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May 7, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, I've been under the impression for the last four or five years, maybe even six, that uh George W. Bush ruined our international image.
Uh George George W. Bush ruined our international reputation.
Well, that's what I but but if you if you look at the new president France, you gotta wonder what reputation of ours is so bad when the new president of France wants to be our best buddy.
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You know, this election in France, uh, not good news for Mrs. Clinton.
They've they've done uh sort of a preliminary analysis of the votes over there.
Forty-eight percent of French women voted against the female candidate.
Forty-eight percent.
Now, the Mrs. Bill Clinton camp, Clinton Inc.
cannot be looking at this and smiling.
But here's another thing about this, folks.
George W. Bush has said for the longest time that we, the United States of America, could spread democracy around the world.
Of course, everybody on the left mocked it.
Democracy!
Freedom!
Why, that's not for everybody.
That's not what our mission is.
The drive-by media mocked President Bush.
The tenured academics mocked President Bush.
But who's laughing now?
I mean, there was the most ridiculous story in the New York Times over the weekend about the state dinner at the White House tonight, 134 people gonna be in there, and it's white tie entails.
And the New York Times does this story, basically implying that Bush doesn't know what white tie and tails are, hates them, uh, that the White House doesn't know how to host one of these white tie dinners and having to run around and get all these tips on how to do it because they're just a bunch of idiot Neanderthals.
I'm telling you, uh uh countless times that is a town dominated by the social circuit as much as the political and news circuit.
And people, I don't think realize the full import of what I'm saying here, but this New York Times story sort of illustrates that.
What a doofus!
What a d- I just saw videotape of the uh of the president and the Queen at a previous state.
There he is in uh White Tie.
Uh and they're acting like this is so foreign to everybody in the White House, they're having to go out to, you know, call Miss Manners, Emily Post or whatever, find out what to do.
Uh and and of course, that's that's the action line.
We have an idiot in the White House, we have uh we have a hayseed, we've got a we got a partier, a frat boy, and this sort of thing, who just somehow manages to outsmart these people all the time.
Uh but uh nevertheless, among the things he said was that we could spread democracy around the world.
Who's laughing now?
All these people said it's not possible.
Liberty, freedom, individuality, democracy took big steps forward yesterday.
It's not quite the Middle East here yet.
I mean, but France on its way to maybe becoming the Middle East, uh, or it was, uh anyway.
But if the tyranny of socialism can be voted down in France, can the tyranny of socialism be defeated in the United States in a year and a half?
Well, it's it's uh it's an interesting question.
If socialism can be voted down in France, can America be far behind?
I mean, we are the cradle of democracy.
Uh France was the cradle of socialism.
So now where do these actors threaten to go?
You know, uh where's Streisand gonna go when uh when Republicans win the next election?
Where's Alec Baldwin gonna go?
They always threaten, they always threaten to go to France.
Maybe it's time to go to Syria.
Maybe maybe it's time they can't go to well, they're gonna have a big labor party guy take over for Tony Blair, but that's that's no party change.
Labor's the libs in in the U.K. But where could where are they gonna go now?
Um, you know, Johnny Depp actually lives there in France.
I wonder if this is a crisis.
The socialists lost in France, and not only have they lost, there's a story here about how they have imploded.
Uh and and, you know, here it is.
Uh, this is from the Australian French left implodes after defeat.
The French left began imploding as soon as the official results showing Segaline Royale's resounding defeat were released yesterday.
The socialists sank into an abyss of bitter public recriminations and soul searching about their failure to modernize and uh and unite France.
Uh and you know, this this uh 85% turnout.
I wonder if part of that is because they vote on weekends over there.
Uh it uh it probably is.
But this this cannot be a good day for uh Jean-Francois Carey, who served a Vietnam, cannot be a good day for Henri Reed, cannot be a good day for Nicole Pelosi, uh, and especially uh for Madame Clinton.
Uh might be able to put her in the wax museum as a human being today, and everybody think it's wax.
And uh well, she didn't predict him, she was calling for them.
She was calling for riots if she well, she predicted them, but I mean the p the boy, she was calling for riots.
Uh and and and some of these little socialists over there, duty pound uh followed through.
Well, it wasn't a whole lot, but uh they uh they still did.
But here's here's here's let me give you what the drive-by media template is uh is gonna be.
Does a woman's defeat in France spell a woman's defeat in America?
Or, and this is the more likely of the two, a woman's defeat in France has nothing to do with a woman's electability in the United States.
No, no, no, nothing whatsoever.
You can't draw those inferences, Americans.
You can't draw those conclusions.
Uh there's there's not much um uh comparison between Ms. Royale and Mrs. Clinton.
There's no way that Segaline, that's your first name, uh uh uh there's just no way she can't be as smart as Mrs. Clinton, who is.
So they got a lot of things they can fall back.
Well, she was an idiot.
Uh she just wasn't smart.
And you know, Mrs. She wanted to meet with Mrs. Clinton during the campaign.
She wanted to come over here and have a photo-op session with Mrs. Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton refused.
Mrs. Clinton refused to have a photo-op uh meeting and meet and greet, tea, whatever they do.
Uh, probably because she knew uh this is not be a good comparison.
Mrs. Bill Clinton, uh see, Segaline Royal, by the way, a Royale.
You have to understand, only played the female card late in the game.
She was she was running full-fledged policy, socialism and so forth.
It was only when the late late polls showed that she was in big doo-doo that she that she threw the female card on the table.
And uh, well, yeah, I think the message did get out, HR, when 85% of the voters show up.
Uh I think I think the message got country's falling apart socially.
They got a 35-hour work week.
This guy, this new president Sarkozy says, uh, we we're gonna re-establish a relationship with America.
America is going to be one of our best friends.
Of course, socialists are having a fit over there.
And I tell you, let me give you a little interesting sidebar here, because the socialists are imploding there.
There was a story over the week, I think it was yesterday morning in the New York Times.
Moveon.org and a number of other groups are so livid at the Democrats in the House and Senate for backing off on this troop withdrawal date and not really that they are tugging.
I mean, it's it's like it it's like the moveon.org and these anti-war groups on the internet have a leash around a Democrat leadership.
They start tugging on a leash yesterday.
And made it clear, and these people are responding to them.
Uh and so you've got similar patterns of behavior.
The socialists in France and the Libs here in this country uh behaving in the same way in terms of trying to uh intimidate uh their uh their own their own leadership.
And anyway, I gotta take a quick time out here, uh, folks.
But um, you know, by the way, one one thing you need to know about this, this Sarkozy guy uh is the first mainstream French politician to openly identify himself as a candidate of the right.
Uh long time.
Uh now there they had this uh uh Le Pine guy who was concerned, but he wasn't mainstream.
But uh this is the first conservative uh mainstream conservative who so identified himself uh since the 70s French presidents have tried to mobilize the center, but Sarkozy did it by mobilizing the right.
Uh and uh as is made no bones about about why he thinks that he won uh by courting that group of people.
Here's the story on women voters shun Royale.
Uh she played what she hoped was her Trump card in the last hours of the battle for the French presidency, her femininity.
It emerged that Royale was being let down at the ballot box, not by centrists, not by socialists or any other political block, but by the one sector of the electorate that might have been expected to rally to her cause in droves.
Women.
She may have been misled by an L magazine opinion poll.
Whoa, don't misled by a poll.
Hubba Hubba.
Misled by a poll, says here she may have been misled by an L magazine opinion poll in January that suggested France was a haven of sisterly solidarity, and put her comfortably ahead among women.
This seemed to vindicate her approach of appealing for votes not as a woman, but as the best qualified candidate to replace Chirac.
But later on, when that was a working out last month, she changed tack, launching direct appeals to women voters.
By then it was too late.
In the first round of voting on April 22nd, more women voted for Sarkozy than her, 32 to 28, uh, which was so much for what the pundits had been calling the uh the gender effect.
Uh this is classic great display of exactly how conventional wisdom, drive-by media, conventional wisdom, and so forth just sometimes goes down the tubes, and an often more often than not, you can count on it to go down the tubes.
There was a poll, I saw this over the weekend, and I I will admit to being surprised at this, I shouldn't have been.
It's a Rasmussen poll.
Democrats in America, this is not voters, likely voters, registered voters, this is a survey that represents all of America.
Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9-11 terrorist attacks in advance.
35% of Democrats believe he did know.
39% say he didn't, and 26% aren't sure.
35% of Democrats think that Bush knew.
Well, who in the world's been saying this?
Who in the world has been getting that?
Why in the world?
Hello, Bill Maher, perhaps.
Hello, Rosie O'Donnell, hello, any number of these kook blog websites.
But this can only happen if uh if there's a sufficient foundation of effervescent boiling rage among these people in the first place.
I don't care about the why.
I really don't care.
The fact that 35% of this country's Democrats think that there was a government conspiracy about this and allowed these attacks to happen.
Does that not give you an indication of j- I mean these it it's no longer uh funny to call them kooks and freaks and so forth.
This this is they are deranged, dangerously uninformed, misinformed, or what have you.
This is a um I don't know.
I uh it it it to me, this is it's just a it's a uh shocking, shocking thing.
That I mean, there have been conspiracy theories ever since there've been humanity, but no conspiracy theories ever had this kind of belief among so-called mainstream people, which I guess that's it.
We've just we've just learned they're not mainstream.
The Democrat Party is not mainstream, it is literally a bunch of deranged, delusional radicals.
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Drive-by media shocked and dismayed by the French elections.
By the way, I think I made a slight boo-boo.
I think 48% of the female vote went for Segalin Royale.
52% of the female vote went against her.
I think that's the right one.
I'm a little confused, I'll double check it.
Regardless, whichever it is, it's a stunner.
And the drive bys are shocked and dismayed.
Uh, we have a montage here of ABC News David Wright, who is over in Paris covering the elections.
This is from Good Morning America today.
Chris Cuomo talking to him and said France is elected a new president.
Nicolas Sarkozy, pledging to be good friend to the United States.
That said, not everyone in France is happy about the voters spoke.
The rioters responded.
Shortly after conservative Nicholas Sarkozy was declared the winner, angry protesters took to the streets.
Young protesters hurled rocks at the riot cops who shot back with tear gas.
Nationwide, nearly 400 cars went up in flames.
The conservative Sarkozy wants to clear out the welfare roles and put France back to work.
His socialist rival Segalin Royale called those policies brutal, warning that if Sarkozy won, protesters would take to the streets.
Are you hearing across the country they did?
A four tenth of what may be to come.
Sarkozy is the most pro-American French politician to come along in a good many years, so much so that his opponents tried to call him an American with a French passport.
In his victory speech, he took the time out to say that America could count on his friendship.
You guys in the drive-by's can say whatever you want, but the guy won and he won handily with 85% of the vote turnout.
Now, you know, the drive-by's every time this happens when socialists loses, and but is it not, by the way, instructive to note how Democrats and liberals react when socialists lose or when communists are tossed out of power?
Is that not enough to tell I wonder all the time, is that not enough to tell the American people who these people are?
American Democrats and liberals.
And how about how about this?
Like can you imagine this being controversial?
I mean, it isn't France or was, but you can pretty, you know, conservatism, if articulated properly, will win uh in most free societies every time it's tried.
This line got me.
The conservative Sarkozy wants to clear out the welfare roles and put France back to work.
His socialist rival, Segalin Royale, called those policies brutal.
Work?
Clearing out welfare roles?
There's a 35-hour work week.
You can't fire anybody in that country.
They're paralyzed.
They've got an immigration problem.
They're losing some of their native culture.
And apparently, you see, there has been a lot of unrest in this country about the direction the country's going long before this election came up, it's just that nobody heard about it because the drive-bys don't report it.
It's not as though the place were a model of socialism for the left, but as long as they had a president that hated Bush and didn't want to get involved in the Iraq War, didn't want to get involved in the war on terror.
Well, they were great.
They were fabulous.
Meanwhile, the people of that country are really suffering, and this guy wins on this platform of, you know, relaxing this 35-day work week.
Let's talk productivity here.
He knows uh he knows what's happening, and I, uh, you know, you just have to, you have to marvel here at at why was this a surprise to any of it?
It's a surprise because of what is reported day in and day out, not by the drive-bys in this country, not just by them, but by the international drive-by media.
If there were honest polling going on over there, and if there were honest reporting about the state of the culture and society, but this would not have been a surprise.
But it's a surprise, and it's a um disappointment.
Now, about this Rasmussen poll.
35% of Democrats, 35% think that Bush knew about 9-11 before it happened, which has to mean that Bush let it happen, which has to mean Bush wanted it to happen, which had to mean could mean that Bush was behind it happening.
Thirty-five percent of Democrats radicals and deranged.
Thirty-five percent of Democrats translates to 17% of Americans, if you do the math, assuming that, you know, 80% of the country's Republican or Democrat evenly split 20% the great, great moderate uh independent uh line.
It roughly comes out to 17% of Americans or almost one in five.
Think that.
I'll tell you, if i if if if uh if I've run the numbers right on this, instead of focusing on President Bush, do you think it might be better to focus on our schools and on our media?
Do you think these people just woke up being this radical?
Do you think that a week after 9 11 you would have gotten 35% of Democrats who thought that Bush knew about 9-11 before it happened?
And obviously let it happen.
Do you think 35% you think 35% of any group would have said that?
10%.
Uh clearly this is a mindset that's that had its foundation, as I say, these people already have their and why did they have the rage and hatred?
Florida 2000.
And then it got stoked and fueled by never-ending drive-by media reports about Bush.
I'll tell you, that that's where we need to start examining, not the president.
We need to start examining the media, the schools, institutions of higher learning, because that's who's poisoning these people's minds.
I mean, they might have had a little poison to start with, but it's certainly grown.
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Todd in uh in Greenfield, Ohio.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you very much.
How are you today?
Fine and dandy.
Never uh better, actually.
Great.
Hey, I've got a question about the whole French election, American election thing.
I really don't see the connection after all that they've done to us and while we were in Iraq and the things that uh led up to that.
Why would we care?
Why would any woman in America care whether or not a woman got elected in France?
Well, it doesn't uh it it may not have any impact.
I mean, I and and there there's uh it's gonna be hard to say until our election happens, but there are lessons to learn from it, uh, and that there are clear indications to learn from it.
We have been told, and you look here here the thing, Todd, that you gotta keep in mind always, folks.
I'm gonna keep drilling this until it becomes automatic with you.
You must keep the context of this in mind.
Now, if on any normal day, the elections in France probably wouldn't mean all that much, although the elections of Margaret Thatcher did.
But the reason that it's interesting to me anyway is because we have been told, and Todd, you're among us, the we who have been told that the French hate our guts, and that all of Europe hates our guts, and that Bush has ruined our international image and reputation, and we need to elect Democrats here.
France's version of socialists, in order to repair our image.
And lo and behold, here comes this election, and everybody is stunned.
The first thing this guy says is he wants people to know that France is going to be America's friend again.
No, this and this guy won big with 85% of the vote turnout.
So what it tells me is that what we've been told about the French uh is is largely incorrect.
Uh and when you put in the put that in the context of everything else we get from the drive-by media these days, being largely incorrect, uh, that I think there are things to learn from this.
I've always said, as as a theory, that conservatism, properly explained and inspirationally uh uh delivered will win every time it's tried in in in national type elections in this country.
Of course, there are hotbeds and pockets of liberalism where it doesn't have a prayer, but in a national election, and there's evidence for this.
There's Ronald Reagan.
Uh there's uh uh you've got senatorial races.
You could even say that Bush's first term election was was uh was that because he had everybody convinced uh that he was Reagan-esque and conservative.
And look at what these Republican nominees are doing now.
They're all trying to say I'm the new Reagan.
None of them are, including Fred Thompson, but they're all trying to say so.
Now, as I have said, you know, I've always recommended that uh uh that the Republicans, the GOP, not start pandering and tailoring the moderates and the left in order to build a majority, but go ahead and run as conservatives, do it proudly, do it forcefully.
Run with the power of conservative ideas, draw people to the Republican Party.
And that seems what Sarkozy did to me.
And we thought it wasn't possible.
And I'll guarantee you, in this country right now, there are a lot of people think it's not possible Republicans can win.
The media's already, you know, as far as the media is concerned, the the race here is on the Democrat side.
The primary is it.
That's the only race.
And after that, it's just a foregone conclusion.
A Democrat, whoever wins the nomination, is going to be the next president.
And I'm sure that's the way it was reported in France, too.
Until the election happened and everything went haywire and the runoff then came.
But what we've got now, and you know, that happens too um too often in this country as far as I'm concerned, is Republicans tend to go off the reservation, go off the conservative reservation, and start trying to sound like moderates here and liberals here with this social issue or that social issue, and they try to peel off some of the Democrats and some of the uh some of the liberals in this country.
That's not the way to do it.
That's not conservatism can win by itself.
Most people live their lives in a conservative fashion.
Some of them that do so may not vote that way, but that's how people live their lives.
Um I mean, you don't get your paycheck and walk through the neighborhood giving it away, but you elect people to do it for you.
And that's what I mean.
You don't live, you'll vote that way, but you know, and and you you certainly uh, you know, don't sit around and and uh do a number of other things that government, liberal government will do for you, even though you might vote because it makes you feel good, they think you're helping other people and and this sort of thing.
I'm you know, his this Sarkozy guy, he was they he got the same treatment Republicans here get.
He's mean spirited, he's cruel, his ideas are cruel, just like the drive-by report from Good Morning America today.
Uh putting France back to work and cleaning up the welfare rolls was considered cruel, and then Segaline Royal said that that we need riots for that.
And yet he wins.
So there are some instructive things here for Republican candidates uh to uh to learn as far as campaigning is concerned.
Now, uh more drive-by media audio sound bites.
This Saturday night in Annapolis, Maryland, uh there was a panel discussion called winning the 2008 election, and uh Joe Klein, who's a columnist for Time Magazine, um had a got a question from an audience member.
Uh, audience members said there's a tendency in the media to balance the coverage, and they always seem to offer Republican explanation with equal weight to someone who is performing oversight on the Democrat side.
Do you think there's a different role the press could play in reporting the oversight and not talking about it in terms of political aspirations?
I am really getting sick and tired of people bashing the press all the time.
At this point, we're pretty well battered, and uh we're losing advertising revenue, and unless we can actually have the revenue to go out there and the credibility to report these issues, all of these right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, who are parasites on our reporting, are gonna have nothing to do except sit home, twiddle their thumbs, and opine about things that they have no data for.
In general, yes, we make mistakes.
Yes, we you know, we're not perfect.
If you want to complain about the press, complain about the public.
Whoa, ho, ho ho, ho, what a mouthful, and have I not told you everything he said in terms of how that is the way they think.
He just said, he just blamed me and their own his own customers, the public.
You know, the media, the news media is the one business I know of where the customer is always wrong.
Always where customer complains and a drive-by-well, you're too stupid to understand what we're doing.
And we're not gonna listen to you.
We are experts.
We are editors, we are trained journalists, and you don't know what we do, and you haven't the slightest idea, and you're gonna take what we give you, whether you like it or not, and they're not taking it anymore.
Circulation is down, viewership is down in some of these networks, particularly newspapers and magazines, and are losing ad revenue.
The monopoly's gone, and he knows why.
The monopoly is gone because there's an alternative media that sees things with a far wider panorama than those in the drive-by media see things.
It's amazing how narrow their vision is.
It is amazing the things they don't see that's right around, and yet they tell us they are the most informed, they're the most educated, they're they do all the work finding out what we don't know and then telling us about it.
But man, if it doesn't fit their narrow little vision of what they want the country and the world to be, it doesn't even get in to their minds.
They don't even have a chance to process it.
So now they're starting to get panicky here about losing revenue.
And he says if they lose the revenue, then we're not gonna have the money to send a reporters out there to do all this great work that we reporters do.
And then the element slam calls me a parasite.
But I sit around if it what he's saying by that, or with that is that if it weren't for the great work that Joe Klein and others are doing, I'd have nothing to talk about.
That I wouldn't know anything.
And I can go and sit in home and twiddle my thumbs, and all I have to do is come in here and react to what they do every day, and that that's that's my show.
And of course, that's what they think.
They don't listen.
You do, and uh you of course know the difference.
Now, I'm gonna take a break here, but to illustrate the narrow vision and the literal ignorance that is proudly displayed by media people, proudly displayed, literal ignorance, the uninformed ignorance of drive-by media types.
In my adopted hometown of Sacramento, California today.
The uh the CBS affiliate out there, Channel 13, who I used to I used to do uh little debates with the mayor of Davis on Channel 13 when it was an ABC affiliate.
When I uh when I lived and worked out there.
And I think they just learned over the weekend of the song Barack the Magic Negro.
And they played it a couple times and started doing polls, asking their viewers in Sacramento if they think the song's racist.
And when you hear the report, this has only been going on since March.
And there has not been one shred of controversy about it among the people who listen to this program, and it aired for a month and a half before the drive-bys, the most informed among us, heard about it, and then they hear about it, and they start writing about it as though it's something that it isn't.
They ignore the lyrics, they ignore every bit of information.
These two people you will hear, one's the weather guy.
Well, we got a call, we gotta ask him about it.
It's on my website, weather guy.
Everything I've ever said about it.
You don't need to talk to me.
It's just it's mind-boggling.
So we'll play this little bite before we come back.
Lots still ahead on the EIB network, L. Rushbow back after this.
Stay with us.
Now, seriously, folks, how does Time magazine do a 100 most influential people of the year issue and not put me in the list?
Whether it's good or bad influence as far as they're concerned, I mean, for crying out loud, I'm making so much news for the drive-by media.
From Michael J. Fox to the elections, I'm quoted all the time in terms of what I say about Democrats and Republicans.
So Joe Klein, if anybody's parasites, you people are the ones that are turning into parasites out there.
You could not par you can't do news anymore without doing polls.
At any rate, let's go to Sacramento, my adopted hometown, where they used to love me.
Now they hate me.
At least at the CBS affiliate out there.
This is KO V R T V The Anchors Chris Burris, Lisa Gonzalez, and the weatherman, Jeff James, discussed Barack the Magic Negro.
There is a controversy brewing here this morning.
Likely will be uh hitting fever pitches.
Uh, get that back to the top.
There is no controversy brewing anywhere except on the air of Channel 13 in Sacramento.
And they are creating the controversy.
This is an important point.
We've been playing this parody since March.
It didn't create a ripple in this audience.
There was no controversy.
The votes came in.
People thought it was one of the most creative and funniest they'd ever heard.
Now all of a sudden there's a controversy over.
Well, I wonder why that would it be that these sponges who do not listen to the program obviously found out about this from the Chicago Tribune story yesterday.
That where did they hear about it?
Did they hear about it from Media Matters for America?
Do any of these people actually listen?
When I, if you people haven't done so, you need to go to the website and read the transcript of my uh Rush to Excellence appearance.
And all you drive-by journalists ought to do this too.
Every one of you out there that think you've got something here on Barack the Magic Negro.
I'm gonna try to help you and save you.
You are going to be profoundly embarrassed if you keep going down this tune and going down this path with thinking there's something here that isn't.
All you gotta do, it's called www.rushlimbaugh.com.
It's on the internet.
You hit the is type that in, hit the return key, and bam, my website comes up, and you can find my remarks, uh, the text of the speech, or anything you you want about this song and what I've said, and you would be fully informed before you start making idiots of yourselves on television.
Here's the bite in total.
I'll be tempted to, but I will not interrupt it again.
There is a controversy brewing here this morning.
Likely will be uh hitting fever pitch as we go through the day.
Uh Rush Limbaugh's program for years and years when he was here in Sacramento, and since he's been national as well, has had parodies of people song parodies, a lot of them pretty funny, but there's one out there that he's airing on his show about Barack Obama.
Some are calling racist.
There are groups this morning saying that not only is the song racist, but it's putting Barack Obama at increased danger.
You know, of course, last week we reported that he has uh gotten secret service protection the earliest for any presidential candidate.
Is Rush Limbaugh's Barack?
The magic Negro song racist.
What do you think?
Vote online at CBS13.com.
He's had a lot of parody songs, Lisa and Jeff.
Some funnier and less sensitive than this one.
I want to hear from Rush.
I want to know why they made the song.
Yes, no better.
Once you start to even go near that line, you know, it's never a good idea.
Kind of a timing post-IMUS here, yeah.
Uh a bit much summary thinking.
Wait for Rush.
Exactly.
We'll dial him up.
Uh Limbaugh doesn't make up the songs himself.
This guy named Paul Shankling, he pays him to play them and make them up.
To play them and make them up.
Where do you start with this?
These are people hosting a local news show in Sacramento on a television station, the CBS is what?
What do you want to?
The uh it look it about okay, Snergley's upset because they're trying to blame me now for Obama getting secret service, but they're all going to get Secret Service protection in due course.
Yeah, I'll tell you what, uh if if uh if I were to think about Barack Obama being in any trouble, uh needing secret service, I would look to Clinton Inc.
before I looked at me.
Try that, drive-by media, get that out there.
But where do you go with this?
I mean, this is I hate to bore you people with the whole story again.
They don't even listen to the lyrics of the song.
They uh they it is just mind-boggling to me.
And this this uh this this woman, Lisa Gonzalez, I well, I want to hear from Rush.
I want to know why they made this song.
It's right there in the lyrics, babe.
The lyrics explain the whole thing.
Very briefly.
Late February, early March.
Al Sharpton expresses anger.
He's upset when Joe Biden, a Democrat, Lisa, a Democrat said that Obama was the first clean articulate presidential candidate, and that, of course, nobody got upset at that.
I wonder at pure blatant racism.
Because Joe Biden, another Democrat presidential candidate, said, Finally we got a black guy who can speak and doesn't sound black.
That's what he was saying.
That's what when you say that Obama's articulate, you're saying he doesn't sound black.
That Joe Biden said that, okay, make a note.
And then shortly after that, the New York Post did a story about Sharpton who's upset at Biden and getting a little jealous because Sharpton ran for president four years ago.
And he didn't get that kind of praise.
He didn't get those kind of nobody called him clean and articulate.
He takes bath every day.
And the New York Post had the stories a little jealous about it.
I guess you people in Sacramento don't know that because you don't do the kind of work and research that I do.
And so then the LA Times runs three pieces.
The first two on is Obama Black Enough, the LA Times.
Liberal drive-by media.
Is Obama black enough?
They conclude he may not be.
Because he's not down for the struggle.
He doesn't have roots of the civil rights movement.
Sharpton echoes that.
And then here comes David Ahrenstein in the column in the LA Times, Barack the Magic Negro, and explains what the magic Negro is.
He's a way to get guilty whites to vote for him, even though he has no substance.
He hasn't been out there long enough for these whites who are rapidly supporting to know what he stands for.
Not a criticism of Obama.
It's a criticism of white liberals who have all this race.
Oh, bamboo, from the start.
Okay, we got Biden, then we got Sharpton, the New York Post, then we got his Obama Black Bam all, parody born.
It may have taken three weeks for this pair, but when the parody aired, the people that listen to this program and are informed know full well what it was expressing.
And it is funny as hell, because it nails The truth of what's happening in the Democrat Party and with liberal racism, and we are pointing it out.
And you people in the media who tell us you're the most informed and we should trust what you don't even do any homework.
When did you first learn about this?
Maybe last.
And by the way, uh, in case you don't, Alf Sharpton speaks through a bullhorn in our parodies because that's how he's known, leading marches of protest through the bullhorn through the boroughs of New York City.
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