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May 7, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity, executing assigned host duties flawlessly here on the one and only EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a thrill and a delight to be with you today.
Telephone number, if you want to join us, we are going to get to your phone calls in this hour.
800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Now, KOVR Channel 13, CBS affiliate.
It's bad enough.
It should have been embarrassing enough for you people to have your morning crew go on the air today totally uninformed and ignorant and moronic about Barack the Magic Need Bro.
But you have just posted a video on your website that is not mine.
A bunch of liberals put that video together somewhere in the blogosphere to accompany the song to affect people just like you to pass it off as mine.
A bunch of liberals put that video together and it's being passed around the internet as though we did it here.
We don't do videos, Channel 13, or anybody else in the drive-by media.
This is a radio program.
We do not produce videos, even for our own website, only of me here on the Dittocam.
And that's it.
I strongly suggest you take this down.
The reason they put it up is because they're losing in their poll over whether or not the songs race is 96 to 4.
So they put this clip up from their mornings.
They actually played this video on their morning show today.
Now, I'm not surprised.
This is a CBS affiliate, and that's the network of forged National Guard documents as they were trying to get rid of George W. Bush.
But I am warning you people at Channel 13 in Sacramento.
And I love that town.
It's my adopted hometown.
But this that you have posted is not mine and you are passing it off as mine.
We didn't produce it.
We don't do videos.
You better find out who did it and credit them rather than be a bunch of sheep and just assume that it's on the internet from somebody that you think is legitimate because of whatever preconceived notions you have of me.
You think something like that would be something I would do.
You know, I just have to say a few things here.
We're running our own poll, by the way, at rushlimbaugh.com.
Forgive me, I'm going to mention this.
Chris Burris, Lisa Gonzalez, and Jeff James of KOVR Channel 13 Sacramento morons who are threatening racial harmony.
Vote now at rushlimbaugh.com.
I wonder if drive-by media outlets, including KOVR Channel 13 Sacramento, had any problem when Harry Reid said that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who's black, was an embarrassment.
He said Thomas's opinions were poorly written, but Harry Reid could not point to a single opinion to back up his racist attack on Clarence Thomas.
In fact, real students of the Supreme Court have concluded that Clarence Thomas is one of the smartest on the court and one of the most influential behind the scenes.
They said nothing about it at Channel 13.
I'll guarantee you when Harry Reid brought this up, because they're morons and they didn't even realize it.
They may not even know who Clarence Thomas is.
Chuck Schumer.
Chuck Schumer still has not answered for his staff targeting the only black running for the Senate as a Republican, Michael Steele.
Bill Clinton still hasn't answered for pulling peacekeeping support from Rwanda when 800,000 people were being massacred.
He didn't have a problem peacekeeping elsewhere, but he gets a complete pass.
J. William Fulbright was not my mentor.
He was Bill Clinton's.
He's a noted segregationist from southern Arkansas.
Al Gore Sr., another noted segregationist, was not my father.
He is Al Gore Jr.'s father.
We have Mrs. Bill Clinton and her supposed joke about the gas station.
And Joe Biden about how if you're going to be in a Dunkin' Donuts in Delaware, you better learn how to speak with an Indian dialect because that's all at work there anymore.
And of course, the Reverend Sharpton and Jackson have a career full of anti-Semitic comments, and they weren't kidding when they made them, and they get a pass.
Liberals, Democrats, leftists get a pass on racism all the time, and yet conservatives like me and you are targeted with it simply because it's a stereotype and a cliché when it is actually just the other way around.
By the way, one other thing for you clowns at KOVR 13, Barack the Magic Negro was on the air before Don Imus.
This is not the post-Imus era.
This song aired long before.
I bet you didn't know.
Well, I'm sure you didn't know it.
You probably didn't hear about this until you saw that corrupt, untrue, misleading video that is running around the internet.
Who are some of the other friends of the Democrats?
Well, when I, your host, the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-feeling, all-compassionate, all-everything Maha Russia declared the Democrat withdrawal scheme was a vote for defeat, a Democrats' own defeat in Iraq.
And when I suggested that, realists cheered, liberals sneered, and the drive-bys chuckled.
And they went out and they conducted a poll.
And once again, I get to say, see, I told you so.
The ultimate authority on America's defeat is Al-Qaeda's number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
He has released a videotape.
Another videotape has come from Zawahiri.
The poll quote in this video is: a U.S. bill calling for troop withdrawal from Iraq is proof of Washington's defeat.
No less than bin Laden's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, suggests that the Democrats' vote to withdraw troops to limit funding is proof of Washington's defeat.
And here is the ultimate authority in our defeat, the enemy, the man who's trying to defeat us, the man who is supposed to be the brain behind bin Laden released a videotape saying that a U.S. bill calling for troop withdrawal from Iraq is proof of Washington's defeat.
Now, the questions, or the question, I guess, that liberals face is this.
If you won't believe me when I tell you that Democrats own defeat when it comes to the Iraq war, who are you going to believe?
You get Nancy Pelosi saying it, and you've got Harry Reid saying we've already lost.
If that's not defeat, what is?
Maybe, will you believe Ayman al-Zawahiri?
Ayman al-Zawahiri calls Democrat actions in Washington defeat.
Not just me.
So if you're in the drive-by media, if you're a leftist Democrat, who are you going to believe?
Pelosi, Reid, me, or Zawahiri?
Tough call.
Al-Qaeda is mocking the Democrats' white flag legislation.
I wonder if it bothers them.
I wonder if it means anything to them.
You've got Zawahiri out now claiming that their votes in the House and Senate, the Democrat votes, equal proof of Washington's defeat in the war on terror.
I wonder how it makes them feel when the number two guy to Bin Laden, the guy who is in charge of our defeat from his side of the aisle, the surrender that the Democrats would validate al-Qaeda's long-held view that Americans are too lazy and decadent, pathetic to fight them.
And only some of us are, but not all of us.
Just amazing.
He also said, we ask Allah that they only get out of it after losing 200,000 to 300,000 killed in order that we give the spillers of blood in Washington and Europe an unforgettable lesson.
Do you realize the import of this, ladies and gentlemen?
Ayman Al-Zawahiri claims Democrat actions equal defeat in the war in Iraq.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
All right, one more thing on this.
I want to go back to the Los Angeles Times a story that was from May the 4th.
Will Fred Thompson's racist role have political repercussions?
Did you people know that Fred Thompson is a racist?
I didn't know that Fred Thompson's a racist.
In fact, I don't think Fred Thompson is.
So what is this headline?
Will Fred Thompson's racist role have political repercussions?
Well, let's read this drivel.
Ronald Reagan became president even though he worked with chimps in B movies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger played a murderous robot, and that didn't keep him from becoming governor.
So, can law and order actor and former Senator Fred Thompson, Republican, Tennessee, become the first presidential candidate with this credit?
Thomas played a white supremacist, spewing anti-Semitic comments and fondling an autographed copy of Mein Kampf on a television drama 19 years ago.
His colleagues say that he was just an actor, putting everything he had into playing the role for a charismatic racist named Knox Pooley in three episodes of CBS show Why is Guy in 1988?
Do you call Tom Cruise a killer because he played one in a movie?
Asked show creator and writer Stephen J. Connell.
If Thompson's old TV roles do play a part in his presidential campaign, then the long relationship between Hollywood and politics will have entered a new era, an actor's dream and a candidate's nightmare, a world where nothing you ever said is forgotten.
This has to be not only the stupidest thing in a major newspaper I have seen in a week, but perhaps one of the most defamatory.
He's an actor who's playing a role.
Do we start with all of the horrible characters liberal Democrat actors have played and start asking, well, they're not taking political office right.
You tell me that there is not racism in the drive-by media?
And by the way, where are the usual Hollywood people coming out to defend this?
Where's the Hollywood crowd defending its craft?
Where's the Hollywood crowd defending its art?
One of their own, Fred Thompson, is being labeled a racist here because he played such a role 19 years ago.
What will become of our country, ladies and gentlemen, if all the actors are confused with the characters they play?
Well, I guess we'd have to start looking at Anthony Hopkins as a cannibal.
Meryl Streep as a schizophreniac boss or phrenic boss.
Barbara Streisand to be a needy whiner with identity problems.
Well, that may be true without the roles that she plays.
Los Angeles Times, May 4th, will Fred Thompson's racist role.
So it's time to take him out.
People are getting too worried about Fred Thompson.
Democrats that drive by has got to take him out now.
Hello, Clinton, Inc.
All right, back to the phones.
I really want to appreciate your people's patience.
Your patience in waiting.
It's been over an hour.
Kathleen in Dayton, Ohio, you're up next.
And thanks again for waiting.
Hello.
It's my pleasure, Rush, Libertarian Gun Owner.
Tomorrow is my birthday ditto.
Well, happy birthday.
Thank you very much.
And I am just thrilled to talk to you.
I was so angered by Joe Klein's comment about parasites like Rush Limbaugh when two-thirds of what you see.
Let's go back and play that bite because this happened about two hours ago, and that's how long she's been waiting to talk about this.
I want the audience listening to know what you're talking about, okay?
So this is just, hang on, hang on, Saturday night in Annapolis, Maryland is a panel discussion called Winning the 2008 Election.
And somebody asked a question, and I'm not even going to repeat the question because it makes no sense.
But something in the question really agitated Joe Klein at Time magazine.
This was his answer.
I am really getting sick and tired of people bashing the press all the time.
At this point, we're pretty well battered, and 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 going to 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.
Now, you know what he's saying.
He's saying that without them, we wouldn't have shows here.
I wouldn't have a show because I wouldn't have any data to report on.
And, of course, he also complains the public's an idiot.
They're losing advertising revenue.
The public's dumb, and so forth and so on.
And that's what Kathleen wants to reply to here.
And as a public relations professional who has been doing this for 17 years, the general public needs to know that I'd say two-thirds of what shows up in a newspaper, on television, in a radio news report is generated by people just like me.
Absolutely.
I'm so glad you said this.
The journalists hang around their fax machines and now they're email waiting for the latest release from Clinton Inc. or what have you.
I learned that early on.
When I got to New York in 1988, I had this misguided, naive belief that if there were profile pieces of people in the newspapers because they've done something noteworthy and they'd achieved something and everybody noticed it, and so the media wanted to inform.
But that's not how it is.
They have flaks like you that are out there pushing this stuff.
And if the flacks have a good relationship with the news people, you're going to get a favorable piece.
Absolutely.
And I'd say just, and I work in a professional organization of public relations folks.
And I'd have to say that I'm in the minority as a libertarian, as someone who has more conservative views.
Most PR professionals get along extremely well with people in the media.
It is a talk about parasitic.
The media couldn't exist without us, and we couldn't exist without the media.
It is a symbiotic relationship.
This woman is more right than you know, ladies and gentlemen.
And in addition to what this means, it means, for instance, that journalists are lazy.
They wait for people like you to bring them stories.
Well, it's not that they're lazy.
I mean, some of them definitely are.
It's that they're trying to shovel content into a 24-hour news chasm that because of the news.
Oh, my heart bleeds.
My heart.
Oh, it's so hard.
Being in news is so hard.
Let me ask you a pointed question.
Yes, sir.
Not about you, but in your industry.
How many of the PR flaks value their relationship with the media far more than their client of the moment?
For example, how many PR flaks urge their clients to actually do things that might not be good for them just to maintain a relationship with a certain news organization?
Because the clients are going to come and go.
But the relationship with the news organization is going to stay the same.
So you dump one client after whatever work needs to be done is done.
Another client comes along.
You still want access.
So is it not the case that most of these PR flaks really have a little bit more allegiance to the news people than their clients?
I am sad to say that that's probably very true.
Thank you very much.
And also, I'd like to make a point about Joe Klein whining about their ad revenues are going down, their ad revenues are going down because their circulation is going down because they are less and less relevant.
Well, he knows that, but he's blaming people like me for it for distorting what they do, destroying their monopoly.
You know, monopolists never like losing their monopoly, and they had one, and it's uh, and it's gone.
Yes, absolutely.
And in my profession, in particular, I've been doing this for 17 years, and I really kind of despair over the future of organizations and people who do what I do because I look at my job as helping to communicate good news.
I don't, I am not a flack in the sense that if you pay me enough money, I'll say anything you want me to say.
I have integrity, and I choose the clients I do.
That's not what I meant by flack in this case.
By flack, I mean, you're out there giving them news ideas that they don't come up with on their own.
Oh, they don't have time, they just don't have time.
Don't give me they don't have time, they've got all the time in the world.
It's called legwork, it's called putting your nose under the rug and finding out what's there.
It's called they're obsessed with one thing, and that is they've got to take down power, wherever it is, and that generally is Republican power that they want to take down.
They want to promote Democrat power, but that's what they're taught in journalism school.
You bring them something to help take down power, like a D.C. Madam or whatever, man, they'll love you.
Look at Elliot Mintz, he was the PR guy for Paris Hilton.
She just dumped all over him.
It was his fault.
He's gone.
I guess he got fired or he left on his own or whatever.
But the PR flack taking the hit here.
Yeah, and again, publicists who work for celebrities, that's a whole different animal.
That's really a whole different animal in our profession.
But I think you do have to, I think that is much closer to what the D.C. Madam does for a living than what I do for a living.
At least I'd like to think so.
But yeah, that's a totally different subculture within the PR industry itself.
But, you know, if people only, if people had any idea how much so-called news is completely manufactured by people like me, because I can take any set of facts, and my job is to take the set of facts that I'm given and to communicate it in such a way that is most beneficial to my clients.
You don't need to convince, I'll never forget, this is some years ago, maybe 12, 15 years ago, some outfit in Chicago, just called themselves a medical group.
Forget the name of the medical group.
They've got a logo and they put it on a fax and they faxed out the news that the AMA was wrong about the basic food groups, that they had the pyramid reverted, and this group puts it out.
And the Drive-By Media Ramway made big news on the nightly network newscast that night and so forth.
It turns out the group was just a bunch of people with a fax machine.
They're activists, but they had no accreditation.
And they just got the, oh, look at this.
Big news shakes up the existing power structure.
And it turned out to be totally fraudulent.
Absolutely.
And if you, as a consumer, if you simply consume without questioning news from any source, any source at all, even the Rush Limbaugh Show, and if you do not scratch the surface and do any kind of due diligence to find out what is going on and who is communicating that message, if there is an angle to a story, find out who is pushing out that angle, and you'll get a lot more insight into what the truth really is.
Exactly right.
Thank you.
Your sense of timing, by the way, is perfect too.
Thanks very much, Kathleen.
We'll be back and continue in a minute.
Here are a couple interesting headlines.
This is from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Former President Clinton calls for cuts in U.S. forces in Iraq.
Says President Bush should draw down a very substantial number.
Next headline: Senator Mrs. Bill Clinton says she supports funding the troops.
Must have been some signals crossed there in the pillow talk.
Phil in Dayton, Ohio, thanks for waiting, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Rush, I'll tell you.
Yeah, fine, fair.
Thank God you are saying this stuff about the media.
Like the previous caller, I am also a PR hack and have been doing this for more than 30 years.
And I can tell you without a doubt that anything that utters forth from any drive-by media outlet is without a doubt almost completely false, if not completely false, including that report out of Sacramento.
When you played that, I was just like screaming at the phone.
I mean, I could pick that thing apart, and I doubt I could find the only thing true in that report was that you called Barack Obama, or rather Shanklin called Barack Obama the Magic Negro.
That's it.
That's the only thing that was true in that entire report.
The only thing that was true.
Yeah, and of course, what informed them?
Nothing.
They went on the air totally ignorant about it.
They were force-fed this information by whatever news sources they trust.
Those sources have an agenda, and bam, it gets on the air.
And now they're running a video on their website that is not ours and not mine.
It was produced by enemies of this program or people that want to try to make it look worse than it is.
Just a bunch of liberals out there with all kinds of black caricatures.
And they're putting it up there as mine.
And they know now it is not mine, and it's still up there.
I think you're giving them much credit by saying that they're ignorant.
And I think that's kind of the thing that I would love to see you talk more about because what you do is invaluable to this country.
What do you mean?
Ignorant.
I'm giving them too much credit.
What are they then?
They're out and out deceitful.
They know that this is not who you are.
They can't chew food and be that dumb.
They just could not consume food and be that of who you are after all this time.
So you're saying that this is a purposeful hit, that they know exactly what they're doing.
Exactly.
Well, why do they want to make them?
They won.
Why do they want to make themselves look like morons and ignoramuses?
Because the vast majority of the public don't listen to you, unfortunately.
In Sacramento, the vast majority does.
I mean, their poll is going down to defeat in big numbers.
Well, that's true.
I'll tell you, that's the only, only light at the end of this tunnel is that Time magazine is now time.com and that the New York Times and the Washington Post and the ABC and NBC and TBS, all of these guys are going down the tube slowly, unfortunately too slowly for me, but slowly, but surely they're going down because more and more people are basically tuning out.
They're just disgusted.
Every time you turn on the TV, all you get is bad news.
It's like a flood, an inundation, a bad news, a deluge.
And people are just going, screw it.
I'll entertainment tonight and, you know, get the fuck out of the news.
That's it.
And they're tuning them off.
And the more they do that, the more they, I think.
Well, look, everything you say is true.
They are losing circulation.
They're losing audience.
But they still have power.
They've got people believing 35% of Democrats, if you didn't see this Ransomuson poll, 35% of Democrats in this country, people, not elected Democrats, but just people who are Democrats, think that Bush knew that 9-11 happened before it was going to happen.
Or knew it was going to happen before it did.
And that's why I say you got to stay on this because they do yet have too much power.
And it's that, I mean, my son is his way, even as we speak, to Iraq for his.
Well, you know, I don't like this argument.
They have too much power.
Power is something's earned.
Nobody grants it to them.
I mean, people say that about me, too.
And nobody granted me any power.
I earned it.
But, you know, they are who they are.
They have to be battled as such.
But I'm not going to sit around and say somebody needs to take their power away from them.
That's theirs to be lost.
And it's happening.
And we are in the process of doing it.
Best illustration I can give you, Phil, will make you feel better.
Walter Cronkite was able to kill the Vietnam War with one sentence in one telecast back in the 60s when he proclaimed it can't be won.
And Johnson said, not only will I've lost Mid-America, I've lost, he didn't even seek re-election because of that.
Now, it's taken them four or five years to get a majority of opinion in this country against the Iraq.
If it is, I frankly don't even believe that's true, because if it were, they would have been able to override the president's veto of their defeat bill.
I don't believe the polls they put out.
But look, I don't know how much more I can discuss the media than I already do.
We're on the case, Phil, and I appreciate your call.
I must move on because people have been waiting a long time.
Lona, in Fort Myers, Florida, you're next.
Great to have you with us.
First of all, it's an auspicious beginning of the week to talk to you on a Monday, Rush.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
And I see somewhat of a problem with the earlier caller, Todd, in his education concerning mathematics and analysis regarding the French election.
Yes.
Because everything that we've heard over the past few years has come from French elected officials who obviously do not represent the majority of the people.
And I don't know what the percentage of voters has been in the last few elections, but I would say that 85% of the French, and that means a vast number of people in the countryside who are decent, everyday people.
I lived in northern France for four years.
They're decent people.
They are hardworking.
And they don't want to be taken over by a completely totalitarian government and religion.
And that 85% came out in a very loud voice, and they're reinforcing their friendship with America.
What Lona's talking about, we talked about the French election in the first half hour of the program today, and I found it pointed out here that, you know, here's their first female candidate for president, Donatubes.
52% of women voted against her, Segolene Royale, a guy who is admitted proclaimed conservative.
Now, I don't know what that really means.
We'll have to wait and find out.
This guy is a global warming nut, after all, but he did say he wants to reestablish good relations with the United States.
He wants to clear up the welfare roles.
He wants to change the 35-hour work week, wants more productivity out of there.
And that's when Segolene Royale said, oh, that's going to spawn riots, which she got.
But this wasn't supposed to happen.
This is a socialist country that's supposed to stay socialist.
This is a country supposedly we had so offended that Bush has ruined our reputation.
And yet, look at what happens.
So, so much reporting about what's going on in France has been wrong and all that.
We got a call from Todd from somewhere who tried to tell me that it's interesting what happened, but there's no correlation between what happened in the French election and what's going to happen in our election in 08.
And I said, well, maybe not, but I'll tell you what, Republican candidates have a lot to learn from this candidate.
You win with conservatism.
You don't win by going out and trying to peel off a liberal vote here, a moderate vote there, or whatever.
You don't build your coalition of conservatism by going out and stealing liberals.
And not in national elections.
You might be able to do it in states.
You might be able to do it in local elections, that sort of thing.
And that's what Lona here is responding to.
So you lived in France for four years, you say?
Yes, I did.
My father was in the Air Force.
So you weren't surprised by this outcome then?
No, I'm not, because we lived out in the country.
We lived out in the country about 35 miles away from the base where my father was stationed.
And we got to know those people in the village so well and in other villages.
And they're decent people.
And I did have another issue that I called about today that I've wanted to call about for absolutely months.
Your nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize is a wonderful thing because you attempt, and I think you make a very good effort at educating voters, and that's what a democracy demands.
People must be educated.
And I am just, I'm amazed.
I never cease to be amazed.
After an election, various people will come to me and ask, well, what do you think about the election or the results?
And I'll say, well, what do you think?
Did you vote?
And if they say, well, no, I didn't vote.
I didn't think it was worthwhile.
I don't even talk about it.
Because it is the responsibility of every one of us to be diligent and discerning and finding out everything we can about.
Well, there's no question about that.
And, you know, that's the mission of this program, to create an army of informed voters to go out in the arena of ideas on election day and express themselves.
And it's happened.
As far as the other people, after every effort has been made to educate people and those who refuse, I'm happy they don't vote.
Doesn't bother me.
I've always found the vote turnout argument a little bit of a problem.
And I would say about my Nobel Peace Prize nomination, I have done more for peace and liberty and freedom in this country than Al Gore's global warming thing is because it's not about peace or freedom at all.
Global warming and the way he's going about it, I'm not even going to get to it today, but he's admitted, by the way, has another C, I told you so.
Al Gore says it's spiritual.
We need to reorganize our spiritual lives to deal with this global warming problem.
I told you people it was a religion.
Al Gore is admitting that it is.
We've got to go out.
It's got to become the new spirituality, global warming.
But there's nothing that's going to be, you're not going to have more freedom and liberty if these activists in global warming get everything they want, folks.
Mark my words.
Be right back.
A friend of mine just visited the freerepublic.com blog, the website, the freepers, our old buddies of freepers.
And my friend sent me something that a freeper wrote at Free Republic today.
CBS 13 Sacramento dealing with the Limbaugh Magic Negro situation.
The Limbaugh Magic Negro situation.
They created the situation.
By the way, this offends me because this is a come down.
It's controversy.
That's, by the way, a quote from CBS 13, not the Freeper.
The newsroom at CBS 13 Sacramento monitoring the Rush show today.
They may be somewhat concerned.
CBS, as you recall, is a network that promoted phony National Guard documents try to influence a presidential election.
I just spoke to the news desk in Sacramento.
They are aware that Limbaugh has been talking about them today and giving warnings that they better remove a video of Barack the Magic Negro that someone put on YouTube.
Limbaugh had nothing to do with the production.
CBS 13 has a poll underway asking if Limbaugh's parody is racist.
They did a two-part series about it and they're trying to cause some controversy.
We got our own poll running asking if the morning team at KOVR 13 is a bunch of morons inflaming racial tensions.
And that poll's at rushlimbaugh.com.
Now, here's the meat of this little note here.
The woman at the news desk has been informed that the term Barack the Magic Negro did not originate with Limbaugh.
The woman at the news desk has now been informed.
The news desk.
This is not the receptionist at Mary Kay Cosmetics we're talking about.
According to her, they are taking everything into consideration and dealing with the Limbaugh Magic Negro situation.
It's not a situation, KOVR.
It's a controversy.
You've made it one.
Situation is a come down.
If given the choice between would I rather be a situation or a controversy, I'd rather be a controversy.
The press is often allowed to get away with this nonsense because some people are powerless to stop it.
They took on the wrong guy this time, is how the freeper ends his post.
Chuck in Manhattan, Kansas.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, love you, Rush.
Love your show.
Hey, I just want to talk about this magic Negro situation or controversy.
Why is it the Rush Limbaugh situation?
Why is it the David Ehrenstein situation?
He's the one who put, who made the template that Senator Obama.
That was my question to Barack Obama or my unsolicited advice.
If I were Obama's camp, I'd get hold of David Ehrenstein and like the New York, the Washington Post has a story today.
The only Times has run three stories on is he black enough.
The post story today is, you know, talks about, will there be enough white racists to vote for him?
Interesting, they leave out the fact he's got to win in the Democrat primaries first.
But if I were the Obama camp, I'd say, you know what?
I'm running as an American.
I'm running as a human being.
Would you guys stop this stuff of characterizing me as not black enough or not authentic enough or as the magic Negro?
Isn't it funny that this African-American columnist from L.A. can just write about that and nobody hears about it.
And then all of a sudden when the controversial Rush Limbaugh makes a, and Paul Franklin makes a whole song about it.
No, that's right.
But that's because the reason they're after me is because I am parodying them.
I am shining a light on their racism, and that's why they're turning it around on me.
Joe Biden can make all these funny comments about Indians and Dunkin' Donuts.
He can talk about Barack being the first clean and articulate black in a Democrat presidential roster.
And he's, ah, you know, Joe has a tendency to be loose-lipped at times.
Those guys constantly get a pass.
That's just the nature of agenda-driven media today.
Your questions are valid.
Don't misunderstand.
But understand this.
I got them pegged.
I know these people.
I know who they are.
I know how they operate and I know why they do what they do.
And I tried to warn them.
I told them they were all going to be embarrassed if they decided to take this one on.
All they've got to do is be journalists and do a little research and find out the genesis of all this.
Oh, no, no, no.
Because it doesn't take much for a knee-jerk reaction.
Raithism, we see racism, raithism.
If Mithril Limbaugh being a wraith, they get all goody, goody, good, run on the air as totally uninformed morons make fools of themselves and try to cover their tracks later on.
Bob in Summersworth, New Hampshire.
Hello.
Nice to have you on the EIB Network.
Mr. Limbaugh, honor to speak with you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
I heard about the Spread Thompson thing from you, of course.
And at first I was shocked.
And then I said, no, it's just typical Democrat liberal.
They're talking about somebody who played a role for a TV show 19 years ago as a communist, racist, whatever.
And yet they have in their own party a man who is actually in the Ku Klux Klan.
And that's okay.
I forgot that.
It's a great point.
You're talking about Sheets Bird.
Yeah, Sheets Bird, yes.
And the thing is, these attacks, they started the other night at the debate.
You know, the left-wing site that sponsored it, the left-wing questions asked by the left-wing that wasn't a debate.
That was a 90-minute commercial for Chris Matthews and Harvey.
The host was the official productologist of the Democratic Party.
And it was a joke.
And then they attacked Julie Eyder.
And now PBS, the TV wing of the Democratic Party, is running a show called The Mormons based on an incident that happened.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We talked about that last week, and it's designed to make Mormons look like a bunch of murderous thugs here.
And of course, it has nothing to do with Mitt Romney.
No, no, no.
Nothing to do with it.
The timing is just purely coincidental here.
Same thing if a Fred Thompson plays some racist creep 19 years ago, but they ignore Sheet's bird.
I got an idea to fix these debates.
Never happen.
We never once see a panelist's or moderator's face.
The camera is always on the candidates.
We see the back of their heads.
They look like Q-tips.
Just take these moderators off TV because that debate was just 90 minutes of promotion for MSNBC and Hardball.
Got to run.
Back in a second here to close it out.
Well, that's it, folks.
Got to run.
Got to get out.
Got to go do things.
Places to go, people to see, naps to take.
It's a long weekend.
Be right back here, though.
Same time tomorrow to start it all over and look forward to it.
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