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May 20, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 20, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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I just want to remind you again, folks, that it was the Obama campaign website that targeted all of Romney's donors.
It was Obama's website that named Obama's donors and then implied that they were criminal, implied that they were unsavory.
And that sent the signal to the freak extremists that make up the Democratic Party underground on the internet to start getting everything into gear.
And we had 15, the way it ended up, 15 top Romney donors were audited.
15 of them, folks.
Obama on his campaign website was constantly demanding that the IRS do what they did.
He was doing it in a subtle way.
So many senators were doing in a subtle way.
And Harry Reid wasn't so subtle, saying that Romney wasn't even paying his taxes.
But all of these Romney donors are being slimed on the Obama campaign website.
And of course, the immediate purpose then was to have a negative impact on Obama's, sorry, Romney's campaign to win in 2012, to limit the amount of money, to limit the donors, to frighten other donors away.
I mean, if Romney donors are being audited before the election, then the objective is to make sure Romney has fewer and fewer people willing to donate to him because they're afraid of the IRS, which makes total sense.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Lynn Baugh and the EIB network at 800-282-2882.
I mean, we literally do have, folks, banana republic-type government going on here.
I don't know how else to describe it, but virtually every aspect of this administration is politically oriented toward eliminating opposition.
None of what is publicly seen from this administration is toward governing.
And that is a fundamental, that's a very key point to understand.
This administration is not seen as governing.
This administration is constantly on the attack.
This administration is constantly attacking somebody.
So let's try to put all of this in some sort of semblance of order, if we will.
We now have the total understanding of why the IRS went public with their own scandal.
And we have that for no less than a Republican bundler and donor in Southern California who called here in the last half hour and said she cannot get anybody to write a check to any Republican candidate or cause.
They're frightened.
They see what the IRS did to Tea Party organizations for 27 months.
They see what's happening to Frank Vandersloot and Sheldon Adelson and 13 other Romney donors.
And they're just scared, which is exactly what this regime wants people to be.
This administration wants people to fear it.
And that's what sets it apart.
That's what sets it apart from previous administrations.
This campaign want, and that's what it is, frankly.
It's not an administration.
This campaign wants Americans frightened of it.
They want you to be afraid.
They want you to be scared.
They want you to be intimidated into shutting up, not opposing them, not helping anybody else oppose them.
They don't want any opposition.
They're attempting to intimidate anybody and everybody into just shutting up.
No criticism whatsoever of the regime.
Anybody who criticizes the regime is going to be targeted.
Anybody who speaks up about this administration is going to be named and targeted, and it's going to appear that the administration is going after them.
And who wants that?
Particularly an average citizen, a Tea Party person, an average citizen, not, you know, very few of them have time for that.
They've got their families, they've got their lifestyles, they have jobs they've got to try to continue to provide for their families and so forth.
Like from the New York Times today, the Obama administration's efforts to raise private money to carry out the president's health care law provoked such a strong partisan uproar that potential donors have become skittish about contributing, according to several people involved in the fundraising campaign.
Now, the New York Times is worried about this, but not about the chilling effect of auditing and scrutinizing the Tea Party.
New York Times is worried it's going to have a backlash effect on Obama.
Potential donors to enroll America grow skittish, to enroll Obamacare grow skittish.
And I don't know if you've heard about it, but the regime is using or trying to raise private money to carry out the health care law.
That's what Obama's constant campaigning is.
He is outraising money, folks.
He can't run for anything.
He's using the campaign contributions that he's getting today to implement his agenda.
And the New York Times is admittedly worried about it, and not the chilling effect of being audited or being scrutinized.
Look at what Obama talks about.
Look at what he says.
All his talk of revenge and that kind of thing.
All of his talk about punishing his enemies.
So we have now the truth, the IRS scandal, and why the regime made it public.
So what else is happening?
Well, try this.
Fox News is reporting that three Fox staffers, not just James Rosen, the reporter, now there are three Fox staffers, two reporters and a producer, targeted by Obama's Justice Department.
Fox doesn't have all the details yet on the reporter William Loganese and producer Mike Levine, but their emails showed up in an Inspector General report regarding Fast and Furious.
Either their emails were leaked by the Justice Department officials they were sent to, or the email accounts of both were subpoenaed and invaded by government investigators.
The Inspector General report does say that subpoenas were issued to obtain emails.
Whose email was targeted is not yet known.
The third staffer that we heard about earlier today was James Rosen, and his name appears in a Washington Post story that is downright chilling.
What we have here is a case of the Obama regime criminalizing reporting.
In June of 2009, James Rosen of Fox News reported that North Korea might respond to an increase in United Nations sanctions with even more nuclear tests.
Rosen added that the CIA had learned this information from their sources within North Korea.
Now, according to the Washington Post, upon hearing, learning of Rosen's report, the White House launched what many believe is an unprecedented leak probe that went so far as to criminalize standard news gathering.
Because the Justice Department believes the source of the leak to Rosen was Jin Woo Kim, a government advisor, he's facing federal charges that could land him a 10-year prison sentence.
The source of the leak to Rosen, what happened here is that the regime intercepted the reporter's emails.
They basically bugged the reporter to find out his sources.
This is, this is, folks, Nixon only contemplated, Nixon probably dreamed of doing this, but never got anywhere near doing it.
Nixon bugged himself, but he didn't, all he did was dream.
These people are out bugging the AP.
They're now bugging William La Janes and James Rosen from Fox News and a producer, three people.
And that's about the only way you can describe it is bugging.
You might want to say they got subpoenas to intercept emails.
They still are bugging these Fox employees.
And in bugging James Rosen, they learned his source, Jin Woo Kim, a government advisor, who told Rosen what the North Koreans' likely response to UN sanctions would be.
In their zeal to dig into James Rosen's part in this, and to supposedly firm up their case against Jin Woo Kim, the Washington Post reports that FBI agent Reginald Reyes claimed there was evidence Rosen had broken the law at the very least, either as an aider, a better, and or co-conspirator with his leaker.
After building their case against Jinwoo Kim, the regime then went after Rosen using his badge to trace his whereabouts in the State Department.
They also wanted Rosen's emails.
The Post writes that in order to do that, because of legal protection afforded the media, the case had to be made that Rosen was a co-conspirator in a criminal conspiracy to leak national security secrets.
And that's what they did to get the subpoenas to get Rosen's emails.
They claimed he was a criminal.
And of course, they'd have to prove it.
They had to suspect it.
And the subpoena was granted, and they were effectively legally allowed to bug the Fox reporter James Rosen.
Privacy protections limit the searching or seizing a reporter's work, but not when there's evidence that the journalist broke the law against unauthorized leaks.
A federal judge signed off on this search warrant, agreeing that there was probable cause that Rosen was a co-conspirator.
Now, Rosen, for his part, says the government never contacted him.
The thing that you have to keep in mind here is that if Jin Woo Kim and Rosen did what the regime says they did, it's something that happens almost every day between reporters and their sources.
What it's called is journalism.
And it's not practiced much anymore.
Fox News is about the last place on earth in this country that you find journalism practiced.
In this case, the journalism was a reporter attempting to find out what the regime was doing.
He found somebody who would tell him.
The regime doesn't like what Rosen learned, and so the regime is now saying that Rosen and his leaker are criminals when all they're doing is engaging in journalism.
Now, this kind of thing did happen routinely when Bush was in office.
And when this kind of thing was learned when Bush was in office, it was Bush who was the criminal in the eyes of the media.
Everyday journalism.
The Obama administration is simply trying to quell American journalists, quash them from doing their jobs.
The thing that I have to observe is that the only place where this is really happening is at Fox.
And as such, it's going to be really interesting to see to what extent other journalists say they are appalled at what is happening to William Longines and Rosen at Fox.
Remember how they were all just outraged over what happened to Judith Miller.
And remember the Valerie Playm story when they just had to get somebody frog-marched into jail.
You've got the regime basically bugging the Associated Press in the same way, and all they did was send a letter, and that's pretty much it.
I mean, this is the kind of stuff that happens in totalitarian regimes, folks.
So let's review, shall we, just what we have to do.
We've got the Obama administration trying to criminalize journalism as practiced by Fox.
We have the IRS scandal made public by the IRS for the express purpose of frightening and scaring future donors away from the Republican Party and Republican candidates.
We have learned that 15 top Romney donors were audited, and the Obama campaign website alluded that eight of these 15 were criminals, thereby lighting a fire under these literally insane, extreme zombies that troll Democrat websites on the internet.
Fox News reporters and a staff are spied on by the Department of Justice.
500 conservative organizations delayed by the IRS in their attempt to grant nonprofit status through two election cycles.
We have the Department of Health and Human Services shaking down healthcare executives, fast and furious, an attempt to undermine the Second Amendment.
And now the whistleblower, Fast and Furious, is being smeared by the Department of Justice.
Whistleblowers are being intimidated.
And ladies and gentlemen, do you remember the story of Gibson guitars?
You remember when Obama and Eric Holder went after Gibson guitars?
Do you remember what we were told was the reason why Gibson guitars was raided?
That's right.
We were told that they were using wood that was banned.
They were violating environmental regulations and the manufacturing of their guitars.
Well, now we've learned that the Gibson guitar CEO Henry Juskowitz is a Republican donor.
Remember when all of the GM dealerships that were shut down after Obama took over General Motors on behalf of the government were shut down?
All those dealerships, the vast majority of them, were Republican-owned.
Yeah, you remember Obama and Eric Holder's attack on Gibson guitars.
It was back in 2009.
They raided Gibson, demanded that its woodwork labor be done overseas.
The original excuse by the regime for the raid was environmental concerns.
Court documents, however, revealed the raid legal hassles were from a non-environmental question.
The CEO was a Republican.
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Societal Evolution, Charles in Springfield, Illinois.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Well, hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
You bet, sir.
Thank you for everything you do.
I can't imagine living in a country where people don't have someone like you to challenge an overreaching government.
I do have a question for you, but first of all, I want to let you know I've got my checkbook out ready to write another check to the Tea Party.
I hope they come back even stronger than they were in 2010, like a locomotive on rails with the throttle wide open and no brakes.
Well, I'm hoping that it's a backlash, and a lot of people have that kind of an attitude about this.
I really, really do.
I hope they're not intimidated by the government.
But I know how it's overwhelming sometimes when you're talking about the IRS.
My question to you was that how should we handle this, these episodes of the three problems we have here, like the IRS and the things we have, and coming across to the people and how we get out to them regarding this without acting giddy.
And the reason I'm asking you this is last week, Mitch McConnell had a press conference, and there were three people standing around him who had big smiles on their face and looked like they were trying to refrain from laughing.
And I thought that really doesn't come across well.
So what do you think the attitude ought to be?
That people should be angry that the government is overreaching.
They shouldn't be, I mean, we should just be so upset and not.
So you're worried that people laughing or apparently enjoying what appears to be Obama in trouble could anger the low-information voters that Obama has in his corner and just buck up even more support for the guy.
Absolutely.
They just take the attitude they're after one guy, and it's never going to reach Obama.
He's got a circle around him, and evidently they were not supposed to tell him anything bad going on.
That way he had plausible deniability.
Well, let me tackle this this way.
I've seen all these.
They're almost predictable.
Don't overplay it.
Don't act happy Obama's in trouble.
Don't do it.
Don't cloat.
Don't laugh.
Don't look like you're enjoying this.
Don't convey that you're happy Obama's in trouble because all it's going to do is make the Republicans look like all they care about is getting Obama.
Folks, we are so far beyond any of that.
In the first place, Obama isn't in any trouble.
I don't know what I don't know how else to say this.
Obama's not in any jeopardy whatsoever.
Folks, let me tell you something.
I'm just going to launch here.
Do this with As much restraint as possible.
But in my humble thinking, the people of this country, if it came to this, are simply not going to tolerate the first black president being removed from office.
And if that's not going to happen, all the rest of this is academic.
The people of this country are not going to tolerate the first African-American Attorney General being removed from office.
They're just not going to put up with it, and they're not going to sit by while it happens, no matter what.
But beyond that, I'm telling you, as far as the public is concerned, Obama's not in trouble.
These people that you saw sitting behind McConnell laughing, I don't know what they're laughing about, but this isn't going to touch Obama.
Benghazi is not going to touch Obama.
Nothing else has touched Obama.
The economy hasn't touched Obama.
The debt hasn't touched Obama.
The fact that nobody can find a decent job anymore hasn't touched Obama.
The fact that militant terrorists are all over the place attacking Americans hasn't touched Obama.
Why is this?
The mistake, if we got people, and I started thinking, all right, now we finally got something.
No, we don't.
In the first place, you are not going to see the media join any kind of movement to even cause Obama to be embarrassed to be in trouble.
CNN just updated their poll.
Obama's approval numbers are up an additional two points today over yesterday.
The Daily Track is up two more points, according to CNN.
So all this talk about causing a backlash and it's so misplaced.
We're nowhere near.
Now, I frankly, I think the focus of this needs to totally change.
I think, as I said on Friday, the focus of this, we need to just leave Obama out of this.
What this is, is liberalism.
What this is, is big government out of control, and we don't want this no matter who's in charge of it.
And I'm not saying this, folks, because I'm afraid to go after Obama.
Please don't assume that.
I'm saying it because Obama's not going to be on a ballot anymore.
There's no point.
The people of this country are not going to tolerate the first black president being removed from office, impeachment or whatever, no matter no how, no kind, no when, no, wherever.
That isn't going to happen, no matter how justifiable it may become.
It isn't going to happen.
The whole focus needs to be on 2014.
What needs to be focused on now is going to these potential donors and talking them off the ledge.
Republican donors who are sitting out and scared to death need to be talked off the ledge.
We need to get rid of the atmosphere that are the circumstances creating this atmosphere of fear and aboding and paranoia.
The focus has got to be on holding the House of Representatives in 2014, and dare I say, winning the Senate in 2014.
And the focus has got to be big government.
You can take this IRS scandal, leave Obama out of it for all I care, or leave him in it.
I don't care.
The message has got to be this agency is out of control.
It is auditing people to intimidate them.
You've always suspected it.
Now we can prove it it's happening.
We've got the info.
The IRS and the IG report have given us the details to take to the American people.
Here's what's going on.
The message has to be ideological.
Gosh, I'm going, I'm blew in the face saying this five years now.
People have got to be told who liberalism is.
Now, if you want to go after Obama, do it that way.
Here's who he is.
He's an unabridged radical liberal.
And what he believes in is exactly what's happening here.
Government getting bigger, country getting more in debt, you losing liberty, government coming after your guns.
This is what big government does.
By definition, big government gets big by your life and your neighborhood and the private sector economy getting smaller.
And it's the private sector economy where your chance for prosperity and fortune reside.
And it's being shrunk right before your very eyes.
The whole focus here is this is what happens when liberals end up with unchecked power.
And then you can point to Detroit.
And then you can point to any other place that the liberals are.
If you want to, point to Cuba.
And then point to the Tritons.
And point to North Korea if you want to.
For me, the message is big government.
For me, the message is liberalism, big government out of control.
And I'm perfectly comfortable using Obama in that.
But in terms of focusing efforts to try to have Obama impeached or held personally responsible for these scandals is a bunch of wasted effort.
That is a dream that's only going to remain a dream.
That just isn't going to happen.
And by the way, I would love to be wrong about this.
And if I am wrong, I'll be the first person to say, you know what, I missed it.
I should have seen it coming.
If it ever does, I'll be the first to tell you I blew it.
But I don't think that's going to happen.
And I don't think that it's productive to go after Obama.
Even if we're able to impeach Obama, who's going to sit in there?
Biden, nothing's going to change.
Government's going to keep getting bigger.
We've got to get rid of Democrats.
Why are you shaking your head?
You disagree with this?
What do you mean, how can it get out of the Senate?
Oh, impeachment makes, well, no, impeachment's in the House.
Well, there would never be my point.
It's nervous and the trial would be in the Senate and Harry Reed.
Exactly.
But it's not even going to get to a trial.
Removing Obama isn't going to happen.
Holding Obama accountable, making Obama pay the price what he's done to the country the last five years.
The way to do that is to kick Democrats out of office.
The way to do that is to beat Democrats in every election you can.
If you're not comfortable in talking to people about ideology and liberal versus conservative, just, hey, this is what happens when Democrats run the country.
It's what happens when Democrats have unchecked power.
It's what happens.
The Democrats get control of the Justice Department.
It's what happens.
Democrats get control of the IRS and all these people that contributed to Romney get audited.
And be prepared to run into people who say, yeah, and they should be.
They're criminals.
They're the rich.
Look, these people on the left, these Democrats, they have poisoned millions of American minds.
But this business of not worrying about gloating over Obama being in trouble, that just so misses the point.
Obama's not in trouble, number one, but big government is.
And it's a much easier case to make against big government than it is against Obama because the people that voted for the guy don't want to hear it.
They don't want to believe it.
It's a lost cause.
Give it up.
We'll be back.
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Here's Vicki in Brooksville, Kentucky.
I'm glad that you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I just wanted to say one thing.
In your opening monologue, you said something about that it was circumstantial, all of this stuff that was going on.
Well, I have a point.
There are many, many, many guys that are sitting in jail because of circumstantial evidence.
What they do is they connect the dots, and the dots are there.
If somebody could just cohesively connect the dots, if a captain of a ship runs aground and he's sound asleep in his quarters in the depths of the ship, guess who gets the blame and gets relieved of duty?
The captain.
Yeah, true.
That's the guy, not the guys that did it.
He was asleep.
I don't give a damn where Obama was, but it's his fault.
And this last dot that you told me about with the union person coming in a meeting with the market on that, the U.S. News and World in Report is reporting that that report is wrong.
That yes, she was in the White House, but she attended some conference.
She did not have any meetings.
And you believe that?
No, no, and I didn't use the word circumstantial in my opening monologue either.
That's why I'm sitting here confused over what you're talking about.
At least as far as what I say.
You can say that it was all circumstantial stuff, that there was no hard evidence.
Well, you know, the only kind of hard evidence we have these days is DNA in court.
That's it.
That's hard evidence.
An eyewitness.
Don't think that you were interpreting what I was saying.
Did you think I was telling people leave it alone?
It's only circumstantial.
No, no, I didn't mean that you said that.
I meant that you were trying to say that all of these things are circumstantial, that we don't have any hard facts.
All I'm saying, I don't think any of it's going to stick to Obama, no matter what anybody does.
Deep breath.
I got to take a brief time out.
I appreciate the call, Vicki.
Thanks so much.
We'll be back.
Folks, all I'm saying is we can't impeach Obama.
It ain't going to happen, but we can impeach the Democrat Party and get it out of town.
I'm voting them out.
I got so much stuff today that I didn't get to.
Well, I will tomorrow.
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