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May 16, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 16, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I've I'm going through a bunch of sound bites here that I was just sent from the Obama presser.
And Cookie just hit tell me a yes or no here on the on the flash message.
Did you see is there more than one soundbite from Obama on the IRS?
QA.
I've got uh three bites here, and I wonder if I've got more.
So still waiting for an answer.
I've got let's see, response.
Nixon comparison, no apologies, the AP.
I think I've only got one.
The reason that I'm asking here is that he did not answer the question.
Uh yeah, just this one.
Let's play it, and I'll give you the thing I wanted to say about it.
Somebody 27, and this is uh the press conference, we didn't really jip.
We I think we played part of this answer.
We did jip it once.
I'm gonna tell you what.
I guarantee it started raining.
It was very hot and humid at Washington today.
Started raining, and Obama called in a couple of Marines with uh umbrellas to shield him and recapped uh syrup or whatever his name is from Turkey.
Recep recap, whatever.
Uh I never can get this guy's name.
I have to be looking at his name.
It's Recep R. E. C. E. P. Recep Stirrup or some such thing.
He's the Turkish prime minister, big Islamist.
Big Muslim Brotherhood guy.
Thought to be this moderate Islamist, but he's not.
He's a militant guy.
He's sort of like Obama in that regard.
He's he's thought of as the exact opposite of what he is.
Anyway.
Um 90 minutes, I'm gonna guarantee you the media that had to sit there, the White House press course, when that was over, I guarantee that we sat through 90 minutes for this.
I'll give you a little heads up.
There were very high expectations of this presser.
You know how I know that.
Normally, our affiliate stations do not inquire here if we're gonna cover or or or broadcast in its entirety any Obama press conference.
They either do or they don't, but they never ask me what I'm gonna do.
They just assume I'm not gonna do.
Today, we had a number of inquiries from local EIB affiliates who wanted to cover the whole thing.
That's about the IRS.
And uh their audiences have really loaded for bear on this, and they thought they had a broadcast duty to cover the whole thing, which means that they had high expectations.
Everybody thought there might be some bombshells.
I know what people were thinking.
Everybody's thinking the press was gonna really dog Obama on this, and he was gonna maybe be embarrassed.
Not I, Il Rushbow.
I don't think the press has turned, and I don't think he's lost the press, and I don't think the press is gonna give him a tough time.
I don't all of that is conventional wisdom.
How the press has lost and he's lost the press, and they finally turned.
That's just that's that's BS, folks.
But we did gip one of it.
I just think that the reporters that were there after sitting there for an hour and a half, and their expectations might have been high too.
And I guarantee you when it was over, they said we sat through 90 minutes for that.
It was a non in the rain, it was a it was a non-event.
Um the British Turkish Prime Minister's name is Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
And the question came from Bloomberg Chief White House correspondent Juliana Goldman.
She said, Well, can you assure the American people, Mr. President, that nobody in the White House knew About the agency's actions before your counsel's office found out on April 22nd.
And when they did find out, you think that uh you should have learned about it before you learned about it from news reports, as you said last Friday.
So as far as the press is concerned, Obama didn't know about this IRS thing till last Friday.
That's how detached he is.
That's how rogue the employees were.
He didn't know about that, and he didn't know about Benghazi.
He didn't know about any of that any sooner than any of you did.
Here's how he answered that question.
I can assure you that I certainly did not know anything about the IG report before the IG report had been leaked through the press.
In terms of the White House and reporting, I think that you've gotten that information from Mr. Carney and others.
I promise you this that the minute I found out about it, then my main focus is making sure that we get the thing fixed.
Yeah, right.
Well, I'm going to tell you what.
I think what you just heard is a virtual admission that the White House must have known what the IRS was doing.
Right.
Now you're probably saying well, how do you figure that, Rush?
Well, let me explain it to you.
Obama did not answer the question.
He was asked whether anyone in the White House knew about what the IRS was doing.
What did he say?
He answered by assuring that he personally did not know anything about the IG report.
He's talking about the IG report.
He didn't know anything about that.
Sorry, that answer has nothing to do with the question he was asked.
And I think that is a virtual admission the White House must have known what the IRS was doing.
Which dovetails nicely with the fact that the IRS wouldn't have been doing it at all if it wasn't okay with the White House.
And this, folks, is the primary point.
If I could convey anything today, it would be that.
What was happening in the IRS was not rogue.
What was happening, uh, State Department, all that with Benghazi, not rogue.
What's going on at the SEC is not rogue.
What's happening at the EPA is not rogue.
In other words, there are not a bunch of rogue, renegade employees acting on their own outside of their authority without anybody's knowledge.
All of this is happening with the sponsorship of Barack Obama.
He doesn't have to call these IRS employees personally.
They are hired because they know what's expected.
A donor, an Obama donor happened to be one of the people examining applications for tax exempt status.
You don't get more partisan than that.
This is liberalism, ladies and gentlemen.
This is what they do.
They don't need meetings to be told how to oppose conservatives.
They don't need to be taught.
That's already happened at home and in school or in college or wherever.
They're already indoctrinated.
They are true believers when they get to the White House.
That's why they're hired.
They are already activists.
They want to work there precisely to do this kind of thing.
They want to work at the IRS to sabotage conservatives.
They want to work at the IRS to make it harder for conservatives.
An Obama donor does not go rogue by doing what Obama wants.
By definition.
Nobody goes rogue by doing what their leader wants.
This is the kind of thing that Obama himself has done in his earlier political career.
This is what community organizers do.
They wreak havoc.
They take out their opponents.
They're not interested in a debate in the arena of ideas.
They're not interested in winning a debate in the arena of ideas, because folks, in their minds, our ideas are not legitimate.
And we aren't.
We're oddball extreme kooks.
They really think that.
There's not any reason for them to debate us.
The only thing about us that's important to them is that we've got to be diminished.
We have to be defeated.
That's why all of this never-ending talk that I hear from the Republicans about being bipartisan working across the aisle is a trap and it's a sucker game.
They aren't interested in bipartisanship.
They are not interested in crossing the aisle and working together.
Their sole interest is eliminating any opposition.
Which, by the way, is good politics.
I wish we had that attitude.
I wish our attitude was to wipe the slate clean of these people so that they were a governing minority or a minority that never got to govern.
They have the political killer instinct.
They will use the IRS.
They are waging war against us.
But uh back to Obama's answer.
I can assure you that I certainly didn't know anything about the IG report.
That's not the question wasn't about the IG Inspector General.
Wasn't about the IG report.
It was about, did you know what the IRS was doing?
Well, I didn't know about that report.
Before it was late, I didn't know anything in it.
That's not the question, sir.
Avoiding the question, diverting his answer to the Inspector General Report report is a tantamount virtual admission to me that he and the White House knew what was going on in the IRS.
And not only that, they approved of it.
And whoever got canned is going to be taken care of.
Whoever got canned is being slapped on the back and said at a boy.
In private, you'll never see it.
It'll never be acknowledged.
But they're cool.
Okay, quick time out here, folks, as we roll right on the EIB network, Ilrushboy.
He said some other things about uh Benghazi at this press conference, uh the Nixon comparison.
So we'll play some of that maybe, but I want to focus on your phone calls too when we come back.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we have the CEO of the United States of America basically saying, I didn't know about any of this.
We have the CEO of the United States, the chief executive saying, I didn't know about the IRS, and I didn't know about the IG report.
He's folks, he's really stretching credulity, lying about this.
I just want to ask you, make a comparison.
Let's say this afternoon that there is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and let's say that it's an Exxon.
Just to make up a name, let's say it's an Exxon well that starts leaking and there's all all over the Gulf of Mexico and the Exxon CEO.
Strode's strides in the microphone and says, you know, I really don't know uh about any of this.
Um my staff hasn't uh hasn't told me, and and uh I don't like it, and I'm gonna get this fixed, I'm gonna fire whoever runs that thing out there.
If the CEO of BP, British Petroleum had reacted the way Obama did, if any CEO of any multinational corporation reacted to Misbehavior, inappropriate behavior by employees.
But it's their fault.
I didn't know about it.
What would you think it would work?
Would that CEO get away with it with would be Would the business media cover for the CEO of Exxon?
Who happens to be Rex Tillerson?
So let's put a name to it.
There's a big oil spill this afternoon.
Let's say it happens.
I don't even know that Exxon has a rig out there, but let's say they do.
Actually, they got an Exxon rig and it blows up and there's oil all over and they have fires on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.
Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon, waits three or four days.
Calls a press conference.
You know, I uh just found out about this uh a couple days ago.
Um, and I'm trying to get the bottom of it, and I want to assure everybody it ain't gonna happen again.
All right.
Now I gotta get back to uh running Exxon, so I'll see you.
People put up with that.
The media put up would the media put up with any real chief executive dealing with a controversy in his business the way Obama is dealing with all of these.
No, of course not.
But every Obama voter, every Obama low information voter, every Obama voter is perfectly fine.
With Obama not knowing digital east squad.
Because in the case of BP or Exxon, their express purpose would be to destroy the company and the CEO.
In this case, it's to save Obama and his agenda.
I'm just telling you, in the real world, nobody could get away with what Obama gets away with.
No chief executive could get away with being distant and disengaged and not knowing what's going on in his company.
The board of directors and the shareholders would demand a change.
You know, he really he doesn't know what's going.
He's not uh doesn't seem all that interested.
That CEO wouldn't last, folks.
Just I'm just you know, we've got a low information voter outreach program going here.
And I said I'm trying to reach him in every way possible.
Stick with me on this.
Here's uh Chris in South Windsor, Connecticut.
Hi, Chris, great to have you here.
Hi, Russia.
I'm really glad to talk to you.
I've been a fan for years.
I will tell you that your theorem has really answered a question for me.
I've been completely confused about why Obama was missing in action during the entire Benghazi episode.
I guess he doesn't he disappeared at five and no one knows where he is.
He was staying out of sight.
That's right.
Why isn't anybody else talking about that?
Yes, that is the question as far as I'm concerned.
Where was he?
He's off the grid.
Nobody's asking that.
That is the qu he he tells Panetta and Hillary at five o'clock, in separate conversations with them to do whatever it takes.
Problem is they don't have the authority that he does as commander-in-chief in ordering the military in or out.
Panetta cannot move troops on his own.
And Hillary can't well legally, but the point is, and they weren't gonna take on the responsibility anyway.
He was off the grid and nobody for seven hours, five to seven hours, Chris, nobody knows where he was.
Well, are are is the press purposefully not pushing this or or what?
I mean, with what you're talking about now, which makes complete sense, he needed to stay out.
My my kid was uh living in Chicago when he ran for Senate and he said, You watch that guy, he will either vote present or he will be gone for a vote.
He'll never put his name on anything.
Exactly.
That is the limb theorem.
Voting present, never putting his name up when Benghazi is going to hell in a handbasket, he's nowhere.
Therefore, it can't be said that he didn't order troops.
It can't be said that he did or didn't do anything because he didn't.
He wasn't there.
Unbelievable.
Well, Rush, thank you.
Um you've answered my question, and I wish the whole world would listen to you.
I am a I'm a 65-year-old.
I'm friends with a lot of wonderful women, none of whom even have heard of Benghazi.
They're smart, they have money, they vote, and none of them have heard of Benghazi.
Right.
And it's just so frustrating.
Well, what seriously now.
If they haven't heard of Benghazi and you know them, what are they talking about?
Um they'll talk about the environment.
They'll talk about did you know that such and such a seed was um uh engineered in such a way and it's gonna ruin our do they know that Angelina Jolie had a double mess after me to talk about that?
Yes, yes.
Oh, yes, they do.
Yes, they do.
And um they happen to know where Beyoncé is on her tour.
Uh I'm not so sure about that, but they're all aware, you know, we're older.
We unfortunately have had many instances of breast cancer and so on in our friends and family.
So those are things that but they watch every all of them watch the morning news shows and really enjoy them.
You know, you watch the real housewives of whatever shows?
No, no.
And I feel guilty talking about them.
I love these women, but they're they're my friends and my companions.
Are they all excited to see the great Gatsby movie?
Uh well, yes, they were.
And somebody heard a bad review about it.
I just I just have spent time away with them.
Um they're they're they're intelligent and wonderful friends, but they have absolutely no knowledge about the stuff that you're talking about.
And I live in Connecticut, and they're not gonna want to listen to me.
Well, actually, that's look, that's all I gotta say.
I have enough experience of Connecticut to know if it's not in the New York Times, they don't know about it.
Yeah.
I guarantee you.
I have a friend of 35 years.
I love her to death.
I don't have to worry about her hearing me talk to you because she sure ain't listening to you.
And uh she and I almost had to end our friendship on on her side because she found out that I were not gonna vote for Clinton.
And I've been I mean, it people don't respect you, but they also can't tolerate you because they do.
They are just afraid.
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back.
This um Obama comparison to Nixon.
You hear it now and then.
In fact, uh, it was asked about at the press conference this afternoon with a Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason said, How do you feel about comparisons by some of your critics of this week's scandals to those that happened under the Nixon administration?
I'll let you guys uh engage in those comparisons.
Uh and you can go ahead and read the history, I think, and and draw your own conclusions.
Uh my concern is making sure that if there's a problem in the government that we fix it.
That's my responsibility.
And that's what we're gonna do.
Yeah.
If there's a problem, we're gonna fix it.
I didn't know there was a problem, but if there is one, we're gonna fix it.
Right.
You know, let me but here's i if we got jobs for okay, I'm gonna have a jobs plan.
Well, uh uh deficit pro I'm gonna have a plan to reduce the deficit.
It's Obamacare.
He's causing all these.
Anyway, this this Nixon comparison is starting to bug me.
Because it's the wrong comparison.
A comparison ought to be to Putin.
That's the comparison.
What's going on in this country is the same kind of stuff that goes on under Vladimir Putin.
It's not Obama Nixon, it's Obama Putin.
Nixon talked about sicking the IRS on people on one White House tape.
Nixon didn't do it.
Nixon talked about it.
He speculated about it as though, man, wouldn't it be fun to sick the IRS?
But he never did.
Nixon did not sick the IRS on McGovern.
Nixon's campaign was audited, if you can believe that.
Which is what he was talking about on the tape.
The head of the IRS at the time is a guy named David Alexander.
And he was hailed as a hero for the rest of his life because he didn't allow the IRS to be used against Nixon's enemies.
But can I tell you the honest to God truth?
There is no proof that Richard Nixon ever tried to get the commissioner of the IRS to do anything ever.
Donald Alexander.
Not David, Don Eleven.
Never Nixon.
There's no proof that Nixon ever Sicked the IRS on anybody.
He talked about it on a White House tape, and that was unprecedented.
You know, presidents, we assume joke and talk about all kinds of things, fantasizing about their power.
Nixon was taping himself.
He was the first one who was heard doing it, but he never did it.
You don't think JFK sat around or FDR sat around joking about maybe using the IRS on people.
Or Clinton or what.
But the point is Obama did it.
The comparison is Obama.
Chavez, Obama, Putin.
Not Nixon.
I don't know, folks.
This stuff bugs me.
If you heard about this New York Daily News, terror suspect.
Jokard Sanarov scrawled a confession inside that boat that he was hiding in before the cops grabbed him last month.
His note, his confession note, was written in pen on a on a bullet-riddled wall of the cabin.
It reportedly said America's military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan was the reason behind the bombings of the Boston Marathon.
CBS News is reporting that the message Jokar Sanarov wrote said that the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing were collateral damage similar to Muslims who've died in U.S.-led wars.
The note Joe Karsanayev wrote said that when you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims.
A complete text of the note, which could have been used during a trial against him was never released.
So what, Mr. Limbo, why are you tainting subject and bringing up this poor young tea?
Because that's the point.
This guy was portrayed as a poor young teenager that everybody loved.
His school chums loved him, his schoolmates loved him.
He was just a standard ordinary little American kid who got steered wrong by his older brother.
The guy was an active jihadist.
And he said that he engaged in the Boston Marathon bombing to avenge the collaterally damaged Muslims in all U.S. led invasions.
Just another example, folks, that the portrayal of some of these enemies of America is harmless, innocent little fuzzballs, young children.
So American.
I'll never forget watching Fox.
They were stunned.
They were asking how could some look at this guy.
He went to high school, went to the prom, you know, girlfriend, wrestling team.
How in the world could he end up being a bomber?
He was a militant jihadi.
Off the bat.
Tom in South Bend, Indiana.
Welcome, sir, to EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rus.
The all of the television stations and the congressional Republicans are giving Obama 100% cover on Benghazi.
We don't have the internet around my house and don't have a computer.
I've spent uh the last two weeks with the TV on every news channel.
My wife and I swap turned.
I've been listening to every congressional interview, and all they're talking about is talking points.
To be honest, I don't really care who wrote the talking point, whether it's this three-letter agency or the State Department or this three-letter agency, they're all right.
Wait, wait, wait, hold it.
Hold it.
When you say all they're talking about, you say Republicans?
Yes.
Give me an example.
Uh Fox News is 100% dedicated to the talking points.
Uh, all um all that uh Bill O'Reilly is talking about a talking point.
All that uh John Boehner is talking about is who misled with these talking points.
Uh there are no issues.
Wait, wait, whose talking points?
The um the falsified Benghazi talking point.
I'm saying there are bigger questions concerning Benghazi than who misled the nation with these talking points.
We are giving them cover by allowing them to release emails and say, look, we're being transparent about the talking points process.
Nothing to see here, folks.
When in reality, we should be asking, why did Hillary Clinton withdraw um troops from the area when the British ambassador had just had an assassination attempt against him?
Why did we draw down security?
Okay, I see.
I see what you mean.
I'm a little slow on the uptake here.
Well, you're right in one sense.
The Benghazi emails have been released, and the big discovery is that there wasn't a video discussed by the regime.
So the I guess what you're irritated at is that the Republicans and whoever in the so-called Republican media is simply trying to expose that the Obama administration lied about something when in fact the whole thing was an absolute debacle,
and why doesn't anybody care about why the strategy in this thing was botched and why there wasn't any concern for these four Americans dead, and why wasn't anything that happened on there acting that created or reacted to as an act of war and defended properly?
Is that what your point is?
Absolutely.
And the point is that talking points didn't kill or they wouldn't have saved anyone's lives.
I think it's important that the administration lies to us, but look, right.
We know that they were.
I understand.
Look it, I understand he's saying well, his point is the talking points are all after the fact, and all they're focused on is, yeah, they showed it Obama lied.
Big whoop.
All right.
But there's a lot of stuff that happened before the talking points.
The attack itself.
The actual event took place.
And old Tom here is thinking, so what?
Okay, Obama lied.
There's no news there.
Big deal.
Why isn't anybody focused on the actual incompetence of handling the event?
And I understand your point.
I think.
You know, the talking points show that the State Department, the White House were only concerned about protecting themselves.
The emails show that the administration's lied every step of the way.
And the Republicans are making the mistake of thinking that they can somehow get Obama voters to regret voting for Obama.
And it ain't gonna happen.
It isn't gonna happen.
That's the same thing.
That's why I spent the first hour of the program saying the focus, this is liberalism, this is incompetence, this is people unqualified to lead, blah, blah.
That's what needs to be learned here.
And the same thing can be said about Benghazi.
But everybody's focused on getting Obama.
We gotta get Obama.
We gotta, we gotta get Obama lying.
We've got to prove there was no video.
We've got to prove it.
For what purpose?
I know that it's satisfying and it's it's it's it's worthy of being done, but getting Obama right now isn't the point.
Unless he tears up the Constitution and runs again.
Getting Obama's not the point.
There's a larger lesson and a much greater political objective that can be achieved here, achieved here, I think.
And I think Tom senses that.
He's right about it.
We'll be back in a second.
So we got a call here.
I'm not gonna have time to take it.
It's a good question, Wade from Florence, Kentucky.
So if Obama was your brother or a trusted dear friend, what would you advise him to do right now?
In the mid No, no, no.
In the midst of all this scandal.
Do exactly what he's doing.
He's not being held accountable for anything.
Somebody tell me where Obama's in any trouble.
The media knows that the White House and the State Department, everybody lying about Benghazi, big whoop.
They're not gonna do anything about it.
It's over with now.
The I mean they they lied to protect Obama and Hillary.
Okay, that's cool.
We can understand that.
They lied to protect Obama and Hillary and it wasn't anything about national security and these emails, everything's all fine.
I wouldn't have him do anything different.
I stayed disengaged and detached and continue to say, my God, I didn't know anything, and I'm gonna fix it.
It's worked up till now.
Mr. Limbaugh, this business that all these people don't need instructions to do with Obama.
That's just silly.
Oh, really?
Really?
You think Stephanie Cutter had to be told to call Romney a felon?
Think anybody had a media, hey Stephanie, call Romney a felon.
She knew to do that on her own.
How about Hillary Rosen?
Do you think Hillary Rosen had to be told, hey, Hillary, go on CNN and say, and Romney never worked a day in her life.
You think Hillary Rosen had To be told that.
No way!
They think it.
Stephanie Cutter did it on her own.
She'd have to be told to go out and call Romney a felon and then back it up when challenged on it.
Now Harry Reid did have to be told that Romney hadn't paid his taxes.
Somebody did have to tell him that.
I'd like to know who it was.
Maybe someday we'll find out.
So Snerdley can't believe it.
Snurdley thinks I have to have some advice for Obama.
He's gotta be in trouble here.
You'd have to.
Sorry, folks, I don't see him in trouble.
If he gets in trouble, real trouble, I'll have some advice, but this he's not in real trouble.
And you want to make a Nixon comparison?
At least Nixon had the grace to quit.
That's about it.
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