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April 21, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3

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	Greetings and welcome back, my friends.
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	Okay, a blue state plus a big city corrupt district attorney.
	And a popular Republican governor equals a police state, reminiscent of the 1930s in Germany.
	And I am not exaggerating, an iota.
	This is the Wisconsin story to which I alluded earlier in today's broadcast.
	If you compare this to Watergate, I mean, Watergate is literally romper-roomed compared to this.
	This is the police batter-ramming their way into homes on direct orders of a Democrat district attorney fishing for information to use against a political enemy and then threatening homeowners who had all of their civil rights violated, threatening them to shut up or else.
	The same state, Wisconsin, where union thugs trashed the state capitol in hopes of intimidating the governor into letting their money laundering operation remain in place.
	I don't say this with any jocularity or casualness at all.
	This is the kind of thing that should land some people in jail.
	This is a legitimate comparison to the 1930s in Germany.
	It would stick.
	This is a first cousin to what Barack Obama did with the IRS when he went after conservative groups.
	And it all starts because this prosecutor, this DA, happens to be married to a woman who was a school teacher who got really, really mad at the changes to her own union benefits under Scott Walker.
	That is literally the little germ that ignites this entire episode.
	A ticked-off union activist teacher married to a corrupt DA, and they then found a corrupt judge and enough corrupt police officers to facilitate every action they took, which was entirely political.
	There was no criminality.
	The people targeted here had not engaged in one IOTA of criminal activity.
	All they did was vote Republican.
	All they did was donate to Republican and our conservative causes.
	It would begin with a knock on the door after midnight.
	An armed police force, a SWAT unit, could storm your house, literally use a battering ram to enter your front door if you didn't answer within seconds.
	Most people in bed when this happened.
	Again, these are just Warden Cleaver families, Warden Jude Cleaver families.
	These are not criminals, nothing to do with any criminal activity whatsoever, unless you consider voting Republican to be criminal.
	You didn't answer, they used the battering ram to crash into your house, scaring your kids, maybe for the rest of their lives in some cases.
	They would then storm in and steal every computer and cell phone they could find.
	They would not tell you why they were there.
	They would tell you you didn't have a right to know, and they told you that you better shut up about what is going on and what was happening.
	If you breathed a word to anybody, even in the neighborhood, who had witnessed it, you would be in even further difficulty.
	And all of this was simply based on the political advocacy that the residents, the adult residents of these homes, had engaged in.
	All of this is the John Doe investigations that began into Scott Walker and conservative groups in Wisconsin.
	And they've been ongoing now for years.
	Scott Walker's been really strangely quiet about this.
	We all know what happened to him.
	And he's out detailing what happened to him and his family.
	What we didn't know was the same thing was happening to scores of his supporters and donors, all under the auspices of the so-called John Doe law, the John Doe investigation.
	The opponents of Scott Walker turned campaign finance law into weapons.
	David Franchett, National Review, has talked to the families targeted in these raids for the first time, and their stories are harrowing.
	As I say, this is going to print out to 11 pages if you read it online.
	Shouting officers at the front door in late night, early morning raids, one case with a battering ram.
	Armed police rifling through and carting off their belongings down to and including a daughter's computer.
	The targets were told not even to tell their lawyers.
	They were told not to tell their friends.
	They were told not to say a word to their neighbors.
	Now, if you happen to live next door to a house where such a storming took place, I mean, you'd wonder why.
	My God, what'd that family do?
	You would ask.
	That family was forbidden from telling you.
	They were not permitted to discuss what happened.
	They were not permitted to even go get lawyers.
	This was not the right to remain silent.
	This was an order to remain silent.
	And to not, they couldn't even profess their innocence.
	The demand to stay silent required that they assume a public role of guilt.
	The investigators were fishing for campaign finance violations, supposedly, which is nothing more than a First Amendment right.
	Campaign donations are the equivalent of free speech.
	Numerous courts, including the Supreme Court, have so found.
	So for exercising their First Amendment rights, they were denied them.
	The investigations have been going on so long that there's a John Doe 1 and a John Doe 2.
	As Scott Walker's first campaign for governor got underway in 2010, the Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm, C-H-I-S-H-O-L-M, opened the initial John Doe investigation under a proviso of the law that allows officials to keep their targets secret and to compel the targets to shut up.
	John Chisholm, the DA, a partisan Democrat, his wife was a shop steward for a teachers' union, and she was miffed.
	Scott Walker was elected and began to implement his reforms of corrupt union activities in Wisconsin.
	And his wife, Chisholm's wife, literally had a cow, went berserk.
	So Chisholm investigated everything possible related to Walker for two years and didn't ever lay a glove on him.
	Everybody knows that's followed this.
	They tried, they threw the kitchen sink at Walker and nothing stuck.
	So in the run-up to Walker's re-election campaign, you know, the first thing they tried was a recall election, and they fired everything at him then, and they were going after his supporters then.
	And he won the recall election, then he ran for legitimate re-election.
	And that's when they went and got a judge to join this corrupt effort.
	John Doe entered the next phase of harassment of conservative groups.
	Investigators swept up personal emails.
	They issued wide-ranging subpoenas, including information on donors.
	The Wisconsin Club for Growth describes in court filings how its own activities were hindered as people began refusing meetings.
	Donors got nervous.
	And one of its key officials, Eric O'Keefe, was not allowed to explain the nature of the investigation.
	They literally were trying to scare and intimidate conservatives, conservative donors, conservative voters as much as they could.
	They wanted to frighten them and intimidate them into abject fear and silence.
	O'Keefe has been courageous in resisting the investigations.
	Said that the process is the punishment.
	The punishment for voting for Walker, the punishment for being Republican, the process, the investigation was the punishment.
	The offense was backing the wrong side in this political race in Wisconsin.
	Armed agents of the state operating with the force of law behind them to be used essentially as a political bomb.
	The John Doe investigation has bogged down now under the weight of its own corruption and unfairness.
	And there have been a lot of court challenges successfully lodged against it.
	And the Wisconsin Supreme Court could soon rule a halt the investigations.
	And they're still ongoing.
	All of this is still underway in one form or another.
	The U.S. Supreme Court set to decide whether it'll consider a federal lawsuit brought by Eric O'Keefe and the Wisconsin Club for Growth.
	Wisconsin legislators are considering scaling back the law that enables the John Doe investigations to prevent future abuses of this.
	They've got to do something because this is, I think this is every innocent person's fear when they contemplate running up against law enforcement.
	They know they don't have any power.
	And if they run into people that are out to get them just because they want to get them, they know they can be had.
	You have it all here.
	You have a corrupt Democrat prosecutor, an angry wife of the prosecutors, a shop steward union activist and screw all teacher, and then a judge.
	And the judge has been successfully called out by a number of other legal authorities.
	She's been humiliated for her role in this, but she doesn't feel the humiliation because she's not capable of it.
	But to casual observers, what's happened to her in being called out is humiliation.
	Chisholm is the name that you need to remember.
	And I'm going to find the name of the judge in this case as well.
	But every sordid detail and the drama that is associated with it can be found at National Review, a National Review Online.
	David French is the article author, and he's dug deep.
	And the details come from these families who now are speaking up.
	And they're doing so in great detail.
	Take a brief time out.
	We'll come back and continue in mere moments.
	El Rushbo and the EIB network after this.
	Don't go away.
	And we're back, Rush Limbo at Cutting Edge.
	Great to have you here.
	The judge, without whom this case could not have happened, is Barbara Kluka, K-L-U-K-A.
	And I remember she was, I'll tell you what she did.
	She came along in the second John Doe investigation, and she approved every petition, every subpoena, every search warrant in the whole case in less than one day's work.
	She enabled law enforcement to raid these innocent citizens' homes.
	She's since recused herself from this, but not before she enabled all of this to happen in the second phase of the John Doe II case here.
	In the second John Doe case, the DA, John Chisholm, had no real evidence of wrongdoing by anybody.
	It didn't stop him.
	Conservative groups were active in issue advocacy, which is protected by the First Amendment.
	It didn't violate any campaign finance laws.
	Issue advocacy is politics 101.
	These people were targeted because they're conservatives and liberals.
	As I say, what happened here, and not only the treatment Scott Walker got, but everybody else, this is liberalism run amok without any checks, without any opposition, without anybody pushing back.
	And in its own way, California is the same example.
	Despite the fact that there were no violations of the law in any way, the DA Chisholm convinced prosecutors in four other counties to launch their own John Doe investigations with the judge, Barbara Kluka, overseeing all of them.
	So, empowered by a rubber-stamped judge, partisan investigators ran amok.
	They subpoenaed, they obtained, without the target's knowledge, massive amounts of electronic data, including all of their personal emails and other electronic messages from outside email vendors and communications companies.
	And the investigations exploded into the open with a coordinated series of raids on October 3rd of 2013.
	These were home invasions, including the ones that I have detailed previously in this half hour.
	You really have to read the whole thing.
	As I say, I could devote much of the show to reading the whole article, but I'd lose you.
	No matter how good, no matter how good of interpretive reading I would engage in, I'd still lose you.
	This is something that's so detailed.
	You'll read a paragraph two or three times just to absorb it.
	Back to the phones we go.
	Stephen in Hamilton, Texas.
	I'm glad you waited, sir.
	Welcome to the EIV network.
	Hello.
	What an honor, Rush.
	Glad you called, sir.
	Well, the doctor took some of my thunder because I was going to point out that vitamins you buy off the shelf.
	Most of them are synthetic.
	And you're absolutely right.
	You can get vitamins from your diet.
	They're easy to get.
	What you cannot get from your diet, though, is all the minerals you need to keep yourself healthy.
	Oh, yeah, the minerals.
	Yeah, the minerals.
	It's a big deal.
	So, but can I bring up something else since the doctor screwed me?
	Yeah, by all means.
	I have had it.
	You're always talking about how we have the best medical system in the country or in the world, and you're only half right, and I'll explain.
	The MD doctors, if you have an infectious disease, broken bone, need a bullet pulled out, you know, need a new heart, you absolutely need an MD doctor.
	But when it comes to chronic diseases, they suck.
	And the reason they suck is because they don't know the physiology of the body.
	You mean we don't have one doctor in America that doesn't suck with chronic diseases.
	Well, if you're talking about naturopathic or holistic doctors, they're very good at chronic diseases.
	Well, give me an example of a chronic disease that we don't have a good doctor for.
	Well, look at Alzheimer's.
	Alzheimer's.
	The medical doctors have been driving the medical bus for 100 years.
	And Alzheimer's, we started to have a few cases in the 70s.
	Wait, are you saying there's a cure that medical science is denying?
	Not a cure, but a preventative.
	There are preventatives that medical science is denying.
	Yeah.
	Well, if you graph out, you remember the hockey stick guy in the global warming thing?
	Yeah, I know who that guy is, the hockey stick guy.
	He's in Penn State.
	If you graph out Alzheimer's in the late 80s, Alzheimer's went through the roof and became the number six killer in this country.
	And in the late 1980s, that's when statin drugs became available.
	I see.
	Look, this is not my bailiwick.
	And I don't.
	I'm fully aware of the controversies that exist between homeopathic, holistic, aliens, and medical science.
	And I'm not interested enough in it.
	I don't think the medical community is committing crimes, so I don't want to go there.
	I'm just not interested.
	I'm sorry, folks.
	I'd get bored and irritated if we stuck with this, and I just don't.
	Okay, little history.
	It wasn't long ago, ladies, and let me find the exact date that this happened.
	We've reached the portion of the program where I don't know where I have is where or what I have is.
	I've got paper all over the desk.
	And naturally, what I'm looking for, I can't find.
	But it was April 7th was the first day that I articulated a strategy for the Republican candidates.
	And that was to instead of beating each other up as the primary kicks off here, go after Hillary.
	She's the presumed nominee.
	One half of the voting country doesn't know the truth about her.
	They don't know anything about the Hillary of the 90s.
	They know her as Secretary of State, friend of Obama's, whatever else, but they don't know the stuff that Hillary did in the 90s that they just cannot abide today.
	The treatment of women by her husband, her role in it.
	And not only that, I said, go after Hillary, go after liberalism, go after who she is.
	Contrast yourselves with her, not each other.
	She's the presumptive nominee.
	And initially, a lot of people agreed with me.
	I thought it was a good idea.
	Then they began to get scared that it was going to backfire.
	And now many of them who agree, I don't mean the candidates, I'm talking about listeners and friends of mine.
	Now they're really getting scared because of this.
	Yesterday afternoon in Keene, New Hampshire, after a roundtable event at Whitney Brothers Furniture Company, Hillary spoke with ABC News correspondent Cecilia Vega, who said, Did foreign entities receive any special treatment for making any kind of donations to the foundation of your husband?
	Remember the news we had yesterday.
	Foreign countries, some of the biggest donors to the Clinton Foundation are people who are going to expect payback.
	They made donations to the foundation while Hillary was Secretary of State.
	But the amount of money they gave was not because of goodwill and good works.
	They gave money expecting her to become president and pay it back somehow.
	There's no question of it.
	So she'd been asked about it.
	Here was her answer.
	Well, we're back into the political season, and therefore we will be subjected to all kinds of distraction and attacks.
	And I'm ready for that.
	It is, I think, worth noting that the Republicans seem to be talking only about me.
	I don't know what they talk about if I weren't in the race.
	So you see, and now we have people on our side.
	See, see, Russia's backfired.
	Reach back.
	Mrs. Clinton's out, called them out.
	I said, Yeah, so what are we going to do?
	We're now going to not criticize Hillary, just like we haven't criticized Obama because the press is going to come at us.
	We're not going to criticize Hillary because it'll anger women.
	We're not going to criticize Hillary because it will anger the independents.
	We're not going to criticize Hillary because it will leave too many things that we have to discuss unexposed.
	I mean, it's, you know, when the original strategy was announced, I went right on, right on.
	It makes perfect sense.
	She's the presumptive nominee.
	Do not destroy each other.
	Go out and expose her.
	Of course, she's going to try to mock the critics.
	And so will the media.
	Of course, she's going to try to belittle it.
	It's natural that she would say, oh, if it weren't for me, they wouldn't have everything to talk about, which is flat out BS.
	Did the Democrats ever stop going after Mitt Romney?
	Did the Democrats ever stop going after George W. Bush?
	Do the Democrats ever stop going after anybody?
	Why is it always incumbent on us?
	The first time a Democrat responds to our criticism, oh, yeah, you know what?
	We better stop.
	Yeah, we need to go after liberalism in general.
	We need to go after, just leave Hillary alone.
	We don't need to be giving her all this attention.
	We most certainly, it's time to change this strategy that's rooted in fear.
	I don't want to say cowardice, because I'm not quite sure that's what it is.
	But this was as predictable as the sun coming up that she would react to it by trying to belittle it, by trying to suggest it's not serious.
	They're just attacking me.
	They've got nothing else to talk about.
	They do, and they are.
	They are all talking about their agendas.
	They're talking about their specific plans, issue after issue after issue.
	But at the same time, this is a political campaign.
	She's the presumptive nominee.
	You have to show and draw the differences with your opponent.
	You can't allow that to be assumed by the voting public.
	So I just, I knew that this was going to happen.
	And by the way, the Republicans have.
	They started out, they launched into, if not coordinated, decent criticisms of Mrs. Clinton and her competence and her talent or lack of how she botched.
	I mean, you think we should not talk about Benghazi?
	No, Rush, that's old news.
	We didn't get anywhere with it the first time.
	They'll just mock at me.
	We talk ourselves into shutting up because it's going to make somebody mad.
	It's going to make us look bad.
	Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, look what they can do.
	Batter ram your front door.
	And nobody tells them you better stop that.
	Here is, let's see.
	Larry Sabateau, this is audio soundbite number five.
	CBS this morning, reporting on the presidential race.
	And Sabateau said that the Republican candidates are attacking Hillary as a tryout to be nominated.
	It's a tryout to be the chief, to be the nominee.
	And the one thing the Republican nominee has to do is not be afraid to take on Hillary Clinton in a very blunt, direct way.
	Well, exactly right.
	I don't know about the tryout aspect, but he's exactly right.
	You can't be afraid to take her on.
	Yeah, but Rush, you told all of them to do it.
	You don't want all of them to do it.
	That's just overkill.
	I don't understand what's so complicated about this.
	So the minute the media, or the minute Hillary starts making fun of them for a criticism.
	See, I told you, Rush, it was going to backfire.
	Oh, so now we're going to let the media determine our strategy.
	I don't, I'm never going to come to grips with this fear.
	I've been frustrated by this fear of criticizing Obama.
	Well, Rush, they'll call you a race.
	I've had all that happen.
	For 27, I'm still here.
	Yeah, but you couldn't get elected to anything.
	I'm not running for anything.
	But I'm still here.
	I live to do it again.
	I don't understand it.
	Some people just don't want to deal with that.
	The media coming at.
	I understand that.
	and don't get into a business where it's going to happen.
	Here's Scott Walker.
	This is last night on the Kelly file on the Fox News channel.
	She said, obviously, you're trying to paint Hillary as out of touch.
	And already we're hearing that not just from you, but from regular folks that Hillary's out of touch.
	But what is the evidence, Scott, that she's out of touch?
	You look at a whole panther and things like that.
	Even the way she reacted to the emails.
	I mean, I think the fact instead of saying, hey, this was a mistake, it was almost like when she stood in front of the UN and talked about this, like she couldn't believe she actually had to respond to that.
	When you look at saying you were dead broke when you came out of the White House when she had a book deal pending in two houses out there, when she talked about not having driven for 18 years, I think those are all things that everyday people really wonder, what is this that they're talking about?
	This is not someone who's connected with everyday America.
	Yeah, the Clintons now have.
	Are you ready for this?
	The Clintons have a net worth that is projected to be in the neighborhood of Mitt Romney.
	Romney's is said to be $250 million.
	The Clintons are in the $150 to $200 million range.
	Has anybody asked how they got that money as opposed to how Romney earned his?
	The Clintons have been bought and paid for.
	Every bit of the money they've got is a donation of some kind from somebody for something.
	Every damn thing.
	What job have they ever had?
	Well, I think she was at the Rose Law Firm.
	I take that back.
	She's earned 100 grand and a Cattle Futures deal.
	10 grand into 100 grand in six days.
	I understand that.
	But they're in the same ballpark.
	Forget it.
	Forget how.
	They're in the same ballpark as Mitt Romney.
	And they get to run around saying we're dead broke, leaving the west.
	They get to run around portraying poverty and average American status.
	And Mitt Romney, some elitist, aloof, out of touch, rich Republican.
	People throw money at the Clintons on the come just on what they think they might get back from it if she ever ended back up in the Oval Orifice.
	Okay, I got to get it in here.
	I promised I would.
	The coach, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, last night in Milwaukee at Miller Park.
	Hope that DA doesn't get hold of this guy.
	This is during the QA.
	Manager Brian Price speaking with reporters, and he just had it.
	He's just had it with the media coverage.
	Specifically reports that the catcher, Reds catcher, was not available for Sunday's loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
	Your job isn't to sniff out every little thing that is about the Reds and put it out there for every other guy to hear.
	It's not your job.
	You want me to be candid with you?
	I've been candid with you.
	I talk to you guys like men.
	I tell you what's going on with the team.
	I tell you how I'm feeling about it as candidly as I can.
	And then this gotta watch this.
	Suffice to say, not a big fan of the media, and he was not through.
	So I'm be honest with you.
	I'm sick of this.
	I'm sick of listening to this.
	I'm sick of second guessing.
	You guys can do whatever the you want, but I'll tell you this.
	I'm not going to tell you everything about this club because you guys are going to go out there and sniff it out anyway.
	I don't like it one bit.
	Bend over backwards to be honest and direct with you guys and you stick it right up my and the team.
	I'm sick of it.
	I tell you, I know exactly how this guy feels.
	I know exactly how he feels.
	Let's talk about coverage of his team, the Cincinnati Reds.
	It reminds that old Tommy Lessorda rant.
	He was asked by the press if he was impressed by the performance of Dave Kingman when they were playing the Cubs or whatever.
	I don't have time to play that for you.
	He's got to take a break here.
	We'll save that maybe for tomorrow.
	Well, that's it, folks.
	It's been a rocking Tuesday here on the EIB Network, and that just means we have to take a brief time out for 21 hours and be back here right again tomorrow.
	And at the same time, same station.
	Don't think we ticked any off today.
	So we'll see you then.

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