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So the Democrats, my friends, now have a choice.
Well, I mean, they don't have a choice, but they have to choose.
They have to choose between two collapsing narratives.
The collapsing fiction of Barack Obama the Uniter, because if we're learning anything, I don't care whether he was in a pew when Reverend Jay Wright was sitting out there making all the hateful comments.
I don't care whether he was in the pew.
Everybody says, see, the drive-bys are trying to run a little roadblock here.
A smokes great.
Well, well, you can't say he was ever there.
Nobody ever said he was ever there.
They tried to say he was there, but he wasn't there, and they lied.
Doesn't matter.
We get into a debate over whether he was there or not.
We lose focus.
Well, we don't lose focus on this program, folks.
I don't care whether he was there.
I'm not going to fall for any of that diversion tactic that the drive-bys are trying.
This guy can't unite anybody.
I mean, can we ask, can we ask?
Maybe I'm beginning to understand why Obama refuses to wear an American flag on his lapel.
Can we ask that question?
Sure, we can, because we're us.
Can we say this?
I'm beginning to understand why Michelle Mybel Obama is proud of her country for the first time in her life.
So what's the other choice that the Democrats have?
What's the other collapsing story?
Well, that's the fiction of Hillary the experienced.
Barack is no uniter.
Hillary is being demonstrated now that no experience whatsoever.
In one week alone, Mrs. Clinton lost the claim that she helped broker peace in Ireland and that she was behind the S-CHIP program.
In one week, in fact, she was, you know, she had an interest in the S-CHIP program, but her own husband abandoned the thing because he thought it was too expensive.
We've got all, I mean, we got sound bites out to Wazoo today.
We have this Reverend Jay Wright story.
Can I call him that, by the way?
Can I call him Reverend Jay Wright?
What? What? What?
People are pointing at my face.
Okay, I've got what?
I think you guys are mistaking a cold sore.
I got it now.
Okay.
Anyway, I'm sorry for the distraction.
It's only because the ditto cam's on, and these people say I had food particles all over my face, which I refuse to believe.
That's not true.
And they got, you, it's radio, I'm thinking.
So what?
It's radio.
And then I remember the ditto cam.
All right.
A couple of stories here I want to get to here before we get into the continuation of the Democrat Party chaos.
And there are mounds of evidence about this today.
This is the second and third such examples of this.
Remember, in California, there was A push on for people to go out and buy smaller cars to get more gas mileage.
And of course, the government was urging this.
So, dutifully, California liberals responded and they went out and they bought smaller cars and they started buying less gasoline.
The state then realized that they were taking in less tax revenue because there was less gasoline, so they had to go out and raise gas taxes earlier talking about it, which of course wipes out the whole premise and destroys the whole premise of having people conserve.
In Dallas, they're thinking of shutting off all of their video cameras they have at intersections to nab people who run red lights.
The reason they're going to shut down the cameras, they're thinking about it, is that too many people are obeying the law and there aren't that many tickets being issued.
It costs about $3,800 a month per online camera.
They are $7.6 million short in fines and tickets and so forth.
So they're thinking of shutting down some of these cameras so people will go break the law again.
It could get caught.
No, I'm not kidding.
This is in the Dallas Morning News.
Dallas City Hall has idled more than 25% of the 62 cameras that monitor busy intersections because many of them are failing to generate enough red light running fines to justify their operational costs.
The initial gross revenue estimates for the, they weren't concerned with safety.
It was just another end run to get tax revenue.
Initial gross revenue estimates for the red light camera system during Dallas's 2007-2008 fiscal year were $14.8 million.
That's how much they estimated that the cameras would bring in.
Latest estimate, about $6.2 million.
So they are short $7.6 million.
The Dallas government now is faced with a conundrum.
Its red light camera system has been an effective deterrent to motorists running red lights.
Some monitored intersections have experienced more than a 50% reduction.
But decreased revenue from red light running violations means significantly less revenue to maintain the camera program and otherwise fuel the city's general fund.
So they may have to shut these down.
Yes, Mr. Snerdley.
Well, I probably will be a lawsuit.
If somebody runs a red light, gets in an accident because they've taken the cameras.
Of course, you've got a tort lawyer out there that'll bring a case like that.
Probably have somebody purposely run a red light, purposely clip another car, just say, see, the city is responsible.
I don't know.
Liberals don't ever count anything as working.
They never do a dynamic analysis of anything.
Ostensibly, what were these red light cameras for?
To reduce crime, to make it safer to drive, right?
It worked.
Now it's a problem.
It worked.
Of course, they never factor.
You know, if this works right now, fewer fines are going to be less tax dollars.
So they're going to shut down the cameras and promote more accidents in Dallas.
Now, I read this sometime over the weekend, and I'm not sure.
I think it's here.
I think I was reading one of the local rags.
You know, we got a drought.
We have a drought and water usage is down.
People are using less water.
And the city or whoever is not generating enough revenue, selling enough water because they told everybody conserve.
You can only, you know, down here we can only water the lawn once a week.
People are using less water.
Now they've got to raise rates.
They're thinking of raising water rates because people are using less.
These governments, the idea that they are doing things for some benevolent reason to help people out, conserve water and so forth, or have you conserve gasoline, it goes up in smoke every time these big liberal bureaucrats get in gear and start doing things, grab your back pocket because that's always going to be the end result because whatever they suggest, whatever they propose, even if it works, is going to be a problem for them.
And most of the time, these things just don't work.
Anyway, I just, I just, I find it hilarious.
By the way, I think one more thing here before we go to the break.
I think if you're focusing on Reverend Jay Wright's church as a church, you're missing the point.
This church, I mean, it's a church, and there are sermons in there, and there's tithing that's going on in there and all of that.
But this, this, Obama's church is just a steaming pile of pure, unadulterated liberalism.
That's how this has to be looked at.
And as I said last week, there are a lot of people on the Democrat Party and in the media who don't think this is a big deal because they agree with the guy.
I have audio sound bites of people confirming what I told you last week and what we all know.
Sit tight, the rest of the program resumes right after this.
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Now, one thing, I want to just get rid of this.
I don't care whether Obama was ever in a pew when Reverend Wright said what he said.
I don't care whether Obama never heard that, because I don't believe it.
He didn't have to be there to know what this guy was talking.
He knew him for 20 years.
And we're falling for a smokescreen here.
If you get sucked into this notion that, well, Obama was never in church.
He might not have heard it.
You're just being led down the path.
The thing is, the New York Times has reported that the Obama campaign disinvited Reverend Jay Wright from delivering a public invocation at Obama's candidacy announcement.
Now, we all know that Reverend Jay Wright was publicly disinvited.
But Wright, Reverend Jay Wright, talking to the New York Times, said, 15 minutes before it, I got a call from Barack.
One of his members had talked him into uninviting me.
In a phone call with Wright, Reverend Wright, Obama cited a Rolling Stone story that was titled The Radical Roots of Barack Obama.
And according to Reverend Wright, Obama said to him, look, you can get kind of rough in the sermons.
So we've decided that it's best for you not to be out there in public.
So he knew.
It's in the New York Times.
Reverend Wright, in essence, confirms what Obama's trying to deny.
I did it inadvertently.
I mean, he's not angry at trying to sabotage Barack, but he clearly has undermined Barack's whole premise.
He never heard it because he quotes Obama as telling him, look, you're kind of out there.
You're getting kind of rough in the sermons.
So anyway, it's smokescreen and we ought not fall for it.
Also, David Axelrod, who is running Obama's campaign, this is from Byron York at the Corner at National Review, says that a major reason that the Reverend Wright didn't speak at Obama's announcement was that it was too cold out there.
Axelrod told reporters the weather was one of the reasons Reverend Jay Wright did not speak at Obama's presidential candidacy announcement last year in Springfield, Illinois.
When asked in a conference call why Wright didn't speak as it had been planned, Axelrod said, well, part of what happened was it was seven degrees in Springfield that day.
We truncated the program, and that was certainly a major part of the motivation there.
So a reporter followed up.
So, wave, you're saying that Reverend Jay Wright didn't speak because it was too cold.
So, Axel Rod said, Well, that was part of the decision.
I mean, there was no doubt that there was controversy surrounding him, but we didn't want to make him a target and a distraction on a day when Senator Obama was going to announce his candidacy.
Why not?
I know Obama's denounced, but that may not be enough here.
He is losing support now among white male voters.
That's the latest polling data.
He's losing support among white male voters, and whoever wants to win the presidency has got to win a majority of white male voters.
Obama in the recording studio over the weekend.
Barack Obama portrayed vocally by white comedian Paul Shanklin.
And there is more audio of, actually, I guess there's more footage here of Reverend Jay Wright.
We have this a montage here of sermons between 2001 and 2007 at the Trinity United Church of Christ.
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color.
Government's lied.
The government lied about Pearl Harbor.
They knew the Japanese were going to attack.
Government's lied.
We've got a paranoid group of patriots in power that now, in the interests of homeland stupidity, I mean, homeland security, the government lied about the Tuskegee experiment.
They purposely infected African American men with syphilis.
Fighting for peace is like raping for virginity.
What's going on in white America, US of KKKA?
Black men turning on black men.
That is fighting the wrong enemy.
You both are the primary targets in an oppressive society that sees both of you as a dangerous threat.
We cannot see how what we are doing is the same thing Al Paida is doing under a different color flag.
And guess what else?
If they don't find them some weapons of mass destruction, they're going to do just like the LAP do and plant them some weapons of mass destruction.
Now, that congregation's going nuts during all this, folks.
It is just pure hate liberalism.
You can call it racism.
It's got all of the components of liberalism.
In fact, Bill Salmon, in his book, Meet the Next President, divulges one of the philosophies of the Trinity United Church of Christ.
Reverend Jay Wright advocated a redistribution of wealth that went beyond socialism.
The congregation was required to embrace economic parity and disavow the pursuit of middle classness.
This, folks, this is the church that was instrumental in bringing Barack Obama to Christ.
This was the church advocating radical wealth redistribution, economic parity.
Everybody has an equal amount of stuff regardless of who earns it.
All of this rage and anger, this is actually it's not that foreign.
You can find this kind of rage and anger for the last four years on many Democrat blogs, liberal blogs.
There is this rage out there, and this congregation was eating this stuff up.
And I just refuse to believe, you know, Obama can denounce it all he wants.
He went on his Friday night damage control tour on TV, one of all the networks.
In fact, let's listen to a couple of these.
CNN's Anderson Cooper 180.
Cooper says, I want to ask you why you've been listening to this pastor and been close to him for nearly 20 years.
I have to confess that those are not statements that I ever heard when I was sitting in the pews at this church.
Who cares?
This is a church that I have been a member of for 20 years.
This is a well-established, typical, historically African-American church on the south side of Chicago with a wonderful set of ministries.
And what I have been hearing and had been hearing in church was talk about Jesus and talk about faith and values.
Had I heard those in the church, I would have told Reverend Wright that I profoundly disagreed with him.
They didn't reflect my values and they didn't reflect my ideals.
He's trying to get away with saying he never heard it and so it wasn't said.
Well, when he calls to tell Jay Wright he's not speaking at his presidential announcement, he says, Look, your sermons are kind of rough.
You're going to roughen your sermons.
He knew exactly what this guy was.
Look, Oprah Winfrey used to be a member of this church.
And Oprah Winfrey bagged this church back in the 90s, in the late 90s, because she didn't like what she was hearing from the Reverend Jay Wright.
This guy knew and knows to this day, Obama does, exactly what Wright's all about, what he's mentor.
He's going to have to treat this in a smarter and more face-up straight-up manner here if he's going to get past this, folks.
And we are here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies reviewing the Barack Obama Friday Night Damage Control Tour.
Here's another question and answer with Anderson Cooper 180 on CNN.
Cooper said, Senator Obama, did you not know?
I mean, a couple days after 9-11, your preacher said this was America's chickens coming home to roost, a result of what he called American terrorism around the world.
I mean, you may not have been there, but you must have heard that he had said these things.
You know, I confess that I did not hear about this until I started running for president.
And then there was a story that was issued in which I strongly objected to these statements and condemned them.
And so my belief was that this was something out of the ordinary.
Obviously, some of these statements indicate that this was happening more frequently.
And so I have to strongly condemn the statements that were made.
They do not reflect my views or Michelle's views or probably the views of many people in the church.
On the other hand, Reverend Wright is somebody who is like an uncle or a family member who you may strongly object to what they have to say, but as he's about to retire, I have no intention of leaving the church itself.
First thing I notice, other than what I don't, I mean, I just don't believe this, but other than that, the first thing I notice is without a teleprompter, this guy does not have the flowing charismatic cadence of his speeches where he's talking about hope and the future and change and so forth.
He's back now to calling the guy crazy uncle.
Somebody out there call the Obama camp.
I want to solve this.
And here's what you ought to say, Obama.
Somebody, call David Axerod.
Somebody out there I know in the Obama campaign's got to be monitoring this show.
Here's how you handle this.
You focus on the minister's hate because it's obvious in every soundbite, every bit of footage.
This guy hates.
He is angry.
He is filled with rage.
He is anti-American.
He hates.
And you, Obama, are a uniter, although there's no evidence of this.
Everybody in Obama's inner circle mad at everything.
His wife's fit to be tied all the time.
This clown Jay Wright never has what seems to be a reflective sober moment.
He seems to be always just out on the edge, about to lose it.
And yet we're told this Obama guy is listening.
He can unite us all and make us forget our horrible past.
How in the world can we forget our horrible past when his mentor is living 50 years ago and preaching to his congregation as though this were 50 years ago?
And Obama chose this.
You know, you don't choose your uncle.
You mean you don't choose your parents.
You choose your preacher.
You choose your church.
So somebody, Obama, Axelrod, somebody out there, you got to say, yes, Reverend Jay Wright, my uncle, my mentor, whatever.
Yes, he's filled with hate, and there's too much of this in this country.
And this is why I want to be president.
Because I want to get rid of and change the things that lead to this kind of discord in this country.
I think it's horrible that so many Americans in my party feel this way.
I think it's dangerous that so many Americans actually blame their country for these things.
And I, as your president, want to change this.
There's an easy way of dealing with this.
But he's not going that.
When he's off script and doesn't have a script, he's on defense here, and he's saying things that are going to come back to haunt him later on in the general campaign if he succeeds at getting the nomination.
But there's a larger question here.
Whether he was in the audience, whether he was sitting in a pew, I can't believe it took a year for him to find out that his mentor blamed America for 9-11, chickens coming home to roost.
I can't believe it took him a year to learn that the Reverend was out there blaming America for creating the HIV virus to get rid of black people.
I think I first heard that on Nightline back when Ted Coppel still ran that show.
Might have been Mr. Ice T.
That was funny to watch.
Coppel say, Mr. T.
This is just a mess that he's making.
Reverend Jay Wright, my friends, was Obama's mentor for 20 years.
No presidential candidate, no presidential candidate can belong to a church with a leadership and membership that adheres to such hate, to such an idea that we deserve 9-11, that we invented the AIDS crisis or HIV virus.
The government did no presidential look at, let me do it, Geraldine Ferraro.
Let's change the race here.
Let's say he's a white guy and he's going to a church, white church, where the minister says this kind of stuff.
He's out of the campaign.
He is gone.
He is Fini.
No country wants a president who's a member of a church with this kind of radicalism as its mainstream.
Now, this Reverend Jay Wright was Obama's mentor for 20 years.
We supposed to believe?
We're supposed to assume that Obama was simply immune to the race baiting of Reverend Wright?
I don't want to, that's asking me too much.
You hang around somebody 20 years as a mentor.
You choose them because something about them resonates with you and you like them.
But all of a sudden, you can have boundaries and all of this hate and racism simply bounces off of you.
Why the hell stick with the church then if you're going to ignore all that if that didn't matter?
Obama, by the way, is purposely campaigning on character, his character.
He's a uniter.
We need to get past the old divisions, politics of the past, blah, blah, blah, blah, without ever providing evidence of that character.
We haven't seen any evidence of the character.
We've heard flowery speeches of nothing delivered greatly.
We haven't.
We don't see any evidence of the character.
I mean, what we see is that this guy is surrounded by people who are constantly enraged, ticked off about everything, mostly their country.
Now, we see evidence of his character as exemplified by his choice of church, by his choice of reverend.
And we're supposed to await proof of him being in the pews when the worst of these things were spewed to the pews.
Yeah, I know.
I mean, the double standard here is Mitt Romney.
Here's a guy whose religion was trashed as a cult.
A drive-by media did everything they could.
There were some on the Republican side.
No need to mention names now because they're no longer in the race.
But they were out there trying to undermine Romney on the base of religion.
Romney went out and gave a great speech in Texas about it.
We're supposed to just look past this because Obama wasn't in the pews when the Reverend J. Wright was spewing this stuff to the people in the pews.
So, doesn't matter.
This is evidence of his character because he chose this church.
He chose this guy to lead him.
What do you a mentor is?
Most importantly, and I know I've said this a lot of other ways, but I want to say it again and use different terms.
Church membership is church membership.
It's a community of like-minded believers.
You go to a church, it's not just you and your reverend.
You have a like-minded relationship with all the members that you worship with in that church.
And if some of those members of that church go wacky on you, you want them expelled, you want them out, or you'll change churches.
If something happens in that church that you don't agree with, you will get out of there.
If the Rev starts going nuts on you, if the Rev starts getting radical, you will leave the church.
Obama didn't leave the church.
The Rev has always been radical.
Obama belongs and chose to belong to a community that believes all of this tripe that the Reverend Jay Wright spews.
He tithed his money in support of this church and its mission.
How else and what else are we to judge when trying to define Obama's character?
I'd rather look, this is stuff of substance, far more than these flowery teleprompted speeches that he gives on hope and the future and change.
George W. Bush's faith.
Look at him.
It puts him in conflict with the unbelievers in our country.
And in fact, you know, that was the tack.
That was when Romney gave his speech.
The drive-bys, well, what about the atheists?
He just said he wasn't going to represent the atheists.
And he was giving a speech about his religion.
What is he supposed to do?
Sit up there and say, and for you atheists, screw you?
No, the religion that teaches screw you is Obama's church.
That's the, actually, it's screw us because they're screwing us.
Screw them because they're screwing us.
But there's a desire by the drive-bys to mitigate this and minimalize it so that it doesn't have the impact because precisely because it does reflect on the character of Barack Obama.
Bush, as I was saying, his faith puts him in conflict with unbelievers, but not over issues of faith, but rather in its role in public life.
I'm firmly convinced one of the reasons there's such abject hatred for Bush is because he is very open about his faith.
He's very open that it informs him and guides him.
And people hate that.
The left hates the separation of church and state.
Where are those arguments now with the right Reverend Jay Wright?
Arguments, separation of church.
No, Obama's, well, he's denounced it, of course.
But Reverend Jay Wright's faith puts him in conflict with believers, but not over issues of faith, but rather issues of race.
I mean, this church is separatist and divisive, and it is the church of the man who claims best qualified to unite us.
Folks, who knows?
Who knows what the future is going to bring?
Nobody has the slightest idea.
We might all be disappointed as hell one morning in November, but I'll tell you right now, these past few weeks, more fun than I've had in a long time.
And the next couple, three weeks, all the way up to these, well, I mean, the next two or three months are going to be a gas, too.
This is just exciting.
Here's more Barack Obama on Anderson Cooper.
Cooper finally says, but I mean, uncles or blood relatives are kind of stuck with at family gatherings, even when even when they say outrageous things, but you can't get rid of them.
You can walk out of a church.
You can walk up and go to a pastor and say, this is wrong.
And as I said, Anderson, if I had heard any of these statements, I probably would have walked out, and I probably would have told Reverend Wright that they were wrong.
But they were not statements that I heard when I was in church.
So no one in the church ever said to you, man, last week you missed this sermon, Reverend Wright said this.
Or, I mean, I think I read in your books that you used to listen to tapes of Reverend Wright when you were at Harvard Law School.
So you had no idea.
I did not.
Well, you know, this is just tough to believe.
He admits listening to tapes of Reverend Wright.
They didn't know this stuff's going on.
And nobody can prove that he knew it because nobody can prove he was there.
I hope the Clintons, I hope they've got videotape of Barack in the, because there's a controversy.
Apparently there's a Newsmax story from a year ago that says he was in church on July 22nd last year, but Obama's been able to refute that, excuse me, by saying he was a National Council of La Raza speech at 1.30 in the afternoon in Miami.
It's possible he could have gone to the 7 a.m. service, I suppose, and gotten down there on a private plane.
But it seems like he's got an alibi on that.
All right, to the phones, people have been waiting patiently.
We go to Brooklyn.
This is Renee.
You're up first today.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I've been a longtime listener and a first-time caller.
Well, thank you very much.
Well, I'm an African-American who's had it up to here with the liberal philosophy of, you know, honoring skin color diversity.
For the past four years, Barack Obama has been celebrated by the liberal media, you know, primarily because of his racial makeup.
Neither he nor Hillary, in my opinion, are qualified to run the country.
You know, they're merely symbols revered by the liberal establishment.
We have equally talented minority conservatives like Bobby Jindal and Michael Steele, who I haven't seen been lauded by the media.
You know, they've accomplished so much, but this minister, as far as I'm concerned, he's the sign of divine intervention.
I really believe that the public's probably going to get a sign now to see Barack Obama for who he really is.
There's no excuses he can make now.
Well, you know, you say all that.
I guess what you're getting at is that if this is divine intervention, it means it's coming in time for Obama perhaps to not get the Democrat Party nomination.
Right, because I don't think he's qualified.
As I said before, well, neither of them are qualified.
There wasn't one Democrat running that's qualified.
Right.
But look, he picked up more delegates over the weekend.
They later redid some of the Hawkeye Caucasians.
He picked up more delegates.
Right.
What was it, seven or 17?
Nine?
Nine delegates over the weekend.
His delegate leads expensive.
Got Senate California.
Look, if there's nothing he can do, nothing they can do to stop him.
But here's it's going to come down to this: neither Obama nor Hillary can win enough pledge delegates throughout the primary season.
It's going to come down to superdelegates, and more of those are said to be leaving Hillary and choosing Obama.
Then you have everybody, Nancy Pelosi.
We've got the audio coming up.
She was, Queen Bee is showing her stinger out there.
And her stinger is aimed right at the backside of Mrs. Clinton because the Queen Bee, Nancy Pelosi, said it would be damaging to the Democrat Party for its leaders to buck the will of national convention delegates picked in primaries and caucuses.
She said, and we'll have the audio in the next hour.
If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what's happened in the elections, it'd be harmful to the party.
This was taped on Friday, broadcast on Stephanopoulos' show on Sunday.
Now it says here at AP that Pelosi's comments could influence other House Democrats who were neutral in the presidential race and will attend the convention as superdelegates.
Then you've got Sharpton.
The Reverend Sharpton has been granted permission by Reverend Jay Wright to open a Chicagoland office of the National Action Network.
I don't know if Barack knows this yet, but Al Sharpton is going to go.
And if they take this away, Renee, if they take this away from Obama because of this or anything else, I'm telling you, we would love it.
There would be riots, fires, protests, matches.
And that's where it's headed.
And why is Hillary hanging in?
You know, let's go back, what was it, well, I guess a month now, maybe longer.
And everybody, Bob Novak, all these princes of punditry, who's going to tell Hillary it's over?
Who's going to have the gust to tell Hillary to get out of there?
Who's going to have the gust tell Hillary she can't win?
Who's going to have the gust to tell Bill to tell Hillary?
Well, it's obvious why she's hanging in, don't you think?
Well, she's hanging in because we kept her live.
You know, she'll never thank me.
But she's hanging in, hoping something like this will happen.
She knows this guy's never been tested with this kind of a crisis.
She's hoping and praying for a massive screw-up that will take Obama out of it.
Maybe a screw-up that she can cause.
Do you see where last Friday Barack Obama revealed that this Rezco guy played a bigger fundraising role in Obama's life?
A whole lot bigger, but nobody's talking about it, right?
Because of Reverend Wright, nobody's talking about it.