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May 15, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 15, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And we're back, folks.
It's great to have you here.
It's already Wednesday.
It's the fastest week in media.
And this is the fastest three hours in media, Rush Limbaugh, and the most listened to radio talk show to country.
And that's all because of you.
And we thank you sincerely, not often enough.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address ElRushboEIBnet.com.
Okay, I was not joking.
CNN is saying that they've got a source that has told them, let's see, sources, they have sources who have pinpointed a couple of rogue employees at the IRS who are responsible for this, and they were overly aggressive.
They're being described as being off the reservation.
These rogue employees, there are two of them at the IRS.
And CNN reported that these two rogue employees have already been punished.
Now, I want to expand on something that I was talking about earlier when this whole thing came up.
One employee, we're told now that this is not the CNN report.
There's another story here that says there was one IRS employee that was in charge of the approval process for all the applications for tax exempt status from every Tea Party group over three years, one IRS employee.
And the media theme today is Obama couldn't be involved.
There's insulation.
It's against the law for the president to call the Treasury Department, the IRS, and give them orders.
That can't happen.
And Obama's disengaged anyway.
The government's way too massive and too big.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Now, Obama doesn't have to call that one employee.
That one employee is there precisely because he is Obama.
And that's not the only guy.
The people, all of these bureaucracies who are political appointees are there because they don't need orders.
They don't need instructions.
They already are Obama.
And by the way, that's not uncommon.
You remember the guy, James Hansen, who was this rogue scientist at NASA?
James Hansen was routinely off the reservation.
The government has rules that employees cannot speak except when sanctioned and authorized.
They can't go off the reservation.
He was routinely making speeches without the sanction of government.
He was earning outside income.
But because he was saying what everybody at NASA believed about global warming, they didn't do anything about it.
James Hansen didn't need orders.
He didn't need instruction.
They didn't have to have meetings with him to tell him what to say.
He was already a true believer.
This guy at the IRS is the same way.
The guy at the IRS hates conservatives without having to be told to.
The guy at the IRS is fully capable and willing to obstruct conservatives, to punish conservatives, to wage war, political war against them.
He doesn't need an owner's manual.
He doesn't need a meeting every day.
I'll use myself.
Just a little inside baseball here.
I hate meetings.
I despise them.
I don't have them.
Everybody here every day knows what they have to do.
And the only time they hear from me is when I'm not particularly happy about it, which means they never hear from me.
I don't tell anybody here what to do.
They already know.
They know what's expected.
They know what the purpose of the program is.
When they're furnishing me things, I don't have to tell them what I want.
It's that way in any top-down organization.
You don't have time to meet with people every day.
You don't have time to instruct them.
You delegate.
So this guy at the IRS, he may as well have been Obama.
Guys like Van Jones.
They're hired because they already are Obama in their own way.
So it's not in any way, as far as I'm concerned, an excuse.
It doesn't excuse Obama.
It's not an out for him to say that the IRS had a couple of rogue people in there operating without anybody's knowledge.
Of course they were.
They didn't need supervision.
Everybody Obama puts in these key positions, be it the EPA, be it the Department of Defense, be it the Department of Justice, everybody he puts in there is going to do what he wants one way or the other.
He's either got something on him, or they're either fellow travelers, or they're eager to please him and know exactly how to do it, or what have you.
They don't need meetings.
These committed activist leftists, to whom this stuff is all their lives are about.
This is all standard operating procedure.
Sullying conservatives, lying about conservatives, impugning conservatives, using the power of government to suppress your opposition, using the power of government to make the playing field unlevel and unfair.
That's all part and parcel of being a leftist.
They don't need instruction.
So my only point is the fact that there may be a couple of rogue people, CIA, or rather the IRS, does in no way excuse Obama or even absent him from the scandal.
I just find it fascinating that if it's a Republican administration, as I said in the instance of the Abu Ghraib scandal, the prison in Iraq, Bush may have well been there and put those people in that pyramid shape.
He may as well have sent a memo and ordered them to do what they were doing to those prisoners.
That's the difference.
Now, there's another scandal.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute.
This is from the Washington Examiner.
Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees, normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90% of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
So, no matter where you go in the Obama administration, you're going to find conservatives obstructed.
You're going to find the way paved for leftists.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has sent a letter to Kathleen Sebudius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, announcing an investigation into recent reports that she has been out soliciting funds to support Obamacare.
And that's the subject of our morning update today.
Kathleen Sebelius was out hitting up people that she's going to be regulating for donations, money, and support for Obamacare.
And of course, there's an implied give us money will look the other way when it comes to you.
He's out essentially bribing people or purchasing people in violation of the law.
The Secretary of the Health and Human Services is not permitted by law to do what she's been doing.
But it's just like Eric Holder and just like Obama.
A woman is not going to be removed from a position of high authority.
An African American is not going to be removed from the presidency or from the Attorney General position.
It isn't going to happen, no matter what.
There might be impeachment proceedings down to the conviction.
And there isn't going to be any removal from office.
That isn't going to happen.
The people of this country wouldn't put up with it.
They would not, no matter what, they wouldn't put up with it.
The low-information voters would not put up with it no matter what happened.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
As you know, two days ago, Obama at a fundraiser blamed me for the fact that nothing is getting done in Washington, that his agenda is stalled because of me.
He told a bunch of people, donors at a fundraiser at Harvey Weinstein's house, including Justin Timberlake and his wife, Jessica Beale.
The designer Tommy Hilfiger was there.
And Obama told him that he expected after he won re-election in 2012 that the Republicans would throw in the towel.
They would realize, okay, Obama won, and we can't beat him anymore because he's not running anymore.
So let's go ahead and work with the guy.
But they're not.
And they're not because of me, because they're afraid of me.
They're afraid of what I will say if they are cooperative with Obama.
They are afraid of what I will be able to do to their base and their electoral chances if they cooperate with Obama.
So it's my fault.
As far as Obama's concerned, I am too powerful.
I've offered to meet with him.
I said, whenever you would like, Mr. President, I extended the invitation yesterday to help advise him on a way past this, advise him on how to get the cooperation of Republicans, how to move the country forward.
I'd be glad to sit down with the president and discuss this to help begin moving the country in the right direction.
I don't expect him to reply, but I just want to reiterate that I have extended the invitation.
Well, this has caused some comment in the mainstream media.
Let's start with ABC's World News Tonight and Jonathan Carl.
The White House insists it had no idea any of this was going on.
Conservatives aren't buying.
Obama's objective is to eliminate all opposition.
All of this comes as a White House that takes pride in being scandal-free, has been hammered by a series of controversies.
Jonathan Carl, that was World News Tonight, and then Good Morning America yesterday, all over ABC yesterday.
Whenever there was a story about Obama and scandal, they threw me in it because I personify the opposition to Obama.
As far as the White House is concerned and as far as the state-controlled media is concerned, I, your beloved host, El Rushbo, I am the opposition to Barack Obama.
I'm not making it up.
He said that at the fundraiser.
That's exactly what he said.
If it weren't for me, the Republicans would be going along with him.
If it weren't for me, the Republicans and he would be able to work together and they'd be able to move Obama's agenda.
So in his own words, I personify the opposition to Obama.
Let's now go to the five at five on Fox.
Eric Bowling took his spin at co-hosting yesterday, talked to Bob Beckle about Obama blaming me for the gridlock.
Eric Bowling said the commander-in-chief of the most powerful nation in the history of man blamed Rush Limbaugh for his failure to get anything done in Washington.
And Rush, being a great guy he is, offered to help out Bob.
I'd like to be at that table right there, Mr. Beckle.
How about you?
You know, I'm sure the President of the United States Rush just spends all day long from the time he gets up to the time he goes to bed thinking about you.
I think you're overstating your influence here a little bit, old boy.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on.
Did Obama say that at a fundraiser?
He said it.
That doesn't mean he thinks about it all day long, as Rush suggested he does.
Yeah, I didn't know if I said that.
I said I live rent-free in Obama's head.
I was the first person he mentioned at the White House correspondence dinner.
This is the third or fourth time, bob old boy, that Obama has blamed me.
Remember the first two weeks of his regime?
He had that leader's congressional leader meeting in the White House, and he told John Boehner and the boys, look, you got to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
That's just not the way things get done in Washington.
This is the fourth or fifth time that Obama has singled me out.
Next up, Eric Bowling said to Andrea Tarantula, Rush Limbaugh is actually stopping Republicans from agreeing to work with President Obama.
Do you buy any of this stuff, Angela?
President Obama is enabling himself or preventing himself from being able to work with Republicans.
It's not Rush Limbaugh's fault, but I think the president believes that he has a good enemy in Rush Limbaugh.
It's a great way for him to raise money.
I will say this.
The left and President Obama's cronies sit around and they think of ways to defund talk radio.
They do this all the time.
They thought that they were going to get a talk radio host during the Sandra Flook controversy.
They got, in their minds, a big fish with Rush Limbaugh.
That is why they've targeted him.
That is why they continue to do it.
Now, Andrea Tarantula now is a radio talk show host.
She has her own radio talk show, and so she now understands.
She understands what's going on with Obama.
They are targeting talk radio, which they're targeting me, because it is the most concise, on-point, factual opposition to Obama out there.
And Obama has a singular objective, a singular political objective, and that is to eliminate all opposition.
And he does.
He's admitting it.
His opposition is me.
His opposition isn't Boehner.
It isn't McConnell.
It's not elected Republicans.
It's me.
We oppose Obama specifically in a wholesale way here, not retail, not the standard ordinary, just he's a Democrat.
We don't like him kind of way.
We are specific and effective.
So up next, Eric Bowling said, okay, we have Benghazi breaking.
We have the IRS.
We have the AP scandal breaking all at once.
But Obama goes to New York.
He does his fundraisers with the 1%, meaning the rich.
And he has to blame Rush Limbaugh again.
And Dana Perino then weighs in.
One thing you've got to give President Obama is that he knows his audience.
Okay, so his audience loves to get fired up and riled up against somebody.
And Rush Limbaugh has been their favorite punching bag for years.
It's kind of boring and tired.
If President Obama really wanted to achieve something in Congress, there is a way to do that, and it's to be persuasive and to have a good argument, lay out the facts, and get someone to come on to his side.
Dana, they don't debate in the arena of ideas.
That's not how Obama does.
The left cannot win in a debate of ideas.
That's why they have to stifle opposition, to shut it up, to intimidate it into non-existence.
That's why they impugn and destroy people like Mitt Romney or whoever they can, because they can't beat us in the arena of ideas.
They're a minority.
We're being governed by a minority.
Okay, I've got to take a brief time out, folks, as time rolls on, but don't go away.
So Dana Perino just got through saying that what Obama wanted, really ought to do, if he wants to get his ideas moving, if he wants to advance his agenda, then he ought to be persuasive and have a good argument.
That's not what the left does.
They can't persuade people on their ideas.
The left almost always has to discredit their opposition.
That's how they advance themselves.
They do not win debates in the arena of ideas.
Liberalism does not persuade people over conservatism when both are properly, energetically presented and explained.
Beckel, after Dana Perino made her comment, came back with this.
Well, it also is true that every time a Republican wants to try to do something in a bipartisan way, they get threatened with a primary on the other side.
And Limbaugh and these other purists who want to keep it that way say, okay, you do that, then we're going to primary you.
I do not threaten to primary anybody.
I don't get involved in primaries, endorsing anybody in primaries or any of that.
They lump me in with this purist business.
But that's Beckel.
It was left to Greg Gutfeld to wrap it up.
President Obama's right.
He's right.
Rush Limbaugh is probably the most significant Republican in the country.
When you think about it, the Republicans have yet to put forth a strong polar opposite, our version, they would say, of Obama.
They haven't done that yet, like I said.
Beckel said Herman Kaine, and Gutfeld said, like I said.
So I just want to remind everybody that my invitation was serious.
I'm the opposition.
I've been named as the opposition.
Obama is telling people closest to him.
He's telling people that give him money.
Those are the people you tell the truth to.
Union people.
He told them what his real plans for single-payer health care were, for example.
The people that give him money expect results.
He's telling them, okay, yeah, I've got to pro Rush Limbaugh.
I mean, Republicans won't work with me.
I've got a gridlock problem because of Limbaugh.
Now, they're Hollywood people.
He knows they're influential.
He's sending them a message, maybe other people.
I just want to say, I'm willing to meet with the president anytime to advise him, to help him.
My mother said, I said yesterday.
Talk these things out, son.
That's the way you solve these things.
Talk it out.
Ladies and gentlemen, our low-information outreach is working.
Low information outreach.
I should better say our outreach to the low-information voters is showing signs of success.
I'd like you to listen to this audio soundbite from WJBK Eyeball TV TV2 News in Detroit, Fox 2 News this morning.
The correspondent Rup Raj talking about tonight's Powerball drawing.
Now, listen to this.
$360 million is the Powerball.
The scheduled drawing is for tonight at 10.59 p.m.
You're going to hear it right here on Fox 2.
It's one of the largest jackpots in the history.
If you took the cash option, it would be $292 million, a lot of money.
But you spread that over the course of maybe 30 years and ends up being $12 million a year.
Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, he actually makes $300 million a year.
Rush Limbaugh, the talk show host, his net worth is $350 million a year.
And so he actually makes closer to $30 million a year.
So, you know, these are just some comparisons, some numbers out there for you to think about.
Now, of all the people watching WJBK-TV Fox 2 News this morning in a promotion of the Powerball drawing of all the people that Rup Raj could have told these viewers about to relate the size of the Powerball drawing, he included me in there with Reed Hastings of Netflix.
Not Brad Pitt, not Snoop Lyon.
No, Snoop Dogg, but he's now Snoop Lyon.
He changed his name to Snoop Lyon.
Not Beyonce, not Jay-Z, Mr. Z, not Mr. Carter, not Kim Kardashian, not yes, she's still pregnant.
What do you mean, still pregnant?
Yes.
You ought to see the wardrobe she's wearing to try to hide it.
Anyway, they got the numbers wrong, but still, ladies and gentlemen, they threw it in there.
So the low information outreach showing signs of success.
Here's Kim in Charlotte, North Carolina as we head back to the phones.
Great to have you.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
I sort of listened to you September 11th, 2001, and you comforted me, and I definitely need to thank you for that.
I appreciate your saying so.
Thank you very much.
My comment today is that Americans should be scared to death over this administration implementing our health care.
All it would take is one overly aggressive employee to move you up or down the list for a transplant or treatment and to have everything based on your political affiliation or donations that we need a new effort for full repeal.
Do not laugh at this.
We have, in fact, Kim, we have speculated about this in the past.
Back during the days 2010, 2011, when Obamacare was being debated and signed, we raised this distinct possibility.
And you are so right.
All it's going to take is one true Obama believer at the health exchange office.
And you walk in and you're applying for coverage or whatever.
You need treatment of some kind.
And if this person decides to demand your voting history, to see your voter registration, Republican or Democrat, how you voted, and then determine whether or not you get moved up or down in the line, it's entirely possible.
That information will be at their fingertips, Rush.
And with them hiring 1,400 IRS employees, how many aggressive employees will be included in that bond?
16,000 additional agents, Kim, they're hiring.
Now I'm even more afraid.
But healthcare information is one of the stories involving the current IRS scandal.
That kind of information already being demanded.
But you're right.
They'll have that information.
They'll know when you show up at a health exchange or wherever you have to go either for insurance or treatment, they will know who you are.
We need to demand full repeal.
It needs to take on a new life.
I agree.
I full-fledged, wholeheartedly, 100% agree with that.
And Rush, also, I'm a Rush babe, and I've joined Twitter because you told me to.
And I'm anxiously awaiting all of these tweets from you to bombard the Twitter sphere.
Wait a second.
Wait just a second.
I'm tweeting because you told me I'm addicted.
Now, wait, wait just a minute now.
Twitter, you've got to be real careful out there.
Twitter is features.
Part of it is a liberal cesspool out there, Kim.
Because you won't tweet your, you should tweet your daily information on your daily Facebook show.
I don't want to give anything away.
The problem with Twitter is that once you hit the send button, you can't get it back.
And I'm not that active on.
We do use it occasionally, but look, there's a professional reason.
I want you to come here to find out what I think.
I don't want you to be able to read a 140-character tweet to find out what I think about something and be satisfied.
I want you to have to come here.
So we use Twitter and Facebook for unconventional reasons.
I had a guy ask me, I can't tell how many people.
Rush, will you follow me?
I'll follow anybody.
Because that's not, we don't use it for that.
And we don't solicit followers on our Twitter account either.
So gosh, I'm feeling bad.
I hope I didn't cause you to join Twitter under an incorrect premise.
No, you asked people to join Twitter and forward some information you're putting out at the time.
And there's an allegation, but I love Twitter.
I look forward to things you have to say.
When that happened, there was a concerted effort to undermine me in the drive-by media going on.
And Twitter is where we were attempting to put up some information countering the lies that were being told so I wouldn't have to spend time on the radio doing it.
And that's what, in that instance, that's probably what you're talking about when you heard me encourage you to sign up to go look at the specific things we were putting and posting on Twitter at that point.
And something like that will no doubt happen again.
And we'll fire it up for that.
I've thought about maybe a daily news feed, Twitter, Facebook, because it's already at rushlimbaugh.com.
You know, the daily news digest, the massive show prep, everything I use for show prep is at rushlimbaugh.com right now, each and every day.
We are constantly examining various ways to not what we want to do is attract attention here.
I'm in radio.
I'm not a tweeter.
I'm a radio broadcaster.
What we're trying to do is use it in ways that other people don't.
I mean, I'm never going to be posting things.
No, my business is a radio guy.
My point is that I want you coming here to find out what I think about things.
It's just that simple.
But there are going to be rare occasions where we'll use Twitter, but I'm never going to be somebody posting five or six or 10 or 25 things a day there.
Can't see it.
Can't see it.
Why, no, according to Obama, I'm the opposition, period.
But I'm a radio guy.
No, I'm not a politician.
I'm the opposition.
I'm not a politician.
That's the thing.
Anyway, Kim, you know what?
Kim, I'm going to send you a couple of our brand new 2H by T tumblers.
Oh, my goodness.
Yes, that's why these are really, really cool.
They're Turvis tumblers, and they're perfect for having cold drinks in the summertime with ice because the glass doesn't sweat and it doesn't drip all over you.
16 ounces, they're made by Turvis, and it's got Rush Revere on one side and the revered rush on the other side.
And I'm going to send you a couple of these things just because I feel like I may have sent you into a cesspool in Edward.
Don't hang up so certainly can get your address.
I kid you not, the Politico has a story running as we speak that says furloughs to shut down IRS for a day.
And from the article, it says the agency reminded taxpayers today that it'll be closed on May 24th so that employees can serve one of five furlough days triggered by the sequester.
The IRS is going to close on May 24th because of the sequester.
That's exactly right.
That's going to be the day to shred documents and erase some hard drives.
May 24th, shut down the IRS Day via sequester.
And folks, tomorrow's already going to be Thursday.
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