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May 15, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Did you hear how David Axelrod attempted to defend Obama on the IRS scandal?
	I think he was on MSNBC today, and David Axelrod said, well, you know, the government's too big.
	The government's simply too vast for Obama to control it.
	Bingo!
	Exactly.
	That's the whole reason the Tea Party exists.
	The government is too big.
	Not only is the government too big, it's growing.
	It's growing to the point that it is unmanageable.
	Although that is a big I think diversion in and of itself.
	They managed all of this.
	They were able to direct all of these scandals, folks.
	And yet the meme of the day, the the theme of the day in the drive-by media, guess what it is?
	Now all of a sudden Obama just too disengaged.
	He's too passive.
	He's too disinterested.
	He couldn't possibly have had a direct role in any of this because he doesn't care enough.
	He's not engaged enough.
	Dana Milbank actually has a name for him in his Washington Post column.
	The headline of Milbank's piece, Obama the Uninterested President.
	And he refers to him as President Passerby.
	Folks, I am telling you the media is now being split up.
	If if I can that may not be the quite accurate way to say this, but some elements of the media are loaded for bear now, or appear to be at least on the IRS scandal, but some of them are still circling the wagons around Obama.
	And one of them is Dana Milbank.
	But there is in certain sectors of the state controlled media this the theme today is that Obama couldn't have been involved directly in any of this stuff.
	Obama couldn't be involved.
	He's too passive.
	He's too he's too disinterested.
	He's focused on other things.
	His job has never really been all that challenging to Obama.
	I mean, it's so beneath his skill set.
	This guy is really capable and qualified of so much more in so much of this bores Obama because he can't get as much done as he wants to get done.
	There's all this gridlock because of limbaugh and the Republicans.
	And so he's just frustrated.
	The poor guy hits almost to the point where he's just thrown up his hands and said, Well, the hell with it.
	You know, everything moves so slow here, I can't get anything done.
	And that's why he goes out and plays golf, because he really doesn't care that much.
	This is what they are constructing, folks.
	As a way of insulating Obama from any of these scandals, about which there are now four.
	There is an EPA scandal that uh is developing, and it involves treating conservative organizations much the same way the IRS did.
	But boy, I'd say Axlrod.
	Government just too big.
	It's just too vast for Obama to control.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	You know, folks, it seems it's kind of funny.
	Seems like only a few days ago.
	Barack Obama was telling the graduates at the Ohio State University commencement exercise about the uh the joys, big government.
	He was mocking right wingers who distrust big government for their paranoid suspicions about tyranny.
	He was warning them about all the voices, and he meant one, I'm now convinced it was me, since I do live rent-free and is by the way, I have not heard back from the White House regarding my invitation yesterday to meet with the president whenever he wants to discuss the gridlock for which he blames me.
	Uh I'm willing to meet with him and get off the dime on this to try to move the country forward and and if if need be advise him on how to do this.
	I doubt that he will accept the invitation since the theme of the day is that he's too disinterested and not involved and not engaged because it's it's it's it's such a mundane job.
	It's so really uh so much minutia in the job, it's so beneath Obama's powerful intellect.
	But nevertheless, my invitation stands.
	I'm willing to meet with the president to uh to discuss this.
	But seriously, it's an Ohio State University of the commencement speech, he's telling all these graduates, be very wary of tyranny.
	Same thing our founding fathers said, by the way.
	John Adams, George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson.
	The entire construct of this government is because of their fear of tyranny.
	The entire United Constitution based upon a fear of government tyranny.
	The U.S. Constitution limiting the role of government in the life of the individual.
	And there's Obama at the Ohio State University commencement, talking about the joys of big government, now so big he can't control it, mocking right wingers for paranoid suspicions about tyranny.
	You know, folks.
	It seems like all these Obama scandals keep keep them in mind the next time that you hear Barack and Michelle Obama lecturing audiences about how important it is for people to get involved in grassroots politics.
	Don't they do that a lot?
	They do.
	Michelle's constantly out, urging people to get involved.
	The grassroots level.
	That's what it happens.
	That's what makes it happen.
	That's where people have to do the hard work.
	Getting involved at the precinct level, getting involved at your local community, getting involved.
	Grassroots politics.
	And that's all these Tea Party groups are trying to do.
	That's all they wanted to do was make their voices heard.
	The Tea Party groups were trying to get involved in the process.
	The Obama administration did everything in their power to shut him out.
	The Obama administration using the massive power, the intimidating power, the real power of the Internal Revenue Service shut people out.
	To intimidate people on the right into not even getting involved.
	The Obama administration did everything it could using the powers, not just of the IRS, but also the EPA to literally intimidate conservatives from getting involved in politics at the grassroots level.
	I have this stack of stuff here today that is just of the IRS, and I could do probably the entire three hours on it.
	It is massive, folks.
	The information that has come to light that continues to come to light that continues to surface is almost incomprehensible.
	This scandal, and it is that is so massive and has been going on for so long that it is laughable to listen to the media say that Obama's too uh too passive, too disengaged, couldn't possibly, couldn't possibly have had a direct role in any of this.
	Dana Milbank calling him president passerby.
	The politico has a piece today.
	DC turns on Obama.
	It's by Mike Allen, Jim Vande High.
	The town is turning on President Obama.
	This is very bad news for the White House.
	What is the town?
	It means the media.
	Republicans have waited five years for the moment to put the screws to Obama, and they have one-third of all congressional committees on the case now.
	Establishment Democrats never big fans of the president to begin with.
	What?
	Establishment Democrats never big fans of the pres What did I miss these last five years?
	Establishment Democrats never big fans of Obama to begin with.
	Well, that's what it says, and it says that they are beginning to speak out, and reporters are tripping over themselves to condemn lies, bullying, and shadiness in the Obama regime.
	Buy-in from all three DC stakeholders is an essential ingredient for a good old-fashioned Washington pylon, so get ready for bad stories and public scolding to pile up.
	Vernon Jordan, close friend of Bill Clinton, through his darkest days, told the politico, it's never all right if you're the president.
	There's no smooth sailing.
	So now he has the turbulence, and this is the ultimate test of his leadership, Jordan says.
	Jordan says Obama needs to do something dramatic on the IRS.
	He needs to fire somebody, needs action, not conversation.
	You know, folks, this notion that, and they're trying with this theme today that Obama president passerby, too disengaged, too disinterested, job too boring, he's so, so capable of so much more.
	Couldn't possibly have been directly involved.
	Everybody in positions of power in his bureaucracy has been put there because he wants them there.
	He doesn't have to have direct fingerprints on everything.
	All he's had to do is put like-minded fellow traveler activists in these positions, and he can be guaranteed that they're going to do exactly what he would do if he were there.
	That's all he has to do.
	I could give you the names of the famous members of the administration that you know, Van Jones, well known proud communist, had to be tossed out because of things that was learned.
	And remember when that happened, how can how could Obama have appointed this guy?
	How could this guy have uh gotten gotten through Obama's vetting process?
	He didn't have to get Obama wanted exactly a guy like Van Jones.
	Everybody in these positions is doing exactly what Obama would do if he were in that position himself in those jobs.
	That's why they're there.
	These are people who want to populate government for the purposes of using it to wage war on their political enemies.
	That's why they want to go to government.
	That's why they want to work in government.
	That's why they want positions in government.
	Government to them is a battle station.
	The IRS is one front in the battle in the overall war.
	The EPA is another.
	The Department of Treasury is another, the Department of Justice is another, the Department of Defense, every Obama appointee, and every Obama career person in these positions is from the same mold as Obama.
	They are there to wage war against their enemies, and I'm not talking about Al Qaeda.
	And I'm not talking about Saddam Hussein.
	I'm not talking about Mahmood Ahmadini Zad.
	I'm talking about you and me.
	We are having a war waged against us.
	That is what is coming to the surface now.
	All of what's happening now, all of what's coming to the surface now, this has been going on since day one of the Obama administration.
	This is why.
	This kind of thing is why I said, even two weeks before he was immaculated, I hope he fails.
	The IRS, that's a plum spot to engage in partisan political warfare against the enemies of whatever you want to call it, the Democrat Party, the Socialists, the left, whatever.
	We are the enemy.
	We have to be diminished.
	We have to be disempowered.
	We have to be rendered impotent.
	We have to be basically dispatched.
	That's what all of this is.
	All you've got to do, we keep that one truth in mind as you watch, read, or listen to every new detail coming up out of the IRS story.
	There wasn't one incident in this IRS story that's accidental.
	There wasn't one occurrence here that was a mistake.
	All of it was on purpose.
	We ended the program yesterday with a soundbite from Harry Reed.
	And he pretty much admitted what we had learned in the last hour of the program yesterday involving essentially information laundering.
	You've heard of money laundering.
	The left engages in information laundering.
	So you have the IRS.
	And they are hassling Tea Party groups and other conservative groups who are applying for tax exempt status to do fundraising, to do issue advancement, causal work, whatever it is.
	The IRS is going way beyond the bounds of propriety in asking for information about donors, individuals, virtually anything that they can get their hands on about people involved in whatever organization is applying for the status.
	That information was then turned over to a group called ProPublica, which is a group just like Media Matters.
	And ProPublica then feeds the information to sympathetic journalists who then write stories about what a creep Mitt Romney is, or what a bunch of racist bigot thugs that Tea Party group is, or what a bunch of religious zealots that Tea Party group is.
	And that stuff ends up in the mainstream media.
	And it ends up in local newspapers on local television newscasts, and it all came from the IRS.
	The information wandered through ProPublica and then finally sent on to what appeared to be mainstream journalists who, according to what most people think, just happened to find the news by doing their jobs.
	When in fact it was funneled to them directly from the Obama administration, right from the IRS.
	Information laundering.
	And Harry Reid said yesterday this is perfectly fine, because these Tea Party groups are so damaging, and they are so such a bunch of liars, they're not interested in what they say they're interested in.
	They're not trying to help the country.
	They're not doing anything but trying to undermine everything that the Democrats want to do.
	And so Harry Reid said, well, maybe the IRS shouldn't have done it, but there's nobody else that could do it, so we have to say it's okay.
	Brief timeout, ladies and gentlemen.
	We'll continue.
	I've got illustrations of all of this.
	Yes.
	With audio sunbites and news stories from the SNACA stuff.
	Make no mistake about it.
	None of this from the EPA, from the Attorney General's office, the Department of Justice, none of it involving the AP, none of it involving the IRS, none of it involving the EP, none of it involving.
	The jackbooted treatment of conservative groups by the government, none of it is coincidental, none of it's accidental, none of it just happened.
	It is because the people who populate these bureaucracies are using their positions to wage political war against you, your candidates, your party, your values, your beliefs, your cultural preferences.
	That's what you are in the middle of here.
	We'll be back.
	Don't go away.
	Let me say it again to be clear, folks.
	The meme of the day, Obama couldn't have been involved.
	He couldn't have been directly involved, he's too disengaged.
	He's uh president passerby, he's uh too bored, he's not uh not engaged daily.
	The job's not that interesting to him, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Let me tell you something.
	He doesn't have to be.
	All he has to do is what he did.
	Put like-minded people in these positions.
	Do you know there was one person, one, in the Cincinnati office, assigned to every Tea Party application for tax exempt status, one person.
	Now, aside from the fact that that would take a long time, one person having to go through all of those myriad applications.
	That alone would slow down the approval process if it were being done fairly.
	One person, and I guarantee you, that person, whoever he or she is, was doing exactly what Obama would do if he were there.
	And that is why that one person is there, and that is why that one person was chosen to handle the approval process of all these applications by Tea Party groups.
	It may as well have been Obama.
	Eric Holder is Obama.
	Kathleen Sibelius is Obama.
	They're all the same people.
	At the very least, at the very least, the IRS suppressed the Tea Party movement for 27 months.
	From March of 2010 to June of 2012, across two election cycles.
	And that's the very least.
	The IRS suppressed the Tea Party movement.
	The IRS.
	In this case, a branch of the Obama administration.
	And so you have one person in the Cincinnati office assigned to all the Tea Party tax exempt applications.
	One person in the approval process.
	And that one person acting not as an IRS employee, and not as someone making judgments based on the law, but rather someone implementing the power of his political preferences under the guise of fairness and objectivity at the IRS,
	waging war on the Tea Party, preventing the Tea Party from participating in the political process, preventing.
	Who is the Tea Party, by the way?
	They're just citizens who, for the first time in their lives in many cases, got involved in politics and started going to town hall meetings.
	They were so outraged over what they saw the first two years of the Obama administration, from the spending to the debt to what that meant to the future for their children and grandchildren.
	They were outraged, and for the first time in their lives, in many cases, they got involved in politics for the first time.
	They learned what they had to do.
	They organized at the grassroots level.
	They learned about 527s and 501c3s and 501c4s.
	They sought to duplicate what the Democrat Party has, a number of special interest groups organizing legally and raising money legally to promote the things they care about.
	And one person may as well have been Barack Obama at the IRS waging war against them, demanding information not legally demandable, essentially bottling up the approval process,
	denying many of them, while at the same time leaking the information on their applications to another left-wing special interest group disguised as a bunch of journalists, pro publica, laundering the information and then giving it to so-called mainstream reporters who then wrote stories that apparently came from pure boot leather reporting about what a bunch of racist bigots, sexists, and homophobes, the Tea Party is.
	The Tea Party is the modern equivalent of the KKK, went one story.
	The Tea Party is full of racist bigots, gun nuts.
	You remember all the stories.
	The information for those stories came from the IRS, the Washington office, the Cincinnati office.
	So at the very least, the IRS is suppressing the Tea Party movement for 27 months.
	But that's at the least.
	What was really happening was...
	they were having war waged against them and they didn't know it.
	Might have suspected it.
	They were being denied the right to participate in the American political process because this administration sought to use its power to oppose these people simply because they disagree and don't like and are threatened by their ideas.
	I want you to hear this Harry Reed soundbite again.
	This is from yesterday afternoon in Washington during a press conference.
	Harry Reid basically excusing and encouraging this activity by the IRS.
	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 also 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.
	We've kind of screwed this up.
	The IRS might not be the right group to look at it, but uh maybe they're the only ones that can.
	So it's okay.
	Now, uh we will allow Harvey Weinstein and Ron Burkle, and well, you take your pick.
	Any Hollywood producer, uh uh, what's her name?
	Uh Anna Winter vote.
	All these people, they can go out and they can form any social welfare group they want.
	They're filthy rich.
	They're really wealthy people, and they're doing all of these organizations.
	They're creating all these organizations, and they're raising money, and they're raising money for Obama, and they're charging $32,000 a couple to show up.
	Then that's perfectly fine.
	Tea Party made up of average, ordinary, everyday men and women were seen as the enemy by this administration.
	And now there are calls for somebody at the IRS to be fired.
	Seriously.
	What did anybody at the IRS do that Obama and the Democrats weren't demanding that they do?
	Whoever was doing this at the IRS, if the left wants to be intellectually honest, should get an award.
	If they're going to fire anybody, it's for stupidly getting caught.
	Okay.
	But whoever was doing this at the IRS was doing exactly what Obama wanted, exactly what Joe Biden wanted, exactly what Harry Reed wanted, exactly what Pelosi wanted, exactly what Barbara Boxer wanted.
	Diane Feinstein, take any Democrat, the IRS was doing exactly what they wanted them to do.
	So on what grounds does somebody there get fired.
	They were simply following orders.
	And if no direct orders were given, they didn't have to be given.
	The people who were hired are already motivated, are already activated to behave in this manner.
	That's why they're hired.
	They are hired because they don't need to be told.
	They're hired because they already qualify.
	They don't need instruction in hating conservatism.
	They don't need to be told how to thwart 527s and 501 C3s and fours.
	They don't have to be told how to harass.
	They don't have to be told how to bully.
	They don't have to be told how to stonewall.
	They don't have to be told how to deny applications.
	They're perfectly capable of it on their own.
	That's why they're in those positions in the first place.
	Let me start digging into this IRS stack that I that I have here.
	UK Daily Mail.
	When a Tennessee lawyer asked the IRS for tax exempt status for a mentoring group that trained high school and college students about conservative political philosophy.
	The IRS responded with a list of 95 questions in 31 parts, including an ultimatum for a list of everyone the group had trained or planned to train.
	Provide details regarding all training you have provided or will provide, the IRS demanded.
	Indicate who has received or will receive the training and submit copies of the training material.
	That question was part of the tax collection agency's February 14th, 2012 letter, just a little over a year ago.
	To Kevin Kukaje, founder of the group Lynch Pins of Liberty.
	He had submitted his application 13 months earlier.
	Can you imagine my responsibility to parents if I disclose the names of their children to the IRS, he said.
	It's an impossible question to answer fully and truthfully without disclosing the names of anybody I ever taught or ever would teach, including students.
	The IRS is not demanding this of similar liberal groups, by the way.
	They're simply rubber stamping them.
	Barack Obama's what brother or cousin or some such thing.
	Can't find it in my massive list of things in front of me here, but he was granted a tax exempt status.
	The IRS ordered just this one group in Tennessee, an educational group to turn over a list of high school and college students that it had trained in conservatism.
	The federal government demanded a list of everyone this group had ever trained or planned to train.
	Lynch Pins of Liberty, mentors, high school and college students, teaches them conservative political philosophy.
	This group wasn't even linked to the Tea Party.
	It was just conservative.
	The IRS Inspector General report listed seven questions the agency should never have asked.
	This question, however, was not one of them.
	Here's some sample questions.
	This educational group had to answer to the IRS.
	Has any person or organization provided educational services to you?
	If yes, provide the following the name of the person or organization, a full description of the services provided, the political affiliation of the person or organization.
	It's none of their business.
	And nothing to do with whether or not you have the application approved or denied.
	Provide details regarding all training you have provided or will provide.
	Indicate who has received or will receive the training and submit copies of the material you're using to train people in conservatism.
	An impossible question.
	A series of impossible questions to answer.
	But these groups tried.
	And the information they provided in some cases was given to Propublica.
	And that ended up on the computers of so-called mainstream journalists.
	And then it ended up in local newspapers, maybe national news, local TV newscasts.
	A story about a local group applying for tax exempt status.
	The IRS would be subject to a scathing report on your local news, a bunch of racists.
	This is how it worked.
	Another brief timeout.
	Sit tight, my friends.
	We'll be back and continue right after this.
	Folks, let's talk about the war on women for just a second, because the real war on women was not involving Mitt Romney.
	The real war on women had nothing to do with conservatives or contraception or birth control or abortion or any of that.
	That was entirely manufactured.
	The real war on women was occurring at the IRS.
	The real war on women was the IRS and the Obama regime denying tax exempt status to 527s and Tea Party groups.
	And I'm telling you, many of those were headed by or involved women at the leadership level.
	By the way, um it was Obama's half-brother.
	Obungo Malik Obama, a bungalow Malik Obama, was granted a tax exemption for his charity, which was called the Barack H. Obama Foundation.
	He was granted tax exempt status within less than a month.
	And there was a bonus.
	His tax-exempt status was made retroactive two years prior because he had been collecting donations illegally for two years periodically.
	Prior to having been granted tax exempt status.
	I'm not making this up.
	Obama's half-brother, Abongo Malik Obama, got a tax exempt grant for his foundation in less than a month, and they made it retroactive when they found out he had been collecting money as a tax exempt foundation illegally for two years.
	So the IRS, okay, well, we'll legalize you here, and we're gonna give you your tax exempt status, and we're gonna date it back two years so that everything you've been doing now is legal.
	I don't know which half-brother this is.
	I look, at some point you uh lose the ability to keep track of them all.
	I don't know if it's the guy in the hut who finally got out of the hut and started a foundation.
	I'm just telling you, he's got a half-brother who for two years was collecting money for the Barack H. Obama Foundation under the guise that it was tax exempt.
	He was telling donors that their donations were tax exempt and all that, and they weren't.
	He had not been granted status.
	He finally was granted status less than a month after he applied, and they made it retroactive two years prior, so that he wasn't guilty of anything.
	Listen to Jennifer Stefano.
	War on women, here's the real war on women.
	This is last night Fox Business Network, the Willis Report.
	And she spoke with Americans for Prosperity, Pennsylvania State Director Jennifer Stefano about the IRS targeting conservative groups.
	And Willis said, uh, how were you targeted?
	Tell us your story.
	This was before I joined Americans for Prosperity.
	I was just a stay-at-home mother.
	Um I was pregnant with another baby, and I wanted to do what was right.
	My Tea Party group was becoming really large, and I couldn't run the money and the donations through my bank account.
	I was advised the IRS would come after you for that.
	So I started calling other groups, and I thought I would file and create an organization.
	And here they were all getting targeted by the IRS, and I got scared.
	So Willis then said, Well, what were they asking you?
	These are all out there now, and I have actually documents showing it.
	You know, send us your Facebook pages, your Twitter pages.
	And I said, Does that include personal pages?
	And they said everything.
	They wanted to know your personal relationships with politicians and political parties.
	And I asked, what would happen if I don't send this to you?
	And they said they made an insinuation like, look, it can be considered perjury if you omit things from the IRS.
	I'm a pregnant stay-in-home mother, I want income.
	I thought, oh my goodness, I'm not doing anything.
	I stopped.
	Exactly.
	She stopped.
	She's trying to set up a tax-exempt organization to raise money for the causes she believed in.
	It's a Tea Party woman.
	This is the war on women.
	She didn't start the group.
	She did not start her group because she was scared of being charged with perjury if she didn't answer all the questions and send in all of the information that they were demanding.
	So there's your answer.
	In part why the electorate didn't look the same in 2012 as it did in 2010.
	These groups were shut down.
	The regime shut them down, made it, in this woman's case, impossible for her to set up her fundraising group and to begin working on behalf of the things she believed in.
	Look, in uh plain simple language, low information voters to understand this.
	What was happening was it just wasn't fair, folks.
	What the IRS was doing was not fair to these Tea Party groups.
	They were denying them the right to participate in the political process by harassing them because of what they believed.
	That's not American, that's not fair, and it was mean.

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