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May 15, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 15, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Okay, Malik Obama, Obongo Malik Obama, Barack Obama's half brother, was the best man at his wedding.
He has a bit of a checkered past out there.
In addition to running his foundation, the Barack Hussein Obama Foundation, Abongo Malik Obama ran unsuccessfully to be the governor of Saya County in Kenya.
He was accused of being a wife beater and seducing the newest of his twelve wives.
While she was a seventeen year old schoolgirl.
He was also the best man at Obama's wedding, I believe.
I thought I just saw that.
Yes.
Checkered past, however.
Now, it isn't clear what the Barack H. Obama Foundation actually does.
Its website claims that it has built a madrasa and was building a house for an imam, but there is no evidence they've done anything except collect money.
And here again, the important thing to review Obama's half brother had his illegal and very shady charity approved in less than a month in June of 2011.
Tea Party groups had to wait on average more than three years for their tax exempt status to be approved.
And bear in mind the Tea Party movement's only been around a little bit more than three years.
The IRS has been suppressing the Tea Party for the vast majority of its existence.
Meanwhile, every Democrat group from ProPublica to organizing for action has sailed through the process for tax exempt status without even a question.
Without even a single question compared to what the Tea Party people have had to go through.
And I think it's worth remembering how the Tea Party came to be.
The Tea Party was given birth by an over-expanding, overreaching, over taxing bureaucracy, when average citizens who had never been involved in politics before saw what was happening the first two years of the Obama administration.
All the spending and all the debt that was being racked up and the future plans the Obama administration had.
Obamacare, the increased taxes.
These people got scared.
They got scared for their country.
They were scared for their children.
They became scared for their grandkids.
They worried the country was being transformed into something unlike its founding.
And they worried what kind of country their kids and grandkids would grow up into.
And so they got involved to try to stop what they saw was happening.
And the minute they became officially organized and started trying to raise money, the federal government tried to put the big kabosh on them.
If this were a Star Wars saga, this were Part of it, this would be the bureaucracy strikes back.
A bunch of upstarts, a bunch of average ordinary Americans, decided to get involved in politics, decided to get directly involved at the grassroots level in the politics of their country for the very first time.
And what they got was beaten up on at town hall meetings by union thugs.
They were intimidated.
They were called racist, sexist, bigots, homophobes, all of that.
They were compared to the KKK and other nefarious groups from America's past.
And now we know that the IRS was being used by the Obama administration to deny them their legal right to participate in the political process by way of forming tax exempt, foundations and organizations designed to raise money to promote the ideas they believed in.
It's this group that created that massive midterm electoral defeat for the Democrat Party.
The 2010 midterms, that combined with the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which essentially allowed corporations to also enter the political process through the Democrat Party from Obama on down for loops.
It discombobulated them.
It angered them, it irritated them, and they at that point made it official.
They began using every bureaucracy in the government as a means of waging war against their political enemies.
The IRS was targeting a group that had among its agenda items tax cuts.
The IRS was targeting millions of average ordinary citizens.
By no means were they political professionals.
In essence, in a Tea Party is essentially what this country's all about.
Average ordinary citizens, politics 101, civics getting involved.
As this president and his wife are constantly urging people to do, by the way.
Get involved, you can make a difference.
Not if you're the Tea Party.
That was too political.
Organizing for action and not political.
Even though organizing for action is Obama's campaign.
Organizing for action is Obama's existing, current campaign.
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From the Daily Caller, IRS manager, this is Neil Monroe.
He's the reporter that dared ask Obama a question at a Rose Garden ceremony when he asked the question.
Other members of the media began chasing him to the Washington Monument.
Because he had committed a no-no.
He had asked the dear leader a question.
IRS managers delayed approval of Tea Party requests for routine tax exemptions by assigning all of them to a single employee in Cincinnati for special review, according to footnote 14 of the inspector general report.
The single employee was the only person working on the review for at least 18 months.
Every Tea Party application was reviewed by one person.
This is why I said in the last hour, folks, it doesn't matter whether Obama gave the order or not, he didn't have to.
This one person was essentially Barack Obama.
That's why this one person was there.
You probably will not find instructions.
You won't find a conversation where this IRS employee was told what to do.
He didn't have to be told.
He was put there precisely because he was already qualified.
He was put there because they knew that he was one of them.
So the IRS has been used by this administration to wage war against its political enemies.
That's mean, folks.
I mean, that is just really, really mean.
And not only that, it's unfair.
And America is built on fairness.
America is built on everybody, have an equal shot at it.
In fact, doesn't Obama talk about that too?
Yeah, when he makes his economic speeches.
He talks about how America's got to be fair.
Everybody has to have a fair shot, equal shot.
That's why we've got to penalize the rich.
Up, up, up, no, that's why we've got to penalize Tea Party.
We're not going to make it fair for them.
We're going to go ahead and we're going to be mean to the Tea Party.
Why?
because they're a bunch of racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe conservatives.
That's why.
That's why.
No, it wouldn't be interesting to know the political affiliation of this one IRS individual.
We know what it is.
We know why he was selected.
Yeah, I think it's pretty safe to say he's a Democrat.
He's an Obamaite.
This is a footnote, by the way, this little bit of information that just one employee of the IRS was involved in approving every Tea Party tax exempt foundation request or application.
Just one employee.
This is a footnote in the Inspector General's blockbuster report.
Apparently, from early 2010, the review team consisted of one specialist.
But it was expanded to several specialists in December of 2011.
That helps explain the report from USA Today that said it was 27 months after March of 2010 before another conservative 501c4 was approved.
Twenty-seven months between approvals of one group to another.
Here's another.
This is Larry Nordvig.
He was on Fox last night.
Greta Van Susteren.
She said, what kind of questions did they ask you?
They wanted to know information about our members, um, who they associate with.
They what really alarms me the most, I think, is they wanted to know our donors' names, personal information about them.
They wanted to know whether they were going to run for office or have ever run for office.
Um, the whole point behind getting a 501c4 tax exempt is so that donors can donate anonymously.
There's a lot of people that don't want their names attached to a political organization when they give money.
And what impact this had on the Richmond Tea Party was people were afraid to give money, and that directly impacts our operation.
People were afraid to donate, so we had no way to raise money because people didn't want their identities known, and they legally are allowed to keep themselves secret.
The IRS was demanding that they be known.
You know why?
Because then the IRS was gonna send that information about the donors, not just to this group, but all the others, to ProPublica.
Those names would be investigated by journalists.
And if they found one speck of damaging information about them, it could be written about.
And these donors could be embarrassed and humiliated and intimidated into not giving anymore, which was the objective.
This was really hideous stuff.
But folks, let me tell you something.
All of this, this IRS stuff, yes, it's bad.
And it's easily explained and it's easily understood.
It wasn't fair, it's mean.
But at least so far we don't know that anybody was killed.
In Benghazi, four Americans are dead, and there still is not a legitimate explanation for why.
Benghazi remains huge.
Benghazi, perhaps bigger than the IRS scandal.
In terms of and I I don't want to.
I don't want to uh put the Tea Party people on a lower Rung of the ladder.
That's not what I'm doing here.
But in terms of I mean, this is IRS standard.
This is typical.
This is Democrat Party power, unfair cheating politics.
Using an agency of the government to wage war on domestic enemies.
But Benghazi.
That is sheer utter incompetence resulting in the four dead Americans.
At the worst, Benghazi is incompetence.
It could be even much worse than that.
And so far the explanations for Benghazi are as unacceptable and lame as the explanations for the IRS.
Well, Obama's too disengaged.
In fact, they're saying that about every one of these scandals.
Well, you know, Benghazi just he turned it over to other people.
Really, he's president passerby.
He's just, this is the Washington theme in the media today.
Obama is just the government's too big for him to control.
That's actually right.
Exactly.
That's why the Tea Party exists.
The government's too big for Obama to control.
And so things are gonna happen he can't possibly know about, is the thinking.
They're excusing our president, folks, by essentially saying it's too big, it's impossible for him to know everything going on.
It's impossible for him to control everything going on, which means it's impossible for him to be responsible for anything.
It's just too big.
There are too many rogue players, there are too many people acting on their own.
There are too many people acting outside of orders.
It's not Obama's fault.
He's not even that engaged in it.
He's not even that interested.
This job is so beneath his intellectual capabilities.
He's not even he's not even really engaged.
Nobody even knows where he was the night of Benghazi.
It's just you can't blame it on him because he's so big and he's so dissent.
That's I'm not kidding you.
That's the effort being made today by the Washington press corps to excuse Obama.
Now, I've had people say, Rush, how do we handle this?
What's the best way to deal with all this?
Uh see if you agree with this.
Dr. Krauthammer on Fox News special report during the all-star panel last night.
Brett Bear said, Charles Crowdhammer, when the president says there's no there, it almost seemed that he was challenging reporters to say, well, really, there's no there.
The one advice I'd give to Republicans is stop calling it a huge scandal, stop saying it's a water gate, stop saying it's around the contract.
Let the facts speak for themselves.
Have a special committee, a select committee.
The facts will speak for themselves, pile them on.
But don't exaggerate.
Don't run ads about Hillary.
Feeds the narrative of the other side that it's only a political event.
It is not.
Just be quiet and present the facts.
Okay, so shh.
Don't say anything, folks.
Don't, because all you're gonna do is make the independence mad and they'll run to the Democrats and just run back to Democrats.
Don't pile on, don't quote, don't say told you so.
Don't don't just let the facts speak for the just shh shh to take care of itself.
No matter what the Democrats do, no matter what they say about you, no matter what they say about us, you just just shh shh don't say anything.
Okay, so we sit here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, and we let the facts speak for themselves.
I was just watching CNN, they just bumped out of wall-to-wall coverage of OJ in court today.
OJ Simpson is in court trying to get out of jail.
And CNN went wall-to-wall with that.
They've since dropped that, and now they're on to the Jody Arius sentencing at CNN, and now Wolf Blitzer is talking about Angela Jolie's ovaries.
As we let the facts speak for themselves.
Yes, Angela Angela Jolie is gonna have her ovaries removed now.
She had a double mastectomy.
And it is breaking news at CNN that she's now going to have her ovaries removed.
She adopted those kids, didn't she?
Some of those are her kids.
Okay, so Donna's saying it doesn't matter about her ovaries.
She's got enough kids.
She doesn't need any more.
Fine.
That's cool.
Um and now CNN's talking about the Boston police chief.
As we let the facts speak to themselves.
Dave and Gurney, Illinois, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, I hate to take the uh subject away from overies.
Um, but uh I would contend that the very people that Obama and Obama's IRS are targeting are the responsible people that do pay their taxes and are paying the taxes that end up supporting the very things that that are against what they believe.
We and and I would also say this the people that that are being targeted are not government employees, and they're not on the government dome.
No, exactly.
Exactly.
And in fact, I've got I'm getting emails from people.
You know, Rush, you say the Tea Party would just average people.
Well, let me tell you who started, and they'll give me a name.
And another email gives me another name.
And it's you know, sure there were a lot of people trying to claim credit for being that, but the the noteworthy thing about the Tea Party was that it had no leader.
It had a bunch of people trying to horn in and act like they were the founders, including the party, Republican Party, a lot of people trying to horn in and make it look like they were the founders and leaders, but the Tea Party was the exact expression of grassroots, it was a collection of individuals, just random citizens that were fed up.
That's what was so powerful and is so powerful about it.
It's true, folks.
Angelina Joe Lee will have her ovaries removed in a preventive procedure.
Dovetails with her double mastectomy as she takes preventative measures to avoid getting cancer.
Now, that story's been out there for a while.
I it if it has the potential, the ovaries story has a potential to swamp the IRS story.
I just want you to be aware.
That's a distinct possibility.
Uh once they once they catch up to it at the drive-by's, they'll see that for what it is.
Here's uh here's Cody Spring, Texas.
We go back to the phones.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Uh, I just wanted to remind you that this is not the first time that this type of IRS scandal surrounded Barack Obama.
If you remember all the way back to 2008 with Joe the Plumber, he was simply playing a game in his front yard with his son, asked Obama a question, made him look bad.
Next thing you know, all of his financial information was released to the press the next day, and everybody knew the tax lien is on his house, everybody knew about his licensing as a plumber and all that stuff.
You know, that's an excellent that's a great memory.
If there was a there was a uh person in the Secretary of State's office in Ohio who apparently either took it upon herself, which I think was the the case, or somebody, you know, whispered to her to release all that stuff about about Joe the Plumber.
Yep, it shows how automatic it really is in the progressive mindset.
They they know that once they get in power, they don't need to be told what to do.
They just know how to use the machine.
Right.
It was a low-level worker, didn't have to be instructed, didn't have to get any orders, just knew exactly what to do.
Here's Joe the plumber out there embarrassing Obama, making Obama look bad by looking bad made Obama reveal a lot of truth about himself.
And so some low-level worker in Ohio said, all right, well, we know what to do with this guy.
They started leaking all this stuff about Joe the Plumber, but he had a lot of loans.
He had to lean on his house.
They they created a picture of a of an irresponsible reprobate.
Yep.
It's it's just the standard template, and they know when and how to apply it, and it's really just it's it's a script, really, is what it is.
Exactly.
It's an excellent point.
That is exactly right.
And Joe the Plumber is just an average ordinary American guy.
Represented a huge it wasn't so much he represented a threat, although it wasn't a campaign.
He did make Obama slip up.
Well, you know, we just we want to spread the wealth.
Obama was trying to campaign on uh things that uh was trying to hide the fact that he was a big redistributionist, and he had let the cat out of the bag when Joe the Plumber challenged him on it.
And without even needing to be told, a fellow traveler activist in the bowels of the Ohio government knew exactly what to do.
Now, one more thing on this Tea Party business, because when this was happening, when the Tea Party was coming to life, I studied it.
I looked at all the media people who tried to make it look like the Tea Party was their idea.
All the media people who were trying to position themselves in such ways that people thought the Tea Party was the result of their leadership on air or whatever.
And there were politicians doing it too.
And what I was thinking the great thing about the Tea Party, and the thing today that makes it so powerful, is that it doesn't have a leader.
Even now, there's not one single person that speaks for the Tea Party.
They've got a number of different groups, factions, organizations.
They all have their different spokespeople, and they're all on television.
They're just, I mean, folk, the essence, civics 101.
When you're first taught about politics, you're not even taught about politics.
When you're taught about government in junior high, you get the sanitized version of it, as you do everything when you first learn about it at a young age.
But what you end up believing is that politics is made up of a contest of ideas, and people campaign on their ideas, and the best ideas win.
And the best candidate, the most honest, the most straightforward, the person who has the best ideas for the most people wins.
And you grow up thinking that.
And then you learn it's not at all about that.
It's about money, it's about marketing, it's about packaging, it's about lying creatively, it's about character assessment, all these things, and it turns people off because it's so counter to what they thought it was when they first were taught about it.
The affairs of the country, the best ideas, keeping the country on path, and that that's that's people think it's a lofty, very pure pursuit.
And as they learn more about it, they find out there's nothing pure about it.
It's just, it's like everything else.
It is drag out competitive.
Anything you can get away with goes.
And then some, some people get soured.
Well, the Tea Party made up of people who were not naive, but they were basically getting involved with the same inspiration and motivation they had when they first learned about it.
Okay, this is out of hand.
We've got some people who are taking this country in the wrong direction, spending the country into into irretrievable debt.
We are ruining the future for our kids and grandkids.
There's not going to be a private sector left for anybody to prosper in.
It scared them.
Every generation wants their kids to live better than they did.
That's always been true in America.
It's always been part of the American dream, the promise.
And so this collection of citizens from all over the country started going to town hall meetings to protest this.
And primarily they were attending Democrat town hall meetings, and then all hell broke loose.
Union allies of Democrats were brought in to beat up Tea Party people and to intimidate them.
And then stories in the media started appearing about these, and they just the grandmother next door, the the the homemaker down the street, getting involved For the first time in many cases.
And here they were being given the treatment, the usual racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, gun nut, whatever treatment.
But they kept at it.
And what this IRS scandal is really all about is that we have now learned that the IRS was essentially denying these people the opportunity to participate in the American political process.
They were intimidating them.
They were they were stifling them, essentially.
These people were trying to form organizations where they could raise money and do it within the confines of the law.
Tax-exempt organizations.
And we've learned that the IRS, as an agency of the Obama administration, was simply denying them.
It was mean.
It was unfair.
And so now we're look we're we're we're left with looking at the 2012 election results.
We're looking at all of the ways that people were kept out of the electoral process by the sitting president and his administration.
Now, Charles Crowdhammer on Fox Last Night said that we need to let the facts speak for themselves, and that uh you people are making a mistake.
You Republicans are making a mistake if you uh compare this to Watergate, if you compare this to Iran-Contra.
Uh don't call Obama Nixon.
Uh you know, don't exaggerate, don't run ads uh on Hillary.
Just let the facts speak.
Because if you do all that stuff, that's gonna feed the narrative that all you are is political, and that all you are is trying to defeat Obama politically, and then people aren't gonna like you.
So with that in mind, let's go to some bite number eight, the NBC Nightly News, the anchor Brian Williams talking about the AP phone records scandal and the IRS targeting conservative groups.
As a lot of American adults not so fondly remember the last time the government was found looking into the phone calls of reporters and using the IRS for political purposes, it was the Nixon era.
And while times have changed and circumstances are different, that subject came up at the Obama White House today, as the administration now scrambles on several fronts.
Oh, Brian Williams there just compared uh Obama to Nixon.
He's supposed to back off what the facts speak for themselves.
Now I mentioned earlier that the theme in Washington amongst the uh many, not all, but many of the Washington press corps is a man, this guy Obama, he couldn't possibly have been involved because he's he's not involved.
This guy, he's lazy, he's disengaged.
The government's too big.
He can't control it all.
His fingerprints are not possible to be found in these events, because it's too big, it's too massive.
It's it it's it's Obama can't control this.
That was David Axelrod's excuse.
It's just too big, which is why the Tea Party exists, by the way, but that's another story.
He says it's just it's unmanageable.
And Obama is called President Passerby by Dana Milbank.
So this job, President, is so beneath Obama.
And talents are so much larger than just this office.
And he's really not that interested anymore.
That's how they're attempting to convince people that be it Benghazi or the AP phone scandal or the IRS scandal.
It couldn't have been Obama.
I mean, he's just sitting around watching all this stuff just like you.
Here, this morning on the Today Show, the co-host Savannah Guthrie just uh talked to David Gregory, the host of Meet the Depressed.
And Guthrie said we have three scandals at a boil right now, David.
Uh, which is the most potentially dangerous to the administration in the long term.
This IRS story is the most politically Toxic.
We are not necessarily at the end of this by a long shot.
And there is a passivity about the president and the White House that even his aides and allies on the outside acknowledge is a problem.
Why there has not been a faster, uh, more stringent response.
What they say on the inside is they're frustrated too by the practical uh limitations on the president's power.
He can't, after all, just dismiss his acting head of the IRS without cause because the IRS has insulation from uh the executive branch precisely out of fear of political interference.
Yeah, you see, Obama couldn't have had anything to do with this.
There's insulation.
These people at the IRS, there's no way Obama can control these.
He just can't fire the IRS guy.
That because that isn't gonna solve anything.
He just can't dismiss the guy over there without cause.
I mean, the IRS has insulation from the executive branch.
The executive branch can't tell the IRS to do anything.
Tell that to Frank Vandersloot.
Billionaire businessman Frank Vandersloot, major Romney donor, super PAC donor, was subjected to three federal agency audits after being slimed by the Obama campaign.
Says he isn't the only one of his peers who was audited after donating to Romney.
Vandersloot, also national co-chair of the Romney Campaign Finance Committee, was described in an April 2012 Obama campaign web posting as one of eight, quote, wealthy individuals with less than reputable records.
Shortly after the post appeared, Vandersloot was subjected to two IRS audits, one focusing on his personal finances, the other related to his business interests, and a labor department audit of one of his businesses.
Sheldon Adelson, another major GOP donor, was scrutinized by the IRS.
Franklin Graham, the IRS went after Billy Graham, too, his son charged yesterday in a letter to President Obama.
But Obama there's insulation.
Obama can't do any of that.
See, his fingerprints can't be on this insulation at David Gregory.
Besides, he's so passive, he couldn't possibly.
It just so frustrating.
It's just too big for Obama to control any.
Barack Hussein Obama, mm-hmm, the nation's number one community organizer.
Hasn't the foggiest idea what's going on in his own regime.
He's the best organizer there's ever been.
This guy's hands, he knows what to do, organize it.
It's too big, Rush.
Administration, the government is too big.
Obama couldn't possibly know what was going on.
It's just not it just it just now, George Bush, that's not the matter.
Abel grab Bush, I mean, he may as well have been over there in that picture himself.
And Bush may as well have been down at Club Gitmo and flushing the Koran down the toilet.
I know it didn't happen, but nevertheless.
Yeah, Bush, weapons of mass destruction, he put them there and then he took them back.
And he put them and he didn't he's hit him somewhere.
But Obama doesn't know anything.
Eric Holder, attorney general.
How did it not involve, he's telling a House committee right now?
I didn't do it.
I'm not involved.
He just looks at him and says, I'm not involved.
Jason Chaffetz, member of Congress from Utah, said, Well, you know, impeachment is not off the table.
Yes, it is.
Folks, let me tell you something.
And this is what Eric Holder knows, is what Obama knows.
No matter what, African American officeholders are not going to be removed.
In America in 2013.
Nobody is going to kick Eric Holder out of no matter what.
And they're going to impeach him, censure him.
What did Obama?
It isn't going to happen.
Nobody will even make the first move towards it.
Nobody.
Here's uh Deborah Jefferson, Maryland.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Russ.
Thank you.
Um, I noticed a change in the point that the press is asking the Jay Carney question.
In the past, the Golden Bully Obama could do now wrong.
Uh now it seems like they're calling Jay out on his lie.
I believe it's a direct reaction to what they did in Associated Press phone record.
He had the press wrapped around his little finger.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'll tell you what happens.
Uh they'll rank Jay Carney over the coals in the daily press briefing.
What do you mean, Jay?
The press.
Well, come on, Jay.
What do you mean?
Well, we're not going until we know anything.
What do you mean, Jay?
We've already it's it's known.
It's been admitted to.
And then the thing ends, and they all go to the old Ebbett Grill and have a beer.
After work.
And they talk about the day.
And they'll tell Carney, boy, it's really getting tough for you now, isn't it?
He says, Yeah, well, it's second terms, you know how it is.
And the press says, Well, you know, we gotta ask this stuff.
Another round of Miller Light, please.
And then they go to work the next day, and the same charade plays out.
And then they'll probably go to a barbecue at Claire Shipman in Jay Carney's house this weekend to celebrate Bastille Day or some such thing.
We have breaking news from CNN.
CNN is now reporting they have sources who have pinpointed two rogue employees responsible for being overly aggressive at the IRS.
They're being described as being off the reservations.
I guess they're Indians.
That's right.
Off the reservation.
It must be Indians.
CNN is saying to rogue employees at the IRS did all of this, and they have already been punished.
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