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Jan. 15, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 15, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I know.
I've got everybody talking to me right when the program's supposed to start.
They've called a truce.
They supposedly called a truce here in the uncivil war between Barack Obama and the Clintons.
Remember, it's two against one, folks.
Poor old Obama, the black guy, being ganged up on by an ex-president and a sitting senator.
Both with the same last name.
Greetings.
Great to have you back.
It's Rush Limboy and the EIB network.
Here we are behind the Golden EIB microphone with three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead.
Some truce.
The drive-bys are obsessed with this.
This is so fabulous to see.
This race war that has, and by the way, it's not just about race.
It's about drugs.
They're not letting that one die.
Bill Clinton is out there doing his impersonation of Joseph McCarthy.
He's holding up a piece of paper, goes on a radio show.
I got here a list.
And I got a list here.
80 charges, 80 things that Obama's been saying about my wife.
80 things he'd been keeping track out there.
Folks, this is the dirty little secret that's surfacing and nobody likes it on the Democrat side of the aisle.
They are obsessed with race.
Their racism and their sexism has surfaced for one and all to see.
It's just a matter of people like us pointing it out here and putting it all in its proper perspective, which we will do on the program today.
But first, before we get into all of that, how many of you, let's start with asking those of you who are relatively youthful, say those of you who graduated Haskrule in the last 15 years,
during the multicultural takeover of the American Haskruel curriculum, how many of you have been taught that Christopher Columbus brought syphilis, racism, sexism, homophobia, and environmental destruction to the new world when he came here from the old world?
How many of you have been taught that?
It's a shocking number, I am sure.
The truth now has finally come out.
The spread of syphilis across the globe was probably sparked by Columbus and his crew who arrived to the new world, arrived in the new world sterile.
They did not bring syphilis with them.
They got it from the Native Americans.
That's the latest research.
And then once Columbus and his crew contracted syphilis, the bacteria, whatever it is, when they went back to the old world, bamboo, it spread like the plague.
A comparison of 23 strains of the bacterium found that the modern variety that causes the sexually transmitted disease, syphilis, was most closely related to bacteria collected from a remote tribe in Guyana.
Because the tribe had had little contact with the outside world, researchers think the strains very close to what was circulating in the Americas at the time of Columbus's voyage in 1492.
The study published in the journal Public Library of Science, neglected tropical diseases, that's the name of the magazine.
Would you love to have a subscription?
The public library of science-neglected tropical diseases.
What would the center fold in a magazine like that be?
Anyway, it adds more fuel to the long debate over the origin of syphilis.
There are loose ends, but it looks as if it's very interesting evidence pointing to New World being the ancestor of venereal syphilis, said Della Collins Cook, a physical anthropologist at Indiana University in Bloomington, who was not involved in the study.
Other experts argued that the study's findings were still not strong enough to overturn the theory that venereal syphilis in Europe evolved from local strains.
So you have to have the critics in there, but the latest research, ladies and gentlemen, is that Christopher Columbus's gang arrived clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, and then they got into a little whoopee with the Indians in Guyana and bam, syphilis was then taken to the rest of the world.
Big, big success going on in Iraq.
Nobody is talking about it.
Not only military success, but political success as well.
60 insurgents were killed in an offensive.
Al-Qaeda insurgents, 193 have been detained.
79 weapons caches have been found and captured.
Also on Monday, the senior U.S. officials in Iraq issued their first statement about the passage Sunday of a law allowing Bath Party officials to return to government, the first of the political benchmarks set by the United States.
Passage of this law represents a signal achievement in that Iraqi political leaders have collectively chosen to reform a debathification process that many regarded as flawed, unfair, and a roadblock to reconciliation.
That's General Petraeus in a statement.
So of course, none of this is being covered.
And I told you that this is going to be the case, folks.
I know what I'm talking about.
When I tell you that the Iraq war will not be an election year issue, not after the primaries, and it's not even much of one during the primaries.
And the more success there is there, the less news about it there will be.
Now, in addition to the truce, the so-called truce, which I don't believe, but I don't think there is a truce, it's the uncivil war between Obama and the Clintons is not the only dust-up that's happening out there.
The Nevada caucuses are becoming a proxy for the racially tinged fight for the Democrat presidential nomination.
This is the AP with Barack Obama's campaign criticizing Hillary's allies for a lawsuit that could prevent some minorities from participating.
On Friday, six Democrats in a teachers' union connected to Clinton filed a lawsuit claiming that the rules enabling Las Vegas strip waitresses, dishwashers, and bellhops to caucus inside nine hotels violate state law and federal equal protection guarantees.
Other caucus goers lack the same access.
The suit argues.
The Clinton campaign has said it's not involved in a lawsuit.
Obama campaign says it may not be a coincidence that Clinton allies are the plaintiffs.
There are no coincidences with the Clintons.
Now, this is pretty funny, too, because this is an ugly mess out there.
The Democratic Party in Nevada let the casino workers caucus at their work sites.
In the Bellagio, for example, a 30,000 square foot ballroom will be used.
And all the employees will be able to vote and caucus in there rather than having to go back to their homes and this sort of thing.
Now, the interesting thing about this, the Democrat machine thought that this was great when Hillary was thought to get union endorsements.
But now that the teachers' union Is suing to get to have the caucus as their place of work because these unions, most of them, have endorsed Obama.
So the Clintons are very, very upset about this, and they're taking notes, ladies and gentlemen.
Clinton Inc. striking back here while a supposed truce is going on in the uncivil war.
By the way, yesterday on this program, one of the two monologues that people were talking about all day was the state of conservatism and where it's headed.
And I bounced off a comment made by Newt Gingrich on the George Stephanopoulos ABC show on Sunday in which he said that the Reagan era is over.
Newt, of course, heard about it, sent me a note, hey, well, I want to come on and talk about this.
He was on Fox and Friends this morning, and they portrayed this.
Steve Doocy and his gang portrayed this as a feud between Newt Gingrich and me.
I don't think it's a feud, ladies and gentlemen, but Newt is going to go.
I want to talk to him about this.
You know, we never hear, we never hear the Libs say that the FDR era is over.
We never hear the Libs say that the Teddy Roosevelt era is over.
We never hear anybody say the Churchill era is over.
We never hear that the Great Society is over.
The New Deal era is over.
We never hear that.
The Dems do not do this to themselves.
The Reagan era, and Newt clarified this morning, by the way, what he said, look, I'm all for conservatism, but he didn't say this on Sunday, and that's why I reacted.
What he said today, we've got the audio of it, in fact, grabbed it.
Let me just, instead of beating around the bushes here, what's the soundbite numbers?
Number 19, this is an exchange, a portion of it between Steve Doocy and Newt Gingrich about his comments, the Reagan era is over.
Some comments you made over the weekend, I heard replayed on Russia Envoy yesterday.
Is it true, sir, that you think that the Ronald Reagan era is over in America?
That's just objectively a fact.
I think if Governor Reagan were here today and he were looking at where America should go, he wouldn't be saying, let's go back to 1980.
He'd be saying, here are the solutions, here are the policies, here's what will carry us into the future.
And I think we've watched these guys run around saying, I'm like Reagan, I'm like Reagan.
Reagan was a unique one-time personality whose great achievement in eliminating the Soviet empire was historic.
Now we have a different world with a different set of problems.
I don't think it can be, here's how you go back 28 years to reinvent Reagan.
It's got to be here's how you apply conservatism to solve America's problems today.
Wait a minute, Newt.
How are you going to apply conservatism to today's problems when you just said it's dead?
Reaganism is simply conservatism.
That's all it is.
And if the era of Reagan is objectively, being over is objectively a fact, then conservatism's finished.
Now, this is, nobody's talking about going back to the 1980s and reliving the same set of policies.
What we're talking about is applying principles, which is what Reagan did, to the existing problems of that era.
Those policies, the premises of conservatism, work.
They are timeless.
It's not a scheme.
It doesn't have to be bent, molded, and shaped.
These things are tenets of conservatism survive throughout the ages, just like liberalism does.
I mean, they're both philosophical ideas.
For our side to run around saying, well, it's over, misses the whole point.
Nobody's talking about bringing Reagan back with the identical set of problems in 1980.
We're talking about the principles of conservatism and applying them to today's problems and not moderating them, not modifying these principles.
So they're a little liberal here and a little liberal there, maybe a little moderate over here.
Anyway, we'll talk with Newt Gingrich in the last hour of the program today.
He will first up in the final hour today.
In the meantime, a quick time out.
We'll come back and get started with all the rest of this after this.
By the way, one thing on this Columbus business with the syphilis, the AP, the drive-by media, the headline in the story is blames, it gets the whole thing totally and entirely wrong.
New study blames Columbus for syphilis spread.
When that's not what Columbus arrived here, according to Lena's theory, a syphilis virgin, an STD virgin, at least for this particular strain, and had some whoopee with the Guyana Indians and in Bambo went back over to the New World or Old World and spread.
And that's the guts of the story, but the multicultural curriculum has so taken hold that the headline in the drive-by, new study blames Columbus for syphilis spread.
If that's all people read, they're not going to know, they're going to know the exact opposite of the truth of the story.
All right, we have a ceasefire in the uncivil war.
This is Shades of Hamas and Hezbollah.
Now, remember, folks, remember what a ceasefire is.
A ceasefire is not an end to the war.
A ceasefire exists for one reason.
It's a chance for the losing side to rearm.
The losing side calls a truce, calls a ceasefire.
And everybody goes, oh, isn't it wonderful?
They want to stop fighting.
They want to stop arguing.
They want to get back to the issues.
Meanwhile, in the war room at Clinton, Inc., they are simply rearming.
As of this moment in time, the Clintons are the losing side.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008.
So the Clintons want a ceasefire.
And all the Uncle Bills agree.
You know what an Uncle Bill is?
The folks who used to toss around the label Uncle Tom.
There's a bunch of Uncle Bills, black guys siding with the Clintons, abandoning their own race.
This is just beautiful to see, folks.
Racial solidarity has long been one of the traditions of the Democrat Party.
Now, all of a sudden, the fissures are wide open.
The boils have been lanced.
The pus is oozing out all over the Democrat Party.
It's not pretty.
Black people are lining up alongside their various allegiances to Obama or to Clinton.
And these Uncle Bills, these Uncle Toms, are selling out to Uncle Bill.
Make that Uncle Bill and Aunt Hillary, by the way, because they're a tag team.
Even a casual observer, ladies and gentlemen, cannot help notice the ceasefire seems to be about race, but not about drugs.
The Clinton Inc. War Room continues to get this drug story about Obama into the drive-by media.
And notice nobody is asking Mrs. Clinton about this.
I mean, Bill Clinton said that he didn't inhale.
Somebody needs to ask Hillary, did you inhale?
The drug story is a one-sided angle.
It's all being aimed at Obama.
And of course, it's not a mystery.
He wrote about it in his book.
It's their own talking point, by the way, this drug business.
Don't forget the very words that Bill Shaheen, the national co-chair of Hillary's campaign in New Hampshire, the very words he was told to say before he was told to resign.
You know the Republicans are going to bring this into the campaign.
We had better face it now.
Standard Clinton Inc. line.
You know Republicans are going to bring this up.
So as far as Clinton Inc. was concerned and their minion Bill Shaheen, they were doing a public service for the Democrat Party.
No, no, no, they weren't attacking Obama.
They knew that the Republicans would do it, and so they wanted to get it over and done with before the general election.
Now, that must indicate a fear that Obama might win.
And of course, Shaheen and the Clintons are not trying to help Obama win.
So it was not what they tried to claim it was, a public service.
They're simply out there trying to destroy the guy.
Once again, Democrat machine politics destroying an upstart black candidate.
Not first time, won't be the last.
What I hope happens here is that people on the Democrat side see what's happening.
For all of these years, the Democrat Party has promised the oppressed and discriminated against African American population, stick with us, boys, and you're going to end up in a seat of power.
You're going to have racial harmony.
You're going to have economic prosperity.
We're going to get you past those mean Republicans who keep sitting on you and stomping you down.
We're going to make sure that you get what is yours.
We're going to make sure you get fairness.
We're going to make sure that you get equality.
And yet, when one of these people is an upstart like Obama actually gets serious about it, it's okay.
I'll take you up on it.
Guess what happens?
The Democrat machine literally tries to destroy.
They go.
You've got to see.
I don't.
You think they would see it, but look, there's this thing called denial, ladies and gentlemen.
We all have it.
We deny our own shortcomings.
We blame them on other people.
These people on the Democrat side, the African-American population has been so imbued with the glory and the greatness and the salvation and the promises of the Democrat Party machine that it's hard for a couple of instances to wipe 50 years of a slate clean.
But the longer this continues, the greater the odds that some people are going to notice this.
I don't know how you can't.
Remember now what I told you.
I want to keep hammering this.
The Democrat machine, they're in chaos over this.
I know a lot of you people thought I was crazy when I said the Democrats are in chaos, particularly the Clintons after New Hampshire.
Why, Rush, they just won.
They won big.
What do you mean, chaos?
This race war, this uncivil war, truce or no truce, is just one small example of the chaos they face.
See, they are the real racists.
They are the real sexists.
But they think that either one of them, Mrs. Clinton or Barack, can be beaten by us because we cheat, because we're mean.
We are the racists and sexists, they believe, and they think we have perfected destroying people on that basis.
While, in fact, Republicans aren't even commenting on this.
It's all Democrats, all race, all the time.
And if you look at the machine side of this, the Clinton side, they are literally trying to destroy the legitimate first black American with a chance to win the presidency.
Back after this.
Screams of joy, sometimes panic.
At the very mention of my name, welcome back.
Here we are on the EIB Network from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
All right, how long is the ceasefire going to hold, ladies and gentlemen?
For how long?
Till the next poll comes out.
By the way, I think I love the name drive-bys, but I've got a subname for them, the Politburo.
All they are is a bunch of pollsters.
Every bit of news they make now comes via a poll.
So we have the drive-bys in the central committee of the Politburo.
P-O-L-L-It.
Politburo.
Now, the talk of drugs, before we get to the audio soundbites, Barack Obama's campaign has dismissed as not believable the prominent Hillary Clinton backer's tortured explanation for seeming to inject Obama's youthful drug use into the campaign, called it troubling that Clinton has not done more to distance herself from the remark.
Bill Clinton, Uncle Bill, was drawn into the controversy on Monday in appearances on black radio talk shows.
He told one host, Roland Martin, that the impolitic remarks by supporters, you know, Roland, sometimes they just happen out there.
I mean, it happened in politics.
I think it's important not to overact all this.
These things happen.
They just happen?
They just accusing your opponent of drug use and perhaps selling drugs.
These things just happen.
Have we forgotten what all happened here?
Bill Shaheen resigned after saying the Republicans are not going to give up on a fight.
One of the things they're certainly going to jump on is Obama's drug use.
Then he alluded to the fact that he might be selling drugs.
Then the Clinton pollster, Mark Penn, added kerosene to all this by saying cocaine use went on hardball talking about the Shaheen incident.
He said, well, I think we made clear that the issue related to cocaine is not something the campaign was in any way raising, thereby mentioning it again.
Clinton officials were pressed on Monday for explanations why the drug issue keeps being blurted out.
And of course, Bill Clinton, I mean, these things, they just happen.
They just happen as part of it.
Yes, there's a coincidence out there.
The only guy that knows it's not coincidence with Limbaugh.
Limbaugh understands that nothing with us is coincidence, but I can fool all the rest of you people, especially you black talk show hosts.
You're so eager to have me.
I have you eaten out of my hand.
I have you believe whatever I say because you know that I was the first black president.
This Obama guy is a fake and he's a pretender and he's a phony.
And you're going to help us destroy the guy.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Monday night, the drive-bys in panic because they know that the uncivil war could tear their party apart.
So they decided that the truce had been called.
And I'm sure their theory is if they say it enough, it will be true.
Here is a montage.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton called for a truce.
Call for a truce.
Calls for truce.
The truce.
Calling a truce.
The two frontrunners look for a truce.
Called a truce in that war.
Call a truce.
Calling a truce.
Tonight, but call for a truce.
It was all over the drive-by.
It's amazing how this happens.
It just never ceases to amaze me.
Now, here's the Obama statement that the drive-bys say means that there is a truce.
This was in Arena, Nevada yesterday at a press conference.
Here's what Obama said.
I may disagree with Senator Clinton or Senator Edwards on how to get there, but we share the same goals.
We're all Democrats.
We all believe in civil rights.
We all believe in equal rights.
No, Obama, you know you don't believe that.
You don't have equal rights when the Clintons are gunning for you.
You do not have civil rights.
Obama, if those people in the Democrat machine were honest, they'd all be getting out of the way and saying it's yours, pal.
It's your turn.
It's time.
We have been angling for black power throughout our struggle.
We have been down for the struggle with you.
And it's time that we stood as no way, Obama.
You have fairness, equal rights with these people.
They're out to destroy you.
And they're using race to do it, Obama, and they're using drug use.
Now, I know this is the politic thing to say, but I hope behind the scenes at Obama headquarters, they understand what's going on here.
And I hope a lot of the black population in this country understands what's going on here.
It's plain as day for everybody to see.
It is not conservatives.
It's not Republicans trying to take Barack Obama out.
It is the Clinton Democrat machine.
And it is not the first time, ladies and gentlemen, we've chronicled all the examples of black candidates who have been destroyed or denied by the Clinton machine, a Clinton hate squad.
That's what this is.
Uncle Bill, Aunt Hillary, and the Clinton hate squad.
This is pure hate.
What else would you call this?
Here's what Hillary had to say at an event celebrating Martin Luther King's birthday.
This was yesterday in New York City.
We may differ on minor matters, but when it comes to what is really important, we are family.
She got booed at this appearance.
Nobody's buying this family stuff.
You're not treating Obama like a brother in either way.
You define the term.
You're not treating Obama as a member of your family at all.
You're treating him like an insect.
Well, you know, I know that I don't, I don't know what happened to Black Accent at the Martin Luther King event.
You mean the, I ain't no way tired that black accent?
I don't think she had time to use it.
She got booed there, dogged by continuing racial tensions around her campaign.
Hillary drew a smattering of booze on Monday when she spoke at a religiously tinged Martin Luther King Jr. rally put together by a union organizing predominantly black security workers.
The cat calls came when Clinton was introduced.
Her speech drew only tepid applause compared to the boisterous ovations drawn by many of the pastors and the reverends, not to mention a hip-hop artist and a slam poet.
What's a slam poet?
Tell me what's a slam poet.
Just a poet.
Yeah, but okay, why do they call it a slam poet?
What is a poet slam something?
Is it angry?
Is it angry?
Angry poet.
Okay, all right, angry poet.
All right, fine.
All these people took the podium before her.
She was late being added to this event.
By the way, Obama, this union endorsed her last year, Clinton last year, but leader Fishman didn't mention her in an impassioned speech about the union's efforts to organize security workers.
Obama got plays and applause at the same.
He wasn't there, but when his name was mentioned, he was roundly applauded.
More audio soundbites on the so-called truce.
Here is James Clyburn.
He is the head honcho of the Congressional Black Caucus, a central figure in the Democrat primary in South Carolina.
He claims that he negotiated a truce.
He was on Charlie Rose last night on PBS.
And Rose said, what did Senator Clinton say to you or President Clinton about their case and how they feel about what has transpired last week while you were away?
I've spoken to both of them.
I think they're both very remorseful about this.
I've spoken with Senator Obama.
What did he say?
Senator Obama would love for this to get behind us.
This gentleman has a resume that all of us worked hard back in the 60s to bring about.
We were working so that the Obamas, who, by the way, is the same age, just a few months of difference between him and my daughter Mignon, we were working.
My friend.
Your friend, absolutely.
To make sure that Mignon and Barack would not have to go through the things that we went through.
And so I'm very proud of both of them.
And so we ought not really have this campaign being bogged down with race or gender.
He named his daughter after a steak that you heard right.
The daughter's name is Mignon.
But that's beside the point, ladies and gentlemen.
This was an amazing soundbite.
He says he spoke to both of them that Clinton and Obama are both very remorseful about this.
I don't believe the Clintons are remorse.
If there's any remorse in the Clinton camp over this, it is over the fear of what this might cause.
There is not remorse over the fact that it's happening because it's part of the strategy.
It's part of the attack from Clinton, Inc.
There's no remorse about this.
But look at what he said, something I just mentioned to you.
Obama has a resume that all of us worked hard back in the 60s to bring about.
We were working so that the Obamas could accomplish these kinds of things to make sure that Barack would not have to go through the things that we went through.
And yet he's going through them.
Barack Obama is going through the same things that civil rights leaders say they went through 50 years ago.
And who's putting Obama through those things?
The Clintons, the Democrat Party machine.
This is what I have always said, ladies and gentlemen, without having to be beholden to the civil rights movement.
We worked hard to give Obama his resume.
He owes them.
Obama owes the civil rights movement, not himself, for his success.
Right.
This is why I said Clarence Thomas posed the biggest threat to the civil rights coalition because he got there without them.
Same thing with Dr. Thomas Sowell, same thing with Walter Williams, any conservative, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell.
They all got there without these prescriptions and these shepherds and these fathers of the civil rights movement.
So Obama hasn't done anything on his own.
He has benefited from the hard work and the beatings and the riots and the hoses and so forth of all of the civil rights leaders that came before him.
So when you are a lib Democrat and you're black, your achievements are not your own unless they are your own, in which case they denounce you and try to destroy you.
So it's not as vitriotic as Clarence Thomas faced, but believe me, it's every bit as vicious.
They may not be accusing him of the things they accused Clarence Thomas of, but they are still attacking him because he's an uppity black who did not go through the civil rights movement.
Clyburn can claim they did all they want from Obama, but they have nothing to do with Obama's success.
And so this is brilliant.
This is just great, folks, for one and all to see which party, which ideology is obsessed totally with race and sex and sexual orientation and all these other identifiers that end up putting people in groups and deny them individuality.
You just heard it.
You just heard Clyburn deny Obama's individuality, his own self.
He could not have gotten where he is were it not for the civil rights movement.
Now, I understand what Clyburn's trying to say.
Clyburn is trying to get a little dig into the Clintons.
But you have to read this both ways.
And he's right when he says, look, you know, we've been working hard for this to happen, for the Democrats to allow blacks equal opportunity and so forth.
And we don't like it being denied to them.
Quick time out.
Just don't forget, Mr. Clyburn, who's doing the denying.
Don't forget who's doing the attacking.
Don't forget who's trying to destroy Obama.
He ain't us.
It's the Clinton machine.
Back in a second.
I just did some research on these slam poets out there, Mr. Snerdley.
They're far more than angry.
They're idiots.
They're nudjobs.
They're wackos.
Anyway, look at the so-called truce in the uncivil war.
The drive-bys have called one.
Hopefully, people will believe there is one.
But the foot soldiers are still out there fighting the war.
Clinton American Charlie Wrangell, also known as an Uncle Bill.
My new term for Uncle Tom.
You know what an Uncle Tom is?
Betraying the race for the favor of the white master.
Well, Charlie Wrangell, foot soldier in the uncivil war, a Clinton American and an Uncle Bill, has just called African American Barack Obama stupid.
Last night on New York One's inside City Hall, a host Dominic Carter spoke with Wrangell about this recent battle over race between Hillary Clinton and Obama.
Carter said Barack Obama said Hillary Clinton's words baffled him.
What about that, Congressman Rankle?
How race got into this thing is because Obama said race.
But there is nothing that Hillary Clinton has said that baffles me.
I would challenge anybody to belittle the contribution that Dr. King has made to the world, to our country, to civil rights, and to the Voting Rights Act.
But for him to suggest that Dr. King could have signed that act is absolutely stupid.
It's absolutely dumb to infer that Dr. King alone passed the legislation and signed it into law.
So what's the discrepancy?
What did Senator Obama mean by injecting race?
I don't see it.
Whoa.
So Clinton foot soldier and Uncle Bill, Charlie Wrangell, calls Obama stupid and then asks what he means by injecting race into this.
He didn't.
Obama's been trying to take the high road for so long now that he owns it.
He hasn't injected race.
Obama's sitting here getting hit from all sides, and he's trying to take the high road and reacting to this stuff.
So now we've got black on black crime in the Democrat presidential primaries, and the black on black criminals are inspired by the Clinton machine.
Uncle Bill's, the foot soldiers in the uncivil war.
While the truce goes on, they're still out fighting the battles.
Now, pre-truce, before the so-called truce, Obama used a word that he learned from the Reverend Docs to describe the Clinton camp last night, NBC's nightly news.
I think that there's some intentionality on the part of the Clinton campaign to knock us off message.
Some intentionality.
That word coined now in the street dictionary, thanks to the Reverend Jackson.
But the point is that Obama, that's high road.
You know, what he's saying is, of course, they're bringing this race stuff into this.
Of course they're attacking me.
They're trying to get me off message.
But I'm not going to go off message.
This debate, by the way, continued on the news hour last night on PBS.
John Lewis and Reverend Lowry, Joseph Lowry of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
This campaign is ripping the Democrat Party coalition to shreds here.
You've got blacks siding against blacks.
Meanwhile, you've got a black candidate.
I always thought, look, Of all groups, political groups in this country, we are told, and the Democrat Party reacts and plans on the basis that the black vote in this country is monolithic, that black thought in this country is monolithic, that it's just a few renegades who vote for Republicans.
And hell, 92% of black vote usually goes for Democrats in presidential election years.
So they've succeeded in portraying the renegades as a bunch of kooks, a bunch of Uncle Toms, so forth and so on.
But now, the exact opposite is on display.
Now we have, apparently, a price to be paid by Obama for not being part of the monolithic group of people and using monolithic thought, because the Clintons probably think that in a fair and just world, he'd get out of the way for them.
The AP today.
And we're going to get to your phone calls next hour, folks.
Sit tight.
The AP wringing its hands today and last night in a story, Sexism, Racism, which is more taboo.
And of course, they bring your host into a story that is exclusively about Democrats.
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