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"Why is government spending constantly looked at as a panacea when it isn't?
The answer is it's not looked at as a panacea.
The people in charge of doing this know exactly what they're doing.
They're weakening the private sector for a host of reasons."
"It's near criminal what's been done in the name of compassion and it's been genuinely destructive."
"Reid and the Democrats are worried.
They know that the Reid quote genuinely, really hurts them and that's why they have this
army out there trying to call all radio talk shows and intimidate hosts into dropping it."
"The truth of the eighties would wipe out anything Obama's trying to do.
If people had not had their history revised about the 1980s Obama would have never been
elected and this stimulus package would have never been implemented."
"These people, as a matter of policy, have to destroy the enemies that they consider to be effective,
which is why they don't let go of Nixon, which is why they don't let go of Reagan, which is why any
Republican that's in a position of power, if they have a chance to drum them out of town, they will do it."
"There is a lot going on but all of it's going on behind closed doors.
Nobody knows anything.
About all we know is that the public option will not survive.
But there will be no choice but than to have a public option because
what's going to be in place of the public option are going to be some
of the most arduous regulations on the insurance business that they
will not be able to stay in business."
"Everybody's admitting this thing is a turkey.
Everybody is admitting it's a rotten piece of stuff and it ought to not happen at all.
But they've gotta give Obama something.
They gotta give him something for the State of the Union."
"The American people are the biggest enemy the Democrat Party has right now.
That's an amazing thing to say. But it is true."
"Every piece of legislation is aimed right at the heart of the private sector: tax increases, new expenses, changes
in the rules of the game, people not wanting to borrow money because they don't know what they're gonna face."
"Shovel-ready was a shovel lie!
Much of the Porkulus went to city and states to help them with their deficits and to pay off unions,
which are state and city employees and to make sure that their health care packages remained whole."
"You cannot take $50 trillion or $50 billion or any amount of money out of the private sector then put it back in and say you're stimulating something. You'd have to infuse money that's not already there."
"Construction unemployment is almost 23%. Government worker unemployment is at 3.6%.
Where did the stimulus money go?
Did the stimulus money go to construction workers?
Nope!"
"The only special interests that are never called special interests are government union employees."
"I know that the Democrats, if Scott Brown wins, are going to delay his swearing in until after the health care vote.
They'll delay a couple of months if they have to, an emergency change to the law."
"You don't do what Obama's doing out of naivete.
You don't do this mistakenly -- and if you are mistaken about it, you realize much sooner than now that it's a mistake and you reverse it.
You don't double down on it."
"All those jobs summits, ladies and gentlemen, at the White House?
They were just academic displays, tricks designed to make people think action was being taken."
"This destruction of the US economy is owned single-handedly by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.
They own it. They have destroyed the US private sector and they are going to destroy even more of it."
"To oppose liberalism is to be called racist."
"Harry Reid is a big problem for the Democrats.
That's why we want him front and center.
We don't actually want him going anywhere."
"The Reverend Sharpton says he's gonna take on President Clinton if he said it in the context it sounds like he said it in.
What other context is there to say two years ago, Obama would have been getting us coffee?"
"No liberal good intention ever ends up the way they envision it...or maybe it does.
I don't know."
"They're passing out pamphlets in New York advising heroin addicts how to shoot up, like
'Jump up and down so your veins will be more visible,' and there are a lot more tips."
"Unionized New York Public Library workers get 'paid leave or accrue compensatory time'
if the temperature in the library goes below 68 for more than two hours."
"Here's a movie idea for the Senate majority leader and his soul mate, Senator Robert Byrd,
and we could call it When Harry Met Robert. It's a buddy film. It begins when Harry Reid meets
Robert Byrd at a KKK meeting, a touching story of how two bigots bond and go on to be
important leaders in the Democrat Party."
"Didn't Joe Wilson shout 'You lie!' at Obama during his speech to a joint session of Congress?
And wasn't he accused of being a racist by the left for saying that?
He apologized and the press still wouldn't let go of it.
Yet they want us to not even talk about Harry Reid."
"When the real events of life start to affect you, like global warming and
you're freezing your tush, those are the things that change people's mind."
"Just like Social Security, health care is going to become the new third rail."
"It is none of their business how much salt I eat.
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RUSH: I can't wait 'til Snerdley gets back. Snerdley gets back tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen, and I'm looking forward to Snerdley getting back so I can have him go get me a cup of coffee. Greetings and welcome. It's Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network and a full week of broadcast excellence kicking off right now. Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. We welcome all of you at Rush 24/7, our website watching the Dittocam today once again in high definition and the way to access it hasn't changed. We're doing it on the Flash video player and you don't need Real Audio or Windows Media Player because it's Flash. Just go to the orange banner at the top of Rush 24/7, RushLimbaugh.com, and click on the link there. You can't miss it and the instructions are very simple.
All right, the Justice Brothers ride to the rescue.
(playing of Justice Brothers spoof)
What a weekend. So much to say about this book Game Change. None of this in Game Change is a surprise to me, from the really in-depth revelations about the total frauds that John and Elizabeth Edwards have always been. I had somebody send me a note last night, you know, John Edwards was really popular, a lot of women really dug John Edwards, thought he was this moderate, nice, soft-spoken, down the middle. I tried telling people this guy is a snake oil salesman. There's nothing real about this guy but of course they hated me for saying this. None of this about him or his wife -- I got a note: "Do you really believe this about the Edwards?" I believe this and more. How can you not after what you know is true about the affair that he had and the fathering of a kid and so forth. He hasn't owned up to that yet, I don't think. Maybe he has. But everybody knows that he did. Nobody has any doubts about it. But, see, I know liberals. None of this is a shock to me. Let me just go back and explain this to you by playing a clip of me from this program. January 28th of this year, this is what I said about racism and the Democrats.
RUSH ARCHIVE: It's very simple to explain. We have gone from Bull Connor to Bull Clinton, ladies and gentlemen. That's the way to express what has happened to the Democrat Party, now totally divided along the lines of race and gender, but particularly race, from Bull Connor to Bull Clinton. You and I have all known that the real racism in this country is in the Democrat Party, that the real bigotry in this country is in their party and that they promote it politically and try to blame it on Republicans and conservatives. But this riff is just huge.
RUSH: This was during the campaign, the primary campaign. This is January 28th of 2008. And this was before the LA Times even did that column on "Barack the 'Magic Negro.'" You remember all the talk in the campaign about how Obama's not authentic 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He has no traceable roots to slavery and the civil rights history in this country, and they were all worried about whether or not he was authentic and genuine black. Then we had Biden coming out and saying it's nice to have some clean and articulate guy finally in our party, which angered Al Sharpton, 'cause he takes a shower every day. It made him very mad, and now you've got Harry Reid coming out saying, yeah, he's a light-skinned black and he doesn't have a Negro dialect when he doesn't want to.
Now, I happen to believe that Dingy Harry was being complimentary. And in the notion of being complimentary, he was being complimentary on the basis that President Obama's got a great gift, Obama's got a great schtick, Obama can fool people, light-skinned, what does this mean? Is dark skin more intimidating, does it make people afraid? Light-skinned is better? Point is these are the people thinking about all this stuff all the time, and he doesn't speak with a Negro dialect. I would love to hear Harry Reid's observations about dialects, Negro or otherwise. Is there a voice in his head? For example, does Al Sharpton have a Negro dialect? Does Harry Reid think that Al Sharpton has a Negro dialect? How about John Lewis? I would really love to dig further into Dingy Harry's views? What about Maxine Waters? Or Chris Rock? We don't have to limit ourselves to politics. Does Derek Jeter have a black dialect? Does Alex Rodriguez have a black dialect? Yeah, Harry Reid is damn near old enough. He might have been an extra in that movie, Birth of a Nation, for all we know. Maybe one of his parents might have appeared in it.
I got a movie idea, folks. I was thinking about this over the weekend. Here's a movie idea for the Senate majority leader and his soul mate, Senator Robert Byrd, and we could call it When Harry Met Robert. And it's a buddy film. It begins when Harry Reid meets Robert Byrd at a KKK meeting, a touching story of how two bigots bond and go on to be important leaders in the Democrat Party. I can imagine a compelling scene, my friends, when Harry and Robert enlighten those in a local bar on various Negro dialects using busboys for an impromptu show-and-tell. And just to show their compassion for Negroes with hard-to-understand dialects, Harry and Robert let 'em shine their shoes and then tip 'em real big, maybe flash a five spot so everybody can see it.
The shoe shiners are dark-skinned Negroes, just to highlight the stars' tolerance here. In the background you'd have a light-skinned Negro serving a young Bill Clinton coffee. And then after impressing the locals with their brilliance and compassion, Harry and Robert get on a train headed for the nation's capital, and just behind them and emerging from the steam produced by the mighty locomotive is a light-skinned Negro wearing a conductor's outfit and without a hint of Negro dialect. And he hollers out, "All aboard," and that's where the movie ends, you fade to black, the credits appear and you have Harry Belafonte singing Day-O. I get chills just thinking about this movie, When Harry Met Robert. And these guys are not through.
Blagojevich -- by the way, to be fair -- and, you know, that's our middle name here at the EIB Network, to be fair. The way to look at Dingy Harry's statement that Obama spoke with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one is as a cynical manipulative politician. He meant this with all due respect for Obama. Reid was complimenting Obama's ability to act a part, to play a role, when it was politically expedient. See, in Harry Reid's view and in Joe Biden's view, the problem with Jesse Jackson and Reverend Sharpton as Democrat presidential candidates was they had black dialect and they weren't light-skinned enough. That was the problem. But Obama comes along, he's light-skinned, and when he doesn't want to he doesn't have a Negro dialect and so that's a home run. He was complimenting Obama as being able to hide his half blackness and this is the way they look at it. The racism and bigotry in the Democrat Party and on the American left, it's amazing that people don't catch up to it. You look at how they're circling the wagons to cover for Dingy Harry here.
This demonstrates, my good friends, the Democrats will give a pass to anything: BJs in the Oval Office, male prostitution rings run out of one's apartment, that would be Barney Frank. Destroying the economy. I mean they'll give a pass to anything -- that would be Chris Dodd and Barney Frank -- by any Democrat any time anyplace, they will forgive and look past any crime, it doesn't matter, because liberalism and commitment to the cause is the thing. There is a double standard, there's no question there's a double standard. Everybody is talking about Trent Lott. Trent Lott's at a birthday party for an old man, he makes a comment, (paraphrasing) "Hey Strom, we'd all have been a lot better off if you'd have won back then, buddy. It's just, you know, Strom Thurmond's nearing the end-of-his life, it's just a harmless little thing, people do this all the time. Trent Lott was forced out of office and it was Barack Obama himself who said the Republican Party is going to have to really examine itself here and really make a decision to get rid of Trent Lott, and the Republicans fell right in line because the Republicans get defensive, have to prove they're not racists, have to prove they're not bigots so Trent Lott's gone, thrown overboard. Here comes Dingy Harry, and people want to say that this is nothing compared to Trent Lott? This is worse!
Here's what Harry Reid coulda said: "You know, I really like this Obama guy. He's not intimidating. He doesn't have dark skin, and he doesn't have that Negro dialect." That's what Harry Reid meant. Harry Reid meant exactly that. And of course the Democrats are circling the wagons and Al Sharpton has forgiven him. Obama has forgiven him faster than he can get in gear trying to stop the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Oh wait, Obama has not singled out the Taliban as an enemy. And now Rod Blagojevich: "I am blacker than Obama." Listen to this. And this is an interview, by the way, that he gave in a current issue of Esquire magazine. Now, the State-Controlled Media has cleaned up what he said. I went back and I have the original comment here, and it is this: "It's such a cynical business. Most of the people in the business are full of crap, phonies, but I was real, man, and am real. This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change. What we hope the guy is. What the hell? Everything he's saying is on a teleprompter. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up."
All I can say here, folks, is that I am so happy with the ascension of Barack Obama to the presidency so we can finally put the issue of race behind us. This is what we were told was going to happen. No longer would race be an issue, now we can judge each other by the content of our characters rather than the color of our skin. Except, of course, for Dingy Harry. The real comment here that's going unremarked upon is Clinton's. He's talking to Ted Kennedy and he's trying to persuade The Swimmer to endorse Hillary, and The Swimmer's got other ideas. The Swimmer wants to endorse Obama. And so Bill Clinton says, (imitating Bubba) "You know, Teddy, I mean, come on, man. A few years this guy would have been getting us coffee." He said it. Clinton hasn't denied it. He said it, it's in the book. "Yeah, a few years ago this guy would have been getting us coffee." And supposedly The Swimmer was infuriated by this. But this certainly reveals the plantation mentality of the Democrat Party and the reason that this Clinton comment hasn't gotten more attention is precisely because the media knows how damaging it is.
Remember when Clinton moved his office to Harlem, and Hillary is out there passing out free coffee to people in Harlem and Clinton on his rehab tour after getting caught with BJs in the Oval Office, Bloval Office, I meant to say it, and the semen stain on the purple dress or whatever, he went on a black church tour and he had the Reverend Jackson in the White House to help him worship and rehab, get his mind right and so forth, and this book goes on to point out that hell, even after all that he's still running around having affairs and Hillary doesn't want to take secretary of state job because of it and Obama gets so desperate, don't understand why. He calls her up and finally says, "I will put up with your husband to get you to take this job." Meaning, I'll run the risk that this guy will try to take over the State Department or that he's going to embarrass everybody. I still don't know why Obama was that insistent that Hillary take the gig other than to get her out of the way, but she can always resign any time she wants to. (imitating Bubba) "Hey, Teddy, come on, man, a few years ago this guy would have been giving us coffee."
Now, Dingy Harry is going to be safe in Washington. No Democrat is going to call for his resignation. The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, has done so. But he's in big trouble in Nevada. And this morning on Morning Joe, F. Chuck Todd actually said that Harry Reid's toast and he has no prayer of winning reelection in Nevada. It's going to be a Tom Daschle situation over and over. His poll numbers are very bad and there's a poll in the Las Vegas newspaper about health care in Nevada and the support for it is minimal and they blame Harry Reid for it, so he's toast. After this do you think Harry Reid could own an NFL team, folks? We need to call Commissioner Roger Goodell and find out what his thought on this is, and Bill Clinton, too. I mean this is very divisive stuff. We need to call Donovan McNabb and ask him what he thinks of Harry Reid or Bill Clinton ever owning an NFL team.
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RUSH: I know the real reason that Teddy Kennedy was mad and offended when Bill Clinton said (impression), "Hey... (chuckles) Hey, come on, man! You know, this guy'd have been fetching us coffee a couple years ago." What made Teddy Kennedy mad was women got him coffee. It was Negroes brought Ted Kennedy his booze. And that's why he was all offended. By the way, question I have... (interruption) You didn't like that one, Dawn? Well, we deal in the truth here on the EIB Network.
How come Bill Clinton can be rehabbed from actions taking in the Bloval Office with an intern -- how come you can be rehabbed through the Christian faith with the Reverend Jackson -- and Brit Hume gets hammered for mentioning the same method of recovery for Tiger Woods? You got people running around, "Yeah, faith is something you're supposed to have been silent about. You're supposed to keep it quiet." Oh, really? Somebody better tell that to the Democrats. Whenever any of them get in trouble, who do they call? They call the Justice Brothers, a couple of reverends: The Reverend Sharpton and the Reverend Jackson. These guys come and they minister and they do it publicly. There's Clinton at the White House with these guys (impression), "I have sinned. I have sinned! I have sinned." Jimmy Swaggart, "I have sinned! I have sinned before you," and they all seek rehab through their Christian faith, and it was just fine for Bill Clinton to do it.
Then it was all fine for Clinton to go to all of these black churches to redeeeeeem himself for actions taken in the Bloval Office with a white woman about whom the Reverend Wright said, "He was riding dirty!" But let Brit Hume suggest to Tiger Woods that Christianity might provide him a better chance at a full recovery and redemption than the Buddhism that Tiger says he practices, and all hell breaks loose. So the double standards, ladies and gentlemen, are everywhere. Frank Marshall Davis, the communist mentor of Barack Obama gave him some advice about college that Obama wrote about in Dreams From My Father on page 41: "'They'll train you so good that you'll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that [bleep]. They'll give you a corner office and they'll invite you to fancy dinners and they'll tell you you're a credit to your race, until you want to actually start running things. Then they'll yank on your chain and let you know that you may be a well-trained, well paid [black guy] but you're a [black guy] just the same.'"
He was right. Bill Clinton (impression), "Come on, Ted! Just a few years ago this guy would be getting us our coffee."
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RUSH: It's even more laughable when we think back and remember, ladies and gentlemen, Bill Clinton as "the nation's first black president." (impression) "Hey, Teddy, come on, man! I mean, you know, a few years ago this guy'd a-been getting us coffee." That'll be excused too, ladies and gentlemen, although you don't know. The media is going to say it's been excused and forgiven as they circle the wagons around the Democrats but it's bad.
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RUSH: There's one other thing in this book, Game Change, ladies and gentlemen. New York Daily News has this today. After Bill Clinton says to Ted Kennedy, (imitating Bubba) "Hey, come on, man, a few years ago this guy would have been getting us coffee," the ex-president reportedly griped bitterly to Ted Kennedy, "Look, the only reason you're endorsing him is because he's black, let's just be clear." Bill Clinton said that to Ted Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy was, of course, offended because black people got him his booze. It was women who got him his coffee.
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RUSH: And Coulter jumps in.
COULTER: I'm surprised he had time to talk to you at all since I thought he would be busy writing his concession speech for next November. But I do want to know: Did he ask you to stop using that Negro dialect when you talked to him?
SHARPTON: See? Now she can say that, and that's supposed to be cute.
COULTER: (laughing) But you said it's fine for him to say it!
SHARPTON: No, I didn't. I said I was offended by it, but to act as though --
COULTER: Come on. You cannot keep giving these --
SHARPTON: Ann?
COULTER: -- Democrats a pass.
SHARPTON: Ann?
COULTER: You gave them --
SHARPTON: Ann?
COULTER: -- all a pass. They attacked Paterson. They attacked Rangel. Now they're attacking Harold Ford. You know you would not put up with this for five seconds if it were a Republican -- and, yes, it is outrageous to compare it to what Trent Lott said five years ago.
SHARPTON: So you do agree there's no comparison?
COULTER: Yeah, because Trent Lott was just saying some dumb cheer at a birthday party.
SHARPTON: Trent Lott said that --
RUSH: "Dumb cheer at a birthday party" is right, and here you had Harry Reid again: "a light-skinned " and "doesn't have a Negro dialect when he doesn't want to." You take the opposite of what Harry Reid is saying. What he's saying is, "Dark-skinned blacks with a Negro dialect, we're hopeless, and we don't want any more of them running for president in our party! We got this light-skinned guy who doesn't speak with a Negro dialect when who doesn't want to and we're cooking." So it's much worse than Trent Lott, and of course Sharpton is well aware of that. And the reference to Harold Ford is Harold Ford is thinking of running for the Senate seat currently held by Kirsten Gillibrand in New York and the Democrat Party does not want him to. They want her to stay in the Senate because she's totally run by Chuck-U Schumer.
Chuck-U Schumer tells her to dance, she dances. He tells her to jump, she says, "How high?" She is a mirror vote for Chuck-U Schumer, and Harold Ford, as Harry Reid would say, is "light-skinned" and he "doesn't have a Negro dialect when he doesn't want to." I appeared at a forum this past summer, spring, fall, I forget what it was, out of Los Angeles, with Harold Ford. I've met him a bunch of times. He's a smart guy. He's a Democrat, he's a lib, and he's thinking about running and he's not being bullied but he's exactly what Harry Reid wants: Light-skinned and he doesn't use the Negro dialect when he doesn't want to. But they are ganging up against him. They don't want him to run just like they didn't support Carl McCall, a black guy for governor of New York, and they're dumping on David Paterson. So Ann is right: These people dump all over black people in their own party when they don't want 'em. It's exactly what Frank Marshall said. They're going to tell you you're great. "They'll give you a corner office and they'll invite you to fancy dinners and they'll tell you you're a credit to your race, until you want to actually start running things...boy," until you want power, and then look out. That's Frank Marshall Davis, the communist mentor to Barack Obama. Exactly right.
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RUSH: Remember this. This is hilarious. We had fun with it at the time. March 4th, 2007, at the First Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, the Democrat presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed the church, and here's a portion of her remarks.
HILLARY: Let us say with one voice the words of James Cleveland's great freedom hymn: "I don't feel no ways tired. I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy. I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me."
RUSH: I don't feel no ways tired. Hillary Clinton speaking to a black contention in Selma on March 4th, 2007. Obama also brought out the black dialect at that same -- we're working on getting that from our archives. Cookie keeps great archives and we're working on getting that. But Obama also brought out the black dialect. He knew that he had an authenticity problem and he wanted to show that he was down for the struggle. Now, the NAALCP, ladies and gentlemen, the NAALCP has come out and defended Dingy Harry. They said it was just awkward. Dingy Harry's quote here, he's light-skinned and he doesn't speak with a Negro dialect when he doesn't want to, they say that he was actually being complimentary, he was saying that this is what it was going to take for Obama or any African-American to win the presidency. Now, I don't know how the NAALCP can say that that is just awkward. That is a profound insult. Light-skinned, not really black, he doesn't sound like a black, doesn't use a Negro dialect. What does a black person sound like? And NAACP, (paraphrasing) "It was awkward, but actually Dingy Harry was simply acknowledging the truth about what it would take for a black man to be elected in this racist country." They didn't say racist country, but it's implied. Michael Eric Dyson this morning on MSNBC, Georgetown sociology professor, question: "Professor, nothing to see here because official Washington is saying there's nothing to be worried about." This is the Dingy Harry comment.
DYSON: I think the Democrats here are morally weak. They are noxious to me. The reality is this, though. We have a president who was loath to speak about race. He would rather talk about anything but race. Our side refuses to say anything that is even intelligible or coherent about the issue of race and to sweep it under the carpet as if it makes no difference. If a white Republican had said this it would be huge news, they would be making hay out of it calling for his resignation. I think we're hypocrites and we're morally weak here.
RUSH: Michael Eric Dyson this morning on MSNBC. So Mike Allen, Politico, is on the show, he says, "Last night we were talking to Republicans that are going to be out deciding what the party's figures are going to be saying today. They plan to jam on the gas. They're not going to step back and let nature take its course. They're going to say forget the apology let's go beyond that and get into some of these questions. What did he mean by those words, what was he saying, what was he thinking? That's what they're going to challenge the press and Democrats to answer.
DYSON: They're right because here's why I say Mr. Obama is failing us. A couple weeks ago when the Congressional Black Caucus challenged him not doing enough for the African-American people, he said, look, I'm the president for everybody, not for black people. Really? We didn't realize that. Here's the problem, though. His personal discomfort with race must not absolve him of responsibility as an American president. We don't expect you as a black man to deal with race. We expect you as the president of the United States to address this, and I think that he's been shown short here. He's shown that he's not really capable.
RUSH: So there's some fallout here. Michael Eric Dyson who will probably change his tune since I have aired these bites, at least for now, saying that Obama is failing us, meaning African-Americans, and is not capable. Grab number 30 again, going to the break, I gotta hear this again. Hillary Clinton in Selma March 4th, 2007.
(replaying of Hillary bite)
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RUSH: What if...? What if that "stupid" cop from Cambridge had said what Harry Reid said or what Bill Clinton said? That cop would have lost his job, would have lost his pension, would have lost everything. And let's not forget this. This is Barack Obama on 2007 on Hardball with David Gregory as the guest host. "I want to begin by asking you about Don Imus. You've condemned his remarks about the women's basketball team at Rutgers. Let me ask you pointedly: Do you think he should be fired?"
OBAMA: I don't think MSNBC should be carrying the kinds of hateful remarks that Imus uttered the other day.
GREGORY: Will you or would you be a guest on his show in the future?
OBAMA: Uh, no, I would not. Uh, I don't want to be an enabler or be encouraging in any way of, uh, the kind of programming that results in the unbelievable offensive statements that were made just a few days ago.
RUSH: So there's Mr. Tolerant, Obama, demanding Imus be fired while forgiving Harry Reid and absolving Harry Reid. Well, who is Obama to absolve Harry Reid anyway? Harry Reid said it. You'll notice nobody is talking about the Clinton remark. (impression) "Hey, hey, Ted? Common, man. You... you... I mean, you know, a few years ago this guy, Obama, he'd have been fetching us coffee." Nobody's talking about that. Here's Dianne Feinstein, Sunday morning, Face the Nation. Bob Schieffer, says, "Is this going to have the same impact on Harry Reid as it did Lott? Should he resign?"
FEINSTEIN: I don't think so. Uh, first of all, all of us are imperfect. Clearly this was a mistake. Uh, clearly the leader misspoke. He has also apologized. When Trent Lott had a somewhat similar situation, I saw no Democrats jumping out there and condemning, uhhhh, Senator Lott. Uhhhh, I know Senator Lott. I happen to be very fond of him, and, uh, he made a mistake. There was no question about that, and he apologized for it. So, uh, I -- I -- I know of no statement by any Democratic Senator, uhhh, criticizing Senator Lott.
RUSH: Really? Well, December 12th, 2002, Crossfire. (Remember that show?) Paul Begala, The Forehead, and Tucker Carlson, and guest is Senator Mary Landrieu, and The Forehead said, "So do you join John Kerry, another member of the Senate, fellow Democrat? He said Senator Lott should not lead the Senate. Do you agree Senator Lott should not lead the Senate?
LANDRIEU: Yes, I agree with that. But it's the real issue: Does the Republican Party think this should be their leader? I can promise you if a Democratic leader said something like this or close to this, their leadership position would be pulled, because our party feels very strongly.
RUSH: Really? That's Mary Landrieu back in December of 2002. But Dianne Feinstein said that there were no Democrats that criticized Senator Lott. And Mary Landrieu just did. She just agreed with John Kerry that he should be denied and have his leadership post taken away, and she said Democrats feel strongly about this. Our party's different. His leadership position would be pulled. Now here's a montage in 2002, December, of Democrats condemning Trent Lott.
MAXINE WATERS DECEMBER 12, 2002: Trent Lott has made yet another statement, uh, consistent with his long history of supporting, uh, segregation and separatism, and now it's gotten to the point where it's outright racism.
LANDRIEU DECEMBER 12, 2002: The statements were in fact racist and they were wrong.
ALGORE DECEMBER 11, 2002: It's a racist statement. Clearly, uh, a racist sentiment.
BILL CLINTON DECEMBER 18, 2002: Democrats certainly disagree with what he said. We don't think it's right, but that's the Republican policy. How do you think they got a majority of the in the South anyway?
RUSH: There's old Bill Clinton. (impression) "Hey, you know what? This guy, this guy Obama? He'd been fetching us coffee a few years ago -- and of course Democrats, we can say we disagreed with Lott, but we don't think it's right. But that's Republican policy, what Lott said. I mean, how do you think they got a majority in the South anyway?" Where has General Powell, Secretary Powell, Colin Powell? Has he piped up on Harry Reid or Bill Clinton? He hasn't, has he? But I do remember that he really weighed in on Trent Lott in December of 2002.
POWELL: I, uh, was disappointed in the Senator's statement. I, uh, deplored the sentiments behind the statement. There was nothing about the, uh, 1948 election or the Dixiecrat agenda that should have been acceptable in any way to an -- to any American at that time or any American now. Ummm, I will let the Senator and, uh, members of the Senate deal with this issue.
RUSH: That was Secretary of State Colin Powell in December of 2002 condemning Trent Lott. We haven't heard from Secretary Powell (who we're told is the perfect type of Republican to lead the party) weigh in on what Harry Reid said or what Bill Clinton said. Here's Joe Biden January 30th, 2007 in an interview talking about Senator Obama.
BIDEN: I think you've got the first sorta mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and -- and clean and a nice-looking guy.
RUSH: Yeah. So he's light-skinned and he "doesn't use a Negro dialect when he doesn't want to." And we're gonna hear, "Joe Biden was telling the truth!" See the double standard? He can make all these racial observations, and Joe Biden and Harry Reid from the Democrat Party can come out and effectively say, "Hey, you know, dark-skinned blacks with a Negro dialect? They're not going to take us anywhere. We can't have that." They can come out and say that. That's essentially what Biden is saying, and it's what Harry Reid said. And when Biden said it, Al Sharpton -- properly -- got mad. He did. He was upset and it caused him to withhold his endorsement of Obama for a while. Now Harry Reid says basically the same thing and we're running like hell to forgive Harry Reid because all that matters is health care. All that matters is Obama getting his monument.
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RUSH: Jessica in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, you're next as we go back to the phones. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: How are you?
RUSH: Never better. Thank you.
CALLER: Love you. Listen, my father told me something when I was a young girl that has served me my whole life, and that is: "When someone tells you who they are, believe them." You get it?
RUSH: You got it. I believe it, too.
CALLER: Isn't it fabulous? I mean they're telling us all the time who they are, constantly, and nobody ever believes them. But they prove it time and time again.
RUSH: Well, I think more and more people are believing it. She's talking about Harry Reid specifically. He just told us who he is, and Bill Clinton just told us who he is. By the way, the Reverend Sharpton is on this. Grab audio sound bite 36. I knew this was going to be the case once somebody asked somebody about it. This was this morning on Fox & Friends. Al Sharpton was the guest. Steve Doocy said, "Let's talking about something else in the book. It's about Bill Clinton talking to Ted Kennedy. Clinton trying to get Ted's endorsement and he said about Obama, "Hey, Ted, come on, man. A few years ago this guy would be getting us coffee.'"
SHARPTON: That's far more disturbing. I have not talked to President Clinton. I think that's far more disturbing, because this is someone seeking to stop Mr. Obama's campaign and making a direct reference. I don't know the context in which he said it, but that is far more disturbing to me than, uh, even the comments that were made by Mr. Reid.
DOOCY: So you are offended by Bill Clinton saying --
SHARPTON: Oh! I'm --
DOOCY: -- that Barack Obama would be getting us coffee?
SHARPTON: If someone said he "would have been getting us coffee" like that, in the context they say he said it, that would be very offensive to me, and I would definitely, uh, take Mr. Clinton on, as I did in South Carolina.
DOOCY: Uh-huh.
SHARPTON: He made some statements that I felt was wrong.
RUSH: All right. So Reverend Sharpton is now on the case. The Reverend Sharpton, he's gonna take on President Clinton "if" he said it in the context it sounds like he said it in. If he said it in... What other "context" is this? (impression) "Hey, Ted, come on, man. A few years ago this guy would be getting us coffee." I see that Dingy Harry is on TV right now. I think this is live. He says, "I've enjoyed working with President Obama." No, it's not live but it is new video from Apex, Nevada. So apparently Dingy Harry is circling the wagons here. I knew it. We've been getting spammed all day with people wanting to defend Dingy Harry. They say, "Look, look, we don't agree with this. Let's move on. We've got too much going on in the country that's way too important. We shouldn't be focused on this." Here is Jan Crawford, the legal correspondent, and she was on the Face the Nation yesterday. Bob Schieffer said, "Michael Steele said this morning that Reid ought to step down. Trent Lott, when he made that remark about Strom Thurmond, 'The country would have been better off' if he'd been elected president, he did have to resign his leadership pos. I guess it's a little too early to know, but you get the sense Harry Reid may have to leave the leadership?"
CRAWFORD: I think the much bigger question is more broadly what this is going to mean in the midterms and for the Democrats specifically in the midterms. Because, you know, this could very well make the base much less enthusiastic to come out to vote. I mean, the midterms are much more about the base versus base anyway. Those Republican voters are very fired up and the Democrats need every single vote they can get at this point. I mean, already before this happened it looked like Democrats were going to lose, what? Four to six seats in the Senate, 20 to 30 seats in the House. So I think this... I -- I agree, I don't see that this is going to lead to Reid stepping down but I think when we look forward, uh, into this upcoming election it's going to have big problems for Harry Reid, big problems for Democrats in general.
RUSH: Yeah. That's why we want him front and center. We don't actually want him going anywhere. They would put Biden in there to be the 60th vote, put him in there every day if Reid had to step down. Biden would become the majority leader, so he'd be there every day. Now, on the Today Show today, Matt Lauer spoke with Democrat Leadership Council chairman Harold Ford Jr. about Dingy Harry. Matt Lauer said, "I want to ask you to comment on the comment itself. In quotes, 'light-skinned,' end quotes, African-American, quote, 'with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one,' end quote, and that was supposed to be Harry Reid's comments about why Obama might be more electable. As an African-American, how does that comment make you feel, Harold?"
FORD: It's an unusual set of comments, but I -- I don't believe in any way that Harry Reid had any animus, racial animus or for that matter, uhh, in a comment or even in his record even going forward. I think there's an important distinction between he and Trent Lott. Trent Lott, there were other episodes, other allegations and even proof of racial comments that he had made before. I think the real test for Harry Reid is national security, jobs, and health care.
RUSH: Right. So this is how liberals and Democrats view this. Reid is a liberal on the issues, so what he says about race can't be racist. And that's the dirty little secret. What he said about race can't be racist. He's a liberal and everybody knows liberals aren't racist. No, no, no, no. I don't think he meant anything by it. I don't think he's racist. I don't think it's racial! Well, he sure is thinking about it in a strange way. You know... Yeah. In fact, that's a good point. To oppose liberalism is to be racist. But say it the way he meant it? "Hey, look, dark skinned, sounds like a black! No chance. Nobody is ever going to get elected." I guarantee you that's the same thing that he said, and it stems from that thought, by the way. I wonder how they would be reacting if somebody said, "This is what he really, really meant." Would they say, "Yeah, he's telling the truth," and what would that make them if that's what they said about him?
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RUSH: Question. A little pop quiz. Let's check your memory. Who made the comment once that the only blacks at a GOP dinner were the ones serving the food? Do you have any idea who said that? Who made the comment once that the only blacks at a GOP dinner were the ones serving the food? That was Howard Dean, and they made him head of the party. They made him head of the Democrat National Committee.
Ronald in Los Angeles, nice to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Great to be here, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Let me tell you, you are so on point when it comes to the comments that Harry Reid made, it is something that has been within the Democratic Party since I was a kid in the 1950s, and this will continue because this is a tactic that the Democratic Party uses.
RUSH: Of course it is. You're exactly right.
CALLER: And that tactic will continue until you're cloned into other people and not buying into it, and I'm cloned, as a black person, who doesn't buy into it.
RUSH: Well, you're right about that. The whole race card in general, what you mean is, as the Democrats use it, a political tactic.
CALLER: Absolutely, Rush. What you see is -- and it's been pointed out that whenever a non-Democratic or liberal affiliate says something that is blatantly racist or offensive, unfortunately blacks will circle the wagons. A perfect example is the Congressional Black Caucus. They have no purpose except to enrich themselves. The same with the NAACP who is basically an organization that's on welfare from the state, and the state of the country. And that's why they support this.
RUSH: Well, of course. They're all part of the Democrat coalition. And of course when you're part of the Democrat coalition, what matters first, last, and always, is liberalism, and advancing the cause, advancing the agenda. And each one of these coalitions has their own responsibility. In the case of the Civil Rights Coalition their job is to turn out 90% of the black vote every presidential race. And if they do that, then they're going to be funded and they will be given a seat at the Democrat Party power table and that's a great way to describe it, a political tactic. And that's why the double standard exists, because it is not used as a political tactic against liberals who make racist statements, Democrats who make racist statements at all. They're excused: "Whoa, no, we know that person never uttered a racist view or harbored a racist thought in his life. This man is trying to pass health care for everybody. No, no." And the media is right in there with them pushing all of that.
But, you know, the Democrats are out there right now and more and more and more they are being exposed, and it's going to take a lot more than this to further expose things, but the one -- I don't want to say good thing, but I mean you gotta try to look for the good in everything that happens -- and the one good thing about this total control of the government that they have is it has left them with an arrogance and a sense of almost infallibility that they can do and say whatever they want now and not be harmed by it. So they don't have to play the game as often of hiding who they really are. More and more of them are letting it be known. And you couple this with the genuine rage there is in the country over the simple fact that the Democrat Party is governing against the will of the American people, the current Democrat Party is fighting the American people. The American people are the biggest enemy the Democrat Party has right now. That's an amazing thing to say. But it is true. And that is the result of substance. It is the result of people not wanting the Democrat agenda. It's the result of people knowing that what Obama's trying to do to so-call create jobs is not working, that there is no magic, and that everything they thought that was going to happen with the election of Obama, no more racism, no more partisanship, sea levels decline, none of it's happening, everything's getting worse.
More and more people are coming to realize this, and more and more people are abandoning the Democrat Party.
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RUSH: We had a call that we didn't have a chance to get to today from David in Seattle and I'm going to steal the point here in limited time. Brevity is the soul of wit. Didn't Joe Wilson shout at Obama during that speech for the joint session of Congress? Didn't he say, "You lie!" He said, "You lie!" and wasn't he accused of being a racist by the left when he said that? And of course he apologized. And the press still wouldn't let go of it. Yet they want us to not even talk about Dingy Harry. "He's apologized. Can't we just move on?" The double standard is as clear as a bell for one and all to see.
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OBAMA: This is the site of my conception. I am the fruits of your labor. I am the offspring of the movement. So when people ask me whether I've been to Selma before, I tell 'em I'm coming home.
RUSH: When people ask me whether I've been to Selma befo', I tell 'em I'm coming home. He continued.
OBAMA: My grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya, grew up in a small village, and all his life that's all he was, was a cook and a houseboy and that's what they called him even when he was 60 years old, they called him a houseboy. Wouldn't call him by his last name. Sound familiar? So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama. I'm here because somebody marched for our freedom. I'm here because ya'll sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants.
RUSH: And he has been to Selma befo', and he said so. In honor of Harry Reid, we don't do dedications on this program much, but we're going to do one now. This following tune is dedicated to the Senate majority leader, Dingy Harry Reid.
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White comedian Paul Shanklin and the "Barack the 'Magic Negro'" as portrayed vocally by the Reverend Al Sharpton as dedicated to the Senate majority leader Dingy Harry Reid. I want to go back, March of 2008 and share with you again a monologue I did on this program on March the 14th, and this was the opening monologue, and I think this probably had a role in Obama's famous and earth-moving race speech which was four or five days later. The reason I want to go back and repeat this is that it ties right into Harry Reid's no-Negro-dialect comment. Now, the headline, as we headlined it at RushLimbaugh.com: "Barack Obama and Pastor Wright: Far More Than Guilt by Association. -- This pastor was the central force in this church, and that's why Obama chose it. It's why the pastor married them. It's why he baptized their kids. There is a story on the American Thinker blog today by C. Edmund Wright, who is not related to Pastor Wright, by the way. His theory is simply that the choice of this church by Obama was calculated so that Obama could establish his black street cred with certain elements of the American population," because Obama was too clean and articulate, he was too white to win in Chicago 'til Jeremiah Wright gave him black street cred.
Now, Harry Reid likes that he doesn't have a Negro dialect, but the voters in Chicago did not like that 20 years ago. "In other words, he embraced Jeremiah Wright and the church's agenda to 'get his black street cred to escape his "white half."' Now, he's trying to divert attention away from his black street cred. And a little sober reminder here... he is doing this so he can occupy the Oval Office." This is exactly what Harry Reid said. This is exactly what he meant. Now, these are the words of C. Edmund Wright, American Thinker. "We are talking about the leading candidate for the Democrat nomination for president of the United States. Now, this is Mr. C. Edmund Wright's theory, that Obama did this to establish street cred. This was 20 years ago, and did this to mitigate his white half. They chose this church because of the charismatic pastor's beliefs. ... It would be reasonable to conclude that this pastor is one of the reasons that Michelle "My Belle" Obama harbors the views that she does. She's an angry woman running around out there. The pastor doesn't just pop off here and there, folks, like the nutty uncle in the attic that Obama is trying to portray him as. This was his usual way of talking. We have a little bit more from him today. We have some extended segments when we come back from the commercial break."
The point is this is Obama from March 18th of 2008. The point is that C. Edmund Wright's theory about why Obama chose Wright and Wright's church is the exact same thing that Harry Reid said, which I really think if people stopped to think about this and consider it even further, that what Harry Reid said is really devastatingly racist, because if he's saying, which he is, that only light-skinned blacks who don't sound black can be elected, that's more than just awkward, as the NAALCP says, that's much more -- (interruption) they're laughing in there, but that's how to translate what Harry Reid said. He's light-skinned and doesn't sound black. That's why I said I want to know what a black dialect is to Harry Reid, I want him to tell me who has one.
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RUSH: We're going to start Omaha with Sarah. Nice to have you here. Hello.
CALLER: Good. Good day to you, Rush. I'm glad you're feeling great.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: You sound great. Hey, with regard to the Reid comments: He is racist. It is a racist comment. But, you know, surely Americans... You know, Americans are intelligent people. They know that these people, whether it be Obama, whether it be Pelosi, whether it be Harry Reid, whether it be Hillary, that they all are going to be exactly what they need to to get into office and to get whatever they want. I mean, if you look in the Webster dictionary, "Dialect: A variety of language confine to a certain region." Well, when they go and try and get their votes in one region they're going to sound like that region and then they're going to go to another. But most importantly, Rush, in my opinion this is just another Rahm Emanuel crisis idea for the second full week in 2010. I don't know what he's going to come up for the next week or the next week or the next week.
RUSH: Wait a minute. You're saying that the release of the book is a Rahm Emanuel idea to distract everybody from health care?
CALLER: I think that the timing is. I think the timing is, and this being pulled out is a diversion because it's going to lead us into immigration reform, which is their next big batch that they want.
RUSH: Well, let me tell you something. It has not diverted me. It has not distracted me. I have interwoven health care news, unemployment news, stimulus failure news with all of this stuff today. Now, these books. Books have publication dates that are set way, way in advance. We give these guys credit for being manipulative conspirators and so forth (and they clearly are) but that's not the real story here. I don't think this is something that's being used to divert everybody. I think the real story here, folks (aside from the content of Bill Clinton saying what he said and Harry Reid saying what he said) is that a bunch of liberal journalists knew this all during the campaign and they sat on it. These are reporters. These are journalists from TIME Magazine, ABC. Halperin's worked at a number of places. They had all of this. This happens every year. All these journalists write books to catalog campaigns.
Now, in the case of the stuff in this book about Sarah Palin, they didn't sit on that. There's nothing new in the book about Sarah Palin. But we didn't know Harry Reid said all this, and Harry Reid said, "I thought it was a private conversation off the record." Well, that doesn't matter. He still said it and these guys knew it, and Bill Clinton, too. They sat on this during the campaign. Can you imagine if they had reported this at the time? Well, they saved it, obviously, for their book, which means what? They were seeking financial reward. They held this information for a multiple number of reasons. They knew the book would sell big because it has dynamite stuff. I think one of the authors of the book is saying, "I had no idea that this Harry Reid comment would be such a big deal." You didn't? You didn't think that a comment like that by Harry Reid would be such a billing deal and the Clinton comment and all the other things? I'll tell you the stuff in this...
We haven't touch the on it yet. The stuff in this book on John and Elizabeth Edwards is just devastating, and I don't doubt a word of it. I mean, they are two people the exactly opposite of the image that was projected and portrayed of them and by them and for them. They're not the compassionate, soft-spoken couple. You know, Elizabeth Edwards, they had a PAC, a political action committee, and some of the underlings had screwed up and had not succeeded in purchasing Elizabeth and John's health insurance from the PAC. And she flipped out when she heard that. She said (paraphrased), "If this is not done tomorrow, everybody's health insurance in this PAC is getting canceled. I'm going to cancel it! If you won't take care of John and me, we're getting rid of everybody. We're canceling everybody's health insurance."
It's a true of most Democrats. These aren't the sweet, compassionate, caring and so on. These are vicious, mean, stream people in many, many ways. Ideologically, personally, they are arrogant, condescending. They hold average people in contempt or look at them with contempt. So the big story here is all the stuff that these people sit on. There was another thing. In the 2004 election, I forget who did the book but there was a book about the Kerry campaign and it had similar things in it that had it come out during the campaign, had they come out during the campaign it might have changed the way things went, even though Bush ended up winning. The real indictment here is that journalists on the prowl, on the campaign trail here all of this things and hold them, and they hold back on it. Except the Palin and McCain stuff. I don't think there's anything new in this book about Palin that I haven't heard before -- the stuff that's true, the stuff that isn't true -- and there's a lot in this book about Palin that isn't true.
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RUSH: Here's Leo in Port Arthur, Texas, great to have you on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Yeah, good afternoon. I'm listening to today's program, and I'm wondering, man: When is enough enough? Conservatives seem to take the approach regardless of the outcome. Now, the president has accepted Reid's apology, but for some reason y'all continuing to just vomit over the airwaves and lap this up to keep it going because the -- the conservatives don't even have a message and don't have any leadership. I see this as a distraction, a distractionary (sic) tactic from the old conservative playbook to distract America from the real issues. With everything that we're facing as a country right now, every minute wasted not discussing the issues -- especially issues in your own party -- is a wasted minute. I mean, come on. Let's -- let's get real with -- with -- with what's going on and what's really important in America right now.
RUSH: What's that, Leo? What's really important in America right now?
CALLER: Getting the economy back on track -- reuniting the country --
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: -- reuniting the country --
RUSH: Hey, Leo?
CALLER: Uh, an honest, decent approach to politics in this country.
RUSH: Leo? Leo? Who's got the ideas to bring the economy back?
CALLER: The Democrats. If you all would just sit down --
RUSH: Leo? Leo?
CALLER: -- take your lumps and let the Democrats do what they have to do and everything would be all right.
RUSH: Leo, you illustrate the biggest problem this country faces, and that is a partisanship that blinds you to truth and has you loyal to lies. The Democrats have the best ideas? There's nobody that can stop their ideas. The Republicans don't have the votes to stop anything, Leo. This destruction of the US economy is owned single-handedly by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party. They own it. They have destroyed the US private sector and they are going to destroy even more of it, and it's happening right in front of our eyes. Do you remember a name by the name of George Allen, Leo? He's a man that uttered the word "Macaca" at a campaign rally, and the Washington Post, the Democrat Party didn't say, "You know, the country facing some really important issues now. We're going to kind of forget that George Allen said this.
"In fact, we don't even know what a Macaca is." No, we didn't do that, Leo. The Washington Post and the Democrat Party proceeded to drive George Allen from the campaign, just as they, along with Republican help, drove Trent Lott from his leadership post in the United States Senate. I should tell you people that I am told by our official call screener today -- who is not Mr. Snerdley. Mr. Snerdley is traveling back today from halfway around the world, and he'll be back tomorrow. But we are being overrun by spam call campaign of people defending Dingy Harry. They're out in droves today. The Reid defenders are all over the place. It's a coordinated attack, and they say, "We don't support what he said, but, gosh, can't we move on here? I mean, you Republicans are wasting time. We got big, important issues here, and you're focusing on a bunch of stuff in a book." That's the tactic that they're using. We are prepared and are ready for them.
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RUSH: This nation is entering its eighth year, eighth year of still discussing a radio host saying Donovan McNabb is overrated by the media 'cause he's black, which was not racist in any way, shape, or form, and the left wants us to not mention Dingy Harry and Bill Clinton for a day, and yet for eight years they will not let go of this Donovan McNabb incident that I got started on ESPN. Here's Keith in Columbus, Ohio. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, sir. What I find with these comments, even though I do agree with what he said because it is true, I find them hilarious. I don't find any offense to them, and the reason being is because the United States is so morally afraid to take this issue on that any time race is brought up, any issue, it gets swept under the carpet, and there's a lot of thin-skinned, and I'm going to use the term Negroes out there, they should not blow this up for more than what it is. The man spoke the truth. Now, his choice of words may be… but I have to look at his age, and that is the way they used to talk --
RUSH: Hey, Keith?
CALLER: Huh-uh?
RUSH: Are you black?
CALLER: Yes, I am.
RUSH: Well, I thought a detected a black dialect but I wasn't sure, I was going to call Harry Reid. But let me ask you, do you understand the opposite of what Harry Reid said? Do you know what he really said? You say he spoke the truth, and I agree --
CALLER: Yes, it is true. This country would not have elected a dark-pigmented man using the diss, dem, dey, there's no way in the world that you would have elected him president.
RUSH: And so you think --
CALLER: -- let me say this to you, Rush, let me say this to you, it's not even a black dialect, it is more of an ignorance and an education level dialect and some of it is just people refuse to use proper English. They find it easier to speak that way.
RUSH: Well, I understand all that, Obama didn't want to be too white for his street cred in Chicago. That's why he chose Reverend Wright, but your comment about we're cowards, you sound like Eric Holder, we're cowards about race. We never stopped talking about race in this country, I think we need to stop talking about it and stop being concerned with it and treat everybody in a colorblind society. That's what I aspire to. But we don't. You don't think it's an important thing here that the Democrat Party thinks of blacks with a plantation mentality? That's what the Clinton comment proves. That's what Hillary --
CALLER: -- Democrat Party, sir. And if you excuse me for saying, it's the majority of white men think this way and the reason being they don't have black friends, they don't spend a lot of time around black people, they don't live around them, they look at the news, that is the time they see black people and that is what they believe about black people. They do not take the time --
RUSH: I don't think that. You can't take what black people want to have believed about them out of the equation. Look at the rappers. The rappers say, "Hey, this is our culture; this is the way we're forced to grow up; this is why we hate the cops; you have got to understand our lives." We're told what black life in America is like through black culture. It's not prejudice that's causing all of this.
CALLER: That is exactly what I said and that's the same way I feel about Mr. Reid. It is not prejudice. He came up in a different era and that is the way they talk and like I said, I feel it's unfortunate that he said that but again it is true what he said, it's true exactly what he said.
RUSH: Maybe so, but the point is he can get away with it, and others in the country couldn't. I couldn't get away with it. If I had said that I'd be toast. There's clearly a double standard here and the double standard benefits the people who I think are the genuine racists and bigots, and that's the Democrats. The double standard gives the benefit of the doubt to people who we know look at blacks with a plantation mentality. I mean Bill Clinton goes to Ted Kennedy and says, (imitating Bubba) "Come on, man, you can't endorse that guy, I mean a few years ago he'd be fetching us our coffee." I don't know anybody saying that on my side of the aisle. I think it's a big deal here. If we want to talk about race, let's talk about it in a way that we haven't really nationally, and that is the racism in the Democrat Party. Go back and look at the primaries through 2007-2008 between Hillary and Obama and look at some in the media were calling Obama not authentic enough, it wasn't us. It wasn't our side doing that. It was them. And that's the big untold story in our culture today is that there is an ideological belief and a political party that gets away with all of this. I mean the Democrat Party's destroyed the black family, maybe with their good intentions, but so what? The end result is horrible. I don't care about the intentions. All of these welfare programs have done nothing to help, and, to me, it's near criminal what's been done in the name of compassion and it's been genuinely destructive.
Let's go Albany. Tom you're next on the EIB Network. Great to have you here. Hello.
CALLER: Hello. Hello, Rush. It's great to speak with you and thank you for the work you do.
RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.
CALLER: We've talked before, and our previous conversations were kind of lighthearted, we kind of laughed at certain Democrats. Today I'm furious. I'm worked up worse than I've been in a long time. You had a call ten minutes ago from a guy saying leave Harry Reid alone, we have to worry about America and you can't keep regurgitating negative press about Reid and on and on and on.
RUSH: Yeah, but let me tell you something about that. We're being spammed with these people and the reason we're getting coordinated calls is because Reid and the Democrats are worried, they know that the Reid quote genuinely, really hurts them and that's why they have this army out there trying to call all radio talk shows and intimidate hosts into dropping it.
CALLER: Well, let me share this with you. During Christmas week when you had the attempted bombing of the plane, and basically there was nothing good coming from the White House and nothing good from the Democratic Party, out of curiosity, I switched over to MSNBC to see what they were talking about. Monday night, Sarah Palin. Tuesday night, Bristol Palin, Wednesday night, Bristol Palin's boyfriend, Thursday night, Sarah Palin. You know, night after night, Sarah Palin lost the election in 2008. This is 2010. They're still talking not just about Sarah Palin, her daughter, her daughter's boyfriend's going to appear in Playgirl, and they have the nerve to say we need to talk about America?
RUSH: Good point. Good point. They won't let my McNabb comment go. They won't let Sarah Palin go. When Harry Reid comes out and says one thing, "Let's move on, far more important things to do, to talk about." This is what they always, always do. This is because they're being genuinely hurt by this.
CALLER: Didn't they -- Ron Howard, Opie, didn't he make the movie Frost/Nixon, the tapes?
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I mean when are they going to leave Nixon alone? That was 35 years ago, Rush. These are the guys who live in the past and now when Harry Reid opens his mouth and steps in it what are they saying? We gotta focus on the future.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: We gotta focus on America. It's a double standard, Rush.
RUSH: Of course it's a double standard and they've got the media on their side, but it's more than a double standard, Tom, and not to diminish the powerful point that you're making because you're dead-on right, but in addition to that, it is who they are. It is how they operate. Character assassination, revision of history, the attempted destruction of people on the other side who are credible is how they operate. That's why they continually go after Reagan. They cannot afford for the truth of the eighties to become commonplace. The truth of the eighties would wipe out anything Obama's trying to do.
If people had not had their history revised about the 1980s Obama would have never been elected and this stimulus package would have never been implemented. But Reagan, the time he was in office he was mean-spirited. He was a racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe. He was responsible for AIDS, he stole the homeless's cans of pork and beans and went back to the White House and ate them. He didn't care about people, all the while everybody's life in this country was improving tenfold with an economic recovery finally getting started '83, '84, after the '82 tax cuts. I mean the country was booming for years and years and years, and they have to make sure that nobody remembers that Reagan and his policies, conservatism, was responsible for that.
These people, as a matter of policy, have to destroy the enemies that they consider to be effective, which is why they don't let go of Nixon, which is why they don't let go of Reagan, which is why any Republican that's in a position of power, if they have a chance to drum them out of town, they will do it. Anybody else in the media that they perceive as being a threat they go after as well. It's who they are. Yeah, there's a double standard, but I think with these quotes from Dingy Harry and Bill Clinton what people have to understand is these liberals, these Democrats are the exact opposite of compassionate and tolerant and all of the other soft, fuzzy, and warm images that they have created and maintained for themselves. It's not true.
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DODD: This is a -- a precarious road. And, look, this is far from a perfect piece of legislation. I'll be the first to admit and tell you that this is going to require a lot more work for future Congresses and future administrations to get this right. But in the absence of getting it forward, moving it forward, so I'm hopeful that will happen but it is hanging by a thread obviously. One or two votes could determine the outcome of this bill.
RUSH: Now, I don't know what he's doing here, if he's sounding a warning bell to try to shore up support for it or create panic. It is hanging by a thread. I mean there's so much pressure being brought to bear on Ben Nelson. Nelson's out there, "We shouldn't have even done this, we should have been focused on the economy," and Blanche Lincoln, "I don't think Ben Nelson of Nebraska shoulda got what he got," and Schwarzenegger, "I want the same thing that Ben Nelson got in Nebraska, the Cornhusker State." There is a lot going on but all of it's going on behind closed doors. Nobody knows anything. About all we know is that the public option will not survive. The public option won't survive. But there will be no choice but than to have a public option because what's going to be in place of the public option are going to be some of the most arduous regulations on the insurance business that they will not be able to stay in business. They're going to be required to ensure preexisting conditions. They're going to be required to sell insurance the day before somebody has life or death surgery. They're going to be required to do all these things and to raise premiums to the point that people can't afford them. They're not going to be able to make a profit, they'll go out of business and people are going to say, "Oh, my God, what are we going to do, they're all closing down, the government's going to have to --" and that's how it's going to happen.
And here's Chris Dodd, "I'll be the first to admit this is gonna require a lot more work for future Congressing and future administrations to get this right"? Everybody's admitting this thing is a turkey. Everybody is admitting it's a rotten piece of stuff and it ought to not happen at all. But they've gotta give Obama something. They gotta give him something for the State of the Union. The translation of this is, "Well, we don't have the public option and we don't have single payer so future Congresses are going to have to get that." That's what he means when he says it's going to require a lot more work for future Congresses, future administrations to get this right, meaning that they've had to compromise on too much of what they didn't want in order to get what they got in the Senate. Everybody knows they're going to be moving forward and adding onto this year after year after year and pretty soon -- I don't want to be too much of a downer here but pretty soon what's going to happen, it won't be long -- you know like right now Social Security is an automatic for the Democrats every election. All they have to do is say, "Republicans want to take away your Social Security." And for a while, the seasoned citizens believed that.
If that's all you got and somebody you trust, a politician that you voted for says evil Republicans want to take it away from you, kick you out of your house, you can't chance it. It doesn't work so well anymore, but health care is going to become the new third rail. And Republicans want to take away your health care and your health insurance. That's what they want to win the election for. They don't like the fact that you now are fully covered and fully insured and they want to take it away. That's what's going to happen. If this thing gets passed into law, signed into law that's the way the Democrats are going to keep it there as they tinker with it, bloat it and expand it even more. The next question: "Senator, you mentioned this is hanging on by a thread, maybe one or two votes. Who among your senators who voted for this in the past do you think might step away?"
DODD: You'd have to be living on the moon not to follow what's happened over the last month or so in terms of -- of those who are kind of hanging in the balance. I know a lot of the people on the more progressive side are deeply disappointed that we don't have a public option now moving forward in this bill. So everyone feels I guess to some degree who have been for this that they would have liked something different, and the president's deeply involved. I spent about two, two-and-a-half hours with him last Thursday at the White House along with Max Baucus talking about the bill and -- and the differences between the House and the Senate version. So a lot of work needs to be done but I can tell you the staffs are working literally overtime all weekend to try and resolve those differences.
RUSH: And we'll be right back after this.
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RUSH: Christina Romer. There's a story here in The Politico. "Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said Sunday that President Barack Obama was 'subdued' and 'disappointed' upon learning of Friday’s jobless number and that the administration favors further government action." Of course he does, because he's not "subdued" and he's not "disappointed"! This is the plan. You don't do this accidentally. You don't do what Obama's doing out of naivete. You don't do this mistakenly -- and if you are mistaken about it, you realize much sooner than now that it's a mistake and you reverse it. You don't double down on it.
"'The sense that we need to do more is overwhelming,' Romer told George Stephanopoulos on ABC's 'This Week.' 'We know there are things that have been working in the Recovery Act that are expiring, like some of the provisions for longer unemployment benefits.'" That's creating jobs? There's nothing about extending unemployment benefits that's going to create one job. Obama has the bankers up there. He's demanding that they lend, and some of the bankers (I'm told) in the meeting said, "Mr. President, small businesses are not asking us for money. They don't want to borrow. You're talking to the wrong people. They're not interested in borrowing -- and you know why, Mr. President? 'Cause they don't know what the rules of the game are going to be. They don't know if your health care is going to pass. They don't know if cap and tax is going to pass. They don't know if tax increases will pass.
"They have no idea what their expenses are going to be, government expenses," meaning tax increases, "and further regulation. That's why they're not borrowing." It's why they're not hiring. Obama knows this. All those jobs summits, ladies and gentlemen, at the White House? They were just academic displays, tricks designed to make people think action was being taken. Listen to this quote from Christina Romer: "Romer said the country is 'on a path of steady progress': 'The real question is going to be: Is it going be strong enough to really add a lot of people back into employment, and that is what we're focusing on. ... I think we are getting closer to stability in employment. The next step is, obviously, to finally start adding jobs. ... The big variable in all of this is the private sector. The government has been doing a lot to hold up demand -- the Recovery Act has been incredibly important in that regard." This woman knows better, too, by the way. She knows that everything she's saying here is BS.
The big variable in this is the private sector? The big reliable in this is the private sector if they would simply get out of the way, stop punishing people for engaging in entrepreneurism and for succeeding in the process. Just get out of the way. What have you done? The private sector is the big variable here? What have you done to the private sector, Ms. Romer, besides target it? I don't know. Here, let me tell you this. The first year of Obama's presidency, he focused on what he cares about most, and that was him. This year he says he's gonna folks on what you care about, which is global warming. (laughing) No. He says he's gonna focus on jobs. Do you want proof, ladies and gentlemen, the government cannot jump-start the economy? I mean, it's all front of you. It's out there, 12 months of it to see. How many stimuli did we do last year and the year before? We did a bunch. They haven't done a thing. The whole concept of "saved jobs" is BS. What have they done? Nothing. Aside from the Economics 101 of it and the math of it...
I mean you cannot take $50 trillion or $50 billion, any amount of money out of the private sector then put it back in and say you're stimulating something. You'd have to infuse money that's not already there. And there's no money to do that. You have to print it, you have to borrow it, or you have to tax it and then put it back. This is an old shell game; it's an old trick. It's designed to enhance the growth of government. But the proof is right there in the latest unemployment numbers -- and I don't mean the 10% employment, which is an obvious disaster, and I don't mean the 17% real unemployment. That's an obvious disaster. But here are two numbers from last Friday's jobless numbers: Construction unemployment is 22.7%. It's 22.7%! Now, remember, the stimulus was for "shovel-ready jobs;" Roads, bridges, schools, all this infrastructure stuff. Construction unemployment is almost 23%. Government worker unemployment is at 3%, 3.6, less than 4%.
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RUSH: The AP is admitting here it didn't work but then, hey, they say let's try it again. They outline in this piece that the stimulus money that's been spent so far has had no effect on jobs, none. Not anywhere. The veil is off. They're no longer pretending that there are jobs created or saved. Now, here how the story starts: "Ten months into President Barack Obama's first economic stimulus plan, a surge in --" and it's not Bush's. It's Obama's. "-- spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, an AP analysis has found. Spend a lot or spend nothing at all, it didn't matter, the AP analysis showed: Local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless of how much stimulus money Washington poured out for transportation, raising questions about Obama's argument that more road money would address an 'urgent need to accelerate job growth.'"
All they can talk about from the stimulus that's been beneficial is the extension of unemployment compensation benefits. So, you know, the real question there, folks, is how come despite the vast amount of history that's available to all of us, all of the smart, so-called smart educated business and economic people, hard evidence, examples of failure and successes, charts and graphs, data out the wazoo, we still seem to be confounded by the elementary process of creating and keeping jobs. Why is this? Why is the blueprint for coming out of the circumstance we're in, the 1980s, JFK in the 1960s, why is it ignored? And why is this, government spending, constantly looked at as a panacea when it isn't? And the answer is it's not looked at as a panacea. The people in charge of doing this know exactly what they're doing. They're weakening the private sector for a host of reasons that we've mentioned. I'm going to get blue in the face here, repetitive. Just don't doubt me. It's being done on purpose and the reasons are all recounted in various multiple monologues at my website, RushLimbaugh.com.
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So many people also forget how much of a damn racist Joe Biden is.
He once insinuated that only Hindu-Americans work at 7-11 and Dunkin Donuts.
Biden is a racist for saying things like that, and no one in the damn MSM bothers to talk about it.
Check out Joe RACIST Biden here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM19YOqs7hU
“You don’t do what Obama’s doing to the economy out of naivete — and if you’re mistaken, you realize it much sooner than now and you reverse it. You don’t double down.” -Rush
BUMP!
Thnak you, GOP_Lady!
I loved Rush’s show today and enjoyed your thread very much.
I'm listening to today's show now.
Rush is on a roll.
I can't wait for my day off tomorrow to watch the new HD DittoCam! :-)
Lots of laughs today!
I really need to join Rush 24.
I have been a member since day one.
The picture of Harry Reid with Jackson and Sharpton is sure a hoot. :-)
Thank you, GOP_Lady! I read your transcripts of EIB every day they are posted. I read it ALL!
My pleasure for you and everyone else, RoadTest.
Hey, I finally have a day off work, and I'm “RoadTest”ing the new HD DittoCam!
Very nice and clear quality.
Enjoy your day. :-)
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