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Sept. 30, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 30, 2005, Friday, Hour #1
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All right, let's um we get folks.
I have lots of stuff.
We've got Dingy Harry in a uh what I think's pretty big scandal out there.
Uh in the headline from the uh Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper, Senator arranged for Grant now involved in indictment of pastors, the money connected to Reed.
Uh Ronnie Earle is having a movie made about his investigation of Tom DeLay.
Can you imagine if the House managers had had uh made a movie about the impeachment of Bill Clinton?
I wonder what were they filming inside the grand jury room.
When when Earl was trying to get the grand jurors to go along with uh with his indictment.
We've got we we just got all kinds of stuff out there today.
I want to start with this Bill Bennett business because there's a lot more to this than meets the eye.
People say things every day in this country that nobody hears or reads.
I read things on the internet on both sides of the aisle that are simply outrageous.
But if you don't if I don't tell you about them, or if somebody doesn't warn you about them, you don't see it, it may as well never happen have happened.
There is a movement in this country.
It is a movement.
It's not just a phenomenon, it is a movement.
The movement's called political correctness.
And political correctness is a purposeful obstacle.
It is set by liberals to impede the truth.
Political correctness is there to make sure that liberals don't have to hear certain truths that they don't want to hear that contradict their world view.
That's precisely what political correctness is.
Political correctness is an assault on the First Amendment.
It is an assault on the whole concept of freedom of speech.
It has been established, everybody thinks it got its start on college campuses, but its roots really have to do with the with the uh age-old view of this country that the left has, that this country is immoral, that this country is unjust, and it is immoral and unjust because of its basic structure.
Capitalism, capitalism picks winners and picks losers.
Individuals have nothing to do with their own outcomes in life, because this country is unfairly set up by the powerful to benefit the powerful and to take advantage of the uh less powerful or the no powerful, uh, the needy or what have you.
And that's a basic outline of it.
That within that, you have wife's winners and life's losers.
We have various minority groups who, by very their very definition of uh being minority, are losers, and they are losers not because they're losers, they're losers because the powerful have determined that they're gonna be losers.
And no matter what those losers do, they will never escape the bonds of loserdom.
They will never escape the bonds of minority status.
They will never escape the bonds of economic inequality because there are too many uh obstacles set in their way.
The deck is stacked against them.
This is the foundation of the civil rights movement, folks.
The foundation of the civil rights movement is that this country is unfair and unjust by its very structure, by its very existence as put together and assembled by the founding fathers.
This country is essentially unfair and unjust.
And the civil rights movement will never ever proclaim that we have made amends for whatever past transgressions or that there is equality because they would go out of business.
They'll never believe it possible anyway because they don't like the structure of this country.
As a result, if I'll move you move forward here a number of years, there are now certain things that you cannot say.
There are certain things that you cannot think, particularly and especially if they happen to be truthful.
If that truth offends the sensibilities of liberals who have created political correctness, you gonna be in deep doo-doo.
You are it has happened to I don't know how many people it's happened to me, it has now happened to Bill Bennett.
It's interesting, though, who can get away with violating it.
It was just last week that Charles Wrangle, a Democrat from Harlem, in the vaulted House of Representative, said that our president, George W. Bush, is the modern equivalent of Bull Connor to this generation of African Americans.
The Democratic National Committee backed him up.
There wasn't one word of outrage anywhere in the mainstream press, the liberal media, or any other liberal organization.
They were clapping their hands and they were going right on, right on, right on, more of it.
So Wrangell gave them more of it, and they just ate it all up.
We have had George Bush compared to Adolf Hitler.
We have had George Bush accused of murder.
Why is this permissible?
Because Bush is from the section of America where the winners are.
And so, as a winner and as somebody unfairly a winner, he had nothing to do with it himself.
We can pile on winners, we can pile on the majority all we want, and we can accuse them of the most outrageous lies, and we have to support those lies and amplify those lies.
We have liberal radio hosts who on the air have compared the evacuation of the Superdome and the Convention Center to the Holocaust.
Nobody cared about that, probably because nobody heard it since it was on liberal radio network.
But the fact is that it didn't outrage those who did hear it.
In fact, those who heard, yeah, yeah, yeah, more of it.
Now, that's just a basic uh shall I say umbrella under which I want to address directly the Bennett the Bennett comments.
Because what's going on here is not what Bill Bennett said, not what he meant or didn't say or has said since whatever he said that was offensive.
That's not the point.
The point is that a George Soros funded hack website has been established within the last what is it, year or two years.
This website makes a practice of taking things said in the conservative media out of context.
This website from its inception proved to be a source authority for the left-wing media and ranking Democrats.
I have a friend, a man by the name of Brett Bozell.
Brent Bozell has such a website himself, although his is legitimate.
It's paid for by himself, not funded By some political hack.
He raises money for it from average Americans.
It's called the Media Research Center.
And Brent has been around for over 12 years, 14 years.
And Brent has the best daily recitation of bias in the mainstream press that there is in this country.
He now has a website to support it called the Newsbusters.org.
Every day he lists countless examples of outrageous wrong, lying, spiteful, hateful, biased comments found in the mainstream press and echoed by Democrat officials.
The mainstream media never once in my life has cited any work done by Brent Bozell.
This Soros funded website pops up and immediately becomes a source authority for the mainstream press.
They are not a watchdog.
They are not independent.
They are not nonpartisan.
They are part of the Democratic liberal bias and hacked machine.
The former researcher for this website, former top researcher, works for Chuck Schumer.
She with Katie Bargie or Bargie or something is her name, and she was the one that uncovered and did the illegal dirty work on getting the credit report of the lieutenant governor of the state of Maryland, Michael Steele.
These are the kind of people that run around and take things like what Bill Bennett said yesterday out of context, put it on this website.
It is immediately read.
It's daily work, daily read by CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, you name it.
And it form and it's and it's read by the Democratic Party, and it forms the basis.
They don't listen to Sean Hannity, they don't listen to anybody else on the radio.
They read this hack little website that is paid for by George Soros and other Democrats and contributors, and it becomes a source authority for them.
And it's features many things taken out of context.
Purposefully, to create what has just happened with Bill Bennett.
It's it's uh it's all part of the left's machinery that is in place to do what I have been saying for the longest time.
They can't defeat us in the arena of ideas.
They cannot get into the arena and debate liberalism versus our conservatism and win.
Their whole modus operandi is to discredit people who are conservative and on the right, so that they do not have the influence that they have had or do have, because it is changing minds and changing hearts in this country.
It is a panic and fear-oriented operation, just as is most of the left's uh uh ginned up activist group uh uh organization today.
They're rooted in fear, they're the cornered vermin, the cornered rats, and they they're they're find themselves swirling down into the abyss, they don't know how to get out except to attack the people they think responsible for their plunge and their fall.
And so when you put all this together, you have a you have a group, the Democratic Party and its liberal hacks, who are basically out there just laying in wait to try to do hatchet jobs on political opponents, and yet they can get away with saying whatever it is they want.
Bull Connor is George Bush.
And I can give you countless other examples of uh that that we uh can cite here if you want them that never get reported, never get reacted to, never is any outrage recorded about these things.
In fact, it's just the uh opposite.
Anyway, I'm a little long here.
I've got to take a break, but we'll come back, we'll get into the specifics of what Bill Bell something like Bruce Babbitt.
Well, Bill Bennett said right after this, folks, don't go away.
All right, I sometimes I assume everybody knows what I'm talking about, uh, and uh I should know that they don't, many of you don't know anything until you hear it from me.
So uh let me play what this whole thing is about.
I'm gonna play.
We have a soundbite from Bill Bennett's uh morning radio show on Tuesday, uh, which is how long it took this to Germany.
Now, this is another point.
Here we are Friday.
This thing blew up yesterday, it happened on Tuesday.
Which means that the people that heard it originally thought it's no big deal.
What?
Well, yeah, I know it's not it it it it uh it happened on Tuesday morning.
The uh proverbial excrement didn't hit the fan all yesterday.
Now, what does it tell you?
It tells you that the people that heard it had no problem with it.
But what happened?
This Democrat hack website, which has become a source authority for the liberal media, puts an out of context, incomplete version of what Bennett said.
And of course, this place is required reading of the staff of Senator Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy and the mainstream press.
Oh, look, look, look what Bennett said the other day.
Look, bam, here come their statements.
And then of course the media says, whoa, what do you think about what Bennett blah, blah, blah.
Then you go get Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Can't we talk about racism?
You want to have racism?
How about some of the things said by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton over the years?
But you see, they can get away with it, folks, because they are in the civil rights movement and they are part of life's victims, even though the Reverend Jackson is wealthy beyond his wildest dreams and beyond our probably uh our probable uh uh knowledge to ever know it, can get away with whatever he wants to say, because the politically correct movement does not impinge or punish the left for displaying dishonesty.
Political correctness only punishes people for saying honest things about the left.
That's what you can't do.
If you want to think about political correctness is nothing more, folks, than an obstacle to the truth set in the path of truth by the left for the express purpose of having them not have to deal with it, and to be able to punish those who violate the tenets of political correctness.
This asinine, stupid, idiotic NCAA with their stupid, asinine, idiotic, worthless directive on what nicknames member universities can call their sports teams.
That's political correctness.
And it's run amok.
And it's all based on it's no different than these people that wear a red ribbon for AIDS or a blue ribbon for whatever the hell it stands for, and a yellow ribbon for whatever that's I care more than you.
I'm wearing this ribbon, and you're not.
You're cold-hearted and cruel, but look at me.
I am sentiment compassionate.
I care.
So here come these Nimrods at the NCAA with their stupid, worthless.
These are institutions of higher learning, and what are they spending their time on?
Whether or not a team can call itself the Seminoles.
All because we're better people than you.
We understand the plight of the Native American.
We know that this was once a great pristine land, but white Europeans destroyed it and took from the Native Americans what was their birthrights.
All bunch of it's all rooted in this country is unfair.
And the victims of the powerful are gonna rise up from the ashes once again and take over someday by sticking it to life's winners, chosen unfairly and arbitrarily by America's capitalist system.
Now that's what we're dealing with here.
The truth is a relative thing to the left.
And it's and they've set they've got this mechanism set up now where they can go out and exact punishment and pain if you violate uh their proscription on telling the truth around them where they can hear it.
This happens on Tuesday, and nobody reacted to it till Thursday.
This is what it was.
Assuming they're all productive citizens?
Assuming that they are.
Even if only a portion of them were, they would it would be an enormous amount of revenue.
Maybe.
Uh maybe, but we don't know what the cost would be too.
I think as abortion disproportionately uh occur among single women.
Uh you know, I don't know the exact statistics, but uh quite a bit are, yes.
All right.
Well, I I I mean, I just don't know.
I don't I I uh I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know.
I mean, uh it cuts both you know, one of the one of the arguments in this book, Free Comics that they make is that the declining crime rate.
You know, this they deal with this hypothesis that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up.
Well, I I don't think that statistic is accurate.
Well, I don't think it is either.
I don't think it is either because first of all, I think there's just too much that you don't that you don't know.
But I I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.
Stop the tape.
That last sentence is what appeared.
From this whole call, that last sentence is what appeared.
Have you heard to this point Bill Clinton Bill uh advocating this?
He's been he's been disputing this whole theory set forth in a book called Freakonomics.
He's been he's been disputing it.
He's been saying it's tricky, you don't go there.
This is crazy, yeah, you could do this.
We don't this is not the way we're gonna deal with abortion.
But what he says after this is even better.
And it also wasn't reported.
And uh I'll have to get to that after the break.
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All right, now you just heard me play the whole Bill Bennett sound bite, and you uh uh I'm gonna play for you again what was reported that he said.
The whole bite, the whole transcript, you had to dig for it.
But the way that this uh this this hack little uh website works is to take a comment like this, take it out of context, put it up there, the mainstream media rather than listen to Bill Bennett or me or any of us.
I mean, our you know, you don't need a secret password to listen to this program.
You need a radio, you turn it on, t turn to the station in your town that carries it, and bamboo, there it is.
It's all you have to do.
They don't do that.
They go to this wacko hack George Soros funded website to get the version of what was said on the Bennett Show or this show or anything else, and then they go to town with it.
And it's it's an operation set up to do just this because they're paranoid and scared to death of the triumph of the new media over the old media and the destruction of their monopoly.
And rather than get in the in the in the pit here and have it out with us issue by issue, story by story, they try to discredit and destroy the reputations of those who happen to be kicking their ass from one end of this country to the other.
And that's where they are continuing to work, and that's where they fail.
Because we're not gonna let each other hang out to dry on something like this.
So what started all this was a call from some guy in Sarasota, Florida, who said to Bennett, I noticed the national media they talk a lot about the loss of revenue, the inability of the government to fund Social Security.
And I was curious, and I've read some articles in recent months here that you know the abortions that have happened since Roe v.
Wade, the lost revenue for the people who've been aborted during that 30-something years.
You know, you could fund Social Security as we know it today.
This is an argument that it's been written about.
There's a book, Freakonomics about this very subject.
Uh, you know, what would federal tax receipts be if those people had not been aborted and were now alive and working and paying taxes and producing income and all that.
That's the argument.
And Bennett is telling this guy that, you know, let's not argue for abortion on a basis of money.
Let's talk about it in terms of morality.
We're talking about life here.
And we don't want to get sidetracked by saying, yeah, we need to end abortion because it'll get more money in the federal government.
This is what he was saying.
And then this is the bite.
He's trying to make a point to this caller.
If you want to talk about it this way, here's a point you could make.
And this is what was stated.
Now, Mike, I want you to stop it once again, right after he says your crime rate would go down.
We just have a couple quick little lines, and this is what this fire storm is all about.
But I I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.
Stop the tape.
Bam.
Now, if you just hear that.
Oh, gee, what in the world got in?
What's he saying here?
Why what what what what in the world?
Doesn't he know that this is gonna be taken out?
Doesn't he know people aren't gonna understand?
Does he know that he's setting himself up here?
Listen to what he said next.
That was not reported.
That would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do.
But your crime rate would go down.
So these far out, these far-reaching, you know, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.
He's just saying, let's not get sidetracked on debating abortion on whether it'll do this for the economy or that for the crime rate or what it's silly.
It's a matter of morality in life.
Folks, what he said should have been applauded.
What he said should reverberate.
He's he's we just had a story.
I mentioned it yesterday.
An abortion doctor in Little Rock is urging evacuees from Hurricane Katrina to come get their abortions now.
He will do it free.
Who are the evacuees from Hurricane Katrina?
Well, according to the media and the pictures we've seen, they're all poor blacks.
So we've got an abortion doctor in Little Rock advocating, asking, promoting, suggesting, inviting Katrina evacuees to come have their abortions now free, be easier than to wait for the third trimester.
I told you about this story yesterday, and I said, you know what, there's a word to describe this.
It's called racism.
It's racism.
This guy, this abortion doctor in Arkansas is the man who actually said what the left wants you to think Bill Bennett said.
This abortion doctor is actually doing it.
This guy put out a call.
You black ladies, you black women who are pregnant who evacuated Katrina, come to my office in Arkansas and I will abort your baby.
That, my friends, is racism.
That is somebody actually doing what these guys are claiming Bill Bennett advocated.
Now, what's gonna happen, and I did this on purpose, because I want you to all watch for this.
What I just said, Bill Bennett should be applauded.
That will be the quote from me on this site sometime later today or tomorrow or next week.
And they will come after me.
And I did this on purpose to illustrate how this happens.
You have heard everything I've said.
There will be a full transcript of what I've just said on my website.
They will not read my website.
They will not listen to this program.
They'll take whatever this little website that Soros funds, however they take what I just said out of context, put it on this website, and the next thing you know, CNN's gonna be interviewing Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and the rest of these guys are gonna be demanding that uh that I be canned, fired.
Whatever, even though I can't be, they're gonna demand it somehow, but they and and and you watch.
I said Bill Bennett should be applauded.
Yep, he should be applauded for the whole context of his remarks.
He is trying to tell people here that abortion is a moral thing, and all these tricks that we're gonna come up with to try to beat the abortion battle on economics and numbers and crime miss the point.
Now you've all heard me say this, but you also heard me sneak in there, Bill Bennett should be applauded.
Let's see how this gets.
You think I'm right about this, Mr. Snerdley?
Snerdley says he knows I'm right.
So let's let's just see.
This happened to me once before.
Can you bel this this site actually quoted me as saying that Cindy Sheehan lied about having a son?
And Cindy Sheehan lied, uh they reported that I lied when I said Cindy Sheehan didn't have a son and he didn't have a son and died in Iraq.
And this ends up all over cable TV for a couple days.
Does Limbaugh really believe this is something happened to Limbaugh's mind?
Well, he didn't say it.
If you take it out of context, if you take it out of context and add a couple twists to it, you can make some people who didn't hear it think that it was said.
Same thing here with what's happening to Bennett.
That's the larger thing that's taking place here.
The left cannot deal with us honestly.
They refuse to deal with us honestly.
They don't have the guts.
They don't have the mental prowess anymore.
They don't have the power whatsoever to deal with us honestly, and so it's all about mischaracterization.
Now, I also said something else recently.
I've said that if you are a liberal, you look at a Republican and a conservative, and by just by virtue of that alone, you're dealing with a racist, a sexist, a bigot, and a homophobe.
Whether this person is known to be one or not, that's the template.
That is the cliche of a conservative.
Let me establish for you that this is true.
I have two audio sound bites here from MSNBC this morning.
Allison Stewart was talking to the Boston Globe's Thomas Olifant, who is the husband of CBS news reporter Susan Spencer.
And Allison Stewart says Bill Bennett's comments, especially in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, where emotions about race are so raw already, Mr. Oliphant.
What do you think?
When you see the line crossed, you realize that somewhere in the back of somebody's mind is the kind of thinking or animus uh that keeps picking at this scab.
And what Bennett had an opportunity to do the instant he said those words was stop and say, Oh my God, what have I done?
Uh take that back.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean it.
But instead, uh it's gotten worse in the hours since he said it.
Uh, and because of his prominence, I mean, it's not just a uh uh a gotcha story about Bill Bennett.
Uh he's managed to do something that has j actually picked at this scab.
Mr. Olifant, you would have never known about this were it not for a hack website picking it up and taking it out of context.
But that's not not the point.
Look at this.
When you see the line crossed, you realize that somewhere in the back of somebody's mind is the kind of thinking or animus that keeps picking at this scab.
Okay, so when somebody says something like this, you realize what's in the back of their mind.
You know what they're thinking.
You know what's in their mind.
It fits the template.
All Republicans deep down are racist, sexists, bigot homophobes.
After having said all of that then, Allison Stewart says, and he is such a contradiction, obviously a well-educated man.
Williams College, University of Texas, Harvard Law School, education secretary, yet he is also a person who has a shall we say gambling hobby, and who wrote a book on morality.
And listen now, Oliphant, you just heard what Olifant said.
We know what's in his head.
We know what's in his mind.
He's picking at the scab.
Then listen to this.
Maybe if he had a little time today, what uh Bennett could do is go to a hospital and have one of the some buzzer implanted in him that would go off every time he started to go down the wrong road.
I have no doubt that the guy has absolutely no racial animus.
I have no doubt that he really didn't mean to do this.
Really?
You have no doubt, then what the hell is all that crap before you said this?
He's picking at the scab, you know what's in the back of his mind.
I'll tell you one thing I'm fed up with is the superior attitude of these little linguini-spined liberals who think they define morality and immorality, and they sit in judgment.
They are n they are never guilty of these things themselves.
They are clean and pure as the wind driven snow, they are elitists, they're smarter than everybody else in the room, and they get to sit there and decide what's normal, abnormal, who's superior, and who is not.
And what's Thomas Oliphant ever done?
But be in cahoots with the Clinton White House once.
What's Oliphant ever done?
He writes a column of the Boston Globe.
Whippy, youppy, big deal.
So what's what's the deal about him getting to define what's in somebody else's mind and then and then cast judgment on it?
Same thing with Teddy Kennedy.
We're gonna listen to Ted Kennedy talk about morality.
Nobody's gonna put up with that, but nobody has to put up with that.
So, my friends, you have here uh uh classic illustration of exactly what has been going on that nobody talks about for I don't know how long.
And I'm sit I'm sick and tired of dealing with it on the on a straight intellectual basis.
It's time to expose these people for what they are, what they're doing, and how they do it.
Yeah, I know Mr. Snerdley just sent me a note.
Uh the the the the White House bought into this smear, and I I that infuriates me.
I I don't know why.
What You know, here's here's what the White House could have said.
This is what the White House should have said.
It's very simple.
The president knows Bill Bennett, considers him an upstanding American.
His statements were taken out of context by people who are trying to use them for partisan political purposes.
That's the kind of thing that you would have gotten from the Reagan administration.
You just had the president of the United States called Bull Connor by Charles Wrangle.
The whole Democratic Party applauds and sidles up and supports it and demands more.
We've had some of the most outrageous, racist, spiteful, hateful things said by Julian Bond, Al Sharpton, and a number of other liberals over the course of the years about George W. Bush and about conservatives, and there's never a call on them to defend it and explain it.
In fact, when they uh are asked to explain it, they um they amplify.
And of course, take a look now at Bill Cosby.
Bill Cosby can't even tell the truth anymore.
Used to be one of the celebrated members of that group, but he can't tell the truth anymore.
They're after him.
You don't tear-tell the truth, folks.
You just don't do it.
You don't tell the truth that liberals don't want to hear.
You will pay the price.
We'll take a break and be back.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, Open Line Friday.
Let's go to the phones.
Hugh in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Yes.
My concern really is with regards to Mr. Bennett's comment, the first part of it that makes an assumption that uh blacks are predominantly responsible for most of the crime, and I believe there probably is some statistical evidence that, you know, could probably back it up and stuff, but I think that's probably what a lot of people are reacting to.
I know that's where my concerns with that comment.
Um, I have no doubt people are uh are reacting to that.
Uh but see the the You know what, if if I were Bill Bennett, and and I had said that and somebody said, How do you defend yourself?
Well, I don't know.
Uh this is where the political correctness comes in.
And he says, I don't know if I shouldn't, I don't know, I don't know if I can say this.
Why can't you say it?
Well, because it may be true.
And uh I'm gonna catch hell if I say it because it's true.
What do you mean it may be true?
Well, I've heard Jesse Jackson.
Jesse Jackson complains about all the black men in jail in America.
I've heard Al Sharpton complaining about all these black men in America who are in jail.
Uh and and it's unfair and unjust and unright.
Now uh I disagreeing.
If is Bennett disagreeing with Jesse Jackson when he said what he said?
If you look at the crime statistics, what are they?
I'm I'm not gonna voy I I'm I'm not even gonna go there.
Just you if you care, go look at the crime statistics.
I mean, we th this has been a major, major, major bone of contention from the civil rights movement for I don't know how long that the criminal justice system is unfair because there are so many uh young African American males in jail.
I'm not saying it.
They are.
Go look at the numbers.
I don't know what they are, find them.
As a see, we've gotten to a point here where it i i i if there's statistical evidence even that might buttress the comment.
You can't say it.
Why?
Well, it upsets people.
Why?
Well, it offends them.
Why?
Well, you know, they've already got two strikes against them because they live in America and they're a minority group, and then they have to denigrate them like this.
I mean, uh, okay.
Uh I'm just gonna repeat something else I said as Hurricane Katrina aftermath coverage, folks.
I uh I'm getting sick and tired of of people like me and Bennett being tagged with his racism bunch.
I know Bennett.
Bennett's afraid, he's not racist.
Bill Bennett doesn't have a racist bone in his body, doesn't have a racist thought in his mind, neither do I. But I'll tell you what, you go watch the coverage of Hurricane Katrina the aftermath and all these lying reports based on rumors.
Of all the crime.
Folks, do you remember it?
The crime, the rapes.
The dead bodies piled high in the basement of the superdome.
Who was doing it?
If these reports were true, well, who lived there?
Who were the victims?
We saw the pictures.
Who believed that stuff?
It turns out none of that was true.
It turns out There weren't any rapes, there weren't mass murders, there wasn't anarchy inside the Superdome or the Convention Center.
All of that was 100% drivel.
It was lies based on rumors.
They wanted it to be true so they could blame it on Bush.
But who believed it?
The very people who claim they're not racists.
It seems to me if you're gonna believe rumors that that kind of activity is going on, being created by that population, you gotta have a certain opinion of blacks in your mind.
Liberal media.
That's how I interpret.
I'm not gonna go on the defensive about this, folks, because if there's anybody that needs to justify or explain their racist tendencies, it's the American left in this country.
Back in just a second.
Hey, folks, you know, you can get all upset over what you think Bill Bennett said.
How come nobody is ever upset at the people who are actually doing it?
Hmm.
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