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May 19, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 19, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back.
It's great to have you, Rush Limbaugh.
This is the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, where we have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Great to have you.
We have one big, exciting, busy broadcast hour remaining.
And I must, well, say, admit, acknowledge, let you know that I will not be here tomorrow.
I have a biannual.
Do you know the difference in semi-annual and biannual?
No, semi-annual is now wait.
Yeah, I think semi-annual is every other year.
Biannual is twice a year.
So this is a semi-annual charity golf tournament that I attend for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
Then there's a big, big, big dinner tonight at the site of the charity golf tournament.
The tournament is tomorrow.
So who do we have as the guest?
Mark Stein is the guest slave tomorrow here, hosting the guest host.
Yeah, just funning with the media there.
Guest host Mark Stein will be here.
And then we'll be back on Wednesday in a couple of days.
Folks, I got to go back out to Los Angeles for another cochlear ear tune-up because I've got to get the tune-up to match the progress in this new implant on the right side that I'm pretty sure I am making.
Although it's still mind-boggling to me, my new right side implant by itself, just used alone, the brand new one, is still so bad, even though it's improved 100% from day one, by itself, it's still so bad.
I mean, well, I could use it in a totally quiet environment with one other person if I were standing two or three feet away from them.
Other than that, and they still sound, everybody still sounds like the chipmunks speeded up.
I mean, dual speed, twice as fast chipmunks.
But then when I put this left side on, all of that, well, the chipmunk aspect is still there, but the volume becomes normal.
The stereo effect, the improvement is profound.
But there's still, the improvement on the right side will happen for about, I mean, if they're right, six months and maybe longer.
And I'm using it every day.
That's what you have to do.
Use it every day and just train the brain.
That side of my brain has not been used for hearing in 13 years.
So it's, as they say, relearning it and in conjunction or cooperation, whatever term they use with the left side.
So long and short, I spent a couple of days in LA getting it tuned up.
But regardless, just tomorrow we're not going to be here.
Now, Trey Gowdy, these questions, this little soundbite, it was actually one soundbite of about three and a half minutes.
And I didn't want to play it front-to-back solid three and have, although it's powerful that way.
But actually, Trey Gowdy asked these questions last October.
The exact date was October 30th on Capitol Hill during a press conference on Benghazi.
This is long before anybody knew there was going to be a select committee.
And thus, long before Trey Gowdy knew or anybody else knew that Trey Gowdy was going to be the chairman of the select committee.
And it's kind of hard to believe that this recitation of questions he asks took until last week to get noticed, but it did.
So we've taken the full soundbite, which was three and a half minutes, and we have converted it here into five sound bites.
And I'm thinking, I just, I told Cookie and Cookie Jr., just give me the questions, the extraneous stuff out of it.
So bam, bam, bam.
Question, question, question.
So that's what has happened.
So I can't play these back to back because it's not going to sound continuous that way, the way we've cut it up.
So here is the first of five bites.
He's got all of a bunch of Republicans, House Republicans standing behind him at a press conference, and the audience is interested.
No, there weren't any interested parties.
The audience was the media.
They clearly weren't interested.
They had to show up because they had to show up.
But he knew that in the audience were several media members.
Can you tell me why Chris Stevens was in Benghazi the night that he was killed?
Do you know?
Does it bother you whether or not you know why Chris Stevens was in Benghazi?
Do you know why we were the last flag flying in Benghazi after the British had left and the Red Cross had been bombed?
I mean, really shamed him.
And if you listen to the whole bite, three and a half minutes, nobody tries to answer a single question.
Now, I don't know if he intended for anybody to blurt out answers or if he was asking these questions rhetorically, but he means them.
I mean, here's a guy who has been up to this point trying from his position on a committee that, or an oversight committee that he's on, desperately trying to get people to pay attention.
And it finally dawned on him that because the media hasn't reported this, nobody even knows the basics.
So he thought he would just ask the media, do you even know, can you tell me why Chris Stevens was even in Benghazi the night he died?
Do you know?
They don't is the bottom line, especially last October.
Nobody could answer these.
Does it bother you whether or not you know why Chris Stevens was in Benghazi?
Do you know why we were the last flag flying in Benghazi?
Meaning every other embassy had torn down and made tracks out of there.
Why were we the last country with an official presence in Benghazi with our consulate?
The British had left.
The Red Cross had been bombed.
Here's the next series.
Do you know why requests for additional security were denied?
Do you know why an ambassador asking for more security days and weeks before he was murdered and those requests went unheeded?
Do you know the answer to why those requests went unheeded?
I'm sure the media listening to this had no idea.
And I'm sure the information contained in the questions stymied them.
What do you mean, additional requests for security?
I'm sure they feverishly write additional requests for security?
Who wanted more security?
Do you know why the ambassador asked for more security days and weeks before he was murdered?
And of course, yeah, the stock and trade answers, well, what do you ask these questions where everything's been answered here?
You heard Mrs. Clinton.
What difference does it make now?
Mrs. Clinton's answer is this.
What does all this matter now?
What difference does it make now?
How it all happened and why?
What difference does it make now? she said.
Here's the next series.
Do you know why no assets were deployed during the siege?
And I've heard the explanation, which defies logic, frankly, that we couldn't have gotten there in time.
But you know, they didn't know when it was going to end.
So how can you possibly cite that as an excuse?
Do you know whether the president called any of our allies and said, can you help?
We have men under attack.
Can you answer that?
Now, Gaudi has all these answers, by the way.
He knows the answer to every question he's asking.
And what he did here was turn the tables.
This is a press conference.
It's a Republican press conference.
They're supposed to make a statement, blah, blah, blah, and then open it up for questions.
When he got to the mic, he decided to ask them questions.
Basically, what do you people know?
Do you know anything about this?
And if you don't, do you even care?
Here's the next one.
Do any of you know why Susan Rice was picked?
The Secretary of State did not go.
She says she doesn't like Sunday talk shows.
That's the only media venue she does not like, if that's true.
Why was Susan Rice on the five Sunday talk shows?
Do you know the origin of this mythology that it was spawned as a spontaneous reaction to a video?
Do you know where that started?
Do you know how we got from no evidence of that to that being the official position of the administration?
Now, that one, they ought to know the answer to that because they were in on it.
The origin of the video.
Let me explain the origin of the video.
And for this, we have to go to Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, Benghazi, Libya.
We have to go to Cairo, where, in the afternoon of September the 11th, i.e., the anniversary of 9-11, out of the blue,
the State Department in Cairo issues an apology statement for a video that might cause people to get mad and protest.
And the State Department's apology statement in advance, it was said by the regime, was to calm them down and prevent them from protesting.
A typical appeasement is the strategery here.
But that, of course, was not the real reason.
The real reason is that we had intel that there were going to be protests and organized terrorist activity.
This goes back to some of his earlier questions.
We had intel.
And the original regime explanation was that some third-rate invisible employee in the Cairo embassy mistakenly released this apology because, folks, it went out before anything had happened.
The specific reason, and it was timed perfectly, it was not rogue, it was not a mistake, it was done on purpose to establish the video as the reason, as the cause for everything that would happen later that day in both Cairo and Benghazi.
Because the release of this apology statement ticked some people off and protests began.
And the regime then said those protests inspired whatever happened in Benghazi over in Libya that ended up taking the lives of four Americans.
So his earlier, do you know where the idea for this video originated?
Do you know who it was that came up with that?
Do you have any idea who found that video and decided to use that?
And the answer to that is Mrs. Clinton, folks.
And I will never forget.
We were sitting here.
The program was occurring when that apology was issued from the State Department in Cairo.
Or maybe it happened in the morning before the program started.
And we all, I was, I was talking about mad.
I was sitting here fit to beat to say, what in the name of Sam Hill is this?
Nothing's happened.
Why are we apologizing?
What in the world has happened here?
I mean, just here we were apologizing before anything had happened.
I said, my God, what is this self-consciousness that we have?
Nobody knew at the time that it was part of the strategy to create the video as the blame for everything that would happen in the Middle East on that day and night.
That's why that apology statement went out.
And yeah, but then it didn't take long to learn that people involved knew that it was much more than a video and that it wasn't protests.
It was terrorist activity and all that.
And even so, after learning that, they still sent Susan Rice out on the Five Sunday shows to lie and still focus on the video.
And they thought they could pull it off because of that original apology statement released by State Department Cairo before anything had happened.
I remember my take on that when it happened.
I said, look, like I pointed out to you, I said, look what this is.
They're already apologizing.
They're already, the regime is already assuming responsibility.
If there are protests at our embassy in Cairo today, they're already got a statement ready to go accepting responsibility and apologizing for it.
I said, what a bunch of gutless wonders.
Little did anybody know at the time that, again, it was a strategy to set up the video, which is a total lie, as the reason for everything else that happened.
The intel was clear that we've now known.
The intel was clearly going to be protests.
And we had intel on a terror action in Benghazi.
So here's the final conclusion from Trey Gowdy.
And again, this is from last October.
In conclusion, Congress is supposed to provide oversight.
The voters are supposed to provide oversight.
And you were supposed to provide oversight.
That's why you have special liberties, and that's why you have special protections.
I am not surprised that the President of the United States called this a phony scandal.
I'm not surprised that Secretary Clinton asked, what difference does it make?
I'm not even surprised that Jay Carney said Benghazi happened a long time ago.
I'm just surprised at how many people bought it.
Join the club, Congressman.
Just surprised how many people bought it.
Yeah, and don't forget, they sent this guy, who was this pajama-clad guy that was wearing clothes?
What was his name?
Tommy Vitor.
You know, come on, dude, it was two years ago, dude.
Come on.
It was two years.
You know where they got Tommy Vitor?
He was a driver.
He was a driver during the campaign.
Driver that they moved up.
He's married to somebody that's anyway.
Now, here's, I got to take a break.
I got to take a break.
Sit tight, my friends.
We're coming right back.
Do not go away.
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Yeah, Vitor drove a van in the Obama campaign.
And he ends up in no, ends up at the end.
Well, I don't know if he ends up in the situation room on the night Benghazi is taking place with Obama nowhere to be found.
Okay, well, but he started out just driving a van for the campaign.
Now may Vitor.
He's married to Michelle Obama's press flack.
Now, some might say, well, Mr. Lumbau, why are you complaining about that?
It's no different than somebody starting in the mailroom at General Motors and ending up being the CEO.
Yeah, well, that generally takes years of accumulating experience, not a couple.
No, Vitor is in there because of total loyalty, which, believe me, when you're running scam after scam after scam, you need people loyal to you.
You cannot have any whistleblowers in there.
Just can't.
I think Obama's mad at what's happened to VA.
Wait if they ever find out whistleblower's in there.
Here's Ivy in Akron, Ohio.
It's great to have you with us.
Hello.
Oh, Rush, what a delight.
God bless you for what you do for our country.
Thank you very, very much.
I wanted to talk to you a little bit about a little bit more about Obamacare and why the implications of this VA scandal.
Well, they're not reserved for when we go to single payer, God help us.
They're already here under a system called pay for performance.
This VA standard of giving a vet an appointment in 14 days was more than likely one of the quality standards that providers are expected to meet now.
And bonuses resulted when the VA hospital met that standard a high percentage of the time.
But because they couldn't meet that standard, they had to get those vets off the books if they wanted their bonuses.
And in this field, this is called pay for performance or P4P.
Providers are being reimbursed for meeting certain pre-established standards as they phase out traditional fee-for-service reimbursement.
So this is what we can expect in any of the new structures created by Obamacare, like accountable care organizations.
And what happened here with our dear veterans will spread across the country because providers that can't meet those standards in many cases because they're swamped already with Obamacare's onerous reporting requirements, if they can't meet those quality standards, they'll have to fudge the data or move us off the books.
Okay, so given all of that, explain to me how 40 veterans just die while on this list.
How they died?
Well, no, not what, how are they allowed to die?
I mean, if the whole point here is to get them expedited treatment, they can't find a provider to take them, and these people need to get their bonus so they find a way to get them off the list, and that happens by virtue of them dying.
Right.
While they're dying, does no one care?
Well, that's a great question.
You know, obviously somebody's caring because we've got some whistleblowers coming out.
One guy, a doctor in Phoenix.
I thought there were two, but I'm sure you're right.
Well, no, you may be more informed than I on that.
But even so, two.
I don't know how people live with this.
Well, I guess that's what I'm getting to.
All this.
So we have to show to get our bonus that these people have been treated.
And the fastest way to do that is not get them treated, but to get their name taken off the list.
Right.
Don't count them.
Don't count them.
And that's really much easier if they've died.
That's pathetic.
You know, this would be a good time to announce something.
All of this talk about the VA and Obamacare and healthcare.
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And I thought this would be a perfect time.
I wasn't going to mention this till later in the week, but I think this is a perfect time given everything happening here with the controversy over the VA.
Whitney in Atlanta, thank you for waiting.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for listening to me.
You bet.
I really enjoy your program.
I'm a new listener, but I've been really enjoying it.
Thank you.
How'd you find it?
I moved to Atlanta two years ago, and I just started asking around for some good talk stations, and somebody recommended me.
Well, and you happened to find it on a day that ended up addicting you.
I know how it happens.
I would be addicted if I were a listener.
Yeah.
Well, you've been talking about the VA and the potential of how privatization would work.
And, you know, I really believe in privatization.
I work for a consultant firm that does privatized work for the Georgia Department of Transportation.
And it's been incredibly successful.
They pay us on a performance basis.
We manage equipment and traffic signals throughout the state.
And when we got the signal six months ago, only 50% of the equipment was operational.
And in six months, we've gotten up to 98%.
Wait a second.
I want to make sure I understand the Georgia Department of Transportation has hired you to consult with people to basically fix or modernize the traffic signal network in the whole state.
Not just me, and it's Metro Atlanta right now, but it's not just me.
I mean, the contract has several consultants on one team.
We actually work together with our competitors.
No, I understand that, but it's Metro Atlanta, not the whole state.
Right.
And hire your consulting firm.
And you found that half the equipment wasn't working?
On my corridor, yeah.
Other quarters, some quarters are better, some quarters are worse.
But the road that I manage, about 50% of it was.
Now, what do you think it was that made them turn to the private sector to get this fixed?
They just can't do it themselves.
You know, private firms have the money and the resources to do research and development to find more efficient systems, and the government doesn't.
If there's someone in my company, if I don't know what I'm doing on one particular facet of the contract, we've got 10,000 employees nationwide that we can reach out to to help us.
They only have their local employees.
They don't have the resources to do these things.
They just don't.
Especially with cutting budgets.
If the federal government is a business.
Oh, I know all that.
I'm just shocked that this would happen.
And it is a tandem outmission.
They can't do it.
And then to have to turn to the private sector to get, I mean, every nobody thinks that traffic lights are a private sector concern.
That's relatively a simple thing the government ought to be doing.
And you're telling me that that's even gotten out of hand for them.
Well, they're not as simple as they look.
Well, I know, but it just needs to.
Well, you're right.
It needs a lot of computer savvy synchronization.
I understand that.
And all of those smarts are in the private sector, obviously.
They are.
And I think the same concept can apply to the VA.
You know, you pay private sectors on a performance-based system.
You know, they get paid if they sign someone up within a certain amount of time.
And if they take longer than that, they don't get paid.
Whitney, let me ask you a question.
There may not be an answer.
You may not know, and you may not even think it's relevant.
But do the citizens of Georgia know this arrangement has been made?
The reason I ask, I can't imagine Obama ever publicly admitting the government can't do something and to reach out to a consulting firm in the private sector to fix something his government can't do.
Now, I do know that corporate cronyism will work, that Obama will give a private sector business grants if they go green and move his agenda forward.
But did the people of George, was there any kind of public announcement that the private sector was going to take over the operation and repair of this system in Metro Atlanta?
You know, the people that I know know, but that's because they know me.
How many people outside of that know?
I'm not really sure.
There was a big vote for a transportation budget two years ago, and it didn't pass.
And I think that this program was publicly announced as being on it, and I'm not sure the citizens would be worth it.
The reason you might, folks, I know some of you.
What difference does that make?
Folks, the reason it matters is that there are way too many low-information people who think government is the only solution to anything.
And you and I know that it isn't.
You and I know that that's wrong.
So to me, it's simply a matter of teaching people, educating, and if there's real-world experience to show them how the private sector, private sector, you realize, how many people in this country do you think, if they know what private sector is, if they don't know what that is, say corporation?
It's like showing Dracula the cross when you mention the word corporation.
Democrats have so demonized businesses in the corporation and the small business sector.
They don't pay anybody.
They lay people off.
They fire people.
They kill their customers.
know the drill, that anytime there's an opportunity to show people, no, in fact, look here at Metro Atlanta, where they've privatized the whole traffic light system in order to fix it and get it functioning correctly with reliability and dependability.
I think that the more that kind of thing happens, the more it should be publicized, the better it is.
For again, the thematic mission here, which is simply to educate and inform as many people as possible about the best way to do things for them and society and the culture at large.
So, Withney, I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you in the audience, too.
Thanks much.
I got to go, though.
We'll be back and continue in a minute.
Oh, you mean like they did in Vegas for Jacko?
A hologram?
That's right.
If I did a hologram, I could make speeches all over the place and never really go.
Is that your point?
Now and in the future.
Yeah, that's not a bad idea to do a hologram.
Well, I'll look into that.
Yep, absolutely.
I want your soundbite.
Derry, we just talked about this earlier.
This is exactly what happens.
This guy, Robert Petzel, reported last week that Shinseki had had enough.
This VA scam.
He's going to roll ahead.
He's going to get rid of the guy who's responsible for all this.
So he announced that Petzel is being sent packing.
And Jay Carney at the White House afternoon repeated it.
On the issue of Dr. Petzel, I would hope that you had noted that the top official in charge, he was of the veterans' health system, was requested to resign by the American Legion, and he did so one day after his Senate testimony.
The American Legion said that the group looks at Petzel's resignation as a, quote, step towards addressing the leadership problem at the VA.
So I think that undercuts the assertion that that is not a meaningful development.
Here's the problem, folks.
As we told you earlier in the busy broadcast today, Robert Petzel, Dr. Petzel, had announced he was leaving the VA, what, a long time ago, maybe a year ago.
I forget the exact time, but long before any of this came to light.
It was in May of last year that Obama announced his replacement.
So it was at least May of last year when it was known that Petzel was leaving.
And yet here is Jay Carney going out to the press this afternoon, making it sound like, boy, Obama was really mad.
And when we found out the lackadaisical and irresponsible attitude, we took immediate action.
And this guy is leaving.
And the American Legion is happy and he's gone.
except Obama named his replacement last May.
Petzl announced his retirement back in September.
He announced his retirement last September.
This, he's not being fired because of this.
He was already leaving.
May 1st of this year, Obama announced the retirement of Mr. Petzel.
Dr. Petzel, Mark Stein will be here tomorrow.
I'll be back here on Wednesday.
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