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RUSH: You want to hear how the regime operates? Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, Henry Waxman doing all the talking. The Democrats, they couldn\u2019t wait to slice and dice. They couldn\u2019t wait to question Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP. Here are three sound bites, Henry ‘Nostrilitis\u2019 Waxman.<\/p>\n

WAXMAN: It\u2019s clear to me that you don\u2019t want to answer our questions because isn\u2019t it true that you\u2019ve served your life in the — in — in BP, you\u2019ve only recently become the CEO, but haven\u2019t you been in this business most of your professional life?<\/p>\n

HAYWARD: I\u2019ve been in this business 28 years.<\/p>\n

WAXMAN: Twenty-eight years. So you should have some knowledge about these issues. And I sent you a letter in advance asking you, you\u2019re going to be asked these questions, and to be prepared to answer it. How can you explain this decision where you ignore — not you yourself, but people that work for you who should have known that it was your directive to be a laser on safety, how could they have ignored these warnings from people right within your company?<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Now, we\u2019ve got two more sound bites here. But I\u2019d like to know who gets to investigate Henry Waxman. I\u2019d like to know who gets to investigate the executive branch. Now, you know, there is a procedure for that. You remember Watergate? That was all done by the legislative branch. Remember good old Sam Ervin, Senator Sam and all those committees in Congress John Dean was testifying, too? The problem here is we got one-party rule. The Democrats are not going to investigate the administration. This is another reason why these elections in November are so crucial. Then, even after the Republicans win, they\u2019re going to have to have the gumption and the courage to go ahead and start investigating some of these things and they\u2019re going to have to be fearless about it. Here\u2019s our second sound bite of Waxman lecturing Hayward.<\/p>\n

HAYWARD: I\u2019m not prepared to draw conclusions about this accident until such time as the investigation is concluded.<\/p>\n

WAXMAN: Well, this is an investigation. That\u2019s what this committee is doing, is investigatory committee, and we expect you to cooperate with us. Are you failing to cooperate with other investigators as well? Because they\u2019re going to have hard time reaching conclusions if you stonewall them, which is what we seem to be getting today.<\/p>\n

HAYWARD: I\u2019m not stonewalling. I simply was not involved in the decision-making process. I\u2019ve looked at the documents, and until the investigations are complete, both yours and others —<\/p>\n

WAXMAN: No, no, but that\u2019s somebody else\u2019s conclusion. What\u2019s your conclusion?<\/p>\n

HAYWARD: I haven\u2019t drawn a conclusion, Mr. Chairman.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is about what happened, what went wrong. They don\u2019t know what caused it. There\u2019s no way he can have drawn a conclusion yet. They\u2019re still trying to find out. You\u2019d probably have to show Waxman a picture of an oil rig to have him understand what one is, and yet here he is trying to act like the expert in all of these. Waxman then got the last word on this.<\/p>\n

WAXMAN: My time is expired and I\u2019m just amazed at this testimony, Mr. Hayward. You\u2019re not taking responsibility. You\u2019re kicking the can down the road and acting as if you have nothing to do with this company and nothing to do with the decisions. I find that irresponsible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t understand. I haven\u2019t heard all the hearings, but somebody help me out here. Is BP actually running around these execs saying, ‘We didn\u2019t do it, it\u2019s not our problem\u2019? They\u2019re paying $20 billion into a slush fund. They\u2019ve set up a hundred-million-dollar foundation to pay benefits for out of work oil well and oil rig workers because of Obama\u2019s moratorium. They\u2019ve apologized. Have I missed something, are they running around saying that they don\u2019t really have any responsibility or culpability here? You know, Democrats are using leaked BP e-mails and launching these witch hunts. The same ideas ignored in Climategate. There\u2019s a whole bunch of e-mails here that they have leaked that they say point to some grand conspiracy with BP and there are just laser-like focused on it. But the global warming, the Hadley unit, those e-mails which pointed out that giant hoax, nobody cared, nobody wanted to look at those, but now they\u2019re leaking BP e-mails to try to prove there\u2019s some sort of cover-up conspiracy or what have you, dismissed those global warming e-mails, unimportant. What\u2019s really important is who leaked them, that\u2019s what we gotta find out, who\u2019s the culprit here. They don\u2019t care who leaked these. They care about the substance of these leaked BP e-mails.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, this business — we played this Waxman sound bites — understand, Waxman doesn\u2019t care what he gets here. Waxman doesn\u2019t care about any information. He\u2019s asking questions for which there are no answers right now. What Waxman and these other Democrats want is for Hayward and any other BP exec to say things under oath that they can\u2019t possibly know one way or the other. This is a show trial. If we were back in the era of Stalin, this is what happened in Stalinist Russia. It\u2019s exactly how show trials work. If you translated this into Russian, folks, this is exactly what would be going on in the old Russia, the old pre-Soviet Union days. Now, Waxman and these Democrats, they don\u2019t care what the answers are. This is about humiliation. This is about trying to save their own bacon come Election Day in November. That\u2019s why this is a show trial. This is not about finding out what happened and preventing it from happening again. This is not about one bit of substance. It\u2019s purely and simply a fraud.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Jeremy in Reading, Pennsylvania. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, mega dittos, Rush. Hey, I just wanted to make a quick connection. I always hear everybody talking about George Orwell\u2019s 1984, but another book he wrote that nobody makes the connection to is Animal Farm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Where the animals take over the farm and write their own rules but slowly the pigs start changing the rules. And the connection is the Democrats are like the pigs who slowly start changing the rules, case in point with the whole Senator Kennedy election, how when he got appointed, they changed the rules from the governor can appoint somebody to a special election, but then when he died, they didn\u2019t want a special election, they wanted the governor to be able to appoint somebody. And that even goes into the whole oil spill and everything because during Katrina it took Bush like nine days or so to react, and that wasn\u2019t quick enough, but it\u2019s taken them some two months to really react. But it\u2019s okay for them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Excellent point. Excellent, excellent point. Snerdley, you found some great callers out there for Open Line Friday on Thursday. Jeremy, thanks, thanks very much. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: So a congressman, I don\u2019t know who it was, Hayward is being asked, this BP CEO, Tony Hayward is being asked by a congressman if he thought that he was shaken down by the White House yesterday for the $20 billion. He answered twice and never said no. He did not say no. He didn\u2019t come out and say, ‘Yeah, they really shook us down in there,\u2019 but he didn\u2019t deny it.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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