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RUSH: Robert in San Diego. Thank you, sir, for the calling and for waiting. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thank you. Regarding this IRS hearing and so forth, I think what we should do is just demand that these people apologize to Mitt Romney — they influenced an election, that\u2019s what they did — and then move on. Uh, I think the Democrats are really, really good. I mean, they\u2019re geniuses. This was gonna come out at some point. It didn\u2019t come out in the summer of 2012, which would have been a disaster for them, and it didn\u2019t come out in the summer of 2014. It was leaked in the summer or the spring of 2013, which is very remote from the next election, about as far away as it can be —<\/p>\n

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RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and it was perfect timing for them. I think they pulled off a great election and released this at the least damaging point, and they\u2019re really good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yup. They can be good when they\u2019ve got unlimited media support for what they\u2019re doing. Stop and think about this. Now, look, I\u2019m not trying to make this about me. I\u2019m really not. When you have the New York Times — which, to them, is the gospel. I mean, to the rest of the media, to the political class, the ruling class, the New York Times is gospel, and they\u2019ve got a story today excusing the media for not reporting on the IRS scandal a year ago when it would have had an impact on the election.<\/p>\n

It was known a year ago.<\/p>\n

It was known to the media. It was known that the inspector general was looking into it. It was known because the Tea Party had complained about it. It was known that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups<\/a> and denying them tax-exempt status. It was known that Romney donors were being audited and harassed. Now, the New York Times says that that wasn\u2019t reported last year when it could have affected the election because of me.<\/p>\n

Because what was happening with me in one week so overwhelmed everybody in the media that it blinded them to anything else happening. The New York Times story says that that IRS story happened to really break into full-fledged knowledge during that week made famous by me, and I was such a distraction… Now, if you\u2019re Obama and you\u2019ve got a media willing to tell that story — if you have a media willing to excuse themselves from reporting on something that could impact the election because have to cover a talk show host on the radio… Ha-ha!<\/p>\n

Well, then you\u2019re pretty confident that you\u2019re gonna be able to keep things suppressed and sheltered during an election. Same thing with Benghazi. So, folks, Robert here is exactly right. The release of the IRS scandal news happened just recently<\/a>. Lois Lerner, who today took the Fifth Amendment<\/a>, was at an American Bar Association meeting and planted a question with a friend of hers in a Q&A at a convention, a conference. And her answer revealed the details of the IRS scandal involving the Tea Party.<\/p>\n

That was just, what, a month ago — three weeks ago, whenever it was — and we\u2019re dealing with it intensely ever since. She orchestrated the release of this news at this time. Robert\u2019s right. This is about as far away from the 2014 election as you can get. So it\u2019ll happen and be forgotten. Nothing\u2019s gonna happen here. You have the news that could have been reported a year ago and been impactful on the election, but it wasn\u2019t because of me. Then you have Benghazi.<\/p>\n

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So, yeah. “The Democrats are really good,” but they\u2019ve got willing accomplices in the media <\/a>that will help them implement their media plans. You might say… Now, this a stretch here, but maybe the Republicans have strategerists that are this good, too. But they don\u2019t have a media that would go along with this. Well, they do, but not the mainstream media. The mainstream media would not help \u2019em with it. In fact, I don\u2019t think they do have a media that would be complicit with them in a scandal like this.<\/p>\n

I know I wouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

If it were a Republican president and administration who had done this kind of thing and they\u2019d come to me and said, “Look, will you help us through this?” I wouldn\u2019t. I wouldn\u2019t lie for \u2019em or excuse it. But their media will do that. So, yeah, they\u2019re smart. Yeah, they\u2019re good. But they\u2019ve also got a lot of help. But all that aside, the point is well taken. By the 2014 election season, this will likely be old news. I don\u2019t mean to be throwing cold water on things here.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve just been around block now a number of times, and I\u2019ve seen these things work, and I\u2019ve seen them not work, and we\u2019re in a pattern here of it not working — meaning, to our benefit. The House Bank Scandal worked to our benefit. Watergate worked to their benefit. But name another. I mean, Clinton impeachment? It didn\u2019t matter. His approval numbers always stayed high. He won reelection. It didn\u2019t matter. Hillary is still a viable presidential prospect after all of the shenanigans that she has been involved in?<\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t mattered. Every day, I am treated with a just most pained facial expression by Mr. Snerdley, who every day shows up here thinking, “Okay, this is it! They\u2019ve gone too far. They\u2019ve bitten off too much.” I say, “No, no, no, no, no.” Let me give you another one, folks. Try this. Hee-hee-hee-hee. I shouldn\u2019t laugh, but I can\u2019t help it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: Okay, grab audio sound bite number nine. By the way, remember Obama said that he would not rest until these folks were brought to justice, the Benghazi terrorists, said he wouldn\u2019t rest. I don\u2019t know. I guess they don\u2019t want to take \u2019em to Gitmo. They just don\u2019t want to take \u2019em to Gitmo. And that\u2019s all about protecting the base. No bad optics. The Benghazi criminals, terrorists, not gonna take them to Gitmo. They\u2019re trying to close Gitmo, the left thinks, so can\u2019t take \u2019em to Gitmo, bad optics, just leave \u2019em over there and nothing to see here. <\/line><\/p>\n

Dr. Krauthammer last night on the Special Report with Bret Baier talking about what\u2019s-her-face, Lois Lerner taking the Fifth, and everybody loves Dr. Krauthammer. But I really don\u2019t think the inside-the-Beltway crowd quite understands Obama. When he got elected, they thought he was a centrist. When he lost the 2010 midterms they said he would move to the center. In 2012, they thought he\u2019d be held responsible for the economy. None of that\u2019s happened, and now they think that this scandal that\u2019s bigger than Watergate will end his presidency, and it won\u2019t. The Democrats are worried about this Fifth Amendment thing that Lerner took. Dr. Krauthammer said this last night on Fox.<\/p>\n