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May 29, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 29, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in, Mark Stein.
My amnesty is being personally reviewed by Lois Lerner, so it's still in the mail, apparently.
Rush is taking a well-earned break for a few days.
Doug Urbanski, Mr. Hollywood, will be here tomorrow and Friday direct from his pool with the Starlets in Beverly Hills.
But today we're live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire, just a stone's throw from the Canadian border.
I don't know why they're throwing stones.
I think they're Muslim youths from Sweden on a field trip or something.
Anyway, if you're fleeing the country, do swing by.
You can't miss us.
We've got a big sign on the interstate saying last rush guest host before the border.
Parking is a bit difficult at the moment because of the IRS SWAT team taking all the spaces, but we're always happy to see you, so do drop by.
1-800-282-2882.
All you've got to do is dial.
It goes straight through to the Department of Justice where your call may be monitored for quality control purposes.
And our new call screener, Eric Holder, will then determine how much of a security threat you are.
The Washington Post reports today, Attorney General signed off on Fox phone records subpoena.
Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved a decision to subpoena Fox News telephone records as the Justice Department investigated an unauthorized leak regarding North Korea, officials said on Tuesday, an unauthorized leak, as opposed to this story that's been planted in the Washington Post, which was an authorized leak that officials leaked to the Washington Post on behalf of Eric Holder.
Eric Holder is stunned, is stunned, and deeply troubled, too, stunned and deeply troubled to discover that he personally approved a decision to subpoena Fox News telephone records.
Eric Holder had no idea he'd signed the subpoena for the Fox phone records until he read it in the Washington Post over breakfast after reading the style section piece on what fabulous shoes White House counsel Kathy Rumler wears.
The Attorney General had no idea how personally troubled he was by the Attorney General wiretapping journalists until he read some off-the-record authorized leaks by his close personal aides to the Huffington Post saying that sources close to the Attorney General spoke off the record about how personally troubled the Attorney General was when he discovered what the Attorney General had been up to.
Eric Holder had no idea he was bugging James Rosen of Fox News until he was listening in on a telephone conversation from James's wizened little old spinster Aunt Mabel to her friend Alice about how she wouldn't be able to make Parchesi night because her nice young nephew James was coming over to talk about how he's getting stressed out by all this Justice Department surveillance.
He had no idea that he was bugging James Rosen, that he personally signed off on it.
This is full-blown banana republic territory, folks.
This is what we're living.
This is what we're living in today.
Except that even in but generally speaking, the advantage of banana republics is that the president for life is quite upfront about what he's doing.
The president for life said, no, senor, I didn't know anything until I read it in the paper.
They don't do that.
They say that's fine.
You're right.
You're right.
We climbed the electrode steer in the basement.
I knew all along.
They're upfront about it.
They're upfront about it.
These guys aren't.
Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi says it is absurd to expect busy, important people like the President and his cabinet secretaries to know about what's going on in obscure peripheral entities like the government of the United States.
It would be totally unreasonable.
The president doesn't know about everything that is going on in every agency of government, House Minority Leader Pelosi said.
Should Mr. Boehner have known that this is his neighboring district and in Cincinnati where the IRS office is, I don't think you can hold him accountable for what happened in that IRS office.
This is Nancy Pelosi's ingenious talking point that because John Boehner is in the next district to the Cincinnati office at the heart of all this illegal targeting, political targeting, he should have known what's going on.
In the same way that the Prime Minister of Canada should know what's going on in the IRS because he lives next door to America where this IRS place is.
But it would be unreasonable to expect Obama and Eric Holder and any of these guys to know what's going on there.
Well, of course, the flaw in Mrs. Pelosi's theory is that technically speaking, as I understand it, I'm a foreigner, so do feel free to point out where I'm going wrong on this, but as I understand it, John Boehner is a member of something called the legislative branch, and the IRS comes under something called the executive branch, which is something to do with the President of the United States, as I understand it.
I mean, I may be making a mistake here, and if Mrs. Pelosi is listening, please do feel free to call in and correct me.
So it isn't actually anything to do with John Boehner.
It is to do with the President of the United States.
These guys report to him.
But the President of the United States says, hey, I'm the President.
I was as shocked as you to discover that there's this thing out there called the executive branch, this dark, shadowy, mysterious thing called the executive branch somewhere in the basement that's been pulling all this stuff.
I had no idea.
I'm as surprised as you are.
Eric Holder is as surprised as you are.
I have personally, Eric Holder is shocked to discover what Eric Holder has been up to.
I have personally decided, this is a measure of how seriously the president is taking this stuff.
He has appointed Eric Holder to investigate all the things that Eric Holder has been up to.
And including, most recently, his apparent perjury before Congress, where he not only denied knowing anything about any of this keeping tab surveillance on journalists, but said that if he had known about it, he would have been deeply troubled by it.
He would have been deeply troubled by it.
Instead, he had no idea that he'd personally signed off on all this surveillance.
And then when he read that, in fact, he had in the newspaper, he was deeply troubled about it.
Nobody knows nothing.
This thing, there's this thing.
It's beyond.
It's the thing you get to when you go really deep down inside the rabbit hole for all the conspiracy theories.
We've heard them all.
You know, the Grassy Knoll 9-11 was an inside job.
This is the biggest one of the lot.
Forget your CIA.
Everyone goes on about the CIA.
They're nothing.
They just have the CIA out there for you guys, for you saps, for you rubes to think that they're the ones pulling all this stuff.
But in reality, there's this far murkier, shadowy, darker entity called the executive branch.
That's what you get to when you poke beyond the CIA.
The CIA is probably some sort of front, false flag operation being run by this shadowy organization called the executive branch that's out there somewhere.
It's out there in a basement in Washington.
It's pulling all this stuff.
Nobody knows anything.
It's accountable to nobody.
They do things in your name.
Somebody, you know, some guy signed Eric Holder's name to all this surveillance thing.
And it's out there, this shadowy thing called the executive branch.
It's accountable to nobody.
The president of the United States, he's just doing his job as president.
Meanwhile, there's this dark, shadowy entity out there, the executive branch.
Nobody, they're out of control.
Nobody knows nothing about them.
So here's this, Eric Holder's latest position.
He has said that this leak, there's a reason he was keeping tabs on all the journalists at the Associated Press.
This is a very serious leak.
This is what he said to Congress on May the 14th.
I've been a prosecutor since 1976, said Eric Holder.
That's what, 37 years.
And I have to say that this is among, if not the most serious, in the top two or three most serious leaks that I've ever seen.
It put the American people at risk, and that is not hyperbole.
Unquote.
That's Eric Holder, testifying to Congress on May the 14th.
But, but, it's one of the two or three most serious leaks that anybody has ever leaked in the last 37 years.
Maybe the third most troubling leak in the last 37 years.
And he doesn't mention it to the President of the United States.
Doesn't mention it to him at all.
It would be absurd to expect the third most serious leak of the last four decades to be brought to the attention of the President of the United States.
This is the world we live in now.
Somebody is running this government.
Nobody knows who it is.
Obama, it's everything now.
It's the all-purpose explanation.
Obama is President of the United States.
This is apparently a ceremonial position.
It's like being the queen.
You get along, you cut ribbons, you attend a few formal celebrations.
In Obama's case, you get to attend fundraisers with Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
But meanwhile, there's this whole other dark entity called the government that's out there doing stuff.
Obama, I am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable.
He's deeply troubled by the idea that all these leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable for when they pull stuff like leaking, for when they pull stuff like bugging journalists.
Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs.
It's your government.
It's your government.
I thought that was how it worked.
It's your government.
Why don't you do something about it?
Oh, no, he's deeply troubled by it.
He's deeply troubled by it.
Here he is again.
He's talking now about Guantanamo.
Look at the current situation.
This was his landmark speech last week ending the war on terror, saying the war on terror is over and we don't need to worry about it anymore.
Look at the current situation where we are force feeding detainees who are being held on a hunger strike at Guantanamo, he said.
Is this who we are?
Well, wait a minute.
It's who you are.
You're the president.
They're being force-fed at Gitmo in your name.
What is he?
Leader of Her Majesty's loyal opposition, all of a sudden.
It's your government.
You're in charge.
If you don't like the hunger strike and the force feeding of the detainees, they're doing it at your camp.
Why don't you fly out to Gitmo, land there, talk with the detainees and talk with the guys who are force-feeding them and try and figure out some other thing.
It's your government.
It's being done in your name.
It's you.
You own it.
That's the job.
I don't know whether there was some confusion when they explained the responsibilities, that it's not all just partying with Beyoncé and Jay-Z and all that, but there's also this kind of boring stuff you have to do where this stuff comes in about, you know, no-name people and the other side of the country and Cincinnati and Gitma and all the rest of it.
But it's you.
It's your job.
It's your job.
You're supposed to know.
You can't just say you read it in the paper.
Full-blown Banana Republic stuff now.
Full-blown Banana Republic stuff.
By the way, we will also talk about today 1-800-282-2882.
As I said, that's the number that gets you straight through to Eric Holder.
We'll also talk about the spectacularly good and amazingly good treatment that Obama's own 501c4 group received from the IRS.
They got the express check-in and they got it backdated.
We'll talk about that and a whole lot more.
Mark Stein, infra rush on the EIB network.
Lots more still to come.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882 as we track America's descent into banana republic status.
Greg Polowitz.
Greg writes great stuff over at National Review.
Greg tweeted today: I just got an email from the Prez asking me to support the 501c4 OFA, which is now, which is organized, used to be organizing for, what was it, Obama for America, but it's now Organizing for America or Organizing for Action or something.
Anyway, it's got the same initials, but it now stands for something.
But it's barackobama.com, basically, barackobama.com.
This is an independent 501c4 involved in social education or whatever the flim flam is.
But it's entirely independent, organizing for action, that's what it's called, organizing for action.
It's entirely independent from the president of the United States.
So it's fine for the chief executive of the United States whose minions authorize this tax-exempt status for this organization to then go send bombard emails and everyone on his email list talking it up.
There's another 501c4, by the way, another non-profit tied to the president, and this is the Barack H. Obama Foundation, which is named not for the president, but is actually named for his dad.
And again, I'm just interested in this.
Why would his dad even want to be mixed up with a tax-exempt organization?
Because Barack H. Obama Sr.'s most famous contribution is a piece he wrote for the Nairobi Herald arguing for a 100% tax rate.
If you think things are bad now, folks, imagine what it would be like if Barack's pop was running things.
He is a big piece in the Nairobi Herald arguing for a 100% tax rate.
And so, but apparently, the fellows who've started the foundation that preserves his name sought tax-exempt status to raise money for good works in Kenya.
Now, this organization is run by Obama's brother, Malik Obama.
And I know people think, well, you know, he's got tons of brothers.
He can't be accountable for them all.
But these two are really close.
Malik was best man at Barack's wedding.
And Barack was best man at at least one of Malik Obama's weddings.
Malik apparently has 12 wives.
I believe at the last accounting, 2013, this year, early this year, he had 12 wives.
He applies for this thing called the Barack H. Obama Foundation.
Now, by the way, he mails this in from Nairobi, and he hears back in Nothing Flat.
And all you guys, you losers out there, you tea party groups in Arizona and in Texas and in California and in Michigan and in Idaho, obviously, you know, yours have been held up for three years or whatever because you made the mistake of mailing it from Cleveland or Des Moines.
This guy mails it in, express mail from Nairobi, and it arrives, you know, on the desk of Lois Lerner herself.
And she immediately, she personally, by the way, this is again why this business about her knowing nothing.
She actually signs this one personally.
She signs off on the tax-exempt status of the Barack H. Obama Foundation immediately.
It's immediately improved.
There's no request for Facebook posts or tweets or are any of your relatives thinking of running for office or tell us what books you were reading.
Lois Lerner signs it personally, mails it back to Malik Obama in Kenya.
And not only that, not only that, this was May 2011.
He gets around to sending it in.
Obama's brother does.
That's two and a half years after he set it up.
And she backdates it two and a half years to make all the donations they've taken in in the last two and a half years tax exempt.
Now, you remember Lois Lerner, when she testified in Congress, said that she regretted what she called the less than satisfactory customers, quote, customer service that some customers of the IRS had received.
So if you're a customer of the IRS, and I'm not personally, because I went to the IRS a couple of years, I went to the IRS last April 15th, and I got really rotten customer service.
So I thought, well, this year, I'm going to go to another revenue collection.
I'm going to go to the revenue collection agency across the street because the IRS don't appreciate me as a customer.
So I'm going to go elsewhere.
She apologized for the rotten customer service some of you losers in Des Moines and Cleveland and Houston and Phoenix and San Diego had all received from the IRS.
But this guy, Malik Obama, mailing it in from Nairobi, got terrific customer service backdated two and a half years.
That's probably, if this were still a Republic of Laws, that would be an illegal act, by the way.
But fortunately, we're not a Republic of Laws anymore, so Lois Lerner doesn't have to worry about that.
Hey, and the best news yet is that Malik Obama's non-profit, which appears to be something to do with doing good works in Kenya, but it's not entirely clear.
There's no evidence to suggest that he's building any houses in Kenya for widows and orphans as claimed.
But one of his big associates is the Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted for war crimes and genocide.
So if you're associated, if you're mixed up with murky tea party types, if you're mixed up with people who are like reading the United States Constitution and other shadowy literature like that, you are going to get a hell of a time from Lois Lerner.
But if you're mixed up with a genocidal madman butchering tons of people in Darfur, like Omar Bashir, you'll get your tax-exempt approval approved in nothing flat and backdated two and a half years by Lois Lerner personally.
That's the great efficient customer service she can provide when she is really on her game.
Mark Stein, in for Rush on the EIB network.
Rush is taking a well-deserved break for a few days.
We have lots more still to come.
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From the New York Times, some Germans bulk at plan to use drones to fight graffiti.
This is the next stage, folks.
The Germans, the German government, now they're using drones, drones, to hover over Berlin and see if people are doing graffiti on walls.
If you've been in Europe recently, if you've been to Rome, you'll know the whole continent is basically covered in graffiti.
People often talk about when will Europe see the writing on the wall?
They see the writing on the wall every day.
It's all over every site in Rome.
If you go there on vacation, you can say, oh, look, here's me by the Coliseum.
You can just make me out in amongst the graffiti on the Coliseum wall.
That's me by the Trevi Fountain.
You can just see me in between the graffiti on the Trevi Fountain.
And Berlin is bad.
Lisbon, everything in Lisbon is covered from head to toe.
Beautiful old city, everything covered head to toe.
They're going to use drones, drones, to catch people doing graffiti in Germany now.
So this would be the next stage, I think.
You know, clearly, when we've had all the special investigators, special counsel, the whole thing, the congressional committees and heads of role, then they will clean house at the IRS and they will discover that the IRS needs more resources to prevent this happening again.
So the IRS will have unmanned drones that they'll be able to send over to your accountants to hover over the filing cabinet.
That will be the next stage.
They're now using drones in Germany to fight graffiti.
Mark Stein, in for rush.
Let us go to Duane in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Dwayne, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hello, Mark.
Hey, I called to give you a perfectly good explanation for all the I don't know that's going on with the Obama administration.
Are you a fan of the MASH program back in the day?
Oh, yeah, I remember MASH from the seven.
I like the early MASH ones, not the ones where they all changed.
This is how it happened.
Radar would go into Colonel Blake's office.
He'd have all his invoices and requisitions and everything all in order.
And then he'd just stick a couple two-day passes and some requisitions for some liquor and stuff in that pile.
And he'd say, okay, Eric Horter, I need all your papers signed.
And he'd just start signing them.
And he didn't know what they were.
there you go so you are positing eric holder as the colonel blake of uh of the colonel blake so as long as once we find the radar o'reilly figure in the justice department who uh well it could be valerie not Not look.
HR says it's Valerie Jarrett.
Poor old Valerie Jarrett is getting, she's doing a hell of a job if she's responsible for everything that that administration is pulling.
Because that's, I love the way now, you know, who was behind the words, Valerie Jarrett.
Who was behind the stuff of the Justice Department, Valerie Jarrett?
Who's behind the shakedown at Health and Human Services when they're telling all the health companies you've got to pony up to pay for the overrunning, exploding costs of Obamacare?
That's got to be Valerie Jarrett.
Who was behind Ben Ghazi?
Well, you've got to bet Valerie Jarrett.
That woman is doing the jobs of 70 men.
It's incredible.
It's incredible.
I mean, this would be one lean, efficient government if we just fired everybody and just let Valerie Jarrett do the whole thing single-handed.
That would be amazing.
Thank you for your call, Dwayne.
The breaking news, breaking news.
I'll see if I can stay awake to read this.
Lincoln Chaffee, the governor of Rhode Island, you remember he's the one, he was one of these moderate Republicans.
People used to say he's the son of John Chaffee, who was the senator for Rhode Island for like 60 years or whatever.
And then he inherited his seat because the United States Senate is like the House of Lords these days.
And then Lincoln Chafee, who was a moderate Republican, people used to say, oh, why can't we have more Republicans like Lincoln Chaffee?
Party of Lincoln.
That's what the Republicans should be.
Party of Lincoln Chafee's got broad appeal.
Became an independent.
And now, in the final stage of his transition, Rhode Island governor, breaking news from Politico, Rhode Island governor, breaking news.
Politico put this out as a breaking news alert.
So I want to give you time to put down whatever you're doing.
If you're like, if you're using the noisy quisinat to blend a smoothie or whatever, I want to give you time to turn it off so that you hear this clear.
Breaking news from Politico.
Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee has notified officials that he plans to switch his party registration and join the Democratic Party.
And we are all stunned by that.
The Ricky Martin of the Republican Party has finally come out and announced that he's joining the Democratic Party.
That's exciting breaking news.
And we're going to keep you up to date on that and any further developments that we get during the day.
The way to think about this IRS business, which is not a small thing, because it's a core responsibility of government.
It's the most direct relationship anybody has with the government.
Most of the productive class, at least, in the United States and other countries have with the government.
They pay taxes to the king's tax collector.
That's one of the most important roles in any functioning society.
So it's not a small thing.
It's not like something wacky going on at some peripheral agency out on the fringe.
It's absolutely central to what government does.
And, you know, I know a lot of people talk about, oh, impeaching Obama and all the rest of it.
Rush was kind of down on this yesterday because Rush rightly said that, you know, impeachment isn't going to go anywhere.
No, you're never going to get anybody, you're never going to get the Congress to impeach this president and turf him from office.
He's going to be there until January 2017 at least.
And that's if he doesn't decide to run for a third term.
I'm not entirely joking about that.
But so the question is: what can you get out of it that is gettable?
And I'd look at it this way: why not take these people at their word?
They're insulting the American people by saying, I didn't know anything about it.
I'm like you.
I read it in the paper.
I'm stunned.
I had no idea I was bugging the Associated Press until I read it in the Associated Press.
You'd think as I was bugging them, I'd have heard about it earlier, but I never did.
It completely took me by surprise.
So let's take these guys at their word, that they know nothing about anything that's happening anywhere.
That means not that the political leadership of this country is corrupt, but that the bureaucracy of the United States government is corrupt.
That's essentially, every time Obama says, I knew nothing, every time Eric Holder says, I knew nothing, they're telling us we don't have a political problem here.
We have a problem with the government.
The government of the United States, in respect of its key functions, like law enforcement at justice and tax collection at the IRS, is systemically corrupt.
There's a magazine, it's a magazine for high-level federal bureaucrats.
They've got their own magazine.
It's like a glossy lifestyle magazine.
It's like Vogue or Vanity Fair for high-level federal bureaucrats.
And they had a headline on it last week called Majority of IRS Employees Are Not Corrupt.
Isn't that a reassuring headline?
So like the majority of them are not corrupt.
What do they mean by that?
55%, 60%?
So that means that only, what, 40% of IRS employees are corrupt?
30%, 28%, 23%.
That's supposed to be the good news.
I would say Republicans ought to look at what would be the long-term advantage here.
The long-term advantage would be blowing up the IRS and reforming and blowing up the abominable tax code with it.
Because this tax code is a disgrace to any free society to have a tax code this big, this bloated, with so many complicated, contradictory exemptions all snaking and intertwining back on each other like spaghetti.
It used to be said that you could take your tax return, you could get all your 1099s and W-2s and your receipts and all the rest of it, and go to 10 different accountants, and you'd get 10 different answers as to what tax you would pay.
But it's actually beyond that.
You could take all your W-2s and 1099s and your receipts to 10 different IRS agents and be given 10 different answers as to what you should pay.
So there's no correct answer to the question of what tax do I owe.
There are only approved answers, which means that, like Malik Obama in Nairobi mailing in his application for the Barack H. Obama Foundation, or like the Tea Party groups all around the country mailing in their applications, you are depending on the discretion of federal bureaucrats.
The more complicated a tax code gets, the more you're just basically empowering the bureaucracy to make all these decisions about you.
And as I say somewhere in my book, you don't need a president for life like those banana republics down south do.
You don't need a president for life if you've got a bureaucracy for life and you give them more and more power by passing more and more complicated laws.
So I think the end game here that Republicans should go for, and this is where the congressional leaders appearing on the talk shows are not talking it up strongly enough and not being outraged enough, is actually getting rid of the IRS, replacing it something with a lot less powers, commensurate with the powers of revenue agencies in other countries, as opposed to the absurd, vast range of powers it currently has and shouldn't have, and getting rid of the tax code.
That's what they should go for.
We'll live with the benefits of that for a generation.
And this systemic corruption, where U.S. citizens are no longer equal before the law because this or that bureaucrat here and there decides that they're not equal before the law, this is systemic corruption, and the price that should be paid for it is the abolition of the IRS and its replacement with something else entirely and the wholesale revision of the United States tax code.
And that's what we this should be a learning moment that conservatives and Republicans are teaching the country.
And so we shouldn't, that should be the end game.
Get rid of the IRS, replace it with something with far fewer powers, and get rid of this vast, complex, unfair tax code that no longer treats you as citizens, but treats you according to which privileged groups you happen to belong to and where you fall in the hierarchy of privileges.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
I mentioned Malik Obama, who runs the Barack H. Obama Foundation and who got his tax exempt status approved in nothing flat.
And not only that, he had Lois Lerner personally sign off on it and backdate it, which is probably illegal.
It would be illegal if there was any equality before the law in this country.
And by the way, this guy isn't a United States citizen either.
He's like out in Nairobi.
That's where he mails to get the really good treatment from the IRS for the non-profit status.
Mail it in from Nairobi because it gets fast-tracked then.
He has 12 wives.
He's close to the president.
As I said, the president and Malik, Barack and Malik Obama were best men at each other's wedding.
Although Barak's only had one wedding, Malik has had 12 at least.
I don't know whether the president was best man at every one of them.
But there's now some dispute.
And this is according to the Daily Mail in Britain.
Because to read anything interesting about American politics these days, you have to read the foreign press.
Doesn't seem to percolate through to the New York Times or the Washington Post.
This is in the Daily Mail in London about Malik Obama, that apparently he may be using the money he is getting from this foundation.
By the way, he pays his staff at the Obama Foundation out in Kenya less than £5 a week.
So that's good, because if you're worried about his tax-exempt status, that he's just wasting the money on high salaries like Lois Lerner gets, he's paying the staff at the Obama Foundation less than five weeks.
Meanwhile, Malik Obama is living like a king, and it doesn't appear to be entirely clear where he's getting this money from, whether this is coming from the Barack Hussein Obama Foundation or not, and whether the money that is being, the tax-exempt donations to the Barack H. Obama Foundation,
which I believe has a post office box in Washington, D.C., are now actually going just to fund the lifestyle of Malik Obama, his 12 wives.
I believe he has 12 wives.
He's been accused of beating two of them and seducing a schoolgirl.
But I don't know whether the schoolgirl is yet the 13th wife.
But apparently, yeah, it has an address in Arlington, Virginia, the Barack H. Obama Foundation, but it's going to pay for all these employees in Kenya.
It's supposed to be about building schools and houses for poor people in Kenya, but it doesn't actually seem to do that.
But it does seem to have built a rather nice house for Malik Obama.
This is corruption.
I mean, this isn't even subtle corruption anymore.
We have a situation now where if you're connected and you're on the inside, you get better treatment.
You don't need, it doesn't matter now.
You may be a citizen of the United States.
You may hold a passport from the United States.
You may have been born in the United States and think that the whole point of it is that you are a citizen equal before the law like any other, which is how it's meant to be.
But it's not.
What matters now is whose ear you've got in Washington.
Because if you've got the ear of somebody in Washington, you'll get the express treatment.
If you don't know anyone in Washington, you'll just be put on the back burner.
And if you make the mistake of publicly coming out against the government of the United States, as Gibson Guitars did, as the lady with the True the Vote tax-free organization did,
if you make the mistake of explicitly coming out before the president, then the point of the United States government is not to enforce the law, but is to enforce the wishes of Eric Holder and Lois Lerner and the other thug enforcers of the most powerful government on the planet.
This is serious banana republic stuff.
It is about the integrity of the United States government.
And if you can't trust that, if you cannot speak to that integrity, then you are no longer in a nation of laws.
That point has passed.
That point is over.
And when you look at the people who do get approved, like Malik Obama and the people who just get put on the back burner and harassed and hassled by federal agencies for two, three, four years, we are deep in Banana Republic territory.
Mark Stein Farush, more to come.
Mark Stein in Farosh on the EIB network.
A senior Red Cross official is among eight killed in a suicide attack by insurgents, as they say, on Red Cross facilities in Jalalabad.
The Red Cross in Jalalabad has been attacked and a senior official killed there.
This is the war, by the way, that Barack Obama says is over.
The other side don't seem to kind of get that.
They didn't get the memo that the war, in fact, is no longer operative and isn't carrying on.
But Barack Obama has said that the war is over, and so this basically, this is an entirely non-official attack on the Red Cross in Jalalabad.
It hasn't been properly authorized.
It's in non-compliance with Barack Obama's decision that the war on terror has gone to an end.
But nevertheless, they did it.
They killed the senior member of the Red Cross and eight other people at Red Cross headquarters in Jalalabad today.
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