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	All right, we're at the soundbite number eight.
	I'm telling the broadcast engineer that because I didn't do that during the break.
	Katie Pavlich Town Hall has the news.
	New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee shows staff working for ranking member and member of the Congressional Black Caucasians, Elijah Cummings.
	Emails show that staff working for Cummings communicated with the IRS many times.
	Between 2012 and 2013 about voter fraud prevention group, TrueThe Vote.
	True the vote was targeted by the IRS after applying for tax exempt status more than two years ago.
	Further information shows that the IRS and Cummings' staff asked for nearly identical information from TrueThe Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht.
	They wanted to know about her organization, and the fact they asked for the same stuff indicates coordination and improper sharing of confidential taxpayer information.
	And there's no doubt in anybody's mind this happened.
	Catherine Engelbrecht and her group were targeted.
	They were a voter fraud group.
	Democrats no action permitted on cleaning up voter fraud.
	And so Elijah Cummings, his staff wanted to know from the IRS what was going on with this group.
	That's a clear viol.
	The IRS can't tell anybody this stuff.
	The IRS not allowed to communicate with anybody about this kind of thing.
	Not allowed to share information.
	ICE is not entitled.
	What's his name?
	Cummings is not entitled to it.
	Staff's not entitled to it.
	And Lerner is not entitled to share it.
	Now the chairman of the committee, Darrell Issa, along with the five subcommittee chairmen, are demanding that Elijah Cummings provide an explanation for why his staff asked about TrueThe Vote through the IRS and for his denial that his staff ever did it.
	So Elijah Cummings and we didn't do it.
	My staff didn't do it.
	It's all lies.
	You're racist.
	The letter to Cummings goes this way.
	Although you have previously denied that your staff made inquiries to the IRS about conservative organization TrueTheVote that may have led to additional agency scrutiny.
	Communication records between your staff and IRS officials, which you did not disclose to majority members or staff indicates otherwise.
	As the committee is scheduled to consider a resolution holding Ms. Lerner, a participant in responding to your communications that you failed to disclose.
	In contempt of Congress, you, Cummings, have an obligation to fully explain your staff's undisclosed contacts with the IRS.
	The first contact between the IRS and Elijah Cummings staffers about TrueThe Vote happened in August of 2012.
	Then in January 2013, staff asked for more information from the IRS about the group.
	Former head of tax exempt groups of the IRS Lois Lerner went out of her way to try and get the information to Elijah Cummings' office.
	The information Cummings received was not shared with the majority members of the committee, i.e.
	the Republicans.
	Then on January 28th, three days after staffers requested more information.
	Lois Lerner wrote an email to her deputy, Holly Paz, who has since been put on administrative leave asking, did we find anything?
	Holly Paz responded immediately by saying information had not been found yet, to which Lerner replied, thanks.
	Check tomorrow, please.
	Then, three days later, January 31st, Holly Paz sent true the votes 990 forms to the staff of Elijah Cummings.
	All of this is illegal.
	None of this passes a smell test.
	Now, up until this point, Representative Elijah Cummings has denied his staff ever contacted the IRS about TrueThe Vote and their activities during the oversight hearings.
	In fact, on February 6th of this year, during a subcommittee hearing where Inglebrecht testified, Elijah Cummings vehemently denied having any contact or coordination in targeting TrueThe Vote when the attorney Cleta Mitchell representing the group indicated staff of the committee had been involved in communication with the IRS.
	So there are emails suggesting that Elijah Cummings prompted the IRS targeting of true the vote.
	Most powerful White House Obamacare official at Center of IRS scandal.
	That's another story involving Jean Lambrue.
	The proper headline should be emails suggest Elijah Cummings prompted IRS targeting of true the vote.
	Because folks, these emails speak for themselves, and Elijah Cummings' phony tirades speak for themselves.
	Now we know why this why Cummings went postal at a recent hearing on the IRS.
	It turns out he's up to his damn knees in the filth that this Lois Lerner had engaged in with the persecution of all of these conservative groups.
	This guy Cummings and Lois Lerner ought to go to jail, accompanied by some of his staff.
	That's where they ought to be.
	And she has now been found today contempt of Congress, but then she could be arrested.
	And she could be detained.
	They could put her behind bars.
	But Cummings ought to be there too.
	This was the direct intervention and the politicization of the IRS to inflict damage on a conservative group and to deny it tax exempt status so that it basically could not get up and running.
	Now, why were they so afraid of a group that was going to try to tamp down voter fraud?
	You realize there was abject panic over what Catherine Ingelbrecht wanted to do.
	There was so much panic that Cummings and his staff demanded to know everything about this group from the IRS, and the IRSIE, Lois Lerner provided it.
	And this allowed for the harassment of the group.
	Now the White House official who exchanged confidential taxpayer information with the IRS is a longtime Obama advisor and progressive activist who is currently the most powerful official on Obamacare implementation within the White House.
	Gene Lambrou, Deputy Assistant for the President for Health Policy.
	Entered Obama World in 2008 as a health policy advisor when Obama was senator.
	She was subsequently named Deputy Director and then director of the Department of Health and Human Services now defunct Office of Health Reform, where she reported directly to Kathleen Sibelius.
	Lambrus' current deputy assistant to the president position, while modest sounding, gives her extensive and centralized power over the White House's efforts to implement Obamacare.
	The corruption here, folks, is rampant.
	It is everywhere.
	It's all over.
	Remember when um Cummings erupted in a recent hearing when Lerner would not answer any questions.
	She pled the fifth.
	And of course, there's even argument about that.
	Trey Gowdy's made the great point.
	She can't take the fifth.
	She gave an opening statement.
	If you give an opening statement, you have given up your right not to testify.
	You can't then go back and claim a Fifth Amendment right not to implicate yourself because you've already testified.
	An opening statement is testimony.
	And so she was not Cummings after ISA shut down here.
	He asked her three or four questions.
	She said, I'm sorry, I'm not going to answer my Fifth Amendment.
	Screw you.
	So ISA shut it down.
	And then Cummings started raising hell about something, wanting to ask a question.
	And ISA, no, you can't, no, you can't, finally relented.
	Cummings started reading a statement, not asking a question.
	That means ISA then shut the thing down, and Cummings went ballistic, claiming racism and denial of free speech and uh abuse of power by ISA and all.
	Now we know why Cummings was doing all that.
	He was trying to deflect everybody's attention away from his own involvement in this.
	And we know why Lerner took the fifth, even though we're not supposed to say she took the fifth, so she would incriminate herself, and Elijah Cummings of the Congressional Black Caucasians.
	So this morning, in Washington on Capitol Hill, the House Oversight Government Reform Committee held a meeting to consider a resolution holding former IRS employee Lois Lerner in contempt, which they ultimately did, because she wouldn't answer any questions.
	And during this meeting, Cummings spoke and said this.
	In 1954, Senator McCarthy accused a woman named Diana Hogue of being a communist.
	She worked at the Westinghouse Company in a small town in New York, making a dollar and seventy-one cents per hour.
	And the similarities to today's hearing are simply striking.
	Senator McCarthy held the witness in contempt and sought criminal prosecution.
	So today, I will vote against the resolution.
	I do not want to go back to the shameful era which Congress tried to strip away the constitutional rights of American citizens and the right lights of hearings that had nothing to do with the responsible oversight and everything to do with worse, the worst kind of partisan politics.
	All right, the worst kind of partisan politics is what Cummings and his staff did, what Lerner did.
	absolute worst kind of partisan politics.
	You know, most everybody thinks, and has thought this forever, most everybody thinks that the president called the IRS an order and audit.
	Thank you.
	Everybody thinks that can happen.
	What they don't know is does it, but they all think it can.
	And every prominent person I know, after speaking out, always makes a joke.
	I guess I just guaranteed an audit.
	So everybody has always assumed that the IRS can be used by higher-ups for political reciprocity.
	Nobody has ever known for sure.
	Even after you get an audit, it's tough to know whether it's political in nature or whether your name just came up, or whether you won or lost the case may be the lottery.
	Now we know.
	Now there is no doubt, because this administration used the IRS for years to make sure that Tea Party groups didn't get anywhere, never granted tax exempt status.
	The details they submitted when they applied for it were disseminated to Democrats so that they could end up being harassed with that information in hand.
	So now we know.
	Nixon is reputed to have threatened to sick the IRS on people, but he never actually did it.
	But everybody has assumed it.
	So anyway, Cummings decided to go to McCarthyism route, and all the Democrats followed suit.
	After Cummings spoke, it was Democrat Gerald Connolly, a Democrat Virginia.
	Unfortunately, what we're about today brings us right back to the McCarthy era.
	If you want to look at case law, that's where you have to go.
	That's the last time Congress trampled on rights.
	Citizens' rights.
	Unheroic citizens.
	When we jeopardize the rights of a citizen like Lois Lerner.
	We put in jeopardy the rights of every American.
	The rights of a citizen like Lois Lerner.
	How about the rights of a citizen like Catherine Inglebrecht?
	Lois Lerner was the agent of McCarthyism, not the victim of it.
	She was the McCarthyite.
	I don't even want to get into discussion about McCarthy, but I wonder how many low information people know what McCarthyism is.
	Well, it may not be a good point.
	They may actually know.
	Well, because the Democrats, it's one of the things they constantly allege, and it's it's taught.
	As part of the curriculum to explain how evil and mean-spirited, racist, and bigoted Republicans are.
	It's mistaught, by the way.
	Anyway, here's Trey Gowdy.
	We've got to go to a break, but I want to play Trey Gowdy.
	He's a Republican, and it was at this meeting he spoke up, and he makes the point that she gave up her Fifth Amendment rights.
	I counted 17 separate factual assertions by Miss Lerner.
	Not those three little sentences that my colleagues like to cite.
	Seventeen separate factual assertions.
	That is a lot of talking for somebody who wants to remain silent.
	That's a lot of talking.
	If you honestly believe that you can make 17 separate factual assertions and still invoke your right to remain silent, then please tell me what waiver is.
	Can you imagine, Mr. Chairman?
	Can you imagine a fact pattern where somebody takes the stand and says I didn't rob the bank?
	But I'm not going to answer while my fingerprints are on the demand note.
	And I'm not going to tell you why I'm on the surveillance footage with the gun in my hand.
	And I'm not going to tell you why the die pack blew up in my car.
	I'm just going to tell you I didn't rob the bank.
	That's not the way our system works.
	That's right.
	You can't take the Fifth Amendment after you've begun to testify.
	But they let her.
	Anyway, they didn't let her.
	She was found to be in contempt.
	Today in a vote of 21 to 12.
	All right, here we have it here, Sunday 28.
	This is not even really a violation of the ban on NBC MSNBC, because there's not much here.
	Demanding that any of the guests explain any achievement in politics that qualifies Hillary to be president and nobody had any.
	It only takes 10 seconds here.
	I don't understand that, but we got enough to give you an idea of what happens.
	Here's the bite.
	Stand by.
	What achievement?
	One sentence.
	What did Hillary Clinton done?
	What sort of achievement in politics that qualifies her to be president of the United States?
	I'm not going to do a Hillary Clinton ad.
	Well, no, wait, well, you know, the thing is.
	And I guess they went on and there was no noise after that.
	Nobody answered it.
	And there isn't anything.
	What are you going to say?
	She says Dormat.
	She lived for eight years in Arkansas.
	That's enough to qualify anybody for payback reasons.
	It's a good question, actually.
	There are to be qualifications.
	Of course, what were Obama's?
	There was one.
	Graham sound bites 14 and 15.
	This IRS business.
	This is amazing.
	Let's review.
	And by the way, this McCarthyism business, remember it's in movies all the time.
	You remember the movie The Way We Were?
	Well, who was in it then?
	Well, look at the Barbara Streisander Robert River is all about McCarthyism.
	The media loves it.
	It's like Alger Hiss.
	The low information voters know what McCarthyism is and they know what Alger Hiss is.
	Yes, they do.
	Whenever a Democrat is under the microscope, it's always McCarthyism.
	Yeah.
	Well, okay.
	People that are calling 911 when McDonald's on the McNuggets might not know who Hiss is, but they think they know what McCarthyism is.
	Now let's let's just let's review here.
	The IRS has been asking people, American citizens, who are trying to get a tax exemption.
	Are you now or have you ever been a supporter of a Tea Party?
	And that's not McCarthyism.
	No.
	The Congressman investigating that abuse, they are accused of McCarthyism.
	So McCarthyism has become the quest for truth of Democrat corruption.
	That's the new definition of McCarthyism.
	Whenever you try to find the truth of Democrat Party corruption, that's McCarthyism.
	And racism because you're not entitled to do that.
	But this is what the Democrats do.
	When they get caught red-handed in acts of corruption like Cummings was just caught colluding with Lois Lerner.
	They start saying outrageous things, the most outrageous thing they can think of to try to change the subject.
	And Cummings and pretty much every one of the members of the Congressional Black Caucasians are experts at masters at this.
	They are masters at throwing around the most radical crazy accusations to deflect everybody or distract everybody's uh attention.
	I think Cummings even called ISA un-American for pursuing this.
	A couple weeks ago, Cummings said ISA was un-American.
	Now he's accusing him of McCarthyism.
	Meanwhile, nobody knows what McCarthyism really is because a bunch of it was trumped up.
	Anyway, here is Barack Hussein Obama.
	This is February 2nd, 2014 on Fox TV's Super Bowl pregame show.
	The O'Reilly factor host, Bill O'Baxter was Bill O'Reilly, sorry, says O'Baxter here, was interviewing Obama about the IRS scandal.
	And O'Reilly said, You're saying there was no corruption in the IRS scandal.
	No, not there were some there were some bone-headed decisions.
	Boneheaded out of a mass corruption.
	Not even mass corruption.
	Not even a smidgen of corruption.
	Not even a smidgen.
	And there you have it.
	Not a smidgen of corruption.
	Case closed.
	This morning on CBS this morning.
	Jan Crawford, formerly Jan Crawford Greenberg, now just Jan Crawford.
	Greenberg gone.
	She reported about the disclosure that IRS employees were actively campaigning for Obama during work.
	Oh, that's another thing.
	The IRS orifice in Texas, any number of places they found pro-Obama screensavers and other paraphernalia in IRS offices at election time.
	Big no-no.
	So Jan Crawford was talking about that.
	Yesterday, ethics investigators also reporting that IRS employees at several different offices were actively supporting President Obama while they were on the job, including one employee they reported, who was urging people that were calling into this taxpayer helpline to vote for the president.
	She was shocked.
	She was shocked that IRS officials campaign for Obama.
	Does anybody else find this shocking?
	Are you shocked by it?
	I'm not shocked by it that Obama would use the IRS, that he would populate the IRS with Obama voters and supporters.
	Only somebody in the media could be shocked by this.
	And not for long, once it's explained to her.
	Jan, this was to make sure the tea party didn't get anywhere.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh, okay.
	I get it now.
	All right.
	No story here.
	That's right.
	That's exactly right.
	And here's James in Golden Colorado as we go back to the phones and the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Hello, sir.
	Hi, Russ.
	How are you?
	Good.
	Thank you.
	Um, I'm well, thank you.
	Uh ultimately I just wanted to tell you and your listeners that I believe our current president is a tyrant, and I would like to do everything I can to refuse our tyrants.
	I refuse to submit to Obamacare.
	Uh just plain and simple.
	I like it.
	I like it.
	You're making yourself a target.
	Um are you when you know so you're not buying insurance, is what you're saying.
	I haven't had insurance since I uh moved out of my parents' house at 18.
	But you could stay on your parents' policy till you're 26.
	Uh according to now, but uh I'm 28 now, so well, freeloader days are over for you.
	Right, I miss out.
	So you're just not gonna buy insurance.
	It's kind of like my theory on a recession.
	If they're gonna have one, just don't participate.
	So if you're you're not gonna let Obama tyrant you.
	Exactly.
	I mean, during this whole recession, I have friends that were saying, Oh, it's so hard to get a job, it's so hard to get a job.
	I'm putting applications in all the time, and here I went out and you know, two days later got a job and the hardest.
	Really if you want something, you're gonna find it.
	You have to you have to want it.
	And it's just plain and simple that.
	Not enough kids in my generation, I feel like.
	You know, there is you are you are light years ahead of your peers in uh uh understanding and maturity.
	You're right.
	You want something bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen or to get it at some point.
	What did it good job?
	Is it something you really like to do?
	It's uh it's actually very enjoyable, it's very rewarding.
	Um I started out working for my father, uh his window company, but uh he stepped out of that business, and my brother started up a window company, and I actually uh service manager for him, and it's actually worked out quite great.
	Cool.
	Okay.
	So but you you found a job applying for a family-owned business.
	Right.
	Well, actually, I I got my I I got into that um after finding a job back in the day.
	I I found a job at a restaurant during the time of the the whole recession.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay.
	What what did you do at the restaurant?
	I was a server, you know, just needed a job, so were the tips good?
	About a hundred dollars a day.
	Better than uh uh minimum wage job for sure.
	Well, that's that's actually not bad.
	Did you report I don't even no, never mind, not gonna ask you that question.
	Um so now you're working at uh at your brother's firm, and you're not gonna buy insurance because you're not going to let Obama tyrant you.
	Correct.
	Plain and simple.
	You know, I just I like this.
	I I like do you know, by the way, just to inform you that even if you wanted to buy insurance now, you can't until January?
	Yes, yes, I am aware.
	Not not for the until the rest of the year, right?
	Uh until January.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	Now how do in the world did that happen?
	Uh you realize there are gonna be some people who are going to need insurance.
	They're gonna get sick, they're gonna need it, and they can't buy it from now until January.
	If you didn't buy it by the end of the deadline, they didn't tell you this.
	Oh, they told you what the deadline was.
	So now you have to pay the penalty if you don't have you can't buy insurance.
	Now, I don't care if you that is inane.
	Who would build that into this law?
	Unless you wanted to create pain.
	Unless you wanted to create angst.
	Unless you wanted to show people the dangers of not having insurance, so that you never let that happen again.
	Interesting.
	Well, congrats, James.
	It's great that uh You got through.
	I'm glad to hear from you.
	We will take a break and be right back.
	How many of you people use Dropbox?
	How many of you people have heard of Dropbox?
	I was stunned.
	I just asked the staff, and they all have heard about it and use it, which is cool.
	How many of you use it?
	Dropbox is a place where you it syncs individual files if you want to put whatever you want to put in Dropbox.
	It syncs it to every other computer and iPhone, iPad, smartphone, whatever you have, so that no matter where you go, it's a safe place to keep things.
	It's not a it's not a system backup.
	It's just put a two files there, a picture here or there, whatever you want to use it for.
	Wildly popular, and they made some software announcements yesterday in San Francisco.
	They had announced some new software program called Carousel, which is for uh displaying your pictures, so forth, a couple other things for business.
	And they also announced Condoleza Rice to their board of directors.
	And now there is a massive movement throughout the tech world to get her thrown off the Dropbox Board of Directors.
	Because she wiretapped people.
	She was part of the Bush administration, Secretary of State.
	Warrantless wiretaps.
	They are trying.
	Oh, Condoleza Rice had nothing to do with it.
	And even if she did, she couldn't hold up candled Obama, who would be gladly accepted on any of these places boards.
	Drew Houston is the founder, co-founder, CEO of Dropbox.
	He named Condoleezza Rice.
	also was admitted to Augusta a year or two ago as one of the first female, one of the two first female members.
	File storage service Dropbox was, Has assigned several executives to lead it forward, and one of the executives, former National Security Advisor, Secretary of State Condoleza Rice, following the reveal of Rice as a member of the board of directors, an initiative called Drop Dropbox started.
	Supposedly it's not a partisan effort.
	This website is calling for her ouster, citing historical events that occurred during her term of orifice as proof of her lack of ethics and her unsuitability to help govern the Dropbox Company.
	So there is a there's a Brendan Ike effort now that's being waged, and these leftists, these militants are going to start pressuring Dropbox the same way Mozilla was until they drop Condoleza Rice.
	They're not going to give it up.
	It's bigotry, it is hatred.
	This is McCarthyism.
	A number of other things.
	You might even say it's racism because Condoleezza Rice is black.
	Although she's conservative, so that kind of cancels out the black.
	In their world, she's an Uncle Tom.
	The Dropbox website declares the appointment deeply disturbing and believes that anyone or any business who values ethics should be concerned.
	Despite stating that this is not an issue of partisanship, several political events are noted by the site as reasons why she should not be on the board.
	Clearly outlined are her roles and quotes from the build-up to the Iraq War, aggravated by death counts.
	Weapons of mass destruction lies in this kind of thing.
	She was the provost at Stanford, which these people love.
	But anyway, here comes the next example of leftist bigotry and hatred and censorship and character assassination, and it's aimed at Condoleezza Bryce sent because she was named The board of directors at Dropbox.
	What are you shaking your heads in there for?
	They don't stop.
	They don't go away.
	They never go away, do they?
	Never ever do.
	They are the bigots.
	They are the people filled with hatred.
	They are the intolerant.
	They are the closed-minded.
	They are the problem.
	Hey, folks, our 24th annual Curathon.
	Radio Curathon to cure the blood cancers is tomorrow.
	So get ready.
	24th year we've done this.
	Annual radio Curaton.
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