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June 19, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 19, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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Now here's another story on Drudge I just found by Charlie Cook, the imminent, you know, political dean and pollster analyst, uh, political scientist inside the beltway.
Voters have lost hope with Obama.
It's another in the increasingly long line of stories on how the Obama presidency has imploded and is over.
All based on public opinion.
And these guys that live and die with polls and live and die with public opinion just don't get this.
The polls don't matter.
Again, I apologize, ladies and gentlemen, sound like a broken record.
But this administration is not over.
It is just hitting its stride.
This regime is just getting going.
These next two and a half years are going to shock people.
Obama doesn't face the electorate anymore.
It doesn't matter what the electorate thinks, therefore.
It doesn't matter.
Some of you might be shouting, what about the Democrats in the Russian party?
They're gonna He doesn't care.
He doesn't care, and in fact, there's a part of me that believes Obama wouldn't mind having a Republican-led Senate to further blame his opponents for everything going wrong and justifying why he's taking all these executive actions.
I mean, if the if the popular culture believes the Republicans are despicable and hateful and racist and sexist and homophobic and all that.
And Obama is faced with a Congress made up totally of people like that.
What?
He's gonna feel totally justified.
I don't need to go with those guys.
We can't we don't need to let those guys stop us.
We can't let those guys stop us.
We've got too much progress we're gonna make here.
And he'll have popular support for ignoring Congress.
That's his thinking, I believe.
The attempt to capitalize on the foul dank image of Republicans that has been constructed out there.
So as far as Obama's concerned, the more the merrier.
And if they happen to run the Senate as well as the House and are stopping him every time he wants to do something, he can point fingers of blame at them as public enemy number one and use that opposition to justify all this executive order and uh extra constitutional stuff that he's gonna do.
So F. Chuck Todd, Charlie Cook, they can they can say, oh, it's dire consequences now, dire circumstances for Obama.
He's lost public opinion.
It doesn't matter.
He doesn't face the public anymore.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
This, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882, the email address.
I was just looking at the Drudge page during the break, and uh the drudge page is all in on what's going on at the border with immigration.
Here's some here's some links, some headlines.
Sheriff Joe Arpileo, Obama's dumping of illegals is intentional.
Shock photo.
Illegals sleep with tin foil blankets.
Scabies, chicken pox spread, hundreds arrive by the hour.
Another link.
Claim homeland paying for illegals to be escorted into the USA.
This is a story that alleges the Department of Homeland Security is actually paying for illegals to be escorted.
Not paying for them after they're here, but paying to escort them, drive them whatever into the country.
Oh no, it doesn't sound impossible to me at all.
No, no, no.
I don't mean to sound that I'm incredulous that it would be happening.
I don't mean to Sound incredulous at all.
I'm not trying trying to sound uh outraged.
Uh and in the lead headline at Drudge, open borders health fears spread.
What this is about is that there's rampant disease being brought into the country.
A lot of people that are arriving are carrying infectious diseases, and they're already out of control.
And so that's at the top of the drudge page.
Um what's his uh Lois Lerner and her no, there was one more thing I wanted to say about Cheney and Obama and Iraq.
We're still waiting for his 1230.
These poor drive bys, you should see this.
All of these White House correspondents have been standing in the White House press room in front of their cameras since about 1215, almost for an hour, breathlessly waiting for Obama to show, breathlessly waiting for their networks to go to them for their breathless reports about how Obama is on his way to the podium to issue his statement on Iraq.
And they have been standing there for an hour.
Now, to me, this is rude.
It's arrogant and it's rude.
Nobody else is going to look at it that way, of course, but it tells these people he's going to be out there at 12:30.
Here it is, 112.
There's no sign of him, and the news is that he's still meeting with the national security team.
And of course, that's probably an image attempt.
They're feverishly working, desperately thinking about everything, applying the best minds in the room to come up with the definitive policy and statement to announce to the American people.
And of course, the drive-by's are carrying that message.
And again, I just want to remind you, he's going to come out and he's he's there are gonna be two basic points here.
He inherited this, but he's gonna he's gonna roll up.
He's he inherited his, but that doesn't matter.
After he's after he whines and moans and a couple of straw men, it ain't gonna matter.
And then it's all gonna come down to his good intentions.
We'll see.
XIRS official.
Lois learner's crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails will never be found, according to multiple sources.
This is from Politico.
Why would you this does not happen, folks?
Daryl Issa has said this just doesn't happen.
Emails don't get recycled.
Servers and hard drives don't get recycled.
And the regime certainly does not use recycled stuff.
If you've got a hard drive that's crashed, and if it crashed, it's because it's got bad sectors on it.
Why would you recycle that?
Why would you recycle junk?
Senator Orin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said we've been informed that the hard drive has been thrown away.
Well, then why claim it was recycled?
Does recycling it mean throwing it away?
Now there's a vast difference in recycling and throwing something away.
Especially since it's practically impossible to get all the data on a disk without a whole bunch of de-goussing.
You know what degaussing is, sturdy?
DMagnet uses a giant magnet in there, and you just run it.
That's how we used to uh erase back in the old days of the first radio station.
Everything was on real to real tape or cartridges.
And contrary, you know, the consumer recorders always had an erase head before the record head.
So you didn't have to bulk a race.
You could record over real-to-real tape at home because it had the erase head.
Broadcast equipment didn't have that.
You had to de-gause.
It was something, it was a it was a circular machine with a handle that you pressed a button.
It was a giant electromagnet, and you put the put the reel under it, and you turn circles on it or on the tape cartridge, and that's how you erased it.
That was called mass degaussing.
And if you put one of those things in front of a TV screen, you were screwed.
We actually did some harmless little vandalism with some of my friends once.
we degaussed half of the TV screen.
They were rich, they could afford another one.
Anyway, that's what you would have to do.
If you want to now, in fact, when you reformat a hard drive, that's essentially what you are doing.
You're erasing it.
But even forensic IT guys can't snipe.
This this is the point here is now that Congress is demanding that the IRS turn over her hard drive, the IRS is now ramping up.
Not only did her hard drive crash, now, in addition to that, they threw it away.
But this happened a long time ago.
Why wasn't this little detail ever mentioned before they got the request to turn over the drives?
And then there's this line in the story.
On Wednesday, the White House retorted that for the first time for that for the time frame in which Lerner's emails are missing, there are no direct communications between 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Lerner.
How do they know?
If everything's been thrown away, if everything's been erased, if there was a crash, how do they know?
Well, if it's true, they they they know because they knew what they wanted to throw away.
And since they've thrown it away, of course there isn't anything left now.
But it's easy to claim now after everything's been erased, crashed, and now recycled, thrown away.
Easy to claim.
By the way, there was nothing there anyway.
Now, the evidence has been destroyed.
Well, that's a good question.
Why did Lois Lerner basically take the fifth that there was nothing there?
Why did Lois Lerner try to hide behind her Fifth Amendment privilege if there was if there was nothing there?
Then, uh, ladies and gentlemen, there is this story.
IRS lost emails from official that met with Top Obama assistant.
This is another woman, Nicole Flax.
An IRS official whose emails were lost, visited the White House frequently during the agency's targeting of conservatives, and met with a top assistant to President Obama who exchanged confidential information on conservative groups of the IRS.
Can I read that to you again?
An IRS official, her name is Nicole Flax, whose emails were lost, another one they remember now, six additional people's emails in addition to earner were lost.
An IRS official whose emails were lost visited the White House frequently during the IRS targeting of conservatives, and this official met with the top assistant to Obama, who exchanged confidential information on conservative groups with the IRS.
The IRS recently claimed it lost emails from Nicole Flax, who served as chief of staff to the former IRS Commissioner Stephen Miller.
Flax was one of seven IRS employees, including Lois Lerner, whose emails to and from the White House and other Obama administration agencies were purportedly deleted and could not be handed over to congressional investigators.
On May 8th, 2013, the day that Nicole Flax made her last recorded White House visit, Lois Lerner sent Flax an email asking for advice about a plan to coordinate with the Department of Justice to criminally prosecute conservative activists.
Nicole Flax replied on May the 9th, I think we should do it.
Also need to include criminal investigation division, which we can help coordinate.
Also, we need to reach out to the Federal Election Commission.
Does it make sense to consider including them in this or to keep it secret?
Secret.
These two were actively agreeing to criminally prosecute Tea Party activists who wanted to create 501c3s.
Criminally prosecute.
For what?
Dissenting against Obama.
All they wanted to do was raise money for Tea Party candidates.
And that resulted in emails back and forth between Nicole Flax and Lois Lerner as they salivated about the possibility of criminally prosecuting.
These conservative activists.
Nicole Flax held personal meetings with a top assistant to Obama and also colluded with Lerner to prosecute the conservative activists.
She made 31 visits to the White House between July 12th, 2010, and May 8th, 2013.
Nine or 10 months.
And this is according to White House visitor logs.
Nicole Flax's visits started in the early days of the IRS targeting program.
Remember, they tried to tell us that it was just a couple of rogue agents in Cincinnati.
And look what this is we've now learned this was.
This I again, I'm at a loss to adequately express my incredulity.
This is this is it's unacceptable.
This is ten times worse than anything Richard Nixon ever thought about doing.
And that's all Nixon ever did was think about doing it.
He never did any of this.
He thought about it, never did it, salivated, he dreamed about doing it.
These people did it.
David French, American Center for Law and Justice, has written a piece.
No wonder the IRS is losing emails.
It does a good job of expressing incredulity, and so I'll share some details of that with you, but I have to go.
Be right back.
Stay there.
Again visited the White House more than a dozen times between July of 2010 and April of 2013, according to Politico.
Guess when the targeting of the Tea Party began.
August of 2010, one month after her visits begin.
I've said all along that there's not going to be a smoking gun linking Obama to this.
There doesn't need to be.
These people were going to the White House to keep them informed.
I guarantee you, Flax wasn't getting instructions.
She might have been getting some guidelines, but but listen to her and Lerner talking back and forth to each other.
They knew what they wanted to do.
They didn't have to be told, given orders by anybody to go do this.
It's who they are.
And our side simply doesn't seem able to appreciate exactly what they have been and are up against.
I'm sorry, Temple, Texas.
Temple, Texas, as we start on the phones.
Thank you so much for waiting, Jim.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
How are you doing?
You sound great this afternoon.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Long time listener, first-time caller, and fellow Sacramento.
Yeah, my adopted hometown.
I love it there.
I just wanted to make a couple of quick points about these lost IRS emails.
I managed data centers for 30 some years in the healthcare industry and the banking industry and the uh defense industry.
I ran a data center for TRW for quite a while.
For fans of Jay-Z and Beyonce and what what is a data center?
Oh, that's where all the computers, the servers are stored.
Okay.
Thank you.
Hey, uh, I just wanted to to reaffirm, and I apologize in advance if the point's already been made that unless your data center is run by Larry Mohan Curly, there are so many levels of backups performed that it's mind bottling.
Any computer attached to the network is automatically backed up.
Would you recycle a corrupt server?
Uh well, you see I I'm not sure exactly what hard drive it is that's failed.
They haven't gone into that much deal.
Was it a hard drive on her personal computer, a notebook, or was it a server hard?
It's now both.
Oh, yeah.
The hard drive on her computer and the server, the backup, everything's gone.
They recycled the server because it was corrupt.
Her hard drive crashed in her computer.
The server uh was corrupt, which means had bad sectors, and they just threw it away, recycled it.
Uh you're talking uh a probability, uh uh order of probability here that's astronomical of that actually ever happening.
And besides, like I was saying, these things are backed up interactively through day.
They're backed up nightly.
On every week, at the minimum, the backups are copied to tape and the tapes are taken off.
Precisely, and especially at White House type level, no question.
Well, guess what?
As I knew it would happen, I just missed the break.
I thought he would start at 12 30 when we were in commercial.
He started at 1 30 when we're in a commercial break.
So I've got no excuse.
I'm not jipping.
If I can't catch this in the beginning, we're not jipping it now.
We're rolling on it, and uh when he finishes, figure out what he says, and we'll tell you about it then.
But I am not gym.
It's already it it it started two, three minutes ago.
Sorry, affiliates, but I am not gypping this.
I'm not gonna jump into this now, miss the beginning of it.
So we're back.
L Rushball at 800 28282.
This is Charles in Norfolk, Virginia.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
I have a question.
Yeah.
Uh what did you mean when you said the list for those that are fans of Jay-Z and Beyonce when you were explaining the uh data center and the disputing center?
I just want to make sure that everybody knew what a data center was.
And if you're a Jay-Z Beyoncé fine fan, you might be in the low information sector.
Uh in the country where your favorite news network is TMZ or e-entertainment news or whatever, you might not know what a data center is.
I was just trying to I'm trying to bring knowledge to everybody.
Okay.
Well, I'll I'll say this and then I'll be off.
Um I I I like you.
I listen to you often.
Um, but you might want to be a little more careful with what you say, because people might think one thing and not the other.
And as we know, people tend to go towards the negative versus the positive.
Well, well, what uh help me out here.
What did I step in here?
Well, I I think you stepped into some you probably stepped into a realm that would be a bit uncomfortable for some.
Uh I know it struck me kind of odd when it was said, but I tried to err on the side of the positive.
And I I agree there might be some people that had not done necessarily know what a data center is.
Do you I do?
I I served in this great country in the Navy for just over 17 years and dealing with civilians and military.
I know a little bit.
Oh, I get it.
I you know what a data center is, and you're a Jay Z Beyoncé fan, so you might have so you thought I was insulting.
Jay Z and Beyonce.
Yeah, I see your point.
Um and being in the public eye, like you are, you have to be extremely careful with the words you use.
You know what I read about myself the other day.
What's that, sir?
I read that it's my job to be over the top.
I wish somebody somebody who was it.
Oh, it was Stephen Hayward.
It was Stephen Hayward at Power Line.
And he said, he said that uh I've always thought that Rush Limbaugh's term feminazi was a little over the top.
Okay.
But now maybe I'm having to rethink it.
Maybe he was present.
And then he went on to describe some of the latest things of the and but then he also said, but it's Russia's job to be over the top.
So I read that about myself.
So you could just consider that.
Well, maybe I was a little over the top there.
Maybe you know what?
I you know what I should have said.
I should have said if you are a fan of keeping up with the Kardashians, you might not know what a data center is.
Well, I think people in that realm wouldn't even know to be offended.
Uh and that's probably me being offensive too.
Well, see, that's my point.
They wouldn't know enough to be offended.
Same thing if if if you are uh Justin Bieber fan, uh could you Miley Cyrus fan, they know what wedges are, but do they know what data centers are?
You probably have a point here, Charles.
And I mean I know being in the public when I when I'm standing in front of a department of people and I say every word that comes out of my mouth, they're waiting back and call on to make sure, hey, what's my next move, what should be my next decision, etc.
etc.
Um people listen to you.
You have a valid voice in the community, maybe some communities more than others, but you you have a valid voice.
And so people listen.
And so when people listen, and if it tweaks their thought process a little odd, yeah, some will say, hey, how do I have to respond to that?
I see your point.
You know, I'm I uh I don't I'm not complaining here.
I I'm gonna say something else.
I think you'll get this.
I think you'll understand this.
I'm on the air three hours a day, five five days a week, fifteen hours a week.
That's not scripted, it's not written.
I act for twenty-five years, Charles.
I think actually uh uh it's it's uh you you talk about when you're in public and facing people.
I do it fifteen hours a week and have done that for 25 years.
So it's it's um uh I I actually think I've done a masterful job at keeping it below, keeping it below the line.
Uh I agree.
I agree.
I I unlike uh NDA team owners.
Um not to say not equity, uh maybe I shouldn't say that.
That guy wasn't even facing the public.
Little did he know.
Yeah.
That situation was obviously different.
Uh where did you Charles, where did you serve in the Navy?
Where or when?
I'm currently in.
Uh both.
Oh, you're currently in.
Oh, I'm sorry, I missed I thought you said you had been in the Navy.
Are you are you deployed now?
No, I'm I'm sure based.
Sure-based.
Yes.
Oh, cool.
In Virginia.
Well, let me be among many to thank you for for your service.
Oh, yeah.
Because if you if if you listen here regularly, one thing else you know is that we have profound admiration and respect for the armed forces in this country, right?
Oh, yes, definitely.
I I I definitely agree with you.
And I think that's why you're cutting me some slack on the uh over the top Jay-Z Beyoncé comment.
Yeah, I I just I think that there would be, well, let's say there'd be co-workers that might not feel the same as I do.
Um, but you know, the beauty of being in this country is we have the the right to feel and think.
Uh we don't necessarily always have the right to respond, depending on the circumstance.
But uh But you did.
You had a chance, you dialed a number, and you got through.
It was meant to be.
Hey, yes.
And I'm grateful.
I think you're uh the gentleman that took your call even had a good giggle about it.
Uh but it I I I wasn't offended, but I not that I speak for the people, but I I think there might be some that are.
And uh I think the way you're even handling this particular call is uh I think professional.
And so God bless America.
Well, I know I I appreciate the comment.
And you might have a point.
There's any number of ways I could have said it.
I could I could have said if you're a fan of Washington Redskins, that's a data center.
There's any number of ways to go about it.
Um I I was just trying to make sure that everybody in the audience understood what the expert in uh data centers uh was talking about.
Charles, I appreciate the call.
Thanks very much for taking the time.
Here is Don in Houston, your next turn to EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Rush, all this talk about a disk is irrelevant.
The IRS runs a product called Enterprise Vault.
That is an archiving system.
And all the emails are archived nightly or daily into a separate system.
And not only that, they've got another feature turned on called journaling.
Meaning every piece of mail that passes through the email system immediately gets put into a mailbox, indexed, and archived.
And you set limits on how long you want to keep that.
So unless they change the limits or they've totally destroyed the servers, which probably there's multiple servers that have this data, and they've gone to the backup offsite tapes and destroyed those tapes.
That email is somewhere.
Of course it is.
It has nothing to do with the computer that she's working on and especially today, it has nothing to do with her computer.
So this product that they're using, I know they're using it because a friend of mine works for the company that sold it to him, and he personally told me they've got all this turned on.
So unless she wasn't susceptible to the system or she was using her personal email for government business, which I think is a crime.
Uh all this talk about disks and restoring is just it's wasted time because they have it.
I think you're well, obviously, uh you're you're right.
Uh there would not be presidential libraries.
There wouldn't, they wouldn't have all the documents in president's libraries if things could vanish this easily.
You know what?
Given your explanation, one of the things I find very interesting about the explanation of what happened, they're using consumer terms.
Hard drive, server, when they don't actually engage.
I mean, they've got servers and hard drives, but as you just explained, the backup system is its own written program.
It's it's it's it's it's its own product.
Exactly.
That doesn't it depend on the server or the obviously the servers are there, but but this program accounts for multiple servers, multiple backups.
I know the program you're talking about.
And they're of course they're they're using they're using public, publicly understood terms here, because the obvious targets are the American people in this, and they're just rolling the dice that the Republicans are going to behave as usual and not challenge any of it other than at a microphone.
I mean, what do they care if Darrell Issa goes out and says, I don't believe this and then walks away.
Big deal.
Well what they don't care.
There's no subpoena forthcoming if there's any official pushback.
Well do they care?
They go out and say whatever they want to say in ways the public understand it.
I mean, if if that's the kind of thing that happens to you, you lose your hard drive.
Or the server where your stuff was crashed.
Okay, so they use terms like that.
You can relate to it.
Oh, yeah, that happened to me before I got iDrive.
Oh, yeah, I know, I can see how that happened.
They don't tell you the systems that they actually haven't used.
And they don't tell you about federal law mandating redundant system after Redundant system after redundant system to prevent this very thing from happening.
So you're exactly right.
It's a great point.
I gotta go back after this.
Okay, here's a little preliminary.
Obama is still uh, well, he's made his statement.
He's now asking uh sycophantic questions from the drive-by's.
Essentially, what Obama said is that there is no military solution inside of Iraq.
Certainly not one led by the United States.
Okay.
What is happening inside Iraq right now?
How would you describe it as a military action?
And we've got the bad guys, ISIS, and they are using weapons and terror and terrorism and intimidation and bullying and weapons, and they're pulling triggers and bullets are being fired, people are killed and so forth.
Would you just okay?
It's a civil war, right?
It's a okay, it's a war.
It's a mass terrorist attack, but would you describe it as uh are they using military tactics?
Terrorists, okay, okay.
I'm just getting it.
We're not they're not using words doctors, nurses, clean water, they're not negotiating with anybody or on the right, killing people on the march.
So that's right.
They're killing people and breaking things.
And Obama says there's no military solution to that.
And certainly not one led by the United States.
Oh, what moral authority do we have to tell these people they're wrong?
Okay, that's number one.
Number two.
Uh President Obama said the United States is going to send up to 300 military advisors to Iraq and set up a joint operations center.
Even though there is no military solution, we're gonna send 300 military advisors.
Who what are they going to advise?
No, there is no military solution.
Obama said there's no military solution.
We're gonna send military advisors.
So it must be uh we're gonna we're gonna I don't know, teach the Iraqis how to negotiate, how to appease?
That's what we're good at.
That must be it.
We're gonna instruct them on the finest and latest in appeasement tactics.
Who?
The Iraqis know how to run?
They're the Iraqis are being overrun.
What are you dumping on the Iraqis for?
Uh they dumped their weapons and ran because they've got no support.
Um I think maybe what Obama's gonna do is maybe we're gonna counsel them on how to arrange like a tie.
You know, so that nobody wins.
So that nobody loses.
That's why we're not that's what it is.
We're there's no military solution because that would mean somebody loses.
And that's not applicable in the 21st century.
John Kerry's told us this.
There's no no winners and losers uh in the 21st century.
There's nobody's happy with that kind of circumstance.
So that's what it is.
So he's gonna we're gonna send our military advisors over there to teach them to appease and play for a tie, so that everybody will either be happy or miserably the same.
He also said, and I'm gonna check your memory on something here.
President Obama also said that he is going to send John Kerry to Iraq.
Which means to me that I guess Kerry didn't do well enough in school.
You're probably scratching your head and say, Well, what are you talking about, Rush?
Let me explain it.
Remember when Kerry was doing uh might have been a commencement speech.
He did a commencement speech where he's talking to kids somewhere, and I think it was either in Northern California or Seattle, maybe Oregon, and he told them that people that don't do well in school end up in Iraq.
You remember that now?
Well, I guess Kerry didn't do well enough in school because he's ending up in Iraq.
Obama is sending him to we'll find out I I remember it like it was yesterday.
Uh Obama said urgent need for an inclusive political process is what we face.
Urgent need for an inclusive pol So obviously somebody's being excluded in Iraq and that's why there are problems.
And we have to bring them in.
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