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	Okay, Snerdley.
	Snerdley, you want more proof that this uh DOJ AP thing isn't any big deal.
	You want Yeah, Holder up there at his press conference just a moment ago.
	Uh by the way, the the the White House never sent Holder out to talk to the media about Fast and Furious.
	Let's just make that observation.
	That never happened.
	Holders out there talking about this.
	Someone in the midst of this controversy with the AP basically grabbing the phone records of over a hundred AP reporters' numbers and all that kind of thing.
	A reporter asked Eric Holder about the CIA interrogation policy.
	Are we still waterboarding?
	Are we engaging in torture?
	Another infobabe, a reporterette, asked about Obama's drone policy.
	In the middle of this, he's out there doing a press conference on their grab of AP phone records.
	Where do they get these reporters?
	He had a couple of reporters who don't even care about that.
	Now, just to clarify, by the way, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
	Here we are.
	The just to clarify this, the allegedly leaked AP story was about a foiled terror plot.
	It supposedly disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaeda plot in the spring of 2012, detonated a bomb on an airplane bound for the U.S. That's what this scandal is all about.
	There were leaks about that, and the DOJ is trying to find out who leaked it and where.
	So they went on, they grabbed a bunch of phone records from the Associated Press via cell phone telephone companies, and the AP didn't find out about it until after the fact, didn't grant permission.
	So the AP lawyer sent a letter to the DOJ complaining and whining and moaning about it.
	So Holder goes out there to do his press conference today.
	Is the CIA interrogation technique still uh are they still using harsh uh tactics and interrogations?
	So uh look, I I'm not trying to throw cold water on things here, uh folks.
	I I'm just sharing with you the benefit of two things.
	My intelligence guided by experience.
	And I long ago learned to stop or to not analyze these people as you would analyze your neighbor or your friend uh or or yourself at work.
	Somebody does you wrong, by golly, by gosh, you're gonna deal with it.
	It doesn't work that way.
	In the in the hallways, the cobwebs of the web of deceit of liberalism doesn't work that these people, they are all on the same team.
	The media is just another branch of the Democrat Party.
	They're not reporting on the administration.
	They're the stenographers.
	And I for I've been doing this for 25 years, and every year, every month of every year, I get a question, either in the email or on the phones.
	And the thrust of the question is rush rush, when is the media gonna write wake up and recognize what the Democrats are doing to the country?
	It's never gonna happen.
	The the uh if if you are waving to define success as the media turning on them and joining us, you are going to be perpetually and forever disappointed.
	So this AP story hit, DOJ grabbing phone records.
	I know a lot of maybe this is it, this is the one, this is the one.
	It's not that big a deal.
	They're not that happy about it, but they're not gonna throw the regime overboard because of this.
	In two weeks, this will be forgotten, they'll have made up over it, and it's uh not gonna be that big a deal.
	You wait.
	And by the way, I would love to be wrong.
	I would love to be wrong.
	I wish this were what you all think or hope that it uh it should be.
	Let me read something real quickly here.
	Oh, get this.
	I've just been sent a note here by a trusted source.
	The division of the Internal Revenue Service that improperly scrutinized the tax exempt status of conservative groups, took that information from the applications for tax exempt status from all those groups, and they sent that information, which is confidential.
	They sent information on 31 conservative groups to a liberal nonprofit journalism organization called ProPublica.
	We know this because ProPublica told everybody today that the IRS sent them the information on these conservative groups.
	So, folks, this was not just how to explain this.
	What we're up against here.
	I don't care what bureaucracy it is, I don't care what department, what cabinet level department, what in this case the IRS, it's populated by the same people who are in the think tanks, the same people in the media, the same people that make comments on these liberal websites.
	They're populated by the same people you read on the Daily Cause at a Democrat Underground or whatever.
	So it turns out that the division of the IRS that scrutinized tax exempt status of conservative groups took that confidential information from their tax exempt status application and sent it to a nonprofit journalism organization called ProPublica, so that ProPublica could use that information and slime these groups.
	Now the IRS isn't supposed to give anybody anything.
	Every bit of information on everybody's tax return, everybody's application for tax exempt status is supposed to be closely held and profit uh private.
	It is not supposed to be shared with the president is not supposed to be able to call and get information from the IRS.
	If the president wants to know what the Koch brothers are making, how much they've earned, what they paid in taxes, he cannot call the IRS and get the information.
	They are not legally allowed to tell him.
	In this instance, the IRS and the people working there, who are political hacks, who are political hacks, Sent the information on 31 conservative groups to a liberal journalism organization.
	Nonprofit liberal journal, Propublica.
	There's one reason to do that.
	To help this nonprofit journalism organization gear up to write demeaning critical defaming whatever stories about these groups.
	We are the enemy, folks.
	...
	They are not on our side.
	They are not independent.
	The people at these government agencies have uh these agencies have been stocked with leftists for decades now.
	And they're all activists.
	And they're in government precisely to have access to that power.
	They are in government to be able to use that power.
	They play for keeps.
	There's no such thing as a level playing field.
	Now, you might say, who's ProPublica?
	Let me take a break.
	Get that out of the way.
	I'll come back and tell you a little bit about who they are.
	Don't go away.
	We'll be right back.
	Okay, very quickly.
	ProPublica is a group founded by a guy named Herb Sandler and his wife Mary, and they are a Democrat front.
	They are partially funded by George Soros.
	Herbert and Marion Sandler are people who were designated by Time Magazine as people who helped cause the financial crisis in 2008.
	They have put their ill-gotten billions into a propaganda machine for the Democrat Party.
	Before the 2012 election, the group ProPublica devoted months to showing how dozens of social.
	Now listen to this.
	Before the 2012 election, ProPublica devoted months to showing how dozens of social welfare nonprofits had misled the IRS about their political activity on their applications and tax returns.
	Every group that ProPublica mentioned was a Republican or conservative group.
	Now, it has been learned that the IRS, the division that improperly scrutinized the tax exempt status of conservative groups, sent the information that they had gleaned on 31 conservative groups to this ProPublica group.
	The ProPublica group then turned around and used that information in the 2012 campaign to demean and impugn these conservative organizations.
	There's a symbiotic relationship between the hacks and the IRS.
	I'm probably targeting myself for an audit right now.
	But the people in the IRS, sympatico liberals, gave this information on the Republican conservative nonprofits to ProPublica, which then turned around, devoted months of they're a journalism group.
	They funded and they supplied reports to journalists who then wrote stories on how these Republican conservative nonprofits had misled the IRS and lied about their tax exempt status.
	Now now it's all making sense.
	Now it's all come out.
	Now we know what this was about.
	It wasn't just the IRS harassing these tax exempt groups.
	The IRS was collecting information for a sympathetic media organization, which then supplied, much like a media matters supplies information on this program to the mainstream media.
	ProPublica got information from the IRS about tax exempt and Republican conservative nonprofits.
	They gave that to the media, and the media then wrote stories about how these groups did not qualify, or they had lied, or they had misled the IRS and therefore illegally obtained their tax exempt status.
	And they were portrayed as illegal conservative think tanks, nonprofits, what have you.
	Now, ProPublica made this revelation today.
	They're the ones, they are the sources for what we know now.
	ProPublica is pretending to be on the side of the angels by reporting this now.
	What ProPublica is doing is getting out in front of it.
	Rather than waiting for this to be discovered, they are attempting to be on the side of the angels by reporting on the IRS.
	They are pretending to be on the side of the angels by reporting what the IRS did in giving them this information now.
	But they did not blow the whistle on the IRS back when they were giving them the information, when the IRS was furnishing them the information they had collected on these conservative groups.
	ProPublica was then using that, supplying journalists, just like Media Matters does.
	Media Matters listens to this show and other shows, takes what they want out of it, out of context, then sends notes out to the media.
	The media runs stories based on what Media Matters says, not what's actually said on this program, for example.
	You know how that works.
	Well, ProPublica was doing the same thing as Media Matters does, except they were using information given to them by that agency, that that division of the IRS.
	So there was a concerted effort to undermine conservative tax exempt nonprofits in the 2012 campaign.
	ProPublica is funded by exactly the same people who fund media matters.
	George Soros and Herb and Marion Sandler.
	One of the applications the IRS released to ProPublica was from Crossroads GPS.
	That's the largest social welfare nonprofit involved in the 2012 election.
	If Crossroads GPS apply for nonprofit status...
	They had to furnish all of that information that you've now seen that the IRS required, all the donor information, all the private stuff was irrelevant to whether or not they were a tax exempt.
	The IRS was demanding all that data, and whoever it was in this division of the IRS then was turning around and shoveling that information to Propublica.
	There were 31 such conservative groups that were targeted.
	One of them was Crossroads GPS.
	Now that if you if you're wondering who you might have heard the names Herb and Marion Sandler.
	They made all of their money in the subprime mortgage scandal.
	They are the couple.
	They are a couple who concocted and created the subprime mortgage with the with the what's called a back end payoff of some kind.
	They're one of the people who made out like bandits in the subprime mortgage scandal by packaging these things and selling them to unaware buyers.
	But I mean they're they're liberal hacks.
	They're liberal donors, fundraisers, pure hacks.
	And they had people in the IRS giving them private information on 31 conservative groups who had applied for tax exempt status.
	Same kind of operation as Media Matters for America.
	So that's what this IRS thing was all about.
	Again, the IRS scandal was not just about the IRS being abusive.
	It's not about them being overly zealous.
	It was not about them being curious and prying.
	They were collecting information and funneling it to a left-wing nonprofit journalism group called ProPublica.
	Now, that's right.
	Remember when Harry Reid out of the blue said he had a friend who told him that Mitt Romney hadn't paid his taxes.
	And the media said, Well, who?
	Well, I'm not telling you that, but uh, but he didn't pay his taxes.
	It's up to Romney to prove that he did.
	And of course, the media ran with that.
	Media went to Romney and said, Look, Harry Reid says you haven't paid your taxes.
	And the Rom said, I'm not going to dignify that's absolutely crazy.
	But all it took was Harry Reid claiming that Mitt Romney not paid his taxes.
	Media accepted that as something Romney had to deny.
	Romney had to prove that it wasn't true.
	Harry Reid didn't have to prove that it was.
	Harry Reid made the allegation.
	Nobody demanded he prove it.
	They went to Romney and demanded that he prove he didn't.
	Or he had paid his taxes.
	So where did Harry Reed get his information on Mitt Romney?
	It could well be that it comes from all of this.
	Who knows?
	Herb and Marion Sandler are the co founders of Golden West Financial Corporation.
	SNL.
	They sold the company to Wachovia in May for 24 billion dollars.
	In 2004, Herb and Marion Sandler gave $13 million to anti-Bush 527s.
	So now the question that people have been asking since the IRS scandal surfaced.
	Why would the IRS want all of this information?
	Everybody says, well, it's a government agency and they're just pigs.
	I mean, they just want it's the government and they harass people.
	It turns out that the IRS wanted all of this data on the 31 conservative groups that applied for tax exempt status to give it to somebody.
	What good would the information do the IRS just sitting there?
	Okay, IRS collects all this information on all these people applying for tax exempt status.
	What good is it to them just sitting there?
	It's worthless to them unless they give it to somebody.
	How did we hear about Romney's offshore bank accounts?
	How did we hear how much the Koch's pay in taxes?
	We heard about all of this.
	We learned all kinds of what is supposed to be private and secure information.
	Where'd that information come from?
	Well, now we know the IRS was giving at least tax exempt information, tax exempt organization data to this ProPublica group.
	Okay, gotta take a break here, folks.
	You sit tight.
	We'll come back and continue with much more after this.
	Don't go away.
	Okay, more details on this and a companion story.
	Again, the division of the IRS that improperly scrutinized the tax exempt status of conservative groups, sent confidential information on 31 conservative groups to a very well-funded liberal journalism organization called ProPublica.
	ProPublica made the revelation.
	ProPublica is trying to get out in front of this, make themselves look like angels.
	ProPublica knows where this is headed.
	They want to be the ones to say the IRS improperly gave us stuff.
	They were entirely happy to take it.
	They loved getting it and they used it.
	Now that it has surfaced, ProPublica wants everybody to think, oh my God, look what happened to us.
	They gave us illegal stuff.
	According to ProPublica, quote, the same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups, released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to us late last year.
	As though, oh my God, can you believe what they did?
	When in fact they were in bed together.
	In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups.
	Nine of those applications hadn't been approved yet by the IRS.
	Meaning they weren't supposed to be made public.
	ProPublica is saying, oh my gosh, they sent us stuff that they shouldn't have sent us.
	This stuff that hadn't been approved yet, it shouldn't have been public.
	Oh my God, oh my God.
	And they went ahead and they used it anyway.
	They said, we made six of those public after redacting the financial information, deeming that they were newsworthy.
	Even though it was illegal for us to have it, we thought it was newsworthy, so we redacted all the important stuff, but still put it out there, although they're not saying this, to defame these groups.
	Before the 2012 election, ProPublica devoted months to showing how dozens of social welfare nonprofits had misled the IRS about their political activity.
	So what ProPublica is saying here is that they were on the side of the angels.
	They were monitoring these conservative groups, and what they did was show how dozens of these conservative social welfare nonprofits lied to the IRS about their political activity on their applications, the tax returns.
	So the ProPublica group is saying we're on the side of the angels.
	We exposed these lying conservative skunks.
	In 2012, nonprofits that didn't have to report their donors poured an unprecedented $322 million into the election.
	Much of that money, 84% came from conservative groups.
	So ProPublic is saying that 84% of this money was illegal, and we're the ones that blew the whistle on it.
	And they're telling us today that they knew this because the IRS gave them the information.
	Which is illegal.
	So now they're saying, oh, look what happened to us.
	ProPublica, based in New York City, launched in 2007 with the financial backing of the Sandler Foundation and Soros and others.
	The Sandler Foundation was founded with support from former World Savings Bank CEO Herb Sandler and his late wife Marion, the Sandlers established themselves as top donors to progressive movement causes and institutions, including the Center for American Progress, founded by John Podesta, former Clinton chief of staff.
	In 2011, it was reported that ProPublica had amassed 2600 non-Sandler donors that gave more than five million of the group's $10 million budget.
	So now we know where the IRS was collecting the information.
	They were collecting it to pass it on to ProPublica, a left-wing journalism nonprofit.
	And ProPublica was then telling the world with reports to journalists how fraudulent these conservative nonprofits were, and how much of the money that was being raised for the 2012 election was illegal.
	Amazing.
	Here's another story.
	that if true is pretty damning.
	National Organization for Marriage has renewed their demand that the IRS come clean on stolen and leaked tax return.
	This story is a great example of how the IRS can use information illegally stolen from tax-exempt applications to help Obama's friends and punish his enemies.
	Now, the National Organization for Marriage is a nonprofit political organization founded to fight the legalization of same-sex marriage.
	It was formed in 2007 to help pass Proposition 8, which prohibited same-sex marriage in California.
	On the other hand, the Human Rights Campaign is a militant gay group that has been leading the charge for same-sex marriage in California and all over the country.
	The National Organization for Marriage has been claiming for some time that the IRS stole its Confidential Form 990 tax return and leaked it to the Human Rights Campaign in violation of federal law.
	The National Organization for Marriage says, quote, at the time of the theft, the Human Rights Campaign had long sought to know the identity of our major donors.
	Its chief executive is co-chair of Obama's re-election campaign.
	A Form 990 that was leaked to the Human Rights Campaign contained the identity of numerous major donors to our organization.
	The Huffington Post published the National Organization for Marriage is Form 990 Schedule B from 2008.
	That contained the identity of dozens of donors in March of 2012, and you know what happened.
	Those donors became major targets of the mainstream media.
	And all of that was illegal because the IRS made that information that was confidential to the National Organization for Marriage available to the human rights campaign.
	We were just told by the Washington Post that March 2012 marked the high watermark of the IRS activities along these lines.
	The human rights campaign claimed the tax return was provided by a whistleblower.
	And as the National Organization for Marriage points out, for months previous to the publication, the human rights campaign had been demanding that we publicly release confidential information about our donors, even though federal law protects the identity of our donors.
	So the gay group that was promoting gay marriage was demanding to know who the donors were.
	So the IRS released them the information.
	That's the claim.
	And many of the donors that gave money to the effort in California, Proposition 8, ended up the targets of hit pieces and other things in the drive-by media.
	And the National Organization for Media is claiming that the IRS illegally provided information on its tax return to the human rights campaign.
	So look at what we've got here.
	We've got this allegation from the National Organization for Marriage.
	We have Propublica admitting today that the IRS gave them information on 31 conservative nonprofit groups.
	So that those groups could be targeted by mainstream media as illegally constituted or what have you, undeserving of their tax exempt status.
	And the IRS providing information to the human rights campaign about their opponents in the gay in same-sex marriage fight in California.
	Will the Justice Department seize Huffing and Puffington Post records to find out who leaked IRS information?
	Ah, come on, you think what's happening now is the IRS is in a demanding what they're denying what the National Organization for Marriage is alleging.
	I don't quite know how to characterize that.
	This This is Soviet-style banana republic stuff.
	I mean, it's a combination of Soviet-style statism, thugism, and banana republic.
	But I mean, the law doesn't matter.
	All that matters is advancing the cause and defeating enemies of the cause, and no matter what you have to do, and you know, take what happens as a result, but we'll just law says you can't share information, we'll find a way to do it.
	And we'll make them prove that we did it.
	And then we'll deny it all away.
	This is who we're up against.
	I mean, this is the kind of thing that's at stake here.
	Low information voters, they look at all these government agencies as clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
	They're all nonpartisan.
	They wouldn't do anything to hurt anybody.
	They wouldn't release private notices.
	It's a tough sell to the low information crowd, all this stuff.
	Complicated to understand.
	But in the in the meantime, uh folks, whatever information that can be used against conservatives, however illegal to share, will be shared.
	This is all about the re-election of Obama.
	All of this was at a reaction to 2010.
	The 2010 midterms just sent them into a tailspin loop.
	Scared the heck out them about what was ahead of them for 2012.
	Okay, folks, we just now are able to close the loop on all this.
	Harry Reed.
	This afternoon in Washington during a press conference on Capitol Hill has pretty much confirmed everything I have been talking about for the last half hour.
	Listen to this.
	There are these shadowy political groups masquerading as social welfare organizations in order to solicit anonymous donations from we don't know who, big corporations and ultra wealthy people.
	That needs to stop.
	Preventing overtly political groups like the ones run by Carl Road from masquerading social welfare organizations is really a critically important task.
	What these groups are on the left or on the right.
	But the IRS may not be the right organization to perform the task.
	But perhaps what we haven't done leaves that organization is the only one we have to look to.
	He is excusing the IRS for leaking illegal information to advance his political point of view.
	Harry Reed says, well, maybe the IRS shouldn't be the one to do it, but if somebody else has done it, it leaves them as the only one we can look to.
	Shadowy political groups masquerading a social welfare organization.
	31 conservative groups applying for tax exempt status are now shadowy political groups masquerading as social welfare organizations.
	All the IRS has to do is turn down the application.
	That's all the IRS has to do.
	If it's a shadowy political group masquerading, the IRS can deny them the tax exempt status, and that's it.
	Instead, what the IRS did is share the information on the applications with this group ProPublica, and who knows, probably with Harry Reed.
	And the Democrats and the media since 2010 have been running with this information, impugning, mischaracterizing, basically trying to destroy these conservative groups as illegitimate.
	And now we've learned since ProPublica trying to get ahead of it has admitted they got the information from the IRS, because they could see where this was headed.
	They didn't want it reported that they received the information.
	They wanted to be the ones to report it as though they were whistleblowers.
	This is phony baloney plastic banana good time rock and roller, and so Harry Reid is now confirming the IRS did this and he is excusing it because the IRS is helping him impugn, criticize, and defame his political opponents.
	That is unbelievable.
	Shadowy political groups masquerading a social welfare organization, like the one run by Carl Rove.
	The IRS might not be the right group to perform the task, but maybe what we haven't done leaves that organization is the only one we have to look to.
	They don't care, folks.
	The law doesn't matter to them.
	Propriety doesn't matter to them.
	He's just admitted it.
	He's just admitted it.
	What has really been going on here?
	The Senate majority leader has just admitted it.
	Harry Reid was essentially saying that the IRS needs to be given even more power to do this job even better.
	What the IRS has been doing is leaking private information to the media.
	That's what they have been doing.
	And Harry Reed today basically said they need to be given even more power since they're the only ones who really can do this.

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