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March 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 10, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So I was tootling down the Interstate the other day, and I heard Rush talking about uh CNN cancelling this bloke called Piers Morgan.
And uh and Rush said uh that Americans don't want to have to listen to some foreigner with a snotty accent telling them everything that's wrong with their country.
And that's why here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, we have quality controls on our guest host program designed to ensure that that can never happen here.
Rush is away today at a uh uh uh at a charity event.
I don't think he mentioned that when he uh signed off on Friday, but it was a last-minute charity request.
However, he will return tomorrow for authentic uh full strength, unadulterated excellence in broadcasting.
In the meantime, this is Mark Stein, your undocumented anchor man, thrilled to be here live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
I was uh I was in the Dominion of Canada uh all last week, and I'm not quite fully reassimilated yet.
So if I start talking about beaver pelts and where to buy a good curling stone, I'm sure uh HR will stage an intervention.
Uh I was up there for uh what's really the the Canadian version of CPAC, which was going on down in Washington, and I may talk about the difference between uh what I saw up north and what's been happening in Washington.
1800-282-2882 is the number to call as we begin another week of surveying the geopolitical scene in full.
The stunning news this morning is the surprise election results out of North Korea in Sunday's elections for the country's highest legislative body, Kim Jong-un was re-elected with go on, take a wild guess.
Kim Jong 97%, says H. Hun.
No!
Good heavens!
What crazy alternative universe are you living in, HR, where, you know, there's a a swing against Kim Jong-un and he only gets ninety-seven per cent because Ralph Nader or Pap De Cannon got the other three percent or whatever.
No, he was Kim Jong un was re-elected with a perfect score, one hundred percent of the vote.
And not only, and this is this is what's impressive, I think, to uh people who are involved in politics professionally.
I mean, this is like a little bit of inside baseball, but it's uh but but for the insiders, it's fascinating.
Not only was it one hundred percent of the vote, but it was a one hundred percent turnout.
So every single person went to the polls and every single person voted for Kim Jong un.
Yeah, yeah, he did.
He he got he wasn't just the he didn't just secure the base.
Uh you're right about this, HR.
He managed to uh uh appeal to the independence and actually cross over uh to the uh to the to the other to the to the guys on the other side, too.
So uh one hundred percent of the vote on a one hundred percent turnout.
Uh whoever's running the get out the vote operation for Kim Jong un really knows his stuff.
I mean, if you think if Mitt had had that guy on the team whatever it was uh a year and a quarter ago, things could have been very different.
One hundred percent.
Uh having said that, a cautionary note, I'm not sure if this is just uh the exit poll or the hard numbers.
Uh, you know, maybe by the time the last boxes come through from the upcountry town halls and school gyms and whatnot, Kim Jong un will be up to uh like 107% of the vote.
But he's ri he's uh he's really turned this thing around.
Uh uh a week ago, apparently there was a Zogby poll that showed him plummeting to 98.7%, and uh and Dick Morris had some internal numbers showing that North Korean soccer moms want more spending on health care and the environment and less on torture and concentration camps.
Uh but he he managed to turn it around 100%.
You gotta hand it to the guy.
I mean, this this clearly shows the wisdom uh of Kim Jong-un uh executing his uncle a couple of weeks back, because otherwise he'd only have won with 99.9999999999% of the vote.
So a terrific, terrific result uh for Kim Jong-un in the North Korean elections.
One hundred percent of the vote.
Uh maybe who knows, who knows?
Democrats might yet pull that off, at least in certain Chicago precincts this November.
It's something to aim for.
Uh Turning to our own supreme leader, David Jackson reports in USA Today, President Obama returns to the White House from Key Lago, Florida, on Sunday, following a weekend of relaxation golf and calling world leaders about the Russian incursion into Ukraine.
Doesn't that sound like the perfect weekend vacation package we've all been looking for?
Join us for two days of fine dining, dancing, margaritas by the pool, and the occasional report on protesters being shot in the Crimea while you're enjoying an aromatherapy, massage, and seaweed rap in our exclusive beach cabins wafted by ocean breezes.
That's uh that's President Obama.
He's now back following a weekend of uh relaxation, golf, and calling world leaders about the Russian incursion into Ukraine.
Uh before leaving Florida, Obama got in a second straight day of golf on Sunday, with the same playing partners as on Saturday.
If you're wondering who uh the president plays golf with, Bill Clinton uh used to play golf with Vernon Jordan, and Vernon Jordan was once asked uh what they talked about while they played golf, and he gave a one-word answer that that I shall politely euphemise as saying they were talking about uh the finer points of the fairer sex.
Uh but Obama Obama obviously is uh far more serious and important and consequential figure, and so he plays golf.
He plays golf, in between calling world leaders about the Russian incursion into Ukraine.
He plays golf with former basketball star Alonzo Morning, broadcaster and former pro-football player Ahmad Rashad and family friend Cyrus Walker.
The Forsum played both days at the Ocean Reef Resort in Key Lago.
Do you remember?
Do you remember years ago they used to say, oh, the presidency is too much for one man.
It's too demanding, too grueling.
Uh these days it doesn't seem to be enough for one man.
I don't know why I don't know why uh they don't put have an amendment to the Constitution making it like a part-time position.
He can maybe come in two days a week, something like that.
Uh because he was where was he?
He was in Hawaii for two weeks at the end of December.
It's two months later now, and he's uh in Key Lago, Florida.
Uh but he's uh but he's been speaking, don't worry, he's been taking this thing seriously.
He's not just, I'm sure he discussed the Russian incursion into Ukraine with former basketball star Alonso Morning and his other golf partners, but he also spoke separately on Saturday with uh the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and Italy,
and the President of France, all of whom, quote, reiterated their grave concern over Russia's clear violation of international law and reaffirmed their support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, unquote, after which uh Obama headed back out onto the golf course.
I think he'd been waiting for his plus fours to be pressed by housekeeping and returned to his room.
Uh Obama also called Russia's neighbors in the Baltic State, speaking with uh Latvian President Andris Berzin's Lithuanian President Dahlia Gribowskyt, and Estonian President uh Thomas Hendrik Ilves.
Uh these Obama, quote, reaffirmed the United States' unwavering commitment, unquote, to quote our Baltic allies, unquote, according to a White House statement.
So once you've got that level of support, my advice to Latvian President Adris Bersids and Estonian President Thomas Hendrik Ilves is to pack quickly and get the hell out of the Presidential Palace.
Um but uh uh I don't even know whether these guys were being were planning on being invaded by Russia any time soon.
But uh but at any rate, uh President Obama has assured them that if they are invaded by Vladimir Putin, it's not gonna be like when other certain other countries are invaded by Vladimir Putin.
He will take it very seriously.
He's gonna draw one of those red lines in the sand or whatever they have instead of sand up in the Baltic states.
It's not it's gonna be like Syria, where he drew a clear red line in the sand.
Uh and that is what he will du do if uh in the event that Vladimir Putin decides to invade any more countries and violate their national sovereignty.
So uh that's what he was doing, uh in between playing golf uh at Key Largo.
Uh Key Largo, the uh famed famed by Humphrey Bogart and uh Lauren Bacall in that movie, and also some there wasn't there some schlocky soft rock song from the uh from the eighties called Key Lago.
Maybe he was listening to that.
Maybe it was being piped piped into him as he was having his uh cocktails by the pool and dancing under the stars.
All the burdens of the the US presidency are uh absolutely absolutely stunning.
Uh meanwhile, meanwhile, life goes on.
He is apparently going to meet with the Ukrainian Prime Minister on Wednesday.
And Vice President Joe Biden, this is how serious it is.
Vice President Joe Biden has cut short his trip to Latin America, nixing a planned stop in the Dominican Republic, according to the Associated Press, so he can attend Wednesday's meeting.
Uh Biden had been the White House's prime point of contact with Ukraine's president Victor Yanukovych before he fled to Russia last month following violent clashes in Kiev.
That worked out well for that guy.
Uh having uh Biden as his principal point of contact with the US administration.
But now Biden is taking it seriously.
He's cancelled his trip to Latin America and he is flying in for a meeting with the Ukrainian Prime Minister on Wednesday.
The fascinating thing about this is this nobody is gonna do anything.
The United States isn't gonna do anything uh about about what uh Russia has done in the Crimea.
I'm I'm like an old school imperialist, so I remember the Crimean War in the eighteen fifties, love to rerun it again.
Uh terrific, Florence Nightingale, the whole deal.
Uh but Obama isn't gonna do anything.
But the appearance of appearing gravely concerned, uh, going through this foreign policy theatre, uh having meetings with uh Prime Ministers, getting on the phone and calling leaders of the Baltic states, gives the newspapers something to cover other than uh Lois Lerner, the IRS, the lousy economy, Obamacare, and everything else.
So you will look for look for that photograph on the evening news or on the front of the New York Times of the Prime Minister of the President with his jacket off in the Oval Office on the phone to a Prime Minister, somewhere on the round of the planet.
Doesn't have to be a Prime Minister, uh uh a real Prime Minister, it could be anyone.
He could be on the he could be on the phone to the deputy tourist minister of the South Sandwich Islands.
Doesn't matter.
Uh in matter of fact, he might not have anybody on the phone.
He might just have uh actually uh one of his uh golf partners.
What's the name of this guy again?
The uh former basketball star Alonso Morning, broadcast or broadcaster and former pro football player Ahmad Russia.
He might be on the phone to Alonso Morning and say, Yeah, yeah, uh yeah, we yeah, I can do Key Lago a couple of days of golfing.
Oh, can you hang on a minute?
Someone's coming in to photograph me uh as if I'm on the phone uh speaking to the Chancellor of Germany.
So can you just don't be don't get worried if I say, oh hi, Ankala, I'm gravely concerned about what's happening in Ukraine.
They're just taking a photograph for the front page of the New York Times.
I'll roll up my shirt sleeves so that it looks as if I'm doing some serious work.
That's what this is.
Foreign policy shadow theatre to distract from domestic policy meltdown.
1800, 282-2882, as we start another week on the Rush Limborshop.
Uh by the way, by the way, just to uh clarify the historic nature of that Kim Jong un 100% uh re election vote in North Korea, the previous best, the previous best, uh, was Saddam Hussein in his last presidential uh presidential election uh when he got uh ninety-nine point eight nine percent uh of the of the uh votes uh cast
Now, you're probably thinking, oh, the 0.11% probably just killed them on the way to the poll.
But it might have something to do with the fact that Saddam Hussein chose as his campaign theme song that year, I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston.
And it's easy to see why, you know, he might well have got 100% of the vote.
vote uh but he was he he went down to ninety-nine point eight nine per cent just because 0.11% of the Iraqi population were brave enough to cast a protest vote against uh a dictat a dictator's uh you know okay a dictator is one thing a dictator who chooses I will always love you as his campaign theme song is an entirely different one.
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Rush on, I think it was Thursday or Friday, Rush was talking about the House Oversight Committee, as it's laughably called, in which Lois Lerner was testifying and Lois Lerner of the IRS, Lois Lerner pleaded the Fifth, took the Fifth Amendment.
This was the second time she'd done that.
And at that point, this is supposed to be a House Oversight Committee hearing on what's going on at the IRS, because the IRS is corrupt.
The Tax Collection Agency of the United States of America is corrupt, which means that the government of the United States is corrupt.
We can make our jokes about North Korea and Iraq and all the rest of it.
It hasn't yet turned genocidal, but it's...
it it is certainly corrupt because that's like a core function that's one of the core functions of government if if if a government cannot collect revenue and assess taxes fairly it can't do anything fairly so the government of the United States is corrupt.
And so Lois Lerner's testimony is not unimportant.
But Elijah Cummings came to the rescue by staging some little meltdown.
He's the the ranking Democrat on the committee by staging some little meltdown after uh the chairman of the committee had uh ruled that since um since Lois Lerner wasn't going to say anything there was nothing to talk about and everything was over.
And he went then, went into his little meltdown, and that became the story.
And as Rush was talking about on Thursday or Friday, that's what it's all about.
Misdirection.
Misdirection.
Because instead of reporting about Lois Lerner and the IRS, all the headlines the following morning were about the racist Republicans cutting off a black Democrat when he was speaking at the committee.
Get used to this, folks.
It's going to be like this.
this every day now until November uh because uh what the Democrats, what the Obama administration is trying to do between now and November is in effect suspendity.
You might see the reality out there when you leave the House, when you drive around, you might see the reality of America, which is like the flatlined economy going nowhere.
Millions of people having their health care plans cancelled.
The political enemies of the president being targeted on an industrial scale by the tax collection agency of the government.
That's the reality.
But he's going to be saying, no, no, no, it's all about American, it's all about right-wing racism.
It's all about the war on women.
Tonight, tonight, Democrats are going to be staying up up all night in the Senate they're gonna be having a Senate debate on climate change Climate change.
This is what they used to call global warming.
There's been no global warming since nineteen ninety-eight.
We're basically in the seventeenth year now of uh of of the so called what they now call the pause.
That's to say if you are uh uh uh uh graduate there's been basically seventeenth year.
So if you if if you're graduated from high school, there's been no global warming.
It's despite everything you've been told, despite all the screenings of Al Gore movies you've had to sit to through, there's been no global warming since before you were in kindergarten.
Uh but nevertheless, the critical issue facing the United States is climate change.
So the senators are going to be stand up all night tonight to talk about climate change.
It's all about misdirection, about creating an alternative reality, an alternative reality that Democrats can ride to victory as they see it uh in this November's elections.
We'll talk about that straight ahead.
Yes, Rush is away today.
He's at a uh uh charity event uh that he had late notice of.
That's why uh he didn't I don't think he mentioned it Friday, but he he'd had basically uh a charity request come through and and uh he gives a lot of time a lot of his time to charities and he decided to honor it.
So he will be back tomorrow uh to take you through the end of the week with full strength, authentic all American excellence in broadcasting.
I mentioned the uh that that that sort of foreign policy theater whenever something is happening on the other side of the world, and suddenly the newspapers and uh and TV shows are filled with um uh uh uh uh with photographs of man on phone sitting behind desk.
So they'll show like President Obama holding a phone to his ear, and it will say, you know, President Obama spoke over the weekend with uh German Chancellor Ankala Merkel, and I was suggesting that this uh phone theater is is completely ridiculous.
I mean, it I don't even know why why do editors go along with it.
You know, the the newspapers here uh are so boring, so boring.
It's nothing even to do with left wing or right wing or any of that.
They're just boring.
Why would he put a picture of a man in a shirt holding a phone to his ear, right?
Uh and uh yet they do, and uh President Obama but President Obama is in f in to be fair to him, is not the only uh person to do this.
Uh David Cameron, the ghastly squish uh and nominal conservative, uh who is Her Majesty's first minister in the United Kingdom, uh posted a picture of himself on the other end of the Obama phone call.
So, like there's this he he he tweeted this picture of himself.
And again, I don't understand what kind of person tweets this photograph.
I'd rather you'd go full Anthony Wiener.
If you're gonna tweet a photograph of yourself on the phone to President Obama, at least be doing it in your underpants.
Uh but this uh this this guy Cameron in London is p posts a tweets a picture of himself on the phone uh to President Obama with with a super serious face, right?
He's got because they're talking about Ukraine, so he puts on his serious face, right?
He puts on his super serious face, like he's just been told uh that he he can't get uh two tickets for Phantom of the Opera tonight, they're sold out.
So he puts on his super serious face as he's on the phone, and he tweeted it, and God bless them.
People immediately and the accompanying tweet for this picture of Cameron uh looking super serious was I've been speaking to at Barack Obama, that's uh Obama's Twitter handle, uh, about the situation in Ukraine.
We are united in condemnation of Russia's actions.
They're so united in condemnation of Russia that they're both putting on their super serious face uh as they show this photograph of the man.
And you can see he's on the phone, he's on the phone.
By the way, these are phones now, telephones.
You can't buy these telephones in the store.
They're telephones that only exist for the purpose of world leader serious phone call photo ops, because they're like those old Kind of bake light uh heavy telephones with the like cord going down to the That's not even how that's not how they took that's not even how they take these things.
When Obama speaks to Cameron, he's like on his cell phone from the golf course.
So he's not there's no great wire dangling down past it.
But for the great ceremonial, great ceremonial world leader photo or telephone photo op, you always have the old phone with the dangling wire cord gun down to the desk.
So Cameron looking super serious as he talks on the phone.
And immediately all kinds of people began tweeting their own David Cabernet's super serious phone picks.
Rob Rob DeLay uh tweets a picture of himself holding up a crest toothpaste tube to his ears.
Hi, David Barack, I'm on the line now.
Get me up to speed.
Uh eventually, I think uh then the next guy tweets some kind of uh he's holding his dog up to the phone uh saying, Thanks for holding, I'm I'm good to go now.
Eventually, the great Sir Patrick Stewart uh from Star Trek the Next Generation, you know, the bull guy, not Captain Kirk, uh the but the bull guy in uh Pika what was he called?
Admiral Picard, I think, in st Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek the Next Generation.
Sir Patrick Stewart holds up holds up a uh a a a uh a container of wet wipes to his hair and says that he's now on the looking super serious and he's now on the line for this.
Why do people go why do why do they go along with it?
Yeah, he goes, uh David Cameron, Barack Obama, I'm now patched in as well.
Sorry for the delay.
Uh Sir Patrick Stewart holding up his wet ones uh as he took the uh as he as he took the uh the call, joined the conference call of world leaders with super serious faces, taking what's going on in the Crimea super seriously.
I don't know who.
I don't know why.
Eve America's lamo newspapers, the dullest on the planet, uh are nevertheless so dull uh that they feel obliged to uh to run these ridiculous photographs.
But uh every time every time you see a photograph, uh there's all kinds of interesting photographs you could run on the about the Crimea.
There's all kinds of uh terrible things going on.
But every time you run a photograph of Obama on the phone to a world leader, uh you're basically you're basically acting as the court eunuchs uh for King Barack because you're you're nothing's gonna he's not gonna do anything, he's not gonna launch a new Crimea War.
This is part of the new misdirection.
So that uh he he pretends to be taking seriously some foreign policy crisis that is in fact he's just like you.
He's no more he makes no more difference to what's going on in the Crimea than Mrs. Mabel Scroggins of 57 Elm Street, Noesville Junction.
He's entirely irrelevant to it.
But when he's photographed on the phone with a super serious expression on his face, uh then that's then that space in the newspaper, that space in the evening news that's not being taken up by the meltdown of his domestic program, by the Obamacare, by the IRS, by the NSA, or any uh any of the uh any of the rest of it.
Um let's go to Greg.
Greg is in Amarillo, Texas.
Greg, you are live on America's number one radio show.
Morning, Mark, how are you?
I'm d I'm doing good.
How's things with you?
Oh, done well.
I have a question.
Um you were talking about Kim Jong-un's election.
I was wondering who ran against him and have they executed him yet.
Uh it was Bob Dole, I believe.
Bob Dole.
He gave an incredibly he gre gave an incredibly moving uh concession speech, and he said he he accepted the verdict of the people, and now it was time to go home back home and live a simple life in the small town where he grew up in the Watergate building in Washington, DC.
It was an incredibly it was an incredibly moving concession speech.
Well, where's a Clinton when you need one?
That's that's any by the way, Greg, just uh take that seriously for the moment.
Uh uh Kim Kim Jong-un uh who got 100% of the vote, and I said I thought that was an all-time record.
I gather it was beaten by Pat Patrick Leahy, Senator, Democrat Senator of Vermont.
Do you remember this must be about fifteen years ago now, and uh Lay was up for rear election, and the Democrats basically co-opted the Republican primary and put up octagenarian dairy farmer Fred Tuttle to run against him.
And uh Fred Tuttle uh while while uh while Leahy spent the usual billion dollars on ads, Fred Tuttle, I think, said he'd confine his campaign spending to $17.37, because that was all he had.
And Tuttle himself, the Republican candidate, this this uh octogenarian dairy farmer from uh I think Tunbridge, Vermont, actually voted for Pat Lahey.
So while Kim Jong-un's 100% of the vote is impressive, in fact, I believe Pat Lahey in that Vermont Senate election actually got 108% of the vote that year.
So it he's not he's not quite in the Pat Lahey league, King Kim Jong un because maybe next time.
Maybe next time.
Thanks for your call, Greg.
They're Pikers, basically.
The North Koreans, they're pretty they're pretty good, but they're you know, they're they're pikers, they're neophytes next to next to the Democrats when it comes to pulling this kind of stuff, let's face it.
Uh Mark Stein, in for rush uh on America's number one radio show.
We'll take more of your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for us on the Excellence in uh broadcasting network.
By the way, just to take seriously that uh that question uh of who Kim Jong un was running against, HR has has now in fact uh looked into it, and uh Kim Jong-un's opponent in yesterday's election was in fact uh Kim now gone.
So we just wanted to bring you up to up to speed on that and and make sure you uh you were fully uh uh appris of that.
Uh we're talking about the misdirection, the things that the Democratic Party is going to be talking about between now and November's election.
Uh and we saw a little bit of it as as Rush mentioned uh earlier last uh at the end of last week in the coverage of the Lois Lerner IRS testimony.
In other words, no coverage of Lois Learner and the IRS, only coverage of Republican racists uh shutting off uh a black Congressman Elijah Cummings in mid-meltdown.
And we're gonna be seeing more of it tonight when senators will be staying up all night to talk about climate change.
Climate change entirely irrelevant to everything facing the United States at the moment, Dave.
Climate's doing just fine, planets doing just fine, but nevertheless, and that's one reason why guys like John Kerry, who've uh who've drunk the old climate Kool-Aid are sounding nuttier and nuttier when they go on about this stuff.
Uh take it from I know whereof I speak on the whole climate change issue because I'm being sued by the guy who uh who created the um uh the uh uh hockey stick that showed basically the last thousand years as the flat stick, the flat handle of the hockey stick, and then the twentieth century shooting up like this uh hockey stick blade.
That guy's uh suing me for I thought I forget what it is, it's a sum in the high seven figures or some piffling amount like that.
Uh but uh so I know well they speak on this whole climate change thing because I'm tree-ringed up the wazoo uh in in getting on top of all this stuff, and there's nothing to worry about.
There's none to worry about in the climate.
It's not it's but but Democrats figure any time we're talking about climate change, we're not talking about uh Obamacare, we're not talking about ruined health care policies, we're not talking about the IRS targeting the president's political enemies.
We're not talking about the NSA uh being involved in everything you're doing.
So they're all about the misdirection at the moment.
And I would like uh do you know I'm speaking to uh Republicans, I think uh this uh this Saturday, is it?
Saturday, uh down in uh Nashua is it?
I don't know, I Nashua, which is like Northeastern all the Republicans from the Northeastern states, whatever there are.
I think there's seventeen of them or something.
I don't never knew there were that many states in the Northeast.
But uh they're all all these uh Republicans from the Northeastern states all come in for the big big kind of Northeastern Republican get together.
Uh And it uh I've been asked to say a few words to them, which is always a mixed blessing uh for me, because I I I can't understand why the Republicans don't push harder on this stuff.
Essentially, a big chunk of the Republican base was taken out of the game in the uh 2012 election.
In 2010, the Tea Party was incredibly effective, and it was so effective that the IRS decided uh to go after them.
And they're now proposing now their response to the fact that they did not apply the tax laws of the United States equally.
And you can have you, you know, you can have a discussion about whether we should even have all these 501c three, five oh one C four type stuff.
You can have that discussion.
I'd like it if we had a simple tax code so that we didn't have to have all these uh exemptions.
But in America, it's all about the exemptions, because the purpose of life in the Republic of paperwork is to is to have more and more paperwork.
And that's a burden in and of itself, in and of itself.
You don't, as as I always say, you don't need a president for life.
Leave that to the Latin American banana republics and the African basket cases.
You don't need a president for life if you've got a bureaucracy for life.
Uh this bureaucracy has enormous powers.
Uh it applies those powers whimsically and arbitrarily.
Uh and and the and insofar as you can justify the IRS having extraordinary powers to essentially uh destroy centuries old legal concepts, basically to tear up Magna Carta and say to hell with eight centuries of legal process, uh, say we don't believe in due process.
We can just freeze your bank accounts, we can just seize your assets.
The only ever so slender justification for that is that on Monday they'll seize the assets of Bud, the Tea Party guy, uh, but on Tuesday they'll be seizing the assets of Mildred uh who is uh a director of Planned Parenthood.
In other words, they're equal opportunity uh government enforcers.
And we have now had a pattern on an industrial scale that has exposed the fact that they are not, in fact, equal opportunity abusers of due process rights, but that in fact they target one side, one side of the political spectrum only, to the point where uh they call into question the legitimacy of close elections.
Who knows how these things might have gone if if uh one of the activist groups had active had actually been out there doing stuff instead of tied up filling in paperwork and reporting uh the reading habits of its members and what prayers were read out at churches and all kinds of things like that.
Where is why isn't the Republican Party, instead of merely, instead of merely just uh asking for the names of uh this or that uh IRS employee just said, look, there's prima facie evidence here that the IRS is institutionally corrupt.
Institutionally corrupt, and therefore it has to be replaced uh by a non-institutionally corrupt revenue collection agency with far more circumscribed and limited powers.
The pushback isn't enough against this stuff.
We're in election stealing territory here, we're in election stealing territory.
If you give money, if you make a donation to the president's opponents, the IRS will descend on you and all kinds of other agencies will descend on you, too.
People have had the EPA and OSHA and everybody else sicked on them, mysteriously sicked on them all within a few uh uh period of a few months because they made the mistake of supporting someone who does not have a D after their name.
That is full blown banana Republican stuff, and Republicans aren't manning up and actually taking a a stand against this.
It's not about congressional oversight committees, we're way beyond that.
There's no oversight of the IRS.
It needs to be gone and replaced with something with the limited powers that revenue agencies in other so-called civilized countries have.
Mark sign in for us, more decay.
Kim Kim Jong-un received one hundred percent of the vote in North Korea, and it turns out uh that that is not entirely unprecedented because in the 2012 presidential election, in many cities in America, Mitt Romney received no votes whatsoever.
In Philadelphia, in 59 precincts, Mitt Romney received no votes.
Barack Obama received 100% of the votes.
Mitt didn't have a get out the vote operation in Philadelphia.
He had a get out of town operation in Philadelphia.
But uh Barack Obama is the Kim Jong-un of those Philadelphia precincts.
He got 100% of the vote.
Nine Cleveland precincts.
Uh Barack Obama is also the Kim Jong-un of Cleveland.
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