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May 22, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 22, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I don't think it's drawing good.
Yeah.
See that nearly getting a hernia just for that little amount of smoke.
Well, it might get better.
Anyway.
Two o'clock cigar.
Actually, the one o'clock cigar an hour late.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Okay, Katie Pavlich at Town Hall is reporting that uh Jim Jordan, Republican Jim Jordan, White House visitor logs, former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House 118 times in 2010 and 2011.
This is the same time period when the uh the Tea Party groups were inappropriately targeted and intimidated by the IRS.
Now a hundred eighteen times, even over two years, for somebody who does not work there, that is a lot of time.
Wait till Obama hears about this.
Wait till he hears that the IRS guy was in the White House that much.
He's if he's mad now, he's gonna really be mad.
All this stuff going on behind his back.
You know, somebody may get fired before all said and done.
Uh testifying in front of lawmakers on Capitol Hill today, Douglas Shulman admitted that many of the meetings with the White House were to discuss how to implement Obamacare.
The IRS has a major role in the money flow.
By the way, if they're doing hearings, where is this what what's her name?
I'm never the middle block.
Uh Ingram.
Deborah Ingram, she's the Sarah Ingram, she's the one that's going to be coordinating Obamacare in the IRS.
Why isn't she up there testify?
Maybe she's coming, I don't know.
But I just wanted to remind you folks, if you didn't hear it, we had a great call from a guy in San Diego who said, Look, Rush, this is this is a Democrats.
I mean, they're carrying this out great.
They made sure this story didn't come out last year at this time, and now blaming you for that, so as not to affect the 2012 election.
Now it's coming out in 2013, and there's no election this year.
And the campaign season for 2014 won't heat up for one year, by which time all this will be forgotten.
So this is well orchestrated.
They could release every the kitchen sink, and it'll be forgotten by the midterm elections.
And the idea that, well, I guess I said yesterday, the country will not sit for the removal of the first black president.
It isn't gonna happen.
It just ain't gonna happen.
If you're if you got hopes and dreams of impeachment and a conviction in Cyanara, that's that's not the case.
The Republicans aren't even gonna they wouldn't get close to going there.
They remember they're still stung.
In fact, if you want to know, if you want to know why Lindsey Graham has become Lindsey Graham, it's because of what happened to him when he was one of the House managers carrying the water and presenting the case against Clinton in the Senate.
Lindsey Graham was one of those House freshmen in 1994, and Lindsey Graham was a peddle of the metal conservative.
And he was one of the house managers that presented an aspect of the case for impeachment of Bill Clinton, and those guys in the House uh they just I remember who was the um Henry Hyde, the late Henry Hyde, was involved in this, but those guys, there were a couple others in there who have since moderated.
They have done everything they can to uh uh distance themselves from that experience.
So, and the Republicans have never forgotten the idea that there's gonna be an impeachment and a trial, you I think folks, you can pretty much stop dreaming about that.
Now, this Doug Shulman guy, back to him, a hundred and eighteen visits to the White House in two years.
During that same time, he never visited the Cincinnati office one time.
Where all of this uh intimidation and other things with the Tea Party stuff was happening.
Never once.
Now I've got another headline.
This is from uh what is this from?
I don't know what the source of this is.
Maybe I can nope, I don't have the source.
But the headline is Democrats' turn on IRS compares IRS scandal to totalitarian regimes.
The point of this story is that the Democrats are mad now.
As the House Oversight Committee commenced its hearing on the IRS scandal today, it was clear that Democrats, visibly angered by the decision of IRS exempt organizations director Lois Lerner to not answer questions, turned on the agency.
Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
In a fiery statement, Stephen Lynch, Democrat Massachusetts, cited the State Department's annual human rights report, the practice of tyrannical regimes that enact human rights on paper but fail to honor them in practice.
He compared the conduct of the IRS in singling out Tea Party and conservative groups to those regimes.
The witnesses were then sworn in.
Lerner read an opening statement in which she denied providing false information to the committee or any other body.
So I haven't done anything wrong, and I'm not answering any more questions.
And that's when Trey Gowley said, You got it, you can't come in here and deny things and make a statement and then not answer questions.
But that's what she did.
And Darrell Issa excused her.
So now, whatever this sort, whatever his media sources, and I'm sorry I don't know what it is.
Now they're trying to make us believe that the Democrats are mad about what's happening.
That the Democrats are mad at the IRS, and that this Stephen Lynch guy compared the IRS to what happens in in totalitarian regimes and banana republics.
Okay, words are one thing.
We'll see what they do.
If they are that angry about it.
Let's go back to the audio sound bites.
Peter Baker is a reporter for the New York Times.
He was on Charlie Rose last night on PBS.
We're moving on now to Oklahoma.
And the tornado.
And of course, since we've got somebody from the New York Times and Charlie Rose talking about the tornado in Oklahoma, what do you think we're talking about?
The politics of it.
We're talking about the impact of this on Obama.
We're talking about what does this mean for Obama.
And so Charlie Rose says, remember for me when Clinton and what Clinton did in Oklahoma City that changed the perception of him.
See, so Oklahoma City, the Mira building blowing up.
As far as the media and Charlie Rose are concerned, that was a grand event.
That was a crisis that allowed Clinton to display profound empathy and leadership.
And that was a crisis, and that was a natural disaster that had benefits for Bill Clinton.
And so Charlie Rose is sitting here.
Remember for me what Clinton did in Oklahoma.
Charlie, you remember it.
You don't need this reporter from the New York Times to tell you.
You can tell your audience what it That's why these guys.
I didn't see the show, but I can I can just see this.
Charlie leans forward and he's got this serious, almost grimace on his face.
And he's stroking his chin.
And he says to Peter Baker of the New York Times, Peter, remember for me, if you will, remember for me what Clinton did in Oklahoma City that changed the perception of him.
Tell me, Peter, tell us all what what happened.
Remember for us, Peter.
He was so down politically at that time.
It was 1995.
Republicans had taken over both houses of Congress, and President Clinton was just very publicly even sort of flailing around trying to figure out what his place in this new order really was and jousting with Newt Gingrich.
And then instead he he shows up in Oklahoma City a few days later to comfort not just the people there, but the country and his his natural gifts for that kind of an event uh really transformed the way people saw him.
Here you've got President Obama in a very tough moment politically because he's being you know scrutinized for his handling of various uh controversies.
Uh so to be able to project this presidential image this moment as a matter of his own situation, obviously is a useful one for him.
Speaking of this, have you heard that the vice president Joe Bight Me said that Barack is taking lessons in not using a teleprompter.
Have you heard that?
No, no, that's true.
Obama is taking lessons on how to speak without a teleprompter.
And he went out and he made his impassioned, heartfelt post-tornado speech from three by five cards.
And the review was, well, you know, he tried it without the prompter, but we could tell he was consulting the cards.
He just doesn't have what Clinton has.
He can't just go out there and speak extemporaneously.
You know, some presidents are better at that than others.
In the words of Peter Jennings.
Some presidents are just good at that, just better at that than others.
And Obama just can't do it.
And here we if you happen to be in Oklahoma, if you happen to know people that were affected by the tornado, and you happened to turn on PBS last night, you were treated to a discussion of what all this means for Barack Obama.
What I mean, you talk about detached.
And then we get this in-depth intellectual exchange about the magnificent possibilities that exist here from President Obama.
Uh wonderful job Bill Clinton did putting his career back together.
following the 1994 elections.
He was so good at it, you know.
Maybe Obama...
You're in Oklahoma and you're watching this.
What must you be thinking?
That the coverage of what happened to you and your friends and family is really all about what Obama can make of it.
So that's that.
That's it's uh Peter Baker and Charlie Rose.
Shepherd Smith.
Yesterday afternoon on Fox News.
Uh Studio B with Shepard Smith.
Studio here uh or Shepherd here, a little amazed at something.
It is impressive that literally 24 hours after this storm hit, there are cleanup crews and teardown people, and they are working on every corner.
It's astounding how quickly they got started.
He can't believe it.
A tornado hit, and then 24 hours later, my golly, they're already starting to rebuild.
Can you believe that?
Why?
They're still they're not sitting around feeling sorry for themselves and sucking on straws and stuff, and they're can't believe why these people are actually tearing down stuff and starting to rebuild already.
Who would have thought?
I mean, the government's not even there yet.
FEMA's not even there yet.
They haven't even gotten their disaster money yet, Mabel.
Look at those people are already starting to rebuild.
Well, let's go back to September 2nd, 2005.
Uh Hannity and Combs.
Remember when Combs was on Hannity?
Eight years ago.
Wow.
Anyway, the Hannity and Combs and Shepard Smith was reporting live from the Superdome in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
And listen to this.
Tonight With their babies and their elderlies, they need help that they're not getting.
That's the fact in New Orleans tonight.
People don't know where to go now.
They're not being told where to go.
Oh.
They don't have anything to do.
They don't know what to do.
They got nowhere to go.
They're elderlies and they're babies.
It need help.
And they're not getting now.
Mr. Broadcast Engineer, I want you to play Soundbite 14 first, and then Soundbite 13 next.
And I want you to play them back to back.
With no interruption by me.
The first will be Shepard Smith eight years ago in the Superdome.
And then Shepard Smith yesterday in Moore, Oklahoma.
Are you ready?
Okay.
Here it goes.
Tonight with their babies and their elderlies, they need help that they're not getting.
That's the fact in New Orleans tonight.
People don't know where to go now.
They're not being told where to go.
It is impressive that literally 24 hours after this storm hit.
There are cleanup crews and teardown people, and they are working on every corner.
It's astounding how quickly they got started.
What did he expect?
The helplessness, the helplessness in New Orleans and the chaos of Sandy.
What is it so hard?
This is the backbone of America where this happened.
I know.
I saw Wolf Blitzer tonight.
I'm watching Wolf Blitzer down there in CNN, and he's wearing his t-shirt underneath his dress shirt.
You know, you do that when you go in a foreign country.
You know, you wear layers.
You you put on, you put on you you take your tie off and you wear your checkered button down button collar shirt, and you open the collar and you have your white t-shirt visible.
So in case you need to go in and ask for a hunting license, you kind of look like a local.
So Shepard's down there, and he and and I'm looking at him and I'm wondering if he knows where he is really, and if he had to get a visa to uh, or if he applied for one to uh to get in speaking of which we've got a we got a wolf soundbite here.
We have to oh, Wolf heard, he must have.
He must have heard our we put together a montage yesterday of Oklahoma residents talking about prayer and giving thanks to God and all this.
That was their immediate reaction.
The media couldn't believe it.
So here's uh here's here's Wolf.
We've got a montage.
Uh let me take a break.
I'm sorry, the what we the first bite is the montage, and then Wolf's reaction is next.
I gotta take a break here, otherwise I'm gonna run out of time to do all this.
Sorry to be speaking fast, but time's dwindling here, and I still got lots to do.
All right, here's the montage that we played yesterday of Oklahoma residents in uh in Moore, Oklahoma, uh talking about what had happened to them.
My security isn't in the things I own.
My security is in the Lord.
The last thing we lose in a situation like this is faith.
We have to hold on to faith and trust God every moment.
You salvage what you can salvage, you thank God that he has another plan for you.
I'm a believer in Jesus, and by the grace of God, me and my children are alive in our house.
We can repair it.
We prayed that God would save our house.
We also prayed that if God didn't, he would get us through, and he will.
By the grace of God, it's just amazing.
We know that God is good, and we know that there's people out there who are still alive, and we're gonna find them.
Now it's a good bet, folks, that the drive-bys listen to this program.
Never admit it.
You'll get a rehash for media matters of what happens, but they listen to the program.
They do.
We know this.
So Wolf must have heard this or heard about this.
There's a bunch of religious people in Oklahoma, man.
You gotta, I mean, everywhere you're gonna go be thanking God and praying, and just want you to know it's what they're telling each other in the media.
You know, running a bunch of God people there, you know.
Uh Christians, pro-lifers, you're gonna run into them wherever you go.
So Wolf.
Now he gets down there, and it's time to start interviewing people.
And she's on the situation room last night, and he found a survivor, Rebecca Witzmum, and during the interview they had this little exchange.
I guess you gotta thank the Lord, right?
Do you thank the Lord for that split second decision?
I'm actually an atheist.
So you are all right, so you made the right call.
Yeah, yeah.
We are here, and you know, I don't blame anybody for thinking the Lord.
Of course not.
So, Wolf, I look it.
Folks, let me let me tell you this is just too rich.
So, you know.
You just So Wolf says, I guess you gotta thank the Lord, right?
You thank the Lord for the split second.
You thank the Lord.
Why would he say when's the last time Wolf asked anybody?
He had to have known that a lot of people in Oklahoma are thanking God.
So well, you gotta thank the Lord, right?
I mean, you gotta thank God.
He found the only atheist in Oklahoma, and he didn't know it.
You gotta thank the Lord, right?
I mean, you gotta you gotta thank the Lord at split second and say, well, actually I'm an atheist.
Oh, you are?
Oh, oh, cool.
Okay, but you still made the right call.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're here, you know.
I don't blame anybody for thanking the Lord.
And Wolf, no, of course not.
That's just too rich.
That's just everybody he talks to is uh being all God all the time.
You gotta thank the Lord, right?
Well, actually, Wolf, uh, I don't believe in the Lord.
I'm an atheist.
Oh, well, okay, cool.
Well, still you lucked out, right?
Uh, see, yep, I gotta take another time out, my friends.
I don't know where the time goes.
It just, but it just does.
You know, when you the old cliche.
Time flies when you're having fun, when you love what you do, it's what happens.
We'll be back because there's more.
Do not go away.
Greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Uh there's a blog post here at the Washington Post by a guy named Ed Rogers.
And his post basically says that a special prosecutor in the IRS matter is inevitable.
This administration's management of the Obama internal revenue service scandal so far consists of a slow walking, rolling disclosure of facts, equal parts equivocation, amnesia, and indignation from IRS witnesses, dear in the headlight, non-responses by the White House press secretary, parsed lawyerly statements from the president himself, and now one of the central key players taking the Fifth Amendment.
And all this comes from what the president claimed would be the most transparent administration ever.
Washington Post.
So this guy, Ed Rogers, claims that a uh special prosecutor is inevitable.
Yeah, well, remember they had a special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame uh case, too.
And that didn't go the way anybody thought it was gonna go.
No, look, I'm I'm I'm beyond the days of getting everybody's hopes up.
And I'm not being cynical, and I'm not trying to be pessimistic.
Remember, I'm the mayor of Realville.
And at the end of the day, I just know there are people that okay, this is the one we're gonna get Obama.
And we're not gonna get Obama.
I'm gonna say this again.
There's a way to go after all this stuff, and there's a very productive way to go after all this stuff.
And there is a way to make converts on all this stuff, but it isn't to just focus on Obama.
I don't care if you do.
I mean, if you if if if you want to go after Obama, fine and dandy.
But the real target here needs to be liberalism and big government.
Liberals are a type.
They almost are monolithic.
They are a type.
You can typecast them.
They have much in common from liberal to liberal to liberal.
One of the things that all liberals believe in, are animated by their absolute dislike for people like you and me.
And in some cases, unbridled hatred.
It's undeniable, and it's there, and it exists, and it's what motivates them.
So they end up in the IRS, or they end up in the EPA, or they end up in the Department of Justice, or they end up in the de uh uh uh defense department, Or they end up at the Department of Agriculture, wherever they end up, fish and game, wildlife, whatever, wherever they end up, they're going to use the power they have to use the force of government against conservatives at every opportunity they get.
And it won't matter if the president is a Bill Clinton or a Teddy Kennedy or a Barack Obama.
Obama just happens to be the most radical liberal president ever, and he happens to be the most inspiring or inspirational to his acolytes.
You've got a lot of people, hero worship, who hero worship this guy, who will do anything to get noticed by him, who will do anything to get his approval.
And if they hear him make a speech talking about how rotten Fox News is, guess what's going to happen?
There'll be some people who go after Fox News for him.
If he makes a speech, goes to a fundraiser and starts ragging on me, there'll be some people that'll try to please him by making it tough on me if they can.
And it doesn't matter what it is.
If he starts talking about conservatives and all then says they bring a knife, we bring a gun, then they'll show up at a town hall meeting and start beating up conservatives in wheelchairs.
This is the result.
This happens because of the ideological mindset of liberals, liberalism.
That to me is the most important target.
They're the big government types.
They're the ones who believe the purpose of holding office and position in government is to use that power against their political enemies.
That's that's the great benefit of getting a gig at the IRS.
I saw this Lois Learner on TV today, and I've I've read about her.
I've she's the one that was just obsessed with Tea Party groups that were religious in nature.
She's the one demanding to know what their prayers were.
She was demanding what did Pat Robertson pray for you for, she asked Dolly North.
And Ollie North said, I'm not answering this.
It's none of your business.
This has nothing to do with it.
What did he say on your behalf?
What do you mean he prayed for you?
She was mad.
So I saw this woman, and I'm telling you, I can see her with whips and chains.
This is not a happy woman.
This is a woman that is running around filled with rage, and they all are, folks.
They're angry all the time.
They're never satisfied, and no matter what they get, it's never enough.
They always want more.
They exist in a permanent stage of being enraged, angry because there's opposition.
The fact that there's opposition alone ticks them off.
And so they have to eliminate it.
And Obama does not have to give them instructions.
They'll do it anyway, just to please him, just to get noticed.
Now, my only point in this is that there's a there's a there's a larger target here in terms of future elections, straightening out this country.
There's a larger target than just Obama, and it is the whole concept of liberalism and what it gives us, big government, uh totalitarian-like statism, you know, all this stuff is happening, is easily explainable.
If I could take some political neophytes, put them in a classroom, give me 30 minutes, I can make them understand everything happening here just because it's liberals doing it.
Now the Republican Party ought to be doing that.
The Republican Party ought to right now be taking advantage of this opportunity.
But unfortunately, the Republican Party doesn't look at it that way.
To them, it's just Democrats versus Republicans, and we're gonna share power and we're gonna be convivial when we're losers, so that uh when we win, uh they're not too mean to us.
It's just it's a game.
It's a game with certain rules.
You and I, it's far different.
It's our way of life.
It's the future of the country.
We don't live in Washington, we don't have access to the four trillion dollars that comes in there every year.
We're the ones paying it.
We don't have a chance to get our hands on it, like the people live in Washington do.
The lobbying policy, you name it.
So there's a, I think just a golden opportunity, and I know you give me some literal neophyte.
Now, a committed liberal is a different challenge.
Might take a little bit longer than a half hour.
But you give me 30 minutes with some neophytes, some low information voters, and I can turn them against what's happening in this country without ever mentioning Obama's name, and that is the point.
I can show them how this is harmful to their future, their kids' future, and to the country, existing as it does, without ever mentioning Obama's name, in order to persuade them.
And that's my only point here.
We don't have to have Obama removed from office or even indict as special counsel.
We don't need any of that in order to convert this to something to our advantage.
It's my only point.
So don't get depressed if you think there's no special process.
Don't get depressed if you hear me say or other people say that Obama's safe and nothing's gonna happen.
Don't get depressed because that's not the only objective here.
It's not mine at all.
I mean, look at the drudge headlines here.
Special prosecutor inevitable.
That's the Washington Post piece.
IRS internal investigation ended six months before the 2012 election and was hidden from Congress.
Yep, and the media, too, by the way.
They used me to hide it.
Democrat warns of special prosecutor.
Administration clams up.
Top official takes the fifth.
I won't answer questions or testify today.
I've not done anything wrong.
Takes fifth after trampling the first, meaning the woman that took the Fifth Amendment today was the one denying other Americans access to the First Amendment, free speech.
Lois Lerner.
She's the woman giving all these Tea Party groups hassles and instructing them when applying for tax exempt status.
That's an infringement of their First Amendment rights.
She took the Fifth Amendment today after trampling on other people's First Amendment rights.
Scandal not limited to low-level employees.
Situation falling apart.
Those are just the top headlines on the on the drudge page.
There's a lot here that is happening not just because of Barack Obama.
I mean, he's instrumental in it, he's fundamental, but there's a lot happening here because this is who liberals are.
Whether they're in the Senate or the House or over at some bureaucracy or some agency.
I've always, you know what, I've said it, I've always thought we could just get people oriented and knowledgeable of the ideological definitions of people.
Who people are ideologically, man, we would be so far ahead of the game.
And it can be done.
I have no doubt it could be done.
Okay, so Lois Lerner, uh, ladies and gentlemen, just to remind you.
Lois Lerner, I would I would say that she is part of Obama's revenge team.
Remember in the campaign last year, he was telling his voters in the stump, get your revenge.
Some of these underlings working at the IRS or any other bureaucracy, when they hear their leader who they idolize, talk about that.
What do you think they're gonna do?
They don't have to be told they are being told right then.
Lois Lerner helped to target the Christian coalition all the way back in the 90s when she worked at the Federal Election Commission.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, she was the FEC, and she was helping target Christian coalition uh uh back then, back in the 1990s.
And she's part of the revenge team.
The politico says that ISA is gonna call on Lois Lerner to appear before the committee again saying that she waived her Fifth Amendment right.
So ICE is gonna bring her back.
Trey Gowdy, it appears, was right.
Once again, folks, Politico has the breaking news.
Daryl Isso will call on Lois Lerner to reappear before his committee saying she has waived her Fifth Amendment right by giving her opening statement and denying that she did anything wrong.
So somebody gets results out there.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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