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July 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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No, no, you got that wrong.
That's not exactly, no, it's the exact opposite of that.
But greetings and welcome back, folks.
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No, the Israelis, this is this has to be something that a lot of people do not know, and there's a lot of misinformation about this.
The Israelis actually were forced.
And do you know the Israelis are actually texting and calling Palestinians in Gaza in advance of launching response attacks?
Say, look, we're firing.
If you're a civilian, get the hell out of the area because we've got a couple rockets we're launching here in 10 minutes.
Nobody does this.
The Israelis are warning civilians in advance to get out of areas where they think Hamas targets are.
You've heard about the tunnels that Hamas built, that Israel is taking out in this latest conflict.
Who do you think provided the concrete to build the tunnels?
Israel did.
But that's not what the concrete was for.
The concrete was to help Palestinians and others living in the Gaza Strip to build homes.
Yes, the Israelis actually provided concrete and other materials and quite a bit of it to help upgrade the community, if you will.
And Hamas leaders took the concrete and started building these tunnels to hide in and to move around in unseen.
And Israel found out about the tunnels and has been taking them out.
Now, what Hamas did was build civilian homes on top of the tunnels, making their own people the targets.
Israel didn't do this.
Israel is not targeting civilians in that sense.
This is just if you look at this, if you have any degree of common sense, none of what's happening makes any sense at all.
It's enough to make you think you're going crazy.
Because everything that is being done in this conflict is exactly wrong.
As wrong as it could be.
And yet, John Kerry and Obama, they keep articulating, and everything they say is wrong.
And Biden joins in, and he'd never been right in 40 years.
He's never been right.
It's just, it's mind-boggling.
It's mind-blowing.
You have Israel warning civilians that it's about to attack, get out of the way.
And in the midst of all this, Israel's the bad guys.
Israel needs to back off.
Israel needs to rein it in.
Israel needs to.
And I'm telling you what's driving this.
I don't even want to get into whether or not there's anti-Semitism at the State Department or anywhere in the regime aimed at Israel.
I don't even want to go there.
There may be.
I know that anti-Semitism is what's driving hatred of Israel and the Jewish people that are part of Hamas.
There's nothing else.
And until that's dealt with, all of this is whistling in the dark.
There is no peace process when one of the combatants has only one objective, and that's the death of every Jew.
There's no compromise with them on that.
They don't want a two-state solution.
They don't want a peaceful coexistence.
Their charter, the Hamash charter, calls for the elimination of Israel, the elimination of the Jews.
It's right out of Mein Kampf, it's right out of the Third Reich.
It's anti-Semitism.
I don't know.
There's no peace process possible here with that.
And yet, I listen to people talk about it from the regime and from the State Department.
It literally is totally dead wrong.
And every day, totally dead wrong.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, I want you to hear Trey Gowdy in action.
When he was named the chairman of the select committee looking into he's actually been Ghazi, but he's also looking at this.
He's on the government reform subcommittee.
He's on ISIS committee, but boy is he good when he starts tearing into these Democrats.
He's a trial lawyer from South Carolina.
He's just good, and he doesn't take any guff.
And he's not afraid of confronting these people just dead on.
And I had some of these sound bites from yesterday.
I didn't get a chance to get to them, so I held them over.
Here, just to start, this is during a House Oversight Government Reform Subcommittee hearing on the IRS response to congressional oversight.
All of this stuff with the emails being lost and the servers being erased and the tapes not being backed up and the hard drives being scratched and all of this happy horse manure.
Trey Gowdy is questioning the IRS Commissioner John Coskinen.
And he said, I want to read a quote to you from June of 2014.
I want you to tell me if you know who said it, okay?
We confirmed the backup tapes from 2011 no longer existed because they have been recycled pursuant to the IRS normal policy.
Do you know who said that?
And then Gowdy and Koskanen went at it.
Sounds like me.
It is you.
Can you tell us who we are in that quote?
The we as the IRS, I tend to take responsibility for the agency and talk about it.
I was advised when the draft report was submitted to me that people had talked to everyone in the agency to ensure that in the course of our several months of looking for backup tapes.
So we is the royal we, just speaking on behalf of the entire RS.
How about the word confirmed?
What does the word confirmed mean to you?
That you confirmed the backup tapes no longer exist.
Confirmed means that somebody went back and looked and made sure that, in fact, any backup tapes that had existed had been recycled.
Right.
Okay.
And so Gowdy said, well, are you still confirmed?
At this point, I have no basis for not being confirmed.
I do understand the IG advised me that they were looking at tapes.
I have not been advised as whether any of those tapes.
Well, confirmed is a pretty strong word, Commissioner.
Are you still confirmed that no backup tapes exist?
Well, at this point, I know the IG is looking and he hasn't found anything.
Finally, Gowdy nukes him for claiming that morale is low in the IRS.
I'm going to say this in conclusion.
Mr. Koskin, I really could not believe the colloquy that you have with one of our colleagues about the morale at the IRS.
It takes a lot to stun me, but that stunned me.
Here's a piece of advice I would give.
If the folks like Lois Lerner and others would have spent more time working on the backlog, more time working on their caseload, and less time targeting groups, and less time trying to overturn Supreme Court decisions they didn't agree with, maybe morale would be better and maybe their backlogs would be lessened.
Amen.
Maybe they wouldn't be in such a depressed state if they simply went about doing their jobs instead of politically targeting Obama's opponents.
Are we supposed to feel sorry if the IRS morale is low?
Well, whose fault is that?
He did.
He came forward and he said, IRS is real.
Why?
Because she got caught?
Is the morale at the IRS low because the light is finally shining on what happened in there with these Tea Party groups?
Is morale low because Lois Lerner's out of there now and she got caught and didn't get away with it and then jigs up.
And why is the morale low?
I mean, you guys are the IRS.
You hold a hammer on everybody.
How can morale be low?
Mind-boggling.
So today, Trey Gowdy went to the floor of the House during one-minute speeches just to sum up this whole thing.
The IRS has offered eight different explanations for targeting our fellow citizens.
If we, Madam Speaker, changed our story to government eight different times, we would be called inmates.
We can't lie to government.
Therefore, government should never be able to lie to us.
We agree, the president, no president should ever prejudge the outcome of an investigation while that investigation is ongoing.
No president should ever say there's not a smidgen of corruption while an investigation is ongoing.
We agree government should play by the same rules that we play by.
We have to keep our emails.
We have to keep our receipts.
We have to keep our records.
Why should it be any different for the IRS?
Exactly right on the money right.
And we be right back.
Sit tight.
El Rushball, back with more after this.
And we're back.
And I have not forgotten.
I've got these audio soundbites of Marie Harf.
This is, this woman's almost indescribable.
I mean, and be polite, almost indescribable.
She's the assistant, the aide to Jen Pasaki.
Jen Pasaki is the official spokeswoman for the State Department.
She's the official spokeswoman for Kerry.
And when she's not around, she has a deputy aide named Marie Harf.
And the first time I saw this woman, I said, what is this?
I actually thought it was a satire show or a parody bit.
But no, this is a cookie cutter.
You know who this woman is?
This woman is Julia from that ad that they ran in the 2012 campaign.
I mean, this is a from this woman has been from the moment of birth, she has been saturated in modern day progressivism, leftism.
It just is, it reeks.
It's so obvious.
And part and parcel of that means is she has no idea what she's doing, but thinks that she's the smartest person in the room.
So you will hear what I am talking about when I get to these bites.
And that'll happen before the program ends today.
But here's John.
I've got another IT information technology expert from Ron Konkama, New York, on the phone.
And I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking the call.
Good talking to you again.
Thank you, sir.
Here's a couple of other points that a guy from New Hampshire covered a lot and that was very good.
But the other point is that these emails would not have been destroyed, obviously, with just a hard drive crash because they're on a server.
Also, if that server crashed, and just take it that these servers have multiple hard drives.
So if a hard drive crashes in the server, that has a backup.
If a server actually crashes, they would have a server that backs up.
Isn't that what a RAID array is?
Right.
A RAID array is multiple hard drives that write the same data.
So if a hard drive goes in a server, you still have the data.
You can change that hard drive and you do not lose the data.
Also, in addition to the RAID, you have what you call clustered servers, where you have a server that's sitting right next to the other server that has the exact same data on it that's mirrored to it.
And they do that either nightly or whatever.
And I think you mentioned also disaster recovery, where they have alternate data centers.
I'm sure the IRS has a disaster recovery site.
Like if that whole data center had a fire, they would go to an alternate data center.
You don't lose data like this.
Precisely.
Well, any government agency would have this attitude about itself.
But precisely.
The government's collection agency is not going to lose its data.
No, not at all.
And I mean, take this into account also.
Healthcare, IT, and also banks, financial institutions, they get audited by external auditors of how they back up their data, how they protect their data.
I mean, it's just unheard of that they could lose email data and just never be able to find it.
Let me ask you a question.
John, I need to ask you a question about how new all this is because to the average consumer, I think, hearing all of this, a lot of it's foreign.
People don't have arrayed array backups in their homes.
Right.
They don't have servers in their homes.
Some of them do, but they don't have a server that backs up a server.
Now, businesses have been computerized for the longest time, starting way back with IBM mainframes.
When did all of this really start?
The business of computing in corporations as a backup and as an inter-office communication mechanism and as file storage, that predates consumer computer operations by how many years?
Oh, of course.
I mean, even the mainframes, I mean, you see the pictures of the mainframe computers, and you'll see the big tapes.
They used to have these giant reel-to-reels.
Right.
It's been done forever.
Back in the day when IBM was dominant in that field.
Yeah, now with Microsoft and Microsoft databases and Unix and just all these different products.
And don't leave out Oracle.
Yeah, Oracle, SQL.
I mean, you just don't lose data.
And once again, remember, all that data is on a server.
So if my hard drive crashed on my laptop, I would get a new laptop, connect to the server, and all those emails are there.
Right.
Well, but that's true if your email is on an IMAP account.
If you're using a pop account, that may not be the case.
The server has to be set up correctly to hold on to the data after it dumps it to the computer.
No, if it's there, because it synchronizes with Microsoft anyway, it'll synchronize the data on your laptop to the server.
So what's on your laptop is still local.
If it's not on the server, you may lose that.
But it synchronizes as you're working.
So it should always be on the server unless you deleted it.
Or, you know, yeah, unless you deleted it, it should still be there.
Well, I used to have a setup before I changed a lot of my different email accounts to IMAP, but it used to be, and I did this for security.
I had a pop account, and when I downloaded email from the server, it was gone.
And it was only on my local, either the desktop or the heart or the left.
Right.
And I mean, you could do that.
But once again, if you're on a corporate network, usually you're not using a corporate.
No, no, that's my point.
That's strictly consumer.
You couldn't do that on a corporate network.
They wouldn't let you get away with it.
Exactly.
But I'm just, the difference is trying to help consumers understand this because consumers don't know what a RAID array is, and they shouldn't.
It's not that they should.
The way the IRS gets away with this is if you tell the average American that their hard drive blew, they've lost their data.
So if the IRS says, yeah, her hard drive blew, they think she lost her data.
It's a very easy lie to convince consumers of because they don't know what you just told us.
They don't know that the norm is what you just told us.
In an average American house, that's why we advertise iDrive, people.
I'll never forget this nice woman friend of mine who discovered the iPhone, and it was the greatest thing because of the camera.
And she had pictures of her grandkids and kids, and it just loved this phone, just loved it.
And then one day, something happened to it, and her phone wouldn't start up.
And I said, okay, you're backed up, right?
And she had no idea what I was talking about.
She'd been totally clueless about backing up.
She'd never had, she was in her 60s.
She had never backed up anything in her life.
The closest she'd ever come was, you know, two copies on the IBM Selectric.
Yeah.
So when the IRS sits there and uses consumer lingo to try to give themselves cover, that's why I'm glad you called because the consumer version of this is nowhere near what is required of businesses for their business.
Totally different animal.
Right.
Well, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate that, John.
Thanks, Rush.
You bet.
So that's my point here, folks, is when Lois Lerner, this Coskinen guy, tell you or tell a congressional committee or the media, oh, her hard drive crashed, irrelevant.
Now, if your hard drive crashes, I don't know how many of you are backed up, but I know most of you don't have a server in your house.
If you use a server, it's another company's that you're paying service for in your email collection.
If you have Yahoo Mail or AOL mail or Gmail, you're on their servers.
And that mail is there, no matter what happens to your computer.
But you don't have that in your house.
But if you don't know any of this and your computer dives, you think you've lost everything.
But in the business world, they are not allowed, particularly investment houses and banks.
They're not allowed to only have one copy.
That's why there are things called IT departments.
So when these crafty little people at the IRS start using consumer lingo to explain what happened to their poor employees, it's irrelevant.
A hard drive crash, big deal.
The data is somewhere.
And every IT expert will tell you this.
Lois Lerner's hard drive got scratched, irrelevant.
You can still get the data off of it, but her hard drive is not where the emails are.
They're somewhere else.
And they are required by law to be somewhere else.
They're required by law to be kept.
That was Trey Gowdy's point.
We all have to be able to produce on demand everything they want from us from five years ago, seven years ago, whatever it is.
And they're running around, oh, my hard drive died.
Trying to convince me, well, it's gone then if your hard drive died.
Not for them, folks.
Maybe for you.
Not for them.
Oh, really?
Well, I've learned something here in the break about Marie Harf, it's H-A-R-F, the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, I think is her title.
This is a spokeswoman.
She's Jen Pasaki's assistant.
Now, you may remember, we've talked about her before.
Marie Harf is the woman who was attacking Sergeant Bo Bergdahl's platoon mates for criticizing him.
You remember Bergdahl was the deserter, the supposed deserter, and his platoon mates were describing what all had happened.
And Harf heard about it, didn't like it, and she went on TV as a spokesman at the State Department, started ripping into his platoon mates saying, We here know much more than those platoon mates know.
We know much more about what went on with Sergeant Bergdahl than his platoon mates.
And she was mean.
That's what struck me, just arrogant, condescending mean.
It turns out this woman was once a Middle East analyst at the CIA.
I said, oh, no.
They just recycle these people.
They just go from one place.
Is that her?
She's this, is this?
She's back up there.
That's her, and her hair's brown today.
I just saw her.
Hair was totally.
I mean, she was bright blonde.
I mean, she was like Jenny McCarthy blonde last time I saw her.
Well, let's go to the audio sound device because this is another atrocity in the whole Israeli Hamas situation.
Let me ask you folks, think back when you were in either grade school or high school.
Remember that time that you opened the door to the janitor's office and saw the 40 surface-to-air missiles that were being hidden in there?
You remember when that happened when you were in school?
No, obviously you don't because there weren't any surface-to-air missiles in your school.
Well, there are surface-to-air missiles being hidden by Hamas in their schools.
It's one of the techniques to keep them from being found and also to prevent them from being targeted.
So Tuesday at the State Department, the deputy spokesperson Marie Harf held a daily press briefing.
And during the QA, a State Department correspondent for somebody, Matthew Lee is his name, said, Look, I asked you a question yesterday about the rockets that they found in this school and if you knew what they did with them after they found them.
Now, apparently, there had been some more rockets, some more missiles found today.
Do you have an answer to the question?
Let me tell you what the answer to the question is before you hear.
When they found the rockets and the missiles in the schools, our State Department demanded they be given back to Hamas as though somebody had stolen them and misplaced them.
And that's what she's being asked about here.
So here is, we have three bites.
This is the first there's her answer.
UNRWA has told us that they asked the local police to remove the rockets from the school.
We recognize that this was not an acceptable outcome, and we are consulting closely with UN leadership, with UNRWA, the Israeli government, and the Palestinian Authority to develop better options available in the event of future incidents.
Well, is it your understanding that by local police that was Hamas?
I think they can better speak to who specifically in the local police.
If you say if the outcome was not acceptable, it would appear that UNRWA gave these missiles back to their owners.
They have told us they went to the local police.
The reporters, right?
The local police are Hamas.
Hamas is everything there.
And so here's this.
Look, I know this is unfair.
It's just part of my effort to get people to see a liberal when there's a liberal.
And then have that mean something.
And this is a classic case of it, folks.
Marie Harf is a classic case of it.
She may be perfectly nice, but I guarantee she's wrong about everything.
And this is just now a cover-up.
So they found these rockets.
And we engineered, we worked with the UN to give them back.
We may as well not have even found them.
It doesn't matter.
It's just a circuitous route back to the owners, which are Hamas.
But this whole thing is an exercise in trying to fool people.
Well, what happened was we recognize this is not an acceptable outcome.
Really, thank you.
It's not acceptable to have rockets and missiles in a school.
Thank you.
We recognize this is not an acceptable outcome.
And we are consulting closely with the UN and the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority to develop better options available in the event of future.
So the next time we find guns and rockets in a school, we're going to do even better.
This is the norm of there, I guess.
Reported, wait a minute now.
You're understanding that by local police that was Hamas.
Well, I think they can better speak to who's specifically the local police.
Don't look to me, pal, to indict Hamas.
That's not what we in the Obama administration are here to do.
We're not going to blame Hamas for anything.
We're going to blame Israel, but we're not going to blame Hamas.
Don't try to trick me.
That's what she's saying.
And the reporter said, well, it would appear that the UN gave the missiles back to their owners, back to Hamas.
And Marie Harf says, they have told us that they went to the local police.
Like, what do you not understand, dude?
It's perfectly local police.
What do you not get about it, huh?
So then the correspondent Matthew Lee said, okay, so after this happened, the secretary, meaning Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, the secretary and people with the secretary in Cairo announced an additional big package of aid, including $15 million to Hamas.
Which is an organization that does very important work in terms of the humanitarian situation, not just in Gaza, but elsewhere.
I understand, but can you see how to an outside observer, this sounds a little bit, this sounds a bit bizarre?
Well, maybe it's an outside observer who doesn't have all the facts or understand the details here.
The facts are pretty clear.
UNRWA discovers missile rockets in its school.
It condemns it, informs the UN, obviously, and then hands them back over to the people who are shooting them into Israel.
Well, let's not make sweeping generalizations.
They've told us they gave them to the local police.
Well, but the local police in Gaza are Hamas.
Do you believe this, folks?
Well, maybe to an outsider, they wouldn't be a mister who doesn't have all the facts or understanding the details like we do.
Okay, well, the facts are pretty clear.
They discovered the missiles, the rockets, in a school, and condemn it and formed a UN, and then hands them back over to the people who are shooting them into Israel.
In other words, good guys captured rockets.
They should have been taken out of the country.
Instead, they were given back.
This would be like discovering some V-2 rocket battery in Germany and say, oops, oops, these are Hitler's.
We shouldn't have found these.
And then take them back to Berlin or something.
That's what's going on in.
That's what she's excusing.
That's what she's explaining.
And she's trying to draw a distinction, the distinction, well, no, no, no.
These were given to the local police.
Gaza.
Local.
There aren't any police in Gaza.
And then there's one more.
This is Matthew Lee continuing here, beating his head against a wall.
If you say, Ms. Harf, it was unacceptable.
I'm assuming that it was unacceptable, but you still ended up giving the missiles back.
They do tend to mean what I say, yes.
Exactly.
You say it's unacceptable, but you won't say why it's unacceptable, right?
I don't have more for you than that.
But then you go ahead and announce another $15 million to this very organization.
That's an important organization.
I understand that.
Those two things aren't mutually.
UNRWA is operating in a very difficult situation in a difficult environment.
And they aren't, to be frank here, equipped to deal with discovering rockets in a school where they were working humanitarianly.
So again, this wasn't a good outcome.
We certainly don't think it was, but I would caution people from jumping to conclusions about what UNRWA was trying to do here.
What, a humanitarian group automatically is assumed to be a bunch of good guys, number one.
Number two, a humanitarian group finds rockets and doesn't know what to do with them.
Well, you know, they're operating in a very difficult situation, a difficult environment.
And let's be frank here.
They're not equipped to deal with discovering rockets in a school when they're working a humanitarian.
Why not?
Why is working so-called humanitarian issues somehow, why does it render you impotent when you discover rockets and missiles in a school?
By the way, folks, I'm very sorry.
The group that she was talking about, she was pronouncing it UNRWA.
It's the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA.
That's who she was talking about.
I mistakenly thought I'd identified them in the first soundbite, and I had not.
So that's who Marie Harf was talking about.
The group that discovered the rockets.
They were a UN group, and they had no idea what to do.
I'm a humanitarian group.
We need to give them $15 million more dollars because they're really important work that they're doing.
Discovering rockets in schools.
Look, I'm not going to have time to get to the soundbites, but here's the deal.
About the latest in the Tony Dungy thing.
Since everybody started coming down on Dungy for saying he wouldn't have drafted Michael Sam, the sports media has now decided to turn its attentions to another person in the league office.
They're going after David Tyree, former Giants wide receiver.
He's the guy who made the miraculous helmet catch in the Super Bowl where they beat the New England Patriots.
He was just hired as the New York Giants director of player development.
Meaning he keeps the guys off the streets.
No, he just deals with the pro players and helps develop them as from rookies.
He's a roster position, deals with rostered employees.
But his sin, he's an open Christian and is opposed to gay marriage, and he has said so.
David Tyree.
He's now the next target.
And I've got a couple of sound bites I wanted to get to, but darn it, I'll just have to do that tomorrow.
Now we'll have the sound bites that apply to the media going after David Tyree and Dungie tomorrow on Open Lion Friday.
Until then, folks, thank you once again for spending time with us today.
Really appreciate it.
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