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The House Oversight Committee just voted to hold Lois Lerner in contempt.
21 racists, sorry, sexists.
I get them confused sometimes.
21 sexists voted to hold her in contempt.
And 12 reasonable, nice, non-judgmental Democrats voted no.
This means, ladies and gentlemen, that she can be arrested if Daryl Issa chooses to do this.
Not only can she be arrested, she can be detained by the House of Representatives, having been voted in contempt.
That is not insignificant.
Some people may think that's just the latest political maneuver, and who knows, might well be, but it is not insignificant to be held in contempt of Congress.
This whole Lois Lerner thing, everything that we suspected has turned out to be true.
She was in league with the administration to harm the Tea Party, using the power of the IRS to deny them tax-exempt status and therefore political free speech.
And she was working in conjunction with Elijah Cummings, who's the ranking Democrat from the Congressional Black Caucasians.
He's the ranking Democrat on the committee.
She was working with him to sabotage an organization called True the Vote.
That's the organization run by Catherine Engelbrecht, I believe, out of Texas.
That was an anti-voter fraud effort she was engaged in.
And the Democrats did not want that shut down, and they did not grant her her tax-exempt status so she couldn't get into gear, couldn't raise money and get to work.
It turns out that Lois Lerner was sharing details of True the Vote with Elijah Cummings because he was asking for it and back and forth.
And so now we know why Elijah Cummings was supposedly erupting spontaneously all those times during committee hearings.
It was simply to make sure that whenever anything was headed his way, that it got deflected.
And of course, he threw down the race card as well at one point.
And we've got audio soundbites backing this up.
She can be arrested now.
And there's an email that's been uncovered that she sent that if things broke down, she could always go work for that.
What's that thing Podesta runs?
There's so many of these Obama slash Clinton.
I don't think it might have been Center for American Progress or it's one of those things that John Podesta runs.
She could have gone over there and just furthered her political activism.
And the reason why that was important is because she was revealing the fact that she was a strident partisan Democrat using that in her job of the IRS.
Oh, no, no, no, they say she's just joking about going to work for that group.
She was just joking.
That was organized for action is what she said.
It was organizing for action, which used to be organizing for Obama.
No, no, it was organizing for action that she made, that she was going to go work for, which is the offshoot during the campaign that was organizing for Obama.
When he got elected, they changed the name to Organizing for America, but it remained his agitate, his community organizer group.
And she made a joke in an email back and forth with Elijah Cummings.
Well, maybe I go work over there.
And the slate.com and Mother Jones and all these other things.
Oh, she was just kidding.
It's not clear that she was being truthful.
Because if she was being truthful, she was revealing, to those who didn't know it, just how partisan she was.
We'll get into the details.
I am being, I was going to say, pressured, encouraged by the staff to not drop this Attorney General business only because of an opportunity to talk about Janet Reno.
And it is kind of an interesting story.
Many of you who are lifers here are familiar with this.
You'll not be, may have forgotten it.
It'll jog your memory.
Others of you may not know of this.
Janet Reno launched the Waco invasion as the Attorney General for Bill Clinton, and she was not their first choice.
Remember, they chose somebody to be attorney general, whoever it was had not paid the nanny or had not filed payroll taxes for the nanny.
Whoever that was got sent packing, and it was always thought that it was Hillary that decided on Janet Reno, and that was easily believable, both on the surface and after an in-depth analysis.
So Janet Reno becomes the Attorney General, and not long after, it's the early heady days of the Clinton administration, and David Koresh of the Branch Davidian sect was ensconced in some dilapidated buildings outside Waco, Texas.
Now, Janet Reno had the reputation of being devoted to children, even though she had none of her own.
And there were children in the Branch Davidian compound, as it was called.
And to make this story really short, one day Janet Reno was told that the children, some of the children in the Branch Davidian compound, a religious sect, were being abused.
And she then launched the Waco invasion.
She sent tanks and other military vehicles, and they launched an all-out assault on this thing, and they burned it to the ground.
It happened while this program was on the air.
I'm sitting here watching the Branch Davidian compound literally be torched by the United States government and Janet Reno.
And all the while, I'm not believing that Reno acted on her own.
She's too new.
This is too big an action for Reno.
By the way, it was this incident that was one of two that reputedly caused Timothy McVeigh to go over the edge when he saw what was happening with the full force of the federal government being used in this way to attack religious people under the guys they were cooks and freaks and there was child abuse going on in there.
So Janet Reno burned the place down and lots of people died, including the children.
Well, this required oversight.
The required a congressional investigation.
Janet Reno appeared.
And during the investigation, which I naively believed was, because I mean, John Conyers, Democrats ran everything back then.
So I figured what was going to happen was an effort to cover up for Janet Reno.
Because they circle the wagons.
They protect each other.
So I thought it was just basically going to be a circus act thing, but nothing really of any consequence is going to happen.
Well, lo and behold, John Conyers went in there and he just launched on her and he did everything he could to destroy this woman.
And I thought in the process that he was being disrespectful and rude.
Not what he was learning, not what she was saying, but just his treatment.
I thought it was unproductive.
And this is not how if you really want to find out why she did what she did and when it all started, this is not the way to go about it.
He was just preaching.
He wasn't seeking information.
He was just on his high horse.
I happened to mention that.
I happened to mention that I thought Conyers was being rude and unproductive, even though it was well known that I was not a supporter of Janet Reno, obviously, or the Clinton administration.
Well, not long after that came the White House correspondence dinner, the last one I've ever attended.
And during the White House correspondence dinner, President Clinton told a joke.
I was the guest of the Washington Times.
I forget the name of the reporterette who had invited me, but I was not far from the C-SPAN table.
Brian Lamb was there with Susan Swain.
Remember them?
And even then, I had not lost my hearing, but it was in the big ballroom at the Washington Hilton.
There's 1,200 people in there.
And I was, for some reason, having trouble hearing, keeping up.
So I didn't catch it the moment it was said, but I saw everybody turn and look at me.
And I only later learned what Clinton had said.
And after it was over, this is where Dee Dee Myers gave me a kiss.
Remember that?
After it was over, Chris Matthews, back when he was still sane, came up to me at the end of the event and said, you can't let that pay.
You cannot let the President of the United States call you a racist.
You cannot let that stand.
And the Rushland boy know is not going to sit here and take this.
And he was livid that it had happened.
And here is what Clinton said.
It's audio soundbite number six.
It goes by fast.
It's eight seconds.
Do you like the way Rush took up for Janet Reno the other night on his program?
She only did it because she was attacked by a black guy.
And there was a little bit of uncomfortable laughter and then silence.
And everybody turned and stared at me.
Because the President of the United States had just called me a racist.
And he said that what I was defending Janet Reno was insincere.
It was simply that she's being attacked by Conyers.
Who's a black guy?
See the way Rush took up for Janet.
Folks, by the way, if I may go back to my Program on Monday talking about them assigning to us our intentions and their attempt to make everybody believe that we are at heart mean, extreme, racist, sexist bigots and all that.
And that whenever we behave in ways that are not racist, sexist bigot, we're just trying to camouflage who we really are.
So that when David Koch gives $100 million to a hospital, he's not really doing it because he cares about patients and sick people and kids in hospitals.
He's trying to cover up the fact that he's a mean, spirited, racist, bigot, and hateful person.
And that's why he was protested.
Or whenever I or any conservative engage in charitable act, we don't really mean it.
We're just trying to fool people.
We're trying to convince people that we're not who we really are.
That's how they deal with us.
That's what this is.
You like the way Rush took over Janet Reno the other night?
He all did because he's attacked by a black guy.
And what he was saying, Lindbaugh couldn't care less about Janet Reno.
He couldn't care less the way she was treated.
He probably hates her guts, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But because he's a racist, he couldn't stand it.
A black guy was attacking her.
That's what he was saying.
And this is how all this stuff gets cemented in the minds of low-information voters.
So anyway, I did call the White House, and I demanded a retraction from this.
And I think it was somebody at USA Today thought it was all funny.
Talk to me about it.
I thought it was all funny.
Later in the week, a White House spokesman did not apologize, but got really close to it.
Clinton never did, but somebody speaking for him, they got as close to apologizing.
That's not what the president meant, blah, blah, as they could without apologizing.
But ever since then, I haven't been back to this thing, and there's nothing that would ever get me to attend one.
That's just gotten worse.
And so that's why I don't go to these things anymore.
In the midst of all this, Janet Reno continued to be Attorney General Yvon Gonzalez thing that the kid stolen from home down in Florida, taken back to Cuba and so forth.
And that's right, it was Kimba Wood and Zoe Baird that were the first two Clinton attempts at Attorney General, and one of them had a judge problem, the other had a nanny problem in not paying their FICA taxes.
One of them, an illegal immigrant, is what it was.
El Rinho.
And it was Judy Keene who invited me to the White House correspondence dinner.
She was at USA Today at the time.
The first time I went to the White House correspondence dinner, it was a guest of Washington Times, and I ended up, I didn't have a car driver.
I just caught a cab from the hotel and was over, shared a ride with Patricia, whatever was her name from the NAGs.
Patricia Ireland.
I was in the front seat.
She was in the back.
Oh, my God.
You talk about ice.
Back to the phones.
This is Vern in St. Paul, Minnesota, and I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Kittos.
Thank you.
Snurdy told me to get right to it.
And what Holder said to The committee, when he said, don't go there, buddy.
I would take that as a threat.
Sure sounded like one, didn't it?
Yep.
Anybody tells me something like that, to me, that they're doing a threat.
Don't go there, buddy.
And it's typical, somebody in this position who thinks they're untouchable, unassailable.
You can't look at me unless I grant you position permission, and you dare not question what I do.
How dare you?
Don't go there, buddy.
Don't go there.
And the reason, another reason why it could be considered a threat is this guy's got the power to Justice Department for recriminations if he wants to.
Or they can simply call up whoever's running the IRS if they want to.
We know that that's how this regime operates.
We know that now.
Not that anybody cares, obviously.
But we know it.
Don and Syracuse.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
How are you, Rush?
Megadittos.
Thank you very much, sir.
First-time caller.
I got your book for Christmas, Rush Revere.
Yeah.
And my five-year-old, I wanted to, you know, start reading them basically like a novel, something that we could read continuously every night.
Yeah.
I started reading them the Rush Revere book.
He loved it.
I mean, he asked for it every night.
We had some family come up, and there were some nights that we couldn't read it.
He asked me every single night.
Well, lo and behold, they started talking about, he's in kindergarten.
They started talking about the Pilgrims and everything.
And apparently, he was answering questions and talking about the book in school.
The teacher told him that he could bring the book in, and he brought the book in this morning.
He was so excited to bring the book.
This is incredibly five years old?
Five years old.
And at the end of the book, when you have that question, not the test, just the quick question right at the end about who taught Tommy how to sword fight, he immediately answered it.
Immediately.
As a parent, I thank you so much for that point.
You know, hang on a minute.
We just hit the break time.
Don't hang up.
You know, I'm watching Obama.
He's at the LBJ Library.
And he's the speech here marking the 50 years since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act.
And you know what he said?
He said, as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, we honor the men and women who made it possible, which is a big switch because normally he attacks Republicans.
What?
No, the Democrats didn't make the, you know, it's one of the big myths of recent American history.
The Democrats were the segregationists.
Do you know that a greater percentage of Republican senators voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats?
I mean, I saw Doris Kearns Kearns, whatever Goodwin on TV the other day.
She got very close to LBJ.
I mean, really close doing research.
You know what I mean by really close.
And she, they loved LBJ because he was a bully.
He was a bully, and he was working the phone.
The story was that he was pounding the pay, but he was calling Democrats night and day trying to convince them to vote for this because they were the segregationists.
The Democrats were the KKK.
Democrats, Bull Connor, the dogs, and the fire hose.
It's one of the most amazing historical reversals ever.
Okay, back now to Don and Syracuse.
Don, you know, I'm so grateful first that you got through.
Getting through calling this program is really a tough thing to do because so many millions of people are trying.
And your story is, you know, I can't tell you.
I can't adequately describe the good feeling I get from hearing this.
A five-year-old who loves the book, who wants to hear from it every night, and then wanted to take it to kindergarten, and the teacher let him bring it, and he was able to answer questions nobody else was able to answer because he'd read it or had it read to him.
And then was able to answer that question.
Of course, the answer to the little question was Miles Standish, but just want to prove people that I know the answer to my own book's question.
And I just, I'm so gratified.
I can't, I can't, I wish, it's one of these things, I wish this book were in every parent's hands.
I think it should be.
I mean, I couldn't, I honestly didn't know how he was going to do it because we were doing, you know, books that took about five minutes to read.
Well, yeah, for a five-year-old, that makes sense.
But this is a novel.
Right.
And when I told, when I explained it to him that this was going to be a long book and everything, he just kind of looked at me.
After the first night, I mean, you could, he was so, like, into that book.
It was, I couldn't believe it.
Like, I've heard people on here say stuff, and I kind of thought to myself, I don't.
I know what you thought.
Can I tell you what you thought?
Come on, Rush, enough of the kids.
Okay, we get it.
You got a book out there, but stick to the issues.
Something like that.
Now your child has encountered the book and can't get enough of it.
Can't get enough.
When we finished the book, he immediately picked up on that you had a second book.
And I'm like, it just asked if they were going to go somewhere else.
You know, where are they going next?
Like the kids in the book.
Well, let me take the occasion of your call here to learn something.
What is it do you think?
Are you able to estimate what he likes best about it?
Liberty.
Well, that's cool because we've got big things planned for Liberty.
That's all I'm going to say.
And he just, like I said, when we picked up on it the next night, I would ask him, do you remember what happened?
And he immediately would say whatever Liberty had said, you know, and then I would kind of coax him a little bit as to remembering.
And then he would remember, I mean, we may not have read the book for three nights, and he would remember when we talked about a little bit more what we had talked about on the previous one.
I am just so thankful.
It's a great connection for him and I to have, you know, have father and son time together.
I love reading.
I'm so happy that he's into it.
The most important part is that he took what he learned and went to school with it.
I mean, it sounds like he wanted to take it to school.
I'm pretty sure he convinced the teacher to let him bring it in.
Five years old we're talking about here.
You've got to forgive me here.
You stick to the issues, people.
This is just too amazing.
I think that what you're doing for our kids is awesome, Rush.
And as a parent, I so much appreciate it.
Thank you.
It's so unfortunate what they're being taught.
He's going to be taught the exact opposite of what he's learning in these books.
It is.
I mean, as a parent, there's ways to counter it.
I don't want to start any arguments with anybody.
No, it's going to be interesting.
As he gets older, he's going to go to school.
They're going to get into pilgrims.
They're going to tell him a bunch of garbage about it.
And he's going to have this book as his first learning experience.
And he's going to, I'm sure you'll prep him for it.
But he's still going to be a little confused.
And he's going to say, well, wait a minute.
No, no, no, because I read that.
And then they may, wherever you go, may trash the book.
Well, you can't believe what that author writes, little Timmy.
So it's.
Well, I did show him in the back where you got all your information from.
And I did explain it to him that you didn't just, yes, there is no such thing as a talking horse.
Sorry to break it to everybody.
But a lot of the information that you did put in the book happened.
And you gave where he could find that.
I mean, to me, when you say something to somebody, when you can back it up with proof, that's really what I think hits home.
Well, there's nothing in it for any of us to lie about this.
There's nothing in it.
The left has to do that because they are trying to spread things that aren't true.
But we don't have to lie.
There's nothing in it on this program or anything.
There's nothing.
I gain nothing by lying.
I gain nothing by building an audience built on lies.
I gain nothing by it.
In fact, the exact opposite.
I tell you what, you've got both books, right?
Did I hear you?
No, we've got the one book, The Rush Revere.
Oh, okay, cool.
Well, here, I tell you what, what is your son's first name?
Hunter.
Hunter.
Okay, I am going to send you the audio versions read by me on a bridge of both.
And I'm going to send Hunter the second book, autographed by Liberty.
Oh, my God.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I've got a fairly Liberty's starting to get a little big head and protest at all these autographs he has to sign, but I get his mind right.
We had a photo session with him the other day, and he demanded to put on a suit and tie.
I'm telling you, we're losing control with the guy.
But anyway, if you'll give Mr. Snerdley an address, then we will get all that stuff out, and we'll make sure Liberty signs the second book to Hunter.
Rush, I appreciate it so much.
Thank you from my family.
And you thank you so much.
You can tell Hunter that there's going to be a third book, too.
But don't tell anybody else.
I'll wait till I get to know the second book.
Just keep that.
Let him know.
Keep that between us.
Okay, thanks.
Thanks, Don.
I really appreciate it.
Don't hang up.
Snerdley, pick up the phone next, and we will take a brief time out and come back and continue right after this.
Don't go.
I think teaching the truth about our country's history is the issue.
And actually, teaching the truth about everything is the issue.
But I'm teaching the truth about our country's history is the issue.
That's where we first went off the tracks when we allowed the multiculturalists to come in with their curriculum.
You remember the Reverend Zach way back in the late 70s and early 80s, coinciding with his presidential run, which was 1984, I think.
Yeah.
Ho, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go.
Remember that?
And they're marching out at Stanford and a number of other places across the fruited plain.
Ho, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go, Western civilization.
And the multiculturalists began to take over the public school system and began teaching literal rot gut.
They began teaching literal lies, all oriented around the fact that this country was founded in an unjust and immoral way, and the country was, as such, illegitimate.
And we now have a president who came from that mode of education.
And we have an administration populated with people who also believe that because they were chosen by this president.
And that is what we are up against.
We are up against people who are teaching anti-American history.
The Blame America First crowd has taken over the curriculum, particularly all the way back to kindergarten, but mainly elementary and into high school, of course, into the institutions of so-called higher learning.
I think it is the issue.
And it's crucially important.
Here's Mark in Las Vegas.
We go back to the phones.
Thank you, sir, for calling.
Hi.
Pittsburgh Steelers did us from the greatest city on earth, Rush.
You know what?
I got to tell you something.
The Steelers preseason schedule was announced yesterday.
Every team's was.
And for the first time in I don't know how many years, not one Steelers preseason game will be televised nationally.
Well, we're opening up with the Giants, so no one's going to be watching anyways.
Opening up with the Giants and then the Giant at Buffalo at Heinz Field, and then play the Iggles in Philadelphia to close against the Panthers, which they do every year.
But it's the first time they've been coming up two eight and eight seasons, and the national networks are saying, you know, nobody wants to watch mediocre teams, and you are one.
So the Steelers, now, when this generally happens, this when teams rebound, when the leagues predict that they're going to suck, is when teams rebound.
So Steelers fans can hold out hope because that one decision made by the networks.
Well, you know, you and I have spoken about the Steelers before.
It was my phone call that you introduced the world to Foreign Honors.
And that was our phone call back in Pittsburgh years ago, you and I. Is that right?
I remember it was a Monday night.
We were talking about Monday night football.
This is like the eighth time I've got through to your show.
Well, I'm glad you made it.
How many years?
Oh, over the years, you and I have spoken since the Clinton, the early Clinton administration.
Wow, since 1992.
And I also got to speak with Walter Williams on your show, Sean Hannity, and then the late, the great Tony Snow when they were subbing in for you.
Do you do anything else?
Yeah, I do Elvis.
I'm a reverend.
I do Elvis as an Elvis Entertainer out here in Las Vegas.
Oh, you're one of the flying Elvi.
I could be.
I love to jump out of airplanes, but I always have a headphone with at least one headphone in my ear listening to Rush no matter what else is going on.
I appreciate that.
I really do.
Couldn't go without it.
The reason for my call is I'm the one person who watches MSNBC, and I watch it religiously just because it makes me laugh when I'm making tea in the morning.
This morning, they were talking about the powerful women of the Democrats and who could be the next president.
Bill Crystal asked the panel, why is Hillary Clinton qualified?
There was not one answer.
Now, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on.
Just a second.
Did you say Bill Crystal was on MSNBC?
This morning.
Really?
He was on that morning show.
That woman up there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I probably had a contract with Fox.
I didn't know that.
That's interesting.
No, no big deal.
I just, you know, I don't watch MSNBC.
Not used to hearing about people like Bill Crystal appearing on it.
Anyway, nobody could provide any qualifications for her.
Not one person answered.
They all sat there.
It was almost like somebody hit a mute button.
And towards the end of that little break, one of the other panelists, one of the men says, well, we have a book coming out in August, and you'll have all the answers to those questions.
And Crystal just sat there like the cats of Ate the Canary because he was right.
He had them all nailed dead to rights, and he had them all just up against the wall.
Not one had an answer.
None of them.
Look, you know, everybody knows that I like Bill Crystal.
But I have to tell you, when he goes public with predictions, count on the opposite thing happening.
I'm just, I say it with love and affection.
It happens.
And I got real scared the other day because he said there is no way Jeb Bush is going to get the nomination.
There is no way.
And I said, Bill, please don't say that.
Let somebody else say it.
Well, in this case, he did not predict.
All he did was ask the question, which I've learned from you over the years.
The best way to win the argument is ask the question and let the person make their own judgment.
And that's how the people learn.
He did the exact thing.
He asked them, why is Hillary qualified?
He asked it again.
Not one answer on that panel.
Not from Liberal Joe, not from LeBlanc, not from anybody.
Well, they have an answer.
They just don't have the guts to tell you what it is.
Exactly.
You can't tell the truth.
Not about Hillary.
I mean, she's not qualified in the sense that you think of qualifications as president.
But that's not why she is in the top tier.
They're not going to answer that question.
I'm surprised that they didn't fake it.
But it does, if what you said happened, and I have no reason to doubt you.
You're an eight-time caller.
You've talked to all the guest hosts.
There's no reason to doubt you.
I can't believe they couldn't come up with some fake answer to answer, explain why she is qualified.
Well, she spent so many years in the White House.
She guided Bill Clinton.
Remember, he's still popular with Democrats, so that could be a plus.
She helped guide Bill Clinton through whatever it is.
She's expert on health care.
She's Secretary of State.
Any number of things they could say, but they didn't say anything, which, I mean, her primary achievement is that she was a doormat.
And it is for that that she is being rewarded.
Why are you laughing?
Well, they probably will go nuts.
Well, I'm going to see.
You know, I've got this ban on MSNBC.
And by the way, concomitantly, with our ban, their ratings are in the literal toilet.
You can't see them.
Yeah, that's the.
But Crystal didn't make that prediction about Jeb on MSNBC.
He did that wherever else he works.
But I could probably find the bite, and we could listen to the sound of silence.
As Crystal says, name her qualifications.
You could probably do that.
But there's, see, their reason for thinking Hillary should be president has nothing to do with qualifications.
It has to do with they think she can't lose, number one.
B, she's owed it.
C, they took it away from her in 08 when it was literally promised to her.
There's all kinds of things like that.
You know, she gave up half of her life to live in Arkansas.
That's probably the top of the list.
No, no, no, I've forgotten.
We got Lois Lerner and Elijah Cummings, Congressional Black Caucasians.