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RUSH: Yeah, I\u2019m going through the audio sound bite roster here that Cookie gave me. Did you know that I am part of the Christie story<\/a>? I was. I was part of the Christie story on the cable news networks all night last night. Yeah. Wait \u2019til you hear it. I spent three minutes on it yesterday.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Anyway, greetings, my good friends, welcome, and Rush Limbaugh back at you, three hours of broadcast excellence from the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. The telephone number is 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

So Christie\u2019s fired a couple people now. Back on December 23rd, he was first asked about this on some radio town hall meeting. He was first asked about this, and he told people then that his staff assured him there was nothing to it, didn\u2019t know anything about it, nobody knew, there was nothing to it. He expanded on that a little bit today when the story began to take off. He told his staff (paraphrasing), “Look, you got one hour. I\u2019m gonna have you debriefed by somebody, counsel in my office. You got one hour.” <\/p>\n

He said that he feels totally betrayed. That people in his office lied to him about it, lied to his counsel about it, and so a couple people have been fired as of today. And he spent, now going over an hour with the media in New Jersey, and the media turned on this guy just like they turned on McCain. It was predictable. He\u2019s getting questions that presidents used to get. He hasn\u2019t, for example, been asked, “Tell us, Governor, what do you like about the job? What are the surprises that you didn\u2019t expect? What is your day like?” He hasn\u2019t gotten anything like that. <\/p>\n

These have been probing, pointed questions that are rooted in a media that doesn\u2019t believe him, or is acting like they don\u2019t believe him. They\u2019re going full bore, and he\u2019s bearing up under it well. But it is, nevertheless, it is the Obama defense. “I didn\u2019t know any of this was going on.” Now, there\u2019s a lot to say about this. We\u2019re spending now over an hour press conference on lane closures on the George Washington Bridge. We haven\u2019t spent this much time on a press conference on four Americans dying in Benghazi. <\/line>We haven\u2019t spent this much time on the IRS scandal targeting the Tea Party. <\/line><\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t spent this much time with questions to the president about these things. Yeah, there have been congressional hearings. But we haven\u2019t had anything like this degree of interest in any of the Obama scandals. They even got F. Chuck Todd from the White House demanding that Christie fire somebody. If he doesn\u2019t fire somebody, then he\u2019s gonna be in real trouble. Well, Obama hasn\u2019t been firing anybody. The media hasn\u2019t been demanding that Obama\u2019s heads roll in his staff for some of the giant, I mean, genuine screw ups that have taken place. <\/p>\n

But, folks, there\u2019s something bigger going on than the details here, that is extremely troubling. I was thinking this last night, a little bit into this morning, and I was trying to find a way to explain exactly what I was thinking in a brief, penetrating, and cogent way. And it is rooted in the fact that, regardless who knew what, look at what actually happened here. In an effort for political payback, somebody in the governor\u2019s office decided to inconvenience the people of New Jersey and New York, particularly Fort Lee. <\/p>\n

So you had the governor\u2019s office, somebody there deciding to get even with another politician, to not actually do anything to the politician, but to make life tougher for citizens. It was citizens inconvenienced here in Fort Lee, and in some cases there are medical emergencies involved… The mayor of Fort Lee wasn\u2019t particularly harmed by anything that happened here. I mean, he was the target, but the payback was to inconvenience us, or the people that live in that region. <\/p>\n

I came across a column today, a piece by Carol Platt Liebau at Ricochet.com<\/a>. And it just nails what I was thinking about last night and this morning. I got this at about 11:30 this morning. “The Problem with Christie\u2019s ‘Bridgegate<\/a>,'” and she starts this way. “It\u2019s too early to tell whether — or how much — the ‘Bridgegate\u2019 scandal… is going to damage Chris Christie\u2019s presidential ambitions.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“To me, the matter is eerily reminiscent of the IRS scandal involving systematic harassment of conservative individuals and groups in the run-up to the 2012 election. (Indeed, it would be amusing to see how the press would respond were Governor Christie to proffer, verbatim, the same excuses presented by President Obama.)” Which he\u2019s essentially done. “I didn\u2019t know. I asked, and they lied to me, and I didn\u2019t know what was going on.” <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the difference, though. If Chris Christie were a Democrat — and I mean this, folks. I\u2019m interrupting the Carol Platt Liebau thing. This is not part of what I was gonna tell you. This is another thought. If Chris Christie were a Democrat, I\u2019m telling you right now the press would be celebrating the guy. They\u2019d be celebrating the toughness and the no-nonsense manner in which this guy is dealing with political opponents. Even if the mayor of Fort Lee was another Democrat, it doesn\u2019t matter, they wouldn\u2019t be trying to damage Chris Christie at all. This would end up being a resume enhancement because this is a guy who goes after his enemies. If he was a Democrat, they\u2019d be praising him.<\/p>\n

This is the kind of thing they would want him to do against conservatives and Republicans. But he\u2019s not a Democrat yet, and he hasn\u2019t announced for the presidency, but everybody assumes he\u2019s going to. And so the press — some people are surprised that they\u2019ve turned on him this quickly. Well, it\u2019s not that they decided to turn on him, it\u2019s they\u2019ve got the opportunity here. He is, in many people\u2019s eyes, the Republican front-runner for the nomination. There are plenty of Republican establishment types that want Christie to be the nominee, that think he can be the Northeastern moderate Republican that can finally win the White House. <\/p>\n

<\/a>A lot of the Republican consultant class thinks that Christie is the answer. A lot of the inside-the-Beltway Republican establishment types think he\u2019s the answer, because he\u2019s tough, and he handles the media well, but he\u2019s not conservative. So he\u2019s got a lot of support. And the media knows this. So here\u2019s a prominent Republican that the Republican Party establishment has invested high hopes, so let\u2019s do what we can to damage him. But here\u2019s the overall point. <\/p>\n

Let me give you three quotes from Carol Platt Liebau today, and we\u2019ve mentioned this before. My focus is always… Do the practice on you, on the audience, and the American people the large. “[W]hether Governor Christie or President Obama were personally aware of the abuses perpetrated on their behalves is irrelevant. On some level, they set a tone in their administrations that signaled that such hardball would be tolerated,” that a culture had been established of get your enemies.<\/p>\n

Obama: “They bring a knife, we bring a gun! I want you to get in their faces and punch them!” You know that any Democrat who goes out and rips Republicans to shreds is loved and adored by the media. So her first point — and it\u2019s right on the money — is whether they, Obama or Christie, personally were involved (and in both cases they\u2019re say, “I didn\u2019t know. I had no idea that this was going on, and I\u2019m embarrassed\u2019), the point is, they didn\u2019t have to know.<\/p>\n

Like I said in the IRS scandal. You know, during the Obama-IRS scandal, they were targeting the Tea Party. You heard it. There were people who called here and said, “Rush there\u2019s gotta be a smoking gun. There\u2019s gotta be. Either Obama called the IRS people the White House or there\u2019s gotta be a memo. There\u2019s gotta be a smoking gun.” I said, “There won\u2019t be. Obama put people in there who are going to do his bidding without having to be told. That\u2019s why they\u2019re chosen.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like when the Van Jones discovery was made, that a communist is in hiding and waiting in the White House. People called, “How did this get past Obama? How did he not know?” He knew, and Van Jones was in there for a reason. Eric Holder is over at the Department of Justice for a reason. Obama doesn\u2019t have to pick up the phone and tell Holder what to do. He knows Holder is Obama. The IRS people are Obama. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re going to do what Obama wants done because that\u2019s who they were before they were appointed. Obama knows who his friends are. He knows who his appointees are. He knows who his soul mates are. He knows. He puts them in these possessions. He doesn\u2019t have to send them instructions. He doesn\u2019t have to have a meeting with them. They know what he wants and he knows what they will do because he knows that they will do what he wants, so they get put in these positions. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the culture, and the point here in this case Christie and the lane closures in Fort Lee or Obama and the IRS or Obama and Obamacare or Obama Fast and Furious, Obama Benghazi, whatever, whether they were personally aware was irrelevant because they had established a culture in their regimes that said this kind of hardball is tolerated. This kind of hardball\u2019s okay. This kind of hardball, in fact, gets rewarded. <\/line><\/p>\n

The second point here is that something about the IRS scandal and the bridge problem does seem new to politics, despite the learned media people discussing it as politics-as-usual. “Oh, Rush, come on. You know, there payback all the time. An elected official will pay back people that didn\u2019t run with him, didn\u2019t support him. It happens all the time, Rush.” Yeah, but the point is this is new, and the reason it\u2019s new is also why it is profoundly troubling. <\/p>\n

Yeah, politicians always played hardball with each other. Now, however, there seems to be a new willingness to do it, play hardball by involving innocent civilians as the pawns. Now, the Obama hardball, the IRS, was targeted at conservatives, Tea Party people. They were denied tax-exempt status that had a dramatic impact on their ability to campaign. They\u2019re average Americans. They\u2019re civilians, and not in politics. Certainly not electoral politics. <\/p>\n

So the Regime, in practicing political payback, was going after citizens, and here in New Jersey, it wasn\u2019t really the mayor of Fort Lee that was inconvenienced; it was the citizens of Fort Lee. The inconveniencing of the citizens of Fort Lee in terms of the political payback, the political hardball — using civilians, innocent citizens as pawns in this political payback game — is indeed troubling. <\/p>\n

As Ms. Liebau writes here, “That\u2019s a sign of a political or governing elite that no longer has respect for the citizens it\u2019s supposed to represent; one that has forgotten — or no longer believes — that the people are its masters, not its servants. Such an attitude is the sign of a government that has grown too big and too powerful. It signals a threat to liberty. And it has no place in a healthy, free country.” I think that is the larger point here that I think makes an abundant amount of sense. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s an utter disregard for the people — economic policy, Obamacare — who matter the least in all this. American people. That\u2019s what has people like the Tea Party and you and me paying attention. That\u2019s what has us, among many other things, so irritated (and in some cases, frightened). But then let\u2019s bring back into this a sense of proportion. If we\u2019re gonna say that lane closures to the George Washington Bridge from Fort Lee are a scandal and that a Christie staffer did this, for whatever reason…<\/p>\n

<\/a>We would assume because the staffer thinks that Christie wanted this to happen or the staffer thought, “Well, this is my job. This is how I\u2019m gonna gain points.” That\u2019s what I mean about the culture, but which is the bigger scandal, this staffer who\u2019s been fired using the public as pawns for petty political payback against the mayor of Fort Lee, or the scandal of Obama using our soldiers in Afghanistan as pawns for his political ambitions, or Obama and Hillary using our soldiers in Iraq for their political ambitions? <\/p>\n

According to Bob Gates\u2019 book<\/a>, Hillary and Obama\u2019s opposition to Iraq was purely political, and Obama\u2019s portrayed as a guy doesn\u2019t really believe in the Afghanistan war that he escalated. So he\u2019s sending Americans into battle, potentially to die, in a mission that he doesn\u2019t even support, isn\u2019t even behind. The lane closure thing in New Jersey, it\u2019s a big deal, because it is the indication of a mind-set. But does it even compare to some of the scandals that have come out of the White House? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, let\u2019s build on the point for just a second, and let me ask you to remember the government shutdown. Remember what some of the things Obama decided to close? The World War II Memorial. World War II vets who had planning for the only time in their lives to go visit it were denied, because it had been shut down, and yet Obama opened it for a group of supporters for one day. I forget who they were and what the purpose was, but it didn\u2019t have to be shut down. <\/p>\n

Obama took the occasion of the government shutdown, and in his way of paying back his political enemies, he inconvenienced the American people. It wasn\u2019t just the World War II Memorial. It was any number of places. The Grand Canyon was shut down, and the sleigh ride at Jellystone Park, all of these things, and the Regime did this on purpose to inconvenience the people. That\u2019s the point that all this political payback is taking now. It\u2019s the people of the country being dumped on, the people of the country who are not deserving of any political payback. <\/p>\n

The bridge closures, the lane closure in Fort Lee are the same thing — and what that means, what that indicates is just exactly how little esteem elected officials actually have for us.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I remember what it was. They closed down the World War II Memorial, the Regime did, Obama did, during the government shutdown, and they opened it back up. The DC Mall. They opened it for a pro-amnesty rally, remember? Largely illegal aliens showed up for the pro-amnesty rally. But it was closed to World War II vets. Now, let\u2019s play a little game here. Based on what\u2019s… Christie, by the way, is still talking. His press conference has gone longer than the lanes were closed. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s do a little game here. Let\u2019s reverse. If Obama were governor of New Jersey and it is lane closure controversy had happened while he was governor, and he\u2019s doing a press conference, he would go out there and say that the charges were all politically motivated. He would find somebody to demonize in the opposition party and say he didn\u2019t know anything about it, he hadn\u2019t had time, he\u2019s got far more important things to do than worry about this, and he\u2019s gonna get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d talk about how this is just sad, this is politics-as-usual, “This is the kind of stuff I\u2019m fighting. This is the kind of stuff that\u2019s been going on since my predecessor, and I vow and I promise I\u2019m gonna get to the bottom of this! I\u2019m gonna make sure this kind of stuff stops because this is not who we are.” If Christie… Based on his performance today, based on what he\u2019s saying, if Christie were president, and the IRS scandal happensed and some of the other things, he would fire whoever was involved in the IRS scandal.<\/p>\n

He would dismiss Kathleen Sebelius immediately. He would release the truth on Benghazi, and he would take Pelosi and Reid to the woodshed for the Affordable Care Act, based on what he\u2019s done today. Heads have rolled. He\u2019s fired people. He\u2019d say, “Yeah, I\u2019ve been personally let down. These people lied to me. They told me everything was ready to go,” and Obama says, “Everybody told me the website was ready to go,” but no heads have rolled. Let\u2019s have some audio sound bites of Governor Christie. Now, this was a long time ago. This was over an hour ago. He\u2019s been speak an hour here, continuing to answer questions from the press. We just have three short bites here.<\/line><\/p>\n

In the first one he apologizes, says he was humiliated by all this.<\/p>\n

CHRISTIE: I come out here today to apologize to the people of New Jersey. I apologize to the people of Fort Lee, and I apologize to the members apologizes of the state legislature. I am embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: He says was he humiliated because some members of his staff were so stupid.<\/p>\n

CHRISTIE: I would never have come out here four or five weeks ago and made a joke about these lane closures if I had ever had an inkling that anyone on my staff would have been so stupid as to be involved, and then so deceitful as to just to not disclose the information of their involvement to me, when directly asked by their superior.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s referring to a radio show, town hall meeting that he had participated in on December 23rd on New Jersey radio. He made a joke about this when it first came up, when he was first asked about it. The joke had to do with, “Oh, yeah, I\u2019ve been out there. I\u2019ve been moving the cones myself,” and what he said here is, “I woulda never made a joke about this, if I had known, if I had an inkling that anybody on my staff would have been so stupid to be involved in this.” <\/p>\n

So he\u2019s making it very plain here that he didn\u2019t know — and furthermore, when he asked his staff, they all lied to him. Do you know that the US attorney is looking into this now? Oh, yeah. The US attorney for the district of New Jersey is looking into this. There is a federal inquiry. In fact, here\u2019s the headline at the Huffing and Puffington Post<\/a>: “Federal Inquiry into Chris Christie Bridge Scandal Faces Uphill Battle.” <\/p>\n

So that\u2019s the Chris Christie bridge scandal, and they admit here that a federal inquiry faces “an uphill battle.” But the Huffing and Puffington Post — which means all of the left, take your pick, Salon.com, whatever — the lunatics on the left all now believe that there is massive federal\/state corruption going on that Christie is involved in, and they are now on the warpath to prove it. They want a federal investigation into this, and the US attorney is… They\u2019re gonna look into it. <\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019re looking into it. Well, this is who the Democrats are. I\u2019m not kidding. We\u2019ve got lane closures, and the left is demanding a federal investigation, and the US attorney district of New Jersey, that office is alluding to the fact that they just might prosecute him. Felony traffic jamming? I don\u2019t know what it is. Anyway, Christie very clear here. “I didn\u2019t know about it. They lied to me.” So what he\u2019s done now is, he\u2019s made a target. <\/p>\n

If anybody can find a tweet, a Facebook post, an e-mail that indicates Christie did know about, then he\u2019s toast. (interruption) Well, here\u2019s the thing. You know, the NSA knows. The NSA. The White House probably knows. I mean, the White House and the NSA, I mean, they read my e-mail, they monitor this program. Think they\u2019re not listening to what Christie\u2019s e-mails are saying and so forth? So we will see. Here\u2019s the next bite. It\u2019s Christie, governor of New Jersey, basically saying he\u2019s not a bully…<\/p>\n

CHRISTIE: I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. I think you asked me a question after the election, “Are you willing to change your style in order to appeal to a broader audience?” and I think I said, no, because I am who I am. But I am not a bully.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “I am not a bully.” Well, closing the lanes, the George Washington Bridge from Fort Lee is a bully tactic, but again, it\u2019s against the people. How did it really hurt the mayor of Fort Lee? That\u2019s the much larger concern here is how these elected officials are exacting their payback, and that payback that they\u2019re engaging in with each other manifests itself as massive inconvenience or violation of bunch of circumstances against us, just as Obama\u2019s IRS scandal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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