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May 20, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 20, 2013, Monday, Hour #2
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Dan Pfeiffer, White House Communications Director, spokesman, you know, when when Carney needs some time in the sandbox.
They sent Pfeiffer out.
And he said that two things yesterday are irrelevant.
One thing he said that is irrelevant is where Obama was while Benghazi was going down.
It's irrelevant.
It's irrelevant where the president was.
See, people are finally starting to ask that.
I think that happens to be question numero uno.
Where the hell was he?
Five o'clock with Hillary, a little bit later with Panetta, it tells him, you guys handle it, do whatever you need.
And he vanishes.
Nobody knows where.
Chris Wallace asked him about it yesterday on Fox News Sunday.
But with due respect.
You didn't answer my question.
What did the president do that night?
He was kept he he was in constant touch that night with his national security team and kept up to date as the events as they were happening.
Well, you say his national security team, he didn't talk to the Secretary of State, except for the one time when the first attack was over.
He didn't talk to the Secretary of Defense.
He didn't talk to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Who was he talking to?
He was talking to his national his national security staff, his National Security Council, or the people who would keep him up to date about these things as they happen.
Was he in the situation room?
He was kept up to date throughout the day.
Do you not know whether he was in the situation?
I don't I don't remember what room the president was in on that night, and that's that's a largely irrelevant fact.
See?
And the low information voters who are not watching this show, because they don't know that it's on the air, will then hear about this and yeah, it doesn't matter where he was.
What do you mean?
That kind of nitpick.
It wasn't matter where Obama was.
I mean he could have been anywhere.
He could have still been in charge.
Oh no, no, no, no.
It it matters where he was.
It really matters where he was.
He was not in touch with any of the principals.
Well, no, he's with National Security Council.
National Security Staff.
They're keeping him brief the whole day.
Well, where was he?
Well, he doesn't matter who you're he was talking to all the important people, keeping him brief.
National Security Staff, uh National Security Council, people keep him up to date about briefings they happened.
Was he a situation room?
He was kept up to date throughout the day.
You mean you don't know whether he was in the situation room?
I don't remember what room he was in that night.
It's a largely irrelevant fact.
Probably the gym shooting hoops.
What difference does it make?
What difference does it make?
Where the president was.
What difference does it make?
What he's doing about deficit.
What difference is it make on this IRS scandal?
That's what Pfeiffer said, yeah.
He's talking to the underlings.
Well, to the extent that the National Security Council is the underlings, but he wasn't talking to Sec Defense.
It wasn't talking to Secate.
And then over on ABC on Stephanopoulos' show.
Dan Pfeiffer went over there too, and his bid, I guess, to become Susan Rice Jr.
Appearing on all these shows.
He vowed that the administration would act quickly to address the tax scandal.
And Dan Pfeiffer, who you just heard there, said to George Stephanopoulos, I can't speak to the law here.
The law is irrelevant.
The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped, and it needs to be fixed so we ensure That it never happens again.
Folks, when the law is irrelevant, I'm here to tell you anything goes.
If the president thought that the IRS abuses were outrageous and inexcusable, he would have called andor written every abused group and apologized.
He called Sandra Flock.
He called, who else did he call?
He called um I can't, but he didn't call any of these groups.
And it won't happen because these abuses are part of a plan to reinsure his re-election.
I love it when these guys say, I can't speak to the law here, but the activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped.
It needs to be fixed, so we ensure it never happens again.
I don't know what these guys are the president having to do with it.
This is the whole modus operandi, all this stuff going on within Jason Collins.
He called Jason Collins to graduate him for being courageous in ditching his fiancee and coming out and announcing he was gay.
Yep.
So he called Jason Collins at a boy, Jason.
He called Sandra Flock at a boy, Sandra.
But when it comes to these Tea Party groups, no way.
No how.
He's really outraged, really disturbed.
It was inexcusable what happened, but Obama didn't call it.
By the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, U.S. News and World Report says that Tea Party protests are planned at IRS offices nationwide tomorrow.
Major Tea Party group is planning protests at IRS offices nationwide tomorrow following revelations earlier this month that the IRS had flagged Tea Party organizations with the words Tea Party or Patriot for additional scrutiny.
The protests were originally scheduled only for Cincinnati, where it is said that the tax exempt applications are handled.
But Tea Party Patriots had Jerry, sorry, Jenny Beth Martin, tells the U.S. News and World Report that she received requests to protest across the country.
I'll bet these are going to be huge.
You remember what was it Chick-fil-A?
Remember those protests?
Now it's one thing to go defend Chick-fil-A.
These people, I'm gonna tell you these are fearless people.
Under normal circumstances, do you realize how foolish it would be to go protest the IRS?
Unless unless you're wearing a mask.
But I'll bet this is going to be huge.
Once again tomorrow, the it's entirely possible that people are going to see once again just how big and how deep the Tea Party is.
Yeah, the regime and the media do their best to write them off as burned out, has-beens, fad, shot in the dark, big claim to fame, and now they're gone.
They're not factors anymore.
And I just – I want to see what kind of action this gets.
I guarantee you within the Tea Party network that the word of these protests has been going out for a day or so now.
And there's not a single person in the Tea Party that doesn't know about these.
And there are a lot of places in the country with IRS offices.
Originally it was just going to be the Cincinnati office, but now it is spreading and will encompass many more.
So we'll see.
But I have I have a suspicion that it could be pretty significant.
Matthew Boyle writing at Breitbart, the Department of Justice Inspector General published a new report today that confirms that former U.S. attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear Operation Fast and Furious Scandal Whistleblower John Dodson.
Again, uh what we have here is more government totally out of control.
Or better yet, in control.
This is a government totally in control.
What we have here is the Department of Justice leaking documents intended to smear the whistleblower on Fast and Furious.
The Department of Justice Inspector General said that it found Burke's conduct in disclosing the Dodson memorandum to be inappropriate for a department employee and wholly unbefitting a U.S. attorney.
So former U.S. Attorney for Arizona and Obama appointee, Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear the whistleblower, who told everybody about Fast and Furious.
That was the John Dodson.
Burke, the U.S. Attorney for Arizona, Dennis Burke resigned from his post over the incident in August of 2011, the first major Department of Justice official to leave his or her post in the Fast and Furious scandal.
He said after the fact in interviews with congressional investigators that he now views leaking the document as a mistake.
In addition to Burke's involvement in leaking the document, emails, the inspector general uncovered show, senior officials at the Department of Justice discussed smearing this guy.
By the way, anybody remember the new Black Panther Party and uh vote in voter intimidation in Philadelphia.
What's the difference?
In all candor, what is the difference of what the new Black Panther Party was doing and what the IRS was doing.
Now, seriously, let's walk through this.
If you if you tried to vote in certain precincts in Philadelphia in 2008, you were greeted by thugs from the new Black Panther Party who appeared to be armed, Billy Clubs or whatever.
And they looked very mean, these guys.
And they made you not want to be there.
Their appearance was such that you would have been wise if you concluded you would be safer getting out of there instead of going in there.
And this case was brought to the Department of Justice, and Eric Holder squashed it.
Uh, quashed it.
And he did so on the basis that black guys are not going to be prosecuted in this administration.
It's part of getting even.
It's part of making amends for slavery and all the rules.
And this is what forced a very heroic guy, actually, Jay Christian Adams, who was in the Civil Rights Division Justice Department prosecuting the case to resign.
They had the goods.
They had a case.
They had a conviction.
Holder quashed the whole thing.
He wrote op-eds.
You know, I realized then that this department had been politicized.
This is another example.
The DOJ didn't just leak documents.
He had an U.S. attorney for Arizona, Dennis Burke leaking a document intending to smear the whistleblower on Fast and Furious.
In addition to the attorney's involvement in leaking the document, emails that the DOJ Inspector General uncovered shows senior officials at the Department of Justice discussing smearing the whistleblower.
So in addition to the leak of the document, intending to sneer him, there were discussions in emails about smearing the guy.
One of those was Tracy Schmaller, the director of the Department's Office of Public Affairs, who resigned her position at DOJ after emails uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act request showed that she worked with left-wing advocacy group Media Matters to smear the whistleblowers And members of Congress and the media who sought to investigate the scandals under Eric Holder.
So we have here a DOJ the Department of Folks, the Department of Justice.
Um to say this without being laughed at.
I don't know that I can say this without being laughed at.
The Department of Justice, if there is one place in any government, any administration that is supposed to be entirely nonpartisan, it's DOJ.
And I realize how absurd that sounds when I say it.
If you're laughing, I'm laughing with you, don't no no.
Why would I step down as mayor of Realville?
I What what what is newest to people that DOJ is supposed to be nonpartisan.
Let me let me tell you something.
There's a there's another story I've got here in the stack.
Um and and the media, whoever whatever story it is, they openly worry that let's see.
Worry here that the Department of Justice is missing its mission to be nonpartisan.
There is that story here today.
There is somebody in the media writing about this is problematic.
DOJ appears to be partisan here.
That's the statue of the blindfold.
That's supposed to be justice is blind, nonpartisan, you know I I know, I know, I know.
I point is this is not a government out of control.
This is a government totally in control, folks.
Totally in control.
Back after this.
Time to go to the phones, folks.
We're gonna start Southern California with Matty.
Thank you for calling.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush, and thank you for being the number one guy to get the news out to people who get it.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I want to talk to you because I am what's cons called a major donor in the Republican Party and a bundler.
So that means that all the business people that I know, they write checks for our candidates for our party.
And all this scandal that has come out now on the IRS.
We we knew that the Tea Party was being targeted back in 2010.
But we figured, okay, it's not gonna reach us.
Uh but then wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
When you say we knew, you who who we you you Republican major donors knew?
No, well, no, the Republicans knew, and I know you said something the other day about Twitter, but Twitter knew.
They were talking about it all over Twitter about how the Tea Party was being targeted by the IRS.
Oh, that's right.
I'm okay.
Republicans and yeah, yeah, yeah.
Republicans in Congress also knew.
Yes.
And the regime knew, too.
A lot everybody knew this was going on except us.
Yeah, everybody knew.
So, but here's what's happened.
This IRS scandal was not leaked by some great reporter.
This IRS scandal was leaked by them because they have one purpose in mind.
Two thousand fourteen is coming up, and they are scaring the hell.
I can't get anyone to write a check for a congressman, for a senator, for anybody or anything.
And now that it's public on Fox and the Internet that Vanderslute paid 80 grand to uh um you know defend himself against the IRS.
Anybody who has a business and the GOP writes checks, uh, you know, to the uh they write checks.
They're business people and they support the GOP.
Now they're not gonna do anything.
Yes.
So my message is to any congressman listening out there, you better understand when the money isn't coming in for 2014 and for 16.
If you guys don't do something to stop this, then you you've made your own grave.
You've dug your own grave.
Because you were right, Rush, when you said they're not going to do anything, when Benghazi, you we've got an ambassador and three other men dead, and nobody's been held accountable.
Susan Rice can go out and lie to the American people, and still nothing has been done.
In fact, she's going to be elevated.
This has been going on and going on, and it's our Congress.
I blame Congress.
I blame the American people for not screaming their heads off and and just stopping it because it's madness.
You know, I have to tell you something, Matty.
The chilling effect that you talk about is very real.
And I want thank you very much.
I want to expand on on that point.
The IRS did announce the scandal.
We talked about that the first half hour of the program.
Lois Lerner was at an American Bar Association meeting, and she arranged for a lawyer at this convention to ask her a question.
And the question was designed for her to produce the answer.
Yes, we found that the Tea Party was being targeted unfairly in tax-exempt applications.
And that's how everybody publicly found out about it.
Two days, three days later, the Inspector General's report came out documenting it all.
So the IRS appeared to be the first to blow the whistle on itself, which is important, credibility.
But the chilling effect here, what this is saying to other donors, to conservative and Republican candidates and causes is don't, because the IRS is targeting you.
We'll be back in a second.
Hi, folks.
Great to have you here.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh making the complex understandable.
I want to explain in my own inimitable way what Matty from Southern California just told us.
She is a fundraiser and a bundler for the Republican Party.
She can't get anybody to write checks.
What this proves is that the entire IRS scandal, the entire IRS operation, the objective of this scandal from the regime standpoint is to target Republican donors.
And frighten them into not donating.
That's all this is.
It's not a distraction from Benghazi.
It's nothing other than designed to have a chilling effect on Republican conservative donors into not writing a check.
Let's take it step but you in fact.
Do you remember when Obama took over General Motors?
You remember there was a story that that emerged shortly thereafter that in the downsizing and the reorganization of GM, assertions were made that only Republican GM Cadillac dealerships are shut down.
And immediately that's that's Rush.
That's that's never that.
A bunch of Democrats have been shut down, too.
I'm looking back on that now, and I actually am beginning to think that that did happen.
Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible.
Sadly, folks, in many cases, it's more important than ideas.
And this is what turns off so many people to politics, frankly.
That money and the chicanery involved in money matter more than ideas.
What you have here, let's first look at the IRS targeting Romney donors, Frank Vandersloot, Sheldon Adelson.
There were a number of them that the IRS targeted for audit, simply because they donated to Romney.
Vandersloot was audited three different ways, personally and professionally, three different ways.
His story has been widely reported.
Now, one take on the Vanderflu Vandersloot story, ah, that's it's outrageous.
That's just outrageous.
Oh my God, I'm not getting any money.
I don't want that to happen to me.
I don't want to red flag my tax return.
I just, I won't make any donations.
Okay, I just I won't, and I'll be safe.
The IRS won't come after me.
And that's exactly what this is about.
Lois Lerner going to that Bar Association convention and rigging a QA, which is what happened.
And this has been acknowledged, by the way, now.
This is not just me speculating.
She arranged for a friendly lawyer to ask her a question.
Say he had heard something about Tea Party groups being targeted during the tax exempt approval process.
Yes, we just discovered this.
We just learned this.
There was some employees in the Cincinnati office, low level, and we're uh very ashamed by this, and we're very, very upset, and we're working very hard to fix it.
So the news is out.
And then the news kept expanding the details.
To the tune that we learned that 500 Tea Party groups were harassed in unimaginable ways.
Religious groups were told to submit the contents of the prayers that they were making.
We also learned, folks, don't forget this, that all of the information that was being requested by the IRS and these Tea Party groups was then being turned over to a group called ProPublica, which is a group of left-wing journalists, essentially.
And that information was then being wandered and turned into news stories about these people in the Tea Party group and these donors and so forth and who they were and what kind of extreme kook views they have, and these stories would appear in local media, on local TV news, in local newspapers, all over the country.
Some donors had their businesses audited by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Some donors had to put up with inspections by OSHA.
Some had to put up with inspections of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms.
So the upshot of this is that the IRS scandal and the IRS making it public.
Three days later, the inspector's general report comes out and divulges all the dirty details.
The reason for this is to simply frighten other Republicans in the not donating.
This is all about the Obama administration.
And the media loves this, by the way.
That's why this is not going to hurt Obama.
It was never going to hurt Obama.
was never going to stick to Obama.
The purpose of this is to hurt Republican fundraising.
The purpose of the IRS scandal being divulged is to target Republican donors.
So you're you're a potential donor, or you're being hit up to contribute.
And in the midst of that, you're serious you're seeing that the IRS, just a couple of rogue people caused trouble for 500 Tea Party groups, put them through hoops for three years just on tax exempt status.
Then we're learning that some were audited.
Didn't we learn that all these Romney donors were audited?
These really rich Obama or uh bundlers for forney were audited and so forth.
What do you think?
The net result is.
The net result, most people, I don't want the hassle.
Okay, I'm not going to donate.
I'm not going to make myself target.
So Matty, a fundraiser and bundler in the Southern California, calls here and tells us this is, I can't get anybody write a check.
Everybody's scared.
They don't want to be audited.
They don't want to be put to the grinder like Vandersloot was or Sheldon Adelson was.
Remember, it was Obama's own campaign website that posted the names of eight of Romney's biggest donors, including Frank Vandersloot, in order to sick the left wing knuck jobs on them, plus the IRS.
So they wanted media matters on them, and they wanted the Democrat underground and a daily cause and all of this collection of real Democrat freaks.
The Twitter universe, they wanted them all targeting Vandersloot and all these other donors and saying just horrible things about them.
I think Vandersloot was accused of being a racist and a sexist and uh homophobe and the usual things.
All because they donated to Romney.
And the objective, don't forget now, the tar all of this, everything that's happening, folks, is about 2014.
Everything.
The immigration bill is about 2014.
The gun control bill was about 2014.
Every piece of legislation that's pending right now and where it stands is about 2014.
The IRS scandal being announced by the IRS.
The details forthcoming is about 2014.
And the Democrats winning the House.
That's all anything's about.
Because when and if that happens, then how else to put this?
We've got a banana republic.
We've got one party rule in the White House, in the House, and in the Senate, as it was in the first two years of the Obama administration.
But the difference this time will be Obama doesn't have to worry about being reelected.
He doesn't have to worry about angering the Republicans.
He's going to have two years.
Everybody thinks presidents in their last two years, second term are just lame ducks because everybody's focusing on the 2016 presidential race.
Nope.
Everybody may be focused on the 2016 presidential race.
That's when Obama simply issues an executive order.
Or simply when they amend the Constitution in Congress.
Just uh, you know, Second Amendment no longer applies to modern American life.
Uh and we know what we're just we're we're going to amend it and write whatever they want it to write and Obama sign it and then challenge everybody.
What are you going to do about it?
You know, take it Supreme Court, fine.
We have them too.
You saw what we're able to do with Chief Justice on Obama here.
So take it, Supreme Court.
We don't care.
That's what 2014 is all about.
And as they've shown by successfully intimidating the Tea Party and denying the granting of tax exempt status to 500 Tea Party groups for 27 months leading up to the 2012 election.
I think it's very logical to assume here that the millions of votes Romney did not get in 2012 are traceable to this action against the Tea Party because those people could have just, you know, fed up with it to hell with this.
This is not worth it.
I don't know what the heck.
And while this is going on, nobody's standing up for these people, by the way.
While this is going on, while these Tea Party people are being discriminated against and put through hoops, there's nobody in the Republican Party was standing up for them.
And they already feel a little isolated anyway, because they're the Tea Party, they're not professional political people.
So it's it just makes perfect sense what she said.
The whole point.
I have so many people say, Rush, you need the IRS thing.
Don't fault for it, Rush.
That's just that's just to distract everybody from Benghazi.
That's not what this is.
This is to scare, to literally frighten people into not donating to Republican or conservative causes.
Folks, I want to close the loop on this IRS story and what we've learned today about the regime, the Department of Justice targeting and harassing Fox News.
There is a link to these two things that I can make.
I'll do that in a second, but I got to get more phone calls in.
Knoxville, Tennessee.
Jake, 22 years old.
Thank you so much for waving.
I appreciate your patience and hello.
Hey, buddy, how are you?
Good.
Thank you, buddy.
Excellent.
So I got a question about all these poll numbers we got going out with CNN and whatnot.
So they're saying roughly 60% of the population is saying that this IRS scandal is a black eye on the Obama administration, correct?
No.
No.
No, no, that's not what that they're not saying it's a black eye.
Let's be very specific.
Find the pie, put it to the bottom of the stack.
Let me uh here we go.
I've got got the two states.
It didn't say black eye.
Uh what we have here is uh.
55% say questions about the administration's conflicting stories on uh on uh Benghazi and the IRS are very important.
Fifty not black eye, that's a big difference.
Fifty-nine percent say that the government could have prevented Benghazi.
Fifty-four percent say the GOP in Congress hasn't overplayed the same.
But nobody not black eye on the administration, it's very important, Jack.
All right, well, this still leads into my next comment, then.
That's still that sounds like that's a loaded question, then.
Like how how reliable is all this polling.
If you've got fifty-three percent of people coming into this saying, yeah, Obama's done a good job, and then all this stuff comes out, and these and these same people are saying the exact same thing.
Does that not call into question the authentic uh the authenticity of of these numbers?
Uh I used to think it did, but now I don't.
Okay.
And I'll tell you why.
First, I need to ask you, be honest, there's no wrong answer here.
Don't misunderstand my tone.
I'm not being combative or contentious with you.
Did you vote for did you vote for Obama?
I did not.
I'm actually one of the very, very few republic young Republicans at the University of Tennessee.
Okay.
Here's what's going on.
What is happening, and it's really brilliant.
You have correctly observed that 55 to 53% of the American people approve of Obama's job performance, yet 58, 59% disapprove of these scandals and his agenda.
And so you're saying, wait a minute, this this poll is confusing, right?
Well, it's not, if you understand one thing.
The people who are saying they approve of Obama's job performance, Jake, do not associate Obama with the IRS scandal or with the Benghazi scandal.
Now that if you've never heard me explain this, is maybe tough to understand.
No, I have, I have.
They see they see Obama as stopping it.
Or opposing it.
They see Obama trying to bring the deficit down.
They think Obama, because he's constantly campaigning, Jake, he's never seen as governing, and that's important because he's never seen as responsible.
He's constantly on the campaign trail, and he's always what?
What did he say about the IRS?
I'm mad.
This makes me mad.
And I'm gonna get to the bottom of this and I'm gonna find out what happened, and we're gonna make sure it doesn't happen again.
When in truth, it's exactly what he wants to happen.
It happened because people he put in place are doing his bidding.
But as far as the low information people that vote for him and show up in this poll, he also opposes it.
It's just these renegades at the IRS did this, and these irresponsible jackals in Benghazi did this, and poor old Obama boys trying.
But look at Bush left him with so much economic problem trouble and so forth.
So you are absolutely right to notice the anomaly, but what the the explanation is not that the polling is flawed.
The explanation is that these low information voters do not blame Obama for anything that's happening.
Let me throw I'll throw one more thing.
I shouldn't always get back to it.
So I I got a new job down here, I bar then, and upon my, you know, hiring, they asked me for my D or whatever.
I gave them my handgun carry permit.
And this is like two weeks into my employment there.
And then all of a sudden, I don't have any more shifts coming up.
Figure That one out.
They didn't fire you, but they just aren't scheduling you to work.
Exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
Just because you you you told them you've got a uh a carry permit.
Exactly.
Now I don't care, you know, I can't carry the weapon into the bar.
It stays out in my car.
So yeah, figure that one out.
But yeah, so that's pretty good.
Well, you you you know the answer to that.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I'm not surprised.
Yeah.
So you take a job to fix your computer, and then, you know, carry a handgun, now you can't fix your computer.
Well, no, this is Jake.
I I appreciate you're able to laugh at this kind of stuff.
But in this case, this is uh this is this is really another serious thing.
You are entirely legal.
You have permission to carry that gun.
Now, I I'm sorry, folks, I may just be too logical for some people, but to me.
The value in having permission to carry is having people know you're carrying.
It's an act of self-defense.
You are you get the permission to get the permit to carry based on satisfying a bunch of requirements.
One of them is that there could be threats made against you that could involve guns.
The idea of a of a of you know a carry permit is that you want people to know.
Your carry, it's a it's a it's ultimate statement of self-defense.
But you have a gun.
You are therefore guilty in America today.
You are a law abiding guy, Jake, but because you got a gun, you're guilty.
You may blow up a school, see.
Okay, folks, in a brief break here at top of the hour.
We get back.
We're gonna put all this together.
The IRS scandal, the attack on Republican donors, the DOJ Obama administration harassment and attack on Fox News and more.
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