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April 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 10, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Talent on loan from God Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
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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 of Town Hall has the news.
New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee show 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 True the 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 True the 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 violence.
The IRS can't tell anybody of this stuff.
The IRS is 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 True the Vote through the IRS and for his denial that his staff ever did it.
So Elijah Cummings said, we didn't do it.
My staff didn't do it.
It's all lies.
You're racists.
The letter to Cummings goes this way.
Although you have previously denied that your staff made inquiries to the IRS about conservative organization True the Vote 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 True the 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 Vote's 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 True the Vote and their activities during the oversight hearings.
In fact, on February 6th of this year, during a subcommittee hearing where Ingelbrecht testified, Elijah Cummings vehemently denied having any contact or coordination in targeting True the 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 Gene Lambrew.
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 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.
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 Engelbrecht 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.
Jean Lambrew, 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 Sebelius.
Lambrew's 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 Cummings erupted in a recent hearing when Lerner would not answer any questions.
She pled the fifth.
And of course, there's even an 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 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 so Cummings, after ISA shut down here, he asked her three or four questions.
She's, 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 abuse of power by ISA.
And 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 wouldn't 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 Hoag of being a communist.
She worked at the Wessinghouse Company in a small town in New York, making $1.71 per hour.
And the similarities to today's hearing are simply striking.
Like Chairman Isa is doing today, 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 in 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 the worst kind of partisan politics.
Right.
Worst kind of partisan politics is what Cummings and his staff did, what Lerner did, the 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 and order an audit.
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, 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 the McCarthyism route, and all the Democrats followed suit.
After Cummings spoke, it was Democrat Gerald Connolly, 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 Engelbrecht?
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 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 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 Ms. Lerner, not those three little sentences that my colleagues like to cite.
17 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 when somebody takes the stand and says, I didn't rob the bank, but I'm not going to answer why 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.
Well, 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 MSNBC because there's not much here.
He had a caller say that Bill Kristol was on there 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 happened.
He says, here's the bite.
Stand by.
What achievement?
One sentence.
What had 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.
What up?
You know, the thing.
And I guess they went on and there was no noise after that.
Nobody answered it.
And there isn't anything.
What are they going to say?
She says, Dormant?
She lived for eight years in Arkansas.
That's enough to qualify anybody for some payback reasons.
It's a good question, actually.
There are to be qualifications.
Of course, what were Obama's?
There was one.
Grab soundbites 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, Barbara Streisander Robert Ripper was 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 their McNuggets might not know who Hiss is, but they think they know what McCarthyism is.
Now, let's...
Let's just 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 congressmen 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 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.
No, there were some boneheaded decisions 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 at 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, Rush.
How are you?
Good.
Thank you.
I'm well.
Thank you.
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 tyrant.
I refuse to submit to Obamacare, just plain and simple.
I like it.
I like it.
You're making yourself a target, but how are you – so you're not buying insurance is what you're saying.
I haven't had insurance since I moved out of my parents' house at 18.
But you could stay on your parents' policy until you're 26.
According to now, but I'm 28 now, so.
Oh, well, freeloader days are over for you.
Right, I missed out.
So, you're just not going to buy insurance.
It's kind of like my theory on a recession.
If they're going to have one, just don't participate.
So, if you're not going to let Obama tyrant you exactly.
I mean, during this whole recession, I had 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 thing.
Really?
If you want something, you're going to find it.
You have to want it.
And it's just plain and simple that not enough kids in my generation, I feel.
You know, Doris, you are light years ahead of your peers in 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.
Is it a good job?
Is it something you really like to do?
It's actually very enjoyable.
It's very rewarding.
I started out working for my father, his window company, but he stepped out of that business.
And my brother started up a window company, and I actually am a service manager for him.
And it's actually worked out quite quick.
Cool.
Okay.
So, but you found a job applying for a family-owned business.
Right.
Well, actually, I got my after finding a job back in the day.
I found a job at a restaurant during the time of the whole recession.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
What did you do at the restaurant?
I was a server, you know, just needed a job.
Server.
Were the tips good?
About $100 a day, better than a minimum wage job for sure.
Well, that's actually not bad.
Did you report?
I don't even, never mind.
I'm not going to ask you that question.
So now you're working at your brother's firm and you're not going to buy insurance because you're not going to let Obama tyrant you.
Correct.
It's plain and simple.
You know, I just, I like this.
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 for the rest of the year, right?
Till January.
Yeah.
Now, how in the world did that happen?
Do you realize there are going to be some people who are going to need insurance?
They're going to get sick.
They're going to 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.
All 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.
I don't care.
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 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 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 system backup.
It's just put 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 displaying your pictures, so forth, a couple other things for business.
And they also announced Condoleezza 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, Condoleezza Rice had nothing to do with it.
And even if she did, she couldn't hold a candle to 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.
She also was admitted to Augusta a year or two ago as one of the first female, the two first female members.
File storage service Dropbox has assigned several executives to lead it forward.
And one of the executives, former National Security Advisor, Secretary of State Condoleezza 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'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 dropped Condoleezza 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, and 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 Condaleza Bryce simply because she was named to 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.
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