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March 18, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 18, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hey, once again, greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists, all across the fruited plane.
Time for the award-winning Thrill Pact, ever exciting, increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds, Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB network.
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Let me get to your phone calls here very quickly.
Even in this segment, we're going to do that.
But a couple more observations.
And one of our soundbites in the last hour from Obama's speech, Obama was talking about his preacher, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, having a profoundly distorted view of this country.
And yet he hung in there with it.
And apparently, I don't know if he even tried to change Reverend Wright's distorted view of the country.
And also, you had Obama saying that he cannot disown Wright any more than he can disown his race or disown his grandmother.
And in that little passage, he said that he, in fact, let's, let me find that, Mike.
Put it on the bottom here.
Just trying to avoid dead air here, folks.
That's why I'm just scatting along.
Grab number 19.
Grab audio soundbite number 19.
All right, let it rip.
Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety.
The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love, and yes, the bitterness and biases that make up the black experience in America.
And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright.
As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me.
I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.
I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother.
A woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
These people are part of me and they are part of America.
This country that I love.
There.
To see that.
My reaction to that, you have to understand something, folks.
I'm an individualist.
I don't want to be put in a group other than an American.
I don't want to be put in some kind of group.
And I don't want to be told that I'm who I am because of people I've known or my family or the genetic code that led me to be born the way I'm born.
I'm already told that because that gives me an excuse for being whatever reprobate I want to be.
That gives me an excuse for excusing anything.
Well, I can't help it.
That's who I am.
How come in Barack's litany of all these people that made him who he is, he left out Reverend Wright?
How come if his racist grandmother is part of him?
And if the black community is part of him, how come Reverend Wright isn't part of him?
Is like family.
Okay, then are we to assume that Obama harbors some of the same views, distorted views of America that Wright does?
Well, I think it's a legitimate question to ask based on the very premise that he was making in that statement.
Damn legitimate to ask that question.
I mean, you know, the more I hear about this, frankly, the more I think about it and the more I hear that, the more angry I'm getting about it.
He can't disown Reverend Wright or his race or his grandmother.
Okay, fine.
Let's accept that.
How many white politicians and people in public life have been forced to disown this or that or some other thing and distance themselves or at least tell them they're wrong?
How many times has it happened?
It's happened a plethora of times.
And I'm tired of the excuse, well, original sin, years and years of discrimination.
We have to understand their rage.
We have to cut them some slack.
No, not if we're going to have unity.
We make of blacks babies and infants if we grant them this kind of latitude.
We are, by definition, saying we have so much guilt.
You guys can go ahead and be racist and hate mongers because we did it to you.
And yeah, we'll occasionally let you spank us for what our ancestors did all those hundreds of years ago.
That to me is insulting.
That is derogatory in and of itself.
When you adopt a guilt-based attitude that permits bad behavior, incorrect, uninformed behavior and thinking to thrive and to continue.
This whole speech is trying to put America on defensive.
And that's, you know, we do not, the Democrat Party is doing enough of that as it is.
Hillary Clinton's out there again.
We can't win in Iraq.
We can't win.
Hell's bells.
We are the United States of America.
We can do anything we want when we set our mind to it.
But we have a political party destined to see this country crumble if for no other reason that they can get their dirty little hands on it and control it and remake it as they want.
Can I summarize Obama's speech for you, ladies and gentlemen?
Here it is in a nutshell.
Racism is wrong.
Barking mad racism and hate.
Yes, as uttered by Reverend Wright, yes, barking mad racism and hatred is wrong, but it's justified because we don't have nationalized health care.
That's Barack Obama's speech.
Reverend Wright's justified.
Barack's justified.
All the racism, all the hatred, all the bigotry out there for this country on the left is justified because we don't have national health care and because we don't get the troops out of Iraq and because we're bailing out Wall Street firms and because the schools are going to hell in a handbasket.
Oh, that's another thing.
Barack Obama correctly identifies that urban schools are going, well, whose fault is this?
Who is maintaining these schools as they are?
Is it not the American left and its cozy relationship with teachers unions?
I mean, last time I looked, there are a lot of Republican right-wing philanthropists who've come along and offered vouchers or free tuition to private schools.
And the people I see lining up faster than anybody are African-American parents who want their kids out of these sinkhole schools they're in that Barack Obama just got through ripping to shreds.
But who maintains them?
Who established them?
And who is it that's constantly speaking out against them and hoping that they change?
It's people like us who only want the best for everybody in this country.
Doesn't matter whether they're black, white, indigenous, American, whatever.
Racism business is going back and forth, and it currently resides primarily on the left in this country, as the Democrat Party's presidential campaign has clearly shown.
So, what has happened now?
America, I think, for the most part, there are, of course, exceptions to this.
America has transcended race.
There's so much evidence of that that I don't even want to waste time citing it.
But Barack Obama's church hasn't.
Barack Obama's church has not transcended race, nor has it transcended hate.
And Barack Obama has not spoken out about that until now.
And as a good politician, he doesn't want to be left behind, so he has to speak out about it.
This speech was an act of political necessity.
Not courage.
This was an act of political necessity.
Quick timeout.
Your phone calls are next.
I promise.
Okay, back to the phones.
Well, not back because we haven't been there.
I want to thank all of you who are on the line and have been holding on.
I appreciate your patience.
We'll start with Billy in Fort Worth, Texas.
Greetings, sir.
Thank you again for waiting.
Hello, Mr. Lumbach.
How are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
I'm doing just fine.
You know, I hear you.
You know, you talk about liberal.
Okay, I'm going to listen to you.
I'm a Democrat.
I'm a liberal.
I believe in God.
I believe in Jesus Christ.
And I am an American, okay?
And, you know, and hey, look, you putting all us, you know, you're just throwing everyone, okay?
You want the best for America, right?
I do.
But Mr. Lumbach, what you're doing, you ain't segregating the country, but you're separating the country.
Nope.
You bring it.
Yes, you are.
Mr. Lumbach.
Okay, you won't.
What about everybody?
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Don't confuse me with Reverend Wright here.
Don't tell me that I'm dividing the country for crying out loud.
Billy, you're better than this.
We're not dividing the country here.
How am I dividing the country?
Well, you want, okay.
Have you listened to what you said?
You're saying that the Republic cannot compromise with the Democrat.
In other words, you want everybody to be a Republican.
You want everybody to think like a Republican.
What kind of country would this be?
I don't think you realize.
Do you ever listen to yourself after your show?
No.
I don't think you realize and hear what you said.
Yeah.
I hear what you said.
I love listening to myself.
Billy, I love listening to myself.
Because I love listening to people that are right and I know what they're talking about.
It's not Republican versus Democrat.
It's liberal versus conservative.
And I do think this country has been and would be much better off if more and more people had the basic tenets, values, and principles of conservatism, as most do leading their lives.
Most people do not run around knocking on the doors of their neighbors, asking for help here for the kid to go to college or send me to the doctor's office, but you vote for people who will do that for you.
The greatness of this country has not come about by virtue of government policy.
It's come about by the ingenuity and creativity of the hardworking American.
May I say something?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm 58 years old, okay?
Okay.
And what he said, I can listen now.
What happened to me in life?
Wait, are you talking about...
Wait a minute, okay, and I have been a product of discrimination, but I don't hate America.
He, you know, he's just saying, you know, I don't really believe he hates America, but the things that have happened to us in our lifetime.
Okay, in his lifetime.
Are you talking about Obama or the Reverend here?
I'm talking about the Reverend, and you're talking about the associate.
Okay, what if President, Billy?
I'm going to ask you a question.
He clearly hates me.
You sit there.
See, this is, you impugn, impute to me words I don't say to think I'm separating and dividing a country.
You listen to the preacher and you don't hear what he's saying.
Yes, I do.
Yes, I do.
If you hear me talk about that, do you think?
I'll tell you what then.
You tell me, tell me, Billy, what the Reverend has said that you agree with and support.
Well, listen, okay.
If you hear me talk around my black friends, you might think I hate America because what happened to me, okay?
I know it's hard for you to understand.
What happened to you?
Hey, listen, okay.
When I was four, okay, listen, okay, I'm gonna tell you, well, you really want me to tell you?
I tell you, let me tell you, okay?
Okay, when I was 16 years old, I got this job in Fayette County, Texas down there.
And it was through a, you know, school, and my boss paid me a dollar.
And I had a classmate.
We integrated in 1966 in LaGrange, Texas.
And I had a classmate.
He was white.
My boss came to me and told me, he said, boy, I want a dollar to you, but he didn't say nothing about my white friend who he paid $1.25.
Okay?
And don't get me wrong.
That's just one bad.
I'm going to tell you a good thing that happened to me in Fort Rake, Texas.
Okay.
Now, wait a second.
Wait just a second now.
Because I want to try to understand you.
You got a job for a dollar and a white kid came in and got a dollar and a quarter.
That's right.
In 1966.
And he came to me and told me that, hey, boy, I want a dollar worth to work after you.
But he didn't say anything to my white classmate who he was paying $1.25.
All right.
This happened in 1966.
And I'm going to tell you something good happened to me, okay?
No, no, no, no, wait, wait a second.
Let's just use that one example.
Okay.
Let me tell you about me.
I have been fired.
I've lost count seven or eight times.
I have been told by white people that I wasn't good enough.
I've been told I didn't have what it took.
If I want to stay in radio, I should be in sales.
I worked one time, Billy, when I was 30.
From the time I was 38 to the time I was 43, and I was making $12,000 to $13,000 a year.
I was a lowest paid guy paid by white people.
There were white people making more than I made at this place.
It was hard.
We've all had these obstacles is the point.
Now, you may say there hasn't been any racism in my past.
Well, I can give you maybe not racism.
I can say when feminism came along, I worked at a radio station in Pittsburgh.
And because the radio business is regulated by the federal government, some new directives came out about hiring women.
Women had to be, there were uninexperienced women who were hired on the air at a couple radio stations, and some white guys lost their jobs.
Okay, I know.
We've all seen it.
Billy, the point is, we've all seen it.
I have seen it.
I never once occurred to me to hate my country because what occurred to me was I had the damn opportunity to say, screw you people, and go out and try it somewhere else.
If I wanted to, I could create my own job because this is the United States of America.
But never once was I even conscious of hating my country.
I might have resented the idiots who were running these radio stations I worked at, but I never hated the country.
This hatred for the country is coming somewhere and it's not justified and it's keeping you back.
It's holding you back.
You're harboring a resentment.
You're 58.
I ask you for an example of your life.
You're harboring a resentment when you were 16.
Get over it.
I'm trying to help you.
That was then.
We all get dumped on when we're teenagers.
We all get mistreated.
Now, maybe I can't say that I have been mistreated because of race, but I've been mistreated in the United States of America.
It hasn't been a cakewalk because I'm white, because I've had white people be mean to me like they've been mean to you.
Now, you might think they were mean to you because you were black.
Well, they were mean to me because they didn't like me, and it doesn't matter to me why.
It's still not pleasant not being liked.
And we all go through life not being liked by people.
But you don't surrender the power to those people who don't like you to reshape your life in bitterness and rage for the rest of your days on earth.
You only get one life, and you got to make the most of it.
And with conservatism, you can.
But if you keep relying on these fixers to go out there and make amends for what happened to you when you were 16, you're going to die as angry as you are today.
You're going to die as unhappy as you are today.
And you're going to get to the Pearlie Gates, and they're going to say, why did you squander the life you were given?
And you're going to be able to say, because I believed in Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
And you're going to, by the way, where is he?
And to Pearlie Gates, they're going to start having to check the books because they may not be sure he's there.
I'm telling you, this is going on long enough here.
I'm trying to help you, Billy.
You need people in your life who can motivate and inspire you as a human being.
And I can tell talking to you, you've got passion and you must have desire.
You got to turn that and direct that into something positive for you.
And it cannot be based on vengeance.
It cannot be based on getting even with people because you'll never be happy.
You cannot base this on showing them because they'll never show you that you've shown them.
If they hated you then, they're going to hate you now.
And the sweetest revenge, Billy, is success.
But if you're going to go through life wanting those people that wronged you to apologize, if you're going to go through life wanting to show those people and you want to see evidence that they realize that they wronged you, you're never going to see it.
And you're giving people way too much power to define your happiness.
Your happiness is essentially being defined by people you don't even have respect for, by people you don't even like.
If I were you, I'd say to hell with you, racists.
I'm going to find some people that's worth hanging around with because they're out there.
You're a good guy.
You do good work.
They'll be glad to have you.
And the more work you do and the better you do it, the better compensated you'll be because you will become valuable.
But until you get rid of this attitude that you're going to be used and abused and taken advantage of, those things are never going to happen to you.
And I hope they do.
That's right.
A man of living legend, a way of life, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, a national treasure, America's gift, doctor of democracy, general all-around good guy, America's real anchorman, and more.
Here's Myron in Detroit.
Myron, I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you here.
Yeah, how you doing there, Rod?
Fine, sir.
Yeah, I hate to go against you, but I think you're all wrong about Barack Obama, Pastor.
And in which what I'm saying is, because I've been in the church for 20-something years, you just don't take one segment out of a church sermon and say that's what it's all about.
You don't do that in church.
You've got to play the thing totally out so you get all the message instead of one segment of it.
Well, I think that's totally wrong for doing something like that.
Well, I understand.
Look, I'm taken out of context a lot, Myron, on television.
But even when I'm taken out of context, you don't find me saying stuff like this.
I mean, this is, you know, this ain't even about race, Myron.
I tried to make that point earlier today.
I mean, this man is just steaming with rage and hatred.
He's got serious, serious anger management issues.
This guy is enraged.
He is mad.
He's stuck in a time warp.
And it's okay, except he's got all these 4,500 people there that are standing up and cheering all this nonsense.
It's not good.
It's not good for them.
It's not good for him.
It certainly hadn't been good for Obama.
But the thing is, dealing with the church, you go there for yourself.
You can accept what he say or not.
It's not making the Reverend a God.
He's not no God.
He's just trying to give a sermon to let you know something by taking a segment out of it.
We don't know what he truly said.
I was sitting here listening to you.
No, You don't know what we don't know what he's trying to get.
We do know what he said.
How can you know what he said when you just took a segment out?
He probably said something after that to rebutton what he just said.
Because it's on DVDs.
You can buy DVDs from the guy's church.
He's selling the stuff.
This stuff just didn't.
I mean, Fox News didn't do a deep inside investigation to come up with secret videotapes.
This guy sells this stuff.
And then I would say you shouldn't just play a segment for your listeners to listen to instead of playing the whole thing.
That is totally wrong to play a segment of it.
All right.
Look, I understand.
You're trying to protect the guy.
You're trying to join Obama and trying to protect the guy.
But this is what it is.
You can do what you can to try to smooth this over.
Here's the thing.
Even if, Grab Audio Sunbite 22, Obama, in his speech today, actually refers to the Reverend Wright as a conservative.
Ironically, this quintessentially American and, yes, conservative notion of self-help found frequent expression in Reverend Wright's sermons.
How do you know?
What the former pastor too often failed to understand is that embarking on a program of self-help also requires a belief that society can change.
The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society.
Hatred.
It's that he spoke as if our society was static, as if no progress had been made.
He doesn't want this country, a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black.
Yeah, well, he doesn't want it to change, Barack.
It's static because he wants it to be static for whatever reasons.
I'm not even going to impute reasons.
Some might say he raises a lot of money this way, gets paid a lot, sells a lot of DVDs.
Who knows?
But we can't assume he's stupid.
He may be uninformed or ignorant, but he can't be stupid here.
So the, you know, he's not speaking about racism.
He's speaking about hatred.
But for those of you who think, Myron and the rest of you who think that we're taking the Reverend Wright out of context, then why didn't Barack say that today?
Barack tried it Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, by the way.
Friday night on his TV tour.
Barack tried to say, well, you're not going to take anybody 20 years of their work and take the snippets out of it.
Didn't fly.
So Barack had to do the speech today.
And in doing the speech today, Barack, he didn't complain about segments.
He condemned the remarks that have been played, Myron.
So you actually call the wrong guy.
You need to call Obama and say you disagree the way he's handling it.
Richard, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, I really appreciate taking the call.
And I agree with everything that you had told, Billy.
Instead of wallowing in self-pity or any of the other things that you said to him, were totally understandable and right on line with what you say most of the time.
Thank you, sir.
However, I do have a different take on Barack's speech today.
I actually found it inspirational.
I didn't think that he tried to justify racism in America.
I thought that he tried to elevate our thoughts on what we thought about racism.
I thought that he tried to make a case that it was understandable both the way the middle-class white man felt and the black individual felt as to things that had happened to them.
That it was understandable, not justifiable.
He in no way tried to condone what the Reverend said.
I think that if half of what he says he believes, I find it an inspiration.
And I'm a die-hard conservative.
I found it refreshing.
I found it insightful.
I also don't agree with his solutions on hardly anything.
I think he's identified the problem.
I think his solutions are all backward.
All right, so let me guess.
What you really liked about it was that you finally heard a powerful black man say he understands why white people are upset about all this at the same time.
No, actually, no, actually, that isn't what I heard.
I heard something else, too.
I've heard a lot of powerful black men say things about that.
I've heard Ken Hamlin.
I've heard Joe Madison.
I've heard James Golden, all with different points of view.
But I'll tell you what, they're powerful people.
They had a lot of people that listened to them.
Maybe not on the same side of the spectrum.
I also thought that he wasn't trying to point out you and Reagan.
I actually thought he was trying to take issue with some other talk show hosts and some other presidents.
I remember the wait a minute.
Let me finish, please.
Bill Clinton stood before the American people and remembered those churches burning when he was a child and tried to make a race issue out of something that never even happened.
How good was that for America?
Al Sharpton's made a career out of race baiting.
Jesse Jackson's made a career out of race baiting.
And those are black leaders.
Yes.
And they're nothing but trash.
And you know something?
Somebody put it to him the right way.
J.C. Hayward said they're nothing but poverty pimps that dwell on people's misery.
This man's not trying to play the race card that way.
He's trying to inspire people to get together.
Now, maybe he's full of it.
But boy, what he said, one thing that rings true over anything else I've heard in a long, long time is, let's get rid of the status quo.
And you, more than any individual in this country, have been preaching that for the 10 years that I've been listening to you.
Yeah, but I don't want, see, Obama says we all want to move in the same direction.
And I don't want to go in Obama's direction.
I don't want nationalized health care.
I don't want to lose in Iraq.
I don't want any of his liberal agenda.
I don't hate corporate America.
I don't hate entrepreneurism.
I don't want higher taxes.
I don't want anything of what he wants.
To say that I think you're being trapped here.
I think what we're getting from Obama is the same thing Shelby Steele said in his piece today in the Wall Street Journal.
We're just looking at a different tactic.
The objective here, Richard, is a presidential campaign.
The objective is not solving the race issues in this country.
The objective is to get Barack Obama elected president.
That's the context in which the speech took place.
It took place in Philadelphia, where the next big presidential primary is.
This was about his presidential campaign.
This is about him being elected president.
Every candidate used tactics.
He's got a different tactic on race.
He's even written about it in his book, How to Make White People Like You, Don't Make Any Sudden Moves.
So this is simply a tactic to make somebody think, well, there's a different guy.
Well, yeah, he wants to bring us together.
Well, I don't know that I want to come together with liberals on their terms.
And that's what I have, quote-unquote, preaching all of these years.
But look, I appreciate the phone call.
I really do.
Spokane, Washington, Dan, you're next.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hey, Rush, 50-year-old white guy Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
I didn't hear the speech, and I just wanted to call to say thanks for being there and fighting the fight every day.
It's got to be a royal pain in the gluteus to do some of this stuff.
But I just, you know, when I hear you get passionate about what you can be in America, because I've been through the no job and having to outwork people and struggling with a job situation now, it actually makes me tear up.
And I just wanted to say, don't let the dogs get you down.
Just keep fighting the damn fight.
Well, I appreciate that.
You know, nothing gets me down like that.
I get frustrated because this country is what it is, and it's not a secret.
You don't get a password when you're born to access only certain parts of this country that are good.
Everybody can.
The frustrating thing to me is that so, and it's not just black people, liberals in general are trying to tell as many people as possible they have no chance for whatever ism, be it racism, or be it sexism, or be it bigotry-ism, or be it capital-ism, or be it victim-ism.
Liberals in this country are trying to dissuade people from the notion they can be great.
They are trying to dispirit them from having any ambition to overcome obstacles.
That's what's frustrating to me.
And so when I am confronted by one, I look at it actually as an opportunity.
And what's, I don't know, frightening or it's a stark reality to realize that this guy, Billy, he's 58.
I may be, don't know for sure, but I may be the first guy that ever spoke to him about America that way in his life.
Now, that's, I'm happy and I'm grateful for the opportunity, but it's really frustrating to know that it might be the case.
And I know it's a lot of people in this country from the moment they're born, they end up going to school and so forth.
They're told how the deck's stacked against them for all these various reasons.
And it's all done on purpose by liberals who want those people forever dependent on a government run by liberals, robbing them of their humanity, robbing them of their potential, robbing them of their dreams, robbing them of their desire.
That's what frustrates, angers, and even saddens me to see what liberalism is willing to do to average people in order to keep liberal elites in seats of power.
Okay, we've taken enough calls here, folks.
I think that I can safely say that the Obama speech is proof that the Rorschach tests live.
This speech, this Obama speech could be whatever you want it to be.
This is Obama's candidacy, as he has said.
He's a blank slate.
You can make him whatever you want it to be.
You can make this speech whatever you want it to be.
Now, I heard the whole speech.
I don't think, somebody correct me if I'm wrong on this.
I have not had time to read the text of the speech.
But I don't think that Obama spoke to why he removed Reverend Wright from that advisory role in his campaign.
Okay, he didn't bring that up.
Okay, now here's, all right, then.
Here's another question.
This is not a motion for me, folks.
I'm not swooning.
I don't get caught up in the flowery.
I don't get caught up working together into unity because I don't it just I know that's not what's on tap here.
Barack Obama no more wants unity with us politically than we want it with him.
Fall for it, I beg you.
Here's the point.
Here's the question.
If he profoundly disagrees, as he said today, with Reverend Wright, and his grandmother, by the way, Wolf Blitzer, I'm told, even thought it was a low blow for Obama to trash his grandmother as a racist.
Well, that's something, I didn't hear Wolf say it.
I'm just told that.
It doesn't matter.
Here's the question.
If you profoundly disagree with the Reverend Wright, why ask him?
Why give him an advisory role in your campaign?
How many people, how many people do you have?
Well, look, I have nobody on my staff with whom I profoundly disagree.
Zilch Zero Nada.
There's no, there is, we have devil's advocates, but that's just to spur intellectual thought.
I don't have people who actually disagree with me profoundly advising me or whatever.
By the way, we don't discriminate against liberals.
They don't even apply.
That's the point.
But I mean, forgive me.
Why would you do this?
Somebody you profoundly disagree with.
We have a couple more bites here.
This is Obama's trying to say that unless the Rev controversy goes away, we won't be making any progress.
We have a choice in this country.
We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel every day and talk about them from now until the election and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow...
Stop the tape!
Yeah, we can do that.
We could get rid of Reverend Wright.
We could stop playing Reverend Wright.
We're still going to have to listen to Al Sharpton.
Al Sharpton's still going to be able to tell networks who can say what.
We're still going to have to listen to the Reverend Zach.
We're still going to have to listen to all the other dividers in this country on the left.
Now, go back to the top of this.
I mean, this might sound like an idle little thing.
I'm not sure that we're dealing something here with just idle.
I think there's something a little bit more substantive going on with this bite.
Listen again.
We have a choice in this country.
We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel every day and talk about them from now until the election and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.
We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card.
So so.
Or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election, regardless of his policies.
Clinton is we can do that.
But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction.
And then another one.
And then another one.
And nothing will change.
That is one option.
Or at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, not this time.
Okay.
Blackmail.
You keep playing the Jeremiah Wright stuff.
We'll see to it this country stays royaled and divided.
You stop playing the Jeremiah Wright stuff, and maybe we can move on and be at one with one another.
He's just trying to get this Reverend Wright stuff off television.
That's all that bite was.
He just, and he's trying to guilt everybody in the networks into not doing it under the guise by not playing Rev. Wright.
We are coming together.
And he touches this with, oh, well, I haven't got time to elaborate.
But yeah, while all this is going on, we're not supposed to mention his middle name either.
Don't mention his middle name.
We don't call him a liberal.
We don't play any more Rev. Wright videos or else.
Obama may want us to stop playing Reverend Wright videos and audios, but not here.
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