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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, no, no, no, no, you got that wrong.
That's not ex- No, it's the exact opposite of that.
Um greetings and welcome back, folks.
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Now 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 uh do you know the Israelis are actually texting and calling Palestinians in Gaza in advance of launching response attacks.
Say, look, we're firing.
You if if you're civilian, get the hell out of the area, because we got a we got a couple rockets we're launching here in ten minutes.
There's there 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.
And a 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 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 what's driving this.
I don't even want to get into whether or not there's anti-Semitism.
Uh 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.
This is 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 Hamas Charter calls for the elimination of Israel.
The elimination of the Jews.
It's right out of Meinkampf.
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 listened 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, I uh ladies and gentlemen, I want you to um hear here Trey Gowdy in action.
When when he was named the chairman of the select committee looking into well, he's actually Benghazi.
But he's also looking at this, he's uh he's on the government reform subcommittee, he's an ISIS committee, but boy is he good when he starts tearing into these Democrats.
He's uh uh he's a trial lawyer from South Carolina.
He's 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 have a chance to get to them, so I've 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 Koskinen went at it.
Sounds like me.
It is you.
Can you tell us who we is 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 uh 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 the government.
So we is the royal we, just speaking on behalf of the entire R.S. How about the word confirmed?
What does the word confirmed mean to you?
That you confirm the backup tapes no longer exist.
Confirmed means that somebody went back and looked and made sure that in fact all any backup tapes that uh 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 I.G. is looking and he hasn't found anything.
Finally, Gowdy nukes him for claiming that morale is low in the IRS.
I'm gonna say this in conclusion.
Mr. Coskin, I I really could not believe the colloquy that you have with one of our colleagues about the morale at the IRS.
I I I 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.
What what are we supposed to feel sorry for the IRS morale is low?
Well, whose fault is that?
He did.
He came forward and he said, uh morale, the IRS is for real.
Why?
Because you get caught?
Is the morale at the IRS low because the light is finally shining at what happened in there, but he's 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 what 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, uh 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 all going.
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'd be right back.
Sit tight, L. Rushbow, back with more after this.
And we're back.
And I have not forgotten.
I've got these audio signed by Sir Marie Harf.
This is uh this woman's almost indescribable.
I mean, and be polite.
Almost indescribable.
She's she's the um the assistant, the aide to Jen Pasaki.
And 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 and aide named Marie Harf.
And the first time I saw this woman, I said, what is this?
I I actually thought it was a uh uh a satire show or uh uh uh 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 this is a this is a op uh from this woman has been from the moment of birth, she has been saturated.
In modern day progressivism, leftism, it just is it reeks is so obvious.
And part and parcel 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 bytes.
And that'll happen before the program ends today.
But here's John.
I've got another IT, information technology expert from Ron Cocam of 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.
So the guy from New Hampshire covered a lot, uh, and that that was very good.
But uh the other point is that these emails would not have been destroyed, obviously, with uh just a hard drive crash because they were on a server.
Also, if that server crashed, uh and 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.
That's that's the isn't isn't that what a RAID array is?
Right.
A rate array is multiple hard drives that write the same data.
So if the hard drive goes in a server, you still have the data, you can change that hard drive and and you you don't you do not look at the data.
Also, in addition to the RAID, you have what you call clustered servers, where you have a server that's that's sitting right next to the other server that has the exact same data on it that's mirrored to it, and they they do that either nightly or whatever.
And you know, I I I think you mentioned also disaster recovery where they have you know alternate data centers.
I'm sure the IRS has a disaster recovery site.
Like if that uh whole data center had a fire, they would go to an alternate data center.
You uh you don't lose data like this.
Precisely this well, any government agency would have this attitude about itself.
But particularly the government's collection agency is not going to lose its data.
No, not at all.
And I mean take this into account also.
Health care, um uh IT and also, you know, banks, financial institutions, they get audited by external auditors of how you know how they back up their data, how they protect their data.
I mean, it it's just unheard of that they would could lose email data and just never be able to find it.
Let me ask you a qu John, I need to ask you a question about how new all this is, because the um to the average consumer, I think, hearing all of this, a lot of it's foreign.
People don't have RAID array backups in their homes.
Right.
Um they don't have servers in their homes.
Some of them do, but but they don't have a server that backs up a server.
Now, businesses have been computerized uh for for the longest time starting way back with IBM mainframes.
When did all of this really start?
This the the business of uh computing in corporations as a backup and as an interoffice communication mechanism and has file storage, that that predates consumer computer uh operations by how many years?
Well, of course.
I mean, even the mainframes, I mean, you know, you see like uh the pictures of those the mainframe computers, and you'll see the big tapes, you know, they used to have these giant reel to reels.
I mean, it's been done forever.
I mean, back in the day when IBM was dominant in that field.
Yeah, and you know, now with with Microsoft and you know, Microsoft databases and uh Unix and and just all these different products, I mean.
But don't leave out Oracle.
Yeah, Oracle, SQL.
I mean, you you don't you just don't lose data.
You know what?
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 that's true if your emails on an IMAP account.
If you're using a pop account, that may not be the case, you have to make you have to the server has to be set up correctly to hold on to the data after it dumps it to the computer.
No, it's there.
Because it it it synchronizes with with Microsoft anyway, it'll synchronize the data on your on your laptop to the server.
So uh what what's on your uh what's on your laptop is is still local.
If it's not on the server, you may lose that, but it synchronizes as you're working.
So it 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 I I used to have a setup before I I changed a lot of my different email accounts to IMAP, but it used to be um for 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 laptop.
Right.
And I mean you could do that, and but once again, if you're if you're on a corporate network, usually you're not you're not using uh you can't do that in 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.
Uh but but that I'm just the difference is trying to help consumers understand this, because consumers don't know what a RAID array is, and not and they shouldn't.
It's not that that they should.
The way the IRS gets away with this is if you tell the average American that their hard drive blue, they've lost their data.
So if the IRS is, yeah, her hard drive blue, they think she lost her data.
It's a very easy lie to convin 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.
You know, in a average American house, that's why we advertise iDrive people.
You 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 it well just loved this phone, just loved and then one day something happened to it, and her phone wouldn't start up, and I said, Okay, well you're backed up, right?
She had no idea what I was talking about.
She just totally clueless about backing up.
She'd never had she was she was in her sixties.
She had never backed up anything in her life.
Uh 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 totally different animal.
Right.
Well, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate that, John.
Thanks, Rush.
You bet.
So that's that's my point here, folks, is when when Lois Lerner, this Coskinen guy, tell you or tell a congressional committee or the media, who 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 color.
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 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, well, it's gone then if your hard drive died.
Not for them, folks.
Maybe for you, not for them.
Oh, really?
I did I well, I've learned something here in the break about Marie Harf.
It's H A R F, the assistant Secretary of State for for Public Affairs, I think is her type.
This spokeswoman, she's Jin Pasaki's assistant.
Now you re you you may remember, we've talked about her before.
Marie Harf is the 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 in to his platoon mates saying, we here know much more than those platoon mates know.
We know much more about what went on with Sanji Brigdall 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 to that her.
She's just she's back up there.
That's her, and her hair's brown today.
Ah, just saw her.
Hair was totally, I mean, it 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 bites, 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 Haskell.
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 uh found and and 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'd been some more rockets, some more missiles found today.
Do you have an answer to the question?
Did let me tell you what the answer to 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 here here's we have three bites.
This is the first here's her answer.
UNRWA has told us that they asked the local police to remove the rockets from the school.
Uh 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 it was the 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.
I uh it's just part of my effort to get people to see a liberal when there's a liberal, and then and have that mean something.
And this 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 and and this is 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 uh 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 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 gonna do even better.
This is the norm 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 specifically to look.
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 gonna blame Hamas for anything.
We're gonna blame Israel, but we're not gonna blame Hamas.
Don't try to trick me.
That's what she's saying.
And the reporter said, Well, it would appear that then 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 the local police.
What do you not get about it, huh?
So then the response the correspondent Matthew Lee said, okay, so 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 fifteen million dollars to Hamas.
Which is an organization that does very important uh work in terms of the humanitarian situation, not just uh in Gaza but elsewhere.
I understand.
But can you see how to uh uh uh an outside observer?
This sounds a little bit this sounds a bit bizarre that well, how maybe it's an odds I observer who doesn't have all the facts or understand the details here.
The facts are pretty clear.
UNRWA discovers missile uh rockets in its school.
It condemns it and forms 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.
You believe this, folks.
Well, maybe to an act tighter.
They wouldn't be understood who doesn't have all the facts or anything the details like we do.
Okay, well, the facts are pretty clear.
They discovered the missiles, the rockets in the 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 this would this would be like discovering some V-2 rocket battery in Germany, and say, oops!
Oops, these are Hitlers.
We shouldn't have found these, and then take them back to Berlin or something.
That's what's going on here.
And that's what she's excusing.
That's what she's explaining.
And she's trying to draw a distinction that the distinction, well, we 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 uh uh Matthew Lee continuing here, beating his head against the wall.
If you say, Ms. Harf, it was unacceptable.
I'm assuming that it was unacceptable, but but any you still ended up giving the missiles back.
And you tend to mean what I say, yes.
Exactly.
You say it's unacceptable, but uh you won't say why it's unacceptable, right?
I don't have more for you than so but then you go ahead and announce another $15 million to this very organization.
It's an important organization.
I understand.
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.
Uh we certainly don't think it was, but uh I I would caution people from jumping to conclusions about you know what what UNRWA was trying to do here.
Uh 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 very difficult situation, a difficult environment.
And let's be frank here.
They're not equipped to deal with discovering rockets in the 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, you I'm folks, I'm very sorry.
I uh the the the group that she was talking about, she was pronouncing it UNRWA.
It's the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA.
That that's who she was talking about.
I I mistakenly thought I'd identified them in the first soundbite and I had not.
So that that's who Marie Harf was talking about, the the group that discovered the rockets.
They were a UN group, and they had no idea what I'm a humanitarian group.
We didn't 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 gonna have time to get to the sound bites, but here's the deal.
The uh about the the latest in the Tony Dungey thing.
Since everybody started coming down on Dungey 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 it it deals with with the pro players and and uh helps develop them as uh you know from rookies and so It's it's 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 uh that that apply to the media going after David Tyree and Dungey 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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