Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So after Wednesday show, I said, how are we going to top that?
And we managed to on Thursday.
I got here today and I was really tired.
It's been a long week.
It was a late, late, late, late night last night.
How are we going to top Thursday?
Well, I think we're going to.
It's Friday, folks, so let's go.
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President Bush just finished a speech, and he just finished the QA, right at 12 noon Eastern, just in time to make way for this program.
And he spoke to the Economic Club of New York on the economy.
It was a great speech.
It was a home run.
I have one excerpt from it to just share with you.
It's sort of an overall example of the president's tone and his remarks today.
But it really is.
It is.
In these, you know, seesaw economic times, it's really nice to have a president who's dumb enough to understand the real world.
Up against all of these smartest people in the room, the really, really smart crowd that don't understand the real world.
I he said something that I I I guess I had missed in watching the news this week, but he said, you know, there's some uh all these foreclosed homes out there.
He says some somebody in Congress has proposed a bill for state and local governments to buy up those houses that are sit that are sitting empty.
So I can't think of anything stupider.
Those are golden opportunities for first-time home buyers.
You get the government involved in all of this, and it's only going to make a problem.
One of the problems, if you've ever driven around, you've been and you drive it around and you got bad road conditions, and sort of you start spinning out the biggest mistake you make is starting to overcorrect.
And when you overcorrect, you end up in a ditch.
Now I'm sure most of the people in the audience haven't driven a car in I don't know how many years.
Uh, and and probably have never ended up in a ditch, but the uh, you know, average Americans and you average Americans know who you are uh watching this, it was uh it was an excellent point.
Don't overcorrect.
Uh the market is correcting itself.
Don't become protectionist, don't block trade agreement, uh, the trade agreement that's uh in Congress with uh with with Columbia.
Here's a little bit just to get a flavor of uh of the president's attitude and tone today.
On the free market, there's gonna be good times and bad times.
That's how markets work.
There'll be ups and downs.
And after 52 consecutive months of job growth, which is a record, our economy obviously is going through a tough time.
I want to remind you, this is not the first time since I've been the president that we face economic challenges.
We heard a recession, and then there was the attacks of September the 11th, 2001, which many of you saw firsthand.
And I made the difficult decisions to confront the terrorists and extremists and two major fronts, Afghanistan and Iraq.
And then we had devastating natural disasters.
And the interesting thing, every time, this economy has bounced back better and stronger than before.
So I'm coming to you as an optimistic fellow.
And he went on from there, and he got uh mild applause at uh at various points in the uh in the speech.
But we'll have more on that as the uh as the program unfolds today.
But I have to go back, folks.
I cannot let this uh uh end with what we did yesterday.
The the right Reverend uh Jeremiah Wright, the spiritual advisor uh to a Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Uh I have been paying attention to the news media, the drive-bys, the mainstream media.
These people are so in the tank they ought to be embarrassed.
Their job is to ferret out stuff like this and hold the candidates, whoever they are, accountable.
He's getting Obama is a total pass.
In fact, the drive-by media mantra uh on Obama's pastor now seems to be this is guilt by association.
Obama didn't say this.
You can't hold him responsible for this.
You can't hold Obama accountable for it.
He didn't say any of this.
Why?
Uh what is it?
Uh Anderson Cooper last night on CNN.
This this focus on Reverend Wright is just is just completely completely off track.
They're all upset over at CNN, everybody's talking about this, they have to cover it.
They don't want to cover it.
In the New York Times today, uh piece by Jodie Cantor, listen to the listen to the last paragraph.
But despite Mr. Obama's past attempts to distance himself from the harshest language, critics continued to question Wester or whether Pastor Wright's statements reflect Obama's beliefs.
How could they not?
He chose the place.
How could he say, what is it, an innocent bystander in there?
How could they not represent some of his beliefs?
Chose to go there, been there 20 years, this guy baptized his kids.
You know the drill.
We went through all of this yesterday.
When you choose a church to become part of your life, to attend it at least on Sundays, to send your children to.
You're doing more than simply associating with it in some loose way.
This isn't the case of an endorsement from a politically powerful pastor, and some wacko pastor out there, I endorse Obama, and this guy happens to believe the U.S. should be bombed off the planet.
It's not the same thing.
Obama chose to go to this guy's church.
He chose to go out there sit in the pew and listen to the sermons.
He has this guy on his campaign staff.
I know a lot of Democrats don't go to church, Mr. Snerdley, and I'll tell you another problem.
Let's let's cut to the chase here.
A lot of the left in this country, and you'll find a lot of the left represented in drive-by media, don't find much wrong with what the pastor is saying.
That's why to them it isn't a news story.
They don't think, well, of course America's this horrible place.
This guy represents a body of thought in this country that's found in various enclaves of the Democrat Party and in a very large enclave of the drive-by media.
And that's why they don't want to cover it, because to them it's not news.
They know it hurt Obama to come out and say, hey, what's wrong with the guy's uh sermons?
We we agree with all this, or a lot of it.
This pastor, this pastor was the central force in this church, and that's why Obama chose it.
It's why the pastor married them.
It's why he baptized their kids.
There is a um a story on the uh American thinker blog today by C. Edmund Wright, uh, who is not related to Pastor Wright, by the way, and his theory, get this.
His theory uh is simply that the uh choice of this church by Obama was calculated so that Obama could establish his black street cred with certain elements of the American population.
Now, this is this is just his theory.
In other words, he embraced Jeremiah Wright and the church's agenda to get his black street cred to escape his white half.
Uh and now he's trying to divert attention away from his black street cred.
Uh little sober reminder here, he's doing this so he can occupy the oval office.
We are talking about the leading candidate for the Democrat nomination for president of the United States.
Now, this is Mr. C. Edmund Wright's theory that Obama did this to establish street cred.
This 20 years ago, uh, and did this because mitigate his uh his uh his white half.
Uh they chose this church uh because of the charismatic pastor's beliefs.
If they were repulsed by his racism, uh, or his anti-Semitism, or his trip to Libya with Calypso Louis, uh, or the award given to Calypso Lewis by Pastor Wright, they have never showed it.
They never said a word at the time and never said, Oh, Pastor Wright, we're really, really uh unhappy here that you're uh heaving Off uh Libya.
We don't think no, it didn't say a word about that.
Now, here's the thing, too.
The Obamas are very bright people.
You know, they are very, very bright people are highly educated people.
They are politically astute people.
Are we to believe that the pastor's views?
He turns out to be a well-known race bader and hate monger, were unknown to them, were foreign to them.
I think this pastor, it'd be reasonable to conclude that this pastor is one of the reasons that Michelle My Bell Obama harbors the views that she's an angry woman running around out there.
So uh, you know, this pastor doesn't just pop off here and there, folks, like the nutty uncle in the attic that Obama's trying to portray him as.
Uh this was his usual way of talking.
We have a little bit more from him today.
We're gonna get a little extended segments when we come back from the uh commercial break.
And as you will hear, this is how he thinks.
This is who he is.
This is what the church life largely consisted of for the Obamas, and they they chose this and this pastor above all others.
And I'm telling you, the media is out there trying to say it's just guilt by association.
How many times?
I mentioned this yesterday.
How many times of those of you who are evangelical Christians, big time pro-lifers, uh, have you been smeared because you happen to like Pat Robertson?
You've been smeared because you happen to like Jerry Falwell, you've been smeared because you happen to go to church.
I mean, this guilt by association stuff, let's turn it around and do a 180.
A lot of us in this country have been proclaimed guilty, found guilty by virtue of association.
Now all of a sudden, see, it works in a different way when we're talking about liberals.
You still would have a tough time finding out what party Elliott Spitzer belongs to if you're watching any of the drive-by networks or reading a lot of the big papers.
I'll be right back.
Don't go away.
How many Republicans have had to apologize to atone to beg forgiveness for daring to speak at Bob Jones University?
It's quite a large number, folks.
You want to talk about double standards here?
You want to talk about this whole notion of guilt by association?
The double standard here is that if Obama's name were Romney, and if the pastor were preaching hate against blacks and associated with neo-Nazis rather than Qaddafi, he would be disqualified for president.
He would have been drummed out of this campaign many moons ago.
Romney made the point yesterday, victimized because he was a Mormon.
Victimized by liberal media, not because his religion or his minister preach hate or segregation and so forth, but just because he's faced with different from the faith of most others.
And this guy, Jeremiah Wright, is corrupting Christianity like I can't believe what he is what he's preaching is not Christianity.
Let's we've got a longer version of uh of Pastor Wright from what we played yesterday, three minutes and four seconds here.
Who cares about what a poor black man has to face every day in a country and a culture controlled by rich white people?
Somebody missed that.
You got nervous because we got some white members here.
I am still in Bible country.
I am still in the text.
Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people.
The Romans were rich.
The Romans were Italians, which means they were European, which means they were white, and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country.
It just came to me with with with within the past few weeks, y'all, why so many folk are hating on Barack Obama.
He doesn't fit the model.
He ain't white.
He ain't rich, and he ain't privileged.
Hillary fits the mole.
Europeans fit the mole.
Giuliani fits the mole.
Rich.
White men fit the mole.
Hillary never had a cab whiz past her and not pick her up because her skin was the wrong color.
Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong.
I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it.
Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home Barack was.
Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.
Hillary can never know that.
Hillary ain't never been called the nigger.
Hillary has never had a people defined as non-president.
Hillary ain't had to work twice as hard just to get accepted by the rich white folk who run everything or to get a passing grade when you know you are smarter than that C student sitting in the white house.
Oh, I am so glad that I got a God who knows what it is to be a poor black man in a country and a culture that is controlled by and run by rich white people.
He taught me Jesus did how to love my enemies.
Jesus taught me how to love the hell out of my enemies.
And not be reduced to their level of hatred, bigotry, and small-mindedness.
Hillary ain't never had her own people say she wasn't white enough.
Jesus had his own people siding with the enemy.
That's why I love Jesus, y'all.
He never let their hatred dampen his hope.
There is a name I love to hear.
I love to sing his word.
All right, let's play audio soundbite number two.
Let's play one more here.
This by the way, what you just heard was the 2007 Christmas sermon at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
This from the same sermon.
Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill have been good to us.
No, he ain't.
Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky.
He was riding dirty.
He was riding dirty.
And the white own.
Rich white people.
And one more.
We've bleeped this out.
You heard it yesterday.
This is the GD America soundbite.
This is from a 2003 sermon.
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing God bless America.
No, no, no.
Not God bless America.
God d America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
God America for treating us citizens as less than human.
God America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme.
That's the uh Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the spiritual advisor and pastor, chosen pastor Barack Obama for the past 20 years.
Some questions for Senator Obama after all of this.
Senator Obama, surely you knew of your pastor's background, you knew what he believed, you knew what he preached, you knew he was a race bait and a hate monger, yet you not only joined his church, you remained there for 20 years.
You had his pastor marry you and your wife, and you had him baptize your children.
Can you explain yourself here?
Number two, Senator Obama.
Do you think it's healthy for parents to let their young children listen to sermons like this where a pastor is using curse words against God, where he is preaching hatred against whites and Jews, where he's preaching hatred for his own country?
Do you think that's healthy for your kids to hear?
Uh Senator Obama, if uh if you're unaware of what your own pastor of 20 years has been preaching, of his association with Farrakhan, of his trip to see Moamar Qaddafi.
How can you be trusted to be president of the United States?
How can it be said that you are as smart as they say you are if you're going to tell us you don't know what all this guy's been saying?
Senator Obama's recently as 2006.
It's reported that you contributed 22,500 to the pastor's church.
By then you surely knew of his views.
You knew of his trip to Libya with Farrakhan, you knew of the award he gave Farrakhan, you knew all about the hate and racism that your pastor Was spewing.
Why did you give a $22,500 contribution to this church rather than resign from it in protest?
You give this church, Senator Obama, $22,500.
You are endorsing what goes on there.
And you want it to continue.
And how many other contributions to the church have you made, Senator Obama, in your 20-year membership?
You've said that you don't agree with everything the pastor said.
Can you tell us what you agree with from what he has said?
You've told us what you don't agree with.
Please, Senator Obama, tell us what your minister says that you agree with.
These are reasonable questions.
The man is running for the office of President of the United States of America.
And if we didn't have a drive-by media in the tank for the guy, and who probably didn't think half of what this uh preacher says is true, they would be asking these questions.
And Senator Obama, you take offense at Geraldine Ferraro and others.
Little criticisms of you.
We'll be back in a moment.
Stay with us.
A man, a living legend, America's truth detector, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB microphone.
One more audio soundbite here from Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
This is for the Trinity United Church of Christ, a uh a sermon.
Uh this is uh uh shortly after 9 11.
Yeah, I probably hadn't heard this one, Rachel, but in this in this one, Reverend Wright says we deserve what we got.
We rich white people deserve to be blown up on 9-11.
We bombed Hiroshima!
We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pennington, and we never batted an eye.
We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards.
America's chickens are coming home to roost.
Right out of the mouth Malcolm X. Right out of Malcolm X. Right out of Malcolm X. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
Yeah, and it was around the time of JFK's assassination.
Now, Senator Obama, uh we I need to give some credit, somebody.
Brian Ross is the one drive-by reporter who's following up the story and reporting on it.
Now, the Wall Street Journal had a column today by Ronald Kessler, but yesterday, Brian Ross and ABC got to give credit where credit is due.
The rest of the drive-by's are wishing they could make this go away, uh, because they know it is not helpful to Obama.
Uh, but Brian Ross, we've had our disagreements with him in the past, but he's been in there on this one.
Now, also in the uh Pittsburgh Tribune Review today, David Brown uh talked to Obama, and the headline, Obama addresses Pennsylvania's importance, comma, pastor's remarks.
Question.
I don't know if you've seen it, Senator Obama, but it's all over the wire today from an ABC News story, a statement that your pastor, uh Jeremiah Wright, made a sermon, made in a sermon in 2003 that instead of saying God bless America, black people should sing a song, essentially saying, GD America.
Obama, I haven't seen the line.
This is a pastor who is on the brink of retirement, who in the past has made some controversial statements.
I profoundly disagree with some of these statements.
Well, what about this particular statement, Senator Obama?
Well, obviously I disagree with that.
That is what happens when you just cherry pick statements from a guy who had a 40-year career as a pastor.
There are times that people say things that are just wrong, but I think it's important to judge me on what I've said in the past and what I believe.
Well, that's what this is.
Senator Senator Obama, I'm asking you another question.
Could you tell me, cite some things that he has said that you agree with?
So far you've been saying, I don't agree with that, I don't agree with that, but you know, he's sort of like the crazy uncle out there, and he's retired.
He's been out there 40 years.
People are cherry picking, guilt by association.
Uh tell us something he said that you agree with.
There gotta be something you're giving the guy $22,500 at a time.
Don't know how many times, at least once.
Uh This Senator Obama, this is your pastor.
Senator Obama, I got another question for you.
Why did you announce why did you invite your pastor to do the prayer at your announcement when you're going to run for the presidency the night before cancel him?
Why'd you do that?
Why'd you rescend the invitation to your pastor the night before after you had asked him to do the prayer?
Look at it, it's not Geraldine Ferraro asking these questions.
It's me.
El Rushbo.
Does give us some insight into Michelle Obama's comments, though, does it not?
I think it goes to the church.
She goes to the church or then she's been mad for a long time, and the church has only made her matter.
I'm telling you, she wasn't proud of her country until when, till this presidential campaign came along.
Uh, and Obama tried to pass over that by saying, Well, what are you trying to say?
That she's unpatriotic, but her comment certainly reflects the views of her pastor.
I mean, her pastor's not proud of the country, pastor hates the country.
Uh let me tell you something, folks.
It is clear that Senator Obama is not being forthright.
I'll drop the wife.
I don't care about the wife.
I just think there's a reason for the attitude that she has.
Senator Obama is the one running, and he's not being forthright at all.
He's spinning now.
Nobody's cherry picking anything.
He is spinning.
This pastor's record is full of hate and race baiting.
It's who he is.
It's what he preached.
And the kind of responses we're getting from Obama simply not adequate.
They are not adequate, and the more he's running for president.
The more he responds the way he is currently responding, the more questions it raises about his ability to lead the nation.
He's got a 40-year career of this is the point.
He leads double life.
He's got two lives.
He's got the life before he decided to run for president a year and a half ago or two years ago.
And he's got the decades of life prior to that.
And that life we're not really going to be told much about.
We're supposed to look at only the last two years of Obama.
But you've spent Senator Obama 20 years following Jeremiah Wright.
See, it's Obama who's doing the cherry picking.
It isn't us.
Obama is trying to carve out phrases here and there where he says he disagrees with his pastor, justifying his statements about Israel, for instance, or concocting phony contexts for the statements.
He's not made a clean break from this racist hate monger.
He's got him on his campaign staff, some sort of advisory role.
His association with this pastor runs very, very deep.
Let me put a fine point on it, ladies and gentlemen.
This was Obama's spiritual advisor.
The idea that this is guilt by association is a disgraceful, transparent attempt to dismiss racial hatred.
And I see some of these Democrat operatives on cable TV willing to sell out their own principles and values in defense of this racism in order to propel Obama's campaign further down the road.
And this is what they are doing with this kind of defense, make no mistake about it, selling out their own principles and values in defense of this racism.
Any pundit, any pundit who says that this is nothing more than guilt by association, when this pastor was and is Obama's spiritual advisor and leader is destroying their reputations.
They're excusing racism, they're excusing hatred, anti-Semitism, because that's what Obama's pastor preaches.
Let me suggest, uh, ladies and gentlemen, the kind of hate that Pastor Wright was preaching, and that he represents is the kind of radicalism we denounce, the kind of hijacking of religion that we denounce.
I am saying that somebody who abuses his position and the Bible to preach hate and racism and anti-Semitism is to be thoroughly denounced.
He is using Christianity to promote personal views that are unconscionable, totally anti-ethical, uh, and antithetical to Christian values and beliefs, and the idea that Obama selected this church because of this pastor, because of his message.
Why else would he have chosen this church?
Is no small matter.
And just because the liberal media ignore it, doesn't mean the people of this country should.
Obama's asking for our votes.
He's asking us to follow him.
He's asking us to allow him to lead the nation.
He is asking for such authority over our country and the future and the well-being of our families and society.
Well, somebody asks for that kind of power, you damn well know we are going to dig in to who the man is that we are thinking of investing that power.
Alarms are going off here.
And if the drive-by media won't do its job, that's their problem.
I can handle it.
It's open line Friday.
It's Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone, the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
Obama's spokesman, a guy named Bill Burton has put out a statement.
May I read the statement to you people?
I have it here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Senator Obama deplores divisive statements other than those he agrees with, in which he sends them 22,500.
I'm sorry, that it's not part of statement.
Let me start again.
Senator Obama deplores divisive statements, whether they come from his supporters, the supporters of his opponent talk radio, or anywhere else.
Talk radio.
By the way, it was Senator Obama, February 16th, 2008.
He said this.
Don't tell me words don't matter.
I have a dream.
Just words.
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
Just words.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Just words.
Just speeches.
Words mean things.
Words matter.
No, no, no, but except in the case of the pastor.
In which case is a crazy uncle.
He's been cherry-picked.
He's got a 40-year career out there.
Uh, and he's just he tries to be provocative.
To the phones we go.
On Open Line Friday, we'll start in Philadelphia.
This is Tom.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Uh Rush.
Yeah.
Rush, listen, you don't understand this man.
He's coming from a black perspective.
You see, you being a white rich man, you you have no conception of what the man's saying.
You know, you have no understanding of what he's saying.
I'm glad you called Tom.
You're proving the point that I got there's a ton of people like.
No, no, you I'm glad you called.
You did you are sh are are illustrating my point that there's a lot of people agree with what this guy said.
I didn't agree.
I said he comes from a black perspective, which you don't understand.
Uh that's a wait a second.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Let's let's say that somebody comes from some sort of perspective that everybody finds repugnant.
We're just supposed to excuse it.
What's that?
This this man is preaching hatred for America.
He is taking the Lord's name in vain in a church.
I didn't hear take the name the Lord's name in vain.
That's a lot.
That's that's a lie.
He didn't take the man the Lord's.
Well, we bleeped it.
You didn't hear it, and I'm not going to repeat what he said.
He said instead of God bless America.
He said the Lord cursed the United States.
That's what he said.
Hey, wait a minute.
Falwell said the same thing.
Farwell and Robertson said the same thing, didn't they?
That there was a punishment on America.
Didn't they say that?
I didn't hear you condemned.
I don't know, one of the two might have one of the two might have, but but of course they were roundly.
No, this is the point, Tom.
They were roundly ridiculed, criticized, and banished.
Uh thank you.
Thanks for the call.
I think we I think Sturdley found another one.
Uh Cedric in New Haven, Connecticut.
Hi, Cedric.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, it's a pleasure.
It's a pleasure to speak to you, Rush.
Thank you.
Yeah, my question, I I wanted to know what you specifically found offensive about uh what he said.
Was it the term white rich or you know, I didn't understand exactly what you found it.
I think I think the overall disgust I have with it is its tone and its message.
It is hate mongering and it is racism, and it's the kind of hate mongering and racism that's been excused in our society for too long because it's coming from a minority.
Uh this is this this country has made more progress in the areas of equality and ending discrimination and so forth than any other Western society which has had the problems in the past that this country has.
Mr. Wright is stuck 50 years ago, and his sermons are making his his flock continue to hate this country.
He is dispiriting them, and he is essentially telling they have no prayer, they have no chance, they have no hope to get anywhere because rich white people are stepping on them and keeping them down, and yet there are rich black people, more and more of them every year in this country, rising to positions of prominence.
They are all they are castigated and they are insulted by the likes of Reverend Wright.
It is a shame what he is doing to his flock.
What we have here is an egomaniac who is using a church to advance a political and social cultural movement.
He is not, he is bastardizing Christianity.
He is using that as the uh as as the as the technique here to legitimize uh the things that he is saying.
This is why I asked earlier, what in the world, who in their right mind would want their young children to go into a church and hear sermons like this every day.
Uh may be the black church experience, but it isn't a good one.
It's certainly, and I hope it's not the majority of black churches in this country.
It's certainly not a good example.
This is not something that's in any good for this congregation.
Uh I think there's a race industry in this country that exists to keep poor black people poor and angry and feeling like they got no chance, so they become dependent and keep voting Democrat.
I think it's a scam.
I think what they have done, the Democrat Party to the black population of this country with welfare and all these different programs piled on top of it was destroy the black family.
The government replaced the father, so the father could father kids and not have to stay at home.
Go out and do whatever he did, not have to accept responsibility because here came the next welfare check.
And more and more kids were given birth to so that more and more checks had come in.
And the Democrats stood by and they let this happen, wanted it to happen because with every birth, a new Democrat voter was born.
And with every new birth, a new poverty-stricken child likely was born.
Made to order for Democrats who need as many victims as possible.
This is the United States of America 2008.
Anybody and everybody has obstacles to overcome.
We all do.
And more and more people are being taught how to overcome those obstacles and succeed.
Jeremiah Wright doesn't want him to learn how to overcome obstacles.
He wants them to think it's impossible.
Obama's church uh been under investigation for a while now by the IRS.
Uh because the I it's tax exempt.
The IRS thinks there might be too much uh politics going on in there.