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Nov. 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 12, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Instead of the usual four, when I came here, we're making progress.
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Let's go to the audio tape, ladies and gentlemen.
You remember last Thursday we had a call from Sarasota.
Kimberly, a military mom, said that something awry was going on at the Bayhaven Elementary School in Sarasota.
The teacher there was going to, on Veterans Day celebrations on Friday, that a teacher was going to have a banner listing conscientious objectors in the fourth grade.
We have two sound bites.
CNN's headline news on Sunday.
Here's the anchorette, Susan Hendricks.
Veterans Day at one Florida Elementary School got more attention than usual.
A teacher asked his students to make a banner honoring service personnel who opposed the war to hang next to another Veterans Day poster.
Well, a parent called Rush Limbaugh's radio show to voice her opposition, and within hours, the school received hundreds of calls and protesters also showed up there.
The teacher dropped his idea.
The parent said she never expected the school to get so much flack for this.
By the end of the week, she and her husband, both veterans, by the way, met with the teacher and say they came to terms with each other's viewpoints.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
So the man who runs America ended the conscientious objector celebration at Bayhaven Elementary.
They did the right thing.
Then, last Friday on the Fox News Channel's special report, fill-in host Brett Baer reported on the Bayhaven Elementary School controversy.
An idea from a Florida Elementary School teacher to put the names of conscientious objectors on a banner at Veterans Day observance has prompted hundreds of calls and emails in protest.
The Sarasota Herald Tribune reports Bayhaven Elementary School fourth grade teacher Rolf Hansen wanted to honor conscientious objectors and give them what was described as more or less equal recognition with veterans.
An irate parent called Rush Limbaugh, and the deluge of negative reaction commenced.
The school's principal quickly said that there would be no banner and that veterans would be honored in what he described as a very traditional way.
So a successful outcome, ladies and gentlemen.
I must confess that after this happened on Thursday, we got calls.
I'm sure you heard them on this program from veterans.
You know, Rush, there are some conscientious objectors out there who've won the Congressional Medal of Honor and other medals.
And it could well be that's what the guy's going to do.
We thought, well, what, if that's true, then we've caused this school a lot of hassle.
And I walked out of here Thursday afternoon somewhat concerned and worried about it.
But it turns out that our instincts, which are always right, don't doubt me.
We're right in this case, too.
And that is this guy was planning to honor protesters in his fourth grade class.
So all's well that ends well.
Have you people seen it's on YouTube?
Hillary Clinton.
I guess this is in Iowa someplace.
She just finished an interview with reporters.
There's four or five flags behind her, and she turns to walk away, and the flags start falling down.
Was a Waterloo, Iowa, and the flags start falling all over.
She grabs one of them to try to keep it from hitting the deck.
And I'm thinking, this is an omen.
This is either an omen for her or for us.
I'm not sure which.
Here's the audio of how that happened.
It was Sunday in Waterloo, Iowa.
She's speaking to a reporter.
She says this and walks away, and then four flags start falling around.
A lot of repair work to do once we get back in.
I'm sorry, you may.
Thank you all.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks, everybody.
Good to see you.
Oh, no.
Okay, we got cameras flooring here.
Get our flags back under your eyes.
There you go.
I don't think that the faces are not weighted enough.
That's Hillary explaining why this.
Nobody touched these flags that we could see.
The minute she gets near them, bam, they just start falling over.
And so I'm wondering if this is an omen, you know, for her, for us.
We'll have to wait.
The drive-bys, by the way, desperate for a race, are now claiming that she's in big, big, big, big trouble.
We have known this for about a week.
Polling data does not indicate she's in as much trouble as the drive-bys are trying to make it out to be.
But these little flaps just keep happening, planting questions in the audience.
And even the New York Times says, well, that leads to a conclusion that maybe she's afraid to answer a tough question.
We know she's afraid to answer tough questions.
Look at the way Russert peppered her on illegal immigration.
They're still out there talking about that.
And by the way, a couple more stories in the stack today we'll be getting to about how the illegal immigration issue is a radioactive.
It is radioactive for the Democrats.
Then, of course, the controversy over the tip in the diner, that's still alive.
And everybody, the campaign appears to be fudging the truth on this a little bit.
It went in there.
They said they left a $100 tip, but then another staffer went in and left a $20 tip after all this was all over.
Hillary, of course, didn't know anything about it.
The staff did it.
The campaign did, not a person, not an individual, but the staff did it.
More than I'm just setting the table for what's coming.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, from my hometown paper, the Southeast Missouri: Be prepared for the cold with Winter Awareness Day tips.
Due to the possibility of winter storms in December and January, the National Weather Service and the State Emergency Management Agency, the local emergency management agency, have set Wednesday as Winter Awareness Day.
Now, this is insulting to the people of my hometown who know very well that winter is about to be upon us.
When's the last time we needed a winter awareness day?
How many of you people are unaware that winter is coming?
Winter, what does it do?
Sneak up on us every year?
Preparing for winter weather should occur well before the cold and snow begin.
Tips include understanding that a winter storm watch indicates severe weather may affect your area.
A winter storm warning indicates severe weather is in the area or expected immediately.
And then they got a list of things you need to do before, and during and while driving.
A whole month to practice winter awareness tips because winter, the traditional beginning day, is December 21st.
You know, I'm thinking that this is just over the top.
And then I saw a story later on today when I'm doing a show prep, Fevery Show Prep, some guy shot himself trying to repair his automobile engine with a shotgun.
So I'm thinking maybe there are enough idiots in this country that they do need.
Yeah, he was trying to change a lug nut with a shotgun.
You know, the barrel, the thing went off.
He shot his engine.
Now, who would do this?
So maybe we do need winter awareness tips.
Another little health note today, ladies and gentlemen.
This is from the UK Telegraph.
Researchers found that people who drank more than six cups of caffeinated coffee a day reduced their chances of developing the most common form of skin cancer by 35%, while those who drank two or three cups were 12% less likely to have the disease.
Scientists believe caffeine could stop skin cancer spreading by stopping cells dividing or by acting as an antioxidant.
And, you know, there's a whole well, let's see.
No mention here of women and minorities being at greater risk for not consuming the proper amounts of caffeine and coffee.
So I guess either they forgot to ask it, they forgot to report it, or they forgot to investigate it.
In which case, there's true discrimination going on.
Because if you didn't survey the effects on minorities and women and children, how old were you when you first drank coffee?
My grandmother, my mother's mother, gave me coffee when I was seven.
Made my mother so mad.
And I loved it because it was an adult drink.
She put a couple teaspoons of sugar in there, and I just, yeah, your uncle gave you coffee at 12.
I was seven years old, something like that.
All right.
Pamela, what?
How about the Cowboys?
Yeah, that was about those Stellars.
Coming back.
Well, yeah, the Packers continue to surprise everybody.
You know, did you watch the game last night?
The San Diego Chargers and the Indianapolis Colts.
I got to tell you something, folks.
Now, I know the Stick to the Issues crowd gets a little upset here, but I got to tell you, that game last night was one of the strangest games.
I will guarantee you, the Chargers left their locker room last night thinking we really didn't deserve to win this game, but we'll take it.
Look at how many injured starters.
The Colts started a wide receiver who nobody had ever heard of, zero catches in his career in the NFL.
They lost a couple.
They lost a starting two offensive tackles in the game.
Peyton Manning threw six interceptions.
Adam Vinatari missed a couple field goals, including a 29-yard chip shot.
And they still could have won the game after all of that.
They didn't.
They lost it by two.
Strange, strange, strange game.
It was a fun NFL Sunday.
All right, quick timeout.
We've got to go.
Be back and continue right after this on the Rush Limbaugh program at the EIB Network.
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Only half kidding there, folks.
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And we're already off and running, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Let me give you the details on a guy that shot his engine with a shotgun.
66-year-old man.
This is from South Kitsu, Washington, which is near Bremerton.
66-year-old man shot himself in both legs Saturday afternoon trying to loosen a lug nut with a 12-gauge shotgun.
Kitsup County Sheriff's deputies were called to the residence after the shooting was reported in 9-11.
Nobody else was there, and he wasn't intoxicated.
They treated him at the scene, taken to hospital.
Injuries were severe but not life-threatening.
Deputies at the scene said that the guy blasted double-aught buckshot at the wheel from arm's length.
The deputies described the man's legs as peppered from his feet to his midabdomen.
And qualified, it's right with no alcohol involved, means he's an idiot and qualified to vote in New Jersey.
If he would ever, ever want to move there.
Deputies described his legs as peppered, pellets, pieces of the wheel, other debris.
Some injuries went as far up as his chin.
He'd been repairing the Lincoln Continental for two weeks.
He'd remove all the lug nuts on the right rear wheel except for one.
He'd bound to determine to get the lug nut off, Wilson said, or didn't know how long the men have been trying to free it.
So he shot it.
And the double-aught buckshot ricocheted back at him.
All right, Mrs. Clinton, planting questions, having questions planted at campaign appearances.
She has responded to these allegations and she said, well, it was news to me.
Certainly I nor my campaign approve of that.
And it certainly will not be tolerated.
I didn't know about.
Certainly, this is news to me.
My campaign won't tolerate.
Yes, your campaign will.
Your campaign plans it.
Your campaign sets it up.
But it may not have been the first time.
In a telephone interview Saturday, Jeff Mitchell, 32, said he was approached by Clinton campaign worker Chris Haler to ask a question about how she was standing up to President Bush on the question of funding the Iraq war and a troop withdrawal timeline.
The encounter happened before an event hosted by Iowa State Senator Gene Fraze on a farm outside Fort Madison.
Clinton's Iowa campaign confirmed that one of its staff discussed questions with Mitchell before the event on April 2nd, but denied attempting to plant a pro-Clinton question.
Oh, of course.
Of course, there's a huge distinction here, folks.
I don't know why anybody would assume that when a campaign aide goes and talks to somebody who's going to be in the audience, that there would be any attempt to influence or plant a question.
Why would we assume this, especially about the Clintons, who are clean and pure as the wind-driven snow and beyond ethical suspicion?
Why would anybody suspect this?
Mo Ellethe, the spokesman for Clinton's campaign in Iowa, told Fox News that Haler and Mitchell had a previous relationship, quote unquote.
Well, what could that be?
That a discussion about Clinton arose out of a normal conversation between the two people who knew each other.
Yeah, they had a previous relationship, and they were talking before the event.
The topic of the senator's position on Iraq came up, and Jeffrey said he had some questions.
Chris suggested that Jeffrey ask a question.
Mitchell, however, said that he and Haler did not know each other personally before the event.
So the campaigns out there said, ah, these are good buddies.
They've known each other for a long time.
No, one of them says, didn't know.
Well, don't know this people.
Don't know this person in any way, shape, man, or form.
We got audio soundbites on this.
Last Tuesday in Newton at a campaign stop here in Iowa.
This exchange between an unidentified student and Senator Clinton.
And this is one of the planted questions.
A lot of, you know, repair work to do once we get back in.
I'm sorry, thank you all.
As a young person, I'm worried about the long-term effects of global warming.
How does your plan combat climate change?
Well, you should be worried.
And, you know, I find as I travel around Iowa that it's usually young people who ask me about global warming.
Well, what a stock planned answer.
You know, after the episode with Russert and the debate on the driver's license for illegals, they got to be quaking in their boots back there at the Clinton campaign headquarters.
It's got the crime scene tape behind it, rounded.
We all know that.
Another thing, global warming.
I wasn't thinking.
I think I want to applaud my hometown paper in Southeast Missouri.
We do need winter awareness tips because everybody thinks winter's over.
The global warming is here and it's on the horizon.
Ice is melting.
How can ice melt in the middle of winter?
Now, John Edwards, the Brecht girl, decided to charge in here Saturday night in Des Moines at the, this is after the Jefferson Jackson dinner, and he said this to reporters about Mrs. Clinton's planted question.
That's what George Bush does.
George Bush goes to events that are staged, where people are screened, where they're only allowed to ask questions if the questions are favorable.
Yeah, you know, the whole point of planting questions, we have to ask now, how long has this been going on?
Senator Clinton has answered that.
She didn't know anything about it.
But they're going to have to get this out there to end this.
Get it out.
Get it all out there now.
Because if they don't get it all out there, and by the way, they're botching getting it all out there.
I just didn't know my campaign, neither I or campaign would tolerate this.
Certainly, I didn't know anything about it.
Here's what's going to happen.
She is going to live in fear, and the whole campaign will live in fear, that several people who have been approached with planted questions will be held back for an October surprise, quote unquote, by one of her opponents, either Barry Obama or the Brecht girl.
So, you know, when this happened, when I first heard about this over the weekend, staff's going to get blamed.
Mrs. Clinton will say she doesn't know anything about it.
And the prediction has come true.
Well, it was news to me, she said.
Neither I nor my campaign approve of that, and it will certainly not be tolerated.
The staff didn't leave the tip.
Now they're out planting questions, and Mrs. Clinton doesn't know a thing about either.
So staff is guilty, see?
Not a person, the staff.
No investigation, nothing to back up the assertion.
The staff, the nameless, faceless staff takes the hit.
Do I do that on this program when the staff here screws up?
They don't very much.
Sometimes they do, and sometimes I don't know about it.
When I find out, I, ladies and gentlemen, take the hit.
The buck stops with me, or I suspend the guilty, which, in fact, I even suspended myself on Friday for contemplation and reflection on how I could have been hoaxed.
I've figured a bunch of things out about it.
We know who the hoaxer is.
He's a journalist.
He's a liberal journalist, and he writes for The Guardian.
At any rate, what this is, Mrs. Clinton and then, I didn't know, staff didn't know, certainly won't be tolerated.
It's phony excuse.
It is a dodge.
No responsibility taken, no accountability.
But I've had people ask me if we ever plant questions from callers on this program.
People have, that call was just too good.
Did you plant that we never, ever plant phone calls on this program?
If I found out that somebody had planted a phone call, I would tell you which phone call was planted, and I would privately raise a ruckus with whoever it was that had engaged in the fraud.
We'll be back.
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Now, the Clinton campaign, despite every other campaign denying it, is out there saying that virtually every professional presidential campaign plants questions.
What is this?
Every professional name for me an unprofessional presidential campaign?
Who's she talking about here?
Kucinich?
Ron Paul?
Bill Richardson?
By the way, did you see Richardson on Fox News Sunday yesterday?
My gosh, it's like there's a script and he's going to say whatever he's going to say regardless, but he was dead wrong, 180 degrees wrong on the war in Iraq.
It was amazing to watch this.
I mean, Chris Wallace just handed him his watch.
She didn't even know it was happening.
This is just primary time script reading.
Didn't matter what the facts were.
He had to trash the war effort, deny any success was taking place, and get the hell out of there.
So the Clinton campaign says that every professional presidential campaign plants questions, routine part of preparation for the advanced people staging every event.
It's just like everybody lies about sex.
Everybody lies about sex.
Everybody plants questions.
Everybody's dishonest.
Everybody's a snake.
Everybody has no ethics.
Everybody has no morality.
Why are you pointing your flashlight at us?
Barry Obama, Barack Obama, has decided to open up.
He ripped Hillary yesterday for planting easy questions among supporters at her campaign events out of fear, continuing a broader attack on her cautious triangulation in a fiery, fiery speech Saturday night.
Senator Obama accused Senator Clinton of running a textbook Washington campaign in which you don't answer directly tough questions.
You don't present tough choices directly to the American people for fear your answers might not be popular.
In his fiery speech, Barack Obama said, not answering questions because we're afraid our answers won't be popular, just won't do it.
Triangulating in poll-driven positions because we're worried about what Mitt or Rudy might say about us, just won't do it or get it done.
Here's Mrs. Clinton, by the way.
This is Saturday night in Des Moines during the 2007 Jefferson Jackson dinner.
I ask you to go and stand for me in the caucus on January 3rd.
If you will stand for me for a night, I will stand and fight for you every day in this campaign and every day in the White House because together we're going to restore America's leadership, rebuild a strong and prosperous middle class, reform the government, and reclaim the future for our children.
Let's do it, Iowa Democrats.
Let's make sure that we turn up the heat and turn America around.
Thank you and God bless you.
She's off script again.
They have been trying to rein in this maniacal ex-wife rant.
And here it just came surfacing again.
Do you want four years of that?
Do you want to hear four years of that?
We're going to keep that bite standing by because she lost it.
You know, that's the ex-wife rant, or could be current wife rant for all that matters.
And I'm sure the campaigns tried to rein that in after the last time it happened a little over a year ago.
She sounded in Des Moines Saturday night, 2007 Jefferson Jackson dinner, little quick 10-second bite here.
I'm not interested in attacking my opponents, and I believe we should be turning up the heat on the Republicans.
Okay, now that sounds like a pretty fiery speech to me, yet it was Barack Obama who was credited for the fiery speech.
But you got to hear this.
This is also Saturday night in Iowa in Des Moines, the 2007 Jefferson Jackson dinner.
Here is Nancy Pelosi's introduction of Barack Obama.
Queen Bee Syndrome anyone.
fellow Democrats, please welcome the next president of the United States.
Let's go!
Did that not sound like a title fight in Las Vegas?
Let's get ready to rumble.
Nancy Pelosi introducing Barack Obama as the next president of the United States.
We predicted this.
We predicted this when Pelosi was trying to position herself as the most powerful woman in Washington.
I told you that nothing is going to sit well with Hillary because Pelosi's agenda is far left off the charts to satisfy the kooks and the lunatics in the Democrat base.
And Hillary's out there trying to be a centrist and a moderate.
Pelosi's botched her job as speaker, so Hillary's not all that concerned about it.
But with, I didn't, did you know that Pelosi had endorsed Obama?
I had no clue about that.
And so what Obama, what about all of this change that Mrs. Clinton talks about?
What about women are going to vote for her because she's a woman?
And they played the gender card.
They're going to attract all these women to vote for her precisely because she's a woman.
Well, here you've got Pelosi, who is a woman, and she's a big-time Democrat, and she's Speaker of the House.
And you would think that women who all think alike and who are all monolithic would want another woman in the White House as president for the sake of the sisterhood.
But it appears here that Mrs. Pelosi has a different agenda, such as slicing Hillary off at the knees here with Barack Obama.
Well, who wears the pantsuits?
Hillary wears the pantsuits.
Pelosi doesn't wear pantsuits.
Here's Mike in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Great to have you with us.
You're up first.
Hey, Rush.
How in the world are you?
Fine, sir.
Thanks very much.
Well, you deserve it.
I was calling because I...
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You know, that's...
I hate to nitpick here.
But I get screwed.
You know, I hate birthdays because I haven't done anything.
I mean, nobody's done anything except survive for another year, and I guess that's worth celebrating.
But there's no achievement, really, because we're not trying to die and surviving the effort.
So we're trying to live and we pull it off.
It embarrasses me because there's no achievement.
By the same way when people say you deserve it, I don't deserve anything.
I've earned it.
I agree.
I say you deserve it because your attitude is such that you bring it to yourself.
So you earned it.
Okay.
I agree.
I'll go with you earned it.
First, I want to say thanks to a good friend of mine, Ed, that turned me on to you about 15 years ago.
I can't thank him enough.
You're great.
All right to the point.
I love that you're keeping the heat turned up on Hillary, but I really hope that the media continues to carry her water because I want to face her.
I want our Republican candidate, whoever it is, to face Hillary.
I'm very comfortable with whoever running against Hillary, because I think she's a train wreck.
But I'm a little bit less, I'm a little bit more concerned about running against, you know, Obama.
We had a call last week on this, Mike, from a guy who told me to go easy on Mrs. Clinton.
He said, you know, if you're not careful, you are going to, you're going to trash her candidacy.
You, Rush, have the power to do it.
Look at what you did here.
You forced a question in a debate.
That question is still alive and kicking, and it's caused a whole other little few eruptions out there, you know, speed bumps and other kind of bumps in the campaign.
I agree with that in the general election.
I think you'd clobber her.
But I think in the primaries, you've got to, I mean, liberals are going to do the opposite of what Rush says.
If you say, don't vote for Hillary, they're going to say, oh, well, Rush Limbaugh, he doesn't like Hillary, so I'm going to vote for her.
So I don't think it's great that you've got the heat on her because you're going to serve the purpose.
Well, but no, this guy was talking about the primaries.
Like, he wants Hillary to win the primary.
Yeah, me too.
And he's afraid that all this attention that I've started will cause her some problems and that she might actually even lose.
I hope not.
I really hope not.
But I don't think that'll happen in the primaries because, again, I think Democrats are going to do the opposite of what Rush says because, you know, you are, I mean, they're like little children.
And, you know, you're like dad telling them what's right.
And they're like, oh, I don't want to do what Rush says.
I want to do the opposite of what he says.
Well, the key here will be the drive-bys.
The drive-bys will have to assume.
I mean, the smart money would be that get down to nip and tuck time, that it will be the drive-by circling the wagons to pull Hillary's feet from any fire that she's still in going into Iowa.
Because you have to assume the drive-bys want Hillary.
But up until that time, they want excitement.
So they're writing all these stories.
Obama coming on strong.
Fiery speech.
Edwards and Obama teaming up to do what they can to drive Mrs. Clinton out, so forth.
But you have to assume, folks, that the fix is in as far as the drive-by.
And the drive-bys and the Clintons are the same generation.
The drive-bys have nothing in common with Edwards.
The drive-bys look at Obama and say he's not experienced enough.
He's not of our generation and so forth.
Too dull, too boring.
But for the meantime, we've got seven Sundays to go until we get to the Hawkeye Caucasi.
I think seven.
I added them up earlier.
A quick question, by the way, the Hawkeye Cauckey on January 3rd this year.
That's a Thursday night.
I haven't looked.
I'm going to have to look this up.
What if there's a college bowl game on that night?
Probably not.
I think by the time they get to that period, all the bowls are finished at the national championship game, which will be that weekend of the Monday.
I just haven't looked at the college bowl schedule.
Anyway, quick time out here.
I appreciate the call out there, Mike.
We'll be back.
Oh, but before we go, we've got one Barack Obama bite here from the Jefferson Jackson dinner on Saturday night.
And this is an example of his fiery address.
When I am this party's nominee, my opponent will not be able to say that I voted for the war in Iraq.
Or that I gave George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran.
Now, I guarantee we played sound bites of this and Hillary with the current wife-ex-wife rant.
This guy comes off a little bit better.
Did you hear that applause skyrocket there after he talked about Iraq?
I mean, the kooks and the lunatics are the ones that show up at these Jefferson Jackson dinners in Iowa.
What else you got to do?
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This is Tom.
Glad you waited, sir.
You're next.
Thank you, Rush.
You're welcome.
The reason for my call is this morning I was just watching the TV and I heard Mrs. Obama make what I thought was a really racist comment.
She was being interviewed and she was being asked why people of African Americans weren't going for Obama, that the polls were more showing for Clinton.
And Mrs. Obama had a reason for that.
She said that they would slowly come back to Barack Obama because people of color, as she put it, had always something in the back of their mind that they could not do anything right or they were always.
Well, you know what?
We happen to have here an audio soundbite of this.
And this happened on Scarborough's show today on PMS NBC.
It was being interviewed by the co-hostette, Mikab Zezhinski, who had the exclusive interview with Obama.
It's actually going to air tomorrow, but they gave a little preview of that interview today.
And Mika, you can listen to it with me here.
A lot of people would love to be able to do what you're going to get to do here in mere seconds.
Actually, listen to a bite with me.
Are you?
Mikab Jezhinsky says the polls are showing your husband trailing Hillary 4637 in the African-American community.
What's going on here?
What we're dealing with in the black community is just the natural fear of possibility.
You know, when I look at my life, you know, the stuff that we're seeing in these polls has played out my whole life.
You know, always been told by somebody that I'm not ready.
You know, I can't do something.
My scores weren't high enough.
You know, there's always that doubt in the back of the minds of people of color, people who've been oppressed and haven't been given real opportunities that you never really believe, that you believe that somehow someone is better than you.
You know, deep down inside, you doubt whether you can do it because that's all you've been told is no.
Wait.
That's all you hear.
And you hear it from people who love you, not because they don't care about you, but they're afraid.
They're afraid that something might happen.
All right.
Now, is that what you heard her saying, basically, Tom?
Yeah, Rush, because it just struck me, what a racist comment is to blump all black people into one common thought.
Well, I mean, we could use the question and say it's racist.
I mean, the assumption that every black voter ought to be voting for Barack, and because they're not, at least a majority, what's going on?
And so she has to explain it somehow.
I listen to the answer.
I'm not quite sure what she's saying here.
Is she saying that the blacks have been so beaten down and they're so run down that they don't believe that their guy is actually going to win or should win?
It's like they've got a fear of success because they don't deserve it.
Yeah, that's what I.
Yeah, okay.
And so she's got to overcome that, and Barack has to overcome that.
With blacks, of course, it hasn't helped that this guy at the L.A. Times wrote the column on the Magic Negro.
And you know what the point of the Magic Negro was?
That guilty whites are supporting Obama because even though they don't know what he's talking about, they don't know his policies haven't been around long enough, guilty whites are supporting him because it makes them feel better about themselves as though they're not, as though they're not.
I guess maybe her and Biden have a lot in common then.
You know, he's clean and articulate, and he's off the plantation.
Well, but he was never on it.
This is the thing.
See, that's another aspect I don't think she can address.
Barack is not from the civil rights generation.
He is not down for the struggle.
And so that's the tightrope that we're walking.
I know I'm going to have to play this song so people who don't know what I'm talking about.
What do you mean?
He just said, Magic Negro.
What do you mean?
So we'll play the song.
We'll play the song in the top of the next hour just to put this all to perspective.
We've got to run here, Tom.
I appreciate it.
Thank you for having me.
Yeah, it's my pleasure.
I got one more bite here.
Well, no, I want to skip.
Well, no, it was Steve Croft.
Let's go back.
Go back to the archives.
Steve Croft, 60 Minutes, February 11th of this year.
He's got Barack and Michelle on there.
Croft says, Michelle, it's a tough question to ask, but a number of years ago, Colin Powell was thinking about running for president.
His wife really didn't want him to run.
She was worried about some crazy person with a gun.
Is that something you think about?
I don't lose sleep over it because the realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station.
You know, so you, you know, you can't, you know, you can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
We just weren't raised that way.
Does this sound like she's somewhat guilty of the same inferiority complex that she's accusing blacks of having in the first fight we played?
Anyway, Snerdley says, and it may be true for a lot of you, he's this, they're starting to now get revved up about the campaign.
That's starting to get interesting now.
Right, so it's Barack Obama's black people's fault that Barack's behind in the polls.
It's not Barack's fault.
Black people's fault.
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