CNN's Wolf Blitzer asks Oklahoma tornado survivor and atheist Rebecca Vitsmun if she thanks the Lord.

While there have been plenty of comments from tornado survivors in Moore, Okla., praising God and thanking the Lord for their survival, apparently not everyone has the same sentiment.

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer found that out Tuesday while talking to storm survivor Rebecca Vitsmun, a wife and mother of a young boy whom she was holding while being interviewed by the CNN anchor.

“Well, you’re blessed. Brian, your husband, is blessed. Anders (you son) is blessed,” Blitzer said. “We’re happy you’re here. You guys did a great job. I guess you gotta thank the Lord, right? Do you thank the Lord for that split-second decision?”

“I-I-I’m,” she laughed. “I’m actually an atheist.”

“Oh, you are? All right,” Blitzer said with a chuckle. “But you made the right call.”

“Yup – we are here,” she said, laughing. “And, you know, I don’t blame anybody for thanking the Lord.”

“Of course not,” Blitzer responded.

The exchange is going viral on the Internet, with one YouTube clip already collecting some 200,000 views.

“He found the only atheist in Oklahoma, and he didn’t know it,” opined top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh. “That’s just too rich. He thinks everybody he talks to is being ‘all God all the time.’”

The trend-monitoring site Topsy.com noted that as of Tuesday afternoon, more than 75,000 people have used the Twitter hashtag #PrayForOklahoma, including pop starlets, pastors and politicians.

President Obama tweeted, “Our prayers are with the people of Oklahoma today.”

CNN reported Tuesday that the push for online prayers has created an backlash from non-believers and even some religious scholars.

“A prayer is supposed to have a consequence for you,” said Elizabeth Drescher, a lecturer at Santa Clara University in California. “It’s not an act of magic.”

British comedian and TV star Ricky Gervais, an ardent foe of organized religion, was more abrasive.

After MTV tweeted that pop stars Beyoncé, Rihanna and Katy Perry were sending their prayers to Oklahoma, Gervais responded, “I feel like an idiot now … I only sent money.”

Gervais and other atheists also kick-started a counter-trend, using the hashtag #ActuallyDoSomethingForOklahoma.

“If all people are doing is praying, it is worthless,” Hemant Mehta, an Illinois math teacher who writes the blog “Friendly Atheist,” told CNN. “If they are praying and donating to the Red Cross, that’s more like it.”

The New York Times is now linking radio powerhouse Rush Limbaugh as one of the key reasons the press corps did not cover the emerging scandal.

The Times reported in its Wednesday edition that in the first week of March last year, “Rush Limbaugh, the conservative icon and radio host, called a Georgetown University law student, Sandra Fluke, a ‘slut’ for her comments about the availability of birth control. The fallout from that consumed Washington, and Mr. Obama eventually called Ms. Fluke.”

Former Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke

Limbaugh wasted no time mocking the Times, the self-proclaimed paper of record, for not reporting the real news of significance.

“They were so busy, that all of Washington was so absorbed with that story that they missed everything else going on that week and during that period of time. And during that period of time is when it was discovered that the IRS was investigating itself over targeting tea-party groups,” Limbaugh said Wednesday.

“So the New York Times, in a story this morning, is trying to blame me for the media not uncovering the IRS scandals before the elections. Now I’ve heard everything! This takes the cake. I have now surpassed Bush, folks, in terms of being responsible for things that have gone wrong. I’ve got to put a notch in belt on this one or something.”

Limbaugh noted found it ironic because he said national news pundits often say he’s “irrelevant and inconsequential.”

“The media … couldn’t be bothered with any of the news about the IRS a year ago because of me,” he said. “I was so distracting, I occupied so much of their time, the story was so fascinating, they had blinders on. They were unable to let any other news story in.”

He also said there’s no doubt the suppression of the IRS story had an effect on the 2012 presidential race.

“The fact that the IRS story was not reported before the elections is a huge factor in Obama winning, make no mistake about it,” he explained. “I want you to imagine that everything happening now was happening last May and going into last summer. Everything we’re hearing about the IRS: targeting the tea party, and the IRS babe that was handling this now being promoted to handle Obamacare for the IRS – imagine all of this that’s happening now, happening exactly one year ago. You think it would have had an impact in the election? Damn right it would have. And this is why it was suppressed. The entire effort … the politicizing of all of this was designed to keep it hidden and unreported prior to the election. Ditto Benghazi.”

The Times reported the potentially damaging events at the IRS seemed to pass with little notice.

“At the time, it was a dog-bites-man story,” said Matt Bennett, the senior vice president for public affairs at Third Way, a liberal policy group. “Tea Party complains about IRS – that’s not interesting. There’s zero there that would capture anybody’s attention.”

In addition to the IRS scandal which is embroiling the nation’s capital, the Obama administration has also come under fire for monitoring phone records of the Associated Press, as well as a number of reporters at the Fox News Channel, including James Rosen and even his parents.

Limbaugh wondered why there’s suddenly national outrage over the practice when he himself has been personally targeted by Presidents Obama and Bill Clinton.

“I’m a member of the media. I’m America’s anchorman,” Limbaugh said. “Where is the outrage at trying to suppress me? This administration has been trying to suppress me long before they started going after the AP, and long before they started going after Fox News, and long before they started going after James Rosen.”

Rachel Maddow of MSNBC

Barack Obama is not the only one feeling the heat from a series of recent scandals.

Apparently, news media generally sympathetic to the president’s agenda are plunging as well.

According to Deadline.com, “after double-digit gains during last year’s presidential election, May 13-17 saw the progressive-aligned [MSNBC] hit new lows as the IRS scandal erupted and revelations that the Justice Department secretly obtained AP records became public.”

MSNBC recorded its least-watched and lowest-rated total-day results of the year last week, with 350,000 viewers on average and 94,000 in the adults 25-54 demographic.

According to ratings data from Nielsen, that was also the lowest total-day demographic result the network experienced in the past seven years, specifically since the week of June 26-July 2, 2006, when MSNBC attracted only 83,000 viewers among adults 25-54.

MSNBC’s total day results last week plummeted 17 percent in viewers and 22 percent among the demographic from the comparable May 14 to May 18 week of last year.

And during primetime viewing in the evening, the picture was even worse, as MSNBC’s steady decline from the start of 2013 continued.

“The network had 570,000 total viewers and 159,000 in the demo from 8-11 PM from May 13 to May 17, 2013. That’s the lowest-rated week of the year so far for MSNBC in terms of viewers and the third-lowest of 2013 in the demo,” reported Deadline.

“The week of May 6-12 was worst in the demo with 148,000 viewers when the network had 604,000 viewers on average. These latest results come as the news network’s recently launched and struggling ‘All In With Chris Hayes’ hit a new viewership low of 396,000 and its second-lowest demo audience of just 88,000 on May 14. It also comes on the heels of MSNBC falling in April ratings from its second place ranking of the year before.”

Meanwhile, the news is much brighter for the top-rated Fox News Channel, which brought in 1.491 million total day viewers and 283,000 in the demo last week.

“That’s Fox News’ second-most-watched week of the year after the week of the Boston Marathon bombings,” said Dominic Patten of Deadline.

“FNC had 2.396 million total viewers and 356,000 among adults 25-54 in primetime from May 13-17. That’s a 1 percent demo drop in total day and a 10 percent drop in primetime compared to the same frame last year. However it is a 31 percent total day viewership rise and a 17 percent primetime audience lift over the comparable week of May 14-18, 2012.”

Phil Griffin, president at MSNBC, said earlier this year his goal was to beat Fox News in the ratings  by 2014, after having surpassed CNN in 2012, as well as in February of this year.

But last week, MSNBC finished in fourth place after Fox News Channel, CNN and Headline News in viewers and among adults 25-54 last week.

Deadline noted that during primetime last week, MSNBC beat CNN’s 544,000 total viewers to snag third place but came fourth in the demographic after FNC, HLN and CNN.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh

PALM BEACH, Fla. – While a new poll says half of Americans and one-in four Democrats want Barack Obama impeached from office for a series of recent major scandals, the president’s archenemy in the media says working toward booting the commander in chief is simply a “wasted effort.”

“We can’t impeach Obama, it isn’t gonna happen,” radio powerhouse Rush Limbaugh said on his program Monday, “but we can impeach the Democratic Party and get it out of town by voting them out.”

The Obama administration has come under severe fire this month for its handing of the terrorist onslaught in Benghazi, Libya, the targeting of conservative and tea-party groups by the Internal Revenue Service, and the monitoring of phone records of journalists.

“As far as the public is concerned, Obama’s not in trouble,” Limbaugh said. “This isn’t gonna touch Obama. Benghazi’s not gonna touch Obama. Nothing else has touched Obama. The economy hasn’t touched Obama. The debt hasn’t touched Obama. The fact that nobody can find a decent job anymore hasn’t touched Obama. The fact that militant terrorists are all over the place attacking Americans hasn’t touched Obama. Why is this?”

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He continued, “In the first place, you are not going to see the media join any kind of movement to even cause Obama to be embarrassed to be in trouble.”

The host noted he was going “blue in the face” for the past five years trying to explain how Obama and his leftist colleagues can be defeated:

People have got to be told what liberalism is. If you wanna go after Obama, do it that way. Here’s who he is. He’s an unabridged radical liberal and what he believes in is exactly what’s happening here. Government getting bigger, country getting more in debt, you losing liberty, government coming after your guns. This is what Big Government does. …

For me the message is liberalism, Big Government out of control, and I’m perfectly comfortable using Obama in that. But in terms of focusing efforts to try to have Obama impeached or held personally responsible for these scandals is a bunch of wasted effort. That is a dream that’s only going to remain a dream. That just isn’t gonna happen. And, by the way, I would love to be wrong about this, and if I am wrong I’ll be the first … to tell you that I blew it. But I don’t think that’s gonna happen and I don’t think that it’s productive to go after Obama. Even if we’re able to impeach Obama, who’s gonna sit in there? Biden. Nothing’s gonna change. Government’s gonna keep getting bigger. We’ve got to get rid of Democrats! …

Removing Obama isn’t gonna happen. Holding Obama accountable, making Obama pay the price for what he’s done to the country the last five years – the way to do that is to kick Democrats out of office. The way to do that is to beat Democrats in every election you can.

As WND reported, a brand-new poll reveals half of Americans want Obama impeached, including a stunning one-in-four Democrats.

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“It may be early in the process for members of Congress to start planning for impeachment of Barack Obama, but the American public is building a serious appetite for it,” said Fritz Wenzel, of Wenzel Strategies, which did the telephone poll Thursday. It has a margin of error of 4.36 percent.

“Half or nearly half of those surveyed said they believed Obama should be impeached for the trifecta of scandals now consuming Washington.”

“Today, Secretary [Jacob] Lew took the first step by requesting and accepting the resignation of the acting commissioner of the IRS, because given the controversy surrounding this audit, it’s important to institute new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward,” Obama said during a Wednesday evening broadcast from the White House.

“I’ve reviewed the Treasury Department watchdog’s report, and the misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. It’s inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives.”

“As I said earlier, it should not matter what political stripe you’re from, the fact of the matter is that the IRS has to operate with absolute integrity.”

“I’ll do everything in my power to make sure nothing like this ever happens again,” the president added.

While Obama claims Miller was asked to resign and did so, the Daily Mail reports that in an email to IRS employees, Miller claimed he would only be leaving next month because his assignment was finished.

“It is with regret that I will be departing from the IRS as my acting assignment ends in early June,” Miller wrote. “This has been an incredibly difficult time for the IRS given the events of the past few days, and there is a strong and immediate need to restore public trust in the nation’s tax agency.”

Earlier Wednesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Obama “expects the Treasury Department and IRS to take all the necessary actions to make sure this kind of thing cannot happen again,” Carney said. “And he insists this happen, because it is of the utmost importance in the president’s mind that people understand and believe that the IRS applies our tax laws in a neutral and fair way to everyone.”

The White House has come under intense fire since the IRS admitted Friday it had improperly put holds on the applications of tea-party groups.

Attorney General Eric Holder told a congressional committee the criminal inquiry would be a national investigation, and not limited to the Cincinnati office where the tea-party targeting originated.

The IRS is now claiming two “rogue” employees in the agency’s Cincinnati office are responsible for “overly aggressive” handling of requests by conservative groups for tax-exempt status, according to CNN.

A congressional source told the cable network that in a meeting on Capitol Hill before Miller’s resignation, Miller described the employees as being “off the reservation,” but it wasn’t clear what the alleged behavior involved.

Another source familiar with Miller’s discussions with congressional investigators says those rogue staffers have already been disciplined.

Miller reportedly stressed the problem with IRS handling of tax-exempt status for tea-party groups was not limited to these two employees.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., sounded incredulous at the suggestion high management at the IRS was not aware of the violations.

“Those responsible need to be punished. It’s hard for me to believe this was just a bunch of low-ranking apparatchiks that have been doing this,” McCain told Fox News.

“The tea parties are grassroots organizations, they’re not big lobbying outfits here in Washington, they’re not well funded. And of course they’re the most easily intimidated. So this is particularly egregious,” he added.

On Wednesday, Republican leaders in Congress wasted no time accusing the Obama administration of potentially criminal behavior in the handling of requests for tax-exempt status from conservative groups.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell suggested criminal behavior had occurred, saying that the “very serious” allegations involve “an effort to bring the power of the federal government to bear on those the administration disagreed with in the middle of a heated national election.”

“It actually could be, could be criminal and we are determined to get the answers,” McConnell said.

Speaker of the House John Boehner got more precise, asking, “My question is who’s going to jail over this scandal?”

Boehner says “clearly someone violated the law” in delaying applications from groups which lean to the political right.

Attorney General Eric Holder has already ordered a criminal probe into the matter, and said Wednesday at a congressional hearing the investigation will examine what took place at IRS offices nationwide, not just in Cincinnati.

“The facts will take us whereever they take us,” Holder said.

All 45 Republicans in the Senate have sent a letter to the White House demanding the administration “comply with all requests related to congressional inquiries without any delay.”

The message called the scandal “yet another completely inexcusable attempt to chill the speech of political opponents and those who would question their government, consistent with a broader pattern of intimidation by arms of your administration to silence political dissent.”
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A Connecticut family believes a newspaper ink blot resembles Jesus Christ. (courtesy the Hour)

He’s back, and He’s blotter than ever.

A Connecticut family is excited after finding what they believe is an image of Jesus Christ splattered in a blob of ink in their local newspaper.

“I didn’t see it at first, but as I was reading the paper, I said to my wife, the movie section is blotted out with ink and held it up for her to see,” Joseph McCaffrey told the Hour of Norwalk, Conn. “And she shouted, ‘It’s Jesus!’”

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Eager to spread the good news of the discovery, McCaffrey took a photo of the May 2 edition of the Hour and then passed it on to friends to solicit their opinion.

“Some see the image, some don’t, but the overwhelming majority said they could definitely see Jesus,” McCaffrey said. “But, if Jesus is really trying to send me a message, I wish he popped up in the Lotto section instead. Does he want me to see a movie?”

McCaffrey’s wife, Wendy, told the paper that she and her husband attend Mass at the Church of the Good Shepherd, and consider themselves spiritual, but not overly religious.

“It’s like the ink-blot test, everyone sees something different,” Wendy said. “Or like looking at a cloud. You can see all sorts of images if you let your mind wander.”

Many people have claimed seeing images of Jesus in recent years.

Perhaps the most delicious one appeared inside this Kit Kat bar in 2009:

Is the face of Jesus shrouded in chocolate?

“I was amazed. I just took a bite and then I saw the face of Christ in it,” the finder told the Dutch website NU.nl. Other witnesses were less impressed, with one noting, “It looks more like Darth Vader.”

Meanwhile in Jonesborough, Tenn., all eyes in 2009 were on a pickup truck belonging to Jim Stevens.

Jim Stevens gazes at an image of what some say is Jesus, or perhaps 1970s singer Dan Fogelberg

It seems every day when morning dew would appear on his vehicle’s window, a clear image of a man would appear. The image would disappear when the moisture was gone.

“However, when the dew returns the next morning so does the image on the window. Even rolling the window up and down has not stopped it from reappearing,” noted the Johnson City Press.

“Of course, I’m not going to wash it,” said Stevens, whose vehicle could now perhaps be classified as a holy roller.

Dr. Paul Lakeland, director of the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield University, says visualizing the Creator of all things in everyday objects has become a way for people to bring their beliefs to reality, as they desperately want to see signs and wonders.

“Everyone’s religious life is connected to their imagination,” Lakeland told the Hour. “But I’ve seen this before. Someone has a bagel that looks like it has an image of the Virgin Mary on it … I do scoff at the sort of thing, but it doesn’t do anyone harm. However, they (the McCaffreys) shouldn’t have people line up at their home to see the ink blot.”

He indicated the Catholic Church often downplays any credence to similar sightings.

“There is a reason to be a bit skeptical because there are very few (images) that have seen the level of credibility as say, the Shroud of Turin,” Lakeland said. “But, it’s all in the eye of the beholder.”

Irrespective of people seeing Jesus in the newspaper, McCaffrey said he’ll continue to believe faith can be found in many locations.

“It’s definitely interesting,” McCaffrey said. “I’m not going to make a shrine for it, but we do plan on holding onto it. We’ll see how much notoriety it gets first.”

The Internal Revenue Service is now claiming two “rogue” employees in the agency’s Cincinnati office are responsible for “overly aggressive” handling of requests by conservative groups for tax-exempt status, CNN is reporting.

A congressional source told the cable network that in a meeting on Capitol Hill, acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller described the employees as being “off the reservation,” but it wasn’t clear what the alleged behavior involved.

Another source familiar with Miller’s discussions with congressional investigators says those rogue staffers have already been disciplined.

Miller reportedly stressed the problem with IRS handling of tax-exempt status for tea-party groups was not limited to these two employees.

Later in the day Wednesday, Miller was in effect fired from his post when asked to resign by Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., sounded incredulous at the suggestion high management at the IRS was not aware of the violations.

“Those responsible need to be punished. It’s hard for me to believe this was just a bunch of low-ranking apparatchiks that have been doing this,” McCain told Fox News.

“The tea parties are grassroots organizations, they’re not big lobbying outfits here in Washington, they’re not well funded. And of course they’re the most easily intimidated. So this is particularly egregious,” he added.

On Wednesday, Republican leaders in Congress wasted no time accusing the Obama administration of potentially criminal behavior in the handling of requests for tax-exempt status from conservative groups.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell suggested criminal behavior had occurred, saying that the “very serious” allegations involve “an effort to bring the power of the federal government to bear on those the administration disagreed with in the middle of a heated national election.”

“It actually could be, could be criminal and we are determined to get the answers,” McConnell said.

Speaker of the House John Boehner got more precise, asking, “My question is who’s going to jail over this scandal?”

Boehner says “clearly someone violated the law” in delaying applications from groups which lean to the political right.

Attorney General Eric Holder has already ordered a criminal probe into the matter, and said Wednesday at a congressional hearing the investigation will examine what took place at IRS offices nationwide, not just in Cincinnati.

“The facts will take us whereever they take us,” Holder said.

All 45 Republicans in the Senate have sent a letter to the White House demanding the administration “comply with all requests related to congressional inquiries without any delay.”

The message called the scandal “yet another completely inexcusable attempt to chill the speech of political opponents and those who would question their government, consistent with a broader pattern of intimidation by arms of your administration to silence political dissent.”

“I would say yes. I’m not willing to take it off to take it off the table, but that’s certainly not what we’re striving for,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told CNN.

“We want truth, we want to bring the people who perpetrated the terrorism in Benghazi to be brought to justice, and we want to have the president do what he has said he would always do. And that is be open and transparent. Thus far, the White House has not done that.”

Earlier this week, Chaffetz was interviewed by the Salt Lake Tribune, and was asked if impeachment were within the realm of possibilities.

“It’s certainly a possibility,” he told the paper. “That’s not the goal but given the continued lies perpetrated by this administration, I don’t know where it’s going to go. … I’m not taking it off the table. I’m not out there touting that but I think this gets to the highest levels of our government and integrity and honesty are paramount.”

Chaffetz has been championing the call to probe the Sept. 11, 2012, onslaught at Benghazi that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Other Republicans have also voiced impeachment as a potential final outcome.

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said last week impeachment was possible over the “most egregious cover-up in American history.

“People may be starting to use the I-word before too long,” Inhofe told radio host Rusty Humphries, according to the Hill.

“The I-word meaning impeachment?” Humphries asked.

“Yeah,” Inhofe responded.

Additionally, radio host Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and one-time presidential candidate, predicted Obama won’t serve out his full second term because of his complicity in a cover-up with Benghazi.

However, conservative radio giant Rush Limbaugh threw cold water Wednesday on the impeachment notion.

“Folks, let me tell you something. This is what Eric Holder knows, and this is what Obama knows. No matter what, African-American officeholders are not gonna be removed in America in 2013,” Limbaugh predicted. “It isn’t going to happen. Nobody will even make the first move toward it. Nobody.”

“There might be impeachment proceedings, but there’s not gonna be any conviction, and there isn’t going to be any removal from office,” Limbaugh added. “The people of this country wouldn’t put up with it. …  The low-information voters would not put up with it no matter what happened.”

Other members of Congress who have uttered possible impeachment for a variety of reasons in recent years include Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.; Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.; Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas; Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas; Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla.; and Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh

PALM BEACH, Fla. – In the wake of news reports that President Obama is blaming Rush Limbaugh for the political gridlock in Washington, the radio powerhouse is now offering to sit down with the commander in chief to hold face-to-face discussions.

“In the spirit of doing whatever I can to move things forward in this country,” Limbaugh said Tuesday afternoon, “I would like to make myself available to the president of the United States to sit down and talk with him at a place of his choosing and discuss the problems facing the country, and maybe working together, since I am the opposition, since I am the obstacle, since I am the reason he can’t get things done.”

“I’ll be glad to sit down with him, any time, any place that he wants. Perhaps we can hash this out and come to a … mutual understanding or agreement of how to get things off the dime and to move things forward.”

Audio of Rush Limbaugh’s comments can be heard here:

On Monday, Obama reportedly met with top-name fundraisers including entertainer Justin Timberlake and his wife, actress Jessica Biel, as well as designer Tommy Hilfiger at the Greenwich Village home of producer Harvey Weinstein.

Obama complained about the lack of progress on his agenda, specifically blaming Limbaugh.

“My thinking was when we beat [Republicans] in 2012 that might break the fever, and it’s not quite broken yet,” Obama said, according to the White House pool report. “I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they’re fearful of their base and they’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them. And as a consequence we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government.”

Actress Jessica Biel and her husband, entertainer Justin Timberlake

“Let me translate this for you,” Limbaugh responded during his top-rated radio program.

“What the president of the United States is really saying is that Republican senators, Republican members of the House of Representatives do not vote the way he wants them to because they’re afraid that I will tell the truth about them. If it were not for me, the news media would be able to protect him.

“In fact, what the president is saying is that these elected Republicans actually do want to help him. They do want to vote with him. They do want to join him in his agenda. But they can’t, since I will actually report what they’re doing, they have to worry that their constituents will hear the truth from me and get mad at them. If I weren’t around, they could vote for Obama and vote with Obama and the media would cover for them and there would not be any media criticism of them. This is what the president is saying. The president is telling his donors that there are plenty of Republicans that can’t wait to help him move his agenda forward if not for their fear of me.”

Limbaugh also noted, “This is the third olive branch that I have offered in this spirit of cooperation, assistance, and help.”

“You remember, ladies and gentlemen, I even extended an invitation to play golf with President Obama. The invitation was extended via Zev Chafets, the author of the book “An Army of One,” that book about me. Zev Chafets extended the invitation to Obama via David Axelrod. He called Axelrod, and he said, ‘Rush would love to play golf with President Obama and hash things out.’ Axelrod said to Zev Chafets, ‘No. He can go play with himself.’”

STUART, Fla. – Was a 26-year-old Florida teacher simply too sexy for the classroom?

Olivia Sprauer, an English instructor at Martin County High School claims she was ousted from her teaching position in April when her superiors learned she was posing in provocative photographs in her spare time.

Sprauer, originally from Stuart, Fla., but now living in Boca Raton, recently began moonlight modeling under the professional name of Victoria Valentine James.

In her biography on her modeling page, it’s quite evident she has little problem posing and exposing.

“I love being in front of the camera!” she declares.

“There is an inherent satisfaction in discovering what art the photographer and I can create! I am very fun to work with, and my creative nature can add a lot to a shoot, as well. Oh! And did I mention I absolutely love being photographed?

“I am more than comfortable shooting TASTEFUL nudes for the right projects and look forward to hearing from photographers interested in capturing the perfect photograph!”

Photos such as this prompted Florida's Martin County High School to ask for teacher Olivia Sprauer's resignation.

Among her personal likes on her Facebook page include “Because Babes,” “Dark Sexy Secret” and “Eyecandy Ent & Modeling Tattoo Models.”

It is not known if Sprauer had become Facebook friends with any of her students.

Sprauer, a mother of two who started teaching in 2011, was called into principal Alfred Fabrizio’s office on April 29.

When presented with a photograph, she confirmed it indeed was her, and she was asked to resign that day, which she did without any resentment.

Sprauer knew it was risky when she started posing in bikini photos in February, but she chose to take the chance.

“When I decided to model, I said, ‘Well, teachers get fired for this sort of thing.’ I hadn’t really thought about it. If I thought it was just or not, but I knew that it was a possibility,” she told WPBF-TV, the ABC affiliate in West Palm Beach.

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She explained posing for the pictures was extremely lucrative, saying, “The first time I got a traveling job, I made in a weekend what it takes me two weeks to make as a teacher.”

“I get asked a lot if I’m going to do adult film or erotic photographs, and I’m not. I haven’t and I don’t plan on it,” she added.

Former Martin County High School teacher Olivia Sprauer in one of her photo shoots (edited)

She told the station she does have other aspirations besides being photographed.

“My dream was to be a college professor and to be a writer, and I still want to do that,” Sprauer said. “So, I’m working on my graduate degree, and I’ll probably continue with my Ph.D. and maybe either be published by then or continue and try to be a professor at a university.”

The Martin County School District has been tight-lipped, only saying Sprauer resigned in April.

As far as Sprauer’s future in modeling, WPBF reporter Erin Guy said, “She tells me she has a lot of gigs lined up and she’s really excited about them.”