries to eliminate the existence of other ideas and the people who have them.
And the uh the the idea here that the most powerful man in the world is thwarted because of me.
Uh pretty stark stuff, which is why I'm offering to help the president and advise him on a way out of this impasse.
Don't need to repeat it again, but at the very opening of the program, I've offered to make myself available to hash this out.
He's got plans.
He thinks what he wants to do is the greatest thing that's ever happened to this country, or it's very important, and I'm in the way.
I don't know.
Mr. Sturdly is asking me if it's ever happened in American history where a president has identified a private citizen as the reason things can't get done.
It may have happened before in.
Well, you know.
Well, Bill Clinton in that phone call to Camox in St. Louis on Air Force One, he did complain.
He told the hosts at Camo X that there was no truth detector that he was gonna do, he'd do things, and then you know, I've got three hours on the radio, and there's nobody here to counter me, and there's nobody to tell people how I'm lying, and there's no truth detector.
So it's it's it's not unprecedented, but I think I think President Obama has probably moved the ball forward in this uh in this context.
But Nancy's got a point.
She does.
Here's Philip in Saledo, Texas, your next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, how are you doing, Rush?
Pleasure to talk to you.
I just had a comment on that same point.
Um in conjunction with your Rush Limbaugh Theorem.
Um, I think the president has to continue to keep himself external from the problem.
And he's all obviously done it a number of ways in the first part of his administration.
It was the Bush's problem, then it was the Republicans and the Congress couldn't get together, and by association now he's pointing out you.
And so, in order to keep himself outside of the problem, just like any dictator currently does or has done in the past, he's got to create that external threat to his country or to his group.
So, what better way to gather the liberals together than to point out, hey, there's a threat that's out there that's you know a problem for us, and you have to band together.
That's exactly right.
That is exactly that's why he does this in the homes of loyalist fundraisers and donors and supporters, Hollywood people, who he thinks have a lot of influence.
He'd basically tell them, you know, this guy Limbaugh's my problem.
Wink wink.
Is there something you can do to help me diminish him?
I mean, you guys in Hollywood, you have uh the ability to influence is there's something you can do, but it is, he's right.
The Limbaugh theorem, it's Obama distancing himself from what's really going on, and it's his external threat that uh that nobody can do anything about in this case, me.
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